Left on Sturt Eureka, Victoria, Australia
By ST37E on 16-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2JBCG

Ah, same as 6hinemoa2, did not know that it was archived......sorry

Found today with mudbrick. Didn't realise it had been archived. Thought it needed maintainence. Sorry.
TFTC ST37E

Happened to be staying a hundred metres from here so I thought I'd take a peek. The cache is exactly where I left it a week or two back.

Perhaps it's not where ST37E left it, but it's perfectly ok.

Cheers.

cheers ST37E.....

Checked this one on a maintenance run and unfortunately it seems this one has been muggled

Found whilst waiting for the RACV to replace our car battery.
Looks like it went missing soon after we found it. Seemed safe enough.
Thanks ST37E

I must have looked a right treat collecting this one!!! passers by must have thought what a crazy person...

As much as I thought "you have to be kidding, it's there!!!" I wanted to get this cache, in my haste I almost thought it wasnt there, but yes, there it was...

TNLNSL

TFTC

I happened to be in Ballarat this afternoon as yesterday my brother in law had an operation on his sinus at a hospital in Geelong.
I travelled down there by train from Melbourne to collect him and drive his car back to Ballarat where he lives.
After taking him home and making sure he was okay, I cached my way back to Ballarat Station to catch a train (that turned out to be a coach) back to Melbourne. This was one of the caches I found on my walk to the station.
This cache is very easy to retrieve, and muggles and traffic just aren't an issue if you just let your arm innocently fall across it as you cross the road. It's easy to spot.
These caches fill up the logs very quickly and this log is so puny that it will be full very quickly.
There is a bit of space still left. I'm wondering if someone tore the bottom of it to make it fiot more easily because there's not much to it.
Thanks for the cache.

A nice quick find on our way to dinner last night - definitely easier at night time!

Quick stealthy grab and on our way.

HAHA. Another nano! Sneaky, but where else could it be huh?? TFTC

Sneaky hide. Luckily it is easily spotted when approaching. Grabbed, then took away to sign. Just as I was going to put it back some guy shouted from the other side of the street to one of his friends way down the street which made everyone else in the area turn around.
tftc

Another sunny day in ballarat so enjoying the good weather with some caching

Found while taking jk gamblers out for a days caching testing the new magellan we won at oz mega. TFTC

Excellent work there ST37E

10:43PM Sunday night took a few minutes, knowing others logs have really put emphasis on the name making sense once found... It had me for a a few minutes... then wallah!

Needs new logs.

TNLN SL TFTC

Name does say it all:). Very small and clever. Found with greggsy2000. TFTC!

Found it on a saturday night. Great cache. Smallest ive come across. TFTC.

Found it on a saturday night. Great cache. Smallest ive come across. TFTC.

Hey guys, I have seen the maintenance logs, but I have been out of action for a while, hopefully I can replace the log in this one soon

After being in Ballarat two weeks ago it was back today with the suscoe team to add a few more smiley's to my tally. Our aim was to find a few mysteries and others as we passed by.
After lunch this guy was next on the list and was a quick grab and kept on walking and then signed the log in a spot that was vacant.Thanks to ST37E for the cache.

One of 184 cache finds during our "Ballarat Smackdown" weekend of caching on the 23rd to 25th. There were 13 of us including Blacklegend and three of his kids, Trailrunning, Haveanez and their two boys, Dazrascal and myself amd my two boys Tyler and Cooper. We'd spent a few weeks planning the trip, with every Ballarat Puzzle solved in the area, cache lists and road and route maps all ready to go. We stayed in the Miners Retreat Motel for the two nights and the accomodation and facilities were great. Our goal was simple - find as many caches as possible in the time we were here !

We found a great variety of caches and hides during the three days, which also involved a bit of walking and some 4WD fun as well in the state forests north of Ballarat. The weather was quite cold of the Friday and Saturday morning but eventually cleared to nice sunny weather Saturday arvo and Sunday. We all had a great time, especially the kids who did really well to keep up with the pace we were moving.

Another ST37E cache found tonight. A nice easy find at night, even though there was till a little bit of traffic about. TFTC.

Night 1 of our Ballarat Smackdown weekend with DazRascal, Blacklegend, Quasar3671 & Trailrunning which seen us collecting a great range of caches over 3 days.
Dont think we will ever get sick of admiring what the main CBD of Ballarat has to offer! Some beautiful sites!
Enjoyed the hunt for the cache which was located after a brief search and in between passing muggles. Many thanks for bringing us here. TNLN SL. Cheers.

