Tennis and Trees Kingston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By The Animal Cachers on 16-Oct-02. Waypoint GC9C9A

Looks like the owners couldn't make the trip

Thought I'd give it a go, but sadly still no cache. Nice quiet lunch time with few muggles made a thorough search of the leaves a breeze.

The owner still hasn't logged in and the cache is not there!

We found a toy soldier but sadly no cache. Got covered in leafs and yellow pollen type stuff and received the odd stare from lunch time walkers. But its all fun, Right !!!!!

The Nut agrees, after letting me look for it, he looked where he found it and it ain't there.

Make it be gone.

The cache isn't where I found it. I would suggest that the cache needs archiving as the owner hasn't logged in for nearly two years!

Twelve finds for today but this one eluded us. We did find some small action figures on ground near where we thought GZ would be so are wondering if this has gone missing.

Looked all around for this one, but no sign. Lovely spot though.

This was my only disappointment for my Canberra trip. I had 2 cracks at this one, the second time with a hint and still come up empty. Maybe next time.

Just about to give up on this one, the GPS also had us running in circles and in the middle of the carpark as well. We stopped for a minute, read the logs/clue, thought about the possible hiding spots and after a 2 min search, cache was in hand. Thanks.

This one may be easier in winter. AP.

Clever hiding spot. TFTC

An easy find while the missus was at the markets. TNLN.

This cache had us all over the place for some reason. The GPS wanted to point us to the middle of a car park. Lucky I had my eagle eyed youngest geokid who was the finder for this one.

TFTC

Found quickly with Tramper Ted. Last of 12 caches found during an afternoon of hunting. The cache name reassured us that we were in the right place as we pulled up in the car. TFTC

Very quick stop off and easy find. On our way back to Queanbeyan. TFTC

That was easy.

Day 4 0f 5 day Trip to ACT
Find 9 of 55 for the day
Total for trip 124

[This entry was edited by SA_ParrotHead on Monday, October 01, 2007 at 11:52:06 PM.]

Greetings from Canada. The co-ords were right on but the cache was exposed so we covered it well before we left.
T: N
L: Canada stickers
TFTC

great park...and caches in walking distance of each other...tftc

Quick grab going between "bug on" and "ppt:squirtle"....TNLNSL .... TFTC

Satellites weren't that kind and with all the Nadals, Safins and aging Agasis it wasn't pleasant but the find was found and the deed done.
Needs a better container though.
TNLN
TFTC

Found 16:00, a nice easy find.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks to The Animal Cachers.

Very quick find on way to lunch. Container is starting to get a little out of sorts; but still fine

TNLNTFTC

stray & Lady Dingo

Container still cracked..but a quick find, a muggle had a little glance at us lurking in the carpark and tripped over a log while staring. We laughed...she left embarassed. Quick find. TN left ball. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found after checking out the Computer Fair at Kingston, an easy find.

Found along with misspranx at 6:30 PM. The GPS took us all over the place as we approached it from the west. We ended up in the carpark over the wall before heading back in the right direction. Narrowed down to two places it could be and quickly found the right place.

TNLN

After conquering magpie phobia got the cache in no time. Grabbed Two Towers TB.

Fairly busy here today, nice easy find. No possum about today. SLTNLN, thank you

found it after an epic struggle with my gps. was giving me crazy readouts and sending me all over the place.

TFTC.

The call of two coins brought me back, but there was only one. Thanks.

Tk: Yowie GC
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Pyramid GC A#23

Albida

Dropped by to "Discover" - Great Yowie Tracker.

Visiting for a coin swap.

I lobbed in to GZ to find this cache today
All quiet and I soon had the cache
Advantage If
I took the geocoin and dropped in the Astrolabe geocoin.

This must be a pop-u-lar spot. So I left a geocoin!
TFTC and clear skies from TeamAstro.
(well done If!!!) [^]

16:10 - Not sure who was more startled....me.... or the possum happily sleeping right on top of the cache. Gave the tree a nudge to see if he was alive & YES! He wasn't too happy when I came back after signing the log to disturb him again.

TNLN - SL.
TFTC.

Nice cache in old Canberra. This found by Geokid 1.
T:Badge
L:Domino

A nice quick find on my lunchtime caching stroll, well hidden .

T - MtG cards
L - Grasshopper fact sheet card

Nice little hide. Found a sleeping possom before the cache which the Gribblet loved. Mrs Gribbly made the actual find. Almost got muggled but survived.

Stopped by to drop off a TB Ball. not as busy as I expected on a great day like today.

It was very quiet on the nearby courts. Found the cache easily enough.
TFTC
Travells

It's hard to look inconspicuous poking around flora in a business suit ... but i did my best. A good, quick lunch break cache.

