The PT Challenge Somerset Hills, Queensland, Australia
By TaxisVW and DrPam on 06-Feb-10. Waypoint GC23NZD

cache has run its course and can't be maintained anymore being kind and letting another caches have the area. happy caching

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

We were driving past the area today and decided to stop in for a quick find, not to many muggles about. After a quick hunt the cache was in hand and our names added to the log.

TFTC Net88

Gaz'n'Kab

I found myself near this one with the CO today and I was glad we were driving and not involved with any PT in this heat. I parked up and headed in for a quick find. There were some cafe muggles about, but none seemed too interested with my retrieval and signing. TFTC Net88

With Vampash TFTC

Thanks for the quick easy find.

Most businesses shutting up shop on a quiet Tuesday afternoon, so I was left on my own for a quick search and grab.
Thanks Net88 for this cache.

Came past once before - Lots of muggles around due to popular pizza shop. This ti,e, on a sunday afternoon, no one around, quick easy find. Replaced the bag and donated a pencil.

Swung past here nice and early on my way to caching adventures out at Keppera. Seems I was a little early even for the Cafe, which was a damn shame as coffee was high on my list of finds this morning. Next time perhaps.

Being early, GZ was nicely muggle free allowing a quick easy find.

TFTC Vwnuts and Net88

Pete

#504

Though I'd get a cache or two on my return trip from the airport.

This one proved to be a might difficult not not attracting attention to what I was doing. What with out-door dinning, cars parking, and cars passing on the road it was difficult to retrieve the cache without someone raising an eyebrow, but I managed it signed the log and managed to return it.

The cache is dry and in good condition.

TFTC Nett88

Geo GF found it , nice easy one . Fresh breath

Second during a late afternoon drive by session. And second found by Geoson. Cool spot. Bring a pen. TFTC.

Out and about again with Net88, this time on Brisbane's southside!

On our way home to the right side of Brisbane, I advised Net we had to go to this one as it's the only one of hers I hadn't claimed. Normally on our travels together I do the driving and she does the navigating, but I'm pleased to say I was able to navigate to it myself as this side of town is familiar territory to me It was dark when we arrived, and the place was awash with muggles as there is a very popular café nearby, but we parked right next to GZ and I was able to use Bumblebee's doors to provide cover as I searched. It was a quick find Very pleased to make this a smiley. TFTC, Net88, and thanks for yet another fun and succesful outing

Easy find using logic from previous caches of the day.

Nice easy find TFTC

Easy find, TFTC.

A short walk form home with the goekids. 2nd of the day.

Found @ 13:25 on 11/03/2012. This was my 89th find for the weekend.

Passing by, thought I'd do a few stretches here, ... very beneficial. Back to the car for a drink of water (and to sign a log) ... and then back again to do another stretch before giving up and deciding to drive anyway. Luckily noone was around as I probably wouldn't have won an oscar.

No muggles today TFTC

Found myself with a sleeping 3 year old in the car today - rather than wake her up too soon, decided to have a look at what drive-by caches might be around... a common theme for me!

Super quick find, could actually see the container from the car. Did the business and was on my way. Replaced oversized ripped up baggie. TFTC!

Bit tricky for beginners. TFtc.

Nice and quick . The container gives me a few ideas

Got it

Lots of muggles

Some muggle guys were working in and out the front of the cafe today (renovations?) I found the cache pretty quickly and took it for a walk down the back to a very nice little corner out of sight in which to conduct business. All good. Thanks Net88!

Nice easy find once the posty had moved on from sorting his mail, having a bite to eat, a drink, a chat on the phone, and then making numerous entries into his diary/notepad [:(!]. It would have been lots quicker to park beside it, but there were cars there when we pulled up . Thanks TaxisVW & DrPam & Nett88

a great first find!

A nice easy cache in the afternoon when there are no muggles around. TFTC!

And I thought you could get into trouble misusing these kind of objects.

TN, left a pair of US pennies.
TFTC

nice drive by... could almost reach it without getting out of the car... hav put it a bit further under now so its not so obvious to passers by

The Cafe had a few people in it

So did a casual walk past and narrowed down GZ. Then found a seat nearby and just looked. Spotted it pretty quickly then had to do a casual walk past again to grab the cache and retire someplace to write it up. Replaced cache as I returned to the car.

Made for a quick drive by when the cache is that visible. Signed log and placed cache further back, so it would not be so obvious. TFTH

wow

drive by

kelly could almost reach it without getting out of the car

it is a bit safer now

=) had to make this one the last cache of the night after a big geo weekend down in Canberra, found without too much trouble, the pizza shop smelled just too good, so it was off home for some dinner TFTC =)

Interesting place. Quite expensive for two cold drinks at the cafe.

