Lions in Running Waters Haddon, Victoria, Australia
By harleyria on 29-Mar-13. Waypoint GC48JFW

As per my maintenance log.

Searched everywhere for this and it has either been hidden in the wrong place, or just disappeared. Third time I have searched but this time cannot locate it. Unless it is replaced exactly at GZ this location can make for a very uncomfortable hunt. Therefore I will not replace this one, and will open a new cache nearby named "Lions in Running Waters 2".

So many places to search, especially with a somewhat unstable indicated GZ. Gave it away after about10 minutes owing to the risk of plant damage, and with the arrival of muggle picnickers. Our thanks anyway to harleyria.

So many places to search, especially with a somewhat unstable indicated GZ. Gave it away after about10 minutes owing to the risk of plant damage, and with the arrival of muggle picnickers. Our thanks anyway to harleyria.

Thanks for the help fellow caches

Easy! Thanks!

Yay. ..I got this one,
Nice spot, I will be back.

Prickly find

New to this game.
First find geocaching.
Was pretty pleased when I found it.

That one was very prickly. Tftc

Nice one, thought I do a couple more gc before I leave vic

Decided we would try for a couple of caches today this was the first try, we have been here a few times with the car club for Australia day breakfast, (that was BC - before caching) Sneaky little hide, forgot I get an allergic reaction to the flora, that was a rashy bit of fun lol, TFTC

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Nice, easy prickly find! Tftc

Having a day off midweek meant I could come up to B'rat and try to complete the series without the weekend crowd. This was an easy find after I missed it at an earlier date. Funny how the right angles make a difference. Thanks for showing me this place harleyria

A prickly find but there was only one place it could be so I fetched a glove out of the car which made it a whole lot easier
Thanks harleyria

A relatively quick find today thougha little prickly so beware! I drove to this one on Australia Day but there were people everywhere for an event and car show so we didn't attempt it. Today there were a few caravans around but not a soul in sight. Thanks for the cache

After finding the geo-trail walked straight through to GZ and made the quick and easy find. TNLN TFTC.

great little hide. kids had fun at the park wial I went on the hunt. thank you

Found on our way to Beaufort on a lovely sunny morning.
Ended with a bit of plant matter down our pants... Very awkward lol
TFTC harleyria

Found this one a while ago but forgot to log it. I think this is the right date. I had tried to find this one once before with no luck, but on this occasion I must have approached from just the right angel and could see it. Thanks for the hide!

Found this one on my 2nd visit, this one was a lot easier to spot in the daylight hours and the addition of a small Geotrail helped quite a lot

TFTC

Lovely area. It will be a good picnic area

Found it. Will place in new home soon.
Trackable pcnxqp

Not bad at all. What a great place for a travel break. The best of the free elec barbies I've seen. Two of them. Fairly well sheltered fro the elements and virtually invisible to muggles. This one deserves a huge thanks to the cache supplier. Our family has now found a new meeting place, being close to central (more in my favour) to us all.
I'm relatively new to geocaching and have found so many new places that I have just blindly driven past. Thanks to everyone.

Had a good look for this one but couldn't find it

Called in to check on this cache, and found it 2.5 metres away from where it had been hidden. Dry, plenty of room in the log book, all looking good. Added a TB, and will come back to place a bit of swag 'cos the cupboard is bare

I'd had set aside today for a big caching day and eventually settled on caching mainly around the Ballarat area, collecting a few caches on the way there and on the way back. It proved a very fruitful caching day with 112 caches found with only a couple of DNF's and a couple on non attempts due to excessive muggle activity.
Rising nice and early at 4:45 am, I was on the road by 5:10 and at my first cache, 185km from home, by 7:10 am. I moved through the northern part of Ballarat before starting the BSRT trail (which I thoroughly enjoyed) at around 11:00 am, completing it in its entirety at 3:15pm. From there I cached around the southern Ballarat area before moving up into Ballarat city itself. Some of the caches I probably should have done earlier as it was quite busy in town by then, being a Saturday night. As the sun set and it grew dark I moved through the eastern areas of Ballarat before starting for home, caching along the way and finding my last cache around midnight in Melton; then arriving back home around 2:15 am. In total it was a 20 hour and 40 minute caching run, 584.7 km traveled of which approx 40km were on bike and 26km on foot.
The weather was great on the day too, with it starting off quite fresh in the morning but by the mid afternoon it was sunny and warm. This was my second big caching trip to Ballarat since I started caching and the standard of the caches and the scenery once again made it a fantastic day. Thanks to all the Ballarat CO's for their caches, I had a great time.

