Ducks Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
By Mumma-Kel on 11-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5P70Q

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Ministro - Matt

FreeRangeKelly

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tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

No luck with this one. Had a good look around - lots of hiding places but wasn't meant to be. Maybe next time.

It was high tide

Dnf

Tricky. Wondering if it would be easier at low tide.

I had a good look under the feature, but I got a bit concerned by the increasing number of people passing overhead so eventually / reluctantly stopped my search. Thanks anyway!

Missed it the first time but a second look got us the goods. TFTC

Found with My Dad (DJANT) and my Brothers (dart16 & Jedi Anakin) I have my own account now and am trying to catch up to the boys Thanks for the cache.

YAYYYYYYY
After 2 DNFs I returned with another ButtPirate and finally found the goods!
Thank god for front facing cameras, am I right?
Prepare to get messy though.
TFTC, really well hidden!

Had a look, got interrupted by a local troll setting up for a long afternoon of collecting tolls from us poor Billy goats. No joke he was setting up camp

After a great day on the Central Coast bush walking and bird watching it was time to head back to the Big Smoke, but not before grabbing a few caches on the way. The only problem was we'd been given a plan of attact for the day so I'd planned my caches around the finishing spot and we ended up somewhere completely different.
On the plus side we were near some really cheap petrol, 40C/L cheaper than Sydney!

After the petrol I began the trek home, school zone time so rather slow but once through that I headed for this cache.
Ducks - the name matches the purpose of the day so ideal!!
Found the location easily and walked over. Knowing this CO has good co-ordinates I concentrated on where the GPS suggested. A bit of scrambling around and thinking where would be the best dry stealthily hidden location and I had CIH, much quicker than I expected!

No ducks at GZ today but I did find the beauty in the photo on our bird watch today.

TFTC # 4295

Read the logs so had a fair idea. Sent the (smaller) geowife in and soon had it in hand. Log a bit wet but not too bad

Thankyou

A tricky find, located with busboybilly. Left a little green man. Thanks!

This is tough

Beautiful spot! Love the ducks, got some nice pics. Tricky find made by GeoDad!

Looked in all the usual places, came up with nothing but a nice photo.

No luck today. Got my hands real dirty for no cache, and a bunch of strange looks. I did however find an .... interesting recreational item. And tools to make another said item. I'LL BE BACK

Tricky spot. Took a while.

FINEALLEY

Took ages to find.

Very well hidden! Make sure you limber up first

Great hiding spot. TFTC

Found it.

Was really hard didn’t know where exactly it was

3 third times a charm but not

Still nothing

NOT THERE

Found on a pleasant walk with geo-buddy for xmas fun.
Ducks is very true!
Thanks Mumma-Kel

A bit of ducking and weaving got us one final find before gorging on Xmas dinner. Thanks Mumma-Kel.

We have travelled up from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to the Central Coast, staying for a couple of nights in a park cabin at the Blue Lagoon Beach Resort (Caravan Park) in Bateau Bay, for a short weekend getaway & caching holiday. Our primary caching target areas will be along the coastal strip from The Entrance to Terrigal, Erina, and Gosford. This was the 7th of 9 finds for the day, and the 28th of 30 finds for the weekend.

With our short holiday weekend almost over we are now back on the road and heading homeward, but stopped off along the way in Gosford for some shopping and caching. Parked the geomobile in the West Gosford Bunnings carpark and then set off on foot to visit a few caches around the area.

Continued our walk along the pedestrian & bike trail behind Bunnings and soon arrived at this one. Took a bit of searching but the hide was eventually uncovered and we had the well hidden CIH. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC Mumma-Kel.

Find #3775

Found by BnB_Holton at 4:29 pm on 5/10/19
Total Finds 1087
Thanks to Mumma-Kel for the cache.
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Found while out riding with Brendan on our ride to raise money to fight kids cancer.

Found it no pen so didn’t sign. Great spot almost had us stomped. Nice black swans hanging around.

TFTC. Was under there and a man stood directly on top of me. Lol. Then a bunch of women stood there. What a beautiful spot.

