Velodrome Gepps Cross, South Australia, Australia
By gr8cherokee on 10-Jun-06. Waypoint GCWGNQ

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This cache went missing ages ago, we found a note there saying the geohaters had taken it, I emailed the cache owners but there was no reply and nothing fixed. We tried again but it had not been replaced, so I requested maintenance again. Nothing is being done to replace of fix the cache so why should it stay there?

I did email the owner about this, I was hoping for some maintenance, a reply or something as I would love to find it as one of my closest to home.
When looking for the cache a while back we instead found a note from the geohaters, which roughly read they took the cache.
Please noone go looking for the cache as it is not there, we searched the whole area and only the note could be found.

Had a good look with The Noodler but no cache to be found.

found it on old account

Went to grab this one on the way home from Parrotheads 5000 event but couldn't find it

Went for this cache today but sadly it is missing. I will email owner about it, but it needs replacing.

Found it but The Geohaterz are after all the geos. if there is a sign that says taken by the geohunterz than it is gone

DJAJ found whilst watching Hockey Zone Chamionships on a pleasant Adelaide afternoon.

We forgot our pena nd the pen in the cache had run out, so we had to take a photo instead. It was simply to far away to walk back to the car as we came in the long way. It would be appreciated if the next finder could log our name. Apologies

TFTC

Walking up the hill.Found it good hide.T.N.L.N.S.L.

T.F.T.C

Number 20 for us today, found by Jake! Been wanting to cross this off the list for a while. TNLNSL TFTC

I have had this one on the list for a long time. Now I can tick it off. I did not realise I brought in thorns till I drove away. My pedals felt funny and I had to stop and clean my shoes and mat from inside.
Thanks gr8cherokee for the cache.

OMFG the 3 corner jack out here sux!!!! My shoes were totally peppered in thorns, had to take the tweezers out at home to remove at least 40 broken off thorns from each shoe. Luckily I didn't have Nike Airs on! Found cache fine. TFTC
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A nice enough walk despite the buildup of rubish occuring in the area. and a quick find when we got there from sth tce and watch dogs.

TNLNTFTC

Found quite easily, I must try to go to an event at the velodrome.
Thanks for the cache

#73 for Schnail.
Somehow managed to come the long way round for this one - never knew that bike path was there. Began on the right side of the fence, switched to the wrong side of the fence and managed to correct myself to comeback to the correct side in order to find the cache. TN left heart slinky. TFTC.

First on the wrong side of the fence..then on the right..
short afterly watched the sun begins to rise.
thx npg

Another caching Sat morning.
TFTC
Took Venom left lizzard.

TFTC. Thanks for the walk. TNLN

Found on a Xmas caching walk after lunch with some muggle friends. Merry Xmas TFTC

Found it a bit off the coordinates on the other side of the rusty fence. A long trek but nobody around on a Sunday afternoon. TNLNSL TFTC

Found after some failed FTF hounding. TNLNSL

The Noodler found it. The dog enjoyed the walk.

Nice stroll to the playground of my ex-student (Jack Bobridge) the Olympian. TFTC

Found today on the way to work.
Tried this one at night before with no luck.
It seems the co-ords had us at the wrong tree.
No probs today in the daylight.
T4TC. TNLNSL.

Yup, there it was.

All in good condition.

TFTC

I actually have no idea when I found this one!

Drove around the block when really I should have walked up from Watch Dogs.

Took a few minutes before I spotted the cammo.

The cache has had a visit from a muggle named Jayden, but all is well with cache.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Stopped in here to start the nearby multi, with no intention of visiting this cache. This cache got a visit, the multi is solved but remains unfound.

The coordinates were way off for me. I was kicking and scratching all over the place before I realised where it was. Once I saw it, it was too obvious.

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Second time back to get this one - I think the GPS was playing up last time [:(!]! Nice and easy with the two geo-dogs tonight.

Took: Curry Enviro Emu Rock Glen Grommets path tag (whatever this is - will log it anyway at pathtags.com)
Left: Horse, Pawn Chess piece, calling card
SL

TFTC

mpwashus

Rocky Glen Grommets finally found this one - last time we approached from the wrong side but had more time today - a nice walk - no Pathtag in cache though - even though was logged. Coords a little out but not difficult ot find. Thanks for bringing us here.

I missed the turn off originally, but did manage to get onto the correct and convenient access road as well. Lovely quick find! Took ninja turtle and left pathtag, thanks so much for the cache. Cache find #396.

Made this one a driveby as it was raining.. Got wet and soggy from the soursobs..

Staight-forward find after a nice walk around the velodrome.
Took: Lizard and Snoopy badge
Left: wind-up Mikey and Spiderman Villain figurine

TFTC!

Visited at 12:22
We would have loved to visit here when it was open but today that was not the case. However with a bit of sneaky driving this one turned out to almost be a drive by. Even though it wasn't quite, we were very glad that we had strong footwear on. When we got back to the car after the short walk we spent the better part of the next 5 minutes dragging those huge burrs out of our shoes. Put those suckers on the track and there would be a few deflated cyclists...
TNLNSL TFTC, find #511 for Echo & Spice.

