OSS - Jupiter Kew, Victoria, Australia
By kangadrew72 on 19-Jan-16. Waypoint GC69XQ8

Because of the pandemic, many caches became
unmanageable in the time
needed to race out to them and I have not been able to
justify the time to keep this cache going.
I know you may be sad that this cache,
like many of it’s partners is going, but
sometimes it is an old cache that makes way for a new one.
Until next we meet on the caching trail, have an
extra special time caching. KD.

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It’s missing

No luck

Searched all nearby logs, no cache to be found.

Beautiful view

Sorry note befor was for an other cache close by

Searched around in big circles any log - no luck

Nothing matching the hint in reasonable proximity to the indicated GZ and venturing further afield didn't help either.

Bugger it.

Looked for 30 min, GPS bouncing around. Tried logs, hint, PAF - no idea.

Out this morning with Bunadoorian picking up some clues for the OSS -The Sun. Was a lovely day for a walk around here. TFTC kangadrew72 and for bringing me here. Lots of people on bikes today both on the road and on this unofficial Mountain Bike Trail. Cache was found in good condition.

Found! Lovely spot

Done!

Wonderful hide along an awesome walking track. What a beautiful area. And it's so good to be out and free again. TFTC

My first geocache! Thanks for the treasure hunt

Good spot. Don’t need to worry muggles more magpies.

Suspect close but too busy with bikes and managing 3 year old safety. Another day.

Happy International geocaching day! This is one of the few caches left in my 5km radius, saved for a special occasion. Just cycled back within the 1hr allotted exercise period, the hills are exhausting! Hands santized before & after. Beautiful spot, tftc

Birthday cache adventures!

Easy tftc tho

Took a while and they've put a fence in the way now but after 10 minutes of searching I found it.

Got it. Thanks! Very good hide

Clear skies so though I'd head out and do a bit of mountain biking with my muggle mate Deej, need the exercise after all this lock down stuff. So was heading around the Yarra and spotted a few caches that I had not found. Ended up finding 5 new caches, all in all a good afternoon out, also managed 18km of bike trails.

Thanks for the cache and the hide
Log book has been signed and returned
Find #657

Not sure the astrophysicist in the team was much help but we got there in the end.

The hint sent me the wrong way -- but following the GPS brought the cache in hand. Thank you!

Finally came back for this one, together with Ultraterse this time. Quick find, had me surprised I spent so long poking around here. The difference a bit of daylight makes, huh.
TFTC, great to see this one carried over from NZ (I enjoyed finding these types of caches there too!)

Tftc with mp

Tftc ) with MS158F who is not my uncle but rather my friend

After 2 days of rain here, my boots didn’t live up to the hiking standard. Slipped right on my tush, and the lorikeets had a mad laugh at me Nice secluded getaway!

This one had me going all over the universe haha. Photo clues, old coordinates, gps bouncing around. That was really going on instinct.
30min later. Signed the log and left a TB to enjoy the sights and sounds.
TFTC

We found this one back on 22nd Feb.. The boys (2 & 4) and I have found pretty well all of the caches close to the boulevard now so gotta venture further afield..

We forgot to log it on the day cause my 4yo got bitten by a bullant when replacing the cache which was a painful surprise for him, so watch out!!

TFTC, on the trail to the Sun, Picked up after our walk from Collingwood, and onto the famous last words "Our last cache for the day" at Pooh Sticks, but decided to walk until the Chandler and into Fairfield, but who can resist the temptation of close caches, and especially ones of a series were doing

We searched and then finally found it

Thanks!

As soon as I figured out how to get in this little park it was easy! Taking the TB TOO. SL TFTC

Collecting OSS series, tftc! Tb in

On a ride up the Anniversary trail and then around the Boulevard, I stopped by for a look for this one. Not really the place for a road bike, so I walked it in toward the cache. This one is nicely tucked away and thankfully no one came hurtling past. After a quick search, I soon had the cache in hand.

Thanks for the cache, kangadrew72. What a great idea for a series.

The trick here was how to get to it. I scrambled down and found what I was looking for but I'm sure there was a better way.
The cache was hidden in a smaller feature than I was expecting.
Thanks kangadrew72.
Chiefton!!!

Good hide

GPS had me in circles. As noted is more stick than log. TFTC in a sunny spring day.

After completing the second half of the outer circle rail trail, team milljrh, abthings and I continued on across the freeway and picked up some more caches in the parks around the river. I picked up Mars in this series a few weeks ago, and when we happened upon Jupiter I was pretty excited. We were walking along the road above and found a convenient little path that led us right to this one. Didn't take four of us too long to find. I look forward to hunting down the rest of them in time. TFTC.

Starting to feel the weather change when we got to this one, but a little more sheltered also. Not so much log anymore but we hid it a bit more. With ellenvgreg and abthings, HN and T

Thankyou kangadrew72 had a little difficulty getting to this one but when i did I nearly fell over it

I do like an easy find. Another rain shower is coming according to the rain radar. Onwards. Tftc

Beautiful day to follow nd it
TFTC

Out with friend M who I introduced to geocaching today. She was pretty impressed. And the pressure was on me to find the hides we set ourselves - 2 in this area. This was the first one. We parked and had a pleasant walk down along the river and then followed one of the mountain bike tracks virtually up to the cache. A few keen cyclists rode by.
I told her to look and this one can be seen 10 m away. She spotted it. Thanks kangadrew72. Not sure when I’ll get around to the others. At least I found my namesake. Jupiterpearl. !

