Balbirooroo Wetlands Balnarring, Victoria, Australia
By piggysue on 31-Dec-04. Waypoint GCMCKZ

As there has been no response to the last request/s to attend to this cache, I have no option but to archive this listing on the basis it has been abandoned.

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### **MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?** ###
This cache would appear to be in need of owner intervention, therefore I am temporarily disabling it so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

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Sure it's been muggled. Think maybe owner should fix this

Me thinks been muggled. Close to school

Not under woodwork couldn't find???

Seems to have been muggled

Something tells me this cache has gone missing. Had a good look around and widen the search area, but no luck.

No luck, again it looks like it's been taken or moved. Beautiful wetlands.

Didn't want to spend too much time on this one, as the last few people couldn't find it either.

Maybe this one needs looking at.

Couldnt find

Geokid and I looked and looked... All we got to show for it are about 20 mozzie bites.

Out and about but failed to unearth his one.

Unfortunately looks like has been moved or taken as nothing in vicinity.

Another day of geocaching, today I decided it was about time to do the caches around home. About 20 finds all up for the day, and of course I had a blast!!

Coords seemed a little off but the hint made it clear

TFTC!

Im doing some more of the Jack Speak series and I made a detour to do a couple of outsiders. An easy find after a nice little walk. TFTC

Found while out on a ride in the area. TFTC

Gpsr was way off for this one, but thanks to the hint it was a fairly easy find. Sadly though the cache was pretty water logged. Thanks for bringing us here, such a beautiful reserve.

Nice walk to the cache.
Lyn usually finds them but I got lucky.
Thank you very much.

My normal caching buddy Fleabag- was busy today so I headed out in the freezing cold and windy weather to pickup a few puzzles I had solved and head along the coast near Flinders as well just so I could soak up the even colder sea "breeze".
I made this one much harder than I needed to. I looked under the structure in every nook and cranny and then in the last place I looked, there it was. Really easy just like the difficulty said it would be.
Thanks piggysue for the cache, the hunt and the fun

Awesome

We headed to GZ, but when no cache was to be found, we checked the hint and found it, with 11-14m on the GPS. Thanks for bringing us to these wetlands, I'm glad we did it in winter, due to the massive sign at the gate.

Me and the tidal waves went looking for this one and found it easily : )

First Aussie cache with my main man G-Rooster. Thank you.

A new area for us, so thanks for placing this cache here.

A nice walk and a quick find here today, so thank you piggysue for the placement at this nice spot.

TFTC

Yay! It was a fun find. Great place too!

Good and easy find.. nothing to trade . beautiful walk..

Good and easy find.. nothing to trade . beautiful walk..

Quite easy, but it dose make you look, found it in the end though

Camping nearby a C Reserve. Needed to tick off another day. Spent the day on the beach, relaxing and catch up with lkd friends. Tftc

Wahhhhh T.T

Knew where it should have been, but no sign of it. CO maybe check it hasn't been muggled?

Couldn't see it. Looked for a while...

Butmeesters strike again. This one took some finding!!

I forgot a pen do I have to come and get it again!!!

found it nice easy find on the last day of school holidays. Tftc

Found it! We were in Balnarring for a 3 year old's beach party and a few caches on the way home. This was one of them. A quick find once at GZ. A lovely walk through the reserve. TFTC SL

Tftc

Nice spot for a cache and we enjoyed the peaceful walking track.
TFTC. Inside container was quite wet though.

A quick find on the way home TFTC

Find number 1098 on 15 Nov 2014 at 1:17 pm.
A lovely walk to GZ. Lots of bird life to enjoy today. Log was unsignable due to moisture, so we left about 20 notebook pages in a ziplock bag which should keep cache going for a while.
Thank you very much for placing a cache here. We really enjoyed the area.

Log is full and wet. Thanks

Found

Looked and looked. No find.

