(MMM) John's Gym South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By Partic on 20-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMJ3M

Archiving as part of Partic's Summer Cache Maintenance Program.

Replacing several of the (MMM) Markers series with new caches during November.

Checking.

It is a very obvious searching spot.. but could not find or feel anything.

Appears to be missing

Found @ 11:30am with muggles at GZ on the phone!
In & Out without being noticed.
TFTC

A nice easy way to start the MMM series, found this one easily in the early morning.

Thanks Partic for the cache.

TNLN

P.S. The log book is still full.

#98 This one was very close to a friend I was visiting. Didn't have a pen so just took a photo to prove I was there. One of the neighbours may be getting freaked out by all the activity outside their door - kept checking up on me through a gap in the curtains!

Nice find, although last visitor obviously had very long arms! Log book now evenfuller!!
T4TC

A Nice quick easy driveby find
*NOTE* This log is FULL & needs a new Sheet !
TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

Found @ 12:00. I had to wait about 5 min while a postee poked around GZ. Once gone collect the cache.
Thanks.

Found @ 6:45am.

Found as I was on my way to work, An easy find with no one around at all this early in the morning. The log sheet is full.

Another quick find and our last as the PDA batteries died. DOH. TFTCSL

nice hide ... believe it or not we found it and were just about to replace it when along came the postal lady ... so after she finished her things ... 10 minutes we were finally able to replace the cache.

TFTC

Found at 1:05pm while on lunch break. SL (log book getting full). TFTC!

love micro's great spot thanks

Thanks again for more interesting local history. Nice easy find after miising a couple of similar hides earlier in the day. TNLN. Thanks

Thanks for the cache!

Much easier to find this one as there were nowhere near as many people around. Log book is almost full here too.

Pretty exposed and tricky with the office person watching out the window!

Found 11.00am
Found GZ with ease but getting to search was harder with a guy putting up a sign nearby taking more than a passing interest in what I was trying to do. Had to wait for him to start work before finding the cache.

TNLNSL

TFTC Partic

Our 25th of 101 finds for the day in the company of Dak's Emu Mob.

Another shoe tying exercise and we were on our way in a flash.

Many thanks to Partic for the cache.

8 legs. cache was on the last one.

Found @ 09:02

My last MMM for this visit to Melbourne. A quick find, being similar to another in the series i'd seen recently. Just had to dodge some muggles that were loading their car from a nearby house.

Thanks for the memories Partic, and the urban caches, I'll have to do more of the series next time im down this way.
Cheers, Murf.

Good hide. Very Sneaky.
TFTH

Rated: for Overall Experience

Nice easy find after finding plaque which was getting a bit hard to read

Found at 2:31pm. Found accompanied by GeoDano and the GeoMrs as navigator and scribe. 10th find of 12 for the day on our usual weekly expedition.
TNLN Signed log. Thanx Partic......

Took a few minutes with the multiple choices here but finally found the neat spot .Thanks to Partic.

Took a little while as it was high up but it was a COLD morning and no-one about. TFTC.

Found this one on a nice sunny day whilst out on a bike ride. Thanks

Found 15 May at 18:15h Visiting from Canada. Was in Australia for 1 week. TNLN. Canotage

Found it the first place I tried, lucky perhaps. Found at 2000hrs. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Office closed this evening. No trouble at all. Found it in the second place I felt. Which was of course the last place I checked.

Area was deserted today, made it much easier to locate the cache. Although I looked in the wrong spot for ages.
TNLNSLm, Thanks - I hope I get a chance to do a couple more MMM's

Found it around 1:30pm. No pedestrians near by.
Unfortunately I did not have a pen so I could not sign the sheet.

TFTC.

Found this one at 20:15 on an evening's caching expedition with ssmc4. Nice hide.

TNLNSL. Thanks Partic.

Found at 20:15 on an evening's caching expedition with EuDes. I used to live near here and remember the gym - it's quite a shame that such a valuable local institution was replaced with (surprise, surprise) some apartments.

Thanks Partic.

