Monument to Safety Mentone East, Victoria, Australia
By gmj3191 on 02-Nov-08. Waypoint GC1GZYW

Just logging my personal name tag to track my personal distance traveled.

Archived, and relaunched as the multi Beacon to Safety, at the request of the reviewer.

The cache has been modified to make it more muggle proof, and it is now a multi
and I have asked TheUmp to reclassify it as such.
I have also returned it to it's former size, being a regular.
Additionally, it now has an optional CHIRP included as an alternative for deriving the final location.

Now available

Recommend taking this one off line, as cache is sitting on my desk Will call you tomorrow to discuss the story etc...
Cheers,
Seegs.

This one seems to be regularly attacked so I will take it off line until
I can decide on a more resient solution, perhaps a multi with it hidden nearby out of the
clutches of the persistent muggle.
Please bear with me.

#121
2/8 for the afternoon caching run with team mate Zoe. Was not a easy find around 1430hrs as cache had been mugged and was not at GZ location Found partial log book in the lockup and cache having a rest. TFTC!!
Seegs.

Found it (7 year old did the searching!) was in a good, secluded spot. Hope it lasts.

Thanks.

Back on line now with some changes.
Now a 400ml sistema instead of a 1 litre sistema.
Hidden in a more secure spot, hopefully.
Please rehide in exactly the same spot.

This one has been subject to regular tampering. I checked it today and only the lid remains inside the protective cage.
It's hard to know whether someone locally has been regularly interfering with it or whether cachers have not been rehiding it properly leaving it exposed to local kids.
I think I'll take it off line for a while while I decide whether to archive it or change it's arrangements.

Luckily there were no trackables in it.

Found cache inside of safety fence the lid has been taken off and the contents is everywhere inside safety fence as well couldn't sign log but still marked this one off as I found cache. The owner of this one need replacing or archiving tftc

Found @ 1215Hrs
Found after dropping off a safe @ the locksmith shop across the road & after we had a quick chat about a lock for a cache im working on.
He then tells my that he found the cache laying on the ground so he put it back were he thought it should go which is were it should be.
There were a few pages that had been drawn on but it look like ok.
After our chat i think we might have a new convert.

TNLNSL
TFTH

While walking the dog, I observed this cache somewhat out of cover so I returned it to its rightful place. I didn't check the contents, but it seemed full of 'stuff'

Found after visiting the doc in Cheltenham... what overkill with the safety on this thing? Muggle nearby, but its surprising what you can do in a flouro vest and orange beacon on the car....

Our first Cache - we enjoyed it immensely

Nice quick find. TFTC

I didn't find it in quite the place that the hint says, but I put it back in the correct place.

#19 Super nice and quick! Wow, ok, they have gone seriously overboard with safety here *LOL*. I couldn't believe my eyes! wow!
Great cache! It looked like it might rain, so noone else about. Nice when you can just take your time.
Took the travel bug and left a packet of crafty stickers.

This entry was edited by team Sokeri on Sunday, 01 August 2010 at 03:52:01.

Quick find but had to wait for some muggles to go. TFTC

Nice easy find, yes the steam engine has been VERY child proofed. TFTC

Very clever hiding spot.

This was quite an easy find due to the clue,
Getting close to dark at 1730, we spent longer waiting for muggles to pass than finding the cache :p
Left a White golf Tee
TFTC gmj3191, SL

trekked through golf course and was misdirected a few times, but once at location was an easy find.

We found this where it wasn't meant to be. A muggle had found it and placed it underneath the steamroller. We thought we would do the right thing and attempt to retrieve it. So we grabbed a long branch and with a ton of effort managed to knock it to the ground. We then walked to the other side of the cage to drag it towards us. Before we did that Mumma Jackam thought she would try the gate and, low and behold, it was open. Safety was lax on this day. We placed it back where it belonged.

