Logs for Travelwriter 

This was my second attempt to find this cache. The first time, some months back, I ran into Juzzlea, who owns the cache. But it had been moved, and we couldn't find it. I didn't feel too bad since even the owner couldn't locate it.

Yesterday, with new co-ordinates and decrypted hint, I rode my bike to the area and found it within about 10 minutes of starting to look. Took bottle-opener, left tiny antique bottle.
TFTC.
Travelwriter 

Groan. Was thwarted three times in trying to get this cache today. Nice afternoon -- so my partner and I thought we'd have a bike ride, to the cache, just a few ks from home. But I couldn't find my bike key. So, I said I'd take our dogs in the car and meet her there with them. So I took the dogs, and we had a walk towards the cache from a short distance away (they are very old dogs and can't walk far). Only when we got to the drive-in did I remember I'd left the GPS in the car...so then we walked back to the car, drove to near GZ, found GZ co-ordinates -- but couldn't see the cache. How about a hint?
Cheers,
Travelwriter (Gillian) 

Thanks, Next, for a fun cache and tip o' the GPS to Listmaker for ecommending this to me as a good cache, since I'm still a newbie.

Maling Road is one of my favorite places for Sunday brunch. After all the rain lately, the Edwardian shopping strip was all shiny, and my partner, our dogs, and I were eager for an outing. After brunch with a friend we headed for the cache, which I found quickly. I've never seen a hide like that before! (I gather that this cache is not considered to be "buried," right?

There's a nice little bar of soap in there which is getting a bit moist from all the condensation or something. Probably someone should take it fairly soon.

TSLSSL, TFTC
Travelwriter



 

Today was my second try at finding this cache. Last week, I went over on my bicycle but didn't make it as far as the GZ. Today I was having trouble with my Garmin GPS, but I did get close enough to GZ to see two other people searching around in the bushes...I joined them, and they turned out to be two of the people who originally hid the cache (Juzzlea), but THEY couldn't find it either! Apparently someone has re-hidden it in a new spot; the someone has provided new co-ordinates, but we needed more hints.

After the two original cache-hiders gave up, I spent considerable time on my hands and knees in the rosebushes, looking and risking snakebite, but to no avail. I will await further hints/instructions and try again! 

I put a few swaps into the cache -- a geocoin, a regular (Australian) coin, and a cone of incense. There's not much room in there! Please bring a pen. 

Thanks for the notes about the chache. I went a few weeks back and replaced the weatherbeaten lid of the cache and put in a new logbook. 

Finally! On Sunday 2nd March, whihc was my fourth time in the general area, and third time at ground zero, and after several good hints, I found the cache! Thanks -- TNLN but felt a great sense of satisfaction.
Best,
Gillian (Travel writer) 

Found on March 1 after a fun walk and a struggle with the clues! TSLSSL.
Gillian (Travel writer) and Nic 

Hi there! In my vast experience (this was the 3rd or 4th cache I've ever found ) this was by far the most difficult. We found it about midday on Saturday the 1st of March, but my friends and I had a struggle to write the "formula" required in step 2 of the puzzle. Part of the difficulty was a muggle hanging out right in front of the information we needed. After she left we had a bit easier time, but #2 is still a confusing question, because the example given is for all colors of light, whereas the question in the puzzle asks for a formula for white light only. Anyway, we got it!
Oh, a maintenance note -- when you said it was in the "second" opening in the wall, we assumed it was second from the left. So have a lot of other people assumed that. The bushes there are all broken down, and whoever lives behind that wall has put up a piece of insulation, presumably to stop hands from coming in the back wall of their garden. Suggest you clarify that it's the second opening from the RIGHT.
Best wishes,
Gillian (Travel writer)

[This entry was edited by Travelwriter on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 3:17:23 PM.] 

Hello, Madeleine! Thanks for the cache, which was in an area I've walked in once before. I had three friends with me, two of whom were new to geocaching, and we had a LOT of trouble finding the cache because the first time I decoded your co-ordinates, I made a mistake. I thought I was supposed to multiply (2xGL) TIMES (ZF-13), so I got totally wrong co-ordinates for the East. Only after about half an hour or more of searching did we think to re-do the co-ordinates; I got them right (I think) the second time, and then we also decyphered your two hints: very helpful and very necessary for us. Then we went the wrong way, but eventually found the right place! It was an excellent hide, very creative and nice. I took the geo-slug that wants to go back to Germany, and I will take it to a cache in the USA next month. Left a small Commonwealth Games pin; signed log. TSLSSL. Thanks, Travelwriter and Nic 

Dang. I went back to GZ AGAIN and spent a long time searching for the cache. Even with the hints you sent me privately, FacitMan, I can't find it! Are you positive it's still there? If so, can you give me even more hints? I really want to get this one now!

I'm going to encrypt this so that others can't read it. I looked underneath the boardwalk from the east and west sides, at every point where it bends, except in the middle where it's totally broken down and just thick with leaves, mud, logs, and probably snakes. Can you give me directions from one end or the other of the boardwalk? How far down is it from the start of the boardwalk? Do I have to go into the snakes' nest? Etc.

Thanks for your patience! 

Hooray!! My second day of geo-caching, and my first find! Thanks for this fun expedition. My partner, an artist, found your description of this cache online and we chose to do it during a trip to swim at Mentone beach. But when we got to Mentone in the car, we were way off from the co-ordinates. We drove up the coast, but all the way, Nic kept insisting that this was not it, that the "Artist's Bluff" trail was back in Mentone. I insisted that we were going to the co-ordinates, and she gave in when she looked up the street where the Boyd's lived in Melway! We had a great time seeing the wreck of the Cerebus and enjoying the track. I will never forget the thrill of finding the box exactly where I looked for it, the first time!
Sorry I had nothing at all with me to leave -- I took batteries and an envelope. I did, however, start a new cache not far away (in Mentone, in fact), called "Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle."

BTW the box I found was an ammo box -- it looked completely different from the box in the photo in your gallery. I guess you changed the container at some point, yes? 

Greetings, fellow and sister geocachers in Oz. Today was my first attempt to find a cache and I probably did everything wrong, so I am writing for help/guidance/advice. I have only ever been caching once before, in California with a friend a few months ago. Now I am home in Oz, I got a small cheap GPS and set off to find this "easy" cache. Spent much of the arvo cycling around Ashwood, but finally found the two structures, which are about 2 ks from where I started...and I got the clues fine and later in the evening went to the wetlands area where the GZ (that's ground zero, right?) appeared to be. But although my partner and I tried for a good half hour to find the cache, we couldn't see it. I decrypted the note about where it is ("you're standing on it")and guessed that it was under a bridge, but although I crawled around inthe muck a lot, I couldn't see anything that looked like a 1/5 litre container. Can someone send me some help? Another clue? A hint? A better GPS? All advice welcome -- feel free to send to [email protected].