GEGP #8 - Scrap Metal Heathwood, Victoria, Australia
By Rebel Acts on 15-Jul-08. Waypoint GC1E4KH

Still hasnt been checked lots of dnfs looked again today

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Hasnt been found in very long time needs to be checked asap look for 15 mins

Was in the area and was grabbing caches as I passed through. Parked near the published WP and began to walk down the trail to GZ. Unfortunately didn't read the logs before arriving. A cleanup has definitely taken place here and cache is no where to be seen. Enjoy the walk and pondered at how fast some cyclists zoomed by here. Perhaps a speed limit needs to be signed for these speed demons.

TFTH

Had a good look but no joy:-(

May need to be checked. No finds since early last year and comments re big cleanup.

Searched for a few minutes without luck and given the level of difficulty we wondered if this was still here. This has not been found since early last year and there are also comments about a big cleanup. May need to be checked.

I spent ages looking for this one but to no avail- I would have replaced it but I didn't have a notepad on me. Bit of a far walk to not find anything!

I actually had downloaded this one a year or 2 ago when I started geocaching. I could not log it as I was not a 'full' member then. As I regularly pass this one, just want to report that there has been quite a BIG clean up here. Have not stopped to check, but would not be suprised if it has gone with the cleanup. Next time I'm out that way I will check.

I couldn't find this one at all. We were at GZ for about twenty minutes searching and couldn't find anything. Not sure if I'm being stupid, or the cache is gone.

No sign of this one today, and I notice that it hasn't been found (or looked for) for quite some time.

Found this last year with BelleAkelea but realised hadn't logged it!! Doh

Well, I bought myself a new bicycle this afternoon And I thought it only fitting that the first I ride take would be to this cache, along a bike path not *too* far from home. I took the scenic route there (4.8km) and the shortest route home (3.3km). I get the feeling that I'm not going to be able to walk tomorrow!
Anyway, it took me a few minutes to locate the cache, but it really was quite obvious in the end
Thanks for the cache, Rebel Acts! I hope to pick up a lot more geocaches as I enjoy my new bicycle in the coming weeks, months, years...

Found while riding part of the East Link Trail. I deliver to a warehouse the other side of the wire most weeks and it was doing my head in being so close but not within reach. This was the reason for my ride today. A nice big hidden in full view cache.
Thanks Rebel Acts for the cache

Out for the afternoon to find a couple of caches around Ringwood.
Mr. Coffee made his way to find the rather large container.
Thanks Rebel Acts for the cache,
Regards The Coffee's.

Cool cache container. Wasn't hidden when I found it but doesn't really need to be. Kind of blends with its surrounds. Needs a new log, no room to write on. Took 2 trackables to move them along.

Found with tomo134.
TFTC

TFTC

Night hunting with balukee. . Yep we picked wrong side but managed to retrieve it and sign log. Tftc

[green]Find #2290...[/green]
Apologies for the late log... [B)]

Found this whilst on my way to "Major Tom to Ground Control Event"... [blue]Day #97[/blue] of my caching streak...
Nice hide too...
Thanks for bringing me here...
- P

Found while out on my 30min walk-a-day corporate challenge. More exciting then the cache was discovering the backbone of eastlink, and the workplace my Bro-in-law used to work at. I can finally picture where he doesn't work. That'll be useful to me in so many ways. TFTC

I had left my phone and GPSr at home, but looked online for a lunch-time cache while in the area. With the help of Google maps/satellite view, I had some idea where to look at I walked down the Eastlink trail. Walked up and down and considered the logic of looking for a cache without GPS assistance but just as I was about to give up spotted the nicely crafted cache. TFTC.

Nice walk down the hill to GZ and back after work. All in good order, nice container.
TFTC Rebel Acts

Easy ride-by while on my long Sunday ride. I hadn't planned on doing any caching today, but the icon showed up on my GPS (mounted on my handlebar), so I just had to stop! I didn't read the description or logs, so was looking for something completely different. Then spotted the container and had the log signed in no time. T4TC Rebel Acts!

Found this as part of a 35km bike ride that I had been planning for some time. This one number 2 of 31 for the days ride. Took a little longer than it should had, but found it. TFTC.

Found at 14:43
I had a bit of free time so decided to pick up the next the series. Not too many muggles out today except for one cabinet maker on the other side of the fence at gz. I was able to extract the cache without him seeing and it was soon signed and replaced.
I've lived off Middleborough rd since before Eastlink was opened so I appreciate not having to battle traffic though the back streets of Doncater every night.
Thanks Rebel Acts for the cache.

