Water Pipeline Dunolly, Victoria, Australia
By tigersden on 13-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MCRN

A nice little drive in the bush to a good size cache makes for a good morning out. Left behind a Scout. TFTC

Quick easy findTFTC

Road was closed. Workers doing work at approximately where GZ is.

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26th July 2024#460

Nice easy one. TFTC

JTreeTrack2 was out and about with Mr Dromaniax and the company of our Muggle parents. They Thoroughly enjoyed the trip, the sites, the effort gone in to placing caches in fascinating areas and places. The caches that we came across were all in good condition and were signed and returned as found. Thankyou to all the effort that has gone into placing the cache. Sorry for the generic log, my logging has 7 months of unloved. Thanks again for placing this cache.

I was out and about with JTreeTrack2 and our parents. We decided to take Mum and Dad away for a trip down memory lane, and while out and about, we were picking up some caches along the way.We spent two days travelling around the central North region of Victoria and had some fantastic weather.All caches we found were in excellent condition unless otherwise noted.Thankyou tigersden for this Traditional cache

What fabulous tracks around here! Makes me miss having a horse more than ever! I think I may have ridden this area in an endurance ride several years ago, but could be wrong!! Many thanks

We are spending a few days in the area caching and detecting. So far so good weather wise. Just love the bush so much
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We arrived in Eddington today after spending a few days in St Arnaud arriving there on Sunday where we decided to stay for a couple of days before continuing our journey to Bendigo. Here we caught up with our good friends Tyred n Cranky and Fuf009, while we were here we also met up with ChooknChunk.
Here at Eddington we were impressed with the town, the area and the camp spot behind the hall, fantastic just fantastic. The multi here was very informative. From here we have journeyed to Dunolly, We had a wonderful lunch at the bakery and a great tour around town using geocaching as our tour guide.
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Great find in the blue

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Very good find

Visited mum for lunch and thought we'd grab this one on the way home. Nice easy find. Thanks for the cache

Back log, out for a day of driving to get Geokid1 learner hours up, what better way than to cache around

Find #2749 for me. Found at 10:13am with my dog Bonnie. After viewing the Google Earth image for this one from the comfort of home, it wasn't clear whether the track in would be suitable for my 2WD, so I planned for 2 possible routes in and was expecting I may have to walk several hundred metres. After tentatively inching my way in from the south-west, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to drive my car right up to GZ with the cache literally only a couple of metres from where I parked. Fantastic location! Thankfully no redback spiders were to be seen, so thanks to lorigus74 for its relocation! I really enjoyed the journey to get to this one with all its uncertainties (makes bush caching all the more interesting and challenging in a 2WD!) so thanks so much for this cache placement tigersden!

14 March 2022
9:19 am
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Many thanks tigersden for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Just had to re-locate the cache guardian redback spider before opening. All good here.

Found after a fun drive in the bush

As we were driving towards this cache, we had to go around a substantial puddle. It struck us as weird as it is incredibly dry out here. We pulled up just past the water and went back to have a look. GT37 had noticed that downhill from the puddle, there was a fair amount of greenery yet uphill there was none. When we walked back, there were a number of holes visible as the water could be seen bubbling up from underneath. Two of the holes were seriously running. We thought that someone would have reported it as there were shrubs about thigh height on the down hill. After the call, we had no confidence that anything would be done. Another small leak was noticed further up the pipeline so another call was made. Different person answered and was sooooo much better. Very interested in where and how bad. Within half an hour, an engineer had called back to ask more questions as he was heading out immediately to see what could be done to stem all the flows. Amazing. That was quite a saga so we were pleased to make an easy find here. The cache was covered better when we left. Thanks for the cache.

Found today on a caching escape with Geoturtle37.
As we approached this cache, we had to skirt around a large puddle of water on the Pipeline Track. Noting the running water, we initially thought it was a natural spring, but we soon realised the pipe had a major leak. Then more leaks. GT37 did the good deed for the day and rang Coliban Water to report it, being concerned for the effect it may be having on the water supply to Dunolly. Needless to say there were some interesting phone calls between them. There was also a small leak on the valve nearby this cache too, but this one was only a drip and was not as critical as the gushing water up the track. Anyway the cache was found nice and quickly as it was poking out from its camo. The container is in good condition and we returned it and covered it carefully to not be exposed at all. TFTC tigersden.

