Down the Rushy Glen Macedon, Victoria, Australia
By Spruce Mooses on 09-Jun-06. Waypoint GCWGNF

time to go.

Had a good look around GZ (used hint).
Nothing to be found. Owner may want to check on this.

After a long search I finaly had to give up
So we went and had a closer look at the artwork in the park.

Thanks & Greetings from Switzerland

Smurfy_CH

One wet shoe and a lost golf ball, but geokid found and logged

Quick find by the kids. Nice park TFTC
Cycling guy

Second find for the day as we wound our way up to Mt Macedon. Lovely little park here - Would make a great camping spot (if only they allowed it!)

Kids forced me to read out the words on the columns to them - Great way to get dizzy! Then off to the cache. Scoured around and feared a DNF - then took a leap and discovered the cache very neatly tucked away.

Great find, under the wattle blossoms.

Attending a course at the AEMI up the road and went for a stroll after class. The light was fading but I had a good poke around and couldn't find it. Oh well, back up the road to a great dinner.

Did not locate the GZ on a very wet and cold day will try again when the weather improves.

Found it while having a good look around Macedon. Good hide. TNLN TFTC

Thank you for bringing us to this little park. It was most interesting. Our first "The Fairies" series cache. TNLN. TFTC

Found today by Mr & Mrs 1SR at 1150. Thankfully the Glen wasn't that rushy so made for a quick find and grab. Waited for a jogger to run past before making the return.
TNLN
TFTC

A reasonably quick find with a friend at 12:53 on an afternoon of bike riding around Macedon/Woodend and a train trip from Melbourne. Nice and easy after giving up on an early cache where we were confronted and questioned by the local constabulary. Though there was a bit of water in the cache and I didn't have anything to dry or clean it out with, though I did pour the tiny bit of water in there. Log book seemed okay, maybe a tiny bit damp. TNLN/Thanks!

Open on the ground, but contents still all there....Resealed and replaced. Thanks.

A quick find with a few weddings in the area today thanks Spruce Mooses

I had to look a couple of times even though I was sure I knew where to find it.
Great little park. I have lived in the area for years but never stopped here.
Lots of muggles around since it was a lovely sunny sunday, so stealth was necessary.
T: Travel Bug RVVVHK, L: Cork. TFTC!

13-02 3rd find of the day at 09:43 and 877th find in total.
this was one of the main caches we had planned on doing while we were here and luckily even the though the GPSr didn't want to play we still came up with the cache (and the partial co-ords). Now just two more and we'll see if we can track down some fairies.
(''\(OoO)/'') Thanks Spruce Mooses for the caching fun!

Sneaky little hiding place, this one.
No trolls guarding it today, must have been a tad hot for them.
Thanks again to The Spruce Mooses for the cache, maybe one day I'll be back to complete the series.
Great spot to relax too, as a couple of young lovers had discovered the shade of a low hanging tree.
TNLNSL

About midday and thought we would have a quick look for this cache. Read the clue and searched, but could not see anything, so left empty handed.

Visited the mountain in search of the wee folk. This was my first stop on the way. Didn't see any of the magical folk, but if the muggles who walked over the top of me as I was logging my find knew I was there, they might have thought I was a goblin.

T a banana in pyjamas
L a toy truck

also

T Gumball Micro TB
L Globetrotter TB

Stopped to have morning tea with the family and try our hand at the first of 'The Fairies' series. The large trees were very peaceful and a great place to stop for a bite to eat. The young daughter loved running up and down the path and across the bridge (many times).

Took N. Left TB and Pathtag.

Didn't see any Little Men or Trolls but did see a pair of Pardalotes nesting in the wall of the creek. They flew in and out several times while we watched.

Thanks for bringing us here Spruce Mooses.

nice quick find

great location one member loved the hairy rock so we took that and left something else. Thought we came across some muggles but turned out to be someone we new how funny told them what we were doing and they joined us for the rest of the day looks like team could be growing by the minute Thx for the find beautiful spot

Went and had a look of it. Was a bit difficult to look for it but couldn't see it even after looking at the hint. May have to go back when it can have a better look and see if it is actually still there.

A beautiful place- I could just imagine fairies running aorund here.
My GPS had me heading in all sorts of directions at first but my instincts soon took over and I located GZ.
TFTC
Took Coin left Pet rock
~RissL

found today @1100
very popular park so dodging muggles is an issue
T-travel bug
L-Xbox game
TFTC

Took poem and boomerang. Left skateboarder.

