Black Swan Lake Meadow Springs, Western Australia, Australia
By macgyver1973 on 14-Mar-20. Waypoint GC8MR72

No luck was getting bit

Cant find it

Search for an hour and a half cash is definitely not there or has clearly been moved

Searched for another 20 mins, it genuinely cant be there, or the navigation isnt completely wrong

#829 ~ Found relatively quickly with Krossbo after reading the logs. Was expecting something a little more challenging but read that the original cache had been muggled. TFTC macgyver1973!!

Caching while catching giants with Muddtrax. Co-ords seemed a little off, but we managed to locate the cache. TFTC

Dnf

All found safe and sound nice quick find

too easy. Thanks

Found!

Found this one on the way to see the giant. Nice quick find. TFTC

Great idea having a cache on the way to the giant. Easy find. TFTC.

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On holidays from Brisbane and one of our must do things was to find the Giants of Mandurah and today was the day. Was happy to see some caches on the way . My muggle friends and i thought we would have trouble finding this one but were happy to spot it in no time. I guess having 4 of us looking was a big help. Did not see swans here today but near our accommodation we did. Thanks for all the fun

Much easier than expected.SL TFTC # 3668

On our way to finding the 4th giant of the day. TfTC

A quick find. TFTC

TFTF

Not what I expected for a level 4.5 difficulty. It mightve been better in its earlier days. TFTC

Quick find here today with Deefa71 on a walk to see one of the Giants. Tftc

Tftc.

Found

TFTC ️

Nice

Found it. Good find, nice container!

Enjoying a lakeside stroll on this lovely winter's day. This was a magnificent host, and great camo! Also, a snazzy and very clean container! TFTC, macgyver1973!

One if the group spotted it very quickly so we were lucky on this. Tftc

Definitely a tricky find but we got it

Found! -Barton Clan

Just a tin. TFTC

This cache has been vandalised and all Camo removed. We tucked it into the fork of the tree for now.

We're out for a stroll with friends around Black Swan Lake. They've already found the caches here, so we've got an advantage if we run into any troubles. We were keen to find this one since our companions say it had great camo however we found the container on the ground shorn of it's disguise. Signed and placed in the fork of the tree for the CO to take care of.

Thanks for find #4588
TNLN

Tftc quick little grab and what seems to be a busy day around here.

TFTC. Lovely walk.

Sun in the right spot and the blue was coming through. All ok TFTC

No pen. Tftf

Full time nomads since February 2014, here to visit family.

Now staying in East Rockingham for a few days. The plan was to head south and look for the Mandurah Giants. The plan was great but without too much planning we had no idea that the walks would be so long and well of course there were caches along the way! With a 3.8km walk to/from the first Giant and maybe 10 or 12 caches that took us nearly 2 hours. Then we drove from Lakelands to Halls Head and realised we had lost 1 of our phones. So back to Lakelands and back walking 1km to find the phone right where we left it thankfully. Then to the Mandurah visitors centre to find out what we didnt know about the Giants and a visit to Simmos by then the day was coming to a close!

A stop at the shops, meant we attempted a couple more caches that were just there.... then we had to complete an AdLab that we started on Thursday and of course by that stage it was definitely after hours so a visit to BYOB 16 rounded out our day. Phew.


TFTC macgyver1973

We are from the Netherlands and doing a Roadtrip. We also look for geocaches!
This is one of our founds! Tftc
Greetings from Hellendoorn NL

We were out hunting a giant this morning.
We chose a very cold, wet and windy day to go.
We got only some of the caches around the lake as we found it hard juggling umbrellas, phones and pens and then at the end it was a race to get from the giant to the car before the heavy rain shower came within 15mins.
Thankful for a quick find in this weather.
Thanks for the hide macgyver1973

Amelie found tftc

My mum found this after only a minute of searching. TFTC

A quick find while visiting giants

Guardian of the cache!

Nice, was easier than the description led us to believe

Tftf… unfortunately was unable to sign the log as pen was left in the car…

Easy find TFTC

Tftc

Cache is repaired

Doing a lap of the lake looking for giants and grabbing caches along the way. Thanks macgyver1973

Today we went to Marlee Reseve. We wanted to visit Little Lui, the Giant of Mandurah. We went to Black Swan Lake and then on foot. We visited some geocaches along the way. We couldn't find them all. We could also discover a Red bellied black snake. So be careful
Thanks to the owners for the caches.

Nice little hide. Clever. Tftc

Camouflage he taken a bit of damage. Might need some repairs from owner.

