The Golden Cache.... Golden Beach, Victoria, Australia
By MADSTARS on 01-Feb-13. Waypoint GC457WK

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Genghicat and I are taking a drive to escape the 37 degree day. If cause there must be a cache to mark the day. The log book is pretty shredded and needs replacing. It looks pretty popular down here. Tftc

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Hi thank you so much I did find this geocash but I was disappointed that many of the items were unsanitary. Many of the items were hair ties and receipt plus a rock. But overall this was a great cash!

very fun cache not far from our campsite! Logbook definitely needs replacing though, we tried our best to fix it up a bit

Unterwegs mit Team df55 und Team Sunshineturtle Vielen Dank an MADSTARS frs Verstecken und Pflegen. Dies ist unser 1708 LG tabs1993 mit Cacher-Hund Mausi auch genannt TBA0VPR und Anhang

Auf unserer Tour Richtung Melbourne vorbei gekommen.

Gemeinsam mit den Teams df55 und Tabs1993 diesen Schatz signiert. Vielen Dank frs legen und pflegen des Caches.

Thanks for the cache. Nice hiding spot.

Another fun one:)

TFTC

Thanks for the find A perfect day to go geocaching

Found with dad and Elliot and mum on our holiday tftc

Find 4437 on December 27, 2023 10:31AMFound on our Gippsland holiday. We stayed at Sale for 2 nights and explored the area via the geocaching trail. Nice easy cache.TFTC MADSTARS

Tftc!

All good. Nice day today. Very little traffic.

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Quick grab

A quick grab as we headed to our camping spot on the coast for tonight

TFTC and greetings from Tassie

Found it not that quickly. Keep your hands clean.

I love Tom jones

Always a good day when out caching and finding them. Replaced logbook and grabbed plastic bag from ‘trade’ as other was cactus.
Thanks for the cache MADSTARS

Found with Moonb1
Thanks for the cache MADSTARS .

Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Tftc

It’s road trip time. With plenty of places out east that have yet to be explored, OzHockeyChick and I set off to see some sights in Gippsland.

Located the cache quickly here. The cache has no lid though.

Thanks MADSTARS for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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The last weekend of daylight savings - Time to head away for the weekend to the Latrobe Valley for some exploring, camping and caching with RoamingHowie.

A container with no lid, and so many squished up logbooks within. Left the Tom Jones CD for the next finder.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, MADSTARS
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I found the cache easily enuf but was mystified by the Tom Jones CD hidden with it Left it where it was.

TFTC MADSTARS

Enjoying Sth Gippsland today we are aiming to reach 20 or more in this LGA to help finalise a Challenge cache. Picking up long solved puzzles and selected caches we have ventured to many locations we have never explored before.
A quick stop off as we head to the nearby Virtual. A very unusual cache container here.
Thanks MADSTARS for the placement.

Someone has left a cd with this cache! What a great idea. Left it for the next traveler in need. TFTC

Too easy!

Thanks!

First find!

Easy find but you cache has no lid so things could get wet even though it is fairlyprotected

Found it

Nice easy find as advertised. Tftc and good luck others.

TFTC and the Tom Jones CD lol

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A trip to check out all the awesome places in eastern Victoria. TFTC.
Interesting area around here.

Found, tftc

TFTC
A quick easy roadside find

Quick find after spending a night camping at the beach. Was tempted by the CD but left for someone else to enjoy!

The losers found it

This was a good find coming out of golden beach great idea.

TFTC.


That's a great container it's in.

29/5/22 Downs family

Easy find. What a golden location

Find # 10754

Found while travelling with sharkiefan, on an extended long weekend.

Today we headed south to Loch Sport, back along the Shoreline Drive, adjacent to 90mile beach. Had a quick visit to Seaspray then back to Sale for the Arvo. After dinner we headed out multi hunting, and got a couple of trads too . This put us up in Maffra and we finally got back to the Motel just after midnight.

sharkiefan made a quick grab here. Love a good old simple find to keep me smiling.

TFTC MADSTARS

Found with FUF009.
We discussed that these hides dont really exist in NZ where I came from. I like them. Tftc

Nice quick grab on our way out of town. Tftc

A good little ride and grab while staying with MeandDe
TFTC!

