A Bridge Too Far Mawson, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By endian on 20-Feb-07. Waypoint GC10ZN9

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Out of Canberra for the month of July, will fix when I return.

Checked today in order to drop off log--site has been painted to remove graffiti, cache disturbance probably caused by painters and prior inspection. Log still in my possession

Found first part on second try--no sun in eyes today, but the main cache needs attention--is missing -I found notebook in drain but no sign of cache itself. Have possession of notebook in close proximity to GZ. Endian if you message me we could arrange a meet for handover.

My first cache ever!!
Thanks to Pollywogs for helping me find it and for getting me hooked on caching.
Took usedom geocoin - no sign of another coin.
Left key ring.
TFTC

Found at 11pm. With geovirgins "little baby ones". Almost muggled.

TB passing through.

Woolshed creek is getting a bit of a workout. In terms of cache no.s that is.
Btw the flow monitor at the first point is interesting. Thanx for the find.

Dropped off a coin and took the MTB path tag.

A nice quick multi close to home. TFTC.

Stopped by for maintenance...everything seems to be in place.

Dropped off some pathtags for trade.

Didn't see listed geocoin...

Parked as close as I could and quickly located the cache! Busy stretch of road here, but fortunately the agro drivers were too busy being agro to notice me.....

TFTC!

Just remembered there being something here a took a shot with nothing other than a memory and did this in minutes. A fun one for the Geokids.

Yep - fairly easy. Tagged along with Domin8r after the Bridge Banter Series. He remembered there was another bridge around here somewhere so we took a punt. What do you know - found it!

Found after dinner. It was getting dark so no muggles

We thought this might be difficult particularly at night but an easy find and pleasant walk with few muggles. Wondered at first but now I understand! TFTC

We searched high and low, the whole vandamily was looking for 40 minutes in the hot sun... We'll be back with our secret weapon (the wife) one day! That makes 2/2 no-finds for 2day

Easily found first cache which headed us off to the next one. Mc Kenna found the next one and we all signed the log and left.

I had a lovely day out with Gwennie, Magpyre, Budgie we forraged here and there on the south and turned up quite a few caches for the day.

MC KENNA
TFTC

#170

Loved the walk. Left a travel bug in the cache.

Thanks,
Gwen

I never did work out how to get from the decoy to the target, but ages and ages ago I was told to try somewhere other than the initial co-ords. Today I found it in the first spot. Thanks.

1820.1 TNLN.
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Brail A#117

Albida

Found it today on a bike ride to Tuggeranong

TNLN TFTC

John & Kate

Monopoly Geocoin dropped off, ie, returned to home base as requested.

Ah, cache IS still there, just a different spot. Will drop off the Monopoly Geocoin soon.

Hooray. Took a while to find WP1 and I already had my suspicions where GZ would be and I was right.

Hot day today phew!!!

#219

2nd lunchtime find. Must have been following TraineeDiplomat around, as also found Holden FB after him (her?)

Interesting twist on a multi...TFTC

#1 of 5 for this afternoon with Wilga, and a clever hide at that. Well done. We enjoyed it a lot.

TNLN, TFTC.

A relatively easy find with nathanr.au and geobaby - a clever take on a multi cache - TFTC

Its great to see this one back on-line. I had made a previous attempt but couldnt find the 1st WP. Ever since, its been disabled when Ive been in the area. Finally found it today though. GZ does indeed seem to be popular with the 'yoofs'. Hopefully they wont notice the cache lurking in its home.

Thanks Endian for the cache a a couple of GC finds today.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Nice quick find this evening accompanied by Big Matt. Took GC LNSL and TFTC.

#357 - I was very pleased to see this one reappear on the radar. Thanks for replacing it. We were delayed slightly by the decoy, but soon had the cache in hand. Interesting twist to a multi.
T: Blarney Coin. ..

Found with AusCan just as the rain started to bucket down.

Saw this one re-appear so thought a good idea to grab it sooner rather than later. Enjoyed the walk/run from car to GZ and return. Nicely put together. Certainly throws up some ideas for later on.............

Only discovered the coins, left to entice others to the area.

Thanks - for a cache with a difference.

Cheers,

690 - Continued caching after lunch as I had some spare time.

It was good to see this one back on line. At the start I located the new instructions and it was a simple walk down to collect the cache. Watch out for the large nail just near the cache container.

TNLN – Discovered some nice Coins – TFTC !!

Cheers….

After way to long a time I've finally managed to reinstate this cache. I've moved away from the "bleeding" edge cache containers - these didn't hold up to the elements.

Hopefully this cache will live a little longer, although judging from the grafitti at the final location, it would appear that this location is frequented by delinquents who have charmingly renamed the bridge "bong bridge".

Have left a few geocoins as an incentive to lure cachers back to this one.