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An interesting drive in but we got there!
Yet another significant historic place to bring us.
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TFTC tigersden Spending our Easter in the area and took the opportunity to put some smiley faces on. Great that you continue to maintain these for us to find and exploring the area and its history. TNLN . Nice bit of track getting to this one. All good at GZ

Found it

Nice hide.. Tracks get a bit narrow if another car comes in, slow down

Had to come back fort this one. CIGC TNLN TFTC

TFTC. We had just visited the Miners Cottage and on the way back home we followed the track into the GZ for the pipeline. Pearle the vehicle and walked the couple of hundred meters to GZ. Could have driven but exercise is good. At GZ the cache was quickly found.

In Dunolly for the St Arnaud MEGA with my dearest friend Kato Potato and we decided that rather than head back to the MEGA, we'd take the circuitous route home to Gippsland by cleaning out Dunolly and picking and choosing on our way home. We looked in every wrong spot there is until I was standing facing the right way and saw obvious cache camo. TFTC tigersden

In the area for the St Arnaud Mega event and once again privileged to be able to spend the whole weekend with Mummy Short Legs on a mum's weekend away, our scared annual Caching Adventure without the families in tow.

After spending a lovely two nights in the area we decided we needed to make sure that we honoured the local caches by finding as many as we could before setting off home today. We wandered and chatted out to this point, the 2WD safely parked a bit further away. Took a few circles before MSL was facing the right way and spotted it. TFTC tigersden

Took some getting to

Found by Logan xx

Found it and my girlfriend found a cute skink

Tftc interesting place pen not working put in new pen for ya tigersden

Found it

Caching in convoy with the family on an early Fathers Day BBQ adventure we enjoyed the various hides and the places we visited as we headed north from Maryborough.

Very interesting to see the pipeline here in the middle of the bush.

Thanks tigersden for the placement.

Found on a day out caching in the company of The_Tritonz, thanks for bringing us to this cool spot.

Got this one with the newbridgebkids. Tftc
This was a great experience with the kids, thank you for making it happen.

Barely had to leave the car for this one. Thanks

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We are camping near by and this is so perfect for the kids to have some fun!!

Didn't know if I could drive the car to this one but did...TFTC

We're out for a drive and to grab some geocaches. Heading from Maryborough to Bridgewater to have a pie and maybe a swim. We're using geocaching as our inspiration to tour some historic sites. Thanks

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Quick find. Made some swaps and continued on.

Ahh our last one for today. A quick find for us. All good with the cache.
Signed and relaced. Thanks tigersden for the cache and all the others in the area.

Kids loved hunting for this one !!

Found this one today on a bush bash back to Ballarat from Wedderburn. Parked about 100m away and walked in... to where we found a perfectly good track right at the track.... Lovely. TFTC Tigersden. Cache is in good order.

This is one of the caches we found, among the history lessons and interesting scenery, on the way to the "9 Months to the Event in Alexandra" lunch in Wedderburn.
Apologies for such delayed and generic logs, we have experienced a severe computer malfunction.

Thanks tigersden for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
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Bumpy drive out to this cache - passed a couple metal detecting on the way in and was going to stop and see how they were doing on the way out - however think I scared them off and they were gone when I drove back.

Easy find of the cache - hard area to turn around but a 12 point turn did the job!
Nice to find this lonely cache and it is in good condition.

Thanks tigersden for all your good caches in the area.

Found on a horse ride from dunolly

Was out camping this way with Muggle and thought I'd do a check. Not too far away so came for a walk. Lovely spot! Thanks for the hide!

A nice drive out to get this one. TFTC

Oh yes some of the weird and wonderful spots my little car and the world of geocaching takes me. TFTC.

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This was a bit of a trevk for a road car but taking it slow and we got there, left a collectable domino (Alien the little 3 eyed guys from Toystory) thanks Tigersden for a good trek along the track.

Travelling around Australia with our Cat.

Moving today from Dunolly to Ararat so once the van was packed we headed out to find the last few caches in town before moving on.

Thanks for placing your cache to feed our geoaddiction.

TFTC tigersden

TFTC easy find, it was exposed, so it is now covered over a bit better.

