What a Drag Koorlong, Victoria, Australia
By bwpbwin on 18-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZZR8

pwpbwin found your cache. All quiet just us and a lot of tyres Tftc

Easy little find on a nice quiet day. Cache in great condition.

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Tftc. No action here on a Tuesday

Visited the place we heard as a hive of activity last night. No one about today so a straightforward find.Our first full day in Mildura and after a quite cool night some beautiful Autumn weather has been really turned on. Blue skies and warm sunshine.We are staying a bit out of town but with quite a number of well-favourited caches nearby in the bushland and a variety of types we thought we would head out amongst them and try our luck. They were located along a range of bush tracks amongst the scrub so while dusty, fun to drive. Sadly no emus of kangaroos were spotted today to add to the fun.It truly was a great day caching with a fun range of gadget caches added into the mix. We awarded quite a few favourites to celebrate them, especially as we managed to solve them all.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache bwpbwin.**SKI Pair****

found it!

Find#5920Nice hiding place What a epic road trip through Victoria and NSW on our way to Whyalla South Australia Thanks for the cache

Well my trip up to QOGM started a couple of weeks ago and I took the very indirect route up to outback QLD to get there.So after cruising up the Hume to Sydney then the M1 and A1 up to Byron Bay with a few other roads in between as I have been cris crossing a bit so after heading west and making it to Longreach time for a break from the travelling.So after a couple big days out to Stonehenge, Isisford and Ilfracombe, The Tritonz and Roaming Howie finally joined me and we did the puzzle trail.Then a fun first muster day to Muttaburra and back then a great tea event and a few more caches.A trip to Stonehenge and back again for them.The second muster day and boy what a busy day as there was a lot going on in the car with everything we had to do.Collect trads, look at photos, find some forks and then some property numbers as well.The Mexicans as we were called teamed up with a couple of other cars The Morris and Pool Pool to have a lot of fun over the radio.Well all the caches have been found and after another great dinner event QOGM has officially finished.This was my first QOGM and I had a great time, but all good things must come to end and today I must start heading towards home but Im also taking the very long way around back to Victoria.So this was state # 4 for me on this trip.Roaming Howie is joined me on part of the Strzelecki track and left me at Camerons Corner.I continued on down the track and and eventually reached the black stuff again and stayed at Copley then Wentworth.The question for the day is will I reach Melbourne or make my holiday last one more night.So after finding a few more of the great gadget series and others around the back blocks the decision was made that I wont be home tonight.Made it to the back to the black top and then into the carpark.I wonder if the place is still open as the carpark is over grown.Thanks bwpbwin TFTC.

Easy find today. Very happy to be adding this the ZZZZ challenge!! Tftc

Excellent, thank you very much. Well done.

Bigger than we expected TFTC

very easy to find

Quick and fun

Very easy find

**Apologies for the late logging. For those who know me, know I am trying hard to catch up and not draft so many logs and leave them for so long again. Its already June 2024 and Im still catching up. ?????Tankengine, Youban and I were part of the MMA Team from Canberra over the couple of days in Mildura. We had a lot of fun with our friends and found some great caches.Most caches were in good condition and some seemed to have been moved from their original hiding spot and/or nibbled on (probably by animals as we found them laying in the open with the log in one direction and the container in another and the eaten ones we could see they were teeth marks). The roads were mainly clear and wide and although there had been some rain, the conditions were all ok.This cache: Found this one very quickly. Nice to log and head off again. Tftc!!!

Day 2 of the Mildura Adventure and we are collecting the rest of the Paddlesteamer geoart plus some interesting caches with lots of favourite points around the area. Caches signed as MMA or MMA23 for Mildura May Adventure. Tftc

Signed as MMA. Quick find by ten man (woman) team. kutgw

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 youban Kittykatch Joolay NRC GLISS Barb2e Albida on our mini Mildura invasion! Signed MMA - Mildura May Adventurers! Thanks bwpbwin!

Interesting spot

Quick find on our way past. No action here today.

Day 4 of our Mildura Madness run and the gang is all here ??. Really looking forward to looking around. Signing as MMA23 or MMA. (Mildura May Adventures)

Thanks for getting me out and about bwpbwin

Mildura
I joined a group of Canberra cachers to tackle the caches around Mildura. Signed as MMA (Mildura May Adventurers).

