"Oops there goes another Rubber Tree Plant" Byford, Western Australia, Australia
By ValoForce on 10-May-16. Waypoint GC6HED5

Had a decent search around but alas could not come up with the goods. Thanks anyway.

We looked and looked for this one as we always love the creations from ValoForce. We must have spent an hour or more within the location and we think we found evidence of where the cache was but we suspect it is no longer there. I hope this is not the case as this had a lot of favourite points and seemed to amuse people.

A caching day around Armadale-Byford-Mundijong with the primary aim of clearing up a few more of the SWH... series. This was one of the caches found on my travels. An ingenious hide here, worthy of all the fave points. Have another one. Tftc

Mr B again decided to stay in the car so I waited with him while SirFancy headed in with Mr’s Z & T.
Despite a small knock to the head when getting close to GZ Mr Z said it was his favourite cache of the day and was blown away by the cache.
Adding favourite point.
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The public holiday allowed for Tuesday night caching to turn into a daytime affair this week and a larger than normal group.
Meme28, I C Nothing, SirFancy & I (MICS) along with 4 junior team members headed out on a drizzly afternoon to cache through the hills between Jarrahdale & Byford.
We got caught a couple of times by some decent rain but we’re able to stay mainly dry.
By the time we called it quits and turned for home I had managed to rack up 29 finds & 0 DNF’s.
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Thanks ValoForce for placing "Oops there goes another Rubber Tree Plant" for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 16:24 on 25/4/2023.
This is find number 7080 for me.

Out caching with the MICS crew.
Signing as MICS. MEME 28, I C Nothing, Cirrus_WA and SirFancy.


This is my 4552 find.
Thank you ValoForce for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!
(I’m not a geologist I just like puns)

Caching with grandson and was explaining to him what a rubber tree plant looks like?? But after we tried to get a drink we discovered the rubber!

What a great cache! Found with Redrobbin25. Tftc

An amazingly clever cache! What a cool idea! Found with teamlaroche! Thanks for the cache ️

Found it. TFTC ValoForce. Quick find but I was looking at the leaking tap, DOH !. Replaced as found.

While in Byford we decided to chase a couple of caches, never been up this road.
A delightfully different cache, thanks for bringing us here, such a lovely bit of Byford.
Have a Fav point for something different
Log is dry
TFTC
Valoforce

Clever hide TFTC

Excellent camo. Lot of thought went into this cache. Fave point coming your way. Cache in great condition. TFTC

The Better Half and I went for a drive to collect some caches that we hadn't done in this area. This was one of them. Cache found without problems. Log was signed and the cache returned as we found it. Thanks ValoForce for placing this cache for us to find.

Chwiliwr and I went for a drive to collect some caches that we hadn't done in this area. This was one of them. Cache found without problems. Log signed and cache returned as we found it. Thanks ValoForce for placing this cache for us to find.

TFTC SL

Found it TFTC
Going to look at the view with the Fam

Caching with axell33 and the geopups on a wonderful Melbourne Cup day in this beautiful little corner of the world. After finishing a nearby series we were on a roll so wanted a few more smilies. This was an obvious choice as we wandered down the little country road. We found a safe place to pull over and made our way back to gz to find this very clever, novel and unique cache. A favourite from me here! Thanks for the creativity ValoForce and greetings from Baldivis.

Out and about on Melbourne Cup day grabbing some caches while the nation comes to a stop. After finishing a nearby series we decided to give this a a look and sure glad we did. With the Geohounds leading the way we made it to GZ and spotted the prize straight away. Very cool loved it. We even spotted a nice big soldier ant planning how move this rubber tree plant. We signed your log and returned it back to where it hides. Favorite point coming up when i get a fresh batch. TFTC ValoForce

With a unofficial geocaching event in Collie this weekend Meme28 and myself hatched a plan to escape the city for the weekend. We started early and with no one holding us back we are caching all the way to Collie. Our aim to find some caches to fill our challenge needs, old caches, high favourite caches and just whatever else takes our fancy. This cache was found in good condition thanks to CO’s for placing these caches for our enjoyment.

