Colourful Bison Dundas, New South Wales, Australia
By monkeydoodle_k on 29-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5BMY2

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

monkeydoodle_k

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.


Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache.

If you plan on repairing this cache, please log a note to the cache (not email) within the next 30 days so I don't archive the listing for non-communication.


tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

I think this cache may have been consumed by the Parramatta Light Rail project. I had a good look around and it’s a construction zone. See pics. There are a few good little spots where it could be replaced. Good walking track.

Construction around the area, no luck in the areas near by

The coordinates were taking me to where the construction site is. Had a quick look on other side of path but unsuccessful.

DNF

thanks to a pic

Good hide but there are a lot of mosquitoes and the log is full

Nice hide

TFTC. Quick find with the Geodog. Log is full & needs replacing.

Log is full & need replacing.

Needed a cache to fill my statistics, almost forgot. Thankfully this one was nearby. Log is ful. TFTC

First cache in Sydney for a while. The log is full. Thanx

Log is full so gonna post a pic instead.

Found in the rain. Not the best day to be outdoors. TFTC

Easy find but not so much fun in the pouring rain. TFTC monkeydoodle_k

Found the nano scroll randomly on the ground but no canister. Needs maintenance.

Found as a "fingerprint" clue for the mystery at the museum, tftc!

Tftc. Quick find today.

TFTC with Jaybeem!

Stopped off after leaving the Amateur Radio NSW (HAM Radio) bi-monthly Trash & Treasure sale, at Quarry Road Dural, for this one. It had been a fun filled morning of HAM radio junk scrounging, and a nice BBQ lunch with lots of friendly chit chat, but now it was time to grab some caches while on the homeward journey. A total of 14 finds, and 3 DNFs, for the day.

No luck for me at this one today. The only colourful items I could see at GZ was a discarded purple parker and a yellow plastic bag. Curses, defeated by a D1 hide! TFTH anyway monkeydoodle_k.

Well, I am way way behind on my logging... So I decided that being the first day of the new year, it was the ideal time to catch up... Except it's now the second day of the new year...

This was found on a visit to Sydney for a family funeral and while staying with my brother who lives nearby. I remember this being a nice easy find, very late in the day. Oh yeah, and the log was completely full, so I took a photo. TFTC

TFTC

Nice!

Fun, quick little find while taking my two doggies for a walk. Didn't have a pen on me however I took a photo for proof TFTC

Found after just a short stroll from where we parked. TFTC.

Spotted it straight away but the log is full and needs replacing.

TFTC! A spooky little walk in the dark from the nearby cul de sac.
I managed to make the find after a few minutes co-ord hopping.
One log is definitely full - on anti smudge paper. I didn't check the other in my bug covered state.
Thanks CO

Really good spot, took a while to find it in the dark. Tftc

9:40am. Sure had me stumped for a while. Thanks for bringing me to this this area.. TFTC

Log is full and needs maintenance. Had to sign my name very small.
Took picture of bison.
Tftc

Found. Tftc

Dropped in to find info for another cache.

Cache looks good still

#3623 - Cycle up here from the station. Enter the bush to the co-ords - where oh where. HA. It was watching me all the time. Many thanks for the CO ***monkeydoodle k*** for establishing and maintaining this cache so we can seek out these special places.

Located at 4:14pm. Another very quick and easy find after work. Спасибо! תודה! L’chaim! TFTC!

Have been meaning to come and get this for a while now. Took the opportunity this afternoon to come and make the quick grab. Tftc

**CUT & PASTE BIT:**
I had a ‘flex’ afternoon off work with the goal of walking from Parramatta to Hornsby. Found 3 caches, then went back to Parra Westfield to buy an iPhone charger cable which I’d forgotten. Doh! 2 hours down and I was back where I started. Eventually arrived Hornsby Railway Station in the dark after 8 hours, 24Km, 44,500 steps and 8 cache finds
**END C&PB.**

I'm a fan of puzzle caches so this one had come to my attention. Glad to see that GZ was hidden away a little bit and not in sight of the general muggle population. As it turned out I walked up to the cache straight away for an easy find. I've taken a photo of the cache, the material (?) on 2 of the rings seems to have degraded a little, but hopefully I will still get useful co-ords for 'Big Plan Goes Wrong'. Awesome painting on the cache page. TFTC!

