Logs for The Rusty's 

Hera and I continued on to this cache as it was enroute to the cache at the roadhouse where there is all manner of delicious fried food. We often base our caching trips around where we are going to eat. I tell ya, we've found some ripping joints with awesome pies through caching!!
Hera saw a telltale sign that something was lurking here and investigated further. Unfortunately this only held the lid of the cache and she had to investigate even further for the container. We signed the log and messaged the CO with a pic of the damaged cache. We put everything back in place awaiting a visit from the co but it is singable in the meantime. Tftc 

Usually on a Thursday afternoon/evening I'm sitting in a nearby karate dojo for 2 loooooooong hours, while my boys take their Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and two karate classes. I'm often set up with my keyboard and phone, logging caches. It gives me plenty of time to ramble on and on about stuff since I have 2 hours to fill. However, this week we made some decisions whereby the eldest decided he'd like to take up archery instead of karate, while the youngest was adamant he'd like to continue at the dojo. Fabulous!! (Can you hear the sarcasm in my voice?). So this meant that this Thursday I had to drop the youngest off at the dojo in Ferntree Gully, take the eldest to archery in Bayswater (this was the moment that this cache was published), go back to FTG to pick up the youngest, then back to Bayswater to pick up the eldest, then home to Upper FTG in the dark. Any other week prior to this I would have been at GZ within a few minutes of the cache being published.
This weekend we had planned to go away to our caravan in Wonthaggi but in the end we opted to stay home and do a few things that we never get time for. Since the sun was shining so brilliantly today we decided to go and top up the Vitamin D and have a play in the park with the kids. Before we left I made some noises about finding this new cache, and since I haven't been caching very much lately my muggle family didn't groan as loudly as they normally do so I took that as a sign to make a run for it before they changed their minds. Actually we lost 2 of them before we even set off and it was just the little one and I heading off for the search. I'd seen the logs about the coords being out so I tried to factor that into my search. However, the environment presented a huge number of hiding places and possible hiding methods. Unfortunately with no idea which way to expand my search from the posted GZ, and no hint as to the manner of the hide, I was not in a position to spend a huge amount of time turning over everything in every direction. As we returned to the rest of the family empty handed I thought to send out a message to a previous finder, who luckily responded immediately and gave me a better idea of which direction to look and what sort of hide it was. After getting a few essentials from Woolies my hubby kindly drove back and dropped me off for another go at it before heading home. I went as far from the posted GZ as had been suggested and searched again without finding anything. Oh NO! I thought I was going to have to leave it once again but as I returned to the path I saw something that my PAF had mentioned and decided to investigate a little further away again.
Sure enough, the description I was given seemed to match and we made the find. Hoorahhhh!!
I will say that before I found it I was cursing this hide. I do think that it would be a great idea to take up the offer to have the coords checked by another cacher with a trusty GPSr unit. I also think that, in case it is one of those areas that just doesn't like to give a solid reading due to the tree cover, a hint which helps one find the hiding spot (rather than describing the cache) would be beneficial too.
Now, after I found it, I have to say that if the coords are spot on this would be an excellent hide (all going well with the water level). The immediate hiding spot is wonderful, the location is pretty....what's not to love? I think you've done really well with your first hide. I really liked it (once I had signed the log and took it all in). Please please please fix up the coords and you will give many people a really positive experience with this one  

Answers emailed to CO 10/4/16 1pm

Hera and I had spent the day in the city doing an Amazing Race style game around town with a couple of other friends. We covered a heck of a lot of kilometres and busted our brains on puzzles but it was soooooo much fun. In the late afternoon we met up with our husbands and kids, who had been to a kids comedy show called Fart Lab. They emerged from the theatre armed with whoopie cushions and an arsenal of fart jokes and dirty ditties! Fabulous!! It was nice to walk through town when it was all over and just enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the city. So many delicious aromas floating out of restaurant doors, so many extremely talented buskers making a killing by the looks of it (might be time to change jobs!) and so many interesting things to look at.....including this sculpture. We were headed this way for our restaurant booking in Southgate but had just enough time to stop and gather the information That we needed to log this cache. And the kids had a ball running around the sculpture. One proud Dad had hoiked his young boy right up on top of the bloomin thing and the kid was walking around way up there while his dad was checking out how many people were as impressed with their display as he was.
I have passed this sculpture by many a time over the years that I've lived in Melbourne but I've never stopped to think about what it means or if I even like it. Turns out I actually do like it. I think it would have been rather contemporary for its time as it still looks pretty modern today. For what I think it represents I find the color choice to be interesting. I would have chosen to make it in a color at the opposite end of the color spectrum but maybe that'd just show up too much dirt over time.
Anyway, thanks for the nice little diversion on the way to a LOVELY dinner at La Camera with our geo-friends Zeus, Hera & kids.
(Photo attached)
 

A pic of Hera signing the log.... 

