Kurraca West Gowar East, Victoria, Australia
By tigersden on 07-Feb-10. Waypoint GC24EVT

Found, thanks for the simple multi

A hidden piece of history.

Found by Aussie Train Driver 05/02/2024, find number 1757.Travelling the backroads today and I couldn't resist finding a few caches. This one was a quick find after calculating the coordinates. I love caches like these, they highlight the history of these little known places that we'd drive straight past if there wasn't a cache there. TFTC!

Found it, thank you

It felt like high time to get out caching again after a day off and I was itching for a bit of a drive and a cache out of town. I checked the map and the Wedderburn area looked inviting so away I scooted. I am hoping to find about eight or ten caches today.

I always enjoy these memorials scattered around the countryside, and the caches that highlight them. It is amazing just how many there are and the history and stories they contain. This is my last cache for the day and I think my tenth so a very happy and successful day. Thanks to all the cache owners.

Found it

There’s nothing here to sign, I’d say flood waters washed it all away

A nice quick little multi. Tftc.

A nice quick multi on way to bendigo for an event.
Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, tigersden

I am camping on the banks of Wooroonook Lakes near Charlton for Easter with a group of mainly muggle friends. Managing to escape for short bursts of caching amongst the Easter festivities.

I have needed a Monday event for some time so we decided to make the longer drive into Bendigo to grab this one.

Stopping in to grab this multi on the way, we gathered the details and made the find soon after.

Thanks tigersden for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to find.

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Staying in St Arnaud for a few days and taking a leisurely drive to Wedderburn. Cache found and log signed TFTC

It has been almost 12 months since the last visitor after the Mega in St Arnaud last year. Happy to have broken the drought and SL at 2.25pm after doing our sums. A rather lonely and perhaps not often travelled road. Thanks for bringing these plaques to our attention tigersden. Another reminder that small communities can die out once families leave the district for bigger towns and cities. #7176 TFTC

Reperio 07:47

After enjoying a fantastic weekend away at the St Arnaud mega event, it was time to head home to Newcastle, with a few select cache stops along the way.

This was a great little piece of history, and enjoy finding these types of caches!

Gratias tigersden


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A good little multi to break up the day. Such a history rich area! Thanks for creating this, we enjoyed working it out and finding the cache!

These were three interesting plaques recognising some of the history of the area. Data collection was straightforward. With the coordinates calculated it was off to GZ. At this point was out in the open, we had to widen the search area and finally found the cache about 11m from the calculated coordinates. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks tigersden for the cache.

*Found whist in town for the BIG one Mega - St Arnaud *

Once again the **Caching Crew** was assembled (Happy Pants, Happy Feet, 'Happy & gay' omegaman1971 and the "The not-so-happy Empire"
Out and about on a weekend cache chase, hitting as many caches as possible. A fantastic weekend was had with many laughs had and great memories made. What a great destination for so many wonderful caches
Signed as *"Team Happy"*.

Thanks for the cache. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

Cache on!

Once again Geocaching Victoria has absolutely put together another enjoyable Mega event, and what a great place to have it.
I have never had the opportunity to cache in St Arnaud before but after this weekend I will definitely be back.
Cheers for the cache and adding to the great weekend of caching fun.

The team signed the log as "The Mob"

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy, Happy Feet, Happy Pants, omegaman1971
Sunday at the St Arnaud Mega Event! Logged as a part of 'The Mob!' or 'Team Happies!' Today was a mixed bag of different types of caches and a bit of driving in the bush away from the mega site until the GIFF event this evening. Thanks for the cache!
- M

We decided to go on more of an out of town caching tour this morning, together with ilook4geo, which resulted in some really fun finds. This was one of the caches we enjoyed finding today. The log was signed in each cache and all was put back into place before we moved on to the next cache on our target list. There was no problem in working out the new numbers for this off set multi. Thanks go to tigersden for contributing to our day's fun by placing this cache.

The day's caching with goingplaces2 included a wide variety of types. All were found to be in good order, all found logs were signed and replaced. We had a fun day and thank each CO for being a part of what we enjoyed doing.

