Aviation Pioneers - Maurice Guillaux Appin Park, Victoria, Australia
By Team BGF on 04-Nov-17. Waypoint GC79KN6

Good, easy find

Found it 11/04/2024. Awesome walking trail to explore.

Found it Amazing walking trail

Very clever ! Thanks for find 139!

Dnf

Found with geo family

Quick find with geo family

TFTC

A couple more before dark. Log signed. Took a little time to locate.

Overnighting in town before heading further north and had time for a few caches before moving on, with this being my next one.

Left the car where it was and headed further on for this one. Took a bit longer to find due to the neat hide and camo, but all was good and my name was soon in the log book. Then it was back to the car and on towards the freeway.

Thanks again Team BGF....cache all good.

Tftc signed snota8 and channii

Cheeky hiding spot. Located with a few abrasions

Another quick find, was afraid the tree was trying to attack me though aha.

Nice but having forgotten pen, didn't sign. Nor took any keepsake.

A quick find on a beautiful afternoon, log signed and cache returned as found.TFTC

Getting out of the house with the geokids, a nice quick easy find for them under the watchful eye of the nearby Kangaroo mob. TFTC

On a little night caching adventure with the GeoKids and our niece. This was an easy find! TFTC

Go walk to the pub

Found with Tigaty on a sunny but windy day, thanks for the fun

Few prickles but nice one.

Another one done thanks

A quick and easy find with Sebass19 on the way to the MEGA. Signed dsd or darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the Adventure.

We come in Peace for All Mankind..!

Don't jump the ditch it's deep.

Find#3446
Nice hiding place
Found with DSD
On the way to the Whittlesea
Thanks for the cache

Last evening in Wang. Last evening before flying back home. Last caches in Australia. TFTC!

I’ve said it plenty of times finding caches… I HATE SPIDERS!!!! I’m lucky he didn’t like my scream TFTC

**Logging late as I only just upgraded to premium** (about time)

An excellent getaway in Wangaratta after being in Tassie across the new year/

FEGC in the logbook.
Thanks very much for the cache

Two TASSIES out for ten weeks walkabout. Head to the Spirit of Tasmania tomorrow for the big swim back home. Grabbing a mix of traditionals, virtuals, bonus caches and multis today ...........
at least the ones above flood level, that is ! Learnt a lot about early aviatrix and aviator pioneers here, so thanks for this little series Team BGF.

Nice easy find

TFTC

Headed up to it. Thanks for the easy caches.

Spotto

It is pleasing to see the aviation history of the area being highlighted. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Team BGF for the cache.

Was on the hunt for my 1000th cache and these three happened to be nice and suitable for numbers 994, 995 and 996 before I went to the Warbys. A quick find with some road workers nearby but was able to get the sneaky guy. TFTC

Found today Mothers Day
An easy hide loved your story
Thanks for the cache And care of
Log signed and cache left where found.

Had some muggles watching me

Nice little series, thank you

Heading away to Corowa with Bogonghazy for a couple of days. Easy find. Thanks TeamBGF for placing the geocache

Great little cache on our way to Corowa for a few days. Thanks again

Good find!

Another piece of history kept alive, well done.

Last day in Wangaratta with Joolay, isopeda and Kittykatch. Nice to collect some more solved puzzles and other interesting caches. Signed as Capital Crunchers. Tftc

Day 6 of our Mega trip with Kittykatch, Grimraider, barb2e and Isopeda. So excited to have some time off and go on a caching holiday. Signing as Capital Crunchers.

Thanks For getting me out and about Team BGF

Found as part of our roadtrip to Wangaratta to attend the Mega with Joolay, isopeda and barb2e (signed as Capital Crunchers). Thanks for your hide here Team BGF

Out to collect some caches we didn't have time for during the mega with Barb2e Kittykatch and Joolay. I really wanted to do the aerodrome including the Flying West multi.
Signed as Capital Crunchers.

Love the cache design.


TFTC

Scooted down this busy side road to log this small series

No wading for me, did the walk from the bridge.

