Lost and Found Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Trailrunning on 21-Dec-11. Waypoint GA4114

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This one mad eme laugh.

I've had a couple of old line trimmers in my shed for nearly 10 years.

Thought its time to see them off.

Thought there worth nothing I'll put them on market place and after 3 months nothing would happen.

Then a friend says he wants one so I said I'd just give it to him.

So I pull it out the shed, fire it up and all is good so give it to him.

Well low and behold 30 enquiries later as I forgot to take the advert off.

Then my mate decides he does not want it so I get it back from him and someone is coming to look at one.

1 hour before hand organise for this person to drive 1/2 hr to come and look at it.

So back to the shed I go and pull it out and start it up all good.

Then I turn it over the spool that holds the line at the bottom is missing.

Dam what happened here so I look in the shed not there and I ring my mate.

Nope I don't have it never touched it.

Great I thought someone is on their way what am I going to tell him.

My mates looking in his car I'm looking in my car no luck.

There was around 15min till this person turned up.

I was stressing, felt bad this guys going to think I'm trying to swindle him.

So one more look around again.

There hiding in the shed it was.

When I pulled the trimmer out it must have fallen of and rolled around under a cupboard.

I had relief, placed it back together all working fine.

The guy turned up and bought it!

Bingo.

TFTL

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I wear a bone anchored hearing aid which is a device that clips to an attachment fixed to my skull above my ear.

A few weeks ago I was looking for caches in Launceston. As I re-entered my car I bumped my head and my hearing aid fell off. I was parked in the bottom layer of a car park so it was fairly dim outside and as the last time this happened it fell off in my car and I thought I felt it as it fell I decided to go home and make the search there. At home no hearing aid was found. Replacement cost was over $8,000.00 so a quick return to where I parked the car with a torch was made. Expecting to at the least find the squashed remains as the result of a car driving over it but there was nothing to be seen. I spent the day fuming over the lost $8,000.00. As I was getting undressed for bed I felt something in my shirt pocket. On investigation it was my hearing aid. I had forgotten I had taken it off and put it in my pocket when the blowing wind was annoying me. No doubt it was a very relieved me that went to bed that night.

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This day was a disaster loosing our trusty Exporist gps the one that cost us $1200 back in the day.
We had been out to Wave Rock, near Hyden, then out to he caves, and on to Gorge Rock.
Upon arriving, I searched for our gps, no luck anywhere - must have left it back at the caves.
Unhook the caravan, while i stayed and kept an ey on the cvan, hubby went back 128kms to search for that gps.
No luck there, he searched every where with no avail.
I open my tote baag from the car and...ohno...what is this...yep you got it... that huge black gps!!
Someone's not happy!! but glad we found it
thanks for the locatiionless cache

S 32° 27.439 E 117° 59.957

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Have two stories for this cache, one a lost and one a found.
Our lost story was at the cache MASTerpiece GA11238. We were there on the 2.2.2018 and the cache was a quick find but we sat the GPS [an ETREK] down as we signed the log and then walked off and left it. We realised at the next cache and went back but it was gone. We really hoped that it was found by a fellow cacher, but no, it must have been picked up by a muggle. That made this cache a very expensive one!!
Our found story was back in 2012 when we were in Western Australia doing the cache Albany Quarantine GC576. The cache was easily found, but we also found a pair of reading glasses at GZ. We looked back through the logs and the finder before us mentioned she had lost her glasses. We tracked her down [SeaChange2] and returned them.
Thanks.

I have a bad habit of leaving hiking poles leaning on trees whilst undertaking log signing duties. I've done this on a number of occasions and mentioned it in various cache logs ... one is my found it log on GC599CT which I found on 02 Aug 14 ... coordinates of that cache included here.

Thanks for the locationless

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Pens. Oh goodness. Either I take a pen from a cache.. then go back and return it... or drop MY pen in.. oops.. time to go back to last cache and retrieve!

I went on a lunchtime caching run to seek GA6695 Reflections of Peel. I was using my smart phone as my gps. I got back to work and realised I no longer had my phone.
Quick bolt back to the busy Esplanade and somewhat unbelievably it was still sitting on the picnic table where I signed the log. So many people around I couldn't beleive how lucky I was. As you'd expect I've been a bit more careful since then. Thank you for this cache logged as part of the summer scavenger series.

