Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st) Reedy Creek, Victoria, Australia
By George on 08-Oct-00. Waypoint GC7A

Came all this way way just for this cache, loves being part of geocaching history

Great place to find a 1st. The views are amazing and it's fabulous to find this in great condition after all this time. Thanks for maintaining this cache for our enjoyment and fun.Favourite point awarded

Very cool and a great story to boot.TFTC

Today we had special caches on our agenda. We were able to see and learn a lot about the area through some "old" caches and also through very interesting earth caches. The landscape is simply amazing and cockatoos accompany us on our trips and hikes. Victoria's First with a fantastic view. We are so happy about the cache from Okt 2000.We would like to give the owner a favorite point for preserving and caring for the cache. Many thanks and greetings from the Moorhelmi

Out for another day of adventures with carmlee1, we decided to venture a bit further to score a milestone with a brilliant cache....and what better than the oldest, so ot is officially my 1000th find and totally worth the honour

A day out with doddlingalong hunting cache around the Wandong and decided to trip out to score this special cache and a milestone for doddlingalong. What a way to end the day. TFTC

I had decided to come over some time ago, and the intention was to collect this and Fortes Ground. Sadly that's out of action (good excuse to come back though, isn't it) due to being required Jasmer months that aren't available in NZ. I pulled up and wasn't sure what to expect, but there was a nice gate which made getting to GZ quite simple. And not long after I quickly had it in hand.. Nice views, shame about the original visit, but a bit of geocaching history so I'm thankful for that part. Obviously a +FP! TFTC George, the cache was found in good order . Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. Find #4956

What beautiful view and what a way to bring up my 500th find with Victoria's first hide TFTC

Grub62 and I brought out Smrff78 for her 500th find. Woopee.

Woot Woot !! .. Do the HAPPY DANCE Hoo Rah. Milestone "500" for me & what a stunning view !! Totally blown away with the AMAZING views !! .. Came close to doing a "bum slide' over the edge, but my saviours Bundoorian & Grubb62 managed to prevent that from happening. (PHEW !) .. SL, TFTC !!

On this trip we have done Tassies oldest and now Victorias oldest. Easy find. Reattached the ammo box lid.FP from me.

Sensational views from here. On the way home from a journey through Tassie, we couldn't help but stop here and get Victoria's first cache!

I'm currently on a business trip and in Australia for the first time. Of course, I couldn't pass up the chance to find a geocache from the year 2000. TFTC!

Thanks great piece of history

Out and about with TanSaf, returning home after The Victorian Cache Crawl. It was an opportune time to find this significant cache and sign the logbook. Its been on the radar for a long time.Thanks George71 for placing the cache and for everyone who has looked after it over the years a favourite point given

This very special cache was our last find for the weekend after attending The Great Victorian Cache Crawl. A detour on the way back to Melbourne was taken. The views from the road in were spectacular but as the driver my eyes were closely focused on the road. Once parked I could appreciate. The cache was quickly located by Skylizard and our names added to the log. Amazing to think of it as Victorias first cache. TFTC. A favourite from me.

A spectacular cache location.Thanks to the landowner for allowing this one to be here.Tftc Found with ratys67

Great location, happy to have our name in this log!

Visiting Melbourne for a couple of days and decided to come a find this old cache. Nice drive to the location and great to find this beauty. Tftc

Nice hide we gad to find. TFTC

Out and about , hoping to claim a few smilies in the area. Happy to say that I came up trumps here. All good here. WOW such a bit of Aussie geocaching history Some logs signed as N20 This is my 13911 find Thankyou george71for placing and maintaining this cache for others to find .

Bisoutje and I are on a roadtrip with a campervan between Cairns and Adelaide and have now touched ground at Victoria.During our trip we have already been able to do some good work on the Jasmer challenge but we are not done yet. Today we are on our way between Canberra and Melbourne and decided it was time for a break when we neared this cache . I enjoy finding old caches and especially the Y2K-caches as they are very rare.We left the highway and drove towards GZ. We weren't sure if we wanted to go offroad with our campervan but the path looked solid and we went for it. It was only a short drive towards GZ but we were surprised by the beautiful views around the first corner. We saw a bunch of rabbits and kangaroos hopping around in the valley. I went through the gate and found the ammobox quickly. What a great place for a cache. I wish we had the time to do some more hiking here.Big fav point awarded.TFTC!

Visiting Australia this july and also looking for some caches of course. Had to had this one, old cache. Found the cache at a beautifull view. Thanks for the cache

Yay, we finally found this! And wow, werent we surprised by the most amazing scenery. Just sublime.

Wow, we have waited a very long to time to find this cache! When we were planning our trip from Canberra to Melbourne we decided it was the perfect opportunity to get this find.

It felt great to sign this log as if I were part of history. Also, I had my first experience seeing an echidna in the wild!!!! I've been in Auz for 15 years, too. Great for my mindfulnessFound 9 July 2024

What a magical place for this cache, the views from here are amazing. Thanks for placing this here so long ago.

