Not Quite the "Real Thing" Leeming, Western Australia, Australia
By Grammie & Grumpy on 30-Oct-12. Waypoint GC40FGX

After attending a friends memorial in Geraldton we are heading back to Perth to drop CrackerGirl off at the airport. We still had a bit of time to fill in so we are chasing lga's and challenge caches to fill in the day before she has to leave.We headed off to another lga and another very nice little park that we would not have known existed without this cache.As we approached gz we spotted four red tail black cockatoos just flying around looking quite good. Our co-ords today had it out a little bit but the hint made it quite easy and the cache was found right where the hint suggested but unfortunately logbook is a little bit soggy.We were able to add our names to log and then return everything as found. Thanks for showing us this nice park and the hide.

Found with Skycat12 in the bush tftc

Found it thanks to the detailed hint and previous logs. GPS if a bit off In need of maintenance as it is only sealed one end and rusting. Looks like the container has been switched out as it doesn't resemble the name/series any more. Tftc

This one needs some TLC as log is unprotected in rusty container and open to elements on one end.

My gps was 11m out but the hint helped me find it! Tftc

Out with axell33 and caching in this area today. We had to check this clever and rustic hide out before we were sure! Good one! Thanks for the hide here Grammie & Grumpy!

Out enjoying a day of caching and we stopped for this one. We enjoyed the the short walk to gz and after a few minutes searching we spotted something and sure enough there it was. We made our mark on your log and returned your cache as we found it. It blends in nicely, favourite point coming up when I get a fresh batch delivered. TFTC Grammie & Grumpy.

Not a quick find as my GPS was off about 10m. Looked at the spoiler photo which helped to track it down. Thanks for the hide.

Good quick find

This one was found quickly after work thanks

This was quite an easy find with the help of the hint. Log is dry and cache in good condition, so the need maintenance note can be removed. It started to rain after I returned the cache. Thankfully there is a nearby playground for shelter… TFTC

After reading the hint I wasnt sure what to expect. My GPS had me a bit off but after widening my search I came up trumps with the cache and a smile - thanks for placing this Grammie & Grumpie

Own on the southern side of the river today , collecting a few smilies around . This one has searching for a while, so after reading the logs , used the spoiler photo and all good here. TFTC

I couldn't find the others in this series but I found this one thanks to a lot of help from the hints and the logbook. TFTC

Found about 13m from my gpsr's gz.
Certainly helps to read the logs.
Went down the wrong path as well
Eventually found the right tree and spotted something unusual.
G'day from Brisbane
TNLN TFTC

Spectacular flowers.

Haha. Nice fake

Loved the clues and a awesome cache

Found with little issue, more like stumbled across it.
Cache in need of attention. Cache has no bottom and is completely rusted. Cap still provides some protection.
No log visible even with some poking in the hole with some tweezers.
Water proof log placed inside.
Thanks for the hide Grammie & Grumpy

No bottom to pipe. Very rusty and no log.
Cap providing some protection but needs some attention.

After doing another cache in this series near by I realised that it doesn’t fit in with this hide nor the spoiler photos for that matter.
I came back as I was concerned that maybe I hadn’t actually found the cache.
I followed the directions which led me to the exact tree where I found the suspect cache.
Has someone swapped this out for something else for some reason?

I went out a month ago to try and find this one, but gave up presuming all the DNFs below were the issue, however I found what you did, Gumnut6160! No log there so I assumed it wasn't supposed to be the cache..

Lizard soaking in the sun

Out for some caching today practising our social distancing and frequent hand sanitising. Actually my hands have seen more alcohol lately than my stomach!

TFTC

Would never have found this without all previous hints so thanks one and all! Finally grabbed before the next shower set in.

Couldn’t find using the navigator

Found after a extended search and looking at recent photos we were able to narrow the search and soon found the find. Probably would be easier during the day . Thanks for placing.

This took quite a bit to find as where we were pointed didn’t match the hint and when we followed the hint seemed to be too far from where we were being pointed.

I started to read some logs and as I found some suggest coordinates I C Nothing called out found it, very close to where the new coordinates were sending me.

Thanks Grammie & Grumpy for placing this cache for me to find, this is find number 2089 for me.

Not quite the real thing but nearly. Thanks, Grammie & Grumpy, we made a quick find using the coordinates mentioned by previous finders 091/354.

The clue helped a lot as my iPhone had me looking some metres away. Thanks for the cache.