Cache is in a bad way. But fonud and signed none the less.

Cheers.

Found on a weekend of cycling, caching and punctures. Didn't take long, signed log and moved on to the next challenge. GZ was a bit off but the cache was in the obvious spot. TFTC!

Finally came back 2 years later to do this one, and found it almost straight away. Container is badly damaged and full of crap. It must be an anti-clue because you have to do the exact opposite of what it says. TNLN

Our thirty-third of forty-five finds on our second day in Canberra. (66/108 for the trip.)

This cache was the next on the list after collecting Mrs HMF from the markets. A nice easy find in a pretty area. Thanks to The Annimal Cachers for the cache.

Great location. First attempt had too many muggles about. I pretended to take some photos (as a tourist to Canberra, it looked normal), but I didn't find it. Second time was a charm though.

TFTC

The Odlids and Company Rathard were on a cycling, touristing and caching fiesta in sunny Canberra. After stopping in nearby park to refuel, the cache was our second post-lunch find.
Thanks,
Rathard.

Just like Rathard said just a day earlier.

Went and found this one as a detour from the Pokemon Puzzle trail. A nice easy find, but the container is a bit damaged.

TNLN

Nice easy find.
Thanks

[very easy find]

the hint says "dont bend over" but the cache was practically on the ground. It also was plainly visible. Is it in the right place i wonder??? i put it back where i found it and camoflaged it with a bit of leaf litter.

One we have meant to do for a while, so logged it on the way home from work. TFTC

Did the obligatory "let sleeping possums lie" thing
and then found the right location.

T - Lantern Keyring
L - Prism

TFTH

After checking on my nearby cache I wandered down to this cache to log in a TB for a brief visit. There was a person sitting in a car that was parked facing the cache tree, so I couldn't hunt around properly to find the cache (again - already found some months ago), but I did see the moving ball of fluff (aka sleeping possum) in the tree down a bit!

Found at 3:30pm before heading back to the airport. Took a bit of searching to find it, but eventually zeroed in.
Took nothing, left TB Viva Las Vegas
thanks The Animal Cachers
NB the cache container is broken and needs replacing - a piece of plastic is missing around the rim of the base and it is bound to take in water.

Found this one after finding a possum in another tree. I agree about the container needing replacing, though.

#23 with Captain Tomato and only Google Maps
@5:05
I found it easily - Thanks to Ozjeepers for the new log book. Plastic box might need replacing.

Thanks

[This entry was edited by SecretSquirrel-BJC on Friday, March 02, 2007 at 9:43:51 PM.]

Staying in the Capital overnight for a meeting I just had to stroll out for a couple of caches first up. No on court action at this early hour. 0630 TFTC.

An easy find not far from our motel. Nobody playing tennis at 0840 so it was easy to retrieve anf replace. Left a new logbook as the old one was more-than-full.

easy find

Spotted by junior (we were looking elsewhere), Canberra find no.2. TFTC

Took: Dolphin
Left: Lupine Keyring

Rated: for Overall Experience

Could the next person bring a logsheet to replace current as its full.

Couple playing Tennis so had to be sneaky.. found Tennis Ball on Cache so removed it to avoid cache being muggled.
Had to wait till Girl played ball into corner so partner was retrieving ball so I could return Cache.

Nice area and easy to find! Thanks for the cache!!

Tennis and Trees was my first ever experience of Geocaching and I really enjoyed it. Went out searching with small group of experienced cachers and learned the ropes, lotsa fun.

Left Last Cache of the Day geocoin. Only pick up this geocoin and move it elsewhere, if this is your last cache for the day.

Attacked this one from all sides at once. We had just gone out for dinner with relo's of Chewin' and talked them into coming on a night cache raid. The cache didn't stand a chance .
Nice hide in a green area. Only two muggle tennis players, and they left after the guy hit a big smash at the lady, at which she stormed off. So we had the place to ourselves.
Thanks, Robmc.

This became the first of a number of nightime caches after we had been out for tea with Captain Tomato and his wife.
We hope you'll all be getting some logs from him soon.
A quick easy find, no swaps but thanks indeed.

61st find at 9:34pm for our 5 Days expedition to Canberra, Accompanied by Chewinprickles, Geojen and Robmc and a local new recruit
(Chewi's cousin)Captain Tomato.
No Swaps, Signed Log, Thanx to The Animal Cachers....

Yes nice and easy, no swops

Found @ 1.42pm.

2nd of two cahces for the day as part of my caching run.

Co-ords fluctuated a bit & I checked two other locations (including the one with a sleeping possum who remained undisturbed!) before finding this.

Agree that the container should be replaced before it ever rains again.

