A Friend Like Me Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By DopAmel on 14-Feb-13. Waypoint GC45ZY5

Found the spot as described but no container . Maybe I wasn't comfortable enough to dig in somebody's yard, or is that yours

since we are moving soon (hopefully!) I will need to remove this cache because its on our property So sorry to any inconveniences this may cause, and thank you for all of the cacher visits, we didn't expect there to be so many visitors to this cache.

THE CACHE IS NO LONGER THERE, SO PLEASE DO NOT VISIT TO FIND ANY CACHES.

-Dopamel

A great park and find. Thanks DopAmel

The perfect cache for injured Miss Stormcatcher. A nice park and grab. Thanks DopAmel

Lol love it. Front garden drive by and grab this afternoon! TFTC.

Thanks for the real accurate description. Saves looking around bushes in residentual streets and getting funny looks from muggles. This a real park n grab. Would have been nice to meet you, maybe next time...

Nice day for a neighbourhood stroll. Did a walk-by first as some residents were out the front and came back later. Tftc

No ivy anywhere near the cache, still the rest of the hints worked. No one at home it appeared.

This entry was edited by Rainbow Spirit on Friday, 01 November 2013 at 03:19:34 UTC.

Yippee Tom Alex and brad found it

TFTC

forgot to log maintenance! sorry about that, has been fixed for about one week. Upgraded to much stronger tupperware and added more swaps.

As mentioned is previous logs cache container is damaged and needs replacement.
Should be relatively simple to do for cache owner considering GZ location

I am not comfortable doing caches on private property but I managed to grab this cache without disturbing the neighbours.

Thanks Dopamel for the hunt.

Quick find. The container needs replacing, it is cracked.

Quick find and sign on a glorious day out.
Many thanks for the hide.

GeoSon on an arvo caching sprint. This was my first cache on this chilly Saturday evening and it was an easy one. TFTC TNLN SL.

Quick stop and grab. Geokid3 did a slinky for ball swap and on to home. TFTC

Tftc - 3 rd today!

I was a bit trepidatious about a cache on private property but it wasn't that bad.

Found today with daughter. She liked the look of a plastic dinosaur, so she took that leaving a polished rock. Grabbed a Geocoin which will make its way to the USA as it has no other goal at the moment.

463. Didn't see the CO, but I did appreciate the 'parking bay' right on top of the cache
TFTC DopAmel

TFTC This makes our first 100

tftc!

SL TFTC

This was a nice and simple cache and was found once at GZ without any problems. Found by Geoson.

TFTC DopAmel

needed some serious trash pick up around GZ and cache maintenance, sorry for the sloppiness of this one! Replaced with sealed container and extra plastic bags inside. Cache will be back up at 3:30pm 10/7/2013

Sunday 7 July 2013 - a beautiful mild winter's day with the sun continuously dodging in and out of the clouds. Happy 58th B'day big sister. Quick and east find. Thx p2p, TFTC.

This was the twelfth find on a nice day spent caching. Arrived at the location and it appeared there was no one home. Spotted the hide quickly. TFTC DopAmel!

An easy find. TFTC

Quick drive by with Justjessie. TFTC

An easy find. TFTC

A quick drive by on the way to get squiggle30 from school. Hmmmm, have to say this doesn't feel right getting this one but alas it was an easy find. No muggles about.

TNLN
TFTC

I've never done a cache directly in the suburb on someones property. mmmm
The clue was more than helpful making this alot more painless than it could have been.
Cheerio

Nice little spot. Shame my niece lost interest before we got to this one. Some nice treasures she could have swapped

This entry was edited by katenne on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 06:43:57 UTC.

Found this cache with Wasptor and fraggle_rock. TFTC!

Day 150; cache 150. Who would have thought we would have made it this far, I think wasptor was giving up at day 50! anyway a quick find, TFTC!

2013: 150 Days In A Row - A milestone for us this year. 150 days in a row of finding a cache! As we pulled up there seemed to be a parade of people and dogs going past, but once they went by we made our move. Had the headlights of the car pointed at GZ, and Fraggles made the find within seconds. We had previously had an attempt at finding this cache during the summer, but a few kids had a mattress under the tree and had made a bit of a cubbyhouse. But this time, on a cold Canberra night, no kids around (other than ours) and an easy find. Thanks for the cache!

I can't say I'm a big fan of residential caches.

Found, signed and ran away.

Thanks.

It was good to know this was your place, so I made my grab. No one came out to say hi, so I went on to the next one. Thanks.

11092.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2008 Northern Territory GC A#113

Albida

2/3 on walk on a cold, windy, GPSless day. tftc

Nice afternoon walk with family and dog. TFTC.

Out for a morning cache run to pickup a few caches as the weather was too good to sit around the house today.

A quick grab here today.

Thanks for the cache DopAmel.