Found at 12.45 pm. Picked up 'The Fairies' series clue and poem, our first. Discovered the TB Super Jeep, left because we have a few travelling with us presently.Left a boomerang keyring. Interesting park, thank you for taking us there, Spruce Mooses, see you Saturday at Merrimu.
Are you going to Australia's first Mega Event - Wagga Wagga at Easter 2010? Support the hard working committee.

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

An easy find, lucky it wasn't wet today.
TN L: Pathtag, Helicoptor Dude and Sparrowfalls TBs came to visit
Thanks Spruce Mooses for the cache.

Dropped super jeep. (S)he should probably go to QLD. Enjoyed our visit.

Found it, at some ungodly hour after being confronted by some hypervigilant locals up the mountain. TFTC. TNLN

Excellant little place for a cache nice drive for a sunday had a great day with the wife

We found our first Fairies cache today. A nice walk in a really interesting park with lots of sculptures to admire.
The cache was found easily and we took the first of the clues to the final cache.
Thanks Spruce Mooses.

Look forward the finding the secret cache!

Not a muggle in site on a cold and windy caching day. Took Epicurean Elle TB to continue her travels.

Hunty hunt hunt. Eureaka!

Lovely little park, excellent little place to take shelter as the rain teems down. Found with Billie the Kid ;P

TFTC

Find # 95 @ 13:50 on a bleak Saturday.
T: I Love Scott TB. L: Epicurean Ellie (the Spoons) TB

Here with Big Matt and Steeba as part of our Vic invasion weekend. A quick find by night. Thanks

Found on Victorian invasion trip with Big Matt and The Rats.

We parked right near the cache and swapped drivers again after coming from Sydney overnight.

TFTC!

2286.

Found this cache on our Victorian Invasion trip with Steeba and The Rats. A nice little park for a quick early morning find.

Thanks Spruce Mooses for the cache.

TNLNSL

Lovely park on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. We managed to locate the cache without too much difficulty. Took nothing, left the Love Bug TB. Thank you from taking us there.

Great hiding spot but it's a little slippery even in the dirt. Took some family and now have some new converts. TFTC
Took Nothing Left Nothing

A quick find with feathertop today. He mentioned that the cache was not where he had originally found it but caches do have a habit of needing to be relocated over time.
Thanks Spruce Mooses.
TNLN

Found today while out caching with my daughter. An easy find in an interesting park. Swapped a nose game for a slinky. SL TFTC

Find no. 5 out of 8 on a great day caching.
We brought our lunch down to this park today and enjoyed it under the shelter before finding the cache. A nice hide, luckily there wasn't much water in the creek. The only troll around was the one from team Captain_Amazing.
TNLNSL TFTC Spruce Mooses!

found it without any trouble, daughter was with us and she new where trolls hide.

Time : 1630
Onboard : John and Jack
Finder : Jack
Items in: Nil
Items out: Nil
Notes: An easy find thanks to the good hint. Very pleasant spot and particularly enjoyed looking at the various other points of interest close by in the park. Have driven by many times without realising how much is there. A very well placed cache indeed. Thanks Spruce Mooses for another good one!

TNLNSL TFTC "Teleturnbulls"

Time : 1.48pm
Onboard : Ian(vk3jap)
Finder : Ian
Items in: Nil
Items out: Nil
Notes: An easy find yes but a very nice cache, great one for beginners. Unlike me to be impressed with a cache like this, but, I was! Hasn't been found in a while but is in great condition, swaps stock good. I'd known of this one but never looked for it, was in the area, without the GPS and so has a look in the 'usual' places. This is one of the things I like about Geocaching, been passed this bridge many times but never actually walked to the bridge in question, as a result we'll definately. be back here for a BBQ or picnic!

Thanks for a nice cache Shelly and Dave.

TNLNSL TFTC - vk3jap
*Overall Experience: 4*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Easy

EASY

Easy find with the hint at 9:45 am. Had to time the replacement around the local dog walkers.
Took lizard
left dancing lady bugs
TFTC

Cache find #2 of our Macedon area expedition on a lovely sunny winter's day, and the first of "The Fairies" series.
We enjoyed the sunshine and autumn leaves here and the girls collected quite a few red & yellow coloured ones to bring home. One of our intrepid bunch found the cache at 11:35.
T: 4 dinosaurs
L: 2 highlighters.

Nice one Spruce Mooses and we look forward to doing the others in the series.

