Muggle Heaven South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 11-May-05. Waypoint GCNWD5

Another check of the cache location this morning revealed still no-one at home, so we'll say goodbye to this incarnation.

After 150 finds this cache has gone missing. I'm kind of surprised it took that long given its location.
There were a few people at the CCSS event today who hadn't found the cache so they took a few moments before the event started to see if they could find it.
They reported back to me that they couldn't find it, so while they were all off riding the trams, I checked the cache location with Bitsprayer (over from NZ) and there was indeed nothing home.
We checked all the usual hangouts (it moves around a bit), but there was nothing that we could spot.
I think the cache has gone missing, but I'll check again in a few days just to make sure.
Until then ... disabled.

1.00pm. A quick find in between passing waves of muggles.
A great little hide in a busy spot.
Loved the clue
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (947)

the name of this cache says it all. found during daytime (muggletime ). tftc. greetings from germany.

Left magnetic picture frame. Loved the hint.

Our first cache in Australia. nice spot.
Thanks from Cat, Tom and Nina from Germany

Geocaching day with Niels and Cyriel from the Netherlands. Thank you for the cach

Found by 3 dutchies travelling arround

Having bikes really helped. Easy to ah lean them and pretend to be working on the bike whilst actually retrieving the cache. It's easy when you look like tourists! Cheers Gav [1681]

#1161: Aptly named cache, but I managed after 15 minutes to catch a break in the stream of muggles and grab the cache (thanks to a great hint I knew exactly where it was). I was even luckier in not having to wait more than a minute when I went back to replace the cache. Took nothing, left a Canadian dollar coin, signed the log. Really appreciated the cache.

Wow - what a muggle challenge.
Kiw Legend retireved and replaced this while we attempted to shield him from the direct view of some of the muggles.

Great stealth practise! And thanks for the hint - it made for a 10 minute hunt/retrieve/replace rather than 30+. I walked past a few years ago. I love the pillars of fire. A lot of NZ'ers don't know about it - would it be worth putting more details here? Thanks.

Nice! Although on a sunny sunday afternoon and thousands of muggles around, I could retrieve the cache without raising any suspicion. I had to move like a tiger and then catch the box with one quick move. Thanks for the hide, mate!

Very clever spot & thanks for the clue. I think I was discrete, but there are a lot of eyes in the sidewalk bars & eateries.

TNLN - SL.

TFTC

Found it around 13:15 hrs this PM

I was wondering what the clue was referring to! But once on the spot it is a very accurate hint;-))

TNLN
TFTC

NewDeer(Quebec, Canada)

You can get away with absolutely anything when you have little one with you! Hope your seeking is muggle free. Loved the very accurate hint!

We took the geokids for this one so they could do the searching. Great spot but heeps of muggles.

tnlnsl
t4th

It is more a muggle nightmare!
Did it during a midday rainshower when noone was on the streets.

The Logbook is full.

TFNC
Stefan

Found while with Lwitch on a visit to Melbourne for a Bookcrossing convention.
TFTC

Tiana's second find for the day along with the help of Emma.We now have another cache fan. Lot's of muggles about but managed to collect and replace safely. Took a heart and penny. Left coins.TFTC.

In Melbourne on a work visit, staying at the Crown Plaza. Nice and close for an early morning cache find after the AFL Grand Final. Even early in the morning the muggle activity is high.
Found using the clue and signed the back page of the Log.
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Cheers.

I was participating in the annual Woolworths (Safeway for Victorians) Conference at the Exhibition Centre so this was an obvious cache to look for. Easy to find and retrieve at 6am, but then the people started walking through. I ended up taking the cache to the Conference for an hour or so and convinced an accomplice to come and stand strategically so I could replace it!
No swaps but took geocoin, thanks for the cache caughtatwork!
best wishes,
Wal

Gloriously sunny day for strolling along the South Bank.
Joined the locals and late lunch crowd enjoying the rays.
Hint worked like a charm...ingenious.
SL Left Geocoin.
Thanks for the fun caughtatwork

Fantastic clue. TFTC

A tricky one to recover due to muggles. Got it after a bit of a wait. Thanks for the cache Caught at Work. The log book needs replacing. TNLN. A nice hide.

A nice quick find on a lovely day in Melbourne. The muggle levels where fairly low today so the find was easier than expected.

Took USA Geocoin

found on a nice walk with adacache but nearly completley missed it tgeocoin don't step on me ln

Found this at 9:30 at night. Muggles were oblivious or just ignored what we were doing. Left a penny and also a Geocoin. GPS was spot on but we still used the clue anyway.

found just befor we had to go back to the airport. your right about the muggles
T4TH

I'm pretty sure this is the cache my friends and I found in August 2006??? I remember signing the log. Would someone please see if the log of this cache has a signature from "Tears" in August 2006?? Then I can add it to my found list.
Thanks

Found on a weekend trip back to my old stomping ground. Managed to find a gap between between groups of muggles, tied my shoelaces and went for a coffee to fill in the log .

