Thompsons #9 Lyndhurst, Victoria, Australia
By crank1 on 22-Dec-19. Waypoint GC8H5HA

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Nicely hidden, found after a few minutes. TFTC

Cache was found after a short search. Thanks for the fun. Do the cars ever stop?Cleaning up Victoria with gridge98. We are on a mission this week. Completing twenty finds in Mexican local government areas is the challenge. Another find with the correct criteria. It is in Victoria and we have not accumalated twenty finds in this local government area.Today was the day to find this cache. Today is Woden's day the sixteenth day of the octavus month of the Roman calendar in the wonderful year of twenty twenty four. We found your cache container and added some inky stuff to the paper sheet or note pad you have supplied for a log book or scroll. The cache container and log book or scroll were in good condition. It was a bit windy today. It was so windy today.With the log signed and the cache replaced it was time to leave. Onwards to the next cache. Woot, that is not to far.I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land, and their continuing connection to it. I wish to pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Blockheads Unite in 2025.

This was a series we targeted today as it had the easiest numbers to get to our 20, walked and drive between some here. A lot took a bit of searching for but got all but 2 which was a good outcome here. Thanks for the hard work and maintenance Travelling around Victoria with Freddo for a week finding caches as we go. With two challenges on our radar we were in full force. All logs signed with our names or F+g98 for the smaller caches. Thanks for the series

Spring Victorian Incursion 2024.Day Eleven: Bayside, Frankston, Dandenong.Weather: a bit of everything. One of 14 Thompson Road Power Trail caches logged this afternoon. Only a dying phone stopped me from making a clean sweep. This series ticks all the boxes for me - Im trying to reach 15000 finds before my 5th anniversary on Sunday, Im trying to get 20 find in Dandenong LGA to get me closer to a challenge, and Im just a few hundred micro caches short of the diamond badge too. The traffic on the road itself is horrendous, but I didnt see any walkers or cyclist on the path. I thought all the coordinates were good, the caches were in reasonable shape, and best of all, no DNFs.Thank you very much for this cache and the series Crank1. You must have big ankles!

Still no luck on #7 & 8, but a fairly quick find here. TFTC

After she took a tumble over the barbed wire coming out of the last cache geodaughter wasn't too keen, but she ended up being the one to find it. Back on the horse!

Found with icw who spotted this one. Tftc.

Very easy one TFTC

Found hanging at knee height: David

Another day, another walk. I decided to revisit the south-east and walk the Thompsons Rd. Bike path whilst attempting to find those caches I didn't find in 2022 and reaching those which I hadn't reached back in 2022. I can't say that this is the most pleasant path to walk given the large volumes of traffic on Thompsons Rd. I'd say it rivals the path by the M1 for sheer noise but has more vegetation. Now, sometimes that vegetation is picturesque and benign and sometimes brambles almost predominate. Unfortunately for us cachers, those brambles often appear very close to the caches we are seeking. I did what I could and added my weight and feet to stepping on those branches which were completely in the way but sometimes there are quite a few branches and there is nothing for it but to exercise care in where one steps. I found almost all of those I was looking for but there were one or two which were random. Many thanks to crank1 for putting these out.My logs will include this standard blurb and then a comment or two about each cache separated from this blurb by a dividing line. ---I ended up examining a number of trees before coming across the cache.

GPS was bouncing around here, so the hint was needed

There's a beautiful big tree here which gave us some welcome shade. The sun was by now beating down on us. Had a rest and found a cache, thanks.

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Found with Bogonghazy. On our way to Rye, quick stop. Thanks for placing the geocache

Found with LittleBoss2 on our way to a week in Rye. Thanks for a quick find today crank 1

I have been staring at this long line of caches on the map for many months now, wondering how best to get them. The bike was an obvious solution so it was just a matter of getting in the vicinity and then going for it. I generally dont like doing caches in full public view so was wary of this series but quite a few were tucked away behind bushes from the main road. I picked a seriously hot day and the middle of the day but it wasn't too bad in the end (slip, slop, slap and all that!!). Using my bike i was able to speed between caches and vast majority were straight forward but a few needed a second attempt (on way back) and a bit of digging around between brambles!! Managed to scoop them all up in the end of the course of 3 hrs. A good afternoon's caching! TFTC.

