Le Sisters Cache Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia
By edmil on 21-Jul-06. Waypoint GCX8FZ

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Visited cache site and cache has disappeared. Will prepare new cache and renewable as soon as possible.

Went looking for this one tonight as part of a Geocaching Night with Venturers and couldn't find the cache. GPS was right and we found the clue easily enough but couldn't find the cache. One of our leaders has found the cache previously and knew its location but it wasn't there. Afraid someone might have nicked it

PKK... and I visited this one today. We have to admit, we could not see any aussie icon and it's tucker unless you count the victa ride-on lawnmower. We noted that a number of better cacher's than us had to PAF so we decided there are too many caches and not enough time so we'll look at this one another day.

Nice small park TFTC

found @ 1:00 with mum and dad (ross47)

Had tried to find it a couple of days earlier, but found that Dads co-ordinates were out, so had no luck.
Tonight we were able to walk straight up to the hide.
A great reserve.

TNLN TFTC

A quick find @ 1:00 in the company of the geowife and emeraldflame. We had worked out the coordinates and tried to find it a couple of days ago. After rechecking my figures after getting back home I realised I had made a rather basic error in the calculations, which meant we had been looking just a little too far away to find it. Tonight was different as we walked straight up to it!

Thanks to edmil for the cache. TNLN

Now that was a difficult cache but a nice one. The clue was very obscure for me as someone who knows Latin for plants and animals. I never found the clue on the board and that was sent through from edmill. Thankfully.

From the cache info I had gone for macropus but that us wrong but on the right track and needs to be related to other things to get the info.

A nice reserve in which everybody greets you.

Tftc tnln

Well I found this more difficult that it needed to be! or maybe my brain is a little overloaded at the moment and after I PAF I was on the right track to get the cache until I realised my Maths was a little off too! Almost gave up when the penny dropped that I had a calculation wrong although I should have found it anyway! Eventually found my way to the cache, SL Took TB TFTC

Checked out the cache and all is in place. There is some graffiti on the board but the clue is not obscured.

No animals with Latin names left on the board so you can't even start to look. A lot of clearing works has gone on in the reserve so it may not even be a stump their anymore.

I did look around all the stumps I could see from the paths and nothing was turned up.

On working out the the next set of Coordinates we set off. Great little park in the middle of the suburbs

This entry was edited by Cracka1 on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 04:27:11 UTC.

Once we worked out the puzzle the rest was easy. Nice park on a sunny afternoon.

This entry was edited by S4pphire on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 05:16:33 UTC.

This place was really dark and very wet underfoot !! TFTC !!

Are there ghosts here? Quiet area at night, no moon. Finally made the find! TFTC

Thanks for your help Edmil
We finally worked out the clue and found the cache
Thanks again for helping us thick newbies

Checked notice board due to last searcher indicating may have changed. Notice board is unchanged details still clearly available.

Too hard for us
I think that the information board may have been changed since this cache was hidden and letter codes end up with too many numbers
Not recommened for non mathematical genius or qualified code breaker

Visit Friday night got the pictures that worked out where gz was. Returned Sunday afternoon with three kids in tow. The kids love the "secrets" that we find and mum loves the time to herself. Great little park that we all enjoyed tftc

Found 1435hrs. Took a few minutes to sort out final coordinates, once that was done a lovely walk and easy find. Took wombat, left jaguar. TFTC

Found this one today. I had previously been here with Irontoad but we couldn't work out the clues at the information board. We thought that maybe they had replaced the information board with different information.

I went back today determined to try and complete some caches that I had previously gotten stuck on. I looked at the information board carefully (with the use of the hint) and got the answer! From there I worked out where the cache was and went to find it. Awesome park to visit. Thanks for bringing me here. Took whale and left a girl on a scooter toy. Thanks for the cache edmail.

This cache has been a thorn in my side for soooo long. The pictures I took of the noticeboard are the oldest photo's in my iPhone. I must have collected them at the very start of my caching career and I have looked at them a number of times. To cut a long story short, I had no idea about the animal, although I had a good guess at it I was unable to make the numbers work. I eventually resorted to a phoning a friend for some help which was happily supplied. So today at lunch I drove to the car park and wandered through this wonderful area to GZ to sign the log. Thanks edmil it had me beat.

