Franklin Village Too Youngtown, Tasmania, Australia
By GoldJ and maintained by Tassieboy on 27-Dec-09. Waypoint GC22AE9

Checked this out this afternoon and found it has gone. No point in replacing it as we no longer live in Launceston

Couldn't find this one

Found it with @themasseyfamily4 on the 8th of april, 2012. Logged 21/9/13 after sorting out the ones i found and the ones i didnt. TFTC

No luck getting my souvenir here. It is gone. Knew where it was supposed to be as previous finder told me where to look. The things that hold it in place are still there but no container.

Very tricky indeed!

I suspect those who need to know about this one do know. Cunning hide. Wouldn't quite call this a "small" though, we've seen regulars that are smaller.

Great time out with the family. DR JAMES, SMELLY BELLY 8 and JABs Had a lot of fun and it was a very lovely day. Gained lots of fantastic memories and visited some cool places. This was part of my geocaching scouting challenge.
TFTC - PRINCESS ESSICA –
Sorry for my late log, slowly catching up <3

10:51:08 A quick find having found several before but never this colour. Still loved the location as a lot of hidden history here. Wasn't long before we finished up here and moved onto the next. Thanks for stop over in an interesting spot.
JABs.

On a caching trip with the family up north. This is to help my cub scouting challenge we did 50 in one day which is a record for the whole family together.

There was cemetery

Very clever! I was looking at and into one thing until I re-thought and looked around a bit more! Took the dice and left the poker chip. TFTC!!

Nice cache. Driven by many times and finally got to stop! The cache needs some glue on the sticky bits, but otherwise it's in excellent condition. Tftc

# 620

We went, we looked, we thought, yep thats got to be it, then couldnt get into what we thought was the cache. Hmmm, gave up, went back to car and powered up the iPad to see the pic hints.... then went back and tried a bit hard and got into the cache. Boy did we feel stupid!

TFTC! SL. TNLN.

#116 - 08:50; Found on today's morning run with Bronte14. Terrific hide. TFTC

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Tftc it was fun to find

I really enjoy your hides GoldJ. They take you to interesting places and they're much more than a container under a tree. TFTC

Got it this time!

Muggles came and spoilt the fun

Determined to end our Tassie visit with a find and running out of time and caches between where we were and the airport, we took our chances here. Why so risky? It was 1145 and the weekly 11am service was on. We approached the building cautiously trying to stay out of view of the open doorway. Round the back we went, suddenly silent out of fear of detection and ducking as we passed by windows. Took a few minutes but we finally located this clever container. TNLN SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Second time lucky. TFTC

Found this cache at 3:20pm while on a run back from Evandale on a vintage car rally. Nice interesting Church. As well as an intriguing cache.
Left: bag of beads
Thanks Gold J for all your ingenious caches.
The Bushies NSW

A quick find on the way to drop membsec off at the airport. TFTC

Just about to finish our Tasmanian holiday and decided to spend these days in and around Launceston gathering a few caches. Found quickly after using our geosenses.
Found with Scottymyth, Ainstar, Immymoo and xman02.
TFTC

Found in stealth mode while church on

I poked around in a few incorrect places before looking in the right area, then eventually tried hard enough to extract the cache, which was quite a bit bigger than I expected. Clever hide (again)!

We were heading back home, but couldn't help but stop for just one more. TFTC!

KKBOOM!

TFTC. Had a great time looking around. I drove past here for years but never popped in.

Ohhh that's the cache Clever hide. TNLN. Thanks for organising the cache.

Good hide, took us ages to find it. Lots of history to, the oldest gravesite here is almost 200 years old. TFTC took monkey, left dice.

This entry was edited by J&C.Szauber on Sunday, 20 May 2012 at 05:28:17 UTC.

TFTC

Great spot!
left monkey
TFTH

this was cool place to hide a cache and an interesting one at that well done T.F.T.C

didnt know the cache had been moved and thought the GPS was having a hissy. Much better location now.

After moving the bricks around we finally looked at things differently and found it.

This one took me a few moments to spot. I knew I was looking for something clever, but it took a change in perspective to work out what was going on. Nice hide!

A beautiful day for caching and we were able to meet up with our friend from Western Australia, Urch. We headed off to find a few caches and this was one we targeted. We loved the hide. Thanks GoldJ

Elcato found on 23/2/12 at 8.06pm....had us looking perplexed for a while, nice hide

Saw this a couple of times before realizing it was the cache. Got my exercise stacking bricks though... TFTC

This one had us fooled for quite a while, there were so many goo hiding spots we walked around in circles for a good half hour.

found this cache easily but great hide! Had us tricked for a minute or two. Took TB TFTC

Lovely part of Launceston and a good place for the GZ. A few muggles around so stealth required.

I have replaced the container, all is good. Dropped off TB.

Called in today, clip on base on one side is broken, please be careful removing and replacing this cache until I can fix it.

Who could possibly go for the Franklin Village and then ignore this one. A quick stroll across the road and with no one around didn't take long to locate.

Replacing the container was a bit dodgy. Hope it stays together.

Found this one a little bit faster that expected. The cache container was hanging open a little bit which drew our eyes to it as we approached GZ. What a great hide though. When replacing the cache it seemed like the right hand side was clipping shut. It held in place though. TNLN TFTC.

Clever hide had to leave quick as church is on soon!

Another sneeky hide. We found this one reasonably quickly only because we had seen one similar in the past. Thanks GoldJ for another great cache.

A quick find - maybe I was lucky. This is a lovely old building, and I really enjoyed having a wander around. Thanks for the cache that enticed us to come and visit!

