Cheong Park Croydon, Victoria, Australia
By BernieH on 20-Sep-21. Waypoint GC9HJN4

#23148 @1855Day 3 of an 8 day trip: Drive from Canberra to Melbourne, then by air to Flinders Island, Launceston, King Island, and back to Melbourne, then drive back home to Canberra. Today, I was targeting counties, preferring to also find caches with certain attributes (e.g. size) to help with various personal goals. Cache soon found. TFTC.

Thanks for my first find!

Fun find!!!!

Found it

bit of a weird place for the cache type

Thanks for my first find!

Found in good condition.

Found it tyftc

Found this in the bushes Im guessing it was the old one.

Tftc. The hint isnt the best but it is visible from stretch station. Finally I found it haha

Found it

Great geocache

Having made final arrangements to place some geocaches around Ringwood East, I ducked in to grab this one before heading home.I thought about the hint two ways, and looked in two separate locations as a result. It wasn't until I married my two ideas together that I came up with the cache!Thanks, BernieH

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Still can't find it

No idea

I dont know if we found it but we found this stretch station thing hope this is it

Found the spot but not the cache. Hopefully next time!

Too many muggles today out for the football and we looked suss enough!

I'm sure it's here, but just can't see it

My youngest son needed a new uniform from Bob Stewart Croydon and I had a calendar hole I needed to fill so I grabbed this one on the way home. Thank you BernieH for placing and maintaining Cheong Park for us to find today.

Needed a cache for my calendar today, took a drive to this park. Took a bit of searching but eventually located this nicely hidden cache. TFTC

Yes the hint is good but trust the co-ordinates. TFTC.

Our first geocache find! Not easy but we found it

Found at 17:49I was dropping off kids for a party in the area and can't across here for a look. I was looking too high for a while but came back for a second pass and spotted the sneaky little container.Thanks BernieH for the cache

After reading the logs, I finally found this small cache. Out for some fresh air on this nice and mild evening. Thanks.

Found with icw. We walked past the cache many times before icw looked through the camouflage and located it. Tftc.

Quickly spotted once we gave up on that device and expanded our search. there also. TFTC

Took a while but a good find!

Oh this one eluded us for a bit, but our little geocacher spotted it! Near by the hint!

Thanks we found it and wrote our name

Took us a while but was quite visible when we finally spotted it. Nice challenge.

I was having a break from searching and then I found it TFTC

5 out of 6 of us decided to get out in the beautiful weather and come to Smallests current favourite park (he only comes here for the flying fox!). Mr stayed with Smallest while Zyg and Ack went for a walk around the oval. After reading the comments I figured we would either find it quickly or be standing around for 20mins. After a quick look Ack spotted the cache! Now back to the park so Zyg and Smallest can race on the flying fox!

The hint is not good hard to find good one though

Nice little find. Thanks

Took me a long time and was about to give up but finally found it

Looked for about 10 minutes good camouflaging!

Found on a freestyle caching day with ilukaperi

Catching up for caching today with day1976, we did freestyle caching, with no plans.
Missed the entrance for this one, did a u turn and drive back around. Short walk from the car park. This was a little tricky, mostly because of the hint. Took us a while until I spotted it

That was a tricky one! Took a little searching. Nice hide, behind where you would do your stretching…
Log book is full.

Found it after my dad's work the hint wasn't helpful. The Camo was so cool. TFTC

Found the hint location geocation:(

Nice Find, clue needs to be updated

Great hide, tftc

Tricky! TFTC

While in the area i thought I would add a smiley to the map. I always like to find a cache when I'm furthest from home for the day and this was a concurrent m convenient one. As others have said the hint made me think of something else and momentarily confused me but once I saw the clue's meaning I soon found the cache.

Thanks for the game piece for us to discover

Great little hide!

I used to leave a bit closer to this park, but a couple of years ago headed a little further east to Kilsyth.

Coming back here I see there have been some improvements, with a new track going around the oval and some exercise equipment. My son had fun climbing over this like a monkey and after some searching the cache was found and signed.

Love the camo as well as the convenient alibi the stretch machine provides to search without looking odd.

Thanks BernieH for bringing me back here today.

#1683
Parking nearby, I read the hint… damn! One of those rare moments I am caching solo and don’t have The Welder with me… “stretch” … damn… I’m no good at high ones! No mention of TOTTs but certainly on the shorter side! Then I thought hmm… I know how tall BernieH is… maybe this will be achievable.