Well hidden

Not today

Get down low indeed! TFTC! Found with R2BEEF2, Maddawg and GeoJess

There was no way once I got in there I was getting out again without finding it.
Great hide once again Mumma-Kel. Found with TaylaPearce3 and the Mad Dawg while GeoJess played in the park with Muggle wife. I feel like another Bunnings sausage sanga after that effort !

Tried for about halfa with the little one, no luck.

Went for a walk from Bunnings to Point Clare train station, why not grab some geocaches on the way. One the way there we couldn’t find this one but on the way back we did a more thorough search and was found in a nice hidden area. Forgot pen but took photos and can go back if CO wants me to. Nice day on a nice walk

Thanks for the cache.

Got it TFTC

It IS here!! Safe and well. Found by checking in the most probable spot. Good hide. TFTC and a New Years Souvenir!!

nope ....
another DNF on the list

but thanks, Mumma-Kel

Seems like there should be some sort of clue...

Noticed a couple of DNF's on this one.

I can confirm it IS still there.

Had a good look even on my knees.

Had trouble here

Found with geoJavi, geoIsaac and muggleC. Picked up a trackable. Great hide took us a lot more time than expected, mainly because we tried to avoid too much effort. TFTC

TFTC, took me a while but finally got there cheers

Not today

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We are staying in the area for a short stay and it was great to go out with Shifter Brains to find this cache. Our other activity was feeding the very hungry ducks nearby. Thanks to Mumma-Kel for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

A quick find with Liz and Bruce. Just one today to fill a hole in our calendar.
We took some bread to feed the ducks and they seemed like they were starving. Some were snatching whole slices of bread from our hands.
Thanks Mumma-Kel

In Memory of Australian Crawl? Thanks

Bit to hard for us. On hands and knees but no luck

I DNFed this cache almost two years ago, today with the use of the boot liner from the car keeping my knees clean, I had a quick find in the obvious spot, how did I miss it last time?

Cool

What a lovely place and so many ducks.
Like some one else said, be prepared to get your knees dirty.
TNLN SL TFTC

Needed a cache to fill in an empty date on the grid.
Reading a few early logs gave me an idea and soon had CIH.
TNLN SL TFTC

Found with BillHill531 on a day trip to find one last scenic adventure, an old placed month and a few other caches in between.
Being in the area, we had a go at this. One attribute had me off looking in the wrong area. Finally we read some logs, about knees and finally I knew where to look. It was a bit of a tight squeeze and definitely needs more on the terrain rating. We got a bit of unloved on this cache as well.
Thanks for the walk, water views and cruel cache!

Found with TOMBI!, we came down to Central Coast area to do some scenic caches, finding some others on the way. Found some duck, but forget the bread. We widened out search area, but should have followed our first instinct for a find. TFTC Mumma-Kel

# 878

No luck this time but we will try again since it's so close. One of us fell in the water looking though which was amusing

Out and about today finding a few caches north of where I am house sitting for a month.
I am in Gosford to do a little shopping so I had better find a few caches while 'up north'.
A bit of a search today before feeling for this one.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with stephanniiee123

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun but no luck today. Sigh. Thanks for placing the cache.

Lovely spot to have a picinic and walk along the water. TFTC

It was a pleasure to see new bridge and look around for the case. TFTC

TFTC had a look on a bike ride no pen so photographed the log and cache for proof.

Great little sneaky cache

Such an easy find for geohubby after many many many attempts to locate. With geokids. Inside was a bit wet after a high tide. TFTC

Long story but always drawn to any cache names to do with ducks so this was on the must do list en-route to my motel for the night. Found a container at spot on co-ords with some strange contents not commonly used as swag and no log sheet so checked all other possibilities in a much wider radius before adding some paper and claiming the find as legitimate. Think CO may need to check on this one even if only that the box is not watertight.

Lance91 showed me this cache. Grabbed the geocoin will take up to forster this weekend. Tftc!

Also didn't see the geocoin in the cache

What a sneaky hide! Found eventually after reading past finds. Our second attempt while we were in the area. Tftc

The initial plan was to find the cache on the "Big Gun" then go for a walk. Coming closer I thought I'd check the logs for this cache, and Lance's log gave me some good clues. Started a systematic search and soon wondered why I didn't find the cache previously. Good one Kel! No need to lift off any coverings, it's there to be grabbed. Left a geocoin. Thank again Kel!!

