Elara Marsden Park, New South Wales, Australia
By Deep_99 on 05-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7H28B

Tftc - I found only half of the cache u looked around in bushes around with no luck finding other half needs replacing

Tftc - easy find with geoson albeit only half a cache

This cache requires urgent attention . I found the top half - after using the built in TOTT lucky Im not vertically challenged!!

Missing part of cache- did look around for the other half but no luck

Found, needs to be fixed a super previous 2 finds

Same as the last Finder found the lid but not the container or the log. Nevertheless, am claiming it as found.

TFTCOnly found part of the cache with no log unfortunately

Log from a while back. First attempt was a no find but return trip was successful

Out for a few caches and noticed this one had a bit more terrain and had not been found for a little while so headed over. Quickly worked out what was required and could see the cache, well the log and the top half so a bit of TLC is required. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

After a very lengthy search, found most of the cache in the ground. Cleaned and returned consisted with description. Will need a new container sometime as there's a bit missing. Thanks Deep_99.

I made a quick find as I could see it but retrieval required some acrobatics. An interesting location and new housing development. I remember the original homeworld and homeworld2 somewhere out here with all the homes you could inspect in the early nineties. TFTC

Titles don’t get much better than this

We love Elara!

TFTC

Working my way to 400 by EOY. TFTC

OCW aubeasty today to try and bring my yearly numbers back up before the end of the year. COVID, no NSW mega and more work than usual have meant that my numbers haven’t been crash hot. A lovely sunny day made the perfect way to rectify this situation by bike.

I had an idea of where this was going to be and the hint sure helped to narrow the options down quickly. Disappointed to find the shared trail doesn’t go any further.

Easy to find when you stretch out!

TFTC. Wasn't to confident we would get a smiley here due to recent DNF's & many months being unloved. Found the cache one the ground. Signed the log & put back where it belongs. OCW MF428 & the geokid Lookoutlexiisabout. Geodog Atlas was not with us today.

Found on the ground in front of the wall and I assume not where it is supposed to be.

Replaced back where we thought it should be in relation to the terrain rating. Still should be easily visible and retrievable.

TFTC. My first find.

We thought we knew where this one would be, so climbed the hill a little to look in. Couldn't see anything, but still gave it a try. The TOTT at the spot was sufficient for me to reach and feel. So I felt around, and as I expected from the initial look, made no find.

Didn't check the terrain, so no find for me today, thanks anyway

TFTC, quick find on an early Sun morning hunt, less muggles. Lucky I have long reach too.

Beautiful day for the geocaching trip and found it with sevabo and skyejam. Thanks for leading us here.

Accompanied by jackjay1 and skyejam. Bring TOT and finally got it thanks for the cache.

Finally got it with sevabo and Jackjay1. TFTH

Just got it.....TFTC

Quick check all good to go

I can't reach it so DNF

After a sensational run up Richmond Rd this one eluded us

Out with phlphotos and JJCC in our hunt to find 35 geocaches in order to Return the stolen jewels for the final souvenir in the current Mystery at the Museum souvenir offering. Noticing that this cache was now back in play, we parked nearby and walked the short distance to GZ and made a quick find at GZ. With the cache in hand we signed the log before replacing as found. Both the cache container and log are in good condition, after signing we replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Deep_99.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football, Berlin Geocoin, My Eyes in Australia, Beep the Jeep, Wally Gecko Travel Bug, Lucky Elephant, Magic: The Gathering, Rivals of Ixalan Trackable: Merpeople

Found with the phlApp and a magician in our hunt for caches in the current Mystery at the Museum souvenir challenge. With the cache in hand we signed the log before replacing as found. Both the cache container and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Deep_99.

#2828 out to get a few more of the caches along Richmond Road with teamMerlin & JJCC. This was the first one today and parked nearby and a short walk to the cache. Didn't need a TOTT as teamMerlin was able to grab the cache

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache Deep_99

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

#8010 15:35
To complete the final stage of my Night at the Museum challenge, I needed a few more caches. This series on and around Richmond Road has been on my radar for a long time, so now it is the time to dust off my foldable push bike and get going.

