Guardian of the Cache Fairview Park, South Australia, Australia
By Astrid Ivy on 22-Dec-15. Waypoint GC68FQQ

Hello! Unfortanetly due to moving away from SA I've had to archive the cache! But, if you ever come to visit the ACT, make sure to find our little guardian!

Due to moving to another state, I am closing this geocache... This temp disable is just so I can go home and properly close the cache. Thank you everyone who has visited, he had a fantastic run!

great find here.

TFTC

Cute hide unwilling to walk through long grass so sent hubby tftc

With long grass pregnant geowife stayed out and sent mr kager17 in with potatoheads63 and gypsydawg12. Cute cache

It's been a long time since Mr & Mrs 3LG have had a caching day together & today is that day. Finding caches & working our way across towards this evenings event at Parkside. Clearing up our local caches & this was one of them. GPSr wanted me 10mts in the long grass on a very warm day.... No, NOT happening! Spotted an obvious hide & cache found
TFTC

Great cache

After two days of crawling in the nearby bushes, we finally noticed that it was not necessary. After that we quickly located the cache.
Found by Matyi123 and Kati

#50 for our crew and #1 for Miss 11 guest.

Very cute. Coordinates about 18 metres out.

Loved it!

Over this way to pick up a parcel for a friend so why not a few caches as well? A glorious day for a walk with lots of bird song.
GPS 13m out but found easy enough. TFTC

So cute! Doing a great job of guarding this pretty bushland. TFTC ??

Nice container...he was having a rest when we came past. Tftc

I'm really enjoying my walk through this area today, a beautiful spot. Thanks for the hunt today.

Nice walk & a cool find at night cheers

Great hide for kids to find. TFTC

Said hi to the guardian . Very cute! Tftc. With geomum

found at 1202hrs, despite the coords being out a bit the hiding spot was easy enough to find. Nice hide. Thanks Astrid Ivy.

Tftc

Out hunting with @HoldingTrue. Here's a cache I've never seen before. A few goodies inside, and log was in good condition. Thanks for bringing us here.

Find with Ayden on5/11/16 TFTC

Found by The Boofs TFTC .

After attending The only cure for litter is YOU! this morning, muggle partner went to assist ttrogg with some issues and I went shopping, taking Brodie for a ride too
After shopping, I figured that Brodie needed a walk and this cache rpovided us with a good reason [^]
Cute hide and although coords are off a bit, it was still findable by thinking like a geocacher.
Thanks for the leg stretch and the cache find [^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Astrid Ivy

Using previous logs, cache was found eventually.
Many finders have mentioned in their logs about the bad coords. Please update them, I have included my version of them to help. About 17m from the listed coords!!

Hawkgirl found this one. Difficult terrain with all this long grass! TFTC

Found by Hawkgirl. TNLN TFTC

Great cammo and worthwhile looking for. GZ was a little out but that may have been the cloud cover. A fav from us. TFTC

A quick find for the slithering Snake.
Loved the guardian. Nice hide.tftc

Sweet little fellow. Good one

Nice hide

Out with Moneydork for an afternoon of caching through the few remaining caches in the north eastern suburbs on a overcast, drizzly day.

The last of the night for me, and another cache that was quite out, by a good 20 metres by my calculations. Glad I didn't go ahead with the plan of leaping over to the other bank to continue searching there. Also didn't really understand the hint, but we got there in the end. Initially we thought we had found a Geocaching Australia Gnome game piece, since that was the theme a few years ago, but it turns out this is just what we were looking for.

This was find number 10 of 10 for the day for me. TFTC Astrid Ivy!

do you think you gnome me?

A cute cache hide and can see how it could be easily destroyed.
Found with Day Seekers.
Co-ords were good for us.
A fav point from me.
TFTC

Have decent shoes on. Enter from the main road side or you will sink in mud!!

Wandered around for a bit as we were on the wrong side of the creek having done the nearby one. Then crossed with a leap and a well placed log. GPS a bit out and then saw the guardian laying down on the job in a snug hidey hole. Thanx

RIKES1 & GHEKO1

GPS was taking us further in but found quickly with the hint while on a short night caching run with the fantastic GoodLook. Thanks for the hide!!

CP wanderer and I found our GPSr was taking us several metres away from GZ, but after a quick read of the hint we had the cache in hand.

Certainly a cute cache container!

