E2W - Bowser Station Site Bowser, Victoria, Australia
By tattboy1 (adopted by BettyBoo3747) on 07-Jul-11. Waypoint GC2ZM9Y

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We parked up at this nice picnic spot to start a walk along the trail. We didnt bring the bikes but decided on a short walk to warm up and to find a few caches. Thanks BettyBoo3747 for an enjoyable cache.

Took a few minutes to find. Will bring the bikes down at a later date to do the series

#6459.After a quick visit to Wangaratta, I had a bit of spare time to attempt a couple of caches on the way home. This was the first one. Quick and easy. TFTC!

#726 3:00PMFriend wanted to stop to watch the train go past and I wanted to grab this geocache. Thanks for placing this cache BettyBoo3747

Found with Bullash on 6 March 2024

Out on the bike today with our middle geokid. I've been eyeing off this trail for ages now but just haven't had the opportunity. Today was the day, planned to try get half done starting from Bowser station, this will depend on how the little man's legs go. First for the day, parked up at around 11am. Walked over to this one and soon spotted it, as well as a huge huntsman. TFTC!

Hello BettyBoo3747 thank you for the cacheAn afternoon walk to see how many I could find before my legs give out.This one took some time for me to locate.I found this cache during our Newcastle 2024 trip to see the grandchildren.Found on Saturday, 04 May 2024 at 1404**TFTC**

Called past to have a look at this one today. Moved it slightly from where BootnBee had popped it after they retrieved it from the roof. All good here.

Obviously someone as thrown this one way up high! Thankfully we had the tools to retrieve it and re-hide. Have notified BettyBoo3747 and she will fix it up tomorrow.First stop on our venture along part of the rail trail in a bid to start completing a few more caches around the North East.Thanks BettyBoo3747 for hiding and maintaining this series.

Visited it during 28-days geotrip to Australia, N.Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Am.Samoa, Fr.Polynesia with Marci, Ch. Sometimes we logged as "MT" or "Jonea" or "MTCh". Thanks for showing nice caches and places. MT-Jonea from Brno city in Czechia EU. Wet logbook so we photo it

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Station whistle stop riding in to Wangaratta

Found by P&R. Was a quick and easy find.

Nice! Thanks for the cache!

This has all the hallmarks of a classic Alfetola DNF, but I managed to use the window without muggles to systematically and ahh there it is! TFTC, these rail trails are gorgeous - must bring my bike next trip.

Quick find at the start of our short rail trail ride.

Mapped it out at Wangaratta 149m. Great to reach bike trail for last few kms to Wang cycling from Corowa today after leaving Bathurst 10 days zig zagging south return ing from cycle touring around Taiwan.

Very nice found it with munzie2012. Forgot pencil

Tftc

Robmc and I parked at Bowser station and enjoyed a sunny spring day to do some maintenance. A short ride checking 11 caches and fixing up as required.First cache checked and removed old log and left new one and rehid better.

Took several searchers to track it down and we needed a small hand to retrieve. TFTC.

nice

Nice little spot

Heading home from Albury after a caching in Canberra with friends. This was my first cache of the day. I was originally planning a major diversion via Tatong, Mansfield, Bonnie Doon, and Alexandra chasing Adlabs, but decided to head home directly. So to try to make up numbers, I headed to this series. Found all except the next one and a DNF.



My thanks for the cache, tattboy1 and BettyBoo3747.

Thanks for the cache
For some reason I was looking for something so much smaller, I pulled over for a bite to eat while on my way to a First Aid course, I had a feeling that there was a cache in this area so while eating I started looking, then i caught sight of something that wasn’t supposed to be there.
Log signed

A quick easy park and grab on the outside of Wangaratta at what was an amazing little historic train station thank you very much for the fact of the adoptions and keeping this old hide alive

Great easy find

Stamped as JAMS - JJ52, alllister w, mogni, sir_spectre. All of these teams are from South Australia and after some major planning we managed to find approx 700 caches while being away for a week. Also qualifiied for a variety of challenges, found LGA's and had lots of laughs. Found while attending the Victorian Mega in Rutherglen.
Thanks

