An Unfortunate Cache Campbelltown, South Australia, Australia
By Team Wibble on 26-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMKRD

Most unfortunate, but a new hide in this vicinity would not do the cache justice. A beautiful little footbridge is gone, and a concrete culvert replaces it. Why? There was nothing wrong with the bridge! (and everything right about it - it had a cache underneath it!).

Major earthworks at GZ and removal of the perfectly positioned structure that the cache was hidden under. Will try to determine if a replacement hide can occur.

No luck today. Maybe the coords. were wrong! The place we searched has had a lot of earthworks carried out building a new culvert, so may have been disturbed or muggled even.

Coords correct. Cache location destroyed. Find logged with grateful permission of owner.

Solved this one a while ago, not as simple as it seems as it requires multiple steps to solve, but at least it doesn't hurt your brain We went looking for it today and came up empty initially as we only took a cursory look at both possible hiding places. On our way back from completing our short walk in the park, we had a more thorough look and soon had the cache in hand. TNLNSL TFTC

After reading the puzzle we thought we had a solution but were uncertain about one digit. Today we went to look for the cache and, although there were many muggles in the area, we were able to find the cache quite quickly in a location out of the gaze of others. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the puzzle and cache Frozen Feet.

Aut to phind sume mawre cachis tuday. Gott whet fete butt awlmost hadd phrozen feat ass whell. Whet, whet whet! Thanx Frozen Feet.

New container with more secure magnet installed.

Having been out for Mr Honeysucker's 50th birthday tea, a few of us decided to go get some caches. Out with The Kelly Gang, Silvera Snitch and ParisLaura while they found lots of caches and I found 2
Lots of laughs and fun watching them looking for caches I had already found!

This cache was not unfortunate tonight, it had lots of laughs and lots of attention
Walking in wet grass with sandals on, accompanied by geocachers who weren't expecting to be geocaching (Seriously [?] ) is always fun!

TNLN. SL. TFTC Team Wibble

another find for the night after having tea at the Dragon Chinese Restaurant celebrating Honeysuckers 50th. so went out to pick a couple caches up with parislaura & Silversnitch. TFTC

I cannot lie......Lots of help with this one. But didn't bang my head in the end.

A nice little puzzle, usually my uni assignments look very similar after trying to write one at 2:00am.

A quick find by moonlight and torches with a couple of friends.

Thanks for the adventure

Enjoyed the short walk to the GZ and found the well hidden cache. TFTC
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I too think that grammar is the most important thing in the world. Most of my work colleagues think that that is quite unfortunate.

The other thing that is unfortunate is the failure of the adhesive on the back of the cache. I don't know where the magnet is, but I found the cache on the ground. I placed it back somewhere that looks safe, but it is far from secure.

Thanks Team Wibble

CACHING Member - Cachers Against Canned Hunting In Nomadic Groups

Fortunately the puzzle was solved and fortunately I found the cache on a quiet day in the park. Dropped off a TB TFTC Cheers

It's magnetic personality has been lost. I think the magnet is still on the structure. The cache is resting neatly in position but not sure it will stat for too long.

IF A HUNTER KILLS A LION AT A ZOO, IS HE REALLY A HUNTER? I AM A HUNTER!!

Fortunately I was able to find this unfortunate cache.
Unfortunately it was lying on the ground under the structure.
Fortunately it hasn't been muggled.
Unfortunately it appears to have come away from its magnet.
Fortunately I was able to place it safely back but it will need some help.

TFTC Wibbles.

It was fortunate that Mr Tardis managed to get a solution to this puzzle cache.
It was fortunate that Mr Tardis was in the area and made a quick lunchtime visit.
It was unfortunate that Mr Tardis spent 10 minutes searching in the wrong location despite his better senses telling him where the cache would be.
It was fortunate that the cache was found

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Team Wibble.

Caching with geobro, geopooch, Schnail and D1sc0v3ry. Quick find geopooch got very muddy but she had a great time. Solved this one a few nights ago. TFTC

After a puzzle solving day yesterday, we followed Bexta's brainwork and found the cache. Fanks very much for da caeche.

