Ross Reserve #3 Springvale, Victoria, Australia
By Pinkpiggy7 on 11-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8AN2E

I'm out today caching by train and hoped to get quite a few. But some days just don't go the way you planned. This one I solved when out, when I realised a few others were turning into DNFs. So thanks for an easy puzzle.

Out today with Cooper from fisherfamfive on a caching trip through Noble Park and Springvale. This was actually our second visit to this cache in the last month or so, with the first unsuccessful one being in the dark. We figured wed have a better chance in broad daylight today, and we were thankfully correct as the cache presented itself to us after we extended our search radius. TFTC pinkpiggy7

Out and about today with my good mate CammJT in the Noble Park and Springvale area, tackling some caches and taking full advantage of the school holidays. We had actually been at this cache recently, but we were searching in darkness and had no luck. Today we were back, and had no trouble finding the cache in daylight. Tftc Pinkpiggy7

Really quick find. I had nearly walked right pass it. Haha cheers

Life has been pretty hectic this year, and a lot of it has prevented efficient logging of finds.We want to thank all the cache owners for providing us with an array of caches in our countryside and 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, Pinkpiggy7, for this Mystery cache.

Boy the flies were bad today!!! Luckily I found the GZ quickly and was soon on my way, TFTC

Coords were out a little again but not enough to be an issue. Found, signed, returned. Thanks for the cache.

An excellent and easy collection after a walk about the park. There's a lot of construction going on right now. I signed in the last spot available and I placed a sheet of paper as a temp addition for the log.

Have had Ross Reserve on the radar since forever so was pleased to have been in the area today to do a bit of exploring and to seek out a cache or 2

Was not disappointed in either
All found in good condition
Many thanx to Pinkpiggy7

Out and about today collecting a few solved puzzles. Beautiful warm here.. tks

Out and about today collecting a few solved puzzles. Thank you Pinkpiggy7 for placing and maintaining Ross Reserve #3 for us to find today.

Find # 1800.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for giving back to the game by placing caches for us to play this game.
A day trip to Melb for multiple missions, a fire grate, catch up with my daughter, get last minute gear for 3 Capes Hike and to tuck in some geocaching of course.
Cheers from kbucky

Found today while briefly in the area, after a quick solve last night.

Nice park.
Easy find in the morning.
TFTC

Ross reserve is larger than I expected. At GZ the cache was found quickly and easily.

On the LGA hunt today, so stopped here to find this one... solved eons ago, I think in prep for the Casey Mega, but never got there..
A quick find, log is a lil damp and nearly full.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Quick on cooler morning. YAPIDKA YAPIDKA Respite inbetween heat waves and mad variable weather. Lovely trees HERE and on a mighty multi mission this month. TFTC and info and fun!

Nice easy find after smashing through the RBT set up nearby.
Not really…!
So after hitting a nearby cache, I was lead geo-vehicle with LTEC tailing and Victoria’s finest had set up an RBT.
Well… I was thinking “how many beers did I have last night? When did I stop?…. Hmmm…”
Anyway, the lovely Ruby had a quick chat with me and said I was free to go as I was clear.

So a hunting caches we will go. Not far off, we soon pulled into the GZ zone and found the cheeky container pretty quickly.
Our monikers soon added, breath result under .05 and off we went for some multis.

The cache, container and log are in excellent condition.
I visited 3 TB.
TFTC.

Making our way here from the nearby Lions Park, where the lovely Clive was on his ride-on mower doing his job mowing the lawns (lucky it wasn’t yesterday with those car people, two knee reconstructions, sold off most of his business, yes we got the whole story) and very interested in what we were up to. So we left him there to finish the grass and made our way down the road for this find.

However now there was an RBT operation in force on Corrigan Rd. The officer wasn’t interested that I had taken cough medicine (I was dismissed, it didn’t register). So on we pressed to finally make this find. Luckily it was spotted quickly after all of that!

Thanks PinkPiggy7 for placing and maintaining for our enjoyment. Cache on

17:13
I left the train to remember the fallen, then decided that rather than reboarding , I'd walk from Noble Park to Sandown Park, through the... park.

For this cache, of course.

Spotted quicker than sometimes happens with these.

Thanks, Pinkpiggy7.

