Joshua's 2nd Birthday Bash Cache Lilydale, Victoria, Australia
By Team RooBok on 26-Apr-08. Waypoint GA1080

This area has been landscaped and the cache is now gone

Don't think it is there any more. From one of the logs, it had already been muggled once. The area currently has temporary fences around some of it and the only thing I could find near GZ was a zip lock bag. It has been nearly 8 months since anyone has logged it and gz is in a fairly public area.

David.

This cache is now back in place and ready to find

Sorry to all for the delay, I just got no response from the Cache Owner so I have now retrieved it from where I temporarily placed it and put it back where it was originally.

Owner did not respond to my email, next time I am there I will check where I put it and try to replace in the correct spot.

Trailrunning had asked me a couple of days before if I was free on Friday for a run. I had classes till early afternoon but once he told me its his birthday and he will be aiming for a 50 cache run, I knew I had to have a go at that, eventhough if it meant skipping class.

Aiming for a 50 cache run with only 7.5 hours was a little too ambitious. Of course we did not manage 50 but I got to about 35 which was pretty good. We had started off well in the start, but a couple of long trail runs, heavy bushwhacking and off-trail hiking really threw us off. It was a lot better slowing things down and enjoying the adventure than racing for time.

We didn't find this one. While reading the logs we noticed that it has been moved. Please update the latest coords for this cache so cachers do not waste time searching at the wrong area.

Please make unavailable or change co-ords to reflect new position.

I had decided to take a day off from work (being such a wonderful day) and try for 50 finds in a day. Ultimately it was not to be for many reasons, including a few DNF's, the need to pick the kids up from school, and some difficult caches. In any event a good day was had by jsmyong55 and myself and this was one cache we were not able to find. I hadn't looked at the logs and assumed it was still here. But clearly it is not. If it has been moved, then new co-ords are required. Please disable this or change the co-ords. Thanks.

Searched the area thoroughly with irontoad for about 15 minutes unsuccessfully for this cache. In view of the previous log - has this cache been moved to different coordinates?

We had tried once before but there were too many muggles around to search well.

Rated: for Overall Experience

12.57PM

I could not believe what I was witnessing when approaching GZ for this cache. There were 2 little muggle kids with muggle bikes playing in the garden bed, one picks up a systema container that is well hidden, opens it and empties the contents into the garden, and continues to play on the old tree. I waited until he moved away, quickly retrieved the box and contents and have temporarily hidden it in another location. which I will email to the owner I did not want to re-hide in the same spot while those kids were around.

Thanks to Team Roobok for the cache. TNLN

Rated: for Overall Experience

Went there for Australia's Day with Deaf Group.
Did enjoyed there today.
Walked around the lake.
Found it with Alchemy2, Laker63
TFTC

Arrive Lilydale Lake for Deaf Australian Day picnic
Beautiful day for relaxing, chatting with friends and fishing too.
Found it with Laker63 and crank1 to support each other without any muggles take notice of us.
Nice hide

Rated: for Overall Experience

Gnero the gnome was hiding in this cache - two gnomes with the one stone!

Went looking for this one at 5pm, but way to many muggles hanging around. Will be back on a night mission soon!

Nephew J and family with King and King, Queen and Queen and both Geoprinces.

What a terrific day out the combined families came up this way today to do some berry picking. After eat a bit in the field we headed out to lunch to the local bakery - it however was closed. We still however pulled up at this park.

King Sr stated he had been here before for other caches but I don't recall - anyway; I loved the playground and surrounds and we all spent some time here playing before soing home.

The cache was found without incident and we decided to leave a Gnome that is taking part in the Gnome Race here boxed within your cache.

Our thanks to Team RooBok ad happy birthday Joshua

Rated: for Overall Experience

It was fun

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found by Team_Ninja 8.5.10. It was just after sunset so we had to grab the torch to find this one. Even though it was dark there were still muggles around so we had to be careful. We found the sneaky cache after a few minutes of searching. The outside was wet but thankfully the inside was dry, although the log book smelt a bit funky.
TNLNSL TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found @ 19:30 in the company of the geowife and daughter (emeraldflame). We thought we would take advantage of the almost complete lack of muggles to have a go at finding this one. The only real interruption was a rat scurrying for cover when we got too close to it.

It took a while but eventually the cache gave itself up - making this our second GCA find.

TNLNSL
Thanks Team RooBok

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found @ 19:30 with mum and dad (ross47)

everytime we've been past, there has been too many muggles about. Finally, as we came around the corner, there was no-one to be seen.

TNLN TFTC

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Happy Christmas from Crustyvarmint. TFTC.

