Sitting Ducks Hallam, Victoria, Australia
By aussiecoder on 18-Sep-04. Waypoint GCKJWV

Cache has been missing for over a year.
Archive required?

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us, and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Cache is definately gone.

Fresh tractor tracks in the vacinity lead me to belive a mowing contractor has spied the cache and decided it would look better at his house.

No sign of the cache (or the duck).

I'll order a new duck and get this cache back online ASAP.

While I managed to retrieve all the clues on this one, at lest if I got the right ones I was unable to locate the cache. An impression in the ground where I figured the cache should have been leads me to believe the cache may have disappeared. Aussiecoder has been emailed with more details to verify if the cache has been muggled or if I just plain got it wrong.

tried to do multi but at first clue vandals have put black paint over clue panel making it impossible to complete !!!!!!

First for the day, on my quest to hit 300. This was a great little walk and a wooden work that I had not yet seen. Loved the bird life here, it was a test of patience to do this before I did the dash cache. tn Thanks.
I missed out on the 300 by one, may be tomorrow

nice easy cache found by 12 year old chef.took bubbles left sharpener.
thanks aussiecoder for another great cache

Due to our recent caching in the area we decided to start the afternoon of caching at this location.
After a pleasant walk decoding the clues we arrived at the GZ and found the cache easily.
Many thanks Aussiecoder for a walk in a now familiar park, your caches are enjoyable yet challenging.
TNLN.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the lone duck sits and waits Clan.

3:30pm | Happy Australia Day!

Today was really just too darn hot to be multi-caching!

Left Jeff Jeronimo domino
Took nothing

this was a little easer than the least on we did. I love the location of course i'm a queenslander so its my type of game.

took boucny ball
left sorry i cant rember but it was good.

Found at 15:00 with DrVon.

Third attempt at finding this one - must have been looking with my eyes closed cause it was actually quite easy to find! Lots of earwigs around, even a couple inside the cache container.

Took - Glowing Frog
Left - Flower Eraser

Caching with the nephews today. This one turned out to be a bit difficult, but the location is nice. Couldn't find the object at the third location, but managed to count the bulbs OK. Then found we couldn't cross the creek to get to the final location because of council workeers spraying herbicide. Had to drive around and come in off the main road to get it. Disturbed a huge next of earwigs at the cache. TNLN. Thanks aussiecoder

Came over to this cache after completing Rabbit, Warren http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCM0HY.

Of course I finished up a long way from wher I had parked the car but it was a beautiful morning for walking.

Took: Golf Ball
Left: Frog

TFTC aussiecoder

It was definitely dark by the time we got to the cache-finding stage. With only one headlamp between us, we were taking turns to hunt for the cache - Megan found it after Alex claimed there was nowhere a cache could be hidden there Left ... something, can't remember what... took TB Bilby Boy, hopefully will be able to hop him up to a busy cache over this side of town.

Found by Mary & David at 1740. A very enjoyable stroll around the lakes via a some very familiar waypoints. A couple of people occupying the third 'device' had us worried but they were too busy chatting to worry about us and soon moved on. Found the cache shortly after that. Took key ring, left Melbourne fridge magnet and a golf ball. Took TB 'Back 2 School', left TB 'HTR - Bilby Boy Racer', who is trying to get to GCJWD5 The Old Way (Blue Mountains, NSW) before another TB, 'HTR - Turtle Time Racer' gets to GCGEJV On Finals (Edinburgh, South Australia). Our thanks to aussiecoder.

Found by sbalogh53 at 1:20pm on 15/10/2004.
Nice park with a lovely walk involved. Thanks.
The coords were spot on! Zero meters after a minute averaging.
Took: Dinosaur for my growing collection
Put: Lizard
Released the "Back 2 School" TB

Found 15:35, after a pleasant amble through the park.

Took deck of playing cards and left a rubber snake, thank Aussiecoder.

As previously stated, this was deja vu, but in reverse order. Having read the previous logs, I was careful not to try to take any shortcuts. As it turned out, everything has pretty much dried out and there were no wet feet for me.

