Bolwell's that ends well Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
By Earthbound Chief on 22-Nov-09. Waypoint GC219BG

Any thoughts before I get down there? Cheers A

Sadly, with construction on the road still continuing and the undergrowth still undergrowing and with whoever is living / storing things under the bridge, this cache has become unreplaceable for the time being.
when the planets realign we will endeavour to put out a new cache

Just logging my personal name tag to track my personal distance traveled.

It seems Bolwell hasn't ended well. Will have to rethink this one.

We couldn't find it! Is it really under the bridge? We were a bit disappointed that we couldn't find it. Could you add some more notes about the geocache? Thanks PESRCoady

For some reason I logged 'yuck' as the note on this DNF - who knows?

#193. Number 7 of 23 finds today. No sign of the security guard today, thankfully (read previous logs to see what I'm talking about). Easy find, though. TFTC.

12.21PM

This one almost had me stumped and leaving empty handed until I found a lower path that led almost up to GZ. Quite slimy under foot. There was a Huntsman spider lurking around guarding the cache container. A quick wave of a stick and the cache was able to be grabbed.

Thanks Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Pretty gross under that bridge. DNF

11th for the day and a record for myself and Jackam. Great hide and nice camo. Found with Jackam. TFTC

11th and last find of the day with RollaB. Great hide. TFTC.

Excellent hide unfortunately no vehicles today.TFTC SL

after the appointment at oakleight on the way back home but my husband and i keep look everywher not lucky about for 10mins give it up

28-12 3rd find of the day at 11:08 and 1206th find in total.
An easy retrieve after a few dry days but a tricky one to find none the less.
(''\(OoO)/'') Thanks Earthbound Chief for the caching fun!

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Our fifth find for the day, taking advantage of the nice weather. As we drove up we spotted a likely location, but as per usual these hides tend to take some time to find. One of the passing muggles here was actually the same person we had passed at the previous hide, she was no doubt wondering how we managed to get in front of her again.
Thanks for the caches Earthbound Chief, we seem to have done quite a few of yours today

[purple]Tomaten auf den Augen[/purple][font=Comic Sans MS]

Suffering from geo-blindness I wouldn't have found this one without themd >> not exactly a tricky hide but I just didn't see it.

[green]Dankeschön & Cheers
Philipp[/green]

10 November 2010 20:00:00

I love a cache with a sense of history and this is no acception.

The car looks great and I wonder if I will now see one on the road now that I know it excists.

As for the cache I would have been lost without widening the search here.

On my next approach I spotted a familiar container.

Philipp and I signed the log and were off.

TFTC

Mozzie Central, at this time of night, slugs and snails and all sorts of creepy stuff!!!

Found the cache though!!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

found quickly while out and about

Had another attempt on this one after got a clues
from a cacher log.
This time it was actually an easy find and I
wonder why I have not found it before.
TFTH. SL.

Found it. It was fun but took a while to find it.
I congratulate whoever finds it.

Have to be tall to find this one. TFTC.

Ah Beautiful!
TFTC

Quick last cache for the day. tried this one a while acbk with no luck - looking at night reduced muggle factor and made the find a bit easier. Ostara74 being there made it even easier. Thanks.

Found together with Pathfinder24 as the last one for the day. Thanks

Found on a night caching run.. with Top that,mr X 02, Diablo1234 and Spladem,
TFTC

A Night of caching. A Team effort was done by all. Attendees : StreetO, Mr_X_02, Top That, Spladem. TFTC

This entry was edited by diablo1234 on Sunday, 08 August 2010 at 16:05:55.

This one found by me was our First of 13 on a not soo warm (but thankfully dry) caching run.. With StreetO, Mr_X_02, Top That and Diablo1234 TFTC SL

#10 *sigh of relief* Finally found this! Woohoo!!! This was the second time we went to look for it.
Great cache!!! Anyone looking for this... practice your chin ups . Well, what wouldn't you do for geocaching *smile*.

