Yea Road Roadside Humevale, Victoria, Australia
By famhowe on 26-Jan-20. Waypoint GC8JJZE

Found this one today whilst shopping out my plan of attack on the balance of the hexagon caches.A nice quick roadside park and grab. Heaps of off road parking to boot. TFTC from the inspectorrexteam.

Nice spot on the side

#2 Let's gooooooooo, great spot

Thanks for the pencils and sharpeners

Thx for the GC. Easy drive by

Hidden well

Fun find!

Found it good fun

TFTC

Up in Whittlesea to retire the MEGA Beast and collect a cache or two.This was eight! Nice pull off area.TFTC

very nice. easy to get too when driving

One that I had bypassed on a previous visit when attending the Mega here. parked on the opposite side of the road.. a wee bit scary crossing it to GZ. Circled around and found it. Cache all good tftc

Easy park & find while in the area checking out caches.3rd for the afternoon.TFTC

Pitstops to stretch the legs are always good and always better when their is a cache to be found like this one.

Not exactly the greatest day to be out caching... but at least it was dry and not too windy. I had come out to keep working on **WCW - Cache Local Mighty Challenge**... that's 200 Finds in the Whittlesea LGA. I had been at the Yan Yean Cemetery chasing out the Multi that is there... only to work that its GZ was right where a muggle was sitting in their car. I really wanted a Multi today (it's a different challenge) so what to do? Best option was to go for a drive and find another cache in the hope that the muggle leaves by the time I got back. And so it was that I came looking for this cache... totally unplanned... which is why I drove past it by a bout 4 kilometres before I found a place where I could safely turn around and go back for it... yes, lovely and safe place to pull off if you are going downhill! Thanks **famhowe** for this cache... and a reminder of that terrible day over a decade ago.

As a wildlife carer it saddens me to see dead wombats and kangaroos along our roadsides.
We also spotted a micro(wave oven) in the bush nearby.

The cache was a nice quick find, not near the dead wombat.
Thanks for the cache famhowe.

Sadly, we arrived here to find a dead wombat.

We also spotted a micro in the bush.
It is frustrating to see people dumping old kitchen appliances along the roadside.
Surely, this area has a hard rubbish collection.


The cache was quickly located and is in excellent condition.

*Found on the 30 Jul 2023 @ 1:15 pm.*
*Cache find # 14875.*

While out and about on the area and needing a few more caches from this LGA, I stopped by this one for a look.
I didn't bother driving through the huge puddle, instead I went for a short walk to GZ where I walked right passed the cache before turning around and spotting the hide, the log was signed and I was on my way.

**Thanks to famhowe for keeping the game going by placing this cache.**

My husband was happy to come geocaching with me today if it also involved some gentle walking, his form of physiotherapy as he is recovering from a knee injury. I planned for us to go to Toorourrong Reservoir and then make our way back to Whittlesea.
We found this cache on our way back to Whittlesea for lunch. There was a large puddle of water across the track so my husband didn't want to drive our car in it. While I was walking the short distance to the cache I ended up covering my shoes in mud. The cache was found, log signed and we were soon of our way again.
Thank you famhowe for this cache.

Thank you a nice easy find.

Find # 12652

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

Take 2
Back in March we didn't finish off finding all the puzzles.
So day 2 (3months later) we back for another drive around the Whittlesea area.

Plan for the day (same as last trip) is to grab some of the caches we missed out on when we were here for the Mega. We have quite a few to choose from, as we didn't get much of the compass done back then.

A couple of premium TOTT on board required for those higher up caches.

Quite the busy road. Gotta love the extra art on the road sign. It gave us all a good laugh.


TFTC famhowe

Find No. 4284. Found with FUF009 at 5.00pm.

Another day trip to Whittlesea to see if we can finish off caches we still have to find in this area.
Three months ago, back in March we done a day trip and found quite a few caches, but we still had quite a few to find, so today we hope to get most of these finished. FUF 009 came with us.

Back then we were in our van, today we are in FUF009's ute, that will go places that our van won't.

The plan today was to drive around and get as many caches as possible within daylight hours.

