Thanks to White Jaegar Enfield, Victoria, Australia
By sully1 on 22-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3HMY9

Archiving due to a few DNF's and my inability at present to be able to get to do a Maintenance Check at present, and may not be able to get there for a while.

No luck today after searching for 20mins and being on the phone to a previous finder. Maybe next time!

We spent 15 minutes looking today with no luck. We will be back.

No luck finding this cache.

Took my mum out and she found her first one....sneaky hide

Good find, clever

10:34
Looking at my stats after finally getting a smiley on that pesky day of the year, I dithered over which challenges to concentrate on next, and realized a bunch of hidden months from the early days were covered by hides not too far out of Ballarat. In Victoria, I can potentially tick off twelve of the twenty blank months in the chart, and nine of those are within striking distance... I think we have a winner.

One of the aforementioned caches is in the Enfield State Forest, which gave me the opportunity to pick up a few bonus caches on the way.

Thanks, sully1, for thanking White Jaeger.

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Found it this time. Nice hide. Thanks for the new log St Anthony but my pen wouldn't write on it.

Amidst gum trees, well yes, GPS was also strange. Nice work. Replaced log with waterproof paper and will return waterlog log to you at next event. TNLN TFTC sully1

Great camo but water damaged so couldn't get the log out to sign it tftc

I was getting a lil bit bored at home when my brother came around and suggested we go for a drive. We started heading this way when I began wondering if I could grab this cache whilst over here. After a lil detour and a quick search the (very wet) log was signed and replaced. Tftc and the series. This is my last for the series unless the flyjabiru cache comes back

This one had me looking up, down and all around, tricky little hide. Lol. When i did find it, the log was damp and the cache is starting to fall to pieces. Tftc

Took a while until we decided to look at previous logs and found that we weren't looking for a container under a tree. Good hide! SL TFTC

I brought a friend along with me on this one.. .. I found it! !!Yay! But she wade amazed with how it was hidden.

As we continued our hunt today this was to be our second find of the day, we look everywhere, mmmmm well lets try again says geokid, so we looked some more, and then there it was, what an excellent sneaky hide, and so close to home, we have passed this way many times (and still do) but been able to stop, now we can continue to pass with a smile on our face. TFTC

I too looked high and low,round and round I went looking for the odd thing out. At last I spied it with my little eye, I was one happy cacher, a clever hide Sully 1 another find in the series. TFTC.

I looked high
I looked low
I looked under
And around too
But that little container
Didn't come into view.
Guess I'll try again another time!

Needed to get the last 2 "Thanks to..." series missed when here last time. As we were very new to caching this one actually alluded us, but now with nearly 2000 more finds behind us, it was so much easier. Experience does help!
Thanks for the series sully1, its a great tribute to the Ballarat cachers.

Another one that took us 30 minutes to locate, it was not what we were expecting, very nice one. Thanks sully1.

Took a little but eventually found it. TFTC

This one had me walking around in circles for a good while. Thank goodness for the logs

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!

In a non-descript place,
I looked for a cache.
None to bee seen,
Was I too keen ?
How on Earth would I avoid egg on me face ?

I kept a lookout,
For a cache hereabout.
And after a while,
On me dial a smile.
I did spy the odd one out

TFTC, great bit of camo !!
But obvious if you think about it

Cette fois-ci j'y suis allez en voiture à cette cache
tout de suite je met la main dessus hihi, super cache !
Very nice ! Merci encore

15:44
Like a number of caches we have found placed by White Jaegar, this was another very clever cammo.
Many thanks to the CO for this series of game pieces strategically placed in the Enfield State Forest. Over the years we have had the pleasure of finding many caches placed by the members of the local Ballarat caching community. It is terrific to see them acknowledged as even more teams join this fascinating and ever changing activity.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt sully1.
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An afternoon catch up before event night with the 2 wanderers Cauzsa in a prankster mood and funny with us while looking for this one We were all looking for this when then mmmm l wander if and yes it was . Always enjoy the range that Sully1 has thank you

Found while out on an afternoons caching with Cauzsa. A nice little walk through the bush and a very sneaky hide indeed.
TFTC

Out caching with Fergzter we park a short walk from this one but it was a ncie walk and a quick find. TFTC.

