Williamson's Beach " Oh that's Nasty Too!" Dalyston, Victoria, Australia
By Gonefishen07 on 01-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5DXX2

I thought that after finding [Williamson's Beach "Nasty Nasty!"](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5DXWV_williamsons-beach-nasty-nasty), this one would be a lot simpler to locate. I was half right. It wasn't where my phone GPS insisted it was located but a comment in the previous logs gave me an idea and then it was just a matter of picking up every bit of potential camouflage until I finally picked up the right one! This is a really great container. I love it! A favorite point for the great camo and more great scenery!Thanks for find #6487TNLN

To hard for me today

Decided to head down towards Wonthaggi to the beach caches that I did a few years ago. After yesterdays rain, a coolish day today with a touch of sunshine and the wind was not too strong. This was the first of 12 caches - 2 DNF. -high difficulty as I was trying to fill my grid. This was the only 5 difficulty found but I was chuffed to be in the dunes with a smiley. Waiting for the coordinates to steady, I searched around for 5 mins and put my hand on it. Old log discarded- wet mess - the new paper is slightly damp- signed and replaced. Thanks Gonefishen07 for the challenge- almost 10 years old cache. A fav from me

Whilst ZQX was trying to find his way to the GZ I managed to stumble across the cache. TFTC.

Found with frilk. Fltf

I was after all three on this beach, but a bust at the first one and a lack of wanting to climb a massive dune for the next one meant this one was on the hit list. At GZ, I inspected some spots before chilling out in the open air and getting a better read off my phone. After a few minutes, my phone alerted me to the time and told me I needed to go. But, one more poke at a random item and the cache was found! The log is too wet to sign, so a photo was taken. I'll not add it here for fear of giving to much away, thanks!

Found it pretty quick but the log was sooo wet could not sgin my name. Thanks for the journey

What a Hike today! Saw a few small creatures along the way but this was the easiest find of the day. Great camouflage! And beautiful view of course (Unfortunately the Log was too wet to sign, so I will sign another day)

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to Gonefishen07 for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Out on a weekend away. Walking the beautiful beaches and dunes with friends monica_is_evil and mrx2. Great area along the coast. Log wet. that's for the cache.

The first for us today on an afternoon out attempting some of these more difficult caches. The logbook for this one was drenched and difficult to sign. TFTC and stunning views from GZ!

Nice walk on the beach for a few caches


TFTC
Found with monica__is_evil and diablo1234 + 2 muggles

Out for a fun day playing on the sand dunes with tiz13 and kbucky I've been lucky enough to be so switched on today and making some unbelievable finds with my 2 lucky charms today with only 1 DNF quite remarkable some very challenging hides couldn't possibly have been achieved without teamwork... TFTC

Out caching with Kashbound and kbucky today in Wonthaggi. I'm not sure if we are Kashbounds lucky charms or maybe it's the new backpack he has....Maybe it was just his Geo senses sporting super powers today, we guessed at the possibility of what we could be looking for and before we knew it Kashbound had the goods in his hands. I'm still astonished but very happy to have not spent to long looking-- no more flash backs of needle in a haystack please. Log signed TKB's

today Was an awesome day out with Tiz13 and Kashbound.
Kashbound is on geocaching finding steroids!
Sitting on ground and he just picks it up. Wt?
Regardless, thank goodness and I am so relieved to not do another marathon search.
Tftc gonefishen07
again not sure about that

#1069
So lucky with the crisp winter evening… what could be better really. A kid free, romantic weekend away with my Welder. While many couples would be sipping wine and cuddling by the fire, we often choose to spend our rare free time caching… we love it! And as often goes when caching with the Welder, night caches are what we do best. Thanks for a memorable night of fun!

#2040 - 10.25pm
Heymissjo and I were enjoying chasing high difficulty Gonefishen07 caches tonight. And a journey under the stars, up and down the massive sand dunes of this impressive beach was totally In keeping with our spirit of adventure.

The tide was starting to come in noticeably, so we kept one eye towards the sea as we clamboured up to this GZ. It was a nice location with plenty of possibilities, and though it was overlooked a few times, the perfect coordinates kept leading me back to something. Eventually, I was able to overcome my utter lack of geo-sense and finally investigated that something I should have looked at earlier.
And naturally, there was the cache!

