Freeway 2 Franklin Harcourt, Victoria, Australia
By Phetlern on 02-Jun-10. Waypoint GC287CV

09:54Day three of our stay in the Macedon Ranges area and a trip to Bendigo to visit geocaching friends from another era, also to run a maintenance check on a few of our own caches. All being fine here....*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

Great find good little spot

In Bendigo with my girls for the Hockey JSC over 3 days Saturday to Monday staying at a lovely motel on the main street. Getting out on caching adventures in the breaks between games and in the evenings. Enjoying the wonderful sights and sounds of Bendigo by day and by night which in some places makes the experience all the more magical.It was time to leave Bendigo today and drive back home. Along the way we geocache hopped from one to the other, stopping occasionally as the road allowed.My daughter made the find here and then sat of the railway bridge asking for a photo to be included in our log. This was to be our last find for the day as we are all now too exhausted to stop and look for any more caches. Nice one to finish on.Thank you for the cache here Phetlern

Travelling with my wonderful chauffeur icybeetas, whist participating in the Great Victorian Cache Crawl between Malmsbury to Bendigo, this was a short detour to locate this cache.Caught up with cathud here.Thanks for placing this nice sized cache here Phetlern, your absence from this annual series of events was noticed.Happy caching!

Attending events associated with the Great Victorian Cache Crawl I exited the freeway to get this and other caches. On the way to the cache I met cathlud who had just found it. Thank you Phetlern for the cache which enabled me to have a break in my journey and to add a smile to my map.

Travelling from Malmsbury to Bendigo as part of 'The Great Victorian Cache Crawl' I exited the freeway to find a few caches that wouldn't involve long walks in the rain. After finding a safe parking spot I made the short walk along the road and then up the track to find this nicely sized cache.Thank you Phetlern for this cache.

Notta lotta view left but was pleased to find the cache in great condition. Tftc

Found

Found, Signed TFTC

TFTC

Out and about in the Malmsbury district in the PeuGEOt with Mrs Cogs.TFTC

TFTC

Having finished our appointments back at home we set off this morning to return to Bendigo where we had left our van. It was a big day with caches and Ad Labs on our way, but they took us to some good things we probably wouldn't have seen otherwise.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Phetlern.**SKI Pair****

Had us stumped

Tyfc

**Sat, 27 Apr - 10:50**Container replaced. Thanks to 'nessie123' and 'Zimmy_Zapper' for the heads up.

Found it easy

TFTC!The container has seen better days. Due for a replacement.

TFTC

TFTC

Find 5157 on April 3, 2024Found on our way home from the Capital Geobash. Today we travel from Echuca to Ballarat. Nice quick find in a quiet out of the way spot. One thing to note is the container is starting to warp. Might not be waterproof for too much longer. TFTC Phetlern

Out exploring country Victoria and made our way here. Cache found quickly but could do with a better clipping container as the cockroaches are moving in. Log signed.We're living on the road and using geocaching to discover interesting places. Thanks for bringing us here

Log is damp and container only clipping on one side. TN, left a pathtag

Found by Charlie

Found it

Nice and easy but potential for snakes so take care tftc

Easy find with a bush setting

Tftc; found on a weekend roadtrip to Murray Bridge and back with lilbassgirl. Logging all caches day after end of trip; individual logs done by lilbassgirl previously with me driving between caches, sights, accomodation and the show we went to.

Tftc, found with fourtwelve on our roadtrip to Murray Bridge. Number 2 for today

Plenty of cockroaches in container due to container starting to fail due to weather. Cleared out all the cockroaches and tried to clean up the container as best we could.

Found while back at home with mum, few little friends crawling around in the cache

Nice quick easy find not a lot of roadworks around here

1st July 2023
#391

Thanks Phetlern for placing this cache and contributing to this great game. Nice old bridge nearby. Heading to Bendigo but at the rate I’m going, not sure if I’ll get there.. just one more …Happy trails, Deanside

A short detour off the freeway whilst on the way to Bendigo for a few days. A quick find. Cache is in good condition. Thanks for the enjoyment

Quick find driving home from an orienteering event
TFTC

After attending grandparents day at Marong PS I thought I go and do the AL at Harcourt. Found this cache on my travels. TFTC

Driving from Bendigo to Ballarat for the night and stopped at this cache along the route.

Tftc.

On way for long weekend with family and stopped at Harcourt
Thank you

Visiting Castlemaine for the afternoon with Bogonghazy. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

I have been Geocaching for the last year as part of team Dromaniax. We have enjoyed the Geocaching caching around a lot of Victoria in that time. From our first trip up to the Murray River, the next trip to Lake Eildon and the area around Buxton, an epic trip to the Little Desert to attack the This is SA series, then a great trip with our father to the High Country in Victoria, a trip to the Mornington Peninsula and a trip to the Albury-Hume Reservoir area.

I finally decided to set up my own account and am claiming all the caches I have found as part of Dromaniax.

Thank you for this Traditional cache Phetlern.

Exploring the area on the motorbike! Thanks for the cache!

