Pioneer History Broadford, Victoria, Australia
By st3phi3_91 on 04-Jun-23. Waypoint GCA9JJH

Found it

Good spot on my way through B town

Found itnice bit of history in this location TFTC

It took a couple of minutes of hunting before we located this cache. The posted coordinates had us on a grassed area. So we ad to widen the search area and only then was the cache located. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks st3phi3_91 for the cache.

Trying to keep up with the Jones in the Cosmic Quest, while also trying to fill in calendar days. Many thanks st3phi3_91 for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.Greetings from Tatura, Australia

In looking for caches I could head towards to add to the Cosmic challenge I discovered that Id failed to log the caches Id found around the Broadford area This was one of them TFTC st3phi3

Nice, easy find at an interesting spot. All in good condition. TFTC

Driving home from a weekend visiting friends and collecting caches along the way. Tftc Sorry for the late log.

Interesting spot thanks for bringing us here. TFTC.

Had a lovely wander around the historical buildings. *The generic bit*We took our new geo-vehicle on an overnight trip and did some caching on the way home. Although the weather was a bit cold and miserable to start with, once the sun cam out it was a pleasant day for a drive. We found a good assortment of caches, completed a few adventure labs and learnt a thing or two along the way. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches.

This was another quick find almost as soon as we got to GZ I spotted somethings that didn't belong and sure enough uncovered the cache. While gnome5580 was signing the log I noticed about half a dozen paper wasps checking out the gutter just above the cache, here's hoping they're not thinking of making a new home here! TFTC!!

Thanks for the find

Found it with rex46 on a cool morning

With Dot558 on way home after a great 3 days at Tungamah camping and timed for a stop on way home and able to get some smilesThanks fir the caches

We were driving down the Hume after an amazing holiday at the Canberra Geobash and Sydney/Blue Mountains, and stopped in to Broadford to honour a promise of ice cream. Geo partner was terribly interested in the big round thing across the way, so I pondered the existance of any nearby caches. Oooo... 47m! Yes please. A lovely quick find tonround off our Nroadford trip. TFTC

Well after my two weeks away to Tasmania, then to SA for the Leap Year Mega then a couple of weeks at home then off to Canberra for the OZ Mega.It's back to streak time again.Im now back at home so it is back to suburban or rural caches after work to try and beat my last streak of 67.It is just a personal challenge that Im working on.So it is now decision time to either take a small detour on the way home or a larger detour on the way home to find a cache to keep this going.So todays detour is up the Hume to this one.I have not been to Broadford that often but I cant recall who many times I have driven past the turn off.I might have to come back and have a closer look at this area as it looks very interesting with all of the history.But today was only cache related so it was a quick in and out.Found somewhere to park and I soon found, signed and returned the cache.Thanks st3phi3_91 TFTC.

Found at 1:36 PM GAFF1.A very nice quite time today which meant that we could concentrate on the cache hide that we were able to spot from a distance.Appreciated the information about the pioneer "village" - just fascinating to us.Thanks to st3phi3_91

Tftc cords on my phone 4 metres off.

Thanks DP 5/4/24

Quick park and grab.Thanks for the cache st3phi3_91

Found with Moonb1 Thanks for the cache st3phi3_91 .

Quick find. Cool buildings

#5455 Mr BGF and the geohounds have headed into town to pick up two essential supplies for camp, you guessed it, water and beer. Before doing that we grabbed a few caches including this one. Nice set up showing the local key buildings of yesteryear. Enjoyed a squiz of the area. TFTC!

Thanks for showcasing this little historic area.Found on the way to the Canberra mega

Found it, nice one. Interesting buildings to explore

The Adelaide Leap Day Mega and Canberra Geobash gave us a great excuse for a road trip. This trip has shown us so many new and interesting places as weve chased LGAs, oldies, challenges, interesting D/T combinations, rarer cache types and favourites.Meeting up with friends old and new along the way, we sometimes cached together and sometimes alone but always had a great time. Today we made our way across from Avoca to Broadford, stopping at anything that caught our eye along the way. These turned out to be all wonderful caches. After setting up camp in Broadford, we walked through town collecting any caches we passed along the way.Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this cache and adding to our enjoyment.

Great location for a cache

Day off today so we thought wed head out for the day & gather some smiles. No one about here today. Quick find. TFTC

Added this cache to the list to find, along with ilook4geo. Just picking up a few caches around the area. Signed the log and headed off again. Thanks for this cache placement go to st3phi3_91.

Came along with goingplaces2 and found this one easily. Signed log and replaced all as found. TFTC.

Found on a typical Summer day with MrsRoosta. On our way south with a fquick stopover.Dropped in here on our way out of town while it was quiet.Thanks for the cache st3phi3_91, ***Roostaman***

TFTC Broadford is a pretty town

Found on a short Vic trip with Roostaman. Thanks for placing and maintaining all the caches for all of us to find, st3phi3_91, ***MrsRoosta***

Great set of buildings. Enjoyed a refreshing lunch at the pub opposite.

