TSS V2 A fish out of water Maddingley, Victoria, Australia
By sorceysal and dutch frangipani on 27-Jun-16. Waypoint GC6MFT6

The cache is not as orginally placed. Will re do this cache in another location on the other side of the road

Hi there sorceysal.

We found your cache **"TSS V2 A fish out of water"** at 1:33:00 PM today.

We started the day off by nominating a cache some distance away from our camp site and then took a route that was mostly determined by the next closest cache according to our GPS.

The cache notes say that we should say something about our caching experience, so here goes: We started caching in November 2003, and since that time we have cached in every Australian State and Territory. This cache makes our total find count to be 16221. According to GSAK our cache to cache distance before the start of this run was 202,516km, so if we had to pay for all that fuel at today's averages (13 litres/100km & $1.29 c/litre) it would have cost us $33,961. Now that's dedication to our sport/hobby/pastime!

On our trek we found a variety of wonderful containers - and ended up finding 20 caches with 0 DNF's. We awarded almost every cache in the run with a favourite point for the ingenuity and effort that has gone in to the placement of each one.

Thanks for placing this cache, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found this cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** We had to re-unite two parts of the cache. It's probably not how the CO intended so some owner TLC may be in order.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge in caches that were big enough.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

We had to re-unite two parts of the cache. It's probably not how the CO intended so some owner TLC may be in order.

Found by Team Ninja 24/04/2017, find number 995.
This was the third find on my '1000 or bust' caching day. Not that there was any chance of me not reaching 1000, given I only needed 8 finds to reach the milestone!
I spent the first two hours capturing the peak hour commuter trains departing Bacchus Marsh, something I've been wanting to do for a few years. Bacchus Marsh local services are mostly loco hauled which provides plenty of opportunities to get some good footage. Unfortunately this morning several loco hauled services had been replaced with railcars, but I was still able to get some good footage!
After I finished getting photos I moved on to caching. I had a pretty bad coffee craving by this point so I cached my way back to town to get some coffee and breakfast before continuing with The Saying Series.
At GZ I searched for some time without luck. I eventually found a cache, but no fish so I don't think this one is as the owner intended it. Anyway, thanks for the find sorceysal!

Out for some caching in this area today and this was the first one for the day. I have been keen to do this series. A quick find and a nice view. TFTC

A fun day of caching in this wonderful area. TFTC

Thanks for another themed cache, ladies. On the way to an event, we picked up some caches to make the event a mini milestone. This fish was definitely out of water, with the cache in a couple of pieces. Let CO know, its still findable and signable, but not how intended I do believe. TFTC

Found hide on ground returned to close to structure where found

Psrhaps CO could check in on hide

LTF

While in the area doing another series came across the TSS series this was number 2 and will definitely be back to do the rest
Was thinking something opposite to what I found and had a laugh when I spotted it
It has been snapped in half with one piece lying on the ground
Replaced it the best I could
Thanks Dutch Frangipani TFTC

Found by The Empire @ 1:45pmish
Werribee Racecourse, Cobbledick Ford Park, and the Exford Trios series down, only the TSS version 2 to go! Rocketing to 9000 finds... I decided to call it a day at 8999, leaving the 9K milestone for another day. I'll have to return to finish off the series another day - as it turns out I only have to return to find one multi that eluded me. Thanks for the cache, and the series sorceysal and dutch frangipani.
- M

Shoe full of grass seeds, totally worth it. Nice hide

Road trip caching adventure with Ketchthor. Was aware of the relatively high number of caches in the Bacchus Marsh area so headed North for a few hours of drive by cache dashing. Some of theses caches were very ingenious so much hand clapping to the owners for placing & maintaining

With a free day we headed towards Bacchus Marsh to find many of the roadside caches. Overall, some excellent hides and containers. Many thanks to all the owners for placing and maintaining the caches.

Reeled this one in after a short search, nice one tftc.

