Have You Got The Balls? Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
By Molokov on 09-Jan-07. Waypoint GC109CJ

Time to go?

By all means, archive this. I won't be replacing it any time soon.

It explains why I couldnt find it...........????

Doh

MADSTARS

My apologies to all... this one actually went missing AGAIN within about a week of me putting out the last one. Have been meaning to disable this listing for quite some time, but kept forgetting....

I don't think I'll put in a new cache here until I can find a more suitable, less muggle-able hiding spot.

We tried to find this one several times over several days. We were not detered by the muggles, but we could not find it. We found multiple sets of velcro, which the hint says might have been from previous attempts, but a pretty extensive search of the nearby hidding spots didn't yield anything.

After a morning spent at the markets and the Bradman museum THENANKS from QLD saw the balls of steel! I'm glad this one had been replaced just in time for us....thanks!

Well I don't know about the listed requirements to grab the cache - our 9 year old geokid - FEMALE - grabbed this cache in 30 seconds. Once we figured out where it should be she had it so quickly. No one watches what kids are doing really. The log was signed and the cache returned by the same child who found it.

New cache is up.

This one is a little more camo'd (with silver tape) and uses a magnet instead of velcro.

If you're FTF and still think the current location is likely to be muggled, please feel free to find a better location somewhere on the same booth.

Looks like it's gone again, after such a short time too

I'll put together a new replacement as soon as I can.

2nd of 2 DNFs for the evening caching with Robmc and Chewinpickles from Victoria.
After strolling down the mall listening to piano music (the busker had brought in a full upright piano) we found GZ and the velco, but alas no cache.
The buildings provided great bounce for the sound (and satellites), and it was a very full sound coming from the piano.
Checking the log and seeing Disk's log, maybe we should've been searching for a new hide[?]
Until next time, cheers.

Great warning!!!
Found, but not where we were expecting .
Team needed to huddle in close to cover our activity (lots of muggles today), else quickly found.
TNLNSL.
TFTC Molokov [^].

Happy new year!

New cache is up and hiding!

Saw the logs for this, but wanted to check it out anyway, since we were in the area.
Not many people about this morning, so were able to have a good look - only saw velcro spots .
Must agree with Alansee on this one .

Two DNFs in a row means I should probably check this out.
Unfortunately I'm unlikely to be in the city again until the new year, so I'll check it out then and put together a replacement.

From the description I knew just where to look although it took me a moment to find the specific place! Once there, there were few muggles but enough, and a whole lot of shoelace-tying and the like were employed to no avail. After a little while I realised that I was looking at some empty velcro, and having already made a good search, think that this may indicate something bad!

Interesting find. Had a fair idea where it would be, needed some shielding to replace it after logging though - good thing I was here with Moneydork and tofska. After talking to the others when we got back, it sounds as though there might have actually been two different spots with velcro - not sure why. Cheers Gav [1607]

Found with Tofska and Rediguana. TFTC.

Yeah, we had better luck today. Maybe you guys timed it with another geocacher? Mega stealth for us returning it as a security guard turned up just meters away.
T4TC - M@

Spotted some velcro dots and gave up the search, seemed we should have looked harder as some other members of the team found it a few days later.

Missed this one with sp8sm8

Second visit here, and being quieter it wasn't hard to make a quick subtle grab, once I had a strong idea of where it was. TFTF.

Bold as brass at 1:00pm, peak lunch break. Thanks for the cache!

Yes Da Frizz has the balls!..........just. Picked this up at 11am Monday so a fair bit of muggle action to say the least! 4 contractors standing within 3 metres of GZ were non the wiser (I think). TFTC

Has Butterfly got the balls? Well you decide, but she sure has greater antenna for this cache.
Interesting art work.

Found 14:05, with the aid of our niece.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Molokov.

This cache has been on the radar for a while and I wasn't prepapred to try it during a lunch-time stroll, although I had scouted GZ and was confident of the location.

At 8:00am on a Sunday morning the mall should be empty and should make this an easy find sign and replace, at least that was my theory for rising early and riding into the city.

How wrong can you be?[:(!] There were people everywhere, especially at GZ. Workmen were busy bringing Santa to town and setting him in place ready for the christmas season.

Walking towards GZ I was thinking the morning would be wasted and the cache unretrievable. How wrong can you be? Observation revealed that all eyes were on the work men and Santa!!

Cache was easliy found and retrieved under the noses of many distracted muggles. Given the set-up at the time of the visit and the big distraction on offer the difficulty rating was 1. Sometimes you just get lucky.

This was a bold hide and one that I was able to make without too much trouble today. Thanks.

For cache #300, I figured answering the question was a good way to celebrate. Also doing a personal coin log to mark the event.

