Sleepy Hollow VP Redan, Victoria, Australia
By TurtlesEdge on 18-May-10. Waypoint GC28QWF

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Looks like the council have cleaned up this area and the cache along with it.

Thought this would be a straight forward cache, but after a good search all over, we couldn't find it. Perhaps a confirm from CO that it is still there after so many DNFs.

Searched but couldn't find it .

No sign of this one today. Searched all around, but without success.

We searched everywhere we could think of to try to find this one. I think it may have gone. Thanks anyway.

Found 3:41pm , find # 1317
Today Pam and I went to Ballarat because it was her brother's birthday and we were going to take him out to dinner in the evening.
During the day, she and her brother had some family business to attend to which gave me a few hours to get out and do some caching in the Ballarat area.
It didn't quite work out as productively as I had hoped as we got off to a late start and there were a couple of delays along the way but all in all, an enjoyable days caching resulted.
The most difficult thing about this hide was the water lying around on the way from where I parked. Until I tried to it open that is. That little container didn't give up without a struggle. Man, it was hard to open!
It was a bit damp inside but the log wasn't too bad, although it is getting pretty full.
I found a space to sign in the middle, out of sequence which is annoying, but i was able to sign it.
It really needs a new log book in the not too distant future.
Thanks TurtlesEdge

Nice quick find geokids are on a roll.

Yeah! Number 20 Finally!!

Great walk through the fallen leaves to the cache zone.

Quick find. SL, TN, TFTC.

Good hiding!

Found while trying to log all vic park gcs now to get a boat

Geodogs (Dayna & Ducati) enjoyed a run in this lovely park. Thanks to TurtlesEdge for bringing us here.

A nice quiet spot. Thankyou.

Cache had become buried. Now just camoed. Tftc

found with stooy after the geo event at vic park

A very different place today. The council has been through recently and trimmed back all the trees! Last time I got a DNF but today I found it. Glad it survived the clean up. TFTC

Found while walking the dog! TFTC

No items so we added a few things. Tftc.

Found on our Ballarat Smackdown weekend with DazRascal, Blacklegend, Trailrunning and Quasar3671!

The kids had a ball as the big kids had a hunt for the cache which was located after a brief search.
We had loads of acorns in each and every pocket and all through the car. What a shame they dont taste any good!
Many thanks for bringing us here. TNLN SL. Cheers.

One of 184 cache finds during our "Ballarat Smackdown" weekend of caching on the 23rd to 25th. There were 13 of us including Blacklegend and three of his kids, Trailrunning, Haveanez and their two boys, Dazrascal and myself amd my two boys Tyler and Cooper. We'd spent a few weeks planning the trip, with every Ballarat Puzzle solved in the area, cache lists and road and route maps all ready to go. We stayed in the Miners Retreat Motel for the two nights and the accomodation and facilities were great. Our goal was simple - find as many caches as possible in the time we were here !

We found a great variety of caches and hides during the three days, which also involved a bit of walking and some 4WD fun as well in the state forests north of Ballarat. The weather was quite cold of the Friday and Saturday morning but eventually cleared to nice sunny weather Saturday arvo and Sunday. We all had a great time, especially the kids who did really well to keep up with the pace we were moving.

Our second day of caching and it was to be our biggest day and fullest day too. Into the afternoon caching now and the weather had cleared up nicely. Short walk to GZ and the cache was found. Kids had fun picking up the nuts and tossing them about too. Thanks for the hide.

One of 182 caches I personally found during our "Ballarat Smackdown" trip. The trip included teams Quasar3671, Trailrunning, Haveanez, Dazrascal and myself. Caches included around 30 mystery caches, a few earth caches, lots of trads and multis and both day and night caching. Some 4WD action was encountered as well, which was great. All puzzles within 60kms were solved.

I took three of my kids, Jasmine 7yo, James and Jemma 5yo twins, traveling from Tocumwal. The trip covered 3 days and two nights, staying in Ballarat. Quasar3671 took his two boys as did Haveanez. One of the best caching trips I have been on, and certainly lots and lots of finds, almost clearing out the main Ballarat area. Home base was the Miners Retreat motel, which was quite pleasant and quiet.

This was a find on our massive Saturday run, which included both day and night caches. Lunch was a picnic in the bush at one or our cache stops. A night caching run was undertaken after a rest and dinner.

Short walk in and cache found quickly. Kids had fun collecting acorns, of which I had to clean out of the car..... Why do kids love collecting acorns.??? You would think they were Chipmunks or something....

