Smokey Milkbar Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia
By gefscofix and posthaste, maintenance by jqndcn on 28-Dec-07. Waypoint GC185MH

Thanks for the cache

Tftc

Accio 08:09:10Down to Melbourne to escort my mum to hospital - giving me significant free time for a couple of days. Last day today as she is all good and coming out later on ... What to do? LGA hunting my goal today ... a quick stop here as I am heading further on for first coffee.Thanks gefscofix and posthaste, maintenance by jqndcn for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12939}*

easy peasy

Cute

not sure if found - seemed like one but no paper?

Found with the help of the clue #MWC

Geocaching in the area while waiting for Geokid to finish at another event. A quick find. Thanks for the caching.

DNF

Ummm

Made a quick drive by and collect here in this cute corner strip park.TFTC guys

Thanks for my first find! So much fun ..

got it!

TFTC!

Got it today! Had to use a makeshift stick pen. TFTC!

Looked for a while but couldnt really find it it was harder at night might corn back in the day

Ratbags loved it cheers

Dont go geocaching if you have to pee hehe. Ran out of patience (time) today

Yay my first geocache!

Thanks for the find. Riding with my son J-Star Delux and this is not far from our path.

No luck today, I thought from the clue it was going to be a find, anyway a walk is a great when exploring a new area. Thanks gefscofix for getting me out.Greytiger

Checked a lot of hard places, but no luck today!

First one!

Geocaching my way through jet lag! This one took a bit of searching after getting my hands a bit dirty ended up finding it. TFTC

Tftc! needs maintenance asap - whole cache is severely damaged.

tftc!

It certainly was a hard place. Lotsa wriggly bugs. TFTC

Thanks

nice spot, almost didnt find it!

Thank you

Good spot!

Funny...ZSOLT ATYA A !!!

I live near and found it on my third attempt

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Was in the area finding other caches and brought along a zip lock bag. So now this cache has been fixed up. Im hoping that this cache can be renewed as it has going for 20 years. CACHE FIXED AND READY TO BE FOUND!

Good to go, thanks go to antiquebread

Found with Dad during a stroll around the surrounding area to where my siblings live. Dad enjoyed the creativity of geocache. TFTC.

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Found it

Tftc - original logbook was so soaked and mushy it fell to pieces as we tried to pull out the new paper

Took some effort to find this one, would not advise finding this one if you hate insects and bugs!

Tftc

I rocked that one!

Couldnt find

Found it

Thanks nice and easy!

Thank you for the find But the paper was very mooshy so I put a new piece in

Found after a few minutes of reading the logsTFTC

Found it!! B boys

Great spot, not for the physically weak.

Defiantly milky and wet, its hard and heave not for the weak

Hey, just letting you know that the rubber is damaged and water/moisture is getting in.

Great but logbook was soaked

The logbook was soaked when we found it!

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Found - thankfully I had a gel pen because the log is a soggy mush - didnt have anything to replace it with. Tftc

Tftc!

Took a couple minutes but my strong friend definitely came in use!

Walked past it several times as I had a different idea in mind. Needed to use the hint. Container is slightly broken, but still able to retrieve the log book

Unfortunately the container is broken. Definitely hidden HARD! Found SH

A tad wet after the last few days rainfall- but a good find! TFTC

found by zoe, cleo, luke and puppy ted!

thanks

It was a good find a bit easy though.

It was a good find near one of the benches very quick as well less then a minute

It was a good find very quickly found

Found it, broken and wet though and dirt all over it

Nb

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Thank you, this was our first geocache (me and my 5yo son)! "It wasn't so hard to find, and the geocache looked a lot like a bottle." This is fun!

Tftc

Had a job in Brunswick rd so after I finished the job I ducked over and grabbed this cache.
Sl thanks for the cache.

A great find and we enjoyed the local history lesson.

Took quite a bit of time to spot it. But it is definitely present. Found some millipede friends and worms who just finished making their logs as well.

Good one!

Very nice

TYFTC very gud cheers need someone strong to get

TFTC quick find and a fun bike ride with the boys

I took a detour from airport after accidentally missing Bell Street exit. So I decided to grab a few caches in Brunswick before getting home. Cheers. Quality hide!

TFTC

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll find your cache...found it this afternoon after a great day finding geocaches. The last one for the day #10 so been a nice day out there.

Had some unexpected help for a somewhat difficult cache!
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TFTC

Found good hide - thanks for the help lovely lady! )

First Cache with my friend Jess

Time to catch up with my friend, The Potatoes. After lunch, we went for a stroll around the area and picked up this cache after a short search. Thanks.

This ROCKed my world. There were a lot of teasers around. Recommend to have someone strong with you!

I was hunting down older caches in the area, and this one was on my target list. I loved the story and significance of the hide. It's fascinating hearing these types of tales.

At GZ, it took a while for the cache to reveal itself, and funnily enough, the first place I looked was the right spot! However, it still took about 15 mins to find the cache. It was nice to have a convenient place to sit and sign the log, and then it was all replaced and off to the next one!

Thanks for placing this here and adding to my daily adventures.

Great hiding spot, took us a bit energy to take it

Tricky!

Took me maybe 20 minutes of romping through bushes but found it, great spot.

Had a good read of the logs due to a muggle super close by, was able to get it on the second try. Muggle didn’t even notice me being crazy in the garden she was so engrossed in a phone conversation that went ‘ & yeah ‘ a little to much.

Heading over to the Merri Creek CITO today and North Fitzroy Event and decided to get in early for some finds.

I think I've gone absolutely mad. I spent about 25 minutes here today, sifting through and searching thoroughly, flipping everything over and just couldn't spot the hide. I think I've gone mad.

If possible, I'll return after the CITO and see what I can find. But until then, I'm absolutely puzzled after following the hints for a D1 Traditional. Very confused. Let's hope I get a yellow smiley later today.

I’m so glad I got it

I definitely looked where it said. It said 0m and I looked everywhere, trying to unscrew little bolts, but still nothing. Great first try.

Super fun log book only byo pen or pencil

Definitely near a hard place. Thanks for the cache. Found it with Will and Eevee the cache dog

Nice spot

First find, this is awesome thank you!

After breakfast and a CITO a few of us set off on some adventures. The group slowly dissolved after each cache until Brain and I decided to team up for the afternoon and find a few caches.

This one was nearby and I had highlighted it for some reason. Oh that’s right, the 1:1 challenge ??. I guess we’d best grab it then!

Thanks gefscofix for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Today's events in Fitzroy North had been on my radar for little reason other than they'd be fun to go to.
Turns out, that was a fairly accurate assessment, despite the annoyance of train replacement buses that needed to be caught to get into the city (I'm not sure how I manage to keep landing in their timeframes!)
With a spontaneous helping hand from n0w0rries to get between Flinders St and Fitzroy to attend the first event on time, I spent the rest of the day cruising around with RoamingHowie as we followed the crowd and ended up finding whatever caught our attention after that.

RoamingHowie and I were left together without a plan, so a glance at RH's map revealed that this pin was highlighted - cool, let's go get that one!
Turns out that he's chasing after 1/1's of all things!
Without any muggles around, gz was quickly identified and I headed straight there, turned around, and spotted the cache tucked away in its spot.
Our names both entered the logsheet and all was replaced as found.

Thanks to gefscofix, posthaste, and jqndcn for placing this here and keeping it maintained!