HM#6-Slaty Creek State School Emu, Victoria, Australia
By tigersden on 05-Dec-09. Waypoint GC21Q8X

Found thank you

Found on a nice day in the area

As we were in the area and passing we decided to collect this cache. Took a few minutes to spot but got there in the end. tftc#9517

Having 4 days off from work so my wife suggested to go geocaching so took her advice and came to St Arnaud for 4 days of cache searching.
Thanks to all the cache owners for placing them.

I like to visit these old school sites and imagine what happened there in the past. My first school a kindergarten is now a child care centre. My second a one room primary school has long gone and recently in the past few months the site has been bulldozed and is being developed as a housing estate. My third school, a brand new primary school closed down about ten years ago and the site has been developed as light industrial. My fourth school a high school has been relocated about 4 km away from its original site. Only about 3 of the original buildings are left. The cache was found and log signed.

Interesting coming to old School sites as the Primary School I attended is also now gone
So Sad to think was must have been
TFTC :)

I’m always a bit sad to see one of these old school sites - TFTC

We spent a about 10 days on the road with aqau caching around St Arnaud, Ballarat and Daylesford areas. Stayed in the nearby caravan park. Sorry for the late log.
Thanks for your cache.

The GPSr device took a while to settle but we eventually found the container and were able to sign the log. Thanks to tigersden for the cache.

Found with O319 on a day caching around St Arnaud.

Quick find with SJG66 on our tour of Western Victoria. TFTC

Interesting fact.

Slaty Creek State School is an anagram of Cool Rock Cache Escape!

Fltf

Great geo

dalerious and I hightailed it up to St Arnaud for the weekend, and as usual we had a full consignment of caches on our wishlist to try and sign. The majority was leaning my way, as there was a whole bag of Challenge caches for me to scratch my name into, as well as some down right quality mixes that sets St Arnaud apart from the crowd. More night caches than you can poke a stick at, and did I mention the wherigo's . We sure are spoilt for choice here, that's for sure .

Age is what I was after here, and I got it. Thank you tigersden .

We're out for a drive in the country to add a few finds to our total and decided to stop for this one as we passed.

Thanks for find #3314
TNLN

Love history and bottle swallows tfth

Tftc out for dive

Day 19 of our southern trip. Around St Arnaud for the second day, with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Appreciate historic school caches. Exemplifies the importance of education to our forebears.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 28, 2022. TFTC, tigersden

Day 19 of our southern trip. Caching around St Arnaud and winding our way back to Charlton. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges as well as well as adventure labs and hopefully some night caches.

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

Pickip on our way to our c'park before leaving for Red Cliffs.

TFTCache tigersden

TFTC smile 11579 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Charlton doing Challenges and picking up any other caches in the area
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, tigersden, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Hevwalker and I were are on our way to the Wangaratta Mega and St Arnaud was our half way stop. After taking off van at the caravan park we headed off to grab some caches. What a lovely little building. TFTC

scramping & I were on our way to the Wangaratta Mega event this weekend...
Tonight, we stayed in St Arnaud which is about half way...
We just completed the challenge caches and grabbed a few others on our way back to the van...
TFTC tigersden

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. TFTC tigersden
Find #8093 at 08:17.

Found out early morning caching with Wollaston and a couple of kangaroos.

Container condition good
Log condition lots of room, neatly rolled and held with a band

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

TFTC tigersden

Find # 5714

It was a lovely day, and we had done our work for the day. We had never tried to find a hundred caches in a day, and we were hoping that this would be the day. We had several caches that we were specifically targeting, and for the rest, we would see how things panned out. We started from Avoca and were going to end up around St Arnaud. We do love a school cache, and this was a quick find. The cache is in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache, tigersden.

Nice quick find on a rainy day. A hall in an abandoned place now.

Nice spot for a cache

Cheers BUAHRATZ

Nice easy find for the girls. TFTC.

Not a quick find but found it - careful as lovely day for snakes

found it

My third and final former school for today. Thanks Tigersden for this series.

Quick find on the way home from Sea Lake

Sad to see the demise of old schools. Once so vibrant and essential to the community, once people move away, the area just shuts down. Gosh, the stories it could have told!

11/05/2021 - Kate Adam Tiger

A nice easy find

TFTC collecting while staying in St Arnaud.

On our way to Mildura and stopping to find the odd cache along the way. This was a fairly easy find, and the lack of long grass put my mind at ease on a hot day like today.

