Mary MacKillop - Claremont Meadows St Marys, New South Wales, Australia
By Spy79 and Travelling Sister on 29-Aug-17. Waypoint GC7BJA1

A weekend spent in West Sydney to attend 2 non geocaching events enabled us the opportunity to seek out many local labs and solved puzzles in between. A great time was had as we explored many interesting locations relying on the air conditioned car to keep us cool in the 30 plus heat.We always like to complete Mary MacKillop caches on our travels so this one was a definite while staying nearby for the weekend. We nearly walked away after an extensive search but persevered until we finally found the cache 11 metres north of GZ.Thanks alnic39 for the placement.

Thanks for my first find!

Lets good my first find

A quick find here. OCW MaxAdventurer. TFTC alnic39

OCW EverestHigh. TFTC

Easy peasy; tftc

Confusing. Not what I thought the weird drain was. I ended up just checking all of the metal posts and found it. No pen

I can find it at all I think something happened

Cheers

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Find #: 3,683Companions: NoneMuggles: NoneWeather: Warm if windy winter morningCache condition: GoodAfter running the Werrington Lakes parkrun I decided to find some nearby caches, given I am not often in this area. I parked next to this pleasant piece of grass and ambled over to GZ, where I made a quick find once I realised which concrete object was being referenced, and also some counts in previous logs. TNLNSL TFTC

All good with this one. There was a log in the bison tube.

Okay, so I have some things to add to the cache, and some editing to do...

Logging as found but I didnt find a preform tube as the hint would suggest. I found a bison with no log in it and I had nothing in the car that I could sign and put in the bison tube. TFTC!

Tftc - easy find

I couldnt find it

Thanks Spy79 and Travelling Sister. I might have miscounted but got there in the end.

I had counted a few times. Finally, found it. Thank you

#46 Nice quick park and find. TFTC

Second time lucky! The images certainly helped as we had to widen our search. TFTC.

counted 5 times it is actually 20 wood posts tftc

We are on another short (three day) caching holiday in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains, staying for two nights in a park cabin at the Ingenia Nepean River BIG4 Holiday Park at Emu Plains. Hoping to collect the new Adventure Labs, Letterbox, Traditional, and Puzzle/Mystery caches that have appeared around Penrith & surrounds since our last visit to the area back in May 2023. Will also be returning to the lower Blue Mountains for some new caches and to attend a Winter Solstice Event at Mount Riverview, and a Post Winter Solstice CITO Event the following day at Cranebrook.Today (day 3) the holiday is over and we are heading home, but will still be collecting some caches and Adventure Labs along the way. Will be stopping for a few caches at St Marys, re-visiting a previous DNF at Claremont Meadows, and visiting Western Sydney University for a five stage Adventure Lab. After that it will be just the odd cache or AL stage at Ermington, Ryde, and Macquarie Park. Photos will be uploaded to logs on our return to home base. This was the 4th of 14 finds for the day (day 3), and 36th find of the holiday.After two previous DNFs, after each of which the cache was subsequently confirmed as missing, we had written it off as ever finding it. But it was still haunting us with a sad blue face on the geomap, so we stopped off for one last attempt at success.Arrived at a very familiar GZ and went straight to where the hint indicated it should be, but nothing was found. Oh no, not again we thought. But then we widened the search zone and bingo!, CIH. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Thank goodness for that! Counting from the small post (hidden by bushes) we had the cache between post #20 and post #21, but maybe our counting is not so good TFTC Travelling Sister, Spy79, and alnic39.Find #6886

Yay, found it, my 1st one

Thank you

Add a few more to the hint, youll get there to find the cache to pay respect to our Aussie Saint. Keeping my daily streak active, TFTC alnic39

I obviously cant count

Found a roll of cache paper.. couldn't find any container. Maybe damaged

easy find

Can not find it because the hint doesnt tell u which end to start counting from and the hedge has grown to big even if it was there no way of finding it

Visited it during 28-days geotrip to Australia, N.Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Am.Samoa, Fr.Polynesia with Marci, Ch. Sometimes we logged as "MT" or "Jonea" or "MTCh". Thanks for showing nice caches and places. MT-Jonea from Brno city in Czechia EU. Sib

Over from Perth for our sons National Rowing Championship and staying nearby.Was expecting the park to be a little bit more special for such an important person but anyhow, happy to make the find here... thanks to the hint!

Over here for National Rowing Championships. Fairly quick find.

Slightly past where the hint leads. Tftc

Not there thanks

Thank all signed

Take a few extra steps from.where you count to!

