Bridge of death (scene23) Mount Clear, Victoria, Australia
By highrod on 04-Feb-07. Waypoint GC10QYW

As there's been no cache to find or log to sign 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 near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

sorry folks the container has once again been muggled

Have been here ages ago with no luck and lots of muggles about. Stopped by again today while caching on this side of town. The cache was found quickly, but only the lid was there???? Checked the last logs, and it confirmed the same. Had bogonghazy with me, so we did a very thorough search of the area hoping to locate the bottom half of the cache, all to no avail. So I couldn't log it Thanks for the lid Highrod!!!

Found only the lid (Had Geocahce stickker inside it). Looks like spoilers have been at it.

Tried this one unsuccessfully a couple of weeks ago but an easy find today on my bike ride. TFTC.

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 it on a wet,cold night while in the area on 100 blitz with Lostmonster&Co.Interesting old bridge.
TFTC Highrod

Saw this cache had been relisted. Quite close to me so I went and grabbed it today. Nice quick find, TFTC Highrod

Cache replaced and back online.

Need to duck out and replace

Found the lid before we got to the bridge, someone has destroyed it

Had to spot it first before I was willing to put my hand anywhere. Kept thinking "please don't drop keys...". Another clean and shiny cache waiting to be found again. TFTC

Replaced with a new cache container, this time with a magnet, after the old one had been swept away in the flooded creek!

Sorry but cache container has floated away due to flash flooding

Suscoe arrived here at the Bridge of Death ready to deal with what ever confronted us but.......
The subsequent search revealed the cache but not before a rabbit caused a little concern.
TNLNSL
Thanks to highrod for this special cahce.

Quick Find on a day in the area caching with Dunko TFTC TNLN SL

Quick find after work on a road trip with Slink1 TFTC TNLN SL

This entry was edited by Dunko on Sunday, 21 November 2010 at 03:08:40.

found this one quickly a nice walk too

I've been following the Python mob since they were part of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" the cache was fun too! TN Left geonickel, SL TFTC!

Our first find on our geocycling day! Thanks.

Cache found and logged using GeoScout http://www.navstation.co.uk/geoscout

Well, the Holy Grail was reached after a few crosses of this Bridge of Death.
I was more worried about needing the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch if I came across a white rabbit.
I think this was in a little further than intended, but gentle manipulation enabled me to extract it.
My thanks to Highrod FTC, and the great theme behind it. TNLNSL

Nice and easy find, my girlfriend had to do the arm twisting and reaching to grab this after i spotted it from the other side of the creek, TNLN TFTC

Nice and easy find, my girlfriend had to do the arm twisting and reaching to grab this after i spotted it from the other side of the creek, TNLN TFTC

Awesome hide and good como. I am beginning to feel like a troll hanging around under bridges, hehe.

I was just wonder what is the difference between an african and european swallow. After looking it up there doesn't seem to be that much of a difference at all, they both are about the same size. Wether they are capable of carrying a coconut, I doubt it.

TNLNSL
TFTC

Find #250. We have been to the spot once before at night, and weren't able to locate the cache. Today was much easier in the daylight.
TNLN SL TFTC!

found on my 2nd attempt so well hidden no wonder i had trouble the first time TFTC

Found on second visit with my brother who lives about 100 metres away, and never knew it was there, or the answers to the questions either.

Found by The Empire @ 3pmish
23/32, after the 10 Years! Ballarat Event, with tackle_head, 3up, squalid and Bushfire. squalid spotted the cache and I grabbed it, thanks.
- M
P.S. How do know so much about swallows?

Before leaving Geelong to attend the10 Year! Ballarat, Australia Event I had a call from tackle_head asking me what I was doing and if I was coming up to Ballarat I could join their team of cachers consisting of 3up, The Empire and squalid.

After the Event it was off to find a few caches in Ballarat before heading back to Geelong. On approaching the great little bridge I had a quiet word to Monty who told me where to look and as I speak Parsiltongue the Python who lives under the bridge stayed there so it easy to wander over the bridge and back.

