(Sweet 16) Knoxfield Lake... Scoresby, Victoria, Australia
By xf king on 19-Feb-05. Waypoint GCN03V

This cache has dissapeared once again. So this time I will be archiving it.

Thanks to all that have completed the cache.

Matt B

Unfortunately due to many circumstances I will be disabling all my caches. My work and other committments have not given me the time to check on or maintain my caches neither has it allowed me to complete any caches.

It does not mean I have quit caching all together. I will still do a few from time to time..

Sorry if this inconvieniances anyone. If anybody would like to take over the cache please email me at [email protected]

Yours
Matt B

Found at 0930. Took a 5 min search to find the cache as the co-ords point you over the fence. Logic prevailed and found it in a usual caching spot.

TNLN. TFTC.

Found @ 3pm while taking a quiet stroll.
GPS had me 10mts out so I resorted to the hint before finding cache.
Great little park.
TNLN SL TFTC

Found on a quick run around the area. Was surprised to see such a large park here. Parks always look good at the end of the day as the sun starts to go down. TFTC

TFTC

Thanks for this one. The level of muggles made it a tough one as we found it ona beautiful day for a walk.
Took stamp, left chain.

TFTC!!

My second in this series today and early in the morning meant there were not too many people about. Good clue too. Thanks XF King.

GPS had us a little off, so ended up using the clue, Found quickly after that.

Thanks

luck Dogs Crew

The GPS didn't send me to the right place. But I found it thanks to the clue.

thanks it was our first cache we had so much fun finding it in the dark not far from our home it is still ok
Noted the number as 4553 from log book.

[This entry was edited by sarian on Monday, May 07, 2007 at 6:48:59 PM.]

Found at 2:05pm on a suprisingly muggy Autumn day. Not too many people to be seen, although I got a funny look from a mini-muggle on a bike going past as I was logging my visit. TNLN. Thanks.

Found at 2:15pm. There weren't many people around today, but you just never know who might be coming around the corner! I used the clue to reduce the chance of getting caught snooping. TNLN and SL. Thanks.

Nice easy find, and a pretty park too. Left the swaps bag in the car so TNLN
Thanks xf king!

What a great place for a cache I was surprised to find such a big park here.
took rubber ball
left tweety figure stamp

Good hide in a another good park. Managed to retrieve and replace the cache between muggles despite there being a few of them. Not as bad as at other times it would appear. Thanks sf king for the cache. I can now go look for the final!

Great cache, kids got really dirty, they thought this was cool

Took the Kiwi for a trip to Gipsland.
Thanks for the cache.

Found by Winchy at 7.30pm - Definately a VERY BUSY place. Lots of muggles. Took toy car and left Frog. TFTC

Found at 6pm. Left TB Baa Baa for a bit of a feed and drink here. Nice area. Ta

So, how hard could this be, it's a traditional after all? After finally finding a place to park, I headed to GZ, sans paperwork, and started to search. Geko put me in a spot with about a million hidey-holes but none of them proved fruitful . With the ever increasing muggle traffic giving me some very strange looks, I finally decided to leave this one for another day after about 30 minutes. (Besides, the old legs were getting a tad scratched.)

On returning to the car, I noticed that I had actually printed out the cache sheet, which included the decoded hint . I couldn't let that go so I returned to GZ (from a closer parking position) and, after letting about 5 million more muggles pass by, had the cache in hand at 19:05. That naughty Geko continually showed me as about 15 m from GZ.

TNLNSL, noted clue. Thanks xf king.

A nice lake in Knoxfield, sorry did someone say that before. Well it was and there were heaps of people walking and having picnics today. A very popular spot. However a quick dash secured the cache and an equally quick dash put it back. Swaps were a bit thin so we left a “Heart†fridge magnet.
Logged @ 1111 hrs this morning.

TFTC xf king.

A fun christmas day find, in the company of my father (in 70's). He was impressed with the GPS, and although he enjoyed the hunt, it's probably not the hobby for him.

This chache was a little tricky as the coords seemed to point well into the bush. Decrypting the clue put is back on the right path very quickly and a muddy knee was the only casualty of this find.

I also forgot to bring a pen, so I was forced to leave a business card instead (Neil Creek, Orion Visuals).

TNLN

Found at 11:13 AM
Didn't read instructions properly - forgot to carry pen - did not log visit.
Only a few muggles around - TNLN

Our first solo find

Found on a day caching while the car was being serviced (big service). This one took a little while as my GZ had me about 12 metres out. I cracked the hint and then was worried it had been washed away with recent storm as very little was spared and the water level had been quite high. After a while checking the storm litter I made my way along the obvious hide and eventually found it a very long arms reach away. The council has recently fixed the area up and I wondered if the spent party popper was a sign muggles had found the cache at some time. I placed the cache back in a geocache manner.
TFTC

Cache found by the armymen after a couple of failed attempts to find others, it lifted our spirits, thanks xfking.