Nice easy find. Poor geopooch kept getting three-corner-jacks in his paws so be wary of this when searching.

Coin dip

Pleasant walk after work. Like others have reported the coords are a little off but not too hard if you extend your search radius. TNLN TFTC

Nice walk to ultimately an easy find. Picked up the canada TB to continue its tour. Have a TB in mind that will have a visit here some time soon.

Parked what we thought was close by but ended up being a bit of a walk (we had read the bearing, not the distance ).

GZ was nearly 10m off from where our GPS had it.

Left Buneez maple leaf TB

Interesting place and amazed by the soccer field next door. TFTC took monster and left gecko

The most difficult part of finding this cache was getting a place to park. I figured I could park in the velodrome car park - nup, it's all fenced off. So it ended up being a 350m walk before I got to GZ. Got to GZ, thought it'd be easy, then looked behind me and realised my GPS was putting me 20 metres out. TNLNSL TFTC.

Found at 10:40.
Parked close by, but hunter for a few minutes as gz was settling a couple of trees along.

Drove to within metres in my wee car and went straight to it (after pulling out lots of 3corner jacks from the geodog's foot) Left frog took nothing. TFTC

EASY FIND

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
It'd be Gr8 comming down that track On Ya Bike
Found no troubles............
TNLNSL TFTC

Wow the last for the night... Just too dark and Pensive Travellers 199th... Only one to go but he has decided on doing a special multi early the next morning..

We also bumped into TheBeagleHasLanded cachers and they scared us a bit.... hahaha who goes caching at night in the dark... At least they where smart enough to bring a torch...

We where trying to use our Ford Fairlane Hire car to light up the area... They dont really fit too well on bike tracks or go too well on muddy grassed areas with low profile tyres... hahaha

Great last cache for the day... I love bumping into fellow caches who also have the bug...

Thanks

MADSTARS
Nelson Bay 2315

Cache #199. MADSTARS and I took off across the paddock in our Ford Fairlane hire car, only to bump into TheBeagleHasLanded as they were leaving the GZ. Had nice chat then proceeded to find the cache. It was an easy find and we logged it at 1920, in the dark. Well tomorrow hales a new day in my caching career. TFTC.

Found at about 1920....was fun in the dark!
Bumped into MADSTARS and PENSIVE TRAVELLERS on the
way out.

Took: Brooch
Left: Snoopy Badge

Nice walk. took 3 TBs to move today. Thanks

Lovely walk only interrupted by the sound of a motor bike rider on the track near by.

Nice stroll with half of The Zephyr.
Took Barrel of Monkeys TB and left two TB's.

Found the cache at 5pm. Enjoyed walk along to the cache. No swap SL. Thanks gr8cherokee for organising the cache and hunt.

Oops... Left: Travel Bug Monkey Barrel #1.

Big J found this one. Took platypus and left ninja turtle from earlier find. First in new log book.

Went and replaced the log book with a new one even though there were still plenty of pages left don't be shy about using the back's of other pages and also placing 2 or even three logs on a page.... New log in cache so go for it and log to your hearts content...... Happy Caching

The log is full and requires replacement. TFTC.

Nice quick find, even though my GPS was way off. TNLN. TFTC

Found easily, but got two punctured tires. Fair swap.

TFTF

Found without resorting to the description or hint as there were only so many options. I really liked the structure, thanks gr8cherokee for the cache.

Nice Stroll! TFTC. Saucehead, Lulu and ATG. TNLN.

found but at cost of two flat tyres after a bit of cross country so a long walk/push home pats a bike shop that didn't have 26" tubes for mtbs - damn!

TNLNSL - TFTC

S-ANDO (cmb)

I wish i would have taken the camera with me. was just about to check a log, when i spotted a lizard sitting proudly on top of said log

Meanwhile, 20m away posspet was finding the cache, and signing the log

TNLNSL

Finally I can cross this one off my list. It's just that it was always over there or over there but I wasn't going to be there. Cheers from the Posspet Boys.

Picked the cache up as part of a long hot day caching in the northern suburbs with Moses on the Move. It was too hot for long walk, so we did a drive by where there wasn't one. Thanks for taking us to an interesting spot!

Thought it would be closer to its name sake. Drove most of the way but not along the bike track. GPS was out a little but maybe that was us wilting in the heat. Took out a pink ball to make room for a platypus. Thought afterwards that I should have left a bicycle. Too late. Thanks.
Moses on the move

Had to look around a bit to find a shorter walk in and managed to drive within 50m of the cache today - just as good as a drive-by !
Took Fission Joe.
Left Mike from Monsters Inc.
SL.
Thanks gr8cherokee .

Easy find on a hot day. I actually enjoyed the walk into this one.
TNLN
TFTC

Found with frebbles. #11 on our trip to Adelaide for the Defence Airshow. Short walk to cache, and an interesting building. Shame we didn't have more time to do some more Adelaide caches, but time and weather limited our efforts. Hopefully we will be back for more one day!
TNLN TFTC

Found with Hayleylou,
#11 on the trip to Adelaide. Nice view of the Drome!, had to be quick as the storm was a comin!.
TFTC!

