Black-Rat Run Number Sixteen (Sweet Little16) Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia
By Blackrat1414 on 30-Nov-12. Waypoint GC427XJ

TIME FOR A NEW SERIES

It took me a couple of minutes to find it but I got there with a thorough search. Too hot to hang around today! Thank you for the cache Blackrat1414.

Found it. I came looking here a few months ago and I was restricted with time. So I left to return another day. This was the day and I was rewarded with a quick find. TFTC

Found on trip to D.O.T at Joondalup to get Nannajoan 7 licence back. TNLNSL Thanks.

Found with the Fabulous Panda. TFTC

Found with Minergal TFTC

Knowing this one had been found recently, I decided to try and turn my frown upside down. Straightforward find this time. Not sure why I didn't find it last time.

Our coords were showing 7m but we perservered and uncovered this one

The jinta crew packed some food and fuelled up the car for a caching foray into the far north! It was a glorious day and we enjoyed our time up here.

Blackrat1414 - jinta29 found your cache Black-Rat Run Number Sixteen (Sweet Little16) on 23/08/2015 12:21 pm. This is my find #3607 and find #16 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Had been put off searching for this one with all the DNFs, but was reassured by the CO at last weekend's event that all the caches in this series were still in play. Indeed this one is: a quick park and grab here. TFTC

No luck for me today.

Definitely needs replacing. New fenced has devoured this cache.

Missing new wall being built

Dont think this one is here anymore as a new limestone fence has been put up

Not sure about this one... it seems like the house that this laneway is backed onto has had a fence upgrade to a big brick wall, maybe the cache has been lost along the way? Could co please confirm cache is still in location?

Today is Pi day and on the way to an event marking the occasion I made an early start to pick up a few caches in the area.

Had a quick look for this one but had to get moving.

TFTH

I'm looking forward to meeting other geocachers in Busselton at the 'WA GOES BIG IN 2015' event. Registrations now open.

Log your 'Will Attend' at [url=http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5GR5X_wa-goes-big-in-2015]GC5GR5X[/url]

TFTC! Out caching around wanneroo an area I rarely get time to visit. Thought I best make the most of this little honey hole. Thanks

Neat little cache to end our day, I guess you have to be at the right angle

Arrived at GZ on Geo Bike just as it started to rain. GZ showed fence line but there is a temporary builders fence in place as the property that backs on to alley is doing some kind of construction.
Was highly visible from property and felt very uncomfortable poking around said construction fence plus I was getting wet from rain so gave it away and moved on.

The goal this morning was to find all of the caches in Joondalup suburb and we ended up finding 27 so not a bad effort. Nice quick find here today. tftc.

We spent our morning finding 27 caches, for my father (ask277) wanted me to help reach this goal with him. We had six of us searching for each cache. It was very eventful morning, with a cache around each corner. This one was just one of our caches for the day and was a excellent cache to add to our mix. TFTC.

I joined ask277's team bright and early this morning as our goal was to find 27 caches by lunchtime (yes, we succeeded! Quick find here. TFTC

With new construction, orange fencing and deep holes at what I calculated as GZ, i feel the cache has gone.

Second thought was helping word grom the CO

Log replaced and ready to go..

DNF muggle smoking watching us - scarpered

Tricky one this one. Tftc.

At last, I think this is my 3rd visit to what should be a relatively easy find. Armed this time with the new supa dupa I phone , the cache was in hand fairly quickly.TFTC

Nice cool morning out caching with the geokids. I'm slowly getting through this series. Thanks Blackrat.

Back up this way on a very hot sunday with skippy 46 and MNS13.
We picked up some more Felix caches and got some of the Machman caches but our main aim was to do a lot of the Blackrat caches today.
we didnt do to bad we ended up with 29 finds and 5 DNFS.
Half the caches were found quite quick but a few took a bit of searching and some were very tricky to find.
A quick find at this cache TFTC BlackRat1414

In the area today with Skippy46 & OOH YEH trying to bump up our find tallies.
It was quite a bit warmer than expected today, we still managed some good finds though.

Overall we made 29 finds and 5 DNF's
Most of the caches were found quickly, but there were a few that had us searching a bit longer.

Thanks for the cache blackrat1414

Yayyyyy easy find made here for us today.

Love that song as 16 was one of my favourite ages.........MANY years ago

TFTC BlackRat1414

Easy find with steve1269

Nice quick find while out on our first Geocaching run in a few months. Found with Coh3n. TFTC

Number 17!

TFTC

Quick find while out for a morning bike ride


TFTC. Blackrat1414

Gz also quite out for me at this one. Was pleased to have in hand tftc

This entry was edited by BravoCat on Friday, 03 January 2014 at 07:07:46 UTC.

TFTF Blackrat.

As I am trying to get to 500 caches by years end, we looked for an area rich in caches, and this was it!

This one had us looking for a while, and we were glad to locate it, just before one of the local muggles drove into his driveway! TFTC Blackrat1414!

