Goodies Radio Blackwood, South Australia, Australia
By TeamLangy on 19-Jul-05. Waypoint GCPRT5

This one has always been trouble. Time to archive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

Had my second look to no avail. My GPS put the GZ in the middle of a small gully near the building which was fairly impenetrable. Had a good look around likely spots but no luck. Given that this has not been found for nearly a year and the recent DNF logs I think this one needs to be archived.

No luck:(

Happened to be passing this cache this morning and noticed that the location of WP1 has completely disappeared. I think I may have also found the cache itself in multiple pieces, but I am not totally sure of that one!

This cache either needs maintenance or archiving!

canipa

Didn't have any luck with this one

3 attempts on this one over 3 months I still can't find WP1. I think it may have gone missing

Really bad coverage but found if after a while. TFTC!

Second visit and still no dice. Sat lock is poor... Checked creek, house, bridge and surrounds! SGZ comes up in the middle of the creek but previous post suggests that it is not in the creek. Help, please?!

couldn't even find WP1. No idea where it could be. GPS had us in the creek and in a tree. Looked everywhere, no idea.

Found it after a bit of scrounging around in the wrong spot. Can't believe i didn't see it for so long. TFTC

I have lived within 5 minutes of this park for nearly 5 years and never venture in - ridiculous hey!!

Had a fabulous morning walking the dog and finding both of the locations straight away

The papers in the first location are very wet but still readable - The bag was full of water so I wiped it out - I think it will need some maintenance soon.

TFTC - took pink bear and left an orange stamper pen - left log sticker.

canipa

A good multi resulting in a pleasant walk in the Black(wood) Forest on a cloudy day. The clue was appropriate. The logbook was missing. My apologies to Alchin for using the back of his business card to log in. A good episode of the Goodies which I remember reasonably well. Tnlnsl(business card). Thanks for the stroll and the memories. Goodies Rule OK!

I do remember that episode, though cant recall the scone bearing hills (??). Anyhow, a nice find to wrap up the night. TFTC!
Found with Bek-the-raccoon- and Alex-thesquirrel.

Cache you later. TFTC

The reference of this cache went over my head, so my appreciation was more to do with its location The GPSr was a bit dodgy at both locations, but we eventually found both. Problem was, the cache didn't have a log book (just some clipped together business cards) - and I'd left the pen and swaps in the car, so we left good vibes in the cache instead Hopefully we can come back to really put our names in the cache at some later time.
Found with Alex-thesquirrel and Beltaines_fire
Thanks for the cache!

GZ was a little off at WP1 but Mrs A looked in the obvious spot while GPSr was leading me into the creek.
Satloc was not too bad in the forest and cache was soon spotted. Although my son and I were fans of the Goodies neither of us could remember this episode.
BTW there is no log book in the cache - I left an Allchin sticker on a card in the cache.
Thanks TeamLangy for the cache and showing us the interesting old house at WP1.

This one has been not too far from home for ages so I just had to complete it today. Found WP1 easy enough, but I was walking around in circles at GZ for a while... If I used my eyes scanning the area more than following that damn little arrow on the GPS I'm sure I would have spotted it earlier
TFTC
B

Walking through black forset lovely smell pine trees.Found it nice hide..T.N.L.N S.L.

T.F.T.C

Headed of with young Geo son to find this one and the first WP was quickly found right next to a fine example of the future of compact, affordable housing. A leisurely walk in the black forest had the final; cache in hand!
TNLN
Thanks for the cache!

Wow! What a set of keys in there! Great spot. Tftc

Cloudy with intermittent spots of rain are not the best conditions for geocaching accuracy. Add trees and shrubs and it becomes a bit of a challenge. The GPS was all over the place so we had trouble finding the first cache. Eventually found cache 1 by getting as close as the GPS would allow and just looking for a likely hiding place. BINGO!

Then off to the woods. Ditto the first paragraph. BINGO again!!!! The boy half of the team was having a 'boy-look' whilst the girl half had a 'girl-look' and found the cache.

Took a walrus and left a gorilla. Nice big cache this one. Thanks to TeamLangy for placing this cache in a very interesting location. No scones so we bought some later in the day. I love The Goodies. Eccy Thump!

