Here piggy piggy Rawson, Victoria, Australia
By AussieRAVer on 18-Aug-07. Waypoint GC157V5

Great little find! Abit sketchy getting to the spot in our lil Subi but we made it! Dropped off a trackable I picked up in Warragul log book wet af.

Fun find. Log book soaked, cache needs attention.

An easy find as it was uncovered and out in the open, so we hid it at GZ appropriately. Triple cache date with Clostar & TinaBush, dragging the husbands and geokids with us. Cache is in very poor condition: container, log and contents are all saturated and filthy & would love some TLC

Fun find with the kids, container needs replacing

A short search leading to a nice little nook with a lyrebird nest right next to the cache. The hint should be more like "where a rock isn't in the right place" but just trust the coordinates and you should be fine. For other caches in the area, download them prior to leaving in your adventures. The cache could do with a bit of maintenance as it is very waterlogged and dirty. Another great one for today, and TFTC RobF1997

Cache was wet tftc

Found with aqau, D@geo and GWD.aussie. A great day. Our last cache for the day.Thanks for the cache AussieRAVer

A day trip to Wallhalla with gwd.aussie, Sharon14 and aqua. A beautiful area to visit with the cache found on our way out. Family and friends think I'm mad well the sign may just support their claims.

Thanks AussieRAVer

Just one more on the way out of town.
Just took long than planned, but it was fun making our way there
We come in from Maidentown Track to the cache & back out the same way.

Out sightseeing and caching with aqau, sharon14, d@geo and of course me gwd.aussie
Thank for the cache AussieRAVer

Change the hint

Love the area. Thanks

Drove past this for a week while working on a school camp. Finally put some effort in on the last day and found it. Great spot to camp

Found

Found with Kellmik during some time off in the Victorian High Country
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found out caching with Beaker.
TFTC

This was a perfect drive right on sunset, with a huge red sun in the smoke.

Tftc!!!

*Found on the 5 Feb 2022 @ 4:28 pm.*
*Cache find # 12485.*

A quick trip into Walhalla so I decided to stop at this one, no problems finding it.
The log was stamped and I was on my way.

**Thanks to RobF1977 for placing this cache.**

Tough terrain, but we got there. TFTC.

Found by Rebel Acts

Another day out with Ski pair on a nice sunny day, this time We decided to head to Walhalla to have a go at the lab cache there and do some of the new caches in the area, it had been many years since I was last there. We enjoyed the many scenic sites and history of the area.

This is one of the caches we found on our travels of the area.

All logs signed as Rebel Acts & SKI Pair or RASP.

Thanks RobF1977 for the cache.

A straighjtforward drive to GZ on local streets for a straightforward find.

With some better weather finally coming round and diaries aligning a plan was hatched with Rebel Acts to meet in Moe and head to Walhalla for a caching run. There were a nu,ber of newer caches there that neither of us had done and it was a good chance to re-visit an area neither of us had been to for some time.

We came across a variety of caches and did quite a bit of walking. Most of it uphill and down dale!

An opportunity even came up to lock up the 4WDfor the first time in earnest rather than in the driveway just at home.

It was a great day out with plenty of fun and ribbing, mixed in with some spectacuar scenery and beautiful sunshine.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache AussieRAVer.
**SKI Pair****
All logs signed as Rebel Acts & SKI Pair or RASP.

Found it on the 20/3/21 with margaretforr1987

the day was spent showing the ham around walhalla
tourist meccas were ticked off with military precision: the old gold mine, the cricket ground, the lolly shop, the rotunda, the cemetery
but with the main drag of walhalla now well-known, we were craving a fresh experience
so took our soles and souls to walhalla’s second street
bypassing st. john’s
in search of our own personal salvation hidden away in the hills

after a fair day of walking already, thankfully the tracks up to pig point were flat enough
and soon enough we were signing off another treasure

thanks for the treasure, nice hidden spot you’ve got here

Decided to get out of the house and go for a drive on a beautiful day.
Well the town of Walhalla was pumping today, plenty of visitors wandering the street.
Decided to walk up from the main street (none of the woosie driving up to the cache) after all it's not that far! Found my way up to GZ and the cache was in good condition although there was a tree cut down in front of GZ and I thought for a moment it might have disappeared, but luckily it was on the other side.
Definitely an area that I didn't know existed.
On the way back I just headed straight down to the cemetery as the scrub wasn't too thick and it was nice and quick!
TFTC