Took: fish
Left: finger torch

Thanks caughtatwork!

I was very impressed by the hint on this cache, more so because my GPSr only recorded the first few words and I thought it was cryptic! I managed to solve it and found the cache while Rally was chatting away on his phone. I even thought I'd have to put the pen in his hand and write his name for him (it must have been an important call!)

Thanks for a very crafty and well put together cache.

R - B

Forgot to log the coins for distance. Rally grabbed them straight away.

I played decoy pretending to have an important call on the phone while Rubik did the dirty work. Actually it was an important call I was playing "phone a friend" for another cacher stuck deep in the forest late at night. Great hide that would have been very tricky to find without the hint. TFTC. Grabbed a heap of coins and TB's from Rubik to take to Honolulu next week.

Found it a 0315hrs and still muggles around - can't believe it has lasted so long! TNLN

Muggle heaven or cacher hell - it could go both ways. While Mrs Lat&Long ran interference, I tied shoelaces and searched in my backpack while feeling around, up, in and over GZ. Eventually got what we came for and retired to a nearby block of concrete to sign the log. Beautiful clue - love your work 'caughtatwork'. Took a 20 pence coin and left a dice.

Found with L&L Junkie amongst many, many muggles. Well, it was Saturday afternoon after all! TFTC. TN LN

Found it at 16:00 h.
We knew the approx area but still we walked all around before locating it. Very nice spot and indeed lots of mugglers, but surprisingly enough nobody took any notice of us. SLTNLN

Found 09:20. 4th of 12 FFTD. In Melbourne for a couple of days of intensive studying and caching . Had to time retrieval and return between hoardes of streaming muggles. T: TB, L: Nothing, SL. TFTC.

Found at 08:15 with Crisp Image. With the help of the clue which is very clever found this one. Not too much traffic around. No.5 of our City Assault Cache Hunting Extravaganza. TNLN Thanks

Find 7 on the Team Flipper&co's Mini Melbourne CBD Assult by both Team A & R 3/6/07 1.34pm
T:N
L: Canberra Casino TB to start it's trip to Las Vegas, Flipper
Visited Dream Catcher Geocoin
SL TFTC
Only a few pages left in the log book, the muggle activity was heavy, but actually too many to wonder what we were up to, did a bit of counting and head scratching, and originally was on the wrong side but sorted that out.

Grabbed this one on our early morning clean up of caches I work past every lunchtime and can't get. No muggle problems at 7am on a saturday

Took TB Double Dragon Geocoin

Thanks

Luck Dogs Crew

Ninja'd this one late at night on my first real night in the city, loved the sights around this, wasn't too hard to ninja this one once the muggles were out of the way and distracted. I'm really impressed with some of these city caches in Melbourne! We could do with more of these in Perth. Taking notes for my cache hiding coming soon. Took nothing, left Double Dragon GC. TFTC!

Great name. lots of passersby but managed to fit in between the groups of muggles. Loved the clue. Very observant.
Took $1.00 left a fish
Thanks
Moses on the move

Had a brief look on the way out for a meal, but no luck (too hungry).
dogma insisted we try again on the way home and she found it EASY. Clever girl.
TNLN TFTC

What an excellent spot for a cache; I really love doing these city ones - they're so different to the rural ones I'm used to in NZ. Wouldn't have found it without the hint though. TNLN. Thanks very much.

Cheated and used the clue, but still felt good to find. Easy enough to time the operation to avoid the ground based muggles, but the ones in the hellicopters were a bit harder.
Thanks caughtatwork. TNLN.

Muggle City is an understatement. Last cache of our holiday, and my shoe laces had to get re-tied a number of times!
Out - Shampoo
In - Kiwi keyring
T4TC

3rd find of the day at 7:56am Accompanied by Feathertop.
We got up at 5:00am this morning so we could have no muggle problems,another city cache of my to do list, this also was my second attempt as there were too many muggles around last time. TNLN, Signed log, Thanx Caughtatwork....

After failure at Southbank, it was on to this one. We did our usual non-chalant tourist guise (and now have lots of photos of Melbourne at night). Found eventually and got back in one piece just, as the fireshow started and we were nearly burnt alive. TFTC

After failure at Southbank, it was on to this one. We did our usual non-chalant tourist guise (and now have lots of photos of Melbourne at night). Found eventually and got back in one piece just, as the fireshow started and we were nearly burnt alive. TFTC

arrrgh... mugglers mugglera everywhere! tried to look innocent and did my best geo-stealthy maneuvers but didn't find it.
perhaps I have time for another try before I had back home to sweden! nice location with cool fireshow!

