LGC #03 - Devil's Elbow Eastern View, Victoria, Australia
By Mr Emu on 06-Feb-10. Waypoint GC23NCB

A quick "archiving road trip" down the Great Ocean Road this morning to collect the container. Huge surf and quiet roads.

The idea was for the series cute while it lasted, but to avoid any dangerous driving incidents by people trying the series in reverse order, this series has been archived.

I have decided that the placement of these guard-rail caches along this narrow, curvy road is too dangerous.

Despite of my clear warnings on the cache page, I am concerned by logs from cachers that still attempt them from the "wrong" direction (i.e. travelling from Apollo Bay towards Torquay), which entails cutting across traffic, sometimes on blind corners. While I cannot control how people choose to drive, I do not want to be responsible for a fatality as the roads get busy over Summer.

Collection and Archiving of this cache is planned within the next month.

Suscoe found the excuse today to make the trip down here after our last unfulfilled visit.
We had two other Mr Emu challenges to do so it seemed the right thing to do.
Cache was soon in hand and it was nice to be first to sign a new log.
TNLN
Thanks to Mr Emu for the quick replacement work . The containers are really great.

found while down at lorne on schoolies on the way to lorne after some shopping!

TFTC

A new camouflaged cache container, log book, pen and themed quote(!) are now in place where the old one used to be. There are even a couple of little swaps. Happy hunting!

Nice Location. TFTC

The coordinates are pretty accurate, and the caches should all be easy to find, so I suspect this one has gone walkabout. With the warmer weather, I now have the possibility of painting-up a replacement (in the appropriate camouflage).

I hope to replace this cache within the next few weeks.

This is sort of embarrassing; I DNFed one of the LGC's somewhere around here and think it might have been this one but can't be certain my memory is correct! In my excitement to get to the next cache I just marked whichever one it was as 'Found' rather than 'Did Not Find' on my GPSr; oops! I was trying to be sensitive to my reluctant spouse (and sensitive to the fact that if I took too long at caches the likelihood that he'd let me stop at others would be reduced!) so when I couldn't find it after a brief look headed on.

Thank you for the cache!

Suscoe's only miss today, completed all the other LGCs but this one eluded us!
Not sure what happened but i am sticking with Cache Creep, Mrs Suscoe just thinks I had a man's look!
Coudn't see it anywhere!
Oh well we will just have to force ourselves to come back down here again soon, a shocking thought but we will have to put up with the beautiful views and wonderful scenery.
Thank you Mr Emu.,

Time of log 16.

OUT: pathtag coin

This entry was edited by Team Black Flag on Friday, 05 November 2010 at 15:46:51.

Cruising the GOR. TFTC

Looked and looked for cache with interuptions from Muggles in the end we gave up.

Rocky Glen Grommets were visiting Victoria (Aussie MotoGP at Phillip Island) and were on their way home when they decided to do some caching - this was number 14 for today before heading along the great Ocean Road - left a pathtag - our last one!

Well hidden!

Well hidden!

Really wonderful view, took it while driving along the Great Ocean Road, thanks a lot!!
GOR 8/27!!

found

Collected , logged, replaced in between the endless stream of stopping cars. Thanks Mr Emu.

Road trip to Wye River with Little Blue hen made these LGC's and essential thing to do. Great idea to break the journey. TFTCSL( sorry about boring logs but at least the caches weren't boring)

Third LGC for the day. T4TCSL great concept.

A nice and easy find in the dark, with very few muggles passing. TFTH...SL....TNLN

Love your LGC caches Mr Emu. Great idea to place nice and easy cache on that fantastic road. We really enjoy it. We did half in Mars when we arrive in Australia and the rest this week when it's almost time to lo leave. Your caches are extremely well maintain... Bravo.Bonjour from French Canadians. TFTC, SL

another photo op thanks for the view tftc!

Look out below! TFTC

We did this one at about 6pm and there were no muggles anywhere, yay! Enjoying this series..TFTC.

