William Park Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Grank on 14-Jul-05. Waypoint GCPP9X

lucky you took it as today while walking by, muggle builders were everywhere fixing up the place where my GPS pointed, although the cache lost all its trades you managed to save the container!!

Found at 14:57. Unfortunatly the container was empty. I left a note in the empty container of my find. This was to be my 50th cache. Nice hide. Shame the container was empty.
JG

Can't trust morlocks to guard anything!

A sad ending indeed .... I'll register it's demise in "The Unknown Cache"

Found the cach without any troubles during my lunch break, however, I think it may have been *Muggled*...

Container was in place, however it contained NOTHING. No Log, No TB's, No Geo Coins...NOTHING...

Searched the area incase content had fallen out, but nothing was found. Sad ending to a great cache..



[This entry was edited by The "J" Team on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 11:15:44 PM.]

This was our one and only cache find on our trip to Australia. I apologize for the delay in logging online - we just got home. When we found it, everything was good and we were careful to replace it exactly as we found it.

It was early afternoon and there were a few muggles around, but none very close by, and none seemed to notice us. This was a great cache and location. I'm a little bothered by the fact that we were apparently the last to find it intact. It's a shame it was muggled, especially since we left two travel bugs in it.

T - TB Kleiner Streuner
L - TB Canadian Kangaroo and The Rogue Travel Bug

TFTC

We found this cache during our sightseing tour through Sydney ...

Thanks for the cache; regards 2cachefix

In: TB / world cup whistle

Out: TB

This was my first Sydney cache I ended up visiting it 3 times to drop of TB's as I couldn't only find a few caches big enought to house all the one I had brought over from New Zealand, Meet some English Geocaches on my second visit and was surprised one was a fellow kitesurfer who I first meet at our local beach in Nelson New Zealand (Small World) a lovely place for a cache in a nice park.

- Shawn TB
- Virgo TB
- Willam Tell TB
- Tia TB
+ Geo Coin
+ Max TB
Note some TB where swapped and on their way to England

First Geo in Southern Hemisphere. Great spot. As we were looking a fellow Goe Caher from new Zealand that knew my son (who was with me) came up. Small World. Left Ceocoin Army Soldier and TB Took TBx2

Today we ventured on a walking/caching tour of downtown area of Sydney. The clues helped in finding this. What a pretty park. Vistiing from San Diego, we are enjoying Sydney. TNLN

My first sydney cache on a weeks holiday with the missus. A nice big cache. I wonder if all caches up here are this easy to find and this size? thanks granks TNLN

Dear Grank,

We found your cache today at 5:05pm as the eleventh of thirteen on the third day of our Sydney Trip. The largest cache we have yet seen in Sydney and an easy find to boot. Thanks for the cache.

Kind Regards,

D & H B-A

Wow! Our first down under cache! I've walked by this park many times never realizing the treasure it held. Late afternoon so it was hard to look like you blend in with your back side in the air. Even the birds stopped yelling at the tourists to come over and see what I was doing. But managed to get it, log it, rehide it, and all looking like a tourist myself. Anyway, thanks for a fun cache! TNLN, SL.

An easy find in broad daylight - no Morlocks in sight.

TNLNSL TFTC!

A relatively easy find considering the place & how busy it is here. It was quiet so I had no trouble.
Took a TB coin & simpsons TB to move on
Thanks Grank
Roostaman

While I was here with Dawesy I dropped off my first TB: Rosebud. An ambitious goal but I'm betting it's possible.

Pretty tricky to locate without arousing muggle suspicion. Left a geocoin "To Australia".

This was a great place. Took coin, left Ohio quarter. TFTC.

First cache with James Lobb! Nice spot and quite tricky to find. Shame its gorn now...
Thanks!
Mitch

My first find, did this after school at about 4pm nice hiding spot. the co'ods spot on, i took some friends with me to introduce them to Geocaching. They were stunned to think that there are caches meters from them and they did not even know about it!!.
they are now Geocaches. Took "draft" Stamp and left a dragon keyring and a commerative coin.

TFTC

(btw cache is in good order logs are not yet filled.)

First find in Australia. Very nice hide!

