Cache Otway Cape Otway, Victoria, Australia
By geofreak & friends on 21-Apr-03. Waypoint GCFF50

Found with Gazania Rigens and Wombatwandering, as per their logs.This did require quite a bit of ducking and diving and to-ing and fro-ing and picking up litter as we went weaving about amongst the greenery as the gps did its woodland dance thaaaang, but we spotted the cache in the end under its generous stickoflage and were very pleased to find it in excellent condition.FP awarded for this fine old cache and a bonus Koala Mum pic to give a smile too!

We drove to the Cape Otway Lighthouse as step one of our Great Ocean Road today. Zouavesauvage fantastically spotted a koala on our way in so we stopped to say hello. Turned out it was a mother and her joey. Gorgeous. Continued on for a look at the lighthouse and area. It was only $10 admission today due to an earthquake and a mercury spill. Great! Then we headed to the cache which was a bit of a battle but we got there in the end. Picked up a couple of bits of rubbish but its in any condition as described in a previous log. All was good. Found with Gazania Rigens too. Thanks for this oldie - we did a mini CITO of the cache and ditched the junk people had left in it.

TB drop because I'm a bit behind with my logging at the moment.

Found by Aussie Train Driver 15/10/2024, find number 1817.The family and I were on a day trip to visit Cape Otway and made the short walk up to find this cache. After heading off the track I spent some time looking (with plenty of hiding spots, and my GPS jumping around) but I eventually spied the cache. It was a but exposed so I left it hidden a little better. TFTC!

Bisoutje and I are on a roadtrip with a campervan between Cairns and Adelaide and have now touched ground at the Great Ocean Road. We had a great day on the road, enjoying ocean views around almost every corner. Whenever the ocean wasn't visible we turned our eyes upward to spot koalas which was spotted on our way to the lighthouse. After a short but nice hike I saw where other cachers had left to trail to find the cache. I followed in their footsteps which led me right to the cache. Couldn't be missed. The hint here is squatting down and walking .TFTC!

Sorry, your hint wasnt very good and we couldnt find it and its a bit overgrown here

The cache is hidden off track as per hint but unfortunately the off-track accesway has/is been used as a toilet by tourists/walkers and we ventured in a little way but were put off by paper and poo. Hopefully this is not usual and the next searchers won't find such a mess once some natural composting takes place.

A good way to walk off the scones. Like a previous finder I found it when I had decided to turn and head back. Thanks for the cache

Found it

Bit of bush bashing but tftc!

During our two-month trip through New Zealand and Australia, we arrived in Apollo yesterday. Today we have all day to explore the area.We visited the 'Otway Lighthouse' and went looking for this cache. This cache was found near the lookout on the lighthouse.**BernieH**, thanks for the cache.

We are currently on a eight week holiday which is mostly spent in New Zealand and Australia. However, the first three days were spent in Singapore as a nice break from an otherwise long flight. We had about three weeks in New Zealand which went by too quickly. The remaining five weeks are spent in Australia. Yesterday we drove to Apollo Bay were we will be staying for two nights. Today we walk part of The Great Ocean Walk which we enjoyed very much. Lots of wildlife, diverse landscape and amazing views. On our walk we passed this cache and naturally we had a look. The cache was quickly found without any problem. Thank you very much for this cache.

Leider musste man sehr viel im Busch herum klettern, doch am Ende wurden wir noch fndig. Thanks for the Cache.

Found It........While down in the area celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary we decided to grab this one. Once we had finished wandering around the Lighthouse we set off in search of it and after a short relaxing stroll listening to the birds it was MrH_3 who made the dive off the track where a quick search soon had him holding the cache and with the log signed we continued our journey. Thanks BernieH for the cache

Nous poursuivons notre road trip en Australie : tape du jour, de Port Fairy Apollo Bay, et quelques arrts sur de superbes spots. Log en team Mado.TFTC. Cache bien en place, trouve sans souci. Ce petit dtour nous permettra de voir un "troupeau" de kangourous.

Suite de notre priple en Australie : de Port Fairy Apollo Bay. On logue en team Mado. Merci pour la cache. Trouve assez rapidement.

A nice walk on a balmy 40 degree long weekend. Dropped a tb to continue its journey. Many thanks BernieH for providing this game piece for our enjoyment. And thanks for sharing the highlights of your region.

