Circus Tricks 2 Sale, Victoria, Australia
By MADSTARS on 09-Mar-13. Waypoint GC47D67

I was hoping to grab this cache today. Saw where it could have been as there were a couple of peices of wood up there. Found a container and toys that looked like it could have been the cache on the ground. Or it could be random rubbish.So not for me today

Took the kids. Saw something long and wriggly. Found the cache!!

Thanks for the Cache MADSTARS, I was up in Sale to see Mum on Mother's day and stayed at the Wurruk Motel. This morning I took a walk along the shared pathway towards Sale. I was pleased to find a Geodistraction along the way. I was able to use my pirouetting skills from a past life to attain the prize.The log is full but I was able to squeeze my log between some earlier entries.Regards from Victourer

Veni, Vidi, Vici

Out for a long weekend camping with Smithies Outback, we decided to check a few of the list on the way home.

Heading home from Anzac weekend trip with @searchingformacca and @mayfam. Nice quick park and grab. TFTC

Too easy when you know where to look, but Im just on another level so dont worry about it

Tricky to find but below and above helps: David and Simone

Driving around in the truck making deliveries in heaps of different locations in Vic And Nsw I'm always Driving past caches. But luckily for me my best friend lives in Sale amd today she picked me up from the semi and we went and did a quick and easy find to log. Her beautiful son loves it and helped me find this one.I love that im tall. It helped me to get the container. The log and container are in great health thanks for the hide

On a road trip to see family before heading to the Geobash next week! Couldn't resist stopping for a couple of caches along the way to warm up ready for the MEGA. Tftc!

Damp and muddy, reaching high, but noticed cache had been dislodged and was sitting on the mud. Replaced in where I imagined it should be. Nice cache!

There was definitely a balancing act prior to grabbing this cache and the correct TOTT was brought along for the show..not sure about the path I took but I got there . Not sure what to make of this art work on the way out (see picture)

Found with 999Hunter & 999Huntress
TFTC

PS. 900th geocache

Found with 999Hunter & 999HK

We have now finished our Father's Day weekend away in Lakes Entrance and starting to head home. However can't drive without stopping to collect a few geocaches on the way, this being one of them.

Looking fir an adventure, this cache pagevread like it would be it. However the only Circus tricks we did was balancing on the rocks to walk to GZ. We could all reach the cache from the ground. Son2 thought he would have some fun and ended up getting to cache down with some nearby sticks after it was signed.

Thanks for the cache MAD STARS
Hunter

My initial search was not on the right level and after checking a few spots and actually reading the description I relocated and quickly spotted the container. Retrieval was straightforward and the log was signed. Thanks to MADSTARS for the cache.

Always a good day when out caching and finding them. A couple of well placed rocks helped.
Thanks for the cache MADSTARS

Found with Moonb1
Thanks for the cache MADSTARS .

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On our way home from our trip to Rutherglen and Canberra and couldn’t go past performing a circus trick for a cache. Unfortunately no tricks were required as Steve’s height spoiled the fun:)

Thank you MADSTARS for placing this cache.

The last weekend of daylight savings - Time to head away for the weekend to the Latrobe Valley for some exploring, camping and caching with RoamingHowie.

No need for any circus tricks or acrobatics when caching with RoamingHowie. A quick easy find.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, MADSTARS
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It’s road trip time. With plenty of places out east that have yet to be explored, OzHockeyChick and I set off to see some sights in Gippsland.

I was ready with my clown outfit, but no circus antics were required here. A quick grab and the log was signed. Must have missed the D4 element.

Thanks MADSTARS for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Went out for the weekend with the family and friends and decided to get some caches on the way back home from Stratford.
TFTC.
Beware of snakes in the rocks

Found!! Rocky little trek in to find it, and lifted a little kid to get it down. Thanks!

We came prepared for this one but in the end managed without issue. Rebel is a little taller than either of us!

Our grandchildren have all gone back home and we have completed a number of appointments and tasks we had to do so it was time to do some caching.
We contacted our good mate Rebel Acts and it was decided we should journey to Sale and tackle the caches we have not yet found there. Sadly there were 4 still offline after the recent floods, but there were still plenty to keep us occupied. A Virtual, some multis and a range of traditionals with some bike riding thrown in.
The weather was great and there was the usual banter and fun to make a day well spent.
All logs signed as RASP (Rebel Acts & SKI Pair).

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache MADSTARS.
**SKI Pair****

Out with My good friends Ski Pair for another Gippsland caching adventure, today we concentrated our efforts in the Sale area before heading home via Mafra.

This is one of the caches found today.

