Olly Octopus ~ A-Zoo Series Little River, Victoria, Australia
By Na'wal on 09-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5EHD4

Cache broken again. Sorry, the zoo is now permanently closed ??

TFTC Na'wal and this series. So glad to be back out and about. Wonderful day today with little wind and some clouded sunshine. Looking forward to the physical challenge, as lack of exercise will surely play its part in determining how far we get in the Zoo. TNLN. Container is beyond repair due to UV damage.

Found this cache but it is completely broken. Super brittle from the sun. Tftc

a bit broken (with Jono)

Found it with jez

Bush bashed our way here. TFTC

Tftc. Lots of little tree to get through. The container lid is broken and log is wet. Still managed to sign it though. Off to the next.

This is due for a new container. SL TFTC

Cache is in bad condition, lid broken. Maintenance needed

Tftc. With Ashton 96. Through the bush

tftc

Easy find. TFTC

Stock family found 10/6/19

I headed to the You Yangs for a day of walking, mountain biking and caching. I decided it was time to visit the Na'wal Zoo in the afternoon and I had unrivalled access to the exhibits all on my own.

I took a rather interesting route to this cache and I was glad I was using the GPS which showed more paths that the app. I have only seen one octopus in the wild and that was from a pier. It was good to double that number here. TFTC!

Out and about in the You Yangs today , we had intending doing the "Great Circuit Drive "series but the road was closed , so instead did the Puzzle Time and the Zoo series . Most were quick finds while others led us round in circles until finally found

TFTC

I swear every time I go caching I lose my pen. Had to make my mark with some dirt on the log book but the mark was made! Tftc

Came to the You Yangs on a beautiful morning in pursuit of my 3000th cache. Followed the GPS between the trees. I had not visited this part of the Yangs before - flat, bushy, like a plantation. Loving the preparation of the caches. This is #3001 so now begins the next chapter in my caching career. TFTC

An easy and quick find, until Mr Riddell realised that he had the wrong time for the Little River event today which started at 4pm and finding time was around 4.10 pm.
A hasty retreat back to the car and we are now still driving there.

BUT “we’ll be back!”

TFTC

Out caching with thomo31, finishing the zoo series. After a small search as gps was playing up found cache. TFTC

Found with teamashy. Found container under one and the remains of the octopus under another. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Saw from a way away. Added some trade marks. Tftc

Tftc

The last time we were in the area was when we were Hunting For The Na'wal, a caching experience we really enjoyed. So when we saw the Zoo Series, they went onto our "to do"list very quickly. We went to the Zoo today, our second last day before returning home tomorrow night.

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a relatively quick find. We had forgotten how open this area can be but how caches blend into the environment. the cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks Na'wal for this cache and the series,

Found all broken. Poor olly..tftc

Out with au.fait & xambo4u, we spent the day visiting the unusual animals in this open plan zoo. A great day had by all.
We enjoyed the variety of animals and caches, which had us searching among the trees in sunshine and rain. Olly is looking a little sad today, so we tried to cheer him up. Thanks Na’wal

A wonderful day out with the lovely echidna44 and xambo4u to visit this zoo We met up.early with blue skies and sunshine although this didn’t last all day as several showers dampened us but not our spirits as we wandered from one end of this imaginary zoo to the other. The themed artifices are such fun but a pity Olly is broken. I think he has been out of water too long and the sun has made him brittle but still beautiful TFTC Na’wal

Out and about with Echidna44 and au.fait for the day. The weather was forecasted as doubtful but that was not going to stop us. As our progresses the weather was favourable. Really enjoyed our nice easy walk through this new to us area. Poor old Olly is cracking under the pressure. Signed off and ready for our next animal We are enjoying you all the work you have put into this series. Thanks for it all Na'wal and another great day out girls.

Had to park the geodoggo a ways back from this one and go in alone.

TNLN TFTC

1954 fltf

Travelled from Bendigo today to hopefully complete the Zoo series. Nice winter day for family Sunday - Funday. What better way to spend a day out Geocaching. Lots of goodies in the new container. Found!

Thanks nawal

Zoo exhibit is open to the public

Broken section of cache conatiner removed. Good to go again

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The outer container top is badly damaged and unable to reseal the lid and is letting in water. We found the container half full of water. But the inner container contents was dry.

11:33, 31 March 2018, # 560, out with Ali and riddleywalker today. The lid is cracked and outer container is full of water, we drained it, and dried contents. TFTC.

Loved the idea here. Sadly the box here needs a little attention as well. The top is still fine.

