BCT - The Dreaming Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
By Jamin Appleford on 13-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6Q59R

Found nice and easy outside the great vic bike ride with some muffle friends.TFTC

Found with a few students on the Great Vic Ride. TFTC

Thankyou for the cache was abit hesitant because of potential spiders but sucked it up in the end! Thanks for the cache!

TFTC

Took some time but finally found it TFTC.

Day 12 of my interstate trip. Today I left Everton and continued on my way to Sydney making it as far as Burrumbuttock where I spent the night at a free camp site. I managed to find 17 caches today and only 1 DNF.Took a while to find it but got it in the end.TFTC Jamin Appleford

Our second day in Wangaratta and we decided on a walk picking up a few caches. All the trads we found today were quick finds. TFT

Checked during ParkRun this morning

Another dnf .Third time here.Over it.How many dnfs in a row before one starts having on the game.*counts fingers*Getting close

This was a miracle find I was searching everywhere but there so many muggles each search only last a few seconds scratching my head I tried l more think not really expecting about OMG their it was

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Nice quick find today in an obvious spot. TFTC

Each tribe has its own story of the dreamtime, each story of the dreamtime is a recollection of how the ancestors believed the land was built, and OT carries history for us to this day. This hide was great reminding me of my home town and its cultural stories. Signed the logsheet successfully.

Met up with Davidwazza for the day with the main aim of tackling the Warbys Challenge Trail series, and finding a mixture of Traditionals, Multis, Virtuals, Puzzles and Wherigos, both along the way and around Wangaratta. Thanks for the cache Jamin Appleford!

A nice morning walk to another nice cache. Thanks

In Wangaratta for the day trying to grab as many caches as we could. Started with the four Adventure Lab Series before grabbing some solved mystery caches and then grabbing whatever else came our way. Zinnia94 parked the car a kilometre away but that meant we had to walk past a few caches so we grabbed this one. BENedict_2011 located the prize and was very pleased with himself. Nice hide TFTC

Good find by BENedict2011.
Swift and smooth find!
Great work my special geokid!

Log signed as Ellie.

Decided to collect a few caches while in Wang.

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Nice find tftgc

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The weather was getting hotter so we picked on an easy cache before heading back to the cool of the geo-mobile. SL, TFTC

Got it thanks

Checked on this one today. Cache is still hidden and in play

Looked for 5 mins and could not find anything

Showing a friend around Wangaratta and told him about my geocaching hobby. Guess who found his first find and is signing up as we speak!!! TFTC

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Got notified last week that the power was going out at the office which meant the server would not be available. Outcome would be a frustrating day with jo work done do I made the call and had a flex. Meant I had a day free so why not go caching. With all the love at Rutherglen lately poor old Wangaratta is not being visited much. Many caches today hadn’t been logged since January (which was a tad painful as many past logs were generic Megs ones). Original intention was to use the locationless cache to boost my best day to 8 (plus AdLabs) but the plan was foiled by flooding - didn’t realise how many caches would be inaccessible (too many to log). In the end I did end up at Rutherglen to get a few different types but will save the bonus cache for another day (no Earthcaches available to collect). However did find all 33 (plus 5 AdLab points) that I actually looked for – but a lot more I didn’t try as access was blocked by water.

Back to where the car was parked and a quick search (dog walkers chatting when I started). Hunted around a bit but it wasn’t until I had a thorough feel that the sneaky cache was revealed. Log signed and returned as found
TFTC Jamin Appleford

pretty hard one

Tricky little find

Coords had us at pole. Too cold to look for too long. Bike trail covered in water to next cache.

Lovely place to spend some serious time exploring.TFTC

Found it TFTC

Unfortunately we were unable to head to the Wang mega so this being my first caching day since January 1st we headed to Wang for a caching day.
Enjoying the day out with Done_wright and Wright_stuff

Thanks Jamin. Another found in the series

Found it.

