Street Library - The very public library Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
By Jamin Appleford on 09-Aug-22. Waypoint GC9Y9EV

After a week in Victoria riding the rail trails and grabbing caches im starting back home today. This was my first cache of the day. An easy find after spending the night at the Wenhams camp ground in Warby Ovens National Park. I love checking out the books in street libraries. Theres usually at least one interesting book there. Thanks. #1815

I came armed with some recently read books to share with the community library. After thoroughly looking through each of the book titles it was decided that it was a bit too full to add any more books. Fortunately I spied the well disguised cache, completed the signing duties and returned everything back in place. Great little community library.Thanks Jamin Appleford for an enjoyable cache.

Found with Bullash on 7 March 2024

Nicely hidden. TFTC Jamin Appleford

Was it missing?

With a morning free, it was time to head to Wang to grab a few caches. I love the concept of the street library. I may have swapped a book or two. Thanks Jamin, cache found,logbook signed and returned as found

Found on a typical Summer day with MrsRoosta. On our way south with a few days stopover.Even more evil than the other library nearby. Thanks for the cache Jamin Appleford, ***Roostaman***

Found on a short Vic trip with Roostaman. Thanks for placing and maintaining all the caches for all of us to find, Jamin Appleford, ***MrsRoosta***

On our numerous current trips backwards and forwards to Tumut we decided that short breaks in Wangaratta to search for a few caches would be a good way to break the journey.There were some new ones as well as a number we did not have time to look for at the Mega.Always a great place to visit.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Jamin Appleford.**SKI Pair****

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A very public GZ indeed, however not too bad at 8pm.I'm happy to say that I had a hunch and it paid off - finding the cache quite quickly.Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Jamin Appleford.

This weekend was out annual Christmas do at Bonnie Doon, this meant I could escape over to Wangarratta to find a few caches, I had seen the puzzles published and as many know I like to keep up with solving new puzzles, thankfully I had them all solved so they were My main target today. I was lucky enough to get help from an old friend who was local to the area and owned a large ladder, we had a great time catching up and just sharing the ups and downs of life.This is one of the caches found today. The weather was just perfect. A quick find here.Some interesting stats, out of the 27 caches found there were 17 Micros, 5 smalls, 3 others (that were really micro) and 2 virtual's. There were plenty of spots that would have taken a regular or a large but none were found today.Thanks Jamin Appleford for the cache.

Out and about around Wangaratta, with our caching companions Suscoe, on our last day for this trip. We found a variety of interesting caches, home is a little too far away to borrow a book but we love the idea. Clever placement gets a FP from us.Thanks to Jamin Appleford for hiding so many interesting caches. 36192

I enjoyed your last library cache so much that I thought I better stop to try and find this one. .not as much as a mind bender as the last but still fun.

Decided to get out an about to start geocaching again as I havent done it in years!!! My 12 year old tow and came across this one, had to prompt her to think outside the box, but we can away with a find!!

Good

Good one! Very sneaky and unique. TFTC!

Great little hiding spot

Found the sneaky hide with jackez74 TFTC

This is the first street library I have discovered a geo cache. Found with Bucrog52.
It was a great hide. TFTC

Devious spot inside this mini library l. Gets my heart for such a clever idea.

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Staying an extra night at our shack in Punkah with middle child and Roxy dog whilst hubby and the two other kids went home today. We decided to tackle some HSS series and caches in Wang.

We must have had cache blindness here for a good 10 mins driving around trying to work out where it was. We parked the car and started walking. Don’t know how we could have missed that. I guess it the end of a very long day/night of caching. We are cold and tired ready to go back to our shack in Punkah.

Nicely hidden logbook here.
We found a funny book inside that gave us a giggle.

Thank you for the cache here Jamin Appleford

We are on our next geo adventure - Rutherglen Mega. NZ_B, the Seagnoid and I are here from NZ. Today is Day 7 and while the events have all finished, we had more Rutherglen caching to do. Today we finished the Wherigos - an achievement in itself! Then we headed south to finish the letterboxes for Ned Kelly, then the Seagnoid realised he needed an other and multi today. So two more stops including this cache before we can head home. Logs are being signed as NZBITS for NZ_B, Itchyfeet2020 and The Seagnoid. TFTC we loved it. A FAV.

Another big day to complete the Wherigo series near Rutherglen, which we did earlier than expected. Since we had time on our hands we completed the Ned Kelly letterbox series. On the way back we looked for an ‘other’ sized cache for the Seagnoid. This one was perfect. And what a great hide. Favourite given.

Found with Itchyfeet2020 and the Seagnoid -all physical logs signed as NZBITS. We are one group of several kiwis over here for the Rutherglen Mega at Easter. It’s going to great with so many sessions of things I want to learn about. PLUS so many caches to find.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Jamin Appleford.

Heading back to Rutherglen after completing Ned Kelly's helmet. Today is a multi and a size "other" dot day, so I was scouting the map and decided we should do a quick stop here.