Searching for a while. When I decided to go back I found it. Greetings from Norway, TFTC:)

Nice. Which path? Mine was the correct one.Met some people as the recognized my geowoodstock shirt and I recognized their Chilliwack shirt.Our plan hatched months ago when we learned that the Ballarat Geotour would be ending in early March. From Sydney it was a no brainer to do both. A host of characters conspired to make plans. Including drobbonz kimmy533 Kiwisteve2 and tessa-bella. The trip morphed multiple times but Adelaide was the goal for Leap Day.I spent the last one in Las Vegas.Sydney, Ballarat, Great Ocean Road, Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, Mildura and back to Sydney. TFTC

Bushwacking for a cache

Nice hide.

Searched very carefully around for a long time, headed out of foliage and spotted tftc

After visiting the grounds kiwitrecker1 and turned our minds to locating this cache. Wouldnt have been too aware or the tracks here without going for the cache so that was a real bonus. I figured out a likely place to head toward GZ but when I got there I wasnt having any luck. Being a kiwi my mind was playing a few games relating to concerns with snakes, my sense of concern was elevated after seeing the signs on the main grounds didnt stop the search though. I kept going for a while and thought Id look at some logs. Oh great a recent cacher reported being chased out by a large brown snake! Kiwitrecker1 said lets call it, reluctantly I proceeded slowly back up the hill still really wanting the find. Then, I spotted something that looked like human intervention and yep it was the cache. Super happy to have made the find! TFTC!

Touring the GOR. We made the detour to the cape. Paying to walk to a lighthouse is not our thing so we walked in the other direction to this cache. The lookout was underwhelming. A bit of a bush bash and the cache was found. TFTC

Cache Otway was transferred from Cache Guardians to user BernieH

Went for a walk to see the light house form a distanceBit off track but easy findTFTC!

Huge brown snake chased us out of the location. Scary. And had no idea where this cache was.

Had fun walking to this one. We were worried that we went too far. We finally came up with the find. I got it out with Wisewarrior and Littlehawk. TFTC

I have had my eyes on this cache for quite a while, being the furthest south cache in Victoria other than wilsons prom. Thank you for the cache, though a recent log helped me find it.Pika 18/11/23

Found it on our trip along Great Ocean Road. TFTC

TFTC With my mother Titinne13 and my father Phiphi13 who came to visit me in Australia

TFTC During a long trip to Australia with Phiphi13 and BastienMt

Mplc Lors d'un grand voyage en Australie en compagnie Titinne13 et BastienMtTroisime partie : VictoriaAprs une premire partie dans le Queensland et une seconde partie en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, nous arrivons dans l'tat de VictoriaNous visiterons, Melbourne, Geelong, nous ferons une petite partie de la Great Ocean Road jusqu'aux 12 apotres, et nous n'oublierons pas d'aller Broadford pour la Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st) et la Murchison Hill Lookout.Merci aux diffrents poseurs locaux pour leurs diverses caches, les mystres rsolues aprs plusieurs mois de cogitation, les tradi, les wig, les multi, les labs nous avons termin les journes sur les rotules mais le jeu en valait la chandelle ... Tftc During a big trip to Australia with Titinne13 and BastienMtPart Three: VictoriaAfter a first part in Queensland and a second part in New South Wales, we arrive in the state of Victoria We will visit Melbourne, Geelong, we will do a small part of the Great Ocean Road up to the 12 apostles, and we will not forget to go to Broadford for Victoria's 1st (Melbourne's 1st) and Murchison Hill Lookout .Thanks to the different local owners for their various caches, the mysteries solved after several months of thinking, the tradi, the wig, the multi, the labs we ended the days on the knees but the game is worth the candle ...=> Cache Otway We are so happy to discover this old box dating from April 21, 2003 and which will serve us for the Jasmer challengeThank you for putting this box and discovering these places...A big thank you to geofreak & friends Cache Guardians #7451

Long way off track through dense bush.