Thanks highrod for placing this cache and bringing us out here.

Find # 1162 @ 15:40 and the 21st of 30 finds on the cache run whilst attending the "Ballarat 10 Year! celebration event" with squalid, The Empire, tackle_head, and Bushfire.
Having failed the first question, I took my chances and commenced the search quest. Squalid did the grab and we made it out alive. TNLNSL Thanks highrod for the cache.

Found with 3up, Squalid, The Empire and Bushfire while in town for the Event Cache - 10 Years! Ballarat, Australia . On approaching GZ thinking that we were all gonna die , I did not let onto the others that I was scared - thanks highrod

Found today and no flesh wound in site. Thanks

Had a couple of goes at this ones- yep its well hidden, could have sworn I looked there!!!

TFTC!

Nerdy jokes aside, I'd tried to do this cache at night and failed miserably (torch died, mobile phone light too weak and almost falling in creek) but a return in daylight and the hint to crawl around the bridge, I found the cache soon enough and twisted my arm around just enough to grab it. Thanks for the challenge!

NONE SHALL PASS!
ummm Green!
Cache was a tad exposed, but we made sure there was some camo when we left.
TFTC

Gotta love Monty Python. Cache was well hidden

TFTC

Searched for over one hour but no luck. Maybe we answered one of the questions wrong [:o)]
But never the less it’s a nice area along the little river and we enjoyed the walk there anyway.

Greetings from Switzerland Smurfy_CH

Found @ 17:15

Took a while to find it.
Was where I thought it should be.

Lost of muggles today.

TFTC

[Found by Nalhcal 02/03/10 (My 50th Cache!)]

1- It is Arthur, King of the Britons.
2- To seek the Holy Grail.
3- What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

[TFTC]

Took a while to find, we nearly gave up, but a good cache noless. TFTC

Thanks highrod for this one, was really nice to meet you guys this morning. Geomum found this one while we were all looking in other areas. Nice area for a short walk. TNLN.

Found by by caughtatwork at 13:50 on 13/02/2010
Such A CUTE little bridge. I was expecting something a tad more menacing and fog bound, but this cute little guys wasn't going to intimidate us much.
As we approached scene 23 was played out between Jess and myself (both avid python fans). It would seem that we both knew the correct answers as both of us were permitted to cross the bridge.
Jess came up with the goods while I was on the other side.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks highrod for a fun experience at he Bridge of Death.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Took some friends out for a caching experience.. Think they're hooked. Thanks to Zack of Poole Party for finding this one!

Nice hiding spot under the bridge.
tricky to find

This was our second attempt at this cache. I should of learned!! Just bring a geo-kid with you, they always come in handy! Very clever hide. TFTC. [8d]

1: Following Waengongi's Trail.
2: To find a cache a day.
3: We estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity
of an unladen European Swallow
(Tests have not be undertaken on other species of swallow to date)
is roughly -
11 meters per second,or
24 miles an hour or
38.624256 kilometres an hour.
L: pirate coin
T: 15 tadpoles from the near empty creek
TFTC

Well Hidden and in between muggles out on there morning walk, we had the cache in hand. TFTH...SL...TNLN

found finally took 3 tries and we thought we were beaten... but sucess! think this needs to be more than one difficulty star...
Took: jumping bean
Left: furry animal thing

TFTC

Found at last. Our 4th attempt as we were passing through Ballarat on the way home from Beaufort caching. Today we were determined to find it. We clambored over and under until a chink in the armour was spotted. With Mr VP4's eyes guiding Mrs VP4's hands it was finally recovered. We had all but given up until a photo of the cache was observed in Snakecatchers log so we persisted and have finally been rewarded. Swapped a mighty-bean for a carabiner. SL TFTC

04-12 1st DNF of the day at 13:23
After reading the logs for this one we were up for the challenge, or so we thought...
(''\(OoO)/'') No luck today but we will be back...