Stopped here to eat our lunch we bought from the nearby bakery (yummm) [^].
What is that building at WP1 [?].
Walked over to GZ, but the sat. loc. was so bad, we had to walk out to get some better reception [|)]. We tried to estimate the distance from outside, then looked around and thought 'Where would we hide a cache in here?'
Eventually found it after a 20 minute search (had no sat. reception at GZ [xx(]).
TNLNSL.
Thanks for the challenge Team Langy and now it's time for A Walk in the Black Forest .

Found the first clue, but had trouble with the GPS coords in the forest...not very good reception up there...Thanks anyhow

Found with Mooshell. TFTC.

Very nice day for caching. Down this way for Pedal Prix. Thought we would do a few caches. Enjoyed the scenery. TFTC, TNLN, SL

Wow! What a challenge - it was not helped by my GPS having the wrong settings!! Just on dark, geowife made the exciting discovery to choruses of, "Can we go home now?" from the geokids.TFTC. Made some swaps but left TB as it is too big to move for us.

Accompanied with sevabo and Joan, We enjoyed ourselves walk along to final - gee search everywhere until Joan found it... Thanks god. SL. Thanks TeamLangy for organising the cache and hunt.

Enjoyed the stoll very much but took us while to looking the cache, [bit out of GZ]. Thanks for the hunt and cache.

Clues didn't make any sense to us, as we've never watched the Goodies! Managed to find the cache, although GPS wandered around all over the place. Hint: Forget the GPS once you are off the path, and use the Force Luke (the geocaching force that is!).
TN LN TFTC

Finally returned to have another crack at this one in daylight, and it wasn't a whole lot easier. GPS was still drifting around, and when I finally stumbled over the cache it was pointing over 10m away. Had [url=http://www.mightymidi.com/music/elsong1.mid]this tune[/url] running through my head for some reason . Ah, pirate radio stations aren't what they used to be...

TNLN - Thanks Langy!

Found at second attempt, took TB Pony, left TB LE Key, TFTC

Nice little multi. Wp1 easy to find. Good stretch of the legs to gz which proved a little difficult. Was less than 12m from gz with some man made camo. Lft tb. Thanks Team Langy.

I found the first one with no problem but it took me ages to find the second cache. Anyway I liked your simple multi and enjoyed the stroll.
Thanks TeamLangy for the cache.

Had to work on this cache to win the prize but we did it,
with the help of Team Spanner with his amazing Geo sniffer.

Part 1 Info sheet was very wet and almost impossible to read. Took it home and dried it out but still difficult to read. If the owner wants to send the text to me I'll print it out and replace it for you as it's only 5 minutes from home. Anyway, found with Blindshambles doing all the work on a nice warm day. Lots of muggle kids in the 2nd part which was good to see. TNLNSL, Cheers and thanks.

Found the first part - film cannister, but the location listed there sent us to a private garden up a VERY steep hill ?????? Confused.
Nice spot though.

TNLNSL

While humming the appropriate tune (and reminiscing about stupid episodes ) we found the first point (very close to a spot we have visited a number of times) and then followed on of my favourite tracks in the area to find the cache. The lock was very patchy, but eventually Mr Irac located the obvious looking pile which is the give away to any cacher. Couldn't get the pen to open so it was just as well we had one of our own.Left a lizard and took a bear button. TFTC

we found then first part but not the second so could not continue.

The note at the first waypoint is mouldy, falling apart, and becoming difficult to read.

Found at 20.50. A nice walk at dusk. Found it quickly one I put the GPS away.
The note at the first waypoint is mouldy, falling apart, and becoming difficult to read.

On my second go. On the first, I found wp1 ok but found the tattered paper hard to read, and ended up in the wrong place. Was passing by again today so had another look and this time got a better result. The reception at gz is lousy and spent a few minutes looking at likely places until I got there. Thanks Team Langy.

It is a lot easier to find in daylight. Needed to expand the search area by 30 metres from GZ to find it due to dodgy sat fix. Thanks Scott.

Armed with a new GPS, I tried this one again. Found the first part easily however the paper is damp and requires replacement. Got to GZ, looked for around 20 minutes but no luck. It was dark - will try again in the light.

27/10/07 3pm Find 15 of 24 Today by the A: Team
TN LN TFTC
Spooky walk in the woods, the trees were waving in the wind today. The note with the final co-ords needs to be replaced, and the cache is damp as well. Log is ok as the ziploc bag protects it. Sat had us wandering, so we went back to seek and find mode, and nabbed it that way

it took us a second shot, only because it kept raining so much on our first visit.
the first waypoint was straight forward. (though the paper is starting to look a bit ratty and faded)(might need replacing soon)
the second we had fun with the trees. but found it after not too much fuss..
tftc tnln [^]

Penultimate cache for the day with Miss Jane - we arrived after dark, but thought hey, how hard could it be? Found the waypoint and its still soggy but usable, although in two pieces.

