Woodlands 85 - Horse Riding Greenvale, Victoria, Australia
By Team_Woodlands on 19-Oct-11. Waypoint GC367PF

Found

Look down

ROOT OR GROOT

ROOT OR GROOT

Found it

Found it!

Got a bit turned around, but got here eventually

Tyftc

Nice and easy once I was on the correct side of the fence. Tftc

Nice

4m off the coordinates for us but not too hard to find.

About 5 m off for me but still within range. Quick find though. Lovely peaceful day, no rain in sight, a great day for caching TFTC W074.

TFTC - Team ROC/Zeug

LG found it

Checked on this one today.Changed the log.Sharpened the pencil.All good to be found.

After a hiatus of 4 years we are back again to find some more of this series. Found ourselves a safe parking spot and set off on foot in the big park amongst the kangaroos and the big trees. SL at 12.15pm #10,987 TFTC

Wrong side of a fence again today. TFTC and SL at 15:40pm.

TFTC.....nice quick find, I signed the log and on we walked....."horse riding" is definitely an apt cache name, as we walked amongst the horseshoe prints

Log a bit wet

Out for a day with my Geobro - signed as YAWT - TFTC

TFTC

TFTC.

Thanks

Started on the wrong side of the fence but once we changed sides it was a really easy find

Find

Very exposed but found it

Found it! My partner was electrocuted TFTC

On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. From day 49/74, I was accompanied by my dear son, geocacher Ruupertti, who travelled from Finland to visit me in Australia and to spend a holiday with me in New Zealand at the end of my secondment. Day 50/74, Monday. After we both (me and my son) worked the day remotely from our AirBnB apartment in Keilor Downs, we headed to the lovely Woodlands Historic Park in early evening. We saw so many kangaroos again, and the geocaches too. We had so much fun! Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Tftc

Out and about today coming back from Epping to get the Jetski serviced. Thought i'd stop in here for the day to start my journey on the Woodlands caches. Managed to tick off a good 20 or so before receiving the phone call to come back and pick the ski up again.Thanks for the caches, All looked to be in good working order and condition, unless otherwise stated.

After a morning inside for a bowling tournament we wanted to make the most of the afternoon and get out walking. Came to Woodlands for the fourth time hoping to get the last ones from here. Thanks for this great series!

Found

Found it wow

A little tricky.

Yay

After having just spent a lovely week with my family, it was time for them to return home. I dropped them off at the airport for their early morning flight then made my way back out to this area for my second visit to find the Woodlands series of caches. I found eight caches during my previous visit here but today, with much more spare time available, I was determined to find many more. Unfortunately I was unable to find all the remaining caches during this visit, so I will definitely be returning for at least a third time in the near future.As I was now making the return journey to the front car park, I realised I still had a little bit of extra time in the day to find a few more caches. I decided to begin making my way down this path to see if I could claim a few extra finds. I managed to find this cache quickly and easily which was great. The log in the cache was a little bit damp but still signable so, after writing my name in the logsheet, I rehid the cache and continued on my way.TFTC

Having attended a recent event in Brisbane where a fellow cacher brought my attention to the geo tour in Ballarat and its up coming finish in February, i knew this was something I had to make an effort to get to.I also quickly realised that the attribute for the geo tour is the last one I need to achieve a personal challenge so the planning began.Today is day three of the mission and Ive completed the geo art and the tour so Im very happy. Todays mission is to get to 100 in this local LGA and then head towards Sunbury in the hope to pick up another 25 to also reach 100 in that LGA before my flight out tonight. Obviously this is for a local challenge cache at home. What else. Unfortunately I missed the events in Castlemaine. Time got the better of me.I jumped in The geowagon and ventured off the o soon find a nice parking spot. A short stroll later soon found me at ground zero. It wasnt long before cache was found and my name was printed for prosperity. I returned the cache to its hiding space and made my way back to the car. Ready to head to the next adventureA big thanks to the cache owners of Ballarat for making this cache available to be found.Cheers

Michael bay

I was on the wrong side of the fence but still made a quick find.