Yep, great looking old building. Winglen made the find after a few minutes.

Time was ticking and we were on our way. TFTC

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Loved the hide. mr sharnie's tribe looked there but didn't see it. Sometimes the attribute that is usually helpful gets in the way!

Found it. we really like this one, got asked if I had the key to the church on the way out.

Found by Team Ladava while hosted by the cache owners as we had a small window of time to catch up with them on our trip to Tasmania prior to the arrival of our non-Geocaching friends.
The first of many wonderful historic old stone buildings we saw during the week while exploring the east coast.
Locations like this are 'the icing on the cake' of Geocaching with the locals hosting us to their favourite spots.
A clever hide that took a minute or two to spot.
TNLN
Our thanks to GoldJ for the cache and their wonderful hospitality.
My apologies for the tardy log.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
*Overall Experience: 4*

This entry was edited by Team Ladava on Thursday, 13 October 2011 at 08:42:41 UTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Called in today to sharpen the pencil and found that a kind fellow-geocacher has already done that for us.....and left a pencil sharpener. Thank you.

Called in to visit, new location, new container, almost a new cache! Clever hide. Took nothing, left car, pencil needs sharpening.

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Found quickly after reading others logs. Nice hide TNLN TFTC

A clever hide. Was fortunate to only use touch rather than sight and thus located it easily.
Well done again GoldJ. TFTC

I have a vague memory of coming here once when I was a kid. Long time ago! Good hide. Left geonickel, took bunny, SL, TFTC!

TFTC. Went shopping and got side tracked! TN left fishing lure

Good hide. Geohubby picked up TB. TFTC.

Top hide best yet, found totally by accident just happened to put my hand in the right place
G1

Very clever hide found on way back from Mothers Day lunch. Left It's A Small World TB TFTC

accompanied with skyejam, like this place.. thanks for the cache.

Found it nice and easy. TFTH SL

Cache Hunt 342; GAFF3; Weather, Raining; Helpers, none; Cache condition, Great; Find of the day, 1st - STATUS - Found

During work, the raing started and there were a few caches I wanted to do this afternoon. Received a hint from CO for this and returned to get it. I parked and even left the gps in the car as I knew where I was going. Got to gz and went to the next thing I could find. Still confused me a llittle, and then camo appeared, Ahh, there you are. Got a FTF on the new cache and log . Clever one this camo. Should stay hidden for a long time. SL. TNLN and returned. Nice small church and spot. TFTC.

Church service was on as I walked around to gz. Reading the logs, it has only just been moved, I walked around and even checked the original Co-Ords, but could not find cache. I wonder where this one could be. I'll be back.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 29.399 E 147° 10.027

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 29.411 E 147° 10.024

Distance from original: 74.2 feet or 22.6 meters.

Cache moved and replaced due to wet log.

New container, log book & co-ordinates.

Checked out the cache and the log book is sodden all right. Will move the cache and replace the log shortly.

Found in the company of EB Chief, He's up to 999. I've got no idea what I'm up to...a bit tragic really! Dad really has been bitten by this bug! TFTC

We pretty much walked right up to this and found. While I retrieved the extremely wet and sodden log, EB99 checked out the graves nearby. thank you for our 999 find, now across the road for find 1000

The place was deserted on this beautiful afternoon so we had the opportunity to search unhindered and were rewarded with a smiley!

Nice easy find, thank you!

Take Too,just thought it had to be right there.Thanks Goldj. TFTC.

Checked out the cache because of 2 DNF's. All is well at GZ. We are probably going to relocate it soon because the area is overlooked and we will advise of the new co-ords when we find another spot.

Had a real good look but no luck,will try again.

GPS not being helpful, but I think I was at GZ. Search found nothing Nil for two on my first Tassie caching expedition. Not good!

Quick find with bedmaker. Nice location. TFTC

Found with TassieGirl 13, a quick find for us.
Another interesting area to look around.
TFTC.

As usual I wandered around the gravestones checking out dates and quotes and wondering what the people's lives were like after I found this cache. Heavy rain had uncovered the container making it an easy find, nice because I had more time to inspect the building and the grounds, though I must admit the weather was quite dismal. Thanks GoldJ for yet another interesting cache.

Tiny but clever TNLN TFTC

2nd find for day with Fox and wolf. (Okay if I'm honest - it took a phone call after confusing this cache and the one across the road -but I'm saying it was a fault with the GPS Cheers to GoldJ

A bit of traffic passing down this road at night! Took a bit of hunting to find though. Cheers Gav [5958]

I seem to have done number 2 first.
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Tftc. Quick find. #1 on a trip from Hobart.

Wet

No ants today - the cooler autumn nights must be slowing them down. A quick find close by to an interesting church. TFTC

Found this one on a quick caching trip before the footy started. Took a while to find as only going off of clue as GPS would not work!! Eventually found the spot that is obvious to a cacher.

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Very eerie after dark. Didn't have a torch so used the iphone. Had to decrypt the clue as I assumed it was attached to the church. Then found without too many problems. Thanks.

Nipped across the road from nearby cache to do this one. Zillions of ants in the hidey hole but managed to retrieve and replace without too much damage. Thanks for another hunt GoldJ.

Third times a charm for us today, why did we not spot it before! TFTC

A very easy find with no parishoners present. TFTC.

Found it the 2nd time around.
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Back again. Got this one at 1618hrs. Ants everywhere!!! I think they nesting around the box. Thanks for the cache; OldSaint.

Found easily. No service even though it was a Sunday.
TNLN
Thanks GoldJ