Lemonade Anyone? Hawthorn West, Victoria, Australia
By muzza on 03-May-03. Waypoint GCG1V2

After a couple of no finds, I visited this cache today. It was not where it was initially hidden, and with others spending a lot of time looking, I am certain it has been plundered.

Well, after the second attempt in the space of 24 hours, and about 2 hours of searching we (ectizen & phantom (& sloth, kinda)) didn't find it. There was no sign of ol' man poss - scared away by geocachers? & no sign of the cache despite searching extensively along trees & bushes by the river. We shall search again after another reported find!

We had a good look around with no sucess, number one went in search of the possum nest and got a huge fright because the possum was home, and not impressed to have a visitor - I don't know who got the bigger fright.

The first of 3 caches I found with Will (geoquack3) on a caching afternoon before I’m banished to Shepparton and surrounds for four weeks. I had visited here a week ago and had no luck, searching for ages. With Will’s support I found it in almost no time – maybe it’s because the sun was setting when I was last here… I don’t know?

We made no exchange and headed onto ‘Where’s My Car?’

Found the rock and the possum’s home, but couldn’t find the cache. GeoQuacks searched for about 35 minutes, until it got too dark to continue, and then headed home, feeling a little dejected. True to form, we started looking on the wrong side of the river for this one too. This place would have been even nicer before it was almost chopped off from the rest of the word by the south-eastern.

My first cache! Had to come back a second time, since the first time I had the GPS set to AGD66, not WGS84. I spent half an hour last week looking for a cache under a tree with an apple stuck to the trunk (surely a sign!), only to be 200m away from the actual location.
Found the cache quickly, but not before coming eye to eye with a possum weary of geocachers. Sadly there was a dead baby possum at the base of the tree
Left a rubber alien and a US dollar (reg. with www.wheresgeorge.com), took a cow (toy, not real).

Found plaque and the possums home (he was a bit startled by us!) but couldn't find the cache. Four of us looked for about 20 minutes but cache was nowhere to be seen. Found a mobile phone cable hanging in the tree so if this was part of the cache it may have been vandalized. Thanks Muzza for a nice and informative hunt.

I found this one fairly easily on the way home from work. I was rewarded with a new view of the house across the river that i have driven past many times and dreamed of living in. note- the bike track had barely less and barely slower traffic the nearby freeway!

Found at 4.30pm.
An easy find in a lovely spot.
Didn't know this park existed.
Took TB and left a 10 rupee note.
Thanks Muzza, time to go home now.
K&M

Have been meaning to do this one for a while. Found the right side of the river easier enough. Walked straight to where I thought the cache was. I was slightly off. Took me 10 mins to find.
Swapped a car for a pen. Pretty full cache.

Thanks Muzza another great park. And a beautiful day to boot .

Unusually for me, I seem to have had a lot less trouble on this one than many other cachers. Parked about 400m away and walked straight to it. I guess it's easy when you know which side of the river. I worked out the naming by looking in the Melway. Took a San Diego Zoo coin, and left a Minnesota souvenir, to keep the american theme going. Thanks Muzza.

Sounded like an easy one to attempt for my first cache find... wrong side of the river to start, then a lot of going around in small circles once I was finally there. The Yarra sure can smell funny. Took nothing, left nothing.

At 2.05pm after landed from Brisbane on route to Gippsland - visiting the family and had a quick detour to this cache site. At first, it was tricky to find as to which side of the river. After leaded to the rock and found cache easily after corinates. Thanks for interested history. Took 88 Nascar TB and left H.S.Taz TB. Taz hopes someone will give him a lift anywhere. TB Clifford The Big Red Dog is destined to other cache. Thanks.







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Found relatively easily once we worked out which side of the Yarra it was on and how to get into the park. The hardest part of this cache was getting all the goodies back into the container. Thanks for an interesting history lesson. No exchange. Greg and Bev

Wasn't sure I was going to be able to properly search for this because there was a family playing football nearby. Decided to sit awhile to see if the football players would move to their gathering place some distance away. I am visiting from the states so I was on foot getting to this one... the rest did me some good. Eventually I got my chance and found the cache. T->$100 Australian Note L->Fish and a San Diego Zoo emblem. BTW, I also found the plaque nearby to read how the area was named. Discovered that Australia has its share of graffiti.

Found by Mary & David at 1045 on a damp, grey Melbourne morning. Biggles Bear's furry escapade here sounds worthy of an entry in 'Geocaching Adventures', and thankfully there was no repeat performance today. Toook memo holders, left ceramic cat. We'd come across the TB before, so left it to await new company. Thanks Muzza for showing us another fascinating part of our Yarra. And yes, David will have one, but Mary would rather stick to her moselle.

Yay ! Finally, a cache that I didn't get : stung bitten, scratched, and actually exists in the location specified !

Nice Cache, interesting location, although I couldn't see the 'public facilities' supposedly erected on this site

Took the glow-in-the-dark froggy, and left a sparkly pen

Thanks !

Found 8:50, after a lengthy search, in which Biggles Bear thinks he found Muzza’s original hiding place when an angry possum confronted Biggles Bear in his tree (that’s the possum’s tree) and tried to recreate the ‘face hugger’ scene from Alien Needless to say Biggles Bear made a hasty retreat from the tree with a highly elevated heart rate.

Took TB Hawkeye (318381) and left Australian $100.00 note key tag, thanks Muzza for an exciting start to the morning, what Biggles’ morning coffee didn’t achieve the possum certainly did.


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Found 3:30 pm by Daddy Frogger. Upon approching this cache, it soon became obvious that we were on the wrong side of the Yarra (in all our searches for caches near a watercourse, Team Frogger has not yet managed to start their search on the the correct side ). After ensuring that the Killer Possum was not on site and waiting for some traffic to pass by on the Yarra, we started our search at GZ and the cache was quickly found.
Team Frogger exchanged the compass keyring ( as we have until now been compassless) and the Embi Signiture Item for a glow-in-the-the-dark frog, a sheet of stickers and a comb, and we left travelbug 88 Nascar to continue its journey. As Daddy Frogger has a small coin collection, he was unable to resist the shiny, gold Texas GeoCoin, the first we have seen.
Thanx for the cache Muzza, we are glad we did not have to test our tree climbing skills .

Team Frogger

Dropped TB Hawkeye here for the next leg in his journey. Also deposited Texas Geocoin TX0471.

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