Fire up the VAN Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
By The Rizzos on 03-Feb-06. Waypoint GCT9PV

this cache was a film cannister with a magnet on the bottom when we found it

FOUND A SMALL SYSTEMA DID NOT REALISE IT HAD BEEN ARCHIVED. FOUND IN A FAIRLY CONSPICUOUS POSITION SIGNED LOG AND PUT BACK IN A LESS CONSPICUOUS POSITION HOPE THIS IS OK. TN.

Its arrogant people like Roel Michaels which makes people start archiving their caches instead of repairing caches.

no luck here today also our Mount-ing DNFs climb on up

Visiting Mt Gambier for the Australian Mountainbike Orienteering Championships. We one the OZ - NZ Challenge with 13-8. But we did not find this cache. How many DNFs do you want before you fix it?

Found a magnet but nothing else.
Suspect it has been muggled.
Hopefully can be fixed soon.
Stringybark

Have tried three times now to no avail.
will try again soon
Stringybark

After an extensive search, I had to move on unhappy with a DNF, but what can you do?

thanks for the hunt.

Our DNF count in the Mount continues to climb. The co-ords point to the middle of the garden. We called a previous finder but the cache was not in the place that they described.

Had a few minutes too spare so we gave this one a go but no luck. This type of cache needs a bit more preparation so will try again next time.TFTC

Great spot for cache. This one really made me think. It was handy having the family there as I could have a good look around without people noticing me.

Great hide. Took 2 tries, but we finally found it!!!

Took a little while but walked up to it in the end. TFTC

Was about to give up on this one when I thought I would think little rather than big and found the cache easily. TFTC

No luck here either... too many hidey holes and I can make any sense of the hint
Thanks anyway
SS

Our very first SA cache and another bit of red on the Australian map .

This one had us stumped for a while and I scratched my head whilst the ssmc4 family lazed on the grass. Finally my thinking reached the right trajectory and I had the cache in hand.

A beautiful garden - thanks to The Rizzos.

Nice easy find...interesting cache! log is very full and a bit tattered!! TFTC

We visited this spot today, had the place to ourselves as it was bitterly cold and drizzling. Thought we had inspected every conceivable place but came up empty. So we 'phoned a friend' (in Qld) who had previously found it, for further instructions. She confirmed we had been looking in right location but obviously not thorough enough. Did a more in depth search and came up trumps. Excellent hide!

Sat down to have lunch in the park & fired up the GPS.
Hmmm...9 metres away, let's have a look then.
Well we came up empty handed, read mission statement on returning home & will have to try again, Following orders this time, less I get court marshalled.

Off target to start with and then nearly giving up when direct hit. Thanks

Some of these are very hard and tricky.

2Dudez and Team Rubik's Week Long "2008 : A Cache Odyssey" trip to South Australia.
We didn't have as much luck the first attempt on this one, as the guy parked in front of us in the twin-cab ute was having with his significant other.
Fairly confident that through the steamy windows our search went un-noticed.
A return trip this morning with no-one around has us signing the log in about a minute after getting out of the car.
Thanks again to the Rizzo's for the cache and to the Anonymous couple for the Amsterdam-Style spectacle.

We missed this one the night before for the reasons outlined in Deano's log. The guns were impressive, I enjoyed having a look about.

Thanks,

R - B

Found the cache at 9.50am. Nice park. SL. Thanks for organising the cache and hunt.

found it after a while , the place looks better than it has for years .

found ok , i like the big guns .

I looked the other day but-nothing so i had another crack today not very confident and i couldnt believe i found it that was the last place i looked-well hidden

Found this one under the cover of darkness with Adrian Mc.
Our first Mt G cache at around 2100.
Thanks Rizzos
Swampy

Found with Swampy on our Hobart to Adelaide cache trip.
Easy find once the muggles had left GZ.

TFTC

Found after a short search, not where I expected. Ahh.. night caching, can't beat it for no muggles.
Thanks, Robmc.

A lucky hit. I didn’t dial in the angle or get technical. Just a lucky hit in the end. Only problem was that the Pizza place was closed and I wanted a cool drink. SO I went to the deli instead. And yes, they had Pizza on their menu. Strange place.

Clear skies, TeamAstro. [^]

First attempt at Geo Caching and no luck. We will be back!

nice but could not find it...

First of our night cache practice for Adelaide. This find took quite a bit longer than we thought. Cheers Gav [1360]

Found with the rest of the Kiwis - eventually. TNLN, Thanks

Found at about 10:30 pm out for a bit of night caching practice as a team. Good time to tackle this one as no sign of any muggles. Took a bit to find as wasn't hidden where expected. Good stuff! Many thanks.