Seeing as how I adopted this cache out to Net88, I thought I should convert that star into a smiley.
TFTA Net88!

Thought that since I own this cache I should find it myself

The PT Challenge was transferred from TaxisVW and DrPam to user Net88

Replaced this one today with a new container.
Happy hunting!

Just got some new rare earth magnets so I can now make a new container for this cache.

Disabling this one until I can check on it/replace it.

I used to work in these shops before knowing the existence of Geocaching (2008). Can highly recommend the cafe's breakfast menu and desserts.

Could not find the cache (exploring with Mark2134). We think it might have been muggled as all the logical places resulted in nothing.

Not present.
It may be missing. Looked in the obvious areas.
Thanks,
Gem-Jay.

I had a search for this cache twice and couldn't find it. I think someone may have gotten rid of it while cleaning the area

Out doing some caching tonight. Grabbed in between showers. Lovely lights on all the trees. Logbook almost full
Ta much TaxisVW & Dr Pam

Great kittle hide all the shops were shut so it made it easy 4 us

Tftc. I love these easy ones they restore my faith in the cause.

Quick find while being watched by Ruzzelz and Just a Trifle. TFTC

Nice easy find by the geopartner. SL. (The log book is almost full).

TFTC

at 16:05. It was fairly easy despite our ignorance of the matters musical.

TFTC TaxisVW and DrPam. The cache is fine.

Here we were thinking a PT challenge had something to do with finding a cache in a fairly public area while not arousing the suspicions of anyone eating their breakfast less than 10m away.

Silly us.

Thanks for the cache.

Found it No. 3012 ... quick find ... TNLN TFTC

Thanks for the Hint it helped a lot. Left a little gift which you might want to grab before it gets to hot

After reading the logs, we were expecting bit of a challenge however on arriving at GZ, we found the coffee shop closed for the afternoon. So we took an appropriate seat and the cache was located in a flash. TFTC TaxisVW and DrPam

Called in to check on this cache this afternoon.
It IS still in place with no cache creep.

Hi, tried to find your cache found out by cafe owner that you removed it.

I have not removed this cache.
I will check on it.
The cafe owner has nothing to do with the cache.

TFTC

We found ourselves desperate for breakfast and fell in love with the food at Cafe Urbano. Checking the GPS to see if there was a cache nearby, I had just enough battery to see we were practically sitting on top of a micro before it died! While eating a delightfully tasty meal I saw a likely hiding spot and on the way to the car to plug the GPS in, I had a look and there it was! T4TC =)

Enjoying a late breakfast with Skatterling, who spotted this close by. She wandered off 'to get something from the car'. When she returned, I burst out laughing to see the cache container in her hand - much to the consternation of other lunchers, as we hadn't said a word to each other. Clever hide, SL, TFTC!

This establishment is a customer of ours, so had driven straight past earlier in the week. Returned after closing and quickly had a cache in hand. TFTH

A nice easy find, helped by the fact that all the local businesses are closed after 13:00 on a Monday. [^] TFTC TaxisVW and DrPam!

Great

A realtively easy find just on dawn today. I think I picked a right time! TFTC TaxisVW and DrPam

On the way home with the Geo son, we looked high and low and then sat and I went hmmmmm, and sent the lad to retrieve it.

Shops were closed luckily. TFTC

This was cache # 25 of 34 on day one of my Brisvegas Tour. I took a seat and thought about where this one would, be and to my surprise I could see the cache, that made for an easy find. My thanks to TaxisVW and DrPam for the cache.

Decided to head out on another Monday night cache hunt with my cousin-in-law, the eagle-eyed m44 (who HATES, with a PASSION, DNFs) and we were joined by our geo-friend Melly.

Found this one the hard way, by simply following the GPS sans-maps, which had interesting results!

Nice Hide.

Was out wandering and thought I'd drop by to have a go. Fortunately the shops were closed so I had plenty of time to look around. A quick check of the clue and I had it.

TFTC.

The nearby couple were suitably distracted, so was able to sign and return without being noticed.

Thanks TaxisVW and DrPam

easy found with Pat ox ...

found on the 2nd attempt - last time we had to 'put up' with a coffee as there were too many folk around.

Nobody around on Sunday arvo. Nice bench to sit and fill in the log.TFTC

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Jinga 2 at 9:47am. We knew where this cache was but had to wait until there were no muggles about. Today was the day. TFTC

455 - Sat, thought, spotted it, waited, pounced, wrote, returned, disapeared. 12:00pm. TFTC TaxisVW and Dr Pam.

