PTPP 2, Over the Fence Western Gardens, Victoria, Australia
By chewinprickles on 14-Oct-06. Waypoint GCYW8X

I'm here to say this cache was available to find but now is not. I collected it today. Ending the series I'm afraid.

GZ was flooded and I wasn't keen to start my day caching with soggy feet, ah well I'll come back.

The Monday before Melbourne Cup day is always a great day to take off from work. It left me on my own without kids or other commitments. I started my run at about 3 pm in the afternoon and made a great time of it. This time I brought the mountain bike along to grab a few caches on bicycle paths. It was all going well until my puncture at about 10 pm in the evening. Well from then on I just went for some easy drive bys with short walks. The run was a good solo effort picking up quite a number of caches. There were only a few DNF’s so it was well worth the effort. This cache was one I found tonight. After a bit I widened the search area and made the find. Thanks chewinprickles for the cache.

Spent 35 minutes to no avail,no cache,just rain.

We think it's gone. Nothing but rocks, I'm afraid.

Well we rode the poo trail and found PTPP3 first, then rode onto to the next nearest this one. It took a while, rocks everywhere and the opposite fence, is that where it is ? Finally found it. TFTC

Found on our way to perform in the Australian Youth Choir Performance in Melb. Gotta love the glorious sunshine today.TFTC

Replaced logbook & plastic bag, dried out cache container, removed anything rusting or growing. All good to go.

the area has been very wet and the cache was full of water and the logbook was unuseable.

Found it @ approx. 17:10

A nice easy find on the way home after work.
However the area has been very wet and the cache was full of water and the logbook was unusable.
So I was unable to sign the log. Sorry.

TNLNSL

TFTC

This entry was edited by Scubacrazy666 on Thursday, 10 February 2011 at 03:38:15.

Found this cache right after the big dump of rain, which made life difficult as the cache was [blue]on an island[/blue]!

Thanks, chewinprickles, for a fun cache.

And, by the way, the cache had a lot of water in it and the log was very wet and will need to be dried out.

Nice find
TFTC

My last of the PPTP cache to complete the series. I have already solved the mystrey and claimed, but good to finish the series.
A relative quiet section of the Federation trail and easy to retrieve between muggle watching. My GPS had this about 13m out, but that may be from my 5yo daughter playing with it the night before and doing a complete initialisation. I will need to test a little more.
Thanks for the series along this windy, dusty and definitely a wild west trail.

Walked to this cache from Old Geelong Road, didn't see anyone on the walk so it's pretty quiet, apart from all the trains and cars driving down the freeway. Took me a while at the coords to find it, turns out it's a few metres away but in an obvious spot.

Quick find on a cold winters day caching run TFTC TNLN SL

Found while out and about on a weekend cache run TNLN TFTC SL

Out in this area visiting and caching with my sister. We are slowly getting all the clues by walking the track. Its bitter out here today but that means no muggles about. It was easy to work out which side of the fence to go but found finding the cache hard. My coords for some 11 metres out and we were about to give up and then I spotted it. There is quite a bit of rubbish about, probably come off the freeway. We were intertained by all the reading matter along the way.
Another letter done. TFTC TNLN

Once we realised which side of the fence we were supposed to be on, we had a pretty straight forward find quite late on a Friday night.

Once we worked out what side of the fence we had to be on, garnercx and I had no problems finding it.

Continuing my slow plod of the Federation Trail and the PTPP series, I headed along the Trail after getting off the Train at Hoppers Crossing. It was certainly a noisy section to this cache with the Freeway a stone's throw away. Reaching GZ there was no easy way but to tangle with the Fence to get to the cache - picture arms and legs and backpack and walking stick in all directions. Like other Cachers I widened my search area from where the GPSr was 'pointing' but soon had the cache to hand. As I was filling in the Log, a Car pulled over nearby and I initially thought, 'ah a Cacher doing a drive-by'. But no, this fellow, for some suspicious reason, wanted to know what I was doing? Probably not an unreasonable question considering the location. Unsure of who he was, I batted away his enquiry by saying I was a Botanist looking for some rare native flowering Orchids (mind you not the season for flowering Orchids) and this rather obtuse explanation seemed to do the trick. He went away as quickly as he arrived (I'm still wary of why he approached) and I waited until he was well out of view and replaced the cache which I had tucked into my jacket pocket during our 'conversation'. Thank you again to 'chewinprickles' for the cache. TNLN. TQP

A great day out and a nice easy ride through the area. Took a few mins to find it, but after expanding the search area we had it in hand. Caleb was doing great!

Our first find on our cycle trip from Hoppers to Footscray. We had to widen the search area out to about 7m before we had the goods. NINO SL TFTC

This was the first of these PTPP caches today and took longer to locate than others as I had to increase the search area before I spotted what I was after. I recorded the letter G* but later on found another G and with the same # (# 8 G*) Maybe I am having a seniors moment. I have two more to find after today so will wait and see what I come up with.

