Total eclipse of the heart G Claremont, Tasmania, Australia
By Budgietas on 17-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GXRN

This one has disappeared

No love on this one.

My first cache, nice and easy stroll. Good find!

Great cache, just glad I had someone tall with me, at 5' there was no way I could!

Easy as, pulled up next to it and spotted it straight away! TFTC!

Found it! Had glanced around as i drove past this half a dozen times in the last week, but was glancing in the wrong place. Went out of my way this time and upon looking at the map, knew its location immediately. Drove up next to it and had eyeballed it before even stopping the car! TFTC

Easy find before a footy game at nearby Abbotsfiled Park. Unfortunately we lost.

Look Up high

Trying to get this one while not looking susupicous is a bit of a task during the morning traffic rush but was easier done later on.....tftc!

Cache replaced.

seems to be awol

Revisted with a friend but appeared to be missing.

It's Gone!!!!!

Another one in the series completed. Thanks Budgietas

easy. TFTC!

This cache was found as part of a big day of caching the Hobart area with lots of caches found and many interesting sites seen and visited.

A big thanks to my dedicated driver/navigator, who played hard ball and gave no hints and only got out of the car at the caches he hadn't found, and my little mate who came to most of the finds with me.

TFTC

A nice simple cache on the way into town. Interesting series.

The third we've done in this series. We're collecting the codes for the final cache. TFTC

Another one bites the dust. TN left small sticker.

Found and logged together with Muspel during our holidays in Australia .

Thanks for the cache .

Triaden1

Found and logged together with Triaden1 .

No.6 - four to go .

Muspel

After being up north for the weekend, I grabbed a couple of these on my way back in to Hobart. I had a rock in my car which I'd used for a bit of extra height earlier in the day. When I saw this cache I thought I might need it again, but I was JUST able to retrieve it. Waited out a couple of muggles talking outside a house on the other side of the road. May have logged it the 11th (my new watch doesn't have a date on it unfortunately). Thanks budgie.

Easy find but a little unfair on those of us with some Hobbit ancestry.

This one was missing in action on my last visit but thankfully back in position today.
A busy area and many driving muggles had to be waited for.
I now have all of these caches. Not sure what to do with all the answers yet. Is it a GCA cache final? something rings a bell here.
Thanks for all of these Budgietas.

A nice easy find. Thanks

Turnaround every now and then I get a little bit nervous that a muggle might see me
Turnaround every now and then I find another challenge waiting to deceive me
Turnaround every now and then I look I little bit shifty as I wander back and forth
Turnaround every now and then to check that no one saw me hunting here and there
Turnaround bright eyes every now and then I log a find
And I thank you for the cache.....

Niko got this one
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OMG THis is my first GC reasonble easy to find, even for a Muggle like me. Now i have to find the rest of your set. TFTH.

This is the first of the series that I picked up today. A nice quick find, but not so quick to grab! TFTC!

A quick find. Patience required to retrieve, due to the large number of car muggles. TFTC

We were keen to finish this series before leaving Hobart tomorrow morning. Quick find. Seems like muggles go on the merry-go-round on their way home ... TFTC

easy find wasnt expecting it to be there

Easy find.Glad we had a tall geocacher with us. TFTC.

Found on our eclipse mission with geodad TiltonSpire.

On to the last one!

Thanks budgietas.

Needed the invisibility cloak with this one!

Very busy intersection. On more to go!

TFTC

Easy find, good thing Mr W is tall as I would not have been able to retrieve cache. TFTC.

Cache was found quickly, but retrieving it presented a slight problem. However a bit of lateral thinking and we had the cache logged and returned to its place.
Thanks Budgietas.

This one was easily spotted but not as easily retrieved! MullinitOvr used a very 'original' method, so cache was soon in hand and logged.

Thank you for the cache!

Was an easy find, and not much traffic today. TFTC..

We passed up by here and pulled over onto the grass edge. Made wife get out and reach for this one. Still had to back back up after signing the log and made for a short cut across the lanes before returning on our way.
JABs.

Woohoo found three today so now I am almost there

Found with MtnLioness on our week-long sightseeing, touring and caching tour of Tasmania.
TFTC.

Found in the company of MtbikerOz (Dad) on our week of Touring and caching around Tazzie.
Have only been able to log these once we got back to Melbourne.
As mentioned to owner at the dinner, We walked right up to this one and discovered it on the ground, signed and replaced, hope it stays there!

