Fabulous February 10 - Valerie Dianella, Western Australia, Australia
By kbinuk2005 on 06-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3C5XC

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Talk about feeling like I've been sprung, the backyard of the closest house has a pair of yappy dogs that just wouldn't stop! And then there were these tick like bugs all over the tree, took ages to extract the log, I'm hoping none of those things jumped on my back yukko! TFTC

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Gps guided me to the wrong spot but franz found it hehe

Hasn't been found for a few months but all is still good. An easy find to cap off a successful day. Thanks.

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Out early before this morning doing a caching before work , while enjoying the variety of hides in the area.This log book was hard to get outTFTC

Clever find.
Thanks KB

Another morning of caching, on the north side of Perth.
Visited some nice parks around the area, and some clever suburban hides.
Thanks for the cache, .K.B..

I managed to get an early minute from babysitting today, so was able to spend quite a while caching in this area, zigzagging in and out of all the highways and byways.
I was here many moons ago when the cache had gone AWOL along with the tree it was in, so very happy today to turn a blue face into a yellow one. Nothing much seems to have changed here since the last visit. Cache quickly spotted, thanks to the description, bit tricky extracting the log.
Thanks for the cache .K.B.

Today I caught the bus to a suburb unknown to me, Dianella. A few hours and 4.5 km later, I had a new PB, 21 caches!
Find 17! Either I or my GPS is getting tired, but this one had me all over the place till I located the right tree. TFTC, K.B.!

out in the area caching today a nice quick find

TFTC

easy find
one of 14 for the day


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A different sort of hide.
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Easy find by Jnr Geocacher. TFTC

Wear old shoes

On holiday with J+j.au from N.S.W. I'm now back home and catching up on my logs. Found this one during our cache hunt. SL..TFTC

This one is good for little people. TFTC

Came back up this way with skippy 46 for another day of caching. We had another very successful day with 35 find and only 3 DNFS. Most caches were quick and easy finds as most of the co-ordinates were spot on. TFTC kbinuk2005

Out for a day of caching with OOH YEh in NOR territory. A successful day with most caches quick and easy finds.
I was a bit concerned when we first arrived and saw that some trees had been chopped down but all was good, your tree is safe and cache is still nicely attached.

TFTH TFTC kbinuk2005

Out for a planned afternoon of caching with Theoutbackwizard101 and TH of TH/CS. Aimed for 20 finds, ended up with 26 with only 2 DNF along the way, no 10 minute rule today, all finds in around 2 minutes or under.

#2. Very wary of the long grass here, probably the slowest find of the day. Two Kookaburras were in a tree near GZ, by the time I got around to taking a pic one had left.. TFTC

Nice quick find whilst two kookaburras were nearby.

Out for a planned afternoon of caching with Ghfb and TH of TH/CS. Aimed for 20 finds, ended up with 26 with only 2 DNF along the way, no 10 minute rule today, all finds in around 2 minutes or under.

#2. longest find of the day but nice hide, two cute kookaburra sitting in a tree near us too!

GSAGC #490. Yet another Fab Feb find... 18 down, 11 to go TFTH.

We have headed towards Maylands to find a couple of caches.
This was one of the fabulous February caches we found.

Thanks kbinuk2005

Just passing so stopped for a quick find. Thanks!

Excellent Cache...

TFTC

Another in the series. TFTC

An easy find. Liked the cache T fTH

Found on a very pleasurable caching run with Kiwi1502. TFTH

grabbed this one whilst out with Ammo 45

Day two and a warmer, drier day greeted me as I left the accom in town. Nice hide and find. This time I headed North and found a great variety of caches and hides, and also visiting spots I'd never been to before. Thanks again kbinuk2005

Easy find, but quite tricky to extract the log from the cache. Got there in the end with the help of the pliers. TFTC kb

Found @ 18:56!

After being reminded that I had yet to get a cache today, I stuck my head out the door and discovered it was raining, so decided to get this one (the closest)!