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I tried this one out about 6months or a year ago and failed to find the required info, a quick scout of the park also failed to turn up the cache, I checked alot of the area back then and therefor there wasn't much left to search. A quick PAF (thanks C@H) reduced the search area substantially.. Thanks Edmil for the hide and another Multi to reduce my Trad % stats.. TNLN

Gave up in frustration trying to identify the aussie icon and its favourite tucker, so decided as we were here we would walk round this lovely reserve. Guess what!!! We found the cache anyway hidden in an appropriate caching location.

Nice walk in a nice park and an easy find.
I had collected the information required on an earlier visit and this time it was to be a quick find and out. I had to wait for some dog walkers to move on but once clear it was found.
Thanks for the effort in placing this cache. Signed log.

Failed on working it out so walked around and found it in a obvious spot.

Out with covert on a 1/2 day caching run

ahhh yes it was covert to the rescue ...... covert worked it out and found the neat hiding spot.
TFTC
kellyhaunts

I'm here visiting from the U.S. and am not able to understand your clues. Please give coordinates of find so I can leave the travel bug I have brought with me from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Thanks If you would like, you can send coordinates through my email: [email protected]

Found it after reading recent logs. Saw some other cachers trying to figure out the clue as we were leaving!

Thanks for this cache and bringing me to this reserve close to home that I never knew existed. It was quite a challenge, but a couple of visits to the information board and emails to edmil, plus some elimination logic finally solved the puzzle. Then when I went to find the cache and saw the information board again the answer was very obvious.

TFTC. A minor swap made. Cache in good condition. SL

*sigh* My girlfriend and I did not have a good GC day today. Found the clue, but for the life of me was unable to de-code it to give me the coordinates. The number of letters = 7 for the first word but 8 on the second......Maybe I'm just a mere male. We'll head back again once I work out the coordinates.

Thanks for showing us this park, never knew it existed.

Cheers
Daytripper and Jo Jo

Once the icon and food has been logically worked out, it was down to some number crunching at which point a good set of coords was calculated. A nice walk through the park and was soon at GZ and getting the cache from its hiding spot. Nice little multi. Thanks edmil.

13 February 2011 | 20:09
Found nice and easy tftc tnln sl contents dry good to see

cool puzzle! tftc...

Nice easy find.
Thanks for the multi and cache

did the workings and made it to GZ with Dunko quick find TFTC TNLN SL

Found after working out the logic and arrived at GZ with Slink1 to make a quick find TFTC TNLN SL

3rd attempt to find the aussie icon. Hit me straight away this time. Worked out final
co-ords and got it, TNLN, Thanks for a fun cache edmil.

Found @1400
This was my 3rd attempt as I finally workout the the words for the cache's final coordinates.
The answer was right there in front of me.
Very clever use of words. Really enjoyed this one.
TFTC, TNLN

19.05pm. i had been caching with the madwizzard for 3 days finding lots of caches and this one was our last one together,it was a local one to wayne that he had already found so once again he let me do all the biz to come up with an answer,so off we went th gz for a quick find of this good prize thank you,in the cache i found a melbourne demons key ring,so i took it and have made it into a travel bug,so it might find its was back oneday. thank you for this good cache and greetings from england.sl.patandjeff=bones1.

I finally got around to attempting this cache after visiting the area a number of times in the past. I got the clues, punched in some numbers, then strolled off to look for the cache. There were a couple of older teens drinking near by so I had to keep walking until they left. Once the area was clear I resorted to the clue and found the well hidden cache.

Many thanks for showing me this great reserve, I really enjoyed walking around and reading the info boards.

R - B

Found by Greg 1330H 22/09/19. Free at last!! I can finally close this one off!! I have tried to find this cache on and off for the last two years without being able to fathom the clue. I finally read back through the logs of the successful cachers and found the clue I needed. Thankyou sooo much. The puzzle is really quite straight forward which does not say much for my deductive reasoning. TNLN TFTC

FINALLY!! Turns out an unexperienced helper had actually looked in this spot last time we were here but didnt look close enough. Thanks for help from edmil. We took cache to our house nearby for 5 minutes so we could have a look properlly out of the cold and rain with the geokiddies. Quickly replaced cache with loads of dog walking muggles around. I forgot to bring TB so may pop in in future to drop it off.

