Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor Sydenham, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 12-Jun-04. Waypoint GCJP7K

The cache is MIA.
As there are a number of other caches in the area including some Earthcaches, I'll let this one pass into history.
Thanks to everyone who found it.

Looks like it may be MIA so disabled for the moment.

I had a few hours before the official start of the Ballarat Cache Smackdown on the weekend of 23-25 March with caching buddies Quasar3671, Blacklegend, Haveanez and Dazrascal so I decided to go for a bit of a drive along the Calder freeway and pick up a number of caches before meeting up with part of the team before moving off to Ballarat. I had a great run visiting some pretty interesting places. I like this type of caching where you visit some really interesting places. Thanks to all the CO’s for their efforts, I really enjoyed the search. This was my first DNF for the weekend. Met a brand newbie cacher here. Pity I didn't find it with him. Cheers.

Dnf perhaps washed away in recent flooda

Too overgrown washed away perhaps

I was very proud to count this cache as my first proper find as madboy42 tends to spot caches before I do. A lovely area and a great place to bring my friend who is a geology nut. Left a badge. Tftc!

had a lovely morning with the family, walking around the organ pipes park.
this was our second one for the morning.
great find. thanks caughtatwork.[:x]

5th and last find in the Organ Pipes National Park. Sensational location and a pretty quick find had, despite the long grass and some reasonable caution due to possible snakes. Might have to contact you about me setting up an earth cache at this location, well, offset a bit. It is worthy. Will send a personal message. Thanks for bringing me here. TFTC.

Very nice. TFTC!

Scrounged around for awhile. There was long grass, so I don't know whether this assisted the hide. Gave up on the search as one of my accomplices today was experiencing his first geo adventures and I didn't want him bored and turned off caching. Nice location which I've driven past many many times. Closer to maccas than I thought. TFTC.

TFTC

Found at 9.25am on a day out caching - just the 2 of us. We headed in a direction we hadn't been before and this was our first stop and the first time Mr had been hear -and a very very long time since Mrs. After the long walk down the hill the cache was found and the log signed. TFTC and bringing us here.

Nice walk, found quickly TN L Soldier TFTC.

Nice scenery and a good walk. Easy to find thanks to GoldJ. TNLN TFTC.

Hello, logging my personal tracker to calculate distance

27/08/11 11:46 AM Find #424 - I was a bit confused by the hint as today the GPSr had me a bit higher but extending the search radius uncovered what I was seeking! Grabbed GC to move along. Thanks for bringing me here.

I Had to search for a little while and then took notice of the clue. Very handy hint although no fence around.
Very interesting rock formations and the creek bubbling along was very pleasanyt.
TFTC caughtatwork

Out caching with LouiseAnn on a rainy and cold day. Still, we had an enjoyable walk around the park without getting too wet. Enjoyed the sight of the rock formations and also to have a walk on top of the columns, although slippery today at this cache. Cache was found after a bit of a search. Left Canadian coin. Thanks for taking us here and for the interesting information, caughtatwork!

I visited this park on a cold and rainy day with Ostra74, we chatted as we strolled down to the impressive geological feature and collected all the required information earth caches in the area, before moving on to this traditional cache. I really enjoyed the information contained in this cache description, I thought it was better than all the earth caches in the area, we enjoyed reading it and it provided us we a good understanding of the geology in the area. The hint does need to be updated, as the fence it refers to is no longer present. Thanks for the cache caughtatwork.

Pleasant walk down to area and took me quite a long while to locate the cache. Agree with other logs that hints are confusing. SL TFTC

Found in the company of the Earthbound family. They (parents) decided we needed to get out of the house before the end of the holidays. Strange the info centre wasn't open on a weekend during the school holidays, I wonder when it does open?? TFTC, interesting rock formation, we saw something similar in Tasmania in January but that tesselated pavement was a coastal rock platform.

This entry was edited by Earthbound Max on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 at 11:30:41 UTC.

We've come for an afternoon walk so why not pick up a cache.
Good to have a traditional amongst the earthcaches.
Found the cache without too much trouble slightly left of the formation and took the TB
The fence mentioned in the hint is no longer in existence, so the hint may need tweaking.
Thanks for the cache

This entry was edited by Earthbound Chief on Saturday, 16 July 2011 at 10:41:58 UTC.

