Remembering John Miles Darlington, Victoria, Australia
By H_3 on 08-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6Z2X0

Found it.

Thanks

TFTF

Found this one with the wife and kids on the weekend which was actually my first outing and find

Found it! What a great little hint and find

I found it! Hint was needed

Bit of a search but soon in handTFTC

What a beautiful cemetery

Ive driven past here many times over the years but have never stopped. Nice spot over looking the creek. Got to GZ and made the quick find. TFTC!!

Raised on a Dairy on the Darlington Rd. Eaten many times over the decades at the Pub. Never been to the cemetary before. Glad I visited.

This was hard & tricky & it nearly stumped me

I loved finding this one it was super fun finding it but I forget to bring a pen and my mate came with me will probably bring a pen next time but I found it 24/3/2024 and we own the elephant bridge hotel across from the cemetery

Thanks for the adventure

Found it. Lovely old cemetery

Quick find at an interesting spot. Tftc.

#21692 @1315Heading from Melbourne towards Adelaide targeting challenges, counties, and windmills. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Came on dusk and started to look around. Dnfd as an guardian bullant nest was dead on gz. Tftc

Interesting little cemetery. TFTC

On our travels we found ourselves at Darlington and took the opportunity to grab this cache, John certainly has a good few, thanks for placing this cache

Good challenge

15/11/2023 2:10:00 PMI spent a full day driving around South West Victoria, hiding a couple of caches visiting a lot of cemeteries and walking a short section of the rail trail near Port Fairy. In all an enjoyable day out. I DNFed this one, or at least did not sign when I found a snake sitting on the cache on my last visit, no reptiles in sight today thankfully.Thanks H_3Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

Well this was a weird little cemetery!! Found the cache easy enough but also spotted a cremation box stashed away too!!Cache logged and replaced where it was found

Another cemetery and another find. SL TFTC

Found

Interesting little cemetery - TFTC

Beautiful cemetery with lots of interesting graves. Had a great wander around before finding the cache. Thanks!!

This was a really quick find. One,because it was easy and two, because it was pi$$ing down rain. Didn't really get to have a look around, maybe next time I'm thru the area. TFTC

One a day trip from Ballarat and this was my starting point. Found the way in and soon arrived at the cemetery. Once inside and over the general area, I stopped to read the headstone before heading over and finding the cache. Log was signed then it was back to the car and back towards Lismore.

Thanks for showcasing this one H_3....cache all good.

I really wasn't going to let thos cache stump me!!!
While here, have a look around the cemetery and take in some of the names buried here. Multiple OBE, MBE's & Order of Australia recipients and former parliamentarians. Theres even a sprinkling of military medal recipients.
You'll even find the brother and father of a bonifide Australian war hero who had a ridge in Gallipoli named after him and later formed and served as the first national president of the RSL.
And just down the road was the cricket ground I opened the batting for the Darlington under 16s in 1990-91 with a season batting average of 0.89. ( Runners up in the Western Plain Cricket Association... damn you S Slater for dropping that catch early when old mate went on to make 163!!!!

The amount of water around made this one a little tricky to get too. Nice hide.

TFTC.

SL at 12:15pm. Road trip with bdiaw heading to the Whittlesea Mega Event for the weekend. Had a lovely walk around the cemetery amongst the dragonflies and mosquitoes. Such an interesting red gum tombstone and well looked after.
*Cache location is about 6 metres from GZ.
*Have a FP because it's in my favourite place to cache!
*TFTC H_3 and the history lesson!

Awesome job! Was a lil tricky. But awesome.

Such an old grave. This cache took me a little while to find and I lost a pen in the process. Fortunately I had a spare and was able to sign the log. Great spot for a cache.

Good one. Thank you

Well I was now supposed to be on my 6 week adventure up to Outback Queensland but with my knee failing me I just had to turn back around and head home.
So after 3 weeks of rest at home I was getting cabin fever so for the last week I just had to get out so Western Victoria beckoned so I could grab a few LGA’s and UBD Country VIC maps which would not involve a lot of walking.
So after attending the International Geocaching event in Lara yesterday I got up early this morning and off I went.
With all of the recent heavy rain everything is just soaked and you have to be careful not to leave the road or tracks.
Worked out how to get in to here and off I went.
I enjoy going through small country cemeteries as you can sometimes get a feel for the place.
The headstone is in great condition and another place you would just drive past if it wasn’t for geocaching

Thanks H_3 TFTC.

Vinz hss finished his business in nearby Mortlake and is now taking a few detours on his way back to the great metropolis.
Rain and chilly winds seemed a fitting accompaniment to a stroll around a cemetery. Although the hidden artifact here was easily discovered, Vinz still took the time to visit with some of the older residents at rest.

