Archers' Chapel Keysborough, Victoria, Australia
By Earthbound Chief on 12-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZW5A

Our very first cache hide has bitten the dust, well the lawn mower ate it! I think it's demise may have had something to do with what a sophisticated hide it was...cache at the base of tree covered in bark! Might replace it at a later date due to sentimental reasons, but the grand tree is no longer an option.

This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Thursday, 05 May 2011 at 06:55:15 UTC.

Have temporarily disabled this cache until we can check out the hide and look at replacing the container.

This cache needs replacing as it has been run over by the mower the cache is in bits log is all chopped up. But still signed log or what is left of it and picked all pieces of cache up and placed next to the tree this tree is a great looking tree it's ashame it's nearly dead. Tftc or what once was a cache.

Nice park with big old trees.
Found cache quickly.
TFTH. TNLNSL

Found with radioburwood and smudge 2106 TNLN

Found at 2110 by Strikeswiftly+S on a night trip to Patterson Lakes.

TNLNSL TFTC

This was an unusual and rather impressive tree. Thankfully my leap was large enough to make it across the ditch, but still decided to take the easier option of walking around upon exit. Thanks Earthbound Chief for another great cache.

Great little park
TFTC SL

One of a few found today on this lovely afternoon. Just before yummy tea (home made lasagne and vanilla ice-cream with minty ice magic - yum) at in-laws in Keysborough.
Mrs Iamapom waiting in the car over there <------
Fairly straight forward find. Lots of ants. Lots and lots of ants.
TFTC

(I've fallen behind in my logs by a week - eek!)

Found at approx 21:35 in the company of RogWat and coley_babee.

We still had some time after dinner to find a few more caches before coley curfew on herself expired.
Parked on the side of the road and made the jump over the ditch.

A nice and quick find this evening.

Last find for tonight, managed to fall over the ditch both times!!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

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

Easy find. TFTC.

Caching around Moordy.
Nice find
TFTC

After a long trip This Little Piggy is resting here awaiting for her adventures to continue

#287 8th of 10 in an afternoon's caching. Looks like I'm caching in Earthbound central - this is the 3rd so far this arvo! Yes, great old gum trees here - reminds me of many huge ones along the Murray river. Thanks Earthbound Chief.

#49 - Wow! That big tree looked AMAZING!!!! Massive branches! Had to take some photos, of course
Anyway, a nice and easy find. Took Shrek TB.

Thought I'd grab this one on the way to the doctors... took Koala TB to return to Europe as per mission, TFTC!

Quick and easy find at GZ. Left the koala travel bug to enjoy this wonderful tree! TFTC TN SL

Found it on my second visit. TFTC.
Took phone. Left Shrek in the hope someone can find him some more swamps to visit.

We were in the vicinity for a hockey match, so we went to find a few caches.
Nice easy find with Geokid.
Pretty spot - Thanks Earthbound Chief

found at 2305, 7/9 on a cold night out.. Very nice big tree.. wow.. I didnt know you could buy them that big.. TFTC TNLN Find #212

Down town on this cold winters day so thought I'd grab a few caches. This is a really gnarly old tree. TNLN. Thanks EC for the hide.

found on way home 23:15 ish at night.
nice little park didnt have any info on it but easily found
TFTC TN SL (Had a little lolly inside so removed and thrown out)

where else could it be... i wonder
got ya now you can't get away

Oh no, the Willara Venturers beat me again. This is the third time I have arrived only to find them logged in. Curse you, Willara Venturers!

Luck we get the cache as I was not know about the bees around up top of the tree.. Found it with Everlasting. TFTC

With Crank1 - Nice small park area - beauty old trees - No swap SL. Thanks Earthbound Chief

found by willara venturers at 20.40 TFTC SL TN LN

Found while out with Willara Venturers TFTC TNLN SL

5.45pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Max was delegated to cross the mini obstacle to find this one.
Thanks Earthbound Chief for this experience.
From Romax.

