Micro-Inventions of Amazing Simplicity Kotara, New South Wales, Australia
By Mix on 25-Aug-06. Waypoint GCXYC1

Umm, just realised this was archived. Never came thru like this on my recent PQ??
looked interesting - hopefully this can be put back [^]

clear skies, Astro.

Looked, checked looked, changed levels and then changed levels again. Obviously a man's look...... The other side of the tunnel looked inviting and I'm guessing that's where I should have been planning my next route. Next time....

Clear skies and our thanx to Mix for this experience from TeamAstro.

because of dickheads

Under th' cover o' darkness we struck...... tookst everythin' port nothin' but th' wake o' our sea dog nature.... FTP

Found pretty easily with Mrs MADSTARS (P.S I am not lucky finding caches Mr MADSTARS I am just good......lol, wink wink, dig, dig). Fun little multi and we managed to get some pretty cool photos of the graffiti in the tunnel. Had fun going through the contents of the cache and discovering some simple but very useful (little) inventions. Took: nothing. Left: an elastic band. TFTC great little urban surroundings.

[This entry was edited by MADSTARS on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 6:20:24 PM.]

Looked all around the first stage and couldnt find anything... Aaarhhhh

I will bring Mrs Madstars back to check for me... She is the lucky one.

cheers

MADSTARS
Nelson Bay 2315

My first multi,was a lot of fun

Found it! This was good fun! With all the potential hiding spots it takes a cachers instinct to hunt this multi. Thanks for a fun cache in a great area. SL TNLN TFTC
suzukifreak_1

Quick find on a beautiful Spring day. All in all an enjoyable multi-cache. TNLNSL. T4TC.

Tricky little hunt when you haven't read all the previous logs, I have a few ideas of micro-inventions that I will add some time. TFTC!

Nice easy cache before leaving the park.

Left a 5 cent coin as money is an amazingly simple invention that affects us all everyday.

a fun one to find without being seen by all the muggles in the cars passing lol..

11/17 for the day
TN left an idea, the smallest thing i had!
he he

Don't think I would have found this one without the pictures from fatty acid. Logged onto this web site from mobile phone to view them.
Put in a thimble.
Thanks

Tricky without a GPS, and in the dark, but got it.

Some nice things in there, but no IC's?

Might put one in later.

Nice little Multi and a bit of a search for the end cache as my GPSr was chucking a bit of a wobbly but all good in the end. Signed log. TFTC.
P.S. Not that I used the spoiler info but they could have been a little more discrete. They obviously don't have caches of their own!!

Signed the log for the 3rd. was a long day.
TFTC

I have to admit that we jet skied this one on the back of the previous log. Too easy once you know how. The rain did not help. I was getting soaked out there.

Didn't check the cache type for this one and was surprised to find the film container with the note - ah the fun photographic days before digital - Cache was evenually located. It contains interesting small things, soe of which are now out of date!

great cache

took a lot to find
i did have some photos here which gaveaway too much
but they are now gone

thanks for the great cache MIX
sorry about the spoiler photos (which are gone now)

fattyacid

Found it

the co-ords point to a small film container

and then in the container is the gps co-ords for the geocache




fatty acid

The photos on the log below are complete spoilers, do not view them if you wish to do the cache as intended by hider.

found first part very easy but was ready to give up when once again the pro found it.. SO MANY MOZZIES!!

Found the first part of the multi rather easily but then when we headed for the cache itself we were not so lucky. Had very poor GPS signal and turned out we were looking in completely the wrong spot til something near the road caught my eye!!! TNLN, TFTC.

CRYSTAL PAULS

Found with the three young geograndchildren. We weren't expecting to have to go so near the busy road when there is such a lovely reserve adjacent.
The kids loved the "tunnel" and picked some dandelions along the way.
The log sheet is damp.
TNLN SL TFTC

Found at 14:05 with Teglian and Wasptor, whilst showing them around my old home town. We have a few caches in similar hiding spots in Canberra, so we knew where this one would be pretty quickly. It was just a matter of picking our moments to retrieve and replace it, with several hundred speeding muggles heading past not making it easy. Nice idea for a cache.

TNLN

Thanks Mix

We decided to hit this one up after visiting the park nearby, pretty easy to find though very hard to be stealthy with so many muggles driving past.

TFTC

After a nearby failure, we thankfully found this one pretty quickly. Tried to talk Tegan into running a bit of distraction while placing the cache, but she wasn't up for it. Enjoyed the items in the cache too.

could not find this one


the GPS showed right on the spot

I wonder if a muggle has found it?



fattyacid

Found this one on our way over to a mate's place.. found it no problem..