There was so much to see here for *Filser1* and me that we almost forgot about the cache. Almost!T4TC

TEMBO! and I visited the cache "Pioneer History". We enjoyed the location and signed the guestbook.Thanks to st3phi3_91 for hiding and maintaining the cache.T4TC Filser1

No one around here on a Monday morning. Interesting bunch of buildings. TFTC

Back in the area for a Parkrun, so time to tick off the new caches that have been added since our last visit Nice easy find tftc

Before heading to Melbourne found this one Greetings from Belgium

TFTC! 5 January 2024 1:10:45pm 7063Thanks for the quick find

Find number 12787 at 1:31:42pm on Thursday the 4 January 2024Travelling from Goughs Bay to Wodonga today on a round about route to grab some targetted geocaches before I head back to Melbourne tomorrow also grabbing a few targetted geocaches along the way. Staying overnight with muggle friends to explain why it takes us sooooooo long to travel anywhere Dropped into Broadford for a couple if "First Hide" geocaches and lunch. Found this one nice and easy. Keep up the great work **Thanks for placing this cache st3phi3_91**---Don't miss finishing the Ballarat GeoTour before it ends on 4th March 2024. A list of the geocaches can be found [here](https://coord.info/BM9GWJ5). The final GeoTour Event is the [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) on the 18th February 2024!You can also get prepared for the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards by checking out our preliminary lists [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/).

13:00Massively SideTracked with n0w0rries before this afternoon's predicted rain storms.After a quick find in Tallarook, we headed down the road for a few caches in Broadford. This was the second stop, involving a short but successful search.Thanks, st3phi3_91.#8143

An added adventure whilst grabbing the SideTracked Series caches along the Hume Highway. I loved all the old buildings here. Thank you for placing this cache and highlighting the area.

Found on the way from Canberra via Albury to the Ballarat GeoTour. Quick find at GZ, I've never seen this type of container before from this brand, awesome! Having lunch at the only bakery open in town before heading to the Ring Road. TFTC!

Caching from ACT to WA via Ballarat to finish the geotour. TFTC. Nice quick find.

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 9 - Canberra, Capital Territory - Yass, New South Wels - Ballarat, Victoria - 820 kmDnes m ekal prvn dlouh pejezd z hlavnho msta Canberra pes Yass v New South Wels a do Ballaratu ve stt Victoria. Celkem jsem ujela 820 km a cel den pralo slunko tak, e jsem se opalovala i v aut. Kekm jsem se tedy moc nevnovala, ale pr jsem pece jen odlovila. Zejmna z nejstar keky (10/2000) ve stt Victoria mm radost a byly tam krsn vhledy do dol. Keky na dlninch odpovadlech jsem vzdala po tetm pokusu, bu tam bylo stran moc lid nebo byla ke nkde v bordelu a pavuinch s pavouky a ty jsou tady jedovat, tak jsem tam nelezla.Za to dlnice jsem si uila dost. Jsou sice vtinou zadarmo, ale stav vozovky nic moc a nejvy povolen rychlost je 110 km/hod. Udret 110 na 700 kilometrech bylo nron a vichni jedou mezi 100 a 110, take se vlastn inou dva trdly dlnic jedouc v podstat stejnou rychlost. A docela ji dodruj, take pedjet nkoho znamen jet o 1 km/hod rychleji ne on a to je jak pedjdjc se kamiony u ns. Prost vedle toho auta jede 5 minut a pak ho konen pedjede. Peklo.Veer jsem si jet odlovila dal starou ke 06/2001 blzko Ballaratu, kde strvm tdr den. A konen jsem se zde setkala face to face s ivm menm klokanem, ale svia mi rychle zdrhl do lesa, tak nemm ani fotku. Ztra rno mm vnon sndani s mstnmi kaery, tak se docela tm. Jsem po t dnen cest dost unaven, tak asi brzy zalehnu.I drive today a long way from Canberra through Yass to Ballarat in Victoria. Together 820 km and was hot and very sunny. I found some caches on the way like this one. Late afternoon I make a short detour and found the oldest cache in Victoria with fantastic view to the valley. In the evening I arrived to Ballarat and stopped at another old one (Medievil) and saw my first live small cangaroo there. So I spend a nice day. Thanks for all caches and greetings from Czech republic.

Omegaman1971Support Your Local Villain Live - Laugh - Lurk Caches Found: 12917First To Find: 149Sidetracked Cache Finds: 111I was out with Rebel Acts, putting some smiles on the map and having our final catch-up before Christmas. It was nice to revisit an area we hadn't been to in a while.Thank you for the cache!"

Out and about with My good caching mate Omegaman1971, there are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles.This is one of the caches found today.Thanks st3phi3_91 for the cache.

Quick grab and go TFTC.