Thanks MADSTARS for the cache.

this cache was the closest cache to where we stayed in a cabin over night. Walked to this one from the cabin. No circus tricks needed at gz, just reached up and got the cache down, stamped log. this one must have been above flood level. quick find.
Left with Mogni the day before Christmas to go down to Mount Gambier for Christmas Day. Then on the 27th left for Victoria. Plan A was to go to the Ottway Rangers, complete the Geo tour in Ballarat and then head to Geelong and take the Queenscliff ferry over to Sorrento then grabbing new LGA's on route to almost the New South Wales/Victoria border and the old 2001 cache near there. Also attending a community day event, a CITO and a couple of other events as well. Then head in to the high country and come back to SA in 11 days. Things didn't go to plan. Turns out that one of my almost new tyres was defective ( side wall blown out ) and blew in the ottway ranges on a narrow road in the rainforest, Drove to Melton to stay overnight and get a new tyre there, tyre machine broken and the other 5 tyre companies not open so off to geelong for a new tyre ( and some caches on the way and in geelong ) . The event we where going to attend in geelong didn't turn out, he was late by ALOT to his own event.Then to ballarat to same day since we had a b&b booked for the next few nights. Planned on getting the ferry at 1200 and ended up on the 400 pm ferry but we did attend a event and CITO in geelong. Then we drive into the rear end of a thunder storm with forecast 20 mm dropping for the next few days. Cancel the high country and change targets to letterbox D/T for fizzy grid only using letterboxes and same wirh the multi fizzy grid plus fizzy grid only using victorian caches plus any challenge caches we where near. Plus getting a few more victorian 2001 caches. And finally any caches that had 40 more more favourite points. Only got soaked to the bone for a couple of days but the water on the tracks was noticeable. On the return home tried to get the rest of the missing LGA's around the Melbourne CBD i missed in the last mega. Still a fun trip was had if not the planned one.

Out on a Christmas break with sir_spectre, exploring southern Victoria grabbing lots of smilies, finding caches in LGA's and of course signing a few more challenges.
Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

A trip to check out all the awesome places in eastern Victoria. TFTC.
Nice grab on my way into town. Was going to drag my TOTT down there but found it wasn't needed. Nice one.

Found on the way out of Sale. Negotiating the rocks and swampy ground the hardest part . Actually receiving pretty easy. Thanks.

This one was a pretty easy one for us. There was a rack on stick there to use.

Sup

Only need a stick

Suscoe headed out today for a wander to the north east of Sale.
It was a delightful day with plenty of sunshine but a cold wind kept us aware that Winter is not far off.
We enjoyed a lovely drive through the countryside, lots of trees, cattle and some sheep. We also saw a lot of parrots along the road sides.

We had returned to Sale to pick up a few caches before heading back to our accommodation.
It was a contrast to the quiet country roads but it was good to find a few Sale caches.

Thanks to MADSTARS for this hide. All good here today.

We were in Sale running some errands and had some spare time so I cajoled M into bringing me here since this sounded like a bit of an adventure. We managed to get ourselves to GZ and then went about checking the area by standing on rocks and waving our phone cameras about. Then M decides that maybe it's between two parts of the structure we can't see from our current position.
With a bit of acrobatics [:p] he manages to lift me up so I can look but no luck. In fact, it's obvious there is no container up here anywhere. I get back down to ground level and mention that previous logs have mentioned finding it being on the ground.... [:o]
We put it back up there and stacked some bits of wood and rocks around it to try to ensure it doesn't move again.

Thanks for find #3345
302 days of unlove!
TNLN

First find in a long time, thank you

I found this cache on the ground. I signed the log and replaced it where I thought it should go.

A reasonably quick retrieval as we came prepared.
Replaced where found.
TFTC

Found it but it was on the ground. Put it back up as high as I could reach nearby.

Found it with the geokids, although no circus tricks required as the tall adult could reach it. Long grass swamped one of the kids, so I’d be careful with littlies in summer. A fun cache though! Swaps were made. Onto the next! TFTC

Found

Kids had fun finding this one

Nope not up for tricks today
Need my hubby whose 6’2

Quick find, thanks

Found with michelleclerks 09 and kids

Found with Darren-73 and kid's

Found today with Marshall’s Geelong on the way to Lakes Entrance!

Marshall’s Geelong found this cache today with LCASS on our Gippsland adventure!
Loved the challenge! Great stop to stretch the legs!
TFTC

Lucky one of us is tall

Found by Mary and David at 09:25:00. A good one to start the last day of our month-long holiday. Home tonight and back to routine. At our age, neither of us was going to be boosting the other to reach the cache, which we could see. However, there is always a TOTT for every situation. Curious cows watched us. Our thanks to MADSTARS.

20/12/2018 10:46:00 AM
We spent had an overnighter in Sale on our return journey from Canberra and Mount Kosciuszko.
After breakfast we did a bit of touristing and then headed out of town stopping here for a couple of attractive D/T caches, we hit this one first.
Thanks Madstars

PM TUMUT NSW travelling around Oz with my caravan and mountain bike

No problems here once you find somewhere to park & some arm extensions... TFTC
Also found No 3

15:40, September 23, 2018. Find #935.

Out with AliFS on a cache and camping weekend. On the way home we stopped to find this one after a late lunch at maccas, a nice quick find, no lifting needed for tall people like me......lol

Thanks MADSTARS. TFTC.

