Bill's Birth Place The Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By TheWobblys on 03-Mar-10. Waypoint GC24J97

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Cache gone

Needs to be replaced or archived.

No sign of cache here. Searched the red areas. Other people have also not found this cache. Needs maintenance please.

Cache is gone. I looked in a couple of places. One of them obvious. I phoned a friend who had found the cache previously and he confirmed that the place I was looking was the correct place. Cache replacement required.

GPS put me in middle of road so looked around and I think i know where it is but muggles up on balcony hanging over rail, I'll come back with company next time.

Another trip another DNF. I really must come back here during the day as it is just to suspicious to be milling around teh shop front late at night:)

In fact someone in the house next door came out to see what was going on - fortunately I was back in the car.

Easy find, but good historical info.

Nothing seemed out if place. Even at 10pm the muggle activity was still high.

We checked around, under, on and in every thing matching the clue that we could, but it was not to be

No luck

Im not having much luck with this cache. I've looked at every red thing within 50 m. Its my second visit and still haven't found it. Is there a chance I can get someone to swing by this cache and advise if it's still there.

yay

I pulled up to dulcet trumpet tones emanating through the upstairs window. I was attracted to the red object down the street. I failed there (pic) then moved on to the cache. Gee I do like those red ones. Clear skies.

Found it after a bit of wandering in the middle of the night and a peek at the clue. One of the best we've found so far! Very impressed
TFTC

I had to look on both sides of the road for this one.
Was it me? Or my GPS? TFTC.

It's so tiny. TFTC

Sneaky. TFTC

Coords took me to the plaque in front of the red cafe as they were closing up shop, but no cache in sight. Saw something red across the road and found the cache very shortly after. Good thing as it was getting dark by then. Thanks TheWobblys.

The coordinates were a little bit out but after spotting a big red thing,I thought i would check it out and there it was,found it straight away.
It was a good chance to get some refreshments at the little cafe, only thing they were pretty pricey.
SL TFTC

Found the description a little confusing SL TFTC

Teeny tiny container. I can't believe I found it so easily. TFTC SL.

Found it No. 3525 ... everything at the intersection is red but which is the right red ... TNLN ... TFTC

TheWobblys: As per our cache log, staff from Feast saw us looking for the cache and came out to tell us that it had recently been removed. Cheers.......Gaztek

Interesting place to visit but no cache to be found today. Staff from the shop came out to tell us that it had been removed not long ago. Cheers........Gaztek

This took a while! Had to enlist help of geo husband, who promptly located it.

Bill was born in one of these... really... I suspect not but it did hold what I was looking for. Found before the sun was even stirring at 0545.

Cheers Wobblys

Quick find. TFTC

Found with Cheekymonky after checking every red thing I could

With bigkev640's help. Didn't know it would look it did.

Nano find with me ma!

Reperio at 1350. We came by here earlier on, but there were too many muggles sitting out the front having a bite to eat. By pure chance the GPS routed us past GZ on the way to another cache and realised there was no one in sight. Quickly pulled over and got to searching, and after a few minutes, we soon figured out that the cache wasn't where we thought it was. Nice little piece of history.

Gratias.

New team found before but good cache. Very tiny! So annoying to hoping.

OMG!!! I finally found it!!! We found it the first time but thought it was just a magnet and the box was gone. When they said it was small...they n not joking.amazing hide

This was the last cache for today and also the smallest one. My family is starting to get to know all about geocaching! Maybe they're going to like it TFTC!

We finally found this little nano after a few attempts.Hooray!!!!! Previous attempts were hampered by the inner city cafe set sipping java. We hit this early, 0600 hours...very quite at that time of the morning. A little bit of peeping around red things (hint) lead us to the cache. Thanks Wobblys for bringing us to Sir William Dobell's birth place, a favorite Australia painter of ours. He lead a very interesting "flamboyant" life and painted some of the most iconic Australian paintings. Well done Sir Bill. Thanks Wobblys for another great cache. We replaced the full log with a new nano log. SL

This entry was edited by morgans2320 on Tuesday, 28 December 2010 at 23:57:37.

