Oz Mega 2014 # 2 Dalkeith, Western Australia, Australia
By .K.B. on 17-Mar-14. Waypoint GC50FF7

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the only thing i found here was a blue plastic tube full of mud. So guessing this can be archived.

I was in the area today and decided to try tackle this cache. I had solved the puzzle a little while ago. I walked to GZ and found the cache after a short search and a little digging. The cache was wet and without a log.
.K.B., I found your cache ‘Oz Mega 2014 # 2’ today. It was the First of one find and brings my total count to 399. The cache was found with the lid open and without a log book. It was wet and muddy inside. I replaced it as I found it. Thanks for the hide.

No luck this morning but plenty of water filling the hollows. Had a good dig around with a stick but no good

TFTC! I found it after a long while, buried deep in with the slaters and spiders and snails. Perhaps not the best find for those who fear insects, but it was right up my alley.

Quick find tftc

Another easy solve and quick find. Replaced the logbook as it was soaked. Tftc

Found this cache during our 2 week trip around Australia.
Nice and easy find.
Thanks for the cache!
Greetings from Latvia!

Nice spot. TFTC!

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Today is the best weather in August.. Enjoyed myself wander around the Nedland/Clarement and on the way to home. [^]

Again thanks to .K.B. for organising the caches [font=Verdana] [^]

I have a love/hate relationship with Moreton Bay Fig Trees, I seem to only find about half the ones hidden in them, however this one I loved - thanks for find #14 of 15 today.

Thank you! Have just recently seen these, and will try to find them before they disappear.

Originally logged under clan-wallace, now relogging finds under new name.

Nice and quiet here today.

So now I know what a Fig tree looks like, amazing what you learn while geocaching! TFTC

Very quick find here this afternoon as the cache was completely exposed. I covered it up a bit after signing the log. Using a spare hour in the area to tackle a few more caches in this series. Thank you for the cache .K.B.

Thank you

Went to the wrong GZ first. Both have great hidey holes, one like a mini pond. The log was wet. TFTC .K.B

Log was wet. Added new piece of paper.

Second visit here. Obviously didn't look hard enough last time, as I was put off by all the water in the hollows of the tree and wrongly thought the cache may have drowned. Not so. This morning on my early morning Easter Monday bike ride it was a relatively easy find after a complete circumnavigation of the tree. I looked in all the difficult locations first, and found the cache in a fairly easy-to-find spot. Thanks for this and all the other caches in this series .K.B. Log is a little damp but can be signed.

Eventually found. Disturbed a lizard, which lost its wriggling tail. TFTC

Good afternoon with greenfrog2. Cache had seen better days!! TFTC.

Second of 4 DNFs this morning. Lots of water at base of tree. Might have to return and be a bit more thorough in my search. Hopefully it is drier next time.

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.

Today I planned to get the Oz Mega 2014 series, before it decays even more and probably gets archived. Most of the caches of the series were found and some of the tradis around as well.

TFTC and greetings from Germany

Found on a big geoday with the sis and the geokids TFTC:)

I had the whole morning to myself and what better way to spend it than going for a bike ride and picking up a few caches. TFTC.

Solved the puzzle many months ago, and decided to visit GZ today. Perfect time of year! Round the tree a couple of times, and luckily it wasn't in the water. Thanks.

Knew I'd be in the area today and saw the notes re cache retirement so managed to solve 3 of the puzzles (didn't have the time to solve more) and got out here to find them while I can.

Didn't like my chances when I saw numerous puddles at GZ. But all good here. Log is slightly damp but not a problem.

Thanks .K.B. for the hide.

Yep it's still there. Just one full lap of the tree before I discovered it. Tftc kb

this was not found. 15/19. thanks though. with teagzd97

Find 7 of 21 in the Oz Mega 2014 series.
Saw the warnings about the series being archived so we sprung into action with a flurry of puzzle printing and solving so that we would be ready for our bike ride around the area today. Spent a couple of hours on lovely quiet roads and in quiet parks steadily working through the series, all quick finds apart from one DNF. An excellent series, thanks for all the caches .K.B. Magpies looked and sounded threatening here.

