Mountopoly - In Jail :( Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
By SE_SA_Geocachers on 17-Mar-13. Waypoint GC47V7J

We decided o do the walk around Valley Lake today, and it was blowing a gale. After a bit of a search I decided to use the hint, but it did not help much. Muggle Husband was much more help, as he found the cache by falling over it, bless him.

Looked for about 20 minutes. There are a lot of bushes, so 'second bush off the track' didn't really help.

We are travelling with richlink on our Annual Caravan Geocaching road trip, using geocaching as our guide. We are in Beautiful Mt Gambier for a few days, soaking up the amazing things this area has to offer. We especially love the bush, the back roads, and the wild southern seas. TFTC LNCU.

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on. SA caching foray. Staying in Mount Gambier for a week to grab some of the local hides. Its been sixteen years since since we were last here so enjoying the re-visit. Love the country town caching. Thanks for the hideLNCU

What a fun one! Highly recommended

TFTC.

TFTC
Bit dangerous and steep slippery when wet

Found with Pat5280 on a day trip from Millicent. Great view from the top. Tftc

Cool cache

Caching buddies: Muggle Anshi

Thank you SE_SA_Geocachers, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.

Visiting My Gambier for the long weekend.
This cache was unexpected! Loved the container and craftiness !
Adding my FP to the list

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A quick find, but no jail break. A pleasant stroll in and out. Thanks for the cache SE_SA_Geocachers

This one is currently not accessible from the top - track is closed.

13/12/21 first cache for the day , hope to do more today depending on time

Found while out exploring the Mount's mountain bike trails. TFTC

Out for a bike ride. Found a few caches along the way. TFTC

SL at 10:20am. First cache of the day. A nice morning hike to this cache. Almost had me stumped so thank you for the clue. Had to hide from muggles on the way out, haha! Fantastic views all around here. TFTC!

Accurate coords led to a quick find. A cool build too. Fave for this one.

We followed the path up to here from the nearby multi. It was a surprisingly easy walk given the elevation. The views in all directions were great!
We found the nice big cache and signed the log, before heading back down the hill.
TFTC!

Nice big cache. Unique cache container. Is the canary still alive?

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Next time maybe

TFTC

Dropped Geokrety Siegfried GK479Tracking code 7RPE9Y off here. Lovely day for a walk . TFTC

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Day 351 ( Thursday 13th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Mt Gambier today. A total of 1 for the day and 6480 the trip.

Great find!! Very well done and worth the effort.

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Had a spare minute while in the area so checked in on this old cache, to my surprise it's still in fantastic condition. Plenty of room in the log book, poor guys still in jail. Only one of our builds for this series that has lasted the journey.

Thanks

What a beauty! We hiked up the hill to find beautiful scenery...our scatty gps had us all over the place. Then I got a lock on the treasure!
The real life spider inside made for an even better visual experience!
Tftc SE_SA Geocachers

Found during a caching trip with e.gregory1 to south-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia for a few days. Day 1 saw us travel from Adelaide to Keith, the back-roads past Bordertown to Frances, Edenhope, Harrow, Coleraine, Wannan, Hamilton, Byaduk, Koroit and down to Warrnambool. That night we camped out behind the coastal dunes west of Warrnambool after collecting a sprinkling of local caches. On day 2 we returned to find a few caches around Tower Hill before heading through Port Fairy to Portland, spending the rest of an unpleasantly hot and windy day around Portland and camping out nearby. On day 3 we drove from Portland to Nelson with a detour to Dartmoor, then back to Ewen Ponds, Port MacDonnell, and a circuitous route up to Mt Gambier with a solid days' caching culminating in some rewarding finds around the Blue and Green Lakes. We were very lucky to locate a very pleasant campsite a few kilometres out of town in Xanthorrhoea (grass tree) mixed eucalypt woodland for the night. The final day saw us travel to Millicent to complete the SFE Challenge series, then to Kingston, Salt Creek, Meningie, Tailem Bend, Murray Bridge and return back home. All in all a very eventful and fruitful trip with some great cache finds, some easy drive-bys, challenging tree climbs, a number of strenuous walks and visits to many scenic locations. We found an assortment of traditionals, puzzles, multis, earthcaches, letterboxes and virtuals, including a rewarding first-to-find, a wide range of difficulty-terrain combinations and detours to locate some unloved caches.
Thanks for the cache SE_SA_Geocachers!

Good walk

Added a cell mate

Great views!!
Scary spider living in cache but log still signed

Just learnt about Mountopoly!! Very interesting and cool. Will accomplish this in my free time

What a cool cache. Nicely made

quick find on my 50k for MS walk THanks for the cache

Whilst going the Mountain trail I had a look at this one. Wow, this Really is a big sized Container. As I got out of the bush a muggle passed by in exact that Moment so he probably must have thought whatever.
TFTC, Jassi

A quick find whilst out for my after work walk. TFTC

I headed down to the south-east with gridge98 on a quick, two-day trip to find a few caches.

