Was it a house?? Ballan, Victoria, Australia
By Kinkell1 on 15-Jan-10. Waypoint GC1N1NC

The cache appears to be gone again.
I am archiving this cache because of the vandalism on the wall.
I will put a new cache somewhere nearby in the near future.

Lots of stones about. No apparent cache.

Wasn't confident on approach as there were rocks strewn everywhere... looks like a vandal job. Was surprised to see cache still in place but completely uncovered. Put back with rock in front. TFTC

A nice and easy find
The caching gods were smiling on me here.
After signing the logbook and rehiding the cache I noticed how many more potential hidey holes there were.
Or have previous finders been sticking rocks in holes to add to the confusion ?

Letting kids have a play in the playground. Tftc.

Came here some time ago but in the middle of a rainstorm, so left it then. Good to return on a sunny and muggle-free day to make an easy find.
TFTC, and trust that last Sunday's event here went well.

This entry was edited by daunts on Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 02:57:36 UTC.

Our 9th find this morning on the way to the Birthday Event. Found the extraction tool very handy - great hidding spot. TFTC Kinkell1 and for our great Birthday event held here today.

Found today shortly before the Birthday Event got underway. A very stealthy grab surprised even the other member of sashi2, however the replacement was much less subtle as the attendees for the event began to arrive. Thanks Kinkell1 for a great cache and fantastic event which followed

Found at the birthday event with the support of Geo_Eddie.
A nice quick find

TFTC!

Good spot for a picnic or BBQ and a birthday celebration. Finding the cache was the icing on the cake as I am new to all this. Thanks for the cake and the cache.

Found today after attending the 'Birthday Event'.

TNLN TFTC

Found today, I came here after a walk in the werribee gorge hoping to make the event, but seems to have moved on.

A quick find.

Now to head home via a few new caches in green dale / myrniong

A quick find today whilst cleaning up a few in the Myrniong and Ballan areas. This looks like it might have been the substructure for a house. Would have been a great place to live. Not many at the pool today even though it is expected to be 37 deg.

Thanks for showing me this great area Kinkell1

This cache was found by me today in the company of The Demolition Crew.

While I strive to make my logs personal to every cache, I have far too many logs to do, that I apologise in this instance for using a generic log. I thank you for the placement of this cache as it was one of many that made up a great day for me and the crew..

The Day's Blurb...

The annual holidays is always a great time to relax and take it easy, but not today. The Demolition Crew had decided that after such a long break from caching together that we would start the year off with a bang! So the planning minds were put into operation, and Ballarat Smackdown II was conceived.

The smackdown started along way from Ballarat, in fact in the hills around Cardinia Reservoir and from there is was a push across the northern suburbs of Melbourne through Melton & Bacchus Marsh. It being such a hot day, the waters of Pykes Creek Reservoir cooled and refreshed us, and we were soon off to start on the Ballarat caches.

Since our first Smackdown in the area, many new caches have popped up, so it was a fruitful run which ended well into the early morning. A couple of caches were replaced as a way of saying thanks to those who took the time to place them, and I think in the end my tally was well over 100 for the run.

It was a completely awesome day, and I thank you for placing the cache. We will return to the Ballarat area soon as there are still a number of caches we left undiscovered.

Checked the cache today....it's still there hiding!

Spent a fair bit of time here with a previous finder and two others, but came up with zilch. Will have to watch this one.

Our guess is that this was the walls of a small house - very solid as they were in the "olden days". There were some muggles with a junior muggle playing on the equipment nearby, however we were able to find a likely spot at 1510hrs, sign the log and replace the cache in its nifty little "house". Thanks Kinkell1 for this cache

Found on a day out with my nephew. first cache of the day. curios little spot and fun to find. thanks for bringing us here

We had come here months ago to do a nearby cache, missed an event by 15minutes and then this one wasn't online... so today a quick found was made. Thanks for the cache.

The non geocaching wife had some old girl friends coming for lunch so the ageing Bushfire thought that this was the perfect excuse to clean up Bacchus Marsh and Ballan and gain a few smilies.
A bit late getting away but this was the 22nd stop.
Pulled up in the parking area and started a search with not a sole around as it was getting late and most people were down the street where a large gathering of folk were celebrating Halloween with a police escort.
cache was sighted , signed and returned and off to the next.
Thanks Kinkekk1 for placing this cache and the new log now has it's first name.

Cache replaced.

Ready to roll but be very careful of muggles please.

Suspected MIA.

Disabling until I can get to check it out.

