Can You Smell The Roses Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
By purpledreamer (adopted by Harrowang) on 07-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2XTDD

The garden has most certainly been cleaned up and the dead cherry tree removed. Think it is time to let the cache R.I.P. as well.

After much time scratching around and coming up short I asked for a hint from a geo mate and he told me what to look for. Another lengthy search but still no find. Much swearing at this point because i really wanted check this one off. Got geo mate to come and show me the spot but even he couldn't uncover the allusive hide. Think this one may need checking on. Thanks anyway.

Slowly catching up on my logs from my trip to the boarder to meet up with Code 1, no wounder I was having trouble finding this one to log as is has been archived. This was not the first time I had stopped at the nearby outlet, usually on the way south. Still as I needed somewhere to map out the next leg of journey OK how best to attack this town. So I set myself up and in the proses was able to do the cache.
JABs.

actually found on 3/2/13 nice find

Ducked in and made the quick find. Nice place for a cache. Thank you

This is my second attempt at this hide and I can't believe I missed it the first time it's a really clever hide. SL TFTC

There was a rather unpleasant hot wind, and a heavy, greasy smell when I visited. The nearby roses looked lovely, but there was no time to stop and smell the roses as I made the quick find and getaway before being noticed.

Great cache!

# 2970. Robmc and I were in need of nice cold drinks after many long walks today. I pointed out to him that I had never looked for this cache before. We soon remedied that. Oh the poor rose garden where the cache is hidden. So shrivelled and the weeping cherry dead. Some of the others were looking poorly too. Made the quick discovery, sat and added my name to the list and in we went for long, cold drinks. Very nice. TFTC PD and Harrowang. It has been quite a PD/Harrowang day today.

5:40:00 PM: (27 of 168) #3989
Day. 1. A geocaching weekend trip from Canberra to the Wangaratta area with Albida , The weather was warm but I guess thats better than being wet.
this had us scratching our heads but a ahha moment by me spotted it phew almost gave up on that one...

Wangaratta Area 2013 with Mtrax. This bed was all cleared out of roses when we visited, but the rest of the garden was impressive. I remember when these cache containers had to be hand built from real ones. Thanks.

9431.30 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Compass Rose Black A#161

Albida

I sure could smell the roses
And enjoyed a stroll around the gardens to check them out a bit closer
The wind was blowing the right way today and over at GZ I could still smell the roses and not greasy fast food
I saw the cache container right away and sat down for a comfy logbook signing session [^]
TFTC.

Quite a clever little cache, spotted very quickly. Was lucky with this one, all muggles were getting out of the heat in the eateries nearby. Tftc!

Found on a quick caching spree while geowife had a nap. Nice hide TFTC

TFTC, this is a great spot and a very clever hidden cache. We stopped here on a day trip from Bright to get away from the heat, but on our visit the temperature was 41!

A quick find after visiting blood bank. TFTC

This was, cache # 45 of 85 finds for the day in the Company of Trailrunning. No trouble on this one, we escaped with out spending any money here. My thanks to purpledreamer (adopted by Harrowang) for the cache.

After a great Christmas at home with the kids, the girlfriend and I headed up to her sister's place in Lima. After a few windy and hot days up there I get a call from my fellow The Demolition Crew team member RebelActs who syas he'll be visiting the area with CrazyNatGirl! We decide to plan a day of caching in the Wangaratta area, and hit the easy drive-by's. I'm so sorry for the generic log, but given I'm over 200 logs behind (no internet or pc for the last few weeks) this is all I can manage. Thanks to all the CO's and their efforts.

We purchased coffee nearby and headed towards GZ to sit and drink while we located the cache. In the very early days of our caching we were fooled by a hide much like this one. Today with a little more experience under our belt we were able to find the container fairly quickly.
TFTC.

All fastfood Restaurants were closed. But Geowife found the Cache.

First and second impressions are often wrong, but the third was correct this time. A few muggles about but all were occupied.
TFTC

Our second stop on our way North. We were on a bit of a timetable so we grabbed a snack from the 'local' and went for a bit of a stroll. Our first assumption was wrong but not long after we had the cache in hand.
Signed and put back, very clever container. TFTC

On a quick trip to Wangaratta could leave without doing one of Purpledreamers original caches! I was lucky enough to win a Dream Sherpa Geocoin with one of the memorial tags in her honour and purple being my favourite colour this cache was a must!

