Puffing at Work Emerald, Victoria, Australia
By Pinkpiggy7 on 12-Dec-16. Waypoint GC6Y37K

Took a little while as GPS all over the place. Took a second look before it was located. Geo dog enjoyed the rest and shade

TFTC Beautiful place will have to come exploring more another time

Out on a gorgeous day with carmlee1, gps was all over the place so took a few circles to pin down

Out and about with doddlingalong wandering around Cardinia Reservoir and Emerald. Having a lovely time in Emerald. TFTC

Had a job in Kallista so decided to do a few caches on my way home to warragul. Sl thanks for the cache.

I was looking everywhere for it was just about to quit and then I thought maybe its over there oh yup got ya. Haha. TFTC.

Spring Victorian Incursion 2024.Day Nine: Casey, Cardinia and Yarra Ranges. Weather: perfect for geocaching!One of five caches found as I follow the Puffing Billy trail from Emerald down to Belgrave. I got to see the train in action at Emerald and caught up with it having a rest at the bottom.Not a quick find here as the GPS had me running around in circles. Its easy to spot once youre in the right place. Previous logs helped me narrow the search. Thanks for this hide Pinkpiggy7.

Fun find by Haz101

Dnf

After a little searching we found it

Spent a few hours catching up with my daughter and grandkids at Emerald lake park, this gave me the opportunity to find this one. A quick park and grab on this one.Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.

Great little cache

Hills Group 1 Jack, Jos and David. Tricky find hiding in leafy shadows! Merry Christmas all 2023

Found at 12:26 PM GAFF1.That was a nice little circuit that the GPSr made me do! Finally got to GZ when everything settled down and spotted the fixing device from the other side first [^]Thanks to Pinkpiggy7

Lovely spot TFTC!

Found it

First Geo in ages! Really fun easy one. Great spot

Found it

TFTC nice easy find and had a good walk around the park also doing the Adventure Lab

We have completely run out of firewood and there's no time to go out and collect some more from our usual sources so I've had to find an alternative for this moment in time. I found a supplier of saw dust briquettes up in Emerald and so after hooking up the trailer, I set off for the hills. Naturally when you visit areas you rarely venture into, caching is always on the cards.

Not much puffing on my behalf thankfully as no steep hills to climb but due to wandering co-ords it took me a little bit to settle on a GZ and make the find.

Thank you for the cache here Pinkpiggy7

Date: June 18, 2023 Time: 3:19 PM
Find #13917

In the area to visit Billy for the first time since I was a child. A fun day

Massive thanks go to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this one.

We found Puffing at Work after a puppy puffing billy adventure.
While half the team remained in the car, confident that they had already found this cache, the brighter and more adventurous and realistic of the group began the hunt. Initially searching in the weong area, once properly realigned, we quickly found the cache and signed the log

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for hiding this cache so that we could come and enjoy ourselves

Found it! Last cache for the day. The GPS had me along way from where I found the cache. Probably due to the tree coverage. Anyway I got to see the old platform and building and there were Cockatoos in the pine tree. It was Muggle Wen who spotted the cache but I to wait out a few other muggles before I could have a good look and sign the log. TFTC SL. We enjoyed the last of the autumn leaves still hanging on to the trees in the park.

With the weather improving I decided that I would hunt out a few caches as I made my way to Emerald to buy some lunch... but this one had to wait until after lunch. Direct road access was blocked due to roadworks so I made my way here by a longer way around after I had eaten.

Finding the cache took a little while as the indicated GZ was wandering around... but after it settled down I soon made a find... although I did wonder if the Terrain rating is a bit light on.

Thanks **Pinkpiggy7** for the cache.

A tricky one to find as GPS was about 8 metres out. Almost dark and raining- would be a lot easier (and safer) when it’s dry.

I was puffing at work today, and the cache is definitely still in position. Not sure what zip ties were found

Found only zip tights but not the container

Found zip ties, but log gone

Nice hiding spot, still manageable to find. Beautiful location! Found by Marina, Lisa and Tim.

There were a few caches to find in this area and this was the first one for us.
We found it just dangling in there.
Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for placing all of these great caches around the area.
Chiefton!!!