TFTC. Catching up logging. Found these on way to Sheepvention

What a lovely day to be out and about and Geocaching. Muggle brother and nephew enjoyed visiting this area and finding the cache.

The cache is in excellent condition.

Thank you for this cache H_3

Good one

Good one

Find #5221. Found @ 15:04 with The Good Lady Wife, skirrel, j-bean.

On a holiday getaway multi-day road trip with the family, traveling from Melbourne to Adelaide via Renmark and back to Melbourne. The Renmark to Adelaide trip today, and one that was originally going to lighter on for caching, but we combined some getting larges with skirrel getting some learner hours.

Today was the long drive from Mount Gambier back to Melbourne. Another stop to stretch our legs, but beforehand we had to open a gate and cross a cattle grid... I wasn't sure that we were permitted to do so, until I saw the place we were going to.

We startled a sheep who was grazing nearby and she gave us the suspicious side-eye all the time we were in the area.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache H_3

Nice easy find on a cold weekend exploring the area tftc

An awesome old grave

Wow. What an amazing place! TFTF.

Nit stumped by this one
Tftc

Great hide and thanks story of John. Great history lesson!

Left Melbourne for WARNAMBOOL after work yesterday. Arrived early evening, a quick bite to eat and off for a walk. Covered 8km and collected a few local cache. Quick pint and off to bed. Up early Saturday to do Parkrun, breaky and cache our way back to Melbourne. Was a fun little escape, ticking lots of boxes. Thanks for the fun.

Beautiful view with thoughtful hint

A great bit of history in a little known but iconic location, found and signed the logsheet and sat and enjoyed the views. It’s good to see the local pub back up and trading once again.

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC H_3

Find # 6630

**Found en route home after visiting family in Warrnambool**

Chasing a few caches for the 'Reach the Peak' souvenir. Ironically, this month is Everest. I climbed to Everest base camp *many many* years ago on my first ever overseas holiday - 7 weeks and **best holiday** I've ever had

Lovin' life, coffees and caches, waymarks and photos, taking the roads less traveled. Does it get any better than traveling this great land of ours? A nice straight forward find here. The log was stamped and replaced as found.

Nice history. Really enjoy cemetery caches. Thanks for the cache H_3. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

**Warning**, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to learning new things and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.

Cache on!
**#17032**

Thank you for the history lesson, fantastic

On the way home from visiting family in Warrnambool. Taking the scenic trip back and grabbing a few hides along the way. It was some warm humid weather but we found some great hides and many different types, along the way.

Enjoyed stopping off here, getting some local history and making a quick find.

Thanks H_3 for placing the cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy the find.

Just about at my furtherst travels west today.

Took a little while to find the cemetery entrance.

Nearly tempted for a pot in the good looking pub across the road.

A young couple were paying respects to a family member.

Lucky for me it was at the other side of the cemetery.

A quick search and i was signing the log.

TFTC

Best laid plans: we stayed in Geelong for 2 nights then after picking up a former colleague and taking her to Torquay for an Indian tea at the beach[:X][^] Afterwards we walked the beach until it was dark and both her dog, Miss Mavis, and Rex had fun[:X][^]
I dropped my friend back home and then had to decide: sleep[|)][|)] or drive to Warrnambool in the hope of getting a FTF or 3
That's how we ended up in Warrnambool on Christmas morning and getting a FTF about 3am, 3.30am and 4am We did not see Santa at all in our travels though
We stayed in Warrnambool that night[^][|)][:X] and then stopped in Daylesford the next night[|)][^][|)] before finally getting home Monday evening[|)][^]
Many hours were spent on different beaches as they are Rex' happy place[:X][^][:X]
Over the trip, there were 5 DNFs, 1 Festivus event attended and 40 caches found
We even managed 1 complete adv lab at Daylesford, too[^]

Had to stop and have a look at the 'oldest redgum marker!'[^]
Rex found a rabbit under a bush and totally ignored the sheep wandering outside the fence[^] as he wanted rabbit instead
Ccahe was found easily and pics of the marker were taken[^][^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC H_3

Found . The South West Tour. We had planned a longer stay but a few things got in the way so it’s Saturday to Monday. The caching aim was to get some higher D/T ratings and get our average for both above 1.75. Thanks to others for the help finding "the stump". All in good condition. TFTC

Mr Morris has a few weeks off but with border restrictions we thought we'd do a slow lap of Victoria while we had some good weather.

We are now camping at a lake near Cobden and after setting up yesterday and exploring Timboon today we headed to Camperdown and Terang for a look about.

