Great 'r' Union Blackbutt, New South Wales, Australia
By The Rats on 29-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19JAW

Finally, 4th times a charm! Daylight made it easier!

Simple but took a couple of minutes, pay attention to the hint. As TK21EST said cache is missing lid but still several spots left on the log. Photo for proof of find as left pen at home.

TFTC As previously said the log is quite full but we managed to find a single page and signed

Thank you! Success! Log book full and lid missing also great find at night!

Thanks for the cache Greetings from Estonia!

Log is pretty much full, and cache is missing lid.

Quite the challenge with many muggles around. Luckily there is some place to sit and then you can quickly find it when the time is right! Thanks for the cache.Found with TC216.

I'm not hugely into stats (yet) but when picking which caches to target in Wollongong, I noticed this cache would fill a hole in my D/T grid so I flagged it as a must-do. The area was unusually quiet, maybe due to the shocking weather, but that helped our search. After a quick interpretation of the hint (very creative hint, I like it) it was the luck of the draw who would look in the right spot first. Loci612 got the choccies, and the log was stealthily signed and replaced avoiding the couple of stray muggles wondering the area. TFTC The Rats!

Found with Scaphoid and Loci612 (we signed our initials as SLTs, a sneaky reference to the Heartbreak High reboot). This cache was early on our agenda due to the unique D/T rating. It's been about 11 years since I've been to this part of town, it was nice to rejog my memories. Parked almost as close as you could (Scaphoid got lucky with parking) and then the 3 of us chose a spot to search, Loci being the lucky person who chose wisely. TFTC The Rats!

Hey v, there you be. Rainy night made for a quick grab. Thanks for the hide

Very cool!!!

Clever hint, not too hard. Thank you

TFTF

Good hint, fun to find

SO MUCH FUN

Today we were successful thanks daughter and grandson. No muggles on a Friday afternoon.TFTC!

Located at 1:12pm. #1397.Full log to follow. ! Baruch Hashem! TFTC! Much obliged for the placement The Rats!Kindest Regards, - Alephroom.

Easy find

I took three newbies hunting for the first time and well done to Dylan for 80 finds is the third time I've ever been beaten

Easy find, TFTC!

unsuccessful the first time Id decided to find it again with no luck with a pen because it ran out of ink anyway In the area at the time so close to the cache I decided to find it again. Unsuccessful the first time Id decided to find again the second lucky Id found it.But didnt have a pen to sign the log because it ran out of ink

Third time unlucky! I will find you!!!! One day!

Did not find as there was a few muggles around

Easy find. Needs new paper to sign

Good hint!

Forgot to log this one a while ago

Cute find

Quick little find before barbie - found with Hurley Detectives

I can not fit I think it is missing

Greater find. It was an awesome EVENT after watching a movie.

First find didn’t think I would find it to be honest

I had a few minutes to wait for our take away food to finish cooking so I thought I would find this cache. Unfortunately, the only muggles that I encountered were sitting at the GZ.

As I was typing out my DNF log the geocaching Gods smiled upon me and the teenagers moved on. I quickly swooped in for the fast find. TFTH

Find #: 3,091
Companions: jejems
Muggles: A few, but not paying us any attention
Weather: Lovely morning
Cache condition: Good

My son and I were camping nearby, and decided to go watch a movie during the hottest part of the day. We had enough time before to find this cache - great hint TNLNSL TFTC

DNF revenge. Found in less than a minute this time. No muggles about. TFTC

Quick find, just lucky spotting this in the second spot to look.

#11724 14:05
A day out with Everest High to do a loop around Lake Illaware to find the SES caches from The Rats. When close to our route, we also picked up a few other caches.
It was a great day out; very hot but the cold sea breeze made the drive very pleasant.

GZ was occupied by muggles, so we decided to have a beer at the hotel opposite of the cinema to kill time. Upon return the cache was found quickly thanks to the excellent hint.

TFTC

Great R for Revenge of a previous DNF. OCW It's Dozzie. TFTC The Rats

found the 7 V's but not the geo

hint is very accurate

Found where it should have been but wasn't there.

State of the Union not Great today! Muggle City, must be last minute voucher users.

Nope. Muggle central

We looked like idiots

Found it on a really cold night with the
Cousins Thank you for the find

too many muggles, will be back soon!!

This cache fills a hole in our D/T grid so we targeted it while in the area today. TFTC

Tftn

Wow thanks

Realised pretty quickly what the 7 V’s meant. Without getting my pants wet sitting on the seat in the rain I pretended I was doing up my shoelace (on riding boots) soon had the cache. TFTC

TFTC - nice hide and everything in good condition, good time to go while it's quiet in the area

Lockdown is a great time to find this one no one was around haha

Thank you for this cache! Came at night so I didn’t look too sus, fun easy find

DNF

Going up to have lunch at High Seas. Tad early. Had a look around and no muggles. Quick look and found. Yes found. Put back and same position.

