Reclamation Kangaroo Flat, Victoria, Australia
By Romax on 23-Aug-06. Waypoint GCXXB9

Decision has been made!
This one has served us well for some 8 years and in that time council has made some changes that altered the original concept of following the arrows somewhat so time has come to close it down.

On arrival at the final WP here today, the search was immediately narrowed down due to the lack of hiding spots, but I came up empty handed. Then read the clue, which confirmed my initial thoughts were most likely correct. Some "clown" (for want of a better word) has removed the cache and the camo, which was confirmed after a phonecall to the CO. Very disappointing. Logging with permission from the CO, and my thanks still the same to Romax, who never cease to provide the caching community with anything less than fantastic hides, puzzles, interesting journeys, Multis, and sheer enjoyment in hunting. Adding a fave.

Pending a decision on the future of this one!

Brought the geopup and had a great run on the oval today. Thanks Romax for another well constructed adventure

TFTC

Visited here and found the local authorities nearby works had seriously interfered with wpt 1, which has now been repaired, and a small issue at GZ has also been attended to!
Many thanks to our visiting geo friends who brought this to our attention.

In Bendigo for a few days to add some smileys on as many mysteries, multi's and a few traditionals. Plus a few caches needed for my A to Z challenge.

The suscoe cachers and the ageing Bushfire have the full range of caching gear with the exception of the kayaks and the wheels to get us to most locations, carrying all the technical gear you could think of.

The title of this cache is very apt due to it's previous life but you would never know and the owners and their four legged friends seem to love it so every body are winners including us cachers being able to find another well hidden cache.

Thanks to Romax for placing this guy.

Well this was going to be a day out finding some of the caches that have been on the list for a while and a couple of new ones.
We were in the great company of Bushfire today as we were enjoying the delights of a late Winter visit to Bendigo

After having visited here a few days ago with no luck we had a chat to Romax about what we found and didn't find.

Thanks to Romax for following this up so quickly so that today we could enjoy finding this Multi.

A delightful area which seems very popular with canine friends.

The cache was located and the log signed.

Found 9.15am
Had the area to ourselves and the numbers quickly had me searching in an area where the cache was quickly found despite the great cammo.

TNLNSL
Thanks Romax for the short walk.

Another good multi and a nice spot for a cache. Found with mile high RnC. another cache that has not been found for awhile. Signed and replaced. Clever hide.
Thanks Romax for the cache.

another find on a great day out with Aussie Fun Seakers
Signed log and replaced
TFTC

Found by Garrottor. TFTC

Nice hide. Thanks for the cache.

Found at night with ronnienash and one of the members of Mobiledaws. As someone else mentioned the second waypoint is somewhat overgrown. The two others were searching for sometime before I had look and soon found what we needed. Found the finale quickly after seeing a similar type of hide. TFTC.

This was our last morning caching in Bendigo before making our way back to Adelaide via Horsham and Francis caching along the way. Wasnt a bad total with 45 finds for the day. Could have been more but had some trouble early with DNF's on micros.

Found the camo on the ground and the log sheet gone - replaced the log sheet and replaced the camo. TFTC.

On a 4x4 weekend away with firesafe
ah tridky liked the hide even though it was on the ground and no log so we replaced it

plenty of geostrips at waypoint 2 and the third took soom time also took a coin

Found first WP easily, but WP2 was a little overgrown so took a little while to find.We haven't been geocaching for a while so I think we are a bit out of practice as the cache had us troubled for quite some time. Clever hide.

You are never sure with these until you have the prize in your hands. This one is a particularly nice example. Good stuff Romax [^] Clear skies from TeamAstro.

A very clever hide. Almost had me fooled. Almost.

First for the day! On a visit to Bendigo area for the weekend & back to Melbourne today! Very nice hide in a nice park. You sure can't tell it's past history from what it looks like now!

Thanks for bringing me to this location!

TNLNSL TFTC

In appreciation of the effort that you went to in your cache/hide!

