FBBQITW #1 - Allura Truganina, Victoria, Australia
By parkinsonb2 on 18-Jan-19. Waypoint GC828QV

Need to make sure there arent any muggles around - 2nd attempt and we were in the clear

Thank you for the cache. My daughter drew a lil picture in the logbook sorry about that

Tftc

Thanks for the cache find 950 woo hoo

Tftc, thought to drop off a TB while I was here from Geelong.

Dropped this little guy off at Allura Park

A quick stop after work this afternoon to grab this and mark another day off my caching calendar. TN, left a pathtag. TFTC

Found it with Rex 46 on the may. 8th

With dot558 after watching granddaughter take part in school cross-country decided on catching some smilesThanks for placing and maintaining this cache

Cache has been replaced and is ready to find again. Please ensure the cache is replaced in the exact same position it was found. This will ensure the cache is both hidden from view, and protected from the elements.Some cachers have been replacing it in a different location, presumably because it's out of view of muggles. This has made it both visible and exposed to the weather. Despite being a high muggle zone, a careful and patient cacher can retrieve and replace this cache without being spotted.

I should have this sorted and ready to find within the next 7 days, RGDS, CO.

Removing the cache to do some maintenance, should be back and ready to find in a week or so.

Well what do you know. I returned to my vehicle after logging a DNF, and had to take a phone call. By the time I got off the phone, the three muggles at GZ were showing signs of moving, so after a couple of minutes, I was able to wander back and make the find. The container had been reset by the last finder upsidedown, so the lid was visible on approach, and the contents are slightly damp. The attachment device inside has detached from the container, but I managed to set it so the container attached right side up. TFTC parkinsonb2, a bold hide indeed

Just my luck, in the window of time I had today, there are three muggles sitting right at GZ. Hopefully another day.

This one has been on my map for a while and with the nice weather that we have having lately I thought that the parks around here especially in newer developments would have a few people hanging around to enjoy the area.Now that school is back I thought that there would be less people around in the early afternoon and I was right with only a couple of people using the shelter I nearly had the place to myself.So my GPS jumped around a bit at first then it settled done and lead me to a certain spot.After feeling my way around I soon had the cache in hand and added my name to the log.Thanks parkinsonb2 TFTC.

Thank you. Weve been coming to this park for over a year now and this is our first geocache

Too many muggles.

On my way to work I made the short detour to collect this cache. Coords were spot on and found the container on the first try.All is in good condition here! Thank you

My fellow nightshift co-worker decided he wanted to leave work early, and as a result, I had to leave too as there needs to be at least two people in the workshop. With the extra hour in my evening, I decided I would swing by a geocache on the way home. After a quick look on the maps, I decided this one would suffice. After finding a carpark near the playground and exiting my vehicle, I began making my way to GZ. All was very quiet at this time of evening, however, I can clearly see how this would not be the case on a sunny day. I continued following my GPS as it gradually led me closer to the cache. Having already read the hint, I identified an item of interest from a distance and quickly made my way over to it. Sure enough, the cache was indeed hiding there. This was quite an impressive hide considering the size of the container and its location. I then signed the logbook and placed it back before returning to my car and resuming my drive home.TFTC

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Skinny penis

Found by Omegaman
Date: September 10, 2023

Had a great day geocaching with Rebel Acts. Thanks for the adventure! Found this cache without any trouble and signed the logbook. Happy caching!

We have got way behind in our logging and are trying to catch up and get our caching in order.Life has been pretty hectic this year, and a lot of it has gotten in the way of efficient logging of finds.We want to thank all the Cache owners for providing an array of caches for us around our countryside and in our cities.We apologise for the generic logs. We must do this to get through the backlog.Unless otherwise specified, all the caches we found were in good order.Thank you, parkinsonb2, for this Traditional cache.

A nice area to visit and a nice hard, I can imagine more people here on a sunny day.

This is one of the caches found today.

Thanks parkinsonb2 for the cache.

Great time for our first ever geocache find! Thanks!

Was a little nervous approaching GZ given the nearby playground and heavy muggle traffic but luckily the location was discreet enough to make the find. A great first hide and proof you can hide regulars in the suburbs. Thanks parkinsonb2.

Foind this a while back but for some reason it never logged so logging againg.
TFTC ️

Easy find with clue: David

In the area so thought I’d stop by. Nice quick find. Thank you!