After completing the caches in the Yan Yean Reservoir area, and the Puzzle for Beginners Series, we continued on out this way finding caches along the way as we made our way back to Whittlesea.

After having lunch at the Community Gardens we then continued on our way getting more caches we had on our list to do for the day.

Well this afternoon we seemed to be doing a lot of double backing getting caches here and there.

Found the cache okay but it was the road sign that took our interests here and gave us all a good laugh. (See photo on FUF009's log)

And guess what - we have to double back yet again to get to the next lot of caches, being our final five finds for the day.

TFTC

This Event the Whittlesea Mega has been on and off for a long time due to that rotten COVID-19. The sad part is that due to MND I really think this will be my last Mega as I am in the area for a week thanks to my two great SA friends who travelled from SA visiting Ballarat for a couple of days and then moved down to Geelong only to pick me up and we are staying in Craigieburn for a week and then they are taking me back to Geelong. It’s generosity like that Geocaching folk are renowned for, plus all the help that I have received in the past few days which I will be forever grateful. We logged this guy (19/11) while we were in the area in November, after one of the many events. Thanks famhowe for placing this series.

We found this cache today on our Whittlesea Wander as we continued to complete some of the other caches that we had missed on our previous three trips up here. A quick drive up the hill for this one. Thanks from D & HA B-A

Happy Mother's Day

Find it and sign the log as EV, and thanks for the cache and hunt.

Nice and quick find on the way home. Tftc.

A quick grab for us while we are finishing off the Whittlesea compass series. It was good to have a nice place to pull off for this one. I’d hate to attempt it with all the traffic barrelling down the hill!

The little fellas loves the find!

We were able to pull off the road when there was a break in traffic. There was a large pool of water between the car and the cache, but we were able to negotiate our way to GZ where accurate coordinates led to a quick find of a good sized cache. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for placing the cache here.

Returning to the area today with some unfinished business. For some reason, I didn’t get much caching done last weekend.

My first find for the day. Couldn’t drive all the way up to it due to the partially flooded entrance. But a beautiful day for a short stroll.

Thanks for bringing me here by placing this cache, opted-out user ??
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Out with Dty73 and Tankengine with the Canberra group WCCG for a combined last day ditch to find a bucket load after the Mega. Kutgw

I am still in the area after attending the Whittlesea Mega and today after finding some of the Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson Series I headed off after a few other caches and this was on the list. A quick find with the cache and contents in good condition.

Still here at the mega at Whittlesea we have found a few more in the area and this was one of them.

We had a great tour around the country side finding pre solved caches and others along the way.

Thanks to all the cache owners whose caches we found today.

A quick find by the roadside on our way home from the Mega. TFTC

Quick find just off the roadside. TFTC famhowe

Found during the mega with a group of Canberra cachers and signed as WCCG. Our group included - Nibletricecakes, minniek, Albida33, SolDeLune, LuckyL10n, kittykatch, joolay, isopeda, barb2e, smittengranny, dty73, youban, tankengine, greyhams, aquilus, cosmonaut97, silverfox1970, firebatman & contesta.
All caches found without too much trouble unless otherwise stated. TFTC.

Having an awesome time visiting Victoria for the Whittlesea MEGA. Meeting up with my caching team, we headed out this morning to find some more of the awesome caches in this area.
Thanks to all COs for the effort required to place and maintain the caches for us to enjoy.
And thanks to famhowe for this cache. Log signed as TQ5

Whittlesea day 3 with fitzy_1965

Last full day of caching before heading home.

Throughout the weekend we signed as fitzy & minniek, F65 & MK, MAFS, WCCG or similar depending on who we were with at the time.

Today we cached the TWC with our friends from Canberra. Unless otherwise mentioned, all caches were found quickly and easily.

