Docklands Art Walk - Webb Bridge South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By Partic on 01-Jul-05. Waypoint GCPFEY

Sorry to the last few cachers looking for this one. On Saturday night I was able to confirm the cache has gone.

With the neighbouring ANZ development now well underway, and buffing right up to the bridge, I think this one is going to be difficult to find if replaced, so archiving it with most of the rest of the series looks to be the best option.

I had to resort to calling a previous finder after the owner was unreachable, but was unable to locate it.

After doing the nearby "Reed Vessel", I wandered a bit further south and checked out the Webb Bridge. I located wps 1 & 2 ok (I think) and my GZ was at a likely spot - but I couldn't locate the cache, though I did locate a likely hiding spot. I may be completely off track, or it may have been muggled - I'll email Partic with some details.

Thanks anyway Partic

Searched everywhere after enjoying doing the multi and it is not there. Shame because I am from interstate. It was worth the walk anyway.
Moses on the move.

Found with a colleague and BackPAQER's guidance. Kids would love the playground nearby.

After visiting the "citilink" centre nearby,it was a good chance to do a cache in this enjoyable area.After the multi clues were calculated,quickly moved the the GZ region and a clever spot was revealed.Thanks to Partic .TNLN.

Arrrrgh! (In a rough pirate drawl)...found this one today while waiting to participate in our corporate pirate treasure hunt! Found the well hidden booty. It's been a while between logs for this one, that's for sure. No-one around at 3pm in the afternoon so a nice easy log.

The description might need updating as the Billboard is now item 6, Heartland is now item 7 and Webb Bridge it now item 8.

I also learned that every building project in this area must contribute 1% of the building cost budget towards art works in the area.

1218. An interesting multi. We love the bridge. There are so many great bridges across this river - we just wish we had time and transport to visit them all but unfortunately it will not be possible on this trip.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Had to be back in town to sing in a concert, so we quickly grabbed this cache on the way, and even had time to grab a coffee.

Isn't the Webb bridge a cool thing?

Took: Plastic kitty, paddlepop stick and a photo
Left: Toy car

Had a good time finding this one. Even though it had a few parts to finding the cache we managed to do it quite quickly. It was nice to walk accross the bridge and in the park, quite a groovy area.

Took: Plastic Tool (Clamp)
One Paddle Pop Stick
Left: Yellow and Blue Bouncy Ball

Found at 3:17pm Accompanied by Chewinprickles.
Got this one along the way while doing Robmc'c CCT-0 on our new bikes.
TNLN, Signed Log.
Thanx Partic....

Found at 12:47pm. Found the clue, the artwork behind the stairs, the bridge and the cache, but not the billboard. I was probably looking right at it without realizing it. I get that with many caches too [8)].

FOund easliy today after following instructions carefully. LN took stick.

Found the Photo Art Billboard, the Art at the stairs, and the cache all reasonably easily. A good cache at an interesting location. There are 2 clues left in this cache. T Chicken, L Swordfish. TFTC

Learnt a lesson on chasing my first cache, it's easier to find if you set the datum to the correct setting!

Well now I have both available clues to the overall cache, after finding this one. I remember reading about this bridge a while ago but didn't realise it was the one until doubling back on myself in the 'S' bend.

Everything found pretty easily, but no idea where the billboard is supposed to be.

Thanks Partic

We were a little confused . . .Is that the photo art billboard?? . . . maybe/maybe not. Well heres a ramp - do you thnk it is the right one, can't see the artwork in the stairs??? . . . Count the strips anyway. Oh look, now we are going back where we came from . . . hmm, heres the cache!

OK, so maybe we found it by good luck as much as good management, but it was a great hide! TN, L orange frog. Thanks! Oh, and we want one of those big revo;voing things in our backyard!!

Lots of muggles about this afternoon so I was trying to be as stealthy as possible only to have the Police helicopter above me. Not usually a problem but given the likely location of the cache it did seem to hover over my head for longer than usual. I called my search off as soon as I spotted the 2 police officers on their push bikes ride towards me. Put this down to a DNF and its okay, they just rode straight past.

