Nowingi Tank Boonoonar, Victoria, Australia
By reverb on 15-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1X971

Thank you!

Great. Thank you.

S

Small good cache

Very interesting history and great that it still serves a purpose. Quick find Tftc

TFTC certainly taking us in different directions

Thanks

Thanks for bringing us to this interesting place

Tight little spot, everything in great order.

Great spot!

Visiting the Mildura area this week with hopes of starting and completing the Paddle Steamer Geoart. Met up with au.fait and decided this was a good spot to consolidate vehicles and head into the park. Of course the lure of a cache was another great reason to stop here. Quick find and log signed. Had a quick read of the area and again was appreciative of geocaching as l would never have known this place existed. TFTC all in good order.

I found this cache as I was heading back home to Adelaide after the Capital Geobash Mega event over Easter.I was travelling solo again and took somewhat of a zig-zag route, following caches of interest. My main focus was on the non-Traditional cache types, although I did find a few others opportunistically.After a bit of rain the first day after leaving Canberra, its been great weather the rest of the time.I hadnt intended to travel home via this cache, but I got sidetracked by a T5 FTF opportunity in the Murray-Sunset National Park and grabbed this one on the way in. I then continued to the FTF, then on to the campground near Mopoke Hut where I camped the night.The cache and contents were in good condition.Thanks reverb for the cache.

Tftc reverb, thanks for bringing us here.Learnt something today now, favourite point Cache in good condition.

An interesting place. Found on the way north.

Thanks for the Traditional Cache reverb

Easy find with rex46
Thanks

With dot558 to escape the blowy Melbourne winds on way to Mildura when this popped up in my sights for a quick grab

Catch ok
Thanks for placing it

Thanks so much for bringing me here. What a fascinating bit of history.

Facinating tank. Thanks for the history lesson. I wouldn't have stopped here otherwise.
TFTC

What an interesting piece of history nearby.
People drove by here not realising why the locality exists.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 60. Mildura Trip Day 9. The time had come to start heading home, but I did not want to go directly and was keen to visit Echuca to finish the River Travel Adventure labs. It turned into a long day and it started with some detours as I started south to get my first batch of caches done. Then I set out following the navigation device and let me say, it is not the way I would have gone, there were some very narrow roads, but no dirt. I then passed a county I had not been to before, but missed the Map section I needed, that was annoying. My day ended with a walk around Echuca for a few caches and the LABs along the water front. It was well and truly dark by the time I reached my roadside camp for the night.

This short detour showed me a very unusual sight, but was well worth the time.

Thanks for the cache reverb

43344.10 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 24 Hours 200 Caches A#334

**Albida**

Great interesting bit of history
TFTC

Good hint. Tftc

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to reverb for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Day 2 of trip to Melbourne for my niece wedding on Saturday. Return home next week via Great Ocean Road. Tftc

Easy find, this is a cool place. Tftc

Found

That was a quick one. Thanks For The Cache 9 an oldie

Nice little hiding spot

I now know what an ironclad tank is. Tftc

A quick find here, spotted it from the car before parking near the TANK.

Thank you!

#3849

Day 6 was Mildura to Ballarat. Some very cool caches outside of Mildura get some Fave points.
Thanks to everyone!

Nice little spot. Interesting bit of history too. Thanks for the cache

Day 22 of our southern trip. Exploring around Red Cliffs and Mildura today. With a round trip into NSW. We areTeam 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Spotted from the geovehicle.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 31, 2022. TFTC, reverb

Spending a quiet day on the road today due to the high temperatures with RoddyC, hatzofff & grannysmith1947 (To save space on log sheets, we have signed as Team 44 QLD.
Great hint makes for an easy find.

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TFTC smile 11638 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Mildura to cache the Paddle Steamer and picking up any other caches in the area yes yes and another one bites the dust
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, reverb, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 22 of our southern trip. Heading into blues area to pick up an LGA. Very hot here today. Don't need to run around in the sun. Caching around Mildura and Red Cliffs in readiness for doing the Paddle Steamer geoart.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as Team 44Qld.


