The Bunkers Bridge Melton, Victoria, Australia
By bel04 on 18-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2DKVM

searched forever and not found suspect it's been spoiled

no sign whatsoever of cache + previous easy find = probably muggled
Nice bridge. I worked just up the road for years and never appreciated it.

This entry was edited by josiey on Friday, 20 May 2011 at 23:50:27 UTC.

Looked around the area for 40 minutes until too frustrated to continue. Would like to believe it's been mugged but suspect we are both men and can't find anything to save ourselves.

Riding towards GZ saw the name of the street and remembered that a work colleague from years gone by lives here. No doubt he's at work today so it was straight to the bridge for a find at 11:05am.
TNLN
thanks bel04

Walked through the park from the last cache trying to work out what part of the bridge it would be on. Didn't even see the other bridge! Nice spot.
Thanks, Robmc.

Very easy find - spotted the cache when I approached. TFTC

WOW what a fantastic little bridge, being a draftsman i always love these types of hides that take me to structures like this. Thanks for the great spot for a hide.

Tftc,t:shark,l:smily face

Nice easy find, plenty of muggles around though. TFTC

Found in the company of spartan2224 while attending the event.
Enjoyed the stroll to the cache.
TNLn. SL.
TFTC

Pretty spot - must bring my clubs next time we're around

TNLN TFTC

Found while out with Blacklegend and Quasar3671. TFTC

Found while attending the Intervening Days III event.

As we walked to the cache, the reluctant spouse said that we should be very aware of snakes. So when we arrived at gz and I spotted something scaly next to the cache, I nearly ran in the opposite direction. Turned out to be a large lizard, so all was well and the log was signed.

Thanks for the cache, bel04.

Found on 28/12/10 2:05 PM Find #309 by Crazy Paul while in Melton for the Intervening Days lll event.
TNLNSL TFTC
~ Crazy Creels

1.16PM

Spent quite some time searching for this one and hiding from Golfers, but eventually spotted it.

Thanks for the cache. TNLN

Oh No! Srung! Nope not muggles just a few fellow cachers. A nice quick hide

few muggles around lovely little bridge TFTC

Wow, cool bridge! Would not have notice it otherwise, too busy listening to my ipod. TFTC

King Jnr with my queen and geoprinces in the car.

Following today's event we picked up this cache - now let me guess pull up where those other cars are... and look out here come another crowd of GPS carrying muggles......

Our thanks to bel04 and to the cacher before me who handed me the log before I passed it on......

Great to be able to catch up on relatively new caches in this area while attending Intervening Days. TFTC TNLN

Was in amongst the Intervening Days entourage traipsing through here today. I cannot believe I could not find this last time I looked - I definitely looked too hard that time (in all the wrong places). The 3yo was again tasked with replacing the cache... just in time for another couple of carloads to pull up across the road as we were leaving.

Found with Hi Pressure when we went caching at the nearby event. Enjoyed the stroll here.

TFTC

A nice easy find with the Swaggies. TFTH...SL...TNLN

Found after a great time at the event,
Thanks bel04,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the Coffee Clan

#361, 3:40 pm

in short distance to the event, a quick find. we were followed

TFTC, cRimehUNter

This entry was edited by cRimehUNter on Monday, 24 January 2011 at 06:56:42.

Found on our "Intervening Days" outing today. Pulled up and then suddenly there were 3 more cars and some helpers! Love the bridge. TFTC

Also found in the hands of other Geocachers!
TFTC

Cachers ever where didn't even need to get the gps out

TFTC

I had been told that this cache was fairly easy, but I tried to make it a little harder than necessary & almost got sucked into the mud - luckily that approach was not needed. TFTC.

Found after Intervening Days Event in the company of McAdies.
TNLN TFTC

Snap up while at the event. Lots of people in the park today. TFTC

Found today with Bushfire and Snakecatcher at 4:05pm on our way home from 'Intervening Days 3'
Nice little walk from the event to a different type of bridge, took a bit of finding but with 6 eyes on the job soon found, thanks bel04.

Found with the walenators on a Melton event day. A quick easy find by wal had us on the road with a minnimum of delay. thanks again bel04 for the cache.

Found with Packetstorm4 and RHPS after attending Intervening Days. TFTC NINO

15:15
What a positively cute bridge! No prizes for guessing which way the traffic flows when civic duties become tiresome! This space was just as busy as the nearby Intervening Days Event, with Geocachers coming and going every few minutes. We found in this cache in conjunction with a couple of other teams.

