BROG #18 - Loughlin No 2 Mine Allendale, Victoria, Australia
By Saint.Anthony on 23-Dec-15. Waypoint GC68H6A

Well this is the 3rd crack at this cache. It beat us again we will be back with fresh eyes

We are on our way to Maldon for a two nights to allow us to travel on the Victorian Goldfields Railway - and the steam train, J549, is back in operation. Apologies for some generic log as most of the finds for this series were straightforward. Thanks to Saint.Anthony for the cache.

Out with the two young Monsters today getting a few caches and redeeming a few DNFs. When I was here a fortnight ago it was 36c degrees, wind blowing strong and not a whole lot of fun at GZ even having just a little bit of a look around. Over the last fortnight Ive actually encountered some similar landscapes as this one with a lot of rocks and scrub. So upon walking into this area today I had a better idea what I was probably looking for. Almost immediately upon arrival I spotted something that didnt quite look right. I was right! We immediately had the cache!! Log signed and back to its hiding spot!! TFTC!!

I dont have the patience to keep searching for this one. Hot day, long grass, spiky bushes, Ill be back another day.

Found on a day out caching with Lionjrb. Tricky hide but cache was soon in hand. Tftc

Out caching with Lumpyjrb, after a bit of a look around the eldest of the party found the cache. Thanks for the cache.

I tried using the log photos, but they just made things trickier!TFTC

Out for a drive around the old goldmines and collecting caching Smileys But not here

Found with help for little miss

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So the spoiler pic in this one I feel had me looking in the wrong spot!! I took it too literally. Great camo this took me a fair while!! Really Enjoying Seeing How Many Mines Are Around Creswick And The History Here TFTC

This was a really hard one but we just kept looking & yippee we finally found it Bloody great hide this one Thanks Saint. Anthony ️️️

Yes i agree with th Beebes. Once found easy to see fantastic camouflage. ️

Ocw the Bebes. A quick park and grab as we pick up a few caches in the area. Coords good and spotted the container relatively quickly. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

Keen to check out the mines.

Once you’ve seen this one you can’t unseeit !

Tftc

Now in Ballarat and enjoying the new home, just not all the unpacking, so headed up this way to grab a few more caches in the area. Managed to grab another 10 before the need to head back and continue to free up a few more boxes. This one took a little bit of time but eventually all was good and the cache was in hand.

Thanks again for the historical series Saint.Anthony....Fav point for the neat hide.

Back in Creswick for a few days, picking up a few caches in the area.
This cache found in good condition. Signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Saint.Anthony, for us and others to find.

We spent a about 10 days on the road with aqau caching around St Arnaud, Ballarat and Daylesford areas.
Thanks for your cache.

Now that was a tricky lil hide. Well done!

A nice hide here and pleasingly i found it quicker than expected. Nice

The area around the cache was muddy and slippery

Too wer area

Tftc

Sadly, this clever camo eluded us this arvo. We did look for a good while but were unsuccessful and thought it best to catch the last of the light finding a couple of others. Will have to return on a warmer occasion.Thanks all the same.

Took a bit of looking, but then a eureka momentTFTC

Geo-maintenance vehicle out to check this cache. It is here thank goodness cause this is a fav of mine. Replaced the cache in a more obvious placement without compromising the D3. All good to go, StA.

After an hour of searching did not find

Extreamly well camouflaged great cache tyftc

Sat back in the car and was about to log this as a dnf ,then had a bright idea and quickly came up with the goods. What a great feeling TFTC

January 31, 2021 2:44 PM #3321

Took a while to find this one as I was looking for something a bit bigger as per the description. In the end you probably don't want to know how I found this one, all good though and nothing was damaged, removed or thrown as far away as possible! Best hide (apart from anything bigger than a bloody micro) of the whole series. A FP for it!

Great hide
Found out caching with Beaker
TFTC

Found with Kellmik while in Bendigo for our Central Victorian Mythmas Caching holiday.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Well truly camo for me.

