World of Animals Nelson, Victoria, Australia
By JGC3 on 22-Feb-09. Waypoint GC1N0FC

Freeing area for new hides.

Tftc!

Thanks for taking us on this nice walk on a lovely morning. Great views from here and a quick find.

Found our 700th find

Found it

Gg

found while doing the loop of the island, will add some pics of the walk

Found 30/12/2016

Nice spot for the view on the way around the loop. SL TFTH

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! We are currently on the first section of our journey, which started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island. We are currently on route to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier (where we are at present), Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. From Melbourne we head to Tasmania for a few days, then back to Melbourne before setting off to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. After a visit to Sydney we will travel on to the Gold Coast, then after spending a few days in the nearby mountainous birding hotspots, followed by an overnight trip to Fraser Island, we will fly from Brisbane to Cairns, visiting yet more good birding sites. We will then drive up to Cape Tribulation before heading back south again to Port Douglas and a day out on the Great Barrier Reef. We then return to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs, where we will hire a 4x4 camper and set off for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. We then fly to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

Another nice quick find at Ground Zero on this lovely nature trail. Thanks for the cache.

Kids had fun again easy cache

Ncte Easter Gang found - but with a bunch of noisy kids missed the wildlife

Quic easy find

Found it

Great view from this spot. TFTC.

GeoHubby spotted this one straight away!

Wow what a beautiful spot said hi to a local and enjoyed the view, what a wonderful way to celebrate our anniversary happy Valentine's Day!

TFTC TNLNSL

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Was confused about the 4 but soon understood

Found the 4 confusing

Found It

Great view of the estuary from here. Another easy find, TFTC.

# 6863. The first full day caching in the area with Robmc and The Morris and we head towards Nelson intending to boat up the Glenelg River to Princess Margaret Rose caves and return.

Instead of heading back to the road we walked on the this one and again made an easy find here. Leaned on the balustrade and watched the birdlife for a while. This walking has made me hot and bothered now but we still have a long walk before we sight the geochariot.

Thanks jgc3

Found on our long weekend in th ePortland area. Today we took the boat down to travel up the Glenelg river and we managed to get a couple of caches along the way.

We took the slight detour from the loop track and added a bit to our walk. Nice big container.

TFTC jgc3

TNLN
TFTC

Good exercise P
Saw a couple of roos on the way.
TNLN TFTC D

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Happy Easter! TFTC

The sun was shining at this GZ, and a very chill wind was whipping up the estuary, as we made the grab. Cache and contents all good. Took nothing, left nothing, as left the rest of our swaps at the car(!). Thanks for another cool cache. Happy Easter!

Found on school holiday geocache adventure to Nelson!

Quick find more great views TFTC

Saw spoonbills, ibis, pelicans, echidna, amd kangaroo.

Visiting Mogni so it was a quick drive around for 9 early morning caches before breakfast. Now it was time to drop a car off at Casterton, so of course just had to stop and get 4 more caches on the way. After lunch at Casterton it was time to do some Vic caches. Another dozen caches found us in the Nelson Pub for dinner. Time to walk off that snitty.

Did the clockwise loop staring here. Quick find. A few people out in the middle fishing. Thanks jgc3

Gorgeous views and frog 1 took some snaps of pelicans relaxing nearby. a great day and thanks for bringing us here : )

Tftc

TNLNSL
jgc3 TFTC

Easy find good walk

Lucky my 11 year old could reach it!

A great walk. TFTC.

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Another one I missed in January, unknowingly walked past this one then but quick find today. TFTC

Awesome views beautiful walk thanks for bringing us here
TNLNSL thanks for the cache

Nice spot

Nice part of Nelson, thanks jgc3 for bringing me here

Found on a loop around the park. Saw a couple of echidnas and plenty of swans. Thx JGC3 for the cache

Saw 3 echidnas along our walk, and 2 wallabys, and a duck. So a fairly successful world of animals. Thanks for the cache.

Last before back to the car. The 5 caches along this walk really make a nice series. This made a great start to the day. Thanks for the cache.

Found on day 3 of our Mt Gambier trip. A very pleasant day caching with mogni.

Mr M and mogni decided to take the hike around this area. Mrs M sat it out due to injury. TFTC jqc3.

Heading to Warrnambool via Portland today after the thoroughly enjoyable Big Little Event... Decided to grab some 'smilies' on the way out of Nelson...

Made a nice straight forward find... Enjoyed the walk & chatting to other cachers who had the same idea...

Took: Nothing Left: Nothing Signed Log

Thanks jgc3 for the cache & bringing me here...

Monday at BLE and after packing up, Dennisc52 and I left the campsite and parked his car. Well, mine was already dusty and dirty and his was still clean

Dennisc52 and I managed to achieve locus cache 25 times before we parted company and took separate routes back to Adelaide.

However I hung around Nelson for a bit longer and so, by the time that I stopped at Millicent for the night, I had gathered up another 19 locus cache smileys (with 1 DNF ), making this a 45 cache day [^]

Anyway Dennisc52 and I had a nice time here wandering around and finding caches while enjoying the lovely views and wildlife

SL. TFTC jgc3

Found during the Big Little Event in Nelson. Caching with Whites on Windsor, lolfrog, and Team Pedal Pushers.

