Blender Studios Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By jsmyong55 (maintained by CamBendy) on 07-Aug-11. Waypoint GC31NNP

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Had a good look around but no joy

Found it on the ground. Not sure where it belonged, might have fallen off or got muggled.

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Found but unfortunately the log was too wet to sign as the cache is missing its lid. Thanks

Great laneway. The log is very wet though after Melbourne's wet weekend

Found on our last day in Melbourne on a walk through the city.

Logbook is in very bad condition and needs to be changed.

Found it in the same condition as the last logger. It's dried up a little. Tftc. Funky alleyway.

Two years after the first, but unsuccessful , approach this time we could quickly get the box. The heavy rain resterday left its marks. There is no lid anymore, and the log is soaked. We barely could write our note.
So dear owner please take some maintenance actions.
Anyways, thanks for pointing us to this area with nice artwork we would not have visited without the cache.

Found after a bit of a search

Lid is missing, log needs replacing really badly

Found It!
Had to wait for a 'gang' on bikes to move on but after that I had the alleyway to myself. Soon found the cache although the contents are rather wet.
TFTC

Thanks for bringing us to see the art.

I was very lucky to have the opportunty to visit your country in October and November. In that period I was able to visit/find you, which made me more happy.
Thanks for maintaining this cache and showing me the nice spot in your beautiful country.

Pistol.Paul from the Netherlands

T F T C

Found this one during todays lunch break. However I could sign the log because the book was too wet. The artwork around it was very impressive. TFTC.

Found it after ages! TFTC!

TFTC!

Found after a long look. Thanks.

TFTC!

Found it! Easy cache! Thanks! Needs maintenance .

Found. Cache could use some maintenance.

Found on our trip to Australia together with nenahhd.
TFTC!

Thanks for bringing us to this very interesting place @13:15
nenahhd - TFTC #2617
Greetings from Germany

I had been to this part of the city before and there were always people in the lane. Today I was lucky, the lane was empty. I had plenty of time to look, locate and replace the cache then look at all the art in the alley. Thanks for sending me to this spot that I wouldn't have visited otherwise.

Found a crushed metal tin and thought it was it before finding it in the end

Took a little while

Pretty much my last found before I'm gonna leave oz to nz... gonna try one more...
Thanks for these last art!

Nice one! Takes a brave person to find it XD. TFTC

Found by Leon tftc

We like the Melbourne Street Art and this is quite a good place for a cache. We added another piece of paper because we weren't able to get the logbook out. Tftc

I bit disappointing that the magnet isn't working anymore. However is placed back in found position.

Sad that this cache had lost its magnet and lid.
Nice side street though!
Thanks!

As per last few logs - no more lid or magnets.

Day 3 of Australia:

Quickly found but indeed no more lid or magnets Thus the little box is just there on the ground where it should be magnetic against smt.

TFTC

Greetings from Latvia and Belgium!

my muggle husband and I are down here from brisvegas to surprise my sister in law. went to the markets first then saw this cache nearby. wow the street art is amazing. thanks for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

Tftc

Didn't want to reach my hand in, but grew a pair and found it

Tftc
Lids gone, log is wet & magnet is gone..
Awesome artwork here!!

Thank you for the cache!

After a few hours inside for a crafty event, decided some fresh air would be welcome. It turned into rather a marathon with the trams not going right into town. To make the walk worthwhile the north end became my focus. Not an area I would normally visit but interesting to see. I had to wait for a clear run but cache was easily found. TFTC

Finally found with the help of previous logs. Tftc.

Tricky one, stay low

TFTc

Nice

Nice

TFTC

Tftc - still no lid.

Made through the rain and the cars. Good spot, interesting artwork

Kewl

More fab artwork down a small laneway. Great little find tftc

I love finding these art filled lanes in melbourne, and geocaching is really helping me get to these interesting back street hideaways. Made hard work of this but eventually found on the way to the market. Thanks for the cache and for bringing me here.

#271 Came from bendigo for Korean BBQ dinner nearby and came for this cache to walk away the fullness we had. Not a easy find as it was all dark until I chanced upon a hint by others. Interesting find, and had a look around the wall art. Love the pikachu on the right.

What a great lane. Love the Melbourne street art

Amazing art in this lane!! So many places to hide a cache found it pretty quickly luckily! TFTC

Cha Ching

Yes. 1 up ddrazz

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Still no lid and a little moist! TFTC!
A great lane way to bring an out of Towner to, thanks again

Awesome laneway thanks!

Arrived at 6:30 am from Los Angeles, flight to Auckland at 4:00 PM. Small But Mighty and myself decided to head to Queen Victoria Market for a while. Beats sitting in the airport for 10 hours. After brunch we took a stroll to find a few caches for some Aussie Smileys. This one took a while as there were many muggles admiring the artwork. TFTC. Greetings from New Zealand.

