Sanatorium Watsonia, Victoria, Australia
By muzza on 27-Oct-04. Waypoint GCKY34

This one's had a good run. I am archiving it. I may replace later if no-one else places a cache here.

I went and had a look for the cache tonight. Where I presume it originally was, was a plastic zip lock bag with a printed clear plastic note inside saying "this is a geocache ...do not disturb... etc"

Muzza, we'll need some help with the missing clues for Puzzlemania #5.

Thanks.

The cache has disappeared. For the moment, I will consider my options. I

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the cache is missing.
No debris or any evidence of its existance anywhere.
The Riddellers. [?]

Got ya this time! Found it pretty quickly. The muggles were pretty close to it the other day so I definately wouldn't have been able to sneek in and out again.
Sorry didn't have anything to swap as I am an out of towner.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TASKFORCE70

Went in around 16:00 after coming out from the shops. Cool reserve with lots of hopping baskets! Found GZ pretty quickly but followed some muggles in, dunno if they were caching but where I wanted to look for the cache some more muggles were yabbying so had to leave it there for another day. Upset as this was my last cache for the day.

anyway another day

TFTC
TASKFORCE70

I had some trouble finding my way in, but the effort was definitely worth it. When I was finally able to enter I was surrounded by a small mob of kangaroos paying me only the most cursory attention. I passed a kangaroo feeding an almost fully weaned joey too big to fit in the pouch. Magic. Oh, I found the cache as well.

Found with geo tool low on batteries, day low on light and weather low on dry.... So, a little drenched but cache found....
Great job on the fort/ cubby/ house/ campsite located nearby!!! The local minis must be happy with their handy work!!!
Out - Diabetes TB
IN - Coin thieves beware TB
SL TFTC ;o)

Popped over at 12.20pm to show some newcomers the art of Geocaching..
Dropped off the TB "Unite fo Diabetes"
cheers all..

Cache container and swaps have been replaced.

Logbook is there, container is not.

Cache is offline until I can replace the container.

This one took me for a nice walk, once I figured out where to park (bottom of O'Meara, as it turned out). I saw a couple of roos/wallabies (I still need to learn the difference between them) and also some human walkers. I came across the logbook very easily, for it had been muggled, and some kid had written a note in it. I hid it where I thought the container was meant to be, but it will need to be replaced. Thankfully the logbook was dry enough to sign.

Found during a night Geocaching search, got off the train then walked to this nice area, a few of the locals looked at me as I walked around, then they jumped away....TNLN Should have read the page before going as I didn't get the clues for the other cach, will go back sometime and get them...

What an amazing place, thanks for dragging me off the base and showing me!

TNLNSL TFTC!!

Found it! easy find, amazing pod of kangaroos nearby
TNLN
TFTC

[This entry was edited by R36 on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 2:04:45 AM.]

Just moved to this area and have been going for nightly walks around this forest...i really wanted to hide a cache here but when i checked this one was already there...nice and simple find, i just LOVE this forest with all the Kangaroo's and history it holds...TFTC

Found this log with friend got surrounded by Kangaroos! could have touched one.

Took travel bug left pen + play money.
TFTC

Nice quiet walk for this one. Saw a a muggle jnr and mom at park nearby. Weird how we heard no birds at all on trek to and from cache.
TFTC TNLN SL

dv

Found it with Odd Jedi. Have travel bug. Taking to WA around June.

Found @1450 by Johnny Mud, Mrs Mud and GeoSam (less the GeoMutts due to dog restrictions) during a nice stroll through the park. We had driven by heaps, but never gotten around to dropping in. Wow - what a great place. Almost feel 1000000 miles away when walking through. Like most people before us we enjoyed the boomers lazing about in the mid-afternoon sun near the creek line.
T - crab.
L - car and dropped in Judy's Big adventure TB to continue her travels.
Thanks for the fun! [^]

Checked the container and all is ok. I have replaced the log book in a plastic bag. As I was walking to the cache, a young lady and several children were coming the other way. They saw my spare container and asked if it was a cache.

