Quarry Dean, Victoria, Australia
By flyjabiru1 on 13-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19BTJ

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

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Back in the area for a bushwalk (...or was that a mudwalk?) and obviously no cache to be found.
And I don't think you should be able to log a piece of paper!
Unless i'm mistaken, flyjabiru1 is no longer active.
Looking at their stats: Last Visit:Wednesday, 13 June 2012 and no response to messages.

johncenalk and I were nearby so checked out this location, we however didn't have any luck finding this cache, and we didn't read the logs prior to going *lol*. Obviously, if we had of...we would of realised that there was a problem with this cache. Anyway, that aside, I actually really enjoyed visiting this location, great quarry...loved the blue lake... so it was a bitter sweet journey...more sweet than bitter ;P

Considering recent logs that this cache may have been muggled once or twice, I wonder if flyjabiru1 should pay a visit to renew the cache and maybe coordinates. I have found this cache some time back and didn't log it because I forgot. I thought I'd return then log and it wasn't there. Also because I went back to take my Geokids to see the 4WD playground and try out the old Corona. Yes the Corona, don't laugh! I'll put up a photo when the cache is replaced/repaired. I'll watch with interest.

Cache needs maintenance. Found remains 80m away in mud wash. Have log. Will contact owner shortly.

After giving up on this one on the way back down the hill found the log in a wash away.

Found the log book about 60 meters from GZ in very bad condition. NO cache!

Bzzzt...
Nobody home!

1420. No sign of it until I decided to investigate some pieces of paper down the slope. Alas they are 2 pages from the log the earliest entry being 9/5/10 by 3up and the latest being 25/9/11 by One-eyed. I surmise that the cache was placed where a new track up the hill was formed, the other one being too gouged (see photo where A+ is climbing up the new track with old one off camera to left). At some point, driving on the new track disturbed the cache and it was trashed. I would like to be wrong but ...

Kennythe1st.

Another one!!

#350
Have been meaning to get this cache for some time now. Glad I have a 4wd, as I managed to park within 5 meters of the cache.. Thanks.

Awesome place. A hidden visual gem.

Well done I drove my 4x4 past here 4 weeks ago
Cubsgrasshopper

On my drive home from i decided to stop at this cache id been told about by some geo-friends, and wow what a great place to take your 4WD, i had so much fun but daylight was running out and needed to get out b4 it got too dark so i didnt complete the either challenge but i shall return tftc

Well got to the opening track of the quarry but it was washed away and with only me there I did the walk in, nice walk, took some pic's of the colour's in the clay,not that long and I had the cache in hand TFTC

Hey, look, we just found your cache.

This was our final cache in the bush, but not for the adventure trip.

Thanks for bringing us here.
TFTC!
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Found this one on a 4WD trip through Creswick. Most people found this one by following the 'roadworks' however the roadworks were behind us most of the time and iampom had trouble seeing the roadworks also. Apologies now iamapom but this was gold!

"Turning right at the roadworks", "A couple of bikes just passed the roadworks", "Watch out for the roadworks" "But I haven't seen any roadworks" Ohhhh we were evil with this one!!! A car load of devilishly minded cachers, a stray road sign and some duct tape collected earlier in the day, an unsuspecting Pom in a landrover, and fun comments over the radios!!!! It kept us in stitches as we made our way to this cache. (Still giggling even now!!) See g_ordos photo for the evidence.
Pretty spectacular outlook here, and looks like the 4x4's and dirt bikes have lots of fun!!! Then again, so did we!!! TFTC

Found it today as part of the 4wding tour of Creswick Park with the Central Victorian Geocaching folks.
I'm not talking to you lot now.
TFTC

Found today as part of the CVG 4x4 Creswick Park Adventure.

Our first time out with a group, and a fun day had by all.

And yes, despite being in a 4WD group, we were almost run over by a large group of trail bike riders....

And the roadworks on the way in, Killer!!!!

Cheers gordo

Found while Mr Wanderer was out with 4x4 group in Creswick Forest today. Had a great time. Thanks to the orgainsiers.
TFTC

Found this afternoon by Stumpyspud and Tiny Taters.
This area is fairly well known to spud as he rides his bike here and has bought sales reps to the area with argo vehicles.

TFTC

I approached this cache from the south-east after an exciting afternoon caching in the forest. I drove out of the forest at the top of the hill looking down into the quarry! and right next to the cache! WOW 4X4 HEAVEN!! Thumpa the 4x4geohunting geomobile had a ball exploring all the tracks and challenges. I will definately be back here!