Day 3 of the Mega trip with Dr Owl and there was the aim of getting my 12,000th find. Again so many options around here. A plan of sorts was hatched and we were off.

We were on our way 'home' when Owl decided there was time for one more cache. The final coords were worked out sitting in the car and then we were off for the short walk to the cache.

Thanks for the cache tigersden.

A new day and a new challenge - this time to get Sushilord to 12,000 caches. All goals were achieved by the end of the day, so it was nice to finish (in the dark) with another cache type.

Found this one on the way back to the motel I was staying at. Nice short offset cache.

Thanks tigersden for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Boort to St Arnaud
Time to head to our final location, we stopped on the way finding caches where we thought itm was suitable to stop with a caravan on.
Arrived into St Arnaud at 11am & have set up camp in the overflow section ner the club.
Following lunch & a rest we headed out of town to find some of the many caches around.
Thankyou for placing this cache tigersden

Caching day at St Arnaud for upcoming Mega Event. Found your cache. Thanks tigersden for the fun and placing it.

Stayed at St Arnaud for Mega week and enjoyed with different caches Found your cache today. tigersden, thank you so much for placing it.

With pwala and crank1 at St Arnaud Mega.
Today we drive the car "country" to see plenty farm and animals, with such lovely weather.
Signed the log Thanks for the cache and hide

Here in St Arnaud for the Mega event we had a great day caching and exploring the roads less travelled.

A straight forward multi, cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found,while walking the route of Major Mitchell with the Essendon Bushwalker Club.
Today we walked from Holts Lane (off Wedderburn-Brenanah Rd to the Fenton’s Creek CFA Shed. Today’s walk 15-20 km.
This is our second day of five based at St Arnaud.
How handy hot cachet’s!

After following the creek we popped out onto the tar road about 850 south of the memorial.
Mrs Riddell was able to get a leave pass to droit north, collect the cache and continue south to Fenton’s Creek.

As Mrs Riddell left the group with Ruby1952 a lovely weather eaten farmer with 5 sheep dogs in his car offered us a lift.

Ruby1952 had join Mrs Riddell in her bike and having already passed the monument told him that’s as far as we only needed to go.
With that he said that he had a couple of relatives on the monument.
Sure enough there were 2 Hargreaves present on the WW2 Honor Role and the other with the School plaque.
So, we had extra real time history here with us today.

We saw 2 lots of foundation stumps at this location.
The memorial rock is well set back off the road and there is heaps of space for parking and a break.

TFTC
W

Found with team Riddell good hide safe n secure

TFTC.We had left St Arnaud this morning heading for a recently published Breakfast event in Donald. We were traveling with Muff1 and were expecting a good day out caching. We were not disappointed.
WE had left Donald and made our way toward Wedderburn via some caches that Muff1 had not previously found. We were now in territory where both of us were in green territory.
This was the last for the day. Quick calculation and cache in hand.

We are back in the area to attend the events at St Arnaud so this morning we headed out here to find a few caches. It is great to see these areas marked so that they are not forgotten. SL TFTC

Day 3 of my trip from Adelaide to Tasmania.

I am currently on a 5 day road (caching) trip from Adelaide to Melbourne exploring the outer most towns, On my trip I am going through Renmark, Mildura, St Arnaud, Ballarat then to Melbourne. Along the way to explore more I am caching.

Today was about collecting a lot around this area of st Arnaud and finishing of the ones I hadn’t found

Sorry for generic log.
TFTC

A quick stop off here on the way to St Arnaud this afternoon.
Short stroll to your cache which is in good nick

Taking a road trip for the weekend we took off from Ararat heading to Boort. We decided to grab some caches on the way. TFTC

Thanks for the nice quick multi. Picked up with the tritonz on our way to St Arnud

Found with FUF009 while caching in the area around the 9 Months to the Alexandra event bbq. Tftc

After enjoying a sausage at the local Wedderburn Event we headed the long way home via St. Arnaud and picked up all the caches in between. We soon sorted out the AAA and BBB, leading us straight to the cache.
Thanks tigersden for the multi.