Like the previous finder, I think it's missing too.
Please could the CO check it since the last find was five months ago?

I hunted and hunted, and given the difficulty, I think the cache might be missing

#988
Quick find. After logging there stops a car and a nice aussie couple asks: "Are you geocachers?" It was nice talking to you - hope you will make it to Switzerland once for caching.
TFTC & Greetings from Switzerland
Out: TB

Found it with some really nice swiss tourist geocaching. Gave them trackable to send back to europe.

A quick easy find tonight at 7.00pm. No one around and could see the cache, maybe needs a coat of black paint.

TFTC

Found ok. Thank you

Not sure what it was, but all I know is we found the cache!! TFTC

On vacation caching with our friends Anne and Dan in the Fiji, New Zealand, and Austraila. Logs were signed BenDiGiFu. We are from the USA. Thanks for placing the cache....Benny7210

Vincit Qui Patitur

My Hubby (Digital_Dan) & I are on vacation with our good friends, Mr & Mrs benny7210. Made out way through Ballarat where we are staying, picking up caches along the way. Out and about caching and sight seeing. This looks as if it was an old stone storage shed maybe. Hard to tell for sure though. found the cache no problem.

Thanks for bringing us here...it's why we love caching..to see stuff the average tourist would NEVER see!! SL TFTC

Quick easy find...thanks!

Found at the fun event with dad.
Thanks Sue

Found after Event
TFTC

Found last year. Logging this year. Tftc

Quick find on way home to Bendigo. TFTC

11/01-12
Found it without a problem.
TFTC!
/Mauo

TFTC

Found it TFTC

TFTC. TNLNSL.

TFTC. Have always driven straight through Ballan & didn't know about this pleasant area behind the main drag.

Fantastic to see a water race like this. I saw a similar thing on Time Team a while back where they were excavating an old mill in Britain somewhere and showed how the river was diverted to power the Mill.

Cheers and thanks for bringing me here.

Pete

Found amongst all the creepy crawlies.

A quick find, after a break from the daily commute.

TFTC Kinkell1 and Tilly....

We were out early in the Ballan district as we had met up with friends for breakfast who had come off the Tasmanian Ferry and were heading straight through to Adelaide. While we were in the area we thought we would do some caching. A very cold day but off we went anyway. Nice one. Thanks kinkell1

Found @ 1645 whilst on my way to Bacchus Marsh to catch up with a mate!

Nice easy find after a short walk.

Great views of the river with everything lush & green at the moment...

Thanks Kinkell1 for bringing me here.

TNLNSL TFTC

Cache In Good Condition.

Another great discovery on the way home from the city.

The boys loved looking for this one.

Thank you.

It was a tiny house for Elves Haha! Great little Hide

Nice little hide, lucky the area was dead quiet for the time I found it at 16:00.

Found after a bit of searching. Tried to imagine what it was like many years ago and what the building may have been. Found by geokid Jack....who was a bit troubled by where it was and was worried about spiders.

TFTC

2nd find of the day, and 2988th total find at 11:21.

We set out to find 14 caches today, and have to say this was a most difficult number to achieve.

This cache was one of the easiest, they got harder to find as we went westward.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks Kinkell1 for the cache

Ian and Penny

Edit to fix incorrect Groundspeak date.

This entry was edited by ian-and-penny on Monday, 19 September 2011 at 11:49:53 UTC.

yes! Found it today. It had been elluding me for some time, then I realised that it had been muggled. I've been waiting to attack it again so thanks for putting it back on the scene. Rainy when I was out and about but worth it. TFTC Kinkell1

Found 9.10am
We stood back and looked before picking a spot to look in, our first choice proved correct. Nice and quiet at GZ today.

TNLNSL
Thanks Kinkell1

Suscoe found this cache just before coffee time.
A nice quick find.
Signed the log and then realised that's all the Ballan caches finished.
Thanks to Kinkell1 for providing an interesting array of caches here.

found with easy, nice lunch location with lil uns

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 35.915 E 144° 13.778

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 35.922 E 144° 13.780

Distance from original: 43.8 feet or 13.4 meters.

Area was affected by rain and flooding which may have moved the cache. Either that or muggles, but many of the stones have been moved by silt and water run off. Cache replaced today and co-ords updated

All is well again!

Disabling until I can check this cache

Had trouble with this one. GPS was carrying on a treat and I was a little short of time. Will try again when I'm out and about in the area.

