Ranger Pete (honorary) Beecroft, New South Wales, Australia
By alnic39 on 28-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5DQXV

Very overgrown and difficult to find unfortunately, couldn't spot it

Checked on this last weekend. All good.

Fun cache, nice park

Tftc

Quick find after work. Cache in great condition. The nearby park is very cool, lots of animal habitats installed by the community

Nice story, we also found Nonnas cache already!TB visited x2 TFTC

Thanks great to read your story, we had already found Nonnas cache. Found with whereizej

Easy to find, thank you

A nice quick find while caching in the area.Thanks for the cache tnln replaced as found sl

Another find to keep my streak going. A nice discovery somewhere new with geospouse Graubunden, TFTC

Its so beautiful the park beside forest. Found it with SurdiVisio, thank you alnic39

nice and easy one!!

Fun find, had a good read too found with Melis

TFTC Thanks for the historical tour. We enjoyed the connection of Granny SmithFound with EGB007TMB007AJB007

Thanks

A very pleasant shady park. Found the cache in good condition.

Lovely cache with history attached to it. I enjoy these a lot, gives the area more meaning. Coords were a little off but hint helped, tftc

Nice one! Hint makes it super easy

Took 2 seconds

Small box clue really helps

It was so fun and took mini mouse

Our first geocache with kids

Found it and wrote in the log, left a little picture of Mickey Mouse
Took a bit of searching but found it in the end

Our first find today on a walk through the area. Quickly found and all in order. TFTC!

It was very easy to find

Found easily. With a conveniently placed stick I could remove the spiders web and left for the next person to use. Never knew about the Ray family however I did know about the Granny Smiths being from this area

I appreciate the sentiment behind the cache. RIP Ranger Pete. Found with no issues. TFTC!

We were looking in the bushes then we saw the hint and then we looked to the left of the ray family sign and saw a pocket notebook.

Lovely little park - all to myself
Nice cache amongst the local wildlife
SL, TFTC

First trial. Fun .

First ever geocache. Very proud. Have to get down low

Hidden very nicely within the natural environment

Nicely done!

found

Ok

slay found with DFC

OCW Sensible Shoes and Shoes Junior
Mum found it and Shoes Junior grabbed it.
Signed as 'the shoes x3' TFTC

Third find for the day, spotted by Shoes Junior. Signed as The Shoes x3, TFTC.

Thank you for the interesting description! This was our first cache! Great start!

On a streak! Yay for number 3

Pretty sure it's the apples from the apple tree, but it's winter so obvious none were there

We found it 6.5.22.

Found while caching around the area, visiting from Maitland. TFTC
Logbook is saturated

We found it,It was our first And a lot of fun!

Quick find, thanks for the history and the cache alnic39

Thanks

Got to GZ and started looking, decided to stand back a bit and that’s when I spotted the cache.

Out for a night cache with Azzepious.
Nice one cheers

Tftc

Tftc!

Tftc!

I couldn’t find this one!

Yay! Took me a while but I found it. Interesting history on the Ray Family

It was an easy find

Easy find, easy access, thanks!

Found with LJ16

I found this although it was quite hard

Banana smoothie

Nice

Not our fav. Little tiny box very wet inside

Found with Lauz_butts

Great clue thanks

Tftc

Easy find with generous hint. TFTC

5/5 today - I wrongly signed a few of the logs 2-1-2021 !

I had to avenge my DNF on "Under My Thumb" - www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7GKNH - trust the GPS and don't be distracted by that sleeper ! Creative hide. Cache is in good order but I only deserve half a point as I had to PAF. TFTC

Then off on a walk of a few km for a few more;

"It's A Bit Nippy" https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC77MFJ - I wondered about the name ! Was it in the water ? A quick find, though I did hesitate going there as it has had 3 months of growth. A great bush track. Cache is in good shape. TFTC

Now off to "Ranger Pete (honorary)" www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5DQXV. Nice history lesson about the family and the area. Again 4 months since the last find so I was glad to have the hint on this one. Cache is in good condition. Thanks for the work you put into this one.

Onto "Cameron's Cache" www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC12NFB- Um! A DNF back in October and last found August, 2020 ! Doubtful ! This Pioneer Walking Track is really a fantastic area of bushland most notably different to other bush tracks in this area like Hunts Creek and Seville Reserve due to the abundance of tall straight River Red Gums also a lot of bird feeders, possum hides and water dragons. I'll do this walk many more times. I took the middle track past the cache and looped back high side. An easy find due to a good hint. A big cache full of lots of great little trinkets for the kids. Well done. I took a small Brachiosaurus for my Grandson and left a few acorns from Under My Thumb. Bushed it down carefully to the lower track on the way out. Favourite point for this one.

