Plenty More Greensborough, Victoria, Australia
By laird_au on 08-Jul-07. Waypoint GC146ZV

No response from owner. 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 current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

With so many DNF's, cachers spending long amounts of time looking, and a request for 'needs maintenance' unanswered or actioned I believe this one needs to be archived or the owener to replace.

I had a quick look for this one, but there were an elderly couple standing at the top of the hill getting a bit sus on me, so i called it off. As it turns out, it looks like it's not there anyway. Thanks anyway laird_au

No luck with this one today.

Met up with coley_babee and Zippi_Russ in the CBD. We headed out to an area which we'd never cached before.
Attempted this one, but had no luck. Saw a potential hiding spot, but no one was home?
I notice several other DNF's on this cache already. Is it gone again??
Is the hint still valid?
Thanks anyways laird_au.

Took the kids on debut Geocaching expedition. Found 2/3, but not this one, despite searching for about an hour. According to the clue, we thought we found a spot it COULD have been hidden, but that looked disturbed and empty. So it might be worth a visit to see/confirm if this has been taken.

Slid up & down the slope but no luck on this one today

You just have to love school holidays. I’d taken a few days off to have the kids at home but they wanted to got to Footy Finals day at the holiday school program at a local school so I organised with a caching buddy, jsmyong55 to go out north and grab a few caches while the kids were being taken care of kicking the footy and eating hot dogs. So off we went and tried to nab as many as we could in the limited time we had. It was a relatively successful day with only 4 DNF but I’m sure they weren’t there. Anyway this is one of the caches we did not find. We spent about 40 minutes searching with iphones, androids and Garmins which all pointed to the same spot, but nothing revealed itself. The co-ords we suspect are not true to form given the tree cover. Oh well it has been found since it was replaced so we weren't good enough today. thanks laird au.

What Trailrunning and I thought would be an easy find in the end took 40 mins but still with no cache in hand. Look at almost all possible hiding spots but this still got us stumped. I wonder how hard can finding an uncamouflaged 400ml sistema be..

Albatross TB missing? A different TB taken by us, log book empty - were we the FTF at new co-ords? Very well hidden.

Haha, oops. Albatross TB isn't an albatross. XD

Saw this was back up so thought I'd take a look. GPS was all over the shop. Saw a bit of a geotrail and a possibly good spot but the cupboard was bare then I ran out of time. I'll come back another day.

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 42.796 E 145° 06.621

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 42.802 E 145° 06.588

Distance from original: 162.9 feet or 49.6 meters.

As the previous location was compromised, I have moved this around 30m away. The new location is less visible from the nearby houses but a bit more exposed from the track.

OK, hopefully this gets the cache up and running again.

The new cache is ready to go. It should be a little harder to find than previously.

I do plan on having this back up and running before the end of August. I have scouted the area for nearby new locations as I think the exact placement of the current cache is no longer suitable. Unfortunately I have been pretty busy lately and the weather has been unkind when I have been free.

This cache has had 6 consecutive DNF's over last 4 months. Consider it to be gone and needs to be archived.

Looks like this one has gone missing. Will plant a new container in the near vicinity when I get the chance (a couple of weeks).

7:15am
definitely time to check if this one is still there. I searched for a while but given the number of DNF's I wasn't going to waste too much time and the blackberries are slowly invading the area making searching a painful and damaging experience.


This entry was edited by MrMic on Sunday, 03 April 2011 at 04:52:44 UTC.

After arriving to a very crowded willanda park ( a fund raising walking event?) we made our way to specified location, unfortunately grass alongside river is very tall, but with much stomping my sis made her way further to what seemed a cubby. Sighted snake skin, heard a rustle in the grass and burst back on the path very quickly, but a crack up none the less. Will check back at other times to see if grass has been cut.

Saw the snake skin, and then the snake! (in the long grass). I think it was trying to get away from me, but didn't hang around to find out!
This one needs an extra star for terrain and definitely more than one star for difficulty, judging by the amount of DNF's, to keep it consistent with the other caches. Perhaps the owner needs to visit the cache again and see. Will be back some day, thanks.

Well, I found "the spot" no worries at all (the encrypted hint is right about that too!) and gingerly, no that isn't right, I lumbered very heavily through the very long grass (bearing in mind it was a very hot morning and the Joe Blakes would certainly be active, even before 0600h!) and into the location.... well, at that point I noticed a very large and recently shed snakeskin lying on a log in the cache site...now I've seen plenty of shed snake skins and I would estimate that this one was not from a small snake - maybe thickness of my wrist! Anyway, with the very real possibility of the owner of said shed snakeskin most likely being in residence and the very rampant growth, my search was very quick and very fruitless. I exploded out of the cache site and flew through the long grass to the safety of the path! Needless to say there wasn't much hope of me finding this given the growth, temperature highs and being in prime Joe Blake territory! Probably try this one again in WINTER!!!

