First Name Basis : Dean Dean, Victoria, Australia
By 2Dudez on 28-Feb-07. Waypoint GC114FX

We have decided to let this one go for now.
I pulled the cache out this afternoon.
Thanks to all who found it.
Version 2.0 will be re-incarnated in another part of town, but not sure when.
Cheers
2Dudez

Cache was half full of water so emptied out, contents mostly OK but logbook saturated and unusable. Container looks OK so might need a slight rethink/replace.

As Richary mentioned the cache is wet at the moment.
Taking offline until we fix it.

Easy find, though as I pulled up one of the locals obviously wondered why I had stopped there as she drove up, did a U turn and parked 50m behind me watching. So nonchalantly got out of the car and pretended I had just stopped for a smoke. That seemed to satisfy her and she moved on from when the cache was quickly found. Unfortunately it was half full of water and the logbook was unusable so just left a card instead. TNLNSL, thanks 2Dudez.

Thanks for letting us know Richary,
Will sort this one out in a couple of days

Found at 1540 by the Mudster clan + 1 on a trip to the nearby Tangled Maze. After the official approval from Mrs Mud we will now find the remaining 3 of the "First Name Basis" series on our next trip this way. Thanks for an enjoyable easy cache - particularly when dragging around two 7yo boys. Their interest quickly vapourises if the cache is not in hand within 30 seconds of leaving the car! Number 2 of 2 2Dudez caches for the day.
TN.
Left - 5 AAFES Pogs from Iraq.
TFTC!!! [^]

[This entry was edited by johnny_mud on Friday, August 08, 2008 at 4:13:07 AM.]

Today was the "Storm the Stockade" afternoon.
Found at 4.30pm, the second of this series for us.
find 7 of the day.
TFTC 2 Dudez.

T- lanyard, L - Mobile Phone Sharpener.

Found with Dazza1 as part of "Storm the Stockade" afternoon.
TFTC.

A nice quick grab. Took the toad and one resident earwig and left a key ring.

Found at 1445. Took a quick detour from Creswick on the way home to Wodonga to grab this one. The geowife and I spent the afternoon working our way around the The Tangled Maze. Suffice to say, the cache was a lot less challenging.

TNLN. TFTC.

Found a few days ago, but I have been too busy to log it. Don't you hate it when work gets in the way of your caching.
The container was a bit damp, but all contents are okay.
TNLN. TFTC

the last cache of 12 today while out touring around with Mrs acts2. Another one of the series done and a nice quick one at that, I almost left my gps behind as we got to the intersection I realized and we made a quick turn around to retrieve it.
My thanks to 2Dudez for the cache.

We had to deviate a little to go here in honour of our friend Dean. The farmer mowing the pddock behind the cache must have thought us a little strange. Tooka squishy lizaard who had suffered fropm teh water in the cache and wa svery soggy. Left dice which woudl not suffer form water damage. Dried the cache out as best we could.

Oops - missed a couple of logs from our recent trip to Victoria - TFT series of caches

Found 8.30am
A nice easy start to our trip to Ballarat, was a quick find and having dried the inside out a bit we signed the log and dropped it back in it's hiding spot.

Took Nothing
Left a "Keppere of Time" + 3D Stickers

TFTC 2Dudez

Found by edmil & maddie. We'd had enough of micros in Ballarat; no not really, we were actually heading for Daylesford for lunch and then to start on our way home. This one Just popped up on the radar and I had to do it, I say I because at this stage maddie was hungry and wanted her coffee - believe me not a good combination. Well I had my way and we grabbed the last cache of the weekend. Thank goodness it was a quick find. Thanks for the Cache, No swaps were made.

A very quick and easy find...we'll look for the rest in this series when we get a chance.
Took: A Tasco pin.
Left: A Slinky
Signed Log.

TFTC!!!

A quick one to start the day off in the Ballarat area. Was a fair bit of fog around this morning but turned out to be a very nice day.
Thanks indeed.

It is always good to start the day with an easy drive-by.
We were spending the day around Ballarat and this is where we started.
Thanks, Robmc.

Nice easy drive by, appreciated in the cold and rain! TNLN. Thanks.

Found it ok. However, container was very wet inside. Tried drying it out ...

[This entry was edited by r0bl on Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 7:49:02 PM.]

Hello Dean
Cache found OK a little damp, but the log book is dry
TFTC.

Thanks 2Dudez for another of your series of "First Name Basis" You brought me back very close to where I grew up. Left Tasco Pin took water boms. found at 3:20pm

I was keen to get out and find this one as Dean holds a special place in my heart. I have never been here before, but a few months back my sister sent me a photo that now serves as the back ground on my phone. It is my all time favourite piece of grafitti from one of my favourite Simpson's episodes. When I return home I shall upload it with this log.

