(Sweet 16) Oh that noise pollution! Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia
By xf king on 19-Feb-05. Waypoint GCMXEP

Sadly this cache had to go as well. Still hidden very well and a sweet spot to hide a cache.. No muggles.

I might put a single traditional in place of this one and a couple of other caches in the series.

Matto.

Unfortunately due to many circumstances I will be disabling all my caches. My work and other committments have not given me the time to check on or maintain my caches neither has it allowed me to complete any caches.

It does not mean I have quit caching all together. I will still do a few from time to time..

Sorry if this inconvieniances anyone. If anybody would like to take over the cache please email me at [email protected]

Yours
Matt B

GRRRR....
We were thinking of putting a cache along the trail but you beat us to it!!
Still, great hiding spot.
D is vague as there are two answers to this.
TNLN
TFTC
~calembeena

Had trouble with this one like listmaker, could not get the coordinates to work, Remembering that this series are all around bridges, looked at the clue and took a stab, and found the cache easily.

Met Listmaker on the way back, as they were re-calculating there coordinates, had a nice chat before heading off.

Thanks

Luck Dogs Crew

Couldn't get the coordinates to make sense, forgot to read the clues but thankfully a nice dog came to our rescue. It was Luck Dog of LuckDogsCrew, plus part of the crew, who approached us to offer a hint.

Thanks to xfking.

Found today at about 2:30pm. Wonderful weather for caching, a slight drizzle - no muggles about! Got to GZ, had a quick search around, and just to make sure that I wasn't chasing my tail decided to read the clues. Dur, I was practically standing on the cache

Dropped off "Do you know my name?" TB. Thanks xf king

Found @ 1:50pm between jobs.
What a lot of traffic noise!
Easy find after looking at hint.
TNLN SL TFTC

We have ridden past this area many, many times. "SE" wanted to take the bikes the slippy when wet way so we pushed our bikes to very near the cache! Left clip took ?? ( "SE" put it in his pocket to quickly and I was making sure I did not let the cache take a little journey by itself. It nearly got away once. We rode an easy way back.

I was here 4 days ago but failed to find the cache. When I decoded the clue I had left out one word which made all the difference. Today I found it straight away. TNLT. Thanks Chefs.>

16:25 Found 200702091625 . I had collected the required information at the initial location a long time ago, but had not progressed any further until today . Waypoint 2 visited and calculations done, the well concealed cache was found

TNLN

Cheers xf king

Clever position, but we got to it the easy way. Bit hot in the sun though. TNLNSL TFTC

Another little multi from xf king with the obligatory maths calculations. A little easier for us now that we are used to them. A really good hide had us guessing for a while, but in the end it was revealed. Logged at 1215 hrs.
In magnet.
Out magnet man.

TFTC xf king

I found that the first two coordinates are a bit out but nothing that can't be overcome. The final and most important coordinate is spot on. TNLNSL.
TFTC

First for the day. Lovely wander on a beautiful summers day. An easy find after working through the numbers.
Thanks XF King!

1:50pm - Another XF King cache hunt and more maths! Argh!!! Actually this cache hunt turned out to be easier than I was expecting. Mind you it would appear that WP1 and WP2 have been moved, or the coords out, or my GPSr was possessed. Anyway, I had no trouble finding the info needed and did the sums. Quick walk over to GZ and found the cache. TNLNSL. I didn;t have anything small enough for the container.

Despite the heat, I enjoyed this cache and would recommend it to any cacher who's in the area.

Enjoyable walk and clues led me to the final hide which reminded me agiai why I live in the country. Took nothing thanks xfking

On the way home from a rather warmish AWG walk south of here, I thought I'd have a quick look for this one given that the temperature had now dropped about 1000° C (and it was still quite warm ).

I collected the clues, headed to GZ and found the stash quite quickly at 17:35 with the aid of the decrypted hint .

TNLNSL, noted clue. Thanks xf king. This series is becoming more and more intriguing as I go on.

A late log. I found this with RoundCircle and just getting around to logging.

TFTC.

Pleasant walk, but very noisy. Nice hide and the co-ords were spot on.

