Water Drop 09 Claremont, Tasmania, Australia
By Budgietas on 01-Jun-24. Waypoint GCARD1D

Today after my event at Montrose Foreshore we completed the water drop geoart. Enjoyed solving the various puzzles whilst on the road and at the event got some intel from Lady Membsec to assist with the W3W conundrum.All caches were found some took way longer than others and it was nice to find a good variety of well thought out and executed hides.With thanks to Budgietas for the series. Several FP to be awarded.There was only one spot this one could be! TFTC nice placement

A quick find but a slow retrieve. We ended up using some things nearby to help us out. May require a little maintenance, although I did find it a challenge.

I had the right idea from the start, but wasted my efforts in the wrong place. Found as I was about to give up.Thanks

TFTC FLTF Cheers, EPs

Thanks for the puzzle cache Budgietas.I've been eyeing off this geoart series, and after finding one fairly simply last night, today I returned to find a couple to help me towards a little milestone. This was find #4999 for me.....the GeoGSP's stayed in the car whilst I was able to make a nice quick find of a classic clever hide. One more to go today.....

After having solved the puzzle the night before, i went out to Glenorchy on the bus so i could walk to about 5 of these in this series to grab. (Planning to visit a popular Irish Pub beforehand for lunch and a brew i decided to leave the car at home) A longer walk was planned as it was needed and dealing with traffic out there was not going to be an issue now Making sure the Muggle factor was extinct lol, i made a quick find of this one. I love these types of hides coz they rarely get muggled and the log books are dry 95% of the time [^] Signed the log away from GZ a bit, at 12:49 on TGIF 9 August 2024.Re-hid with no Muggles about.{I'm Thoroughly enjoying this series thus far especially all the different Cache and Hide types, Awesome work!}TFTC and the Puzzle, Budgietas

Took a while as cache was tightly hidden. Thanks for another in the series. TFTP

Interesting little spot. Quick find in expected location. TFTC

Our prime purpose for coming south today was to fill in another day on our multi-cache calendar. With that task completed, we headed off to the Montrose area to look for the newly published Water Drop series. CacheSleuth was our friend for solving each of the puzzles, projections and WIGs. We found all but one of the caches in the series and it appears that the one we missed was a victim of fence reconstruction. The coordinates for each of the hides were reasonably accurate or better. We enjoyed the series, in particular the variety of cache types and hides.Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of this familiar style of hide. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Budgietas for this cache and the series.

Hello Budgietas thank you for the cacheThis afternoon before taking MrsD shopping I stopped off and found this cache of yours.It was a nice quick find, thankfully as it was extremely cold.Found on Monday, 01 July 2024 at 1902**TFTC**

At the end of the CITO event today , Budgie was kind enough to hand out some drink bottles to those that attended the event. And inside was a list of caches for the Water Drop series. Once the waypoints were loaded in our phones, VK7HCH and I took off and started finding all the those caches. As Budgie said at the start, if we find it today we can claim {FTF}. We worked our way around and even caught up with Budgie at a couple of sites. We kept going through the sporadic showers and managed to find them all. Thanks Budgie for the series and the opportunity to get {FTF} with all the rest of Team CITO. Find number 4991.

Checker Removed.What three words was producing a rounding error.The coordinates from what three words will get you to the cache

Today is beautiful weather. There is a blue sky, and you can see the mountains with some snow. It looks brilliant. I kicked my bum out of the house. It has been a geocaching day for a long time. I saw on the new list I received from the email. I did homework on all those new caches last night, so it is easily solved, and I enjoyed running the series Closer Suburbs.I arrived at GZ, but finding a spot to get it took a little longer. That's a good one, cache. Signed the log with good dry. TFTM

Published

30 June 2024 12:41Found again with dencoxclan in hot pursuit.Unfortunately didn't make it to the event this morning but came along to see if I could manage a find.

Thank you Budgie for organising this CITO event and the accompanying bonus caches. There was a wide variety of hide styles, cache engineering and pure evil intentions. The challenge was met and overcome for each of them, this one, Water Drop 09 was no exception. Found in company with Swampy, this proved a pleasant days exercise, even with the sporadic rain. This is logged as a joint {FTF} with all attendees at todays event.

I thought we were heading for number 8 but a change of plans (due to access) saw us here first. Mr H grabbed it before we'd even had a chance to look!At the closing of the CITO this morning, the CO gave us all a drink bottle with a very handy bit of information of a new geoart that was about to hit, hopefully before the next rain squall!The rat and I teamed up with The Hancock Clan and knocked them all off before lunch, starting about 10.30am and finding the last one around 12.40pm.The CO generously offered for anyone at the CITO to log a first to find on any of these caches if found today. We signed most of them as team CITO as had apparently been discussed openly at the event. We tried to create a circular route but, with the Brooker Highway, the train line and even road works getting in the way, it wasnt always easy. As per the COs offer, a joint {*FTF*} with The Hancock Clan and SSR, and the rest of team CITO Thanks for the new series Budgietas Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)Member of the [Tas_Community](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=25086739) maintenance group.

We came to this mornings CITO not planning to do any more caching today, but ended up with thirteen finds (including the CITO). Budgie gave out some drink bottles with a piece of paper inside them at the end of the CITO and said that those at the event could log an {*FTF*} if they found them today, so we decided to try and get as many as we could. We met mr_johna at our fourth find and ended up following him around for the next few caches before going our seperate ways. We found eight caches before having to return home for another engagement, but returned in the evening to try and find the remaining seven. We only found four more before it got too dark to continue, but it was still an excellent day of caching, filled with high quality hides. Thanks Budgie for organising this excellent series of caches, we thoroughly enjoyed it, and Id be very surprised if it wasnt the same for everyone else.Thanks for the cache Budgietas!

Another one of several caches found in this series this morning along with stainless-steel-rat and Gooseandegg. It certainly was a bonus turning up to the event and then having 15 new caches nearby to go and find. This one revealed itself pretty quickly before heading off on foot to the next slightly higher one. TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan

What started as a day of a simple CITO after getting coffee turned into a great morning driving round collecting a nice new series of caches.We had great fun rushing round with the Hancocks to grab the {*FTF*}.Found on 30/06/2024 thanks to Budgietas for placing this cache for me to find. The best caches I have found so far are:-Sentimental [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)Traditional [Hanging Around in Toorak](http://coord.info/GC62KAP) By [bobthebuilder_123](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=586681)Multi [Gawler Fort Knox](https://coord.info/GC5T0W1) By [**JEM**](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=11449141)Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045) Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)Earthcache [Totem Pole](https://coord.info/GC862H8) By [The Hancock Clan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=263428)Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)Member of the [Tas_Community](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=25086739) maintenance group.