We needed a quick one tonight to keep our cache a day challenge going. What's easier than a 1:1? Off we went and our easy find wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. I was doing it by myself but taking too long so Mr MR joined the search. We resorted to the hint which took us back to the structure and we made the mistake of starting our search at the end closest to where the GPS was pointing. As we worked our way under and around we eventually found ourselves at the other end and there was cache. Log was full and very damp. It really needs some TLC. The frustrating thing was that as we had approached the site we had gone right past it. TFTC

Nice hide took a while to find it

Yay

Found it

Finally found it! Great little hiding spot. Early morning find best way to start the day

Could not found it

Was down in Balnarring on a beautiful sunny winters day and thought why not do a cache or two
Nice little stroll to GZ, when we arrived I only had my iPhone that battery was going flat very quickly. iPhone had me at least 10-15m away from where I needed to be, checked hint and knew the iPhone was wrong.
So checked where the hint pointed us to and had the hide not to long after that.
I must say to the CO that a cache maintenance is needed as logbook is full, sorry I had nothing to replace it with today. I signed just inside the front page.
Replaced cache and headed on our way
THANK YOU FOR THE HIDE

Had to return to this one as we couldn't find it the first time. Definitely wasn't in the same spot last time

Oi oi

Found! Dropped a traceable!

Thanks for the cache. Just found it. Our first one!

I

Annoying

Haha took a bit bit but fun though it would be hidden in a harder place but anyway .

That was a bit harder but eventually found it

We stayed in the area overnight to visit our son today at Somers Camp. What a lovely area. We all feel very relaxed caching today. (it has been a while). TFTC! GPS off. Bring out your caching super powers.

What a lovely spot. TFTC piggysue.
Chiefton

Still could not find even after entering co-ords from hints

Tftc

Easy find! Watch out for spiders :s

What a lovely spot for a geocache. Took a bit of searching but after a process of elimination we quickly had it logged. TFTC

Sunset and not quite enough time for birdwatching. Found with LBB and the geokids. TFTC

Only one star difficulty?
Some many possible hiding spots.

Went with the Jukes to clear up a few caches.
TFTCs

This is a very old one. I bet the reserve didn't look like it does today 10 years ago. Thanks piggysue.

Down on the Western Port side of the peninsula again today hunting down caches. I started in Hastings and looped down to crib point and back through Balnarring. 36 caches for the afternoon and a couple of DNFs. It was a pretty nice afternoon to be out and about. Thanks to all the COs for the placement of the caches.

I worked way to hard for this find. I hate spider webs!!
The hint should read other end of the GZ structure as well! Lol

Nice view here at sunset.
Tftc

Yes, this cache is definitely in place though we have to agree with previous finders that the coordinats are a bit sus. Hint gives it away though so we don't understand the DNFs. TFTC

Down on the peninsula for Noelle04's son's wedding so slipped out for a walk and some caching while here. TFTC piggysue. The cAche is still there but as per an earlier log, around 12 out from co-ords. The hint was very handy!!

Shegone?:/

Tough one in the dark with big spiders. Will try again in daylight

Out on a night cache with Buzzlocks
This cache was one of many of the night
The star were out with a light cool breeze ,great night for caching !!
Lot of laugh and and intense searching
I'II be back in the light
Thanx for the cache and all the caching fun !!!

It's always going to be a nervous search when you see a "Warning - Snakes Aplenty" type of sign leading into the direction of GZ. Unfortunately we were not able to find the cache, even giving allowance for 12 metres in accordance to previous logs. Wasn't game enough to crawl under the wooden structure. Upon getting back to the car I had two giant ants crawling up my track pants, then later on in the afternoon I found one IN my track pants. SQUASHED him pronto. This place gave us the heebie jeebies in a crawly insecty sort of way. Better luck for the next cacher I hope.

