A Cluster Of Cherries Altona, Victoria, Australia
By mudbrick on 02-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4DD10

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Caching around Altona today. A nice hide. TFTC TNLN.

Nice hide

Cool but ive seen snakes here b4

Nice camo TFTC

I loved this cache. Great hide! TFTC

Love the cache so creative. Uncle Geoff found this one.

Had to sit and wait for muggles to go. And then found it.

Very clever

Sent my rookie geocacher in to find it. She searched high and low, but very obvious to a more experienced cacher!

Thanks!

Me finally. Great hide.

Nice hiding spot and beautiful view of lake

Nice hide

Nice one.

Easy find thanks to the hint. Ninth find on our way round. Had to wait for some muggles to pass on so we stopped for and easter egg snack to refuel. All co-ordinates found so off to the finish line. TFTC.

Easy find
Tftc

A nice easy find on our way to our Tassie holiday. We decided to kill some time as the boat got delayed a few hours. So we picked out this like as a good spot and I am glad we did. We managed several caches and a good walk with our boys.

Despite whines from our eldest son who is only 5 years old complaining his feet were wobbly, we managed to get to this hide. We were impressed by the construction here. We love a good camo. Well done. + Fav Points from all four Fergzters

Quick find but took me a moment as to how to open it

Took us a while at first but then we found it eventually :p

Found

Tftc and for highlighting this area. Love the camo!!

A well designed cache, with great views from this point. Cigc. Tftc

Super awesome!! TFTC!

Youngest daughter found it. Very proud of her as it was pretty tricky. Thanks that was a great cache! (signed log as kptwit68)

Very quick find tftc now back on our bikes for more!!

Very quick find with mark9375

Catching up on logs. Quick tour around the lake today. T4 the fun

This was in one of the loveliest parts of the lake circuit. After being shielded from view for much of the walk, the vista towards the water which was teeming with bird life was magical! And the shady trees were a lively respite on this warm afternoon.
Geokids were searching away when I decided to have a look and found it straight away. Haha love when that happens.
Very nicely constructed cache here.
Decided this would be the perfect spot to sit and calculate the final, which was successfully completed.
Whilst doing the workings out we ran into fellow cachers - always such fun! It's great to see their faces when you say "we know what you're doing..." Hahaha.
TNLNSL returned as found. TFTC

Caching before orienteering.
TFTC

Love this one, a favourite from me and what a great spot around the lake. Lots of pelicans swimming around, an added bonus. TFTC

Our littlest cacher (7 yr old) found this one for us. Love the excitement of finding it and then seeing her workout how to open it. Every cache is unique and special. I loved this one. And more cherries too! TFTC

My 7 year old niece located this one. TFTC

9/11 They were waiting right near the next cache. I did loud snake-repelling marching and for the first time heard a little rustle beside me in the rocks. nearly jumped out of my skin when I glanced sideways and saw something moving in there till I realised it was the other end of a stick I had stood upon. I got the cache - beautifully made hide. We signed and replaced, with a wary eye on the rocks.

Tftc

TFTC. 1st one for a friend who joined me.

Quick find between increasing numbers of running muggles. TFTC

Nice place for a quick rest and recoup. Well designed cache, looks like the CO spent a good bit of time on it. TFTC

Beautiful work on this little beauty - well worth going out of way to snap up a few along the trail.

After picking up a few in the HX area both Mel & I decided upon a quick walk around the lake - HAHA and quick walk ended up taking us across the other side of the lake - This is the first time I have made the effort to walk it - well worth the effort.
The hide:
A nicely engineered hide - well executed. It put a huge smile on Mel's face when she spotted it - thou she couldn't figure the extraction process - move aside me says .... and in no time the stash was in hand signed and returned.

Shall recommend.

I'm from Tas and I've been struggling to find clever caches in Melbourne to show my Dad! I'm glad we chose to go to Altona today! Thanks!

Love the hide, a lot of effort obviously went into it.
TFTC

Being one of the first sunny days this spring, we were very cautious here, especially with a sign telling us of the high risk of the wriggly things. But we saw none and were able to grab this cache with ease. We sat on the nearby seat to sign the log, which was just as well, because a family of muggles appeared out of nowhere. Replaced easily once they had passed. Thank you again mudbrick.