By the time we got to this one I couldn't work out if it was dark or my eyes were closed.... must just be dark as we found the cache.
Thanks

Staying at Redbanks overnight with Anymules and Mogni to attend the 3 months till the Surf Coast event in St Arnaud. Up early we have all morning to cache our way to the event. In preparation we had solved 25 nearby puzzles so they were on our 'must do' list. A day of caching with me usually involves blood spilled, a fall and/or ripped clothing. I wonder which order they will be in today? Not to mention lots of laughs and adventures.
20 cache finds and no DNFs later we found ourselves at the event we came for. So after a few snags, a few chats and lots of trackables discovered it was time to cache again. [^]
With light fading we decided to leave other caches and concentrate on puzzles. By the time we had stopped for dinner we had added a further 25 cache finds to out total, still with no DNFs. [:O)]
Over dinner we discussed what to do during the evening. A challenge back home need three night caches found in one night. All of us had done way more than that but none had done three in one night. There were two in St. Arnaud but we would have to drive to Wedderburn for the third. Pizza consumed. Decision made. Break out the torches. [^]
With the three night caches added to our tally it was time to cache our way back to our digs once again. Probably be tomorrow before we get there.
Some people don't even attempt multi-caches. Even when we need to be somewhere else I will always stop and at least get the first part started. They are always located in interesting places. This was no exception and the bonus was that GZ was not too far away. So we got the cache as well. Thanks tigersden.

A nice simple multi, even in the dark. TFTC. 20/08/2016, 10:26 PM Find #2672

A great day heading from home to Wedderburn then via several towns I'd never heard of to finish our caching day in Maldon before meeting up with my Aunty in Newstead to go to Melbourne. A huge long day but lots of fun!
becca85, neisha07 & I cached our way around with GemmaSistema and the boys finding some awesome caches in great spots. TFTC!

I traveled over to Wedderburn nice and early with becca85 & neisha07 to fit in as many caches as we could before we had to head to Melbourne. We met up with GemmaSistema and the boys and had a very fun afternoon getting very muddy and catching up with friends at the event.
We had an awesome day, wish we could have stayed for dinner. Next year!
TFTC!

Found this morning while caching around the south side of Wedderburn before the BBQ event at lunchtime. Normally we are pretty spot on with our maths in multis, but this weekend Chook has been right off with nearly all of them. And its all been simple maths issues, nothing complicated. At this one, Chook had us heading way away into someone's paddock but soon realised that yet again the subtractions weren't done correctly. A quick alteration and we soon had the cache in hand.

Thank you Tigersden for the cache and for bringing us here. We do like stopping and reading memorial plaques and multis are ideal for this.

I was in town with the kids for the annual Wedderburn weekend. We teamed up with becca85, boo09 & neisha07 forming Team Clarmensma and we headed off for an afternoon of caching meandering slowly towards home. A nice little multi here - amazing to see plaques on the side of the road - thanks for making us stop so we can discover more about the region!

A nice quick find after some easy math.

With the old blokes awesome annual event this weekend, we made sure to make the trip over from Maryborough.
boo09, neisha07 & myself met up with GemmaSistema & co, forming Team Clarmensma and headed off for a morning caching.
Mud. So much mud! There were a few tentative maneuvers to get my low XR6 where I wanted it to be. Twice we failed and were thankful for fellow Geocachers letting us jump in the back of their 4x4.
After a fun lunchtime event, we had to head to an event in Melbourne via Newstead.
We traveled down to Logan, then over past the Melville caves before heading down to Arnold where we said Goodbye to the other half of Team Clarmensma and continued on to Maldon then Newstead.
A great day was had and we look forward to coming back in a hardier vehicle to grab some more we missed! TFTC!

Nice easy multi to start our day. Tftc.

Travelling around Australia with our Cat.

Staying a few days in St Arnaud today we decided to head out towards Wedderburn exploring the local countryside.

What a great day we had out here. Not many people take the opportunity if/when it presents itself.

Thanks for helping us in your outstanding region.

TFTC tigersden

Nice simple multi with a quick find. well stocked with swaps. TFTC

This one was straight forward without any hiccups . The cache was very well hidden. TFTH

14:57
“A day Out In Wedderburn” and what a day it was – great weather, geo caching friends in abundance and a smorgasboard of caches to satisfy the passions of everyone who made their way to Wedderburn. Another tigersden cache that took us to an interesting location.
Satellites today had our GZ 11m NNW of where we found the cache.

