Ghostly Bridge Miners Rest, Victoria, Australia
By Shamus1 on 22-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4NTG7

Too many rocks to check. Two people couldn't find it...

Too many

Found but the log was pretty soggy might wanna replace it

Boom. Love it. For an old girl I didn't do to bad. Tftc. Found

Found 8/4/24

Tftc!

we often talk with friends and discuss how much we would have loved the ten-cent recycling scheme to be around when we were kidsso often wed spend a long daybe it after schoolon a weekendor during those endless summer holidayswalking around the local creek or the local parks, exploring, chatting, wiling away the hoursif the ten-cent recycling scheme was around then, we would have spent countless hours scouring every skate park, service station, abandoned carpark for that glint of a coke can or canadian club bottlehereunder this bridgewould have been the prime sort of spotall manner of junk washing in down the creektossed from passing cars aboveleft by the local graffitiists tossing their junksoas we would have donewe picked up a few bottlestossed them in the backseatand we'll get out ten cents back someday soon

Cleaning up a few caches in Miners Rest and once at GZ here, my heart sank. Luckily the cache was not completely covered and I spied it rather quickly. The log book was soaked and just a mess, however the single log sheet was rather dry. I removed the log book dumped it, and placed the log sheet in the plastic bag, so all should be good. Thanks Shamus1...an interesting story, don't think I'll hang around here at night though.

Found it quickly. Log is saturated. TFTC

Sunday already and we're working our way through the geotour caches. Weather is not on our side, so all is a bit harder then needed. Still having heaps of fun!TFTC Wilbert67

We're working our way through the geotour caches and others, this will be another memorable caching trip, a little more challenging due to the weather . Still it's great to be outdoors ans collecting smileys.TFTC J+J.au

Found the lil cache. Some contents saturated. Thanks you.

Found it but didn't sign log as very wet. Tftc

Heading to Ballarat for a CITO and an event, but had some spare time beforehand. It could have taken a while, but I was lucky that I found it straight away.



My thanks to Shamus1 for the cache.

Nice quick easy find surely did not see no ghost today what a bugger

Taking my gran out for lunch in Clunes and she decided that we should find some together!

Quick find here, after scrambling down..
TNLNSL
Thanks

with the last find on 25.12.2021 and the recent floods i was wondering if this cache was even going to be here. crawled under the bridge and started looking. some of the rocks underneath have been washed away. looked some more and found the cache. 1/2 full of water, emptied that out and replced the soaked log. at least the spor that hides cache saved it from beening washed away. over a year unloved.
Left with Mogni the day before Christmas to go down to Mount Gambier for Christmas Day. Then on the 27th left for Victoria. Plan A was to go to the Ottway Rangers, complete the Geo tour in Ballarat and then head to Geelong and take the Queenscliff ferry over to Sorrento then grabbing new LGA's on route to almost the New South Wales/Victoria border and the old 2001 cache near there. Also attending a community day event, a CITO and a couple of other events as well. Then head in to the high country and come back to SA in 11 days. Things didn't go to plan. Turns out that one of my almost new tyres was defective ( side wall blown out ) and blew in the ottway ranges on a narrow road in the rainforest, Drove to Melton to stay overnight and get a new tyre there, tyre machine broken and the other 5 tyre companies not open so off to geelong for a new tyre ( and some caches on the way and in geelong ) . The event we where going to attend in geelong didn't turn out, he was late by ALOT to his own event.Then to ballarat to same day since we had a b&b booked for the next few nights. Planned on getting the ferry at 1200 and ended up on the 400 pm ferry but we did attend a event and CITO in geelong. Then we drive into the rear end of a thunder storm with forecast 20 mm dropping for the next few days. Cancel the high country and change targets to letterbox D/T for fizzy grid only using letterboxes and same wirh the multi fizzy grid plus fizzy grid only using victorian caches plus any challenge caches we where near. Plus getting a few more victorian 2001 caches. And finally any caches that had 40 more more favourite points. Only got soaked to the bone for a couple of days but the water on the tracks was noticeable. On the return home tried to get the rest of the missing LGA's around the Melbourne CBD i missed in the last mega. Still a fun trip was had if not the planned one.

On a Christmas Holiday with sir_spectre, visiting family in Mount Gambier and then on to Victoria to visit some new places as well as some old haunts.
Thanks to Shamus1 from mogni

I dont have the patience for this one tonight, ill leave it for another day.

