Bob the builder.. Bella Vista, New South Wales, Australia
By Hammerman & Trixter on 18-Mar-11. Waypoint GC2QEZF

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Took a while but found it in the end .

I made a pit stop at this one and made the find quickly. It was the first thing I stuck my hand on. I'm glad I made the find so quickly as it was in the perfect spot. Even when I put it back I ran my hand over it and nearly missed it. Nice hide. Thanks for the cache.

nice and easy. loved grabbing this one on another bifrost DNF day. TFTC

Seriously guys??? Good fun but I'm obviously out of practice :p parked in the wrong place and took a while to find 25mins!!! TFTC

Coordinates spot on, we wish finding the near by would be as easy. TFTC

This entry was edited by J+J.au on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 at 03:32:15 UTC.

Been meaning to do this one do roughly 12 months. TFTC

Parked right next to it and after looking around for a while was brave and tried places I couldn't see into. Thankfully it was in the first spot I looked!

11:05am, GAFF2, after pulling up close to GZ, we soon had CIH.

SL, cache in good condition.

TFTH Hammerman & Trixter

TFTC

Found at 3.45pm GAFF1 in the company of Blackie_71 and Browngang. A nice and secluded spot to search for a nano - at least no buses came roaring in while we were searching. Good co-ords meant a satisfying find.
Thanks Hammerman & Trixter.

Nice easy find tftc.

Found on the way to a caching blitz to Canberra, from Port Macquarie with Blackie_71 and pprass. tftc.

Had some help on this one from Gazmag and with that had the cache reasonably quick. He has all sorts of devices in that murse of his

Gps was off, took a bit of searching down low, beware of spiders but nice hide! & hint was more useful than we originally thought.

Like most, I parked close by and then realised I had a bit of a hike to get to the cache. Once there, I had a couple swapping drivers and then some happy-clappers foiling my attempts to search for the elusive cache. Thankfully, once the search was underway, it was found very quickly. With the duties done, it was time to head homeward.

Found with TeamBooo thanks

found with geo family nice and easy TFTC

Found with Teambooo, Booo Booo and Glenwarra69.

This was nearly going to win. Until I relised geo-daughter had misread the size of the cache. Then it was easly found and returned just in time as two muggles turned the corner just as I jumped up from replacing the cache.

Thanks for the Cache
Found with TeamBooo Booo Booo and Boo's Dad on a caching afternoon

If you were observing GZ from a distance you might have noticed some odd things around Bunnings this afternoon. Firstly, a car with no license plate was parked right a GZ with no sign of its owner anywhere. Then a bus pulled up, with absolutely no passengers, and just stayed there– perhaps the driver was having a nap? And two young kids were seen poking and prodding about, evidently looking for something One child was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words “Bob the Builder”, too funny!
A fairly quick find, thanks H&T.

Tftc, sl, cheers

just arrived from the other side of the world..... this will be my farest finds from home


Found it without problems....

TFTC

Quite tricky - took a while to find. SL TFTC

#634
Parked in Bunnings only to find I had a longer walk than expected to reach GZ. My GPSr had the cache located in the nature strip that separated the two lanes on Norwest Boulevard some 12m away. I knew this wasn't right! To compound matters there was a bus parked in the bay. After a few minutes the bus's engine started and it moved off. I began my search and soon found the pesky little cache. With log signed and happy snaps taken, I was on my way. Thanks H&T for this cache.

Just parked in GZ when a Bus pulled up and driver settled in for a nap. no wonder the buses don't run on time, luck where I had parked the car was right on GZ so he couldn't see the search. TFTC ended up easier than I expected.

Nice hide enjoyed the sausage sandwich supporting kellyville girl guides. Thanx for the cache

Some little time ago I had a shot at this cache, without success. Funny how things can look different the second time around. This time, located the little blighter at the second location I looked.

Tks ... Hammerman & Trixter ... GazMag

#812

Reperio at 1840. Pulled up and parked at Bunnings, but soon realised I needed to be on the other side of the hedge. Walked over to GZ, and the nature of the hide soon became apparent, and after checking a couple of possibilities, the little fellow was found. The size of the cache probably could be upgraded as I cant see anyone stumbling upon it.

Gratias.

This was the closest cache to the new steveishere cache down the road so I dropped in to Bunnings on the way home. Cars in the car park had notices on their windscreens saying things like "This car park is for paying Bunnings customers only..." Well good luck with that!
Went out to the street and the strange lay-by. GPSr put me closer to Bunnings but there was nothing much there of note. All I can say is I'm glad it wasn't raining. The lowest GZ number led me to the right one and it was actually in the first place I looked for a change. Having looked for a few H&T caches lately this was a nice surprise. The last finder must have a great reach though as I think I put my shoulder out. Signed and replaced.
Thanks!

Found! A nice little hide this one.

TFTC, found with benny.t

Nice hide, TFTC

Took longer than it should have ..., After moving the car out of the bunnings car park , driving arround the big block to make it a drive by
Got there in the end and got to sign a new log ...
TFTC SL

First cache of the day. Never done this before. The kids loved it. Did three more during the day. Looks like I need a mobile phone charger for the car!

