Peninsula Gateway Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia
By TerryP (adopted by dak's Emu Mob) on 28-Feb-01. Waypoint GC39D

As forced adoptions are no longer possible and the cache is in need of maintenance, the only option is to archive it and let someone else place a cache nearby.

Easy cache.. nice walk into the forest

[This entry was edited by sweetnsweet on Sunday, February 08, 2009 at 2:36:09 AM.]

[This entry was edited by sweetnsweet on Sunday, February 08, 2009 at 2:37:11 AM.]

As dak is no longer with us there is no one maintaining this cache, The Rebel Alliance were unable to pick this one up as it is not actually in daks name. I suggest it be archived and the area be made available for a new cache.

As per my last log.

I was looking forward to doing this cache as it is such an old one and the bush setting was quite nice. However this cache has been muggled terribly and I found the bucket open, wet, and the trinkets scattered everywhere. Such a shame for one of our oldest caches.

Sorry for the bad news.

R - B

Lots of flies around today made this a memorable cache.

Took cd
Left aircraft cards

Found this pleasantly large cache after a nice stroll through a reserve that has an ineresting history and we didn't know existed. Nice easy find.
Took Bananas in PJ's CD, Left Zip Drive Wheel.
TFTC

Found at 12.05pm Had a pleasant walk around till we arived at gz.
Took - Hair Scrunchie.
left - Toy Car.
TFTCSL
The Looney's of Cranbourne aka Ann and David

Found this one after startling a small Black Snake. It was a fairly cool day so i didn't think he would be out.
TN
Left an Autodata Pen
TFTC
Nellyjr

Found at 0735. Made a quick walk...or should I say run as it really started to bucket down from up above. Coords were spot on and made for a quick grab and then run back to the car. Lovely area and nice big container.

Thanks.

Yes, the lid did stand out a bit I'm afraid. Found without difficulty. Nice parkland area, good size cache too. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Nice easy find.Lid could do with a lick of dark spry paint.

Found this one with little trouble! Took White Jeep Travel Bug -'elgine' LNSL TFTC

This was our 1st Victorian find!
TN. Left Jeep TB.

Found @ 1040 after a short walk to GZ where cache was found easily as it was partly uncovered. This was the first cache I looked for over 12 months ago but it wasn't until I looked for another I realised I was using the wrong map datum (AGD66) which put me approx. 150m away. Much quicker trip into the reserve this time!

1st of 5 finds for the day.

TNLNSL TFTC

Attempted this a while ago, but 3yo was tired. Went back on my day off and we found rather quickly.
TFTC!

Logging old caches from old account

nice cache..........thanks.
not very well hidden when i found it!! (nothing covering the lid of the container) so i left it with a better covering of twigs etc.
tnlnsl

Nice easy find on my way to another cache in the same reserve.

Took stubby holder, left blue finger monster.

TFTC.

Nice walk on a another hot day.

Thanks Bitsprayer. (NZ)

Found at 1700. Nice easy find and a great place for a walk. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found this cache on Sunday afternoon with the kids in tow... after I finally got the correct readings from the GPS.. saw a nice big snake right where the GPS said go in here ... luckily the GPS changed its mind as I wasnt going in there... hehe.

Took small Yellow Ball / mine looking thing and butterfly.
Left Fraggle finger toy, Barbie temp. tattoes, and blue Cylinder Toy that always stands upright.

Thanks for a great cache!

Found with FuzzyPickle and a small contingent of other observers and first timers.

Nice little walk through the park. We took the long route to enjoy the surroundings for longer.
Found the cache without too much hassle, apart from the thousands of mosquitos biting us and generally lusting for our skin.