Spent a while looking at the wrong tree (which was closest to the Listed Coordinates), but found in the more likely tree nearby!

Returned cache to its hide and seconds later a muggle-dog-walker came round down the path!

TNLN TFTC!

Found the cache lying on the ground beneath the tree. Signed the log and replaced the cache in its original position. TFTC

Woooo hoo! Excited to find our first cache after failing 2 others. We did this one at night. There were also 2 rabbits running around the area possibly protecting the site!

TFTC! Great to get back to finding them, I like how well this one sits in the tree

She was a little away from my GZ, but found oll the same. TFTC

Found today with Susan from LightningGEL.
This was find number 22 of 33 for 4 hours work.
A nice and easy find.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Quick find while out with Beaker for the day. TFTC

Well that's a new way of hiding a mint tin. TFTC

Set out to takle a Fabulous Feburary in Steptember. 16/29. Found 12:51. TFTH.

Baffle and I both materialised at GZ at the same time, bright yellow receivers in hand. First time I have encountered a fellow cacher

Hide was a bit harder than the average Fab Feb caches nearby. TFTC.

Found with quoll who showed up at the same spot. TFTC

Easy find once I looked in the right place. TFTC.

Some construction started on the property, so did not attempted this one. After work hours should be an easy find.

Tftc. Found out on a caching run with BarnZy12

tftc. found out on a caching run with Cravo10.

Found this one with Eco&Rev and Geodelcs. TFTC

TFTC - kids liked this one.

TFTC another one done on just on dark with Geodelcs and SGT Ant.

Had a few spare hours so took off geocaching to pick up as many of the Fabulous February series as I could. Found most of them. TFTC

Quick find after a short walk at night.
TFTC

Picked Fabulous Firsday to go caching with Keego and Chil as our second major attack on the Northern Suburbs. Our mode of transport this time was by bike and it proved to be a winner having found over 20 caches in 90mins. I was always last to arrive at each cache short of breath.
As general comment most caches were very easy to find compared to some caches in the Southern Suburbs and in open areas, the playground caches concerned me as anybody watching us would have seen two old guys looking under equipment. Some bush hides surprised me as I know of some owners not liking to look for caches in those areas but they were mostly one step off the path.
We left the area feeling very successful in finding every cache and liking the easy hides.
Congratulations go to the owners of these caches in giving us a great tour of the area and the knowledge that simple is sometimes better.
Had a little trouble getting log out mint tin came with it. Reattached to tree with cable tie.

My first real caching sortie into the much maligned Northside of the Swan River with AmstradKid. All caches were done by manual pedal power and little knowledge of where we were going... lol. An easy find for AK, SL TFTC KB

Cache replaced. It's cable tied (with no damage to the tree!) in the V of 2 small braches in a recently planted tree. The area is currently being used by builders as a rear entry for an adjacent property so the cache will not be accessible as freely as prior.

After urch's DNF I walked to the cache tonight and, although it was dark, it seems as though the tree that the cache was hidden under has been completely removed and replaced with a new tree. Presumably the cache was removed with the tree. There is evidence to suggest that work is continuing in this little "park" so, although I took a replacement cache with me, I'll leave it a week or two until I look at replacing the cache in a similar location.

Sad to say couldn't find this one.

After meeting iluvtrekking we set out on a big day of caching to complete the rest of this series. Parked on Valerie Street and made a quick find in this smallish park.

Found with richlink. Said hello to Valerie and grabbed a smiley. TFTH

TFTH!

TFTC!

Decided to go and clean up a few of the caches I have outstanding in the Dianella area (me wants more smileys!) prior to spending the afternoon with the mothership.

As previously logged by the welshfamily, the cache was wet, but thankfully the log was not.

TFTC KB

quick find with daz and matt

We tipped the water out of the container and the bag but it is still pretty wet, thank you from the welch family

A quick and easy find here to get my smiley for the day. When I first arrived someone was walking down the laneway, but while I was retrieving the cache no-one else was around.

