Top Of The Hill--again Preston, Victoria, Australia
By G-2 & Giles on 03-Sep-11. Waypoint GC33GRD

Time to go

Still trying to get to Melbourne, been shut out for 2 years now, will be back as soon as I can.

Saw a previous log that showed exactly where it was, can confirm it is no longer here. Thank you.

Cache is no longer here

Need to check

Sadly We couldn’t find it

Spend a good 20 minutes looking, couldn't find

DNF

Had a quick look on a night walk, no luck this time

Thanks .K.B. !

Howdy from the Perth traveller. So happy to see this cache going strong. This is my first stay for the year! Image attached.

Found it with 3 friends who have never done this before. And thought I was joking.

Have flown down to Melbourne from Sydney for a 2 week training course at the Melbourne Tullamarine Airport Air Traffic Control Centre, but my main interest will be in collecting as many Victorian (VK3 in HAM radio terms) caches as possible during my free time away from the workplace. My primary caching target areas will be the Woodlands Historic Park (with it’s 100 plus caches), the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, the Outer Circle Railway Trail, the Donaldson’s Creek Trail, the Ruffey Creek Trail, Eltham (Diamond Valley Railway), and the suburbs surrounding my Essendon apartment. This was the 1st of 50 finds for the day, and the 169th of 242 finds for the trip.

With only one weekend available to me for private activities (between the two weeks of training) I planned to make the most of it with some serious caching activities lined up for both days. Today (Sunday) I was off to Eltham to visit the Diamond Valley Miniature Railway, where a work colleague was rostered on for train duties, and to do some of the cache trails that lay along my intended route.

Stopped off at this one as I was driving by on Bell Street, parking on the other side of the road and then ducking over for a nice quick find for the first cache of the day. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC G-2 & Giles.

Find #3666

Managed to park 97 metres from GZ. Nicely tucked away. TFTC

2nd attempt and found it with geokid thanks for the find

Found thank you for placing and maintaining the cache.

This cache has had numerous visits from me, sadly I could not locate it on those trips, but today, I can now change the blue grumpy face to a smiling yellow one, thanks for the hide, it is in good condition, after many years and I think many replacements, again Thanks for the hide, G-2 & Giles

15 May 2019:
Streak Day #76/366
(1 March 2019 - 29 February 2020). TFTC and a quick grab

Magnetic doesn’t really serve a purpose in its current location but found anyway. TFTC

#1624 - 10.30am
Out on a cool grey Easter Monday with my much missed fiancé.
Parking was a bit of a challenge. But the cache was signed without drawing any of the nearby muggle attention.

As yesterday's Easter fades, ANZAC Day moves into the spotlight. My mind turned to injured Soldiers and Purple Hearts, and how they say "all is fair in love and war".
Lest we forget.

Thanks, G_2 & Giles.

It has been a long caching drought for me but I took the chance of being in the hotel to grab this one on a weekend of Discworldy geekyness at the Australian Discworld Convention. TFTC

All good here

A quick find after breakfast. On a trip from Sydney for a wedding, we are staying in the hotel just near here. TFTC.

Found by the youngest of the geokids after our weekend in Melbourne for the Taekwondo world championships. TFTC

Early morning start with mr 4, easy find with his magnetic personality

TFTC

Cute little hiding place

Cool

First find on a hot geocaching session! Probably not the smartest idea to be out in 38.

Liked the container!!!

Came to the East for some work and a small geo gathering.
Drove around a lot, walked even more... Found your cache.
Staying in the nearby Bell Motel, had to wander over and get this one!
Impressive flag pole!
TFTC G_2

Arrived for Mega this weekend and staying here overnight. This was just by accommodation. First cache for weekend.

A quick find while we were waiting for new tyres to be fitted to our car. Isaviv 1 Nov 2018

Nice and easy first find on a relaxed caching day.
Had to circle a fair bit in order to find a spot to park my car first...
TYFC

1st one of the day & the lead up to my 300th !!

Found after a quick search with Smrff78. TFTC.

Quick little find on our way back to our accommodation after the WWE. Signed log and returned to hiding place. TFTC

Had to loook on the map. GPS on my phone got crazy. But worked good. Nice hide

Nice quick find, tftc!

