PLT - Branching out Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By cathylmorgan & julz76 on 23-Feb-13. Waypoint GC46F2J

This one has met the four strikes and out rule. Can't afford to keep replacing them due to careless/disrespectful cachers (don't believe muggles keep taking these containers!)

Lot of activity in this location obviously from people looking. Unable to locate.

Found a piece of wire on the fence where a cache could have been hanging off but no tube attached. Searched in the bark on the ground but feel the cache is gone.

Found

Thanks

Thanks for the cache, found after about 5 minutes of searching

Replaced container - good to go again.

As per my found entry, found the log-paper on the ground and mostly snail-eaten. It may be that the paper dropped out and that's all I found, but it might be worth checking on this one none-the-less.

Found and signed the snail eaten log paper on ground under a stick, no sign of cache container.

Found on my way home, a great hide. Thanks cathylmorgan

Last one for the day TFTC

Had to look hard and think of the clue. It made sense and found the cache. TFTC

Tftc. Hanging wire is to be missing and it was found on the ground. Will try to secure in correct position

Lying in the open near path so clue was useless.. put it back i hope where it should be.

Found on ground behind fence.
Returned it to where it belongs.
Chiefton.

Walking along the PLT yet again, lovely day for it.


TFTF!

Love these ones that are so obvious once found. Right where the hint said TFTC SL

Nothing there

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Found 11:15, after a brief search.

TNLN, thanks cathylmorgan.

This was the second cache attempted today, while walking between Explore It and Up the ??. However, I didn't find it. The last two logs were DNF's, so I suspected that it had gone. On the way back to my car, I gave it another look, and this time I found it.

Funnily, it didn't have a log sheet in it, so I cut a piece of paper from my own log book and signed it. Should be good now. Thanks for the cache.

If this has been replaced, I couldn't find it.

This one had gone missing - now replaced and ready to roll again!

Couldn't find it but seems like a nice one to come back and find some other day

It looked like the best day of the week, so we got the deadly treadlies out, and headed down to the Peninsula Link Trail. Bettyboo3747 and I joined many other bike riders (and walkers) using this trail today.
Seeing there was supposed to be a northerly wind we started on the southern end so we would have a tail wind coming home. Of course the wind turned as we were coming back!
Like the previous DNF the clue was very straight forward, but no cache could we locate today.
We seem to be in a bad stretch here toady!
Thanks, Robmc.

The clue and name all made sense but still no luck on this one...

Hollyisawesome was here!

Out for a short walk in the sun this afternoon trying to shake a cold I've had for a week now, a cache will cheer me up.
Nice quick find.
TFTC cathylmorgan

Loved it! In great condition. Name really helps here!!

Last find of the day as Miss 4 had well and truly had enough by this stage!!!! 3rd find of the day for Miss 6-she is really loving all the interesting caches you have placed along the way TFTF

Nice quick one

Nice quick one

I was very grateful for the hint here - I am bad at spotting these and could have spent ages not finding it.

Hey hey it's Krazy K on the PLT
Me and the wifey & kids are taking a walk
Another nice hide I like the roadside art here,
Thanks for the hide

out for a cache today short walk north to find cache in two parts one on the ground signed new log put cache back as one and off home thanks

Found with dad. Back dating my logs now that I have my own account.

Found as part of a short walk along the trail with 4y/o Geo-son. Nice easy find again. Cache is in excellent condition!

Found TFTC SL

ABL973 found this while out caching with Square_Pegs. I brought a few travel bugs with me which will visit this cache. The weather has been much better than I expected, although it has been quite cool. Thanks to for placing this cache.

Only some muggles further along the path heading where we would soon be. No issues finding it and we were off again. Thanks for the cache.

Find # 2798
Date 27th Apr 2013
Time 9:49 AM

After a quick decision between myself and my caching partner in crime, SedgwickDave, it was decided we would throw the bikes on the back of the car and head for the newly created Peninsula Link Trail as well as a number of other caches in the area including another cache crossed off our D / T matrix, AKA "Project81". Dave picked me up at 7AM and we were on the trail by just after 8AM.

After diverting to a cache that doesn't belong to this trail, we were back on track again and this one was found without too much trouble.

Thanks to Cathylmorgan & Julz76 for the cache.

Found @0945 #2759
What better then to do a power trail on a long weekend! Today's weather looked ideal but there was a mention of windy conditions in the afternoon which was a killer on the ride back to the car. Joining me today was my caching wingman and mate Ahomburg who was also keen for some numbers too. We started at the north end of the trail, parking close to PLT - Wee One but failed to final the northerest one and well after 20mintues decided to head south see if our luck would improve. Four hours later we had completed all the caches even the 3 newer placed ones just past Frankston Flinders road. Looks like this trail will expand even further south as other sections are open up. It was a great morning and only took about 1 hour to get back to the card pushing hard against the 40km/h head wind.[xx(] Great hides of different styles seen today which was great too. Many Thanks to Cathylmorgan & Julz76 for the huge effort in establishing this epic series. Awesome!