Thanks for bring me here and cache

We had an enjoyable winters day geocaching around the area.
Magnificent weather and some great views near GZ.
Thanks for placing this geocache for us to find today.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean 14.
We had a great day out exploring the area.
Thanks for hiding this geocache for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
It was such a beautiful day to be out exploring the area.
Thanks for hiding this geocache for us to find.

Hi there tigersden.

We found your cache **"HM#6-Slaty Creek State School"** today. (This makes our find count 24483).

Today we headed out from St Arnaud so we could attempt the Challenge series - but we also had to find this one. As it's not part of the series it deserves a finely crafted log, not one of the crappy cut-n-paste ones that usually are associated with power trails.

We found 52 caches today & DNF'd 0. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Roaming Howie had his eyes on a likely location as we drove to this one but sometimes we should just trust the GPS. Thanks for the quick find once we followed the co ordinates.

Found this while completing the loop for the challenge caches. A relatively quick find near an old building. Thanks for the cache

Tftc on way home to dunolly thanks for the history

Found it

Found on a weekend with The White Dog Gang.

TFTC

Quick find whilst touring the beautiful St Arnaud area with Team Waldron
Cool cache, great spot
TFTC tigersden

A quick stop while commenting the challenge series. Thanks.

Just getting around to logging this find from the mega event last month. As a school teacher, I like visiting the remains of all of these old schools or in some cases just the sign that is left. Thanks for the cache tigersden.

Fitzy_1965 and I travelled to St Arnaud with two geo-kids in tow.

Day 3 - we teamed up with ZimbaW & Miz_Wackett and signed logs as FMMZ or ZMMF.

Slight detour for us but quick find.

F(H)ound It! #3479 @ 11:20

With Miz Wacket, fitzy_1965, minniek and the geohounds. Signed as ZMMF or FMMZ.
Ran in to a couple of other cachers - still hanging around although the mega is over.

Nice and easy to pull off the main road.

Thanks for cache tigersden

The St Arnaud Mega has been and gone with six days of non-stop caching and now the worst part is to log them all.
By the time I have completed this task I think I should have a clean sheet with all smileys until the next caches are published.
The dust out on the bush tracks is very fine like the bull dust that you get in Central Australia, the White Beast is not white anymore. The bush is tinder dry and most dams and waterholes are dry or very close to it and the farmers are working around the clock, I think because they are either in the middle of harvest or madly baling grass hay.
I would like to thank all the cache owners whose caches I have found in the last few days as this has to be a cut and paste operation to log so many.
The folk who run the Event are to be congratulated on a supreme job and from my point of view every thing ran like clock work but I guess some things did not go to plan but I have not heard of any major problems.
I had a forced extra day in St Arnaud waiting for a couple of tyres as I had the misfortune to wreck a tyre out in the bush on Sunday but I could think of worse places to be stranded.
I had a disagreement with a rock or something sharp but now I have two new tyres so should be good for some time.
These guys were found over the w/e as I cached with AnyMules, Brisal and au.fait while we were close by.

Found with PapaGrouch. I was having all kinds of fun spotting this one, my GPS was going in circles and telling me the cache was over there. Just as some other cachers pulled up I spotted the hide in the obvious spot. Just hadn't been looking from the correct angle. TFTC

After the event MazzyMay and I looked for a few more. Spotted this one in a nice hide. TFTC.

We were out and about after the St Arnaud Mega Event and had the fun of finding this cache, thanks for placing it here for us to find. TFTC

19,586. Found with minniek during our epic visit to the St. Arnaud region for the 2019 Victorian Mega Event. Today we teamed up with ZimbaW, Miz Wacket (ZMMF or FMMZ) and the Geohounds for the Challenges and the Stars series.

Day 3 - After breakfast and relocating our campsite we hit the trail with Zimba and Miz Wacket. After finishing off the challenges we continued on with the Stars series plus any bonus caches along the way. This was a neat cache to find. Quick find at GZ. Log was signed, cache replaced and it was off to the next one.

Thanks tigersden !!

Love these old school (pun unintentional) caches around country Wimmera and Mallee. This was one with a lot more intact here. A quick find today by Pacman while I searched in the wrong location.

A nice quick find after the St arnaud event end, watching out for snakes in the long grass.

After picking up a few of the nearby challenges I stopped here to admire the structure.

At first I was way off with my search.

But then I moved a little closer and was soon on GZ.

I signed the log read the rock and moved on.

TFTC

A nice quick one, since there was a cacher signing the log when we rocked up! Thanks for the cache

Out and about caching as Capital Crunchers with Joolay and Kittykatch during the St Arnaud Mega event. This morning we decided to target the FBT and BW trails but gathered some along the way, this being one of them Thanks for hiding and maintaining this cache for us to enjoy. SL TNLN

14:14
Day two of The St. Arnaud Event 2019...