Took flower candle
Left CD
TFTC

Very nice walk around...No one in our group had really been to the reserve before and we live only about 2km from it.
Went as a group of 6.
Took Candle
Left Xmas CD
SL
TFTC

Great Walk in the park. Great hide found it after we walked past it a few times. The son & I did this one the Geodoggy was not impressed not being able to come loooking for this one. And being left in the car. GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRR

I was the visiting Canberra geocacher working off xmas dinner...Thanks

found this cache in the company of Harlips.had an enjoyable walk in the park as well.
TNLN - Thanks for the cache

After a morning of Post Christmas day grazing nothing could have been better than a walk through a reserve with our good friend Hi Pressure.
We left Hello Kitty Around the World TB, a Christmas Tree Key ring with light and about three pints of blood donated to the local mossies!
We took the soil crystals and signed the log shortly after a geo-caching visitor from Canberra - who obviously wanted to work off the Christmas bulge too.
A lovely spot. Thanks for the cache!

Sorry, my note is below as "Any name will do", apparently it won't... So now found as "Echo & Spice"

Found quite easily after giving some following muggles the slip.
There's nothing like a good large cache...
Took TB Poli
Left 2x temporary tattoos, frangapanni floating candle, water crystals & 2x 2 cents.

Echo & Spice (team 2c)

Found by Team Ladava 4.00 pm with a couple of potential new cachers who I think are hooked.
Lots of mozzies today but enjoyed the walk in the bush
Took Geocoin
Left TB
Thanks for the cache TerryP and dak's emu mob

Located @2030 hours.
Great night for a walk in the bush. My first nocturnal cache find!
Took Bugsy's book of Shapes for my little girl.
Dropped off GC "Der Weg ist das Ziel"
Took Epicurean Ellie TB

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Found @ 5:30pm easily with Scooters Mob & NEXT!
Nice little walk.
TNLN SL TFTC

17:25 was the time this cache was found! This cache hunt was completed with Scooters Mob & Clarks Mob on our spectacular geocaching weekend expedition. TNLNSL TFTC

Found @ 17:30 with NEXT! & Clarks Mob TNLNSL TFTC
- Bug "Epicurean Ellie" dropped

I was down in Vic today for a meeting and some business in Hastings.
I had a tiny bit of time left up my sleeve before my commitments so thought I'd grab a quick cache.
Found suitable parking, Had a nice stroll, recieved a few greetings from passing joggers and cyclists (they sure are a friendly bunch around here)then found the nice, BIG cache.
I also note now that this one has been around for quite a while as well.
A great start to the day (albeit about 5 1/2 hours after my alarm went off

TFTC

Grabbed the coin to continue on it's mission

Rated: for Overall Experience

1578 re-logging due to name change

As soon as I started walking towards this one it started raining, but found it anyway.
TN
Left geocoin

TFTC

807. We had planned to do a few others after this one bu it ended up being the last for our peninsula trip. As it was pitch black by now, unfortunately have no idea what the area was like.

TFTC and the exercise.

[This entry was edited by McPhan on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 2:48:43 AM.]

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found 1620hrs by Pickupfamily including kids, plus piksel. We enjoyed a round trip walk, spotting lots of wildflowers and playing tag along the way. Pickup Dragon found the cache when she kicked it! As a reward, she took the TB. TNLN otherwise. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

It was in a very pleasant park, we played tag on the way to GZ. From where we parked, we had to walk a whole circuit to get to the cache.
TNLN
TFTC

On the way to the cache, we played tiggy all the way. Babadooby! At the cache location, I accidentally kicked the box because it was covered in leaves and I thought it made a funny sound so I uncovered it and there it was.
Took TB.
TFTC
I LOVED THE CACHE!

Pleasant walk from the car park and we kept eyes open for muggles. Easy find. Left Guinness TB and snake. TN. TFTC. Tuccamore

4 stubbies and a youngun went a hunting on a lovely sunny afternoon. Wouldnt like this one in the snake season but a fun find and a lovely walk.
Took cat left 4stubbie marker.

Easy find. Followed GPS direct to the spot.

Both Team Members present

TNLN

Found at 9:10pm.
Great walk, great hiding spot. Fun was had by all.