Have tried again with a hint from cache owner and still no success. I even had a TB I was going to drop to encourage more cachers to this one

searched the info board for an aussie icon or tucker and came up with nothing

The Micro Compass Rose Geocoin has been here since about August last year, so I came back today @ 17:30hrs and grabbed it from the cache to help it move on.
The cache is still in very good condition and waiting for somebody to come and find it.
Just watch out for the Muggles when you fill out the log as this seems to be a fairly popular park that gets a lot of use.
Cheers
Mw

Yay!! I found it @ 1430... Well at least my girlfriend did and we were together at the time
It was starting to rain so I had to write in the log book very quickly and get out of there. There was only one Muggle walking his woofer so no problem in that respect although I would think there would be plenty on the weekends and public holidays.
Thanks so much for a great cache... It was a bit tricky at the start but once I found it I felt silly because it was so easy.
In fact I was about to give up on it.

TFTC; Took the LED torch & left a rubber wrist band.

Rated: for Overall Experience

I'm afraid I am no good at these cryptic clues. I had to give up on this one after looking for about an hour and a half and no luck working out the cryptic part of it. I think you might need to put a few more stars on this one

Rated: for Overall Experience

Cache has been re-enabled. The sign has been replaced and new clues have been taken from the sign.
Cache container has been replaced and contents checked
All ready to go again - enjoy

The cache is temporarily disabled as the sign on which the co-ordinates were calculated has been changed. I am in the process of rewriting the clue (along the same lines as the old one). The cache also requires some maintenance so the container will replaced at the same time.

Had to rely on some help from a friend here as we couldn't find the required info at wpt 1. Turns out it wasn't there but we did find the cache so thats what counts.
Thanks

Now this was a bit more of a puzzle than I think it was meant to be. We found the notice board without any trouble, it went downhill from there. We couldn't find the information we needed.
We eventually (later that night) got some assistance from a local, but I suspect the information board might have been changed.
I will send an email to the owner.
Thanks for the really nice walk in an interesting park, Robmc.

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

We loved working out the puzzle!! Made even more "puzzling" by us leaving out a letter (whoops) and so had too many digits for the coordinates!!! Once we realised that it was Full Steam Ahead.
Found by MMelb - cool hiding place!
Took Plastic Spearman
Left Mini LED Torch
Thanks edmil
GJM Melb

It was a nice easy find for my first of the day.
T: Anniversary Geocoin
L: Micro Compass Rose Geocoin
Katherine TB, CF30's "Other Ways Of Speaking" Crowesfeat30 GeoCoin and Jimmie TB also dropped in for a visit.
TFTC

Visited at 12:04 on 06 June 09
We were driving past here today and Echo decided to stop and check out this spot for a cache. Lucky for us that we fired up the eXplorist first. Nice place for a cache.
Took nothing and left a geocoin, TFTC.
Find #597 for Echo & Spice.

Found at 1445. Some lovely person has sprayed graffiti on the sign making it difficult to read the required information. The cache lid is broken and needs fixing. TNLN. Thanks edmil.

Lot of fun finding this. TFTC

Great team work and good clues

We noticed that one of the clip-down bits on the lid of the cache container is broken. It is still in pretty good shape but will probably get pretty wet soon.
It might be a good idea to replace the container or put a rubber band around it (we didn't bring one, unfortunately).

A great cache to do on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We enjoyed the puzzle and the walk past playing Muggle kids and spotted the cache at about 2:15 pm.
T: Periscope
L: English solder figurine

TFTC!

Visited the cache for maintenance purposes. All is in order cache in original hide and contents fine.

Found @ 17:00 Last of 5 in the area whilst out to visit my sister in law. 2nd attempt at this one as had trouble the first time finding the clue in fading(ed) light and no torch. Found OK today although muggles were a slight problem at GZ.
Thanks. TNLNSL

Found this one at 16:40 as our last one for the day. A nice easy one in a very pleasant little piece of bushland. Unfortunately, the graffiti "artists" have attacked the information board [:(!] but at least the vital bit of info was still visible.

TNLNSL, although our 100 finds geocoin had a visit to mark our 300th multi-cache find. Thanks edmil.