My kids and hubby are at two different camps with Scouts. I set myself a goal to complete this series so I could sign off a Challenge cache of 100 caches owned by one CO. Unfortunately, five are behind a locked, fenced off area for Eastern Barred Bandicoot. It was an amazing day with the weather being perfect. I started at 11am & finished at 5pm. Big day!!

TFTC

Exploring different parts of the Woodlands, trying to get to 900. Nearly there this was 881. TFTC.

So many fences! Tftc

After spending 10min a on the wrong side of the fence, Snips&Co finally volunteered to go and grab the gem! TFTC

Enjoyed a lovely day here with excellent company of moonbi and even the weather was on our side. With a long day walking around managed to find almost half the caches on offer. We will be back Thanks for all the work that has gone into placing and maintaining this great series

I was in the area after dropping my partner and daughter off at the airport. This was my third visit and I'm slowly plugging my way through the entire series. I walked a little over 13km on this cool June day.

I found doing these today was much better compared to the summer months as there really isn't a lot of tree over. All these were found easily using the hints provided. Thanks for the series, I'll probably finish it on the next run -

A huge day out with a total of 69 caches found for the day (including #100 for me and #1000 for jaamc_3335). A big thank you to team TACKT for inviting me along for the adventure and Team Woodlands for placing and maintaining all the logs!

Quick find for team TACKT+C - TFTC

Out and about with Team T.A.C.K.T including Jaamc, Kpatt and tag along cazzajane07. We had a goal to tackle this series to help cover milestones for some of our members, 69 caches down, 20km of park explored and we had a blast, there was laughter, tears, the occasional swear as we took on the long hike and we all had a fantastic day out with the team :3

On a beautiful sunny winters day Team TACKT + C set off for on our mission, nice quick find, thanks for placing this series

Tftc

Tftc

Thanks for the cache

Very good

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Au Fait and I had a lovely walk doing the caches in this loop. It was nice to walk in this area with the trees, stumps and posts all telling their own story.
Thanks for the caches Team_Woodlands.

Found good spot

Found it

Day 2 of this set, find 27/100.

Frat spot

Loaded up the deadly treadly and headed off for another few hours at Woodlands.
Completed a small loop starting at the southern car park, and doing several eastern caches.

A nice little single track along the fence here.
Thanks, Robmc.

Quick find during a hike in the park.
Thanks for the cache & Greetings from Switzerland
Smurfy_CH

TFTC

Had to do a bit of fence jumping to get this one! TFTC

Nice find.

Great hide, almost missed it but glad I kept looking.

Found it

TwoEms read the hint and thought we’d find some distinct or elaborate natural wonder. This was a mistake—Thank you for the cache.

I want to eat m&m’s now

TFTC

This is the second attempt to find this one, but I just can’t do it. I don’t usually DNF lightly but I’ve made two good goes of it now and checked what I believe to be all the hint items but no luck. Maybe my GPS accuracy isn’t high enough, but I broadened search up to 10m away and still no luck. Oh well.

tftc

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to Team_Woodlands for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Great series. I thought I'd incorporate Geocaching with a trail run through this lovely park on a weekend visit to Melbourne. Thank you

Find No. 3945. Found with FUF009.

A day trip down to do the Woodland series of caches.
Took our bicycles and FUF009 came with us.
Arrived at the gate, unloaded our bikes, had a cuppa and off we went getting our first cache at 8.55am.
We worked our way through the series stopping several times to watch the coming and going of the jets at Tullamarine.
After a long warm day with several challenges, we arrived back at the car park for a rest and well earned cuppa.
We put the clues together, punched in the co-ords and went and claimed the final cache of the series.

TFTC

Find # 11491

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

Well this has been a long time coming, to do the Woodlands caches. Many a plan has fallen through due to health and pandemic and work issues. But finally all was on our side for a cracker geocaching day to end 2022.

With bikes loaded up we were off, left St.Arnaud just before 6am and had the first cache signed at 8.55am. Then it was just one by one, following the GPSr.

From flowing trails to bush bashing (with and without tall grass) and even a bit of water, we had a lot. All the while the sounds of planes going overhead, birds around and the odd 100 roos thumping the ground when we disturbed them.

We managed to make good time and accomplish all we set out to do. Despite the heat and a couple of hills I had to walk up.