Thanks for the puzzle, this one had me stumped for ages, then the penny dropped.
Nice walk to log the cache, a pleasure to search for a cache and not be surrounded by muggles.

That's better! After a heads-up from Team Wibble we were able to go back to the puzzle and find the digit we had wrong. Then a short walk on a beautiful Sunday morning and we soon had the cache in hand. Not too many muggles for such a lovely day. TFTC! #25

An unfortunate cache indeed. Solved this puzzle over coffee this morning and was looking forward to another Team Wibble cache. However, the solved coordinates pointed to a large expanse of nothing with a rather suspicious patch of loose soil in the middle. Google maps confirms the recent presence of a tree that, I'm guessing, was the home for this unfortunate cache.

Seems we were barking up the wrong tree Owner has now confirmed that the cache was not located in the poor unfortunate tree ... Back to the drawing board. Thanks TW!

This entry was edited by Lukey5 on Saturday, 29 December 2012 at 11:29:11 UTC.

Found this log sitting in my field notes in Geosphere on my iPhone and realised I had never uploaded it. Here is what I typed into the field notes:

I solved this puzzle long beore I ever walked ovor to find and sign the logbook. I love Linear patk, and try to rid3 or run alon6 its trail5 often. Its not easy to enjoy it in the coller months, but when you've e cache to find its easi. I didn't find the container right away and to I looked he2e and there. I 1ooked up and down and squatted and kumped. Finally I spotted it in its hiding place! I sugned the sogbook and went on my merri way.

Cheers,Wibbles

A good puzzle and hide. Thanks Team Wibble for another fun cache.

A fortunate cache for us today!

After planning to do another nearby puzzle cache to fill the calendar hole, we found that the muggles were just a bit too thick in number this afternoon. So we bailed out to look for this one instead. A quick find and not a muggle in sight.

Thanks Team Wibble for the cache; ain't English fun!

Managed to find the cache, despite a dog muggle.

A beautiful day. Solved over coffee then went to find cache.

A nice little puzzle where the coordinates came together quickly! Can't say that about many of the others in this cluster unfortunately. Saw an impressive man made beehive on the way. TFTC

Found with Fred6603 on our SA adventure trek. No muggles around tonight so while we were at the other nearby cache we sat & solved this one for a bonus before we left. Nice trek along the track and thanckfully all the numnbers were correxct andd the cache was in the first plaice we looked. TFTC Team Wibble,
Roostaman.

Found at 2115 with Roostaman on our South Australia odyssey. Having just completed another nearby Team Wibble cache we solved this one by torchlight and then another nice walk in the dark to GZ.

Thanks Team Wibble.

8196 An unfortunate Cache… how so? We enjoyed the puzzle and our stroll to the final.

Many thanks for the puzzle and cache Team Wibble
Greetings from New Zealand, Cheers YuGeo4

We too love grammar and speekin Inglish proper. Found the cache after a short search. Thanks for the puzzle and the hide.

Resubmitting my deleted log, no idea why it was done. - A nice quick find in the company of Honeysucker.

after solvn this with my diconary on my lap the cache was an easier find than the solve

sorry just had too

A nice quick find in the company of Honeysucker.

We've had the corrected coordinates sitting in the database for so long now it feels like the puzzle was solved in a previous life. Today we set off for the nice easy stroll to finally log the find.

As we approached, we saw a woman very close to the cache placing fallen branches around the base of a tree. She was being very delicate and particular about it, and couldn't work out why she'd be doing this. We soon met, and we were informed that there was a small injured parrot that was being swooped by other birds. She was placing the leafy branches over the bird in an attempt to prevent the offending swoopers from pecking it!

She then jogged off into the distance, leaving us to find the cache, and look at the poor parrot, wondering what his fate would be?

As we made our way back to the car, I noticed another cache show up near a drain. I told Mrs J that I was sure there was an unsolved puzzle cache starting there. I sure felt like a dill when I later discover it was a nice easy trad cache that we could have grabbed whilst there! Oh well, it was such a nice park we're sure to visit again someday.

Thanks Team Wibble, for the great cache and the confirmation our data wasn't out of date.