TFTC.

Found with locus cache while attending the Nelson BLE. Thanks for the long walk.SL.

10:27
After helping out at the CITO we headed off for a bike ride and picked up theses 5 caches.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt jgc3.
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I was worried about running out of light and so when I couldn't find it fairly quickly I decided to be safe and stop searching. Thank you for a well thought out walk complete with both caches and Munzees. It was lovely to do a walk that was within my capabilities with my various injuries in such a lovely environment. Thank you.

Well our big adventure is up and running with lolfrog, pedal pushers jeffeddy on wards we go

Found during BLE event on a walk around island with Cabbos and Jantoshys. They had found it already so I signed log while they hunted for the munzee.

Tftc.

At the BLE Event in Nelson. Caching with Whites on Windsor, lolfrog, and jeffeddy. Great cache, TFTC.

What a great spot, few people fishing, love the spot. TFTC

Found on our BIG Little Event trip. Found with J+J.au as well. A nice easy find at a great little lookout. Great place! TNLN. Thanks!

One of several finds with the Toy Hunters. Really enjoying the different cache hides and the interesting locations we are visiting as I travel with J+J.au caching the area. SL..TFTC

I think I did the walk the "wrong" way around from the beach, but this viewpoint came up quicker than I thought after the bird hide. Great view at the end of the walk for me. Left a few bits & bobs, thanks.

We think there were more fishermen out there than birds! TFTC.

A quick find for our little group. TFTC

Found as part of the Big Little Event. Found with debs22 and moorooducrobbos.

Travelled to the local area for the big little event and hence logging as many caches as possible in the next few days.
Day 2 and cache 32.
TFTC

19.01.2013 17:15
TFTC. SL. Found during my attendance at the BIG Little Event at Nelson Vic. Sorry for brevity. Sent from my Garmin GPS phone.
ruralslicker 219

Found during the BIG Little Event with S4pphire, scody & co

This entry was edited by Cracka1 on Monday, 21 January 2013 at 07:27:34 UTC.

Found at 4:36 PM GAFF5 in the company of ruralslicker. We thought that this was going to be a long way away, but while chatting, we suddenly found ourselves in a lovely spot overlooking the mouth ofthe river.
Thanks jgc3,

Found while on an afternoon stroll with Mishion during Big Little Event. TFTC.

Found on our trip to the Little Big Event with Firesafe nice views on a short walk

Doing a run around Nelson getting the BLE series thanks for the caches and effort organisers.Even a wallaby onsite today.

Once again what a better way to spend a Sunday. Being out in the nature enjoying the scenery. TFTC

Found during the BIG Little Event with Cracka1, scody & co.

There was indeed a world of animals to see, from the smallest ant to the biggest .... er.... blue wren
Oh wait there's a pelican over there ... blue wren dethroned .... [:o)]
I enjoyed the stroll across the boardwalk to get here too !!
But I was hoping for a snake sightiing.... where are all the snakes today ?
None seen
At GZ the cache was a nice easy find [^]

In Town for the BLE. An early morning start with jcody, Cracka1 and S4phire.

Back in Nelson, while waiting for some fellow cachers to return from the Mount, decided to duck out before dinner and go for this walk. A great spot, with plenty of wildlife to see, and views back to Nelson to enjoy.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Was in the area for the Big Little Event and making an attempt to get all the caches in the area.

Quick find on our travels - was a little smelly going over the boardwalk. TFTC.

Found while attending the Big Little Event. We enjoyed this walk around the island. Geodad found this one. TFTC jgc3

TFTC

TB drop

Quick easy find at the Big Little Event
Left dragonfly and leaf, butterfly and saw
Tftc

Lot of animals out today even a snake 15m from GZ. TFTC.

Enjoy walk toward the cache
while on BLE series runs
Great spot
Thanks jgc3 for bring me here and cache

TFTC SL TNLN was great to find this one as well and get it ticked off our list .

Found with friends/family
Cruisers95, lillylegs99, hairyscary06, roccoo20, wmf138

TFTC
big day/night out for us i think
Cruisers95, lillylegs99, rocco20, wmf138, K2005

great day, avo out with friends/family
Rocco20, K2005, wmf139, Hairyscary06, crusiers95

great day, avo out with friends/family
lillylegs99, K2005, wmf139, Hairyscary06, crusiers95

Suscoe made the trip out here this morning.
An enjoyable walk to GZ, met a kangaroo along the track.
A quick find and signed the log!!!!!
What a delightful place.
Thanks to jgc3 for bringing us here.

Lovely day for a walk, found with the crew, Tftc

Found with jess_jase whitey84 poleypoel and bradley&rebekah

Found it! tftc

Found with whitey84, bradley&rebekah , tamandbj and poley Poel TFTC

Fantastic walk through the bush and over the boardwalk to GZ.
TFTCSL TNLN

Note to the owner and for future cachers - due to the sandbar at the entrance to the river silting up, the river is well up (little bits of Nelson are flooded) and the road out to this cache is covered in water, at one spot for about 100m.

I have no idea if it is actually passable, but it certainly didn't look it to me. Next time.

You will know from the water levels at Nelson if this changes.