BT VII Driving in Circles Footscray, Victoria, Australia
By dak's Emu Mob (Adopted by The Rebel Alliance) on 07-Mar-05. Waypoint GCN1ED

This was my very first find. Awarded a favourite point by me to honour the work of a legendary cacher who has now gone to his eternal reward.

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If there are no bushes, there is no cache!

Attempted this cache at 8:30 with the swaggie's we both had a pretty extensive search for this cache but unfortunitly i think may have been muggled,hopefully somone may prove us wrong shortly.
Thanks for the hunt.

First of the day on our Williamstown assault and our first DNF of the weekend. And things did not look good here. The clue said not on the car, but there was no where else to put a container of this size. The whole roundabout has been stripped of the vegetation that was there before and now there is just gravel and about six little grass trees about 12 inches high. So we DNF'd for the second time here. May need a checkout by someone local who has found it before. Thanks acts for the cache.

Sounds like this one has gone

Had just knocked off the nearby GCA cache so thought we'd make this our final before heading home....

Checked the obvious structure. then checked the hint. Hmm... how could one hide a regular sized cache in this circle of barren land?? And there's notes about bushes and stuff... Hmm.... Either these guys are excellent hiders or something's amiss and the ground here has been re-landscaped. The tiny new grass plants, sandy surface soil and bulldozer tracks seem to indicate the latter. Might warrant a check....

no problem with this one quick find on a day out caching TFTC SL

Found this on my night run. Nice and quick TFTC SL

Found it on the way home at around 18:20. Loads of muggles in cars, so be careful.
Left an orangey red sharpie highlighter.
Thanks for the opportunity to look at the car upclose (we pass it nearly everyday).
Probably the best view of Melbourne from here too - enjoy!

Definately not a quick find for us! In fact, we searched under the car twice, searched & rumaged through the bushes top to bottom, all the way around, 4 times over but still could not locate the cache. We did this at night (8:30pm) with string torches so are baffled as to why we could not fund the cache. Might have to come back during the day.

we were struggling when a car passed by and a guy said are you geocachers, we said yes, he said we see so many people looking for the box we can walk their and back finding it with our eyes closed, also look in those bushes and you will see a black container. see ya.
found it.
TFTC left Bejing Coin

Found! Great spot. Took bug left compass. Team awesome

This was my second find of the day and my 100th cache! Took nothing, left a toy soldier and signed the log. TFTC.

Last one of the night, quick duck in, and out. TFTC B+S+M+J.

Found this one easily with PacketStorm4.
TFTC

Found With Indiana08
Plenty of cars driving past so we had to wait until they had passed

Found this one with a team from New Zealand, on our way home from the Wagga Wagga MEGA event.
Love the roundabout. TFTC

A very clever bit of artwork.
TFTC

Took a bit of hunting to find this one. Got some funny stares from cars going round the round-about. Cheers Gav [5761]

A roundabout that brings a smile. T4TC, M@

The hardest part of this cache was finding a quiet second to grab it.... Then hide it again!!!!

Cheers gordo

Find 3/6 for the day, was scrounging around for ages before my friend predictably found it before me. I've done two of the caches in the series so far, slowly making progress!

A nice hide, and it was not too busy early in the morning. TFTH...SL...TNLN

An amazing day with woodenbuttons, were able to squeeze in a cheeky geocache during our running around Melbourne.

Had quite a good look, though a muggle stopped to ask me what I was doing and seemed quite concerned about the car. In the end the heat was getting to me and it's not the kind of location where I'd want to be searching for ages. So maybe another time.

2nd attempt at this one, i was able to see it last time but just to hard to get to. Too many muggles around. i left a mini dice and took the mini kiwi.
thanks

We were here taking photos in car just a few weeks ago, who knew.

Dropped off HP the Chicked TB today to continue it's adventures.

no driving in circles for me today tftc found easily enough sl

LOL. I worked near here for years and thought I knew all the worthwhile spots, how the heck did I miss this? Thanks for pointing this spot out.
TFTC SL
took: NZ tattoos
Left: ??? (oops cant remember)

Another night of Street orienteering around the streets in the vicinity of the cache so I just had to drop on by and check it out.
You know you get a lot of traffic around this little island and it makes it rather difficult to get when the traffic keeps on coming at you.
But, with camera in hand and faking a few artistic shots the cache was retrieved and taken away for better examination.
Once the log was filled out it was another entertaining sideshow to get it back where I found it.
Thanks for the cache and entertainment.
The Riddeller [?]

