MAD MAX MOVIE - Old Little River Hotel Little River, Victoria, Australia
By tackle_head on 06-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1VH8B

change of situation

Cache is off line

Well we found the hide no worries but container knocked off!

Cache stolen 1920 hrs

Container has been stolen, hide is still in position.

Found hide, but container was missing (stolen/muggled). Got photos to prove find, but unfortunatly cache and logbook gone.
Will post report to Tackle Head. TFTC!!!!

Our 3rd Mad Max cache for the day. Once again I had driven past this area many times over the years but had never known the B & B here had been the pub in the Mad Max movie.
TFTC tackle head. SLLN

Subject: Podcacher podcast show

Turns out that The Mad Max Movie Series has had a mention on a podcast show for Geocaching
It's at the 16 minute mark


http://www.podcacher.com/2010/11/show-294-0-going-to-the-movies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+podcacher+%28PodCacher%3A+All+About+Geocaching%21%29



Steve

3.30pm
Found by Roma and Max.
It has been a while since we had a chance to find another one in this series and we once again appreciated the effort you put into placing these well hidden containers.
Thanks tackle head.
From Romax.

Another clever hide. Loving the series. Running late but maybe just 1 more.

While Jeanette and I were on our way home we detoured off the freeway to find this group of caches.
Parked close to GZ. Found cache quickly. While I was filling in the log book some Jr muggles came over to ask what we were doing. Told them it was a treasure hunt, but they thought it was boring when they found out you don't get anything, only tell others.
Hopefully they don't touch the cache.
TFTC

I thought I was going to have to give up on this one, for some young guys at the adjacent skateboard park looked at me whenever I moved. However it thankfully started raining, so they packed up and left, leaving me free to go over and find it unhindered. It was where I told me wife I thought it would be from the car.

Looks like they've done a fair bit of work on the gardens since the film was shot!

Suscoe arrived this morning, a little drizzly still but not as cold as yesterday.
a quick find but the kids in the bike track are still there.
SL TNLN
TFTC tackle_head

We liked the old B&B. And the locals here were very friendly. Thanks for another great cache.

What a lovely old ex pub. Thanks for the MM series Tacklehead.

Now this spot I wouldn't have recognised from the film - it's been spruced up a bit.
It was nice and quiet around here today and I had no trouble locating the cache.
Few little muggles at playground looks like they are having fun in the playground.
Thanks for the hide.

On same run with Mr Imapom Son In Law & Mrs Imapom ( Daughter ( and the misses ), another great photograph spot , will re visit this spot on a Camera Run.
TFTC

Found on a caching run to 500 with Mrs Iamapom, My Geo in-laws, including my Geo-father in-law, "one-eyed". All in the Geo-Landrover Defender.
Wow - what am amazing location. I really must re-watch Mad Max and finish this series.
Yet more weeing was done at this location, and there was some indication that someone had overdone the all-bran a bit, and had had some issues in the ladies close by. Poor poor them.
TFTC

Another one..
nice hotel.
TFTC

1740hrs

Was in Geelong today, so I cleaned up a few local caches and this was on the way home.

Such a nice old building.

TNLNSL
TFTC

What a lovely looking old pub! It works just so well for me. I can just imagine the oasis this must have been in the 1800's on a cold winter's evening. I was also lucky enough to stroll right up to this cache. I didn't take anything with me but left a couple of "eyes" as a calling card. TFTC

Found while out and about on a weekend cache run TNLN TFTC SL

Quick find on a cold winters day caching run TFTC TNLN SL

I was a little worried as I pulled up to see some works underway near GZ, but cache remains in place. Another clever tacklehead hide. Cheers!

Found while out with the very beautiful LRo, was here a few months ago but muggles were parked nearby. Came back to find nobody about, good effort with the cache hide!

Found while in area, have to watch movie again now.

Found while out with the very handsome Xraydelta1. TNLNSL, thanks!

Found on a day out caching with Dolphin60... found cache without too much effort but please be mindful to replace the cache as the owner intended, once you see how it's been hidden you'll understand why. New log book may be needed soon:-) TNLNSL, TFTC!

Team Ranger are GO!!!!

Bloody game one this one, must be maintained by a neighbour.