Took us a little while to find this one as the described landmark (fence) was nowhere to be seen. All good after some minutes. There is still some slimy mud on the outside but inside all is fine.
Took TB, left TB
TFTC

The Organ Pipes were a great little caching and wander stop as we made our way up to Echuca via Kyneton this morning. The kids had loved the various rock formation (to our surprise!) and this one thrilled them both with the opportunity to clamber about. Meanwhile, Mum and Dad searched for caches - Not too successfully at first, fearing a DNF and poking about in various nooks and crannies in the area, but with careful attention to the clue we eventually found the cache in a sensible, but excellent, spot. Cache is now in great nick due to the recent maintenance.

Dropped off a TB to mark our first traditional cache of the trip Thanks caughtatwork...

We had flown into Melbourne to visit the King Tut exhibition and to visit a few earthcaches, but couldn't resist some nearby traditionals. Unfortunately, we relied on the GPS to get us here from the airport, and promptly got lost. We eventually found our way and after quite a search, we had the cache in hand. We enjoyed our walk along the tracks in this park. TFTC caughtatwork

Found this one while finding the local Earthcaches with GhostGums. It took a while to find this cache.

TFTC

We found this one while doing the local earthcaches. It took a few minutes to find. The cache was full of water and we dried it out as best we could. The log books were in a bag full of water. They were soaked and quite slimy, but possibly could be dried out (and will return to owner after a short stint in the Qld sun). We removed them and put in a new dry book.

We were quite impressed with thelocal geological feature. We were also observed by the local wallabies who were a little shy for a photo.

Found with MrMeccano

TFTC

Found this morning after doing the rounds of the fascinating Earthcaches in the park.
Took a little time, and I was about to give up as my logs were over a week old, meaning the last three were DNF's.
Hint didn't help as the 'fence' is long gone, I guess from the flooding.
I dried the container as well as i could, and then removed all the contents except the pathtag, logbooks and pen.
The swaps were all slimy and smelly, so might need to be replaced if considered important.
Will download a photo of a rock wallaby about 10m from GZ if the camera shot is clear enough.
My thanks to c@w for another quality cache, and for the information provided, an extremely rich history.

Totally waterlogged, log unsignable as us wet and has been for a while I'd say as it's also slimy. Emptied water and removed sodden slimy something? Maintenance required ASAP. Took geocoin left signature pathtag in place of signing log

Nice walk through the canyon and interesting rock formations was disapointed not finding this cache even though I looked for an hour or more. nice time waster on sunday arvo any ways.

thanks for putting your cache in a remote and interesting area makes a work trip away from famaly bearable

Was unable to find this cache today.
Maybe next visit to this nice little National Park.

With gutter-kat, the cache eluded us today. But it looked as though the area had been recently flooded...

Quickly found @ 1145 - a quick visit to drop off the Dartmoor National Park geocoin. Logbooks have achieved a slime level previously only associated with mashed snails & are fast becoming papier mache, so I've plastic-wrapped the coin. TN, left Dartmoor geocoin, signed temp log. TFTC.

Found with Teamppss on a 5 cache grab at the Organ Pipes NP. I first came here in the early eighties, then neglected the park until the late nineties, and somehow missed the naughties!! Will have to come back twice in the 'twentyteens' to make up for the time. Cache was certainly damp and in need of some TLC. Thanks Caughtatwork for bringing us back to the park, and TFTC

Found with Aussiepuschaks and like previous logs suggest the container has been full of water TFTC

As previous log states the log book needs replacing. Drained cache but that was all we could manage. TFTC TNLN

One of many found today during my 'Intervening Days III' cache hunt. Had a really nice walk through the park this morning. Quite a few muggles had the same idea. Waited until a few muggles taking photos moved on before retrieving the cache. Thanks for the ide.

As per my note. This cache is very wet as is the log book.
It was not a good time to try and dry it out due to the muggle factor.

Dropped into this cache while doing some nearby earth cache's. Got some nice photo's of the area while looking for this one.

TFTC

Came here with spartan2224.
Cache is very wet.
Log book wet.
Unable to dry out due to muggle factor.

Reperio at 1245. After stopping by the different geological locations in the area, we continued our walk down to the pavement, and after a bit of a scout around, we found the cache lurking in a spot we overlooked on our first search. This is the second tessellated pavement, the other being in Tasmania that I have been fortunate enough to see...this one a little less impressive, but still a very interesting location. Like others have already mentioned, the log was wet with plenty of water in the cache which we drained.

Gratias c@w.