Dropped off Bendigo Brigade Coin for a visit

We've come to Bendigo today for the Easter Fair & to do some caches as well. We're not bright sparks yet when it comes to multi caches but thought we'd give this one a go. So got coords at the 1st point then walked over to get coords for the cache so walked over to where we thought it was but looks like we goofed as it took us in an open area with no cache! Tee hee hee maybe we'll start multi caches in 5yrs from now!

Very nice hide in a very nice park. You sure can't tell it past history from what it looks like now.
There were hundreds of Galahs on the oval not worried about this Galah walking all over.
Took a souvenier to show my kids something that they have not seen or used before. TFTC

I found the first wpt as soon as I arrived. Could not find the 2nd wpt....everyone else found it easy, why am I so silly??

Found with CooPzZ at lunchtime. Pretty easy for a Romax hide. Nice spot though. Cheers!

Well out for lunch.. expecting a little harder than that. But enjoyed the place to catch up with me mate.

Found with Team Crackers on the way to the Bendigo event.
Thanks Romax for another fun search,
Regards Mr. Coffee and the Coffee Clan

After a bit of a search at WP1, we found what we needed. Then on to WP2, we soon had what we needed to find GZ.
Off to GZ I soon new where the cache was, but needed hubby to retrieve.
Another sneaky hide. Looks like Romax has taken a leaf out of Silver Dices book.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Nice spot.
TFTC

Easy to spot on this.
Found it with Alchemy2. TFTC

Brilliant Fiendish Even an evil hide Typical Romax hide, one of their best. A Romax 2 star difficulty is a 4/5 star elsewhere - these guys are good, clever and thought provoking. I love 'em. The co-ordinates are all easy to obtain but finding this cache is mind boggling.....but fun. Thanks. Took nothing but left my 4'n20 trinket.

Looked at the previous logas and found this one with ease. Bluey went straight for it without the GPS finally finding GZ. We were 15 metres out on the first WPT. Spot on the second and 3m out on the last. Damn satalittes. Tftc. Cheers Hobbo.

Cache find number 2!

OK, this one needed a little thought, but great fun - and really nice hiding place!

Took a few coins for the kids

Good hidden spot but watch out car park - muggles.... SL. Thanks Romax for organising the cache and hunt.

another hide by the king of caching this took a while but a previous clue from another log gives you a hint

After completing part of this cache with the AppleBees, we were looking for it, when it started to hail. We came back for anthor look and after a short search this one was found. Tom found this one.

[This entry was edited by savage searchers3 on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 2:06:49 AM.]

Nice cache, Got the co-ords for the final location pretty quickly, but it took me a little while to find the hiding spot. Then I noticed something and thought "Aren't those things normally on the other side" (it makes sense once you have found the cache). I love caches like these, because they make you think.

Signed the log and took a 1c piece (there's still plenty there).

Thank you for the cache.

This cleverly hidden cache was quite tricky! Hanseeka Husband was the one with the idea, Jonti was the one to open it and I got to sign it! Thanks for the hide Romax, did not know this place was there nice for a family day, caching has shown how little I know of the town I was raised in! The goodies in the cache reminded me of the good old days of mixed lollies!
SL TNLN
KazTrekka.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Our first geocache find. Didn't find on our first visit but a hint from phetlern got us on our way. Excellent hide and had a heap of fun. Can't wait to try another.

My 89th find.

Found with Hanseeka and Kaztrekka
Did Wpts1 and 2 a few months ago and didnt come back to GZ untill today
Great hide, alot of work put into this hide : )

TNLN SL TFTC Romax
Jonti.

Great Hide.
Probably the most creative I have come accross to date.
TFTC TNLN SL (F82)

Rated: for Overall Experience

clever hide this one,like something different

This one proved a challenge for us. At first attempt with savage searchers got caught in the rain which turned into hail so had to abandon search that time. Returned at a later date with The Easts and had to get help from team boofa reassuring us that we were indeed in the right spot. Very clever indeed.

