Orienteer at Mawson Lakes The Levels, South Australia, Australia
By Irac- on 05-Jan-08. Waypoint GC18CDR

It seemed only fitting that this should also end up being archived on an evening when orienteering was on at Mawson Lakes so that's it for this one. So long. And thanks for all the fish. ( or is that finds?)

looked for about 10 minutes and could not find. Was a nice quiet day with not too many people around so was able to get deep into the bushes.

Out for a day of caching with Trail06.

He made the find fairly quickly.

TFTC

We found this at 5.00 a.m. on the way to a huge day of caching in the mid north with Team Waldron.

We tried for the century but like the Australian Cricket team, that proved elusive and we had to be content with 60 odd caches for the day. I remember when you placed this cache so it was nice to finally knock it off. Thanks guys!

Found after short search. TFTC

Found quickly this afternoon with e.gregory1. TFTC

TNLNSL TFTC

TFTC Good hide

Couldn't resist this one - found on the way to orienteering. Cheers

Not many Muggles. A cold wet day, but the reward was found for my efforts

found

Don't know if this would be harder at night or in day??! I was there at night with alashfa to make the find but it took some stealth.
Security office is only a stones throw away and as soon as we pulled up at GZ the eyes were on us. Alashfa provided a suitable decoy while I crawled around out of sight behind bushes. Nearly gave up but found a good stick and was able to delve deeper and soon had in hand. Was bigger than I thought. Would have been easier if I could use my light to full effect.
TFTC!

Found on second attempt with Funky G.O. TFTC dropped Dino took Dino.

Done\

Didnt bring my GPS to uni today, but using google earth and the clue I knew where I would find the cache. Took me a little longer than I expected though and I have some scratches on my arms to prove that I had been there - TFTC TSLS

Found while night caching with KimbaTheGreet. Took nothing. Left beaded worry bear (rub his tummy to forget worries) in yellow microcache left by KimbaTheGreet.

Logbook is looking very full. Needs replacing.

SL
Left a yellow microcache (containing chasethatrainbow worry bear) ... so if anyone is maybe thinking they might want to hide a microcache
This one was slightly harder than i first was expecting.
Did this one at night too ... I think Security were starting to wonder what we (chasethatrainbow and myself) were doing, lol.
On a side note ... a new log book is required, as the current one only has about 2 spots left.
T.F.T.C

Quick easy cache. Took kangaroo keyring and left a Coke bottle keyring. TFTC

Out with Someuser night caching in the rain
I'm sure my clothes dried every leaf on every tree and bush in the area whilst searching EVERY dang bush in the NE direction!
Grrr, lol, found eventually!! Pants were wet though

Found with FPN. Searched the wrong side of the bush after some false info from the geograndkid. Found eventually, and placed it where he said it should be. However, back at the car, I read the printout for this cache, realised it was in the right place all along, and moved it back again. Fortunately, no muggles in sight on this Sunday afternoon. Took "Pampering" key ring, left Kangaroo key ring. TFTC.

ok i read it wrong but i was the 1 who found it and im the 1 who read the print to see if it was on the left or right and im the 1 who went back and put it in the right place. TFTC TNLN.

the perfect grab 1830 on a mon night noone to be seen took lizard left army man

I agree with Trigg - which bush??!!!
Looked in a few different bushes, under all the leaves, and also went right into where the big tree was, but did not end up with anything.

Ah, that bush!
I searched NNE, not NE. [xx(]
TNLNSL, visited DNF coin

Ah yes, but which bush? I'll be back with my DNF geocoin for this one...

On a caching adventure with TBG. Once I figured which side of the bush was which, it soon came to hand. Thanks.

3095.96 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Tracks A#100

Albida

43rd of 44 finds
out with Albida33
Found @ 16:41 The hunt took a few minutes, the endless stream of empty buses was extraordinary.
TFTC

Found it good hide in early morning.Lovely smell bushes.T.N.L.N

T.F.T.C

There wasnt a sole around on a quiet Sunday afternoon. However it did take me about 5 minutes of searching to finally come up with the goods.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Found with Aymeric the muggle.

