The Hoo's Hoo Berwick, Victoria, Australia
By Chookies on 23-Jun-04. Waypoint GCJRWB

The logs for cache indicate the container is missing. Caches must have a container and log book as a minimum.

Found the spot where the cache should have been Accompanied by Chewinprickles and Robmc, and recieved permission from the owner to claim this as a find.
Thanx Chookies....

As per the previous log, we found the spot where the cache should have been and the location was verified by a fellow cacher (who had found it before) The owner of this cache, (Chookies) has given us permission to log this as a find.

Thanks for the adventure Chookies.

I gather we have permission to log this as a find on account of there is only one part to find now. Thanks for that.

Found the first waypiont. Accompanied by Chewinprincles and Robmc.
but the cache was nowhere to be found, judging by the other logs we think it may be missing.

Was very tempted to log this as a find as we found waypoint one which is a cache in it's own right. Couldn't find the final though, which is not surprising considering the recent logs. If I'd logged it as a find I'd be risking a smack from Oenze so it's not worth that now, is it.

Thanks Chookies. Appreciate the offer & I'll take the find.

We searched high and low for this cache but like the previous cachers we did not find the final cache. We called on the help of Romax (who had located the cache before) to check our calculations and they confirmed that the cache was not where it should be.

Loved this location. Found Waypoint 1 in the middle of a search for GCMFZ1 - What the ???. Went on to complete GCMFZ1 and then took the long climb to the top...loved the view. Appreciated your humour. However was not able to find cache at GZ - spent about 30 minutes searching thouroughly. Suspect it may have been muggled. IF you do find it is still there, I'll update this log with an apology.

First find by Wambot and Koogerang for yonks. Found WP1 after two attempts and a look at the hint, then off to GZ. Koogerang has been here many times, but not Wambot. Scrabbled around for a few minutes to find cache. Left tea light. Supposed to be a TB in here, but must be twixt'n'tween.

Taa muchly, chookies

Having the need to kill a bit of time, we decided to visit this park again to complete the caches we had previously missed. Once again it was a magnificent walk through a beautiful area. Having taken some time to find the first clue, young Oracle Jam quicly found GZ. Many thanks to the Chookies. TNLN. Cheers from the JigJam Clan.

found at 11;40, look's like it had been muggled. ryan took crayons, left a funny face character. kevin took mini skateboard tools, left aladins lamp. thankz

What a great area, I've definitely noted it for return visit for further exploration. Was running out of time & going for the cache today so exploration was out. Found cache without a hitch. Dropped of TB OZHoliday as I thought it would be a good spot to rejuvenate for a while. TN. Thanks for bringing me to a spot I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Found by Piglet with Piggysue on 2/7/05
Great walk around and loved the clue hiding spot. Was looking in all the obvious places not the REALLY obvious places until i stood up....
THanks for the find.
took recipe and left shoe laces

Missed this one on my last visit for What the...? . By the time I realised there was another one the park was about to close so here I am again with Piglet. Interesting hide and found without too much difficulty. TNLN Thanks Chookies.

4.40pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Had to speed up this find as closing time was trying to beat us.
Took: Green Eraser.
Left: Mondo Figurine.
Thanks Chookies,
from Romax.

we got plenty of exercise with this one,but we enjoyed it .thanks chookies.

Fifth for the day, on my quest to hit 300. Well finally returned to do this, I don’t know how I missed it, it’s amazing what a difference the light can make and the force was with me today, thanks for the hint Chookies TNLN Thanks.
I missed out on the 300 by one, may be tomorrow

What a great day for caching today. Here I am into a full day of caching with Dak from dak's Emu Mob.
We hope to get well over the 2 dozen done today. Another of the Chookies under my belt. Found this one ok. My GPSr was a bit confused for awhile, but of course it wasn't in that spot at all. When I finished my swapping, I did a bit of maintenance at the cache site as it was evident where others had been scrambling, including myself. Thanks Chookies.

IN: Blue teddy hair clips
OUT: Chefs on the Run sponge

Droped in to do this one and "What the...". Started on this one first as I found the back gate first. Very nifty micro in true chookies style (it could require a little maintanance visit however if it is to stay dry ). From there it was off to the other cache and after that was finished off to GZ. The cache was in hand very quickly. The hardest part was working out how to avoid muggle attention. I wanted to do a little CITO near GZ but didn't come equiped with consealed recepticals.
Left Golf ball
Took plain plastic key ring

Thanks Chookies

Found way point one, with no problem. Could not find the finl cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 4:30
The sky birds didn't like me this afternoon. They had me chasing tigers around the park. First here, then there, then other places in about a 50 meter circle.
Wanting to clear this cache from my list I persisted and one of the previous logs triggered a memory. A few minutes later the first clue was there. Ahhh. Elapsed time, about 45 minutes.
Taking careful note of the new co-ordinates, I headed out to What The ... first.
Coming back to find the second container, the sky birds were pooping on me from a great height again. Towards GZ, I was again sent in 50 meter circles. Letting the PGSr settle down, there was a logical place (which was wrong) and somewhere else.
Taking the time to read the hint, I finally twigged where I should have been and the cache was in hand a few moment later. Finally.
Took pencil topper , left koala keyring.
Thanks for a great walk in a very attractive park Chookies. I appreciated everything this cache had to offer (except the actual locations (insert smile here)).

