Pied Piper Melba, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Goodbeard on 13-Nov-07. Waypoint GC17BHD

FOUND IT NEAR BY IN A BUSH, BUT BROKEN AND NO LOG BOOK. [XX(]

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Need 2 check this out soon

Walked in from the wast through the long grass.
GZ was easily spotted, however as I reached the cache, I could already tell it was badly muggled.
I would've very much like to have cleaned it up, but I had no bags and the wind was rather strong.
Found a piece of paper, and wrote my visit.

Sad to find this one muggled.

~~ Muggled Cache ~~

Out on a caching run with caching mate Slink1. Quick find today. TFTC SL

Quick find on a fine day out caching with my mate Dunko while in Canberra TFTC SL

Nice easy park, followed by a slow walk through the long grass. At GZ it was very easy to spot the likely location. Signed the log and back through the grass. TFTC.

Bike ride with family, took the LONG route to get to this one

Got the right wind here. Good spot. Container has seen better days. TNLN TFTC.

#1635 Found on our Canberra caching weekend. Given the activity on the nearby structure by todays youth, we are surprised that this one hasn't been muggled. Happy to report that it is still alive and well - great to see the care that cachers are taking in concealing the cache. TFTC Goodbeard

Took: Koala TB to keep him moving

Easy find, wear long pants

on the way to Bunning's.....

Found this one after a short walk. Cache is well protected by the local soldiers so we tried not to disturb them too much. Dropped off Frippy's Thredbo Travel Bug.

Nice easy find after coming across a brown snake earlier ambling across the bike path.

Found with Josh the Monk on his trip out. Taking Big Ben and 10 Anniversary GCs to Tasmania for a visit.

Found with animal magnetism. First cache in a long time. first cache for 2011. Tftc

OOoh boy! the grass seeds are getting bad around town.
15 minutes caching can result in half an hour sock plucking.

We made a dash across the most open area trying to find islands of bare dirt amongst the sea of grass. Finally we were washed up on this rocky shore only to find that we were late and had to set sail once again. We sailed a closer rhumb line on the return journey but the billowing grass was more treacherous.

Home now, coffee, tv, socks.

Nice walk through some long grass. Started a GC on a long journey. TFTC!

Glad I was wearing glasses!

(Very) easy find thanks.

Found with R36 and Brynbeuno on day two of our family caching weekend, very obvious hide. TFTC

Wayyy easy, but an excuse to get out of the house, and take advantage of summer coming on.!

Quick trek in the dark to find this.

Needed to find one more for my 100th find, and this was it.

Took judge fire, and left poker chip

TFTC

First Find for the day,

1st this morning with mini-phasic. I've wandered around here for years and did not know this was here! TFTC.

A quick stroll found this one. TFTC

2nd for the day.
TFTC, TNLNSL

Sent from my mobile device.

I nice easy find for a change. Another bit of parkland that I never took any notice of before. TFTC

Easy find on a cold day. TNLN TFTC

Found by harry_stamper on 29/6/10 @ 5.20pm with PR&F, The Empire and The Lone Random.
#25 of 27 finds on day 2 of our Canberra Invasion!
TFTC!

Found by PR&F on 29/6/10 @ 5.20pm with harry_stamper, The Empire and The Lone Random.
#25 of 27 finds on day 2 of our Canberra Invasion!
Thanks Goodbeard for the cache!

Found by The Empire with The Lone Random, pocketrocket&friends and harry_stamper @ 5:20pm
Find number 23 out of 25 on the second day of our Canberra Invasion 2010! I can't believe a cache has lasted for so long like this! Not in my hometown that's for sure! Our thanks to Goodbeard for the cache.
- M

Happy that the bootcovers had been pulled on this morning. TFTH

1 of 4 on a rainy Saturday morning. Geokids swapped out a golf ball and eraser - Left HeroClix figures. Geodad scored a pathtag! TFTC.

Nice little detour on my usual early morning walk!

My very first solo find... ahhh McP will be proud

TFTC!

Finally found the time to log the caches found with Moo.