I'm half glad that the grass has been flattened in parts, gives you a better view of the ground. Tftc

The first series was awesome fun, so we were very pleased when we saw that more expressions had been turned into a second series. So far we have found a few of this round, and today we were going to add a few more.
There is a geotrail leading to the cache, and as always we had a giggle when we found the great realisation of another idiom of the English language.
It is being protected by some vicious, albeit dead, box thorn, which drew blood from this suss fisherwoman's hand. Ah well, less for the mozzies ...
TFTC

Tftc. Signed and returned
Be careful as the grass is a little long.

With a house of teenagers to escape from today, Ausyowie and I decided to go caching. Managed to clock up 6 different types of caches and collect some strawberries in the Marsh before stopping for a pizza tea. A problem with the geomobile meant that after the RACV had finished we had to alter the plans we had for night caches in Ballarat. The TSS series looked like a better option than heading straight home, so off we went.
No fish for dinner.
Thanks for the great cache!

As per previous comments. TFTC

I have always felt like a fish out of water, so Wacky has always fitted me nicely, though ironically, being a swimmer I was nicknamed Fish for several years in high school
Many thanks sorceysal from the Wacky one

The fish had truly escaped as the rod was broken. A quick repair to the rod and reel and all is good to catch a cache again!

Thanks to sorceysal and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Found on the ground with the cache seperated from its partner. Might need some maintenance. Left as I found it. Thks for the cache sorceysal and Dutch frangipani. Thks was cute!

Find #2609

I had a busy Boxing Day afternoon and evening caching to the north west of Melbourne. After attending an event in Melton I worked through TSS V2, the Legends series and Fun for Kids as well as other assorted caches along the way. And fortunately I had the cricket (between the showers) on the radio to keep me company along the journey. Having enjoyed the first Saying Series I was really looking forward to these and I wasn't disappointed. Last in the series for me today as I headed further west. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache sorceysal and dutch frangipani.

We decided to visit Melton for the Intervening Days event.
Afterwards we headed home via the TSS V2 series and it rained the whole time!
Lucky it was nice warm rain.
Thanks for the cache hides.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14.
I enjoyed the afternoon caching even if we did get a little wet.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
It was a fun afternoon caching around the Melton/Bacchus Marsh area today.
Thanks for hiding the cache for us to find.

3 years caching, this makes 418 finds.
Early finish at work thought I might make the most of a pleasant afternoon & grab a cache or 2 to start my holidays.
Great hide - TFTC

A quick find with the kids today on the way home from the You Yangs event. Master 5 made the find and wanted to take it home! Lol. They were soon appeased though as the dirt bikes were on just up the road so we stopped and watched some races with kids smaller than them buzzing around the track. Many thanks

27/11/2016 9:53:00 AM - The weather forecast for today was good and suggested ideal conditions to go exploring. Today I teamed up with Square_Pegs and along the way I stopped here to find this cache

Thanks sorceysal for the adventure.

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There was a nice view out to the west as we stood at the top of the hill here. Another clever hide, and a good way to complete the series today. Thanks to sorceysal and Dutch Frangipani for this cache and all the others in the series along here. There were a variety of clever and humorous containers, and there has obviously been a great deal of effort put into them.

Find # 3809

A solo day spent tracking down caches on the Legends, TSS V2, Eynesbury Series and the odd ones that came up on the map.

Along this stretch, up to the "Five Ways" I made 15 Finds
only missing out on a couple because of a super long grass at the side of the road making parking impossable. A Police officer writing out a ticket (right at GZ, Not for me) and a total miscalculation on a multi.
The cache that were found were all unique in there own way and loved that they are all themed to the name sake, this made for an interesting drive along this road, trying to guess what i would be finding next.

TFTC

Another good find while hunting caches in the area today.
Very good series, soon found here.
SL TFTC

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Sorceysal [^]

After a warm day yesterday, it looked better for caching today, so BettyBoo3747 and I headed for the Bacchus Marsh area. We tackled the TSS V2 series and Legends series, and a few in between.