There was a muggle sitting in the Rotunda but not interested in what I was doing as she was too busy abusing the crap out of her boyfriend on the phone

Unfortunately I could smell the roses as there werent any there! Quick easy find as I have found a few of these hides SL TNLN TFTC

Had to get some new treads for the car so decided to have lunch at McDonalds. Sitting there looking at the rose garden I remembered this cache and decided to have a look. Walked outside and saw two muggles sitting where I thought gz would be. I took a seat too wait for them to go, only to discover I had parked myself right on top of the cache. Don't you just love dumb luck. Tnlnslt4tc

Nice late night search. There was mostly muggles in cars.

Great cache under cover of nighy, some muggle activity around

Found @9:35 down this way for a funeral and thought I'd stay to catch up with the family, so why not Cache while I'm here... TFTC StaceV 1 only

Found and logged at 10:15
One of 33 caches for the day caching around Wangaratta
A quick find amoung the roses
Thanks Harrowang

This one took us two attempts and the cover of darkness to get, but finally success! Great hide, very well done! SL. TFTC!

found by better half. good one.

We managed to get a park just a few metres from GZ and we also managed to get some pictures of the different types and colours of roses in the garden. We sometimes use the nearby service station for late-night refreshments after leaving the last Jazz concert 'round midnight, but we have never paid any attention to this rose garden before. Thanks Harrowang for getting us to stop for a look. Despite the lunchtime crowds it was still fairly easy to retrieve and replace the cache container without arousing too much suspicion from the nearby people.

Can You Smell The Roses was transferred from micheena to user Harrowang

Found with pgoz aftr couple of attempts. High muggle activty found at night with use of torch

Finally got his after a few tries...TFTC

This entry was edited by Pgoz on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 10:24:18 UTC.

Stopped by this one on our way home after the AWGC event in Wodonga, after being told it needed some maintenance. Put new write-in-the-rain log sheet, laminated cache note & pencil in container. Should be good to go now. By the way, the roses are just a picture at the moment.

Can You Smell The Roses was transferred from Coruze to user micheena

I could today, stopped by the nearby establishment for some after event eats and thought I'd pick this one up while everyone else was busy satisfying their appetites.

Log was a soggy, tried to dry it out beat I could with limited time we had. It writable but could do with a replacement.

Cheers.

Can You Smell The Roses was transferred from purpledreamer to user Coruze

Take the time to remember our friend Purpledreamer

Pending further guidance from family, this geocache listing has been temporarily disabled by Groundspeak.

Log too wet to sign, needs replacing ASAP
TFTC

TFTC

Found argent but no container possibly muggles or we found the wrong thing

Found on the way home from a weekend at hotham with cameron250f. Easy find

Fun easy find, initiating a friend to geocaching on the way back from hotham! Tftc!

out on a family with taz-bud and nanna.c easy find tftc

easy find
tftc

Sorry for the late lost log. Found while out with family for the day. Found with Happy pants. Thanks Harrowang.

No roses in flower today to smell, had to do with inhaling my lovely cup of coffee instead, found with geonephew. TFTC ( that stands for cache not coffee)

Our second find for the day. A great little container. TFTC

log is very damp

nice hide, tftc

We went for a drive without the teenager! Bliss!
We found lots of caches, as well - even better!
Loved the roses!
Thanks, purpledreamer.

Out for a long weekend caching run down to Wangaratta with Just a cacher and the hound.

Day 1 of the Wangaratta cache blitz. After finding a park to cover our search it was over to grab a coffee then back to GZ where we made a quick find.

Thanks for the cache purpledreamer

Great little hide !! My first in Wang !! TFTC !!

Not purple?? I only came here for PURPLE !! And it was 4 degrees when we were searching.... Thanks PD

Log follows

Log to follow 9/6

A quick find in the first place that I looked whilst Wilbert67 looked elsewhere :-p Now to use the local establishment for some well earned breakfast.

Cheers

After a couple of hoiurs of caching with Hoojar on our big trip it was about time for breakfast. How convenient did this one fit in in our schudule! still beautiful white views around.
TFTC Wilbert67

This was the first cache for Sully1 and I on a glorious day's weather and caching in and around Wang.
Nice start to the day as it was across the road from the motor inn.
Thanks purpledreamer, a rosy start to the day, and a quick find by sully

First of 57 for the day along with bogonghazy on a Wangaratta Wizz Around. A nice quick pick up, early in the morning, so very few muggles about. Log signed. Thanks for the cache purpledreamer.

Found on our way home from holidays.
Find # 557. 12.30pm. Nice hide!
My one find in Wang this trip.
Thanks
Whilst here we stumbled upon another Geocaching game...

Just found it while finishing our meal at maccas.
Great hide, very sneaky.
TFTC

I became a rose enthusiast for this one, had to smell quite a few while keeping one eye open for muggles. clever hide. tftc

TFTC

Found a couple of days ago, very sneaky guys!! ^__^ has given me some good ideas for hiding places.