Fantastic cache!!! Great secluded spot!!!! Weekend out with ICNothing...

Interesting drive and interesting cache. Slightly damaged. Lots of roos around. No cows. TFTC.

So I randomly drove up this road to see the brickworks after picking up the cache near the highway. I walked into GZ with shorts and thongs, crackle, trample, scratch, scratch. Then it started raining. Wow!! Then I found the cache. Wow!!! Awesome. Fav point added. TFTC

A nice afternoon of caching with hubby and sister, thanks for putting this cache out - TFTC ValoForce I really enjoyed it!

Off on another day hunting with Ebenie & Geotrakka. At least the sun is shining today after a very wet day yesterday. Thanks

How very unique. Left a fresh log as the one in it was wet and mangled. Awarded a fav

Awesome thanks out with PollyMichele and Geotrakka. Log no go has been replaced

Hahaha what a great cache! Amazing work!

Also thanks for an excuse to drive up Kiln Road, such a beautiful hidden spot.

Lmao who would have thought of that !!!!!!
Log needs replacing

TFTH

Out with B12 and Larry

ValoForce We found your cache "Oops there goes another Rubber Tree Plant" thanks for placing this cache for myself and others to find.

Have no idea why we have never visited this cache before but so glad we stopped by today. As with all your caches - have a fave.
Out and about clearing up some recently published caches before the rains arrive.

TFTC ValoForce this is find # 4784 for us.

Out and about with Neva2old early this morning collecting some more numbers, happy to say May the 4th was here with us today, what a fantastic cache, a favourite point your way TFTC

Out for a bit of early morning caching with Parkacruz, a quick find here. What an excellent fun cache, so a fav point coming your way tftc

Interesting cache. Quick find TFTH

It's not how I remember seeing it Duke in India but it makes a point. Thanks for at last a cache I could find.

Had to take a drive down to the salvage yard for some bricks....well lets just say it was a disappointment...so needed to cheer myself up and decided to get a smilie...not what I was expecting lol but a fun cache nevertheless.

TFTC

Found at 2:45:00 PM.

Today I had to drop my son at school so he could go off for school camp. With the wife at work as well I decided to take the day off from work and do something that I don't do that much at the moment - go caching!!

Now that is not what I was expecting going by the cache title! Bit I made the find and I was also surprised that in the short time I was here that two cars drove past. Busy little road out here

Thanks for the cache ValoForce, it was cache number 2403 for me and was number 25 in my run of 38 finds and 5 DNFs for today's geocaching effort.

Cheers

26615 found the cache

With Varuna for the day - On the way to home - detour...
Last cache for us... It was excellent one - we are good smile
Log need TLC.
Fav from me [^]

Thanks ValoForce for hide the caches. [^]

Decided to spend some time this morning with myself and my GPSr and the car with the plan to clear some caches between home the the SWH.

The day was not to warm, but at time hot, but still, nice to find these little prizes in the Bush. Some I made more difficult that they needed to be, and only 3 DNFs today.


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Thanks ValoForce for bringing me to this location. I found the cache at 11:17:00 AM. This was my 18 Find for today out of a Total number of 27 for Today. The cache was found in Good Condition, however, the log has gone and needs to be replaced and I returned the cache as I found it.

This find brings my total number of Finds to 3707.

Without doubt, this has to be the most unusual cache I have ever found. Not sure what I was expecting but thought I might have had a bit of a head start as I not only knew the song but also knew what a rubber tree looked like.( although I was wondering what one would be doing out here.) Hilarious! No where close! Where on earth would the inspiration for this totally extraordinary cache come from, I wonder? Has to have a favourite. (My last)TFTC, Valoforce

How bizarre. Not what I was expecting. I signed the new piece of paper. Thanks for the hide.

I'm not sure what's happening here but I found the log in its little plastic bag out in the open and soaking wet.
It was too wet to sign and the bag was beyond help so I went to the car to see what I could find. I found that I had left my geocaching box at home so took some paper I had and signed my name on it then looked for something to put it in. Sorry to say that the only zip lock bag I had contained dog kibble so I tipped that out, put the paper in and placed it under the cache.
TFTC ValForce..............you may want to replace the bag if you don't want the log to smell of dog biscuits

Water issue has been corrected and cache is clean and dry with new log.