We didn't linger as the tide was of concern, so a quick sign in was followed by an even quicker retreat down to the beach.

Thanks, Gonefishen07, for a wonderful adventure in a remarkable setting that was a great test of geo-sense.

This cache has been on our watch list since our last DNF visit, and after reading a couple of recent logs, knew the area we needed to concentrate on. Still wasn’t easy, and a PAF has us confused for awhile until Steve finally found the little sod.

It is nasty, very nasty, but oh what a feeling when that logbook was signed.

Another great cache from Gonefishen07. Thanks for the early morning workout.

27 February 2021 3:22 pm

Last one on the list of must hits today and what a quick find it was.... purely because I had forgotten I had been here before.... ah well not much you can do about that. Eitherway thanks for all the devilish hides. I cannot wait to do some more around the area.

After attending the CITO and Event in Bass today, buhfuhguh and I met up with SteMicMitSar to do some caches around Wonthaggi that we'd been eyeing off for a little while.
In the end, we were able to grab some neat D/T combos and check out some other great caches in the area with a fun time had all round.

I don't commonly find myself at D5s, only having ever conquered two in my time (technically one, as I'd recently discovered a D3.5 I'd found previously had been upped to a D5 after some maintenance), so this trio was quite the incentive to head further down this way.
Having regularly visited the region for some time now, I'd always seen these perched on my map but had never gone and attempted them, so it's rather convenient that I went and tried them alongside two cachers quite well-versed in the high difficulty category!

This was probably the easiest of the three, largely as it turned out buhfuhguh had made a previously forgotten visit!
Sure enough, he made a quick and somewhat familiar find with his name already hanging out in there on a date a couple of years ago.
Ours were added a bit further down while I emptied out my shoes that had accumulated a frankly impressive amount of sand during our exploration of the dunes.
Thanks to Gonefishen07 for placing this cache!

TFTC, Brainiac03

*Found on the 27 Feb 2021 @ 3:22 pm.*
*Cache find # 11401.*

I have had Nasty Nasty! on my to do list for some time now and seeing that I was in Bass for a couple of events, I decided to team up with buhfuhguh and Brainic03 and once the events were finished we headed for this group of 3 caches to try our luck.
We were now on our way to the 3rd one in this group, this one was a little easier to get too, once we arrived the search began, while I was looking around else where , Michael headed in and under and was able to make a quick find.
Once the log was retrieved we realised why He had found it quickly, the reason was that his name was already on the log sheet be was never logged as a find, it will be this time I'm sure.

**Thanks to Gonefishen07 for placing this cache.**

Couldn’t find it, but TFTC anyway. We’ll come back and try again another day.

It seems safe enough to re enable now.

Disabling till life gets back to normal. Who knows when that is going to be

On a high from finding Nasty Nasty, this was our last of the day before we headed off to our accommodation and rest these weary bodies. We checked everything here, well obviously not everything as our luck had apparently ran out.

We’ll be back for another crack at this one. Thanks anyway Gonefishen07.

Nasty lil shyt for sure sitting right in front of it scouring the trees at nearly 2 am , we were nearly at the point of quitting then bingo we had it in our hands
Thanx for the Adventure Stay Dirty ️

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What a nasty little hide but we managed to do it and in the dark too. While I don’t normally lien this type of hide I still enjoyed the find and it was a nice one to end the night on.

Thanks Gonefishen07 for the cache.
Found at 1:54 am on 17/8/19.
Find # 1867

After spending 30 minutes taking the inland MASSIVE bush bash, I was regretting not just heading back to the beach and then climbing up again. However after getting to the GZ and refreshing myself the search was on and after 10 minutes looking I found this elusive geocache. Another interesting and devious hide by this CO
Thanks for the cache Gone Fishen 07
Hunter

Tftc

Found with gwd.aussie while on a caching weekend down to Wonthaggi to attend a couple of events. A warm day so a quick cool off at the Caravan Parks pool on arrival before setting off to re visit a couple of DNF from last year. In contrast to last years protracted search and a DNF this year it only took approx. 5 minutes before I had the cache in hand. It just goes to show how fickle the caching gods are.

