Weeee! Mornington, Victoria, Australia
By Lisablundell on 20-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3D0TR

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Has been muggled

The bananas came to visit expecting an easy find but today this only provided the continuing saga of a long list of DNF's in this town. Perhaps the next time B1 and B2 will have more fun at the beach.

We had a very good look. Nice park and great playground, but could not find it. I wonder if it being so easy, if the muggles have got it.

Found it with ease I'm amazed it was still there

To Easy

The start of another brilliant TDC (The Demolition Crew) run which saw us travel from central Melbourne all the way down to Mornington, collecting over 30 finds for the night. Some great caches and great company. We were 4 up for a while being myself, TrailRunning, Quasar3671 and Rebel Acts, some hard-hitters there to be sure... But Q had to part company early in the night, to head to Brisbane in his new Prado for family matters. My first time caching with Rebel Acts, and what a fantastic bloke, and a fantastic night had by all. Really enjoyed how the team worked all together, it was a lot of fun.

Found where not expected in the end. TFTC.

Another Monday night comes around and I have just arrived back from a great non-caching weekend near Benalla. Blacklegend is on his way down from Tocumwal and is ready to roll on a great route planned for The Demolition Crew. As Quasar3671 is moving north to Brisbane later tonight, the crew only have a few hours together for what was to be a great night's run down to Mornington.

With Quasar3671 having to leave at about 8 pm, the third spot for the night appeared out of the blue in the form of RebelActs who was looking to do some night caching on his own before he called me and asked to join in. Absolutely I say, and he is soon on the way to Seaford to catch us there. The run started in central Melbourne with the members of TDC who hadn't collected Magnum Opus signing the log (All the members of TDC have now complete the Danozz puzzle series!).

This cache was one of the caches I signed tonight. We started by searching the wrong spot until Blacklegend moved further afield to find the cache quite exposed. thanks

Met up with the TDC to do a little night cache, we had a great night, I am not a big fan of caches in children's playgrounds, thankfully all the kids were tucked up in bed after midnight, the coordinates had us at the wrong one. Thanks for the cache.

Beautiful day for a slide

Very easy find, although I'm not a fan of hides in playgrounds (paranoid about people wondering what I'm doing.) TFTC Wattletree.

Easy find, thankfully ... playgrounds scare me (people thinking you're loitering, etc). TFTC.

I was in the Mornington area for work today, so after my duties were done I picked up a few caches on the way home. I normally avoid playground caches but I was there and the park was empty so I got in and out fast.

Why, with a nice big park there, with a dozen other places to hide a cache, did you choose to put it on the play equipment???

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No find

Found at 2:13 PM GAFF5 in the company of BettyBoo3747, maccamob, Phetlern and Robmc.
It has been a very long time since we have found a cache "in" the playground. No one was around today so we were quite safe in our search.
Thanks Wattletree

# 1336. Caching today with Robmc, Pprass, Phetlern and Maccamob. We all sighed with relief when we realised where we need to search. Not a playground! Along with nanos, not my favourite kinds of caches. I retreated for a nice seat while Maccamob (David) came up with the goodies very quickly. And so to the next one for the day. TFTC

It has been quite a while since I have done a cache that is actually hidden on the playground equipment - I can't say I have missed them. We were fortunate today in that there was no one in the park, so it was a quick find to maccamob.
Thanks, Robmc.

14:13
We joined with BettyBoo3747, Maccamob, Pprass and Robmc for a day of caching on the eastern side of the bay. With the threat of deteriorating weather the playground was free of muggles, allowing six adult cachers to make a bold approach, where Maccamob soon held the prize aloft.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt Wattletree.
4115

Found by Mary & David, in company with Robmc, BettyBoo3747, pprass and phetlern, at 1410. Luckily the playground was deserted this afternoon, so we could search in peace. There were a couple of places that seemed to fit particularly well. David managed to find the cache in the second one. Our thanks to Wattletree.

Find # 852 Found @22:32Hrs

The GLW wanted to go find some caches To-Nite so we decided to head South To-Nite to see how our luck would hold out.
Well this was the Third of Eight for the night.



TNLNSL
TFTH

We decided to go for a drive south To-Nite to see how many caches we (Rigger & myself) could find on our way south before heading home.

This one was a nice easy find found in the first place we looked.

