Up, Up & Away Mangalore, Victoria, Australia
By BernieH on 05-Apr-13. Waypoint GC4947H

On a day trip with Smrff78 and Grub62. Grub62 found this cache while I was looking elsewhere. Very well camouflaged. Thanks for the entertainment and TFTC.

Tricky, Tricky, Tricky !! .. But soon. "Hip Hip Horay !!" Do the HAPPY DANCE !! Found it, with Grubb62 & Bundoorian !! SL,TFTC

Out for a day of adventure with Smrff78 and bunadoorian enroute to Echuca and Moama. I choose this cache as it was in a new LGA for Smrff78 and a place bunadoorian and I had never been to. I found this cache first while the other two were looking elsewhere. TFTC and for bringing us here BernieH. We had our morning tea nearby watching light planes practising landing and takeoffs.

TFTF

Wow, BernieH! I always thought I had a knack for creating devious caches, but this one definitely takes the cake. It's easily in my top ten for being devilishly clever and downright evil. Crusty and I were on the verge of throwing in the towel after what felt like an eternity of searching. We scrutinized every inch of the area, convinced we had covered all the bases. I swear I checked that particular spot four times, inch by inch, and still came up empty-handed! Then, out of the blue, Derek casually says, 'Oh, there it is.' I couldnt believe my eyes! How on earth did we miss it? Its like it magically appeared out of nowhere! Kudos to you for such a brilliant hide, BernieH. This was a real brain-teaser and a fantastic find. Thanks for the challenge!

After caching around Rushworth yesterday, Juzzmagic and I turned off the highway to locate this cache today. The description of the cache had us looking for something different, but reading previous logs had us looking for something else. Even then, it took us some time to discover the devilish device.Thanks for placing the cache, BernieH

Lower to the ground than we thought it would be, but still in the green stuffTFTC

We were just about to give up, in fact I thought we had given up when I heard "found it!". I think the original container format would have been nicer - this is pure evil!

We were accidental tourists here having missed the turnoff even though the GPS was politely reminding us how easy it is to ignore it nowadays. All good though, we drove up the quiet road and all hopped out. If it wasn't for Spiffy's spotting we could have been here for a while - a well camouflaged cache. I was surprised as it was not quite what I was expecting, or looking for!Thanks BernieH

A plan was hatched to go to my first Central Victorian geocaching event so we headed off with Snips and Co for a one day road trip from the south of Melbourne up to Tatura.While chatting along the highway I wasn't concentrating properly and mixed my exit so it randomly took us near the airport and this cache with a short diversion. My keen eye soon spotted this one and we headed on our way.Thanks BernieH for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Halfway back to the car. Decided to do one last search. Right choice.Nice cache, though it wasn't quite as described in the description.

Found after some searching. Ending up finding something MUCH smaller than in the description good find

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Found remains of plastic tub and mini figures

just no look in evrey nook and nranie for 20 min there was no slover thing a since its a 1/2 leiter it was really hard or gone

Date: 23 December 2023 Time: 10:54 amFind #14331On the way to Nagambie for a family Christmas do, but had heaps of time so stopped for some caches along the way.Massive thanks go to BernieH for placing this one.

we looked high and low but did not,ah well.

A quick grab on our way to Melbourne. TFTC!

Visiting a muggle friend (who very thankfully is happy to cache with me) - together made this easy find

Great stop on a drive around the area and saw a few planes taking off

Nice one. TFTC

While up in Shepparton for the Running Festival, we kicked off the weekend with the Euroa Parkrun, then breakfast in town. Then, off exploring the area to tick of the few caches we had left in the area
Nice easy find tftc

Found, thanks

Thanks for the quick find. Some interesting history.
A local bird came and said hi while I was signing the log. And some explosion noise coming from the army base not too far away.

Nice find with the geokids!

TFTC

Found

Visiting friends at the airport, of course we had to stop at this one on the way out.
Thanks!

got this one wen i was out on a job today thanks BernieH

Container replaced.
All good to go, now come and find it!

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Think this one is gone

Couldn’t see it

Cache not there

Doing caches around Seymour today I’d thought I’d venture out to do this as well. Easy find on this very drizzly wet day. No planes or gliders spotted. TFTC

Happy Australia Day everyone and it looks like it’s a good day to go for a drive and pick up a few caches up north of Melbourne.
Air con and cruise control on, plenty of water in the fridge so off I go.
After spending the morning in Seymour and nearly clearing that town out of caches it was time to keep heading North to the next town which is Longwood.
After completing Longwood, it was time to head back towards Melbourne but I took the old Hume Hwy through Locksley and then Avenel.
Spotted this one on the map and remembering my brother in law used to work at Mangalore Airport and since it was not that much out of the way time to make it a smiley.
Pasted Kestrel on the way in which has a nice set up and then realised who they were, a very nice chopper set up.
A nice entrance road in and with a great set of coords I soon added my name to the log.

Thanks BernieH TFTC.

T.F. T. C. A nice easy find.

28 November 2021
12:13 pm
1189
Many thanks BernieH for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

After a long period of covid inspired non-caching, I finally got a chance to knock over a few on the way to Nagambie.

TB drop

Easy find..left some swag TFTC

First find out of lockdown, got the caravan out and doing a few!

An easy find while at mangalore assisting a friend with his twice yearly aerial wildlife survey.

Was over this way fulfilling a requirement of a wherigo cache I'm working on so thought I'd mark off another day on the calendar with this quick park and grab. These trees are great for hiding caches. TFTC

Found whilst plane spotting.

Have driven so close to this one so many times but have never been able to stop ………… til today. On our way to Melbourne and took this little detour. After signing the log we pulled over to say hello to some very new lambs
TFTC

All was quiet wile I drove in and made the find. Thanks BernieH.