Good spot. Knew where I had to get to, straight in and out. Left note in logbook.

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

Cute little car.
Lots of cars pass by this location.
Hard to be inconspicuous sitting in the middle of a round about amongst the bushes.
Thanks for the cache.

found by Damo and Rach
great location I've driven past this place countless times completely unaware
took glass egg left lion finger puppet
TFTC

Found at 0850. Drove past this one yesterday with a mate of mine, but didn't have my GPS with me, and he commented that there's probably a cache there. Well low and behold I arrive at GZ and there it is. Between ducking in and around bushes, cars and rubbish, the cache was found in a lot simple style than I thought it would be.

Thanks dak.

Old find - but new log...
Phew! Needed Kia1's help to find this one. Ended up looking simple! Love the car - great decoy too!

Boy, this turned out to be reansonably hard given the coords were out a bit, even on Google Earth.
This certainly wasn't our first go.
With the help of Corrots3 and little traffic we soon had the little "B" in hand.
Great name for the hide. This one felt like a real feather in the cap.
TNL Poker Chip SL.
TFTC
Kia1

Nice easy cache find even with plenty of parking, luckily I don't have little children otherwise we would still be here Brum Brumming- TFTC-Dak's

Here with Big Matt and Steeba as part of our Vic invasion weekend. Boy did we have some fun here. I'll upload some pics soon.
Oh did I say we found the cache too.
Thanks

Found on Victorian invasion trip with Big Matt and The Rats.

We stopped to take some photos here- that proved a useful muggle distraction too. A great cache.

Thanks.

2446.

Found this cache on our Victorian Invasion trip with Steeba and The Rats. This one was a deal of fun with each of us posing with the caches namesake. The cache was quickly found.

Thanks dak's Emu Mob for the cache.

TNLNSL

Nearly muggle free this Sunday .

Found on a night out caching, cool little car
TFTC
Kiwi Friend

Found at 16:00

Being Easter Monday with hardly any muggles / traffic around enabled an easy retreive and replacement.

TNLNSL TFTC

Cute car indeed, and I'm glad this cache is still going. There's something nice about honoring another cacher's work.

Found quite easily after squinting through the darkness.

Thanks to dak's Emu Mob (Adopted by The Rebel Alliance).

Stream Of Cacheousness #5
This was a stream of caching that was to take me along a ribbon of freeway from Williamstown to Frankston.

I feel a special reverence when doing DAK caches. This was kinda special, I imagined Dave standing looking at this little car with a smile. Tricky hide in a way...well, I made it tricky.

Found ~ 6.30pm. A few muggles, mostly in cars flying past on the way home from work. T = pink star candle, L = carabiner.
My first find

Nice one! Found it pretty quickly. I quite like Footscray; it's a shame the yuppies have invaded.

14.45pm.i was able to park the hire car quite close on this blue sky very hot day for a short walk to my what a cutie this is,i did a full inspection of noddies transport just to see how it was constructed,well i was a mechanic?a bit of a search taking no notice of the cars flying by so close,i just ignored them and just kept on searching,then doh! it was easy,during this i got covered in the stuff?a bold hide indeed and a bit of amusement.thanks so much for this cache.sltn.patandjeff=bones1.

Found this one without too much difficulty, GPSr had me on the road though ? ?

I was hoping to grab Alligator Annie and take her much closer to Australia Zoo but . . she wasnt there.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Clever spot - clever bloke, that dak. RIP mate.

TNLN TFTC

Called in to drop off travel bug, happy travels "Alligator Annie". Why not ask someone to take you to Australia Zoo, and visit Bindi Irwin?

Wally

Found it easily.

Left a "Bicycle Victoria badge" in it.

found on a Saturday Evening Cache run - vk3jap, GeoGinaG and Cache Mistress Nola.

TNLN - TFTC - Team VK3JAP

17/01/2009 21:51 Found:

Apparently I had chosen the perfect day to drop by. This must be a nerve-wrecking place most of time.

