a"MAZE"ing Tube II Lara, Victoria, Australia
By Sims_family on 02-Dec-16. Waypoint GC6XMV6

Coming off the Spirit and starting the long weekend away with a fun cache is a brilliant start! Thanks!

Excellent caches very cleverly made. Thanks Sims_family

Fun touchy feely GC . Very cleaver. Thanks

I am on way to Melbourne but have plenty of time and love these. FPThanks for the cache Sims_family

Out with micaparamedic after a kayak CITO event today. He made a really quick find here, saw where it was from the car and knew exactly what to do.

After attending a nearby kayak CITO, ConnieandRick and I are now heading toward Melbourne. A few finds on the way to complete a very enjoyable day. Spotted this from the car and soon had the prize in hand.Thanks, Sims_family, for placing this traditional cache, enhancing the game board and adding to our enjoyment.

This was great fun!Went the long way to get there!TFTC!

Really cool idea! Havnt seen a field puzzle like this before - gets a FP for creativity!Didnt see the black donuts but the brown suitcase is still there haTftc

A great design, loved it

I came for the puzzle, and stayed for the brown suitcase, and giant black donuts.

Creative!!TFTC!

Ha ha, well done. This one was definitely a level up on the first. Especially if you try to solve the puzzle from the side I was standing on!Thanks for the mazes, Sims fam.

Awesome cache idea added favorite point! TFTC

Very cool cache with a very entertaining field puzzle. We had to twist and pull for ages getting stuck at multiple dead ends before finally figuring it out.Thank you for the cache that was a little more challenging then its sister.

Super windy today. The cache was like a musical instrument

Weve been staying at Bunjils Lookout prior to our trip to Tassie. Today we are going to a friends house in Lara for dinner so decided to cache around Lara and Little River. We found some really good caches and had a great day out. Even snagged a new LGA, epic.This was our first find of the day and I struggled to get this one sorted (struggled to even find it to begin with ) but gentle persistence paid off. TFTC

Good one

Found on our way to the Christmas event !

Nice work bit more complex then the 1st thanks

We're heading to Tassie tonight and dropped by to grab a few caches before we head off. Love these caches... have a FP

Found it! D&D

So many dead ends

Nice cache for the night great hide

TFTC

This pair of 'amazing' caches have been taunting me on countless trips up and down the highway so today I decided to see if I could remove those pesky icons that I watch fly by at 100 km/h. This was first and once at GZ, I soon spotted the container - but how to sign the logbook? With a bit of patience and, of course, much jiggling, I finally had the logbook in hand at 16:00 and a large smile on my dial.

All deserving of a fave point methinks.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks Sims_family.

This had me worried how to get it out without damaging it luck was on my side, with patience
Thank you for both amazing tubes

Over the ditch from NZ sorting family affairs. Of course I can make time for some caching which will also help with this month's Fave Challenge very clever cache which, considering the amount of dumped rubbish around it, has survived detection! Fave-ing ..hope this helps you towards the challenge too

Straight off the Spirit of Tasmania to this cache. A fantastic one to start the long weekend on the way to Rutherglen for the Mega. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Even more amazing - TFTC Sims Family

Date: December 17, 2022 Time: 6:47 PM
Find #13261

It's been a while since I have been down for the Geelong Christmas festivities and with it looking to be a nice day, I headed down early for parkrun first at 8am.

After the nearby event, I headed off for some smiley's with RoamingHowie, OzHockeyChick and horror.fan.jm.

After some ice cream in town, we headed towards the final event for the day.

Massive thanks go to Sims_family for placing this one.

Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2023?*
[**THE**](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9MH9M)
[**RUTHERGLEN**](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9MH9M)
[**EVENT 2023**](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9MH9M)
*6th / 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria*

It’s almost Christmas and the good folk in Geelong have decided that’s something worth celebrating. I think they might be on to something!

Given the celebrations, I teamed up with OzHockeyChick for the day and we left the big smoke behind, trekking all the way out bush to country Geelong ?!?! A day of Christmas and caching festivities lay ahead.

