Train Whistle Blowin' Oak Park, Victoria, Australia
By Alsume on 23-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2FKF0

Gg

Awesome spot!

Take the dog along this bridge often. Never realised there was a sneaky cache this entire time! Great find! TFTC gg

Nice hide, randomly the placer walked past while we were looking for it.

Found it. 22/09/2024

A quick stop here today, cache found and is all good On a week long trip to Melbourne for work and to watch the AFL prelim at the MCG, I decided to drive over and make a bit if a caching trip out of it as well. Stopping to find the odd cache here and there along the way.Thanks for the cache

Hell yeah

This was a DNF 3 years ago, but with 3 more years experience, a quick find today. Thanks.

Good hard find

Found it during our 2nd attempt

Couldn't locate it!

Looping back on the trail and we found it! Very hard!

Tysm

Nice find after a bit of a. All in good condition. TFTC

It took a while mainly because I was startled by a lady and her dog which went ape at me. Thanks

Couldnt find it.

Found it! TFHC!

Thanks

Fun and not too hard to find. TFTC

Thanks for the mint

Out for a walk, one park, 2 LGAs! How good is that - and the view is fantastic.Thanks for the fun

Just on the area doing a few caches before my flight to Brisbane tonight. As I began to retrieve the cache all I was think was just dont drop its which I didnt. Log signed and onto the next before dinner and my flight. TFTC

*Valentine's Bike Adventure #16*Find #12.Don't know why, but I like it. Have a fave.Thanks heaps for the cache!

Found it, definitely tricky to find but previous logs helped!

Found it . Hard to find

Found itLooked for a whileThank you73

Signed TRC. This was one of the first caches I attempted (and failed) to find. Im glad to have finally made the smilie

Yep

Layla says thanks for the cache

Tried searching for this with my phone reading a few past logs. I knew my arms wouldn't reach without some gymnastics... Scanning with my phone didn't work. Fear of dropping my phone into the river high...searching from the sides didn't work, so l called time after 5-10 minutes.

Nice spot! Need someone with long limbs

What a great sight here, a highlight of the trip. Didn't exactly get to see the train up close but from a distance, still an impressive sight.

Nearly impossible to get since I'm short I couldn't reach it at all my freind had to get it for me!

Found. It with my freind

Nicely done gotcha thank you

Found with beautiful girl in world

Try not to fall in when retrieving this cache

Amazingly done

Call cash I found it awhile ago but forgot to log it online. It’s all it’s logged in the book

SPOILER ALERT***If you’re tall enough you can lean over and see it, but if you’re short like me, reaching one arm over and feeling around is not gonna cut it.. it’s tucked away in its little nook. I went to the car and got a makeup compact with a mirror- it helped

*Found on the 7 Jun 2023.*
*Cache find # 14750.*

I was needing a multi cache find so I headed over to the one nearby but decided to give this one ago first, it did take a while to find the right spot as it wasn't as obvious as I thought it might be, eventually found and log signed.

**Thanks to Alsume for placing this cache.**

Couldn't find it

Did not find it was really hard

Be prepared to have to stick your hand in a bunch of spider webs

Good soup

Found it! Be careful not to drop it in the water

Looked everywhere without it being dangerous
Still didn’t find it

Finally found it with the help of hubby and looking at past finder's photos. Yes, the navigation location is correct

Sneaky. TFTC.

Super sneaky! Loved it

TFTC

This one was fun TFTC

This one was fun! Thank you Alsume for placing and maintaining Train Whistle Blowin' for us to find today.

Find # 1452.

Nice bridge wife found with a few cruse words involved

No luck today. Spent ages looking

Tricky one but got there with some help of passers by

Awesome cache got sidetracked by all the photos but they were very helpful!

Couldn’t find the coordinates hint in the cache

With earthcache souvenir day one of my main geocaching priorities of the year I was compelled to head out northwards to look for a 'nearby' EC.
I've cached along the Moonee Ponds Creek but this is the furtherest north I've been. After dealing with some BBQs and onions en-route I made tracks to GZ. Some light occasional drizzle fell but no wind was a'blowin' today, and the only whistling was several dog owners in the nearby slopes trying to get their hounds to listen.
Despite the good coords, the likely hide for the area, and the generous hint - it still took a lot longer to find the cache than expected. With no initial luck, I decided to look much wider and ignored the hint, even searching under the bridge at one stage. Disappointed I returned to the starting block and reverted to basics. And bingo! I'm sure I had checked *there* in my initial search !
I skipped back to my car with some Bob Dylan tunes playing in my head. Something about "the times they are a-changing, and "answers... blowin' in the wind".

"Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?"
- I was at the earthcache, Bob. I know what happens to mountains when water flows like this... the recent high levels in the creek are clearly visible by the leaning vegetation and high-water mark.

"Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?"
- Yeah, I had to dodge some walkers and cyclists muggles while searching on the bridge. It ain't easy dodging muggles, Bob!

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind"
- Rub it in, Bob - hindsight is 20-20, isn't it ?!

Thanks, Alsume.

Searched high and low with no luck

Checked today and the cache is still in position. Given the number of DNFs I have changed the difficulty rating to 2 and adjusted the hint, although I note that nearly all of the DNFs have less than 25 finds to their credit - so it may be just a run of inexperienced cachers not thinking it through.

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So dangerous under their..am I ment to monkey Bar it under the bridge .hope not

Bit slippery after a lot of rain. Didn't wanna get too stuck in.

Looked for 30 mins. Didn’t find it

That was hard

Can't find it =(

Tftc

Have no idea what it would look like, plus this was my first time and I have no clue what to do

Nope. Couldn't find it

A day of scooter caching with spiffy-, continuing along the trail where we left off a few weeks ago.
I had a dnf here previously, so returned today with previous finder spiffy- who helped with the retrieval.
Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, Alsume

Accio 19:56:50
Day trip to Melbourne for an airport pickup, so decided to nab a few new shires. Including here. Last stop before heading in to the airport and a pretty cool spot.

Thanks Alsume for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #10382}*

Good easy find

Couldn't see it and was on the way of people passing on the bridge. Not sure what the hint eclipse was referring to.

Intrigued as to where this one was. Could not find

Checked it out and it's still there in position.

No luck, we loo under the bridge and felt the back and front of the rim but all we got was a lot of spider webs!

No luck, we looked under the rim and corner back to front but all we got was spider webs, a lot of them!

Tried and tried based on all the comments but alas did not find today.

Wolfies survived and got it done

TFTC

It's been wolfied
Make sure your flexible!

Finally found it.. Definitely not kid friendly and 1.5 difficulty is a little misleading, but a great hide.. TFTC

Just keep looking!

Nice alien!

TFTC. Good fun, teamwork needed!

Definitely not an easy cache, but a very fun and inquisitive little find.

Hi we found the geo catch and I didn’t get wet

TFTC - found the previous logs helpful. Agree with the stretching. Collected a few spiderwebs during the process.

Need long arms!

Nope!

Found it not easy if your short like me!

DNF

DNF

I felt, I looked, I even took photos in the difficult to look at spots, but it was not to be.

The ladies in front of us found it for us, we didn’t wanna risk the spider webs

Didn't need long arms, but did need steady hands for fear of dropping! Met some other cachers for the first time!

No trains but the wind carried take off roar of planes to be heard. Pic from some distance from GZ.

Hidden bridge treasure, thanks for past pics

Tricky one. Need to use the other photos and have long arms