Our thanks to tigersden for bringing us here.
11984

Day 2 in Wedderburn, doing some sightseeing while caching around the area.
Looked around for a while, while collecting the required information.
Located the cache, signed the log and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, tigersden, for us and others to find.

After some looking and heaps of frustration we finally found it!!! Yay

Easy multi while out with aussie fun seakers on a cache run. TFTC.

Found with 1 aussie fun seeker. Good easy multi and find.
Took TB. Signed and replaced. TFTC tigersden.

Quiet spot this morning - no traffic. Nice hide thanks Tigersden. Left TB.

out and about for the wedeburn 2014 event tftc

found while out caching with Misschief18 for the day. Love the history. Came a cross some other cachers at this cache
TFTC

Found while heading out to a newly published cache, started heading over to the gz when a car load of caches came along! Thanks for letting my tyres down two wanderers haha (they didn't really)

A non -old Blokes cache for a change of pace. We needed to a quick recheck of the numbers when we didn't find it on the first pass but it was where Robmc looked in the first place, just not the first time.

The event day in Wedderburn - always a good turn with excellent caches, and this year was no exception. We (BettyBoo3747 and I) started the morning sleeping in then dashed out and did the Mash series before lunch. We then joined The Morris for a few of the further out caches. Dinner to come!
What a strange plaque about the church - it doesn't say when the church was here!
We gathered our information and walked off to GZ (then walked a bit further to the cache)
Thanks, Robmc.

Found with Tamzy, HolzCotz and cbjh1990 and not far behind us was the two wanderers and mischief18 hot on our trial lol TFTC

# 6346. The Event is over and now it is time to go and chase a few more caches with Robmc and The Morris. The weather is holding and we enjoy the journey. By dinner time however the rains have arrived.

The last find for the afternoon before heading back to town to get ready for the evening event. I wondered why my GZ was kilometres away but I had the wrong cache highlighted. Ooops. Now to get out of the drizzle and ready for dinner.

Thanks tigersden

Found while out and about in Wedderburn with The 2 Wanderers. Without knowing about caching, would have just driven past this and missed the history that lays behind the plaques. Another group of cachers were able to locate this while we were still getting the final co-ords! TFTC

Find No. 629. Found at 11.04am.

On our way to the Wedderburn event and in between 'the old blokes' caches, as this one was close by, we stopped off and located it.

Took green long bug and a coloured button - Left carrotts eraser and a dinosur with wings.

TFTC

This entry was edited by Tyred n Cranky on Sunday, 22 June 2014 at 02:01:33 UTC.

Suscoe had a day out in the Wedderburn and St Arnaud area today.
We started nice and early and enjoyed a day of beaut sunshine and almost no breeze.
This was the 1st find of 34 for today.
We enjoyed the countryside and the green grasslands looked delightful, we hope the farmers are pleased.
Thanks to tigersden for placing this cache, always great to see local history.

Loved the history here as my forebears settled in this area and was delighted to see my wonderful aunty Aimee had unveiled the memorial TFTC tigersden

A nice safe place to pull of the road, some interesting information, and a nearby cache. Good stuff thanks tigersden.

Another great cache Picked up with dylan7, The quiet plodder and gypsy+mackay! TFTC!

Found with Fergzter on the way to the Wedderburn Event. After straining the brain on the maths the cache was found. TFTC.

Found tftc

Find Number 10 out of 35 for today as myself and LionJRB headed to the Wedderburn Event. Crunched the math a few times as I didnt have the logical centre of my brain activated today. TFTC Tigersden.

I find these locations with their often simple yet poignant reminder of time and lives past the best caching experience and this gentle (stated as a compliment) multi is one of those. After reading the plaque and pondering of what occurred here it was a quick ramble to the cache location. I found the co-ords as calculated to be fine. Thank you to 'tigersden' for another one of your interesting cache locations. Found in the company of 'The Comrades', 'Dylan 7a', 'Gypsy Mackay' and 'The Possum Lady'. TNLN.

