MESCo #6 EAST Thomson, Victoria, Australia
By vp4 on 15-Dec-07. Waypoint GC17ZAJ

This series is causing me more grief than many of my other caches, I no longer have time to maintain suburban micros. Thanks for all the logs

Series disabled while I contemplate its future

19:36
As with most of these adventures, this one started out as a query from LouiseAnn on the local Facebook Geocaching page about the conditions on the Bellarine Rail Trail, with its slew of new caches; she happened to be heading to Geelong and would have most of a day to kill. Her intention of just rolling along the trail until she ran out of time and energy appealed to a few others, so gmj3091, SirJ-Oz and yours truly invited ourselves along for a laugh. Or two. Or a number beyond that.

Well, 55 caches is a pretty good haul for a day on the bike with friends, but I still had a bit of time up my sleeve before I was expected at home, so I figured I'd chip away at the remaining caches for this series. This was closest to the trailhead, so I drove almost all the way up to the cache, ducked in to GZ and made an easy find. No tram picture, though, so I might need to drop you a line about it if I ever expect to get that final hide, vp4. Cheers and thanks for the smiley.

#2454

Fun

Barnos Dennis and Ash found it

Thanks

Didn't see a picture of a tram in this one. So no number for the final clue. Tftgc

Took my kids, 10 and 6, and found our first cache. Easy enough to find. They were very excited.

Found @ 8:46am, find # 2737.
Biggles1024 and myself headed down to Geelong for the day to attend the Christmas Smorgasbord of events, while picking up our unfound caches on the way and in between events. We were on our way to A Ripper Cam before the first event and stopped off at this one and made a quick find.
Thanks to vp4 for placing this this cache

This entry was edited by stemicmitsar on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 02:28:33 UTC.

8/12/13 8:46
Find #755

Stemicmitsar and I again teamed up for a trip to Geelong. Attending as many of the five Xmas events being held there was the purpose of our trip but naturally we wanted to find as many caches as we could along the way. Dodging the suspicious gaze of a muggle taxi driver we searched carefully and Steve found the hide quite quickly. SL TFTC

Found[Time to Find: 8 min] 07 December 2013 15:30:14 After first looking on the wrong building I followed the GPS to a better location and looking at the warm day and all those possible locations a nice long stich was used to help find retrieve and replace the cache in its hidey hole.
JABs.

Found this cache as part of my caching trip with JAB's to Victoria's Mornington Pennisula and Geelong area. The 29 hours claimed 158 GC caches and 2 GCA trig points. Some great caches were found and the southern beaches were a highlight.

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Nice easy one!

Easy find

We were out for a day trip to Geelong with the Geo-grandkids and thought we should grab some caches while here.

Ended up getting around 16 caches today.... not bad for a few hours caching

thanks to the CO for this cache

TNLNSL

Decided to head on a Geelong adventure today, and nabbed 13 caches on the way. Lucky lucky!

Went for one look, didn't find it. Saw a few muggles over the fence with heavy machinery and decided to wait it out. Fortunately, they disappeared within two minutes and I was able to get down for a better look. Bingo! Extracted with no issues, signed, sealed, replaced. Cheers VP4 - I hope to return to finish the series one day!

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Yay! Second cache for the morning.

Easy find on way home from dinner with Dad.
Tftc

Looked for 20 mins til missus got annoyed waiting lol. Can anyone confirm its still there?

Found! Was a little worried that I might have been seen by the locals talking to the man upstairs. As I got closer no trouble with the service. Was a few hidey holes but after checking it was the last one left to try and the cache was found.

TFTC

Find #126

A Father's day lunch in Geelong saw us head out to this one on our way home. A nice quick find and we are slowly ticking this series off. Thanks for the cache.

A birthday meal bought us out this side of town and this easy find completed our 31 day august challenge.

Loving the variety of the MESCo series. This is one of the easier ones.

Thanks for helping us complete this challenge vp4! tftc

I was looking for a cache for the August challenge. This was handy.
Cheers
Dog-gone 30/08/13 10:46 Find #752

I had a bit to trouble finding this one but fortunately Ramana used her intuition and put her right hand forward and then we got it! We recommend the next geocache team bring a pencil sharpener for this lovely cache

Find number 3 for the day. Had no trouble finding this one due to accurate directions to GZ !! Nice little muggle free zone as well. Lucky there were no unwelcome visitors on the cache. TFTC vp4.

Quick and easy find on my way down to jayco
TFTC

Quick and easy find second time around. Attempted this one last year when we first began gc with no luck. Slowly adding more smiles to the map made it an easier find

Another quick find on the way to work this morning.

What a good place to put a cache, being watched by all the "Spirits" while you do whats required.

Located @0835, signed log and returned to hide.