We were spending the day exploring the Giant Trolls of Mandurah with some of [@BigRyanFamily](http://coord.info/PRR7G44). The kids went charging off looking for this one. I only took a couple of laps of the tree before we spotted it
The log looked like mush in the bottom so I added another one.
TFTC macgyver1973

Found it with fam

Was little tricky thankyou good hide

TFTC late entry found a while back with MAP194

Found it

That was a tricky hide! Hidden in plain sight!

Had a bit of spare time this morning between work commitments and have had this cache in my sights for a while as it’s the only one I’ve not collected around the lake.
Spent about 10 minutes looking all over the place and with time running out decided to PAF to see if I was barking up the wrong tree.
Found out I was at the right spot but that was all the info I got.
Set a timer for 5 minutes before I’d have to call it a day and with renewed vigour hunted some more, with time about to expire I circled around the area one last time and as the alarm sounded spotted something that needed further examination and it turned out to be the cache.
Unfortunately the log was so far into the cache I wasn’t able to extract it with the limited resources I had with me so have taken a photo and sent to the CO.

Thanks macgyver1973 for placing Black Swan Lake for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 11:41 on 19/9/2022.
This is find number 5739 for me.

Found this one with Ebenie, thanks for placing and maintaining.

Out with PollyMichele for the day. Thanks for the cache

Time to hang around Mandurah for a bit with a few detours for LGAs. TFTC.
Wow. Found it. Very surprised.

Great find, was on ground: accidental find
Log book wet

Ohhhh good find. But was not hidden correctly I think. But great find. TFTH

Found it on the ground. Signed and returned as found. Tftc

Half of it has broken off. Tried to fix as best we could tftc!

I'll be honest, I expected that to be a harder find. Still a great camo nonetheless. TFTC

Fantastic hide!! Was an accidental quick find thank goodness TFTC!!

Good camo.

Tfth

Found it straight away and thren give the others a chance

Cache has had its Maintenance required done

TFT, quick find with Geotrekky.

Due to the ease of find compared to the rating of 4.5 believe this may have been moved. Log is also damp.

Sorry that the log is jammed inside and I didn’t have something to fit. I’ve left it in a generous location for an easy find. I signed the cache label on the outside.Thanks.

This one requires some TLC the water has gotten inside and ruined the paper so we couldn't sign the log

A new log will be added this week unless someone beats me to it
I often carry spare ones in these situations which is something to consider when out in the great world of geocaching

The log is soaking wet
So it needs replacing ️(thankyou)

We found it but the log is wet
And we can't get it out of the container

What a awesome find!!! Not to difficult

A quick find. Thanks not sure why the difficulty was so high

Ran out of time here.

This one is back in play

Out for a morning ride around Lakelands for a cache hunt. Found plenty this morning. TFTH

Yes it’s still here woohoo

These eyes must be too old! No luck here today or yesterday

Luckily it wasn't as tricky as I thought it might be! Tftc

Odd cache that I could image could be very sneaky in a different home. Quick find. TFTC

Out and about today with geodog M as the weather is nice and hadn't done these yet. Beautiful place to walk and grab a few caches. The hint really helped here. Sltnln. Thanks for the cache guys

Quick find for GeoKid #3 - can't believe this is the first time we've been here it's so pretty here

Missing part replaced
Thankyou Hunterzed for attending to the logs

Finally found this tricky one after spending best part of an hour over two occasions. Cache is missing a bit and the log is a bit damp. TFTC macgyver1973

After quite a while here searching high and low, we finally made the find. As previously mentioned the log is damp due to a small part missing. Dried out log in the sun as best we could before adding our names, glad to have earnt a smilie here. Cheers macgyver1973.

Wow. A tough one. Moved on after 15 mins but I’ll be back! Thanks

Find 8 of 32 with two DNFs on a bike ride from Marlee Reserve, to Black Swan Lake and then across to San Remo for lunch, then back again once we were fed. Today was all about numbers, needing 52 to make 300 for the month. We had 20 from the morning and 32 left to get, so this was perfect. Some of these were not quick finds, mainly because of the creativity and variety of macgyver1973's hides, which were pretty much all awesome!

Mrs O quickly picked out the majority of the cache and we were able to sign the log, but it's probably missing something. Will send a pic.

TFTC macgyver1973!

No luck here today

Out for a Sunday walk around the lake and pick up a few caches.
A DNF for us today as we had to move on after about 20 minutes.

Thanks for the cache macgyver1973 - we will be back

That was hard and I didn’t find it

no luck today even with PAF will have to come back