Missing it's lid, in need of care. TFTC

Quick find

Tricky one. Found it with help from the pictures.

Street art is one of the wonderful things about visiting Melbourne. The alleyway was deserted but for a car, which made spotting the cache and the awesome artwork straightforward. TFTC

Found it after a bit of searching:)

It was very tricky one but we eventually find it great hide now to find some more.

Couldn't find

So hard and tricky but great hiding place

Nice

having to come into the city today for an appointment and while walking around decided to find a few caches i havent found yet in the city.
Tftc.

Today was a HUGE day in many ways![)]
I had to leave Shepparton at 7.30am to head to Yarrawonga and then down to Melbourne for a 1pm appointment for my passengers.......
While they were busy, I parked the car in the Victoria Markets car park then wandered the streets of Melbourne on what is my first time actually visiting the city proper Seeing a long line up, I entered a shop and ended up with a yummy lamb and spinach Gozleme for lunch [^] It sure is a day of firsts
After my passengers' appointment finally finished at 5.10pm our next stop was Maccas for a quick food stop for my passengers and a coffee stop for me [^] before starting the return journey. My day ended just about 10pm and I sure am happy that I managed to score 5 caches for the day as that's now 3 smilies in the Melbourne city centre that I sure didn't have before!

Had to dodge a fancy car here to grab the cache and I also had my hands full with dripping yummy Gozleme, a drink, GPSr and a cake for afters
Putting my belongings down, I ended up on hands and knees to reach the hiding spot and extract the lidless cache.
I'm so sorry that I didn't have my caching spares with me but this is a work day and work vehicle
Hopefully the CO or a kind geocacher will help with a new container and log book at some stage. [^]
Thanks for showing me this very interesting spot!

TNLN. SL. TFTC jsmyong55

Finally I had my eye over it.

Don't give up, it's around the corner!

TFTC IN funky lane

Good first find. Thumb for scale size

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I was in Melbourne only for two days but I fell in love with that city.
Beside of sideseeing I also looked out for some geocaches and I found a few.
This was one of it.

Thanks to jsmyong55 for hiding and maintaining this geocaches.
**T4TC with number 4555**
Luis959
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On a dark night this one wasn't easy and there was a mysterious car parked at the end of the lane which was a bit spooky, but julesc21 and I managed to navigate our way around it and with the help of our mobile phone flashlights I eventually made the find. Will have to come back during the day time to inspect the artwork! TFTC

Cool alley! Missing lid on the cache though but TFTC

On the way with Diana8 to Bella Union to watch the Euro vision semifunal and took a detour down an alley for this cache, which was pretty creepy at night! Looked for a little while to find - the photo definitely helped. TFTC

TFTC ...!

Never knew this alley existed. Such fabulous street art. I loved the 3d installations. The Rustys had already found this so we played hotter/colder til i found it too!

*Found with [Geooh Live](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohLive)*

Nice,tftc

Don't be afraid putting your hand in the hole - leaving a little seahorse

Found it although it's out of magnetic power and a bit skanky

One of best street art works in city what I have seen happy that we came here for cache cache need TaKe care soon cache because logpapers are wet :/ but nice place deserve to have cache thank you

Anzac Day, in the middle of the city grabbing a few caches with only a few muggles about. This had been muggled, as we found the container, less magnets in the end drain and the log book scattered in the laneway. Replaced a dry log sheet and the container to where it should be.
Thanks jsmyong55 for placing the cache for us to find.
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May need to be replaced by CO as it has no magnets or lid. There is a temporary log sheet.

Easy catch but my photo gives it away

Nice streetart Lane!

Thanks for the cash!

Found on the way to a lunch with friends in the city. The iPhone was all over the place but I arrived at the painted lane way to find a couple of vehicles parked towards the far end. No-one seemed to be around so I squeezed by with camera in hand. I found the cache fairly quickly with the help of the hint - the phone not being of any use! A couple of trades did appear soon after loading their vehicles and fortunately they left after a few minutes. The camera was useful to make it seem I was there for a reason. Managed to retrieve the cache and sign without any issues. As I was departed a couple arrived to view the artwork so my timing had been spot on in the end. Thanks for bringing me to a lane way that I wasn't aware of. TFTC

Aloha and TFTC. Great alley.

This was found on my 3rd day visiting Australia. Wow, what a wonderful city. I have enjoyed walking the streets, lanes and many odd places my GPSr has led me. Thanks for hiding this cache. I found it in good order.

really nicely hidden, took a bit to find

Interesting art but did not find the cache.

Nice place!!! Thanks

It was impossible for me to find it but my friend did!!

Found it. Not too much trash where it's hidden. Good spot. Had to wait for some tourist muggles to depart though.