080808 Eureka, Victoria, Australia
By highrod on 08-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1F12F

After so many years safe in its spot, unfortunately this cache has a Muggle enemy now and has gone many times lately. So it's off to cache heaven.

Couldn't find it at all, was looking for 30 Minutes To 1 hour and was just too hard. Props to the creator gonna have another try soon!

appears to be muggled, container will be replaced in the coming week

08/07/2017 12:03:00 PM
A cold Saturday morning and not a soul around but I could not locate this one today.
My 3rd of 5 DNFs today

When at GZ we found what looks like a recently renovated garden. We noticed the last find was a while ago and maybe CO might want to check when passing.

Team Autumn In Ballarat for our fake Mother's day celebration. After dinner out we stopped here to grab our cache of the day. 7yo geokid removed all the dinosaur swag and geo-gramdma grabbed the trolley token. As part of the swag exchange this cache got our last monster rock swag. TFTC

Cold night and no one in there right mind would be out so guess what a cacher does. Lol.

In Ballarat for a belated mothers day and the Ballarat Heritage Weekend.

Tftc

For a long time this has been a little green blob on my phone, so it was great to turn it into a smile! This is not a part of Ballarat I usually find myself, but when the need arose to call into the big ominous building around the corner, I thought today was as good a day as any to find this cache! I thought it would be quiet, but muggles were still about! Fortunately, they had very important things to do and barely glanced in my direction. Happy to find this cache in great condition, and very happy to fill in yet another calendar day! TFTC highrod!

Found it, all is good with the cache, Traveling back home to Tassie

Ballarat was our first stop on our drive to Robe, SA for a couple of weeks holiday with the geobeagles.

We had lunch at a cafe in Sturt St and then walked the couple of hundred metres to GZ. As we approached GZ we spotted the cache as it was partially exposed. The cute camo gave us a laugh. As we were signing the log at 2:20 pm, a local worker appeared and lit up a cigarette. She eventually went back to work so we were able to return the cache to its hiding spot. We added a bit more natural cover to the hide. We took a dragon lizard and left a harmonica.

Thanks Highrod for the cleverly camo'd cache. We were really happy to find our first ever Ballarat cache and loved that it was so large and full of swaps. [^] After finding the cache we walked back to our car and headed to our next stop, Hamilton.

The GeoFamily headed off to Ballarat for a mini-holiday over the Easter weekend, and to explore more of the area than what we normally see when we're up this way (usually to go to Sovereign Hill).

Day two of our mini-holiday took us first to the Tangled Maze at Creswick, and then up and down Sturt Street. After a late afternoon rest we were back down this way for dinner, and to see if we could find another couple of caches.

The torchlight helped to reveal this one quicker than I think we would have spotted it in daylight.

Log signed and all replaced as found.

TFTC!

We finally found this one! We have come looking for it a few times when it was missing! This was one of our first did not find almost 12 months ago so it was always the one that got away! But not today! very cute and creative cache love the cammo! Thank you for making this our most satisfying cache yet!

Tftc good find

This was a tricky one due to muggles everywhere coming in and out

Replaced with a regular size camo cache.

Disabled - pending CO response to my email enquiry.

Quick find even in the dark. Came here for a late night search after work and soon had cache in hand. No muggles at 11pm! Tnlnsl

We were walking around the area with our mobile phones guiding us and a local worker said to me "You're playing that GPS game." Before I could answer he pointed and said "It's over there."
Cache found, but we had a little help on this one. Thanks for the good hide.

Spending my last morning in Ballarat with CPwanderer & clare007...glad it's cooler today...
We parked a couple of blocks away & walked to GZ...the cache was quickly located...Thanks Highrod

Last in Ballarat today as we cached in town before heading out.
A quick find with CPwanderer & hevwalker.
Thanks for the cache Highrod

Quickly located the new cache container with clare007 and hevwalker!!

We've got a few on lookers as we replace the cache! So it's a small throw down until we replace it properly with a larger version.

Muggled. will replace soon.

WHERE??

I'm wondering if this one has been moved?? The clue made sense but still did not find.

My first ever cache I attempted, I looked high and low but couldn't find it. As others have said the area is near where workers from centrelink have smoke breaks. One of them helped me out and showed me the spot where he was certain it was, but no luck.