Found it

Finding this cache just completed my Ausmer challenge which I never really thought Id do.I found SAs oldest cache a few days ago so great to be able to get Victorias.A cold rainy/foggy day but still a nice spot.SL TNLN TFTC

After a week of working from home in Melbourne, it was time to drive back to Canberra. My goal for this trip was to find Victoria's/Melbourne's first geocache. It was a cold and foggy morning to be out and about! Most of the traffic was heading back towards Melbourne at the end of the long weekend.There was a pea-soup fog so there was no view at all; I'll have to come back another time to appreciate it! It was quite a steep walk downhill; I walked down further than the cache and stopped to take some video of the mist moving up the hill with the breeze, accompanied by birdsong. I wish that I could share it here. It was such a privilege to find this historic geocache! Even reading this latest log book was a thrill. Sadly, I don't have any fave points left to give it.Having signed the log, I rushed back to the car to warm up again! The thing was that as I drove on towards the Hume Highway, the fog cleared away; it was just sitting in the valley longer than in all the surrounding areas. Thanks for the cache, george71! Love your work.

Staying with friends near by and saw the favourite points in this one so had to come and get it. Was a great view and cool to see the history, as this cache has adapted over its time hiding our here. Tftc Sorry for the late log.

Beautiful spot to round out our Mothers Day adventure. Thanks

Tftc

Easy find, tftc

Woohoo! What a stunning view, worth the significant deviation. Only fitting Me&B signed for us as she has been caching 18 years. Thanks for.heloing knock off a Canberra challenge at last!!!

happy to log this one and its great that it is still active

Yesterday during our road-trip we had quite the amazing time, seeing wild koalas and traveling over 500 kilometers across the country. Today we woke up in Warragul and our plan was to get relatively close back to Melbourne, though it wasnt necessarily our destination. I had planned our trip to head a little further north before returning to the big city to visit three stashes which would help us with our Jasmer grid, and we werent really in a rush to make it back to the city. Our day was nonetheless quite busy and ended delightfully in [an STF](https://coord.info/GL1BXAH1P); but more on that later. Our trip was getting quite a bit more exciting as we finally got to the destination. Its been a whole day journey to this special special old stash, and Im so happy we made it here! I parked on the little space which has clearly been used many times before by previous visitors, and soon knew just where to go. I carefully treaded down the hill and made my way to GZ, where I quickly found the big ammo can. What a pleasure! I opened it up; both the ammo can and logbook are in good condition; the view of the kangaroos in the valley is amazing. I opened up the logbook and at 4:30 pm stamped in our nick, making this our 7181st overall find. I added a little personal note like in the good old days, and took photos of all our TBs with this historic oldie. Thank you george71, for placing and maintaining your Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st) stash; we were glad to visit it and spice up our Wednesday while down under in ????Australia for our spring break, visiting from slightly-distant ????Myanmar! We snapped a photo and returned the stash as we found it, and appreciate the opportunity for a find and visiting another new location and for being able to fill out another spot in our Jasmer grid. For my own personal statistics; this is the one hundred & fourth of 112 geocaches we visited down under while on spring break, excluding the 56 adventure lab caches we visited and 28 Waymarks visited. Obviously, as a small token of appreciation were leaving a ??FP here.

Finally got this one off my list. Thank you for keeping this cache here so long

Couldnt be in the area without logging this cache. This is now the oldest cache in my drawer ! The view was absolutely gorgeous and even got the chance of see a big herd of kangaroos in the valley. TFTC from

Headed this way on my way to Bendigo so i could grab this old cache. TFTC. and great views.

15:16after two nights in melbourne we are back in nature! as a celebration we chose this really old gem! sudden views surprised us behind the curve, really nice lookout to the valley.found easily, thanks!

Thanks for this find! Thanks for find 131!

We are visiting from Canada and touring SE Australia after attending the GeoBash in Canberra. This was a must find cache for our trip. What a beautiful place. Thanks you for keeping this oldie alive. TFT

Beautiful cache. Beautiful view. Well worth the detour.

What an incredible cache to have logged! Thanks George for getting the ball rolling for Victoria

My daughter and I left Brisbane on Wednesday night, and made it to Canberra after friday after a stop to see her brother in Sydney on Thursday noghtAfter a few days at the Canberra Mega we headed to Melbourne for a family birthday party.After our second night in our accom I was up early while she caught up on sleep and picked up a few early morning caches. We then hit the road with a view to picking up at least one cache in each LGA .Found a safe place to park and was soon at ground zero where the cache was quickly located. Log book signed and back to the car and off on the next challenge.A big thanks to the cache owner for making this cache available to be found.

Didnt feel great feeling like I was entering private property. The gate was helpful. Its a beautiful cache in a beautiful location. Many thanks for all those whove maintained it over the years. It felt nice to be a tiny part of Victorias first cache.

Our Aussie in the UK pal wombat wandering put us onto this one. We got a bit distracted in Melbourne and left later than planned...then hit roadworks, but so glad we stuck to Plan A and travelled up here. The views are stunning - you could be nowhere else in the world but Australia . On approach, another car was already in place...can only be another cacher and sure enough, we were delighted to meet Swiss cachers Hinni&Simo. We had a lovely chat, swapped pathtags and realised we would both be flag carriers at the mega. See you soon!

