Tickford's B'day Cache Croydon, Victoria, Australia
By Tickford on 24-Sep-05. Waypoint GCQPQE

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As per the previous log, Irontoad and I found an obvious hiding place for the cache at the correct coordinates but it looked like the local children had been building an army hut nearby and in the course of their adventures had discovered the cache and taken it away to explore further.

A very nice park. And at the exact coordinates there is an obvious and uncovered hiding place, but we did not find the cache.

Like the bushy nature of the little parks in this area. TFTC.

Took a little while to find as no obvious place at first look. TFTC SL swapped a key chain for a newer one.

Quick find in nice park. Log book needs replacing. TFTC

Found @ 1905. Nice area and nice cubby. Cache was not very well covered and visible on approach so I replaced camo. SL TNLN TFTC
# 124

Nice quick find tftc

~7PM

What a fantastic park, I loved the short walk along the trail. GPSr initially had me in a different spot where there was no cache!! It eventually settled and I was able to find it without too much trouble.

Thanks to Tickford for the cache. TNLN

found.TFTC

Found at 8.10pm. Was quick and easy.

I found it, left pen took conditioner

It lives for another try.

second attempt, found with a fancy new toy that is spot on. nice hide, tftc!

At second attempt we found it. first attempt we got very wet, have taken my kids with me to encourage the outdoors. as new comer to geocaching it took a bit of doing, thanks for the site

Well my first attempt of searching the GZ was distrubed by a Muggle walking his dog while I browse over a pile of neat logs.
So doing a quick circuit, circle back and was able to find the cache is realtivity quick time.
TFTC, TNLN.

Unfortunately did not find. This may need a hint for us noobies.

18.35pm. On my hols caching with lochb we came here for our second in a row 2005 cache,i do like these earlier caches. we struck lucky here as this is very well hidden,thank you for a good cache, greetings from a very cold england.sltn.patandjeff=bones1.

Quick-ish find by Bones1 and me tonight, with a dog barking in the background. TFTC

Interesting area - looked for ages but no find.
Think it was the trees like the everyone's troubles.
Probably off on the coords. Would be nice to have a clue

Located today, although not logged until 29/11/2011.
Many thanks for the cache.

Trees messing with coords but found it in the end, my 5 year old rehid this one so might b an easy find for the next finder

Happy Birthday Tickford. The dog must be on sedatives, he sure looks noisy but not a sound!? T4TC

Nice night time walk to GZ. Had to search a bit here as the tree cover was affecting the GPS but eventually came up with the cache. Thanks for the hide.

Took some time to find this one then Quasar3671 came up with the goods. As he signed the log I enjoyed looking for possum's. There where a lot of them. TFTC

Was passing through the area and wanted a quick cache but this wasn't it for us today. Saw the partial cubby, heard the barking dog and was extremely uncomfortable around the very low and non concealing fence. Left with soggy feet, no cache located and a dejected geo-squirt (

Nice easy cache in a lovely park. Thanks, Tickford. Hope you enjoyed your birthday.

Found at 2.50pm and yes the dog is still barking TNLN TFTC

Nice little spot with a very noisy dog who made discussion difficult.
TNLN TFTF

Found it around 9pm while checking out spots for a street orienteering course.

The signs where looking downward, when on the way I saw a ripped plastic sleave and then a new cubby shack being built at the gz. A quick look around and a quick find in the first obvious spot I came too. Probably a little close to a back fence for comfort.
Love this little urban reserves but it also saddens me that there are so few and they mow so much of them.

A tricky little find, but with limited hiding spots.
GPS accuracy was good.
TFTC

Took a good hunt by Moneydork to turn this cache up! Cheers Gav [6303]

Last find for the night, I found 4 others in the area that I'd already found.. hardest part was not giving them away to my 2 mates that hadn't found em yet.. #142.. TN Left Party Popper SL TFTC

this was the last cache to find tonight. nice spot.TFTC

Second attempt at this as there were workmen in the park on the previous visit. TFTC, TNLN.
Cv.

