Found Five Labs in One Day? Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By fitzy_1965 on 09-Apr-20. Waypoint GA14638

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Another fun challenge I qualify for and now claiming as found. TFTLC

On days I find Labs I average 7 finds of them. At times I find more (including the most: 40) and others I find less (including the least: 1). At the Wangaratta Mega event on the 2022-01-16, I found 40 Labs. They were all fun challenges to find the answers. Some of them were very easy and others I needed a PAF option.

Watawieh from Norfolk Island
To date I have found 249 Adventure Labs. I really like this cache type and I actively look for these wherever I am.

On 27 March 2021 I completed the Gympie Gold or 'The Town That Saved Queensland' Adventure Lab that involved 5 lab caches
Gold Mining Museum
Deep Creek Fossicking
Miners Memorial
Heritage ZigZag Path
Scottish Mine Retort House

TFTC

Hi Fitzy
Enjoyed doing the Adventure Lab caches today
Thanks for the challenge and the fun

My qualifiers are:
1 Lab Zebra Stove Polish Hobart 10-05-2021
2 Lab Moren & Cato Hobart 10-05-2021
3 Lab Goulds Pharmacy Hobart 10-05-2021
4 Lab F. H. Valance and Sons Hobart 10-05-2021
5 Lab Indian Root Pills Hobart 10-05-2021

TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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I did the 5 or so at the 2019 Mega in Queanbeyan. I think each AL gives me 5 Labs, and I generally try knock them over in a few hours (where I can)

The first time I found lab caches was at the St Arnaud Mega. I was quite clueless about lab caches at the time. From memory there were 2 sets of 10 'object puzzle' type lab caches, and 2 sets of 10 'cafe / cakehouse' type lab caches, but I thought you had to collect all 10 in a set to log the lab cache. So no doubt I missed logging some of the lab caches, and I would have walked past a number of the cafes etc without paying them too much attention, as I didn't think I'd get around to finding any of the full sets of 10. But now I know better

Here are the 8 lab caches I logged at the St Arnaud Mega (as per project GC) - those who went to the Mega may remember the puzzles TFTC!

1 2019-11-16 W Class
2 2019-11-16 Rock Me Gently
3 2019-11-16 Black Box Investigation
4 2019-11-16 Ferns Treasures
5 2019-11-16 Nuts about Geocaching
6 2019-11-16 Capacity Builder
7 2019-11-16 Say CHEESE!
8 2019-11-16 Ichabod the Helicopter

I have found 138 LAB caches. They have been in Ballarat and Geelong as well as at Mega events. Always good to get the BONUS cache at the end too.
Thanks for this one fitzy_1965

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I have found 187 labs now. A lot at mega events and in more recent times usually 5 at a time in rural areas in Victoria.
Here are my latest 5 done in Ballarat Avenue of Honour recently.

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Went to Ballarat for the day with muggle friend who is curious about geocaching. She loves it!
Teach her about Adventure LAB in Buninyong.
Thanks

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I have found five (or more) Lab Caches in one day on a few occasions due to attending a few Megas in the past few years.

My favourite day was 19 Apr 2019 when I was at Clear Waters Event. In the morning I completed the five caches of "The Mystery of little Miss Duncan", around Queanbeyan, with a fellow geocacher, and in the afternoon I completed the five caches of the "Time Traveller" series which was around the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra.

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Completed 5 labs on 16 July 2019 "A West Coast Wander - created by m4yb
Thanks Fitzy_1965

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Our first big Lab series was April 11, 2016 at the MEGA Event in Brugse, Belgium. We validated this day the 10 Lab caches.

We found at least five Lab Caches when attending the Alexandra Event held by Geocaching Victoria.

The flowing Lab Caches were found on 18 November 2017
Fishing Around Alex
Geology LAB
Redgate
The Black Box
The Great Switcheroo


Thanks fitzy_1965 for the locationless cache and an opportunity to wander down memory lane.

Our first taste of Lab caches was at the Melbourne Mega event in 2015. On the 14th we completed 4 lab caches and then on the 15 we didthe final 5 Lab caches. We have done all the lab caches ayr the Melbourne Mega’s since then and now that adventure labs are being released we also do those as the presernt themselves.

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It’s great fun learning new techniques for different caches.
Thanks for bringing back the memories from when we completed these 5 Lab caches in one day
Please check the photo to show we qualified

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First time was at OZ Mega 2014 – Murray Bridge. They were found on 19/4/2014 and are West Side IGA, Scout Hall, Monarto Zoo, Avoca Dell and Holy Redeemer, we also found another 4 on this day.

The first time I found 5 Lab caches in 1 day was in 2014, exactly 6 years ago.
They were all in S.A. over 1,000 km's from home, at the SA Oz Mega event at Murray Bridge,
in fact we all found 10 Labs that day.
I've now found almost 200 Labs since then too.
5 of the 10 were -
Code - Cache type - GeoCache Name - Found by me
Lab Cache - OZ Mega 2014 - Murray Bridge-Holy Redeemer - 20-04-14
Lab Cache - OZ Mega 2014 - Murray Bridge-Avoca Dell - 20-04-14
Lab Cache - OZ Mega 2014 - Murray Bridge-Monarto Zoo - 20-04-14
Lab Cache - OZ Mega 2014 - Murray Bridge-Scout Hall - 20-04-14
Lab Cache - OZ Mega 2014 - Murray Bridge-West Side IGA - 20-04-14

Thanks again for the memories and the cache, Fitzy,
Roostaman

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At the Clearwater Mega I did more than 5 Labs in a day. But a much easier one that I know and can prove I have done 5 in a day is when I got FTFs on a bonus cache for four of those: AL War Memorial, AL Jerrabomberra Welands, AL Canberra Secret History and The Mystery of little Miss Duncan, all of these FTF on the bonus and so have done the 5 Labs each in one day to do so.

