Trot a lot Pakenham Upper, Victoria, Australia
By The van Abel crew on 03-Jul-11. Waypoint GC2ZE09

Found it! After a DNF further down the road, we stopped here on the way home to find this cache. It was bit tricky to work out the best approach to GZ but I managed and soon had the cache in hand. The usual sort of place for a hide. Added my name to the log and hid it away. TFTC SL

Nice little area for a walk

With my GPS making me walk around in circles, I think I was lucky to eventually spot the hide.
Thanks to The van Abel crew for placing this cache here for us to find.
Chiefton!!!

Out in the area for work. Thanks for placing the cache. Almost missed it, but cache now in hand and log signed.

Found while cycling the long way to Pakenham. Might come back and check out the trail one day.

Awesome find thankyou

Just discovered a new walking track. Also found the geocache. Thank you CO

Thanks for the cache. Daughter made a swap. Xx

Walk here heaps lovely spot tftc

TFTC

Trotting our way into this small piece of scrub it didn't take us long to find and log this one. Thanks

Was a quick but nice find, cute little area. Cheers

I had been in the area for an event this evening, so I decided to grab some caches on the way home. Parking very close to GZ, I did my usual trick of finding the hardest way in to the cache, but soon had it in hand. After signing the log, it was a much easier walk back to the car. I just got this one in today, as it's about to click over to Christmas day.
Thanks for hiding this The van Abel crew.

Easy enough when you see it. Took me a bit though.

Cute little spot

Great spot and find!

Cheeky little hide. Made us work for it! Somewhat quick find though!

Lockdown find good fun and nice and challenging!

Found on a very wet day!! A bit of bush bashing involved. Thanks for the hide

Our first find!
Took nothing but left some lollies.

Found it and put a little something in! X

Tricky to find but got there in the end!

Came to this area on a Sunday afternoon to get the 5 needed to reach 100 finds. This is our 97th. Bit of a scramble under the trees, but geoboy spotted in quickly. TFTC.

Good find

I pulled up and thought this spot looks familiar, on opening the log there was my stamp, looks like I forgot to log this one so I will log it today the second time I have found it.

Cool little spot

Third ever find! Coordinates are slightly off. A bit more difficult than we were expecting but rewarding in the end. Thanks for the cache!

Damn I am behind on my logs, good old covid-19 was a great distraction from actually logging my caches. But nevertheless here I am now doing all the catch up.

Out for a nice drive out in the Pakenham/ Cockatoo area with Brainiac03 today to smash out some caches in this area. No real issues at all as we drove around collecting several caches throughout the day.

Thanks for the cache and the day out.

On a caching run with buhfuhguh today in the Pakenham/Cockatoo area to pick up a few caches we hadn't yet found.
A cautious trek through the blackberry thorns led us to gz.
There were a few spots where this one could've been hiding away, but buhfuhguh brought up the goods about 10m from where I was looking.
Signed the log and returned.
Thanks to The van Abel crew for this cache!

TFTC, Brainiac03

Looks hard but is easy and obvious

Seemed to lead us to crawl amongst blackberries and scrub - and no clue. Gave up.

found

Out for a drive from home. Easy to find. Thanks the van Abel crew for placing this cache

Great find.
Thank you ️

Great cache.
Tricky to find in the dark.
Thank you.

Day1976 has looked for this a couple of times over the last few years, but he didn't bring me. Within 5 minutes the cache was in hand.

How nice to turn a frown upside down.

I don't know how many times I have DNF'd this cache over the years. It was on my to do list on my second ever day caching, but I couldn't find it then. I think over the last 8 years or so I've been back a few times to try and each time with no luck. Anyway, today Ilukaperi and I were driving past and I told her about it.

Of course she had it in hand within about 2 minutes of pulling up.

Looking at the hide I have no idea how I have missed it so many times.

Anyway, its a smilie now.

TFTC!

Found with MonkeyMann007 8.48pm - just have to try one more....