With the final coordinates loaded in, we set off in search of the cache, only to find ourselves in the bush, on a moonless night. Then ahead of us on the trail approached a gaggle of preteen girls and their keepers, waving their torches in random directions and singing hearty hiking songs... Miss Jane wouldn't let me jump out at them from the dark and shout "Boo!" , so instead we kept the torch on and walked up casually, but still managed to get a couple of screams out of them .

The GPS was dancing all over the place in there, and we spent about half an hour scrabbling around in the cold and the dark, with one small torch. An enquiry to the Team Langy helpline provided the helpful advice that it was a large container in there somewhere.

Eventually I had to give up and drag Miss Jane out of there - I think she was determined to stay until we'd found it...

Suspect that this one is a bit easier in daylight

arrived after dark with winter dragon and realised it was a multi!!! found the first spot ok... but the second well... the hordes of pre teen-girls screaming didn't help... then the walk onto the set of "blair witch project" had me wishing I didn't start this one... a quick text to the owner turned up no help at all ... "a large cache somewhere and yes the gps dances"... ta L

one minute 50m east next 20m west then 30m south... we both had enough so we gave up on this... perhaps in day light next time??????

Was luck with this one with the bird blocked by the branches. WP1 needs a dry out. I enjoyed the walk. TFTC

GPS died as we approached the GZ so relied on memory from last time here. (which is usually a bad move) but this time success. As others have said, about 20 metres from where I originally looked.

Liked the spot, you can feel the age around this area. Does anyone know what the building at WP 1 was for?

Thanks for the cache

Took TB
Left Spanner

Found the first part easy enough, but searched for quite some time with no luck before having to move on.

1st stage no drama, though note needs replacing. Couldn't find actual cache.

[This entry was edited by snowone on Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 5:16:59 AM.]

Found with Datto, and siblings. Cache was not that close to GZ (by our reckoning), but novice cacher sibling found it (well done Jel!). Amused ourselves afterwards with a bit of celebratory knocking-down-rotten-tree-stump.

TN. L: First the Country, Then the World TB (finally!)
TFTC!

Found by Team GeoCoopers
With Piggy on a late night cache run in the Black Woods of Blackwood. We saw a torch in the distance and went into stealth mode, proceededing into the darkness.
Was hoping it was another cacher and we'd scare them enought to hear a Lancashire dialect cry of surprise being 'ecky thump'. If they were a less credible character wanting to cause us trouble, we were ready to use our Grand Master skills to perform an ecky thump fatty smash from behind a tree due to the lack of nearby lamp posts. As we did not have a medium sized brass band with to help perform an Eye of the Hovis on them.
[|)]
Thanks TeamLangy

Found at 0245 am, Found first cache ok, second one indeed appeared 15 mtrs out, trees to blame I suggest.
As we were walking in to the black "wood" we noticed another torch moving around a bit higher up the "wood" and about 250 mtrs away, we shut our lights down and waited to surprise (scare the hell out of ) some other cachers, but to our surprise the torch turned off and never re-appeared ?? Not sure WTF went on there but they were well away from any roads when it went out, very spooky!
Who / What were they doing in the wood at that time of night? They werent caching, so....?

The blackberries are in season and muggles abound. Easy find after 'solving' the first location.

We are definitely too young for the Goodies I'm afraid, but owl's parents knew exactly what it meant! Pirate radio is a brilliant concept - I wonder why it didn't take off? owl's folks even remember the tune...
TNLN TFTC
with onewiseowl

Owl's folks had to go on and on about the tune, humming and arguing about the B-side. Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder why exactly they remember things like that and not, for example, my name . Even they didn't remember the bit about the scones, though...TFTC, tried to rehide as best as I could.

Nice forest and a great place for a walk. Found the micro without problems but took awhile to find main cache as my GPSr had it about 12 metres away. We persevered and eventually found it. TNLNSL. Note that the paper sheet in the micro with the main cache coordiantes was ripped and a bit damp - still readable but needs repair. Thanks.

Found by Glenn at 2.30pm

A couple of nice hides and a nice place for a walk.

