Ho Ho Ho Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
By JackHenry on 24-Dec-06. Waypoint GCZV79

Well, the week has well and truly come and gone...

Perhaps its time to archive?
Perhaps someone may even reuse the label still there and have some fun with it.

Wandered past today and still nothing has happened with this one.

Found WP1 OK and arrived at the final location but had little time to look. Checked the logs and noticed the cache is apparently MIA ... is that correct?

[This entry was edited by madpenguin07 on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 10:47:21 PM.]

Ok thanks... hopefully it can be replaced soon so I can nab it.
SS

After speaking with waldron, can confirm that the seat has changed since i found it 6 weeks ago, so it looks like this one is MIA

Found the first part of the multi after the last pub lunch. Could'nt find the GZ tho. After double checking and consulting someone found I was correct.
Returned today to the bus stop, (as I have been overseas the last 4 weeks) and I am sure theres a new bus stop seat!!!
Please advise...??
Schatzsuche

Found WP1 okay but no luck at the final hiding spot. Off to motion lotion instead.

I have been here before and it looks to me like the hiding spot has been changed.

The first stage has had a lick of paint apparenlty, though the tag is still blended in. Replaced perfectly first shot

After wondering around the town finding other caches, we went past the final spot, only to find that a muggle was in residence. After going to motion lotion, we returned, and the muggle alighted and was whisked off quickly

good hide, great cache

TNLNSL

Looked for WP1 last Christmas, eventually finding it after about 10 minutes .
Plugged the new co-ords in, but saw they were taking us a long way away from where we were caching that day , so had left it until today.
Looked around GZ for 5 minutes, before a 3rd look in the same spot, bought the cache to light. Great cammo [^]!
TNLNSL.
Thanks JackHenry .

After the last pub lunch discovered the tag. Doh!
Had driven past likely GZ and couldn't retrieve due to muggles.
Driving home tonight with Mrs C after our anniversary dinner thought we'd have a quick look from memory as I didn't still have the final coords, but alas no luck.
Mrs C and I know the final area quite well from many early morning visits.
Shall return another time.
Cheers

I too had a few goes at trying to find the waypoints, thanx to a little help from S.A. Parrothead on the way back to work after Barra's Pub Lunch No.12 I had the waypoints. I finally went back to get them a couple of days ago and decided today that this on had been elusive for long enough and off I went Nice hide & cool container at GZ. worth the wait Thanx JackHenry SL,TFTC

Nice cache went looking for the tag a few times before and couldnt find it but i came back again and picked it up.
TNLNSL TFTC

Where do I begin with this adventure?

I visited the first location so many times I was beginning to wonder about my own motives! When ever I wanted a walk at lunch time during the last year I would wander over that way and do the geo-hover outside the dodgy establishment.

I often convinced myself the sticker was gone but the logs said otherwise. I finally succumbed and asked a few friends at the Cache event for a hint. Now confident, I visited for what I thought was the final time, but this time I was quizzed by the cleaners.

After what must be 12 months, I gave up and guess what, as I was leaving, I found the directions at last. Well, after a numerical translation, I wandered over to location 2, but life wasn't meant to be easy.

Failure! Muggles, muggles everywhere! Today, I returned and out waited the muggles and after a short search, VICTORY!!!! And Moses on the Move said that I had no perseverance! Thanks JackHenry for lots of lovely walks and something to do over lots of lunchtimes!

Yesterdays third attempt at finding the WP tag came up trumps. I've still got a lot to learn in this silly past-time.

Today the cache was found, how easy is that.

TFTC.

1 of 2 DNFs for night in the company with Robmc and Chewinpickles from Victoria.
Had a good hunt around in the fading daylight at the initial coords but couldn't find a tag.
Thankfully Mrs C didn't ring to check up to see where I was
One for the next pub lunch.

On my first approach to this one I was stymied by cleaning muggles. A friendly tip had me searching again and this time I was able to get to gz. A reasonable search was turning up nothing until I realised just where I should be searching and the clever hide was soon in hand. Very nicely done and thanks Jackhenry.

Found with sp8sm8's
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (854)

First waypoint was completed on the 11th, but we decided it was to far a walk on a day we were supposed to be resting.

TFTC

I guess the two Garys were the only two from our group to find this one. I guess all the others were trying to build up energy TFTC.

11:45 Found this with another Gary from New Zealand "KiwiLegend". It was a nice walk from the first waypoint to the final and gave us a chance to find our feet in this nice city. It will help for our record breaking attempt last on tonight tonight.

The final location had some muggles, but they were soon on their way when something arrived. Also had a coffee at a nearby cafe after the hunt was over. Thanks for the cache.

