Maple Syrup Canadian, Victoria, Australia
By Highrod on 28-Jan-07. Waypoint GC10KXM

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Is this still out for maintenance?

Out for maintenance

Found it. No log book. Didn't have a spare one on us unfortunately

Got to GZ to find log book only scattered all over the bushes, so replaced with a smaller than regular for the next finder.

Found on the way home from the OZ MEGA Albury long weekend.

TFTC.

Cold, windy Easter Monday. 2 kids and a dog made a good disguise as I went in for the grab. TFTC.

After being in Ballarat two weeks ago it was back today with the suscoe team to add a few more smiley's to my tally. Our aim was to find a few mysteries and others as we passed by.
After parking close by I really made hard work with this cache as I followed the directions given to me by the GPS. Over the edge, cross the flowing small creek , only to have cross again and back to where I started and after a hint from suscoe the cache was soon located. All is well so thanks to highrod but you must watch the barkers eggs as noted by a previous cacher.

Night 1 of our Ballarat Smackdown weekend with DazRascal, Blacklegend, Quasar3671 & Trailrunning which seen us collecting a great range of caches over 3 days.

Searched and searched with all eyes on deck to no avail - confident the cache was MIA. Luckily Trailrunning was well prepared and was able to replace the cache for some future finds.
A nice area - many thanks highrod for bringing us here. TNLN SL.

One of 182 caches I personally found during our "Ballarat Smackdown" trip. The trip included teams Quasar3671, Trailrunning, Haveanez, Dazrascal and myself. Caches included around 30 mystery caches, a few earth caches, lots of trads and multis and both day and night caching. Some 4WD action was encountered as well, which was great. All puzzles within 60kms were solved.

I took three of my kids, Jasmine 7yo, James and Jemma 5yo twins, traveling from Tocumwal. The trip covered 3 days and two nights, staying in Ballarat. Quasar3671 took his two boys as did Haveanez. One of the best caching trips I have been on, and certainly lots and lots of finds, almost clearing out the main Ballarat area. Home base was the Miners Retreat motel, which was quite pleasant and quiet.

Found this one on a Friday "night run" after arriving at the accommodation and having a bite to eat. Very extensive search by many people undertaken and even with knowledge of the hide location, no cache found. Helped out the local caching community here again by replacing the cache. TFTC.

One of 184 cache finds during our "Ballarat Smackdown" weekend of caching on the 23rd to 25th. There were 13 of us including Blacklegend and three of his kids, Trailrunning, Haveanez and their two boys, Dazrascal and myself amd my two boys Tyler and Cooper. We'd spent a few weeks planning the trip, with every Ballarat Puzzle solved in the area, cache lists and road and route maps all ready to go. We stayed in the Miners Retreat Motel for the two nights and the accomodation and facilities were great. Our goal was simple - find as many caches as possible in the time we were here !

We found a great variety of caches and hides during the three days, which also involved a bit of walking and some 4WD fun as well in the state forests north of Ballarat. The weather was quite cold of the Friday and Saturday morning but eventually cleared to nice sunny weather Saturday arvo and Sunday. We all had a great time, especially the kids who did really well to keep up with the pace we were moving.

We searched for quite a while and found nought. Not found for five months and with some DNF's we replaced the cache so others could log it.

Team “Ballarat Cache Smackdown” was formed for the weekend of 23-25 March with the very intention of going hard at grabbing as many caches in the Ballarat area that was humanly possible in such a short period of time. The puzzles within a 60 km radius of Ballarat were solved, some multi’s as well. 4WD’s were packed with all manner of goodies, maps and run sheets prepared, spare batteries accumulated, UHF radios charged, etc. The team consisted of TrailRunning, Quasar3671, Blacklegend, Haveanez and Dazrascal. Home base was the pleasant Miner’s Retreat Motel at a reasonable rate a night for a cabin sleeping 8 people. After a quick bite to eat for dinner the Smackdown started with 36 caches being found on the first night. We had read the logs about DNF's and the D/T rating. This should be easy! After we all piled out of vehicles we undertook and extensive search, and decided to replace. Good thing we did as a good mate of mine from Geelong (Bushfire) was to pop in the next day for a find. Thanks for #11.

Hmmmm this has got me stuffed .... Lots of muggles but a stealthy thorough search was fruitless ..... Bugger

Must have come close but didn't feel the need to draw attention to myself by further scrub bashing.

It took us longer to find than it should have ... It's worth reading the description carefully. Took ladybug and parrot, left fish and ribbon.

Nice cache in a nice area. Thanks highrod

Searched a while...found by Mr Bushies2 and took coin. Thanks highrod

Nice easy find dropped off gc via st.pats cathedral picked up tb

Found @ 14:14

Watch out for barkers eggs.

TFTC

Suscoe enjoyed a short walk and there was the cache, safe and sound.
TNLN signed in the mid afternoon.
Thanks to highrod for bringing us here.

5th Cache! Found with the help of Hamais =D nice walk on a gorgeous day =D Left our lorikeet to go for a fly around and helped an army man to another cache =D

Found this one just before dark - Nice spot! Came back the next day with Dana-Paul, second stop.

