Logs for Obi-Cal 

Coming from Melbourne .... looking forward to it. Bring it on. Just me attending (for now), and not sure if I'm bringing anything. 

Lovely meeting everyone. Many thanks, and perfect timing. Plus who can say "no" to ice cream. 

This is the reason I enjoy geocsching so much. Discovering little "pots of gold" like this. Many thanks to McAdies for creating this awesome cache. Brilliant. I'm going to attach 2 photos. The one without my name is my fave, however I couldn't contort myself to take a photo of my real fave item and my hand in the same photo. Here in town for a Basketball tournament at Selkirk all week. Hoping to attend a social gathering as well, if I'm not too exhausted. 

I'm really hoping to attend. I have quite a crazy busy week coming up, so I'lldo my best. Warm regards,Obi-Cal 

Many thanks. Magic spot ... quick find with friends. TFTM. 

Many thanks for this hide. Team effort finding this one, whilst on a geo hunt.

TFTC. TNLN 

TFTC. Found with geo friends, coybirds and miniman000. Beautiful day for it. 

Found with the help of quasar. TFTC. 

Really looking forward to it. 

Many thanks for bringing my better half and I along, to this beautiful spot.

Cache is still in awesome condition, and plenty of room in logbook.

Warm regards,
Obi + Meerkat (25th June, 2020) 

No hints asked for, and somehow still managed to grab this.

Having lived in this for a lot years, going back to when this was still Boral bricks ....wow. Just plain wow. High density living must be the new "black" ... the new trend. They're like lego housed.

Thank you to ahomburg for placing and maintaining this geocache. 

10pmMeerkat and I are already really looking forward it. 

Dear Organised, Volunteers, Sponsors, and everyone involved with organising this year's MEGA ....
Thank you. A big wet sloppy thank you, from both myself and my geo-wifey 10pmMeerkat

We had an absolute ball, caught up with some old friends that we hadn't seen in ages ... (one of which is in the attached photo), possibly the last local MEGA in Alexandra last year ... and as always, the standard just keeps getting more betterer and betterer (that wording is for ahomburg .... he'll know the meaning of the poor English. ).

Keep up the awesome work, and one specific thing that my wife and I really appreciated, is that the Event was so central. We're physically able to drive Really long drives anymore, and from Oakleigh to Parkville was perfect.

Warmest regards,

Callum (Obi-Cal) & Shelli (10pmMeerkat) 

I've moved too far away, and am no longer interested enough to perform maintenance on this geocache. Sadly as a result, I'm now archiving it.
Thank you to all those who've found it over the years.
Kind regards,
Obi-Cal 

I got to 11:30pm on International Geocaching Day, and I'm sitting on the couch after working that night. I had this vague memory nagging at me, and then it dawned on me!! I haven't found and logged anything today! (Expletive expletive)

Thankfully I'd done a lot of the hard yards in the previous 3-6 months, made many mistakes with the math along the way, but I was 99% sure now, where it was ... and this was very close to home.

Now admittedly we're both quite vertically challenged, so I suspected this would might be difficult to retrieve. Furthermore geo-wifey (10pmMeerkat) struggled with the terrain, but after scrambling around and taking a small step ladder ... I hope that's not cheating, we had success. WooHoo!

Geocache is in fantastic condition, plenty of log space left. In fact, it looked like it had been recently replaced.

Many thanks to ahomburg for placing this geocache.
 

N/a 

Disabled until necessary maintenance is carried out ASAP. 

Out for an early walk whilst visiting friends here in Tat, and thought to myself .... you haven't found a cache in a while. Might bring the Mrs. (10pmMeerkat) and see what we can discover.

Thanks to Cybergran for placing this cache. 

Yep, 10pmMeerkat and I will definitely be there.
Really looking forward to it. 