We had some rather mixed weather, with sunshine, rain, hail and wind at different stages, but most of the time it was good weather for caching.

We also had rather mixed results in terms of caches. There were some interesting hides in some terrific places; some along the beaches, some in the pine forests and others at various scenic or interesting locations. We managed a few lucky FTFs, but also a few disappointing DNFs. But all in all, it was a great trip.

Thanks SE_SA_Geocachers for the cache.

Down in the south east region with e.gregory1 on a caching trip.
A quick jog up the hill to find a rather large cache, awesome view TFTC

After some scuba diving in a local Mount Gambier Sinkhole today, I had a bit of time grabbing some geocachers and hiking around the rim.

This has got to be one of the coolest containers I've come across, and although I do acknowledge that this container was more so for the previously famed Mountopoly series, it is great that it can still live on. The geocache needed a bit of scurrying around, and eventually saw something through the bushes that caught my eye. Very cool and easily a Favourite Point from me, thanks!

Nice walk up the hill. Found it but forgot to bring a pen.

Signed in! Tftc. Was very creative!

A nice quick walk to get this one TFTC

Find #3077. Found @ 15:46

We're holidaying in Portland and decided to nip over the border to grab some caches to help qualify for a local challenge. I'd identified a few target caches.

This one was opportunistic along the way to my target mystery. A great looking cache container.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache SE_SA_Geocachers.

A few days away with Freddo and Four Fun down to Mt Gambier.

We picked up caches as we went.

Great times.

Top hide.

TFTC

Along with Freddo and Team Waldron I spent a fun weekend in the South East area finding many interesting and some challenging caches.

This was one of our finds along the way

Cheers & TFTC SE_SA_Geocachers

Awesome cache. Fabulous series.

Found after a little while looking unfortunately forgot to bring a pen

Having a blast in Mt. gambier for the weekend , grabbing good DT, solved puzzles and any other caches that took our interest. We enjoyed the views all the way as we headed to jail, luckily we had a "Get out of Jail Free" card , so after signing the log we continued on our way.
Thanks SE_SA_Geocachers for another one in the well themed series.

Found with Yellatori. TFTC

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TFTC SE SA Geocachers

found after the nearby event. after 10 days of walking up hills after the surf mega in Victoria starting to run out of puff.

Nice walk along the ridge surrounding the lake, beautiful views. Loved the cache. TFTC

A small group strolled & puffed our way up...very cool cache...

Found tonight in the light rain to achieve the new souvenir.
This was the only cache around here that I hadn't found with 10 or more fave points.
Cache is in great condition, notebook still nice and dry despite all the rain we have had.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

If only the view from jail really did look like this excellent cache glad to have made the walk up here to collect TFTC

Checking this one so logging it before it's gone. Titch ;p

Lakes area closed as today has been declared as a catastrophic / extreme fire day. Might be better for us as well as it such a hot day.

dad, mum, and bub out of a quiet afternoon of geocaching.
the prize? an international geocaching day souvenir.
yay us we got it.
a bit of a work out carrying geo bub to the top of the hill, geo hubby ran ahead.
a few fitness enthusiastic muggles went by but no biggy.
upon discovering gz the walk was well worth the effort.
tftc!!

Mr C and the youngest member of thecoxcrew trundled off in search of another tick for our game board. What a great spot for a cache, and very well done! Surprised a couple of muggles on the trail when we emerged from the bush. Hopefully we left them with the impression that junior got caught short and needed to make a quick trip behind a bush!! Fave point awarded for the effort spent on this one. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Awsome spot

Kids had fun climbing hill

Great container
TFTC

Found this cache with Tassie Trekkers while looking around Mt Gambier. A very clever hide, deserves a favourite. Cache now exposed as pine tree has been cut down. Took cow TB. TFTC

Found on our "Making Memories" tour of Mainland Australia.

Today we explored Mount Gambier with Whitewebbs using geocaching as our guide.

Many thanks to all cache owners for placing and maintaining caches for our enjoyment.

T4tc will write more later. Happy Easter!

Wow we went the wrong way then found it well done.

After Conquering the caches at Mount Schank in the morning we had a bite to eat. Now Mogni thought a nice stroll around the rim of Valley Lake was in order.
Had a laugh at this one. Made the walk UP the track to GZ worth it. Thanks SA SA Geocachers

Just as we neared GZ a sound started and some rustling in the bush had our attention. It wasn't some sort of proximity alarm and a snake after all just a big Cicada sounding off and then dropping from his perch. TFTC

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A day trip to The Mount for some Christmas shopping left a little time for some caching, so I decided to try and clean up my remaining unfound Mountopoly caches and this was the first one to be hit. I almost went deaf on the walk down to the cache from Potter's Point as the local cicadas were in full swing. Thankfully this one wasn't as far off the track as I was expecting on a warm snakish kinda' day and the find was made extra quick, the challenge was then to sign the log in the now gale force wind.
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After doing the Motel/Hotel cache we were in breach of the Mountopoly copyright and we found ourselves in jail again.
TFTC

Great cache container.
SL TFTC

What a great London tour across Mount Gambier, we enjoy this caches and we like the with full of engagement built boxes, thanks for this game.
Magirus from Switzerland

Nice climb

Very creative. Loved it!