Day 15 of our roadtrip in Australia. Today will be a lot of driving, to get to Canberra for the Mega. We however split the distance in two days and will spend the afternoon and the night in Rutherglen for some wine tasting. But of course there's another mission - get those two 2000 caches that are located around Melbourne. After a long drive through the Melbourne suburbs to reach M31 we arrived at this oldie. Wow, the views here are amazing! You almost expect to see a watching you. But there were none. Just as we left some geocachers from England arrived. Well, the chances are high, given the proximity of the mega . Thanks and kind regards from Switzerland, Hinni&Simo

During our weeks trip with Bare Foot Guru, Infoferret and Trinity to the Canberra Mega we logged as a combination of "BFG, CF, BIC, BITC" depending on who we were caching with at the time. The trip took us on a flight to Melbourne first, then a drive to Canberra, followed by a drive to Sydney before flying out again. Where possible I will add commentary to each find about the cache. Thanks for all the caches, hides and effort put into hiding and maintaining them.This was our target for the day to knock off another year/month in my grid. Nice that the cache is really big plus, really old and a "slightly" charred. FP awarded.

*** draft log for stats tracking, more later ***GC7A Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st)27 March 2024T10:29:37 AEDTTFTC george71Absolutely had to detour on our way from Melbourne to Canberra. Quick find of course, signed the singed logbook! Another Jasmer square down

This cache was on my list because of its age. I love an old cache to add to my statistics and this one is truly an oldie but goodie. It wasn't difficult to find the parking coordinates or to get to the cache although I wasn't so sure about opening the gate. There were no local residents about so I made the find quickly and made the return trip to the car. Woohoo! Another 2000 cache on the books. Thank you for the smiley and the fun!The day:Today I continued my month long journey from the U.S. along the east coast of Australia!! I was leaving Melbourne for my first solo day after spending 2 days with my muggle friend and her husband. I tried to get a bright and early start, but the traffic was a mess. I eventually made my way to each of the caches on my list which is always a bonus!Many thanks to all the geocachers who placed and continue to maintain their geocaches for folks like me to find. I know it's not always easy, but know that I appreciate you.

What a view. Left a sticker. TFTC

Out n about with m4yb grabbing some caches. Oh wow! What can one say but wow, such beautiful views s as nd so unexpected for this Ssndgroper! Been nearly 12 years of caching to get here b even with my kids living in Melbourne. Well e we orth a FP for all of those reasons. Btw we are on our way to the Capital GeoBash. Thanks for the hide & ?? george71

Megawat60 and I are on our way to the Capital Geobash. And finally after nearly 11 years of geocaching we have found this iconic cache! So worth the wait, the drive and the short geotrek!So much history, and the superb location!Thanks for the cache sounds a bit trite but heartfelt, as is the FP!

Yep! That's it! The oldest in Melbourne/Victoria! We are on the way to Canberra for the MEGA Easter 2024 via Victoria. We stop for sightseeing and caches.We found this cache and signed the log.Tftc George

Now we are on the way to Canberra and pick up some more caches .Found the cache with TBU1BIKESU Tftc A fav point from me

Excited to visit Victoria's 1st

The Adelaide Leap Day Mega and Canberra Geobash gave us a great excuse for a road trip. This trip has shown us so many new and interesting places as weve chased LGAs, oldies, challenges, interesting D/T combinations, rarer cache types and favourites.Meeting up with friends old and new along the way, we sometimes cached together and sometimes alone but always had a great time. Today we made our way across from Avoca to Broadford, stopping at anything that caught our eye along the way. These turned out to be all wonderful caches. After setting up camp in Broadford, we took the short drive out to find this old cache. The views along the road were indeed fabulous. Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this cache and adding to our enjoyment.

NLBokkie en ik gaan voor 4 weken op vakantie naar Australi. We gaan de eerste week naar Tasmanie en vervolgens trekken we 3 weken rond op het "vaste land". Onderweg ontmoet ik mijn nichtje nog die ik al 50 jaar niet heb gezien. Kortom een vakantie vol met belevenissen......Ons cachedoel is verschillende landen aandoen. Dus heen en terug vliegen we op andere steden, heen via Hong Kong en terug via Dubai.Ook willen we graag een FTF scoren in Australi. Dat lukt ons op Tasmanie?? Dan de webcamcaches in Adelaide en de oude caches tussen Adelaide en Sydney. We eindigen dan op de Mega in Canberra. Een vol en leuk programma!Helaas moeten we na 2 weken onze reis afsluiten met een vroege terugvlucht naar Nederland. Mijn moeder overlijdt plotseling en gaan we terug. We kunnen terugkijken naar 2 mooie weken in Australi!NLBokkie and I are going on holiday to Australia for 4 weeks. We will go to Tasmania for the first week and then travel around on the "mainland" for 3 weeks. Along the way I'll meet my niece, I haven't seen her for 50 years. It will be a holiday full of experiences......Our cache goal is to visit different countries. So we fly back to Dubai and forth via HongKong.We would like to score an FTF in Australia. We do that in Tasmania?? Then the webcam caches in Adelaide and the old caches between Adelaide and Sydney. Then we end up at the Mega in Canberra. A full program which a lot of fun!Unfortunately, after 2 weeks we have to end our trip with an earlier return flight to the Netherlands. My mother passed away and we have to go back. We can look back at 2 beautiful weeks in Australia!

On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. Day 48/74, Saturday. How lovely - the whole day just for geocaching. I had two main targets today: To find the oldest cache in Victoria, and to find one cache with a D/T combination that I needed still for March, for a Finnish challenge cache. In addition, I visited - hmm - 100 other geocaches, mainly the Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson trail caches but some other too. The day was really hot again (well, for a Finn, anyway), but I totally enjoyed. I just LOVE the old geocaches. This one was great too. An awesome location, a great big container in excellent condition. This is one of my absolute favorites during my stay in Australia. A favorite point from me. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Hurrah I've found it - Great to fill in another space on my month found chart.Thanks for keeping this old cache going - I walked up to it from 'Valley of 1000 Hills'

This cache was one of those found around or on the leap day February 29th, 2024 before, during or after the Mega event in Adelaide. Many thanks to all those owners who placed caches that Swampy and I found during our trip from Hobart to the Mega and return home again.

