Come fly with me.... Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia
By contactpete on 25-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6GRVE

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I think this one is missing

Needs replacing

Not a good day. Nothing on the seat.

Couldn’t find it.

Nah not there unfortunately

Looked all around don't know?

Nice one, found a needle someone hid along with it, removed the needle and threw it in the bin

Found it

Hi we found it we were so exited its are first geocache we found

Nice place to hide it

Nice one

TFTC a quick find along our journey. Thank you for the hint. The phone was way out.

An easy find, but this is NOT a small cache as marked. Mintie tins are MICRO sized. They will not hold small items (such as TBs) as well as a log book. The geocaching definition (copied from the geocaching site) of a small sized cache is "holds logbook and small items". A mintie tin doesn't, so is NOT a small. I am mentioning this, because I purposely came here to leave a TB which I brought from the UK which wanted to be left in this area. (A sister sending a TB to her sister and I was pleased to assist.) There are not many caches marked as small in this area. Very disappointing when a cache is mis-rated . I hope you correct this so others know the actual size of the cache. Anyway, it's always nice that people bother to place out caches for others to find, so TFTC contactpete.

I headed here for the last cache of the day.
Others have said a quick and easy park and grab. Well that depends on where you park! I missed the entry to this park but spotted one further down the street. The GPS said 198m which isn't too far so I headed off.
Just as I reached the tree line I ran into a group from the local preschool doing their morning hike. They were very "chatty" and as I walked along I hoped they were not going where I was.

Fortunately as we crossed the bridge we went in different directions.
As I approached GZ I could see the cache poking out. I'm surprised it has survived so long in this location as it is quite exposed.
I sat on a nearby seat to complete the signing duties then headed back to my geomobile. This is nice bushland area and there were lots of birds in the trees today.

When I lived in a different suburb I used to see a flock of racing pigeons doing their daily flight just as I drove home from work each day. Sadly for the elderly owner his "favourite" bird was taken by a raptor one day. He was quite distraught.

TFTC # 2072 6th and final find for the day.

Quick easy find. TFTC.

Nice easy find. Thanks!

Quick easy park and grab.

Awesome easy find! Quiet spot

Quiet spot, easy find.

Thanks

Yay

This wasn’t on today’s agenda but still showed up on PQ map (was actually part of one I had plotted for later in the week) but a quick detour on the way home from a short cache run before the day got too hot. Noting it as a small, had an appropriate TB to leave but discovered container that is normally referred to as a micro so just left a feather we’d picked up along the way.

quick Park Walk & Grab TFTC

It was raining but still fun. TFTC

Found it!!

Easy find if you don't over think it

nice find

We decided to attempt a couple of caches on our way home, this was the first. Nice location, thanks contactpete.

We enjoyed a stroll through the forest after finding the cache, which we achieved by using the hint as our GPSr had us some metres away. Thanks for the hide contactpete.

The hint for this cache indicated just where this to expect to make this find and we were not disappointed. It was found easily and soon was in hand to do the signing duties. No one was around today so there was no need to worry. Thanks contactpete for another cache which was a really easy one.

With nobody in the park and having read the hint this cache was found after a very short search. The log was signed and the cache was replaced as found. Thank you contactpete for placing this cache.

Came here looking for a cache in this area years ago that could never be found. Did the hint thing and soon had cache in hand. TFTCM
Cheers
Dkmacca

Quick find. Cache all good. Thanks

Took a while to find but enjoyed the walk

Found it

Only one in the area today, after heading down this way for a farewell for a friend who is moving up the coast. Nice easy find here, with nobody around. Thanks contactpete.

Underneath the sign saying pidgeon racing, is a old sign saying 2nd Seven Hills Scout Group, of which I was once a member. Grabbing this cache today brought back so many memories...

First cache!! Found with Me_To

Very easy. Nice park close to home

#754 teach me a lesson not to read the hint before I go after a cache well wandered around the area before I d3cided to check a spot a bit further away than where the GPSr wanted me. I haved lived in this area most of my life knew a few people who raced pigeons but had no idea that there was a club here. Thanks for showing me this place & thanks for the cache contactpete. Replaced cache as found

Found.TFTC.

Nice and easy one. The kids found it first. I'm not as quick as I used to be.

Found with geodad and ZoNic. I wish I could see the pigeon flying. TFTC.

The park was empty. Easy to find.

Got to GZ after the nearby cache. I hugely overlooked this thinking far outside the box. But none of that was necessary, the cache was a simple hide. TFTC

After been muggled out of a find Aussie and I made the trip back to find it. Hints from others helped narrow the search and a quick find tftc SL

Couldent find it its either been removed or just very tricky one

The park was deserted, the weather nice but slightly chilly. I sat on the bench for a while and just enjoyed the serenity after having signed the log. Soon duty called, though, and I had to continue my trip to work.

Yes

Found this one very easily on our bike ride

Lets fly lets fly away.

Nice and easy one.

Thanks contactpete

Log to follow

Found it with Snoopy1976 after work today. TFTC

#3014 (2 of 2 today) (Streak day 363)

Only three days to go to have my 366 day streak - can't stop now!
Going to see DAAS at The Enmore - haven't seen them live before - so with dinner before the show, and visiting my mother in the afternoon, I need to get out sooner rather than later.