Found on a day out trying to get some numbers toward the current souvenir. TN, left a pathtag. TFTC

Cache returned to original site with new log

Took a bit to find this one, and when opening the cache it was very wet and sodden. I couldnt even write my name so I wrote my initials as best as i could

Found it...was on grass and wet inside. Put under cover tftc

Another quick find, TFTC

Found by Aussie Train Driver 07/11/2023, find number 1726.Catching up on some belated logging today.This was a quick find with my Geo-Toddler whilst driving home from Beechworth. Great spot for a cache and to stretch the legs. TFTC!

Continuing my loop walk, passed through this pioneer site and quietly found the cache.

Date: October 21, 2023 Time: 12:21 PMFind #14253After completing Puka parkrun, I headed slowly home, picking up a few caches along the way.Massive thanks go to st3phi3_91 for placing this one.

Had us for a minute but found and logged..spot was sharing a spot with a little spider that gave us a fright ..Tftc

TFTC

TFTC found with GeoMazeRunners

Log checked on Maintenance run. Clean and dry, log has plenty of space.

Found it tftc

Ballarat Geo-Tour Trip

Day #1 of 4 (15/9)
What a trip! 10 hours of travel while finding the occasion Geocache along the way. Before you ask, yes I did plan a trail which included 12 caches. These caches focused on collecting as many LGA’s as I could. I also made sure to find: GC7A, because I have never found a cache that was hidden in 2000 before. All caches were quick finds and were fun. When I got into Ballarat I found a letterbox cache near my motel before getting dinner. TB visit. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches of the caches I found today and for allowing them to bring me and others enjoyment. TFTC’s

While traveling south to Ballarat, I stopped off here to find this cache. A nice quick find at GZ and now off to the next one.

A whole four day trip with Aquilus1 to do the GeoTour in Ballarat some caching around Geelong and anything else that looked good on the way.
Weather was ok albeit a bit on the wet side for the first two days. Now on day 3 the weather is bice and sunny and we are pressing on with the last few Geotour caches on the way out and driving towards Queenscliff.
This cache was one of the ones we had the oportunity to do.
A stop for the night in Broadford and doing the locsl caches after dinner in the dark.

Thank you st3phi3_91 for the nice cache and experience you gave us!

This cache was one found on a trip away with Flintstone's for 4 days. We had the Geotour in Ballarat as our target, and made our way as far as Queenscliff.

Ballarat caching was a joy, and with the tour, we saw many lovely and interesting locations as well as stopping for many other caches as we passed. Lots of little walks helped with the colder first few days as well as being quite scenic.

A change of weather and scenery towards Queenscliff but the coast was a great place to visit with plenty to do and see. As always, more to do than there was time for, will just have to return one day! Thank you for your cache!

After the event and dinner, walked across to this cool cache. Nice spot and cache found after a short search.

Nice find????

Nice little find

Great little spot, smaller than expected very cute

Found by Mary and David at 16:01. We have been past here so many times over the years, but have never realy explored it. Found it after a brief search. A FP for bringing us here. Our thanks to st3phi3_91.

Cute little spot

Nice little spot

I Love where this cache is hidden, this is a beautiful historic spot! We saw a little painted rock on the way in. And enjoyed seeing the old buildings.
This geocache is quite a close neighbour to my hide just down the same road as well! I’ve awarded a favourite point.

Found at 12.30pm. We decided for a walk around Broadford today and started near the PO.
This was our last stop on our 8km walk with our dog, after lunch at a nearby cafe.
Have found a cache in this area before, many years ago.
Thanks
K&M

Cache remains in correct location, log dry.

We have passed these Pioneer History buildings a few times in the past, but today we stopped to study them closer. SL at 3pm Left: Christmas in July pathtag. It seems we are following Riddell today. #10049 TFTC st3phi3_91

Nice quick and easy find on a pleasant afternoon visit to the historic park.
TFTC

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I liked finding this geocache today.
Thanks for hiding the cache for us to find.

Found with Cassy182 after an amazing birthday lunch at the pub accross the road. Loved the history here. TFTC

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14 today.
A nice easy find in an interesting spot.
Thanks for the hide.

A nice quick find today.
A break in the rain as we made our way home from the North East.
Thanks for highlighting this spot for a cache.
Would make a good adventure lab location too.

Out for a Birthday lunch at the nearby pub, stopped in for some Geocaching on the way home. TFTC

Dropped by for a bit of lunch and a leg stretch. Interesting set of buildings. Thanks for the cache.

Easy one. Interesting cottages: David

TFTC a nice hide. Signed and returned.

Sneaky hide

Staying around the area for my wife’s birthday. Today was a lovely day for a drive, with the main goal being to visit Victoria’s first cache.

We decided to grab a few more convenient caches on our drive back to the accomodation. Thanks St3phi3_91 for placing this cache and bringing us to this spot to learn about the local history.

What are good history in this town? Thank you for bringing this year. Nice good find.

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{FTF} I always thought about placing a cache here given the history of the place. Great location and history of the area. I was travelling to work and had to claim the FTF given I live sort of close by. Close enough to get this one anyway. Thanks for the cache St3phi3_91

Nice find for the kids in the dark. They loved using their new torches for the hunt ️