This cache was one of those found around or on the leap day February 29th, 2024 before, during or after the Mega event in Adelaide. Many thanks to all those owners who placed caches that VK7HCH and I found during our trip from Hobart to the Mega and return home again. Yay! Another of the oldest found.

Travelling with stensbye. After some days in Adelaide and Melbourne we would like to fins this wery old cache. And we found it. We signed as TA. Thank you for this cache.

Find # 26 800This cache: Of course this cache was on the plan! A cache from 2000!! Who on earth can resist that?None from Norway at least, since we dont have any caches from 2000. The oldest cache was placed in Bergen sometimes in 2001, so 2000-caches is much appreciated!This filled a gap even in my hidden month calendar, so 4 gaps to go...!MAIN LOG WEDNESDAY MARCH 6TH 2024If there anything spesific to write about the cache, it will come above here..AUSTRALIA TOUR - DAY 8eterg and me - stensbye - are visiting all the way from Norway, first of all to attend the Mega-event in Adelaide on Leap day!Wich we did!We also attended several other events, and found some old caches, some virtuals, webcams, earthcaches, Labs,and whatever that came in our way, if we had the time.We met a lot of warm, welcoming people, who came to us to speak, giving us alot of tips, and help!This Mega-event in Adelaide, and the surrounding events, more Geocachers has come to speak to me/uson these few events, than all other events together! Almost 300 so far!Not counting excisting geocaching-friends that is!So cudos to all participants and co/eo! Well done!!That is now history, and today was time to make new history!Theres a lot of old caches here in Australia, so i picked those who filled the holes in etergs hidden month/Jasmer-calendar,wich i think and hope shes happy about!Today we left Melbourne, and got two Wagga Wagga, but first we visited Melbournes/Victorias first cache,before we went towards the Webcam "Spirit of the Skier", but in between we had a stop in Mansfield for a LAB, Virtual,and LAB bonus, and a multi just outside.Then we drove to Wagga Wagga, where i had booked two rooms.And here we are! Tomorrow were heading for Canberra, and finally Sydney.Maybe we have time for a CITO just outside Canberra. Not sure yet.So much to do, so little time.If youre cache is receiving this log, that means we visited it, found it,signed it - unless if it was a Virtual or Earthcache of course - as TA = Team Avensis, wich was eterg and me, and replaced it!Thank you all for all the caches!Greetings from Norway!TA = Team Avensis = eterg and stensbye################################################################# https://coord.info/GC9P5N1 10. Everyone has the right to love and take care of the cat. #################################################################

As a once in a lifetime holiday, this year we are traveling for 7 weeks to Vietnam, Bali, Australia and New Zealand. In Australia we meet Ellen Sch and MrVon sr and Ingsve to visit these last two countries, so here we cache together. We signed the log with N4. Now we have solved many caches so we have a large number of solved coordinates. But we are interested in all types of caches, so if you receive a log, it means that we have visited your cache. We haven't quite decided where we're going, but we'll probably let the weather decide for us. We want warmth because in Norway it is now freezing. We will stay for about 2 weeks in Australia and 2 weeks in New Zealand and we will end the trip with the Mega event in Adeleide on 29 February. So thank you very much to all of you who make it possible for us to travel around finding caches. On March 6, we set course for Norway again. There are extremely nice people everywhere and we are welcomed, we thank you very much. Thanks to our cache friends for good company on the trip.Som en gang i livets ferie reiser vi i r 7 uker til Vietnam, Bali, Australia og New Zealand. I australia mter vi Ellen Sch og MrVon sr og Ingsve for beske disse to siste landene, s her cacher vi sammen. N har vi lst mange cacher s vi har et stort antall med lste koordinater. Men vi er jo inntressert i alle typer cacher s hvis du mottar en logg s betyr det at vi har beskt cachen din. Vi har ikke bestemt oss helt hvor vi reiser men vi lar nok vret bestemme for oss. Vi nsker oss varme for i Norge er det n kuldegrader. Vi blir ca 2 uker i Australia og 2 uker p New Zealand og vi avslutter turen med Megaeventet i Adeleide den 29 februar. S tusen takk til alle dere som gjr det mulig for oss reise rundt finne cacher. 6 mars setter vi kursen mot Norge igjen. Det er srdeles hyggelige mennesker overalt og vi nskes velkommen, vi takker s mye. Takk til vre cachevenner for godt selskap p turen

Als Gruppe von 38 Geocacher*innen machten wir uns auf den Weg aus Deutschland, Dnemark und der Schweiz. Nach einem Zwischenstopp in Doha, Qatar, ging es nach Australien, wo wir in Sydney, Melbourne und Cairns Quartier nahmen. Dann ging es weiter nach Neuseeland ...In die gefundenen Logbcher haben wir als Team Downunder2024 eingetragen.Vielen Dank fr den CacheSimowlAs a group of 38 geocachers we set off from Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. After a stopover in Doha, Qatar, we went to Australia, where we stayed in Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns. Then we went on to New Zealand...As Team Downunder2024, we entered the logbooks we found.Thanks for the cacheSimowl

