Is it Bella or Vista Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
By Hammerman & Trixter on 23-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2TV22

Not sure how this one went missing knowing the container but it has. I never realised how close this was to a pre-school when i placed it in the middle of the night. So Archiving the cache.

A number of DNFs, PAFs, and previous finders. Unless the hide has changed (which it may well have knowing the trixter), this may need some checking!!

Sorry mate, especially if things have changed from before and it's been there the whole time!

Met Purplepeopleeater whilst looking for this one. He also had a look and believes it may not be here. Either way this is on our to do list. We will be back. TFTH

Even a PAF didn't reveal!! I couldn't see the item described, but it was night. Might have to ask dragan about this one

Found lots of things none of which were the cache!
TFTH




This entry was edited by Gibbo455 on Saturday, 12 May 2012 at 15:06:13 UTC.

looked around, found lots of kiddies toys, but no cache,... next time

Visited it today on an 8 hour caching spree with club_bindi and JYGE.
No luck here today. I will admit my heart was not entirely in it as I was a bit creeped out by the pre school being in operation at the time. Will return on next trip out this way. TFTC.

Looked for this one at dusk and with no muggles about in nearby school. Didn't understand the hint, but kept searching in so many spots and found lots of lonely toys on the road side of the fence. Checked some of the toys and still no cache. Gave up after 30 minutes as it was getting dark and I had to get back to pick up Daughter from local drama class. I'll be back for another look soon.
Cheers
dkmacca

Cache is back on-line.

Happy Caching and may GPS technology be ever in your favor.
The Trixter

I Will be bringing this one back online shortly.
Regards
The Trixter

Is it Bella or Vista was transferred from Hammerman2 to user The Trixter

I was in the area and thought I would look for this one. I didn't realize it was offline as my GPX was 2 days old. I searched a few likely locations and made the find. I found the same problem the previous finders noted. It looks like a few people have tried to fix the problem with no luck. Nice camo. I liked it. No mugglers around today. Half the reason I stopped by while on the way home with the family on board. TFTC

Offline for maintenance

2nd last for the year .... this one I can confirm that unable to access the cache log ....
I Can see why I missed it on previous occasions
TFTC SL

Out and about with jk Courtz doing some caching in the hills we were driving past
the cache location on the way to another and we stopped so I could have a look
for it,found it but unable to sign log as the glue holding the cammo has turned
hard making impossible to access the log.,needs maintenance...TFTC...

Returned tonight with a better understanding of the clue. Searched in the same places with the same result! Will have to watch this and wait to see if someone else finds it before returning. Thanks H&T.

At this rate, I think I'll be able to accrue DNFs for almost almost all of the H&Ts caches!

Parked near GZ and began searching. There is one obvious piece of 'technology' attached to an obvious piece of infrastructure, and I am still in two minds about whether I should leave it alone (as in, it is real), or start disassembling it and then attempt to communicate with it.

Picked up and inspected all of the other bits and pieces, but didn't find (or recognize) a cache. I will be in the area again soon so will have to revisit. Thanks for more intrigue.

Hmmm. Worked out the last part of the hint and perhaps the first part. But despite poking around a bit I couldn't find it.

Had a bit of look and cracked the clue. I think I know what to look for and where to look, but did spot it. Maybe next time.

Another DNF for me today, this must be my third visit without success!!

Oh well that's the way it goes sometimes, I will regroup and return another day.

Tks ... Hammerman & Trixter ... GazMag

10.00am, GAFF3, After our first attempt this morning and being spied by a muggle across the road, we decided to have a go at Hidden Oasis and come back.

After looking in crevices and around objects, we had CIH, even though we had our hands on it earlier.

SL, cache in good condition.