Got it

Find 6 of 30 with 2 DNFs on a pleasant, sunny bike ride centred on Leeming and Willetton. Today's fun was mainly sponsored by Paskersfind.

Winner of the most frustrating cache of the day. Tried our GZ for a bit, and to make it fit the hint. No luck there, so we read logs, looked at images, set a new waypoint etc. Even with that weight of info this still took a few minutes to uncover. Hats off to anyone who found this without all that info! The co-ords are certainly out, the replacement ones are much more accurate. The hint makes some sense if you start at the correct basketball court! Eventually the cache was uncovered.

Many thanks for the cache, Grammie & Grumpy

Thanks cords close. 090 & 354

Find #257 of 365 streak. A hot day to be in the bush but I have to keep the streak alive. This one took effort. As per previous logs GZ was off by 10 plus metres.
Using the photos I got myself a likely spot. Still took me 20mins and a lot of sweat to finally lay my hands on it.
TFTC

The clue works bit it does not make much sense until you find it.
Coordinates were way out.
End with 291 and 354 to be more accurate.
Needle in a haystack would be the annaogy.
I had to use every clue I could find on the cache logs to find this one.
Thanks for a hot walk in the bush.

Found TFTC Thanks to Everlasting and crank-1 bring us with cache

Accompanied with everlasting and amdown (deaf)
Found it
Thanks for the cache

Geokids loved the discovery of two new basketball rings nearby. Relied heavily on images from previous finds. Tftc

This took me a good 15 minutes to find and certainly not without some help from the photo hint and some companionship from my dog. Its amazing how much the scene can change through the seasons. Apologies for the late log. TFTC Grammie & Grumpy

Finally able to cross this one off. A bit of a search. TFTH

Glad we had the hints, nice hide.

Finally, our enemy falls. We have finally conquered this elusive cache. TFTC Grammie and Grumps

Using the hint lead us straight to the cache.
TFTC Grammie & Grumpy this is find # 2670 for us.

Very well hidden, about 9m of the exact coordinates TFTC

Day out with Barnzy12, got a smiley here thanks

Cravo10 and myself had organised a nice quiet day for caching, staying relatively close to home, and not venturing too much further than that!

We started the day after our gym session in Armadale and headed down to complete the new The Roe Ones series of caches along...you guessed it...roe highway!! Enjoyed this series of caches, with a good variety of containers and camouflage which made it a nice and fun walk. Managed to meet up with PommieParkin2 team whilst at one of the caches and enjoyed a nice chat with them whilst they enjoyed their cycle back from the final container. Have added some favourites for caches in that series.

We then ventured around and picked up a few nemesis caches including wanaus mightier which has been a DNF on at least three occasions and the grammar grumpy cache not quite the real thing which we finally managed to find after about our third attempt.

We completed a couple of nice multis around the area which made for a nice change from the bog standard traditional caches we normally pickup.

Finished the day with the new champion lakes cache which really completes the trilogy of caches along the islands in the middle of the lake quite nicely.

Took a bit of nutting out to grab the information for the cache but it was nice to finally get the smiley with many a pen marking on hands arms and even legs!!

Had a great day out, thanks to the local COs for their caches.

Nice quick find once I found the right Basketball hoop
TFTC

I am very happy here to avenge a previous DNF and it didn't take long to find this time around

I am on a bit of a caching mission this month and am hoping to rack up some large numbers . A trip to power trail heaven, Adelaide, later this month should help with my plans . I decided to head to this area today and grab the smileys on offer, a big thanks to Grammie & Grumpy for placing this container out here for us to find [^].

Grammie & Grumpy - jinta29 found your cache Not Quite the "Real Thing" on 18/4/17, 4:48 pm. This is my find #6506 and find #2 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for bringing us to this location and adding to the wonderful spirit of this game!

Found after a shirt search. TFTC.

Have looked for this before. This time ignored the coords (resisted the spoiler photo) and followed the directions from the hint and on this attempt made an easy find. Posted coords still seem to be out - try 091/354. TFTC Grammie & Grumpy.