Good one, canister cable tied to bottom of metal fence bracket

First for the day on a lovely Australia DayTftc

Really fun for kids

Nice and easy once we learned how to count hahaTftc

After being approached by a local muggle this morning here, I decided to return this afternoon to find it. Thankfully, the hint was very direct.

It took a long time looking in the wrong places until I read the hint, i looked down and there it was tftc

Caching with oldmorty on our way to Blackheath.We found the cache a little further along the row.TFTC

Frazeydaze and I stopped here on the way to Blackheath for the weekend. We found and returned the cache between the nineteenth and twentieth posts. TFTC

Nice and easy to find

Very quick findTFTC

Found it a little further away from posted gz

Found it

TFTC

Finally!!!

This was one of the first caches I tried to find when I started caching in 2019 ..... I've been back a few times with no luck but think I've been counting logs from the wrong end

Glad to be finally able to turn this into a smiley

Thanks for the cache

Tftc! Relaxing walk!

Found it pretty quickly.
TFTC

My son & daughter found it! Their first ever one and they had a lot of fun! Thankyou!

Found it this time tftc

Happy to replace our DNF with a find TFTC

Ready to go once again.

Bison tube in place. Attached to fence, on upright, to the left of the circular concrete thing.

I think there is a garden clearing this area from time to time. I'll think about a new cache type and get back in the next two weeks.

NO WHERE

We are on another short (three day) caching holiday in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains, staying for two nights in a park cabin at the Ingenia Nepean River BIG4 Holiday Park at Emu Plains. Hoping to collect some of the new Puzzle, Wherigo, and Letterbox caches, and a new Adventure Lab, that have appeared around Warragamba since our last visit to the area. Will also be returning to the lower Blue Mountains for a couple of new Adventure Labs and a challenge cache, and revisiting a few DNFs from the previous trip, mostly NE of Penrith. Photos will be uploaded to some logs on our return to home base.

Today (day 3) we were caching in the lower Blue Mountains, then around St Mary's, and finally at Beaumont Hills & North Kellyville on our way back home.

We DNFed this one over two years ago, and were keen to get the sad blue face off our geo-map, so arrived today full of hope. But after an extensive search we found nothing, so looks like we are stuck with the sad blue face. Don't think we will waste any more time on this one.

Read the hint, still couldn’t find it.

#3185 Quick find while out completing a nearby Adventure Lab. TFTC

Had to give up the search since there was a lot of people around.

Took a few min, TFTC!

Quick find today. Thanks.

A quick find here, a little way up from my GZ

The grounds wet but a good thing me for the kids TFTC

On a family visit for a few days. Quick find and cache OK

I'm thinking it's between these wooden Pillers but still no luck maybe tmrw

Dnf

Found

Came back and found it this time, thanks to COs arrurance and Blast75's help. This is one where reading the activity led me on a wild goose chase with pictures of caches that are NOT this cache.
This is a MICRO cache, NOT a large lunchbox with red sides.

Last cache of a great big night thank you

Still there. Has always been there. Will change the hint to make it easier.

East find. Tftc

Owner may need to check it’s still there

Not found

Got some scratches for my efforts feeling in the bushes, but failed to find at this time!

Too overgrown DNF

Too overgrown couldn’t find it

Found it very cool tftc

Not today

I looked but I did not find it I couldn’t get to dirty cause it was muddy

No luck for us today, searched everywhere with no luck

No luck for us today thanks!

Easy find, Tftc!

New cache container in place.

Good to go. Thanks Alnic39

Mary MacKillop - Claremont Meadows was transferred from Travelling Sister to user alnic39

Will be replaced when COVID restrictions change

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Ministro - Matt

Searched but no luck

Bushes are overgrown a bit couldn’t find it

We have travelled from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to Emu Plains for a short 3 day caching holiday, staying in a park cabin at the Ingenia Nepean River BIG4 Holiday Park at Emu Plains, and are planning to explore the areas between Penrith and Warragamba, including a stop-off on arrival day at St Marys. Hoping to collect some previously solved Puzzle caches and to also complete the Adventure Labs at St Marys, Penrith and Warragamba. Will also be on the hunt for Natural Wonders and Solar System Wonders, to complete the Wonders of the World souvenir challenge.

No luck for us at this one today. We were relying on this cache to give us our final Natural Wonder (Mount Everest), and thus unlock the Solar System Wonders for us, but it wasn't to be and we gave it up after a lengthy search. Oh well we will just have to find something else with Mount Everest in it.

Easy find forgot a pen

Cache is definitely not there

I have a feeling this has been taken.

Was deterred from a proper search a few weeks ago due to some people hanging around the park. But today it was muggle free, making it a quick find.

There was some water in the cache so the logbook is damp but singable.

TFTC

Found it with skyejam and thanks for leading us here