Inkerman Gully #1 Ballarat North, Victoria, Australia
By Sean.75 on 05-Nov-15. Waypoint GC66C8E

Removed game piece.

Well after a 3rd try due to checking recent activity, we had another look and still just could not locate it. Couldn't believe after 20 mins that in all the times I had looked I hadn't checked this properly. Geowife said "could it be in....." and so like a fool I checked again from a different angle. So ridiculously obvious now!

Thanks for the cache

The girls love caches with treasure in them. Thank you for placing a good sized cache.

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That one was a bit tricky , looked in lots of obvious spots before Mr Minion made the find. Thanks for the cache

On an overnight trip after lockdown.
GPS got a bit iffy. Read the hint & headed in a slightly different direction & spotted straight away.
TFTC

So distracted looking in other spots! Got it eventually.

Checked this one twice before. I cannot locate it.

No luck today! Going to attribute it to not having the right shoes -- very muddy today and my ankles aren't handling it well!

Chook had a bit of time to kill while waiting for Chunk to finish his appointment in Ballarat, so with lovely Autumn weather, what better idea than to go for a walk in this little park and find a couple of caches. Not another soul around so Chook was able to poke around unhindered before she eventually found the cache. TFTC Sean.75.

Cute log to sit on

Tftc

TFTC. We were in Ingerman Gully after having been caching in the New Cemetery. We searched about for a while but nothing appeared. While on the phone for a PAF Hans came up with the good. I swear i had searched there before

We headed to the GZ that our GPS told us to be at and found 'nothing'. We expanded our search and finally we found the cache container approx 6+ meters away. There was a few obvious places to look at.
SL TFTC

TFTC!

Took the dog for a walk here today, the cache is nice and snug where it`s supposed to be. No sign of the mentioned toilet paper and dead bird around Gz.
Happy Caching!!

Searched everywhere for this. Lots or toilet paper where people have bee going to the toilet., and a dead bird. Gave up

We headed out for a small local adventure this morning.
We had been looking foward to finding a few caches and this one was a nice little walk and a quick find.
There was a nearby log with some cute little fungi inside as well.
Thanks for the hide here.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14.
A nice walk to the cache.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I had a great time finding this geocache.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Could not find after a while search

A early start to meet up with the ever helpful Bushfire as we set off via Inverleigh and Rokewood to check on a couple of caches before catching up with a goodly crowd at Maccas to fortify the inner man before heading to the best organised and attended CITO Here we glued, hammered and painted nearly 60 nesting boxes for small animals to use After that mammoth effort by everyone it was off to find more caches around Ballarat and Creswick This was the first on the list so found fairly quickly in drizzling conditions TFTC Sean75

Saturday has arrived and so has the rain overnight so everything is soggy but we really needed it, but with a very full day planned in Ballarat and Creswick, au.fait and the ageing Bushfire set off early to check out a few of Bushfires caches that are in Inverleigh and then continued our journey inland to Rokewood and then up to Ballarat.
Meeting up with many likeminded folk at Maccas for a breakfast of Bacon and Eggs and a good coffee. Then a caching chat before heading off to Bunnings for one of the best organised CITO’s that I have had the pleasure of being a part of.
I believe we made 53 boxes for small animals to shelter in after their habitat has been burnt and left them little room to hide from their predators. Good on you Bunnings and also all the caching helpers who used the timber, cut to size, nails, glue, paint, aprons, and even ear plugs as the noise from many hammers all nailing these boxes together was rather deafening. Big thanks to Tania and all the Bunnings staff for a terrific job well done.
Time to find a few more caches while in Ballarat and this guy was next on our list.
I have searched for this guy before but today with a bit more info it was finally found.
Thanks Sean.75 for placing.

Found after a while and reading the activity logs for help. Great hide TFTC

Took a little longer to find than it should have. Our GZ was a little way away but well within allowable parameters. Sometimes, it doesn't pay to look at the obvious. Thanks for the cache.