Todays 3rd find with LionJRB. After taking the ute down some tracks we shouldnt have in the wet we decided to do a bit of a backtrack to the main road. LionJRB soon enough said LEFT!!! And left we went up another lovely muddy road. We decided against driving up to the GZ as the track looked a bit soft and I had no recovery gear with me. So we walked the last 100m to the cache. After spying something out of place in Eucalyptus forest the cache was found, signed and hidden again. TFTC Sully1

Found in dusk, very clever. Thanks

Brilliant. Thanks!

Nice easy find. Thanks!

Found with neavsie. Tftc

Found @16:40

The second time around to start to finish theses ones off.

TFTC TNLN

I get the feeling that you really enjoyed placing these caches Sully1 and I was very impressed with the variety of hides.
Unfortunately it was getting close to the end of the day and Tag-along was soon to be home. I had to abort the last few finds but will be back to complete the series soon.
It is a nice tribute to the people who give back to the game so that we can all continue to enjoy it.


Not too sure who this is but I do meet the name in my travels. The hide may need some TLC as the 'lid' is a little smaller originally. Nice hide here.
TFTC sully1

What a grate geo name for a geocacher TFTC

I almost missed this cheeky little hide while nightcaching with shamus1. This was our last find for the day. We've had a great day and a great adventure lost in the forest, our Thanks to Sully1

This was one of over 110 caches I found during a huge day and night of caching with my fellow cachers Trailrunning, Rebel Acts and Blacklegend (The Demolition Crew). As we all had the day free we carefully planned in advance the run and decided to call it Ballarat Smackdown II. The plan was ambitious and resulted in almost 22 hours of continual caching.

The day started in the early hours of the morning in the far eastern suburbs of Melbourne, then moving through the northern suburbs then onto and along the Western Freeway to Enfield State Forest then north up to Ballarat itself. We cached through Melton, Pykes Reservoir and Bacchus Marsh and many of the country roads north and south of the Western Freeway as we made our way west.

We had a fantastic day finding all the different types of caches and there were some quite inventive, very tricky and well constructed hides that we found. I thank all the cache owners for the time and effort they have spent in placing all the caches we found today.

I found making our way through the Enfield State Forest to be the highlight of the day and my Prado handled it very nicely. We couldn't believe it when some more caches were published in here the next day so we immediately began planning our next Ballarat Smackdown trip.

Another legendary cache run by The Demolition Crew (myself, TrailRunning, Quasar3671 and Rebel Acts). We have dubbed it Ballarat Smackdown II. This was a huge run taking us all the way from near Cardinia, via the northern suburbs of Melbourne, to Bacchus Marsh and Melton and finally Ballarat. A massive loop, and over 100 caches for the run. The company was as always fantastic, a lot of laughs, good dinner, and great caches. Many thanks to all the CO's for the hides, without them we wouldn't have been able to find anything.

Still very much enjoying this area, top stuff and another nice cache. TFTC.

This was, cache # 64 of 117 finds for the day in the company of The Demolition Crew. we had a quick find as we enjoyed our drive trough this area. My thanks to sully1 for the cache.

This cache was found by me today in the company of The Demolition Crew.

While I strive to make my logs personal to every cache, I have far too many logs to do, that I apologise in this instance for using a generic log. I thank you for the placement of this cache as it was one of many that made up a great day for me and the crew..

The Day's Blurb...

The annual holidays is always a great time to relax and take it easy, but not today. The Demolition Crew had decided that after such a long break from caching together that we would start the year off with a bang! So the planning minds were put into operation, and Ballarat Smackdown II was conceived.

The smackdown started along way from Ballarat, in fact in the hills around Cardinia Reservoir and from there is was a push across the northern suburbs of Melbourne through Melton & Bacchus Marsh. It being such a hot day, the waters of Pykes Creek Reservoir cooled and refreshed us, and we were soon off to start on the Ballarat caches.

Since our first Smackdown in the area, many new caches have popped up, so it was a fruitful run which ended well into the early morning. A couple of caches were replaced as a way of saying thanks to those who took the time to place them, and I think in the end my tally was well over 100 for the run.

It was a completely awesome day, and I thank you for placing the cache. We will return to the Ballarat area soon as there are still a number of caches we left undiscovered.

Managed to find the way in to this one and then started the search. Happily I wasn't losing it on this cache and it was a quick find.

Found 13:35, in the company of Muzza during our October combined caching day.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks sully1.