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You can follow some of this sad story in the October 2014 logs for GC5CAPZ, "Gundah Ridge Library - The man in the high castle". It's a mystery, so I won't give exact coordinates but the listed ones aren't too far away.
At GZ, I had to climb about 4m down a rockface to get the cache. I left my backpack up top, with the Garmin sitting on it. When I returned there was a cockatoo with the backpack, but no Garmin. I tried to bribe it with a muesli bar but it flew off without giving any hints about the GPSr.
I posted the tale on Facebook and a couple of days later, the next finder came across the GPS in the bush. Contact arrangements were made and I picked up the GPSr. The cockies had pecked off some of the rubber bits but it still worked, as it does to this day, although a nice new one has since become the favoured tool.

I have lost two GPSs while geocaching from leaving them behind at caches. Thankfully insurance have paid up on both occasions. Both were in South Australia.
I have left it behind on other occasions as well, but have luckily been able to retrieve.

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There are many caches in Kate Reed reserve in Launceston. I have had a particularly bad experience at Kate's Hen House GC5R0VE. I use my smart phone as my GPS, light and communication aid! It took me some time to get to Kate's Hen House so the charge in my phone was getting low. Unfortunately it was nearly dark when I reached GZ and I dropped parts of the cache in the undergrowth but I could not use the light on my phone as I was worried that I would not be able to navigate back out of the reserve with no light & no GPS! I fumbled around in the dark trying to locate the cache lid and was just about to give up and think that I would have to come back in the daylight to put the cache back together again. My hand touched something round and hard and I was very relieved - the cache could be reassembled! With limited light & GPS I eventually got out that night thankfully.

I think this fits the criteria - while out collecting coffee husks from the coffee roaster that would be used on the school veggie patch as mulch, I popped in to find a couple of nearby hides. While at Contain Your Excitement (GC5GVJG) it occurred to me that these husks would need to go back to school and be placed in the gardening shed, for which I had the key this week. I patted myself down looking for the key post log signing (as I often do to check that I've place my pen back in my pocket), I realised I didn't have it. Losing a house key is your own problem, losing a key that belongs to school is a bigger problem. I get back to school that morning and try to retrace my steps just in case it was there. Nothing. I admitted defeat and stored the bags of husks at home. I didn't even have a good excuse to come up with for how I lost the thing (I don't think I'd be in anyone's good books if I said I may have lost it while caching). Move forward to Saturday and to my surprise, there it was hanging on the fridge!! Who keeps a key pinned to a fridge door? No wonder I couldn't find it. Thankfully I won't have to come up with a dodgy excuse come Monday.

It was a fair while ago, but while visiting GCE6DE on a trip from Adelaide with a group of 4WDers from both Mount Lofty Rangers and the Whyalla 4WD club we headed onto this beach. Me and another couple of cachers stopped to grab this cache, which was quite close to beach entry point that was being well used as it was between Christmas and New Year. It wasn't until we got back to the caravan park where we were camping that I realised I had left the caching backpack and GPS sitting next to the cache. Made the trip back and they were still sitting there waiting for me, surprising as from memory it wasn't more than 10 or 20 metres from the track but behind a bush I think and had been there at least 6 hours.

I'm not logging this as a "find" as I can only satisfy 50% of the requirements. But I figure it's a story worth recording. Mr Tardis may go down in caching history as the first to be careless enough to lose his wedding ring whilst searching for caches. To make matters worse he:
1. Failed to notice the nakedness of his finger for some indeterminate length of time due to acute cacheitis thus necessitating retracing steps to four previously visited caches.
2. Extensive searches at these sites & points between failed to locate the lost item.
3. The site at which the loss was noticed also required the posting of a DNF log.
Oops!

I hope this counts, but I am telling a story about a cacher who lost something while I was with them, however they logged a different lost and found story, so I am assuming that it's okay.

On the 30th of January 2013, Sol de Lune and I went on a large geocaching day out in the middle of nowhere. We found the cache, Just a Cache (GC3B4K3), but it turned out not to be just a cache. We found the cache and SdL put his $35 personalised cap on the ground (it said Sol de Lune on it). Then after driving away for 10 minutes he realised that he left the cap at GZ. So we had to go back and it was on ground. So it was an epic adventure to get the cap back.

