My First Cache Blackburn, Victoria, Australia
By andy707 on 09-Aug-15. Waypoint GC615MY

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With a lot of DNFs I wasn't expecting I find it and I didn't.
All I can think of is It's either hidden very well, muggled or in the fenced off area.

Cant find it my partner and I ate excited to see our first geocaching but too much leaves, ANY CLUE???

No luck today, didn't spend too much time looking though as the cops were just down at the nearby street talking to a young lad about something and I didn't want to be delayed as well
**Thanks for placing this cache andy707**

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Sadly I didn't find this cache today as I was killing time before picking up my great aunt who lives around the corner. She gets mad if you are late and gets mad if you are early! Ifs a bit difficult with the traffic so the best option is to come early and kill time near by! TFTH andy707

Out and about with my regular caching partner sedgwickDave searching out some localish unfound caches.

No luck here. I think it needs checking.

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Looked high, looked low...no go!
Any clues??

I did not find it!

Couldn't find this one.... Maybe it's been muggled....

Second visit to this cache, found it the first time but now looks like it is gone.

DNF. interstate and no find... A hint may have helped. Now off to lunch.

Couldn't find this one. Oh well.

Cache is Still there.

Looked for 15 min then get interrupted by muggles matainence may be needed

Wandered round & round in circles, no sign of anything out of the ordinary. A fail for us.

TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

Nicely hidden. Out an a father daughter day and this was our first Geocache find.

Cache is still there in the same spot

Couldn't find after a search around the area

Nope -not here

As with previous searchers, I couldn't find the bison tube despite the relatively small search area. Even if it hasn't been muggled, previous logs indicate it's in need of some attention anyway.

Liked around for 10mins but could not find it. May have been thrown over the fence.

This is our first try (myself and a 4 and 7 year old) at this and we can't seem to find anything. Looking at the other comments it seems it may be destroyed or over the fence

Good hide
Not too hard
Log book soaking wet hard to get out and no way of writing in it
Trouble rolling it back up
Needs some maintenance
TFTC

Twilight made searching a bit hard, gave up after 10 mins

Interesting spot. Took a little while to find. The log is very damp.
Thanks andy707

Found the cache a little bit exposed and very damp. So damp, in fact, that I poured out a bit of water!
Obviously the seal was gone. Anyway, dried it off as best I could and gave the waterproof paper a bit of a pat dry. Some of the entries have run or faded. I've lowered the cache a bit closer to the ground so it is not as exposed, but there will be further water ingress into the container unless the seal is replaced.
TFTC

Another good find while in the area today.
TFTC

Thanks for the find!

We just started geocaches and are wondering what tftc is, would be great if we could learn geocaching language!

Very easy and exposed log book was wet.

TFTC

#306 - 3.15pm
I forgot that school holidays are over. This seems to be a popular route home for a number of students.
Good coords made a quick find. The rubber O-ring is missing from the bison causing the log to be damp. Was able to sign in nonetheless.
Had an awkward moment when returning the log. The mounting came off and the bison bounced out of reach!
Found a tool and had it back in no time. Lucky it was a gap in between muggles.
Thanks andy707, for sharing your first hide. I hope to place my own first cache soon too. That's why I couldn't resist this cache at this time.

Easy find by s2 tftc

Found it! Sooo easy, looked once and there it was!

Nice hide. Tftc

Found it.
TFTC

First find. Nice one, my son.

As I approached GZ I was scheming how I would get into what appeared to be a locked reserve, but as I got closer my eye fell upon the container and all was well. Tftc

Quick and easy find after a relaxing day off work. TFTC

We met a past geocacher and she thought we were playing pokemongo. Awesome day to go geocaching with the sun out. found it

Our 2nd DNF for the morning - maybe we need a coffee to get our brain into caching mode! The GPS was all over the shop and we were plagued by friendly dog walkers. No cigar for us today, so we are off to find a coffee fix instead.

TFTC

Much easier during the day! No pen, but we got it! Tftc

Quick, easy find

09:42
With WWFMXIII event #2 getting us out and about at ridiculous o'clock, I may as well take advantage of the deserted streets and nab a few more caches...

I enjoy walking. Sometimes, that means 10 or 20km in the scrub, or around the trails near home, but other times, especially when Geocaching, it's a series of shorter walks. Today was shaping up to be one of the latter instances, so to that end, I parked in the street between this and the cache to the north, found the other fairly quickly, then walked down here for a squiz.

This kind of hide can be tricky... there aren't too many places to look, but they tend to blend in with the shadows. Embarrassingly, this took longer than I would ordinarily admit, but hey, I got the smiley in the end. Thanks again, andy707.

#3198

Bah humbug, still trying to find this one. Will be back again, perhaps with someone who has 20-20 vision

Quick find in a quiet parkland TFTC

Easy find on second attempt. TFTC.

Council workers overlooking gz. I've got all week

Little bit of a hunt

omegaman1971
Out and about with Promontory hunting for just a few caches today between appointments.
Nice walk with the smell of wet leaves in the air. Nice little hide.
Cheers for the cache

Tftc. My first micro. Nice house.

Nice little find

Took a bit of head scratching but in the end it was in the most logical spot. Well done! Visited some trackables again for the last cache of the day. Tftc!

