#124 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 26-Mar-16. Waypoint GC63XJY

Another fun day out adventuring with doddlingalong. Our plan to kayak and cache aborted due to high winds we went to plan B. Our second visit adding to our Mt Disappointment collection. TFTC

Out for another grand day of caching adventures with carmlee1, quick find and on we go

at 10:38am

Found it good kangaroo ground

Easy find with clue. Beautiful view! David

TFTC

Thank you

A continuation of the beautiful viewThanks for the cache

Find#6181Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

A trip to this region of the Australia was planned. In order to search and find a few caches here, various caches were dragged onto the Garmin. When we got here we saw a nice power trail. Without further ado, we organized various groceries to make ends meet. Filled up the rental car again and off we went.Our 4 WD-Truck is ready for this trip!After some time of starting this challenge, we came across here as well. We had to search a little longer for one or the other cache.Thanks to the owner for laying, caring for and guiding. TFTCKind regards from Germany

Found by caughtatwork on 19/11/2023 at 4:27:00 PMA quick find on a very warm day 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

A nice short walk from the parking spot. Super windy today. TFTC

Quick find thanks.

Found

Hhh

TFTC was a spot for our 1600th cache

Lovely views along this track, thanks for bringing me here.

Found and signed dsd or darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the Adventure.

On our way to the Mega at Whittlesea, but staying a couple of nights on the way at Kilmore to do some more of the Mt Disappointment series.

Drizzly rain on and off through out the day. Soft edges meant we needed to be careful were we placed our vehicle and our feet. Returned to caravan wet to knee high and soaked boots and socks from walking through long grass.

All but 1 cache was found.

TFTC stamped log TB's visited

Adventure Boys!
Pick your quote below, cause it’s for you.

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

Frankly, my found it, I don’t give a damn

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’


#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#124 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
3642
17 November 2022

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In the spirit of reconciliation I would like to acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Found this one disappointment series onto the next one

Out finding caches this weekend with @the4wdshed and @smithiesoutbackgear.
Cheers for the cache

*found a few weekends ago but haven't gotten round to logging some of them*

Out caching for a second day at Mt Disa with The4wdShed and SearchingForMacca. Heaps of caches in this area so we thought we'd get some off them under our belt. Nice quick find. TFTC

Quick easy find
This trail has been on our radar for a while, this weekend was a perfect chance to get out and get it done with @Smithies Outback and @Searchingformacca and a chance to go camping and sit around a camp fire with great friends. Tftc

Starting another set of this series TFTC #10 today

12 January 2022
5:01 pm
1348
Many thanks carkisser for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

TFTC, out today as the first day back in regional vic.. tis series has been on my radar for along while and now out this weekend camping and enjoying the beauty of Mt Disappointment.
A really good series. Aiming to get our 200+ in a day and hit #2000 soon.

Blue skies and sunshine so decided to scoot up the mountain today Rough tally was 73 finds and a stray DNF So apols for generic logs. I did some maintenance for the PT COs and replaced a couple of missing caches and logbooks. Personal notes have been included for the gnarly caches

TFTC carkisser & JSando

Generic log attached.
Day two of our drive around this area. Getting very familiar with the tracks around here too.
Working our way to Broadford for late lunch.
Quite ironic that on Easter Sunday we are signing logs below the beautifully hand written logs of The_Easter_Bunnies.

We spent a little bit of time looking for a log but had success with a stump nearby. This would be a fun challenge for the 4x4 in the wet. TFTC

What a fantastic view up there worth the drive thanks

Lovely little detour to find this one, great views on both sides of ridge. TFTC

Sweet detour off the main track with a lovely view. TFTC ️

Yep this was the sneaky one.
TFTC See full log at #289 All logs dated and signed as SG

Early start today, trying to hit some personal milestones, going after a LOT of caches in the day.... Relocated to a new stretch of the trail, as a road blockage stopped us working any further down the "Y"
Cache for the day is Number 90

Just starting to rain, and this is along a track which has some bad holes, including one with plastic in it

I’m back for the 3rd time roaming the streets of Mt Disappointment in an attempt to double my finds to 1000 by 29 Feb. Ridiculous! considering I was at #400 17Nov and #500 28Dec.

FP for dragging me up a hill sprinkled with Christmas Spiders.

TFTC carkisser and jSando

Two days after our last trek to the mountain, Team ZACAATT returned in an effort to finish what we had started.

