7 = Seven : Number's Series Alfredton, Victoria, Australia
By Shamus1 on 22-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5N82B

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Log is soaked

After completing some more of the BSRT today we headed over here before heading back to Melbourne. A nice easy find. Log is very wet so I was unable to sign. TFTC

Out with geojill_11 and jascat collecting nearby geocaches, this was found,

The cache was found quickly and the log could not be signed as it was soaked TFTC

On the way back to Melbourne with Jascat and Mark9375. Nice hide but soaked as per Jascat's comments and unable to sign

Find # 3564 @ 1615 H

Found with Tyred n Cranky

In Ballarat for the 2 Months to Mega Event.

After the event and a small amount of shopping we decided to brave the lovely Ballarat weather and go for a walk along this trail.
This log was a little damp. But then again by now my shoes were completely drowned and the sox weren't faring much better. Managed to squeeze the log out enough to pencil in our names.

TFTC Shamus1

Find No. 1499. Found with FUF009 at 4.15pm

In Ballarat for the day to attend the 2 Months to the Surf Coast Event. Then after the event we went and done this series. Parked the car near Number One and off we walked.

Located this one but the log was completely saturated and dripping with water.

TFTC Shamus1

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will replce when I can

Found relatively quickly but couldn't sign the logsheet as the lid was loose and it was soaking wet. Happy to return to sign when it gets replaced or dried out. Cache container is also missing rubber seal for lid.

Found. Tftc

Find 28

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TFTC what a great day for a few caches

Great walk with family finding caches. Thanks

Looking for a walk with caches and we stumbled onto this number series. Enjoyed the walk.
There is wedge tail eagle nest not far from the trail here.
Thanks

And another one TFTC

A day out caching in Ballarat, the weather looked promising,so decided to do this series.TFTC.

Back for another walk and to finish this series!

Another quick find. This series has given us A LOT of laughs along the way, thank you!

Another quick find after many laugh between friends

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TFTC!! Loved this one

another good find thanks

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Our last day in Ballarat before we head back to Melbourne to catch the boat back to Tassie. We've really enjoyed our caching holiday. Thank you to all the CO's for taking the trouble to hide the caches that make such a holiday possible

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2:11:00 PM. Being a cold day we decided to tackle this series. Found and log signed. Thanks Shamus1 for placing this cache.

Found with TAJBENTLEY & KALIANDA09. TFTC

Found 16/3/16 @ 5:20 pm.
Out caching with FMS4 and TAJBentley when we decided to do this trail. This cache was quickly found by TAJBentley and myself while FMS4 was admiring one of the nearby houses. Thanks Shamus1 for bringing us out here.

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TFTC. McStormy made the find here while I was digging around in the drain and the local dog was going nuts barking at clouds.

Lovely day for a walk with Yogster. Thanks Shamas

I ended up doing this series three times today :
(i) the first time to sign the logs;
(ii) a second time when I realized there were number clues here for another puzzle;
(iii) and a third time when I realized that during the second round I had picked up the numbers from the logsheets rather than from the lids. Probably because at #1 there was an unmatched number on the logsheet (not a one) that led me to believe those were the clues.

Seven down - 3 to go. TFTC.

Found )

The easiest find for the day, enjoying the walk.

Heading over to Ballarat for a caching weekend and picking up a few caches on the way.

We managed to find about 230 caches in 3 days/ot bad work for 3 old guys

Out on the bikes to get this series. It didn't take too long and we only had trouble at number 3 where the dog was yapping and the kids were playing on the other side of the fence. We left it and came back and found it on our way back.

A nice series of caches and a pleasant way to stretch out after the long drive over.


TFTC

Seven is a lucky number.
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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Found on a caching trip to Ballarat with Freddo and Team Waldron, 236 caches found and a bunch of laughs along the way, Time for some bike riding and i soon spot something interesting so we take careful notice of all the other caches along here : ) TFTC

Today Dunko and I headed to Ballarat with the intention of reaching and passing 9000 finds,
our mile stone was met what a great day of caching fun we had with 69 terrific caches found during our travels many thanks to Shamus1 for the effort and placement of this cache. TNLN SL

Set off today with my caching buddy Slink1 to try and reach a mile stone number (9000) and I am pleased to say that we made that number and a few past (to be sure we counted correctly!). This cache was found as part of our effort to reach our milestone and my thanks go to Shamus1 for the placement and maintenance of this cache. We had a lot of fun and some laughs along the way.
TNLN TFTC

We found your cache 7 = Seven : Number's Series
Prickly area here.

