Bill Brown Park was named after W.R. Brown, who was a Councillor on the Melville Roads Board from 1947 to 1957 and Chairman of the Melville Roads Board from 1953 to 1954. The park has a small playground for the geokiddies.
Update 17 May 2017
The cache is now a drab painted 90mm x 90 mm x 155m high screw-top container, with log book, finders cards, pen, two pencils, sharpener, and a selection of swaps.
Please close the ziplock bag properly, and also screw the lid on the container tightly.
When trading items please consider trading up or trading even and leaving items that you would want to find, and please don't take the pen, pencil or sharpener. If you can't trade up or trade even I don't mind seeing TNLNSL in the log.
Trackables (geocoins and travel bugs) are not tradeable items. Please feel free to take them without making a trade, but please leave a note in the logbook and your online log, and do log them online.
2008 was the Australian Year of the Scout, celebrating 100 years of scouting in Australia. On the Foundation Day long weekend, they planned to hold a multi-sectional event involving up to 3,000 scouts, ranging in age from 6-26 years, camping on the Perth Esplanade, and participating in an urban orienteering event which they dubbed "Unearth Perth" or "The Amazing Race meets the great game of Geocaching".
In March 2008 *Quokka, in his role as Branch Commissioner (International), WA Branch, Scouts Australia, asked me to assist by setting up a series of "unmanned bases", which were to be similar to virtual caches, for the youth members to seek out. I was happy to help out, and by the end of April I provided the organizers with all the information needed to find and score the bases.
I left on a 6 month trip WanderingAustralia shortly after, but was told later that the event was a great success.
In the process of setting up the "unmanned bases" I discovered a large number of parks which seemed ideal to place caches in, particularly around Melville. Having finally caught up on the 6 month backlog of gardening etc, I decided it was time to start placing a few real caches. This is the first of three in the first batch, and others may follow when I find the energy