Dinner in the Alps Dinner Plain, Victoria, Australia
By pygmypossum on 15-Jan-10. Waypoint GC2300D

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Not found for almost 2 years, CO hasn't logged on for 3 years and a string of DNF's.

Looking through caches for a future caching run in the NE, I came across this one.

As the CO hasn't logged on for almost 3 years, I think its highly unlikely that any maintenance will be done on the cache, so this is just a precursor to a N/A log in a months time.

Certainly Gone. Sorry - looks like we were the last finders. Last year.

Cache may need to be replaced as a friend with us found it last year
Now gone

Found quite a few likely spots all were empty. Eventually had to go back to the car as the hail and rain became too heavy. The idea of this one being muggled is hard to believe.

Found a likely spot with a square void under a rock. Surely this couldn't have been muggled?

Not found, but 50 cm of snow made it a fun search anyway!

Cruisinblues came by to drop off some TB's at Dinner Plain.

Hard find in knee deep snow

This was our second last cache on our "April Mountain Mission".
Team Skullracing was with us today and they had found this cache a few years back and was on the search again, but without a GPS in hand this time.
Co found the nicely tucked away container while "Skullracing" was searching a few meteres away, ohh how the memory fades after a few years...........LOL..
Many thanks for the cache............TNLNSL.

We came again with LoMo&Co and decided to drop a TB whilst here

Good find

Found on the way to the Mega Event in Albury. What a beautiful area in autumn. SL Thanks for the cache pygymypossumy

Easy find after an epic few days up at Hotham, with many finds. Will pass by again in the winter on my skaters. TFTC!

TFTC- Found with geo twin. Where's the tucker?

No dinner for us today - just a quick drive by on the way to Harrietville. Found with Bingami. TFTC

Qick find on my day up here working!!
Tftc

Staying in near by Harrietville for a few days and went to find this while on a day trip.
Lovely Summers day. You got to love all the houses in the estate.

I had a beautiful day and an easy find TFTC

Staying nearby in the village so this one was on our afternoon stroll.

03 January 2012 07:34:00

This was a nice easy find today.

Easy to park close by this time of year at this hour.

I don't know who was more startled me or the hare close to GZ.

TFTC

Nice quiet spot

Nice and easy find at perfect coordinates.

Thanks!

In: TB pink ribbon

A nice BRISK find. Great size cache. Needs a pen though.
TNLSSL TFTC

The cycling touring duo from Jindabyne fiund this one after completing number 6 of the cycling 7 peaks challenge. Now for some coffee and cake nearby. There is a great public shelter with open covered area, inside seating and toilets located on the other side of DP entrance. We needed it due to thunderstorms and rain after the coffee and cake.

One last find for the day. Left Eyeore TB. TFTC

TB "Scrat" dropped by for a visit.

A quick find as I passing through on my way Shepparton for work

TNLN SL

T4TC

Found and logged together with Triaden1 .

An easy one - thanks for the cache .

Muspel

Found and logged together with Muspel during our holidays in Australia .

Thanks for the cache .

Triaden1

Great find with new friend Pam on beaut sunny day with snow!

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Wow!! Our first cache in such a beautiful place. There was no snow and beautiful blue skies. We love this game!!

Easy find by the hodge cache hound! No snow but bitter wind and rain.

Luckily the snow had melted enough to find the cache, which was not a surprise since it was almost 10 degrees today, In the middle of Winter!!

Two gnomes are in the area if you are a GCA gnome hunter.

Roamin' and Houdini

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2768

and

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2838

lots of snow now ... we left a stick so people can find it

We found this cache before the snow set in. Hopefully It will be buried in snow pretty soon. We dropped in two travel bugs to enjoy the winter wonder and chill for a bit.

Just logging my personal name tag to track my personal distance traveled.

Last cache found for the day. Enjoyable day out at Mt Hotham & Omeo. Took fishing hooks and left dinosaur. TFTC.

Found it after a very interesting weekend trip for us. We left Albury with the intention of going to Omeo for the day and after a stopping off at Dinner Plain and a short trip to Omeo we ended up on the the coast at Bairnsdale with nothing more than a picnic lunch and a flask of coffee. More information on our unexpected weekend at our blog at http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/blog/roverlanders/

Retrieved travel bug TB2T796 and swapped it with some fishing hooks that had been in our boot for some time and had never been used.