Out on caching adventures with Wollaston.

Thanks to the CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain these hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with stamp

TFTC Shamus1

Find # 5120

Merry Christmas. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC Shamus1
Find #7480 at 14:13.

Found
Good hide
Look out if there’s a flood

Awesome. No ghosts but definitely two creeps

What a great little spot awesome cache. Tftc

Found by Rebel Acts

With two Events in Avoca, I decided a three day trip would be great, That would give Me time to explore the area and do a handful of the many caches on offer in this region. The weather was fantastic with nice sunny days but the nights sure were chilly with ice on the windscreen each morning. I saw many places and learnt a lot of history on the trip. The Main towns I visited were Avoca, Maryborough, Talbot, Clunes and Creswick.

This was one of the caches I found in My travels. No Ghost today but I did find a cache.

Thanks Shamus1 for the cache.

Ive driven past this spot many times, finally ticked it off the list

#510! That was a bit of fun! TFTC NicandPaul!

TFTC! Found easily today, but on a mission to keep warm! At least it’s dry under here!

We are in Ballarat for a few days to complete the GeoTour. After stopping nearby we made our way to GZ. A few muggles on the nearby bike track to be aware of. A scramble over rocks and a quick find. Thanks to Shamus1 for the cache.

Found with sallymally616

Found )

Impossible to find.

Tftc. 2nd time around no muggles. Easy on the wrong side of the bridge. Searched a while. Ended up getting all the spiderwebs. So no more spiders or ghosts seen today. Under the rock. £%$@ which rock!!!

No ghosts,
no fishertypes,
no trolls
And a quick cache find was mine,
all mine !!

TFTC.

Found it!

Left this one for another day. A muggle fishing under the bridge with his bicycle.

No ghost, or trolls to be seen, just lots of rocks!

4:54 pm #8591
Using very carefully planted footsteps due to lots of unstable rocks, we made our way to the cache without incident.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Shamus1

Was a little concerned when we saw all the rocks but luckily this was a fairly quick find. Didn't hurt that there were three of us searching. Thanks for the cache.

No ghost to be seen but it was daylight. Maybe better luck at night. The find was quickly made, the log signed and onto the next cache. Thanks for placing this here.

Caching in the area we picked up a few caches in the area and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found on my way to Wedderburn to be in commuting range of the Mega event at St Arnaud. This was an easy find but I didn't see any young girl around normal or ghostly which I consider a good thing TFTC.

Tftc

MYOB conference now finished RoddyC and hatzoff heading out of town for some catchup time.

Our last day in the area today. Picking up caches as we go.

TFTC Shamus1

Today, after 3 days at Raglan with chooknchunk, Hatzofff and I are geocaching our way back to Melbourne for three nights before heading back to Queensland.

Lots of flowing water.

Log signed and replaced on August 26, 2019 at 3:02 PM. TFTC, Shamus1.

A late decision to go to Ballarat today to attend two Events and to grab the four remaining jewels required for the current souvenir hunt.
After attending two Events in Ballarat, one social and the other a Tree planting CITO it was time to do a little hunting.
I had my very good friend Faye (au.fait) for company who is an excellent navigator and a good hunter so I had the best of both worlds.
The day started with frost everywhere and the White Beast telling me to be careful of the roads due to ice as the outside temperature was only two degrees.
This little guy took longer to locate and the hint is crap because there are hundreds of rocks.

Travelling in the food company of Bushfire we headed more northerly for a full day of caching and an ambitiously long list of caches to try and find. No ghosts about today but found a cache instead. TFTC Shamus1

2nd time here. This time in the light found the tricky little bugger!

Ty

I have been here befor but with no luck. I drive over the bridge almost every day and its always in the back of my mind saying i should pull over and give it another go so on this Sunday morning milk run to the shop for my morning coffee I pulled over and within about 2 minutes I had the cache in hand. from me TFTC. SL

Heading west to enjoy my week off and since it was during the day no ghost was seen today.
Had a poke around in a couple of spots then soon added my name to the log.
Thanks Shamus1 TFTC.

Very tricky, wearing thongs probably wasn't the best idea TFTC

Lots of rocks

A little search and scrabble but success in the end

TFTC. Signed and returned.
Out with my daughter getting a few smilies.

