Honouring our ANZACS #5 Cardigan Village, Victoria, Australia
By Sean.75 on 04-Sep-19. Waypoint GC8D6GY

Another missing cache. Two in a row but all the others to Lake Burrumbeet are still ok. I object to marking this as a dnf when I know what it should be. TFTC
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Removed game piece.

Accompanied with pwala and finding your cache Sean.75, thank you so much for placing it.

Caching day with Crank1 at Ballarat and surrounds. Sean.75, thank you so much for placing it and highlighting this area. The weather is great today.

Found by Rebel Acts

Some good friends had decided to head to Ballarat for a few weeks so I decided I needed a break and joined them, we had a great time out caching as well as sharing stories and laughs around a meal or two. I really love the area of Ballarat there is so much history and I am sure it has the largest population of Oak trees in the Country.

This is one of the caches found today.

Some caches logged as RASP rebel acts &Ski pair.

Thanks Sean.75 for the cache.

Found with Roostaman on our Feb/March Vic trip down South.
Another fun caching trip and lots of smilies too. .
Thanks for the cache Sean.75,
***MrsRoosta ****

With work encouraging us to take some holidays and Mr SKI having quite a few weeks up his sleeve it was time to take another short break and do some sightseeing and caching in parts of Victoria we seldom visit.
This time we decided it would be Ballarat. There is a wide variety of cache types and quite a number of Adventure Labs to do, so the area is quite attractive. And that doesn't include the historical and interest aspects as well.
We organized to meet up with some friends while there so we would have the opportunity to do some joint as well as solo caching.
We have already had some great adventures on a few challenging caches that generated a lot of fun and as usual always good to find some pre-solved puzzles.
All logs signed as SKI Pair, RASP (Rebel Acts & SKI Pair or SP depending on size of logs and availability of space.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Sean.75.
**SKI Pair****

Found with MrsRoosta on our Feb Vic trip down South.
Another fine Summer day for a drive around the Ballarat area.
Thanks for the cache Sean.75,
***Roostaman****

A quick find here. Thanks For The Cache

Tackled the Adventure Lab and along the way got most of these easy bonus caches. TFTC!

Quick park and grab TFTC

Out for a quick ride with Shumba7 to fill in my calendar. TFTC.

Day 15 of our southern troop. Around Ballarat with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Grannysmith1947 and Snickersallan.

This will be our final along here. Thanks for the memories.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 24, 2022. TFTC, Sean.75.

TFTC smile 11367 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a day trip
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, Sean.75, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 15 of our southern trip caching around Ballarat and beyond. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges as well as well as adventure labs.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as 44Qld.

TFTCache Sean.75

Having a quiet day caching locally with hatzofff, RoddyC and grannysmith1947. To save space in all the logs we are signing as Team 44 QLD.
Lovely tributes everywhere to read and so sad at the same time for those who never made it back to our shores.
Quick find whilst doing an Adventure Lab.

TFTC Sean.75

Our mini shepp is loving these finds. Thanks

TFTC. Enjoying this series remembering the ANZACs. My 50th find!

Nice and quick find

Got off to a bit of a late start this morning with ilook4geo after packing up and moving out to go to a new campspot. So we decided to just pick up a few caches along route, each of which proved to be a quick and easy find. Each log was noted with 2 more names or initials as a record of our visit.
Thank you to Sean.75 for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found this cache while travelling with goingplaces2 and it is good to be able to claim another smiley. All is good with the log and container. TFTC.

Finding a few caches before the Afternoon Tea event and whilst doing the Adventure Lab managed to find a few extra smilies. Thanks for highlighting the stories of these deservedly Australian heroes. Thanks Sean.75

Enjoy Honoring Our Anzacs series runs during AL too

Thanks for interesting stories each series and cache.

Finally managed a trip away with annual leave I had booked 14months ago. Lockdowns and work hindered this plan, but now I have Ballarat my destination for a few caches.

My last find in this series for this trip. Another quick find.

Thanks to Sean.75 for the placement and fun.

Found with LittleBoss2 while doing the Avenue Of Honour Lab cache. Nice easy find here once again. Our thanks to Sean.75 for helping to remember our heroes

Beautiful day to visit Ballarat with Bogonghazy. Easy find, thanks for placing the geocache

quick find while in Ballarat

Great find

A few cobwebs since last find but all good. TFTC.