Thanks chewinprickles for placing these caches.

took son to show him what we do all over aust quick find

Found this one on the way home from work at 2.30pm. Came in from the freeway not the bike track. Took Geocoin. Left necklace

Found By The Lone Random,
@ 2.10pm.
It was almost a year ago when i completed the rest of the series but unfortunately when i did it back then this cache was missing.
So after taking a long time today was the day that i finally finish this series off.
After a short search the cache was in hand.
TFTC, The Lone Random

Nice find after a brief search. Nice bike trail. Move on to work this series.

Took a little while to find this one - lucky I brought my little fella along with me coz I just chucked him over the fence and said "go find". He eventually did! TNLN. Cheers!

Finally got around to doing this one! TNLN

tnln tftc damm no pen I'll return to sign!!

Found by The Empire
10/10/09 @ 12:30pm
2nd PTPP cache of the day! Thanks to chewinprickles for the great series. If you want to see the playlist I had for this day of caching visit...
http://www.last.fm/user/theempiregc
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

I have been wanting to do this series for a long time however the weekend weather for the past couple of months was nothing to be desired.
Today was finally the day, warm and not too windy. We decided to do this series in reverse. This was the 9th cache we found at 4.45pm..

Big girlie Tractors Don't Cry came to visit.

Thanks chewinprickles for the cache.

1,336Km from Home
302025KSEP09
An early dinner and the walls of the Motel are starting to close in... So into the g-buggy as I have decided to attempt the PTPP series sans Poo Path Pedalling machine. An e-recon via Google maps has identifies possible Insertion Points (IP) were an old bloke with ‘poopy’ knees might be able to make ‘runs’ on the poo path packages.
After this plan worked for PTPP3 pretty quickly so I again applied it to PTPP2, not sure if where I parked the g-buggy was 100% legal but it got me close enough. A wander to the GZ indicated had me convinced the cache was over the fence on the other side of the track or two fences from me. I attempted to ‘squeeze one’ through the fence, my compliments to whomever ‘strained’ and ‘dropped’ this fence, they did an excellent job and I had to roll under it like a ‘log’. The GPS then wandered a bit and in the end I had to get back on the starting side of the fence, again a ‘log’ roll under the fence. Took about 15 minutes scrounging around before I found the cache in the 2xAA torch light. Managed to get the clue to this one…
TNLNSL
Thanks H & J for the cache

Found by Bob at 1050

The second last of the preliminaries for me today - and I'd hoped to finally have a complete set of co-ords for the final before I headed home. After making an easy find here, I eagerly went to write in the newly acquired value in my (nearly) complete co-ordinates for the final - only to find that I'd already used this value. I'm guessing that, when it was replaced, Howard has put in the wrong clue (I don't think I'm giving too much away when I say that a value for "G" was in this cache and I already had that from another one). Anyway, I didn't think it would matter much if I could get the value from #1 - but I couldn't find a reasonable (walking) access point for that one, so I ended up skipping it today. Anyway, I reckon I could get the final with what I've got so, next time I'm near there it will be on the list .

TNLN

Thanks again Chewinprickles

Found on a very windy bike ride at 1:50pm

TNLN TFTC

Found @ 1315.

12th of 21 for the day whilst on a caching bike ride with ggkof. Had some trouble slipping through the fence, those wires are pretty tight. Had no trouble locating the cache. TNLN.

2494.

Found this cache on our Victorian Invasion trip with Steeba and The Rats. Found on the way back from Geelong at night. Found the cache after we expanded our search area.

Thanks chewinprickles for the cache.

TNLNSL

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

The last one for the day on the way back into Melbourne. A quick stop and short walk had this one in hand.

TFTC!

Here with Big Matt and Steeba as part of our Vic invasion weekend. The gizmo was jumping all over the place but soon enough the cache was in hand.
Our last for the night. Thanks

Found this morning as was easy from the freeway.
Is "chimney " still active since it has been pulled down ?
Is "burrow" still there as I could not find it and both have not been found or logged since The Lone Random logged them on 17th March ?

How good is that? To be able to ride to work along a pleasant bike track, instead of being stuck in traffic on a busy road. Having lost some weight recently it felt great to be able to slide between the wires of the fence without difficulty! The cache was also found without difficulty and was in good order. Was just 'sliding' through the fence again when a muggle bike rider whizzed past at about 100km/hr. Well that's what it felt like anyway - didn't even see him coming. TNLN TFTC.

This was really easy, mainly because I (with my overly muscular build) decided not to climb the fence, and the squalids (with their punier builds) did the climbing for us.

