Vanilla Littlehampton, South Australia, Australia
By Doctor Owl on 27-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VXGM

Time to start bowing out of the spice trade.

We looked, but unfortunately we did not find your cache The Spice Girls

Out and about with Ozibags picking up a few caches in the Adelaide Hills before attending the SA Geocaching Awards. Certainly a fun time was had!

We looked and looked but gave up after some muggles started to take too much interest in us.

Will probably archive, as I can't get up there to check and it keeps going missing, but just trying to get someone to make sure it actually is gone.

I have spent way to long on this cache! Please help me out!

Tried both the old and new coordinates. While I found the hinted objects, and those mentioned in previous logs, no cache container was to be seen.

Tftc

Find # 2791

Over in SA for the TDU and once again Mount Barker is our base for the week.
After being up in Lyndoch to watch the riders on the first day of the TDU. We were back in camp with enough time that I decided to take the mountain bike through the tunnel to make some finds.

Another quick find. with the carpark full I almost went away form this one but not seeing any muggles around I decided other wise.

TFTC Doctor Owl

Found it with Malia and Asher...

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Dr Owl left me to find the cache but after a dismal fail she turned around and spotted it. Do you ever get the feeling you've been set up to fail? I'm sure Dr Owl knew where the cache was all the time.

Thanks for the cache Dr Owl.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 02.875 E 138° 51.945

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 02.869 E 138° 51.942

Distance from original: 39.4 feet or 12 meters.
The cache was out, which would not have helped with the coordinates. The cache is now in and some tweaking of the coordinates is in order. However, be aware that the wall and trees may play havoc with GPS signals.

Co-ords were out but when I said star dropper Kattwhite was off while I was still looking for the username. She quickly found it and I decided to stop looking.
Watched some lonely guy playing tennis by himself too.

The clues helped..

Definitely not near where the coordinates tell you to go, but a quick scout located it thanks to the other clues in the comments. Tftc! Also discovered the little park down the back, so a good visit all round.

Got there in the end! Great hide!

Found it! Now to get some vanilla ice cream from foodland

Nice shady spot on a hot afternoon. Tftc

Found our 1st cache!!

Star dropper, good hint

Quick find after following other logs advice was laying out in the open. TFTC SL

Sure the cache was a few metres off. However the smell of vanilla kept me hunting. Check out the bakery a few doors down - their curry chicken pasty is to die for. I had a second one. Resistance was futile.

Thanks to Doctor Owl and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Coordinates not correct

Star dropper hint useful..did as forgot pen TFTH

Coordinates were a little bit off but good hide

Good hide

Coordinates are off a bit. Nice star dropper

Good hide

Nice little hide

Another great find while in the area
Thanks for setting up this cache.

SL

Found it!

Found on trip to Mt Barker with brother demon 41. TNLNSL

Found while at Mt Barker C/van park with family.TNLNSL Thanks Dr Owl

Found ok after reading the logs and looking further north. Tftc

Found with gnomeo2007, stunkypanda2006, messy61 and TCP26 Tftc.

Found with DoubleHelixClan, stunkypanda2006, gnomeo2007, TCP26 about 10m from GZ. TFTC

Took us a while but we got it

after dinner we decided to take a short stroll to the nearby park.
this cache took a bit longer to find than it should have.
we were looking in the dark after all.
geo baby was getting heavy so lots of pass-the-bub and taking turns with the torch.
finally spotted a potential hiding spot and
yay... rocky road.
geo hubby, geo wife and geo baby in the area for the long weekend.
geocaching with geo nanna, hevwalker12.
tftc!

Geocaching day with daughter, S-I-L & baby (TT016) from Mt Gambier visiting for the Long Weekend.

After having dinner at the Great Eastern Hotel we decided to wander to find this cache. It took longer to find than it should have. Go North further it said so we did & soon found it. TFTC Dr Owl

Found on caching day in the hills. Bit tricky but didn't take too long to find. Lovely day for being out caching. Tftc

Finally . . . . . . . . .
After several visits, we managed to get this one today .
Thanks for your persistence in keeping it going Spice Girls.

Tftc

Have to try when the weather is better

Found with Mattycat by torchlight after expanding our search b torchlight, find was rather obvious in the end especially after reading the clue TFTC Doctor Owl

An evening of caching with the Froghoppin duo brought me here!
This one seemed a bit further north than gz, or was that east, west or south... widen that search anyway...
tftc Dr Owl

Found It!
I arrived in Littlehampton to find the park full of people at what appeared to be a funeral. So I had lunch, went and found two other caches and then came back. By that stage they had all moved on (to the cemetery I presume) and the park was empty. A relatively quick find after that!
TFTC

Couldn't find it

Found this today while I had 10 minutes between meetings

TFTC

Firths have done it again!

Found by The Boofs TFTC ☺

Will try another time.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 02.885 E 138° 51.951

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 02.875 E 138° 51.945

Distance from original: 67.5 feet or 20.6 meters.
Double muggling suggested a rethink of location. New hide, new flavour. Go get it!

Ready for consumption.

This one looks like it has lost its flavour. Will replace next week.

