Highway Rookery Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By maccamob on 23-Aug-02. Waypoint GC833A

We visited the cache today with the intention of replacing the missing logbook and Stash Note. Still puzzled about why they would go missing though. Unfortunately, when we arrived, the site was occupied by a couple of guys doing what Biggles Bear commented on in their log. We returned later when the coast was clear, but now consider the site not to be GeoFamily-friendly, so removed the cache (surprised at how well it had withstood nearly a year in the elements). We will replace it with a new cache at a more appropriate spot in the Park in a week or two.

A leisurely find on a brisk Sunday morning.
This is a wonderful picnic spot.
The cache was not covered and the logbook & geocaching instructions are gone.
Took batteries and left W&G pencil sharpener & tiny unicorn eraser.

Found our FIRST CACHE

Rode our bikes from home (1.05 km) and searched. Daniel (3yo) found it, but his big brother Brian (6yo) was not far off. Must be their height advantage! Each boy took a ring and we left a little enamelled egg and a hair clip.

We'll do more of this

Found at 10:15am. Nice spot! Swapped a wizard figurine (out) for lady bird ring (in).

After visiting Quasimodo's Dream, we continued our ride out to this spot. We got quite a different view of the structure dominating the skyline to the south.

While searching for the cache the wind blew and knocked our bikes over into each other. I guess that positive factor from the incident that without some paint they’ll be a little lighter to ride up hills…

We picked up Sparky.wa the travel bug for some excitement. He certainly gave Pete some after he filled him up with gas – a 10 to 15 cm flame emerged on lighting him!

Thanks macamob. We hope to visit more of your caches on a ride up the Maribyrnong sometime.

Dropped Sparky who came east all the way from Perth. Sparky would love to travel futher.

Found on a warm and windy day. The log bool says we took a toy car, in fact after I had sealed the log book in the bag my 4yo changed his mind and took the key ring instead. Left some batteries.

David, Caleb and Tabitha.

Found on a warm and windy day. The log bool says we took a toy car, in fact after I had sealed the log book in the bag my 4yo changed his mind and took the key ring instead. Left some batteries.

David, Caleb and Tabitha.

Been wanting to get this one for ages. I pass it quite often and this time I thought i'd give it a go. Found it fairly easily but the rain made it very muddy. Lots of activity it seems in the general area lately. TN/LN.

An unplanned visit as we where just passing by. Nice location. 2 picked the paper clips and left a toy car.

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Found by Quasar and Skyfox after some bush-bashing. Took the Loony Tunes ball and left a packet of giant paper clips. If you visit this one, don't forget Blackbeards Treasure which is just 100m away!

Found at 1620, on our way back from an afternoon's caching. Loved the cross section ... it looks a lot smaller on the ground for some reason!

Took a dolphin keyring, and left a wizard figure. Thanks Maccamob!

Was heading home after dropping my sister off from the airport, remembered the cache, and checked my ever handy gps (my wife thinks I am a total geek) and lo-and behold it was still in memory ! a quick stop to buy something to swop, and without any instructions, headed optimistically for the cache location. Cache found, in good nick, but a bit small, some creative packing required to get the ball I brought in. I took the bigest item (to make room) which was the hippo pad

Also, I am very pleased that this cache had no spiders / insects / fallen trees / scratchy / cutty / bitey things in the way of the cache, much more enjoyable

Thanks for a neat cache

I was just on the last leg of another cache when my GPS showed this cache nearby. Didn't have the instruction sheet so I hoped that the location wasn't meant to get some clues to the phinal location. When I got there, I realised that the cache had to be there somewhere. There was nothing that could be used phor a clue. Looked around phor a while but phound it eventually. It was really well hidden. No swap made. Thanks phor the cache.

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Found at 3.30pm.
This cache was visible some metres away as it was not covered.
An easier than anticipated find.
Took Perth skyline and left hippo.
I concealed cache a little better.
Thanks Maccamob
K&M

In Melbourne for business but cunningly kept an hour open this afternoon to hunt geocaches. Found yours quite easily while being awed by that magnificent highway overpass. I took nothing but left behind a Perth City Skyline fridge magnet as a momento of Western Australia, the land that was made first after the Garden of Eden. Thanks for ending off a really quite promising business trip. I must tell you it is getting quite full.

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Found at 11.35AM. Found without too much trouble despite being so well hidden. A nice park which, like the Nomads, we had visited before in search of a cache not too far away. Nothing exchanged. Greg and Bev

Found in torchlight by Maya and Ray (The Nomads) at 6:20PM after a spur-of-the-moment decision to go caching. I never thought I would be back in the area so soon, having just left work at Boeing two hours earlier. We were puzzled by BB's reference to Safe Sex, but the reason became clear as we filled in the log book and made our exchanges. We took the Clipsal Key ring, thanks Sparky, and left a pack of balloons. BTW JoMac, this cache is 130 metres from an existing cache in the same park, and that cache is still there, despite what is said on its web page. I can recommend that cache, it was one of the early multiples, and very well thought out. Thanks Maccamob for placing this cache.

Found 11:30. We were very pleased to see that the inhabitants of the rookery have been practicing safe sex .

Took Silver nail polish, and left Alaskan charm amulet.

A brief scramble in the undergrowth was all that was required before spotting a flash of this micro cache! Took the charm bracelet that Biggles Bear left about 3 hours earlier, and left some post-it notes. Great to see a cache finally placed in this area!

Found this one at 3:45 pm and like Jomac I caught a glimps of the container.
Although the next cacher may not be so lucky because it was totally covered when we left.
took nothing left Clipsal keyring.
Thanks Maccamob

Having spent a long time at Bill Bones, time was marching on and daylight was fading. I arrived at the carpark not long before sunset and, in the dimming light, fossicked around for the cache.

It took some to find and I think it was found at 6:15 by touch rather than sight. In the poor light there was no flash of the micro cache.

It was a busy day for the cache. I was the fourth (and presumably the last). I still need to acquire items for micro caches as I had nothing small enough to swap.

Thanks maccamob for one of many great caches you have hidden.

Found by Luke and Kathy and Reg

Cool find, great location. I'll never get closer to home!

Took key ring of Chinese influence
Left key ring from Marleston SA