Had a little geocaching run around the Lara area today.
Nice weather and a Public Holiday in Ballarat meant we had a day to go for an Adventure.
Thanks for placing the cache here for us to find.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14.
Great day out geocaching.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
It was a beautiful day to be out exploring.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

I had wanted to tackle the Zoo series in this part of the You Yangs for a while primarily because I thought it would be a great excuse for a very long walk whilst trying for twenty five caches in a day. I knew there were a couple of tree climbs required and not being much of one for them I thought I'd add a couple of extra caches not in the series as backups. The fact that both those caches counted towards challenges I was working towards didn't hurt
All of the series bar two which required tree climbs and one furthest from the main set of caches were found. I really enjoyed the finding as I got the sense I was in the bush without the associated difficulties of finding bush-based caches in thick scrub and hilly terrain. Now don't get me wrong, there's a place for those types of caches but if you're aiming for twenty five finds in a day you're unlikely to achieve the goal with those types of cache.
Highlights of the day included: 14km walked, 10 months of unlove snaffled (don't ask me why the Nocturnal multi hadn't been found for so long) and a koala seen up close as I walked back to the car after a long afternoon of caching.
Thanks for the series, Na'wal. A great use of (what I think) are toys which have been outgrown by your kids. A favourite point for the series will be added to the final mystery and I'll try and post a photo of the koala on that page as well.

its long walk and lucky perfect day and its heaps mosquites....with whitepaws9

Lovely sunny day for a long walk in the bush with Laker63.
Thanks Na'wal

Yep it's arachnids

Out today to finish off the zoo, been too long awaiting a time to get there... the winds today were peaking at 109kpm, the trees were swaying and bending... with runners on it was off to gather the caches.
the old GPS had a lot of trouble with gz finding today kept jumping all over the place... had to resort to pick a point and circle around until caches were spotted.
thanks to Na'wal for this series
TNLNSL

TFTC

Found it. TFTC

Cool. TFTC Cheers

Hubby, 3 boys and 1 geo dog went out on an adventure. Some were dragged, 1 wouldn't stay home, no way no how. The aim was to get out in the sun, find some caches and get away from computer games. Success on all 3 counts! Quick and easy finds on this summer day.

Another find by the McPhail family... TFTC

I don't know how a log inside a container, inside a container, inside a container, inside a container gets wet. Thankfully it was "write in rain" so still able to sign. I also tried to dry it out like the last visitor. Thanks Na'wal

More than 2 years after I first visited this zoo I came back today to finish it off for once and for all on my sixth visit. (Although that didn't happen as an elusive butterfly had fluttered away from me so I'll have to return for a seventh time to see one more enclosure.)
Seems some muggle has found Olly too - the containers were all open. I dried them out and replaced as I assume was intended.
We get those deadly blue-ringed octopii around Corio Bay, but this You Yangs version is a little friendlier.
Thanks, Na'wal.

Found on a day of walking, driving and caching around the western You Yangs and the Brisbane Ranges.

Took awhile but finally found it . Sophia and Mahala swapped toys

Love your work. Finally got to it.

Trundled through the bush to find this one only to be confronted by a unique cache, nice work tftc.

Good one

30 July 2016
Nice bit of bush bashing to find this one. Tftc and i liked the container lol

Found it

Talk about Russian dolls

Found it the container are a bit of over kill but still a good find

Log has been replaced and I dropped a few TB's

Wow. Very tricky this one. Found by our youngest geokid#3 after all the adults missed it. This one was a little like peeling onions without the tears. Log is full. Tftc. Very interesting on many levels. Some swaps made.

Find no. 1024

Only Octopus play hard to get, he was Cleary using his natural surrounds and the low light to his advantage. Luckily though we got up close and personal with the clever cheeky guy.

With the day drawing to a close and heaps of animals still to see, it's clear we'll be back another day. But not before we visit our favourite.... The Rabbit!

Thanks Na'wal!

The octopus

Yay

Set out today to do the series and get a few extra caches under our belt.
This was different! Left swaps

Last trad in the series!! Coords 14m off here, so I wandered around until I found it. Wasn't very hard to spot. Love the cache container. Needs a new log. I had to squeeze my name in. Tftc.

Fun cache for the geokid. This ones never getting wet!

Geokid took a loom band from the cache, and swapped it for an octopus

Many arms and many....