Bob the builder.. was transferred from dragansj to user Hammerman & Trixter

Fresh new log placed

It took some crawling on the ground, but eventually we found it.
The log is completely full and needs replacement.

After arriving and releasing that we needed to be over the other side from where Bob would normally be, it was back around the roundabout and when parked, made it one of the closest drive-bys that I have been able to do. Geo-wife found it while using cache tool #4. Had a bit of fun deciding who was going to retrieve it as the ground was wet. I allowed my geo-wife the honors as she found it, however I had to replace it. Thanks a sneaky hide.

Sadly after much searching did not find this one. Thought mirror on the iphone would help - No. Did find lots of spiders though & looks like they are breeding. Will have to try again some other time.

Tried to find this one yesterday with no luck. Went to have another look today with success after 15mins and looking strange to persons passing by.

Feeling around didn't do it. Only found by abandoning all pretense of being a casual passerby and taking a good long look. Thanks for the challenge!

A good hide, this is the smallest one we have found yet.

This entry was edited by Team Sunderland on Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 05:07:09 UTC.

Nice hide but the log book is full and needs replacing. TFTC

Found after a small search, no instruments were required ... as long as you don't mind getting down on your guts. TFTC.

This entry was edited by reddoggydog on Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 00:45:17 UTC.

How come our GPS said it was 5km to get from where we parked at Bella Vista to get here. Had a look at the screen and thought we could park in a side road which turned out to be the parking area for ResMed and there was a little man there who indicated we couldn't park there.

After about 10 minutes drive which ended up taking us back to within 200m of where we previously were found a parking spot. Wished we had brought some gloves as the spots we were searching were prime redback territory.

The race was on between the two of us TLM Mum using her hands to check likely spots and me lying on the ground to try and spot something. The winner was...

10:17am
Won't say it was the easiest of finds, but one thing a previous log made it VERY easy.

Cheers

DNF but I will be back.

Tks ... dragansi ... GazMag

This one was a bit frustrating. Need a mirror so will go back soon - for sure

Arrived at GZ and had a quick look around. Heaps of traffic around made me not want to really pry any further as I didn't want to be seen as looking as if I was damaging property/structures etc. Had the right retrieval tools on me too...

This entry was edited by The GeoKrew on Monday, 02 May 2011 at 10:09:59 UTC.

# for today: 6, TOD: Night, Conditions: Fine, Cache Condition: Excellent, Others:Nil, Notes - Nil

Finally got this little sucker.
Would recommend borrowing something from the dentist next time you r there to help.
SL TFTC


This entry was edited by Purplepeopleater on Sunday, 01 May 2011 at 13:00:00 UTC.

Nice hide. Found with Tamykian. TFTC

Had a bit of a look here today, but like others I think a torch and mirror would assist greatly. Sounds like it's further in than I was expecting from the other log today as well.

nicely tucked away from prying eyes and quite an arms length to get the little bugger out SL TFTC

Tamykian.

Missed it again- too many Hillsongers walking past.
Still a bit worried about spiders would love some help.

This entry was edited by Purplepeopleater on Friday, 22 April 2011 at 23:54:49 UTC.

Nice one dragansj [^]

Harro did all the work on this one. Chook just stood by on the alert for muggle activity. Just as well because Harro's positioning to find this cheeky nano looked very odd indeed, but the important thing is that he found it.

Love the idea of bikerbuddy's mirror! Our geobag is stuffed with so many potential items to retrieve and deposit that I feel like MacGuyver. Just as we thought we had everything covered, another innovation comes through!

Cheers and TFTC

Cache Hunt 397; GAFF3; Weather, early evening, sunny; Helpers, Steveishere, Mattkwashere; Cache condition, Great; Find of the day, 7th; STATUS - Found; GPS at GZ - 3m

So meet steveishere and Mattkwashere at Bunnings for supplies. They mentioned Bob and I didn't realise it was so close. They watched as I scrambled through the bushes and started my search at gz. After a few minutes, started getting the hot/cold help, as the hint did NOT help me So finally came up with the nano. SL and replaced. Nice simple hide by the roadside. TFTC.

I thought I would try the bikerbuddy mirror method, but Bunnings don't sell them!?!

Got there eventually.

TFTC.

Took about 5 minutes to grab this one....I figured I knew where it was hidden but I had to out wait another muggle car parked just up from me, fortunately I was right Thanks for the cache

Thanks dragansj! Found after a short search! TFTC

We found this one rather quickly, thanks to Bikerbuddy, and then we signed the log and went off, with the memory of this cache in our minds. TFTC

I have a vanity mirror I carry with me (for geocaching purposes of course). I found that helped. Thanks

I thought to myself, there has to be a hardware store somewhere nearby. The geohubby is used wiggling around in strange places so he was right at home with this. He had it a matter of moments- glad to see that as there was no way I could get it. TFTC

Being a bit of a contortionist will help you on this one! Black is, as black does.

Thanks dragansj, once again another fine cache hide.