TNLNSL
TFTH

Found with Debs 22 as we were passing by. Lucky no children to avoid as the weather was cold and windy.

Have tried this one several times when in the area but always plenty of muggles. I knew today would be the day, no sane person would be out in this wind (only a cacher) TFTC

I think the strong winds today were keeping the littlies out of the parks.
That factor worked in my favour here.
TFTC Wattletree

This is a charming little park, and a lot emptier than the last time I was here! On a caching trip with abl973, it was a quick grab, nice and early on Sunday morning. We stopped to read about one of the local heroes after finding the cache. Thanks Wattletree for the cache.

This has been the first day out caching in a while where the weather has been fantastic - Spring has started very nicely. Today Square Pegs and I are on a mission out from Melbourne to Mt Eliza and back.

This is a nice park and we're the only people here this morning which made for a hassle free find, sign and return. I like the local history here too. Thanks Wattletree.

Found this one on the way home from work with light fading fast, it was an easy find as it was on the ground in plain view. SL and returned to its home along with a bit more camo. TFTC

A nice easy one for the geokids. They loved the park too

Luckily no muggles around this time.
TFTH. Signed log.

Sunday caching with geokid Nate
TFTC LS

Found it Yay

TFTC SL TNLN

Found @ 1:25pm, find # 1557
This was a very easy find at this time of the day/night, I am amazed that this cache is still here as it can be very exposed if it wasn't for a little bit of bark. maybe its a little high for the muggles that would be here.
Thanks to Wattletree for this cache.


This entry was edited by stemicmitsar on Saturday, 14 July 2012 at 22:36:56 UTC.

Once muggles were distracted easy to find

Had to wait for muggles to be destracted by photo time then found without fuss

Took us a minute, now we are off to get some lunch. TFTC

There it is I said pointing from the warmth of the car. Didn't bother taking my GPS, just a pen. The cache was exposed and staring me in the face. Added camo once we signed the log and replaced it in its hiding place. Read the nearby plaque, it's nice to see people remembered for the efforts they contribute to the community.

Very quick find

Good hide! Lucky for me was quiet day at the park

Thankfully we began our search at the correct slide. A fun hide but camouflaging it again was tricky.

Found this one a while ago. Was just searching for some new local caches and realized I hadn't logged it! When we did find this obe, the little one had a great time! TFTC

30/05/12 10:47, #1411
Glad it was quiet here today.
('\(OoO)/') Thanks for the caching fun!

{Sent from a mobile mind, not a mobile device.}°°° +<

This entry was edited by Echo & Spice on Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 05:57:45 UTC.

Questioning my sanity today. Terrible weather but I couldn't pass up cache that was so close to a job site I was on. Current temperature allowing for wind chill according to BOM = 2.8 degrees = brrrrrr.... TFTC

*Late entry*

WOW!!
SUCH A BOLD HIDE.... I had to make sure I re-commoed the hide just to assure myself it wouldn't get muggled after I left the scene.

Thx wattletree for the hide.

We spent some time looking on the wrong slide since the GPS wanted us to be there. We soon decided to leave then thought we should check the other slide and quickly found the cache. Took a reading with my garmin. TFTC.

We passed some mini muggles enroute to here, it wasn't too long before they were in sight, however pre-occupied by muffins we were able to make the quick ifnd, however not before first investigating the other one and removing an suspicious lid of a broken decoy.. Thakns Wattle Tree for the hide.. and Convert for the company.. # 2475

Bush buddy
Nice park nice day

TFTC

found while visiting my own cache in the area. thanks

We found this while out caching with my sister, Blondini51, visiting from Wellington. She, in fact, found it. Not a great day today weatherwise, but a good day for caching as there weren't many muggles around. Thanks for the cache Wattletree.

nice hide, on visit from NZ and caching with my sister and brother in law. TFTC Not great weather.

There were a couple of kids around when I first arrived at GZ, but they soon left. I searched everywhere, but to no avail

I was thinking that with the hint and the accuracy of the gps this would be an easy find. It was not so. Nufrat, Bexta and myself were climbing all around that playground so much that we must have looked like giant kids.
A nice little park in a quiet area.
Thanks for bringing us here CO.

one of four DNF's for our cache raid with Nufrat and Grunterssms in the mornington peninsula, we waited in the car for ages while a muggle family were playing at the GZ. After they left we made a quick move to secure the area, alas although we searched high and low it was not meant to be.