Walk with the wife and two dogs. Dig the fairy one at the same time. Fantastic park.

Such a great job with the gardens at the station. This cache was a bit harder to find in the trees.

TFTC

Really cool historic area

Took a while but we found it. Smaller than expected! Thanks

Took a while but I found it in the end. Tftc and good luck others.

Up at Emerald chipping away at a couple of adventure labs and found this one nicely hidden .. thanks Pinkpiggy7 for placing and maintaining the cache

Found

Pretty tricky but in the end it was rainy and the day was dim. Was quite hard to see. TFTC. Found safe and sound

Found in the tree!

Found this cache some time ago and forgot to log, sorry for the lateness TFTC

Out with MazzyMay and we decided to head for the hills today TFTC

Found just as it started to rain.
TFTC

Replaced log, pit the last finder didn't recover and left it in the open

Bit of a funny old day caching today - initially found the cache but it was empty- second look found the log and all was sweet

We spent the day on the puffing Billy train. Came back by car to get a few of the adventure lab locations that we couldn’t get by train. I had to do a few circles of the GZ and widen my search before I found it. Some of the photos helped narrow in which tree to search.

Had an awesome day exploring this unique epic historic nursery. So many different tree species and the grounds are so well looked after..no puffin for me though of any kind. Cache located after a few circles at GZ.

In the area this weekend attending events. Caching my way back home which is a great way to sightsee.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 cache quickly found in good condition.

Sadly our short road trip holiday is almost over but we decided to do a bit more sightseeing around these beautiful gardens. Fortunately the place was quiet and we were able to make a quick find.

Thanks, we enjoyed finding your cache Pinkpiggy7.

Finally really nice weather since all the rain so I headed out for a puzzle way over in the bush with a couple of random things on the way.
Stopped here for this random trad and I continued my way towards the state forest. Took a few minutes of searching but eventually I spotted it.
Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Found thanks

Such a nice spot. Took a bit to find it

Sims_family mum and dad were having a weekend away celebrating our wedding anniversary. we were taking in some of the sites and doing a few Adventure Labs at the same time. This brought here so we couldn't resist a hunt for this little guy.After a good hunt I expanded the area and eventually found our prize.Unfortunately we misplaced our note on everything we did for the weekend and have only just discovered some cache which we didn't log. Sorry for the extremely late log.Thank you Pinkpiggy7 for hide

I've been to this park many times but have never wandered up the hill. Thanks for bringing me here!

Had a lovely picnic in the area with echidna44. Completed this cache and a few others during our day out. Thanks!

Out with pinnacle333 we had a picnic lunch, then moved on to find this well hidden cache. Thanks Pinkpiggy7.

After trying to find parking and failing at Emerald Lake we decided to try and find parking near here. Much less busy but still just as beautiful!

This was a nice fun little cache and we even got a nice surprise and saw puffing billy as we searched GZ.

The cache was in good shape, and the logbook was nice and dry. TFTC

We came here as it was starting to get dark as a Geokids said they wanted to find treasure. This was a tricky one to find and would be harder in the wet.

Finally got one after 3 DNF's today. This LGA is a tough one! Tftc

While attempting the Adventure Lab on this beautiful day, along with a very excited geodog we are minding, our path would take us close to this cache. Once in the vicinity of GZ, our GPS decided there was no way we were going to make a quick find, and had us searching on the wrong side for quite sometime.

Coming up empty handed, we crossed to the other side where the cache was soon spotted. After the signing duties were completed, I narrowly missed taking a tumble, but thankfully managed to keep both feet on the ground.

Keep puffing away Billy and you too Pinkpiggy7, its good for you. Thanks for opportunity to explore this beautiful area.

Found with katdogg and geofam. Cheers for the cache

Finally came back after maintenance, easy find again but it looks so different in a different season!

Tftc

On a bus driving job to Puffing Billy today, so grabbed a few caches and an AL along the way.
I managed to convince my two driver colleagues that wandering up and down hills looking for caches was a great way to spend our time .
This one was a tricky little find, in a location I've never been to, but didn't evade us for too long.
TFTC PinkPiggy7

I had a sinking feeling that I was never going to find this one, then I checked again and found it - phew! Thank you!

