Big Grey Corvette Williamstown Central, Victoria, Australia
By 3up on 07-May-10. Waypoint GC285EN

As there has been no response to the last request/s to attend to this cache, or provide regular updates, the cache is being de-listed on the basis that it has been abandoned by the Cache Owner.

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Quick and easy find on a busy day. Thanks for the cache 3up.
With Zedaycee

Lovely day to grab some caches while getting the next stage of a multi that started on the other side of town. TFTC 3up

Fairly straightforward find. Less than ideal weather meant all was quiet on the muggle front except some volunteers on the big grey corvette. Log is starting to deteriorate due to missing container lid. TFTC.

Nifty hide. Still no lid as previously reported.

**Find #1781**

A great place to visit, Would like to do the ship tour one day. I was too early today. A quick find using the hint. The lid is missing and needs some TLC.

Thanks **3up**

TFTC.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

TFTC, fascinating tour of the ship.

Missing lid to cache, needs to be replaced before log gets damaged.

This was a quick find, there are not too many places to hide a cache here. The lid is missing but the log is fine.

Found after a quick search. TFTC

What a beautiful day in the bay.
Cache located quite easily but there is no lid but log is nice and dry thanks to this weather.
Great place

Nice find with a lot of help from boat crew. Cache container was a little difficult to extract but we managed it. Tftc

Found it. It has no lid. Crafty hide, thanks !

Day trip out & a quick find

Found on a day trip to Williamstown. Got my fingers on it but it was wedged in tight. Thanks.

In Williamstown to pick up our pet bunny from the vet this evening, we decided to have a takeaway dinner in the park here, and while the geokids were tossing around the ol' aerobie post-food, I wandered down the pier to reacquaint myself with the HMAS Castlemaine and see if I could locate this cache.

With good co-ords and hint the hide was located quickly; had to do some loitering to wait out a few strolling muggles before attempting to retrieve the container. A bit fiddly but the shoelace gambit paid off, and the log was duly signed and replaced.

Thanks for the cache, 3up.

Super tough with the abundance of muggles, but a great hide! Shoelace trick worked wonders

Found it but unable to extract

Fourth find today
Good hiding place

Quick find thanks to my sister. Our babies first find as well

Found at last

Came looking for this one back in August, and now that the cache has been replaced I came back for another look.
It was nice and quiet on the pier today and there was only a lone fisherman and he was before the Corvette so I had GZ to myself.
A quick search in a few places and I soon spotted the sneaky cache in a great hide.
I must come back here when the Big Grey Corvette is open to have a good look at it.
Thanks 3up TFTC.

Found it! Forgot my pen though! in good condition!

Cache replaced after a discussion with the cache owner and a previous finder.

Spent twenty minutes searching but no luck. My dodgy gps didn't help.

Far too many muggles around today and no wonder as it was the first decent Spring weather day we have had. So had to give up looking unfortunately. It's probably there but just too hard today. Cheers

Not many people around today
I don't know how many times I tied my shoelaces but I thought I checked everywhere may be another time
Thanks 3up TFTC

Hmm easy - not for me! Will have to come back to this one

DNF this "Quick & Easy Find" as the Grey Corvette was open for business and way too many muggles

Forgot to log back in Feb. Ttfc

Sadly could not find despite muggle free 20 mins on the pier

Found lid and part of a log only signed by one team. Replaced where found. TFTC.

Great hide .

Spent ages doing this one. Looked in every imaginable hole on the jetty. Great cache in the end, very rewarding. TFTC.

Walked out towards the end and even with people about we took pictures and what not until Goose just grabbed the cache without anyone noticing, soon added our names to the log and replaced just as easy.

My caching buddy Goose of GooseandEgg had been badgering me to do a trip to Melbourne for awhile now to just do a caching weekend. Well one Friday afternoon I caved in and we started our plans for weekend caching on the mainland.
With so many caches to choose from we spent a fare bit of time coming up with a shortlist, in the end it was a mix of old caches, puzzles and a bit of a numbers run.
Well all our plans went out the window while we were over for our weekend but due to good caching friends we had a great time doing our plan B.