Found at around 2.40pm with all the family. Cache located by Reverse. After getting over to the reserve it was a race by the kids to the big amazing tree. Wild not feeling 100%. Cache located before we were even half way there. No one around. Nice spot that we have driven past a lot but not noticed. Thanks for the cache Earthbound Chief.

Amazing tree! T4TC

Find # 1048 @ 18:47 on a day out caching with tackle_head
Boy, sure is an oldie! Thought it was dead but not quite.
TNLN SL Thanks Earthbound Chief

Found with 3up . Do you know how old the tree is ? - thanks Earthbound Chief

FlyingPigSquadron has landed!
We travel past this little paradise regularly on our trips up & down to visit 'weathafurkawi' & keep saying 'we must go and have a closer look. Thank you for making us do that Earthbound Chief. What a great tree - just love the trunk! TN left 'fairy stones'

Rorzzer did you grab the travel bugs or was it the mouse?

found it with ease and was nearly eaten alive by the mouse that ran up the tree. grabbed the 2 travel bugs. TFTC

Nice little cache in a nowhere in particular location.
Never really noticed this spot before.
Left TB and GC

I have never seen or felt a tree like this....Wow
A lovely and forgotten spot
TFTC

Found while at work. Was passing this park and remembered it had a cache so a quick pickup was had

TFTC TNLN SL

Dipped personal Geopatch

Funny wee spot here, driven past it many a time. Awesome gumtrees here. TFTC

1645hrs

Out with Datruk (Dad) today and we found this cache very quickly.

TNLNSL
TFTC

good little drive by grab TFTC TNLN

1645hrs

Decided to get out for a little bit today with Miss BB seeing as she has been suffering from 2nd degree burns from the Sun all week.

This was a simple straight forward find.

Took Pathtag
Left Carabina
TFTC

Fantastic tree, and I think there is a bee's nest in a hollow limb high above the cache location.
Thanks for taking the effort to hide a larger cache.
Unfortunately I had nothing to swap, but signed the log and enjoyed the ambience.
TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1455. A wonderful specimen in the afternoon light - still clinging to life. Our thanks again to Earthbound Chief.

Number 10 of 10 for a day of Drive/Cycle/Walk cross country caching

Those trees are impressively old. Lets hope they have a few dozen more decades in them!
TNLNSL TFTC

Nice easy access, watch out for the spikes

A quick easy find once I cleared the ditch.
Was not so fortunate on my return when my ill judged leap failed to cover the gap and I slid down the bank to the murky water below.
Ah well lucky the sun was coming out now. I'll be dry in no time.
Thansk Earthbound Chief.

A quiet little park in the middle of nowhere with an interesting GZ. TFTC. KeMS

Headed out at about midnight on this really warm night to do a couple 'last day of the year caches' ! Made my way to 'Archer's Chapel' and it wasn't long before I had the cache in hand. TFTC. Happy New Year.

There was no way I was going to cross that ditch, so we took the circuitous route around to make an easy find in the end. I wonder why the entrance to the adjacent carpark has been closed off? Seems a bit odd to me. TFTC.

Managed to park the car between the two access points, ensuring the longest walk for us and Tealby. Or alternatively, cross the mud filled ditch. Not me! Not after a previous failed attempt elsewhere in work clothes. Some pretty amazing trees here. Thanks for the cache.

2661. Should have parked down the road a bit but wanted to get a bit closer. Then had to skirt the drain. Once that was done it was a quick find ad back to the car for more caching.

TFTC and the arrow.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Dropped off Crowesfeat 30 Geocoin (maybe someone should take this one to Wagga-it's the "place of many Crows" and the Be@rbrick - China TB. Picked up the Geocoin that was in the cache to move along.

