2 = Two: Number's Series Alfredton, Victoria, Australia
By Shamus1 on 22-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5N8BT

We had the trail to our selves today and were able to search with no muggles

opening up for other people

Found it. Thanks for the fun.

Find # 3569 @ 1716 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.
The last one on the trail for us to find. On our first pass there was a muggle out mowing so we decided to leave it in hope that he would be finished when we came back, thankfully he was and we could make the quick find.

TFTC Shamus1

Find No. 1504. Found with FUF009 at 5.16pm

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.

On the way back we found no.8, FUF009 located no. 3 after we had given up, and now to locate the last one we did not find on the way up being no. 2. This was a quick easy find but unfortunately on the way up there was a muggle mowing his grass and we could not even try to look for it.

Now we have finished this series along this track. We have all the numbers but will come back another day to locate that one as it is now time to head for home.

TFTC Shamus1

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Took the geodaughter for a walk to stretch the legs on what started as a freezing but sunny walk and finished up raining. Tftc and will come back to finish 9 and 10 another day.

Found 23

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TFTC nice cold morning 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.
Thanks

Walking is fun

A day out in Ballarat, the weather looked promising, so decided to do this series, will be back to get No 1 when it is up and going along with the final.Thanks Shane for the series and effort you go to, another area I have visited through geocaching.

In ballarat with friends and looking for some caches in the stealth of night

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Tricky

Out this way from Geelong with a group of cachers. Quick easy find and onto the next. TFTC

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Great find on a night time adventure. Tftc

Our first cache for the night as captain roverman, Dbelco, lil mix, kumacat and I set out for some late night/early morning caching. Quick find for a great start to the series

First find of the series TFTC

Nice!

TFTC!! eventually found it and set us up for the next caches in the series!! Great fun for a beautiful day

thanks for the cache 1st for the day

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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

Tftc Lol my wingman got a prickle in her butt!

1:51:00 PM. Being a cold day we decided to tackle this series. This one took a bit of searching but the better half spotted it. Log signed. We missed the number from this one so had to return later to collect it. Thanks Shamus1 for placing this cache.

Found with TAJEBENTLEY & KALIANDA09. TFTC

Found 16/3/16 @ 6.03 PM.
Having found the other caches in this series, we only had this and #1 left to do. With time definitely not in my favour, I was glad we managed to make this a quick find. Thanks Shamus1 for the series.

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TFTC. A muggle dog walker didn't deter us from the cache here.

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.

Two down - 8 to go. TFTC.

Had to have a second go at this on the way back, but found it just as i was giving up.

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

Oh a bison tube in a tree. Novel.
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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

Great find, tftc

Now we get it! Dehands and I managed to find this one on our return trip. We'll finish the other end another day. TFTC

Found on our secomd atempt very sneaky with boydclan123

Tricky to find, tftc

[red]Find #3149 Traditional #2473 [/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. I was thinking this might take a while to find this one but thankfully it was fairly quick. 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]

Took awhile to locate this one so we are calling it a day as our geo mojo is in need of a rest! Will be back tomorrow to try the rest of the series
#2702 T4TC:)

Eleven for another lovely day in Ballarat TFTC

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.

Revisited for clue. 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

Found with H3.

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

Slightly cooler today so we decided to clean up this series thanks for the cache

Found @20:59 with Geo Puppy while waiting for darkness to do annual Ballarat Christmas light tour.
Quick easy find without muggles, unlike #'s 1 & 3.
SL Thanks for the cache series and the enjoyable walk.

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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.

We are on a road trip to attend "The Melbourne Event" Mega, taking our time to get there and on the return journey. Fortunately, there were lots of caches along the way to tempt us to stop for a while to smell the roses. This was one of those caches.

We had made our way to Ballarat to attend the GIFF Event and to spend a few days in the area before heading off to Melbourne. We decided we would complete some caches while in the area. We found the cache easily enough and with name in the log book, we were off to find a few more.


Thank you Shamus1 for having placed the cache for everyone to enjoy

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Spotted this one a bit quicker and signed the log at 1:30pm.
thanks Shamus1

Our second day in Ballarat for the Cup weekend. Morcs4 and I were out caching with three occasionally cooperative kids. Thanks Shamus1 for this cache.

We are visiting from other side of Melbourne with Vanessa&Aodh (we met through caching) and stayed nearby overnight visit for some dedicated caching time. The weather has turned into a beautiful day instead of the drizzle of yesterday. We have 3 kids between 5-7yo . Did some the Challenge caches before heading back to finish the Symbol Series and then going to do some more Challenge Puzzle caches. Then off to the Number Series to get "4" to finish another challenge and collect a few others. I will be back to collect the rest as I need to complete the AlphaNumerical List. Thank you for providing the numbers for this. I made a quick find. TFTC

A quick found after a jump

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Champ had just learnt to ride his bike without the trainers today, so went for a walk along this track, while he happily rode and did skids. Cache was soon spotted and signed.

Found on a foggy morning, no muggles along the path at this stage which was good. Walked away and forgot to note down the clue, so I got it on the way back past. Thanks Shamus1.

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.
After not being successful at number one, I was pleased to quickly spot the hide at number two.
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.

We skipped the apple tree and went on to find numbers two and one as we were running out of time and had to get back to the geo-vehicle at No 1.

Found at 9.50 am on 25th September 2015. TFTC.

We were a bit worried when we first got here but geokid found it fast. Tftc

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.

Had to do this one on the return journy as there was a resident mowing the lawn on the first pass.

This was find 5 of 11 finds for today, being found at 10:01:00 AM.

Thanks Shamus1 for placing this cache and bringing me here.

Tftc

Found this one, not too difficult. Good series

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

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

Missing

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.

Mrs Felix parked the car at 1 and walked on up to make the find here before moving on to number 3. Then a phone call did you get the...................... so a walk back nah theres nothing here.................... back to the warmth.................. nah its................... are you serious..... it's dark and cold, sure enough back to this cache 3rd time to get the info!!!!! [B)] [:o)]

Thanks Shamus1 for feeding our GeoAddiction!

A bit prickly around the shin area.

Hooley Dooley! This is our 200th find!! We've been caching for 3 months and having a lot of laughs along the way!!

Found as Nicnax with WeRAmused, PapaGrouch, & SciFiRulz

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

found today with geo kid
thanks ☺

We found it interesting on this walk to see the use that some of the local property owners put to what was not quite their property & the changes to that usage as we progressed south to newer subdivisions. Around these parts it could be a vegie patch, a garden incinerator, a compost heap (I think one had all three) or maybe just a but of unwanted rubbish. Others took great pains to mow their "patch" keeping in line with their "property" boundaries. Then there were the handy accesses to pop the caravan into the back yard via the rear driveway. Fascinating stuff.

Found with my buddy tftc

Found

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, Really enjoying the walk to collect these caches. 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
#1557

TFTC . With darth briji n sorcey sal

This entry was edited by #GeoHulk on Monday, 08 June 2015 at 07:08:22 UTC.

A nice quick find, unfortunately the rain started so we couldn't continue, we will be back to finish this one another day. Really enjoying the series so far. TFTC

Good Hide TFTC

Found while travelling south with our caravan and Tigger the geocaching cat. A cool day with an odd shower in Ballarat today for the heritage weekend. TFTC

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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.

Had to contend with some workers right in the middle of this cache and number 3. I waited for them to head in and I ducked in quickly to grab the cache. Thanks for the cache Shamus1.