Visiting Mum Ouyen, Victoria, Australia
By
Honeysucker on 26-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1WE2K
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Logs
Nah. Area having a big clean up and a big sign telling us not to go in and impact it. Went in treading lightly and found nothing. May need attention or move, or archive?? Sorry about that.
6 August 2023 - no longer round but a sealed clip box. We do other thing apart from saving lives. Dr's in Ouyen.
Travelling to Lara with dot558
After spending weekend in Mildura,
Time to stop and put some smiles on our faces
Thanks cach all good
After spending weekend in Mildura,
Time to stop and put some smiles on our faces
Thanks cach all good
Brisbane to Adelaide Road Trip
Day Four: Forbes to Ouyen
Weather: great for geocaching!
I managed a couple of caches in Ouyen in the last light of the day. This was one of them. Thanks for the hide Honeysucker.
Day Four: Forbes to Ouyen
Weather: great for geocaching!
I managed a couple of caches in Ouyen in the last light of the day. This was one of them. Thanks for the hide Honeysucker.
Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
Nice to find the cache before the bees.
Nice to find the cache before the bees.
This cache seems to have outlasted the burger place but still a nice chance to stop and stretch the legs on the way to Mildura. Thanks for the cache Honeysucker.
Cache #275
Finished up a job in Ouyen, so decided to grab a much needed cache for the day. TFTC
Finished up a job in Ouyen, so decided to grab a much needed cache for the day. TFTC
Yeah the road house is definitely no more.
Unless you want to buy it.
But the cache yeah that's still there
Unless you want to buy it.
But the cache yeah that's still there
A quick find here on the road heading somewhere. Thanks For The Cache 13 hamburgers were off the menu today
Not the right time of day for a hamburger, but certainly right for a quick stop and find. TFTC
No hamburgers at the roadhouse today. It’s now an abandoned structure. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC honeysucker
Find #7568 at 10:17.
Find #7568 at 10:17.
Out on hot summers day caching adventures with Wollaston. Sad to report that Queen Bee has shut her doors and no longer offering those juicy burgers
#16223 @0945
Day 2 of a road trip to find a few more counties. Cache easily found. TFTC.
Day 2 of a road trip to find a few more counties. Cache easily found. TFTC.
Day #8 of the Birthday Bush Bonanza. It’s a miserable day weather wise across Victoria so a great day for some driving. I packed up camp early and said goodbye to the others. Today is about ticking some LGA boxes and hopefully filling another Ausmer spot on my grid.
Another quick one. A huge new harvester was being towed to a farm with wide load escorts as I arrived at GZ. Fortunately I was out of their view.
Thanks honeysucker for the cache and for contributing to the game.
Another quick one. A huge new harvester was being towed to a farm with wide load escorts as I arrived at GZ. Fortunately I was out of their view.
Thanks honeysucker for the cache and for contributing to the game.
will get here when border opens but in the mean time can someone put a sheet of paper in please
Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch. We found this cache today but were very disappointed, we had read the cache description and thought we would be able to get some food nearby, but the roadhouse is long abandoned. We found the cache anyway, although it didn't quite match the description either. TFTC
Nice and easy to find. Queen Bee closed now but remnants remain. Cache container has changed to gum container
Found by Darcy, Bonnie and Puppy Milla 30th June 12:30 didn’t take it leave anything.
Out and about caching between Sea Lake and Ouyen today 
We found the container quickly but that's the smallest 800ml container we have ever seen
Signed on the log cover as the log is full
Thanks Honeysuckerfor the cache [^]
We found the container quickly but that's the smallest 800ml container we have ever seen
Signed on the log cover as the log is full
Thanks Honeysuckerfor the cache [^]
I am constantly amazed how these containers are able to keep log books dry in this location. Back home it would be rusted out and the log book a sodden mess within months. Not here though. Cache found in excellent condition.
Nice and easy park n grab with tassie expat while exploring this great area. Passing through to Mildura. Thanks for placing this cache.
A quick find with frmen1. We'd heard the news re lockdown 3.0 so were rushing to accommodation booked on the road (too far from home to head back). Enforced holiday now. TFTC
The Queen Bee has departed the hive.
Sadly the roadhouse is derelict these days.
Fortunately the cache is still in play.
Thank you Honeysucker.
Sadly the roadhouse is derelict these days.
Fortunately the cache is still in play.
Thank you Honeysucker.
Thanks Honeysucker a quick stop on the way back to Maryborough after a few days in Mildura.
I'm staying in Ouyen in our caravan for a few nights while M rushes back to the Big Smoke for work requirements. While he's gone, I'm busying myself with finding a few of the local geocaches.
Thanks for find #1708
TNLN
Thanks for find #1708
TNLN
This cache will be Grub62 and my last find for today in Ouyen. A nice hide and TFTC.