Found with gwd.aussie.On a bit of a numbers game today for a challenge cache I am trying to achieve. Finding this nice trail on the way home from a weekend in Melbourne to attend the Brickvention Expo.Thanks crank1

D@geo had made herself a summer challenge to complete a summer challenge cache.These were great to get some numbers found to help, and also help her walking challenge numbers too.We don't have any trails of caches left un-found near home ain't more. So it was great to make these finds while in the greater Melbourne area while attending the Brickvention Lego Expo.Sorry, I didn't take notes on each cache, Please accept the generic logs to cover my visit to this series.On a caching run with D@geoThank you for the cache crank1

Found! It appears My knee is the same hight as someones ankle tftc

We had started this series some time ago ( by car and by foot) and today I'm back with a bike to complete the remainder. Apologies for some generic logs. The GPS coordinates were usually very accurate although a couple were a little off. The blackberries and thorn bushes were an issue in places and in a number of spots the blackberries looked as though they were trying to take over the bike path! A few cyclists were and about so a little care was required at times. In the main the caches and logs were in good condition. Thanks to crank1 for the cache.

It is such a beautiful day for a stroll along the shared path.Picking up crank1 caches as I go.Five finds out of five.I like those numbers. All caches were found in good order and condition thanks to accurate coordinates. Thanks for the caches and the series Cheryl.

Yay still snug in the tube.

TFTC SL - out with the geodogs

Thank you

Yay

Time for a walk n cache #1 for today TFTC

That is not ankle height… TFTC

Gotcha!
Thanks Crank1
Eloise at the Plaza

With dot558 on way to berwick for square dancing and couldn't resist on way
Thanks

Found it with Rex 46
Too cold to be out this morning

Small orange red

big thank you to crank1 for the amazing geocaching experience we had along Thompsons Road. Despite the cold and windy conditions, our electric bike and scooter journey from 11 am to 5 pm was unforgettable, largely due to the fantastic hides you provided.
Team CrustyVarmint and JuzzMagic, we're truly grateful for all the caches we retrieved throughout the day. Your dedication and creativity in placing them added an extra level of excitement to our adventure. Each find brought us joy and a sense of accomplishment, making the entire experience memorable.

One of Many fantasic Caches from Crank1 ..enjoyed them all. Out and about with Crustyvarmint and Juzzmagic TFTC

I had been avoiding these caches because of the busy road. Only the other day did I learn that there was a cycle trail on which to travel.
Today I went out with Team Juzzmagic with their bikes, and my scooter. The path was the best I have seen for a cache trail, and we had a wonderful day. Most coords were very accurate and the caches found in good condition.
We enjoyed chatting with the animals in the paddocks and, at one location, the frogs serenaded us as we passed by.
Please accept this generic log to cover each cache visited.
Thanks for the fun day, Crank1. Your work is much appreciated.

From Marriott Waters to Frankston-Dandy Rd, this power trail provides plenty of quick and easy finds.

A quick summary for todays finds: Muggle free, footpath lakes and not enough snacks!

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Chasing the souvenir on offer this month (which I thought finished today), we needed quite a few more caches to be able to qualify. This series on our bikes fitted the bill nicely.

A little cold and windy, however, all caches were found in a reasonable timeframe with great coords.

Thank you crank1 for placing and maintaining this series.

Today the weather beautiful full sunny and I feel like walking to path all the way make me fresh air .. TFTC

The weather forecast looked reasonable for this time of year so I decided to take myself to the bottom end of Eastlink and go caching in the Frankston LGA as I needed more s for a couple of LGA based challenges. After completing that target by mid afternoon, I turned my attention to my secondary target of more s in the Greater Dandenong LGA for the same challenges... and part of the *Thompsons* power trail would be perfect for my needs... 8 s in all.

I parked in a side street east of the Western Port Hwy, crossed it and started west along the shared path. With success at #11 my immediate quest was complete so I could have turned for my car and gone home... but it was still a nice enough afternoon and the traffic was crazy, so I kept on going west!

