By the sovereign west lake Melton West, Victoria, Australia
By bel04 on 23-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2FMTB

Cannot maintain anymore

found the cache.... but where is the lake

TNLNSL

Quick find after the gps took us the long way instead of just straight down Westlakes Drive (along the side streets out to the lake which was a dead end). Thanks for another smilie

Found on an afternoon out to hide a couple of new caches. Left a ladybug peg. TN. TFTC

After a minute searching I sat down to think and found it in the place i would have hid it. lakes a little dry.

TFTC

Sovereign west lakes are my favourite type of west lake!

Found today in the company of dutch frangipani on a blitz of Melton. Great little park and walk. Thanks for bringing us here bel04

Found this one with SorceySal today. Thanks for hiding this.

An easy find after some disasterous DNF's in Melton. Thank you bel04 for the cache.

Found this early this morning, it took me a bit longer to find than it should have, but got it in the end.

I don't expect the park could get a lot of use with no real attraction to it...

Cheers Gordo

Thank you

A different reserve indeed but no trouble finding this cache as no muggles about and just a few cars passing by. Broken branch of a gum tree in shelter area. TFTC bel04 and bringing us to this new area for us.

Great find, as described. No swings @ this park Old log is tattered, signed replacement log and returned carefully... tough spot for muggles. Luckily none were around during this find, only passing cars.
Took guitar pick.
Left silver button.

This was, cache # 11 of 24 finds for the day, in the company of Trailrunning, we had been chating and texting for some time now regarding caching but never met, so tonight we finally teamed up and went caching, we had a great night with lots of laughs along the way. My thanks to bel04 for the cache.

The usual TDC cache grab had been put on hold for a week, so I was looking at doing a solo run when I remembered I had a rain check promise with the legendary RebelActs to go on an evening caching run during the school holidays at some stage in the future. Well tonight was the night. We met at Glen Waverley and were soon moving west to Melton. It’s hard to find locations close to either of us where we haven’t already cleared out the area, so the Melton area was easily accessible and fruitful enough for us both. In all we visited about 33 locations with only two DNF’s, one DNA, and 1 very flat tyre. All in all it was a great night out. I finally got to meet RebelActs after corresponding and talking for such a long time and never actually caching together!

We nearly missed this one when we thought it was the Arthur Westlake archived cache. Luckily we realised our mistake and came back for a quick find. Thanks

Came back fresh. Quick find this time. Good hide

No luck on our second cache today.

Found on a cold windy day. TFTC!

easy find, out with INKLE
tftc

out caching with Taz-bud
easy find
tftc

13:33
I was a bit concerned by the previous searcher's dnf, but needn't have worried. Nobody in sight as I arrived, so I could feel around in the places I would hide... and there it was. Thanks.

#622

Couldn't find it

Couldn't find it

Found @ 12:35.Was able to find after Muggles wandered off.TFTC.

Down the road from home lol

19 April 2012 13:56:00

As I pulled up to GZ the coast was clear.

The would you know it the closest house muggle decided to water his front yard.

He stared a little but I just sat and talked on my phone.

When he ducked away I jumped up and looked around to find the cammo not far away.

TFTC

This one cache had our team of 4 scratching our heads for 10 mins, but luckily we found it soon after! TNLN. Thanks, awesome foursome

Found at 1400 hrs whilst trying to add some smilies around the area!

Nice quick find! Added a new temporary log as the current log is full!!

A nice little park with seating & bins, but no path!!

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

Thanks to bel04 for bringing me here!

Requires new log! Added a temporary one!

Thanks for the cache!

Found ok. The log is full and I wasn't carrying any replacements today.
TFTC

This one took a bit longer than it should have.... and we were looking for the right thing. Oh well, success was had and we were on our way again, only to see there were some muggles across the park right over the other side. Hmm, hadn't seen them earlier. Hoping they weren't paying attention too much to us.
Anyway, thanks for the cache.

A bit harder but didn't help we were looking in the dark

Very clever, had us stumped for awhile. Needs new note pad but all else good.

Nice one, thanks bel04 for the cache. TNLNSL.

Nice easy find
thanks bel04 for the cache

TFTC

Good hide TFHC

Found with crazy creelsz after a geo event

Good hide but had to be careful of muggles. Lovely area.
TFTC

Found today after Intervening Days IV on a caching run with Rabbitto and The 2 Wanderers. Nice area, similar to some near Werribee. SL TFTC

We found this cache at 3:45pm as the 10th of 24 on our Intervening Days IV - Melton Cache Day in company of Kinkell1 and The 2 Wanderers. We decended on GZ but only when we stepped back a bit did we spot the cache. Thanks from D & HA B-A.

Found at 4:01PM. A great day for caching following the Intervening Days event.
TNLNSL TFTC
~ Crazy Creels

Find # 3439 and 10th of the day @ 2:35 pm. Had a day out by myself today to do a bit of caching !! Easy find. TNLN, left my mark in the log, Thanx Bel04....

Third time lucky!!

This was our second for our little outting today.

Sadly we didnt sign the log as we didnt have a working pen!

TFTC Scott&Nat

Nice hide thanks bel04

Took a little while to find, only because I wasn't looking hard enough from the start. Alway have the feeling someone is watching me. TFTC

On a cold afternoon it was muggle free, so it did not take long to have this cache in our hot hands. SL TFTC bel04

Almost blown away by the wind that has picked up while out here in Melton. Cache picked up by raffa27815.

