Mind Over Muggles West Lakes, South Australia, Australia
By supachick on 06-Oct-07. Waypoint GC16FFY

No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, 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.

With it missing, and sadly no owner login since April 2010, guess it should be archived.
Cheers

Just adding our name to long list of DNF, note when we looked this cacher has not logged on since 25/4/10 and looks unlikely to be repaired !!!

couldnt find this one - location has been recently painted - a good indication it may be gone

Hunted high and low but could not find it. Had to walk a fair way to get to it. There is no nearby parking. Read all the logs before we went but could not locate. Perhaps it needs checking to make sure it has not been "muggled".

we believe it is gone

Out with Honeysucker, Team Scoobsters and Farmer_brown after our event at Semaphore.
And as the other logs this is definately not here

definetly not there as we did this with a previous finder
31/12/2010 18:50 DNF:

went with group of fellow cacher.. some who have done this one before... who confirmed it has definitely GONE!
took photos in the 'hidey hole' to see if it had been 'pushed back'..but nope.. nothing there.
** needs replacing **

Hmmm... it's been a while since this was last found and I believe it has either gone walkabout or it's been pushed "too far". No sign of it at any rate.

Muggle maintainance in operation. Will return later for a true find.

pouring with rain on the approach, the gps playing havoc, up, no down grrrr

Atrocious weather and I think everyone was just concentrating on getting home. Did not get a second glance.
TFTC.

Went to wrong part of bridge a few times. Eventually found it with a little more concentration. TFTC

Had to wait for a group of oldies walking by, but was easily disdracted by the fish swimming nearby.
Thanks for the cache

Simple find. Was on a mid week mid afternoon.
Not too much problem looking interested in the water and housing.

Found this cache today while visting Adelaide.
Thank you very much for showing this place.
Greetings, Colonel Dago from Germany

It was easy for us as GPS had us within centimetres, and it looked like an obvious spot. Saw the cache easily but was was pushed too far for finger reach. Anyway, retrieved and replaced with a tool for easy extraction for the next person. I changed the log bag too to make it fit nicer in the container.

women going to shopping center and I looking cache around

We started at the wrong level but from there the hidey hole became evident. Jimmy01 retrieved the cache. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find by me while out with The Penny Drops and Pikapene. tftc

Arranged a trip here to grab the Wherigo cache and could not pass up the opportunity to grab a few others including this one.
Pikapene and Jimmy 01 still on holidays. had a great morning thanks guys.
TFC Supachick

Finding this one was rather tiresome as I was expecting it to be elsewhere, perspective helps!
It has no lid though.
Strange.
Thanx for the find.
SL

No muggles around today to mind what I was doing, so they didn't matter. Getting the cache out was another thing, as it had been pushed a fair way in, and my extraction attempts were pushing it further. Some creative stick work soon had it free though.

Thanks Supachick!

Quickly jumped out while Mr Geo did laps around, made out I was watching the kayakers while retrieving the cache. TFTC!

We liked this one, quite sneaky indeed.

12:30pm hazards on, wife jumped out while i drove up and back. She left the pen in the car so i pulled over across the road, hazards on boot open waited until a break in the traffic and threw the pen over. Drove up and back again and picked her up. Tftc

Boxing Day hunt 3rd find, muggles everywhere. We all huddled around enjoying the view whilst one sneakily retrieves the cache. Be patient log book comes out eventually. Thanks for the cache.

Found good hidden.Luckly no muggle this time.Nice bridge and lovely view canal.T.N.L.N

T.F.T.C

No muggles to worry about tonight just the RBT down the road.

Took longer to get the log book out than to spot it thanks to excellent co-ords.

TNLNSL

TFTC

The Gangsters (The Rats, Big Matt & Shell, Farmer Frentzen and Steeba) found this cache as part of our record breaking run around Adelaide. Thanks for being part of the hunt.

3055.

Found this cache on our Adelaide invasion trip with Steeba, The Rats and FarmerFrentzen. This is find number 174 on the Australasian record attempt.

Thanks supachick for the cache. No muggles tonight which made the find a lot easier

TNLNSL

Found on an Adelaide Invasion in the company of Big Matt and Shell, The Rats and Steeba on our 24hr record caching run. TFTC

Found on Adelaide Invasion trip with The Rats, Big Matt and Shell and Farmer Frentzen.

It was pretty late in the evening so not too many troubles with this one. The Adelaide road builders have been kind with all of these type of structures to hide caches in. TFTC!

Returned today with a strong magnet and drew the cache out of its hiding spot. Put a decent magnet in to make it stick...then found the hiding spot is non-magnetic! Stuck it back inside, but not so far that the next finder can't get it out. Nice views from here. TFTC.

Visited today and discovered that someone's shoved it way inside the railing, out of reach. Will return there at some stage this week with a magnet and attempt to drag it out and rehide to where we think it should go (based on previous logs).