After my DNF a week ago I was pretty keen to find this today. We hit this lane early before it got all muggley and were pretty much left in peace to find this today. We searched in all the spots that Jazzmo and I had looked last week and once again came up with nothing. Then we kicked our brains into gear and thought much more logically and soon we had the cache in hand.
I really have enjoyed taking the time to explore these cool laneways over the past couple of weeks. Things were looking much tidier here this week than last week, when there were artist re-painting many of the walls. Unfortunately the smell of fresh spray paint was replaced with the smell of stale urine today though. Vom!! Still a great location though TFTC n0w0rries 

Forgot to attach pic.... 

After competing in an awesome Amazing Race game through the city, and having walked 8km doing so, we crazily decided that we should walk some more and tick off a few caches.
This cache was a nice easy one after just spending 1/2 an hour on another one nearby. I took a wild stab at where it'd be and Hera retrieved it. It was nice and quiet down here today but had there been muggles we didn't spend long enough at GZ to arouse any suspicion.
TFTC CamBendy 

How we found this cache, I do not know....but we did! It was a pretty epic search to be honest. It started off in the obvious spots. Back and forth, up the road, down the road, tried to knock off someone's bike lock that was randomly attached to a railing etc etc. You name it, we looked at it. Then Hera had the bright idea to enter some sort of restricted area where we were creeping around in never-ending corridors behind the shops, with numbered storage cages. It felt very naughty and sarejeurgi was gasping in horror at the fact that we were living on the edge...just a little bit. If it wasn't naughty enough to be tip-toeing through these corridors Hera then made us ride the lift down to the UNDER CRYPT or something along those lines that sounded extremely spooky. I'm normally up for a little bit of adventure but when the lift door opened and we were in some sort of underground loading bay I tried to suck myself hard up against the lift wall so as to make myself as scarce as possible. The door couldn't close quick enough and I was very relieved to make it back out to Artemis Lane without handcuffs around my wrists!!
Anyway, at this point we were mostly guided by a spoiler photo or two to get ourselves on the right track. It was just a matter of finding this hidden spot. We took the long way, as we always do, although I'm not even sure how to get there the quick way. By the time we saw the tell-tale signs that we were in the right place we were completely disorientated. However, we bumbled along and eventually got closer and closer until the hint made sense.
This was a rather epic adventure. It certainly gets you thinking. It probably took us about 1/2 an hour and it was actually quite a sense of accomplishment once we made the find.
Thanks for placing this cache iamapom 

After competing in a REALLY FUN Amazing Race game through the city and having walked 8km doing so, we had the crazy idea that we should walk a whole heap more and find some city caches. We won the Amazing Race game as we had a ripper team who each played an integral role at some stage or another with cracking clues and solving puzzles. We were still on a high by the time we got to this cache!
I recognised this area as I'd looked at this cache page and photos last week when I was in town. I remember seeing a spoiler pic at the time so I had some idea of where to start looking. Luckily we had the nice tall sarejeurgi with us as I'm not sure that Hera and I would have been able to reach up to this one. We also met dmoona here. He came around the corner with his friend, looking suspiciously at his phone and then at us, so we quickly ascertained that he was a geocacher and resumed the search together.
TFTC skakids
(Pic attached) 

The tantrum after the last cache was just starting to ease off by the time we got to this one because he was starting to realise he'd been defeated. I was still a bit too busy trying to reason with the unreasonable child to look for this one in any great depth. Lots and lots of hidey holes for this one but Jazzmo spotted it pretty quickly.
She is a bit wary of snakey and spidery holes so luckily there was the perfect retrieval stick nearby to tease it out of its home. Lots of nice swaps in here for the kids as well, which was a good distraction from the fact that I wouldn't go back to the last cache to collect all the stick guns. Thank goodness!!
Not many butterflies around today but it certainly is a very pretty spot. Never seen eucalypts planted like this. Only ever seen pine forests planted in rows for logging. Loved this spot!!! Thanks for today's instalment of fun, 4 B Ninjas. Loving your caches. Another pic attached..... 