Thanks,

R - B

Found with the Coffees

Found with the Coffees

We dropped in here to say a quick hello to Dean as we had missed out catching up with him at the cache event. The cache was located quickly even though it was dark and raining fairly heavily
Took fly
Left frog
Thanks 2Dudez four our first in this series

Found with Team Crackers,Mini Cacher1 and Mystery Inc. 777. Thanks 2Dudez for another driveby.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Got to know Dean in the rain" Clan.

The sun had set and it was getting dark. Did I have time? Of course, although it was nearly torch time. Managed to get here in time to see well and soon had the cache in its really neat hiding spot. Thanks 2Dudes for a great little series taking me to those little towns that we otherwise wouldn't go to let alone stop at. I really enjoyed these.

I have found this cache as part of JADE004, but have now created my own separate account (therefore I am not shown in the log book under this username).

Nice and easy. It was a race out of the car by two geokids to find it first. Took Lisa figurine and torch, left pack of cards and donkey kong. TFTC

Found by caughtatwork at 3:45
How cool is this location? I nearly drove over the cache.
Mrs. caughtatwork was quite impressed with the series so far as she's not keen on bush walking and too many caches take you too far down too many dirt roads, seemingly for the hell of it. These, she decided, were just her cup of tea.
GabGab took honors at this cache too.
Took donkey kong, left water balloons.
Thanks 2Dudez. I will need to get to the remainder of the series another day as we were going to run out of daylight.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

I found this one today before caughtatwork was even out of the car. Thank you 2Dudez for a nice simple cache for my short 6 year old legs.

Our second cache of the day, almost a drive by as we were on the way to clean up some of our nearby caches.

GeoMum got out of the car, with GeoTodd sleeping in the backseat. A quick sign in the windy conditions

TNLNSL
TFTC

CanClan

Found this one at the start of our easter holiday.
Thanks for a nice easy cache 2dudez. I think we have only 1 more to go in the series.
T- Soldier
L- Indian

An easy find today while caching in this area and beyond. My final in this entertaining sereis. TNLN

Found very quickly. Almost a drive-by cache - Our first of 2dudez "First Name Basis" series. T: Finger Light. L: Frosty Torchlight SL. TFTC 2dudez

With a bit of a tug.. Out it came and now we had found all 5 of the current 'First Name' series. Thanks 2dudez we have really enjoyed following theses around the local towns. T: bouncy ball; L: mobile phone screen cleaner. Also removed a leaking bottle of bubbles. TFTC!

Found at 12.15pm GAFF1. Thanks for the stop 2Dudez tn/ln.

So pleased there is a cache to break the journey from Bendigo. Located by the geogirls on a freezing and windy day. Took pig and left finger light. Tnx for the first 2Dudez of the day

Oops totally forgot to log this little gem on my way to catch up with Fozzy778.
I think I Left cat Took Pig
Cheers 2Dudez
Highrod

a every nice day i walked with my dog from Creswick to Dean in less then 2 hours and back home i about 2 and a 1/2 because my was very worn out. even thow he drank all my water.

Found 12:10, another easy find in this great series.

TNLN, thanks 2Dudez.

Found by Mary & David at 1105. Still no muggles about, and we loved the old shed at the corner. Took mondo doll, left cat. Also collected the 'La Tour Eiffel' TB. Our thanks once more to 2Dudez.

3rd find of the day at 12:18pm. Accompanied by Wheelchair Access as Navigator and scribe on our weekly caching expedition, this one was a bit far out on our last trip so we got it today, easy find. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx 2Dudes....

Found By Head Chef on his way to Ballarat for work today.

TNLN

Thanks 2Dudes for a great series

11th of 11 find on our weekend away.
Found @ 4.05pm. Find # 194.
This one popped up after we had left for our holiday in Ballarat, so Highrod mentioned it whilst we were out searching in the opposite direction. Decided to attempt this one whilst on our way home to Castlemaine.
An easy drive by. My wife spotted the hiding place from the car, and our no.1 son found it before me!!
What a way to end the weekend after coming home from a family reunion. 11 caches richer and having the time of our lives.
Thanks 2dudez, the last log from me for the next couple of weeks I'd guess.

Happened to be out this way. RoMax was too fast for the though.

Easy find. Left Eiffle Tower TB.


Thanks for some new hides 2 Dudez!

Found @ 19:15

Came home from work to find that this series of caches had just been approved, and not too far from home either. So off to try and get on first name terms with some caches before anyone else.

Drats, beaten by Romax. To add to the excitement we figured that if they were also on a First-Find hunt of their own, then they would do Gordon or Wallace next, so having just done those we raced on to meet Elaine. Then finally on the way to Meredith we rang them to see if we could catch up en route, only to discover that they were back home & just about to have tea.

T; N
L: Screwdriver.

6.45pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Having a small window of opportunity before our evening commitments we decided to search for the nearest in this series.
We exchanged a Mondo Figurine for a KitPop.
Thanks 2(3)dudez.
From Romax.

Published

We forgot to put the FTF certificate in the cache container.
Whoever is FTF, if you want, you can send us your details in an email and we can mail it out to you.