The JAMS team (JJ52 allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) were on a road trip heading to the Rutherglen Mega event (staying in Corowa) for 3 days then winding our way home via Albury, Wangaratta, Bendigo and various other places in between. It was a great week with many more caches found than we expected. There were targeted caches, challenge caches, Ad Labs, events and various others to fulfill various statistics for the four of us. We were lucky with the weather, it rained a bit on our way over on Friday, then half a day after we left Wangaratta but on the whole it was great caching weather. We did drive a few slippery muddy roads, but nothing too bad. We also caught up with lots of people either at events or out in the field and enjoyed many great chats. All in all a fun time with lots of Victoria explored and then very tired when I arrived home. [^]

We are now caching around Wangaratta finding caches to meet the A-Z challenge along with a few others.

It was a lovely day today and great walking on this trail. I had read all about it from tourist information at our accommodation.

Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747.

The JAMS crew go mega - JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre. having had a huge weekend in Rutherglen it was time to head for home, it only took 5 days.
Thanks

We took a hike down the bike track, 9.5 km's or so. At the start of the trail the butterfly's were so thick i thought i was going to choke on one. I did enjoy the fact that the co used a number of different container from bison tubes, to cliplock containers, to fruit containers plus the style of hiding was different for the trail.
Found with JAMS (( JJ52, Allister w, Mogni, plus sir_spectre ) Mitchell&hound wasn't with us this trip) crew. All logs stamped as JAMS to save log space. This trip we are off to the Rutherglen Mega and then slowly coming back to S.A. for a total of 8 dys and 7 nights. The targets of this trip are for JJ52 to get 11 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and a few more Victorian LGA's, Allister W was targeting 17 virtuals ( or as many as he could get ) a few more Victorian LGA's Mogni to make the Rutherglen Mega her 20, 000 find and also for her to complete all Victoria LGA's, sir_spectre needs 1 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and get his Victoria LGS's down to 2 LGA's left. We got 20 or more finds in a LGA if we stayed in there over night. We also detoured to stamp any challenge caches that we were " in the general area off " and to complete that challenge before we came back to S.A. This meant that some times dirt road (s) had to be walked down because they were to wet to drive down and/or haven't been repaired since last years flooding. We started off the holiday in the rain and then that cleared up only to start raining and a overnight thunder storm but most of the trip was dry. Over 600 caches found for the trip including over 120 lab stages in that total. Got to complete the GPS Maze at the Rutherglen Mega for a 2nd time. Allister w was the team driver for all of the Victorian part of the trip. I think this was the first trip ever to Victoria that the extension pole didn't get used but the 6.2 meter ladder did get a work out.

This was my last of this little series.

Boy did I work hard for it.

In the end it was an easy find.

But I looked round and round and nearly gave up!

TFTC

*The Rutherglen Mega Sunday Adventure #27*
We're heading for home in earnest, but we both need a toilet stop. I'm not walking away from one 12m from TZ!
Thanks heaps, Tattboy, and thanks too BettyBoo!

Quick find after a toilet stop

A quick find with little blue wren as we head to Chiltern
Signed and replaced TFTC

TFTC. A quick find with Aussie fun seakers.

Road trip to Rutherglen Mega event just cruising around picking up random caches found quickly signed and replaced...TFTC

There have actually been quite a few times that I have been looking around on google maps when I’ve seen a place called Bowser and wondered what could possibly be the deal with such a small rural suburb. Seeing as the place has kinda perplexed me for some time I knew I’d have to make a quick stop here when I saw there were some caches placed.

Even though it’s late, I pulled up to GZ and used my high beams to search for the cache, which didn’t take too long at all. Got it signed and replaced as found.

Happy to report that the cache is in good condition and the log nice and dry.