I took a Carabiner and left Touchable Bubbles kit. Thanks to aussiecoder for the cache and an enjoyable walk on a lovely sunny afternoon.

Found at 18:00hrs, Nice area, very quite this time of night, but I guess it was the rain that scared all the muggles away.
Took [url=http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=db44af06-9841-4afb-919e-edf62a034307]Bear Bug[/url] and a rubber ball, Left a Carabiner

Found at 12:00noon. Recognised the starting co-ords from an old Team Frogger cache. Called in on the way back home from a morning caching expedition to the peninsula.

Managed to avoid all the mud holes. Thankfully so did "H" who had buried himself up to his ankles a couple of weeks ago at "Corinthians Crater" a couple of weeks ago.

A nice walk around the park before lunch. Thanks aussiecoder from D & H B-A. Left TB Bear Bug. Took a soft piggy to make room for the TB. Loved the cache adornments.

Was a nice walk around. Saw a lot of ducks on the way. It started to rain as i approached GZ found it after 5 mins.

In: Bouncy ball
Out: Thermometer keychain

Hmmmm,Deja Vu, we've been here before and visited some of the clues as well.
A nice easy stroll with my son and the geodogs and an easy find apart from being on the wrong side of a lake at one point. That'll teach me not to take short cuts that don't work.
We loved the cache adornment.
Took: spring clamp.
Left: pink pig and wishing stone.
Regards Andrew. "da big bug"

We originally started out looking for The Froggiest Frog Place not knowing it had been archived. This one came up as the next closest so we walked over the starting point.
Today was our first day going wholly paperless and I must admit it's fun but kind of annoying swapping backwards and forwards with all the numbers, but neverthless a nice walk was had. With the recent rains some of the area to get to the cache is sodden and makes for muddy feet, but it's not too bad really.
The littlest one (G who is 4) found the cache today and quite taken with the top of the cache container, alas she couldn't have it.
She took the Duck Finger Puppet and J (who's 12) snagged the wooden duck.
They decided to leave a car and a bouncy ball.
Thanks for the nice walk around an area that I have never even been close to.

12.30PM
I had to go to dandenong today to order some car parts for the XF. then I was on my way to rowville to rabbittos house and this one was close by. What a beutiful area, I wish mine was like this. The mud in between two of the lakes was a bit of a mess but after I had cache in hand with an easy find. TNLN, Thanks for a nice cache. from M.B
PS I love the top of the box, great idea

For those of you contemplating visiting this cache in your $900 Nikes, I can say that there is a "slow way" to the final leg that skirts around the muddy patches. It is not a straight line to the cache and it's a little hard on the ankles, but it is dry!

I had expected the mud to have dried by now, but obviosuly it hasn't.

I rose early to steal a march on the local cachers. The area looked strangely familiar as I approached the first waypoint. I gathered the information and was away! I experienced deja vu at clue three also. I tried to short circuit the hunt and bypass waypoint three, but as usual, I was brought undone and had a longer walk than was necessary. [B)]

Once at GZ I found the cache immediately at 0700--a pleasant change after some recent experiences in Berwick!. The lid of the cache container is indeed unique. However, the cache could do with a bit more camouflage. I covered it a bit better, but basically left it as I found it.

The warning in the description proved correct as I arrived back at the car with wet feet. This is the anniversary of finding our first cache, so getting the FTF is especially rewarding. Thanks aussiecoder.

IN: Pack of cards, duck (of course)
OUT: Hair brush

Due to work and family commitments and No 1 still with a very swollen foot from the spider bite on our trip up north, caching has been on the back burner. I needed a fix and thought I may be FTF if I went for a quick jog on the way to work.Like Daks Emu Mob a since of dejavue was happening for me but I managed to skip one of the steps and got to GZ with fairly dry feet. The container is unique and very appropriate. Daks were there 1/2 an hour before me but a very pleasant stroll through the park was had any way.
TNLN as I hadn't planned the stop here this morning but it just was too good a morning to waste
Thanks Aussiecoder for a great start to the day