A Master Stroke Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia
By brosho on 15-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5K7FY

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This cache has gone missing, investigating a different container that may be less obvious.

I decided to revisit this cache, after logging a DNF a couple of months ago. Despite the cache having been found recently, I could not locate it. Last time I was with a previous finder, and the cache was not where she remembered it to have been. I had a very decent search today, and could not find this chap. With a D/T or 1/1 (wheelchair accessible), there are not many options for the hide, and the cache should not be difficult to find. I really believe that this cache has gone.

Searched everywhere but was unable to come up with the goods today.

Find

Out and about with Echidna44 on a cold, dull, wet day, we were targeting caches around Carrum Downs. Echidna had found this cache on a previous occasion, but helped me search. Unfortunately neither of us could find this one. I will return.

Covered in ants. I'm now itchy

The weather forecast looked reasonable for this time of year so I decided to take myself to the bottom end of Eastlink and go caching in the Frankston LGA as I needed more s for a couple of LGA based challenges.

My second stop brought me here for a cache hunt that took longer than it should have... I have to blame a "wandering GZ" which had me looking in a number of wrong places before hitting on a straight forward find.

Thanks **brosho** for putting this cache here.

A master stroke turned into several super savers. T4tc

Took us a bit longer then we thought but found it in the end

Quick park and grab in the morning before there were any muggles around. TFTC!

Nice easy find on our Sunday drive Thanks brosho for this one ️

Quick easy find ️

I originally found this cache with my Mum heymissjo, but now that I have my own account, I am logging. Thanks for the cache.

#360
After just getting a cache I thought we were going home but we weren’t The Welder surprised me with another chance to get a cache.My gps was bouncing so my mum (heymissjo) helped me find it .Thanks for the cache.

#1499
With Ge0Bug now a full blown geocacher, it’s nice to be able to stop and collect this cache with her and help her navigate the different map and coordinate settings. Collected after dropping some mini welders off nearby.

An easy find. But I did try jumping the fence

We had a dnf here 7 years ago! Today we were back in the area for kids party at funtopia. Nice easy find today. No ants to be seen. Found with FairyDust01 Thanks

Refer to previous log…. I pressed the wrong button.

I can guess what used to be here from the name of the cache! Bit different now (and a lot of construction going on) but we were able to park nice and close and found the container quickly.

This find broke our record for most days with consecutive finds, we now have 17 and counting!

Came back and found it in mere seconds. Covered in ants but we did it

I hate to admit this but we couldn’t find this within about 20 minutes of looking. I’m sad to say we couldn’t find this but we will be back

A quick little night find here

Lots of ants but got there in the end.
Thanks brosho

After a previous dnf returned to an easy find this time. Gps through me off last time. Tftc here, bought some books from savers

Quick grab on a quiet Sat morning during a delivery of a care pack to one of our kids who had COVID

Quick find TFTC

Trying to do a few chaches today, this one was the first and a nice quick find. TFTH

Tftc

Quick easy find
TFTC

Spending the day caching with AlexiKatty trying to stay on target for my milestone for the Wangaratta mega in January. It's a nice day and beautiful to be out hear again. Very happy to add this smile to my map.
Tftc

Found in the evening with no one around

Thanks for the cache!

Nice quick find!

Found it , quickly found and signed then went to Savers and bought myself a nice new pair of shoes. What a good day I'm having. Tftc

Yep still here

Nope, nothing found here

Looked for about 20 mins, no luck

To many people around

It doesn't get any quicker and easier than that. tftc

Found a mini ziplock bag with a log in it then found key holder described, put both logs together in key holder

Out for my 5km walk and a few local caches. Nicely tucked away.

Thanks to brosho for the placement and fun.

Nice little spot cheers

Easy find , signed the log, sneaky spot!

Quick park and grab, found at night to avoid muggles. Forgot to bring a pen and didn’t want to take a photo as it would give away the location

Easy find. TFTC

Great concealment. I was able to pull up right next to GZ, co-ords were great. Thanks brosho.