Working our way through re enabling our caches.

To many people are finding our caches in breach of lockdown provisions, disabling until things are open again.

Found it TFTC

Found thank you

I was puffing at work, and decided to check this one. Replaced the missing log. Aa

Found lid to cache, but nothing attached had a quick look around but couldn’t find the container.

Logged as maintenance required. Found lid in secure spot but no cache container attached.

Sadness falls upon Vinz, for not only was his beloved Zuul not to be found here, but he was unable to locate the artifact that brought him here.
Evidence of some work around he may be to blame, or perhaps poor Vinz's eyesight is not what it once was.

Searching on the wrong side before reading a few previous logs which confirmed my suspicion and soon had the log signed before going for a brief walk with a few Cubs.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.
Found at 11:20 am on 14/6/21.
Find # 2276

Gr9 spot!

A quick park and drive in a spot I haven't seen before from this side of the train tracks. I hadn't quite appreciated this building before - what a fascinating spot well worthy of a cache hide. tftc

We found it. GPS was a bit off though.

Great weather and a free Sunday so decided to go caching with some geo friends out East.

Continuing our adventure lab journey nearby and grabbed this cache that I hadn’t logged last time I was here.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.

We were doing the nearby Adventure Lab today and took the opportunity to look for this cache. The phones were a little vague and it took a little while to seetle done. But a reasonably quick find. No one else nearby so we did not need to be to stealthy. Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.

After looking for this cache and couldn’t find it we went for a walk around this beautiful place. Upon returning to the car we had one more look around and there it was. TFTC

I can’t find it. Only second time looking for a cache maybe I am not very good at this

Yay- second try

MontsII and I dropped the new geopup off for his first groom. On the way to pick him up, we decided to see if we could find this cache as we were running slightly early. MontsII made the find, and we checked out the map for future walks. Thanks for placing the cache Pinkpiggy7, happy new year

Cute ooshie.. Nice camo.. thanks

Nice spot well disguised

Back in the game

I was puffing at work, so popped over and replaced the cache.

I checked this when I was working here last Tuesday, it's gone, someone decided to trim the hide, if I remember I'll replace it next Tuesday. Note to self, put cache in work truck.

Disabling due to the current situation

Took a little while but epic spot

Great find

Loved this find!

Damn I am behind on my logs, good old covid-19 was a great distraction from actually logging my caches. But nevertheless here I am now doing all the catch up.

Out for a nice drive out in the Pakenham/ Cockatoo area with Brainiac03 today to smash out some caches in this area. No real issues at all as we drove around collecting several caches throughout the day.

Thanks for the cache and the day out.

*Found on the 7 Mar 2020 @ 2:25 pm.*
*Cache find # 10783.*

After spending some time at Mt. Cannibal, it was now time to find a few more caches with some COTY nominees and old caches as my main target as well as a few others that I was going by at the time..
This one wasn’t far from my route so I stopped for a look.
I did a walk by on this one, spotted the cache but had to wait for some muggles to leave before I could retrieve it, once the coast was clear the log was signed.

**Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this cache.**

On a caching run with buhfuhguh today in the Pakenham/Cockatoo area to pick up a few caches we hadn't yet found.
Plenty of spots to stash a micro around here, and the oncoming train of muggles didn't look as though it would help.
I scrolled through some past images and stumbled across a helpful-looking one.
Matched it up with the right area and found the cache hanging in the middle.
Waved at the train-riders, waited for a car to pass by and signed the log before returning as found.
Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for the cache!

TFTC, Brainiac03

Good one thanks

Beautiful one, such a nice camouflage:)

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My 6 year old found this, really sweet thank you!

TFTC! It took a few minutes to find but it was in a great spot!

Had a brief look on the way out to cockatoo, muggles everywhere though, upon my return I eventually did spot it.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for Puffing at Work

#4201

After a short search we read some logs for inspiration and our deciduous thoughts soon paid off
TFTC