Late logging of logs end! Rain has stopped and people out and about. TFTC

Went looking for this one after brunch at the Boathouse. Easy find although we chose the wrong trail initially. TFTC, only 4 planets to go

Cheers

Great find. Found it with EeePees and little cache hunters

Thanks for the cache kangadrew72, and greetings from Tassie. A short weekend trip to visit family, and to attend the 6 day cycling last night at Melbourne Arena.
Out and about this morning with GHAP_Cache_Hunters (geoson & family) and this was one of the caches found today. After a nudge in the right direction geoGranddaughter was thrilled to make the find. Enjoyed the short walk along the bush track to GZ.
#1307 @1133hrs Sun 10th Feb 2019.

Somewhat out in the open, but almost exactly on the stated coordinates.

Found, nice hiding idea! Logbook and pen all well, one in, one out. I almost consider myself an astronomer by now. Thanks for the hide!

Cool hiding spot!! Found another of the planet Thanks for placing!

Cache was lying out in the open.
Seems I have a series finding those lately...
Tb out
Thanks for the cache and the pathtag!

On my way home from the gym I thought to drive round the Yarra Boulevard. Spotted this one that I had not done. Stopped and made the easy find. Thanks for the cache kangadrew72

Cache creep elimination mission successful. Please replace as found!

This one took a couple of tries, because it isn't really at the listed coordinates. Reading previous logs helped, and I would not have found it at all without the help of the photo gallery, so make sure to look there. TFTC!

With the bike fully charged I set off and worked out a possible route to collect some caches. The terrain here wad fun and cache found quickly. Thanks to kangadrew72 for placing this cache.

Unable to find it at first. Thanks Riddell for correct coords. Find it quickly - 19m out of original coords. TFTC and bringing me here.

A quick find in fading light thanks to other posts. Thanks for this series kangadrew72

My favorite planet!

Found it at the original coordinatates but with help from a photo in the logs. Easier to spot from a lower perspective. TFTC

After seeing the updated coordinates I gave this cache another try. It is well hidden but in hindsight I should have found it! Big thanks for the update and I am very happy to be making progress on this great mystery cache. I used this cache as an excuse for a walk. It ended up being 12km. Whoops! Bit too long. Hehehe.

Finally found it after using the updated coordinates in the comments. Walked down to the river first and had a lovely time laying in the sunshine

Took a long time to find but persistence paid off. Ones I looked at the clue it got heaps easier, tftc

I missed this one the first time I looked for it, but returned and used the revised coordinates to find the cache. It was raining so I did not linger long here.

I was out doing some cache maintenance and this was along the way. I searched all around GZ without success. Fortunately, I checked my phone and discovered an alternate set of co-ordinates which led me straight to the cache. My GPS had me 17 metres away.

Thanks to Kangadrew72 for the cache and to Riddell for the updated co-ordinates.

Excellent place for a cache.

Thanks for taking us to this spot.

Found easily today after information today from liambaxter88(thanks indeed!)
Co Ord's 17-19 m out.
37 47.237
145 01.320
It's well hidden under a small branch.
See the attached photo. TFTC
Photo of co it's of second phone.

With the tree cover playing funny buggers with my GPSr it was a DNF from me today. I'll be back!

Up to the usual shenanigans with Simsfamily and Neville Devil to complete our craft to gain our space cadet license then journey on through the solar system visiting planets as we went.

Being such a large planet we were unable to locate it. We extended the search out to 30m but couldn't find the cache.

Unfortunately our expedition to Jupiter (even with an extended space walk) came up empty. Hopefully we can get back here in the future to turn the frown upside down

Its been a while since we had to dnf. Bit disappointing but must be a great cammo!

Awesome! I tried to ignore the DNF's from getting in my head and just kept searching for this one. I did PAF a friend and with some guidance found the cache! It is slighty out on the co-ords and I wouldn't describe it as a medium sized container but it's still there! TFTC! Another of the OSS series done

Why do I think I can find things so many others can't find. I did a thorough search of the ares and am pretty sure this one has gone

I wonder whether a CO check might be called for. Found logs over the past year almost invariably speak of a 10-20m disparity between the advertised coordinates and the cache's actual location. It was found exposed on open ground before that. Possible cache creep?

I will check by shortly

I came looking for this one with the mystery clue in mind. An extensive and wide-ranging search--in the presence of a previous finder--turned up nothing, sadly. It's possible we didn't quite cover the aforementioned 19m radius though!

Exhausted all our possibilities.
Searched everything in a 16-20m radius.
Read the logs. Looked at pictures.
Nothing found.

Did not find it! I looked and looked, and sat and thought and gave up after an hour of fruitless searching! It was too hot and I had enough! Another day! Anyway TFTC!