Nicely built cache! TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1720. Getting late in the afternoon, now. An absolute dream to see so many pelicans out on the lake nearby. There was also a muggle photographer with a tripod set up to photograph the pelicans and other birds. He was quite engrossed in his work, so we managed to access the cache in stealth mode without distracting him. Our thanks to mudbrick.

Decided to head out late in the afternoon for a walk around Cherry Lake with Geofamily. Hopefully we collected enough clues for the Mystery Cache. TFTC & the series!!!

Pelicans galore

Scoping out the scoop of pelicans! Amazing birds.

In Melbourne working & had just finished work. Went to look at a boat place & then decided to stop in at this lake for a walk around & collect some geocachers along the way. Wet & cold, lets hope I make it all the way around. TFTC

Another great one!

Out and about today with Mudbrick and Bentley Parker in tow on a beautiful sunny Sunday. Joined the CO for a maint run whilst he stood back and watched me poke around for his hides! A great way to finish up the weekend.

If i had read this description I would have known an answer to CO's plural noun trvia later in the day

Pic attached.

Found it not to hard to find

Another find. Yea go us. Found with Gavan75

Found with Gavan75

Great hide! Not exactly difficult but that's not the point of this one, I guess. One of my favourite creative caches for a while. TFTC.

I'd had my eye on this series for a while now and today the chance arose to go for a bit of a drive out this way, so I packed the bikes and 5 year old in the car and we headed off. I didn't even realise this reserve and walking path existed but it's a beautiful space and a nice way to spend a sunny winter afternoon. Not that many people around so we had the path mostly to ourselves which allowed us to move around at a gentle pace to enjoy the scenery and the interesting range of different geocaches. At GZ here we had a great view of a group of pelicans out in the middle of the lake and a close up view of two of the beautiful black swans who swam over to investigate what we were doing. A great deal of effort has gone into the range of hides here and this one is certainly an example of that. Thanks for the cache mudbrick.

Quick find once the muggels had gone, fun cache liked the pivot part.

TFTC

Found today on our slow stroll around the lake with Misschief18. Another great cache and great hide. My legs are really looking for a seat now, but push on I must.
SL TNLN TFTC

Found with The 2 Wanderers. Quite a lot of birdlife on the lake today. Didn't know of all the collective nouns for different birds. What you can learn from geocaching! A good hide. TFTC

Very clever hide!

Thanks

Out with sobell family for a nice walk around lake. 3 geokids 2 on bikes 1 in pram and a geodog. thanks for the cache

Sneaky, but nice

Geocachers***--- somebody with nothing better to do than to search for something somewhere that somebody else with too much time with nothing better to do has hidden. That's ME. Thanks mudbrick FTC.

This was a great hide, I knew where it was, just had to work out the mechanics of it. Well done Mudbrick, you've set out a great group of caches, thank you for a day out with littlemsminty and sierra117. TFTC

Manzie and I headed out today to complete the caches surrounding Cherry Lake and have a nice walk in the process. When we started our walk there were a lot of muggles around enjoying a barbecue. Please don't let them all start walking around the lake anytime soon ... Predictably, the muggles did enjoy a stroll around the lake, but they were long gone now, so we able to relax and complete the rest of the series without fear of being questioned. We were enjoying the thought that has gone into these caches—nice to see something a bit different! Manzie quickly made this find whilst I sat on a nearby bench and instructed him on what he needed to do to extract cache. I quickly signed the log and we were on our way again—only one more, then just the final to go, TFTC!

I found this cache today at 10:35am as number 9 of 17 on my Altona Morning Ramble. Back down the hill and past my first cache find on Cherry Lake about 10 years ago. went too far back before spotting the cache closer to the path. Nicely made again. With 5 of 6 of the available clues, I put in the co-ords that I had with a guess on the last one, now to see if it comes off. Thanks from D B-A.

Awesome stuff

TFTC. Very clever.

#1761 5th of 10 we found here today. A lot of effort put into this one also. Thanks mudbrick, we really appreciate finding caches different to the norm and the effort involved.

