Farther's Day 2015 Ashburton, Victoria, Australia
By
goldennuggethunters on 07-Sep-15. Waypoint GC631GG
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Sadly this geocache has been muggled. We will be replacing it soon. Thank you for your patience.
Wow Christmas music playing on a loud speaker already,
Easy to spot but a bugger to get out,
Thanks goldennuggethunters [:x]
Easy to spot but a bugger to get out,
Thanks goldennuggethunters [:x]
Out with echidna44 today which made it much easier to disguise our true intentions at GZ than when only me. The cache was soon spied but had been pushed much farther in which made retrieval somewhat difficult. Thanks for the challenge goldennuggethunters
Out with au.fait, we found that parking in this very busy area was far more difficult than finding and signing the cache. Well hidden, thanks goldennuggethunters
Had to have some acting skills here, but found it pretty quickly. Thanks for the cache.
Found this one a while ago but too many people around to grab and log. So tonight dinner at the local Resident stopped and grabbed and logged without niggles seeing
Quick grab after doing research from the cafe across the road. Helped to have a dog stopping to sniff as a decoy. TFTC and respect to all Dads
thanks for the hint. it was midday and snooping around in this area would have surely made someone call the cops. great location though. right under the public's nose
Oz in NZ put me on to this one. It was hard not to look suspicious with all the muggles around so had to go back in the evening. TFTC.
Had noticed that cache had been removed by my next visit
Had noticed that cache had been removed by my next visit
Wow! lots of Muggles about here, pretended I was a train spotter but not many trains of course. TFTC
Another stunning spring day, stopped by on the way home for this one, I love it when caches are in such a high muggle spot, with a Ms A shield we soon had the cache in hand. TFTC
Out for a stroll on a nice Sunday afternoon to get several nearby geocaches. Found this one quickly (with the help of the hint I must admit, too many muggles I didn't want to look too suspicious).
Tftc
Tftc
Out on a ride on this glorious Saturday afternoon, I came upon this sneaky little hide. I confess to using the hint as so many muggles were about. It is sometimes handy being on a bike, acting as if you are just resting and having a drink. A little tricky to extract, but I soon had it out and signed and returned. Thanks for the cache, goldennuggethunters.
What a great cache!
Beware of the ant colony which seems to have moved in to guard this nice Fathers Day memorial.
Stealth definitely important. Especially for all the watching eyes across the street at the Milk Cloud.
Cache is creative and very well done. Plenty of room on logs. Little tricky to fish it out, but with careful resides it's great. New coordinates are bang on.
Thank you for a wonderful cache!
Beware of the ant colony which seems to have moved in to guard this nice Fathers Day memorial.
Stealth definitely important. Especially for all the watching eyes across the street at the Milk Cloud.
Cache is creative and very well done. Plenty of room on logs. Little tricky to fish it out, but with careful resides it's great. New coordinates are bang on.
Thank you for a wonderful cache!
Find #: 4105
Time: 3:26 pm
Date: Wed 30 Sep 2015
This afternoon Pam had her sewing group around, so I was sent caching, such a problem ....
This was find #1 of 7 for the afternoon.
I parked in a nearby side street and walked to GZ. The cache was soon found, but took a while to extract, and then the log was signed and the cache carefully returned.
This container is just made for this hide, well done.
Thanks for placing this cache goldennuggethunters
Time: 3:26 pm
Date: Wed 30 Sep 2015
This afternoon Pam had her sewing group around, so I was sent caching, such a problem ....
This was find #1 of 7 for the afternoon.
I parked in a nearby side street and walked to GZ. The cache was soon found, but took a while to extract, and then the log was signed and the cache carefully returned.
This container is just made for this hide, well done.
Thanks for placing this cache goldennuggethunters
The Chief had just located the cache when the family cycled up. He stepped back and let them make the find as they were on their first caching run. Log signed, farewells said and we were off to Zahari for coffee and cake. Our youngest loves their blood orange milkshakes! TFTC
Sorry for the dalay in logging but have not been well. had a great time grabbing a few caches with Trailrunning and his boy today. Thanks
Out with two sidekicks, Rebel Acts and my son BMW. Had a great little drive to pick up a few. Thanks
Follow on after a Saturday orienteering event. As indicated in the logs the coords are way out, but the hint drives you to the obvious, if it isn't one, it has to be the other. Neat hiding place. TFTC Goldennuggethunters.
I had been to my dentist who was down the road from this newie and decided to have a look for it despite the DNFs as I'm not bad at finding caches using my geosenses rather than my GPSr. [8)]
I parked in a nearby street and wandered over to the given co-ords. I had read the FTFrs' logs saying the co-ords were about 20 metres off. I had also read the hint and noticed only four spots that matched it. I searched the two closest spots without success and then decided to cross the road to check the other two spots. I quickly found the cache tucked away in the first of these spots that I searched and more like 25 metres from the given co-ords.
Luckily I have small fingers so after a bit of fiddling I retrieved the cache and signed the log at 4:50 pm. TNLN. I then returned the cache as found.
My Garmin Montana GPSr said the co-ords were S37°51.817 & E145°04.832. When I got home I checked these co-ords on google maps and they seemed to match where I found the cache.
Thanks goldennuggethunters for an interesting caching experience. It helped that I know the area, had a coffee beforehand that helped my concentration and that my geosenses were working for a change. [^]
I parked in a nearby street and wandered over to the given co-ords. I had read the FTFrs' logs saying the co-ords were about 20 metres off. I had also read the hint and noticed only four spots that matched it. I searched the two closest spots without success and then decided to cross the road to check the other two spots. I quickly found the cache tucked away in the first of these spots that I searched and more like 25 metres from the given co-ords.