Headed out with Leetalicious and geodogs Tessie and Worf for a great Sunday's caching. Knowing from experience that Na'wal's caches are always good fun, we knew we were in for a good day, and so it proved.
Reminded my of the russian dolls, nice one again


Thanks again Na'wal

On a beautiful day Bogonghazy, the Geodogs and I planned lots of walking. So we went to the 'zoo' at the You Yangs and completed the series. Loved this series and the beautiful surroundings. This one was very ingenious. Many thanks

Lots of new growth to go through and then the great cache was found. It sure was fun getting to the logbook that unfortunately needs replacing. We will give you a fav from us for this well planned and implementated cache. We enjoyed the well done notes too.
TFTC Na'wal

This cache had us stumped for a good while. There is a lot of new growth in this spot that added to the difficulty. Eventually the cache was spotted. This cache proved the little people are useful for doing all the little jobs that grown-up would find tedious. TFTC.

Out here with AutumnTree, our newbie geocaching friend, and five GeoKids. Find number 17 for the day. This cache took us the longest to find, navigating through all the new growth. The line on my GPS amused me - I'd very literally gone around in circles. AutumnTree eventually gave the call - Found it! - and the GeoKids swooped in to check out the hide. There would have been irate GeoKids if the hide had not had enough 'legs'

TFTC!

This was very very cool! Took a little while to find but was found eventually and was so awesome TFTC

We thought this was a pretty cool cache to leave a TB in, TFTC!

#220

While travelling with Mutex I’ve found a lot of caches all over Australia. You know, I like the discovering, especially in nature, but am not that much intopcs and internet ..and logging. So we spend a whole day together to indicate all the caches we found together out of his list. Hope you don't mind the standard text aslazy me has to log quitea few now. HopefullyI'm gonnawork on that

Thanks!

[url=http://www.geopt.org/link.php?gctools=4]Logged by Geopt Geocaching Tools[/url]

While spending 16 months abroad, travelling through all states of Australia and also having a two months break in Thailand I did a lot of geocaching.
After many, many caches accompanied by the strong will not to write any standard logs, I ended up with more than 700 finds, all waiting for an official log. After intense considerations and carefully weighing my options, you now receive this special limited edition numbered log.

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Hahaha, all good things come in eights
Did you know that octopus have a favourite arm?

This is my unique non-standard log #201
You Yangs National Park Cache #18/77

Being in Melbourne all the time gets a little boring after a while. So DieRooneys, Mutex, Pfote and I decided that we should leave Melbourne for the weekend. We had a look at the geocaching map and the You Yangs National Park seemed just perfect. Heaps of geocaches with good ratings, camping spot nearby and it wasn't too far away from Melbourne

We started on Saturday with the northern part of the zoo series and did roughly three quarters. We found all 19 caches we were looking for this day and they were amazing!
Really cute ones, cool ideas, everyone was different. I haven’t had so much fun geocaching in a very long time! Thanks Na’wal for your creative zoo caches!

And after having a good night’s rest in Little River we were fit for another day. We did the whole You Yangs Circle Drive today and found all of the caches. And there was even some time left for an earthcache and two traditionals afterwards which makes a total of 32 caches for me today (I already found YYCD #3 on another day). Thanks a lot ThePacman for crafting so many perfectly camouflaged caches!
We let the evening end with an awesome burger dinner buffet. Since it was already dark we were wearing head torches But I think that’s how it should be on a good camping trip

DieRooneys and Pfote went to bed earlier than Mutex and me. We decided that there was still some time for a little mystery solving battle. We were puzzling till 3 am and managed to solve seventeen of the ‘It’s puzzle time’ mysteries. Today, on Monday we did the outdoor finding part
Even though our last day was broiling hot (maybe the hottest day I experienced so far) we found all mysteries we solved the night before, the rest of the zoo series and two traditionals on the way, 26 caches in total.
Thanks TR! for so many different mysteries. We had a lot of fun solving them!

It was an incredible weekend thanks to all owners and my amazing companionship!
But the highlight was that we’ve seen a wild Koala relaxing in a tree after finding our last cache for the day

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Thanks a lot for taking care of this cache, showing me this place and turning my travels into an adventure!

Greetings from Germany.
Keep on caching!
Theatralis ?