Found on a Family day out with becca85, boo09 & neisha 07. We borrowed Grandpa's 4WD to grab some we can't in our own car. TFTC

This one has been one of my closest caches for a while now but our car wasn't equipped to make it.
Today we borrowed my Father-in-laws Ute to hit knock a few off around the area.
This was #1 for the day and a nice quick find after a bumpy ride. Found with chan02, neisha02 & boo09. TFTC

Touring Waanyarra and surrounds today to pick off a few of our closest unfound caches. A super quick find after a bumpy ride. Found with becca85, neisha07 & boo09. TFTC

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Headed back this way today to try and knock off some more of our closest unfounds. This one was a quick one. Found with becca85, neisha07 & chan02. TFTC

Suscoe's 18th find of 34 for today.
The weather has improved since yesterday and while there was some cloud, the sun was often shining as we drove the road to Dunolly and beyond.
We enjoy these opportunities to wander along bush tracks in the XR6, low clearance makes for a fun drive.
Finally got to GZ after a few backtracks due to deep ruts and high rocks, but why spoil the fun!!!!!!
Log signed and all good, then found a spot to turn and away we went to the next cache,
Thanks to tigersden for placing this cache here.

found it.
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From the nearby "Loddon Limits", I figured there must be a way to reach this cache with a bike ride through the forests
It was a long and twisty ride, but eventually I got within cooee of GZ.
A short walk was all that was required to finish off this cache

Nice spot !!

And from here the way back to towne seemed pretty obvious.
Follow the water

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Find No. 704. Found at 4.26pm
Went for a drive to Marybourough for the day and on the way home thought we would grab a couple of caches in Dunolly and this was one of them.
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Good drive out here. Nice day. Easy find. TFTC.

I am well behind on logging caches, attempting to catch up.
Apologies to CO's for not logging specifics about their cache.
We certainly appreciate all the effort cachers go to hide and maintain their caches.

Find #1604 @1437H

Well with the day being so good I decided to go for a drive in the country side, down Dunolly way, and grab a few caches as I went along.

I managed to find a good road in to this one but in the end I still had to walk 100m to GZ as I took I minor wrong turn, but in the end it looked the easiest way out in a 2WD ute.

Took Skull and Crossbones ring, Left Starfish.

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Impending grey clouds coming over this morning, thought i'd better get in and get out on this one! Great hide! TFTC

Nice quick find on this beautiful afternoon. Thanks

Nice easy find thanks

Never been up that road before. Interesting to see.

Found this cache, Took the geo coin to take to one of our own caches..TFTC

4WDing for the day with MAS0N Jnr and thought we might go find a cache or two. This one fit the bill perfectly. TFTC. (Replaced plastic bag)

What better way to spend a Sunday than caching? I decided that on this fine, sunny day I would have a crack at some of the caches around the Dunolly region.

Following the compass via bush tracks I ended up on the correct one! It was a bit on the wet side, but there were plenty of side tracks that could be used to avoid the major wet stuff.

Nice and easy find once at GZ. TFTC

At 1.35pm. I opened the car door, took two steps and picked up the cache. Tftc.

This entry was edited by billywillysillydilly on Sunday, 03 February 2013 at 05:15:56 UTC.

Another hot day.
Long drive through the forest on a track which required care in our car but eventually made it to the cache. Strange place for a pipeline!
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Suprised ourselves with being able to drive right up along side this one. Lucky we did not have the Honda Jazz. Now just how to find our way out. Cache in good order TFTC

What a fun drive in, bumpy as. Loved it, lots of fun in the mud

Took Screwdriver left Red dogtag
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another nice track into the bush, took patch left dora. TFTC

Found while night caching with patroling4x4
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out doing a night run with the toonies tft

Not too bad a drive to this one in a 2WD the way we came in.
cache found easily and managed to turn around using the loop track.
Thanks Tigersden.

Found with Mum & Dad.
A fun drive in the bush.
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Drove all the way up to this one, a bit rough at times, although I forget how rough now that it's a few days later. Found the cache pretty easily, then turned the car around (a bit tough out there) and headed back into town.

Found on our Vic & SA adventure trek on a perfect day for a bush caching run. A nice quick find and no muggles around here today. TNLNSL TFTC,
Roostaman.

Out this way with the metal detector, better luck finding caches though.
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Found on my way back to Bendigo from Ballarat. Nice drive out in the bush and a quick find once at GZ. Thanks tigersden for the cache.

Found by Mary & David at 1420. A true drive-by in the geoPrado, and such a lovely bush setting. Quite a few wildflowers about. Our thanks once more to tigersden.

We were looking for a place to stay when we noticed this one was only a short distance away so we decided it would make our last for today. The pipeline looks quite old but in good condition and we enjoyed following it over the highs and lows before reaching GZ. A quick search in the wrong location soon had us looking back at where the GPSr was pointing and from there it was another easy find. Now with the sun starting to set we agreed this was the last one and started looking for a camp site for the night, lucky they weren't hard to find.
Thanks again tigersden.

The Empire " stubbed " his toe on this camo , he said he was testing it for leaks ? - tftc tigersden