Mother Hubbard's Cupboard Ringwood North, Victoria, Australia
By Geodes on 31-Dec-05. Waypoint GCRTBG

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Having got a message from Bob previously about sending needs maintenance when I didn't find it, I thought about not doing it, but going by the last couple of logs and and the lack of hiding spots, I think it is gone and if it is buried in the stump then it is out of reach and needs maintenance anyway. But the poking of sticks indicated their was nothing further down.

Mother Hubbard's cupboard is bare. Found the hide - the signs of human activity are unmistakable, but no cache. Did a thorough search of the surrounding area and found some really great places this could be hidden but still came up empty. I suspect the muggles have been. If no-one finds this in the next week or so it should be logged as "needs maintenance". Thanks for the walk though.

Great little bush area but didn't find the cache.perhaps the most obvious spot excluded me from looking anywhere else.

Had a 15 minute search around this evening about 5pm with my son, but all we ran into was spider webs. The GPS was a little confused due to the tree cover, so we'll try again another time.

Found @ 1842. Took a while to find where to park car and get into the area. Great area and good hide. Log a bit damp but still OK. SL TNLN TFTC
# 146

Found by The Empire @ 11:40am with The Lone Random
Find number 12 of 26 today. A great walk to a pretty cool cache, thanks Geodes.
- M

A lovely walk in the rain; enjoyed this peaceful place! TNLN tftc

Took my virgin Geocaching tennis team mates for a hunt after we finished tennis match nearby. They found cache easily and are now hooked on Geocaching!

Cache is very damp.
Took Waltzing Matilda (22FP44) TB, left peg & 8-ball eraser.

This was a great cache as it took me through a park I sort of knew was there but never ever went through it in the 12 years I have been in the Ringwood area. May be agreat place to fly rc helicopters.
Contents were a bit damp from recent rains but tried to dry out ziplock bag and ensure it was well sealed. Found at 4:35pm. TNLN.

It was like every retired local and there dog were at the park today. Said a few 'morning's and 'hello's as I mademy way across the open area to GZ. Had to wait a couple of minutes at GZ as a few muggles joggers were making there way around the track, but once the coast was clear it was a quick find. TB dropp as well. Thanks for the hide.

Dropped off Waltzing Matilda TB.

Couldn't find it looked for a long time so went back home, will be back another day.

Clearing out our 10km radius traditionals this morning. Probably came at thus from the wrong direction, but great coords led us straight to gz for a quick find. TFTC Geodes.

I'd had a look at this cache during a night-run a month or so ago but we couldn't find the right access due to some dodgy navigation on my part - Daylight and a map made it much easier this time as Happy Chappies' alpha male and beta female made the trip here today. Delightful, quiet park and a pleasant little walk to GZ. It's so nice to be out in summer and see thick lush green grass rather than the brown hay we've come to accept!

At GZ the hide was quickly spotted and cache retrieved and signed. TNLNSL. Internals are a little damp, including the logbook, but still manageable.

TFTC.

Nice quick easy find. TNLNSL TFTC.
~ The Adventure Crew ~

Found today at 11.40am
Nice easy find not to many muggles about today in the rain
Took 100 finds Coin
TFTC

After the hype in the mall it was a pleasure to come to this little reserve. Enjoyed the tranquility on a sunny day.
left 100 Finds Geo-Achievement Geocoin
Thanks,
p-boro
#1336

Found it today.
Nice Hide
Nice park
Nice day

Easy find in a nice bushland park reserve.
Enjoy the walk. Thankyou for bringing me here
TFTC. @1240

found yesterday, nice easy find.. tnln, tftc!

Found at night after a little searching. My first find.

Easy find, nice walk, great bushy park, only one geodog/muggle to contend with.. TFTC Geodes, TNLN SL Find#561

I've always found this warren of backstreets very hard to navigate, and my lack of internal compass in this area was mirrored by my GPS, which couldn't find GZ. After a few minutes of jumping around all over the place and geopup getting bored, we started looking in all the obvious spots. After a couple of red herrings, there it was!

TNLN SL, Thanks for the cache.