Got it! Tired eyes after work probably didn’t help my searches previously. Very good camo

Great find by out littlest one

Have searched here twice and can’t spot it anywhere

First week out after lockdown number 2. Spending time in creswick gold detecting and caching. Beautiful area.

Tftc this was fun! Well hidden

A much faster find than the last one. I suspected what the likely hide would be so it was just a matter of being able to spot it. Log signed and on my way. Thanks for the hide.

Omegaman1971

It was great to be back in the area caching and catching up my buddy Rebel Acts.
So many new caches online around Ballarat and Creswick since the last time I was up this way, and awesome to see some lab caches here as well.

Cheers Saint Anthony for the caches and the fun weekend

I had a few days off so plans were made to catch up with omegaman1971 and do some caching around the Ballarat and Creswick areas, We had a great time finding caches in the area and learning about the history of the region. The weather was a little cold but bearable.

Thanks Saint.Anthony for the cache.

No luck today

Geohubby was persistent! Found it you little tricker! Well done StA. TFTC

Found it with deanfamily6 great hide

Took a a few minutes to find but once I got looking it was right at my feet that was only a stones throw away!

Checked cache. All good now. Added extra log, and returned to hide IPV.

Dnf due to dusk arriving quicker than we anticipated!

Tftc!

Tftc couldnt sign the log it's full.

Found this one by accident! There was a piece of a signed logbook (paper) just sitting on the ground and I fluked the cache find. I highly doubt I would have found it otherwise. A great hide, but needs a new log desperately (sorry I don't have the type needed to replace it). Thanks for the clever cache Saint.Anthony. I'll log a note too.

The log needs replacing in this one. Hope you can spot the camo to do the maintenance!

This afternoon I decided to head north of Ballarat and clean up a few more of the CDLGM series, I had found some of these previously in September but after a few DNFs I gave up, back today and managed to have the same experience, a few easy going then a string of DNFs then find a few again, I will one day finally finish it all but today wasn’t that day.

TFTC

started my day off by attending the Ballarat Breakfast event and continued Northish to find some more. Spotted a bunch of caches to be found in this area so I went to work to find as many as I could. TFTC.

Heading to St. Arnaud for the mega event. Day 70 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 35 for the day and 1971 for the trip. TFTC

A nice easy find clever cache. Signed and relaced. TFTC.

After missing out on this hide previously I checked the cache and found a spoiler photo (deliberate from the CO). Back there today I checked where the photo indicated only to find nothing! A wider seach then found the cache, which I put back where the photo indicated.

Out searching for clues today. Luckily I have heaps of mine caches out here still to find. Thanks Tony.

Newstead Day 3
Todays trip was around the mining area as far south as Creswick. We came accross some amazing caches & locations, a really enjoyable day.
The weather started quite bad, rain jackets & beanies to keep warm. The unsealed roads were good to drive on as we kriss cossed the country side. Learnin a little about the area as we went.
Thanks for placing this cache Saint.Anthony

Out for a great day with wildfam to find some more caches TFTC awesome!

Out for the day caching with barnes86 having a wonderful time. Hoping to cover some ground today and up our numbers. TFTC

Out for the day with the Meadows gang on our regular school holiday caching

Talk about getting muggled, The local farmer shows up and I’m thinking I might need to explain why 7 kids are examining every nook and cranny of a sign, he says are you looking for the Geognome thingy. Well yes we are I say. He reply’s they are way off and will never find it and he parks in the middle of the road jumps out of the ute and starts looking with us mumbling something about it keeps moving then yells yep there it is now see if you can find it.

Great hide

Thanks for the cache Saint Anthony

Picked up a few from this series on a day out caching with Dive Wombat and the 7 kids. A friendly farmer drove past and asked if we were looking for something. Turns out he knows the location of a few of the caches along this road and Dive Wombat had soon struck gold. Sneaky conceal this one. Thanks for the cache.

Up early this morning and out and about - Creswick was the target today.
No luck for us

Firstly, apologies for the lateness in logging.
Despite my tardiness, you can be assured I enjoyed each and every cache found and not found.
Apologies if this is a generic log, my memory is good, but not that good.