Found it No. 4897 ... clever hide ... TNLN ... TFTC purpledreamer

clever!!

Ahhh finally got this one, 3 cars were parked between the roses and the drive through ... TFTC purpledreamer

thank you for show me lot of different all roses some ar e lovely smell..with crank1 and whitepaws9

Had a quick look last night when getting some burgers, much easier to spot in the daylight.
TFTC

We had visited and failed this one the night before, so returned for breakfast and finally located it.
TFTC

Finally found this one. We had a hunt last night, but need another go this morning to find it. Cheers Gav [11056]

Found during an early morning caching raid in the area before breakfast. TFTC

Big day for us doing in Wangaratta which been stayed at Oz Mega Albury.
Caching day with Whitepaws9 and Laker63
It's my 2nd attempt
Found it
TFTC

good enjoyed drive around different suburbs, easy to find as very well cache thanks

Found at 15:59
Lovely garden easy find, near sandy's favorite restaurant tftf

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Caching in the company of the Walenators and my Earthbound family during the Oz Mega. Found right before a Maccas lunch! TFTC

Found in the company of the Walenators, The Earthbound crew, Datruk and coley_babee on day 5 of our caching blitz at the 2012 OZ Mega.
The roses were all clipped back for autumn.
But we did stop here for some lunch!
Thanks again purpledreamer for this cache.

Despite how busy the surrounding area was, this was a nice quick find, that I didnt dare attempt by myself last year!!!

large groups don't look so bad hanging around looking around!!

Very quick find then onto some lunch at the nearby "fine dining" establishment!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

This cache was found on my trip to Victoria and New South Wales for the Oz Mega event at Albury. Great trip which included finding over 230 caches in the 6 days.

TFTC

I had a guess before I arrived what I was looking for, but had to wait for some muggles to move off before finding and signing this cache.

Everyone jumped out, 5 teams in all and a quick find was made. On our way home from Oz Mega. We have been once before with 10 pairs of eyes and searched here, it must have been missing then or, more likely, we're blind
Thanks for bringing us back here

After attending the OZ Mega in Albury, we did some caching along the way home with the Earthbound Control, Datruk, Colee Babe, and Princess Diala. A really quick find, and then into maccas for lunch. Thanks purpledreamer. TFTH...SL....TNLN.

Caching with crank1 & Laker63. My favourite roses thanks for bring me here and cache

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

After previously visiting the area around lunch time and not being able to spot anything without drawing attention to ourselves. We decided to come back later. Well here we were armed with a small clue from a fellow cacher, and within moments we had the cache spotted and the log in hand.

TFTC purpledreamer

Gaz'nKab

Lovley gardens here. SL..TFTC

We adore roses, the fragrance is awsom, cache soon located.Thanks

Oz Mega run home with Earthbound, Coley-baby, Princess Diala and Walenators.

# 2663 @ 12:55 and the 8th find for the day

Yep! sure did smell the roses. A quick find due to good coords

Thanks purpledreamer

This one was timed perfectly and Kaisho53 and I availed ourselves of some sustenance while at GZ...

Prior to that though we had some business to take care of. The approach to GZ was easy enough and the muggles weren't paying too much attention to us. Once there, I spotted the container and with some strategic body placement, was able to extract it without any awkward movement... [^]

Log signed in situ, it was put back just as easy and we headed across the driveway for some grub... Now, if only we could eat as quick as we could find and log. We might have snuck another few caches in today...

Cheers purpledreamer.

Yep sure can....

Conveniently located to allow a recharge of the bodily necessities - caffeine & sugar [^]

Parked adjacent GZ to secure cache then dropped in next door for a coffee fix..

TNLNSL

Thanks purpledreamer for the cache

Found this one as part of our trip to the 2012 Oz Mega in Albury. This one took some time to locate, we even had a few breaks due to muggle activity but made the find in the end. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Team Unibolt on Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 07:23:53 UTC.

Found while in the area for the Oz Mega Event thanks

In the area to attend Oz Mega Event thanks for the cache

Found with geofamily on way to Albury for mega event

Found on our trip to Oz Mega.

Thanks For The Cache
Found this cache today while caching around the area before the OZ Mega Event at Albury with the geofamily TeamBooo, Booo Booo Booo's Dad and Rebeccavoy

11:18
Having camped the night at Oxley with Liz & Bruce and just 5 days before the Mega we found ourselves among a sea of caches.
We had searched for this cache without success when we last were in Wangaratta. This time, as repairs to our caravan were completed, this cache was located and logged.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt purpledreamer.
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