A NEW idea of HOPE Huntly, Victoria, Australia
By GarthBane on 16-Jan-21. Waypoint GC958BK

Nice one!

TFTC

Good trek in thongs

FUN AS

Parked car & a short walk to GZ. Seen some new cachers walking back to there car as we were driving down the road. They just found this cache I think. Getting gloomy hopefully some rain occurs soon for our farmers! TFTC!

Quick find. Grabbed the TB

Gg

TFTC

TFTC. Found with Lazraa.

Thanks!

Thankyou!

Thanks for the cache

Nice easy find but very cool hiding spot

808 - just Ja on her bike today and sadly she disturbed a pack of kangaroos at GZ to make the find. She made a quick find at the obvious location, and left the bush in peace - hopefully roos can return to their preferred location. Dropped Sara The Sci Fi trackable as I think this cache is exactly the kind of scifi adventure she seeks. We hope she continues on her journey with lots of similar fun.Thanks for bringing me here

Our last full day in Bendigo so before moving on we took the opportunity to make the most of the beautiful weather and got for a bike ride into town from our caravan park. We joined up with the O'Keefe Rail Trail and road past Lake Weeroona and onto the 'Bendigo' sign before returning via as many parks as possible, and a few caches, to be home in time for lunch. A great ride.In the afternoon we headed north out of town to pick up a few more caches. A good day!Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache GarthBane.**SKI Pair****

Found with Grubbs1337 and ITWimdy. ??A great day out with Dad and his mate.Thanks for the cache ??

Found, signed TFTC

Found and signed cheers

Very nice o love the idea of it

Great spot and nice walk.

Found it Gnome31 (Townsend family)

Great hiding spot noice walk

Cool

Nice one, thanks

On the hunt today to kill some boredom with the little geodudes. Had a lot of fun in some bush on a cloudy day. Thanks for the cool cache!

I seemed to spend as much time pushing the mtb as riding it but thankfully without further injury. Many thanks

An unusual situation for us instead of being in lovely warm Queensland we are hiding around cold old Victoria. Medical reasons and caravan repairs have us staying here and we will be looking forward to finding as many caches as possible while we are here. SL TFTC

Another short walk in forest country and a quick find here TFTC GarthBane

After a frosty start the warmth is coming back olthough it could be just the smiles I'm getting from the caches,
What a great way to have time to do these caches on way to Holbrook

Cache us all fine
Thanks

Suscoe was out and about in the Bendigo area today.
It was a delightful day, cool but sunny and it turned out to be mild by the afternoon.
We saw a terrific range of caches and countryside today.

Thanks to GarthBane for this hide, we were enjoyuing the bushland out here.

Good fine. Thanks

Thank-you

Kids had fun, even saw kangaroos!!!

Omegaman1971

Back in Bendigo with Rebel Acts for a few days of caching fun, It's great to see so many new caches around town.

The weather wasn't the kindest ,sun was absolutely baking but still had a great day of caching.

Cheers for the cache.

Found by Rebel Acts

I had been thinking about a trip to Bendigo for over a month so that I could find My centroid cache and with an event in town this weekend plans were made to do a few days caching with My good mate Omegaman1971.There are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles.

This is one of the caches found today. Loved the ones we did in the series, will target the rest on or next visit. FAV from Me.

Thanks GarthBane for the cache

So far so good

Find # 11358

In Bendigo for an appointment, after the cracking was done I was off to stretch n walk around.

Ive had my eyes on this little cluster of caches, out at Huntly, for a while now. So seeing as i was, kinda, close. I decided to tackle them this arvio. A couple of drive bys and a few walks and i had the collection sorted.

A cool little group for a pack of quick fire smileys.

A quick and simple find, once I got my bearings right, and started walking the correct way to GZ.


TFTC GarthBane

It kinda stands out. Think I managed to trap a couple of mozzies in the prison too

Nice easy find

TFTC

Nice day for a find

TFTC

Thank you for the find

Following the nearby CITO, LeeLee teamed up with OzHockeyChick, RoamingHowie, chooknchunk, Geoturtle37 and Papi4506 to pick up some caches in the nearby area.

We had a great time exploring the tracks and finding all the caches we set out to get thanks to spot on co-ords.

Short walk in and accurate co-ords made for a quick find here.

Thanks GarthBane

Another nice stroll through the open bush to this hide.
Coordinates led me straight there and the cache log was soon signed.
Grabbing a few before the cito starts at 10.
Thanks garthbane

After the tree planting CITO, Chook joined up with Geoturtle37, Papi4506, OzHockeyChick, Roaming Howie, NoWorries, nirgalagrin and Crack'n'LeeLee for a super fun afternoon of chasing caches in the backblocks and bush of the Huntly area. We remember seeing that first iconic StarWars movie when it first came out in the cinemas. Now that dates us. TFTC GarthBane.

A great group of cachers set off to find a few caches before we went our separate ways. This was a nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

I haven’t spent much time caching in Bendigo, so with a couple of events on for the weekend I decided to team up with OzHockeyChick for some caching adventures. After swagging it overnight, it was a day of tree planting and caching before heading home.

A little further down the road and we soon had this cache in hand.

Thanks GarthBane for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to find.