Not entirely sure what would happen with the weather we headed into Whittlesea for the first lead up event to the next Victorian mega. Our plan was to get the last lot of the Mt Disappointment trail, but we were prepared to turn around and drive home with thunder storms predicted for the day, but as the meet ended, the sun was shining and we took off, first taking on caches that we had DNFd on our very first trek up the mountain in 2017.

Then it was on to the caches that we missed two days before. We had a completely different day for the third time. Zedaycee and AngéliqueAnja both took falls and there were a collection of bugs and spiders that returned to the car on unsuspecting cachers.

At one DNF location (we DnFd 2 today) we found an adorable little lizard sunning himself.

Eventually the rain and the thunder and the lightning did come and we had to make the decision to turn around and go home. It was windy and pouring as we drive home, 8 more caches that we had planned to do left undone.

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

It had to expand its Search Radius!

Two days after our last trek to the mountain, Team ZACAATT returned in an effort to finish what we had started.

Not entirely sure what would happen with the weather we headed into Whittlesea for the first lead up event to the next Victorian mega. Our plan was to get the last lot of the Mt Disappointment trail, but we were prepared to turn around and drive home with thunder storms predicted for the day, but as the meet ended, the sun was shining and we took off, first taking on caches that we had DNFd on our very first trek up the mountain in 2017.

Then it was on to the caches that we missed two days before. We had a completely different day for the third time. Zedaycee and AngéliqueAnja both took falls and there were a collection of bugs and spiders that returned to the car on unsuspecting cachers.

At one DNF location (we DnFd 2 today) we found an adorable little lizard sunning himself.

Eventually the rain and the thunder and the lightning did come and we had to make the decision to turn around and go home. It was windy and pouring as we drive home, 8 more caches that we had planned to do left undone.

Thanks for the cache. carkisser & JSando
Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

Caching today with Tally Tiger and Angelique Anja after the Whittlesea lead up event. Full log is the same as Angelique Anja and Tally Tiger. Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

**Find #3025**

Out grabbing a few more lessons today. A fantastic series, that I keep revisiting on the Geo-motorcycle. Any excuse to play on dirt tracks.

Thanks **carkisser**

TFTC.

I'm having a wonderful time, so can't thank you enough! Don't know where you managed to find all of the black containers! The hints really work, and your GPS and mine seem to work well together! Thanks for all of the hard work!

The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield party. Mr. Bingley had danced with her twice, and she had been distinguished by his sisters. Jane was as much gratified by this as her mother could be, though in a quieter way. Elizabeth felt Jane’s pleasure. Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they had yet learnt to care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they were the principal inhabitants. They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time; and on the present occasion he had a good deal of curiosity as to the event of an evening which had raised such splendid expectations. He had rather hoped that his wife’s views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a different story to hear.

HAMLET
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God
has given you one face, and you make yourselves
another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and
nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness
your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath
made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:
those that are married already, all but one, shall
live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a
nunnery, go.

OPHELIA
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
KING CLAUDIUS
Love! his affections do not that way tend;
Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,
Was not like madness. There's something in his soul,
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;
And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
Will be some danger: which for to prevent,
I have in quick determination
Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,
For the demand of our neglected tribute
Haply the seas and countries different
With variable objects shall expel
This something-settled matter in his heart,
Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
From fashion of himself. What think you on't?

Found with dad (day1976), ilukaperi, Nacarra and Geolibrarian. Signed log as GINDY. TFTC!

Found with day1976, Yeah09, geolibrarian54 and my sister Nakarra. Signed as GINDY.

TFGCF

Found

Just ducked off the highway to grab a few more of this great series. Not much time to spare today so only a handful. Thanks for all your effort in placing these carkisser & JSando

Tftc

After a lot of planning over the last few months, the day had finally come to get stuck into this series. I followed the route I had worked out without being sidetracked and everything went pretty much as I had hoped. I made my first find at 7:10am and the last for the day at 6:15pm. By 7 o’clock I was sitting in the Red Lion in Kilmore enjoying a cold beer and thinking back over a most enjoyable day. There was of course the odd DNF along the way as well. The weather was kind to me which helped a lot as well. A big thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this and maintain this series. Cheers and TFTC

Day 2 of the Dad’s Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series. This geo-section was post lunch from 2pm to 5pm but could not log until later. All caches readily found with good coordinates and likely hides. Many thanks to CO. TNLN TFTC CIGC.