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Another lucky escape in NZ.
Had to check out the only bit of bush in the area to find a gc cache. It was quite a scramble as people had used it for a dumping sight. Got back to the car-Where are the keys?
I thought "Don't panic" just retrace your steps but was really thinking alot of other things and this will be impossible so went back and started re circling the area when I spotted them just hanging in the tree-drove off with heart still thumping.

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Was doing the Thompson Track in NZ recently with the Doodle Bug OZ team-there are about 80 caches to do here so were taking a few photos along the way. Got to another cache and was about to take photos when it was a 'where's the camera ' situation-checked all possibilities with no luck. Luckily we knew we had it at the last cache which wasn't that far back so off we go there not holding out much hope. Stopped by the cache and searched that area then crossed the road to where we had parked and there was the camera nestled in the grass safe and sound-soooooooooooo lucky. It had flicked out of my pocket as I got in the car. Phew!! Off we went to find some more.

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28th Jan 2013 - Somewhere in the stretch between WP1 and WP2 for DazRascals "A Friendship Lost" I'd snagged the pocket of my cargo shorts on a bush, and the resulting hole allowed my Leatherman Charge to fall out. By the time I'd realised it, I'd covered too much ground to easily find it again. On two occasions while in the area I'd stopped to have a search for it, with no luck. I'd resigned myself to never seeing it again.

Fast forward to the 22nd May - MeggsnJoffa was completing the same cache, and he recounted to me the story of wandering in circles looking down at hid GPSr, when he saw something glinting in the sun. He picked it up, recalling me lamenting its loss to him at some point. After cleaning the mud from it, he returned it to me.

For spending 4 months in the bush, the sun and the rain, the heat and the cold, there's not a spot of rust on it! A big selling point for the build quality of these tools.

TFTLC!

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Think losing the Garmin Montana onto a busy road qualifies - even though we didn't realise till it was returned to us

Here is a copy of the log on the GC page.


40 DEGREES was the anticipated temperature today but that wasnt going to deter us from heading to Mandurah! Turned out it was 41 degrees and stayed over 37 for many hours. Sunscreen, Bushmans and plenty of water was the order of the day.

Finally heading home around 6pm and we checked where and who had found the caches published earlier in the day. Well it seemed that there was this cache and one very close to home that weren't yet logged so we continued to monitor them as we travelled up the freeway.

Once in the city the cache close to home had been logged but this one hadn't so we detoured off the freeway at Charles Street and headed down here.

So after a few U-turns and then would you believe no less than 3 cars (muggles) coming down our road we were able to search. Mrs Felix spotted the CUTE cache.

And to our surprise it was **FTF** to us at 7pm.

That's where it got really interesting. We had the bikes on the back of the Geo Cruiser and apparently Mr Felix had put the Montana on the bike rack to sign the log.

Well we were stopped at our 3rd set of traffic lights when a man suddenly appeared at the drivers window with the Montana OMG it had fallen off the bike rack and this very kind man had picked it up off the road and thne tried to catch us up to give it back! We were in shock and hadn't realised the efforts he had gone to until we got home but boy we really appreciated it and this cache is going to be remembered for a very long time by us! (The GPSr still works but has some scratches on the plastic casing where it skittled across the road)

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GCA 698 - 6736. Qualified for this one today after nearly losing my nice Sunglasses. While not gold plated they were expensive enough to not want to lose them. I was attempting to head up to Bendora Trig and GC Cache Bendoras Box struggling through the scrub when I realised Id lost my sunnies - not happy Jan ! After giving up as we had lots more caches to attempt today we headed back and just before arriving back at the 'main' road - there were my sunnies sitting nicely on a log that I had climbed over. Happy again !!

TFTC !!

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A very lucky day for me. Searching for Pukeko Flash-GC3P576. Put the phone on a hearby post as you do when signing the log. Went back to the car and drove to the nearby shopping centre and went to grab the phone-oh no-thought haven't got a chance as it had been fairly busy there and was fairly public wgere I out it down but raced back and to my delight there it was still sitting in the post.Should buy a lotto ticket but I guess I have jad my luck for today.