Found on our way to Cobram

Found on my way from Seymour to Nagambie to do a reccy for tomorrow. After turning too soon, once at GZ the cache was quickly found.

Thanks for being part of my adventures.

A nice quick park and grab here, not a muggle in sight!

Interesting place to come - hadn't heard of it before. Great hiding spot, the coordinates were dead on!

Short little drive out of town for this quick find. TFTC

14:32
While observing the current restrictions and guidelines to stay safe during the Covid 19 pandemic, this is one of the caches we found as we made our way to Toolamba.
A somewhat hesitant approach here as evidence of extensive tree trimming covered the roadsides and a worker near by. Yes the cache was still in tact and we had an interesting chat with the grounds staff.

Our thanks to 'BernieH' for adding this cache to the geo-gameboard.
26792

*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

January 5, 2020 2:59 PM
Easy find here today by Mrs Perpetuallylost. The two tawny frogmouth owls in this tree didn't appreciate us being here though!
Thx BernieH ftc, we enjoyed touring around the district today on a wet day.

Been meaning to find this for ages, today was the day. Thanks

Well hidden cache tfc

#3782

After an amazing few days at the St Arnaud Mega, it was time to start the long journey home to Sydney with Tardis0061. Of course we would take the opportunity to visit a few additional LGAs as well as add some more numbers to our Vic Sudoku grid.

My iPhone was sending me in circles at this cache but once we had the right area, Tardis made a quick find.

TFTC BernieH

Found this one on a road trip back to Sydney collecting LGA and Victoria largest Sudoku Thanks to crash2079 for teaming up and Thanks BernieH cache for the placement Cheers

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Found it with the Warrens

Got it with DaleyEvents. Watched a remote control fighter jet - very cool

With "local" caches getting further and further away, maybe I should consider using this place as a home base. Plenty of very useful looking TOTTs just sitting around here.
Thanks BernieH for my midweek fix with this clean dry driveby cache found signed and returned in good condition.

Found by team Eagles

2667 fltf

Tftc!

A quick drive by on our way home from Easter in Nagambie. Tftc

Mr Team GBS loves aeroplanes ️ and so of course we had to come and search for this cache, which we soon found once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and for the interesting information on the cache page. Greetings from Zimbabwe

Easy find tftc

Good hide

Rex and I headed to Melbourne for the day as I had a job interview there. I didn't get the job but I do now have a job in a wonderful workplace with an amazing team [^][:X]

Only 3 caches were looked for today but we found all 3

Almost midnight and I still managed to get muggled out here by a lovely man whose friend owns the airport!
We chatted for ages and I learned about his elderly and ill mother who he had come here to see but had instead spent his time here in hospital after contracting an illness himself [xx(]
He liked Rex and shared his tea with him
Finally I've gotten this closest to the road cache out off of the GPSr now... might be time to tackle the CO's other closest to the road cache soon!

As I have been about 8 months behind in logging, I'm resorting to template logs to catch up.
My heartfelt thanks to the COs who have placed some tricky, funny, exercise required, scary, interesting and devious caches in some amazing spots! [^]
Rex and I have had some amazing adventures and enjoyed some incredible moments thanks to this fantastic hobby

TNLN. SL. TFTC BernieH

Tftc found by inspector rex and wife Marlien easy find

24 August 2018 15:09

Found today. After hunting around for about half an hour with no luck, I called the CO who confirmed I had been looking in the right place. Apparantly the cache has gone awol again. With the CO'S permission, I have done some maintenance and replaced the cache and log.

Thanks BernieH for bringing me here on this lovely day.

Second cache on Sunday drive. Quick stop. TFTC

New container in place, all good to go

Maintenance done, come and find it

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Will be doing maintenance this weekend

Disabling until I can check it out.

Couldn't find it at all think it might be missing abit disappointing

this is missing. Not there.

Despite how easy everyone said it was to find. Geo kids, hubby and I looked for a while but no lucky! Kids tummy’s hungry so we have to move on...

Quickly stopped via to Albury - Wodonga for Australian Deaf Games
Found it
Thanks BernieH

Heading home to Echuca but could not pass this one by.
Found, signed and replaced for the next cacher to find.

Thanks heaps BernieH

Little Squirell

Headed up to Shepparton to cache with locus cache until late in the night. TFTC.

not so small after all
TFTC

Out n about with AESPL. Nice easy find. Beautiful arvo, found a nice shady spot to park. TFTC.

At break of

We are on a school holiday drive to annoy the teen. Couldn't resist a photo of the yellow canola fields and a cache. Thanks for placing Up, Up & Away so we could find it.
Thanks BernieH

This was our last day here in Echuca and we had a few more solved puzzles to grab. The weather was fantastic and we thoroughly enjoyed another day here. Once again, thanks to the CO's for their efforts. We can't wait to return here. We grabbed a few on the way home to Geelong as well. TFTC BernieH

Day out for a family outing to do some cache finding. TFTC.

On my way home from a caching weekend around glenrowan this was my last one of the day.
Cache is in good order..TFTC berni.h

Just got into this and I love it thank you

On a little road trip with a friend on a day off from uni. Decided to stop off and do some geocaching while exploring

This is our very first geocache with out our friends

Lots of fun

Persistence pays off. Great little spot on this fine day. Tftc

Thanks for the history and this relatively easy cache BernieH.

At Tabilk for weekend. TFTC.

An interesting drive to a place my father used to talk about. He was in the RAAF during the war but don't know what connection there might have been. A quick find at 13:00. TFTC

A quick and easy drive by while we were in the area. We even scored a First To Find,on the replacement log book anyway. LOL Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Checked out after a couple of DNF's and discovered nothing, cache gone, replaced with a new everything.
**All good to go...**

Think it might be gone

no luck