The Gardens St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By FUF009 on 09-Apr-22. Waypoint GC9R14M

Just me luck !!A bus load of muggles had turned up !!Between their comings and goings,I managed to spy a likely hiding spot,and like a geo-ninja ... struck Wrong spot A bit more ninjaing later,and I had the prized cache in paw TFTC in a muggle filled time and place.

Its taken me a few tries of searching but I found it! Its not at the exact coordinates TFTC

A bit rocky, reach in. Thanks

Ive tried to find this one three times now and just look silly haha Ill find it eventually.

That was a lil tricky. Cache log and hide all the well.

Difficult to spot. Gave up

Still in good condition and covered up.

Cache #32!

Found with Daniel Andrew, TFTC

Found with The X-Trailers as we had an early morning walk around town. TFTC

Day 8 of my interstate trip. Today I left Donald heading south towards Ballarat but only made it as far as Maryborogh where I set camp up for the night. I managed to find 54 caches today and 2 DNF's today.Walked passed this spot doing the Adventure Labs and said there should be a cache here and changed the app and noticed there was so had to walk back and find it.TFTC FUF009

After 5 weeks of travelling in S.A. and a weekend of fun at Lameroo, we are headed towards home via Bendigo for a party. We set up camp at Teddington Res for three nights and after a morning of FAT then we came into town for an appointment and managed to find a few caches as well. A quick find while doing the AdLab TFTC FUF009

Thanks A lovely spot for a wander

quick find first stop tftc

A quick find with no muggles around today. TFTC

Found with the use of other logs, thank you

Out for the day in the PeuGEOt with littlecogs to find some more of the myriad of Geocaches in and around the pretty town of St Arnaud.Very quick find by little littlecogsTFTC

What a beautiful garden tyftc

This one took a while but seemed quite obvious once we found it. Thanks

Honed in on this one whilst getting to various stages of various AdLabs around town. Logical hiding place. Take a seat. Nice and shady in the summer I reckon. Thanks FUF009 for this one.

Had a pleasant stroll through the gardens to GZ.Mr Beetle worked out where this one would be but I retrieved it.There was one very interesting tree in this garden that we noticed as nearing the gardens. Foliage on top and the bottom but bare in the middle! Wonder what caused that?Thanks FUF009.

TFTC All good at GZ TNLN

Just picking up a few caches around St Arnaud while staying in the area with ilook4geo. This was an easy find and all is good with the container and log. Thanks for this cache placement go to FUF009.

Came along to find this cache with goingplaces2 and soon had the container in hand. Both names were written on the log to record our visit before all was replaced as found. TFTC.

Found with hevwalker before heading out to have a lovely meal with CO, A beautiful place to sit and relax and take in the calm waters and water fowl. TFTC.

We spent our last night in St Arnaud before returning home to SA from Canberra Capital Geobash Mega event.A lovely walk around the gardens then grabbing this well hidden cache.It was lovely to catch up with the CO for dinner at the club.TFTC FUF009

Day caching with Bogonghazy and geo dog. Thanks for placing the geocache

Found with LittleBoss2 and Geo the puppy on a day trip to St Arnaud. Quick find for us today, thanks FUF009

Found after camping out in Wellsford State Forest near Bendigo for the night and traveling westward through the towns of Tarnagulla, St Arnaud, Rupanyup, Horsham and Dimboola before stopping at Kiata Campround for our last night on the road. Dropped in at the Botanic Gardens for lunch, with the added bonus of the Lab caches and a nearby Traditional. Thanks for the cache FUF009!

We are on the way to Canberra for the MEGA Easter 2024 via Victoria. We stop for sightseeing and caches.We found this cache and signed the log.Tftc

Now we are on the way to Canberra and pick up some more caches .Found the cache with TBU1BIKESU Tftc FUF009

Our second full day at St Arnaud so with no real plans we tackled a few challenge caches, ad labs, fire track series plus many others. Impressed with all caches found today. Love the area and know now our visit here will be too short.Arrived at GZ and soon had the cache in hand - all good here.TFTC #9557

Wooomelang to St. ArnaudMoving camp today, stopping on the way to pick up caches where possible with the caravan on.This was a great way to visit the area.After setting up in the caravan park we completed a few AL & any nearby cachesEvery where seemed to lead to the gardens today.ALs, virtual & a traditional, very popular locationThanks FUF009 for hiding this cache.