This is our last caching day with BecknMonts before she heads to the dark side, so we decided to pick up where we left off standing by me on the railway track, then maybe picking up few a the smaller series as the day continues.

We found this log on the ground about a metre or so from GZ. We did managed to sign the log although it was a bit wet from being in the rlements and you may want to replace it with a dry log soon.

Thank you to all the cache owners for placing these caches and maintaining them.  It has been a great trip and deciding to go for quality caches and not number hunting was a brilliant choice on our behalf and we have done nothing but laugh and enjoy the caches we have have found.

Gabs1963 and Miss-Placed came down to meet up with me for one last caching adventure before I venture further afield. We finished being civil to each other yesterday morning, and we started to stand by each other. Today we are hoping to finish the series as well as get some random caches. I love this area, and hope to be back soon. TFTC ValoForce

Miss-Placed and I came down to meet Becknmonts for one last caching adventure before she ventures further afield. We headed off from Gero finding a few geocahes along the way, we stopped at Moora for Breaky and with quite a few laughs along the trip down, we got there.

Day 4 early start again we have a lot of geocaching planned again today, off we go jiggling just a little bit again, lots of big puddles, nice dirt tracks on stand by me series and a few others along the way, needs maintenance log was drenched
tftc

**Day 7** into my House Sit in Bedfordale*...

*Out and about letting my GPS be my guide*...

A lovely day to be out and about. Parked nearby and strolled to GZ. Found the cache (*which get's a fave point*) but the cache container itself was full of the foulest smelling rank water that I have ever smelt. I removed the log with a stick and whilst I didn't have anything to replace it with, I took it with me. It was putrid. **The issue** - I dropped it. There was NO WAY, I was putting that log in my car. I can still smell that stench on my fingers So if the next finder could leave a log sheet that would be great **OR** if the CO want's to go and check on this one that's entirely their call. The smell was horrific

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment ValoForce. Appreciate your efforts. A favourite point for highlighting this great area and your efforts with the hide. Clever.

Greetings from Victoria.
-P

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Fave Point*

**#10508**

I had the pleasure of teaming up with JacobsCrew and Richlink for a lovely Sunday morning caching run around serpentine dam, gnome country and the greater serpentine jarrahdale region.

Highlight of the day was the Gnome Fun multi with which we started the day off at which highlighted some great views across the land from the vantage point. It was mentioned the cache was a certain number of gnome meters, might be a new term for hard slog through bush with no tracks. Well worth a fav and I can't wait to come back and collect the serpentine and trail caches and gnome hunter trail caches.

We collected a nice variety of hides today before it got too hot. Lovely day out with good mates. Thanks to the local COs

Add fav

Wow what a cool idea. Favourite for a unique cache. 19 to go to get 1000th find.

Nice cache...given us a few ideas . Thanks for the hide.

A unique hide with an amazing natural walkway, look up and see the most beautiful spiders spinning silky skies. Then a short walk in to another valo special. Tftc the effort is spot on and took me back to the rubber plantations I saw in Thailand.

ValoForce, ValoForce. How on earth did you find an equatorial rainforest rubber tree in a Mediterranean climatic region! For this brilliant find, a favourite point is certainly in order here . SL TFTH ValoForce.

I had some spare time today and I decided to try and tackle some of the South West Highway caches. All the caches were found fairly easily with the odd one taking a little longer than others. Thanks to all the cache owners who have placed a cache here. I loved the huge variety of caches - some very small, others very big. Many of them were very unique
In total, I found 14 caches today. All of the caches were found in a good condition, I signed the log books and replaced them as I found them. Thanks for the hide.

- Great cache, really enjoyed finding it. I have never seen one like this before. Adding a fav point for the unique design and the effort that went into making it.