In preparation of reactivating this cache, intend on leaving several geocoins....

Back up and running...

Apologies for being so slack in repairing this. Should get this back in action over the next few weeks.

A bridge too far to repair? Is it coming back?

Five months, any advance?

Disabled for maintenance. Log shows signs of water damage.

I found this a few months ago. I was convinced I had logged it, but when looking at the caches near by house this one is still coming up unfound!

This is on my way to work, so I had a few abortive missions where I didn't really have time to look properly. I finally got the courage to roll out on a sunday afternoon this rusty pushbike that a friend had abandoned at my place a few years ago and take it out for a spin.
I found the cache easily, but as the bike was so squeaky I'm convinced that it would've been easier to walk.

Found with Tramper Ted and an orienteering friend. It took the three of us quite a while to find WP1, and then we were away. A well thought out exercise, we enjoyed the challenge, thanks. The log book was rather damp.

A clever hide - very nicely done. TFTC

How long can you stare at a cache and not see it? Forever it seemed. Great hide. Thanks for the fun.

Second on my big planned Wednesday night. Found at 18:15 - very good container, looks like it belongs. But caught my eye.

L - Sticker
T - Nothing.

TFTC

Couldnt find WP1 so deduced where the ultimate prize was and found that with a bit of looking.

TFTC, it was fun.

L - dinosaur
T - Gold USA GC coin

Good one! Took awhile at WP 1 then thought horizontally, bingo! Thanks for the cache, Excellent container. ZZ7.

Checking that everything is OK

Scrabbled around for quite a while. Found the decoy but not the first waypoint.

Stumbled onto the second location through a little detective work.

Learned about the term "muggles" when some people walked by.

Took nothing, left Geocoin Club Geocoin and Hoepkens Gold.

Thanks
Co||ective

Had trouble finding wpt 1 so took a guess at where final location would be, and within 5 seconds found the cache.

Luckily the bridge wasn't too far for us,
Thanks endian

This one was great, very clever method of hiding! TFTC! LivandMez!
T: Keyring
L: Shell

Did this one with SW2092. The first WP had us searching for a while until, bingo found it.. this is also a very neat hide.. Off to the final location and logged the visit.

Found at 21:10 with leechie, the first of our joint finds for the evening. WP1 found me in a right mess crawling through who-knows-what to find the container - all I know is that 10 minutes later, I was feeling itchy. Leechie attacked it from a different angle and found success. Then it was off to the far easier final cache.

A cache that was lots of fun to do in the night - thanks endian !

T: 'Race to GC10NQT, Pelham, AL 3/3' TB in anticipation of an interstate trip.
L: Nothing

Great cache, loved the hide. Few muggles about but don't think Wasptor and I were spotted. TFTC

WP1 had us looking for a while. In the end the baby was handballed to Mrs Wasptor while I decided to climb around a bit more aggressively. We then found the decoy, and a minute later had the real one in hand. A neat hide at GZ was appreciated.
L - Race to GC10NQT, Pelham, AL 3/3 Travel Bug. (that was a mouthful)

Shell and I really enjoyed this teaser of a cache. Found each WP quickly but very well put together. While your at the GZ watch out for crazy people on mini bikes that come from out of nowhere!

Thanks endian for the great cache.

TNLNSL

Rated: for Overall Experience

Awww, man! I saw this one had been re-enabled yesterday and had to be down that part of the world again this morning, so I figured I'd swing by and have another crack at it.

Found WP1 easily this time (it helps when you know what you're looking for), and it was off to the GZ.

Hunted around there for a while and was about to give up when I spotted the cache! I'd hunted there last time I went looking for this one and must have been within inches of it, but still didn't spot it.

T: TB
L: Keyring

TFTC!

Finally got around to completing maintenance on this. Replaced missing clue at initial waypoint and upgraded final cache container. Added TB for good measure.

Fifth of eight finds on my third night in Canberra. I actually found the first waypoint almost straight away, but when I opened it, it was empty. I thought I must've found a decoy. I looked further and found the another item, but it had a message that indicated that it was a decoy! Hmmmmm! I rang Tankengine, and he confirmed that the first one I found was the actual waypoint. I'm sorry to report that there is no information in the first waypoint. (I sent an email to endian when I got home.) I looked around the ground in case it had fallen out without my noticing it, but I could see nothing. Tankengine told me the location of the cache, but told me nothing more than that. I went to GZ, and found the cache at 2125 after a thorough search of the object. It's only a micro, so I made no exchange.

For the second time in two nights I got back to the car and discovered that I didn't have my GPSr with me. I went all the way back to GZ, hoping that the GPSr would still be there. It wasn't. Of course, I hadn't used it to get to GZ, so I went back to WP1, and sure enough, there it was. Thank goodness for that. I've really got to tie the thing to my person somehow so I can't leave it behind. Thanks to endian for the cache. Cheers, dak.

