LePage Pioneers Cheltenham East, Victoria, Australia
By Earthbound Chief on 19-Feb-10. Waypoint GC2447R

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

We went to relocate this one away from the school as the trees here must be played in regularly after school. Then we noticed all the activity at the park's public toilets while looking at alternative hide sites. We put on our geocaching stealth hats and slunk back to the car. They were more obvious in their intentions than a posse of geocachers, so we decided this one can go on the shelf!

This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Saturday, 07 May 2011 at 03:40:19 UTC.

Found with no log. Container left in fork of fourth tree for owner.

Found with no log and open. Muggled!

TB dip.

Found on a night caching run through the area. On my own tonight. Found this one completely exposed when i arrived at GZ, so i covered it over nicely when finished. TFTC.

Tricky. Will come back.

2nd time here for the blackducks, glad to be able to tick this one off...TFTC

Easy find
Log book alittle wet, tattered and wrecked
Nice location
Took TB
TFTC

Almost by the dodgy looking guys at the football oval!
TFTC

Nice easy find on a nice melbourne day. Tnln tftc sl

Another quick find with team Burge. Dropped off TB. SL. TFTC!

Nice quick find after DFO. Logbook was kinda wet and may need some maintenance. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC.

found in the middle of the heat. whats with melbourne weather...

Found It

TNLNSL

TFTC

Located the cache at 13:21 in the company of coley_babee and RogWat.
We didn't get the privilege of seeing the boot camp, but did see a group who looked like they were finishing up a game of netball.
Thanks again Earthbound Chief.

Well Step Into Life (Boot Camp) http://stepintolife.com.au/ was well in swing when we arrived.
Just a bit of a plug - if you're looking for a great way to get fit and have fun (other than Caching) Step is fantastic - I used to go the step group that trains at this GZ....Really quick find
TFTH TNLN SL

Lots of boot camping happening here... Nobody seemed to be interested in me. 16th find on 20-10-2010. TFTC

Found after my cricket match against Le Page. They beat us by 1 wicket. TFTC

Found with Wild Josh after his cricket match this morning. Thanks Earthbound Chief.

1/6 @ 0215 for an early morning caching run after work. Nice easy find after i decided that my gps was not pointing me in the right direction. TNLN SL TFTC!
Seegs.

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Found at night

TFTC SL

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

Found on a friday night cache run in the Cheltenham area with Spladem, Diablo1234, Mr X 02 and top THat.

TFTC.

#30 OK, I am feeling suuuuuuuuper chuffed now. We went looking for this one last Wednesday with no luck at all. Left feeling rather frustrated.
I decided to go back today all by myself and have a look. I found it. Gosh, I felt so proud of myself. I don't usually go caching by myself as I like Mr.P to do all the dirty work *LOL*, ie. put his hands into odd looking holes and under things etc.
*big smile*
The log was a bit damp, but I reckon it will dry no problem. I was able to sign it just fine. Hid it well again.

This entry was edited by team Sokeri on Monday, 09 August 2010 at 01:11:03.

Just as well well we took a while to find this. Some muggles with remote control cars packed up as we gave it one last shot. At one stage oldest Gozanator put hand on it and still didn't find it. but after some close inspection we found it!
SL

Finally got to the cache site today. Have removed the 200ml container which wasn't quite hidden and left the eclipse tin in place. So you are looking for an eclipse tin only. Bizarre, the sistema was definitely missing when we checked the cache last! Hmmm, ah well, the eclipse tin seems to work better here anyway.

hmm... I am so hoping that you were there before us today. We tried to find this one just today and feel like we looked everywhere... no luck. sigh. Oh well, will have to try again some other day and now we know to look for the eclipse tin.

Don't stress Team Sokeri, it took me a minute to find the eclipse too and it was right under the sistema!

It looks like someone may have returned the original cache - at GZ there was both the eclipse tin and the 200ml sistema on top of it - signed both logs

Oh my gosh. Is it that late. I'd better hurry home before Vicki misses me!! TFTC, Earthbound Chief.

Double find! The eclipse container is with the sistema and both log books are there so i signed both! TFTC SL

Quick find on a Sunday afternoon. TFTC Signed both sistema log and eclipse log!

Found it! We found the 200 ml Sistema container and continued looking for the Eclipse Mint Container. We found the mint one a short time after. To save confusion we put the Eclipse container into the sistema. TFTC Earthbound Chief.

Aha, the mysterious disappearing and reappearing cache. Our hides seem to have a habit of doing this. Will check this out as soon as I can and remove one of them.