A great little field puzzle here on our way to the Christmas dinner event.

Thanks Sims_family for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2023?*
[**THE**](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9MH9M)
[**RUTHERGLEN**](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9MH9M)
[**EVENT 2022**](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9MH9M)
6th / 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12082.

A nice little cache and after a bit of work I could sign the log. A favourite point from me.

Thanks Sims_family for the cache.

Back down in Geelong once again to greet my new granddaughter into the world, so while there’s a brief interlude, what better to than pick up a couple of caches!
After picking up it’s brother down the road, I thought I’d give this one a go too! Wasn’t long before I had what I searched for. Signed but log is full!

TFTC

Nice quick find for us today! These were fun but fairly easy! Well done!

TNLN,SL
5 September 2022 5:01 pm
Cache Number: 1737

TFTC HoodedHooligans (H.H.)

Time now to pick up a couple of smileys with sassieold55 after being at the airport before heading home. sassieold55 soon had in hand having done the other one, great cache. TFTC

Quick find with annabella02, but nicely sneaky to get into , tftc

*The Mostly Local Puzzles And Multis Tuesday Afternoon Adventure #2*
We had a short afternoon available to us after SueHut's midday appointment. I had solved a few nearby puzzles, and was keen to find them. This, like the previous cache, was not one of those, which may give an idea of how my planning panned out for the day.
On the other hand, this is a cache well worth the hijacking of my intentions Take a fave. P.S. Our next stop was "aMAZEing Tube I", because SueHut hadn't done it yet. And *that* was bordering on criminal.
Thanks heaps, Sims Family!
PPS Sorry for the double-up. You can't add faves after the fact any more!

Well this was cool. Thanks for your effort in creating this.

Enjoyed a quiet afternoon of caching, absolutely loving these a-maze-ing caches thanks for the cache, so creative!

This one took a bit longer, but I got the hang of it. Pin was loose so it could be cheated but it still works. Tftc

Heading for an event in Geelong after work, I stopped off to find some caches enroute.
Having found the simpler version to the North, I was again impressed with this handmade field puzzle, with the higher difficulty level.
Nicely done indeed.
TFTC Sims_family

Nice game to get the tube out great job

After our success at the previous aMAZEing Tube, we couldn’t pass up stopping for version II. Steve said I could have the honours extracting the logbook, but as he watched me struggle (I was being very gentle) he took over. Wasn’t as easy as the first one, but he got there.

Thanks for another fun cache Sims_family.

OMG!!! That was so fun!!! Very clever!!! Thanx

hembee and I had made arrangements to head to Geelong and attend 'Return to Events & Mr Sims_family Turns 50'[^] We all know the ending of 'the best laid plans of mice and men' though
I made us late by sleeping in[|)][|)] so that meant Rex did not get to the beach but he'll be back here Wednesday and he'll swim then[^][:X][^]
Rex and I wandered the streets of Geelong while hembee visited a friend[^]
We made our way to a park[^] and then hembee picked us up there[:X][^]
We all wandered through an adventure lab[^] and a virtual in the park[^] and then lunch was fish and chips on The Barge[^]
Heading off to the main event[^] we were greeted by the news that the guest of honour was missing[?][?][?]: isolation was required due to an exposure site exposure

After leaving home at 9am[|)][|)], it was 1.30am the next morning when we got home again[|)][|)]
All up 7 caches were found and 1 event was attended

The cache was fun to get into: both into GZ and to get the log out
I now have scratches and blood on me but I got the smiley

TNLN. SL. TFTC Sims_family

Down in Geelong today, and out for dinner tonight with some friends.
On our way home I made sure we detoured to these 2 caches (my other half who was driving wasnt as impressed as it was after 10:30pm). This one was the first that I attempted, given the time of night, tiredness we certainly took out time to find the gz. This one certainly took a lot of time to solve as I hit a lot of dead ends. Fav point from us!