Sun came out for us to look for this one. By terrain 2 do you mean you have to navigate a red back nest? Lol. Apologies for not signing the log. Maybe next time when I have leather gloves

Guarded by Red Back spiders yeeks! Early Halloween experience lol. Thanks for the cache Phetlern

A leisurely drive to KF for groceries. Many thanks. Container isn't sealing well & lots of damp-loving critters have moved in.

3/9/22
Heading to Bendigo for a bestie’s 40th with ThaKraken.
Loving all the veiws and the freezing breeze to warm car atmosphere.

Thank you for placing this cache and adding to our caching thrill!


Thanks heaps Phetlern. Always exciting to find one of yours!

Out caching with AlexiKatty on our way to Bendigo for a 40th birthday party and needed to turn this into a smile. TFTC

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Samaria to Sophie jiving place

Nice easy find.TFTC

On our way back to Melbourne and we had a look for a few caches after stopping at Harcourt for lunch. All quiet near GZ and a quick find. Thanks to Phetlern for the cache.

Nice quick find for us today on a pit stop to the inlaws!

TNLN,SL
July 16, 2022 12:29 PM
Cache Number: 1521

TFTC HoodedHooligans

It was a good afternoon to get the caches near the Calder between ravens wood to Hardcort.
Ghihash little car bottomed out getting up to this one but a great spot to stop.
Ttfc

Having a day off work I decided I wanted to spend the day caching so I messaged K9team to see if she would come with me.
Bottomed out my low car comming into gz but once up the hill it was a quick and easy find.
Tftc

Easy find. TFTC

With Bonniedog

Located with chick614. Good hide. Out of sight area. Didn't take out. Spider webs.

Good one

11:48

OM Check - cache and coordinates all OK.

Thank you for the cache and hide. All doing well

TFTC

Well, we had packed up camp and were heading home by a reasonably circuitous route with a number of caches on the target list today. We have an annoying Mystery cache within our 5km radius and it requires a visit to six other caches. We have two and our journey today was taking us close to the Northernmost three, so there was no way we were going to miss them. This one required a short detour off the Calder, but made out trip to the other two quite simple as they were on our way home. The cache is in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache Phetlern.

A quick find on my return trip home along the old Calder hwy. cache is missing one clip and may soon not be waterproof however all is good at the moment.I kept thinking cars were approaching but it was just the nearby freeway. TFTC

Tftc!

Enjoyed getting one of your caches, all well with cache. TFTC

Just a few more caches on my list today, this was a nice quick one

Nice little hide, trackable grabbed & heading off on it’s next adventure

Nice quick find thanks

Nice little track away from a busy highway. Tftc. Dropped off a trackable here

Just missed seeing the steam train pass through pity would of been a good sight, found quickly signed and replaced...TFTC

I started today fairly seedy. I had enjoyed some port around my campfire the previous night and not got going as early as I had hoped. But I had decided to just amble along.

Drove all the way up to gz. Found the cache easily. My 3rd Phetlern cache ever.

TFTC.

Found

Nice find

Thankyou for the cache the Ewoks

TFTC

Found, TFTC

Happy Easter long weekend

TFTC

Nice cache. Container needs maintenance. TFTC!

Interesting little spot, thanks for the hide. Garth

TFTC. We have largely left Harcourt alone from a caching perspective. When we come though we are generally in a hurry to get home to Maryborough. Today we decided to rectify a blue face in Taradale and then spend some time caching in the area around Harcourt.
It was only by accident we noticed a clue for another cache. took note of it for possible future find.

Good fun cache

Tftc

Tftc

Well hidden.

nice quick spontanious find with tytaylor19! damn the hay fevers getting to us but it was a fun cache nonetheless

We like the location here! Thanks catherinec19 for pointing this out I almost drove past it! TFTC Phetlern much appreciated:)

Thanks for bringing me out here to such a secluded spot. Cache in good condition.

Found 3.16 on September 24 2020

Very quiet but freeway noise

Lovely

Np&Mb

TFTC

Fun easy find. Pretty noisy from freeway

Took my young cousins who are down from Sydney caching. It was a bit to hot but fun had non the less.

Tftc

Heading to St. Arnaud for the mega event next month. Day 61 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 7 for the day and 1731 for the trip. TFTC

Found.pen not working.

It has been a while since Neville_devil, AusFox; and myself have been out for a big caching trip but today was the day that would change as we headed up the Calder for some caching in the Bendigo direction.
One the way home AusFox; reminded me about the three caches needed for a mystery back home so a plan was hatch to grab all three to complete the set of six that I started so long ago.
A quick stop here as AusFox; turned the car around Neville and I mad the find under the cover of darkness.
Thank you Phetlern for the hide and sorry for the late logging time gets away sometime when life gets busy

Nice Find
TFTC Phetlern

My first time caching in the Castlemaine area today and so many caches to choose from to find. So I narrowed it down to firstly today's event, some Mystery caches, some of Vic's 500 Oldest Caches later in the day and as it turned out this one for the COs Seaview Mystery cache series. By coincidence I found one in this series earlier in the day and when looking on the map and seeing where the others in this series were It was no trouble to head North of town to grab this one as well.
CIGC TNLNSL TFTC Phetlern

We are doing some local caches After the meet in Castlemaine on this lovely sunny day Thanks for the cache Phetlern

Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.