Collected TB. Left Fridge Magnet.

TFTC.

[did this one with school for elective, and i think i put my normal name instead of username cos i always forget it lol] it was fun but had a long walk. going up the grass was easier then under the bridge lol[nice scenery and it was good exercise . i left a squishy 4 legged frog and took a glow in the dark horse]

[This entry was edited by very_demanding on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 11:12:20 PM.]

found 3:30ish

The second co-ord was hard to get right as my old GPS was having a hissy-fit. but got there in the end.

Left TB Cassie
Took TB Slimy

wolfieb accompanied by the caramel wolfie

Found by Facitman and s-Facit at 1500

After being advised that I hadn't found any caches in August (Thanks c@w) s-Facit and I set out for a quick afternoon diversion. Collected the clues and enjoyed the walk with whipper-snipper noise being more prominent than freeway noise today!
Arrived at GZ and commenced our search, must confess that we needed the clue before s-Facit found the cache.
Took Nothing
Left glow-in-dark horse silhouette
Also dropped off TB Slimy as we thought this area would suit him

Thanks xf king, another Sweet 16 completed!

Did the WPs without any problems and the satellites must have been good for me as I had no problem finding gz. The clever hiding spot took just a little longer. Took coin, left snake. Very noisy and windy this afternoon. Thanks again xf king.

Found @ 13:55. Had a little trouble with 2nd waypoint. Seems a few people have according to the log. Anyway, got ourselves to GZ and found easily. TNLNSL

Found all the first clues along the picturesque trail but got the formula mixed up and ended up 800m further on by car under the path tunnel that goes under the FWY !!Redid the clues and saw my mistake and drove back to the area ,treked to the spot and found the clever hide .TNLN and thanks to xf king for the reserve walk and cache !!

Took Dice, left light green cotton. Signed log. TFTC noisy park.

Found @ 11:31am. Spotted this one as I drove past. Lovely walk and a very clever hide. TNLN.

Difficult to maintain lock along the creek. Dropped the dice and had to recover them from down the slope! Fun though.

Finally found it 16:55. I'll have to read the instructions more carefully as I ended up in the streets about a Km away from GZ. Figured out what I did wrong and it was mine.
Picked up GEOCOIN 310 from South Africa [|)]What do I do with it now?? Left Snake. TFTC

must have missed logging this one . found the start point but nothing seemed to work out right . so decripted the the clue , found a likly spot and there was the cache

My 10th Sweet 16 cache. I completely stuffed up the maths here, so I had to decrypt the clue. Based on that it was a pretty easy find. Warning - there are lots of empty spray cans around the vicinity.

Were getting worried when the second WP was such a long way off from the resting device. Quick check, OK, and with faith and went to the final WP. Spot on! Even more noisy in peak hour.
TNLN
Thanks xf king.

Oh That long multiplication! You would think that I had done enough caches to know to take a calculator along
Apart from my struggle with the maths (had not done it for a while), I enjoyed this cache.
It is just a touch noisy at the cache location compared to the relative quiet of the track.
Took: Soccer ball (shouldn't play near roads), Left: a dice (to match the other already there - I mean how can you play with only one dice?)
Thanks, Robmc.

Had all sorts of problems with this, give up, then decided to 'give it one more go' and low and behold there it was - turns out I was looking on the wrong side of the road.

[This entry was edited by Lebit on Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 2:15:55 PM.]

i walked from blackburn rd to chadstone, along this path, and having worked out the clues at an earlier time, i went for another sticky nose around.

i can not believe i missed it the first time. how blind can i be?

got it. there is no pen so i didn't sign it. will be walking this way a lot to goto tafe this year, will fill it in another day.

thanks. Sui.

ps. after i trotted to the walkign path, a policeman on a motorbike putted past.. i am glad he caught me when he did, 1 minute earlier and there woudl have been some explaining to do!