TFTC

8 months after doing the first one in this series, I eventually got to the 10th.
And in a twist of fate, it was the only one that required a return trip!
Last night I could see nothing, even though the clue and logs indicated where it should be. I returned today in daylight, and still needed a torch to look in the obvious spot. It's a grat hide, actually, but it seems that a previous cacher or a muggle kindly pushed the cache as far in as possible with a stick, trying to make this a difficulty 5. I needed a special tool to retrieve it - it was not even reachable at full arm's length.
The lid was also not replaced properly - the koala keyring left there seemed a bit too big for the 200ml container. It's closed properly now - just. And hidden again but not 1 metre in.
TFTC, vp4 -now to get that final!
** Find #475 on day 95 of continuous cacheing. Almost at the 101 target. **

Found by junior cacher TFTC

Tried this one a few months ago in the dark and with a nearby function on with no luck. MUCH easier in the daylight - coords were spot on!

Thanks vp4

jandaw's 135th find

TFTC

Nice hide wasn't too hard to get only a couple of people at the cemetery

As many others have said, we also found ourselves on the wrong side of the fence. No muggles around so a quick jump and the prize was in hand. TFTC.

A quick find, though approached it from the wrong angle and had to jump the fence. TFTC

Nice easy night find

Quick find.

How is that Building staying off the ground?

T4TC

Nice easy find thanks

After walking through the cemetery with geo dog trying to look like part of the funeral we headed towards the trees and found the cache where we weren't expecting it to be. Great hide thanks left dog bone tb

Non Geocaching Friend Spotted this one, I think he has been converted.


TFTC, Bit late on the logs today, Finially worked out i can upload cache notes to the website from my Garmin GPSMAP 62sc, Damn it makes things a lot faster and easier. No more excuses in the future.

TFTC

We are half way there now with this series. Hoping we can tick them all off before the day is over. An easy find in a well hid area.

Thanks vp4

Oops wrong side of the fence.... Quick look at clue and cache was in hand.
Thanks

Found with Mogni on our Geelong girls getaway.

Tftc.

Found it but had to dodge broken glass and a used syringe during the search. Be careful!! TFTC

Cheers for this! Was looking for another cache and only got a bump on the head and a crappy mood so wasn't going home empty handed. Or cache-less? What do I call that? Anyway. Was pitch black. Found with my phone torch and partner who had a bad map. Go the iPhone!
Took: marble. Left: chicken.

This Labor Day long weekend marked a camping trip to Geelong for a gallivant around the countryside picking up a number of caches (69 to be exact). Unfortunately we couldn’t foresee the weather and with temperatures soaring into the high thirties, caching took a back seat between 11am and 8pm. This did provide us with an opportunity to rest up and do some night caching around the areas.

After setting up the tent and camp site after a gruelling 3 hour trip from Endeavour Hills to Geelong on Friday, we grabbed a bite to eat, then hit the road for a couple of hours grabbing a few caches around the Belmont area, even seeing a guy night flying an electric aeroplane, all lit up with LED’s looking like a UFO.

Saturday saw us caching out onto the Bellarine Peninsular towards Leopold in the morning before seeking refuge back at the caravan park pool, before once again venturing further out to Drysdale into the wee hours of the morn.

After a sleep in on Sunday, we made our way to the Steampacket Gardens to have a look around, also grabbing a couple of caches before heading to Melbourne to see the Storm play their first game. After a great dinner in Victoria St, we took the opportunity to have a great caching run winding from Laverton to Eynesbury across to Balliang then back down to Geelong once again finishing up around 2am.

Monday we packed up the camp site before venturing to do the fabled Mystery of the Fyansford Treasure Horde cache, which was also our 700th find!!

Pulling up near GZ, Katy went one way Trent the other, Katy coming up with the goods. The caching foo runs strong in this one remarked Trent.

We want to thank the CO’s for placing the caches, we had a blast finding such a variety of different hides.

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Found it! Took TB, left two marbles TFTC

Finding this cache required a certain amount of stealth due to muggle working on the spouting? of the building nearby. Managed to retrieve the cache, sign log and drop off TB and replace without being seen by the muggle worker - some trash was picked up on way back to car. TFTC vp4 and bringing us to this area which we had not visited before.

nice find

Working our way through this series, as we go about various day to day erands. Even the teen who was stuck with us for the day doesn't mind a bit of history. It's especially fun to look up old pictures to see how things used to be. TFTC!

Quiet day At work = geocaches

Amazing where you find caches!

Sorry vp4 for the generic log but I'm trying to catch up on my logging, I currently have over 1000 to log before hitting some powertrails in the US after the block party next week. As always I enjoy the hunt whether I'm solo or with some of my caching or muggle friends. Thanks to those who have accompanied me to make the day more pleasurable and many thanks vp4 for placing this cache.

Good find !

A lovely weekend weatherwise on our side of the state.
We were headed down to Barwon Heads to see some rellies and grabbed a few caches on the way home.
Some tricky ones around now too.
Thanks to everyone who has hidden them for us to find.
Nice easy find here.

Found with Mum & Dad.
A fun time looking for caches.
Thanks to everyone for hiding them.

Found on our BIG Little Event trip. A nice quick find in a nice place. Great cemetry. TNLN. Thanks!

