No TV and no Beer make Homer something somethig... Yan Yean, Victoria, Australia
By homerjay73 on 06-Feb-08. Waypoint GC1965J

Attempted from a download to gps many months ago, so didn't know it had been archived. Road work finished, but think it might be better to archive permanently due to houses to be built etc.

This has been collected by a great GeoTeam, thanks for that and sorry for the delay in archiving this.
I hope this has not interupted too many of you guys.
Kind Regards
HJay.

I did email the owner when we found (and grabbed it), but got no response. I still have the cache safely here, and will keep an eye on the roadworks and replace it when they are finished.

This should've been disabled by the owner when he heard it had been removed...

Due to extensive roadworks, we had to park at one end, and hug the fenceline to get to GZ.
As we were logging the cleverly camo-ed cache, a worker approached us from seemingly nowhere to ask our reason for being there.
As he didn't seem too satisfied, and was worried about the safety of future cachers, we decided to take this cache witth us to return to owner for another day.
Our thanks to Homerjay73 for another great cache that we were loathe to let disappear, SL

Found on an epic (for me) days caching with bogonghazy. This was the 14th for the day, but only my 9th as I had done 5 previously.

Apologies to homerjay73...
This area is having major road works/ road construction done and the workmen weren't visible as we approached. As we were logging one appeared suddenly and questioned us. He was unimpressed and made it clear that he thought it was too dangerous for people to be there.

Rather than letting them grab the cache and it be destroyed, we grabbed it (with its lovely camo)... I'll mail you with contact info.

Found while on a caching day out - tftc tnln

Last one for the day, good hide, thanks

Found By The Lone Random,
W The Empire.
@ 7.30pm.
Clever hide.
Congratulations to The Empire on your 600th find.
TFTC, The Lone Random

Found by The Empire
7/2/10 @ 7:30pm with The Lone Random
*** FIND NUMBER 600 ***
Very happy with this one as it took a little bit of searching to find, very well earned 600th find! Thanks!
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Found nice and easy but waited till HIghFlyer1 found it as this was his first like that

Nice Cammo missed first try. found by HighFlyer1 + theChef

Nice Cammo HomerJ! Over looked it to start off with but went back for a second look and there it was. TNLNSL T4TC

My second attempt and this time with success as cache was in habd at 1825 hours.

Very clever - The cache really blends in

Hi Homerjay - great hide - the plastic bag in which the log book is placed in has a lot of holes in it. Thought you may appreciate the feed back. Freckles1

Cool! A HJ day sounds great, I'm so glad that all you guy's and gal's enjoy my work.
I am currently suffering from a busted knee and am strugling to get out and drop some more,but I would love to get a few more out before HJ day!

Cheers
Hjay

King Jnr with the family in the car meters away.

Another good HJ cache and drive by on the way home form the Whilttlesea show. It had been a very hot but exciting day a we enjoyed the show, the animals and the steam engines. We even by chance ran into some friends from the other side of town. I felt awfully strong lifting the cache and carrying it in both hands to the car so that my queen could witness the log signing. After we left we came across a serious car accident on the main road - but with already many helping out and unhappy tired kids in the back I decided after checking all was in had that I would be in the way if we stayed so we moved on.

Thanks again HJ, I have been thinking of coming up this way to spend the day doing your caches - HJ Day coming soon.....

Ha, Ha, very nice. Found in the end. SLTNLN.

Nope not that hard at all! Clever cache! Surburbia spreading like wildfire out here. T4TC

Found @ 2025.

Found with ggkof on our usual Tuesday night caching conjecture. Last of the night. Cache was found with no problems.

Found @ 20:20. Last of 10 caches tonight while out caching with davroy. 2nd one of this type of hide tonight. It's been a cold windy night and now it's raining as well so time to go home. TFTC TNLNSL

Find # 368 @ 18:30 in the rain and 21st and last for the day of caching in the area.
Walked past it twice before I realised. Nice camo. TNLNSL TFTC

good cache!-thanks

we stopped for lunch...but they didn't start till 12 so we came out caching again. nice camo!