Thanks Gonefishen07

Now this cache, we should of found it last time.
Just caache blind, i guess.
D@geo made the find, after 5 or so minutes search

On the road trip with D@geo
Thank you for the hide Gonefishen07

#10389 @1035
Heading to Philip Island for a conference from Canberra. I left last night and slept in the back of the car for a few hours before continuing bright and early to maximise the time I had available to find a few high D/T caches along this stretch of beach. I DNF'd this one last year, so was keen to give it another go today. I was prepared for a long search but fortunately found it within 5 minutes this time. TFTC.

I had a few along here that would've filled in a handful of D/T squares. Unfortunately, due to the late hour and other business in the area this was the only one n0w0rries and I found which in and of itself is somewhat amusing because there are two challenge caches with the same D/T one of which I'm reasonably close to completing. But I digress.
Given the D/T, NW and I were preparing ourselves for a protracted search. After searching a little in one particular area I consulted the gadget and saw I needed to be in a different spot. A few minutes later and HAPPY DANCE time. Glad to have filled in this square.

This was one of the few that I haven't found along here.
Caching with leafotwind this afternoon and we had mentally prepared ourselves for a prolonged search at GZ.
We should have known better.
Not too long after arriving, lotw popped up with a huge smile. "Found it!" [^]
Thanks for yet another great cache Gonefishen07.

Out for a cache day with crank1 and beckNmonts, nice hide. TFTC

Doing with my D/T matrix to be complete
The weather is not bad
Found it
Thanks Gonefishen07

All good log was changed at my request.

Nothing strange about a blank log at all, it just means maintenance has been done, you may have noticed the owner maintenance log the same day as I found it...

I have fished here a time or two. Even in the perfect hole right near this cache. The strangest thing happened. I walked the beach, scrambled the dunes, saw 20m from the cache on my phone. Found a comfy place to sit while I got the GPS out.... 1m? Checked phone 1m. Well seems I sat down in the right place. Obvious signs of previous searchers with sticks in neat piles about the place... I did spend a while checking through them just in case but then something different. Something that blended in absolutely perfectly and was easily overlooked but just didn't quiet belong. Strangely the log was completely blank. Not a single name on it which seems odd reading the logs but well, my name now resides there and I enjoyed relaxing here for a moment. Thanks Gonefishen07

Yes, this one was nasty. Upon reaching GZ I started searching, focusing on where my GPS was directing me. I would love to tell you that I soon had the hide in hand, but it took a while. However, there it was, right where my GPS said it should be. It’s a great hide, I’m awarding a favourite point as if blends so well in the environment. TFTC Gonefishen07

Huge thanks to BeckNmonts for finding this and letting me know all is fine. Well done on finding it

Any chance this one can be checked/fixed/replaced by end of this year please?
Given there is 6 DNFs in a row, since the last finder in Jan 2016, would be nice to go there knowing this has been checked/replaced.
Thanks

I will do my best life has been hectic and at the minute geocaching has had to take a sencid seat. Hopefully things will be back to normal by mid next year.

@1300
Despite the recent DNFs I thought I'd give this one a go as I needed the D/T combination. But alas, after about 30 mins I gave up.

All was going well for 5-10 mins when something bit me and I was in severe pain. Looked down to find my legs covered in the biggest ants that I have ever seen. If anyone knows how to get skinny jeans off in a hurry please tell me because as I did my impromtu strip act, I slipped and fell onto their nest. A not so merry Morris Dance (you know the body slapping dance) later and a shake of my discarded clothing later, I limped my way back down. And I thought that it would be climbing the dunes that would hurt. Abandoning the beach to seek comfort in the form of Stingose and Panadol.

A very long day was had with SimsFamily and Neville Devil with a very cold start that turned into a fantastic day enjoying the Bass Coast with stunning views and wildlife.

Unfortunately a DNF here. I will be Back.

LL

Down the attend an event. Early start to attempt a number of beach caches before it got too hot.

Cache certainly lived up to its name. After a while looking had to concede a second DNF for the morning.