Out for a gentle peruse of the passing cars and occassional bicycle, while my own polluter was being serviced, so their was less chance of it polluting and using excessive resources while on my trips along east link. Great to see some recycling in place. Cache was an easy find.
Tftc tnln

This entry was edited by Paul_the_Hippy on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 09:49:10 UTC.

Being such a nice afternoon i decided to get out on my bike and hit up some more of the local caches. I wasn't until part way through the ride to the first one did i realise just how hot the day would be. But all good. Each cache i found during the day had some good shade to rest near by.

I was dying out there. Eastlink does not have enough shade along its paths. So i kept on riding until i got in the shadow of the Toll cameras 100m up to check my location and about the cache. Then a quick ride back, retrieved the find. Which is great to see something that large along here. And then rode off again to get out of the midday sun.

Found with nirgalagrin... now I have my own account.

13:16

I'd reached the point where this is one of the closer concentrations of caches, so sat and quickly gathered the numbers needed for the solution in anticipation of a chance for a visit. That chance came earlier than expected.



With her 13-year adventure due to start on Monday, this was Short-stuff's last chance to do whatever she wants for a while. I'd promised she could ride her bike yesterday, just before the deluge, so she was keen to do so today. Well, what a great team we make, she on two wheels, and me on foot...



It's a bit of a walk from the nearest parking, but with her bike in the car, it was easy for my small companion to reach GZ while I trotted beside her. Shielded from the activity on both sides of us, I made the find quickly enough to suit Short-stuff, who admired the contents while I signed the log. Then, with the odd gentle shove, she proudly rode back to the waiting vehicle.



#1364

13:16
I'd reached the point where this is one of the closer concentrations of caches, so sat and quickly gathered the numbers needed for the solution in anticipation of a chance for a visit. That chance came earlier than expected.

With her 13-year adventure due to start on Monday, this was Short-stuff's last chance to do whatever she wants for a while. I'd promised she could ride her bike yesterday, just before the deluge, so she was keen to do so today. Well, what a great team we make, she on two wheels, and me on foot...

It's a bit of a walk from the nearest parking, but with her bike in the car, it was easy for my small companion to reach GZ while I trotted beside her. Shielded from the activity on both sides of us, I made the find quickly enough to suit Short-stuff, who admired the contents while I signed the log. Then, with the odd gentle shove, she proudly rode back to the waiting vehicle.

#1364

Parked at the northern end of the bike trail in a 30 minute only park so I had to make it quick. Good news was the walk took about 6-7 minutes.
I arrived just when the factory workers were leaving so made it hard to look around so I looked around out of sight behind the fence which I knew it wasn't there but just in case my GPS was out a bit.
Anyway a few minutes later I made the find, nice to have a large cache for a change.
TFTC and the walk, made in back to my car park with 10 minutes to spare.

Found it straight away on the second visit with joeyjoejoe81

Made my cousins run for this!.. a quick and easy find.. altho subtlety is required!...and with 2 teenagers and 2 kids with me.. a lil hard!.. TFTC!

Filthy nasty cache not one of my favourites

easy find
left dragonfly and leaf
tftc

easy find with INKLE
left butterfly and saw
tftc

Well I don't feel so silly now, cause I found the little bugga. Needed a cache for the day and decided this was the one, not so hot today, and so following our normal Saturday morning coffee date, walked along the bike track to this one. Geo husband's back not too good, so I was left to do the walking. Found after exchanging information with Ross47 and Emerald Flame.
Thanks for the cache Rebel Acts, pleased to have it off the list.

found @ 13:30 with dad (ross47)

Took a bit of searching, as shadows at the co-ordinates were keeping us confused.

Sorry about the extremely late log, I finally once again have a laptop that works.

TNLN TFTC

Found @ 13:30 in the company of emeraldflame after a short search. This one took us longer than it should have as the shadows at GZ were working against us. TNLN TFTC

Found it.

Was in the area so decided to do this one next. Drove down the road close to GZ to find a fence so went ot he published track entry point and took the 650m walk to GZ. Once there, started the hunt and found the cache quickly in what I thought was one of the few spots it could be! Thanks to Rebel acts for this one.

Pleasant walk in the sunshine, but a little noisy by the freeway. Lovely to see a large cache so well hidden. Took 2 TBs. Thanks Rebel Acts

Well don't I feel silly, looked everywhere, even cashed in a PAF option, still no luck, thanks anyway Gaga66 must be still looking in the wrong place, will come back.