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In September this yr, i was returning to WA from a visit to the Gong and i left my Garmin, Etrex legend Hcx colour mapping gps on the plane in the pocket of the seat in front. i dont know why i was so careless as to put it there but i was in a bit of a rush to get myself and Chloe 10yrs organized to get off as there was a large crowd of people waiting behind us to get off too.
After searching for a couple of weeks through all my belongings i came to the conclusion where it must be. i rang Qantas baggage services and asked if it had been handed in. They said they didn't have it. I was resigned to it being gone forever and started searching ebay for a replacement, i have decided which gps i wanted to replace my lost etrex but held off as it was a lot of money.
Last week i got a note in the mail to ring Qantas baggage services about the gps and they told me it had been found. I was of course thrilled about this and was able to go and pick it up on friday while in Perth for an appointment at PMH for Charlie 7yrs.
Thrilled to have my gps back, but im still thinking of getting myself the new one, maybe as a birthday or xmas present. lol.

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Earlier this week I left my sunnies at the final co-ords for an unknown GC cache (sorry no co-ords) , it being a cloudy day I didn't miss them til I arrived close to home ,30km from the cache, I posted in my log what I had done and the next finder emailed me later that he had found them and I could retrieve them from his letterbox next time I passed

I was doing a multi-cache near Port Maitland Ontario just after Christmas. It was windy and very cold. I found my way to the final, put my GPS in my pocket, found the container and signed the log. I then retreated back to my van.

Once I got to the van I started looking for my GPS... it was not to be found. Checked all my pockets and geo-bag... nothing.

I leave the comfort of my heated van and head out into the cold Canadian winter, retracing mt steps to GZ. GZ was right beside a steep hill that ends in a canal, so I was running worst-case scenarios of my GPSr being lost on the bottom of a canal full of near frozen water...

Luckily my GPS was at GZ, and it was mere feet from the waters edge. Some billy-goating down to the waters edge brought me within reach, and a quick grab later I had my GPSr in hand.

Relieved I went back to my van, and drove off to the next cache.

This is my log from 23 December 2010 at "STOP N STARE GC2K5Z


Great, well thought out hide, delighted to be *FTF* at 19:55.

Really appreciate the extra effort that you have gone to with this one.
A favourite I think!!

The Machman.

(Cheers for the scratchies...not winners, but no worries)!!

Edit: Wow, I am lucky, I left my Oregon GPS at GZ last night, went home
went to bed, woke up in the morning and thought.."where's my GPSr?
then I remembered where I had I left it ..

So I jumped on the bike quizzed down to the location, only to find it still sitting
exactly where I left it some 12 hours earlier!

The gods were looking kindly on me today.

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in about April 2011 the Cheesy pigs were going to Launceston for a short stay. We stopped at Campbelltown to look for a cache and then continued on. It was about 2 km up the road we realised the Garmin had been left on the roof of the car. A frantic look back along the road failed to find it. Unfortunately it was gone forever

Recently we drove from Melbourne to Canberra via Gippsland, caching along the way. We stayed in Canberra about 5 days and took the opportunity to cache in some of the suburbs.
On one afternoon we were caching in the Bonython area and decided there was sufficient time to look for two or three more caches before sunset. After finding one cache we headed off to the Mt Stranger Trig Point (TP4732) and arrived there 30 minutes before the sun was due to set. The views from this vantage point in the late afternoon sun were very scenic, making the walk to this point well worthwhile. The camera was taken from a pocket and the obligatory photos taken.
We then headed off to look for a third cache. Although only about 500m away, we had to take a wide detour as a mob of kangaroos included a couple of quite big males who looked rather grumpy and were not going to get out of our way. We finally got to GZ and quickly found the third cache.
We then headed back to the car. PANIC!! When we arrived back the only key to the hire car was not in the usual pocket – in fact it wasn’t in any pocket. Twilight imminent and the options for the night did not look good.
We decided to split up and retrace our steps as best we could given that much of the walk had been through scrub and medium length grass. One of us went to the first cache GZ whilst the other headed back to the trig point. Nothing at or around the first cache find. As the one delegated to go to the trig point arrived, a glint was seen at the base of the trig in the last rays of the twilight. THE KEY!!!! It had obviously fallen from the pocket when the camera was taken out for the photo of the trig point.
When we met up again, one was still agitated about not finding the key at the first cache, the other was relieved. We headed back to the car and back to our accommodation, a much better outcome than the other possibilities previously contemplated.
This was certainly a Lost and Found experience we never want to repeat.