We also had trouble with D and corrected one part of the equation but not the second part.
This had us too far east and after a pleasant rest out of the 30 degree sun and a check of our workings we headed of again. Had we read ALL the cache notes before getting to WP 2 we would not have walked past it first time around. Still we did find a fun, even if a bit risky, path over the creek.
We grabbed the answers from WP 2 and moved to the shade to do the math.
From here a brisk walk and the easy way in was the best option.

TNLNSL

Thanks Matt

Cache 2 of 10 for the day. Found with hamishm.
We could have parked in a better spot. In fact the whole day had us walking away from the car to get to caches.
Found it ok although I almost took a spill down that nice steep slope.
TNLN. Thanks.

Found with Donkeybottombiter just before continuing on to a video night. Great location! I've been along part of it before but the final location was new to me and the hiding place very clever.

Found it, eventually, with help from Sarahg, although I did a certain amount of very unsettling crawling which turned out to be unnecessary. Magnificently artful cache. Impressed!

Found today along with TeamTuba. Our #2 of 10 for the day, attempting to finish the Sweet16 series.

Thanks for the wise words about the terrain on approach!

I used to come to Cub scouts in this street about 20 years ago (1st West Waverley pack). Have not been past in a long time.

TNLN. Thanks.

Did the first co-ords at night last wednesday. Didn't have a torch, so had to read/see where i was going via light of mobile phone!

Got the co-ords for the final location and retired pretty close to midnight to have a run at final location during daylight, although i could pretty much tell where it was.

Found cache, good condition. Didn't have a pen with me though so couldn't sign the book. Excellent hiding spot. A lot of obvious muggle activity virtually on top of the cache and it hadn't been rolled. Well done!

TNLN

Hi again
This was the last sweet 16 we managed yesterday although we picked up a few more caches on the way home. Enjoyed the walk and the find, although I was starting to get a bit seedy at this point. Ended the day quite crook unfortunatly, which is why my logs are a day late. I'm fine now though.
Left a keyring which came out of Never forgotten (maybe its a TB now) and took a little doll thingy.
Thanks very much XFking. We'll no doubt meet again.

Found at 3:07pm Accompanied by Chewinprickles.
13th find out of 16 for the Day.
In:-Keyring, Out:-Mondo Doll, Signed Log.
Thanks XFKing...

After finding Exposed, I went for a walk and did the sums. The GPS had a little trouble giving me a good reading and although at one point I was standing on top of the cache the GPS insisted I was 15m away. Circled around a few times, but couldn't find it. Resorted to the clue and then shortly had the cache in hand. TNLN

David.

My calculations seem to be getting worse as the day wares on. This took me ages to work out. Finally did and cache was found at 1350. TNLN my 10th cache of 15 for the day.
Thanks for te cache xf king.

This was my second attempt at this one. My last attempt failed miserably as I was in a bit of a rush. Found it this time after a considerable amount of searching. Nifty little hide. Noted the the seet 18 series number but TNLN. thanks for the cache.

Checked on this cache, and it is still snugged up in its little hidey hole. Better luck net time Sui.

Matto B

on a terribly frustrating mornign this is the second of 2 that i failed to find. Hunted all round the co-ords but failed to find anything.

According to the email sent by the last hunter this cache has more than likely been muggled. WIll check this out ASAP.

11.45am
Found by Roma and Max.
This was a most enjoyable and educational journey through some local flora (and fauna), ending in a very cunning hide.
Thanks xf king for this experience.
Took a Green Car and left a Mondo Figurine.
Romax.

Found 12:05, a pleasant walk in a great little park, with a cache at the end as a reward

TNLN, thanks XF King.

We have wanted to do this series for a few weeks now. I'm not sure why there is all the math on this one, and the kids don't fancy the delay doing all the calculations too much. They did however enjoy a timely walk along the path of a lovely little suburban park, playing follow the leader, and pretending to be Horsies as they ran up the path. This park is a pleasant surprize amoungst suburbia all around it. The clues were gathered fairly easily, although D was a little tricky, being able to be calculated from the pictures, or the text slightly higher giving a different answer. The cache was soon found by the Rooster, (as Mother hen kept the chicks away from GZ) and then it was a couple more shoulder rides back to the car. Code recorded, cards out, packet of marbles in, and we were on our way again, to a dinner invitation we received whilst out caching. Thanks xf king 1.5 down 14.5 to go!

