Locky Heritage Centre Lockington, Victoria, Australia
By bogonghazy on 16-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1Q45Z

Sadly, I can no longer maintain this cache. A check as we passed through a couple of weeks ago confirmed it is no longer in place. Thanks for all the cache finds, this is truly a magical little town

After a couple of DNF's on this one, I'll concede that it must be gone.
hopefully will be able to replace in a couple of weeks

Last night, some caches got published however I was too tired to drive about 100km to find them[|)][xx(][|)]
So I tried unsuccessfully to sleep[|)] and then woke up at 6am[?]
Might as well go find them now I'm awake[^]

I decided that Rex and I would make it a caching day out[^] while we were in that area[^] as there was a park that I'd not managed to get into before with 4 caches in it at Terrick Terrick[^] (Little did I know how exhausting[|)][xx(] that area would be: scrambling over huge granite boulders[|)][xx(][|)]) There was also Lockington[^] which I'd not been too before either and 3 caches there as well as[^] Finally there was 'Bill' which has teased me as I go to and from Bendigo and has always been on the wrong side of the water

On the way we had thick fog almost to Echuca. After Echuca there were 2 moments when tiny little hail the size of a pin head fell onto the windscreen: so cute![:X][^]

The first 5 caches that we found were owned by gregandjudi and one of the COs just had to follow me from cache to cache I think he was waiting for me to swear but my name is not micaparamedic Since these were 'easy' cache finds though, I just laughed and kept going[^]
Anyone finding these caches will have fun[^], I promise![^]
Rex had his own awesome time chasing rabbits while I enjoyed a lovely cup of tea with the COs and a great chat[^]

We found 12 caches (two of which Rex really did help me find) and 3 of them were FTFs We had 2 DNFs: both in Lockington All in all, a fantastic day out![^]

DNF! I'd really hoped to clean out Lockington tonight as I rarely get into this area
I spent a fair bit of time here looking up[^], down[^] and all around[^]
Then I read past logs and gave up
Seems the cache may possibly be missing Hopefully someone will find it and then i'll try and return!

TFTC bogonghazy

I'm logging this as find as instructed by CO. The container was not at the location. I found remnants of the cache and after talking to CO we discovered it has gone missing. TFTC

TFTC. Pulled up out the front and we both thought we could see it straight away. That wasn’t it lol
Came up with the goods after another couple of minutes.

A

Found it TFTC

Thanks Bogonghazy,
A beaut cache in what looks to be a very interesting spot but wasn’t open when we came to find the cache, but at least their weren’t any muggles around to hinder our search.
Thanks for bringing us here, hope to catch up with you around about one day now we are free to travel again.

yay found it

tftc )

Another tricky Lokington cache. I felt very exposed searching here and had to stop frequently for passing cars. Soon had cache in hand. There were surprising lots of caravanners in the local park of this small town. Lovely to see. TFTC bongonghazy.

Found it on our tour through the Victorian plaines.
TFTC

My old stomping ground. Good to see the camping ground being utilised. Log book is full. Good to be back in this beautiful town.

I was up here 3 weeks ago and checked the logbook. Although the end of the book is full, there are plenty of spaces left throughout. Logs don't need to be sequential

Done

Stopped for ice cream found a geo! And right in our own backyard

Our first trip to the Waffle House and Ice Creamery.
Found this with the family. Full log so we didn’t sign it.
TFTC

Couldn’t find it!

????

Found it! Needs more paper to sign!!!

Found it. It was really hard had to use the hint. Thanks for hiding it!

Found Team Powell Smith Crossman

Found the day after Pi Day.
Of course, it was only "Pi" day in America where they are all confused about how to write the date, but its "Pie Year" for me as I endeavor to fill the segments in my newly discovered "360 from home" Pie Chart.
(It's a ProjectGC and BadgeGen challenge thing.)
Anyway, it meant I wanted a cache on this bearing from my place. Now I have two with this one and the other one in town. I got it too cos I couldn't grab just one.