Of course when I arrived at gz, I could see now why the hint… haha preconceived ideas can be dangerous! After a few circles, the cache was located and signed. Thanks BernieH for another great cache.


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Found

TFTC

Nice easy find after only a short search to get a cache in for the day. Log signed and replaced as found. Bloody cold today though so I’d better keep moving.

Happy to report that the cache is in good condition and the log nice and dry.

Tftc

Again found with my Grand Daughters help.

Second find for the day with Geoffsaintgg after having lunch nearby. We can tell that it is almost winter!

Found after a search. It was slightly obvious after we found it. Thanks for this cache BernieH.

Can’t believe we found that in the almost dark. Go us. Ha.
Cranking up the night time learner driver hours tonight.

Found. Not exactly where I thought it was.

Found it

Found after a few visits !

It took us 5 times to find it

It took us 5 times

Quick easy find, Be wary of Muggles, the clue is helpful but don’t focus to much on it. TFTC

This one had me looking way longer than it should have! I knew what I was looking for and I kept getting drawn to this one spot and that's exactly where it was!

With dot 558 and mitzi 123456
The last one for the day
Thanks for the cache

Rex 46 Dot 558

With rex46 and Mitzi 123456
After a great day
Thanks

TFTC.....Enjoyed the stretch

Thx Bernie!

Nice, easy find after a quick search. All in good condition. TFTC

Took me about 20 minutes to fond - felt like an idiot once I found it. Must have been looking straight at it for ages.

This cache took me far too long to find. I inspected the machine, nothing. I read other logs and realised I had to look elsewhere. I must have walked around the cache fifty times. I just can’t understand why it took me so long to spot it. I must be going blind.

Tftc found pretty quick.

Cool

Found it

Looked all around the stretch station to no avail. Found it not too far away with seagul_lad seeing it before myself. Nice little park...

We checked around the structure for a while and just as traccas_b consulted the former comments Id spotted the container, Tftc!

Found after a short search on a morning bike ride. The hint had me searching all over the structure before I turned up a much more traditional hide. Thanks.

It was so cleverly hidden that I was thinking of giving up but I decided to look around a bit more and I found it!

Thanks. All good here. Undisturbed

Found with Melizaberry. The camo paint is a nice touch, haha.

Only a small stretch to see beyond the camouflage ️ found woth Ezkaton

After a day out with my geopartner we were travelling home and decided on an inpromptu meetup with Spiffy- for a couple of caches.

A simple find as spiffy converted his previous attempt here to a smiley. Granted the recent pruning helped!

Thanks to BernieH for the fun and the adventure.

Since I was nearby with Fleabag- doing Mister Doctor's new letterbox and last time I was here I was interrupted and couldn't finish my search I headed back here.
Today with the place looking a lot different with all the bushes trimmed back I made the find immediately.
Thanks BernieH for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

A little voice piped up from the back of the car - can we look for a cache? Yes, of course we can! We headed here and spent a bit of time looking around. In the end it was the little one that found it - what a great spot! So proud

TFTC BernieH

Took a while to find this, not too sure where to stretch it - here or over there! Thanks BernieH for placing the cache.

Which way do I have to stretch? Thanks Bernie. As fer as I am concerned your caches vary from easy to impossible! I have two in the latter category at the moment.

Staying at the hotel near and had a bit of a wandering around the area

Log signed

Tftc

All my nefue and I found.
13 November 22

13 November 22

Great cache! Spent way too long looking at the GPS and should've just used my eyes!! Tftc

On my third visit here. Redcb had given me the nod, after we both had dnfs on our previous visits together. Once you've seen it, it is quite obvious!
Thanks BernieH. I'm glad to have this one ticked off the list.

Out in the Croydon area with pinnacle333, we enjoyed the day caching in the sunshine.
This one had us tricked for a minute, then we thought like a geocacher. Thanks BernieH.

Out with echidna44. This one stumped us for a while until we realised geocachers aren't so obvious. Bit of cacher thinking led us to it! Thanks BernieH

Stretch it is!! Third time lucky.... BlueBM and I were just about to call it quits when I suddenly spied the cheeky little thing......thanks BernieH

Bit of a stretch but not the k8nd we initially thought. No "quick find" today though. Thanks BernieH
Giddy up

Third time's the charm! After asking for an extra hint I finally found it! Tftc!

There was a few muggles around so had to try and grab it without looking too suspicious. There was also a cricket match about to start which made it more difficult haha but we found it in the end! Tftc

Did not find.

Container replaced, all good to go!

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