Found It!
Yea, this was a quick find!
TFTC

Whittlesea Mega Trip Day 4. The second day of the Mega was a day for a whole bunch of Canberra cachers get together and make a mass effort on the TWC puzzle caches and any other caches that are on the roads we pass along the way. A huge effort had been put in by everyone in the team to solve all of these over the past year or so. There were several cars and our full group was Kitty Katch, Joolay, Barb2e, Isopeda, Dt773, Tankengine, Youban, Aquilus, Grayhams, Sol de Lune, LuckL10n, Smitten Granny, Contesta, cosmonaut97, Nibletricecakes, Gliss!, Fitzy_1965, MinnieK & I. We signed each log as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. After grabbing a coffee at the on site vendor, we headed off and started tackling caches. There were some very rutted and wet tracks, a few trees that had to be cleared and even a walk or two. There were a few highlights, I will mention those in the relevant cache. It was a long tough day, but we made it back for the farewell event and a chance to get something to eat.

Thanks for the cache famhowe

39140.110 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & March 2021 Search and Rescue A#440

**Albida**

Today was tiring, very successful and great fun. It was a joint effort by the group solving all these puzzles before we came down. Today was the day that we decided to go out and find them all together with some traditionals, letterboxes and multis as we passed them along the chosen route.

As I said it was a very successful day with no DNFs and all logs were signed as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. Well everyone had lived in Canberra or nearby at some stage and it was great to join up with those who have moved on - without our permission I might add.

Big thanks to all the COs for the placement and maintenance of all these caches that added to the fun and excitement of the incredible MEGA.

A sad reminder of those terrible days. You can still see all the dead trees on the skyline when you look across the road. The cache was easily found and is in good condition. Thanks famhowe.

The JAMS (JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre) crew went on a MEGA adventure. We all managed to get a 5 day weekend so we made the most of our trip out of state. Our main targets were old caches, different LGA's and those that have lots of favourite points plus of course the MEGA and all the caches put out in celebration
Thanks to all those who have placed, hosted events and kept all the other caches alive for us to find.
All caches signed as JAMS.
Thanks to opted-out user from mogni

29,005. Found with minniek during our Whittlesea Mega Adventure Trip. Alternatively signed as fitzy & minniek, F65 & MK, MAFS, WCCG or similar depending on who we were with at the time.

Day 4 of our Mega Trip. After three great days of our trip this was to be the biggest day plus heading home. The Canberra Region Cachers gathered for coffee and food before heading out to tackle the TWC, Letterboxes, Beginner Puzzles and anything else along the way (and there were a lot). Next cache of the day. A quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks famhowe !!

quick find
The JAMS team ( JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, and sir_spectre minus mitchell&hound ) we where out for there usually monthly caching adventure. This time it was to Victoria for the Whittlesea Mega. We left thrusday morning and came back monday We targeted as many Vic LGA's on the journey there and back plus trying to get some extra's around the " melbourne CBD ". A few letterbox D/T's that don't exist in S.A. where stamped and selected D/T's in victoria for our fizzy grid only using victorian caches ( 11 to go before this trip for me ). Where possible old caches where targeted in the missing LGA's ( 2000 or 2001 ) or caches with high fav points. This filled holes in some of the teams Jasper grids. The recent rains caused localized floods that caused a few road closures that slowed our team down and meant we didn't get all LGA's targeted, we where also slowed down by the parks that have turned in to marshes with the rain. Also one tree was climbed which was a record low for the team. It was good to catch up with some teams we have seen for many months or a year or two at the mega and meet some new teams as well.

The JAMS team (JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre) have hit the road again, this time heading to the Wittlesea Mega event caching along the way. We had various goals that we wanted to achieve on our 5 day road trip concentrating on old caches, LGA's, unusual D/T combinations and caches with lots of favourite points. [^]

We covered a lot of ground and had a fun time touring around Victoria. We also really enjoyed the Mega and caught up with lots of people, some we hadn't seen for quite a while. There was plenty to see and do at the showgrounds and we managed to fit events, labs and the maze while we were there before heading out to find more caches.

We were lucky with the weather, which turned out to be much nicer than what was forecast and we were able to get out there and find the caches we had targeted. All in all a great 5 days.

Today we stayed around Whittlesea finding as many of the TWC caches as we could and others we came across on our travels.

Thanks for the cache famhowe.

Found with the JAMS crew on our Whittlesea Mega weekend. I got to met a lot of great people.