This entry was edited by team Sokeri on Sunday, 01 August 2010 at 03:48:33.

beaten today will be back

Well it was hard to find especially if you are not tall. This is my second cache ever. Well done on the great hiding place.

Took a bit of searching around to find this one but got there in the end Thanks for the great cache.

This was 3/5 on a 42 KM bike ride today. It wasn't as hard as expected, but still took a 3 minute search to find. Good spot on lookout of an ugly old creek! SL TFTC

Found 14:00, this one took a little while but in the end perseverance paid off

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Earthbound Chief.

Found @ 10.49 am Find #315
Found on a day out caching, had this neat little cache in hand after a bit of a search
Thx for the caching fun Earthbound Chief

sprung a fellow cacher in the act. so we looked for the cache together and found the cleverly hidden and camoed container. tftc.

Caught in the act by BackPAQer, so we searched together. Nice meeting you BackPAQer. Thanks for the cache, Earthbound Chief.

With Crank1 - She found it before me due to she is tall than me so that mean I am short.... Smile. SL. Thanks Earthbound Chief

With Everlasting, Pls looks at Everlasting's comment.. Yes true.. Found it. TFTC

arch found this with a boost. Loved it

Took a few minutes to locate this one. TFTC.
Cv.

easy find if u let your fingers do the walking
TNLN TFTC

A find for Bolwell on this day, will be back for a look at the cars. TFTC.

Find # 1021 @ 12:25 on a day out caching with tackle_head
Not sure if cache creep was involved, but it wasn't where we thought it was. TNLNSL TFTC

Always good to learn about industry , they look very busy -thanks Earthbound Chief

This cache took us a long time, we nearly gave up. Mr Monch found this one while Mrs Monch stood over with the gps. We found it was about 4 metres out.

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Joint find with Saulman....TFTC

Easy find but in a HIGH muggle area, is the factory workers arent watching then there is the foot traffic.
Gee's I wonder what people think of me just hanging around? How many times can you tie your shoes?
Joint find with trailertrash78

1835hrs

Out today with Miss BB and just as we arrived at the GZ the netbook died so we followed the GPSr and soon had the cache in hand.

TNLNSL
TFTC

1845hrs

Out with Datruk (Dad) today.
We quickly found this one and we were nearly muggled after we found the cache.


TNLNSL
TFTC

Parked very close and made our way towards GZ. There was an elderly muggle and her muggle mutt sitting right at the GZ and didn't look like she was going to move, so we walked up and leant on the rail looking at the creek hoping that she would move along. It felt like forever but the muggles finally got up and moved along. A good thing too because I ran out of things to point at. Started our search as soon as we knew the coast was clear. Good hide and nice camouflage. TNLNSL. TFTC

8th find of the day. Little Prince found this one with Dark and Stormy

Took awhile but I found it. Great hide thnx.

This was find #3 of 3 finds on a late night return home from work.
TFTC

I wish all 3/3s I've done were like this. A quick hurdle and was able to search unsighted. I was expecting a nasty piece of Silverdice type trickery but this was much nicer. A quick check to see if the coast was clear and I was up over the rail again.

Thanks,

R - B

Found 17/01/10 @ 2.50 pm nice, it took a little bit of search but found it with a few chin-ups.

Great cache. Slink1 and I found this together using our torches. Signed log.

Good spot Quick Find TFTC SL

Found @ 16:50 while out on a bike ride in the area. Found after a short search. TFTC SL

We have to wonder how we missed this the first time!!!
Finally found one of our nearest caches.
Love this area - I run around these tracks weekly and it is nice to have a cache nice and close.
TFTH&C
TNLNSL

This was our fourth of fourteen caches for the day and was located at 11:10. After learning some interesting facts about a more obscure area of Australia's automotive history we were hoping to catch a glimpse of one of these custom cars. Unfortunately we were out of luck today. The cache was located quickly in the second place I looked.
TNLNSL
Thanks Earthbound Chief for the cache and interesting piece of history.

