Yellow Peril - Western Ring Path St Albans, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 03-Oct-17. Waypoint GA10952

Today we started with the Western Ring Path series of caches then headed over to Cairnlea to find some more in that area. We had selected 36 caches to find and this was one on our list. Unfortunately, we could only manage 24 finds, the rest were DNF"S.

Cache and contents were dry and in good order.

Thanks caughtatwork.

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Second to last for the walk along this section and the hint was required to confirm where I (we) should be looking. Nicely tucked away and the wife was interesting in the paint job. No idea why, but she was....

Log book and cache in good condition. Log was signed and cache replaced as found and all was good.

Thanks for another one C@W....

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17:30

The hint helped a lot here. Contents nice and dry, so I've grabbed the spare logbook... I'm sure it will come in handy further down the trail.

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Well.

This wasn't the day I'd planned, but family matters had turned the weekend on its head. Between sleeping in after the fun of caching in the dark until so late it was almost early, and staying at home to referee while the better half ran some errands, it wasn't until mid afternoon that I rolled out the gate.

Finally logging my first cache for the day after crossing the Whitten Bridge, I continued anticlockwise around the Ring Road, bagging 42 finds, and a handful of DNFs.

Thanks, C@W... today's haul has gone a long way toward my ambition of getting my GA logs over 10% of the GC total.

GCA#266

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We found the logbook was very wet but could not see how that would have happened. We left a little replacement log book in a ziplock bag in case the original log book becomes unuseable. It might be worth a CO check when next in the area. Probably not urgent given the temperatures at the moment.

The Yellow Peril could be seen for some distance as we approached the area of this hide. As GZ appeared to be some distance from the Yellow Peril Mrs Y'stassie decided it might be prudent to read the hint first. This turned out to be a good decision. She had to resort to the dropping your phone through the fence in order to retrieve the cache. Cache container had just been collected when a muggle appeared on the bridge. He stopped to ask if everything was OK and retrieved the phone for Mrs Y'stassie before happily moving on.

Mrs Y'stassie sat on the ground nearby and pretended to send a text while she extracted the log. Pretend texting stopped when she found that the log was extremely wet but still able to be signed. She left a small replacement log in a ziplock bag in the container with the wet log just in case the original log becomes unusable. After replacing the container she inspected the area but couldn't see how the log book would have got so wet.

After heading off towards the next cache she realised she had left her GPS sitting on the grass. A quick backtrack and the GPS was retrieved and the journey to the next cache recommenced.

Thanks caughtatwork for another cache in the series. Not the container type we expected but one that fitted in well with this sight..

I am staying with my auntie 'cathlud' this weekend and we love the Western Ring Path caches. She says that they are good for me to find. I enjoy using her GPS, reading the cache descriptions and then searching for the caches.

This was our first cache for today. I watched for muggles while my auntie searched for the cache. If we had read the hint it would have been a lot easier. But, we didn't.

Thank you for placing this cache for us to find.

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My niece (PrincessFiona) is unexpectedly staying with me for the next four days. We had a few hours free-time this morning and I noticed that another section of the Western Ring Path of caches had been recently published. We have previously enjoyed this series so we made the 40 minute drive from home, to spend 70 minutes caching and then 40 minute drive back.
I let my niece use my GPS and find the caches. I sign the log (she can't write small enough on the narrow logs) and she rehides the cache before we are off to the next one.

We parked under the powerlines and this was the first cache that we attempted today. I actually hunted for this one as I knew what was required to make a quick find.

Thank you caughtatwork for this cache and continuing series.

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#GA2063 - 13:10; In Melbourne with the geohoney for a few days to visit the geoteen, and today the girls had a day planned around appointments, retail and the art gallery, so I was off a caching again! The plan for today was to collect eleven new caches along the Western Ring Path which have appeared since my last visit in July. Parked not too far from the start of this section of the trail and headed off on foot. Managed to collect eleven caches for eleven *FTF* as I made my way along the bikepath. I checked the hints for a couple of the caches where there were muggles close by and I wanted to speed up the hunt to avoid scrutiny, but the majority were easily located and the coords were spot on the whole way along. I had a good look around once I reached GZ, but then the geosenses kicked in and the hand went out and felt something suspicious which turned out to be the well concealed cache. TFTC caughtatwork

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Come and find me.