The first of the gas giants. It's a long long long way to the next one. On the way here, I spied a tortoise sunning itself on a log in the river. It was really big! Maybe 1 metre! Co-ordinates are good.

Poked around with the geokids for 40 minutes with no luck. Great idea for the series.

As I entered this sector of the solar system, some ground based jamming devices activated and my craft entered a vortex. Upon reaching the surface I found all of my instrumentation discombobulated. Reverting to some ancient maps, drawings and texts from the archives I began an elliptical rhomboid search pattern that whilst quite cumbersome and time consuming did eventually take me to the correct entry point.
Thanks for the fun on the hills of Jupiter Captain Kanga.
I'm dizzy.

Phew! That took ages. Last orbit around the sun and reading other Captain's logs, it was found 13.7m from gz on smartphone. TNLN TFTC

After pre-reading the logs of the others prior to visiting Jupiter (you need to do that for such a long journey), we circled around GZ. It took some time before the hint and the cache collided. Finally we found this one. Thanks,

Found by Team Justice #1884

Logging more as a 'come back to' note. After finding previous logs showed a 19m GZ variation we widened the search but with minipartics calling for a toilet stop, we had to abandon the search.

Will add it to a collection of neighbours to come back to on bike another weekend.

20/05/2017 1:37:00 PM - A hop and jump and we were following the arrow counting it's way down to GZ but when we got there we couldn't find the cache. Hmmmm, expanded our search area some 19m and SP yells out that he's found it. A nice location to find a cache too. Thanks kangadrew72 for the adventure.



5672

This is a great location for a cache. We arrived at GZ and started searching. We needed to expand our search area, but the good clue meant we were able to hone in some likely spots.
The cache was found on 20/05/2017 at 1:37:00 PM.
Thanks to kangadrew72 for placing this cache.

Easy find... that's because it was just sitting on the ground in the open. It was no where near anything that resembled the clue so I moved it a bit so the clue makes some sense. Tftc

Nice greets from Dresden in Germany .Tftc

Sometimes you just can't find them. This one's been a thorn in my side for some time, as it is close to home, I wanted the clue, and my husband already found it and I didn't bother going with him that day. I just couldn't find it! So I had to get him to come help me today. Oh. There it is! Not where I was looking, as I had too much faith in the clue and not enough faith in just looking for it. Case closed. Thanks for the cache kangadrew.

Find No. 1691. Found with FUF009.

After attending the '2016 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards' Event, we went to visit a friend from our home town, who is down in the Royal Talbot Rehab Centre. After we left we still had some time that we could go and find a cache or two nearby.

Wow more bush bashing in the city - now that's different. Plus down by a river, where we watched the odd boat and kayaks, but not for long as we had things to do. Another hill climb along a track we kept to and soon came across what we were looking for. With log signed and three caches found, it was now time to head for home.

TFTC kangadrew72

Find # 4185

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

After attending the 2016 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards, Tyred n Cranky had a friend, from back up home, in the Royal Talbot Rehab Center who they went to visit.
After the visit we decided to park the car and go for a look at the caches in this small area.

An interesting bit of a "bush" walk in the big smoke, down by the river side, watching a number of kayaks go up and down the river, and the odd boat float past. it was surprising to see so many people also using the tracks. keeping an eye on the GPSr we soon had to do a bit of an up hill climb to locate the Cache, but there was a minor track up here we could keep to.

TFTC kangadrew72

It is my last day of holidays (not counting the weekend), and having spent a fair bit of time driving since Christmas I decided to grab couple of the local caches that I haven't gotten around to.

I parked up and walked down the track to the GZ. Once there I ended up walking around in circles for 5 minutes as the GPS signal was bouncing around. Eventually I stopped to take stock and whilst just looking around I saw the cache out in the open. TNLN. TFTC.

Was out today with ozhockeychick and papillon4506 to get the OSS series and a couple of targeted caches along the way.

What an awesome drive and a great series to get you out for the day. Thanks for everyone for the effort put into the placement and bringing us here.

A quick and easy find as I cache my way along this series from Yarra Glen to the City today, with OzHockeyChick and lukie1987. Thanks for the series kangadrew72 and thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

1:48 pm #2650
Today's caching adventure took lukie1987, Kez from Papillon4506 and I all over Melbourne picking up all the OSS series. It's been on my geo-bucket list since publication.
Thanks for the wonderful series, kangadrew72. Even with today's heat, we all really enjoyed the day.

Thank you, Kangadrew, for bringing me here for my weekly snake exposure therapy session. In this session, you kindly hid something of value to me in a place that I consider to be a playground for slithery things. The rules of exposure therapy state that I must attend the place on a bright sunny day, where the likelihood of snakes are increased, and then I must tramp around near tinder-dry logs, grass and sticks. In this way, I will become less terrified of caching in summer, and will be able to continue my pastime without resorting to park and grabs from the months of November to May. Unfortunately today for the session, we found the thing of value without spotting any legless lizards. I am afraid that the therapy session was thus a complete failure. I managed to keep my anxiety down to the level of an overhead jumbo jet, and I did not run screaming once. Please do better next time, Kangadrew72.