Went looking for this one tonight and found where it SHOULD have been and was not there. We only found the magnet it would have been attached to on the box. Very upset.

realize diff about 5m after gz, found it very hide well but almost full of log, need new one very possible... thanks

Four heads looking and no game! Sorry dont think its there ! TFTHunt, Cache 5 of 7 for Christmas in OZ, Sea ya

We stopped for this one without reading past logs, when we came up empty handed a quick look of the logs provided the reason why. A waste of our time.

needs new log. great spot beware of muggles though TFTC

Owner wrong still there TFTC SL

Also couldn't find this one, but understood why when we read previous log ...

Muggle owner of cafe near this cache claims it's been taken

Finally found this cache after a couple of searches! Don't know how we missed it before... Although we spent most of our time searching in the wrong spot because the iPhone kept taking us across to the other side of the road. The clue didn't really help us as it describes a lot of things in this intersection. So glad we can cross this cache off our list.

OMG! We FINALLY tracked this one down! Bills Birth Place had become Mik-Els Everest, and he was determined not to be beaten by a cache. Despite the iphones best efforts to the contrary. So with an enormous sense of relief, we can FINALLY say we've located this one, and no cache has EVER brought with it such an enormous sense of accomplishment. Thank Cher.

This entry was edited by Team R0cket on Sunday, 10 October 2010 at 06:30:53.

the third time we had been here the first & second time there were too many muggles to grab it but third time lucky, sweet little nano case

TFTC

Nice little cache.

TNLN

Had to look a couple of times before I spotted it, and a couple of retries at rolling it up to get the log back in!

So Bill was born in this thing was he? Stork brought him along?

A quick find at 1640hrs as I went for an afternoon wander around the streets.

TFTC

Found on our second visit. Well hidden. The people in the shop had just closed up and must have thought we had a pasta emergency or something. Had to pretend we were just fascinated by their window.

We found Bill's Birth Place (GC24J97) on a Very Windy Bank Holiday Monday with Ruffas and Travelling Wilkos, our 20th of 46 finds and our 1312th overall find. The GPS wouldn't settle eventually posted a find on this one.TNLNSL. Thanks for the cache, TheWobblys. Deputy D0g.

Just didnt have any luck. Think the wind was messing with my phone gps grrr!

Easy find ,with help from the hint, despite the GPS coverage being all over the place today, Historic spot! Thanks for showing it to us.

TFTC

10:55, 21 of 48 attempted on our Bank Holiday Newscatle Cachefest. I dropped the other two while I parked the Geombolie and when I got to GZ and they were still looking. I had an idea where it might be but the time I could put thoughts into action Rags was already on the job and the Cache was ours. I wonder what the people in the shop think


TFTCSL

found on a trip to Newcastle
thank you for hiding it

Last find for the day. Mum and Dad were itching for a beer but that was denied. GPS is sooooo anoying today as we were looking in the road then at the wrong side of the street but finally once again cacher knowledge to the aid. TFTC. Found after first event with the owner and HAVOC

Took us a while as all the thick tree cover & overhanging balconies three off the gps. Resorted to the clue & found it through the process of elimination. TFTC & the history lesson.

A quick find on a very grey afternoon in Newcastle. TFTC

Up in Newcastle with twelfth night at the civic. First cache in Newcastle. TFTC

Another one of these caches! They still amaze me, even though this is the second micro-micro one I found TFTC

I really enjoyed exploring newwy!

Friend mislead me as to where the cache was and then found it himself but nice hide. TFTC.

Didn't find it! Is it still there?

I've been to William Dobell's House at Wangi, there used to be a gallery there, not sure if it's still there as I haven't been there in years.
Looking in the wrong place, I read the clue and went "it's got to be there" nope!
Finally found, and we were off to the next one!
TFTC.

2552 - Found during a Newcastle region visit with ACBC 66....

Looked on the wrong side for a second, then tried the other which revealed the cache ! Excellent !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

A quick find with the hint. Quite liked all the older style buildings and of neighbourhood around here- a bit of history. TFTC!