I certainly wouldn't call this reserve unremarkable - the Red Gums are spectacular.
Shame it is on such a busy corner and obviously they have issues there as they've had to put the gate in but it is very nice.
TFTH
TNLN
SL
L: Geocoin

Dropping off Geocoin

This was cache # 2 of 37 for the day, In the company of Alansee, on our second tour of the Bayside suburbs and Mornington Peninsula. This was a nice little park with some great trees, the name of the cache made more sense when we saw the name of the park. My thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Found on a wet but generally enjoyable day out caching with Acts2YouthGroup. The hardest thing about getting this one was getting over that ditch! Thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Found by The Empire
13/12/09 @ 12:10pm with pocketrocket&friends and her Geohusband
4/21 today, had to navigate over the drain which was full of water (I wasn't wasting valuable caching time walking all the way around!).
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Found by PR&F on 13/12/09 @ 12.10pm. #4 of 21 finds with geohusband and The Empire today.
Lovely location
Easy find, TNLN SL
TFTC!

Some fantastic trees in this park. Saw some beautiful rosellas too.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Found with mum and Jaya . Nice spot.TFTC

found with the help of Jaya and Elly. TFTC

[This entry was edited by rosepudy on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 5:49:48 AM.]

A nice easy find tonight. There were a few new caches that popped up recently and this was one of them. TNLN.TFTC

Wow. Archers' Chapel is something special.

This ancient River Red Gum is a local treasure, possibly over 700 years old.

River Red Gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) are typically found along the banks of watercourses and floodplains.

Archer's Chapel tells the story of a different landscape, before the draining of the Carrum Carrum swamp by European settlers in the late 1800s.

On a historical note, Alexander Bowman, from the family the reserve is named after, started what was possibly the first store in Dandenong in 1852, now the site of the Albion Hotel.

A very big TFTC.

[This entry was edited by bearsleys on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 5:50:19 PM.]

what great trees!! never seen gums growing like this before.
TN - L octopus TB. TFTC

28-11 3rd find of the day at 11:32 and 705th find in total.
A nice easy find among some amazing old trees.
The only thing we didn't get was where the name came from?
(''\(OoO)/'') TNLNSL, thanks Earthbound Chief for the cache.

609. Decided to walk around the ditch I just had the funny feeling that if i didn't make it, the boots and knees would be slippery for the rest of the day, Located the hide,Signed and replaced Left
: TB Blacked Out! Thanks Earthbound Chief for bringing us here .TFTC

what magnificent trees! couldn't believe the way they are growing. it was a nice easy find for 2 ladies who had got quite despondant because we couldn't find the previous 2 we had been looking for! decided that we have to stick to normal caches for now instead of trying multicaches until our maths improves!!!!
TN LN signed log.

After negotiating the ditch it was duly found and signed. Hope I wasn't barking up the wrong tree.

Found in the company of EB Chief and the rest of the control. Dad stayed in the car and left us to our own devices. No Clues! Found by EB Nano, while we made sure we stood back. It was his TURN! Put in a couple of swaps for a toy from Kung Fu Panda.

Found 12:35, crossing the ditch to get to GZ was a little harder than it might otherwise have been due to last nights rain.

TNLN, CSI=1, thanks Earthbound Chief.

A quick find @ 1145 on my way into Dandenong. Another one of those little parklands that not many people now about.

TNLNSL

TFTC

I was the ... from Shepparton who was visiting this cache at the same time. In fact I saw them arrive and quickly deposited the cache and went back to the car only to watch and see they too had a GPSr with them. Always nice to meet new people out caching!

Cheers,

R - B

1st of three for the day. What magnificent trees in this strip park. Met ...from Shep who had found the site minutes before. 1st meeting with another Geo. Coin collected.

A quick drive by cache, with the hard part getting over the ditch without falling back in.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache!
best wishes,
Wal

Found @ 16:40. 1st of 10 while caching with davroy tonight. Found after a short search. TFTC
Left Pathtag
TNSL

Found @ 1640.