Found at 12:46hrs
Nice parks around this track, I'm going to have to complete the ride into the city one nice day soon, riding to here was a bit of a climb out of the valley but it's not too bad around here.
Easy find, but I think there is a bed close by, but you'd have to be desperate.

One of eight caches for the day. A great place if you have ear plugs but I couldn't stand the noise. I know why I live in the country and that freeway traffic drives me nuts.
TNLN Thanks xf king

Found by Bob and Dan at 13:55 - our 3rd "Sweet16" in a row.

We too found the coords of the 1st two waypoints to be somewhat different from what our GPSr indicated, but they were easy to recognize (had a bit of trouble at wp1 before figuring out what "OTHER" meant).

The final wp seemed pretty right, although it took us 15mins to locate the hiding place.

Took: frog
Left: Goosebumps cards

Thanks xfking

Last of 20 finds for the day at 2005. With this one, I have managed to log all 15 preliminary 'Sweet 16' caches in one day. [^] I found the coordinates for WP2 to be out by 30m! It took me a while to twig that it was obvious that I was at the appropriate place. I calculated the final coordinates and I set of to GZ. The traffic noise is amazing, and from here I was getting it from two directions at once! It was now dark, and I was tired, so after a short search I decrypted the hint. It still took me a couple of minutes to locate the cleverly hidden cache.

I now had all the information necessary to calculate the final coordinates for the ultimate prize. I called xf king to confirm that my calculated coordinates were correct, which they were. He told me the general area of the cache. Alas! The final cache was too far away for me to nab it tonight. I didn't have anything small enough to trade, so I made no exchange. Am I the first person to do all preliminary caches in one day? If it weren't for the late start because of a dentist appointment, I might have been able to complete the whole series in one day. Oh well! Thanks for the cache.

Found this one, but we had old print out of cache, we too were scratching our heads. Having read previous logs we thought we would just wing it to. Found the first GZ then set about looking for the final GZ, we too had trouble with the final GZ not being where it should be, we called the Coffee hot line, Mr Coffee was out of the car and did not have notes with him, said he would call back. Whilst waiting we went for a walk, Mrs Chef thought she had it sussed from the clues. Team sent mountain climbing and cache in hand, before Mr Coffee called back.

Thanks again XF King

First of four of this series found this afternoon.
Took a frog, left a dice.

Found at 6:40pm. Completed that cache that we couldn't find last week at 6:00am. Now that the co-ords are fixed up, this one was a snip. Nicely placed. Mr Coffee had used the same log page as Hunt4more so we thought we would be even more thrifty and continue down the same page.

Thanks Xfking from D,H,H & A B-A. Took nothing left nothing.

This was our second attempt at this cache, and on the first attempt there seemed to be a problem with the workings.
This time we were still a tad confused and the final GZ was still too far away.
Using the hint we went for a stroll and found the final location easily, the cache was in hand after a quick climb.
Thanks XF King for another cache, or should I have said thanks for a noisey cache.
Left Earplugs.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the WHAT DID YOU SAY? clan.

My goodness, this is really named well isn't it. And fumy as well.[xx(] But the object of the game is to find it, and I did. I should have worn my spikes though. It is a bit steep in places. This series is great fun. Thanks xf king.

IN: Frog table weight
OUT: Marble

This was a great little walk, had no problem geting up to the cache and a nice easy find.
Thanks.

Found at 18:45 with Shimachic.

Our first find in this series - easily tracked down.

Took : Butterfly eraser
Left : Marble

Found by sbalogh53 at 10:35 on 11/3/2005.
I also had problems with the initial waypoint because of the missing part of the formula. XF King said in a previous note, "Fixed up issue with the information board.". Nope, the issue is still there. You seem to have a digit (letter) missing in the second waypoint, "S37 53.[C][D+B]" because you end up with only 2 digits after the decimal point with the values provided. I won't mention what the exact problem is but leave it to you to fix.