Cache and contents found, signed and returned in good condition although the logbook is running out of space. [8)]

TFTC bogonghazy. [^]
A great little historical centre that I would love to visit during business hours (in less crazy times). [^]

First find! No muggles or mozzies! Log book full. Merry Christmas to all!

A nice little find.
Took to the shady undercover here to do our logging and avoid the sun.
Would be interesting to be here when this Centre is open.
However no muggles to contend with today, just friendly chalking young magpies.
TFTC

Found while traveling through the area
Tftc

On our way home from Echuca after spending a few days there we did a detour to add some smileys to the map.Tftc

Spent a minutes searching on this unusually pleasant day. Logbook full. Tftc.

Found on my last geocaching run in the Elmore region. The I was attending ends today and I'll be leaving tomorrow. This was an easy find. TFTC.

Tftc yay first one, need to work on my stealth skills

Tftc very creative

TFTC, found with AnneTherese 03/08/2019 after a very long conversation, about cooking, with a dear old lady from the Heritage Center.

What a hard one!! We had a fair idea of where it would be but with a couple of muggles hanging around mes bamboo had to keep them distracted while geokids hunted and I kept a lookout. Miss geokids came up with the find. TFTC

Great spot!

Found it with LuJoJoShEm!

Lovely piece of history.
Good fun to find

5 of us enjoyed finding this one.

Took some younger siblings for their first cache, following finding this one they just wanted to explore for more!

Found on a Clarmensma Family trip to Cobram/Barooga for the holidays. Sorry for the super late logging! TFTC

Found on a Clarmensma Family trip to Cobram/Barooga for the holidays. TFTC

A quick find here.
Our regular school holiday Team Clarmensma overnight trip is upon us again, this time heading north to Cobram, Barooga area. With both days over 40, we broke up our caching with lots of swimming, frozen cokes and icy poles.
A really fun day had tripping around. TFTC

All closed up today! Quick find though is a cute little town.

School holidays meant it was time for Team Clarmensma to reform. This consisted of myself; becca85 and our 4 geokids (AdamSistema, LukeSistema, neisha07, boo09). This time we hit the Murray and cached our way from Ballarat/Maryborough to Cobram/Barooga (where we stayed the night) and then back through Tocumwal, Numurkah, Shepparton and Bendigo. We had a fabulous couple of days in VERY hot weather so stopped for lots of swims and water fun. Many thanks for the cache. Very much appreciate you placing for us to find.

TFTC!!

Being school holidays we decided to do a road trip with the Clough Family, we dont get to catch up as often as we'd like so took the opportunity. So we brought the 5 geokids Nanna along and caught up with Nanna M. First time we visited Lockington, lovely little town. TFTC and our little adventure today

Found by Clough family bit tricky took 5 minutes

Haha love it!! Found and had fun finding it! Thanks!!

Happy

Hi there bogonghazy.

We found your cache **"Locky Heritage Centre"** today. (This makes our find count 19318).

Just a random sort of caching day today. Not many caches, but lots of driving. We planned to do more, but some icy rain stopped our fun.

We found 6 caches today (DNF'd 1) & thoroughly enjoyed our cache raid. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

***Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book is in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Found with madzac. TFTC

Bit tricky but good

great. thanks

TFTH - log and and cache good condition

Nice hide, and the shop looks so interesting, maybe another day, fav from me

Tftc found a clue in activities that was helpful

Great find, thanks. We were passing through town and stopped in at Lockington travellers rest for a few days of quiet. Kids had a ball in the park and riding scooters, and of course geocaching!

Cool

Quick easy find by geokid. First time driving through this town. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC ‍‍‍

Another visit to Lockington so that we could
fill another spot of the 366 day calendar.
Great hide which has been there for a long
time.