Creative little hide, felt a bit weird about driving up here though as the road is suppose to be for locals only. TFTC

Thanks for the cache. It's just started to rain and I'm huddled i with the cache to wait out the shower. regards from Victor

Our fifth find of 2021 - Happy New Year!
We are staying a couple of nights at the Star Hotel and this was a lovely afternoon walk for us.
It's hard to imagine that this silent spot was once teeming with sounds, smells and human activity - each small piece of broken china now making me wonder who was the last person to hold this and what was their name and what was their story?

Found by hubby

Found on an outing to Walhalla. Took the easy motorised path to the cache. Thanks for this cache. Find No: 1010

Great little spot we wouldn’t have known if not for the cache.

*16 Mar 2019, Found @10:16 am, Find # 2538.*

Out picking up a few caches before today’s event. Drove up the road as far as I could and hiked the last 400m. A quick find at GZ


**Thanks to AussieRAVer for placing this cache.**

Tftc. Nice hide although the clue doesn't really help a geologist who can find many rocks where they're not supposed to be. 5 years ago I did the most gruelling 10 km run I've ever done although by the time I galloped past this point it wad the final 3km downhill back into Walhalla.

Awesome drive. Interesting history. Easy find
We had never been up here before. As the track was narrow we were a tiny bit concerned but all went well. We arrived at gz and imagined what it had been like here in years gone past. Such interesting history! TFTC

Had fun 4x4ing on the track here bit overgrown tftc

Steve & Erin on a holiday to Walhulla for New Year's Eve 2017. Caching out the local area on one of our adventure missions ))

Managed to get the Disco up the fairly skinny track and was relieved to see more open terrain at GZ. JosieY set our younger boys onto the task of finding and Raf did a good job. Given the industrial history of this area it was surprising to see how little remains. We soon were heading downhill again.

Parked as close as I could, and walked up the sloppy track to this one. Good to get a bit of exercise on a random track in the bush.

After a big hike from Thompson to Walhalla we did a quick biah drive to grab this cache in a scenic spot. Bit tight for a Uturn but made it none the less. Glad didn't need to hike this one

This one was found during a day's caching with The Pacman, Jacko83, Ahomburg, and the caching canine, Bentley Parker. After a beer at the pub we gratefully sat back whilst Jacko did the expert driving up the steep, very narrow road. Thank you Aussie RAVer for the cache.

Out on a mini-expedition with Mudbrick, AHomburg, Jacko83 and geodog Bentley exploring the local historic towns.
After doing the nearby historic walk in 30+ degree heat we were very happy to rest and enjoy the drive to GZ in the comfort of Jacko's 4x4.
Thanks for the interesting background and the cache, AussieRAVer.

**Date: 13 February 2016
Time: 18:27
Find #6989**

Road Trip!! Jacko83, Mudbrick, The Pacman and I hit the road, heading towards Walhalla for a bit of a walk in the area. After a massive day hiking in the area and a quick stop at the pub, it was time to start heading home, but not before grabbing the trads in town. We didnt really have the time to walk this one, but luckily we were in Jacko's 4x4, so after a bit of a bumpy ride, we got to GZ and a quickish find.

**Thanks to AussieRAVer for the cache. TNLN**



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Found it after a decent walk up from the town, it was a lovely day for a walk with a swag of kids in tow. They were excited when it was found, and to be able to claim a trinket, these were replaced with dinosaurs.
TFTC

Found it after a drive. And found my first trackable that mum (the4wdshed) has logged again. Discovered its been out of circulation for awhile & been all around Australia from Germany.