After our early morning walk and breakfast at a local cafe - Bunadoorian and I checked out of a nearby motel and continued our day out caching on the way to the Event in Swan Hill to celebrate 8 months to the Whittlesea Mega. This is my 8th cache for the day. My boss calls me Queen B so I thought this was fitting!! TFTC Honeysucker
Mrs Riddell swears she has found and logged this cache before.
The Queen Bee Roadhouse looked as delapidated then as it does now.
We parked over there for some nice shade.
TFTC
The Queen Bee Roadhouse looked as delapidated then as it does now.
We parked over there for some nice shade.
TFTC
I've skipped this one on plenty of occasions but today we finally stopped! Easy find - thanks for the cache.
Found this one just laying on the ground. Signed log and replaced under a bit more cover. TFTC
Day 93 of our trip. Caching along the way. In Horsham today. A total of 8 for the day and 2594 for the trip. TFTC
A quick stop off here and cache was soon found.
Trip log... GreyHams log says it best, in all its glorious detail... so it really is, 'What he said!'
With GreyHams we set out for another chapter of our caching challenge... To find all the counties in NSW. We flew into Adelaide early Friday morning with a return plane from Melbourne Monday night. Taking advantage of some super cheap car hire driving one way from Adelaide to Melbourne. Of course, as a four day road trip it leads into collecting as many counties as was possible as we pass through SA and Victoria as well, with a few side trips for those that were close enough.
The counties a high priority but many caches of interest, the oldies are always great, about 16 2001 caches found plus many others just as old. Web Cams, virtuals, great DT which would see us complete our fifth loop of the DT grid, large caches and lots of regular sizes too. The trip list also included a cache type of each we were missing for each state as well.
Simply, if we stopped for a cache that had made it onto the list, it was not just any random cache, it was selected for a quality of some type we were seeking.
One of the harder things about caching after flying somewhere is that all the TOTT are left behind...usually! So it just had to be done and we took an esky with us on the plane for all those fabulous cold drinks along the way.
The thing I love the most is that we also took a ladder with us on the plane too!
We had targeted the 'on your bike' wherigo series, so many puzzles, so many hours of them so the ladder was important if we wanted to find all the high DT, up the tree caches... which we did! Later in Ballarat we went 'above and beyond' with the ladder once again. A truly essential item to have, we may now need to invest in that inflatable Kayak for future adventures too!
Perhaps it must be said that our route was the least direct way we could have traveled via the Hay Plains and Griffith, but covered a lot of road, counties and locations leading to yet another great trip. Although a number of park and grabs, made closer by our reliable and tough SUV, we also managed a lot of walks, hills, bush, and just a great variety as we explored the different areas.
We crossed the Murray river many times, a lovely healthy looking river system. After our recent trip from Adelaide to Sydney, via Broken Hill and Bourke the dry rivers out there are a very sad sight compared with the Murray.
With so much achieved that we had set out for it was a very successful trip but also an enjoyable one with many memories made and a new batch of stories too! Thanks to all the CO's for there caches that lead us in our travels.
Trip log... GreyHams log says it best, in all its glorious detail... so it really is, 'What he said!'
With GreyHams we set out for another chapter of our caching challenge... To find all the counties in NSW. We flew into Adelaide early Friday morning with a return plane from Melbourne Monday night. Taking advantage of some super cheap car hire driving one way from Adelaide to Melbourne. Of course, as a four day road trip it leads into collecting as many counties as was possible as we pass through SA and Victoria as well, with a few side trips for those that were close enough.
The counties a high priority but many caches of interest, the oldies are always great, about 16 2001 caches found plus many others just as old. Web Cams, virtuals, great DT which would see us complete our fifth loop of the DT grid, large caches and lots of regular sizes too. The trip list also included a cache type of each we were missing for each state as well.
Simply, if we stopped for a cache that had made it onto the list, it was not just any random cache, it was selected for a quality of some type we were seeking.
One of the harder things about caching after flying somewhere is that all the TOTT are left behind...usually! So it just had to be done and we took an esky with us on the plane for all those fabulous cold drinks along the way.
The thing I love the most is that we also took a ladder with us on the plane too!
We had targeted the 'on your bike' wherigo series, so many puzzles, so many hours of them so the ladder was important if we wanted to find all the high DT, up the tree caches... which we did! Later in Ballarat we went 'above and beyond' with the ladder once again. A truly essential item to have, we may now need to invest in that inflatable Kayak for future adventures too!
Perhaps it must be said that our route was the least direct way we could have traveled via the Hay Plains and Griffith, but covered a lot of road, counties and locations leading to yet another great trip. Although a number of park and grabs, made closer by our reliable and tough SUV, we also managed a lot of walks, hills, bush, and just a great variety as we explored the different areas.
