A Ray of Sunshine Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
By Franles on 15-Feb-09. Waypoint GC1MR4D

Sorry about that. I've been away too long. The Ray of Sunshine has been trashed and I don't have the ability to recreate it or look after it. cheers to all Franles

It is pretty obvious that this is gone and the owner hasn't been active since the 12th March. Needs archiving

This has been disabled for a while and I was wondering if it could be enabled or archived because it is on my list of closest home that havnt got

Cheers
Lemmykc

Down loaded the cache and found exactly what had been mentioned before. Looking forward to it maybe being re-established. Managed to dodge the golf balls!!!!

Dropped by this morning.
Can confirm that it has vanished without a trace and the hiding place has been torn apart.
Maybe it deteriorated a bit due to rot, but I think it has just been ripped away.
There is similar damage to the opposite side of the location.

Disabled for a couple of weeks until I can get to it. Franles

Arrived at the location this afternoon and did a search, found nothing.
Returned to Geomobile and checked the clue.
Went back and still nothing.
Sent email to CO with some photos as it appeared that the hiding area had been disturbed.

Great spot

Found at 16:28 on a day of bicycling and geocaching. Seventh and final find for the day. Kept thinking of some old school music as I searched for this. After this I took the train to Ormond to cut down on a few kilometres of pedalling on the way home. Took the TB. TFTC!

10th of 11 today @ 4.35pm, After a short walk from the previous cache and an excursion through the golf course we found without too much trouble
TNLN, TFTC.

After quite a while of not caching Cherieboberry and myself have moved to Beaumaris and decided to have a look for some in our new area. This was our first of two on a nice day. We'd walked past this one a couple of times over the last week without knowing there's a cache here

Nice easy find Thanx, TNLTB

Couldn't take up a whole page as I got hassled by a magpie. TFTC

Found by - H - and The Empire
18th of January, 2010
New to the official world of caching but have been involved since 17th of April 2009 (my first cache find). But have only just gotten a log name. Time to log all the wonderful caches that I have been finding since I have been caching with The Empire. My name in the log book is H.
My first caching day for 2010!
Nice easy find! The Empire told me the story of his last trip here and finding kids sitting on the cache being illegal.
TFTC Franles
- H -

Found by The Empire and H
18/1/10 @ 2:30pm
Fiiiinally... The Empire returns to A Ray of Sunshine! The last time I was here kids were smoking drugs on the cache, this time there wasn't a soul anywhere to be seen - even on the golf course. Quick find.
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Nice hiding spot. Found and walked to another nearby cache. TFTC.

Wondered if I'd approached this correctly after crossing a few greens on the way in. Needless to say we found a better way out after locating the cache.
Thanks very much

2679. As I wandered past GZ not really concentrating, McPhanKid walked up behind me and asked if the cache had any clues. When I turned to tell him to look first he had a stupid grin on his face and the cache in his hand.

TFTC and the beam.

Rated: for Overall Experience

I had 15 minutes to kill before a presentation at the council offices, so went into the back streets and grabbed this one. Thanks.

Found it. Just got into Geocaching and this was my first cache. Didnt leave anything, didnt take anything but did sign the book. Was very well hidden so took us a while to find it.

The GPSr was jumping around a bit as it was rather wet. After 10 minutes of searching I found it close to the point I thought it would be, just looked in the wrong spot.
A few golfers out today, heard the 'bell' they clang when teeing off over the hill. This is another park Sandy loved.

TFTC

Found @ 2300.

Found with ggkof on our usual Tuesday night caching trip. Last for the evening, took me a while to find as I had old info. Once I had the right coords, off to GZ for a quick find.

The toughest part of this cache was negotiating the street to the Guide Hall when I did. Turns out it was home time at the nearby primary school or preschool, so the street was chocka block with mums and little kids. The golf course was a peaceful destination though, and once I'd figured out which coordinates to use the cache turned up quite rapidly.
Despite the fantastic weather, the golf course seemed quiet, guess they were all off watching Tiger Woods. Speaking of which, I realise he's good at golf, but why is Melbourne so 'Tiger' crazy?
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache Franles,
best wishes,
Wal

Visited at 14:45 07-11
A nice easy cache today with not a muggle in sight.
TNLNSL TFTC, find #680 for Echo & Spice.