Found at 1305hrs after seeing that the graffiti was scraped off the required flower details. TNLN TFTC Regards Sarian

This was my first cache find as it was so close to my home.
Found with Rosemary. Left Toy Car, Took Gnome. Will find a good garden for him.

Final cache of 16 for the day. Managed to pick the wrong sweet flower at the first attempt, the mistake was quickly identified and fixed. Had a bit of a wander around while looking for the cache, the cloud cover was affecting the GPS signals and the GPSr arrow was all over the place. A great park to visit. TFTC.

It was a nice easy find for my first of the day.
Took hippo Left Travel Gnome TB.
TFTC

Found @ 1520.

Bloody graffiti 'artists' Finally made out the letters and headed to GZ. Found in second place I looked. Cache container in critical need of repair, lid is falling off. TNLN, thanks for the cache!

The graffiti made it tough – and with two likely answers, one of them soon came to the fore with a set of likely co-ords being revealed. We enjoyed the walk and found the cache in short time. TNLN & SL at 8:15pm. Thanks edmil for the cache!

Nice area - nicely hidden cache
TNLN
TFTC

After a couple of false starts on deciphering the code we eventually worked out which keyword to use, and came up with a feasible GZ. Once there, the tree coverage didn't help with pinpointing the cache but a ranged search of obvious locations delivered the goods.

Took: 50c
Left: hippo and palm tree

Also took the Unite for Diabetes TB.

found this one on the way back from finding the "The 13th Cache" so i was still on a high and eager to find another one.
Nice little puzzle (i got the clues a few weeks ago and worked it all out at home)
Nice quick find.
TNLN
thanks

Visited cache today today to drop of TB in my possession.

Found @ 2.40pm on a beautiful afternoon!
Find # 245. Fozz=0. T:Crayons.L:Fozzy card. SL
We arrived at the initial location and tried to read the board. The grafitti was horrendous!
Chati then dropped the GPS which turned off and wouldn't turn back on!!!
I couldn't work out the info, and even if I did I had no GPS to put the info into, so almost decided to go back to our friends, when he suggested we go for a walk around the parkland area. We read the logs and armed with only vague hints, we went for a walk.
I happened to notice a familiar looking arrangement, and BINGO! I came up with the cache. A FLUKE BY ANY MEANS!! No waypoint info and no GPS.
Nice area, and even sweeter victory over the hidden cache!!
Thanks very much for bringing us here to explore!

Nice park- the vandalism to the notice board is a shame though.

Finally found this one, in the dark. We enjoyed the hunt. It had us stumped for a little while due to vandalism on the main board though

Penultimate cache for the day and a really nice walk to cool off after climbing 700 odd stairs. I found a weird looking memorial with two teddy bears and a plastic rose hanging from a tree fern close by and then found a neatly hidden cache. TNLN. Thanks for showing me this part of the forest.

What a beautiful park! Had a wonderful time solving this one and taking the wanted. Didn't see any of the sweet flowers in bloom today but the cache was worth the walk. Nice size, but a little empty so i took nothing and left a necklace, keyring and strawberry shortcake figurine.
Thanks edmil for the cache!

15th find of the day at 4:10pm on our usual cache to the east expedition accompanied by Feathertop, the GPS'r was playing up again ( it sure doesnt like areas with trees) and had us searching a bit longer than usual but the cache was soon found. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx Edmil....

Last of 22 caches today with Oenze. We enjoyed the multi though vandals had thrown paint over the sign and we had to clean a bit to get the info. After that the cache was found again with the sattleites doing us no favours. thansk edmil.

Took me three goes to find the right clue, and then a simple arithmetic error held me up for another minute, but I was soon off for a stroll. Cache found easily in its nice hide and no swaps made. thanks edmil for another cache in a nice little suburban area.

We had fun with this one
One more find for us..
Thanx !

