Lilliput Lane ~ Sink or Swim Pakenham, Victoria, Australia
By TeamThommo on 09-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5BV22

What an idyllic place Lillieput Lane is! Ive had my eye on this cache for ages, and after Mister Doctors DNF, I contacted the lovely CO to ask if we could replace the cache if it was not found.We had brought two kayaks, but it seemed a little overkill. Steve set sail on his own and, after a thorough search, replaced the cache. As the hint is no longer relevant, I will mention the hide has been slightly moved.I absolutely loved this location and will be back to swing from the rope, aka Tarzan style. Ill probably break my neck Thank you TeamThommo for showing us this beautiful location.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to TeamThommo for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Another hot day, maybe one of the last, so the perfect time to stick the phone in a waterproof bag, strap on the hand paddles and take the surfmat for a spin on a lake or two.

This was the second of three this afternoon, but unfortunately a DNF.

The last log of over a year ago mentioned a missing logsheet, so before heading over I scrounged a piece of paper from someone‘s discarded red rooster mess - and cleaned up a bit in the process.

A cute location, although the island is looking a bit barren these days. Once ashore I must have circled Liliput at least three times without any luck. Not sure if the cache type still matches the description, but I poked and scraped with a stick everywhere I could think of, but eventually decided to leave for greener pastures.

Spotted a busy local as I was packing up and went over to say hi!

Log missing, great cache!

Geokids jumped on lilos and paddled out and found it easily

What a good mish

Well, I didn't sink or swim, I floated! Day1976's kayak IS watertight. Out placing a container on this island for day1976's Show and Shine event next weekend, and since he had already gotten this cache I was nominated against my will to place the container, so I could got this cache too. Very windy day and luckily I had a rope on the end of the kayak to tie to a tree, otherwise it would have floated away. A bit of rocking back and forth and going in circles finally had me back on land and other than wet feet and muddy hands, I got away very lucky!

I collected this one while 999Hunter watched from his kayak
TFTC

Second family geocaching day as we work towards our 2000th cache. Since we couldn't work one which cache should be our 2000th geocaching find, we thought we would target as many kayak caches as possible and see what happens. Today the aim was Lake Aura Vale near Cardinia Reservoir and water caches north of Pakenham.

For this small lake, I wasn't sure I wanted to get both kayaks off the vehicle, so I suggested our daughter 999HK could get this one herself. She wasn't sure and was worried about leaches. However when Son2 offered, she was keen and tried. However went she wasn't confident, I quickly launched the other kayak (which did my the wife happier too). Looks like some local kids have rigged up some rope to help landing on the island, and we used this to get our 999HK ashore.

While I just enjoyed a nice shady tree in my kayak, I guided and supervised her collecting the cache. She found the cache pretty easy with pretty good coordinates from my location in the kayak. She signed both our names, to make this my 1999th geocache find.

Then it was the close call getting her back in the kayak, as the held onto the guide rope while I tried to maneuver her craft back closer to her. But it was all done, with only a part of her shoe getting wet, and my bare feet just a little muddy.

Thanks for the cache Team Thommo
Hunter

A cold arvo, but a quick swim across and the search was on. Took a bit longer than hoped, but found in the end !

Being to cold to swim today we took the other option available to us and paddled out to the small island. With the assistance of becNmonts we searched every inch of said island without any luck. Part of the cache contents was located but alas no cache. After confirmation with the CO the male Triton paddled back to the shore to pick up a ready made cache from me who was waiting on dry land for the pair of paddlers.
Thanks TeamThommo for a fun place to visit, we can report we neither sunk or swam

We headed here this morning hopeful for a quick find. It wasn’t to be. We searched, and we searched. Eventually we contacted the CO. We were searching in the correct spot, and did indeed have part of the cache in our hand, just not the rest of it... with the CO’s permission we put a replacement cache down. Fantastic spot, a favourite from me. TFTC TeamThommo

So we had a sneaky day off today and my little Man (toolmanjnr) was at me to go for a paddle....
“How about a paddle AND a cache”?
Number 1 dad for the DAY
The waves weren’t too high so we seal launched in and away we go, after a couple laps I sent the boy up to the island and we had a great container in hand soon. Log signed and away we paddled for some ‘fetch’ with a lol.
I really enjoyed the paddle here, very quiet little spot.
TFTC !!