Back on line with a new log book.

Temporarily off line for repairs.

found a while ago but forgot to log
was a very good hide
another romax hide as alot of people have said
tftc
>>>>>>>>>toyahmary<<<<<<<<

Found with our cousins the Crazy Creels. We were very pleased to know this one was there, right behind our house. A great hide. We didn't take anything because we're too little for coins. Thanks for a great hide.

Found this one in the company of Team Boofa and the Crazy twin cousins. Took a coin SL. TFTC.
~ Crazy Creels.

On trip home from between two bridges quick check to see difficulty of this one. As we are now onto the Romax way of hides Wp1 was discovered and then at GZ in short itme. Cache stumped as for period of time then junior boofa stuck gold Pleased with himself as he found solo and said look mum typical Romax. Took a coin provided. TFTC SL

10.00am.well 10.500 miles to travel around the world to be escorted around bendigo by Phetlern to see some quality caches by Romax,now does that start of this log make your day? we parked up for a short walk finding the clues easily,then went past the dryish dam,then i was pointed out kangaroo droppings,well we dont get so many now in england! we also met a very overweight little dog but i did not say anything to the owner,english australian diplomacy?i was being watched again by Phetlernt and managed to surprise him again with another quick find,yet another 10 out of 10 cache.i see what feathertop.oenze and maccamob mean now.thanks you for this cache.sltn.patandjeff=bones1.

On our first attempt we found the location full of muggles, so we decided to return at a quieter time.
On our secong attempt, we looked and rechecked the coords and still found nothing.
We came home and read the logs and thought about it and figured there was only one logical place to look.
On our third attemp, we went straight to it and after a little persuasion had the cache in hand. We had even touched it on previous attempts!!

Our first day out hunting and we had no clue at first. Thank goodness we didn't give up and thank goodness for BigWoofa's creative thinking, which eventually led to our second ever find.
Had to sit around for a bit while teen Muggles hit a golf ball up and down before we made the retrieval, but they weren't taking any notice of us anyway.

Very clever hiding spot. Now we know what we're in for!!!
Souvenired a coin, thank you very much. Enjoyable.

Great little multi here, very tastefully done! The co-ords were spot on and our heads were being scratched, untill mrs gp thought... hmmm... i wonder and came up trumps. Thanks for this hide, great work.

Found today at: 1500

Upon reflection it was actually a nice easy find, as we had our sneaky thinking hats on.

Cache was quickly in hand and log signed.

Thanks for the clever cache,

VKC1SR

Awesome cache, lots of good work put into making this one. We enjoyed the hunt and were impressed with the construction of the final. Picked up the geocoin to move west and snagged a 1c coin for a young Dragonfreys coin collection. Thanks for an excellent cache.

This one was an impressive cache, a lot of work and thought has gone into this one, thanks for your efforts Romax. We and the Dragonfreys enjoyed it a lot.

We found our 18th Romax cache at 12:15pm as the 3rd of 15 on Day 1 of our "Where'd Bendy Go?" long weekend. Another piece of Romax brilliance of which we enjoyed finding both the waypoints and the final GZ. We swapped over some geocoins. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

Finally found our first multi cache. Scratched our heads at final waypoint for some time. Eventually found it. Great hide. Took 1cent for 9yo geocacher. Thanks.

Found by Ray and Maya at 3:50PM on the 25th of March as we return home after a Square Dance function in Swan Hill over Easter. We went well 'till GZ, then our good run evaporated. GZ took a lot of searching, and a small hint from ROMAX. We should have been able to find it un-aided. We need to do more of ROMAX's caches, we've lost touch. We took a Singapore coin and left a US dime. Thanks ROMAX, from The Nomads.