Our second find on a very hot afternoon .
After gathering the required info we headed towards Gz and after a very quick search we had the cache in hand .
We also noted that the Travel bug listed in the inventory is not there ?
We signed the log , TNLN & replaced the cache in its spot
TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

Patience & persistence will get you there.
TFTC

We pulled up at wpt1 and collected the required information and then calculated the co-ordinates before heading off on a pleasant walk to gz.
The cache was located after a short search
TNLNSL
Thanks edmil for the cache and showing us this park

Found with the Coffees

Found with the Coffees

This cache has been on the to do list for some time now and today seemed like a good time to have a look.
We arrived at the first location and it seemed someone has decided to “up†the difficulty by spray painting some graffiti over the information board. This was not going to stop us so with a bit of bush cleaning I was able to concentrate on hopefully the right area.
After deciphering the clues we knew we needed to re-think the clues as the GZ was many, many hundred kilometers away. A quick check on the cache description assured us this was not a Melbourne to Albury cache as difficulty and terrain was 1.5, and a 300 kilometer walk would (I hope) be more than 1.5. This was assumed on walking and not driving as that could be possible but unlikely. However thinking about it by the cache description “eg A = 26†could be taken as “Estimated Gz Albury = 260 kilometers†away and L1, L2, L3, could represent highway truck stops, but again this was highly unlikely (I hope).
I decided to do this the easier way than driving to Albury and went back to the info board for another look.
It then became clear I may have written down the wrong clue and crunched to numbers to see if GZ was a bit closer.
After entering to coordinates it was off to GZ and not as far as Albury, this proved a bit sad as I was getting excited about driving to Albury for this cache. It was a short time later I arrived at the GZ and this definitely reminded me of a cache we did near Albury and I was a bit happier.
It was not long before we signed the log, re-hid the cache and headed off for more caching adventures.
Many thanks to Edmil for the cache it a great little spot to stop, I may use this place for work lunch stops when I am in the area.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the “If you try to read into a cache too much you could end up anywhere, even Albury†Clan.

Nice little park for this neck of the woods. Had no trouble finding it. Thanks for the walk and the cache.
Took: Geocoin
Left: Coin

Found by Bob at 1440

Having visted this one very early in the piece, but being denied the find by a ferocious hailstorm, I figured it was about time I finally put it to rest . A nice stretch of parkland it was too!

TNLN, although I dropped off a TB and a geocoin

Thanks edmil

Found by the Swaggies at 0950 hrs. The main sign had been graffitied some time ago but we were able to select the right flower. This place is doggie heaven with heaps of them turning up every 10 minutes. A quick log and we left the area.

In silver earrings.
Out nothing.

TFTC edmil.

Found 14:10, a nice easy find once we chose the correct flower [B)]

TNLN, thanks edmil.

Found by Mary & David at 1600. A very interesting area featuring a community garden planting of local plants. Took frog, left figurine. TNLN. Our thanks again to edmil.

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A

First of thirteen finds on a cold, rainy day in company with acts2youthgroup. This one has been 'on the list' a couple of times, but I never seemed to get to it. Today it was first cab off the rank. I found it at 0915. It was raining, so it was another case of caching under an umbrella. Despite the weather conditions, I really enjoyed the park. There are myriad tracks through it, so I took a different path in and out. I made no exchange. Thanks to edmil for the cache.

Did a driveby on waypoint 1 and there was a car with people hanging around the required area. Came back some time later and they had moved to the other end of the car park and had been joined by others. I obtained what I thought would be the correct information from the female point of view and it turned out to be right. I didn't want to leave my car unattended given the nature of the others lurking in the area so went for a drive and found another park enterance. GZ was an easy find and the cache was a little showing. On returning the cache I made attempts to bed the cache down a little further out of sight and plunged my hand in to make some more room. Thank goodness I didn't get bitten but seconds latter there where bullants everywhere rearing in the air ready for some serios action[:0]. I returned the cache very carfully in quick bursts dodging bullants as I went.
TNLNSL
Hope no one gets bitten

Thanks Edmill and friends.

I finally got to do this cache. I have had it in the back of my mind since it first came up, but was always in a hurry to get home after work but this afternoon I had a half hour to spare so off I went to find it. At waypoint 1 the information was gotten and the maths done and off I went. The GPSr was leading me around a bit at GZ but after a couple of minutes the cache was found in a fairly obvious spot. Filled in the log book and as I replaced it a bullant bit me for diturbing his home [xx(](future finders beware!!!). Thanks for the cache Edmil.

Found with hamishm.

Appart from the aformentioned vandalism of the sign and a biking accident no worries on this cache.

TNLN. TFTC.