Decided to get the kayak out and finally go grab this one.
First time I've been here and like the cache page says, not another soul to be seen.
I was going to wade over but hell, I had the yak so may as well use it. Did a lap of the pond before landing. Happened to park mere meters from the cache which was found quickly.

I noticed the last log was over 12 months ago but there is a signature on the logsheet after ozhockeychicks name.
Cache in good condition, log dry. Signed and replaced.

Thanks for the cache TeamThommo!

#2074

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

3:26 pm #2718
After attending a nearby event, Mark&Kelly, S_38, Papillon4506, GeoTurtle37 and I headed out to find some of the local caches.
Since most of us were carrying yaks, this was a must-do.
Such a lovely spot. Thanks for bringing us here today, TeamThommo!

After attending an event in Pakenham and picking up my first two T5 yakking caches afterward, a group of us including OzHockeyChick, Mark and Kelley (and Hannah), and S_38 decided to continue the theme and head for this cache while we were geared up for it. Alansee even dropped by for a visit and a quick paddle over while we were there. What a lovely little spot this is tucked away out here, it would be a great place to come back to for a picnic or maybe a spot of fishing. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Found whilst out today with OzHockeyChick, S_38, Mark and Kelly along with Miss Hannah. Alansee also turned up before we left so was able to grab the cache while we were all there. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Found it! After attending a nearby Mega countdown event we teamed up with OHC, S_38, Papillon4506 and Geoturtle37 to go grab a few more around Pakenham. As we had K's geoyak on board this one seemed like a good place to start. We did streamline the process a bit by only sending a couple of seekers out on the wet stuff but this was definitely a joint team effort as everyone did something to enable the grab, be it carrying the kayak to the water, helping K and Ms H to launch, grabbing the cache back on "dry" land or even sorting the swaps. What a great little spot, we would love to know some of it's history as the dam looks to be very old we were wondering if this might have been an early Pakenham's water supply? Another fantastic out of the way spot that we would never have known about if not for Geocaching...TFTC...

I got lucky two caches in a row. After a chance encounter at Superior Waters, I drove up to this one to find a small group of caches equipped with the necessary. It was almost only a matter of jumping on board and going caching. My thanks to those cachers and to TeamThommo for putting a cache in this lovely spot.

Nice day for a swim. Nice place. It's about to rain so I'm outta here. Unfortunately HQ Duck Dot wouldn't fit in this cache but Zombie Clause has stayed on the island. Now back to shore. Will be back with a fishing rod and a few beers one evening soon.

1540 GAFF1 Dropped the kayak in the water, as the marsh hens were wondering what I was up to, and if I would be leaving some worthy scraps behind for them !!!
Left the GPSr back at the car, and a bit of a scout around, and sure enough, there is a nice waterproof container. Intact O-ring, heaps of room for logs.
Left: a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen.
Through for mileage: 12-12-12 Multi Event - Auckland, New Zealand; 15 Years of Geocaching 2000-2015 Geocoin; 2014 Geocaching NSW geocoin; 3.1415 Pi & Ice Cream Slice; 3Brothers-NSW; 6º (of separation) GCookie Travel Tag; Auckland NZ '13; Bonkers; Bridge2Bridge Travel Ingot; Cache Critters - Baa, Neigh, & Oink Geocoins; CII-35Z; CITO - Upper Swan, and Beyond; Cross Staff & Back Staff ; Discover Me & Animals: GCookie; Ellie's Southern Corroboree Frog trackable; Flash Mob XII GCookie Geocoin; G Cookie Earth Cache 10 Year Celebration Coin; GCookie FIZZY coin; Grahame Cookie t-shirt; Hello Cocky TB; IconicBridges2012; Kengu; Nightcaching Australia Geocoin; NZ Mega 13; NZ Mega 2013 Spare Key; NZ Mega Auckland 2013 Signature Trackable; Oz Mega 2014 GCookie; Qld Mega 2015 GCookie coin; Spindoc Bob & Friends Coin; Suzie@2431; and Transaustralia.
TFTC TeamThommo, while it was not helping my Difficulty average, I can certainly 'live with that', but LOVELY to get the Difficulty on the way back to where it had been.