It helps to have recurring shoelace issues when going for this one . The street was quiet as the sun was going down, so was able to grab the find and move on without any muggle issues. I could see that this would be a major issue during normal hours. Thanks for placing a challenging urban cache. Cheers.

found at 2:30pm with my mum easy take but hard to replace cause a muggle was standing right next to the place it belongs

Find 93 without a GPS at 9.00am
Very Easy in Sleepy Hollow on the Labour Day Holiday
TNLNSL FOFV TFTC

Nice hide... best done at night!
Cheers
Miss Jane

Yes I guess I had the balls tonight.

Cheers and thanks for the cache

Time to kill b4 a specialist visit..No GPS on hand but we thought how many places can it be? Hmmm we reckon...... Yep we were right....
Great cameo....Just wondering...all those security camera signs in the mall....A result of suspisious looking geo cachers wandering around looking in odd places [?][?] Our 199th!!
Hope your seeking is muggle free.....would certainly make it easier with this one.

B-Team find while in town for a little caching and lots of work - need to adjust the balance! Found the objects in question, but took a little more time to find the cache. Certainly a good one to attempt after closing time to minimise the external interuptions. TNLN Good Luck!

Beware! Muggles be here.

we decided GPS was not necessary after reading the logs. tried twice in day while shopping, checked with Gozling... yep on the right track back closer towards 9pm... bingo. was very proud of my very pregnant wife, since she hates muggle friendly micro hides! [^]

Very Cool!! TNLN TFTC

Thought best to tackle this one on a Sunday morning. Nice and easy and logged quickly and replaced.

TFTC

Had some time to kill in the city but we didn't have our GPSr with us. Umm, where would a cacher hide a cache near here? Tried a couple of spots with no luck, then the next spot, aha, there it is! Luck was on our side as we had had not intention of caching today.

My they are big kahunas!
Thanks Molokov

Not as difficult as I first thought, nice hide.

TNLNSL

Found it this time, avoiding the red herring.

Found By Team GeoCoopers
Noticed that Herbert Flugelman's 'Spheres' were back from the cleaner so couldn't resist grabbing this one.
It also filled in a little time while we waited for the jeweler just metres from GZ to open so we could pick up our wedding rings for next weekend 07-07-07.
Thanks Molokov.

Good hide. Stigglepot had more balls than I did as there was a lot of muggles around. Don't think we were spotted thankfully. Found this one on our fleeting visit to Adelaide from Brisbane. TFTC
...eatmorchikin & Stigglepot

Team A 3.35 pm
MMM after spending some time scouting new locations for cache hides in this wonderful city of churches, we went looking for some caches.(keep an eye open for some new caches from flipper&co coming soon)
We had no problems with a "sat lock" today as we didn't need it to find these "JATZ CRACKERS" ( we found this one while walking thru the location and remembered that we'd seen this cache on the net, with a little bit of searching and after a quick call to ET we soon had the prize in hand)
nice hide.
TFTC TNLN SL

[This entry was edited by FLIPPER&CO on Monday, July 02, 2007 at 6:13:30 AM.]

Found on DreadedWeasel's recommendation. Walking through the mall at 2am meant no prying eyes.

This one wasn't embarassing!!!!! Ohwell thats what its all about!! Thanks for the cache!!

Just getting up miles for Blazing Sun..

Well, the balls have just been replaced and are looking very speccy with their fancy blue lights around them. The mall at night is much easier to find things in than in the daytime. No one but our group in sight. We did wonder how much shows on the nearby security cameras though. Cheeky hide which we very much enjoyed. TFTC

Wow - aren't the balls looking grand? Found this on with the geohubby wondering if I had gone completely mad after looking at a few locations. TFTC.

Found while wandering the Mall late at night. The balls have just been returned and looking very shiney indeed. TFTC

Found it, but man, you do gotta have balls for this one! Felt like I was carrying out a drug drop on this one, trying to be inconspicuous, but devious, in obtaining it - hid it up my sleeve whilst I walked away to sit down and read, and then of course the difficult return. Glad I had lots of shopping bags with me and needed to bend over to sort them out! TFTC

Quick early morning find, took a little bit longer to return it coz I had to wait for a delivery man to move on. TNLNSL

A new cache is in place now. The velcros are a red herring, but the descriptions and clues are still valid. You will definitely need your own pencil. It's tucked away a bit better now and the difficulty rating is still about right. Happy hunting!

New cache is in place.

ds-fifty's generousity is noted, but I'd prepared a replacement already. After a quick check and finding his fancy new one, I gave it a bit of thought and have instead placed my replacement in the cache location.

It is not *exactly* in the same place, but very very closeby.

In case this one goes missing soon... I already have another backup thanks to ds-fifty!