Thanks for the hide bwpbwin

Today was our second day adventuring together in the district. Out to tackle the Paddlesteamer and as many other amazing caches as we can with a lovely bunch of Canberra friends! Always fantastic to be able to get away for a long weekend of caching together. Loved the red dust and the crazy caching trails. Thanks for all the hard work from COs make and maintain these caches. Called our trip the Mildura May Adventure so signed as MMA or MMA23 today. Great to be caching with you KLSARC, GLISS! Albida33, Kittykatch, Barb2e, Joolay, Tankengine, DTY73 and youban. Thanks for a great weekend everyone. Thanks for the cache.

Found while on a fabulous weekend away to Mildura to complete the Paddlesteamer & Turtle geoarts, and various trads, multis + gadget caches. The Canberra crew included Nibletricecakes, joolay, kittykatch, youban, dty73, tankengine, barb2e, Klsarc & albida33. We signed as Mildura May Adventures 23 (MMA or MMA23). Unless otherwise mentioned, all caches were quickly found. TFTC.

Done

Was a fun find with the KellyGang24

A quick fInd a GZ. A nice gift certificate contained within for a cacher that enjoys horse riding (expires 2024). TFTC.

TFTC.

We placed a voucher

Easy to find

An unexpected find on an unexpected day.
I have many memories of this track.
It has seen much better days.

Found It!
No racing here today so there was no one else around. And I soon found cache!
TFTC

Day 4 of my 5 day Geocaching long weekend away. This would be Find Number 27 of 31 for the day.

A quich drive in and find then back on my way to the Community Celebration Campout at Murray-Sunset event

TFTC bwpbwin

TFTC!

Found it. Thanks.

TFTC! Easy find, good spot

Great find

Found it

Found it, but tooooo many spiders to retrieve it!

Mystical hole

Found a cache for my JASMER grid while out caching with Wollaston, Liz & Bruce.

Container condition good
Log condition lots of room

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 group stamp

TFTC bwpbwin

Find # 5696

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Honeysucker, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC bwpbwin
Find #8054 at 10:51.

Definitely a drag

Emzheartu

Evilracing found it today

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Mr 5yo loved finding this one.
Thank you.

Another quick park and grab while passing by this afternoon while out exploring the area. Good use of plenty of old tyres, thanks bwpbwin for the hide.

Thanks

Thanks for the hide and bringing out here. The Moose had a bit of fun!

Quick find

Wear pants for the walk

Found!

Found it!

Easy find

Easy find

We are back !!!

Slowly catching up with my logging... Found while away caching with "The Mob" which consisted of GoodLook, The Drovers, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild & myself.
Your cache was found after we had completed the PS series.
A very, very busy area today. This was a park and grab and surprisingly so... with the area almost fully packed of parked cars, yet not at GZ. That made it a simple park & grab with no muggles any the wiser.

TFTC bwpbwin

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

After completing the PS series we split up as The Drovers had already done the ones we were about to do.
We still signed the logs as either The Mob or put our initials in the logs.

There were a lot of different kinds of hides here which really good. Nice to have something a little different.
Looks like there was some action at the drag way this afternoon but had no issues finding the cache.
Thanks for the placement and maintenance of this cache bwpbwin

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Was day 3 of our trip away and today we were back out to finish off the PS Series with "The Mob" consisting of GoodLook, The Drovers, FurfacesLL, LiB and myself. We managed to get heaps done yesterday so only needed a couple hours out on these today then The Drovers went off to do some caches they had left unfound whilst the rest of us went to do some around Mildura/Red Cliffs that they had already found.

Lots of cars due to the drags however no one parked right at GZ so that was a bonus for us. A quick find, signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the hides bwpbwin And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

A really busy spot today as the drags were on.

FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, LíB and myself found a number of caches outside of the Paddle steamer and Turtle Series whilst in the area.

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to bwpbwin for placing this cache.

A quick and easy park and grab.

Thanks for the cache bwpbwin.
Found on 8/3/21 at 19:23.
Find #13063.

First one I found

Found 6/1/21

Found on a trip from Adelaide to the Mildura area for a few days of caching with Team Waldron, Brisal5 and FeatherWaite. Our main targets were the Paddle Steamer and Turtle geoart series' but we also took the opportunity to seek out a few other caches along the way.

We were fortunate with the weather. After a burst of very hot days, we timed our trip nicely to coincide with the milder conditions before the next hot spell. That helped to make both the caching and the camping along the Murray River and in the Murray-Sunset National Park very pleasant.