Tftc

Found after a search round and round. Hopped back in the car - whoops no GPS. I had managed to leave it on the table when I replaced the cache and left it there in my rush to get on with the next cache. These stations are really neat. TFTC # 18,970

Found on our Rutherglen Mega trip, all logs signed as SPINZ (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from NZ). Sorry about the cut and paste logs. TFTC

#13231

This is my first trip outside New Zealand caching and enjoyed getting this cache with Team SPINZ tftc

Exploring rural Victoria as part of the SPINZ team: Sidewaze, paddle chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from New Zealand. I’m really enjoying the landscape and seeing what goes on in this neck of the woods. All the different eucalypts, the pepper trees and other interesting plants. The colourful birds, some quite noisy and some very noisy. The many vistas - - beautiful in sunlight and shade. I loved visiting each and every cache and really appreciate the effort required to hide and maintain them. Thanks to the cache owners. Greetings from Aotearoa / New Zealand, happy caching and if you have yet to visit us across the ditch to see what we have to offer, do make sure you enter such a visit on your “to do” list.

Found 12:27 4/3/2023 while taking a break on my way south. Thank you BettyBoo3747 for the cache and bringing me to this location.

TFTC out with Geo teaching him to Geo hunt.

Easy peasy. Tftc

Found with Jondub while doing a section of the rail trail. TFTC

Found with Curloo

Good find with my friend

Good find with my friend

Easier than I thought

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Fully grab this one on our way to Albury Wodonga

Pretty cool little spot

Nice and easy drive by on this wet Sunday morning. Funny enough I already signed the log a couple weeks ago on my way from Rutherglen for work, but I forgot to log it here….so here I am finally logging it. Will get around to nailing this trail one day and picking up all the treasures. TFTC BettyBoo3747

Good spot

Good spot

Thanks

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I should be at work! TFTC.

Geo way out today but with widening the area found intact and signed. Helenoftroy

Found it TFTC

Had a nights accommodation booked in Wangaratta as my geohusband had a jet fighter plane flight booked. When the flight was cancelled due to the weather forecast we still made the trip up and hit the rail trail for some caching. This was our first find for the day. TFTC

Easy drive by and walk to others. Great sign for riding in area. Needed this sign at Wangaratta yesterday! Tftc

Nice find on my way home from work. TFTC.

Happy to put a smily here. TFTC

Day 8 of our southern trip. Wangaratta to Creswick

Love they way these caches have been adopted out.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 17, 2022. TFTC,

TFTC smile 11063 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather,
Day 7 signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, tattboy1 (adopted by BettyBoo3747), for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Teamed up with geo friends RoddyC, hatzofff and grannysmith1947 for an afternoon of zipping all around the countryside looking for targeted caches which we need for challenges. (All logs signed as Team 44 QLD)
domsky has also joined us on the trail.
Nice quick find here, thanks CO.

TFTC tattboy1 (adopted by BettyBoo3747)

Some years ago, we had the opportunity to ride the rail Trail from Bright to Wangaratta.
I remember noticing a few geocaches along the Trail, however, riding with the family of all ages we stopped for none.
We are back again, this time for the Wangaratta mega, and while we don’t have our bikes with us, we were very happy to have the opportunity to walk along part of the Trail and collect a few that have been placed here.
We have ridden many rail trails over the last years, and without a doubt this is our favourite.
Thanks BettyBoo3747. It’s great for us to finally collect a few on this great Trail.
Domsky

Day 8 of our southern trip caching around Wangaratta before travelling to Cresswick.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as 44Qld.

TFTCache tattboy1 (adopted by BettyBoo3747)

Found after the Mega. TFTC

Found with geopartner Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

TFTC BettyBoo3747.

# 7254

Wangaratta Mega
Day Four: a bit of everything.

I made a stop here on my way back to Wangaratta for a last couple of caches. A quick find despite a number of possibilities. A goods train went through on the main line while I was here.

Thanks for the cache and series BettyBoo3747.

Spending the day around Wangaratta as well as just out of town to collect a variety of caches. Thank you to all the CO's who have placed and maintained around the city. It is appreciated!

