Bits and Bobs #3 Hampton, Victoria, Australia
By MasonMcG and Sinornithosaurus on 05-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5HFVG

Muggled too many times... I'm sorry to anyone who missed out on this great cache... time to say goodbye

Appears to have been muggled.

No luck - does seem to be muggled. So disappointed as have waited for 9 months for quiet time to nick in!

Might be gone?

Someone has stolen it

found it!

I found it.

Great find at my local dog park!

Have no idea what the cam looked like....did best to reinstate..... Tricky with all the muggle & geodogs!
Eloise @ the Plaza

And....no trackable

Good walk to find this cache. Very sneaky spot! Love the bits and bobs series!

Great find

Found with Lochb and Quiet1_au. I was looking in the obvious spot but Q found the cache, which stood out from its surroundings. Thanks masonMcG
GJMMelb

Out caching with lochb and G' of GJMMelb this afternoon, we weren't sure if an attempt would be possible with there being a game on and muggles about however once at GZ and admiring the Clivea blooming until a muggle walked past we had a quick search and I unexpectedly found it at my feet not where I had expected it to be further in where G' was looking... With the players at the other end of the pitch I quickly grabbed the logbook and recorded our visit before rehiding it was well as possible (it's better hidden from the park but rather visible from the footpath...) The travelbug was gone from this cache but was retrieved by lochb from our previous cache find so will be back on track shortly. TFTC

Q found this cache with a soccer game going on nearby. This is the first cache that contained a cigarette. Here with GJMMelb and quiet1_au, on a rather chilly but sunny day. TFTC

Easy find way to out inthe open hid it a bit nice ttrade took an army man left a ciggie and a die

A relatively easy find with the LED Lenser, while trying to avoid the dog walking muggles nearby. Mr A went in when the coast was clear and came up trumps. The it was back to the warmth of the car as fast as we could. TFTC - the container lid is a little hard to fully close so hopefully moisture manages to stay out.

2nd lovely park for the geodogs.. Very cold day lucky kept oat muggles away. The cache was on full view, so placed it in a safer place. TFTC

Tftf. I forgot my swappables so took nothing. Great park for a dog walk

Had to loiter (and walk half a lap of the sports field...) whilst waiting for some muggle dog walkers to move out of visual range before doing the search-n-retrieve.

This was an easy find with a great-sized cache. Didn't have any swag to leave but will keep this in mind for future drop-offs when passing. Picked up Sir Lance-a-not TB and will see if I can help him with his quest for a bit.

Signed log, thanks for the cache, MasonMcG.

uscoe was up in Melbourne today to see the Mighty Cats play this evening.
With a beaut Autumn day available to us we decided to venture around the Bayside and inner south-east area catching up with a few caches.
A delightful day followed us as we wandered the streets of this area, a bit of sun at times, a cool but gentle breeze and no rain!!!

This was our 14th find of the day.
We arrived here to admire the dogs enjoying the fenced off area.
We often wonder what it is like slaying soccer of footy on these fields after all these dogs have done their thing on the grass.
Brave players indeed, especially when they hit the ground face first.

We left TB Sir Lance-a-not to continue his journey to find the horse and lance before heading home.

Bitterly cold autumn afternoon made the quick find with ds 5 after a caching hiatus. Thanks guys!

A few dog lovers out and about but luckily not near GZ so could approach and search for cache freely. Found quickly. Picked up a TB (shark on a key ring) but no sign of the Limpet one listed as being in cache??? TFTC

Found this Unrecorded TB in cache. Dropping off to keep TB record up to date.

Quick find with Jimmytherat before dinner with family. Nice one. TFTC

Found on another caching adventure with Trailrunning, Thanks MasonMcG for the cache.

Found with Rebel Acts on a run through this area. Thanks.

TFTC. Found with Noelle04. Jimmytherat.

This was a fun midnight find.

Tftc

Out with xambo4u, this was our first for the day. It was a quick find and therefore a good start. Thanks MasonMcG

9.00am Out and about with Echidna44 for the day., We picked the right day as the weather is just right and it seems to be a long time between searches. This our first for the day and entered the park with an enthused poodle . Nice easy find and a great way to start the day.
Thanks for the cache MasonMcG

SILAS got it

Rainy day but a good day for GCing! Easy find. Cheers!

#158. Finally I got outside on a nice sunny day and found some Geocaches with the Geo-family. Geo-hubby was on fire and found this in no time at all. TFTC. TNLNSL.

This entry was edited by The-woob on Monday, 30 March 2015 at 04:24:58 UTC.