TNLNSL. TFTC!

Found with mightybent.

[This entry was edited by Hawke-eye on Friday, November 10, 2006 at 2:12:43 PM.]

First cache of four from a trip to Sydney for the weekend.

Also first cache for a friend after a couple of unsucessful searches.

Too golf ball, left maccas voucher.

Thanks

Gosh, I don't know what the owner had been smoking that night, but in the broad light of lunchtime, I saw nothing but a bird having a bath and a bunch of passers by. Nice hiding place. TNLNSL. Thanks for the intro to the park.

It seems crazy that there is a regular sized cache in the city, and yet there it was!

Wow.

Took TB.

Cheers,
W-L
1ARC

Grabbed this one on the way home. No GPSr but didn't need it. Biggest problem was putting it back without the muggles twigging to it. Took dinosaur, left Kinder Surprise toy. Thanks for an inner city treat.

We've had a fantastic time in Australia but its now only a few more days left before our holiday is over and we're back in the UK. It would be much appreciated if somebody could take our Summer Holiday TB out for a ride soon to see a bit more of the country.

On a trip from San Marcos, TX, to Sydney, Australia to beat the Texas heat. This was the third cache on our tour of the town right after a thirteen hour flight from LAX. This certainly is a beautiful area, even if there is a skateboard park in front of a Catholic church. I cannot for the life of me remember whether or not I took something or left something, but I definitely signed the log book.

Hopefully second time around Der Bug Des Nibelungen can travel.

Second cache in Australia. Great cache. Picked up TB Aussie Dubber and will get it to Brisbane in a few days. Took nothing left a US state quater. Thanks

Muggles

Found it. There's a nice pool underneath. Took golf ball, left chopsticks and wasabi.

Also took Bearly A Minstrel TB.

what a great sized cache for the city. didn't expect it to be that big. i guess size does matter???

Love this one! Brilliant to see a non-micro in the city. Went on a rainy day and it kept the muggles (Morlocks) away. Took WCS 2006 Geocoin left Minstrel TB.

IN: WCS 2006 Geocoin from Friedrichstadt around the world
OUT: TB
--------------------------------------------------------
Der Fußball WM 2006 Coin ist auf Wanderschaft durch alle teilnehmenden Länder. Vielleicht schafft er es ja noch bis zur WM 2010 - Südafrika !
Auf geht's.

Quick find with my caching newbie buddy. She was thrilled that she beat me to it!

T: Twins Geocoin, L nothing.

Sorry about the delay in posting log - I've been a long way from anything resembling a phone line, let alone the internet.

Sorry, just had to grab a couple of Coins from my local cache when I saw them on the log.
Got 'Australia' geocoin and 'Skirtlifter' geocoin.
Left 'Twins' geocoin

Very nice cache. Satisfying size. Thanks Grank! Coordinates spot on. Description helpful. For some reason, no muggles there Friday 4pm. Left Skirtlifter geocoin.

Sophie found the cache very quickly on the first day of our holiday in Australia. Didn't see any Morlocks and the waterfall wasn't working but it was a lovely sunny morning.

Signed the log, took a pen and the aussie dollar and left 2 travel bugs, one geocoin, an english pound and some Hong Kong coins.

One TB "Aussie Dubber" and the Geocoin we brought with us from the UK as both wanted to get to Australia. The other TB "Summer Holiday" is one that we made especially to celebrate this family holiday in Australia.

A great way to start the holiday. TFTC.

The Hunting Party.

HI, this was a really nice cache to find and one of our first finds. Took lizard (and left in another cache) and left $1 coin and golf ball.

Great day to go out caching. Pouring rain, cold, misty and gloomly. However it does keep the muggles at home. Nice and easy find. No morlocks below. TNLN. Thanks.

Since my TB is not in the cache, and the cache has not been muggled, I can only draw two conclusions. 1) It was taken by a newbie and not logged.(least likely) 2) It was ripped by a morally bankrupt cacher (more n likely) But I have a TB from OZ as hostage. Any suggestions/observations would be appreciated. TNX

Very clever cache!! Found it in the drizzling rain and despite a bunch of skateboarders who were far too interested in their moves to pay attention to me. I felt very espionage-y as I found and replaced this one. Move over Ethan Hunt!