I've decided to visit this area and to find all caches in this series. I managed it and enjoyed it very much. Thank you for the caches and greetings from Slovakia.

Huge tree with lots of potential hiding places. Some crevices have water in. Found the cache in a dry spot.

What a tantalising series ... And what a relief to have finally solved them all! Thanks for the fun! We had a fun family outing to find this series broken for many a play and cuppa and cake break.

Found while the kids enjoyed the playpark

Followed cravo10 on his hunt. Tftc

Solved the puzzle now out to collect the smileys found with itskate Tftc TFTH

I got up early to find this series which I solved a few months back but never got around to collecting. It was a great morning to spent down by the river. Great series .K.B.

Yay! Not exactly a mint tin, but still a nice easy find.

It was such a beautiful day with the kids in school we decided to head down and finish off the series we started some time ago.

Dog walkers, lunch munchers and local residents made this a bit hard, but we managed with plenty of fake photos.

Tftc
AlliedOz aka The Jokers

I was in the area today, and was excited to come back to the 3 caches in this series that I DNF'd on my initial search. This was a quick and easy find today. Last time I was here most of the hiding places were deep under water.

Thanks for replacing it, and the puzzle, .K.B.!

Half of the FFLL team is out of Canberra traveling for work this week. We solved this series before she left Canberra in the hope of getting a ferw. After completing her presentations for the day, she headed out with a muggle friend who helped with the finds.

TFTC and for placing this series .K.B.

Out with wifey and the geodog for a day of finding this series and was a good find by wifey. TFTC

Solved all the puzzles for the Oz Mega series a while ago and had the opportunity today to see how many I could track down. Manged to have ago at all 23 plus a couple of others, ended up with two DNF's on the series and one not attempted due to muggle activity.

Most were fairly straight forward finds with one or two tricky ones thrown in. All the co-ords seemed to be spot on, thanks for putting the series together KB, I visited a lot of great spots that I didn't know existed.

Got a parking spot four meters from the cache for a quick park and grab.

SLTFTC

Managed a prompt find amongst the dog walkers.
Tftc

Another nice easy find. Cache fully exposed so I camo it a bit TFTC!

This entry was edited by BissraVicky on Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 15:48:54 UTC.

Love the OZMega trip, was an easy found. tftc

Found it. Thanks.

Just a few muggles around taking their dogs for a walk. Two spiders were sitting on the box .

TFTC! In the nedlands area to cleanup some of the OZ mega series. Having a caching goal to find more puzzles caches this half of the year this series will help with my lack of puzzle solving abilities. Three goes around the tree uncovered the m and m tube and a new log sheet. Thanks

A fortunate parking spot right next to GZ made this one nice and easy. The car providing a little cover from some chatting muggles a few metres away, I had the cache in hand quickly and moved way from GZ for business. All done, a quick glance to ensure all was clear, I replaced the cache and pushed on.

Cheers .K.B.

TFTC. Log to follow

Out with helbren doing some night caching after dinner and some drinks, found it once I shine the torch in the right direction, tftc

mr and mrs Helbren went to the Kardy for dinner and drinks with mr Helbrens sister Troutsky we then popped down to freo to find a few caches with 1 find and 4 dnf's we thought we would try our luck elsewhere, i had the final coords saved in my phone so off we went to do some of this series at 9:30pm and boy its a nice cold night and glad i wore my hoodie to keep the old noggin warm, thanks for the series (and sorry for cute and paste logs)

Placed an additional cache out of the puddles at ground level.

Thanks!

Unfortunately I couldn't find this one today. Several parts of the base are deep puddles, and although I used a stick to poke around in every section of the base of the tree, as well as look higher up, I couldn't find it.

This entry was edited by R0gue on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 22:04:53 UTC.

