Moveable This cache is listed on Geocaching Australia Postman Pat Box Hill North, Victoria, Australia
By GabGab on Tuesday 1 December 2009. Waypoint GA1684

Watched by: Almost_there, cazza412, cloudglider, Coffee and Cache, g_ordo, Happy Chappies, PrincessDiala, ROMA123, skygod81 & sungeigedong

Cache Details

Send to GPS is for Garmin GPS receivers only.
Difficulty/Terrain: 1½/1½
Type: Moveable Moveable
Container: Small Small
Coordinates: S37° 48.574' E145° 6.971' (WGS 84)
  55H 334171E 5813642N (UTM)
Open in new window / tab
GA1684
GA1684
Share this cache on facebook Share this cache on myspace Share this cache on digg Share this cache on reddit Share this cache on stumbleupon
Logged Visits:
PublishedDid not find itFound it30  Moved26  Noted11 
Logs [None]  [5]  [10]  [All]

Description

Does Postman Pat have a black and white cat?

This is GabGab's entry in the Moving Cache Race

Your challenge is to locate this cache, collect it, run away, make your log and rehide it in a location that matches where you found it.  Once your determine the general location of the cache it should be obvious from the name where the cache is hidden. When you find it and move it along, please rehide it in the same manner so that future finders will find it easy enough.

Please feel free to log this cache up to 10 times as long as you are having fun finding and rehiding it. Of course, you should wait until someone else has hidden it before you can log it as a find again.

There are some simple guidelines:

  1. When you grab the cache please rehide it within 2 days to keep the cache moving.
  2. Rehide the cache attached to the same type of object where you found it.
    The further away the merrier.
  3. Log your find at Geoaching Australia as soon as you can so others are not trying to find the cache you just moved.
  4. When logging your find at geocaching.com.au, please insert the co-ordinates in the coords box.
    This allows the software to automatically update the new location.
    Enter your co-ordinates in the format Sdd mm.mmm Eddd mm.mmm
    You don't have to include the degrees or minutes symbols when entering updated co-ordinates but you should leave a space between the degrees and minutes.
    Try a copy and paste of the example co-ordinates into the new co-ordinates box and type over them.
  5. Please keep this cache in Australia but feel free to move it interstate if you feel in the mood.
  6. Wherever possible, try and keep to the difficulty / terrain rating as originally listed.

Of course the best fun about one of these caches is that you don't have to worry about being spotted retrieving the cache. Feel free to be as obvious as you need to be in order to claim it.

Then run away as fast as you can.

Enjoy.

Public Tags

No public tags found

Ratings

Overall Experience
Cachers 10 1 1
Rating
Description Needs Improvement Thanks for the Cache Worth Stopping Top Cache Outstanding

Logs

August 2010

29th
Noted
No - That's because we have it.
A bit too long too. We will place it again soon.  
View LogTop
 
29th
Did not find it
We had a good look at the place supposed to be, it wasn't there that we could see!!!
 
View LogTop
 
8th
Found it
We found this last December, but since it's turned up in our vicinity again, I thought I'd have another go. Seems in pretty good nick. We'll find another green spot for it soon.

Thanks GabGab.
 
View LogTop
 

July 2010

22nd
Moved
Happy Chappies
Moved 4.67km
S37° 48.574' E145° 6.971'
A busy location this one, esp when we placed it at peak hour!! Hopefully the fact that everyone is focused on rushing home or to work/school as they pass here will keep prying eyes away from the object and its cache....

 
View LogTop
 
19th
Found it
Regular perusal of my hitlist today showed this right up the top of the list! Bit of a shock! So much so that after dinner we zapped up here to make a quick and easy find.

Our first movable cache! Neat... =D>
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
14th
Noted
See Postman Pat sites and path -

updated - 22-07-2010
http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115135523841981264884.00048b4e6935f9b2182e7&ll=-37.503189,144.836884&spn=0.613368,1.234589&z=10  
View LogTop
 
13th
Found it
sungeigedong
Moved 6.12km
S37° 47.079' E145° 9.530'
Found 1147hrs.
Moved 1625hrs.

Some guy enjoying the winter sun must be wondering what I was doing...walking around looking high and low at the bus-stop then walking round every tree and signpost at the site (I'd not read the entire log when I went out to search).

New site is a mostly quiet location outside of 0830-0900hrs and 1520-1600hrs.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
9th
Moved
Almost_there
Moved 21.65km
S37° 43.888' E145° 8.466'
Found at 23:25 on Thursday night. I've had this in mind since the last time I worked in the area. So, being back in the area, swung by on the way to work for a quick find.

