Platypus Patrol Gwynneville, New South Wales, Australia
By bdonl on 16-Oct-21. Waypoint GC9HDB0

Hi all!

Unfortunately, I no longer have the time to maintain this cache as I would like to ensure that finding this gem is an enjoyable (and not disappointing DNF) experience for you all.

Rest assured I aim to hide another day, but sadly that time is not now.

Thanks for everyone that took the time to find caches in this series and I wish you all the best in your caching adventures!

Hi bdonl,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ngaambul - Matt

DNF for this one, trying to do some caches around the Wollongong Area, We came down from Newcastle for a short get away. We looked at all the likely spots you would/could hide a cache around near GZ, also looked at previous logs for any hints. . bdonl.
Attempted to find this at 1:38PM on this Tuesday the 30th of May in the year 2023

No luck today

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Looked for ages but couldn’t find it anywhere. I think it may have gone missing or gotten stolen so I will message the owner.

cool

No luck

No luck even with two sets of eyes

Great little hide, look all around! The paper is getting a bit water damaged as well

Thanks

It was on the ground again, we replaced it

It’s wa s pretty easy because e someone left it out but not bad

Thank you for the pen. Was a good find thank you girl guide

I found it

Our first one... L

A nice and easy find here. Surprised it hasn't been muggled
Thanks

Fun little chalange

TFTC

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This was an awesome lil geocache thanks for the find. Completed with a mate on a late night therapy drive lol

Tree

Found with our Greenacres day program participants today, great activity for them. Also my first find, couldn’t sign as paper inside deteriorated.

TFTC left a swappable or two. Thanks girl guides!

Down in The Gong for the weekend... Finalf29 for war gaming and me for a spot of caching.

Grabbed this on the way to my brother’s. Quick find during an amazing sunset. Thanks

Fun first find

E Z

Found the cache a real walk in the park.
Thanks for the adventure and the geocache bdonl

Time for tea

Found it pretty easy

Good find TFTC

31.7.22

Found with Miss 5 after visit to the park. Left pen and a shark tea infuser.

Our first find as a family! TFTC

Great find

Great way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon. Everything in good order. Thanks for placing.

We find this in plain sight in its hiding hole. After SL we replaced with a cover of natural camo. Should still look obvious to a geocacher. TFTC bdonl

Found it with Silence49 while on travelling

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Amongst the trees

Rubber ducky, you're the one!

Best hiding spot so far

Found with WaywardWoman in the first place we looked. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

#6308- A quick find with thomo31 on a gorgeous morning after the rain. Thanks

QPG log is wet

Greetings from Oakdale 1A Junior Girl Guides After completing the Mother's Day Classic Walk for breast cancer this morning, I decided to spend the rest of my mother's day finding some caches
This was #10 of 12 today in the Wollongong area. After finding 'Rosella Patrol' I continued walking along Vickery Street until the metres ticked down. I was surprised by GZ as it's relatively sparse but the CO has managed to find a nice little hidey hole. The cache was once again, rather exposed so I looked around and managed to spot some natural camo that would work and will hopefully make it less obvious to muggles. TFTC!

Easy find

TFTC

Found it, tree find

Visiting the area from Maitland on a wet long weekend of geocaching. Quick and easy find in the rain. TFTC

Thanks!

Nicely hidden. Surprised to see a container of this size in the location. TFTC

if only there still platypus in the creek

TFTC great tree

Quick find and sign.
There was a bit of water in the container but log in bag mostly dry.
Resealed and re hid.
TFTC
Ironbark

Tnln. A nice random find today with the little ones.

A quick and easy find. They were saying prayers on the loud speakers across the road. TFTC

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Easy find with the bonus of the playground for the kids. TFTC!

Found on a very wet morning. As a previous Guide leader it is great to see the guides undertaking these sort of activities

Quick one on a walk through the park, lovely area! Tftc

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TFTC️

TFTC

Ducky!

Good stuff!

Not that hard

Did not sign as too busy.

A tree mendious cache, thanks.

