purple monkey dishwasher Doreen, Victoria, Australia
By homerjay73 on 01-Jan-08. Waypoint GC189BR

The things you find when you least expect them!! In the area and just happened to stumble across this guy right where you'd expect to find a cache!
Thanks jomerjay73 for an unexpected find !

We were in the area with some friends when Buckleysbabe made this find today. Still in place and in good nick.

Funny how you find caches when your not even looking for them!

Not sure why this got archived when it's still in its home. tftc

openface club sandwich mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

12:35
Ah, the sweet smell of cow sh... now I know we're out of the city.

Now, this is more the homerjay hide I'm accustomed to: twenty minutes combing the area, almost giving up before finding the little sticker where I'd swear I already looked. So I swore a bit more when I finally found it.

The little one kept herself and me amused during this frustrating search by trying out her repertoire of knock knock jokes, interspersed with giggles over the names of the geocaches in the area.

Thanks again for the entertainment.

#892

Almost overlooked it but not quite! Tnln tftc

Unlucky last cache on my trip today. Just couldn't find this one.......

sadly didn't find it, with Handsy93

Found @1616 #1699
Today was another epic cache run with best mate Ahomburg thru the Yea, St. Andrews and Hurstbridge regions.
Cool cache name and another simpsons theme cache keen to have completed.
The signs of the river to the south look impressive, really have craved its way thru that block of land.
TFTC homerjay73, another of yours found.

08.07.2012 16:17
Find # 1867

Well, it is a fine winters morning and again time for my caching partner in crime sedgwickDave and I to head out on another caching run, headed towards St Andrews, Hurstbridge and the Nutfield area. We usually cache on a Saturday, but decided to change it up a bit and do a Sunday this time.

A very quick drive by after the gpsr finally settled down. Love the cache name.

Thanks to Homerjay73 for the cache.

Tftc. Just on a Sunday cache sesh

Tricky little drive by. TFTC homerjay!

Found @ 11:01

2nd find of 17 for the day with my caching partner Fusilade, who spotted this one after a bit of a search around

TFTC

Glad I spotted this one quickly, I didn't want to search this one from every angle.

Ran to this one from GRF123, there's a bit more up and down than I thought there might be... GPSr said the middle of the bridge and after short grid search I made the find. One of life's mysteries - how did that rock get in there? Thanks.

took a while to find. TFTC TNLNSL

29/05/2011 15:28 Found: #478 Went on a log-ish drive as its a weekend and these are too far away for a week-day collection. I was a bit concerned about the possibility of finding this cache as it seems to have been a bit of a tricky one to several searchers in the past. I admit we used the hint and that made it pretty straight forward. It was also slightly visible when I looked in the correct location. I had slight assistance from Caching Wizard as he basically got out of the car and stood about. TFTC homerjay TNLN SL

{78} Found with GeoDad @14:50. TFTC!

Found @ 17:15 10/5/11 had to dash of the bridge as 2 cars came as I was walking onto the bridge nice hide was quick to find tftc.

First cache for the day with Kings Adventures. The kids had a ball. TFTC

ah ha finally got it i am victorious this one has had me stumped since September 2010, yesterday i was feeling around for it i must have come within an inch of it just goes to show close enough is just not good enough for a Homerjay cache, no cows laughing at me today tftc HJ [:o)]

stumped again this one is really starting to chew at my nerves i think this was my fifth attempt or maybe sixth not sure, i think the cows know who i am i think they a laughing at me inside anyway it will make the find all the more sweet when i finally get it thanks for the challenge homerjay [B)]

Found with IITom23II, I'm sure I looked there last time lol, atleast I can finally mark it as found

Have looked for this one on many occasions. Looked above and below the bridge. TheDealer and family found it today and gave us a simple clue that took us right to it. TFTC

This one has really tricked quite a few. We were lucky and found it first try. DMBM, TheDealer, SHOKKO and geodog. Tftc

Found with Shokko and dmbm. Found on second time looking. Thanks homerjay

Found it with DMBM and TheDealer, Thanks. TNLN

just went to have another look for this cache and there was a cop sitting write near it, guessing locals are starting to get annoyed with people being there or something?