We crossed the Murray river many times, a lovely healthy looking river system. After our recent trip from Adelaide to Sydney, via Broken Hill and Bourke the dry rivers out there are a very sad sight compared with the Murray.
With so much achieved that we had set out for it was a very successful trip but also an enjoyable one with many memories made and a new batch of stories too! Thanks to all the CO's for there caches that lead us in our travels.
Generic trip log follows
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Aquilus1 and myself are on a mission.... to collect all of the counties in NSW! but how to get to those 'hard to reach' ones from where we are in Canberra? It would be an awfully long round trip. The answer was supplied in the super cheap car rental deals available if you drive one-way from Adelaide to either Sydney or Melbourne... I guess too many cars do it the other way and the cars need to get back somehow. Flying to ADL on points meant fuel was by far the biggest transport cost we paid for.
This trip is actually trip number two.... to drive from ADL to MEL, via Hay & Griffith! Yeah, thats logical! It was fun explaining where we were going to people, we got a lot of strange looks. The first trip was ADL to SYD, via Bourke. The bonus of course is we have also cleaned up a lot of SA & VIC counties as well.
OK, so primary goal is counties but we of course had 5 or 6 goals. Oldies was definitely a priority, I think we picked up 16 hides from 2001 on the trip along with lots of 2002-2006's. D/T of course is never overlooked and we did well there, I think we will almost complete our fifth loop from this trip. Webcams, Virtuals and Wherigo's were all targetted and finally getting all cache types in each state.
Day 1 was us arriving in ADL at sparrows, with a ladder and esky that we checked in and driving as far as Barmera. We cleaned up the 'On Your Bike' series where the ladder really fulfilled its purpose (I never want to see another online jigsaw again!) and even stopped to grab the LBH on the way out.... after 9:30pm, and after I attacked the dirt road with my body and left a lot of skin on it. Note to self: dont lunge at dirt roads! Luckily the hotel in town was open and we obtained fine lodgings. The floor creaked when I looked at it, or breathed, or changed my mind, but the bed was the finest.
Day 2 was driving to Hay, apparently on their biggest day of the year! No motel had rooms but luckily the new hotel that was supposed to open next week was forced into opening on the very day we arrived.... I like fresh sheets but how about a bed that has never been slept in! The crossed the Murray about 5 times and it was always impressive. We saw the country side change hugely from Rivers, Mallee and the Hay plain.
Day 3 was going from Hay, around Griffith and actually turning south towards Melbourne.... it felt like a long way! We cleaned up a bunch of the counties, in fact all of them, west of and including Naranderra. My map on Project-GC is going to look so green! We got as far as the outskirts of Bendigo, stopping at the first Motel we saw.... it was better than it looked!
Day 4 was getting to the airport, which we did with heaps of time to spare. Checkin closed a huge 18 minutes after our arrival. Damn, we could have grabbed another cache in that time. Ladder back in its box and checked in. I love the fact we took our own ladder!
Now safely back at home I am already suffering from caffeine withdrawal, but thats the price you pay for living on Coke for 4 days.
Sorry for the long generic log, but it was a fun trip and I wanted to share.
Nice and easy find on our way to Adelaide also a nice shady spot to stretch your legs
Nice quick find in the way to mildura. Not exactly a brown screwtop as the description but found none the less. TFTC
Finally found this one and can’t believe we missed it last time we came past. Definitely no bees
In town with Kelligula had another look for this one that has stumped us previously. Surprisingly how quick Kelligula found it this time. TFTC
On my weekend away to attend the 3 x 3 events across three states and stopped to find a few more along the Calder as I went.
The poor old Queen Bee Roadhouse has seen better days and is now fenced off, maybe it is getting a Reno but only time will tell.
Thanks Honeysucker TFTC.
The poor old Queen Bee Roadhouse has seen better days and is now fenced off, maybe it is getting a Reno but only time will tell.
Thanks Honeysucker TFTC.
Passing through Ouyen with geovan in tow we needed a cache in this area for a challenge cache.
An easy find at GZ, cache and contents were in good condition.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
An easy find at GZ, cache and contents were in good condition.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
This was our second finding in Ouyen, and it was an easy one (what we like). Unfortunately the Queen Bee Roadhouse seems to have closed down since quite a long time - beeing a big disappointment for us as we were really hungry and looking forward for one of the described good burgers.
As a reward the cache was in place and in good order. So thank you for luring us to this place!
Paddelhannes + Kanuirm from Bavaria, Germany
As a reward the cache was in place and in good order. So thank you for luring us to this place!
Paddelhannes + Kanuirm from Bavaria, Germany