Great Field Puzzle Thanks.

What a fun cache, very creative. Thanks

Found - first cache back after a long break thanks

Thought I had the hang of it after doing the other cache down the road, but very quickly realised it was just a tiny bit trickier. Worked out a method and the bison was very quickly in my hand. So much fun to play. Beware of braches, almost stabbed myself with a low one.

20 June 2021 4:04 pm

Today 10th if july I find myself out caching with Stemicmitsar once again and remember that I haven't logged my caches from our last trip...... what poor form from me.

Out caching today with Stemicmitsar for se caching shenanigans to clea up some caches that we struggled with last time we were down this way and pick up others of interest. Eitherway had a great day all in all, thanks for the cache.

*Found on the 20 Jun 2021 @ 4:03 pm.*
*Cache find # 11816.*

After spending the day in Geelong with buhfuhguh, it was now time to head for home but we decided to make a slight detour so that we could have a look at this one.
We headed into GZ, Michael got there first so he had the job of extraction, after a lot of twists and turns and avoiding the pitfalls we had the cache in hand and the log was signed.

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

Great Geo had alot of fun!

You create some of my favourite caches, thank you

We decided to start the weekend a day early and head off to Melbourne. Mr Dromaniax is doing the Bloody Long Walk on Sunday. That starts at 6.40 am, so trekking from St Leonards to Melbourne was very unattractive at that time of day, staying in Melbourne and catching up with friends and family beforehand much more attractive. We have often wondered about this road as we were passing by on the freeway and with some extra time, we took the detour and grabbed a few caches. This one was a great deal of fun. Easy to find, and reasonably easy to solve (We will have to do the more difficult ones soon. The cache is in excellent condition. An FP from us for the innovative physical puzzle. Thank you for this cache Sims_family

Tftgc

After a late lunch at Lara (unfortunately so late the cafes were closed lol) we headed off here to find a couple along this road. This was another very cool cache which took a while to access, with a few dead ends along the way. GMelb was the lucky one in the end, then JMelb returned it
TFTC Sims family, a Fave point from us - GJMMelb

Much quicker and easier than the first. Tftc

Yay so much quicker and less scratchy than the first. Appreciate the effort gone into these!!!
No blunder this time tftc

Mrs Riddell had just left the car and Mr Riddell already had the cache in hand.
He does these really well.
TFTC

The first cache of the day and a fun one it was too.

Loved this one and finished Wonders woohoooo

Found need a new log book

Wow that was a MAZE ing
TFTC AND FAVORITE

Numpty done it.

Day 3 of a dedicated geo-weekend away with Kestal and Scratches...today we were headed from Geelong to Melbourne and other places in between. Very glad to be out of sight while doing this. We all had a go with no success before Scratches gave it one last try and slowly and gently she got further then we had been before and voilà...we had ourselves a cache. TFTC Sims_family.

Scratches, Eskies5 And I continued our way through our list as we made our way back to Melbourne the long way on our third day of our leap year weekend away in Victoria from Qld and NSW. This was next and we were a little relieved we were well hidden from all the passing cars as we all attempted this one. After a short while Scratches had an ah-ha moment and soon had the cache and log in our hands. Great hide and TFTC Sims_family

After parking the geomobile and making our way to GZ, Kestal, Eskies5 and I each made promising starts with the puzzle then got no further. After a few more false starts a technique was discovered that finally resulted with success and signing of the log book.

TFTC

Found while headed back to SA from a Melbourne trip. Awesome, even better than the last one a nice challenge for the young geo kid. Tftcc

When I saw there was an event at Leopold it gave me the excuse I needed to head to the area and find a few of the puzzle caches I had in the solve pile and pick up any others that were on route, I had a great day caching the area and attending the event where I caught up with some good mates. This one took me a bit longer than the other one, very tricky and well deserving of a Fav.

Thanks Sims_family for the cache.

This was my second stop today.

I made fairly quick work at GZ.

Before long the log was retrieved.