I was out on a Gnome hunting and hiding day today. Sometimes it's good to do some caches like this from the "alternative" website so I downed Gnome tools and set out to find this one.
There was a lot of rain around today so I consider myself lucky to have made it down and back to the car after touring all the nearby caches without getting a drop on me.
When I found the cache I poured out all the smelly water and just about managed to sign one end of the gunky logbook. I then tried to dry it as best as I could but this won't be much help. I'm just sorry that I didn't have my cache repair and replacement kit with me today as I was expecting to do only Gnomes and Earthcaches today. [B)] At least I could wash my hands in the nearby Jacksons Creek.
Took: tag (I know how quickly these things start to rust!). Left: nothing.

Cheers caughtatwork, thanks for bringing me back to this beautiful spot.

Lots of evidence that the creek had flooded and been right over gz. The cache had lots of mud on it and water in it but was safe. We drained it and managed to SL but couldn't do a lot more. Left pathtag took geocoin so PIGO TFTC

TFTC -- picked up a pathtag put in a christmas decoration

We came to visit this park by accident this afternoon.
I actually wanted to cache in another park, but wasn't so sure where it was located, and we ended up here, in the Organ Pipes National Park!

It certainly wasn't a wasted day. The sun was out and the weather was quite warm, and the walk around this reserve was pleasant.

The bf and I visited the main attraction points here most importantly we found this cache!

The walk back up the hill was a killer though !

L: Kara's Cacheosphere Geocoin to start its journey around Australia and back home.

Thanks caughtatwork for this cache.

Nice find after a good hike. The trek back up the hill was a lot harder.

thanks for the cache. in the process of doing the multi i was able to get 5 meters away from a rock wallaby and i also got a few pictures taken of me with it
found at approx 14:00


tfth

Found it @ approx. 14:00 with Kazza1996

Had too bide my time while groups came and went, then had to dodge for the local wildlife cache caretaker? (see photo)

All in all, an easy find on agreat day in a great place.

Took TB

TFTC

My GPS coordinates seemed a bit off but the hint got me back on track. TNLNSL TFTC

Found on a gloriuos October day with oldwinebottle. Avoided muggles & eventually found it- the fence wasn't quite what I picture as a fence!
TFTC

After a bit of looking we finally located this one.
Lots of muggles around, but most eventually left.
TFTC

nice walk,lots of muggles,left coin

dropped off geocoin

Found on a trip away with Gunnie69 and GIB69. Thanks Managed to grab it before the more experienced cachers of the group

Slight delay due to muggles but they eventually moved on an d allowed us to hunt for the cache. Otious came up with the goods, log was passed and we were on our way again. TNLN TFTC

There were a group of muggles close to GZ when Otious, Gib69 and I arrived. We lingerred a little and took in the beauty of the area until the group moved on. Once clear, the hunt was on and it was not long til the cache was spotted by Otious. I had looked close by but missed the container...

Cheers caughtatwork.

Called in here on our way back from Bendigo / NZ as we had a bit of time to kill. Turned out it wasn't as quick a cache was I thought it would be (isn't that always the way). Found by GW After walking down the hill she wasn't leaving empty handed haha. TNLN Thanks for the break in the drive caughtatwork and the cache.

Was short on time before closing and wanted to concentrate on the Earth Caches nearby so without having read the cache page I didnt feel comfortable searching what looked to be protected area. I now know I didnt have to go that far but hey better safe then a smiley

A quick find after a steep walk down, a few muggles about but found with ease.
Many thanks.

TNLN...............SL.

its nice place to walk around ... with crank1 and alchemy2 and i keep look for while finally found it...thanks for show me the place

Really enjoy walking around this park.
Very nice park.
Found this cache by Crank1.
Thanks for bring us here

After Rosette Rock.
Found it with Alchemy2, Laker63. TFTC

Just 15min from where I live! Beautiful spot.
Difficult to be discrete, lots of muggles.
While attempting to hide my find from view while I opened it, I emptied the contents of the cache on the ground.
Then while scrambling to pick up and hide them, I left a couple of items in my handbag!
So, Took: (accidentally) dinosaur & Santa eraser. Left: nothing. TFTC!!

found with xesist with no muggles around to hamper our search, nice park that we have never been to before despite being only 20 mins from home, the walk down was easy but the walk back to the car park got our blood pumping. tnln tftc.

Found with vicbradybunch, cache was located quite quickly and log signed. The light rain that started has gone just as quick and the skys look to be fining up. Touch wood it stays this way for the rest of the day. TNLN, TFTC.

