Rovering Samford, Queensland, Australia
By findalot on 10-Jul-06. Waypoint GCX2MC

"Rovering" seems to have been in a precarious position in the last couple of months, and I have wondered about its safety when I've checked recently.

Today, I went to check the cache and found it missing.... gone.... no sign of it anywhere. There is a new structure near to the Rovers Den and work seems to be in progress to restore the den.

I don't know why it's gone MIA, but it seems futile to replace it.

Hopefully there will be a "Rovering 2" sometime in the future

A heavy lube maintenance job has been conducted on this cache.

It should be easy to open now.

Well the oil job didn't help me much - the lid was being stubborn!! I gave it a good whack on the concrete and that loosened it up (a moderate whack anyway - to ensure the integrity of the cache!). Love the hide! Thanks findalot.

Squicky clean, easy to open and back in position.
Come and find me.

Hmmm, the lid sure is on tight!
Taken home for an oiling, back soon.

Glad Mr DisSister was with me for this one. I didn't have near enough strength to open the cache. Great hide!
TFTC

lucky I was with aquilla as it was only my 3rd find and would not have found it without some assistance

Very clever find. Found in the company of Nathan!

It took a few minutes before we spotted this clever hide. Well done Findalot! TFTC

Found at 0710. Very clever hide. I had visited the cache before but there were a few muggle about so a good search of the GZ prove to be a bit of a pipe dream. This time had the place to myself and the cache was soon in hand. Cache in good nick TFTC.

The best camo we have found so far .TFTC.

What a wonderful disguised cache...i love it! Great spot for hunting.

Quack! Great container! TFTC =]

Accompanied with Ozcymru and Celtieless. Another excellent camo. SL. Thanks findalot for organising the cache and hunt.

Checked on Rovering today and all is fine.
Replaced the log.
Happy Caching!

Relying on Pa freaks data as mine was void over Samford, we strolled over here and lurked in the shadows while waiting for the lawnmower man to finish. There was no game on today, but I did feel a little exposed looking around. Pa freak made the clever find after a short while.

Thanks Findalot

There was no football but some intensive lawn mowing was underway when we reached GZ. We consumed our well earned drinks and waited for the team to finish and move on. The well disguised cache was soon to hand after this - fortunately as time was up and we needed to be elsewhere. The log is full but otherwise in good condition. TFTC.

Yep, I love this sort of hide, grabbed a pic, thanks for the fun.

Cheers

Good hide and luckily spotted if quickly.
TFTC

0837 re-logging due to name change

837 Nice hide, found quickly. TFTC findalot

This is a good example of an urban cache. Nice camo.

I popped out to check on this one today.... seems it was found today as well.... Nice work!!!

After lots of frustration and anxiety and with the help of Findalot, I eventually found it! This would have to be my most troublesome find so far!
A great cache and a good hide.

Time to go and fix the cache!

I have a feeling the cache has gone. If it was where I think it was there is only glue left there.

I found out what the Rovering meant from Gefscofix. Is it a mens club only or women too? Very clever hide and container. Muggles in the area so waited a bit until it was clear. Posthaste, Gefscofix and I were on the lookout!

TFTC
SL

Found this one at night with no problems. Had to wait awhile for some muggles to pass but once the coast was clear, was able to grab the cache and sign the log. Recognized this cache immediately as we have several of these in Guam. TFTC-SL TNLN

No luck finding it in the dark. We'll try again soon

Oooh this was a sneaky one. We took the time to check out our local footy team playing cause the GPS was a bit wacko. After some sitting and thinking DH had a brain snap and found his first geocache.

Yay found this one today - clever little hide.

Today was our 2nd attempt but with a much better GPS.

TFTC

The Downey Clan

We found a Find a Lot cache - whoooee - MrMad found this cache on a run with Skippy and SA Parrothead for 24 hours. Thanks for the cache.

Found on our 24 hour Caching run around Brisbane and the outer suburbs.
Visiting from South Aust for the weekend.

0021

[This entry was edited by SA_ParrotHead on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 5:33:08 AM.]

our 4th find today
thanks findalot

The first time I attempted this one, some youngsters were training in a nearby small field. Quiet find today after walking around it a couple of times. TNLN. SL. TFTH

I had a friend with me today and was introducing him to caching. This was a clever little hide which was found at 1730hrs. Thanks findalot for an interesting change.