What a great cache, the most innovative hide. When you reach GZ it is easy to spot but the container is a brilliant one. Nice spot up here, houses among the bush must be fantastic place to live.
TFTC , Valoforce I TNLN but enjoyed tapping into it.
Regards Metfast.

Another fun find with Just-Lookin while on a 3 week geocaching trip around the Perth area.
We really enjoyed the drive around finding some caches.
*Soon found.*
SL TFTC

Really different and well constructed hide.

Holidaying in the area with tmann421, collecting some caches along the way.
Another fun find here. TFTC ValoForce

Mistraluna and me decided to have a good day of caching in Armadale area. Was hopeful that rain would stop after the midday but unfortunately it was not the exact case. This one was our first find of the day, and I must admit, this was my favourite find from the whole bunch of finds that I made. Thank you for placing this cach ValoForce.

Eliktrisiti and I decided that a little bit of rain wasn't going to deter us from tackling some of the bush caches in the Armadale hills area before the weather got too warm. Others thought we were crazy, but we donned our wet weather gear and ended up having a really great day of it. Admittedly, we got rained on more than a couple of times, but we were picking up smileys and feeling very smug about it too. This was our first stop for the day, and what a great cache it thanks ValoForce, fav coming for the originality of this one and the quirky sense of humour that went into it's creation.

Wow, what can we say other than... Have another Favourite Point!!

We were on a mission to log a cache with 10 or more favourites to qualify for the special souvenir - little did we realise it would entail travelling nearly 200 klms one way to the closest qualifying cache for us. And just to make sure - we logged three qualifiers!! Thanks ValoForce for the novel camo.

Another great creation here is

[^] A cool camo on this one, we look forward to finding more like this [^].

ValoForce - jinta29 found your cache "Oops there goes another Rubber Tree Plant" on 23/07/2016, 11:47 AM. This is my find #5462 and find #4 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

I could not see the rubber tree for the trees. Another favourite point from us.

Thanks ValoForce for the cache.

Bit silly but fun nevertheless. Thought we'd grab this before the rain sets in. Lovely part of the world we've never seen before so thanks for bringing us here.

Hey yet another amazing cache just had to smile very interesting indeed. TFTC

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!


Thanks ValoForce for placing this cache.

Found by Mary & David, in convoy with The Coffees, at 0915. We'd heard about this one last night, but that didn't spoil the surprise. Amazing, and fits the name perfectly. Gets a FP. Great to meet you and the family afterwards. Our thanks to ValoForce.

Out today finding these caches after the WA event. We are having a great time and the weather has been good.
Our thanks to ValoForce the cache, what a ripper favorite added.
Regards
The Coffee's

Wandered around with the GPSr to enable it to settle down.

Turned around, looked back towards the car and geo wife spotted what we were after.

Thanks ValoForce for yet another unusual but relatively obvious hide.

An easy but nontheless very entertaining cache! Great idea and well executed ValoForce.

**Date: 5 June 2016
Time: 3:27 pm
Find #7658**

Day fifteen of my across the Nullarbor, then to Perth via Denmark trip. First things first, a flash mob, followed by a convoy up the road with sharkiefan, Mica Paramedic, Alansee and Mr and Mrs Earthbound. We started off with no real plan, then we found the first valoforce cache and from then on, it became "Team ValoForce day" Oh yeah, some quality caches to be found, Awesome day.

Last one. Is that suspicious? yep

**Thanks to ValoForce for the cache. TNLN**

*Big things are happening! Are you joining the fun?*

[THE SURF COAST](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC65688)
[EVENT](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC65688)
[2016](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC65688)

*12th / 13th November 2016 - GC65688 - Anglesea - Great Ocean Road - Victoria*

All leapt from cars, our last Valoforce cache before zipping back to the CITO in Pinjarra. Taking the cache name literally we expected one thing but found another! Signing duties completed we all fell to our knees in front of the rubber idol and praised the imagination, humour & creativity of the CO. Thank you, thank you for our entertainment on a lovely day out in the company of friends.

