Botannica #3 - Ficus macrophylla Nathalia, Victoria, Australia
By Team GraMon on 23-Apr-08. Waypoint GC1ADV0

keeps going missing. sorry folks

Had a good look but appears cache is missing needs checking.

King Sr. and Queen on a drive around Victoria in the motor home stoped by to check out your cache
GC1ADV0 2/9/12 DNF but the river view saw great as was the tree, was a wonderful example of nature at its best.

Gave it a pretty good look but not found. Travelling on.

we don't know if we found this one or not what we did find was a yellow cut down book like logs used sitting out in the open at gz.may be you can check to see if it has been muggled and we will try again next time over here.

Thanks to cdMark who was doing some restoration in the area. Cache is now ready go go, replaced with small sistema and log book and pencil.
Cheers

Greetings Team GraMon. Cache container replaced and good to go. Coordinates still OK in my view.
Make it so!

will get round to checking soon and replacing as suspect its gone a floating towards South Australia somewhere.

Is this still here??

Found while on our way to Lockington. TFTC

This entry was edited by pood on Tuesday, 08 May 2012 at 08:27:11 UTC.

Had a good hunt for this cache, but we couldn't find it. Looks like the cache was below the flood line? Cheers Gav

DNF

Is this one there?

Had a good look but no luck. Recent flooding may have claimed this one.

Found it!


Great hide
TFTC

Found @ 16:40hrs.
Found on way to Barmah National Park for a spot of kayaking.TFTC

found but had been muggled, log book missing, I replaced the log book and also included a few items TFTC

Found on Melb Cup Day @12:55pm

Enjoy this one too
TFTC

On our way to Echuca...easy find by Ms Bushies2. Thanks Team GraMon.

Ficus got ya ... TFTC

We found this GC strewn all over the place. Hoping we got all the pieces & rehid the cache. May need to be maintained by creator

Found with Lefty_88

a scramble down the bank for a quick find thanks

Found today geocaching with the family.
TFTC!

Found with Coruze.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC
trooblooo

We love these tree's. None are ever the same. Found with Troobloo. SL TNLN T4TC

Found on our way to Albury nice and early great spot.
Took thong left Doll keyring TFTC Team Gramon

A very familiar tree to me
I sometimes think that half the caches in Brisbane are hidden in amongst the roots of these trees
Unsurprisingly it took me very little time to actually find the cache
But I could have picked a slightly quieter time to arrive..... 8:45am is not a good time if you like your cache finds to be quiet
TFTC.

A nice find today after a delicious pie from the bakery thanks for the cache made swaps and signed log

We attempted this one just over two years ago but unfortunately the cache container was buried under the construction works of what is now an excellent river walkway. We came back here today with the totally opposite story as the cache was located in the first place we looked.
Thanks Team GrhMon for the cache and an informative cache page

Nice easy find on our way back home from Adelaide to Canberra - and no detours due to floods this time! Found with BBBumbleBee, Matt the Splat and SuzieQau. Yippee - found it this time! 2 years ago we were here, and the levy had just been built, and everything was buried, so we didn't find it. Cool tree. Thanks Team GraMon.

#865 @ 10.50am. Found with DestinationOz on our way to Echuca for the day. Was wondering given the recent flooding of other areas whether this one may have been adversely affected by water - fortunately not. This was certainly an impressive tree! Thanks for bringing us here Team GraMon [^]

Found with skullracer1 on an eye opening caching tourer to Echuca & back.
TNLN TFTC

We parked the Car & Jayco off in a nearby street and took a nice stroll to GZ with GeoKid & Big Ez coming up with the goods.
Another amazing tree! GeoKid was able to collect a "HUGE" leaf that he is apparently taking to show & tell next week!

Plenty of mozzies about, so it was a quick sign and back into the car.
Many thanks to Team GraMon for the information provided on these beaut trees.
TNLN

Found the cache during a trip to visit my nan in Shepparton, then headed up to Cobram and Tocumwal on the border. Managed to park opposite GZ and headed across the road to make the find. Plenty of empty stubbies around GZ too but the cache was hidden well enough to avoid detection by muggles. TFTC.

easy find

A quick find once muugles left area. What beautiful trees they are. Been through Nathalia many times but never really stopped to see what lovely specimens are around here. TFTC SL

Another nice easy find. TFTC

TNLN SL

Nice easy find. Recent weather had exposed the cache, but everything was intact. TNLN. SL.