We spent a rather bizarre night here doing one of the Lysterfield Night Walks a few nights ago and so I wanted to bring Jazzmo back during the day time to see how beautiful it actually is, especially when the sun is shining. Jazzmo and family were heading back to NZ this arvo and this was our very last opportunity for us sisters to cache together and come back to see the lake.
Today's walk across the dam wall was much less strange in the day light. No half fish half man emerging from the water in the dark, half clothed, scrambling up the rocks, dripping wet, plopping over the fence onto the dam wall into our torch light, then jogging past us with not so much as a sideways glance let alone a "hello". Nope, today the sun was shining and mothers with children enjoyed some of the last sunny warm days that we might see.
Jazzmo and I had our two youngest with us, who we bribed with the promise of Zappo lollies if they came. The eldest kids were also bribed with Zappos if they stayed quiet and didn't disturb the muggle hubby who was working from home.
I love this park...even more than the Dandenongs. They are close in proximity but vastly different landscapes. I've walked a lot of the park around the border between Churchill and Lysterfield Parks and have covered a lot of distance in Churchill Nat Park but I have only walked the loop of the lake down here. It was nice to veer off onto this path that I haven't explored before and the trees and landscape were remarkably beautiful. We stopped at the mine cart and it was only after a photo or two of the kids that I realised that we were at GZ. A quick scout around revealed the nicely hidden cache and it really tickled my OCD fancy!! The organisation and labelling was beyond fantastic. I think this cleanliness and order subconsciously makes people respect the swapping ethos too as it was full of quality swaps and the kids had a great time.
Thanks for a wonderful start to our caching morning 4BNinjas
Pic attached.... 

We were enjoying the dappled shade of the Tramline Track when we looked down over a lovely view of the lake beyond a sparsely treed area. We noticed a teepee in the open area and decided to further investigate. Upon reaching the nice green lawny spot we noticed that there were approx 5 or so teepees of varying sizes and complexity. The kids enjoyed exploring them and my son felt very accomplished when he noticed a large stick lying on the ground and propped it up on the largest teepees framework. This teepee territory was possibly the work of a Scout group....and that would be why I recently joined my eldest up to Scouts. I love this stuff!! Good for the brain and great to get kids outside learning skills that are so different to the joystick and home button finger workouts that they usually get.
After a few photos we noticed that we had got ourselves surprisingly close to this cache so onwards we went.
I was still reading up about how and where this may have been hidden when Jazzmo said that she had found it.....in a very surprising spot. I was thinking along all the traditional lines of places to hide micros there so I'm not sure I would have found that very quickly on my own.
Fabulously constructed cache. Lots of beautiful artwork. We really enjoyed this one! Thanks for the fun 4 B Ninjas!! Pic and fave point attached.... 

We almost didn't come to find this one. It looked just a wee bit too far in the wrong direction and time was getting on. Jazzmo needed to get home to have lunch before heading off to the airport plus my son was fast running out of puff as he carried about 6 "really cool sticks for gun fights" along with him. He was in love with each and every one of the sticks that he'd collected and he was not about to give any of them up in order to make the walk easier.
After a bit of deliberation we decided that the 350-odd metres was not far to go in order to cross off all of these caches and they were proving to be very worthwhile.
We made our way to GZ with much whinging from Mr 5 and no amount of reasoning about dropping the sticks was working. At GZ we were greeted by a small group of kangaroos, which was very exciting. Miss 6 had only come along on this walk for the chance to see a wild kangaroo (NZ'ers get excited about such things) so she was happy! I've lived here for 22 years and I still get excited by kangaroos too. How kind of you to place a kangaroo-themed cache here and organise a welcome party of kangaroos for almost every cacher that visits. Very clever!!!
What was equally as clever was the very unique log book, which we enjoyed leaving our mark on. Never seen anything like that before and it was very novel. Jazzmo and I put our caching names in the same box and we also let our little ones write their own names next to ours. We signed the paper log book too
I wasn't to know it yet but in all the excitement over the kangaroos and the log book etc Mr 5 had put his arsenal of stick guns down and we got on our way only to be treated by the almightiest of tantrums a bit further along the track!! Pretty sure he could be heard from the other side of the lake. Eventually he settled down and found a couple more guns that he was happy with but not before almost popping my ear drums!! Pic and fave point attached..... 

Exploring all these cool hidden alley's with Jazzmo and our families today. I've never been up this one before as I usually follow along like a sheep through the department stores. It would be good to see the graffiti laneways take off up this end of the city as well.
We hadn't got even a few minutes into our search when a man appeared and asked if we were looking for the geocache. He pointed us in the right direction, a fair bit further down the lane than we were looking. The GPS on my phone was next to useless so it was really nice to have such a helping hand, although once you knew where to look it was fairly obvious.
I'm not sure where that man came from or went back to but if he is a muggle he is doing a fine job of being a trusty cache guardian.
Thanks for this cache! 