On the 3 Sept 2010, i was caching with my brother. we were looking for 'Conto's Lookout'. we parked at the Contos camp ground then went off in the direction of the cache. After we had found and logged the cache we headed back to the car. About half way back i realized i was missing my phone. no choice but to back track, eventually found the phone, perched on a branch of a bush in plain view not far from the cache, the branch had plucked it off my hip by the clip as i brushed past. much relieved we continued on.

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This event occurred on Sat 18 Feb 2012 at "The Old Road #1" (GC37COX). This is the entry I logged:

Found the "V"....Ewww need gloves....trot back to car....retrieve and open cache....bags wet....left Chobas to log find....trot back to car to get fresh ziplocks....replace....halfway home stop at one last cache....grab camera....wait, where is it!!!! Tear apart car and geobag....sick feeling in pit of stomach....complete cache....back to Old Road #1.....Phewww!!!! Camera lying on ground halfway between car and GZ. Note to self - take inventory of all electronic gadgets once back at car!!!!

From lost to found was probably about 30 mins. I had a friends 13yr old daughter with me and so glad she persuaded me to just one more or the trip back would have been significantly longer. Actually thinking about it I may not have even realized the camera was missing as it was only the fact that at each cache I was just jumping out of the car with the phone and putting pen and camera in my back pocket (alot of micros/smalls in the bush that day) that alerted me to it being missing. The last cache was "Just Off the Beaten Track" GC21335.

Hi Trailrunning
I have done this type of thing on several occasions, but by far the best was a caching trip of three days to the Central Highlands in Tasmania where on the first cache visited and found I left my glasses behind; mostly needed for reading!
The cache concerned was GCM32F "Holey Holey Holey" by Team Tweeti at New Norfolk - logged the cache, took my photographs and then drove to the next enroute cache GC1B4QJ "Lest We Forget" at Gretna (S42 40.981;E146 56.347) some 50 or so kilometres along the road.
A frantic search of the cache mobile was made by both of us only resulting in a non-find. NO!! We didn't return to the original cache but continued on for the remainder of the caching tour.
However, on our return home and after the purchase of new glasses, in fact two pair; one for general use and one to keep in the car; I receive a phone call from a fellow cacher, who until then I had not met; stating that he had found a pair of glasses at the aforementioned cache and asked if they were mine.
Stating that they were, arrangemnets were made for me to collect my now third pair of glasses from the home of DnA! and we have been good friends ever since.
In fact that caching team (DnA!) had occasion to ring and ask for help on a cache just as I was needing help on another. I was suffering cache blindness and a comment rang out over the phone "Have you lost your glasses again OldSaint?" Laughter was heard from both ends of the phone call!
Thanks for this cache and letting me tell you my story;
Cheers OldSaint.

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I have a lovely Garmin GPSmap 60CSx which I used to use as my main GPS put now primary use my Motorola Atrix which I love. I used to carry the Garmin clipped to the back of my belt but decided against that as one day I sat down on some rocks and scratched the screen. I have now gotten into the habit of clipping it to the front of my belt.
My first lost and found story accrued while doing GC29F08, (a multi cache) I was using the map supplied and just caring the GPS if I needed it. I was on my way to WP3 when I realised the Garmin had unclipped itself and was gone, so I retraced my steps and found it at WP2.
My second lost and found story accrued while doing GC2X528 I was bush bashing on my way to the cache when I found my self on the wrong side of a fence so I climbed over it to get off the Private property and continued on. I had travelled about 500m before I realised the Garmin had unclipped it self and was missing. I retraced my steps closely watching for indications for the way I had actually gone and trying to find the GPS I was about give up when I found it at the fence.
I have now worked out that when I left my leg high enough it unclippes the GPS so I now run the strap through my belt as well.

Somewhere Over the Skyrail, GC1FP9H, (out of Cairns, Qld) had been listed for > 10 days, and without internet access while there on holidays in 2008 I wasn't sure if I would be the first to find it. But I was !! Only to realise on the way back to the car that my Foretrex 101 GPSr (with wrist strap) had disappeared. Bumma.
Well, I posted with my find that I had lost it, and did not want a search party out for me, so discretion was the only option. Lo and behold, the second to find, 'WhatsaMap', some 6 weeks later found it. And when Mrs C went back to Cairns in October '08 for a friends wedding was able to retrieve it. Yes, it was BADLY chewed up by the local fauna, but still worked. It was quickly replaced by a Garmin 60CSX.
(Thanks for the memories) *Not only is it "Worth Stopping", but you need to make sure you have everything before you leave, AND that your cache bag is done up - LOL* BUCKETTS, NSW, that's another story !!