Second day at the mega with the Rats. Big day around town doing puzzles labs and events. Sunday already and we're up and running after a very wet night. Shoes are going to be wet today.
TFTC Wilbert67

Found with Sarah Explorer )

A quick find while a frog called in a nearby puddle.
Did I mention my shoes got wet. ??

Find #6669

Great to be picking up some of the many puzzles and multis solved over many months and trips, as well as collecting some letterboxes and trads and whatever else was in our path. ??????

Today were some joint finds with Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group and signed WCCG. Caches in good condition unless otherwise stated. Many are the worse for wear from all of the flooding and wet weather events.

Thanks so much opted-out user for getting us out and about, and for the adventure highlights around Whittlesea. ??

Spending a few days on the road with Wilbert as we travel to and from the Whittlesea Mega event.
Having a great time finding an array of different types and D/T rated caches.
Thanks to all the CO’s for hiding your particular cache.
Day 2 of the mega and fingers crossed ?? for blue skies after a wild night. Thanks to all the volunteers who’ve made this a lot of fun.
My apologies for the boiler style log.
TFTC ??

Found today with a group from Canberra and signed as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group. Tks for all the work on some great puzzles and putting the caches out. Tftc

Thanks opted-out user for taking time to set out and maintain this hide and for showing us this very special part of the world ??

Log signed in first open spot ??

Find # 9418

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**THE** **WHITTLESEA** **EVENT ** **2022**
19th / 20th November 2022
GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird (aka Mrs Geo, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird). It’s a great day for caching. ??
TFTC opted-out user
Find #11835

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And for anyone that can travel to Longreach, Queensland, late September 2023, Google “QOGM” which is the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster. You’ll have at least 8 or 9 days of pure geocaching fun with around 200 like minded people attending a mix of events and access to over 200 geocaches placed by the QOGM team. It’s not a Mega, it’s better.

Whittlesea Mega
Great to attend another Victorian Mega and we had a lot of fun solving the many puzzles. Picked up with the Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group (WCCG) while picking up the puzzles.

Thanks for the hide and effort put in to these puzzles and caches.

Found by Omegaman1971

Back in town for day two of the mega, after catching up with some pals , I hit the map for the caches missed yesterday.

Cheers for the cache

Nice easy find with with the GeoKid on our way home from the Mega
TFTC famhowe

In town for the for the next Geocaching Victoria mega event.....this one at Whittlesea.

Out with LuckyL10n today, and a load of other Canberra Cachers to do the TWC series and other caches in the area. One cache we couldn't access, otherwise all caches were found and logged as WCCG (Whittlesea Canberra Cachers Group).

Many thanks to all the cache owners for the caches....

Here for the mega and gps maze

Enjoyed all the caches we found today

Log signed

Tftc

#16920 - 10:03:00 AM; Up early and on the road with Sol de lune ahead of a full day of caching planned for today. First stop was the showgrounds to officially check-in for the Mega and meet up with the rest of the Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group (WCCG) before we set off to collect a couple of power trails (TWC and Beginners) plus the Showtime multis and other caches along our planned route. All caches were found without incident (although at times the antics and efforts of our interpid cachers were rather amusing), and they were all in unsurprisingly good order given recent maintenance runs by the CO's and helpers. All logs were signed WCCG to evidence our visit. Apologies for the largely generic logs. TFTC opted-out user

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73, youban and a whole bunch of other Canberra/ex Canberra cachers on our Whittlesea Mega trip down south! We had dedicated today to collecting as many of these caches for which the puzzles had been solved prior to the Mega (and a few others) ... After last night's storms and much rain, it was lovely to see the sun again today! Mind you, almost everywhere we went was flooded, and it didn't take long for our shoes and pant legs to be completely soaked! Some lovely caches/locations amongst these! Signed as WCCG (Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group) - Thanks heaps for the cache!

Having a blast down at the Whittlesea Mega. Teamed up today with a group of friends from Canberra to tackle the puzzles and caches around town. Signed as WCCG (Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group). Have come home covered head to toe in mud and smiles. Thanks for a great day. Thanks for the cache!

