Do You Believe In ... 11 Mannerim, Victoria, Australia
By deshut on 14-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6T1PX

Patience is wearing thin in the back seat with all the injuries, so it is time to pull the lead out! This cache was a beauty!!! Absolutely love it. TfTC

creative cache tftc

Took a bit of time as gps was a little outReplaced logTFTC

A well constructed fairy house here. The log was a bit too wet to sign with our pencil today

Very well crafted and cool cache thanks deshut

TFTC

Found, great cache unfortunately log is still very wet

Had a Sunday morning with nothing to do so thought wed come out and find some caches with the kids before we go home and watch the F1 Grand Prix this afternoon.TFTC

TFTC! 10 March 2024 7:38:37pm 7604 thanks to deshut for the cache! Decided to target this series in our way to Queenscliff due to the high favourite points. Enjoyed looking and finding these caches. Some parts are quite aged across the series.

Very cool container but log was way to wet to sign and it crumbled all throughout our fingers. Thank you for the cache.

Exploring around Swan Bay today and picking up some caches along the way. Flies and bugs were a killer walking around without any bug spray. The sun also decided to come out and make things abit toasty. Took the bike along this trail it make it abit more easier to get around.Found this cache to be all wet and soggy and the log needs to be replaced on the next maintenance run. Thanks for the hide for me and others to find!

A quick easy find but unable to sign as log was damp

I was heading to the dinner in Queenscliff, but came early to do some shopping and caching. Another one bites the dust.



My thanks to deshut for the cache.

Nice, easy find. Fun container. All in good condition. TFTC

The third second looker I had to have today. I got worse the further down knights rd I went! All good. Found eventually. TFTC

Found on the mothers day expedition to start and finish this series - which was achieved

When I started this series I wasn’t sure if I believed or not. Having completed the series, I can say that I am now definitely a believer. Thanks for this series. I can appreciate the time and effort that was put into this series when it was created. Some of the caches are a little run down, but all were there and in reasonable condition. TFTC.

cute

Cute container found with lidogger TFTC

Quick find TFTC!
Starting to rain.

Spending the weekend at Dad’s place in Leopold and tackling another Geelong 70.3 Ironman tomorrow. I was a bit restless sitting at home so I thought I’d go out for a couple of hours and see if I can edge a bit closer to the next milestone I’m hoping to have by Easter at the Rutherglen Mega.
When I saw these two little trails on my map I thought you beaut! And they were just what the doctor ordered, nice easy finds on quiet roads. No DNFs on the trails either which is always a great thing!
Thanks for all the caches out here!

Another day around Geelong and today it was this series. A well put together series with lots of different containers. 14 caches all up and all different. All were found without issue, although some were found quickly while a few others took a few minutes.

Thanks deshut...nice and quiet along the road today,

We did this series in reverse, starting with number 14. We love the quirky hide, and the effort that has gone into making each one quite different and lots of fun to find.
Most were very quick for us to spot, however, we did have a DNF for number one, which maybe because our GPS did not settle well.
An awesome series
Thanks deshut
Domsky

Catching up with my mentor au.fait for the day. au.fait chauffeuring me in the mini Geo car. I tackled this series of caches. All caches were located some quicker than others.

You are what you believe yourself to be. Paulo Coelho

Found by caughtatwork on 12/02/2023 at 3:36:00 PM
Out to finish the remaindef of the Do you believe in series today and it was a nice easy find for all of them here today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

B had some cache maintenance to do in Portarlington and a Lego purchase to pick up
In Ocean Grove, so set off with C in that general direction with a 3rd objective of starting to clear through more of the many many unfound caches we have on the peninsula. After starting out in Port we headed across towards D2B and Do You Believe in, chasing some bulk PnG smilies as our find numbers in February are somewhat lower than most other months, and such things come in handy for challenge caches.

We started mid trail on D2B and soon realised quick PnG’s were not going to be the case. Many of this series need some love, we found anything from empty containers with no logs, to damaged containers, to logbooks thats were just paper mush. Fortunately Do You Believe in was better as C’s 7yo patience was starting to wear thin.