Completed the move on the way home in the morning. Should be a simple drive by in a relatively quiet location except perhaps on weekends when floral commerce takes over.

TNLNSL TFTC  
View LogTop
 
8th
Found it
Nice easy find. Time for a look for that black and white cat north of the Yarra. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
1st
Moved
joffa1970
Moved 2.04km
S37° 54.908' E145° 3.606'
Hidden at a spot that I often purchase lunch and pastries. A very reasonable bakery at this location and the prices are also excellent.

Should be an easy grab whilst tieing the laces. Watch for all the workers at the new pool across the road and also school kids at start and finish times.

Enjoy.  
View LogTop
 
1st
Found it
Very bored at work (who isn't) so off we headed to get a few close GCA's.
Easy grad, back in the car ond off to get a GCA near the the old St.Kilda training ground. Will look for a spot to re-hide on my travels.
 
View LogTop
 

June 2010

15th
Found it
skygod81
Moved 3.64km
S37° 54.653' E145° 2.252'
Found with my daughter (her 1st find). Has now been re-position (not to far away). But now the green boxes are traveling in pairs!! Which one has it???
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 

May 2010

23rd
Moved
cloudglider
Moved 73.02km
S37° 55.251' E145° 4.622'
These green structures must have been breeding .... they are everywhere. Postman Pat is now located in a spot that was a disused market garden, ie a large paddock when I was a kid. It is 109m on a bearing of 102 degrees true from what was our family home.  
View LogTop
 
20th
Found it
cloudglider
Moved 7.06km
S38° 10.378' E144° 18.484'
Found it at 1010 at S38 10.378 E144 18.484. Now the challenge is to find another of these bins to relocate the cache. Maybe somewhere in a SE suburb of Melbourne over the weekend.
TNLN T4TC SL
cloudglider
 
View LogTop
 

March 2010

20th
Found it
S38° 10.378' E144° 18.484'
Postman Pat has moved a little further today.
 
View LogTop
 

February 2010

22nd
Moved
Keeper of Time
Moved 53.85km
S38° 10.178' E144° 23.315'
Managed to find the correct item to place this one again, hope it keeps moving around.  
View LogTop
 
22nd
Found it
Picked up at the start of a day out caching, I am sure we will be able to move it on a bit very soon.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
12th
Found it

 
View LogTop
 
12th
Noted
The green boxes are mail distribution boxes. The truck drives around, drops off letters for the motorbike local posties. Saves petrol and gets the mail out faster as the local postie only need to go back to the green box to get the next set of mail to deliver rather than back to the central mail distribution centre.  
View LogTop
 
12th
Moved
g_ordo
Moved 43.21km
S37° 41.200' E144° 25.450'
Picked up this arvo after work, moved a little closer to home.

What are these green boxes???

Cheers Gordo  
View LogTop
 
10th
Moved
The Lone Random
Moved 5.3km
S37° 48.610' E144° 53.374'
Apologies for taking longer then usual to log this one.
Hope no one tryed to get it this afternoon, but had some unexpected work commitments to attend to.
Picked this one up while completing another GCA cache in the area.
Thought would be fun to move this one along to my side of town.
Which is not all that far from Williamstown.
Hope people enjoy the new site.
Cheers,
The Lone Random.  
View LogTop
 
7th
Moved
caughtatwork
Moved 19.91km
S37° 51.445' E144° 52.937'
Back to a location that has seen a few of these caches before.  
View LogTop
 
1st
Noted
Hunter/Finder said: "Hey, not fair. I thought there had to be someone else move the cache before you moved it again. pwags took it to Singapore and brought it back again with no-one else finding it. Sad "

Agreed. I knew that the return trip to Australia would be outside the rules, so checked with c@w prior to the move. It was decided that GabGab is ineligible for prizes in the game, and it really wouldn't be nice to leave a 9 year-old's cache stranded in a strange country, so the "illegal" return trip was made. Although it has travelled a very long distance, this cache is not the one that travelled the furthest legal distance. Roma123's cache has those honours. Congratulations Roma123!  
View LogTop
 
1st
Noted
Hey, not fair.
I thought there had to be someone else move the cache before you moved it again. pwags took it to Singapore and brought it back again with no-one else finding it. Sad  
View LogTop
 

January 2010

31st
Noted
Caches were never expected to go OS, so we never had any function to update the country. Guess I'd better get working on it.  
View LogTop
 
31st
Noted
Any idea why this listing is still showing the country as "Singapore"? Strange!  
View LogTop
 
31st
Found it
In the hands of caughtatwork to give GabGab a small surprise in the morning.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
31st
Moved
pwags
Moved 6043.15km
S37° 43.161' E144° 44.304'
This is the first MCR cache that I found shortly after midnight on 1st December, and the last one that I have rehidden on 31st January, after a HUGE overseas trip. I thought that it would be entirely appropriate for this one to end its time in the race back in its starting location, close to GabGab, so that she can get her hands on the little gift that I have put in the cache, a memory of its trip to Singapore. Closure!

