FT - Claw Laverton North, Victoria, Australia
By Robmc on 13-Oct-19. Waypoint GC8ETAY

It's a beautiful spring day and the deadly treadlies need some dusting off. No joy on this oneSubmitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Nice, easy find. All in good condition. TFTC

Found it

Found itTFTC

Tftc!

GeoEthanms found on 5/4/24

TFTC. Our second one in the FT trail.

Easy find!

Found on my way back from an afterparty for a christening. TFTC

Quick find along the pathway. TFTC W074

These feel rewarding to find! Tftc

We packed the ebikes and headed to the big smoke for a couple of days. While Mr Morris conducted some business, Lady Morris joined the CO and hit the trails. Despite the smells, the blunt pencils and all the works going on - it was a great morning's ride.Thanks for adding the trail Robmc

Spent the morning with Chewinprickes on our deadly treadlies completing a maintenance run on the FT and KCT trails.All caches are now in good condition and ready to be found.Claw was a bit quiet today.Replaced log sheet.Robmc.

Had a nice day traversing parts of my old stamping ground, and reliving memories fast dissapearing into the past. Thanks Robmc

Easy find, TFTC

found at night. so many bugs

cute

The weather looked like it was going to be nice to us today so it was decided to head to the other side of town. We encountered a couple of snakes but they weren't interested in us and slithered off home.Most finds were made although we did have to leave a couple and search for them on the way back and a couple of others seem to be missing. We got a little bamboozled with the tracks but it was a lovely day to be out and about.Thanks for placing all these caches for us to find.

It was a lovely day for a scooter ride! I encountered tiger snakes on the path twice in different locations, and I had to swerve my scooter to avoid them quickly. Thankfully, I narrowly missed them! I ended up with a pretty bad sunburn by the end of the day. Robmc, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

Continuing my ride along the Federation Trail from the previous cache, I soon arrived at GZ. Much like the previous cache, good coordinates at this one lead me straight to it. I was able to find and sign the logsheet with no issues, though I did shorten my name to 'PagC' due to lack of space. As someone who drives along the nearby Fitzgerald Road most days on my commute, I have managed to catch a few glimpses of Claw hard at work recycling metal and saving the world. Today however, on Christmas Eve, it appears as though he has taken a well deserved break from his job. TFTC

Even this close to Christmas the claw is still at it! Tftc

Tdtc

Thanks

Going for a nice ride around federation trail today trying to complete the smileys around home. TFTC

Enjoying a walk on a very warm Friday evening.

The claw!

TFTC out and about with Algae on the geoscooters, grabbing some smilies. We did about 20 km.

I found this cache today on my 35,000 step walk from Sunshine to Laverton via the Kororoit Creek Trail and the Federation Trail. Almost there now. Thanks from D B-A

Out with Shumba7 on the geoeuc and geoscooter on a cool evening. TFTC.

Out and about with My good caching mate Omegaman1971, there are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles.

This is one of the caches found today.

Thanks Robmc for the cache.

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!

Nice spot

Have had my eyes on the Federation Trail series of caches for a while so was grateful for the caching opportunity that presented itself today. With SpursNorth in company, we started on Fitzgerald Road and finished the day at Altona Gate shopping centre for a well deserved snack before heading home.

A blustery but mostly pleasant Friday afternoon minus the intermittent unbearable stench along the trail. With thanks to Robmc for placing and maintaining a variety of caches.

Out for the day geocaching with my brother Ketchthor. Some good spots threw out the day and no DNFs which was amazing. TFTC

Nice hide on a fun ride. TFTC

Found with jezcaa!

I used to watch Deadly Earnest who had “The Claw”, every Friday night. Bit different here lol. Out and about with ConnieandRick, as always having a great day. Thanks Robmc for placing this cache and contributing to this great game. Happy trails, Deanside

Cool geo

Out for a few hours with Deanside, started on this trail and then went further afield. Another day of sunshine, good finds and lots of laughs.

I like souvenirs, so with the current Wheel-of-Challenges souvenir campaign, it means that I have to pursue a 28-day caching streak during this winter month. There's no shortage of local caches - it's just my (streaking) mojo I have to work on.
I'm also keeping this endeavour as eco-friendly as possible, so other than saving fuel and the 'environment', the additional walking and cycling will probably provide me with a few random Garmin Connect souvenirs too. (Well, I am a sucker for colourful pixels... errr... I mean digital 'art' ) .

Today's outing was a drive to the FT followed by a 12km cycle to the western-most section of the FT. This was the second find around here - might as well maximize the time out on this bleak industrial section as I have still have enough caches to find for the rest of the month. There was some recycling activity near GZ but the claw was taking a 'smoko' break. The cache was fortunately a quick find in the most likely (only?) hiding spot for the location.
Thanks, Robmc.


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**Chronicles of a Souvenir Chaser**
July 2023 Streak souvenir chasing status : Day 9 of 28.

Easy (2 days) - Completed.
Medium (7 days) - Completed.
Hard (28 days) - In progress.

Day 1 of 28 - Drove to a local cache. Just a drive-by but a playground is always challenging!
Day 2 of 28 - Drove to an industrial area and then walked to a section of the FT.
Day 3 of 28 - Drove to the KCT and cycled 6km.
Day 4 of 28 - Cycled 25km - along roads/KCT/detours/FT/KCT/roads again. Found 2 caches in the northern part of the KCT.
Day 5 of 28 - Drove to Geelong, completed an adlab plus bonus.
Day 6 of 28 - Found a cache near the morning's Brimbank parkrun.
Day 7 of 28 - Drove to the KCT and cycled 9km. A DNF followed by a find.
Day 8 of 28 - Cycled 5km to and along the Seaholme foreshore. Feet wet for a cache.
Day 9 of 28 - Drove to the FT and cycled 12km to the westernmost section of the FT geotrail for 2 caches.

