Wooden Work 26 The Magpie Poowong, Victoria, Australia
By Team Crackers on 11-Feb-08. Waypoint GC199ZZ

With limited places to hide a container and limited time to sort it our we are archiving this one.

perhaps we can make a well camoed container in the future and return it.

Cache is missing, checked it this evening.

Thanks to wyrdsister for checking on this cache for us and letting us know it is gone.

We will sort it out after the Australia Day rush is over.

Sounded easy but we searched for a fair while...

Had to wait for about 30 minutes for some muggles to move on. Had a good look around without being disturbed. No luck.
TFTC.

Was fun!

Another easy find for us on our circuitous route back to Wonthaggi. TFTC. Gets onto our Fav List just for the woodwork!

Yesterday sorry about thw late post

Tftc

TFTC

I dropped of a cool Travel Bug (TB)

TFTC! Clever hide

Came here early this morning & again later this afternoon & could not lay our hands on this one. Will have to have another go at a later date. TFTC

A little bit of creep had occurred but eventually found. Tftc. Took tb.

Tool a little searching but we eventually found this cache. Always liked this series and this is another great piece. TNLTBSL. TFTC. KeMS

Had looked for this one before but had not found it. Glad to have this one in hand this time.

Found this cache pretty quick. In a very clever hiding spot.

Sadly could not locate this one. Have been here before and have looked but to no avail. Based in the hint there seems to be very few places it could be and we have tried looking in them all! Will have to come back again for another try.

Great wooden work of magpie
Thanks for bring me here and cache

Great place for a cache! Carn the pies!!!

found with geo friend and wal-len

NO luck Lady in the store said it had been seen scattered on the ground but she had a look with me but no luck.

Found with Izzy Seb and geo daughter. Had to get down and get dirty, but managed to find it.
Thanks Team Crackers.

Sadly coundn't find this one. There were quite a few muggles around so it made it a little difficult to be discrete, but still with the photos and the hint, could not locate. Will have another go another day.

Cache was lying in the open with nothing in it when we arrived. Replaced log book, and hid in a slightly different spot so the hint is no longer applicable. CO has been emailed. Thanks for the cache.

Easy to find but had to dodge mugglers to return it. TFTC.

Quick find dodging muggles as they drove past, but Poowong was pretty much a sleepy hollow this morning. TFTC

YAY - found it with a geobuddy while on a drive through Lardner, Ripplebrook and Athlone on our way to Loch. Love the Magpie - someone has spent a lot of time carving this Maggie. Thanks Team Crackers for the cache. Took: nothing Left: nothing - just enjoyed the work involved in creating this Big Bird.

Yes. I do remember this big bird being down the road. Have a picture of my motorcycle parked up against it somewhere. Cache found safe and well in its hidy hole. TNLN Picked up a cool GC to move on. Thanks Team Crackers for the cache.

Re-visited the Magpie today on our way home to deposit a Geo-coin. We were only coming up with nanos today and I knew that the magpie would be happy to accept it.

TFGC

Quick find while working in poowong. Thanks team crackers. TNLN

easy find, thanks

Quick find while out with La Mina. TFTC!

Out with Crigithis for some Jan 29 finds. Enjoyed some of the local fish n chips before a quick find. TFTC.

Found on a Sunday drive to clean up come close by caches. Our Sunday drives will need to extend beyond the hour mark. Thanks Team Crackers

10th for the day

Team Mornington (saulman1010, hazey1 & myself)
another in this fantastic series down. on to the next.
TFTC

Yey! kids back at school!!
What am I gonna do? Grab the caching bag of course!!
Hazey1's was already in area so off we trot together, only to find another member of Team Mornington, Skip2992 beside the road caching - Double Yey!! The team complete we teamed up to grab a few caches in the happy hunting grounds – Gippsland
Quick grab from under the noses of muggles at nearby shop.
TFTC
SL

TFTC, Quick and easy, while muggles too busy chatting around the front; found with Team Morno (Saulman1010, Skip2992 and myself)

TFTC Just a few muggels coming out of the pool,cant say i blame them on such a hot day SL

Found this cache quickly. Felt like I was getting the evil eye the whole time though. TFTC

This entry was edited by walenators on Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 09:14:00 UTC.