I have traveled with 37 geocachers to Australia and New Zealand resulting in lots of opportunities for sightseeing and geocaching. The Teammembers are:gc, AndyausDu, AmoebeST, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren, CacherReisen,CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-Tina, Gazelle5111, GEOKaren, GoanToni, HFo, hupsi-1, karrai *, keeiner, Leilah03, lenny love,Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, Ollilein, Opaundenkel, penalty96, Rheins,Simowl, sozioma, Sr. Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, Webmasterrollerin,Whlhase, XenSuo.The logbooks were mostly signed under the teamname "Team DownUnder24" and answers were sent to owners for the group, as appropriate. This has been a great trip with a multifold of new impressions and experiences.During our stay in Australia we had also the opportunity to visit some caches. This cache was also among our finds today.Thanks for leading us here and showing and thanks for the cache.

# 21431Whau, I am on a three week trip with Cacher-Reisen and a bunch of fellow geocachers to Australia and New Zealand. It is so odd to imagine that I am going to visit a place that is nearly on the opposite of the globe from my usual hangouts. In Denmark it is late winter/early spring, and I am exchanging the winter-part for late summer in Australia and early autumn in New Zealand. This is so exciting.The itinerary is Frankfurt (Germany), Doha (Qatar), Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns (Australia) and Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, Cromwell, Queenstown (New Zealand) before flying back to Europe. That will be two new continents and three new countries for me - and as far away from home as I have ever been. It is a lot of places and travelling, but we also have a plan to find lots of geocaches and see the sights and beautiful nature.For our last day in Melbourne the travel company had rented a bus and we had the opportunity to get a little further away to find some old caches. I have completed my Jasmer (twice), but I always enjoy finding the old caches. They are usually placed at some nice and unique places with beautiful sights and views. That was also the case today with these oldies.This old cache will be my third cache from October 2000 and a big help towards quadruple Jasmer - which I am ultimately hoping for, but it will be a challenge. Now a little step closer. A few from the group could celebrate their first Jasmer with this cache, congrats. We had a fun time here at the cache. A pair of kangaroos nearby, beautiful view, peace and quiet, refreshments to the soul.Tak for cachen til george71.

Geocachers on tour. We are a travel group with almost 40 people from Germany and we log with Downunder 2024 to save space. We visited this cache Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st) today and it is in the logbook. The tour group includes: gc, AndyausDu, AmoebeST, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren, CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-Tina, Gazelle5111, GEO Karen, GoanToni, HFo, hupsi-1, karrai *, Leilah03, lenny love, Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, Ollilein, Opaundenkel, penalty96, Rheins, Simowl, sozioma, Sr. Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, Webmasterrollerin, Whlhase, XenSuo Thank you very much

38 cachers from ????, ????and ???? made a tour with a stopover in ???? and visiting???? and ????to get lot of impressions from Down Under.We log with Team DownUnder24 to save space in the logbooks.The following Geocachers are members of Team DownUnder24:_gc_AmoebeSTAndyausDuB@cker-1BiggidagBrummelbrenCacheTauchercooljoFotopinguinFreizeit-TinaGazelle5111GEO KarenGoanToniHfi1hupsi-1karrai *Leilah03lenny loveLupus54Maxipimpfmuschel3OllileinOpaundenkelpenalty96RheinsSimowlsoziomaSr. ElliTeam Zyanorviko76WebmasterrollerinWhlhaseXenSuoDay 8: Today we went out of Melbourne to find some of the oldest caches in Australia. And back in Melbourne a stroll through the bizarre streets in the city. Thanks for keeping this cache alive. TFTC from Bavaria

Endlich geschafft, Jasmer Challenge komplett.Ich bin sehr glcklich darber das ich den letzten fehlenden Cache hier in Australien/Melbourne -VICTORIA- abhaken kann.Mit tanzen hier auf der schrge war wohl nix,aber die Freude war trotzdem gro.T4t$ sagt viko76 ?? aus Berlin Finally done, Jasmer Challenge complete. I'm very happy that I can check off the last missing cache here in Australia/Melbourne -VICTORIA-. There was probably no dancing on the slope here, but the joy was still great. T4t$ says viko76 ?? from Berlin

Visiting Melbourne for three days. And of course, we did some caches. This was one of them. Thanks for hiding and maintaining this old cache. Greetings from Germany, ???? Biggidag

A group of 38 geocachers from Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland - Team Downunder24 - are traveling for 22 days from Frankfurt/Main via Doha to Australia and New Zealand. I was able to discover many wonderful things and irretrievable experiences are burned into my memory. My Jasmer Challenge is filled at least 1x and now I found out that it can be filled at least 4x. So let's go! Our group had chartered a bus that took us close to this beautiful landscape and of course this old treasure. Thanks to George for the cache, luring and caring for it - kind regards from Switzerland ????

