On Parade#4 Como, New South Wales, Australia
By merrybeachmick on 14-Apr-22. Waypoint GC9RABY

Nope, looks like I was on the wrong (although practically right) side of the fence...

TFTC!

It wasn't easy for us but we got it TFTC

It was a wet and slippery scramble, but I found it.Im glad there was no one parking their cars while I was looking.Hicky

Tftc but there was no log book for me to write my name in.

You would put it there, wouldn't you?TFTC

Found with PolarOrangephant She took one for the team and jumped the fence

Some sports activities were needed here. Tftc

Thanks

Very strange and cool

Thanks

In fence

Tftc, jumping fences on a Saturday

Lucky the owners of the cars parked in car park didnt come back. Thanks

Was a bit tricky to find (Im a novice) but worth the effort. (

All done

Had to hold on to the fence to ascend to GZ, cache was quickly spotted after that! TFTC

In Como this evening and had time to grab a few cache. This was a quick find, I must have looked weird leaping out onto the street! Thanks for placing this cache merrybeachmick #2719

Thank you bestie westie I found it!!

Found it with some friends. It was a bunch of fun

Could not find

#44 Quick and easy grab!

44. Started to rain, thankful for the tree cover

Took a while but found it. You will need to go into the bush, just a heads up. TFTF

Dam it.

Think its gone

Cache has been replaced and fingers crossed

Temporary disable..cache is gone.Probably the bong owner!!Will consider my options

Couldnt find it, found some pills, used beer cans and a cat instead.

Jumped the fence but it's just a park and grab

Easy grab

Nearly at the top of the hill and we got sidetracked, but not SideTracked, to our next cache. It's quiet here on a Sunday, no people or cars around, so it was an easy stroll across to the little trail.We were momentarily concerned when it seemed someone might have found the cache and used the container to keep a portable ignition device safe under a tree, although curiously they'd afforded their other device no such protection. A quick scan of the area didn't turn up any cache contents so we continued searching and I found the actual cache safe and sound not far away. The log is full now but I managed to acronym us as MRRR. Then we left the carpark to resume our walk, pausing only to google and see whether that device actually works the way we all assume it does...

Just a couple more caches! I thought the paraphernalia here meant the cache was muggled. But nope. It was just well hidden. Thankfully rassilon256 showed perseverance to make the find. We then googled how the paraphernalia works and now I have that in search history. Yay.Found with runaroundtheworld, misspalot, and rassilon256!And thank you for the cache instructions. I would have come from the wrong angle!

Found It!No one else in this car park today so this was a quick and easy find!TFTC

With mobimidge not much paper to write on. TFTC

Good one. As described. Log page is fullWith 165arb. TFTC

Great hunt for the kids, fairly easy to find

These ones usually have me staring at them for hours before finding, but a lucky glance in the right direction made for a relatively quick find for this indecisive cache today!

Very fun nice view of the train

Nice quick find. Just about needs a new log. TFTC

Almost walked past it. TFTC

TFTC found with minimole1234

Nice shady spot. Exited find. With moles1234. TFTC

Good hide! TFTC

Cant font it

Ok

Toe

Find 9433. A quick find. Not as low as I was expecting.

Quick get off the train,grab a cache and get back on the train. TFTC merrybeachmick.

Can’t say I have a high success rate when geocaching at night but was lucky enough to find this one tonight

Out caching with promuffinz on our bikes today.

Took us twice to find this one as we entered the first time the wrong way. Thanks to CO for the help.

TFTC #40

Great cache can't believe the location!

My first geocache!

Went back again after seeing someone had found it and was able to find it didn’t have a pen on me to sign it but I’ll come back another time to add my name

Another ticked off on my list of Como / Oatley searches. TFTC!

I looked down near the ground but unfortunately wasn’t able to find it, although I didn’t spend that long looking as I was walking the dog and it was getting really hot (Australian summers lol). I’ll probably try to come back again to try and find it later, hopefully it’s still there and it was just my bad searching skills haha

Very easy find. Thanks for hiding it.

A very quick find here. Had to gently move a spinning orb spider out of the way and then laid hands on the cache immediately. The commuter carpark was almost empty today. TFTC

This was a fairly fast find in the dark with no other cars around, and the chooks had all gone to bed. It was nicely hidden and blended in well with its surroundings. Thanks for a great cache in the night.

Eventually found from CPk. Tftc in the sun, but shady veg. Been here before many years ago looking for gx.

Dnf

Nice easy find for today. TFTC

TFTC

Came back after the third time and found it.TFTC

quick one before work

I walked up from the car parked on the other side of the tracks, then realised I had a car park at my disposal...so I went back and got the car. TFTC

Early finish with work today, so drove up north to pick up bits and pieces and do some adventure labs.
TFTC Wilbert67

After finding Green Point Steps we diverted to check this one out. We weren't sure from which direction to attack. But the directions did say........
Made the find and logged. The area badly needs a CITO, the chooks are having a go. TFTC MBM.

