Manor Lakes Wyndham Vale, Victoria, Australia
By vamp1blade on 01-May-16. Waypoint GC6DQ88

This has gone missing. I don't live in the area any more so im archiving

Looked everywhere

Unsuccessful at finding this one, looked everywhere

Looked through the whole bush, DNF

Got here and wondered about the clue but everyone apparently says that the coords are good so I started looking. 10 minutes later I had found all sorts of rubbish but no cache so I had to give it away.

Out early this morning to pick up a streak find. Did a few circles of the area. This seemed a bit trickier than expected. Read a few logs which said co-ords were spot on so I stuck to that then something caught my eye from the right angle. Cheeky but glad to have the cache in my hand.
Thanks vamp1blade

Found the 24th September by veronique (France ) & abhigyan who living here

Had to collect some goodies from friend round the corner, so why not stop and have a look tftf

This cache has been A DNF for me since may 2017, today I was in area and just went nearly straight to the hide, Thanks vamp1blade, another great place to visit

Took a little walk around GZ before spotting what I wanted. It looks like a really nice area to live in here.
TFTC vamp1blade

Easy find in the fog

I wasn’t expecting to find this cache after the DNF. But it was quickly located! TNLN THANKS FOR THE CACHE!

Too many bushes around my navigation was off

Catching up with friends in Point Cook today so detoured for a few quick caches. A nice easy find here. Many thanks.

Hi there vamp1blade.

We started the day caching around the Werribee area, using a "next closest" methodology before heading off to Bacchus Marsh to have lunch with some muggle family members.

All up we found 4 caches & DNF'd 1 in this cache run. Thanks for placing the caches. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places while we meander around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found this cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Gold Coin.

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Dropped by here after a playground cache adventure with Aysen. A little bit of a search. Cheers

Good hide.
Obvious once found.

Nicely placed along the exercise track. Previous finders very eagerly signed date in 3 weeks which hadme momentarily confused. What day is it relatively anyhow. Time and space bend. E=mc2. CIGC TNLN TFTC.

Very accurate coordinates, camo needs repair however. Can see this being a high muggle area in the future. TFTC

Found it before heading to Melbourne
TFTC

Third time lucky! Great hide!

Nice little creek here with no muggles around today, lovely to just sit and relax. Returned cache exactly as found, wish I had thought to bring something to leave in the cache though. Thanks vamp1blade

**19/05/2018, 09:40**
**Find #3013**
**Traditional Cache Find #2068**

An early start was needed to head across the city to attend the "Come & Visit Parkville Nov 2018 - Wyndam Vale" event with SteMicMitSar and also find a number of caches in the area. We were heading to the event by this stage. This will soon be a high muggle area so we were glad of finding this cache today.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to vamp1blade for placing this geocache**

*19/5/18, Found @ 9:42 am, Find # 7844.*

Today I headed West to attend, Come & Visit Parkville Nov 2018 - Wyndam Vale with biggles1024 but before the event we made our way out to Cobbledicks Ford to find the caches in this area, once that was done we headed back towards the event but still had a bit of time up our sleeve so we looked for a couple of nearby caches and this was one of them.
Its a good thing that no one was trying to get fit this morning so the area was very quiet until a dog starting barking nearby so that sped up the search, the cache was then found and the log was signed, we then made our escape.

**Thanks to vamp1blade for placing this cache.**

Cool. Cache okay.
Cloudy, cool breeze 14° TFTC Cheers

Its taken a couple of goes to find this one. But today I finally found it. All in good shape. Tftc

**Found whilst visiting friends today**.

*Letting my GPS be my guide*

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment vamp1blade. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

Cache-On!

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 52.718 E 144° 36.080

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 52.719 E 144° 36.078

Distance from original: 11.4 feet or 3.5 meters.

Had to move cache to a safer location

15:50

10:19 -A PAF call to a previous finder, confirmed we were looking in the right area. We did find the base of a container lying about (which we removed), but no sign of any replacement.

15:50- After a DNF around 10am, this one had been on our mind all day. A call from another PAF (a recent finder) prompted us to have a second look.
Again we looked high, we looked low, we scraped and scratched, we poked and proded, we pulled and pushed but there was still no way we could work this one out!

Thanks for the hunt anyway vamp1blade.