As a member of the Gangsters who invaded Adelaide over the weekend, we found this cache after a short search. I'm not really an orienteering person I'm more into rogaining. Not that either of those skills were used to find this today. The local security were a little busy today.
Thanks for bringing us here.

3116.

Found this cache on our Adelaide invasion trip with Steeba, The Rats and FarmerFrentzen.

Thanks Irac- for the cache,

TNLNSL

Found on an Adelaide Invasion in the company of Big Matt and Shell, The Rats and Steeba. TFTC.

Found on Adelaide Invasion trip with The Rats, Big Matt and Shell and Farmer Frentzen.

Don't mind a bit of orienteering but rogaining is more our style. TFTC!

Finally able to tick this one off. We tried once before on a Sunday but there was something on in one of the buildings with the car park packed and not only lots of muggles, but a roving muggle security guard. No such problems today and we were able to park almost right on top of the cache.
Took and left GC
TFTC

Found thanks. TNLNSL

Found with relative ease. left GC

Thankyou for the hide. TNLN

Was able to park 1m from GZ and had the cache in hand before anyone else was out of the car.
1 x dissapointed geokid(he didn't find it) took: armyman and left: toy truck.
Cheers Irac and happy caching.

nice spot. TFTC

Mighty Morphin Geo Rangers and I gave this one a try but both left frustrated and itchy. Oh well...

it was fun

A reasonably easy find for the Storm Chasers and Geo Kids. Took Ribbon, Left Lizard.

TFTC

Once I worked out which direction Nth-East was I was ok.
Thanks Irac-

This was our 2nd try at this one. Found straight away.

Pretty quite today so could park 2m from the cache. Seem to be following a wombat around today. Thx irac for the cache

Easy find for my forth find.no one around on a sat morn.
TFTC, TNLN. signed log Ta Netdrifter

[This entry was edited by netdrifter on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 7:07:10 PM.]

Got it on my morning Walk!!!! - At last! Easy when you know where it is! I used the clue, various logs and persistance - its a hi-vis area.

The area was fairly muggle free when I arrived, and once grabbed I was off to sit in the bus stop to look at the loot - I had to wave off one buss driver.

Returning the cache took a bit longer, I had to coolly walk past the GZ because of an accademic muggle turning up, and walkled onto the golf course. Once the coast was clear I walked back, pretended to pick up a stick for the dog and stashed the cache - then I was off!

Took: Choo Choo Travel Bug
Left : "Remove Before Flight" tag

Glad to get this one.

TFTC

mpwashus

Visited at 13:36
We were finding it a bit hard to work out where to start searching as the sky birds were playing up a treat when we got here... So we started searching and then the security guard decided to come and have a look. Great, that is just what we wanted... So we move to another side of where we are searching and BINGO! Sometimes muggles are good.
TNLNSL TFTC, find #516 for Echo & Spice.

Everything was strangely quiet around the campus today
Public holidays are wonderful caching opportunities
The sheer amount of shrubbery at GZ had me wondering about how long I could hang around without security noticing me though [:o]
Fortunately I knew my SW from my ESE and soon lifted the right branch and spotted a cache hiding within
TFTC, I left the "Choo Choo" travel bug and I took the Cinco de Mayo geocoin and will grab it just as soon as I can get a powerful enough magnifying glass to read the tracking number

Found the cache on a cool wet morning. A few people around but all was OK. TNSL.

Left: Geocoin.

TFTC

Yo, Yo, Yo The Geohunterz Found yet another cache. Find and sell our bus fair, Y'all get a good price for it!!!

A few muggles around. A bit of poking around before we came up trumps.
TFTC
SS

Found at 16:10
Had to wait a couple of minutes for some muggles to leave, and a bit of search, but found readily enough.

