Gaston Lives!!! Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia
By Deputy Washawa on 06-Jan-21. Waypoint GC94WP8

Our last day in the area before we head home tomorrow. A beautiful day to find some more caches here. Found with Earthlight and Shandyk, and signed the log EGS. TFTC.

Oh very good loving this series TFTC superb effort

Taking a few days off work so I can get away to Mildura for a long weekend. My first time in Mildura so lots of geocaches to tackle to keep me entertained. Perfect conditions to be outside and geocaching. This short trail of caches with high favourite points was high on my to do list. I was not disappointed. Every one unique and well crafted. Certainly put a big smile on my face. A favourite point from me. Thank you Deputy Washawa, for placing Gaston Lives!!! for the geocaching community.# # #15573 # #

Kids loved this one

Tftf

Such a great find!

Had about 20 dogs barking then a man came and too check on me and also started looking in my car then I felt uncomfortable and left

Kk

Greatest geocache ever

TFTC these are gorgeous

Called in today on a maintenance run. Good to go for another year.

Def a fun one. Thanks for cache

Best one yet..pretty cool!!

Thanks, ltf

Thanks, great stuff

Found by DMMJF TFTC!

This was another beautifully constructed cache with a number of great features. Much appreciated by us, and another favourite.After the rain yesterday afternoon and during the evening today dawned cool, but with sunshine, clear skies and little wind.We headed out in the morning and did a range of gadget caches out from Red Cliffs. Some great entertaining fun which we enjoyed greatly. How can we go back to searching for 'bisons in the bush' although we have not come across these in Mildura!In the afternoon we headed into town and tackled a number of Ad Labs, multis and trads. We even managed a Wherigo. Great locations and really interesting things to see. The Murray is quite a big river with lots of interesting features to check out.A great day caching.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Washawa.**SKI Pair****

Found this with muggle husband. Nice and quick to open. Left some swag for the kids. TFTC TNLNSL A Favourite Point for all the effort and fun. TFTC TNLNSL

Thanks to Washawa for this cache.A favourite from us for the work done on this one.A well made cache that looks great.

Found

Found while having a look around the area today, staying in Mildura for the week. Another nice cache along this road, well made and a FP. Cheers.Find #6883 on 16 Apr 2024.TFTC Washawa!

Tyftc..loved the caches out here.. have to make sure that the grandkids do them when next they are this way

Day 2 of our trip from Adelaide to the Canberra Geobash Mega Event. Travelling from Werrimull to Hay and grabbing a few caches along the way. We are really enjoying these caches by Deputy Washawa. They are cute, creative and fun to find. Keep up the great work. Dropped a trackable here so the next finder can even more fun moving it along.

Garson was cute. TFTC out on the geoscooter with Algae on his geoeuc grabbing some smilies in the Mildura area. Decided to have breakfast in Mildura then hit some caches. A great day out.

Very cute. Got tb so it can move on.Tftc

Picked this one up during the PS power trail on the way back to our accommodation at the end of the day.Enjoyed the containerTFTCSigned log *tm/ww NZ*

Another nice find with woolwood9 today. Busy day on the PS trail but called in for these caches on the way back to the motel*Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit.* SL *tm/ww NZ*Soon located. Nice one!

Found whilst touring silos with MoSSau TftcWell worth a fav point

Thanks for cache found with lonely RA was a good cache

Left a trackable here for the next visitorTftc Deputy Washawa, the creative caches in the Mildura area are outstanding. Just as well we have a few favourite points to spare.This line of caches are all exceptional.Favourite point

Spruced up. Ready to go for another year.

On an west to east and back roadtrip, today is a lay over in Red Cliff. I noted the run of well favourited caches over this way earlier in the day, but it took quite a bit of cajoling the muggle man to get him to bring me here. I won (sort of) with this evening's outing bringing me to at least a few. Once again Galston didn't take long to locate, but it did take a moment or 2 before the penny dropped to get in. Another creative hide, another FP, many thanks Deputy Washawa

Love it ! TFTC

Loving your work.

