Mariposa Estate St Helena, Victoria, Australia
By murrayp88 on 31-Jan-10. Waypoint GC23HDG

As there has been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it has been a number of months since the last owner note I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact a reviewer (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

I had a look this morning...couldn't see any remains because that is all that people have been finding since November last year. I think it is time this one went...especially as it appears to have been hidden on what has now become the front retaining wall of a house (currently under construction).

I can't choose "Needs Maintenance" because the option is not there...presumably because the cache is Disabled.

It is time this cache was either sorted out or archived.

Had a look to see if this cache was still there, but could not find from GZ. Looks like there has been some recent building and maintenance to the area around GZ site.

Found this cache today. Although it is temp disabled the cache was still there but the log book and most of the contence was warter damaged and had no lide. sad to see:(
Hopfully it will eather be fixed in the near by future or a new cache will be born.

TDC met up on our Monday night cache run. This week we made our way from the city, where we picked up a couple of freshly solved puzzles, then we headed across to the north eastern outer suburbs. Bikes were a must tonight and we ended doing quite a number of kilometers on the bikes. Lucky for us the weather was fine, although it did get a bit cool at Mt Lofty.
A good mixed bag of caches tonight with a couple of DNF's, a good mix of finds with a number of high DxT combo's found as well. All in all another fun and successful night and thanks to the CO's for their efforts in placing the caches we found.

Well, another week and another legendary Demolition Crew run. I was able this time, to meet up early with some of the crew, north of Melbourne to collect a few caches before heading in and starting on the Melbourne leg of the finds. We collected a few of the recent puzzles which we had solved in the Melbourne area on the night as well. A FTF was part of the mix as well. We met a little later with Quasar3671.

The night was highlighted by many high terrain and high difficulty caches, which included 4 tree climb caches...! In total 48 caches visited, 4 DNF's and a personal tally of 41 finds. A great night with lots of laughs, stories and great company.

Thought we would check it out while passing. Found in garden bed, and as TR stated. TFTC.

This cache was easily found but not where we expected it to be, lid is missing, log is wet, but we signed it anyway before it get archived. Thanks.

Run Summary
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Now that all the hot weather is over, it was nice to have a cool night to cache in and around Melbourne with Blacklegend, Quasar3671 and Rebel Acts. There have been a few caches close to Rebel Acts home that have been bugging him for a while, so I decided to base The Demolition Crew's run around these caches as well as pick up a few of our recently solved puzzle caches in inner Melbourne. I started my run north of Melbourne with Blacklegend, and when we noticed a FTF opportunity in Healesville that was still unfound a phone call was made and we were soon moving in that direction. We met up with Rebel Acts there as he had just finished work and we claimed the joint FTF. Soon after we then meeting up with Q3 after he had finished work and started the planned run

Over the course of the day/night run, 48 caches were visited with 4 DNF's and a DxT rating of 4.21 with quite a number of T5's being claimed. The number of unfound caches within 25 km's of home is now signficantly diminished, so another great night for me!

Thanks goes to all the CO's who have put the time into designing and placing their caches. I look forward to next Monday night / Tuesday morning when we will do it all again!

What a great location, shame about the cache. As I was traveling from interstate unable to help this one out. Cache located in garden bed just above where it should of been. Still thanks for showing us area and giving me something to do to fill in my Sunday Arvo.
JABs.

Visited in the early afternoon & deposited a key ring. Lid is still AWOL & the log book is starting to show the signs of moisture damage as there is hole in the ziplock bag which it is kept in. Will try to remember to bring a new container for it next time I'm in the area. TFTC

Found it. Has been muggled and only partially remains (half the box and two log books). Magnet has been taken too so re-hid box very close to original spot. Will need new box asap to prevent rain damage. Nothing to take. Left nothing.
-kodakian

I had the .GPX file loaded into my garmin from a month or so ago, so I didn't realise that it was no longer available. I went there and sha-boom! Gotcha!
Thanks for leading me to this pretty part of the town I grew up in. It just needs a new container. Sorry I didn't have one on me. TFTC

Despite it only being half there we still managed to find it and sign the log book. The bottom of the container is missing, but lid and log book are in good condition. We were impressed with the sign and all the new development going on here. SL at 6.20pm TN Left: butterfly and saw charm. Hope the owner gets to replace the container soon so this one can stay in play. TFTC #1378

Its been muggled and only bits and pieces are left. So i shall replace soon.

