The Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
By Alansee on 22-Jan-09. Waypoint GC1M0N6

This one is definitely gone after some zealous gardening.

I can't find any new hides near here so after 2 1/2 years, and 152 finds I am archiving it.

Definitely muggled, checked with previous finder. Kids were only slightly more disappointed than me.

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Off line while I address this.

Defs not here. It's missing. Checked with previous finder

Beautiful morning walk by the river. Surprisingly tranquil spot in the middle of a city of 4 million people. Great re-use of heritage buildings. Thanks for the tour.

Logging a very old find.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful place with us. We combined this cache with some of your other caches and we enjoyed ourselves. TFTC

XC on business in Melbourne from NZ... Had time for a couple before flying home.. Parked rental nearby and walked into GZ via walkway.. Beautiful spot and perfect placement for a cache.. Dropped in the Mini TB to continue travels.
TFTC #1441

Out on a training ride for "around the bay in a day" and I thought I would pick up a cache along the way.
Quick find, Thanks for the cache

Nice easy find at the gorgeous convent! Thanks!

Very nice area and found about an hour after dark. When I got close to cache location, there was a possum on the hint item, but it soon jumped into the near tree. SL TFTC

Awesome location, really appreciated the walk and nice easy find. SL took a ball, left a yellow flashing chicken TFTC!

Found on a spontaneous caching adventure - TFTC!!!

Even though I knew of both the convent and the children's farm, I had never been here before. It was a great opportunity to have a lovely stroll around some of the grounds today. Thanks for the cache.

Nice cache, had no idea about this place but we had a great afternoon there. Vanilla slice is amazing. Hope the government leaves it be as it is. TFTC.

Found at 5.20pm when we decided we had spent enough time at home and headed out for a few easy finds. Mr reckons it is about 32 years since he worked down here and Mrs doesn't ever remember being here at all. Thanks for taking us to this spot and a quick easy find as dark approached. TFTC

09/05/2011 12:44 Found: #452 Lunchtime again and this one appears to be closer than I thought. Took the train to Collingwood (only 7 minutes) and walked via Gipps st. I was soon there but surprised by the number of muggles strolling by. I initially walked right past GZ as the Nokia maps are not so accurate this close, even with the compass activated. After I backtracked I was able to get it in the first place I looked . Easy to collect, harder to replace with so many muggles walking the trail in both directions. Thanks for yet another of your inner city caches Alan TNLN SL

lobster6 7 did the hard nav and finding work for me but I did the signing for him. Plenty of muggles as warned but still quite doable.

Easy find on a big day out!

Found 1.45pm
Walked along the river path from our parking spot for a nearby cache and enjoy the vista of the convent from where we found the cache.

TNLNSL
Thanks Alansee

Got it. Such a busy place on a sunny day, but I got my stealth mode on and had success. Tftc. Took badge, left golf ball.

Really busy on a sunny public holiday, but I turned on stealth mode and came away successful . Took a badge and left a golfball. 1st find of the day tftc

Thanks for the cache!

Thanks for the geocache! - I love the convent and made sure there was time for coffee (seriously good), lunch & a stroll around the grounds. So many memories of the Lincoln/LaTrobe Uni days - and 'that' episode of Mission Impossible where it stood in for a spanish hospital (I think!).
Highly recommend visits when muggles are actually desired (ie. for the cafe, artisian and farmers markets!) as well!

I had a little bit of time up my sleeve on my way to work, so what better to go find a cache. I parked as close by as I could, then enjoyed a short walk to GZ. Once there, the hiding spot was obvious. I logged my find and had the cache back in place, way before any passing cyclists appeared. Thanks for the history lesson, for showing me a new area, and for the cache.

Cool cache!! Lots of fun and a great walk around the farm!!

Nice location well done

Interesting about Abbotsford Convent..
Will bring my friend here next time to look around
TFTC

Quick find by mole. Nice spot cheers.

Mickeydv, col117 - a pleasure to see you caching as I walked past yesterday - hope you had plenty more finds yesterday too. Cheers

As we were searching walker passing by yelled out "are you geocaching'...thankfully a fellow cacher...nice to meet you....cheers again Alansee

found on a caching trip from wa with mickeydv in front of a fellow cacher walking past
tftc

A quick find tonight in the company of Trailrunning who I met at an earlier cache. Amazing how much light there is in this area when it should be dark at this time of the evening. TFTC, Alansee!

Found easily and the walk I'm was great. Found with lochb on a night run.

A beautiful spot - wished I had more time to explore.

TFTC
TNLN
SL

Easy ride past cache. TFTC

An easy find in a lovely part of Melbourne and explored the area on our bicycles. Discovered a children's farm that has a farmers market twice a month. So were going back again tomorrow. TFTC. Easyrider62, Aziam69 + Squirt01...

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Great location, heaps of muggles! I've been here once before, but never from the back and I enjoyed the revisit immensely. Geo-Beast and I took a walk afterwards as this really is a lovely place to visit and the Convent itself is magnificent and we enjoyed daydreaming our way around, admiring the grim architecture in contrast to the Yarra flowing well and the greenery! TFTC TNLN

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Quick find on a visit to the abbey with my son. Greetings from Canada. TFTC

A nice quick find once all the Muggles riding walking & jogging were gone.
Many thanks for the cache Alan...TNLNSL

Found it @ approx. 17:20

A nice easy find after work.
Love the old buildings in the convent compound.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Lovely spot for the end of a bike ride. Said goodbye to Two Steppin' TB here - enjoy your adventures!

Found @ 1640.

Found while out on a bike ride with ggkof. Found in the first place I looked. I grabbed the TB.

What a truly beautiful spot, TFTC, found with Brynbeuno and Team JEK - it was their 50th cache, well done!