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'Stumped' GC130KD
Crestwood, NSW

I'll long remember my visit(s) to sspack's geocache on 25 May 2010, following on from a visit to my eye doctor at nearby Norwest.

'Schloping' around in the mini-swamp and trying to find the cache's hiding place (quite successfully, as it turned out) I dropped my iPhone out of my front pocket.

As it gradually grew dark, I persevered, in vain, trying to find it. But it was nowhere to be seen. In despair, I drove back to Dural, enlisted my wife and her own mobile phone, and returned to the GZ area in the pitch dark. Mrs. pjmpjm dialed my number and we both listened. Deaf old me couldn't hear anything, but my wife's ears perked up and she went straight to the source of the sound.

After a brief search, we found my beloved little machine!

No need to say that since that time I've taken extreme care in where I carry my iPhone!

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Our lost and found story involves losing and finding (against the odds!) a camera while out caching for GC1VTAK Talc Head Barrel farm by Groboz in August 2010.... This is the entry I logged after our big day out!

This cache took us all day but we had fun. Took new 4WD for first test run...found cache...picnic on friends block... beautiful spot overlooking Dwn harbour...drove home...No camera OMG...drove back in...found camera on side of road... Celebrated finding cache, camera & setting the geo coin free to travel again after a year of waiting.

Access was via a slow 30 minute 4 wheel drive track and the likelyhood of us finding the camera was very slim but find it we did - geohusband spotted the blue case on the side of the bush track several klms away from where I last remember seeing it on the bonnet of our 4WD... A lucky day for us ... T4TC

My fourth really significant Lost and Found event I recalled, which I will claim as my third find of this cache, was logged by me as follows:
[Begin Quote] WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance run of my adopted cache GCJBD0 Ellis in Wonderland, replaced the damaged container, CITO'd some rubbishy swaps (like, who thinks a dirty set of McDonalds plastic cutlery makes a good swap???) and a blunt pencil sharpener, replaced the almost full log book, and dropped in a new pencil sharpener, an extra pencil and a supply of Finders Cards. ...

Less than 30 metres from the cache I found a small (but expensive) music playing device snagged in a bush. I checked the logs and there was no "lost property" mentioned, but if a cacher can describe it I'm happy to get it back to the rightful owner.... [End Quote]

There is a "Trailhead" waypoint in the listing which states "Leave the path here, follow the roo trail", and almost ten metres along that roo trail, which was through quite thick scrub which had grown over the past seven years, I had spotted a bright pink iPod dangling from a bush by it's earbuds. Only a cacher would have pushed through that thick scrub, away from a well maintained walk trail.

I then sent the following email to the last six finders of the cache:
"Hi ...,
I did a maintenance run on my cache GCJBD0 Ellis in Wonderland, and less than 30 metres from the cache I found a small (but expensive) music playing device snagged in a bush. I checked the logs and there was no "lost property" mentioned, but if it's yours and you can describe it I'm happy to get it back to the rightful owner."

I was pleased to receive this reply from Arakain:
"Hi Keith,
if it is a "hot pink" coloured IPod, then it belongs to my partners daughter Avalon, who lost it during our "adventure". She was too preoccupied with camera taking pictures. We didn't mention it as lost as we considered the iPod gone.
Regards Robert".

A couple of days later I was able to return the errant iPod to it's rightful owners.

*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Trailrunning
Keith

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I really need to be more careful in Darwin. My third significant Lost and Found event I recalled, which I will claim, was logged by me as follows:
[Begin Quote] WanderingAus wandered by on 15 August 2011, day 82 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, after dropping the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) at the stop for the free Casino Bus I had almost 6 hours of caching time available.

I thought I had 3,899 finds under my belt, and I had decided to make GC16EYQ A Little Something Told Me by Groboz my 3,900th find, but I couldn't find Waypoint two, and despite four visits to Waypoint one I wasn't confident I had read the coordinates correctly, so after spending over an hour without success I decided to proceed to GC16A1J Chinese Educational Quickie by Beagle Team, which was my second choice for the milestone find.

