The Hope Valley Series: Its not Coorong! Hope Valley, South Australia, Australia
By bgmat and ablea86 on 01-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7F27H

Not really micro size, more of a small. Nice disguise

Quickly found and log stampedTFTC

Out for a long stroll on this beautiful Australia day.No problems, finding this one, as it is in great condition.

Super cool geocache. The camo was incredible but some of the container was showing so it was a fairly easy find.

Yay !

Almost walked through two separate golden orb spiders trying to get to coords in the dark. So was about to give up when spotted something suspicious. TFTC! This series has been a nice way to bring up my first 50!

Thanks for the challenge! Hope to find more like it

The camo is so good on this cache that I probably would not have spotted it if it wasn't for the bit of container showing. Added a small amount of natural camo to hopefully make the find a little more challenging for the next finder!

Find #223
TFTC bgmat and ablea86

I was in between appointments so it was time to do some more caching. I parked close by to the reserve and off I went for a wander. Not only did I find the nicely camouflaged cache but there was also $5 on the ground. Winning - every little helps! TFTC bgmat and ablea86

Tftc

Walking the geopuppies today quick find with accurate coords

Nice camo, found after a short search, TFTC.

After a few minutes of searching we found this nicely disguised cache. TFTC

After a bit of searching we found the cache! Couldn’t see the last few logs on there, must’ve signed on a different spot. Lots of very watchful locals on the streets for some reason! TFTC

Found It!
This one took a bit of searching but eventually I found the well hidden cache!
TFTC

It's good

Very Tricky

It has been awhile since we had been geocaching, loved the camo we gladly logged our find TFTC

I really like the camo on this one.
TFTC bgmat and ablea86.
Striker and Runningman222.

Cool camo tftc

TFTC!!

Out for a walk with geo-pup to grab a few smileys. Nice camo on this one. TFTC!

Nice little spot tftc

Really cool

Cool camo. Tftc

Nice camouflage! Found with Nukky13!
TNLNSL
TFTC

Great camouflage for the cache, found with PSGV1. TNLNSL TFTC ️

Found after a day of uni. Snuck past some child muggles and after some burrowing around found the container! Tftc! Sabo + JJ

Watch out for the inch ants!!!
Daughter got bitten on the foot. Put an end to the day

Nice camo, TTFC

Found with HeapsGoodTom, TFTC.

Nice container, great inspiration for making caches in the future. TFTC

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I came to find this cache in 2018 but had no luck, back today and a quick find was had at GZ, nice camo.

This morning with a bit of time to kill I headed to the eastern suburbs to find a few unfound caches before a netting back at Mawson lakes. A nice few hours with 14 finds.

Thanks for the cache

Whilst walking across the park we noticed the good old Bay of Biscay soil cracking due to the dry weather. Arrived at GZ and saw more lawn clippings. Oh dear! Maybe the we have the wrong coordinates! Further examination found the well camoed cache sitting on top of the lawn clippings. Log was signed and the cache was replaced. Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

Cache was quickly found in it's new location.

TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 50.781 E 138° 42.311

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 50.775 E 138° 42.313

Distance from original: 37.9 feet or 11.6 meters.

Moving the Cache from the original position as the neighbours dump their green waste on top of the cache and the come and clean up the green waste and the cache. Hopefully this willextend the life of the cache

camo looks so cool took me and my girlfriend three attempts to find it but was worth it!

Tardy mouse[?] Better not be too tardy, Rex is a mouser and a ratter too so any tardy mice may get caught
Up early again[?][|)] to be at the Tardy Mouse event and then it was fill in time until my appointment to show another geocacher how Adv Labs work[^]
Between the event, the North Adelaide dog park[:X][^], 3 caches in Hope Valley[^], a shopping stop and the Lab session, I found 6 caches. A total of 7 smilies with the event attendance

Spent some time here looking at where my GPSr had GZ[?] Nothing!
Rang the CO who kindly gave me a nudge[:X]
Seems I'd disregarded the actual GZ, some metres SW of where I had GZ, due to big pile of dumped rubbish
The CO set me on track[:X] and almost immediately, the cache was found
Grabbed the next required clue and then we sat on a nearby bench[^], in the shade, and worked out the pulti

TNLN. SL. TFTC bgmat

I actually hadn't planned to grab a few of the Hope Valley series as I had other target caches in mind, but ended up laying my hands on 5 Hope Valley trads. All hides nicely concealed and in good condition. TFTC bgmat and ablea86

Found with Carter 17:22

Found by the Geo daughter
Great cache

Nice camo

Lovely craftsmanship. Cheers cobbler.

