Dragon's Lair Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia
By Deputy Washawa on 06-Jan-21. Waypoint GC94Y1V

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.

Such a pity the care of the local residence in and around this dragons layer great hide TFTC

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 Dragon's Lair for the geocaching community.# # #15572 # #

Another fav point these are Cool finds:)

TFTC a muggle on a bike was watching us

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

Mrs wombat being a dragon lover did like this one!

Thanks, ltf

Another novel idea for a cache, which Mrs SKI managed to sort quickly. Another favourite from us.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****

Quick easy find with muggle husband and nice easy release for the bison tube to sign. Love the effort youve put into these. Another Favourite Point from me. TFTC TNLNSL

Thanks to Washawa for this field puzzle cache.A nice bit of work.We are enjoying these caches.

Great find

Found while having a look around the area today, staying in Mildura for the week. An interesting concept, all good here. Thanks.Find #6882 on 16 Apr 2024.TFTC Washawa!

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. Another very cool cache, I dont were ever gonna look for a mint tin again. These creative caches are so much more fun. TFTC Deputy Washawa

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.

I was in the area after attending the Adelaide Leap Year Event and naturally after caches. This was a quick find while visiting Red Cliffs. Thank you Washawa for placing and maintaining this cache. I am awarding it a favourite point.

Very well done. Lol. Very cute too! Love creative caches that bring a smile!Here with kiwisteve2 on this very hot morning.Back to Sydney with the geopups after an awesome adventure that took us all over!TFTC

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. Good work on this container!

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*

Tftc 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.Really clever Favourite point

Spruced up. Ready to go for another year.

Fort off the dragon and retrieved the log.

signed dsd

quick find. nice themed container. 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

A quick find with the aid of accurate coordinates and the hint certainly helped with accessing the logbook. Loved the dragon and your work

As we only had time to pickup a few of these caches on route to Mildura, we targeted the large ones and will definitely be back to check out the rest when we are next in the area.Another fun cache. We very much appreciate the effort you have put into these caches. Thanks Washawa.

Another top field cache, the pleasure never ends. Thanks Deputy Washawa tftc

Found it with rex46

With dot558 on a trip back to Melbourne and loving these

Thankyou

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!

Very inventive hiding spot and cache. We can't wait to see what's next.

Great idea, thank you

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.

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

Nice

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. Start of the day and a good way to start.Ten of us walked in to this one. Kutgw

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

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.

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 !

Thanks for the cache Washawa

42779.8 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 Caching Humor 101 A#348

**Albida**

A very quirky construction, being g a little vertically challenged, I wasn't able to have a proper look.

A quick east find. Thanks

We have a cache in Tassie called the Dragons Lair [GC2E33](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2E33_the-dragons-lair) It's a 2001 cache and we've abseiled into the lair a few times thanks to Team Swamy and his gear.
It's totally different to this cache, which I must admit we missed on our first vague look.
Thanks 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 3:04:00 PM thanks to Washawa for placing this cache for me to find.

The best caches I have found so far are:-

Sentimental [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Traditional [Hanging Around in Toorak](http://coord.info/GC62KAP) By [bobthebuilder_123](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=586681)
Multi [Gawler Fort Knox](https://coord.info/GC5T0W1) By [**JEM**](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=11449141)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Totem Pole](https://coord.info/GC862H8) By [The Hancock Clan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=263428)

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Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
Another great cache design. Not too long this time.

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

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

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.

Looks really cool, well made

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!

We searched from all angles except the one needed,we were about to give up with I spotted it, very well hidden

Very cute and don't think I'd like what Mr Dragon has on his menu for dinner! Loving this series. Another fp. Tftc.

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

The drain kept an eye in me the whole time I stood extracting the cache. TFTC

So much stuff. Tftc

I remember Dragon's Lair hitting the arcades like it was yesterday, but I don't think I played it once.
It was too rich for me, but I watched plenty of other kids lining up to feed that machine and we all got to know those first few scenes pretty well.
A great representation was found at GZ that made both of us smile.
Not sure how it qualifies as large but we will take it.

TFTC 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!

Found in good condition signed log and placed the cache back to its hide
Thanks Washawa

Love 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.

I do recall playing several games like that! One reason why personal computers were such a boon!
Quite a construction peering down from his perch!
We soon worked out how to get his treasure, and it only cost us the price of a GPSr, fuel to get there,....etc.
Thanks, Robmc.

#18737. 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 the dragon.

This one was amazing - so creative. Fortunately we soon had the cache to hand as I was fading fast at the end of the afternoon.

Thanks Washawa

A quick solve by Weirdobiker before I even had time to think!

A nice easy solve for a quirky puzzle. Favourite point

Very clever little cache. Found with Seb3. TFTC!

Very good.

All is well here. Good to go for another year.

Coming out of the scrub now and some drive bys along the way with a great theme to each. Thanks for the effort gone into this one.