Found while out with Biggles Bear on our monthly trip, this time to areas south of Ballarat. Nice bit of camouflage.

Thanks to sully1 for the cache.

Found on a clear night with a great view of the stars from here. cache took a few minutes to find as the i phone was strugging here.

TFTC

Walked in here from the main road, which was very pleasant. The lambs were running and jumping in the paddock as arrived at GZ. was a bit worried about how long this might take to spot. Happily I saw it straight away.

Thanks for bringing me here.

Thanks to White Jaegar, not sure what a Jaegar is but it might be their dog from their profile pic. Anyway I've found a lot of their caches but seems there's about 3 I haven't come across.

great cache found while on a day caching with Teamranger but it has now turned into a day / night caching run TFTC

nice easy cache on a day/night run with ogrebeast tnln tftc

Thought I was going to need 4L as I drove down the track, plenty of mud and water to negotiate on the way to GZ. A nice hide for this cache, not too difficult as I had seen this cache container on a number of occasions previously. Thanks sully1 for the additional mud on the geoPatrol and the cache. I'm much happier without bitumen under the tyres.

Another nice hide! Thanks for this one.. again.

A pleasant if slightly muddy afternoon chasing down the 'thanks' to series. i'm always amazed a the maze of tracks everywhere in this area. TFTC.

The ageing Bushfire and the suscoe team decided to visit the Enfield Forest and look for all the "Thanks to caches" and others that have been placed in this lovely area.
The suscoe team worked out the route and planned our method of attack and all Bushfire did was to provide the wheels.
This was our 18th cache for the day and I thought the planning of this cache with a turning circle was a great idea. Good hide and quick find by us and we were on our way before it starts raining to hard.
Thanks again sully1.

Suscoe's 18th find on a day out in the bush with Bushfire!
This is a very nice little hide and a lovely area of bushland and farm land.
Well done to sully1 for a nice range of hides.
Signed and returned.

Found on our afternoon Enfield run. Thanks to sully 1 for the placement of this cache and also to White Jaegar for your contribution to geocaching.

After a pretty horrible weekend Eddie was feeling up to a little drive in the car.
We picked out a couple of drive-by caches and enjoyed the trip.
Parked quite close then found the clever hide quickly.
Thanks Sully1 we got to use a couple of new toys too

Found with Mum & Dad.
I have been feeling really sad the last few days but this cache cheered me up.
Thanks Sully1 it was a nice drive and cool hide.

I came down here with featherdown this morning to find the caches in this series. You have obviously given a lot of thought to your hides and the variety of cache hides today kept us on our toes. It is a long time since I have been into the Enfield Forest and during our time here we did not see another car until we exited the park near Scarsdale. We did not unfortunately have time for flyjabirus cache today as it was a tad off route.
Overall we had a great time, gathered in 15 caches and headed back to Ballarat for lunch before the weather changed for the worse.
Thanks for these sully1

A good hide but we soon cottoned on to how you had hidden it. Lots of interesting hides so far.
Thanks

Found by Mary & David at 1635. In the late afternoon sun, the white sheep looked snowy, sparkling clean against the green grass. Our thanks to sully1.

Found with smegheads, highrod and tigersden.TFTC

Missed logging a couple of these.
On a day out we took Sue with us in our Jeep (rob was squashed in the back) Along with Highrod and Tigersden.
Thanks for the cache.

Joint find with smegheads, highrod and kinkell1.
TNLNSL TFTC

Found with tigersden, kinkell1 and smegheads
Tftf sully1

A nice interesting hide, But a quick find all the same

Thanks Sully1

This one took a while with the CO standing nearby laughing at my search.
Bugger, I'd checked there, but not well enough, cleverly hidden indeed.
Congrats to White Jaegar for your inclusion and your contribution to this game,
and thanks again to Sully1, this one gets a favorite tick

Interesting hide. I take it you got caching goodies & ideas from the Mega Event? TFTC!

A quick find on our way home after a big day. Thanks again for this hide and enjoyable one at that.

*FTF* Out on a unplanned cache run with º. When new cachers are published you never know where you might end up. This was only a short drive away from where we planned to start our night in Bentleigh. TFTC

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This one made me feel really stupid - for a good reason!

( Found this on a very unplanned caching run with covert ... what started as "grabbing a few caches in Bentleigh" ended up as beating the demolition team to a lot of *FTF* 's )

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