Just Visiting.
Took 'Junior the Beak' TB to aid him on his travels.

Kiwi on holiday. Easy find on a Sunday morning, a few muggles taking photos & skateboarding ignored us. Left a TB and Bart Simpson disc. Took a USA coin.

Dropped off TB

Lots of muggles today (Sunday), so I took the cache a few feet away to sign the log and two of them sat down directly on top of the spot. But I outwaited them and replaced it (relatively) unobserved. I hadn't intended to take anything, but I finally grabbed the yo-yo because I couldn't get the darned thing to fit back in the box. Dropped in a U.S. coin because I had nothing else to trade. SL TFTC.

Would the next finder let me know if my TB "Mt Everest Mint" is still in there? TNX!...jerry

Big city cache - right in the first place I looked.

Thanks for a good after work cache.

Left a yoyo and a stamp.

Took an octopus.

A nice, easy, big cache in the city centre - well done! Took space shuttle, left dinosour (there's a link there!) Thanks Grank.

I was caching around today in the rain with my family (wife, 2 kids, and my folks!). Must say I was boxed out by my mum while she quickly located the cache and had it in hand before you could say, 'wallabee stew'! Not sure what the hints and pics of the cache were about, but definitely a nice find in the urban jungle. Didn't expect such a large cache! Took a couple of trinkets and dropped a few of my own. Signed log and dropped it back before the rain began to fall again. TFTC!

Came by early and had to walk through about a thousand birds and their nice droppings to get to this one at around 0753. Very nice, large, inner-city container. Thanks for placing it.

- NCad

This one had me baffled, almost convinced that the actual cache was part of some electric mainboard. After soothing my paranoia, went in for the grab.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Second for the night - All credit for this one goes to evil gopher who nabbed this one after I'd passed it off as being part of the structure.. Good sized cache for the city!

TFTC, TNLNSL

Tried 3 times to get this cache, I had to wait until the rain washed all the muggles away.
Even then I thought I had it wrong, but I had a couple of drinks, thought like Grank and Voila!
Personal TB Der Bug Des Nibelungen visited but was scared by the Morlocks so I had to pack up quickly.
Took 'Klems Mob' bear and left Chinese Teacup.
Thank you for my first cache.

Second of my caches tonight, again very close to my hotel. I have wandered past this site on a number of occasions and watched the Eloi thrashiing around attempting to stay alive.

I had to wait for the pedestrians nearby to move on before checking my first guess. No prize. At the next change of pedestrians, I found the cache in the second guess. No swap was made. Thanks for the cache.

Lots of muggles around but managed to find it after a patient wait.

TNLNSL

Thanks for the cache

A quick stroll over from the park and found it quickly geodaughter loved looking at the toys inside. Took green tiki left small torch. Thanks for the cache D_Mawson

MY FIRST EVER CACHE!!! WOOHOO!

A very easy find, walked up to it and snagged it without a problem, however getting it back was a problem since someone came and sat next to me! Took golden US Dollar (thanks geospyder) and left an unopened post-it pad. Being my first, I REALLY wanted to take the travel bug, but concerned that I might not get the chance to drop it off soon!

Anyway moved on with a gust-o, only found two more for the day. (But there's always the weekend! LOL)

Co-ords were spot on for an easy find, took Travel Bug "Momma's Pansy Patch"

Found it after a but of searching...Took Camella Travel bug, left Coin

In from Nevada, USA. Placed six travel bugs and one geocoin in the cache. It is quite full so someone should move the bugs soon I also took the Australian road sign key ring and left a golden US dollar coin. Thanks for the hunt.

Oops - forgot to log in one of the TB's. This one was Space Traveler who specifically wanted to travel to Sydney. Well - he's here!

I will be visiting from the USA and will be dropping a few TBs into this cache either Sunday or Monday. Since I will not have access to a computer for a few weeks, I'm dropping them into the cache virtually today. This way, once they are there physically they will be logged and will have less chance of getting lost. Hope that made sense.

I had two days in Sydney, so what else does one do but go geocaching?