Thanks for the cache and the info!

Checked this cache today and it has been muggled.

Replaced with new black nano.

Happy caching.

Not found

Might want to check on this one

Not found. May be missing.

[No luck with this one tonight. Checked all the] red [things without results
Next time]

Have been driving past this one frequently for a while now, and the last few times I couldn't see it as I normally could. Walked past yesterday and it wasn't there. Might want to check on this one!

Nice hide, one I particularly like as it is similar to one of my own. Met some other out of town cachers. Stopped for a quick chat.

A quick find and a meeting with some other cachers in the wild. Swapped a few tall tales. Always nice to meet other fellow addicts!

Found at 1.15pm GAFF5. As we pulled up at GZ, we spotted a couple that were clearly geocachers - Geocaching.com hat and Oregon GPS in hand wandering around. Turned out to be wing6rider and Crystal Warrior. Had a good chat, took a photo of them for our PPRASS Family coin and in the middle of all of that the cache was found in a very bold spot - surprised that it has survived!
Another piece of history that would have passed us by.

Thanks TheWobblys.

Found on a very early morning scooter ride-- which was a good idea, considering all the paid parking spaces going into effect at 9am...

nice and quick find
smelt like marshmallows in the air at 2am

We had a lovely tea at the Clarendon and we thought a touch of geocaching would finish off a tiring day. We had come from Hobart and Adelaide but geocaching has become part of our business trips these days and the thought of grabbing a cache was too enticing. Nice hide!

quick pull over find.

Found by Mary & David at 1010. Shouldn't there be a plaque here? There would be if it was overseas. Fascinating that yet another great artist came from an industrial area (like Pro Hart from Broken Hill, for example). Our thanks to The Wobblys.

Found in the company of Trail 06 while on a work trip. Lovely after dinner walk and a quick find. TFTC

We pulled up and eliminated a few things in the area before leaving the car as there were a couple of locals waiting outside the shop. As we were driving past the compass shot me across the other side so we went down a little further turn the car around and headed back. I could actually see it form the car so we pulled up in front blocking the view from across the road and out hoped Mrs Tamykian, a grab of the cache and back into the car, once we signed the log we were about to return it but a car had pulled up behind us so the cache came for a short journey before we returned it back to its GZ to 6 an out cache..

TFTC

Tamykian

I saw this one from across the road - so it was a quick easy walk-by. TFTC.

This was a little tricky due to all the muggles around but I believe I was not seen.

TFTC

TheKolonel <<

Fellow swabbie and UCP crewmate Timmy Bones got ou' his telescope on this one.... saw 't a mile off.... usin' his skill in darkness he stole the cache..... signed an' then put 't aft.... noone th' wiser.... thar be howerea swabbie playin' th' saxamaphone... sultry sounds o' th' sea.... AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

A quick find before heading back up the coast after a weekend at the Oz Mega Event.

T4TC.

now thats thinking outside of the box!!!! great hide.TFTC

never knew that this one was here


tftc


fattyacid and family

On a warm Easter Sunday, this was found by Nanny and Bo.
This old corner shop at the place of the birth of the great man is a great piece of living history.
SL.
TNLN.
TFTC.

Night time find - not a soul about. Quick find once a I thought about it

My first find of an after work walk.
I definitely needed the hint to locate this one.
Finding somewhere to sign the log proved to be the next problem.
My thanks to the wobbleys

Found this one on a very busy Sunday in Newcastle - have no idea why there were so many people in the city! We drove up close to GZ and parked the car. Crossed the road and fairly quickly spotted the cache. As we were about to sign the log a muggle came out of the flats behind us and gave us a bit of a fright, but she soon went back inside and we continued without another hitch. TNLNSL TFTC

Wow what a great little cafe... Man the food and the coffee.. Yum Yum Yum....

This was the most Expensive cache of the day... Thanks Wobblys...

Nice bit of History.

MADSTARS

Quick drive by find to start a night of caching, TFTC. Completed with dodgy123