Tyftc Found with Cached Up Mummies on our grand little adventure from cairns

Found it nice camouflage

Quick find. TFTC

Quick find with Morgo

This is a lovely spot here, I enjoyed making my way along the winding country roads. Once at GZ something strange happened with the GPS here, it seemed to keep switching, but once I moved in one direction it seemed to settle a bit and I just decided to check a likely spot anyway. What do you know, there was the cache. It is always great to find one of the older ones. With the log signed, I set off for a walk along the trail.

Thanks to The van Abel crew for placing this cache.

Quick find in a nice spot. Let the GPS settle for a minute before looking as it may point you in the wrong direction. Once settled it was spot on.

Found it

This cache took a little bit of searching to locate as the coords were pointing me to the adjacent property and I did not think it would be there. After trying to reset the Gps a couple of times I thought I would just go on feel and widen the search. With a couple of places searched I had the log in hand and was quickly signed. I will need to return on a dry day to get ten Roos as the track is very wet and sloppy tonight. Tftc

As usual I went in the wrong way and came out the easier way today. It was still an hour plus till sunset so plenty of light to find the cache. All in good condition. TFTC

This cache was a bugger to find . We searched the radius of 15 metres without any luck but once the gps settled it was found in an unusual position. We think cache creep has been involved here.

Thanks The van Abel crew for the placement.

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch. This took us a while to find, cloudy days and tree cover play havoc with the GPS. We had nearly given up when I spotted the cache. TFTC

Found this one while geocaching with SciFiRulz. My only comment when we found it was "you must be kidding me" good hide TFTC

My daughter actually stood on it. Good hiding place.

My sis almost stood on it and also quite well hidden

Awesome catch! Looked down while look and realised I was almost standing on it, whoops! But well hidden

Parked here to get a nearby cache, so took a look and cache is good condition, still well hidden
Hunter

Decided I would give this one a go while I was driving home from work today.
I parked the car and had to wait for a line of muggles to move on, I used this time reading previous logs and thinking I had a major search ahead of me. Turns out I spent longer waiting than searching as I found it very quickly.
I covered it up a bit better after signing.

Thanks

#1926

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches. I usually cache on my own but sometimes I will collect my nephew stinky bob and my brother stinky tom who both enjoy this hobby.
A big thanks goes out to all the cachers and cache owners without whom this lifestyle would not be possible.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

Just about to give up as gps was jumping all over the place when we found it. Kids very excited to do a swap. A blue finger torch for a super hero badge. Very well hidden

Out with The Swaggies today. Way harder than expected and sadly turned the area over. Bloody black berries. The Swaggies laid his magic hands on this one. Find 1548 at 11 August 2017 11:57 am

After reading the logs we were hoping for better luck than others had as we had a few miles and a lot more caches to find today. Alas this one was about to ruin our run. Yorsys and I spent way to much time here just searching, up hill and down dale. You said this was a quiet road, well not today, there must have been a booze bus closeby as there were passing vehicles every 5 minutes. In the end we had to PAF as we were going nowhere. Armed with info it still took us a further 10 minutes before we found your cache.
TFTC The van Abel crew.

Second time looking for this one. Still unable to find, despite co-ordinates matching exactly

This one took way too long to find. Must have walked past around and over the cache a number of times. The gps not working well certainly didn't help. It did keep bringing me back to one certain area however.
But glad my persistence paid off with the well hidden cache found.
Thanks for the cache The van Abel crew
Hunter

Well this took way longer than it should. GPS was jumping a bit but we kept looking and once I walked over to double check where geokid had been it was in hand. signed log and left a Marvel Badge. TFTC

Fought with the gps and lost today.

I was running early for work this morning so I thought I'd take a detour to find this one. Being a D1, I thought I'd make a quick find then be back on the road to work in no time. I was wrong

I had to wait for a lady chatting on her phone while she walked to the letterbox to get her mail, trying not to scare her if she saw me or look too suspicious. Once she'd gone, I had a good look around for about 20 minutes with no success. The GPS had me all over the place and even checking the logs didn't help, but by then I was rushing. I got scratched and dirty with all the blackberries and scrambling around but this one has eluded me. I'll come back with Geodaughter another day and hopefully we'll have more success. TFTC

Nice and easy

Lol, clever. Had me wondering if it actually was the cache until I opened it

A quick find today using the clue in previous log. Now I know why I couldn't find it using my torch on Sunday night, I must have almost stood on it several times.