TFTC

ps I think this is my last for today
Run out of time
Thanks for the time you put into etching they were really a nice touch
A favorite in this one as it was a bit more effort but favored is really for all these ones today

Tftc ...wow what a view

Found with BorisB&Natasha and Bounty Trackers. We signed the log with our stamp Geo Nerds.
On a fun weekend with these two doing as many of these caches as we can while here. TFTC we had a great time. Stayed at Flowerdale pub overnight back for some more fun today.

2 day caching trip with Sioux & Leesa we have stamped log with our Geo Nerds stamp for Bounty Trackers, Borisb&natasha & Gonefishen.
Thanks for the cache.

After rain called play last night it was back on the road with Gonefishen07 and Bounty Trackers for an early morning start.
Thoroughly enjoyed the caches, the area and the company.
Thanks for placing these caches

Some quite nice views from here

On the long uphill run and the views were getting better
But who ordered these pesky showers !! [:o]
I've had to sit in the geomobile for 10 minutes at a couple of caches,
waiting for the downpour to subside a bit

A patch of blue sky peeked through here,
so I hurried up and found this cache before the inevitable rain returned

TFTC.

These are subsequent finds for the day on the actual Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series which Geowife and myself decided to attack today in the hope of achieving 100 plus finds in a day (which was achieved). As such this one was a follow on in the series from where we picked up from after we left off last year with the only DNF in our run on these new caches in the series been #115 Anyway after a quick park and grab on a large majority of these, the series has been attacked in earnest at this stage and had a productive day was had and in the end we found around 105 plus caches for the day. TFTC.

If there is a complaint that I have about this series it would be that some people do not replace the caches in the correct place as per GZ co-ordinates and some caches that we found today were up to 10 metres away from the GZ, not covered over or left out in the open. Other cache logs were so wet that the logs could not be signed and a sheet of dry paper was added to these ones. The caches that had water in them were emptied of water and resealed.

And to carkisser and JSando, thank you for this great series and the huge amount of work that the both you and your team of helpers thank you for making keeping this series in operation.
Due to the high number of logs to be completed a generic log has been generated for all/most logs.

Great day out with Team Justice, successfully completing this wonderful series in a day. The challenge has appealed to us for a long time, and it was incredibly satisfying to be able to complete it. Throughout the day we often marveled at the size and quantity of the containers you must have had at home in order to lay these out. Thanks so much carkisser for this astonishingly ambitious and well executed series. We loved it!

A plan was hatched with Clint & Abby over 12 months ago when we saw these caches come out over time. We could get 100, nah, let’s get them all and soon after a few drinks we decided to attempt the lot in 1 day. Time passed and somehow we found ourselves talking about it at a recent event (yes, and more drinks). Let’s do it after Christmas, ok. So, we meet in Wallan at 6am to begin the long day.

We had a few ideas to speed up our caching given we were trying to find 300+ caches in a day and that our previous record was about 60 in a day so this was going to be tough. We put the GPS and pens on lanyards do we could keep our hands few when getting the cache and didn’t have to pick up or get things out of our pockets. We did shifts of 1 hour, so one person did the driving, ate, re-hydrated and relaxed, while the other cached for the hour. The driver also provided the clue up front between caches as the cacher counted the distance down to the cache.

Now to the clues. Tree, stump, log, rock! We were getting a good chuckle over the clues, ‘beside tree’, we are in a forest! We found some of the ‘logs’ were not yet logs (i.e. trees), but they were close most of the time. We thought there might be some sort of random clue generator sometimes.

To the numbers. 330 caches attempted in 10 hours and 22 minutes. We had 7 DNFs and a total of 323 finds. This meant an average find time (including DNFs) of 1 minute, 53 seconds. We were quite amazed at the speed we could go and how quick you could find, sign and move on. It also comes down to the great containers laid out by carkisser for this power trail. Nice and large, and easy to find and extract the logs. We only came across one Eclipse time late in the day. Our biggest hour of finds was our 5th hour of 42 finds. This averaged out at 1 minute and 25 seconds per cache.

Overall, we had a great time as it was a challenge to push ourselves to get all these caches. We loved the layout and the effort to place all these caches. Thanks so much to carkisser for the caches.

FBTJ #2762

Thanks to the long weekend back home, I was able to pop over the ditch for the mega and a ‘few’ caches along the way! I was really after the numbers on this trip, planning to achieve 50+ each of the three days for a challenge – something that is getting much more difficult back home! The weather was great and I had a ball thanks to all the CO’s placing great caches!