Good quick find. Thanks

A nice little hide. Memories of being in PANCH 2 North with a broken leg back in the 60’s.
SL TFTC

**Find #1929**

On a Sunday Morning the muggle count was still high. A nice quick find and a neat little cache.

Thanks **G_2**

TFTC.

Thank you G-2& Giles, It was good to come by here and find your cache, my daughter was born here and it brought back memories. A great hide and container, I've seen them on pinterest so I will copy it and make one myself. Nobody around today so it was great for a quick sign and replacement.
Greytiger

Tftc.. We are on a month long road trip from the gold Coast to Adelaid and everywhere in between. Loosing our marbles one at a time as we stop at plenty of caches along the way

First trip to Melbourne and thought we better have a look and see if there is any in the area.. this was just out front so on go the jackets and off we set

Lil stroll and we had the cache in hand..

Sheanstar and LylRawr

Nice little nightime wander from our hotel room! First of two nights in Melbourne.
Almost had us fooled. Re-evaluated ourselves for a sec and saw it right away!

Tftc! We are on a month long road trip from the Gold Coast to Adelaide and everywhere in between. Losing our marbles one at a time as we stop at plenty of caches along the way!

LylRawr and Sheanstar

Forty plus years ago I passed this place on my way to Coburg Teacher’s College/ State College of Victoria - Coburg/ I forget what it was called in third year in a bus, when I didn’t have a car, and there was a big hospital here. A few years later I even had to use its facilities after a workplace accidental a with a guillotine (chipped tip of thumb ). Since then it’s changed its purpose considerably. I found this pretty quickly on a quiet, sunny Mother’s Day afternoon. It gave me a great chance to check the old building out on foot. TFTC

Nifty little find. Thanks for there lunch time grab

Nice easy find on a early morning walk. What a great cache that could be easily found safely even if there were heaps of muggles around. TFTC

Fortunately I found this one quickly on such a hot day, before lunch at Preston Market. Vietnamese yum.

Quick grab whilst staying nearby

A busy road but a convenient spot to be just waiting around... tftc

Quick and easy find thank you

A short tour of Meccico from north of the border. Something about tennis and a visit to a diver. This cache added to the fun and was found in the last place I looked. No medical checks needed so I cached and moved on. Bong central behind the red box (which is about 10m from GZ so don't worry). Of course I checked there....

Thanks to G_2 and *clear skies* from TeamAstro. Cache the planet!

Headed out after a lazy Saturday at home to visit Welcome to Thornbury for an early dinner. Grabbed a few caches on our way there, this was our fifth and final for the day.
TFTC

Clever camo this one!!

I had a dinner meeting at a restaurant inside the complex here. Now I couldn't count the number of times I've been past here but always on the way somewhere else. Today was destiny and I made the find after dinner with my friend, also a geocacher, who has already found this one but not at the same spot I found it in. Much quieter after rush hour!! Tftc

We have driven past this cache numerous times and today was finally the day we decided to grab it. We expected it to be tough given the muggle factor but we had a surprise when we found Bell Street quiet compared to it busy self. Thanks to the muggles for allowing us to look....

Found by Team Justice #1912 CDWAF #361

I spent a few weeks laid up in this building when it was known as PANCH
I looked in what I thought were the obvious spots
But the GPS had me moving around
I sat down and spotted something out of the corner of my eye
Waited for a couple of muggles to pass by then soon had the cache in hand
Thanks G-2 & Giles TFTC

13:53
FITW GreenGoblinNZ

The Land Down Under! This is the third time I'm passing through but the first they actually let me in! Did some snail-mailing and got the transit visa eventually!
Anyway, we only had 9 hours between flights, so visited GGNZ's friend that lives here and this was the closest cache to her house.
And hidden by a New Zealander! Greetings to Westies!

#5160

Out with Rc, her first experience tftc

Yes!! Found!! And teacging geocaching to friends!!

Headed out after OzHockeyChick had finished work with Papillion4056 for some caching closer to the city. What a funny night getting stuck in lane ways hurting ourselfs and the massive amount of laughing. Was a great night out.

TFTC> and for making the game more interesting.

7:39 pm #3199
Out caching this afternoon/evening with Mrs Papillon4506 and Lukie1987.
Ended up on the wrong side, so Lukie1987 bravely climbed over, while multiple police response units were gathered nearby.

