LOTR: The Shire Dorset Vale, South Australia, Australia
By Frozen Feet on 29-Apr-07. Waypoint GC12E7D

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Tchingal

Despite both of us searching for a time, no joy. A check by the CO is certainly required ASAP.

This cache appears to be missing. A check by the CO is certsinly required.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

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This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

No luck. has not been found for a long time. CO check needed I think

Much hunting at GZ and much blood loss from thorns. Nothing located!

The location has been overgrown by thorny plants in the last few months, which makes finding the cache almost impossible.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Very over grown

After we finished work for the day we decided to cache the area for a while and ended up with 19 finds for the afternoon. TFTC

After DNFing this one in my early caching days, I returned today and made a quick and easy find. Isn't it funny how a few thousand finds can make a difference in how and where you look. TFTC. 22/10/16, 1:34 pm Find #2965.

came out to cache scott creek national park but due to rain and blowing a hiking boot changed plans to park and grabs

A warm and sunny day ment that i had some time to clean up some caches around the Scott Creek and Bradbury area. Some of my parking spotsd might have been a little sketchy, safe though, but I was able to find and sign pretty quickely and I was on my way.
tftc

Found by The Boofs TFTC .

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Good camo...great size container...took bracelet for my grand daughter & left a bracelet...TFTC Frozen Feet

pulled up down the road and took a short stroll to gz
being careful not to slip as it was muddy under foot.
left TB, took TB.
tftc!!

Really cool box in the brambles.

We left a chicken trackable in the cache!

Pretty easy but there where prickles.

What a lovely scene

Lovely place the shire. A small but beautiful and fertile land.
Much like this.
TFTC Frozen Feet

TFTC

Found it as soon as geomum heard the clues she was on the case

It is still there. very close to coordinates
great box and log book a real treat to find one going back to 2007
many thanks Frozen Feet

Found bark and some holes, but no container. Not too many spots to hide something that size at those coordinates. Looks like area has recently been mowed and cleared. May need a check by the CO.

TFTC. Always great to find a larger cache. A nice hide!

It's as good a Shire as you will get in SA. Wet at the moment. TFTC

Been torn to shreds today trying to find caches.. love the log book

Kids said this is the coolest one ever.

Out driving in the hills today with a dual mission, firstly to finish off the LOTR traditionals and then to push back my unfound traditional circle a little bit. And anything else that seems like a good idea.
First for the day and a quick, almost prick free, find when the GPSr eventually settled.
Thanks for the cache Frozen Feet

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc

Grass too long and didn't want to get scratched

Found it along with 2 tour down under water bottles. Winner TFTC

Pretty easy first 1 found!

Nice easy find, not as prickly as I was expecting, cace was open and not covered. Took angel mouse and left two gypsum crystals. Made sure it was closed and covered before leaving. TFTC

Found while out geocaching with vj187 and GeoPa after kindergarten. GeoPa was able to get it out of the brambles so we could look at the treasure in it. TFTC

Found with SuperViolet. There was no sign of the TB. The Cache was well hidden by the brambles and it was good to find a large container with some swaps inside. TFTC

Love the container

Hello. Would the next cacher please check the cache for my trackable (Cousin Warz: Jade)
It is small One Direction charm and could possible be missed in a big box. There's been no action since early March
Thanks so much.

Geotrails going every which way here! Another find by our 3yo geodaughter (she found 4 of our 5 today!) so she was pretty happy with herself. We love the logbook! Spent ages trying to decide what swap she wanted to make and when we finally got out of there it was dark. Mob of roos hopping across the road on our way back home which you never tire of seeing. Rabbits galore and plenty of fog coming in. Made the experience of this cache all the more pleasant. Thanks for a wonderful hide!

How apt to find an ammo box on Anzac Day

Found it

Vistra and I have visted SA from New Zealand for the SA Mega. We have spent 10 days grabbing as many caches as we could. Today is our last day, and we wanted to grab a few more, particularly the LOTR series, Quick find at GZ. TFTC

I am over from Middle Earth (New Zealand) for Oz Mega 2014 and joined forces with Yorkshirekiwi83 to knock off a few caches before we flew back to NZ this afternoon. Being a LOTR fan, this series caught my eye so decided to spend the morning touring around the countryside and finding these caches! Soon found the cache, but didn't particularly enjoy retrieving it from the middle of the blackberry bush! A nice outlook none the less! Thanks for the cache!

Also had a LOTR geocoin on me to visit the cache.