Thanks Gonefishen07

The third of our beach cache today.
And the Second 'Did not Find'

I don't like this trend!
We searched for a even longer time then the last cache.

Out caching with D@geo.
Thank you anyway for the hide Gonefishen07

Another "Williamsons Beach" cache that had dog paw prints approaching the GZ. Hunted from 1640 to 1710, by which time the sun had well and truly set behind the heavy clouds. Used a torch almost the whole time to try and show the 'sucker' up, but in the end I was the sucker.

I seem to have forgotten to log this cache earlier. Here with quiet1_au and GJMMelb to find a few caches before the dinner event. We'd run into PrincessDiala and Colee_baby, who were then accompanying us.

I don't know whose idea it was to take the direct approach to the cache, through rather heavy vegetation ... after all, we were only about 100m away from the cache! We ended up crawling on all fours to get through. All good, with a cache find as a reward. And this was a nasty one! It was good that G had found it previously and could check notes. TFTC!

After finding the previous hide, we decided that "it wasn't too far" to walk through the bushy dunes, how mistaken we were!!!

It was rather an adventure to get through, and managed to smash my leg into a very sharp low lying branch and cut it open through my jeans [:S] but we kept going.

In the end we popped out onto the beach and headed to this hide, feeling pretty rotten as I hadn't taken any water with me (we weren't going to be doing this originally after all)

With the eyes looking and looking we finally had the cache in hand and a new D/T to add to my list

TNLNSL

TFTC

Having bumped into Princess Diala and coleybabee near the carpark we joined forces to tackle some of these beach/dune caches. A difficult cross country approach was undertaken after we found ourselves on a trail leading to the windfarm not the beach. Not recommended - the scrub is thick with sharp, broken sticks that produced many wounds (at least for me, the only one silly enough to be wearing MTB shorts...) Go around, it's quicker, easier less painful!... Eventually though we found ourselves looking upon the mighty Bass Strait surf and made our way to GZ. We searched for a while but G' of GJMMelb had previously found this one and put us out of our misery as we had other tricky caches still to find (which did cause us grief). Suffice to say that this one seemed more evil than nasty! TFTC

[Green]With some time off work for the holiday season I teamed up with Square Pegs to head east of Melbourne and back to the cache rich Wonthaggi area where I found this cache in good condition and with accurate co-ords. SP was onto this one real quick. Sneaky hide.

Thanks Gonefishen07

4949[/Green]

After making our way up the dunes, we were soon at GZ and set to work searching for the container. After trying a few things, something clicked and the hunch turned out to be spot on. Phew what a relief to have found one of these so quickly.
Thanks to Gonefishen07 for the cache.

Took ages about to give up. This was my second go and just made the find as i was about to go. Did this one as i needed the d/t rating. I am moving to brisbane in the next week.

This was a great day of caching around the Wonthaggi beaches and sand dunes with Jacko83, geomutt Bentley and 88Andy88. A scenic area, a cool day, creative caches, great hikes - altogether a top caching experience here.

A DNF here for us after almost 20 minutes, and even Jacko83 who had previously found it couldn't find it again. A tough one indeed!
Thanks for the hunt, Gonefishen07 - I'll be back!

Great find by pinkpiggy7 thfl

Out on a caching run with mansgirl, climbed the hill an 2 minutes later log signed

This entry was edited by Pinkpiggy7 on Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 09:02:36 UTC.

This one was a forgotten log while down in this area with McLookers, ST73E, theTritonz, DAB and Glanville girls. Thanks to DAB after he mentioned it to me. Sorry to the CO. I remembered that this one was another massive challenge. We were very careful of the surrounding area while searching for this one. Lucky our GPSr were spot on and after quiet a search, we were able to collect this one.

We were looking for somewhere to walk that was not too wet and where the roads were dry so I foolishly decided to give these hard ones another go. We had a nice walk but could only get within about 40 metres of this. We could see footsteps heading up the dune where I assume others had gone before but it was just too hard a climb for me. Loved the walk but this one will go in my ignore list.