2nd Spruce Mooses cache for the day, nice easy find in a pleasant little park that I usually ignore as I drive by.
Took chalk and left watch. Thanks Spruce Mooses

Third fairy cache for the day and we enjoyed looking through the nearby sculptures at the places that we had visited today- even if they were not so easy to see in the darkness. Took clip and left lizard.
Collected the next clues. TFTC

Found in another nice park in the region. The last clue we needed to complete 'The Fairies' series.
Thanks Spruce Mooses.

Found at 3.05pm. A pleasant little park to start our afternoon of caching around Macedon. Would be difficult to find after very heavy rain, we suspect! TNLN. TFTC Spruce Mooses!

Let Vampire Girl find this with clues only.
TNLN

Camoed it a little and dropped in a coin. It's now totally ready to find

Looks like the old log was destroyed by bugs! Back online in a slightly different spot, only metres from coords. I didn't have the GPS with me but the Coords should only be a few metres out and the spot should be fairly obvious.

I'll try and get there in the next couple of days to chech this one out.

Looked in the spot that we thought was the most likely place, had us really stumped, looked like it had been stumped. Think this one might of been discovered. Broadened our search to the surrounding area to a 30 meter radius but still no luck. Oh well, will keep an eye on this one, and attempt it next time up this way.

Alas did not find this one, I think having a torch would have helped. Self & geokid will return again to find.

Our first find! stumbled around a little before Almond Jnr spotted it. Took set of erasers left Pink soft Dolphin. On to the rest of the Fairy caches!!
TFTC

Found at 1250. Another nice easy find.

TNLN. TFTC.

GPS couldn't find sattelites but luckily we were able to find it with the clue. Thanks!

I went out today (25 Oct 2009) and driving long i saw a cache, seemed to be in an easy to get to spot so thought i'd pull in when i realised i had been here a long time ago and found this one. So i'm finally logging it after many months (and years) of my name being in the log book. Thanks TNLN (I think!)

Found before the fairies appeared
Actually I think they were just staying indoors out of the rain. Unlike one damp cacher [:o)]

Finally the last in the series and certainly the easiest to reach. Now if we can just find where Lady Morris has written the rest of the coords - sometimes she is off with the faireies.

Took glasses and dog tag and left carabiner erasers and telescope thing. TFTC

nice easy hide tftc

A nice park we've never stopped at before. Thanks for bringing us here. TNLN. Greg and Bev

I suspect the fairies were hibernating on this one: it was rather cool and wet. One advantage of this was that there were no muggles to dodge. Took WW2 Mondo, and left shark. TFTC.

Another "first" for the team.
Good practice for us (we need it!)
It rained on us...
Thanks for the hint otherwise we would have been in the creek.

Looks like we will have to complete the Fairies series now!

Out: ball
In: Mondo figure.

Thanks Spruce Mooses

The Riddellers

After having trouble at "High on the Hilltop" and for the second time cursing directly to the cache hider, we had this one in hand rather quickly.

TFTC
TNLNSL

CanClan

Found by Team Ladava at 1.58
Took necklace
Left keyring
Nice one Spruce Mooses
T.F.T.C.

Found no worries. Our fifth for the day!

Took action man, left poppy.

I finally finished the series and was able to get the mystery cache. This was another beautiful spot to visit, a few people were utilising the nearby facilities on this hot day.

Thanks guys,

R - B

7th of 8 finds on a hot Summer's Day.
A lovely little park that would be event better if the creek had water in it.
Easy find (thankfully, so straight back to the air conditioned car)
Took Sewing Kit
Left Sunglasses
TFTC

Didn't really stop to admire the flowers or the sculptures as we were on a mission, but still appreciated the location and the cache.
Thanks indeed

On our way up the hill, and we stopped in to grab the first of the series. Although it was the weekend, the park was muggle free. A nice stroll across the green grass (how much does it rain here anyway?), and the cache was ours.
Recorded the numbers and hoped that the poem was not required as well.
Thanks, Robmc.

Time to get the last fairy clue and as it was on the way home, it all tied in beautifully. I parked the car very near GZ and was logging the find soon after at 17:30.

TNLNSL, noted clue. This was our 400th Traditional find so the Gecoin made its mark. Thanks Spruce Mooses.