Nearby from relly bash. Getting away from the kids! Thanks

Today was an exciting day, my first trip in Harry with Locuscache and super dog Brodie. Locus and I headed off early and now we had JJ52 with us as well which meant I was now relegated to the back with the dog who managed to get most of the back seat most of the time.

A great find by locus who dived right into the brambles.

TFTC Team Wibble

Had spent the afternoon with Ismartis and locus cache at the Jupiter Creek Gold Diggings and were on our way home. The rain had held off until now, but we had to stop for this Wibble cache.
Everything was wet and we were all looking in different areas when locus exclaimed that she had found a cache. It was retrieved and we quickly signed the log and replaced it so we could get back to the car without getting too wet.
Thanks for the cache Team Wibble.

Ismartis and JJ52 wanted a day out caching, in Harry and accompanied by Brodie, and today was that day! Ismartis and I locus cache'd a few on our way to get JJ52 and then we all spent the afternoon caching together
2 DNF's for the day and 32 smileys including a kayak FTF and a great goldfields walk, too! [^]

Drizzling rain, perfect for The Shire.
A quick find luckily as I really didn't want to have to get into that!
A few still grabbed me on my way out though and reminded me later of The Shire

It is only now, as I log, that I have looked at the hint and realised that where I found the cache didn't quite match so I suspoect that it has been moved a little bit.

TNLN. SL. TFTC Team Wibble

Ouch, eee, owwww!!! Multiple stab wounds in fingers...briars growing very well! I was here last night for eldest geokids soccer training, it's nice now, but pretty Dreich in winter. Good cache, dropped in one direction TB which is in a race...thanks

Dnf

A quick find while waiting for soccer. GeoDan's observational powers were on form again although GeoYve was there at the same time!

Quick find on the way home from Soccer.TFTC.

Found It!
Dogged the prickles and found the ammo can. Signed the log quickly then got back in the car before I got any wetter....
TFTC

Found @ 11-15am with Poppadon. Ezi find, scratchy retrieval. TFTC

Found at 11:15 Am with XBRmob. Easily located but retrieval is a bit 'scratchy'.
TNLN
TFTC

Nice spot, very rustic, but didnt feel up to tangling with the brambles with a strong possibility in this hot weather of disturbing a snake. We'll try again when it gets a bit cooler.

Another day...another cache amongst the thorns. Hugh water shoots barred my entry. I ducked under to get the cache and sign the log. Stood up too quick and impaled my head on the thorns. So there was blood...as usual. I was was watched by muggles across the road the whole time! Lucky for me they don't speak English. . ...Just Roo. Kanga Roo! Thanks team Wibble.

TB Visit, TMJ

Went for the quiet drive after a noisy morning of maintenance work at Warrawong.
Not been to Bradbury before, so was rather curious as to where the hunt would take me.
The road was deserted, but could hear some hobbit like voices from a nearby cottage.
Found the loot in the second hole I looked at.
Lovely view, wish I had bought my camera.
Cheers team wimble for the drive & the view.

"One does not simply find this cache" Well hidden but worth looking! even if i had to shed blood to uncover it, those brambles are tough!

This was an exciting find, love the big caches. Swapped a few things! we even saw a Hobbit lose his load of straw of the back of his tractor. A fun cache and a great spot, TFTC

Found quickly as the rain was on its way, providing a lot of motivation! Certainly the largest cache I've ever found, these old cans are less common these days it would seem. TFTC Team Wibble!

A nice quick find in an area we used to drive through regularly once upon a time. As for the LOTR series, it's been nearly five years since our only other find in this series. I doubt we still have the clue that we would have discovered at The Dead Marshes, but we recorded the data for this clue anyway.

Thanks Team Wibble.

Pew pew pew

Found it on our Easter Sunday caching day. Not to hard, just felt rather conspicous. Geo-son loved the container. Thanks for the cache

tftc

I was at the wrong end of the hedge. Funnily enough, there was no cache there. But there was a big one down the way a bit. TFTC

It's amazing how you can just relate a title from a book/movie to a place. This fits just perfectly!

After getting some work done in the garden, and enjoying a nice lunch it was decided that the afternoon would be spent making our way through the hills. With no particular direction or destination in mind we ended up here. A lovely afternoon exploring parts of the hills that we hadn't been to before. We will be back now though!

Took us a while to find, but after M had given up A made the find. Pity all caches aren't this big.

TNLNSL

A quick find with the Shire looking very green an lush in the back ground.
L - The Good Luck TB
Thanks for the cache!