Second attempt, plenty of time but no luck...

Took a bit to find! I am not someone who looks normal crawling on the ground haha TFTC

Fortunately quiet here this morning as Dan got onto his knees to search. Found after several minutes. TFTC The Rats

Clue very helpful! Found with geofriends. I am sure pre-covid this spot was muggle central but today we were the only ones here. TFTC

Persistence paid off in the end! Like others, I'm glad no one was around to witness us looking like wierdos! Tftc!

Good quick find before lunch TFTC

After visiting the physio this morning ducked across for this one. Hint was super helpful. Thankfully no muggles at GZ so after a short search soon had the CIH. Thanks for the hide Rats!

We looking everywhere couldn’t find it. We were pretty sure we were looking where the hint told us to look but no luck.

TFTC

Luckily it was pretty quiet around here otherwise people thought we were weird! Found on the last one we checked, thank you!

After ready a few logs and looking like weirdos, we soon had the cache in hand. We quickly signed the log and replaced as found. Thank you for the cache!

Great hint!! Hahahah
Tftc

Post Chiropractic find yipeee! And my 2nd Cache unfortunately I wasn't so discreet! Hopefully anyone just thought I was mad

Found!

Found not un exact geozone but the hint still applies not sure if coordinates wrong or if cache was moved tftc cheeky spot ive walked past it thousands of times with no idea its there

TFTC found with rofflecopter 5/6/20

Good little cache find for the morning. Found with nosamsti. TFTC

Not so hard heading up from down south no one around and soon found the correct spit

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache The Rats

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

TFTC! Searched high and lovv

On a quiet night at the central hotel decided this time I wasn't to be beaten... Tftc managed a scribble on a full log....

Found with the kids! TFTC

Too many kids I’m screaming.

We’ve been here maybe 4 times before and not been able to find it. Some prevvvvious hints helped us to figure it out as there are some subtle hints. It also helps that kids can roll around on the ground like weirdos and not have anyone pay too much attention. So borrow a child if you don’t have your own!

Of course it had to be the last set I checked. Looks like the log may be full as I was writing on the bit of extra paper that lonely rooster left. TFTC

7/9/4 something is not even about this

Drove down from Sydney to watch a gymnastics comp at Carmel & Co. Had a little time spare, so what better to do on a beautiful Sunday afternoon than cache around.
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I looked in the wrong place at first - took the hint too literally (or should I say, too numerically).
Glad I didn't come on a movie night; this would be an impossible cache.
TFTC The Rats!

I of course checked the two other possible Gaz’s before I found myself at the correct one! Sigh. Out with muggleGeorge and the MIL to see wreck it ralf two. Muggle George got tickets, MIL looked around half heartedly in case she spotted the cache, and I got down to business. Great to have the cache in hand before the movie started so I needn’t worry about a daily on the way home. Signed the loose bit of the log, as the main log book was too stuck to retrieve. Tftc!

All caches were found sometime between 5:49am Friday 2nd and 6:28pm Sunday 4th November.

I’ve been invited to attend a special event in Wollongong on the Saturday, well why not make it a whole weekend away with some caching to go along with it. About a month ago I started looking at caches I could find along the way and noticed that if things go to plan I could make my #1000. This didn’t end up happening. I found out when I approached the GZ’s of a few of the caches I had chosen didn’t have parking space to stop and/or were difficult to find which lead some caches into DNF’s. I did however love finding all the caches I did find and to end on an even happier note the last cache I found was a FTF (GA13111)!!! There were lots of great camos and styles of hides that I hadn’t come across before and new styles for common hides that provided me with plenty of fun and ideas for new caches. Most of the caches I found were in great condition but for the rest of them, the maintenance required is log books/sheets and/or containers need replacing, camo needs replacing, D/T and coordinates need correcting. On some of the smaller logs I signed as 2/11 JM, 3/11 JM and 4/11 JM. TB visit on all found caches over the whole weekend. I would like to thank all CO’s for the caches I found, the locations I visited and for the fun it provided me over the whole weekend!
Weekend totals:
45 Finds (41 Groundspeak and 4 GCA)
4 DNF’s and a lot of drive-bys
Cache Types: 7 (Trad, Virtual, Mystery, WherIGo, Trig-Point, Earth and Multi)

After settling into the motel and having dinner, I decided to attempt this cache in the dark and rain hoping to keep muggles away but unfortunately, I didn't know it was out the front of a movie theatre. This meant for the 20 minutes I spent their I only got about 3 minutes of searching time. This lead me to abandoning the search and leaving a on my account. I wanted the D/T combo for this cache. I hope to return sometime to attempt it again but for now it is a DNF.