There was alot of walking for this one, but the day was lovely. When we finally got to the end it took a wee while for team chef to find. Finally Head Chef had the cache in hand at 1.50pm. Took seeds and lion. Left Recipe cards, key tag and glitter glue. Baby chef has not put down toy lion all day. Thanks Chookies we had a lot of fun with this one.

Found at 1.50PM 2nd of 7. What a beautiful area. Never knew it existed till yesterday just passing by. The weather was too hot yesterday for me to do the cache . But today it was beautiful. The initial cahce was the hardest. Since I didn't walk towards the tree from the right direction I searched basically in one area using my hands. After 10 mins and searching about 4 different areas around the GZ I decrypted the clue. That led me back to where I started. This time walking around I noticed the great way to hide this one. Good work. The final location was an easy find. Thanks Chookies for a excellent cache in such a nice area from M.B. TNLN.

A nice walk in the gardens, with families lying around after their picnic lunches. The tracks were getting a bit hard for my mum who is nearly 80, but she still made it right to the top. The first leg proved to be tricky as the GPSr was indicating several likely spots until mum said to look at the right spot. We moved into the final area and at 5.35pm found the cache after taking a peek at the hint as once again our epe was extreme. Thanks Chookies a great first multi. tn/ln

Found 11.53am with Rhinogeo

Really nice walk through this great park. Straight forward find of the first waypoint and the final location with only one short detour that was easily corrected.

TNLN

Thanks Chookies

Found on 27/11/04 @ 1153 AESST. 5th find for the morning with Facitman (and he finally managed to find this one first ).

A pleasant walk on a very warm morning through a most attractive and interesting park resulted in a find after a couple of minutes poking around a GZ.

TNLN

Cheers Chookies

Found at 2.10pm.
What a hidden delight this park is,
A delightful stroll,
Had no problems with waypoint 1
Good views from lookout.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Found by sbalogh53 at 2:25pm on 6/10/2004.
Lovely gardens and a magnificent view from the tower.
I had a lot less trouble than others with both the first WP and the actual cache. Both were found reasonably quickly.
Put: Lion and a little bear.
Took: Glue stick and a little spinning top.

This time I made sure that I had plenty of time to find this one. I arrived at the (now) familiar site of WP1. Despite skies so clear I could see the moon, the GPSr would not settle! I broke out the backup GPSr, and now I had two conflicting and varying opinions. I discarded them and used experience instead. The inside of the container is a bit wet, but the coordinates are very readable.

Fortunately, the final cache gave up without a fight at 1520. The views from the tower are worth the walk up there. In fact, the whole park is a gem! Thanks Chookies.

IN: Bag sealing clip
OUT: Ear rings

Found with Night on my third visit (his second), after some encouragement from Chookies. I was worried I was searching in the wrong place, but the initial inidications for GZ were spot on - I think I may have even stood on it first time out. Second attempt took me in a winder arc and was based on a misunderstanding of the clues and a suspicion my GPS was giving false readings.
In the end it was located successfully on a pleasant sunny morning.

in: pink toe separator (you'll have to come to the cache to see what it is!)
out: stamp

Found this one alongside aussiecoder was a plesant walk to GZ the sun was shining and was a good find for my second attempt at this one.

In: Spinning Top
Out: 12 colour pencils

Thanks Chookies

I arrived here with barcoder on Wednesday afternoon at 1705. Strike One! Today I misjudged it again, and arrived at 1638. I decided to have a crack at getting WP1 at least.

I walked as quickly as I could, and arrived at the coords at 1648. For some reason, the GPSr wouldn't behave, and sent in at least four different directions. I decided to give up on that and look at 'obvious places'. However, at 1700 I had to admit defeat and head for home. The security guard met me half-way out. This is the second time this week I've had to leave a park in a hurry! Strike Two!

I'll be back.

Had a quick look for this cache after collecting one of the team from school.

Lovely walk around the gardens. I had seen this place from the highway but didn't realise it was so big inside.
TB Wrasslin' Man came for a walk with us but he was too big to leave behind.

After teaching The Hoo's Hoo who was who Wrasslin' Man left to wrestle some other cache in some other town.

TNLN

Thanks Chookies

This one is strange. I found the GPS still thinks the first leg is 25m north of where it was located. I tried applying the same "fudge" to get me to GZ, but no luck.

Time to regroup before the "final assult".