This one took me a little longer than the others perhaps because there were so many hiding spots.
Also a couple walked their dog over while I was there and the dog growled but my cover wasn't blown.
Nice to read the history of the nearby Bolwell comany too.
Thanks

Jerric01 and I had an afternoon of caching in the Aspendale gardens area, amazing how many interesting places Geocaching can lead you.
Found we were following Feathertop today, everywhere we went they had been there first!
Nice spot and a pleasant walk from this cache to another in the area.
TFTC TNLN

We found this cache at 1:10pm as the 5th of 16 on our Bayside afternoon. Almost back to where we were the last time that we were here and we ran out of time. Luckily, the cache was in the most obvious place. This is an amazing story and I had never heard of the Bolwell's before today. Thanks from D, HA, H and A B-A.

Little bit tricky using only the iPhone but we were helped by hints in the recent logs and it seemed logical to be on the obvious structure in the area. Found with Andy (Bearsleys).

2nd time lucky, found with Matt (Bertram_aus). Mopping up the local DNFs for the new year.

Nice hide. Thanks team Earthbound!

Found by Bob at 1500

Having checked the earlier logs for this one, I was prepared to have to make a bit of an effort here - but, luckily, I had no trouble spotting it at all, so I was pretty happy. I'd also been expecting a tougher approach, as indicated by a terrain 3, but it was really not very difficult and I'd rate it as no higher than 2. I can remember the Bolwell Nagaris, as a cousin owned one, and they certainly were a pretty cool looking car (as long as you didn't want to go off-road ) and I've wondered a couple of times over the years what became of the company - so thanks for filling me in.

Thanks again Earthbound Chief

Another day, and found it this time after another llengthy search - I don't know why.
Anyway, I signed the logh at 11:45am, and noticed a bit of activity at the Bollwell plant, but didn't spot a Nagari.
It's surprising to me that they can stay afloat in these days of readily available high quality sports cars from a number of high production sources.
Thanks for the cache.

With a 3 terrain rating I was expecting something a lot harder - I reckon this is only about a 1.5 (unless you are very short or the water level gets very high!). In the end it was a pretty easy find too - but it always helps when you are caching in a group. TFTC.

Didn't see any cars today although we found the loot along with Tealby. The latest model on the web looks quite zippy. Thanks for the cache and history lesson.

This was my second attempt here. The first time I had what I thought was a good look but not good enough. The second time I put my hand on it right away. TFTC

Looks like many folks have not found this on the first attempt.
Add me to the list.

2662. Was all over around through - basically wandered everywhere I could. Finally it came to hand a fair bit awa from where the GPS was pointing. Sometimes it plays up when on interstate trips.

TFTC and the happy ending.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Set out for a late night (early morning) cache run. Started looking for this one and eventually changed tactics and searched a different area. The well hidden cache was eventually found. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found in a likley spot! You just had to look for a while. I remember the Bolwell Nagari with the 351 Cleveland from the Falcon GT. This thing could go like stink. There were many racing around the time that this was made. Most of us young blokes wanted a Nagari at the time, the problem was they stopped making them too soon. I also recall seeing the new version, I think on YouTube and whilst it had a Toyota engine in it, it still went pretty well. Later today we saw a new Aston Vantage and when the driver put the foot down, the V12 sounded glorious.........Ah well enough of the dreaming.. Thanks Earthbound Chief for the cache.

I tried for this cache 10 days ago, and spent quite a bit of time without success. Today I was close by, and decided to have another look. This time it took about 1 minute. I thought I'd looked and felt in all the nooks and crannies, but obviously not. Thanks for the cache.

This was cache # 18 of 37 for the day, In the company of Alansee, on our second tour of the Bayside suburbs and Mornington Peninsula. I have to admit I was more interested in Bolwells than the cache, I had spent some time employed by kenworth and I knew exactly what fiberglass body parts went on what trucks. My thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

I have seen a couple of Bolwell's around but had never thought where they might have been made. There were none out the front by the time we got here tonight, so we thought we might as well just get the cache.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found on a wet but generally enjoyable day out caching with Acts2YouthGroup. Arrhh that Bolwell. A2Y knew of them but I didn't. There were several grey pieces of work as we arrived. The coordinates turned out to be pretty good and his extra height made for his find and easier retrieval. Thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

I've never even heard of this company before today.
I'm not that much into cars - just as long as they get me from A to B, and they don't cost me too much on repairs.
And I most certainly wouldn't go spending $200K on a car - I'd take it if it were given to me though
Thanks again Earthbound Chief for the cache.