Had quite a big search with no luck so had to give up today

kids found this one and interesting location had a little walk around. TFTC TNLNSL

Finally found on the 5th attempt! Previous attempts thwarted by heavy muggle activity and one or two occasions of not being able to find it. JadedOptimist08 was instrumental in pointing out the location where we had failed to find it so many times before. Finally our nemesis is defeated! TFTC.

Another nice, quick and easy cache in the Northern 'Burbs.
Cache almost fell into my hand... i supect it hasn't been that easy for some..
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker.

Cache #14 on the final day of 2008 - part of the CMB cyclocache tour of Mawson Lakes - a 10km loop nets about 15 caches on a good day and today was thankfully light on muggles wise.
Luckily, middle of the xmas hols and not a soul around, apart from the cache money bros and the cache munky.
Cheers and TFTC

No joy. Probably missed it with all the leaf litter.

Had a quick look around today, but had 2 sleeping kids in the car so didn't want to get of the car. I will be back...

watch out for spiders. hard to see because of leaf litter.

It took 2 goes to get this one as almost every car in Mawson Lakes decided to park in the carpark. Went back Friday night a 19.30 hrs and found the cache. Left enough blood for a blood bank donation but this is sometimes part of caching!!!
SL TNLN TFTC

FOUND ON MY TASSIE INVASION TOUR, THANKS FOR THE CACHE.

No tears were shed looking for this, but we did see a few oriental ppl around here. Caching with Lead of Lead'n'Lace. TNLN TFTC.

Located in the company of APTY while on a break from a work conference at the local function centre. Checked out the bush and found the item only to be sprung by some muggles as we stood up. Had a brief chat to explain the concept so I trust they left it alone.
SL TNLN TFTC
Cheers,
Lead of Lead 'n Lace.

After three days of caching over here the back of my hands are cut up and scratched. This cache posed problems in that area but my old orienteering skills came to the fore when I deciphered the clue as I was able to find the correct corner of the bush and escape unharmed.
Thanks Irac.

More damn shrubbery caches. You guys down here in Adelaide seem to love caches in scrubs and mysteries, what's with that?

Anyway, MADSTARS and I found it @ 0745, logged it and moved on before too many muggles turned up for work. TFTC.

Hi IRAC-,
You did one of my caches in Nelson bay many eons ago... Unfotunately dutchies dolphin walk is now archived but I have started may more.

It feels good to do another cachers caches...

Thank you very much, i loved watching Pensive traveller look through the bush on his hands and knees...

MADSTARS
Nelson bay 2315

Those autumn leaves can make for a tricky find . Took Wombat Sign Keyring and Team Firesafes Pathtag (6688122), left Hawaiian Keyring.

Nice little hide. Mrs PWC knows the area well as she was a student here!
TNLN TFTC

Was about to give up on this one but just lifted up one last part of a bush and there it was. Left Team Firesafe pathtag. TFTC.

fouind with liz n bruce
tftc cooroy scouts

Tried to do this one on the first night it was out. We were with friends that lived nearby, however our late night search did not reveal the cache. More success today especially good as there was no one around while we searched around carefully so as not to disturb the growth. Thanks Irac-

Accumulating leaf litter thwarted a quick find - the bane to a late break in the season! Thanks for the cache Irac-.

First find for the day! We were on our way home to Kadina after an appointment in Adelaide that morning - it is always great to squeeze in some geo-caching!

TFTC!

Accompanied with Lava12 for the day. Excellent hide spot. No swap. SL. Thanks Irac- for organising the cache and hunt.

It took us a while to find it because the bush is getting bigger!!!!
Thanks for the cache.

[Finally found after many visits. I have no idea how I never found this before. Growingupisoptional beat me to this one after I came to the conclusion it was gone, but a quick hint had me ]"on the right path".[ A very busy area at 5pm, having to tie shoelaces does wonders for stealth. Took RayTheOtherRay TB. TFTC. Glad to get this one crossed off.]