Quick find in my way townBack to Nhill from bendigo!Thanks for the cache

After a bit of a hunt LumpyJ came up with the goods. Tftc

Im heading to SA to attend the Great Leap Forward mega in Adelaide. We were in St Arnaud last night and I went out to find a few caches before leaving this morning. While my muggle partner went to get some coffee's, I wandered over to find this cache and do the AdLab and Virtual. The GPS had me all over the place for this one, but finally spotted the hide

DNF for today

Found after some searching

In the late afternoon yesterday , after we had arrived in St Arnaud , and having filled the shopping requirements for our camping trip, we came to visit this Hide.Perhaps, after a day of driving, we had little patience and not enough stamina to really make a good search, so we decided to head to Camp and set up instead. Back today with fresh eyes, and we are happy to report that we have signed the log here. Beautiful gardens and history here. Thanks FUF009 Domsky

First find in hopefully a long list of finds for the day out with the kiddos, exploring the town. We normally only find one or two then kids get bored and want to go to a playground. Today we've loaded up with bribes. . . . . I mean snacks and headed out for some mummy time fun.Thanks, enjoyed an easy find to get us started.

In St Arnaud for a swim meet and thought we would look for a couple of caches . Quick toilet and coffee stop and there was a cache in the park to search for. Took a little bit of time, but with 3 of us searching, we found it!! First cache in St Arnaud!!! TFTC!!

A beautifully kept park with a well hidden cache. Even with picnicking Muggles it was easy to extract. TFTC

Came up to St Arnaud for the afternoon and enjoyed spending some time in these gardens having some lunch. Thanks for the cache.

A beautiful cooler morning today. A bit a search around a quick read if some previous cachers and then woo hoo cache in hand. Well done St Arnaud, a lovely well kept park.

Stretching my legs in the gardens during a stopover.

Found it

My phone GPS was waaaay out here but persistence paid off. Many thanks

**04/11/2023, 11:02:00****Find #5490****Traditional Find #3241**I headed out this morning to head to St Arnaud for two and a half days of caching with SteMicMitSar. A quick find here and then onto the next.**Thank-you to FUF009 for placing this geocache**

*Found on the 4 Nov 2023 @ 11:02am.**Cache find # 15225.*Out and about with biggles1024 for the weekend in St Arnaud.I meet up with Mark near this cache, we then headed over to this one, a short search and the cache was in hand.**Thanks to FUF009 for keeping the game going by placing this cache.**

Cool location, We had a pizza from a near by shop in the Gardens, and then it was time for a quick and easy Cache.Thanks **FUF009**TFTC.

memories of when I lived in this town over thirty years ago

Found on a lovely sunny day. Tftc!

TFTC! 30 September 2023 11:35:01 am 6048Thanks for the cache! All good with the cache. An easy find.

No luck with this one.

Out with sorceysal for a few days at St Arnaud. Along the way we stopped to collect a few caches to add to our finds list.Know these gardens very well after all the Saints n Sinners events here. They are still beautiful and the cache was spotted after a search.Thanks for the fun FUF009

On our way to St Arnaud for a couple of days with 6hinemoa2. Thought this would be difficult after reading some of the other logs but managed to go straight to it. Great co ords. Thanks Simon

Out with Shumba7 on the geoeuc and geoscooter getting some caches in the St Arnaud area.
A great day out and still heaps to get. TFTC.

TFTC found out and about exploring the area with Algae️. Some awesome caches out here only came across one damp log but still signable. A day trip to St Arnaud’s to grab some smilies on the geoscooter and the geoeuc, need to bring the geodogs next time.

Suscoe and Phetlern had arrived St Arnaud earlier on today for a couple of days of caching.
The weather was fine and we enjoyed wandering the area caching and in particular the Eucy Drive.
It was getting late in the day now and with a couple of caches left to find we came here to The Gardens.
The container was soon spotted by P and so we were pleased to get our names into the logbook.
Thank you FUF009 for this nice hide.

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Enjoying a couple of days in and around St Arnaud, with Suscoe, included a walk in the Gardens, not just for the cache, which we found, but also to walk among the spring color of so many flowers.