Found with The Lone Random on 23/12/08 @ 6:30pm
TN Left Poker Chip SL TFTC
The Empire

First time that i visited Noddy seemed to be having some engine difficulties. Well he was about 50 meters from where he should be! But came back at a later date and found with speed to prevent being seen by the many cars that go by.

TNLN, The Lone Random

I had to pretend I was taking photos to get away with this one. Thankfully it was pretty quiet at the time. Took Keyring Left- Fishing bells TFTCSL

Once we reached the vicinity of the cache, it was quite obviously where the cache would be. A guy in the van stopped us and said something incomprehensible. He had a very thick accent. We just said "no" and he drove off. We retrieved the Blingg's Belle and Holden TB from the cache and signed the log. Thanks for bringing us there.

This was our first Business Traveller's Cache find and we're keen to get the rest. Very interesting little spot.
Took Bouncy Ball (and removed an inquisitive earwig)
Left Glass Easter Egg

A lovely roudabout and sculpture, just out of sight of the next door school. Found in a break in the traffic, and took it off some way to log. Thanks.

I have passed this spot so many times going over to my family in Altona. It also brings back memories of my first car and how many times I could have ended up this way. Great location.
Dropped of a couple of travel bugs
Thanks for the walk down memory lane

found today after work Tn Ln TFTC

found this today was out this way doing work and thought a bit of geocaching at lunch would be great
nice hide
TFTC
took geo coin

Jr taybee has this own account how am logging this old find under his new Username (Jr taybee) was log as part of taybee team

Easy find was on the way to do the GC11nak so had to call in to do this one drop off travel Bus
thank to your Australia Geocachers form NZ

~12:20 King Jnr and Squire. On the BT trail, Squire played in the car while I completed the find. Squire insisted on helping me sign the log though. Thanks for bringing us out here, I have not been out this way for several years. The car is in need of repair, a new engine (checked it out) and also some panel beating. RIP. In McToy and Ping Pong Ball. Out: Mini Screwdriver.

Cache is good to go

Disabled at the request of dak, will review cache status and future of it.
acts2youthgroup
Eric

Found the cache at 4.30pm. Oh cute car. No swap. SL. Thanks dak's Emu Mob for organising the cache and hunt.

Had a couple of strange looks while trying to find this cache, such is life.

Found at midday by Brotex. Another cache where having kids present makes searching in unusual places appear acceptable. We even got a wave & smile from the local council truck as it drove around the roundabout.
TNLN TFTC

Found this at 0130 hours,

Had fun in the amusement before finding the cache.

Left skechers keyring, took BlueBun travel bug to help set him on his journey around the world.

Found the spot but not the cache. Too many muggles about at midday. And when I decided to get down on my hands and knees for a proper look, a local 'City of Maribyrnong' vehicle appeared so I had to move on. I'll be back though.

Lots of litter about this place which makes it even tougher!

Found @ 10:45pm On the way back from Werribee, this one popped up on the radar. Can imagine this one might be a lot harder attemting it during the day. TNLNSL TFTC

Yay for this series and being close to public transport. I'm temporarily not an independent traveller, but I needed a caching fix today, so trams and trains got me there. Fortunately I'd printed out the coordinates for this one because I completely forgot to load them into my PDA before I left home, and so I couldn't find the second cache I'd intended to visit. I felt a little conspicuous hunting here, but it was fairly quiet and the cache was soon in hand. Took nothing, left BlueBun TB. Interestingly odd spot! Thanks for the cache.

How discret can you be in the middle of a roundabout? At least the car is a diversion, but I felt silly showing so much interest in it, and sitting in it while I logged my find was even sillier!

TNLNSL. Thanks for the cache, and the next piece of the BT puzzle!

Found today on my second attempt, last week it was pouring rain so I didnt have a real good look , today it was 37C. Gotta love Melbourne's weather. By the way where's Noddy. In bug, out car SL TFTC

Another one bites the dust. The first time I tried finding this one my GPS didnt have the right base information and therefore wasnt able to find it.

Im on the board now and motoring!

Next!

Thanks Dak

Owsta

Found by Facitman at 13:30
Third BT cache for the day. A bit like Mad Max here today as the area was pretty much deserted. Interesting location and thankfully a quick find as it was getting pretty hot in the sun.
TNLN
Thanks Dak

Been past this little car a thousand times.. cool

drove past this roundabout many times, not knowing a cache was there the whole time. We made the visit on our way home, on a very very hot day(39c), but managed to find quickly. took cache under the shade of a near by tree, left our mark, took wine bottle stop and left golf tee. non muggles in sight!