TFTC

A clever hide. We also made use of the nearby structure to shelter for a quick shower of rain that came past. TFTC

I lost my PDA out caching today If you're lucky enough to find it while searching for the cache, I'd love to have it back!

Found with posthaste on a caching day around the area!

Enjoyed the hide!

TFTC

Geo-hound loved this one. Nice find

TFTC

Took us way longer than it should have. More thought = less searching.
TFTC

DNF today i'm afraid. Couldn't get closer than 10m.

This sort of cache is my favourite, nice and quick find with geohound in tow. Did not have a pencil with me (I was sure one was in my bag, sigh...) so did not sign log - will return to officially sign another day.

Another one of those sneeky hides......in a typical Rovering hangout Thanks for the tour of Samford Village.

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Absolutely love this cache. Great container perfectly placed. TFTH

#5 of 13 finds whilst 'on the way to the airport' on my last day in Brisbane this year. I found this one at 1120. Boy! I have seen some buildings in need of repairs, but this one takes the biscuit! Obviously, the Rovers are too busy roving to tend to the club house. It's a clever hide, and it took me a while to tumble to it, despite the coordinates being accurate. I made no exchange. Thanks to findalot for the cache. Cheers, dak.

P.S. There is no Unite for Diabetes TB in the cache. Can it please be marked as missing?

We saw a lady walking her cat... Strange..

I checked Rovering this morning while in the village, and and he's still there

Having lunch at the Samford bakery ater my riding epic
Afterward we found this cache, a very clever hide. At first I found an eclipse tin and thought "FOUND", but then I realised it was a discarded tin, therfore I practiced CITO and scored another cache container.

TFTC, recomended hide!

oooh....nasty but clever.I loved this cache but no chance with the curtdog.This cache is recommended!You guys must have had your heads tickering producing this.Well done!
d.d.dudes

what a great idea(will have to copy on the sunny coast)young curtdog found as we were still following gps.
tftc
tnlnsl

Almost spotted by some muggles going to a game, i love this game ....

Bug was "dropped" into this cache by a recording error. The correct drop was GCX2MG. An email has been sent to TB owner in an attempt to correct record.

[This entry was edited by Nelson Cachers on Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 1:51:37 PM.]

Had some bad luck on some earlier cashes almost gave up on this one but found it. left tb.

No joy with this one today. Searched for 20min but couldn't locate the cache.

I must say, this is a clever, sneaky, tricky hide, but I seemed to enjoy this one above all of the others. The cunning displayed in hiding this one would put one Mr S.H. Rat to shame! Well done! Rastas and LochB came along, with Rastas sitting in his car watching, laughing...

TFTC TNLNSL

Found with WeekendMaverick while Rastas was watching ... what a clever hide! TFTC

Great little area is Samford, great cache took us a little time but well worth it. Well disguised

Couldn't find after much searching by Tabmow68, Hawk01 & Tonino. Had to abandon search when Tonino got bitten by an ant. Quick trip to shops for medication to deal with the stinging. We'll have to have another go next time I'm in Brisbane.

Couldn't find after much searching by tabmow68, hawk01 & tonino. Had to abandon search when Tonino got bitten by an ant. Quick trip to shops for medication to deal with the stinging.

Checked all of the most obvious places but no luck. Will have to think about this one and try again another day.

i htought you said this one should be easy even with Muggles around. Not this close though. Came back later to find it after spotting the odd bit out.
This marked 1400 finds for the Posspet Boys. Cheers

Again a brilliant disguise, almost didn't find it

Ooh! We liked this little hide, very sneaky Took us a few minutes to spy this one, probably the hardest one for the day. TFTC

Had to wait for the kids to finish their warm-up exercises as they were almost on top of GZ. Once they left to play their match we looked for something unusual, spotting it after about 5 minutes. A nice hide for my 100th find. Thanks findalot.

[This entry was edited by The Marble on Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 10:57:27 PM.]

Hurray!! 100th find!! And in such a gorgeous little hide, too, I really liked this one. Excellent work . We did have to wait for a team of little tykes to nick off, as they and their hangers-on were wondering why we were walking through their warm-up exercises...took the opportunity to go grab a drink at the lovely pub, though. TFTC!

Our ninth find today. Found in company with Xixau and Shenzi and we set a new daily record of 36 cache finds.

Very clever hide, would have expected this from Wingaap. Took us about 15mins all the while Jerry was filming us (since he had found it on another caching day out!!)

TNLN.

