CAT HOUSE Ilfraville, Tasmania, Australia
By robtas on 07-Aug-05. Waypoint GCQ1KC

The council has replaced the walk bridge so the cache has gone and no spot to replace it so it has to go. may be back later.

Our GPS was very consistent in its indication of GZ. Despite an extensive search, cache was not located. Could this site please be checked - thanks.

Called in at the new location with Team Crackers today. The rain meant we weren't able to search for as long as we would wish without getting soaked. Checked out a couple of places that fitted the clue, but to no avail. Back to our drawing board.

Searched high & low and have a good idea where we'd have put it (exactly where GZ was on our GPS).....but no.

Sadly we couldn't find this one... It has possibly been muggled as we very thouroughy searched GZ!

Passed through this pretty seaside town the previous evening in a desperate search for petrol. No time or fuel for caching... had to move on to Beaconsfield. Returned the next morning to finish up the caches around this area. Grabbed this one between muggle traffic.

A very easy find. Thanks for the cache.

Another quick find in the area on the first day of our 9 day holiday around Tasmania. Good views as well. TFTC.

Did a spot of fishing then found the cache. It took a bit to find with muggles around. A very enjoyable day out.

Didn't need the fishing gear, but there were so many people out walking dogs, so we had to be quite nonchalant about the whole thing. TFTC

Pretty easy find. TFTC

Stopped in at Beauty Point and did this one on our way across to Hillwood. I forgot how pretty Beauty Point is. All is well at GZ. TFTC

Didn't even need to get out of the car for this one - the mini helper was back with the cache before we even had our seatbelts off!
TNLNSL

This one takes some stealth! Muggles everywhere! TFTC

nice hide had us a little stumped were looking too hard at first TFTC SL

Quick find after spending a couple of hours at the attractions nearby. Thanks

Last one for the day....geomutt started to throw up on the back seat.....gross. but this one was nice and easy

Nice easy one
We will have to bring the boat up here one day.
Thanks robtas
The name of the cache has me beat ? but then I am blonde

Great find took us a while though! Haha
TNLN.

Can't see the significance of the name but a quick easy find.

No problems finding this one. Thanks

Stopped near by for lunch on way to Greens Beach, went for little walk and found this one with ease after a couple of muggles vanished from the area.
TFTC

The rain had ceased - briefly, and Snuva had this one sniffed out in no time. Back in the car again to continue the caching trip.

I last attempted this one years ago when it was in a different spot. My visit that time resulted in a DNF; happily that was not the case this time!

Thank you for the cache.

This is near 2 fun attractions. Which should be done. We only expected to be here 30mins but spent 2 hours. Thanks for providing a cache so we could mark our visit here. TFTC

Given that the cache notes warned to expect plenty of muggles, I parked the geomobile amongst the tour buses, motor homes and tourist cars
As I wandered over to join the hoardes, I zoomed in on the cache location on the GPS and noticed I was heading the wrong way [:o]
My new destination was very muggle free, to my great relief, and I found the cache without even so much as pretending to tie my shoelaces or make a phonecall [^]
TFTC.

But why Cat House ?

No muggles to contend with and very little traffic.
Thanks robtas

With bum in the air we found this one-another good spot- found with Gabmil & co

Found this one easily on a caching trip with Zali0312 over that side of the Tamar. Only 1 muggle to contend with who was too intent on his book to notice what we were doing. Signed log and replaced.

Good co-ords SL
TFTC

A quick find on a cool windy day, thanks Robtas

very good hide....quick find...very good one for the beginners/new to the caching
thnx

Found with the help of flange_1 &tribe. Teaching these guys what caching is all about! Last one for the day!

7.45am
Found by Roma and Max.
Lots of walkers with their pets in the general area but we had no trouble making our find without them showing any interest in just another couple of tourists!
Tks robtas.
Romax.

Found it with the family. The hint was partly misleading. There were no rocks to seen. TFTC.

Was about to give up on this one, then Mrs 3DG came up with the goods.
Hint was useless as there were no rocks around.
Replaced exactly where retrieved from.

Found this cache previously as the other half of Boagsratz but now cache as a lone ranger. TFTC! Blind Betty.

Thanks Robtas, hardly had to get out of the car for this one!!!TNLNTFTC

Replaced in a better hide.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 41° 09.017 E 146° 49.388
Distance From Old: 372.1 feet
In an easier place to find but watch the muggles.

hope to check out this weekend.

Couldn't find either!
Regards Mr.Coffee and the " Were not blind" Clan

We can add our names to the growing list of DNFs. Like dak, we 'hate'em in rocks'. When we saw the terrain at GZ we knew that trying to find a film canister here would be a lost cause. David still had a look around while Mary went to buy some lunch, but finding a needle in a haystack would have been much easier. Judging by the number of DNFs, if the cache is still there, its difficulty rating needs to be increased significantly, and/or a more useful hint provided. Cheers, robtas.

Had a good old look.
Couldnt find it.
Maybe still there, but maybe gone to the dogs.