This entry was edited by Hamais on Friday, 14 October 2011 at 08:00:08 UTC.

We parked a bit a way and enjoyed a pleasant walk through this very neat area.
Thanks for the cache.

Left Lucky bottle cap and GC

I even like the imitation type. Sometimes I reckon it tastes better than the real type. Clear skies from TeamAstro.

Canadia. The country that Canadians come from.

The first ever International Geocaching Day is today. We went outside and geocached! Thanks for the find, we will receive the International Geocaching Day souvenir. Cheers TFTC

# 2301 @ 19:25 26/28 on the Ballarat run TNLNSL

I must be getting tired as I seemed to have missed it on the first go around.

Thanks highrod.

tigersden was the first to spot this one, so we waited for smegheads to find it before retrieving the cache and signing the log.
TNLNSL TFTC

Found it, didnt have my caching eyes on at first, discovered that this is the local dog poop area as well.

This entry was edited by Smegheads on Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 06:26:49 UTC.

Found it eventually after a bit of wandering around- but at least the walk warmed me up! Not really in what I would call plain sight though lol!
TFTC!

Took 2 goes to find. Can't belive we didn't find it first time. Godd stash of trinkets. Removed dice and put in Mercedes badge and batman lollie

no where to park. But was found easily once we walked to it. Thanks

Found this one on our Ballarat three day caching blitz with Purpledreamer.
Nice quick find with no muggles about today.
Many thanks for the cache.

Found while in the area with Lostmonster&Co on a blitz of Ballarat area.Found this one late at night.Had wondered about how this cache had got its name but as soon as we pulled up it was worked out straight away.Nice quick find.
TFTC Highrod

Tftc, done as team with packafattys, had to wait a bit, lots of muggle traffic

Tftc, done as team with robeert

A quick find. I did wonder what the cache name meant, Thanks

Any cache that references delicious Canadian bacon, pancakes and maple syrup is well worth it in my opinion. Easy find that got my mouth watering. Only problem - where the hell do you park your car round there?

Sweet, we found it! Made the find at 1620 on a "circumnavigation" of the lake. Took nothing and left a ladybug. Thanks highrod for showing us an impressive new estate in the city and a great place for a walk.

Easy find today. Cache was spotted whilst walking to GZ. I hope it doesn't get muggled.
TFTC

Our 500th cache!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was fitting for us as it was one of the first caches we looked for when we started and it was missing then.
Thanks for reactivating this one.
TNLN

Was a loverly day and a awsome spot, TFTC,
And this was our friends 500 th cache, well done

Yay FTF lol! All shiny and new. TFTC

This one's been on our list for a while now, and we ended up getting a FTF Great area for a cache.
Congratulations highrod on your 1000's find and for this cache.

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 35.294 E 143° 52.242

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 35.277 E 143° 52.241

Distance from original: 103.4 feet or 31.5 meters.

new location close by.

On the eve of our 1000 find we have resurrected our first hide and hope that you enjoy it, minus the prickles in the new location.

New container with new coords in same area, in less prickly position.

O Canada!
...
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Just checking if this one coming back or gone for good?

13/02/2010 13:14 DNF
We came, we saw, we failed.
Looks like the cache has gone missing.
I must remove TD caches from GSAK more often

Found the log book.
now in possession of smegheads

sorry folks new container and log are in the pipeworks

Found it!
Tftc

Please replace cache and/or find a new hiding spot.
Log is exposed. Seems a shame to have the logbook like this.

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

This was an interesting find.
Searching around the area for quite some time.
Just about to give up when bf exclaims that he has found the log! Yeah, just the log! I had another bit of a look around and I found a yellow plastic comb, probably one of the swaps.
Put my mark in the log, unfortunately I didn't have any ziplock bags with me to protect it a bit more from the weather and replaced it where bf had found it.
I however would suggest that this either needs a new cache, and possibly a new hiding spot.
Thanks Highrod for the cache.

Had a quick look for this one before joining the owner and other fellow cachers at the Ballarat dinner.
After reading the previous log, it was easy to give up quickly as there was a couple of frothies to be had, and new friends to meet.
Will have to have another crack at this at a later date.
Beautiful spot to live, some of these new subdivisions really get things right.
Thanks anyway Highrod, for the cache, and the evening that ensued

Looked for ages, no luck, not sure where it is...

An impressive lake and an impressive effort by Mr Cheesy Pigs finding the log book AND the cache container
Thanks Highrod

Initially I found the log book which was wet and filled that in. As I was replacing the book in the hiding spot I then found the cache itself behind the wet log book. Thanks for the cache.

No cache but the log book was found and signed. Still where the previous cachers left it.

we found this cache

its been muggled as in the previous letter

Sorry for this

Marshall's Geelong found this cache today with Cheryl,
On our Trip in Ballarat.

we found this cache muggled!!!
logbook was found on the ground weput it in a bag and put it under a rock in the ferns ( we think this is its orignal spot)

TFTC

muggled?

