Up the Creek (Revision 2) Albion Park, New South Wales, Australia
By Fleacircus on 01-Dec-04. Waypoint GCM6EF

This was to be our last cache for the day but arrived at GZ and could not seem to find anything. There was a nice round hole about a foot behind one of the trees that has obvioulsy has something artifical in it and reading some of the previous logs I have a sneaking suspicion this one is gone. Might be worth a quick check.

Lovely spot though. Young kid fishing nearby looked like he was having fun! Could be worse things to be doing.

Up the creek is no more!
Due to the inability of some people to read (or simply use their brain), it was constantly left in an obvious state so that eventual muggling was inevitable.
It wont be back.

Found at 1125. Enjoyed the walk to GZ, and once there, the cache was easily spotted, as others have said, the cache sticks out quite prominently. I tried to seat it better in it's hide but it will need to be redone. The log book was a little damp, but it was still able to be signed.
A nice area and walking track.

Thanks.

This is a good style of hide but has been completely removed and reinserted as it was protruding quite a bit and dead obvious. The container takes quite some time to get into as the items that the tool is needed for are damaged, full of dirt and hard to remove. Maybe specifying what tool is needed will stop it being pulled out by unprepared cachers.
Lucky it was about 1am and I had time to perform the task.

All in all a nice place

TFTC

great hide

Container was protruding and dead obvious.
Log book was moist but still signable, just.
Needs attention. Camouflaged as best I could but will go missing if spotted by muggles. To good a location to lose.
Lovely spot for a bit of quiet angling.

SL
TN
L-Coin
TFTC
Ironbark.

TFTC, Very cleverly hidden, the logbook was a bit damp

Enjoyed this tucked away location. Found cache easily but it was full of water - possibly after the recent rains. Dried it out as best I could. Rubber ring missing to seal the container. T TB LN

A nice spot on the home from Minnamurra rainforest with Usat31. Liked the container!
Took a coin & left a coin & TB.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

Travelling with The Hancock today for a visit to Minnimurra Rainforest, we diverted here for a qhuick cache. Mr H made the find straight away & he had the right tool to get to the goodies.
A great little walk & some really nice views.
No swaps, but a couple of coins swapped here.
TFTC - we really enjoyed this one.
Cheers.

Had some muggles about with this one. After we where clear I did some searching, but it was my geowife who had the find. After signing the log, I put in 2 of the geocoins I had been carring for a while. Lucky I was carying the faithful tool needed to get in.

Not the first visit here!
This time a still had to surch for a while, what a sneaky hide!!
Although I have seen this kind of containers before it didn't come to my mind until I almost stumbled on it.
TFTC Wilbert67

This was a tricky well hidden cache that took some finding.
An excelent location it was like stepping back in time a mobof kids rode by as carefree as the wind and went down for a swim in the creek, they even had a rope swing from a tree, ahh memories of youth. The creek looks a great place to wet a line the fish were constantly jumping out of the water, we believe they were muggle fish watching us.
Took Smeagols Zeckencoin, left yabbie, as protection from the muggle fish.

Finaly found this one on the 3rd attempt.
Nice hide some work has gone into placing this one.

T wallet
L GC

Found with geodad after much searching.
T- geocoin L- egg SL
TFTC, libbus88

Intresting hide, almost on the spot. Should be muggle proof. No dign of the TB. Left a geocoin EU Geocoin #3 and took something .. don't remember what.

Very sneaky hide I guess it helps since I'm in the trade. Unfortunately I hadn't read the logs prior to finding the cache though so had to go back to the car for my multi tool. No swaps thanks for the cache

12:00 pm - Unfortunately we couldn't find this one. It said it was hard to find. We'll be back to have another go.

Woo Hoo. Finally after a fat hint from the owner a few months ago. The Gizmo had me about 10m away. Simple when you really look. TNLNSL Thanks

Wollongong invasion trip by the Canberra based McWiBiTe team.
McPhan, Winglen, BigOn, Tealby
Straight forward access to the area and then the search that had us scratching our heads while trying not to look too sus. McPhan managed to search at the right location and level, I played toolman and retrieved the well constructed container without disturbing the rest, the screws look like they have seen a hard time by the way. No 2 Phillips with a decent handle looks about right. Cleaned the crud from the seal and returned all bits as found.
TFTC

Found it with the McWiBiTe team. This had us really going as it was very well covered with cammo, all the while we looked fixatedly into the creek when the many muggles went by taking the dog for a Sunday afternoon walk. After finding, a couple of us went on sentry duty in either direction whilst Tim the Toolman (BigON) did his handyman thing.