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

dipping in a Gc

I headed off by myself for this one as I had just arrived at the event and everyone else had found it. I checked out the old cemetery near by and dodged the golfers. The spot was well chosen to be out of their sight.

Thanks,

R - B

A nice little wander from the nearby event with Robmc, Princess Diala and maccamob. With so many eyes searching the cache was soon located and then we wandered off again talking of all things caching. TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1750. With Mary at work, David attended the nearby Event solo. This one was close by, so set off in company with The Morris, PrincessDiala and Robmc for a quick find. Our thanks to Franles.

Found whilst attending "A night to remember" No Muggle's playing golf today as the weather has made a turn for the worse and swinging a golf club at this time may prove hazardious(lightning a thunder)
TFTC SL

Whilst at the Halloween event decoded to grab a couple of the nearby caches in the company of maccamob, The Morris and Robmc.
A nice short walk and a quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks Franles for the cache.

18:15
An opportunity to visit and discover this cache while attending the "A Night to Remember" event. We approached from a direction other than suggested in the cache notes, but quickly found our quarry. Thank you for bringing us to this pleasant spot.

TNLN .. SL .. TFTH Franles.

Found by caughtatwork at 3:44
A bit of a tricky cache for me today as the GPS was insistent it was somewhere but a quick check of previous logs indicated where I needed to be and the cache was found in a most logical, but very, very well hidden location.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks Franles for this cache experience today. I feared flying golf balls, but none came my way here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 2

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found on a night to remember!

An easy walk to have this cache in hand, only heard a couple of 'fours'..SL TNLN TFTH

Dropping off Harta for an Australian adventure

We are batting three from three on this Halloween event trip. Great hide, managed to dodge any golf balls. TNLN TFTC

We searched everywhere for this one, with no luck. Eventually had to give up, as the mozzies took a liking to the mini-bogans!

First of three planned with new GPS and the whole gang, not a good start as lots of golfers and even more of us! Finally found after excellent retrival skills by JC, logged in book.

Found today-dropping in Snoopy & Woodstock who I discovered in here and hadn't yet been logged. Will send him on his way, he is a well travelled little guy! Unfortunately there was no Chevy TB in the cache.

[This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 4:16:48 PM.]

Not much sunshine today I am afraid. Found on a caching day with Acts2youthgroup. He made the find while I was still looking at the GPS! Thanks Franles.

This was cache # 11 of 42 for the day, in the company of alansee on our Bayside & Mornington Peninsula tour, the cache was found at 10:40. No sign of sunshine today, just gray sky and rain. I always love the smell of pine tress so this was an enjoyable cache, had a view of the cemetery from GZ. My thanks to Franles for the cache.

Found while bringing some scouts up from Geelong to do a first aid course.
Dropped in snoopy TB.
Are these gems easy access for a bunch of scouts to go fossicking, would make a good weekend camp.

Great little cache, though some muggle golfers were a bit annoyed at our intrusion on their game.
GeoZ took a saphire and left yo-yo.
TFTC!

Took a little while to find until I pur the corrected co-ords in, cached was going to send me in to check out a rubbish pile nearby but I talked her out of it.

TNLN

Lovely spot to walk and very few golfers. Sun at last came out, and an easy find thanks to the hint! T4TC Left TB

Found 10.50am
Enjoyed the walk to the cache in the morning sun, once at GZ the cache was quickly found.
TNLNSL

Thanks Franles

Fantastic cache. Good hiding spot and well found. TFTC

Another drive-by on the way to the airport. Starting to expect the larger containers, being the 5th for the afternoon, but still forgot some trades. Signed Log, replaced and enjoyed the area in the 5 seconds we had spare.

A nice easy find. TNLN. TFTH.

Liked the sign when approaching gz for this one. I thought it was in a different location at first but finally got it TFTC

Found 15:30, in the company of Muzza.

TNLN, CSI=3, thanks Franles.

Another nice walk in another great park with the whole C&C gang. We walked past the cache a few times, but found it after a short while.

