MAD MAX MOVIE - OLD PRETTY SALLY ROADHOUSE Wallan, Victoria, Australia
By tackle_head on 17-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZWET

This site is no longer recognizable from the movie and is now no longer worthy to be part of The Mad Max - Movie series .

Had no luck with this one. There has been some work done around the GZ and my GPS was showing the cache to be right in the middle of a freshly graded and cleared area. It might be a good idea to check to see if this one is still there.

pulled up to this one and had a good look around what the gz a few spots seemed likely but nothing was there. i would have liked to spend a bit more time but the kids wanted a playground will have to come back to this one

I can remember struggling up Pretty Sally in an old Ford 60 years ago. This all brought back interesting memories. TFTC

Quick find. Can't see the similarity from the movie

Thanks for the cache, nice to know where the road house was. Walked right to it, that was nice as the iPhone was not showing the spot as well as my eyes were. I think this is the the second Mad Max cache we have done. A shame poor Mel, has been in so many bad books the last few years. we actually got lost, and this cache helped us get back on the road again. We have got to remember they don't put rest stops in new developments

TFTC

A quick drive-by find with Debs22 while around the Kilmore area. TFTC

I think this is the second I've done in the Mad Max series. Looking forward to doing the rest. Was a quick find and sign. Thanks for the series tackle_head.

My first find of the Mad Max series. Look forward to finding the others.
On my way home from visiting the family in Heathcote. This was my 3rd out of 3 finds on the way back to Melbourne. A fairly easy find or maybe I was lucky.

Very quick drive by while out caching with moorooducrobbo in and around Kilmore. TFTC

Cache changed to a micro and replaced

I was working in the area and saw this one needed a tlc. The cache is missing. So I've replaced it with a bison tube , inside a mint tin , temporarily until the CO follows it up.
Always happy to help a fellow Geocacher.
Cheers TH
Dog-gone

Find #1253 @ 1820 Hrs ...

Decided to grab a few caches on the way home to Melbourne from Mildura (school holidays)... This is the first time I have ventured out this way & enjoyed the drive...

Made the find, signed log & returned... (Found just on dark but had to resort to clue)... Don't understand the DNF's???

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

Thanks for bringing me here... (Only 2 more to go Steve)...

*Cache Condition ~ Fine

No joy on this one, may need to be disabled till its checed

Looked today again. I'm positive it's not here dug very deep in the hole with beer bottle not there!

Juggles have taken I believe....

DNF at 10:34:09 AM. Looked on both sides of the road - no cache could be seen. The area is a bit of a mess with deadbeats throwing their rubbish all around.
It is interesting that you can still see the Charcoal Grill sign!

Found spot I believe had beer bottle in its place and nasty underneath I will go back once more but I believe it may have been muggled. TFTC Anyway.....

Looking back at all the 'easy find' logs, I'm hoping it was just a bad start to my long to Echuca and back.
Arrived here and searched all possible places i could see, but had no luck in the rain in finding this one.
Thanks anyway TH, would've been nice to cross another in this series off.

On the drive to the international Geocaching day event in Bendigo
GeoKids Blake and Nate and myself

First one for the day Quick find TFTC LS

nice easy find. TFTC.

I was in the area for work and thought I'd see if there was cache to be found in the area.
What luck....a Tacklehead cache and Mad Max to boot. A double bonus.
I love this series. Thanks for the cache T. H.
Cheers
Dog-gone 17/07/12 8:40 AM Find #385

Found with nirgalagrin... now I have my own account.

11:01

Our first road trip since we started caching... let's see how many smileys we can squeeze into the trip north.



Ooh... a Mad Max cache... the perfect way to start the day. Boy, the journey over Pretty Sally has become so much easier since Dad drove us to Christmas dinner way back when.



A nice quick drive-up on a muggle-free day. Cheers, tackle_head.



#469

11:01
Our first road trip since we started caching... let's see how many smileys we can squeeze into the trip north.

Ooh... a Mad Max cache... the perfect way to start the day. Boy, the journey over Pretty Sally has become so much easier since Dad drove us to Christmas dinner way back when.

A nice quick drive-up on a muggle-free day. Cheers, tackle_head.

#469

this one had me going today as all i had was the grid, and for some reason didnt look on the other side of the tree untill 10mins had passed. aaahhhhh
tftc

Enjoy......

A quick stop and find at the start of our long weekend of caching. Thanks for bringing us here and for the cache.

On my way to Melbourne today and decided to leave the freeway for some back road adventuring and a cache or two. Found in short order, TNLN SL and TFTC!