Go crazy? Don't mind if I do .

This was our most northerly find on our chilly trek to the outer 'burbs tonight. Another clever camo job from HJ73 but we were soon logging the find at 21:45 after a short search.

TNLNSL, although our night cache geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks homerjay73, now it's time to turn the car homewards.

My accountant had rung and said "Quick, you need to do 10 more caches before 1 July in order to qualify for the Rudd Geocaching Stimulus Bonus". So I rounded up the dog and EuDes (I relented and allowed him to sit in the front seat) and we set off in a northerly direction on a cold but increasingly clear night.

This cache was my #7 of 10 on the "End of Financial Year Frenzy" night-time expedition (subtitled: "Exploring the new housing estates in the dark whilst freezing your bum off"). The well-camo'ed cache was uncovered by EuDes' torchlight after a short search at 21:45.

Thanks homerjay73.

Found by caughtatwork at 1:08
A nice easy find by big sister J in Springfield today. Nasty thorny rose nearby nearly took off some skin.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks homerjay73 for this caching experience today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

I found this cache with caughtatwork today. I saw a Kookaburra on the power line it was cute.

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

Another quick little find in the new 'burbs.

TFTC!

Here with Big Matt and Steeba as part of our Vic invasion weekend. The urban sprawl has nearly consumed this cache.
Thanks

2346.

Found this cache on our Victorian Invasion trip with Steeba and The Rats. Another well camouflaged cache. No muggle would spot it but a good find.

Thanks homerjay73 for the cache.

TNLNSL

Find # 2780 and 18th of the day at 2:43 pm. Accompanied by Iain from the Swaggies on a day out caching in a area we both havnt been to for some time. Easy find, nice camo, TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx Homerjay73....

Yay found this one on such a lovely Easter Sunday!

Took - pencil rubber

Left - soldier

Shadowwomen

Oh, now this one was cool, but my well trained eye spotted it:)

TFTC

Saw this one from the car en route, nice ans easy find after finding similar ones of late. Thanks for this hide! TNLN

20 of 32. Love the cammo on this and another like it today. Saw lots of urban sprawl today, but not sure it's progress. Thanks homerjay73.

Found at night using a torch. This was very well disguised, and we were impressed by your efforts. TFTC.

Found today with Snakecatcher and Flathead Matt at 8:40am. Up doing a bit of clean up work at Camp Warringal for the last few days and thought some cache's on the way up would be good. Great hide ( some things aren't always what they seem ?? ) Thanks Homerjay 73.

Found with snakecatcher and shane.thompson while on the way home from doing bushfire clean up work in Whittlesea area. Loved the camo, you will have to send me info on how you made it.

LOVE the camo!!!!!!
Found with Flathead Matt and Shane.Thompson while up this area forsome bushfire clean up.
TFTC NINO

You little devil you!

GZ was off by atleast 10 meters, and I was looking for a different kind of camo to what I found.

All I can say is OMG! Finding this one made me feel good again.

TFTC

Alas, this one was making me "go crazy". I just couldn't find it. I know how well HJ can do camo on his caches, and I do have to say, they look amazing. But this one the the 4th of the day, and 3rd DNF. The GPSr had me between the road and where I thought it would be.

On the bright side, there wasn't any dust or wind to contend with today, however the flies were making me "go crazy" too.

Another one where I will need some help with.

Clever hide. Yep, another piece of land being "developed."
Very nice area though...
TFTC

Another DNF for the day. Not for the lack of trying, oh no. Because of all the damn flies and the wind. OH GOD the wind today is horrible. Dust, flies and the wind. Bad combo. I will try this cache another day. One with less wind. And flies

Impressive camo here. Found at 12:30, took nothing, left smiley eraser and pen pet. Watch out for that well camoed barbed wire as well!!! Cheers.

2nd try at this one, and Mrs Monch comes up with the big win. Nice hide, and this time I didn't nearly cut my leg off on the hidden barbed wire...

