Bill's legacy Geelong East, Victoria, Australia
By vp4 on 08-May-08. Waypoint GC1BW51

This was one of the first caches I found a couple of months back now. Was with 3 others. Night time find but still easy. Cheers for the cache!

Well 3 off us searched for this one. We even cleaned all off the rubbish out of the trough. But it's a did not find for us unfortunately.
We did enjoy the history behind the cache though. Thought it was very interesting.
Never occurred to me that horses would require benefactors to supply troughs.
Thanks for the history and I'll place a watch on this one to see if we missed the obvious.
Cheers
Dog-gone
28/04/13 19:59 Find #628

Oh.....it's been archived !
I should have updated more frequently.
Cheers
Dog-gone

We have decided to archive this cache for a couple of reasons. Firstly the trough is in poor condition and doesn't appear to be restored in the future. It has also lost its backing plate with the "George and Annis" plaque. Secondly because it is frequently used as a bin making cachers fossick through rubbish to retrieve the cache. Another trough will be found so the story can be told to geocachers.

Found it after searching through the rubbish. Hidden well, bring your hand sanitizer though.

Nice to learn about the history. Safe find as ground zero is away from busy muggle area. Used a stick to dig around in the rubbish to find it

Found it it was covered in rubbish though.

Caution. Guarded by a scary red rack spider

A friend of mine is in the process of photographing all the Bills troughs in Australia so it was interesting to find one. Thanks vp4

First Find. Great piece of Geelong History. Use to park next to it everyday. Easy Find

Had to dig through rubbish, not this nicest cache to find.

TFTC, Bit late on the logs today, Finially worked out i can upload cache notes to the website from my Garmin GPSMAP 62sc, Damn it makes things a lot faster and easier. No more excuses in the future.

Easy find.
But trough is full of rubbish and looks disgusting, and log book is full

Bit of a shame the trough is full of rubbish now! Ended up being a bit of a dig. Tftc!

I was not sure if the cache is one of the bottles or other rubbish. But fortunately it wasn´t. TFTC

In Geelong over Easter visiting family. Out with Son-in-law, increasing the local smiley count.
Actually found this 2 1/2 years ago while caching with someone else. Just had to return and sigh under my own name. Nice to see it is till here.
TFTC

A nice easy find but a bit grotty in the tub. Log book is full. TFTC

Second one for the day YAY!! TFTC

Great find with tasiedevil

Great find with friends

Found it, though its a shame the hiding place has been littered, might want to look over it?

Log book pretty full

Nice easy cache on a hot Sunday arvo log is full needs replacing asap

Found @1438
Quick easy find as the cache was in plain sight. It's such a shame that these iconic structures aren't cared for more. Removed some rubbish and replaced container out of sight.
SL Took marble Left smiley face badge
Thanks for the cache vp4

nice find

A nice one for the kids to find, and an interesting bit of history for us all. Signed log, but no swaps made - some items in there are not suitable for the littlies to be playing with. Did remove some rubbish (juice bottle lid and sticky lolly wrapper) TFTC!

Exposed when we arrived.

Log signed and cache pushed further under.

TFTH

Nice quick find. Pushed it a little further under so as to be out of view.

This entry was edited by bubba_89 on Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 05:14:34 UTC.

3.41pm

8th one today (day 3 of our Geelong holiday)

was very exposed
would be nice to something nicer in this trough, lots of rubbish

T4TC! =)

Nice history for the kids. TFTC. No TB in cache.

found with the girl on our trip to geelong for her birthday

Great find! Unfortunately the Trackable is no longer in this cache

Forgot to bring my rubbish bag as sadly this is a prime location for some CITO. Clever little hide though not what I was expecting. Thanks vp4

Easy find this afternoon! Thanks TNLN

Pretty cool! I've never noticed the troughs before.

A trough as dry as a bone, and even has bones!

Another good hiding spot - especially seeing the drink trough as there are not that many about these days. We did appreciate your cache notes with the history of Annis and George Bills.
TFTC vp4 and for bringing us to see Bill's legacy.

Found it.. nice and easy, funny how i never before realised there was a drinking trough there :/

Interesting piece of history and an easy find!

Found this one today after the Buried Treasure event and informal dinner afterwards. I made hard work of this one tonight - looking everywhere but where it was! Finally I looked there and bingo there it was! I signed the log but didn't swap anything.

Thanks for the cache and the history vp4.

Well we found this one at night. It was a nice quick find with our geo lights in hand. Tftc.

Found in the dead of night while on a nightcaching spree with Aveen. No muggles around at this hour. Aveen bet me to the find here.. grrr
Thanks

Quick find. TFTC

Great history tftc

7690 caches found

found the cement structure then a quick find

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks vp4 for the hunt today

Good bit of history.

This entry was edited by ThePacman on Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 12:16:49 UTC.

TFTC - nice and easy. Very nice read regarding the history

Nice to learn a little more about the local history. A quiet little street this afternoon which made it easy to have a poke around and spot the cache. TNLN TFTC

Found today @1211. Nice quiet street but had to wait for traffic to leave.

Signed log, planted TB and put back.

Pitty theres been damage to the hide spot, but a good one anyway.

TFTC

Nice easy cache on the way home never knew the horse trough was there! TFTC!

A horse trough is definately NOT something I would expect to find in the city. Very interesting to read how it came to be there, thank you! Signed log and left a traveler.

Find number 3, a hat-trick, who needs a GPS! - very quick & easy find, - no mugglers!

TFTC Easy Find

Nice hide...TFTC took TB

T4tc!

Just beat the rain!

Excited to do an interstate find. TFTC!!!!!