It was a great weekend and my thanks goes out to all the CO's who have placed the caches we searched for, Goose for talking me into it and our other halves for putting up with our madness.

Found on 12/03/2017 at 11:52:00 AM

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easy to find... treat small ... good luck:)

11:51, 12 March 2017, Find #224, Ali and I were out with stainless-steel-rat and gooseandegg from Tassie caching for the day while they are over here for the weekend and we decided to do a few in the Williamstown area (my home town) so local knowledge really helped today.

Ive been up to the Castlemaine many times but not for caching and this one had me thinking... but with a group of us it was found quite quickly by Richard and the log was signed and replaced promptly as there was a few muggles about but he did the old shoe lace trick.

TFTC

The pier was busy. The ferry had arrived from St Kilda, the Castlemaine was open for inspection and let's face it, the weather was fantastic for a wander around the waterfront. We got ourselves close to GZ and I spotted something almost immediately. Surely not? I did the shoelace thing but was protected by a car so had no troubles in grabbing it. I couldn't believe it was that easy, but sometimes it just is!
Boatietim knew a lot about the various boats and waterfront buildings which was great because I bombarded him with lots of questions. TFTC 3up.

Staying in Melbourne for about a week for some sport and of course some geocaching.
I was out and about exploring around the city and discovered lots of new great places.
TFTH

Quick and easy find tftc!

Quick and easy find on a lovely Summer day in Williamstown with biddyandjohn for Biddy's birthday. Tftc.

I was out and about this afternoon chasing bits of a few long-distance multis with the final objective of ending up in Albert Park. With a multi stage in Williamstown to find, as it was such a pleasant afternoon I took the opportunity to find this cache while I was here. A rather quick find even though there were muggles everywhere...although making my fine after closing time helped keep the numbers down.

Thanks 3up for the cache.

In Williamstown for the night and thought it would be remiss not to try and get at least one cache while over here. Not being a massive city cacher, it's a bit tricky to time caches in populated areas. I was out wandering with friends after dinner and thought i would attempt this one as it didn't seem as popular a pier at this time of the evening. Thankfully i quickly spied what i was after and soon the log was in hand. It seemed relatively full, maybe, with a few bits of paper - but i tried to just write initials somewhere as i didn't feel comfortable unravelling all the paper to find free space (in case i dropped it). All good here and returned it as found. Thanks for placing it here and enabling me to get a cache. \o/

Found it! Continuing our walk after fish 'n chips off the pier, we walked on the pier and stopped for a rest at GZ. Cache was soon in hand. TFTC SL

Beautiful afternoon in Willy! Plenty of muggles about so had to be discrete!

Although it was busy as people waited for entry to the grey corvette, I managed to sneak over and grab this neat hide, thanks

A nice quick find

A nice easy find after finishing our fish and chips next to the HMAS Castlemaine. (we are both form Castlemaine )
TFTC.

ps. Sorry for a very late log.

Trying to avoid the seagull swarm while eating chips, This was spot. TFTC

TFTC. After visiting the nearby Waterfountain, we meandered up the pier. It was a lovely hot day and the sea breeeze pleasant. Nobody on the pier and a quick easy find in the first place we looked.

Sunday afternoon, 200 people on the pier, got it without being seen tftc

Found today on a grey day in Williamstown, plenty of muggles but they were distracted by a tall ship docking, signed and replaced tftc.

Found today on a grey day in Williamstown, plenty of muggles but they were distracted by a tall ship docking, signed and replaced tftc.

Nice hide with a great view. Had a tour of the ship and was lucky enough to see a tall ship dock TFTC

TFTC. Beaut day for a trip to Willy.

TFTC

Fascinating...lots of muggles on this sunny morning...found with Lancefieldexpress..TFTC

Lie down

I had an awesome day in Williamstown. Third visit here but first since starting this Geocaching.

Not many people around so I made good use of the opportunity to snatch up this hide.

The two log sheets were full so I popped a nano log inside.

The Pocket Query hadn't saved onto my GPS properly for some reason so I was having to make do with my iphone. It narrowed the coords down enough that I only had to check a few items before getting my hands on it. It also meant I didn't have enough battery to complete all the multis here, so another visit to this beautiful location is in my near future.