12:13 pm #8573
Had us searching in all the wrong places until we read the hint.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Sean.75

My GPS was going everywhere - maybe I just needed time for it to settle lol. Beautiful area and no muggles around. My thirds attempt at this and after a shove from the CO found eventually. So glad to get a smilie. What can I say .... first cache hide ....well done!!!! and thanks so much.

Your first cache hide! Wow! Certainly tricky to find. TFTC

Found

Bit of a hard find

Finally found it on my third attempt and my pure luck/accident, frustration grew with this and I gave something a little kick to my surprise I heard that sweet thud of a cache! Didn’t harm the cache, signed and placed back in the annoyingly well hidden spot. Thank you!

A tricky hide and thanks for the tip to the CO

Out cacheing with roaming Howie and kristy's adventures the morning after white night TFTC

Found after a little nudge from the CO. GZ is a little south of the cords. TFTC

Looked and looked. Been awhile since last sighted, so we gave up after about 20.mins of 4 of us looking.

Lots of good places and searched them all but obviously missed one I even crawled through a gorse patch.

Found it

Found, great hide...

Found )

After looking for a little while we finally located this cache. Reached 800 with the help of this cache. TFTC

In Ballarat to attend a special event.
A short search and we soon had cache in hand.
Signed and replaced.

Many thanks for placing this cache, Sean.75, for us and others to find.

So glad to get this one off our list of DNFs!
It did not match the co Ord's... about 4 m south of indicated.
Proved difficult for a 1.5 D rating!!!
TFTC

I looked the obvious spot and the not so obvious spot. Came up empty handed.

Out and about with 6hinemoa2 and 08151605 to attend the 2 events in Ballarat today and find a few smilies along the way.

6h2 had already found this and sent us on our way. After searching for about 20 minutes decided to give up when 6h2 decided to help as she knew exactly where it was. Another 20 mins and still nothing so decided to move on. Thanks sean.75

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch. We looked for this one once before and couldn't find it. After confirmation from the CO that it was still there we decided to try again today when we were in the area. Still quite difficult to find but it is there. TFTC

Out and about with the family MazzyMay and SciFiRulz TFTC. Wow this was a hard one

No luck finding the cache here today, although I had a nice stroll through the park. Thanks to sean.75 for the hide.

Checked in on this today. Cache is still there. Happy Hunting

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Not Found. We looked and looked but couldn't find anything. We were with a previous finder and she said she thought the place she found it wasn't there anymore. Could probably stand to be checked by the CO.

12:59
We splodged our way down the gully then: we looked high, we looked low, we looked in, we looked out, but today there was no way we could work this one out!

Thanks for the hunt anyway Sean.75.

Looked with the family but couldn't find

After our usual morning coffee out and about we decided to try our luck with a nearby cache. This one was lot more difficult to find. After overnight rain the going was wet and slippery. But we had success after about 20mins. Real good hiding possie sean.75 thanks for the cache.

May wehave a extra hint also we have be searching for days and been picked lots very entertaining tho

Found it took 2 tries cause the first was at night so went back in the day probably took 20 mins the second time

Thx to the CO for the extra hint on this one as after 5 searches i finally have a smilie to attach to this green spot. Shook my head in disbelief (as many others did previously) when i spotted the cache at last. Thx Sean.75 for your tricky cache placement, hours of funhad here!

Out early this morning hoping to avoid young muggles, which I did. With spot on co ords the cache was found very quickly . Tricky hide, thanks Sean.75

Back today for my 4th search for this one and brought the geowife with me who usually has a good eye for these ones.

I used my Android powered gps and she had her Apple gps, they both our us right in the middle of the gorse bushes , and if that is where the cache is it can stay there. The geowife also took a nasty fall down the embankment which didn't help her enthusiasm. This one is going to keep me guessing.

Checked on this one while in the area. All is good, it's still there waiting to be found.

Had a couple of goes at this one but sadly came away without a find today.

Prickly bushes everywhere...

Just too sneaky for words, area very slushy but took the higher line for dryer feet. TFTC

Did Not Find with FUF009 at 1.00pm.