Very clever find by Mr Cheesy Pigs.
It sure had me beat
Thanks for the cache highrod

This was a tricky hide, we both walked past it a few times before finding it. Thanks for the cache

Found the cache today at 1.15pm with beanie Reading the cache notes I was wondering whether we would make it across to the other side

Survived the crossing and located the cache Took a key ring and left a yowie.

Thanks highrod for the cache

Found it ok but retrieving it was a little challenging thank goodness for small skinny smallfry. what a muddy mess after this one don't think it was supposed to be quite so inaccessible didn't replace it in exactly same position a couple of cm easier. Hope that was ok. Couldn't get it back exactly.

The kids really enjoyed this one swinging along the bridge. Thankfully no one fell in! I did have to ask them 3 questions though

RedPaw64 found this cache at 1130. Great area. cache easily found.
TFTC NINO SL
Happy Caching

took a bit of perseverance, but got it

16.00
Given the name we approached this cache with some trepidation. After what seemed like ages of careful & thorough searching by Squalid and Phetlern, Mr P came up with the goods.
TNLN .. SL .. TFTH

We came to Ballarat for the ANZAC Day event. Found your cache with Phetlern and while the gatekeeper was not there in person, but we did our best to answer the relevant questions. Very funny. TFTC

Found today. Nice long walk (exhausted now).
T: old clip L: Left new shiny clip
TFTC! not thx for the walk

No dramas here.

Nice spot, thank you

Found while on a caching road trip with Konie and The Wonderstuff. Braved the bridge of death, twice! Not up on the MP's so this cache was a bit out of our depth. TFTC.

Found with Kiwi Explorer and The Wonderstuff from NZ on our Victoria and South Australia caching adventure. Enjoyed the walk to this one.

TFTC

Great afternoon for a walk. Got the iPhone App, so were set! TNLN, thanks for the cache - Daig and Muggle BidVal

.And Saint Catcher raised the GPS up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy GPS that with it Thou mayest blow Thine geocaches to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and once the cache be reached, then lobbest thou thy GPS of Antioch towards thy cache, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.

great cache good fun love it

TFTC.

Found @ 1.10pm with Geewok and PolishManiac on a very HOT day of Caching. The Knights of Nee had not stopped us, nor did Tim the entrantress, and we had no need for the Holly Handgranade of Antiock. But we did find the cache. Love the BRIDGE OF DEATH!!!
TFTC TNLN

Found with Polishmaniac and Snakecatcher
Had a bit of fun at this one quoting lines from the movie and jumping round like idiots.
TFTC
PS. W e will email you with the answers to cross the bridge but we want to know if it a a African or a English swallow.
:D:D:D:D:D
Now come Patsy.

[This entry was edited by Geewok on Sunday, February 08, 2009 at 1:49:55 AM.]

I'm pleased to report we survived the Bridge of Death and also managed to find the cache without to much trouble. TNLNSL. Thanks!

Found JACCK66 ( 22 )
My quest is to find a cache , the air speed all depends if it's an African or European swallow. Would rather shruberie. Thanks for the challenge but mozzies are bad at dusk.

Aaarrrggghhh....a dnf....
Only dnf for the day. Well, just have to try again another day.

Found in 20 seconds for it was easy to predict which end and I lucked in on picking the correct side to search first. I think I am getting used to bridge caches now. TNLN T4TC.

Robmc, To find the hidden cache, African or....
Err,, what were the other two?
Didn't need to see the other side, the cache was already in hand.
Thanks, Robmc.

I didn't find this one when I last looked about 8 months ago. This time I found it in the first minute or so. Such is caching.

We found our 5th Highrod cache at 8:50pm as the 28th of 29 on our Ballaratatattat Tour III. Not sure if this would have been easier at nigh or day but the lady who lived nearby where we parked possibly seemed a bit concerned by our presence. Thanks for the cache from D,H & A B-A.

More unfinished business from our last trip. GPSr still wanted us on the other side but it was much easier to spot this time. Exchanges made. TFTC

Found today by Mr Emu & Demon Boy @ 1.00 p.m., GAFF1 http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/GAFF . No. 8 of 25 on our "return to Ballarat" day, our biggest caching day so far.