I tried a "hit and run" attempt on this cache on my way home from "Line of Sight", in the hope I could fit it in before I had to be "somewhere else".

Not to be, although my GPS claimed to be accurate to 5m, it lied terribly to me about the location of the first leg, and I'm sure it was lying to me about the location of the 2nd.

I'll head on back when I have the time to think about where GZ might be.

Finally some success. Found with my nephew Paul, after a 5 min search. Great view from the tower, didn't know this place existed. We did take the long way around, not knowing the area, but the whole place is pretty scenic. Thanks Chookies! Took Fox Footy pen, left merit stamp and a couple of other things.

A very pleasant day for a walk.

Different way of hiding the first clue and I do like the way you have identified all your caches.

I saw a business card from the park manager, does that mean she has approved this cache?

Thanks for the cache

out: textra
in: mini Stamper

Found at 3:40pm with Kiwideb and Muzza. This was a great little cache hunt to head out and do, we enjoyed the walk through the gardens and the ingenuity of the intermediate locations. On the way back to the car we spotted an owl, with it’s wide eye glance looking down on us. The first owl of this sort I had seen, but sadly I was too slow with the camera to be able to share the experience. Swapped a dinosaur out for a pink pen thing. Thanks Chookies.

Finished a 14 day stint and work so I finally have the time to log this find. My 4th of 11 for the day. Found in the company of Alansan and Muzza(who has already found it).
Lovely park, Alansan found the both locations before me.
Cache was found at 340pm. I swapped earrings for a glow fish.
Thanks for the cache Chookies I loved the 1st location.

This cache was absolutely fantastic and one of our favourites for the day! A lovely walk and a possible locationless cache found as well at the same location as the final co-ordinates (which I won't say!).

Took beads and left a Fox Footy pen.

Thanks to Team Chookies - a great effort!

Found by Mary & David at 1200, in company with Juzmac. A superb park, and we loved walking around seeing it and the distant views from different angles. Took animal snap game, left packet of 'beadz'. Our thanks to the Chookies for a great first cache.

Found at 3:00pm. Well we were impressed. Usually the best built gardens and parks are those located very close to the city centre and the further you get away from the city, the less attention taken to detail and quality of construction materials.

We had never been here before but we were glad to have the opportunity to visit today. This is a superbly laid out park and the locals should be congratulated on the attention to both layout, quality of construction and maintenance. The cache was laid out in just the right way to take us on a full lap of the entire park.

Thanks for bringing us here Chookies from D,H,K,H & A B-A.

Took a pair of dice. Left a large grasshopper.

Rated: for Overall Experience

What a fantastic park this cache is set in. A year or two back I drove up the drive, late in the day, to see if I could place a cache here. As it was late, I didn't even get out, and decided from what I could see from the car, that it wasn't likely. How wrong I was.

Today, once I started walking, I saw a beautifully laid out park with lots of walking tracks, ponds, lakes, etc. If only I'd gone in the first time, then maybe there would be a Muzza cache here rather than a Chookies cache.

After a pleasant walk to location 1 and then on to GZ, the cache was found quickly and without fuss. I took a fly and left a dinosaur. Thanks, Chookies, for a great first cache and for introducing me to another of Melbourne's hidden wonderlands.

Found 13:45, another great garden cache, took fluoro rings and bracelet set and left coloured pencil set.

Excellent work, thanks Chookies.

A nice easy find from the nearest cache to where we live, literally cross the Princes Hwy and walk up the the park driveway .
We've been here many times before and had contemplated placing caches here ourselves, but it seems we were beaten to the punch by team Chookies.
There are some very nice views to be had from this park and nice walks around it all as well so if any other cachers have some spare time after finding the cache maybe take some time to walk around the perimeter.
It's a really nice oasis in the middle of suburbia and the council have done a great job of building it into the park it is today.
Taken: Harry Potter notebook and packet of elastic bands.
Left: Packet of Animal Snap playing cards, a glow in the dark fish and a glow in the dark bug (what else! from team "da bugs")
Thanks Chookies for placing this nice cache, especially so close to home
Regards Andrew "Da Big Bug"

My first first find all by myself
After unsuccessfully attempting this one yesterday morning on the way to work with not much time available I returned at seven this morning for another try. After contacting Chookies last night and with them doing a slight modification ( There is sometimes problems caching whilst being vertically challenged)I found the film canister quite easily. and headed off in the pouring rain towards GZ.
From here it wasn't too hard to find once the sun come up a bit more
Took Bulldog Clips
Left Harry Potter Notebook.
Thanks Chookies for bringing me back here, it is a lovely location even in the middle of winter
Diane

While Mr.Coffee slaved away at work earning hard dollars for future caching missions, Mrs.Coffee (Shelby)found this one Today on her own. (must be a female thing today).
Thanks Chookies for stopping the rain while Shelby searched and conquered,
Taken care bear and left glue stick
Regards
Mr.Coffee Ian