This is an excellent cache route, with a cunningly hidden container. Hopefully that should be there for a while. Couldn't see the photo art billboard, but everything is where you say.
Thanks
Jon

First of 3 today. I had seen this bridge from the Melbourne observation deck and though I that I should walk it someday. Little did I know it would be part of a caching trip. One day I will start at the docklands and see how far up the Yarra riverside I can get. Thanks for the introduction to the trail.

Found at 1.27PM.

A very nice piece of artwork here, something I have never seen, and the other peice of artwork across the road from GZ is wierd and interesting. Thanks for taking me to this cache which was easily located. Coped the clues down for the final and will wait for the other two to be restored fully before finishing the series. Thanks for the cache from M.B

TNLNSL

Walking, Walking & more Walking, but all very nice.
Found cache cleverly concealed. Got required info for more in the series.

Checked it yesterday, and it's still there - fortunately.

This was to be our second cache of the day, but just could not find it. Found the two waypoints and calculated the final location. We spent 40 minutes looking around the final location, but just could not spot the cache anywhere. We will have to try again some other day.

Very cool hide! Second of three for the series.
Took TB Voogoo Fish. Will drop him off in Canada.

on the way to the cricket (aust vs rest of world) dropped a voogoofish badge off and also a TB "super voogoofish" who wants to travel as FAR AS POSSIBLE please (interstate and even overseas if possible) also could not help getting the TB here (hippo?) cheers

As the sun rises so do the locals. Cyclists in particular, and a good morning to be out too.
Found it. Thanks Partic.
TNLN.

Found with SatyricTim, Cam, Norman and Meryl. An interesting location; finding it was fun. Because of the AFL grand final today there were very few muggles about. T: lick-a-prize clue L: nothing.

Our second docklands cache of the day was a great walk on a lovely day. The area is still being rapidly developed, and it will be interesting to see what it's like in 6 months time. No trouble with the waypoints, and the angles on the artwork was fun. This gave us our last clue in the lick-a-prize set.

Thanks for the tour, Partic.

Today I dropped off Hippo Racing bug. Apparently he wants to get the Pilbara Rejion of West Australia by next month. I think his name should be changed to Fat Chance, but anyway I've left him here so anyone travelling West by train could collect him.

Found at 3.15pm GAFF1 after a meeting in the city. Never been here before so all of this was new to me. Thanks Partic for highlighting this area. tn/ln Picked up Two Fingers TB.

Found it @ approx. 13:30

After battling the near gale force winds to navigate between the various Wpt's, eventually found our goal!!!

Took in some very interesting sculptures & artworks along the way! Very worth while.

Took Giraffe, clue & T.B. "Red Furry"
Left Glow Ring & T.B. "Two Fingers"

Thanks Partic.

[This entry was edited by Scubacrazy666 on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 10:44:14 PM.]

In town for the day for work so managed to sqeeze a spot of caching in before we started our meeting. I'm really enjoying discovering the areas of Docklands. TNLN
Thanks Partic

Found at 5:20pm after waiting for muggles to clear GZ. Thought we were in for a long wait when a bridal party moved in for photos on the bridge, but fortunately they moved further along the interesting bridge.

took Hong Kong coin
left giraffe and TB Redfurry

thanks Partic

Wow - this is such fun this cache! I had to laugh on this one as I got the clues wrong and spent many minutes walking back and forth over Webb Bridge. I even ended up on the walkway to the boat pens (more on this later - I got 3min left in the internet cafe to log my visits).

Maintenance Visit

Redistributed the paddle pop sticks and refreshed the available swaps.

This Minnesota gal really enjoyed the bridge. So much I walked over it about four times!! Great place for a cache. I really enjoyed the hunt! Took the small blue clamp. Left a golf ball. Thanks millions, for a great cache!!

A lunch time stroll with SSMC4 soon had S whispering "it's over here". A very easy find as it had been left in plain view . TNLNSL & obtained the clue. Reconcealed the cache in an appropriate spot. Time to line up the rest of the series. Thanks again Partic.

