[RCL]#1 Melbourne To Adelaide, Manor Loop Werribee, Victoria, Australia
By Team_Ninja on 28-Jan-08. Waypoint GC18Z4N

Looks like the hiding spot has been removed, to make way for a new train track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsJcg-g1pg

Definetly time for this one to be archived or moved again.

As previously mentioned by other members, GZ is now right in the middle of a construction zone for the new Regional Rail link.

http://www.regionalraillink.vic.gov.au/construction/west-werribee-junction

For what it's worth, I DNF'd this one around July.


Cheers,
HEYVJ

This cache has been completed exterminated! There is a high concrete wall between the road and GZ because of the new construction in the area. The historic rock wall has been bulldozed to make way for the future.

Didn't find it and I suspect it has been removed as there is very new building project starting and it looks like the rock fence has been removed near the cords.

Found a container today, signed log and replaced. It no longer had any green army paint on it, but it was close to where the hint pointed.
Thanks for the cache Team_Ninja

Scrounged, moved more rocks than a fort Gellibrand prisoner did in a week, but woe alas, no fodder for the nosebag today. Thank you anyway team ninja.

Has been on our list for ages but never seemed to be passing. A bit of a wayward detour today and found the goods in our second favourite (not) type of hide. The first being hides on artillery pieces and the like. TFTC

Looked around but was very muddy! Sorry

09:49
We felt as if we were under surveillance from the time we left the car. And we were! The adjacent property owners (Colin & Robert) were watching and approached thinking we were pinching rocks from the rock wall. After a chat about Geocaching Robert located the cache and might now be a new devotee.

The land has been in the family for a long time and up to now has been used to graze dry cows from their dairy property at Werribee South. In our discussions it was revealed that the Regional Rail link will join to the Geelong line at this location - land has already been acquired and fenced as you can see if you look to the NW and N. As well there will also be a freeway link starting here and finishing at the Hume. So we surmise that this cache has a limited life at this location.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt Team_Ninja.
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thank for show me

First cache of the day and a DNF...

I suspect it's still there, just very well hidden. The dog enjoyed the excitement of staring into the paddocks at weeds.... Stupid dog!

Whilst looking around, I noticed some new fences & posts toward the N/E of GZ.

GZ is right where the new Regional Rail Link will be. That's right. A new rail line and new road.
See the following link.

http://www.regionalraillink.vic.gov.au/construction/west-werribee-junction

Hopefuly I can log a find before this cache has to be disabled or relocated.


I did see a train though.
It was the Melbourne bound V/Line.
See picture.

Thanks for bringing me here Team Ninja

NO TRAINS TFTC

Found a drive around the area today, just picking up some that have been on the radar for a while. TFTC

nice easy cache on the trip home from work. even got to see a good train.tftc

Nice quick find with the help of spot on coords - cache is in good shape.
Thx for the hide team ninja

After spending the two previous days walking around Melbourne doing caches it was nice to get out of town and not to have to do so much walking. So visiting WA cachers richlink travelled in our direction and we headed off from the Werribee south caravan park to do some caching. Happily we found this one. Thanks Team Ninja

Travelled by train to Werribee to spend the day caching with Liz and Bruce around the area. A quick find.

Quick find to break the drive to Fairy Park. TNLN. Thanks.

quick find, first of a few for the day

Found by Maya and Ray at 8:15PM on the 28th of January. We decided to clean a few local caches off the slate in the cool of the evening. On arriving at GZ Maya said "Oh no, not one of these hides, I hate them", but to her delight, she had the cache in hand in very short order. Ironically, we had just traveled by the Overlander from Adelaide to Melbourne past this point on the 9th of January. Little did we realise we passed right by the cache. TNLN. TFTC. The Nomads.

Easy find once I trused my GPS.. I looked everywhere within 15m prior to that and was glad for a quick find given the heat and beating sun.. TNLN Dipped GPS Geocoin.. find # 2116

A nice quick find to break the drive to the Fairy Park with kids. Tftc Tnln 22/01/12 3:42 PM Find #83

Yeah. Nice find.

