Canning treasure trove Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
By Team Gunn Parker on 05-Oct-02. Waypoint GC9743

Sadly this cache has been stolen, so I have had to archive it.
Thanks to everyone who found it and left such nice logs.
Andrew

Found the pampas grass, couldn't find the cache - area is well trampled.

Found this fairly easily, but those damn mosquitos! Take repellant! We had great fun at the playground afterwards, thanks for the fun. Took peter pan toy, left striped pencil with rubber

Dexter Ditto Were Here!

T: Scorpion and Cowboy
L: X-MAN and Compass

Thanx 4 the exercise...

Another lunch hour cache. Warning: Just before entering the cache zone I came across a rather large looking tiger snake He wasn't happy to see me, nor I him. After a bit of a Mexican stand off he finally slithered off into the grass and I continued the cache hunt. Didn't take long. Thanks for the experience. TN L padlock and calling card. Note: You can locate this cache visually - there is no need to cut yourself on the pampas grass.

Found easily but need to use co-ords that are given for the cycle path especialy if coming from the east as pampas grass is unsighted from that direction. Co-ords where out a little at cache site but spot on at cycle way.Cache a bit damp. Took golf ball and left Peter Pan figurine and hair clips. Mossie replent a must for this area. Thanks Team Gunn Parker.

Found this cache today on a lovely morning - it's my 2nd one for the day in between jobs

Co-ordinates are out, but thanks to the info which says Go from the cycleway.. - those co-ordinates are more accurate - coz all you do is look towards the river and you'll find it.. the original co-ordinates are 15 metres out.

Took nothing, Left nothing coz there was tonnes of stuff in there already

Thanks - The Trekkers

Wonderful goodies for geo-kids. Found it easily and gosh, millions of mozzies! Took dinosaur and left golden lion. Thank you, Team Gunn Parker.

WOW!!! Great Cache for the Geo-kiddies. Thank you for the excellent selection of goodies. Pampas Grass not as the dangerous as the Mozzies!!!

[last edit: 5/24/2003 9:31:58 AM PST]

Found this one easily. Spotted the cutty grass from about 100m.thanks to Tracy for diving in there to retrieve the Cache. Josh took a scorpion.Cache is in good condition and full to the brim.
Thanks,

Found after quite a lot of searching in amongst very thorny bushes. I followed the co-ordinates in the description and spotted the pampas grass bushes, which was around 12m from final co-ordinates (s32 01.549 e115 54.994). Once found the kids enjoyed this cache. We are all going home now to tend the wounds from the razor sharp grass and thorn bushes. Took a small flintstones cycle and left some farm animals and a car.

[last edit: 2/14/2003 4:41:03 AM PST]

Fianlly... I found it !!!!!!.. Just becarefull of the leaves of the trees.. There small.. There Sharp.. They cut.. They itch.. Good spot for someone else to get it

FINALLY!
Second try. Left railway peg, took yo-yo. Wot got scratched up good retreiving it.

Found the bushes & looked but the bushes took their toll on my legs and hands. Didn't get right behind but will have to go back and have another look

walked about 300 metres from the carpark, very hot about 36 degrees. cache is still there, took goofy looking pink yowie tpye thing, and left phone cover, and flamingo. Suggest you wear long pants, and long sleeves, I was very itchy from the pampas grass after this one. Nice cache lots of goodies.

2nd Cache for the day.. @nd time i'v been here.
i guess i was looking in the wrong place or its just not there...

now that i know the exact place.. ill look harder

walked along way in the rain,got wet feet. Cache is about 5 meters off the cycle path behind 2 pandanas bush's grass.easy access to cache, good track. Good fun as it was first time using GPS properly.
John and Blake

[last edit: 11/2/2002 12:26:48 AM PST]

I let my brother & his son (from SA) track this one down. What can I say, so close and yet so far. The location of this cache is the sort of thing that Ian would do - so many possible??? directions to come from.
Is this one revenge for the mozzies in Mandurah??? It sure seemed like it. Not to mention the razor sharp bush. ha ha.

Now I know what a Pandanas bush is and they are a bit on the sharp side. This cache definately got my 8y/o son's interest.

5:30 Sunday Follow the trail to the Pampass grass....then remove the cache from the razor edged leaves....Try to keep the kids back untill you can be safe. We managed all those things. No cuts. Very impressive collection of toys. Placed in a pack of batteries for those that may need them (cheapies but thay may help if you are running low) We have the Minstral Travel bug in our grubby hands but will place him back out in the wild when we have a few pics of him. We forgot our camera today so no photos.

This was extremely easy to find as there is a well beaten path to the pampass grass. I remember being cut to bits as a kid by the one at the end of our garden so we came well prepared with the gardening gloves, however someone forgot to mention the MOSQUITOES!!!! We added to the toys as well as adding the Minstrel we got at the picnic a few weeks ago (he was sick with the tonsils too).

[last edit: 10/12/2002 6:34:48 PM PST]

Not too difficult to get at - if you discount the viscious pampas grass. The mosquitoes are horrendous - well they are in the afternoon - and likely to use you as take-away so long sleeves, long trousers or jeans are advisable and definitely a pair of gloves. Took out a little blue elephant and put in a red indian.

Found it! - Well hidden Gunn Parker.
Also found a pair of sunnys on the ground behind the bush, so to the geocacher missing their specs, I have put them in the cache.

[last edit: 10/11/2002 2:53:23 AM PST]

2nd time lucky. just followed the trail of blood left by Dancin. took me straight to the cache. took shorty and will place him some were this weekend.

Co-ords not to far out according to the picture.
I know those plants as 'Pampas grass' not Pandanas as mentioned. Something I am told you don't want in your garden. Isn't a Pandanas bush a 'Screw Pine' tree ?
Anyway, no cache !! Nothing to be found.
Kids were dissapointed after reading about the exciting contents !!


[last edit: 10/9/2002 3:32:46 AM PST]

Dancin has found this cache first. Once again i found a cache without a GPS, although i am now going to hospital to get stiches for all my cuts. That bush was sharp.
I left Shorty at this location for others to find.
Onwards to the next challenge

now i know what a pandanas bush is. next time i will take some gloves with me. could not find it. looked all around the bush. it is only 5min from home so if any one is going to look for this one and would like an extra person to help look for it then e-mail me and i will give you a hand.
i will be back to find this one another day.