Cache is all good to go again. please place back where you find it

We foind half of the cache. The lid with GC6DQ88 written on it but no container.I
The lid appeared to be at the correct coor inates. TFTC. Would never have come hete without Geo.

After receiving the last log I have to disable this till I can go out and check it and fix.

Tnln tftc!

Tnln tftc

Had a few hrs spare so I wandered around Werribee to turn green boxes into smiles 12 finds, two DNFs.
I searched the area for sometime. Spotting things I thought was the cache but they Thurber out to be chipped Chep pallets. So I contacted the CO who confirmed it was in place.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache vamp1blade
#3,359

Second try at finding this one. A few muggles around which made it a little trickier. No luck unfortunately! Searched high, low and underneath. Tough hide!

Spent about 15 minutes here today, but could not locate cache

15:10
We looked high, we looked low, we looked in, we looked out, but today there was no way we could work this one out! After 15min we decided that this 1.5/1.5 Small, wasn't going to show itself today.

Thanks for the hunt anyway vamp1blade.

Tricky hide... TFTC

Will have a look now.

Looked but didn't find. Found smashed container though so I so know....

Checked cache after DNF and mention of broken plastic. The plastic is in wrong area cache is still fine ready to be found.

This was my second visit to find this geocache in a lovely setting
Thank you for your geocache

A tricky little hide but the cords were spot on so that's why I found the cache where I did.
Nice bit of camo does the job too.
Thanks vamp1blade

16:41, 5 Feb 17, Find #182, out for the day caching with vamp1blade and Lizard1983.

Well what can I say about this one but .. damn submariners.. with the CO in my presence and not giving me any hints other than a bit of grief... as he normally does... this was a very tricky one with the camo helping it to blend into the area but I did find it... very sneaky and boarderline (to my view) lol.. anyway I signed the log and replaced it as I found it... TFTC.

Sorry this as taken awhile to enable
Its enabled now and ready to be found again fixed the cache itself and has been placed back where it belongs.
Please make sure you return where its ment to be

Taking off line

** Smile # *4288* / Traditional # *3277* **

I had not driven around Manor lakes before and it seemed like a nice area. Plenty of houses popping up and busy muggles coming and going. thankfully when I turned up here there was no one using the nearby equipment and the cache was found out in the open. Stamped and returned a little more tucked away.

**Thanks for placing this trad vamp1blade** [^]
**Cache container and log in good condition**
**Took nothing, Left nothing**

Second attempt. Found it this time around. TFTC

14:20, 30 October 2016. #514.

After the wrong kind of FTF last time I visited this one (Failure To Find) and with a souvenir to be earned this weekend, this one was my backup hunt in case I didn't find my first choice and to expunge the DNF. I had an idea where it should be after eliminating a few other options last time, then I read the CO's note. It was a pretty quick find today.

Apart from the camo comment by the CO, the cache is in good condition.

TNLNSL. TFTC vamp1blade.

I was up visiting the geoparents whom are in the area.

This was a quick drive by and quickly found.

Nice little locale here.

TFTC

Found by The Empire
Rain, rain and more rain has been the trend lately. Today seemed to be overcast with occasional showers - I took the chance to get out and find some caches. After finishing the G2ANGLESEA series, there was time for a few stops before home. Haven't been to this neck of the woods in a long time! Thanks for the cache vamp1blade.
- M

went looking for this couldn't find in the place i placed it. but i did end up finding it in the bushes. the camo on it has come off so will leave in bushes untill i can get stuff to fix camo. the distance from spot is under 2 meters the bushes to the right of the equipment

Visiting a relative in a nursing home not far away this afternoon we decided to detour slightly and look for this cache. We searched and we searched and then we widen our search area a little and we were about to give up when we could not believe our eyes as there it was so very well camoed. We will give you a fav from us for all the planning and excellent implementation that has gone into placing this cache - well done indeed. We took the TB and will place in in another cache maybe tomorrow? Thanks for the informative notes, too.
TFTC vamp1blade

This one beat us today. 3rd DNF for the day which has never happened to us before Isn't allowed to be buried, so not many places it can be. Either very well camo'd or the coord's were off? Coord's kept taking us back to the middle of the path in front of the gym equipment.