I signed and moved on.

TFTC

Found this geocache with my family while in Geelong for the event day.
A nice hide here too.
Thanks for hiding it for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
We were here for the Geelong event day.
Thanks for hiding the geocache for us to find today.

Another great hide.
This one took a little more work to free the log but we got there in the end.
Thanks for a second harder cool hide.

Staying at Little River for the weekend so I can attend the Christmas events that are down Geelong way.
Got down in the afternoon after fighting the 4 o’clock traffic leaving the city and I had a bit of time to find a couple before it gets dark.
A great idea that is fun to do and as the cache page says this was a little bit trickier than its twin brother that I just did.
Just took a bit more patience to get to the prize.
A fav goes out to you for the great field puzzle.

Thanks Sims_family TFTC.

All repaired and back in play

This one needs to have the locating pin replaced because someone has removed

As Bunadoorian and I were so close - we couldn't resist finding this one. Bunadoorian so wanted to have the fun of the field puzzle as I had done the one nearby - but was so disappointed that the important bit was missing and so the cache just pulled out. TFTC Sims_family.

Hardest way in and the easy way out again. Sorry Sims_family but this cache is missing the part that makes a tube a field puzzle. TFTC.

TFTC. Signed and returned. Many thanks to the CO. You have earned a favourite from me.

Another nifty hide. I wish I had more favourites up my sleeve but I’ll have to owe you for this too. Very clever concept. With that cache found it is alas time to return to assignment land. Procrastination over. Tftc

And another awesome cache (which I will admit I cracked it with) fp given - thank you!!

I was excited to see this one but more excited to do this one as well. Def another fav point. Excellent construction

Best one so far well done

Little bit harder bit still just as fun

Logged as RB. A really fun cache. Greatly enjoyed it.
TFTC

I loved the clever maze. TFTC

I rather enjoyed his mechanical type geocaches.
After a short twist and shout the cache was finally revealed !
A favourite point added
Tftc Sims_family

Found with coruze and DazzPete on a weekend caching run.
Again we all piled in here and this time had a fair idea what to do, but with a few extra twists and turns. Love these type of caches as we have a larger version back at home.
Cheers

Thanks to Skullracing for letting me tag along for the day.
A great winter day to be out and about.

We enjoyed the field puzzle and have encountered these before. It was a team effort to find all the sweet spots.

TNLN SL TFTC

What a great hide, it was a little easy once I worked it out but, still took some doing.

Log signed

TFTC

Found with the help of a Creation event, cNt wait for more like this as it was new to me

Finally all has been restored. Please be gentle no force is required. Use a light touch and all will be fine.

Found with Becca85, GemmaSistema & Neisha07. Sorry for the late logging! TFTC

Found while in Geelong for the evening event with my Clarmensma family (becca85, GemmaSistema, boo09, Ad & Luke). TFTC!

Found it at Geelong event

Found this one tonight at the event. Great fun was had as I had seen a similar one to this before and only a slight hint was needed to complete this challenge. Favourite point added for this one.

Thanks for the cache Sims_Family

Tonight this was logged at the Creation Celebration event. Nicely done creation. Another favourite heading its way.

Thanks to the Sims_family for the creation.

A last minute decision with becca85 was made to gather our kids together (AdamSistema, LukeSistema, neisha07 & boo09) and reform TeamClarmensma to hit up Geelong for a few quick caches. Our first point of call was this event where we got to chat with others and see some cool camo including this cache. It took me a couple of minutes but I got there in the end. Love it. Way past my skill set to build something like this. Thanks for the cache. Adding a fav point.

Opened and logged this one at the evening event. Very clever.
Apparently we'd not had enough of each other all day on Friday, Team Clarmensma again teamed up (myself, GemmaSistema, boo09, neisha07 & the Sistema boys) for a last minute drive to Waurn Ponds and an evening caching around Geelong.
Got home just after midnight due to caching for the 2nd night in a row.
TFTC!

Found at an evening event )