Spent far too long trying to find this. I found the empty velcros, but the last two logs kept me going. I finally worked out how to decrypt ROT2 and it just confirmed that is gone. I'll eat humble pie if I'm wrong!

But then again, I'm often in the mall! When the balls are back they will match what it took to hide it there!

Yup, this is definitely missing. Replacement should be available sometime soon. Trying to think of a slightly better hiding place still in the same location... I suspect too many muggles find it by accident and it only takes one to remove & discard to spoil it for everyone

Still definitely there, wardpa. I checked today (11/5).

Earlier this week I moved it back to its original location (see the double-decrypted extra hint for details) as it appeared to have migrated over a spot...

But all looks OK at the moment, have fun with the cache while the Balls have gone for a polish...

I checked around and only found an empty spot of velcro...

Found this one in good ol' rundle mall.
I sure am glad I did man of steel and I now know where he changes his undies (Alegedly)

Glad I wore my sneakers.

TFTC

Found this one this afternoon on the way home from a wedding ceremony. homedg Jnr had the balls and the nouce to knock this one over.
Now, on to Man of Steel.

Rated: for Overall Experience

I had them at 7:15am. TFTC Cheers.

Found at 1545 hr. Fortunately in the very first place I put my hand [^]
Cheers

Nice quiet day in the Mall. We didn't have the balls though, They've been taken away for a polish. Who would have thought in this era of mobile phones, that all four of them would be in use.

Grabbed this cache after the pub lunch event and then went for a coffee nearby. The spot we needed was vacated just as we walked up so the find went smoothly and with stealth. Good to see a cache at this spot even if balls are temporarily absent.

Well at least some of us still have the balls - oh well, I'm told there's nothing quite like a good spit and polish out of sight - TFTC

Of course we have, but the mall hasnt any more. Sad really to be emasculated so suddenly and completely by a cruel twist of fates blade. Apparently they have been removed for cleaning. Normally one would think that the usual lick and a promise with balls insitu would suffice. Obviously the balls must have been pretty dirty as they have been taken off for a good oldfashioned spit and polish. Hopefully they will be back bigger and brighter than ever giving pleasure to all as before soon.

TNLN
TFTC done in peak time on saturday in stealth mode.

Team evilcrazyrobot

Well today we had the balls which was good because the nearby balls were missing in action (will post picture later) TFTC

logging our find under new name - previously blue frogs

Found at 1410 after a short walk down the mall. There was hardly anyone around so we had the cache in less than a minute. This was our second city micro for the afternoon. Whilst ranger baby was entertaining some muggles ranger 2 replaced the cache. Thanks Molokov

4 of 12 FTD at 8.45am. Hardly anyone around on a Public holiday so found and SL quickly. Thanks

Ahh - easy one, especially with some help to cover for the muggles. Getting it was quite easy, returning it, another story as there were muggles everywhere. Hmm, a good one to practice stealth.

No 2 in the matmob and pg06 Urban Caching Expedition! Loved the label on the container. TFTC

postiegirl06's first UC find of the day. Really enjoyed this hide and especially loved the labelling ! SL TFTC

We did not figure out the hints, but we found it! Nice hide!

Thanks and greetings from Germany,
Bergzwerge

Found this while in town competing in the WPFG.

This is muggle central!! I had to fake tying my shoe to verify the exact location, wait for someone to finish their phone call (how rude of them to hinder a cacher), then make a faux call myself to get this one in the middle of the afternoon. TNLN SL TFTC Not too sure of the date...drawing from Jameson tainted memory!

Found 13:00ish. 2nd of 3 FFTD. In town buying a new computer, when Mrs E remembered this cache being here. GPSr was spot on for us today. Quick find. Tried to place a micro coin in, but wouldn't fit! so TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found with the sbi. Very busy, just have to put your hand in the right place.

Found with mr Hotdogs
A lot of people around on a Friday night, luckiliy they didn't want to use the phones

Between the 2 of us, DazEm must have a nice pair of these!! Public holiday is a good time when there's less muggles around. TFTC

Mysteriously I found it this time! It was in the spot I looked last time, so it was definitely gone for a while before someone returned it. spooky! good that it's back though.

Dude! You are starting to believe your own obfuscation! I'd seen the notification that this one was offline, so I had an idle look while I was in the mall today... and it was there! No idea what happened to it in the meantime, maybe a quantum uncertainty thing.

Well it appears (thanks to winterdragon) that the cache is still there... perhaps my friends weren't searching hard enough and found the wrong bits of velcro....

I will run past at some stage this week to double check, but for the moment, we'll keep the cache active.

EDIT: Checked today (6 March) and it's still there. Thanks, winterdragon.