Thanks for the cache kbinuk2005!

Nice quick find.TFTC.

Re-logging under new team name ONLINE ONLY (were formerly part of TheChatterboxes but the team had got too large). If CO is not ok with this please contact me. Thanks.

Found with the help of the Chatterboxes.
Little bit of hunting in between my cousin's ceremony and wedding reception!

did 7 of the FF series in between a wedding and reception in the area! Thanks for the something to do

And thats the last one for the morning. Slowly knocking off this series. Will return for some more next week.

Probably took me longer than it should but eventually had it in hand. Thanks.

Took a little while to find this one my - my fault as I had a "man look" at GZ before we spread out to the other trees. TFTC, KB. A great series thus far.

We found close good shade for Geovehicle while we made the easy find. GPS behaving itself (so far) today. TFTC

Out and about with The Machman this morning whilst he cleaned & tidied up his map!

Nicely done this cache.

Hmmm if MM can wait till Feb 29th to clean his map again, I might have won lotto! lol..

TFTC kbinuk2005

[:(!] Went with Mrs GrumpyBump and geogranddaughter for a few caches before my eye test that afternoon, arrived at GZ and after a several minutes of searching I had the cache in hand. SL TFTC/TFTH

Quick loop through the area this morning. #1 of 3 of the series grabbed this morning. SL TFTC

Out an about for a few hours with FELIX this morning picking up a few recently published Caches.

I said to FELIX before we left to " we will clean up these remaining Fab Feb Caches, get back to Joondalup this afternoon and another will be published"..... sure enough.. just as we got back.. No. 18 arrives !!!!

Think i wait until 29th before i come back again !!!

Are we having "Marvelous March" as well????

Found with no problems.

TFTC.

Find number 1000. Didn't take too long to locate. Nice brick decoy. I should have read the description a bit better as upon arriving at the Grand Prom side I took the long way around to get to the park and then realised there was a pathway a little further up.
TFTC

I allowed this one to cause me some trouble!

Coordinates changed from:
S 31° 54.088 E 115° 52.544

Coordinates changed to:
S 31° 54.090 E 115° 52.544

Distance from original: 12 feet or 3.7 meters.

Despite my fair effort, it seems, from comments in some logs, that my coords on some caches in this series are inaccurate. I have now spent considerable time triple checking the coords using a GPS and online maps. If inaccuracies still occur, please provide updated coords in your log so I can continue to improve the accuracy of my listings. Thanks, and apologies to those who had to use the original coords.

quick easy find
TFTC

A nice simple little series of caches. TFTC.

A quick find - thanks for the hunt.

welcome quick find in only place it could be...cheers KB

Enjoyed myself, admired your description - easy follow and find the container - no problem. Looking forward more Fabulour February... Signed the log. Thanks kbink2005.

(catch up log)


Chwiliwr and I had been out caching all day and after finding the new caches at Ellenbrook decided to come and try for this one on the way home. Had entered the coordinates into the GPS but the GZ it was giving Chwiliwr was nowhere near the description given in the listing so was checking them again when col117 arrived. Decided to go with the description and went the other side to col117 and was lucky to find the cache first. Both of us were surprised to see a blank log. Joint *FTF* with Chwiliwr.

Thanks for the cache and the series you have created.

Published

2TF
arrived to see chwilwr struggling to get coords, i walked straight to the right tree but he spotted it first

tftc kb

*FTF* 1600 hrs
The better half and I had been out caching all day and after finding the new caches at Ellenbrook decided to come and try for this one on the way home. Had entered the coordinates into the GPS but the GZ it was giving me was nowhere near the description given in the listing so was checking them again when col117 arrived. Decided to go with the description and went the other side to col117 and was lucky to find the cache first. Both of us were surprised to see a blank log.

Thanks for the cache and the series you have created.