Caching around the Tarneit area, this was a quick find in a lovely park, on a gloriously warm Anzac Day afternoon.

quick find.
Left with Mogni the day before Christmas to go down to Mount Gambier for Christmas Day. Then on the 27th left for Victoria. Plan A was to go to the Ottway Rangers, complete the Geo tour in Ballarat and then head to Geelong and take the Queenscliff ferry over to Sorrento then grabbing new LGA's on route to almost the New South Wales/Victoria border and the old 2001 cache near there. Also attending a community day event, a CITO and a couple of other events as well. Then head in to the high country and come back to SA in 11 days. Things didn't go to plan. Turns out that one of my almost new tyres was defective ( side wall blown out ) and blew in the ottway ranges on a narrow road in the rainforest, Drove to Melton to stay overnight and get a new tyre there, tyre machine broken and the other 5 tyre companies not open so off to geelong for a new tyre ( and some caches on the way and in geelong ) . The event we where going to attend in geelong didn't turn out, he was late by ALOT to his own event.Then to ballarat to same day since we had a b&b booked for the next few nights. Planned on getting the ferry at 1200 and ended up on the 400 pm ferry but we did attend a event and CITO in geelong. Then we drive into the rear end of a thunder storm with forecast 20 mm dropping for the next few days. Cancel the high country and change targets to letterbox D/T for fizzy grid only using letterboxes and same wirh the multi fizzy grid plus fizzy grid only using victorian caches plus any challenge caches we where near. Plus getting a few more victorian 2001 caches. And finally any caches that had 40 more more favourite points. Only got soaked to the bone for a couple of days but the water on the tracks was noticeable. On the return home tried to get the rest of the missing LGA's around the Melbourne CBD i missed in the last mega. Still a fun trip was had if not the planned one.

Out on a Christmas break with sir_spectre, exploring southern Victoria grabbing lots of smilies, finding caches in LGA's and of course signing a few more challenges.
Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

found it

Thanks for a great find, kid had a nice LONG play on the park while we waited for the muggles to clear nice and dry log. Thanks

Perfect hide for your 1st cache!! Love it!

Brilliant hide! Blended in well!

Can’t stand playground ones. Realised nice I got here there’s no way I’m doing this during the day , looks weird as hell. Came back at night. Still felt weird but at least no kids around. Waited till the neighbours went inside and made it quick. Never gonna get a break from traffic going past . Even at midnight theres still so much traffic

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A happily sly cache, found by Geoson #2. Okay, so there were milkshakes at stake for the find, but Geoson #2 made very short work of it.
Thanks heaps, parkinsonb2!

Out for a family day with teenage geokids 1, 2 and 3. Number two found it and has earned himself a milkshake!!

Sorry this has taken so long to replace. The cache is ready to be found again!

Cache has been repaired and I expect to have it back in place and enabled within the next 7 days.

Disabled the cache due to missing logbook and lid.

I've removed the cache until it can be replaced.

Lid is missing but it's still there

TFTC
nice area, good hide
Swapped smiley face badge for marble droppex traceable

We did it! Great spot

Cache has been dried and placed, ready to be found again.

Please ensure the cache is replaced in the same spot it was found.

Nice quick cache on the way to a doctors appointment
The container unfortunately was full of water

Taking this offline while I perform some maintenance. Should be back in a couple of days.

Couldnt find it

Three kids with ke, and lots of muggle kids around but after some hunting we found it!!!thanks!!!

I’m enjoying being a big kid at night finding treasures!!!

Out and about with the puppy, an Adventure Lab and a quick cache, gosh this area has changed

12:10
Out on a job with the nozy that went bust due to a locked gate... but at least we could go for a quick cache hunt before heading home.

In the showery weather, no risk of muggles, and accurate coordinates meant I had the cache fished out of its hiding place in almost no time.

Thanks, parkinsonb2, for a decent sized urban hide.

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Out of my own coming back from visiting my sister in point Cook. During the geotrail home I called in on this one. Thought I was in trouble as a family barbecueing close by enjoying themself. Good solid hide here. Thanks for the cache parkinsonb2. Took TB

Nice n easy ️ TFTC

Dropped off 2 travel bugs that we collected from the Grampians last week.

Nice easy find, everything still intact. TFTC!

Nice and Easy! Well painted! TFTC!

Quick find. A cache we have seen before. Luckily the area was clear when we got to GZ so we made the grab then just sat and enjoyed the area for a few minutes. Beautiful place

First geocache & that was fun!

That was cool.. Thanks
Family had fun

Found at 3:25 pm.
Today Fleabag- wanted to find his 6,000th cache with me before he headed off on a work trip so a lofty goal of 74 caches was needed but we got there even though 3 caches into the day the low pressure tyre warning flashed up on the dashboard and we had a slow leaking flat tyre. We mucked around for way too long trying to work out how to change it. It was on the drivers side too ... the wheel that wasn't pulling off onto the side of the road all the time?? I haven't had a flat tyre for probably 20+ years and RACV changed that last one. So for the rest of the day the paranoia of having another flat was hanging over my head and occasionally with the non alloy spare wheel the tyre pressure sensor failure message starting coming up on the dashboard instead. We made it though without another flat on a LOT of gravel roads that Fleabag- managed to keep finding.