Found with Yeleni TFTC

Thanks for this cache and great hidden area. Beautiful little walk around the wetlands! Tnln

Followed the GPSr to GZ but there were no hides that I could see. Took the hint and then some logs to see others had difficulty also. Put away the GPSr and activated the senses. Easy quick find in the end. TNLNSL. TFTC. Kems

The League of Rather Extraordinary Gentlemen mustered once more: two of the three foundation members and a couple of prospects.
Thus set out Starruby, Shogun (formerly known as Kellyhaunts), Rigger64 and Biggles1024 on the Red Hill Express Trail. The weather was fine, the company jovial, and many fine hides were found. We had a leisurely hike from Red Hill to Merricks, and I vowed to return with the kids on pushbikes.

Unfortunately, I am logging this great series months after my visit, and as a Basic Member (expired Premium ) I don't have the benefit of being able to read the cache description to jog my memory for the individual caches. Needless to say, the entire series was great fun and achieved in great company. My thanks to all the cache owners for laying out this great series. I will return with the entire family for an adventurous bike ride in the future, now that the youngest is off training wheels!

Thought this one was about 11 metres off ...

1/12/13 14:08
Find #716

Starruby, Rigger64 and Shogun and I assembled to this morning to launch our assault on the Red Hill Express Trail. Great weather, some terrific hides and great company made for a very enjoyable experience.
Having completed the series, we then proceeded to find a few more caches as they presented themselves to us.
The co-ords appeared to be quite a bit out, but cacher sense prevailed and the cache was soon in hand.
SL TFTC

Find # 1061 Found @14:09Hrs

Well this one took a bit of looking as the coords were about 12m out.


TNLNSL
TFTH

Fun morning out caching with Tony66. Was in the spot I thought I had already checked TFTC SL

Sun is out the birds are singing a great place for a cache. Thanks piggsue FTC.

We had planned to come down the eastern side of the Mornington Peninsula today to look for caches in the Jack Speak series. However, we could not ignore other caches along the way. We arrived at list location about 20 minutes before school ended for the day and just before the mobile division arrived to collect the learners. It was a lovely short walk to the area of GZ. The hint was really necessary to locate the cache as when we found it, our GPS indicated that it was still 11m from GZ. The cache and it’s contents were in good condition. TFTC piggysue

Looked in the wrong places first and then returned to logical place for the hide and found the cache. TFTC.

A very nice piece of bushland - neat view from GZ. Quick find - cache required a bit of TLC - cleaned and dried. Contents and log book remain safe and dry.

Lovely spot so quiet thanks for bring me here. TNLNSL

While we were in the area, we drove down the road and parked near the tennis courts opposite the primary school. A short walk down the track under a light drizzle took us to GZ. The GPSr was pointing the other way but the container was visible at 11:30. Replaced more securely. TFTC
Log needed. Coords 10m out

A very nice saunter down here at the end of my weekend at Somers. Unfortunately the wetlands were not that wet - will love coming back here in the winter months and spending more time here.
Thanks and cheers!

No find here.

Pick this up on a peninsula cache run with Datruk. Nice walk into this cache and some interesting history to read on the way. Coords were off by about 12 metres and that was done by 2 eTrex, 1 an eTrex 10 and the other an eTrex 30. Have added new coords if this helps. Both GPSr were the same at the cache location

Needed a cache fix so went out with team coxy for the day

Found co ord to be more than 10 meters out

Did an average way point with the Etrex 30

S 38 22.704
E 145 07.262

Please check the Co-ords, seems to be about 10meters out which is very frustrating. This has been noted previously by other finders.

Finally found after much cursing at my GPS for being 10-12 meters out. Only found thanks to the clue.
Have noticed another finder had issues with the Co-ords being 10-12 meters out so perhaps it needs checking.
TNLN
TFTC

What a fantastic spot. Thanks for this one. Was in Balnarring for an appointment. Went for a hunt to kill some time. Glad I did : )

Found this one on the 28/12/12. Good hiding spot but the meters are about 11-12 meters off!

Took me a while to find this one. great hide tftc

a nice walk but the coords are about 12m out, looked in a more likely place and found the cache, tftc

Quick find on my way home from a job in flinders. Sl thanks Piggysue for the cache.