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#12978 - 4:59:00 PM; Day 3 of the Wang Mega tour with Sol de lune. We didn't quite get to Echuca last night, but we did enjoy comfortable accommodation and a great meal at the Falcon Hotel on the highway right next door to the Downunder Dunny. After collecting that cache, we set off for Echuca and a spot of caching in and around the town, avenging a couple of GCA DNFs from our previous visit. We then hit the Murray Valley Highway again as we headed west before turning onto the Mallee Highway near Piangil, then the Calder Highway at Ouyen for our next overnight destination, Mildura. No problems getting our names into the log, before continuing on our mission. TFTC reverb

After a couple of great days in and around Wang at the Mega, followed by a drive to Echuca, LuckyL10n and I were now on the road from Echuca to Mildura. The plan today was to stop for a few selected caches...those that looked good, those with a few favourtie points..as well all the regular and large caches we could find.

Left Echuca around 9.30am, arriving in Mildura around 6.00pm. All caches we attempted were found, apart from the one that was completely burnt out, so all up a good road trip. Now home
and it's time to log.

Thanks to all owners the along the way, and apologies for the generic log.

Found as we wandered around. Thanks for placing a cache here as we love hides like this, taking us to interesting places we would have otherwise never found if it wasn’t for Geocaching. A fav point from us. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC reverb
Find #7577 at 13:28.

Out on hot summers day caching adventures with Wollaston. How incredibly resourceful and resilient our pioneering families were.

Container condition good
Log condition good

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

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Find # 5205

1 October 2021
9:35 am
1037
Many thanks reverb for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Thanks for bringing us out here, really interesting to see the ironclad. Cache was very well hidden in a cute little hole. Even though it’s less than a month since its last find, spider had well and truly embraced the cache container.

Pretty easy find and had lots of fun doing it!!!

Good one

A very interesting piece of engineering history. Cache was found in good order.

Passed this spot many times and never knew the tank was there. Great bit of history, thanks team for sending me there and well placed too.

We are returning home to Sydney after a windmill quest to Adelaide. This is one of the more unusual and previously unfathomed things we’ve seen. We would never have come here without geocaching. We thought we came across a broken container but, no, it’s where it should be. A favourite for us. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
On my way to Mildura to cache with the gang! After checking out a cool virtual, we made a beeline for our accommodation in town. Super cool spot! Thanks for the cache reverb.
- M

Tanks a lot. Ha
Good to see a lid on it. I remember when you could climb in. Also remember seeing a dead ram floating it. Pew.....

The cache was found not clad in concrete, or even clad at all. Replaced in better condition. TFTC.

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MICK n morgs 12/1/21

Nice home for spiders

Nice home for spiders

Good quick find. TFTC

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TFTC. With regional victorians able to travel we decided to take the opportunity to head to Mildura to attempt the PS series. First we had to drive from Maryborough, so of course we stopped where we could find a cache. Thanks to all the cache owners. We will make special comments where applicable.A quick find as we detoured off the highway.

Nice

found on the way to work after a long vacation away from geocaching great to be back at it

Interesting area and good reason to place a cache here. Thanks for bringing us here

Great hide, really enjoyed this cache!!

Found with Knipe raider

TFTC !!

We came up here for the new PS geoart series, and made our way to Rocket Lake via the Nowingi Line. What a fascinating story about the train line and early settlers. TFTC reverb.

Picked this one up on a trip with 2beez. Not long ago they were here. No spider today An interesting piece of history.

Thanks reverb for creating and placing for all to enjoy.

Tftc nice drive from dunolly found with 2beez

TFTC out for the day with PeteBev. Enjoying a week away camping - this cache was also protected by big black spider
Very interesting history here

Covered in cobwebs but we got the courage to grab it. Weather is slowly warming up. TFTC!

We don't think this one has been out for a while.