Dang that's a hard find, after finding a suitable spot I retreated to grab some gloves out of my pack, came back and yep theres the cheeky hide that eluded me last time. couldn't see oldies having much fun retrieving it! Tftc kel enjoyed this one, for others.. Bring gloves and prepare for dirty knees. Enjoyed this one more than I thought I would, the area is nice and ducks are everywhere

Finally found a chance to check this today - cache is where it always has been, waiting to be found.

Due to recurring DNFs disabling this for a couple of days until I can get down there to Check things out

Looked long and hard. Have to come back another time.

Dnf, had a good look around but came up short.. Will be back again

Searched around for a good while. GPS didn't help. Would appreciate any help when other geocachers find it. Will attempt at another time

TFTC, thoroughly enjoyed this one

This is the second time ive been to look for this one and may I say this one is a difficult one to find. Lots of squeezing and even rolled up my shorts and took a walk in the water. After a long time of searching i finally had the cache in hand. I really liked this one

TFTC

sightUNSEEN92 no.140

Ejoyed the walk and view...but not around

7am and first cache of the day, and it started with a dnf, sigh...

Dashed down to this one after work, good hide No muggles today, i've been blessed.

[green] - Found It on Monday ... at 5:00 PM ...
TFTC! - [blue]Mumma-Kel[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 1877
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Cache MIA - will replace

Cache replaced and good to go!

Hooley Dooley, such a sneaky hide!
The weather is gteat for ducks today.
Found with sesblocker.
TNLNSL TFTC ?

no luck cant find caches

Spent a good thirty minutes combing the area then had another friend go out later. Neither of us could see it? Either were very blind or it needs maintenance?

29/09/15. 9:19 AM. Cache #3056. Streak day #464.
9th of 12 this morning - Mooney Mooney Creek, Calga, Somerby & West Gosford.

Returning back to my parents' place up the C'Coast & picked up a few more caches on my way up.

After finding "Beyond Hardware Heaven", I returned to the car and called my parents to say I wouldn't be much longer (and yet, the next 4 caches still meant I got to Green Point after 10:00). Then, when I saw where "Ducks" was, I realised I was already parked in as good a spot as any, so I returned to the track and headed over to this bridge. Along the way, I reviewed past logs and saw a spoiler photo of the container, which I thought might help me narrow down the likely hiding places.

In between passing muggles I tried several hiding spots in the 1.5 star terrain areas, and on both sides. Suspecting one type of hide, I discovered they've used a fairly strong glue here on certain plastic parts. After more than 10 minutes, I reread some logs and had an idea that the terrain rating might not quite be all that accurate and this might mean getting myself into interesting positions. But do that I did, and just as well, because this got me this tricky find. I signed the log out of sight of the nearest muggles.

This one was quite tricky and worth a fave point. Next stop, "Silence Is Golden". TFTC.
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Perfect afternoon to walk the dog, and grab a cache. TFTC

Finally found the time to take a side road on my way past here, Im not sure how many times i thought I'd stop, then realized I'd driven past the turn off .
today was a dry and sunny afternoon,so the hunt was easy.
found the cache where I guessed it might be,and had it signed and returned before my Cola slushie melted.
thanks for the cache.

I was in a hurry as it was almost dark - unfortunately many muggles came jogging/walking by so I didn't really have much of an opportunity to find it. I am just passing through on my way home to Canberra, but may be back eventually. Thanks Mumma-Kel

Found while visiting the park with the family. Wife came up with the goods!

After Event wonderful time, {giggle} alot...
Accompanies ALL7 walked on the park, wow wow heaps of duck chase us to bridge, Their wait for us feed but did not bring anything for ducks... sorry ...
Little searched, poor ALL7 worn her legs by reach under...
Use her mobile flashlight to look, YAY found one,..
sign in as no trouble...
Thanks Mumma-Kel

Oh beautiful Heaps Duck... KamFindit and I feel bad bec we didn't bring bread to feed duck... Oops sorry Ducks... We looked everywhere for 20 mins finally found by me... Killed my legs!!!! Grr!!!! Thank Mumma-Kel...

Cache still in place