TNLN . . SL . . TFTH bel04.

Luckily squalid managed to hide it before the next cachers happened along. Great day.

This was one of 5 that we walked between whilst in the area for the event... My 748th find and 5th smiley of 19 for the day.. Thanks Bel04

Nice hide. My 4th Cache for the day. Already sunburnt T4TC.

15:40

TFTC
Doc Browny

Found @ 4.05pm with Shane.Thompson and Bushfire after attending the Intervening Days III. Nice easy find, Love the old bridge structure and the info board near by. TFTC NINO.

Found at 11.35am our last before heading to intervening days. A quick check had the cache in hand. Liked the bridge TFTC

Shane.Thompson, the Snakecatcher and he does remove snakes when they are too close to muggles and the ageing Bushfire headed up to Melton today to find a few caches and to meet old and new caching friends and to attend the Intervening Days Event.

Caching with a snake catcher can have it's good points and bad. On the bad side he always has an eye out for any thing like it could be cold blooded, we would jump back and wonder what the hell was that but he would check it out and say it's only a blue tongued lizard.

On the good side if it looks like a dicey area with high grass etc guess who gets the job of looking for the cache. He has been known to be holding onto a snakes tail and then phoning Shane to come over and hold this guys tail while he gets to work to remove the rest of the snake. I am glad that he lives on the other side of town as that's not my cup of tea. That's why I carry a long stick.

This is a very unusual structure and the cache gave up it location as three pairs of experienced eyes were after it, log was signed and then it was off to the next. Thanks again for placing this cache.

Oh no!! Look at all those people at GZ.. Luckily they were all signing the log book
Passed around and then hidden again
TFTC

Wow cachers everywhere finding this today.
Lucky it was a nice easy one.
A cool bridge too.
TFTC

There were cachers leaving as we got to the spot and arriving as we replaced the cache.
Certainly popular today!
A nice old bridge too.
TFTC

Yep, we continued the chain after McAddies. At least we got to rehide it before the next crew arrived - just. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find after the cache event. A few golfers nearby were minding their own business.
TNLNSL TFTC

a nice easy cache to find, once my phone worked out what side north is.

Nice and easy find on a roadtrip

TFTC

RogWat has found this cache just as I stepped out the car!
Oh wells, I hope to beat him the next time!
Thanks again bel04.

nice quick find TFTC

Second visit to the bridge and can't believe that I walked right over it the first time. Interesting bridge constuction, I would have just ignored it if it wasn't for your cache. TFTC

Over from Adelaide to pick up some numbers with the Wackys. Had a great weekend.

Thanks

C&W

Found with Cached on a weekend numbers run to Melbourne - TFTC - C & W

TFTC

found it @ 14:30
TFTF

Found it @ approx. 14:30

A nice easy find, despite the torrential rain that was falling.
Another foot of water in the creek, and this will be under water.
So much water.

Took Geocoin
Left nothing

TFTC

Nice little bridge that one. TFTC
Swapped TB's.

Our GPS had us at the wrong end of the brige
and we had to wait for a group of teens to
meander across before replacing the hide.
19 finds on this 33 degree,clear blue skies,
almost to hot for us caching day.
We found ourselves on the wrong side of the
creek 4 times today and ended up in the drink
for one of them! lol a truly "had to be there" experience.
TFTC

Nice easy find. On holiday from England, so wanted to find one in Melton where we are staying with relatives for 3 weeks. Left 'Felix' Geocoin (ATX2GH). TFTC.

Found by Team Ladava around 5.30 pm.
After the continuous rain in the past 36 hours we needed a cache fix but it featured wet shoes, mud, water over the roads and evidence of earlier much higher flooding.
What an interesting piece of historical engineering. I have never seen this type of construction used before. Fascinating.
TNLN
Our thanks to bel04 for bringing us to this location and the cache.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
* *Overall Experience: 3*

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found 13:15, in the company of muzza, a nice quick find.



TNLN, CSI=1, thanks bel04.

Third cache for the day, third 200 ml sistema, and third nice and easy find. Thanks for the cache.

Found 1.00pm
We have been very close by once before for another cache, very unusual bridge which was very quiet today and with 2 logical places to search we found it in the second place we looked !!!

TNLNSL
Thanks bel04

30 of 33 for the night. Night caching run with my good mates Marty (Quasar3671) and Richard (xraydelta1). With Richard now having departed home, Marty and I continued on. Initially missed this on the first pass, but got it in the end. TFTC.

