The Belly Of The Beast Mildura, Victoria, Australia
By TheVersteegs on 04-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4WJJ3

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Stomped our way thru the bush to GZ and got the beast. Unfortunately could not log it as no room left. TFTC anyway.

Definitely different, but couldn't log it. No space left.

wow took me some time as the coordinates were off by about 15m but found it eventually as I read some of the comments great find thanks theversteegs

log book is full

Good little find. Log is full and needs attention. TFTC

The log is full and has no room left to sign.

Found at 1130 on a caching stroll with SirJ-Oz and Muggle-L, with the rest of our erstwhile party having absconded back to the houseboat with the promise of a swim - somehow I'm not sure I signed up to the right team!

Another case of the posted coordinates and the actual find location being a bit disparate, with SirJ making the find around 15m off where we all started searching - my phone GPSr was still giving average accuracy (about +-10m), but both it and the Garmin seemed to be in agreement on this occasion. Liked the container, the beast was full but SirJ managed squeeze a couple more tidbits into it.

Thanks for the cache The Versteegs.

Find #3315. Found @ 11:35 with AmethystPig, Muggle-L, skirrel, j-bean and The Good Lady Wife.

We're on an Easter break getaway to see some of the Murray by houseboat (a small section), and grabbing a cache or two is on my agenda.

We were on the way to another cache in the park before coming here, because the maps in my GPSr said there was a track, but the track we were on led very close to this location. I made the find here after expanding our seach radius. The cache location was 12m off where my GPSr indicated we should be looking.

The cache log is very full, and needs to be replaced. I squeezed our names in the last spot I could find.

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

TFTC
Found this one after a bit of looking however log book is full so I couldn’t sign it

Found after a short search. Co-ods a little off. Found with my 3.5yo geoson. He enjoyed finding the special case . Logbook was full so unable to sign. Fav from my son

The name makes sense when you find it thanks for the hide

Log book needs replacing, had to squeeze my name in

No evidence of any cache here may have washed away in the floods last year

Good hide.TFTC

Nice cache good find

Camped at Merbein common for a couple of days. Out this afternoon for a few caches. TFTC

Thanks for the hide great area for a cache log book full needs maintaince we signed in the gap in the middle .

Finally found this one, our GPS reading had the coordinates out by approx 15 metres. Spotted the marker first and then found the cute cache container. Logbook is full. TFTC

We were so close yet so far

Found by geodaughter (doesn't have her own account) while on caching holiday with geograndma and geofriend

Found it with CherryRose and geo granddaughter. Co ords out a bit but found fairly quickly. Very cute cache. Aptly named. A favorite point from me. TFTC TNLNSL

Found out with Beary Organised on fifth day of Caching holiday in Mildura. Loved thid Cache aptly named. TFTC TNLNSL

Another find in this neck of the woods. The cache was soon located after extending our search area , my 10 year old thought that this was a great hide, thanks TheVersteegs for the aptly named cache.

Tftc

I was wandering around Ranfurly today
Lovely and warm,
lots of flies for company [^]

Aussie bushland at its best

And a few caches were included in the landscape,
to make me stroll that much better [^]

Here,
as has almost become normal,
a cache was found not where me GPS was pointing [:o]
Not to worry
I've learnt that phone GPS' are not up to scratch when it comes to accuracy

TFTC !!

Took a while to find. Gps a bit out. Tftc

Nice one, thanks!

Enjoyed a quick walk
TFTC

TFTC clever hide

Two more caches to go and we will give in to the weather conditions and head back to town for a nice hot meal. We won't take long ....hmmm...not! After an extensive search we started to widen the perimeter more and more until the cute cache was found 15m from GZ. Not sure if it was our devices playing up with the cloudy skies but we were happy to sign our names and head back to the car out of the rain.
Thanks TheVersteegs for the cache.

