Landing Views Wendouree West, Victoria, Australia
By stashaa on 31-Dec-09. Waypoint GC22EYZ

Thanks for the cache really good cache aswell

Container replace today and cache ready to go.

Found but looks like maybe a muggle found it. Container was left open and contents destroyed, log book was okay because it was in a seperate container but all the goodies were destroyed

The container is damaged and contents ruined with the exception of the log book which was in a seperate container that was intact

On my way towards Ballarat. Not aiming on getting there in a day. Lot's of caches to get. Staying at a free camp close to town.

After been attacked by the tree I got to it. Tftc. Found

Took a lot longer for Mr P to find but he got there.

Quick find

Easy to spot, not so easy to retrieve with the prickly bush!! TFTC

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Found tftc

I was heading along Sunraysia drive today to collect some puzzle caches that I had solved and this cache was on route. I didnt note any planes landing or departing on my caching search today.At the GZ the cache container was quickly located - the outer container and contents are looking a little worse for wear - I didnt note any disposable camera in the container as mentioned in the description. The log remained in good enough condition to get my name on the log but did appear to have been damp at some point, currently the double container is doing a good job at preserving the log. An interesting read about the aviation scene in Ballarat. Thank you for doing the research and providing an interesting read on the cache page. Cheers for the cache

Ballarat Geo-Tour TripDay #2 of 4 (16/9)Todays main focus is finding the Geo-tour caches and any pre-2010 cache I came across along my travels. I also found a few ALs and a couple of others nearby to make up the numbers. I ended up with finding 20 out of 25 of the Geo-tour caches. I ended up with 50 finds for the whole day. My D/T average took a hit today but thats okay because Im here for the tour and to fill my Project GC grids. It was a great day out and I really enjoyed finding all the caches I found. TB visit on all found caches. I would like to thank all COs of the caches I found today and for allowing them to bring the Geocaching community enjoyment. TFTCs Umm... having looked at the page now, this one is a pre-2010 cache because it was placed on the 31/12/2009. This is the last day it could be to be on my pre-2010 list. Anyway, it's another cache on the find list now and now off to the next one.

Out collecting a few finds with littlecogs. Little littlecogs was delighted to watch an aeroplane coming in to land as a bonus.

Quick find.

Time for Mr. Lazy aka JTreeTrack2 to catch up on some logs. Sorry to the cache owners for the lag. I have enjoyed finding every cache I have found and appreciate all the effort that has gone in to placing and maintaining the caches. Hopefully I will find more caches and give a more timely and personalized logThanks again for placing the cache.

Thanks for the cache Stasha. Great location, I didn’t see any air craft movements but did get to witness a great sunset. Also if it was possible to get to this cache via a route that had more prickles I would challenge anyone to find it.

Went by torchlight for this one, thought it might actually be difficult, but it was actually fairly straightforward. Bonus! No flights to see tonight sadly but hopefully someone will be along soon for Julie on the move TB that just dropped in

Only view xc is sheep! Just a wee detour off the highway TFTC

DNF in the time we had to look for it today.

Didn’t want to look, grass too high, worried about snakes

Accurate coordinates made this a quick find , all's good at gz TFTC stashaa

A little away from coords but all good and signed.

4m away from where it's meant to be.
Some water damage

Easy find.

Quick find on my miners rest cache adventure, tftc

Found with Roostaman on our Feb/March Vic trip down South.
Another fun caching trip and lots of smilies too. .
Thanks for the cache stashaa,
***MrsRoosta ****

Found with MrsRoosta on our Feb Vic trip down South.
Another fine Summer day for a drive around Ballarat.
Thanks for the cache stashaa,
***Roostaman****

It was fantastic to find a good sized cache after spending a lot of the morning looking for nanos in the bush. Thank you.

With work encouraging us to take some holidays and Mr SKI having quite a few weeks up his sleeve it was time to take another short break and do some sightseeing and caching in parts of Victoria we seldom visit.
This time we decided it would be Ballarat. There is a wide variety of cache types and quite a number of Adventure Labs to do, so the area is quite attractive. And that doesn't include the historical and interest aspects as well.
We organized to meet up with some friends while there so we would have the opportunity to do some joint as well as solo caching.
We have already had some great adventures on a few challenging caches that generated a lot of fun and as usual always good to find some pre-solved puzzles.
All logs signed as SKI Pair, RASP (Rebel Acts & SKI Pair or SP depending on size of logs and availability of space.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache stashaa.
**SKI Pair****

Good hide, didn't see any planes though. Cheers

TFTC, very wet in the area. A prickly tree nearby. Saw a plane the ing to take off. Grabbed this on the way to work to fill in my calendar.

