V is for Victoria :First Name Series Eureka, Victoria, Australia
By BallaratGeocachers on 09-Sep-15. Waypoint GC63AH6

No joy here, the search was cut short by a group of muggles walking along the path. Another time.

Tftc a bit tricky in the dark but managed to add a smile

Staying at nearby caravan park and evening walk got this oneTFTC

All good with the cache. Signed log and took the pathtag. Almost missed it stuck in the bottom there. Thanks for placing

Husband is blind

Nice little cache .. yay! We have one in Ballarat now. Thankyou

Tftc found with earthly 65

Staying just over the fence so had ro go for thus quick one...eureka centre next door was grand...recommend...tftc

A little stroll along an old rail trail to this easy find. The windy day made it slightly unpleasant so didn't stay long afterwards.

Quick find! Found with Squizz, BigEth, Tom, Maxwell and Venus. TFTC

12:29Following the belated National Tree Day planting event at Specimen Vale, I started walking off the scrumptious morning tea by continuing down the Bunny Rail Trail for this alphabetical hide.A nice quick find.Thanks, BallaratGeocachers.#9087

Tftc

Found it. Thread is a bit dinky on the container

Found with Bullash on 15 March 2024

Trtc. Great location. Quick find

Gg ez

Leaving Ballarat today and heading to Colac area for a few nights before heading to Geelong for the end of my trip

Tftc nice easy find

Found with LittleBoss2 Sorceysal and Geo the puppy on a beautiful sunny Sunday in Ballarat. Thanks Ballarat gcs

Found with Bogonghazy, Sorceysal and Geo dog. Beautiful Sunday walk. Thanks for placing the geocache

Fun find by Haz101

Tftc!

Last find of the day on the way to the stockade. TFTC

Nice one. Tftc

Nice find tonight

I had come to Ballarat for lunch with my sisters at a pub in Black Hill. Although lunch was now over, leaving now would have put me in the worst of the Melbourne peak period... so I went caching instead. I was heading generally south... stopping for caches that were roughly on my route. Thanks **BallaratGeocachers** for putting this cache here.

Nice, easy find. All in good condition. TFTC

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Lovely spot for a walk and a cache

TFTC. Setting up camp for a week in Murray Bridge before the MEGA for 29th Feb!Moving to Ballarat for another week afterwards. Last hurrah travelling before wooding season at home starts!Happy caching and safe travels!

Found it!

A quick find while in the area, TFTC.

TFTC. Nice easy find while staying at the caravan park

A quick find while cleaning up caches at the stockade. Tftc.

Quick find, trying not to be seen by the muggles on the other side of the fence.T4TC

TEMBO! and I visited in our way the cache "V is for Victoria :First Name Series" and signed the logbook. We started the series with a V.Thanks to BallaratGeocachers for hiding and maintaining the cache.T4TC Filser1

Found it thankyou

Found it

Out grabbing a few caches before visiting a friend nearby. A nice quick find. Tftc

Found it nice little walk from the house

Lots of finds for me today. Back to work on Monday so thought I'd try my luck.

A trip to Australia.A part of Vlki travel around the world to down under.Thanks for the Cache and greetings from Vlki from Germany ??

Found tftc

Found TFTC

After setting up camp at the caravan park, I had a quick look to see if there were any caches nearby. One just happens to be 14m away, how could we not grab it. Found with Lacelot and DustyEartha.Thank you

After my event near the railway station and walking around the last couple of the Past Schools adlab waypoints, I am heading back to the railway station to catch a train back to Bendigo via Melbourne.A quick find once I was at the right location, the phone wasn't really cooperating today.Thanks BallaratGeocachers for placing this hide.

Yeah thanks for hide

Checked a likely spot but came up empty handed. Moved along a bit and from different angle I spotted the cache. Some water had got in but log was still dry.

On arrival, it appeared the cache was on the other side of the fence than me, where there are less caravans: David

fun and cool, but very popular with muggles so you have to keep quite.