I introduced myself as the owner and explained what I was doing. She was Angelina and one of her kids had found it yesterday by accident. She had returned today and kindly left a small log book - Thanks!

As mentioned above, the logbook needs replacing, and possibly the cache container too - felt like one of the clips wasnt closing properly.

Not sure how the C&C gang could have missed the Boomers - they were EVERYWHERE!!!! Lordy there were some big males! Had to walk very carefully at times when they were stood up and watching us - forget about the muggles, it's the Roos we were worried about haha!

Great reserve that we had no idea existed! So thanks for bringing us there.

When we opened the cache, the first thing I noticed was condensation on the lid, followed by DS pulling out a manky, sodden, mildewy logbook, which - no offence, but - we declined to sign.

L: Crab
T: Action Man

TFTC

TaylorBrats.

This is one of those magical places where you could be a thousand miles from home instead of being in a large city. The C&C gang really enjoyed the walk. The cache itself was an easy find.

Geodaughter spotted a kangaroo, which everybody else saw except me who was trying to figure out the next blank log page. The log order appears to have become somewhat random on the backwards pass through the book!

Thanks muzza - great place. TNLN.

Found at 1.45pm. A nice easy walk to find and there was a lot of bird life in this area.
Also got all the clues for Puzzlemania #5

Took : B and Bs Australia Geocoin 2006
Left : Key Ring

TFTCSL

The Looney's of Cranbourne aka Ann and David

Made time again to walk down and find this, the closest cache to my house. The first time I tried a few weeks ago there were four muggles sitting right on top of it having a picnic.
Fantastic location in a hidden suburban gem of a park. Complete with kangaroos, abundant birdlife and even the occasional echidna.
TN.
Left: Tuckfield's birdcard #57 (Crested Pidgeon) - I see them here sometimes.
B and B's Australia 2006 geocoin.

TFTC Muzza. Maybe I'll have a go at Mystic Zip now that I have some of the clues under my belt,

First find for us - The Orchy Four. Found at 11am 25/10/08
Thanks for showing us a lovely hidden spot. We all enjoyed exploring and looking around. The kangaroos were fantastic!

Took dinosaur
Left Glitter tube

Nice hide. Found without any problems. Those Roo's must eat well a couple of them I spotted were huge

Finally got around to doing this one with the kids. Amazed at all the kangaroos that were out feeding on the way to the cache. Took pathtag LNSL TFTC.

What a wonderful area - hope it never falls into the hands of a developer.

TN, left listmaker pathtag.

Thanks so much to Muzza for showing us another hidden part of Melbourne.

Aside from the zoo, I never knew there were kangaroos so close to the CBD. And not just one or two; there was probably 20 that we spotted, including some big 'uns as well as some babies. Mrs Monch liked that...

TNLN TFTC

Third cache of the day and my third in Aus. Good hiding place with guardian lizard.

T.N.
L.N.

Went past here 2 days ago, saw the locked gate.
Came back today, still locked, ah, but on closer inspection, thats for vehicles only, not skinny humans.
So, breathing in, in we went, found cache - logbook is slightly damp, and then out again. Didn't see any kangaroos today, but did earlier. Thanks Muzza.

Visited today to replace the container. It's been a while since I have been here and everything looks very dry.

Found cache nice and snug after bit of looking high and low.

Found open, presumably muggled: the logs were out of the cache (but only damp, not wet) and some of the contents were on the ground.

I emptied the water from the cache, dried it, put the log books in a ziplock bag and replaced the cache. (Given the position of the cache container, I don't believe the muggles actually moved it, merely opened it in place and extracted some of the contents.)

The container is starting to break at the point it clips closed. It doesn't need fixing urgently, but it's unlikely to be completely watertight.

Nice spot for a cache. The box is showing signs of wear and not sealing properly.