Another interesting piece of history in a very pretty location. GZ had us a bit cloder to the headstone but Mr Morris took some time to smell the roses.
TFTC H_3

Caching my way home after a girls weekend away - TFTC

Found it earlier in the year.

Beaut old wooden headboard , another peaceful cemetery opposite the elephant bridge hotel. Tftc

Day out with sassieold55, another cemetery to check out and the resting place of John Mills. Thanks for bringing us here H-3.

I do love cemetery caches. So much history. I have probably passed this cemetery a million times and never knew it was here. Tftc

Cowgirl_101 and I headed out to Darlington today to grab this cache and a few more in the area. Very interesting location and some really old graves. The pub across the creek I think deserves a stop one day. John Miles certainly had an industrious life and his unique grave stone(wood) certainly suits the circumstances. Thanks for another great cache H_3 all in good condition.

TFTC
Very interesting cemetery.
Loved the lambs

Getting around quite a few old graveyards but the history is fascinating. TFTC.

Visiting cemeteries in winter is always a gamble but today was worth it. As cold and windy as what it is, it isn’t raining, not yet anyway. I am glad that the headstone has been well supported. And I agree, the gates are awesome! There are so many interesting things to look at in this little cemetery and I spent quite some time here. The cache was not in the first place I thought it would be, but it didn’t take long to work out where it was. TFTC

Great hints,
Sad but Beautiful history

Awesome location. Love the history

Happy to find loved the gate and the history cold day did not spend a lot of time exploring
Queen and King

#521! Lots of amazing history here. TFTC! Very sad though! NicandPaul! With Mik and Riley!

Crickets galore greeted our find

Wow, what an adventure! Through the old farm gate, over the cattle grate, through the iron cemetery gates...a fascinating find on our road trip. TFTC

It was a gloomy day to visit a cemetery and we made it back to the car just before the rains came. Thanks for this fascinating historic hide.

Tftc blue tongue come out to greet me thank goodness l had a pet one previously love the storyline of this

We searched in the low green bush and around the stump for at least 20 minutes. No sign of it

Tftc

Another cemetery cache. Fast clocking up the number of cemeteries I've visited since I started geocaching TFTC

Another lockdown pending... insert venting frustrated comments here... so I had to cancel a long planned trip. I also needed to return with geopartner to Mortlake and made the most of it with a few finds along the way.

A more thorough search this time and found the cache with a nicely matched hint.

Thanks to H_3 for the placement and fun.

Missed ,

Stopped by and checked on this little guy, and he's still in place. Have changed the hint

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Found the likely GZ and had a good forrage around with no luck. Dont see who could muggle this but it seems to be missing..

Thanks to H_3 for the placement and fun.

No luck will try another time

Nice quick find. Lovely place to look around.

What a beautiful scene, looking across the water at the iconic elephant Bridge Hotel for eternity...bliss
Quick find once the obvious discarded

This is a lovely cemetery! Well vegetated, and a great view of that historic pub! Many thanks for putting a cache here.

Thanks for showing us another new area.

An amazing spot, there was no item in there which was sad! But had a great walk

I was stumped near by for far too long and overlooked this little neighbour. Trust your gut when things don’t seem right. Tftc

Love a cemetery find. TFTC

Thank you

Difficult to find but worth it

We stopped to look for this cache as we drove from Geelong to Mount Gambier. The first step was a real challenge. We struggled to find a way to access GZ. We tried one way but were blocked by a creek. We had given up and were starting to head off to Mortlake. As we left, we saw a sign pointing to the cemetery and speedway. We followed that road and were able to park within 30m of GZ. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. the cache and contents were in good condition. We then spent a few minutes looking around tis very interesting cemetery. Thanks H_3 for an enjoyable cache.

09/02/2020 1:58:00 PM
After finding a very lively tiger snake right where the hint suggested GZ was I decided best to try this another day

Holiday in Warrnambool for the weekend
enjoyed myself to found it
Thanks H_3 for placing the cache

Found today after passing through the area a year ago and completely missing the turnoff to this quiet little cemetery. Kids were amazed at some of the old dates on the graves, well over 150yrs of history here. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks to the local area for maintaining the site. TFTC.

Awesome find love it

Initially was stumped but soon had the cache in hand. I squeezed through the fence and saw the remarkably well preserved wooden headstone. TFTC

On our way home from a training weekend I Mr X we stopped in for this one. Came across local with the dogs don’t know who’s got the biggest fright. Check the gate no entry padlocked so the fence it was. Found the amazing headstone still preserved in this nice casing. Focused on the wrong stump. Finally came to my senses thanks for the cache

Soooo much history! I always like to wander around all the stones and read it all. Paying my respects .tftc!

Sheeps everywhere!
Amazing cemetery here.
Thanks for bring me here and cache.
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