When I found this cache today it was completely uncovered and the logbook was damp, so I placed the log into a new plastic ziploc bag before putting the cache back in its hiding spot with slightly better covering.
TFTC SL TNLN

Yet another day caching in the area with Skip2992 as co-pilot and Hazey1 as ballast.
Nasty little hill the way we approached it
Nice easy find. TFTC

TFTC, A day out blitzing with Saulman1010 and Skip2992. Nice and easy cache. A little climb to get it.

joint find with saulman1010 & hazey1
quick easy find TFTC
"Puff, cough, splutter" ruddy hills good to have hazey1 venture ahead.

Found it around 9pm. TFTC

Love discovering little reserves like this. Thanks for leading us to it.

Found at 15:02 with 3up and tackle_head on a day of caching in the region. As we approached GZ we all guessed the spot. Another nice stroll in a suburban parkland area. TFTC Geodes

Found with 3up and Jaffnut which has turned out to be a beautiful day for caching - tftc Geodes

Find # 1254 @ 15:02 on a caching day out with tackle_head and jaffnut.
Fifteenth find on the cache run. I think we all guessed the likely hide at the same time. TNLNSL Thanks to Geodes for the cache.

#229 I like caches that have that 'out of suburbia' feel about them (and lack of muggles). TNLN SL Thanks

Replaced logbook

TFTC LNTN Log book is full and needs replacing

Out for a late night stroll with Juzzmagic. Ms Juzz found this one fairly quickly, showing the boys her talent. TFTC, TNLN.
Cv.

went on a night walk with crustyvarmint
and walked among the spiders spinning webs
nice hide
tftc tnln

Afternoon cache trip with TeamDunko
Quick Find TFTC SL

Getting dark now - So we had to break out the torches. After a brief search - cache in hand TFTC

11.20AM
Great Location

Took Pathtag, left Intel Lanyard

Log book almost full

TFTC

While our daughter reluctantly participated in school sports at Yarra Valley GS, we did a few caches nearby. It was a beautiful day for it, and the birds were in full voice. On the way back we noticed some dogs having a 'meet and great' in the park area. It was so nice here, thanks for the cache.

Found at 16.00

Cache 5/5 today.

I parked a little way away and completely missed the entrance to this little park. Only when I backtracked did I spot the passageway leading off the main road. I short walk up the hill and a quick find once at GZ

TNLNSL

TFTC Geodes

An easy find at 17:15 after a short walk through this very pleasant park. Thanks geodes for giving me a reason to stop here after having gone past it many times. TNLNSL TFTC

A few wrong turns driving here but soon enough found the park. A short stroll had me at GZ, but 2 lots of casual walkers from either direction saw me procrastinate around the area until all clear. The wonders of looking busy reading a pretend text!

Was it just me or was this log book full, and full from a fair while ago? Signed anyhow and was on my way.

TNLN. TFTC.

I am a local and didn't know it existed. Great for the dogs. Also went with Hubby. First Cache with a proper GPS so easy find! Took Bath gel, left fire truck. SL, TFTC

Luckily I did have the help of two guest cachers (and possible future cachers?), Martin and Thomas. Otherwise I might never have found a way into this park. In return I let them lead the way and discover the cache.

TFTC, wemwolf

2709. [font=Trebuchet Ms][green]Yep, finding a suitable way in was the tough part - especially for non-locals. Eventually settled on a spot and by the sound of my audio note it was either hot or uphill - actually it was humid and uphill for the same result.

TFTC and the unbare.[/green][font=Verdana]

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found by Ciaran Mike and Ben (CMB)! Great hide!

After a trip to Croydon this afternoon, the dog & I had the opportunity to try for a few caches in the Ringwood/Park Orchards locale. First on the list was Mother Hubbard. We found a likely parking spot then wandered into the Reserve, enjoying the fresh, peaceful bush that had just enjoyed the weekend rain. We huffed up the short hill then rolled down the other side to the GZ where the cache was quickly spotted at 16:45. Sure enough, as per the nursery rhyme, there was no bone in the cupboard - poor Jeffrey!

A nice little reserve - thanks for bringing me here Geodes.

Really nice area, made for a very nice walk after work TNLN TFTC

dipping personal geopatch

Well hidden but was able to locate the cache quickly

Found 1425

TNLN TFTC SL

Found 18/10/09 at 4.20pm, cache 2 of 2 today!