The pool was a popular spot to be today in Poowong! It's 4:45pm and still 34 degrees so I'm not surprised. The things you see in little country towns! TFTC

This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 09:15:10 UTC.

Took a drive while on a family weekend for a couple of finds. Found quickly using the hint so we didn't attract too much attention. Thanks Team Crackers for my 200th GC cache.

What a cute town!

Found during my trip around, found easy nice area and small town.

Found today on our way to the Great Ocean Rd. What a gorgeous little town. Thanks fo bringing us here. TNLN

took dinosaur left crystal.

Great Magpie!!!! TFTF

No GPS required for this one.

TFTC

Found today before a pleasant counter lunch at the local pub. tftc, tnln.
Cv.

Nice quick find. Great wooden works in the area. SL TNLN

A nice easy find in the middle of town. I don't think we would have seen this sculpture if it wasn't for the cache. Thanks!

usually i like magpies,
but as they beat my beloved bombers in the anzac day afl match, there was tension in the air
found the cache fairly easily after hint
thank you tnlnsl

Quick find on day out caching,
TFTC, signed log.

I'm sure if a car went by they would have thought us a bit strange, but when we uncovered it a bit Geo Kiddie Number 3 pounced on it like a hawk from about 1 metre away.Done swaps. TFTC

Had to wait for a muggler to move but we did find it. SL TFTC

I felt a bit exposed getting this one, but there was nobody about so no worries. Nice piece of artwork, thanks Crackers.

Quick find with Dunko on an after work cache run TFTC SL

Quick find with Slink1 on another of our after work adventures TFTC SL

A few muggles around.
Took: Frog
Left: Keyring.
TFTC

Nice quick find did swaps sl tftc

found at 1.30. This one is a little harder to get to with being seen. Great carving sneaky hide. TFTC TNL1

Reasonably easy to find no one around which help

A quick find on a saturday morning with noone about.Nice carving. TNLN.TFTC

A couple of attempts to sort out left from right [:p] had the cache in hand...

A quick retrieval during a heavy shower of rain. Great sculpture. Thanks for the hide.

Out for a night cache run with Coverthypnosis. Another quick find after just doing WW2 . . just down the road. Another interesting piece of art. TFTC.

Thanks, great hiding spot. find 1 of 10 today.
TFTC SL TNLN

Found it first with coley_babee and bro!!

Nice and easy to find, on a quiet day.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found quite easily by my buddy on her second cache outing!!

Good hide thankfully it was nice and quiet around town

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found at 1240 while waiting for muggles to leave other cache in area had to use stealth here luckily area very quite TNLN TFTC

Nice hide and found after waiting for muggle Mum and babe to depart the scene. TFTC SL
TNLN
Greynomads

TNLNSL
TFTC

searched under the bird from all directions but could not locate cache

We thought this one looked familiar however couldn't remember where the last hiding postion was... Very clever hide, we did unfortunately went for the clue! TFTC : )

Found by Mary & David at 1300. Good to see this bird in his new home. It's a good place for him near the Club. Our thanks again to Team Crackers for giving us a reason to return.

This cach would have been a lot easier if it wasn't such a hot day and the nearby pool wasn't open. Nic hide TFTC.

732. Found with aide of the clue. as it was a hot day and a pool next door, Thanks Team Crackers for showing us this piece of artwork & the cache.

Found at 0855 hours, I set out on a mission to find a particular cache.
This one happened to be on my way there so I grab it.
Early find meant not to many muggles about.
TNLN SL
TFTC

Thankyou for this cache,. I used to live here and go to school here for many years. While on holiday we flew through here to see how things have changed. Thanks for the step back in time. left frog took pebbles.

No problem hunting this one down, even at 3pm on a sunny winter Monday. Nice hide.

