The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
By Blundo Busters on 09-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5EH4Q

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No luck today...or its gone walkabouts

I've only recently become a professional geocacher (retired), so today was my first day on the job. It wasn't a hugely successful day, but it was deliberately unhurried and being from Canberra, I was happy to enjoy the very pleasant conditions here in Parramatta today. I'll be heading back to cold, old Canberra
tomorrow.

Didn't find this one. I must have searched for about 20 mins and was even helped for a while by another cacher who had found it some years before, but neither of us could see it. Oh well. Interesting spot.

Thanks anyway Blundo Busters

A lot of magnetic and a lot of East side... Many places to search. I only really came for the virtual anyway. Not a fan of U2 I'm afraid...

No luck here this afternoon.

No dice after a comprehensive search. I'm baffled

Took some time but in the end the youngest one who was 5 found it but it was not what we expected

Dnf

Had a good look for this, but it was too well hidden for us. TFTH

No cache found today.

No luck today. Maybe another time.

Looked high and low, but couldn't see. Maybe we all suffer from cache blindness for this one.

Ventured west with morty8888 to visit the caches in Parramatta Park and a few nearby cemeteries today. I’ve not previously visited the park and I was pleasantly surprised at all the history on display here. A thoroughly enjoyable day. TFTC Blundo Busters

OCW Oldmorty in Parramatta City on a quiet, cooler, sprinkly day and looking to clean up Parra Park offerings.The hint helped and it didn't take long to spy the prize. TFTC!

Yebo blundo blusters

Quite early we were out here at parramatta park as it’s one of the outrageously hot hot days in Sydney and a thunderstorm is suppose to follow, well later , so enough time to seek some caches in this beautiful area

Found well

Tftc

Found with Nushkawoman
Above eye level find

Jendavo01 and I did a lap of the bridge, then came back where we came from and noticed something above eye height. Good spot!
Paper is a tad wet

Tftc found with azn_hobo

Tftc

What a cool hide! Missed it on the first pass but noticed something a bit odd on the way back.
TFTC!

Tftc
Splendid weather after a blistering hot day.
Great find on a quiet stroll as the sun sets

I am currently working here in Sydney. And when I am not working - I am geocaching.
So I found your geocache and I am happy to have a new Smiley on the map so far from home.

TFTC koeNixkind

Great start to our walk. Found, but the log is a mess, needs a little lovin'. TFTC

A quick find but the cache needs some TLC. The log book is just a soggy mess unfortunately. An interesting spot and the big water dragons basking in the sun on the bank below were cool to watch. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Had a really thorough look over all the bridge pylons but couldn't turn it up.

Tried one more place after last log and it was right there! Unfortunately log is soaked and falling apart. Barely could make a small mark in it.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

The co-ords are spot on, and the terrain rating suggests where it should be, so it was a nice quick find. However the log is soaked and needs replacing.

Found by accident

Took a bit to find, just had to raise my search thoughts. Log book is soaked. TFTC.

**This Cache:**

Well, another Canberra cacher here! Looks like the past 3 out of 5 finders have been from Canberra, funny that.....

After completing the nearby virtual I took a walk over to this cache as well as I still had a little bit of time up my sleeve. Spent a while searching here in the obvious locations and eventually found it in a bit of a sneaky spot.

Thanks for placing!

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**The Day:**

Day 3 of an extended weekend caching trip, and a family member's 50th up in Sydney!
Today there were a few puzzle caches planned and then a CITO Event in Mittagong with Muppet95! After the CITO was done and dusted I headed straight up towards Parramatta to grab a virtual cache I have been hanging out for. The rest of my day consisted of a family event, and a bonus Wherigo which was nearby! All up only 8 caches for the day, but they were very specific and 5 different cache types!