The weather fined up a bit this afternoon so I took advantage of it and decided to go get me a few caches.
I found this cache @ 15:45hrs.
This is my third time back here and I was determined not to go away empty handed. As they say "Third time lucky"
Strangely enough it didn't take me long to find it either. I think it pays to walk away and rethink these things.
A great hide and to celebrate I grabbed the Little Koala from the cache and I'll help him on his way tomorrow I hope.
TFTC Left Nothing SL

Saw there had been a couple of failed finds, so took the dog for his morning walk to check the status of the cache. It's definitely still there, cleverly hidden away. Took Freddie the Frog TB & left Little Koala TB - I'm sure he'll enjoy climbing the tree

[I visited this area with Anne this afternoon after waiting for some council workers to leave the area.
They had been grooming an area where I believed GZ to be and there really didn't appear to be anywhere that a cache of this size could have been hidden.
We looked around and scanned the whole area for at least an hour before conceding defeat.] We also found the thumb tack with the coloured dot on it, but I don't think this has anything to do with the cache.
[I'll watch this one for a while and maybe come back again for another look.]

[Could not find it. Could just be me...]

Went down the path but couldn't see anything as described.
Did see a thumbtack with a coloured sticker on the top of it (wondered if this might have been it).
We both searched for about 15-20 minutes (even off the track) and were unable to find it.


Regards
Gish

[This entry was edited by Gish on Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 5:23:29 AM.]

Found at 14:25 with tackle_head who located the cache. I wonder what all of the nearby houses make of all of the geocacher traffic behind them. Dropped of a TB. TFTC

Found with 3up and Jaffnut which has turned out to be a beautiful day for caching - tftc

Found this one at 15:15 to close our 8 May hole. A very nice bit of parkland on a glorious day .

TNLNSL. Thanks Tickford.

Found VERY quickly by Mattatk junior after 2 previous visits?! Great spot, think the new gps worked better as we were searching the wrong area last time(s).
TFTC!

Took TB, Left Badge. TFTC

Log is full needs another

Afternoon cache trip with TeamDunko
Quick Find TFTC SL

Nice little hide! TNTN TFTC.

1650hrs

Need a Geocache hit today so went out this afternoon and got a few.

Took Moon
Left Traudel TB

TFTC

Dropped TB

Nice walk in the pines, but the muggle neighbours were a bit concerned about what I was doing.
TFTC

Lots of mozzies here...............I'm still scratching as i sat and read some of the previous visits.
Took a pink ball and left a smilie face rubber
Had to wait for the dog to stop its racket before i could move off

Cheers
Under;-)

thanks for the cache
lots of muggles looking over the fence,
but we did hear the word cache mentioned
by them, so I gather they knew what we
were up to,
LN
TOOK
spread the word travel bug

thanks for the cache
TNLN

2/14

Found 1105

TN
Left Spread the word TB

Dipped personal geopatch

A bit of a scramble, but B1 was on to it. SL, LNTN, TFTC.

Find # 827 @ 15:55 and 22/26 finds for the day.
A quick and easy find. Log book is full and needs replacing.
TNLNSL Thanks for the cache Tickford!

Found by The Empire
2/1/10 @ 9:45am with The Lone Random
2/20 today on our Eastern Suburbs Invasion!
SL TFTC
- M

Found By The Lone Random,
W The Empire.
2/20 caches for the day.
@ 9.45am.
TFTC, The Lone Random

Found while driving to Boxing Day lunch.

Found this cache at 4.45PM after some Christmas shopping.
TFTC

YAY - Harry and I were so excited to find our first ever geocache - we tried Grandfill first but couldn't find that one, but after a bit of crazy gps action we found this lovely one - we were SOOO thrilled - thanks!!!

#986 (3/4 on an afternoon ramble). Had been planning to do this one after Grandfill, but turned out there was no access of Alto Ave. So we carried on to this cache. Nice walk through the bush and an easy find. Left NZ Kiwi.

A bit of a slog up the hill to this cache, but had glimpses of nice views en route.
TFTC.

We now have a personal TB to track the km's travelled while caching so just dipping it in to catch up on the km's
Thanks - GJMMelb

I like the term "Muggle-Mut" that the previous finder used!! So yes the Muggle-Mut was barking/whining the whole time we were there too!!
Took a bit of searching and finally JMelb found it. A cool hide.
Took Yoyo
Left Stamper Texta
TFTC Tickford.

Nice hide. Took a little searching with resident muggle-mut announcing our presence the whole time and the GPS sending us back and forth over a wide area. Had to stop and have a guess at the hide. Jackpot!!! TNLN. TFTC. KeMS

King Jnr with Geoprince#1

After 2 years we returned to have another go at this cache - a nice peaceful afternoon with my queen looking after geoprince#2 at home by herself ! I remembered the place well and the muggle dog remembered me. Had the cache in hand in under 5min a big improvement from last time. Thanks In: Trackable moon thing

Good little park, been here once before but must have forgotten to log it, to a few new cachers with me, thanks for the cache!