We found the very likely site and the big snake skin! After a lot of stomping to scare off the owner of the skin we gingerly poked around with a big stick we found nothing

This was our first search with the full version of the geocaching app for iPhone, works well.

Looked long and hard, got dirty, but no find

Found with Slink1 on an afternoon of caching. QEF TFTC

This entry was edited by Dunko on Thursday, 30 December 2010 at 22:13:34.

quite over grown took a little while to find the cache on a caching count down to new years with Dunko TFTC SL

On a ride with beta female out these trails and popped by here... DNF unfortunately. Due to the rampant undergrowth, possible snakes, and what appears to have been recent flood activity at/near GZ, we gave up after a short search for this one...

TB dip.

Found while at a training day for the litteblackduck at the aths track nearby. TFTC

After muttering to each other about the cursed undergrowth of GZ, I tripped over the cache as satchmo was about to give up. TFTC!

Quite overgrown but a little persistance paid off. great area for a walk. Thanks for your effort.

03/10/2010 04:07 Found: #55 We parked quite some distance away as the GPSr wanted us to start at the beginning of the walk instead of at the nearby street. My youngest and I didn't mind the walk as we saw more of the Plenty area that we previously didn't know about. Surprised that the cache has managed to last with no one stumbling over it before now. Especially kids in he area. TFTC SL TB OUT: 55R32G

Great hide! Last one on a nighttime cache hunt TFTC

Didn't notice much dampness inside the box, maybe because it had just rained and everything outside the box (including me) was soaking. Took geocoin, left guinea pig TB. TFTC

An easy ish find after a bit of a scratch around. The log book was full and everything was little damp. TNLN TFTC

Also dropped S"n"n"s original stash geocoin

Found on a quick walk for some quick caches nicely done TFTC

Sorry for the many posts finally worked out how to drop the coin in the cache

1st of 18 during a Northern suburb night cache run with my mate Marshy (Blacklegend17). Nice little stroll down to GZ and after a bit of a search, we were signing the cache. TFTC.

1st of 18 for our run of "night caching" with my good caching mate Marty (Quasar3671). Quick walk and find, although our GPSr's were playing up a little locking onto GZ. TFTC.

Quick find, but didn't sign as raining pretty hard.

2nd cache for the day.Accompanied by my darling wife (Geo Sniffer), a friend (Happy Travellers) dogs (Lulu and Becky. Took Spiderman tattoos and replaced with bubble mix (found at ToyBox). Difficult find due to high muggle activity.

nice cosy little spot started on the wrong side of the river but the abundance of bridges in the area soon solved that TFTC

No 4 of about 20ish with bogonghazy today. The GPS had us several metres away, but the clue made it obvious where it was. Enjoyed reminiscing about similar areas and related escapades from my younger years.

Found once again in the company of Reesylou.
This was a nice walk from the future stars cache only a short distance away.
great little spot for a cache, I'm sure kids would love playing around here.
My thanks to laird au FTC, TNLNSL

Found by The Empire @ 1:30pm
10/17 today. Found in the second place I looked, thanks.
- M

Nice hide.. took me longer than expected, as first approach saw me 18m away on the wrong side of the wet stuff..TFTC SL, Find #183

Wow, I'm taking a look at a few features on the GCA site and discovered that this log only had 6 words, seems that 18months ago I didn't see the need to write a great deal.. heres a few more words to increse my over all words by more than 6, if your reading this far I suggest you stop now, mostly because these words are really just here to add to the otherwise few words that were origionaly here. Thus incresing the number of words from 6 to more like approx ninety five (95) or by the time I finish this 110 or 111 (one undred and ten or eleven).
Wow, I'm taking a look at a few features on the GCA site and discovered that this log only had 6 words, seems that 18months ago I didn't see the need to write a great deal.. heres a few more words to increse my over all words by more than 6, if your reading this far I suggest you stop now, mostly because these words are really just here to add to the otherwise few words that were origionaly here. Thus incresing the number of words from 6 to more like approx ninety five (95) or by the time I finish this 110 or 111 (one undred and ten or eleven). Thanks Laird au family for the cache.