#6618

Found it

Out caching in Noble Park with pinnacle333 on a beautiful sunny day.
No trouble solving or finding this one. Thanks Pinkpiggy7

Out with echidna44. After realising the hint in the description, we had no troubles solving this mystery cache. A quick find for us! Thanks Pinkpiggy7

A quick find while in the area. Nice parkland. TFTC

Found at 11:51
Last cache for today while in the area. No issues today with finding the coords or the container.
Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache

A quick park and find before a game of local footy at this reserve. tftc

The Drovers were down in Melbourne staying with us for a couple of days to get some work done on their canopy and while this was going on we thought it was the ideal opportunity to get out and do some caches in an area we don't get to very often even though it isn't that far from home.

We had solved the mysteries here during lock down so these were added to the list. This one was one of the easiest for us to solve and today there were no muggles anywhere to be seen so it was a nice quick find and sign of the cache. We returned everything as found and headed off to the next one.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the mystery and the cache.

In Melbourne for the morning, picking up a few caches with Team Crackers.
Had a little help with this one, then it was off to GZ.
Cache found after a short search, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Pinkpiggy7, for us and others to find.

After my previous DNF, this was a straight forward find.

Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for the placement and fun.

TFTC

I recently solved this one and planned to find it while doing my part for the community at a nearby facility, however that day it was pouring rain!

Back in the area today drove over and a quick find. TFTC

Easy find, still in good condition

Easy peasy. THANKS !!

Finally got around to picking this one up, worked it out ages ago. Surprised i could remember where it was.
Thanks, Robmc.

7 March 2021 8:11 am

Found today in between some of today's events. Rather sleep deprived at the time of the find so each fond was rather surprising to me. Eitherway thanks for the cache and the little adventure.

I had solved this mystery cache earlier and was in the area with Crustyvarmint and BFG. Nicely tucked away in an area without too many opportunities. TFTC.

Today I had the self imposed challenge of getting 12 different cache types. This was the 4th of the 12 for the day. Found this one quickly and glad after the DNF on the previous cache.

Lots of works going on in this area, and heaps of building fences in the whole area. That made a bit of detours to get around.

Thanks for the cache Pink Piggy 7
Hunter

7 March 2021 @ 9:38 am
Caching buddy: AIphaDeltaIndigo
Nice little hide, spotted wedding preps when we parked for the cache

Thank you Pinkpiggy7 for placing and maintaining this cache. I've enjoyed finding it.

Tftc

Caching buddies: yin~yang

Thank you Pinkpiggy7, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.

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Find 2616
After the previous multi caches we were making up time with this one. Spotted on approach. Log signed and back safe again.

Love a nice easy puzzle with good coordinates that made it a nice quick find. We’ve enjoyed our afternoon picking up some different types of caches in this area, and with my back injury, this was just what we needed today.

Again, our thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for all these caches we have found today.

Thanks! Loving this series!

It was time for my annual rail safety medical which meant a trip over to this corner of Melbourne... and of course that meant *make sure I came early so I could find some caches somewhere different!* Today was also a day I needed to find at least one *non Trad* cache for a calendar challenge I am working on.

With my *non Trad* caches found for the day and the rain just at an annoying level, I thought would chase out another cache or two as I left. This was a nice easy find of a deceptively easy puzzle. Thanks **Pinkpiggy7** for putting this one together.

Enabling caches again

*Found on the 17 Jun 2020 @ 4:56 pm.*
*Cache find # 10976.*

I was no long needing to save this one for a non trad day and while I was out doing some work stuff, I found that I was driving right passed this one so I made a quick stop, the cache was found, log signed and I was on my way.

**Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this cache.**

Disabling due to the current situation

Honestly, Pinkpiggy7, are you trying to make this the easiest puzzle cache in the whole world? If so you’ve filled the brief perfectly. It did get me going until I read the difficulty rating and a light globe lit in my brain. I’ll try this in the checker, and I was right, of course. It was in a now quite familiar park with lots of parking near GZ and no Muggles around. The hardest thing about the whole cache was getting to it through its camouflage. Thanks for a brilliant cache!

It’s a windy afternoon but it didn’t stop us picking up a few caches around this park. As is usually the case, everything you need is right in front of you. I wasn’t sure if it could be that easy but the checker confirmed it was right! Thanks for hiding and maintaining this cache. A nice quick find whilst avoiding the gaze of a muggle parked nearby

A quick solve and find although roaming Howie made me pretend to go to the loo, as there was a person having a smoke nearby.. hmmm I think next time he can do that more discreetly!