Went for two caches close to eachother and found both, despite muggle fly-bys at one.
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Walked from my last find and unlike there, no muggles raised their heads to interrupt the search. The iPhone wasn't being as generous here and was pointing me away from my first thought to a more problematic area.

Quickly checked it but my heart was elsewhere, so ignored the GPS to scan it. CIH!

Completed signing duties and replaced. Now heading to my mother.

SLTNLN
TFTC

The signal had me 12m away with evidence of a geotrail. I then consulted the clue and made an easy find.
TFTC

Searching for this in the dark was a real challenge especially with coordinates that were 13 metres off when I made the find after a Phone-a-Friend. I couldn't even find their clue in the dark I was so far away!?!

TFTC.

GeoBrad is learning to drive, so why not use the service to try a cache as well.
Picked him up after his pizza shop shift and let him drive out here. The perks of working in the kitchen of a pizza shop is that sometimes the customer or person orders a pizza that is either wrongly made, or not as per the customers request, free pizza for Brad.
Anyway, parked on the road as Dad disappeared into the darkness of the night. Brad happy to start on his freebie while in the drivers seat.
Amusing

I took a while to home in on the cache, as my GPSr wanted me about 11m from where I eventually found it. I would try these shortened coords: S.998/S.997.

The WaywardWoman told me that there was some bird fanciers club right near the cache. As always, I thought, her colloquialisms are old fashioned, but I let it go, until I remembered the title of the cache. Oh, she meant birds!

It was a short stroll from the car and the GPS took us to a tree and a dead bird. In fact, it may have been a live bird when I arrived because I found myself standing upon it. That was one clue. The other was the tiny sign it still clutched in its wing - Get Off! - and its reproachful look.

We soon dismissed the area the coordinates wanted us at and the WaywardWoman wandered away while I tried some resuscitation on my avian friend. In a moment he gave a heave, gave a cough, and spluttered back into life.

"I'm so sorry," I said as he ruffled his feathers back into shape.

"'Salright, bikerbuddy," he assured me. He looked past me to where the WaywardWoman had located the cache, about thirteen metres from where the stated coordinates had us. "I wasn't really dead," he explained. "Just dead tired trying to look for this cache."

"Aren't you a homing pigeon?" I asked.

"Sure. What of it?"

"Well ... don't you home ... you know ... in on things?" I nodded at the WaywardWoman, signing the cache for us.

"You think that's funny," he said, a little angrily. "Everyone makes the same joke. Just because I'm a homing pigeon and I know where I've been, everyone thinks I should know where I'm going. Well, I'll tell you buddy, this geocaching game is a whole other ... game. You say stuff like that it just shows who you are. You're a specieist, buddy, a whole different kind of racist."

"I'm sorry," I said, taken aback by his tirade. But he continued right over me.

"I'm gonna flame you on Facebook. People will know who you are. This things gonna take flight, this is gonna ..."

I may have accidentally stood on him again. These things happen. If anyone else finds him before they find the cache, I recommend leaving him to his fate and flying in the other direction.

Thanks ContactPete.

After having success at another of the COs new caches the night before, I decided I would have a go at this one. I struggled getting a look on GZ and found everything that everyone else found including the dead bird (I'm just hoping I didn't step on him as I was not looking down when I was following the arrow on my phone). I moved out of the trees and read some past logs and decided to start looking in a radius of 12 metres when I spotted another object that is common in concealing caches in suburbia. As I was SL #2528 on streak day #1400 I looked down at my phone and it said the cache was 1 metre away. Who knows if the coords are accurate or not but the trees certainly do play havoc with pinpointing GZ. TFTC

#3599- We were on our way to visit my mother-in-law and planned a few quick cache stops on the way. I had, for once, read the cache notes on this one, thinking, by the name it may be a fake plane up in the air.
As bikerbuddy and I strolled across the park, we spotted a likely spot, but the GPS had us veering away from it. We dutifully followed the GPS to another likely spot. Having looked around with no luck, we moved further afield towards our original thoughts. Approx 12 m from GZ I spotted it immediately. More what I call a micro, but there you are. We mountain folks like things big. Thanks

4/5/16. 11:17 AM. Cache #3813.
3rd of 5 this morning - Granville, Prospect, Seven Hills & Schofields.

After not being Wet at "Want a Wild time?", I headed over to this other new one from yesterday. The coords took me to two large features, one man-made and one natural. A good inspection of both revealed no cache. The remains of a bird (pigeon from the club?) were nearby - not flying any more.

I expanded my search to another likely spot and got a quick find. These sorts of containers are micros, not smalls. Signed and replaced and then saw it was only a very short drive to "MEMORIAL PARK (SEVEN HILLS)". TFTC.
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Yeah we are the first to find it. It was in the first spot I looked however I didn't trust my Instinct and followed the GPS way too far into the bush. Then master Q wanted to play at the playground first which we did and I was hoping no one would come in the meantime. Finally returned to where we were looking and I looked again in that first spot to find it there. Wonderful. Thanks for the coin.

Saw this one at lunch time today but I was locked in work until 4:30. But after that I made a be line from parramatta to here. Happy to be 4 to find. TFTC.

2TF. P&Q just beat me to it. Had to give then a brief talk on what the path tag was when I saw little Q run by with it.
Coordinates a bit off under the tree cover, and note that THAT container is a micro! The size guide has not changed.
Thanks for the cache.