I’m having this week off as others at work had the Easter break off so it was my turn and another trip up North to Mildura was planned.
I was able to leave Melbourne nice and early to get a few caches in on the way up to Culgoa.
So after a great feed and a couple of beers and of course great accomodation at the Kaneira Hotel I headed up towards Mildura to see how many I could find in the Paddle Steamer series.
I managed to find 115 and 165 in the last couple days but the uni joint in my right knee has finally said enough is enough with all of the getting in and out of the Geocruiser so it is time to spend a casual day around Mildura.
I got up nice and early to attend the Dawn Service at the park and it was great to see so many people there paying their respects.
After a wander around town and then completing the Turtle series which was the second reason why I came back up to Mildura it was time to keep my wandering around.
So after crossing the mighty Murray river for a few and then crossing back again so now I’m back on home soil.
Making my way back to where I am staying but I was given the heads up to do all of the new to me caches along here.
On to the next one and the dragon was soon spotted and I soon realised what I had to do but getting to what I had to do was a bit of fun and I soon got there.
I think the dragon was happy with my efforts as he just payed there at the end.
A fav goes out to you for this one.

Thanks Deputy Washawa TFTC

Some great and creative caches along this road well done, only one needed fixing but the rest are in good order

A trip to Victoria with Freddo for 3 days to complete the paddle steamer and find a few caches in Mildura and along the way to and from, all the caches were signed respective of the day FG23, FG24, FG25 or our own caching names.

Thanks for the cache

So many dragons

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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

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

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

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

TFTC

# 14501 Found and logged at 7:33:00 AM
Spending the morning today on the turtle trail plus a few others
Cloudy morning with a little rain
Thanks for the cache Washawa
Lgoody

Yet another Fav. In over 4,000 finds this is the most favorites we've given for a single series.

Another great cache find on our way home from Port Pirie.
We love your caches Deputy Washawa.

Little Squirell

Found at 4:20 PM GAFF1.
Looking for a "Large" and there was nothing around that fitted that dimension, however there was a regular sized item that looked as though it could have been an interesting cache - and so it was! The cache was spotted and retrieved after being careful not to get bitten by those menacing teeth!
Thanks Washawa.

Found quickly ands I didn,t have to read the hint to access the log Fun kcache and a fun series. TFTC

Arrived in Red Cliffs and staying for several days with RoddyC, hatzofff & grannysmith1947 (To save space on log sheets, we have signed as Team 44 QLD.
Another good find here, lots of neat handiwork.

TFTC Deputy Washawa

Day 21 of our southern trip. Exploring around Red Cliffs and Mildura today. We Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Nice one.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 30, 2022. TFTC, Deputy Washawa

TFTC smile 11599 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Mildura to cache the Paddle Steamer and picking up any other caches in the area FP
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, Deputy Washawa, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 21 of our southern trip. Caching around Mildura and Red Cliffs in readiness for doing the Paddle Steamer geoart.

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


TFTCache Deputy Washawa

#12984 - 5:52:00 PM; Day 3 of the Wang Mega tour with Sol de lune. We didn't quite get to Echuca last night, but we did enjoy comfortable accommodation and a great meal at the Falcon Hotel on the highway right next door to the Downunder Dunny. After collecting that cache, we set off for Echuca and a spot of caching in and around the town, avenging a couple of GCA DNFs from our previous visit. We then hit the Murray Valley Highway again as we headed west before turning onto the Mallee Highway near Piangil, then the Calder Highway at Ouyen for our next overnight destination, Mildura. As we closed in on Mildura, we took a short detour for this series of caches along Millewa Road. We certainly weren't disappointed and happy to add a favourite for the effort.. TFTC Deputy Washawa

After a couple of great days in and around Wang at the Mega, followed by a drive to Echuca, LuckyL10n and I were now on the road from Echuca to Mildura. The plan today was to stop for a few selected caches...those that looked good, those with a few favourtie points..as well all the regular and large caches we could find.

Left Echuca around 9.30am, arriving in Mildura around 6.00pm. All caches we attempted were found, apart from the one that was completely burnt out, so all up a good road trip. Now home
and it's time to log.

This little series nifty hides were a lot of fun. A lot of effort has gone into producing the caches and they certainly brought us a smile....even the couple we had to sit and figure out.

Thanks to Deputy Washawa for the effort that went into these. Great fun!! Fav points for all of them.

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WOW and fun factor high here - not sure what to expect - this little clutch of caches is hugely impressive and I can imagine the CO having fun constructing these fantasy wonders. Enroute to pick up a few of the Paddle Steamer so rather happy to stop here and find another cache that can go towards the ‘large’ mission. TFTC and the FUN! A fave from me

Out caching today with Honeysucker, Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Perfect day for caching thanks for arranging.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Honeysucker, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Washawa
Find #8021 at 13:31.

Found after spending two hot summer days Paddle Steamer caching with Wollaston, Liz & Bruce and our very capable chauffeur Honeysucker.

Container condition good
Log condition missing, replaced with substitute bison until CO can check if suitable.

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with group stamp

TFTC Washawa

Find # 5648

Popped in today for a maintenance run.
Nice new log container thanks to a travelling convoy today.
All good to go for another year.

today we travelled on our ownwe are having a look around the area we found this cache with Liz and Bruce, wollaston and seasonbird

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

Caching on my way from Mildura to Adelaide today. Great construction. Thanks for the cache Deputy Washawa.

Awsome design

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Found, not sure if a canister was missing? The log book was on the ground.

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Tftc love it

Very creative

Found it

Can swap small items!