The Black Cockatoo and Possum Pale Multi-Cache

I was cycling along Gardiner’s Creek Trail close to the underpass at Warrigal Road when I spotted a Black Cockatoo. Shortly after that I spotted a pale possum in broad daylight. Afterwards I felt that I just had to commemorate those two sightings with a cache. Then later I spotted a heron – but the heron will have to wait. Maybe the next one.

This is a multi-cache so to find GZ you have to solve the clues in the poem below after you arrive at your first set of coordinates. The cache is NOT at this set of coordinates. It’s somewhere else.

I suggest that you allow yourself some time to do this cache. But you might be really quick and figure it out straight away. The poem gives you ALL the clues necessary to complete your quest. BUT if you like the mathematical route, I've got you covered too.

The field nearby is quite well used for all kinds of purposes – rugby practice and games, cricket lovers, kite flyers, dog walkers, joggers and I guess now, geocachers (!). I was out at GZ mucking about with my kids recently and no one paid us the slightest attention. But then, people tend to give companions of four legged canine friends little attention should they wander off well marked out paths. I even saw some people with video equipment wandering off the beaten track. But  being close to Holmesglen TAFE that would probably explain a lot.

So here’s the poem and the clues I promised you:

The Black Cockatoo and Possum Pale
by Cherryslice88

Here where sun shadows cast
from east to west
lies a new gym for the blest

Installed in mid 2017
For the athletic and the keen
Pull ups, push ups, sit ups galore
Walk the plank or walk the log
To name some and then more

At the bar which knee high be
Set your sights if you want to see
Fly like an arrow
Straight down the line
Fly like a crow
Sing like a beau  

Walk the plank
Jump off the log
Run swiftly quickly
Like a terrier dog

Set on a scent
Focused on a trail
Treasure of black cockatoo
and possum pale

Here the postie does not call
Mail is not delivered
For unsheltered everyone shivered

Pointing to a place where two pointers meet
Lie your treasured cache
In small hallowed space

Across greeny field and soft tufty dale
Set in the woods
Is your holy grail

Walk but a few paces from
first climbable tree
garbed in olive gray green
not like a pea

Just a bare dozen
If you’re not tall
Ten I’m sure
that is all

North by North East
Slouchy foursome I do spy
One looks dead but is very much alive

A clump of five
At their feet
Waving dancing
To you they greet

Sweet be your find
When scroll you sign
Where sunlight shadow
Flora fauna
Companionably intertwine

 S 3A B2. 22C

 E 145 0D.8EF

 A = number of horizontal bars + number of sit up boards  

 B = number of instruction panels/posts  

 C = number of chin up bars  

 D = number of step ups + trees within this outdoor gym area  

E = number of black rubbery completely visible squares (i.e. do not count the halves and quarters) under the chin up bars and parallel bars area - 2

F = number of flat rocks + large log + step up ‘mushrooms’ + push up bar

 NB: There are several ways of opening this cache's first cammo. Pulling the "lid" with damage it. Find another way.