Mason's Cache Laverton, Victoria, Australia
By Two+Four on 31-Aug-03. Waypoint GCGT14

Found the cache!!! what gives.....

Went searching for a cache at this site and came across one. Signed the logbook and placed it back into its spot.

Was this the original cache, or is it part of another multi......i didnt really take any notice as you dont normally come across more than one cache at a time in the same location.

From memory it was mason's cache!!

Thanks for what i found,
Agsmky

Cache archived as part of our tidy up of lose ends before we move to WA. Thanks to all those that visited

Working in the area and stopped in this quiet place for lunch. Found the cache after a short search. The log book is still very wet and it needs drying out or replacing. TNLN. Enjoyed the croaking frogs on this fairly dreary day. They seemed to be enjoying the rain.

Found this one with help from Sister Sue and Brother Charlie. This was Charlie's first cache. Took a long reach and a stick to get it. Cache was soaked! Dried it out the best we could. Log bag had a hole and it was wet also. Left note in another plastic bag. Took spotted frog left some American coins. Signed log. Thanks for the wonderful time here in Australia. We are visiting here from Pocatello, Idaho USA.

A great little spot, nice playground. This took some navigating to get here. Thanks Took TB am heading to the gold coast friday so will drop it of up there. Thanks.

Found at 11:05am in between dodging muggles, kids and dogs. A nice spot that seems pretty popular with the locals.
Took dinosaur
Left Spotty frog & TB Little Bugger #2 - Ladybird
thanks Two+Four

5.00pm
Found by Roma and Max.
Traveling in the Romax mobile home we were able to have
our evening meal whilst waiting for everyone to leave the area.
Took: Smiley Face Head Band.
Left: Smiley Face Suction Cup and Smiley Face Rattle.
Thanks Two + Four.
from Romax.

The was a great cache for our afternoon coffee break and the boys enjoyed the play equipment.
Many thanks Two + Four for the cache.
Regards Mr.Coffee “enjoying a coffeeâ€Âand the Clan

Found at 10.35AM First out of 6.

I have brought some newbies with me today, 4 of them to be exact. I explained to them what geocaching was by using a box in a backyard before I took them with me, L.J one of my closest friends who is here from the USA, has been wondering what caching really is since I started. And then there is two of her friends A.S and K.M. They love to go for a walk in the bush, and B.M who wants to see a GPS in action. Well this cache was great for the biggenners, The co ords brought me between two trees, I looked nearby but it was nowhere, so I told everyone to spread out, coz it could be anywhere. L.J found her first find not long after. An easy hiding spot in such a nice park.

Oh forgot to mention, this is also my 250th cache.

Thanks for the cache from M.B, L.J, A.S, K.M and B.M

Took a Chainsaw Keyring and left a Dinosaur.

New sub-divisions always look so bare before the trees growup. This was a nice spot of green in the bare houses.
Today seemed to be a day of dinosaurs, so I left another two. Took: Winged Monster.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found it this time, although not sure I can claim it after a bit of help from the cach owner. Geojack and myself both spotted it at the same time. TNLN because we called in unarmed. Just happened to be passing and thought we'd have a go. Didn't even have the GPS this time.

After the recent no finds I managed to get down and check the cache today. The Cache was still intact but had moved a long way under it's hiding place. Some work with a stick eventually retrieved it. It is now hidden at a point were you should not have to enter the garden.

Crestfallen is an understatement!!! We were devastated!

Not really, but we were there for a couple of hours and came home extremely itchy from those terrible plants around the gazebo!

Looking forward to the update on if it's actually still there or not!

I've had 2 tries for this one. Geojack has also tried twice and Joshwa&Rachy just came home all crestfallen and grass stained from trying as well. We think, sorry, dont think, know the co-ordinates are wrong. We need a little help here Two+ Four. Please.

DNF on 08/02/05 @ 1525 AEDST. 2nd DNF of the 3 for today with Facitman. Either our arms are not long enough, or this one has been moved by muggles or water flow. We couldn't find it

Cheers 2+4

** Rhinogeo & Facitman - The 40th Forage **

Did not Find at 3:25pm

Our second DNF today

The satellites were not helping at thei location and a few Muggles didn't help.

Thanks Two+Four, we'll have to try another day.