This entry was edited by Spladem on Monday, 27 February 2012 at 04:27:32 UTC.

This took me back many years - playing down by the local creek, cubbies etc. Do kids get the opportunity to do that these days?

Found at 12:35. TNLNSL. TFTC

2 goes at this cache but found while exploring the area on a beautiful day - tftc

A nice walk today after finding 'Future stars' nearby.
Great little 'cubby'
No muggles here today.
Cheers and happy caching.

We enjoyed the walk and the cache was quite an easy find.
Thank you!

Found when I tookong turn chasing Future Stars - Couldn't pass up an opportunity to chase down the cache.
Found GPSr sending me a little away from GZ, but hide was pretty obvious.
Left GC took nothing, TFTC

Found it after some hunting. Nice one. Hard to not look suspicious with all the muggles around!

This is a great area. TFTC

Found after 15 minutes of hunting around the spot.
Our first find !
Took colonial lady
Left Santa wolf
Thanks Laird Au!

Gz had us standing there sctatching our heads until we read the hint and worked out the the real GZ was 10-15m away. Thank goodness for eager geokids, they had it in hand before I even got there. TFTCSL

Found at 6.35pm with little difficulty. Some interestin g neighbours in the area. TNLNSL TFTC

Found at 10:30am. Took pencil sharpener & B2. Left caribener & playdoh. Great hide! TFTC!

After walking back and forth like an idiot i saw a muggle stareing at me for his balcony. must of thought i was a loony.

Found without to much trouble, covered it a little better so it cant be seen.

Left mini dice.

thanks

dipping personal geopatch

1550hrs
#13 of 23 for today
Went out today with Team_Coxy. This was not very well hidden.
When replaced it was hidden better.

TNLNSL
TFTC

Found while out with DaTruk

Found 1545

TNLN TFTC SL

Just logging the dog tag!

TFTC

Found it. Sign said "workmen" but they were not there. TFTC.

TFTC Kids were facinated the hiding spot & nice box of goodies to check out

Found @ 19:35 with peachyburston

TOOK carebear & TB

LEFT Marg

Easy find with the clue. I was a little tentative about snakes as the weather was warm and the vegetation quite thick.
Took: TB
Left: banana in PJ's

A short stroll and the cache was in hand at 1603 hours - #4 for the new year left medal, TN - TFTC

As mentioned the cache is uncamouflaged. Its location is perfect for it. TFTC

Easy Find thanks.

left TB

Not logged until 28/11/2011.
Many thanks for the cache.

Just thinking like a kid always helps

I was still looking at the GPS while the chef made a grab at the obvious cache. She now thinks like 7 year old.

Nice little hiding spot, found it just as it started to rain at 16:20.
I ended up on the wrong side of the river so had to walk back around to find it.
Sorry had nothing to swap as I am an out of towner.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TASKFORCE70

Find # 446 @ 13:50 and first one for the day.
The horrific winds have abated a bit so I thought I'd head out for a few.
T: Nikon cube, L: New pack of Rays playing cards. SL TFTC

Rode a bicycle with my son. Took red palm, left Nikon promo thingy - transparent plastic block.

A muggle boy probably thought I was strange, walking along a path which further up was closed off. GZ was before that of course, and he didn't know what I was up to. TFTC.

Fourth cache of an expedition with my 2-year old daughter Kira. When we pulled up at this one, a friendly neighbourhood cat decided to jump into the car, and didn't want to leave! The cache was an easy find, took car, left soft toy. Then I also left my GPS in the undergrowth and had to run back to retrieve it! Thanks for the cache.

Great co-ordinates and a good hiding spot!

I took the sunglasses and left a red car

Thank you!

Shadowwomen

found after a quick hunt with no hint TNLN SL TFTC

found it

I previously went to this one a couple of years ago with Feathertop in my pre-caching days. That day I saw quite a big snake while we were searching, which caused me to jump backwards all of a sudden. I never saw any snakes in the days I used to swim in the river as a kid.

Today I returned to the spot to log it. I couldn't remember exactly where it was hidden, but it was pretty obvious once I got to GZ. I left a coin I picked up in Whyalla and took another bug to move to a new home elsewhere.

Finally Found this one!!! Have ridden past many time without the phone on me so i have not been able to look for it!


Placed Ginger Bread Man Here

Thanks for the fun,

Finally got the opportunity to come back to this site and have another go. Much more successful but a cache i will not forget for a while!