Today my mission was to focus on specific LGAs to increase my find count. Luckily while the clouds looked threatening, rain did not hamper my searching. Mission accomplished!

Quick find on the way home from Frankston for work. Thanks.

Nice hide, thanks

Found after popping into the nearby bunnings. Quick easy find TFTC.

Quick and easy find.
No log was in the container.
Left a notepad paper in a clip seal bag for the new log.
TFTC

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Nice easy find here in a fairly deserted car park. Not often you get a 1/1 DT ratings so this was a great one to pick up. Thanks for the fun

A quick and easy cache on a day caching with Cathylm and some of the Bowden Family.
Thanks for the fun.

Great easy find.

Dipping TB

Found it

Had to do some errands today so dropped off some donations to this business behind and decided to finally get a smiley face here

Easy to find

Great find with Tara_1984

Quick easy find with AlizaSkulls

Forgot to log this on 11/7. TFTC!

Well hidden, but found it!

Was a tricky find!

I owned a rather temperamental and frustrating iPhone 5 when I started geocaching and the majority of my finds were based on luck, hence the high percentage of DNFs. This cache was no exception and remained a DNF over 2 visits. Today, even though Muzza found the cache with ease, at least my new iPhone was pointing me in the right direction.
Cheers for the cache brosho.

After a couple of months off thanks to Covid-19, today was my first cache outing. I teamed up with Kristy from Squiiix to hit the Auslan series. With great weather and only 2 DNFs, it was a great day. This cache was on the way, and one that Squiiix had attempted a couple of times. So we stopped for a look, with my GPS pointing right to the spot where the cache was found immediately.



My thanks to brosho for the cache.

After being here a while back with oshfam and not being a geo cacher at that time, I returned today, scraped the memory bank and made the find. To my horror it was infested with ants, once I brushed them all off I signed the log. Thanks for the cache.

Relatively easy find. Got many strange looks from bystanders

Find number 8154 at 4:31:11 pm
In the area to drop off my GeoTruck to have the suspension beefed up for our new GeoVan and oh there are so many undiscovered caches about, where do I start
A nice quickie, homing in on the workshop.
**Thanks for placing this cache brosho**

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Out with geo kids 1,2 and 3 in the last remaining days of the holidays before school starts. We invited our muggle friend Michelle to join us. Luckily for us the weather was glorious with the sun shining high in the sky.

Given the D/T rating here, I told my muggle friend to do this one on her own with no help from us. She did very well and made a quick find.

Cache in good condition. The log sheet was full. We added a clean fresh sheet to keep this one going as we carry spares in the car. We also gave it a protective plastic bag as it didn't have one.

The bushes here have been trimmed/manicured recently but we still managed to find some tiny flowers that escaped the shears and even saw some bees collecting pollen from them.

Thank you for the cache here brosho

Plans were made with My good caching mates omegaman1971 and Trailrunning to do the new Thompsons road series and other caches in the area, we had a great day out caching with quiet a few find and lots of laughs along the way, we even bumped into Ozhokey Chic and Atsmung doing the bike trail.

Thanks brosho for the cache.

Rebel Acts and Omegaman planned to do a bike trail on the weekend and kindly asked me to come along. We had a bit of a hiccup at the start with essential equipment missing, but in the end, we had a great day and found many more than we expected. Laughs all day made the journey so much fun. Thanks.

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 6025 finds
Out and about putting some smiles on the map with Rebel Acts and Trailrunning in an area that I haven't been in awhile.
Our journey was filled with much  laughter and tales of caching.
Cheers for the cache.
The log was signed with our initials "RA, TR, OM"

Tftc

Once again my trusty god was off, but lining myself up with the divide between spaces behind me did the trick

Nice fun one

TFTC

I was fairly certain I knew where this was going to be driving into the car park, but I underestimated the size of the signs on those poles. I looked around the base to no avail, then moved on to an area the GPS took me to. After 5 minutes, I was a little stumped and my muggle mate patiently waiting for me to make the find. Then it came to me in one of those uh huh moments. I jumped off the ledge and then discovered the very cleverly hidden cache.