I found the cache fine but everyone has to look for a GREEN Eclipse tin now, IT'S NO LONGER BLACK, as in the description.
TFTC
B

I was all too well prepared for muggle central when I approached this one with caution.
To my disapointment there was noone around.
Not even many cars driving past. Surprising since it is school holidays.
Oh well, signed and replaced with little fuss.
Looks like stealth ninja skills will have to wait for another day.

With Nan Rock'n Robyn in tow, kids and I went for a leisurely stroll and BINGO found it instantly. No one walked by so we were only spied by on coming cars which would have thought Nan was attending to grand kids' shoe laces. Loved the hide. Kids thought it was great.

Found at 0730 on a better morning than the previous two! Still a bit of drizzle around, but it cleared into a beautiful day.

Muggle deception techniques... Well, I find that just pretending to look at the view works (assuming there is a view to look at!). Otherwise, there is always the old shoelace trick...

TFTC

The best defence against the muggle is the invisible cover of darkness which I had in my favour tonight.
The cache didn't take too long to find after I checked one or two other spots first.
TFTC

Took a bit of a hunt, but had it in a few minutes. TFTC

Nice quiet Sunday morning meant there weren't too many muggles to contend with, making extraction and replacement easy while we stood on the bridge and admired the view.

Great day for looking out over the water and contemplate life ...... Wait a minute there is a cache

Quick extraction, sign and replace all while watching the world go by. TFTC.

Got some food and stopped at GZ to have my lunch. Rode my bike here but unfortunatly I forgot to bring along a pen which I once realised when I started seaching.

Easy find, grab and go. Had a read though the logs below before going back up and placing it back.

2nd of 10 finds today.
Nice![^] I'm glad I have a small phone-shaped GPS, it came in handy when I had to do the old 'on the phone' trick to avoid muggle suspicion when retrieving and putting back the cache. Glad this one is back on track. TLNLSL.
TFTF

Found at half time during the Crows vs Collingwood game. The crows were 3 points up at that stage.
Collingwood eventually won by 21 points. I was more successful by finding 2 caches, before I got back to the second half.
There was no one around when I was looking for this one. They were probably at at the game.

Find 700 My Way Without a GPS at 9.30am
#2 of a Personal Best 20 in one day
Thanks to supachick for replacing the cache.
Found easily in a place I thought I would leave a replacement on June 19.
The lid has come off and the eclipse is now in a plastic bag.
It would be nice if someone would replace it with an eclipse container with a cable tie taped to it.
This would make it easy to retrieve and conceal the cache.

Found it on the way to Westfield West Lakes to meet my friend for lunch. I could not retrieve it. So I used the magnetic and it worked. The lid is broken. Sorry, I did not have a spare container with me.
Thanks supachick for the cache.

yer ok all good to find not so easy to get out

but thanks found at 2.50pm

This was a difficult retrieval as the cache had been pushed almost out of finger's reach. I tossed up whether to walk back to the car (parked well away) and get the magical magnetic retrieving device, but in the end I managed to grab it with a fingernail (I'm sure I took just as long as the walk would have!)

Lovely day to hang over the bridge and enjoy the view.

Thanks for the cache.

It took a bit but worked out where it would be. I don't think the magnet works on that material. Interesting big white building nearby.
TFTC

Found with Shane4 today. Wasn't that bad in the muggle department.

[red]FINALLY[/red]
Been waiting to get this one off the radar [:d]

TFTC

Cheers and Happy Hunting.

Found after brief search today. Double checked the co-ords and found to be fairly accurate. I had no troubles anyway. Thanks for getting this back up and running. Took smiley face.

Ok guys - I have finally replaced the cache, HOWEVER there were a couple of little technical hiccups!
My GPS wouldn't work at the moment I tried to re-hide, and I'm sure that a particular "landmark" has disappeared since I last hid it. This meant that it is in a slightly different spot - and yes, velcro would have been a good idea for this one!

Its not a particularly difficult hide and should be fairly close to the coords, so if someone has the chance to check it out and can update the coords for me - it would be much appreciated.

Does the 'maintenance log' mean that the cache is back in place?

Sorry guys - supachick's been busy saving the world but will fly past on Saturday. And no velcro needed!

Can someone help the supachick and replace the cache.
I had prepared a magnetic Eclipse to leave here today.
I am sure an Eclipse will fit and I think I was at the right GZ but the structure is not steel. Therefore Velcro is needed.

So, what's the verdict??

Will check this one next week and fix up if it is gone....

Long time, No find. Perhaps it's time the owner checked on this one.[?]

Lots of muggles and traffic. Four of us looking, but still no luck.
It wasn't a magnetic container in a 60km traffic sign, by chance? If it was, it's now at the bottom of the lake
If not, some extra clues might help, as this is the third "Not Found".


[This entry was edited by Challenge Me on Monday, November 24, 2008 at 4:39:18 AM.]

Lots of traffic. Spent some time looking over, under and around, but no luck.

I searched and searched for a long time but no luck. It was supposed easy one!