It turned out to be a nice afternoon with many finds and over 15km of bicycle fun,

At the cache 890770 I found two cache containers, so I decided to repurpose one for this cache as it seems to have been missing for a long time. So there is now a cache to be found here!

TFTC

This one looks it has gone AWOL as I and others haven't been able to spot it where the T rating and hint suggest it should be.

Out with phlphotos and JJCC in our hunt for diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and topaz jewels whilst solving the current Mystery at the Museum souvenir offering. Parking off Watkin Cres we made our way over to GZ and started our search. We had a fairly good idea where this one was going to be, but unfortunately or searching failed to find the cache. Will have to come back another time for this one. Thanks for the hunt Deep_99.

Climbed on top and still no luck
Thanks

Quick find with the voucher.

Not today

Dnf

After Breakfast at Ikea, hubby rode his bike along this trail. I don't know if it was the drizzling rain but there were a few he was not able to find.

This was a nice easy pick up. Thanks

Stopped by here on our way west over the Mountains for the long weekend.

Cheers

Decided to go caching this way north today. Did not really check any weather and just left early. As I was already driving for an hour the radio was talking about 40+ temps, what did I get myself into? Still sticked to the plan, did a nice bike ride in sub 30 at that time and a nice breeze. As it really got hot I had shelter in my car and was able to do a lot of driveby's. Thanks for putting out all those caches!
TFTC Wilbert67

Visiting the area and decided to have a go at this trail of caches along Richmond Rd which has appeared since my last visit. This was the ninth and after a short search the cache was in hand.

Once the log was signed all was returned as found.

This was the last that I walked to and just had to head back and find the geomobile to continue on.

TFTC Deep_99

Got it TFTC

found with btm and u_c

found with btm and gm10

found with gm10 and u_c

In Marsden Park to walk the Richmond Road Cache Path. Gorgeous sunny day. We stopped for a picnic lunch and parks the car in Pius Lane and walked north to Elara. We failed to find any TOTT provided so M Gaztek became the Tool - in the nicest possible way! Mrs Gaztek, who is usually the height mounter, used the sculpture and a shoulder to scale to the top then inch along to nab the geocache. God only knows what passing motorists thought! Dismount through shoulder and sculpture. Nice one. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Being tall helped. TFTC

CACHE #104
Found at 10:00hrs, 3 of 7 located today.

Walked to GZ from "890770". No issues being able to locate the cache... but retrieving it was another matter. I tried several times to use my TOTT, but dang if it didn't shove the container further out of my reach!

Thanks for the great hide

TFTC. Nice hide

Ok, very clever making me do gymnastics like that.

Didn’t take all that long to find although I did need to go for a better view.

Thanks for the cache!

What a fun way to spend the last day of the school holidays with the kids. With the pushbikes and a mountain of enthusiasm we parked about half along this mini series before find the ones in a westerly direction first.

Peddling back into the headwind proved difficult but we eventually found all the ones to the east, before feasting on Macca's for lunch. Thanks for a fun series of caches that the Rats and mini rats enjoyed doing together.

Came out here with the Rats for a bit of fun on our bikes. While the skies were gloomy and the wind blew hard into our face, it didn't stop us finding this series of caches and earning a stop at Maccas and Starbucks.
Thanks.

Out with Trodectus for a walk, arrived GZ and quickly spotted the cache. Was able to retrieve without too much ado. Log signed and returned. TFTC

Found with Coybear2000. We were in the area and we decided to go for a bit of a walk and to find a cache. We parked a good distance away and headed off on our walk. Once at GZ we quickly spotted the hide, then went about retrieving it. Soon enough we had CIH. Log signed and all was replaced. Then we headed back to the car. TFTC.

Found by Mary & David at 1520. Wonderful cache notes and a FP. David was able to retrieve this one using what was available. Our thanks to Deep_99.