Found
Lucky we had the tall one with us today.
Out for the day in Wangaratta with Stephenson5 and done_wright.
Have had a great day exploring and discovering areas we didn't know about.

Some muggles around, or were they cachers hanging around after the Mega?

It was a last minute plan to head to the MEGA. I didn’t think I was going to make it, but an opportunity arose and I managed to get a night in the Big 4. Geo daughter and I had fun with the maze, lab caches and a few local trads before heading back to the big smoke. Thanks for the fun and all the CO and organiser efforts!

Happened to bump into a bunch of cachers finding it that I already knew. Great to catch up. TFTC.

Beautiful morning to be out caching on the last day of the Mega.

Just a quick one here!

TFTC

Walking into town with Misthills, stopped to collect a few caches on the way

First cache in the morning with nanton34 knocking over a few trads

Thanks for the quick ride and find. Log was full, signed as MC.

Finishing up a few caches before we head home from a fun-filled weekend in Wangaratta.Thanks for the adventure

Quick find on the 15th with Cathylmorgan & Jmorg24

First cache of the day! So close to the Mega event, the log book is full!

10:15am - LOG is completely full, needs replacing ASAP please!!

A nice easy cache with heaps of muggles around. Squeezed my name on the bottom of the log, signed as Ms_AT. Log is full!!! TFTC ??

Nice arrt work. Introduce a passing muggle to caching.

This river walk is gorgeous and a lovely respite from the heat. A great way to finish this fantastic Mega in Wangaratta.

Out and about today with PrezDough grabbing a few caches today.
We did a quick grab here and off for lunch.
We visited 5 TB.
TFTC.

Nice cache near the campsite. Before I go I thought I should get some caches around here.

I visited 3 TB

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The mega is over but we decided to seek out a few more caches before it was time to go.... searched around for this one without luck.. fortunately two lovely cachers cycled by and helped me out. Thanks for placing the cache

Found with eighthnox while in the area for the mega TFTC

A quick find whilst attending the Mega for the weekend. Thanks Jamin Appleford.

Found during our trip up to Wangaratta for the MEGA event.
Nice quick find here. Squeezed initials into the full log.
We really enjoyed the spot and thank you for placing the cache here for us to find.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14 while we were at the Wangaratta MEGA event.
It was so hot out but we did enjoy finding this geocache.
Thanks for the hide here.

Tricky hide, we met a cacher having trouble putting her finger on it. Whilst we looked a local approached us and asked what was happening over there...pointing to the Mega area, he asked if it was ' a Covid isolation area' lol ....we explained what we were doing and our new caching friend told him all about how to get into our fantastic hobby and what to expect when searching for a cache....I discovered the cache and we showed him what we had found. We carefully replaced the cache whilst he was chatting and moved on to the next cache.
It's so sad that today is the last day we have in Wangaratta before heading to St Arnaud for a half way stop before heading back home to SA. Hevwalker and I found with some kind cachers extra help. TFTC A great informative and beautiful walking trail. I look forward to come back one day soon and finish it. TFTC

Found together with Fred.

TFTC Jamin Appleford

Some more caching around town with Dino was in order to complete this nice weekend.
Quick find, nice cache, all in good order.

Thank you Jamin Appleford for putting the cache out and maintaining it.

Found on a week long trip to Wang for the Mega event with Roostaman.
Lots of driving around town and avoiding the heat often.
And lots of different caches found as well.
Thanks for the cache Jamin Appleford,
***MrsRoosta****

scramping & I were out & about this morning collecting smiley's before it was time to pack up & leave Wangaratta.
I am loving this trail. Unfortunately we were not able to complete it due to the time constraints.
Thanks Jamin Aplleford for sharing the stories and placing the cache to bring us along this trail.

SL at 10:15am. Here with Ms_AmaraTay. Lots of stealth required for this one. Had to pretend I was reading the sign due to muggle walkers passing by or were they cachers? Great hide on the start of a lovely cultural trail. TFTC!
*Maintenance Request logged due to a full log.
*Signed log as FWD.