Headed up here from the Gasworks, glad it is flat terrain (paths really) Easy find before sitting in the gutter to do the paperwork. TFTC

Team members included Keymaster, Diceman and Queen of hearts. Nice easy find after a hot day out geocaching.

T:N
L:N

Thanks guys for the cache!

Found this one today, nice easy find and one more closer to 600, no 597. Will finish this series soon.
Thanks Partic

Ok, so we were defeated by this one. Found the plaque and mailboxes. Seems like there were plenty of clues as to exactly where it was, but it wasn't there. But it was found on the 28th? We must need to think again!

I had a nice lunch in the nearby Albert area and wandered over to pick this one up in the afternoon. Very quiet and easy to find. Thanks

Had to wait for the locals to leave the phone box! Hello! People trying to geocache unnoticed here!

R - B

Found by Bob at 12:20

Ahh, the streets around here aren't the way I remember them - I went up and down this whole section of road 3 times because I overshot the cache location (on a motorbike, you have to stop to check the GPSr, unless you have a mount on the handlebars) and couldn't simply do a U-turn . Not to worry, when I eventually managed to stop at the right spot, the cache was a quick find in a traditional spot .

Thanks Partic

Round one. The location in question was in clear view of the receptionist in the nearby office. Left jab. She and her guest were not giving me a chance to properly check for the cache. Right cross. Eventually we failed and left the ring on a TKO.

Found at 3.10PM on A trip to South Melbourne no:1.
5th out of 9 found.


After completing the previous cache I was hungry so before I came here I remembered a while back during work I found a nice take away in St Kilda road, so I went back there to grab a bite.

This cache was yet again an interesting read and an easy find. I knew where to look after completing other MMM series a while back.

Thanks for the cache from M.B

TNLNSL.

Found this cache while we were waiting for my brother's wedding across the road. Nice easy find, and fortunately there was no-one around otherwise it would have looked a little suspect searching around dressed like we were!
Thanks Partic.

Another one in a great series. Fun and easy at night.
Thanks

Mail box or dogs’ rest station? Just gota be careful. Thanks Partic.

12.30pm
Found by Roma and Max.
This city has many tales to tell and you have found a unique and interesting way of doing just that.
Thanks again Partic for what has been a couple of very enjoyable days in town.
Romax.

Finally! After arriving in Australia failing on my first three attempts, I got this. No problem. The magnets are a good idea. Very nice cache. Eventhough I have had more failures than successes, I am really enjoying all these memory plaques.

First find of my morning caching while in Melb for the weekend.
Well hidden and a good interesting spot.
Signed log and replaced.
Robtas
Tassie

Found at 11.25am on a quick tour of South Melb. Thanks Partic.

found it with ease around 5.30pm
i like these mircos and it's good to get to know the area a whole lot better!

The streets between this and neighbouring caches were really interesting. We walked past several spots that we will have to reseach for more history, and of course were lead from marker to marker by Partic!

Found by Maya and Ray at 11:10AM on 13th of June. Fortunately this was a more secluded cache than the last one we sussed out, which we'll leave till dark. Thanks for the challenge. The Nomads.

Found at 10:36AM, the 17th cache on our all day caching adventure.

An easy find and an interesting story.

TFTC Partic

Appropriately, we found this one after finishing our own gym session and the market shopping. Was found quickly at 9:50am, having seen this MO on earlier caches in the series.
TNLN
thanks Partic we are enjoying the series.

Had to come back twice to claim this one. the first attempt was foiled by the muggle who lives in front of the cache standing on her balcony smoking. second attempt and a nice easy find with no muggles about.

Easy find on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

Found quickly on my way home from work on bike. 2nd of 3 MMMs for the day

11:06 My first mail distribution box of the day (I had rented a bike to explore Melbourne harbour). Quick and easy grab.

Got it this time first go. I probably cant realy claim this one after my earlier failure but nevertheless I shall. Thanks to Partic both for the cach and the help.
By the way I think I wrote the wrong date on the sheet, but nevermind, it was today.

After visiting the south melbourne markets, thought that it was a good time to get a few caches done whilst on foot.
Since it was only a short walk from the markets this was the first target of what ended up being six for the day.
TNLNSL 11:30am

Checked the cache today, and Chewinprickles hadn't groped high enough.