Nice construction. Thanks Fleacircus.

Very sneaky. This one had us going for ages. I reckon the muggle factor could make this very tricky at times - at least we had lots of eyes to keep a watch out once we had finally spotted the cache.
TNLN TFTC - #74 for the WIWE.

Rated: for Overall Experience

1307. Well that took ages. we were looking everywhere but nowhere seemed to fit needing a tool to retrieve the cache. We wandered far and wide up and down and frequently acting nonchalant as muggles passed. Then luckily I stumbled upon something that could be it - it was thankfully. A pat on the back for an evil hide, loved it.

TFTC and the pleasant walk into this popular area.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found on our trip around the southern side of town. Had to go back to the car to find a device to open it. There were an amazing number of fish swimming up the creek.

Thanks Fleacircus for sharing this spot.

TNLNSL

Looked also like homedg but no find. Will give up on this one I think. TFTH anyway

The youngest Geoclown was there today for a cache check and it is still there.
Super Mario would find it straight away

Looked and looked but to no avail.
Even a phone a friend option paid no dividend.
Maybe next time.

Up The Creek is Back Online!
New base for the inner cache container should keep any water that manages to seep in away from the contents.
Please remember to make sure the seal is clean when replacing to prevent water entering.
Enjy,
Wayne

Up the creek is offline for a couple of days due to waterlogging.
It should be back online for the weekend.
Cache contents have been removed for drying.

we were here today with a mighty full creek. It might be worth a look because the grass is soggy and we couldn't find it. I hope for you that it is still there. Nice Spot though

Came with Woodyson & Dogboy. No luck today. We thought it may have been washed away but reading the notes it doesn't sound like it could be easily. Will try again another day. Thanks anyway.

we found it great cache like anouther cache i know
every thing was wet but still a good cache
TFTC
TNLNSL

it is all wet

some as my one call the wood good one


we looked for some time

took a long time but we got it the tool helped a lot

some as paegle boy's one the woods was

tftc went with tom.l paegle.b

Found at 1540. Nice walk along the cycle way. GPS took us straight to GZ and we had the right apparatus for extraction in our box of tricks.

A great park in a newish looking area. Thanks.

46. TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Gold Puzzle Orange GC A#72

Albida

Nice one - thanks fleacircus

Well hidden, had us wondering for a few minutes. Securing devices may need replacing soon as they are becoming "chewed" and not easy to open.
TNLN

GPS took me to a large open grassy area - I searched the perimeter, but couldn't find anything that vaguely matched the clue or other's log entries. I'll be back.

great cache my very first find yes and i forget the tool so a long walk back to the car again took key ring left snail

[This entry was edited by glucky7 on Saturday, September 08, 2007 at 11:37:27 PM.]

Nice walk along the creek - like the vodka and orange clue

My first find in the Geocache World. The Geokids enjoyed a lovely walk by the rivulet. Stood right beside cache before noticing it. Thanks for the lovely walk. TNLN.

Enjoyed the nice little walk to gz and once there spent several minutes looking and pondering. Suddenly, there it was and fortunately I had anticipated the right tool too. TNLN but appreciated the really good work on this one and the excellent coordinates. Thanks Fleacircus.

Nice little spot with heaps of fish jumping. Didn't take long but could be difficult on a weekend when more people are out,

TNLN

11:13am
On our way to the event, doing a couple as we made our final approach to the event area. Easy find on a nice stretch of creek etc. Added bonus, the roulettes passed overhead in formation no more than 200 feet above our heads.

TNLN.

Cheers

11:15 Hrs
An easy find next to a pleasant creek. We were treated to our own private air show as a Super Constellation and “The Roulettes†did a few circuits.
Nice cache container.

TNLN.

Thanks Fleacircus.

I truly can not believe I had trouble with this one last time, as I found it straight away today. A lovely spot to take a break. Thanks Fleacircus!

