A Patch of Green Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By Alansee on 04-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5A79B

With my move I have decided that it is best to remove this cache. Thanks to everyone that has found it.

Disabled while I decide on maintenance issue.

Awesome - looked and looked and thought is it - is it not! Watch out for dog mess however. Thanks

TFTC. Nice container. Very well disguised. Nice quiet area. Beautiful day.

Fab hide in the midst of activity & noise, but quiet in the muggle department. TFTC

Fab hide in the midst of activity & noise, but quiet in the muggle department. TFTC

This was today's first find on [@astoneee](http://coord.info/PR4ZE0A) 's and my geocashing tour in and around Melbourne. This little treasure was nicely hidden in a container that really fitted its environment! TFTC!

So, during our rain, sun, cold, warm trip through Melbourne, @nongon and I went South from Elizabeth Street and passed this cache first. As it was raining, there were not many people around, so we could quickly find what we are looking for.
It is always nice to see some creative caches - this is why I reward this cache with a favorite. Thank you very much for putting it there and getting us there!

A half day of work today, and so not to waste a beautiful day, I jumped on the deadly treadlie and did a few caches around the Botanical Gardens.
I came down the hill from the gardens to this spot. Glad I was on the bike, so much easier to get here.
The log is only about half full, plenty of room to write my name.
Thanks, Robmc.

Took some time but we found it

Also found a few I didn’t log! Best way to get around Melba must be on a bike but this precinct is almost a labyrinth for the visitor. Nice camo and container and quickly located. TFTC

Find No. 2529.

Found with FUF009 while down in Melbourne for a few days.
A Fav point given for this hide.

TFTC Alansee

Find # 7927

Found with Tyred n Cranky while down in Melbourne.

Rest of log to follow.

TFTC Alansee

Found this a while ago; but logging it now.
I was in Melbourne for an event during the week, so sought out a few caches around the town. Read the hint, which helped. All good. Thanks for the history too.
TFTH

Great hide and nice container

Scared some people but worth it.

Found.

Second time coming here, used my instincts and looked for the obvious rather than a tricky hide. Few muggles working next door so had to be stealthy. Awesome Camo. Tftc

Tonight we are going to watch Federers game@AO. Before that, we wanted to find some caches. Found with the help of the spoiler foto. Very nice hide, thanks!

Tftc. Droped my trackable here

Nice camo!

First find in Australia for us! Thank you for the really nice box!

Cant find a pen/pencil which have to bring with us next time. So, Michael and Michelle were here!
10 January 2019

Melbourne Day 5: St Kilda and CBD Fringes
Last day in Melbourne today, and since my flight was quite late in the evening, I had more or leas the whole day to finish off whatever caches I felt like doing. Took a very long walk around the city today, and picked up a few caches to start the New Year. Have a great 2019 everyone, and thanks for the caches!

The following is the specific log for each cache:
Came by here after getting the caches to the north. Figured out my best approach in, and came in from the back. Spotted the odd object after a brief hunt. Amazing work on the camouflage here, this looks almost real to any passing muggle. Good job here, and TFTC!

Couldn’t find it. I think I searched not good enough, because I was in a hurry.
Perhaps next time.
Best wishes from Toxxi (Germany)

An amazing piece of camo!! Turquoisepepper made the discovery and we signed as tp+tc. Loved this cache, fav. Thank you!!

After we had a lot of spoiler info rather than hints in other cache descriptions in Melbourne we didn't read the hint. We found the cache anyways and loved the awesome work on the camo!!
Read the hint afterwards and it actually was a hint, not a spoiler. This is definitely a fav for the great camo. And I would give a second for the nice surprise of an actual hint without spoiling the treasure hunting experience. Thank you!

Really cool looking cache

What a clever cache! Quiet find on Christmas day!

Nice cache. Found with Stiveh. Tftc!

Nice piece of work!

An absolute beauty. Loved it. A favourite tftc

Despite this part of Melbourne being very popular on a Sunday afternoon, this was a nice quiet corner to search. A great container

Awesome container! Gets a fav point from me.

Find #3907. Found @ 20:21 with The Good Lady Wife.

A friend treated us to kid wrangling and tickets to a show, so we ventured into the city, saw 'Astroman', had some dinner and then walked from the CBD to Richmond station, collecting some caches on the way.

The last of the (currently enabled) finds before Richmond, and in a location that wouldn't have thought would see much pedestrian traffic (although the number of finds disagrees with me on that score). The camouflage of the hide scores a favourite point from me.

Took two trackables, left nothing, signed log and visited some other trackables.
Thanks for the cache Alansee

Amazing

The eleventh on our last day in Melbourne - with the best weather of the entire trip - at last! TFTC

Find number 4493. Day 8 of my Melbourne trip. Meeting a friend for drinks after he finishes work so concentrating on some inner city caches. Enjoying the walk along the river. Once I found GZ it was a quick find of a well disguised cache. Thank you for the placement.

Great Camo !

Found during a walk in Melbourne. Nice and sunny day.
We wrote IJPS stand for the first letter i our alias ( Jsson, Ingabo, Peter-tvm, Sivun)


Thanks from Sweden.

**This was 1 of 11 caches that was found by me on the 2nd of 16 caching days here in Australia. Which also was the 39th of 75 days that my travels thru southeast Asia and Oceania would last.**

*Together with Ingabo, jsson and Sivun I would spend 16 days in Australia. Our journey started in Melbourne and ended in Sydney. After that I continued to New Zealand while the others headed back towards Melbourne.*
*All in all I did manage to find 250 caches, 9 types, 3 new months and many more statistical fillers.*

We, (jsson, peter-tvm, Sivun and myself) went for a small walk in Melbourne today
We logged either with our full nicks or with IJPS standing for the first letter in our nicks.
Thanks for placing a cache for me to enjoy and find.