Accompanying diana8 on a mission seemed like the perfect excuse for an afternoon of geocaching. We targeted this park as it appeared to have the caches we needed to meet our goal.

Since we had quickly solved the puzzle before coming, this was an easy find and after signing the log, we were on our way to the next. TFTC.

An easy solve, once you know what to do.. third cache for the day and third type of cache. TFTC

I was here at geo kids primary school swimming carnival at NPAC yesterday, and today it was the older geo kids high school swimming carnival. I stayed to watch geo kid FoxyLoxy swim her race, after which I went out caching by myself for a few hours until it was time to get her from the pool and go home.

I'm really appreciate to the CO for creating achievable puzzle caches that instil a sense of confidence in attempting puzzle caches and achievement when you actually solve them reasonably easy and quick all by yourself. I usually shy away from puzzle caches but the difficulty rating here attracted me to it and a year of geocaching experience now under my belt helps too.

Cache and log in good condition. Great camo. I was actually going to take it to use for one of my caches when I realised it was the actual cache here.

I'm giving this one a fav point.

Thank you for the cache here Pinkpiggy7

Was about to leave this park and realised I was extremely close to this cache so a quick find was in order. Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for this cache. Find No: 1057

Doing some caches around this area, thanks Pinkpiggy for placing this cache.

Found @10:36 #7169
Out on a run with ahomburg this morning and a good stash of variable hides but similar containers. Fun times. Its been awhile for me having lost some motivation for this game but its comibg back.
TFTC Pinkpiggy7

Date: 11 January 2020 Time: 10:35 am
Find #10830

SedgwickDave and I are regular caching mates and we had not been out caching together for a while. So After parkrun this morning, headed out for a bit of a local... ish caching run.

After "Solving" this one in the field, Dave made quick work of the actual find.

Many thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for the cache. TNLN.

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I had a couple of hours to spare and the weather was wonderful so I decided that I would grab a few of the Ross Reserve series. A quick solve and a quick find. TFTC.

We found this cache today on the way home from an Alien Hunt. This one was now an even easier find than the previous one. It could only get easier if someone passed us the cache whilst we were still in the car. Thanks from D & HA B-A.

Nice, easy find. All in good condition. TFTC

A nice cheeky puzzle. Found this one this morning along with a few others in the area. Waited for and old man who was riding a bike and yelling to himself to pass, before going in for the retrieval. In good condition.

The puzzle was quickly solved while the hide should have been rather quicker to find than it was.

31/12/19 Out on a caching run this evening and I was heading towards GZ for this cache when I had the realisation that I had been past here before. Turns out I had found this cache in October and somehow failed to log it in any of my notes/drafts. I have no idea how I managed to do that! After checking the log (yes, there it was) I made sure I noted that it had been found this time. Logging as found date... So apologies for the late log! TFTC Pinkpiggy7

Thanks again Pinkpiggy7, a great hide I nearly walked past it, I was a bit worried by the muggles across the creek on the fence,but they went inside so I could sign the log and go to the next one.
Greytiger

Managed to spend a late afternoon picking up a few relatively recently placed caches near to the new skyrail and Ross Reserve. This was a puzzle that was within my solving abilities and when I arrived today I already had the corrected coordinates saved. Didn't take me long at GZ either and after parking nearby I made a quick find. My third find of ten for the day, Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the puzzle and the cache Pinkpiggy7.

TFTC! Managed to solve the puzzle and find the cache on a rather raining Friday afternoon.

Another puzzle that I was capable of.
Thanks Pinkpiggy7.
Chiefton!!!

omegaman1971
I sometimes love a cache you can almost park right next to.
I did have to wait for some working muggles to move on.
Cheers Pinkpiggy7 for the cool cache.

I intended to get this one yesterday but the CFA had a cherrypicker right at GZ.. I could see the cache but decided to have another go today..thank you Pinkpiggy7 for placing the cache in my ever widening local area.

10:50 am #7886
Knocking these over successfully. Nearly there. A lovely morning riding around the area.
Cheers Pinkpiggy7

A nice puzzle that I soon solved and this was the last one found before getting packing up and heading home.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for Ross Reserve #3

#3962

Found with Quiet1_au today. We followed the fence to Gz. There was only really one place that the cache could be. Q found the cache as described on the cache page. Thanks Pinkpiggy7
GJMMelb

Whilst this puzzle didn't take too long to solve it certainly took longer than it ought to have done!...