GPS off

A nice mild night so what better thing to do at 2:30 am than hop on the bike and ride 5km along the Peninsula Link Trail to find some more of the PLT series of caches, as well as a couple of trads along the way. The caches along the trail have been great fun finding and I have done many with my two boys who have thoroughly enjoyed the ride and the cache finding. With them fast asleep, I was on my own tonight and I only had trouble with finding one of the ten caches. Only six more to go after tonight (until they extend the trail). Thanks.

awesome name for this cache. nice location, nice find. the name is exactly where GZ is located. THANKS for the cache ClM.

Logging with permission as I helped place the cache

Another quick find. TFTC

Once the GPSr settled down and drew us closer to GZ, S piped up "I got it" Find number six on this very pleasant day for caching. TNLNSL TFTC KeMS

A great day for a bike ride, so why not couple it with a bit of caching. Set off and yes it was a great day for a ride, lots of Muggles thought so also! The Muggle factor was without doubt the most difficult factor of the day.
This was a quick, easy find. TFTC

Find # 916 Found @10:46Hrs

We were going to hit this trail on Friday but other more important things came up so we put it off till To-Day & what a good day it was for caching not to many muggles & the weather was not to hot or cold just right for a bike ride along this trail..



TNLNSL
TFTH

Find #25 of a joint ssmc4 & EuDes bike-riding caching adventure along the PLT (which during the day brought up my 1500th find milestone).

A nice quick find. Thanks cathylmorgan & Julz76

This entry was edited by ssmc4 on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 at 08:49:49 UTC.

Easy. Found it by just hanging around no pen

Once again, spot-on coordinates had me with the nicely hidden stash in hand quite quickly at 13:42.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks cathylmorgan & julz76.

Quick find with millsy031. #14 for the day. Tftc

Quick easy find by geodaughter. Thanks to millsy031 for the company today. # 15 for the day. Tftc

On the trail with Biggles1024 and this was an easy find by us. TFTC cathylmorgan & julz76.

I was checking the hint when quiet1_au had already spotted the cache! TFTC

Found with lochb - a quick look around and a likely target spotted and the cache soon found and logged.

This entry was edited by quiet1_au on Saturday, 30 March 2013 at 08:14:36 UTC.

Nice find tftc!

Found @ 2:01pm, find # 2027
Sent from out on a good Friday cache hunt along the PLT hopefully finding lots of great cache hides.
Thanks to cathylmorgan & julz76 for this cache and all the caching fun.

Out on a caching with Iain of The Swaggies. Iain was onto to this one very quickly. SL TFTC

Found on another TDC night run, we did the series on bike, certainly was a good ride. Thanks for the cache.

The Demolition Crew (TDC) met up for another legendary day/night caching run, this time focusing on the PLT (Peninsula Link Trail) in the Melbourne SE area. Bikes were deployed for this, and are becoming a big feature of our caching, which is fantastic. A great variety of hides were found, and some good numbers for the night, as well as some other caches around the area besides the PLT ones. My thanks to the cache owners for their efforts in placing the caches.

Enjoyed the trail and varitey of caches very much. Another quick one and we continued our ride. Enjoying it very much. TFTC.

These can sometimes be tricky, but in this instance it was a quick find for me. Thanks

Run Summary
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We've been looking at PLT series for a while now, and decided to take a ride to pick them up tonight. The new link is a great asset and speeds up access to the Mornington Peninsula. The Demolition Crew have used it extensively in the late early hours of the morning to return home. At this time it has no cars on it. That's the way we like it
So once again we are down here collecting caches and having a great ride. Thanks to the CO for all there efforts.

well hidden

Guessed what it could be and I was right. Nice hide.
TFTH. Signed log.

No need to dodge the muggles on a wet night. A quick find.

10:26
A perfect day to pedal on the PLT - and what a fabulous trail it is!
Another quick find as we headed south. We love the way the cache names relate.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt cathylmorgan.
5300

Hot night - could not sleep - decided to go for a walk and pick up a few caches. TFTC SL

what else do you do on a hot night, thats it walk and cache, enjoyed the walk and cache TFTC SL

Found with BorisB&Natasha. Not a soul around today which was great for caching. Natasha's eagle eyes spotted this one straight away. TFTC

Back out with Pea bear doing some more of this great series. Spot on coords had us walk straight up to this one. Moved a thing or two & there it was. Nice hide. TFTC

*STF*

Noticed the ftf had been logged - so it was time to head out for some cach'n fun.

Decided to ride the bike from home instead of using the car as a base FROM the start of the trail - WOW! it had surprised me how quick I completed the trail .... Although I was on my own it was an enjoyable morning ride.

Cute little hide - cammoed well within it's natural environment - another nice'n'ezi pickup.

Thx to the CO's for the PLTrail

Published

After getting my first ever FTF just up the track I can't believe my luck when another brand new one arrives on the radar only 400m away.
Sure enough, when I get there a clean log sheet for me to put FTF on the top.

Thanks for a good cache that had me looking for a few minutes



This entry was edited by Tony66 on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 at 09:06:18 UTC.

This entry was edited by Tony66 on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 at 09:09:20 UTC.