A sneaky hide Hammerman & Trixter, worthy of a favourite

After a day of sitting doing training for work it was good to stretch the legs and find this masterfully hidden cache. I also met up with The Vikings at GZ. Top hide, thanks

On our way home from an afternoon caching in the Rouse Hill area, we stopped at this cache which we had tried to find on an earlier occasion but with no luck.
Searched all possible, and probably also a few impossible locations, but no cigar. We were then joined by jkcourtz, nice meeting you! He started searching all locations we had already searched, and then suddenly found something suspisious. We had definitely had this in our hands once or twice before, but sometimes you need a new set of eyes and hands.

I don't know some days your caching mojo goes out the window handled cache 3 times before looking closer nice hide but very frustrated by tonights efforts TFTC

Log changed and minor maintenance performed.

Didn't take too long to find after a slight detour on our way home. Magnet has come away tho. TFTC

Found at 2.55pm GAFF5 in the company of Blackie_71 and Browngang. We were going to be in trouble without the very clever cryptic clue. We soon honed in on the spot and luckily there was no one in the preschool over the fence to bother us, although we found a lot of toys that the midget muggles had pushed through the fence.
Thanks Hammerman & Trixter.

Found while caching around kellyville tftc.

Found on the way to a Canberran caching blitz with Blackie_71 and pprass. Took a little while to find this well hidden/cammoed piece of work! tftc

Great camouflaged container! We found it on our second search for it!

This one was found fairly quickly considering that we had been told it was a tricky little bugger. It probably also helped being a public holiday weekend as there was hardly any one around and we only had to wait for one muggle to disappear before we could retrieve the loot.

Thanks for the cache.

2:56pm
My 3rd trip.

After introducing Mr Lookin to the virtues of Oporto at the nearby shopping centre, he had this one turned up in a few minutes. How we missed it the first 2 times is beyond me.

Cheers

Found by jess and danielle from norwest childcare centre!!

Not today sorry.

NO luck with this one ..... a lot of kids toys every where was confusing me a bit...

I too had no luck today. It is a bit unnerving searching outside a preschool. I think I'll be back on the weekend to try again. I must be thick but the clue made absolutely no sense to me today!

DNF

This is my second visit to this site and I still came up blank!! Maybe another day.

Tks ... Hammerman & Trixter ... GazMag

A quick find, which it needs to be in this location. Very nice work on the container. TFTC

Reperio at 1735. When I arrived at GZ, I wasn't looking forward to searching here too long, as it is right outside a preschool, and there being numerous passing in cars. Went through the area methodically so as not to miss anything, and after around 10 mins, the very nice cache was lcoated. A really great cache slightly marred due to it's location.

Gratias H & T

Well after a few attempts at this one we decided to paf thanks 4dxplor for the help. Tftc

A great piece of camo on this one, I just wish it hadn't been placed right next to a preschool. I had to paf this one. Thanks H & T, you guys always come up with some fantastic hides.

Had a couple of tries at this one. Scoured the logs for clues but was stumped until today when some concerted searching lead to the find. Still not sure what the first half of the hint means.... Great hide - 'wicked' according to GeoKid 2. Thanks for the challenge!

No luck with Bella and Vista today!

Came back with extra eyes today and a bit more time ..... All of these things didn't change the result ....
Even a PAF option was of no assistance .Other than confirm the type and size of container and camo used...
If it is still there it has been very well hidden !!!!

DD

Ran out of time to find this one ., knew what I was looking for but had to pick the wife and Daughter up...

I'll return hopefully when the Daycare centre isn't open

I'd pulled up alongside this spot a week or so ago but the kiddies were right next to the fence so I drove away. Back on a weekend with a geoboy we set to work. It certainly wasn't in the easily found position that pjmpjm found it so there may have been some cache creep. Looked in lots of spots, more or less knowing what I was looking for and found the toy stash. A couple of TAFs narrowed down what I was after but it took the geoboy to finally find it right near where I had searched several times!
Even he put it back once before looking closely. Very nice bit of work.
Thanks!