Wow, so annoyed to get a DNF here. We were heading back to Melbourne and decided to stop in on this cache, with the bathers packed of course. After avoiding some horse riders and swimming across to the island, the search for the cache turned out to be fruitless. Very disappointing, but we'll just have to come back for another crack one day...

Thanks for placing this one - we have been here twice now: the first time to check out prospective dog swimming areas, and thus time to both swim and cache! We threw the geokiddies in the water moments after the geohounds; is was great - the geokiddies proved better at fetching the ball and dog toys than their canine siblings. This area is fabulous; if you hadn't have placed a cache, I certainly would have! (Which is my way of complimenting you) - when we first checked the spot for border collie suitability, I said "I bet there's a cache out there!", and the rest is history!) a few pics attached as per your description request. Who needs a boat? Decent water shoes will do the trick. It took 3 trips: one to locate the cache, only to find its pen was dead. Another to retrieve a pen from the car. A third to get a pen that actually works. A great afternoon's entertainment. Tftc!

We had scouted the area in summer as a potential dog swim spot and checked for caches nearby. Establishing the location and realising we were ill prepared we vowed to return. 26 degrees is warm enough for a family swim in this lovely spot. Kids in shoes and old clothes went in with the dogs and found the cache - see pics on Fore!'s post - two trips for a working pen and we had two very tired geokids and two tired geopups. TFTC!

Today we headed out for a couple of hours to get a couple of D/T matrix caches for GT02 and one for our second loop as well.
Since this wasn't too far we hooked up some ropes to the blow up boat and ferried ourselves and the kids across to the island. Once we arrived a quick find was made thanks to the hint. We didn't take the GPSes across to the island.
The lady walking her dog around the lake probably wondered what on earth we were doing.
We then ferried each other back to the car park and no one fell in and got wet which was good.
Thanks TeamThommo for the cache, the hunt and the fun.

GT02 Spiffy- and along with my other geokids came out here. Armed with an inflatable boat that was slowly leaking I first paddled over the Spiffy- pulled the boat back with rope we had preattached to the back. In jumped 2 kids and I pulled them over with another preattached rope. And so it went on til we were all in the island. Cache found and a toilet stop for the geokid and the process repeated for the return journey! Fun had by all. Thanks TeamThommo for the cache.

Found with Spiffy- and Fleabag- along with my sisters. We had an inflatable boat that made an adventure for us all to the island. Lots of bull ants about. Cache found in good condition. Thanks for the cache.

Few cold beers and he wants to find it great cache

What do you do on 40˚C day when you have to hang around near Pakenham for 2 hours? Yes, finally we can have a go at the Lilliput Lane cache! Since we are a boat/kayakLess family we had no choice but to wait for finer weather before attempting this one.

I was worried that being such a hot day, the local kids might be taking advantage of the lake but on arrival there was not another car or person in sight, I guess modern kids prefer air conditioning to dirty looking water hole swimming. My modern kid wasn't too sure either - will there be water snakes? Will there be fish in there? What if there are sticks and rocks on the ground? After some reassurance and stripping to our bathers and old running shoes (a good look I can assure you) we headed in.