Caching with PantherX. We had been to this spot once before but had no luck due to the cache being muggled. A rather easy find. Couldn't miss this one rather large container...

Find 1385 at 14:35. I was out caching with Hawley3 today and avoiding all the closed roads around the city, we headed towards Bayside to pick up some of the new caches in the area. We managed 12 caches on this run and also picked up a couple that have been on the to-do list for a while. This was our second find for the day.

We had visited this spot on our last run down this way but the container had been muggled. No problems today and it was a quick and easy find. I have to say, this is a pretty large container for this spot so I'm not sure it will last all that long... we'll see. Thanks for the cache, MasonMcG!

Nice bayside park with a great (and great sized) cache nicely hidden. Dropped of a TB and did a few swaps. TFTC

Lots of muggles but was a super quick find! We left another lollipop!

Quick find before work.... tftc

Found this one today late at night. I hesitated before going to get this cache to let some rain pass and got caught up looking at Facebook before getting this cache. Nice quick walk to find the cache but the cache itself (while not directly exposed) had no additional camouflage except for foliage. When I saw the size of this cache I debated briefly going back to the car to collect a TB that I had but decided not to. Signed the log and re hid it as best I could.

Thanks for the cache.

find 4/7 tonight. couldn't see the Limpet TB in there.

Nice park, took BB10 fob,left pencil
TFTC

Fairly quick find. Kidd's Limpet 3 wasn't in the cache..

First of two finds tonight. Lots of dogs walking their muggles. TFTC

Out for a day of caching and did some bits and bobs. TFTC.

Visited this park today on a late afternoon run of caching. After parking opposite GZ, walked over to find the cache. Once I got on tee right side of the fence, container was quickly found. Realized I left my pen in the car so went back to grab it, signed log, left some swappables, TN & replaced.

TFTC!

Find #1716. Found @ 14:51 with LouiseAnn.

LouiseAnn needed a cache find for today to fill in the third last calendar square for her p366.

This was our third find for the day. I've found several caches in this park over my caching career, so knew the best approach for this find. It was a quick find by LouiseAnn when we got to GZ.

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

We picked this cache up at 2:50pm. Finally, one I found. Whilst SirJ-Oz ventured further into the garden, he walked right past this surprisingly large cache and I made the find.

I only have 3 days left in my caching calendar to find a cache in and today was one, so I organised with SirJ-Oz to come out this way and find a few. To be honest it was so hot one would have been enough for me, but I ended up finding8. Thanks for the cache MasonMcG.

Last week I attempted to get this cache but there was a cricket match going on. This time it was clear of Muggles except for a lone dog walker on the other side of the field. Nice big cache this time. I always like finding the big caches. They seems more daring. Thank for the cache Mason.

Found 10:59:00 AM, during a lazy Black Friday cache run.

TNLN, thanks MasonMcG.

#3236

I found this lovely big container well hidden. The muggles around me did not disturb me.

Thanks to MasonMcG for the cache and greetings from Switzerland.

Find #770

Had a DNF here last month and even came past one evening since but there were dogs and muggles everywhere so I didn't even bother to look. This time after dark it was nice and quiet and I even found a gate that I hadn't seen before which meant much less walking for me. Just as well because when I got to the cache I realised I had left my pen in the car. Then I walked back to the car before realising I left my car keys at the cache! D'oh. Eventually I worked it all out. Took pencil sharpener, left tiger, signed log. Thanks for the cache and this neat little series around here MasonMcG.

Since I'd been on holidays I hadn't had a chance to get out with my buddy TurnerFamilyFTG for a few weeks so this morning we both had time to do a few multis and others in his 10km zone and my 15km zone.
I left my buddy to do what he needed to do and headed off to get a puzzle cache I DNF'ed because it was muggled last time but stopped near these 2 new ones because Sunday provided very easy parking.
Last time I was here the cache was also muggled so today after a few finds had been occurring I found it immediately on arrival at GZ.
Thanks MasonMcG for the cache, the hunt and the fun.

Good to see a nice big cache with room for swaps. Thanks!

Back at it!

Out for a morning jog, I was able to stop in and try my luck. A quick look when I was in the right spot and I found this nice sized cache. I like the container, it is something different! Thanks to MasonMcG and Sinornithosaurus.

YIPPIE, I'm 18 and this is my first cache.
It is midnight in january 2015. Easy to find hehehe stupid muggles

Pretty easy hint gave it away.

Easy

Found a trackable. Looking forward to planting it. Another fun geo! Thanks guys!