Found in the company of BeccaJ. The only problem we had was the city circle tram went sailing past our stop, and left us 600m from the first clue! I wouldn't call this cache small, for a city cache it's quite big! Thanks Partic!

A lunchtime expedition with Raskal3 saw us with a successful find. TNLNSL. We look forward to completing the series.

Thanks Partic.

I loved doing these multi caches. Again, they were the perfect fill-in time while waiting for the football to start Go Crows! and an awesome way to see parts of melbourne we might not have seen.

waiting for the big game to start a nice way to fill in the time!!! Go Crows!!!TNLN

Part three of the docklands completed prior to watching the ADELAIDE CROWS beat the NORTH MELBOURNE KANGAROOS on their own turf! sweet! TNLN... Mrs voogoofish (pregnant) stayed at a cafe near the bridge while I did a mercy dash for final location... nice hide!

After a quick find nearby, I checked Geko to see what was next closest and the two WPs of this one were it (for some stupid reason, I hadn't loaded [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=e96d2b21-252d-43f0-abad-115182aa13d3]Docklands Art Walk - Shoal[/url] into Geko so that, and the final part of the series, will have to wait 'til another day .)

I collected the required info for this one and set off for a nice, easy, muggle-free find at 16:30.

Took clue, LN. Thanks again Partic. The magnets are working a treat .

Dropped by and duct tape was my friend.

Magnets have all been fixed up. Grabbed Nabbers TB while there.

Hi Partic
What a miserable day I have had caching, or should I say trying. I called in here and picked up the stick I forgot last visit. also dropped of a travel bug. I then went after the cow up a tree one again but there were council workers nearby. I thought I'd try for the 3rd and last, having deduced the 3rd co-ord. But I was thwarted by workers here as well. I tried again at lunchtime, this time had a bit of a look but came up dry. I also went over and tried for the pleasance suprise, but my Tai Chee mate (if thats how you spell it) was there again. I walked around the block but he was still there. I have worked out it's a huge handicap to cache alone. On a brighter note. I'm beginning to make sense of the HTML stuff. Been doing a free tutorial I found on the web which includes exercises etc. Thanks for your help here in steering me to the sites etc you mentioned.

Found this and another of the series this morning, but forgot to get the icy pole stick so I have to go back again.
I guess that wont take long anyway.
It's a nice spot but was blowing a gale when I was there this morning.
Thanks Partic.

I had driven past WP1 but never noticed it. WP2 I could barely see as the light was reflecting off the windows (and I was looking for a sculpture outside).
Left: Mini Recorder, Took: Tiger and icy pole stick (some one had got there before me and eaten the icy pole!!!) I suspect Partic (must have made himself sick setting this one up).
Thanks, Robmc.

This cache turned out to be my Waterloo. This was the last of the three caches to provide the clues to the whereabouts of Lick-A-Prize. I went to the published co-ordinates, only to find that they were for WPT2. No problems - I grabbed the required answer, then headed to what was supposed to be WPT1.

Nothing there seemed to match what was supposed to be there. I found a pole with a 5 digit number but no garden, and no Water Corrosion Inspection Point. I decided that something was wrong, but 1:00 am in the morning is no time to try to work out where it should be. So, after checking a few possible places on the nearby bridge, I admitted defeat and headed home. I will email Partic in case he has made a mistake.

Logged with the others (so not ftf) while on the City Circle Tram Event Cache, while trying to establish the inspiration for the bridge design.

Thanks Partic.

DJ

Fourth of seven finds for the day. I was in the middle of the "City Circle Tram Event" in company with Muzza, so I took time off to find this one. We gathered the various numbers, did the calculations, and set off to GZ. Muzza claimed the FTF on this one, to make it three out of three for the series. I was on the hoof, and I didn't have any swaps with me, so TNLN. I now had all the clues to calculate the coordinates for the final cache. Thanks to Partic for the art-focused cache.

Found 12:55, a suspicious group of cachers caught Biggles Bear's eye and when he went to investigate, he found a cache

TNLN, thanks Partic.