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That’s roughly the route I travelled:
Germany – Sydney – Cairns – Cape Tribulation – Biloela – Armidale – Sydney – Canberra – Melbourne – You Yangs National Park – Tasmania – Melbourne – Boinka – Adelaide – Alice Springs – Darwin – Adelaide – Melbourne – Perth – Rottnest Island – Denmark – Perth – Melbourne – Thailand – Brisbane – Sydney – Adelaide – Boinka – Melbourne – Germany

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And finally some statistics:
Days abroad: 186/487
Days of geocaching: 78
Geocaches abroad: 201
Geocache of the day: 18/19

Australia Trip
Day 14 of 49

Today we planed a Geocache Trip to the You Yangs Nationalpark. We left our Camp in Melbourne at 2 pm and drove to Geelong. Our target was the Zoo Series on this day.
What should i write now? It was an amazing Cache Series! The Cache Containers were wonderful and every cache were individual made. We startet at "Admit One" and did the north part of the tour. That was my first time caching in the Australian nature. Many thanks to Na'wal for a wonderful piece of geocaching craftsmanship.

This cache was also one of the best of this series! When we hid the cointainer i gave Olly a Favpoint!

TFTC
The last Rooney
Greetings from Munich, Germany!
Sorry for my terrible english.

At the moment Pfote and me are on a work and travel backpacking trip through the world. After I've spent a full year in Australia Pfote joined me for my second year down here. We will definitely try to collect a lot of boxes and all the special things in every state all around and through the middle. 

This later weekend Pfote, Theatralis, Die Roonies and I made a trip to Geelong to cache ourselves through the You Yangs Park.
We started with around three quarters of the zoo series and found all of the caches without any problems.
The octopus will definitely get a fav point - such a great idea!

TFTC and greetings from Germany.

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Today was day 29 of our trip out of Sydney to visit the southern states of Victoria and Tasmania.

It was time to pick up a few more of this Zoo series while staying in the area.
This cache was easy to find and the idea of the cache container made us laugh. After the log had been signed the cache was replaced as found. Thank you for bringing us back to the area and we hope to pick up some more of the series another time. TFTC.

We're not alone in finding this one tricky. The GPS seemed a lot more skittish here so it was a challenge to spot Olly. He ended up being 5m south of GZ today. TFTC

Ha ha. After all Olly's protection I was somewhat amazed to discover that the log was damp! I guess some previous finder must have visited Olly when it was raining. Thanks for the zoo.

Well hidden great find by geo deb. You ve put so much thought into these. Great fun had on our day out. MadmT laughs were had. Thanks Willy Walkers. Log is very nearly full.

[green] Find #494 Traditional #407 [/green]
This was the of 11 caches. LL

I’ve been wanting to have a go at this series for a while on my previous visits to the You Yangs but ran out of time. Today I had the day to myself to go caching so I decided to make the drive back out once again. I’m glad this was where I picked to come because the variety of the hides and the creativity gone into them was first rate. I thoroughly enjoyed zig zagging across this part of the You Yangs marvelling at the time that was spent putting it together and having a chuckle on more than one occasion. I managed to successfully find every cache in the series, thanks very much Na’Wal for all your efforts, fantastic!

Well this one is certainly waterproof.

With a day off uni, I decided to start tackling this series. Overall, I found 20/20 for the day. There were some very interesting hides and creative caches. Thanks Na'wal for a great day!
This was the toughest find of the day. I spent a good 20 mins circling the area before the cache was found. Getting to the cache was equally as frustrating as finding it.

Great find, walked past it originally so we back tracked and the kids were facinated by the cache itself. Thanks for an amazing series

The gps had us going back an forth with the tree coverage. I heard a well known word from Mrs Kalianda09 "got it". Gee Na'wal's wife must get annoyed with him stealing all of her Tupperware all the time. I was quite amused watching Mrs kalianda09 getting to the log. Another job well done Na'wal

I was in the area today after having an appointment nearby so decided to visit the zoo for a cache or two! What a fab little series! I was using my phone and hadn't planned anything so need to come back (probably several times) but that's ok as it is a gorgeous spot. This was well camoed (or I just kept approaching from the wrong angle). Took me a good 10 minutes to find I reckon. Thanks again

Tftc! Brought our niece down for this one, loving the series!

This was the last find for the day. Will be back to finish off the series

A clever cache tftc

A nice early start to this fresh June sunday and we're checking out the Zoo. A well constructed cache and a clever hide. Ah, this was cool! I really like this part of the world, thanks Na'wal for giving me a reason to revisit.

We wandered on and were soon making the acquaintance of Olly Octopus. Now that is a cool hide, and just the right number to suit Olly, I think he approves wholeheartedly.
Thanks to Na'wal for the fun cache.

had a trouble with this. was about 6 mtrs off but clever find! thought id come here on a cold day. less chance running into an animal

Quick and easy find
The log extraction was the most fun ive had today
As mentioned before, the fact that these caches closely resemble their animal counter part is both exciting and amazing
TFTC