Doesnt l9ok like its been found for a while

Travelling Wilberries maegen and Lou at it again tftc

Beware of creepy crawlies

Found with Bucketeer after a day of going round in circles, tackling sand hills and finding caches.
Amazing sized tank!!!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Well, this is a historical spot.
It’s always interesting to learn about these things that we would otherwise not know existed. TFTC

Sitting at my computer during these Covid lockdowns, I am trying to catch up on a few logs that I haven't sent in yet.

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late log, something I am notorious for. Thank you for adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Thanks reverb for the cache.

Must have forgotten to log this one yesterday, found on our way home from Lake Cullulleraine, I think we left a hair clip in the container

Suscoe was heading to Mildura this morning from Ouyen and we had a number of caches to visit as we travelled northwards.
It was a delightful day, blues skies, a breeze from time to time and a top temperature in the high 20's.
We enjoyed this section of caches hides and saw some interesting country as we headed along the highway and the byways.

Thanks to reverb for this hide, what an interesting spot.

Quick stop off here for an oldie, signed the log as the train passed by.

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.

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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.

Very interesting location.
TFTC

**Find #2859**

On a Motorcycle camping trip this Grand Final weekend. Stopped by to grab the cache. A great place to stop and rest, with undercover shelter and table and chairs. Great history lesson here.

Thanks **reverb**

TFTC.

found on a return journey from SA as I limped home after hitting a Roo,

Thanks for the cache.

Got him

Tftc

Wow such an interesting spot. Makes me think my grandfather was probably here at one stage as he worked on the railway lines in this area.

Fun find for the kids. Pity dad wrote our team name wrong

Watch out for big ants
Tftc

Found thanks great spot

TFTC

Drive in found the tanks and also found the cache TFTC

Out driving with muggle friend and she agreed to come along to find a cache with me to get a first hand experience of what I'm always going on about. Well what an experience it was! Neither of us had any idea this interesting piece of history was lying out here just off the highway, we've driving by it a million times! We quickly located the cache and as we were signing the log a car pulls over. My initial guess was the elderly gent may have been a fellow cacher, but no. Turns out he is the man in the image on the info board! His family have farmed the area for generations, and have been an active part in the creation and mantianence of the "tank". He tells me the pump when restored was put in the wrong location and should actually be where the "nowingi ironclad" sign is... It was in that location for ease of access for the horse drawn carriages. We had a great chat about the changes in farming practices and the current resilience of irrigated farming and the resulting environmental impacts of this, such as the current fish kills occurring in the Darling River. He was amazed at the concept of Geocaching and that this one had been here since 2009.
So thanks to the CO for placing this cache, it was a great adventure.

More flies!!!!!!

Tftc

Tftc

The geo kids made a nice quick find here. SL and returned. Thanks for the cache.

We have been travelling since January when we left Geelong and travelled up the centre to Darwin
Crossed the border into WA at the beginning of May and completed the gibb river road and cape leveque, highlights of our travels
From Broome we have zig zagged from coast to inland and seen and done some amazing things, swimming with whale sharks was indescribable
We have seen so much and when we finally crossed the Nullarbor and got to Port Augusta we decided to go back to Alice Springs to see our daughter who works there
Now we are travelling to Bendigo to see eldest daughter before heading home
Thanks to caching we have seen more than the muggles out there
TFTC

*Found en route from Renmark for family holidays*

With time constraints I only had time to grab a few along the way as I head for home.

A nice straightforward find here .

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment reverb. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Cache Condition**: The container and log book are in good nick.
**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

Cache-On!

Heading to Swan Hill to do some geocaching over the long weekend.
This one was true Mallee style and we enjoyed looking around. The Ironclad was interesting. Thanks for getting us off the highway to check out think area. Great spot. TFTC

Bit of a run north west from Ballarat heading outback

Found while travelling to Mildura. Container and log are both in good condition, but bring your own pen. TFTC.

A good find and my partners 200th

Find #200 for me!! Yay! TFTC