Did not find it on first attempt but I am with IITom22II and TrynaFindaCache and they are on their 4th attempt. Would love some help from homerjay or anyone thanks

Have now attempted this 4 times with IITom23II but still no luck:( guessing we are looking in the wrong spots, hopefully on our 5th attempt lol

Found at 5.00pm. Had gone out and about trying to do a clean up of the area with xambo4u and also introducing syzygy50 to the pastime. We had looked at this a while ago but no joy - today it was found quickly although by Mrs xambo4u who was quickly at GZ as we parked the car. Another one that was good to clean up today. TFTC homerjay

This entry was edited by 80degrees on Sunday, 06 March 2011 at 19:13:07.

This entry was edited by 80degrees on Monday, 07 March 2011 at 19:31:21.

5.00 7th for the day. Out and about with 80 dregrees today and Margaret /syzygy in training. Mrs 80 has the plan and we have a new driver, Mr 80. The weather is great and we want to clear out a few that we have missed over an area. Nice and handy to have the 4 wheel drive for these dirt roads. Parked the beast over the bridge and made our way back. Not where I thought it was going to be but pretty close
Thanks for bringing us here

Another bugger of a cache.
Parking proved a bit of a problem.
I think the locals are getting used to foreign people on their bridge as well.
I had to return to the car and read a few logs before a second assult on the cache.
Also did a bit of a google for the uninitiated.

The title of this cache comes from a Simpsons episode where, during a teachers' strike at Springfield Elementary, Bart spreads a rumor amongst a crowd of teachers that Principal Skinner "claims that the teachers are going to crack any minute". this gets whispered amongst the strikers and, in the time-honored tradition of that child's game, the message gets changed and appended as it bounces from person to person until the penultimate teacher races up to the head striker to announce:

"Skinner says the teachers will crack any minute, purple monkey dishwasher"


Scene from the Simpsons:
The teachers picket outside the school, holding placards reading "2+2, a
raise is due", "A is for apple, B is for raise", and "Gimme! Gimme!
Gimme!" Lisa twists Miss Hoover's arm: "So if we were in school this
week, what do you think we'd be learning?" but Miss Hoover shuns her.

Edna: Good news, people!
[the other teachers cheer]
I'm happy to announce that another union has joined us in a
sympathy strike: the piano tuners' Local 412!
[the teachers look at one another, confused]
[a piano tuner stands outside a house with an out-of-tune
piano and looks smug]
Bart: [walking up] Now for Operation Strike-Make-Go-Longer.
[to teacher] You know, I heard Skinner say the teachers will
crack any minute.
[the teachers whisper it forward through the line]
Teacher: [to Edna] Skinner said the teachers will crack any minute
purple monkey dishwasher.
Edna: Well! We'll show him, especially for that "purple monkey
dishwasher" remark.
[everyone shouts their assent]

Gotta love these caches!

Found this one on second try,the first just before Xmas. Thanks homejay73 for another good search.TNLN as usual.

This cache had us stratching our heads for a little while, but we searched and we searched and eventually the cache showed itself. Found on the way home after the Back to the Beginning - 10 years of Vic caching! event cache. Thanks homerjay73...TFTH...SL....TNLN

19th of 23 finds for the night during a night cache run with Blacklegend17. Took ages to find, the last place of course and Marshy found it. TFTC.

17th of 21 on another night caching run with my good caching mate Marty (Quasar3671). this one took us ages to find and was in the last place we looked. LOL. Its always in the last place you look when you find it....... Strange comment reading that one when you see it... TFTC.

searched for while but could not locate the cache after coming home and reading the hint i think we were mostly looking in the wrong spot but we will be back to crack this one i never like being beat!