Has been muggled but I found log in bag sitting under the large sign, replaced bag and base of cache container in the garden bed, just above the sign and hid it under some grass. Sorry to give away its location but hopefully it will be out of sight for any muggles. TFTC

Easy to find but very busy intersection! Unfortunately not magnetic and the plastic bag has seen better days! Can the next hunter maybe take a glad bag?? Nothing to take also but I left a pen!

found this with annetherese, need maintanence, no magnet or box just the bag

Easy find with nifty nec. No magnet or box but everything in a bag. Replaced in position. Tftc

Our second find. Magnet is gone. Was on the ground. Tried to hide it back as best we could. Lots of muggles. Had to wait a bit before finding it.

Notebook gone, container full of rain water.

We found the hiding place (we assume being magnetic it was meant to be behind the sign).

A quick scout around the immediate area and we find the lid and the box..........catergorically muggled.........they even liberated the magnet.

Needs relocating or abandoning now I fear; I doubt it will be secure at that hide any more

As below.......

Found black painted sistema container lid no bottom, sorry for the bad news...

Found its spot with lid in place only, looks like muggled found it maybe during a clean up to build a new house... TFTC anyway...

Sneaky little spot for a hide. Loved this quick find, thanks murrayp88

this is our first ever find...very exciting and only 2 mins from home..TFTC

Had the afternoon free so we jumped into the car to do some easy caches
Last person left the cache in a very easy spot so put it in a bit deeper - don't worry, still in the same spot!
My geo siblings loved this treasure hunt, especially after as we stopped in the park for a play and some chocolate brownies - yum!

No easter egg geocoin?

TFTC murrayp88

Well! This made geo papa's day! Third stop for the day and we finally found one! Great stop for the kids!! tftc

Quick find thanks .

12:47
There's a lot more to this estate than when I first did Electoral work through here... it was just a few houses dotted about, with a bunch of empty paddocks between them.

Why is it that there can be nobody in sight as you park, but when you are about to grab the cache, there's a stream of cars from every direction, five runners and a dog walker.

Patience paid off eventually.

#443

Took a while to work out where to park. Eventually settled on the driveway entering the estate. Had to work quickly as a muggle was approaching.
Pity about progress using up our land, but the estate looks quite good.
TFTC murrayp88

While B1 was checking the GPS in the car, B2 found this one, when turning the corner. A busy estate for a cold, winters night. An easy little find to calm us after the last two difficult ones. B2 was excited about the butterflies.

Found it, left a gold doubloon.

02.06.2012 16:42
Find # 1729

I headed out this afternoon and decided to drive towards the greensborough as I had not really cached in this area and wanted to explore the area. It was a reasonable afternoon for a winters day and the sun even popped its head out every now and then, I really could not ask for much more.

I parked in the nearby side street and walked down to GZ. I took a seat and waited, I had a fair Idea where the cache would be but there were many cars passing and I did not want to give away the cache. Eventually the coast was clear and I found the cache in the first spot I checked, I then had to wait again to put it back in its place.

Thanks to murrayp88 for the cache. Left geocoin.

Nice easy drive by, when will they develop the corner?

Nice and easy find with DOV1LE on a monday night sesh. Cheers

Quick easy find. Found with -Coen. Tftc

Tftc high smuggle drive byes

A quick find whilst passing through the area this afternoon.

Thanks,

The Hancock Clan

Found today with Irontoad. Nice quick find though this road is amazingly busy! I had seen this type of cache before today but this was still a great example. Took nothing and left nothing and signed log.

Thanks for the cache murrayp88

found with kamce. appreciated the hideous public sculpture in steel as we found the cache.
good hide

Approached this sneaky hide from just the right angle to make the spot! TFTC.

A quick easy find on a beautifully sunny day. Saw some galahs at GZ playing about. TFTC

I was out for a night running grabbing a few caches on the way after picking up Steve http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=70a73001-9e96-486b-82f9-f078e491c7f2 I wanted to grab a few caches also while in the area and this cache was one of them. I parked not far from GZ and walked to where the GPS pointed and the quickly put away the GPS. Soon the cache was in had. TFTC

Forgot today was school breakup for Easter. Kids got out early and cars everywhere. Still a quick easy find. Rather nice as we have been in the CBD and missed quite a few due to poor satellite reception and muggles. TFTC TNLN

A quick easy find. Tnln Tftc

TFTC

Quick find on a warm Melbourne afternoon.
TFTC

found this while working in the area, located g.z at 5:30 am not too many others around, much easier to locate than i was expecting.

Once the gps settled, this was a simple find. Some muggle children across the road at the park were a little bit too interested in what we were doing. So stealth was employed and thanks to the short attention span of kids, they moved away once we did and a quick grab was employed. TFTC.

Yay, found our 2nd one. Easy find - pretty obvious, then had a play in the park.

Found it easy

Ihpone was going a little bit nuts, but after some logical thinking, the kids came up with the goods on a quiet day
thanks

The old clip board came in handy for this one, plenty of muggle traffic around

Another quick cache found between the traffic passing by. TFTC

This was one of the caches targetted by our group (Ian and Penny, Phetlern and oursleves) during a very entertaining day of caching. With thanks to murrayp88 for placing the cache.