What a nicely done hide!! Well done. Gets a fave.
And nice to see a cache correctly sized. In NZ there are so many micros sized as other, and so many others sized as micro.

Found during an awesome 10 day Aussie trip, centered around the Rutherglen Mega event. Log signed as NZBITS, for NZ_B, Itchyfeet2020 and the Seagnoid.

Found with PapaGrouch. Another street library and another interesting way of hiding a cache in one. These libraries seem to be coming more common, and always seem to be a good place to hide a geocache as well. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC

Sneaky sneaky! Found after a frustrating couple minutes, left a book and took one. TFTC

A very clever hide found with little blue wren on our way to Chiltern
A favourite point from me
Signed log and replaced where found TFTC

A very smart cache Found with Aussie fun seakers. You can have a favoutite from me.

A quick find this time round. Out finding a few caches to get us closer to our 1000 milestone during the Mega at Easter. TFTC

A quick park and grab. After looking at few spots and the contents I finally spotted something a little different and there it was. Thanks to Jamin Appleford for the cache.

Very public! Not bad books.

Log signed as Ellie.

My mental health isn’t the best so I’m spending some quality time geocaching!

TFTC. Hopefully I didn’t wake anyone up as I was here at 10:50pm!

No ants to be seen today.
Log sheet had to be replaced though as it was missing.

My daughter and I searched high and low yesterday but came up empty handed. We donated a book to the library and vowed to return another day! Came back today (with an extra hint and some help) and were finally successful! Log signed and replaced exactly as found. Such a sneaky hide, thanks so much for the fun!

forgot pen so couldnt log- seemed to be an ant nest in there not sure who deals with that, might swing by with some bug spray

Needed at least one cache today for my stats so I came into town, did a couple of adventure labs and this cache as well.
Thanks Jamin

On our way to the Warby's, in pursuit of some waterfall caches, thought we would visit the street libraries around town before heading out...
Clever hide here, lots of muggles about, TFTC Jamin

Couldn't find the cache but the local ants have taken over.

TFTC. Last day in Wangaratta before heading back to our base in Maryborough Victoria. We have had a great time on the North East although it got a bit wet. Now to clear out our cabin before we head back North.

I looked for a good 10minutes and was so upset that I couldn’t find it… so I took a book and hysterically laughed. That’s sneaky TFTC

We did a late night detour after returning to the Showgrounds for an after tea bushwalking safety briefing for all the bush walks occurring around Wangaratta this weekend.
Arranged and hosted by the local Bushwalking clubs for all the other Victorian Bushwalking Clubs and supported by Bushwalking Victoria.

TFTC which was a very nice quick little pick up, nicely concealed, within! TFTC

Thanks to Jamin Appleford for placing this cache at this library.
These are great community resources.
So pleased to see them well stocked.

On the way to work in the rain . All good here. TFTC

Quick find with the kids on the way home from school. We often stop here to check out the books so a cache was an added bonus. TFTC

Got notified last week that the power was going out at the office which meant the server would not be available. Outcome would be a frustrating day with jo work done do I made the call and had a flex. Meant I had a day free so why not go caching. With all the love at Rutherglen lately poor old Wangaratta is not being visited much. Many caches today hadn’t been logged since January (which was a tad painful as many past logs were generic Megs ones). Original intention was to use the locationless cache to boost my best day to 8 (plus AdLabs) but the plan was foiled by flooding - didn’t realise how many caches would be inaccessible (too many to log). In the end I did end up at Rutherglen to get a few different types but will save the bonus cache for another day (no Earthcaches available to collect). However did find all 33 (plus 5 AdLab points) that I actually looked for – but a lot more I didn’t try as access was blocked by water.

Rhys is one of the new caches in town. A quick find here though I looked too far left initially.
TFTC Jamin Appleford

A weekend in Wang. We went for a beautiful morning walk in the sunshine and discovered this cache at 9:40am with Harrowang. Signed log and checked out the lineup! These little libraries are a great inovation. TFTC

A short walk in the sunshine with MarknDee, saw us arrive at the Street Library. We had come prepared to do a book swap AND find a cache. We were successful on both counts. SL at 9.38am and wandered back home again. #9001 TFTC Jamin

#19520. Out and about with Robmc this morning doing a few chores and gathering a few caches. A really nice idea for the town and for a series. All quiet and I was surprised to see that we were 2TF after a week. All the bookworm cachers must be staying warm and cosy inside.

Thanks Jamin Appleford

A day for some library visits with BettyBoo3747.
Didn't find anything to read, but it was interesting to see the setups around the area.
This was our first. I drove past this one doing some maintenance the other day!
I didn't even notice it just around the corner.
Interesting hide, not what I was expecting.
Thanks, Robmc.

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Sitting 300m away and saw the notification. Ran up, signed log, ran back. Phew! A FTF!!
Thanks for this little series. Great idea. TFTC.
Can I get the next one….!? SL at 9.40am.