Thanks for taking us there Franles Left a TB

This was a nice cache, well hidden. L, friend of geokids, found this one and is quite chuffed. Found @ 2:30pm KeMS+L

Found this one just before midnight during a night cache run. Obviously no golfers at this time of night but tricky to find by torchlight. Nice hide. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found @ 17:15. No need to worry about golf balls today. Not a golfer to be seen. Found the cache after a short look. TFTC TNLNSL

Collected this one after wandering from Cheltenham Pines. Found very quickly,lovely to see these tins have multiple uses. TFTC, TNLN

Dipped Personal Geopatch

Found at 16.00

dropped by as we were strolling the park on secret caching business (wink wink) and checked on this on the way thru...all good here.

We recognised this park from an earlier caching excursion and, after battling our way past exiting vehicles, drove as far as we could without risking wayward golfballs bouncing off the roof. Cache was quickly found at 4:30pm without utilising alternative coords due to LZZ(f)'s sharp eyes dispensing with niceties. Took "stealth" TB. TFTC

Dog walking again. Checked cache, all good, flew in and landed the "Stealth" TB.

Spent a while searching for it, found no cache unfortunately

Not Found by The Empire with PR&F
As we approached this cache we stumbled across a group of youths with a little campfire, smoking some drugs and having a great old time! When we realised they were sitting at GZ, we headed back to the car without the find.
- M

Nice walk through the back of cheltenham, great for a sunny day TFTC-Franles

6th find for the day. Yummy pumpkin scones! Looking at the cache container made us hungry... Good spot for a cache and an even better hiding spot; took a moment to figure out. Thanks, Franles.

While walking the dog in this great park, I called in at this cache which I'm sort of babysitting while Franles has flown north for the winter.
All okay, and I took the Sheepish Critter GC to move him along. Now I find that he hasn't been logged in here yet.and still is supposed to be in The Regent.
Oh well, we'll wait a day or two and see if he shows up formally.

Left Sheepish critter coin. TFTC

Found the coords to this cache spoton according to my Garmin GPSmap 60CSx. Nice hide that took me a few minutes to locate.
Fortunate to find a golf ball during the hunt so decided it was fitting to swap it for the Mentone Hotel key ring. TFTH

Found at 1430. With dark clouds hovering above all day, I needed a little ray of sunshine today. Follow the walking trail adjacent to the golf course, and whilst I was only several meters from a golfing muggle, I went about my business completely unseen.

Thanks.

We found our 1st Franles cache at 4:30pm as the 11th of 15 on our Close Cache Clean-Up West Afternoon. A nice walk in the park. For the 5th time in 11th caches, we had to slow our search due to dog walkers. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

Found @1pm and heard a thud behind us immediately. A golf ball landed within 5metres and we scrambled away with the cache. Filled in the log while walking the track a little bit in either direction.

Great hide, nice large tin that fits snuggly in the hide. Great to see parks and paths like these in suburban areas.

Took nothing, Left LED keychain torch

Find # 90 @ 16:40.
I enjoyed the walk in the light rain. Took a while to find this one, had to resort to the logs. TNLNSL TFTC

Here with Big Matt and Steeba as part of our Vic invasion weekend. Its certainly not 20min up the hill from the nearest rd. A well worn path leads you to GZ.
Thanks

Found on Victorian invasion trip with Big Matt and The Rats.

Didn't take us too long in the dark from the nearest road.

TFTC!

2417.

Found this cache on our Victorian Invasion trip with Steeba and The Rats. A nice little wander up the track for a quick find.

Thanks Franles for the cache.

TNLNSL

We were in Melbourne for the weekend visiting our daughter and saw there was another cache in the park where her dogs love to go for a walk and play. Went to the listed coordinates however they appeared to be some 28m from where GZ was eventually located. The co-ords listed earlier by Landsergruppe and Geodes match ours which are S37 58.097 E145 03.075. TFTC Franles

Coincidentally, I checked the cache yesterday. The coords were spot on.
There are lots of tall trees in the vicinity which my GPSMap 60 CSx doesn't seem to find a problem, but they could come into play, I would imagine, depending on where the satellites are. My old Legend would have had trouble here I'm sure.