Will be passing the travel bug on as soon as possible, I have relatives that will be flying over to the states later in the year and this would have been the perfect opportunity to get this home, but I fear this is a little too long to hang onto this bug so will be placing it in another cache as soon as possible.

Thanks for the cache

Nice easy find on our lunch stop before heading down a nearby 4wd track. TFTC

Easy find. Many travellers here so picked up geocoin memorial to Tsgt William J Kerwood. Sad story and these coins should be kept moving to let others know how lucky we are despite what we may think of current international events/wars and unease. Unable to find the tracking code despite emails to the previous holder and to the Fallen Heroes coin publishers and the so will drop it back in a cache near Ararat Vic in the hopes someone will be able to get the coins log updated.

We were here for a wedding, so we found a few caches. Easy find. Dropped off a lot of TB's. Thanks

After leaving Harrietville this morning, we stopped here for Breakfast - not Dinner. No snow today (as photo shows), but a quick find while we waited for our bacon and eggs to cook. TFTC

Decided to come up to the alps for a drive, unfortunately when it was time to get the cache the rains started, of course that didn't stop us! SL TNLN TFTC

Found it.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC
troobloo

Quick find on a sunny afternoon TFTC

A nice easy find, a bit easier now that all the snow has gone. TFTH...SL...Took TB

Coast 11.4. just on the edge of the resort and no snow to deal with at this time of the year. Thanks.

4501.50 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 IYA - Gemini North A#176

Albida

Found today during my Beechworth - Mt Beauty - Falls Creek - Omeo - Mt Hotham - Bright - Beechworth caching extravaganza.
Nice and easy cache... just how i like them. Signed logbook and quickly moved on.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Almost stopped for this one a few days back when I came by with a few mates and a couple of sons on motorbikes but didn't so I got it this time with my wife along as company. Nice spot and well worth a quick stop. Had a look at the old hut over the road as well.
Dropped a TB here!
Thanks indeed pygmypossum

found this one today waiting for friends to come up from canberra will be at the general on new years eve to see DJ eddy he is well worth the trip from canberra. I'm in love with hotham and i hope to meet some of you caching ppls.

Lovely little cache in one of our favorite spots in Victoria! TFTC.

Quick find after a nice game of tennis. First find for our friends.

Nicely placed cache. The warning about the wire is relevant depending upon which direction you approach it from.

Staying in Dinner Plain for the break, so we enjoyed a stroll down to here mid-morning on the most glorious of sunny alpine days. Cache find was straightforward, all in order and rehidden well as found. Dropped a trackable (Fastcatch 3) in to this cache that travelled here with me from NZ.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too, and Krandy
The Turtle strikes again!

Found on a not so warm summers day on a drive from Mt Beauty to Bright via Omeo.

19th cache in a big run down to Mallacoota for caching fishing and catching up with friends and family. Found with a nearby road works vehicle prowling around. I wasn't there for long enough to arouse any suspicion. TFTC.

We stop here at Dinner Plain every trip over to the coast without fail - who knew there was a cache just over 100metre away!?
GeoKid & Big Ez went for a quick walk to GZ whilst Mrs H was making morning tea. We love this area and the facilities it has for our morning pitstop. A top spot for a cache.
TOOK: Stickers
LEFT: Spikey Creature.

Extremely cold, foggy and wet day. Found with nutta74. Took the car, left a green teddy.

Found with xenorg - don't recommend going when there's fog .....
Watch for a neat pile of rocks ;p

Retrieved after a two day snow shoe expedition in the alps. Cache was exposed so Rehid as best we could. Interesting log from previous muffle finder who found the cache and read the logs. Hopefully she checks out gc.com. TNLN TFTC

Found on my last day at Hotham. Wasn't gonna give up on this one, is now my highest and furthest east from home. No snow here so wasn't too hard. Plenty of snow at Hotham though, the best spring in 18years! Good skiing to be had in the mornings!
SL. TFTC!

Our first find on the road trip home from Mouth Hotham to Wollongong.

No snow covering the cache today, and so there were no difficulties locating the hide.

Cheers!

This was an easy find, mainly due to something very bright and red encircling it... I don't know if this was actually supposed to be here, so I moved it a little and hope I don't get into any trouble. The container was open, the last people didn't replace the lid, but the inner wasn't too wet.
Cheers.

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It wasn't really easy with all the snow but after a while I did find the box

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Lucky me, i found this cache. it is now winter and yesterday the cache had a light covering of fresh snow!!