Great Camo thanks for the caché

Loved the camo on this one! TFTC : )

Thanks

I like this one. Nice little bush walk

This one tortured me a few weeks back, so sweet revenge today. Agreed, great camo. FP. TFTC.

Not today. Will try again later when somebody logs a find. Thanks for placing.

Oops, logged as find, it’s DNF

Cache checked. It is present and waiting for the next finder.

Great camo on this one, nice location, I made lots of noise approaching as I crunched through the dropped bark. The cache was disassembled when found but all ok, and reassembled safely after gathering xxx.x. Thanks for the cache and congrats on the achievements. Look forward to grabbing yyy.y and completing the multi. [edited]

Nice find this morning while up in Adelaide for the festive season.
Found with my two screen time loving nephews... which was a win!
Nicely camoed.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Parked up in the car and got a little worried as there were a number of muggles on the playground, decided we would give it a go.
On our way through the park to GZ who we thought was a muggle turned out to be the cache owner and asked if we were Geocaching absolutely no stealth here, Yeah Stealth As F* that's us ..... TFTC #SAF_BAGS ️️

Parked up in the car and got a little worried as there were a number of muggles on the playground, decided we would give it a go.
On our way through the park to GZ who we thought was a muggle turned out to be the cache owner and asked if we were Geocaching absolutely no stealth here, Yeah Stealth As F* that's us ..... TFTC #SAF_BAGS ️️

Spent a few hours dodging showers and finding caches in Hope Valley and nearby suburbs. Thanks for the cache bgmat and ablea86!

Found on a return visit to this area today to complete a few more of this series.

A quick find right next to where the delightful neighbours dumps his dog poop and other rubbish over the fence. Out of sight, out of mind!

Thanks bgmat and ablea86 for the cache.

Love the camo, beautiful park too

Tftf!! Didn’t think we’d get this one !!

Was in the areas, thought we would pop into the park and find the cache. Used to come to this park all the time when we were at school but never found it. TFTC

Too many houses next to this one. Didn’t want to get shot at with them thinking I might break into there houses and don’t blame them. Probably shouldn’t be as close to there houses.

So leaving the area because to many houses I seen something on the way back and thought I’d have a look which I’d seen on the way in. And yep it’s the cache. So it is about 30 of its coords but a better place I think. It may need maintenance thou ants have made itself a home in there. And the lid won’t shut.
Awesome cache. Not seen one like it before. Love it.

Found with the geokid while walking around our possible new neighbourhood. Might buy a block of land here.

TFTC. Nice camouflage

Thankfully nobody here today so I could search in peace. Cache was found after a short search. Nice camo. Bonus numbers recorded.

Thanks for the cache.
# # #4794 # #

Visiting from Melbourne and took the chance tonight to head out and grab some caches, it's too hot to sleep anyway! Another great construction here, really enjoying the series, a quick find in the crunchy bark!

I was out and about this afternoon and I thought I would come here to get this one now that it has been replaced. [^]
This was my third time here and today it was an easy find as I was pretty sure I knew what I was looking for.
Have now completed the Hope Valley Series.
Thanks for the cache bgmat and ablea86.

Having to head out north for some personal business I decided to do some caching whilst out there as well. It was an enjoyable afternoon finding numerous caches, it helps when you are in an area you haven’t cached before. All caches were found in good order.

TFTC

Tried this one before but I was way off track last time. Anyway, back to grab another one of the series amd success. Love the work tftc

After a dnf on this one last time in the area (I am sure I wrote a log but not showing..) I planned a return today to collect this one and the rest of the trads in the series. It’s taken 3 trips to attempt them all and still the Byways to return for pesky barking dogs!!
Today made the find of the nicely constructed cache just where we had looked for it last time. Signed the virgin fresh log book and continued on my merry way. TFTC and for the quick replacement and help last time.

New Cache constructed.
Different to the original but very happy with the result.
A camoed container.
Good luck

Back online with new container.
Tag with info for Multi also available.
Good luck.

Out with Michells&hound trying to get the info to complete the Hope Valley multi. I had been here before and didn't find it then so today with extra eyes I was hopeful of a find. [^]
Arrived at GZ and all the tree branches that were there previously had been removed and there was no sign of anything cachey.
A call to the CO to let him know and very soon he met us and confirmed that the cache was indeed missing. He kindly gave us the info we needed for the multi so we could go and find that.
Thanks bgmat.

Don't you hate it when the council comes and has a clean up and removes the camo for your cache.

New Cache and camo under construction. Will put back online soon.

Cache #1861. On my way to find more "Hidden Creatures" (World Turtle).