Took some time to find this one with the frustration of cars driving past all the time. I have found ones like this before with ease which was even more frustrating that this took as long as it did haha. Glad to find it in the end! TFTC!

Finally found it after my gps jumped around about 30 times.

On way to Hoppers Crossing
Thanks for the hunting and cache

Thanks. Simple find at gz. Unfortunately no trains were going past.

Found this afternoon. Had to be careful as there was a bit of through traffic on this road. Got a photo of a train that I will post tmw. thanks Team Ninja.

The Monday before Melbourne Cup day is always a great day to take off from work. It left me on my own without kids or other commitments. I started my run at about 3 pm in the afternoon and made a great time of it. This time I brought the mountain bike along to grab a few caches on bicycle paths. It was all going well until my puncture at about 10 pm in the evening. Well from then on I just went for some easy drive bys with short walks. The run was a good solo effort picking up quite a number of caches. There were only a few DNF’s so it was well worth the effort. This cache was one I found tonight. Thanks Team Ninja for the cache.

tftc

8th find of the day, and 3028th total find at 1:30:00 PM.

The cache is not where we initially thought it was, but it still didn't take us long to find it.

It's really nice to find a cache big enough so we could drop off one of our signature item screwdrivers.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks Team_Ninja for the cache

Nice location , even nicer in the evening with the sun setting over the you yangs.

Had an afternoon hunting with rohkad, who found this one. Nice setting for this one.

This entry was edited by happysalad on Monday, 03 October 2011 at 22:32:07 UTC.

Surprised by the amount of cars driving past. Thought this would have been muggle free. Found @ 19:30 no travel geocoin inside. TFTC

Out for a night run with Quasar3671. Found in what seemed like the middle of nowhere at this time of night. TFTC

Headed out for a night caching run with C@H. It was quite a mild night and our trip would take us through the southern suburbs of Melbourne, around to Altona and then up to Bacchus Marsh.
At this time of night we didn't see any muugles, cars or trains. We stopped right in front of GZ and after a short search the nice sized cache was found. Signed the log and rehid the cache.
Thanks for the hide and the short history lesson on Victoria's railways.

Found very late (10.41pm) on a driving lesson with my OH. Good cache, caught an A Class up container freight and N Class down pax.

Took rotating calendar, left geocoin. TFTC

I pulled up near GZ and thought - oh no, another rock wall cache, hope the coords are good. Put the GPSr down on the rock which was 1m from GZ, used the torch to look in all the gaps about 4 or 5 metres each way, then went back to the GPSr rock to find the cache under it! Good coords then. Thanks to team_ninja for this one, my first of this series. Only 1 Vline train went through during my search and I couldn't get a photo

Found It
TNLN. TFTC

Found on a cold day.

Suscoe enjoyed being the first to sign the new log book today.
After the last visit where the fences barred the way this was nice to finally find.
Left Dove clip, took sylvester.
Also left Geocoin to continue its adventure.
Thanks to Team Ninja for this cache, we have check a few of these off now.
Geelong to Melbourne train passed by and squeaked!

The cache is back on track (get it?)!

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 55.750 E 144° 35.026

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 55.503 E 144° 35.601

Distance from original: 3140.1 feet or 957.1 meters.

Looped

Ok will TD until the area is open again so I can replace the cache.

I was at this site today with my work You cannot get into this cache area any more as ARTC is doing rail up grade in the area and will be there for sometime.
Almost sure the cache has gone as the rocks have been taken away at the cache site.
I did this one back 29th Aug.

The road is closed

Suscoe arrived today but couldn't get near GZ due to works going on.
will be back one day soon
tftc Team_Ninja

Day caching in the area found in no time.
no trains about today.
Thanks

Found to a nice Sunday drive out from Geelong. TFTC.

1800hrs

Was in Geelong today, so I cleaned up a few local caches and this was the last on the way home.
I started in the wrong spot and became a mountain goat to get to GZ.

