here rover Arndell Park, New South Wales, Australia
By blacktownman on 03-Nov-14. Waypoint GC5FZP5

cache gone

Looks like cache is gone again.

Cache is gone

My daughter and I searched and searched high and low, poking prodding, shaking and we came up empty handed, other than tree pricks stuck in my daughters fingers great park for the dogs though. The zoo next door was great to visit today too.

Spent a good 20 minutes here without any luck
trying to look inconspicuous to the guys at the Burger Bar set up nearby

Nice place to chill out

It eluded us today

Cache is back in place. It was on ground now back where it ahould be

No luck today for us.will keep an eye on it.

No luck for us but did have fun st the puppy park

Geocaching with mystic force.

found with cariozeke well done team

Phone GPS going crazy. Trees stripped bare. No luck this time

OCW Sensible Shoes and Shoes Junior. This was our second attempt on this cache. It was a find by Sensible Shoes. TNLNSL TFTC

Back to avenge our DNF, Found after the school athletics carnival. TFTC.

Great to turn that frown upside down! Even with all the greenery gone this time it still took us a bit to spot this sneaky guy, hanging right there out in the open

Cache replaced. Cache is on last legs in current location

The area at GZ appears to have been recently pruned and mulched. A few small trees are left with very few branches left that would be hard to hide a cache. Thanks anyway.

Tried to find for ages.

Found this one while dogs were running nearby and muggle workers were close by too. Well camoed container and it was found simply by looking carefully (for quite a while). Log signed and replaced. TFTC.

Quick park and grab
Thanks for the cache

Was hunting through scrub trying not to look suspicious to nearby dog walkers.

Cache still in place

Not our day today

Thank you - lots of fun for my 4yo son

found

We found this cache during our walking tour today.
Thank you for the cache
Team sissifalke

here rover was transferred from urban_cachers to user blacktownman

Spent about 20 minutes looking but in the end got too annoyed by the cob webs in the face and gave up. We'll be back for another attempt...

still all good

I had a bit of time before work commitments to go and find a few caches this morning. A short walk to GZ here. Wandered about in and out of the trees for a while before I finally spotted the cache. Nice one! TFTC, Biggles.

We came down to Bungarribee Park to do a reccy of the facilities prior to my DIL’s baby shower. We decided to make an afternoon of it and did a large loop of the surrounding parkland tracks.
This was our first find. Took a little while walking up and down the rows. When I finally stood still and just observed, the find was made.
TFTC

Found it after a little wander around the trees and almost to the road! TFTC

Not too hard to find, in fact when you see it, it’s pretty obvious, but did spend a few minutes wandering around the trees before we spotted it. TFTC

Found after searching a few likely options, but our geopooch really wanted to investigate the other pups in the dog park rather than be out caching.

Stopped in to this park so the geopooch could stretch her legs and having a cache to aim for makes the walk even better. Arrived at GZ and I was worried we could be here for ages with all the possible options. But as often happens with this kind of cache, the moment you turn around to look in the other direction is when you find it. Thanks urban_cachers.

Drob85 spotted it quickly. Read previous logs. Gps coordinates were spot on. Lots of muggles about, but the trees allowed for natural camouflage. Tftc!

Rare find by geoMum. TFTC

Tftc. GPS was going in circles, so Mrs Jaybeem marked the ground where our GZ was, then we systematically checked every tree until we found it.

First for the day with TaurusSix. It took a bit of searching.

Misty, rainy afternoon on the way home from work gave me a muggle free zone to look for this sneaky bugger... The compass was all over the place but with a tip from a friend got me the goods...
Tftc

I started my search right next to the cache but didn’t see it for 5 min! Got the find in the end. TFTC

Today I made a caching trek out to western Sydney. This was my seventh stop. After having found Chloe's 12th Birthday - Western Sydney Parklands I walked over here to search for here rover.
One muggle was in the dog area, and what a great dog enclosure it is. I'd love to bring geodog here to play. Lots of space, a great area to sit and spectacular views!

There were also several other muggles around enjoying their lunch, including some council workers. The cache GZ was far enough away from them all for me to search without arousing suspicion.
The cache was soon spotted. I hate things placed in that species of tree, a tick bush. So it was careful manoevouring to retrieve the cache without touching any foliage and then replacing it the same way.

Also in the same tree were a pair of Noisy Miners with a newly fledged baby encouraging it to move around.

TFTC and for bringing me to these great parklands.
Cache # 2191, 7th find for the day.

Easy find.
SL TFTC

Lots of dog lovers here today, glad this search area was out of sight of them. My fifth from five today, but with battery down to 14% it's time to head home. Thanks for the cache.