When replacing the cache, please put it in the leg area of the box, as any higher causes confusion, and can lead to the cache being spotted and possibly removed by an inquisitive postal worker. I'd hate for one to become disgruntled at me

Seems I must be the bearer of bad news again. Found the marker no problem and had a good look, but I'm pretty sure the cach is gone. I can be guilty of looking in the wardrobe and not seeing my favorite shirt which is right there, but I don't think that scenario applies this time.

Found at 19:15 a few blocks away from work
A nice location with a bit of history as well.

Found at 11:20am. Twentyfirst cache of 56 on our quest to claim the Most Cache Finds in Australia in One Day.

After a Vegimite divert, it was back to mail distribution boxes for a quick find.

Thanks Partic from D,S & H B-A.

Time Elapsed since First Cache - 4 Hours 40 Minutes.

Personal tracker coin drop

TeamTricky had some additions today - great start to a fun day of caching.

Mr.Coffee and the Clan found Johns Gym cache, but decided no training was needed for our kids.
Another Thank you for Partic they keep getting better.
Regards a fit Mr.Coffee and time to jog Clan.

Checked the cache this morning, and it had indeed gone missing. Have replaced cache with new film cannister, with better positioned magnets this time. First to re-find up for grabs now

Arrived at GZ about 5:40pm to find a muggle in the adjacent phone box who seemed to be pushing a lot of buttons but not actually listening to the phone. Internet banking maybe? Or a local nutter.

She eventually left and I had a good search around the mail collection box but couldn't see or feel anything. Either it has gone or it needs much more nimble fingers than mine to get into the holes.

Found at 7:03am

Another drive up find of a MMM cache and the 9th MMM for the morning, a great start to our big day of caching, thank Partic.

TNLN

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

Found on 08/02/05 @ 0703 AEDST. 9th of 44 for the day with Facitman and our lasst MMM for the morning. STILL RAINING - a dash from the car to get the cache and write the log in the car

TNLNSL

Cheers Partic

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

Found it @ approx. 13:45

1st for the day! As always, very interesting history!!
A pretty easy find.

Thanks Partic.

First cache for the day in what turned out to be a busy and wet day of caching for us.

Found this one with Team Crackers, a nice easy find in the dark
Thanks Partic

Found by Mary & David at 1500. A surprisingly busy area. Enjoyed the architecture and the cottage gardens. Our thanks to Partic once again.

Our second cache for the night and another easy find with no-one around. Read the marker, found the cache, signed the log and went to buy some tea before moving on to no3.
thanks again Partic

This was the 12th of 20 caches today. It was deja vu all over again! I was getting used to surreptitiously retrieving caches from these mail distribution boxes by now. However, just as I was making my move, Postman Pat turned up again to grab another bag of mail. This was the second time today! I managed not to look suspicious this time, and I grabbed the cache and signed the log at 1215. Thanks for the cache.

Another to the collection of MMM's (and Mail Boxes)
Thanks, Robmc.

Found by caughtatwork at 3:35
Woohoo. Nothing better than driving up, parking so the car door smacks the waypoint and then fiding the cache a few seconds later.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Again thanks to Partic for a very informative series.

Found by sbalogh53 at 03:15 on 24/1/2005.
OK. I went back tonight and found it. I just had to look much higher in amongst the cobwebs. Yecchhh! [xx(]

Found 15:45, our last for the day and we didn't manage to catch up with sbalogh

TNLN, thanks Partic for a great afternoon out, and an excuse to visit Jock's Ice creamery on our way home

Found at 1235. A nice easy find after figuring out the trick.... TNLN.

Not found by sbalogh53 at around 13:30 on 23/1/2005.
I think the cache has been muggled. I looked everywhere I expected this one to be based on other similar caches and it definately seems to be missing.
Hmmm. I just noticed Biggles Bear log entry. I wonder if another cacher was holding the cache when I went looking. Maybe it is back. I will have to go and check again at a later date.

Found nice and easy. The whole area was quiet - hardly even a car passed by. Thanks for another almost local cache with a bit of history thrown in for good measure.