We're here! Beautiful day, magic atmosphere, and already meeting lovely people and discovering great caches.
Many thanks to all the organisers, volunteers, sponsors, etc for building such a fantastic event ... again.
Having a blast. 8:57 am 

Yep I'll be there with bells on. Actually no ... I don't do comedy. No bells this time.

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Just a whistle.  

Many thanks for bringing my geo-partner (10pmMeerkat) and I to this beautiful place, and thank you to avoyager for placing geocache.

Cheers from two Melbournians. (Don't hold that against us pls ) 

TFTVC. More notes to come. 

Date: 26th January 2017
Time: 11:00am
Find #213

Wow, this Geo-Event had been in the works for quite some time, and after requesting whether ahomburg would be interested in taking over Geocaching Event reigns, and he said "Yes!", I was absolutely stoked! In my mind, this would help bridge the sometimes rocky relationship between geocaching and some of the other go-locations out there.

Whichever game(s) we all enjoy, this Event was absolute proof that all geo-peoples can and do "CoExist" together in perfect harmony.

As one of the Hosts of the "other" geo-Events, my humblest thank you to ahomburg for putting this together. As much as both games always have the ability to beautifully compliment each other, this particular Event/day was always going to run smoother with a seasoned Geocacher looking after Hosting of the the Caching Event, and hosting as per caching protocols.

Oh, and to whomever supplied those bushman's sausages, wow .... plain wow! The tastiest snags you will Ever find IMO. Double wow to that Awesome Barbeque bicycle. That has Got to be one The coolest
inventions I've seen in ages!

All in all, thank you. Thank you to ahomburg. Thank you to our guests from all around Australia and indeed from Texas (USA) and the UK. It brought a really great Int'l feel to the whole day.

Pure awesomeness, all 'round!

Cheers,

Obi-Cal and 10pmMeerkat 

It's been a long time in between cache find "drinks", so when scoping out Elsternwick Park with geo-friend ahomburg, who is planning on hosting an Event here on Australia Day 2017, I noticed this fantastic little cache on my map.

Many thanks to NightFX for this geocache. TNLN. 

Thank you ahomburg for hosting this Event. Shelli (10pmMeerkat) and I will Definitely both be there with bells on. Actually no .... wait ... we don't do comedy.

Off course we'll there. See you on Australia Day 2017! Can't wait!

Cheers,

Cal and Shal.  

Thanks so much to Everyone for such a fantastic weekend. My partner (10pmMeerkat) and I could only attend on the Saturday, however we were still able to squeeze a heap of fun in, and catch up with some great peeps.

To the Event organisers and Volunteers ... you guys and gals Rock!

Kind regards,

Callum & and Shelli 

Date: 22nd April 2016
Time: 15:15pm (ish)
Find: #204

I'd love to say this was a nice "park and grab" kinda find, and it usually Would be ... however in hindsight I was having a classic "boy look" kinda day, and spent roughly 25 minutes before my geo-partner 10pmMeerkat rocked up ... who is a complete rookie I might add, and then it was finally in our hands within another 2-3 minutes.

Meh, it happens.

Great little hide, and many thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this geocache. 

I'll be there with bells on. Wouldn't miss it. 

Date: 11th April 2016
Time: 11:40am (ish)
Find: #205

Out for a morning stroll after having a great weekend in Shepp visiting friends and working at the National Wheelchair Basketball games at the Shepp Stadium. I couldn't head back to Melbourne without finding a quick cache, and this was it.

I've always loved the Mooving Art Exhibition in this area, so this was my cache I was hoping to find. And Find it I did.

Took quite a bit of scrambling around, however the cache was located, signed and back in place in quick time, and I was off to find something even more important .... lunch!

Many thanks to pooley16 for placing this geocache. 

Dropped off TB "Bieke's Mummy (TB race 2016)" to help him in his current goal:

"To win the Belgium to Holland Travelbug Race 2016"

Many thanks to Bieke179 for allowing me help this little TB on his mission, and many thanks to CO ahomburg for placing this cache and allowing the drop. 