Turn left they say. NOW! Quickly indicated and turned left into a police car convention. Luckily they were otherwise engaged and we made a quick find. Thanks for the cache and bringing us here.

TFTC. My eldest daughter was born there when it was a hospital - PANCH - Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. Has changed over the years!

Saturday morning and a bit of caching was in order. TFTC.

Ha funny hiding place quite out in the open . Funny I'm trying to pin point a location and as I'm scratching my head I look down at where I'm sitting to be greeted with the cache which my phone is telling me its 10 metres away. Tftc gave me somthing to do whilst waiting for my first aid course to start. Well you never know when you may need to help a fellow cacher

In Melbourne for the eldest daughter's wedding and I have a free hour. Wedding day caching! SL TFTC

Quick find near a very busy road today...

Over in Melbourne for work, i checked into my hotel and shot out for a few finds.

I can't wait to catch up with everyone again at
[WA GOES BIG 2017](https://coord.info/GC6TD11) in Rockingham, WA.
Perths big event is on again.
**See you there**.

G--2 - Kyzabra found your cache Top Of The Hill--again . The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache.!

I was down in the big smoke learning all about my new job and staying at the establishment. It took 3 goes to sign the log. First time a muggle sitting there, second the pen I had didn't work, third time lucky.

TFTC G--2

Arrived nearby and crossed the road at the lights as we got closer the dodgy muggle at the bus stop moved on. A quick search and younger UTurned had it in hand while the dodgy muggle met another dodgy muggle up the road. Signed the log and rehid where it was found and left the area to the dodgy muggles. Seems to be a few in this area.

1st geocache. Nice easy for me

Yeys

Last one for the day. TFTC

Our goal today was to enjoy a day of sight seeing while in the area. As we were staying at nearby motel we grabbed this nearby cache. TFTC

Yippee got it. I've looked before but no joy, but today had time for more of a look and came up with the goods. thanks for the cache!

TFTC- here for work, so good to be able to sneak out and pick this one up.

Find #2521

I was attending a Saturday morning kids birthday party in Thornbury before heading to the Red Centre event so I was able to try a few caches in the area. This was the third of three finds before the birthday cake became too much of a lure. Found a good spot to park that was both close and legal which wasn't easy around here! Proceeded on foot and after waiting for a few muggles to pass I spotted the cache and was able to make the grab. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache G--2.

Found with goldielover while visiting your great city. Soon spotted and log signed.
TFTC

Just converted one of my muggle friends to a geo side. TFTC

Thought we'd better come out and find the closest cache to home. Must have walked past it a thousand times!

I admire the construction of the container, quality, TFTC

I had arranged to attend GIFF today however I thought that I would grab some caches that were nearby the event venue. The rest of the family had decided that they had other things to do so I was flying solo.

At the GZ there was no foot traffic so I was able to make a quick retrieval. TFTC.

Tftc. Log a bit wet due to recent torrential rain, but otherwise ok!

was I waiting for the bus or was I just hanging out to catche a cache. only me and the bus driver know

I was skating around this arvo on the longboard finding caches and the best bit about this cache is.. Its on top of the hill! ..all sweet downhill rolling from here. Thanks for the adventure along the way.

FTF! Well, the replacement anyway.. TFTC!!

all ok

Needs a look at

Had a good look, but no luck at coords or with hint. Muggled?

Sad to say did not find. GPS was jumping around a bit and even used hint photos but all to no avail.

Drive on this road every day. TFTC

I've been getting real good at leaving my pen behind lately. Got a pic for proof. TFTC

Nice easy hide. Log and cache in great shape. Thanks for the cache!

Staying across the road at Bell Motel ... cache only 192m away, which was just as well as I'd forgotten a pen, so back I went got the pen, retrieved the cache (good coords) and signed the log. TFTC!

Cool little find!

Thanks

Quick grab. Staying nearby. In good condition. TFTC

TFTC...Left a little Serenity...

In Melbourne for a wedding. Spend a few days in the city before moving out here to stay in the nearby hotel. Most convenient. Yes catching up on caches that I have forgotten to or simply missed logging over the last few years. TFTC

Wanted to do a geocache as the weather had cooled down and this one was close to where we lunches on the High St. A quick find! Tftc!