A trip to Ballarat with FUF009 for one of his doctors appointments and then some geocaching. Thought we would find ourselves a couple of finds in this area but unfortunately we could not locate this one. We were only hoping we would have better luck at the next one and yes we did.

Another countdown event to the Surf Coast Mega. This time Ballarat. I enlisted Locus Cache for company and we arranged to meet mogni and Mrs. Aussie M & M there as they were coming from a different direction. Having arrived last night we set off early to cache our way to the event. We had worked on Puzzles on the weeks leading up to the event so were keen to see if we could get some of those and any others we were passing. [^]
We searched unsuccessfully for quite a time without finding this little bugger. When I slipped on the very boggy and slippery slope covering my pants in mud we resorted to a PAF who wasn't available. So we splashed out way up to #2 and found that. Then we got a return call and a hint. No way - we have already looked all around there. But return we did and looked in the spot I am sure I had already looked and bingo. There it was. Go figure. Thanks Sean.75 for the cache, much more trickier than expected!

Brisal5 wanted a 'yapper' to keep him awake as he drove to Ballarat and he thought I'd be up to the task
After a late start Friday, due to his 'anytime is fine' reply when I asked what time we were leaving [)], we landed at our barn accommodation [^] in Ballarat about 8pm. After grabbing tea and a cache, we caught up with Mogni and Aussie M&M before checking out their weekend's amazing accommodation
Saturday we travelled the countryside from cache to cache in our two vehicles and managed to attend an event too (2 months to the Surf Coast Event - Ballarat) then bolted off to find a rare moveable cache [^]
Following a DNF on a bridge cache, our friends headed off for sleep [)] while Brisal5 and I cached until just after midnight by which time we were beat! [xx(]
Sunday after the usual caching breakfast of Maccas we said our goodbyes to the two ladies and then we two cached Ballarat until 1.45pm before finally heading for home.
Weekend tally of 1 event attended, 2 DNFs and 58 cache finds

Sneaky hide almost beat us today.
Thankfully, after a PAF was returned, we came back here after finding #2 and made the find here as well
I had been so close when I looked in what I thought was the obvious spot but then again, so had Brisal5
Well played!

TNLN. SL. TFTC Sean.75

Last find before heading off to today's event. I dnf'd this once before but today I found the cache almost next to where I looked last time.
Pleased to get a smiley in a very wet park
Cheers

Find #1094 for me. Found on my second attempt. Although I'd visited Ballarat several times since by first visit, I wanted to look for this one when I had both kids with me since they enjoyed playing in the nearby playground last time so I delayed my second attempt until the appropriate moment which came today (being Father's Day). I'm not sure how I missed it the first time since I had an unexpected quick find here today. The kids weren't so happy that their playground visit was cut short, but I was beaming! Thanks for this cache Sean.75!

Found by Mary & David at 0950. After our DNF here yesterday, we received some PAF guidance last night, so here we are again. This time we had rapid success. We were within just a couple of cm yesterday! Well hidden indeed. Our thanks to Sean.75.

We searched around for a good 10 minutes, then gave it away and went on to #2. Our thanks anyway to Sean.75.

No joy today.
Saw where it probably should have been.

Found number 2 though.

Found quickly this afternoon, good spot for a good size cache. Thanks Sean.75.

Found with McLookers this afternoon.

No luck for me here today. I poked around for a while - found a couple of old tennis balls, attracted the attention of the neighborhood dog and received quite a few scratches from the local prickles after stretching my hand into places that unfortunately yielded nothing useful. I eventually gave up after about 25 minutes. Luckily my failure meant the kids had more time to play in the nearby playground and another reason for a return visit. Thanks for the hunt so far Sean.75!

Not sure why I didn't find this one. Only DNF of the day.
Thanks

Found a 2hile back with Yogster, thought Id bring Nugget back to make the discovery. TFT C

A nice stroll down from the other cache and once at GZ a short search found the neat hide, thanks sean.75.

