Parramatta Light Rail - Church Street Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
By gavingo4 on 21-Feb-24. Waypoint GCAKX23

Found quickly with a few hints from previous logs. Tftc!

Hidden in plain sight thanks for the cache

Back to Parramatta for a work meeting and a late flight and a late arrival. Time for one cache this evening - this one was out of action last visit. I assume the trans are now finally working - might go for a ride in the morning.A quick find here after ignoring the phone.TFTC gavingo4

Easy find on an early stroll through Parramatta.Great location TFTC

Gotcha! TFTC Found with the Geohusband @Nosmada on a late night ice cream run.

Finally found. Found with the geowife SamanthaRogers.TFTC

Easy find. Not the first of these have seen, but better located . tftc

Mrs Gaztek had a thrilling DNF here a few weeks ago when she was checking out the nearby phone booth and was bailed up by the cops. Eeek! Today, armed with some info from previous logs, we parked around the corner on our way to the Sydney Kings basketball game and nabbed this in-your-face container. Nice and quiet on a Sunday afternoon. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

On the other side of the tracks hidden in plain sight

I returned today with some knowledge and made an easy find.TFTC

I followed the signal for no result. Reading all of the logs at home revealed it was on the other side of the street!!!

It was a DNF for me early on a Wednesday morning. I had a training day at work and started a bit later than usual so had my eye on walking by here for a quick find. I located a likely looking spot and felt around then looked down and under. "Can we help you?" I heard from behind me. And, yes, after 15 years of geocaching I was finally bailed up by the police!! Two young constables. I confessed immediately. Fortunately one of them had geocaching experience. So they spent a short time looking with me but I felt it was time to get to work before I was issued with an official Move On Direction! I may not have been looking in the right spot but will watch with interest for the next finder. Cheers.... Gaztek

Love caches that are in plain view (if you know).All these people completely oblivious to these types of caches.TFTH

back to finish the wonder around the green space virtualtook a different street from the train today to collect this onewas nice and quiet with was good as took a while for the gps to settle

Gps was bouncing but got there finally

Loving the new look Parramatta!!TFTC

Thanks gavingo4 for replacing and keeping this cache for more geocachers to enjoy. Another day ticked off. 2.5 weeks left to complete my personal geochallenge of unbroken 366 leap year days. Be nice to end that streak soon.

After considering my options here, including different types of containers, the original style of container was opted with, the container had been sitting in my car for weeks, and everytime I've driven to Parramatta (multiple times a week), I've forgetting to get it out, replaced now.

I've been informed that this one has been muggled, I will check and consider my options when I visit the office again.

Have seen this cache more than a few times, just holding off for a lazy day. And guess what? Its not there when I decided to grab a smiley. Informed the CO afterwards. Not in a rush myself

A great in plain sight cache. We even saw a team in testing going by.

Found with ziggiau while exploring Parramatta. At GZ, the clever camo was spotted in plain sight, which blended in well. TFTC

Spent the afternoon wandering around the Parrramatta CBD checking out the new developments and light rail. Made a quick find.SL TFTC

Had time to kill between an escape room and and tapas dinner perfect cache to target! Quick find at gz by geoson. Tftc

Easy find! Came to parramatta for a sports game and loved to see there were caches in the area. Very cool and clever hide. Unfortunately I never bought a pen so I didnt get to sign.

No sign of it where the GPS said was GZ. Past logs gave me the good oil and once I got to the actual GZ all was immediately obvious (to a geocacher), but.... I travelled to this "North Island" from the southernmost state, lodged my bags at the hotel and promptly left without grabbing a pen. The Dollar Shop across the road provided the necessary implement, log signed, cache replaced as found and on to the next one! Thanks for the hide!

Found thanks!

Easy find of my favourite ever type of hide! Like other previous logs I found this on the other side of the road; was able to pop inside to Good Games (while they processed my order of Magic Singles) to borrow a pen; signed the cache and replaced as found; TFTC!

OCW me, myself, find #316 @11.56am, hard to remove from wall, co-ords out by 8-10m. Found other side of street. SLRC as found.

#14050 13:55A quick find today after finding a 15 minutes free parking just around the corner.The cache was about 10 meter from the published coordinate on the other side of the road.TFTC gavingo4.

Quick find on the other side of the street. Cords look to be out about 10m. TFTC

The GPS wanted me on the east side of the street, I found it on the west side, in plain sight, zap! Thanks

Still waiting for the trains to arrive, but the cache was easily spotted. A muggle sitting on a nearby bench seemed a bit interested in what we were doing, but it didn't stop us from doing what we had to do.

Like others, struggled with the gps. Expanded our search and spotted what we were after. Tftc.