An afternoon of caching in company of Earthbound Chief.

This one was to be the last one for the day. Exhausted and hot, we needed to get back to the Mega site to help pack up the Maze. What a fun filled weekend.

An interesting find at GZ, nicely hidden.
The logbook was full so I put in a clean fresh one.

Thank you for the cache here Jamin Appleford

A busy spot but the cache easily retrieved from the obvious spot.
Thanks

Found during the Wangaratta mega. Quick find at GZ. Loved the vegetation around the nearby ramp section of the trail. TFTC Jamin Appleford!

Feels like a relief to find a traditional cache after all those lab puzzle caches at the mega! Nice and easy find, such a great area. Log a bit full after the mega but managed to squeeze in. TFTC!

Out caching with Beaker today.
Nice easy find.
TFTC

Found today with Kellmik during the Mega Wang. Great spot!!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie whilst attending the Wangaratta MEGA event.
It was an amazing trip around the area. So hot and mozzies everywhere we went!
Thanks for hiding the cache for us to find.

On a trip down to Wangaratta and we targeted lots of caches, as well as picking up anything nearby.

Thanks for the cache

Found on a week long trip to Wang for the Mega event.
Met up with various cachers over the week and had fun caching
in various weather as well. We hit the trails and some series too.
Thanks for the cache Jamin Appleford, .
***Roostaman****

Arrived in town for the weekend of events planned, mostly the kayaking trip which timed nicely with the mega and a maze. Plenty of caching to choose from so we targeted a few, collecting a few others as they were just too convenient not to get while so close. Thanks for the cache!

Nicely attached. Super full log so squeezed in initials in a gap.

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The rivers and trails around Wangaratta, can tell us so much about the cultural history of the area - amazing! Better luck today, this one was missing last time we tried.

Thanks Jamin Appleford for placing such interesting caches on the gameboard.
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Found this one after visiting the nearby MEGA site, before heading into town for some labs and a virtual!

Thanks Jamin Appleford for the hunt and the cache!

Found on Day 2 of the Wangaratta Event Trip!

Caching in this area with Crank1 during the Mega event. Jamin Appleford, thank you so much for placing it and highlighting this area.

A mega jaunt with endeavour3 saw us caching this cache and writing in the log, then we moved on. A lovely place to explore. Today was an amazing day - what with the rare GPS Maze I scored 14 cache types in a single day!

Thanks to Jamin Appleford and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Watawieh from Norfolk Island ???? South Pacific.

I have joined forces with TeamAstro to attend the Wangaratta Mega. Today I am chasing 14 different cache types in a day.

Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

Find #5008

So excited to be attending my first MEGA and to be out and about after what seems like ages. Have been working very long hours for the past few months on the pandemic front so to have a few days for caching seems like an absolute luxury. ??

Great to meet new faces and to spend caching time with some familiar cachers as well.

Thanks to Jamin Appleford for putting out and maintaining all of these caches for our enjoyment! ??

**This Cache:**

Other members of the group wandered over for the search whilst I kindly asked the muggles standing outside their house if I could borrow their tap to fill up my water. Going through it so quickly on this hot day!

Soon joined them for the return of the cache, before walking down the track for another find.

Thanks!

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**Today:**

Signed the log as **AB!** to save room, which stands for **Adventure Boys!**, which consisted of Loci612, Sui_001, DARKSIDEDAN and sebass19 during the Wangaratta Mega Event!

Day 2 of our mega trip!
The main goal of today was 14 cache types, the NKH series, everything MEGA related and lots of FUN in-between!

Thanks to all the CO's!

Found with FUF009 while attending The Wangaratta Event.
Stealth was hard. People popping up all over the place! Still managed a sneaky grab, sign and return. Tftc

Just about on weekend home turf.

This was the last for the day today.

I parked not to far away.