I went into the creepy crawly hole without drama, i thought it was the best time as the big rain storm had only just past... no one would be out walking tonight! Anyway after signing the log i could see someone coming from downstream with a dog so i decided to make a move and almost tripped over a dog being chased by its owner comming fromthe other direction!

And behind him even more muggles! I should have checked it out a bit better before exiting but with dogs on the loose i didn't want them snooping around and finding me... i figured a person coming out of a bush is better than a person in the bush? Maybe... mabye not?

So a casual grin as they past i went along with the business of returning to the car. I've learnt a few lessons... rain does not stop people, always look both ways, and perhaps only attempt these caches after dark!

Anyways all in all a memorable experience! Thanks for this hide. TNLN

Found no worries, if you are tall like me, you are best served by taking a geochild to do the crawling in part. Thanks for the scratches! Good hide though, i remeber having little play spots like this as a kid. Good work guys.

Fairly easy find while the daughter slept in the pram.
She was very excited to wake up in the playground and couldn't wait to have a go on the swings. Thanks for showing us another one of the great small local parks and walks on the Plenty River.
TNLN. TFTC laird_au.

a very quick find, took $50, left shoe

This cache had not been found for 4 months and yet today there were 2 entries in the log including this one!

There were some kids playing nearby and a few people taking walks but we didn't need to wait long for them to go away.

Very interesting hide but lots of undergrowth. It wasn't exactly an easy find but wasn't difficult either.

Took top, left frog. Thanks for the cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 5:45
Thrown by the difficulty and terrain rating, it a while before we cracked the hint and started searching in the right place. This is somewhat tougher than a terrain 1.
J spotted something slithering in the grass just outside GZ so the two girls took off for the track (under supervision) and I got some longer sticks to have a poke around where the hint suggested.
With a lot of wandering jew growing along here now, this is a tough little cache to find with so much area to check. I was seriously just about to give up when with a push aside of the undergrowth with a big tick, the cache was revealed.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks laird_au. Not sure if what we spotted was a snake or lizard, but the slithering made us very aware of the potential dangers of caching in Australia. While I did the logging, the girsl headed off to the playground where fun was had by all.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 3

Rated: for Overall Experience

I found this cache with caughtatwork and big sister J. She thought she saw a snake, so I waited on the path with her while daddy kept on looking. He finally found it and then we all went to the playground for a while. I enjoyed playing on the swings. Thank you laird_au.

Of all the stupid ways to find this cache, we found what was probably the worst. We got to within 20m of GZ, only to find a rather full creek in the way. Backtracked to find a bridge, which turned out to be further away than expected.

Eventually got to GZ, and found it very overgrown and not at all inviting looking. Access is on hands and knees, which is a problem given that this looks like a potential druggie site. Access is also through some very stabby prickles, which have a way of always being invisible but wherever hands and knees were placed.

To be fair, I suspect a lot of the undergrowth has happened since the cache was placed. Not so long ago, during the drought, this would've been a very different spot.

After a lot of very careful poking around, we found the cache, and then the rain came. Mid winter, in the rain, and I'm in a T-shirt. Luckily I was also covered in mud, so any passer by would have just assumed I was mentally handicapped and left it at that...

Not a place for the kiddies to crawl around unattended, nor (as I found) for mid-40s males with bad knees and inappropriate clothing.

A pleasant little walk alongside a slimy, no-flow river. TFTC.

Got in and out before the council mowing muggles came by. Noisy blighters!

TNLNSL

Found @ 9:20pm A nice little hiding spot even at night time. TNLNSL TFTC

Checked with uninitiated friend to show him what a cache looked like.

Not quite in original position (probably 2m closer to river) but that is understandable given the bio-shaping that has occurred. The cache is well stocked still, with most of the original contents having been swapped out. The hint still makes sense, but the original difficulty rating may now be a little higher than warranted.

I have changed the difficulty rating down to 1 to reflect this.

[This entry was edited by laird_au on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 12:18:21 PM.]

Found at 19:30 - Fourth find for the afternoon.

Backed up the Harry Potter series with a nice jog out to this location which was a great way to do it.

Great spot. TNLNSL

found it with 4 men and a lady at 2.30
watch out for the snakes.
TNLNSL
TFTC

[This entry was edited by Hunters Redemption on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 9:16:57 PM.]

Found at 1430 on 28 January OZ day holiday with Hunters Redemption

We were a little too care free when beating around for this one. We retreated to the Geo Jaffa only to see the beware of snakes between October and March sign after we had done the cache

Took:Mondo Figurine
Left: Play Money

Thanks laird_au