On the way to Wedderburn for the event and the road ahead was blocked by sheep, so we stopped to do the cache. Final Coords were out by 12 metres for us but we found it easy enough. Tftc tigersden

Detoured slightly for this one on our way to St Arnaud. Nice piece of history. I like caches like this that take one to places that would normally be driven straight past without a second thought. Took a bit longer to find this one than the allotted 5 mins that we had given ourselves, but found it none-the-less!

Signed log, took marble, left butterfly charm and buttons.

Another place close(ish) to home that is full of history. A nice little cache. TFTC

This entry was edited by strange quark1 on Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 10:03:14 UTC.

first find for the day heading to wedderburn, nice hide tigersden, took dinosaur left grub. TFTC

Found it with help of Grandpa. Thanks.

Found by Mary & David at 0845. We find plaques like this fascinating. Without them, so much history would be lost. Our thanks to tigersden.

Find # 92 @0950H
No. 1 for today of 29

What a good way to spend 1 day of my holidays. Head over to Wedderburn and try and get them all. The home of the old blokes, what challenges await me.

First find was a good short multi on the way to Wedderburn.

Took Green Car
Left Orange Dino

TFTC tigersden

Nice quick multi on the way to Wedderburn event. Interesting bit of history. TFTC tigersden

Found on our way home from wedderburn. Nice easy multi, with room to pull over with a caravan. There must have been a community here at one stage.

I drove along Brennah Creek Road to this cache, it was a bit of fun with the loose stones and plenty of corners Figured out the cache and it's hide pretty quickly, and scared a bunny rabbit from the hiding spot in the process.

This entry was edited by danozz on Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 13:59:31 UTC.

Heading to Wedderburn from Dunolly we took a detour to find another tigersden old school site cache. The school here had quite a good run, it would be great to know the population of the area at the time. The honour roll is also another sad fact in our history how during both wars men walked off the land to go and serve for their country with so many never to return to their families again. We collected the required information and did the math's and headed off to gz where the cache was located exactly where the GPSr said that it should be. We were also rewarded with a much larger than normal container than we have found with this old school series.
We passed some coins through here
Thanks tigersden for the cache

Picked this one up on our way back to the caravan park after catching up for dinner with a friend from school.
Thanks tigersden,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the Coffee Clan

Nice place

I saw this cache symbol appear a few kilometres off track this afternoon and found a likely looking dirt road that might lead there
For once this was a reasonable backroad and I didn't end up wondering if I would get bogged in mud or sand or just rattle the geomobile and its contents to pieces on a rough road
Nearing GZ I found meself back on a 'main' road and soon had the rock sighted.
A few calculations later and it appeared that I had to wander down the road and across the nearby bridge to find a cache.
Didn't seem right to me and I redid the maths another couple of times until the coordinates fell on my side of the creek
Then it was a nice easy cache find [^]
So TFTC and history

Headed out from Bendigo at 1600, arrived at the stone with the plaques after an adventurous route here. Took photos of the stone then worked out the location of the cache. Found and logged, TFTC

A nice little cache near the old family farm. TFTC, TNLN.

Another one done, just in passing. An interesting old site. Took photos of the memorial stone and the remains. Did swap and signed log. Thanks for the cache to Tigersden

Found this one with my kids that are new to cacheing there hooked.Found at 4.30 pm nice spot thank's guys for getting us out of the house. TN left 50 cents.

Had to be quick as it was coming on to rain. Haleluya! It's sad to see the names of all the fallen from the World Wars, from what must have been such a small community. Now all that is left is a couple of rows of stumps. Sad.
TNLN Thanks Tigersden for bringing us to such a nostalgic place and a nice easy find.

Published

10.30pm
Found by Roma and Max.
This was the last find for today and quite a milestone for our team as it represents our 300th FTF, and we haven't included any group FTFs where we have participated, and didn't find ourselves, in that count. We have to thank you in particular for your recent and prolific hiding efforts have greatly assisted us to this end. You have taken us to many interesting and historically significant sites such as this one and we compliment you for your efforts.
Cheers tigersden, and keep up the good work.
From Romax.