Nighttime find, got to know the site quite intimately.

TFTC

10.30pm. Took a while in the dark, even with eight of us looking.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (603)

Time for some night-cache training. First one is a real test!
T4TC - M@

22:29 Bit of night caching and the cache was found. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Did that one at night.
Great cache - got to know the site really well!

Found after Ferretboy had completed his athletics on the oval, but before the day was over and the hordes exited. A little searching required, but we got there.
Nice gardens, by the way, we fell in love with your city and we're jealous of your fuschia growing abilities!
TNLNSL
TFTC

Think we missed the meaning of the hint. Took quite a bit of looking to finally cotton on to this one. Finally did. TFTC

8:23pm
This one took some finding, but we turned it up eventually.

Cheers

Couldnt find this one back in Feb.... which was a bit disappointing considering we live within 100mts of its location!!!
Self esteem now restored...!
Clever work The Rizzos... first time we have come up against this sort of cache!!

Eventually found a time without muggles watching...
Thanks

Have added more log sheets into cache..It is also hidden in correct position

Back's getting kind of full too mate! There is another sheet in there, jammed down the bottom. couldn't extract it though!

Finally can put this one to rest! Cheers to the previous finders for placing this back in a reachable spot for my fat fingers!Had checked exact same spot many times previously. Log is totally full.
Cheers, Biggo

Just write on the back till I get there with another logbook

This was another cache that we had tried to find when we were last here in January. Looked everywhere then……everywhere but THERE!! We were fixated on the other feature at GZ. Bugger, don’t you hate that? .
Nice hide. Thanks Rizzos

Found @17:26

SL (But it's very full so we had to sign it on the back.)
TFTC
10/06/07

Our third find on the hiding day of the CCC event. As we approached Team Hurtle was replacing the cache so the boys had little trouble finding it. A nice part of the town and the boys have had plenty of fun on the nearby playground.

Thanks for the cache.

Reckon this took us more than half hour - and shouldn't have done!

Thanks - great hide.

Found at 23:20 with Wackys, Cached & Burton's in our post-dinner night tour, this one had us all looking every where but in the end Wacky got it. SL TFTC Cheers 'scargoes (P&F)

4th find of the 'hiding day' of the CCC Event.
A nice spot to stop, after walking 'downtown' Mt Gambier with the geokids. Let the geokid try to find, before Mr H found in it's sneaky hide. TNLNSL (Log full, an extra page has been added.

Found 23:00ish. 18th of 26 FFTD. Second night joining up with chizbeki and Team Hurtle for a night time caching frenzy. I'm sure we checked there last night, cache in hands in minutes. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Combined with Wacky's, `Scargoes, and cached after dinner. Had us hunting around for a while but determination paid off. Log book was full and didn't have any paper to replace so signed the back.
Cheers and thanks for the cache

Take two had us hunting with Cached, The Burtons and the 'scargoes at night - eventually laid my hand on it to the relief of all parties involved - we'd cached with Cached before, but not the others but it turns out we made a great team - TFTC

[This entry was edited by The Wackys on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 1:30:27 AM.]

Found with a little help from our friend, TNLN TFTC

Second visit today, got a few tips from the Kettles, thanks. 10 pm & we had to try again.
Found by dogmatic. TFTC

19:00. Out with chizbeki for a night time caching frenzy, 1st of 6(ish) DNF's for the night .......memories of my last time in the mount come flooding back! .

Third time lucky for postiegirl06 - at 6 am in the morning !
TFTC Rizzos and Thanks Beaker for the clue -LOG BOOK IS FULL

0096 re-logging due to name change

My 1st cache in SA - I'm now a "Bi". I signed the log in the second last spot available (about half way down). Thanks The Rizzos for the cache.

postiegirl06 and mugglecuz finally got to look for this after the place was muggled out at New Year. We only spent a few minutes before we were surrounded by tiny muggles and big ones too We will try again in June Cheers

My only DNF in 24 from 25 in Mt Gambier. I spent over an hour over 3 days here. Beaker was kind enough to tell me where to look but to no avail. Either I have misunderstood the instructions or it’s not there.

finally found this well hidden cache. back safe and sound from our mission.TFTH.

Found by edmil & maddie. It was a quick find for us and we needed no clues on this one. Thanks for the cache.

Thirteenth of twenty-four caches on my first day in Mt Gambier (urban day one). These objects seem to be popular hiding places for caches, but no matter how many you attempt, they don't get any easier. However, I employed some alternative thinking on this one and came up with the cache at 1915. Initially, all I found was a magnet, and I feared for the cache. However, I found it soon after. One of the magnets has come adrift. I reassembled the cache and replaced it, but it needs looking at. It's a micro, so I made no exchange. Thanks to The Rizzos for the cache. Cheers, dak.