Late night cache while doing adventure lab. Tftc

found

While staying nearby and having an affinity with the ANZAC tradition we decided to drive this route today. Although not a lover of nano caches they are appropriate for this series. We enjoyed the drive. TFTSeries

You know the stories about Gallipoli but when you reread them it just makes you go cold. Thank you for this series TFTC

A huge, 4 day geocaching trip for Rex and I!
On Friday, we headed for Ballarat as there was 3 events being held there on the Saturday[^]
One of them was the Ballarat Geo Tour - Event #3 and I wanted to do the geotour, so this weekend seemed like a good place to start![^] We cached all night Friday[|)][|)][^] and completed the geo tour by the end of Saturday[^][^][|)][xx(][|)][xx(] Had the pleasure of meeting, and caching with, echocage too[^]
I also had a long term goal to complete and that was to finally sign the log in the Country Road Atlas challenge as I only had to pick up a few more pages on this trip and then I would be qualified to place a found log on it[^]
So it was from Ballarat to Belgrave Heights' Birdsland Reserve for ahomburg's The Five Oh Event, where the lovely nirgalagrin[:X] spent time wandering slowly from cache to cache with Rex and I after most people had left the party[^][:X]
Next stop was Healesville where Rex and I woke up to the following day in a gorgeous park filled with stunning colours[^][^] Eventually we made our way back to Shepparton[|)][^][|)][^]
4 events attended, 61 geocaches found, hundreds of kilometers travelled[^] and some amazing sights seen[^][^][^]

My thanks to all of the COs and Event hosts[^][^] who made this such a fantastic[^] and memorable trip[^][:X] by leading us to fantastic places[^][^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Sean.75

Out with kenbryl finding a few caches after dropping some friends off in town. I’m really enjoying your series. Tftc

After dropping friends off we headed home via a few more of your caches. Tftc

Found on a chilly Ballarat day. What else? Tftc!

TFTC

Todays first find woohoo

28 March 2021 11:26 am


Out on another geocaching adventure with Stemicmitsar today out west to Ballarat for the day to attend the event. With geotour being the main goal for the day. With some additional detours around due to me saying that we may as well because it is only around the corner. Eitherway had a great day and can't wait to come back. Thanks for the cache and the adventure.

*Found on the 28 Mar 2021 @ 11:25 am.*
*Cache find # 11546.*

Well these weren't part of the tour but as we started the Adventure Lab while heading to the next GT cache, we grabbed these caches as well.

Today I headed out West to Australia's new Geotour around Ballarat with buhfuhguh, we managed to complete the tour which took us to a few spots I had not been to before so that's always good and others that I knew well.
We were able to get a few extra caches and Adventure Labs as well that were not part of the tour but us there were there and we were going passed, why not, plus an event for the Geotour thrown in as well.
It was a great day with a little bit of rain but not enough to slow us down.

**Thanks to Sean.75 for placing this cache.**

Found whole completing adventure lab

Thanks for another cache in the series.

This cache was another enjoyable cache that we were happy to add to our find list.

Thank you for highlighting this area with your cache.

Stamped Log...
Cache Condition - Fine...
*Staying in Creswick for a few days*

Today I decided to head out and clear up some of the local series, a couple of Adventure Labs and a few scattered caches thrown in (as I passed them) for good measure. A beautiful time of year with all the trees in colour and everything lush and green. A lovely day to be out and about having most of the area to myself
A bit of a stroll, a bit of a search, made the find, initialled log and replaced again... (Although I am not a fan of these micros [:(!] Not too many other options for most of these hides)
Fascinating reading at each GZ which resonates with a former defence member such as myself
My sincerest thanks to Sean.75 for the effort gone into this series... I have seen many beautiful areas around this fantastic area...
- P

**Took**: Nothing
**Left**: Nothing

Cache on!
**#15873**

Another stop for this quick find - TFTC

Nice little cache

#341! My family are seriously going blind! That took way longer than it should have! TFTC! This is a great series and we’ve learned heaps! Nic & Paul!

TFTC quick cycle by. Log is nearly full maybe two more signatures..

Find # 9482

In Ballarat for a late arvo appointment. Then off to find some caches. My plan, to leave Ballarat via the Avenue of Honour an to do the series along it with the 2 Adventure Labs.

It took me a couple of hours but I did spend longer at each GZ than normal as the info boards were quite amazing and had a lot of different information than I expected.
Each cache was found quite quickly with no issues.