Spending the morning socializing and helping people complete the lab caches, I then decided to see how many of this year's challenge caches I could visit before coming back for the last event of the Mega.

All of them (including a handful that I might never qualify for, but hey, you never know...), as it turns out.

I eventually got into a rhythm... it's been so long since I did a power trail.

Well, there's a name I haven't seen on a cache for a while. G'day, tigersden. A cheeky grab on the bitumen between challenge caches on the gravel.

#4774

Heading out of St Arnaud with Muggle Hubby at the wheel and dalerious riding shotgun, on the way to a new Earthcache, this one popped up on our map and needed to be added to our tally.
Thanks for placing it here for us to find.

Found with Cybergran V and her MuggleHubby on the last day of the Mega.

An older drive by cache just down the road from a brand new earth cache published on Mega wekend. [:o]
No wonder this log was full.

TFTC tigersden.

We love to visit an old school spot, and so this was a nice addition to our Mega day.
TFTC tigersden

Today, after spending the night in Wedderburn we made our way toward St Arnaud via the challenge trail. A small deviation was made to come sign the log here.
Thanks for placing HM#6-Slaty Creek State School so we could find it. Many thanks tigersden for the caching fun.

Found right at firetruck arrival time. Shame I didn't have kids with me. New log sheet added as its been a busy weekend at Slate Creek Hall.

Quick find on our way back find from the challenges.

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch and Smittengranny.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Found today with the Capital Crunchers while attending the St Arnaud Mega

TFTC tigersden

Thank you fo placing this cache.

An interesting area! Wow all of those wasps nests under the nearby hall roof is amazing! Thanks for highlighting this area!

Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja. We are on the way home from the
St Arnaud mega
Thanks for the cache. tigersden

During my holidays in Australia, I'm here in the area for the St Arnaud Mega Event. So I also searched for some caches nearby . This was one of it.

Thanks for the hide.
Greetings from Germany.
Ereff

Nice quick find by the team after smashing out all the caches in the challenge series at the mega. Tftc

Found with bektheraccoon after completing the challenge series nearby. TFTC

TFTC a quick stop on the side of road to grab this cache, read the plaque and bolt to the next cache. Cache in good order, log a little torn up.

We used the morning to look at an EC in the area and picked up another couple of caches before returning to the Mega location to hear what the reviewers had to say.
A quick find here, and on we went.
TFTC

St Arnaud mega event 2019 and grabbing caches in the area. Last day at the mega. A couple more caches before going home.

Thanks for the cache tigersden.

2019 St. Arnaud Event caching trip! Thanks for the cache!

Some last caches before heading home from the mega!

Visible from the road so hopefully his it a bit better. Somebody left a hair Combe which isn’t much use to me unless it the size of rake tonghs. Tftc

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Must have been a tiny school. TFTC

The school/hall itself was pretty deserted today.
But just outside, at this GZ, the cachers were gathering!
A quick easy find.
Thanks tigersden.

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This cache was found during the 2019 St Arnaud Event getaway.
Highlights of the Mega were attending all the weekend's social events, finding all 50 challenge caches in under 1 hour, finding all 40 lab caches, all 6 wherigos, and doing all 7 night caches in one night. No DNFs. Finding 11 cache types in 1 day. And of course making a start on the impressively creative constructions that FUF and TnC have made St Arnaud renowned for over the years.

Day 3 staying in St Arnaud area B and B

Found with Aussie M & M and Mogni. quick find. We did the challenge series, followed by the stars, then the CITO events, plus a few more.
Came over to the 2019 mega in St Arnaud with Mogni. We where joined by jj52, Aussie M and M plus others at different times over the mega weekend. Many caches where found over the course of the 8 day trip. Targeting multi's on the way there and back plus the challenge trail in Mount Beckworth reserve. The creative trails around St Arnaud where the highlight of the trip.

A big day at the mega with sir-spectre and Aussie M & M. We managed to clear out the challenge caches and the stars as well as a few others that crossed our path....... a big day.
Thanks to tigersden from mogni

First physical cache of the Mega weekend for me, travelling solo as the rest of the gang were unable to come up Friday night as planned. Overshot GZ so did a U-turn and parked nearby - the cache quickly found and logged - TFTC

Out and about doing the Challenge caches as part of the Mega at St Arnaud. Thought it was the building but no the gps took me elsewhere (thank goodness - don't want to play with the Fire Engine). Found the right location and read the info about the school - always love finding out some of the history of the area I'm caching in.

