Mugwump North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Red Dwarf on 27-Sep-03. Waypoint GCGZ8E

Looked, but didn't find it. (Saw the clue, saw the soccer ball, saw the weeds, saw a few passing trains.)

Is this cache missing? Judging by previous log entries this seems likely. If so, perhaps it should be archived.

Archived till further notice..

Nearly lost the only male in team J.A.C.K.A as he lost his footing on top of the rock.Good find otherwise.

Sorry guys. Looks like someone nicked the cache here. That's definitely my container.
I will have to archive it for now.
The cache is managed by someone else. I will have to get them to re-create it for you.

[This entry was edited by Red Dwarf on Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 8:51:09 PM.]

Spent quite a while looking - assume the cache has been removed - saw the soccer ball a previous log referred to.

Not only the burrs to remove, but an inch long spike that buried itself in my leg on the way back up - Ouch !!

Found it/Didn't find it.??? (I will change later if incorrect). ditto per previous log..
No log book.. No Geocache letter...just a container and a pen...But I am sure it was it..............

Either I found a decoy or another vandalised cache. The container was bare. Just a pen next to it. Left a Noddy was here card...I came out looking like a camouflaged sweat ball. It was hot and I was wet and covered in a mixed salad of trashy plants (weeds). The only other bonus was a good soccor ball I found at the bottom. Someone was not prepaired to go the distance to retieve it. I can understand...now..I will spend tomorrow cleaning my clothes....

[This entry was edited by Noddy2107 on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 10:06:19 PM.]

[This entry was edited by Noddy2107 on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 10:07:34 PM.]

The weeds were not as bad as I thought and I traversed down to the clue, but could not find the cache. I did find an empty container (see photo), which I placed in the crevice close to where it was. Was this the cache or have I found another? Twenty minutes of extra searching yeilded nothing in the end.

BTW - has nyone been spotted by train drivers and spooks while doing this cache? [B)]

Time spent looking for this cache - less than 5 minutes.
Time spent removing burrs and stuff my clothes and shoes - close on 30 minutes. I appreciate the easy find, but surely there had to be a better spot than this to place the cache?! Anyway, I read all about the burrs in other peoples logs before I went, so I can't complain too much. Thanks Red Dwarf!

Possibly the worst cache I have ever done, a beutiful park that must have some great hiding spots and this one is in the worst spot in the whole park.

Sorry Red Dwarf but not a fun adventure

Well. I -do- warn about the farmer's friends in the description and many people have mentioned it in the logs

A great caching location - a park worthy of a visit, an object worthy of record - so why did you have to plant the cache in the middle of a large bed of (ob)noxious weeds???

Sorry Red Dwarf, but this cache needs a tanker full of RoundUp to make it pleasant...

Maybe I'm just a little peeved after spending 30 mins removing seeds and burrs from my clothing and body and smearing my legs with antihistamine, but I'm sure there must have been a better hiding place in the vicinity...

Anyway - I got it and it's off my nearest list...

Ditto leaving GZ like a hairy wombat. And a full afternoon of work back in the office to look forward to!

The heat and the insects and the plant matter had me in a daze for a little bit - walking around in circles, not quite sure where to start searching. Had to take a few steps back, get a nice clear bearing and then the cache's hiding place was evident.

Wasn't expecting to go after this one today. Got a little lost trying to navigate the back streets so I pulled Maj out of the bag and saw this one blaring at me only a couple hundred meters away - I couldn't pass it up. Found GZ and spent a couple minutes trying to plan the best way down - there was no easy option so I just went at it. The cache revealed itself quite easily. It took far less time to find and sign the logbook than it did to remove all the friendly flora from my clothes!

Must have only just missed Swag Cade on his run.

Good one. Second for the day.
ZijerPhil

We came clean shaven and left like hairy-wombats such was the forest of cursed clothes-clinging weed. A bit slippery when wet, this one; we venture to say there will soon be a well-defined track to the treasure. Took nix, but left a keyless padlock. Tried to look invisible as trains sped by. Thanks Dwarfpersons.

This was the last for the day, number 4 and all without a car. Found the site pretty easy but the slope and the rain made it a tricky descent. Took the wallet and left the magnetic notes
Did I mention the burrs, they got stuck in everything.
Thanx for the interesting walk

Being my new "local", I couldn't leave this cache unfound for long. The engine in my car seized (yikes), so I thought I'd go the green way and jumped on my bike, making the most of the daylight savings.

Found the cache reasonably easily and then had a poke around. The nearby drainer's delight mentioned by Hounddog is indeed worthy of exploration (I've heard), forming part of a collection of interesting and interconnected drains.

Spotted something rather strange while on the way to this cache, a Windsor Smith billboard ad that did not have some well endowed sheila falling out of her underwear. It was a bit of a shock as I now find out that they make shoes.

After exhaustive searching in the wrong place we finaly had to decipher the clue. This is what led us to the cache in the end. The problem was that the co-ordinates seem to be 20 metres off. Lot of burrs and noisy trains during an hour of searching. Found the cache on a last minute rush so no swaps. Perhaps you would like to check the co-rds Mr Dwarf. Good location and one I have often thought of using myself. Rumour has it that the entry point nearby leads to a Drainers dream, a myriad of underground tunnels, hence the over engineered guarding.

Looking at the other entries here makes me think I must have been lucky... I found the cache within 5 minutes! Maybe that, or the fact that I needed to get to my business meeting in less than an hour added to the pressure. (The hour included a train trip back to Townhall, pulling out 163 burrs, showering and having breakfast)... (Got to my meeting with 10 minutes to spare).
P.S. this was my first ‘Cache by Train’…

Thanks to embi for fixing the coords. GC.com still won't let me do it myself.

Yeehaa - a virgin Sydney cache - can't let the locals have all the fun. (Albeit at the expense of the coordinate muddle). Nice and easy find, but certainly the environment turned from most pleasant to most unpleasant in less than a second! - But didn't fall on my proverbial...
No swaps today...

Thanks,
ThomasS.

Not having much luck on this one. I spent a while searching but stomping through weeds getting covered in Farmer's Friends got pretty annoying real quick. [:(!] I don't think I would bother trying again for this one. Maybe next winter when the weeds aren't so bad....

A year ago this cache would have been jumped on within hours of it appearing on the site. But I suppose it’s just too much trouble to confirm that a mistake was made with the co-ordinates. So we drove all the way over here to confirm the obvious. The indicated location is in a construction site, which is fenced off and clearly marked no trespassing. So it might be a good idea to check the co-ordinates.

S 33° 50.108 E 151° 11.847
Crud. Sorry. I got the coords wrong as you have said.
The GC.com site isn't working so I can't edit it.

Should be as posted here.

I will update it as soon as the gc.com site stops giving errors.

Came home after debating whether or not trespassing in a construction site was a good idea or not (decided not to), and ALAS! new coordinates have been posted. Crap day for it, but we will not be beaten. Heading out now, and will hopefully confirm our success upon our return!

2 hours later... NOPE. Still no luck. Gave it a good hour of searching, and swearing at all the little nasties sticking to our clothes. We found what we believe is the Egyptian reference, but to no avail. Will be interested to hear the tales of those that find it. *blush* feeling rather inadequate at the moment!

[This entry was edited by urbanwombat on Monday, October 06, 2003 at 12:45:48 AM.]

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