Searched while filling in time before ice skating but no find

Cache Hunt 581; GAFF3; Weather, Night time; Helpers, None; Cache condition, Great; Find of the day, 13th; STATUS; Found; GPSr at GZ - 2m

Ahaa! Finally on attempt No3! I came back as my last one for the evening to try and get 7/7 and pulled up in the 'usual' spot. No kids, no cars, and no muggles at 10.30 at night. I started my search up and down for a few minutes, before I went for a TAF for help. No reply so I kept searching and then checked the only spot I obviously didn't check last time Doh! Found *******, and looked and WHOA, what's this? Oh my, a very clever Dragansj camo and hide, VERY clever. I SL and replaced in the same spot again. This is great and gets a favorite from me. Thanx again for a great camo and cache. TFTC.

Tried and failed twice, oh well such is the nature of caching

Is it Bella or Vista was transferred from dragansj to user Hammerman & Trixter

Another DNF for me. Late logging it. Came back for another search. Kids were in school, so I didn't want to hang around too long. Looked here and there, but not everywhere....Oh well back again another day.

We found lot and lots of famo containers! Unfortunately they were discarded toys not caches! A PAF and we knew what. But, not where!?! Eventually we spotted it.

TFTC.

After getting 2/2 I thought I'd go for a dragansj cache. Got to GZ and started searching. Hint made perfect sense and even with txt confirmation of what I was looking for I couldn't find the little bugger. GPS was all over the shop as well, trying to get me in the middle of the road ??!? I know what, just need to find where!

Came back again when there was no kids about, still did not help, espied a possible fellow cacher watching from afar, we were giving up and they pulled up along side. We spent another 5 minutes or so looking then decided it was enough for us and kept on going....

Maybe next time.

Our GPS was playing up, then we ran into Team Webguy, thanks for your help we found it about 5 min after you left. Found by Geo mum who was very excited to say the least. Great hide.

This entry was edited by Team Sunderland on Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 05:24:14 UTC.

This entry was edited by Team Sunderland on Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 05:24:22 UTC.

Sneaky hide, I made the phone a friend call after 20 minutes of searching, ended up being a lot like one of mine. Thanks for the cache

More a did not want to look with kids staring at us through the fence lol, we will be back when it is devoid of ankle biters....

Went out at lunch time to find this one, very close to work so wondered why I hadn't gone out to get it before now. Oh yeah, its another one of my brothers caches. I knew something of this cache so wasn't about to go spoil the hunt early on by claiming an undeserved FTF.

So here I am, it's raining, I have a jacket on and I'm peeking through the bushes at GZ on the edge of a childcare centre ...... hmmm suspicious nah, what would give anyone that impression?

Lucky for me I found it pretty quickly! TFTC.

Found it nice little hide Dragans hides just get harder & harder to find TFTC

DNF but I will be back.

Tks ... dragansi ... GazMag

Found with Estrich mum on a quiet Saturday arvo. I went on a completely different tangent trying to interpret the hint. It was only after Estrich mum worked out the correct interpretation that we found it. Nice one, TFTC!

Been meaning to get to this one and was intrigued after chatting with Dinkyfish about it. Arrived at GZ, had a look about and found lots of toys the little ones must have tossed over the fence
Stepped back to think about the clue and dinkyfish turned up just as I was getting my head around it, this way of resolving disputes is often used by the Ratbags lol
Once clue was solved we had another unique dragansj cache very quickly in our hands
Great Hide
TFTC
Estreich Mum

The second part of the CO's clue actually tells you exactly what to look for. That's why I found it so quickly!

Great hide....but the clue has nothing to do with the cache it's actually quite confusing....after looking for about 15 min we stood back to re think & my geohusband says "found it" we couldn't believe how easy it was, of course once you know where it is.....TFTC

It took a short search before my brother, Garks, finally found this one. Thanks

FDorget the hint and i found it!!! OIh, I'm so good! Thanks

Well, we haven't had a happy time with dragansj caches recently, so we weren't going to spend long on this one. Unlike pjmpjm's experience, after we found it, we realised the GPS had a a few metres out, and the clue had had us puzzling over something irrelevant. I have no idea what the clue meant, now that we found it. My suggestion is, turn up to the general area, ignore the clue and just look around. That should make it easy. Thanks

Sometimes people just spark! Such was Garks today when, while we were busily analysing the clue, he found it! The clues still made no sense at all to me, or maybe, I was just reading too much into it. Anyway TFTC.