This was my 4th and final cache for the day on the way back from Melbourne. The first 3 were missing their TB's and this one...wait for it...when I arrived at GZ the cache was staring me straight in the face, exposed to the elements. The item that had been concealing it was overturned and the cache was just laying there. Upon leaving I hope I returned it to the way it is intended to be. The contents did not appear to have been tampered with. TNLNSL TFTC

Taking advantage of a glorious warm and sunny mid autumn day, The Quiet Plodder set forth on a Little River Geocaching plod. Arriving on the early Train from Melbourne, I was greeted with a brilliant morning that had the Camera whirring as I plodded to this the first Cache of the day. Fortunately, being so early, nobody was out and about, even the Dogs failed to yap. The Cache was readily in hand, though like previous Cachers, getting the Cache to stay put again proved tricky with the the magnet probably suffering from 'pole reversal syndrome'! Nonetheless, it's a pleasant hide set in a very understated Park - a good place for a Picnic I'd suggest with a short River walk nearby. I enjoyed the caching notes provided by 'tackle_head' - they are always informative and interesting - especially with the added photographs. It was a good start to the day. Thanks again to 'tackle_head' for another in his Mad Max Series (I'm slowly getting them all done). TNLN. TQP

Found with Moneydork, Rediguana, Tofska, and Pohutukawa on my last day of our 2 week Australian visit based around our attendance at the Wagga Mega event.
Enjoyed the find.
TFTC

Caching at night so can't see much of the location. T4TC, M@

Nice quick find after dark. Nice camo. Cheers Gav [5734]

Visited at night - dogs barking at our movements.
One of numerous caches visited on our MEGA Wagga Wagga MEGA trip.
TFTC (from NZ).

Easy find on this one.

Might want to check the magnet holding it in place. Dropped of as put back in place, Tried again, dropped off again.. Also the area has just been mulched and cleaned up. Is it where it should be?

Thnaks for the cache tackle_head.

Offto get another one in series

An easy find although I had to "sit on it" for a few minutes before I could get it due to the amount of muggles around.
TNLN.. TFTC

Found this cache as part of a 2-day blitz in Melbourne. This place doesn't look too much like it did in the movie.
This was my last one in the series today........ I should do something like this up here as Mad Max 3 was filmed near my home.
Thanks

A nice easy find.
TNLNSL
TFTC

late log on no computer

Cache two hundred yeah!!. Will follow mad max.

It's interesting to see the difference in trees in the photos, the gardens have sprung up to the point that the place is almost unrecognisable. There even seems to be additions to the building. The B&B looked quite inviting, I wonder if they cater for Mad Max fans much.

Thanks,

R - B

wow i really need to watch this movie huh !

3rd of the day ! slowly getting thru the mad max series !

Ok so i pull up to the GZ and i look up and this car drives past that looks s8 out of mad max !

Im not to sure if i was seeing things i wasnt quick enough to get a photo ..

On the mad max house cache page there is a pic of a car .. it looked just like that might have been slightly different colour ..

anyway strange experience lol !

Nice little hide .. had to use stealth in such an open area !

Thanks again for sharing this great series !

good hide---grandson disappointed ---no toys!
went and played in playground afterwards.

Nice quick drive through on our way to the city for shopping and lunch...wondeful way to relieve the boredom of an hour drive. Thanks!

This was cache # 32 of 36 for the day, in the company of Alansee. I hardly recognized the place and had to check the photos, anther great hide. My thanks to tackle_head for the cache.

Found on a surprisingly cool summer day caching with Acts2YouthGroup. Neither of us remembered the scene but I was pretty sure which building it was and it wasn't the newer one! Turns out I was correct. He had the cache hide sussed very quickly. Thanks tackle_head.

Late afternoon - I'm sure I beat KingBern there!! TNLN

Found it. Left Euro coin took out dice

What an exciting day out... Here we have another very good cache and thanks to Crustyvarmint for bringing me way out here. I wouldn't normally venture out this far by myself and it has been a good day for caching.
I didn't sign the log because Crustyvarmint signed it.
TFTC; TNLN

Another one with great workmanship.
Thanks
Cv

found @ 12:25 am
great cache & easy find.
fourth find of our spontaneous, late night caching binge
Had fun sitting on the ground hiding under the cover of darkness watching the muggles hang out in front of the pub across the road. When some of them took off in their ute Queen had a flashback to the roo shooting scene from Croc Dundee, but unfortunately the cache is about a different aussie movie ;]
TNLNSL TFTC

nice spot very quiet here this morning, great cache 2

Nice area, nice park. A couple of kids in the playground were so busy they hardly took notice of us. We were more concerned about the grown-up muggles of the beer-drinking kind. Clever hide!
NINO
TFTC

Found 9.00am
Have not been to Little River before, nice park here I wonder if the locals actualy use it. Parked close by and walked toward GZ, the hiding place was soon spotted and the log signed. Not many more in the series left to do now.