I suspect not only was the fish out of water, but he has also made a dash for it, just leaving a micro behind!
This was our last one today.
Thanks for the amusing and very entertaining series.
Thanks, Robmc.

#11134. With some pleasant Spring weather having finally arrived Robmc and I decided to have a day trip around the Bacchus Marsh area finding some of the TSS series, visiting a few Legends and gathering up some other caches along the way. It was a perfect day for caching, and I ended up with 41 finds and 3 DNF's.

I am not sure if there was ever an actual fish here, but if there was I thinksomeone must have taken it home for dinner. Cute idea however but no fish was sighted today.

Thanks sorceysal

Having completed and thoroughly enjoyed version 1 of this series, I was salivating at the prospect of finding these. The series didn't didn't disappoint, with yet another great variety of hides. A lot of work has gone into the construction of these hides and hopefully everyone enjoys the series as much as I did !!
With the water level so low here, I'm surprised you even caught that !! Some great views here. TFTC Sorceysal and Dutch Frangipani

Today I am out with Jeckleberrryandtedd and cathlud exploring the area. My first find in the TSS series, I wondered if a scaly object was missing from the set up here?

A fruitful fishing expedition by us all today. Thanks sorceysal.

Today was a planned day of geocaching fun with JeckleberryandTedd and Tinker Traveller, although I am still tired from the MEGA. Jeckleberry and I competed the first TS series so we were eager to return to complete V2. We signed the logs as Team SCREECH!
Tinker missed our fun last time so we let her find this cache. TFTC.

Cathlud, TinkerTraveller and I had grand plans to spend the day today up at Mt Disappointment collecting caches. Unfortunately the volume of rain over night put paid to that idea. So instead we came over to this side of town to do TSS V2 as Cathlud and I particularly enjoyed the first version of this series. This time was so much better though as my kids were at school so we didn't need to listen to whinging and fighting! We signed the log as Team Screech! as that is what sound the tyres tend to make when someone (that may be me) forgets to tell the driver to stop. We let Tinker find this one as it was her first for both of the series. TFTC.

This is the third day of my trip for the Mega at Anglesea. It is a much earlier start today after a good night's sleep. We spent the night in the splendid Lancefield Guesthouse. We have a couple of hundred leisurely kilometres to travel to the mega. Caches on the way are in order. Onya, SorceySal. I'm still chuckling over this one. Great cache. I've given it a favorite point. I'll be back for the rest of these one day ...

Having done the original series I was keen to try this one and this was the first. Reely nice!

On the way into town and able to wander off the track to collect this and some others in the TSS V2 series.
Reckon the lines a bit tangled around the snags though. TNLN TFTC sorceysal

Pacman and I are off the find the finish of a cache on our list today, so we're doing a few others on the way. This was a approach cache on the way. A quick find on the side of the road. Fishing is done for the day. All good. #898Tftc.

Out for the day in B/Marsh and caching on the return a good series as always and thanks for all the effort in placing the hides.

A fun cache. TFTC

A quick find on our way home from picking up geoteen from a sleepover in Bacchus. Tftc

Good one.... reminding me of Heroes series runs in SA.. similar cache idea.
Thanks sorceysal

Found with Ogston girls. TFTC

Fell for this one hook, line and sinker. TFTC

Out and about caching around Bacchus Marsh while the kids were at school. I did a lot of different caches today and a lot of work has gone into them. A big thankyou to all the owners for the great caches. There were a few workers just up the road that didn't seem worried about me romping through the bush.

Finally I have got on my arse & went caching, my GPS was doing a marshall ( acting up ornery), & will not load, so had to plug co-ords in each cache. I did not finish them, but a nice series with a theme sorceysal, thank you for the cache

I found all the caches in the first part of the series in June 15. I had a day off work that day and headed out by myself. After completing the series I was a bit sad as I knew my kids would have loved all of these.

For over a year now I have been telling them things like the big dummy, the sauce bottle and a of the little ducks I spotted in a tree. So I was wrapped when, only recently I received a notification of a single new cache of the TSS series. After some searching I noticed that there was in fact more, and I didn't receive the emails as the rest were out of my 50km zone that I have set up.