Out Star
In Dinosaur

tftc

Nice one Muzza Found by Andrew x 2, Catherine, Terry and Judy.

found this cache with Wookie-Athos.

Found it after an easy walk. Walked a couple of metres away from 3 Grey Kangaroos beside the track on the way back to the car.

TNLN, TFTC!

BTW, Air Medal must have left the cache some time back...

Great little spot for a great little hide! TFTC

Once we found the way into the park, it was a nice, albeit hot walk to ground zero. Nice wee cache. Cheers Gav [1319]

Found with the rest of the kiwis. The gate almost bit my hand off! TNLN, Thanks.

Took a while to find the entrance, weird gate to get in.

Once at GZ cache found quickly.

TFTC

2.12pm. A nice wee park this one.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (567)

How do we get in here, let alone out of here!? T4TC - M@

14:13 Looks like these has been a recent fire here. Changed out of my jeans at this point, it was getting hot. Quick find at ground zero. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Took a while to find our way in. Getting hot which might be why we didn't see any wildlife? Many thanks.

A nice stroll in the park. TFTC.

While on a volunteer day with Conservation Volunteers Australia, I remembered to bring the Garmin along. As it happens this cache was about 200 metres from where we were planting native grasses. so during our break the boss and I went out and found it, before returning to the task of weeding. A thoroughly enjoyable day, with lots of wildlife (kangaroos, lizards, kookaburras, etc...) so close to suburbia and great spot for a cache

TNLN.

Found with LEADSCOUT ages ago forgot to log it

Found this with HOMERJAY73, this was his first find and it was a hot day to go for a ride.

We later discovered that bikes werent allowed in the reserve. Oh well. GPS lost commms under the trees and had me doing circles for a minute.

In - SHREKs head

Out - purple, monstery thing

Found at 2300. A nice walk at night.

TNLN. TFTC.

Found 1625hrs in Company of Konie and Damo, easy find. NO AIR MEDAL TB in Cache!!!!!

TNLNSL TFTC

Nice easy find at 1625hrs with Ortaga and Damo, two newbies to caching. No sign of the Air Medal TB in the cache. Wanted to show them what a TB was all about.

Great spot.

TNLNSL TFTC

Nice to have a find after my lack of success at another cache earlier in the day and despite the fact that my GPSr seemed a bit navigationally challenged when I first arrived near GZ. Fortunately there was a likely looking cache spot in view ... and that was, indeed, the spot (so why couldn't I find the earlier cache?!!!). This was a lovely area that I didn't know about before today; it's just a pity that it is so dry. TNLNSL; TFBMH (thanks for bringing me here).

[176] 11.41am - Found by us Shepparton Cachers in a lovely bush setting that you would not expect to find in the middle of the "Big Smoke". Plenty of evidence kangaroos live here. The water area was nice as well and had 2 fold-up chairs on it's bank but no one around. Cache was found quickly and remains in good nick. TFTC muzza - Cheers [sorry for the late llog we accidently logged it on an other cache DUH!]

Found 6:15pm

Back from the school holidays away, and dropped the TB at our favorite cache location.

BTW, the Kangaroos are full of joeys at the moment. Got to love this place...

TNLN (except for adding TB)

Cheers all

would have loved to see the old places, lovely park now

Out- frog
In- jewels

thanx

with Trudi and family as below

Found 10/07/07 @ 2.50pm by pocketrocket&friends. With an afternoon of caching planned, this was a very relaxing scene. Dodged some trees (as we went through the bush) and then some roos and the find was ours!
Took the travel bug and left a toy octopus.
TFTC and the clues muzza

What a great little reserve. I took a friend along on his 1st hunt, and we spotted a fair few kangaroos including a very big one. If it wasnt for the bustle of traffic we could still hear, it would be easy to imagine you're in the middle of the bush.
TNSL, dropped off Scarabeo Morto TB

P-P-P-Pingu! Pingu!

Found @ 2:05pm.