Found by Mary & David at 1300. How life has changed since our Defence days (David 38 years, Mary 18 months plus reserves time). Very few people here today, so with a little stealth we succeeded. Our thanks to TaxisVW and DrPam.

On my way to my parent, this was a quick drive by. There was no one around today, so the cache was quickly retrieved signed and replaced.

Thanks

A nice quick find while in town for a wedding. There were plenty of muggles nearby however I managed to make the find undetected.TFTC.

Found when everything was nicely shut up (obviously picked a good weekend huh!). Were a bit concerned about the security cameras watching us but cache found, signed and returned quickly. TFTC TaxisVW and DrPam

Going by here on Easter Sunday I stopped to grab this. Nothing was open so an easy search and find was had.
TFTC.

6th for the Day, glad it is good friday and everything is shut

That was a piece of cake at 7pm on Good Friday. Would be a challenge most other times, though. Good to see you military types are earning your dollars by giving your all to the cause ... the geocaching cause, that is .

As Mr L&L said, we were glad it was a public holiday and so all the shops were shut and not a soul in sight. This certainly made the job easier. Returned to it's hiding spot and we drove off in search of dinner. TFTC

It seems an out of hours hunt for this one is the preferred option so I did the same and swung by for the grab just before 6am. All very quiet at GZ but I was a little concerned about the camera as I could not see which direction is was facing...

I move in to GZ and found the cache easily. Took it back to the Gunniemobile for business so I was out of camera shot then dropped it back in before I headed out. Thanks for the music trivia, something I didn;t know and to be honest, never really thought about...

Cheers TaxisVW and DrPam.

[This entry was edited by Gunnie69 on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 10:01:22 PM.]

Did this one late at night so no trouble getting the cache. TFTC

Found at 1210 with Marg. Pulled up at the GZ and there were a few muggles sitting outside a local coffee shop. Well seeing as we had been on the go from 0715 this morning we decided to join them and ordered a coffee and some lunch. While we were waiting we thought of how we were going to get to the cache without be noticed all of a sudden some muggles moved off and the rest went inside. A quick search of the obvious item I had it in hand. Sat down with the prize and signed the log. Just as I was going to returned it, the muggles returned. It wasn't long before they left so I could return it. Cache OK and dry. TFTC and a convenient lunch spot.

No challenge at all at 6:30 am with a quick stop while geocycling to work. No muggle neighbours, no muggle latte sipper, or GoCard users about ot slow my progress. Not that they would have been a worry as this was truely a ride by cache

So Loupyloo was rather eager to get going on this one, having missed it earlier due to the high muggle count during the day.....and with a joint love of night caching off we went. Found nice and quick @ 0109.

A nice quick find with AmbulareSimia @ 1-08am. Not a muggle in sight
First attempted this @ 10-15am. I pulled up and parked for 5 minutes but on top of the muggles already sitting having a caffeine, there woz a constant stream of cars pulling up or trying to find a park, even one on the phone, pacing around where i wanted to be. Had absolutely no chance of getting anywhere near it without attracting an unwanted audience. Not 2 worry, get it in the end TFTC TaxisVW and DrPam

Dropped by on the way home from after school activities and sent the stealthy middle geokid to retrieve the cache in a flash. TFTC

Well, blow me down if a new geocache doesn't pop up a mere 3 km from where we are while driving home today! A quick U-turn and voilà - a joint FTF with The Marble. TFTC =•,•=

[This entry was edited by La Kedi on Saturday, February 06, 2010 at 9:42:54 PM.]

Well, I missed the FTF by 20mins. I actually arrived at GZ 15mins after it was found, but the muggle across the road was pacing up & down his front yard watching me in the car. Hmm....what to do? So I rang Taxisvw and had a chat for a bit, but the muggle was still intent on watching me, so I grabbed some paper and made it look like I was there to conduct some business other than geocaching. managed to grab the cache whislt he wasnt looking, and sat down to write in the log...... then along comes Mr Fredrickson from the kids movie "UP" wanders up complete with walking frame to post a letter..... I had to wait another 10 mins for him to walk up, post his letter and walk back to his house before I could replace the cache while the muggle across the road had his back turned again.....
All in all a pretty eventful cache.
TFTC

[This entry was edited by vwnuts on Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 3:03:55 AM.]

Nice easy find on this Sunday afternoon. Nice way to finish off the weekend

Thanks

A joint FTF with La Kedi after practically driving past it just minutes earlier. Had to wait for the fellow over the road to finish tying his Watermelons for Sale sign to the tree and head back inside. The menu at this little cafe looks great but what a pity it closes so early. TFTC

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