Nice idea. After trying a couple of red herring i got the code for the padlock. fav point. Mini Maker was never a big gaston fan. Out with Mogni for a 3 day weekend, leaving friday morning and coming back sunday night. The plan was to go to Cowangie in Victoria and then head in to Murray-Sunset National Park then head on to Mildura and come back via Rufus River road ( in New South Wales ) to South Australia. Night 1 was in the Murray-Sunset National Park at Mopoke Hut camp ground and Night 2 at Mildura then going back to Adelaide. It must have rained recently in Murray-Sunset since the sand wasn't like fine power as expected and other sections of the National park had bypass tracks around the water filled ruts in the main track. Going around one of the bypass tracks i staked a tyre on the friday but didn't notice it to saturday morning. The stake went right beside the tread and the inside wall of the tyre, the stake was the size of my finger tip. Also turns out that i got a screw in my rear tyre thrusday night leaving work. There was alot of reinflating tyres this trip. The flora change in the national park was surprising but i figured that is due to weather or not the ground was sandy or muddy. When we got to Mildura we targeted the 2 multi's mogni wanted to do and of course they were the ones with 7 and 11 stages. After that we targeted the caches with high amount of favourite points and then left the next day via New South Wales so we could get the virtual at Lake Victoria and some of the older 2003 around the border track. A good weekend away 4x4ing.

Sir_spectre and I decided we needed to get away for a few days, so off to Murray Sunset NP and Mildura we went. Not a huge number of caches were found, but we had a great time exploring the NP. We fixed anything we could.Thanks to Washawa from mogni

Awesome find. So cute!

found it

A quick find with the aid of accurate coordinates and a useful hint. We're really enjoying the caches in this series, thanks for the effort you've put in

We searched we found we bugged TFTC

Steve particularly loves these types of caches, so I usually stand back and watch the wannabe MacGyver do his thing. He did do his thing and was soon passing the logbook to me for the signing duties. At least I contributed in some small way:)These caches have been so much fun. Thank you Washawa for the all smiles you have given us today.

Very cleaver. Loved the riddle, took us a while but we eventually got it. Well done.

Great one for the kids thank you.

Best find so far

This certainly leaves the old mint for dead, a FP. Thanks Deputy Washawa Tftc

Found it with rex46

Out with Dot558
Stumbled across these caches and have enjoyed each one of them

Thank you for these caches it was worth the stops

Day 14 of an epic 2 week trip with the kids to the Eyre Peninsula. Home today but a few quick caches first - I was told about this trail and it did not disappoint! All were absolutely fantastic - all get a fav point! Thanks for helping us finish the trip on a caching high! Here’s to more fun and adventure!

Great creativity!

A cute lurker hide away there

TFTC and greetings from Tassie and have another favourite point

Another great find. The kids loved it.

Thought we would see more eggs! Wrong Gaston I guess... TFTC!

So fun

the coolest , easy find

So cute

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 youban Kittykatch Joolay NRC GLISS Barb2e Albida on our mini Mildura invasion! Signed MMA - Mildura May Adventurers! Thanks Washawa!

Day 2 of the Mildura Adventure and we are collecting the rest of the Paddlesteamer geoart plus some interesting caches with lots of favourite points around the area. Tftc

Found, interesting.

Today was our second day adventuring together in the district. Out to tackle the Paddlesteamer and as many other amazing caches as we can with a lovely bunch of Canberra friends! Always fantastic to be able to get away for a long weekend of caching together. Loved the red dust and the crazy caching trails. Thanks for all the hard work from COs make and maintain these caches. Called our trip the Mildura May Adventure so signed as MMA or MMA23 today. Great to be caching with you KLSARC, GLISS! Albida33, Kittykatch, Barb2e, Joolay, Tankengine, DTY73 and youban. Thanks for a great weekend everyone. Thanks for the cache.

So cute.

Day 4 of our Mildura Madness run and the gang is all here ??. Really looking forward to looking around. Signing as MMA23 or MMA. (Mildura May Adventures)

Thanks for getting me out and about Washawa

Logged as MMA. Very nicely built
Enjoyed by all. Kutgw

Mildura Paddlesteamer
I joined a group of Canberra cachers to tackle the caches around Mildura. Signed as MMA (Mildura May Adventurers).

Thanks for the hide Washawa

Found while on a fabulous weekend away to Mildura to complete the Paddlesteamer & Turtle geoarts, and various trads, multis + gadget caches. The Canberra crew included Nibletricecakes, joolay, kittykatch, youban, dty73, tankengine, barb2e, Klsarc & albida33. We signed as Mildura May Adventures 23 (MMA or MMA23). Unless otherwise mentioned, all caches were quickly found. TFTC.