On my roundtrip along Australia with Oopie we are douing always some caches.Today we ware on the way on the great ocean route and we did a few nice caches.All COs thanks for bringing us on this nice places and making this caches.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. Started on the 17th September in Cairns. Our plan is driving.along the eastcoast down. Then in the south on to Adelaide and from there ending the 31th October in Alice Springs.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case Cache Guardians, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

Probably no need for this one to be quite as far off the track as it was. Unpleasant and overgrown scramble to get down to GZ which had any number of possible locations. Was about to give up as the mozzies had found me and when I turned to work out my way back to the path there the cache was, just up the hill from the GPS's stubborn location 5 metres further in than I needed to go. Quickly signed log & left.

Gave it a look but back off after a bit as it felt wrong doing this much bushing wacking and as a bigger person disrupting the the area. Maybe I was just in the wrong location

TFTC anyway

Tftcnice day for a walk lighthouse was a great visit and scones were delicious

Found this cache on an afternoon walk. A little bit of crawling through the bushes, kind of a strange place, but we found it. I wonder how accessible this cache is in summer? However, nice cache, we walked a little further, well worth it! Tftc!

Thank you!

Found while viviting from Germany, tftc!!!!

A bit wet bur not busy today.
TFTC
Oppigeo

Hello Cache Guardians thank you for the cache

found easily.
Finding my back out was a chalange.

This was one of many caches found on our way back home from Newcastle seeing our grand children.

Found on Saturday, 27 May 2023 at 1026

**TFTC**

Woo-hoo My 3500 cache find at a brilliant location.
TFTC and FP.

Tftc

Climbed up climb down climbed up climbed down again. TFTH

Thanks for the cache!! Easy walk, all in good working order

From Sunday 16 April 2023 to Sunday 23 April 2023, I and J plus the little one spent 8 days in the school holiday trip to the State of Victoria. We visited the Melbourne, Phillip Island, Great Ocean Road, etc. We planned to find some caches on the way, including traditional cache, multi-cache, mystery cache, virtual cache, Wherigo cache, EarthCache, Adventure Lab cache, and we found over 70 caches for this trip. We enjoyed the holiday!
This cache was the seventh find on Day 7, also the 59th find for the whole trip.
Cape Otway Lighthouse is just our second priority, but since we are ahead of the schedule, we had a go.
To visit the Cape Otway Lighthouse requires ticket, but the Cape Otway Lookout is free. We walked there, took a photo (attached). Also attached a photo for the trail while approaching GZ.
Cache has been found not far from the lookout. The way out is much easier than the way in.
Good sized cache container. Took nothing, left nothing. Signed the log book. TBs visited.
Thanks for the cache, Cache Guardians. Greetings from Adelaide, SA.

PS: I just realised yesterday was this cache's 20th birthday! Long live the cache!

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Today we were driving along the Great Ocean Road and made a detour to the Cape Otwin Lighthouse. After visiting the Lighthouse we went for a short walk to this cache. As I had seen a sign "Beware of snakes" near the Lighthouse I was quiet unsure, if i should try to get this cache. But in the end i decided to go for it and was rewarded with a new log in this nice cache.

Thanks for the cache and regards from Switzerland.

I found this as a part of my trek along the Great Ocean Walk. After setting up at camp, I walked to the lookout. I entered the scrub and went down, following the directions from the app and looking for what matched the hint. After a few minutes of searching, I gave up and returned to the path when I saw the giveaway pile of sticks. I had no pen, so I took some photos, but then I decided to return later and complete the signing duties.

Day 3 of our hike along the Great Ocean Road. This was on our way to the GOW campground. We passed it initially and xrocketx found it without a pen, however later that evening after we were rested we retrieved a pen from the pack and made the short (although it feels much longer) trek back to make the find again and this time get the ink to the paper. With business completed it was replaced and back to base camp for the night.

Crawling through the undergrowth, ahah there you are spos. Thankyou.

Didnt find, hard, ran out of time

Uih, Thank for

Found with lillymari. Logged as minimixb. Tftc:)

lindahe took one for the team as I'm scared of all things bugs and creepy crawlies. After a bit she gladly announced she'd made the find Logged as minimixb to save time and space. Tftc and greetings from Norway

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 geofreak & friends for the generation of this nice cache Cache Otway (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 @ 20. März 2023 @ 10:50 o'clock @ [#20400](https://coord.info/GCFF50)
 

Bit of a bush bash tftc

Bit of a bush bash. Horrible windy day TFTC

Day 15 of our Australia Tour 2023, which we spent in the Cape Otway area.

Thanks!