Found at 11.45. A nice easy find and thankfully not in the eye of passing traffic.
TFTC

easy find, tftc

easy find tftc

thanks easy find tftc

Sunny Wednseday - TFTC

Quick pickup on the way home - Co-ords had me looking at the opposite side .....Mmmm no cache here so expanded my search zone a viola there she was, tucked away safe and sound.

Thx for the hide T.H

Found it with Radioburwood...finally able to log it after becoming premium member...

At 1330, finally made it here !!! Can't believe how its changed. TFTC!!!

No luck for us today.

TFTH anyway tackle head.

Replaced container and size has changed

I found myself over this side of town hunting for a FTF at "Historic Kilmore Country" late at night. I wanted to pad my numbers up a little while over here to get closer to 3000 finds.

I kept looking in all the wrong places. Even with a good hint I could not find it. Then I finally looked correctly and there it was. TFTC

On our way to Echuca for our sons wedding and we just had to do some caches as we went. Nice to find a real 'drive-by', so many of them aren't really! Took TB 22 GBR. TFTC

Easy find @ 16:45hrs.Thanks tackle_head for this cache and the series.

Missed logging this one. Had a couples of attempts previously but had some dodgy vehicles pull up to close. So moved on.
With Greg on board this day cache was quickly in hand. SL TFTC

cache was an easy find with superpops, but then a truck pulled in so had to wait till I could replace. Dropped off T.B. tftc

Easy cache, pitty about the mess around it! Saw a little bit of the roadhouse but as it was getting dark, didn't have a good look. Thanks for this find.

Took the travel bug and left a key to my straitjacket.

An easy drive by but with clean up work going on it may not be safe for long. TFTC tackle head

Found @ 16:44. Some grading next to GZ, but cache all safe. Disappointed not to see any of the cafe but the memories live on. Cache a bit damp so we removed the tissues and put in some silicagel. Took nothing left TB to help his journey north.

TFTC tackle head

Another stifling hot day, and we caching idiots are out in the heat again. I have no idea why we do it, but we just keep on hunting for one more...and one more... and so on.
Thanks, tacklehead!

Found with Just a cacher after a trip to Ballarat to see some friends for New Years. A quick grab in the heat.

Surprisingly not much traffic on the roads today, perhaps the heat is keeping them in the cool.

Thanks for the cache tackle head

Out to get my secret Santa today and grabbed a few caches on the way home.
I remember this place even before Mad Max as dad and I stopped here when I was much younger and we were heading to Heathcote to go ferreting and fishing.
Log book damp, replaced ziplock bag

This entry was edited by Datruk on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 13:16:55 UTC.

20 November 2011 19:31:00

On my return from Melbourne's 1st and my 1,000 cache I thought it would be rude not to get a smiley on a tackle_head cache.

Well this one dissapointed me

Not the cache though, the fact you can't see a thing of the roadhouse.

The bloody conifers are thick as!!

Oh well, I'll haver to pull out the DVD again for some cherished memories.

TFTC

WOW ...haven't been along this road for I don't know how long ... soooo long ago!!
Raining, easy find then back track for lunch then over to the Hume and head north .... TFTC tackle head

Cache is *very* moist from all the wetter weather we have had over the last couple of months. Cheers.

After passing this cache maybe 100's of times since moving to Kilmore, I thought it was about time to grab it, so thus I did, around 1700hrs and plenty of traffic passing by. We have done a couple of the other caches in the Mad Max Series. Many thanks for this one.
Team Seegs.

This entry was edited by Team_Seegs on Monday, 17 October 2011 at 10:59:10 UTC.

There was still time before the AWG stroll so we dropped by this Mad Max piece of nostalgia. We logged the cache at 10:30. We were concerned by a nearby SUV but it seemed unaware of our activity. Took TB. TFTC

This entry was edited by LinearZZ on Monday, 15 August 2011 at 07:02:55 UTC.

#704 We have had this one on our 'to do' list as geoMa's name is Sally AND we both remember calling into this Roadhouse many moons ago when it was on the main road to Melbourne. Pretty Sally Hill was also an indicator that Melbourne was not too far away on our long trips from Wangaratta as children. GeoPa is a fan of Mad Max movies, GeoMa not so much. Looks like we have a few more of the series to find yet. Oh the places geocaching takes us! Found at 10.13am and a much quicker trip today than all those years ago - although stopping for caches does make the trip take longer but sweeter. [^] Took: Rose GC Left: To Oz and Back TB TFTC tackle head and the trip down memory lane - a pretty quiet place today.