Out with BoatieTim on our way home from a camping weekend. We did not need any circus tricks for this cache. Daddy found this cache easily.TFTC

*23 Sep 2018, Found @3:35 pm, Find # 2081.*

Found on the way back from a weekend camping trip to Mitchell River. No circus trucks required we just needed someone who was 6 foot.

**Thanks to MADSTARS for placing this cache.**

tftc

Another day out with the Geo-grandkids. This one was spotted quite easily and there were no circus tricks needed to get it down or get it back up. 1.92cm comes in handy sometimes. The kids didn’t take anything from this cache but we left a few trinkets. SL. TFTC

Geokids was happy to perform the acrobatic circus trick today whilst on the shoulders of C1
TFTC
CJJAHC

Once again an easy find, but seeing it and having it are somewhat different. We came prepared with a tool and problem solved.

Thanks Madstars for the placement here.

The eighth find of the day. This was the final day of our mega weekend adventure. We needed to get back from Labertouche to Canberra by the end of the day, which would entail an 8 hour plus drive. This didn't include all the caches we were planning on stopping by. Firstly, we had to back track a little to Nar Nar Goon though as I needed a photo with the sign for my mates back home. A letterbox here, a large there and we were on our way. Grabbed a few large caches and even reached a new milestone of 100 earthcaches! Thanks to all the COs who made today possible.

The final one in the series for us and the longest walk out of them all. Luckily it was a quick find once at GZ as were getting the hang of the style of your hides. Loci612 made the grab. Log signed and cache replaced. TFTC MADSTARS!

**Monday 19/11/17**
Today was the last day of our Alexandra Mega trip! Mostly driving between Drouin - Canberra as we had lots of distance and hours to cover but we still managed to squeeze 17 caches in which was more than planned! We left the accomodation at 8:30am and didn't get back until late at night. Lots of large caches, a few Earthcaches, county's along the way, easy but high DT combo's and a few multi's were the goal for this days trek Was a great weekend away with Cankid and at the mega event but was good to finally be back in Canberra by the end of it all! Was a great detour along the coastal route home, a highway we had both never travelled!

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**This Cache:**

A short walk from where we found some parking and a very similar find to the last one. Good fun though much more interesting than your standard 1.5/1.5 caches! Enjoyed this mini series, Thanks again MADSTARS!

At Longford for a couple of days looking after 5 chooks 1 small horse 2 galars 3 dog's
and 2 grandkids and grabbed a couple of caches while here. Being a little short one
end the other extraction tool help complete the job. Thanks MADSTARS FTC.

Went with Roger found a big bluetonge happily soaking up the sun

Tftc

Second find for the day in this one was in the right spot. Lucky for me I'm tall and could reach this on by standing on a small rock nearby. TFTC

Nice easy find TFTC!!

Quick find for us on a nice family walk. Tftc

Way too easy

Yep needed a leg up for this. Not quite tall enough.

TFTC

Went out for a caching afternoon and this one was definitely on our list. Tftc

This morning,
on a bike ride,
I rolled up !!
Rolled up !!
ROLLED UP !! [:o]
To GZ for a show

Hup !!
Hup !!
Hup !!

No problems reaching the cache,
I'm as tall as two geokids,
and with the extra little bit of height advantage of the hiking boots,
the logbook was in paw

Da da da dah,
da da da da dah dah!! [:o)]

TFTC

TFTC!
Logged as NickElse

TFTC!

Found with my Aunty but was a little tricky because I had hurt my ankle that day

Found this one with my niece, lots of laughs conducting the circus lift but a great find. TNLN TFTF

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Got stuck in mud after finding it because partner thought it would be safer going through the muddy section instead of going over the rocks

Unfortunately we didn't have any kids to lift up and reach the cache but still managed anyway TFTC!

Good fun

Found it

Well out of reach.
And I'm over 6 foot.
Luckily an implement was close by.
Thanks.

Easy find, unfortunately was opened on the ground, placed back position

Bit harder To reach this time, don't think you should wear thongs... And not really kid friendly

Good easy find TFTC

TFTC

Done with the help of geokid7

Thanks for the series of caches along here

Found it easy for. 6ft giraffe

With H@nn

Found it!!!

This one is a little higher up than the last one, couldn't quite lift the 7y/o Geokid high enough. We still managed in the end. Took bouncy ball, left dragon fly. TFTC

In Sale for a few day, time to look for a few caches. Quick easy find. TFTC

Tackled the set of bridge caches on a bike ride with the kids. Logging a few days after finding. TFTC!

Nice n easy TFTC with NoonaB

Found easily enough, this one was a little higher than the others but someone had placed a rock beneath which allowed a shorty like me to grab the cache. Took nothing left nothing

Ritchie joined the gang now me Brody Cameron his girlfriend and Richie found this

Nice one.

This was our second look for it, too much water to get to it last time. Thanks

A madestars cache in Mexico, mad, thanx for the cache