Date: 27th February 2016
Time: 18:25 (ish)
Find: #203

Nice quick find before off to watch the WNBL Semi Final in the neighbouring Basketball Stadium.
Go Rangers!

Many thanks to allan_b for placing this geocache. TNLN. 

Date: 21st February 2016
Time: 18:55 (ish)
Find: #201

This was a lovely "park and grab" kinda find. I was in town today on completely non-geocache "business", and given the weather was so beautiful, I decided to grab a nice quick grab on this great little hide on my way home.

Many thanks to Alansee for placing this really clever geocache. 

Date: 21st February 2016
Time: 20:45 (ish)
Find: #202

This was a lovely "park and grab" kinda find. Thankfully as it was getting quite dark, I'd brought my geo-torch, and after a quick scramble around, I was able to claim a quick happy grab on this one.

Great little hide, and many thanks to caching mate ahomburg for placing this cache. 

Date: 19th February 2016
Time: 8am - 4pm (ish)
Find: #200 !! (YAY ... insert happy dance here).

A massive thank you to all the Geocaching guys and gals who attended my little Event.

When I'd originally planned this Event I wasn't aiming for a milestone, however as the Event got closer I decided to aim for my 200th find today ... and I did!

Today's event had people who are very local and live in and around "The Island", however we also had many travellers, including 3 or 4 honourable mentions from Shepparton, which I was stoked by.

All in all, everyone seemed happy, which is usually a good indicator. Many people wandered around chatting, munching on food, or out finding caches. Of the people who decided to explore local caches, one person sadly discovered a destroyed older Mystery nearby, however most others seemed to head off in the direction of the local Cowes Library ...

Anyways, to all those who attended, you helped make the Event very special. Many of you I hadn't met before, and it was fantastic to put faces to names finally, and I thank you All for your attendance.

Kindest regards,

Obi-Cal 

Date: 19th February 2016
Time: 21:15 (ish)
Find: #199

I'd love to say this was a nice "park and grab" kinda find, and it usually Would be ... that is if I'd attempted this in daylight like most sane cachers probably do. Thankfully I had my geo-skyray, and had a good amount of torch light. Eventually after finally claiming a happy victory (AKA: found it), I emerged from the trees and scrub with a few minor scrapes.

Meh, I've had worse.

Fantastic hide, and many thanks to "noworries+wife with jeremy1991 & samy1991" for placing this geocache. 

I'm an idiot. I should have walked the 400 odd metres from the other nearby cache I found 2 days ago!

Ah well, again in my old stomping ground. Thanks to the spot on co-ords, I parked the car and spotted GZ almost instantly. Brilliant!

Thanks again to lukie1987 for this cache. 

Date: 18th February 2016
Time: 15:15 (ish)
Find #197

Long day of family and a funeral today. No better way to clear my head and help myself relax than go out for a walk and find a few caches (hopefully).

This was nice and close to where my "function" had been, and given I'm pretty familiar with this park, I drove straight in, took one look at GZ and had a good strong edumacated guess where this was. After signing the log, two unfamilar faces started wandering towards me, looking slightly less suspicious than I did. We had a good chat after introducing ourselves, and shared our appreciation for this cache.

As camo's go, this is brilliant and Completely in plain site in what can be a Very busy little sporting park.

Fantastic hide, and many thanks to "Lost and found 79" for placing this geocache. 

Date: 17th February 2016
Time: 15:45
Find #196

Once again I found myself out in my old stomping ground today. I used to live on Elmhurst Road nearby, so I'd been for many many walks and cycles in, around and past GZ over the years.

Great little hide, and important to note there's an active bee hive in the neighbouring tree. A previous logger has also noted the hive, however it's definitely still active, so please be careful.

Many thanks to lukie1987 for placing this cache. 

Date: 16th February 2016
Time: 11:15
Find #195

A random drive, at a random hour of the morning, to a random location. That's apparently how I roll.