Who can resist a cache that's only 150m from where you're having a rest stop? Not Jazzmo and I. We ducked off from the families to grab this last cache on this side of the road. Once again we were surrounded by sprinklers but Jazzmo braved the mist and came back holding the cache and looking very refreshed. A quick sign and replace and we were back at the skate park watching some really talented kids do their thing. TFTC 

Exploring all the cool little laneways today with Jazzmo and families. We happened to stop right next to this one to look at the cache page and as I looked up I noticed something a little different. I wasn't tall enough to reach this so Jazzmo's muggle hubby was put into action and he did the retrieval and replacement for us. Looks like the council have commissioned quite a few artists to spruce up all these graffiti laneways with some new artwork, which is cool.
Fave for this one. Thank you 

Exploring the city with Jazzmo and our families today. We had pounded many a pavement throughout the day so we were off to take in the gnarly skillz at the nearby skate park. On the way Jazzmo and I stopped here. I was worried that the cache might be further around the side in full view of a lot of sun baking muggles. But it turned out to be perfectly placed right near some sprinklers, which kept the sun-seekers away. Jazzmo took a seat and looked to her right and produced the cache as I was still reading the info on the cache page. This is very nicely hidden and not likely to arouse any suspicion. A fave point for this one skakids!! 

My sister Jazzmo is in the country spending time with me at the moment so we took a trip to the Big Smoke today with the families. We explored many of the hidden laneways and arcades and generally had a whale of a time. Nearer the end of the day we made our way down to this cache on the way to the skate park. Thank you for a detailed hint, which I think is rather essential to cache longevity in high muggle areas. We had the surprisingly large container out of its hole in a flash. The sun-bakers were oblivious as they were all facing the Yarra taking in the view.
Thank goodness for the nice mildly warm weather so I wasn't a sweaty mess by this stage of the day! LOL
TFTC gmj 

Spending the day in the Dandenongs with my sister Jazzmo and her family, who are visiting from NZ. The kids all wanted to go to the maze at Sky High so we stopped here on the way past. We had a couple of ideas of what we were looking for but we were wrong. I was looking nearby when I turned and caught a glimpse of something suspicious. Upon further investigation it turned out to be our prize. We thought this was a really unique way to hide a cache. I'm going to add another fave point to that tally.
Dropped two TB's here. TFTC 

The time has come for me to finally step foot on Bartlett Track. The CO has hinted that I should do these caches for a while now. I think the main reason is because he gets far too many "TFTC" logs and wants to read all my waffle about what breakfast cereal I ate, how many bush wees I did, what type of pie I ate on the way and what I did for the rest of the day afterwards. So I will do my best...
My sister Jazzmo (that's not her real name, it's her caching name) and her family are over from NZ. We had intended to walk some of Bartlett Track for the novelty caches and then go and see Olinda Falls....but we never made it to the falls. I still haven't ever been there! Shock horror!! Instead we went up to the money-making-machine that is "Sky High" because the kids love to explore the maze.
We found a couple of skinny roadside verges to plonk our cars and didn't have to walk far before we were circling trees looking for the first cache. After a few minutes of getting dizzy from walking in circles we read the cache description and were very thankful for the detailed hint. After that we had the cache in hand very quickly. Admittedly we were looking for something larger, given the cache name, but this was a nice surprise.
First smiley of this series done and on to the next. Was that waffley enough for you Paul?
Oh I better attach a photo as well
 

We wandered a bit further down this lovely track before our compass needles started to lead us off the track once again. I love a track that feels like you've done more caching than walking....although I do love a good walk too. We had 2 cachers, 5 disinterested children and 1 extremely muggle husband in tow so a quick cache trip was a good cache trip today. While we cached Jazzmo's muggle husband from NZ was intently reading on his phone. When we asked him what was so interesting he explained that he was reading about snakes. Apparently there were 7 species of snake that we should have been looking out for.....5 of them were fatal to adults and all of them fatal to children. Luckily we didn't see any!
My coffee had gone right through me by this stage and I desperately needed to do a bush bog so I followed my cache needle and found the perfect spot to do it at GZ. But I couldn't find the flush button
I've attached a pic. Look if you dare..... 