Found however no log and the surrounding grass and bushes are extremely overgrown so be careful

Quick find. Watch for
Thanks for the cache

After a crazy year, it’s time to get away for a bit of R&R, and of course a cache or two.
Day seven: Target - Ballarat’s ALs & various solved puzzles.
Half expected to witness a rogue Sydney to Ballarat flight today. Happily none eventuated.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, stashaa

Found with nannynomad TFTC

Found with joybell53 TFTC

A weekend away to clear up a little bit more in Ballarat and surrounds.

Thanks to all the cache owners.

No planes today.

TFTC

And there was a landing. Cessna.

Easter 2020 sees South Australia hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

No luck today

Good little hide. A lot of water in the box though from the rain. TFTC

A day out in Ballarat after finding a WP for a multi I needed. My dog Reggie and I enjoyed lapping up the sun (last day of winter - whoooo!). Quick find here. TFTC

Nice easy one for the kids thanks so much

After having been into Ballarat with ilook4geo for both caching and shopping activities today, we wanted to pick up a few more caches on our way back to our camping spot. So just a few were chosen and all were found successsfully. This one was not hard to find and the signing of two more names on the log was soon completed. Thank you to stashaa for this cache placement. The bonus was that there were actually a couple ofm planes that came in to land while we were there.

Today was a day of mixed activities with goingplaces2, including caching, shopping and other odd jobs. We found all caches on the list, each was signed and replaced and we enjoyed the day. Saw some planes come in. TFTC.

I found your cache Landing Views, on 22 March 2019 at 10:20
In town doing a couple of deliveries.
A bit of time to spare before heading home.
A nice quick find here today.
Thank you for placing and maintaining this geocache for us to find stashaa.

In the area for an event this afternoon and had time to pick up a couple on the way.
A great read up on the airstrip in the description and had a couple take off while I was here.
Thanks stashaa TFFC.

Found it

Nice pick up

Some sort of event is on near GZ so heaps of planes were active today and heaps of people on the other side of the air way.

Today I was going from Ballarat to Adelaide, with 2 events being hosted I was restricted to the time I spent in Ballarat for the morning so I went around picking up multis and puzzles with some very enjoyable locations visited. I collected a few along the way to the 2nd event of the day in coonalpyn and then finished off with half a new series in Murray Bridge. A total of just over 50 finds for the day and 500km driving.

I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. Given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After over 5000 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 70 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before the end of next year. It's surprising how much is has increase since doing this.

TFTC

Nice find. ️

Thanks Geojunior

Ballarat sure has an interesting airport
Sure there's not many commuter flights, if any !!
But the number of buildings remaining from WWII days is amazing

Out here by the fence I had a different view.
A view of the comings and goings of the training aircraft going arund and around and around
Cache found

I dropped off the "ToBergenNorway" TB

TFTC

Dropped in "ToBergenNorway" TB close to the airport.

TFTC

Found it, There were heaps of planes taking off and landing today and we loved watching them for a while before heading to the Aviation Museum at the Airport and being shown around by the men who ran it.

Cabbage

What a lovelt place to put a cache = this little blighter was located whilst out caching with joojoo57. A nice easy find thank you
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Having a caching afternoon with Benjay21 in the countryside around Ballarat. Thank you to all the COs for the time and effort you have given to placing the caches we found today.

Enjoyed finding a cache that is two days short of 9 years old, and reading the cache notes. Wow, a disposable camera! This seems like a very "retro" idea now.
Thanks for bringing us here. We did see a plane starting its engine and rolling forward but not taking off while we were here.

Found whilst out caching around Ballarat with SussVulture today. TFTc

A rather nice easy cache to find on a nice hot summer's day although the cache appeared to have quite a bit of water in it. TFTC

What a pleasure it was to find a large cache container after finding micros and nanos today. We saw a couple of small planes coming into land and this added to our enjoyment. Thank you for your informative notes, too.
FTC stashaa.

I headed to GZ for the cache and a flock of surprised sheep from near the fence watching the helicopters . They certainly had lots of activity to watch this morning. I, in turn, had to move from place to place before I found the cache tucked away not far from where the sheep had been. Lovely big cache full of lots of stuff. I didn’t take or swap anything.

Heading to the Parkville Mega grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

A quick find witnessd by a flock of sheep this time. TFTC.