Prickly little find! Out with dehands cleaning up the numbers. TFTC

Found in the pickles with boydclan123

Found it

Last one for this evening, although felt a bit exposed grabbing this one with the nearby houses. Hoping no one was watching! TFTC

Prickles everywhere. Should've brought gloves

[red]Find #3144 Traditional #2468 [/red]

With a day off from working the weekend and a leave pass granted, all that was left for me to do, was pack up the geo vehicle with supplies including the 2 wheel manual vehicle and I was off at the crack of dawn. My day started at 5:30am and finished 225+ kilometres later at 5:30pm. 60+ caches found for the day and a few DNF's.

I had finished my mission along the Rail Trail and now it was time to make my way into Ballarat. I had done one of this series previously and now it was time to do the rest. I wish I did them In order after I read the details for the final. The thorns here were a pain. I finally found and had a lady come out of the local house asking what I was doing. I quickly moved on. Stamped returned as found.

[blue]Thanks for this trad cache and series, Shamus 1. [^]
Log and container in good condition.
Took Nothing, Left Nothing [/blue]

Ya another on a lovely afternoon in Ballarat

TFTC

A quick find with help of clue - lovely afternoon out caching with CAD
#2706 T4TC:)

As the weather cleared for a bit we set off down the old rail trail. We skipped 1 so started with 2. No really issues with any of the hides except as others noted 8 is out by about 10m. A few dog walking muggles about. A pleasant little walk. All logs signed and re hid. TFTC.

A bit of a prickly encounter. Started this series on Melbourne Cup Day but ran out of time. Staying in the area for 3 days this time so sent hubby to playground with the kids and set off from the southern end in the reverse direction from last time. The sun as hot but I had plenty of water. Remembered to get clues from caches this time. Nice quick find. Thanks to this challenge I have now done the Jasmer (Alphanumeric cache name) Challenger.

Found by The Empire
Time to go for a walk. I headed out on the walk solo, but would soon be joined by cachers who would really help me finish the series. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you! Thanks for the cache, Shamus1.
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Found It...Found this one while up here in the company of Robynonthego The_Tritonz and Wozzle68. After arriving at GZ a short search soon had the log in hand and with it signed we continued down the trail . Thanks Shamus1 for the cache

Completed the number series with H3, The_Tritonz and Wozzle68.

Our second attempt here after a failed mission previously. Thanks Shamus1 for the series.

Finally finished this series after all this time .
Thanks for the series

Thanks for this hide Shamus1.

Attempted to complete this series on a sultry evening, although we could not find the first cache. either our eyes were failing or it is become lost within the blackberries. Thanks for the cache and the series.

A simple series to stretch the cycling legs before commencing the 550km Great Victorian Bike Ride.

Thanks for the cache Shamus1.

Our 4th day camped at Creswick, and today we decided to go to Ballarat to do a few trails.
This was our last series for the day, and we hoped to get them all, but it was not to be.

Most were found quickly, and the clue jotted down.
Number one took us the longest to find, and we did not find a clue in it.
The barking dog at number 3, cut our search short and we settled for a DNF.
An excellent location and the walk was pleasant, for this small series of well placed hides.

Many thanks for placing this series of caches, Shamus1, for us and others to find.

Another easy find at 2pm. 35 min and six finds so far.
thanks Shamus1

I got poked alittle

Found some cool old trainer stuff

I couldn't do this earlier due to a couple of kids playing on the nearby grass. This was the last I did in this series for the day, pity I had 2 DNF's. A bit harder to work out where the final puzzle is. Hopefully I get to do No.1 and No.8 another time. This one took me a couple of minutes to find, fortunately I trusted the GPS and persisted. TFTC and series Shamus1. It was enjoyable.

This was a trail that I have visited before but not along this section so it was good to explore more of it. Parking at the start I enjoyed a wander along the track. I couldn't see any sign of life in any of the houses nearby, and as I had walked along the track there was less chance of anyone knowing I was there.

Thanks for the cache.

