Rushy Point Albany, Western Australia, Australia
By Caching Camerons on 16-Jun-09. Waypoint GC1TQRY

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The cache owner hasn't responded to the "Needs Maintenance" log from 16/Sep/2011. It's only been found once since then, and several DNFs and logs posted subsequently reporting issues with the cache have not been answered. Maybe it's time for this to be archived?

Needs a look from the CO after the un-actioned NM log from 2011 and the logs of cachers recently.

We found the hide but nothing to direct us to waypoint 2, so we were forced to give up.

Sadly have to log a DNF for this one. I teamed up with Albany Getaway's leading geocacher for this particular quest, so we had an expert on the job. Our mission difficulty immediately went up a notch when we discovered that the bird hide for WP1 was completely surrounded by water. Can you imagine - getting your toes wet? Oh well, we'd dipped our feet into the waters of geocaching more than once before, so no problem there: off came the socks and shoes. Sometimes you just have to make sacrifices for the sake of a cache, even if it means getting wet! But as time ticked on, Mr Getaway clearly wasn't going anywhere, so it soon became evident that I'd have to make the same sacrifice. The two of us checked things over pretty carefully, but were unable to find any numbers for WP2. Undaunted, we completed the entire walk in the hope that some lateral thinking might help us stumble across WP2 or WP3, or perhaps even the final. But no such luck, despite cryptic logs, untrampled grass, wet trousers, sandy feet, curious neighbours, a drug affected dog, and undampened spirits. Maybe we were just outsmarted. Perhaps next time we'll have to return with the 3D goggles, night-vision glasses, and heat seeking device. Where's Mr Bond when you need him anyway? We may have Rushed, but we didn't find the Point in the end; perhaps another day.

Live just down the road, so this one was a must do.

found a while back,after 1st attempt and realised we hadnt logged it,so here we are

tftc and tfth

Found all the waypoints without drama, but couldn't find the cache so it is a DNF for us this time. TFTC,

I went past to have a look at the cache today and found the final place a mess. The [Grass] was trampled the cache log a wet ball in the container. and the cache not replaced properly. This appears known to the kids who live here. I saw 2 young muggles with cache in hand a few weeks ago.
It probably needs to be moved. It is still a great cache

We enjoyed a pleasant walk to the bird watching hut and located the next way points after consulting the GPS description. We made a mistake in expecting a traditional cache. The other way points were quickly found and the cache located after a small search. A great camo and thanks for taking us on the walk.

This was probably not the best geocache to try and find considering it was our very first! Finally found on 4th return to the area (and after finding a few others around town). Very cleverly hidden. I would say we roughly spent around 3 to 4 hours trying to find waypoints and cache. Glad to be able to mark this one off as found.

did 1st,2nd and 3rd parts will return

Nice cache love the hide. Log book full and has been replaced. TFTC

Nice Cache TFTC

Finally found it, after the third try. I'm very pleased to finally be able to cross this one off our list. I cringed at where the cache was hidden, giving a little grumble. Wonderful hiding spot though.

The logbook is now officially full now too...

Thank you very much!

I went the first time alone, hoping to bash out a multi-cache before heading home for lunch. However was stumped at the FIRST waypoint. It was here, no, over there. Come on little eTrek, where is it? So basically giving up in frustration, I headed home. I returned however, a second time, this time with a friend who was very new to caching. We searched for waypoint one for about an hour, before giving up again. I'm hoping it won't take too many more trips to find this little sucker.

It must be hidden well. I have to give you genuine points for it!

very nice hide. found it without a GPS, just need to guess the places to look. any way a very well done cache and nice final cache hide. TFTF SL

nice day for a stroll around the fore shore, this was our first multi cache, good fun, TFTH.

This entry was edited by dukznutz on Saturday, 08 January 2011 at 05:53:17.

This was such an enjoyable multi-cache to do. We had a great walk and loved the challenging waypoints. Plus the final cache was a new one for us - we are learning a lot! TFTH

Had a heap of fun finding this one with geo sis and geo bro. We laughed so much in the pitch dark with our torches. I am sure we didnt wake the neighbourhood.