TFTC. I drive past this cache every Thursday on trips to Ballarat. Tonight we had the opportunity to stop and search. It took us some time but then came up trumps. I had looked there before, but not deep enough. Now to head home to Maryborough.

Mission one for the day was cache our way to the Event in Ballan. Mission two was to cache our way to Ballarat and find a cache with a specific hidden date to help complete my hidden date calendar. With mission one and two completed it was time for mission three, cache our way to Clunes via Coghills Creek to grab another cache I need to complete my hidden date calendar.
Neville_devil lead me astray when approaching GZ. He was sure it was on the wrong side of the road and I blindly followed before I had got my GPS out. My socks were covered needlessly in grass seeds by the time I waded through the long grass and back under the bridge to where I needed to be. A quick find once I finally reach GZ though.
Thank you Shamus1 for the hide

Nice find

This log is to tidy up a mess I made with GSAK . I forgot to apply the template so my finds were published with a nonsensical log.

Rather than try and edit all the logs I post this not with what the log should have been.

My apologies for the confusion caused.




A few days away with Freddo, e.gregory1 and The White Dog Gang.

Fun was had by all. Not too many dnfs

Most logs signed as FETT.

Thanks for all the caches.

Claiming a find as a beta tester.

Too much glitter for my liking.

Found whilst touring Geelong & Ballarat areas between Xmas & New Year with Freddo, Team Waldron and e.gregory1 - we've signed as F.E.T.T.
Some pretty hot days but great scenery and good co-ords & caches hides made for an enjoyable trip
TFTC Shamus1

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for a fun cache guys. Love your work. We signed the logbook. Warning this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.

Found on a short, post-Christmas sojourn to Victoria with Freddo, Team Waldron and thewhitedoggang that involved plenty of driving, cycling, walking and even some boating and wading.

The weather was on our side (albeit a little warm at times), which made for some great caching. There were plenty of varied finds, with some excellent and often tricky hides and and just a few DNFs. We signed most logbooks ‘F.E.T.T.’

Thanks Shamus1 for the cache.

Day 2 of our epic 12 day / 10 night trek to the Parkville Mega in Melbourne.
The constant was my travel companions for the entire trip, - Anymules and S.A. Sewer Rats but we were joined by almost local cacher Bushfire for a lot of the escapades So to save space in the logs we usually just wrote our initials BABS to save space. As we met and cached with other teams along the way more and more initials were added.
Today we had the pleasure of the company of Muff1, Goodlook, Wozzle68 and later Bushfire and Suscoe. So today we became GWAMBS. [:o)]

After a morning paddle it was time to say goodbye to bushfire and Suscoe and head up into the forest and grab the Christmas down under series, and head for the challenge cache series. [:X] That done and it was now time to cache our way back to our digs. [8)] Anymules found this one before I even had a chance to look. So I took a phot instead.

**Thanks Shamus1 for this cache. **

A short scurry across the rocks and the cache was quickly located. Log book signed as GAMBS.

Thanks for the cache Shamus1.
Found on 14 Nov 2018 at 7:29 pm.
Find #7476

Stopped by here to find the cache.
No ghostly figures were seen.
Cache was located.
Log signed as GAMBS. tftc

Obvious location. Thanks for the cache! Found with Tungie at 2AM.

Made the find despite the hint. TFTC

Found it ! TNLN. Cache is in good condition, the bag needs replacing but container is good. No travel bug. TFTC

Found this one when I decided it was to unstable for me. Dad decided to snatch this one up after we both almost fell. The cache did not have a travelbug like it said though. Nice hide TFTC.

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late and generic log, something I am notorious for. Thank you Shamus1for adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

After flying to Melbourne for the weekend (to celebrate Wozzle68's 50th birthday), micaparamedic and I stopped here on our way from the airport to Ballarat.

Loads of rocks and water here today.

Thanks so much for the cache!

*29 Jul 2018, Found @ 3:06 pm, Find # 8147.*

Today I headed to Ballarat to attend a CITO event and find a few unknown caches so I can meet a challenge of 1000 puzzle cache find, with both of those tasks completed, it was now time to find a few other caches around Ballarat, the big problem now that was before me was the bands of rain that kept on sweeping through the area.
I headed to this one next and carefully made my way to where I needed to be, with a bit of light on the subject, the cache was spotted quickly and the log was signed.
No ghosts were seen on the finding of this cache, maybe it was too wet and not dark enough.