Found the cache today with beanie at 12.30pm Had a little trouble locating as the gps had us about 8 metres from the gz TNLN

Thanks Highrod for the cache

Thank you. Quick easy find.

An easy find today. This is the longest I've ever taken to travel from Buninyoong to Ballarat but I'm seeing parts of Ballarat I'd never been to. Nice to see a lake with water. NINO SL TFTC

Good name. Must update my maps, they didn't have this road shown so I ended up walking a bit further than necessary.
TFTC

RedPaw64 found this cache at 1055. Great area
TFTC NINO SL
Happy Caching

Didn't realize this one was so close to K and R. Found it without any problems. Took: Travel Bug
Left: Subway arm band.

nice and easy

Sweet!! Cache no 28 for our ballarat cvgt3 mission, this one was nice and quick. Found at 1109hrs Left some simpsons stickers.. Sorry for the delay logging too my laptop is finally normal again, yay!

16.15
Into the precincts of Canada and it's traditional syrup, this was to be the last for the day.
What a day it had been - very low temperatures, freezing wind and showers. Is this what Ballarat is renowned for?
On the up side - during the day, we enjoyed the fabulous company of many like minded people Squalid, BackPAQers, The Morris, WazzaAndWenches & Metamorphic Mac.
TNLN .. SL .. Thanks for the hunt

This was a rather nice area and we liked the wetlands. The cache was found in the company of Phetlern, but we didn't linger because of the cold. Left Cheese Please TB - if there's any cheese here it will be frozen!

Cache no. 24 of 34 on our way to NZ.
Thanks

Found with Mogni on the way to New Zealand's South Island for a week of touring and caching.
A nice and easy find.... especially as the cache was out in the open. We hid it as best we could as close to what we believed GZ to be.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
BB

Nice hide.

Thank you

Found while on a caching road trip with Konie and The Wonderstuff. Yumm pancakes, whens lunch! TFTC.

Found with Kiwi Explorer and The Wonderstuff from NZ on our Victoria and South Australia caching adventure.

TFTC

VENI VIDI VICI

tftc

Found with Polishmaniac and Snakecatcher
Not shore what was up with this one.
We found it with the lid off and out in the open and it was not the first time today we found a cache in this manner.In both exposed caches the last group of cachers that signed it were the same. Please remember to place caches back as you found them, so everyone else can enjoy them. we were very surprised these two caches hadn't been muggled.
TFTC

Found @ 1.50 pm with Geewok and PolishManiac on a very HOT day of Caching. Man it was getting VEEERRRRYYYYYY Hot now. When we found the cache it was out in the open with the lid off and was sitting under the cache container. Argee with what Geewok said, please make sure that you place the way that you found it, try not to got complaisant, as it could lead to the cache being Muggled.
TFTC NINO

found with Saraci.Jaee, Indiana08 and PacketStorm4

i got splinters from this one :S. had heaps of fun here with the crew.Found with Indiana08, RHPS and PacketStorm4.
TFTC

Found this one with a bottle of REAL maple syrup, still in the back of the car from our breakfast on our overnight Ballarat caching trip.
TFTC

Said bottle of Maple syrup attached!
Bit prickly!
Running up and down the tunnels was great fun!
TFTC

found this cache on ballarat cup day, wet and raining as usual. took tree and left lisa simpson. SL TFTC

Strangely enough, when we approached GZ we found the cache in a similar condition to the last finder - open and scattered on the ground. We collected it all together and rehid it. Hopefully it will last a bit longer this time.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found @ 1:11:48 PM (Cachemate time)

Found easily, especially as the cache was in the open with the lid off.

The contents are dry and there doesn't appear to be anything important missing. When replacing it, we guessed at the location, but true Geocachers won't have any problem locating it.

T: N
L: Screwdriver
SL
TFTC
21/09/08

Fourth DNF for the day out of 31 searches. Had a good look around GZ but as it was dark and the road was still quite busy, we thought the torches in the bushes may be a give away!

9=spongeboy 11=Geewok 6=Gingerninja=) 1=Geowife
4=DNF
TFTC

did not find with geewok and ginger ninja

Visited at 16:26
Nice cache, just don't miss the turn off like we did.
Note to self: Don't get distracted while navigating, it tends to upset the driver. Ah, isn't caching fun.
Had to empty the water out of the cache when we opened it, glad it wasn't maple syrup!
TNLNSL TFTC, find #338 for Echo & Spice.

Nice easy find. Contents of container a bit damp. TNLNSL.

The gps spot on today and I rediscovered this nice spot that's changed heaps since I was here last. Took car left clock

Took rubber ball and left a clock.

Found this one at 6.35pm. No one else was around which made it much easier.
TFTC
2kool4skool

Found at 13:05 on a cool brisk day which made it muggle free. Cute hiding spot. Took dog and left pink ball. TFTC

This was unfinished business for us as we had had a DNF last time we were here. Better set of satellites had us in the right spot and it was an easy find. Exchanges made. TFTC

YAY! third time lucky!
Found on an evening walk accompanied by Highrod himself.

We found it! Quiet afternoon and a lovely location.
Took: golf ball Left: dog. TFTC