Christmas Crackers Koonung, Victoria, Australia
By
Melbermans on 25-Dec-08. Waypoint GC1K3K2
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Logs
Too far away to look after these days. Its a lovely area & Im pretty sure our caches have introduced a lot of people to the area which was the original intent.
Found the cache but it was lying all over the floor torn apart. The logbook is lost, this cache needs replacing
#110
A venture to a new park on a cold wet Saturday. A couple of caches to find and with the promise of a new playground, the mini-welders were excited.
The challenge today was that Emeylo convinced me only a few hours earlier to switch over to a new mobile phone (which I had purchased weeks earlier but never got around to activating... lol). And this first run of the GPS was out by between 70-100m. Not ideal. So we resorted to more primitive methodology.
It was at this time that the youngest mini-welder informed me of his identity crisis. The Purple Minion is no more... He has now evolved into...
THE BLUE MINION!!
Hmm...okay.
That was when I noticed a familar sight over his shoulder. With a little nudge, The BLUE Minion made his first find. And that made his day!
Thanks, Melbermans, for bringing us to this nice little forest I never knew existed. We had fun finding this one.
A venture to a new park on a cold wet Saturday. A couple of caches to find and with the promise of a new playground, the mini-welders were excited.
The challenge today was that Emeylo convinced me only a few hours earlier to switch over to a new mobile phone (which I had purchased weeks earlier but never got around to activating... lol). And this first run of the GPS was out by between 70-100m. Not ideal. So we resorted to more primitive methodology.
It was at this time that the youngest mini-welder informed me of his identity crisis. The Purple Minion is no more... He has now evolved into...
THE BLUE MINION!!
Hmm...okay.
That was when I noticed a familar sight over his shoulder. With a little nudge, The BLUE Minion made his first find. And that made his day!
Thanks, Melbermans, for bringing us to this nice little forest I never knew existed. We had fun finding this one.
I was surprised to find a cache in such an open, public place, but it's amazing what good camouflage can do. Tftc.
Quick find. Cache was rather exposed, and someone had left a drink container close by. Added some camo. TFTC
omegaman1971
Nice quick drive-by cache, no muggles around today.
Cheers for the cache
Nice quick drive-by cache, no muggles around today.
Cheers for the cache
A quick and easy find to keep our run going. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.
Found it while my sister was playing basketball. I saw a bit of blue which gave away the location.
No one around today so we were able to retrieve this one unmolested by muggle-types. Not quite sure what the Christmas Crackers thing is all about but I guess after 6 or 7 years something got lost in the translation!
TFTC
TFTC
Found without too much trouble, it's a lovely walk too but stealth required.
TFTC TNLN
TFTC TNLN
Out for our walk on a blustery winters day and doing some caches along the way. Despite the fact that the GPS was flipping around everywhere, Junior Muggle basketballers were being dropped off by Muggle Parents to play in a nearby hall, there were Muggle walkers, and a swooping muggle magpie, we did manage to find the cache, retrieve and sign the log without anyone taking any notice of us. Thanks for bringing us to this lovely park. TFTC TNLN
Suscoe was out and about in this area today.
It was a cool and overcast day with low cloud and the occasional drizzle patch here and there.
This was our 1st find of the day, a quick find and a completely empty area.
Thanks to Melbermans for this placement.
No crackers about this morning.
It was a cool and overcast day with low cloud and the occasional drizzle patch here and there.
This was our 1st find of the day, a quick find and a completely empty area.
Thanks to Melbermans for this placement.
No crackers about this morning.
Thanks for this cache. Very impressed with the community garden nearby, would love one in our neighbourhood.
Found the cache a little way from where the GPS indicated GZ. Signed the log and replaced cache.
Out caching with Morcs4 for the morning, getting some exercise, walking the dog and chatting. We were really in fine form now, getting lots of steps in on Morcs4's fitbit and finding more caches than we'd thought. One of the steps Morcs4 did this morning would include the step she nearly did on top of this cache! We weren't too impressed with the cacher who left a tin of tuna in the cache, and Morcs4 swapped it out. Thanks for the cache.
Met up with Vanessa from Vanessa&Aodh after changing our geocaching get together several times. She has a new job so will not be able to do this midweek anymore. 
Almost stood on this a Vanessa made the find at the same time. Love the tree shape. Lovely market garden nearby. I would love to have a community market garden too. Took a small can of tuna out (do not like any food in caches of any kind) and put in some trinkets. A bit random. TFTC
Almost stood on this a Vanessa made the find at the same time. Love the tree shape. Lovely market garden nearby. I would love to have a community market garden too. Took a small can of tuna out (do not like any food in caches of any kind) and put in some trinkets. A bit random. TFTC
Found it!! This one took me a while to find because the hint actually threw me off and my compass wasn't working right, but it was fun. A good find on a walk with my family. Thanks!!
My son playing basketball so I thought I'd sneak away for a few minutes to find this cache.
Passing through the area today and thought I would stop and look for a few caches on the way. Enjoyed looking for this one in the peace and quiet. TFTC
Quick, easy find just before Christmas while out for a walk with geofriends and dogs.
Another night orienteering and a quick, hopefully, grab before the off. Discovery was very quick and included a sneak up on me by a young lady who does gymnastics in the nearby building and keeps an eye on the cache. If this young lady is the future of geocaching, we can take it that it is safe. Thanks for the cache and onwards to another fun run.
Out for an evening with 4evatinks. This was our 2nd find of the evening. Enjoyed a nice stroll towards GZ. As we approached GZ, noticed nearby gym was full of muggles. Cautiously began our search and once our GPS's settled, found the cach in part with help from the hint. SL & replaced.
Thanks for placing this cache!
Thanks for placing this cache!
Out on a night run with ribinyang. Great little forest of pines. Was nice after carrying it around for a week to find a cache big enough to drop of a geocoin. Have had mostly micro finds in last week. I trust pirate bones can bring a hearty Christmas to its next visitor. Tftc.
This was our 5th find for the day. Our walk started on the Northern path from Blackburn Road to Springvale Road and back on the Southern path. The flowers are in full bloom which is great for those of us that don't suffer from hayfever. TFTC.
Out with Master D to have a play in the sunshine, spent some time in the playground then wandered over to GZ and made the find quickly as the park was deserted 
TFTC
TFTCFound it! Not necessarily a 'log' per se, but found it none the less. Great work. Thanks!
i found it about ten minutes ago it is abit tricky to find its actually next to a root between two trees and deffinetly leave it well hidden as their are a huge amount of muggles their
Quickly found in a very busy area. Everyone was in their own little world and payed no attention to us.
Sixth of seven for today. #752 Visited some TBs.
Thanks for the cracking cache Melbermans.
Sixth of seven for today. #752 Visited some TBs.
Thanks for the cracking cache Melbermans.
In the area for a game of basketball, parked the car walked straight up to the cache. Nice and quick.
Thanks for the Cache Melbermans
#551
Thanks for the Cache Melbermans
#551Found the cache out in the open with the lid removed and the container full of water. Still had the log and some trinkets in it so dried it out, signed the log and re hid the cache where I thought it belonged.....hope it was accidentally left like that and not muggled
TFTC and bringing me here for a walk.
TFTC and bringing me here for a walk.
A nice and easy find on our way home from Forest Hill SC. Thank you. Good hint.