Thanks to all the CO's! See individual log about each cache above ^^

Found

Up from Canberra - Brought my muggle friend here for her Mums 90th birthday party. Party is Sunday, but we drove up on Saturday and are staying overnight in a Hotel. Went to visit her Mum for a while when we got here, and went for a walk nearby and found a couple of Geocaches while the 2 of them had a Mother/daughter talk about a few things ... then we grabbed some junk food and went back to the hotel where we drank a couple glasses of wine and watched a couple of silly movies while we talked ... but at bed time I was still wide awake, so I decided to sneak out for a little "stupid o'clock" Geocaching adventure in the nearby parklands
Quite the adventure - I found 5 traditional caches, a GA moveable (which came home with me) and a trig ... and had a nice fun explore of a park in the dark ... I was tempted to go for a longer walk and try and do the GA webcam cache 1km away, but reason finally prevailed and I went back to the hotel and went to bed - and the next morning, when my muggle friend, who grew up in this area, found out where I had been - she was horrified - but I am still here to tell the tale - lol
TFTC - Looks like this would be a nice spot in daylight. Surprisingly quick find
Oh... Hello Jusojara (previous finder, couple of days ago, and unless has moved, lives about 1km from me in Canberra ... U too? lol
(amazing how often that sort of thing happens - travel somewhere odd and find a cache, and find a familiar name in the log

Found with ziggiau after the GeocachingNSW AGM to celebrate her vice-presidentship. TFTC!

Headed up to Sydney yesterday to take Ju and So to the Katy Perry concert and had a little time for some caches on our way home today.

Our last for the day before hitting the highway home and a nice quick find. TFTC

Tftc

Nice walk around Parramatta Park. TFTC

Nice quick find close to the final for the virtual. Found on a nice day after the GCNSW AGM. TFTC.

Quick grab, but then had to have a wander and read some signs to wait for a break in the foot traffic to replace it. Such a beautiful day today for a wander around Parra Park.

Thanks

Thanks for the cache.

Nice walk around Parramatta Park.
Quick find at GZ. Nice bridge.
TFTC

An easy BB hide for a change! Finding the cache didn't present too many issues, however I did manage to drop the log in the process of signing! Luckily I had moved away from GZ sufficiently enough that the log didn't get wet, but fell on the dry river bank. A quick trip to collect the log from below the bridge and the signing duties were completed in due course, then cache replaced as found. TFTC BB!

As I approached GZ I though oh oh mugglers under the bridge but no worries they had no impact.

Found it! Good spot

Great hide

I was in Parramatta today with time on my hands, so 'twas the perfect opportunity to do the Governor's Domain mega-virtual in Parramatta Park ... and for good measure, to pick up a few other smilies along the way. This was a straightforward find while I was doing my lap of the park ... thanks for providing pretty good coords and a sensible placement Blundo Busters.

A busy spot!

**Found on our Sydney / Newcastle Cache Chase**.

*Out and about with *The Empire*. A thoroughly enjoyable trip.

Heaps of laughs, music, plenty of finds, a few DNF's, a few Virtual's, Earthcaches, beautiful scenery, coffee's, photographs, some good memories.

Heading to Newcastle for the night. Grabbing a cache or two en route.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Blundo Busters. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#13003**

Cache-On!

Happy Uke and I were up at Parramatta to attend a nephew's 40th birthday. We had a wonderful night catching up with old friends and making new ones.

On the next day the two of us were out on the hunt for some no good sneaky caches that needed to be put back in their places, after we'd found them of course.

It was a great day for a walk in the park and this park holds allot of historical firsts for the early colony. It was good to see so many young families enjoying the park on such a fine day.

Thanks!

Finalf29 and I were up this way for a nephew's 40th birthday. Had a winderful party last night and did a spot of caching before we drove home. The weather was lovely, especially since this is the middle a winter. We spent a glorious afternoon walking around Parramatta park, with lots of families enjoying the sunshine, joggers and groups of muggles playing that other virtual game... "trying to catch them all". Thanks to the CO's of all the caches we found today. We found eight trads and one virtual.