Broke the journey yet again ... it's starting to get dark ... TNLNSL.TFTC!

Found this, but, took the pen by mistake (muggles made me panic). BUT - found one of your caches a bit further down with no pen! So, left the one I "took" in there. So, Devils Elbow is short a pen, sorry..

Brillaint run of caches - marvellous views - thanks

Quick and easy as promised. TNLN. TFTC

A grey rainy day meant that no one else was around so I didn't need to worry about looking suspicious. Took Hagstone TB. TFTC!

another quickie Thanks heaps

Find # 1481 @ 11:20
How convenient was that. Seems a nice kind surfer had parked a white van right at gz allowing me to access the hide sight unseen from the hordes of Japaneses tourists in the car park. TNLNSL Thanks Mr. Emu!

Drove to Bells Beach for a look and a possible cache or 2 then was able to complete the LGC series. Thanks for the great series Mr Emu.

Quick find left hagstone trackable

2010-07-03 15:31 Found on our way to Apollo Bay along with all except #12 which is currently disabled. Thanks Mr Emu.

After looking for the 'Gateway' for an hour yesterday, we found this one in 60 seconds! Gotta go! Off to find more along the GOR! Geohaz

Luckily this was a quick find as the weather is changing. I think I'll be reluctant to get out of the car in a minute!

Did the tour the wrong way around when heading towards Sydney. Great views but really adventurous cutting across the lane in order to get into the bays - thanks, we loved it.

Found while EB 13 took photos of the view. TFTC

This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Thursday, 01 July 2010 at 04:49:32.

Found this one at 9.20am. Not much traffic on the road today so no danger from muggles. Its pretty easy to hear the cars coming from a bit down the road. Thanks Mr Emu.

Took the geomunchkins geocaching while the geo wife worked in Lorne for the day

Another stop on our day trip down to Lorne and back.
TNLN TFTC

Our 900th find. We have driven past here hundreds of times but never stopped. Being the first day of winter and a weekday reduced the muggle factor and made retrieval easy. We left a moose, took nil, SL TFTC

I did this series (Except the disabled #12) in reverse order today on the way back from the Earthcaches near Port Cambell.
I had a ball with this series and by no way are any of these 'Lame'.
The scenery is fantastic. The cache locations are superb and the containers are well loved and maintained.
All in all a great series of caches on a 'Great' stretch of road.
Well done.
Took the TB to move it on.

Anther one of Mr Emu cache in this series still have few more to go.
drop TB off.
They tell me its good fishing spot here.
Thanks

It was a perfect day to enjoy the scenery from all these caches and I cannot believe that we drive by these spots without stopping to enjoy the views when they are so close to our doorstep. again TFTC

Found today with stealth needed. Thanks

Found by The Empire and pocketrocket&friends, Wednesday 7th April, 2010 @ 12pmish.
Found quickly, love the little quotes in all of the caches - nice touch! Thanks.
- M

Found by PR&F with The Empire on 7/4/10 @ 12.10pm.
#4 of 17 finds for PR today on our mission of the Great Ocean Road.
Another lovely view!
Read the quote to The Empire while he signed the log.
TFTC!

LGC #3 Found with Schatzuche and The Hunta on our way home from the Mega Event in Wagga, just a slight detour back to Adelaide but well worth the trip, great scenes and even better caches Thanks Mr Emu for all the work you have put in along this beautiful peace of coast line and this brilliant series, the detour was worth this alone. Given the effort you have put in we decided to add a little of our own. Please enjoy the photos we took using your cameras along the way.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting from Southern Cross Caching

# 62 cache on our Aus Mega Event Roadtrip, Adelaide—Wagga—Geelong—Warrnambool--Mt Gambier--Adelaide. Fun all the way!!
Such a nice part of the world the Great Ocean Road, and I can highly reccommend this cache series too!
TFTC
SS

Our ninth LGC on the way along the Great Ocean Rd towards Melbourne. We found these caches to be very enjoyable as they were always placed in lovely scenic spots. TFTC!!!