Out with a big group of caching friends picking out the puzzles that we worked on for a few months and got a few others on the way. We signed as WCCG - Whittlesea Canberra Caching Group, which was comprised of barb2e, Joolay, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Minniek, Nibbletricecake, Gliss!, Cosmonaut97, Silverfox71, Firebatman88, Contesta, DTY79, Tankengine, Youban, Greyhams, SolDeLune, LuckyLion10, SmittenGranny, Aquilus1 and me.

Sorry for the generic logs, but we moved so fast, I just couldn't log on the run. We managed to get back to the closing event.

Thank you for all the puzzles, multis and trads.

Found this while attending the Whittlesea mega.
Depending on the log size and who I was with this is signed as nikid1, ND1 or TQ5 (team Queensland).

Had to stop while driving past.

TFTC opted-out user

Saturday and still so much to do around town, in the hills and in the adjoining districts, where to start. I will say that despite the changing weather conditions every 9 minutes, this has not dampened my look on this area. It is fantastic and such a great little main street and with so much going on. A plan was set for today and with my caching buddies off we went, chasing caches all over the place, a very busy day. There are some fantastic views from up in those hills. We got in some great caches today and covered a very large area of caches, thanks to all who put these out .

We started with some of the challenge caches and some multi’s, a drive around the area finishing some labs and then a check again to see where to next. We managed to get in some events as well and check in for the event. OH MY So much to do. Thank you.
This was a quick easy find.

Day three caching together as TQ5 (Team Queensland Five) chamad, Willis007, nikid1, KerriMG and Snickersallan.
This certainly was an action packed day filled starting off with a variety of awesome WEGT gaget caches in the field as well as a great assortment in the showgrounds. The amazing Maze was next then off to participate in a very wet CITO, collect some more beaut TWC puzzles and a few trads. The afternoon was spent at the geo shop, a very fun Puzzle Room adventure, another Event and finally the long awaited magical fireworks display topped off this fun filled day.
A special thanks to all the cache owners and event organisers for making this an extra special day for all of us.

Thanks famhowe for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Found whilst in the company of baby&Mrs gopher
Thanks for the cache

Found while in the area to attend the Mega Event at Whittlesea.

Today I joined up with Team Waldron, Freddo, gridge98 and Davidwazza as we targeted caches of interest. All caches were signed or stamped A.O.T.

Thanks opted-out user for the cache.

Found on a days caching while at the Mega.

TFTC

A short stop here today to find this one, cache found and is all good

This weekend was mega weekend and we headed over with Freddo, team Waldron, e.gregory1 and Davidwazza as part of our team called: ‘Aussies on Tour’, the log books were either signed with the name, AOT or our individual caching names.
A great weekend away and a very well organised mega despite the horrible weather thrown at us we still managed to find quite a few caches

Thanks for the cache

Whittlesea Mega Wobble and Wade Tour: Day 6: Lets do some serious caching

Once again myself and Anymules were in Victoria on our way to a Mega event. We made a detour via Geelong and picked up Bushfire. It had been three years since we last all cached together. [^] Many laughs with friends at events and on the trails, many caches were found and unless something stood out these will be generic logs.

***Thanks opted-out user for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found in the last place we looked. Thanks for the fun.

November 2022. Time for the second Victorian Mega of the year. This time in Whittlesea. What is it with W's? Time for another epic road trip. Who will join our merry crew? We traveled from South Australia and camped in the pig pen. It rained. It blew. It was sunny. It was not sunny. All four seasons. Beautiful location and some awesome caches.

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.

Arrived in Melbourne to attend the MEGA Event at Whittlesea with woolwood9.

ww9 and I had a great time and appreciate effort in setting up the caches for us all to visit.

SL tm/ww NZ
*Thank you for helping to show us around different areas and adding to our enjoyment*

In Melbourne to attend the Mega at Whittlesea with tmann421.
Enjoyed the short trip around locating a few caches before heading to the event
Log signed tm/ww NZ
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts with the hides

The mega weekend has finally arrived, some puzzles solved and off I go in the company of bogonghazy and geo the wonder pup. Thanks to all the CO's that made this day so enjoyable and also to all the hard working volunteers at the mega who have done a fantastic effort for our enjoyment.

A day trip down the highway from Bacchus Marsh to the mega with Sorceysal and Geo the puppy had us catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. This was a quick find with perfect coords. Thanks for placing.