I left a couple unfinished tails on this trail, and I am glad to report that I was able to come and complete the rest on this trip! TFTC!!

Over for Parkville Event started early this Morning after I landed in Melbourne, with Becknmonts and Loulou0212 we saw some beautiful scenery, great fun completing this series in 1 day. TFTC carkisser

After Becknmonts and I picked gabs1963 up from the airport we headed out to start our day, a beautiful quick stop at Melbourne’s first before we headed to start this trail, thanks so much for putting theses caches out, I really enjoyed them - definitely a first for me getting my geo car off the road and on some dirt - TFTC carkisser

I had a great day out today after LouLou0212 and myself picked Gabs1963 up for the airport. We headed to “Melbourne’s First” and then onto this trail as Gabs1963 has cached our her 450km radius, so she wanted some “easy numbers”. Thanks so much for placing this trail carkisser

I'm in Melbourne for a few day's with Horsesrule1990, heading to the event and to pick up as many caches as possible. Once the Melbourne Mega raps up we will head to the Gold Coast , for a few day hitting all the fun parks. Then heading back to Western Australia, and back to Work. Would like to thank everyone for there caches and there effects hiding then for us to find.all Tftc.

We arrived in the area with a particular plan and that was to do the Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson trail. All caches were found or replaced (with the permission of the owner) Some still need the logs replaced but we ran out of supplies.
This trail was done with Hans and Linda, the jumping in and out of the car was shared, the driving was shared, lunch was had on the trail where ever we found a place that appealed to us.
Some shots were fired near one of the caches which startled the crap out of us. We did not think that you were allowed to shoot here. The roads were a mixture of good, bad and ugly. Thankfully it was dry it did try very hard to rain but all we saw was not enough to wet the car or us.
We apologise for the generic logs, this does not mean we thought any less of this series. We appreciate the effort that has gone into placing this trail and maintaining it, this is why we were more than happy to help with some maintenance.
SL TFTC

TFTC. We had planned a big day of caching with friends Muff1. Our aim was to complete as much as possible of the Mt Dissappointment trail. In general all of the caches were quickly to hand and signed. We attempted to do as many as possible without having to double back on ourselves.

AndyB84 and myself had plans to hit the Mt Disappointment trail and today that plan was realised.

We Arrived at the first cache around 9:45am and called it a day at 4:45pm before making one final sneaky find at the servo on the way home.

I had no idea what to expect in terms of numbers. My biggest day previously was 55 so I wanted to beat that. The next goal was 120 and looking bigger was 150.

We eventually ended on 128 finds for the day, doubling AndyB84's found count in a single day.
Pretty stoked with the effort. We cracked a cold one each on number 101 for the day.

Most caches were found easily with good coordinates. Some had wet logs, one was missing a lid and there were a few DNF's near the start of the trail as well.

The road was well maintained, we brought AndyB84's ute but my Magna would have been fine on these roads.

We signed most of the logs as A & K to save time.


Thanks for the caches

#2904

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Wow! What a day. KmanNZ and I were out to find big numbers, however I never thought I would double all my previous finds.

WE got to the first cache at around 945am and kept going through to 345pm when the rain finally hit. All in all, we managed to find 127 along this trail and grabbed a quick one on the way home at the service center.

We signed the caches A & K to save time.

I would like to thank KmanNZ for supplying the beers which we cracked on our 100th find for the day.

Thank you to carkisser & JSando for placing this series. We had a great day.

#246

This is my third day getting Driving Lessons. I must be difficult to teach because I haven't finished all the lessons yet. A prefect spring day - I didn't meet any other cachers. I will drop a few Hearts along the way in recognition of the mammoth effort put in by Carkisser and JSondo.
Two caches were missing, 285 and 140. Thanks a million carkisser and JSando.

#3204 A big day of caching with the aim to collect big numbers and collect a bunch of souvenirs. The geohounds tagged along for the adventure. A cool day with the temperature floating around 7-9 degrees, but much fun had. A handful of dnfs but lots of finds. We found the coords to be pretty good, a few damp logsheets but no trouble signing. Thanks for all the effort carkisser and JSando.

A bit of offroad action in the geoforester after locating this cache, crawling down the rocky eroding trail back to the main road, what fun .

Today I doubled my find count for the year, which is probably a good thing because I’ve just about hidden more than I’ve found in 2018!