Thanks for placing these caches for us to find.

Found you !!!

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️TFTC

Well, what a day. As I sit and type this, I look down upon several mosquito bites, a long, bloodied scratch on my leg and the aftershock of an actual electric shock. Have I been on a Commando course in the jungle? No, I’ve been caching along the Bellarine Rail Trail (amongst other places). Returning to the area after being locked out of the country for two years, it was great to finally reunite with Ketchthor to continue our occasional caching adventures in this part of the world. This is a generic log for all the caches that we found today. Setting off around 9 am, it soon became apparent that our expectation of a reasonably straightforward stroll through the Bellarine countryside was well off the mark. It became hot quite quickly; mosquitos were out in force, and there were a few hidden ‘natural’ surprises at a few cache sites. The worst was a lizard guarding a cache and refusing to move. We spent about four hours walking along the trail and then back along Knights Road to look for the ‘Do you Believe in…’ series. At one point, I managed to come into contact with an electric fence. It didn’t look like an electric fence, obviously – although I now realise that I don’t know what an electric fence looks like—what fun. Some of the GZs were waterlogged and prohibited access but we managed to find most of what we looked for. Despite the bites and scratches, it was a fun morning and as always, I'm really grateful to the cache owners for taking the time to design, place and maintain the caches. Thanks to all!!

aketch1 (from the UK) and I decided this weekend was the right time to continue tackling the G2Q series and a smattering of other Bellarine peninsula caches which we started in 2016.

Despite relatively cool temperatures for this time of year, the caching journey was quite the grind with the recent wet weather posing consistently thick vegetation, a mosquito paradise and the constant threat of dangerous creatures. Added to that was aketch1's electric fence zap, a stubborn lizard causing chaos at a GZ and a pack of chicken defending 'livestock guardian dogs' not too happy about the presence of geocachers.

We really enjoyed this series. It was great to find an array of such large and unique caches, a rarity. Thanks for placing and maintaining.

Another great cache in the set thank you

Very clever and blends in.

TFTC loving this series

Found it! Thank you! ️

Nice quick find for us today!

TNLN
June 27, 2022 3:35 PM
Cache Number: 1456

TFTC HoodedHooligans

Easy find, left some goodies.

Nice to find another one of these well constructed series.

Attempting the series tonight under cover of darkness and hiking it on foot for the true experience I am seeking tonight. Camp stove was fired up pre-hunt and my hopes are high for the night... Coming out here after some pretty big and special days personally just really tops off what's been an amazing couple weeks. And I'm on leave so no alarm clock! Just the sunrise to let me know when my night is over and the new day is beginning.

#11 done, quick and easy, keeping up the momentum... This has now become a streak!!!

TFTC... Getting close to closing this series out first go!!! 3 to go...

On a road trip to Bellbrae (Torquay) and the Surf Coast and today we headed over to Barwon Heads and surrounds to explore the area and pick up some caches as we went. We saw these caches with a large number of favourites and thought we would check them out. Starting at the end and working back this was the fourth one. It was Mr Pooky who made the quick easy find of another very creative cache TFTC TNLN and visited 3 TB's.

Found, on a day trip loved the effort, could do with some maintance as log book is wet

We spent some time looking for this one. Mind you you it in the dark!
The GPSr was 5 m out, in the end.
This is indeed a big and cute house.
Unfortunately the log is damp, again but the pages are falling out.
TFTC

I think the fairies would have preferred ocean votes on the other side of the road
TFTC

What a fairy beautiful house! Unfortunately at some point, the log container has been left out in the gables and is a little damp. There is condensation in the container. I manged to sign the log easily enough but it's falling apart. I put it back in with the fairy, there is plenty of room in there and it makes sense to keep it there. I wonder if the fairies know something today. I've spotted a vehicle down the road. Surely it can only be cachers, right? TFTC

She has a pretty house. TFTC

Decided to use this beautiful night to smash out some caching down the Bellarine!! Thanks for getting me out and about. A well crafted cache!!