Thanks St.Anthony

There's some good scenic views to be had around the mines
There's some good views of caches too

TFTC

2019.01.13 1512 Cool Sunny 29° Farmer drove pass he said keep your eye on the ground, I thought he was referring to the cache, which was good advise but he was meaning keep an eye out for snakes. He knew what I was about.
TFTC Cheers

Found with Neisha07 & Becca85. Sorry for the late logging! TFTC.

Found with boo09, chan02 & becca85 on our way to spend the day/night with the Siemensma's. TFTC

Heading to Sulky to catch up with friends for dinner, we (neisha07, boo09, chan02 & muggle husband) detoured to grab a few more of these caches. The XR6 doesn't love these road but no worries with the newly acquired Prado.
I had DNF'd here once before looking alone in the rain. Today I wandered a bit before finally spotting what we were after. TFTC Saint.Anthony

Very cunning, it took a while to spot it. TFTC.

Found by Team Ladava on a day out in the Creswick area.
Now that was evil. I thought I knew what is was looking for but it still took quite a few minutes to claim the prize.
TNLN
Our thanks to Saint.Anthony for the cache and bringing us to this location.
Locations like this are 'the icing on the cake' of Geocaching with the locals hosting us anonymously to their favourite spots.
A lot of work has gone into laying out this informative and entertaining series.
Overall Experience: 3
Cache condition - fine
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava

Away for a long weekend of caching with Freddo and Four Fun.

Over 300 caches in 4 days means that the logs will be mainly generic.

The main target of our mission was to finish off the Mt Disappointment series. We achieved our target along with other caches as we headed east and then west.

My apologies for the generic logs.

TFTC

Away for an extended long weekend of caching with Freddo and Team Waldron.
The main target was the Dad's Driving Series, and it was definately a fun exercise collecting the series but with that completed we focused on some other caches and making our way back to SA, very slowly [^]
This was one of the fun stops along the way
Cheers & TFTH Saint.Anthony

Logging a find as part of the 4FW crew for this interesting series. A lot of work has gone into putting this series together. All caches were found and logged on a beautiful day.

Had a good look, much higher than this D/T should have been. No luck

Despite a thorough search, no luck here today.

Didn’t find (

Not lucky to find today

Another wonderful day spent in the company of Bushfire. Back again in this area but with much kinder weather than the other day when the temperature only struggled to 4 degrees. We came armed with a formidable list of caches and managed to find most of them with only 1 DNF finishing with a respectable tally. It’s difficult to imagine the activity that would have occurred along this road when all these mines were active. Thanks for the extensive notes which add so much to these caches Thanks Saint Anthony

Cache up here last Wednesday when the temperature was hovering around four degrees and this morning was not much warmer if you looked at the puddles that we drove through as they were covered in ice.
Again I am caching with au.fait and we had a wonderful day changing lots of caches into smiley faces.
We only stopped for a cuppa and some nibbles during the day and completed all the caches that were on our list in this area.
Dinner and a beer and wine was had at Buninyong on out way back to Geelong at the local on the corner. Great meal but pays to be early.
Creswick is looking a happier place now with all these new smiley faces looking at me.
All caches were signed with au.fait and BF.
It is difficult for us to come to terms of the hardships that these miners faced.
Thanks to Saint.Anthony for placing and maintaining this cache.

Tftc

We have seen a few of this type of cache before but this was the best area we have found for placement so far. So is well camoed! Thank goodness Geohubby found it as this was our last cache for today and it was time to head home. Geowife too tired at this stage of the day!! Thanks again for all the varied and many interesting caches we have found today - it had been a good caching day and we have really enjoyed it.
We will return another day to continue our caching in this great place of Creswick.
TFTC Saint.Anthony

The only reason we didn't find this was a whole flock of sheep thought we were there to feed them.........couldn't concentrate with their hungry bleating so we gave up, will look again

With no work on today, and a spectacular lack of inclination toward any of the number of chores I should be doing, I've snuck out instead to get the rest of the deep lead mine caches. I still find these traces of our history fascinating despite how many I visit. Thanks

#14118. Day 3 touring the area around Creswick with Robmc. Back through Miners Rest to Creswick and a visit to the CBRR series and the CDLGM series and then off to Mt Beckworth to finish the day. Ballarat weather was kind to us today, no gale force winds and plenty of sunshine - very nice.