The ground was pretty slippery as we entered but we made it in safely and made slow and steady pace as there ground level changed significantly every few steps. It wasn't long before geodaughter couldn't touch the ground and then neither could I. So now I was swimming one-handed, while holding the GPSr and pen in their air filled zip-loc bag aloft with the other hand

As we approached the island, Geodaughter felt "grass" beneath her and was a bit worried, but we swam on and soon made land fall. The pen and GPSr made it safely and after a quick hunt and we had the cache in hand and the log signed. We collected the TB that was there and popped it in the zip-loc bag with the other items for the return trip.

The swim back was mostly uneventful since we now knew what to expect. As I came to shallow water she notice a leech on my bum, our first ever leech experience, now I feel like a real geocacher! Then as I tried to come ashore, the slippery ground got the better of me and I fell forward and ended up covered in mud. Geodaughter freaked a bit (she's very protective of her dear old mum), but after washing myself off in the water and being helped out we were safely back on dry land and headed to the picnic shelter to re-live our adventure and get changed.

Thanks TeamThommo for encouraging us both to try something new, and for giving us a fabulous experience that I'm sure Geodaughter and I will remember forever. It may not be epic in most people's eyes, but it was a lot of fun and took both of us out of our comfort zones for a while. I will attach a photo or two to the log for the record

Logging this one from two years ago!
This was heaps of fun! I didn't get leaches, like some other finders, but had a great time on a hot day with my dogs!

TFTC!

Should have read the cache description before heading to this one. Sadly I had no boat or kayak and was not interested in getting wet today.
I did think the park was rather cute though and thought I might come back one warm day and see if I can walk/swim across to the island and collect the cache. A great little spot for a picnic!!

A fun day with our blow up kayak and geowife . After a little searching found it. Some muggles were watching so had to be csreful

Quick easy fun find. Tb drop. Used the blow up canoe.

11/10/2015, 15:32
Find #2279

I headed out for a Sunday afternoon run with Steve to find an Earth cache for International Earth cache Day and find a few other caches along the way.
After successfully scoring a FTF at a Wherigo in Cranbourne, we headed here to try our luck on the lake. Steve was first out and had no trouble finding the cache. I then took to Steve's kayak, the first time I've paddled a kayak in almost thirty years. My paddling style was abominable but I didn't go into the drink. [^]

Thank-you to TeamThommo for placing this geocache

This entry was edited by biggles1024 on Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 09:54:28 UTC.

11/10/2015, Found @ 3:14pm, Find # 4777.

I had been wanting to find this one for a while now but I haven't been able to transport my kayak anywhere until a couple of months ago.
Today as we had a early morning paddle at the beach, my kayak was loaded on the car so I decided it was time to have a go at this one.
I picked up Mark on the way and after collecting an FTF on a new Wherigo, we headed out to this one.
We arrived at the carpark and got organised, I headed out first and headed for the island, once there it was a short search the cache was found and the log was signed, I then headed back so that Mark could repeat the adventure.

Thanks to TeamThommo for placing this cache.

If anyone plans to do this in the near future can you please message me I have a small request - TIA

Found on another caching adventure with Trailrunning, We headed back down to Packenham to do the hard Slog and a few other nice caches in the area, even went for a swim. Thanks TeamThommo for the cache.

Rebel Acts and I had another go at the Pakenham area tonight. Had a bit of fun finding 59 caches for the evening. This was one of them. Good thing my torch was waterproof, the swim at night was nice and warm.

This entry was edited by TrailRunning on Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 05:45:02 UTC.

Swam this one. Had my 4yr old spotter with me. Not too cold. Water was warm. Not even a 30 second swim out. Short search coming up with a win. Logged, then the swim back, change of clothes and an offer of a chocolate for my good job. Nice.

Slink1 and I decided now that the weather was a little warmer that we would tackle this cache. Slink1 has had a lot of experience in small boats like the yak we had. Me not so much - like zero. So I faced the challange with a bit of intrepidation. We managed to successfully complete our mission and I managed not to fall out of the yak. All good really. We also met up with Pinkpiggy7 and co and its always nice to meet other cachers @The Slog #8 ~ Giddy Up Shorty great to meet you guys . Manny thanks to CO's for the effort and placement of this cache TNLN TFTC SL.