In Melton to visit some friends we had time to pick up a few caches before meeting them. Although we do the fireworks in the golf course nearby for the upcoming Djerriwarrai festival we had never seen this bridge before, in fact we haven't seen a bridge quite like this. Today we found the cache with ease but can imagine that it will be next to impossible this Saturday
Thanks bel04 for the cache

32nd of 35 finds on a night caching run with my caching mate Blacklegend.Parked across the road from GZ and walked over to the little old bridge. Marshy found the cache and we signed the log. Thanks for the hide.

thanks

A few years ago there was another cache near here called wooden coathangar so I was
very familiar with the location of this unusual footbridge.
There was no foot traffic in the area this morning but plenty of passing cars so a bit of discretion was used
while logging the find.
There seemed like some slide marks nearby indicating someone fell in the drink or almost!
TFTC

Trip to Melb Airport, doing a few caches in the area. Got to GZ, neat little bridge. Few golf heads on the golf course today. Lostmonster found pretty quick with the hint....Cheers

Found today at about 10:45pm, one of the clips on the lid is broken, TFTC

We nearly fell in the creek. Oops. Good cache

Nice bridge and a nice bit of history.
Didn't see a swordfish, but there was a crab above the cache protecting it.
Nice little hide, my thanks to bel04 for the effort here, TNLNSL

Quick find after seeing the swordfish

Revisited today to check details of previous visit, as I forgot to log onto web for this one, original visit was on the 28/08/2010, cache was uncovered when I visited, did right thing and covered up again.

What a great little bridge. No. 2 of 3caches in Melton today. Thanks bel04 for bringing to this place. We were warned by a woman walking past that there snakes about.

Must have been blind, since this one shouldn't have been hard - mind you I was in a bit of a rush to get home to pick up the 3yo in time.

Found By The Lone Random,
W The Empire.
@ 9.15am
TFTC, The Lone Random

Found by The Empire @ 9:15am with The Lone Random
Find number 3 of 23 on this great Sunday for caching. Top spot for a cache, there were golfers teeing off nearby and plenty of cars going past. We made it a little harder than it had to be but got there in the end, thanks.
- M

Took penguin
Left comb
Tftc
Watch out for muggles!!!

Found by Mary & David at 0925. The bridge is well-worth a cache. A bit of rain, though, to dampen our spirits. Hope it isn't a bad omen for our trip. Our thanks again to bel04.

Very interesting structure for a bridge.
TFTC

A nice easy find after reading the nearby information sign and watching the golfers tee off.

Another find after work with Slink1 SL TFTC

nice quick find after work on a cache run with Dunko TNLN TFTC SL

An interesting bridge at GZ! Dusk helped to hide my search which was very quick thanks to a good hint. Note though that vegetation has a way of rapidly changing and a different cover may be needed sometime! Thanks bel04

found cache at 4:04pm today left travel bug took nothing signed log was an easy find, thanks to Geocaching on iPhone was able to retrieve some notes on original visit, only didn't know what day I visited, had to re-visit to refresh my memory.

Found by caughtatwork at 14:39 on 28/08/2010
A quick cache on the way to KMart to pick up a new iPod touch thingy device for the eldest. A quick stop and the cache was in hand in seconds.
I've visited this bridge before for a cache that ultimately went missing. I hope this one lasts a lot longer.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks bel04 for this cache experience at this location today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Find # 1510 @ 10:40 and 2/9 finds for the day.
Had to wait for a homeless person with all her belongings to shuffle cross the bridge and out of sight before I attempted this one. Nice easy find. Good co-ords. Took Geocoin LNSL Thanks bel04!

Wow hard one to get, had to wait quite some time for there to be a muggle free window to grab the cache so we could log our find. Once logged was quickly stashed away safely and made our way home to watch some weekend football. TNLN, TFTC.

Second find for the night (23:00) with MiyagiSensai... Noice bridge i must say. TNLN TFTC

Muggles everywhere. Even at night. Found with zoranAUS

Nice secluded place. Thanks for bringing us here. I didn't know the road went in so far. Found at night with zoranAUS

2nd find of the day, and 2522nd total find at 12:32.

This spot brings back memories. Our (now archived) cache 'Wooden Coathanger' was placed in the guard rail nearby. Unfortunately ours got muggled too many times. We hope yours doesn't suffer the same fate.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing, screwdriver wouldn't fit.
Thanks bel04 for the cache

Ian and Penny

we could have walked to this one.it was raining..so we drove. TFTC.

Ftf at 12.35 while in the area - tftc

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