Water Drop 01 Claremont, Tasmania, Australia
By Budgietas on 01-Jun-24. Waypoint GCARD10

Today after my event at Montrose Foreshore we completed the water drop geoart. Enjoyed solving the various puzzles whilst on the road and at the event got some intel from Lady Membsec to assist with the W3W conundrum.All caches were found some took way longer than others and it was nice to find a good variety of well thought out and executed hides.With thanks to Budgietas for the series. Several FP to be awarded.Bit cobwebby here but easy extraction nonetheless TFTC

out and about on a sunny day, very busy with cars, Thanks for the cache Budgietas.

After having solved the puzzle the night before, i went out to Glenorchy on the bus so i could walk to about 5 of these in this series to grab. (Planning to visit a popular Irish Pub beforehand for lunch and a brew i decided to leave the car at home) A longer walk was planned as it was needed and dealing with traffic out there was not going to be an issue now Loving the walk with 'Water' nearby i made my way to the 2nd find for the day.Once at GZ the search was timed right so Muggles weren't present at that time.about a minute later the well hidden cache was in hand and i was SL away from GZ @ 12:17 on TGIF 9 August 2024.A cool but fine day to be out searching for the solved ones so far in this cool series relevant to "Adam's Ale" to which i'm carrying with me for good luck Replaced the hide with no Muggles at the time.TFTC and the Puzzle, Budgietas

G'day Budgietas, thanks for the cache, and this series.My schedule was full of holes today, so as I was in the area - between jobs - I dropped by here.Decided to don my high viz vest to help be unnoticed - but stealth required to access, and then replace the cache.Confident I remained oblivious to the stream of muggles nearby.Found the clever cache in the first place I looked, but only after a couple of feels in another place.A fav , thanks.CheersEPs

This one was an easy find on a cold evening.

11 July 2024 15:16Found after referring to the hint and taking another look.Tftc Budgietas

Another clever hide but didn't feel safe here with all the traffic whizzing by. Parked in the side street to access. How do people sleep?

Our prime purpose for coming south today was to fill in another day on our multi-cache calendar. With that task completed, we headed off to the Montrose area to look for the newly published Water Drop series. CacheSleuth was our friend for solving each of the puzzles, projections and WIGs. We found all but one of the caches in the series and it appears that the one we missed was a victim of fence reconstruction. The coordinates for each of the hides were reasonably accurate or better. We enjoyed the series, in particular the variety of cache types and hides.This cache was a straightforward find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Budgietas for this cache and the series.

At the end of the CITO event today , Budgie was kind enough to hand out some drink bottles to those that attended the event. And inside was a list of caches for the Water Drop series. Once the waypoints were loaded in our phones, VK7HCH and I took off and started finding all the those caches. As Budgie said at the start, if we find it today we can claim {FTF}. We worked our way around and even caught up with Budgie at a couple of sites. We kept going through the sporadic showers and managed to find them all. Thanks Budgie for the series and the opportunity to get {FTF} with all the rest of Team CITO. Find number 4986.

What started as a day of a simple CITO after getting coffee turned into a great morning driving round collecting a nice new series of caches.We had great fun rushing round with the Hancocks to grab the {*FTF*}.Found on 30/06/2024 thanks to Budgietas for placing this cache for me to find. The best caches I have found so far are:-Sentimental [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)Traditional [Hanging Around in Toorak](http://coord.info/GC62KAP) By [bobthebuilder_123](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=586681)Multi [Gawler Fort Knox](https://coord.info/GC5T0W1) By [**JEM**](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=11449141)Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045) Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)Earthcache [Totem Pole](https://coord.info/GC862H8) By [The Hancock Clan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=263428)Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)Member of the [Tas_Community](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=25086739) maintenance group.

Today is beautiful weather. There is a blue sky, and you can see the mountains with some snow. It looks brilliant. I kicked my bum out of the house. It has been a geocaching day for a long time. I saw on the new list I received from the email. I did homework on all those new caches last night, so it is easily solved, and I enjoyed running the series Closer Suburbs.Arrived at here GZ. Finding a spot to get it took a little longer. Signed the log with good dry. TFTM

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Yeah a clever one, but I was onto you!Mr membsec had been here shortly before us.At the closing of the CITO this morning, the CO gave us all a drink bottle with a very handy bit of information of a new geoart that was about to hit, hopefully before the next rain squall!The rat and I teamed up with The Hancock Clan and knocked them all off before lunch, starting about 10.30am and finding the last one around 12.40pm.The CO generously offered for anyone at the CITO to log a first to find on any of these caches if found today. We signed most of them as team CITO as had apparently been discussed openly at the event. We tried to create a circular route but, with the Brooker Highway, the train line and even road works getting in the way, it wasnt always easy. As per the COs offer, a joint {*FTF*} with The Hancock Clan and SSR, and the rest of team CITO Thanks for the new series Budgietas Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)Member of the [Tas_Community](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=25086739) maintenance group.

Joint **FTF** with other cachers from the near-by CITO.Was the actual FTF as others moved off elsewhere. It was well located and took a minute or two to locate as the weather changed from good to bad to good to bad!!!TFTC

We came to this mornings CITO not planning to do any more caching today, but ended up with thirteen finds (including the CITO). Budgie gave out some drink bottles with a piece of paper inside them at the end of the CITO and said that those at the event could log an {*FTF*} if they found them today, so we decided to try and get as many as we could. We met mr_johna at our fourth find and ended up following him around for the next few caches before going our seperate ways. We found eight caches before having to return home for another engagement, but returned in the evening to try and find the remaining seven. We only found four more before it got too dark to continue, but it was still an excellent day of caching, filled with high quality hides. Thanks Budgie for organising this excellent series of caches, we thoroughly enjoyed it, and Id be very surprised if it wasnt the same for everyone else.Thanks for the cache Budgietas!

Lots of muggles passing by but they were all going way to fast to take any notice of us. A quick find made by the goose. TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan

Thank you Budgie for organising this CITO event and the accompanying bonus caches. There was a wide variety of hide styles, cache engineering and pure evil intentions. The challenge was met and overcome for each of them, this one, Water Drop 01 was no exception. Found in company with Swampy, this proved a pleasant days exercise, even with the sporadic rain. This is logged as a joint {FTF} with all attendees at todays event.