After a false start... tried to get to park through the hospital. We parked the car and walked around finding caches and gathering clues for the virtual.

This was our seventh for the arvo. Tricky little hide, but coords spot on resulting in a quick find. Just took a little longer to put back, due to timing with muggle traffic. Thanks

We had hoped to find this one today but alas it wasn’t to be.
I looked high and low but didn’t spot a cache. It sure was starting to look dark in the sky so I kept moving.

Thanks Blundo Busters anyway.

It gets dark early on the winter solstice.
I had to search for the cache using flashlight in my phone.
Fortunately it was quickly found.
Tftc

Had a lovely day out at Paramatta park today. This was our first along the journey- quick find with a lovely view. TFTC.

Cache find No. 2473
Streak Day: 905

An easy find while in the Park today. TFTC

Cache nr 4 on this lovely wintersday. Nice hide. TFTC.

TFTF very clever!

I was so nervous that I would drop it!! But it survived and I survived waiting for all the muggles to pass by! Tftc

Finished work and decided I'd come back and give this one a go.
Last time I went to do this there were too many muggles around and I wasn't really paying that much attention.... swear I looked there. It Ohwell.
Officially found it!

Just a quick expedition in Parramatta to pick up a few caches and continue to increase the cache find count.

Another lovely location on the outskirts of the Parramatta CBD.

My original guess was that it wasn't over the water, but the coordinates given were absolutely spot on. A quick grab, and upon inspection there were multiple logs, all of which were full. I wandered back to dry land to grab some paper from my bag to leave my name.

I signed the log, and placed all pieces back in the cache container. But it would be worth the CO replacing with a fresh log.

TFTC

Found while exploring the area with VikingNav as we were working on the virtual nearby. Thanks for the fun cache. I love the music of U2, so this was a must do cache for me.

Made a quick find while getting info for the nearby virtual cache. TFTC

The Rats and the mini rats came to Parramatta Park today for a family catchup. Of course while we were here we couldn't resist the urge to grab a few caches while in the park.

As part of our lap around the park gathering info for the virtual we stopped by here where after the muggles left we could get our hands on the cache.
Thanks

Didn't drop it! TFTC

I've taken a walk through Parramatta park today and found this cache.

Thank you for this cache
Team sissifalke

Located at 7:01am. Gathering the required information for the Virtual here and made this find as the first of my morning. Nice view across the water of the fresh new day. Cheers Blundo. Спасибо! תודה! L’chaim! TFTC!

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Find#: 1109

Found on: 3 March 2018

Buddies: none

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: Logbook is full



Coordinates are spot on it was a quick find. TFTC TNLNSL

Find#: 1109
Found on: 3 March 2018
Buddies: none
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: Logbook is full

Coordinates are spot on it was a quick find. TFTC TNLNSL

Found this whilst donning the virtual in the area.

TFTC.

I came to do the nearby virtual and collected this one on the way, nice to take a moment and look along the river TFT

With any cache like this, I am always pleased to be dressed as if I am conducting business on site...

I wandered along and "inspected" as I went, but before I found the container, I was questioned by a passer buy on whether I was checking the structure, I replied most certainly, we need to ensure you guys are safe as you run across this every day...

Heartbeat wasting muggle out of the picture, I reached in for the container and headed away a little for business. Name on the list, I strolled back in for a quick replacement, then headed off.

Cheers Blundo Busters.

Dodging the bikes and runners was fun, and thanks for the interesting story and place BlundoBusters.

Quick and easy find whilst out on a Parra Park cach hunt. Log is now very full.

SL TFTC

Found with PPE and MummyPenny tonight, just before closing time. We signed the smaller and less-full of the two logs in shortform initials. Thanks Blundo Busters.

The end of a lovely day showing Geogrins all the Australian critters we could find. On our way to GZ we passed a lot of water dragons sunning themselves on the river bank.
While Geogrins was distracted by something I wandered along to the middle of the bridge, mindful not to be collected by stray cyclists. A quick glance at the east side of the bridge got me CIH. I made the grab so quickly that Geogrins didn't even notice it happen.
Awesome hide. TFTC.