[This entry was edited by Molokov on Monday, March 05, 2007 at 7:09:37 PM.]

Was out riding/caching with friends penguin_tummy, fishburn and jaiburn today so they decided they'd try to find my cache - no such luck, velcro was found, but it appears to have been muggled again.



This sucks, considering the last find was only 2 days ago.

It may be a while before the next replacement, I need to get
some bits and pieces together.

Lots of people? Check
Security guard gazing at GZ? Check
Phone a friend option? Check
Cache in hand? Check!

Mission Accomplished!

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A

Thirty-fourth of 128 finds on "The Big Adelaide Assault" in company with acts2youthgroup and HawMorFords. No people, no traffic, but still no parking at this time of the morning. TomTom sent us up a small alleyway that we still think it was legal for us to navigate (there were no 'do not enter' signs, anyway), and we were able to drive to within 50m or so of the cache. I had logged "Man of Steel" previously, and have duplicated it back home with "Lois Lane's Boyfriend", so we knew exactly where to look. We found it at 0459. I made no exchange. Thanks to Molokov for the cache. Cheers, dak.

L.L.T.R.A.

Thirty-four of one hundred and twenty-eight cache finds on the "The Big Adelaide Assault" the cache was found at 04:59 in company with dak's Emu Mob and HawMorFords. They certainly are large and silver. Dak has a cache in Melbourne just like this one so it was a nice quick find. Trying this in the middle of the day would be fun.

Thanks Molokov for the cache.

04:59 - Find #34 of 128 on our Big Day's Caching in the company of dak's Emu Mob and acts2youthgroup.

You've got some balls placing a cache like this Clark! A nice easy find at 5 a.m. It wouldn't be so later on in the day.

Thanks to Molokov for the cache.

Was at Borders with my mother, who is over here for the week, and I casually mentioned that I thought there was a cache right outside, and that I should come back for it one night. She wouldn't hear of it, so we had to do it in the middle of the day, as per the description. So she rode shotgun, making phone calls to throw off the muggles, while I casually leant on the shelf next to her. Two phone calls later, and we were all done. Thanks for a gutsy cache, assuming it really does exist

Wasnt sure if I had found it or not when I found it, but then I opened it and it appeared right in front of my eyes. Loved the label so we took one, TFTC. MODU.

Found it late at night with Dylanja, logged it 4 months later, very sad to see that it's gone again at the moment...

Easy task after 11pm! Still a few people out, but not busy enough to disturb us. TFTC

Ok folks, new cache is in place - and marked with a label that should hopefully confuse muggles enough to leave the thing where it is.

When hiding this cache again after your visit, please try and place it as far back as it can go whilst still 'sticky', as hopefully this will keep it a little further out of sight.

First few visitors again can feel free to take one of the labels supplied within the tin, to negate the existence of anything else they own.

Dont you hate it when your logs arent up to date and its not there but you can see where it was. But then when you get home you find it has been muggled. MODU.

Sorry folks, looks like it's gone missing.

I will do up a new one and replace it as soon as I can.

On Australia Day, we thought Rundle Mall was about as quiet as it was likely to get. Got to GZ to find it in use!!! After she departed, we were again dumbstruck when a pair of cleaners arrived and commenced scrubbing it thoroughly – in preparation for surgery, it would seem. They were doing a sterling job and I though that cache would be discovered any second. Decided to make a pre-emptive strike and approached them and asked if they’d found anything that shouldn’t have been there? They hadn’t, and as I retrieved it, they showed an interest in the whole thing and I went on to explain the basics of the game. Chatting to them about ‘treasure hunting’ as they completed their task provided the perfect cover and kept everyone else away . They were happy to leave it there and departed soon after.
A hard cache made easy. Cheers Molokov

Time: 6am
Street sweeper, check!
Chewing gum, not sure!
Cache, check!
Neeeded to go for a walk and sit down to retrieve the logbook.

After our second visit and exhausting the coin dropping technique, finally managed to find this one despite the muggles streaming past. Managed to drop it while trying to return it to its hiding spot, but fortunately no muggles were paying much attention to us. Thought it was amusing that a muggle had inadvertently been very close to discovering it, judging by the chewing gum placed about a centimetre from the cache!

Loved this cache! Thanks! Our second cache for the day!

Found on the first night of the tour downunder.
At 6:30 everyone was hurrying to see the race so paid no attention to me.
Glad I didnt have the same experience as last time I did one of these.
In and out a lot quicker today.

A quick find on way to work this morning at 0645hrs. Only muggles around were zooming up and down in their 'ride-in' vacuumn. That is if you don't count the police car which almost sprung me, that I didn't see coming!
TNLNSL
Thanks for a new city cache Molokov