Thanks so much for the cache Astrid Ivy

Found it. Did take awhile. Gps all over... covered lightly but not visible ti muggles.. added a lady bird rubber. Kaleb nick bottroff

Owl had some spare time before picking up Hawk from work and decided to find a cache or two. The GPS was taking her into territory that did not suit court shoes, so she read the hint and headed to a much safer location where the guardian smiled at her.

Back to sleep you go little friend added some more camo to keep safe

My GPS put it about 8 metres away, but found it anyway. Will take the kids back to this one - I'm sure they'll love it. TFTC

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Found him

Good find

Tftc. Found with the nephew a while back but forgot to log

My gps was out,but no knombing around here

A hint on the camo,my second trip and no luck

TFTC

Great one for the kids!

Thanks for the cache! Love the container!

An unusual guardian for a cache - most people use snakes and spiders !
This would be a neat place for a picnic if the council came along and tidied it up a bit - particularly if they cut the grass .
TNLNSL.
Thanks Astrid Ivy.

Found after a bit of a search. Thanks for the cache Astrid Ivy!

Find 2389
Found the gnome home.
Thanks to Astrid Ivy for the cache.
Fine Elsewhere

Kids loved looking for this one.
T- star, doll & frog
L- whistles, balloon & stickers.
TFTC

Out with Purrfect Di and Mrs Froghoppin,
saw this little beastie pop up a few weeks ago,
glad to find him in this nice park area
TFTC Astrid Ivy

While Mr frog had a saturday shift Mrs frog , Mattycat and Perfect Di decided to mix a little shopping and caching, gnome looks very similar to one Mrs frog painted a few years back, brings back memories TFTC Astrid Ivy

Dear Gnome,
You seem to have escaped from the gnomish legions in Blackwood village and made your way north to the bad lands. Watch out for dogs and bigger dogs. They will chase you.
Best of luck
Freddo

Cool find. Thanks

Needed a cache for our calendar today and this being close and back online made it an ideal candidate We recall visiting this spot some years ago when a different cache occupied this area. A great place to hide one here. Found after a short search using the hint as GPSr insisted we should be looking 13 metres away TNLNSL TFTC

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi. Had been avoiding this one due to some of the mix up on publication but today I needed a closeby cache for the day and this fit the bill. Parked near GZ and the Coords took me to gnome mans land. Looked around and spied a couple of likely locations so decided to go in one direction and soon spied the little sleeping guardian. Gnome more doubt about where this cache is. Don't need to bolt for it. Extracted the log, signed it and replaced. Gratias pro cache.

After searching through every bush around we widened the search area a little.
So yeah, not in a bush,but definitely in a sleeping gnome.

Nice easy find tho i think the coordinates may be slightly off. Easier from one side of creek than the other

Gnoming of a time

Found myself in the area not long after the first attempt at publication. Found it on the day but a few issues had it off line again for a while.
Glad to see it is up and running again with a couple of improvements
Nice guardian
TNLNSL
TFTC Astrid Ivy

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 48.300 E 138° 43.290

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 48.300 E 138° 43.284

Distance from original: 30 feet or 9.1 meters.
Coordinates have changed and a screw has been added to the opening to keep the contents dry and creepy crawly free.
S 34°48.30
E 138°43.284

Cache is back up and ready to go Happy Caching!

Doing some work on the cache as flaws in the design have been found (thanks everyone ) should be back up in the next week or so.

Enabled

*FTF* with Squizzie at 1136 [^]
Was on the long way home after work when this one came out. At only 1K from home decided I better head for GZ.
Parked nearby and started the short walk to GZ. Only now did I notice the disabled state. As I was already at GZ had to have a look. Squizzie turned up and wasn't long before we were putting our names in the log.
Thanks for the cache Astrid Ivy

This one popped up only 1k from home. When I arrived TTROG was already scrambling around in the bushes. Had a chat as we were searching and soon found. This cache is in a bushland area on the edge of a creek. It is in an appropriate area so no problems with publishing. Thanks Astrid Ivy for the adventure.

Quick find with the geokids Poptart394 and RyeRye467. Plastic bag already has a hole so the coins slip through.

As we replaced the cache, a large branch of a tree cracked dropped to the ground about 25m away. It scared the life out of us! We quickly retreated back to the safety of the car.

Thanks for the cache.

#3015

Found with ozmilo and RyeRye467.

I swapped a key ring for rubber bracelet and smurf figurine.

Thanks for the cache.

Found with ozmilo and Poptart394. Thanks for the cache.