Easy find, a quick jump is all I needed to reach this one, but getting it back in the same spot was tricky.

I had to wait for a gap in the stream of muggles, but was eventually able to retrieve and return this one without any drama.

Found has to wait for a break in traffic. Signed log.
Thanks for the cache.

When you are short like us you learn to use what you have! The ute was very handy! TFTC

Lucky one of us is tall!! SL TFTC

Saw it from the drive off the highway. Thankfully had a tall friend handy!!

Back put and ready to go

rode up a nice hill seeking this one today.....lol.... I need to update the GPS a bit more often had a good look but obviously didn't find..... coming down the hill was fun though... almost got to 50km/h on the mountain bike

Checked today and it is gone

I will attempt to get ou and replace this week

If anybody is waitin on g to complete the set, let me know

not sure if this one is there. 3 different dnfs in a row.

Is this one there? our 6 ft 2 geodad could not feel anything in the hinted location. How can we finish the series...

If it's magnetic can't find it

I was hoping to complete the series today but had no luck on this one.
Next time maybe.

No joy on this one for me, must have had a bad case of cache blidness and to make it worse a police man on a motor bike took an interest in what I was doing and began to cruise past a few times, I decided to leave at this point in time.

I like these, they are fast!!

Found after being at the little choccy factory near here. Had the eldest EB child replace this one... He's taller than me. TFTC

A nice easy drive-by find... now for the answer????
TFTC

just had to wait for a break in the traffic to make a quick grab and log.

Had a few problems with muggles but eventually there was a break in the stream of them going past and found it. TFTC.

A quick find here as I made my way south for the day. It's a shame the final doesn't seem to be around anymore however I grabbed the clues just in case it is resurrected.

Thanks,

R - B

Quick find. Thanks


This entry was edited by polfil on Friday, 24 December 2010 at 22:27:17.

759 - Found the last one (or second last one??) in this good series this afternoon at 4:41pm. Thanks yet again Budgietas.

I think I'm having fun, certainly filling in a boring day, that's another one found

Our first find out of (many) on our last day in Tasmania, driving from Hobart to Devonport. This is the second "Total Eclipse" find we've made - but as we're not often in Hobart, we never expect to find all ten! I suppose that if we do, we can come back here and re-check the clue...

Spent a pit of time waiting for the lady over the road to finish with the Christmas decorations

Couldn't quite reach it from the car.

As per others. Sighted easily retrieved with help ! TFTC.

another quick after-work find.
easy find - ducked behind nearby bushes to get out of sight of round-about!
tftc

Parked around the corner, and then had to wait out an old guy who stopped on the corner for a smoke.

A bit of a stretch, but reasonably easily reached, despite my lack of height.

Thanks!

I wandered down this morning before anyone else at home was out of bed to get this cache. I had driven past a few times this week and could see it easily from the car so there were no problems finding it - just reaching. That's number four. Thanks.

Sent from my mobile device.

At this penultimate TEotH cache, I had the following thought: "Gee, that Budgietas clan must have fresh breath with all these e...OH! DER!! How clever!"

Didn't plan on doing this series on this trip but when you have to drive straight past some of them you might as well pick them up. This one was spotted from the car but took a while to retrieve as this was a very busy intersection at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon. Thanks.

Luckily I had someone with long arms to help me reach this one!

Almost there lol. These hides have been very clever obviously a lot of thought went into this series. Tftc

Easy find.

Im glad I had the gentle giant as my caching buddy today!...This one would have been rather tricky for me to get without him there
Thanks for the cache budgietas

It's alright for you tall people but we short asses find height a little difficult. Logged at 1620hrs. They beat me here too. Still no contact!! OldSaint.

We enjoyed this series of caches, visiting some parts of Hobart we had either not been to before or had not been to for a very long time. A quick find but thankfully one of us was sufficiently tall to reach this cache. TFTC

Sent my jnr geo skyward bound to fetch this. Hmm

Tftc

Tnlnsl

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Jr geo and friend were glad I was there to retrieve this one. make sure you take the right turn or you will be stuck on the highway if you are driving! (we didnt but just a warning) 9th for the day

Pretending to look perfectly normal while hanging around GZ and waiting for the traffic to subside is rather difficult.
SL
Thanks BT

Found 21/10/10

A quick find and I'll bet there wwere people watching me on this one.
Find # 4 of 25 for the day.
TFTC

Published

This was our ninth find and our ninth FTF for this series. TFTC