TNLNSL, TFTC

Found with Liebe_li & in the company of The Swaggies who have already found this one before .
Cache still in good condition & well stocked which is nice to see considering how long it's been there for !
TNLN SL
TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

10:40am was very excited to find this one as i didn't know they were this BIG! Found in the (hilarious) company of team Liverpool Red & The Swaggies...Took the Travel Bug! RANDOM! TFTC x

In the neighbourhood thought we'd drop in. Had to tread carefully during the walk after the recent rains and Y? being in heals [B)] didn't help. Cache was quickly found once we got there. TN L Bob the Lobster SL TFTC

Found @ 8:20. Had to go down to McCrae today so left early to do a couple of caches on the way. It's very cold and the fingers are now hurting with the cold. Quick find once at GZ and a quicker run back to the car. Thanks.
Took TB "Princess looking for a home" (Not listed as being in this cache though) LNSL

Found this old cache today in the company of Oenze on our Peninsula weekend. We love these historic hides caches and the walk to GZ was in the rain over very wet ground but well worth it. Thanks Dak for adopting it. TNLN

Find # 1648 and 9th of the day at 1:40pm. Accompanied by Feathertop on our Peninsula caching long weekend. The walk in to the cache was a bit wet so I was glad I had just purchased some new waterproof boots. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx Dak for keeping this old cache active....

Just got into this Geocaching after having a gps for 6 months, and I think I have got the bug!

I found a cache yesterday, and when I got home from work tonight, I loaded a couple of caches close to home and thought... why not! Im going to find one!

Its drizzling raing, its 9pm at night, its dark, so I go out to look for it, by myself... yep... i think im hooked! haha
Great fun! Found it easy enough, even by torchlight!

Took the red truck,
Left a White Budget removal truck.

Thanks for cache!

A nice walk in the park (in the rain). A quiet day, I was in the area (and already wet) so I dropped in. Parked the car a walked in both directions, easy finds and good sized caches.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found by Bob at 1050

These are my favourite types of caches - a bit of a hike in nice bushy surroundings (and no muggles). I was getting a bit concerned as I approached gz - that bush certainly looked like it could make cache finding difficult, but the coords were good and the cache was quite easy to spot .

TNLN

Thanks dak (sorry, my original log attributed this cache to the Chefs)


[This entry was edited by Geodes on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 11:13:30 PM.]

Nice park to walk around.
Quick find.
Took TB Ocean Minded
Left Nothing

TFTC and greetings from holland

Easy find, nice place for a stroll.
Left Bug
Took DVD
TFTC Mark PA7FL

Nice find, easier than expected. TFTC, regards, Serendipitwo.

A nice stroll in the park before finding this nice size cache. Took a magnetic bracelet and left a Bananas in PJs CD for the kids. TFTC.

Found this one while on the way home from my parents. I could see it from the track and after arriving and checking the contents of the cache, noticed there was no pen!! I didn't have one so I opened the date stamp and used the ink pad and my finger to make my mark.
TNSLSL (sort of)
Thanks
Crisp image

Found after a nice sunday stroll,about 5.30pm, took bluey the tree frog to take on a trip to the golden triangle in 10 days time, he might bring us some luck! Took mondo fig and left bracelet and date stamp & pad. Surprised we didn't see any wildlife at all except for some bull ants.
Thanks Terry P & daks Emu mob.

What a nice "little" cache container. Sorry, we had only little swaps to trade, so we left a TB .

Thanks for the cache; kind regards 2cachefix

I've riden my bike through this park many times and after knowing about Geocaching for about a week now, I thought it was a great place for a hide! IN:Wild Turkey Cufflings OUT: Nothing

Found by "38 degrees south" on 30/07/06 at 3:30 pm. Left Travel Bug Homer, took Travel Bug Camo Chameleon. It was a beautiful day to walk in the park. Thank you for the cache. Took Tiger Balm, left playing cards.