Thought this one would be easy as we had read the clue, but when we arrived at GZ there was no cache. After widening our search I soon spotted it on the caged in steamroller. After some time poking with sticks through the bars we realized the gate was open on the other side. Gave us all a laugh. A local had found the muggled cache and placed it here. We replaced it where it should be. TFTC.

Checked this morning.
All seems OK despite the strange happenings with this cache.
I have changed the hiding place a little, to try and make it a fraction less likely to be discovered accidentally, but it is only a few centimetres from the original placement.

im sorry to say, but it has been muggled. showed up and just went straight to where the clue descibes to find a magnet with no cache. Had a tiny search around but we were in a hurry. someone should go check it out. sorry

Found it, but only after reading the clues. Clever hide and fascinated the Geoson as to how it it stayed in place. Thanks for bringing us here.

Nice quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Called by on 16th July, it had been left in the open again.
I have now repaired the magnet and restored it to a more secure hide.

Spotted the locomotive machine
At a place we've never been
Nice little place in the park
Quick find, getting dark! 5:30pm
SL. Took mini hotel shampoo. Left ranger badge. TFTC.

Found it in the dark...a good way to avoid the gaze of muggles. Thank you gmj3191.

Having just returned from a month overseas I called by today to assess the magnet situation.
There was the cache, sitting out in the open for all to see.... sheesh.
The magnet is not absolutely essential, there is a very good hide right there and I think I'll just leave it hidden there from now on, withing about half a metre of where it originally was.
I just don't see why people wouldn't do that automatically rather than just leave it sitting out in the open.
We were very lucky it wasn't muggled.

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Hurting yourself is really difficult but I think it's still possible :bad:

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When I went down to look for the cache and saw the cache was sitting on the ground Luck someone did not take it after we found it and put back to make sure it's safe. Poor Everlasting when she went to get inside and had a big bump on her head as she dont realise that she is too taller to get inside. TFTC

Beauty park area. ouch I hurt myself but still smile (see crank1's comment) oops... No swap. SL thanks gmj3191

Great cache thanks

Another quick find during my visit in the area
the magnet needs maintenance, the cache was found on the ground...
TNLN TFTC SL

Getting dark and rainy. Easy find but fun.We love the magnetic cahces. Took bottle opener and a golf ball for a stiky sting ray and a Gogo sticker.
I agree, a bizzare welding job. It MAY be safer , but certainly IS uglified.
Handy bottle shop across from cache for rainy night red wine!!

Found today by Dagobert1 at 3pm
TFTH, TNLNSL

Cache is now restored.

I've taken this off line until the situation is resolved.
I checked this morning, it's gone and I'm waiting for the email referred to below before restoring it.

Found @ night time with team DEJH.
Noticed the cache been muggled. Tried our best to restore.
email gmj3191 about this one.

TFTC

First find for the night with team langb77. This cache has been muggled i think team langb77 is going to send email so can be fixed as we move it to different location.

THFTC

10.45pm
Found by Roma and Max.
This proved to be almost a driveby although we had to wait until the local lads parked over the road decided to move on before we could locate your container.
Cheers from Romax.

After advice from vintage machinery expert saulman1010, all references to "tractor" have been changed to "steam roller".
Never let it be said that gmj3191 is not receptive to peer review feedback.
Thanks for your assistance.

Well its not a tractor, its a steam roller - looks like a Aveling and Porter footpath roller to be a little more specific and my eyes arent good enough to check the boiler certification dates, but the cache is still a good one.
Nice to see a good size cache in a good hide.
Joint find with Skip2992 and Bigea17
TFTC

Tagged along with Saulman1010 & Bigea17

FOUND IT

Found without any problems. Thanks

Easy find Nice placement
TFTC

A great hide - thanks gmj3191

1655hrs

This took some searching. There were some muggles in the playground so stealth was required.

Took TB
LN

TFTC

Last find of 18 for the afternoon on a cache run from Frankstone to St Kilda. Had good fun exploring the coast. Found this after nightfall and scard off a young couple in school uniform making out nearby. A job well done I think. TFTC! Swabbed TB's.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Dropped a StormTrooper Travel Bug, took talking monkey.