Decided to go out today and try my luck with this series, I wish I had my Granddaughter with me as she would have enjoyed looking for these.

Log signed and put back.

TFTC

Another adorable hide. Be a great series for little kids!
Find number 32. Tftc.

Out and about on a nyochi and merkin of loki adventure, off to tackle many finds in a day by bike before the potential lockdown of melbourne happens :3

Damn awesome view here

The wind has picked up a bit more and the temperature is dropping, just a few more to complete the series!!!! SL TFTC

Been wanting to do this series for a while.
Down to Point Lonsdale today to check out the light house
Nice quick find.
Loved the container the cache was housed in. Very creative.
TFTC

Log is a touch damaged!

I’m sitting back and enjoying Geowife and Geoson fight out the find. Not sure who got this one, but I signed the log. TFTC deshut

Sorry for the generic log, but we're on a roll with this series

Yes we believe in....
A story we love to tell which involves our daughter and 3 year old (at the time) grand daughter. They live in Kensington, very close to the Melbourne zoo, and buy an annual family membership so they can visit regularly. Due to the covid pandemic in 2020 they had had to suspend visits for well over 7 months- a VERY long time in the life of a 3 year old. During the break Sophie had become very interested in unicorns. Books, clothes, toys and cartoons all regularly involved unicorns. You could say she was fixated.

Roll on 2021 and the family decides to visit the zoo for the first time in ages. Sophie wanted to visit the unicorns. Her mum explained....they are pretend, fairytale creatures. NOOOOO!!!! THEY'RE REAL. I WANT TO SEE THE UNICORNS.

Our daughter was trying to keep a straight face. The visitors around her were trying to keep a straight face. Sophie was getting more and more upset. Unfortunately she now knows they are not real, and some of the magic has gone from all of our lives!!

Found by Rebel Acts

My good friends Ski Pair were heading down to Geelong for a few days and invited Me to join them, who could resist being chauffeured around and the company and laughs are always good. We had a great time touring the area discovering new locations while finding caches, We even managed dinner with Suscoe and Busfire.

This is one of the caches we found for the week.

Logs signed as RASP (Rebel Acts Ski Pair)

Thanks deshut for the cache.

Quick easy find

Out picking up some hides while the daughters and wife have a day spa pampering! Quickly moved on for this hide. Road is a little narrow in spots. Had to try to be quick on occasion.
SLTNLN
TFTC

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TFTC nice fairy house

T4t$

The mood to find a few geocaches came today so I headed out with JosieY on our bikes. The highlight was surprising a hawk that was feeding on a freshly killed rabbit, and the lowlights were Josie bailing out after a minor bike accident and the old huntsman in the geocache gambit.

Last one in our maintenance of the whole series, and this was found to be fine.

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Found it with Silence49

Interesting cache!

Lovely views from this cache over the bay

Out caching with Gabatron22, nice series

GPS a little off but found it after a little searching

Found 12.55 TFTC

*Found on the 27 Jun 2020 @ 3:25 pm.*
*Cache find # 10996.*

I was starting to head for home but before I did, I decided to have a look at this series as I few of the caches have a number of favourite points.
All were found without to much trouble, some a little longer than others.
It would have been good to see these caches when they were new as some are looking a bit tied now.

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

Lots of trucks doing stuff in the fields, hope not MORE houses are coming along swallowing up the countryside! Very cute house here in the tree tho, no probs with that one.

Found with a massive spider inside.

Went back today to finish the great series. Nice work on this one, Thanks

Found this cache did TaurusSix and me

She was pleased to have a visitor

11 Thankyou deshut for a well thought out, designed and placed series. I enjoyed the bike ride up a quiet road. Starting uphill into the headwind was probably no the best move.
All caches 1 to 14 located and signed. Some a little damp but no real drama.
Thanks again and Cheers.

Spotted the cache through a gap. Parked in right spot . If this was a very hot day this whole trail would be very dangerous I think

Geomum and Geoson found this cute little hide today. Tftc

Woke very early on Christmas morning, there was not a peep in the house and it didn’t appear there would be for a few hours. What to do?