Huge cache for such an urban environment. Nice going!
TNLN

[Revisited with Mrs Derka. Not so much Muggle traffic around on this Sunday afternoon. Had lunch in a neat little Vegetarian Yum Cha located] behind the pool [

Took Quad Bike Guy and left a Green Flouro Yo-yo. Black Dog TB was still with us, but was just visiting and we didn't put him back.]

A bit of fun trying to get this one out and back again without being seen. 1710 after work - There were a few skateboarders around so I had to read my paper until they left, but they didn't stay too long.

Not bad for my first day caching - this was my second cache and my first TB.

T - Black Dog TB
L - US 5c
SL

TFTC
DerkaDerka

Dropped off TB Black Dog, White Dog. Love the new container

Easy find despite the location being quite busy - I pretended to drop something so that I blended in while I did a quick hunt. The cache size is great considering the urban location. This is my 1st find in NSW.

TNLN TFTC - Murth

Set out on ANZAC day with determination to make it a successful first day for us at geocaching. After missing our first three attempts of the day and getting discouraged with it all, found this and got us hooked! Amazing what you can find in hidding places. Took nothing, but left some free Japanese tissues and signed log. This box is getting full of stuff!

Found cache on way to work.
Contruction work is always good cover.
Saw the Morlocks in their undergound lair.
Good Work Grank
TN.Left Keyring

Sunday was quiet and the falls were still. Given the location, an excellent large hide. Very well hidden, easy to find, and big! Left a couple of coins and a shuttle. TFTC.

Brilliantly concealed very large cache which is unusual in the CBD - well done Grank. At almost 6.00 P.M. on a Saturday evening, the lights on the nearby cathedral's facade formed a stunning distant backdrop to the cache location. The skateboarders were still there in force but were far enough away not to bother us - we were really happy that we didn't meet any Morlocks. Took Bayou Beastie T.B. for a ride to another cache.

Thanks for this cache! I promised to take TB Bayou Beastie to see some real crocodiles, and now after visiting Sydney Aquarium it has met at least 2 of them. The caches big enough for TBs are not so easy to find in the middle of the city. Left also Finnish Markka coin.

Out for a walk on a beautiful day while visiting Sydney. Very nice spotted, and John snagged it while Matt and I looked on. TFTC!!

A well-placed cache of a daring size in a brave location! Fortunately for me, the skateboarders stayed a safe distance away. Although there were a few people not too far away, the placement of the cache allowed me to get it and put it back without being spotted. Left a Cathay Pacific pen, took the scorpion TB. Thanks for inspiring me to place a non-micro urban cache! 1st of 11 today.

With the cache size upgrading from "small" to "regular" I believe this cache is now accessible by wheelchair and have updated the attribute accordingly. If I am wrong, feedback would be appreciated.

Since it was a lovely night I thought I'd wander out for a cache hunt, however since I've found all the caches near my work I thought I'd go after this one since it was Mrs C.O.D who found it beforehand. Would you believe I saw a brush tale possum in Hyde Park on my way which is ironic as I found Hullo Possums (by Grank also) on my way to work today. Co-ords were spot on which helped for a quick find. This would have to be the biggest urban cache I've found. Great hide. Took Geocion for further adventures. Thanks Grank.

Nice autumn day in the city and felt like a walk in the Park. So made spur of moment decision to hunt GCPP9X "William Park". The satellite gods smiled on me, and I found myself standing in the right place with a 5m fix. A quick find at 14:20 hrs between muggles. I was quite overcome with Grank's ingenuity. A masterpiece. Took a taiwanese eggtimer, which proved to pour sand for 40 seconds only; perhaps 1,000 year old eggs don't need much cooking? Left a paltry AUD$2. Had come unprepared with just my Fortrex 101 & "Cachemate" equiped Palm Pilot, and so without my usual pretty coins. This find made my day. Thanks, Grank.

dropping off a geo coin.
took a photo of the coin with the harbour bridge and a couple of the sydney to hobart fleet in the foreground.
don't have time to goto any Aussie Rules games and grab a photo, so this one will have to do.