After a long walk 9.7 kl then on to the pines TFTC

Sad little tractor, may have to replace tape soon.

2.45pm easy find TNLN TFTC

9th of 11 today @ 4.16pm, Geokid had grabed this one before I had hardly left the car, must have been easy.
TNLN, TFTC.

Nice little park, and a great use of interesting old machinery, even though they've squeezed the fun out of it somewhat.
Thanks for the cache, gmj3191

Nice area for caching. Took TB. TFTC.

That's a nice large box , well hidden in a quite public place. No sports on today, so I just had to wait for father and son to finish playing tractor drivers.

TFTC

Well hidden. Was a fun one to find.

Found shorty after leaving work for the day i decided to grab a few cache's on the way home, A good cache to find as it brought back memories of playing on such tractor's/locomotives/submarine monuments before the council were forced to place these fences around them!!! public liabilitiy and graffiti removal adds up!!!
Cache was in excellent order when found as was placed back the same.
Thanks for the cache gm3191

It almost seems cruel to the kids giving them something that looks like so much fun to play on, and then wrapping it up like this!
Grabbed the slitthery TB and signed the log, thanks for the cache,
best wishes,
Wal

Visited at 14:55 07-11
Nice cache placement and we have to say we were very happy with the size too. Anyone can place a micro even when there is room for something bigger.
TNLNSL TFTC, find #681 for Echo & Spice.

Found it quickly after I remembered the hint that I'd read 10 minutes previously! It's a nice hiding spot and good to see a container of that size around. There was a jumping castle on the nearby oval, but none of the folks over there seemed to spot me lurking around.

Found by caughtatwork at 3:31
A monument or a tragedy to safety.
That's just too sad to see.
The cache, however, was a very nice size and hidden in a manner that was easy to retrieve without looking suspicious.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks again gmj3191 for this cache experience today. I must have hit your home turf today as I seem to have collected a plethora of your caches today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Second one on our halloween outing. What a great tractor, just a shame no members of local government will ever be as great. TNLN

Made a couple of attempts at this one due to some mini-muggles and other potential cachers in the area.
It was well hidden, but reasonably easy to find.

thanks for a great cache!

First pass by GZ noticed a couple of likely cachers wandering around. Thought it best to grab a coffee and come back, by this time the minibogans were past a play in the park. Mrs Bogan picked up nicely after my attempt was foiled by a Jr Muggle.

Thanks for a well hidden cache
TNLN

Great hidey hole, its such a shame to see something as cool as that all barred away like a jail cell. I ran up to it only to find that nothing turned, nothing moved and all you could do was just sit in a cage. no wonder kids prefer playstations nowadays!
TFTC

Jess & Luke
www.doinoz.com

Had the whole gang today Nanna, Uncles, Aunty, niece and nephew, so somewhat conspicuos! Niece did a very nice sleuthing job of retriving cache without attacting attention of the muggles. Got eveyone excited as second of three planned, another success

Found while bringing some scouts up from Geelong to do a first aid course.
T - sticker shett
L Ansett plane sticker

Easy find and first for the day

TNLN

Yep, safety gone mad...kids go climb the trees! T4TC Took TB Mickey mouse for further travels.

Left a Travel bug. Mickey is on his journey, had to be sneaky lots of muggles around.

dipped personal geopatch

Have spent 4 years working for a volunteer org beside this park and didn't relize was so close to a cache. The Geokids always play on this when we go to this park. Great hide

Left Volunteer 50c piece
Took TB

Found 18.10

Found easily after a quick look. The tractor is cool but there was a muggle problem (kids, what are you going to do?) Got out the swaps but noticed there wasn't a TB but there was supposed to be....
Took: Kill Bill bookmark
Left: Mr Potato Head stickers and the International Air Bug Exchange TB

Found 11.30am
Well that is certainly one way to take all the fun out of what should be a great item for the kids to explore. Found the cache in the first place we looked.