With the weekend upon us and no commitments Dunko and I decided to deploy the Yak’s and go for a paddle then finish off some other caches not far away. During our travels we met up with Pinkpiggy7 "son and daughter" @The Slog #8 ~ Giddy Up Shorty great to meet you guys . Manny thanks to TeamThommo for the effort and placement of this cache TNLN SL.

Had a job in the Water Ways in Aspendale today at 3.30pm so I decided to through the kayak in the van and finish the GeoYak series that I started ages ago, after grabbing the 6 caches I still had to get there I decided while I had the kayak in the van I would drop past this one on my way home.
Pulled up at the car park and got the kayak out of van and launched it and myself of the embankment with no problems, paddled the six or seven stroke to gz where I got out of the kayak to retrieve the cache signed the log at 6.52 pm then replaced the cache.
This is where the cache name came into play, Sink OR Swim. As I turned around I released that my kayak wasn't going to wait for me as it had floated off half way back across the water, Oh S..T I had my iPhone in one hand and I had to swim to retrieve the kayak and drag it back to shore.
While this was all going on there was a young family that had just turned up and they where laughing at me, so as I dragged my wet sorry ass out off the water, then they asked me what I was doing, so I explained geocaching and how not to kayak.
Sorry there was no photo of me out in the kayak or out in the water as it was a bit hard to take a selfie in the water holding a kayak and keeping the phone dry.
Thanks Team Thommo for the great cache and the wet clothes oh sorry that was all my doing. Giving it a fav point for the adventure.

This entry was edited by Bounty Trackers on Saturday, 07 February 2015 at 00:22:25 UTC.

Jaws Soundtrack: http://youtu.be/imw4mBMMG3I

So out and about finding caches that had been nominated for the 2014 Victorian Caching Awards with LouiseAnn and later SirJ-OZ. So I had no idea that this was on the list or I would have been better prepared for it. John had bought his blow up boat that seated 2 and both him and Louise were prepared. I suppose I could have waited for the boat to come back to pick me up but after discussing it with day1976, who popped over on his way home, I decided to detach the legs of my zip off trousers and wade across. I can't blame Day entirely coz he said it was only waist deep where he fell in after placing a part of our Show n Shine 2014 event. So I just kinda walked in and walked in a bit more and then my pants were wet. I knew I had spare tops in the car and a towel (LouiseAnn had thought to get me to bring one but I thought it was because it was raining when we started out this morning) so I just dived in and dog paddled across. Shoes like mine are heavy going when swimming. Never swam in shoes before so new information there! Anyway made it across with only a pen in my collar. By the time I got there Louise and John had exited the blow up boat John had bought and I dredged myself out of the water and the search minus gpsrs' began. Fortunately it's a small island but we still had trouble finding it without them. It wasn't until I rechecked an area we'd already looked that I found the well hidden cache. Log was signed individually and we all had a great time and a big lot of laughs, mostly at me, still dripping wet. Swam back to the bank and squelched back to the car where I got changed into my spare clothes and a towel. Good thing it's a quiet area. Someone would have got an eyeful if they'd driven up at the right/wrong moment! Thanks Team Thommo. Great location and fun times. You may have to add the dangerous animals attribute to this cache now. Definitely have proof of shark infested waters. Tftc

Find #1712. Found @ 19:10 with LouiseAnn and sharkiefan, while tootling around the area for some caching award nominated cache finds.

This was the main event of the day, and I came prepared with "the floating bathtub" - my inflatable kayak. Sharkiefan and I arrived a bit before LouiseAnn (who was on her way back from running an errand). I unpacked "the tub" and inflated it using a combination of my little battery operated compressor and foot pump. Alerted to the attempt, Day1976 arrived to watch the preparation, but couldn't hang around. Not long before I finished the preparation of my waterbourne vessel of transportation, LouiseAnn (and muggle partner) arrived, and Day1976 left. It was dinner time for Day, but launch time for us.