14th find on city cachathon with brynbeuno and R36 but even more noteworthy, the 50th CACHE FOR TEAM JEK WOOHOO! A great place to find the 50th, in a nice park away from the hussle and bussle of the city. TFTC!!!

Easy find and a nice place to visit

A nice easy find and a lovely day to be geocaching. Now for some lunch in the gardens.

Another find for Geomum. TFTC Muggle factor high.

Good hiding spot! Another notch on the belt. Shanne & Trish.

A morning walk with Grant61 family & other relative’s along this walk / bike riding trail. An easy cache found with no hints from others. A nice area to visited, we visited the coffee place near here to have a nice coffee before the return journey. TFTC / TFTH / SL

My timing was perfect on this one. Retrieved just as some muggles had walked past and placed back just as some muggles had walked past. I targeted this cache because I've not been to the Convent before. I must say it was very, very pleasant here today and I shall return for a meal and a wander. How peaceful it seems sitting so close to the city. And the grounds at the back after all the rain and sunshine are very lush - just as I imagine some Convent in Europe growing vines would look like. Blue Nun? No that was German. Ah - is that a little French I hear being spoken? Took nothing but dropped in a Macca's fridge magnet. TFTC.

Nice stroll to fing this cache, river very full! Thanks,

A quick find at 1:35pm after two bikies went racing past me. The gardens of the convent and the building are certainly impressive.
TNLN
thanks Alansee

This is really a very nice place. TFTC

2 older ladies turned up just as spotted the hide.... quite chat and off they went... TFTC
(#1277)

Late Log

Nice and easy! Rode the bike track from Victoria St, found the cache, then I went and had lunch at Lentil As Anything in the Convent!
Great way to spend a lunch break.

TNLN TFTC

Late Log

Out with my mate Marshy (Blacklegend) for a quick cache run. We'd put off getting this one until we had a chance during opening hours to get the cache, only to find the cache outside the grounds and accessible anytime. Happy to sign the log on this one finally.Cheers and thanks for the hide.

A short daytime caching run with my good mate Marty (Quasar3671) and also with my wife, Nicole. Been meaning to get to this for a while during opening hours, having interpreted the description wrong on the cache page, we found that once there, it was outside the convent ground anyway.

Anyhoo, we were able to have a good look around and even take a few photos at this magnificent place. Cheers and TFTC.

just got a new travel bug and am using it to calculate distance

Was out at the childrens farm next door and decided to grab this one great day for it. The goats were finding the grass much better on this side of the fence.
TNLN
TFTC

Tried about 3 different directions to get too it, but eventually made it. Rather obvious spot. TNLN.

Late Log

Quick find despite the mad scramble down nearby riverbank. Lively spot, what a beautiful old building. TFTC TNLN

Late Log

Late Log

Third of 4 caches found for the morning.
I had never actually walked through the gardens before - had only ever traveled along the bike track. It gives a different perspective of this huge convent.
The area was extremely busy due to school holidays and fine weather so I had to be very sneaky, which I am good at .
SL TNLN
Thanks again Alansee.

Quick find with the geodaz gang

Quick easy find with cdmn.First cache for the day.

My first cache find. Happy Wombat!

Got it about 7-10m S of coords. Hint helped. Nothing in, nothing out today.

Nice cache. The gate was locked so we had to rely on a small hole in the fence. After we found it we had a look at the animals. TFTC.

Dropped of the Reverend Bishop Wight travelbug on a quick walk-by.

Late Log

Late Log

found it when taken by my uncle who works there

Late Log

Great spot by the river, we enjoyed the walk in here, and it was a quick & easy find. Thanks for the walk and the cache!

had a talk to the goats while signing the log good thing that they were more interested in grass than the log book

Team Pigmeat were at the Convent when we decided to see if there were any caches about and this was the one! Found at 1450 - left nothing took nothing. Visited the Bee man afterwards (just up the path).

Late Log

Late Log

Late Log

Thank you for taking us on a pleasant stroll (in the freezing cold, we don't know how you Melbournians do it!) after visiting the Collingwood Children's Farm. After a quick search the cache was soon found. We took the coins and Travel Bug, left some glitter pens and signed the log. Thanks for the cache.

In a very nice area , this cache makes a diffference t o all thoe average ones around.

thanks for the cache and regards from the capital of Lower Saxony - Hannover
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here I set out my first Travel-Bug...have a good journey my dear
nice cache, fast found
TFTC

"Tracking previous cache finds on my personal TB"

Yay.
Found it. Real nice place.
Off to find sum more nice spots.
Oh muggle city this place is too.

it was a short walk from my dad's work at the convent. A nice view of the farm but a big rock.

Late Log

Late Log

Find 12/23 for the day, came at this cache from the bike path so I had a nice and quiet walk along the Yarra to the Convent, I was a bit concerned that getting there at 3:50pm the gate would be shut, it was lying on the ground so I went in - maybe the closing times are relaxed, or maybe the gate's broken!

Made this one just in time before they closed the gate.

Gosh such interesting history about Abbotsford Convent. With Crank1 and Alansee. SL. Thanks Alansee for showed us.

I heard this name Abbotsford Convent but havent been there. Finally went there.. Thanks to Alansee to bring us there.. Found it with Everlasting. TFTC

Lovely spot for a cache. Found at dusk. Team awesome

Nice cache! Managed to grab with no-one around, but had to wait a bit when putting it back. No problems otherwise.
Took: Jack the Pirate Bear
Left: Pengy & Tigger Geocoin
TFTC!

Found it pretty quickly. Took: pengy and tigger geocoin, Left: cache reaper geocoin. No sign of the Pirate TB