This entry was edited by Wal-len on Saturday, 01 December 2012 at 09:32:49 UTC.

Found after a trip into the big smoke at Eastland shopping centre and decided to make the most of a lovely walk to the GZ. Nice size cache. TFTC

TFTC...Nice big one.. i like those...plenty of room for the 2 TB's dropped off

Sadly could not find after looking high an low in an out of everything

Found 4.36pm

Other find for today pleasant wall a little nosy took tb

This entry was edited by Cracka1 on Monday, 23 July 2012 at 08:59:02 UTC.

Tftc

Nice walk along Eastlink !! TFTC !!!

Really like these big containers well hidden in the metro area. Great Job!!! TFTC!!

This has been on the to do list for far too long!!! Not anymore - it's done & dusted!! Great to find a big container!!! TN. Left TB. SL. TFTC


This entry was edited by Gaga66 on Sunday, 05 August 2012 at 05:08:22 UTC.

Omegaman1971

Great place for a Skate and cache. Great size and nice hide!

Thanks Rebel Acts

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Found @ 1:20pm, find # 1519
I have been wanting to get this one off this list for a long time now, so today while I had my bike I was off down the path and made my way to GZ in no time at all, once there it an easy find.
Thanks to Rebel Acts for this cache.

This entry was edited by stemicmitsar on Sunday, 24 June 2012 at 20:28:06 UTC.

Found on a Tuesday night bike cahce run TFTC

If the cache is done the way it is inteneted to be done from the bike trail, there would be no need to explain what you were doing in the street.

I thought we'd be unobtrusive in this area on a sunday, no one working in the local factories; it turns out lots of people around. Geo daughter and geo mum started to walk back to the car as we looked very out of place in the factory area. Didn't get far before we were stopped by a worker who quizzed us on what we were doing in that street. Any other excuse would not sound plausible, so said we were on a treasure hunt. His response was, carry on with it, we frequently see people around that....... area. We all know there's somethig there. We made our find, but did feel a bit odd about it all.... Great big cache. TFTC

TFTC Today was 2 years since my son got me into cacheing now i have 882 logged and today was my 189 consecutive find !

11/05/2012 21:51 My latest of the GEGP series tonight with a surprisingly long (600+m) walk from the car park. A very easy walk as it is on a path the whole way. A quick find that had me wondering if it would be accessible from the other side but figure its unlikely, at least without a large amount of damage. The camo is still in good nick and this large container should stay hidden from muggles for years to come. TFTC Rebel Acts TNLN SL

Found on Good Friday so left and took 'Jesus' stamp to keep in the spirit!!!

Good Friday so took the Jesus stamp!!! Left a marble. Found with Ali. TFTH

Found 1315hrs. Enjoyed the walk only to find that the cache could have been accessed easier. Took TB F812X3 - Grumpy Ole Troll, left bear friend. TFTC

Was a lovely day for a wander down the bike path. Nice find. Took nothing, only signed the log book.

First tried to park close by but then noticed the parking waypoint. A decent stroll along the bike path to the cache which was nice as we were out without the geokiddies.
As it was a large container we were surprised to find no pen and didn't have one on us so have not signed the log. We will bring a spare if we get back to sign the log.
TFTC TNLN

Our first for 2012 . Was a HUGE! Huge cache
StaceV (123)

i have looked at this one for a while. knowing it would be hard for my 5 year old to walk.
so when some time came up on a weekend. i really wanted to do this one by myself.
a lovely walk. and a quick find. thanks rebel acts. [:x]

Just Combust 1 looking for this one and having parked at the long end of the track it was a longer than needed walk. It was however peace without the boys and so a faster find! Great container and so much bigger than expected. TFTC SL

Should have a pen/pencil with it.

Wandered down here before an after work meeting. Peak hour bike riding muggles hardly glanced at me in the cold desolation.

Enjoyed a stroll in the warm sunny spring weather today, and found the cache. On such a lovely Sunday I would have expected more cyclists along the bike path, but only saw one. Thanks for the cache.

Nice hiding spot, although don't those plants die off for a period after they have flowered? Perhaps the dead leaves still cover it? Took coin to continue it's journey.

...On my second visit. How could I miss this one - it's HUGE. You could hide a bottle of wine in here. Now that's a swap. Not sure what they were doing in those second floor windows so I quickly signed the log and dropped a geocoin. TFTC.