Last one for today was "Preservation" www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7FYCD. I'm glad I read the logs about dress code ! I once wrote a song with the line "Lantanna doesn't listen" man that stuff is bad and can scratch you up. A large cache full of interesting items but little place to sit today after the rain overnight, it was steamy and there were mossies so I quickly signed the log book and put it all back together. The parcel did intrigue me ! TFTC.

Back to the car to drive home and off we go and big spider fell from my hat right between my legs - that log about long pants saved me again. Instant squish !

Right what's on TV this arvo !!

Thanks all.

Tftc

Quick and easy find with sevabo this morning. TFTH

Cold air wind today, found it quickly thanks for leading us here...

Found , tftc pencil needs to be sharpened tho haha

First find, brilliant for beginners

Nice find. Thanx

That's why I love geocaching, it brings to you some interesting places and this is definitely one. Thanks for bringing me here.

Dr. Gold
TFTC.

Dr. Gold
#659

Tftc

nice spot easy for beginners

Found!

Found!!

Thanks for the family story and the cache

Done!

Found

Tftc

Found this cache together with Hotrox3 on a beautiful morning walk
Tftc

Was not too hard to find but took 5 mins till I spotted it. very close to my house and it was fun to find

Found it after a DNF on the 9th of Oct 2019. TFTC

Easy find. Nice log

#8211 13:35
After my weekly swim in Epping, I drove around the area for some geocaches.
Ranger Pete was soon located at a deserted park. The dry grass cracked under my feet as I approached the plaque...oh how I wish it would start to rain for a long time.
It was not long before I had CIH.

TFTC.

Beautiful story. I sit here and can imagine you playing in the park carefree. Tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 45.838 E 151° 3.805

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 45.833 E 151° 3.843

Distance from original: 194.7 feet or 59.3 meters.

Cache has gone missing. I believe that it may have been in a sensitive part of the bush regeneration area.

Went to the exact spot according to the hint and my GPS, but it wasn’t there. Maybe it got taken?

Thank you for this cache!

I can’t imagine the bush carers would be too happy people walking all over their plot and while I do this as my career I am giving it a favourite for bringing attention to it and the heritage walk and it is a beautiful spot. Tftc tnln

A quick little cache while i was in the area. Had to hide from the Landcare people, who were out doing fantastic work, but I felt wouldn’t appreciate me deviating from the path!

TFTC

#490
Out today to try and complete the Mystery At The Museum.
After completing a nearby cache and I parked the car so close, I had to find this one.
I arrived at the GZ and soon had the container in hand.
The container and contents where wet. The log was also missing.
I dried the container and the contents. I removed all the wet items and replaced the log with a new sheet.
Re placed the container back and recovered.
TFTC alnic39 and the story behind Ranger Pete Mitchell Four

#254. A nice quick find. TFTC!

An after dark, after work cache.
After battling my way through peak hour traffic i made it to the park.
It didnt take too long to find the cache by torchlight thanks to the good coords and the helpful hint.
I spotted the cache slightly hidden from view but missing any covering camo.
While the cache had some goodies inside it was missing a log so i added a temporary replacement.
Replacing the container i added a small bit of camo on top of it.
This cache find marks the 300th day of my streak. Im determined to make it to 366 days if it kills me.
Thanks almic39.
#562

Great little bit of history! Have really enjoyed exploring the trails around here this arvo.

Luckily due to the shade no muggles around!

Coords initially pointed me somewhat away but the hint was clear and cache found.

Cache is in excellent nick!

Thanks

Thank you for bringing me to this lovely area

OCW Oldmorty and travelling the Pioneers Trail. Stopped here at this little oasis and after a bit of wandering, found the cache where the hint suggested. TFTC!

OCW Morty8888. After circling around for some minutes dodging spider webs, it was Morty8888 who spotted a three trunked tree and soon had the CIH. TFTC alnic39.

TFTC!

Tftc. Nice little park to find a cache. took a while for GPS to settle but soon found the right location and had the Cache found and signed and replaced it where i found it.

Love the personal history of this cache, great way to be remembered.