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A weekend road trip camping adventure with RoamingHowie, exploring the Bendigo area as well as attending a couple of events and a cito, teaming up with Papi4506 & Geoturtle37 along the way.
We were then joined by chooknchunk and Crack’n’LeeLee for a few caches in the area.

A short walk to the cache where we all made our mark.

Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, GarthBane

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Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2022?*
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Tree hole

Tftc

26/06/2022

Great find. Kids loved it

Love the theme

Thank you for the adventure. Great geocache. Search your feelings... And you will find it

6 March 2022
11:28 am
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Many thanks GarthBane for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

A nice easy find as I make my way up Everest.

A fabulous day of caching with Posums around Bendigo saw us at this cache. Phew. Found. Off to the next one. Thanks

Staying up at Castlemaine for the weekend and I mentioned to GemmaSistema that I would be staying up this way, so Gemma made a trip up to here and we met up in the morning and then spent a fantastic day around the outer suburbs of Bendigo.
Plenty of laughs, Bush tracks, a couple of Lab caches thrown in and of course lots of other caches found along the way, ending with a couple of pizzas for tea in the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens
A great day out was had.
I should say congrats on your first hide so I will, so well done but we have already found a few of yours today already so a job well done in putting the Star Wars Series out.
It brings back memories of me sitting in the isle of the very full hall in cowes watching the first one in the 70’s.
I dropped a TB off that I have had for aw hile.

Thanks GathBane TFTC.

Quick grab in a beautiful setting. TFTC

After a quick stroll in the bush we found ‘hope’ thank you

T. F. T. C. A quick find while out with hubby and Aussie Fun Seakers.

A quick find with little blue wren.
Another good hide in the bush
Signed log and replaced where found TFTC

Another good riding destination. Thanks

Out for a ride today to find some geocaches

Thanks for a great cache

Very good nice camouflage found it after about 10 minutes!

TFTC! Nice and easy one for the kids ️

TFTC

Out for a drive today and we had a few caches to tick off in the area. TFTC

Ahh, thats more my style, a nice little walk and a nice easy find. Thanks

GPS was a bit off today but saw a promising location, Geokids found it almost instantly! last one for today TFTC!

Thanks for the cache a easy find,log signed @3:15 and returned to where found

Thanks for the cache! No pencil or pen so bring your own

Returning to familiar territory to fill the calendar.
TFTC SL

TFTC had fun

Came out today to explore a new area this was first on my list after searching a few possibilities was able to find and sign

Thanks for placing the cache

Out and about before lockdown kicked in with LittleBoss2.
This was an easy find on a tough track to manoeuvre.
We, I mean I, bottomed out getting onto this track, but all good.
Thanks again Garthbane

Being in the area arfter checking out the bat cave we decided to pick up a few here. As long as the rain holds out.
Tftc

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Out for a FTF so we thought we better grab a couple more close caches

Another walk to find the NEW HOPE one. The May wattles are coming into flower which always help add some colour to this Bushland area. SL at 10.52am Left: a monster from deep dark space! #7943 TFTC GarthBane- now to find the third in this series.

2nd find for the day. Decided to go for a nice walked. Enjoyed walking through the bushy area.

Nice little hiding spot. Loved all the tazos remind me of my younger years begging my parents to by chips so I could get them all!

Took the trackable.

Thanks for a great hide

14:15
What better way to learn about local history and happenings than spending a day around the Whipstick and Box Iron Bark forest areas north of Bendigo finding geocaches such as this.
Yes the force was with us and we made a quick find, of a very well stocked cache.

Discovered TB: DQRXQY 'Cockatoo Travel Bug' resting up for action.

Thanks GarthBane for placing interesting caches on the gameboard.
29321

Found with Claybol as we knocked off a few Huntly caches together. Thanks to the CO for keeping the game alive.

The last find for the day before heading back home. A quick find TFTC

Find #2484 for me. Found with jtnsilo at 12:45 pm. Again my daughter remained in the car when we set out on the short walk to the cache, and again my daughter missed out on another well-stocked container - the kind of one she normally loves to find. Pity. All was in excellent condition. Thanks for another fun cache GarthBane!

Exciting thank you. It was our first find for our family.

TFTC.

Another nice quick and easy find on a pleasant afternoon stroll around the area.
TFTC

Great hiding spot obvious but not

Great place to hid, took me a bit
Leaving some Star Wars stuff for others

Gorgeous area. Thank you for bringing us here.

Nearly devoured by March flies finding this cache!!!! And we were being watched!

Found with Cardiackelli. TFTC

Dropping off a traceable I found on my travels today

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 40.355 E 144° 20.439

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 40.357 E 144° 20.447

Distance from original: 40.9 feet or 12.5 meters.

Have updated co-ord after feedback, sorry everyone

Found this small cache at 3:14 pm. Enjoyed the walk in the bush. TFTC although I am not a fan of Star Wars. The coordinations were a bit out. TFTC

mine and tytaylor19s first cache in a while!! looked around for afew minutes as the cache wasnt on coords - though it might have just been the bad service. but ty found it and it was super nice and neat. tftc!

TFTC this is a pleasant cache in a nice area. Me and catherinec19 had a blast finding this and hope to find more in future

I found myself going around in circles a bit here as my gps was jumping about so I used my geosenses to find the cache. A nice sized container with lots of swaps. Thanks again GarthBane, I totally enjoyed my geocaching adventure today.

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