Main dangers here include being killed by a maniac cyclist, or going deaf by the combination of road and train noise. It's REALLY noisy on a Sunday afternoon; still, I suppose you take your bike paths where you can get 'em.

TNLN TFTC

Jen and I decided to take a walk and fix this cache this evening and not a moment too soon you say! We have changed the location slightly so new coordinates are in order although I'm pretty sure you'd find it with the old ones anyway.
Sorry to all those disadvantaged by my slow uptake here!

And this one too it seems!!!!

Spent AN HOUR here - CACHE IS GONE, ABSOLUTELY. Even checked the other coords that someone else gave, CACHE IS GONE!

Oh well, there goes my hope of completing this series today.

Had a GREAT day, rode 64.5km on the Mountain bike collecting the PTPP caches and 10 more in the Werribee/Hoppers area, all on the bike, Thanks for the fun, Coooeeeeee.

Here today with WB' and Neilo1 at 12:20pm, good search & nothing found. Thanks chewinprickles.

Searched for this one for a little while and found a very likely spot where i think this was. As this hasn't been found in a long time, I wonder if this has been muggled.
Off to a bad start

"Cache around the Bay in a day"
Cache number 1/25
DNF: 1
F:0

The location obviously has seen a lot geocachers who did what the cache's name suggests... A quick and easy find.

3rd of four found today in the series. Will be back the rest next time I'm down this way.....I hope.

Found the cache quickly, signed log and then off for the next one.

TNLN & TFTC.

Cheers,

Found @ 12:25pm Second of ten under the belt, easy find. TNLNSL TFTC

Dropped in here too and rearranged the hide a little. I must say the old hide wasn't too bad as it took me a little while to find. In fact I couldn't find it yesterday but did so today with the aid of the GPS. Rejigged the co-ords slightly too.

Very easily found at 8:00PM on the 18th of Jan by Ray and Maya. It was just lying on the ground in full view of all who passed by. Very wet inside the container. TNLN. We re-hid the cache at my GPS'r GZ, but possibly not in the original place. Thanks from The Nomads.

Found at 0650. As I drove to the nearest point instead of walking the trail, I had to go over a total of four fences to retrieve this one. All part of the fun I guess.....not! Easy find in the end.

TNLN. TFTC.

Well planned and a totally enjoyable cache series. I started at about 1400 hrs and finished at 1730 hrs. this was a great series and a totally enjoyable experience, a recommended trip for anyone.

yes it was just over the fence ... not at arms length though.

Great trip tftc.

Found on 30 June 2007 at 12:18

Hey theres only 10 caches to find on the bike how hard can it be, C@W agreed so off we went........ Some puffing and panting and number 2 was down. Take each kilometre one at a time.... Can I go home now?

TNLN

Found by caughtatwork at 12:20
OK, not so bad so far. It's all pretty flat with some downhill so coasting along at the moment. Not looking forward to coming back, uphill with the wind in my face.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks again chewinprickles. I am mad, I think it's confirmed.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Tenth of nineteen cache finds for the day in company of Rallywrxwagon. On we went getting over the fence is a problem for a couple of invalids and finding the cache was found by Rally, as I tried to get back over the fence. Thanks chewinprickles for getting this one back online for us and the cache.

Lucky we had car trouble at just the right spot and this cache proved a welcome distraction waiting for help. TNLN

Found @ 6:40pm with Scooters Mob.
On a big afternoon of caching.
Cache was soon in hand and we were on our way to our next!.
TNLN SL TFTC

Found @ 18:40 with Clarks mob in the dark after an afternoons caching. It depends on your orginal starting point as to if this is over the fence or not. .

This Cache marks another milestone for the mob as it is our 400th cache [:o)][B)][8][8)][:(!][xx(][|)][:X][^][?] woohoo
TNLNSL TFTC

Spent a pleasant day picking up the remaining PTPP caches along this great new trail.

This was relatively easy and a good spot for a break.

Took $100 Aussie key chain and left aussie map key chain.

Found @ 11:45. 5th of 13 starting at Werribee and cycling the Federation trail back to town. Was a bit worried how I would get to this one as my map showed the trail about 1km north of here. Must have been a proposed route ?. Anyway relieved to find the path actually past by GZ. Thanks. TNLNSL.

16:52 was found with geowife taking me out again while on holidays. Opps...did this from Freeway. TNLNSL TFTC

Found today by Head Chef on his way home from work today in Geelong.

TNLN

Thanks for the cache Chewinpickles

Found today by Mr Emu & son @ 10.20 a.m. GAFF1, as we continued Pedalling The Poo Path. Nicely screened from passing traffic at the GZ, although the side of the cache container was clearly visible from the bike path. We took extra time when replacing it to make sure any gaps were covered with material that would not blow away. Thanks for the another cache in this series chewinprickles*.