We are also part of the large tour group from Germany and passed this cache today. We are from Ismaning/Bavaria. We had a great time in Melbourne. For reasons of space, we have entered the logbook as **DownUnder 2024**.*Greetings from the sunny south of Germany.***Thanks to all owners for caring and caring.****IN: NOTHING****OUT: NOTHING****TFTC Leilah03***A game for all ages! Worldwide* **GEOCACHING**

Together with my B@cker and a lot of crazy Cachers from Germany, Denmark and Switzerland, we have an exciting Trip to Quatar, Australien and New Zealand. The name of the Group is easy Downunder24.The Team isAmoebeST, AndyausDu, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren, CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-Tina, Gazelle5111, -GC-, GEOKaren, GoanToni, Hfi1, hupsi-1, karrai*, keeiner, Leilah03, lenny love, Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, Ollilein, OpaundEnkel, penalty96, Rheins, Simowl, sozioma, Sr.Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, webmasterrollerin, Whlhase and XenSuo. Exhausting but beautyful. Thanks for the Cache. Best regards from Buxtehude ( Germany) ?? ?? ??

On our Downunder Journey, we had the Chance to visit this "historical" cache. After a nice walk we Could find it and sign the logbook.Thank you very much for maintaining this cache over all these years.

Fifth day in Australia ??. This is my first visit to this extraordinary continent and the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream. In the past, it always failed due to the lack of a travel companion. Now I had the chance to join a large group of mainly German geocachers and I was delighted to take it. One of the greatest experiences on our trip is visiting the old caches ??. Although my Jasmer has already been filled twice, it is still something special for me to find such an old container. As a European, I'm a bit apprehensive about driving here, so I was glad that a bus was hired for our group. I would probably have had problems with driving on the left ??. So I wasn't alone at the hideaway, but I got there at all ??. As always with the old ones, the place is a highlight. Beautiful views and an interesting landscape. We also saw kangaroos in the valley, which looked up in amazement at the crowd of people. Of course I wasn't the first to find the box with so many cachers, but it was still a special moment to enter my name in the logbook. Thank you for placing it & looking after it for years .Fnfter Tag in Australien ??. Fr mich ist es der erste Besuch dieses auergewhnlichen Kontinents und die Erfllung eines lang gehegten Traums. Es scheiterte in der Vergangenheit immer an einem fehlenden Reisebegleiter. Jetzt gab es die Chance mich einer groen Gruppe von berwiegend deutschen Geocachern anzuschlieen und ich ergriff sie mit Freuden. Eines der grten Erlebnisse auf unserer Fahrt ist der Besuch der alten Caches ??. Obwohl meine Jasmer bereits 2x gefllt ist, ist es weiterhin etwas besonderes fr mich eine so alte Dose zu finden. Als Europer habe ich ein bisschen Bedenken hier Auto zu fahren, daher war ich froh, dass fr unsere Gruppe ein Bus gemietet wurde. Mit dem Linksverkehr htte ich vermutlich meine Probleme ??. So war ich zwar nicht alleine am Versteck, aber ich bin berhaupt dort hingekommen ??. Wie immer bei den Alten ist der Ort ein Highlight. Schn Aussicht und eine interessante Landschaft. Im Tal sahen wir auch Kngurus, die erstaunt zu dem Menschenauflauf hinauf sahen. Bei den vielen Cachern war ich natrlich nicht die Erste an der Dose, aber es war trotzdem ein besonderer Moment seinen Namen im Logbuch einzutragen. Danke fr das Legen & jahrelange Pflegen .

Mit 37 Geocachern, aus Deutschland, Dnemark, Luxemburg und der Schweiz, ging es auf groe Reise. Drei Wochen nach Australien und Neuseeland, beginnend mit einem Zwischenstopp in Doha in Katar. So lange und so weit weg von zu Hause war ich noch nie. Eine aufregende Zeit.Beim Geocaching lag der Focus auf viele unterschiedliche Cachetypen, aber auch besondere Wertungen, Challenges und besonders ein paar sehr alte Caches aus den Jahren 2000 und 2001. Aber auch natrlich ganz besonders die Geocaches, die zu Fu vom Hotel aus gut erreichbar waren.Natrlich wurde stand aber nicht nur das Geocaching im Mittelpunkt, sondern auch die Sehenswrdigkeiten der einzelnen Stationen, die wir besuchten, verdienten ihre Aufmerksamkeit.In die Logbcher trugen wir uns mit unserem Teamnamen "Downunder 2024" ein, Logbuchplatz sparend und effizient.Es war eine ganz besondere Reise im groen Team, das auch sehr viel Spa gemacht hat.Heute ging es rund um die Gegend von Melbourne mit schnen Ausflgen.Aufgrund der Vielzahl der Caches reicht es berwiegend nur zu einem Einheitslog, fr den ich mich bei den unterschiedlichen Ownern hiermit schon mal entschuldigen mchte.Danke fr diesen Geocache. Danke fr die Ausarbeitung. Danke frs Zeigen.Lieber Gru aus Duisburg / DeutschlandAndyDieser Logeintrag wird mit Hilfe von Google bersetzt.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________We set off on a long journey with 37 geocachers from Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Three weeks to Australia and New Zealand, starting with a stopover in Doha, Qatar. I have never been so long and so far away from home. An exciting time.When geocaching, the focus was on many different cache types, but also special ratings, challenges and especially a few very old caches from the years 2000 and 2001. But also, of course, especially the geocaches that were easily accessible on foot from the hotel.Of course, the focus wasn't just on geocaching; the sights of the individual stations we visited also deserved attention.We entered our team name Downunder 2024 in the logbooks, saving logbook space and efficiently.It was a very special trip in a large team, which was also a lot of fun.Today we went on nice excursions around the Melbourne area.Due to the large number of caches, there is usually only one standard log, for which I would like to apologize to the different owners.Thanks for this geocache. Thanks for the elaboration. Thank you for showing me.Kind regards from Duisburg / GermanyAndy

