Park of Rules Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By starryhero on 04-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5MA21

I am still overseas and unable to maintain. This cache, despite me regularly checking on it seems to get lost too easily and isn't well cared for. Thankyou to everyone who found it and visited my beautiful area. I have another cache nearby which is easier to find and is also light rail accessible. Thanks, starryhero

I am overseas for a few months and am unable to tend to the cache. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Searched in all possible spots and saw the previous DNFs. The cache is probably gone

Searched in all possible spots with no luck

Looked for a while with frazel but couldn't seem to locate this one, looked low almost everywhere

Search for this one for a while but still could not find

Must be well hidden as we looked for a good while but came up empty handed

The only DNF of the day, had a good look around but failed to find anything. Had to leave in order to go and see my kids band concert so will return another day.

TFTC

So many rules!! 1. Park. 2. Go to GZ. 3. Find cache. 4. SL. 5. Replace. 6. Drive off to next cache. TFTC starryhero

TFTC Starryhero

Another cache close to the light rail. After getting off the tram I had CIH within 7 minutes. My daughter and I were out for a tram ride when I saw this cache so we got off and made our way to GZ. Greats kids park. TFTC

Found, great hide loc... Took a while

On a nice morning walk decided to make a little detour to get this cache, too.
Rocked up, followed the smartiephone compass and map to the GZ. But it was evident there are much better places to hide a cache a few steps away and - sure enough - some 10 m away there was the container.

There is a myriad of loose logsheets in the container. The CO might want to get around to clean them up from the container and replace with a single good logsheet / logbook(let). Otherwise all good here. TFTC, Starryhero!

Found - took a while

3rd time lucky! TFTC!

Our very first cache find ever! Thank you so much! Signed and placed back in location.

Great hide tftc

Thanks for the effort. Nice fun one for the kids

ThAnkyou

Dropped Mrs C8 at nearby RSL for line dancing so it's a chance to do some urban caching.
This was #2 out of 6 for the day. As I pulled up and saw there was a kids birthday party going on, I thought about giving this a miss. Decided to follow the path hoping GZ wouldn't be under the occupied shelter. Fortunately I was right but from here it took me to a couple of potential places without success, with many muggles passing through. Checked the hint and description again, then thought what about over there? A quick feel along and there it was. Sat down to avoid any suspicion and did the signing duties, after spending some time removing log. Swapped the smurf toy for a much smaller eraser.
Coordinates are out a bit as it put me in the garden. See attached screenshot for my suggested GZ.
TFTC. #430

Got to GZ. Party + Sport game = way to many muggles. Will try again at a quieter time.

Came to GZ with Joanneeg. Way to many muggles around.

Will return another time.

After visiting some other caches with a local(ish) CO it was time to get a couple more for the night. Never satisfied!

This one was a relatively quick grab as the torch shone the way but I knocked it off its perch and it fell tantalisingly close yet out of reach.

Good thing that I carry a trusty geo-magneto-extender-thingy with me which enables me to reach the cache and retrieve it.

Dropped a PT here as well... Gotta get rid of them somehow!

Thanks for the cache and the fun. Cheers from Melbourne.

Third time back!! Can't believe it. You have to "dig in" to find it.

Oh my! This took me longer than it should have, as I was within 1-5m of it for soooooo long. Glad I didn't give up. So happy to find it. Thank you!

Cache #2 for the day. Perfect day to stick my pooch on the front of my pushie and hit the fantabulous Cooks River bike trail in search of nearby caches I haven't done. We had a great day visiting the local and not so local parks-thank you for this one starryhero.

1390

Found it at Wazza's co-ord. TFTC

Set out on a drizzly morning for a day of caching. Hoping for about 20 and to set a personal best day. 8th for the day. At 11.05 with the coords being out it was time to use deductive reasoning. Some had cache in hand. All read some of the rules or I would have been here all day. TFTC.

Found right where it makes sense to be. Tftc.

Tricky! Check Wazza's new co-ords.

This one rules Found it in the first place we looked

TFTC

to many muggles in the park having a party.
will come back next time

This was a tricky one but a great little park.

Nice park. Although not many observing the rules. Tftf

Got off the tram to do this one, and it wasn't really a quick find, but after looking in a few places I thought along the lines of where would I hide it, and there it was. TFTC.

Can't find it! But we'll be back for another go soon.

So many possible places!
Surveyed the site, thought about the clue and soon had CIH. SL & replaced. This could be a busy location at certain times with sports in the park and people passing to and from the nearby light rail, which is how I got here. Thought I'd try the current light rail before the George Street one gets going.
It's an interesting trip.
TFTC # 1191

This one was sneaky,
Did not find it the day earlier

Co ords from recent post made a difference. Easy find.

TFTC

Tftc

Found using Wazza's co-ords: S 33° 54.188 E 151° 08.177

Nice warm afternoon to be grabbing a few caches, and I arrived here to find a few kids playing football on the astro on one side, some dog-owners exercising their pooches in the dog spot, and a few parents braving the heat on the play equipment nearby - nice spot!