After heading off in the 4wd i was hoping i was on the right track as it was very overgrown & Mr The4wdshed had said not to get stuck whilst he was at work. But we made it to the cache location (dont drive it if you value your paintwork) & had fun looking around. Excitement abounded when we found our first ever Trackable Looks like it has been missing awhile (over 2 years) & may of been logged wrong but weve put it back into circulation & will continue it back on its path home.
Trackable id CBXWK6
Great cache box kids enjoyed a look through it before placing an item in the cache.

As we had no phone reception we were not exactly sure where this cache was. So we were driving up the track past Stringer's Cottage when we got service. Yippie! We then read some of the logs and decided that seeing as we don't know where this track starts to walk up to the cemetery and take it from there. So Geochild and Geodad just went up and up, scrambling though the mountainside bush. After a heap of climbing we saw level ground. Yippie! So we got the phone out, which still had service and we only had forty metres to go. Yippie! So we went and Geochild located the cache and we signed the log. We decided to go down the track which looked like it would go down into the town. After quite some walking Geodad and Geochild both thought they would of driven up on the track in their 1950 MG TD. Only if they knew where the track started. But we then got down to the asphalt road and kept walking and walking until we got to the bottom. But then we had to walk back to the start of the cemetery track to our 1950 MG TD. What an adventure Geochild and Geodad had. They both remarked it was the longest 286 metres ever in their life. Thanks AussieRAVer for placing this cache. - Silkyie

Found it with a storm fast approaching, thunder & lightning going on, noisy & dangerous but who cares

I gotta find the cache & did just before it rained heavy. Cache is ok, replaced the bag the other had a hole

in it, alls good... TFTH

A great place for lunch of fried chops, onions, toms, potatoes, sausages and bacon. A good bush fry up and yes, we even found the cache. Thanks to M.E. For providing the 4wd, cooker and history lesson!

If it wasnt for geocaching would never have known about this little bit of history. 4wd in came from a more difficult longer direction. Very interesting place. TFTC

Nice spot could camp here thanks

Came in from Maiden Town, would never have known anything was there if not for Geocaching. Took police car and lots of scratches on our car and left a skull ring! TFTC

I too considered climbing from the Cemetery but with two small geochildren and a reluctant husband I didn't. I ask about town how to get there via 4wd. I was given directions and we attempted it. Today wasn't supposed to be about caching so once we were on the track and realised it was very muddy and over grown geohusband ask if we could leave it for another time he didn't feel like getting his car scratched or dirty after only recently detailing it after our trip to Birdsville. We then proceeded to Wally pub and had a great meal. Thanks anyway we will be back

Found this one at the end of a couple of days hunting and hiding caches in the area, I thought I'd have a look at this one. After a wet soggy drive up around Maiden Town track it was a fairly easy find.
I would note however the track both ways from the cache is getting somewhat overgrown and thin so if you love your vehicle's paint work, I'd suggest walking in.
Good hide in a part of Walhalla I didn't know existed.
TFTC

This entry was edited by Grey Ghost 69 on Monday, 17 November 2014 at 12:11:10 UTC.

An awesome day was had, out and about today cache hunting.
Found five, DNF two & placed 2
Travelled 165 K's Furthest cache I looked for from home was 32 Kilometres away as the crow flies.
Left home at 9 and got back at 4.

This was the fourth cache of the day. I took the Maidentown Trk to GZ. This track was also being used by the Traralgon Harriers running group as part of there 50Km track run. (I bet they were surprised seeing a Nissan Pathfinder navigating the track which was quite narrow in parts with growth.) I only got to within 234 meters of GZ as there was a tree across the track. Luckily I was able to back up about 100 metres and do a 5 point turn and head back the way I had come.

The co-ords where spot on, I found the cache straight away and I duly signed the log.

Thanks for bringing me up to this great spot, and also the history lesson.

'Scrat' visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.