Found as a part of Kellmik. TFTC

TFTC. Very creative cache.

Found at 8.15am on a wet and cold day, Nobody around - not surprised in these climatic conditions
Cache brought a smile to my frozen face
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another great cache and a great play on the theme!! Excellent spot gave us our fitness burst for the day and a chance to go and find the bonus now!! Cheers , another favourite for the series!!

So it was Geomum's turn to find this one and so we adventured off to find. Well we followed the map and wondered where we should park. Parked at the bottom of brownes lake, found a trial and headed up. Well that was an adventure for sure, 300m away, climbing hills, getting muddy & dirty but that's all part of the fun of caching. As we got to the top, I said we should of parked near here and followed this trial. Ah well...we made it. Waited for some muggles to continue there walk around so we sat on the bench & ate our lunch. When they went, we went in & came up with the find. TFTC Followed the trail all the way back to the bottom, so much easier & quicker going down than it was coming up...

Wow what a great hide guys. I never tire of the view from here. I am so lucky to have this beautiful area on my doorstep.

After replacing the cache had a bit of a moment where I thought I might go for a slide down the hill but thankfully held my grip.

A fave point from me.

Was a good walk with fantastic views of Mt Gambier, once again another great cache in the series.

It was really nice to go for a walk up this wonderful track! After taking a quick trip down the wrong path, we realised that were in the wrong spot when we got to a random dead-end....
TFTC,
Team Danden are out and at it again!

I commend the creators of these caches! They truly are the best series of caches I've ever done!
TFTC Guys!

Beautiful walk to break up our caching adventure. Bumped into a man training to walk kokoda in July! I wonder how many cache are on that track! Great cache! Very entertaining dropped off tb

Out with Aussie M & M doing some night geocaching.... Wow again lots of effort put into this hide.
Thanks

Another great cache, great views of the surrounding area.
TFTCSL

Visiting the Mount once again and this trip was mainly for a friendly game of Mountopoly. We had heard some good things about this series, and it didn't disappoint. By this point we were doing night caching with the help of mogni. TFTC SE SA Geocachers.

This one was a real challenge in the dark, although it may have been good not to know what was below. An excellent cache with a lot of work making it one of the stand outs. Favourite awarded.

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 50.035 E 140° 45.452

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 50.037 E 140° 45.464

Distance from original: 58.9 feet or 17.9 meters.

coordinates corrected to what people are finding

S 37° 50.037 E 140° 45.464 were correct after looking in other places
great hide thanks

The co-ords were out on my gpsr. Wife checked her iPhone and said try the updated ones. I said my gpsr is never wrong. Reloaded the new ones and yep, claimed the cache. I hate it when she's right. Tftcsl. 11/05/13 13:40 Find #396

I hate being beaten by a cache so back I went this morning before work to give it another shot.
It was interesting to stand at the top and see where we went in the dark last night.
Pity we didnt realise if we had gone a further 10 metres we would have come out on that grassy section and we could have strolled to the path. Although it was easy to walk over the ferns on the way down they formed a good barrier going back up.
So armed with a new GZ I went looking for the cache
I dont like these co-ord either.
If there was a cache at GZ this Parrot didnt find it. The spot looked geofriendly but I couldnt see a regular container. I widened my search to other locations in the area but with no cache discription beyond the game play and no hint I really had nothing to work with so once again I had to retire beaten.

Just written my log and now I see there is a clue that wasnt on my download last night.
So I didnt have to go 15 metres down the slope. Rats [B)]

Well there is one thing about the Parrot and that is he is persistent.
Now armed with a clue decided to try the third time luck approach and do it Bobs way.
Another stroll to an area I am all to farmiliar with now.
I looked here I looked there and then in all its crowning glory there it was.
Very happy to make the find and wish I had brought something from work yesterday to leave in the cache.
I have posted my co-ords for this find if anyone wants to try them.

Out for some night time caching with Mr ParrotHead while I am down painting a tennis court.

Down the hill about 30 meter but no find, than the climb backup wow now I'm puffing.

TFTC.

Pity we didnt find it as we went to the old co-ords around 2300hrs.
A 30 metre plunge over the side of the hill had this parrot huffing and puffing and I pulled up with about 6 metres to go while Rodney from Scoobsters went on ahead.
Back up we climbed and then when I went to log back at the Hotel I saw it had been updated.