TNLN TFTC

Found at 1340. Last time a came by here, the road was closed for roadworks, but today I found nothing of the sort, and found the cache in the first place I looked. Great job on the camo and cache container. Very well done.

Thanks.

Last find for Bumblebee from Ballbag&Bumblebee while she was in Melbourne. While Bumblesister looked after Bumbleniece, Bumblebrother-in-law joined in the hunt. We were all quite suprised by this cache and the nature of the hiding spot. After figuring out how to open the container, we signed the log book and returned the cache to GZ. TNLN. The urban sprawl has really made an impact on this area. TFTC.
B&B

Found by Mary & David at 1402. We're used to the urban sprawl where we are at Hoppers Crossing, but this area is impressive in its scale. TNLN. Our thanks to homerjay73 once again.

Found 1.40pm
Nice easy drive by with great cammo, however the strong arm of the Spruce Mooses struck again here, I recon I lost most of my fingerprints unscrewing the end !!!.

TNLNSL

TFTC homerjay73

Found as part of our Mernda/Doreen day trip. This nearly made Adam GO CRAZY! But it was just the GPS playing up again, the find was made eventually Thanks for the cache.

Found along with 3daygrowth.
TFTC

Great cammo - made easier by the fact that we'd found a similar one of yours earlier.
Many thanks.

Thanks to Trimble field notes I realised until today 18/04/09 I had not logged this cache.
From my notes I arrived at the cache location whilst in the area for work. there was construction going on some distance away but thankfully far enough for me not to be noticed.
The cache was well disguised and found in the 3rd place I checked.
TNLN
Thanks for the cache.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "a cache a day makes one work, rest and play" Coffee Clan.

Found at 3.40pm GAFF1. What a great job with the camo. p-pprass had just recently commissioned a guy at work to do something very similar. This will be a cache that will be talked about for years to come. Thanks homerjay73.

Found @ 1340 while on a Whittlesea cache hunt. Clever hide and was lucky to find fairly quickly which helped to avoid close by builders becoming suspicious of my actions.

TNLN TFTC

We are not doing too well with some of the HJ73 caches although we keep trying. However this one was relatively straight forward recalling other camo techniques. The housing estates are creeping closer. TNLN

Found by Team Ladava 5.15 pm
Nice bit of camouflage but a quick find
TNLN
Our thanks again to homerjay73

A great hide to finish the day.
Found by torch light.

Rated: for Overall Experience

We pulled up and had to wait for a tip truck to deposit its load before we could begin searching for the cache. Joleen searched in vain only to be shown up by the old master who walked straight to it. Unlucky and wet Joleen!!
TNLNSL
Thanks homerjay73 for another clever hide.

Number 23 of 25 finds in our "Epping and beyond" day out. Found at 4.25pm. Quick find after seeing similar containers from you today, homerjay! Like a previous finder, we had some difficulty opening it, but eventually got it open. TNLNSL.

Geoson organised a caching expedition for us today. This was number 8 of 10 we found today and the 6th homerjay73 cache.

Another good camo job. Container was a little hard to open, but I managed in the end. Took the TB. Thanks once more homerjay73.

GPS was going nuts today, but found it in the end. I like this kind of hide.
Peace out

16:50 was the time this cache was found! This cache hunt was completed with Scooters Mob on our joint geocaching expedition. TNLNSL SL TFTC

Dropped Evil Knievel Coin

605 Found @ 16:50 with Next! TNLNSL Thanks For The Cache

We sympathised with the predicament in the title as we searched, although it was short as the clever container was soon found. thanks homerjay73.

Found 200806291525 . I've seen some like this before but this is definitely one of the better ones [^]

IN: The Key to the Kingdom TB

Cheers HomerJay

P.S. I didn't see any beer or TV anywhere near GZ [:p]

Ninth of twenty two cache finds for the day in the company of Alansee, the cache was found at 1220. Had no trouble on this one as I have seen a few of them now, No no beer or TV here, poor homer. Thanks homerjay73 for the cache.