TFTC Team BGF

The second in the series.
It was nice to pick up theses caches and appreciated the write ups of our early aviation pioneers

Down in Victoria for the long awaited (and necessarily postponed) Wangaratta MEGA, and a little holiday chasing the usual (oldies, counties and windmills). Just for something different we are adding to the hit list and the graves of the regionally buried dead premiers. Lol the things we will do for a cache! Spent most of today with albida, Smittengranny and GLISS! Always great when we can cache together. Thanks for the cache.

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

today we travelled on our owntoday we travelled wit firesafe we are having a look around the area during the mega we found this cache

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks for placing them

On a trip to Wangaratta with StrangeTrousers TFTC

A quick find here. Thanks for the fun

Found at 10:57 am.
Well, the Mega time has come and we aren't locked down so today was the day to get 14 different types of cache. Today was our final day to find a couple of local caches and then start heading home with a fair few stops along the way.
While here looking for a puzzle we also were going past these and with a few favourite points on some of them it was worth it for a challenge we are working on.
Thanks Team BGF for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Found during the Wangaratta mega. I was excited to do this walk not only due to how easy it looked but also cos of the number of caches along it and the favourite points! Another quick find. TNLNSL. TFTC Team BGF!

*Found on the 16 Jan 2022 @ 1:39 pm.*
*Cache find # 12445.*

I came back by this one today before heading back to pack up my camp at the Mega as I missed this one the other day as it wasn't a target but seeing I had the others I then had to finish it off and get this one.

**Thanks to Team BGF for placing this cache.**

A nice quick find here today cache and contents are all good

After heading to tassie for almost 3 weeks, we detoured to Wangaratta for the Victorian Mega to catch up with some friends that we hadn’t seen for months if not years. We caught up with Freddo and e.gregory1 for the duration of the weekend, travelling around the local areas finding many of the caches that were on offer. To save room in the log books we signed as FEG or FEGC.
A wonderful area and nice to have a look around in somewhere I had only visited for 20mins before.

Thanks for the cache

Another interesting read here.

Nothing like a french aviator.

Looks like the flight bought the town alive!

Quick cache find.

TFTC

Spending the day around Wangaratta after visiting the main event and maze. Thank you to all the CO's who have placed and maintained around the city. It is appreciated!

Found while attending the 2022 Mega event at Wangaratta.

I drove across from Adelaide with Freddo. We took a week to get there and back as we meandered our way around northern Victoria, camping mostly along the river and generally avoiding contact with other people as far as possible to minimise covid risks.

While at the Mega we teamed up with gridge98 & Co. Most logs were signed FEGC (ie Freddo, e.gregory1 and gridge98 & Co).

We targeted some specific caches of interest, but also took the opportunity to find other random caches opportunistically as we were passing. Most of the puzzle caches were solved prior to leaving Adelaide in preparation for the trip.

Although we managed to find a lot of caches over the weekend, we really only barely scratched the surface, leaving plenty of excuses to return to the area another time. I'm sure I'll be back.

Thanks Team BGF for the cache.

Found on mega weekend. One of a bunch of caches found and logged.

e.Gregory1 and Freddo decided to travel to Wangaratta for Geocaching Victoria’s first 2022 Mega event. The attraction of GeoMaze icon was just too tempting. We packed the Land Cruiser for a bubble environment. There would be some public exposure but we would be keeping it minimal. Fortunately we did not bother with any warm clothes. Fortunately we packed some Bushmans with +20% DEET. There were caches to find and we found caches. We saw a lot of interesting places and met the occasional geocacher or two in the field.

I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count.

This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

Wangaratta Mega trip Day 4. It has taken quite some time to get this trip going so it is a great feeling to be on the road for a great weekend away with great caching with friends and new friends. Today was the second day of the Mega itself. I spent most of the day with Gliss, Nibbletricecakes and Smitten Granny. We spent the day visiting as many of the caches around town as we could, doing multis and the puzzles that we had already solved amongst the large number of traditional caches. Another hot day that was very satisfying. The day ended with the farewell to the Mega event and at dusk the second CSI Night cache.