I've found a lot of caches of this size and type -- and hidden a few of them myself -- so thought I might have an idea where to look over in Bella Vista.

Leaving work just at dusk, I knew I was going to have do my search in the dark. However, I hoped this would mean fewer disruptive muggles.

As it turned out, the clever clue was just too good and the published coordinates just too accurate. I parked the GeoBuru2 right at GZ (5 metres away), walked over to 'the place' and put my hand right on the camoed cache container on my first try. Well, you have to get lucky sometimes!

This was actually some of the best camo of its type I've seen -- very well done. Could have you looking for a long time . . . and I've spent a lot of time searching for such things in the past.

Anyhow, it was all over before I started, so I decided to complete log formalities ASAP and go looking for some GCA State Survey markers along Norwest Boulevard . . .

Cache container and contents were dry. TNLNSL.

Many thanks to dragansj for a really great container -- once again -- one which shows a lot of work and imagination!

Was sitting exams at a local business and decided to reward myself with a cache or two.... Not this one unfortunately. Looked for 15 mins and began to feel like I looked suspicious. Checked everywhere. Enough toys there to start another kindergarden.!!! The clue didn't help either. The grammar didnt make sense to me....


This entry was edited by The GeoKrew on Monday, 02 May 2011 at 10:11:16 UTC.

We were heading off to do a few caches in the local bushland, but Harro thought we should stop off and do this on the way, seeing as it was new and close by. Nice sunny afternoon and barely a car in sight, we searched, pondered on the clue, scrabbled through the myriad of kids toys lying around and searched some more. After at least 20 mins a car pulled up to ask if this was bella or vista - we were busted by steveishere! Another 15 mins of all three of us searching and Harro took a step back to gather his thoughts and leaning forward, stopped us in our tracks with that phrase that we all love to say: "found it!". Just as we were signing the log, rogpol turned up, so this became a sneaky, well disguised little cache that introduced us to a couple of the names we see often in the logs! ! Thanks dragansj

Again as I was driving down to GZ I saw two people looking like they were looking for something,
Turns out it was Harroandchook....WOW one of the masters in cache art. Great to meet you guys.
I pulled up and left the motor running thinking this would be a quick one but as chook said we were still looking after 15 mins.
I turned the engine off and put my game face on LOL!
I think we picked up and looked in everything still thinking about the clue our rollicking around was producing nothing.
Sure enough harro says found it and when he showed me I thought you have done it again dragonsj another well constructed cache.
SL TFTC
Steveishere

Well, GZ looked like a caching "event, with Harroandchook and steveishere all present. I parked the jeojalopy (spelt with a "J" as I drive a Jeep) and noticed chook stuffing something away in the rock retaining wall... the log was then handed to me and my challenge was a "reverse" find. Here I was with log in hand with a challenge of "putting it back". It wasn't long before the cache container was uncovered "again" and the log was placed back home.
A nice piece of work dragansj !!!!
It was good to meet harroandchook, and steveishere ... for the second time today
#636

# for today: 2, TOD: Mid afternoon, Conditions: Overcast, Cache Condition: Excellent, Others: Honeysoy, Notes - 1TF Whoo hoo!!

After missing out on two of Dragansj caches recently we were determined to get this. Quick drive saw us at GZ and clues had been understood.
Quickly found something suspicious and made the retrieve. Opened log and found to our excitement that we were 1TF. Our first!!!!!!
Cache is up to the usual dragansj standard - Excellent.

SL TFTC

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