One of 182 caches I personally found during our "Ballarat Smackdown" trip. The trip included teams Quasar3671, Trailrunning, Haveanez, Dazrascal and myself. Caches included around 30 mystery caches, a few earth caches, lots of trads and multis and both day and night caching. Some 4WD action was encountered as well, which was great. All puzzles within 60kms were solved.

I took three of my kids, Jasmine 7yo, James and Jemma 5yo twins, traveling from Tocumwal. The trip covered 3 days and two nights, staying in Ballarat. Quasar3671 took his two boys as did Haveanez. One of the best caching trips I have been on, and certainly lots and lots of finds, almost clearing out the main Ballarat area. Home base was the Miners Retreat motel, which was quite pleasant and quiet.

Found this one on a Friday "night run" after arriving at the accommodation and having a bite to eat. Tricky even at night due to the traffic, but after we worked out what the name and hint referred to, it was shortly in hand, signed and put back. TFTC.

Team “Ballarat Cache Smackdown” was formed for the weekend of 23-25 March with the very intention of going hard at grabbing as many caches in the Ballarat area that was humanly possible in such a short period of time. The puzzles within a 60 km radius of Ballarat were solved, some multi’s as well. 4WD’s were packed with all manner of goodies, maps and run sheets prepared, spare batteries accumulated, UHF radios charged, etc. The team consisted of TrailRunning, Quasar3671, Blacklegend, Haveanez and Dazrascal. Home base was the pleasant Miner’s Retreat Motel at a reasonable rate a night for a cabin sleeping 8 people. After a quick bite to eat for dinner the Smackdown started with 36 caches being found on the first night. This was one of them. An easy find at night. Liked the monument nearby. Thanks for #32.

Found on a Ballarat weekend with Haveanez, Trailrunning, Blacklegend and Quaser3671

Another glad to have done at night. Gz was obvious as we walked past and BL plucked it out from its hiding place

TFTC, Cheers.

Log FULL! Nowhere to write!

This is the 3rd maintenance request...

Found on a night drive back to camp after visiting an old friend in town.
We spotted the melbournians at GZ on our way past so we stopped for a meet and greet, then a cache & off again. Nice quick find in less traffic at night.
They said the log was full but I found space and there is still more left. TFTC,
Roostaman.

A quick find in the dark. Meet Roostaman, as he drove past while we were at GZ. TFTC.

Find #24 of 25 for the day @ 2210 Hrs... Find #657...

No-one around at this time on a Saturday evening made for a fairly quick find... Found after dinner with sully1 & Geo-daughter!!! Pleasant day to cruise around Ballarat with Moosetash collecting some 'smilies'...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

Thanks to ST37E for bringing me here...

*Cache Condition ~ FULL

A quick find and sign on a Sunday morn.

Insert nano rant here :
Bloody Nanos! Spawn of satan. Burn down the Nano factory, and exterminate anyone who sells Nanos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xeh4-RNZEs

Thanks to ST37E and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Could not let this one go by without an attempt. At least there were some breaks in the traffic to allow me to retrieve the little container. Log book totally full, so added a small piece of paper to go on with. Managed to roll it tight enough to fit in the nano - hopefully those that follow can get it out!

did the mad dash on a lovely Sunday arvo signed log RC but log is full and overwritten

Log full, daylight stealth TFTC

Easily found on a good day.

Easily found, but the log is overwritten. Will there be a new log in the cache.

All we found was a magnet stuck to the pole between the signs, missing!

Dam you nano
Excellent clues
Log full

Found it

Miss Geo took GeoMum out for a little outdoor therapy today - just what the Dr ordered. #9 of 9 for our afternoons outing. Laughed when we realised where it was. This deserves the favourite we're awarding simply for putting it at one of the busiest, muggle prone areas of the CBD. Late on a Sunday afternoon was probably a good time for retrieval of this one. Otherwise we may have had to leave it till another time (as we did with a few caches today, lots of muggles about). This log is way past full. Needs replacing. Thanks ST37E.

Bloody Nanos! Spawn of satan. Burn down the Nano factory, and exterminate anyone who sells Nanos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xeh4-RNZEs

A good hide but definately a bit dangerous and a night time find. Nearly lost my husband at this one have to teach him traffic basics. I may have had him for 41 years this week but I still want to keep him for a while longer.
TFTC

Log s totally full no where to write at all.