After a huge day yesterday, we were at it again. Unfortunately the weather wasn't as kind to us today. The planned 4wd tour was cut short after I got bogged, 3 times !! With a change of plans, we stuck to more solid ground. Once again we found a great variety of hides and cache types. Thanks again to the CO's. TFTC TheVersteegs

TFTC SL. Cool cache.

The kids loved this one! TFTC!

TFTC, it is around 15 or so meter fro GZ. Belly of the beast it is

Had trouble with this one as co-ords were 14m off. After studying the logs we got the tip we needed. J boy then found it quickly and it gave him a laugh. Thanks and good work.

Couldn't find it

A quick find of this aptly named cache. Cache #2323.

What an awesome cache! So creative. We found quiet easily after a short trek through the bush. TFTC

I found this while in Mildura for some speedway meetings. It was a most enjoyable day. tftc.
Crusty.

The belly of the beast...the name says it all!! Honestly I thought this was a really cute cache!! It says in the description a movie type and when we worked out the hint we were trying to work out what it could be the whole walk there! When we got to the location this cache was hidden at we had a good look around and seen it almost straight away... very predictable from the clue, but honestly a really good cache and hide.. It made us laugh and was definitely the belly of the beast!!

I used the Co-Ords posted earlier in the logs and that took me right next to it. great container, I had read the description and hint and in my head I thought of the 3 headed dog 'fluffy' from harry potter, but alas it wasn't. TFTC

Creative container and I liked it.
TFTC

Love these caches that are more than a mint tin or a nano, get a fav for these 3 down here. Parked on the side of the road and walked down the track and took a few minutes but hubby found this one. Love the container. TFTC

Mr Beetle waited in the van on the side of the road while I walked in to grab this cache and Don't Give Up. This one was a quick find of an aptly named cache. Thanks.

Just when I was going to give up, there it was! Approx 14m SE for me. Another great hide. Not sure I like the small logs thou!

Very cute and took some searching. Thank you

Tftc. Great day for a bit of a trickier find

After no luck finding this one either, we read back on some logs to find that the coords were a bit our. We read one about it being 14m NE of GZ. Looked there with no luck as well. Then read an older log that said the same distance SE. Went there and quickly found the cache.
Our coords were S34 10.559 E142 05.342 which puts it on the side of the track further away from the main road.

TFTC

searched and searched to tricky for us today even after reading previous logs thought we found where it could be but not today

This one was a bit off, i read others posts to help. Remember to put it back in it's 'lucky' position.

After fondling what I thought were many "beasts", I finally saw the lucky symbol that I was looking for. TFTC

12:02
A morning around Merbein, with Suscoe netted us a number of smilies. The satellites today had our GZ 14m NE from the actually belly, thankfully, some animal tracking skills had us on track.

Thanks to TheVersteegs for the hunt.
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Suscoe found this cache as we headed around the Merbein area looking for caches in the very good company of Phetlern.
It was a fairly warm day with a bit of a breeze to keep things reasonably pleasant.
We were impressed with this area and the blend of horticulture and urban area and scrub too.
Well once we arrived here we understood the title.
Thanks to TheVersteegs for placing this cache.

An interesting little beast. Nice hide.

Soooo cute!

Did a bit if Kung fu fighting for this one Tftc

Kaboom!!!!! Took awhile but we got it. Coordinates are well out., about 15m But a great cache !!!!! Excellent effort!!

Getting towards the home leg of our SA trip, and a more relaxing day around the Riverland and Mildura. Have bypassed Merbein countless times in our rush heading east or west, so this is our first run through town.

Aptly named. McPhan walked over from the last cache while I drove around and he kindly waited till I got there to find it, at least that's what he says

Thanks TheVersteegs for the cache.

[center]8505. [green] Took quite a while to find this one. I wandered over while wiglen drove the car around. Made the find shortly after he arrived. Very nice.

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Found with Bogonghazy after having a day off caching yesterday. We netted in excess of 50 finds for the day, ate lunch on the go in the car, but found some fantastic hides during the day. When we pulled up to park the car about 60 metres away, BH lifted a piece of old iron, and yep, little snake underneath. I had nightmares all the way to the cache and back that it'd be crawling up under my wheel hubs whilst we were gone. BH checked under the iron after I'd clambered into the car. Snake was still under the iron. Another something different here for this cache. Thanks to TheVersteegs.