This one was "dark", very "dark".. actually the sun had set and thankfully I had my geotorch with me to wind my way through the B'nings hedges.... I suppose making a "U" turn around the edge of the hedge from the carpark could almost be described as "winding"
A quick find and replace. As I was dressed similarly to those working nearby I think I was almost invisible.... which was a good thing.
No 'pieders visible.
TFTH
#620

found with a hint from Estreich Clan. This was a tough one!

This one had us scratching our heads, decided to pop into Bunnings for a sausage sandwich and to grab a tool we thought may help us. Headed around the block to park in the convenient 'info bay' and went in for another look. Estreich Dad was flat out when we heard some rustling in the bushes behind us and saw what we thought could only be another cacher appear through the hedges
Great to have a chat with dkmacca and get a few hints for other caches in the area, but chatting wasn't getting this one found
Estreich Mum finally got herself in the right position to spot this one and quickly grabbed the little sucker.
Log signed by both parties and cache returned
TFTC

After having to buy something at the big green shop for weekend warriors (Bunnings) I went in search for this tricky cache. Upon reaching GZ, I stumble into other cachers, the Estreich Clan. We had a good look around without much success until the Estriech lady had a look and found the cache, ( Must be a male thing not finding things right there in front of you) Anyway we exchange infro and signed the log. TFTC and the tricky hide.
Cheers
dkmacca

Ok I bought along some very keen eyes this time...eyes that can see up and around things that I could not see!
I was so confident that he will find it I stopped along side and he got he out and I watched.
Well done MattKwashere and thanks for your keen eyes.
I think I will keep my little Geocacher boy..LOL
Thanks for the hunt guys..well done.
SL and put it back safe and sound.

Steveishere

After reading a few of the previous logs finally found the trick to this one and came up with the cache in hand....tftc

very tricky cache. looked for a while then found it. TFTC

Excellent summary by pjmpjm. I'd almost given up on this and then used a pocket compass, in a way not intended, that suggested somewhere to feel. A bit of contortionism and CIH! SL, TFTC.

I shall return!

(I've cleared out all the spiders, so the hard work is already done . . .)

Found on the second try!

Yep, I had to contact the CO to be 'zeroed in' to the exact place, but I found that I'd already searched there -- just not thoroughly enough . . .

The little cache container was in 'brand new' shape and the log scroll was dry. TNLNSL.

I had to work hard for this one, and did a lot of contortionist-style searching earlier today in the hot sun. I think I may have attracted the attention of a few people passing by -- although there weren't many in this rather odd location -- but of course no one bothered me.

The site is more or less out of sight of the Norwest Bunnings store, because of the thick hedge. That was my only worry -- that eventually an employee would be sent to find out what in the heck I was doing.

Anyhow, this is a good nano hide and will certainly take some searching and some effort. But it can be done!

I'll admit that it isn't a recommended cache for people who have issues with spiders. Fortunately, I'm a well-known non-arachnophobic . . .

Many thanks again to dragansj -- for the interesting hide and for the prompt communication.

Another new dragansj cache, another DNF!

Notwithstanding Lessue's online comment, this little tiny one -- a black nano with a sizable number of difficult hiding places -- was always going to be a challenge.

I can't think of any good excuses this time. The weather was bright and sunny and there were relatively few muggles around. (I didn't take any notice of pedestrian passers-by nor the of the constant roadside traffic.)

When you arrive at GZ, the apparent hiding place is right in front of you . . .

So where is this geocache?

Hey don't worry to much pjm cause I too could not find this little guy!
My plan was to scoot pass and find this one then on to the next new one down the road but I was stumped at how many places could you put it.
I spent a lot of time looking under,in and on top but came up with a LOT of Red Back spiders.Nothing Black!!!!
Not only did I run out of time to do the other cache I am still sitting on 198
I don't like collecting sad faces!
Steveishere

Good to see I wasn't the only one who DNF this "doesn't come any easier"cache! I wasn't too keen to put my hands into places I couldn't see, especially with the 2 redbacks I saw! I wonder if we've been looking at the wrong spot? Does the name of the cache contain a hint?

Nice quick find, almost a drive by even in the rain, saw a spider but it was tiny. SLTFTC

They don't come any easier than this nice very easy find even in the rain tftc

Into the pouring rain to chase a FTF and all I got was a sneeze. We pulled up to see a suspicious dry patch about car size right at GZ - we thought its gone. So I feelU and I scrounged around getting wetter and wetter with out any sucess we were joined by another intrepid cacher who also spotted a suspicious 4WD leave the zone. Finally we decided to call it off and return on a dry day leaving the "glory" to another.

Yay....the first to find it! Nice hide & watch out for the red back spiders, especially in all this rain....TFTC

Saw this one about half an hour after it was published and thought I would be too late for the FTF but thought I'd have a look anyway as it was close to home. Saw someone leaving as I drove past GZ and then when I got there found another car and two cachers - Ifeelu and Oz-scotts. Had a look in the obvious places but when the rain got heavier and thunder and lightning started I decided to give it a miss for now.

not with this heavy rain mate!! I knew approximatly where it could be, but pouring rain,,, no chance ,, will come back later

TFTC

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