Previous logs both helped and hindered the finding of this one. Despite contradictions there, my eyes were the best resource. TFTC

With some business nearby I checked out some caches in the area. Looked too high for this one but eventually spotted and did the business. Visited my Mary Hyde virtual TB. TFTC monkeydoodle_k.

Trees are friends

Yay found it! Yellow, green and white...

Are you stumped? Look up

Got distracted by a cool looking stump, but found the cache eventuality.

Quick find. Tftc

All quiet about this morning making for an easy find. Log is full so photo proof attached.
Tftc

quick find after a short walk through the bush TFTC


Streak Day 183

foind with geowife, cache may have been tampered with

Got a little worried when I found the log on the floor away from the cache. Found the cache and put the log back it is full though.

????

#248
I parked my car at the end of Denham Place and followed the path towards GZ. Once there I saw the likely area for the hide, as I started looking for the bison a muggle was approaching so I backed up further into the trees. Oh, what's that, with having changed my angle of searching the Colourful bison was in plain view to me.
I signed the log and returned the Bison as found.
T4TC

I set off to look for 4 caches with geodad, geokids, geonephew and geoniece in this area. Unfortunately, despite spending a great deal of time here near, and likely at, GZ, no find for us here today. Maybe next time....

Late evening find. We found the bison tube, but there was no log
Left a temporary log. TFTC

We couldn't find the bison but found the log!

Found it but there is no log inside !!, needs attention

A quick find Ta . Tftc

Found it.

#821
Had some time to duck out with the goeWife to pick up a few caches before soccer presentation this afternoon. This was the third for the morning. I don't normally hunt down traditionals but the associated puzzle cache had me intrigued.

Parked at the nearest off street and took a short stroll to the start of the path. After a short search, the stripey object was discovered. The geoWife escaped to take shelter from the man eating mosquitoes while I conducted some scientific experiments. Fingers crossed I have something useful with which to solve the puzzle.

TFTC

Found the Cache but the container needs some repairs and can only make out 2 of the 4 colours on it Thanks

We agree with the previous finder that the colours are a little difficult to make out although not impossible.

Replaced the cache with a temporary bison that is not very tidy but should do the job.
The paint we had at home has dried off completely so geodad had to order some.

Sometimes you can search and search and then it's just right there staring at you! TFTC

A relief to find after a DNF on the last cache at Dundas station. Thanks for showing us this track as we have never been here before. TFTC
Thethomasteamcachers
PS The logbook is almost full

Fourth find for the day. Nice easy find after a short search. TFTC #137

Quick grab on the way to station

Tftc

Today we decided to do a cache check on all of our caches since geodad's hand is better and he finally had some free time.

The paint on the top band of the cache was cracked so if you would like to verify what the top colour is please feel free to email me.

Meanwhile geomum is painting a replacement cache and we will substitute it by the end of the week.

Monkeydoodle_k.

Found after lots of spider webs.

Having just down the near by train spotted at Dundas Station we walked over to this one. We did wonder about this being a micro in the bush and being a D1. As usual with a D1 we took a while to spot it as it was not until we shifted to a few different position that we spotted it. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

To keep my short streak going I went out after work to day. Want to grab 4 in this area but only found 2. But at lest I got 2. TFTC. I have taken a photo to help me solve a mystery.

Found with Snickersallan

Nice quick find with geo buddy, Bluewattle, TFTC

Its been a while since I walked along this track and I must say I was pleasently suprised by the improvement of bush quality. Always a nice thing to see. When I made it to the GZ like many before me I looked around for quite a while, making things unessescarily difficult before finally spotting the cache. I don't know why, but this style of cache is always very difficult for me to spot. Thanks

I spent a long time looking in the wrong place, convinced that it was there. I ended up with no choice but to expand my search and found it quickly afterwards. TFTC!