This was the very first cache that Romax took us to in our introduction to Geocaching way back in December 2004. Therefore it was fitting that we re found it again today as find number 150. Back then we were not registered so we could not log it. Today we could and did. However our run of bad luck today continued when I backed into one of those solid 150mm square posts in the car park. Not much damage to the ol' Lux (thanks to ARB), but beware in a car as they are very solid posts.

Logged at 1700 hrs.

Took Mini Playing Cards and D'oh! (Homer) TB. This was not logged in so may have been left by 38 degrees south who visited before us.

Left Cat in basket toy.

Thanks to dak's Emu Mob for keeping this cache going.

This was a very nice area of bushland. Decided we needed a large cache to drop off our traveling compaion, Camo Chameleon, and Wow, what a cache! It was an easy find, I covered it over a little better of leaving.
Took glo sticks and mastermind game, left a car, spraycan and playdough and of course Camo TB.
Thank you TerryP and Dak's Emu Mob

found this one a while back, just forgot to log it (around mid july). great reserve, i think it used to be a former pow camp (maybe, heard it from a bloke who heard it from a bloke... you get the idea). But despite the rain was a lovely walk. It was obvious where it was when thought about it. thanks for that one

took: beer playing cards
left: glow sticks (x3, meant as one item)

cheers

chris + erin

Thanks to DAK for replenishing this cache - it is now full of goodies and it's worth it for such an old one. Took koala, left tiger, wish I'd had something more worthwhile to put in. Thanks TerryP for the cache.

We found this cache at 5.15pm. A first to find after the cache had been repaired and replenished, so it was good to get first pick at some great treats for the kids.
A lovely walk in the park, wish we had more time, but it was getting dark.
Took: koala pin, gold rush man, travel cup.
Left: Shapes book, baby bottle teat, lion toy.
We also picked up 'Super Pickle T.B.' so we will move him on somewhere else.
Thanks for the great big cache.

I visited the cache today and replaced it completely. It was in a sad state, unfortunately: the lid was broken, and there was a cup of water in the cache. The contents were a shadow of their former self, and looked nothing like they did when I first logged this cache.

So, it now has a brand new container, and a new set of swaps, all in zip lock bags: bag of Mondo Figures,
2 × Classic DVDs (Laurel and Hardy in "The Flying Dueces" and William Powell in "My Man Godfrey"), stubby holder, travelling mug, photo album, pack of Carlsburg playing cards, Mini Master Mind game (second hand, but in good nick), 2 × dice (several sets), bicycle repair kit, calculator, folding ruler, hair scrunchy, sewing kit (a good quality one), 3 × blank CD-R, 2 × lapel koalas, pot of Tiger Balm Plus, and a new log book. I also added a Travel Bug for the next finder.

I have the old log book, in case anyone wants to view it.

Cheers,

dak

Found without too much difficulty. Its starting to look a bit sad. Its getting a bit vandalised probably by muggles and there is a track to it becoming evident. Its pretty damp inside. I reckon it should be relocated at the reserve that it is in is a great place for walking and exploring. Found in the company of Ryan, Scott, Bill, Lorna and Sandra

Found cache. Cache in need of a bit of a fix up.
T: Nothing
L: Nothing
Signed log.


[This entry was edited by snockley on Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 2:40:24 AM.]

I have been aware for some time that "Peninsula Gateway" needs some maintenance. In fact, last Friday I was on the verge of going down there with a whole bunch of new swaps, all sealed up in zip-lock bags. I have several things to do in Frankston, and I decided that I didn't have enough time to do them all, so I stayed at home.

If it looks like a muggle knows where it is, I might have to relocate it. It's such an old cache that I'd hate to see it archived. Stay tuned; I'll be down there in a short while.

Found the cache...a little too easily! Some geomuggle had found it and wrote a non-nice note in it. Cache is no longer very waterproof. Given the size of this cache, we were expecting there to be quite a collection...but it may have been pilfered I fear. However...great location, wonderful walk (Note: take the LONG way around...it is so much more rewarding!!!). Great park...must come back with bikes and check out all nooks and crannies.
TNLNSL. Rehid cache and made it less conspicuous.