TNLNSL
Thnaks tackle_head

Found By The Lone Random,
W The Empire & GeoGirlfriend.
@ 7.18pm.
Had been planning with The Empire for a few weeks now to come and grab these caches as they not all that far from home.
But with other commitments have struggled to get a free afternoon.
Quite enjoyed the series so far and look forward to get out to retrieve the others.
TFTC, The Lone Random

Found by The Empire & H
2/11/09 @ 7:45pm with The Lone Random
Easy find, found without my GPS, just a rough location from my iPhone.
Cool cache series, thanks tackle_head!
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Found at 3.50pm with my 2 geobuggs. Waited for a couple of muggles to move on and found it in no time. Geobuggs left a couple of 5cent pieces, TFTC

After checking out a couple of caches it was then time to travel out to little River to grab this one. Wanted to be there before school finished so set the compass so as to park as close a possible. All around everybody seemed to be doing their own thing and as the co-ords were spot on it was a quick find. There were thousands of small black ants who had made this their home and were looking after their eggs in the dry spot created by the cache hidy hole. After signing the log I checked out the large red gums in the little park and discovered a bee hive in the largest one. Just read the hint before starting this log ,love it. Thanks tackle_head for this and others in this series.Well Done.

Found by Team Ladava with baby&Mrs gopher around 1.40pm
With our Geocaching sister and brother-in-law down from the Wagga area and having found three of your hides, I decided that the Mad Max series was the perfect way to spend the day.
Interestingly as Mrs G without the GPSr strayed a little to far from the cache, there was a call from across the road 'It's the other side of the trees'
TNLN
We were certainly able to recognise this location in the obligatory viewing of the movie in the evening.
Our thanks to tackle-head for the cache and this brilliant series.

Rated: for Overall Experience

1082 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1400 in company with Team Ladava on our quest to travel down the highway with Max and his mates in this classic movie.Our CaheMover coin will visit with us each cahe we find in the series.TNSL.We were witnessed by the locals as we found this one.Tnx tackle_head

Found this one at 14:40 while on the way down to Geelong for some birthday celebrations. A nice easy one, albeit quite clever, and another find in this great series .

TNLNSL. Thanks tackle_head.

Ran in for an easy find, TFTC
Quite liking the Mad MAX series so far!

nice hide tftc

Found this one easily with PacketStorm4 and RHPS.
TFTC

Another Installment in the Mad Max Movie Series is soon to be Published , hopefully on Saturday 10 th October .
Keep an eye on your Notifications . To the First To Find – You have a Tattslotto Ticket waiting for you ,Maybe it’s you lucky cache and maybe the winning ticket ! Good Luck – Steve .

Dipping a personal TB.

After bailing out of the southern coast as the weather had turned nasty, I decided to do the southerly members of the MMM series to save a few Km on a return trip.
Once I got my bearings I did another lap of town to get a decent angle for a photo for the scrapbook. Had a bit of trouble till I read the clue that cleared it up soon enough and the cache found and logged.
3/11 of the series.
Thanks Tackle Head going to these places warms the heart of a XB coupe owner that thinks if the world only had one movie, it should be MM1.

[This entry was edited by Roaring Ford on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 9:00:42 PM.]

Found by Bob at 1320

Now this spot I wouldn't have recognised from the film - it's been spruced up a bit and has a front fence now! It was nice and quiet around here today and I had no trouble locating the cache (having used a similar technique myself before ). As I finished replacing it, a pesky magpie decided to swoop me and I ended up running back to my car while waving a stick above my head - I hope anyone who saw me was suitably amused . I don't think I can ever remember being swooped by magpies before - although I see there's a thread on it in the GCA forums lately.

TNLN

Thanks again tackle head - I noticed while on my way out of town that the "Little River" station is quite an historic looking building too - I wonder if it was considered for the scenes at the Clunies Station.

whata great spot. TNLN. this series has mad myhusband and i to watch the movie again. during todays travells we seem to be following another cacher, hopefully catching them.

Very cool hiding spot! Nice place for a quick break to down a pie and a drink whilst the kiddies let off some steam in the park. TNLN.

Found it.
A nice simple find.
TFTC TNLN
A pity abot the weather!

Found without too much difficulty. tnln

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

Fifth of 11 on a caching day out with the bf. Found at 1.15pm. Decided to go today even though it wasn't forecast a good day, which made it easier to sign and retrieve the cache!
TNLNSL. Thanks again tackle_head for the cache!