Thanks bogonghazy

Little Squirell

A very interesting building with lots of history, I would love to have gone inside to check it out but unfortunately it was closed. Made a quick find whilst being very aware of Bindy-Eye prickles. Luckily there were none as I was barefoot lol

SL at 14:10 on Tue 16 Jan 2018. Cache and contents are dry [^] TFTC bogonghazy

Travelling through the countryside and we stayed at the 'free' camp site. After dinner we took our newfound friendly flies for a walk and explored the area. A great little heritage center and after a good look, came across a familiar container and find. Log signed and onto find Nessy.

Found while stopped for lunch. Cool little town

Find # 4447 @ 1705 H

Found with Tyred n Cranky.
Heading home from Echuca we decided to take a short detour home
Last find for the day and what a pleasure it was a quick and logical grab.

TFTC bogonghazy

Find No. 1898. Found with FUF009 at 5.05pm.

Heading home from Echuca, after attending the '3 Months to the event in Alexandra - Echuca' event and of course doing some caching in the town, it decided to take a short detour home. (Wonder why?)

This was our last find for the day and lucky for us it was a nice quick and easy one to end the day with.
Log signed and now its time to head straight for home.

TFTC

Good hide. Found with ShearingLinc. Will need a new log book soon!

Found with CardiacKelli.

Unloved cache success quick find in an interesting little town tftc

Came here the wrong day looks very interesting place to visit thanks to the local community great effort
TFTC an easy find 903.LS

Found by mini geos on day trip from echuca. Tricky one fir muggle watchers!

TFTC. Tor and Betsy, the travelling Westies roaming WA at present. We are from Oxenford near the Gold Coast in Queensland and thoroughly enjoying the West.

I wandered over to this one hoping for a quick find while my 2 children played in the nearby playground. There were only a couple of places it could be and while I looked around one of the wrong places (looking as natural as I could!) a volunteer worker from the Heritage Centre came out for a chat. To avoid unnecessary concern I explained to her what I was up to and was surprised that she hadn't encountered others like me before, since the cache was placed there over 6 years ago. While we were chatting the local fire siren went off to alert the entire Lockington community, and I could see my children take an interest in that from where we sat. At the end of the chat I made a quick find as I inspected the correct object and was happy to show my new friend the container and log sheet to help her make sense of it all. Thanks for this cache bogonghazy!

In Echuca for a few days R&R and of course to get a few local smileys. I would have loved to go through the Heritage Centre but it wasn't open. Thanks for showing me this quaint town. Cheers Caz

Not too hard to find. Tftc.

Tftc

TB visit

Easy find TFTC

2 stupids don't make a spring

Found easy

Found easy

Quick and easy ☺️

10/06/2015 #3005

Heading to Gunbower to conduct some training I grabbed a few caches to stretch my legs. Then heading to Swan Hill for the night I decided on having a more concerted effort caching in the last hour of daylight and early evening.

I stopped here and just as I started searching old mate came out of the heritage centre, thinking I was there for a meeting. I explained what I was there for, the concept of using a phone to find something confused him somewhat, I found the cache then headed off.

Thanks for the cache!!!

Found while staying at Travellers Rest caravan park for a few days.Dorothy looks after all the travellers so well we all come back again to catch up with other travellers we have met here on previous stays. I say this used to be a stopover when travelling, but has now become a destination. TFTC

Camped here for a cpl nites, and thort we'd do a cpl caches
Easy find on this pleasant afternoon
TFTC

It was road trip time and three days traveling and caching was quickly planned. An early morning start and the first location was Mt Buller. From Mt Buller I headed to Bookham in NSW and stayed there the night before hitting the Endangered Species series of caches, starting early the next morning. Heading South West I stopped at Gundagai to visit a 'dog', continued through Walla Walla and Urana before crashing just out of Berrigan. The third day I continued west to Echuca then south through Bendigo and the final stretch for home.