Before leaving Charles Darwin Natonal Park I went over to one of the picnic tables and checked my email, hoping theUMP had published an expected cache, and while I was doing that I put my phone on charge from the laptop. After replying to a couple of emails I put the laptop to sleep, unplugged the phone, and returned to the geoPajero. I wanted to check my snail mail at the Casuarina Mail Delivery Centre, so I pulled into Hungry Jacks near there, grabbed some fries and a shake, and remembered I needed to charge my phone. After searching my pockets and the front and back seats of the geoPajero I realized my phone was still on the picnic table. I rushed back, without breaking any speed limits, and amazingly my phone was still sitting on the table. [End Quote]

I should add that GC16EYQ A Little Something Told Me is more than 8 CroKs from GC16A1J Chinese Educational Quickie, and according to my track log I covered 23.7Km and was away for just over an hour. The heat probably saved it, when I first sat at the table it was the only one with shade, when I returned it was in full sun and a couple were seated at a table 30 metres away in the shade.

After that adventure I returned to GC16A1J Chinese Educational Quickie, had a chat with a local cacher, found the cache, determined it was too small for my special 3,900th Find Calling Card, then When I got back to the caravan I re-checked my counts, and discovered an "Off By One Bug" (actually a Noted which I'd logged as a Found), so I resolved to return to GC16EYQ A Little Something Told Me the next day, and subsequently found it, making it number 3,900, and dropped off the 3,900th Find Calling Card.

*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Trailrunning
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience

My first recollection of a geocaching Lost and Found was on 2 November 2007, after the hunt for GC16TVZ Rainbow Frog By Bear_Left (better known to most as theUMP, I returned to the geoChallenger, wrote up the find in my cachers notebook, then went to put the gpsr in it's cradle and realised I didn't have it.

The cache had been hidden under a heavy rock, as Bear_Left wrote two months later, after the cache had been muggled, "It was a large rock, but not too large for some annoying person to move and take the cache". I had placed the gpsr down on another rock to free both hands to move the rock, and it remained there while I recovered from the exertion, wrote in the log book, replaced the big rock, recovered again from the exertion, returned to the geoChallenger, and finally returned to look for it. I thought I'd mentioned that part of the adventure in my log, but I see now that I didn't, so I won't claim that Lost and Found for this cache.

The next significant Lost and Found event I recalled, which I will claim, was logged by me as follows:
[Begin Quote] WanderingAus wandered by on 25 July 2009, day 52 of a "climatic refugee" trip and made a quick and easy GAFF 1 find to claim the FTF on GC1WA65 Palm Creek By Groboz at Holmes Jungle in sunny Darwin NT.

I was so excited by the FTF that I forgot to pick up my backpack. Luckily it was discovered only minutes later by the next FTF chaser, NTSTROM, who phoned me to ask "Have you lost something?". By then I was deep in the jungle hunting down GC1R8V6 The Jungle Eyeplex by gibbo003, so I arranged to meet him at the geoChallenger, which was parked at the Picnic Area/Exit intersection. Those in the know will be aware that the intersection is NOT the ideal place from which to approach The Jungle Eyeplex, but being a seasoned Vietnam Veteran, and having heard the sound of small arms fire nearby, I'm wary of travelling on tracks (due to the danger of mines and booby traps) and prefer to "jungle bash". [End Quote]
The sound of small arms fire was from the Mickett Creek Shooting Complex. The Stop Butt is about 800 metres East of GC1WA65 Palm Creek, and at it's nearest point GC1R8V6 The Jungle Eyeplex is 1200 metres WestNorthWest of the 500 metre firing point.

One might think that a backpack was no great loss, but that particular backpack, at the time of the almost loss, contained something like this:
Between 5 and 8 Assorted Geocoins and Travel Bugs, the property of various other geocachers;
Large extendable magnetic pickup tool with built-in LED light;
80cm extendable inspection mirror, 75mm x 50mm mirror, bought on 2 November 2007, for the hunt of GC16TVZ Rainbow Frog By Bear_Left;
400mm additional extension for the mirror;
Two piece barbed wire fence crossing equipment;
Small two piece entrenching tool;
Small first aid kit;
Leather gardening gloves;
Rubber gardening gloves;
8 rechargeable AA batteries and 4 rechargeable AAA batteries;
Two hand towels and two "sham wow" cloths;
Large quantity ziplock bags in 6 sizes;
Assorted blank log books in six sizes, including spare nano logs;
Several dozen each of pens, pencils and pencil sharpeners;
A dozen or more cache containers from 500ml down to mint tins and nanos; and
Five Kg of assorted swaps.