Found it at last, we won't say how many visits it took! Very clever hide. Thanks for the cache. Andrew and Maryan.

This took a little while to find, but there are enough clues in the current posting to find it.

Scouts Rule!

Found by caughtatwork at 3:04
That's 3 wow's in a row from me to findalot today.
Another *recommended* cache from me on this hide.
I was somewhat confused by my GPS signal today, but nevertheless a GAFF1 find after I narrowed it down to one location and then I spotted the wonderful cache hide.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks again findalot. I think visiting your caches makes for an *Overall Experience: 4* today and people from outside the area or just visiting should take the time to do these caches. They are far from ordinary and wonderful to behold.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Woohoo! This was our second attempt at this one and we found it within seconds (thanks to a hint from cebidae who we met at Fatso earlier). Fantastic disguise. Well done and TFTC!

And, this camo was even better than 'Little Squirt'. Turned over a few rocks before finding the real cache. TFTC. Find 6 of 14 today.

[^] Great camouflage findalot! We love sneaky caches like this, that are visable to all passersby, but little do they know! Mr Mini is really good at finding these types of hides and spotted it after a short hunt.
Thanks for another great cache.

What a great camo job. Took us a while but we finaly found it. Thanks for the cache

very clever cam here from little squirt even so was stood nearly on it for a few minutes.....very clever camo, might steal this idea for a cache or two in the UK. (If you dont mind that is)

yes, very clever. somehow we found it quickly. TFTC

Very very clever. You have spent a great deal of thought on this. Well done!

Found with eventful. 5th cache for the day. Spotted RASTAS000 on the horizon - this helped us with the find. Creative concealment!

Our fifth find of the day with 124fiatbuff.

Saw some fellow cachers up ahead before we got to the spot so went to find Little Squirt first. Great camo...this is a clever one!

What a great hide... I am really impressed.

I was sitting next to the cache for 5 minutes before I saw this one for what it was....

I think it was eventful that I saw at Little Squirt now that I read the log here... Should come up and introduced yourselves!! I don't bite much!

Thanks for the cache, I enjoyed this one (one of my favourite hides!

Rated: for Overall Experience

1500

This one took us a while but we eventually got there.

Muddeypop

This one had us puzzled for a while, but a bit more log reading helped us out in the end. What a fantastic hide this is - one of the cleverest we have seen. There is no pencil in the cache so bring your own writing implement. TNLNSL thanks findalot.

Found this cache in conjunction with Gumboots.

We all loved this one. Where close to giving up when it was found.

Very clever hide. Also very tame magpie present when we were searching who viewed all proceedings with curiosity. Thanks, A&C

Found by Sunshine Toledo at 11:50am. This was the 2nd time that I have looked for this one. What a sneaky way to hide a cache. Well done. TNLNSL TFTC.

What a sneaky little hide. A tricky container but once you see it you would have to be a "drip" to miss it.
TFTC

Another very clever cache.TFTC.

DNF but I think I found the hide. I will sent a PM.

I found the coordinates about 15m off, but when I read the description, the actual location became apparent and managed to find it quite easily once some logic was applied to the observation.

Thanks for the cache.

Jerry.

Very well done and cleverly disguised. Love caches like this one.
We're down from Toowoomba for a Cub Scout camp in Samford and had to do some geocaching while here of course .
Cache in good condition.

TNLNSL
TFTC

ianandmichele

The GPS insisted that it was on the oval, didn't think I should start digging. Could find anything on the nearby buildings, and I didn't have the clues with me. Oh well, another DNF. Maybe another day.

BeardedBrisbaniac

Probably our favourite for the day. Very well thought out hiding place. Our friend Bob was impressed with the creativeness of the cache. Thanks findalot

Very clever. Hand to stop thinking before I saw it.

ruzzelz

This is the first cache actually found by Vin. Kids and wife have found previous ones. Well thought out. Thanks.

Steve must have been in the zone this morning - he found it within seconds of arriving at GZ. Good thing too as it is a very clever hide that could have taken some searching...

No swaps today.

Thanks for this one - we loved the cache.

Found ok
Pencil needs a sharpen

Great find - took some time to see the obvious - TNLN, SL

aaaaargh! awe'some hide,did the deed,tftc!

Easy find. TFTC.

I checked on Rovering this morning and he's doin' fine.
The pencil is missing, so bring your own.
The log will soon be full, so just turn the paper over.
Enjoy and happy hunting!