Found with ggkof on our usual Tuesday night caching conundrum. A nice one to start the evening, a nice easy find. Wonderful tree.

Found @ 1600Hrs
On our way home from trying to do a clean up of a few new caches which was of no real great sucses we only managed to get Two out all the new ones but is is a nice day so the Muggles were out in force but not here which was a great relife to find the cache right were my GPSr was pointing.
Love the tree @ GZ i have not seen a tree that bumpy for so long.

TNLNSL
TFTH

2051 re-logging due to name change

Quick dash and grab while driving between jobs, had to wait while some bike riders went past, but in the end all was good.

TNLNSL

Opportunistic caching tonight. Found very quickly, barely turned the torch on. TNLNSL TFTC

Found by Bob at 1805

Still on my way to the Halloween Event in Cheltenham, but I couldn't resist a bit of a detour for this one (it's all by itself as far as my unfound caches go). Having pulled up at the closest point to GZ, I did have some minor difficulties navigating over the ditch (not 2.5 terrain though) - it's just a bit big/deep/wet for an easy jump/step across - but not so big that you immediately head for an easy access. Anyway, I managed to negtiate it ok and was soon at GZ where I really enjoyed the sight/feel of the majestic old (dead) tree. I've always been a bit of a tree-hugger, but I don't think I'd like to hug this one too tightly as it must have had a bit of cactus juice in its veins to give it all those really sharp protusions . The cache was a nice, quick find.

TNLN, but did drop in a PrincessDiala pathtag

Thanks again Earthbound Chief

An easy find while out with the geokid and geowife....Took Pokemon Ball and left happy meal toy..SL...TFTH

Would have been a great old tree when alive. Still not bad dead I guess. Walked all around it while Robmc made the find.
Grabbed a geocoin from here!
Thanks Earthbound Chief

I wondered where the Archers came from until I saw the name of the park.
A great Gum tree. So many interesting surfaces.
We thought we were in for a climb, but fortunately we found the cache first
Thanks, Robmc.

Nice quick find in a park I've passed quite a few times (mainly at night) but never even noticed. I dropped off a geocoin that I've had for too long - I forgot that I had it. Thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Dipping in my Gc
TFTC

Our first of the day at the start of an early morning run. Just a few of the locals around and so it was an easy walk amongst the ducks to gz Thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Dipping Moon Geocoin into cache

Thanks for the tree. Good big hide. Although you could have given me a clue. EB Max out

Found @ 12:35 With a few hours free today i decided to grab a cache or two...What a great tree you don't see many largre gum tree's in the suburb's these day's
TFTC SL

We spotted this great looking tree before we had even realized that it was gz. With all the recent rains we had to park a little way away as it wasn't easy to cross the drain without getting wet feet, from here we simply followed the GPSr needle while admiring a different view of this ancient eucalypt. With the rain again threatening we didn't stay around long enough to watch it change color but we will be now watching in future when we pass by here
We disovered and dropped a TB Jeep to wait with it's mate
Thanks Earthbound Chief for the cache

We found this one at 12:55pm. 1st of 9. A late start to the caching afternooon and a pretty little spot to start the hunt. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

Found with TeamOnion, second for the afternoon. Took TB, one each to send off in different directions. TFTC

Found with Team Dunko. Took jeep TB. Left geogecko TB. TFTC!

*FTF* with coverthypnosis. Only my 3 cache find and was happy to get a FTF with coverthypnosis. Very interesting tree and thanks for the cache

PT

*FTF* Found at 1:36pm. Parked up in a bad spot and PT jumped the moat but I walked around to the drive. GPS took us right to GZ and a quick search had the cache in had and then had some time to admire the interesting tree. The cache is a nice decent size, I think it should be classes as a regular. Once PT signs up on geocaching I will get him to log this as a joint FTF. It was an honor to find your first placed cache. #250 for me. 1/4 of a grand TFTC.

[This entry was edited by coverthypnosis on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 2:32:56 AM.]