** Rhinogeo and Facitman - The 40th Forage **

One of us (Andrew) had tried to find this cache in August with a friend who lives within walking distance with no success. That search was cut short by a major downpour. We were visiting the same friend tonight and we were a bit early. What to do to kill a few minutes? What else? Fortunately the weather was a bit miserable so there was hardly anyone about - we only had to wait a few minutes as one family rode by. We checked out all the easy spots then returned for the not-so-easy ones. After a few minutes with a torch, one of us (Liz) announced "found it" at 7:25pm. We weren't planning on any caching so we didn't have anything much to swap. We took a plastic monkey and left a hair-tie. The frogs were hard at it - they must be on overtime! Thanks to Two+Four and Mason for bringing us to this park. The whole area is really looking good now.

7th of 16 finds for the day. Have friends building a new house nearby, so have been past here a few times. This was the first chance to stop for a look though. We nearly gave up before mother STABILO laid her hands on the cache.
Took: Dominoes
Left: 'STABILO' Hi-lighter

Too many muggles here! Maybe another time.

The Nomads watched my fruitless search knowing cache's hiding place. As I refused all help from them this remained hidden.

Found at 1750. The muggles all disappeared soon after we arrived. Nice spot - the playground looks good as well. TNLN. Thanks Two+Four.

I missed the Rabbits by an hour. I tried to find this cache 12 months ago, but was foiled by a group of muggles. This time no problem. TNLN.

Found at 6:00pm. While visiting family in Werribee, we stepped out to clean up some of the caches we missed on our last visit. The satellites once again wanted to push us away from the real cache location but this time we ignored them and with no muggles about today, I put my hand on the cache in the first spot checked.

Thanks Two+Four from D,S & H B-A. Hope you had a great Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. Took nothing left nothing.

Our last cache in the Werribee area for the day just on dusk before we head off to enjoy the Wyndham lights
Took us about 15 minutes to locate this one as there were many muggles around. Find it easily once we could actually start searching.
Took RACV Cloth Badge
Left Key Clip
Thanks Mason for this cache

Visited at 1:05pm. Rabbitto's Run 2004. No find on our attempt to log the most caches in Australia in one day. Time elapsed since start - 5 Hours 05 Mins.

Spent 15 minutes here with muggles visiting on a rotating basis, we could not attempt a search. After picking up the first 11 caches straight, we have now hit a rough spot with only 2 finds on the last 5 attempted.

We had to be stealthful on this one. It was a beautiful day and there were several families milling about and probably wondering why our little savages were trekking through the bushes and ignoring the nearby playground. Just when we thought we had the situation under control, the littlest savage who is 3, yelled, "I found the treasure!" We tried to be cool and quietly diffuse the situation, but I am sure we were thought to be a strange lot. Took the stapler & Geo-Coin, Left the green man and dominos.

Found at 1515, in company with barcoder. Our 13th cache for the day. I had looked where I thought the cache would be, but failed to see it. Then barcoder looked there and came up with it. The next challenge was replacing the cache under the noses of the two girls who had arrived at the playground. We accomplished this and left the scene. We watched from our car (200 metres away) for five minutes or so, but they made no move towards the cache.

IN: Karabiner <-- correct spelling, and Canadian GeoCoin number 1773
OUT: Yo-yo

There are so many great housing estates going up everywhere in the area. This cache is part of one of them, and our last for the day. Dak and I knew where it would be. Had a good hunt. Dak "missed it by that much". We sat in the structure near by and attended to the log. Two young Muggle girls arrived at the play equipment. We hoped that they did not study us too closely as we were replacing it. They didn't.
Another great day of caching thanks to Dak's organisation. The GeoBeamer is filthy though. I know it is really white underneath, not brown.

IN: Fruit magnet & slinky
OUT: Dice & furry kangaroo

Yeah! Our first cache. Took the cow candle and left a marker.
Cheers tbb & jjp

Well I tagged along with stmpyspud for this one thinking that we probably wouldnt find it in the dark. Lo and behold stumpy found it in seconds exactly where i had looked months ago.....doesnt that make you just scratch your head

Found by stumpyspud (in the presence of embi and J). Embi was not very happy that i found this one as this is his second attempt to find it. It began to pour just as we got back to the car.

Nice new development advertising cool bike ways and parks. One wonders about the unfenced waterways and child safety. How can they get away with this????? This place reminded me of Longreach in QLD as I needed to . Took needle and thread set and left electrical tape for the new home owners. Thanks 2+4. Clear skies, John.

[This entry was edited by TeamAstro on Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 8:02:25 PM.]