GPS swinging around too much today

Found it. The Kearneys

Tftc... TB dropped...

#4128

Was around the cornervisiting a dairy farmer when I remebered I hadnt found this a while ago when up here, this time i was successful!!! Quick find with GPS sending me in the right area, last time had me near the gates.

Thanks for the cache!!!

Just getting too dark. Roll on longer days!

Found thanks

Theboys found it

Very simple, and the gps had a rotten day and would not settle!!

The last time I was here I spent ages hunting with no luck, but today I walked straight to it. Thanks crew

Woohoo, found it!

Our 5th for today, TFTC!!

Awesome treasure! No longer Geocaching virgins! 4 adults, 3 kids had an awesome adventure! Until we meet again! #currysausages

We nearly missed this one, as it was hidden beneath a parking symbol on the GPS map, but it popped up as the next closest after we finished ten roos, so a quick grab once we got back to the car. Thanks for the hide and bringing us here.

27/11/2015, 19:42
Find #2366

After the fun and frolics of Victoria's first Mega a fortnight ago, it was time to start cleaning up the caches that time didn't permit us to attempt before or during the Mega. Over 200kms driven for a total of 12 finds! I first attempted this cache around 18 months ago without success. It turned out that the cache had been muggled. The CO replaced it quickly but I hadn't had a chance to return and try again until tonight. Steve and I both searched high and low. My GPS jumped around as it does when under trees and I was starting to think that this cache would elude me once again when I looked down and there it was. [^] It wasn't quite where either of us expected it to be but the co-ords are pretty and a helpful nudge given by a newbie in a previous log is accurate.

Thank-you to The van Abel crew for placing this geocache

Tftc

First of the day.

A good afternoon of six searches in the Maryknoll area for six finds with the kids. This was the last one before heading home. Geokids were asleep on the way to this find. Easy once found. Parked next to it yet still took 15 minutes to find. Good hide. Was ready to give up but gave it one last look and eureka. Swapped in the aussie key ring for a plastic cat. Heading home for baths after a busy afternoon.





This entry was edited by Alanica on Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 08:32:27 UTC.

I spend 15 minuets searching around with no success, so I decided to walk along the track and grab another cache. When I got back I searched here again, I roamed around the previously trampled agapanthus and grovelled my way under trees and bushes, but no luck.

Found this really fast great spot, kids hid it back well

A STROLL IN THE WINTER SUN WAS GOOD TODAY TFTC

Had been here before but GPS didn't want to play. Today I got a GZ and prize was in hand. TFTH

BEWARE OF MUGGLES!! For a quiet place there sure are a lot of MUGGLES about! The gps was bouncing around like crazy but Malkito finally got it!

Roaming around, we found it eventually TFTC

All good, TFTC

TFTC

Nice easy one for the kids

3 visits ! Not happy now.
Think maybe needs a check up

Not sure if it's here

I didn't get the cache I was originally aiming for because of muggles at GZ but happy to pick up this one along the way and had a nice little walk too. Thanks for showing me the way to the track...very handy.

Quick pickup

Tftc smiley left behind

Thanks to the geo son Cody he spotted it

Woo! First one!

Woo!

So the degree of difficulty is easy and it's no a micro... Should be easy? Not! I have flattened the battery in my car by being arrogant and leaving the radio on for what I thought would be a few minutes while I grabbed this one. Only told geohusband last week no to renew our roadside assistance as I am driving a newish car and there isn't much they can do I can't - hmmm yeah except a flat battery when I don't carry jumper leads - got 5 days left on my membership lucky! Currently waiting for them with two children - so I figured I would read all the logs relating to this cache - tried the alternative coordinates looked at the places that other peoples clues suggested no luck - Really frustrated spent an hour on this one I thought my cacher knowledge was good enough to find a cache even with bad co ords bonus I found a little terrestrial orchid in flower a Greenhood I don't know the bi nominal name off the top of my head hugbug4 and Everest coin also along for the visit - come on Racv!