The weather was good on day one but later that night it started to rain and continued for the next two days. Needless to say I did get quite wet on occasions, and some of the country roads I followed where no place for a 2WD, the Prado would slip and slide but luckily kept moving forward. By then end of the trip there was another 1800 km on the clock, 239 cache finds, 2 DNFs and 5 FTF's just to top it off. Thanks to all the CO's for the caches I found and the places they brought me to.

After spending quite a good deal of time searching for nearby Locky Ness, I was happy to find the cache here quite a bit quicker. Thanks for the hide.

Our time in Victoria is almost up so we decided to drive around and grab some caches. This one took us in a small town but it's nice to see how everything is clean and ready to offer a bit of rest to the people driving through. Thanks to bogonghazy for showing us this place.

Non ci è rimasto molto tempo nello stato di Victoria per cui abbiamo deciso di passare la giornata guidando in giro e recuperando un pò di cache. Questa si trova in un piccolo paesino di poco più di 300 anime ma è bello vedere come tutto sia curato e perfettamente in ordine per offrire un pò di ristoro agli automobilisti di passaggio. Grazie all'owner per avercela mostrata.

Jacopo e Lisa

found it.
TFTC

Easy find. But getting the log out was the hardest part.

A quick find in amongst doing the TTT series on a beautiful morning for caching. Really enjoying the hunt but coming to the end of our three week caching holiday on the big island. Home to Tassie soon. TFTC

Dad had the right idea but nearly hit it with his head
TFTC

Staying in bendigo for megs_q birthday weekend
A great afternoon caching in echuca area
Thanks

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Currently camped at Aysons Reserve we headed into Elmore then decided to do a lengthy loop back to camp.

Today was day 338 of our Geostreak.

Weekday so not open today. Looks well worth a visit and the campground opposite too.

TFTC bogonghazy

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Diverted off the highway to collect 3 or 4 caches on these backroads today, enjoying the warmth whilst caching. Being a Saturday it wasnt open for me to go in for a treasure hunt today (probably a good thing, saving my money for other things). The cache was soon located, signed and replaced. I couldnt help but notice while signing how it was like a Ghost town here today. Nobody, no cars, no noise, no nothing. Lovely and peaceful. Two Caravans in the park across the road was the only sign of human occupancy. I headed across the road, spotted a store, and thought I'd call in for an Icecream, parked the car, and noticed the For Sale sign in the window and a stockless shop. No icecream for me today. Such a shame to see these small towns dwindling.

Easy find to finish the day merry Christmas and TFTC

Found it after look at the windows of heritage stuffs.
Thanks for bring me here and cache.

Tftc lovely town

arrived in sleepy town on workday and found in a couple of minutes tftc

Coords about five metres out as per description. Quick and easy find on a lovely drive into town. Would like to see the Heritage Centre when open.

Nice easy find today with friends from Locky

In town to watch some local footy/netball. Thought a couple of caches would be in order before the game. Was an interesting place to hang around and then look for this cache. Didn't take too long. TFTC

Love these old heritage buildings and contents. It was a pity that it was Saturday today so we couldn't get inside. As it was raining again I trusted my instincts got a little wet but soon had the log signed. You travelled a long way to place this cache.
TFTC bogonghazy

Amazing what some people can turn old farm machinery in to. Hopefully tomorrow being a Sunday the Museum will be open and we will pop over from the near by caravan park. Cache located OK. TFTH

What a shame the museum will remain shut until their opening day tomorrow. Seems a fascinating place TFTC bogonghazy

This entry was edited by au.fait on Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 06:45:37 UTC.

After several attempts to pay Lockington a visit with Mrs One-Eyed and our Nissan Patrol and Caravan we finally arrived for a brief three days hol, this was to check out both the 4WD and van prior to taking a holiday to NSW and then on to the 2014 OZMega Event in Murray Bridge at Easter.
The Travellers rest park was right opposite the cache location, so an easy stroll after lunch resulted in the find.
TFTC

Lovely spot
Great museum
Chap stopped and asked if we would like to enter and have a look inside
Usually opened only on Sundays
We gave a favourite for the museum
Log is a bit damp