P.S. Sorry about the generic log.
P.S.S. All Caches found have been logged in order and backtracked to the correct day.

A look yesterday and too many muggle to start so back this morning early only to some bloke sweeping up so off to get breakie and then back to find a smoke hanging around who finally left. A fast search in lots of place before moving objects to make the find and adding our name in the log. TFTC

Finally got it, on a quiet night with no one about. Had just seen Mission Impossible... which seemed apt until tonight. Vvvvery happy to tick it off the list.

I have found that cache

Found while OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *Little Kitten*. TFTH.

Found -- 3:10pm -- Thanks for the hunt and Thanks for bringing us here to this location *The Rats*.

**Cache Condition:** Good
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.
**Trackables:** None seen in this cache today.

**The Cache**
The good thing about having little inquisitive kids around is they can nosey into everything and no one pays much attention and they fob off what kids are doing while us big kids can play on our phones. Oh why do they have to grow up. We arrived here and I sat down enjoying the sun while playing with my phone. There were some muggles around who eventually disappeared, and no security guards, all the while the kids were running around snooping for a cache but it took some time to find. Later looking on *Google Earth* **the Cache has succumbed to cache creep**. We SL and returned cache to its hide'y hole **NOT in GZ location** but the **cache creep location - the Hint still applies**.

**The Day**
Looks like it's a *Rats* day out today with all the caches found belonging to *The Rats*. OCW *Little Kitten* and *DustyJapserJet*. I finally completed solving the SES series of caches Yippee !! It has been a challenge but I got there in the end. With that finally done I was keen to head out and complete the series by ticking off the finds. Today was the day to undertake that task. I had hoped to find them all but we didn't leave home until lunch time and various things held up the progress getting from one cache to another, still I have made more than a start.

9 = 7 2 0 [8)] not attempted.

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***Please Respect peoples caches - money, time and effort that has gone into them.***

Thank you for the cache hide and the interesting puzzles.

Yay!! After 4 attempts we finally found this allusive little cache, thanks to the efforts of the geokids
TFTC

Two phone a friends finally revealed the container. Frustrating cache. I appreciate what it is and all that but we couldn't avoid attracting unwanted attention and a couple security guards. Despite all this we managed to make the grab without witnesses. Just took a long time.

Its no secret I am no fan of finding urban caches but it was on the list today so look we did. One minute no muggles and the next they appeared out of no where along with security guards. Three different areas of the hint to choose from and today the co ords did not help despite it being a nice day. Turns out I was sitting on it, figures right!
OCWF SL TFTH

Found thank you

Well what better way to spend my birthday than being out and about with my besty, Happy Uke. And so off we went to the Wollongong region to bring some no-good dirty caches to justice.
This was out first one for the day after dining out at the nearby food court and checking out what was on at the local cimema.
Thanks!

Finalf29 and I made a trip down to the gong to celebrate his B'day, distribute Chrissy presents to family, see my sister's new house and... cache of course. We had a great day, but with all our commitments and such high humidity, we were very lucky to find nine.

This was our first for the day. Wow so many watchful muggles coming and going!!... "have you lost something mate?"... finally we realised where it was, but it did take us a little patience to retrieve and then a bit longer to put back. Great game of "high muggle caching". Thanks for the fun

Didn’t even know it was here and my mums like “You got this yet?” Lol Tftc

Found

I was at the halfway point between Sydney and my destination of Minnamurra to visit family when I realised I hadn't updated my geopooches tick treatment (it's getting warmer-yay!). Popped in to Pet Barn to do that and lucky for me there was a cache nearby just asking to be found Strangely enough, when I was explaining Geocaching to my sister-in-law later that night I showed her the attached pic of my pooch outside the cinema & she said "I work across the road from there!". TFTC and for showing me where she works

Out today with Bob the Minion. Did what we had to do in the Square and then popped over to get this one in broad daylight. Very few muggles around so must have just missed the midday movie rush. TFTC Rats

This one has been driving us nuts. A mix of muggles and just no luck searching so far on 3 occasions. Maybe 4th time lucky as it reads like it's cleverly hidden so assuming it's still there!

Waiting to pic up Beemyshell, The BOY and I had 20min spare and decided to check on this one, as we had previously found it.. and after a little wait for muggles to move we had CIH. It's still in place.