Stopped by this afternoon to grab this cache and found it sitting right out in the open. It's hidden a little better now.

Only 14 to go....

Thanks,

R - B

Found after a short walk around the lake. Was easy to spot as it was in the open. It would appear that recent works on the structure may have resulted in it being moved. All back in place when I left.

Found @ 4:30pm

Easy find. Had to wait for a heap of muggles to go before I could replace the cache. TNLN.

Found at 16:05. 2nd one in the series today. Lots of muggles around so took a while to retrieve and replace.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Took a big step to get into the park late at night, not sure how you get into the paths from the east side at night.
I knew, from the map that there was a lake, but it always different when you walk around a suburban corner and it opens up like that.
Seen this boardwalk stuff before so it was a quick, but damp (for us), find.
The cache is high and dry.
Signed log and got out of the rain.
Thanks, Robmc.

And we were still going. Somwhere around 11.00 pm at this point in proceedings and we did three more after this so it was a late night. Anyway found etc, no swaps again but thanks.

Found at 10:48pm Accompanied by Robmc as the driver and Chewinprickles as navigator.
15th find out of 16 on our lets cache into the night till one of us drops expedition.
Second last sweet 16 cache and then the final, it certainly has taken me a while to do
this series, I supose it comes down to living in the west.
TNLN, Signed Log. Thanx XF King....

Our 21st cache for the day (of 28).
Blake (8) found it.
TNLNSL.

We have never ventured to this spot before,but despite a couple of joggers and misty rain grabbed the dry cache at 9.30 am.Took yo-yo and glitter -put in ball and car .Thanks to xf king for the lake invite.

Came by and retrieved cache on 12-5-2006.

Dried out log book and placed in a couple more swaps and new bag for the log book.

Replaced cache about 1.5 metres from original loaction. Hopefully wont be found by local gardeners. Difficulty will be changed due to muggle density.

Go for it guys.

XF king

Found it and so had someone else! Container was in the open, lid off and contents wet. Tried to dry everything, but log is a little damp. Now the real problem, where is its proper hiding place? It also looks like some vegetation work is being done on the area with fresh piles of mulch near by and these regular round holes everywhere. So it can be found [it's gone west to the nearby structure].
TNLN.

Thanks Cral, I'll come in the next couple of days and remove the cache for maintainance and possible relocation..


M.B.

a beautiful walk but took a wrong turn leaving GZ! eventually got back to the car.
Cache was surprisingly visible, so rehid it in same place but more carefully.
Took nothing placed purple cotton.

We had a walk around tonight in the dark and managed to find a spot looking like where the cache had been as well as finding where the cache is now.

Grabbed the answer and TNLN

TFTC Matt

This is No. 3 of the Sweet 16 caches. Did it with NEXT! and as he said there is a lot of prickles in fact NEXT! had them all over him. Found @16:30 Got my first Travel Bug I will look for a good location to place it. Took recipe left Snap Cards. TFTC

[Started to follow the Sweet 16 path of discovery today. Enjoyed this find with Scooter's Mob. The area is freshly covered with prickles - not good for the good work clothes Had fun hunting around...was simpler than at first thought. Found @16:30. Cache was then moved closer to the coordinates] just a couple metres closer to walkway and nearer to the hint location [Took Blue Lizard, Left Next! Laminated Stamp. SL.]

Checked this cache as it was moved, I found it quickly, and decided to leave it here as it is only 6 inches away from where it was originally placed. I dont know where the cache was hidden when NEXT! found it. But oh well im just glad it is still here.


M.B

Enjoyed the dander around the park. When I arrived near the GZ I thought the flashflood on Sat had washed the cache away. My GPS was misleading me, but I continued searching. The cache was safe and dry.
Took Gel pen
Left sticky gekko and spider
Dropped Tebbos TB
Opening a cache is like pulling a dozen Bon-Bons ata Xmas
Cheers xf

Found today along with TeamTuba. Our #9 of 10 for the day, attempting to finish the Sweet16 series. Last one before heading for the big finish..

Found this easily, though Tim had been previously but lost the numbers. A few muggles nearby but a pleasant walk otherwise.

TNLN. Thanks.

6 months later I finally got back to this one! Nice easy find. 5th for the day. TNLN. Thanks XF King.

Found it our second find
Took Kalaedascope left mini bowling pin.
Very nice park, lots of paths and flat grass areas (great for a kick of the footy).

Thanks XF King.