Ltf

Ltf

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.After arriving in Melbourne to delightful weather, I made my way au to Ballarat last night I. Anticipation of a three day caching binge with some local geo art and the geo trail as the key targets for the long weekend.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 the cache was found and the log signed. 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

Going to admit defeat on this one perhaps I was in need of another coffee.

We are in Ballarat overnight for a Birds of Prey Encounter tomorrow. Our AirBnB is this side of town so I headed out into the lovely mild Ballarat evening on the bike to search out some caches. It took a few minutes by torchlight to locate this little container. Fortunately no muggles around at this time of night. All in good dry condition despite the lid not being the best fit. TFTC BallaratGeocachers

happened to mention there was a cache only 8m from where we were camped but on other side of fence. Next morning go to find and there was a cheeky message waiting for me.Thanks for the cache BallaratGeocachers.

I've come to Ballarat for a few days with the intention of completing the Geo Tour.While camped in the holiday park with some friends, Kbucky remarked that there was a cache only 8 metres from our camp. We planned to look for it in the morning.Being a bit of a nocturnal animal, I went and found it at 0230 on a beautiful clear night.Thanks for the fun BallaratGeocachers.

Out and about for a couple of caches after the lunch time event. Rather wet and windy however the cache was spotted on approach and once in hand was quickly signed. Then back to the car and off for the next one.

Thanks for this one BG...

A fun weekend away with Davidwazza! TFTC!

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After visiting the nearby Eureka Centre, we took a nice walk along the "Bunny" trail and to this geocache. A quick find was had, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. After signing the cache, I exited from the bushes and unknowingly surprised a dog walker who wasn't expecting a random person to just appear like that. I apologise for my impromptu presence, and we jogged back to Eureka's car park. Thanks BallaratGeocachers for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/[jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) stamp.

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This extended weekend, [jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T), infant Cottontail and I were visiting Ballarat from Brisbane, targeting the [Ballarat GeoTour (GT4A1)](https://coord.info/GT4A1). Highlights included the historical architecture, buildings, and artwork/sculptures of inner Ballarat, Ballarat Botanic Gardens, Lake Wendouree, Sovereign Hill, Eureka Stockade, and mountains Mount Buninyong and Mount Warrenheip. We were lucky to have great weather with no rain and mostly blue skies each day, which aided our enjoyment of our trip. Apart from the targeted GeoTour geocaches, our geocaching has largely been opportunistic following tourist sights and attractions, although we attempted/targeted higher D-T combinations from solved puzzles, and rare cache types like virtual caches, Letterbox Hybrid caches, and Adventure Labs.

Today, I had an early start to attempt Ballarat's drain caches that were recommended. A thoroughly enjoyable adventure marvelling at the historic drain brickwork construction.
After returning home and regrouping with the family, we proceeded to the Magpie challenge cache series along Frenchmans Lane, of which I was expecting to walk, but we used the rental car to drive the series. We then returned to Eureka Stockade where we visited the Eureka Centre museum, and had a play at the park's playground.
We then had a few geocache stops that were on our targeted list as we proceeded east to Mount Warrenheip, ensuring we found the 2001 oldie [Medievil](https://coord.info/GCBBE). It was then a final driving loop north/north-east of Ballarat to find our remaining [Ballarat GeoTour](https://coord.info/GT4A1) geocaches, stopping at Kirks Reservoir, Goldfields Track, and Black Hill Lookout. I also had a quick dunk/swim in Lake Wendouree, before commencing our drive back to Melbourne.
During our drive to Melbourne Airport, we had time to visit Bungaree, Ballan, Bacchus Marsh, and Melton, targeting interesting geocaches that included virtual caches, EarthCaches, and those with high Favourite Points.