This one was also a DNF on the last trip after we copped a branch in the eye at That's Nasty which meant we had to target large sized caches the next day. The wind was also kinder this trip plus no rain. We got to a familiar spot and saw some familiar items. A look at the phone and the GPSr and they were in poor agreement with the GPSr being 19m further north which it constantly said in the 30mins of searching. Knowing the phone had won at the last cache we used its area for GZ after checking out were the GPSr said looked unsearched. Back to the phone GZ which shifted a couple of meters and then we saw a possible object and on further examination confirmed it was the hide. Glad we can say that at least last time we did not pickup the cache and dismiss it. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC.

After two rather frustrating DNF's we were all determined not to make this a third especially when GJM needed this for their matrix and so did MS and I.
Arriving at GZ wasn't as hard as some of other caches we have done today. A cute little spot was spotted and the GPS and our phones all indicated that was the area, it was already darkish in there and searching wasn't easy. There were signs of where others had search.. or were they decoys? Who knows with this CO and her band of misfit helpers!
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I found a cute little fly catchers nest in the Banksia at GZ and some sort of spiders web in a stick that looked like a white star ( pic attached)

A fav point from me for the adventure today (will award it when I have one spare)

TFTC Gonefishen07 SL TNLN TBV

Found with Team Thommo and MS-Enchantress. We spent ages looking high and low and over a wide area. Eventually I got onto someone who help. This allowed us to focus our search and T came up with the cache a short time later. Thanks Gonefishen07
GJMmelb

So after a surprise asthma attack this morning (surprise was I have never had asthma before) I took it easy this afternoon in the dunes.. We had a couple of D/T caches to find down here and I needed to pace myself..

This was the last of 4 caches on our list.. The previous 3 had been DNF's
We used a couple of PAF options as the light was fading and TeamThommo need to get home.

Finally the cache was located and the log signed.. We made a quick retreat back to the car, just as the sun went down taking our light with it.

Thanks GoneFishen for the high D/T caches to help us complete our Matrix

Apologies for the late log. I was just doing a bit of research for my D/T matrix when I noticed this cache pop up as needed. Hang on a minute, this sounds familiar..... [?][?] I had a read through the logs and realised I had forgotten to log it. [:o)] This one was found as part of our Wonthaggi road trip with Glanville Girls, McLookers, ST37E, Na'wal and The_Tritonz. All of these hides were very tricky and took quite a while to find. Thankfully accurate co-ords led us to the tricky find. TFTC Gonefishin07

We spent quite a bit of time searching for this one until we chants our mantra - spot on co-ords and tricky hide. Then we found it!! Thanks GF7, yet another fantastic hide.

Caching in the area today with Glanville Girls, ST37E, and The Tritonz with the mission of filling our D/T Grid

We were in the area today with ST37E, McLookers, The Tritonz, DAB and Na'wal with the aim of collecting some of the high D/T caches in the dunes. By this stage of the day several of our group had left just leaving a couple of us to continue. We made the decision that this was to be our last one due to the rapidly fading light. After the previous Nasty Nasty, we wondered what diabolical plan you had in store. Once again we carefully turned over everything and luckily this one was spotted quite quickly. Yay! Another excellent camo though. I was just looking at the right angle for this one. Thanks for the hide. Another FAV.

Found in the company of Glanville Girls, McLookers, DAB, Na'wal during a big day of collecting the high D/T caches along the coastline, The Tritonz also accompanied to find the few that they hadn't already found previously, and offer words of encouragement on the ones they had previously visited, after spending a considerable amount of time at the previous hide we had little hope of finding this one quickly, but once again luck was on our side and with so many eyes searching the container was located after a brief search

TFTC

It had been a few weeks since I had been out caching so I set aside today to head out for my next caching adventure. The forecast was for late afternoon showers but the rest of the day was fine and sunny, and this proved to be the case. I had a great day with 31 finds, 1 DNF, and fun bike ride around the desalination plant at Wonthaggi and some challenging dune climbing along Williamson's Beach.

Today I was being a glutton for punishment. Having already done one dune climb, then a challenging bike ride around the desal plant, my legs were starting to burn. I wanted more, and along Williamsons Beach I certainly found the caching punishment I was looking for. GF07 certainly knows how to deal out to tough caches, both by location and hide, and the caches along here will certainly separate the 'men from the boys', for use a common cliche.