I only had a few moments to look, but there really didn't seem to be any sign of the cache in the few most logical places. Just wanted to let robtas know.

Found this one frustrating. no muggles as was early morning.

Noop, a bit of a haystack, ran out of patience.

Second DNF for the day - gave it a fair going over with no reward.

Tried briefly on our way in but a bus load of Japanese tourists spurred us to race into the local attractions ahead of them. This cache's namesake is highly recommended for kids - Geogirl was thrilled with the echidnas waddlng around her feet. Located easily on our way out. SL TFTC

my GPSr worked an absolute treat here - took me straight to ground zero and my kids looked at me in disbelief as i literally found this with one attempt. very happy. TFTC.

The number of muggles near gz didn't look promising but they almost all seemed to move away so I was able to conduct a moderate search. Fortunately the coordinates were spot on for me and the find was made within a minute or two of casual search. Thanks robtas. Next time I will probably go inside!

11th find for the day and last as the the day is nearly done, second visit to this cache as there were 3 muggles almost sitting on top of GZ with fishing poles, decided to go and find another cache and come back later, no muggles about when we returned and found fairly quickly, thanks robtas.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Easy find as luckily our GPS was accurate at GZ, as there were plenty of hiding spots. No muggles around either as it was afterhours for the local attractions. Signed the log. Thanks Robtas for the cache.

Yippeeeeee...gotcha at last.Didn't even get the GPSr out..as had good fix previously..and yes..the coords were spot on..as usual with robtas caches.Amazing what difference experience makes.Persevereance does pay.TFTC Cheers robtas.

Checked this one when we made a quick trip down.
The cache is still in place and where it always was.
Have made a change to the hint to help the cache challenged lot.

Looked for this one for about 10 minutes to no avail. Not many muggles today so did fairly thorough search. Found plenty of likely hiding spots but no cache . . . . afternoon cache blindness setting in?

Looked for this one yesterday,and again today on way past.This is a really tough find, as the tide has been really high depositing debris in all the nook and crannies.GPSr was sitting within 1m of GZ on both occasions.Just couldn't see many obvious spots..which were dutifully checked.Now comes the part where I'm suitably p..... off.This cache must have been visited on numerous occasions..as the logs to cache OUR TAMAR RETREAT, only 720m away,would suggest.Out of at least 10 cachers,only one has bothered to post a note or DNF....Why??. You all know who you are.Cache owners go to a lot of time,effort and expense in placing caches for our enjoyment,hobby,sport..call it what you will.Without our feedback,good bad or indifferent,how on earth are they to know...or other cachers for that matter..if cache still exists,or is actually able to be found...after all,its no point in having a cache out there if it's impossible to find.Lets help our fellow cachers, please.

A DNF for me but only because I forgot it was a micro, so I was looking for a "regular" robtas container. But the place was muggle infested anyways so moved on to greener pastures

Fabsio

23/02/06

Unarchiving cache.

Checked it again today. The cache is exactly where it was put and in proper condition. Go get it!

enabled (agaain).

Great nearby attractions. Muggle and lowtide yuk geocringe too much for this team, well thats the excuse for a DNF.

Cheers Quilters

GGRRRRHHHH!!!!

Cache has been replaced in original place. It is a film cannister with log and pencil only.

15/01/06 enabled

requested

Will be replaced on Saturday.

Cache retrieved for maintenance.

Found sitting out on the rocks and container damaged. Retrieved for maintenance.

Thanks - a good area and the cache aptly named.

[This entry was edited by Cached on Monday, January 02, 2006 at 4:25:36 AM.]

We visited the nearby attraction, so it was an easy one. Box has to be replaced. Thanks

Found it with a work colleague after about 1/2 hour of searching. We were looking up the wrong hole!

Found by 'one half of the Waterwells team', in the company of his work colleagues .... after using the 'phone a friend option'!

This cache has been sitting pretty, within 100 metres of Mr Waterwells work base, ever since it's conception. Today was .... 'GO FIND IT' day!!

Nice one robtas!

[This entry was edited by Waterwells on Thursday, November 03, 2005 at 2:10:17 AM.]

I love this area and love to look at all the boats nearby. Found GZ quickly but the Goekids and I took a while to find the hide. That other hole sidetracked us.

Only a quick look for this as the weather was decidedly foul.

Lots of potential GZ's.. also lots of litter!!!

Gave up after realising I was being observed.

WOO HOO !!!!! Our first, first to find !!!!!!!!
Only took seventy odd caches to get one but then we got 3 in one day !!!!!!!!
Took a bit of finding as GPS kept giving a different GZ everytime I backed off and tried again.
Good "little" hide there RobTas.....
Much better than the weather was today,wet and cold !!!

Rated: for Overall Experience

First to log second to find. Dam.

When you work on the wharf you tend to take the location and the view for granted.

And today it is sunny and fine err oops wrong report.

Blowing the milk out of my tea and raining cats & dogs.
Or should I say "it was blowing so hard the GPS signal couldn't beam into it".

Anyway on a good day the place is great.

Rob, I'll check it after each nor westerly blow if you like.

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