Luckily I have small fingers so after a bit of fiddling I retrieved the cache and signed the log at 4:50 pm. TNLN. I then returned the cache as found.My Garmin Montana GPSr said the co-ords were S37°51.817 & E145°04.832. When I got home I checked these co-ords on google maps and they seemed to match where I found the cache.
Thanks goldennuggethunters for an interesting caching experience. It helped that I know the area, had a coffee beforehand that helped my concentration and that my geosenses were working for a change. [^]
Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 51.802 E 145° 04.835
Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 51.817 E 145° 04.832
Distance from original: 92.3 feet or 28.1 meters.
Changed coordinates because of resent DNF's.
S 37° 51.802 E 145° 04.835
Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 51.817 E 145° 04.832
Distance from original: 92.3 feet or 28.1 meters.
Changed coordinates because of resent DNF's.
Nothing in the area seems to match the hint. Expanded search radius, still nothing.
@22:08. I was out caching with Burge tonight and we couldn't find this one. We spent quite a bit of time hunting around and although we found what seemed to match the hint, we still couldn't locate the cache. Reading prior logs gave us an expanded search area but it didn't help either! It seems like the coordinates might need to be updated...
DNF @ 21:10 after being on site for about 30 minutes.
I'd been at a work training session, so decided to quickly stop off on the way home to find this new cache. It turned out to be not so quick, and not so much of the finding either.
I checked the location indicated by the coordinates for quite some time before resorting to reading some logs. Oh, only the FTF team, and an indication that the coords are way off, and the hint helped. Okay, I checked the hint and found locations matching the hint, and one is about 20m away.
I spend some more time inspecting that area, but with the dubious coordinates, I was also reluctant to trust in the terrain rating (one star means that it is wheelchair accessable). Finally I decided to pull the plug and leave without the find.
I will watch to see what happens. Thanks anyway goldennuggethunters.
PS. In the future, and provided as constructive criticism, might I suggest that you use Google Maps (with satellite view) to help verify your coordinates before publication, and also use a spell checker on your cache descriptions.
I'd been at a work training session, so decided to quickly stop off on the way home to find this new cache. It turned out to be not so quick, and not so much of the finding either.
I checked the location indicated by the coordinates for quite some time before resorting to reading some logs. Oh, only the FTF team, and an indication that the coords are way off, and the hint helped. Okay, I checked the hint and found locations matching the hint, and one is about 20m away.
I spend some more time inspecting that area, but with the dubious coordinates, I was also reluctant to trust in the terrain rating (one star means that it is wheelchair accessable). Finally I decided to pull the plug and leave without the find.
I will watch to see what happens. Thanks anyway goldennuggethunters.
PS. In the future, and provided as constructive criticism, might I suggest that you use Google Maps (with satellite view) to help verify your coordinates before publication, and also use a spell checker on your cache descriptions.
Yay *FTF*. I was sitting at my desk feeling hungry a few minutes before lunch when this was published and could see Fleabag- in a meeting so didn't really rush off. I mentioned it to E10707 who was busy playing table tennis...where is their commitment!
I had decided to give it a miss since the last 4 FTF hunts I had been on I was 2TF by about a minute on every one of them so I wasn't super confident of getting this one since it was also a 5.5km trip from work.
Then a few minutes later Fleabag- finished his meeting and he then questioned my commitment so off we went forgetting about my hunger. Parked illegally for a few minutes hoping for a quick find which didn't happen so I went and moved the car to a better spot.
Super busy around the indicated GZ but eventually after a lot of shoe tying and no one else turning up to help us we were about to give up when I decided to look elsewhere a good 20m or so from GZ and found it straight away. I think the coordinates might need a check on. If they were accurate this would not be this difficulty level either in my opinion. (More of 1.5 maybe).
Oh well, that's part of the fun of going for FTF's I suppose.
Thanks goldennuggethunters for the cache, the hunt and the fun.
This entry was edited by spiffy- on Monday, 14 September 2015 at 08:54:37 UTC.
I had decided to give it a miss since the last 4 FTF hunts I had been on I was 2TF by about a minute on every one of them so I wasn't super confident of getting this one since it was also a 5.5km trip from work.
Then a few minutes later Fleabag- finished his meeting and he then questioned my commitment so off we went forgetting about my hunger. Parked illegally for a few minutes hoping for a quick find which didn't happen so I went and moved the car to a better spot.
Super busy around the indicated GZ but eventually after a lot of shoe tying and no one else turning up to help us we were about to give up when I decided to look elsewhere a good 20m or so from GZ and found it straight away. I think the coordinates might need a check on. If they were accurate this would not be this difficulty level either in my opinion. (More of 1.5 maybe).
Oh well, that's part of the fun of going for FTF's I suppose.
Thanks goldennuggethunters for the cache, the hunt and the fun.
This entry was edited by spiffy- on Monday, 14 September 2015 at 08:54:37 UTC.
*FTF*
I finished my meeting and back at my desk to see spiffy- doing a meerkat impersonation over the partition and say.. too late..3 minutes has gone. He was disheartened after a string of 2TF's. But I threw the "were is your commitment line" at him and we were off. At GZ a long 20min search and almost gave up when Spiffy- said... it could be off and be there. So a quick check and bingo. It was about 20 from GZ but did match the hint. Thanks to goldennuggetthunters for the cache.
I finished my meeting and back at my desk to see spiffy- doing a meerkat impersonation over the partition and say.. too late..3 minutes has gone. He was disheartened after a string of 2TF's. But I threw the "were is your commitment line" at him and we were off. At GZ a long 20min search and almost gave up when Spiffy- said... it could be off and be there. So a quick check and bingo. It was about 20 from GZ but did match the hint. Thanks to goldennuggetthunters for the cache.