Now getting into the series proper. So many mullock heaps and remnants. Even the signs look like they have seen better days. Since Rob looked at this series it seems to have grown very recently with the publication of new ones in January.

Thanks for the extensive cache page notes and photos.

Indeed, a nice bit of camo here so that all blended in well. No sign of lush green paddocks though, as in your photo.

Thanks Saint.Anthony

The third day in Ballarat and surrounds with BettyBoo3747.
Today we went to Creswick and tackled the CBRR and CDLGM series and any others we passed. We then travelled across to Mt Beckworth for a few challenges.
We had read about the mines north of Creswick, but until you travel around and look at all the locations I don't think we really grasped the size of the operations.
Interesting descriptions of the mines, thanks for than.
Most of the caches were in good condition (BB listed maintenance)
Thanks for an interesting afternoon, Robmc.

So pleased today.
Second today fast park and grab on our second attempt.
Think we are learning what to look for!
TFTC

Out with Youban for a morning cache run. You get to recognise these kinds of containers after seeing them around. still a nice hide with a difference compared to most of the others in this series. Tftc!!!

Dty73 did a quick find on this one. Kutgw

After a dnf from the last cache it was good to make this a quick find, could of been a lot longer search but managed to spot it pretty quickly and have it logged. TFTC Saint.Anthony

After enjoying our last visit to the area, we decide to head back again this morning. Last time we were here, it was hot and sticky. Today the sun was shining and a lovely cool breeze was blowing. Once again we had a ball, touring this beautiful town and surrounds. Thanks to all the hard work from the CO's. TFTC Saint.Anthony

Found by Mary & David at 1505. Gorse and prickly hawthorn berries are so colourful. Our thanks to Saint.Anthony.

Check made today to extend log capacity. Plasbag too. All good to go! Cheers StA

Visiting Creswick again for some Fishin and Caching. Our last time here was Nov 2016 and during that two weeks learned heaps and scored some 70+ caches to add to our tally. We thought we had cleaned out most of the Creswick caches. Not so. On returning home we became Premium Members and succeeded in exposing about another 80+ in this lovely area. Yehaaa.

Back to the hard rock Miners.

This visit to Creswick was for a relatively short period. (3 days) Lots more still to collect from this wonderfully historic town. Thanks Creswick, and thanks also to the CO's and their hard work.

Hoping you will forgive the generic logs.

Thanks for the cache Saint.Anthony and all your maintenance.

Took Nothing and left Nothing (TNLN)Log on return

I had to make a trip to Maryborough to pick up my Daughter tonight around midnight, so I decided to make a day of it and cache my way there. A message to Ausfox; and Neville_devil and I soon had a couple of caching buddies as well.
With plenty of time up our sleeves we decided to make a big loop around all of these mine sites. Most were easy find with only 1 DNF.
Thank you Saint.Anthony for providing these mine site caches

Found it. Log will need replacing asap as it's full.

The Sisterhood of the Cargo Pants united for a road trip and headed from Bendigo to Creswick for the day. We loved the way the mines are located at about the right caching distance apart.

We had lots of fun today - thanks Saint.Anthony

Well when we looked at GZ, we kinda guessed what we were looking for, thanks to the nosey local at the previous cache! TFTC

12:26 pm Find #1210 Out geocaching with the Sisterhood on a sunny Winter Sunday. This was a quick find thanks to the muggle man giving a hint at the previous hide. TNLNSL TFTC Saint_Anthony.
~ Crazy Creels

Our last full day of caching on our excursion to the big island and we decided we didn't want to cache in town so we found our way out to this area to see how many we could get. The tally for the day was 35 GC finds, apologies for the generic logs. TFTC