It took me ages to find this cache, so I was quite relieved when I spotted it. Maybe I was getting tired. It was a very nice little reserve, TFTC.

Found by Darcey and Piper on 25/07/09. Second find for the day. Took bracelet and left a yo-yo. TFTC. Kids are loving it.

No Joy locating this cache on my first attempt. Muggle dog is a problem. GPS fix wandering about was not helping either. Might try again another day.

Had to leave without finding it as a muggle dog was kicking up a bit of a racket and a neighbouring kitchen window was looking straight out at us. Might try again another day.

Found in the dark. Tried this one once before with geodogs in tow but local muggle dogs made so much fuss we had to leave for fear of being spied. Luckily it was raining so the muggle dogs were warmly tucked up in their kennels.
Took: beads
Left: skateboard

Found by Greg 1005H 29/06/09. A quick driveby after shopping, very quiet. It took a lot of searching to locate this one. The trees seemed to play havoc with reception. A very nice hide.

[This entry was edited by Maccas9997 on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 8:02:17 PM.]

#22 and final cache on our High Country getaway. Tried this on our way out of Melb on Monday with no luck. Bit better luck upon return with no backyard muggles and no dogs barking while we searched. Hard to stick to the track when you get close to the cache. Took: bag of stones, Left: Mondo figurine. TFTC.

Nice quick find in a nice park after the rain. Rain?? Wots that!!

Searched along whole circuit track. No joy! Nice walk tho.

Second attempt for this one, still no joy!?! I'm sure it's there but our GPS seems to go haywire in the area. We searched what we believed to be all the obvious spots....
Any hints would be appreciated as we've been out of the game for a while & need to drop off some trackables, cheers,
Matt

Another interesting urban cache, its supprising how many parks there actually are around here! Thanks for the insight.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Well hidden. Saw no other people in the park.
Took my sisters family with me, they were excited to find their first.
Left new log as the other one was full. Took thong left beads.


TFTC

dv & team

Nice walk through the trees

Found after a little walking around. Took Nebraska Geocoin

Found at 0730 hours, wasn't starting work until 1000 hours because it was wet, so decided to do a couple of caches in the area.Nice little park, great hide.
Took pathtag, Left Initial Point Geocoin.
TFTC

nice place picked up travel bug,sponge bob will reappear.
left geocoin

Popped by the park on the way to a meeting..... Was a bit worried at GZ that i was a tad exposed, but soon found the more private cache spot....

swapped TBs...

TFTC

A good hide, but we got there. TNLN SL TFTC

Casual day out with the geo-mini. Found with ease after a previous DNF. A great day for caching....
T-dinosaur
L-eraser and TB
SL

Another on the list of a bad day's caching.... just couldnt seem to get it together.
Cache friendly dog only started when muggle dog began barking... others pre-occupied with Melbourne Cup, setting the perfect caching time.... Needless to say left frustrated at not locating GZ.
Will have the geo-instrument checked also as it has been out on a number of occasions lately and return on another day.

After failing to find this one 2 years ago, when I was here last- I managed to find it within 5 mins this time! Nice hide. Unfortunately the dang dog is still alive. And it barked constantly again!

This cache required extra stealth due to nearby living muggle lady with kid and dog. Luckily, the dog was cacher-friendly and didn't give us away.
Nice hide in a cool little park.

T: Glow-in-the-dark Dinosaur
L: Evil green Dinosaur

Thanks for the cache and happy belated birthday, Tickford

Thanks for the cache. GPS co-ordinates all over the place, but still found OK. Nearly got spotted by some home owners entering the park from there backyard! Took Travel Bug.

Found this great cache. it took a bit of time to find it.

Took: Slinky
Left: Rubber snake

easy find on a very cold day! special trip out to move the Rocket TB on. We set the dog off, you'd think he'd be used to us geocaches by now!
Took: dinosaur
Left TB - the Rocket
TFTC

Nice park & enjoyed scrolling with Everlasting. TFTC .

Happy Birthday... Accompanied with pwala for the day. No swap. SL. Thanks Tickford for organising the cache and hunt.