The day was going by fast and the daylight beginning to fade fast. Two more caches to go and this was one of them. It was one steep ascent to get to GZ and once there the search began. There were so many possible hiding spots, and previous searches had obviously checked many of them. Eventually (after a little coaxing form the CO) I was able to narrow down the search area and eventually had my hands on the very well disguised cache. Thanks GF07.

Reperio at 1310.

I headed down from Newcastle yesterday to try my hand at some of the more difficult caches in the area, and although there were some caches here that had made a reputation for being difficult to find...I had no idea how difficult they were until it came time to find them myself. Having already found a couple of caches along the dunes, with the title given to this one...I was beginning to wonder whether I would eat again today given that I could be here for hours...so after a quick bite to eat...I headed out here with the CO for some cache maintenance...and of course...to provide the entertainment for the afternoon while I set about trying to find it. After much prompting and guidance where not to look...the cache was eventually picked up 20 mins later. Phew! Now...on to the next one! These caches have certainly raised the bar for a D5 cache.

Gratias Gonefishen07.

After full of confidence of findings its neighbour, no luck at this one DNF

I have been debating about whether or not I should attempt these ones due to the terrain rating. Today I felt up to a challenge but once I had walked down the beach and saw the dunes, knew they were beyond my means. However the walk along the beach was lovely.

No not back to the Sand Dunes. After climbing 8 sand dunes in the morning I rang leesa to see what she was up to and she said she was going on a maintenance run to replace a cache and check on some others, so we decided to go together as I hadn't found the ones she was going to look at. We dropped one car behind the Desal plant and then drove to the Williamson beach car park and started the trail we talked, laughed. This cache had a 6 meter cache creep so thanks to De Ja Vu for telling us where it had wandered to so we could put it back where it should be.
Thanks Gonefishen for the caches

WOW this has had some cache creep a good 6 plus meters from where it should have been. Thanks De Ja Vu for the help with locating this one or Bounty Trackers and I would have been here for hrs looking in the wrong spot. It is back where it should be. PLEASE put it back where it should be thank you.

It was warming up and this was an intriguing little spot to get out of the sun, and it was so tempting to sit and relax a while. But the neverending search must continue. Where do we start...what devious hide has she conjured up this time. 20 minutes later I heard those wonderful words..."found it". Evil, just evil Gonefishen, but we keep coming back for more because we love the challenge. Off to another soft sandy walk on this beautiful and very deserted beach. Thanks Gonefishen

Find #1704. Found @ 17:25

We were on a mission today, to go somewhere with big waves and caches. I chose to widen that mission and re-complete my P81 challenge (which unfortunately uncompleted with a D/T change of one of my completed caches). So Powlett River / Williamsons Beach was our target.

This was my main target of the day. With the family back at the car, I didn't want to spend too long here. Looking at the timestamp of my previous find, it was about an hour.

I, like others, looked in (what I assumed was) the most likely area. It also has lots of suspiciously ordered collections of deutritus, almost as if someone has systematically inspected them all and lined them up. I went through them all, and many more besides before I expanded my thinking (and read previous logs), and found the cache.

I almost overlooked the hide on my inspection, but something made me go back for a second look. This is nasty, but I'll give it a favourite (Why do we reward the ones that make us suffer?)

With the finding of this cache, my P81 is re-completed. I decided to take a victory "selfie".

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache Gonefishen07.

Date: 4 January 2015
Time: 14:28
Find #4396

I had a good nights sleep in the Wonthaggi area and the plan was to find a few more local caches in the cooler weather and gradually make my way towards Phillip Island for the night.

After finding the 10 x 10 and 20 x 20 challenges, I headed back along the beach to this one. I was lucky enough to bump inte pprass, maccamob and phetlern.

After spending almost one and a half hours yesterday with sharkiefan and °, I was determined to give it another go. This one is indeed nasty. After yesterday's efforts, I did not hold up much hope, but I was in luck and spotted something I did not see yesterday and it was actually the cache. Wow, what a fantastic hide, camo works well.