Sad to say that despite all early good intentions, life changes interfered and I was unable to make it to the Mega this year. However all these puzzles to add to the puzzle stats is most welcome. I attempted them all, and found most, with 1 unable to get to because it was surrounded by muggles, and 4 unable to be found.
The rain held off and despite all my finds being micros, they were mostly easy finds, most were found with wonderful views, beaches and parklands along the magnificent Swan River. A most rewarding afternoon of sightseeing. Many thanks, K.B.

Had a free day as Mrs K was busy doing reports so decided a trip to Perth was in order to attend one of the WWFM events and then do the OZ Mega series and a few others in the area along the way.
I solved all the puzzles before we went to the Mega so I thought it was about time to get these done
In the end I ran out of time so didn't get them all done so will have to find another free day soon.

Final cache for the day - well hidden.

Thanks for the cache .K.B. [^]

Final day in Perth today and managed to get away early from 'work' to grab the rest of this series. Collected them one by one driving along and then was still able to get to the airport in time. Great little puzzle and nice area. Thanx for the series.

I solved the puzzles for these caches soon after they were published and they've been on the radar ever since. After chatting to CO at Chwiliwr's event yesterday, I decided that today would be the day, so I did these and a few traditionals in the area with only one DNF on this series and one other DNF for the day, with 31 finds ... and i just realised that the other DNF (GC43KYR) has been archived ... I think I need to run my pocket queries more frequently!

Quick find here ... the cache was full of water, the bag broken and the log saturated. Replaced the bag and the log and placed the cache slightly higher so that hopefully it wont fill up again. Should be good to go for a while longer.

Signed the otherwise blank log. Thanks for the hide .K.B.

Out for an evening of caching with Kyzabra and thought we'd make a start on the arrow. It was a nice evening and we decided to walk and get through as many as possible. Unfortunately we couldn't grab them all so the rest will be for another evening. Thanks for the caches and apologies for the copy and paste logs :-/

Out for the night with J&J_45.
We made a start on the OZMEGA Arrow.
Just noticed I had missed this cache,
Will return soon t complete the arrow.
TFTH KB

Personal Cache Note Hi Shirconn The OZ MEGA committee has a complete list of all trackadles taken from the Mega If you contact them they should be able to tell you who took your TB
Regards Lgoody

I am eager to learn where the travel Bug, CRUISE BABY JOANNE IS! a friend made the doll on a cruise ship and asked if I'd make her into a travel but. Both Joanne and I are anxious to know that the TB is safe and will travel again. The message below came from the person who placed her in the event. I hope you can me. Shirconn aka Shirley O'Connell

Attend the dawn service this morning and decided to do some geocaching in the area while waiting to go to work at 12 noon, I work out the puzzle earlier in the week to do today, I circled around twice before I spotted this cache...TFTC

Another day, another couple of finds from this series. Had a good scratch around - success. SL TFTC

Seeing we (BettyBoo3747 and I) aren't going to make it to the Mega (working Easter!) we drove around this series and added to our puzzle collection. Grab a few others on the way.
We had varied fortunes on a sunny Sunday - no parking fees and easy parking, but a couple of spots muggled out.
Mmm.. a Morton Bay Fig! Hides for every sized cache!
We were watched by a couple of magpies here, but they were the only sign of life in the whole park.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 6073. Day 2 of our caching foray around Perth. A beautiful Sunday morning and so many people out and about enjoying the great outdoors. Our aim this morning was to do the Oz Mega Series of 23 that we solved whilst waiting to board the ferry on Rottnest Island a couple of days ago. We also hoped to find some others that appeared on the radar as we drove around.

Fig trees can fill us with fear but luckily it was a quick find here. Lovely green ovals here - nice to see such well-kept green spaces around the suburbs.

Thanks .K.B.

The geohubby worked all the co-ords out on monday night so we decided we would head out this morning and pick them all up.
All the caches were found without problems as the hints gave a great description of where to look and find them all.
We enjoyed doing the series and it only took us about 3 hours to complete and in that time we even stopped for a coffee break at the tea rooms near one of the caches. TFTC .K.B.