The listed co-ords are still out, and had we far enough away so that the hint made no sense. Re-reading older logs, I came across Wazza's adjustment, and they were bang on (note to CO - can I suggest you update your cache co-ords to those above? That should do the trick!). Sitting down, combining the co-ords above and the hint, I actually spied the cache with the naked eye - tucked away where the hint makes perfect sense! A quick grab, then SL&R.

Thanks for bringing me here, starryhero! I'll have to come back when there's a football match on!!

CC.

Finally catching up on my logging with bdp. Looked last night in the dark but it was much easier to find in the daylight. TFTC

Much easier in the daylight. TFTC.

Bummer. Looked in all the usual places.

This entry was edited by bdp on Thursday, 01 October 2015 at 23:57:09 UTC.

Was on the way back from a cache series in Strathfield and decided to pick up a few on the way home.
Arrived at the area at about the same time as a couple of other cachers. Always good to have more brains and eyes on the task.
The GPS was pointing to clearly incorrect locations. But after considering the other information available, cache was soon in hand.
TFTC starryhero.

Was lying on the ground - might be worth looking at stronger magnets!

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 54.198 E 151° 08.178

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 54.193 E 151° 08.178

Distance from original: 29.7 feet or 9.1 meters.
I am sorry for not changing this for so long. It should be correct now. Bend down low

I searched using Wazza cords but with no luck. Could the CO please update the cords officially.

My fourth find in a brief cycle tour of Dulwich Hill. Found it using wazza9's coordinates. I put it back in the same place that I found it, which may or may not be the right place.

Found with a few others and the extra eyes really helped

Found on a balmy evening but needed help from a previous finder to point us in the right direction

TFTC,
After checking out the previous logs and still not locating the cache, I resorted to a PAF previous finder who sent me back to a location I had checked.
Until the CO corrects the coordinates, other cachers might like to try S .188 E .177
Closing in on finding 3,000 caches and today was all about numbers. I have already calculated the location of GC4G0Y4 and will be making this the bid one. I managed to reduce the remaining count from 11 to 3 during a visit to the St George and inner west this afternoon.
Visited a group of trackables.

It was disappointing that the cache container was a long way from GZ, Signed log and replaced. Thanks to starryhero.

Found with my friend Juliet. TFTC.

I found this about twelve metres from GZ after a hint from the owner.

TFTC.

Some caches before going back in Belgium,
thanks for this one more

Finally got it after reading all the other helpful logs. Couldn't work out how concrete and the hint went together but I approached the GZ from a different way and it became clear. I found the GZ to be out by a few metres too. A beautiful looking park!

Tftc

With torch in hand I set out to find this hide that suddenly appeared on my closest to work perimeter of being unfound.
Stood at 0m and looked low as per hint but nothing along where I thought it would be.
Shone the torch and spotted an item that resembles the cache name, but for a certain pet and searched there.
Had CIH quickly at that position, thanks starryhero

Tftc! The coords are a little off. Think concrete and fence

Checked on cache...it's still there. Since people are finding this hard I'm going to bump up the difficulty rating.

Any news?

Maybe it's been moved around again? 20+ minutes is way longer than it usually takes up to find one at this level. CO can you check again?

Disabled for a little while, sorry guys! It looks like this one's been snatched. I'll make a new one soon!

I looked in the obvious and then less obvious spots but nothing revealed itself. Could CO check just in case the cache has gone a-wandering again?

No luck for today. Time to go home.

We shall return.

Took a while but got it as I was about to walk away.
TFTC

So sad I could not find it...started getting desperate at the end and frantically reading logs and looking at pics. Lots of likely places to be hidden but still could not locate it. Had to give up after 20 mins

Second one for the day while visiting a friend in Summer Hill. TFTC SL

Found it! Good hide, had to look from a few perspectives tftc

Updated Co-ordinates.

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 54.193 E 151° 08.179

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 54.198 E 151° 08.178

Distance from original: 29.3 feet or 8.9 meters.
Co-ordinates only work if we put the cache back where we find it. Thanks guys Happy Caching!
-33.903298
151.136310

I visited this one en velo as the second of my ration of two geocaches for the day. I pulled up, got out the phone, started looking about a little and noticed that I was being watched, somewhat surreptitiously. Damn, I thought, I'm going to have to loiter a while. After a little pseudo Facebooking came the polite question, "Are you looking for something?" "Indeed I am", I replied. "Maybe I can help you?" It turns out that I'm talking to the CO, who has arrived simultaneously to do a coordinate check, and is also having some minor cache finding trouble, as the cache has wandered a little in the way that they do sometimes. Soon enough, the cache is tracked down and signed. Many thanks for the cache, starryhero, you're the first CO that I've ever meet at the scene. Keep up the good work!

1st cache in about 5 years introducing our 4 year old to treasure hunts. Thank you.

The GPSr took me one way, the hint took me another, the hint won.

Great park. Great spot. Hints really helped.

Great park. Good spot. The hints really help.