No problems interpreting the clues for me, perhaps it's my tendency to cross t's and dot i's (or is that "t"s and "i"s?). Anyway, worked it all out and finally got over here to search.
Reading the logs and so on, the container may have moved around a little bit from original location. It certainly didn't make use of magnets or glue where I found it, but it was out of sight (at first).

Didn't swap anything. Had to dodge a council worker mowing the grass, but overall easy finding. Now to catch a bus and go to work.

Wonderful theme and poem. Although I'm familiar with this particular string of events, I haven't read them so I needed to do some delving. All was revealed.
Finding this capped a day of mystery caches that I've wanting to finish for many months. Locating this was almost the opposite of unfortunately as I saw it as soon as my eyes became accoustomed to the darkness. Nearly got cleaned up by a cyclist as I finished returning it. THAT would have been unfortunate! TFTC Team Wibble.

There was nothing unfortunate about this cache. The puzzle fell into its place reasonably quickly. The drive from work to GZ was pleasant and swift. The sun was shining and the walk was very enjoyable. Also the cache was located in one of the first places I looked. All planets were alligning, my spirits were high. Everything was rosey until....... I attempted to find the next two puzzle caches. If you want to read about some unfortunate events you'll need to visit my logs on Cipher Gold and Cipher Silver.....

Found this one tonight after another Team Wibble cache came out not far away. After talking with the owner about the puzzle and still failing to work it out, another geocacher confirmed our suspicions of where it may have been, so we took a nice walk in the moonlight to recover the cache.
took:Geo tattoo
Left : Nothing for now ... Had empty pockets but loved the tattoo. Mrs Fluffy has always wanted one, will return..
Thank you for the cache Team Wibble

Decided to take the dog for a walk in the midst of a this massive storm and check out the river level. Amazing how much water was coming down today. Not to mention whole trees!!! Looked in a random spot and found a cache. Woo hoo!! I always thought there was one here but never spent the time to look. Second find in the sea of puzzle caches around here. Now I just need to remind my mate to bring round his microscope so I can find clear up the next. Or perhaps I might find it randomly which ever comes first. Long live Brute Force caching. TFTC

Some puzzles give you a headache this one for some reason fell into place straight away, must have been the impending Halloween event, found after the event, thanks for a interesting puzzle. PS Hopefully there are no spellins errors hear !!

TFTC

Found this as part of the group down from Queensland for a cache raid this weekend.
After a pleasant little stroll from another nearby cache we arrived here.
With many hands on the scene we soon had this one in our grasps.
It was all nice and quiet today, I think we only saw a couple of cyclists.
TFTC.


This entry was edited by bedmaker on Thursday, 04 November 2010 at 18:42:22.

Had no trouble solving this one, as it was of a similar style to some of my logs of late.

The cache was quickly found after a short pleasant walk from another TW puzzle cache.

TFTC Team Wibble

Found as part of the SE Queensland puzzle solvers group raid on Adelaide. There's certainly a lot of nice park areas around Adelaide. TFTC Team Wibble

A nice quick find while pack hunting with the SEQ Puzzle solvers. The pressure was on to earn my place on the team after the vast majority of caches had been snared by other members... It's hard to earn your keep on trips like this...

Cheers Team Wibble

Fortunately for us, we were with the SE Qld Puzzle Solving Group on a trip to Adelaide and it wasn't an unfortunate exercise at all. TFTC Team Wibble

Found it as part of the SE Qld Puzzle Solving Group Puzzle Raid

After a stroll to GZ Gunnie came up with the container

TNLNSL

Thanks Team Wibble for the cache

#15 day 2 on SEQ puzzle solvers Adelaide trip. Solved after looking at the puzzle a few times. Cache was quickly found on a nice walk. It was still early enough that there weren't many muggles around. Thanks Team Wibble

Found with the SEQ puzzle solvers. Gunnie found this one after a nice stroll. TFTC and puzzle.

TB Visit!