I changed into my "prepared to get wet" gear and we paddled over to the island, only getting slightly wet. LouiseAnn's lack of grace and agility while both embarking and disembarking "the tub" was both amusing (to me) and dampening (to her), and meant that she got wetter than I.

Instead of waiting for a ferry (and not to be outdone by LouiseAnn's attempts at frolicking in the shallows), sharkiefan decided to make the waters sharkiefan infested. Cue the jaws theme.

Once we regrouped on terra firma, we discovered to our dismay that none of us were equipped with a GPSr. Undeterred, we scoured the island and sharkiefan made the find in a place we'd all checked at least once already.

Back into the water craft, and LouiseAnn and I rapidly skimmed across the water like something that neither skims nor is rapid, and sharkiefan swum. We packed up "the tub", and in the process performed some impromptu CITO.

Well, I'm going to count that as the third successful mission for "the floating bathtub".

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache TeamThommo. This was definitely the highlight of my day and gets a favourite point.

I had to miss a cache while I headed off to grab the other half beofre joing up with the team at this cache later. When we arrived at the lake, it was for the final stages of the 'boat' (or as I prefer to call it, the bath tub) inflation process and to wave day1976 goodbye as he headed home for dinner. We launched the bath/boat and started paddling, mostly in a straightish line, towards the island. Sharkiefan, being a fish, decided to stuff the boat and any form of 'dry-ness' and walked straight into the water. When it got too deep, she swam.

On arrival on the island, we discovered that although we had all come prepared with a pen (each), we hadn't brought a GPS - at all. Oh well, I thought, it's a small island, how hard can it be? It took us a while, and we were starting to get a little worried, when sharkiefan let out the cry 'found it' and a sigh of relief was heard. Since we had all brought a pen, we all signed the log ourselves. Then SirJ-Oz and I leaded back into the bath tub and sharkiefan swam back to the other shore.

Sharkiefan and I had a day of picking up caches that have been nominated for the 2014 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards, we joined up with SirJ-Oz for part of the afternoon. We headed down the long long road from the northern suburbs and picked up 16 caches for the day. Thanks for the cache and the adventure TeamThommo!!!! I really have to do things like this more often!

We didn't attempt it but great spot!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEODAD! Last night while unwrapping his birthday presents, the geo kids brought out a present from geoshaz, A BOAT! For 4 people! So we blew it up and tried to fit, it was a bit of a squish, but we still planned to head to lilliput lane soon.After feeding dad a 34ishcm pancake filled with chocolate and topped with bacon eggs maplesyrup and salt and pepper, we thought dad might be a bit too heavy for the boat but decided to head to lilliput lane anyway. We jumped into the brand new geocar Casper with the boat in the boot (We need a name for it! Maybe lilly to remember our first expedition). We arrived and set it up. Geodad and Geoson headed out first, we videoed it hoping they would fall, but sadly (and gladly for them) they didnt fall. Once they were safely on the island and begining there search, Geoshaz and Geodaughter pulled it back with the rope and headed onto the water. Might I add we were alot better at steering than the boys. So the boys found it soon after and they headed back to the safety of mainland. Geoshaz tried to pulled the boat back but it got caught in sticks so she had to walked to the other end of the island (bare foot ouch ouch ouch, we should have brought shoes!) And jumped into the boat, it was sooo funny how she jumped in kind of like doing a bellyflop and of course we videoed it, anyway. Once she brought the boat over to me, we decided we might go on a little cruise around the island, ahhh it was lovely out on the water. We got back from our successfull trip and Geodad said- "All that work for one cache" but we really didnt mind, we had heaps of fun and cant wait to use the boat again. We gave a favourite point to give thanks for our first boating adventure. TFTC

My luck... No one around. Just as I arrive and get out of the car, another car parks next to me and decided to start a picnic on the shore. No way to reach the cache location without been seen...