26/04/2010 16:20 Found with Little Red Shoes.
8th of ten for the day.
Bit of a trek through knee length grass, but thankfully less likely a problem this time of year!
Quick find. SL left path tags TN. TFTC

another exciting adventure great school holiday entertainment thanks

Nice easy find. Although we got punctures in our bike tyres from thorns in the ground!! TFTC.

Wowzers!
Found in the company of MtBikerOz

Found with Monydork,ADV,tofka Redinguna

Found with Moneydork, Rediguana, Tofska, and Pohutukawa on our way to the Wagga Mega event.
Muggles of the strange kind here today, pleased to make a quick escape.
TFTC

Uugh - just follow the smells. T4TC, M@

Very obvious hide Interesting vent too. Saw a few roos on our way in and out. Cheers Gav [5119]

Interesting Chimney. TFTC

A quick find during a long day.
Found with Hoojar.
Cheers.

A quick dart across the many lanes of traffic and this one was easily located.

Cheers

nice find on a nice day with my brother on the way to get new soccer boots


TNLNSL TFTC

Oh now I get the name! Very clever.
Found a few minutes before midnight on a cooler evening caching expedition.
Scared a poor bird out of it's nearby nestng site, opps - I jumped too!
Thanks

Thanks for the cache!

Cache 20 of 30 for our day's Northside Noodge (great word, look it up )

Well, this one was interesting! I have no idea what it was doing here, but I didn't smell anything particularly malodourous in the vicinity.

I took the long way to and from this one as even with my long caching pants on, my strong caching boots tied and my best slithering scaring stomping happening, I was worried about attracking a legless friend that may attach itself lovingly to me ..
TNLNSL - TFTC

TFTH SL Took cat Left dinosaur.Enjoyed a walk to do this one.

Today Crystal Warrior and I were on a northside run to collect some puzzle caches and whatever else we could along the way. This was one!

Nice one, almost sculptural, certainly industrial, bit smelly though! Such is the life of the peripatetic cacher!

This was our last cache for the day. Nice quick find in a rather smelly spot. I think I know what the Pied Piper is attracting here TFTC

Very easy find if you can put up with the aroma on a hot summers day. TFTC

My first find. Close to home and not really prepared. I may come back to replace the container. It's damaged a little.

As soon as I saw it I knew that had to be GZ. . TFTC

Walk through long grass yuk but fun eh.... Swap trackable.. SL. Thanks Goodbeard for organising the cache and hunt.

Puddle senior, puddle teen and puddle kid out on this one.

Puddle teen found it! Eagles eyes for me! Took travel bug, putting in cat.

Came here from doing a short multi in Melba. As I was on the mountain bike I was less concerned about all the long grass - I just decided to bash through it!

GZ became obvious from a distance, as did the reason for the cache name. A quick and easy find and TB swap. Now on to #100.

TFTC.

1 of 2 quicks finds tonight with geoson before bath and bedtime! Left Travel Bug Robbie the Robot. TFTC

A quick drive by for our 100th before the evening time showers. TFTC ;-)>

The geoson, geohound and I found this one before the rain started again .

Took marble and left World Championship tiddlywink and the Unite for Diabeties TB. TFTC

Our 10th find for the day on a quest to reach our 100th.
This one is close to home.
We left the white power ranger robot and took the pink squashy thingy.
TFTC
Mark and Jenny Kate

Found it at 1240 with some scouts (Matt, Greg, Chris and Ray) who were learning about GPS units and geocaching. This was their 2nd find for the day. I had been here before. As we were getting close to GZ, Matt asked me sacastically "How could a wombat get to the top to retrieve the cache?" I said you will just wait see how I got there. TFTC. In good condition.

Not that its a bad thing but this is the easiest cache I have ever found.
So out in the open it was a sigh of relief from me to get an easy one.
I don't know if it's meant to be where it is as the hint doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

TFTC

Hint changed. It related to the original hide that now does not exist.

Found today @ 14:37.
TNLN, although I threw away an old, dirty golfball. Sorry to whoever left it in the cache, but it was yuck and it looked like it had poop on it!
Thanks for the cache Goodbeard!