After parking the car, We had a walk through the bush up to GZ. The cache was quickly located and signed. We took in the view of quarry and came to the conclusion that it would be great fun in a 4WD or on a bike.

Thanks flyjabiru1

Yep that's a big hole! Reckon we could have some fun here in MrIwiks 4x4. TFTH!

Yep that's a big hole! Reckon we could have some fun here in MrIwiks 4x4. TFTH!

This cache formed one of the many caches I grabbed on my overnight trip to Ballarat with Camping in a swag at creswick and a 1 of 3 flash mobs attended in 24 hours.

I really enjoyed my drive into this area. I took most the fun tracks in and different track out and it was good fun all around. I think I might be coming back here for a play. TFTC

Nice easy find, little bit slippery! Deep Blue has made an appearance!

Some serious lunatics around here today, but far enough apart that we got to the cache without being seen

TFTC

Went as far as we could along the track and then a short walk to gz. Thanks flyjabiru1

great area for the bikes, took the 4b in but it was way to rutted out from the heavy rains cheers

Strolled over from Abrahams Crack. Pleasant temperature for the walk. Quickly found and logged. TFTC

Now this cache site was really interesting , I left my 4WD some 400m from the cache site, very rough track, even the Nissan Patrol would not get up the track, but what a great site.
We are now amateur mountain climbers as Mrs one- eyed and I may have taken a wrong track, but found the cache anyway.
TFTC

Found this cache today at 1624 hrs after a play in the "mayhem pit" below.
In 2010 i had one week of holidays in January, which ended up turning into two weeks of holidays because i snapped my front L.H axle shaft in my HJ80 series 'sigh' .....
It was a ball of fun crawling the ol batteltruck up and down these climbs until reverse gear and the hill climb right near the cache got the better of me,,, lolz
Ill stick some pics (and vids if this site lets me post em) up with this post when i get home after these holidays.
Visited T.B "roboraptor" while i was here.

Mountain biked into this one, the hill looks like a good challenge, but not in our cruiser with all the kayaks and gear loaded. May be another time. TFTC.

Very quick find for myself, got a good view over the quarry, which must be popular with the off road bikers. Saw a few at the top of the hill on my way to this cache.

Quick 'n' east find. TFTC

11.30am
Found by Roma and Max.
We opted to make the lower approach and leg it into GZ.
Quarries can be interesting places and this is one of the more so that we have visited.
Thanks flyjabiru1 for this experience.
Romax.

I had a walk of about 400 metres to get to this cache as there was a downed tree blocking the obvious access track. While walking in I saw a small cluster of a variety of helmet orchids - beautiful.

Thanks for the cache flyjabiru1.

Great view and lovely quiet area. Thank you. TNLN

Stopped in and found this one as I was passing on a hike.

TNLNSL

Thanks flyjabiru1!

And this one under a kilometre in the other direction. Bit of a pity Andrew had other things to do so consequently I only picked up 3 caches for the weekend. Pathetic really after about 250 km to get here. Anyway, no doubt we'll be back.

Quick find today after the short stroll from the car.
With the overnight rain adding to the glue quality of the clay,
I felt I was walking a little taller by the time I returned to the car.
Not such a bad thing for a short bloke.

My thanks to FlyJabiru1 for placing this cache, and for the history.
TNLNSL

Oregon was telling me to take another route in, which may have got me closer by car, but I thought I knew better. Arrived in the Quarry and decided to walk the last few hundred metres. The descent down wasn't much fun after the recent rain. Think I must be getting old!!!! TNLNSL. Many Thanks to flyjabiru for another of your caches.

Find # 1199 @ 13:55 7/13 for the day
Angie will not forget this cache in a hurry. Most enjoyable. I am logging this in a cafe with the laptop and when I get a chance, I will upload the photo of the 4bee near the top of the climb. That clay sure is slippery. TNLNSL Thanks to flyjabiru1 for the most memorable cache.

tackle_head is really enjoying these forest caches and the cruiser just keeps on rolling and is very sure footed but he chickened out of this one and I'm glad he did. This is a great location for a cache and really enjoyed it, see what caching can show you. Thanks again to flyabiru1 for these caches.

Found while on a caching day with Bushfire , it was a drive by for us but was not going to try the hill as the ruts were deep -thanks flyjabiru1

A lovely area to explore. Unfortunately with no 4X4 couldn't complete the challenge and didn't head to George's Lake.
Had a nice time anyway.
Took bear/snake. Left giant marble/bouncy ball/sharpener.
TFTC!