Back the second time and made the find. Scratching me dreads about why I didn't look here the first time.

Found on another mega day caching with bogonghazy. Resorted to clue after looking above and below, and then bogonghazy found it... sure we'd already looked there.

Found with Reesylou after clambering over and under this structure.
A micro, and so many possibilities...hmmm.
Anyway, thanks again to HJ73 for another Simmo's themed cache, SL

I aborted an attempt at this one yesterday when one of the local landowners nearly sprung me searching before I'd even properly begun. Today I was much more successful and made the quick find with no passing traffic or curious eyes in sight.

Cheers homerjay73, TFTC.

Wish I could download the clues to GPS. Had a dummy spit about going town the rocks with lots of deep holes and really dangerous. Have now come back and looks like it may have still been on the road.

Quick find but the understanding the name escapes me. Silly Me. TFTC

Found with Propeller-head and he finds them too quick, i just start and he has found it allready. TFTC Lots of rabbits in the paddocks.

Found by The Empire
28/2/10 @ 4pm with harry_stamper and pr&f
Headed out today to give them a hand on a cache, they didn't need me as pocketrocket came up with the find!
SL TFTC
- M

Found by PR&F with harry _stamper and The Empire on 28/2/10 @ 4pm.
I've visited this spot a couple of time to find this one and can't believe it it took me these visits to find it!
Well finally I can cross this one off my list!
Thanks homerjay!

Found by harry_stamper with PR&F and The Empire on 28/2/10 @ 4pm.
FINALLY FOUND!!
Made several trips to this spot in the past and had no luck, must have walked past it 100 times.
TFTC!!

NOT AT GUARD RAIL.
Couldn't find it, Looked all around the guard rail.
Even looked lower and still no find.

Found at 1730hrs, I nearly left but when back for one more look and there it was

Im not sure about the dirt roads in a little red convertible, but it makes it more eventful.

Our second attempt at this cache on our way home. Our GPS still took us to the wrong side of the bridge and after reading a previous log entry we expanded our search. Don't know why we did not see it on the first visit. Great hide and camo, simple and very effective. T4TC

Took awhile as my GPS was pointing to the other side and there was the odd muggle.

As the day was a bit cooler decided to do a few caches - first of several and found at 1553 hours after a bit of a search - a clever cache

Found this one at 16:30 while on my way home from a quick caching tour of the area. This was my third attempt at this one (3rd time's a charm ) so it was nice to knock it off the list. The other times I had concentrated my efforts too much on the wrong side of the bridge . Oh well, that'll learn me .

TNLNSL, although our 1st traveller into the cache geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks homerjay73.

Tried to find this one yet again with no luck - it really has me stuck!!!!
I will give it another go soon.
Shadowwomen

Find # 355 @ 14:00
Nice drive through this area. TNLNSL TFTC

We are gradually getting through your caches Homerjay73, but man, there are so many of them! This one was found in the dead of night, and we were happy to have found it. TFTC.

Found on Victorian invasion trip with Big Matt and The Rats.

I'll agree with Big Matt on this one- a bit strudier than some of the other bridges we crossed.

A nice quick find.

TFTC!

Here with Big Matt and Steeba as part of our Vic invasion weekend. A quick find as we did the rounds out here.
Thanks

2336.

Found this cache on our Victorian Invasion trip with Steeba and The Rats. Not too sure about the name of this one but it was nice to see a bridge a bit more sturdy than some of the others we have been to today. A nice quick find.

Thanks homerjay73 for the cache.

TNLNSL

Found at 1540hrs first of five
TFTC SL

Yeah sorry it was gone but is replaced with a new one.
Same co-ords.
E.M.S

Nah I had no luck like the majoriety of those gone before me -sure this one is still there?

Shadowwomen

Searched for a while here and after doing quite a few HJ caches, this still proved elusive to us.
Is cache still here? Noticed it hasn't been found and a couple DNFs before us.
Thanks!