After an absence of nearly 2 years The Swaggies are back in the Geelong area.
An easy find this morning and what a gem of a B & B. And look at all the rusting farm equipment here, a Swaggie "heaven" this place is. Must give them a ring so we can book in for the night.
Thanks tackle_head for the cache.

Found the cache today at 11.30am with beanie
Another one of Mad Max off the list to do

Dropped off two geoccoins

Thanks tackle-head for the cache

Find # 2964 and 1st of the day at 12:01 pm. The sun was out and it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day today, so after doing all my chores I set off to find some caches. Easy find , TNLN, left my mark in the log, Thanx Tackle_head....

Found with 3UP TNLNSL TFTC

Find # 317 @ 13:20 with 3BT
Nice easy find after waiting for muggles to disperse.
TNLNSL.

We found our 6th Tackle Head cache at 3:10pm as the 6th of 9 on our Whip Around Werribee. As well as finding this cache, we got the chance to play on the geodesic dome. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

Great hide! Our second cache of the Mad Max series today. TNLN

Looks like there's been very little change in the pub since the movie came out. At the end of the day, Biggles Bear #'s 1 and 2 and I were trying to work out when the film first came out. According to IMDB it was 30 years ago. Nice quick find and nice hide. Thanks for the cache.

Found 10:30, in the company of Muzza. Another great cache in this series.

TNLN, CSI= 2, thanks tackle_head.

Quick find, but a good one for GeoBoy all by himself - TFTC!

On our way to Melbourne - stopped in so we could cross this one off our list. Fairly easy find. Kids were happy to play for awhile nearby as well! TFTC

was working near by so i gave snakecatcher a call to do some caching on some new caches.
TFTC

Found by 1SR on the way in for night shift at 2105. A great little hide, great effort. Coords were spot on.
Great theme for a series of caches!!!!

TFTC

Found @1.27pm with Gewok. As we got to the area we releised that we did not have the Co-ords with us as my GPS had died. we had a quick look around and were approached by the Publican and he asked if we had lost something. We let him know what we were up to so he said good luck. A call to shane.thompson to get the Co-ords, and we were back in action. Nice hide. TFTC.

In the company of Embi we stopped for this cache and it looks like the owners have done a great job restoring the house.
The cache was found easily and after a quick log we were off for more Mad max series of caches.
Our thanks again to Tackle_Head for the cache.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "LRB" Coffee Clan.

I am glad that I had a good study of these photos while I had wifi coverage in the Werribee maccas as it was good to compare the scenes from yesteryear to what is there today while doing these caches.
A really good hide too.
Thanks tackle head.

Feathertop had found and logged this one so quickly so by the time I had wandered with 5 meters the cache was back and hidden. Talk about being in a hurry!
Oh well, apparently it was a clever hide.
Thanks

Great hide. Loved the old hotel. So long ago since I've seen the movie that I need to see it again to remember all these places.

Found by caughtatwork at 3:01
Another of the Mad Max series and another very innovative hide.
There were some kid playing on the playground but as it was cold and windy they were busy staying upright while GabGab and I found the cache.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks tackle_head for this experience today. It was great to see the movie stills vs. what is in place today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

I found this cache today with caughtatwork. This was a nice cache to find. I didn't think it would be hidden where it was and I was very surprised when caughtatwork found it. Thank you.

Found by Mary & David at 1335. We've been past here a few times and had no idea of the movie connection. Love the old place. The new one used to have great food whenever we visited, but don't know what it's like these days. Our thanks once more to tackle head.

At least we do remember this part of the movie, it's a shame that it's not still a pub as I'm sure that we would have to have a couple in here. Being a cold winter's day all the muggles were safely tucked up inside making for a nice easy search and we were happy when we found another great cache hide
Thanks again Tackle_head for the cache

Another one fairly easily found but some muggles on the verandah over the road meant we couldn't use our torches too much.
Again despite knowing the movie and the area I hadn't recognised this spot.
Thanks again tackle_head

This time of night we couldn't even see the Old Hotel, but the new one was well lit up, with plenty of muggles ourside on a cold tuesday night.
Nice little hide just out of sight of the locals.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found today at 12:37pm. It is such a nice day and definitely too good to be at work, (knocked off at lunchtime) a cache at Gellies Rd was the plan until I checked the site just before leaving work and one popped up at Little River. Don't you just love these "Mad Max" cache's. WB rang as I was leaving work also to let me know about the new cache. Great spot and nice hide, Thanks tackle_head.