TNLNSL

Finding the first container was the hard bit with very limited satellite coverage. The walk in the forest was great, an area that despite living in the area for 20years I had never visited before.

15. TNLN
Visited: World Traveller Gold GC A#6 & Grand Canyon A#12

Albida

Don't recall that Goodies episode, but found cache easily enough, swapped toys.

What a lovely cache to break our long run of "failed to find"s! Enjoyed the Goodies reference, I remember the episode well - it was a Tardis boat after all!

Took golf ball & historic figurine, left 50th anniversary golf ball, samurai armour, and personal development card (a series of 26, one is being left in each cache we find).

found after a bit of looking....thanks

My 100th cache!! Took a while, initially couldn't find anywhere which resembled a cache hiding spot but got it in the end. TNLN Thanks

An enjoable walk in said forrest with most excellent company. TNLNSL.

Cheers and out
Team TDB

It was a wonderful day for a walk and to try to find Mr KriKe's nemesis cache. So while the ladies were enjoying a "Baby Shower" for Mrs KriKe, Team TDB, KriKe and Lead 'n Lace set out. GZ was soon located easily much to Mr KriKe's disgust, the new co-ords entered while a Muggle with a GSP (rather than a GPSr) wandered past. Off we strode but Lead 'n Lace's batteries didn't make the trip. Oh well down to one GPSr. The final location was well out but effective observation soon found the cache.
As we had no swaps, we just moved the TB GPSr on.

Thanks Team Langly.
Cheers
Lead 'n Lace.

A sunny afternoon and a rare amalgam of KriKe, Lead n Lace and Team TDB meant we could finally sort out this cache which had been dogging Mr KriKe for some time. With so much caching talent Point 1 was found quickly, dead batteries on the way to point 2 stalled the search. After a little circle work and forgetting the GPS we found GZ. KriKe's Meridian also said around 15 to 20 metres away. TNLN.

I attacked this with two GPSrs, to be sure, to be sure. Point 1 was easy, point two showed a few forest effects. After a bit of scouting around I came up trumps. The meridian gold had GZ 20metres west, the nuvi 310 (with SIRF III chip) had GZ 13m NW. Took a phone and left a GPS (TB). Thanks langy.

We missed out on this one.... we found the first WP with no trouble but we trampled all over the pine forest with no luck.... oh well, next time.

First location was easy enough, but the poor sat lock at the second makes this quite challenge.

Standing over the second location my GPS was reading 20m south !

thanks again TeamLangy !

Couldnt find the first - ran out of time today will try again soon

Struggled with our GPS reading at this one, found WP1 quite by accident and then headed of to find GZ. A beautiful day to do this one found it at 12:00. Took horse and Yo-yo, Left oscar and I can't read my own handwriting of what else.

Found 11:10. 2nd of 12 FTD. Waiting for Chizbeki to arrive, so thought that I'd kill some time. Found eventually, spent a lot of time sitting and waiting for my GPSr to catch up to the GPS......and there it was that suspicious pile of debris. Left: One of the Dwarf's, Pug Tag, Took: TB. TFTC.

Had no proplems with gps coverage today. Found waypiont one quickly , moved on to GZ, gpsr took us straight to it.(Where's the cake???)Swapped mini scissors for mini wire cutters. Also released TB Sprintcar. TFTC Team Langy

A beautiful area and a pleasant walk. Thankyou for the cache. Took Pigs left yellow bus.

This one took a while!

GPS reception plays a big part on this one. If it wasn't for the GPS sending me on wild goose chases, it would be an easy find.

The clue helps in the second location if your getting frustrated.

Part 1 was bad enough but the cache was a nightmare. With patience and resting it locked on and each time got a bit closer. After about 4 rests we got within 5m and the cache was ours..still with 12m accuracy! Then had to wait for the slowest walking muggle I have ever seen to go away. TNLN

Ninth of sixteen finds on my first day in Adelaide. Although I watched the Goodies, many moons ago, I don't recall the episode in question. I found the first container quickly. I liked the cottage nearby--what's the story? Anyhow, I made my way to GZ. GPS coverage was rock solid, but the trees kept moving around! I spent a fair bit of the time wandering around looking in likely spots. I decrypted hint--it didn't help at all. The GPSr was useless, but did point me to a patch of blackberries twice. I rang the Freddo help line, but it was on auto-pilot: I left a message. I tried the shonkylogic help line, and received a good hint. I still couldn't find it, and then Freddo rang back. He gave me another hint, and I finally found it five minutes later at 1330. I spent about 45 minutes looking. The hint still doesn't make sense to me, even after I've found the cache. I've always wanted to wander around a pine forest, but I've now got that out of my system! Thanks to TeamLangy for the cache.

