Valerie [Pet Rocks at Brimbank] Keilor East, Victoria, Australia
By
caughtatwork on 30-Jun-12. Waypoint GA4455
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S37° 43.849' E144° 50.211' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 309377E 5821848N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 41 m |
| Local Government Area: | Brimbank |
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Description
V is for Valerie [Pet Rocks at Brimbank]
Do you remember the fad of pet rocks? Did you want one? Do you even know what I'm talking about?
Take a stroll around Brimbank Park where you will find 26 pet rocks hiding out just waiting for you to come and find them. They may be tricky. They may be easy. They will all be identifiable as pet rocks and you'll understand why when you find the first one. If you bring your smart phone with you, at the top of each log sheet is a QR code which you can scan into your phone and it will take you directly to the log page for this cache. This means you can log each pet rock while you stroll to the next.
Brimbank Park is situated in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Keilor. (Melway ref: 15 A10). Entry is via Keilor Park Drive which is off the Western Ring Road. In 1976 Brimbank Park was opened as part of the Maribyrnong Valley Park, combined with the adjacent Horseshoe Bend Children's farm and Greenvale Reservoir Park. The Maribyrnong River has hollowed out a valley some 55 metres below the Keilor Plain, with a steep bank on the northern side and gentle terraces on the southern side forming a huge amphitheatre. The park has several sheltered picnic areas, gas barbecues, picnic tables, and playgrounds. For those who forget their picnic basket, there is the Leaping Lizard Cafe in the visitors centre. A network of cycling and walking tracks cross the park, as well as self guided walking trails.
Come and take a few hours to walk around the park, picking up some pet rocks along the way.
Hints
raq bs ybt |
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Decode |
Logs
My last find for the afternoon, not because I had run out of time though.
I guess I'm mostly a 'fairweather' cacher.
Heading down the trail after my visit to Richard and Sadie, the rain storm that had been foreseen by Noah finally arrived
With my vehicle parked almost a km away and the nearest shelter half way there, I took off across the grass. Sheltering at the conveniently located conveniences
the rain soon eased off. I continued past my truck and found "Percy" before driving off. Since there was little traffic about this afternoon I parked nearby and went in search of Valerie.
The original hiding place has suffered the torments of time and decay has set in, however Val was nice and safe in the remains.
Yet another two years of *unloved* days awaited me here. 752 days added to the tally.
What a bonus today has been.
Views admired.
Legs stretched.
Five caches found.
Lots of unloved days collected.
Thank you caughtatwork, a most excellent afternoon.
I guess I'm mostly a 'fairweather' cacher.
Heading down the trail after my visit to Richard and Sadie, the rain storm that had been foreseen by Noah finally arrived
With my vehicle parked almost a km away and the nearest shelter half way there, I took off across the grass. Sheltering at the conveniently located conveniences
the rain soon eased off. I continued past my truck and found "Percy" before driving off. Since there was little traffic about this afternoon I parked nearby and went in search of Valerie.The original hiding place has suffered the torments of time and decay has set in, however Val was nice and safe in the remains.
Yet another two years of *unloved* days awaited me here. 752 days added to the tally.
What a bonus today has been.
Views admired.
Legs stretched.
Five caches found.
Lots of unloved days collected.
Thank you caughtatwork, a most excellent afternoon.
Rated: for Overall Experience
The last in the series for us today, but I had to find this one as that is what the V is for in Cybergran V. I was hoping to find Muggle Hubby Richard nearby, but alas, not this today, we’ve run out of time.
Found with Whheels after the event.
I was hoping to find these caches to earn points on the current map challenge, but after doing the first five all I earned was two Five points and three blanks ☹️. Here’s hoping this one is a bit more productive
Nope, just another blank!
Found with Whheels after the event.
I was hoping to find these caches to earn points on the current map challenge, but after doing the first five all I earned was two Five points and three blanks ☹️. Here’s hoping this one is a bit more productive
Nope, just another blank!
Rated: for Overall Experience
GCA Find #101
Back to Brimbank today hopefully grab all the remaining caches. This was an easy find using the hint.
Thanks CAUGHTATWORK
TFTC.
Back to Brimbank today hopefully grab all the remaining caches. This was an easy find using the hint.