This one had us searching the main feature in between the muggles in the park. Lace then located it in an unexpected location. The log was full so we added a slip of paper to the container with our log with room for about 30 more single line entries, but it is just a loose piece of note book.
Thanks Rizzos for the cache and the location,
Cheeers, Lead 'n Lace.

Arrived at GZ after an Interstate Mail Delivery to find the most muggles I've ever seen!
Due to a late schedule I have to come back on my next delivery....PG06

Will get there shortly and add a new log sheet..always like to keep the originals in as well..makes for some good reading..

A lovely sunny day, lots of people around. Even had a muggle reading the sign nearby but he didn't stop us from our mission. Soon had cache in hand. A new log book is needed as the current sheet is full. TFTC

Returned and tried searching in a different location. Success!

Also I note that the log is almost full (there is room for one very small line of text left)

We stopped by here after a half day caching. Last one for the day. We looked for about 10 minutes, but couldn't find it. Having kids made looking less conspicuous! We will try again soon.

We found it on our second attempt, after checking EVERYWHERE at GZ. TFTC

nice park, with green grass (unlike in canberra) tftc.

360. After 2 previous attempts we realised that a different tack was needed. So while I was figuring out where the projectile would land CoolAid came up with the find. TFTC in a nice green park.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found in the dark of night, not quite where i was expecting

TNLNSL

One of many we found at night, this cache was hard to find. I used my hands to do the looking.
TNLNSL
Thanks Rizzo's

Found at 6.50am
A quiet Sunday morning, a few walkers and joggers around.
A short search and we had the cache in hand.
Thanks
K&M

We don't have good history with this type of hide on this particular piece of equipment ( a Melbourne cache took us 7 attempts} but luckily our luck had changed with this one and the cache was located after about a five minute search. We really enjoyed looking over this one as it had some features that we had not seen on others of this type.
Signed log and investigated the rest of the area before heading back to the car
Our thanks to the Rizzos

Returned 2day in the daylight and found it fairly quickly as there were no muggles abt.
very good hide rizzo thanxs

Stopped in to have alook bt didnt stay long as we had a time line will return later 4 a betta look.

Visit #1 was not very successful although I did give it a very good inspection.

Success was achieved on the second visit. Way sneaky.

pulled up, hoping to have the place to myself. raced out of the car, realised the GPS locked up, so had to restart it. as it was restarting, saw some movements around GZ, and then some bloke hopped up off the bench nearby and headed my way.

very quickly retreated back to the car, and decided that it was time to hide a cache, to get back at everyone from down this way!!!

Cache is up and running again. Cache container is smaller and more compact and has moved slightly to a more muggle proof place..still at the same co-ords.

Cache holder has gone missing, only left with logbook so am making another smaller cache holder . Will be online shortly.

This one has been muggled. Found cache container and log sitting on gun mount. It had been discovered by a wedding party and they signed the log book and left it out in the open. I will send message to rizzos as to where I rehid it.

Nice hide, didnt take that long, Made sure no muggles were around, well it was quite late at night. excellent cache and well presented.
MOOKS1020

Found by Mary & David at 0800. An early start after arriving from Adelaide last night. A few caches to try around town this morning before we head for home. Mary knows this park quite well, and we've seen caches similar to this too, so we had a bit of luck and found it fairly quickly. A great little cache. Our thanks to The Rizzos.

We were very stealthy with this one.
It's amazing what you can get away with when you are making out to video family.
Everyone else tries to avoid you so they wont be in the shot.

I wonder why we didn't find this one sooner, as this was in a very logical caching place. Team effort with player 1 and with rizzo standing by very entertained.
TFTC

A great hide in a tight spot. Found it after a few visits and many thanx to the perpetrator who hid it! He thought it was quite funny watching with two teams fossicking over GZ. TFTC

quick and easy find, good sat lock, no muggles, no hassles thanks rizzos TB Carn the crows visited the nearby facilities

dropping in tb

Another FTF for Beaker's Bunch...
Well done to The Rizzo's for a great cache. We'd planned on putting one in exactly the same place some time ago but couldn't get a strong enough signal from above to actually place the cache. Found on a cool, clear morning in our lovely city. TNLNSL
Thanks Rizzos
BB

Nice and pieceful this morning, not too many muggles around. Sat lock wasn't helping this morning but I'm really not the person to complain about that. Found in the end but during the hunt, Beakers bunch showed up, sat and laughed while I was looking. Gotta hate that.