Lightning Research, Victoria, Australia
By R36 on 23-May-10. Waypoint GC291G9

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, I'm archiving it to keep it 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 us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Have removed cache to replace log, will be back in action soon.

Found @ 10:30. GPS wanted to take us to the drain. But common sense prevailed.
This is a clever type of cache, and always happy to find. The park needs a little bit of TLC. Also log full, will need a new one. TFTC R36

Walked around for a bit until my GPS settled then all was ok. Nice piece of handiwork. TFTC R36

The kids and I were out this way for a barbeque today so we decided to stop by and try for this cache. They thought the playground was a little lame, but the cache proved more interesting. We found the cache in a typical fence hide, only a few metres off the posted co-ordinates. Both the iPhone and Garmin had us pointed somewhere else. It tricked us a bit as we were searching the wrong structure intially, until I decided to move off and check something else out. I'm glad I did as I really didn't want to try with a return visit. Thanks R36.

We tried to find this cache a week ago but didn't have the right equipment for searching a playground. This time we 'borrowed' our granddaughter and didn't feel anywhere near as conspicuous in this place. Great camo. Many thanks for the cache.
Greg and Bev

Tftc great hide

Very clever camo. Had us searching for a while, and found it accidentally!! TFTC

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 R36 for the hide, this one had me scratching my head for a bit before trusting my GPS and making an easy find.. I was alittle troubled by the visible muggle presence, however tacticks were employed and the cache was signed and returned.. Thanks for the cache.

First one for the day as we head out to St Andrews for a drive . No one in the park made for an easy hunt and the tricky little fella was soon in hand. Our 2.8 y.o loved the cool little quad bike/tractor [?] in the playground. Log is dry. Thanks R36

Found at 0820. Quick easy find. SL. TFTC

Found 16:45, after a brief search.

TNLN, CSI=1, thanks R36.

Quick and easy find at night. TFTC!

TFTC TNLN hard to find but clever cache! Found on a day out with GIBSAR

9.30 Out and about with 80 degrees tonight experiencing our first nightly geocaching. Parked nice and close and a quick short walk through to the cache. Excellent hide a great cameo.
Thanks for the cache

08/08/2011 21:59 Found: #592 After getting the kids dinner sorted and waiting for my daughter to bring the car back I took off for a close-by and like others I am glad this has come back up as its possibly the closest to home now. It was a quick find in the 2nd place I looked. The powerful hands free headlamp zoomed in on this interesting micro. This is only the 2nd of these I have come across. It was so wet that I took it back to the car to sign. I then waded through the long wet grass to make the fast replacement. The weather and time of night meant that there were zero muggles anywhere about. I only saw one car driving down the road. TFTC R36 TNLN SL

We went to a park with drjim7 and josiey. There was a tunnel which I liked . josiey looked at the clue and found it.

found #319 @10:19 AM TFTC! Good to see this one back up so I could knock it off the list nice container

Drive by after Some Inspiration. Playground kept lobster6 7 entertained especially the tunnel.

This entry was edited by drjim7 on Sunday, 31 July 2011 at 08:40:39 UTC.

drjim7 often moves in quickly to make the grab on these sorts so I was happy to see this first. lobster6 7 had a lovely time playing in the playground.

This entry was edited by josiey on Sunday, 31 July 2011 at 11:19:56 UTC.

Great spot. Very easy.

Great hiding spot! Really enjoyed this one ?

We found this cache today at 3:50pm as the 11th of 24 on our Greensborough Loop Afternoon. A nice little hide in this mini park. Thanks from D & H B-A.

Found at 2.15pm A quick easy find by Mrs 80 on a must cache day. TFTC

Virtual TB Drop

found @ 8:29

Planned to tackle a nearby GCA cache, so I thought I'd check in to sees if a GC was nearby, only to notice this one was backup online, perfect!

This one stuck out like a sore thumb upon approach!

TFTC

Good to see this back on line.

Log replaced, Cache replaced, sorry for the delay!
R36

Virtual TB drop....

Log completely wet and rusty, will attempt to get a new log soon.

R36

Log wet & stuck. May need a replacement. Cheers.

This was a great cache to show our muggle cousin. We found it within the minute, but we made him look...and look...and look with no luck, so we stopped being cruel and showed him!
A good hide! Unfortunately the log was wet, and had a rusty colour about it, and couldnt retrieve to sign as it would rip, so may need to be checked.

The grass was really long in the park! Plenty of mozzies about too.

Many thanks for the hunt. TNLN

Our first of this kind...very clever!

Found it, very nice hide but there is no log book in it! (i couldn't believe that you could actually fit a log book in something like that)

New log installed!

Cache is still there, but log is full, I have removed the log and are attempting to get another one that fits. will replace log ASAP.
R36

Well, maybe it's there, but no luck for me today. Felt a but uncomfortably searching in this location and muggles were approaching so I gave it way. Maybe another time
Thanks anyway R36.

TFTC

Needs new log TFTC

I had to wait until a local rugrat had finished riding his scooter down the slide in a lonely bored school-holiday manner. He scurried off when he saw me waiting in the car for him to leave.
Once the park was empty I found this nano easily as I have one the same sitting at home - not sure where I will place it.
Definitely no room for swaps!
Thanks R36

One for the eagle eyed? Aha spied it! T4TC dear bro!