It was a frosty start to the day but I was not standing around to long at each of the Mt Dissa caches I found.

I enjoyed my brief time in the area and completed the HQ hidden creatures challenge.

TFTC

Nice, easy find. TFTC

Lucky dalerious looked at the map before we continued from the last one. He enjoyed the bit of off-road 4WDriving.
How clever of you to send us up here, thanks for the view as well as the cache.

Hume and Hovell were wrong. This place should be called Mt Rewarding. This was my 3rd visit here with Cybergran V and with the days haul of 102 finds (including 3 randoms) we now have 199 of this series completed and (when logged) all 13 virtual souvenirs currently on offer in the bag. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou carkisser & JSando for this amazing opportunity to crank the numbers when most needed.

We started this series a while ago and thought we would continue. This time we started at a different spot to see some different scenery. Nice quick park and grab.

On a birthday outing to Mt Disappointment tackling more of the caches on offer. With geo husband driving and me finding the caches we made a great team. TFTC

Anzac day and a good day for Spiffy- and I to have a mini road trip to visit some far away places for various challenge caches and the premier whereigo cache. The hints made these chaches a bit easier. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this cache.

Found on 25 Apr 2018 at 5:33 pm.
Myself and Fleabag- planned last week to do a road trip on this ANZAC day public holiday so left home bright and early to head up around the Wangaratta area for a few different things we were seeking including whereIGo's, challenges and some solved puzzles plus a couple of nice D/T combos. A great day was had and we almost got everything that we planned but we kept getting distracted by other great caches on the way.

We wanted to finish our day with more than 50 finds so we stopped by here with a detour from the highway to find some more regular size caches to add to our tally.
Quite busy along these back roads and as day turned to night we luckily had our torches to find the last few we needed on our first of probably many more visits to this area.
Thanks carkisser & JSando for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Amazing view from this cache

This was one epic series, it had it all, easy finds, tougher finds, lots of dirt road driving, steep hills, bush bashing, open logged forest, deep dense forests and a leech or 2 to throw in the mix. Both me and TheSkype traveled from the ACT to cache in Victoria and this series certainly is one to bump up the tally which I personally believe is only for die-hard cachers. Do not bring a newbie here, it might get tough, zap their mind and they might never want to cache again. We camped at Andersons Garden campground and this was our base for the 3 days we spent caching. Thanks again pleasure to do business and explore this historic part of Victoria. TFTC. Day 2

#2520 Found with the Green-martian, both visiting from Canberra. Travelled in a 4x4 Outback for over 16 hours, over 3 days. Averaged 20 finds per hour hitting 30 finds an hour between #206 to #235. Found a total of 323 caches with 9 DNFs. What a marvel it was finding this series. All park n grabs with the car and GPS covered in dust. Weather was warm for April. Thanks carkisser & JSando for this epic series of caches.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

During a little warm-up here earlier this week I found about 65 caches in one afternoon. Today I returned for a full day effort, starting at 8am and stopping at 6:30pm having covered about 100km. Without rushing too much (all logs were signed and dated in full, caches rehidden properly, and photos taken of every GZ and logsheet) I ended up with 230+ finds for the day which is a surprising record for me .
Other than a shaky start near the residences (5 DNFs in the first 11) the rest went pretty well as I searched for them in numbered sequence from #1 to #240.
All were found easily other than #4,7,9,10,11,15,37,62,79,142 and 158.
It was nice and quiet on the trail all day - just saw 2 other cars and 2 police patrols on a mild dry sunny day. Perfect caching conditions.

After completing my caching at #240, having just skipped this #124 earlier, I was on the way home when I decided to stop for 'just one more'. It had to be this one, to address that OCD amongst other things.
So in no rush I made my way to GZ to enjoy the sunset views. A FP from me for this great location.
And it was a very appropriate way to end a massive day's caching, where I exceeded my target of 150 caches for the day quite comfortably.
Thanks for the massive series, carkisser and JSando. It's been quite an achievement.

Well it was time to go and do some caches again with a couple of options we decided to see what dissappointment was all about and went to have a look at the area. It was a nice day and for the day we managed just 30 of them before we needed to think about some luch went a little underprepared for a full day however it was a successful day with no DNFs but missed one or two by driving past.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for thos wonderful series for us to add to our collection of caches.

Grand Cache count = 928 total consisting of 871 Traditionals, 26 Multi, 14 Mystery, 4 Earth, 2 Virtual, 6 Event, 2 Werigo and 3 Letterbox.