For Labour Day, the GeoFamily decided they wanted a geocaching day. Looking around Melbourne, we decided on Cherry Lake and all the caches in the area. This one was our tenth find for the day. Found at 2:03 PM. This one was very easy. A quick find, sign and replace. TFTC.

So to continue my 100 in 100 streak I thought I might start making my way through each of these caches around the lake. It is a beautiful area and I enjoyed the partial walk around it today. The cache container is very imaginative with a great view across the nesting area of the lake. Fav point from me for the location and time to make the container, and TFTC

Yet another cache we had to wait out the muggle population. It was all good though, a nice big rock gave me quite the comfortable seat. Another great piece of construction, extraction was as smooth as silk. Slowly making our way around this great setting. TFTC mudbrick.

3rd for the trek and fun hide

Nice one

This was another excellent cache that I found on a day out with feathertop. Thanks!

I had now been joined by Robwinmar and his children so they were delighted to see how you had hidden this one. This series has been built to last and a lot of effort has gone into the hides.
Thanks Mudbrick

Looking to gather some smileys whilst visiting from New Zealand. Great walk on a lovely day. Easy find. Great camo. TFTC

We set out on Australia Day for a morning of caching around Cherry Lake. We enjoying finding the cache.

TFTC

No. 4, onwards!

Were here on passing holiday and collecting caches, what a great series, seen plenty of rabbits along the tracks, butterflies fluttering around. variety of hides and techniques, when we started it the weather was cooling down after a HOT day and as we were half way it started to rain, how refreshing. TFTC

We have really appreciated the work the CO has put into these cache hides- fantastic. Another great hide in really good condition. We sat on the rock and enjoyed watching the fish jumping, the pelicans and the blue wrens. Thanks again for bringing us here.

This series has been on my list for a while. I was going to watch the last day of the Boxing Day test, but the spitting rain meant that it was on and off. It seemed like a great opportunity to head out and tick this series off. I started in the rain with my coat on, then the sun came out and by the time I got back to the car it was 27 deg C.

Really enjoyed the series and thank for putting this together.

Great spot in the shade for a break nice cache replaced pencil

During my work and travel year in Australia I'm trying to solve my 365 days of caching challenge. Having a moving home zone should make this definitely way easier.

After I found the Altona Story yesterday I got enough time today to walk around the Cherry Lake.
I was a bit worried, because these caches haven't been found for more than one and a half months, but luckily most of the boxes could be found right away and were in a good condition.

A few weeks with fallen leafs and dirt, soI started digging through the stuff. After a while I looked to the side and found the box. Yes Rico, think first, dig later!

TFTC and greetings from Germany

Very cute hide. TFTC

Awesome X 2!

Beautiful views

Clever hide but we found quickly! TFTC

Great sunny day and perfect for caching!
TFTC PharmaCacher

This was a fairly quick find but then the muggles came and stayed. Two of them were interested in some shrub right next to GZ, so we were unable to return the signed log and its container to their home. These people must have counted every leaf on the bush but did not seem to be cachers. Hmm, when they finally came out of the bush, while we were still watching the pelicans from the nearby seat, they inspected a sign on the other side of the path. Having finished studying that sign, they crossed back to our side and investigated the sign that advertises the upcoming works to improve the area. When they FINALLY, and slowly, moved on, two more muggles came from the other side.
After sitting around much longer than intended, we were finally able to return the cache and move on.
Oh, and as to the collective nouns: English is an odd language indeed!

Ace!

Ace again!

Lots of new collective nouns that I didn't know.
An ingenious cache that has taken time to construct. Thanks mudbrick.

Out and about with Echidna44 for the day. We did this the wrong way round so this ended up being last instead of first. Really enjoyed our walk and the caches that you have made. There has been a lot of effort to bring a lot of smiles. Nice easy find. The name says it all. What a wonderful park this is but we struck a very windy day.
Thanks for the caches mudbrick

TFAnotherC mud brick. Thanks for taking the effort with this one as well. Great spot. Never been to this lake before. Much better walk/caching than expected. Jimmytherat.

Quick find clever hide and camo.
Found by a cache of cachers?
TFTC

Our next find at 3.25 pm.
Very clever hide and much effort gone into the container.
TFTC