Lunchtime geocaching #2 for today TFTC

Don't you believe the hint, it's been my tipple for years....and just look at me. TFTC

A very hot 42 degrees on Australia Day and I headed off to Leeming/Willeton with pommieparkin2 for what we hoped would be a few quick park and grabs given the heat.
After our last find this one was a bit quicker. Getting the hang of these now. For the record I prefer the real thing I don't think it makes that much of a difference having said that I am having some of the Not quite the real thing atm.
TFTC Grammie & Grumpy

Well I can finally add my name to the logbook here. I have spent a fair amount of time searching for this one in the past, but this time I was armed with some very helpful hints and spoiler photos. Definitely not in my original search area, so glad to make it a quick park and grab today.

Many thanks for following up with some assistance for those like me who couldn't spot what was right in front of us!

TFTC Grammie & Grumpy.

Grammie & Grumpy, I found your cache Not Quite the "Real Thing" on 12/1/17.
This is my find #3084 and find #1 today.

Finally after numerous attempts we can at last gain a smiley here. After identifying the tree from the photo young TTW had the cache located in no time. Found the coordinates to be more like 32 05.091, 115 51.354. Cache certainly blends in very well. I don't think we would have ever found it without the added hints. Thanks for the adventure Grammie & Grumpy!

On my way into work, I had time to stop for a cache.
After a previous DNF on this case and inspired by Granett log I decided to have another go.
I must admit that it took the use of hintvphotos and spoiler photo to finally make my find after I was just about to give up

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**.

Grammie & Grumpy - Kyzabra found your cache Not Quite the "Real Thing" . The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Looked for ages and felt we knew what we were after as we have gotten the "Real Thing". Far and wide we went but no luck. Look forward to having another dash at it in the future. Don't want to trample too much vegetation though, that's the dilemma.

A Nemesis Falls

After eight logged DNF's and probably half as many 'unofficial' visits I am absolutely stoked to finally have this one crossed off the list today.

Was cruising past this arvo with a spare 10 minutes and thought to myself 'Why not?'. I had perused the recent spoiler photos (am not ashamed to admit as much) and with Devar's success from yesterday I figured surely 9th time lucky.

Arrived at GZ with the phone at eye level trying to get the right angle of the spoiler pic and realised it was an area that I had searched more than once previously. Started rummaging around again and with time running out it was with a sense of dread that I thought I would be leaving empty handed... again!!!

Then with one innocuous sweep of my geostick the cache presented itself. I couldn't believe it, finally... finally... I could claim a smiley on this nemesis. Signed the log with gusto, took a couple of selfies for prosperity's sake and nearly skipped back to the car.

Thanks to the CO for their patience and timely hints, I reckon I'm partly responsible for some of the added hints and spoiler pics. It's much appreciated. Tempted to drop a favourite here but that would be a lie. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely stocked at crossing this one off the list.

Grammie & Grumpy I found your cache at 5:05pm, this was the 3rd of 3 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3549. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

It was right there the whole time! Let's just say it wasn't as "deep" as I thought it was. Very easy to miss. TFTC!

Cache is still in place. Photos attached

Okay, I'm going to give this one another go WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE SPOILER photo! Wish me luck!

Unsuccessful search but will be back to try again.

Looking at the specific photo and hints... nothing. Maybe someone in this area doesn't like geocaches? I have also found "The Real Thing" so, hmmmm.

No luck here

Thought I would come back and have my umpteenth go at this one seeing that some new hints where available. Unfortunately spent another fruitless 30 minutes in a very specific area, I was sure I could hear the cache laughing at me.

Decided to move and claim todays find on a recently solved mystery cache.

Grammie & Grumpy I couldn't find your cache, this was my 1st DNF for the day. I did have 1 finds today so all is not lost.

TFTH

It is still there. Check near weedy, spiked looking ground cover.

This trip out had been a long time in the planning.
Jinta29, Krabiboy and I headed out today to finally knock of the codes and cipher series.
The rain made for a change of plans so we headed out to grab some others

A thorough hunt here revealed nothing. Even with a pretty major tip.

Out and about today with Kyzabra and jinta29. We were originally planning to tackle the Codes and Ciphers series, but with the wet weather approaching we decided to play it safe and grab some others.

Even with a hint from the CO, still had no luck here.

TFTC Grammie & Grumpy.

Grammie & Grumpy, I had to DNF your cache Not Quite the "Real Thing" on 25/06/2016 at 9:23 AM.
I had to DNF your cache today but I will be back to find it.

Sadly for us we could not find this one .

Grammie & Grumpy - jinta29 had to DNF your cache Not Quite the "Real Thing" on 25/06/2016, 9:23 AM. I searched but didn't find the cache

DNF number I don't know what!!! After grabbing the find on a new listing nearby I decided to come and have another crack at this one. I was encouraged to find a spoiler pic in the hint and approached GZ with a sense of expectation.