11825 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1335 in company with Hercs and pinky. Time to log an LGA or 2.SL Tnx famhowe

Find 4059 on November 19, 2022

Found while at the Whittlesea Mega. Thanks to all who made this event so great.

TFTC famhowe

Whittlesea Event trip. Day 6. Caching with bushfire and brisal5.

I found your D1.0/T1.5 Regular Traditional called Yea Road Roadside at 13:56 on 19 November 2022. It was find #16324 for me. Thank you opted-out user for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of Victoria.

Tftc

Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88

Found with the family whilst attending the local mega. Cool area and everyone enjoyed their time out and about. TFTC.

Found while chasing around the TWC series at the MEGA Event, TFTC famhowe

t Mega time, finally and after setting up camp there was an hour or two before the first event, Friday night Social Dinner so Donutholes, Neville_devil and I hit the road to grab a few caches.
The aim for the night was to grab some outstanding compass geoart and an other that crossed our path in doing so. All caches were found in good order.
The way the GPS was saying the Yea part of Whittlesea - Yea Rd gave us some amusement tonight as we were out caching so it was definitely a YAY to be out caching

Thank you all famhowe for the cache

Found on a bright and sunny day. Now onwards to Whittlesea.
TFTC

Beautiful sunny day for caching around here.
Thanks
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Another lovely quick find. Thanks to the plastic bag the long is nice and dry

a quick roadside park and grabn on the friday before the mega

Nice Find ????????
TFTC famhowe

Found on our way back to Whittlesea after waiting for a muggle on their phone to leave.
Thanks opted-out user for the placement.

Whittlesea YAY Road!!! Nice and quick find here Smile, you're on camera.

In Whittlesea for the mega event this weekend.
A quick find here, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, famhowe, for us and others to find.

A trip from Canberra, ACT to Whittlesea, Vic with a few side quests for LGAs. TFTC.
Was parked in the potential flood area at Yea so decided to head to high ground. Ended up being too high in bad winds. Still trying to find a place to park for the night.

Day two of our Whittlesea collection effort.
We have solved all the Whittlesea caches, but had not gone to find any. As the Mega is quickly sneaking up on us, BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies and I decided to drive out to Whittlesea and collect a few.
The roads were quite busy for a weekday, and apart from the 400ml square containers most caches were in reasonable condition. (all the 400ml's we emptied out!)
Thanks for maintaining this great series.

A nice trad on our way around Whittlesea. Never realized this was the Yea road.
Thanks, Robmc.

#20463. Day 2 and we headed back for more smilie faces. With the Mega less than 2 weeks away Robmc and I decided to head out to Whittlesea and surrounds to sign off on many of the puzzles we have solved and collect a few others that popped up on the radar. The scenery was beautiful and fortunately there were no DNFs. My total was 58 for the day. Unfortunately, as so many others have mentioned those square 400ml Sistemas seem to need emptying every time a cacher visits and this is exactly what we did at each one. Found 26 caches today.

Lots of water to make our way around to reach GZ. We have been looking at the ridge of burnt trees from all angles on our drive around today. Retrieved two TBs that were in the cache.

Thanks famhowe

# 14896 Found and logged at 12:52:00 PM
Finaly some fine weather to get out caching
camping at the whittlesea show grounds catching up on a few caches before the Mega Event
Thanks for the cache opted-out user
Lgoody

Nice and clean. Log book fine

After attending an event in Mernda, we headed to Whittlesea with Crustyvarmint and his 2 geo dogs, Sook & Pilot, to try and pickup as many of the TWC caches as time and weather permitted.

As we were in the vicinity, we took the opportunity to look for this cache. We overshot GZ, then needed to travel a couple of km’s before we could do a U-turn. Not a quick find, but we got there in the end.

Thank you famhowe for placing and maintaining this cache.

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19th / 20th November 2022 – GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria

While finding some of the TWC caches nearby, Knight_shift and I headed up the hill to log this cache too. While I was stumbling around in the scrub, looking at places where it wasn't hidden, Steve managed to find the treasure.
Thanks famhowe.