We ended up finding all the caches that we had targeted. Most were in good order. Some of the puzzles were quite challenging and there were some very novel and entertaining multi's. Some certainly took a bit of finding and there were many very clever and/or tricky caches and containers that were a credit to the cache owners’ ingenuity.

It would have been good to have had another day or two to complete the remaining caches in the area, but I’m sure we’ll be back.

Thanks to all the cache owners for the hides.

Over from SA for 4 days of caching with Egregory1, Featherwaite and Brisal5.

We came primarily to do the Paddlesteamer series but picked up orthers as we drove around.

Apologies for the generis logs.

All caches we found were in good order.

Thanks to all cache owners whose caches we found.

TFTC

***Generic Log unless something special above this line.***

I have seen a T shirt with Sleep Eat Cache Repeat [^] Well a four day trip to Mildura with caching friends Team Waldron, E.gregory and FeatherWaite certainly fit that bill. Logs were signed with initials only for the teams - BEFW

Up at daybreak, quick breakfast and cache all day stopping only to have a snack whilst out on the trails, rush to set up camp near dusk for a meal, then perhaps some night caching, early night and REPEAT!

Strategic camping at Kings Billabong, Rocket lake and The Common meant we were close by the Geoart and target night caches. Two previous trips in 2013 and 2016 by me and some by E.gregory meant we visited some (well quite a few actually) previous finds but that made it quick for the people that hadn't found them previously.

I can't thank the CO's of these caches enough as some were really very inventive. Even having solved most puzzles before we came we were confronted with field puzzles and gadgets that were just mind boggling. [:X][:X][:X]

***Thanks bwpbwin for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found during a trip from Adelaide to the Mildura area for a few days of caching with Brisal5, e.gregory1 and Team Waldron with the main aim to complete the Paddle Steamer and Turtle GeoArt series but also to find other caches along the way. We camped out on the banks of the Murray River near Mildura on the first night, at Rocket Lake campground in the Murray-Sunset National Park on the second night, then back to the banks of the Murray River near Merbein on the last night. We signed the logs as B.E.F.W. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the cache!

Bit raining and cold but we cannot resist some geocaching. Tftc

Not near entrance .. think parking
Great find

Lovely cache. Logged it on a beautiful sunny Mildura day.

Noice

Nice hide

Family friendly hide

Nice cach

This was a great day for looking for this cache, not a single other car or person here. Thanks for the cache.

Grabbing a few more caches before heading home and into lockdown. Not a soul to be seen. Thanks for the cache.

#10094
Day five of a camping road trip with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 & RoamingHowie.
With NSW now out of bounds, today we focussed on Mildura.
A quick find here in a deserted carpark today.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, bwpbwin

#2049
Continuing my first caching adventure with OzHockeyChick, Papi4506 & GeoTurtle37 and a mega adventure it is! Last day in town nabbing a few caches.
Nice quick find. No racing today - all is quiet
Thanks bwpbwin for placing the hide!

Thanks people great game some to do and not hard left a little something behind

Out and about caching for the day, a bit chilly but sure we will warm up while walking around.
Pozzie team at it again.

TFTC

Found by the Pozzie team
No trackable present though
TFTC

Quick find interesting area , TFTC

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Yo

Yo

Yoza!

<3

Quick easy find this one

Travelling wilberries maegen and Lou at it again

Easy find

Yay 3 today

Quick easy find, TFTC

Made a quick find here. Kids made the grab, nice and lid friendly. SL and replaced. TFTC

Quick and easy find. TFTC

Nice easy find. Great for the youngens. On a hazy smokey day. TFTC

Suscoe was out and about again today wandering the raods, parks and bushland areas to the west, south and south east of MIldura.
We were travelling with Phetlern again and having a good bit of fun as we went along finding a very good range of caches.
It was a fairly cloudy day with a strong wind from the south and the clouds looked like they had a good bit of dust in them at times.
It was good to be caching on a coolish day, the flies seem to have been blown away and the sun peeped through every now and again.

Thanks to bwpbwin for bringing us out here.
Judging by the car parking this must have had some large crowds from time to time.
We could imaging the roar of those cars as they sprinted down the quarter mile.

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Travelling around Australia, camped on the mighty Murray today we headed out to see where Geocaching would take us. We rushed around trying to beat the rain but it did catch up with us before the day was over. "Fun" drive back to the caravan.

TFTC

After a windy day out at the 2019 junior dragster nationals I popped over to grab this one. Its my first interstate cache (I'm from Adelaide). Tftc.

TFTC