So cute this one

Southern Autumn adventure Day 50. Mid North section of SA trip Day 21. Mount Barker 1. Today and the next two days are really transitional to me getting to Mildura in time to do the Paddle Steamer with friends from Canberra. In the meantime I had a day around Mount Barker area today. There was light rain on and off, but it was not much of a problem. I tried to find the multi's I worked out the numbers for yesterday and had a load more caches on the list that went from smoothly to very problematic. I had to skip a whole section as the only access road we being re-surfaced. It was a long and quite difficult day at times, but with that comes a sense of achievement with what was found. I finished the day with dinner in the pub in town and had a great night !

Gaston is going blind, but he still yielded the numbers to open him up.

Thanks for the cache Washawa

42780.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 International Womens Day A#343

**Albida**

Another quirky cache that initially had me stumped until the ah ha moment hit. Very creative.

The kids and I loved this find!

Another very clever cache that I just couldn't solve the puzzle in the short time I had allocated. I have a head for numbers, but frustratingly could not solve the puzzle on this occassion.

I remember this show only too well! Our girls are older now but it's still three in the memory banks. Great cache, very well done and worth a favourite pint
Nice work Washawa

We separated from Tassie Trekkers today with Budgie, SSR and I heading along the Murray toward Mildura and surrounds today. The high river levels prevented us from getting many of our chosen caches but we still found some good ones and enjoyed the day.

It’s become a tradition to fly to a Mega via somewhere else so Stainless steel rat, budgietas and I flew from Hobart to Adelaide a week before the big event and, after a few days around the city, worked our way up along the Murray (where we could due to flooding) via Waikerie, Mildura, Swan Reach and Echuca before heading down through Shepparton to Whittlesea where we caught up, and cached with, a few other teams including Whitewebbs, 1toolman and icybeetas.

Found this cache while out caching with Goosenegg and stainless steel rat.
We drove from South Australia, to Victoria and down the Murray river, swapping between NSW and Victoria, collecting LGA's as we drove down to Mildura

Thank you for the cache.

All caches stamped with "Team Tassie"

November 2022 was planned as a trip to the Mega in Melbourne, so we flew from Hobart to Adelaide to find quite a few caches that we had missed last time. Some great caches were found, but the planned boat trip was canceled due to the weather. No matter the showers we found quite a few caches on the trip (Around 600) including a number with high Terrian values.

The drive-through down the Murray river on the NSW / Victoria border showed the impacts of the current floods. A number of caches planned were canceled due to the flooding. Unfortunately, many of these caches will have been lost to the flood. The Mega, as per the whole week, was on and off a wet time, even so a number of caches were still found with Goosenegg, Stainless Steel Rat, Whitewebbs and Tassie Trekkers

On our way to the mega and went via SA just so we could finish off the OYB series, We did these with TT and marked our territory with a stamp that said Team Tassie, most of the caches we found in good order and those couple that weren't we fixed up as best we could with what we had to hand.
All found now well till some more come out anyway!

Another year, another Victorian Mega, so where do we fly into, Adelaide like you do, after a few days in the city we ventured out into the wilds of SA before heading Northeast towards the border (You remember the name of the town, don't you?) before crossing over we teamed up with Tassie Trekkers and we all finished off the OYB series.
Our attempts at a few caches as we moved South that were near rivers were as half expected we were thwarted by floods so we didn't get to those but added the odd on in here and there.

At long last we arrived in Whittlesea for the Mega late in the evening of Friday 11th and after a quick event headed to our accommodation for the next few days. While in the area we explored the area finding caches all over the place and we even got to meet up with our Victorian ex Tassie cacher 1Toolman who traveled up from down South to join us for the day

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 17/11/2022 at 3:09:00 PM thanks to Washawa for placing this cache for me to find.

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Tftc what a beautiful cache to come across travelling bilberries at it again

Found it!! Very creative

Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
Another great cache. Didn't even see it straight away.
I wasn't planning on this series. It just dragged me to want more.
Just pulled an ant from the inside of my sock. Wonder where it came from?

Popped in today on a maintenance run.
All good here and ready to go for another year.

Spiders moved on.