Found by Bob at 1300

I chose to drive in to this reserve this afternoon and, despite the cool weather and lack of muggles in most places, ended up parking next to a car whose owners were a couple and their young son who was having a great time learning to drive his electric car around the paved netball courts nearby - he only looked to be about 4-5yrs old and the car probably cost more than my first (real) car! Anyway, I hoped they were concentrating on him as I wandered over to GZ and was fortunate enough to locate the rather well hidden cache pretty quickly - although it seems to be a 200ml Sistema rather than an Eclipse tin at the moment.

TNLN

Thanks again Earthbound Chief - I wish I could get a 2 acre block for 20 pounds around here now!

Hmmm, after checking some of the logs, it's possible there might be 2 caches around here now (if Earthbound Chief replaced it with an Eclipse tin). I found a 200ml Sistema and, I think, the last log had been by Muzza. I might be wrong but, if it was, then the logs between his and mine must have been in the other cache.

ignored our gps and just looked for a likely hide this time around, got it in no time, ta.

Find 2 of 6 tonight.. felt abit suss getting this one.. cops were just around the corner.. they were busying themselves with more important stuff.. Find #160

A well hidden cache but yet an easy find.
TFTC

Quick find as no one was around. Thanks.

No trouble finding this one. No one around. With Jackam

I was heading down the peninsula for a bit of caching today so I did a few caches on the way.
The cache was well hidden but easily retrieved.
Thanks Earthbound Chief.

First attempt at this one had us scratching our heads, and was questioned by a old muggle walking her dog. We introduced her to geocaching, and she was keen, but mentioned that during football matches on the nearby oval there is always kids playing near the Gz. We looked and looked but no banana. We headed off to a birthday party for my Auntie's 80th, at the nearby Aero Club, and a call to Earthbound, indicating that the cache appeared to be gone. A text message a few hours later idicated that the cache has been replaced, so we headed off after the party to have a quick find. Thanks Earthbound Chef for helping out. Found during our "Wal has returned from Sydney for the weekend" caching expedition. TFTH...SL...TNLN

We were in a bit of a hurry and so missed this one, will try again later.

I failed on this one a couple of months ago, and today was a must cache day, so I thought I'd try again on my way home from dinner with my parents. This time it was quite obvious - don't know how I missed it in the daylight last time. Thanks for the cache, and the history lesson.

We made it to gz just before the rain came down. It kept the muggles away, which was a bonus. I reckon this nice big area could get very busy.

The reluctant spouse threw a bit more camo around the place.

Thanks for the cache, Earthbound Chief.

No problems finding this one - it was visible to passers-by. Signed the log, then hid it more securely. TFTC. GCMelb

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Early morning = muggle-free. I do like that

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found with Everlasting. TFTC

Accompanied with crank1, we searched for while until found it phew!!! No swap SL. Thanks Earthbound Chief

One month on from the last find, this had us stumped for a little bit. we thought that it was in the obvious hiding spot around there, but it turns out it was somewhere we had'nt even thought to look in. im surprised it even fitted in there. either way, great hide. TFTC

Last cache for today and a very easy find as the cache was fully exposed. Signing of the log was interrupted when muggles wandered past and sat on log fence nearby. They were waiting for muggle dad with pram coming from the other direction. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. We didn't think they were going to leave. Finally they were off and with a very quick move we had the cache back in its hide and camouflaged from view. TNLNSL. TFTC. KeMs

Found @ 3.00pm, #118. This one was aborted earlier on due to high amount of muggles, but today was muggle free, a quick search soon had cache in hand.
TFTC, TNLN.

16/04/2010 15:21
Found this one in plain view, so I covered it up better before leaving. TFTC

Found 10:30, our first on a rather blusterous morning.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Earthbound Chief.

10.00pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Thank you Earthbound Chief for another well placed cache.
Romax.

We found this cache at 12:30pm as the 3rd of 17 on our "Yet another drive along the coast to Frankston" afternoon. A quick pick up found by "HA". "S" completed his apprenticeship at a place that used to be a little way back down the road towards Warrigal Road. Thanks from D, HA, H & A B-A.

Nice easy one for a drizzly day.
Kids at school and a full tank of fuel and a pack lunch - bliss.
TFTC

This was my first cache for the day, and I always like to start with a win. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. I searched up and down for some time, checked some previous logs, and it should have been an easy find. I eventually used the "phone a friend" option and rang Team Crackers.