**Thanks to Shamus1 for placing this cache.**

Quick find for kids. Picked up trackable. Tftc

Trackable drop off today

Back in June last year i had a quick unsuccessful search here but it was well after midnight and i was not suitably attired for rummaging around spider-web infested, rocky terrained creek beds. I had finished work at my supermarket job at midnight and was on my way home from finding a nearby mystery cache final when foolishly i thought this would be a quick find while i was in the area....haha.
More than six months later I've finally managed to get back here as family Perpetuallylost were on their way back from the Maryborough Sunday Market and i managed to convince the geowife to stop here and let me have another look. Probably should have swapped the thongs for better shoes but i managed to get under the bridge ok where i finally came across the hide. Still wasn't easy but a bit of careful observance for future caches will yield successful results! Thx Shamus 1, nothing spooky here today, just caches! Cheers

the place where we found this, it was very over grown.
A bit of advice though, WATCH OUT FOR THE SPIDERS!!!
TFTC
Found with emma_sunshine96

A great spot for a cache!! I wonder how many thousands have driven over it unknowingly!?!?
Watch out for the spiders!!! We nearly walked right onto a Red Back Spider!!! EEP!!!

TFTC!!!
Found with ShortStop00

A quick and easy find in the dark.
TFTC

Despite accurate coordinates, it took a couple of minutes of hunting before that cache was located in an obvious location. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Shamus1 for the cache.

Working our way back to Clunes after a run of DNF's stopped off here hoping that we could find it. Fortunately did not take too long before we were able to log it. No ghosts around today but you could see where they had been.
Thanks for bringing us here Shamus1

Will be back to continue search on another day

Today I was in the company of Ausfox; and Na'wal. Our main focus was Mt.Beckworth. Once we finished that, we were free to travel around this beautiful part of the world. We collected a mixture of trads, multis and mysteries. Thanks to all of the CO's for a great effort in placing and maintaining these hides. A nice quick find here by the water. TFTC Shamus1

**Smile # *4493* / Traditional # *3397***

Today was planned with a cache trip to Ballarat and the Mt. Beckworth area for another geocaching adventure. DAB, Ausfox and myself met early, packed the geo vehicle with plenty of drinks as we knew today was going to be a hot day and we were on our way. We were wary of snakes about here and made our way carefully to where we needed to be. Cache located quickly. Signed and replaced as found.

**Thanks for placing this trad cache Shamus1**
**Cache container and log in good condition**
**Took nothing, Left nothing**

Joined up with Na'wal and DAB to spend the day caching around Ballarat and Mt Beckworth. We had planned to be at Mt Beacworth by 7:30am but we couldn't resist grabbing a few caches on route. Made a slippery approach to GZ for a quick find.
Signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache Shamus1
#2,942i

Yet another one down

Found it

Found it on a drive around. TFTC

Another good cache found while touring around.
Thanks for helping show me interesting locations and history of the area.
Soon had the container spotted. SL

While up in Ballarat for a few days I was joined by abl973 to head out for a day of caching. It was a cool and wet day, but thankfully the rain mostly held off. Plenty of water today with the creek well and truly flowing. I guess that is why the bridge is here [:o)]
Thanks to Shamus1 for the cache.

01/10/2016 3:35:00 PM - Heading out of Melbourne this morning it absolutely hosed down with rain where I joined up with my caching friend Square_Pegs for the first day of October and stopped off here to find this cache.

Overall it was a soggy cool day but being out this way was better than hanging around in Melbourne. I do like a ghost story! We didn't find any residual energy but at night it could lead to a different situation.

Thanks Shamus1 for bringing me here.

5268

Got it...

Found it. Didn't see the ghost.

In Ballarat for the day I had very little time but made sure to grab at least one cache while I had the chance. I drive past this one often but had not yet stopped. Today was the day and as I was in a hurry, I was glad to very quickly spot a likely GZ and made a nice quick find. Unfortunately I topped it off with a decent bump on the head which resulted in a face full of spider web. Thankfully there were no witnesses to my mini freak out and I made my back to the car and headed home. TFTC!

Awesome hide. And quick find

Tftc pretty cool spot to just chill out

Nice quick find

Very quick find after parking my car up the road and walking a bit. It makes a good decoy, looking like an unmarked police car! Found myself on the wrong side of the water, of course, but the adrenalin kept me going! TFTC

Found. Took a while to spot this as the GPS didn't settle well. TFTC