TFTC AussieRAVer

The Heybs AND I started on a wild goose chase trying to find the right track but found it in the end.
TFTC

Went out looking for this cache with LemurMan1. We took a while trying to find which track would take us to the hide. After several attempts and quite a lot of walking we reached GZ. A beautiful area and a great hide. TFTC

It was a nice walk up the hill and we enjoed it. Thank you for hide.

2013: 361 Days In A Row - A great cache!!! After a frustrating cache down in Walhalla we enjoyed a nice drive over here. The roads got narrower as it went, but we enjoyed every minute of it! We even saw two lyrebirds on the journey that we happened to capture on video. A interesting place to end up. Thanks for the fun drive and the cache.

This was a fun cache. The road got narrower and narrower as we drove along it, so glad I wasn't behind the wheel however at gz there was a great amount of space to pull up! As we were driving we managed to see not one but two lyre birds!!! And because of this, the drive in and the wonderful gz spot, this is totally going on my fav list!!!!!! TFTC

Love Walhalla!! With Mr Jimmy, Jnr Jimmy no. 1 and 2 as well as baby Jimmy in tow, we found it! Had a ball. TFTC!!

Another cache we have been meaning to do for a couple of years now so after enjoying our lunch we headed off up the hill (by 4x4) to the GZ and easily located the cache.

TNLN & TFTC

Didn't take too long to locate this one.

TFTC TNLN

This was our 1st cache find in the caching run & we found it at: 13:39.
This now makes our total find count 5659.
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Found this cache easily enough, after driving the long way round.
After opening the cache (which was hidden properly) we discovered that it must have been muggled at some stage as the log book contained two pages of offensive drivel, and the cache contained a crushed coke can.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Under 2 metres)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Rubbish and two offensive log pages.
Left: Keyring
Thanks AussieRAVer for the hunt today.

Nice views on the walk up.

@ 3pm Cache #784
We were camped at Coppers Creek campground on a Tyre tubbing/ rafting weekend down the Thomson River. Not much time for Geocaching only four caches for the whole weekend but all good ones, this was number four and found pretty quickly after walking straight up along side the cemetery, Quite a climb! Been coming to Walhalla. since I was very young and don’t ever recall coming up here to Pig Point.
Had an awesome weekend doing some really cool stuff and this cache was a bonus
Thx for the cache placement and showing me more of this historical area

Cheers
TeamOaky

A bit tricky getting to this one. I think we took the long way up from Walhalla as the track was a bit overgrown. Tried to go down by the shorter track but it was blocked by a recent tree fall. Thanks for the cache and the history. I didn't know about this site up on the hills. Tony and John.

Quick find the day before I start my AAWT walk. Was a nice walk up the hill

Interesting! It's hard to imagine how busy this whole area must have been. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found on second attempt when we actually brought GPS [:/]
Great historical area, loads of mozzies and cool hide. Thanks AussieRAVer!

Spending the weekend in Rawson with a group of Square Dance friends. Today we drove out to this town for a historical walk. The town was nice. It is good to see it done up and maintained.
After lunch Xambo4U, Cati and myself we out caching. We had a few attempts trying to find the path to the cache.
1st attempt was near the station, we walked up a path only to come to a flat piece of land.
2nd attempt was walking up through the cementary. We gave up on that option when the hill was getting too steep.
3rd attempt was to see information from the local shops. They told us to go to the bush track up behind the printing press. Initially was took the wrong path and had to back back in the 4x4. We didn't know if we could turn the Mr Xambo4U's 4x4 around so we walked the path. When we got to GZ we called Mr Xambo4U to come and pick us up.
Cati liked to pigs so we swapped Pigs for a Toy Car and some pins.
I would never had come up this track if it wasn't for caching. It is disappointing to see nothing is here.
TFTC

Started out driving up, but not sure wich way to go because the track seemed to turn to a private road. So we did the walk up option from the cemetary. Wow what a good workout, lost the misses half way up but I pressed on, no path, almost 45 degree slope in spots, to eventually sign the log. Pheeeweee!!! Took super marble game and left woolworths supermarket trolley token. Realy enjoyed the challenge, thanks AissieRAVer.