DNF - hard to find a missing cache - maybe!

this was our third stop on our day out caching around home

but it wasn't ment to be, this was my second visit to this cache without finding it!!!!!! AHHHHH I had geo husband and uncle along for help and still no luck. We searched for almost an hour....

another day it wont beat me!!!

DOH! Spent a while here hunting. Mainly on one side where GPS insisted on taking us time and time again. We will return!!!!

Found by Mary & David at 1430. A nice quick one again. Is the name another Simpsons reference? Our thanks yet again to homerjay73.

Found this one on our 2nd attempt today. It's a lot simpler to find than some of the spots we looked at last time, and we didn't have to venture into any of the less-than-stable looking spots.

TNLN TFTC

Should have checked the terrain rating before checking out all those 4* locations. DOH!

Then again, the terrain is probably over rated. You really could do this from a wheel chair, if you could get the wheel chair to the general vicinity.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another simple but nicely done and very effective hide. A good hiding spot too in the middle of not a lot! thanks again homerjay73

Found by caughtatwork at 3:02
Took nothing, left nothing.
*Overall Experience: 2*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found @ 16:20 As I pulled up to GZ there was a muggle talking on his mobile phone about 20 meters away, boy you even you get muggles out here. Waited for him to leave and they it was. TNLNSL Thanks For The Cache

A nice little country drive out to other nice little country caches, TFTC.

Found 10.45am
As we pulled over to park the car I though I knew where the cache would be .... but I was wrong. Finally spotted the very nice hiding spot after looking for a while.

TNLNSL

TFTC homerjay73

Found 200805111603 . Malby the GeoHound stayed in the RhinoMobile while I made the search harder than it needed to be [B)]

TNLN

No monkeys, dishwashers nor anything purple was spotted near this cache

Cheers Homerjay73

It's always good when someone uses the same MO. The GPS was pointing us to the wrong side but the eldest daughter found it anyway.

Found at 1055 this morning. A good hide. I reckon you must be a sparky homerjay73 with all these boxes around.
TNLNSL,
Thanks homerjay73

Found by Bob at 1600

Well, the road's unmade - but I'd classify it as pretty good (I brought the car today rather than my motorbike largely because of this cache description). Anyway, it was nice to get out on some rougher stuff in the comfort of a big 4wd rather than a 1wd so I was happy (and I didn't have to worry if it was going to rain). The cache turned out to be a pretty easy find having read the logs and the clue - but it's a good and well disguised hide too.

Thanks again Homerjay73

On a caching day with Muzza and Barcoder cache # 20 of 30 today. cache found at 1504. My thanks to homerjay73 for the cache.

This is number 19 of 30 caches found today in company with Muzza and Kiwideb on another great caching day. The weather was perfect, the company excellent, the caches fantastic. Whenever you see one of these constructions you immediately think that you know where it is. Well, you are not always right, but if you look a bit harder it presents itself. After some J & J cache maintenance on this one, we replaced it for the next cacher. Many thanks for this cache homerjay73.

TNLNSL


[This entry was edited by barcoder on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 2:20:20 AM.]

Found at 4.05pm GAFF5. Second time 'round and this cache still didn't just jump out at us and say "here I am". When we finally spotted it we realised that we had way overestimated the difficulty and terrain rating (probably because of the difficulty and terrain rating on the cache page)

Because of the 3.5 terrain rating there was absolutely no way that we were going to just look from the road - which is all that is needed actually. This is a 3.5 - therefore some difficult dangling or walking under bridges amongst rocks and sleepers is necessary - or so we thought!

This cache is actually accessible by people in wheelchairs - therefore a terrain rating of 1 and 1.5 at the most. Difficulty 1 or 1.5 as well.

Hope this helps homerjay73 - thanksfor the cache.

pprass. Do you realy believe that a person in a wheelchair could
A. navagate this road and steep descent? or
B. reach to get this?
C'mon be realistic. Sounds a bit silly don't you think?
HJ73

This was cache # 17 of 20 today. This one escaped my attention for quite some time before it finally was spotted. Thanks for the cache homerjay73.