Sadly our last ValoForce cache for the day. But it was a good un. We all had a chuckle at it. Tftc

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Travelling to Pinjarra for the WA Goes Big weekend after flying over from NSW on Wednesday. Searching for the SWH series plus a few extras. Most were found, interesting variety of caches containers appreciated, a few took a bit of searching to locate and there were a couple of DNFs. Also found was an ants nest, a bee hive and an emu!!! Thank you to all the COs for putting out these caches.

A quick find on a very novel cache - one that deserves a FP for the extra thought and work put into it. SL. A surprising number of cars on the road here this morning. Thanks to ValoForce for the cache

The Tour de ValoForce concluded on a high note. Yes, I did know the song and it has been playing in my head ever since I read the cache description. On arrival at the nearest parking spot I headed for what I assumed would represent a rubber tree - however Muggle Hubby was sensibly following a compass point. Instead of his usual shout of "gotcha!" all I heard was him laughing uproariously. When I ventured in his direction, I could soon see why. Definitely the most amusing one found today, followed by the surprise when I picked it up to sign it.
Another brilliant effort, most deserving of my last favourite point.
The only sad thing is we have to wait until we go to Fairbridge now to find the one you have put out for WA Goes Big.

What a clever cache! Quick find then a chit chat with the cows tftc!

Headed out with the geodaughter Redlipsandunicorns to pick up a few caches.
This was our first stop and i must admit i saw a picture of this one on instagram so i knew what i was looking for. Another very clever cache which still gave us a laugh...TFTC ValoForce

Bit of a quiet day at work today so what to do to fill in the gaps? Grab a couple of caches of course.

This ones been on the hit list since it was published and glad I was able to come and have a go today. Parked up nearby not really knowing what to expect and then on arrival at GZ I spotted something more than a little out of place.

Another superb cache creation by the CO when I gain my next favourite point I will be dropping it on here.

ValoForce I found your cache at 12:09pm, this was the 4th of 5 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3161. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

I'm looking forward to meeting other geocachers in Pinjarra at the 'WA GOES BIG IN 2016' event on the 4th - 5th June. Registrations now open.

Check it out at [GC5YAGP](http://coord.info/GC5YAGP)

Originally found & logged under the family caching name 'clan-wallace' buT time to reinvent ourselves.

Decided to go for this one on the way home. Loved the cache & after giving our companion brief lesson on colonial history & geography the penny dropped for him on the significance of the title & the cache, which was another good one, as anticipated. Left a clan-Wallace pathtag & a favourite point, of course. TFTC

So glad to have another ValoForce cache to find! Unfortunately I was in Melbourne when it was published, so today was the day I could find it.

It was night time when I got to this cache. This made the road to GZ quite creepy, but an awesome experience at the same time. Once at GZ I spotted something, what it was though I had no idea. Upon closer inspection of what turned out to be the cache, I still had no idea what it was, but it made me burst out laughing all the same. What a work of geo-art this is! Signed the log and replaced the container?

Thanks for another awesome cache ValoForce. As M4YB said in her log your caches are a valuable asset to the WA Geocaching community. Can't wait to see the finished product of your WAGB cache. Oh and another favourite of course, TFTC

This cache was personally recommended to me by one of the previous finders
So I made a point to detour here today. Found a good place to park the geoJazz, went for a little walk and was certainly impressed with the cache! Another excellent work of art from the Valoforce workshop! Thanks for creating and hiding it, it is certainly another asset to local caching! A fave from me!

Was eagerly awaiting this one as I heard rumours Valoforce was back in action, sadly due to GC doing strange things, I was notificationless so missed this as a chance for a FTF. Next time maybe. So instead I headed out after work and got second to find. What a great way of relieving stress finding this cache was, could hardly miss it and gave a good giggle. Another absolutely awesome job Valoforce and another fav point coming your way. Also picked up TB -TFTC WebblyWA

Published

Adding Fave Point

We were in Armadale, having just completed a couple of errands, when a couple of new caches were published. A little drive down the highway, and we were at GZ.

Parked nearby and wandered to the location. Was initially a bit perplexed looking for the right flora, but quickly found what we were looking for.

Very creative hide. Left TB.

A Fave Point from us.

**{FTF} @ 1020**

TFTC