Another quick find in a pretty spot. Thanks for these roomy, maintained caches green aventurine stone left behind.

TFTC!

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Took the junior girl guides out looking for the caches today!

Even attending a CITO a few metres away last week, had decided to leave newish local hides for needed days/souvenir points. However today, the lure of a birthday treat to myself with some smileys was too strong so, killing some time waiting for dad to finish a physio appointment nearby, I easily patrolled the park for the animals.

Find 397 for the tribe.

A lovely spot for a cache near an oval that I once played a cricket match on. The team I played for had the word 'Sloggers' in their name! A nice newish playground for the geokids here too that we might visit one of these days.

Thanks for the cache, Gwynneville Junior Girls Guides! How cool that you get geocaching as a badge earning activity!

#8368 (9 of 12 today - including 5 Adventure Labs)

Another calendar finds day today... 15 just isn't enough, right? Right!
Decided to head south to Wollongong and finally pick up an old puzzle that I solved so long ago I can't remember how I did it! And my scant cache notes don't overly help.

Got seven physical finds plus all the locations of an Adventure Lab. And thankfully the rain (mostly) stayed away.
Aaaaand only one DNF!
An enjoyable day while the Geowife is busy and I'm free to go wither I desire!
###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###
since I was in the Botanic Garden, and the rain is still holding off I decided to do the *Wollongong Botanic Garden* Adventure Lab. A few of the AL locations were cordoned off, but where there's a will...
So while there I grabbed:
#8363 The Temperate Garden & Sir Joseph Banks Glasshouse
#8364 Curious Dream of an Architect
#8365 The Rose Garden
#8366 The Kawasaki Bridge
#8366 The Rainforest
###END OF ADVENTURE LAB SECTION###
After finishing the AL I came to this park for some finds. And right as school is getting out. My, they have those parents in cars well trained.

I, thankfully, was over the road and no one was paying me any attention.
Quick find in the logical spot, so surreptitiously made the grab and took well away to complete signing duties.

Then back for the sneaky replace and away to the next one.

SLTNLN
TFTC

I teamed up with Wazza9 during a CITO Event in Wiseman Park Reserve. We made a few finds while in the area! A quick find here. TFTC

TFTC,
In the area for a CITO Event where we collected a lot of rubbish.
After bringing our rubbish back to the base location, we located this cache for an extra find.
Now to get home before the rain.

Yeet

Passing through this morning and grabbed two Patrols. Nicely set up. TFTC bdonl.

Quick find here. Awarding a FP as I was in the platypus patrol with my girl guides up on Gordon! TFTC

A quick find after a work visit close by!
TFTC Wilbert67

Nice spot, We're concerned that these may go missing. TFTC

Forgot my pen, sorry, a nice walk through the park, easy find. TFTC, well done girls

Nice walk around the park. Geodog enjoyed herself

Tricky one!

Very useful tree

Found this duckbill well out of water. OCW Brewmaker. TFTC bdonl

Once we chose the right tree it was easy to find. Well done girl guides. TFTC

Great spot !

Nice and easy find. Spewing we couldn't get here earlier to get our 1st trackable. Great park. Tftc

Another very quick find! Luckily only one group around but we're too focused on their own doings to notice me! Surprisingly something did change in the last 150m. I ran in to Wilbert who kindly let me borrow a pen to properly sign this log! TFTC

Trackable Retrieved!

Muggle central. Definitely a better proposition in the dark. TFTC.

Nice to see some more new caches appearing after lockdown, and by some new geocachers.
A nice easy find as I strolled around Wiseman's Park getting some exercise and some fresh air. Found this one in the first spot I looked.

Thanks

Quick find my the youngest Geokid.
Left trackable
TFTC

Published

Plenty of FTF opportunities recently which I missed but made short work of this one. *FTF* TFTC!

Great to see some new caches coming out, especially new caches so close to my work. I raced out the door, but was beaten to all three by a fast moving Steeba. Oh well! Congratulations on your first three hides girls. Well done.

Cheers

Thanks Cassowary!