Searched during night. We first thought that this might be the reason for not finding it. But since then other failed as well.

What a pity! That means that we don't get a smiley in Ballarat since we did not find a single cache...

Either jetlag or geoblindness today

Some strange items in this cache. Coffee sachets, hand cream, hair conditioner. Funnily enough I TNLN.
TFTC

Found with TeamLauren. Thanks for the cache.

Quick, easy find. Clue makes sense when you find it. Found at gz with emthegem. Tftc.

Got thrown off by a previous log but found our way again. TFTC.

Our fourth find for the day in Ballarat. Took us longer than it should have, probably should have looked at the hint first! TFTC.

Have been to this spot a couple of times but ladies come out the back door for a smoke on their lunch break but finally picked a good time of the day.tftc

On a wander around Sturt Street Ballarat today (well twice as it happens) I noticed this cache close by so took a detour on my uphill leg to grab it. A muggle(?) was walking, smoking and chatting on the phone so I tried to wait for him to pass before going to GZ, however he knew what my game was and paused his conversation to point it out to me so I really had no reason not to just go and grab it after that!... TFTC

Find 145
Tftc

Find#197

If you smell gas your near

Found it! The Walkabouters were having a long weekend in Ballarat. After a long and rewarding hike through Enfield State Forest we were out for dinner at a nearby establishment so took the opportunity to find this cache. A quick find in the second place I looked. TFTC SL

Quick trip to Ballarat to do some caches. Picked up Asgard tb in this cache and will keep it moving. TFTC

Last day of summer under the cover of darkness just one more cache
A few muggles up the road putting on a show but a nice quick find thanks to the clue
Dropped off a TB

Found with Nugget while filling in time before today's gathering.

Quick drive by. TFTC

12:45:00 PM. Just as well the GPS didn't get confused but it found the way in for us. Was a quick find on a muggle free day. Log signed. Thanks highrod for placing this cache.

The GPS (not me of course) was fixated on a particular location and after much looking I resorted to reading the hint. I was sure I got the hint, and it turns out I was correct, just not looking at the right one. After still having no success, I asked geodaughter to try the GPS again and this time it pointed to a new area and she soon had the cache in hand and the clue made perfect sense. Thanks for the fun

Having lunch at the Beechworth Bakery eighthknox got the caching fever so we set off up the hill to find a cache in excellent condition nicely tucked away in quiet spot TFTC

Found this one with nanton34, chanton8 and non-caching friend's son after a nice lunch at the bakery nearby. A quick find and the cache is in good condition, tftc

Spotted this straight away! Lovely overcast day in Ballarat

Grabbed a bug... Lovely government workers pointed straight to the hide when we walked up the street holding our phones

Found it, very happy geokids!

Found it on passing on a road trip. Good quick cache

First for many in Ballarat I hope TFTC

Our first cache in Ballarat - plan to spend a few days here using geocaching as our tour guide...
#2640 Thanks high rod

Our second cache while in Ballarat and our first big enough to drop off the trackable. The clue was a good laugh thanks.

Found

Found it

We found it

We arrived in MEL the night before and picked up our car for our trip to Adelaide early in the morning. After having breakfast this was our first (out of two) caches in Ballarat. Easy find, thanks

Good coordinates led me straight to the place I needed to be, leading to a quick find. Interestingly the GPS signal wasn't so favourable for two nearby caches I'd searched for immediately before this one, but I had a nice steady signal here at last. Thanks for bringing me to this location highrod and thanks for the cache!

Quick and easy find. Had to wait for muggle clearance, very hot day though so most people heading for the indoors.

Tftc. At first i wasn't too sure where to look.but then we had cache in hand.

Another find to add to the list on our Ballarat caching run today. Feels a little odd trapsing through this area... TFTC

Wow! Great to have such a decent sized cache so close to the centre of town. Thanks highrod.

Dnf

Found it

Found it with peters34

Yeah, our first ever find!!!

Another great find while in the area.
SL - thanks for the fun cache!

