Ginger Meggs Park Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia
By Rama497 on 31-Dec-19. Waypoint GC8HDTB

It is time to open the space up and let someone else place a cache here.
Thank you to everyone who came and found this location and the cache.
Looking forward to seeing another cacher place a cache in this location.

The container needs some repairs.

Found it couldn't open tho TFTC

Found it, but couldn't open the container.

Quick find but struggled to get cache out of hiding spot. Tftc

Found pretty quickly and retrieved from hidey hole. TFTC

Took a while to locate it, leeches and spiders didn't help.

Found it - but could open the cache! It is jammed shut which is disappointing.

Was dropping something off nearby at a friend's place just up the road tonight. I've loved the Ginger Meg's comics since I was a child and have a few pictures signed and drawn by James Kemsley that I cherish. I always wanted to come to this park, albeit during the day, but alas I'm here at night and could make the find tonight. Thanks and I'll be sure to come back when visiting my friend in daylight hours to see the park now I know it's so close to their place.

Found with Scotttiew and Ally while visiting from Melbourne for Ally’s baptism - also test driving a new VW Station Wagon- TBs paid a visit:

Found with Awegs and Ally. Tftc.

An easy find, whilst trying to find a way to the Florence Cotton cache, thanks

Quick find on a walk through the area, stopped as I almost tripped over GZ. TFTC!

TFTC
Easy find. Couldn't get the lid off to sign the log.

It’s survived all the water but I couldn’t open the lid, it was stuck on fast. I needed a cache for my calendar day so I chose this one.

Stocked with Woolworths swag, although I’m unsure if the Woolies mini’s holding real lollies. Really can’t miss this with the tell tale stacked rock in front, thanks Rama497

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 42.139 E 151° 4.861

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 42.140 E 151° 4.860

Distance from original: 7.8 feet or 2.4 meters.

Cache has been taken from original location.
Trying a new place.

Cache has been replaced.
It is now in a new location.
Hopefully this one will stay.

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 42.124 E 151° 4.900

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 42.139 E 151° 4.861

Distance from original: 217.5 feet or 66.3 meters.

Cache has been taken twice now.
Moving to a different location to see if it will not get muggled.

I think this one is missing in action

I able disabling this until I can go and do a check on the cache.

Hi

Great park and great spot for a cache. Thanks

Our first find! Great location, nice park!
Thanks rama497 for the geochache.

Easy!! Was a bit too easy so tried to camouflage it better

Found Fast because it was really easy to find. We had our first COVID safe picnic with the Grandparents. Geo Kids went looking this time and found it in no time.
Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for the geocache!

Found it! TFTC. It was fully uncovered and there were no goodies inside. We put some stuff in though!

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Found with Ella_June in this busy park way down the bottom of the valley.
Great history and legacy
Thanks Rama497

Found quickly because it was fully exposed. We left it as far under as we could with a bit of cover thrown on. TftC!

Love it

Found it

Found it. It was lying in the open, so we replaced it.

Found it

TFTC.
LOVE THE EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THE HISTORY.
TNLN

Found it

Easy find

Found it on a sunny day just after a walk, nice quick find, TFTC

Kids loved it. Tftc

Thanks for the cache!
Easy find!

Awesome hiding spot and great park for the kids to enjoy. My son found it using the hint.

Sydney lockdown exercise

Found it

TFTC!

#9581 14:10
Ginger Meggs is well known and Eagle Eyed Monkey Girl remininsced on the mural cache in Hornsby we did two years ago.
This was a very easy cache, but nice to see where Jimmy Bancks spend his early years.
TFTC.

The cache has been dried out and has been returned to play.
Cache on......

Dried out an returned to play.

Found this while then had a play in the park.

found this treasure while we played in the park.
TFTC

I found this cache back in Sept last year, but for some reason, forgot to log it!!
So claimed the actual find today.
Log was a bit damp, so phoned the CO and brought it home with me to do a better dryout. CO now has the Cache
TNLNSL
TFTC

Grabbed for the CO for some maintainance. He will disable shortly.
Log was a bit damp and needs to dry out.

Intel has advised that this needs some TLC.

full log to follow

Found it, nice park. No muggles today but is crowded some days.

First find in a while! Had to use the hint. Very nice container for it too. Loads of fun!

This is just our second day of geocaching. So we were very excited to find that there is a cache in Ginger Meggs, a place we often come to and love. Loved reading the write-up about the park and how it came to be named in the cache listing. The cache is in great condition with some nice labelling TFTC! Dropping off Travel Bug Shake Me here. (which we found in our very first cache yesterday!)

Used a stick as it looks like a potential spider house, but tftc

A day of hiking around the hills. This one just happened to be within striking range on our map as a drive by in between walks. TNLN TFTC

Found a long time ago
TFTC

It would of been better if the hint was a clue for you to find instead of where it is exactly.

Today we took an afternoon drive up to Hornsby to have a go at the Adventure Lab, visit the SideTracked MultiCache, and collect a few Traditionals in the area. This was the 2nd of 10 finds for the afternoon.

Arrived at a deserted Ginger Meggs Park and made a nice quick find at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Looks like lots of construction work going on nearby. TFTC Rama497.