JUST having been at P.R.S.C for a sweet as meal we decided to go for a night walk to burn off JUST a few thousand calories.....Geo Bro and Geo Sis and myself ambled up JUST the road from Geo Mum and Geo Dads house, JUST up the road from P.R.S.C.....JUST up the road easy find the first three, as Geo Bro the "I can read this GPS yellow thingy" got us a bit out of the way and lead us JUST up the road a bit too far....My cars uniden gps thingy JUST saved the day! Great find and wicked fun stomping around my home bushes.....Left our logs and ambled JUST back down the road to home. "OH HOW LUCKY ARE WE!"

Well, I think I started this one the week it was taken offline. Waited eagerly for it to come back and it did. Thanks CC's. Found WP2 then on to WP3 and had a hiccup. Finally dragged my flued up body out and got back there today. I am not sure how I overlooked that tag to see the original one which was taken down. On to the final and I believe the word that came out of my mouth was 'magnificent'

Thanks for the stroll and look and chat with an old bloke and his dog.

Great cache.

MCFonz

TFTC Thanks a vice nice walk and a nice little task. Thanks for getting this back up and running.

Anyhoo six months later...... The "Rushy Point" is back! sometimes it just takes a little encouragement I have replaced the missing way point two.It is different than the last one and in my opinion not as sneaky but the host location has deteriorated somewhat due to x amount of finds but should do the job. The co-ords stay the same as it has only moved slightly.

Checked on this one today and found waypoint 2 missing/muggled will try to replace before i go away on annual leave for a month at the end of the week

TFTC

Ha, gotcha !
After we had left this one because it was a multi and because it was a micro and because the logs suggested it was tricky - we found all waypoints really quickly and gz was an easy find too Getting the hang of the crafty mind behind these caches
TFTH Mr Cameron

Went out with a largish party to find this one. The race was on for one and old to find the waypoints. You think you know an area until ...one day you do Rushy Point! It was a very different view towards Albany. We loved it. GZ was quicky spotted by a sharp eyed cacher. TFTH

A tricky one!!! really got the run around with this one.
TFTC

took awhile, approx 2 hours, concealed well

#5 of 22. Really enjoyed the stroll between waypoints, hadn't been to this area before so took our time even had a break for morning tea - nearly 2 hours before we finally spotted the very clever camo - we know we have to have our wits about us for Albany caches.

Finally, finally! Found it! And how sneaky. As a bit of a camo cacher myself, I can fully appreciate the elegant simplicity of this hide. I'd looked at that object many times, grabbed it a few times and tried to move it, but never detected its secret. It took a solid gold, 24 carat clue from a kindly Cameron to guide me to the right spot. (My Magellan insisted it was over there, definitely over there. Well, no it wasn't! It was over here.)
So for all of you who have suffered frustrations from my caches, be comforted that I have been hoisted, if not by my own, but by a very clever petard.
cheers, roymerc

A well thought out and constructed multi - in an interesting scenic area. We particularly liked the work at wp 2 and gz. Thanks Caching Camerons

Today’s weather was perfect for doing this cleverly constructed cache. We allowed ourselves about 1 ½ hours based on other logs but we hadn’t factored in how cleaver the HowdyaB gang has become and we had the cache nailed in less than half that time. The real challenge for us with this cache was how were we going to get the keys out of a much locked car?? Lucky we needed to take 2 cars on this occasion and HowdyaB saved the day and took us home for the spare set. In the end we used up the full 1 ½ hours and therefore no real need for recriminations.
Thanks for a great cache Camerons

Thanks to one of our youger team members we had this cache done and dusted in no time, mind you it was not the best start for wefoundit2.
Lets just say, always check you have the keys of the car before you lock it or get central locking and make life easy for yourself.
TFTF,nice walk.

after getting our heads around the first waypoint, the next two turned up relatively easily. got to GZ and like roymerc immediately discovered "the hide" ... or not. gentle force, a bit more vigorous force, get the crow bar from the back of the car type force and hey presto..... its not the cache.............

sat and had some brain food with the kids (chicken flavoured twisties in my case) and looked again at a few spots we'd previously rejected only to find that one of the rejects was actually the hide - awesome.

thanx camerons for another well thought out and particularly devious cache.