Took: Cable Ties
Left: Keyring

Rated: for Overall Experience

This was a good little cache. Deciding what to do on the way home remembered had attempted this from the incorrect street before so decided to pop in. Liked the hide and I have now worked out where the missing cycleway link around the lake for me was! TFTC.

Plenty of people out fishing this morning but well away from GZ. This meant we were able to find the cache and still have a good look around. Great hide!

Great hide! We managed to find it quite quickly, but we've done other fleacircus hides, so we were on the right track pretty quickly. Took a couple of cars, left a ball and a lion. TFTC

Pulled a sickie today due to some pesky virus that is making me feel menopausal. After i dropped the apprentice off I thought I'd swing past and grab this cache, walked in from the highway, about 950m and lots of flies for company. Once at GZ it didn't take long to find, the clues certainly came in handy. TNLNSL. Great hide, thoroughly enjoyed it.

No luck at all today with this cache, have encountered fleacircus caches before, and know they are tricky, but they've got me stumped with this one (or its been mnuggled, lioke my other attempts recently!)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Yay! Found it after about 4 visits and glad to do so with a couple of other failures today. Must be not enough practice. Had verified the location on a previous visit but did not have the required equipment. TNLNSL. Thanks

Used to walk the kids here many years ago when the park was only new (lived in Koona St), it's great to come back and see how it all has grown. This is a very clever hide, though found without too much difficulty.
Me and two of the kids were out with Wassa, Gribbly and Gribbly Jnr; this was our last cache for the day. Jono swapped a Cellboost for Nokia for the ball of string, while Jeremy swapped his matchbox car for the red racing car.
Signed log, thanks for an excellent cache!
best wishes,
Wal

4th one for the day, nice setup.

Found this one easily - it wasn't 'protruding' but one side was totally visible (was that the intent?). Cleaned out a bit of debris. Left dinosaur, took frog.

Our very first cache thought we should try something close to home, have lived in the area for over 30 years did not know about the park, shows you can sometimes be blind to the beauty around you - cache took a bit of time think we passed it about three times but finally found it. Watching Morticia's face light up was worth the hunt on it's own, this is an activity we will certainaly be persuing

DNF but it is our first day out, will try again. 2yr old was very keen to try "in the creek".Thanks

Failed again today. Am going to need help I think. Its obviously well hidden from the description and logs and I'm assuming that I am not thinking laterally enough.

second time lucky read clues which we failed to do first time
great hide took koala left barrel pencil sharpener,great hide
loverly area. Thanks from Team Denmar.

At last we finally found it. It took the whole family to search in the dark but at last we can cross it off the list.
TN Left Koala.

After missing this one last time I used my phone a friend option. Gribbly gave me a pointer, and it made a whole lot more sense this time around!

It certainly is an interesting find...

TNLNSL

Cheers,
W-L
1ARC

I tried for this on the way home. It was getting dark and tehre were muggles about fishing. I had a brief look but decided I was better to come back armed with more time and daylight.

Cheers,
W-L
1ARC

Finally found it as it was very well hidden and left it that way again. Great spot, had another picnic. Lots of muggles again especially fishermen. Took the laughing key ring left Castrol keyring.

lovely local area that we have never been to before...a few muggles around...difficult to look as good as we are going to have to...will have to go back another day

Decided on the way home to try this one but only had the coords. Then I accidently dragged the WP off position so I think we were not quite in the right place. Will add to the list to be sought when passing next.

Another lunch time find. what a great container.and well placed. im learning fast just how open minded you have to be to play this game.sighned the log left the contents and added a laughing key ring.put it back the way i found it.looking forward to finding more of yours Fleacircus.will find a few more and put my brain to work for some of my own thank you.

No problems this time
great container
thanks for the cache

What a fantastic container! Seen plenty of fish jumping out of the water while we there. Some were quite large. Plenty of muggles fishermen hanging around so we hung around till they left and the mosquitos showed up.
Really good job Fleacircus. Are you an engineer?