It was rather Unfortunate that I should log a DNF as I Unfortunately made a minor error that Unfortunately put us in a plausible place.
Fortunately I confirmed my error before being Unfortunate in searching Unfortunately for a cache that was Unfortunately in a different location.
Cal and I did visit close by, because fortunately there was a convenience nearby which we needed to use. Unfortunately the other cache that was was close by to my Unfortunate error was Unfortunately unable to be found by ourselves. Fortunately I have friends for the next visit
Unfortunately Cal and I weren't able to make it to the correct location for a search to determine whether we'd been fortunate or Unfortunate in searching for An Unfortunate Cache. Fortunately we should be able to return one day. Unfortunately it wont be today.
Cheers

Worked the puzzle out pretty quick but still confirmed the answers with the owners before venturing out.
How unfortunate it would be to search the wrong spot. (it happens all too much)
Nice puzzle, easy stroll and a good cache at the end to round it out.
Cheers and happy caching.

Dropping off a TB.

This cache was a reminder that when you Email to confirm your answer, ensure you type it out right. Great hide and the aha moment was good. TFTCSL

Forgot to mention this was day 200 in a row and it is absolutely freezing out there tonight.

This entry was edited by McKee Clan on Friday, 02 July 2010 at 04:46:11.

Took ages for the light bulb moment with this one. I tried everything, except the correct method!
Nice spot for a walk this afternoon
Thanks Team Wibble

Found it nice one hidden safely.Good puzzle.Took T/Bug .L.N.S.L.

T.F.T.C

Nuvi had us going around a bit as first time we were on wrong side of the river, then it wanted us to take the OBahn. Finally found the road to other side and had a nice walk to GZ. Quickly found cache. Took name holder left "Level" TB. TFTC

Ah, yes! If only my students could get it right! Thanks Team Wibble

The puzzle was pretty easy, i remembered the relevant information from the books. a shame that the books slowly went down hill at the series went on, I still haven't read the last one
TNLN
thanks

You made too many spelling mistakes for someone that likes grammer

The spelling mistakes are obviously deliberate and form part of the puzzle relating to this cache.
Placing a needs maintenance log on a cache for a reason like this is really just abusing the needs maintenance log function.

And I won't point out the obvious when it comes to spelling whilst writing needs maintenance logs.

That's the first time I've ever seen a needs maintenance log for the spelling on a cache page, let alone the fact that it's supposed to be there!

I'd suggest a bit more homework is done before Needs maintenance logs are posted against caches

My first cache for the afternoon of my Eastern burbs blitz. TFTC.

I enjoyed my stroll towards the cache. Found it nice and easy.
Thanks Team Wibble for the cache.

An easy find with no one around in the middle of what was turning out to be a beautiful day.
Lovely little secluded part of the linear park.
TFTC

Solved vis one many moons ago. luckily Mr O is a grammer Nartsi and had the answers quickly soughted! Qick find 2day while on a blits thru this reegion. TFTc,

Last cache for the evening and a lovely spot to finish on. My feet were so sore and blistered from walking all day with wet shoes but I made the stroll to GZ despite this. The area was quite pleasant now that the rain had stopped and the air was still. I startled a possum on the way back, better wildlife than muggles though.

Cheers,

R - B

Finally managed to pick up this one after Mrs TiedyeSmileys had solved it some time ago. Another one of those caches that I have jogged right past and never knew it was there.

TFTC

Ali solved the puzzle while watching Scott play hockey. Then a quick detour on the way home to find the cache, after first going to the wrong side of the river (can't wait to get a new GPS). T-Lizard L-Fish. TFTC

As we were driving down the road A noticed that there was a blip on the map. No matter off we went to it. After a couple of mins of walking she realised that that blip had been visited before. No matter, that's one more to my find count now!

Found the cache easily enough, and luckily there weren't any cyclists around

A nice evening walk along the torrens

TNLNSL

Find 436 without a GPS at 9.45am
On Holidays and time to solve and find another puzzle cache.
Went for a hike this morning with a Google Earth printout of my target GZ and was able to identify the location and found the cache after 5 minutes.
Took the Geocoin to continue its South Australian Journey may even go to The Tour Down Under 2009.
Took the Geocaching Patch
Left An Aussie Keyring and $100 Key Ring.

Thanks to the Wibbles for the challenge.

Another puzzle Mrs S worked out a looooong time ago. A short walk from a nearby cache and a quick find where we predicted.

Left Scottish geocoin. Thanks Wibbles.

