The close enough park to the POST OFFICE! Marsfield, New South Wales, Australia
By CodingMaestro on 28-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7HKDT

Really. Is this here? Are coords correct? Checked everything that might hide a rock. Even PAF. CO might need to check this one soon please.

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Haven't got time to do any more geocaching.

No luck today

Must admit we do not really get the reference to the Post Office, but maybe there is a joke in it that we are missing.
The GPS refused to stay on the given coordinates, so at the end we started the search by crawling around on the ground and methodically searching for the cache. This eventually paid off as we found the well hidden cache where it probably was supposed to be.

Finally found it, rain just stopped with the empty playground nearby, yep, concrete clue was made, thanks for the smiley

Find #: 1,802
Companions: None
Muggles: None
Weather: Lovely winter's morning
Cache condition: Good

I was jogging in a new area that allowed me to find a few caches; this was my 4th of 5. I ran up to find the park deserted; there was a guy cleaning his car nearby, but he soon finished and headed back indoors. I started looking in the wrong place, but soon found myself at the right GZ - TNLNSL, TFTC

TFTC No where near the shops or post office

2nd attempt and got it

Nice and quick find, glad for a concrete clue and close coords. TFTC!

Today we headed back over to North Ryde and Denistone for some more short walk and "park & grab" caches. And amazingly we ended up making the exact same number of finds (17), and also the exact same number of DNF's (4), as yesterday. This was the 3rd of 17 finds for the day.

Parked the geomobile alongside the park, in Irene Crescent, then headed down into the park for a reasonably quick find. But, as others have noted, the coords are out by about 15 metres. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC CodingMaestro.

Find #2627

In the area picking up a new board game when I stopped for this. Counted on it being a challenge based on previous logs and D rating but it turned out o be a quick find. Coords and hint are good. 960 TFTC

Time to collect some caches near work this afternoon. Drove up and parked, Walked over and with the hint in mind, walked straight to a possible area. BAM, first place I checked, found the cache. SL and replaced. TFTC.

I phoned the mountain canary on this one, I should have just looked harder!

Tftc, needed another calendar date so I left for work a bit early. The park was empty early in the morning so I had it to myself for a search around.

#1783 found with alnic39 before the CITO strange how sometimes you check the coordinates and think they are out but their not. This happened here took a little bit longer to find thwn it should have.

Signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache CodingMaestro

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Coordinates were spot on, but i didn't trust them. It just meant that it took 2 minutes longer than it should have. TFTC

Was at a bit of a loss with what to do with Geosons today. Too nice a day to stay inside but also had to get grocery shopping done. An idea began to form, geocache our way to Macquarie Centre. I drive past this park often enough but have never stopped, today was the perfect excuse to visit. SL, TFTC!

#4984

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.
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Just the one today.
Had the new coordinates and when I arrived there was no one around.

Started me search - iPhone likes one area.
But nothing spotted. Hmmm.

Began spreading out and still nothing. And then a mother and strollered muggle arrived. But they didn't stay long as the little one just didn't stop crying.

I'd taken that time to step out from the tree cover, and further from the playground, and try to triangulate more accurately. And it pointed me still to that first spot.

Hmmm...
So once the coast was again clear went back to it. And did something I did very early on. But this time I noticed a tell I missed the time before.

Gotcha!

Completed signing duties and replaced.
And yeah - not that close to the Post Office.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Don't know that this park is really near the Post Office, there's a nearer park. Still there is plenty of places to park the geomobile near this park.
I had been here before, not long ago to "find" the cache location but leave it unfound for another day when time was at a premium and I wanted a quick find. I had thought it looked a bit like a needle in a haystack job but actually with the new co-ordinates, thank you Team Canary, it was a fairly straightforward find.

So today I came back and found it again and signed the log.
There was not a muggle in sight either time, does anyone use this park?

Cache #2434

Thanks. Nice hide. Easy pickup

There were little muggles cavorting in the nearby playground but GZ was nicely shielded from their view. The coordinates are pretty good.

Thanks CodingMaestro.

I found this one a lot easier than expected.

Are the coords still 15m out as in the description or are they now correct? If so, can the description please be adjusted so it doesn't confuse anyone else from now on? Thanks

The coords have been updated. So no more worrying please.

I will enable it early so the reviewer is happy.

Can I ask why this one is disabled till March 16th when it's being found?