Caching in and around Wangaratta finding many caches - this being one of them. Thank you to the CO for placing it in this location. TFTC

Nice easy find with Weirdobiker on our way back to the mega for day 2

Quick find on the way into Wangaratta while heading to day 2 of the mega

Another quick find. Wow we’re good. Kutgw

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz and Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC BettyBoo3747
Find #8388 at 10:53.

Last day of our caching trip before having to head home for work tomorrow.

Tankengine, Youban and I have enjoyed our time in Wangaratta and surrounding areas finding caches, attending all the events, playing with the gadget caches and catching up with friends.

It was a spectacular time and we commend the committee and volunteers for all their hard work setting up and running the Mega Event.

This cache: Found quickly as I could see the cache when I walked up to it. But not really noticeable to muggles. Tftc!!!

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.

I have joined forces with TeamAstro to attend the Wangaratta Mega.
We made a drive to the north of Wangaratta this afternoon in the heat to grab some caches. TFTC

Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

Out with Wollaston and SeasonedBird today. This is one of the caches we targeted and found thankyou for giving us the opportunity to explore.

Find No: 8312. Visiting from Newcastle, attending the Wangaratta MEGA, thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747!!

A great series. Lots of different caches. No cars. Excellent. TFTC.

Omegaman1971
Found whilst in town for the Mega event, awesome weekend Smashing out some smiles on the map. Big thanks to the committee and volunteers for all their hard work setting up and running the Mega Event.

Whilst some of my caching buddies are on their way to the friends of the maze event, thought I would do a few more before the rain hits.

Cheers for the cache

Another mint tin placed on a structure. It took a couple of minutes before I caught site of it.
Thanks tattboy1 and BettyBoo.

Found by Rebel Acts

I was in town for a week to attend the Mega event, I had a great time catching up with friends and caching around the area, we had lots of laughs and fun along the way.

This is one of the caches found during the week.

Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the cache.

In Wangaratta for the Mega, we traveled over early so we could get some local caching in. After stowing the shop in a storage shed so it wasn't bouncing around in the back of the car we set up in the caravan park and can now cache and explore. Today we headed out early to beat the heat but also we were on a timeframe! A quick find here. TFTC

January 10, 2022 12:17 PM

Another find to add a smiley to my map. Thx to The COs for placing and maintaining, hope the same can happen to the full rubbish bins here!

tricky when muggles about

**Find #: 7129**
**Date: Tue 9 Nov 2021**
Found exploring the E2W Rail Trail with PamJ.
A really nice day to be out on the trails.
**Thanks for placing this cache BettyBoo3747**

Found with geo-hubby gmj3191 while out on our bikes riding the trails around Wangaratta.
Thanks to the COs for placing these caches for us to find.

Nice day, TFTC!

Tricky find for shorties

awesome

Out on a sunny winter morning riding the Trail for a Pre-Mega maintenance run. A 20km return trip checking 20 caches and providing maintenance as required. Left some Wangaratta Mega Event cards along the way.

This one was nicely hidden where it should be, but I popped the log into a new plastic bag for easier retrieval.

Cache blindness here, and too cold atm too. Not sure if there or missing..

TFTC

It took quite a bit of looking and a look back through previous logs before Mr Ski finally said "there it is!" Thankfully she had Mr Ski there to retrieve it for her
Today we loaded up the bikes on the back of the car and traveled a bit further from the caravan park in the pursuit of the elusive yellow smilie! We had identified the rail tray as a great place to start, and with the magnificent weather Wangaratta is putting on for us we were looking forward to the ride. Needless to say we weren't let down. Lovely scenery, interesting spots to stop for a look around, and lots of smilies for us to log. All in all a great ride- 5 km out and back to the car, a bag load of smilies including a multi or two and only one DNF (until we got back to town that is!). Tomorrow we head back home, but would like to say thanks to Wangaratta CO's for the fun they have provided us. Very much appreciated. We will be back, hopefully before the mega for a few days.
TFTC