Relatively straight forward find, dropped GC, Number 11 of 13 in the series for me. Thanks t_h.

Quick find after finding the massive potholes driving in. Couldn't help but notice the irony of having wet in the cache number as it was pouring rain and I took it back to the car to swap some tb's and sign.
TFTC

10/07/2011 11:52 Found: #547 1of6 My first Mad Max series cache. We just happened to be passing by on the way to Bendigo when I saw this appear on the GPS. As it happened we parked a mere 4m from GZ. I showed AAA the GPS and he had it in hand 5 seconds later. After signing the log and telling him about the movie etc Josh and I walked along the tree line till we could get a look at the roadhouse and part of the charcoal sign. A great start with this series. TFTC tackle_head. TN Left TB TB392FA 'GEO Garfield' SL

found with geo child on our round about way to Tongala. We drove past this before I realised I had missed the turn off as it was wet dark and foggy night. Turned around and come back and due to fog nearly drove past for a 2nd time. Found GZ and quickly retrieved cache and jumped back in car to SL etc as it was freezing at 9.40 pm. SL and then returned cache as fast as I could so I didn't freeze. T2L2(1XTB) TFTC

great.. now we will have to find the other 12 or so caches in this series. Looking forward to completing this set. Took compass and left nail clippers. Thanks for the cache.

Have driven past this spot a couple of times, but finally had the wherewithal to stop and visit this iconic site. Yes the old roadhouse may be past its day, but what a location for our first meeting with the Goose! I can just imagine him screaming off in pursuit of the Toe Cutter!

We started on the wrong side of the road, but once we re-evaluated our situation, cache was very quickly in hand. Found with Kilmore Harper.

TNLN ..... TFTC ..... SL

1447 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1140 on our trip back over the border.It is a pity that like most TRUCK stops the rubbish is everywhere.Today it didn't matter much as with cold overcast weather we didn't hang about for much time.SL visited CacheMover coin Tnx tackle-head.

Found just after midnight whilst coming home from a rally in Heathcote, nice easy drive which was quick to find. The only hassle with doing a Mad Max at night is that you can't see the scene very well. Thanks to tackle head for this series, this is number three I've found so far.

Found at 15:37hrs, this is one of my local caches, and thought I'd do a couple this afternoon. TFTC TN, planned to leave my signature pathtag in the cache, but found it still in my pocket at the next cache.
I find it amazing that a lot of cachers only write on one side of the page in logbooks, I do understand when people use stamps it is difficult as the ink leaches through the page.
Performed some maintenance for tackle_head, cleaned the seals on the container, dried some of the damp items, replaced the absorbent material in the bottom of the cache as it was wet and removed the clip seal bag containing specific mission data sheet for [TB Ingot Geocoin], as the TB Ingot Geocoin and associated Tassie Devil keyring has since been removed from the cache.

4294. [font=Century Gothic][green]I will have to go back and watch the movie yet again now that I've done some of this series. Would love to get back and do the rest one day but that doesn't appear to be in the near future. Thanks for what I did get to anyway.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

Found at 3.45pm. Out and about today with xambo4u on a mission to clear out some that we hadn't had time for on previous occasions. Mrs 80 remembers the significance of reaching Pretty Sally on the way home from holidays up north. This was a quick easy find TFTC tackle_head

3.45 Out and about with 80 degrees today and the sun is out but not hot. What else could you want, but a list of caches to be done(created by Mrs 80), Mr X behind the wheel and the support team rearing to go.
We are on track and Mrs 80 is very pleased with our timing thanks to the beast taking out so much of the walking time, we may even get through them all.
This is a very easy drive by. Not a great lover of these Mad Max Movies but appreciate the effort of the cacehs.
This was our 18th for the day.
Thanks for the cache.

My first Tackle-Head. I remember getting fuel here with my dad. A long time ago

We went past this one while on the hunt for another in the area Never mind this was a great find for our 70th cache find so far Really enjoying this. TFTC signed log

We were bored and decided to do some night caching found at 9pm

Signed log , took Aussie badge left bracelet.

Took TB

Pretty Sally has always been one of my favourite places over the years, for a variety of memories.
Easy enough find while heading out on a cache maintenance day.
Took car, left key ring.
TFTC

micheena - first for the day. On our way home from holiday in Tassie.

micheena - TB didn't drop in trying again.

Found @ 12.30pm, #575
A quick stop and find, couldn't see much of the roadhouse.
Thanks tackle head for cache.
Left Lobster TB.

2nd for the day. Quick find.

Taking granbrats home kept them happy - took bulldog left car! T4TC - see you at bendigo CJSAN!!