Found this after a very pleasant Autumn Sunday stroll around town, a visit to the State Library to see Dirk Hartog's pewter plate, an amble around the Archibald Prize and a rewarding find of the cache at Tolkein's Tree.
Had a tricky time getting the bugger back in place without arousing suspicion though.
Good one!! Thanks.
Jayk and Spike from Us Mob

Finally! Not a micro cache. Something I could actually find without help! Wish I had a TB still, but I had dropped off all 4 I brought from the States. One I picked up in Australia I wanted to take for a trip to USA. TFTC! Got a nice pic of the church. TeamJansen (USA)

[This entry was edited by TeamJansen on Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 9:27:51 AM.]

And I thought that the negotiations were over![:(!]

Remember that negotiations are not over until the morlock smiles (which is not very pretty!)

As a final final demand by the morlocks I have replaced the small container with a “regular†and a new logbook (the other was getting full). This has some advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages; bigger, bigger and yes it’s bigger.

Disadvantages;
- It doesn’t fit into the palm of your hand for sneaky replacement;
- There is no spare room where the cache needs to be placed so it needs to be put back squarely so that it only sticks out a bit, but is level so can’t be noticed.


[This entry was edited by Grank on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 1:27:31 AM.]

[This entry was edited by Grank on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 1:28:45 AM.]

Gee, I check this every other day then go away for a few days and see what happens ..

Nice and easy find in the drizzle at nighttime.
In: Geocoin.
Out: TB.
Cheers,
Toby.
251325Zmar06

Negotiations are almost complete.

The parade, though colourful, was not entirely their thing. On the other hand the offered sacrifice seems to be more to their liking as they accepted it (see picture).

Let’s hope this works and then we’ll be back in business.

As would have it, the published announcement at the GZ that it would be available from 10 March seems to have been somewhat premature.... (i.e. they forgot to consult the workers 1st me thinks).

After checking out what they are doing I reckon if it's completed by then end of March it will be lucky.

The good news is that the cache is still there. If you know where to look it can be seen quite clearly.

In the mean time a small sacrifice has offered to the morlocks to keep them happy.

What an amazing turnout! The morlocks were impressed by the gaiety of the display, and on reflection will make the site available within a week ….

A little bird told me (well, actually it was TheFalcon) that the morlocks had been busy once again. And on my lunchtime sortie it was confirmed that the GZ has been fenced in.

Obviously the morlocks need to be appeased! This weekend I will be donning leather chaps (yes, just the chaps) and parading down the local streets. I encourage all and sundry to join me, let Australia see what the geocachers are made off. Let the morlocks be placated.

I am confident that with a show of strength the fence will come down. See you there on Saturday night!

Was walking past after dropping the hire car off. Very quick and easy find on a Sunday morning!

My first Australian geocache found! Nice hiding place, and not too difficult to find with the hints.
Thanks and greetings from the Netherlands.
T: Coin
L: TB Jumbojet (tried to drop more TBs but the cache could only hold one small one)

2:15pm. Found it and took the USA geocoin. Left Calgary Geocachers geocoin #1361. Thanks, Rusty Reebs and Ski Bunny from Canada.

Admin. log for McGyver TB, It wasn't logeed into cache when I reteived it.

T TB McGyver L Bligs 2006 USA Geocoin #3 Maps here don't match cache locations but the coordinates are great.TFTC

As noted the water has stopped running. Took the TB McGyver out for a breath of fresh air to log it and put it back but not quick enough to get onto the web site. Hence TNLN.

Something has happened here. The waterfall has stopped and the stream is stagnating, even the jungle wildlife (well, one pigeon) is dying! The cache is there, nonetheless, so I signed the log.

Found after a short search thanks to the accurate coordinates and excellent description. Left a Klem Bear and took 22tiger TB. There was little room to leave anything else. Thanks Grank

found it, packed full of goodies

Great find!

Had a great time in Sydney.

I loved your cache intro! And what a pleasure it was to find an urban cache where the gps actually picked up a signal. Took the bug back with me to Canada and left some Canada flag pins and a millenium collector's coin. (This was my 13th Australian cache!)TFTH. P.S. There's a dead pigeon very near the cache...must've been those nasty morlocks.