Thanks

Harlips (well the Lips part flying solo) found it at 0330hours whilst working very hard for his employer!
Loved what I found in the middle of the location had no idea it was there.
Took pad lock and key and left a Milawa Brown Bros cork.
Thanks for the cache

I was curious as to what I would find at this location. The object in question was rather cute I must admit, and I did enjoy having a look around the area. Not many more now!

Thanks Dak,

R - B

Found by Team Ladava 5.30 pm
I’m not sure what possessed me to try for this one after work in peak hour (Perhaps the Bad Mojo Geocoin works by just thinking about it) but I discovered this quiet back street is a very busy shortcut about 5.30 pm.
It is very difficult to ‘fade into the background’ when you are 6 ft. and standing in the middle of a busy roundabout.
I am sure all those potential muggles thought they saw a strange man with fetish for fibreglass, toy cars with the amount of close inspection carried out however the find was made and the cache finally replaced.
Took Geocoin
Left ‘Herbie’ car (most appropriate)
Thanks dak’s Emu Mob

I had been working in the area today, so I decided to drop by and try my luck with this cache. I purposely left my work safety jacket and field gear on, so all I had to grab before I started my search was my digital camera. This then enabled me to safely perform an 'engineering site evaluation' at GZ - ie, a cache search!

Took Travel Bug Suzuki, Left Bad Mojo Geocoin
Took Yellow '99 Mustang, Left Black Permanent Marker

SL at 2:15pm. Thanks dak - I quite enjoy playing the 'engineer' part when searching for caches in places like this.

We took an enjoyable Sunday afternoon stroll along the Maribyrnong from our Ascot Vale residence and discovered a secluded amphitheatre by the river to sit & write our log away from prying eyes.
Dropped off [url=http://www.geocaching.com/track/log.aspx?LUID=8dfcdd7e-5828-4ed5-8b6f-e05b7224e17e]Travel Bug Suzuki[/url] which we grabbed in Tokyo.
Took Nasturtium seeds which expired in August but I think they will still grow.
Left Yellow '99 Mustang

Thiz were a gre8t cache to visit.
DAK'S and Parrot's was drivin in circle's caz Parrot's dont no there left's from right's.
With such a fun car you can't but help clowning around with your write up.

Found @ 10:00 with NEXT! TNLNSL TFTC

09:56 was found with Scooters Mob. TNLNSL TFTC

Found @11:20

Finally managed to collect this one without being muggled by every vehicle that drives by.

T: N
L: Screwdriver
SL TFTC

PS Removed a grotty & mouldy breath mint spray.
1/07/07

Have never found a geocache in a place like this before. Very interesting, we enjoyed finding this cache.
Took: Official Geocaching Bracelet
Left: Animal shaped sharpener, star candle, puffy sticker and "Cassie the Bug" Travel Bug

Count #0115 found at 1050hrs.

Neat car!
Almost lost my sunglasses during this find, good thing I realized it was missing when I was driving off at the 1st turn.

TNLNSL, TFTC.

Found by Pickupfamily Dad 1040hrs (Wow it looks like I just missed kinglee by 10 minutes). A cute spot and nice views of the city. Thanks Dak. I TNLN.

Rated: for Overall Experience

"Well yes, it is a nice view of the city from here", he said as he snapped a picture with his mobile phone. Or least he pretended to as some guy in his car drove suspiciously past.
That's the advantage of wearing a tie when you're caching. They assume that you're a council engineer or something just checking out the integrity of the roundabout.

No cars in sight, do the deed, and get outta there before the kids in the school across the road start getting interested.
TNLN. Thanks DAK.

It's my first time!!! I really enjoyed myself with a friend Skyejam SL
GOOD FUN!

Phew!!!! I found it before Bernabird... It was a easy spot and lucky for us because there was some cars circled us. Dropped Geocoin. TFTC SL

[This entry was edited by skyejam on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 4:21:01 AM.]

Ha Ha Ha. Very good. It all comes clear when you get there - in Ashburton (NZ) where we live, cars do this as a habit. Rely on the GPS - it works. Amazing view of the city - stunning panorama. Thanks for this. Took nothing left geocaching bracelet.