Together with 36 other geocachers, the KiSt team undertook a very long trip to Australia ???? and New Zealand ???? for three weeks. On both the outward and return journeys, there was a stopover in Doha, the capital of Qatar ????.We experienced a great deal on this trip and gained many very different impressions of the two countries, their nature and their culture. Of course, the main focus was on visiting as many caches of as many different types as possible and also all accessible old cans. However, we also made sure to visit many special places of interest and to gain as comprehensive an impression as possible of nature and its flora and fauna.To save the logbooks, we usually signed in with our team name **Downunder24**. For "special" cans, however, we have not missed the opportunity to leave our nickname as well.This beautiful cache is now also one of our finds.Due to the large number of caches visited, it is unfortunately not possible for us to write an individual log for each can, which is why we would like to apologize to the owners for this collective log.We also met other cachers at some of the events and were able to share our experiences. Many thanks to the event owners!Of course we would like to thank all the owners for showing us the great locations, the sometimes tricky puzzles, exciting multis and wherigos, as well as the interesting virtuals and earth caches - TFTC!!!---In der Besetzung KiSt unternahmen wir zusammen mit 36 weiteren Geocachern fr drei Wochen eine sehr weite Reise nach Australien ???? und Neuseeland ????. Auf der An- und Abreise stand dabei jeweils ein Zwischenstopp in Doha an, der Hauptstadt von Qatar ????.Wir haben auf dieser Reise sehr viel erlebt und viele sehr unterschiedliche Eindrcke von den beiden Lndern, deren Natur und deren Kultur mitgenommen. Natrlich lag ein Hauptaugenmerk darauf, mglichst viele Caches mglichst vieler unterschiedlicher Typen und auch alle erreichbaren alten Dosen zu besuchen. Darber haben wir es aber nicht versumt, vielen besonderen Sehenswrdigkeiten einen Besuch abzustatten und uns von der Natur und deren Flora und Fauna einen mglichst umfassenden Eindruck zu verschaffen.Um die Logbcher zu schonen, haben wir uns dort meist mit unserem Teamnamen **Downunder24** eingetragen. Bei "besonderen" Dosen haben wir es uns aber auch nicht nehmen lassen, zustzlich unseren Nicknamen zu hinterlassen.Auch dieser schne Cache zhlt jetzt zu unseren Funden.Aufgrund der groen Anzahl der besuchten Caches ist es uns leider nicht mglich, zu jeder Dose einen individuellen Log zu verfassen, weshalb wir uns bei den Ownern fr diesen Sammellog entschuldigen wollen.Auf einigen Events haben wir auch andere Cacher kennengelernt und konnten unsere Erfahrungen austauschen. Vielen Dank an die Event-Owner!Natrlich wollen wir uns bei allen Ownern fr das Zeigen der tollen Orte, die teils kniffligen Rtsel, spannenden Multis und Wherigos, sowie die interessanten Virtuals und Earthcaches bedanken - TFTC!!

Found this cache on a 21-day trip to Australia and New Zealand with a night of stopover in Qatar.In Qatar we have an evening and almost a full day of geocaching before we take the long flight to Downunder.In Australia we will visit the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, and Cairns. Our stays in New Zealand will be in Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown.We are a group of 38 Geocachers from Germany and Denmark - At geocaches that we visit as a group, we sign the logbooks with our team-name "Team DownUnder24" to safe the owners a lot of space in the logbooks.The following Geocachers are members of Team DownUnder24:gc, AmoebeST, AndyausDu, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren, CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-TinaGazelle5111, GEO Karen, GoanToni, Hfi1, hupsi-1, karrai *, Leilah03, lenny love,Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, OllileinOpaundenkel, penalty96, Rheins,Simowl, sozioma,Sr. Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, Webmasterrollerin, Whlhase, XenSuoTFTC, Team Zyanor

There was a lot to see and log on my trip through Australia and New Zealand, and this cache was one of them. We were a group of 38 and logged with "Team Downunder24" to save space in the logbook. Thanks says XenSuo

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Heute sind wir unterwegs zu den alten Caches hier in der Region und da durfte dieser Erste durfte nicht fehlen. Vielen Dank fr das Hegen und Pflegen dieses Caches. Tftc

Three weeks 3?? travel with a group of 38 people through Australia ???? and New Zealand ????. We want to discover some old geocaches, wants to see lots of sightseeing-points ??, but also animals such as penguins??, turtles ??, whales ??, Koalas ??, dolphins ?? and much more in the beautiful water ??? or on land ??. Of course, a cacher trip ?? also includes many geocaches. So we also chose this cache Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st), searched for it, found it and logged it ??. He has made our journey through two wonderful countries very embellished. We often logged with our group name "Team Downunder 2024".Thanks ?? to George for laying and maintaining this geocache, say the Brummelbren ?? from Worms/Germany ????

What a pleasure to log the Methusalem

On my journey through Australia I passed many beautiful places. It is very impressive. Thank you very much. Greetings from Germany, muschel3

After arriving in Melbourne we (Team DownUnder24) discovered the very interesting city and surroundings by looking for some caches. ?? Today we went to this special cache: "Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st)". Beautiful landscape with a very old geocache. ??Thanks George for showing that place??