We actually drove past this one going in the opposite direction, but being a roadside stop there was plenty of room to do a "u-ey" with the camper on so we could grab it - worked out well, because we then continued onto "Looking over Wallan" which we were going to bypass this trip.

Can't say either of us have actually watched Mad Max - but definately heard about it - we will put that on the "to-do" list.

Many thanks for showing us the area. TNLN SL

Thanks tackle_head, the Goose(Steve Bisley) flirting with the waitress then bolts out the door when the chase goes past. Thanks for the location around the area. Not many left to do.

Found by Team Ladava around 12.00 on a sweep of caches to the north east and north of Sunbury.
At last an opportunity to complete the series of Mad Max caches.
Looking out to the east reminds me of flying through the Kilmore gap under low cloud many years ago when I had my licence.
Took nothing
Left Ambulance pin and toy soldier.
Our thanks to tackle head for this wonderful series.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
* *Overall Experience: 3*
Cache condition – Very wet. We dried it out as best we could.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Loved the movie!! Wish we could have got a look at the site but it is well hidden from the road. An easy find. Contents were a bit damp but log was dry.

Found this one after a short time once we realised we were on the wrong track for a while
and it was so wet and muddy under foot.
Found @ 4:44pm
TN but left Aussie Flag Badge
SL TFTC

sorry no pic but it was raining!!!!!!

A great drive by and an easy find. Thanks tackle head. TFTH...SL...TNLN

Found 15/11/10 16:07 . A nice quick driveby on a geocaching detour up the Northern Highway

OUT: geocoin & pathtag

Cheers Tackle_head

Subject: Podcacher podcast show

Turns out that The Mad Max Movie Series has had a mention on a podcast show for Geocaching
It's at the 16 minute mark


http://www.podcacher.com/2010/11/show-294-0-going-to-the-movies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+podcacher+%28PodCacher%3A+All+About+Geocaching%21%29



Steve

A drive by whilst on way home to bendigo.
L tb and pathtag
sltftc

We were hoping to grab a bite to eat but with the roadhouse closed today we had to just settle for logging this find. Thanks for bringing us to a Mad Max location.

Found while on an outing to Hanging Rock today. It's been years since I used this section of road. TFTC, TNLN.
Cv.

We never knew this place was here. An interesting piece of history.
TNLN T4TC
Greg and Bev

just got a new travel bug and am using it to calculate distance

confused us for little bi but got it just as we gave up!!!! cant see anything anymore as its all over grown shame TFTC

10.55am.We were on our hols and were following Lochb to the 10th anniversary event when we stopped here and got a lesson on mad max,thank you for this series.a quick find here.sltn.greetings from a minus 5 degrees,very cold england.patandjeff=bones1.

I remember this road house from before the movie...Many a time we had boiled the old FE Holden on the crawl up the 'Sally" with the speedway car on the back! And we had to wait for a while till she cooled down. I wasn't into coffee then (and neither were they in that respect) so we had to resort to other drinks to cool us down. Still a great life back then. They should restore this place back to its former glory instead of hiding it behind a hedge fence. When I worked for Mayne Nic's way back then, many a driver would tell you stories of crawling up Pretty Sally with a load on.
Thanks Tacklehead for bringing back the memories

Found in the company of Mr Coffee & Team Crackers, and also ran into The Swaggies & Mr Jibblets as we arrived! The cache was soon at hand, but what were the other cars racing in to the parking area doing? Cachers? nope, just spewing kids. hehehe. No swaps made, thanks for the cache.

A quick stop here with Mr and Mrs Bones1 on the way to the 10th Anniversary event. My GPSr initially pointed us to the other side of the car park. TFTC

Nice easy find
TFTC

Took a few moments of searching before another car arrived laiden with cacher's who pointed out the general vacinity of the cache as the gps had us searching elsewhere.
Thanks for the cache tackle head.

11.30am
Found by Roma and Max.
Our first PMO cache find!
Thanks tackle head.
Cheers,
from Romax.

Found by The Empire + H @ 10:20am with The Lone Random
1st of 14 today in Victoria's Goldfields! Second time here and there was a guy in a truck sipping his coffee slowly when we arrived! I was not going to be beaten, when he got out to check something in the back of the truck - I was in for the find! That's it! All of the Mad Max Movie caches have now been found by The Empire! Hurry up and put some more out so I can find them too! Thanks tackle_head!
- M

Found while exploring outer Victoria today - beautiful day for caching TFTC TTBLS

on the way to deniliquin for 2 night .