So today with the kids in tow we made our way west for a bit of a laugh.

With a some cloud cover today the GPS was a little off, and as I went to where it was pointing me I heard a laugh from the missus. She had found it and was retrieving the log but Ryan had other ideas. He wanted to keep what we had found and had decided to chuck a wobbly because he couldn't. 5 minutes later he had settled down and we were on our way again.

Thanks sorceysal for the cache.

Lol. Another great themed cache container that fits the saying. Time for dinner. Thanks for the series. I really enjoyed it.

Monday Night Date Night continues... It got dark a little while ago, yet we press on. It's a testament to your series that SueHut has forgone a restaurant meal to continue hunting Micros (oh, but she hates Micros). But we're out of time Find #13 for me, #10 for SueHut. Excellent series, sorceysal! Will there be more? (he asked, hopefully - [insert puppy-dog eyes])

Nice prop work

After thoroughly enjoying the first version of this series I had been looking for an opportunity to head out to this set of caches since their publication. It was a little bit further afield than the first but I was sure the quality was going to be worth it so when a bit of time became available this weekend I packed the kids into the car and we headed off.

Another quick find, thanks for the cache sorceysal.

Found t4tc

Found this one a few days ago in FRRREEEEZZINGGG weather! I'm loving this series. TFTC

Find #1109. The last for us in the V2 series. A quick find and again not quite what we imagined it would be. We loved V2 of this series as much as the first series. It's fun imagining what we think the container would be and get excited when we are right. Thanks Sorceysal for the fun series, we look forward to doing many more of your caches.

Loved the camo, a quick find with great views. Great series SS and DF.

This was the start for us of the very clever caches

Joined up with Ninny Muggins with the TSS caches high on the list. Didn't spot any flying fish here but quickly spotted the cache.. What a great series of caches. Signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache Sorceysal and Dutch Frangipani
#2,344

Last one of the series for us and it didn't disapoint. It's playfulness fits in with the rest of the series and it was soon signed and replaced.

Managed to pop down the road after work and nab this one before the weather got too bad. TNLN. TFTC sorceysal

Yesterday we a big day of caching and travelling that involved events in both Colac and Lara and today the job was to slowly cache our way home.

A quick driveby (and just as well given the cold wintery weather), this one was spotted easily on approaching GZ. TFTC sorceysal.

One of 6 caches that I found while out and about in the Marsh area this morning.
The last remaining cache along this stretch .
Another cute hide
Cheers and thanks sorceysal

Cheers TFTC

**Out for the day around Bacchus Marsh.**...

Found this one on the way to a mates for dinner.

A short stroll, a short search, found the cache, stamped the log and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment sorceysal...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

**#8403**

Find today at 2048.
Nice quick find with spot on coordinates.
Tftc
Vkc1sr

** Smile # *3787* / Traditional # *2939* **

I was up and gone from home before 5am this morning to make my way up to the Marsh to grab some caches. I missed the event a few weeks ago as I was working. The geo vehicle had the heater on full, a hot coffee and the radio to keep me company as the geo family slept. The roads were very quiet on this crispy cold morning. The temperature hovered between ) and 1 degree.

We should sell these at my work Another great setup that I know well. A quick find. Signed and replaced as found.

**Thanks for this trad cache, sorceysal** [^]
**Cache container and log good in good condition**
**Took Nothing, Left signature**

Found by Mary & David at 1620. Still trying to catch up after 7 weeks away - after the Marshian Event, we went to Canberra and Mildura. Mary was thinking of dusting when David gave her another option. No contest, so here we are. Delighted to start this series. Our thanks to sorceysal.

