Chinese Gardens Urangan, Queensland, Australia
By HBkids on 11-Mar-18. Waypoint GC7KAJA

no maintenance or comment from owner regarding replacing cache for over 3 months so I'm archiving to allow new cache placement.

Hersien

Don't think it is here anymore

Cache disabled. Looks like groundsman keeps removing it

First try at geocaching and no luck. We will try another one. Fingers crossed this time. All we found was this magnet.

Did not find

Unfortunate
I do not a micro hidden in a very public area is an appropriate size cache. Tends to destroy the surrounding area by the searching cachers - thus they are removed by the caretakers.
As you are a newbie with very little experience, please do not take these comments the wrong way.
Over the last several years there have been many caches in these gardens and none have survived, all have been micros.
It is great that you are hiding caches, but please do so in non sensitive areas, there's plenty around here. I can always do with some more to find.
Good luck with your geocaching and I hope that you receive all the rewards that come with the game
Happy Hunting

No luck for us despite a through search of several aspects of the gardens.

Sadly DNF after a long search.

Thanks 2018 ..... Out and about to collect the souvenir for the last day of 2018. I always love visiting the Chinese Gardens when I holiday in Hervey Bay. Thanks for placing a cache in such a beautiful little spot. TFTC. A favourite for me.

Yippee! First for Queensland trip.

Having collected goblindust from the airport this was the perfect first cache to do thanks

Replaced the missing cache this morning

Appears to have gone missing again,can see where it was and some remains still there,anyway tftc

Found something magnetic... But no cache... Could be looking on the wrong spot but could be it needs maintenance?

We enjoyed a walk in these beautiful gardens before heading to GZ. Took a bit of looking before we spotted it. Well done! Not so hard afterall.
Thanks for the cache and adding more fun to our morning HBkids.

On a holiday trip “down under” with Xolanda, ZebylonElectry and the kids. Thank you for this great hide and a chance to see this place!

~~~~ Greetings from Sweden!!! ~~~~
~~~~ “Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.” ~~~~

Easy find on a walk with Xolanda, Tedronai and the kids. TFTC

We started the day by taking a stroll in this bothanical garden with the beautiful Chinese part. After just a short while the cache was found.

Thank you HBkids for showing us this place!

*For three wonderful weeks my family and I from Sweden: Tedronai, Lilla L & Lilla S and my parents Zebylonelectry travelled the east coast of Australia in a mobile home. From Port Douglas in Queensland to Sydney in New South Wales the road went with an amazing number of beautiful spots and sightseeings in between. The weather was mostly sunny with occasional tropical rain and thunder between 25-42 deg. The ocean warm and welcoming despite crocs and jellyfish. No less than three snakes were spotted in the wild. This was my first time in Australia and can´t wait to get back! Thank you to all cache owners that showed us around!*

What a lovely spot

Clever Cache

My fav part of oriental gardens is dragonflys

Beautiful Chinese garden

Sofia’s first Cache!!

Found with goldielover today. Nice walk before heading back to Brisbane. Love this place. Thanks for bringing us here.
TFTC

Found this morning while visiting Hervey Bay. Beautiful gardens. TFTC

Great cache.
TFTC

Finally to some caches that we could not find. Cause too many people or too difficult maybe. We have been able to find this cache. After a short search, it was in a nice place. Then a walk through the beautiful park. Yes our first find in Harvey Bay. And our 1309 total. TFTC

Nice Garden. Tftc

Found with 3up as the light faded under torchlight. TFTC

Found wigh Jaffnut. TFTC

29/9/18 Out for a day of caching and this was number 1 for the day. I love how IPS this is. A FP awarded for the cheakiness of this cache. TFTC

Nice day at the chinese gardens TFTC

Beautiful walk through the gardens ... take the time after you find and log this cache to enjoy the park

And the question is "inside or outside" tested both theories before locating the elusive one.

Gardens are in magnificent condition, well worth a visit.

**TFTC HBkids**

All intact. Tftc

Beautiful to see here ... got it TFTC

It took a while to find this one, but finally we signed the logbook. Thank you and greetings from Germany!


(I‘m sorry. The log is ‚a bit‘ delayed.)

Thanks for bringing us to this beautiful garden. Cache found safe & sound. Log signed, now for the photos of the garden!

Clever hide. Found together with travelling friends Jabaker123. TFTC.

In QLD to visit Stell, for 30 year anniversary and other historic reasons. So sent a day touring the Maryborough and Harvey Bay region. Missed going troppo Cuboree by two weeks. Your reference/waypoint is in the middle of houses, may need to remove or adjust this. JABs.

Hanging out with my oldest buddy JABS

TFTC Easy find for Dad and James

Easily found. Need3d H to retrieve. TFTC

Hi there HBkids.

Returned to the cache today, and were glad to see it had been replaced exactly where we were looking last time. (Unfortunately our pen failed us.). Our total today was 1 caches & we DNF'd 0. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels as we continue our nomadic wanderings around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found this cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Just checked the geocache.All good!

10.15am
Had visited this cache previous and found remains of original cache. Decided I should replace container as it has had a few DNF's. Hopefully CO is okay with this. SLTFTC

Hi there HBkids,

RE: Your cache **"Chinese Gardens"**

We are really sorry to report that the cache is missing. It really needs some owner TLC.
Normally we would have replaced/maintained the cache but recent activities have left us with nothing to replace it with.

Regards

Ian & Penny

No smiley at this location. We think the cache is missing.

Hi there HBkids.

This is the 2nd of 4 caches we didn't find today. [:(!]

We spent quite some time here but we just couldn't locate your cache, so here's a DNF from us.

Regards
Ian and Penny

We had a good search around but no luck at all here today.
We spotted what may have been a potential hide, but we found nothing.
Thanks

Thought we would try our luck after seeing DNFs from others. Only found where we thought it would go but no cache container.

Found what we believe is the cache retainer, so to speak, but no cache. Nice spot all the same.

It looks like this one is missing.

Too good for us today. We had the area to ourselves for at least 30 minutes but couldn’t find the cache. We left when quite a number of families arrived to enjoy the beautiful area.

Found after a few minutes all is good with the cache

Great hide took a while.tftc

Dnf

Lovely spot. Walked from the marina. Happy to be here.

Parked close and walk in and headed to GZ following the arrow on my GPSr. I thought there were couple of hints in the Geocache Description and I was right. As I searched around on the way towards GZ I could see the in full view container. All good here. I had found the previous cache that was in here before it was archived. TFTC HBkids.

Thought there used to be one here. None the less tftc

Bammmm... geowife spotted it straight away
TFTC

Eventually! Looked all about then found it by accident when we were just about to trow the towel in. Tftc

What a pretty area this is. Another one of those “ I would never have seen this if not for geocaching “ clever hide with no muggle activity at all. Tftc

A clever cache that I spotted by accident. Thanks HB Kids

This was a little tricky. I thought I was onto something, but it wasn't the cache. My geocaching partner, jollyroger&son soon spotted the prize. SL

Ftf???....well got it and opened to find cache had no log...put a log in...good hide...tftc...

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