I'm glad I got the call from NTSTROM, replacing my stuff would have cost a lot, and the travellers were irreplaceable.

*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Trailrunning, and thanks for clarifying the cache conditions.
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience

Charles Trig
Blue Mountains of NSW
30 July 2011

rogerw3 and I climbed steeply up through the bushes to finally reach this elusive trig and, after a rest, started back down again.

About halfway back to the car, bush bashing, I discovered that my Oregon 300 was missing! A broken belt look showed what had happened. Since we'd been off the trail, we had to guess where we walked. rogerw3 pointed out that my GPSr was coloured gray and was going to be hard to find again in the deep bush.

But after five minutes of retracing our steps, he reached down and said, 'Here it is!'

A happy ending!

Rated: for Overall Experience

Back in 24/11/2006 visited and found cache Colebrook Park by Fairly Magic. Left this cache to travel SE when almost at Richmond went to turn on the GPSr...OMG...that sinking feeling you get when you know you've left it many kilometers away. Some 30 min or more later and a frantic walk/run around the dam had me back at the cache site.....and thankfully the GPSr still sitting there. I was rather relieved to say the least and now make a check before leaving any cache sites....TFTC.

Was in March 2008, that I was looking for a cache, Tennis Anyone#2 GCNZ9D, which was near a platform in beach dunes, near a tennis club in Ulverstone, (Tassie). I couldn't find the cache, had given up and was heading back to the car only to find the car key must have slipped out of my pocket. Car was very new and I hadn't even got the key on a keyring yet. I had a prolonged search then...which turned up the cache but still no key. I can't remember how the blokes from the tennis club came to help with the search...and after more time was exploring possibilities with the RACT as to how I could get my spare key up from Hobart 300km away. But it was during that call that the key was found. Very relieved so called the day quits and headed home!!!!
Of course like so many, I've left my GPS behind too, but that wasn't a lost and found story.
Great concept, thanks for the cache Trailrunning(PS.great name)!

Down in the Lockyer Valley late last month caching naturally. This is the latest in but a few times I have left/lost something caching.

I walked up the ramp at this site and realised I was in the wrong spot. Walked back down the ramp and made my way carefully to GZ. I had two GPSr units in my hand and I put my Oregon on the edge of the platform and contiued using my magellan. Cache quickly found and log entry completed.

Returned to the car and drove 12klm to the next cache using my magellan and then suddenly realised I did not have my garmin. Returned to the last cache and thankfully my Garmin was still where I had left it.

Garmin now has a strap attached just like my magellan and does not leave my body when i am using both units.

Rated: for Overall Experience

I have updated the cache description to provide more clarity.

Just to clarify:

Can this cache be claimed for every lost and found item?

and for retrospective lost and found items?

or is it one find for all retrospective lost and found items, and one for each future lost and found item?

I only ask because I've remembered two straight off, and there are probably more (oldtimers disease gets me regularly). I even found another cachers iPod near one of my caches (GCJBD0 Ellis in Wonderland) a month ago and managed to get it back to the cacher who hadn't even reported the loss, not expecting to ever see it again.

For me, the ultimate lost and found at the time......

Just a few months after I started caching, I managed to lose a new pair of prescription glasses. I searched and searched the general GZ area, without luck.

I happened to mention this to another cacher, who suggested a CITO event to try and find them.

The event was published, afternoon tea was supplied and 22 very generous people gave up their time to search for glasses, pick up rubbish and of course claim a smiley. There were interstate cachers in town for the weekend (from Wollongong, Bunbury and other places) who also turned up.

The event turned out to be a great little gathering, and yep, the glasses were found.

If you would like to read all about it, have a look at GC18RMG

Thanks for this locationless and the chance to reminisce....

Rated: for Overall Experience

Mr Shifter visited our cache "Deadwood Forest" to pick up a coin that had been there for several months. A few days later he looked for his hat (Akubra) when we were heading off for a walk to a cache and it wasn't in his car. We dicussed where it could be and "Deadwood Forest" was the likely place. He returned the next day an found the hat sitting right where he left it.

Another time (in Dubbo for a June Long Weekend Event - they were great) he placed his GPS on a tree trunk and drove off without it. Thankfully we realised after only a couple of minutes so turned around and retrieved it safely.

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