Army in a nut shell Dee Why North, New South Wales, Australia
By JazzVali on 10-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7H0B6

No response from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ministro - Matt

This has been muggled too many times, the cost or replacing it constantly and then having cachers message me with abuse isn’t worth replacing it.

Searched around for a bit but no luck

DNF

DNF

Still looking for this cache.

All of these caches are all being replaced this week, I was recovering from surgery complications. Apologies for delays getting these coaches back on track

Unfortunately the owner isn’t responding.

Can this please be Archived?

Disabling this until I replace it. Seems it got washed away, which is odd, because it was inside the tree... Probably muggled

Disabling this until I replace it. Seems it got washed away, which is odd, because it was inside the tree... Probably muggled

Agree that this was probably washed away

Could CO come and check and we searched today but came up empty handed

No luck for us today after a brief search. Thanks

Appears to be missing after all the rain

I think this one is missing can the owner check

Easy find good fun

Cute jar! Does not look like the photo though

Fun search for this. Thanks

Smelt like hell

Tftc
Camo was missing so we added some more

The soldiers has fallen down since I have found the treasure. Better luck next time.

#3392
Second last find for mystery at the museum. Nice and quick as a bonus
TFTC JazzVali

We found this one good spot.

We didn’t find army men

Changed this over. It’s now called goodies in a jar! Let’s hope this one survives its fourth replacement. New log, new cache. Happy caching. Please cover it up, so others can rnjoy

Please jam the jar hard back into its spot

Not as low as you think... good challenge

Been here a few times, still haven't found it.

Dnf today

Will disable this until I can purchase a new cache to replace it. It seems muggles keep taking all my caches, which leads me to believe that whoever’s doing it, probably has the app, as they all go missing around the same time. Not cool!

Second time here - looks like someone has taken it. Couldn’t find it. Kids disappointed ️

No luck for us today. Pretty sure we had the right tree. Tftc

Great find

Thanks! Two happy under fives!!!!

Our first geo find!! Took lots of little eyes to find this well hidden army crew

rad! nice one... this is our 2nd

Replaced log. Please keep inside two zip lock bags to avoid it getting more wet! Cheers

Nice walk/bike track. Easy find for me today, thanks

Thank you! What a great camouflage!

Jormit was not able to put/register my TB
here, so I do it.

Nice one

Yay, found it

It was really fun to find

Great day for Geocaching. Relief from the hot weather. Left Trackable GSWW9B (LACKEY) found in Vietnam. TFTC.

Nice spot. Just a heads up, moisture inside container and Ziploc. TFTC

I should have checked the actual size of the cache cos I thought it’d be micro but no it’s massive. Loads a spider webs

TFTC #59

Tftc

found the Cache the Logbook
is ok.

Thanks for showing the lokation.
All the best from Germany Team Diddyhonda

Didn't take too long to find this one, although absolutely full of water... Good news is, logbook was dry as a bone. Tftc

It was so hard and swampy after the rain

Good one! Thanks

Tftc

Didn't take to long and pictures helped as well as comments. TFTC

Finally a FOUND IT on our 3rd attempt. Though, when I looked at the blue frown and saw a different cache title, I was confused. Then a different CO name too! Where has Capt Valentina gone? Anyway, finally we can tick this one off. And certainly hidden by paperbark now. The smiley army moves on! TFTC

The cache name has changed, and the cachers name too. At least we found it this time. TFTC CachePrincesses

Just checking. All good, still watertight and room on the log

Army in a nutshell is a dedication to the protectors of our island...
thank you for that.
I am a Army Medic, my husband a Navy Medic. We both work at the Army School of Health in the Albury/Wodonga area. I’m here visiting my dad, and as this was a DNF when I was in Sydney in August, I made the effort again this time. However the last ones to hide it didn’t do to well, so I found it without even looking. It was just sitting there.
I have now hidden it better so the next to find may have a bit more of a challenge.

Sneaky well hid it took us a little bit to find it because of all the paperback tree

Replaced this cache after it was muggled. It’s now exactly on the way points and hiding in the tree. Please make an effort to put it securely in the tree and cover with some paper bark for Camo. Cheers

A return visit while in the area after seeing a log from CO saying it was in place despite lots of DNFs since May. With EverestHigh and a previous finder looking, we checked the base of every paperbark tree (and other types too) within a 30m range of the bridge and for the life of us could not see any periscope. If it's a regular it must be well hidden as it seems impossible to hide something as big as an ammo can (periscope?) in one of those gaps. We even tried the new coords suggested by Gaztek and beyond, but nothing stood out. A photo message to CO still didn't reveal anything new, so we will leave with another DNF and wait until CO has a chance to check again. A check of coords may be necessary too? Thanks for replying promptly.

Cache is still there, sitting happily under the paper bark of the paper bark tree at the tree besides the way point coordinates (had to move to the tree beside it so it wouldn’t float downstream.

DNF
Looked around for 20 min, but had my dad getting impatient.

Nooooooo so hard

??????? could not find!