Found by Mary & David at 1555. Too cold for the muggles this afternoon, so a quick find. Dropped off 'Tigger's Bounces' TB. Our thanks to Goodbeard.

An easy find after a not so easy one across the road. Nice day for it at least. TFTC.

Nice easy find. The girls found this one.

We should have read the other post's as we did this one straight after rain today. Should've worn better shoes!!!

TFTC

#1 of my 35 finds today
Very early in the morning so the grass was quite wet and frosty.
Felt like I was properly dressed for caching once I had the mandatory wet boots and jeans
Thanks for the cache Goodbeard, how that hasn't been muggled is beyond me

a quick driveby on the way home...

TNLNSL TFTH

I finally did one for you Goodbeard. Went for a walk on school holidays as no money for anything else. Despite thinking it was near home I probably walked about 8kms. Often confused which side of the creek the path is at the various stages. And there are tributories which can really confuse. Walked about 500 metres past on the wrong side of the creek so that I could backtrack on the other side. Took purse travel bug. Left diabetes one. No smell today.A very obvious and open cache but little fear of muggle watching. Unusual in that respect. Havent seen one so open yet so close to muggles but so hidden at the same time. Not really the place for a picnic though. I bet you didn't walk as far to place it goodbeard.

Last cache before I headed off to the dog park. The title didn't become obvious until I nearly walked into it - I love cute cairns of rocks to make spotting cache locations easier.

Discarded the 8-legged guardian (ie threw the little bigger off the cache into the bushes well away from me), left a recently found TB and signed log.

TFTC

Somehow missed logging this one back when I found it.

(I suggested it today on our excursion, puzzled at how I could recall all the details about a cache my GPS told me I'd never found. Whups!)

These pipes are so odd! I didn't know what they were for until I came here with Eynowd and he explained them to me.

TFTC!

Found this one,not hard tnln...nice one....

I did this cache with my sister, and it was really easy to find

TFTC

T-toy soldiers
L-marbles

Always like the caches where you don't have to be subtle while looking. We are a very unsubtle bunch and quiet and unassuming is not our thing.

A quick and easy Good Friday cache!
TNLNSL TFTC

This would have to be the most obvious cache I've ever seen! It really wasn't a find, but a gimmee!

A quaint piece of reserve in suburbia .We found the stash and logged the book about 3 pm .Thanks to Goodbeard for the cache.TNLN.

10:27am
An easy find. Thanks for the cache.

I was on a high by this cache, knowing we had a record in our hands. I pranced like Maria from the Sound of Music. Can't believe the cache is there. Interesting pipe.

Yet another strange structure whose existence was unbeknownst to me. TFTC

11 of 13 for Friday the 13th
We get to GZ and The Clarke Gang decided to check one spot instead of what stands out to be the most obvious, "hey why not try this spot".
T: Basketball and L: Matchbox Car
TFTC

What can I say, Bezerker found this one whilst I, for some reason, was expecting a nano and was checking out the caches namesake.

TFTC

Took tassie devil.
Left Catwoman.

TFTC!

Trapsed in via the local underpass. Nice quick find as I wasn't hanging around. Thanks for the cache. ZZ7

Parked a little too far away for my liking on this sweltering day - but at least the cache was located quickly!

TFTC!

nice quick find, not too smelly today.TFTC.

Found it. My wife sometimes referres to following the GPS as following your nose. This time it had a whole new meaning.
Thanks Goodbeard

[This entry was edited by chewinprickles on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6:24:30 PM.]

I think I can tell why there aren't too many mugglers around here, one of my senses was battereed during the visit.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found the cache while in Canberra for a few days on a caching trip. Nice easy find. Thanks Goodbeard for the cache.

As cache finds go they dont get to much quicker ! bargain we were off quick.Thanx

Rode my bike the whole way, despite the long grass. Bit more cross-country than I was expecting! Plenty stinky...

What an exposed cache. I could spot it for about 15 yards off. Wind must have been in my favour coz there was no stench to speak off (or smell of) .

TFTC

Indeed an interesting place! I tried to ride my bike all the way to the cache, but the grass was a bit too high.

TFTC - Fogg