Thanks to FUF009 for adding this cache to the gameboard.
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Going to have to skip this one cause I look a bit silly… will be back

After finishing the Eucy trail we headed back into town to look for a few caches we had yet to find. This was the first on the list. Mrs y'stassie went for a little walk around the area and, while waiting for a couple of dog walking muggles to sort themselves our she pinpointed the search area. Once the muggles moved on she quickly found the container, signed the log and returned the container to its neat hide.

Thanks for this cache FUF009. After finding this cache we completed the AdLab in these lovely gardens.

Found with JelenaGreenleaf. Took a two passes but got it in the end. The logical spot is always the right spot! Tftc

Found by Aussie Train Driver 17/07/2023, find number 1706.
This one could have been a real needle in a haystack, but good coordinates and a lot of luck meant I had my name in the log book between passing muggles. This is a beautiful spot in town and well worthy of a cache. TFTC!

Spending a couple of days in town to clean up the caches and labs. TFTC

Great park
Thanks

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14.
I had such a good time finding caches today.
Thanks for hiding this one.

Found on a fantastic day out in St Arnaud.
It is always great coming up here, especially in Winter.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
It was a super fun day in St Arnaud finding geocaches!
Thanks for the hides!

Found it at 7:15 pm in the middle of the thunder storm sl thanks for the cache.

Much harder in the dark but luckily we had a torch! Lovely little park, loved seeing the ducks! TFTC!

Visiting from Ohio, USA and driving around enjoying Australia in a campervan. I always like to find the closest cache to where I sleep and this one fit the bill. Quick find in the early morning.

TFTC great hide

Just had to look in the obvious place to make the find
TFTC

We haven't been up to St Arnaud for a while, and some new caches up there have since accumulated. So a trip up was planned for today, and to top it off, the weather was absolutely perfect too. After some bush caching in the morning and lunch up at the Club, we spent the afternoon doing labs and caches around town. A nice quick find here, although it wasn't as quick to replace as a muggle walking his dog appeared, and decided it was a nice spot to stop and stand around for a couple of minutes. Eventually he moved on and we replaced the cache. TFTC FUF009.

Came back around here to the gardens after we found the railways one. Already walked around the gardens not looking if there was a cache here ….another quick find then off for another tftc

The JAMS team (JJ52 allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) were on a road trip heading to the Rutherglen Mega event (staying in Corowa) for 3 days then winding our way home via Albury, Wangaratta, Bendigo and various other places in between. It was a great week with many more caches found than we expected. There were targeted caches, challenge caches, Ad Labs, events and various others to fulfill various statistics for the four of us. We were lucky with the weather, it rained a bit on our way over on Friday, then half a day after we left Wangaratta but on the whole it was great caching weather. We did drive a few slippery muddy roads, but nothing too bad. We also caught up with lots of people either at events or out in the field and enjoyed many great chats. All in all a fun time with lots of Victoria explored and then very tired when I arrived home. [^]

We were on our way home now and stopped here in St Arnaud to stretch the legs and find a couple of virtuals. It was great to be in St Arnaud again even if only for a short while.

Always love these gardens which I have now visited a few times.

Thanks for the cache FUF009.

Stamped as JAMS - JJ52, alllister w, mogni, sir_spectre. All of these teams are from South Australia and after some major planning we managed to find approx 700 caches while being away for a week. Also qualifiied for a variety of challenges, found LGA's and had lots of laughs. Found while attending the Victorian Mega in Rutherglen.
Thanks

quick find after doing the nearby virtual and the 2 ad lab stages. Nice location. fav point
Found with JAMS (( JJ52, Allister w, Mogni, plus sir_spectre ) Mitchell&hound wasn't with us this trip) crew. All logs stamped as JAMS to save log space. This trip we are off to the Rutherglen Mega and then slowly coming back to S.A. for a total of 8 dys and 7 nights. The targets of this trip are for JJ52 to get 11 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and a few more Victorian LGA's, Allister W was targeting 17 virtuals ( or as many as he could get ) a few more Victorian LGA's Mogni to make the Rutherglen Mega her 20, 000 find and also for her to complete all Victoria LGA's, sir_spectre needs 1 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and get his Victoria LGS's down to 2 LGA's left. We got 20 or more finds in a LGA if we stayed in there over night. We also detoured to stamp any challenge caches that we were " in the general area off " and to complete that challenge before we came back to S.A. This meant that some times dirt road (s) had to be walked down because they were to wet to drive down and/or haven't been repaired since last years flooding. We started off the holiday in the rain and then that cleared up only to start raining and a overnight thunder storm but most of the trip was dry. Over 600 caches found for the trip including over 120 lab stages in that total. Got to complete the GPS Maze at the Rutherglen Mega for a 2nd time. Allister w was the team driver for all of the Victorian part of the trip. I think this was the first trip ever to Victoria that the extension pole didn't get used but the 6.2 meter ladder did get a work out.