TB visit

**Wat is het leven toch mooi **

Another day on the Great Ocean Road.

Our campervan broke down....now waiting for an other campervan. We stayed in Marengo and we did there 2 caches.
When we receivend our other campervan, we continued our tour on the Great Ocean Road.
We did some several nice caches, and some we give a favorite point.


We often log with our initals TGM (Team_Geo-Meijer)

Greetings from the Netherlands.


We also found this old geocache. It was very good hidding in the bush.
Thanks for maintaining.

Cache Guardians hartelijk dank voor het leggen en onderhouden van deze cache.

Groetjes,
Team Geo Meijer (TGM)

Dit was onze: 16531 gevonden cache
Vandaag ( 03-03-2023 ) hebben we 2 caches gevonden

A bit of bush bashing by geo hubby. TFTC

Great time in Australia, at first Sydney, now Melbourne and around
Walking around in the city to discover many places and of course geoaches as well.
During these days I have seen many attractions, places and caches.

**Cache:**
Nice place, nice cache, I love this place

Happy Geocaching

HAPPY GEOCACHING

Had to grab this new furthest south cache for me! Went for the short hike with my new Aussie friend who this will be his first logged cache! Tftc

First one - was out with Garbageman85 - easy to spot once I was in the bush

Great Cache

Found this cache after going to Apple Isle Moot & Tassie on my trip home.

I’ve may have added one of my moot pathtags for the next person to find (physical locations that will fit a pathtag only)


Thanks Cache Guardians for the cache

James0116
Wednesday1 Feb 2023
4:51:48 pm AEDT
2820

This will be our southernmost cache for the foreseeable future.

Together with my favorite geocacher Milonguera we traveled to Australia We went to Melbourne via Singapore and from there we explore the south, the center and the east coast.
We walked around Melbourne and had a nice meet & greet event. Than we visited Philip Island with the pinguins and the Great Ocean Road. We fed and petted kangaroos

Zusammen mit meiner Lieblingsgeocacherin Milonguera reise ich nach Australien. Über Singapur flogen wir nach Melbourne und von dort wollen wir mit dem Camper den Süden, das rote Zentrum und die Ostküste erkunden. Wir liefen durch Melbourne und trafen nette Menschen bei unserem Event, wir besuchten Philip Island mit den Pinguinen und die Great Ocean Road mit den 12 Aposteln.

**Thanks for the cache!
Thanks for showing the location and for hiding the cache. You should come to Berlin in Germany to find a lot of interesting geocaches, visit lost places in the surrounding Brandenburg and meet nice people at many events.
I wish you a lot of fun and great adventures while searching for the next geocache!**

Ich bedanke mich bei Cache Guardians für den Cache, das Zeigen dieses Ortes, das Legen und Pflegen der Dose und den Spaß beim Finden! Thanks for the cache!
Ich wünsche weiterhin viel Spaß bei der Suche nach den Dosen, nette Menschen beim nächsten Event und tolle Erlebnisse und Abenteuer beim Suchen und Finden!

Ohne tolle Owner wie Euch wäre das Spiel nicht möglich. Ich freue mich, wenn Ihr auch meine Caches in Berlin-Britz besucht. Neben der Hufeisensiedlung, die zum Kulturwelterbe der Unesco gehört, gibt es viele alte Bunker zu entdecken und die Baustelle der Autobahn A100 ist auch immer wieder interessant. Von der neuen Minna-Todenhagen-Brücke zwischen Baumschulenweg und Oberschöneweide hat man einen schönen Blick auf die Spree und kann nebenbei ein paar Dosen finden.
An Neumond lade ich zum Sternegucken auf die Berliner Berggipfel oder an astronomische Orte ein. In der dunkelsten Nacht zwischen den Vollmonden genießen wir den Blick auf die blinkenden Sterne und die funkelnde Stadt Berlin.

»Cache Otway« (3.0/2.5)
*Dies ist mein Cache Nummer 19875.*

Viele Grüße von XETRO aus Britz im Süden Berlins.

5 Wochen Australien -
Danke an geofreak & friends fürs Herlocken, Legen und Pflegen.

5 weeks Australia -
from Wye River- Great Ocean Road along to west today
Tftc to geofreak & friends

TFTC. Needed the clue for this one.

Easy found deep in the bushes. Thank you, greetings from Switzerland.