This was a very hard find, Geofriend re-read the logs and she had the success, I was still hunting around what my iPhone said was GZ. TFTC.

After meeting JacobsCrew at the last event, we decided to do a caching run together.
With a couple of emails, the location was decided.
So with an early start, we headed for Joondalup.
We had a great day, with a good variety of cache hides and managed to find most of them.
Thanks for the cache, Blackrat1414.

I teamed up with The Drovers today to do a full day of geocaching today and we managed to put 71 smileys on our list today with a number DNFs on the way too. It was a pretty hot day today and that was going to be factor in the time we finish today. It was a fantastic day and I enjoyed the company of The Drovers. We all had turns in getting the finds and had a few periods of DNFs which made it tough going at times.This one was a little sneeky but Mrs. Drover had it covered..TFTC

Nice one TFTC

Today is the Second day where I am looking for the remaining caches from the serie "Black Rat".
Some could very well be found, others needed some time.
Thank you for hidden this Series. It was Fun! Chipsy09 from Switzerland

spotted swiftly luckily enough, as I wasn't hanging around
tftc

This one was about 7m out fo me but I got it in the end.

I felt a bit constrained in this locale, didn't want to linger!

Wow! A little too close to the neighbours for my liking. Thankfully a very quick find before we hightailed it out of there. TFTC.

spotted it whilst out walking the dogs. TFTC!

Eventually - shouldn't rely to much on other logs. TFTC

thanks again to Captain
Cave Mans hunting another one found

GSAGC #21. Third in a row - I'm on a roll TFTH.

Mmmmm..... someone's been naughty in the laneway.. TFTC

I managed to escape for and a few minutes on my cashing anniversary. I knew these ones were close so I had a go at getting closer to finishing the series. I needed all my stealthy skills to avoid the kid on the bike, Thanks Blackrat!

Took a little bit more time to find this one as the GPS stopped me well short of where I eventually found the cache.

Thanks Blackrat1414 for the cache.

Looked for about 10 minutes , but no Smiley today

Looked for a couple of mins, but felt too conspicuous messing around behind someones fence. Guess I need to get better at this 'stealth' thing...

Out caching past midnight - still on Moscow time, tried for this one three times! On the first attempt a police car turned up at the end of the cul-de-sac not long after I'd arrived. Second attempt about 10 minutes later turned up nothing. After riding around picking off a few of Machman's tubes I decided to give it a final fling as it was on the way home. TFTC

Sixteenth (totally unplanned) of 22 finds on another afternoon on the bike in the caching Mecca that is Joondalup....spotted familiar shape as I scanned GZ....thanks again Blackrat1414

Coordinates changed from:
S 31° 43.604 E 115° 45.148

Coordinates changed to:
S 31° 43.597 E 115° 45.145

Distance from original: 45.1 feet or 13.7 meters.

Cleaner, better, neater, smarter pozzy a few steps away..

BlackRat's Black Rat-Run 16 (Sweet Little 16) is ready to"Rock 'n Roll"

Looks like a near miss....Took a maintenance look and yes the hide had increased in size a bit.

Found the cache away a little from the pile of rubbish in exactly the right spot.

Spied a better hide for the cache away from the mess.

Will post new coords after re-positioning.

Until then..Happy Looking.!!

BlackRat.

No joy here. Looks like the neighbours have dumped a heap of cuttings and branches over the fence onto the bush almost flattening it. It sounded like they were all just on the other side of the fence, so after a brief 2 min search I decided to call it off for another time, just hope the cache isn't under half a metre of cuttings!. I shall return.

I'm not quite sure I understood the Chuck Berry reference, but I was happy to make a quick find of the cache at GZ anyway. The bush was quite nice smelling too.

Thanks for the cache Blackrat1414!

Cycling around Joondalup, trying to find the Black-Rat Run series... Easy one, thanks.

Well when we eventually surfaced from the late night fog it was time to head up with the geo bikes to try and complete the blackrat series so far.

We parked up near 'The Clinic' cache and cycled our way around. Bit warm today and we are both a little sunburnt now.

Phew Quick find here before moving along.

TFTC

In company with iluvtrekking and meeting up with Everlasting, Mr ilivtrekking made the find here.

This one was a bit of a scrabble but got there in the end. Thanx Blackrat

Twice attemps - with help . Signed the log. Thanks blackrat1414.

Picking up the odd cache or two as I was in Joondalup running a few errands.

No issues with this hide, spotted quickly.
TFTC.

Nice quick find.

Published

3rd to find. Getting a bit nippy now. Off home! TFTC.

A fortuitous first to find. I was heading north to do the Cluedo series before scooting across to Ellen Brook for an orienteering event. As I was rolling up the freeway this one popped up on the phone and I had to give it a go. A quick detour off the planned route and I had the cache in hand, with an empty log book. SL TFTC

STF on this one. Was no logs on this cache when I had got to GZ. But alas was beaten to the punch by Sno Seeker. Nice little hide TFTC.