I've driven past organ pipes NP heaps of times and always want to stop off but have never got around to it, so this cache gave me a good excuse to go down one weekend. Was a beautiful little park, but geez was popular. I sat on the seat by the rocks waiting as the constant stream of muggles, one group after another, came, looked, took photos and left for about twenty minutes until finally i had the chance to get my GPS out and find the cache. I enjoyed waiting here and watching the river gurgling along, otherwise i would have also been one of the people that came, looked, took photo and left. Thanks for the cache.

Love the rocks, almost like back in Ireland at giants causeway. Easy find, TNLN

Not a great start to our day, as we weren't able to locate this hide. All was not lost as this location was spectacular. The team was unanimous that even though we didn't locate cache it was still a worthwhile day out.
Thanks for getting us out of the house once again.
formermuggles

Found on the 22nd June 2010 @ 3:20pm easy fine nice area for exploring nature. TNLN SL TFTC

Found by The Empire @ 2:00pm
Find number 4 of 9 today. After taking the required photos at the Organ Pipes Earthcache I had to bypass the Rosette Rock Earthcache due to a guy taking "glamour" shots of this chick... yeah... she likes geology... a lot. I bypassed them and headed straight to this cache, I had the cache found but not retrieved yet, I was putting down my umbrella and sorting out my GPSr. Then they turned up here. Obviously these rocks get her rocks off too... yuck... I waited, trying to not look like a perv and when they were obscured by a few trees (yeah... they were in the bush alright) I grabbed the cache, quickly scribbled my name in the log and then I took off for the last Earthcache before they came back. Thanks for the cache caughtatwork.
- M

It seems we missed the Empire by about an hour (and the glamor photography!).
A nice easy find here and after we found it a family came and hung around for ages.
Lucky we had hidden it by then.
Thanks for another great cache.

This was a good hide.
I liked looking at the rocks and the stream here.
TFTC

I haven't been here since I was in primary school even though I have lived in the area all my life. Good reason to come back, not at all what I remembered.

must have driven past here at least 3 million times and was great to stop and explore finally - thanks caught at work

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Just before the park closed I headed to this spot and found some hoping guys

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Located today, although not logged until 29/11/2011.
Many thanks for the cache.

27 May 2010 10:41:00

What an amazing location, a short walk down the path and I soon had the cache in hand.

The rock formations are amazing.

tftc

Found after looking at the wrong fence area for 20 minutes!

These rocks are interesting indeed. Walked with three friends around the area, enjoyed the views and nature, and found the cache without much trouble. TFTC

out: TB

What a great area this cache is in.
Wandered all around to check out the area, then headed to the cache location.
Found with out any problems.
Just got it back in it's hidey hole as some muggles arrived.
So I started taking photos of the formations near GZ.
Took the TB
Left a TB
Thanks to caughtatwork for the cache.

Very nice park. Went for a long walk and found this cache

T4TC & Greetings from Switzerland

In TB Out: ---

Found it easy

A pleasant afternoon walk.

Wow! This is the word I'd use to describe the location of this Cache. After 'surviving' plod-crossing the Calder Freeway a few times, (after an earlier Cache 'up the Freeway') the plod to this Cache, once the National Park had been entered, is a delight. It was still early morning and nobody except 'The Quiet Plodder' was in the vicinity. It's been well over 40 years since I vaguely recall coming to this Park and yes Folks it's steep (even going down) but easy (no rock or cross country scrambling required). If you like Geology and Aircraft, this is the place to be as it appears the Park is under the Tullamarine Flight Path! Walking along the Creek toward the Cache and passing another fantastic Volcanic feature you could not help but be impressed. The Information provided by 'caughtatwork' is very helpful and added to the enjoyment, as is the Park Notes you can collect from the very modest Visitor Information Center. I'd certainly urge you follow the Clue and not interfere with any of the Geology (no need to) and then after finding the Cache spend some time exploring (and photographing) the vicinity, before slowly plodding back up the steep path from whence you came. Cache is good nick too, considering its age. Note there is another Cache in the Park, not far away and well worth a visit. TNLN. Thanks again to 'caughtatwork' for another delightful caching experience. TQP

Today was a good chance to clean up a few close to home that I still hadn't found. I decided the weather was perfect for the walk to the two at the Organ Pipes, including this one. The cool southerly breeze meant that it was very comfortable down in the valley, except for the constant stream of planes overhead. It took me while to track down this cache, with all of the possible hiding places, but eventually found it, by standing and looking, knowing that c@w would hide it in an environmentally sustainable way. The cache is still in good condition, after almost six years. TNLN. Great to finally get this one. Now, off to number two in the park, before I tackle that climb back up to the car!