Adventure Labs completed today:
• [Old Shops of Soldiers Hill](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/bc27d7e3-3696-446f-a054-f9f235263b44);
• [Kirks Reservoir](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/1a037067-ee18-4230-bb6e-678cf70180fe);
• [Gong Gong Reservoir - Yarrowee Creek Walk](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/fbf0331a-79d8-4428-b9fe-20f3a3bc98dd);
• [Historic Bungaree](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/9228cbfa-d762-4b06-9b15-07c477ad24a1);
• [Meandering around the Marsh](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/38a1eb96-3bd4-4b6b-a44b-14dde7dcd1f3);
• [Around Bacchus Marsh](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/6769cf46-396b-418e-bf1e-7330c8f3666d); and
• [Around Melton](https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/0d185a98-04d7-4037-ac31-2203e832a12f).

Loved it! With Tan

With Ruby

Up visiting some family for the weekend so I thought if grab a couple over the weekend

I needed to find a cache today to fit in with my wheel of challenges. I had this bookmarked as a potential easy park in grab. On my way to pick up the little one from day care (V is also for Valerie ) I swung by here and had an easy find. Signed log book and returned. Had a bit of trouble getting the lid back on for some reason but got it in the end. Thanks for the cache and highlighting a nice walking spot.

Found it!

Easy find

Wet and windy autumn day. At least this find was relatively quick.

Will try again soon!

Our walk on the way to this cache was interesting- an elderly women’s dog was having her do a run-around waving her walking stick as Saturday afternoon sport while she tried to get him home

Found by caughtatwork on 07/04/2023 at 12:03:00 PM
A nice cache in a nice area for a walk today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Did know there was a walking track here so thanks for bringing us here. Mr 7 found this pretty quick. TFTC

Came to Ballarat to finish off the GeoTour which hevwalker and I did together today. We have had a great day starting with an Event and CITO. Thanks for this cache and helping me get closer to my 5000 which I hope to get before going home this long weekend.

A quick find all in good condition
Just had to wait for the muggles to pass

Thanks to BallaratGeocachers for the fun and the adventure.

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TFTC
A RELAXING WALK

Quick and easy find, TFTC

This one made me work hard! Thank you!

Well hidden! Thank you!

Shady!

A nice quick find before work! Cute little track TFTC

Ocw the Bebes to pick up as many BGT caches as we can in the time we have in Ballarat. Quick find for this one. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

A quick grab in our way to the Eureka centre.

Tftc

Nice quick find for us today!

TNLN,SL
28 January 2023 1:41 pm


TFTC HoodedHooligans (H.H.)

Nice spot, the old rail line, lots of history.

Easy find on this one, hidden well, log intact butcan see its been wet in the past. Signed and replaced as found

What a spot! Took us a little bit but hey!

Fun and quick hide. TFTC

Tftc...

Whittlesea Mega Wobble and Wade Tour: Day 2: Ballarat Geotour

Once again myself and Anymules were in Victoria on our way to a Mega event. We had scheduled two nights in Ballarat to do the tour and grab a few other caches in passing. [^] We started last night and had all of today to try and get them done. Wrong. Despite a full day from dawn to dusk we haven't finished and will be at it again tomorrow morning. This is what we did get to though.

A quick find here.

***Thanks BallaratGeocachers for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Find 3971 on November 7, 2022

Ha tried this like 3 years ago but there were camper muggles on the other side. Seems the trees grew and now a stealthy find is possible. found by kid #2

TFTC BallaratGeocachers

In BRat for work and as a tradition I have to get a cache or two (or more).

This little series was close to where I am this arvo so i grabbed whilst I could.

Log was damp but signable:)

Thanks for the cache

Very damp. GPS took a long time to settle. Tftc

Tftc 42 found cords helped very much thanks

Accurate coordinates made this a quick find , all's good at gz TFTC BallaratGeocachers

Signed as js2
TFTC

Found it very easily but the dog over the fence was not very happy for me to be there. TFTC

Isn’t it funny how hard things are easy to find but when they are right in front of your eyes you can’t see them beautiful track for taking the doggo for a walk. TFTC

TFTC with pigguns

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