2.30 Staying at Rawson for the weekend with a bunch of squares. Having completed the historical walk around Walhalla in the morning we had some spare time to try some caching in the area. We tried one track straight up which lead us to some previous owners flat piece of land. Option 2 was straight up through the cementary, which proved to be to much so back to the car. Went to the info centre to see if she could help. She first sent us up the wrong road. We finally worked out which one we were supposed to be on, Toycar, Cati and Mrs X started walking. Nice easy unsealed road and we soon realised the beast could have driven in. We found the cache easily only to find that there was a kindered cacher in town today. We then rang our driver to come and pick us up.
A bit disappointed in that we saw no remains of anything here.
Left toycar and pencil and took 2 figurettes
Thanks for the cache

If i was not looking for the caches, i would not have known there was a place like this. An old settlement, thankyou AussieRAVer

Difficult 2 find with iPhone? used gps much ezyer
Ezy find ??

Found it easily at 1553hrs once we had managed to reach the area. Came up the back way by 4wd and nearly turned back as it was a little overgrown in places. Also missed an important turn however we pressed on and were rewarded with a find. Not as many ruins here as I thought there may have been however it was an interesting historical area to explore. TNLNSL Thanks AussieRAVer for giving us reason to explore new territory.

Tried climbing up from the cemetery - not the easiest approach unless you're a mountain goat. I took a tumble and lost my glasses somewhere above the cemetery. If anyone else is silly enough to try the climb and finds a pair of black framed Gucci specs, please drop me a line.

Needless to say, I didn't find the cache...

Interesting drive in with a quick find. TNLN

This entry was edited by malikaal on Wednesday, 26 January 2011 at 04:19:26.

It was a beautiful sunny day.Easy drive in and a short walk and we had it.The only problem was the few thousand mozzies who seemed to come from nowhere.
Thanks.TFTC IN: angel keyring OUT: ball.

#273 Found at 3.05pm. Driving along this ridgeline we had the co-ords in the Magellan and were driving toward a whole bunch of hikers camped up there when we realised we had driven past GZ. So with the muggle hikers looking on with confusion (amusement?) we started reversing to GZ. I think they thought we were a bit daft as they beat a hasty retreat to their fire (it was 4.9degrees at Mount Baw Baw at lunchtime), so Dad was able to make a quick find. Interesting history associated with this cache - wished we'd had more time for exploring.

Took: Green Rubber Snake
Left: Pink Spikey Rubber Ball

TFTC

Was camping in Walhalla overnight, at the pub, as I was competing in a 4WD Navigation Rally on the weekend. Got up early enough to attempt this cache on foot and it certainly was a hard trek. Cache was 270m from my swag but it took me just over 35mins. to walk to it. Found cache @ 0700 and had a 5 min. break before returning back down from the ridge. Note to those who would like to walk/hike to this cache. Shortest route from main road is to take the walking track, sth of pub, up to the cemetery car park then follow the nth fence of the cemetery up to an old, disused vehicle track. Follow this track until your GPS points directly uphill and then start climbing! Trek not suited to geokids.

TNLNSL

TFTC

nice quick find after dark TNLN SL TFTC

once we got on the right track it was all good
tn ln sl tftc

This was our second find for the day in another lovely spot. It's amazing how little remains of the old life. In: tiger and batman card, Out: Nothing. TFTC

With friends, found it with the advantage only of GPS and without the knowledge of the little map to put us on the right road (learning all the time!!) hence had to drive around for a while. Headed off back to Hazelwood.

Talked about this cache and how and get there when we were at the tourist info shop earlier so we had some idea how to get here. The lady said we couldn't drive to it even in a 4WD and we'd need to walk. I saw that the first part of the road was bitumen so I decided to head up for a look anyway and we drove all the way to the cache without even selecting 4WD. The lady must have been senile or perhaps a raving greenie. It's quite an easy drive although a tad muddy in one spot. Having said all that I probably wouldn't drive an ordinary car up here.
Got some phone reception at GZ and a fathers day message from one of my sons so that was a bonus. Geojen added a few piggies to the cache but after I told her what used to occur here she wished she hadn't.
Thanks.