Found it !!! Accompanied but geodog wandered about until two workers finished their coffee and smokes then luckily quickly found and replaced the cache. Nice spot to have begun your married bliss TFTC

Muggles muggles everywhere.. There looked to be a competition going on.. Will have to return to have a better look! 3 dnf in a row.. Argh!!

had gone past earlier in the week and thought "no way - too busy". So waited till today, and without a person in site the cache was soon located and log signed. TFTC

After searching the wrong side for a good view minutes, one of the Centrelink workers was walking by and POINTed me in the right direction! Great find and easy once looking in the right spot

Tftc. A nice way to finish of a nights caching. #137

TFTC. The GPS was smashing out all over the place here so after a quick look at the hint and a few steps back we found it. Nice one! Out Nightcaching with McStormy.

Good hint.

Quick and easy find on a sunny afternoon? TFTC!

Love the hint, made this an easy find. Tftc

What a bonus!! There was a cache close by to the toilets! Lol!! Tftc

This one was an unexpected find! We decided before that we would have a quick look for a few quick drive-bys tonight. We picked out a few before we left home and away we went. Quickly picked up 2 and moved onto the 3rd but didn't get a chance to look as one of our party needed a toilet. As luck would have it there was a cache near the toilets we pulled up at. A quick visit, a quick search, a quick log and laugh then we were off again. Tftc

Yay. ..quick and easy,

Found with geniejoan. TNLNSL TFTC

Oh dear, if I had found this a little earlier, it could have been a birthday celebration! We walked 3-quarters the way around the block to find this little spot. I certainly clocked up the steps on the pedometer for the day. (We missed you at today's events!) TFTC

After a meal at the nearby bakery the kids had settled and I was able to find a cache. This was close and we made the quick drive. Found quickly and we were back on our way. Thanks highrod for the cache.

On our way to the bakery, a quick stop and find. TFTC.

Found by Team Justice #516.

No one about in this little corner today making it an easy grab. TFTC

On a trip to Ballarat with a friend so while she drank coffee, I went caching. This was a tricky place to park but being a sunday no parking inspectors. Soon had cache in hand and log signed. TFTC

Found it.

Staying a few days in Ballarat on our tour of Australia using Geocaching as a guide.

Isn't this game SO FABULOUS! It takes us to places of interest in so many towns. We have met many people over our few years who we are proud to call friends just through this crazy game!

Cachers usually have a common interest to show off your home town and the many places you would like people to visit. So today we explored Ballarat using Geocaching.

Keep on having FUN with Geocaching. Just what Geocaching is worldwide to 2.6+million people so they can't be wrong! So keep at it full steam ahead guys!

We managed to find your cache today whilst tackling the Whereigo and Eartchache in town. Sunday is a much easier day to do these city caches. Thanks for feeding our GeoAddiction. Our day was not without some worry moments. We were nearly stuck in a ditch in the GeoCruiser which would have been very embarassing and also very cold! ( almost out of petrol too)

TFTC highrod

In Ballarat for other reasons than caching but managed to pick this one up after bugging out a short while before because of talking muggles close by. TFTC

Found whilst staying in Ballarat. TFTC

Visiting Ballarat with my son and picking up a couple of caches as we go. Couldn't hear Marina Prior singing tonight but did find the cache. TFTC. TNLN

A quick find with jcody while picking up some random caches around town. Nobody about on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

Was going to the supermarket and I heard a cache calling me. It was this one tftc

Cute, nice hide

Sort of found it, at least found where it is stored

Geohubby had a seminar in town this afternoon and was catching the train from Melbourne after spending the morning at work. This of course would have meant a rather long walk home, so I decided to be magnanimous and offer him a lift home...to Geelong...which of course meant that I had the perfect excuse to spend the afternoon caching before he finished .
The weather wasn't exactly what I'd ordered, but it wasn't as wet as last time and the forecast snow hadn't arrived as yet so after a bracing coffee, I headed out.
This was my first find of the day and with the drizzle just starting, there was no trouble with muggles. I made a quick find and signed the log and was on my way back to the Geo6E before I got too wet!
Thanks highrod !

Got my mum onto this one with me, she had a ball and we found it after a little while.

Leaving a trackable! Tftc

Found it after a late night at uni. Very simple find, walked straight to it but TFTC!

tftc