This was our last part of the 'mountains' in our "Mountains to the Sea" caching run before heading back to the flat country at 0 altitude. Everyone seemed to be gearing up for the opening of the season next week so we were able to 'sneak' away and find the cache. No swaps today but the TB's were taken to move along.

Thanks for the cache.

Elmer.

Took a while for the GPSr to settle. Eventually found it.

T: TB Sagasu's Outback Adventures.
L: nil.

I love this high country town. The architecture is terrific.

Thanks for the hunt.

First big outing on my new bike and we chose to do the Bright-Hotham-Omeo-Falls-Bright loop. A bit day's riding, but a lot of fun with a great bunch of blokes.

While they zoomed ahead I stopped and took a couple of photos to prove to the Wench that I was actually at Dinner Plain and not just sitting in the Alpine at Bright drinking booze.
An easy find had me back on the road and flying along great mountain roads enjoying the curves.

TNLNSL.
Thanks pygmypossum.

A nice easy find on our way out for a days caching. Thanks for the cache. Left Outback Adventure and Beyond Hotham travel bugs, and a Piggy GC.

#252 Found at 2.45pm. Left GeoPrincess to pick this one up without Dad or the Queen hovering over her. After doing a drunken bee dance (she's getting better at reading the GPS) and some gentle encouragement from the sidelines from Dad & the Queen she eventually came up with the find - and wasn't she chuffed with herself . Again a cache that we seem to be following OakeyDog around - missed by a day in this instance I believe.

Took: Perth WA keyring
Left: Chad TB - I believe that this place sees much consumption of drinks of the fizzy variety.

TFTC

Found @ 11.40am find # 201
A bit early for dinner, but I was almost tempted to have lunch and cold beer at near by pub after a big hike in the alpine area, next time for sure. Great cache in what seamed a very busy place, this looks like it would be a fun cache to find when there’s snow on the ground difficulty might need to go up a bit for winter
Thanks for the caching fun pygmypossum
PS Is that skullracer1 following me again or what [?]

Found whilst on a trip through the area. Seems I took the more scenic route, trudging through undergrowth to find the cache, only to realise there was an (albeit makeshift) road/path right next to it! TNLNSL. TFTC.

Good one
TNLN
Mick and Ellie

Found at 1055. Having just completed 'Lost In Cache', this one was much quicker find. Have never really stopped by here and ventured around Dinner Plain Village so it was nice to do so today. It's a beautiful location and I'm sure there would be plenty of people here during the winter months.

T - GC

Thanks.

Grabed this one on way home from camping trip, beautiful part of the world up here.
Grabbed Diabetes TB and Droped of US TB.
TFTC

Quick easy find
TFTC

Found this one at 15:35 under the watchful eye of Alsume (always a pressure situation ) so thankfully I came up with the goods quite quickly . What a beautiful part of the world but I couldn't help but feel a tiny wee bit sorry for those hundreds of soaked bike riders just nearby .

TNLNSL, although our >1000m geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks pygmypossum.

Found at 5:45pm having arrived at our bushwalking base for the weekend. Sharing DP with loads of cyclists made it an interesting weekend (I can't believe anyone in their right mind would attempt the Three Peaks Challenge!)
TNLN
thanks pygmypossum

Found 18/02/2010 14:08 . I was on the GAR just after this cache was listed a few weeks ago but didn't make it as far as Dinner Plain. No problems this time with my work duties taking me nearly to Flour Bag so it was a simple matter to stop for a quick find before returning doen the long and winding road to Benalla

TNLN

Cheers pygmypossum

Haven't been up this way for years, so thanks for giving us a good reason to come back and visit. Nice easy find.
TNLN TFTC
Cheers Bushtrakker

a find with geowife who particularly enjoyed looking around the dinner plain complex. thinks there cheap, will buy one, spend summer w/ends here, rent it out over winter and make a fortune etc, etc, etc.

It was a glorious morning up here at Dinner Plain, the weather being cool but the sun shining through. Found the hide after a relatively short search, and first to find too apparently. We selected a smooth rock and sat down to write in the log, all the while soaking up the nice warm rays of the sun. It was a beautiful spot. Left a silver car and some australian wildlife stickers, took the Dinner Plain brooch, and left the Blue Tap TB to examine the water situation here for a while. Thanks Pygmypossum for placing a cache up here.

Published

G'day Ian,

Got your messages. Thanks for the help. I have put in the coordinates for my home and increased the level of difficulty as you suggested. Let me know if it hasn't been recorded correctly.

Cheers Chris