We had unfinished business with this cache from almost a year ago, so it was very pleasing when Demon Boy spotted the cache within a minute or two of us arriving. It made us realise just how much our "geosense" had developed since we began caching early last year. Thanks for the challenge highrod.

Thanks for the cache. Took: Nil; Left: Nil

Finally found by McAdies!
We have been here a few times to look and the GPS has always been out by about 10 meters. Finally managed to find it in a spot we had checked each time before just caught a glimpse from a different vantage point.
Great to get this one done.
TNLN

We obviously approached the bridge of death from the wrong side as once we crossed it we could not find the cache. We then had a look where the gpsr was telling us to go, recrossed and quickly had it in hand.
TNLN
Thanks highrod for the cache

A bit more difficult than 1. Well done highrod. Great hide. Found at 1932hrs with family.

Found along with 4 Fun
Thanks highrod

20th find for day 2 of the Melbourne assault trip with Skippy and 50th of 173 all up!

Found at 12 noon.
Fortunately there were no Tims' around to hinder our search [^]
Cheers, TFTC.

A bit of a hunt for that one, but we found it.
1. rediguana
2. Cachalot
3. Is that ballistic or cruise??

Cheers Gav [1655]

I think the other Kiwis have done all the Python jokes. I think I had to remind them of the line at the time! TNLN, Thanks.

Took longer than it should have to find. There were a few python fans in our group. MAny thanks

4.37pm 1. the.pud 2. seeks more caches. 3. Ozzy or Kiwi??
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (898)

1. Tofska 2. Find more caches 3. Is that Kiwi or Australian!? [:o)]
Cheers - M@

Will always enjoy a pythonesque cache. Took a few minutes to find though.

TFTC

16:40 1. KiwiGary 2. Find more caches 3. Is that European or African?

This took a while, because everyone in the team had to remember a line from the movie. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Have Emailed ALR answers to cache owner.
This one took us longer than expected.
TFTC.

On the third attempt at this one, brought SexyShelly along for her first caching expedition. Geodog got wet and had to be tied to the Bridge of Death until I could find the cache.
Took: Marble.
Left: Koala.

TFTC!

Geodog and I crossed the bridge a number of times but were not able to find the cache. Strike two for the day!

We crossed the bridge , crossed back again and then identified the cache. email to the owner to follow. Left marbles. Took necklace. Tried to put in albatross, but it flew away before we could get the lid closed. TFTC and the monty python memories and madness. We quoted MP on and off all the way home to Adelaide. Included a stop at "blessed are the cheesemakers"cache in Millel near Mt Gambier.

Found with Cached on a long weekend run to Victoria - oh boy did we have fun doing this one – TFTC!

A nice little drive by. Thanks for the cache, enjoyed this more than you could imagine. Best cache of the night sofar.

Cached & Wackys

Quickly bagged this one at 6:15pm on a trip home from the shops.

The Geoteens went off on a quest seek the Holy Grail, but alas, were stopped by the Bridgekeeper. The Geoteens then proceeded around, under & over the bridge in search of the cache. It was quickly found and returned to the waiting Whitejaegar team.

Took: Nothing
Left: Bead Necklace and small rubber ball

Signed log.

Thanks for the cache Highrod...that's two of yours today!!!

You may pass again. Good luck once again with your quest.

Sorry all but this cache has been temporarily taken off the shelf as the prize has been stolen away.
Back soon

Hello, When I arrived at the Bridge of death there was cache related paperwork (Geocache Info and a finder's card)on the ground around the bridge. I couldn't find the cache but I believe it has been tampered with. Can you please check to see if it has been muggled. If the cache is still there I will have to change this to a Did not Find!

Found at 1400. Nice easy find.

TNLN. TFTC.

I found the cache at 14:05. A nice quick find was had and I decided not to cross the bridge but to run away runaway. Thanks highrod for the cache.