These were the caches that McLookers and I had to do, which had already been done by the others on our group. We therefore left them to do these ones, while they did cache we had already done. There were no problems iwth any of these caches, save for one which we eventually found.

Right on the money with the hint.

We had planned a group trip to pick up the remaining caches in this series that we hadn't already found. Today with Alansee, Team Crackers, Good Look and micaparamedic we got an early start as we knew it would be a hot day. We signed the logbook as MICE...I will leave the others to tell the story of its creation!! Thanks carkisser & JSando for a terrific series with good co-ords and some stunning views.

I got off work early and had just enough time to find a few more of this series before heading off to the Big Bash Cricket.
(After the result I should not have bothered and just stayed here to find a few more).
Still nice and quiet on the roads around here and with this small section I was able to enjoy the views.
All nice and easy finds again.
Thanks carkisser & JSando TFTC TFTS

#49 on the run. Tftc

Ok. Time to start to head home but may as well find one more. Tftc bit rough making me walk to the cache

Staying at Kilmore, we tackled some of the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson series, dodging the rain clouds, thunder and lightning that added to the adventure.

This took us through the country side of the Mount Disappointment area, up and down the gravel roads where we met a few 4x4 and motor bike muggles having fun in the area as well.

Most were quick finds but some were not. Cache and contents were in excellent condition.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. Appreciate the time and effort gone into this series.

With a last minute plan hatched with abl973, we decided to head towards Mt Disappointment. With warmer conditions earlier on, the clouds rolled in later during the afternoon bringing a few welcome drops of rain. The landscape varied quite a bit with plenty of different flora along the trail. The satellites were agreeing with us today as the coordinates were pretty spot on. The detail of the lid on the containers was an excellent touch.

Thanks to carkisser for placing this cache.

This series has been on my radar for way too long so last night a quick plan was devised between square_pegs and myself to have a go at conquering a decent sized chunk of Mt Disappointment. I had no idea what to expect but what I can say with certainty is today turned out awesome. Even the weather remained stable and we got used to the humidity. Towards the late afternoon the rain came down which was welcomed as it reduced the heat and spurred us towards our goal. This cache was 122 of 128 found and logged amongst sights of Kangaroos, colourful birds and lizards.

Thanks carkisser for hiding good sized caches with spot on co-ords.

Today was a great day to continue caching along the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson series as the weather started our being overcast and pleasantly cool. Each log in the caches we found had our name noted in the form of initials (GP2). In today's section of the series the caches seemed easier to find.
The only ones we did not locate were #131 and #132, which were both within a section of road controlled by stop/slow sign holding muggles as well as muggles on road repair machinery.
Each cache located was replaced as it had been found before we moved on.
Thanks to carkisser & JSando for this extensive series of caches.

10556 Found and Logged at 2:34:00 PM
One of 65 cachers after ariving at Anderson Gardens and setting up the van for a few days in the Mt Disappointment Trail
Thanks For The Cache carkisser
Lgoody

Great series up here - loving some numbers. Enjoyed the short walk for this cache - I needed it. Earns a Favourite Point

Thanks for another smilie. Quick find where all good at GZ.


Great to be over this side of the ditch for a few days with my key focus being the Mega in Alexandra and associated activities. I’ll be taking some ideas back to New Zealand so as we plan for a major Event next year we can look to implement some of the great things from Melbourne.


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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn’t be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU.

Headed down to Victoria with steeba and Hoojar to be part of the 3rd Victorian Mega celebrations in Alexandra. Our 3-day leave pass ensured we’d be constantly on the go! From 300 finds in the Mt Disappointment area to 10 different cache types there was never a dull moment.

The Mt Disappointment trail was a huge day for us as we'd driven down overnight, then on minimal sleep we had a huge day finding all 300+ caches.

Thanks to all the cache owners who contributed to a great 3 days caching with my fellow caching buddies. My apologies about the template style log, it certainly doesn’t detract from the thrill of the ‘find”.

TFTC

Found as part of a few days away with my great caching mates The Rats and Hoojar. Our main aim was the Mega event in Alexandra but we managed to find most of the Mt Disappointment series, did 9 or 10 cache types in a day (side trip to Mt Buller and then Melbourne CBD). Some great laughs, camping under the stars, a nicely organised Mega and some great wildlife (koala and echidnas ). TFTC!