Found with The 2 Wanderers at 10.30pm. Still lots of muggles and vehicles around...someone nearly got run over! Please be careful looking for this dangerous cache. Found my first Munzee nearby while looking for the cache. Found a few tiny gaps to log our names. Log totally full TFTC

Too busy to try and make the garb......even if it was where I thought.

Thanks anyway...

Found it at dusk. Log full.

Found 14:25, between breaks in the traffic.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks ST37E.

Busy going through my GSAK database and updating caches I haven't sent a log for. Have been using GSAK to keep tabs on my finds. Thanks to the cache owners for the caches. Working my way through those caches that require emails with answers.

Fantastic

Fantastic hide tftc

This is an incredible cache! Tried looking during the day but had no luck so came back at nite when theres no muggles.

A drizzling and cold day to do caching around Ballarat...searched a while before Ms Bushies2 finally found it. Thanks ST37E.

Nice one thanks ST37E

Found @ 23:40

Not to much going on late at night.
I Like the projection on the building.

TFTC

Found it this evening with Landau351 on our caching jaunt around the Ballarat area. Nice and easy at night.
It's weird running a geocaching shop, and being a cacher too. Sometimes you come across items you have sold. I said hello to this log book. We are old friends.
TFTC

08/10/2011 21:52 Off to Creswick/Ballarat for an awesome hard-core caching weekend with my good mate iamapom (Carl). Its drizzling and late but still a few cars around. I waited till it was sort of quiet and found the nano by Braille. A quick grab and we moved off to sign it. Carl helped my time my replacement to avoid traffic. TFTC ST37E TNLN SL

Fortunately my GPS was spot on. Thanks ST37E.

Tftc. Found in daylight.

Quick find tonight in the only place possible.
Once retrieved, i moved to a safer location to log, and then timed the traffic lights to replace un-noticed, Thanks ST37E

# 2296 @ 17:55 and 21/28 on the Ballarat run. SL

Thinking about the cache name as I approached soon had me on target for the find when the coast was clear.

Thanks ST37E

Mammoth day out with fellow geo-cachers Starruby & C@H,

An early morning start ensued us a quick grab, sign and return......thx for a neat cache!

kellyhaunts

Our first find with C@H and Kellyhaunts on our 750 km roundtrip caching day, visiting hard-to-reach and infrequently visited caches, finishing with a latenight 300 km dash for 8 FTFs!

After several laps of the city trying to navigate the one way streets to get to a bank and Macca's for breakfast, we grabbed this one as we went past. TFTC

This was the start to a great day out with Starruby and Kellyhaunts. We had just been nearby looking for a bank and did not even check the GPS. Cache was found but the magnet does not seem to be doing its job. TFTC

Quick find in the fog this morning. Took me a lot longer to get the log out too. TFTC

Found with Dee from Markndee at 6.10pm. Even though it was dark it took a little ingenuity to grab this one. Some dubious photos of Dee and GeoMa taken by GeoPa from cache site. SL and once again took some time to replace log in container. TFTC and clever clue.

Found this one with Harrowang while Geomark was off getting the fish and chips for tea. Plenty of traffic about to add to the thrill. Lived here most of the time but it's the first time I've looked up and actually noticed Sir Thomas. SL TFAC ST37E

Loved this cache! It is the smallest I have found. Found at night, a quick grab and then over to the taxi rank to sign the log. Fiddled around trying to replace log then casually walked back and replaced cache! TFTC

Suscoe and sister made a very quick find here this morning.
Cold weather has kept everyone in doors.
Signed the log and returned the cache safely.
Thanks to ST37E for this cache.

Found tonight . Took a while for the brain to kick in though. All these beautiful monuments etc so many places to hide a cache

NICE EASY FIND THANKS

I tried to be casual with this one, and also time my approaches to coincide with when the cross traffic was going, so people werent sitting at the lights staring at me. I think I achieved that pretty well. As is usual for me with these caches, the challenging, time-consuming part was trying to get the log re-rolled and back into the container.

Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

This one was an easy one but a hood one! I enjoyed trying to be inconspicuous! TFTCSL

Omg so small...did at five pm had.to dodge traffic to be unseen

after having tea with our parents nearby thought we would introduce them to GCing! after initially looking in the wrong place for a few minutes made the connection and found it quickly! great hide! very clever! TFTC.