TFTC Sean.75

After making a nice quick find here, one of our group realised that we had missed what needed to be done for the nearby multi. Back we go. Thanks for this cache.

A camping road trip with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 and RoamingHowie, exploring Ballarat and surrounds, with focus on the new Geotour, the Goldfields Track and various solved puzzles.
Day One...
I stupidly completed the AdLabs a few weeks ago, and didnt realise all these trads were right there!
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Sean.75 ??

With the lockdown over and the Geotour event going ahead in Ballarat, our original plans to camp and visit were back on. The adventure for GT37, Papi4506 and OHC, now begins!

Nice quick find upon completing the ad lab. Just realized we have to go back for a missed multi point.

Thanks Sean.75 for the cache.

We are Ballarat for the GeoTour launch event and decided to the ANZAC Adventure Lab series. After completing some of the Labs we discovered there were associated traditional caches. A straightforward find. Thanks to Sean.75 for the cache.

Found as we are heading out of Ballarat for home, many thanks for the cache

Today was the strangest day of caching for a while the meant we covered the same ground or should I say roads three times. Once because we didn't check the Lab cache app while doing normal caches and then to do the Labs and finally looking for my glasses which I lost along the way. So many extra Kilometers that could have been avoided.
Its ground hog day

Thank you Sean.75 for the cache and series

With an fun early morning bush walk SimsFamily, Neville Devil and I continued our day around Ballarat for a day which will be know as “Ground Hog day” for recurring locations.
The weather was perfect to visit so many interesting locations in Ballarat.
An amazing Avenue showing respect to those that paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Log signed and replaced as found

Thanks for the Cache Sean.75
#6,169

Nice Find
TFTC Sean.75

Gathering up a few of the traditional caches as we complete the Avenue of Honour #1 Adventure Lab. SL at 4.04pm #7576 TFTC Sean.75

A nice summers day for geocaching and an enjoyable cache to find while in the area.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find today.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14 today.
A nice day out in the area finding geocaches.
Thanks for placing this one for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie today.
I had a really fun time finding this geocache.
Thanks for placing this one for us to find.

After attending the first event for ages headed out Remembrance Drive to follow this very informative and thought provoking series. TFTC Sean75

A day in Ballarat with BettyBoo3747.
We collected a few caches, and a few AdLabs.

Ordering soldiers to run into machine guns seems a bit pointless.
Thanks, Robmc.

#17579. This was our first full day around Ballarat and we managed to complete 5 AdLabs and 21 other caches but we also had a couple of DNF's. It certainly was a hot and humid day, especially in the Botanic Gardens where the lawns are constantly watered., creating an even more humid atmosphere. We started and ended with the Avenue of Honour - such a lovely stretch of endless remembrance trees.

As we are staying near Learmonth we did this series of 12 backwards on the way into town. Well, as we discovered on the way back, that was a silly thing to do as we double-dipped at all the signs. It was a good test on our memory though, to see if we could remember the answers without getting out of the car. Had mixed success in that respect. This series and the AdLabs certainly brought history alive for me today.

Thanks Sean.75

Find # 6527
Nice quick find.
TFTC Sean.75
6 December 2020 2:40 pm

Thanks Sean.75 for highlighting the interesting information honouring our ANZACS.

Thank you for doing this series of caches. Was fantastic to do these, lots of fun and great info.

TFTF got wet

Nice find on a sunny day

09:04
A predawn start from home, meant it was still very cold and quite tricky to roll up the logs as we learnt more about the men and women from Ballarat and surrounding districts who served, and gave their lives, all for the greater good of their country.

Our thanks to 'Sean.75' for adding this series to the geo-gameboard.
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*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

Thanks )))

Found on our way home after a mother-son day out in Ballarat today. Tftc

Nice quick find by the littlest of our tribe!!!

A nice quick and easy drive by.
Thank you for the history and the cache.

Today we found Honouring our ANZACS #5 on our travels. After completing the lab series the Chief found this cache. I glanced over at him from the car searching, thinking he hadn’t located the cache I went to help. Then he started looking through the grass...uh oh! “I dropped it!” All is food though, I found it, handed it carefully to him and headed back to the car!
Thanks Sean.75 for being part of our geocaching fun and highlighting this avenue.

Chook had a bit of time to kill while Chunk was at an appointment, so she targeted a couple more of these Anzac caches, and the Adventure Labs as well.