We think you, sorceysal and dutch frangipani must have had some fun doing this fun series that we sure have enjoyed doing today. This cache was not exception as it yet another well thought out and implemented one. We really have appreciated your series and thank you both so much for your time and effort.
TFTC sorceysal

Today mum and dad of the Sims_family were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Our gifts to each other were waterproof hiking boots and our quest for the day was to find 25 caches. An unexpected run to the doctors with one of the kids had us behind schedule, but with new boots on, we were eventually on the road. Despite a few near misses, we managed to complete our day with no DNF's (yay!) and enough time to run home and change before enjoying dinner at our favourite restaurant.
We have been out this way before for the first saying series and remember the fun hides they were. Once again, we found ourselves making guesses about the likely hides and were not disappointed. These ones never fail to bring a smile to our faces. The last of the saying series for us today, and our 15th find of the day. Ten more to go! As always, a fun hide in a very clever series. Thanks to sorceysal.

Ahh last in this series just loved them all great ideas and gave us plenty of giggles.
Made a quick find Signed and replaced.
As we loved them all we give you a favourite point here. TFTC.
Thanks for the series.

Great to see this series pop up and the fun theming continues. Well done TFTC.

Found by caughtatwork at 15:30 on 10/07/2016
The final of the TSS caches for us today and it was a pleasant area to have been caching. This location was particularly muddy today so we stepped very carefully across the road and grass lest we fall into some of teh great puddles that had formed over the last few hours or days, An interesting cache hide here and no problems with us finding it today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today. Without someone to hide there will never be any more to find.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Suscoe headed out bring and early this morning for a day's caching in the Bacchus Marsh area.
We were accompanied by our very good mate Bushfire.
It was a glorious day with bright sunshine, almost no wind and a cluster of geocaches waiting to be found by us.
This was our second stop for the day.
All quiet out here apart from a few motor bike noises coming from over there..
A quick find and sign.
Nice camo!!
Thank you to sorceysal for this cache, looking forward to the others to the east later on.

Out and about with my very good caching companions the suscoe cachers on a glorious day with lots of sunshine and little wind. This will change tomorrow so we are told.
Looking to grab the new caches that were placed last weekend and a couple of Earth Caches to increase my numbers.
Quick find here, signed the log and we were on our way.
Thanks for placing this guy.

So glad I came out to do this cache series! TFTC!

Cache's Found - 70

TFTC

15:59
Recently back from a trip to SA with Suscoe, it was time to catch up with some Victorian caches and cachers! This was the last one on the line today, we caught up with Papillon4506, good to be able to put faces to the name.

Our thanks to sorceysal for placing these caches.
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Noisy motocross adjacent to this one. TFTC. Nice quick drive by.

Didn't feel like a fish out of water today - the Marsh is full of cachers today as part of the Marshian Invasion event. Busy day at the MX track, providing some entertainment while I retrieved the cache.
Thanks Sorceysal and Dutch Frangipani.

Found on a day out in the Marsh with BeardedMuggle & TR!
Nice easy find with the sound of dirt bikes.
Cool hide.
Took & left nothing.
Cheers & TFTC!
Safe travels and hoppy caching =]

{FTF}
Our 3rd FTF for the day. Thats a record for us With all the people around for the event, and we scored 3, pretty happy. The series is so worth it for the details of the cache that is in line with each topic. Cheers.

Our last one for this series. Quick easy find & another clever one. TFTC

Quick and easy find. A vehicle pulled up, coming from the opposite direction shortly after pulling over ourselves. It was great to meet "Mr" and "Mrs" Phetlern at this one. Great to put a face to a name. Loved the container. Thanks for bringing us here and making us take a different route home.

After attending earlier Bacchus event and teaming up with Frog_Lady and TheBeardedMuggle we were on our way to the Legends Series to complete the unfound ones there... This was on the way so a quick stop was made.
Cache was found, signed and replaced.
TFTC

This series has been greatly anticipated by me especially after the fun experienced on the first stage.
You haven't failed to deliver sorceysal.
I have laughed, searched and even been frightened at each hide. Your ingenuity is unique and the sayings so true.
Thanks for the fun sorceysal
This was not what I expected to see but oh so appropriate.

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