We pulled up here to find a young family playing cricket nearby but we were able to retrieve the numbers from wpt 1 with no problems at all. We headed off to wpt2 and for some reason it took us a little bit longer to find the numbers here. We then headed off to gz which unfortunately was in plain view of the family still playing there so we wandered back to the car and had a bite to eat while waiting for them to finish. Fortunately after about 15 minutes the youngest child had had enough of the hot sun so they packed up and left the park. We again followed the GPSr to gz having full confidence with the accuracy of Romaxs coordinates. We started our search in an area that we might have discarded and the cache was in hand not long after. What else can we say but we love Romax caches
Took nothing and left two geocoins
Thanks again Romax for another great cache hunt

Just like a previous log, we re-checked waypoint 2 as it seemed incorrect. Took a moment to stop and think, and then between us came up with the cache and how to retrieve it.

Wonderful!

Thanks Romax.

(didn't take a coin as I already have a small collection of old 1 & 2 cent pieces which, as I'm sure you really want to know, make excellent curtain weights.)

16:45
Interesting what can be done with reclaimation!
TNLN..SL TFTH Romax

Arrived at the first waypoint on a warm Bendigo afternoon, to see a family of muggles in bathers coming up from the dam! They must have been keen.

First waypoint was located after a short search, and the second soon after. Alas, the GPSr was point me at a very unlikely spot at GZ, so I returned to the second waypoint to check coordinates, only to find out the ones I had entered were correct! Hmmm. Back to GZ again, and after a brief search another Bendigo gem was discovered.

Thanks Romax!

Apologies for a very late log Yet another great hide found quite quickly but we had luck on our side a very enjoyable cache it is quite amazing how the good the transformation looks thanks romax no swaps made

Found at 1345. A nice short multi with another clever hide.

Great stuff Romax. It certainly makes coming to Bendigo a treat.

TNLN. TFTC.

Found at 3.10pm GAFF1. 30th cache of our H & A Bendigo Weekend. Stumbled on the information needed after widening our search at WPT1 – then WPT2 was easy. Got to GZ and we picked the hiding spot after a few minutes, but didn’t actually retrieve the cache as it was not in our power to do so! After a lot questioning whether we were doing the right thing, c-pprass revisited the hiding spot and this time revealed all. Another nice hide. Thanks Romax. tn/ln.

I'm not sure what I did wrong but I got to go on a great stroll around the lake
Only after not finding the second waypoint did I try searching another seemingly obvious place and get back on track
The final cache hide was exquisite and retrievable under the noses of nearby muggles without them realising

4 stubbies enjoyed the visit and lunch at this quiet spot. Excellent hide spot Romax keep up the good work.

Found @ 1:30:29 PM
A really sneaky hide. Had to seek it out whilst in plain sight of a really bad golfer.
T: N
L: N
SL
TFTC

This was to be our second romax cache in the company of are caching buddies The swaggies & our new caching friends Chewinprickles accompanied by Geo wife Jenny & RobMc.
This is also the first time we have met fellow cachers in the field & it was a pleasure to cache with them .
This was a very clever hide just what we have been led to expect here in bendigo.
TNLN SL Thanks Romax for this enjoyable & rememberable cache
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

Another clever Romax hide to complete a nice little multi and turned out to be a "make new friends meeting point" too. How goods that?
Great, thanks again Romax

On arriving at this cache with Liverpoolred we spotted 3 people acting suspiciously. Venturing closer we deduced from their antics that they must be geocachers. We then introduced ourselves to chewinprickles, wife Jenny and robmc. Together we did this cache and a few more afterwards.
TNLNSL TFTC Max.

We weren't acting suspiciously, at least we weren't walking across the hill when there was a perfectly good carpark next to the start .
Nice little multi. Old tips never quite look natural when they are filled in, maybe when some grass grows it will look better.
Did the short walks accompanied by new geo-friends - The Swaggies and LiverpoolRed.
Nice hide, Thanks, Robmc.

Found 15:45, another great Bendigo cache, and once again an interesting location.

TNLN, thanks Romax.

Found wp1 easily enough but wp2 was a bit slower because we were! At gz the Farmers had the clever hide very quickly, although a previous log was a bit of a giveaway to those in the know. TNLN SL. Thanks Romax for the cahce, the walk, and the mental stimulation!