Easy to find but reaching it required gorilla length arms. GPS put me right on top of it.
The wife will be happy with the muddy cloth's I now have as it started to rain just as I got there.
Another nice cache to find.

Took - Yoyo
Left - Cow Candle

Monkey arms (or a big stick) are definitely the key to this one.
Had to wait for the kids to leave the park, but that's OK as my kids went and played while we waited.
Took a piggy and left behind an SES volunteer patch.
Thanks for a nice cache.

Knew we where heading west but did not expect to see an emu. Definitely needed long arms for this one.

Found this one at about 13:00... after waiting for some local kids to disappear from the scene we quickly found this one - reminds me of some of maccamob's drops!
Thanks mason and to two + four.
took rubber mat and left sewing kit.

Found by Ray and Maya at 11:40AM on the 15th of Feb. It took a bit of searching to find but we suceeded in the end. We had to hang around a while as a small child, who was tired of playing kites with dad, came to check us out. We returned to the car to wait our opportunity. I think the heat of the day eventually drove them home. We took a fiqurine and left a soap holder. Thanks from The Nomads.

I'd been here once before with no luck so I was determined to find it. I even came with props . Gave my girlfriend a rundown on my past attempts with this cache and we were on our way. She just happened to look in the right spot. We would never had been able to reach this cache without my prop!!!!
Found at 1324 swapped a toy for a rubber bat.

Thanks 2 + 4. Lovely location.

This was another race from the car to GZ. This one was close but I got to it first. Deb's prop was a must, not even a monkey could reach it. Found at 13.24 and that makes 3 for me and 2 for Deb. Lovely spot. Swapped necklace for pompom.

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Found on my second visit - this time I was dressed more appropriately! No way I could have reached this one on my own - fortunately a stake nearby gave me some extra distance... Missed the travelbug by a day - a SA team are giving it a lift. I took a carabiner and left a koosh ball. Thanks Mason and 2+3!

We'd cased this one a couple of times over the last couple of days ... not far from where we've been based at Maccamob HQ over the last week or so. Not a soul in sight tonight as we made our final attempt ... although Slider needed two goes to reach the cache! Derringer must have very long arms . Took the doorstop, left a carabiner keyring.

Also left the Dutch TB "Homesick Mickey" - he's part of the 2003 Netherlands Travel Bug race that started in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago (www.geocaching.nl/bugrace). Please help Mickey on his way back to the Netherlands!

Thanks for the hunt, Two+Four!

Dropped by, but a film crew and local family were shooting an advert for the estate on top of the cache . Decided to leave for the other side of Christmas.

Attempted this one this afternoon before heading off to a BBQ dinner. Found myself in a lovely area - surprised to see there was nobody else about. Wasn't able to spot the cache from where I stood - although I circled the structure several times. From Derringer's description I have an idea where the container should be, but wasn't going to get my clothes dirty! Will return another day

Checked on the cache this morning and it is still there.

I didn't have the paper work with me just the co-ordinates in my GPS. Searched for 20 mins and no luck. two+four any chance of checking if this one still exist???
It could be me, but I did look.

Found at 11.25am. Boy you must have long arms Mason, I am 1.85m tall and had alot of trouble reaching this cache.
The cache was plainly visible, some camo a la Maccamob would help its survival prospects.
No exchange made.
Thanks Mason
K&M

Found at 4.15pm
Its unbelievable how quickly new estates appear, last time we were in the area there was a school in the middle of a paddock, now there are houses everywhere. Found the park and the playground easily, but gz was a bit harder as the gps had a mind of its own and the signal kept jumping around. Finally common sense took over and yes it was in the most obvious spot. Took pink pom pom ball and left bulldog clip and 2 dice. Thanks two + four and especially
Mason.

Found at 12.10 the third 2+4 cache for the day and in the footsteps of Maccamob and Muzza. No swaps. Thanks 2+4.

Found by Mary & David at 1545. This one is even closer to home than Keryn's Cache, but we hadn't got around to exploring here yet. A good hiding spot, Mason. Took purple carabiner, left Roman figurine and a small pig. Thanks to Mason and the Two+Four gang.

Found at 11:55, my third Two+Four cache for the day. This one was an easy find, with the cache being plainly visible from the right angle. I guess the playground is not heavily used at the moment so it doesn't matter too much.

I took a clip keychain and left a pompom ball, a mini yo-yo and the toy bat from 'Laura's Loot'. When I replaced it, I made it a little less obvious, although it can still be seen. Thanks again, Two+Four, for the cache.