Found by caughtatwork, sometime early this afternoon.
With Facitman and family as well as Rhinogeo following along, we all made our way through the various waypoints running into more than one additional cache on the way.
Collecting the clues we made our way across to the final location which was revealed and the 'log fight' was on.
Left a very short log in the book as there was a queue forming and collected the last of the necessary clues for the associated mystery cache (which I'd already found, doh!)
Thanks Partic. These 4 caches added to the fun of the City Circle Tram Event today and you are to be congratulated on getting them placed in time for us to find. It was very much appreciated.

Found at 1:30pm. After handing in the paper at the cache event I ducked back over to pick up this cache as I didn't do it during. Nice bridge. Collected a stick.

Thanks Partic from D,H,H & A B-A. Collected only a stick.

After failing very early this morning due to incorrect co-ords I attempted this one again during the City Circle Tram Event after being given the correct co-ords by Partic. Found together with DAK. As it turned out, no-one else had attempted it giving us the hope that the FTF for the final cache would also go to one of us. Thanks for the cache.

Found while attending the city circle tram event, LN took home one large box of hard drives. Thanks Partic. Go the Tigers.

Found after returning from our big hike around Melbourne. Glad we didn't have to go far to get this one! Thanks Partic.

Found by Mary & David at about 1255, along with a crowd from the City Circle Tram Event tour of the city. An interesting bridge surrounded by very expensive real estate. TNLN except the clue for the fourth cache in the series. Our thanks to Partic for adding another dimension to the day's activities.

Found by the Facit Family at 2:15pm

After completing the Circle Circle Tram Event the Facit Family, Rhinogeo and Caught@Work set off to find the last two caches in this series. While at the first waypoint we were joined by another team and as a mob completed the cache.

Took Mini-torch
Left Rolling Stamp Pen and Toy Zebra

Thanks Partic!

We found this one while participating in the City Circle Tram Event. Muggled Partic at the final coordinates of the this cache. The log book was handed over and quickly signed had a quick laugh and we were on our way to find out what was the design inspiration for the bridge.
Thanks Partic for adding to the fun of the City Circle Tram Event

What is the best way to find a cache?. Get together a group of geocachers and let them all loose in search of a cache.
This cache was found along with other participants of the City Circle Tram event at Docklands.
Many thanks Partic for the cache a very easy find (was that 5 or 6th in line?)
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "had a great time" Clan.

Found on 02/07/05 @ 1412 AEST. The 3rd in this series foiund with the Facit-family and c@w during the CCCE . This one was spotted by other cachers (we were tending to travel in a pack for this one [:o])

TNLN

Cheers Partic

This cache was found while participating in the City Circle Tram Event. While trying to discover the design inspiration for the Webb bridge I spied Partic with the cache in hand, the log book was quickly signed and I was back to the Tram event.
Thanks Partic for an added bonus for the day.

Found this afternoon while having a quick lunch after participating in Embi's City Circle Tram Event!!!
A great area and we'll have to come back again with the bikes for a more scenic tour!!!

Thanks Partic.

Good stuff, This was a fun one. Adam got to this one first
Took Nothing, Left Hong Kong coin. Thanks!

Found while attending the city circle tram event. TNLN
Thankz

found with many other cachers at the caching event thanks for the cache

found this in no time cauce the cache was brought to me buy someones kid signed the log and they took it back now thats to easy

The Docklands Art Walk caches have been set up for the City Circle Tram Event on July 2 2005, and will remain in place following the event.

During the event (and even at other times), I would recommend a few groups of cachers get together to do these, as it will allow you to cluster together and create a suitable decoy when looking for at least two of the caches (Cow Up A Tree and Shoal). Individuals looking for these two will stick out like a sore thumb.

Also please take care to ensure you return the caches during the event appropriately.

If someone has a can of silver spray paint, feel free to give the cache a coat of paint while visiting it

I haven't gotten around to buying one yet, but when you find it, you'll see why silver would be best.

Thanks
Partic