Logged in Nelson for mileage

We had to wander down the street to Moon Under Water waiting for muggles to go away.
When we returned one remained while we discreetly retrieved the container and logged our find.
Thanks JackHenry.

Had to wait a while for the muggle to get going. It was worth it though once we located what we were looking for. Thanks JackHenry

Somehow we managed to pick our time perfectly for this one and had no interference from muggles - TFTC

How many times have we sat nearby at lunch and I have not wandered across to do this cache? Well today we were going for 800 and thought this was as good as any to reach the target number. There is something about the locations that appealed to Mr S.

Thanks JackHenry

It wasn't too hard to turn this trick into an easy pickup. Had to dodge some street workers, but it was quite a professional hide. No money changed hands. Thanks John!

Found early on a Saturday morning. Previous attempts were muggle-thwarted. Thanks JackHenry.

[Gah! Muggles muggles muggles!] Didn't have to wait long for the magic yellow vehicle to take them away. [TFTC]

When this one came out some time back I loved the concept, but couldnt find the tag, Parrothead showed me the tag, then I couldnt find the time to go get it. Finally today I had the time, and it was a wonderful walk on what I expect is to be one of the few nice days left for a while. Luckily I had a pen with me to log it today. Cheers. MODU.

Seems I've missed something whilst I've been away in Brisbane [:o]
I have no idea what this cache was about, but it was a nice stroll across town to find the little blighter
TFTC. Must do some internet research on this subject to clear up the mystery

Have been meaning to do this one and the opportunity came at the pub lunch event where Dr.E made a start and Tricky and Racey finished the job. Good fun multi. TFTC

It was too nice a day today to be inside, so I went for a walk at lunch time. Found what I was looking for. Headed back to work and then went for another wander after work for a quick find.

Spent waaay too much time on the wrong side of the road at WP1 - I eventually did find a label there but it didn't make much sense. Finally widened my search a bit more and found a much better label Finding the cache at gz was much easier, though being from interstate I don't really know the history of the area. TNLNSL, TFTC!

This was a tough one to find, I should follow my GPS, I know Stormy, Lambchops didn't like the idea of me having her mobile number in my phone, no it's not like that, I've towed her car a few times, anyway after finding the first waypoint i thought I'd better finish this off.
TNLN
Thanks JackHenry

Found a lat/long at WP1 and got confused when I read the logs of others saying that they didn’t know what to do with the information or that they did something with what they found and converted the numbers.
What’s to convert, I thought???
Rang the Ermalesh help line in the hope that they could clear up the confusion. Apparently there are a number of labels at WP1, and how you deal with them depends on which one you find. That was a bit of information that might have been useful to know.
At GZ the cache was uncovered eventually and we were glad to not have to loiter around WP! Again . Thanks JackHenry.

PS. It wasn’t until after I was standing in the shadow of WP 1 that the cache name dawned on me. Giggled out loud on and off for the rest of the cache as I thought of it , hehehe [^].

Visited WP1 with mrs jackhenry [;I] and saw where mr stormy threw the fire extinguisher at the starforce [xx(] WP2 was within 10 metres but had to educate a muggle who was fascinated by what he called "a goldmine" but since he doesn't own a computer or a mobile he's a while off geocaching thats for sure... its his birthday tomorrow as well TFTC

After a great lunch I proceeded to find my 'First Ever City Cache'.Considering my position I suppose I didn't look too silly doing a pole dance at WP1 !
Went and found a couple of other caches then travelled on to find GZ!
Instead of doing my 'PRO' photograpers impersonation I pretended to catch the Bus instead! and then along comes JackHenry just in time to give me a lift back to my car! Great Cache and I enjoyed the history TFTC Guys and TFTL too from postiegirl06

I had a quick look a couple of days ago for this in the 40C heat. I am blaming the shimmering heat haze for my inability to see it then!!
Was a quick visit today, mind you they always are around here aren't they

Had to call the Tudor Manor from WP1 to confirm what I was looking at was what I should be looking at, then at WP2 it wasn't where I thought it was checked another likley hole and it wasn't there either was ready to pack the bat and ball up and go home when it was spotted where it should be so logged it and moved on.

Thanks John & Kerry

Found WP1 easily.
Converted the numbers then proceeded to WP2.
Sat down accessed the situation then made our move and grabbed the cache.
SL TFTC

8th of 19 FFTD, 3rd of 3 JH's. Mrs Ermi (Again!) is proud to say she found WP1 within minutes of beginning our search, and that's where her help ended (Didn't know what to do with the information supplied). WP2 had us stumped, searched around and around a large area of the possible GZ, even the spot where eventually we would find the cache (Obviously not very well ). Since we are far too young to recall the Red door, resorted to the JH help line when we where on the way to another cache. Returned to find a muggle maintaining vigil over GZ. Returned a third time with success, TNLNSL. TFTC and the Hint JH.