Found on 30/10/05 @ 2129 AEDT. The 52nd of 58 caches for the day with Facitman for the Spring Caching Carnival

The paths that lead in to this cache are hard to find in the dark, but the cache was not

Cheers xfking.

Facitman & Rhinogeo's
SPRING CACHING CARNIVAL
A 50+ CACHE SPECTACULAR

Found by Facitman and Rhinogeo at 09.29PM
No 52 of 58

Walked into park by torchlight and Rhinogeo found cache in short time.

TNLN
Thanks xf king

Facitman & Rhinogeo's
SPRING CACHING CARNIVAL
A 50+ CACHE SPECTACULAR

came out with dad and matt for this one at night. it was an easy find. TNLN

thanx xf

A nice spot that I never existed, I walked in from a nearby entry and was surprised by how many walkers & joggers used this area. The GPSr pointed me to the spot but I had to wait until the way was clear before retrieving the cache. TNLN thanks for the cache XF King.

Second find after leaving work early today. Had to wait for some muggles to move away before being able to locate this. Found quickly and wrote down the numbers. TNLNSL.
Thanks XF King.

Our second find. Not far to roam.
My kids walk past on thier way home.
Every day back from school.
Just like a muggle fool.

This was my first Geocache and my second attempt at this one after changing my datum from AGD66 to WGS84. Nice park. Easy find but much harder to put back with all the lingerers near this spot. Had to do two laps of the lake with the cache before able to return it.

Took toy car and left giroscope.

A nice easy find in a lovely & peaceful park, on a beautiful day!

The kids have gotton sick of pointless multi's, & micro caches lately, to the point that they have actually Stopped wanting to go caching (It really kills the treasure hunt value). To find a traditional cache greater than 200mls in size for a change, with good swaps in it, placed in a lovely park like this, really does restore the treasure hunt value, and the family enjoyment of the game -Getting towards how caching used to be .

Found by Chick 1, with Chick 2 close on the tail.
Took: Whistle & YoYo Left: Kalaedescope & Car.
Our Thanks to XF King

What a lovely little (actually, it looks quite big) park! Nice hiding spot. TNLN thanks heaps xf king!

Letting Daughter loose with the GPSr, she found her way to the spot, but was a little out. When i read her the hint however she quickly located the cache and was greatly cheered. she thought it was a great hiding spot.

11.00am
Found by Roma and Max.
This was a very easy find as the container was fully exposed in it's possie at GZ.
We logged our visit and replaced everything as it should be, no apparent harm done.
We exchanged a Yo Yo for a Yo Yo.
Thanks xf king,
from Romax.

Cache was found at 1345 we took a while to find the cache. When we shouldn't have Oh well.
Thanks for the cache. Lovely area.

FOund this one with a little patience. There was a few people about.

Found by Bob at 14:05

This is really a lovely area of parkland - the surrounding neighbourhoods are lucky to have it as part of their backyards. The cache was a nice quick find - although when I got to GZ I was expecting it to be the 1st wp in a multi until I checked the notes.

Took: Carabiner
Left: Diecast orc figure

Thanks xfking

Found 12:10, a nice easy find

TNLN, thanks xf king.

found in no time girlfriend beat me to this one for a change. cache was safley still there and put back the way i found it
thanks xf king for this cache
PS go FORD

The cache was replaced at about 10:45AM this morning. Hopefully this one wont be muggled this time.

I came here this morning to find that alot of new plants have been planted nearby and the previous storm damge upstream has been cleared. And ofcourse the cache has been muggled. I think some gardeners may have seen this one as the new plants are only a couple of metres away from GZ.

I shall place a smaller cache in thesame spot in the next week. Hopefully the new one will be small enough to make it easier to hide and less visable than the old cache container.

Hmm...seeing the logs of others I think this one has gone missing. I searched for about 5 mins then decoded the clue, which was pretty specific. There was an obvious location fitting the clue, in the right spot, but no sign of the cache. The location was clearly damaged recently, and I suspect the cache has been muggled.

A quick one on my way home from work. I lived in this area over 30years ago and wow hasn't it changed! What a lovely urban park. A little bit of paradise within the urban sprawl, but so many muggles. Took me ages to search because of all the passer bys and even longer to return the cache to its hiding place. Everybody was out walking, riding, running or exercising the dog or the kids. Thanks xf king and one more towards Sweet Sixteen. Took receipe,left Kermit.

Found at 15:45 with Shimachic.

Cache was completely visible from the path as we walked nearby - we've tried to hide it a little better. Needless to say, an easy find.

Took : Spinning Top
Left : Rubber Duckie

After the easy find at Mulgrave I was feeling confident.
Found this one at 15:10 without any problems other than the fact it was most definitely still raining!
Took what I think was a sailor toy and left a turtle.
On the home stretch now!