Thanks for the cache Team BGF

34939.37 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & First Geocoin in Orbit Gold A#106

**Albida**

# 7715 Day 3 of our Wangaratta Mega trip. Sunny and hot summer conditions. Lots of great caches, events and people. Today we're heading back home at midday, so a few caches before heading back.
Another quick find.
Thanks Team BGF

Out caching with Gliss, Nibletricecakes and Albida33 this afternoon grabbing as many caches as we can in the local area. Thanks for maintaining this cache Team BGF SL

Finally... a Mega we can attend! So Spiffy- and I headed off to Wangaratta. A plethora of caches to choose from so we targeted a few, but really just happy to get out and about. The roadside had a fair amount of water so I took the shoes off and waded over to find the cache in good condition.

Thanks to Team BGF for the placement and fun.

Quick find.

Find #119 on our Mega trip. Quick find
Thanks for the fun.

Found with geopartner Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

TFTC Team BGF.

# 7280

Reperio 17:15

In Wangaratta for the mega event this weekend, and today, we ventured out to do a few family friendly caches. This was a nice quick roadside stop, but with the channel in between the road and the path, we parked the car and enjoyed the stroll in between each one.

Gratias Team BGF


‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death’ - LDV

Enjoy Aviation Pioneers series run.
Interesting history about aviation pioneers.
TFTC ??

Find #4979

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 Team BGF for putting out and maintaining all of these caches for our enjoyment! ??

Find #2664 for me. Found at 8:04 am after arriving in Wangaratta for the mega event. After find the Lores Bonney cache, I moved onto this one for another quick find. Thanks Team BGF for highlighting the life and achievements of Maurice Guillaux , and thanks for the cache!

After the nearby CITO, I went for a bit more of a walk to find this one and a few others...
TNLNSL
Thanks

15 January 2022
12:37 pm
1447
Many thanks Team BGF for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Love the container!

A quick grab and help from a Qld team who stamped so that I didn’t have to jump the drain. TFTC

Nice easy with little blue wren Good history on these caches
Signed and replaced. TFTC

TFTC. Easy find while out with Aussie Fun Seakers.

After leaving the CITO I selected a route back to town with a few caches that I could grab. A quick find. TNLN. TFTC.

TFTC. Thanks for the history lesson . We were not familiar with this aviator. Great to learn something. We had just been at the nearby CITI and decided to fins these caches dedicated to aviation.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz and Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Team BGF
Find #8321 at 13:06.

Collected this one after attending nearby CITO. Thanks

Quick little set of finds in the afternoon heat. TFTC

After organizing some time off to allow us to attend the Wangaratta Mega we are in town for an extended period.
Looking forward attending the various activities organized during the Mega period as well as finding a variety of different caches during our time here while catching up with caching friends we have met over the years.
The weather has been hot for us Gippslanders, but very humid as well.
Our thanks to the Mega committee for the enormous amount of effort that has gone into organizing the event and to the local cachers for their placements

14 Jan 2022
Find#7,212
Found on the Wangaratta Mega weekend.
Found with Richard from SkiPair.
Thanks for the fun Team BGF


*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

A mega jaunt with endeavour3 saw us caching this cache and writing in the log, then we moved on. A lovely place to explore.

Thanks to Team BGF 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. As a former commercial charter pilot I love aviation themed caches. TFTC

Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

Travelling around with The Drovers we had finished the Ned Kelly's helmet series and now just randomly picking up caches.
We are really enjoying these aviation based caches and learning a lot from them. Again neither of us had heard of Maurice and his record breaking flights, but we did enjoy reading about them on the page and in the copied cutting.
As we said before this history should be taught in school.
It is a shame Maurice did not receive much credit and like many early aviation pioneers gave his life doing what he loved.
Again we were lucky with this hide, The Drovers were on fire today and all we had to do was add our name to the log and a favourite point to the cache page.
our thanks again Team BGF for another very interesting cache,

Hi there Team BGF, we found your cache Aviation Pioneers - Maurice Guillaux today.