IN: Mondo figure (Australia 1850 - Gold Rush)
OUT: Toy car

Before I had my GPS I thought this would be a lovely place for a cache, all that time one was there. The second part of the cache actually made the GPS throw it's hands in the air, after a stern taking to it settled. Took key to the city TB, snake and shark (last 2 were to keep 4yr old happy), left silver gum leaves. Onya

Found the cache after an extended search! Liked the cottage at WP1, we also had an extended search there due to GPS problems!

TNLN

Thanks for the cache.

PLaced Key to City in Goodies Radio.
Beaker

Found this cache when I was still a member of Beakers Bunch.
Thankyou

Sensational! I too remeber vivdly this episode from the Goodies. Found in coohorts with Parrothead and Ni.
Left Key to the City TB
Thanks
BB

Ni!!

Great cache, very nice location - mind you it was hard to get a lock once in the woods! But the hiding spot was not too hard to find once the GPS finished sending me up the hill and then back down again.
TNLN - took Geocoin.

Ecky Thump, I finally found my way here.
Located waypoint 1 and the geko is still in residence.
Had to do the circle around until I found it approach near GZ as GPS was no use.
Left the Geocoin here.
Now its off to lunch "Beef Beef"

At the first WP, i looked at the spot, then discounted it as the GPS said it wasnt there. 30 seconds later i was back, retreiving the canister.

Strolled off towards GZ, and after a couple of minutes looking around aimlessly, widened my search with instant success. Was glad to get an easy find, considering how much trouble others have had.

TNLNSL

Despite 30 minutes searching with the whole team we couldn't find the first point. There has been a lot of water down through here in the last week - has it been swept away?

An easy multi to bring up our 100th find. Found a gecko in the same spot with WP1, done our best not to annoy him. As soon as I read the instructions I remembered that episode of the Goodies from my childhood, and thought the cache name very appropriate. Found cache easily, lucky for us. Took a koala, left a snake. Dropped off TB Key to the Door. Thanks Team Langy.

A nice walk despite a few drops of rain. Love that tune, too. An interesting little house at the starting location. As warned, the satellites were playing hard to get at GZ, so relied on the hint to direct our search, which soon paid off. Took lion, left yo-yo. Our thanks to TeamLangy.

It all makes sense now [^]. I’ve never been able to listen to that tune since and NOT thought of that episode . As others have noted, sat lock at GZ is woeful and I only found the cache by chance, while looking in the most likely area. Even AT the cache, I was getting 20m to go. Left a chunky blue pen and took a sunglasses strap. Thanks Langy. A nice walk in very pleasant surrounds

Found 1st waypoint, no probs, after waiting for muggle council worker to turn his back! Then off to GZ, still with WP1 in my pocket as couldn't put it back straight away. Took a lot of searching, finally found it as I was thinking of how to word the pleading email!!! Replaced WP1... eventually. Even took some pics....
Left Patch Took nothing
Thanks Team Langy, 2nd one of yours today!

I eventually found this one after about 30 minutes of frustration (then had to ring the lizzy helpline- hey, I'd looked there 2!! .) Yep Freddo, yr right, turn off your GPS as I think mine said 30m to GZ when it rested on top of the cache. A nice spot anyway. Thanx Langy. Left a car and took coasters.
Clear skies, Astro.

Had to take Langy with me after a "toilet emergency" forced me to abandon the search with the kids last week. The kids loved having Langy along - can't see why...

Had to wait for some locals to leave the locality. Neat cache guys. Pity I did not need or could use a GPS.

Second today I believe.

Wild thang, you make miy hart sang. You make evarythang grooooveeeeeee.

Overstepped the spot by about 30 metres due to slow satellite lock. Returned gradually to GZ. Don't know how long the cache will last as there aren't many spots - much of the available debri has been amassed to create nearby construction.
Cheers!

Liz and Bruce's day out with Shonkylogic. Cache found after a short search. Nice walk in the forest. Took Buddha and left tissues. Thanks TeamLangy.

Found with Liz & Bruce in the forest near some kids building a BMX trail. Bruce distracted the kids while I found the cache! TNLNSL, thanks Langy.