Mobility Stealth Meadowbank, New South Wales, Australia
By
SamWalkers on 01-Dec-09. Waypoint GA1679
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Moveable |
Container: | Small |
Coordinates: | S33° 48.969' E151° 5.048' (WGS 84) |
56H 322680E 6256578N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 5 m |
Local Government Area: | Ryde |
Description
You are going to have to be stealthy - work out your cover - don't get caught (laughing).
But while you are having fun - "walk" a mile (1.609km) in another mans shoes.
This container has been through some hard times at the hannds of muggles ; ) so hide it appropriately.
This cache was part of the
Moving Cache Race
A cache race that is all about mobility.
Please include a photo of yourself in the log. It may spoil the secret but it will be more fun for me.
But wait there is more...
You are going to need a password. Since I don't want to make life too difficult for you it is 5142.
Congratulations to Wing6rider on the *FTF* and thanks for your OMG moment.
Thanks Apty for Lugging the container all the way from South Australia to Wagga Wagga.
Thanks to Pesky for the new dance moves.
Logs
Thanks for that image. I think it should be where we can all see it.
I do miss Mobility Stealth. I would like to set it loose again but I have not come across a new container yet.
The map makes me realise that I missed out on sending it to Melbourne. It must be time for me to make a caching run south.
Ohh well. It is nice to know there are people out there who are prepared to steal your wheel chair.
We have some pictures of the location that we will upload shortly.
Please don't look for the cache here as it has been moved and will be heading up to Newcastle again. It will be hidden in a slightly more "out there" location though.
This was a great cache, thanks for shinydragon pointing it out to me after she found it.
I was a bit hesitant to be left with this one but I gave it a crack and wheeled it home to the motel from the event. I learnt a lot. Firstly getting out of the restaurant was a challenge let alone getting back to the hotel.
Thanks for letting me walk the mile.
An excellent cache and good fun to 'find'.
TFTW
Rode this through a crowded restraunt, go to bar and ordered drink, whilst in wheelchair.
Then got up to pay, and walked back. Pure comedy gold.
Queen Anne Sgl bed, bike,
chest of drawers, tools,
wheel chair, garden furn-
iture and much more
8am-1pm.
No early scumbag dealers
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Stay tuned, I have a new container.
Alas, it looks like it has grown legs.
I will try and drop past here tomorrow and have another look around.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Mobility Stealth and I was wondering if anyone has seen it lately?
If you were going past December 1 would be a great time to log a move on it.
I finally had a chance to move this on to its new location. At the moment it is having a nice time over looking the beautiful Port Stephens. It's located just off a walking \ cycle path along the foreshore and is secured to a large tree so you will need to do the time warp again to get it. Its location should be safe as the only muggles to see it would need to be walking or riding along the path.
It is positioned with the Geocaching sticker out for some free advertising if any one is curious what it is doing there.
I will post some photos as soon as I can get them off my phone.
I have picked it up from whitebridge and will drop it in a new location soon
What a novel idea!!
Will move it on soon.
Will hide again shortly, but not today. I am also travelling to surfers paradise on the weekend, and will see if it can hitch a ride! (or maybe i should be hitching a ride on it?!?!)
So the cache is no longer at lisarow station!
Finally, i am rid of this thnig.
I have found a location that should get it colleted by one team or another real soon.
watch out for commuters, and there is no disable parking in this area!
*Recommended*
will have it secured to a location near you soon.
will be here for most of the afternoon, providing "assistance" for a poor disabled geocacher.
If you are quick you can beat the Shifters to a find.
keep an eye out from 14:00 today till about 18:00, then it will be gone one way or the other.
Thinking of all the people who have wondered wether to report a missing person or not. Lost in the river? Why would this be left here?
Grabbed a rather damp cache thismorning after yesterdays storms. the cache was left out in the open ,and was in the middle of a big puddle.
Also not sure if it was at the correct co-ords either. I did not need the code to retreive it. ( What the?) somewhere along the way the code device has gone missing.
I have a cunning plan for this cache.. stay tuned.
and sorry for taking so long to retreive it. my back will not always allow me to travel that far.
took cache left puzzled looks on a few observers.
Sorry about the rain, though thats part of the caching experience I guess. Hunter-Finder
Will look to drop it either at the Central Coast if we can get there or, failing that, near Berowra, Cowan or Brooklyn.
After 3 moves I think I've had more than my share of this beauty.
Good luck to the next finder. Parking is almost next to where I placed it.
I wheeled it back to the geomobile in broad daylight and no-one batted an eye.
Now, where can I place it again where it won't have to wait for such a long time to be moved. Is there anyone in the northern Sydney area who would like to "Find" this fine specimen? Reply to this post and I will do my best to place it near you to find. Let's keep this beauty moving.
I'll give some thought to where I am going to put it.....
Oh and i'll remember to sign the log this time!
It was too dark to get a detailed description of the cacher but he did have a light coloured car. If I can get a few shots on the web I will.
Is there any chance that some of that may find its way on to YouTube and get linked to this page. . . or screen dumps of caught-in-the-act cachers?
This is a very busy and public place during the week so the weekend will be the time to collect it. Parking available in the driveway Sat-Sun but keep it short. I'll watch the fun on CCTV.
Now where can I place it? hehehe I like this idea for a cache.
Nice spot by the Meadowbank ferry terminal. Come and grab it!
We will look to place it in the Hornsby area soon so I hope there's a local GCA cacher interested. Please note if you are.
Thanks!