Attempted this cache today..... SO many muggle children around in the payground and muggle adults sitting near by on the benches and both big and little muggles lining up for icecreams at the van... Wisely decided not nab this one, instead lining up for an icecream =oP~~

Trip was not totally wasted =oP

Nice and dry and container replaced.

Thanks to all the cachers for the heads-up.

Challenge 17: Personal Property

Passing coin through as part of the Veni, Vidi, Vici game at cachinggames.com and doing some maintenance at the same time.

This was my first cache that I have found in Victoria. I am having a holiday down in Melbourne with my relatives. I am staying with my cousiens, Auntie and Uncle down in the Lilydale Academy. This was my fourth day with them. It was looking to be a nice day so we decided to go for a walk around the lake. I then remebered that there was 3 geocaches around the lake. So we found this one before we went walking. And skipped the other two for another day. It was fairly easy finding the cache. But there was alot of muggles that day so we had to be stealth. A nice conainer but it was soaking wet in side and In could barely right on the log book. But we had a very nice walk around the lake.
Took Nothing
Left Nothing
TFTC. Any cache in a location like this is worth stopping.

Rated: for Overall Experience

After a disappointing could not look at a nearby cache, this one was an easy find and far enough from the crowd. Cache was very wet inside so I emptied the water and replaced upside down in the hope that that will prevent water getting in. TFTC.

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Found @ 1535.

Another GCA cache found and logged. This one was tricky due to the many muggles on the nearby playground. I was able to grab the cache unseen however. Cache was full of dirty brown water, logbook was damp but was still able to be written into. TNLN

Gladly found this one without any problem. Love this park - been there many times, enjoyed the day with Everlasting. TFTC .

Rated: for Overall Experience

Happy Birthday to Joshua. Lovely park. Accompanied with pwala. She found it. No swap. SL. Thanks DelBoy1203 for organising the cache and hunt.

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Found @ 14:50 this is in a very conspicuous place under the eyes of lots of muggles. easy find. TNLNSL Thanks For The Cache

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I found this cache with caughtatwork today. He found this cache today and then my big sister J and I went to the playground while caughtatwork wrote in the log. I loved the playground and I really liked the big spiders web. I had a great time at this playground today. Thank you DelBoy1203.

Found by caughtatwork at 3:59
We came out to this side of town from the very west of Melbourne today just to grab the 5 Red Earths and this GCA cache. Always a pleasure to see some other GCA caches coming up on the radar.
As Geodes mentioned, this cache is so very, very close to a former cache in this area. Only about 2m from my recollection.
That particular container ws gnawed at by furry animals, so you may need to keep and eye on this one just to make sure it doesn't get eaten. As per Geodes' comments, the cache container is not waterproof and I had to empty some more water out of it today even though I don't think it has rained overnight.
Condensation is a problem with these types of containers and as they flex in and out with the change in temperatures, small amounts of moisture get in and over time will cause the swaps to get all icky.
Nevertheless once the cache was found the two girsl screamed off for the playground while I did the logging. We spent another 15 minutes or so playing on the playground. It's certainly the right ace to entertain kids, but it's also so high in muggles, so future finders may end up being seen despite their stealth tactics.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks DelBoy1203. It's good to find another 2 GCA caches. Especially ones I haven't hidden myself Thank you for supporting the site.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Found by Bob at 1500

When I saw this one - and checked the map to see where it was, memories started flooding back - there was once a short series of caches around Lilydale Lake (the "Ultimate" series of 5 caches) which were so absolutely exposed to muggle view that they were the curse of many cachers. They were some of the earliest caches I did and I still have strong memories of them (the "Cashin's Mill" one was quite an amazing hide in its 1st incarnation) and it looked as though this one was going to be placed very close to where the 1st one in the series had been. As it turns out, it is hidden on the same object, although in a slightly different position and the deja vu was almost overwhelming . This area is virtually never free of muggles, even on lousy days in the middle of winter, but today wasn't too bad and, under cover of taking off my pack, helmet, gloves, jacket, etc and fumbling through them as if looking for something, I was able to be (hopefully) surreptitious in my search and was able to locate the cache fairly easily. I was surprised that it's quite a big one for such a position and, unfortunately, it had quite a bit of water in it. I emptied it out, and the log book is fine in its ziplock bag, but I think that container is just not waterproof.

TNLN

Thanks again Team RooBok (or DellBoy1203) - it's a nicely hidden cache and should be fairly safe there unless muggles decide to see what people are looking for.

PS Happy Birthday to Joshua

PPS The coords for this one are S37° 45.927' E145° 21.483' and the coords for the old "Ultimate #1" were S37° 45.928' E145° 21.483' - quite a coincidence!!!