Looked here for a little bit, but without finding any loose stones, no smiley. The remains are a little worse for wear and I didn't want to do any more damage that what is already done.
Thanks kinkell1

Found numerous likely spots, lots of loose stones but no cache. Has been a couple of months since last seen, will keep an eye on future logs.

No Luck today

We were celebrating a grandparents 70th birthday at the nearby Mill Rose Cafe. When geo-kids had had enough of sitting still and making conversation, Geo-dad took them off to find this cache. Thankyou for the chance to stretch legs and have a play as well as find an interesting cache in an interesting location.

Has to be a barbie, anything else is unaustralian...

Found with ease with a few muggles about.
TFTC

muggles playing in the park we just acted like we needed to stretch our legs

TFTC

Not much of this house was left!!!

Found the well hidden cache

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found in the company of RogWat, coley_babee and walenators on a numbers run into Ballarat.
It looks too small to be a house, an outhouse maybe.
Would be interesting to find out what it actually was though!
I was however fascinated by the over flowing river, as were other people.
Thanks again Kinkell1.

Took a little while to find as we couldn't get an accurate fix

A nice easy find, but had to be careful as there was heaps of people checking out the overflowing river nearby. TFTH...SL...TNLN

Found this one while at Kinkel's It's my birthday event cache yesterday. TFTC

While in good company I wondered of to grab this easy cache. Not a long walk for this one. Was it a house ? TFTC

Found whilst at Kinkell1's Birthday Event. Nice spot for a cache, I wonder what it was?? Thanks for the Cache

Quick find today whilst at the nearby event. Finally knocked this one over. Lost count of the number of time I've been nearby and the place was crawling with muggles.

Thanks for bringing me here.

I previously dropped in here to do this one, but arrived at lunchtime and had muggles streaming in and out of the place..
No problem.. do it another day..
Well today was the day and found it and signed the log while at Kinkell1's event.
TFTC

a day caching with corza1993 and xesist, we expected to find a plaque with a description near the ruins, unfortunatley there was'nt. sl, tftc!

found with vicbradybunch and xesist thanks

There was a muggle with his grand daughter here, but these park caches are so much easier to do with the Geokids when muggles are about. They make for the perfect cover. Let them run off and play and others don't think your a suspicious adult hanging around a playground! Spotted the hide from a distance and pounced on it when the timing was right. Got one of the Geokids to replace it as they were running about the place. Would be intersting to find out more about the remains of the building that are here though. TFTC.

One of many found today during my 'Intervening Days III' cache hunt. Found with Marshy (Blacklegend). Nice find on our loop through Ballan back to Melton. TFTC.

48th of 52 for the day after attending Intervening Days III. Found with Marty (Quasar3671) now in night caching mode with flashlights out.... Was it a house? might have been, was it a find, you betcha. TFTC.

We leave my home in Melbourne at 6am in the morning on way to Adelaide and arrived Adelaide at 11pm at night time which had been doing with caches on way. Enjoyed myself.
Found it.
TFTC

Our second find for the day, luckily the rain kept potential muggles away so a quick find was made. SL TFTC.

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

A house? Hmmm maybe not!

Thanks

C&W

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

Found finally after visiting GZ 3 times on my last trip to Ballan only to find muggles everywhere

TFTC

Very nice hide but very hard to get as had been pushed so far!

Went to gz and found in first place I looked. Gotta love that!!!!
SL
Thanks for the hide.

Caching in company with Slink1 today. Good find. TFTC SL

or was it a wood shed... Quick find on a day out caching with Dunko TFTC SL

Once upon a time there was a house.....
Found it
TFTC

Probably not, perhaps an outback toilet? This cache took me a little while to find as there were so many loose stones. It appears others have had trouble also as there were quite a few stones scattered about. Finally found it though.

Thanks,

R - B

This one really stumped us. Normally when there is a cache like this it's hidden behind the only stone that moved... these ALL moved! We almost gave up on it, then decided on a re-search of all the places we had already looked. At last, there it was.

Found 12:05, a nice quick find in a pleasant little park.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Kinkell1.

Nice little parl. Interesting site The history would be nice

We found this cute little cache @ 09:25hrs today.
I have driven past Ballan so many times and never knew any of this existed. I'll definitely be back to grab the rest of the caches in the area when I have more time. It certainly is a park worth revisiting.
TFTC TNLN SL

Found today even though i left the GPS at home. Thanks

co ords were quite a way off on this one but cache was simple enough to find TFTC

easy find.

Was searching for awhile in the wrong area, when I was about to give up I tried a new location and the cache was soon in hand. TFTC