Found at 5:30pm with Tina & Granny, and cachers 4MAAL, Eudes & Winetimers.
Loads of picnickers nearby but made a quick grab and retreated to the car. Putting it back was a bit more tricky and after Tina replaced the cache she was approached by a little boy running towards her very quickly and asking to know what she was doing. Our fast learning niece responded with the brilliant deception that she was looking for grasshoppers. The boy kept asking questions and showing off his collection of acorns and was distracted from GZ by talking to us, before his mother decided he shouldn't be tlaking to these strange people and called him back to their picnic.
Took grasshopper
Left Smiley soft ball
thanks Spruce Mooses

Moving right along, seeking Alsume etc., this was on the way and we couldn't ignore having realised it was also part of the Fairies trilogy. We had to be a bit cautious approaching GZ as there were picnicking families not too far off. However they appeared engrossed in whatever they do and we picked up the cache and the clues without mishap. Impatient to be away TNLN.

Found by Wine Timers at 1730 on 14 January 2007 in the company of 4 Men and a Lady, Eudes, Alsume and LinearZZ

TNLN

Many Thanks to Spruce Mooses

Found by 4 Men and a Lady at 1730 on 14 January 2007 in the company of Wine Timers, Eudes, Alsume and LinearZZ

TNLN

Many Thanks to Spruce Mooses

Noticed the colourful sculptures during the cache hunt and they really add to the scenic park and its surroundings.Thanks to Spruce Mooses ,nice swaps and cache location.TNLN.

D+C 3.04pm Nice symbolic structures and trees, lovely place, have driven past here many times. TNLN Thank you.

Quite an easy find on our way home from the Great Aussie Christmas Caching BBQ with "Cach'n Kidz. And just in time to beat 2 more teams to it.
Took: blue watch
Left: pop up book
Thanks for a lovely little spot to stop at.

We found this cache with Jaky Dory & Geogundog on our way home from the Caching Christmas Party in Stanley Park.
Took: evil badge
Left: elmo doll
TFTC

Found by Bob at 1240

Another one I just couldn't pass up on my way to the Christmas BBQ event. This is a particularly pretty spot - large trees, pleasant shade, a hint of cool water and very green despite the drought. Luckily, the cache was an easy find, because those trees make accurate GPS reception a bit dodgy .

TNLN, except for the clues.

Thanks again Spruce Mooses

It was not hard to find this cache,. That could be due to the fact that there were several other caching groups surrounding it as we arrive. We signed the log and took a fairy and a book, we left a necklace and snowman.

Thanks for this cache, Sprose Mooses. Hopoefully we can complete this series when we are up this way again in a few months.

Dec 3rd seems to have been a busy day for this cache based on the logs. We stopped there for a late lunch and there wasn't another soul in sight. For the record the Mt Macedon general store makes really nice sandwiches!
TNLN

We pulled up next to a car parked "oddly" off the road and noticed the GPS mount on the windscreen...then noticed a pair of geocachers trying to look inconspicuous nearby. It was the Partic Team trying to knock of a quick cache on their return trip...so we pitched in to help and PAQup quickly zoned in on the GZ with a "Got it!". T: Radio L: Geo badges and patches.

Another easy find @ 1010 this morning. Swaggie 2 enjoyed the mosaic pillars as she is now thinking of doing similar things. A lovely park for a stroll and the trees look good. Lets hope they survive the drought.
TNSL
Left fairy necklace.
TFTC Spruce Mooses

Dear Spruce Mooses,

We found your cache today at 12:00pm as the first of eight on our Mount Macedon Cache Event and Beyond afternoon. This was too tempting not to make a quick grab on our way into the cache event today. Our first cache in the Mount Macedon area. Thanks for our 5th Spruce Mooses cache.

Kind Regards,

D,H,H & A B-A

Got out of the car just as another group of cachers were retrieving the stash so it was a very easy find! Then more turned up and we had a party! T Badge left Deer. Thanks Spruce Mooses for another cache.

I'm so out of practice it seems. After arriving for the cache and fiddling with the GPS for 10 minutes, we notices BackPAQer pull up and begin wandering across.

I was still trying to get the GPS to focus on the job when PAQup goes there it is!

I think my iPaq needs an overhaul

Took photos of the clues, but aside from that TNLN and will get back this way to go off with the fairies soon I hope.

Found by Mary & David at 1350. Gorgeous park. We enjoyed the mosaic columns and the granite sculptures but especially the magnificent trees. Collected the clue. Took a set of animal erasers, left a mini radio and batteries. Our thanks to Spruce Mooses.

Found this morning, with Russeloz.

TNLN - TFTC.

Cheers, aussieangel

Out for another morning walk before training at EMI. The wind is blowing a raging gale so I thought I'd avoid the heavily treed areas.

Nice little park at the glen.

ruzzelz 0600
TFTC

PS Came back two days later with aussieangel