What a lovely bit of bushland. I saw 2 kangaroos whilst on my way to the cache. The entrance took a bit of finding, the cache was easily found. TNLN.

On our second attempt after failing to find an entrance the first time. Luck Dog enjoyed playing in the playgournd while the cache was retieved.

THanks

Luck Dogs Crew

NIce walk in from 350M and an easy find.

TFTC

Parked the car about 350M away from GZ and had a nice easy walk in.

TNLN

Really enjoyed this cache, a lovely walk through natural scrub. Would be interesting to have seen the actual building, or is it the new apartments not very far away?

Thanks!

Rated: for Overall Experience

Quick find. Took car and Vietnamese craft, left a different car and scoobie.

Took Geocoin from here and left it at Sugarloaf Hill 1912 (GCTQ7N). It was a 911turbos Kootenay Cachers Geocoin (TBYNPD) and had a picture of dingoes with it.

[This entry was edited by laird_au on Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 1:36:48 AM.]

[This entry was edited by laird_au on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 2:28:11 AM.]

Found at 1345. Came looking for this a week or so ago, but could not get throught the fence. Decided to try another approach today and there were many entrances, and the one I used was lees than 500 metres from where I had attempted on my last visit. I think that Geocaching is trying to teach me to never give up.

Even though there was hardly anyone in the park, just as I was making the retrieve along came a pair of muggles, so had a pleasant conversation and they went on there way.

Took nothing, left Kootenay Cachers Geocoin to continue its journey. Put a mini dingo card in the Geocoin cover. Fitted beautifully.

TFTC Muzza

easy find in a great spot ... i have often dreampt of inheriting a peice of land such as this (size and location) to build an amazing adventure park for schoolies, and alike to come and experience life at its finest ... Thanks for this great location.

We spotted a few roos on the way out. Again fantastic spot TFTC

06:56 was found with Scooter's Mob. plenty of wildlife @ this time of the morning.TNLNSL TFTC

Found @ 06:50 with NEXT! Hey The_Secret_Seven lives around here maybe I could get a coffee! TNLNSL TFTC

And so the search for the puzzlemania 5 clues continues.... This was a great reserve, I could see evidence of some native and not so native wildlife. The cache was found after I could find a spot to cross the water, and it was very well hidden by the previous finder.

Thanks,

R - B

11:45 Squire and I enjoyed the area, we only had limited opportunities between rain bursts. Squire enjoyed his piggy back back to the playground. Thanks Muzza, In: Pencil Out: Nothing - missed the clue.

Hey Muzza!

Found another one of your many caches today. It was blowing a gale and very wet but we enjoyed to area except for the blackberries that attacked my wife...

Several families of muggles that were moving all around GZ that I initially suspected that they were fellow geocachers.

Found it after they moved on with no probs. Cache in good condition.

TNLNSL,

Knypha

This was a great find by the geoteen of timeteam.
We all enjoyed this cache and was close to home.
Took: Watch
Left: Truck
TFTC

Found 9.30 am
A really nice walk in a surprising area in suburbia, this is what geocaching is all about. Loved seeing the local wildlife on the way to the cache, an easy find once at GZ.

Took Little Buddah
Left A "Keeper of Time" + Smiles

TFTC muzza, a real ripper.

Found on a beautiful spring day while off work.
Yet another amazing part of my city I didn't know existed.
I think I'm getting the hang of this thing now.....thinking along geocache lines and learning more about gps.
Great hobby/sport!
Thanks.

Took the opportunity to walk down the hill after completeing Sugarloaf Hill 1912 to find a nice walk through the bushland area with a straight forward find.

TNLN

My 400th cache and a great walk to get to this one to boot. I always like milestone caches to be interesting so thanks muzza for providing the opportunity and location. Took mondo and left padlock.

Found at 9:30PM. 1st one for the night! An easy find in a great location. This is also great spot for city wildlife.