Nice location - would have been interesting to see a photo of the lighthouse view from 2003.
GPS took us through the bush into a slightly clearer area, when the searching began.
Bingo, container spotted by DN.
The ‘shrub’ is now a large tree.
Signed the replacement log from ‘21, stumbled our way back.

Tftc!

Took a little bit but found it eventually!

I most certainly wasn´t the first person on this track . Tftc

Tricky to reach, but after all we did it. Saw a Kangaroo too tftc

Bit off track but a good find

Wet approach on this rainy day but a beautiful walk through the seaside scrub with lots of birdsong. Visiting from Canada. TFTC!

Nice and easy fine as we came up here to go to the lookout.

It’s a bit of a silly look at, as it’s only a 1 m cut into the trees to see the lighthouse… But I guess we can still see the lighthouse.

Thanks for placing this here all those years ago!

Found with trillian and our trackables. Cache was in good condition, and we enjoyed the little walk

We got to the lightstation a little early so took the kids on a walk to find the cache. They enjoyed the walk along the trail.

Found this on the ´Ater hours walk´. We also spotted a little kangoeroe further on this path. Tftc

bei sauwetter gefunden. tftc

Nice view on the lighthouse. TFTC.

Partner loved the Trek through the bush, me not so much. After a little bit of messing around we came up with the smiley face. Tftc

As it was all about foggy we could not see the lighthouse, but found this cache. Greetings from Germany. TFTC

Took us longer then it should have

After visiting the lighthouse we finally found the right path to get near the gz. I headed in but my GPS took me a little to far. After traipsing around for ages I headed out the wrong way from my entry point and came across the large cache. Tftc

Bush bashing was rough but found it after a short look. GPS is very patchy

Awesome view near by. Sad the lighthouse is closed. Another trip needed once open. TFTC

Not ideal weather for sight seeing on this cold rainy & blustery queens birthday weekend of caching. But had a great time exploring the shipwreck coast
Great little cache
. Tftc

Happy Wear Two Different Coloured Shoes Day!!!
I decided to do a road trip along the Great Ocean Road this week. It’s been a long time since I travelled along this area and it was certainly before I was into caching! Today after my geocaching interview with ABC South West, I’m traveling from Sugarloaf to Lavers Hill.

I had raced down here to see the sunset at the lighthouse, only to discover that it is all locked up at 4:30pm and there is no access to the area which is quite disappointing. I set off for this cache and spent way too long looking for it. The GPS was bouncing, the hint could have described just about every location in a 100m radius and the logs seemed to have conflicting information. “found further SE” which is downhill vs other logs suggesting further uphill. I was about to give up on this one and was a little confused why a cache would be hidden here when I realised this cache is a 2003 one. The landscape will have changed significantly since this was hidden and indeed it has. The “bush” is now probably the biggest tree in the area. I also found the cache further NE from GZ, not SE, but alas I still found it. Phew!

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

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A bush bash indeed!
No sign of it in hiding places at GZ but I stumbled across it on the way out after giving up, several m SE.

Found after a short bush detour, but emerging onto the main track was more difficult, as two groups of walkers had merged and were having a joyful conversation in French, right where I was a few metres away, hidden in the scrub. What to do but rush the twigs out of my hairs and clothing, and step boldly out, say g'day, and continue on my way, to their slightly perplexed looks

Found with Jorien 16 on 16.04.2022. TFTC!

Logging now but found on 16.04.2022 with Tim on day three of the Great Ocean Walk. Cache was found further uphill than navigation suggested. TFTC.

Finding the lightstation closed I found the cache instead. What a beautiful area.

TFTC.

Unfortunately the lighthouse was closed when we went, but the cache was easily accessible. Tftc

Out for a hike from cape Otway lighthouse to Aire River inlet and thought I would give this one a go. Well oh my goodness did this have me scratching my head. It was a struggle to get into the location and after looking for a while I decided to turn back. But then I stubbled across it YAY. I did get myself a little lost trying to find my way out but made it out with a couple of bird calls from my crew.
TFTC

We were back at the car park by the time I checked the app to see if there were any caches around.

I quickly doubled back to try and find the cache by myself but I got a bit nervous when I was in the scrub alone.

I got within 10 meters of it but turned back.

Will hopefully come back with friends or family another time and try to find it.