Stopped in the park for lunch. The nearby "Bring Your Geokids" cache was inaccessible because of a large number of kids in the area (What are they doing here? I thought the school holidays had finished!), so I went looking for this one instead. Found it fairly easily.

#3374 - Sneaky camo just watched me and watched me until I turned and noticed...something..... Many thanks to the CO urban_cachers for establishing and maintaining this cache.

Out caching with WaywardWoman this morning early. She was after a nearby cache, so after we logged that one I decided to look for this while in the area. There were some people in the nearby dog park but they werent interested in us. Looked up and down, ran into a strong cobweb, and looked some more. WW walked down one "aisle" and I on the other. I looked across to her and there it was right in front of me! Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Found fairly easily, it was just which tree.
Have attached a photo as requested by blacktownman.
TFTC UC.

could the next finder send me a pic of the log so i can confirm the ppl who have claimed a find actually signed the log plz

We always enjoy a day out caching with Phantom Cyclist. Being a weekday there were no muggles around here today, either human or canine. After homing in on GZ it was then quite a simple matter of carefully observing the surrounding growth until the container was spied. Log was good to sign before being replaced and we were soon heading on to make the next find. Thanks to urban cachers for a cache well placed.

Today it was decided to team up with goingplaces2 to find a few caches. Parked in the carpark and walked the short distance to GZ. With nobody around the cache was found after a short search. We both signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thank you urban cachers for placing this cache.

Nearly gave-up but then I decided to do one last check. TFTC

Found with the boos
Thanks urban cachers for placing this cache

nice find on a beautiful sunny afternoon thanks for placing this cache

Find Number 3673

The Booo's found this cache!

A beautiful afternoon for a few caches and a resonably quick find once at GZ.

Thanks urban_cachers for placing this cache

TFTC!!

Found it

#423 Seventh of seventeen finds on a day's caching around Blacktown and Quakers Hill. Spent a fair amount of time searching for this one. Must have walked past it at least a half a dozen times. Was going to give up, turned around and hey presto. Loved the camo. TFTC

Out for a wander doing some caching & pokomons. TFTC

new cache and log all good to go

i wish ppl would stop stealing caches to use for there own caches

On the way to a client I stopped by for the cache of the day. Had tried this one about a week ago, but then it was getting dark and I had no torch. Today when arriving at GZ I immediately spotted the log lying on the ground. No container in sight. I signed the log and put it in a fork of the tree. Suggest the cache owner to look into this as soon as possible.

Log was found but no container.

Tftc!

Tftc!

Tftc!

Wow so many muggles in the dog park area we sneaked to the GZ and found it. TFTH

A clever hide! Found it about 15 mins after searched. TFTH

Good one trick.... TFTC

A.K.A GeoDudes "Gotta cachem all"
A nice walk and nice cache

Few Rovers and their owners in the nearby enclosure, but far enough away to make a quick trek through the light scrub to GZ and a quick find.

I had to fight off plenty of spiders and webs to reach this well cammo'd cache, thanks.

Nice easy find first of 5 for the afternoon

Tftf

This entry was edited by Snakepiters on Wednesday, 02 December 2015 at 03:39:46 UTC.

There was a lot of activity at the dog park. Fortunately the dogs and their owners weren't too worried about what we were doing. TFTC

Second find for today. Very quick. Spotted it straight away. Lots of workmen around.

Tftc

I parked in a nearby side street at 7:30am and walked to the cache. I noticed that the car park was open this early, maybe due to all the site work. There were a few people walking dogs and some of the dogs were interested in what I was doing. Quick find once GPS settled. Then back on the road. TFTC

#443 - Geocaching Live for Windows Phone

This was the only find for today. I had tried this cache with Geodad some time ago but I hadn't updated my Garmin eTrex 30 so I didn't realise until later that the cache was disabled. Fast forward to today and I needed a daily find so I thought I would give it another go. I parked at the carpark but there is some work going on there at the moment. Luckily there were no muggles. I proceeded to GZ making sure to pick up a stick for the spider-webs. I considered the hint and found myself circling some trees, looking up and down. One note from a previous log gave me an idea about the size of the cache and soon enough, I looked at the right angle and spied the cache. SL. TFTC.

Quick stop on way home. Quick find. TFTC

Hmm muggles training dogs and we dont have one...so we slipped up the side along the grass near the road and into gz. What a chunky bison. Tftc sl

I'm starting to think this cache simply doesn't want me to find it. Have been watching for some time and noted that the CO replaced the cache a while ago, but I only had a chance to reach GZ this afternoon, brimming with confidence of a quick find. How hard should it be to find a small-sized cache at this location? Gave up after wandering up and down the rows of trees, will be back again after another confirmed find! Thanks for the hunt urban_cachers!