Located at 7:28pm. Cheers to Team Canary’s coordinate reading, I was able to make a find here after work. Спасибо! תודה! L’chaim! TFTC!

Glad to turn this into a smiley with better cords

Yeah a DNF now a smiley.that was better coords

Will up date coords soon. For time being I will disable it until March 16th.

In the mean time I took the coordinates as S33 47.009 E151 05.801 as a quick solution.

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 47.004 E 151° 5.796

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 47.009 E 151° 5.801

Distance from original: 39.4 feet or 12.0 meters.

Thanks Team Canary. Will enable it on date

Thank goodness for friends as a fifteen metres radius is a big circle!?!

TFTC.

Please update the coordinates.

Telling us they are fifteen metres out is not really much help.

I wasn’t feeling too confident about finding this one after seeing the notes about the inaccurate coords, however it’s sitting in my 20km from home radius which I’m trying to keep clear.

I arrived at the pretty park and luckily I had the place to myself. With coords out by 15m that gives a large area to search.....must of which is coveted by undergrowth.

Thankfully, I got lucky and picked the right direction to start looking for a hint item.

CIH in a couple of minutes.

For future finders.......don’t worry about looking in the undergrowth or under small shrubs.

Tftc

#2054
A very lucky line of approach combined with Frazel's hint had me signing this one within 30 seconds. So glad it didn't take me 2 hours although I'm sure I would have conceded much earlier. Never much fun when the coords are out by that much and there are so many possible places to look.
TFTC CodingMaestro

On our way from lunch at The Ranch we stopped by to give it a go. Got lucky after we broadened the search area.
TFTC

Quick find tonight. Wow how did we miss that the first time? Spotted straight away. Coords off by 15m or so.Tftc

FINALLY we found it after another 30mins of ssearching. Cords settled about 15mtrs out. Just happy to add a smiley here TFTC

I didn't have two hours to look for this elusive cache, so I gave up after about 20 minutes.

I have checked it and it is still there. If you want more clues, You need to check more bushes. I will change the difficulty to 3.5. Because, like nobody can find it yet.

FTF (FTF) {FTF}
You flipping beauty.
And excuse me but gee wiz what a sneaky hide. Omg lol
I looked at this hide and looked at all the poor people suffer from not finding it.
So this morning I had a crack myself.
It took me over 1 hour check each shrub each huge clump of dirt. Nothing .. no too far this way that way. I even checked the play equipment.
But I'm no quitter. I asked CO but CO must be at work.
I shall continue my searching. Sometimes it pays for another view point. So I did go from another angle.
Aaa... I wonder. You bet.
Woot.
Tftc.

Searched with geoing friends 14 eyes no luck

Friends were searching and called to see if we were near. Yes we are on our way. Spent way to log to found nothing. As so many have now searched and DNFed I think the cords should be checked.

Also no luck for us tonight, searched for over 2hrs. Started with just us 2 and then decided to call some extra eyes. So ended with a group of us. Reggiejohn, Ash.kate, DLTurner and Kazzocosmo and Jordsau ended up joining us later on and still nothing. Where could it be mmmmm. We shall be back.

Spent a long time searching in this park tonight. Frazel started the search, then I joined, then we called in more backup dlturner kazzacosmo and reggiejohn. Still nothing shortly after jordsau joined the party....nothing.... With a msg out to the CO we will return hopefully with some more info. We even checked the other nearby park with no success. Where are you little one?!

Looking looking we looked everywhere no rock left unturned good luck to ever can find it

Embarrassingly, no find for me here... I was at home when JordsAU tipped me off about this one but I had a bit to do, so headed over about 2 hours after publication. After about 15 minutes of searching, I had to get back home so desperately left no stone unturned - except the one hiding the cache... I'll be back soon. Hopefully the next (or possibly still, first?!) finder has more luck than me! Thanks, CodingMaestro.

It is there! I made it easier to find.

Published

31 Jan 2018

Did Not Find but I was able to pick up and dispose of a fair bit of rubbish throughout the park instead. CITO Crusaders represent!

Lots of tiny bits of plastic, which would otherwise end up in our waterways, be eaten by birds and fish, and kill the birds or end up back inside our bodies when we eat the fish.

Anyway, will need to return another time for another crack at this one.

"JordsAU

No luck either. Spent close to thirty minutes searching all to no avail. Had been waiting to finish work to have a crack at this. Will return. L’chaim!