Of course. Cache time.

TFTC

No need to change anything here.

#3853 A bewt day to roll down the windows and travel down a back road collecting some great cache creations. We are staying a Anglesea for the week and decided to slip out to Queenscliff for the day, before returning via this series.

Knock knock, who's there? Fairy. Fairy who? Another fairy good cache hide here. Mr BGF 2019 . After meeting the fairy that lived here, we signed their guestbook before moving on.

Find #4613. Found @ 14:33 with LouiseAnn.

It has been an age since LouiseAnn and I have hit the trails together, but LouiseAnn loves a goal. I mentioned to her last weekend that I had a plan for a challenge, but couldn't share the details. I also mentioned that I needed a couple of finds in order for me to qualify for the challenge - so the plan was made to collect the two I needed, and some more that LouiseAnn would need (if the challenge gets approved).

This series of 14 caches contains 2 that LouiseAnn would need to have a smiley for to help qualify for my challenge. This is not one of them. We had no problems with Mozzies here, but the flies were everywhere.

I should have dropped my other trackable here in the house, but didn't.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache deshut

I was on my way to a nearby Event in Queenscliff.

With a little time I thought this would be a perfect series to complete.

I managed to find all but 1.

The farmer was fixing his fence right on GZ

I just waved and kept driving past.

The rest were quick finds today.

Including this one!

TFTC

After having had enough of people and finding parking spots and needing to be mindful of other drivers we have headed for the dirt.
We have completed three trails today with only one DNF, I suppose you need to leave yourself something to do on another trip. The cache hides have been unusual and mostly different. There has been considerable care put into the construction of the caches. These are the little things that have you wondering what the next cache will be. Because we assumed, at times, what the hide would be we spent far longer at some than what we needed to do. Most of the co-ords were good, a few seemed a bit off but that could be the weather, or it just may have been our GPS not playing nice. We think we may be due for a new GPS; it has had quite a workout over the years. Some are now in need of a little TLC as the contents have been wet at some point with some of them.
It was good not to a trail where all the containers were the same and the cache hides also the same. SL TFTC

After watching cat empire at QMF we decided to go on a night cache blitz. TFTC

A fairly fast find after being scared by the bay in the tree. Thanks

Found your cache today. deshut, thank you so much for placing it.

Accompanied with crank1 and pwala for the day,
We had a good fun - search and found and signed the log as EV + crank1 + pwala. [^]
Thanks deshut for the cache and hunt.

Out for caching day with Crank1 & Everlasting in and around Geelong. Found your cache. Thanks deshut for placing it and for your creative caches in this series.

Great work. Easy find.

Nice easy find

TFTC

Today we were heading to Queenscliffe to catch the ferry to the Mornington Peninsula, and so we decided to search for the caches in this series before doing so. We are so glad we did as they were so much more than just your typical drive by cache, and so many thanks to the COs for having created another interesting geo-trail. We soon homed in on and found this fairy house once in the Ground Zero area. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for another nicely crafted cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Easy find once we sorted out our new gps

This was a much better series with which to continue the caching hunt for today with ilook4geo. The hides were well decorated to each theme and the anticipation of what would be found at the next one was a lot of fun. Each log was signed with two more lots of initials and was put back as it had been found. This series was really well done. Thank you deshut for a lovely drive along this quiet road, which at the moment is rather wet and rutted, but fun.

This was the second series we had on the list today with goingplaces2. It was a very decorative series of hides and a lot of fun to find. Hides found, logs signed, all returned, job done. TFTC.

Out and about today to get some numbers for the Mystery at the Museum.
This was a great series thanks to the work put into the containers by the owner!
All were found easily and in good condition.
Thanks deshut for the hides.

Another great house. TFTC

Super cool cache TFTC

#800 nice hide. TFTC

Nice view to the bay all of a sudden. Love the camo paint.

Thanks for an awesome series where you have gone to a lot of effort to make these containers. TFTC