Great find after breakfast

Being the last work day before Easter, I took the long way home and found a few caches along the way.

This was the last. There didn't seem to be anything "Zntargvp" where the co-ords led me so I expanded the search to include the other part of the hint. I was about to send a text to a reliable source when I saw he had already suggested changing the southing a bit. I went there and found the cache. Nice playing field here.

TFTC starryhero

#1621

After walking to "marrickville oval" I decide to do one more.. Wasn't to far and from my trip back home.. No muggles so an easy find. TFTC

Thanks for the cache! Lovely park. Randomzonks and Shneffnay

Woot cache time!

Found at 4:49pm.

I came here straight after work to attempt this cache for the second time. The first time was only a few days ago but I had no luck as the GPS was not exactly being friendly and of course there were many spots where this cache could be hidden.

Anyhow, today I arrived with much less muggles present, maybe it was to do with the sky being slightly overcast and perhaps some rain earlier in the day. Either way it suited me.

It's always good to go away and think about a cache after attempting it unsuccessfully. It usually triggers a thing or two in your mind after investigating the area and thinking of the possible locations. That's exactly what I did and came back with a plan. The plan worked as I approached from a different angle this time.

Signed log, thanks for the cache starryhero, a nice location for your first hide

In Sydney overnight to place a cache, took opportunity en-route to tick a day off the calendar with an easy smilie. Arrow kept pointing away from the obvious placement method but with a few muggles nearby, a less suspicious search was undertaken from the other side of the fence. Cache quickly spotted so returned to the path for a discrete grab with muggles none the wiser.

Yay not too hard. About 10 mtre off .. Tftc

We also found the coords to be out but the logs helped us locate the cache in just over 5 mins. TFTC!

Second time lucky. Love this park though! TFTC

A lovely, deserted park in a soggy evening.

Made the quick grab and headed home on the light rail

Tftc

#1517 (1 of 6 today)

Needed a cache or two today before installing a TARDIS at Sydney University for O-Week. Yep, one of those normal days.
So I headed out this way to see how many I could grab before needing to head back. In the end I managed to make 6 park and grabs.
HUZZAH!
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Like Kid Ron Satan, the only people were were the mother's club, and they were near the play equipment.
So keeping my distance, and likely still looking suss, I started my search. Found it in a likely place after a few minutes, but then couldn't find my pen. After returning to The Hademobile for the spare, I came back and completed signing duties, replaced and then looked for the missing writing implement.

Found it close to GZ handing in the bush. How did it manage that? Grabbed and made my way to my next target.

SLTNLN
TFTC

23/2/15. 2:14 PM. Cache #2272. Streak day #247. 1st of 4 for the afternoon. I returned today and noticed that, other than a mothers' group at the playground, the park was more or less deserted today, so I had a chance for a much better look than last time. Again I paid close attention to the rules, but still found nothing. A PAF then revealed that I was close, and then I found it. It's a little bit further north (try .189). It's also a micro, not a small. No need for maintenance. I then headed to Rockdale for "The Diamond Dash#2" after pausing for a late lunch. TFTC }:)

This entry was edited by Kid Ron Satan on Monday, 23 February 2015 at 23:06:51 UTC.

Couldn't find it anywhere even looking away from coordinates.

15/2/15. 8:56 AM. After finding "Stop Playing Around!!!" in East Balmain, I came here. Past logs told me the co-ords were a bit off, but the hint gave a good idea of roughly where. Unfortunately there were too many soccer muggles about this morning for me to give it any more than a brief man-look.

Had a good look around. Read the clue and previous logs which gave me a good idea of where it might be. No luck today though! Search was cut short after 15min by the setting of the sun. Had to get me and my bike back home.

Fun find!

Great location. Was excited about a new cache on the way home. Quick park and walk only to see 2 people at gz. Hmmm suspicious.
In the end it was co and her brother who made the quick hide with me looking away.
Quick find with coords about 10m off but still quite easy to locate.
Tftc

Published

I saw the notification email for this cache about 20 minutes after it was published. I still had a little bit of work to finish off however the chance at another FTF spurred me into action. Looking at the map, it looked like an awkward location to get to directly, but then I spied the light rail station nearby GZ and resolved to take that method of transport.

I wandered down to Capitol Theatre and only had to way a couple of minutes for a light rail train (or tram?) to arrive. The journey to Arlington station took some time, I'd never taken the light rail this far down the line before, so it was a pleasant albeit uneventful 30 minute trip.

The park was deserted when I arrived at GZ and I quickly set to work. After finding nothing obvious after a couple of minutes, I expanded my search area, taking into consideration the rating, description and hint. While the coords were a little off the information gleaned from the cache page meant I had CIH in very short time.

I opened the container and found a couple of log rolls, one blank and one with writing on it already! For a brief moment I thought I'd be beaten however as I read, I realised it was simply a message from the CO! {*FTF*} SL @ 3:05pm. Good first cache starryhero! TFTC!

This entry was edited by Rheneas on Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 07:19:31 UTC.