#47 for us

A nice easy find on our way back from claiming a FTF on "Don't get Hooked" in Lorne. Very little traffic around at 8:30pm on Easter Monday night. TFTC. TN, left a marble.

This is a great idea for a series of caches.

I parked here many many times when fishing on the rocks below Cinema Point. It's a long walk down the rocks from here !

02 April 2010 13:24:00
I parked here prviously to go and log the cache down on the beach in the cave, easy find today tftc

Staying at Torquay and enjoyed a drive to Lorne and back today and enjoyed your caches today. Movining onto Apollo tomorrow. Well done on your cache containers and placments.

Cheer from Barra and Co

Great spot but I think this is going to b a re-occurring theme. TFTC. TNLNSL.

We're having a good day driving along and taking in the views and picking up caches on our way, not too difficult to find and discovered the cachepillar geocoin.

TNLN

Following along from LGC #02 we decided to grab this one as well. Like the previous ones it was an easy find and I snaffled the Cachepillar GC that had been dropped off a couple of days ago.

Apart from the GC, TNLN & TFTC

Coin drop: Cachepillar Geocoin.

I retrieved this geocoin from one of my caches where prescribed environmental burning is about to get underway. Not sure when I'll get out again, so better to see the coin resume it's journey without delay.

My first LGC. I love these caches! The box is really clever. TFTC

we are driving to Melbourne and my driver is not into geocaching, but thise one are just perfect, easy and quick but the are all on the other side og the road.....Thank you for making this trip even better (Denmark)

Marshall's Geelong Found this cache today,
with Laralunts on our Lorne Adventure.

We have never stopped here before.. Liked the camera feature

TFTC

Really enjoying the simplicity of these Lame caches.
Thanks Mr EMU

Enjoying these Lame caches hehe

We are getting the hang of this.
Thanks for the cache and the drive along the GOR.
The Riddellers. [?]

Found by Mary & David at 1245. The steepest curve on the road! Wonderful soft views today, and the low tide revealed all the rocks. Our thanks to Mr Emu once again.

Another beautiful stop on our way back home to Melbourne.

This was the third LGC cache today at 11.03 with the weather perfect and the sea like a mildpond and the temperature warming up. This one was hidden in a different way but the co-ords were spot on as I would expect.

Thanks Mr Emu a great series NI-NO.

Find # 3153 and 21st of the day at 2:06 pm. Accompanied by Feathertop on our Great Ocean Road Trip. Easy drive-by, TNLN, left my mark in the log, Thanx Mr Emu....

Back to the coastal road and into some of the windier bits. Useful to have a passenger to check the meterage to the next cache.
Overshooting is just not an option!
Thanks Mr Emu.

The 5th of 16 finds on this Valentine's Day drive with Mrs 1SR. Found at 0955. What a great idea for a series along this road. It made me stop instead of driving on past. Another quick find between cars.
took coin left nil

This was cache # 36 of 43 for the day, on our tour of Geelong and the Surf Coast. I enjoyed the cache, there were a couple of people fishing down below. My thanks to Mr Emu for the cache.
IN: Pirate Geocoin I thought this was a fitting place for it.

[This entry was edited by acts2youthgroup on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 7:42:30 PM.]

Found while out with Acts2YouthGroup on a good weather day for caching. I have been down here a few times over the last few decades but never stopped at this spot, like many on this trip. There was a Queensland smoker who looked like he might hamper us but he was soon back in his car and on his way, making for an easy find. Thanks Mr Emu.

Found the cache today at 10.45am with beanie The third of the LGC caches
Another great view from here Signed the log

And Thanks Mr Emu for the cache

We again had to pass this one and find a place to do a U turn before we could park safely. Once done we were again very impressed with the views, especially the lighthouse on the next point, it looked very regal in the afternoon sun. The van full of muggles left us after only a few minutes and we were off to another nice easy find. We also started to think that at this time of afternoon we had a chance of getting a FTF on the whole series.
Our thanks again Mr Emu for the spectacular views

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