Thanks 3up!

#1299

Wonderful hide - once I had the correct coordinates I carefully made the grab - Tftc!

Couldn't find it. We checked everywhere. Great view though.e

Tftc - fun no room left to write though

Tftc

Lucky the geokids decided to lay down.

geoP is playing host to Debmex & CDJ79 & after a yummy breakfast at a nearby cafe it was time for a walk.

Not sure how stealthy we were right on opening time & muggles about. But geoP found in the end.

Needs new log as current one full.

TNLN SL TFTC

Awesome location! Stealth required for sneaky hide, found relatively quickly with Dazzpete and cjd79. TFTC

Great little hide. TFTC

Great mini cache! Sadly no pen on us as we'd just had dinner. Happy get outdoors day! TFTC, Brainiac03

Found while waiting for muggle cousin for lunch. Needs new log sheet

Found on an afternoon touristic walk.
TFTC
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Quick and well found.
A very nice place and very interesting.

Thanks for hiding says
rsfahrer11

Thanks

Great find little bit tricky but was good thank you for the cache (:

Log book is full needs replacing (:

Damn i th8nk they think i was plac8ng a bomb ... So i broke the rules and told the workers of the castlemain what is here so they dont get nervous..... So all good now they no and understand

Cheeky can be seen from a far

After a lovely overnight stay in Williamstown we enjoyed a walk around the beautiful sights. Great photo opportunity at GZ. Log book very full. TFTC

Easy find after a few tourists moved say
Checked out the view across the harbour
Tftc

Didn't have much luck with fishing... So we went caching! Nice little hide and so obvious once it's found! Like, why didn't I look there straight away!

PS. Muggles......!

Been on a tour with schotje27, tftc and grtz from Holland

Thought too many muggles but success!!

Half way through our day of Williamstown geocaching and after an rejuvenating luncheon break, julesc21 and I headed down the jetty to find this one. We must have looked suspicious because one the staff members on the big grey corvette called out 'Are you looking for that button thing?'! We sheepishly admitted that indeed we were and she pointed us in the general direction. It was a quick find by julesc21 after that. TFTC!

Found it. Once u find it its so obvious. Good hide

Go Navy, found with Snickersallan

Being Navy members, we loved the visit here. Found with Bluewattle & TFTC

Thanks for the history 3up. I'd been here before but (pre caching) not paid attention to the history of the obvious object. That has now been remedied.
Cache found and replaced with due care...

Nice easy find before catching the ferry back to Melbourne. 2016-02-22 at 15:25, TFTC

Very cool hide. Found GZ quickly enough but poked around on the wrong side. Two seconds later, the cache was in hand, almost accidentally. TFTC!

Got down on one knee. TFTC

Busy day today.
TFTH. Signed log.

Hopped of the ferry from Melbourne and as we were walking towards the street I checked the GPS and saw there was a cache back out on the jetty. We turned around and headed back out. spotted the cache quicky and was able to make a discrete retrieval.
TFTC 3up

This one wasn't found today, GeoWife and Son had a long look for it after a trip to Science Works. But unfortunate no luck. will be back soon to expand our search. Thanks

Relatively easy though a small find!

First find of the day. I have come down to Williamstown to clean up a few traditional caches. They were a few guys fishing on the end of the jetty who did not worry about me looking at this great ship. Cache was an easy find. TFTC

No one about quick grab and i was gone .

Not in the hard to get places

Looked over the ship on Sunday, then next day realised there was a cache the to be found.
Quickly found when I returned monday morning, but had to wait for a lady to finish taking 57 selfies before I could return the cache to its hiding spot.
Thanks 3up

Got off the ferry and quickly went to do this cache. Took a little longer than expected but soon headed in the right direction and looked down and found it, just a a muggle volunteer on the nearby grey tourist attraction called out asking if we were lookng for the container. She asked a few questions as no one took the time to tell her about this awesome hobby. TFTC

Found this with OrionJ while waiting for the ferry back to Melbourne. TFTC