(logged earlier while on the road to save anyone a wasted trip so editing log now)
The angst continued today as I had to park the car then wheel the cache across the road and down the bike path to a suitable spot. No problem there. But wait my anxiety levels go sky high when 2 cyclists zoom past, I avert eye contact and they're gone no questions asked. Then out of the blue a lady strolls by on her morning walk. I lean against the pole look forlorn and get out the phone. She's talking to me. Oh no. "Hello, how are you?" She sounded rather sympathetic. Probably because she thought I was disabled and was struggling to stand, that's why I was propped against the pole. I let her believe it anyway and just smiled. She toddled off. Then just as I was averaging the coordinates, a man walks past , he probably thought my GPS was a phone anyway. I didn't look up and let him think what he wanted. Finally the coast was clear, I could leave my package behind.
Please someone go get this, before the whole neighborhood turns up.
Being Friday mid afternoon, I was hoping beyond hope that it would be quiet here. There was no way I was going to try and get this on a busy Sat. morning in one of Sydney's largest shopping malls.
After further embarrassment after circling the car park many times I realised I could not get to the rooftop from this particular car park, so I drove out to the other one. Up I went into the heavens but what's this... it only took me to level 4. I circled and circled and buggered if I could find a way on to the roof at level 5. Now I know why I hate shopping at Westfield cause I always get lost in their car park.
Well I knew where it was so I did the next best thing. I parked right next to the lift on level 4, caught the lift up one level and prayed some more that no one was watching the looney unlocking an empty wheelchair. With another quick glance over the shoulder, I scooted back inside and wheeled it to the lift and with a very bright red face ,prayed really hard that no one would be in the lift. The doors opened and I let out a sigh of relief. I hammered on that close door button with all my might lest someone decide they wanted to catch my lift. Oh no you don't. Needless to say I got back down to level 4 ,checked left and right and wheeled it to my car. Still no one about. A huge sigh of relief. Quick put it in the car. More drama. I couldn't lift it and it wouldn't fit. So I had to put the back seat down and with all my might, I heaved it into the boot.
All I can say is, that was probably my quickest trip to Westfield ever and I can't believe I didn't go into the mall and do some shopping.
After a strong coffee at home to soothe the nerves, curiosity got the better of me and I went back to the car ,took it out of the boot and hunted around for the log book. Yes.... well that is a very sneaky place to put it.
This was an absolute hoot..... too bad the chair doesn't come with candid camera.
Lovely views, just hope the security folk leave it long enough for someone to pick it up.
As soon as I knew Blossom had dropped it I jumped in the car and as luck would have it as I approached Victoria Rd right near GZ a police car did a U turn behind me and then sat behind me at the traffic lights. When the lights turned green they put their siren on and sped past me.
I thought maybe they have tracked down where it is and know something about it that I don't. On arrival at GZ there was the Mobility device safely attached to a pole.
What a novel cocncept. Now where to move it.
In the rain and the dark, I ran up to find this iconic cache. I had taken the opportunity to write the required numbers on my hand at work earlier in the day so I was all prepared.
After walking right past the cache first time around, I spotted it and found the chain lock that required the numbers
However, as it turned out, peeling potatoes tends rub ink off hands but I was saved by a freind on the phone
It then turns out that you can't actually SEE those tiny little numbers in the dark without a torch which I had not even thought to bring! I resorted to the light from my mobile phone which wasn't bright enough on it's own. But when combined with the light from my gps screen, I could just about make out enough to realise that I had also forgotten to bring my glasses!
So I sat in the gutter in the rain, next to a weird looking cache, holding a gps and a mobile phone up to a combination lock and squinted through slitty eyes (focuses the light better for those of you who are not at that sad age yet)and got the numbers lined up.
It then turns out that you have to line them up AGAINST something and I had no idea where that was!! I resorted to phone-a-friend but he wasn't any use at all and figured I ought to be able to work it out if I was the one looking at it
It was really only a 15 minute ordeal but I was quite jubliant when I managed to get the cache free and I fled across the carpark towards home. I wondered briefly if I ought to use the speedy method to get down the hill to home but decided that the last thing I needed right then was to be found lying on the footpath all sodden wet and covered in gravel rash. So I walked fairly sedately home.
Thanks for the fun
Where else would you park a wheelchair but in a disabled car parking space. I dropped this off last night in the rain.
Thanks for the opportunity to move this great iconic cache.
Was I surprised to find it appear in Sydney and then get moved very close to work. I couldn't resist and phoned a fellow cacher to join in the retrieval and merryment this afternoon. No-one batted an eye as we wheeled it back to the car. Now, where shall we place it?
I notice that Gowza didn't find the container or log book in it's well hidden hidy-hole. Maybe he was having too much fun wheeling it down Martin Place. hehehe.....
'BGowza' and I packed into the car after lunch and headed into the CBD to pick it up. Despite knowing what I was after I couldn't help but cackle with laughter when I spotted it... so comical tied to a chair in an almost completely empty Martin Place... Brilliant...
Packed it into the car and now to find a suitably muggley place to deploy it....!
Thanks!
Here we go then.
Martin Place - good luck.
Taking it off line again for further repairs.
Missed it Wagga - next time will be more observant!!
TFTC
When this occurred, I forced Moo into the contraption (sacrificial lamb!) and I pillaged the contents of the swaps container, deciding to TN and leave a couple of youth Beyond Blue wrist bands for good measure. Naturally I signed the log book (which was not NEARLY as much fun as signing appendix boy's scar earlier that morning) and cangratulated myself on a good find. Strategic, really.
What a cool cache. Thanks for making it available, SamWalkers. You guys rock!!! (and apparently you roll too!!!)
Thanks very much SamWalkers for sharing the experience, and well done on your wins at the COTY Awards.
Cheers
Regards
ZZ7
Shhh! Don't tell any one.