No such problems with muggles today, went straight to it, signed it and replaced it with no hassles. TFTC.

Easy find. Like the sign about 'No Diving off Bridge'. Who'd want to go swimming in there anyway? TFTC

Misjudged this one and approached from below, but then looked up and saw it straight away.

TFTC

I have found that one of the most important things is to look completely casual about it. This I tried to do as I occasionally bent down to search. I was signing the log as I gazed out over the nice view, and of course the replacement was a snap. Tnanks supachick for the cache and the fun.

Very nice location, much appreciated. Dodged the muggles. Thanks supachick!

Found the cache at 11.05pm. Lovely view as well. SL. Thanks supachick for organising the cache and hunt.

Found at 15:00. As I walked the dog to distract from what Steve was doingm the muggles stared right at him. Thanks, nice spot to pretend we're there for the view.

It is much easier when there is a group of 4 people. Mrs K did the camera trick, 2 others mingled nearby and Klem retrieved the cache. SL. Thanks supachick.

Amid the muggles I had a poke in the obvious locations, but turned up nothing
So I headed south and with a few monkey impersonations, established that the cache wasn't in the other obvious place either
A quick look up at the right time though revealled the true hidey hole and I soon had me paws on the prize
The waters of the lake were surprisingly clear today
TFTC.

Last find for the day. The building works over the river are interesting. Nice little hide.

Second CNS for the day, with two fisherman looking onto GZ couldn't even search to find. Will return another day.

No need for any mind games when you have a camera in your hand, and a shoe lace that needs 'attention'

nice quick find with some pics taken whilst signing the log, to look the piece

TNLNSL

Found this one after a bit of a hunt under and over the hiding spot. Eventually found it by looking up and under. Clever hiding spot. SL. TFTC

probably not the best place to park, but its not illegal (and I wasn't actually parking - standing actually) while the Mrs and Floss retrieved the cache. Best to not try this on a football day unless you have your invisibility cloak on. TNLN TFTC

Find number 1232. Found while on a mad 24 hour dash with Mr MadMyers and Everlasting doing the driving. This cache was one of our 189 today. Thanks for placing the cache for us to find. Cheers The Nanks

Out on a night long night of caching with MrTheNanks - we found this one. On holidays from Queensland - what better way to spend a good few hours than caching!! Cache found, log signed - now onto the next cache! Thanks for the South Australian cache!

I love caches that you need to take care getting as they are in popular spots. Thanks for the hunt!

A brief walk after tea at the nearby resort was very pleasant. An easy find while pushing James in the pusher. We just stopped to look at the birds, or lack of over the water. Pity we didn't read the cache notes carefully beforehand and so had to return to the car for a pen.
TFTC

Avoiding muggle suspicion wasn't too hard as it was an easy find, it is a bit harder the longer you have to search. The trickest part of this cache was finding somewhere nearby to park.
Thanks, Robmc.

Only had one elderly muggle to contend with so we threw him over the rail into the river below and the cache was all ours. Is that effective muggle avoidance? Now for the truth. Waited until backs were turned. Easy!
Thanks.

The Noodler found it. T.N.L.N. Harder to find a park than the cache.

A short walk from the shops and a visit above and below gave enough insight to not alert any muggles. Thanks.

1066.44. TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Sydney Eternity GC A#62

Albida

Second try for this one, this time in the esteemed company of Moses on the Move. The result, a quick find at the beginning of a long hot day caching in the northern suburbs. We aren't sure how some cachers allegedly grabbed this from down below, they would have had to be 7 foot tall. A great hide in a lovely location. Thanks for placing the cache.

I uploaded a photograph of Moses on The Move and Trail06 planning for a days caching.

Found it after a quick chat with a local out walking before the heat of the day sets in. Number 4 for the day and then off for coffee to plan some more the day. We could see the fish in the water it was that clear. Thanks
Moses on the move

Still wasn't much traffic on the road when we arrived - this allowed for a pretty easy find. Cheers Gav [1460]

Finally getting around to logging the record breaker Thanks!

Found as part of a record attempt.

Kiwi Cache Raid: #63 @ 05:44. No problems at the bridge and no muggles! Many thanks supachick.,,,,,,,,,

5:44 a.m. This cache was found on our record-breaking attempt to find the most caches in a 24 hours period; we ended up finding 195 all up.

Thanks to all the cachers who placed these interesting caches in Adelaide.

I only wish we could have spent more time appreciating the locations that we visited on our whistle stop tour.

TNLN

Kiwi Cache Raid: #63 @ 05:44
Thanks to all Adelaide cachers for helping with our quest.
Cheers - M@

5:44:00 a.m. A quick find by the NZ cache record team.
Thanks to all Adelaide cachers for placing these caches to allow us to get the record.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (708)

Got there before to many were awake. damn good technique.

TFTC

Trev left Caz & Liz in a shady carpark nearby while he and Bruce had an easy find. TNLN. Thanks.