Thanks **crank1** for this power trail... very handy when you want lots of caches quickly.

Tftc. Nicely hidden. Quick find.

Found it

Not sure if I’m the bushes was too wet from rain today to explore more

Early morning walk, in beautiful autumn weather, around Marriott Waters and Thompsons Road seeking out caches on the power trails as I went

All found in good to excellent condition. 18 caches found in total
Many thanx to crank1. Apologies for the generic logs

I was barking up the wrong trees but got there in the end. Note into the cache I couldn’t find on my last trip here. tftc

My current mission is to be close to 7000 find before the Mega at Easter so with some things to do in Dandenog followed by needing to be in Hampton Park later I thought I would try and grab the numbers 1 to 10 of this series. Finding somewhere to park is the hardest with this series.
A 4.5K walk later I was hot a sweaty but I had a smiley on all 10 caches so I was happy with my afternoons work.
Thank you crank1 for the series

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I decided to tackle this series this morning as I was coming to the area to find a Frankston LGA cache and we need to move our centriod south and east. Unfortunately when loading the fold up bike I realised it had a flat tyre. I couldn't get it inflated at a couple of garages so had to take it to a bike shop for a repair. This set me back an hour and by then the trip had gone up by 20 minutes each way, but I still managed to ride the first 18 before hunger and heat struck . I couldn't find 3 on the way up but managed to find one of those on the way back, so 16 of the series today.
This one was a quick find, thanks.

**Thompsons #9**

We have returned today (with bikes) after starting this series a few weeks back. Happy to say all were found without issue.

Our second find for the day, and thankfully as per the hint suggests.

Thanks for this cache series and the fun crank1. “Thompsons” is now complete. Can't wait for the next crank1 series in the near future. Cache on

**The Cache:** Great condition. TNLN, signed log as LTEC or Let Them Eat Cache as space would allow.

Today was our 45th wedding anniversary, and it was Mrs SKI who suggested we hit some of Crank's trails down towards the Peninsula. We haven't done much caching to date this year! A quick look and the realization that this would be a bike ride, but Mrs SKI was still keen. A lovely day for it with temperatures in the low to mid twenties and a slight breeze.
Only one DNF for the day and all caches in good condition and largely straightforward finds. A few challenged us however.. What more could we ask.
We particularly enjoyed the ride round the wetlands area and all the sculptures and appreciated the flat terrain. Not sure how far we rode in total, but it was quite a few km.
Thank you Crank1 for a great day out. We have now completed a number of your series and enjoyed them.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache crank1.
**SKI Pair****

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Our first task this morning was to walk the Thomsons Road power trail. The weather was ideal for walking - mild temperatures and a slight breeze. Of the 23 caches in the series, we found 21: one we could not find (#11) and there was one (#23) where there was too much water to start a search and we did not have waders with us. In places there was very long grass which slowed down searching.

Unless stated otherwise the coordinates were reasonably accurate and the caches were in good condition.

This hunt was a surprise - we found two caches. One appeared to be a "throw down" and the other was the original cache. We removed the "throw down".

Thanks crank1 for another of your cache series.

This one took quite a while, was looking in the wrong spot Then my partner say found it & u wouldn't believe it there was 2 !!Thanks so much for this one ️️

Eventually found them both one red one silver happy hunting everyone ️

Nice quick find for us today!

TNLN,SL
17 October 2022 8:27 pm
Cache Number: 1989

TFTC HoodedHooligans (H.H.)

So today I decided to get brave and attend my first event outside of home territory. It was lovely to meet people and put faces to names, and I survived!
Afterwards Tiz13 and I joined ranks to tackle Cranks Thompson trail to smash out some numbers to get me closer to 1000. But sometimes, as life should be, it is not about the destination but all about the journey. I had a great day out. Thanks Tiz for our journey today and thanks to Crank for maintaining this series for us all to enjoy

Kbucky took the honours on this one, I think her eyesight was on point today.