Today we had some time to spare before meeting up with #GeoHulk to attack some of the BSRT series

We found all in the series OK except for No 1, although the coordinates for some caused us to broaden our search area somewhat. We found it an interesting trail in that much of it is so exposed to muggle view - it is a wonder to us that the caches have survived muggling.

For this part of the series we parked at the end of Wensleydale Road and did caches numbers 0 to 7.

It took a while to find this one, and we were delayed by the stares of two different muggles who approached the area from different directions.

Found at 9.10 am on 25th September 2015. TFTC.

This entry was edited by RoddyC on Friday, 09 October 2015 at 22:24:20 UTC.

At last a weekend with some reasonable weather. Hopefully the first of many to come. It seemed like a perfect chance to log a few caches. I tried to choose some that would require a little bit of a walk too.

Took a moment to spot. In the end the GPS was spot on,.

This was find 3 of 11 finds for today, being found at 9:39:00 AM.

Thanks Shamus1 for placing this cache and bringing me here.

TFTC my pen has now konked out back to the

Quick find, good series.

Out for a walk with geo son JJ1 and dog and have been eyeing this series off for quite a while.

We had completed part of this series earlier with geokidI guides group but had never finished the series. When we saw it was back and the weather is perfect for a stroll we made our way down the path. TFTC Shamus1

Had a bit of time to kill this morning, before attending the Black Hill CITO. Seeing as these caches had been recently re-enabled, this was the perfect opportunity to do so. Parked the car and headed out on foot. A very still morning, with a nice blanket of fog greeted me. Had a very pleasant walk here, thanks for the exercise. TFTC Shamus1

replaced and ready to go

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Whoa! 12degrees and sunshine we just had to head out on the GeoBikes. A long hard day which ultimately ended up very cold.

We had a great day along the trails and really enjoyed the peaceful surrounds. Not a great fan of the wind chill factor riding back to the car though. lol.

Mr Felix on pedal power alone (no electric battery) and into the wind. The sun has disappeared too so now very chilly.

Info collected and onwards.

Thanks Shamus1 for feeding our GeoAddiction!

Found as Nicnax with SciFiRulz, WeRAmused and MazzyMay wondering around Ballarat hunting caches. Nice hide TFTC

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch, WeRAmused and mazzymay on a good caching day in Ballarat. TFTC

Found as Nicnax with SciFiRulz, PapaGrouch and Mazzymay. We had a nice walk down here in the sun when it finally came out. An easy series and we found everything we looked for today. TFTC

Found on our daily after work cache date

Found as Nicnax with WeRAmused, PapaGrouch, & SciFiRulz

Beautiful day with the wind cutting you like a knife and so did the prickles. Tftc

We walked straight up to this one. No problems whatsoever. Muggle free too as we were now beyond the building sites.

Log needs maitenance. Just jammed in bison. With darth briji n sorcey sal

Met up with Darth Briji and #GeoHulk for an assault on Ballarat. With 3 layers of clothing and a wind chill factor of about minus 3, we managed some great walks, lots of smilies and enough bison's in trees to last me a long time. A really great time with the boys and geodog Tess for company, Thanks Shamus1

Up in Ballarat for the day with #GeoHulk & sorceysal converting some more caches into smiley faces.
Quickly spotted and clue noted.

Thanks Shamus1 for the cache
Log signed & replaced. TFTC & smiley face
#1562

Found

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Out and about to do a few caches today . TFTC

Took a little to find after gps took us the wrong way. TFTC

16:09
An adventurous day around Ballarat with Suscoe, Bushfire, Buckleysbabe and OzBob included the subterranean depths of Ballarat, the mire of Winter Swamp and paddling on Lake Wendouree. With some daylight remaining, it was onto the trusty treadlies to follow, catch and match all these numbers!

Our thanks to Shamus1 for bringing us here.
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Had to drop someone off at Ballarat Base Hospital this morning and then found myself with a few hours to spare so what better way to spend it than go caching. I'm not normally out this way so had lots of choice from the plentiful local supply so I decided to have a go at a couple of short series starting with the numbers series. You are certainly out in the open for most of these finds and need to keep an eye out for dog walkers, builders and bike riders.

Found with diadem

Having reached the edge of suburbia I found myself at the hide and thankfully there were no muggles around so making the find was a quick affair. TFTC Shamus1

TaurusSix spotted this before I could catch up.

Found with several others so we called ourselves an acronym which from memory was MACC.