Made an early start today, hoping to find all the Oz Mega 2014 series before heading up into the hills for the Earthcache Event. This was the twenty second stop for the day. Quick find. Thanks .K.B.

Out with Dr.ibl and N Delfos for a late night caching run in Dalkeith to pick up the Oz mega Puzzle caches we did 22 puzzle caches and a couple of traditionals
Only Puzzle cache we couldn't do was 10 as there were people fishing 3 mts both times we went past and this was 1 am

Thanks for some great hides K.B

TFTC

We spotted this series last night and as we will need the practice before heading to the OzMega quickly attempted the puzzles and acquired some promising data. We attempted 23 caches today without any DNF's. This is typical of KB's caches. Coordinates are always good and the cache placed with the intention that it be found an enjoyable experience. Good job KB. Please excuse the copy and paste logs.
Thanks for the series KB

I headed out to the area this morning with Skippy46 to do this series, after seeing it on a facebook post.
Lucky for me she had completed all the puzzles.

We had a very successful day with 21 finds. All were easily found and in great condition.
The trees in this area are lovely!

Thanks for the cache K.B.

While out making the finds with MNS13, we couldn't help but notice how beautiful the area is, especially the gardens and trees.

Another easy find made here.

Thanks KB

Quick find spotted the cachers disguise easily
TFTC

(catch up log part chwiliwr team)

Out for an afternoon of caching with Chwiliwr.

Found cache without problems.

Thanks .K.B. for the cache.

out with T_Samson and N Delfos for a bit of night caching this was one of a few caches that we had planed to do for the night after spending the arvo working out all the puzzles

TFTC

Found on a day out caching & bike riding with my family (jasenjanine)... TFTC .K.B.

Out for an afternoon of caching with the better half.

Found cache without problems.

Thanks .K.B. for the cache.

From the last cache, megawat60 and I had a pleasant stroll through this park, and he made the find here. TFTC and puzzles K.B.!

Out with m4yb for more geocaching, lovely day around these areas. We departed company with jasnjanine as they had already claimed the other 2 in this area and were heading into other fields. Nice walk across the park to discover this hide. TFTC K.B.

Out in around the Swan to collect some of the OZ Mega series and a couple of new caches. Quick find here, TFTH.

It was a beautiful day to head out with the kids for some bike riding, & of course to find some caches along the way I had solved these puzzles during the week & thought that the kids would enjoy getting out to find them... We chose to do this area first & this ended up being the first of the series after DangerMouse09 found the BMX track & led us astray

TFTC .K.B. Cache was excitedly found by DangerMouse09, so lucky the area was free of muggles today!

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 00.241 E 115° 48.289

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 00.361 E 115° 48.609

Distance from original: 1804 feet or 549.8 meters.
Updating coordinates of listing to another spot.

Mrs richlink was on a lightening trip to Perth to attend an appointment so we decided to team up to grab some caches before she headed off home. We had solved the first few in this series previously but solved the newly published ones on the run.
Thanks .K.B. for a group of sensible puzzle caches which didn’t hurt the brain and hides which could be retrieved easily with out alerting the thousands of Muggles who enjoy the river after work.

Had a quick trip to Perth for an appointment in Nedlands so contacted iluvtrekking to join me to grab some of this new series. Some puzzles had already been solved but some were published while heading to Perth so we were plugging in new co-ords for the later ones while doing the rounds. Looks like we were hot of the tail of SpatialRiq but didn't catch up with him. Thanks KB for a neat series. The others to come will have to wait for a future trip.

Published

Woohoo *FTF* @ 11:30am.

Saw these published just as I was arriving at work in Floreat this morning so set about solving them all over morning tea. Luckily they didn't take too long so set out for an early lunch.

Quick find here. Love the series idea as I'll be getting no close to the mega than here. TFTC.

A quick find after a bit of scratching around. TFTC