TNLNSL
Thanks gmj3191

Found on a first day of school holiday geojaunt. EB Geo Joe's sharp eyes once again came in to play, however it was EB 99 who provided the smarts in locating this one. Took picture left stickers. EB Chief out. Just realised there should have been a TB in this cache but we didn't see it???

[This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Monday, September 14, 2009 at 4:50:13 PM.]

[This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 4:20:07 AM.]

Great cache, very clever. Went at night to avoid muggles. TFTC

Another drive-by on the way to the airport. Cache container was a suprise, I was expecting a Micro in this location so didn't have any trades with me. Signed Log, replaced and enjoyed the area in the 5 seconds we had spare.

Was surprised by this one guess the fence stops muggles investiggating the structure and keeps the cache safe. TFTC So many muggle dogs around

A nice little park. T: bouncy ball, L: Stickers & Zera he goes TB.

Good playground though. Nice hide.

[This entry was edited by bearsleys on Friday, September 04, 2009 at 6:43:07 PM.]

Found 15:40, in the company of Muzza.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks gmj3191.

An interesting piece of machinery, pity about the cage. Anyway, the kids examined what part of it they could while dad fished out the cache.

Thanks gmj3191 - Left TB

This is our very 1st find. The kids had fun at the playground. We had to wait for the other families to leave before searching properly. Then had to wait again before the coast was clear to place the cache back. TNLN.

What a great old tractor and a nice little park for the geokids. The local football game was into the last quater and their were muggles every where. Still able to get the cache though. Found @ 3:15 pm. KeMS+L

Can kids actually play on this ? Why go to the zoo and see monkeys in a cage when you can watch kids here. What happened to the good old days when kids fell over and hurt themselves ? Public liability out of control ? Anyway found the cache during a late night cache run.First one of 14 for the night. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Nice easy walk from Cheltenham Pines and Ray of Sunshine. Had to be very stealthy as muggle mums always on the lookout. Managed to sneak in and retrieve without incident. TFTC, TNLN

Although the area was packed with cars, everyone appeared to have disappeared indoors and the GZ zone was deserted. Taking this advantage, the container was quickly located around 4:50pm but after signing the log, some young muggles headed in our direction and delayed the return of the cache to its rightful place. Other movement in the area also required this be done surreptitiously. Phew TNLN TFTC

dropped by this spot yesterday, first cache ever, was fun to find! the monument to safety had a hole in its side, hehe.

Found by PR&F on 5/7/09 @ 3.50pm in the company of Geohusband and The Empire.
#9 of 10 finds for the day.
When we arrived at GZ, we found the contents of the cache on the ground. Some sheets of the log book had been torn up and the geocoin had also disappeared. We put it back as best we could but some maintenance needed to tidy it up.
Good location. I had tried to grab this cache once before but it was gameday. Today, we were lucky and the park was quiet.
TFTC
TNLNSL

Found by The Empire with PR&F and her Geohusband
5/7/09 @ 3:50pm
First outing in Team TNLN apparel!
See PR's log for a description of how we found the cache.
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Called by to check the situation. Very strange. Log book torn up, coin missing, other contents still there.
I replaced the log book and added a pen and some other goodies.
Hopefully it will be fine now.

Catching up with logs! 7th find for the day. Youngest member found the cache. Place was deserted and no muggles about probably because of the drizzle, so no trouble retrieving cache. Very clever hide. No swaps. Thanks gmj3191. PS: Surprised and saddened to hear about condition of cache. It was in good condition when we left and we don't think anyone saw us. GC was still in there too. Sounds very odd to tear log and take GC and leave other items there. Hope another cacher took coin but haven't had a chance to log it yet.

Found 10am, After a Bit of needless searching Funny how we make life difficult for ourselves. TFTC-gmj3191