A beautiful autumn day and a good nights camp in the bush had a few vehicles out for a "look". Co-ords seemed to be a little out, so extended the search over the road and it was soon found. Thanks TNLN.

After a pleasant day in Walhalla, this was an easy drive in the 4wd(but in 2wd) though Mrs Dingbat worried about steep sides, our commodore would have got there as well. Cache found by L while I was changing wheel thanks to sidewall staking. At $238 it became my most expensive cache to date. TNLN

Found on a hot long weekend Monday by riding up to GZ on my mountain bike. But future cachers please note - I could have driven my air conditioned commodore sedan up there no problems in the dry conditions. Found the container completely exposed as the rocks had slid off so I found another large rock and braced it up a bit so the downhill gradient doesnt shift them. TFTC TNLN

We were going to give this one a miss as we thought that the walk would be too much so late in the day until Al read those 3 lovely letters from the cache notes, "4wd" . We all piled into the GeoPaj and made this a nice easy drive-by at 16:00.

TNLNSL. Thanks AussieRAVer.

A ride in the Eudes 4WD took us straight to this one and a quick find at 4pm. Time to leave Walhalla and head back to the city.
Took frog
Left Canada keyring
thanks AussieRAVer

We came in from Maidentown Track to this one, but only after we had to make a few u-turns on tracks that ended up taking us too far away. We weren't in a rush today, so not having any maps actually made it fun to try and find the right track to this cache. The 4wd had no worries getting around the area today, and once we were at GZ we made the find quite easily. TNLN & SL at 2:20pm. Thanks AussieRAVer for the cache, we really enjoyed getting out into the bush and seeing an area with great history!

After an eventful bucks night at Rawson last night I decided to get away from the mayhem nice and early for a trip to Walhalla. It's a place I have wanted to visit for some years and as I was so close I made sure I got some extra sleep last night for an early start.

After a tour through the town I made the trek up the mountain, keen to perpetuate the myth that my commodore is fully 4WD capable. Some parts were quite difficult and in hindsight I wouldn't try it again, but I did get the car up without damage. The new cache location threw me a bit because they didn't seem out of place, however it didn't take me long to find the cache. I took my time to enjoy the great weather and views of the historical location, I could almost smell that porky goodness! I couldn't believe I was third to find either, this is a beautiful part of the world, I thought others would be visiting regularly.

Thanks AussieRAVer.

R - B

0315 re-logging due to name change

Nice little drive by. The cache is now about 2ft from where it is supposed to be because not all of us are weight lifters - took me quite a while to extract the container. NOTE to future searchers - in the middle of summer with no rain you could drive the family sedan to the spot if you took it easy in the potholes. TFTC AussieRAVer

Found at 11:25. With Mrs Crisp Image at the wheel we departed home and had a short drive to the Walhalla area. Using Oziexlporer I directed her to the maiden town track end. We started along the track as far as we could with the 2WD. The mud was not deep but we thought it was better safe than sorry. So parked the car, took geodog and went on an easy 3.1km round trip. The sun was shining as I retrieved the cache. A very interesting place. We looked around for a while at the hut areas and tries to imagine what it would have been like in it's heyday. We signed the log. This was my 10th FTF in a row! We took in the sun and plenty of fresh air but nothing else.
Thanks AussieRAVer for this little adventure. (Did you give your new 4X4 an workout?)
Oh and I forgot the stash note. I had it on my laptop but it would not fit into the cache container.
Regards
Mr & Mrs Crisp Image (and Geodog)

[This entry was edited by Crisp image on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 11:06:06 PM.]

Who ever is the FTF, could you please leave a CACHE NOTE in the cache as I forgot to print one out and take it with me....

Thanks!

Top spot for a cache, cant wait to get to this one.

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