Found today on a wet and cold day. We parked our car 300 meters away, and had to walk our way through sludge left after the rain earlier. Also there were muggles on bikes which seemed to follow us, so we needed a bit of stealth. Once at GZ, a short search resulted the cache in hand.
TNLN SL TFTC

Having plodded these parts for some time I'd never visited the Quarry before. It's a quirky place with its erosion, colours and weird landscape. I can imagine the colours of the soil here after rain, they'd be brilliant in a sense and a Photographer's delight. The cache was found after a scramble up the side of the Quarry, I wasn't game to slide back down again. I tried to meet the photographic 'challenge' at St.George's Lake but the timer on the Camera was much too unforgiving - 10 seconds [on the timer] is just not enough and I'm 30 years too late with the suppleness of my body I reckon! Thanks to 'flyjabiru' for my second cache during my Creswick Innings in an unusal location surronded amidst the Forest. TNLCC. TQP

Found at 20:25

Could not get to parking area as there was a tree down over the track.
Had to walk a bit further. Lots of dust.

T:TB

SL TFTC

Finally got around to get this.. was fairly hard to find a time with no muggles about riding their dirt bikes.
TFTC

wow what a great place must bring the quad bike out here! It has been rainging lots so was a bit muddy and i did have a fall (ouch). but enjoyed the walk. thanks

picked the wettest day which means i believe we get brownie points for going up that hill by foot??
didn't think the little red Hyundai would make it, so left that on a by road

Found 17:30, our last cache on our caching adventure with Muzza, and a great location to finish our days caching.

TNLN, CSI=4, thanks flyjabiru1.

found it, after camping at slaidy creek good spot.


TFTC

1st find of the day and 1776th total find at 12:39.

It's not often that we get to go caching in the middle of the week, but as we are both very fortunate to have the day off - - -. By good planning or design this cache was on our list.

How could we not have found this last time we looked. It's a mystery!!


Took: Nothing
Left: Screwdriver
Thanks flyjabiru1 for the cache.
Ian and Penny

DNF at 13:33.
Ian and Penny

GZ put us at the top of the challenge. We had a good look around but couldn't locate the cache.

After seeing the pics on the cache pages for the challenges I thought, "Hell yeah, I'll give that a go", but after getting there I thought twice and decided to give it a miss, after all, there are more caches that need finding and I don't want to be stranded out here over Christmas if something breaks.

Couldn't find the wussier challenge option, I think it may no longer exist.

TNLN, Cheers.

The cache was partially exposed, so finding it was not problem. Thanks to flyjabiru1 for the cache.

Find 2 of 2 for the day at 1304.
Found entrance to the quarry after doing a big "blockie" after missing the turnoff and assuming that i'd get there fine. Got pretty close in mum's little mazda, and found the cache no problem at all, after a big of a walk and climb.
Something of note was a black commodore pulling up besides where i parked just after i entered, but departing shortly after. Hmm...
Signed log, TNLN, TFTC!!

Not many muggles about today (only a few little kids on 'bikes with parents) so it was a good walk around and a an easy find.
Lovely colours in the rock formations.

Wish I still had a 4wd, would be a lot of fun.

T domino tile
L panda pin
SL

TFTC

A late log. Found with RoundCircle.

TFTC

There was the sound of motor bikes from all side whilst we were here, but there were none in the quarry.

I would think this place would be very sticky if it was wet, and very dusty after a long hot spell, but today it was fine.

No Swaps,

TFTC

Found 9.30am
Parked at the recommended 2WD spot and walked in. What a strange place this is with all the different coloured rock. Being early in the morning we had the place to ourselves so the cache was quickly found and logged.

TNLNSL

TFTC flyjabiru1

Fabulous colours in the clay!

Found with Dazza1, great hills.

TFTC

Looked at the track and went the other way round today, especially after watching a trial bike rider come to grief on the hillocks below, I thought Id be logging a DNF and taking a trip to the B base. But he eventially recovered.
Nice stack !.

TFTC and the entertainment. !

An interesting location. TNLNSL

Found by Mary & David at 0950. Having attended the Eureka Uprising Event last weekend, we thought we'd better make a start on the prizewinner. Another sunny day and off we set for a day's caching. Not quite a drive-by for us, but close enough. Fascinated by the landscape and the colours. The pink reminded us also of the Heathcote pink cliffs. TNLN, but dropped off WDD 2007 Commemorative Geocoin. Our thanks to flyjabiru1.