Found this one on our way to Ballarat for a three day caching blitz with Purpledreamer.
Lostmonster really liked this one.
Nice quick find with heaps of muggles about today.
Many thanks for the cache.

Found while in the are with Lostmonster&Co on a 100 blitz.Great little hide.
TFTC ST37E

Found with Bmak after a nice dinner at a nearby pub. This one would definitely be impossible during the day. It would also have to be the smallest one i've done. TFTC

That's what I call a small container. Quick find while crossing. Found with callawadda_cowboy

Found at 1210 with Marg. standing at a busy street and then Thought occurred to me while looking at traffic going by, and it was right where Iexpected it. Cache ok and dry. TFTC.

Difficult to determine left of sturt street. Ha ha. Well done. TFTC.

After finally finding 'Heritage on Lydiard' which is nearby, I had a handful of minutes to spare before I had to return to the train station for a connecting service up the line for more caching adventures. I made a dash for this cache, hoping for a quick find. The clue had me fascinated until I saw where the cache might be. Darn, and in the middle of the Ballarat 'rush hour' too. Had to look unobtrusive - the old get the 'camera out trick' will do, pretend I am photographing 'something' - though my location was odd to say the least. And dear old Queen Victoria and her grandson, the rather gruff looking King George V, were not really in zoom lens range. Never mind. Still I hoped I would not arouse suspicion, though (in retrospect) having the lens cap on was not really that smart. Happily, I soon enough had this micro in my micro unfriendly big paws. This time I had a 'micro-log extraction device' in the form of a pair of $2:99 tweesers and the log was extracted with rare dexterity (on my part). After getting some 'suss' looks from the passing local Constabulary, (I think the walking stick made me look like a scallywag to the Cops) the cache with its itsy-bitsy log was returned without fuss. Thank you to 'ST37E' for the quirky location of the cache and in this instance size did matter! I'd like to say I took something and left something but then you'd know I did not really find this cache. Good fun with this one in lovely Ballarat.

Grabbed it today with no real problems. Just trying to 0 my GPS and was thinking this cant be right. Then saw the likely spot and was quickly found.
TFTC Steve

This entry was edited by Cardz on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 at 09:34:55 UTC.

Very clever cache found a lul in muggle activity and went for it tftc

Finally found this one.
Last time we were here it was missing.
Another one off the to do list
TFTC

Third time lucky!
1st attempt sign was abscent.
2nd attempt yesterday morning so being a Saturday it was muggle central- saw it just couldn't get it without looking suss!
Success to day though with oldwinebottle taking photos to cover our real purpose!

I found this clever little hide on my way to work at the nearby Her Majesty's Theatre. After signing the log, I quickly realised I was being watched closely and so had to take the cache away for a few hours until I could safely return it post-show. Apologies to anyone searching between 7.30pm and 10pm! And any locals out there looking for inspiration for a new cache, you could do a lot worse than draw people to this remarkable venue on Lydiard St. Opened in 1875, it is one of the most important theatres in the country. A real gem! TFTC.

I made a quick grab at night and had to wait a surprisingly long time for traffic to move away so I could return it unseen. Thanks ST37E.

Managed to grab in the middle of the afternoon without looking too suspicious.

Early on a Sunday morning was good for here, good for parking and good for a number of these inner caches.
This was one of the first.
Thanks

We were not planning on doing any of the 'inner' Ballarat caches today but we were up here so early
and the place was near on deserted. So we tackled a few while the going was good.
Thanks ST37E

Found on the rat run,tftc

No luck for me.

A quick find, between passing traffic.

TFTC.

Found with Dazza1, guessed the spot and beat dazza1 to the find.

TFTC

TFTC. Greets from Germany

Indiana08 had sussed this one out, a quick dash and a check for cars before crossing the road and the cache was signed and replaced in a similar manner.
TFTC

Starting to rain quite a bit at this point but the boys had a hunch.

TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1955. Well, it wasn't quite dark, but the traffic was very light and we had no trouble stealthily retrieving and replacing the cache. Waving a camera around gave added cover. We don't mind a micro like this on such an historic street. Our thanks to ST37E.

Took a bit to click, but a quick dash from PacketStorm4 with my instructions had the cache in hand. It was COLD!
TFTC

This one was a bit of a struggle to get to, what with Australia day celebrations on their way. But managed to get to GZ and get the cache with little difficulty. Dropping it back was a bit tougher though.

TFTC!

Finally I've had a chance to put this one back, good luck to any future finders