Between a Rock and a Hard Place Hastings, Victoria, Australia
By -Lisette- on 01-Apr-14. Waypoint GC51FYF

Bye bye

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Looked about for a few minutes and then happened across the right spot. Also found two but only signed one. Nice tricky one. TFTC

Found lying on ground signed and put back but really confused as we found 3????

If you find the right one the log book is signable

Well that was a tricky one! Had a bit of a look without any luck, had an extended Chinese Banquet nearby, and I can heartily recommend it as a place to get a good feed, and came back much later, to have another crack at it. I can't believe how close my hand was to it when we were here previously.
This time surefoot24 made the lucky find, well two actually! One with a log, and one without.
Log signed, my last one for this great adventure with surefoot24 and our wonderfully patient, and most obliging chauffeur, Darren.
Thanks guys I've had a ball, but driven past so many that I must return.

Wow! That was a tricky one! When we finally found it we found two. One had a good condition log unit so we signed that and replaced them both. The vegetation had had had a haircut recently so it was easy to eliminate many hiding spots and maybe made the find a bit easier. Found very late after a day out caching on the Mornington Peninsula, after midnight.

Found took 20 minutes haven't done a cache In a while nice clever title
TFTC

Log is a bit damage couldn't even unroll it

Must be my blindness for these Trolley bay caches. I can't even find the easy ones, let alone a D4. Had a 5 minute look before some early workers started arriving. Lots of rubbish under the plants.
Thanks anyway Lisette
Hunter

Suscoe was out and about today in the very good company of Phetlern on the Mornington Peninsular.
It was a cool day with a strong wind blowing for most of the day.
We had a delightful day wandering the roads of this area finding a range of caches in varying locations.
Thanks to -Lisette- for this challenge,
We missed it last time, but today we found this nasty little chap.
A clever hide and tricky to the max!!!!
A favourite from us.

14:09
*Our second day on the Peninsula, following a course charted by Cap'n Suscoe. The weather was not particularly favourable, none the less we found a variety of valuable treasure, hidden in some very devious guises.*

The name alone made us feel wary, the persistence of Suscoe payed off and our names are in the log after a 5min search for this very sneaky/tricky hide - definitely a DR4!

Thanks -Lisette- for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
19345

First time geocaching but this one was too hard for us! Will try again when we have a few finds under our belts.

Found this one after searching for about 15 minutes. Got distracted by the drain initially and when we widened my search it really just appeared in our hands. Love the cache. Thanks for the fun.

This one took a while to find. But we finally got there after checking something a 2nd time round.
Thanks for the fun

FEW too many muggles.we Will be back.

After having some lunch we came back for this one, not as many muggles around this time and we got a good park right where we needed to be. After a bit of a search we found what we were looking for. SL TNLN TFTC

Had a few attempts at this one while in the area each I had to abandon the search because of muggles. Today the carpark was quieter and I was able to have a better look. After exploring ever possibility I finally found it!!! Not 100 percent sure I put it back where it came from as it kind of jumped into my hand so may need a check at some point just to make sure it is where it should be? Many thanks for the placement even if it made me a bit cross for a bit

Find #3152

Another early morning caching run down the peninsula to grab a few caches before heading to work. It was still getting light as I approached Hastings and after caching the surrounds a few times in the last few months I was heading for some hides near the town centre and foreshore today. This was my fourth find of six for the morning and after a couple of easy finds nearby this proved to be a different kettle of fish. Spent quite awhile here (relieved that there were few muggles around as the shops weren't open yet) without success. Toyed with the possibility of a PAF but a bit more searching and I had the cache in hand. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache Lisette. Treated myself to an egg and bacon roll nearby to celebrate the success!

Another day another set of caches haha, still on my break from uni. Today I had the mind set of clearing out a little bit more of the Hastings area before going to see my Pop who is in Bittern in the afternoon. This was the last cache that I found before heading to go and see my Pop. With many muggles around I struggled to find enough tim to give this a good search. After 30 minute i decided to throw the towel in and ask for some help from N0w0rries, After that the cache was quickly in hand, Thanks for the cache and the muggle activity haha
**Buhfuhguh #597**

Passing by on the way to collect the mail. *(Well, 9 LBHs actually)*
Ruverbug Jam watched on as I began my search.
Looked high, looked low.
Stood back and thought about some other caches of yours that we have found.
Straight to GZ and the cache was mine.
Signed and as I was replacing it I happened to find the (an almost identical) previous version.
Signed that too.

Passing by on the way to collect the mail. *(Well, 9 LBHs actually)*
Ruverbug Jam watched on as I began my search.
Looked high, looked low.
Stood back and thought about some other caches of yours that we have found.
Straight to GZ and the cache was mine.
Signed and as I was replacing it I happened to find the (an almost identical) previous version.
Signed that too.