Thanks to Gonefishen07 for placing this cache.

12:49
Time to tackle some of the more challenging placements by a certain fish'n person. Cognisant of the sensitivity of some of the areas we were to visit the three teams (Maccamob, Pprass and Phetlern) were each cut by 50%, the other half being given a spending allowance as compensation. Travel arrangements and drop off sorted, we ventured forth.
This was our first major target and it turned out to be a significant search. We first started in the covered area and then extended our search elsewhere without success. After 30 - 40 minutes, the trusty PAF was utilized (thanks Jacko) and an indication of what we were looking for and where it might be located was established, including an image. Phew, still no container to be found! About to give up and press the DNF button, P-P perchance put his hand in a previously searched spot and came up with the goods. Phew, that was hard and nasty too, but we'll still allocate a favorite.
Satellites today had our GZ 3m W of the cache location.

Thanks to Gonefishen07 for the hunt.
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Found at 12:44 PM GAFF5 in the company of maccamob & Phetlern. FelixII left us at the last Baxter cache as we continued to do the difficult Williamsons caches.and then to maccamob's geoprado which was waiting for us at the Williamsons car park.
We spent ages looking for this one - inspecting every piece of branch, leaf, pod and rubbish. We eventually received some information to hone in on a particular area and even then we struggled. I finally had had enough and made a call to pull the pin and as Phetlern was about to press the DNF button on his GPSr, he looked down and there it was! That was very well covered [B)]
Thanks Gonefishen07.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass and Phetlern, at 1245. Yes it was really nasty! The three of us spent ages searching around a fairly stable GZ indication, stopping occasionally to consult previous logs for any tiny morsel of help. There were even a couple of PAF calls. Just as we were about to admit defeat, Phetlern made one last check and found the troublesome container with great relief to us all. Great camo, and well hidden in an area with many pieces of "hay" to mislead us. Our thanks to Gonefishen07.

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[font=Tahoma]As Adriaan said >> I didn't find it

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Philipp

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We were over this side of the world from Geelong to collect some caches around this area, oh yes this one was nasty lol, we were all crawling around on our hands and knees, it would have been a interesting site if a muggle spotted us lol, this one took a while to spot and expanding our search we spotted a likely cache and bingo another D/T combo for us, Thanks Gonefishen07 for the cache, we love your work.

Up at 530am and leaving early to get to Wonthaggi, did the much anticipated trip to get these elusive DT's. Arrived here with Chris Tritonz and Timmo 98 + Bentley the geomutt and started a long and lengthy search. All crawling aorund inside the foliage with no luck indeed. Decided to then leave the canopy area and search a little wider. Chris soon spotted the very tricky hide. What a relief.

This hide holds certain significance for me as it finished my P81 challenge Great day - feeling good.

This entry was edited by Jacko83 on Monday, 22 December 2014 at 08:21:14 UTC.

I had an absolute ball up in the dunes helping the CO with this one. Logging with the CO's permission.
Thanks Leesa for a fun day.

Found @14:25 #3893
Back down in Kilcunda today on this lovely sunny day. Back in a familiar area with today's plan to tackle another string of high terrain caches south of Powlett River.

OMG!!! This one took ages to find. After spending about 60 mintues and expanding the grid as previous logs suggested, still now luck. So being keen to find this as was required for my 3rd loop I used a PAF to gain some a hint for this evil hide. So with more knowledge known of what to look, the hunt continued and finally after another 30 minutes the cache was finally found in a spot I swear I had looked earlier. Wow it is so easily to miss this one, so very very nasty! indeed. A very satisfying find in the end and a hunt I will never forget. A favorite[^] for both location and the challenge.

TFTC Gonefishen07

***FTF***

A much better morning with the clear skies giving us good stable coordinates. Found after extending our search a little from our original GZ taking us just over 20 minutes. Thanks for the challenge.

This entry was edited by Graling on Friday, 10 October 2014 at 00:31:44 UTC.

Yep again, we're in full agreement, this is a nasty one too. It's just coming on to rain and well past my lunch time so that's it for today. Will try again when the weather improves.

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