Made it a drive by but didn't go on the bike track. No swaps today TFTC

Was tempted to make this a drive by... but I was in the car and thought the cyclists wouldn't appreciate me on the bike track . Still, I managed to park fairly close!

Took: nothing
Left: Fission Joe

Thanks Gr8cherokee!

TeamFlipper&CO A at 12-20pm
HWML1 ( while SHMBO1 was caching on the Gold Coast) decided as it was such a lovely day to jump on the geocycle and snare this cache.
nice spot to sit and look and wondered that if hadn't piled on those extra kilo's I may have been one of those wonderful men cycling ( just for fun) around FRANCE but am just happy enuf to go for a quiet cycle.

TNLN SL TFTC

The packet of everyday moisturiser in the jar must be working well - the cache contents were damp. Salzburg cow goes out to pasture.

Find #7 at 5.20pm.
After literally barking up the wrong tree and remembering that the GPS co-ordinates at GZ may be slightly off, looked around and found another tree nearby and found the cache straight away. TNLN. TFTC.

Found this one some time ago but haven't been able to log.
Got in trouble from our GPS voice who didn't like us bushbashing it.

Couldn't miss it. Great area to sit and relax! TNLN Cheers!

Finf #34 without a GPS @ 1400
Wet Drissly day Elsewhere
Took nothing Left Fridge Magnets & Cameo
Thanks for the Cache

Wet and windy out here today
After riding the pushbike all over Adelaide for the last few weeks, it seemed a bit odd that I should drive up to the armadillo to find this cache

Our first cache together. The start of a new addiction. TFTC, TNLN.

Nice easy find, didn't know the bike track around the Velodrome was here.

TNLNSL

TFTC

An easy find after I eventually worked out where to park. Its not dry and dusty here today, I had to walk the long way around so I didnt take mud back with me. No Swaps. Cheers. MODU.

25th find of the 4th day at 11:59am for our Adelaide trip, accompanied by Feathertop.
Our first decent walk for the day. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx Gr8cherokee....

25th of 45 finds today with Oenze. A bit of a walk to this one but easily found far from the crowds in suburbia. thanks for placing a cache here.

HEre with dylanja on a scorcher of a day, but luckily picked up an old smokedetector nearby to save me from the fires. SOmeone's gonna be suprised to find that in their cache, hehehe...

Hot and dusty out there today, glad for the trees and shade, even if it did hamper satloc. TFTC

Drove up to 200 metres of the cache, found quickly in a nice spot with the cockatoos screeching above us, walking back we were waiting for them to drop the pine cones onto our heads (it does happen [B)] )

TNLN (swaps)
Took poor piggi-Billa who had been there for over a month, taking him home for a easter break.

easy find and finally released the piggi-billa to the wild meadows of the velodrome

Quick find at lunch. Interesting area - I've only ever visited the Hockey Stadium before.
Took fridge magnet; left cat.
Rehid, making the hide natural looking.
TFTC Gr8Cherokee

Cheers

Third and final cycle by cache for the afternoon. Like many others I found the cache a couple of trees from where the co-ordinates led me.

And a word of caution. I also got a puncture out there somewhere.[:(!]

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found at 1335hrs after a bit of a search as the sat loc wasn't the best. I make the coords as S34 50.553 E138 36.858. A nice quiet area so we had plenty of time to do our swaps. Took bob the builder figurine & the de Mailers TB, Left Geo Turtle to swim around in the nearby wetlands. Thanks gr8cherokee.

It seemed appropriate to cycle there. So on our bikes we went. That way it was easy to get around the fence.
tn, left 'de Mailers' TB from Holland. Thanks gr8cherokee!

Very quiet place with no muggles around.
GPS was playing up but found it in the end.
TNLNSL TFTC

We too found ourselves on the wrong side of the fence trying to make it a driveby. At least we didn't drive into the ditch. No horses today, must have been too hot.
Thanks gr8cherokee.

I have visited white elephant frequently but didn't realise this was here

The horses weren't so friendly today but the flies and meat-ants were! Took batteries, left a large green keyring. Cheers from Featherwaite.

On th wrong side of the fence at first but enjoyed the close inspection! At the wrong area but then started agian and the GPS took me to quit another spot - and a cache! TNLNSL Thanks for the cache and reason to call in
#92

400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400 400

Why is it the Multiple of 100's take the longest to get to? We have been sitting on 394 for 2 weeks waiting for the right time to get out caching.

Well this was just perfect, right on sunset, with it shining over the Velodrome, 20 horses in the paddock close by came over to celebrate with me. I used to have the keys to the Velodrome a long time ago when I was Security Patrol officer, big and dark in there at night when your looking for the bad guys.

Picked up the TB and moved him to Flying Low, also checked out the ditch The Wacky's got stuck in, Tch Tch Tch, Women Drivers....

Cheers and Beers to all the Cachers out there.
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