They described where it was and I believe I found the exact spot, but it was empty. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear that it has been muggled.

Found by The Empire
21/3/10 @ 1pm
9/24 today, walked past this one like 3 times in my little search whilst the boys across the oval got ready for cricket!
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

I continued my tour of the area today and found myself at this lovely reserve. True to form I watched an over of cricket as it was being played and jinxed the batsman causing him to go out. My record of watching cricket while out caching has about an 80% success rate of seeing a wicket!

Thanks,

R - B

No 16 once the locals headed off found GZ. T4TC

Find # 1011 @ 09:45 on a day out caching with tackle_head
Nice easy find. TNLNSL TFTC

A quick find with 3up - thanks Earthbound Chief

OK I am guilty of not logging caches over the last year or two. Due to 2 operations and rehab it has made it difficult to log caches even though I have been mostly chair bound sitting for short times has been difficult as well.
What I have done is create this log in an attempt to bring our found and DNF's up to date so I can resume my normal habit of stories rather than a TNLN - TFTC.
Most of these logs will not include the owners team name so I think it is appropriate to say a Big Thank the cache owners for their caches and some wonderful memories of caching adventures.
Also thanks to Team Crackers who have made our caching trips so much fun and their help in working out what caches we did and when.
Regards
Mr.Coffee and the "I promise I wont let this happen again after all these coffee's er I mean caches are drunk er I mean logged" Coffee Clan.

This was the next cache on the list on our Sunday out and about with Mr Coffee and The Coffee Clan and our last before stopping for lunch. Although we spent a bit of time around this are in our youth we had heard nothing of the Le Pages until now. It's amazing what you miss when you are young.
Thanks for the cache and the history

Easy find now as the game had not started yet, Co-ords were spot on and we made a quick exit. Thanks again EB team.

Nice easy find. After finding we watched a cricket game. TFTC.

Found this one while out at night. Thanks for the cache

Out on a night run quick find TNLN TFTC SL

12.35pm

GPSr Giving me grief today a little off
but scopped the place and soon saw something that spoke CACHE
TFTC

Found in the company of Acts2YouthGroup. A nice quick find this morning despite the runners out for their fix. haven't they got anything better to do - like cache?

This was cache # 6 of 27 for the day, in the company of Alansee. A nice cache with some history to be learnt. My thanks to Earthbound Chief for the cache.

1910hrs

There were some muggles with an RC car trying to get it started near GZ.

I strolled past and straight to the cache.
A quick sign and return.

TNLNSL
TFTC

Found this one easily while out with Squalid.

Found on an afternoon outing with the Monches. Nice one to get us going. Thanks for the cache.

28-02 11th find of the day at 13:53 and 974th find in total.
After grabbing some lunch nearby we stopped here to eat and see who could make the closest guess to the cache. Could imagine that this one would be a lot harder during certain times of the school day.
(''\(OoO)/'') Thanks Earthbound Chief for the caching fun!

Ahh, the Two Acre Village, with Friendship Square at its centre. Doomed to failure when the railway was routed a few miles to the west. But I digress, A nice easy find today, the cooler weather seems to have seen off the walkers, kite flyers, footy kickers and ball throwers normally seen in a park this size. TNLN - Thanks for yet another Earthbound Cache

In the area for a square practise and had some time to come out for a breather. Nice and easy drive by, being a weekend.
Thanks for the cache

Riding down the street, I was hoping the school finishes soon! Fortunately, the cache was in the park..
A quick find.
Thanks, Robmc.

Easy find while knocking off the latest 3 in Earthbound's prolific offerings.
TFTC.

*TTF* Almost a drive by. TFTC

Hoping to get a FTF but a STF is was. Found early Sunday morning. Took a while a find as it was still dark but eventually found the well hidden cache. Left Soldier TB. TFTC

Fourth to find at 2:15pm
There was a game of some kind on at the oval, a few parked cars, but everyone seemed to be inside so the location was quiet.
Took TB, but LNTN else.
TFTC

Published

761. F.T.F, F.T.F. Signed Log 10:30 pm Yeh ! My second First To Find. - I was looking for an excuse not to go to bed On this Hot Night, Just looked on Google Maps link and wow 3 new Caches within 3K of my current Base, Just Printed the one for the closest ( Thought I would leave the other two for somebody else) and off , arrived on the wrong side of the park - Do I drive around or walk ?, No Run , made it to the correct location wait for the Garmin to settle and there it was. Thanks- Earthbound Chief for all this