TNLN TFTC

Find # 390 @ 10:50 and 2nd for the day.
Nice to see that it is still here, the magpie that is. Hmmm, there seems to be a frog theme going on in this cache with two frogs already here. So now there are three. TNSL TFTC

Found @ 1240 with 4 yo & 5 month old geo-daughters after visiting friends at their new house in Heath Hill. Resorted to the hint as I didn't want to linger too long and attract too much attention. Lucky I did as I would have been there a while!

Great sculpture, Go Pies!!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

OK I am guilty of not logging caches over the last year or two. Due to 2 operations and rehab it has made it difficult to log caches even though I have been mostly chair bound sitting for short times has been difficult as well.
What I have done is create this log in an attempt to bring our found and DNF's up to date so I can resume my normal habit of stories rather than a TNLN - TFTC.
Most of these logs will not include the owners team name so I think it is appropriate to say a Big Thank the cache owners for their caches and some wonderful memories of caching adventures.
Also thanks to Team Crackers who have made our caching trips so much fun and their help in working out what caches we did and when.
Regards
Mr.Coffee and the "I promise I wont let this happen again after all these coffee's er I mean caches are drunk er I mean logged" Coffee Clan.

FlyingPigSquadron has landed!
Quick easy find on a quiet warm afternoon before the long weekend crowds.
TN left 'fairy stones'
TFTH & C Team Crackers - a great series

Very nice sculpture. I always like grabbing these woodworks when I am near them. At this time of the morning retrieval was easy. TFTC

I love these sculptures. This one was out in open a bit so i covered back over.
SL TFTC Nellyjr

Found by Bob at 1235

Thank god for the hint for this one (and the other one nearby) - I'd sure hate to try to conduct a thorough search in this location without it! Surprisingly, for a week day this area had all the liveliness of a morgue and I was really beginning to wonder if any of the businesses were actually open - although, I guess many of these little spots rely on a bit of the tourism trade these days and it's probably a lot busier on weekends.

TNLN

Thanks again Team Crackers

PS I noticed another sculpture of, what appeared to be, Simpson's Donkey as I was exiting the town.

2000 re-logging due to name change

Found @ 0856 on a Speedy Sunday Stealth Search Session. Had to bypass this one and do the other wooden work down the road as there was someone waiting at GZ for the stockfeed place to open. Upon return I was able to park right next to the magpie and grab the cache.

TNLNSL

Nice sculpture. It is good to see such works of art find a perminant home where they are wanted.
The rain had dried up by the time we got here, but I still managed to find a puddle for Hell+Back to step in incase she was getting too dry!
Took: Geocoin Cockatoo
thanks, Robmc.

11th cache of a touring day with robmc which started in sunshine then degenerated to wind & rain which was starting to abate by the time we got here. This time it was my side of the car parked next to GZ so it was a quick job to nip out & find the cache (having opted for a sneak peek at the hint as we made our soggy way here in the rain). I like the spot & the maggie - I wonder if it was sculpted by the same person who created Phillip Island's koala & other sculptures?

Our last cache for the day. Now a long drive home before we get up grumpy and late tomorrow morning for work/school!
Cache took a min to find and was very well hidden. Glad we got it at the time we did.
No one was around. Anywhere. In the whole town. All gone.
Took Nurse GC, Dropped off Coin.
Thanks for the cache!

Dropped off coin.

Location find was easy but one muggle gave me a long wait. He kept entering the nearby store and returning to his car with goods only to repeat the process several times. Eventually he took off and I was free to search. Quick find. I did the old WW version some time ago. Left a frog clicker and Geocoin

oops, forgot to list Geocoin

2nd go as the first time there was ppl every where

TNLN SL TFTC

First one for the day. Easy enough to find. Swapped mobile phone charm for a sticker.

Found this one at 10.15pm so there wasn't many muggles around at this time of night.

So does Team Cracker wander the roads of Australia looking for these things? lol. A good statue and a monty for a WW cache. Glad to have the specific clue otherwise I could have been toppling certain items and that would not have been good! thanks Team Crackers for the cache.