This cache has a very appropriate name.
A fairly easy find.

Found today at 0705.
Even at this time of the day there were lots of muggles.. including the security guard muggles trying to look important whilst work was being done nearby.
Plenty of signal for the gps.. but still had to resort to the clue to try and cut the search time down.

Log book is very full.. so we signed on the bottom of an old log.

Took - NIL
Left - NIL

Thanks,
VKC1SR

Nice hide, but hard to believe muggles around at 2:00am Tuesday to interrupt the search. TNLNSL TFTC

After fiening inebriation and borrowing a pen from a helpful waiter, this cache was easily nabbed despite being in muggle central. Remembered to return pen to waiter.. TNLN TFTC

Found this one at night after a great Grand Prix, with a lot help from evil gopher. The log book is pretty much full.

TNLN, Thanks for the cache.

Back in Melbourne for work. Out for evening stroll. Missed this one last visit due muggles. This time it was not too crowded with everyone heading for the Fireworks. Used the clue to be quick.
TFTC TNLNSL
Cheers Tramper Ted

Had a go at this one about 3 weeks ago, but there were just too many Muggles about (as I was on my own, and had not distracting colleagues!). Returned this Sunday, nice & early, and went straight to where I thought the cache was & bingo! Then realised I had not followed the instructions and brought a writing implement along...... so, improvisation! A discarded used match was enough to write name & date in the log!
Now off to the Melbourne Motor Show
T4TC

A busy sunny sunday many muggles abound, no-one notices us looking everywhere as they go about there tasks as we do too, yet too many places, so we used the clue(good clue too). Bingo. TFTC TNLNSL thnx Caughtatwork ya make enjoyable cache hides

Count #0041 found at 2045hrs.

Muggles all around indeed, the hints are very useful to pinpoint the spot and we managed to get it after waiting a while. Got frustrated by the large numbers of smokers while we were logging our entry. There are just too many smokers near the casino. Smoking ought to be banned since it is a public disturbance!!

TNLNSL, TFTC.

Nice hide in a very busy location.

Thanks Caughtatwork.

[This entry was edited by roundcircle on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 5:25:20 PM.]

Found after dark, after a couple of drinks with some friends

took advantage of the area being quiet for a few seconds to make the find

You thought it was easy itrdc5? Loads of muggles around! Very good hiding place. I probably wouldn't have found this without Backpaqer and itrdc5 (change your name! )

2nd find during a lunchtime geocache outing with MinnieTheMinx and Backpaqer. Using the hint, was an easy find.

Last of three after the tennis.
Thanks caughtatwork.
Regards Philma and Geo Cheese & Kisses.

Another cache that had foiled the B-Team on a previous visit, which is not surprising with the muggles literally crawling everywhere. It sure helped to have a few decoys to provide suitable cover when retrieving & replacing the cache. TNLN TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found with Tealby. TNLN TFTC.

Easy find as the cache was sticking out of its hiding place a little, recovery and replacement however was much more difficult.

Logged at around 1:15pm with my nice new stamper ...so this cache scores the first stamp. TNLN gutsy cache.

Went by at 7 PM on a Saturday... not a good time to be looking for this one as there were muggles everywhere. The clue didn't help either as I could not dicpher what it meant. Will have to try this one again at a later date.

Found on my lunch break. You weren't kidding about the muggles. GPS jumped around all over the place so I used the clue. Still it wasn't that easy! Eventually grabbed it but I don't know if I was observed. Thanks for the challenge caughtatwork!

My GPSr had a nasty turn at this one, it was jumping about all over the place - 300m that way, 20m this way. Finally found it (with a little help from el golco).

Found 11.15am
Love the hide on this one, needed the clue and soon worked out what it meant so narrowed down GZ to a very small area but searching with so many muggles around took a lot time. Once found had to walk round the corner to sign the log before returning it.

TNLNSL

Thanks for the challange C@W

Found by Bob at 1215

On a very rare trip to this neighbourhood this morning, I managed to get this one. This spot certainly does have its share of muggles but, fortunately, they come in waves (of a few thousand at a time ) and if you time it right you can have the area to yourself for a whole few seconds before the next wave arrives! A clever hide indeed .

TNLN

Thanks caughtatwork

There were not many Muggels around yesterday. Was very near to our hotel, so we just looked for it after our tour on Victorian market.

OUT: Doughball's Scottish traveler Geocoin
IN: -

Thx for all. Muslis (from Germany)

Finally a successful find.So many muggles.