Somehow I knew about this comapny and the brand way back in the 70's or 80's. I think it was because of a cousin of mine who had a desire to own one of these things. Myself; I'm into cars but not to that extent, in fact not the style either. In any case a good example of someone building on their dreams I guess.
Thanks Earthbound Max

Found by PR&F on 13/12/09 @ 3.10pm. #11 of 21 finds with geohusband and The Empire today.
Spent some time here searching and we weren't having much luck. Having a feel for the area, I'd come to the conclusion that I was not going to be able to reach it.
We were still searching when Kompass came along and The Empire made the find. Lucky we were caching together because I would not have been able to reach it
We replaced the cache for Kompass to find.
TNLN SL
TFTC!

Second cache of the day that got found by someone else while I was there! pocketrocket&friends replaced it while I wandered off so I could have a go finding it myself. A neat hide
TFTC Earthbound Chief - All three I found today were yours!

Found by The Empire
13/12/09 @ 3:10pm with pocketrocket&friends and her Geohusband
11/21 today, The Empire comes up with the goods again! We were nearly done searching when K0mpass came along with his nifty little mirror, I took that as a cue for - you are not looking hard enough Empire - so I just got back to it and found it! I put it back so K0mpass could find it again.
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

We decided we should do an afternoon wandering around our hometown finding some of the many caches that have popped up over the past month or so!
Spent ages looking for this one with no luck.
Will have to go back another time and do another thorough search
TFTH
Hello Nemesis Cache!

Wow this one wasn't as easy as we thought it was going to be Well hidden
TFTC SL

This one was well hidden. It took two searches of the GZ to find it............of course that was two different people doing the search. TFTC SL

I looked for quite some time, but I just wasn't seeing or feeling anything. I might have to bring my seeing eye dog (or someone else with better eyesight/observations skills) next time. Thanks for the cache and the history.

A quick and easy find on my way home from work,a few years ago i was lucky enough to see one of the bolwell's project car in the flesh as a mate was in the supply chain.
This area has been derserving of a cache for some time glad to see a great theme placed on it too!
TFTC SL

Dad stood back to see if I could find his clever hide. I need to grow a bit!

Will have to give it a shot another day.

607. Returned today - as it's not raining and managed to locate the well hidden cache, Thanks Earthbound Chief for bringing us here and our awakening to this piece of local history.TFTC

*FTF* @12:35am A bit of a late one. TheUMP must of not got my email with my schedule in it of times that are good for me to cache. Perhaps it is a difference in timezones. Never the less I decided to go for a late night drive with Rigger64. With the 2 of us hunting the cache was in hand in no time. I nice bridge I have never walked on but been in the area many times. I wonder if starruby will grab this on his way home ? TFTC.

**FTF**
Yet Another Joint FTF With Coverthypnosis @ 00:35Hrs.
Thanks to Earthbound Chief & Covert Who sent me a message when i was in the middle of making a PDF Form But getting an FTF was a nice break from stering @ the Computer screen. On the way to GZ i had a look @ the cache page & then said to covert that reconed i could Find this one without the GPSr. I knew the area because i use to work just around the corner from GZ. We proceded to the parking spot i did have the GPSr with me but in the end i had a fair idea were the container would be hidding.
Looks like Starruby might have to settle for another STF. If he is Lucky. LOL

Ps: I had been thinking of placing a cache not to far from GZ but i might shelf those for the time being.

Thanks to Earthbound Chief For placing yet another great cache.

TNLNSL
TFTH



[This entry was edited by Rigger64 on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 3:51:42 PM.]

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