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the 2019 Victorian Mega event. The weekend was spent primarily with e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98 as we geocached around the vicinity of St Arnaud. All of the events and CITOs were attended, we completed the available adventure labs and lab caches available at the showgrounds, many of the creative trails were gasped at their construction, and interesting puzzles were solved and collected during the weekend.

We all left on Thursday in two separate cars, and met up at the evening event, before finding a camp spot for the night in a very CITO location. On Friday, we targeted the StARS (St Arnaud Ramble Series) and the higher quality, well-constructed geocaches that were famous here in St Arnaud, and got lucky with the 2019 published series that we managed to snag FTFs on. Sunday had us continuing to find the other sets of high-quality caches around the neighbouring town parks, the challenge series, before spending a few hours at geocaching HQ participating in the labs that had been published. The event was also great to see some of the South Australians honoured with geocaching life awards (in amongst everyone on the list). Our final day, Sunday, had us do a big loop finishing off our geocache collection, driving all the way out to Kooreh and around via Stuart Mill, walking the conservation park at Mount Gowar, and finishing off at the GIFF event. A massive weekend that turned out to be a great mega! Thanks to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. The variety between the local high-quality caches, the new series placed by the mega team, and those who needed to be around for the labs and main centre fielding questions was appreciated immensely.

Today, we continued with the well-constructed caches, starting off at the original series, *Fire Break Track* FBT, followed by the *Loop Track* LT series, visiting a few geocaches in between. We then called into Mega HQ to register our attendance, and then progressed through the Challenge series. We finished off the day with the CITO event and a few miscellaneous and puzzle caches around the area, and then had a well-deserved BBQ dinner at the event. We also completed a few night caches towards the west of St Arnaud, which turned out to be great and easily followed.

This cache was found during a side route to our adventures. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache. The logbook was signed as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98).

#9855 - 3:21:00 PM; Day two of the St Arnaud Mega trek with Sol de lune and we were off to an early start. Grabbed some breakfast and then headed off along the main street picking up a variety of caches as well as some coffee on the way to a morning event. It was then time to hit the geo art trails near the town. All of the caches in the StARS 'constellation' were found without any problems, along with a few trads we picked up as we passed. After some lunch and a chat with the Mayor in town, it was time to set out for the 'challenge caches' on the roads and tracks near the town. Again, all were located without and problems and logs signed 'S & L', before we set off for the CITO on the other side of town. Another trad collected on our adventure today! Apologies for the generic logs, but it was a big day with almost 200 finds! TFTC tigersden

**16/11/2019, 11:07:00
Find #4007
Traditional Find #2612**

St Arnaud MEGA Day 1. An early, but not too early start for the first day of this Mega. More excellent caches around St Arnaud to be found and this was one of them. SteMicMitSar and I joined forces and we set off together to tackle those caches which we didn't have time to find over the Grand Final long weekend.

**Thank-you to tigersden for placing this geocache**

It's that time of the year again, Victorian Mega time, so its off to St Arnaud for myself and the ladies of FurfacesLL. A long road trip ahead, heading off Friday morning and getting home late Monday night and a fun filled weekend. We found many caches of all kinds of variety.. Trads, Multis, Puzzles, EC's, Virtuals, Letterboxes, Wherigos, Events, Cito's and of course, the Mega itself. We enjoyed the weekend and there sure are some unique caches here in St Arnaud, we still have plenty left to collect, so may need to coordinate another trip this way some time.

Today was the day of the FROG.... 4 teams who have joined up to attack some of the trails consisting of FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, Ozibags and GoodLook, making up F.R.O.G. We have signed the logs as FROG to save room in the logs.

A nice quick find here with good coordinates.

Thanks for the hide tigersden And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another amazing trip away

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the Mega event.

FeatherWaite, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday, taking a circuitous, but scenic route to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches in some other Victorian LGAs. We met up with Freddo and Davidwazza at the event that evening and teamed up to complete a couple more caches that night together before camping out of town.

Over the next three days we cached very solidly in and around St Arnaud, finding a diverse range of Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Virtual, Letterbox, Wherigo and Earthcaches as well as attending all the events associated with the Mega. We also managed to complete all the Lab caches over the weekend. Logbooks were signed D.E.F.F.98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo and gridge98).

On the Sunday afternoon, after the final GIFF event, FeatherWaite and I began making our way back to Adelaide, picking up a couple of caches before camping in the Little Desert NP. The following day we continued towards home with a side visit to Mount Rescue to pick up a few caches along the tracks there.