GPS not great here, used geo sense and wasn't long before CIH TFTC

Luckily the hide was obvious to an experienced cacher as the coverage here is terrible. TFTC.

So glad I had seen one of these before as it stood out for me. GPS is indeed poor here as it also had me over the other side. Hidden in plain sight. Loved it! TFTC

A quick find today tftc

Out and about again, headed around Canberra for the MEGA. Super excited my first MEGA and heading over with 2 others from the Cockburn Crew - signed log as WAC to save time.This is 15465, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to gavingo4 for the caches we found.********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********Head over to Australian Capital Territory for Capital GeoBash MEGA - Canberras first ever Mega Event. Easter 2024 (GC9PNFB): - 5 day event at Canberra Park adjacent to EPIC (Canberra Showgrounds) on the Federal Highway, only 6km from the centre of the city.The mascot for the Mega is Gangles the endemic Gang Gang Cockatoo, a bird you may see or hear while in Canberra.The official website - geobash.ozmega.com.auACT has over 4700 active caches, power trails, and over 100 Lab Adventures. Heaps of challenge caches, hikes for geocaches for all levels of skills and fitness.

Spent 10 mins searching the ground near coords, no luck!

Muggles! Muggles! And more Muggles!!! Got it! TFTC gavingo4

Exciting times over the next couple of weeks as we takeoff for the Capital GeoBash in Canberra! Its going to be a flood of Sandgropers over east, with a host of West Aussies making the trek east for the event. Im travelling with fellow Cockburn Crew members Leg5 and Barnzy12, starting in Sydney and hitting the road to Canberra, before returning back to Sydney. Honourary mention to our fellow member, Cravo10, who couldnt make it after recently introducing a new geocacher to the world the week prior. Once in Canberra, the agenda is set, well team up with a host of Western Australians to conquer caches. Collectively, were hoping to make it the biggest ever weekend for cache finding. Following the event, the journey continues back to Sydney, with a mission to clean up caches and new Local Government Areas (LGAs), ensuring no cache is left unturned in this epic geocaching adventure. Something tells me that well need a holiday after this, well, holiday. All logs have been signed as WAC to save space, abbreviation for Western Australia Crew. Cheers gavingo4! Join us in Augusta, in Western Australias South West, for WA Goes Big 2024 (GCAGV8Y) on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. Log your will attend now!

The Cockburn Crew are on tour at the Capital Geobash in Canberra - travelling from Perth to Sydney, Canberra, Sydney and finally back to Perth.Today was day 6. We completed a huge number of trails, challenges, whereigos, traditional, multis, earthcaches, labs, virtuals and puzzles. It really was a great day for variety. We enjoyed caching in territory we havent been before. Weve filled our boots with some rare DTs and DTTs and generally had a great time. Thanks to the COs for a great day and event. Logs signed as part of team WA/WAC (WA Crew)

Coords had me on the road this time, and swooped in for the find

Tftc gavingo4

I don't know, the GPS was fine for me and I found the cache in 2 maybe 3 seconds at the most.You do have to be stealthy but shoe laces, dropped stuff and it's not a problem.Well Parramatta has certainly changed an enormous amount since I worked here. First issue is finding somewhere to park and none of it is free anymore, so I parked on the other side of the river and walked across a bridge then through the streets. That meant it was a fair distance to walk but exercise is good.I barely recognised the place. Where are all the historic buildings? Not all changes are for the better, much of the character of this suburb is gone. Such a shame. Hopefully when the light rail is completed it will all be spruced up.If the light rail goes where the planning map indicates it will be fantastic!TFTC # 5854

Streak Day #3903 - Over this way with Dave8153 for our cache of the day. Quick find for us today. TFTC

Maybe its meWidened my search but came up empty.Anyway, this is a high risk location and cant see a container surviving long term anywhere here

18 March 2024This is find number: 9352Streak Day: 3014Found Today with Snoopy1976, an easy find just took a couple of minutes to spot. ThanksThanks to gavingo4 for placing and maintaining this cache. TFTC

Couldnt find gps was everywhere

GPS wanted to dance so walked around and spotted the cache. TFTC

Came up to Parra to go through the shops with my partner saw that there were a few munzees that I needed to finish a challenge and on the way back to the shops thought I would get one here. But then spotted this container and checked the website and saw I had got 2TFWith cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache gavingo4The following TBs visited for the distance - Adventures with softball 29 and Harper, Govenor Lachlan Macquarie, Hawkesbury Tiger, phlphotos 2011 - 2023 NSW geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Leaf Nano Geocoin, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos - CITO 2019 - 2022 Coin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos Wheel of Caching Geocoin and phls silver ride

Published

Tftc! {*FTF*} Logged 12:07. This cache was published on our way towards Taronga zoo so we took a detour and achieved the monthly first to find. TFTC!