We believe luck was on our side with the back paddock being opened, after seeing so many had commented on it being shut.

All in All, personally, it was great to finally get this series done with a couple others thrown in that are in the park.

Oh and by the way, we got back home just after 9.30pm. A big days outing.

TFTC Team_Woodlands

TFTC

Out and about on our 3rd visit to complete this series. Full log will be on final.
TFTC

We had arranged to meet Crustyvarmint (together his faithful sidekick, Pilot) and RedcbBlueBM to tackle some of this series of caches. Apologies for some generic logs. The weather was good and the caches we tackled were all found after short searches. It was nice to see some variety in the type of hides. We ended up finding 15 caches collecting clues when provided before heading back to our cars and lunch after which we went our separate ways. At times we had an audience of kangaroos but otherwise Woodlands was fairly quiet. In some spots it didn't pay to stand still due to the numbers of ants! Thanks to Team Woodlands for the cache.

A day out with Crustyvarmint and Lynjoh to get some caches here. I thoroughly enjoyed the day and the company. Thanks CO for these caches.

Weather was lovely for caching today as Lynjoh, Redcb, Pilot and I spent some time walking in the reserve. We found all the caches we looked for, and returned to the cars suitably exhausted.
Thanks for the series, Team Woodlands.

Back for a second try today after a DNF yesterday, approached this cache from a different angle today and soon had it in hand yay ..small happy dance..

Not this time GPS kept bouncing

After picking jo2022nz up from the airport, we had plenty of daylight left so decided a walk thru the Woodlands was in order to grab a few caches and to get jo2022nz her 500th cache. I've already completed half this series but hadn't yet grabbed this one. It was a quick find and we headed off to grab some more before the mozzies got the better of us. We were delighted by the number of kangaroos we saw and how close we could get to them. Nice hide TFTC

Such a long day today, flying from Wellington to Queenstown to Melbourne. I had bribed TBS to pick me up from the airport as I didn’t fancy staying in a hotel and getting up at 5am to catch a train back home.
As always, TBS made a slight detour so that I could grab a few caches and also grab a few for himself.
A nice evening stroll around the Woodlands was just what I needed after spending most of the day sitting on a plane.
So many kangaroos out here. It would be so nice to pick up my house, plonk it in the middle of the reserve, look out the window and watch the world go by.
In the end the mozzies got the better of us so we left for the long drive back.
TFTC I hope to be back to complete the series soon.

Managed to find the right tree in the end! TFTC

*Found on the 10 Dec 2022 @ 11:22 am.*
*Cache find # 13763.*

Today I returned to Woodlands with biggles1024 in the hope of finally finishing this series after talking about doing it for many years, I was able to get all of the caches needed except for 9 caches that are in the back paddock that we have not found as it was locked up and we were locked out so another visit in the future will be needed.
The caches today where all found fairly quickly and most of them had a new log sheet in them which was stamped as we continued from one to the next.

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

**10/12/2022, 11:21:00**
**Find #4985**
**Traditional Find #3117**

Steve and I returned to Woodlands Park today to try and complete the series. The weather was perfect, but part of the park was closed so we will have to make a third trip some time in the future.

**Thank-you to Team_Woodlands for placing this geocache**

Checked on this one today
Log replaced
Pencil sharpened
All good to go

Last one for the day.

On our deadly treadleys, catnap777 and I were on a challenge mission hoping to find as many caches out here as we could that have had 500 visitors or more.
The Woodlands proved very bountiful. [^]

We made sure we were back at our starting point before the gates were locked, moved the car, and rode straight back in again for just a few more including this one.
This game can be somewhat addictive.
TFTC&Series Team_Woodlands.

Found cache and log signed with dalerious on what was my first visit to this wonderful place.

It was a lovely ride around here, and it was lovely to see so many visitors to the area.
The grounds were beautiful and seeing the Thoroughbreds on our journey brought back memories of when I was in the industry as a strapper and owner.

The weather was wet at times, but that didn't hamper our plans.
Can't wait to get back and do it all again.

Speedy recovery Team_Woodlands .

Fun find

Done

Took a while

Our second visit to Woodlands to collect some more caches, this time we took the geo-pup.
Cache 10 of 26 for the day.
TFTC

Found it

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