A beautiful day and a great activity to do instead of watching the football. Number four today.TFTC

Found by Team Brooza 2nd of the day, great cache
TNLN

This was an interesting place for a walk along the path by the water, and excellent co-ordinates made this an easy find.

TFTC

This one turned out to be easier than expected owing to the fact that it was half-exposed. Covered it over properly after signing the log. TFTC.

Nice little hide next to the other cache.

TFTC

Great tree, we had one in the backyard when i lived in Berwick years ago it was huge. Love the the river TFTC

Another closeby cache which i must admit are few and far in between up here,unlike in the city.
just a pity i didn't bring a fishing rod with me.
TFTC SL

Found with Mr Jibblets on around trip of caching. Great spot by the river Interesting tree
TNLN TFTC SL

Found it nice and easy on the way to Newcastle for our niece’s wedding.
Thanks TeamGraMon for the cache.

Found and logged at 9:05, On my way home from Echuca for the Anzac Day Event
TNLN TFTC

Found with Roostaman and Fred6603, Had to use a little stealth as some muggles strolled past.

What a great tree!

CHEERS!

Found with BoyRacer while Fred6603 looked on, on our way back home from an Echuca caching weekend.
We found a spot to park the caravan nearby & then made our search.
BoyRacer made the find again & we logged it and then headed for another cache.
A great spot & interesting cache. TNLNSL TFTC,
Roostaman.

Tftc nice traditional nice surrounds

Another good botanical cache, thanks Team GraMon

Yep, a mighty specimen. Don't be tempted to climb as I nearly did. The caching sensible brain kicked in then I found the prize. Clear skies.

Find number 16 of the 27th day of our trip to Tasmania and the Mega Event. Found at 1305hrs, find number 356 for the trip so far. Quick easy one, as it was half exposed. There are a lot of caches in fig trees in Qld. They can be diabolical. Fairly releaved this one wasnt.

Cheers
Bundy

TFTC from John & Shirley from West Virginia, USA. Took tiny PoohBear left HotWheels Silver Reverb and grabbed Bumble Bee TravelBug.

L Barnaby the Bee TB
A nice little spot on the river, just to sit and waste the day away.
Mmmm, second thougts, we got caches to find...so on our way.

No chance at No2 with nosey muggles watching on but no probs with this one after dodging the dog having a go at us despite being on a leash. The owner didn't seem to care.
TFTC

We parked under a schinus molle at Botannica #2 and I enjoyed the short walk to this cache. When we returned to the car, the muggle swarm had grown in size---all looking at GZ---and so we left having only found one of these caches. It was a lovely ficus macrophylla too!
Thanks for the cache.

Found this with Team BAPHA on Christmas morning geocaching in the area. TFTC!

Team BAPHA plus one-- a new initiate. Our third successful find on Christmas day. TNLN. TFTC.

Yes another successful find wow it was fun did it with the family they couldn't beleive it when we found the cache.we did a swap
with the treasure. great fun to do on christmas day. glenron.

Not 1 Ficus but many. Easy find, TNLN, Thanks

a fantastic spot and tree for a cache. well thought of and great piece of information. should come back here and do a spot of fishing
TFTC

A quick find and sign on the way through to Wodonga.
A great cache and good hide.

Micheena - This one had me looking, but found it once the gps settled into the right co ordinates. TN LN

Great tree, great location. Thanks for pointing it out. Took Diabetes TB, Left Winnie the pooh

This is my second attack on this one, last time it seemed to have been muggled, but today it was there, and easy find. It seems that Team GraMon has some bad luck with this. Thanks for the cache and the effort in researching, and thanks for the prompt maintenance. TNLN.

Found with my daughter Jasmine. A few swaps made and one TB left. Very muddy after lots of rain in the area and spent a bit of time getting mud off the shoes.

Roadworks now seem to be finished and we have replaced cache with new container and log in almost the same place.

Darn - the problem of pocket queries a couple of weeks old. - Had no idea that this was unavailable, and searched anyway! Oh well, we came to the same conclusion - burried...

Checked today and it appears the cache is buried under either soil stockpiles for roadworks or new stopbanks. We will leave this cache in a holding pattern until we see the results of said works, then either try and excavate our cache or replace it, possibly in a new position close to the original. Kind regards to all.