Out n about with a few GEOKIDS apprentices thanx to mum spotting this one on FB we had no choice but to do this one ASAP love the container lol

Published

TB drop

2TF. Boy you gotta be quick these dayz?

It was last Thursday night I think that I was scrolling through my facebook feed when some photos of a familiar place popped up. It would seem Team Thommo had been down Lilyput Lane. I know the area quite well as there used to be a cache here, which was archived this year. It was also a spot that I had chosen as one of the locations for an event cache for my own event "Geo Vehicle Show and Shine" that occurred a few months ago. I had even gone as far as reserving the spot for a future cache placement when the weather got warmer.

Reading between the lines on Team Thommo's facebook feed I deduced that they may have been out there cache placing! So, with that in mind, the following afternoon I was able to secure a spare hour for a bit of a paddle to a now familiar island. A quick hunt around for an unpublished cache and soon I had the blighter in my hands. How chuffed I was to pick this one up and gain yet another FTF.

My hopes were all dashed though because once opening the container and pulling out the log book I quickly realized that I wasn't the only one of Team Thommo's personal geocaching friends who had recognized the spot! Well done to Msenchantress on the deserved FTF!

I would think that in future Team Thommo might keep photos of their cache placing adventures a secret at least until after publication. Thanks for the fun though, it was nice to get back to this beautiful spot.

This entry was edited by day1976 on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 02:57:53 UTC.

This entry was edited by day1976 on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 02:58:08 UTC.

**** FTF ****
Row row row your boat... Gently down the lane... And this is how the story began...

Late on Thursday night I was scrolling through Facebook, checking on some updates, catching up on the daily news, when a photo caught me eye...Now I have to tell you of this photo... It was a man... A full grown man... In a little blue, blow up, child size rowboat.... I had to double take it... Then chuckle a little... Another look produced a bigger chuckle :) Thanks Mr TeamThommo for shining light on a dull evening

From the photo I could tell where the above scenario took place (I had been here once to find a now archived cache in the rotunda) and thought it might be worth a look... Next morning I drove past and took a look at what tools might be needed to attempt this yet to be published cache... Upon arrival and a chat with a friend it was decided I need a boat... OH GOD, I NEEDED A BOAT!! (insert flashbacks of adult man in a childs rowboat!!) Giggle snort! A call to hubby had me standing in the boat isle at the local BigW, trying to work out if I actually wanted to do this...

Next text to hubby was "I bought a boat" ... And so the actual mission began... Arrived back to the carpark with geo-teen and her broken leg (she had offered to attempt this cache for me... with a broken leg!!)... Blew up the boat and a attached a rope (should I need saving).. Made our way to the edge of the lake, popped the boat in, shoes off and in I hop.... This is where the fun started...

In the boat, bum sinking in one end, legs high in the other, I began to paddle over to the island... I was only about half way across and Geo-teen yelled that she had ran out of rope... oh the giggles... I made it safely to the other side, pulled the rope onto shore with me and looked around for the cache. It didn't take long to find the well hidden cache with a CLEAN LOG.. Woohoo... FTF :)

While signing the log I hear Geo-Teen yelling... the boat was floating away... OMG!!! Fearing being stuck on this damn Island I quickly grabbed the rope and secured it to a tree.. I finished signing the log, replaced the cache and headed back to my boat.

Once at the boat I decided a different approach for my return journey.. Sitting on my knees in the centre of the boat I was better positioned to row back to shore... Until I got the wobbles and almost landed in the water (I cant swim)!!! Giggling with Geo-teen on the edge, I regained balance and made it safely back to shore, alive and dry...

Thanks TeamThommo for an adventurous day that was WAY beyond my comfort zone!!



This entry was edited by ms-enchantress on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 11:20:11 UTC.

I was with the CO the day it was placed - I really enjoyed watching my SIL's antics getting the cache out there