Used the clue for this one. What a clever one it is. I dont know of a more dificult time to do this one as we did it on a friday night at 21:50
Lots for muggles here as name sugests. Found it to be wood wood wood too far so replaced it where it should be.
I really like the construction of the last few of your caches I have found. Keep up the good work.
TNLNSL
Crisp Image

First successful Melbourne cache! Mr P is in Melbourne on business so couldn't resist the challenge of visiting a few local caches.

Found this one with two muggle colleagues (who knows, maybe new cachers-to-be) late in the evening. In fact, it was one of the muggles who actually found the location after figuring out the clue! Was a lovely evening for a stroll around the area.

TNLN except left a geocoin.

TFTC

Easy found on a day trip to Melbourne in order to collect the bibs for the Melbourne Marathon on Sunday.

Moomin & Snorkmaiden
The Hattifnatters island
Sweden

1217. super hide! We used the hint so as not to aroure suspicions of the muggles all around.
+ new NZ 50cent coin (note how small it is!) - signature card
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Been here a few times before, and have lost count of how many times I've bent down to do up my shoelaces while trying to look inconspicuous.
I liked the work on the cache container.
TFTH

Rated: for Overall Experience

Clever hint and nice placement. Brought a first time geocacher along and he found the spot. Cache was in good shape. Took nothing, left nothing but log sign-in.

This cache is the furthest away from home location in US (Ohio) that I've hunted. This makes fourth geocache continent for me.

Thanks.

Wookus encouraged TB All Bets Are Off to take a break from the roulette wheel and it has been moved on from its Muggle Heaven haven near Crown Casino. Left cricket torch keyring.

Found at 13:10 in the company of Lunacy Fringe, I had been here the same time last year. Thought I'd just drop off a TB.

Took Super Glue, Left TB

Took a bit of a search to locate the cache. This bit of bridge must get a lot of thorough inspections. Looked up and saw I was being muggled from the cafe - by my wife. Thanks C@W for showing me how uninterested passersby can be.

~13:20 I can really be a pain - I sat down at GZ much to muggle frustration. Initially I was 15m north but had the right idea – great spot and great clue. Thanks caughtatwork.

This was a really good cache! Initially couldnt find and we went off to have some lunch then on the way back decided to have a quick look again and we found it!!

Lots of muggles in the area and had to be very careful when finding and replacing. It is amazing how clumsy you can be and how you can accidently drop things and have to bend down to pick them up

TNLN thanks caughtatwork

I love these type of hides! They are obvious to cachers but hundreds of people a day walk right by them. It helped that I found this one at night and had a mate running interference for me (it also didn't hurt that almost everyone else was focussed on the fireballs) TNLNSL Thanks for a great hunt!

Our third cache tonight in the company of Spruce Mooses and pick-up-family, the cache definately lives up to it's name but being in a group made finding the cache a lot simpler than looking for it solo
TNLNSL
Thanks once again caught@work

Found at 2145hrs in the company of Spruce Mooses and Team Crackers after geocaching.com.au event Bell's Easy Tips and Tricks GA0514. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Fifth find at 16:30 on visit from Hobart but needed two tries and a lot of delving.
Sunny winter's day and an enjoyable walk around the area.
TN, L el golco magnet. Thanks C@W

Found @ 15:45. The GeoWife and Geokids went for a coffee while I looked fro this one. Excellent clue led me straight to it although putting it back attracted the attention on a nosy muggle. Did the old can you see my pen trick and he left me to it.
Out: Snake (Thanks Next!)
In: Crocodile
TFTC Caughtatwork another good one!

17:25 Found imediately this time. Definitely wasn't there last time. Glad to complete this one. T: keyring L: Snake + Next! Stamp SL TFTC

Had a look around 9pm but the clues just didn't help at this time of night. Was it the couple of cold ones in the Casino or the disappointment and not making my fortune? Who knows, but will have to try again next visit to Melbourne when perhaps in the cold light of day all will become clear. Cheers!

Beautiful sunny Melbourne morning! We went for a nice walk to find this cache. We really enjoyed the hint on this cache it was very cool. Plenty of muggles around, made a mobile phone call and walked around while on the phone so I didn’t look so suspicious - had geopartner on the look out as well. Found the cache took it to a near by seat and opened it up.
Took: Large RED plastic paperclip.
Left: Small Shiny Silver "D Shackle"

Found at 11:07pm. Is this spot ever quiet? I had to time my searching between muggles walking by and others stopping here for a smoke. The extra waiting meant I was here to see the fireball spectacular! TFTC!

Nice easy find. Liked the clue. A bit bigger than I expected.

Thanks for the cache Caughtatwork. Found at 9:15 tricky to sneak it back as the crowds appeared from nowhere as I signed the log. LNTN

Orroral

I thought that it was a good clue, thanks - would have struggled without it, my gps had me in the water! T Motorbiker, L Thing. TFTC.