On our way to Spladem's 500th day of non stop caching celebration event we left early to zig zag our way there picking up some caches as we went. This was the sixth for the day. This one took a lot longer to find the way to gz than what it did to locate the cache, our Nuvi had old maps and didn't know any of the streets around here and the streets in these new estates seem to weave and meander all over the place with a lot of dead ends thrown in. We pulled up here with the freezing wind still blowing but this works out better for looking for caches as it seems to keep the muggles away. We had only just started our search when the garage door across the road opened and there was a family loading a heap of stuff into their car. We sat on a nearby seat and pretended to be making the old GPSr phone call until they finally left and the cache was found in the second place we looked and our name has been added to the log
Thanks for the cache

Very quick find, found in under 5mins

The new houses just seem to keep stretching out, thankfully there are these great little parks, T4TC

Melton sc found it!

A quick find with Dylan 7a. The Park looks a tad forlorn in a way - needs some swings and slides etc. Gosh, there is a lot of housing in these parts. You certainly need a turn by turn GPS or a very up to date Melways! TNLN.

Found with The Quiet Plodder TFTC

Suscoe arrived here this morning.
In the end a quick find once the viewing of the area was done.
Well done for this hide.
Thanks to bel04 for bringing us here. We can't get over the endless housing development going on.

This was a rather nice little park, although it could have done with a picnic table. The cache was harder to find than we expected, and we didn't hang around long after that, as the wind turned rather cold. Thanks for the cache.

Took us a while to find this one - 2 of us looked at it without spotting it, before the 3rd twigged

TNLN TFTC

This was the last find for us on the way back from Ballarat on abit of a blitz.Lostmonster&Co had already found this cache so I got out made the quick find with nobody about this afternoon.Lovely area
TFTC bel04

Minty smelling, neat scroll, nice colour. What more could I ask for? TFTC

Nice easy find in an area that's almost deserted in the middle of the day. Thanks.

Another quick find in a somewhat insignificant park. Cheers!

found during a work trip to Vic, TFTC

TB "the (too much) Duffman" passing through

I just said to my partner: "It's a red mint container and - oh you've found it." Good hide TFTC

Quickly found in a very empty park. Thanks.

A couple of crows were watching me today, but they were the only living things in the area.
The colour is very close.
Thanks, Robmc.

Red.... very red... and minty!
RHPS had this one! TFTC

Easy Find on our way home

TFTC

2nd find for the day. Quick easy find.

Another example of good camouflage being very simple. Well done bel04 and thanks.

A clean up day of the area on new years day and a quick find . thanks for the cache bel04

Found it @ approx. 16:20

A nice easy find on a sweltering afternoon.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found with the Caching group. TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1615. A few muggles washing cars or pottering in their gardens, but well clear of GZ and not the least bit interested in us. Our thanks once more to bel04.

nice easy find with some extra eyes TFTC

Found after the 2010 Intervening Days event in Melton.
TFTC

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

A quick and easy find with no muggles here. TFTC

Fairly easy find following the Intervening Days event

TFTC

Found with group I was exhausted by this time. T4TC.

Found with the walenators before the Melton event. We missed it the first time around but collected it on the second sweep. The lady in a house nearby watched us the whole time so we had to be careful with our collection and placement. Hopefully this will last, thanks bel04.

Enjoyed a nice drive around to grab some caches while at the event. TFTC

17:05
The convey of five parked and everyone headed toward the exposed GZ – no hope of stealth or anonymity today. Cache located, log duly signed in company with 42below, oldwinebottle, lochb, simplymii, Reesylou, and PrincessDiala. Cached returned as muggle neighbours watched the activity from a distance. Not sure how long this one will last!

TNLN . . SL . . TFTH bel04.

This entry was edited by Phetlern on Wednesday, 29 December 2010 at 21:26:17.

Found today with Bushfire and Snakecatcher at 12:10pm on our way up to 'Intervening Days 3'
Nice little walk on a great morning to a well hidden cache. Now it's off to the event for some lunch and a chat/catch up, Thanks bel04.

Found on a drive-by caching adventure after attending the event... Covert and I were muggled by a nosy neighbour and geomutt shortly after arriving.. We explained that along with the countless people before us we were doing a scavenger hunt and looking for clues. This satisfied his curiosity.... As we were leaving a power convoy of 14 cachers arrived in 5 cars.. much to our amusement, photo to follow.. My 754th find and 11th smiley of 19 for the day.. Thanks Bel04

I thought I looked at the right spot, but the Swaggies double checked and found what I didn't. TFTH...SL...TNLN

Found on what seemed to be a busy day for Melton

TFTC

Found @12.25 on way to the Intervening Days III event. Nice easy find with Bushfire and Shane.Thompson. TFTC TNLN

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.

Found this guy at 12.25 after a couple of minutes searching and we were not interrupted by the suspicious muggle. Log was signed and returned, thanks again bel04.

tftc

3.12PM

Nobody around, easy find, nice paint job on the cache.

Thanks for the cache.

Nice quick find. Looked so obvious when in hand but didnt stand out so much when in place.

Found this one quite easily.
A nice spot in a quiet residential area.
TFTC

This would be a great place to come for a picnic if you lived around here.
The cache was found easily.
TFTC

Yet another on a day out caching

TFTC

Back logging from a while ago sorry cant remember the dates.

TFTC

Quiet time of day with no-one to bother me. Found quite easily and left quickly.

Quite late at night when we drove up to this GZ.
A couple of houses nearby were partying, and the find was quickly found!
Luckily for us we were alone and no one was here to bother us!
Thanks again bel04.

Found # 1653 @ 12:00
A quick and very easy find. Pretty good chance cachers will be seen looking for this one unless they use extreme stealth as gz is very exposed. SL Thanks to bel04 for the cache!

TFTC