Ahh, there nothing like finding a nice clean log to start the day. Walking Geodog was the perfect disguise to finding this cache
. Tftc

new container and new log but same location

i am still waiting for the replacement cache but it will be reopened soon

yes rover is gone. looks like the council workers let rover off the chain by cutting the branch when they layed all the woodchips, now rover is gone for now.
soon i hope to rover back.

I thought this one was going to be fairly easy, and there was only a lone fellow in the dog park with his hound, so I slipped into trees and began my search. Several facefuls of spider web later, I gave up, having search almost every tree within a 10m radius. Either I'm incredibly blind, or the cache is gone (most likely the former).

Walked into the bushes in search of the prize. What use is the hint? I turned around and spotted the cache and the hint's meaning became apparent.

TFTC

Found after work....
A top cache.
Also found an arrow near the cache!!
Hope they weren't shooting at me.
TFTC.

#1492 (3 of 8 today)

Thanks to skyebomonkeytown Traffic Control No: 2 - MARK II has come back to Sydney. And I'd like to grab it for my 1500 milestone, coming up really soon. But first I have to get to 1499...

Well left home a bit late this afternoon, so only grabbed 8, targeting an area somewhat unmined so far. As a result I still need two more then TC2!
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Felt a little conspicuous here as there were three dog owners here today - all women. And here am I lurking in the bushes...

Luckily, I was a fair distance away, and the search didn't take too long, and I was somewhat obscured. But now what? Aah, right.

Completed signing duties and replaced - then slunk away before the dogs were let loose on me...

SLTNLN
TFTC

Nice one like it alot

Thank you bought my geodogs for a stroll too..

That took WAY too long to find, but happy to finally get it. BTW, the clue doesn't actually help you FIND it, but it is important. TFTC

#3,288

Our cache for the night. I admit watching a movie was my first choice for the evening (I had Manhunter in mind), but I fell in happily with bikerbuddy's alternative activity for night.

I was hesitant to park in e car park, as it was already well past closing time. But there were lots of cars still there, so we took a gamble that it would be okay.

Quick walk over to the cache, and eventually we spotted it. Then we understood what the hint was for. It took some time to open, neither us could get at a good angle for manipulating it.

Back at the car park we realised all the other cars had left. But we weren't locked in, so all was well.

Thanks

Toriaz suggested we stay in tonight, watch a movie and add another five kilograms to our ever expanding stomachs with yoghurt and chocolate while watching edifying videos of young people in fitness training.

I said we should go out, instead, and do some caches. Toriaz wasn't enthusiastic. She likes videos of young people doing healthy things. This was going to be a challenge, I thought.

So I pulled the greasy chop from her teeth and led her out the house with it. With the sun roof open it was an easy matter to dangle the chop over the hood of the car using a fishing rod that Toriaz has been using to switch off lights from the lounge, pick up the remote controls and prod the cats when they get in the way of the TV.

By the time we got to the parking lot for this cache, it was past closing time for the gates. There were still a few die-hards playing with their dogs in the field, so I figured we had time if I could make Toriaz move quickly. Having being tormented so long already by the promise of culinary reward, I figured the best way to make her move was to toss the chop. I sent it in a high arc over the trees like a fly fisherman casting over a river. Toriaz was off after it in a second.

Unfortunately, there was an unintended side-effect to my strategy. The last of the prim pooches at play nearby lost their lolly and started lolloping for the chop too. It was not dignified, but it was certainly entertaining to see Toriaz break into a run in her high heels. She elbowed the first dog out the way, but the next dog, realising she was an opponent went for the throat. Toriaz had him sorted, though. With a high leap in the air, her elbow stiff, she landed sideways on the corgi with a cool pile drive that brought up his lunch. Immediately, the remaining mutts moved in for what was certain to be a very sick joke.

Meanwhile, Toriaz made it to her chop. Satisfied, we found the cache while the dog owners struggled to regain control.

We were given grim looks as we walked back to the car.

"My puppy won't sleep tonight," one woman told me. It was all my fault it seemed.

"You think you've got problems," I said. "I have to get home with this one, and your dog age our fishing line."

#2685- I knew exactly where this was, but missed the turn coming down and had to do a loop around. On arrival, we headed down to GZ and thought the trees may be problematic on getting a fix, but the co- ordinates were spot on. It was only after we found it that we realised the significance of the number. Thanks - an easy, but well thought out one.

Awesome! Thanks for the find

Tricky got ya after being eaten by ants, wanted to leave a few track ables but no room

A bunnings trip, usually to Rouse hill but today it'll be Mitchinbury. This was the first of many trads collected today. Used hint at GZand cleaned up old log that previous finders have left on the ground. Thanks Urban_cachers

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