Found this with my old man (task_master) last year, but though I should come back and sign the book. TFTC

I wish I'd had a camera with me!! The willow pictured in The Tardis Trio's log has gone a golden/yellow colour and is very spectacular and "shire-like". A few quick finds late in the afternoon and this was by far the easiest!! The great big ammo box was sitting in the open ..... very exposed. After signing the log I re hid it in its obvious hidey hole. Thanks TeamWibble for a lovely spot to stop and soak in the view!!

Very Shire like location, particularly late in the day. Fair bit of vehicular traffic though so took to becoming "short" in the long grass as it passed.
TN LN SL TFTC

Yes i can imagine the hobbits working in the fields in the bad books with the Geo wife left her in the car with the 4 Geo kids they lost the plot got cabin fever.Took red fluff ball meant to leave crazy critter SL TFTC went home woops crazy critter still in pocket went back at dusk and Left Crazy Critter TFTC.

Wow, what a great cache, I love the smell of ammo box in the daytime. Found this one while on a lunch break. I don't think the Shire has never been this green in March before (see photo).

There is a muggle log in the book for January where the Mylor CFS cadets had found the cache and logged their find.

Day 237 of non-stop caching.

easy find. LNTN TFTC

Ah, third out of the series. And we reckon we can now work out where to find the one to control them all. Not really green enough at this time of year for a good comparison to the Shire. TFTC Wibbles.

Mummy found this one while Daddy and I stayed in the car. When I'm old enough, I hope to watch these movies and maybe even read the books, too! TFTC Team Wibble.

Easy find in the long grass. Took Camping in Victoria book. Left bracelet.

Didnt get any scatches from the brambles..Yah!!
Gps took us straight there didnt have to search much!!
Took HueyDueyLuey toy left Treasure Chest

The Shire is a long long way from Malcoville. Cut lunch and a water bottle journey. But my trip was planned to perfection. And I parked the car and walked the last 90 metres to find the treasured ring.

Signed log. TFTC Team Wibble. One step closer to Mount Doom...

This one took a while to find and a few scratches too!
Nearly given up and there it was.
Retrieval was slow but it was worth it in the end.
Took key, left army dude.

I found myself passing this way after getting a FTF on a new cache nearby and thought that it would be worth while grabbing a second find for the day.

Cache was easily located and my feet didn't get too wet approaching GZ. What a day to visit a LOTR cache, it was misty with rain coming down steadily, if there were any little people around I would not have seen them.

Thanks Team Wibble.

A very middle earthly day today with mist on the Tiers and rolling green hills as I set out for my second act of vengance for the fallen Riders of Rohan. All the little people were away on holidays, or perhaps something more sinister had scared them off?

Found together with junior member of the team

TFTC. GPS took us straight to the cache, though it wasn't where we expected it.

My second for the day. A drive by among blackberries. Took 36'ers keyring and left a "mouse angel". Tftc.

Found it good cache.T.N.L.N.S.L.

T.F.T.C

Easy drive by.

A bit pointy in spots though...

Left a keyring and took a tag.

TFTC

Nice bike ride from Mylor thanks team wibble

Got sucked in by what I thought was a Geo trail and a likely spot for the cache. Not to be. If in doubt look at the GPS. It was then an easy find. TFTC.

Nice and quiet in The Shire today - all the hobbits must be off at an eleventy first birthday or something. Probably a good thing, as they don't seem to take kindly to visiting dragons. Of course I ignored the GPS and decided to check under that tree with all the rose thorns first.. ouch. Then I looked where the GPS was actually pointing, and found a nice big solid cache container .

Took nothing, left a pathtag
Thanks Wibbles!

A fun one! Very easy. Great cache.

Had a great drive through the hills to get this and Fangorn Forest. Started off going much deeper into the thorns than I needed to before I read the note properly [B)].
Thanks Team Wibble

Easy find as I drove by. T TB TFTC

Loved the log book on this one!! What a great cache. Loved it. Thanks.

I'll never forget this one! It was pelting with rain as I searched. Beagle was in the car shaking with fear due to the thunder and lightening. I decided to look in the hardest place first and got entangled. It made it a real adventure. Thanks for the experience. Cache is perfectly dry inside. Swapped a cricket card for a soldier. Grabbed the Aussie Thong TB.

I had this one on the list for today but I was heading toward Earth and had planned to do this one on the way home. I thought the TomTom would take me a different way.

As we approached Joanna said "Cache nearby dude". I quickly checked and found that I was 10m from this one.

Got a few scratches before spotting it.

TNLNSL

TFTC