Today was a beautiful Sunday and we decided to go out West and finish off the Richmond Road Cache Path, which we had commenced upon some months ago. Our method was to park the car in the middle of some caches, then walk first south, then north and then back to the car. We then moved the car and repeated the exercise. After having completed the remaining 11 caches today the step counter in the phone showed a bit more than 8000 steps.

This one required some gymnastics, albeit just in a moderate way.

Discovered a few new muscles in mt shoulder and upper back area when I got up to the cache to retrieve it! TFTC

Find number 4215.

Mrs Booo dropped Mr Booo off on her way to do some shopping with Booo Booo

A nice quick find to and the seventeenth one along the walk along Richmond.

Thanks Deep_99 for placing this cache.

#2483
I received a reminder that I only had a week left to claim the final souvenir, so I hitched my biked onto the rack and headed out to Richmond Rd.

After parking at the hardware store, this was 15 of 22 of what would turn out to be a leisurely ride along the bike path. All the coords were super accurate which made for pretty quick finds. I had to skip this one on my way out due to some muggle tradies making themselves at home around GZ. On my return trip, the coast was clear and once I was in the inner sanctum, I made a quick find.

TFTC Deep_99

TFTC

Two to go

Quick find

Found with bedlem2

Found during a bike ride down the cycle path along Richmond Road. Quick and easy find, and being on the tall side, had no trouble retrieving and signing the log. TFTC Deep_99!

Perfect hiding spot... Well done! Tftc

7/7/18. 10:36 AM. Cache #5608.
13th of 13 this morning - Marsden Park.

A nice morning for a bit of walking along Richmond Rd. For the first leg, I parked in the Bunnings carpark, and walked north to pick up the first 6 caches, then turned around and walked back to Bunnings (via Maccas).

I then drove up to the other end, parking at the Elara display village, and walking down almost to where I had previously turned around. In this second leg, I managed to find:

Feel the Power
After Pius Ln
Puma Views
Beginning or End
890770
Secret Squirrel
Elara

The co-ords for this one sent me at first towards an area where I would have been way too vertically challenged. I looked back towards another possible hiding spot and glimpsed a long bolt, which I first thought might have been the cache, but this too would have been a challenge to get to. A little more looking and I soon spotted it. Okay, that one I can get to... but have to make sure I time it for when the cars nearby are moving, not stopped at the lights. SL, replaced and headed home, with the iPhone down to its last 1%. TFTC.
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Hidden Creatures: Dragon found, just the world turtle to go!

No problems.
SL TFTC

Getting to the end of the trail here today and only missed a few on the way.

Ok! Where would I hide a cache here. Ah ha! There you are. Did the legals and replaced as found. TFTCM
Cheers
Dkmacca

2nd one today on our afternoon cache run with atkinsonclan6. TFTC.

I hate Stockland but give me an a. Tftc

My 350th find! I spotted it but Dad had to grab it. TFTC

Out with Sensible Shoes and Shoes Junior. TFTC

Lucky we have MrS with us today - the rest of us are vertically challenged!
This was our final find for today, out with Little Shoes and Shoes Junior. Shoes Junior celebrated his 350th find, while we (MrS and MsS of the Sensible Shoes team) celebrated our 11year cache-a-versary. 11yrs ago, armed with a GPS enabled HP iPAQ PDA, we found our first geocache at Little Beach on the Central Coast. Over the years we've added 2 kids, a Garmin 60cs (that we still occasionally use), and a further 619 geocache finds (those found more recently with our smart phones). Thanks Deep_99 for this trail!!

I'm not vertically challenged, so no TOTT needed! TFTC Deep_99

Cool. TFTC

What an earth are those sculptures? Are they weird sheep, bubbles or clouds? And why so many!Much conversation around this topic and the geo teens goofed around her for a while before we were on our way...tftc

Great effort from Mrs Brizzle11 to retrieve and replace this one. We had a few laughs here. TFTC

Night caching with AWTYOW, Brizzle 11 and Pitman Clan - lots of laughs and caches along the way! TFTC

Was expecting this to be alot harder than it was. Good spot thought. We spotted upon approach and were able to make a pretty easy grab TFTC

Gotcha thought this would be a bit harder but was all good. Tftc

#179
We found the caches south of IKEA on a previous visit. This time, we brought our bikes with us and headed north and found all of the caches finishing up at Elara. The geogirls had fun at this one. Nice hide! Our 14th cache for the afternoon. TFTC!