14 Jul 2018

Did Not Find with Brewmaker, EverestHigh & MaxAdventurer.

Today, I teamed up with Brewmaker, EverestHigh & MaxAdventurer to hunt for more Hidden Creatures, as we fast approach the final week of the geocaching June / July 2018 promotion. We set our sights on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, as this was an area with plenty of caches none of us were yet to find.

The day started off as a cold winter’s morning but it soon warmed up as we quickly got on a roll with the finds, with only a couple of Did Not Finds on some caches we think have in fact gone missing altogether.

A fun day out and pleased with the result, edging ever closer towards the Dragon and the ultimate World Turtle digital souvenir. A good excuse to venture out in the depths of the inviting urban forest, that is Sydney this time of year.

Thanks For The Caches to the respective Cache Owners.

"JordsAU

OCW EverestHigh, MaxAdventurer & JordsAU. No luck for the 4 of us. We checked every paperbark tree and root. If coords are out, can they be updated please? And in the description - if it has changed container type too? Thanks anyway, nice park. We will return!

No message! No bottle! 4 experienccrd cachers looked for 15 minutes without finding it. Could CO please check the coords and the cache.

Maybe next time

With TheCacheKids101.

Who knows

Finally we found it. The cache is about 20 metres away from the gps location. TFTC

Mr Gaztek had to work so Mrs Gaztek came out to play! Enjoyed the walk out the back of Dee Why.

At the risk of annoying the CO, I had a very close near miss here. As per instruction, I crossed the bridge and headed for “the” paperbark. What?! There are many here. It took a while for the device to settle but it confirmed that I was in the right spot. Based on other logs , the CO notes and some sparkly evidence I got stuck into it. After 30 minutes... nothing but a bit of CITO. Sure to be admonished by the CO, I hung my head in shame and headed up the trail to greener pastures.

On the way back and still fearing CO reprisals, I decided to take one more look. Hey, wait a minute. Here I am surrounded by paperbarks and there’s something suss looking. Yep, that’s it! But I’ll have to say that my device has quite different coordinates that the posted ones. If you take .016 from the southing and .010 from the easting you will match mine. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

So hard don’t rely on the compass the kind of spiky tree

Checked cache, still under paper bark tree

No wonder I couldn’t find it the coordinates at a mile away! Anyway #25 TFTC

PS I was looking at the double tree it’s at the singular tree, sorry for the trouble jazzvali

Tnln tough find. Co-ords a bit off

Awesome sparklely treasures! Hard to find

Found sparkly stuff but did no find the telescope

We looked again and still didn't find

Spoiler alert, but these DNF’s are driving me bonkers lol! I’ve check the cache it is still there. Guys, look under the paper bark tree where the roots are and you will see lots of paper bark lying near one of the roots and you will find it there

Found it! Wow, lots of sparkles inside the plastic telescope. I made sure to close the zip lock bag with log inside so the water won’t get in! Now off to find another cache.

Found sparkles and glass so I technically found it but needs maintenance

As seen below

Everybody, this cache is there and it isn’t broken etc, I have checked it yesterday. Spoiler alert, don’t read ahead. It is a plastic black and gold telescope at the base of the tree under bark! Look again if you have a DNF

We didn't find it but we did find some broken glass and sparkly stuff.

My GPS was bouncing around so I spent a long time searching in the wrong spot... found it just before giving up. Didn't have a pen so made like a pirate and signed off with what I could find... Bring a pen and be careful when opening the telescope TFTC

The cache has been muggled. I’ll come back later today with a replacement. Hold tight my geocache pretties!

Replaced this geocache now with a telescope and log inside! All ready to go and find! Lease cover it when you have finishex

Not this time

This cache will end up in NZ in the next downpour, there is lots of flood debris above GZ, a pity really as it’s a great cache.

Great cache

#4802 (5 of 5 today)

Milestone time again, and I had a cache picked out for that. But I also knew there was work to do on it still.
So I decided to go for it first - until I was confident I had GZ - then make two more finds. If not, then I needed an alternate target. Luckily that wasn't necessary.

That proved a better tactic than I expected, as having got to GZ it was well and truly muggled out. So went for lunch, grabbed two caches, then came back for it. And still had a short wait...
Then cleaned up two more nearby before heading home.

Objective achieved!
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After the DNF this one was close, and one more find would be nice.

Got to GZ - to see muggles set up for soccer practice nearby... Really?
Managed to make the grab without looking too suss (yeah, right) and took well away to complete signing duties... and had trouble opening it as the last finders clearly don't know how the sealing mechanism works. In the same vein, I'm not sure the cache container is quite kosher. [?]

Finally completed signing duties and sealed it the right way. Then back for the replace.

Time for home.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Thanks you for the cache.

Almost gave up but found it

As usual, the cache owner does not disappoint with the cache container. This one was a lot easier than the others. Thanks for the cache.

Great Cache

Easy find for me

TFTC

Good hide, hope it doesn,t float away.

Very good cache.
TFTC