8th find of the day, and 3094th total find at 1:35:00 PM.
Found on a caching foray into an area that none of us have been to before.

A nice, quick find before we grabbed a picnic lunch at the nearby park/playground.

It seems that this cache has an unwarranted "Needs Maintenance" attribute. A "User Maintenance" log should fix that!!

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks murrayp88 for the cache

13:30
Out caching with teams Ian & Penny and Liz & Bruce. A quick find as we decided to take a lunch break in the park area adjacent to the cache. As we travelled through the suburb we were continually astounded at the extent of residential development in this area.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt murrayp88.

Found this one on a caching run out to Woodlands Power trail to join C@H and KellyHaunts for lunch and moral support on their smashing endeavour.. Thanks Murrayp88 for the hide, I parked just around the corner and was able to freign a rest here whilst signing the log before continuing north west, Thanks for the cache.

A nice, easy find today with very little traffic to contend with . The cache is very full at the moment, so i removed a keyring to allow the lid to close properly. Our second find outside of QLD. Thanks murrayp88

Suscoe made an earlt daylight visit today, unlike the previous finder!!! 9:00 am is a more sensible time for Suscoe.
All quiet at GZ for us today.
A quick find, SLTNLN.
Thanks to murrayp88 for sharing this area with us.

Found just after lunch today. Amazed at how busy the road is! TFTC

Found easy at 10 pm tftc

Found at night unable to leave bug as cache very full might be due for a clean out

TFTC TNLN another one on our day of caching with GIBSAR sl

found it. busy though!

Found it a few weeks ago, just haven't logged it! Very clever spot TFTC

We found this cache today at 4:35pm as the 14th of 24 on our Greensborough Loop Afternoon. A quick find and replace just as muggles were about to approach from the south. Thanks from D & H B-A.

Easy find, there is a surprising amount of growth out here. Thanks.

Found 11:00, a nice quick find, in a pleasant location.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks murrayp88.

Found at 11.25, took dice & spining top, left 2 key rings. TFTC SL

Found @ 14:15 tnln tftc

Picked up copper eternity coin and dropped off a nice pollished crystal dragons eye. Not sure why this cache is here though?

With my many thanks to Geozilla Oz who replaced this cache, it is now up and running again.
Hopefully it shouldn't get muggled again.

I was passing by so I replaced this cache for murrayp88

By the sounds of it this cache has been muggled (shakes fist!!!)

Im away for 3 weeks so i wont be able to replace until im back. Will fix it up as soon as i can though.
Sorry guys

Think it's been muggled fond 3 magnets no cahce

Found magnet but no cache.

Tftc. I think the cache had fallen but we replaced it. Easy find & great location.

Found it, good hide! Not many muggles about at midnight. TFTC TNLNSL

Found after a quick detour on my way to work. Even though it was a Sunday morning there was quite a few cars going past and I felt a little like I was trespassing. TNLNSL.

Found it in the grass, TNLN. Some great views from here.

The cache is missing the bits to make it stick to where it was.

Thanks murrayp88 for one close to our place.

Found with IITom23II and TheDealer, nice quick find, not much traffic at the time. TNLNSL TFTC

Found with TrynaFindaCache and TheDealer. Found this one easier when there was a gap in the muggles driving past. Quickly grabed cache signed log and set it back in place. TFTC TNLN SL

Nice easy find. With IITom23II and TrynaFindaCache. Thanks tnln

Quick find as we dodged the marauding tiger snake slithering across the road. TFTC

Found this one together with nadya while cycling in the area.

Quick and easy find. TFTC!

29 jan @ 1511

Found by Bob at 1100

I was off on a big day getting to some of those northern caches that have been on the radar for far too long. This was #3 for the day and a quick find in a rather unusual sort of spot. It took a bit of wriggling to get out, but I accomplished it fairly easily and was soon on my way again after making my entry.

TNLN

Thanks murrayp88 - sorry for the late log, I'm way behind with my logging.

A quick easy find, furtively snatched in between muggle-cars! I noticed that the 'Geodes' had been there before me on two caches - we probably missed each other by less than half an hour - but then it is a good day to nab a few caches! Happy Australia Day!

I know what u mean about the estates mate, sad times. Tn left Czech coin. Tftc

Found it 10:14pm good hide

Quick and easy find, TFTC

TFTC, had to be careful even close to dusk quite a few around.

Big spider's nest on the cache container, so watch out! Cleaned out the residents, but sure they'll return

Thanks for an easy find and mice spot

Nice easy find TNLN TFTC