TFTC nice hide so close to you

Great for us to find this one right outside DopAmel's home - sorry if we appeared strange beating through your bushes with a head torch on tonight! TFTC

#9

quick find with CBR900rr & zoratz

tftc

This entry was edited by Sora 2005 on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 at 12:41:42 UTC.

#542

quick find with the geokids, Sora2005 and Zoratz

TFTC

Different TFT

Ballsy hide! I'm glad you amended the description DopAmel, I'd driven and walked past this many times and was too chicken to dive right in!

TFTC.

Made a find, feeling uncomfortable about potential people looking on. Thanks DopAmel.

TFTC

What an interesting find. The cache seemed to be quite an interesting construction to hide here, but there it was. Signed the log and headed off. TFTC.

This area was pumping, cyclists, dog walker, guy dumping weeds. Found a gap and jumped in to make the find. The container has been detached from the object. Interesting construction! TFTC.

Found this with my Dad fitzy_1965, Uncle Sol de Lune and sis Stardust2410. Finally catching up with my logs.

TFTC.

6241 + 808 = 7049. Found during a quick caching run down south with GSC2000, Stardust2410 and Sol de Lune.

Stardust2410 did the honours grabbing this cache - she did her best being stealthy but I guess it didn't really matter for this one !

Thanks DopAmel !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

A bit hard to get at and quite conspicuous but a quick find. Found bits of log scattered around and collected what I could to return them to the container. Mammals and extinct reptilians playing together inside. TFTC.

499, nearly there!

I like the jar

Cache checked on. The neighbors children have recently pulled a mattress into the cache area. they like to hang out on it, some sort of makeshift clubhouse. they've undoubtedly found the cache already, good on them for not disrupting it.

Found on our NRL caching day. Felt a little worried about the location of the cache, but it was a nice easy find. Good camo. TNLNSL. TFTC DopAmel!

Next one on my 17km walk around Weston today. I got to this one and found the house quickly. I though didnt really want to go searching to long on someones land. So rang a pf to help and soon had it TFTC

Thanks dopamel

Quick find. TFTC.

TFTC.

I'm with noikmeister on this one. Errrr what??

Thanks for showing me the garden, I think.

Didn't have any problems making the find, so all was ok. Not a usual spot for a cache, but I knew that as I approached.....

Thanks DopAmel....

Loading up the GPS for the weekends activities I note all these field notes....ooops! So *last* weekend I must have needed to walk the dog - he is fussy about getting his caching time. I parked fairly close to this one thinking to start here and wander up the easement to the other new ones but just as I arrived the neighbour from across the street came home and was intent on fiddling in his car. So I kept walking did a loop of the suburb around to the other caches and was intent on coming back. Which I did only to find the SAME muggle now putting out his bin and doing the gardening....did he notice the lady walking the dog around and around his block I wonder? So I went to the end of the street turned around and went back only to find the OTHER neighbour now doing the same. Sigh...... Ditched it for the afternoon and returned at 9pm at night on the way home from somewhere parked within 1 foot of the cache leaned out and went "Oh!".

6867. [green]As others have said I was initially uncomfortable doing this one but that passed when I used the mattress. Actually had to walk the block as somebody pulled up a few houses down the road just as I retrieved the cache. They were gone when I returned so I could replace it in peace. [/green]

[blue]Thanks for the cache DopAmel and the cobber. [/blue]

I'm not sure what to make of this one.

Felt a little nervous, but a quick find - phew! THanks DA.

We decided to go caching after work tonight. This is the second of 10 tonight. Grabbed the TB for a trip around Weston Creek. Thanks DopAmel. Cheers

Founs left tracwl bug and drog

1693. I was on my way to Bunnings when this one popped up, so a detour was made. Yep I missed the FTF by that much, but was happy that mtrax hastened my search for this one. Who knows where I may have ended up. TFTC.

I saw it I bolted towards the door and noticed hmm no car .. doh... oh well back to the desk, but then a short while later the car returned so game-on, turn on phone navigation and I was there soon enough , no-one about so a good sign although plenty of home owners at home so had to be sure which house so switched to my Garmin device and soon found it (*FTF*) but was a bit exposed searching for this and wondered what I was going to say if I was searching the wrong place.
Perhaps the hint should be very explict which house# just to be sure, a few mins later Boot65 turned up .. sorry to ruin his potential #100 ftf but thems the breaks
thanks

Fixing the toilet cistern when this one popped up, will I or wont I, in car and off, there it is like the description although I wandered a bit, beaten to it by mtrax and boots 65. Back in car, hey there is another one now on iphone, but I had noticed a car pull up behind me.

Found OK, Thanks.

Published

Oooh..err hope it lasts there! Very exposed to people walking past! Even when I drove off, I could still see it.


Also next door neighbors were a great decoy, I could hear them saying something about being colder, ice cold etc..they were playing their own game of hiding something then the other kid would find it! Glad I didn't fall for that!