Our second try to locate a waypoint. Perseverance finally paid off. a new installation close to cache has had a real workover. Wonder how long it will last with the determination of humans to locate caches? A very clever and rewarding hunt. TFTH

Enjoyed this one and it didn't prove as difficult as we thought once we'd found the first co-ords and seemingly infiltrated the devious mindset!

Well i bet you think your pretty tricky with this cache dont you! well it was no match for Pinky+BillyBob who also had a possible future cacher along for the ride Nan E appeared to be quite inquistive and even finding one WP. good job we really enjoyed the hunt! TFTF

Set out with great plans to do this highly recommended cache today. Halfway to Albany, remembered that I'd left my Wellie boots on the verandah. Bugger!
Got to waypoint 1, and there is the bird hide sitting a couple of metres off shore. And that water looks cold! So, having recently been reminded that great minds think alike, I took a stroll around thinking, 'now where would I hide a waypoint?' Yep, right there! A very neat camo job. But was I looking at number two or three? Anyway, it lead me on to the next one. Under the watchful eyes of the locals. Exquisite agony of stealthyness!
Got the next set of numbers, and proceeded on. And there was the obvious cache. But equally obviously, it wasn't. Again with neighbourhood watch all around, I stealthily applied gentle force. Then stealthy heavier force. Hmmm, no go. And am I looking at a cache or a waypoint? Only one thing to do; come back wellie-booted and start from scratch.
I feel like I've fallen off my trainer wheels!

Until next time, cheers, roymerc

We had a bit more luck then poor old Roymerc. I found the first 2 waypoints last weekend but by the time I got to wp3 it was too dark for me to read the coords, so we came back today to finish it off. A great camo. I had my hand on it twice before I realized it was the cache.

Found previously as one of the “Rainbow Coasters”.

Turned up middle of the morning and guess who we spied wandering around trying to look for like someone not looking for something! "mister_clyde" beat us to Rushy Point and had the jump on us and took a well earned FTF. As time was short for the Coasters and not having found the first WP, we headed back into town feeling a bit frustrated. After all if "mister_clyde" had almost worked it out, where weren't we looking! Anyway headed back the next day, found the co-ords for WP1 after a short search and found WP2 easily and then started to look for the cache at what we thought was GZ. Headed off home again thinking too exposed, not the right place for a cache, what have we missed, somethings not right!!!

Always helps when you read the whole thing properly the first time, the male Coaster was pretty dirty on himself (used the goose word a few times) when he realised what we thought was GZ was the next WP. in the car again, straight to WP3 and then to GZ. What a neat, interesting cache with great waypoints. Top marks to the "Caching Camerons" you are up there with the best of the cache devilish minds that puts Albany cachers at the top of the tree.

Well, we probably couldn't have picked a worse time to do this one. The fair half of the team being away in the big smoke had the other half at work champing on the bit all afternoon. Raced home - grabbed the GPS, grabbed Ralph and got to WP1 some time after 4pm. Apparently this is the walkies time for the local hounds. We met 8 of them, all with friendly talkative owners. And then we met them again when they came back. They all know Ralph now, what breed he is and how old he is. Consequently it was near dark when we got to WP3 and dark at GZ.

Even allowing for all that, it seems to me that the difficulty is a bit more than stated. It is certainly not a cache for someone still on trainer wheels. Great placement of WP hides topped off with a bottler of a final hide. It needs stealth and, especially if you have an incredibly handsome dog with you, perserverence.

It brought us to a new place, and that is always a bonus. Thanks Caching Camerons - you have done Albany proud.

This is a very good cache. Great waypoints and a good hide to finish.
Took me over an hour to find all the points but I was hampered by the neighbours working on their caravan in the front yard. Not that I'm making excuses probably would have taken me that long anyway. Almost gave up at one stage but thought that I would retrace my steps one more time. Glad I did.

We have a very fine group of cachers in this town and the Camerons are in that group.

Thank you and well done.

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