Took a bit to realise what I was looking at. Once the brain got the numbers sorted and punched into gps, we were off! Co-ords spot on.
I'm not old enough to remember the red door!
TNLNSL

This one made me chuckle when I read the description so Mrs MODU and I couldnt resist having a quick peek on the way past to go shopping (we left the kids in the car). Couldnt see anything that resembled a waypoint, but whie we were looking a couple of local wags in a car on the way past indicated to us the establishment was now closed. We decided we shouldnt spend any more time looking just at the moment. I also wondered if the camera was still being monitored, if it is there must be some confused people wondering why strange people come up and stand looking at the shrine.
MODU

An interesting theme. I liked the navigation task, a bit different to normal.

51. TNLN
Visited: World Traveller Gold GC A#6 & Generic Gold GC A#11

Albida

Out today with Albida33. Well this took me by surprise, i thought it was a Xmas cache...I couldn't have been more wrong. We spent 10mins at WP1 before finding what we were looking for. Off we went to GZ and another 10mins of searching before finding the Cache about 40metres from where the co-ords wanted to put us.
TNLNSL TFTC
Happy New Year
TBG

At a family Xmas dinner I was told an interesting story about a man looking worried as my Uncle and nephew painted the front of a new nightclub. Seems they could have painted over WP 1 before it was up and running. They thought I could have had a head start, but being in bed all day yesterday didn't help.(Didn't over indulge if thats what you're thinking though (-: )

Soon perhaps

Found this cache with Beakers Bunch!

Thanks!

Team Eldo

Found today with Parrothead. Mogg was the only observant one who could see the label with coords. Cache was quickly found soon after.
TNLNSL
Thanks
BB

Found at 13:25, but I can't claim I did much of the work. Walked up and down at WP1, but even walking the dog I felt conspicuous. Eventually a major hint (i.e. look there) from JackHenry. Off to the cache and, whilst sitting pondering possibilities, Freddo pedals past. We had a quick chat, and the frog finds it in seconds. I should have trusted the GPS - coordinates were good. At least I could supply the pen. Thanks JH - I didn't know the history of the second location.

Riding along heading into town. Ambition was to test the Moon co-ords and check out this new christmasy sounding cache.

Suddenly whilst riding a bicycle around the Britiania roundabout I worked out what had happened last week and I knew where I was going for stop number two. Eureka.

And then I saw Uni #1. Arn't you in the wrong spot though? Ahha. This is spot #2!!

Of course I remember in the early 80's when that house had a RED door.

Can't find the cache. Leave it to me thanks.

And then I worked out what Ho means. Uni thinks I am slow in that department.

Co-ords for Moon are good too. Only if you get an EPE less than 10m from 6 sats. Pays to wait.

Well having done Pole Dancer we made this a 1-2.
Spent too long at the first waypoint as I couldnt see what was right in front of me.
Luckily as usual Monica was on the ball and able to show showed me how to find a waypoint.
Off to the second one and again the girls came up a winner.

Before the eviction, the cache was hidden under the bed in room 5 and you had to make a booking to find it.

I was worried that there would be a FTF before it got published after talking with 'Pole Man' at the starting coordinates.

Quiet as a mouse today. TFTC.

I guess there's a few 'gardeners' who missed out on a ho for Christmas. Funny place for a hardware store anyway. TFTC

Nice job on the window.
After not finding the pole dancers at least we could find the three Ho's.
Found with MiniZyth2.

Ha Ha Ha!

why did when i see the name of this cache, i imedidiatly new where the start point would be

i am starting to get worried about the promisquous locations of JH's caches, mabye there is a shady past that we dont know about

of course the question will be, when she opens her new house, will there also be a cache placed there???

An early FTF Xmas present! Thanks JackHenry! Early with 29 minutes to spare!! Location 1 took a while in the dark. Luckily there was little action, except every cab in town stopping and checking me out. I did not have any offers of help while on my knees either. Location 2 proved a bit quieter

Cheers and clears to all, and esp my Scientist friend.

PS, thought all my Christmases had come at once, so luckily WPT2 was close to …. so I popped in to repent my sins.
PPS… and I made it home by Christmas! [^]


[This entry was edited by TeamAstro on Sunday, December 24, 2006 at 1:13:40 PM.]

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