Doing the BSRT was the highlight of the day and as I was on my own I wasn't able to go from one end to the other in one continuous run so I did it in sections that I had worked out would be most efficient before heading starting out today. The range of hides was fantastic and the coords for each were spot on. I got to see some great country side along the way. The Kmart special mountain bike proved itself but I must get a nicely cushioned bike seat before my next biking trip - my butt cheeks were a bit tender the next day!
Thanks go to all the CO's that placed the caches along the bike track. The effort is greatly appreciated and I highly recommend any cachers out there to get on their bikes and go for the ride.
Thanks.

Tftc found with polkys quest )

Found as part of auzzie convicts and myself's trip to Melbourne tftc

After a couple of muggles moved on we had a quick search and geohubby came up with the cache.

Trouvée après un peu de recherche
Merci beaucoup

Found by geokid, with the humming noise of go karts in the background.

TFTC, found on a day out with nan and granddad

Found today with geo kid
Thanks

Found at 2:33 PM as part of the August challenge. What a windy day. Thanks for the cache.

Day number 7 of the 31 Day of Geocaching, and it was an icy start to the morning. Despite this, the day was starting with sunshine and the promise of some nice weather. After eventually getting the frozen car doors open, it was off to Haddon to pick this cache up. We were close to this cache on Sunday for the Haddon Morning Tea event, but decided to not grab it on the day as we were down a member of the team at the time. The clues helped put us close as the GPS was not doing us any favours today and would have had us searching on the driveway. After a few minutes, we had this one in our hands. Left a figurine and took a bouncy ball before nestling the cache back in its spot.

Thanks for the cache harleyria.

Found with a couple of other teams during the event.
Thanks harleyria for the cache,
Regards The Coffee's

Found at the morning tea event

Nice hide. Hint made sense after I found it. Thanks for the cache.

It was good to have a group of people to hunt for this elusive find.
Finally found at the base of one of the small trees!
Thanks for the challenge!

Found today while at the coffee event. A group assault was taken and it was soon found.
TFTC

Found with Mum & Dad and a big group of cachers!
This was a fun one.
Thanks harlyria.

found this when i ducked out from doing some work nearby for a mate. quick find, although i did almost lose my GPS. tftc

Found this one at the geo event morning tea in Haddon. Is hidden quite well as took a few of us to find it.

Found today whilst attending Haddon Morning Tea Event. This one had us all searching but eventually the cache was in hand and signed.

thanks harleyria for the cache

nice park
We started out on this run at 8am, Oh the wind is lashing lustily
and the trees are thrashing thrustily, and the leaves are rustling gustily,
So its rather safe to say that it seems it may turn out to be, it feels that it undoubtedly,
it looks like a rather blustery day, today.

we did all these caches on foot... head wind all the way, doubling back to get the car every few kms.

will be copy pasting this for the whole trail.... exhausting days work. Managed to get 55 caches done before dark.

thanks to the CO's for this cache run

TNLNSL

15:21
With the promise of a rain free day we took the opportunity to visit this area of the State for which our map shows a plethora of unopened treasure boxes.

After a 15 minute search we resorted to the hint and then needed to PAF to locate this one, which we did after various muggles departed the area. Satellites today had our GZ 7m north of where we found the cache located. The location was not as per the hint suggests, so we wonder if there has been some form of cache creep!

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt harleyria.
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En route to and around Ballarat to do a bit of exploring / caching. Had to expand the search area 4m SW. This is a nice looking park too.Thanks harleyria for hiding this cache for me to find today.

We detoured off the rail trail which we were riding along and headed to this lovely park. We were happy to look in the right spot and spy the container. Thanks for the cache.

Suscoe's third find of a day out in this area.
We started our search knowing that this may be a tricky hide.
After a bit of searching the cache owner walked over and we had a delightful chat in the beautiful sunshine.
With the benefit of a hint we were able to find this very well hidden cache.
Thanks to harleyria for this very well hidden cache, nice work and quite a challenge.
Great to have a chat with you too!

Even with a couple of thousand finds under our belt we still couldn't find this one.
Eventually left as even with gloves we got very nasty rash's from the plants here.
It's a bit of a needle in a haystack there!

1/04/13 5:27 PM Find #2570
Found on our easter camping weekend, wandering around the state!
Thanks harleyria for the ftf on your first hide and for the ftf prize.
I would increase difficulty rating as we took a long time to find it as search area is quite large even with good coords and bring your gloves!
Thanks for the cache, Highrod from Ballarat.

Grrr..if only I'd put 2 and 2 together we would have come over and said hello. Marked as a waypoint my gps wouldn't go to compass and the phone was of very little help. Not sure if we were even looking in the right place, but with 5 of us looking we should have found it if we were!! We will be back but next time with a working gps!!!

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