Find #4392

Tftc

Found it. Thanks!

Good find!

26 August 2020 at 09:49

I missed this one a few weeks ago, and was very happy to see it had since been replaced. I did my last visit on foot from Hornsby station - as part of a morning's geo-trail hike which seemed a long way at the time, especially back up that hill. But, driving it today, I was amazed to see how long it in fact was... and yet I made it!!

Found easily today. In Ginger Meggs Park. Not another soul about this time.

Thank you, Rama497

TFTC

Found after cache replaced by Rama497. Thought I might be the FTF on the new log but was beaten by another cacher. Thanks CO for your prompt attention. TNLN TFTC.

Such a good spot! And lucky me being first in the new log. Happy geocaching!

The cache container has now been replaced.
It is already for the next finder.
Please make sure you cover the cache with the camo once you have found it.

All set to Go. Cache on . . . .

Unfortunately the cache has gone.
I will have to make a new container to place back.
I hope to have it back soon.

After a few days of heavy rain and cabin fever, it was great to get out today and do a decent sized walk. (The steep up-hill return to Hornsby Station from Ginger Meggs Park was perhaps a little too much... although seen in reverse, it would make a fine black ski slope).

I love Ginger Meggs and this is a neat park. With the specific hint, it was pretty obvious where this cache had to be, and I'm afraid it wasn't there. Or at least, I couldn't find it. It's over a month since the last log, so maybe a bush turkey carried it off... or a dreaded drop bear from the surrounding forests.

Anyway, I'll put this on my watch list and hope to get back (perhaps by car next time)....

Cheers Rama497 and thank you for some fun exercise.

Ducked down to the park with MrSmith00 after school pickup.

His daughter provided the perfect cover, whilst I quickly discovered the cache.

Managed the signing and replacement just before the park was overrun with other kids and parents.

Tftc.

Tftc, with Azzepious today and he needed a cache to keep his impressive streak going. This was my closest unfound. Picked up the geokid from school and took her to the park for a play while we made the find.

First ever find!!! Thank you

TFTC, it is more out in the open than what you think

Decided to head out and grab this one this afternoon, it's not that far from home but would be a nuisance walking or by bike with the hill involved to get back out. Much easier now I have a car again. Nice and easy find, with not that many people in the playground and none of them looking my way. Thanks Rama497.

Nice container

#3968
Woohoo!!!!! My longest geocaching slump of 68 days, due to the Covid-19 restrictions, has been broken with this hide from Rama497. I actually came here last Saturday but was muggled out by some bloke near the entrance to the park that appeared to be camping out of his car. He was watching me so I thought it best not to compromise the cache. It's great to be back in the saddle again. The cache location was easily spotted and when I returned the container, I added some extra natural camouflage to help conceal the cache. Thanks for a fun little hunt Rama497.

Doing the Blue Gums walk and decided to stop by to find our first geocache ever! Thanks

I brought geodog up to Hornsby for a walk today. These bushwalks are not what he is used to as our local streets are too crowded with muggles these days, used to just be me and geodog walking around.

Once I arrived here I realised I'd been to this park for a cache once before and we met another dog of the same breed here.

I used to read Ginger Meggs, good old fashioned fun comics unlike the weird stuff these days with all sorts hidden undertones. Bring back the good oldies!

There's no problem about spreading viruses with this cache. The container was so greased up with hand sanitizer that I thought I'd never be able to open it. Finally managed to get inside and sign the log. Washing hands afterwards, tricky as you need to bring your own tap top in this park.

TFTC # 3921

Great little area

Playground cache.

Nice hide Found, signed and popped back. Thanks

Found by middle child! Isolation and social distancing maintained.

Isolation walk TFTC

I found ittt 31/3/20

I found ittt 31/3/20

Collected this while on the hunt the for another, nevermind its name.

Thanks for the hide!

I went for a bushwalking with dad today and he suggested I try to find this cache before we went home. I found it without any trouble, and I really liked the container. I hid it again very well. TFTC.

Such a cute place

So many niggles makes it tricky!!!

Quick find with Ris768 thanks Rama497 for placing this cache

Log 2267 Streak Day 1154

Quick find with Deep_99 to keep the streak going. SL #4409 on streak day #2794 TFTC

#7010

Just the one today, and a return to a familiar park, where I've previously made a find.
As I noted in my log then, I went to school with the son of Lloyd Piper, the third cartoonist to pen the strip.

Quick find here today. Signed the log in the shelter, then back for the replace.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Found just before the heavens opened up last night, what a spectacular lightning show.
Great little park and a quality container.
SL TFTC

I needed to fill a calendar spot today, so I snuck out after dinner to make this find. First attempt was abandoned because of muggles in the park, but a bit later it was a nice easy find. I know this park well as it's near the start and finish of some pleasant local bush walks. TFTC.

A quick one in a park I haven’t been to in quite a while.

TFTC.

Find #: 2,283
Companions: None
Muggles: None
Weather: Wet, cool and smokey summer afternoon
Cache condition: Good

After damaging the credit-card balance at Westfield I decided to find this cache on the way home. The park was empty due to the ordinary weather so I was able to search in peace and make a quick find - TNLNSL, TFTC