**Thanks for the caches -Lissette- Double the fun.**

Great cache. We introduced our daughter's friend to geocaching with this one. Like us, she was very impressed! Good one!

Astro's nemesis cache had to be found...so I let him have the glory
Many thanks -Lisette- from the Wacky one

I just had to find this one today.

After numerous previous red faced visits, failure was not an option.

Whether it was the presence of my caching buddy Wacky or not on this visit, I will never know. The cache log was signed and we proceeded to dinner with family and all was so good. I did not get indigestion.

Yay at last.

Thanks to -Lisette- and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Out with The Swaggies in this humid day. Find 1378 at 30 December 2016 1:04 PM. Very neet and sneeky hide

Out caching with Yorsys today in our local area. Given the history of this cache we were unsure if we would find it, but was hoping we would. This cache is my 1000th cache for the year, which is a big deal for us given that we only cache one day a week. I reminded swaggie2 that next year i will be going 2 days a week so should be able to find 2000 caches in a year. A fav point from us.
TFTC -Lisette-

Ye 5 mins after looking on metal structure

Ye

I'm not sure if it was luck or skill but we were onto this one reasonably quickly.
We had seen something similar to this one once before.
Thanks Lisette.
Chiefton!!!

This one is still there. Keep looking everyone!!!

Not sure where exactly it could have been hidden

Ok. 4th look with a torch tonight. N00b written all over me. You are only as good as your next find. Might go find some Pretzels tomorrow. Clear skies...

You pwned us n00bs.

We will return.

Thanks to -Lisette- and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Felt like a n00b. Too good for me. Clear skies!!

You pwned us n00bs.

We will return. How many looks can one have! A lot of rubbish so a bit yukky.... but that never stopped me.

Thanks to -Lisette- and clear skies from TeamAstro.

I never like these caches in the middle of car parks, but if I'm there at the time, I'll give them a look. Amazingly, I happened to park right on GZ before even looking at the satellite as to where in the vicinity of the area, the cache was. My back wheel being probably a metre from the cache. I really didn't think I'd find this. Did a quick first search in the likely places for about 20 seconds, then went back into the car to have a think and read some logs and look back at the area. Searched again, one particular spot I was hoping had something to do with it and sure enough, there it was! A bit of luck. Barely looked for a minute all up. Needed the tweezers though, in which I had a couple at hand. Rolling up these logs can be very frustrating, which is why I avoid nano caches, but am satisfied to find a tricky hide.

Thanks -Lisette- for this one.

18 minutes of looking and chatting with little Ruverbug. Looking at the terrain rating I knew it had to be something like this. I spent most of my search, when not talking to Ruverbug, muttering similar to myself. Clever. Well done.

Checked up on this one today and it is definitely still in its original hiding place, not where it was temporarily put when it was broken so keep looking everyone.

Planning a day for maintenance soon

After our attemp to find this cache we contacted the last finder who had detailed the camo was missing and had put the remaining components in a likly spot. I can confirm that several eyes looked at this area and did not find any trace of the cache. CO intervention is required to check if cache is still in play.

Looked everywhere possible. "Just looking for a dropped earring" in this high muggle area. Not found today. Will be back.

Out with OzHocheyChick and 88Andy88 to collect the nearby Jack Speak series. We stopped at the local greasy chicken franchise to cure our excessively hungry stomachs and decided that we sould get a few local ones since there was still a bit of daylight left. We arrived at the GZ to find lots of muggles including bus loads of new recruits from the nearby Naval base. The drizzling rain was not helping us out as the windows fogged up obscuring the view and knowing when the coast was clear. We finally got our break and jumped out to have a look around, trying to not look suss........'we were just looking for a ear ring', was the corny line we were going to use if asked what we were doing. Although looking high in signs may have left our 'line' to be extremely questionable?
After a good seach turned up blank we retreated back to the car for some warmth.....our first DNF for the day.

This is to declare that Lisette's status of finkdom remains. With the eyes of TrudyJane to assist and a comment about the title...from Lisette being of no use..and even in the midst of muggle time having a clear run NOTHING for the second official time. So - we are spitting our geocaching dummy, taking our GPS and going elsewhere. We QUIT, we GIVE UP. Are you happy now????????? )) PS it gets worse as we went to Dogs on the loose and...

No luck here today.
Too good for us!!

Yesterday, I sent a message to Omegaman1971 that went something along the lines of, "I'm heading to HMAS Cerberus tomorrow, and I've seen this series called 'Jack Speak'. We should catch up sometime to do that". His reply was, "I'll be in Hastings tomorrow, too!". We have set aside a date in July to do the Jack Speak series, but we met in Hastings to enjoy a couple of hours of caching

We were trying to work out the logical hiding place, but didn't find anything. As we widened our search, we found the cache lying on the ground in the open! Once we had signed the log, we re-hid it in one of the places we thought logical. We'll send a private message to the CO to let you know where it is.