No problems here at GZ. Cache found nice and quickly. Then it was time to turn around and go pick up Chunk. TFTC and series Sean.75 Lest We Forget.

Found with the geokids and dogs on our afternoon walk. We parked here and walked to the next one a couple of kms up the road. Will be back for the others at some point! Many thanks for the cache.

Sitting at my computer during these Covid lockdowns, I am trying to catch up on a few logs that I haven't sent in yet.

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late log, something I am notorious for. Thank you for adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Thanks Sean.75 for the cache.

We were heading home from Portland today and we decided to go via Ballarat to try our luck at the Adventure Lab cache here and it was only after we left the first way point that we realised that there were trads here as well. On closer examination we realised that this was a series which fitted in nicely with the lab to make it even better.
Doing this series on the 100th Anniversary of the Victory Memorial made it even more special. We really enjoyed learning a bit more about individual solders and also Lucas and co with the Lucas Girls which we knew nothing of until today.
We were happy that each cache was located nice and quickly and numbers 1-10 now contain our name.
Time was against us so we will return on another visit,
Thanks Sean 75 for the caches.

Lest we forget.

Thank you for all the information that I was able to read whilst heading along the Avenue of Remembrance. There was and is so much that I didn't know.
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Lest we Forget. Last one for today, hope to get the rest next trip. TFTC

Found by The Empire + H
We're BACK! Social distancing has always been my forte when geocaching - ever seen me at an event? Hahaha! But now with travel restrictions eased, we can go out and find some geocaches again.

A trip to Ballarat was in order, a new virtual cache and an Earthcache to find, as well as some Adventure Labs to check out. The final Adventure Lab today came with some additional caches to be found - it worked out well too as our way out of Ballarat and back to the freeway. Thanks for the cache Sean.75.
- M

As I am getting older and running out of time, I have decided I will take off on my own to cache in different areas of our vast country.
I have been up to Loxton for five days of full on caching and still have about 250 caches to log.
I am afraid that for the next few days my logs are going to be a lot of cutting and pasting but that does not take away the effort that the owners have put in to provide these caches for us to find so please accept my thanks. With close to 200 caches placed I know how much work is involved with not only placing them but the ongoing maintenance.
Thanks Sean.75 for placing this cache.

I’m really loving this series, it’s very educational and interesting. TFTC

Hmm. Nice we log to sign.fctc

Log replaced.

Fabulous history here too !! [:o]
Reading the info is just plain olde amazing
But it was another world back then.
Thankfully, we seem to have learn't a bit since then

Not much
But a bit

TFTC.

Found with abullard05 TFTC

TFTC
Once again for the sad past did you know some one
Found with nannynomad abullard05

Log full

Found it

While filling in time for our motel room to be available for us book in we went hunting for a few more geocaches. This was the last we ended up doing for the day. Having done the first four of this series I was able to find the sneaky little cache almost immediately and the information board always provides a resting place to sign the log and disguise what we were doing. It was getting a bit in the drizzle this afternoon, but the log didn’t get too wet. The log is almost full and will need replacing soon.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading your information on the cache page and earning the smiling face for the remaining caches in the series. Having found a few last year it was nice to know just what type of container I was seeking
This was a great trail honouring our Anzac heroes. The information boards were very well done and were easily spotted from the distance. That was rewarding in itself. Remembrance Drive was very well maintained with the trees looking wonderful.
TFT series Sean.75

Time to head home and find more caches along the way. Trigger_Fish has a plan in his head, I'm along for the comic relief.

Thanks for the cache Sean.75.

A nice quick find

Found by Mary and David at 13:35. After one Event this morning, we'll be at another this evening. Making good speed along this series. Our thanks to Sean.75.

Headed up to Ballarat to attend the 2 events that are on in the afternoon and after finishing of a couple of caches in Beaufort it was time to finish of this series that I started on New Years Day.
A great trail to honour our ANZACS and the information boards were a great read at each stop.
I have never driven this whole avenue and it’s great with all of the trees and how neat and tidy it is.
Respect to all.

Thanks Sean.75 TFTC.

Found on 1 January 2020

2nd cache of 2020. Another great story told here. A great little series here. Well done.

TFTC Sean.75

Last of a few finds in this series today. Interesting stories to be found in this series, look forward to the rest. Tftc

December 30, 2019 8:37 PM
Out enjoying the cool breeze with oldest geodaughter after the weather change hit town early this evening. All easy finds and interesting reading at GZs, thx for all the placements Sean.75