No claw today, but plenty of train carriages. The more you look, the more you see!
A quick find, and sad to see that we are nearing the end of the caching leg of the trail and today's adventures!

The claw wasn't in action this afternoon but could see plenty of evidence of its handiwork, including several train carriages. I imagined there must be something better to do with an old train carriage but I guess not.

Reminds me of a ride at one of the Theme Parks up on the Gold Coast! I think it was even called the Claw. Sobering how much "junk" we create in this world. TFTC

Easy find! David

The huge nearby gantry and claw reminded me of "Day of the Triffids" or "War of the Worlds". It is massive. After watching it at work as I walked along, once at GZ the cache was quickly found.



My thanks for the cache, Robmc.

And other found by Rex 46

Out with dot558 and found this one quite easy on a lovely day
Thanks

Tftc with @tamtracks

Pencil is broken

With itsyagirltegs this one was very easy

This things always remind us of how the aliens say "THE CLAW" in the Toy Story film. Looked low first and then adjusted. Interesting to see where the old metro trains end up. TFTC

So last night I called up BackPAQer and like you do.. I said lets go find some caches...
so after some debate on which trail we would tackle we decided to FT and KCT track.

So early morning start with two scooter and BackPAQer and myself hit the trails.
Hot day for it considering it is spring.. 33C out there today..

Day started badly with two Did Not Finds in the first three...
But we ended up with 27 Finds and 7 Did Not Finds and picked up a trackable

It was a fun day out and even managed a great lunch and a pint in Yarraville to break up the day.

Thanks to RobMC for the trail. Sorry for the generic logs

Thanks for the cache and the hide
log book has been signed and returned
Find #1422

Nice easy find

*Found on the 18 Feb 2023 @ 3:58 pm.*
*Cache find # 14136.*

This part of this trail has been sitting there on the map looking at my every time I look at it, so today I decided to finally head across the painful bridge to see if I could find them.
No trouble finding this one.
I didn't think the claw was operating today but them it spring into action doing its thing.

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

Can't find anything

Knowing I had a trip out here for work I put the scooter in the car for this trail after work. Plenty of smells out here with the various factories around.

Quickly found here.

Thanks to Robmc for the fun and the adventure.

Grabbed it!

Nice easy find

TFTC

I'd spent the day yesterday at the Grand Final.

I left the car in the CBD.

So back I went on the treddly to pick it up.

Great morning for a ride and some smiley's.

This was the first on the trail today.

Nice quick find.

TFTC

It has been a while with all the cold rainy winter weekends that we have gone a scooter ride but my smallest geokid and I headed out today to this trail. The weather was almost perfect and there was a small section I needed to revisit to avenge a couple DNF's I had a while ago as well. There were quite a few "interesting" smells emanating from some of the industrial areas.

Another nice quick find here.
Thanks Robmc for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Tftc

TFTC.

TFTC

*The "I'm Not Wasting This Amazing Day Staying Home" Adventure #27*
"Not da Craw! Da Craw!"
- The Claw, Get Smart
Thanks heaps, Robmc.

TFTC

Found it!

Yayyy

So many loud noises! Feel like we are trespassing with all the alarms going off

Easy find, thanks!

Getting the hang of the hides. Which is good as limited time to search with two speed demons!

Thanks!

A five km walk to finish the day, and this series.
Started under the bridge and headed to The Shiny Mountain first of all.
Walking to the west for the rest.
The Claw was resting this evening after a busy day of choosing...
Thanks for the cache and the series Robmc.

Today's 'brief' stint was an 18km (we thought it would be about 10) walk which took us nearly 5 hrs, along a bike track, my bike is currently in pieces.
By this point, day1976 was finding all the caches while I sat down whenever we stopped.

Found with ilukaperi on a short day stint in Melbourne's western suburbs.

Another nice easy find. Thankyou.

Walking on to this particular cache had my spy the inscription literally carved into the surface of the trail.
What an odd first word. At first I thought it had some French connection what with the final e. Then I look it up - a monetary unit of of Samoa equal to one hundredth of a tala. Why not just say money puss? Why even carve it in? A critique of the importance of money in a capitalist society? Who knows.
Cache found without a problem.

Another good cache thanks

End of a long days caching with the Geobro - TFTC

Thanks! Great time with our party of five

Great easy find!
FamiliaSquad

Nice find

Easy find thanks

Easy find

Found

Frog planted

Out with au.fait & xambo4u, we were doing the FT trail and part of the KCT trail. We had a great day with lots of talk and laughter. An easy find. Thanks Robmc.

Out and about with echidna44 and au_fait for the day doing the bike trail here. We left one car at one end and one at the other. Enjoyed good company, weather excellent and mostly success. Nice easy find here, we are off to a good start. Cache in excellent condition. Thanks for the journey Robmc

Out today in the excellent company of echidna44 and xambo4u on an overcast but fine day. Just perfect for doing a length of the Federation Trail. This was my first one for the day a d a nice easy one to begin TFTC Robmc

Yay!!!!!

Found it

Yeh!

Easy dubs

Easy find

Easy peasy

Cool

Really fun and well hidden.

Easy to find really funnn

Good hard to find

Mr S's second stop. the noise and excitement of The Claw overtook all searching for a while.
Finally had the cache in hand.
It was pleasant on the FT this morning, the breeze was reasonably gentle and there were very few other users.
Thanks to Robmc for this hide.