We found our 3rd HomerJay cache at 4:40pm as the 6th of 12 on our Warrandyte to Yan Yean Ramble. We were beginning to thimk that we were going mad on this one, when finally an accidental view from an odd perspective managed to secure the clever location. Thanks for the cache from D & H B-A.

Located by Rubus pickers on a Saturday drive. A well guarded location. Thanks Homerjay 73.

Pickupfamily Dad drove past about 1300hrs and didn't stop. My luck had run out and I didn't feel like searching one of my less-liked locations alone so I headed on home to log. This cache seems to be a goodie though so I'll be back.

Find #3 of 8 on a northern excursion with pinguone.

For such an out-of the way place we were disturbed 4 times by cars wanting the cross the narrow bridge! Like several other hunters we reckon the co-ords take you to the other side. Another nicely constructed and hidden cache.

Thanks homerjay73.

Found with ssmc4 + Jeff the dog.
We must've looked fairly suspicious lurking around the area - you feel tucked away and safe, but when a car comes you've nowhere to hide....there's only so many times you can pretend to be taking a 'rest' on a little lane when the same locals keep coming back & forth
Spotted on the other side of the spot our trusty Garmin & Magellens put us....found it after grovelling around low before accidently spotting it on the other side at my eye level.
P-P-P-Pingu! Pingu!

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A
Thanks homerjay 73 for the cache.

Cache # 23 of 29 in company with acts2youthgroup in our 'clean up the northern suburbs' day. We found this one at 1535. This cache caused us the most heartache of all the caches we found today. By now, we knew enough about homerjay73 caches to ignore the terrain rating. However, after ten minutes of fruitless searching, we checked the possibility that it really was terrain 3.5. It wasn't. We read the logs, we cracked the hint, and in the end, we phoned a friend. It still took us a while to find it. We were just about to give up when we stumbled upon it. Then I couldn't understand how we had missed it. I made no exchange. Thanks to homerjay73 for the cache, Cheers, dak.

This was cache # 19 of 24 for the day in the company of dak's Emu mob on our northern suburbs assault, the cache was found at 1525. We felt like a couple of monkeys on this one, it gave us a major heading, we even called a help line and it still took us some time after that before dak finally came up with goods. My thanks to homerjay73 for the cache.

Found at 1230. After an interesting drive out to GZ the cache was in hand in 5 mins after originally searching the wrong side. Nice cache work.

TNLN. TFTC.

This term is always used when playing Chinese Whispers, it is one my favourite scenes from the Simpsons. No problems finding the cache and the secluded area meant no muggles to contend with.

Thanks,

R - B

Another successful find to a day of interesting caching. The locations have been a bit of a head scratcher. Now use to the hiding and camo jobs being used. Has given Thyla a interesting idea for a future cache.
Thanks for a great day out, which would of otherwise been spent at home vegging on the couch.
TFTC

Found 11:45, we must have missed something because the name didn't make any sense to us before or after visiting GZ [?]

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Homerjay73.

Rather intrigued by the name of this one! Whats that all about? Anyway thankfully we didn't have the troubles experienced by previous finders or should I say no finders. We found it fairly easily after a bit of time looking in a few wrong places. Nice area but again looking rather dry and bare at the moment.
Thanks once more.

I hadn't heard the term for a while.
Didn't get any Chinese Whispers about this cache.
An easy find.
Thanks, Robmc.

10.00am
Found by Roma and Max.
Having read a previous log we ignored the terrain rating and just followed our receivers needle. Although even it misrepresented the final location by just a touch it was close enough for us to make a relatively easy find.
We signed the log and made no exchange.
Thank you once more homerjay73.
Romax.

Getting dark as we got to GZ, and I wasn't about to brave the climb down to search for it.

We'll be back for this one later