Today was the day of completing our ?????? Jasmer Challenge ??????!We started in 2016 with an old cache in Finland and finished it today in Australia.We are very happy now and could not find a better place than this - with wonderful view and sunshine ??. Thank you very much for the cache!

Unterwegs in Australien und Neuseeland mit der Cachergruppe Downunder,konnte ich diesen schnen Cache signieren.Danke frs Anlegen und Herfhren!TFTC sagt der WhlhaseDie Cachergruppe Downunder hat die Teilnehmer:_gc_, AndyausDu, AmoebeST, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren,CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-Tina, Gazelle5111, GEOKaren, GoanToni, HFo, hupsi-1, karrai *, Leilah03, lenny love,Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, Ollilein, Opaundenkel, penalty96, Rheins,Simowl, sozioma, Sr. Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, Webmasterrollerin,Whlhase, XenSuo,Danke fr die Dose - Thanks for that Cache - Merci pour la Cache - Dzieki za Cache - Grazie per questo Cache - Takk for at Cache - Obrigado por isso Cache - Gracias por el Cache - Dky za ke - Aciu u ta talpykla - Paldies par o Cache - Aith selle eest Cache - Kiitos, ett Cache - Tack fr att Cache - Tak for denne Cache - Hvala cache - nbellek iin tesekkrler - Ksznjk, hogy a cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Graas para o cache - Dankon pro la kasmemoron

Zusammen mit meiner hupsi-1 und dem Team DownUnder24 diesen Cache gefunden. TFTC B@cker-1

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I am also part of the large tour group from Germany and passed this cache today. We had a great time in Melbourne. For reasons of space, we have entered the logbook asDownUnder 2024. Thank you for luring, showing and hiding, says ollilein The tour group includes: gc, AndyausDu, AmoebeST, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren, CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-Tina, Gazelle5111, GEO Karen, GoanToni, HFo, hupsi-1, karrai *, Leilah03, lenny love, Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, ollilein, Opaundenkel, penalty96, Rheins, Simowl, sozioma, Sr. Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, Webmasterrollerin, Whlhase, XenSuo

Bei unserer Gruppenreise nach Australien und Neuseeland konnten wir neben den vielen interessanten Eindrcken auf unseren Ausflgen auch viele Caches besuchen. Heute fuhren wir mit einem Bus zu alten Caches aus 2000 und 2001. Wir loggten platzsparend mit Team DownUnder24.Danke an George fr diesen Cache.

Danke fr den schnen Cache. Gefunden im Team DownUnder24

We have traveled with 36 likeminded geocachers to Australia and New Zealand resulting in lots of opportunities for sightseeing and geocaching. The logbooks were mostly signed under the teamname "Team DownUnder24" and answers were sent to owners for the group, as appropriate. This has been a great trip with a multifold of new impressions and experiences.During our stay in Melbourne we had also the opportunity to visit some caches. This cache was one on top of the to do list and therefore also among our finds today; beautuful scenery, FP in.Thanks for leading us here and showing and thanks for the cache.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~The logbook is signed **pesti-Hoot** for *pestinette* and *BlackHoot*.I definitely favor this cache from the year 2000 : **+ 1 PF**In: Nothing.Out: Nothing.Thanks **george71** for the cache.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~*Here is the palaver from my log "3615-MyLife" that you still don't have to read:*After multiple outings together, here are some examples: the park at T5 in the Orlans region, the Letterbox Matrix in Provins on the return of GeoBulles 2023, a getaway to Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, the Mega in Oliveira de Frades in Portugal, that in Spain in Camarasa with a memorable passage in Andorra, a foray into the Drme at the beginning of the year, I have the immense luck and pleasure to accompany the pestinettes who asked me last summer to be part of this crazy trip to Australia to participate in the Adelaide Mega on February 29 !So I start by thanking them once again for the invitation as well as for the preparation of all logistics and the program of discoveries planned for these 17 days on Australian lands: Jasmers including three from the year 2000,webcams, virtual ones (full), challenges, Earthcaches, mysteries, Events.I would just add my two cents with the Matrices by cache type as well as obtaining as many Addons as possible for Leap Day ! Then depending on the time that we will have left at each of our stages, all caches allowing usto visit a nice new place.We only visited a tiny part of this beautiful country which makes us want to come back although it is not next door and I would also remember the warm welcome of Australians and their kindness.I sincerely thank all the poseurs without whom the exploration of all theseplaces known or much more discreet would not have been possible. A big thank you for your personal investment for the pleasure of all and ours in particular during this beautiful trip shared in friendly company ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~**Against a sedentary lifestyle, geocache! Get Out and Play! Saia and play! Sal y juega!**

4Found this cache on a 24-day trip to Australia and New Zealand with a night of stopover in Qatar.In Qatar we have an evening and almost a full day of geocaching before we take the long flight to Downunder.In Australia we will visit the citys of Sydney, Melbourne, Aidelaide and Cairns. Our stays in New Zealand will be in Aukland, Rotorua, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown.For me the focus will be on old caches, placed in 2000 and obviously on the remaining webcams in Australia and New Zealand.We are a group of 38 Geocachers from Germany, Denmark and Luxembourg. At geocaches that we visit as a group, we sign the logbooks with our team-name "Team DownUnder24" to safe the owners a lot of space in the logbooks.A quick find. Great place, FP.Merci frs Dosal sogt da GoanToni Thanks to George for hiding and maintaining this geocache.