Another one of rebel acts caches

After a few no finds this weekend decided I needed something to show for hours of searching other than soggy muddy shoes. A late walk, a 10 second search and we had what we came for

Tnln, thanks for the cache

first one today out for a ride along the eastlink from ringwood to the monash freeway and back tftc

one advantage of awful winters weather is that the bike path was deserted. found @ 11:45. good spot. tftc!

Found with Irontoad in the fading light of the day at 1730. It always helps to read the instructions on the cache first. We got here and found ourselves on the wrong side of the fence, luckily not in the scrap metal yards (my geocar decided that was not an acceptable place to be!).

On reading the instructions carefully, we backtracked and found the entrance. On the way to the cache we saw another piece of metal "artwork" that almost could be called "scrap metal" - I still have no idea what this is!

Nice easy find once we were on the right side of the fence. Took cat ball and left koala.

Thanks for the cache Rebel Acts. Excellent container for the cache - may have to borrow this idea!

Kmace and I navigated directly to the point only to discover we haddent read the instuctions. We were on the wrong side of the fence. As dark fell and the rain whiped up we found the bike trail and made our way to the site, past yet another piece of hideous public sculpture in steel. Kmace found quickly. A tried and true cache design. Left koala took cat ball. FTFTC.

Ps RTFI

Afternoon stroll on a cold sunday afternoon. TFTC

Found by geoboy while his sister was at a party. TFTC. SL.

First find on our bike trip from box hill to jells park. Might have bitten off more than we can chew for non regular riders. Oh well, hope it's nice and flat from here. TFTC

Had signed the log and was about to return it when someone on a phone approached from the other side of the fence and stood right where we needed to be, bugger! Got the cache back eventually and went on our way. Left a geocoin. TFTC

Ridden past many a time figured it was time to log it .
Next time I'll make sure I have a pen.
Tnln...

Great container! Needs new logbook. Easy find. TFTNC.

Very cool container! TFTC!

Found at 6.50pm while caching with Toy Car after we all attended Rabbitto's 50th nearby. Good to see a sizable container. Would you believe that as we retrieved the cache a vehicle decided to pull up in the emergency lane just next to us!! Don't think he really saw us however. TFTC

Found this cache with 80Degrees after attendings Rabbitto's 50th Birthday Event.
When we arrived and started searching GZ a 4WD pulled over on the freeway. The two people apeared to be talking to each other. We quickly signed the log and started to leave. The car moved on at the same time we did.
TFTC

Found at 1345hrs on a GEGP caching run with Tank47. Pleasant walk along the freeway, dodging the occasional bike until we reached GZ and located a sizeable container in a surprising location. Took a snake and appropriately "A Bug in my Memory" TB which we will photograph and set free again. We signed the log and left a ladybug. Thanks Rebel Acts for the cache.

Found by Peter & Marian at 1344hrs whilst on an afternoon GEGP caching run with KI Bug.
A pleasant walk along the path from track entrance.
Left TB "A bug in my Memory" and a Sydney Harbour Bridge souvenir teaspoon, took nothing.
Thanks for the cache.

10:00 - nice convenient lull in the bike traffic enabled a quick look and find

Quick find.

Tigey Wigey.

Found on our second try. Don't know how we missed it the first time. Great container. Nice walk along the eastlink. TFTC. TSLS

These are starting to blur.... nice to see we found one of yours Eric.

Over from Adelaide to pick up some numbers with the Wackys. Had a great weekend.

Thanks

C&W

Found with Cached on a weekend numbers run to Melbourne - TFTC - C & W

8.30PM

This was my second go at this one, Last time there was an elderly guy practicing roller blades, so I had to skip it. I used this as a warm up to my basketball game tonight. Nice big container.

TNLN
Thanks for the Cache

Should have really done this the last time I was in the area by bike. Unlike others, I did not enjoy the walk along the freeway. But at least it was rewarded with a large box.
Thanks, p-boro
#1237

Wasted a bit of time thinking I could park near by.
Ended up having to walk the 650m from Molan Street to the cache. The walk was nice didn't realise the types of business that backed onto the Freeway such as the scarp metal one and the large power station, intresting...
This is a large cache and contain a number of swaps.
Took dinosaur left Bell Ball toy
TFTC.

19.35pm.I was on my hols caching around melbourne with lochb, we did not have any bikes so a pleasant walk along the rolls royce track until we got to gz to soon find this great container in such a good spot.all the time we were here not one byk was seen,lots of nearby traffic though. greetings from a very very cold england.sltn.patandjeff=bones1.

Bones1 and I enjoyed the walk to GZ. Not a single cyclist around. TFTC