Thankfully the cache itself presented no problems and I spotted it almost immediately after G' of GJMMelb and I reached GZ TFTC Pinkpiggy7

**24 Aug 2019, 12:07:09
Find #3648**
**Mystery Cache Find #529**

I headed out today to try and avenge yesterday's DNF and also find a Mystery cache that I had forgotten to attempt. Whilst typing up my logs yesterday afternoon, I noticed that I forgotten to log this cache on both my phone and GPS. Well, I had in fact forgotten to find it, not log it.[:o)] Its icon was hidden under another icon on the map. When I arrived this morning, a car was parked right at GZ and the driver was in his seat. I went and found another cache and when I returned, the coast was clear. It still took me the best part of 15 minutes to find this which is much longer than it should have taken because it isn't a difficult hide.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this geocache**

With a couple of new puzzles in the area I noticed the other caches in Ross Reserve so a plan was made to head to Noble park for a days caching, not the sort of area I would normally come to and the next caching trip I am going to go bush to recover from the stress LOL. The fight down the freeway on the way home was incredible, I so love living and working in Warragul, I don't miss driving the Monash. No trouble with this one. Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.

Find number 7510 at 2:58:34 pm
Out for some rest and relaxation, enjoying the sun, soaking up the serenity, geocaching.
It's hard to look inconspicuous whilst retrieving this one.
**Thanks for placing this cache Pinkpiggy7**

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Found. Another easy one, apart from the other cacher who tried to scare me. Didn't work though, I had spotted him earlier and knew he was in the area. Had a little chat to BernieH then continued on. TFTC

Cold and windy and even a little drizzly but that doesn't stop us coming out to find some caches. With this CO introducing new ones in this area we are back here again. This was almost a drive by and grab. We parked right in front of where we thought it was and go out of the car. A quick look in the right direction and there it was.

TFTC Pinkpiggy7

We found Ross Reserve #3 on our Wet caching drive around Noble Park

Once we determined where to go, we made
A quick find



Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for placing this cache and being a part of out geocaching adventure

A fairly quick and easy find on the way home after work. Had the cache about 6 meters out.
TFTC

I knocked off from work and headed straight to this area today to do the new caches. I really loved the variety of caches the CO has put out - such cheeky fun throughout all, and tricky little challenges that test you a bit but mostly just make you smile!
I loved this puzzle - it is actually my worst nightmare when I publish a new cache I worry that this might happen! Very cheeky, loved it. Fave from me!

Solved this puzzle not long after it was published but my last visit to collect was thwarted by some parking muggles almost on top of the cache. Clearly there was no way to hide my search for the cache so I high tailed ti to another cache elsewhere. Today the coast was clear and the cache was easily found signed and replaced. TNLNSL. TFTC. Kkams

I love these power trails.
Another quick and easy park and grab.
Thanks for the cache Ross.

After finding one of the CO's caches yesterday I thought I'd like to visit his newer hides which which were a little closer to home.
Whilst there were plenty of people on attendance watching the footy match further along the Drive there were few here which made for a quick search.
Unfortunately I managed to dislodge the O-ring and I thought better of getting down on my hands and knees in such an exposed position. Sorry about that.
Thanks for a quick and easy puzzle and find.

On my way to the puzzle solving event this morning, I stopped off at this park to give Crusty K9 a walk, and locate some caches. This was one of them. Thanks Pinkpiggy7.

Out grabbing clues for the mystery at the museum event. About to rain so a quick find was great. TFTC Pinkpiggy7

Quick easy find. Thanks for the cache Pinkpiggy7

Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

An easy find in-between tracking down the stolen gems!

Need to find 35 caches to access the lock to the vault - Mystery at the Museum. Found your cache today. Pinkpiggy7, thank you so much for placing it.

Found on 21 Jul 2019 at 1:37 pm.
I had a spare hour today to continue the mystery at the Museum campaign and I also needed a puzzle today for another project I am working on. Only 15 of the 35 final caches to go to solve the mystery now.
Managed to park right next to this one and I was the only person in the whole section of car park so after a short search I had the cache in hand.
Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Published

{FTF}*20 Jul 2019, Found @4:13 pm, Find # 3136.*

Fltf

**Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this cache.**