Schmikey's Art Trail Adventure Lab Bonus Geelong, Victoria, Australia
By suscoe on 20-Jul-24. Waypoint GCAVEYN

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location. (HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do. [:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort. Devilish Brilliant and Clever I like it Another one off the list TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Suscoe [^]

way too many muggles nearby

Thank you for showing us all these wonderful art installations. I probably have walked past some of these many times without even noticing that they were there.It was a nice little tour that didn't take long but was very enjoyable.Thank you so much suscoe

A quick cache with simsfamily, thanks for the adventure

Good fun, with a bonus at the end. Tftc.

An early morning drive and a catch up with a good friend to do some caching around the area. The weather was perfect and we even had a little water fun to grab a couple of caches.This is one of the caches found today. I really enjoyed the adlab the cache was a challenge to retrieve on such a busy day.Thanks suscoe for the cache.

Today involved a CITO, some caching and lots of walking around the city, taking in some great street art which I really enjoyed. Thanks suscoe for creating for us all to enjoy. Cache in great condition. A FP added for the journey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wow! The fun just never stops.Join us as we announce the winners in the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards in addition to celebrating Geocaching Victoria's 10th Anniversary.**When:** Saturday, 16 November 2024 from 5pm**Where:** Yarraville-Footscray Bowling Club, YarravilleLog your will attend at [**GCAWDFX: 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards & Birthday**](https://coord.info/GCAWDFX).Also have you logged your will attend for Victoria's first ever Block Party? (Think Mega but even more special!)Join us on 22-23 March 2025 in Sunbury to celebrate 25 years of geocaching by logging your will attend at [**GCAP417**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).

Murkel and me made a nice walk around in the morning. We enjoyed the view, the weather and the nice paintings.Thanks for the cache

We stayed in Geelong for the night and visited the harbour area to go for a few virtuals and ALC's.We we're happy about this one having a bonus box.Thanks a lot for this ALC and the box,Murkel,on tour with Muckel1 13. September 2024 10:35

As the CO knows it is a G not a C! Enjoyed the artwork involved in this one, many thanks suscoe.

Found by The Empire + HThe iconic bollards, each painted with unique characters representing Geelong's history, line the path as you stroll along the esplanade. Sailboats dot the horizon, and the salty air fills your lungs, while locals enjoy their morning coffees at nearby cafs. A lovely wander around, checking out the cool artwork, thanks for cache, and the adventure suscoe.-M

Managed to get back this morning after completing the ad lab yesterday. All good at gz. The usual nicely themed logbook that we have come to expect from a suscoe cache. Favourite added. Tftcsl

Nice to have an adlab that didn't wear us out. Interesting artworks that would often be missed when walking by. Well themed bonus logbook. Happy to add a favourite for the art tour. T4tcsl

OHC had the details worked out super quickly and it didn't take too long for GT37 to spot the cache. Once OHC had retrieved the cache, our names were added, the cache replaced and we are finally heading home. Thanks for the a/l and this bonus cache.

In town for a non-geocaching event, I took the opportunity to make a weekend of it, and find some caches in the area. Papi4506 & Geoturtle37 joined in with the fun.After completing the AdLab, we made our way to gz, where Papi spotted the cache, but I retrieved it as I had a better vantage point. A lovely tour of Schmikey's Art.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, suscoe ~~

I came for a CITO, then collected some Adlabs, with some nearby caches thrown in. After completing the requisite Adlab, GZ wasn't too far from my car, so I continued my walk and found the cache soon after.Thanks to suscoe for the cache and the Adlab.

Found by Mary and David at 15:20. A FP for this quirky Ad Lab and this Bonus. Had no idea about the connection to Schmikey and Stuart Devlin.Absolutely wonderful. A couple of muggles at a table not faf from GZ, but plenty of natural camo meant we were out of sight. Our thanks to suscoe.

Perfect weather to enjoy the art work around Geelongs CBD with Donutholes. With the required information we were able to to make a quick find at GZ.Log signed and replaced as found.Thanks for the Adlab bonus cache Suscoe 8,175

Beautiful night out tonight! AusFox and I caught up for a quick stroll around to collect the needed info from the Adlab and the nearby virtual.Some great art work was spotted in this tour. Really surprised and happy that they haven't been destroyed by crappy tags.Found cache and signed away Thanks for placing.

This lab was an enjoyable 25 minute stroll after lunch. Some interesting art to share and GZ was a short walk away, away from prying eyes. An easier one to spot during the day! Thanks for placing.

Met up with my caching buddy moonbi late morning and armed with everything from gumboots and lunch headed off with a list of 16 caches. Happy to report all these were found plus several others along the way. A successful and fun day This was one of the extras we stopped for on the way home Thanks suscoe

After doing some trail series in Lethbridge had to finish this AL.Thanks for the cache suscoe

14:10Working our way around the adventure locations was a fun way to learn more about some of Geelong's intriguing art-work. It was a real bonus to add our name to the log here.A BIG thank you to the CO who created this bonus cache.37146

##Published - thanks for contributing to Geocaching with this Listing.##*Don't forget that regular visits to check on this cache will keep it healthy as well as keep seekers happy. Be sure to log an Owner Maintenance log each time you visit to check on the cache.*>***The challenge for any Cache Owner is not to place the smallest possible container . . . . . . . but the largest.***

{*FTF*} @ 10:46We (I swear my kids spend less time at school than I did back in the day) were grabbing some things at the shops this morning and noticed the new cache email as I was about to get in the car. As soon as I read Schmikey in the cache name I had a fair idea where I needed to go and what I needed to do. So I set off in the hopes of a FTF, but also to gather some much needed souvenir points as much as anything else. Soon enough I found myself on site and commenced the ad lab. One stage did require some extra thinking/tweaking of the format of my answer, the other 4 were nice and straight forward. Bonus points here for not making it sequential (my pet hate for ad labs unless entirely it's necessary from a narrative perspective). Perfect subject choice for an ad lab series, and a theme that will always interest me.Piecing together the final co-ords for his cache was nice and straight forward. With the tick from the checker I set off for GZ, ticking off some more (sequential, grrrrr) ad labs from other series along the way. Once at GZ the geosenses kicked in and we started checking potential spots until we picked the right one. A nice fresh logbook was soon no longer blank and we set off back toward the car, via some more smileys of course. TFTC

In town to do some shopping after returning from our caching trip to Colac we decided to visit Schmikey's trail of brilliant art around the CBD. On completion of the small tour and with the daylight fading we headed to GZ to find the 6th Schmikey's artwork for the day. We must admit to struggling with the cache hide as Mr Triton had a case of cache blindness, serious cache blindness. We searched everywhere in the logical locations before spreading out a bit but kept on coming back to the obvious. I think it was the third time of checking out the correct spot before he actually found it lol We cannot even blame muggles as we had the area to ourselves on this brisk evening. Thanks suscoe for another interesting adventure and bonus, we would never have noticed the art trail without this labcache. A favourite point added.