This needs a new container as it is broken and the contents were wet.

TNLNSL
TFTC

Found while out and about on a weekend cache run TNLN TFTC SL

Quick find on a cold winters day caching run TFTC TNLN SL

Found 24/07/2010 at 8:32am

An easy find!
Took "ghosty" Left aussie flag magnet, green bouncy ball and keychain with aboriginal art.

TFTC

Found 8:32am 27/04/10
Out early with my son today. Well spotted by Hunter too!
Watched him do the exchange and signed in.


TFTC

Found 16:00, whilst on a day out caching with Muzza.

TNLN, CSI=3, thanks Team_Ninja.

found very easily right where the GPS said it was.
Took a golf ball as it needed to be closer to a golf course
(my next stop)
TFTC

Student free school day so I went caching with my two girls.
Took - Travel Bug
Left - False Teeth
TFTC

Well, I went to check on my cache to replace the container and it appears someone has moved it slightly from its original spot, so I couldn't find it! I was a bit stretched for time so I gave a quick 5 minute search of the area but I'll be down sometime to replace the container when I have a bit more time to locate the cache.

Found this one with a team from New Zealand, on our way home from the Wagga Wagga MEGA event.

Found with Moneydork, Rediguana, Tofska, and Pohutukawa on my last day of our 2 week Australian visit based around our attendance at the Wagga Mega event.
Enjoyed the find.
TFTC

Railway crossing bells clanging away for ages before the train finally arrived. T4TC, M@

Heard bells for a train coming, but took forever to see the train! Cheers Gav [5736]

The lid for this one is severely broken.
One of numerous caches visited on our MEGA Wagga Wagga MEGA trip.
TFTC (from NZ).

Spent 10 minutes looking under every rock in the area until I finally found it, it's a tough one but the cache is there somewhere. Took PrincessDiala's pathtag, will put it another geocache shortly.

Quick find in the dust and rubbish ridden area. Flies aplenty here.

Get in - Get out.

TFTC and a train spotters lesson on the tracks and workings

Found! I'm sure the bloke stopped having his lunch in his car was wondering what we were doing
... had another car pass a couple of times so supect a fellow geo-cacher was in the area!
Left shark bait travel bug.

Found this cache eventually after much searching and lots of bush flies.
This cache is in much need of repair. Two trains passed by as we searched for this cache. Boy they were moving!
TNLN

TNLN
Reported needs maintenance

Quick find on a hot day on my way to little river for some more caches !

2nd for the day . Couldn't get my camera out quick enough when the train went by ! Nearly blew me over it was going so fast lol !

Thanks for the cache !

Usually by pass this every day of working week, but today still on holidays, so took the time to find it. It really does need to be repaired though. No trains today. TNLN TFTC

Find # 729 @ 20:15 and 6th for the You Yangs cache run with tackle_head.
I found this one a few months ago with 3bt but I noticed it was not showing up in the computer logs so we dropped by this one on the way back to Melbourne after the cache run to check the log date which was 23/7/09.
TNLN TFTC

Rode from home this morning, picked a perfect one great sunrise, found quite easy at 6:30. Considering the amount of rain the cache was fairly dry considering its condition. Could do with some tlc. TFTC SL.

Found this one at 19:25 while on the way home from our monthly bushwalk. With rocks involved, I was fearing the worst but that fear ended up being unfounded as I had the stash in hand quite quickly. I even had the added touch of a rather large goods train pass by while I was logging the find .

I've noticed that there are several "needs maintenance" notes on this one so I won't log another one but I will say that about 1/3 of the lid is completely gone as is one of the holding clips .

Took footy card (it was Juddy after all ), left a Christmas Yowie, SL. Thanks Team_Ninja.

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

If only I had brought some of my spare sistema containers I would have replaced this one as it has a cracked lid.
I don't remember to bring spares of these things.

Upon arriving at the location thought there were many places to hide a cache here, turned out to be a quickish find.
TNL:Pathtag, TB's came to visit.
Thanks team ninja for the cache!