[This entry was edited by pwags on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 1:17:53 AM.]

What a great place. Absolutely worth a visit even without the cache. I had to resort to the hint as my GPSr was pointing to another (also beautiful ) spot, about 25m away.

TFTC, wemwolf

Went to the park for a Picnic and found this Cache. Had a good time and saw some wildlife. Kids complained a little about the climb but they soon got over it. Took a little while to find the cache as one of the kids made a mistake with the additional hints decryption which put us off track a little. Added a DS stylus but didn't take anything. Were interupted by a muggle when writing in the log, so it was cut a bit short.

Decided to grab this one on the way the Melb for the weekend. Found after a short time looking, Only a small amount of complaining from the younger member of the team on the trek back up the hill. Took bouncy ball, left rubber. TFTC

We found this cache while at Organ pipes national park for a family Christmas meet up. Great walk and great rock formations. The info board had some good info to read about how they were formed.

Found @ 1150 by Mrs Mud, Johnny Mud and GeoSam. We were also going to attempt "I Guess They Couldn't Stand Organ Music", however the creek was a bit high after the recent few days of rain to safely negotiate so we chose to err on the side of caution. So off to "D Minor" it was. Found easily after the muggle tourists left GZ. The cache log was full as per the most recent log post so we did a little housekeeping including adding a new log book (a bit bigger than the last so please make sure the lid is on tight) and getting rid of a few mouldy bandaids and some odd damp bits of paper. After a quick dry the cache was nice and new again and ready to go. Signed the log (new book), rehid and back to the visitors centre area for hot dogs on the gas BBQ for lunch.
Great spot. Signed the log and took nothing. Left 2 x AFES Pogs (American military platic coins)
Terrific place to visit. Highly recommended. TFTC.
We'll be back to do "I Guess They Couldn't Stand Organ Music" after the rain stops and the creek slows to a trickle......

Found with sparrowfall. Glad it wasn't a hot day! Interesting park - thanks for making us search it out - doubt I would have ever visited otherwise.

TNLN TFTC

Found with sl0th. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Log book full.

The afternoon was cloudy but it wasn't raining. This gave us an opportunity to venture to this national park for a short walk and do some caching. We located the cache reasonably easily. Took simlie face, dice and finger puppet. Left hippo, safety pin and giraffe. We tried to find a nearby cache in the park but the walking track was cut off by the river. We did have quite a bit of rain in the past week. TFTC.

Another cool spot that I didn't know existed. After grabbing the cache (TNLN) we were greeted by a wallaby and her littleun and a whole bunch of roo's up on the hills. As time was running out we'll have to come back to do the other cache in the area. Cheers.

Found by Bob at 1520

On a bit of a tour of the western suburbs, I'd penciled in the two at this park to have a go at but, after my previous cache, it was raining quite steadily and I was very tempted to leave them for another day as I had no raincoat or umbrella. As it turned out, however, I'm really glad I didn't as they were the highlights of the day and I really enjoyed the solitude and stillness of the gorge with all the vegetation dripping wet. I guess I'd typically tend to visit this sort of park on a summery sort of day but, the cooler weather today really made things a lot more comfortable and the rain (which had stopped by the time I got there) made the bush wet and it seemed so much more "alive" than it does on those stinking hot summer days. The only real problem was the first part of the path down - it's asphalt and the rain had made it quite slippery and, after one slide (which didn't result in a fall!), I had to be very careful and was almost tip-toeing down - it was much easier on the way up! I saw a number of wallabies (one right next to my car when I got back to the car-park) and a few kangaroos - some of them hopping into the creek and swimming across. The park's slated attractions were very impressive too.

TNLN

Thanks again caughtatwork - a fantastic spot indeed!

Find # 151 @ 16:00
I think I could have found an easier way in but a great hike nonetheless. Bit of a climb back to the vehicle. TNLNSL TFTC

A spot well worth visiting. A great day that didn't rain despite ominous skies. TTFC

A nice easy find, a beautiful day - what more could you ask for? TFTC

Great weekend for caching and a nice location for a cache. Thanks for bringing us here. Took - marble egg. Left - yellow spiky ball.