Finally found it after making it much more difficult than it needed to be TFTC

Found it !

Visited again to do something that we didn't do last time. Owing to circumstances, the task remained incomplete, but we were able to muddle through at the other end.

CO's dad is a very clever man. This is such an awesome idea. Yep, I'm making a fan club! TFTC.

Another cache inside 10km from home near the AGM. A large tree has fallen near GZ. Fascinating colours on the bison, hmmm which are the true ones? This means I will have to return to the area for the follow up!

TFTC monkeydoodle_k

Note - dog baits starting tomorrow will be laid, no dogs allowed until the 28th of September 2015

Quick and easy find. Fifth Monkeydoodle cache find this afternoon.

SL TFTC

Nice little spot, nice little cashe.

Was down here doing some tree assessments to knock down as they are environmental weeds and stopped to do this cache. Don't worry if I need to knock it down will replace it. Surprised about the d1 rating. But still quickly found. Tftc no pen today so left a fingerprint with mud but didn't work too well on the walk in the rain paper.

A little bit of a search and we had cih tftc

Took a while for GPS to settle. But eventually just dived in & soon had CIH. Love these little bits of bush land in between roads - thanks for bringing me here.

TFTC

This entry was edited by celtical on Sunday, 08 March 2015 at 08:15:31 UTC.

Nice park and great hide spot had me stumped for a bit..
Tftc took note of the colours

I nice walk from up the top of the path and I soon dashed in for a quick find. Took note of the colours and replaced as found. TFTCM
Cheers
dkmacca

Found although with this mornings CRAP traffic I didn't think I'd get anywhere today let alone have time to grab a cache while in this area.
SL, which was difficult. I hate this type of paper. I can never seem to get my pen to write on it successfully.

Collected info for the multi but at this stage I can't see how it helps.
TFTC # 955

This took longer to find than it really should have. GPS was a bit out to start with and lots of potential hiding places for a cache this size but got there in the end.

SL TFTC

Oh the pain as Geohubbie was bitten by ants FOUR times trying to get to the GZ. Huh said Geowife, I've already been through there with the kids so off she went. And was bitten too! Many adult words were said and we still didn't find it.

On the bright side we did see a water dragon lizard at the nearby creek which was magnificent!

Forgot to log quick find TFTC

After no success with a new one nearby and a multi close to it, I found this as a relief. TFTC.

Came to get this one with a view to doing the associated puzzle cache. A quick find then we were off to the next cache.

A bit of a faded coloured bison, but with a good ray of sunlight I could see the traces.
However not enough time today to complete the accompanying puzzle cache.
Thans.

Nice hide. Lovely area.

Had to search for a bit but as it was getting darker I pulled out my torch and soon had it spotted.

Found with geo family TFTC

After ducking into Ermo to check the Geocaching NSW postbox, I swung past this on the trip back north. Nowhere to park on Kissing Point road so a different approach had to be made. A bit of a walk along the path behind the houses in the nice bush and the cache was found without too much trouble. Noted the info, now I will have to look at the other cache to see if I can make use of it. Thanks monkeydoodle_k.

Came past after a meeting in Parramatta. Parked nearby and walked over. Found relatively fast and SL. Then got the required info needed for the ? cache nearby....OR did I??? TFTC.

A friend recommended these caches. Just time for one today. I wasn't sure what I was looking at but took a photo which turned out differently to what I remembered seeing. Chatting with Alfyboy later showed that my eyesight was 50% right and the camera 75%. Fascinating. Thanks monkeydoodle_k.

Last time I was here was for a multi I think. Found the cache quickly and noted what I needed. Thanks for the little hide.

It took a while, but in the end it was a simple find. TC reminded me to expose the container to some sunlight to get the full effect. Thanks for the hide.

Parked across the road in the vacant building site entry and walked to GZ. Like many others before me, not found in the first place I suspected. Nice hide and TFTC

Quick find but geo wife got bitten by ant