Jazzmo and I were just finishing dinner and organising a group assault on one of the Lysterfield Night Walk caches on Facebook when this notification came through. I hesitated for a few reasons....
1) We didn't have much time to muck around before we wanted to be at Lysterfield Lake but the Facebook notifications were coming in by this time and most people were letting me know that they couldn't go.
2) There are at least 3 other teams that live closer to this cache than me so I wasn't confident that we would make it for FTF.
Jazzmo was keen as mustard and taunting me with comments such as "You snooze, you lose". So I had one more check of Facebook to see whether it looked like Lysterfield was still on the cards, grabbed my stuff and got in the car with Jazzmo riding shotgun. On the way I told Jazzmo of all the teams that live closer than me and the words "ahomburg will be all over it" even came out of mouth.
We raced down Burwood Highway at maximum speed and zipped around the corner into Clyde Road....only to be faced with the image of a suspicious man in dark clothing, with his back turned to us, getting into his car. Who was that man and was he a cacher? His tinted windows masked him from view. We pulled up opposite him in the hope of a glimpse and then.......the window starts to roll down.....painfully slowly.....keeping us in suspense.......and then we see the Cheshire Cat smile of ahomburg in his flash new car that I hadn't recognised. We got out and introduced Jazzmo to him and I even tried to lay a nice thick guilt trip on him by telling him that Jazzmo (my sister) is over from NZ on holiday and he had ripped an Aussie FTF right out from under her feet. Who was I kidding....nothing was going to change the fact that he got there first, fair and square. He smiled as he apologised for our loss and then left us to the find. We signed our names in second and then saw that someone else wanted to join us for the Lysterfield Night Walk so it was a quick trip home for warm clothes and torches and the night kept going....
TFTC 

Spent a day at the zoo with Jazzmo (from NZ) and our families. We attempted to stop here before we went in to the zoo but alas all the nearby car parks were full. So, we did a bit of a backtrack on the way home to grab this before retreating back to the hills.
I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to read the whole cache description but according to all the previous logs I read it sounds like it was pretty interesting.
Not much of a search at GZ....I walked up to the spot, moved something slightly and it dropped from its hidey hole. A quick cache (when the kids and muggle hubby are in the car) is a good cache.
Thanks for providing this nice little cache fix nearby to the zoo. 

I was doing the touristy thing with my sister Jazzmo, who is over from NZ on holiday with her family. We spent the arvo and evening on Phillip Island and saw the Penguin Parade. We came over to this area as we thought that "Fisherman's Point" sounded like a perfect spot to find some fish n chips for dinner. But we were wrong.....sadly the fish n chip shop was closed. On the plus side though, we went to Cowes and asked someone on the street where the best FnC's were and he directed us to an upstairs "no fuss" fish n chip shop that we would never have noticed. There were only 5 things on the menu but, geeeeee, did they do them well!!!! Anyway, in between Fisherman's Point and Cowes we stopped here for a cache. We found a severe lack of quick drive by caches on the island. We were taunted by blue mystery caches everywhere we went and drove past a bazillion trads on the rail trail, which we didn't have time to stop and do any length of. So, thank you for a nice easy 'hop out and grab' in an area that was easily our favourite little pocket of the island. 

My kind of earthcache!!! I didn't receive a doctorate in geology from all the research I had to do. Nor did I feel that I should publish a book with the info that I had to write to answer the questions! Thank you for allowing us to explore this incredibly beautiful location without it becoming a chore. I usually avoid earthcaches like the plague but your cache description put a smile on my face and it was a pleasure to complete.
We came here to see the seals, which we suspect live so far out on the furtherest rocks that no one ever actually sees them. However, still flocks and flocks of people crowd to the area and the people managing the tourist centre are rubbing their hands together with glee. Despite the sham that is Seal Rocks this is a stunning area of natural beauty and I really enjoyed the photo opportunities. The blowhole was easily the BEST bit of this area. The surging sea was rather mesmerising! I'm really glad we came. Thank you. (Attached photo of the coastline) 

We were just grilling our Hot Cross Buns on our first morning of my sister jazzmo and her family staying at our house, when this notification came through. Jazzmo arrived from NZ last night so the opportunity for an {FTF} for her first Australian cache was too much to resist. Jazzmo lives in rural NZ so FTF's are not too much of a race out there, but knowing that Tank47 lives close by this one I was rushing her out the door saying "we're not in Waikato now. We have to be quick". We got up to One Tree Hill with no sign of Tank47's personalised number plate in sight and we got to work looking at all the "hidden in plain sight" objects that we could find. After about 15 minutes the telltale roar of the burgundy beast arrived and we were more than happy to see Tank47 emerge from the mist to help with the search, that had turned up nothing so far. We were also joined by Benkerian7 and his friend who happened to be in the area for a walk and only joined in when Tank47 asked him if he was looking for the cache. After another 15 minutes or so of not finding anything I flicked a message to the CO for a hint...as there was no hint at the time we were looking. Once we had the hint we concentrated on a different area to what our GPS's were leading us to and had the cache in hand soon after.
After finding the cache we realised that we had been reading into the cache name and cache description farrrrrrrrr too deeply. I think the hint that the CO has added will make this cache MUCH easier to find, given that the GPS reception is a bit bouncy.
So, it was pretty cool getting a joint {FTF} with my sister who lives overseas and Tank47, who I've only ever met on Burwood Highway whilst driving. And great to meet Benkerian, who is yet to get his premium membership in order to log this cache.
 