Down in Melbourne for a visit, decided to attempt the trail with the kids while the rest went shopping .
Smells like wildlife. TFTC

it's cool, there was 2

Found this fun to find

Noticed this grouping that would be perfect for a day on the bike.
Cold start but the sun was out so decided to see how many I could find. #9
Parked off Thompsons Rd intending to move the car further north after I had done a section, I ended up just riding them all then back to the car.
Thanks crank1

Found

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Out for a quick Hunt on Easter Sunday. Found the cache but unfortunately Easter Bunny didn't leave us any eggs. TFTC

Super easy to spot this one or maybe I'm just super cache focused RN. Tftc!

Half the series found. Hopefully complete tonight. I think there’s enough day light. Fingers crossed.

Nice easy find

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Found by David McFarlene venture unit

Arden, Alysia and Zander found 14.3.22

After looking in quite the wrong spot, Nyochi, calls out spotto.. 11th find today.

Out for an epic cache grab with merkinofloki to rack up those steps and cache numbers! :3 its been awhile so lets keep going

**24 Feb 2022 11:12 am**
**Find#7,366**
Found while out on a biking caching expedition with BernieH.
Our original plan to go to French Island was put on the back burner due to the weather forecast, so plan B was activated, staying a bit closer to home and shelter, should the storms arrive.
This crank1 series filled the bill nicely.
All good here.
**Thanks for the fun crank1 (F=16640 H=173)**

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Find number 10306 at 11:12:19 am on Thursday the 24 February 2022
Out for a bit of an eBike ride this morning with gmj3191. Parked near #20 and rode back to the start before starting from #1 and travelling through to #18; I have done the remainer previously.
Most caches were found quickly and in good condition with the exception of the two DNF's.
**Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache series crank1**

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Oh this one was tricky. Many seconds were spent here before I chose the right location.

There look half dead half life huge tree

Spending the day caching with AlexiKatty trying to stay on target for my milestone for the Wangaratta mega in January. It's a nice day and beautiful to be out hear again. Very happy to add this smile to my map.
Tftc crank1

Out to finish this set today.
With ThaKraken to stay on track for the milestone we’re going to hit at Wangaratta

Thanks Crank1 for all your efforts and this cache!

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Another quick find - Loving it - Thanks

checked all Thompsons Series and some missing so replace the new cache. Also new log papers.  
Please when you found and replace the same spot where I put hide. Thanks 

Planned a bike ride with Campbell and he suggested up here and grab some caches!!

We started the afternoon at Marriot Waters and circled around out along Thompsons Rd and back. Great afternoon cycling and caching, a few DNFs but found one that had a few DNFs!!

Thanks for placing the caches crank1!!

Tree is magnificent, parrots were laughing at us trying to find, no luck had us over near the rd.

Had 2 searches here as we didn't want to give up. Loved the tree, so many birds it was great. Co-ords seem out, tried to used previous logs but still no luck. Looked in all the usual places we could but just couldn't find it.

Found 22 out of 23. #8 seems to be missing. A couple were missing logs which I replaced with some paper I carry for this purpose.
Thanks for a great run of caches crank1.

Thanks for letting us find our very first one! Reading the other messages really helped.

DNF

Nice find today

The parrots said hello as I approached their home signed LBC

Very good hiding spot

A wet morning but a more pleasant afternoon so Spiffy- my geopartner and I headed out on our scooters and bike.

Both Spiffy- and I had a couple of DNF's which we are now happy to convert to smiley's.

Quick find here.

Thanks to crank1 for the placement and fun.

Quick find after finding it glinting in the sun. TFTC

Super fast find to Mel.

Thanks crank1 and thanks Rabbitohs (but go Storm) for the hint. Giddy up.

Another find near a fantastic habitat tree ... Red rump parrots here today enjoying the hollows awesome!!

No cache to be found at the GZ.
After a thorough search I decided to read some of the other log entries.
Rabbitto's log entry gave the info I needed to find it.
Thanks for the cache crank1.

I found this cache today on my Thompsons to Cranbourne Geocaching Bike Ride. Found in the obvious place but the GPSr is showing this one about 14m to the south which is on the opposite side of the track. Thanks from D B-A

Not near gz

Quick and easy find. TFTC

Found it , like others the Gps was a bit off, but where else could it possibly be. Another great hide. Tftc