We went in the wrong way (as usual) with this one - And had to use some "beaten in" trails, rather than the pathway... But we got there, and had to scale some fences... (sigh)

When we got to the GZ, there were about 3 places we could look for the cache, and it was in the first place we looked... Hubby was peeved that I pretended I hadn't seen the cache so that he could claim that he found it first! Can't win!!!

Took 50 Euro cents, left pirate gold, SL, TFTC!

We now have a personal TB to track the km's travelled while caching so just dipping it in to catch up on the km's
Thanks - GJMMelb

Nice easy find by GMelb but Dog walking Muggles were soon approaching so I moved further into the bush to log whilst GMelb and MMelb had sword fights with sticks on the track to be a distraction from me lol.
Took Beads
Left Piggy shaped Bath Shower Gel in own bag
TFTC Geodes!
GJMMelb

1705hrs
Nice easy finish for the afternoon 3 from 3 for today with my daughter and Tean Coxy Junior.
Good traditional cache

Took Ball and Giraffe
Left 50 euro cent piece

TFTCSL

Good one for the kids to find as once at the spot fairly obvious location. Nice little loop walk. TNLN

good find found by ryanc5797, bro and uncle Ian's first Find!!

Technically I didn't - my sons, de boyz, did - as they are in Australia visiting my brother but they released our first Travel Bug while they were there into this cache and thanks to Geodes with his help with this, another great example of cachers around the world helping each other. Let the TB's adventure begin!

Nice quick find in a pleasant area. Took the Celtic coin to take to Adelaide later.

1961 re-logging due to name change

Quick find between dog walkers and joggers.
Took Castleman coin, Left Celtic knot coin

Found it easily. Nice park for a walk. Took a frog, left a giraffe.

Found reserve after 2nd attempt !
Most enjoyable walk.
TN
Left GeoCoin

Green Frogs

Enjoyed the area. Thanks for bringing us out this way.

Took Coin.

found it and left coin

Man, we were exhausted and had started the previous day chasing our 400th cache. By this stage, we just wanted to get home, short of our milestone. Raced up with Caleb's second-wind, grabbed the cache and sl...
Raced back home, and Mrs drove home & even made a great dinner.... She definitely deserves a pat on the head for that!!
TFTC

A nice stroll after looking at new 4x4 toys in richmond. Nice hide although a little wet, nothing too bad though. Thanks for the hide.

Rated: for Overall Experience

A great hide, eldest geokid found this one, and she is over the moon as it is her first actual find, by herself. Did the usual swaps, TFTC and SL

Another early morning walk on a lovely day. Another lovely hidden spot. Thanks for the cache.

Found in dark thought was some where but it turned out to be some where eles took ausie hopper TB. TFTC

Accompanied with Everlasting and PWALA. Thanks for the cache. It was lovely day!

Accompanied with pwala and Birdberna. We all enjoyed wander the bushland. Left: Ausie Hopper Travel Bug. SL. Thanks Geodes for organising the cache and hunt.

Found at 1.35pm with Everlasting and birdberna. Nice park and enjoy strolling with lot of trees around. TFTC .

Visited at 13:59
After finding the tricky close entrance, we got to the cache to find it occupied. sorry we didn't stop to say "hi!" but today we were on a deadline.
Took the tape measure & left a frangapanni floating candle.
TFTC, find #247 for Echo & Spice.

Found by caughtatwork at 1:54
Ahh. A serene walk through the parklands. This is a great cache for that. There were a few dogs over the fences, and one who actually leapt over the back fence and started barking like mad as we approached GZ. Took me a little by surprise and gave me a little bit of panic. I don't like barking, woofing, biting things.
Nevertheless the cache was found in the most obvious location and it was a nice stroll back to the car.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks Geodes. You have chosen a pleasant area here and it was very enjoyable in the warmoth today to find your cache.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

[WOOOHOOOO! Our 200th cache!
Quite appropriate that we were out with caughtatwork who dra... I mean who introduced us to the wonderful world of geocaching.](you know we love ya!)
[We took a bit of an uphill hike with this one, but managed to find a more leisurely way back. Took soldier, left ball & frog. Thanks for the cache.]