Kicking the mulch around, quietly mumbling to myself about urban caches near playgrounds, when saw something that with the same made sence with the name. What an awesome idea, but would too scared that I wouldn't be able to repacking it, so didn't sign it. Lets hope it stays around for a long time.

Located today, although not logged until 29/11/2011.
Many thanks for the cache.

clever hide. tftc tnln

It is always good to see playgrounds deserted when you are on the cache and after entering the field the GPS lead us to an area that could only hide a nano in so many spots.
Seen a few like this which makes it easier.
Thanks

The last one before lunch. A short walk in a very empty (fortunately) park.
Both of us have seen these before so it was an easy find.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found by caughtatwork at 09:30 on 18/07/2010
A nice first find of the day. Once I decided it was a nano it was an easy find too.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks R36 for this creative start to my caching morning.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

GOOD HIDE

Instant find, quickly logged. Absence of muggles made this easier.

Found by The Empire @ 3:20pm
16/17 today. Easy find, seen plenty of these now, thanks.
- M

We had a couple of goes at this one. The area was busy with dog-owners at the weekend. Being fenced it seems a good place to let the dogs run free, but we were a bit worried about the broken glass. A cunning hide. We're obviously not very experieced with nanos! TFTC

Found on a geocaching jaunt on a Saturday afternoon. TFTC SL

Quick find in a winters afternoon of caching TNLN TFTC SL

Got back from doing some caching in Paris (France) yesterday, needed some jetlag therapy so took a walk up the road, turned the corner and there it was. Found at 2:30pm. Very sneaky [^]. Thanks R36.

was a little worried reading the logs not knowing what to expect , but no drama as it was seen from 10 ft - thanks R36

Dad and daughter found this one @ 11:45am.
While the girl played on the swings I wandered down and, no joke, the first thing I touched turned out to be the cache! I love it when I'm this lucky.
I see we were here not long after solomanfamily. I probably have you guys to thank for drying off the swings. My hankie was still wet from the swings at the last park [B)] so, thanks.

Cheers R36, that was an interesting nano. Never seen one like it before but now I'll have my eyes open.

~10:40 King Jnr and Snr with Queen Snr and babygeoprince not far away.

An easy find but then again we are getting familar with recognising these types of sneeky caches. We had been to this part of the world for other caches not far away and even had some friends living just up the road until recently - we had even played here before. Our thanks to R36 and sorry we missed Stagetree but we had to move quickly to be in Hawthorn to pick up Geoprince#1 by 11:30 and stop off at "@ the Hoe" (which we didn't make).... thanks for bringing us here again....

I've been watching too!!!

But work full-time not in the area menas I can only make it there when it's dark and didn't fancy a nano find in the dark...... after the 'hoe DNF on the weekend!!!!!

Found by Bob at 1050

Well, Research isn't exactly an inner suburb - but it's not the end of the world either, so why has this one been out for 3 days without an attempt on it? I must admit to getting a bit overwhelmed with the weekly floods of new caches these days and it took me a couple of days to twig that this newie, with its lack of finds, wasn't actually in some remote location 400km east or west, but was only 10km north of me (it being the 1st cache by R36 didn't help either, as I didn't recognise the hider's name). Anyway, I'm currently running-in a new motorbike and it was shaping up as a perfect sort of morning to be out on it so, even though Research is pretty much at the limit for a pre-work foray, I decided to have a go for it. The day actually just got better and better as I rode along - the roads had dried out and it was warm and sunny and, with winter just around the corner, I was only sorry that I couldn't stay out all day and lap it up. On reaching GZ, I hadn't turned my GPSr on and had to wait a few minutes for it to get a lock, so I started inspecting some nearby spots but, when it fired up, it pointed 15m further away, so I headed there and was able to make a quick find of the very devious and very small cache. Strangely enough, this is the 2nd cache in a row that I've found that's employed this type of concealment and I'd been thinking about what nice workmanship had been used to construct the previous one - but I guess you can buy them from somewhere, as they were virtually identical and it would be unlikely that two different hiders could make them so similar.

Thanks R36 - it was a good hide, but I think that Research could probably support a good population of somewhat larger caches

I must admit that I have been watching this one with interest since it first popped up. I've had my fingers burnt, figuratively speaking, by a 'nasty nano' close to home and when this one wasn't hit within the first hour or so of being posted as is usually the case around these parts, I figured that it must be of similar style so I decided to give it a miss lest I waste too much time searching for a near impossible hide [8)]. Geodes' log of this morning gave me the hope that I needed for a lunchtime assault and the excellent coordinates had me with the stash in hand very quickly at 13:50 for our 39th STF .

A very nice little park and a very clever hide but where is everybody??!?!!!?!

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks R36.

I've been watching this with interest too- within 10kms from my home and I was keen to get out and grab it the other day, however writing semester one school reports at the moment was what's stopping me!
Congrats on the FTF and STF!
Sounds like a great cache, will have to pop over and grab it when I'm done with reports!\
- PR&F

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