Took: HK $2 Left: Butterfly, $100 keyring; Wrote down "Clue".

*Please note that the plastic log book bag is split and will need replacing sometime. Nothing was damp, but unfortunately we didn't have a spare (yet another thing to add to my cache repair kit).

Over the fence? not for us!! We must have approached it from the easy direction. First cache of our Melbourne trip. TNLN Thanks for the cache.

was down for Surfmoot http://www.surfmoot.com a rover camp down at anglesea and couldnt resist the lure of caching on the way back to sydney

this one wasnt over the fence for us. we parked on the side of the free way and it was only a short walk.

didnt see the card in there about the other caches, but being from sydney i dont think i'll be attempting the series just yet.

Founs your cache at 1:05pm, unfortunatley I was on my own for the day, as my cousin had pulled out on me. A great trail, supprising how close it is to the freeway, abd I had never noticed it. TNLN

Or Next to the Freeway for those who don't have a bike. I'll have to get one to complete the series though!

Thanks,

R - B

Found with the Coffees, Crackers and Mystery Inc

Found with the Coffees, Crackers and Mini Cacher 1

This was our first of 22 on a day out caching with The Coffee Clan, Mini Cacher One and Mystery Inc. After the hot weather of the week before the rain was very welcome on our stroll to gz. Once at gz Mini soon had the cache in hand
TNLN
Thanks Chewinpickles

On a day out caching with Team Crackers, Mini Cacher One and Mystery Inc we stopped for this cache first. Although the weather was humid and rain was coming down the walk was refreshing.
Thnaks Chewinprickles for the first of many caches today,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Up and Over" Clan.

The weather was "stewing" for a bit of rain, but it held off. TNLN

Found today on our big ride with Maccamob... TNLN.

Found by Mary & David at 1055, in company with Juzmac. No speed records today. We just cruised along enjoying the warm weather and the trail. Justin did the honours with the fence. TNLN. Our thanks once more to chewinprickles.

It was time to employ the smaller finders of our group for this one and with c and EuDes herself on the search, c soon had the cache in hand at 13:25 to the "tune" of some pretty large trains passing by .

TNLNSL. Thanks chewinprickles.

All 4 of the ssmc4 team on wheels joined EuDes & friends on the reverse PTPP expedition. This was number 9 on our 10 to 1 countdown. The girls came in extremely useful - instead of over the fence they went through it! TNLNSL.
Thanks chewinprickles

Found at 1:25pm with Eudes and ssmc4. For this one SSMC4's daughters came in handy to save our now weary bodies from some extra effort.
TNLNSL
thanks chewinprickles

With no bikes involved,we got close to this one and after a brief search discovered the tricky hide and did the paperwork.Thanks to chewinprickles.TNLN.

Had a bit of trouble with this one as we had parked the car on top of it . TNLNSL. Pong factor = 1...still more traffic than human.

Third cache for the day, no-one in sight, so I did as the cache title indicated, and soon had the cache in my hands. I grabbed the clue, but made no exchange. Back on the bike and off to the next. Thanks for the cache.

Third of twelve logs for the day by bike. I made the trek over the fence and logged this one at 1525. I couldn't squeeze through the closely spaced wires, so I went over the top. I always feel funny climbing fences to reach caches. I saw the slow cyclist for the last time at this one. Thanks to chewinprickles for the cache.

IN: Hong Kong $2 coin
OUT: Dinosaur

Dear ChewinPrickles,

We found your cache today at 11:20am as the third of thirteen on the Pprass/Rabbitto Pedal the Poo Path Friday. An easy find. We were concerned that the fence may take a battering. Thanks for the cache.

Kind Regards,

D B-A

Foundat 11.15am GAFF1-5. Not sure how well this fence is going to handle a bit of weight from time to time, but we ventured forward and Rabbitto and I found the cache simultaneously. Thanks Chewinprickles tn/ln.

Found 14:55, pleasant stroll and then the cahe.

TNLN, thanks chewinprickles.

Onto the bike and off to this one. Glad it is not going to be a stinker today. Easy find at 7.45am.

Reasonably easy find and the large spider clinging to the cache waas soon dispateched! T Thong, L Simpson. Thanks chewing.

Time to Rock, and Roll down the path. Fortunately this was "Over the Fence" as a worker in a ute went flying down the path. Work is just being finished here and I saw 2 bikes and 8 cars/trucks on the ride.
Took: Clue, Left: Label
Thanks, Robmc.

Found at 5:21pm Accompanied by GeoDano.
After getting a FTF for PTPP1 GeoDano was keen to get the next one and we rode our bikes straight past the car and headed for this one.
In: Thong Keyring, Out: Hippo Stamp, Signed Log Thanx Chewinprickles...

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