Lost School Stony Creek, Victoria, Australia
By Mikita on 17-Mar-03. Waypoint GCE6DD

It appears the cache is non existant

After speaking to Mikita some months ago, it appears that we were looking in the right spot, but no cache!

DNF at around 1215pm. We looked all over the country and especially locally, but could not locate a small container. We called Romax who were the last to find and it was confirmed we were looking in the right place, but still no find. Maybe the cache is lost just like the school? Anyway we enjoyed exploring the area which we would not have known existed. Thanks Mikita.

Found by bevfre 10.00am Took screwdriver left Yabbie
Nice to go back in time to school

12.00pm
Found by Roma and Max.
What a surprising place to find in this location. So quiet now, and to think of all those childrens voices that must have rang out here in it's hey day. Cache is waterlogged and we did our best to dry it and it's contents.
We took a very waterlogged pen set and left a Mondo Figurine.
Thanks Mikita,
from Romax.

This was a nice spot, Thanks Mikita.
The cache container is in severe need of a fixup.
Everything was soaked and the logbook is mouldy (is probably salvagable with a drying-out and a new cover.
Found this on a solo mission for a first to find nearby.
Took mini screwdrivers
Left Big Phillips Head Screwdriver
Didn't realise that the track I was exiting on had a siggn that had road closed on it until I went past from the opposite direction.
The track that my Navman told me to drive out on came out near another track that we found the other night in the dark near "Evans Place". Its a small world.

Found 5/6/2005 @ 15:50

Easy enough to find, even without the map. Everything wet and smelly.

TNLN

A Reconstructed Map
When standing at point 'A', points 'C', 'B' and 'D' represent the remaining corner posts counted off in a clockwise direction.

Thanks Mikita

Enjoyed the history and location of this cache. Bit lucky to find because we did not have the sketch we needed. The cache is very wet and mouldy. TNLN. Thanks Mikita.

Found at 3:30 on trip over from Boulders Beckoning.
A few dirt roads with one eye on the GPS and another on the road led straight to the first location (except for 1 U-turn).
Spent a few minutes figuring out what would be the easiest way to work out the sketch but decided to draw in some approximate lines and look in that area and presto! Found it straight away.
Everything was pretty damp including the log book. Placed the log book inside a 2nd bag to try and give it more protection.
Great area to explore. Headed along more tracks on the way out with co-ordinates for #4 for the day locked into the GPS.
Took: Bunny erasers
Left: Giraffe

What a great cache. A very private school & lots of fun to find the final location, it was alot easier with a few extra bodies to help. It was errie but also awesome, to think children ran around playing and learning here nearly 150 years ago in what seems the middle of nowhere.

Found it after spending a pleasant half hour eating lunch (at 4pm!...a lot of dead end tracks when driving in from the south!)
There were four of us in the group so we could do the walk towards each other thingie very easily. Cache was a little exposed so very easy to see, even from a distance. Was also a little damp, so we took everything out and placed it on a log to dry while we went exploring the site. (by the way a very large redback spider had made its home on the outside of the cache. Take care when retrieving it as this area is known to have a few of these critters around.) Tried to figure out where they would have built the toilets for the school, we put them somewhere near point C, but others may find a better site. Replaced everything back into the cache and swapped screwdriver (out) for a passport pouch(in)

This was such a fun cache and so much easier with 3 of us. Found the 1st clue easy enough. Then headed to the next location. Put something on the fence to mark one point then we took a point each. Did the met up thing and finding the cache was easy.
Found at 1630 swapped a doggy toy for a glasses repair kit.
Thanks so much Mikita. This was such a fun cache .

As mentioned by Kiwideb, we all enjoyed this one thoroughly. Having found the first clue, and all the intermediate points, we then started our march towards our designated opposite point. Walking a little bit faster than Kiwideb, I stopped approximately where I envisage meeting up with Alan-san.

Lo and behold. There at my feet was the cache, exactly where it should have been. Alan-san walked right over it on his way to his allocated point. I took a $50 souvenir keyring (similar if not identical to a couple I have left in caches) and left a mini screwdriver set.

Thanks, Mikita, for a very enjoyable and informative cache. Loved the concept!

Found at 4:30pm with Muzza and Kiwideb. We loved doing this one, the interesting history, which reminds me of my WA beginnings, and the concept of locating the cache. It was great as each of us had a part, Muzza and Kiwideb walking towards each other and me walking to Kiwideb’s backpack. It’s also good to see the fences and rock outlines have remained in tack all this time, and to now realise what it once meant. Swapped a Australian Kangaroo/Koala keyring for a $50 keyring.

Thanks Mikita for another imaginative cache.

Found 11:20, with the assistacne of Team Boodi, a fantastic concept, in a great location. Took Glo Stick and left Phillips head screw driver. Thanks Mikita.

Found at 10.45am.
A great cache, well and truly lost with no signage around.
The efforts of the school teacher were remarkable.
We enlisted the help of Tasmania to get the lid off the cache, with no harm done to either.
No exchange made.
Thanks Mikita for showing us a forgotten world.
K&M

This cache was great! It was really fun and in a really interesting spot. We must have looked quite strange which is unusual in caching .
swapped bunny rabbit erasers for lip balm.
Thanks Mikita.

found by stumpyspud & Lisa and Jez, Jez cheated! to much information on the page, while we went to count fence posts, he just went straight for the map of oz! but we made our 1st swap

(aka lisa and jeremy) we found this one with stumpyspud

Last of 6 caches for the day. I really enjoyed the history lesson this cache is based on. We also enjoyed the novel way of working out the hiding place of the cache. Took cd-r and left glow sticks. Well done, and thanks mikita.

Found with geofreak and have now registered my own username. Thanks Mikita.

[last edit: 6/22/2003 6:26:50 AM PST]

Found by Mary & David at 1340. Wonderful place that hopefully won't be swallowed up by the bush. Hard to imagine all those children here. I'm sure Miss James would have been very strict. Enjoyed plotting the cache location. Took tweezers, left Australia keyring. Surprised to find some people having a picnic when we returned to the car. They couldn't see what we had been doing, and wanted to be sure we had explored the site properly. Thanks to Mikita for showing us this part of local history.

I've been looking at this one every day since it came up and had a few hrs today to go and do it. Found the location very easily but when I arrived, went to check the clues on the laptop and the image hadnt been saved. So here I was on top of a fence post with a mobile phone with no coverage trying to tell someone how to log on to gc.com to tell me where a,b,c and d where located. Once it was established i found the cache very easily, in fact walked right over it when I was working out the second line and thought i wonder if this is the spot. It looked like the perfect area and lo and behold it was.

Thanks for a new way of doing a cache mikita.

Took screwdriver and left a blank cd rom which is too big for the container so it is beside the cache