Will be up hopefully on cup day, if not then the holidays, to replace the container.

found on sunday 20/9 with brother and family.container lid is badly broken and needs to be replaced. TNLN,TFTC

NIce quick find then straight back to the car as it was bit chilly. Amazing how quickly the trains come up......and how close they are!! TNLN

Found after a brief search. tnln

We found our 22nd Team Ninja cache at 3:40pm as the 8th of 9 on our Whip Around Werribee. Boy does Team Ninja love their trains. After finding the cache, we stood a while on the rocks hoping for a train but unfortunately, we were already late for dinner in Werribee and we had to move on. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

Found the cache today at 11.15am on a day out caching
Located the cache with beanie and lash78fan and did see a few trains go by
Took a little beetle and left a little toy figure

Thanks Team- Ninja for the cache

found @ 11am with lenny boy
on the 30th of may
left toy
and took blue toy

tftc

I have caught a massive amount of Yabbies in a nearby dam in years gone by ! TNLN - thanks

Found by Bob at 1410

Well, I don't know how you figured out that this was once a railway station - 'coz there's not much left of it now and I certainly wouldn't have recognised it as one. Anyway, while enjoying a very pleasant public holiday cruising around the area and grabbing some caches, I made my way here and found the cache without problems - although I was a bit wary of snakes while retrieving it.

TNLN

Thanks Team_Ninja

Today was hot and the area dry and desolate, the search for the cache took a few minutes here, i initially thought I saw a "cachers guide" rock, but I was mistaken.
T- Marge, L - Lanyard.

Saw the " Warnambool flyer" pass by this pm.

TFTC.

Found by The Empire with The Lone Random 10/1/08 @ 11:05am
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

A fairly quick find, after checking for snakes.
Took: Nothing
Left: Smiley eraser
TFTC

Found w The Empire. Only muggles were passengers of the Geelong line doing 120km/h. Really not much threat!

TNLN, The Lone Random

RedPaw64 found this cache at 1342. Saw a train go past as we were there, luckly it was quiet around the area.

NINO TFTC Team_Ninja

Found on the way to "Wyndham Lights 2008" with Bushfire. A quick find as the co-ords were spot on. Just after we left a long freight train rumbled past. TNLN.

Found today with geomunchkins on a cold wet windy day ( no muggles though ). T - mondo doll , L - screwdriver

Had some unexpected scrutiny on this one, the area is being used as an illegal dumping ground and one of the local muggles parked nearby where I did and stayed long enough to make sure I wasn’t “Having a Dumpâ€

TNLNSL
TFTC
Roaring Ford

Found with Mud Rat Jnr at 6.25pm. Took stickers left soldier. Also have the Frog TB. SL. TFTC

found it very easy and very fun got to see 2 trains and had a walk around the rocks thanks.

The last find for the day on our way home from the Geelong event in the company of Team Crackers. Team Crackers found the cache and then back to the car to turn the heater on full to defrost the frozen wind swept bodies.
Thanks Team Ninja for the cache,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the " If we had the 4x4 we would have tried the loop road" Clan

This was my last cache for the day, on the way home from the Geelong Caching event. Once at GZ, it was a quick find. Just after getting back in my car, a V-line train passed on its way towards Geelong. Thanks for the cache, and a film of mud over my car.

Dropping off Ozzy TB.

First of a couple of caches on the way to the Geelong Event. Cache found easily, with the area looking desolate on this winter morning. Thanks Team Ninja. I checked out all the photos too.

Traveling back from the Geelong Event with Mr Coffee and the Coffee Clan doing a few caches on the way this was the last one for the day. Tom Tom had a lot of trouble with this one so we ignored him and found our own way but even as we approached gz he was still insisting that we turn around and go back. We often wonder why with the population growth that stations and lines have closed but having no muggles to worry about made for a nice easy cache find. We took nothing but left some Tb's
Thanks Team_Ninja for a very informative cache