Thanks CAUGHTATWORK
TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
another find in this series. Can't say these cache would be this comfortable in summer with the long grass. a winter Xmas is a good time to do them
Found Valerie in the gloomy half light, the grass was very damp and there were spider webs to be walked through in the trees. TFTC
Valarie was sadly scattered round here at gZ.
Had to place her back in here home after signing the log.
Nice little elavated spot here.
TFTC
Had to place her back in here home after signing the log.
Nice little elavated spot here.
TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Another one I missed last time but managed to make the find today. Well covered was young Val, but she was soon in hand.
Thanks caughtatwrok....
Thanks caughtatwrok....
Rated: for Overall Experience
After a look in the log I stood up and found the log container in the grass and the rock on the ground a little but away. No sign of the base and worst of all, no eyes. Replaced per the hint.
No joy at this one....looked as per the hint, but it was another one I couldn't see. Don't think it would have been muggled, so it's probably just been really really well covered now....
Thanks anyway...
Thanks anyway...
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found on our caravanning and caching tour of the area a great series that we enjoyed.
Appreciate the time and effort gone into placing these caches and the pet rock theme bought a smile to our faces every time we found one. Thanks caughtatwork.
Appreciate the time and effort gone into placing these caches and the pet rock theme bought a smile to our faces every time we found one. Thanks caughtatwork.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found during our christmas lunch in the park.
A bit hot to be out and about so we only picked up a few.
TFTC
A bit hot to be out and about so we only picked up a few.
TFTC
On way to Delahey for 6 weeks evening work.
I have been wanting to find this series before end of week.
Enjoy this park and cache
Thanks for bring me here and caches
I have been wanting to find this series before end of week.
Enjoy this park and cache
Thanks for bring me here and caches
Rated: for Overall Experience
Date: 18.11.2012
Time: 1:38
Today, my caching buddy SedgwickDave and I were headed for Brimbank Park to find the 26 GCA Caches that had been placed there. It started as a rainy morning but ended up as a beautiful sunny day. but first thing is first, find a few caches on the way. Also, as is also a self imposed requirement for our caching runs is to find at least three different cache types. We managed five today... Trad, Multi, Puzzle, Earth and Letterbox.
Another quick find on our cycle around the park
Apologies for the copy and paste, just too many to remember
Thanks to caughtatwork for the hide and the series.
Time: 1:38
Today, my caching buddy SedgwickDave and I were headed for Brimbank Park to find the 26 GCA Caches that had been placed there. It started as a rainy morning but ended up as a beautiful sunny day. but first thing is first, find a few caches on the way. Also, as is also a self imposed requirement for our caching runs is to find at least three different cache types. We managed five today... Trad, Multi, Puzzle, Earth and Letterbox.
Another quick find on our cycle around the park
Apologies for the copy and paste, just too many to remember
Thanks to caughtatwork for the hide and the series.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found with Ahomburg today while on the bikes riding around this great park. Got a flat half way thru so not only did I find caches but had to pump the tie up every 5mins. A fun day with a work out taking about 4hrs to complete. With only 1 not found and 1 other not attempted due to muggles.
Found 10.50am
Last of the pet rock series, wish there was a few more. We have had 2 great days here walking all over the park looking for these cute little caches. A really good series and we appreciated the amount of effort needed to put them all together.
TNLNSL
Thanks caughtatwork, more like these please.
Last of the pet rock series, wish there was a few more. We have had 2 great days here walking all over the park looking for these cute little caches. A really good series and we appreciated the amount of effort needed to put them all together.
TNLNSL
Thanks caughtatwork, more like these please.
Rated: for Overall Experience
After the last find, the O3 showed this one as the next closest so I decided to 'knock it off' before relocating the car again. A nice easy find yet again at 15:50 thanks to excellent coordinates .
TNLNSL. Thanks caughtatwork.
.TNLNSL. Thanks caughtatwork.
I trodded a path that was the muddiest I could have picked but isn't it compulsory that as cachers we return hire cars as dirty as we can 
Thanks for the cache C@W
Thanks for the cache C@W
Took the opportunity of a quiet and wonderful Winters day to go to the park and complete the series in new day. Not many people about, which helped me to ho end.