Not many muggles about even on the tennis courts.

T: orange & black striped frog
L: wooden cricket bat key-ring

TFTC!

Found with Bewilderbeest and the juniors on a hot afternoon. In fact the kids were so hot and tired they didn't even want to play on the nearby playground. Nice little hidey hole. The nearby resident possum didn't seem overly pleased by our visit though. TNLN TFTC

Found with SuperJaz. One of the geojuniors also found a possum in a nearby tree, looking a bit lost.

TNLN
TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found it with the help of Mrs Bent and dentoz after 1 lap. Not sure what the clue is on about!!!

Have played tennis here once before.
TN
L: Frog
TFTC

nice cache.... managed to avoid muggles
left cap bomb... took camel.
TFTC

The container is broken and, should it ever rain again in Canberra, the contents may get wet.

I decided today would be a good day to cycle around the lake, but I overdid it a bit. I'm sunburnt and have some very sore anatomy! This was the last of my 6 DNFs today to go with 15 finds.

The GPSr seemed to be struggling a bit, and I was running short of time, so gave up after a cursory look.

Thanks anyway, I'll be back again one day.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Picked up Frogger the Bookworm travel bug to take it to a froggier place.

Dropped off Frogger the Book Worm travel bug. Likes to be near places that frogs like, or near books, or near books that frogs like...

Cool Cache. Caught the bus in with MedicalMarcus and got off at the National Library, it was quite a long trek to this cache and a much farther way to go for the rest of the day's caches. Decided to walk rahter than ride due to the heat. Also the clue was kind of anti-help if anyone knows what I mean.

T : Lion

L : Camel

Jezzza Xtreme

Great cache...

This was the best cache I've seen all day....
It was the first for the boiling hot day and JezzzaXtreme liked it too.

medicalmarcus

Following Big Matt & Shell around Canberra for the day and grabbed the Miles O Smiles TB just after they dropped it. Thanks again Animals!

An easy find towards the end of the day. Dropped in at 18:40 and dropped off Smiley TB. T: Nothing

TFTC

Easy to find but well hidden. Used it to introduce a friend to geocaching Took the car, left the 'begging dolphin'!

19th of 28 caches for the day. Determined where the cache was likely to be, but a check showed nothing. Checked another nearby place, again without success. Rechecked the first a little more thoroughly and voila, there it was. No swap was made. Thanks for the cache.

Unsure if my GPS was playing up today because I had several different locations. Never the less after a little determination, found the cache. Took keyring left toy car

This cache has been the bane of my existence lately. It's taken me four attempts to find the damn thing. The clue is currently useless as well, which hasn't helped.

But, I've at least found the thing now and I can stop worrying about it.

The container's on its last legs; it's badly cracked and will leak badly if it gets too wet.

T: Yowie toy
L: Kinder Surprise toy

Found it with Wasptor, great hide, TFTC

2nd shot at this one. Finally found it!! I'm sure we looked here last time! *grr* Must have been walking around with our eyes closed last time. The log book doesn't have too many empty pages at the moment either.
T - Windscreen wash
L - A couple of Yowies
And set free one cochroach that was in it. Hopefully he wasn't a TB.

[This entry was edited by Wasptor on Sunday, November 05, 2006 at 11:05:20 PM.]

between the GPS signal droppng out and all the tennis players it took a while but found it by 6.30 pm.

I think the power lines messed with the gps a bit but we managed to get around this and find the cache.

My First solo find, alright spot, saw some funny birds that looked like albine galahs, TFTC

Had my second crack at this one this afternoon. My GPS keeps pointing me at the middle of the carpark, so I have no idea which tree I'm supposed to be looking in.

had to avoid the fitness muggles and the public service lunchtime muggles, but finally found it.

Took a while to find because of the muggles in the area.
Took Travel Bug Dog Tag and left a keyring.
Thanks Animal Cachers.

Found with Fore! on a Sunday trek.

Nice, simple location in a common place. Had to be aware of Muggles (the fit ones anyway) and noticed the container needs work and/or care.

TNLN (see Fore!'s entry)

Fun

Found this one as 4/5 today for Shadow! and I. We were on our first serious caching expedition in some time - as a testament to that fact, we even left the geo-hound at home!

Shadow! scoped this one out first. Please note that the cache container itself is really quite dodgy - it is cracked and split all around the lid. I fear it will not last another heavy rainfall.

TN
Left: KC Royals keyring.
TFTC

Tough cache to visit due to the exposed site. TN Left Taz TB.

TFTC SL

Dear Animal Cachers,

We found your cache today at 10:10am as the first of our final five Canberra caches. No problems here. An easy find first up. Thanks for the cache.

Kind Regards,

D,H,H & A B-A