Nice quick find during a short nighttime stroll, I've walked within a couple of hundred meters of this one at least once every day since it was puli shed, but today was the third attempt to actually find it with the other two having a couple of muggle problems, luckily no muggles tonight in the misty cold night air

TFTC

Tftc first one in a while. Good to be back

Found, but the container was in a very open space and easily noticed. Rehid to a much more discrete place.

Pretty easy. Was right out in the open. Tftc

Found while enjoying a lovely day out, geoson loved the nearby playground and after finding a nearby cache we worked backwards to this one, lol, great hide, thanks for bring us to this area we never knew it was here. Thanks Sean.75

Happy Leap Year Day! Out and about with the geofamily, decided this was a great choice with a nearby playground for the kids. TFTC. TNLN.

12:14:00 PM. We parked closest to this cache but muggles playing basketball across from GZ made us leave it and walk to #2 first. On our way back it was time for a look and after spending to much time we ended up back where we started where the better half made the find. Log signed. Thanks Sean.75 for placing this cache.

Didn't get to sewrch for this one today. About 6 people were in the yard opposite having a picnic. We would have looked quite suspicious so we left it for another time.

We found your cache Inkerman Gully #1
We were just commenting on how well we were doing in regards to dnfs today, then we searched and searched for this cache!! Just when we had given up Azz turned it up, phew!
The cache is in good shape.
Thanks for the cache!

Well , this one proved quite a challenge for me today. I searched high and low and enjoyed the 'friendly' touch of the local plants several times. Eventually i found it where I had looked before but obviously not in the right spot.
TFTC Sean.75

Well we did this in reverse order. Parked at the bottom of the hill. Did cache #2 then #1 on the way back down. My GPS did jump around a bit but finally settled on a likely spot and a nice hide. Thanks for bringing us all here. The kids loved having an excuse to run about and play on a playground and us adults got an good excuse for a couple of caches. TFTC Sean.75

After doing a tour in Subterranean we continued caching into the afternoon picking up some unfound caches in the area. Took the short walk to GZ and found the cache in the second spot we looked.
Thanks Sean.75 for the cache.

TFTC. Out on an excellent day for a few smilies and after attempting this one last night, returned in daylight to make and easier find. As others have said coordinates spot on and yes I was very fooled for a while.

A little spare time between the market and the kids Milo cricket had us come hunting for these two caches. I had given up on this one as "too hard" then hubby had a look and found it within seconds. A little devious! Lol. A little little area here. Would be nice to back onto the reserve to enjoy playing footy and walking the dogs in. Many thanks - keep the caches coming

This one was a tad harder than expected. I thought I had narrowed down a likely spot but I believe that was a clever ruse. A Nice hide thanks

this cache took a few trys before this time around where a phone a friend to someone who had found it

I was out with kenbryl and kenare to get some more smileys. Nice hide, Tftc.

Suscoe was caching today with the sister.
It was a glorious Spring day, pleasant temperatures and a delightful breeze.
A nice walk in the park.
Thanks to Sean.75 for bringing us back to this area once again.

After a hot day we waited till later to attack our friend and fellow geocacher Sean.75 first cache. So pleased that I found it and that you didn't throw in the geocaching towel because I love our trips with yourself and Kenare and our geo-adventures. Tftc keep up the great hides

Firstly, congratulations on your 1st cache hide. Kenbryl and I had held off getting this cache as we thought since it's a #1 there must be a #2 coming at some stage. No suprises that it wasn't where we first looked!! Lol! (Yes we should have known better!!). Once the cache was found, logged and replaced we were heading back to our georig when I received an email. We were both excited hoping it was notification for the #2 cache, but it wasn't! It was just a boring email from flybuys! Lol. Thanks for the cache, hunt, find and for bringing us to an area that we never knew was here! gygo!

We found this cache after looking in the wrong spot to start with. We should have known it wouldn't be there!! Great job putting out your 1st cache! I can't wait to find more! Tftc

Spot on coords. TNLN TF5C