Difficult but eventually found it.

Log book replaced thanks for letting me know

Will be getting to the log book very soon

Nice peaceful spot. As others have reported, log is full. TFTC

Found when visiting Melbourne TFTC

Spiffy- and I are approaching our 4000 and 3000 milestones and after a little persuasion he agreed it would be good to find them at the same cache on the same day - Leap Day. So today I needed 18 caches to get to the same number as him ready for the final assault on the milestone together on Leap Day. Clever hide and nicely done. Log book full. Thanks andy707 for the cache.

Found at 10am after a few minutes looking. Log is competely full - had to sign along the side, needs replacing ASAP.
thanks andy707

This is a great hide! My second attempt because there were too many muggles around last time. Eventually found it. Tftc. Log is full

My son started university today at Box Hill so I took the opportunity to do some caching after dropping him off and before I went to work.
Here I looked in a few possible locations before I resorted to reading some previous log which lead me to the right spot. Thanks andy707.

Quick find! Good fun!

This one took a couple of minutes but then I spotted something and had the cache in hand TFTC

I took way too long finding this little critter. I searched all over and then again, looking at everything I could see. I then wandered up the road to find another cache, and returned for another search. This time it was a quick find in the obvious spot where I started. Now, how did I miss that?!

Thanks for the cache, andy707.

TFTC

Found with Listmaker on a nice morning for caching, in the Most Obvious Place. This was the last of a fun little group of andy707 caches that we found this morning.

We looked high and low but something kept bringing me back to one particular spot. I grabbed a stick to check that area because I'm basically a coward when it comes to potential encounters with creeping things and...ah ha!
Thanks for placing a few caches in this area, andy707. It gave Alansee and I a good excuse for a coffee and a wander.

A few muggles around so we needed to bide our time. Eventually all clear and we were able to find the cache. TFTC

I think we found it?!

Suscoe was up very early today to make the most of our final hours in Melbourne.
We had quite a few places to visit and so we were keen as mustard to get going.
Again this morning the drizzle had set in but it was short lived and soon the sun started to pop through some scattered clouds.
The roads were pretty quiet today which we were pleased with.
Another quick find with the clouds settling over head again.
Thanks to andy707 for placing this cache here, we have found a few of your caches this morning.
Thank you for your work in this area.

Another quick find in a very quiet neighbourhood

TFTC!

Nice area. Good hiding spot

DNF this one. Spent 45mins looking together and no luck

Found a bison tube - no paper to write on though.

I never knew these little parks existed here. Beautiful day for a cache with a couple of kids. Love those tiny cases . Strangely, log page was absent from the cache, but my daughter found it rolled up on the ground a metre away. We have put it back where it belongs. Thanks for the cache.

Nice quiet evening to avoid muggles.

Out with Gunks night caching when we found this one. TFTC

Out with grumpygramps1 tonight on my quest for 1000 cache in 2015. A pleasant evening out, a few drivebys and a few short walks. TFTC

Out with au.fait, this was a quick find of a well concealed cache. Thanks andy707

Out with echidna44 today. This may have been your first cache but it was our second well hidden cache for today TFTC andy707

Found with CB PC.

My 2nd ever cache. Didn't know how to open the tube.

A quick find in the company of quiet1_au, on the way to finding quite a few more today. TFTC

Tftc

Nice park.

Out for a day of caching with lochb we decided to start off by targeting a recent cluster fairly close to our homes. Our first cache was this one - very appropriately named - and was a quick find, without any muggle issues other than when parking. TFTC

First of a few while on the way to work this morning. It took me a little longer than it should have but I soon found it in the most logical spot at 08:40.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks andy707.

Nice first cache. Once I had discovered it set about logging it. Big fat finger didn't make this the easiest and then to top it off flicked the bottom of the container straight thru!!! Then had to find stick to try to retrieve it all the while trying to look like my shoelace was still undone!!!. After many minutes retrieved and replaced. Headed back to car only then to realise that i hadn't signed the log DOH!!! so back i went carefully to sign the log. Achieved. TFTC and the adventure in signing this log . Happy caching

Several new caches have popped up in our local area in the past few months and now that the wonderful spring weather has finally arrived it's definitely time to find them.

We walked with the geobeagles to this cache after finding it's mate at the other end of this park. As we approached GZ we noticed the cache as it was fully exposed. Even though it's obvious to we cachers I don't think muggles would notice it. Our boy beagle Jake certainly didn't notice the cache as he nearly marked it! [8)] Luckily we anticipated what he was about to do and dragged him out of the way just in time. Thank goodness for small hands so we could detach the little blighter from its hiding spot and sign the log at 4:10 pm. TNLN. We then had to wait for some muggles to pass by before returning the cache to its hiding spot.

Thanks andy707 for the cache in a lovely urban park. The geobeagles enjoyed meeting a few canines on our stroll back to the car.

I loved the container! Such a good spot!

This one is so small and in the dark very hard to find.
But we found it

Visiting from WA and staying in the area - thought I would try this one. Nice easy find. TFTC

Third find for team zoloz with the addition of an extra team member who took out the find!

Out on my own today. Nice to find a couple of local caches have been placed while we have been away. This is an excellent first hide. We done. Co ords good. Good to find another playground for the grandchildren. Thanks for the cache