My car-nav had me all over the streets in this neighborhood while I tried to navigate my way to an entrance to the parkland. I had no idea where I was, and having not come prepared for night caching, and having only portable electronic devices to illuminate my way, I did it quite hard here tonight! I managed to negotiate my way along the paths and eventually arrived at GZ, where luckily I found the cache in a logical hiding place. TNLN & SL at 9:30pm. I can’t comment on how pleasant the surroundings were because I didn’t get to see much of them! Thanks again Geodes for the cache – my experience here tonight re-enforced the importance of creating waypoints at track junctions so that one can navigate their way out again!

Bit of driving around till we found the way in for this one. Still not sure we found the easiest way in - it was an incredibly steep climb for the first part, then a bit easier after that.

TFTC

Thanks Geodes for yet another cache!

TNLNSL

Great Cache and enjoyed your comments on where it was located. We enjoyed the walk just after a light rain. We took nothing out and put nothing in. It was our third find Thanks heaps. By the way the second log book is nearly full.

100 100 im on 100
thanks for my 100th cache
and a great one to

Tried to find this one last night but were defeated by darkness, so we returned this morning and after some searching found it. How exciting to find a geocache we could walk to from home!

Found on my weekend trek around the suburbs. An easy walk and the GPS was a little wavery at GZ but a good search around got the goods. A walker and her dog were passing by so I was quick and quiet and TNLNSL.
Thanks Geodes,
Roostaman.

Found it on the 2nd attempt with a different GPS device.

Red Jeep out. Toy soldier in.

First find for us and the kids are very excited by it. They are now getting together collection of toys for other swaps.

Off to the next one...

Couldn't resist the lure of 4 geocoins in a cache right near home, so I did a cache check and swapped the coins for a Red Jeep TB.

Found at 2230. Nice night walk to GZ. Great area.

T - Weathered's Australian Adventure GC
- Lunchtime Gang GC

L - Generic GC
- Endian GC
- Civil War GC

TFTC.

Wondered around a bit at first, but soon had the cache in hand. It is good that there are still bits of land for parks.
Thanks, Robmc.

Another one where Tom tom lead us astray at first then Oz ex showed a track pretty direct to GZ from where we lobbed but we couldn't find it. Did on the way back though. Anyway it was an easy walk and only a bit in the wrong direction, and an easy find in the end.
Dropped off a few coins here and grabbed a TB or two.
Thanks Geodes

FOund just after work and managed to just miss the down pour. Took Hair Clip and Ball
Left I Still call Australia Home and Lucky Penny TB's
TFTC

Our first geocache find! Took two goes as we put in the the wrong coords first time and thought it was unlikely to be in the house we were standing in front of
Second time lucky. 3y.o was beside himself with excitement as we found "the treasure"

After a loop through the western Ringwood area close to the Eastlink tunnel works, we found a quiet park that gave a pleasant walk and a quick find. A muggle or two exercising dogs so TNLNSL.

While househunting in Ringwood North yesterday, the condition of the day was that if any cachees sprung up as nearby in TomTom, they just had to be done (within reason)!

So this was a short stroll from the other side of the park after trying to work out where the closest access point to the area. A nice quick find with very accurate coordinates.

TFTC TNLN

A nice quick find in a park not too far from home. Thanks for the cache.

A quick find with Kiwideb in a nice park. Thanks for the cache.

First ever find with keen cachers cdmark. Mrs Voyeur and I can start to se the attrction of this activity. TFTC. TNLN.

Found with our friends (now called Voyeur30) on their introduction to Geocaching. A nice walk to GZ and ground a little wet under foot which is good to see. Cache found easy enough and remains in good nick. TFTC Geodes. Cheers.
T: Balloon
L: Dice

I am sure we walked 500m rather than the initial 200m we needed to do! Nevertheless, it was a nice walk.

The GPS took a while to settle down so we first looked underneath a nearby structure (a common hiding place - but not this time), then moved to the real GZ where the cache was quickly found.

Took: snail, lizard, golf ball, bubbles
Left: water squirter, car, mini tape measure, bouncy ball, giant balloon

Another great little green oasis.

TNLN. Thanks, Geodes.