A nice, quick, find while attending to some of our Wangaratta pre-event activities.

Coordinate Accuracy: We found this cache near where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log are in good shape.

Regards
Ian & Penny
(Found and logged using Cachly).

Thanks , all good here,

In Wangaratta for the Mega, and we spent today caching with Team Crackers.
We totally enjoyed our day out, and had a lot of laughs.
Cache found after a short search, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Team BGF, for us and others to find.

12 January 2022 5:56 pm

Day 1 of my Mega journey, with plenty of sun and kilometres to cover to get myself up to Wangaratta.
Only seeing one snake today thank God over all the day was great, thanks for being a part of a great day.

Found at 11:31 AM GAFF1 in the company of maccamob.
There were a lot of well known visitors to Australia in the early days of aviation - for instance Ehrich Weiss (better known as escapologist Harry Houdini), made Australia's first recognised flight in a Voisin biplane at Diggers Rest, Victoria, 18 March 1910. Houdini made three flights that day, the last covering 3km. He later made two flights in Sydney at Rosehill Racecourse, 18 April 1910.
Thanks Team BGF.

Found on a cloudy, cool Sunday morning with my daughter. It was just spitting rain as we pushed our way through the prickly branches! My daughter was very excited when she looked up and spotted it straight away! We took the novelty eraser and left a bouncy ball. Thanks so much for a fun cache!

After a few days of grey skies and rain/drizzle we have been fortunate to see some sun this afternoon. We continued along the path from Lores Bonney to this cache where the cache was found without a problem. And another aviator I hadn't heard of. Thanks to Team BGF for the cache.

Suscoe arrived in Wangaratta this morning after a good drive up the highway from home.
It was a drizzly day coming over the divide and then we were bombarded by insects once we were back on flat ground.
It turned into a sunny and cloudy warm day.

Thanks to Team BFG for this hide, it was still and warm here while we were on the walking track.

Stayed at Wangaratta for two nights. I had a great time finding your cache Team BGF, thank you so much for placing it.

Found it on this absolutely freezing morning. Not sure my hand will ever recover

Headed out in the dark after dinner with GemmaSistema to grab just a few more for the day. TFTC

A quick jaunt at night with becca85 (left the kids at the caravan park)! Quick find here. Thanks for the cache.

Aviators in the early days would have been so rewarding when they achieved their flying goal. Finished our walk with this cache. Thanks for the interesting aviation history and caches in this reserve Team BGF.

With the long weekend in Vic it meant more caching time so plans were mate with Omegaman1971 to head to North East Victoria, most of our effort was spent in Wangaratta with a trip to Beetchworth, out to Gtreta to do the NKH series and a small trip up to Cowra NSW, We had a great time finding caches, learning history, exploring the area and catching up with mates.

This is one of the caches we found on our travels.

Thanks Team BGF for the cache.

Generic Log. At home in Albury/Wodonga, we hooked up the trailer with treddlies inside and headed for Wang. Upon arrival, car and trailer was left at a caching friends place in CBD and off we went. Cycling around the township then upstream the Ovens river and return finding 20 Caches. This being one of them.
Some well crafted caches and good hides were apparent. Only one cache needed maintenance which by all accounts a good average. CO was notified.
TeamOZCAT would indeed like to thank ALL cache owners for their input and upkeep of hides.
A WWW (Wonderful Warm Wang) day was had. Again, thanks to all.
Karen had her eagle eye as usual, and her partner found one. No bike breakdowns nor sore behinds. Now for Reg, there's 2 bonuses.

Had an absolute ball in Wang today with my partner signing logs as TeamOZCAT. To save space on log paper, l did not sign as catnap777, but l am sure you all know l was there. I have left the logging of our team's finds to my partner Reggie. I would like to thank all the CO's for providing and maintaining the caches we visited today. All were found in good condition, the one that had issues l messaged the CO about. Bring on the Mega Wangaratta!

Great walk along Mason St. TFTC.