Thought I would give this a go as my first cache ever as it was close to home. Stupid me, picking a cache that is hidden amongst scrub AND buried, whilst I hadn't even got the knack of which direction I was meant to be walking in to get closer to the cache. A really cloudy day and some tree cover didn't help the obvious user problems with the GPS. Note - Go back and find once I have more experience.

Found by edmil & maddie. We took a nice long stroll for this one the day was quite pleasant and while there were a few people on bukes it was quiet at the GZ. The cache was found very quickly, it was a bit damp inside so we dried and replace the damp log inside a second bag, Contents of cache have been prety well depleted, not sure if its been raided or its just a result of long term use. Thanks for bringing maddie and I to this area. A great park. TNLN

a good one to find it is a little wet we tryed to dry it the best we could you will find a nice comment from a local that found it by mistake earlyer this month

Found at 9.09am I used to ride my bike around here until I ran over a snake one day. Walked very carefully today but no snakes found. Enjoyed the walk and the first of 10 caches for the day. TNLN Thanks for the cache.

Found with Shimachic at 12:40.

A nice easy find of a very moss-covered logbook. It seems the cache was also recently found by a group of 11 schoolgirls who kindly signed the logbook. Thanks for an enjoyable walk on a lovely afternoon.

TNLN

By DJ Chambo.
Number 5 attempt for day and second logged find. In town on business and travelling allone.
This was an easier find. GPS led me direct to it. A lovely strole in the bush and a short detour of the track led straight to it.
Found contents of bucket damp and the log book a little worse for ware, but managed to sign it without poking tomany holes in the pages.
Suggest it needs a little bit of maintenance again.
The rock on top was a little suttle concidering all around is sand.
TNLNSL

Found at 1.25PM

Came with Andrea today to find this one, we made our way down the wrong track, she was new to Geocaching and I was surprise she had no complaint to go bushbashing almost 200 metres to the next track thru long grasses. This cache stood out but was covered well. Easy find again.

A nice big one which I should have brought swaps for. Oh well maybe next time.. Thanks for the cache Terryp and Dak. from M.B and A.Mc

TNLNSL

Found it at 16.10 hrs. Nice park and walk.
Out: Fingerdog
In: Qantaspin
Thanks
Meryl(from Holland)

this was a great cache to find in the dark.

Big D and myself were scared silly. on a dark still night, it gave us the creeps. we forged on and managed to find it with the lights of our mobiles. hurrah us

Found at 10.45am GAFF1. Parked as close as possible to the cache and then went on a 250 metre walk. I was being directed to the wrong side of the path at first, but then the GPSr decided to reveal the true direction of where the cache was laying. Found quite easily, but on opening the container a sad state of affairs was presented to me. The container had let some water in and some of the contents were ruined. After drying out the bucket and removing a heap of twigs and dirt, I replaced the swaps as best I could. Took: diary (no Latham comments please) and threw it away. Left: Horse. Thanks dak.

I've got to go down to Frankston to replace one of my other caches, "Yes, but is it art? IV". I'll drop into this one and freshen it up a bit then. I'm in adelaide at the moment, so I'll attend to it next week.

3 farmers ventured from car in cold wind gusts and rain periods whilst 2 enjoyed car sheltered from rain-mrs and junior !short walk was longer than thought but go to cache once at gz.boy farmer kicked large object and cache was underneath.things abit wet and has been discovered by scout group recently .they did there own log saying it was a great event when they read and discovered what it was .its amazing they found despite where it is.? in -toy horse...large...took..2 balls and sharpener.thanks terry p

Found while playing "cache roulette" and driving up the coast with the roof off my convertable.

A sunny winters day - a bright but not hot day.

Did anyone notice it used to be a military compound - well it was according to the big rock just inside the gate.

Pleasant walk in the park and the cache was mine.

in: finger puppet
out: squishy ball.

thanks terryp/dak


BTW, contents were a little damp (and me without my hair dryer!), this bucket might need some maintence when the weather warms up.