Interesting area. And obviously well used.

Again I was glad that this was a trad as a multi would have been a disaster! Hence also no photos although that would also have been hard. I managed to find a nice way to drive to within about 150m and enjoyed the stroll, and the neatly hidden cache. The last in the series for me too!

Found at 2.20pm GAFF1. When we approached GZ it sounded like the quarry was being worked, but it turned out to be the army using it as a training coarse for 4wding. They were going really slow too. Thanks flyjabiru1.

Our 4th cache of the day and we drove to within 20 metres of gz. The cache was located after a brief search. This quarry looks like a lot of fun but unfortunately Diane's back is very sore today so we will return another day to take the picture and have fun
Thanks flyjabaru1 for the cache and for showing us this fun looking area

As with The Morris this location reminded me of the pink cliffs also, I'm not sure whether it was just the time of the evening or the minerals in the dirt but I saw some brilliant shades of purple within the soft white dirt. The cache was found after a quick scramble.

Thanks,

R - B

Found at 1000. Wow. What a place this is, especially for the off road types. This is like the ultimate playground for them. Unfortunately I drive a 2WD so I couldn't give it a test run. However, the 'walking the plank' challenge was no problem. No photo as it was just me there, and no muggles around either. Great spot for a cache. Thanks FJ1.

T - Come Together Yin GC

TFTC.

[This entry was edited by Marcus Vitruvius on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 4:20:54 AM.]

Found by McAdies.
This was a very interesting in not dusty spot!
Our Jack Russell Lucy had a great time running around and was covered in the pinky powder.
Cache found quite easily. We are glad we tried in the dry as it may get pretty muddy in the wet!
Left Yin come together Geocoin

This is one we wish we had left until late in the day as we were all covered in the talcum fine dust and the car is full of dust. An eerie landscape similar to the pink cliffs in Heathcote. We couldn't complete the Lake challenge although we ahd intended - not a park to had. Exchanges made. TFTC in an interesting spot.

Found with Oenze this morning. We were in Ballarat in search of the new treasure caches and this one was one of the essential caches for this series. We drove in with a walk of just under 200m. The ground was very powdery but this early meant that only a faint hum of trail bikes in the distance which may later turn this place into a vastly noisier place. TNLN thanks.

Find # 2213 and 1st of the day at 8:35am Accompanied by Feathertop on a treasure challenge in and around Ballarat. Easy walk to GZ but the sand just seemed to dissapear from under our feet, I would hate to do this one in the wet. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx Flyjabiru1....

1st of 2 for the evening to get the clues for another series!!
Found @ 5.00pm with GeoLoch & Chati
Find # 362. T: Game. L: Fozzycard, 3x dominoes, toy
Thanks FJ1!!

Found it today the 21st, but got the date wrong in the log and wrote is as the 20th?? Had a bit of a brain fade on what day it was. No way I'm driving the Hilux up that one, chalky clay was too loose and dusty and a couple of big holes that would have stopped my progress.

TNLNSL TFTC.

P.S. What is the number four for?

Steve.

The bonus challenge has been altered to be a personal challenge only.
There is no longer a quarry bonus cache.
But keep a look out for “Who dares wins†as a replacement for that cache.

Found with Sandar10 and Geojess(woof), on a quiet Sunday morning. only a couple of motor biking muggles nearby. Cheers to flyjabiru1 for a cool location. TNLN

Found with highrod at 12pm.
Went for a nice walk before the day got too hot. Being a Sunday there were a few motorbikes and 4wds, but we had the dog and a walk as cover.
Again geocaching has taken us to a place we have never been before, although we have been further in checking out the camping area.
TNLNSL TFTC

We love this place. Have been 4WDing many times in/around the quarry and often thought that there should be a cache here.
Thanks to FJ1 for placing one here.
Unfortunately since I was on my own, I did not have a 4WD or someone to take a photo for me, so unable to do the bonus at this stage. Will have to come back again for that.
Cache found after hiking in to GZ, signed log. No exchanges made.
Thanks FJ1

Note for the Cache owner and to finders of this cache:

This cache qualifies for entry into "Ballarat's Best Cache".
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We will be contacting all eligible cache owners at the end of the "Hiding" phase to see if they would like to enter and which cache they will be nominating for the competition.
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Judging will be at a future Ballarat Event, (details to be confirmed).

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