The JAMS (JJ52, allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) go mega... We came, we cached, we laughed, we hugged and we had a great time. All caches were replaced better than found. But like all good things it must come to an end and so we started our way home, it only took 5 days....
Thanks to FUF009 from mogni

While part of the team went to do the virtual, the other went to find this one. Nice! TFTC

Couldn’t find it

Good one guys!
TFTC!

Grabbed this cache while walking around town.

Tftc.

Find # 9092
Nice quick find.

TFTC FUF009
12 April 2023 12:39

Easter in Rutherglen. This cache was found on the trip heading east.

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.

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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!

We continued today our tour in Victoria, AUS, and thereby searched, found and logged this interesting Traditional-Cache.

The weather was - said in one word – simply best. The good hidden caches and the being on holidays kept us the whole day in a good mood.

The cache had good coordinates, and thus was easy to find. The logbook was okay, and allowed easy logging.

Thanks to FUF009 for the generation of this nice cache The Gardens (with the proper agenda), for leading us here and for showing us this funny location as well as the ongoing maintenance of this cache.

PS: Please forgive us the uniform log which is needed due to timing problems - if necessary special actions and happenings are there described where they appeared.

Greetings from Germany together with the hope to meet somewhere like event or wood.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 24. März 2023 @ 13:25 o'clock @ [#20463](https://coord.info/GC9R14M)
 

Been a while since I've passed here on a walk.
A quick check tonight and all still going good.

Easy to find . Beautiful town.
TFTC

When you search were your instincts say to look last doh..

Great hide. Thank you!

We stayed over night at a dog friendly motel and walked our pooch around the gardens several times.

There was a Posums party to attend at Teddington Reservoir over the weekend and who would not want to miss that so I made my way to here yesterday and set up camp.
It has been a while since I have been up this way so it was good to be back up here.
I have never been into the Teddington Reservoir area before and the facilities were great for camping.
After a warm fun night with plenty of laughs and maybe a couple of drinks it was time to spend the day caching before heading out for tea.
After visiting a hut and then a tank, doing some pole fishing then a 4WD series, an Ad Lab grabbing some lunch, a couple of trads it was time to head to St Arnaud for tea.
Of course there is always time for one more and this was one of them.
After doing the Ad Lab in the gardens it was pointed out to us that there was a trad here as well.
A quick poke around and we soon added our names to the log.

Thanks FUF009 TFTC.


We’re all going to Rutherglen to participate in Victoria’s next Mega!
Are you coming to join in the fun?
THE
RUTHERGLEN
EVENT 2023

6th - 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria

We were in the park to complete the ad lab which OHC remembered that there was a cache somewhere nearby. Pleased that she remembered as that is one more smiley . Still got quite a few to do though so will be back again. Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

At first we thought it would take ages but it didn't take long. We stopped here for picnic lunch. Good spot. Thanks

Tftc. Nice lunch spot

Oops. Missed one.
I thought I had found everything within cooee of this park, but then FUF goes and sneaks another one out in here.
We had already walked through this park 3 times this weekend (caching from an offline list), but cat' and I hunted it out on our last day in town on our very bountiful Christmas holiday in St.Arnaud.

TFTC FUF009. We will be back.

Cache and contents in good condition. [^]

Cache found and log signed with dalerious . Visited these gardens a few times over the years. We were here again a few times whilst visiting various waypoints for adlabs and initially missed the green blurb on our screen.

Interesting writing implement found in cache; bespoke, I imagine.

Thank you FUF009 for a jam packed weekend

I do love these gardens. A lush oasis in a dry climate.
Coordinates were great leading to a quick find.
Thanks FUF009