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches. They included a huge variety of containers, hides and puzzles, many of which were very clever and/or amusing and had obviously taken considerable time and effort to construct. Thanks also to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. I’ll be looking forward to the Mega at Millicent in South Australia next Easter!

Out with geo friend patrol14 and after reading the plaque we made a quick find here today.

TFTC tigersden
Found November 16, 2019

We teamed up with Rapidlywild and headed down from Canberra for another Geocaching Victoria Mega, we arrived at our accommodation in Bendigo on Friday afternoon / evening and checked out a few caches in the area before retiring for the evening. On Saturday morning, we had a pleasant drive across to St Arnaud, arriving at the event as the opening ceremony was wrapping up, and the lab caches were released, so we joined the frenzy with the masses solving the cleverly constructed lab caches.

We made arrangements with GoodLook and Ozibags to meet up and attack some of the trails around the area. So today we signed all the trail caches as F.R.O.G this consisted of 4 teams FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, Ozibags and GoodLook.

We saw some great caches this weekend, well done to the owners for the variety and thanks for the fun team.

Thanks for the hide tigersden.

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud Mega event. On Day 1, e.gregory1, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday morning, straight after the Earlybirds event in North Adelaide. We travelled a long and circuitous route via Bordertown, Nhil and Warracknabeal to find caches in 5 additional Victorian LGAs that I had yet to visit (namely Buloke, Loddon, [Greater Bendigo - I’d previously visited], Mt Alexander, Hepburn and Central Goldfields). On Days 2-4 we met up with Freddo and Davidwazza. As a group we systematically completed each of the many series around St Arnaud and found all other caches along the way, signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, Featherwaite and gridge98), as well as attending the events and completing the Lab caches. After the Mega, e.gregory1 and I headed back to Adelaide camping out in Little Desert NP overnight. On Day 5 we had intended picking up caches around Mundulla and Mount Monster but a last minute change of plans saw us head into Ngarkat CP instead, for a solid drive and a few extra rewarding cache finds. Many thanks to all the cache owners for placing the huge variety of caches around St Arnaud and to all those who organised the Mega and the fantastic weekend away. Thanks for the cache tigersden!

16/11/2019 5:47:00 PM
This laying out in the open when we arrived and we tried out best to conceal it with the available camouflage.
Thanks

Quick find here.

Twelve months ago as we finished the Parkville Mega we were advised by someone that the next Victorian Mega event would be held in Saint Arnold. Somebody else told us that the Mega event would be held in Saint Arnood. And then another said that Saint Arned was the Mega event venue. Who should I believe? Struggling to understand the English language at the best of time. Freddo speaks two languages, Australian and Bad English.
Move forward a year. There is a cluster of events, including a MEGA event, at this town called St Arnaud burning a hole in my GPSr. The big white Pay Hero is loaded with GPSr, TOTT and camping gear and we headed east with a collaboration of like minded South Australian colleagues. DavidWazza, e.gregory1, Featherwaite, freddo and Gridge98 make team DEFF98.
Thursday: 5am event at a bakery in North Adelaide. The bed wetter team meets and says that this is way too early. Travel 500km east for the Thursday evening event. Freddo gets a prize. I am no mug. Camping in the bush under the stars.
Friday: Up early and headed out on the trails. And then back to our campground for a CITO! I am sure we did not make that much mess last night. More trails and 200 caches find for the day including a cluster of caches where freddo left DNA. More bush camping after a great meal in the Sporting Club.
Saturday: Up early for an event. Who puts an event on at 8am. Damn South Australians that’s who. After the event it was back on the trails and the Pay Hero is getting dustier and dustier. Found some awesome caches. Freddo the metallurgist was very impressed with the welding. Quality fabrication. And then another CITO. This time at the dump. Plenty of rubbish here. Some of it good stuff. Can I take some home? And finally a giant queue for a free meal. Nothing attracts a crowd like a free meal. The moment of the evening was receiving a Hall of Fame nomination. That prize is going straight to the pool room.
Sunday: Another night camping in the bush. Some fabulous night caches walks were undertaken. Night caching is a special form of entertainment. We spent the day cruising around picking up the left over unfound caches and meeting heaps of new friends. Boycotted the GIFF event since it did not show the freddo film “Cache Confusion” https://vimeo.com/372568752. One minute and forty four seconds of your life you won’t get back. A quick speech and it was back on the road for home. Well Horsham. More camping. This time by a river.
Monday: Caches around Horsham and following the Duke’s Highway back to Adelaide. Time for a shower for this smelly geocacher. An exhausted chocolate frog slept well.

We came, we cached, we ate, we slept; repeat for five days of fun and dust.


Easter 2020 sees South Australia hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.