Cache is back in place with a magnet and better camo!

Cache is indeed gone.
Replacement will be in place very soon, as soon as the glue has successfully stuck a hard drive magnet to a cache container for a more secure placement.

An unfortunate event has occurred to this cache - the cache container has dissappeared.

Couldn't find the cache but found where it used to hide. Logged with permission.

Thanks Team Wibble for the puzzle and hunt.

Found the cache at 6.50pm. With a friend's help. I enjoyed walk along to the cache. No swap. SL. Thanks Team Wibble for organising the cache and hunt.

this one had been bugging me for ages (useless codebreaker!) but a small tweak of the digits from maux faux led straight to the prize!

tfth - lovin' it!

tnlnsl

s-ando/mauxfaux (cmb crew back in action)

Team effort with S-ANDO of the ATEAM/CMB
TFTC
Maux Faux

#499 (Counting up to 500).
Worked out this one backwards, but wasn't sure about a couple of the numbers [B)].
We did, however, find it in the first place we looked .
Didn't I see this place in the WTF [?]
Took nothing.
Left flower.
SL.
Thanks Team Wibble. Now for the ½-kilocache . . .

Found at 19:50. Enjoyed the walk with the dog. I'm surprised no child has found this cache. Thanks for the easy puzzle - this was my only unfound cache between Cipher Gold and Cipher Platinum.
Congrats once again on your engagement.

Worked this one out on the weekend, and got it on the way home on the bike tonight. Cheers. MODU.

Found while on Sunday morning stroll along the Linear Park.
Good cache in a nice part of the Park.
Could not resist taking scary 'finger stall' to give to my grandson. Will pop something next time I'm going that way.
Thanks Wibbles.

Found at 1940. Had attended the Christmas Crackers in the Park event and after we returned to our base decided to take geo pooch for a run. Well he ran, we cycled the 3 klm return trip to GZ which was quickly in hand. Fortunately we also chose the right side of the river to cycle on!
TNLN

The last of the mystery caches that I would have time for on this trip. At 6.30am I had GZ to myself though I had parked on the wrong side of the river which made things interesting. Thanks

Just dropping some coins through before taking them to Tasmania.

Great Mystery Cache - had to sit down in the park near the posted coords while I worked on the clue and the kids played on the play equipment. Great movie and eventually through clever deduction - it cracked for me... Took wombat figure - left rubber frog. TFTC.

North or south that was the question. Unfortunately got it wrong and ended up in unfortunate and waterlogged circumstances. Soon dried off and had cache in hand and logged. Nice area for a stroll
TNLN
TFTC
Teamevilcrazyrobot

Liked the puzzle. Nice place for a walk/ride. Took star, left wombat. Cheers.

This cache was made harder by me because I was trying in my own way to complicate it as usual, with a nudge from miss W last night the puzzle was solved in no time

So this afternoon I went and put my name in the log the log is a little damp and the fastening system needs to be put back onto the container apart from that this was a gr8 cache and a nice big area for the geoKelpie to run and swim (idiot).

TNLNSLTFTC

Fortunately it turned out that I parked in the right spot to access the cache. And fortunately it was a quiet day for the muggles that use through this area. Found the cache in the usual spot!

Took: dragonfly
Left: crab

TFTC!

A wibble cache! hurrah!

Claire, you'll be glad to know I'm catching up on my logging, not that I can remember much about most of the caches...

It was almost very unfortunate indeed, with the number of muggles and council workers around, we nearly missed it for avoiding them! Cheers Wibbles!

This one is 5th on my list of caches closest to my home, and it's the first not set by Zytheran (who from that statement could probably estimate my address ).

A lovely place to ride to, an easy cache to find. TNLN, but almost trapped an ant in there, who would have have most unfortunate.

I made this one way harder than it needed to be. I think I even invented a whole new branch of mathematics on the way . It buckled under the pressure this morning though.

Enjoyed the walk to GZ on a lovely day. Not too many muggles around to make the search difficult. Signed the log and replaced. I notice that a certain Adelaide caching assault team have been here recently. Accidently found by muggles just before Christmas too.

Thanks for the cache Wibbles.

Found fortunately
TFTC

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A