That's Progress Brown Hill, Victoria, Australia
By 2Dudez on 29-Sep-05. Waypoint GCQQV3

Have decided to archive, after cache was muggled a couple of times. (and before Calculon posts a note)
Have already placed a few other caches since it disappeared, and will have some new caches around the area soon.
Thanks to all who found or attempted this cache.

Working on a new "muggle-proof" container. Hopefully will be up and running as early as next week.

Looks like it has been muggled again.
We will make a decision on whether to archive or replace soon.

will check out after the recent DNFs

Search all the obvious places with 3 sets of keen eyes. With zero water flowing managed to have a good ol search...but no can find. Will revisit this page to see the outcome.

Didn't manage to find this cache. We don't live far from the area so we might just have to try again.

hmmm, our weekend in Ballarat is starting to look like a caching disaster

GZ put us near a VERY obvious spot to hide a cache and we searched in what we think were ALL the obvious places, all to no avail. Time was against us with a plane to catch, so we had to give it away as a bad job

Well truth be told I didn't want to get my jeans dirty crawling around on the freshly rained on ground - we were only flying Virgin Blue, but I'm sure even they have standards

Next time maybe

A belated log. When we were in Ballarat on 12/3/07 we pulled up to this one only to realise we had already been here before. We remembered it clearly cos Geogirl loved the playground

5th for the day, found at 3.05pm. Quick find once we were at the right end. A few muggles around, looks like a 40th b'day happening at the pub next door. Took Nothing, Left Purse. Thanks 2dudes for the cache.

Sorry for the inconvenience with the travel bug. Koopermen placed for us while they were visiting down there. This is our first travel bug and we are still working out the glitches..

Good hide, hard to be inconspicuious. Walked around it 3 times before having a second look thanks to the clue.

Took- Travel Bug, princess

Left- Airbus

TFTC.

Last of 3 of 2Dudez's caches we found today. Didn't really mean to concentrate on 2Dudez's cache but just needed a couple of nice spots to drop off a couple of TB's.
Left Princes TB & collected Hockey TB
Thanks 2Dudez.

PS The Canadian Hockey keyring TB is apparently unregistered. If anyone knows who's it is, please let me know.

NB This log entry was originally made in the name of "SteveJP".

Nice park area, location really goes with the name!
took: TB

TFTC
Tinkidz

Second find while visiting Australia from Canada. Very nice park and easy find. TNLN. Thanks for the cache. The Koopermen

2nd find for the day,
nice quick find
left jumping jax
took gi joe
Cheers
Highrod

Well done. Our last success for the day Took car left Sandy the dog

An easy find after 2 dnf nearby, dropped off TB.

Quick find in a nice park area. TFTC

Parking in the right spot can be helpful, as the location of the cache becomes obvious. TFTC

373. Quick find with nobody around the area. Did park in the wrong spot though. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

I step out of the car to hear bagpipes, thinking how can there be muggles about on a night like this. Lucky for me they were nowhere near the GZ. Took me a little while to get a steady read, with failing light, took me two looks at the same area (lucky the other look had light casting a shadow on the cache!!)

Nice hide, thanks for the cache

T: Monopoly TB
L: Robin Hood

GeoDad

Found at 8.00p.m. Easy find, one or two muggles about.
TNLN. Thanks 2dudez.

Dropped TB off to keep it going in a forward direction. TN and L: TB Ball of Colour

Found without any trouble in a good hiding spot and in a nice location. Took nothing and left nothing and can't remember why? Probably left my swaps in the car or trying to be quick before muggles turned up! Thanks 2Dudez.

Great hiding spot!
Went down with srickard and some friends,
T: Superman Pen
L: TB monopolybug 3

nice little hide....we were impressed with the method used, tnln, tftc,
srickard + friends9persy, jen, weyers and crugy)

Great hiding place! Went with some mates, TNLN

A great trip for the dogs. They thought the park was great to explore. Need to be wary of snakes but on the whole a nice easy location for our first ever cache.

Took some first-timers today, to show them what to do and this cache which we found several weeks ago had been muggled. Just a couple of cans left where it was.

thanks found 1130

The cache container wasn't there where it should be ... and there was a "strange" 'muggel'-log .

We 'relocated' the container! Please check it, if the place is correct!!!

Thanks for the cache; kind regards from Cologne / Germany
2cachefix

The trees were playing havoc with our readings. Found it after taking a couple of direction readings from a distance. Retrieved after taking care not to injure myself (no such risk for min-mustard).
Took KFC game, left worm

Found by the desert rats + geopooch.

A nice and easy one once the muggles left!

TNLN, enjoyed the park - had no idea it was there. Think I forgot to write the date in the log too oops!

Thanks!

I have found this cache as part of JADE004, but have now created my own separate account (therefore I am not shown in the log book under this username).

Our first ever find together. Nice and easy one to start with. TFTC.

Easy find at 8.10am when the park was empty. Thanks for showing me this part of Ballarat

A late log. I found this with RoundCircle and just getting around to logging.

TFTC.