Today is a Sunny Sunday, suitable for hiking and geocaching. Today's target is Anstey Hill Conservation Park.

It was the ninth cache we found today, found it on our way back.

Actually I tried this cache about 4 months ago, with no luck. Today I have J with me, and I found the cache straight away. J is the lucky star.

Nice cache! Signed the log, and hid it back.

Thanks for the cache, bgmat and ablea86.

Hot on the heels of just finding an awesome hide on a bridge I made my way to this one for the 2nd part of the clue needed to get the Multi. When I arrived very close to GZ there was a Muggle house-owner whom had a loose piece of iron on a fence banging in the wind, she was tending to that the moment I arrived here.... of all the times! [:o]

I waited it out for about 5-10 mins whilst I looked at past logs. When the coast was clear I wandered to GZ to make the find in about 3 or so minutes. Very nice cache indeed I only found it coz the log book container spilled out of the cache in front of me when I grabbed it or I would most likely have been there for too long and I would have called it a DNF for fear of being seen and possibly interrogated [:o].


All good in the end. The Cache was found, the log signed with 2nd part of clue noted at (11:10 on 22/7/18) and I was outta there.

TFTC bgmat and ablea86

Very sneaky, guarded by mans best friend.

Found with Jordy Rose on a cache adventure.

TB Drop

TB pickup

Found today amazingly because there has been a very large amount of tree prunings/clippings placed next to/on top of the cache - which I loved by the way. Just hope that the cache doesn't go missing if anyone cleans up the branches. TFTC

A great little reserve that was (fortunately for us) deserted [8)], but the barking dogs more than made up for the lack of muggles (no wonder people complain) [:(!].
A nice hide. TNLNSL - and found a tag .
Thanks for another one Bgmat and ablea86.

After a meeting owl decided to take the long way home and find a cache that had been surrounded by muggles last time she was here. The dog-walkers were just leaving when she arrived today and the mini muggles on the other side of the fence were easily deflected so she could make the find. Nice job. Will be back for the multi.

Sure isn't the Coorong !!
No sand between me toes as I strolled around.
And somewhere up the back,
I snuck in under the neighbour's radars,
for a quick cache find

TFTC.

And the "Oh Bugger !! I forgot the clue" moment I've just had

Well now I see I need this one and one I'd done months ago to find some clues.
So I went about finding this neat little hide. It gets a fav for great camo.
Got out of the park just as the dog muggles arrived!
A quick trip to a bridge around the corner and I'll have what I need.
(That's another good hide!)
Thank you for putting it out here bgmat

TFTC - A quick find while out and about

Another great bit of Cammo and hope it stays if the area is ever cleaned up. Info for the Multi cache noted, log signed and replaced as found. TFTC

A good container. Hopefully it won’t disappear.

Thanks for the cache bgmat. Found on 14 Mar 2018 at 12:50 pm. Find #6016.

Oh nooo not again. I felt a bit exposed up there with the backyards nearby. It's not here unless it's hidden well.

Found with vj187 on our first day of caching for a while. A clever container. TFTC

Found with 2011*turtle. Great cache and hope it survives any clean up. TFTC

Nice park to play ball or shoot hoops.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Again we ventured up the back. The cache was spotted and we nodded - I just hope it's not mistaken for rubbish when they clean it up. I guess if they clean it up......

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

A lot of potential cache containers found at GZ. Found with TeamAstro. TFTC

Time for another Reel cache finding day with SA Sewer Rats. Another new one published since our last day means we needed to get her back to reel Nirvana for the second time this year and me a little closer. As usual there would be a few other caches to find along the way. [:o)]
Time to get a few caches for Mrs. Rat as well. My heart sank when we walked up to GZ and saw all the cut limbs all around GZ and piled three feet high. Then the dog started up but was soon silenced by a growl from inside the house. Was about to walk away when saw the prize. Hope it doesn't get picked up with all the branches. [8)]

**Thanks bgmat for this cache. **

Out for an adventurous day with Brisal5
We were in the area doing some of the series and other caches.
This took a bit of searching, luckily brisal5 found the camouflaged container.
While the dog was barking at the gate. tftc

Find 2655
Found today to maintain my record breaking streak.
I had to use the App as the GPS was not loading,
The cache was located in the first place I looked. Gotta love that.
Thanks to bgmat and ablea86 for placing the cache in a great location.
Looked at the GPS on the way to the car and it's fine.
Too Hot today to do any work on the nearby multi and puzzles.
I'll be back.
Reel Fine Elsewhere

Found with Csaba! and SupaOrange before I had a caching Name. Turtle Out.

Found with Dad aka Csaba! before I had my own caching name. Tra La Laaaa