Weeeee found

Last cache of the day for this very soggy cacher. What an afternoon to decide to geocache on foot(!). Even with an umbrella, ended up wet from head to toe. At any rate, found Bill's Legacy without any problems @ 17:20. A real shame that some people have decided to use the trough as a rubbish bin. Cache okay though, still with all its swaps nice and dry. Has lost most of its camo, and the lid has a small crack in one corner of the lid, but otherwise fine. Signed log, took nothing, left nothing, and returned to where found. Was too wet to pause long! Luckily, this meant no muggle activity in the area. Thanks for another great slice of local history with this cache, vp4. Enjoyed reading up about Bill and the area, and much appreciate your efforts. Cheers!

TFTC

Tftc. Needs a clean up around though.

TFTC!!!

Fairly easy find tftc

Tftc

J caballo
Left a werthers

Found today on a day/night trip with Ogrebeast! TFTC

Thanks for the little bit of Geelong history out for day /night with Teamranger TFTC

Found this one late at night with the aid of a torch, after a caching run out on the Peninsula. Thanks for the story of the Bill's, and it's wonderful to still see some of these old troughs still about, as they are an important reminder of our history. Thanks to vp4 for the cache, the story, and bringing me here.

This was a nice easy find to end the night with BrdnHttn2000.

Took way too long to find this cache. Must have been the amazing chocolate dessert at black salt that was clogging our brains. Eventually found and log signed. Tftc

Quick drive by from nearby cache, easily spotted, logged and on my way. TFTC

TFTC

23/06/12 2:42 PM Find #1070 On a bit of a spur of the moment Square Pegs and I decided to head to Geelong for a spot of caching and this was our eighth find of the day and another by vp4....we made a quick find but did wonder if the lady over the road was suspicious, not that she could see much with the car hiding us.

This was a cache that I was pleased to have visited today. An object that you might otherwise pass by without realising the extensive history behind it. Thanks for providing some interesting information about it in the description. While we were signing the log, a lady across the road appeared and started sweeping her front lawn. Thankfully we had the car parked between her and us, so don't think she saw the container. Thanks for the cache.

To cant make it drink

Great lunchtime walk and find

Nice hide. I see my friend has beaten me to it TFTH
FOUND 11AM

Found it. TFTC.

My second cache find. It's awesome to find these things practically under my nose.

Thanks team.

Whilst having an overnight stop in Geelong I had dinner and then ran around 6 caches before returning to the hotel for a beer. After a brisk walk I was there at GZ. Nice easy find. T4TC

3rd find for a morning spent in Geelong. TFTC

Found on a quick trip to Geelong in the rain. TFTC.

After 4 successive days of caching with visiting WA friends richlink it was beginning to be a test of endurance especially given the early starts and late finishes. Each day we would report to each other on aches and pains and blisters. Today we were heading from Werribee towards Geelong. This was one we found and we thank you for the cache vp4

Quick find with the kids. Care had to be taken with broken glass around. Have come past here multiple times & never noticed the horse trough!! TFTC.

its fun

Found @ 2150 Hrs after course at the 'Gordon'....

No muggles around at this time of night making this a quick, easy find on a warmish evening in Geelong... What a great bit of history too...

Took: Nothing
Left: Pathtag

Thanks to vp4 for bringing me here!

*Cache Condition ~ Fine...

Easy find, a bit spooky though. TY

Neat find in quiet spot! Another location of significance that would otherwise be overlooked! TFTC vp4

21/02/2012 17:41
It's amazing how many of these troughs still exist after almost a century. Nearly every town in country Victoria has one, usually in a prominent position to be well noticed. It's a shame this one is missing the back plate with the dedication on it.
A quick find on a warm afternoon.
Thanks vp4

Driving back to Ballarat from the Bellarine Peninsula, stopped off to make this find. Located carefully as there was a proliferation of broken glass that needed to be avoided to collect the cache. Log signed and cache replaced. Thanks vp4 for the cache.

This was a great cache for my children to discover! it was their first and only a few metres from our house.

Took Geocoin.
Quick GAFF 1 Find. There were some people having a party in a house at the end of the street. A broken bottle in GZ. Not that wise to stick your hand into it, But I'm not that wise. [:p]

Sailed down from Melbourne for Geelong race week. Too many juggles down at the docks so I had to head out of town a ways.

Easily found. Left geocoin.

Intersting history & cache. Thanks for that vp4. SL TFTC

Wow, what an interesting piece of history. I love it and am so glad I got to learn about this. What great people Bill and Annis were. May their legacy live on.

Thanks very much for this cache!

A nice quick find. Thanks for interesting history & cache.

This log marks the 1159th smiley to be recorded in the stats of WazzaAndWenches.

After spending the afternoon searching for Benito's Treasure out at Queenscliff we stopped at a few caches along the road back to Geelong.

This was the last find for today but we will have to revisit tomorrow. We were in such a rush late today that we didn't read the cache notes like we should have. If we had then we would have known this was a Bill's trough. We found quite a few Bill's during our travels and they are the subject of a locationless cache on GCA. When we return tomorrow we can take a photo to log a find their as well - two for the price of one.

Thanks vp4.

This is an interesting historical site in an interesting part of Geelong. Unfortunately the water trough has been used as a rubbish bin lately so if the next cacher could take a plastic bag and remove the rubbish (some broken glass) that would be good. Also I question the appropriateness of a couple of the items in the cache. TFTC TNLN

Nice easy find to start our visit to the area.
Team Mornington consisting of Hazey1, Saulman1010, Biger12, Geobrat2000 and Skoobdog97 out on a school holiday activity day out.
TFTC

TFTC< a nice quick find.
Team Mornington consisting of Hazey1, Saulman1010, Biger12, Geobrat2000 and Skoobdog97.
Great day for caching.