Geokid2 and I tried this last weekend, but the area was thick with muggles, so we had to leave it. Found easily today. Took to the car to do the log and swaps, only to have more mini-muggles arrive and hang around. I was begining to think we would have to leave and come back to re-hide it. But fortunatley they moved on.

Took Fredo Pencil set and left Kzone toy car. Signed log.

Found @ 11.30am.
Went to Ballarat to visit friends, and couldn't pass up the opportunity to find a previously not found cache.
My son, Geochats actually found this one whilst I was looking elsewhere!!
Took: Car and car eraser
Left: Action man and video game toy and Fozzy card
Thanks 2dudez, thats another of your caches under my belt!!

A late log... found with Muzza and Kiwideb.

Found at 1005 in the company of Muzza and Alansan. Thank goodness it didn't take too long considering the last time we were here. Thanks for the cache.

Alan-san, Kiwideb and I were the ones to discover the previous incarnation had been muggled. We searched for ages before phoning the owners and realising it had gone. We were together again and this time found it immediately. I made no exchange. Thanks again for this cache.

Found this cache in the second spot I looked. I got very wet. TNLN.

found after being muggled from every direction
took footy left eraser

Nice hide 2dudes. Found with friends. TNLN, Thanks.

Found by edmil & maddie. This was probably our quickest find in the past two days. It was located in no time at all. Thanks for a breather from the DNFs. TNLN

DNF this cache
Tried to find @7.50pm, but ran out of both light and time.
I will be back though, because there are only a few places that this cache can be, but I still need light.
I'll be back

found by head chef on the way to work in ballarat

TNLN

thanx 2dudez for the cache

Found third of four for the afternoon in Ballarat. This was close to my old home, so we took a detour around the area to re-visit some of my childhood play areas. One of which I told my son (Navboy) about was using corrigated iron to slide down the hill opposite the cricket ground near GZ.
Found quickly TNLN.

Got my logs a little out of order here, but Oenze and I found this one today with little or no trouble. I would have had trouble without Oenze though because I had the old location. Anyway its done and we left a car and took a green clamp.
Many thanks indeed

Found at 3:48pm Accompanied by Chewinprickles.
6th out of 11 finds for the day.
We each had a different coord. reading on our GPS'r, it turned out Chewinprickles still had the old coords. this was quickly rectified and in a short time the cache was in hand
In:- Car, Out:- Clamp, Signed Log.
Thanks 2Dudes....

This was to be our last 2dudez cache for what had been a very pleasant wander around Ballarat. Even though it was a cool evening and in fading light there were still plenty of muggles around which slowed down our search considerably but at least there was no-one using the play equipment and the cache was found at 20.05
TNLNSL
Thanks 2dudez for this and all the other caches that we have found this afternoon

Our fifth cache for the day being found by the youngest member of The Hall of Fame, took batteries left football.
Thanks 2Dudez.

found @ 11:00 pm

on third a tempt it was in the ferst spot i thought it was in.
i started with the old co-ordents but we found the old one raded and a banded.

thanks to 2dudz

What was to be one of many caches on the trip home today turned out to be the last in Ballarat as the weather and night set in.

A slightly muddy find at 8:30pm after the showers had begun to bring some releif from the heat of the day.

Happy Australia Day!

Dear 2Dudez,

I logged your cache today at 9:15am as the fourth cache of thirty four on our Ballarat and Beyond Cache Bash with Dak and Embi. It's nice to have Embi driving as he knows the area so well. A short walk, then everybody picked a spot to search and bingo, got it. Thanks for the cache.

Kind Regards,

D B-A

Fourth of twenty-six cache finds in company with embi and Rabbitto. I had wondered about the name of this cache, but all was revealed at the cache site. We reckoned we knew where it would be hidden, it was just a matter of exactly where. We spread out, and Rabbitto came up with it at 0915. As pprass would say: GAFF5. Thanks to 2Dudez for the cache.

IN: Cadbury lanyard
OUT: Mondo figure

Another one of many for today. Dean found this one. Where were all these caches when I was living in Ballarat?? Took gclamp left Cadbury pencil, eraser and sticker set.

11.25

Took a walk before retrieving cache, got some visitors on location.

Good hiding spot.

Thanks 2dudez

Cheers, Mark

Found this back in January but ran out of time to log it. Easy find for kids. Thanks

Found at 20:00. Not many muggles around. TNLN SL

No find for me today. I looked but the karma was not working.

Found @ 12:00

It's hard to be inconspicuous when caching solo. I hope I did a good job of it.

TN. Left a screwdriver.

What a clever little hiding spot!!
I had great fun with this cache and its my favorite so far. As a kid I remember going to bonfires on the nearby oval.
Thanks 2dudez

Took: Bandages + coins, left: glitter + small lanyard.

Team members included Diceman, Keymaster and Queen of hearts.

---===== OUR 100th CACHE =====---

Found without too much trouble other than keeping an eye on the muggles who were close by... The cache name "THAT'S PROGRESS" seems to work well with our theme for the day High Rollers 100th cache...