Thanks for the cache, -Lisette-!

omegaman1971
Funny how things work out sometimes, QueenK8 and I both in the same area with sometime to spare.
As we made our way to Gz, I was thinking this is going to be hard at this time of day. But after only a few moments we found the cache just sitting out in full view.
Cheers for the cache

Super sneaky. Not sure it was on the correct spot? Took around 5mins once our muggle friend left. What are the chances of a muggle friend parking about 3 bays away. Pulled out the Waiting for GeoMum' card.

Found it after three attempts! Took 4 of us around 5 mins to find and it was only by chance that we found it! Sneaky sneaky!

Looked at every little instinct we had, nothing

While in the area today working our way through the "Jack Speak" series we picked up some traditionals along the way in the company of DAB, testing out our new set of wheels. Another high muggle area cache, with an appropriate DT combo that had us searching discretely when we could. The other Triton came up trumps here with the elusive hide thankfully .
**Thanks -Lisette- for making some higher difficulty hides**

Another combined effort for a caching trip, today it was The_Tritonz and myself. Our plan was to grab the " Jack Speak " series of caches. While we were collecting them, we picked up some trads along the way. We had a great day, finding plenty of different D/T combos,. The scenery was amazing and the weather was perfect.
Thanks to all of the CO's for not only placing, but maintaining your caches as well.
It was muggle central here today. After a couple of minutes of trying to look inconspicuous, Chris made the find. I think that was his first contribution for the day... What a very sneaky hide. Well done, I like it !!TFTC -Lisette-

I didn't try very hard I will try later

Just grabbing a few caches in the area and we had a quick search with Moosetash today and made a surprisingly quick find before heading into the local supermarket to grab some supplies. Thanks -Lisette- for the sneaky little hide.

Took a couple minutes to find

We'd DNFd this one a while back, partly due to muggle activity. Today, being New Years there was hardly anyone about and Happy pants made the find quickly. Thanks for the hide.

I didn't find this one today.

Here for the Mega and out caching with Lgoody,roostaman and tassie trekkers.
So much variety in the caches and in the weather!
Ventured a little further from our base today and enjoyed the countryside immensely.

Thank you -Lisette- for placing and maintaining this cache.

[Blue]# 13657[/Blue] Found on another adventure with lgoody and The Green Geckos
along the Jack Speak and Red Hill Express trails, as well as a few others.
Tassie Trekkers also joined in to help with the hunt for many caches.
The weather was fine and we found some very good hides as well.
Thanks for the cache -Lisette-,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Today we explored Casey Fields and surrounds with Roosterman, lgoody and The Green Geckos while at the the Mega using geocaching as a guide.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

#7805 Found and Logged
One of 71 cachers on a great big day around the Mornington Pencilar with Roostaman and The Green Geckos While in Melbourne for the megga
Thanks for the cache -Lisette-

no good here today but a lot of rubbish laying around made a little poorer play to look.

Firstly, apologies for the late logging.
Found this with Leetalicious on a week's holiday on the Mornington Peninsula.
A great spot for a cache after a day at the Pearcedale Sanctuary
My thanks to Lisette for the cache and for bringing us here.
LL made the find of this little fella

Took a few mins. Very clever. Thanks for tge challenge

Found it, looked for a while and then bingo! Very good cache thanks

So many Muggles around today spent 10min looking for BondiBabe "lost item" & decided we'd look to obvious if we spent anymore time here.

Looked for 20 mins and couldn't find..... may need to check where it is.

This is tricky! Using phone co-ords so it might be out, but we had no luck

Tricky, tricky, tricky Lisette - spent way too long on this.

Somewhat enraged when I finally found it - so much time, so close, without so much as a glimpse ! Aaargh ! Just about to call it a DNF - then bingo !! No extraction tool, but practically willed the log out - simple, applied laws of physics if I'm honest

To celebrate my success, & radical hair loss, added several TBs, discount voucher, a laden, shopping trolley & 2 or 3 bystanders & their dogs. Ok, I lied about the voucher !!

Well done Lisette, still love your work, even if it did take years off my life

Found it with bugmanaus & ecebell92. Took 5-10 minutes - I stubbornly thought it was in a specific location based on the cache title.... I was wrong

Good one ☺

Tftf. Found it in about 5-10 minutes with ecebell92 and lano.au

Cool hide and hardly any muggles tonight.

Surprised ourselves and found it in less than a minute. Co-ords were spot on!

Tftc

This entry was edited by snugglebunnies on Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 11:38:25 UTC.