No luck here for us today, till next time we search TFTC

Didn't find it, well be back

Couldn't find!

Great find on the way home. Octopus has lost half a tentacle

Found this one. First time I had seen a cache tube like this.

Nice one good hiding spot didn't find it till I read the clue.

A quick find, once the muggles had passed. They were all vanilla, too. Thanks for the hide.

Easy find

In Adelaide for work, so after being picked up by Brisal5 (yes bri and sal) a a yummy lunch it was time to do some geocaching.
A quick find.
Thanks

Got it was fairly visible TFTC

Previously logged under the team account for Gizmos Gang. Re-logging with my individual account.
Our first find in this series. One of Mrs Gizmo's favourite spices/scents.
Cache was quite exposed. Perhaps some garden maintenance has occured in the GZ area?
Tried our best to conceal it better. If there was a clue we missed it. Might need to return and check if we are to do more of the series.
TFTC Doctor Owl and the Spice Girls

Our first find in this series. One of Mrs Gizmo's favourite spices/scents.
Cache was quite exposed. Perhaps some garden maintenance has occured in the GZ area?
Tried our best to conceal it better. If there was a clue we missed it. Might need to return and check if we are to do more of the series.
TFTC Doctor Owl and the Spice Girls

A nice day for it.... easy one..

Tftc

Second time lucky.. Never give up..

Second time lucky.. Never give up..

Found my second cache for today!

Great reason for a bike ride! I started looking in the wrong place at the start, but then checked my GPS and realized I had gone to the wrong spot! Once I corrected my possition, I found it nearly straight away

TFTC Doctor Owl!

Found It!
Out for a day of caching with tickledpink2,
This one was hidden from me!
I'm looking, they're signing!
Grrr. easy find though,
TFTC Doctor Owl.

Cache found!

TFTC!!

Wow second time lucky!

Wow. I guess I can't claim a FTF but I can certainly claim a FTS. (First to Sign). Quick find with a nice new virgin logbook. TFTC The Spice Girls

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 02.882 E 138° 51.950

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 02.885 E 138° 51.951

Distance from original: 18.9 feet or 5.8 meters.
Hopefully this one will last or Owl will have to find a less well-maintained park to put it in!

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found it

Not going to give up, I'll b back.

Looked everywhere but couldn't find it

First for the day and it was a DNF .
Hopefully things will get better (well, they did, this being our only DNF on our short caching journey today) .
As always, we'll be back . . .
Thanks to The Spice Girls.

Doctor Owl was playing with my psyche with this cache. Previously Aussie Mary had a dnf on this while accompanied by brisal5, a previous finder. Much mulch was moved, muttering, mumbling, Mary murmuring and the moment was at hand.... Muggled maybe!!!!!! Today I walk up to where the cache should be with Mr M in tow and find it straight away, As per usual, I am the appointed scribe, so I open the book and horror, my name, in what looks like my handwriting is right up the top!!! Oh dear, Aussie Mark is a teddy bear but can turn into a big Brown growly bear if Mary forgets to log a cache on GC. Hmmm, will wander off after pretending to do the fastest version of the date and our caching name ever and ponder my dilemma. Could I have forgotten replacing an entire cache???? Maybe I should ask the CO, a dear friend. Perhaps the Doc was playing with my mind. What a naughty Doc, but still a dear friend! TFTC and the mind bending brain numbing twists afterwards. You and I both know how Aussie M & M got in there. We can keep it our secret, however we have now officially found and are claiming Vanilla! TFTC and one of my longest logs in years....

Easy

Another one in this series - still a squillion to go. TFTC

Found it at night!

Had to pick the right time as there were a few muggles about, one persistant worker on a mobile phone kept wandering all around and may have spotted me as I replaced the cache. TFTC

In the area today so called in and found this cache as I was passing
Cheers & TFTH

Happy

YeAh

Thanks

Nice easy find and a playground for the GeoKid! TFTC.

Excellent fun walk past here so often. Love this game

Thanks for the Cache! found while visiting Hahndorf over Easter

Quick find after the tennis players had passed by. TFTC.

Quick find thanx. TFTC

Day 6 of RobS72 and my caching binge in SA for the 2014 Mega Event. This was cache #1 out of 82 for the day. The final day of Oz Mega and we had to complete one of the power trails which we abandoned a few days ago due to bad light We decided to take the old road from where we are staying instead of the freeway and grab some caches on the way before the hard work of the power trail. This one was very convenient as we stopped for fuel nearby. Thanks Doctor Owl for the cache.

perfect timing for a break on our travels tftf

Traveled down to South Australia from Townsville, North Queensland, with MattCNS to attend the 2014 Oz Mega Event being held at Murray Bridge.

Day 6 of our S.A. geocaching holiday and our last day caching as part of the Oz Mega Event. We started the morning caching along the Old Princes Highway from Littlehampton to Murray Bridge. After lunch, we mopped up the last of the Oz Mega Power Trail that we had missed earlier in the week. The afternoon was spent caching around the Tailem Bend area. All up 87 finds and 1 DNF's.

Quick find. Cache in good condition.

TFTC Doctor Owl TNLN SL [1053]

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.