Sully and I wandered around a bit here, and it was she that found this one. Once again the cache name revealed itself on finding. Thanks again TheVersteegs

Went to take a twinkle and stumbled on it!!!!

[font=Comic Sans MS]This was our 6th cache find in a caching run of 9 Finds & 0 DNFs today. (This now makes our find count 8933.)
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The new caravan is in the workshop getting a few warranty issues sorted out, so while it is being looked at we decided to attempt a few caches further afield.

GZ put us in the centre of a clearing, with no place to hide anything. After widening our search quite a way the elusive cace was soon in hand.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Poor (We found the cache around 15m SE from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
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Wow that was fun not so fun in thongs and ants everywhere!! Didn't signas I had no pen but put a piece of bark in the container it really was a "lucky" find

# 5402 Found and logged at 12:04:00 PM with The Green Geco
One of 26 caches for the day in Mildura and Merbein on my way home after having a great time in Murray Bridge at the OzMega
Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs
lgoody

The Mega Event has come to an end Now it is the long drive home and back to work At least there are a few caches to be had on the way home Out and about with lgoody today. Fantastic day caching. Thank you for placing this one

Found while in the area doing your other cache

Took me a few minutes to find it, but was a nice surprise. TFTC!

SL TFTC

Most of us walked straight past this one but for some reason one person stayed back a bit and managed to make the find. The general consensus was that the coords are 15m out here.

Found at 3:27 PM GAFF4 in the company of Alansee, Team Crackers x 0.5 and doheng. doheng was apprehensive about us being able to get to this cache as the region had just had 20 ml of rain over the past few days, however when we arrived it looked fine and we were able to easily drive through. At GZ we spread out a fair bit searching for this cache looking for a "micro in the bush", but were relieved to have found something a bit more caching friendly
Thanks TheVersteegs.

Continuing our journey around Mildura with alansee, pprass and doheng this was the next cache on the list.
The area was nice and dry even after the heavy rain that had been had a few days ago so getting in wasn't a problem.
We all spread out and the" Micro" was soon in hand about 15 metres from where our GPS's were saying
Thanks but once more for the cache

Found by Roma and Max.
We are not fans of these little containers, particularly when hidden out in the countryside, but were delighted to see how you applied this one, a hide that must bring a smile to all geo finders faces, well done and definetely worthy of a favourite point!
Thanks again TheVersteegs.
Cheers,
from Romx

10049 caches found

loved the container, quick find

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the "land down under."

Good name. Cache was well hidden but luck was in our fav, had it in no time.

Thanks for the fun TheVersteegs!

Spending three weeks traveling from Griffith to Adelaide while caching a little on the way. Spent some time caching today with crusin blues and doheng. Coords are off a bit. Neat container! Thanks for the cache!

Out for a days caching with friends. TFTC.

We're at the Winter Olympics today because we got a Silver and a Bronze. Once we had broadened our search area by 10mtrs from GZ it was an easy find. WATCH OUT FOR THE BULL ANTS, OUCH !!!! TFTC

FTF! I was out caching in the afternoon when it was about 40C. I had found a few along the road and was deciding whether to head back as my Geowife and friends were waiting for me to return with the drinks. I decided to just look at the entry for the next cache along. When I saw that it had not been logged, I was on my way. (In Canberra, a cache is usually found within about 20 minutes of being published, so it was surprising to find one that had been out for a few weeks!). I headed into the bush and found what my iPhone said was the GZ but it was the middle of an open area. I reverted to caching skill (not that I have that much!) and widened my search zone. I found the cache about 18 metres from where my phone indicated. Great to get an FTF and a clever "kick ass" container. TFTC The Versteegs.

This entry was edited by CorvettePete on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 00:33:22 UTC.

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