Dog-gone Shopping Frenzy 12 Roxburgh Park Roxburgh Park, Victoria, Australia
By Dog-gone on 12-Nov-12. Waypoint GC415GR

Gone

Thought it was a risk trying to find this one, but was driving past so gave it a try anyway. Looked in all the places I thought it would be, but no luck. By the sound of the last comment and my DNF, this has been muggled.

I'll check on this for you on my way home tonight (I park at Roxburgh Park station). Am also happy to organise with you to get a replacement in place. (Edited to fix Groundspeak being stupid with dates!!)

Awaiting repairs.

I spent a while looking for this but couldn't find it. Then a piece of paper in the ground caught my eye - it was an exposed log that had been ripped and screwed up, but I could clearly read the logs up until go and gumby. This will need to be checked on and I dare say replaced as I didn't see a cache holder anywhere (or I might've missed it!)

!Go! and I came here after dark, no one was around so we took our time searching the iPhone was throwing coordinates all over the place, but we eventually found the sneaky clever dog-gone cache!!

A night out caching with [Gumby] lead us to this great cache.. very very clever!! Another brilliant hide from Dog-gone!!

Found by The Empire
Tricky, tricky, tricky... needed a PAF! Thanks for the cache Dog-gone.
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I was doing well till a trainload of Muggles spoiled the scene!
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After visiting this site a number of times alone, with child, whith hubby & child, and having no luck, I decided to phone a friend. Thankfully it was Dog-gone being tricky and the cache is happy and healthy.

Being down at my local shopping centre (and recently reactivating my premium membership), I had to find time to hunt for this one... but despite a couple of visits with hubby and the 6yo have had no luck.

Hoping it is dog-gone being tricky (like with the Foxley Lodge one) rather than cache gone... particularly after it has just been replaced.

Up and going again. Thanks kindly to the tdc.

A great night of caching with Rebel Acts, Blacklegend and Trailrunning (TDC) as we cached a big loop around Melbourne and then headed down the bay where we finished up for the night. As usual, we traveled many kms and had plenty of laughs during the evening and night. It was a bit of a clean up run tonight, picking up quite a few caches that were just on the map by themselves, as well as quite a few new caches that had been recently published. We were also very happy to go back and find a couple of caches we'd left in Werribee during a recent cache run as well.
With CO permission we had replaced the cache tonight. Thanks.

Another legendary TDC (The Demolition Crew) run around the Melbourne area. Tonight's run, a cleanup run taking us in a huge circle from the North, to the West, via central Melbourne, then out East.... Phew, the areas we visited.... Another entertaining night, with lots of laughs, a big tree climb, a bridge climb (so to speak) and of course great company and conversations. My thanks to all the cache owners for their hides that we found on the night.

With permission and instruction from the owner, we replaced this one for him, after he very generously sent some "replacements" for the job, to the home of BL in Toc. TFTC and all good to go.

Another great night of caching with TrailRunning, Blacklegend and Quasar3671, a great night was had by all with a big loop around Melbourne cleaning up some of the newer caches. With instructions from the CO we replaced this one. Thanks Dog-gone for the cache.

The Demolition Crew were once again out and about in and around Melbourne in the wee hours of the morning collecting caches and having lots of fun and laughs along the way. This was one cache I needed to log. We had permission to replace the cache so we did so in record time, and diguised it nicely. Thanks.

This entry was edited by TrailRunning on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 02:50:25 UTC.

Awaiting repairs

Bloody Dog-gone hides! I thought I'd try my luck here (I knew it would be tough having read the logs) but as I walked up I could tell there would be slim pickens. I checked the one or two spots where I could actually imagine a cache being, nup not there! I looked around the corner at the supermarket drop off spot, meanwhile I could hear some guy moving stuff around in there. I almost opened up the rat bait station! Eventually the guy started making noises really close and I got scared enough to leave.

Maybe if I had found it i could say something nice. After 40mins no. The thing I thought it was ended up scratching my car as I used tools to try and open it. In front of cameras as well.

At least I got some nice bread roles from the dumpster.

Arriving at GZ not much was catching my eye. Read the clue and a few logs, nah!! still nothing. Thinking about moving on and somthing obvious caught my eye and there it was. Thanks for a tricky little cache.

09:40
Joint FTF with 80degrees.
Full log to follow.

#1044

09:40
A rash of new hides appeared in the night, mostly in places close to a few of our notorious FTF hounds. I knew I could leave those for later days, so I'm covered for a week's worth of reasonably close hides.

I figured I'd have a shot with this one, if any, after dropping the little one at childcare. So, northward.

Though a semi was being unloaded near GZ, I was hidden from that direction. The fun began... hmmm... nothing obvious... what about... no, that's real... maybe under...

Then a comment about a disembodied pair of legs came to my ears from nearby. And that its how I finally met Mrs 80degrees in person. We'd talked on the phone, and let's just say I owe her a drink or two.

Anyway, together, we looked around some more, pretty sure the hide wouldn't be in the easy, obvious spots. Nada. So a phone call to the CO told us what it wasn't, which agreed with what we suspected. Then Mrs 80 tried one more thing. Bingo!

Joint **FTF** with 80degrees.

So we signed the log, and I walked across to return the cache to its hide... straight into the glare of the muggle having a smoko! At this point, we suddenly became involved in inspecting the foliage, etc. until he left. Boy, I was really not on my game this morning.

Anyway, thanks, Dog-gone, for another tricky hide and yet another caching adventure. And it was great to meet half of the 80degrees team that has provided so much entertainment in the short time I've been caching. I'm sure there's more to come.

#1046

Was looking for the empty log sheet when I set off for this one, but no such luck as I checked the iPhone when I arrived only to see the prize had been snaffled. Set about looking for the cache suspecting all sorts of Dog-gone tricks as I did. Had just about given up after a long search when something caught my eye, and on closer inspection the cache was in hand at 11am.
thanks Dog-gone - another very sneaky effort.

**** FTF **** Jointly with Nirgal_au at 9.40am. After findinding one a little closer to home and completing some shopping duties decided to head this way. As I pulled into a nearby parking spot and looked towards GZ all I could see was a pair of legs under/in the bush. So approached and was introduced to Nirgal_au who previously we had only spoken to on the phone. He hadn't managed the find so we both looked. Fearing it could be in the Green Stuff and not liking that idea we rang Dog-gone who although he said no clues but re-assured us we were close by. Went and had another look and I spotted a likely hide - sure enough we had it now to access the log - got it. This might be a small but has a lot of micro properties which is probably what slowed us down. Thanks Dog-gone for another interesting hide and another FTF.

This entry was edited by 80degrees on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 05:03:42 UTC.

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