Congratulations to GabGab on a very successful moving cache - this one has been so far, and seen so many things. I hope that you can keep it moving around Australia now that the race is over.  
View LogTop
 
29th
Found it
I couldn't leave it stranded there... on the way home again, with a gift for GabGab inside! Stay tuned.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
29th
Noted
Where's my cache hippie Smile ?  
View LogTop
 
25th
Noted
Darn it! Its the only vic MCR I haven't found and now its international!

WOOOT! GO GAB GAB!!
(Is it going to return also??)  
View LogTop
 
25th
Moved
pwags
Moved 6054.68km
N1° 18.691' E103° 50.187'
Is this "the endgame"?

Moved it to Singapore overnight. This city is an incredibly difficult place to hide a cache... cleaners everywhere, very tidy place, and I'd probably be charged with littering if I hid it in the way we do in Australia. Therefore I've decided to hide it in style, safely stored in a publicly-accessible location in the Sheraton Towers hotel. Check the hint if you need specific details about where to find it.

Stay tuned, I have some photos of the cache travelling and arriving in Singapore as proof that it's here... I will post them very soon.

EDIT: 26/1/10... added photos to my log. Happy Australia Day from Singapore!
 
View LogView GalleryTop
 
23rd
Found it
OK - back in my hands again now. It's time to get some serious kms on this one! Mwaaahahaha!
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
23rd
Moved
tongdog
Moved 178.38km
View LogTop
 
23rd
Found it
Let's move it back to Melbourne now Smile
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
22nd
Moved
Serial
Moved 191.47km
S38° 31.198' E146° 39.615'
A long weekend trip with me - how's that for a few more kms?  
View LogTop
 
20th
Found it
Found easily on a trip to Wallan!
Will hide again soon.
 
View LogTop
 
20th
Moved
pwags
Moved 41.08km
S37° 25.301' E144° 58.862'
Decided to take this one a few km north to get some more mileage on it. But don't bother heading out here to find it, I know that it was going to be picked up again very soon for another trip... stay tuned!  
View LogTop
 
16th
Found it
How could I resist? On the move again!
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
16th
Moved
The Empire
Moved 3.19km
S37° 47.041' E144° 53.547'
Placed under the usual, on my way home from shopping at knifepoint, sorry, highpoint...
- M  
View LogTop
 
15th
Found it
Picked up and brought home, will move on tomorrow.
- M
 
View LogTop
 
15th
Moved
wallyhunt
Moved 5.94km
S37° 45.322' E144° 53.466'
Hidden at 17th Essendon Scout Hall, not on a post box, but on a green water tank.  
View LogTop
 
15th
Found it
Found, will move along quickly.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
14th
Moved
Phetlern
Moved 111.97km
S37° 43.314' E144° 50.316'
15:50
After looking at two others locations around Essendon Airport, we settled on this spot, a little bit out of despiration! It has been located in a similar hide/situation as we found it. It is near a main road and as parking space is minimal, take care with traffic.  
View LogTop
 
13th
Noted
Been here for far too long. None of the other Bendigo Cachers seem interested, so sending this cache to an area where it might get some attention.  
View LogTop
 

December 2009

29th
Found it
Phetlern
Moved 13.17km
S36° 48.789' E144° 17.809'
17:30
Picked up this traveller whilst returning from caching activity to the north west of Bendigo. Slightly surprised to find it still here, as it's two travelling companions that it came to Bendigo with appear to have moved on when we looked for them yesterday.

Now in a new location and looking for a lift to ....... wherever!
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
28th
Moved
The Morris
Moved 111.07km
S36° 44.431' E144° 10.815'
Placed using a borrowed GPSr so call if there's a problem. This should be nicely situated near several teams so hopefully someone is home to grab it an move it on.  
View LogTop
 
27th
Found it
Will place in Bendigo to get a few more kms on board
 
View LogTop
 
27th
Moved
caughtatwork
Moved 0.28km
S37° 41.024' E144° 35.337'
Moved a small distance from the Event (Intervening Days II) so the cache could be picked up and moved a longer distance at the end of the day.  
View LogTop
 
27th
Found it
He, he, he, he.
Found at the event.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
27th
Moved
The Morris
Moved 162.55km
S37° 41.004' E144° 35.529'
The Intervening Days event was a great place to get moving again  
View LogTop
 
27th
Found it
Time to get Pat moving again
 
View LogTop
 
26th
Found it
I had not noticed that a few of these movable caches were lurking in the area for some time. We will do our best to keep them moving on.
 