Found by piglet
Thanks for cache
took koala and left bubble blower and popper.

My wife was crook today and needed to visit her mum in Dromana, so I took a sickie to drive her there. I printed out a few caches to try for while I was down that way, this being one of them. Turns out, this was the only one I did today because of time, but I still enjoyed it as always. Parked at a carpark south of the cache which required a walk of about 300 metres but it was pleasant. Had little trouble finding the cache, even though the bush is so thick a dog couldn't bark in it.
Took a little koala and left a red horn. Found when I got back to the car that I also took a pen. (Sorry didn't mean to) There are others in the cache so it shouldn't cause any grief.
Thanks very much -Daks Emu Mob and or Terry P.

Found this one today after the GPS finally settled down, took bubbles left shapener and rubber.

Thanks Daks

Fiance found, very easy took TB shorty, will try to fix wheels may take a couple of weeks.

This was a great walk, dont get down this way very often.
I was watched by a watlle bird as I opened the cache.
Droped of TB shorty

Found it finally.. I had never been here, and wasn't zoomed in enough on the GPS to see the tracks, so I made a beeline, and ended up going bush for ten minutes, only to find the cache near the track as described... ( i didn't know you meant THAT near!)

The diary (not the logbook) in the bag was damp/wet.

Lots of mozzies, so wear repellant.

TNLN..

Came today for a return visit..
First found in 2003 & again today, 13/02/2005 at 6pm

Suprised to see so much of the park destroyed by fire, it actually only stopped 5 meters short of the cache!!
Found from memory, no GPS involved

Today was the first time in MANY visits that we actually saw a Kangaroo (the same height as mummy) AND an Echidna crossing the path. The Kangaroo was too quick to get a picture, but we got one of the Echidna!!

Took Car & Flashing green thing
Left 20pk Batteries

Thanks again!
Tatty & Family

Found by Piglet* on the 13th feb 2005.
This cache was close by and I had a little bit of daylight left so I thought i'd pop out and rack up a find for the day. Love this park, thanks for the cache.
Took Koala and left bubblebath and popper.

Found by sblogh53 at 14:35 on 30/1/2005.
We were in a big hurry because I had to be home by 15:20 to bid on an item on eBay... missed bidding for it by 20 seconds! [:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!]
Because of the hurry, I did not want to do the lobger walk from the car park, so we just parked on the road opposite where the GPS said the cache was located. Scrabbled through some light bushes and over a barbwire fence. Ran a hundred metres or so along the track and then left it to do a quick search. I allowed myself 5 minutes to find or I have to leave. I found it in about 6 minutes.
In my hurry, I forgot to bring my swaps from the car so TNLN.
By the way, the container was a little damp and probably needs to be dried out by the next visitor. All the items were in sealed bags so it is not a disaster. However, the log book felt a little damp as well.

Samantha and I spent the weekend on Mornington Peninsula, hitting caches, sampling vino, and enjoying perfect weather for our anniversary.

After a nice stroll, kicked the bucket easily. Thanks!

Took Fox Pencil Top, Left coins.

Coming home from work this one was too good to drive past. Unfortunately I got a little wet. Nice park, I'll explore more on a more pleasant day. Sad to see the destruction from the fire but most is starting to regenerate with lots of new acacias popping up. Didn't take anything as
I was ill prepared for a search except of course the GPS.
Thanks

What had started as a reasonable day out turned a bit wet when we stopped at the car park near this cache.

After getting our coats on and walking off in the steady rain we found the cache with no trouble.

Took Whoopie Cushion
Left Cha Cha Charmin TB

We should have gone home to dry out but we still had one more cache to hide.

TFTC dak

Found at about 3:30pm. Walked in past the evidence of bushfire not all that long back. Will be good when the bushes and trees grow back to provide a bit more shade on the walk. An easy find at GZ.

took Music CD
left spiky ball & "smelly" pen

thanks to TerryP & Dak's Emu Mob