Thanks.

This was the last of the caches that I needed to find to get to the final cache. It was a lovely day for a walk. It was only a short walk, but its in such a lovely area that I thoroughly enjoyed it. The GPS took a few minutes to settle but once it did, the cache was found easily. No swap was made - I only took the last required clue. Thanks for showing me such a lovely area.

Found by Mary & David at 1825. The loss of daylight saving sure puts a dent in a day's caching - not much light left now. Loved the walk through a very peaceful park, but there were a lot of evening walkers around, so we had to be careful with our retrieval timing. Took ladybird, left a mondo doll. Also took TB 'One Dead Duck'. Our thanks to xf king. Just one clue left for us now.

Found this one today, nice easy find but plenty of muggles around.

Took whistle left recipes.

Thanks XF King

Twelfth of 20 finds for the day at 1515. This was an easy find, because I could see the cache quite plainly from the boardwalk! I covered it better before I left. The order in which you replace the pieces of wood that cover the cache matters. I had left my swaps in the car, so I made no exchange. Fortunately, there were not many walkers about thisarvo. I grabbed the 'Sweet 16' clue and departed the scene. I had already possessed the One Dead Duck TB, so I left her for someone else. Thanks for the cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 10:19
The last clue to Sweet 16. Sweeeeeeet!
Took the long way to get here, I got lost in some of the back streets, but found the way in nevertheless.
A few momentgs at GZ and I had the cache in hang. Not a muggle in sight.
Took lanyard, left red bubblemix.
Also dropped off One Dead Duck as this is a nice location for water fowl, even though he be dead.
I now have all of the clues, so let's see if we can find Sweet 16.

Mr.Coffee and the Clan found this cache today after a short stroll to the cache GZ.
Mr.Coffee was on a roll today and had the cache in under 5 mins.
Thanks again XF King only 2 to go.
taken - Soccer ball dovee lacky thing, left lanyard, glue stick and sachet of moisturiser.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the Clan

A nice easy find in this series. This was a nice walk as well.
It has been a great evening for caching. I have found a few of these in the last two days. This being one of the quieter ones. It is so great to be out caching after work.
Thank goodness for daylight saving. Thanks xf king.

IN: Spinning musical top
OUT: Eye glass kit

Found fairly easily, then discovered no pen. Was easier to take it back to the car and do the log etc there. Back to return it, and muggle and dog, almost right on top of GZ. So had to go for a short walk till muggle moved off. Returned the cache without further interuptions.

David.

Found by Tim and Selena 1600 hrs

Straight forward once we put the correct coords into the GPSr. No muggles about for us. TNLN. Looking forward to doing the rest of the series.

Thanks xf king for the cache.

Found at 10:04hrs
Cache was slightly uncovered but still safe and sound, heaps of muggles around so I had to wait before I could grab the cache out.
Yet another Sweet 16 cache found via pedal power only.

Nice easy find, that spot just stuck out. another in the series. This was a nice walk.
Thanks.

Found by sbalogh53 at 11:10 on 10/3/2005.
Easy find, although had to wait for a dog walking muggle to pass first.
Took: Dinosaur
Put: Ladybird

Collected a sample of the local stagnant pond water for examination under a microscope when I get home.

We were checking the listing of new caches since Friday morning to pounce on the two last caches of this series. Sunday morning we were off to a picnic with friends and when we arrived home at around 7.00pm we slowly and hesitantly opened the new cache listings and there they were. Grabbed our stuff and we were off again as both caches were just a short distance from our home. Got to GZ quickly as we were able to park just 130 meters away and then slowly opened the log book and - opened the first page and ....WHAT!!! Who has written stuff in this book? Team Crackers and then Rabbitto. Those guys must have some sort of radar system for new caches - well done (mumble, grumble). Especially Team Crackers who then went on to FTF the actual Sweet 16 cache.
Took: elephant keyring, Left: Dream catcher girlie thing.
Thanks xf king for bringing us here - once again because it is so close to our place we never really explored this area.

Found at 6:45pm. Second of a quick dash for 5 new caches. Missed the FTF by only 15 minutes to a team that is probably out right now grabbing the final cache . Had to wait for a few muggles but then an easy find.

Thanks Xfking from D & S B-A. Took nothing, left nothing.

Knoxfield Lake Our last in the series and again no troublesome calculations so a very pleasant walk in a very busy park.
GPS'r took us straight to the cache, co-ords spot on making it a nice easy FTF. It is amazing how many people were out walking their dogs on the provided tracks when they should have been home eating their dinner.
Nice park, nice hide
Now to see if we can find the final in the series, thanks xf king