Last time I was here it was so busy that it wasn't worth looking for this cache. Today we parked right on GZ with hardly a soul in sight. I had free reign to search without anyone watching on and found the sneaky cache fairly quickly. As previously mentioned the front has come off but it is still concealed in a way that wouldn't arouse suspicion. We spent about an hour here watching planes come and go as well as watching them on the flight radar app on my phone. The order of it all is fascinating. We had tracked my sisters flight and watched it land from here before heading around to the Ring & Ride zone. Thanks for placing this cache. Pic attached... 

Helloooooooo fng_affl.....my legendary friends who got me out of a pickle when I was almost stranded in Brisbane for many many long tired hours on the weekend, thanks to TigerAir. It was great to catch up with you guys after so long!
Anyway, firstly, I was worried about how I was going to find this cache to log it as I kind of had no idea where I was when you took me to find it. So how was I going to find it on the geocaching map to log my find? Well, I looked up Brisbane city, then scrolled North, found Mango Hill which I knew was a suburb near you, then found Clontarff which is where we went after this cache, managed to narrow down a search area and VOILA!!
We cached our way to the airport basically and seeing as you guys have found some of mine in Melbourne I really wanted to find one of yours! I knew what I was looking for but no matter which way I looked I couldn't see it. After a few minutes Mrs fng_affl (who hadn't actually seen the hide out in the wild) found it and pointed it out to me. You could almost get away with logging a find on your own cache since she found it legitimately!!! Haha. I was surprised by the colour. I've only ever seen silver and black. Great match.
Thanks for bringing me here....literally....since it was on the way to the airport and you guys were doing me a massive favour by taking me there This gets a fave point because the CO's are nice people!! Great to see you guys. 

Oops, forgot to log this one last night. It was a big day getting back to Melbourne at midnight after not much sleep the night before so I was a little delirious as I wrote and saved all my other logs on the plane.
This was a nice quick find and the last of the series that we could squeeze into our tight time schedule before heading straight to the airport. Cache was in the first place I looked. Blends in nicely and is in great condition. I'll come back and do the rest of the series one day. I love the theme and yes, I did find these caches with a FRIEND who I hadn't seen in a few years so it was perfect. Thank you 

I was up in Brisbane for a wedding this weekend and had some time up my sleeve today to go caching with some old Melbourne friends, fng_affl. It was a nice surprise to see a familiar Melbourne cacher name as the CO of this earthcache.
We enjoying checking out these "eggs" in a spot that we would have otherwise passed by without a second glance. The fng_affl children enjoyed playing around the big tree nearby. Thanks for bringing us here Na'wal 

Flew up to Brisbane from Melb on Saturday morning for a friends wedding just down the road from here. After losing my dress at Melb airport in the morning (could only happen to me!), and deciding that a pair of bloomers and a boob tube fashioned from my hotel room toilet paper probably wasn't going to go down well, I hit the shops in search of wedding attire. Once I was done and my panic was over I set to work grabbing some caches on the way back to the hotel.
I arrived here and scratched my head at some of the questions. Not the CO's fault at all. I am notoriously bad at interpreting earthcache questions and find myself writing apologetic emails to the CO with my "well, it could be this or it could be that" answers. That's exactly what I did on this occasion but GhostGums was kind enough to write back with an educational reply (he told me the answer to one of my incorrect responses) and allowed me to log.
Thanks for the smiley GhostGums  

I was in Brisbane this weekend for a wedding but also managed to catch up with old Melbourne friends fng_affl for some caching today. They had already logged this cache but kindly stopped here while I collated all the info that I needed.
It really is scary, when you go down to the river and see the water level compared to the signs, to think how much water came up across the land.
A very interesting earthcache which was certainly an education for those not from this city. Thanks for creating this earthcache.
 

I was heading back to Melbourne yesterday after attending a wedding in Brisbane but had just enough time to get a few caches with some old Melbourne friends, who now live in this sunny city. They had previously found this cache so the detour here was just for my benefit. Unfortunately I'd just got news that my evening flight was delayed by 6 hours, which would see me getting home at 4am, and I had to work today. So I was in a mad panic and desperately ringing around trying to find myself a new flight to get on. We arrived at this spot just as the customer service lady answered after a 20 minute wait on hold. So my friends stopped me, turned me by my shoulders to face the cache from a certain direction and I spotted it. Walked over and swiped it out of it's hiding hole all while getting flights sorted. The only bit I couldn't do was sign my own name so my friends did that bit for me as I continued to explain that I was ABSOLUTELY NOT getting on a flight home at that hour of the night! Thanks for this unique hide. 