This is a really pretty little areas with the waterway and stand of old glorious gum trees. The setting sun made a delightful backdrop, but the light faded fast. Hurry up and return summer! Had a very thorough search where I 'thought' the cache should be. Spent a long time digging around whilst geokid4 showed his prowess on the nearby dip bars and gym equipment: impressive! Let the coordinates settle and moved my search to where they led and the cache was soon found. Thanks vamp1blade

This was our 3rd attempt at this one. We could see that previous cachers had dug out under the equipment, so there must be something to this.... Soon found. Left a TB we picked up in QLD. TFTC.

After arriving at about 1530 I decided it was time to check out at 1600 without having found Manor Lakes. According to the difficulty and terrain ratings, this one should have been the easiest of the three I hunted, but the camo was too good for me today and this was the only one I didn't find. I spent less time finding both the allegedly more difficult caches than I spent here (Home of the Storm and Jordan's Wilderness #2).

I did find a pair of sunnies, so if any of you keen eyed hunters out there lost a pair at this cache message me .

Found Sunnies, Took Sunnies, Didn't get to sign log . TFTH vamp1blade.

I'll be back.

Brilliant camouflage!

Awesome hide. Great camo idea geo fam find 5 find for the night

Very simple but very very clever TFTC!!!

Found by caughtatwork at 16:29 on 13/06/2016
Very tricky indeed. Almost too tricky.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for placing this geocache for the enjoyment of the geocaching community. With no hides there would be no finds.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

good cammo nice find

Nice easy find in the dark n wet.

A good search of everything that I could think of but was not to be today .
a nice area to visit .
will return for the challenge .
tftc vamp1blade

found!!! so hard . tftc def a fav point

Nice find

After being out and about with Neville_devil and vamp1blade at and event cache (really a non event cache because everyone left early and where gone before we got there) we stopped by here with the CO on the way home. It was around 1am so there was no muggles to be seen. They were all being sensible and home tucked in there beds.
Anyway the CO just stood back and watched while Neville_devil and looked by torchlight. I think he was trying to extract some revenge after he had trouble locating one of my caches recently and I wouldn't give any clues away as the FTF was still on offer.
Fortunately I had already a good idea on where and how this was hidden and I managed to uncover this one without too much trouble.
Thanks Vamp1blade for the find and congratulation on you first hide. One of what I am sure that will be many to come.

Quick and easy find today. Was looking in the wrong spot. 140th find. Added 2 small marine animal swaps

After the DNF I went and checked on cache. It's all good ready to be found

Looked in all the spots I though it could be.

Suscoe decided to wander the roads to the North today and this was the first stop.
The day started out rainy and windy and ended up dry and very windy.

Well this one was made trickier than it should have been and with some time searching, a PAF took place and there it was.
Thought we had looked there, oh well.
Well done to vamp1blade for a well hidden cache.

Out with Bazinga01 on a night cache run finding some new caches in the area. We got to GZ and had a very good look around For about 10 min and we were getting worried we would not find it, and then there it was. I wonder how long this on will last???? TFTC

Headed out at night for a tidy up of the local map area with Arkbell80 again. This one took a bit of hunting to get the goods. We checked then rechecked areas. In the end coords were almost spot on but we had to check everything no matter what.
TFTC!!!

**JFTF** with maccamob. Saw this one come up early in the morning. With the kids off to school and having missed all the ftf's over the weekend due to other commitments, I decided to try for ftf at this new one. Checked here and there, then started a more systematic search. After getting a splinter in my hand I decided to go and grab a coffee and something to make the search easier (they shall now stay in my car for future finds). After drinking my coffee and waiting for walking muggles to finish exercising on the equipment, I was about to start the search again when maccabob drove up. He looked relieved when I said I hadn't found it yet. We searched together and maccabob made the sneaky find. I learnt another thing today. You should always search all the possibilites, don't bypass an object or location just because you think it couldn't be there, or it wasn't a good place to put it. Congrats on your first hide vamp1blade. Tftc.

Found by Mary & David at 1100. Today was the day for minding the grandkids, so when we saw this cache published, David went of with grandson while Mary stayed home with granddaughter (only one kids seat in the GeoPrado). Arrived at GZ to find larafolk sitting in her car, but she hadn't found it yet. We all started looking around and quickly ruled out some possibilities. After a couple of minutes, David managed to find the well-disguised cache, while Aiden explored the little park. Good to find a blank log book for an {FTF}. Our thanks to vamp1blade.

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