Didn’t find it but am relatively new to this. Maybe one of the chickens took it

TFTC

Cool find, little cache, Thankyou!

Found about 6m north of my indicated GZ, thanks.

Found it

Good hidden geocache

#9011 (4 of 7 today - including 2 Adventure Labs)

I am gradually catching up with my logging - am currently only a month and a bit behind. But that's still over 100 caches!

To be honest, while I still find searching for caches fun, I'm finding logging less so. But I have to log to get me stats and souvenirs, so...

Only a few Adventure Labs and my First2Finds have been written up in a timely manner - don't want people racing out when it's already been snaffled.

Nevertheless, I have kept up with my 2022 goal of 16 finds per caching day. In fact, for the most part my modus operandi has been to actually aim for 20. So far I've only failed on that a few times, and only by 1 find. Amazingly I'm on track for 19 finds per day, but somehow I expect that will eventually prove too hard as I have to travel a good distance if I want more than a cache a day.

Thanks to all the CO's who have made it possible to keep my goal in sight. Most of the finds have been Traditionals, but a few Puzzle series and the odd other cache type have been grabbed where possible.
Sorry the logs are very generic, but I'll never catch back up otherwise.
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Dinner tonight in the Shire with friends - cheese and red wine awaits!
But I also need to appease the Caching Calendar Gods, and only five non-AL finds will do.
So as usual, arrived down south early and made my five grabs - and snaffled two ALs as well.
And was pretty much on-time at my friends - perfectly timed.
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Any cache specific comments will be added here.
If none, then it was a good cache and easily found.

SLTNLN
TFTC

With a break in the weather, frazeydaze and I headed over to the Shire to grab some of the recently published caches. We both went high to start with here but once athe right level it was CIH. TFTC mbm.

Oldmorty and I took the opportunity today to get out into the sunshine after all the rain.
Fell into a trap of going high when we should have stayed low.
TFTC merrybeachmick

Found it! TFTC!
We also found a bunch of chickens!

TFTC,
Our last cache for today. Went to the logical location and found it not to be close enough. While walking to GZ I noticed a chook raking through the gardens for whatever. I seem to recall a story from when we lived at Jannali, that there were chooks living along the rail corridor, maybe they still do.
Stamped the log and visited trackables.

Last cache for the day, I was on the wrong side of the fence, Wazza9 quickly found the cache, stamped log and returned. Thanks to CO

Cache in good order. TFTC

Hi

Found it. It tricked us first but then we got it, we recommend that you read the description. TFTC!

Also the O ring that keeps the cache waterproof is missing! It needs replacing.

Thanks Max..will rectify

I love micros so tftc! Had some unexpected caching buddies for this one!!!

Started from the wrong end, but found it when we widened our search

Took a minute but eventually found it

Tried to attack this one from up too before actually reading the description and finding it from the carpark access.
Exactly as has been said before, it’s easy when you’re at the right eye level!

Signed the log and returned as found. TFTC!

Despite the hint, I had a lot of trouble finding this. It was starting to look like another one of those embarrassing first to DNF logs. Then it suddenly jumped into view. What a relief. TFTC merrybeachmick

Another sunny Sunday morning - green bin or caching?
Caching wins so I headed down to the Shire for some hopefully quick caches. I returned to Como where I have been recently and came to the station for my first search.

Only one muggle in sight in the distance but a couple of farm variety helpers were on hand and scratching around where I was heading. After I scared them off and removed a large broken bottle I was able to search in peace.
This took longer than I'd hoped but I eventually got in the right position to spot the cache.
Did the legal stuff then headed off further on Parade.

TFTC # 4836

I fairly quickly nailed 5 caches around here this afternoon- this was the final one. TFTC!

Found

Great hide TFTC

Easy find when you're on the right level. As they say "When all else fails, read the instructions!". TFTC merrybeachmick

Rather straight forward find, nice hint lol.

It took us a little while but we got there. Thanks Merry Beach Mick!

Another great cache! Map makes it look a little further up.

[*FTF*] saw this one on the email this morning and heading to event at the riff decided on a detour parked a bit of a walk away and headed to GZ Spotted the cache as I was checking low down

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Met a couple of girls who had followed me. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache merrybeachmick

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2021 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

I contemplated heading out at 10pm last night when it was published but decided to wait until daylight.
We made our way to GZ and soon found the cache exactly as the hint says. Added our names, but noticed only the phlphotos FTF log on the sheet. I'm not sure what the other finders did or found! No other names there at all. See photo.

Another cache by the CO in my local area for the geodog Zelda and me. I recall finding a cache not too far from the bike locker in my early caching days. TFTC