Was up in Brisbane for a wedding this weekend and had some time to go caching with some old Melbourne friends, fng_affl, today. We entered the Botanic Gardens and I admired all the lush vegetation around. What a gorgeous place. Very different to Melbourne's Botanic Gardens, which is full of big old stately trees plus a bamboo forest and even a desert cactus area.
We had the idea that this was going to be in the hollow under the tree, tucked away just inside one of the many holes. So it was a welcome surprise to find this hidden in a much more traditional way. With a constant stream of muggles walking past it was nice to have this done and dusted quickly. Full of lots of trackables, which fng_affl raided. None for me though.
Thanks for bringing me into the gardens. 

I was up in Brisbane for a wedding this weekend and had some time to go caching with old Melbourne friends, fng_affl, before my flight home today. Enroute to the airport we stopped here to grab a few caches in an interesting-looking series.
This one had us looking for quite a while. I found the cache in a hidey hole that I had checked previously....but not well enough. Even when I found it, I couldn't see it but found it by touch.
Pretty windy here today. We nearly lost our hats a number of times.
TFTC 

We walked past some people practicing for the kite carnival that fng_affl told me is coming up. It's certainly a great day for kite flying down there today!!!
Once at GZ us Melbournians we're a bit unsure about what we might find lurking in holes in rocks here in the tropics. Luckily the hint dawned on us and we realised that putting hands in holes wasn't necessary.
Despite its bright colour and size this cache really blends in very well. It's difficult to see until you're right on it. Nice big log book that shouldn't require a change in a million years Thanks for this fun cache. 

I was up in Brisbane for a wedding this weekend and had some time up my sleeve for grabbing some caches today. Some old Melbourne friends, fng_affl, kindly came to hang out with me and do some caching together. They had found this previously and gave me a little pointer so that I wasn't arousing too much muggle suspicion. Quickly signed the log and replaced with the blazing red lid facing INTO the hole so it's not so conspicuous.
TFTC 

My iPhone compass was notoriously bad over the weekend in the Brisbane CBD, whereas outside of the CBD it was perfect. So I didn't trust my compass at this cache and spent waaaaaay too long looking on the wrong viewing platform. I could see many a good hiding spot but the cache wasn't presenting itself. In the end I double checked my compass and the satellite map and then I caught sight of the OTHER viewing platform. Doh! Once I got there it was an instantaneous find. The poor thing was bulging from all the extra bits of paper. I figured, if it were my cache, that it'd be better to have less paper and close properly than keep all the logs in there and have it all get ruined with the next rain. So I removed the original full log and have kept it in case you'd like me to post it to you.
Thanks for bringing me here. 

With three pairs of eyes looking for this everyone came up empty handed. Might be MIA 

I was up in Brisbane for a wedding this weekend and managed to find some caching time with old Melbourne friends, fng_affl, today.
This was find #600 for me and in the spirit of finding this in QLD I made a milestone sign out of frangipani flowers. See pic attached.
This multi took me on a very interesting journey around lots of fabulous landmarks. Thank you for showing me a side of Brisbane that I otherwise might not have come across. The cache was found exactly as per the hint and in great condition. TFTC 

Flew up to Brisbane from Melb this morning for a friends wedding right across the road from here this afternoon. After losing my dress at Melb airport this morning (could only happen to me!), and deciding that a pair of bloomers and a boob tube fashioned from my hotel room toilet paper probably wasn't going to go down well, I hit the shops in search of wedding attire. Once I was done and my panic was over I set to work grabbing some caches on the way back to the hotel. I loved this place. The wall is beautiful and this shady chill-out zone would have been perfect for my lunch stop if I hadn't sat out in the square and eaten before I found this place. The cache was found in a logical spot and other than a full log it's in great condition. Thanks for bringing me here. 

I'm up from Melbourne this weekend for a wedding, which I attended yesterday, and today is a "caching day" before I fly home this evening. On my way to find somewhere for brekkie I thought I might stop here before the muggles swarm into the city as the day gets started. I arrived to a deserted GZ which gave me free reign to look around. The GPS was useless so I resorted to the hint. Being unfamiliar with the area I was still struggling to find the structure that you mentioned. But thanks to a photo in the gallery titled "GZ" I soon found the spot. I made quick work of it from there and signed in a spare spot on the full log. Thanks for placing this cache. It's great to find caches in unfamiliar cities. 