Thanks for the fun brosho and my 400th find at that!

Had to search a bit. Up early doing some insomnia caching. Thanks for placing Bosho. Your log is nearly full here.

Found the cache and shook off the ants .. however the last finder must have discouraged them a little as there were none inside the cache. Thanks brosho for placing the cache

Quick find on a verrry wet afternoon log is dry wish I was SL TFTC

Parked in a advantageous spot, and felt around for a little while before laying our hands on the container. There were a few ants, but we shook them off. Thanks brosho for the find!

Well. There's a lot of ants here.
The cache itself was a quick find, opening it wasn't.
The ants seem to have claimed this cache for themselves.
For if a human were to try and find this, they would have to wave the cache about in a desperate attempt to rid it of the creatures, before realising that it doesn't work and that these ants are determined and would instead scribble the date and their initials on the log before hastily putting it back.
Which is exactly what happened.
Ants 1 - Humans 0

TFTC, Brainiac03

Creepy little critters EVERYWHERE, yes ants, prevented a thorough search. Not for us today.

Found second time around but was an easy one so should've found the first time. Ants are still around but everything else all good. Thanks for the cache.

Found your cache today after visited my daughter place for dinner. brosho, thank you so much for placing it.

Got it thanks

Easy find... thanks..

Quick find while visiting the pet shop. That's for putting this cache here!

TFTC, nice hide

Found the cache after fighting through a swam of ants. But everything looks to be in order. Thanks for the cache!

#1548 - 9.30pm
I'd DNF'd nearby in difficult conditions. I'd been giving a long distance counselling session in fading light, while donating blood to the numerous mosquitos prevalent on this warm evening.
Given the now dark conditions, this cache was perfectly placed for my geo-needs. Ample lighting to work in and ashphalt to limit the mozzies.
The lighting worked, but the ashphalt didn't, lol.
Still, I must admit that it took a minute of Inspector Clouseau-like ineptitude before I stumbled upon the obvious hide.
I'm still surprised by how much joy I still get from the simplest of hides.
All the same, this was nicely done.
Thanks so much, brosho.

Very quiet day as not much muggles around due to Xmas holidays and easy to find. Thanks brosho for placing the cache.

Deciding that I needed to fill in one of my 366 gaps with something that wasn't going to be too hard to find, and after a little bit of a search I found this one close to home.

Being Christmas Day, and relatively late in the evening, it was clear on all fronts. There was a little bit of a giveaway to the location for any Geocacher, which resulted in a super quick find, sign and return.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Great quick find on way home spending Christmas Day with Mum in Frankston Rehabilitation for Parkinson’s. TFTC
Merry Christmas
AnsMisty

May need to rename this one to save yourself. It is good to see these masters starting to be utilised. The car park was quite busy so I read the logs to try get a better feel for where this one was hidden then went for the hunt and was able to locate fairly quickly. A quick sign and returned to it hide

Thanks brosho for the cache.
Found at 4:21 pm on 19/12/18.
Find # 1026

We were in the area for GMelb’s Mum’s Nursing Home Christmas Celebration and then were meeting up with BorisB&Natasha and Nutbear for arvo tea and had some time in between so stopped off here as we wanted to visit the op shop looking for a certain board game. No luck with the game but we found the cache after being distracted in the wrong spot for a while
TFTC brosho - GJMMelb

Find # 1169 Found @20:06Hrs

A nice easy find found in the second place i looked


TNLNSL
TFTH

We knew where it should be, just took some looking.

Exactly what it says. Thanks.

Second find for the day in our travels out and about with the kiddies.

Found it

Out for a drive, and being injured, I needed a quick cache. No-one nearby made it easy. Thanks brosho