View LogTop
 
14th
Moved
solomonfamily
Moved 160.67km
S36° 22.418' E145° 24.058'
14:33 after finishing our work meeting a quick exchange  
View LogTop
 
13th
Found it
~12:00 King Snr "leaning out the window" made the pickup, Jnr behind the wheel ("ready to grab it...... NOW....") and geoprince#1 giving instructions from the back seat.

Now with the Solomonfamily ready for a work trip to Shepp tomorrow - a very quick pickup after a short dash down the freeway. Our thanks to GabGab, (I am still learning how to attach magents in the way that you have) and to the last hider "Coffee and Cache". Added a little gold after sigining the log.
 
View LogTop
 
13th
Noted
I've found that these green structures are generally near a corner store. I just google street view a potential hiding spot for another one that likes these areas.  
View LogTop
 
12th
Moved
Coffee and Cache
Moved 16.63km
S37° 48.428' E145° 11.367'
I've been looking out for a suitable place going to and from work the last couple of days, taking a few alternate routes, but I think they hide most of the required objects in side streets.

Today, Geoson and I went looking while Geodaughter was at her choir, and soon found a suitable location. Use the clue for a quick grab.  
View LogTop
 
9th
Found it
Grabbed this during an extended lunch hour. Just took me 3 seconds to grab - don't you love it!

Nicely painted container, the second I've had from this cache factory.

Thanks GabGab. I think it might migrate a tad to the East.
 
View LogTop
 
8th
Moved
Facitman
Moved 4.18km
S37° 51.858' E145° 0.881'
Postman Pat delivers in sunshine or rain...today it was rain. The sprint from the car to the green box was very very wet, but Postman Pat is now snugly hidden in a new location.
Thanks GabGab for playing the game  
View LogTop
 
7th
Found it
Found by Facitman at 10;10am
A nicely placed cache for Facitman, park the car, visit regular coffee shop, stop outside to tie shoe laces and pick up two caches!
Thanks GabGab for playing the game and caught@work for placing in a location he knew I would pass today.
Three moveable caches sitting on my desk..... now what to do? Big Grin
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
6th
Moved
caughtatwork
Moved 41.56km
S37° 50.478' E144° 58.625'
An opportunity came up this evening to drop this cache off closer to central Melbourne, so there it is.
Go find it.  
View LogTop
 
6th
Found it
W00t! A 2nd grab and will be moved along tomorrow. I tried to leave it behind in Geelong, but time escaped me. Hopefully somewhere in South Melbourne will be the new drop off point.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
5th
Moved
McAdies
Moved 63.1km
S37° 40.865' E144° 33.030'
Moved to Melton West. Under the Postie Box with another cache.  
View LogTop
 
3rd
Found it
Postman Pat is moving around Ballarat.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
2nd
Moved
caughtatwork
Moved 92.72km
S37° 31.714' E143° 51.680'
Postman Pat has been moved some distance away to Ballarat. Hopefully the locals can find some enjoyment and move him around.  
View LogTop
 
1st
Found it
Found and removed by caughtatwork.
What a hoot, 4 caches under the same letter box.
Now that makes for easy drive by caching.
I haven't time this afternoon to rehide, but they will be out and about tomorrow.
Depending on whether the child wants to go for a driving lesson, they may be close, they may be far, far away.
Thanks GabGab for this caching fun today.
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogView GalleryTop
 
1st
Moved
pwags
Moved 12.53km
S37° 44.700' E144° 52.620'
Re-hidden, in a very obvious location, which will be worth a "handful" of smileys for the lucky finder. No time to waste, go and get it!  
View LogTop
 
1st
Found it
*FTF* 1/12/09. We grabbed the coordinates for this and three others at the stroke of midnight, and headed out for the FTF. A quick grab and run... just hope the neighbours weren't looking out their window - it was obviously a strange time for a mail drop-off!

We'll be placing it tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Let the game begin!
Rated: for Overall Experience  
View LogTop
 
1st
Published
S37° 43.161' E144° 44.304'
Please come and find my cache.  
View LogTop