After a bit of deduction, I found a likely set of coordinates for the second waypoint and soon found the GZ for the second set of clues. MOZZIES!!!!

Went for another walk soon after and the cache was in hand. You are correct in thinking this is a noisy place. It certainly is.

Took: Clip
Put: Rubber butterfly.

This was the last of the series for me except for a DNF at "Botanical??? Whaaa!" which has turned out to be muggled. I'll get the last "Sweet 16" cache when that one is replaced.

Thanks for the series XF King. It was an enjoyable set of caches so far.

This time checking the co ords again I noticed the mistake, for some who wonder.. Why is the last part of this cache all in bold text. Thats because my brackets were sending a HTML code for Bold text, and it was hiding a part of the equation.. Fixed it up now by putting spaces in the Equation..

Fixed up issue with the information board.

I attempted this one initially with Alan-san, but while considering the various answers at location 1 and the possible locations for the second waypoint, Maccamob arrived on the scene. We allowed them time to work out the answers, but they also were left in doubt about the answers. A call to Pprass gave some help, but it took a walk to find the second location before we could "reverse engineer" the answers to the first questions.

From there, the final location was relatively easy to determine. Someone had already decrypted the clues so the cache was located quite quickly. All in all, it took much longer than it should have. Perhaps the questions could be tightened up. I made no swap.

Thanks for the cache, and for introducing me to a new park.

Found by Mary & David at 1045 in company with muzza and Alan-san. Arrived at the posted coordinates to find muzza and Alan-san had already arrived and were puzzling over the numbers for WP2. We compared notes, traded ideas and still couldn't get things to work properly. Do you count the items in the pictures, the ones listed in the text or both? We concluded that the formula needs some clarification. We tried several combinations, none of which made sense, before consulting the pprass help desk. He was still unsure about the WP2 formula, but told us the general area in the park where we needed to finish up. After that, we deciding we'd just set off and try to find WP2 from its description. That tactic worked, and with the new variables having no uncertainty, and a shrewd assessment of the remaining ones needed, we were off to the cache and found it shortly after arriving at GZ. Took fridge magnet, left a key ring. Our thanks to xf king.

As Muzza and I were puzzling over the counting required at the info board, maccamob turned up and we puzzled together. Even with all 4 of us there we were uncertain of the true coord for the 2nd waypoint, so we just set off down the path hoping to find the mentioned structure and were rewarded. Now knowing this location we were able to determine what we should have found at the info board. From here on the final location and cache find was relatively straight forward, which is good. Your right about the noise being loud as we filled in the log book.

Swapped a keyring out for a toy car in. Thanks XF King (Matty).

Found by caughtatwork at 12:16
Like others before us we ran into problems at the first waypoint when the numbers collected couldn't possibly be right.
A harder look and some other possibilities were revealed that fitted the maths and we were off to the second location.
At the second location we took the time to rest while I worked out where to go. Hmmm. Not too far away, so the numbers must be right (I thought).
Off to the new location and we took the easy way up. Gabrielle being only 4 wasn't going to go up the hard way and I couldn't carry her up here. Fortunately the easy way up is one the way.
Getting to GZ there were a number of possible hiding places. I didn't immediately spot the correct one as Gabrielle was hiding it from my view. As she moved around to see what I was doing the hiding place was revealed.
Took marbles, left two frogs.
Thanks xf King. Another Sweet 16 down (like you will be if you sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip).

I see what is meant by "noise pollution". It was hard to think while writing the log with all of that noise going on. The clues were not the easiest to follow and there was a bit of second guessing involved, with a few alternative waypoints to consider. In the end I had to peek at the additional hints to hone in on the right area. Thanks XF King tn/ln

We had a few more problems than expected with this one as there are a number of possible answers to some of the questions. Using geocaching powers of deduction we eliminated several possibilities and found our way to the second set of clues. From here we were off to GZ. A short search and the cache was in hand. We don’t think that this one will be muggled. Went to fill in log and the ball fell out the end of the pen, future cachers please BYO pen
Thanks XF king, not only did we get some physical exercise but we had a bit of a mental work out as well