Beautiful little village thanks for bringing us here

Nice spot love the container as well we put a mask in there for anyone the may need a spare it haven’t been used great spot loved it

Found it

Found Christmas Day by Shadowwoman - left TB 0K262P

We came down to Sale for the weekend to visit the Archibald Prize 2021 at the Gippsland Art Gallery. Grabbed this cache on a very wet weekend visiting Trinculo. TFTC

So lockdown is finally over in melbourne.
So me and the geo wife decide to head down to gipssland to a much needed get away and to do some caching.
Caching more on my part than hers.
So we started by heading down to a small place called The Honeysuckles stopping at a few caches on route.
Arriving we discovery, no electricity or water.. can't even flush toilets as water on electric pump...and of course no phone signal..
How am I going to find caches now?
So we have to pack up and head back up the road and ended in a motel in sale for a couple of nights.
A few days later power is restored and we are back in this beautiful beachside community.
After a few days we head towards Walkerville just across from Wilson prom. Was incredibly happy to find a cache directly behind the house we are staying in.

Anyway lots of caches found and TB's collected and some left.

Fairly quick find, log book is completely full and needs replacing.

Thanks for the hide and the cache
Log book signed and returned
Find #893

Found it on 21/10/21

Found it 21 oct 2021

TFTC. Nice view from here.

Found by teamRav 14/10/21 at 1310 TNLN

Good find

Nice quick find on a cold arvo


Log book needs replacing.

Tftc

Lovely quick find

Needs new paper name roll has got wet and running out of space

What can we say - nice - TFTC.

Nice found near a great bridge

A quick find enroute from the wreck of the Trinculo to our accommodation in Loch Sport.
TFTC

We found this one while we were camping nearby at Paradise Beach. tftc

On our way back to camp we made the quick stop in here and found your cache. tftc

found going home from a night camp at golden beach, left a diamond ...

Thanks for the great search. The kids loved it and were excited to find it themselves!

We found it. Nice fit. Charlie and Grandpa.

Having a great weekend getaway and found this cache on the road. A lot of rabbits and kangaroos around. TFTC

Whilst in Sale I was exploring the area and this cache was a quick stop along the journey.
My thanks to Madstars for the cache.
Regards
The Coffee's

Omg our 8 year old daughter loved finding this

Nice easy find on the way In

I'm out for a bike ride today and decided to pick up this cache as I passed. A nice view of the lakes from here.

Thanks for find #1787
TNLN

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Found it

Nice quick park and grab. All dry and happy but the bag of swaps is jammed way down at the bottom. Bring a king needle nosed pliers if you want them.

Found it on second try

Found it on our second try

Thanks found and left something

The kids had a blast! Thank you this was really fun and our first cache in Australia!

H

EMF

Daughter loves this one even in the rain. Thank you

Raemoz found it. Along with a LOTS & LOTS of mosquitoes ?? ????????disinfected cache

On way to home from Sale.
I had a great time finding your cache
MADSTARS, thank you so much for placing it.

Found by The Empire + H
After picking up a rare 'first to find' on the new 'wreck of the Trinculo' virtual cache at Ninety Mile Beach we were heading back to Sale to our accomodation for the night. A quick find here and back on the highway. Thanks for the cache MADSTARS.
- M

Quick find.
TFTC.

Fancy receptacle and a very easy find

Nice and easy.

TFTC

We had taken our picnic lunch down to the beach, the geokids had a play in the sand, got wet and the sun was shining.

We made a quick find here on our way home.

TFTC

CJJAHC

Have to be careful here on a sunny weekend as the road can be busy. We waited and then the junior clan member was in for the find and out before the older members were half way there
Log in good condition

Today, it's the 19th day of my trip in Australia and my 10th day between Melbourne and Sydney.

Today, I've got a long day trip again.
First I visit the Eden lookout and I started my road trip.

I stopped first in Lake Entrance and walk on the main beach walk.
Beautiful beach here.

After that I've gone to the Raymond Island. It's an amazing place. I see a lot of koala along the koala trail.

Next I've done a last stop at Golden Beach before finish my day at Yarram.

Hopefully, the Princes Highway was reopened and I can reach my destinations.
It was closed a long time so I was not sure I'll be opened at this time but finally, I was lucky it was reopened . The fire damages along the road were really impressive. Hundreds of kilometres of burned forests. Take care of you Australia.

I'm way back from Golden Beach I stopped here to do the cache.

Greetings from Belgium.

Thanks for this cache at this site .

Found it

We had a weekend break in Loch Sport and I was up and about early on a grey Sunday morning to get out and find a few caches before the rest of the family were up and about. After a couple of finds further west I was on my way back towards where we were staying in Loch Sport. This was just a small diversion towards the ocean beach and as the GPS counted down to GZ I could see a likely hiding spot. My hunch proved correct and I soon had the cache in hand. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache MADSTARS.

Camping at Seaspray and filling in a rainy summers day. Quick and easy find with wildflower and Cherrybomb in tow. TFTC ️