Easy one. Tftc

A quick and easy find. Fav Point from me. Thanks

Woohoo we are in Melbourne for a short break, catching up with friends and doing some caching. Log Signed Ms+Mr KR

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

Thanks was able to stay dry for a moment to log the cache then a quick run onto the next cache. Clever hide this nearly had me tricked. Favourite point added.

Found with Pollythecollie. TFTC

First ever! Thanks

I was going to the soccer at AAMI Park tonight with my family. I had some spare time before I had to meet them so I wandered around the back of the stadium and was able to find this well camouflaged cache.

Thanks Alansee for this cache.

Had to split the log to find this one. TFTC

Great little cache ... applaud amount of effort made to set this up

It is a joyous moment when I look at the map and realise a cache lies within striking distance of a station. And today there was a nice cluster near Richmond station that made up the Alansee Trilogy!

This was the second of the three. I was enjoying the walk along this unfamiliar part of Melbourne, and then the handy patch of green came as a nice surprise. The hide was well-executed and I noticed an 8-legged friend agreed with me.

I kept getting startled by what seemed like voices close by, until I realised it was merely the megaphones of rowing coaches on their bikes along the riverside!

TFTC Alansee

Was a little concerned for 8 legged friends when I read the last log but none in site! Cool hide!

WOOOOO, COOL ONE TFTC

Super cool cache, had a great day finding them!

Found my first Geocache

Very clever

Thank you for the cache Alansee! We knew we were at the right spot, and spent some time scrambling through the bushes but had no luck. This is our first day of caching however, so maybe that played a part. We did enjoy the walk getting there and the little bit of history about this patch of green.

Today I explored Melbourne on foot. My lap started and ended at Southern Cross and took me amongst other things to the following locations: Flinders Street, Gosch's Paddock, Royal Botanic Gardens, Arts Center Melbourne.

The trail was pleasantly stocked with numerous caches, so I always had something to look for.

In fact, I was looking for something longer here. When I found the cache but then, I had to smile. Well done!

For that I like to leave a favi there.

Tftc

We loved the walk for this
TFTC

In this part of Melbourne today with the two kids to go to AAMI Park to watch some NPL soccer finals and handover the kids to grandad and nanny for a few days of school holiday fun. This was a very clever camo and one kid overlooked it but the oldest one found it. There was a rather funny note inside (glad the kids didn't read it) and in my panic for the oldest one not too I put it back in the cache. Oops! Lol. Many thanks for the cache.

Love it. TFTC

Great cache alansee. I almost gave up on this one as it looks like someone may have been sleeping rough around here lately. All is good

First visit, took ages and couldn’t find it. Actually I DID, but didn’t realize it ...
Second visit, no worries mate - found it quickly.
Brilliant camo, congratulations to CO on a job well done

Loved it. Kept us busy (and warm) before the doors of Hisense opened.

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Found this one with the kids while mum did Run Melbourne. Nice camo, and it is a nice quiet spot so easy to ch con it out.

Thanks

Awesome
Great camo - Fav Pt from us

Great find, thanks!

Found today after dropping off the family to see Disney on Ice. Great camo on this one, actually was the first thing i picked up at GZ but was fooled at first. Eventually worked it out though. Thx Alansee ftc.

Whoa so many wormies :S but worth it for such a well constructed cache

Ahhh. That's where you are hiding! Misspalot and I on a long walk which I later abandoned...

Absolutely loved the cache's disguise! TFTC

Found! This was an awesome catch, thanks

*photo contains a spoiler*

Great find, TFTC

Awesome camouflage and an awesome find TFTC!

Did not find look everywhere

Once we completed the nearby Letterbox it would have been remiss of us to not do this trad placed by the same CO. I stood guard on the footpath while the other Triton went in for the cache. I heard "great cache hide" from the other side of the bushes as he made the find. So making sure nobody was coming I quickly went in to have a look while he signed the logbook.
Thanks Alansee for the clever placement , it was refreshiong to see this type in the city.

I really do enjoy the effort people put into creative hides nice work.
Tftc

Find#35: great camo. Just be careful with the cyclist muggles and the muggles on the other side of the fence. Tftc.

Great cache!

Amazing cache construction. Maximum points!

A truly magnificent hide, one that I wish I saw more often! I thoroughly enjoyed this cache, and rewarded it with a well deserved favourite! Thanks for providing three fantastic detours for me Alansee, it was the cherry on top of a marvelous afternoon!

Quick grab after a short search with diana8 while on a short lunchtime caching expedition. She totally missed it at first! Very well constructed cache. TFTC.

I managed to dislodge the cache without realising what it was. Luckily ClanMagee spotted the tell-tale sign. TFTC

With lisyb. Gps was pretty good & spotted the cache quickly

Nice camo. Wit taz_6

Found with the Fabulous Panda. TFTC

I'm out for a bit of exercise on my bike & to grab some caches. What a beautiful container! I've never seen one of those before. Just goes to show what a newbie I am. Thanks

Awesome creative cache! Found with Minergal TFTC

Good hide

GPS on point .great camp aswell

Nicely crafted!. Found this quickly before a Storm game. Tftc

Well that was buggy! Love these hides. Thanks from Canada

Ps. "Other" not micro, IMO

Found while out for a run. Thanks for taking me on a path that I might not have otherwise found. A favourite because of the container.

Nice camo, TFTC

Quick and easy find out on my daily walk around my new neighbourhood, Tftc!

Looked for it at night. Couldn’t find it. Can anyway help me out?

Found it! Nice hide!

Great hide. Thanks for the cache