Pretty easy find. The hint makes it obvious... On to the next one!

Nice and easy, thank you

V easy... Hiding abit better. Dropping trinket and trackable.

Thanks for taking the time for this cache we know it takes alot of responsibility
Thanks again for the effort

Couldn't find the more cryptic one in this park but this one was easy peasy. We have swapped some trinkets of our own.

Was visible from the road, so I made sure to add some camo both between it and the fence, and the approach from inside the park. Nice to see such a decent sized cache in an area like this. PS Elphin: the other one is technically not *IN* the park

TFTC! And all the childhood memories with these caches!!! They have been fun and reminded me of a much less complicated time

Nice to have some newbies in our local area, in fact we are a stone's throw from this park. Off to do the other three. Hidden exactly as found and with luck it will stay there. TFTC.

Back and running!! Please cover cache with camo so that it doesn't get muggled so often... This might be the last time I replace this one... It is difficult for me to keep up the containers

Back tomorrow so will replace ASAP... Might have to change the listing and the hide tho...

I am on holiday now but as soon as I get back I will check on it ASAP... Hopefully it will be up and running again

With the first 4 finders seemingly having no problems finding this and now with 9 DNF's in a row I think it may need checking. Being a regular sized container it shouldn't be that hard to find in this location. Thanks.

Spent a bit of time either side of the fence. Could find it.

No good for me at this one. I found the other 3 in the series nearby but despite checking both sides of the fence here I had no joy. It was dark and there were a series of considerate dog owners who had thought to bag their dog's log before dumping it in this corner. But this time, no cache for me.

Did not find it

Had a good look, but no luck... found lots of rubbish, concrete etc.. on either side of the fence...

@21:24. I was out caching with Hawley3 today and we couldn't find this one. Given the size of the hide, I don't think there were many places it could have been that we didn't check so it may have gone walkabout. Might need to be checked.

Spent a while trying to find this one and ran out of places to look

Couldn't find it

Couldn't find it

After looking after the kids on school holidays and them not wanting to go caching (mind you its been 38° or raining recently) I got a few hours to myself today to head out for a few caches.
I started off around here and headed south as well for a few newish caches around this area.
I spent about 10 minutes here having quick looks in between dog muggles but I couldn't find it. I'll keep a watch on it.
Thanks MasonMcG for the cache, the hunt and the fun.

Thanks fully we chose the right side of the fence! Quick find in the heat. TFTC.

2nd *FTF* of the day, @ 3:21pm

I was sitting at home, quietly doing my homework as dad was on the way home from the city. Suddenly, my phone starts buzzing. Could it be? Four caches within a bull's roar of my house? Yes! It was! I quickly got on the phone to dad and within moments I was out the door and we were off. I figured I had a pretty good chance at an FTF or two with the close proximity to my house.

As Geoff said, I reckon there have been at least four caches go through this park. I really hope this one lasts! I initially began the search on the wrong side of the fence, but later realised by mistake and soon enough was signing a blank logbook. A funny container here, I too have never seen one like it.

Thanks again Mason

Found @ 3:55pm, find # 3998.

I was nearly ready to head out the door to do some maintenance on one of my own cache down the road but I wasn't quite ready plus I knew if Liam was at home, these would be very close by for him.
As I had already planed to head this way I decided to stop for a look.
Once I had worked out which side of the fence I needed to be on I headed for GZ and was able to put my hand on the cache very quickly, once again I signed the log in second place behind Lemmykc.
Once I was back in the car getting ready to leave, I then notice that Earthbound Chief and quickly followed by gjm3191 had arrived on the scene, we had a bit of a catch up, they went and found the cache and then we had a bit more of a chat before I headed over to my cache.

Thanks to MasonMcG and Sinornithosaurus for placing this cache.

Published

Having found 2 in the series we moved onto this one. Parked here was Stemicmitsar, so a powwow was had on the side of the road before and after the search! Nice to catch up with our local cachers as we have been off the radar a bit lately! TFTC guys, well done.

Find #: 3393
Time: 4:02 pm
Date: Wed 7 Jan 2015
AS we pulled up at this one, Steve (Stemicmitsar) was sitting in his car having just found it. We had a chat with him before The Chief and I proceeded on to the cache. Another nice container here. I don't think I've seen one exactly like this before, interesting.
I've think I've made about 4 finds in this park over the years.
Thanks for placing this cache MasonMcG

Easy find. If only Kihm could be as good at it as me. Hehe. X

This entry was edited by dji_au on Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 22:25:35 UTC.