We’re glad there was a TOT there as we would never have been able to retrieve the cache. TFTC

Time to venture from the eastern beaches to check out the Richmond Road Cache Path
The last time I drove along Richmond Road it was only a single lane roadway with trees growing beside the road. I was gob smacked by the amount of development going on everywhere and the volume of constant traffic was unbelievable – where are all those trucks coming from or going to?
I started at the Squeaks Bridge cache and finished the day at the Elara cache, only because the traffic heading west was starting to build up. For most of the trail I was able to park in one of the small turnaround spots off Richmond Road and walk to two or three caches at each stop. I had a couple of dnf’s at Thebe and Green Space View 2 and somehow forgot about Green Space View all together. All in all a very enjoyable day out in the sunshine. Thanks for the caches and showing me this new part of the world Deep_99.

On the way home from Blacktown, quick find. TFTC

#4982 (3 of 4 today)

Catching up on over a week's finds! And that means I've made my 5000th find without knowing which cache it was. Ooh, suspense! Which will be the winner?

Most days I cached to meet my goal of 10 finds per calendar day by the end of 2019 (and my aspiration of 7 by the end of 2018). So far so good, but travel soon could derail me - for 2018 at least.

Today I headed out after a First2Find - didn't get it - then grabbed three more in the area.
###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###
Still need two more, so went for the next two caches along Richmond road - leaving one for later... (more please).

Parked as suggested - plenty of cars here today - and started off towards GZ.
Well, as I approached had an idea. But didn't spot it. so checked a few other things. Then... oh I was right, just blind! Very blind! [:o]

Easy grab with a TOTT and completed signing duties. Then replaced.
Now off up the road!

SLTNLN
TFTC

A great day for a bike ride in western Sydney with my granddaughter. Thanks to the COs for all the caches... and to those who helped maintain them.

We left early this morning to get as many caches as we could along this trail. Ended up getting just over 80 so it was a very good day. Thanks for all the caches.

Oh that is cool. I liked this cache a lot. Thanks for the cache series Deep_99. Now to walk all the way back...

No secret squirrel here, just a jump and grab. Didn’t require to use any TOT at GZ, loved this one, considered to continue but started my long walk back to GZ, thanks Deep_99

The last few days can only be call hell at work but it was now time to put that all behind me and get working on my number with less then 25 to get before find 2000 and I plan on that one being at the big event over Easter.
It was not to hot today so I walked the power trial I moved the car 3 or 4 times and just as well because as I was finishing the storm was coming in. I just made it back the to car as it started.
But I found all the caches. All logs were is great condition. Some of the tape is getting old and the magnets are coming loose. But they are all great little find when working on your numbers.
I finished the day with visit to Lindt for little rabbits and then to Ikea to grab some of their paper rules they make great log for bison tubes or bigger, tomorrow I'm off to do cache maintenance. Thanks so much for a great day and I feel a bit more relaxed now.

Always love caching with this group, a fun day out on this trail chasing planets. Thanks to all COs for the caches.

Out along the Richmond trail.
Thanks to all the COs for the hides.
OCWF&F SL

Out with the gang collecting caches along Windsor and Richmond roads. It was a medium long pedal but a great day. Disappointingly we had to replace a few containers along the way but no biggie either since the effort should breath some life back into the trail. TFTC.

Out on a bicycle caching run with geobuddies along both the Richmond and Windsor Rd trails and also grabbing any other caches in-between.
Overall our day was a whooping 10hrs on the bikes and we all enjoyed every pedel of the way.
We found a total of 87 caches today so I apologise for my repeated logs,
Thanks to all the cache owners for providing us with a great day out.
TFTC