Hence I randomly parked my car in a place where there was a cache roughly 180m away. Ob-viously I Had to go trekking and find it.

Many thanks to squalid for placing this cache. 

Date: 15th February 2016
Time: 12:31
Find #193

Having found another one in the local area this morning, I decided to pop around the corner for this one as well. What an awesome little cache. How on earth the CO placed it there, I have no idea.

Thanks to chuck_thunder for placing this fantastic cache. A Favourite point for me, love it. 

Yay, happy dance.

I don't like DNFs, and this cache was bugging me big time, so after being assured by the CO that it was Definitely still there, I went back again

Finally I was able to locate this tiny little begger. Great little hide

Log book replaced at this time as well.

Many thanks to ahomburg for placing this cache.  

Date: 15th February 2016
Time: 16:15
Find #194

After parking very close and making sure the path was muggle free, I made a quick ascent to this one, and awesome easy find.

Many thanks to andy707 for placing this cache. TNLN. 

Date: 14th February 2016
Time: 10:31
Find #191

Out buying some flowers for my beautiful other half this morning, and snuck in a quick cache find along the way. .

Having found another one in this series, I was kinda thinking to look for a similar cache, which helped a lot, as my phone was being very unhelpful with some coverage issues. Weird in the middle suburbia, but meh.

Thanks to melandphill for placing this cache. TNLN 

Date: 13th February 2016
Time: 17:32
Find #190

After collecting the info needed for this cache a few days ago, I'd been waiting for an opportunity for my next "drive-by" of this area. I share the sad sentiments of many of the previous loggers. Uncle Jeff was largely responsible for a lot of school closures, back in the day. Sadly not for the betterment of our State or country in my humble.

Anyways, back to the cache. Did my maths at home and thankfully found my calculations were spot on. Lovely little cache.

Many thanks to Big Blank for placing this geocache. 

Date: 12 February 2016
Time: 23:19
Find #187

Out caching with ahomburg tonight, having an absolute ball ... and quite a lot of caching success, when we started to get close to this "Challenge" which I'd eyed off before, and then thankfully (in hindsight) it started to rain. This time no such luck, and I'm not to proud to admit, I needed some serious assistance from the vertically blessed (and a bit crazy) ahomburg, to help retrieve this little $% from its hiding spot.

This was particularly nasty for a vertically challenged individual like myself, particularly given severe spinal issues, but again ahomburg to the rescue and after much logicing, thinking, endless circling, we snuck a quick message to the CO to gain some insight into the whereabouts of this pesky micro.

Within 5-10 minutes and lots of scrambling, climbing, and reaching in ways the body just shouldn't reach, we had the little sucker in hand.

Thanks to lukie1987 for placing this cache. TNLN (cheeky grin). 

Out caching with ahomburg tonight, and this was our first target. ahomburg had found most of tonight's caches, however as always, caching is much more fun with a friend(s), so I was very happy to have someone to chat with as I ended up finding 13 (a new record for me I think) over the course of the 4 (ish) hours we were out and about.

Another cache up for an award this year, and another very impressive "first". Fantastic. Great hide, and Very clever camo.

A massive thank you to OzHockeyChick for placing this cache. 

Date: 12 February 2016
Time: 22:39
Find #185

Wow, Lukie, love it. That was great fun. I think ahomburg is gonna hit you up for a new pair of pants though. Lol

Many thanks again to lukie1987 for placing this cache. 

Date: 12 February 2016
Time: 21:20
Find #182

Woo, ahomburg and I are on a roll tonight. Admittedly ahomburg has seen most of these before, but meh ... details details.

Thank you to Mincka for the cache. TNLN 

Date: 12 February 2016
Time: 21:08
Find #181

What better way to spend a balmy Friday evening than Caching with a mate - ahomburg.

Another nice and easy find this one. TNLN.

Thanks again to Mincka for placing this cache.