A couple of people in the park but after a short search we had the cache in hand.
Thanks parkinsonb2 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Started the day needing 74 more for my 6000. And my awesome geobuddy was the person I wanted to share this with. The cache is not that important, it's the adventure. So off we went heading north with a mission. And probably lots of maccas.

Many muggles but the GZ was clear. Nice cache.

Thanks to parkinsonb2 for the placement and fun.

TFTC

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TFTC

Thanks for the cool adventure!

Easy find, grabbed my first trackable

Quick find while exercising tftc

Dropped "Tannenbaum" travel bug off to start its journey.

Found it nicely
TFTH

Clever spot

Great cache

Checked in on this while taking the kids to the playground. The cache is in place, in great condition and ready to be found.

Searched foreverrrrrr. So upset we couldn't get it.

Finally got a chance to find this today in between muggle activity .
This is a great hide.
TFTC

It’s a great place to sit near the ab bench!

Thought I'd make this my daily find for the 7-day-streak souvenir thing, but too many muggles at GZ this afternoon to allow a search and retrieval.

Lovely big cache, full of goodies, T4TC

15:37
After attending the Vision 2020 Event in Werribee we enjoyed a day in the splendid company of Alansee seeking out a few caches on Melbourne's western fringe.
Living proof caches can be regular and magnetic. Well worthy of a FP today!
Well Done!

Thanks to 'parkinsonb2' for adding this cache to our gameboard.
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Another find with Phetlern in a good spot for a cache. For a first hide I was impressed with the quailty - a great paint job and a good size. Well done parkinsonb2. A fave coming your way.

Stopped on the way home today and was pleasantly surprised by the size of this cache. It was in a very pleasant park and I am sure it is well utilised. Nearby was a pusher that looked abandoned. I hope the owner comes back before it gets too wet.
TFTC parkinsonb2

Great day to be chasing a smiley here today.

The coast was clear.

Nicely done on the cammo.

TFTC

Nice first hide, nice size, nice stealth, Well done and well found.
TFTC

“Brrrr” I shivered as I searched ground zero. The map made me go up and down and all e
Around but eventually settled, and I looked carefully and spotted the greatly painted cache, “AHA” I make a relieved face and retrieve the cache and sign the log, I took nothing and left a gemstone, one of my signature items. Thanks for the cache!

Found by caughtatwork at 16:35 on 18/05/2019
A quick find due to the cache size. I was expecting something a lot smaller and was very pleasantly surprised to spot this one here today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

I was looking at my map trying to work out what cache I would head out to find for my daily streak as well as needing some Regular size caches for a challenge that I am working on. This one fit the bill and became my target for the day.
Coming form Lara I didn't count on the traffic along Forsyth Road coming of the freeway. What a nightmare. It took me so long to get there it was ridiculous. I finally arrived in the area and saw that footy training was on. Noooooo. I check out GZ anyway and find that it is clear from muggle they are all either training on the oval or up the other end watching leaving me to casually check out the hide.
I was pretty sure I knew how it was going to be hidden the only issue was where. The GPS had me in the wrong place initially but it wasn't long before I had the good sized cache in hand.

Thank you parkinsinb2 for the cache and well done on hiding your first cache

Came along this morning to have a go at this one with ilook4geo. There was no problem making the find, even though there were muggle kids having fun in the play area. Cache was retrieved and we sat nearby to write both names on the log. All was equally carefully put back into place before we moved on again. Thank you to parkinsonb2 for bringing us here and showing us this lovely community area.

Came here with goingplaces2 and parked quite close and was happy to find the container. The cache, log and contents were all in good nick. Signed log and replaced. TFTC.

Found by The Empire
A quick find on a sunny afternoon. I'm going to give this cache a favourite point for it's quality of container and location, well done! Thanks for the cache parkinsonb2.
- M

Suscoe was heading to Melbourne this morning and with a few minutes up our sleves we detoured to this cache.
What a busy construction area surrounding this new parkland.
Cache found quickly and all was right with the world.
Thank you for showing us this delightful space.

Thank you for a great cache!

Released a new TB into the wild.

Mugglesville this morning

TFTC, great cache!

Out chasing finds with LeeLee again..... we set off for here today in order to tick off a nice and easy streak find each, which we succeeded to do. Upon arrival at GZ we noticed a few people nearby but they were suitably ensconced in watching their offspring tackle the equipment provided for their enjoyment, so with their backs to us we happily and quickly went about getting the job done.

A well concealed container for it's size, and a great standard for a first hide. Such proximity to a playground wont be everyone's cup of tea, I probably would have passed it over for another day if I was on my own. TFTC.

A quick find for our streaks day today with BFMC. A nice size container hidden well which we were able to find relatively quickly without looking too dodgy. This area has certainly grown over the years.
TFTC and congrats on your first hide.

Found two weeks ago but forgot to log it

thanks for the nice find