TFTC

Six_Stars had a good run around finding this one. Thank goodness for tunnels or we may have made the headlines! Forgot about the theme, so the gold star we left may need some interpreting! Took the marble.

Damn Micro's - I can never seem to find them easily! Well I guess that's the point, and I have to say it's a great hiding spot.

Our first cache !! Yippee !!
Co-ords seem to point to clue cache. Followed the clue co-ords and there it was. Neat little spot. Retieved small red stapler, replaced marble.
Thanks.

Didn't really expect to find it there! Thought the GPS was mucking up. When I decided to trust it, found it in quick time.
TNLN TFTC

Quick Sunday Afternoon cache with Team E'Leete, nice easy find.

Nice and easy. Didnt know there was a passage there till now.

#330 at 1352

I tried this one last year without success. I took the kids back today, and my son spotted the first waypoint in about ten seconds flat (literally).

After plugging the coordinates into the GPSr, we headed over to the GZ and had the cache in hand almost as quickly.

TNLNSL TFTC!

small but good to find by walko clan

An easy find on the way to Nobbys Beach to see the largest cache in Australia.
Another good cache. Thanks Mix.

Well it took us two goes but we got it today at 1630 after having done the Bushrangers Cave earlier in the afternoon. We had tried the previous afternoon after having done the Lillypond without success and the tin lids didn't want to let it beat them. Today one found the first part and the other the second so both were very happy. We removed the pen because it had given up the ghost and replaced it with a small (micro) pencil. Also put a stapler in. Maybe someone else would like to put the staples in it.

We are a bit addicted and may have infected some others with the bug as well. We are off again tomorrow for another cache.

Hutchtables

Very hard to find it took me half an hour just to find the film canister with the co-ordinates in it. Over all a very good micro multi cache.

Found 2 SSM's while walking there from John Hunter Hosp (23262 & 147715) Young Nic found the clue cannister, and I found the Main micro @1700. Was thrown out by a triangular metal 'pipe' on the corner.
Left: Blue T. Took: White tee

Found the cache at 4.40pm. Real enjoyed myself so simple one. SL. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Very easy, though I did come away with a few scratches due to coming off my bike, didn't see one of the wooden poles on the trail.
TFTC

Good to finally find this one, my GPSr was playing up a bit but finally managed to get it after moving on a small spider and web. Took nothing, left a rubber band.

Rated: for Overall Experience

After a brief sojourn in the parklands across the road, I set off in search of something amazing. I chanced upon the portal and was transported to the first waypoint without once being run over by a speeding vehicle, Amazing
So I was soon off again, traveling through the worm-hole to GZ. The cache is a microcosm of small thinking
I added a cable tie to the collection of MIoAS
TFTC.

Please consider adding snake attribute to this location as I happened to disturb a small brown snake under a lump of concrete whilst searching for this cache earlier in the week.

Got me stumped again. Will try again soon.

Found with the whole gang including my sister, my two boys (one in his stroller) and my two nieces. It was a great little walk from their house up to the entrance to the reserve. Thankfully, we found this after a short hunt after our two previous DNF's. TN Left Golf tee. TFTC.

JIC

has been found it seems so cache on...

I too figured that the waypoint was the path leading under the road, but couldn't find the cache, I don't know if I was supposed to follow the path East or West, and for how far, it splits in three on the East side?

Rated: for Overall Experience

The kids and I missed this one. We couldn't find the micro cache near the underpass, which I THINK is the waypoint for the cache proper. If that's not what we were supposed to be looking for, then I've misunderstood the description file. We may attempt this one again on our next visit to Newcastle.

Just out of interest, how is this a multi-cache?

You find a waypoint and follow it …… in the end you find a cache.

No special prep needed.

Mix

I noticed that my prepared invention (a 'GEM' paperclip, invented in Norway circa 1894 but not patented-- ripped off by many a British and American 'inventor' afterwards) was already in the cache.. But there were multiples of the same innovations in the cache already, so I'm claiming it. ^_^

Hmmm, should not have been any ‘multiples’ as such (unless I stuffed up, which is entirely possible) but as I said ‘You can have just a little latitude in interpreting the theme’. BTY Two variates of the same thing are ok, if you’re comfortable with it. I’m not a cache Nazi and have no intention of policing find logs. If you find it and don’t have a unique swap you can TNLN, as I’ve changed the cache page to suggest.

Mix

Just Love the Game

p.s congrats C.J.B on passing 100 finds

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