Great series, certainly worth the effort to complete. Thanks for taking me here. TFTC
Great series, certainly worth the effort to complete. Thanks for taking me here. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
12:46
A beautiful sunny Sunday... perfect for packing some sandwiches and taking a stroll in Brimbank Park. Time for some Quality Family Time™, and all that entails: niggling, whining, complaining... and that was just from the adults.
Seriously, though, we had a great time finding the last half of the Pet Rocks together, with the girls taking turns at retrieving the containers for me to log. All in all, a fun day, finished off with the reward of hot chocolates and coffee at the cafe.
Thanks for a great series, caughtatwork.
A beautiful sunny Sunday... perfect for packing some sandwiches and taking a stroll in Brimbank Park. Time for some Quality Family Time™, and all that entails: niggling, whining, complaining... and that was just from the adults.
Seriously, though, we had a great time finding the last half of the Pet Rocks together, with the girls taking turns at retrieving the containers for me to log. All in all, a fun day, finished off with the reward of hot chocolates and coffee at the cafe.
Thanks for a great series, caughtatwork.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Was the indistinct trail to this here before, or the result of the few people to make the find since? Thanks.
We were looking at a map showing caches in the Woodlands area. We then looked at the surrounding areas and noticed a very interesting group of caches, the Pet Rocks at Brimbank. We decided to visit today for some preliminary work to assess what may be needed to attempt the series. We found the first Pet Rock at 3:15pm and were back in the car by 4:30pm heading to an appointment having found a total of 14 Pet Rocks. In every case we found that the coordinates were very accurate and resulted in short searches. Normally we would write some comments specific to each cache but to do so for caches in this series may disclose too much information about the hide. So, we have opted for a commen log for each find. We really enjoyed the walk through this great park and the hunting down of Pet Rocks was a great way to spend part of the afternoon. We hope to return tomorrow to look for the remainder. Thanks for a great concept caughtatwork and thanks for the caches.
I typical Team Ladava style we had a slow start to the day, a couple of chores and a late and leisurely lunch before deciding the sunshine was too nice to stay home.
Where would you like to go? C@W has put out a mini power trail in Brimbank Park so off we went mid afternoon with no hope of completing the list but simply spend a very pleasant hour of two in the delightful park.
We must have been a little late to catch up with KoT. as he had left his mark in most of the caches we found.
The dog was really excited by this one as a rabbit hopped out from under its nose.
This was the only one i did without the KoT mark.
Our thanks to caughtatwork for the great series. Sandra was really impressed with all the work in placing them.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Cache condition - fine
Where would you like to go? C@W has put out a mini power trail in Brimbank Park so off we went mid afternoon with no hope of completing the list but simply spend a very pleasant hour of two in the delightful park.
We must have been a little late to catch up with KoT. as he had left his mark in most of the caches we found.
The dog was really excited by this one as a rabbit hopped out from under its nose.
This was the only one i did without the KoT mark.
Our thanks to caughtatwork for the great series. Sandra was really impressed with all the work in placing them.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Cache condition - fine
Rated: for Overall Experience
I saw these get published, then my heart sunk when I saw pwags was quickly on the scene to gather up the FTF goodness. Needing a good string of finds in a day, I decided to give these a go instead of venturing south to pick up the JackSpeak series. I awoke far too early thanks to the cold so after giving the sleep option a miss (it just wasn't going to happen) I got up and planned a day's geocaching - priority #1 get the pet rocks! I detoured to grab another GCA cache on the way, then headed to Brimbank where it was still kind of quiet, although the dog-walkers were out and about, from Chihuahua to Irish Wolf Horse, uh, Hound - and a few of my favourites the Staffy. Wait, what's this? No pwags FTF?! Woot! A baker's dozen of FTF for each of us it seems - congratulations and thanks! 
Today was my opportunity to clean up the remaining half of this mini power trail, after grabbing the first 13 caches as FTF's last weekend. As there were no other logs yet online, I thought I'd be getting another 13 FTF's but as I opened the log for each one today, I found that I'd been beaten to them - congratulations to quiet1_au!
As I said last week, this is a great little power trail - many thanks to caughtatwork for hiding these cute little rocks.
Found this one at 2:04pm.
As I said last week, this is a great little power trail - many thanks to caughtatwork for hiding these cute little rocks.
Found this one at 2:04pm.
Rated: for Overall Experience