Needs some maintenance, will fix over the weekend.

Great multicache had us looking in many places and reading the notes from the trolls. Cache may need some maintenance as it is losing its marbles. Great stroll to finish the day before going to watch the rugby.

TFTC

Found @ 3:51pm with Shadow!, ninth of eleven caches attempted today.

Took a lunch break before starting this one.

All containers were found, each sneaky in their own right.

TNLN - TFTC!

One of 11 for the day out with allrounder while Fore! was inter-state. A lunch break before this helped the caching force as we found the waypoints (used the force today...)and then ploughed to GZ. Nice hide and nice work - gotta watch the muggles..!!!

TNLN STL TFTC Fun

I found the magnetic keykeeper at the start coords, but I couldn't figure out where to go next. I walked 250m to the next bridge and checked there but came up empty handed.

No idea what to do next.

found with Geostrom; unusual waypoint, but got the message;
only two muggles observed but they posed no problems.

Almost run over by 4 crazy bikers on the way to cache - no disrespect to mtbikeroz.

TFTC

Found the bridge easy enough. But it took me a while to find the waypoint. Then another few minutes to really find it. Then went to the final location and hunted around. I saw it and logged the cache. But muggles came along. One hung around for about 10 mins (two caches in a row could I not return the cache immediately). Fortunately I outwaited the muggle and had it back in place..

#138 @7:35am
*Overall Experience: 3*
Captain Tomato and I enjoyed this one - our first for the day together.
The logs talk about containers - plural. Nothing at WP1. However on cogitating the view, Captain Tomato convinced me to take a punt. It's too far, says me - let's drive a bit closer. Then we were "Du Faur" anyway.
The cache was very well concealed in plain view by its excellent blending into the environment.
Thanks Endian - much appreciated. TNLN.

[This entry was edited by SecretSquirrel-BJC on Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 2:50:27 AM.]

Rated: for Overall Experience

Not sure about the beginner multi-cache. Spent a while before giving up.

Found @ 7:35am with Secret Squirrel-BJC. Really enjoyed this one to start the day off on a good footing. Took some cryptic thinking to figure out the GZ but all worked out in the end. TNLN

Nice one, I loved the decoy gotcha but I'm begining to dislike the 'other' type. A shortish walk to the final GZ and there it is in plain view. Signed off as entry no8 on the list. The magnets are loose in the box, I have secured and replaced again as best as I was able, you might like to check it again soon and reattach the magnets.
TNLNSL TFTC TTFN

Well this one was fun, with some clever containers. As we searched for Pt2, Tealby A and B arrived with Biggles 303. Something of a team effort, with Winglen 1 and 2. Thanks for a great cache!

Very sneaky! Love it! – Even fell for the trap – Grrr. (But therefore found a coin – of sorts?) Not sure about the “beginner†level multi though! (Certainly it took me longer than expected). Love these containers! Seems an explosion of them around town at the moment! – No, not the final container – that was new, and also excellent! TNLNSL, thanks for a great cache endian!

Tried to do this one on Thurs but was put off by the decoy & the coin contained therein - I was sure that was designed to lead me to the GZ, but I ended up in the Melrose HS grounds, and I thought that was a really odd spot to put a cache, particularly when it turned out to be in the middle of the basketball court!! Anyway, after receiving confirmation from endian that the cache was definitely not at the HS I returned with family in tow & found the proper WP really quickly. Was also pleasantly surprised to meet up with the Winglen duo, so the find ended up as a joint effort. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

A nice easy find, went straight to GZ and had cache within a minute. Nice container. (Hey, I traverse these bridges twice a day and have done so for 20+years on my bike) Took Geocoin, signed log, then it was Coooeeeee off on the bike to find 5 more caches before work. Thanks for a cache with a well concealed hide.

hmm pipped by my neighbor.
Yes went early (not early enough it seems) with geo-daughter to drop off at school it turns out that was a good choice as she found micro at WP1.
Cool super micro, took longer than I thought as I was expecting something larger.
note a main bike path for Marist kids, daughter claim a pathway coin. Left Geocoin for another visitor to move.
Good local cache thanks and great containers
Thanks (again)

447. If you drink too much liquid (non-alcoholic) before going to bed you are bound to wake early. A quick trip to the computer and here's a new one nearby - should be a quick FTF. Wrong. Took me ages to locate the first WP. Thought I had found it earlier but no dice. Amazing that there are so many people around at this time of the morning. After finding what I needed, off to GZ (I hope) Located and retrieved (including FTF GC - thanks) quickly but had to wander around as the area became full of dogs and muggles. Replaced during a break.
TFTC and the lesson on containers.

[This entry was edited by McPhan on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 6:50:13 PM.]

Rated: for Overall Experience

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