I have found LAB Caches at a Few Megas now but these are from Murray Bridge MEGA.
On 24/04/2014
GC3XOX4-5 Lab Avocadel
GC3XOX4-7 Lab Murray Bridge Fishing Spot
GC3XOX4-1 Lab - PS Colonel
GC3xox4-4 Lab Holy Reedemer
GC3XOX4-8 Lab - Scout Hall
TFTL FITZY_1965

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I have found five Lab caches in a day on a few occasions now. One time was at Morrisett at the NSW Mega as I had already experienced them and decided that they were my priority at every mega I attend which have included Parkville and Queanbeyan. I have also completed quite a few ALs each of which have involved 5 Labs in a day. Good one Fitzy-1965

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Having found close on 150 labs so far, this was quite an easy cache.
The first 9 were at the first Victorian Mega - "The Melbourne Event" - in Casey Fields.
Found on: 15/Nov/2015

Five of them are listed here:
Sponsors
Token Gesture
The Mob Remembers
Hide it. Find it. Log it.
Balls Balls Balls Balls Balls

Thanks for the cache fitzy_1965.

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The first time I found five Labs in one day (I actually found 6) was at the Alexandria VIC Mega Event on 21 November 2017. I remember the fun attempting all these gadget type caches and looked forward to finding more.

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As I've attended a few megas now we have a few labs under our belts. I'm going to go right back to the first mega we attended - The Melbourne Event.
We found 9 there, I assume there was 10 and we missed one? Not sure.

Here is five of them anyway, all logged on 14-11-2015

Sponsors-The Melbourne Event LAB Cache Adventure.
The Mob remembers-The Melbourne Event LAB Cache Adventure.
Token Gesture-The Melbourne Event LAB Cache Adventure.
Ferns Missing Treasure-The Melbourne Event LAB Cache Adventure.
Histocache - Pioneers Park-The Melbourne Event LAB Cache Adventure.

This was our first exposure to Labs and we sort of followed the crowd and were more onlookers than participants but we learnt a lot.

Thanks for another good one fitzy_1965

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Found at the Stanthorpe Mega on 3 April 2015

Soldiers Memorial
Weroona Park
The Red Bridge
Stanthorpe Visitor Information Centre
Sentimental Rocks

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All up I have found 156 Lab caches but I found 20 at the St Arnaud Mega with a group of SA cachers that I have been to all of the Victorian Mega's with. I started to place five Lab Caches but that is on hold at the moment until the virus allowes us to move about again.
Thanks Fitzy_1965 for the chance to log this as a find.

I found 6 Lab caches at the Mega event, Geocoin Fest in Las Vegas on 12 Oct 2013. They were the first Lab caches I found and some were located at business around Las Vegas that had TV shows filmed at them. All very cool to visit.

Attached is a screen shot from my GC profile.

Thanks fitzy_1965....good memories.

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I found five LAB caches at the Parkville Mega. I joined in with some other geocachers and got an idea of what I had to do as I had no idea about this type of cache. At one of the LAB caches the CO was there guiding me in what was expected. I quite enjoyed theses caches.
I found on 16/11/2018 Dimension
A taste of Denmark
Typing in the Dark
Selfie!
HP Reveal
Hopefully, I can attend another Mega and find some more LAB caches

Yes we qualify for this cache.
Our 5 Lab Cache finds on 11 April 2019 are:

Laurel Bank Monument
Scented Gardens
Star Flower Bed
Croquet Anyone?
Children’s Ornament

These were our first ever Lab Cache finds. This trail took us on an very interesting walk around Laurel Bank Gardens in Toowoomba.

Thanks for rekindling the memory and for this cache.
Nice one Fitzy 1965.

I found 5 Lab caches in one day for the first time at the Parkville MEGA. I was fairly new to geocaching and didn't know anyone at the MEGA and had certainly never heard of lab caches.. I was a great way to meet people .. my lab caches on that day were as follows
1 2018-11-17 Too Much Information
2 2018-11-17 Typing in the Dark
3 2018-11-17 Selfie!
4 2018-11-17 HP Reveal
5 2018-11-17 ZOOLANDER

My first five lab cache finds in one day were on the 12th of November 2016 as part of the Surf Coast 2016 Coastal Tour lab series.
Listen to the Waves
Night Road
Trip Planning
Split Point Lighthouse
Going Moggy
I then followed these up with the other five the next day!
Welcome to the mega!
Memorial Arch
Loveridge Lookout
7 Million Visitors
Bells are Ringing

Thanks to fitzy_1965 for the locationless!

TFTC, Brainiac03

Scented Gardens Completed: 7/13/2019 UTC
Laurel Bank Monument Completed: 7/13/2019 UTC
Children's Ornament Garden Completed: 7/13/2019 UTC
Star Flower Bed Completed: 7/13/2019 UTC
Croquet Anyone? Completed: 7/13/2019 UTC
We were in Toowoomba for some Geo Art and could not resist these as wellTFTC

No problems with this one ... I've found more than 5 lab caches in a day at each of the 3 Megas I've attended ... Morisset, Queanbeyan and Cataract. I've also done heaps of adventure lab caches that qualify as well. I'm attaching a screenshot of my first five lab cache finds at Morisset.

Thanks for this locationless Fitzy.

***FTL***
I've lucky enought to have found 5 on anumber of occassions at a few megas.

Most recently St Arnaud on the 15th Nov 2019

Crone's Building
Common School
Convent of the Sister of Mercy
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Church of Christ

These were a short drive around the town taking in the history

TFTL

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Go for it !