Where to look,
the pine tree down had nearly covered it. Did find OK. Thanks why it is called Ray of Sunshine.
TNLN

Thanks gmj3191. Much appreciated

Franles

I can look after it also.

Glad to see people steping up to maintain the cache, a much better option.

No, please leave it. I have arranged with Franles to maintain it for him.
Just waiting for him to make it available again.

I have a cache a couple of hundred metres away in the same park, Cheltenham Pines. It's an easy one for me to baby sit until Franles returns.

Perhaps the cache should be archived then

I am leaving Melbourne for the winter so cannot care for the Ray of Sunshine. I can't take it with me so will put it to bed till September.

A short walk in the dark to GZ from the car, whereupon I soon found the nicely hidden cache – the container being larger than I had expected. Took "Palimanan, Indonesia" Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug, LN. SL at 9pm. Thanks Franles for the cache - no people encountered during my visit, but I did get startled by a possum, though in hindsight, I'm sure it was probably mutual! Regards, 38degsouth.

Found today whilst enjoying a few caches around this area. Easy find but there were a lot of walkers in the area. We had been to this park plenty of times before to do caches and it is always good to see it from someone else's perspective. TNLNSL Thanks Franles for the cache.

There weren't too many Rays of Sunshine here this morning! I did the first waypoint of Pennydale and then the heavens opened up. While I was sitting in the bus stop out of the rain (on was on the bike), I had a look at this cache. As the rain eased I took a quick detour along near where people were laying around not doing much.
I nearly got bogged in the sand, fortunately I was just pushing the bike.
There were plenty of golfers on the course. What are they , mad! who would go out on a day like today! (except for a cacher, of course )
A quick find close to the original co-ords. What are the other co-ords in the description for?
Thanks, Robmc.

Went to where GPS said GZ was, a likely looking spot but no joy. Was about to give up when GPS decided it had a new GZ which lead to cache in hand.

Plenty of golfers and dogwalkers around today (early Monday afternoon) - I did get spotted by a small terrier who was lagging way behind his owner but it was when I was looking in the wrong area and I do not think he will tell anyone

Left Diabetes TB

TFTC

A pleasant walk to gz with Team Crackers on a sunny day with a quick find.
Thanks Franles,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Always a ray of sunshine with a find" Clan

Found by PR&F on 19/4/09 @ 11.30am.
Nice easy find after failing at the first two attempts for the day due to a number of reasons!
Signed log and we were on our way
TFTC!

Find 1 of 6 for the day!
Quite a few walkers and golfers around today - had to stay low!
TFTH, T: TBD4z772; L: Nothing

We were out on a pleasant afternoons caching with Mr and Mrs Coffee. An enjoyable stroll to GZ where we passed one dog walker and some nearby golfers were soon on their way. Thankfully no stray golf balls today. Other than this we had this nice little park to ourselves and the cache was soon in hand.
Thanks Franles

Found by expecttheunexpected on a Thursday morning. This magpie kept on coming up to me. SCARY. TNLN. One of the best places i have seen. Nice spot.

The smell of pine !

Took film, left multi tool

I initially went to the co-ordinates mentioned in the cache text, but when nothing was found there, I moved on to the published co-ordinates where the cache was quickly found. I made no swap, but did leave a geocoin. Thanks for the cache.

I will blame the blonde but I could not figure out just which set of coords the cache was actual meant to be hidden at
The listed ones or the ones in the description?
It was irrelevant in the end as I checked out the hint and found it without any dramas.
The golf course looked very inviting but I was dragging a suitcase not a set of clubs
Thanks for the cache Franles

Nice and easy. Short and sweet.

An attempt late in the day to do some caching brought us to this spot. Must say it has got pretty busy around here as i grew up here and back then lots of years ago it wasnt so. Loved the hide
TFTC

A quick grab in the morning just before going into hospital for some surgery...great way to start the day. Funny thing about the name...there was a ray of sunshine as I entered the park...followed by a gentle spitting of rain as I approached the cache. Followed by a massive downpour just after shutting the car door!!! I found the cache OK despite my GPS saying I was a good 15m away.