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A quick find on the way to 1000. TFTC

Nice easy cache thanks for the history

TFTC Easy Find

7693 caches found

quick find good hint

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks vp4 for the hunt today

Found by young geo son and his little inquisitive hands, while enjoying a caching afternoon out in Geelong. TFTC

Found it while visiting my mum RIP

This was found with my caching friend Square Pegs on a day spent exploring the Bellarine Peninsula before returning to Melbourne. It was a great day and we scored a variety of other caches as well visiting areas I've never been to which is what I like about caching. Thanks to the CO for bringing me here today.

This cache was found in the company of abl973. On our way out of Geelong we stopped off and soon found the cache tucked away. Great to find another in the series. Thanks for the cache.

Our last cache in the MESCo series before we grab the final. Took the GC for further travels. TFTC

Found on the 2nd attempt with Ogrebeast. Led Ogre up the garden path, having him searching for it, when TeamRanger already had it in hand.
Took TB!!!

teamranger played a joke on ogrebeast here while teamranger already had cache in hand he sent ogrebeast off to a spot and told him to look there as he hadn't searched that area yet and when ogrebeast turned and headed for the car here was teamranger making out he had just found it in a spot where ogrebeast had already looked FTC

New log placed today and TB left

one of a few found this weekend was a good find near the cemetary :) cool find

Quick find with the kids in windy conditions. Great to have small hands. 4 from 4 so far today and all found by the kids!

This entry was edited by Colbases on Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 06:27:58 UTC.

Having picked up a few of the Mesco series already, I knew what to look for. Thank you.

# 1266. Found on a caching run towards Queenscliff this afternoon. Found with a previous finder who had a longer reach than me. As several previous findedrs have noted this cache needed a new log book. Left a new sheet this afternoon to tide things over. TFTC

Tftc

Found with slight difficulty but still very possible tftc

Quick find, with only a stream of cars to ignore me. Loved the history of the trams and will try to do more of them when next in the area. TFTC

Needs new log please

Tftc abit hard to reach

It was dark and cold when I arrived here at night after a cache run out to St Leonards and back during the day. Had a good scout around with no luck. Having the luxury of a previous finder with me, he confirmed that the cache has in fact gone. Thanks for the hunt though vp4

After finding the nearby Grave Situations, we thought it only fitting to pick this one up on our way past.

carefully dodging the broken glass, and looking first in the wrong spot, we finally located the cache

TNLNSL

TFTC

Lots of broken glass in the area and rubbish. Found in the end in the company of Coley_babee, with PrincessDiala remaining in the car as she had found the cache before. TFTC

found it great hide

be careful of on coming traffic and ppl working around the area..

A big day out caching in Geelong with Liz and Bruce. Another one in this series to score us a smiley.

After 4 successive days of caching with visiting WA friends richlink it was beginning to be a test of endurance especially given the early starts and late finishes. Each day we would report to each other on aches and pains and blisters. Today we were heading from Werribee towards Geelong. This was one we found and we thank you for the cache vp4

Find #3 of 4 for the day @ 1610 Hrs... Find #661...

No-one around at this time on a blustery, but quite warm afternoon! Took the time to add a couple of 'smilies' on the way to Photography course at the Gordon...

Took: Nothing
Left: Path Tag

Thanks to vp4 for bringing me here... (Getting closer to the final ?)

*Cache Condition ~ Fine

Found this one easily, once I figured out which side was north! Bugger, forgot to grab tram number! I'll be back! TFTF vp4

Quickish find on my way home from work. Caching because I'm supposed to be on holiday. I was a bit worried because this one hadn't been found for a couple of months. So I was relieved to spy something blue. Forgot to grab the tram number so will have to come back and do the cemetery cache next door.

Nice easy find
TFTC

Travelling back from visiting the Great Ocean Road and visiting South Australia, had a fantastic trip.

Thanks very much for the cache.

SL

Judith and Charlene xx

I had met up with good mates (Justin and Joe) C@H and kellyhaunts earlier in the day for lunch and to re-live the second half of Woodlands 100 power trail (this time by bike).. Once the riding was over, we wanted to keep caching. Covert was has some great new software which compiles a list of unfound caches once cacher names are entered. The software works very well and we soon had a list of likely suspects, Down in the Geelong area.

This was one of them and we found just under 30 down this way for the night. The evening was mild and we had a great time. We stopped at a pub for a counter meal and a cider before dropping a munzee and continuing on.. Thanks for the cache and one of about 45 for the day (for me) and one of 129 for C@H and Kellyhaunts after they found 99 in the morning on pushbike, (and 1 did not find) thanks for the cache.

Grab as a part of a late afternoon run with Spladem and Kellyhaunts after knocking of the woodlands series. We looked i the wrong place for a while then after working out the correct building the cache was found. TFTC

Out and about with good mates Covert and spladem for some caching fun!
Way too tired to focus especially if the G doesnt want to cooperate.....easy find overall
tftc