Great hiding spot. It is wonderful to think of how many people must pass it by.
Took Nothing
Left Nothing
Well Done Fleacircus

Took the muggle family but with ten people still could not find it.. Next time....
Paul Kaye and Sahra

found the cache as my puppy found the creek. nice cache holder.
took frill neck lizard, left 2 batteries
cheers
belabb

Hm, could not find this one. Beautiful place, though. After looking for something like 20 minutes, watching a black cuckatoo, being halfway eaten up by mosquitoes, we called it a day. The area looked like having been freshly re-worked by the gardening crew, so we were unsure whether the cache was still there. Either way, no cigar for us.
Cheers,
Toby.
230530Zmar06

Found this well thought out cache on the second attempt, the first time I didn't see it. Took cow, left frog & 2 golf balls. Thanks Fleacircus for this clever cache. Regards Philma & Geo-Cheese & Kisses.

Looked and looked but no luck. Checked GPS looked some more but still no luck. I'll have to come back again with a few smarter cachers.

Had no luck with this one! Maybe I forgot the tool, but what type of tool? maybe next time. Regards Philma.

A nice day out, introducing my mum and my friend Nik to the wonders of geocaching.

A nice little spot, and the cache was VERY sneaky ... it totally fooled us! We must have walked over and past it many a time.
But eventually we prevailed, hoorah!

Nice one, FleaCircus.

Peace and love,

Sabakitty.

ARRGGG!!!! For a while there this looked like it would become one of my nemises caches. 1st, it was one of 5 DNF's on my infamous 1 from 6 day a few months back. This morning I returned with YoungGregB feeling much more confident... Until we found a fisherman camped out right where we wanted to be. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Why does the Skygod mock me so?!?!?!

We returned again thisafternoon to find GZ blissfuly muggle free, and the cache was soon in our hands. That's one smart container there! I like it. Should last much longer than the original. I took the helmet and worm TB's. Thanks for the work Fleacircus! Great stuff, eventually!

Up the Creek is up again!
Sneakier than last time but still fairly simple.
We have released our second Travelbug and the first of the travelling clowns in the revised Up The Creek - Take him far and wide.
Enjoy

Up the creek is officially "up the creek" so to speak. Me thinks Bushcare has been for a visit so the thinking cap is on for the replacement and upgrade.
Stay Tuned - Wayne

Nup. No joy here - Nuthin! Scoured the area, used the phone a friend option, and still got nothing. This cache hasn't been looked at for quite some time. Perhaps a cache check could be in order? I suspect it may be gone. Thanks anyway, Fleacircus.

This one was a hit with the youngest Dingbat. We're down here today looking at pools would you believe!

I ride past the cache occassionally when I do the lake circuit. It's quite the monster ride from my place so I don't do it often.

Thanks for the nice easy and pleasant cache.

A nice place for a cache, took geopup and he loved it. Thanks fleacircus. Took hole punch, left glitter stickers.

1st for the day!, camping nearby with Muddy Diver and families, but escaped for the afternoon!

Took whistle , left good pen, signed log

nice little area, that i am sure we would not know existed , but for this hobby.

Thanks for the log,


Dernel

NIce spot. Found while on a camping trip to Shellharbour area with 'Dernel'. We looked a pair of Turkeys too!

No swaps, signed log. Thanks.

After a short easy walk myself and Cassie the wonder dog found the cache. Nice spot for a picnic or even a spot of fishing. Had no idea this place existed but will be back some day with my fishing gear.

After doing all the caching stuff and walking back to the car we came across a poor helpless Blue Tongue being harassed by some ravens so risking life and limb it was into the fray. Soon the Blue Tongue was happily munching on my finger and after a quick photo shoot we released him in a safer spot.

Nice easy walk to this one. GPS batteries went flat about 200m out, so we improvised with some AAA's and a leaf.

Beautiful spot. Changed a lot since I was a kid. Have to come back and picnic with the kids. Thankx for a lovely walk. TNLN.

Enjoyed doing this Geokid friendly cache, they are not always east to find. A lovely spot, and I liked the hide, made the geokid exert some energy trying to get it. Thank you for an enjoyable cache fleacircus.
jamss and the mini jamss.

Seen this appear on my nearest cache list so I ducked out at lunchtime and knabbed this virgin cache.
Took a pleasant stroll along the river where I quickly found the cache. Did all the swaps and then was on my way.
Thanks Fleacircus - Its good to see some more local cachers.