TFTC took some muggle friends after dinner to explore the world of geocaching not quite converts but getting there

Nice hide TFTC

Weeee! Found it! We went first to the cache and then to the memorial with Dicksontwo. Thanks for showing an interesting park.

Found at 2.55 pm after hippihiiri did a "bit" of shopping with which Mrs "helped"! Thank you for putting a cache there to draw attention to the memorial park, it was thoughtful to place it in the play area away from the memorials. We took time to look around and reflect, it should not be treated as drive-by. I met Bill Coventry a few times and admired him greatly.

Third Attempt
But Good Friday no-one about had a lot of time to look
TFTC

Thanks to whoever left the stick!without that it would have been very tricky! Thanks!

I found this one fairly quickly nice inconspicuous hide. The hint gave it away for me!
TFTC SL

This entry was edited by moss123 on Monday, 09 April 2012 at 10:06:51 UTC.

Needed long fingers good hide for a playground nice to see something different

Wooooooooooo weeereeeeeeeee cousins. TFTC SL.

I only had to avoid the gaze of one child and grandma in order to quickly search for this one. Wouldn't you know it - they left as I sat back in the car! TFTC

No chance of getting anywhere near this one today. There was a party in full swing with what seemed like a couple of thousand kids all over the place, so had to keep on driving. Thanks for the hide anyway.

Booyah! Found it - nice and easy! TTFC.

TFTC, nice to see some caches nearby to my parents' house in Mornington! Found on a caching expedition by bike.

Out to find our cache to fill in the day on the calendar and thank goodness it was an easy one. The cache was quickly found, logged and returned to its hidey hole. TFTC Wattletree

Nice little cache, thanx for the hide!

An early morning stroll to make sure we had a cache find on a once in four years day - Feb 29th, the leap day! Bit miffed about this one but then it's my own slackness - I had been planning a multi here! From the location of the container and some marks on the log it would appear to have been found by a small person - it was in plain site. Have placed it 'behind and under' near the start of getting to the beginning of the slippery slope. Little bit of feeling around will be needed.

In company with GrahamT. Looked as though a child in play had found it. Been replaced in a perhaps less obvious spot. A find for leap day - YIPPEE! And I get my first souvenir now.

I headed out this morning with my two boys, to drop Tyler off at a party nearby, then to do some shopping in the afternoon, so I had the opportunity to grab a couple of caches along the way.
We parked the car then went over to GZ. There were a couple of kids playing nearby so I sent the boys in to find the cache. They did great and soon I was signing the log. It took longer to extract the log than it did to find the hide.
Thanks for the hide in a nice little park.

Third of three caches on a mini-night time caching run which came about because I hadn't been able to get my cache of the day - tonight I went caching with the real ZombieDog (if you've seen Resident Evil) - our beloved Doberman, Magnum. There is no better night-time caching buddy because not only does he have excellent Geo-senses, but if anyone tries to sneak up on you, the 40kg doberman quickly sees them off

Had to work a bit harder than I'd expected for this one - the container has already seen better days - kinda crushed, and the log was tricky to get out too...technically a TTF if you count the crowd at the beginning as a mass-FTF amazed this hasn't had more hits since it was released!

Perfect for a night cache - no muggles around!

TFTC

Gr8 job nice cache

Bummer!
Just missed out on FTF . Was beaten to it by Saulman1010, Cronix38, bigears and NurseSuzy. Coordinates were at least 20m off and the description not very accurate. Oh well, another cache for the records.
TFTC

FTF with Saulman1010, Nurse Suzy, Big Ears and Dobby762 came a few minutes later and just missed out. Found by Saulman1010, but Nurse Suzy was the first there. TFTC

Published

Joint FTF at 3:15pm
Co-ords a little out. Met owner or representative on site and discussed cache location and obtaining co-ords
Cache at : S38 13.260 E145 02.170

FTF my my we were all like bees around a honey pot. thankyu saulman1010 for kindly making the adjustment to the co.ords. TFTC Lisablundell SL a lovely park. cheers

Coordinates changed from:
S 38° 13.288 E 145° 02.166

Coordinates changed to:
S 38° 13.260 E 145° 02.170

Distance from original: 171.4 feet or 52.3 meters.

Getting it right slowly. Thanks Geo-cachers for your helpful feedback.