Not to be however, rummaged around for about twenty minutes for no joy. Ended up leaving after getting stabbed by a rather prickly plant. I may or may not be back, [xx(]

Grammie & Grumpy I couldn't find your cache, this was my 1st DNF for the day. I did have 1 finds today so all is not lost.

TFTH

I'm looking forward to meeting other geocachers in Pinjarra at the 'WA GOES BIG IN 2016' event on the 4th - 5th June. Registrations now open.

Check it out at [GC5YAGP](http://coord.info/GC5YAGP)

Pity that you didn't find it Mistraluna.

Last time I will be visiting this spot - will now place this one my ignore list as the only way people seem to be able to find it is with big hints from the CO.

Arrived at GZ and started searching. A few minutes later a kid and dad arrived to play basketball and my time is over. Out of 3 caches i looked for this arvo, 1 i found and 2 were your caches with 2 DNFs. Argh. Maybe another day. Thanks anyway

Halleluijah!!! At last and with considerable "hints" from the CO. This really was a difficult find for me....so well hidden and also was looking for something entirely different. Got up at 5.30am to hunt this one. So glad to have a smiley in this corner of the map. Thanks G&G for the hide, your help and for being so sneaky. Is going to get my last favourite just for the ordeal!
PS: Don't recall seeing any other names on the new log.... castes a little bit of doubt on the fairly recent "found".

This entry was edited by Paskersfind on Wednesday, 02 December 2015 at 01:06:05 UTC.

Desperation had me begging the CO for a little bit of guidance. Came over before work for one final look. Tried to follow the hint but specified landmarks no longer appear to be there. Not sure now of the sort of container cache is in...thought i knew but nothing appropriate in the vacinity of coords. Oh well..... Tftc!

Didn't find it today. But we had to stop our search early.

No luck today!

Came back here and spent another twenty minutes searching to no avail. I'll get there one day.

Grammie & Grumpy I couldn't find your cache, this was my 1st DNF for the day. I did have 1 find today so all is not lost.

TFTH

Tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 05.091 E 115° 51.352

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 05.088 E 115° 51.350

Distance from original: 21.1 feet or 6.4 meters.
Cache is still there. Phone co-ords spot on. GPS co-ords were very close. Try S 032 05 088 E 115 51 350. These co-ords taken with GPS placed over cache.

Cache is still there. Phone co-ords were spot on. Have changed co-ords slightly to correspond with GPS placed directly over the cache

Could the CO please check the cache again, seems no one has found it since it has been replaced.

Came back here and spent another twenty minutes hunting around near the base of every small tree I could find to no avail.

Maybe next time.

Too good for us too!

Stopped in and had another look around for this one before a meeting nearby. After 5 minutes I had to leave empty handed.

TFTH

It was definitely there when I did my maintenance run. It is not far from the base of a small tree. I navigated to it using my phone and it was spot on.

Nope - very frustrating. Either the coordinates are way off, the container is buried or the cache deserves a much higher difficulty rating. In any case, it was fun wandering around the woodland.

Encouraged by the recent maintenance log decided to have another look for this one. We had left our GPSr at home and were only going by where we recall we had searched before but could not find a thing. The 3 of us looked for about 20 minutes but still no good. Will have to return with the GPSr to see if that helps out at all. TFTC.

Cache not missing! Log replaced as the other one a bit tatty.

This entry was edited by Grammie & Grumpy on Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 09:58:24 UTC.

All good to go!

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date or the cache will be treated as an abandoned cache and archived without further notice.
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Last found in May 2014, a long string of DNFs and an unanswered "Needs Maintenance" log back in November 2014. Is it time to say goodbye?

Nope.

Dnf for me today.

Needs a check from co m. Dnf piling up

I was unable to find any container here. I had found The Real Thing, but was unlucky here. I did stumble upon a couple of Shingleback lizards here, and watched them for a few minutes until they slinkered back into the bush. I will be back.

Stopped in here again after a nearby meeting. Searched around for ten minutes but came up empty handed.

TFTH

Second day out here. Haven't found either day. This must be well hidden...

Found the second best thing to the real thing My gps was off though by about 4 to 5 m and wasn't where I expected but that's geocaching for ya! Thanks Grammie and Grumpy

No luck for us but our first go