Just when you think a day can’t get any better...67Loops brings you to a place where that be dragons! We saw more than a few of them on our way to the cache!

Lu made the quick and stealthy grab here - our last shared geocaching adventure for a while now as she’s off to Zurich where I do hope she’ll find a few of Pim’s caches!

TFTC and the grins!

Easy find with help of my best friend coastblue.
Tftc

Try not to drop your torch/phone in the water if you do this at night! TFTC #teamscrubs

#2012
Thought I would take advantage of the light school holidays traffic for another trip down Pennant Hills Rd to Parramatta. This is my third visit to the park in the last 12 months, so not sure why I hadn't grabbed this one before. With not many muggles about on this cool morning, I made a quick find. Lots of activity in preparation for FOMO.
TFTC BB

Another successful find
TFTC

Decided to try the virtual in here today and pick the traditionals up on the way.. Was super hot but the walk was lovely, and the information collected on the way was great. Can't believe I lived 10min from here for 10 years and never came into this park.. Thanks for the caches!

TFTC
Caching around Parramatta Park, nice and easy grab. Even though temps were in the 40s
Cheers
Seemyshell

Log book is getting mighty full, tftc

6th Australian cache. Found, more by touch than sight as it was dropping dark and beginning to rain. TFTC!

Found with Mrs Wystan. Easy enough when we sorted East from West. Thanks.

I was walking back to my hotel for beer o-clock after enjoying the delights of the park and decided on a little detour to this cache. On my way I had to play dodge the tourist (although technically I am one) and avoid the cyclist, of which there were many.

I walked out onto the bridge to start the hunt when a few more cyclists suffering from lack of speed syndrome raced past. You have to keep your eyes open on this bridge!

I felt the cache and was happy to see it had a super strong magnet. It didn’t come away on my first attempt at retrieval and I thought it was in the drink (like I needed). I signed my name on a free square millimetre and then dropped the lid which I freaked out about again but it landed on the bridge and the caching world was saved. Beer time! tftc

Just as I got there a larger group of muggles came by.... will return

Found 7:17 pm found fairly quickly great coords and hint works. Muggles taking photos though. I parked the geovehicle nearby and headed over to GZ. I had been in Parramatta for an interview and took the opportunity afterwards to grab some caches. I like this cache for the location. I headed in but a photographer was messing around so I waited a bit but then gave up as others arrived a just wandered through. So I headed to GZ and discreetly searched and then spotted what I was looking for. I signed the log basically a blank spot in all the scraps of paper. This could use a new log. Returned the cache to its hiding spot.
Thanks for the cache.

Easy find but left the pen behind!

Nice one

OCW Rodney1210. I’ve previously found this one but visiting a geocoin here today.

OCW Coastblue while in Parramatta for residential school. Heights and edges give me the willies, was happy to make the find and go back to terra firma quickly. That wraps up the whole park!! Cache# 469 TFTC

There were very few people around this structure on such a hot day but several picnicking families could be seen in the distance. We walked until the GPS said zero then looked in the likely place before finding a nicely camouflaged and difficult to see container. Thanks Blundo Busters, I liked this cache and its location.

Strolled down to this one from Train Spotter making it cache 3 of 8 in Parramatta Park today for Octonaut and KokoJam. With phones and iPads safely out of the way the elder Octonaut grabbed this one to make sure it didn't end up in the river. Wandered back across the bridge to sign the log and sit down for a snack, then replaced cache when there was a gap in muggle traffic heading across for lunchtime soccer. SL, TFTC.

Lots of muggles today but found easily with the two minis.

A fun one with the geokids! Thanks for the hide!!

Spotted quickly. Retrieved carefully. Logged diligently. Replaced efficiently. Departed rapidly.