With Mrs one-eyed, our Daughter & Son In Law "Imapom"and their little Jack Russell "Woody "attended the Hastings Million Paws Walk .
After the event we had a lunch break, and whilst waiting for the lunch order tried to find this cache.
Imapom and I are experienced cachers, but were unable to locate this cache at the co-ords.
Cheers
one-eyed

Sub 5min find! We were lucky, being able to park right at gz which provided us with great cover. I might use this idea myself TFTC and fav pt given

Lots of people around and I had to move the car into a position so we didn't look too suss. A sneaky little hide and Tassie expat spotted it but she earned it. Once we had some cover it probably took about 5 minutes but only because GZ size was pretty limited. Well done on such a clever cammo. TFTC

A lot to talk about. First of all, the time. I started to look in the wrong spot for 5 seconds then realized that I wasn't going too well, I would've found it. 5 seconds later- found it. So it is still there guys, just you're not looking hard enough. It's quite strange as I'm sometimes not too great with the apparently easy caches. To sum it up this was a great, yet tricky for some, cache. TFTC Brainiac03
Geocache #41

I came by here to replace the cache but found it in perfect condition. No need to replace.

Cache in two pieces needs help.

Found by Awegs, tftc

Back with Scotttiew this time and few Muggles about so quick search and log signed. cache needs repairs as its in two pieces and was easy to see now its disconnected and just lying out in the open. Any DNF,s out there its an easy find at present.

Found it. Probably the sneakiest one we've found, but the title helped. Took about 5 mins

A rock was placed in a hard place beware of the muggels

Very cool hide Took about 3 minutes to find with team wraith

Come back when Muggles are gone....

Another quick grab on our way past this afternoon. Clever hide in a busy area. SL TFTC

Out on a quick hasting run with jman24. Given the heat levels of the day were increasing it was only fitting to stop by the local watering hole and pick up a few travellers to keep us hydrated. Just so happen there was a cache here. I wonder how that happened...... The cache was quickly picked up and we continued our walk. Not sure how long this one will last. Tftc tnln sl

In Hastings for a friends bucks so decided to grab a few caches on the way home today.

Very clever hide that took some time to find. Not too many muggles which was good. Thanks for the cache today!

I actually checked that this one was there when I went to Aldi yesterday GrahamT so you need to keep looking. Haha.

Now - why didn't I take a GPS? Because I was sure I could remember which area I was taken to last time....but I'm not sure and the place was swarming with muggles and geospouse TrudyJane wasn't as much inspiration as she often is so....so soem of that finkness remains Lisette. Now the next one....

Have been waiting to do this one for some time because of location in regards Muggle factor. Australia at 8.30pm and all is quite. Went to co cords looked at two obvious spots , no luck there, stood back and was helped as cache was partially exposed. Had my tweezers with me to remove the log, signed and replaced correctly so that is not exposed. All up around 3 minutes, but was helped. No muggles anywhere.

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Having moved back to Mornington Peninsula to visit with family.

330 day geostreak completed today by finding your cache.

Parked in the carpark here and Mrs Felix headed off to Aldi, leaving Mr Felix to hunt for the cache. Well he had a look but with muggles coming from nowhere, he didn't get a chance to look well. So on Mrs Felix return shopping stowed and a quick poke about and lol the cache was found in the first place she looked! About time some luck headed my way!

TFTC -Lisette-

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Very clever well done. SL

This was our third try here as it's usually muggle central. It was very quiet early New Year's Day. Geo kid found this one after we spent about five minutes looking in the wrong place. All I can say is don't assume! Great hide!

Date: 21 December 2014
Time: 11:30
Find #4294

Headed out early with my caching mate SedgwickDave. It was going to be a hot one, so we decided to head towards the peninsula to find some random caches.

After a did not search due to muggles and a DNF at the harbour, we were hoping for a smiley on this one. Well, this one really is a little devil and reminds us of a similar hide not too far away.

Thanks to -Lisette- for placing this cache.

Found @11:26 #3991
An awesome numbers run today with Ahomburg. The plan today was to find only 13 for me so to setup the milestone cache assault.

An accidentally quick find found by Ahomburg while I read the previoud logs. Good one. So evil....

TFTC -Lisette-

Found in 4 minutes! AMAZING sneaky hide!

With half an hour to spare and early in the morning I decided to attempt this one that we visited a few months ago but the weather and the Muggle factor meant that we gave up before we really started. Had a quick look in the obvious places and then resorted to the hint. Still didn't help so read the past logs. These only seemed to indicate low (a child had picked it up,) small in that it needed extraction tools and something that could be located accidently. As far as I could tell it would require some careful grid searching and no accident would apply. Still nothing so decided to apply the title to my search and look for hard places where the log could be wedged. In the pricess of applying this logic I accidently found the cache. Even though this was an accident I am still claiming it. And to think I was sure that we wouldn't find it accidently!

Just checked up on this one and Yay its there still.

No 7 year old with me.................and why don't I really pay attention to names of caches instead of expecting this to be like others around trolley bays!!!Lisette is till a fink!

Definitely need something to pull the log out, tftc