With Alansee and myself at the first WP,it took a few minutes to work out the required info.Onto WP2 and after looking for something different and many hide spots we finally found the needed goods.The actual cache was a easy find as we had plenty of experience in sneaky trends before and found this within 30 seconds.A great multi ,not too much walking and plenty of thinking along the sections.Top cache and hide.Thanks to Romax.

17th find for the day at 4:35pm. On our Bendigo clean up assult accompanied by Feathertop. I had to find this cache by myself as Feathertop had already found it, non the less still made a quick find, I have seen something similar to this type of cache in Wangaratta. TNLN, Signed Log. Thanx Romax....

Grabbed this early this morning on my way to the Christmas event. I really enjoyed the cache, and upon finding it the penny dropped for a log comment I got for one of my own caches! Apparently there is a story to go with this one, I must as The Morris.

Thankyou,

R - B

Found by Mary & David at 1620. We enjoyed tracking down the coordinates, then finding the cleverly-hidden cache. We spotted something a little unusual which gave away its location. The cache certainly lived up to our expectations of another piece of Romax craftsmanship. Took one defunct coin. Our thanks again to Romax.

Found this one today, another great hide, we had one similar until it was muggled.

TNLN

Thanks again Romax

I had the coords from my last visit and miss feathertop had the cache location sussed out in no time. She is prooving a very useful sets of extra eyes today. great hide romax, right up there with what I have come to expect.

Found at 4.50pm
Another quality Romax hide
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

found by bevfre'4.30pm on way home from a day GEO caching
TN LN SL Clever one Romax Thank you.

I have much pleasure in logging this find. This was one I had to think about and was such a good learning curve from the master. Expect anything when looking for a Romax cach. Found with Dave_5 on another addictive night adventure.

OUT: A 1 cent coin for a trophy.

Thanks Romax

Six find for the day. Well this was the third time that i have been back to this spot. It was driving me crazy because i believed that there was nothing there. Until i learnd just how clever romax is. He has really set a standed my this cash. This one is by far my faviouret. Found with craniam_caching, my fellow caching addic. Thanks romax for the time and effort that you put into your caches.

Another find for the Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A

Twentieth of twenty-four finds in company with Dak Emu on our third "clean up Bendigo" day. I found the first set of numbers and Dak found the second set. The hardest part of this cache was convincing Dak I had found the cache. Thanks Romax.

Twentieth of twenty-four finds in company with acts2youthgroup on our third "clean up Bendigo" day. Acts2YG found the first set of numbers, and I found the second set. At GZ, I was checking traditional spots (silly me!) while Acts2YG found one of the best hides that either of us has ever seen. Another Romax masterpiece! Finding it was one thing; opening it was another. We didn't want to risk breaking anything, but we eventually worked out what was required, and had the contents in hand at 1950. I made no exchange. Thanks to Romax for the cache.

Found at 5:30pm 25/08/06 Got home and ran back out only to be beaten by The Morris and Fozzy. Cache found by Hardyman junior. Yet another very clever cache by Romax.

Found at 12:30pm sans Mr Morris.
Very nice of the Romax family to pop out a new hide when we had a curriculum day. Great spot that we were unaware of. Mr Morris is going to love this one.

Left a Singapore 20 c.
Took Marble geogirl found nearby and FTF certificate.

Beaten by the Morris yet again!!
Found @ 4.25pm with Geochats and a very whiney GeoJnr!!
This was a very enjoyable find, and one that I was personally considering in the not too distant future!!

Left this one fairly late, so I thought I would miss the FTF. Congrats to the Morris.

Thanks Romax, for the effort you consistantly put into these hides. You are great!
TNLNSL
Thanks again!

I thought we may have had a chance of FTF, but to no avail, you've got to be quick in this town! Third on the list with the Hardy boys at 5.30pm. Thanks Romax

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