The cache was a quick walk away and find.

TFTC

A quick find where we parked to go and find a tortoise. The TOOLMAN grumbled about micro caches so we left him in the car. A quick find by Budgietas
Thanks Jamin Appleford

I had been set to attend another Victorian Mega but the damn pandemic began and for obvious reasons one was cancelled and one was postponed. I was pleased the postponed Wangaratta event went ahead but have to admit I was still apprehensive about the COVID situation. Although attending all events, (except 1 of the CITOs) keeping distance was still a priority. I had a great time touring with 1TOOLMAN and Budgietas although there was an empty void where SSR should have been.

As well as Wangaratta, we visited The Paps, Mt Buller, Benalla, Glenrowan, Winton and even popped in to Lex country, having dinner at Brady’s Railway Hotel. Our find numbers were low but our laugh count was high so I call that a win!

GPS was a little bouncy on approach to this one but instinct won out and the cache was found in the first place I stopped and scanned. [^]

In the company of Ghostgums, we were soon joined by a mob of Canberra cachers who etched their names in the log right behind us.

All done, GG and I headed South along the path to another.

Cheers Jamin Appleford.

Mega Weekend at Wangaratta, we had a great time finding your cache ?? Jamin Appleford, thank you so much for placing it.??

This is going to be a very well organised, stressful and fun day. We had set ourselves a challenge to pick up as many different types of caches in a day, grab some higher altitude caches and then to add to it, grab some different size caches all in a day.

With our game faces on Domsky’s and I headed to the start of today’s list. We were super excited and had a good plan. First was an event and then head out to grab the MT. Buller caches and then work our way back to town.

It was a super fun day and a relatively easy and fun time, we even got to see some “Serenity”.
In the case of the events, we signed the logbooks and in the case of a cache, we signed and replaced as found. Thank you to all the CO’s for our journey today, it was memorable.

Having a ball finding caches at the Mega, friendly peeps everywhere, a fantastic day out!

Another Mega find and a short hill climb to this one. Then out of the sun and into a maze

A huge day of caching that allowed us to find 15 different types in the one day.

Grabbed this cache before stopping for lunch by the river

TFTC

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The Mega in Victoria I had always planned to attend, but due to covid changes I was concerned, I wouldn’t be able to due to work commitments. As these commitments cleared up, I planned to go over and catch up with GoosenEgg, Stainless Steel Rat, and 1Toolman while in Wangaratta for a day caching to attempt to find 100 in one day. As things turned out Stainless Steel Rat was unable to go, so I was invited to join GoosenEgg and 1Toolman for the entire period. 1Toolman collected us from the airport and we immediately drove to Victoria’s 1st Geocache. From there during the 4 days, we visited Wangaratta, Mt Buller, Albury, Wodonga, Benella, Glenrowan, and Beechworth (although we didn’t make the bakery much to 1Toolmans disgust)

The trip was less about numbers and more about visiting places that I had only driven through before. We did manage to complete the Ned Kelly Helmet series and find a great Earthcache at Murmungee Lookout and another cache at “The Paps” which gave tremendous views of the area. The GPS maze, which I must say was one of the greatest attractions was also attended as with another cacher I was first through on the Saturday Morning at 8.15. It was great to get this icon on my profile.

Of the trip, it was certainly hot and humid, but we really didn’t get rained on in any serious way, with the major storm passing through at night time, otherwise it was just hot or very hot depending on the time of the day.

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Just as we came across this one, another cacher was just finding it, nice one

Quick stop after registering for the mega.

Wangaratta mega is now upon us, so naturally I'm out caching with AlexiKatty, trying to add as many smileys as I can while im hear. TFTC ??

Tttc!!! Found with ThaKraken up for the mega!!!!

Lovely day for caching. Thanks

Accompanying All7 and after visited mega xx nice walked with hot day TFTC

Found with 63ROOS. Tks

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Out caching the area during the Mega TFTC ????