Flew up to Brisbane from Melb this morning for a friends wedding this afternoon. After losing my dress at Melb airport this morning (could only happen to me!), and deciding that a pair of bloomers and a boob tube fashioned from my hotel room toilet paper probably wasn't going to go down well, I hit the shops in search of wedding attire. Once I was done and my panic was over I set to work grabbing some caches on the way back to the hotel.
What a cool location. I loved the wooden pallet art here. So easy to look casual in this spot, which is rare and very welcome when urban caching!! I had a feeling I knew what the hide was going to be before I found it so when I looked in the right spot and I saw what I had thought I'd find it was a nice relief. Really nice cache and interesting location. I enjoyed it. The plastic bag is torn and there are two log books in there so a visit by the CO or someone with their caching kit on them would be welcome. Sorry I only came armed with a pen otherwise I could have done some minor maintenance for you.
TFTC 

Flew up to Brisbane from Melb this morning for a friends wedding right across the road from here this afternoon. After losing my dress at Melb airport this morning (could only happen to me!), and deciding that a pair of bloomers and a boob tube fashioned from my hotel room toilet paper probably wasn't going to go down well, I hit the shops in search of wedding attire. Once I was done and my panic was over I set to work grabbing some caches on the way back to the hotel.
What an interesting spot. Love the windmill and the big mushrooms in the grass (see pic attached). As I was under the shade of the frangipani I happened to glance in the right spot and saw the telltale corner of a sistema. I was able to sit down with my back pack right in front of the cache, reach around behind me and extract it without arousing any suspicion.
Thanks for bringing me here. 

Well, we gave this earthcache a wide berth last time we were at Westerfolds and in turn that made us accidentally miss grabbing one of the trads. Vividrogers and I both agreed that earthcaches weren't our favourite type of cache to find. In my opinion there's FAAAAAAAR too much science and seriousness involved in earthcaches. I find myself skipping all the info in the description, for fear of falling asleep, then I have a big struggle trying to work out what I'm meant to be talking about in my answers. On our second trip to Westerfolds we cleaned up the caches along the river right up to where we had been last time so if we didn't do this earthcache it would have left 1 blue blob amongst a sea of smilies. That would not be ok. So, we put on our school uniforms, got out our pens and paper, read the info like good little students and came up with our best answers. Hhhhmmmm, answering that the area of most water turbulence was "underneath the lone duck that was causing the only ripples on the water" probably wasn't going to get us an A+ from Professor Team Yarra so we needed to try harder. After much ummmming and arrrrring and excited exclamations like "yeah that sounds really good" and "oooohhh well done, yes, we'll say that" we had all of our answers.
Turns out that Professor Team Yarra was suitably impressed with our work and made us Dux of the school. Yipppeeeeee!
But will Professor Team Yarra be impressed that I was mucking around in class? Someone took a photo as evidence....... 

Yesterday vividrogers and I found Squeeze Play in Westerfolds Park, Vic. It's a pretty grotty underpass to be honest but it is next to the beautiful Yarra River and parklands.
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC45J09_squeeze-play-19?guid=721959f4-ff95-41c5-b50f-ceffe60eb705 

I heard the ping of a published cache on my phone last night and in my head I just knew it'd be a local one since I'd had a particularly productive day and was too knackered to go anywhere. Sure enough, when I checked the phone, it was only 6km away and as I sat back down on the couch it taunted me. Being the Mother of the Year that I am I tried to convince my child, who was about to do his maths homework, to come with me for an FTF and do the homework another day. But he made the choice of a good student (and not a geocaching addict) and declined. I decided an FTF wasn't worth getting even more exhausted and knew we'd be passing right by here in the morning.
Fast forward through all my snoring and chewing on my own spit overnight and I awoke this morning to see that FTF had gone. Bummer! I had a faint glimmer of hope that it'd still be waiting for a find first thing this morning as we were going past. No such luck!
We arrived to a deserted GZ and, being of a similar nature to another cache by the same CO, we made a quick find. Signed in second place....because this early in a cache's lifespan it is still a race to see who finds it first, second and third. Thanks for another great cache. I've often thought that Belgrave Sth needed a few. BTW, b l u e s t o n e s, when are you going to become a premium member (yes I've stalked your stats)? You're putting out great caches so reward yourself by being able to find great premium caches in our area.
Attached photo of a gorgeous mushroom close to GZ 

Somehow we missed this little treasure when we did the Westerfolds circuit the other week. So we had to get this far and log it today. We made quick work of this after having stood on the bridge around the corner puzzling over one of the answers to the earthcache. A quick sign and re-hide and we were heading back the way we came. TFTC and the trail 

This was a nice little detour down a pretty spit of land. The sap oozing from these trees is fascinating. I tried to get some nice close up pictures of some interesting sap that looked like body parts. Anyway, they might not be too appropriate for family friendly online logs! We had the cache in hand quickly and added our names to the list of other finders. 

A photo from near GZ