Thanks Team Crackers - we will check this out soon.

We pulled up here after having read all about the Morton Bay Fig which seemsto be a common place to hide caches in Queensland. Unfortunately all the recent practice in Queensland didn't help us today as the area is under construction and over half of the tree roots are now buried. We rang cdmark who gave us a good clue unfortunately we think this one may be entombed. The information on the cache page was still well worth the drive.
Thanks Team GraMon

Found at 1100. What a fantastic tree and a great location by the river. Thanks Team GraMon.

beautiful area, thanks!

A lot of muggles passing by today, but we managed to score a find nonetheless. TFTH!

Found at 11.35am
A lovely tree next to a nice piece of river
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Glad it was school holidays as there would be times this cache is very tricky to retrieve. A quick find although coords bounced around a bit. TFTC

Botannica #3 - Ficus macrophylla had been muggled and cache with swaps and most important logbook placed at the same coordinates, just slightly different placement.

Well talk out coincidences! This was another cache that was on our list today in the Nathalia area and we were not aware that there had been a recent DNF. Arriving at GZ we were surprised to run into Team GraMon doing a cache check! Who would believe it. Apparently the previous cache had been muggled and they were doing a maintenance run.

We found the cache in it's new spot and signed the log in the new book - hopefully this one remains safe.
A nice spot along the creek here and there are a number of these types of trees along the length of the creek. Interesting to see how they grow so well down this way.

Another interesting botanical series Team GraMon. It is great to find a cache and learn something along the way. Quite often I do things and never learn from them.

We looked and looked for this one today, we nearly uprooted the tree and found several likely spots but they were all empty. We tried to leave it as we found it but we had move a large amount of leaf littler so it did look a little ruffled. Well it is certainly well hidden. TFTC all the same.

Stopped at Nathalia for the night on our way back from Canberra. Found this, our second cache find in Nathalia, between ordering and picking up fish and chips at the local takeaway! Took eraser, left coloured ball. Thanks for the cache GraMon.

These are quite distinctive trees indeed - and tops for providing shade in Summer! All was quiet in the neighbourhood, so no hassles retrieving and replacing this one. TNLN & SL at 12:15pm. Thanks again Team GraMon, our second find in this series.

This was better, no people around and out of site of the learning establishment across the road.

The cache had lost most of its cover and was in full view. Made sure all was in place before I left.

TFTC

Found at 2.30pm GAFF1. Not many people about today as there was some huge celebration the night before. We are appreciative of the botanical information and it allows us to look at trees a little more closely and knowingly. Thanks Team GraMon.

Found with Karen another interesting cache in the botanical series I do enjoy the write ups with these I think I am the worst gardener in the world nice to have a bit of info on these green things

This series of botanical trees has been both informative and interesting showing us fine specimens as well. Nice easy find for us here.

Found by Mary & David at 1415. Another great tree as well as views of the river. We hope the series will continue. TNLN. Our thanks once more to Team GraMon.

Find # 2374 and 10th of the day at 2:32pm. Accompanied by Geodano, Feathertop and Featherdown. Another easy drive by found by GeoDano. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx Team GraMon....

Next stop here was the fig tree and my experience in QLD caches has told me that these trees provide some amazing hiding spots. Luckily this one yielded quickly as the tree is not in a secluded spot.
Nice to see some running water too. Thanks team GraMon. TNLN

It would be nice to think this one will last a long time, but I have doubts after seeing kids playing VERY close to GZ.
A short wait and the area was vacant.

I was very fortunate that there weren't any kids about when I found the cache. I was able to park pretty close to provide some extra cover but it was probably unnecessary given the size of the tree. While logging the cache I was able to enjoy the great view of the river flowing slowly by, what a great bonus.

Cheers guys,

R - B

Found at 2140. Spent the night in Nathalia visiting my parents, and decided to go out tonight and find this one, fearing that there may be too many muggles around for tomorrow's ANZAC Day festivities. On arrival to GZ, I thought I heard people down around near the tree, so I walked further on and came back in five minutes to find no-one around. Half expecting to find someone and just signed the log, I only found Rubik's name who had visited earlier in the day. Cool looking tree, especially by the moonlight, and the light on the river.

TNLN. TFTC.

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