Found - full of massive huntsman spiders!

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure, yes I know we have wandered over the border. Never mind, it is a wonderful day and we have joined forces with FelixII so we are off to see what we can find. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Full time nomads visiting Mildura to finally tackle the Paddle Steamer with iluvtrekking. Of course we have to stop in town and find some caches here before we go 'bush'. Great weather and a fun day out today.


TFTC Deputy Washawa

So cute

Found while out and about in the greater Mildura area during the Tri-State Community Celebration Events and International Geocaching Day weekend. Thanks for the cache Washawa!

This one was a great find, unfortunately a big spider has taken up residence in the cache so we were unable to get to the log book so beware when you go

Found it.

Great find

So much beautiful blossom nearby. We had a romantic selfie under the trees, it's our 24th wedding anniversary this weekend. Another wonderful cache and thanks for the hint. Another fp. So much work has gone into this trail. We appreciate it very much. There were two cache guardians, one was a huge huntsman. we dropped off 2 tb's here. Tftc.

Another quick find here. Thanks For The Cache A lot of effort in theses caches

I spent some time with Gaston just trying to work him out. Eventually I had the numbers I needed and the cache in hand. TFTC

Yep this is pretty cool.
I don't want to give anything away so I will simply say..... fav added.

TFT(Large)C Deputy Washawa.

The Generic Bit.....
Leaving for our overnight accomodation in Horsham Thursday arvo straight after work, our loopy loop trip from Tatura to the Community Celebration Event in Mildura had begun. We took the long way.
Cat' and I were chasing a few older caches and a few large ones, but mostly caches in different counties and road map pages for challenges, so we travelled as far West as Bordertown before taking a right and travelling through Pinnaroo and Loxton to get there. Before hitting Mildura though, we made time to tickle the tip of Victoria for it's Northern most cache before taking on the Border Track then on to the event in Mildura and down towards Ouyen before heading for home next morning via SwanHill in time for work Sunday arvo.

Found and signed with dalerious as we were staying in a motel up the road and felt like some night caching before we headed back home tomorrow . This little set of Deputy Washawa caches were a treat . Loved the novel containers. Thanks for the fun on a beautiful winters night.

The Trip
We talked about planning this odyssey months ago, but put the finishing touches to the plan in the last couple of weeks.
We were hoping to undertake two challenges. One was to log a cache in as many counties in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales as we possibly could, as well as logging caches that were placed on the pages of the UBD Victorian Road Atlas as well.
dalerious got to work strategically picking caches that we needed. No easy task, but he is so adept at it. I get the car and supplies ready, and drive.
We had only 2 full days to do all this in, as well as an event to attend to in Mildura.
Quite an ask, but yet again dalerious and I not only marked of all the caches we had on our list, but we were lucky enough to add more.
We had an awesome time away travelling around hop, skipping and jumping from one state to the next. With the exception of hitting one Kangaroo, no damage to the Hilux or us thank goodness, I loved driving around this beautiful area.
Next big trip Tasmania........ Bring it on!

Good

So clever tftc

Found it couldn’t work the puzzle out lock might be rusted idk

Nevermind I got it

Found today thanks for the hide and care of the caches .replaced with care after signing the log. Thanks Washawa

Tftc

Good find, was a massive huntsman hiding in it!

Another day in Mildura with BettyBoo3747, and the second day on the Paddle Steamer trail.
We had stopped early on the trail, and were heading back into town, when we came across this little series.
A nice change from the trail, and a great series of caches.

Can't say we are conversant with Gaston from Ben and Holly's little kingdom, but we got the gist of the construction.
BB soon worked out what we needed to access both the log and swag.
No spiders were harmed in this process!
Thanks, Robmc.

#18738. With Robmc at the end of another day doing some of the Paddle Steamer. Taking a different route back to Merbein and Rob mentioned a number of gadget caches along this road. Well what a great way to finish the day. A favourite point of course for Gaston.

Have never heard of Gaston but am very partial to these little critters and have a mystery cache based on them. This cache was amazing and so clever and so was the way to access what was needed. Very, very clever!

Thanks Washawa

I’m loving these field puzzles although how many spiders can be housed in one cache???
Another favourite point

This is fantastic and the huntsman was an added bonus!

Many many spiders. Like a whole family be careful. Otherwise very cute geocache.