1.45pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Once again there was quite a busy construction area over the road from GZ, but far enough away as to not interfere with our search.
Good numbers had us searching pretty much on top of our find.
Your camo efforts are very effective and we think this is probably the best of its type we have ever come across in our searches!
We SL & made no exchange.
Thank you once more homerjay73 for the effort you have gone to in fabricating and placing this cache.
Romax.

No luck finding this one, but it was pretty dark and we did manage to slice ourselves up on the well-hidden barbed wire.

I'll be back...

Having found this camo MANY times already today by this owner, an easy find. Took Geocoin, TFTC,

They have closed off the access to this road from the main road, but the detour was well marked (and we picked up another cache on the way!). No one around this time of night, so it was a quick find. Nice camo job though.
Thanks, Robmc.

Robmc found this one before I even got out of the car so it was another easy find even though the hide is quite clever. Very clever I should say really. Dropped a coin here that I've hung onto for way too long now.
Thanks again Homerjay

Literally walked straight up to this one and found it immediately. Having seen this MO before no doubt helped.

TFTC.

Found at 1440 hrs. A bit of cross country driving had us at GZ in notime.
Thanks homerjay73

Found 12:45, a nice easy find in nice location.

TNLN, CSI=3, thanks homerjay73.

Found by Bob at 1300

Proceeding on to this one from the neighbouring new estate (and the "Eat the pudding" cache) I passed the most amazing looking old Red Gum which has been preserved beside a playground block - it would make quite a feature on which to hide a cache . Anyway, on arriving at GZ this cache was a nice, quick find - although the camo was really good.

Thanks again Homerjay73

This is another homerjay73 cache. One of 30 caches found today in company with Kiwideb and Muzza on another great day out. The weather was perfect, the company excellent, the caching fantastic; although I am still trying to work out the connection between the names and these caches[?]Good camo job though. Thanks for the cache

TNLNSL

On a caching day with Muzza and Barcoder cache # 13 of 30 today. My thanks to homerjay73 for the cache.

Found by WINE TIMERS at 20.57 on the 18/02/08

Nice easy find going on dark.
Top camo job.

Thanks homerjay73

The countryside would have been a much more pleasant view than the building materials nearby, I think the comments in the cache notes sum it up well! Having seen this hide type a couple of times now it was an obvious immediate find, not so easy for newbies and muggles though I'm sure.

Cheers Homerjay,

R - B

A QUICK fins and log, it is depressing seeing so much housing with no back yards, or room to move poping up in the area.

Luck Dogs Crew

This was cache # 8 of 20 today. Another good job of the camo, but a nice immediate find. Took the geocoin. My thanks again to homerjay73 for the cache.

We found our 6th Homerjay cache at 6:15pm as the 10th of 12 on our Warrandyte to Yan Yean Ramble. A nice hide and a 4TF on the first day out for this cache. Our arrow was pointing a few metres east of GZ. Thanks for the cache from D & H B-A.

Found by pocketrocket&friends on 9/2/08 at 9.20am.

Living close by, we were hopeful that today was the day we would be successful with our FTF. As we approached GZ, we saw a car on the side of the road and knew that we left our run too late.

After introductions, pickupfamily gave us the news that feathertop was there first! It was lovely to meet you pickupfamily, happy caching!

Intrepid mother made the find quite easily after a little poke around.

TFTC homerjay. Left an Absolute Caching coin to continue its journey

FTF at 8.53am. I must admit I am surprised at the tardiness of the Northern cachers to let me grab this one first. Would have been nice to meet up at the cache site but alas, another day. Another neat hide and with several to get in this area, I was soon on my way. thanks Homerjay.

Found by Pickupfamily Dad and kids Pickup Dragon and Pickup Tiger at 0905hrs, we must have missed feathertop by less than 10 minutes. We should have been quicker leaving home, lol!

Another good camo job but found quite easily, thanks homerjay73. TNLN.

As we were signing the log, another car turned up, which it turned out, contained pocket rocket and friends. We rehid the cache and watched them hunt whilst having a great chat. It was lovely to meet you.

Rated: for Overall Experience

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