Found with Wolfey at 9.30pm. Great spot. 1st cache for the night (13 caches from 9.30pm to sunrise)

Another place I have run past on Orienteering events a much better use of the area than a Sanatorium but maybe us Navigation nuts might end up there traveling around the round about streets in the area. TNLN.

An easy find after a nice walk. Took Lemon, Left Mouse. puzzlemania #5 eh?! lol. Thanks muzza.

Whilst working our way through caches in this area we came over to this one in the dark.

After entering the general area by moonlight there was a strange feeling that we were being watched.

A quick look with the torch revealed 10 or 12 kangeroos lookig at us.

We quickly located the cache, signed the log and headed off back through the peering eyes.

TNLN

TFTC

Found by the swaggies, Pippa5 and GeoRyan. Another unknown area for us from the southern suburbs. Even though the Swaggies lived around here 15 years ago, we did not know this area existed. No roos today, all was quiet.

Logged at 15:15.

Took Smiley face clip.

Left pink beads.

Thanks to Muzza

easy find,took nothing left a fridge magnet

grelin inc

this one took me back to my childhood as we used to climb trees and build cubby houses in here. took the time to walk right through this beautiful peaceful setting, not a kangaroo in sight today. enjoyed finding your cache. Claude couldn't come today as no dogs allowed.
TN LN

Found eventually at 4:30pm after looking on the wrong side of the gully for about 20 minutes. Then it was obvious once we got to the right spot. TNLN. Thanks Muzza.

We're really enjoying the cooler weather, much better for the kids' stamina for geocaching. Had a play in the playground near the park entrance we used.

The pickupfamily Mum had done a field trip to this reserve a few years ago when studying Biology at Latrobe, and learnt all about native regeneration here. We were happy to see lots of good strong regrowth on the eucalypts as they were very stressed by the drought over the past years.

Saw a few kangaroos today - I find them particularly big and intimidating here for some reason.

Rated: for Overall Experience

What a nice place for an afternoon stroll. Becky got quite the shock to suddenly see such a large kangaroo up ahead though.
I'll definately be back to this place.

TNLN

Thanks
- Muitah

A lovely bit of bush. All the creeks were running and the rain hadn't quite stopped making it a very nice experience. I took a green star and left a cicada.

Pleasant walk in this very natural reserve to get this cache. Kangaroos everywhere !
Discovered the cache easily but had to do a little maintenance as the lid was off and it had been filled with rocks - looks like it had been muggled.

Once I emptied out the rocks - it was a pretty empty cache...Took nothing, left Mondo doll.

Resealed the cache and added a little camo over the top of it. A previous visitor has added a new log book - the old one could probably be taken away though and some bit's and bobs could be added to revitalise this cache.

Thanks for this one

Found at 15:45 in the company of SPY-KIDS. A nice walk once we found the gate in.
The GPs was telling us to look in the middle of the large blackberrie patch, but I don’t like prickles so a quick look around and the hiding spot was soon spotted. Thanks Muzza.

Found it in 15 minutes. Great walk, lots of roos. Great Sunset. Our first cache of many!!!! Took Viewer, left Periscope.

Eighth find for Oenze and I this afternoon, and a pleasant walk indeed except for my dicky ankle. GPS took us a bit past GZ before it realised it's mistake and rectified it.
Found the cache fully exposed at GZ but undisturbed otherwise. Swapped one rubber for another. (Eraser to you non Aussies) and hid the cache properly before leaving.
Thanks Muzza again.
PS Do you live around here? There appears to be a high proportion of Muza caches around here.

Found at 5:38pm Accompanied by Chewinprickles.
The 8th cache of 12 for the Day.
In:- Star Eraser, Out:-Fish Eraser, Signed Log
Thanks Muzza...

After being introduced to geocaching on the weekend, we tried our hand at it here near our house... Great find, great area, and yes the roos will creep up to you..., big ones at the moment with lots of joeys...
Thanks guys for an entertaining run. took eskimo nell and left birds in the sky..
cu soon.