A good place to view the coming and goings of the airport but we found a cache here instead. SL TFTC

Watched a plane take off

Nice quick grab, No disposable camera for alexikatty and I to take a photo together

No camera

Scored a cute magnet for my fridge though left a little January swap.

Too cold for this caching obsession!
Front with TheFinderz5

TFTC

*14 Jul 2018, Found @1:20 pm, Find # 8084.*

A quick stop here with jacko83 as we were passing while on our way to the nearby CITO event.

**Thanks to stashaa for placing this cache.**

Date: 14 July 2018 Time: 12:55
Find #9625

I had been looking forward to today and a trip to Ballarat for a while. It had been some time since I had visited, so today was the day. Up at 6.30am and was out the door by 6:45. I started the caching day at Mount Beckworth Scenic reserve and along with a couple of events, finished the day off with a couple of night caches. It was so much colder here, compared to the balmy 7 degrees at home when I left.

A quick driveby on the way through today.

Many thanks to stashaa for the cache. TNLN.

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*17th / 18th November 2018 – GC75D90 – Parkville – Victoria*

Missed the views out here today however it was good to cruise past and grab a quick cache.

Thanks!

Happy to log this one after a very poor start to the day. 4 dnfs from 6
TFTC

Last cache for us after a nice winter's holiday in Ballarat, TFTC

Found it after work in Ballarat.
TFTC

#251! Cute little stash! TFTC!

With family here for a visit we went out to see what we could find and found this one that I had missed last time I was here. TFTC.

19/03/2018 10:59:00 AM
No landings today but a shaky take off spotted.
Thanks

TFTC. On my regular Thursday trip to Ballarat. Keen to fill in the last date of the hidden matrix. This cache fil;ed the bill 31/12. We have now logged finds for caches hidden every day pf the year. A quick find.

Nice hide grate veiws

Heading home from a fun filled day in Grampians and even though the sun was already over the horizon and we were pretty beat from a huge day gathering smileys we had to make the detour for a few more as we passed by Ballarat.
This one was on the way our detour took us so we stopped for the quick grab. Not much to see here in the dark but thank you Stashaa for the cache and another smiley

Nice find

Up in the Grampians for a memorable day of caching venturing high, under and through the Grampians to some amazing locations with Simsfamily and Neville devil.
On the return journey we took a detour to grab a few more caches before calling it a day.
Having spent the day sweating it was a bit of a shock to get out the car to a chilly wind so it was a quick dash to the cache then back to the car.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache Stashaa
#3,865

Don’t we’re thongs in this geogash

Easy find out with my girls. A little bit of moisture in container. Logbook in excellent condition.

Today was the day for another road trip up from Geelong. This morning I was in the company of Na'wal, a very welcome team member indeed. With a bunch of puzzles solved, it was time to collect some smiley faces. We found a great mix of hides, trads, some mysteries and a letterbox as well. We were spoilt with the weather as well, it was a cracker of a day !! Thanks to all of the CO's for some great hides and some brain busting puzzles. TFTC stashaa

DAB and I had planned a day out caching around the Ballarat / Creswick area. We met early with our geo wheels packed with snacks and plenty of drinks on board and set off to enjoy another brilliant, fun day, exploring new areas. The road was ours this morning, no planes in sight but we found this cache, quickly too Stamped and returned as found.

**Thanks for this traditional cache stashaa**
**Smile # 5174**

Any sensible aircraft would be either snuggled in a hangar or securely pegged down in this 28 knot wind. TFTC

It was really easy and it is covered over wood

Another great cache from mazzymay. Easy enough to find for the trained eye. TFTC.

Popped over the to the airport a few days ago with the kids. A cool spot to watch planes taking off today. TFTC, TNLN

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a cache! Thanks for the find!

Nice size cache in a quiet location

With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

Saw flying things here which weren't dragons. Quiet location for a nice sized cache. TFTC

Another quick find with CPwanderer & hevwalker on a rather humid evening.
Thanks for the cache stashaa

Spending a long weekend in Ballarat with CPwanderer & clare007...
I have always loved watching planes take off & land...there were a few today...so cool, planes & caches...
Thanks stashaa

Quick find with clare007 and hevwalker! Thanks for the hide!!

Today was a mixed day of watching JaminAppleford race his 70.3 triathlon and caching. I was pleased to stop and log this find and thank you for hiding the cache.

2nd find for the day with the geowife and Geodaughter. Enjoyed watching the planes from here. Tttc

Lovely sized container! Nice views.. No planes in flight.
TFTC