Nice spot for a BBQ or a cache find..

T:N
L:N

Thanks 2Dudez for our 100th cache find..

4.15pm
Found again by Roma and Max.
We were in town once again, attending a Xmas breakup at our other favourite pass time, Square Dancing, and we couldn't resist a search for the reincarnation of this cache. Cubby houses shouldn't be a problem any more in it's new possie.
We logged our "find", swapped a Mondo for Wallace, as a keepsake, and thanks again 2Dudez.
Romax.

Found at 12.30pm GAFF1. A nice quite spot out of the wind, so we decided to have our lunch here after finding the cache. Thanks 2Dudez Took: Rat, Left: Bandages.

Found 12:25, another great location and one we found very suitable for lunch.

TNLN, thanks 2Dudez.

A new cache container and a new hiding spot will need a little bit of a covert operation if there are people around.

Caught up with Muzza at the End of year get together, and found out the cache may not be where it is supposed to be.
After looking at his digital photos of the site, we saw that a Young Muggle has decided to build a Cubby House on top of our cache.
We managed to get a text message out to our team mate Troy, and when he checked, the cache has definately been pinched.
We will try to have a new cache out this week, but the co-ordinates will be different, as we will have to change the hiding spot to somewhere else in this park.

P.S.
We have also alerted the local authorities, kids should obtain the proper building permits from the council, just like the rest of us.

With Muzza and Kiwideb, we searched and searched, uncovered, re-covered, tried and re-tried, but came away empty handed. So confident were we that we could find it we came back for a second go but still came away empty handed. We later found out from the 2 Dudes that it must have gone missing, better luck next time I hope.

This was the second cache attempted by Kiwideb, Alan-san and myself for the day, and our first failure. Upon crossing the creek we were greeted by a young girl about 8 years old asking if we knew where the tunnel was. We replied no, so she then explained how to get there. She then told us she was a professional - what the???

When we headed up the slope, she yelled out that we were going the wrong way. After she had apparently left, we began a comprehensive search around the area but failed to find any trace of the cache. A call to the Maccamob help line led us to search a specific area, but again without success. With many more caches to do in the area, we left and headed for the next.

After doing a couple more, and seeing one of the MO's, we returned, but the added knowledge failed to help. A call to Mr Coffee had poor reception, but Team Crackers who were with them at the Event camp rang and put one of the 2Dudez on the line. I still wasn't completely sure where we were meant to have been searching, but it seemed as though some kids have been in the area and may have found it - a later meeting with the 2Dudez at the camp strengthened our impression.

Kiwideb and Alan-san both believe that they checked the explicit spot where the cache was hidden, so we believe that it has probably gone. Never mind. Half the enjoyment of caching is being taken to places you wouldn't otherwise visit. So thanks for the cache, and for showing us the area.

PS Accidentally recorded this as a find. Have now fixed this up.

[This entry was edited by muzza on Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 5:28:09 PM.]

Found at 19:05 I looked in the spot and failed to see it the GPS had me ten metres away, after searching for several minutes I gave the Maccamob help line a call and returned to find the cache I must have been blind I usually dont have any trouble fining caches in these areas I love them. Thanks this was a great little park. Terrain rating 2

Found by caughtatwork at 2:28
Terrain 4. Should I or shouldn't I. Well why not.
Gabrielle stayed at the bottom (although I'm pretty confident she could have made it). While I took the hard way up, the dang GPSr then pointed me along the easier route.
The cache was not too hard to find either, thank goodness. Maybe I just lucked upon the hide, but anyway, a find is a find.
While I was making the swaps, Gabrielle headed to the playground and even from here I could safely keep an eye on her.
Took bubblemix, left clamp and sinkers.
Also dropped off TB.
Thanks 2Dudez. Glad I didn't spot any bananas while I was up here.

We were unsure as to whether we should stop at this cache due to its difficulty, however the decision was made to try.
arriving at the GZ we knew we had a task ahead, however after a short time the cache was found.
Many thanks 2Dudez for the cache with a view.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the Progressive on our way to the next cache Clan.

nice area for a walk and playground. gpsr went a bit crazy at GZ but took a reading and headed off in the general direction, after a bit of searching we were able to locate, good hideing spot .took bandicoot left pink pig fridge magnet 5pm by the way deano glenda climbed that little hill with out falling over,in fact my 70 something mum could climb that hill.

Neil,
The sun was in my eyes, the ground was slippery, there was a banana skin on the ground, oh.... and Jase pushed me!
Deano

Found by Mary & David at 1515. Just as well it isn't a 2km climb - this one we can manage. Took mondo doll, left hose connector. Our thanks to 2Dudez.

7.00am
Found by Roma and Max.
Now we had to put our thinking caps on for a while before we found what we were looking for here!
Container was well hidden within interesting surrounds. No one in the playground at this time of day but
we had to be aware of the frequent walkers with their dogs.
We took an Hawaiian O'o as a memento and left a Mondo Figurine.
Thanks again 2Dudez, and once we began our approach to GZ the title origin became evident.
Romax.

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