No Coins found in this one.

Good hide this took us a little while to find. Had groingupisoptional with us plus the in laws.
took tupperware keyring
left Koala keyring
tftc

Found with The Zephyr and Canberra parents. A nice easy find...3/3 for mother's day. Ex-army surveyor father-in-law foraged and found this one. At first I thought we weren't going to find this one...so many leaves!
Had no keyrings so no swaps today.

Orienteering was one of the sports we tried before stumbling on geocaching, the main problem being the timing of organised events .
No problem with timing today - we made it early enough to find the cache before anyone started work/school.
TN (didn't see a TB).
Left Dreamcatcher geocoin & put the log book in a new bag (couldn't believe we didn't have a keyring).
SL.
Thanks Irac- [^].

Whoa!so many leaves around and after 20minutes looking and too many muggles at the bus stop we gave it up for today!

Decided to visit this one at a time where there'd be no muggles and we were successful.

TNLNSL

A number of muggles were around but far enough away. The specific clue helped to identify the spot and the cache found, retrieved, and returned without drama. TFTC.

Easy find, with ne'er a muggle in sight. Could be due to the fact that it's Sunday, or the fact that it's 41C at the moment.
TNLNSL
Back to the air conditioned car for Geo-Son and myself.....

#422

a few muggles on a saturday afternoon but got the cache and then had to wait for ages to put it back as a group of people decided to have an impromptu smoke in the carpark...
TFTC - TNLNSL

S-ANDO (cmb)

Fast find with no one in sight. Took Kiwi TB left Rubik's cube keyring. TFTC Irac-

Find 192 without a GPS at 2.45pm
No uni on Saturday so fairly easy
Took the Unite for Diabetes TB
Left Tahi the Kiwi TB
TFTC FOFV

Last stop & 20th find for my nights caching. Actually the sun was just up so maybe this could be the first stop of the day [?]
Grabbed the 2 geocoins & left a keyring.
Cheers.

Found on an orienteering trip to UniSA with my daughter. It seems that buses and trams do go from Bridgewater to Mawson Lakes! Left two TBs TFTC

I went orienteering for the first time in 10 years thanks to this cache. DIdn't get the cache that night but came back when orienteering with Foxzami.

found on cyclocaching trip of Mawson lakes with Self power. TFTC. left a very cool geocoin!

It's nice when you return from leave to find that there is a new cache near work[^]
Had to pick up a friend from Uni, so was able to park near GZ and use Cal, who I'd just picked up from child care nearby for cover for looking in the bush; whilst waiting for my friend to arrive.
Fortunately I spotted the cache straight away, so the many muggles waiting for a bus didn't notice me, and there was no security staff loitering around enjoying the fresh air.
I often spot orienteering around Mawson Lakes as the local school regularly does it. They have a checkpoint on the fence where I work and look out to. I often see the boys searching for branches and bark to hide the checkpoint after they've found it - Cachers in training[?]
Searched through the contents but no geocoin.
TNLN, TFTC Irac-

Cheers
P.S Can Orienteering be considered an Oriental sport[?]

We got it! Thanks a lot.

Always pleasant to have another cache close to work. However, the GPSr always wanted us to be metres north looking at the NE side of another bush, right next to a parked car. In the end, Adrian Mc pointed out the correct one while we were doing an exchange yesterday . I'm afraid caches in a bush don't do much for me - especially when there are so many in which to search! However, we came up trumps today. Took the Wrest Point Casino TB - I mustn't've dug deep enough to see the coin .

TFTC.

It's been a bit of a tour for me today. After spending most of the day on the southern beaches I find myself inland and north. I was quite looking forward to this one but the 'in a bush' thing just doesn't light my fire. I've been out here a few times now looking for caches. Gee they pack those houses in around here.

Tough area to cache in

took 5 mins of searching before coming up with the goods. not sure how long the bush will last

Dropped in a TB

TNSL