After a successful Friday evening to start off the “Ballarat Cache Smackdown” with 34 finds on the first day the Saturday was always going to be a day of superhuman effort. It started early with a run heading west and south, only to finish the day and night with a run to the Northwest and North. A great day was had by all because there was some good 4WDing and the weather held out for the day with only one notable shower. A total of 98 caches were collected today, and it shows you how quickly a cache can be located with so many searchers. This cache was one of them. Nice little spot near Victoria Park. Thanks for cache #80

Found on a Ballarat weekend with Haveanez, Trailrunning, Blacklegend and Quaser3671

Made very short work for the search on this one with so many eyes looking. All the kids wanted to collect ALL the acorns. There were pocket fills of them.

TNLN, Cheers.

I thought it a little odd to see a caravan parked nearby. Easy find.

Easy find on our day of caching in Ballarat before we get on the boat back to Tassie. TFTC

Quick and easy find. TFTC!

Found it with ease. Needs to be made waterproof. Tftc, tnln

Found at 4.20pm with Markndee and 2 Kathkins. Miss Kathkin 1 made the find here and was very pleased with herself. Contents wet - so more drying out was carried out of container and swaps. TN Left: turtle and added a new log sheet in zip lock bag. TFTC TurtlesEdge #1002

We found it along with Harrowang and our little Kathkins. How lovely this end of the park is nowadays, beautiful big oak trees and the lovely stand of pines dwarfing the pedestrians. It was quite a bear hunt for the girls with bridges, mud, tall grass, water to cross, low down branches, acorns and mosquitoes, quite a trek and a pleasure to find it without a lengthy search! SL Took: dinosaur Left: leopard. TFTC

Good spot. The whether was great after the thunderstorm. The log was wet and needed water proofing. Tftc

Found with Amber

ULTRA MEGA WET.

thanks

Log was wet and full.

Loved this place we will go back an explore further next time. It was like a place were the fairy's go camping!! Kids loved it.. log was wet and full!!

A great spot for a cache. A quick find in the company of our geocaching grandchildren "The Seven Secrets" on a day trip to Ballarat while holidaying at our onsite van in Creswick Caravan Park. This cache needs maintenance as the log is quite wet also getting full.
TNLN
TFTC

The log is quite wet and hard to sign also almost full.

Found on a 3 day run to Melbourne with Froghoppin and meating up with Firesafe lots of laughs and one very sore Knee

This entry was edited by honeysucker on Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 09:55:02 UTC.

A quick find with fellow cacher honeysucker TFTC

Looked with no luck

No worries here although a passer by's dog took more than the usual interest in me. As to spooky; I'd say much of the parkland around here is unkempt and has great, as yet, unrealized potential.
Thanks TurtlesEdge

Found quickly then was able to take a moment to marvel at the work of mother nature to sculpt such a magnificent specimen. TFTC

8th find of the day, and 3070th total find at 2:13:00 PM.

A nice quick find. The hardest part of the hunt was deciding where to park. (There were ample parking spaces here today.)

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks TurtlesEdge for the cache

23rd Cache! Nice find, didn't take too long Keep caching!

Quick one thanks TurtlesEdge

Easy find under an interesting object.

Found it this today with Landau351 on our caching jaunt around the Ballarat area.
Followed the lumpy 4wd track through the trees to here. We emerged through the trees only to discover that we were trapped, by accident, in a "non 4wd friendly" part of the park ! Yikes. I sped down a cycle path to get out, only seen by a family of cyclists on the same path. Got onto the road, and hid the car down a side street. And walked back in for the cache. TFTC

08/10/2011 18:41 Off to Creswick/Ballarat for an awesome hard-core caching weekend with my good mate iamapom (Carl). So we are in this bush park and Carl decides its easier to drive down the '*road*'. Definitely 4WD only. We get closer and closer and eventually 'popped' out in the park area. We were very worried as we saw kids on bikes. Carl made a beeline to the road but had to dodge a arge drain. We then found crossing over the footpath. He drove quickly as possible along the winding path through the pine forest before finally finding a way back onto the road. We zipped around some streets as Carl was convinced the kids have called the police about these 'nutters' 4WDing through a park. I thought were going to simply leave but there was a cache to collect so we parked and walked back to GZ where we spent a few minutes hunting before reading the clue and finding the traditional style hide. TFTC TurtlesEdge TNLN SL

I was very interested to see many mature oak trees in this area. Reminded me of home. Found with Phetlern during a day out caching. TFTC Greetings from New Zealand.

15:00
Found on a most enjoyable day's caching around Ballarat with June & Francis of "Hello Mrs" (NZ).

This cache completed our tour of Victoria Park today, a somewhat different atmosphere to when we visited the Scout Jamboree here many years ago.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt TurtlesEdge.

Last minute decision to go hunting while up in Ballarat, and it was worth the adventure. Peaceful little location just a couple of hundred metres from my old primary school. Took the eraser, left a bracelet. TFTC!

The last time I saw a bunny run that fast was at a bonny and his tail was on fire. Clear skies from TeamAstro.

How fast did that hare run when we scared him up near the cache. I reckon he was in NSW before we got back to the car.

Walked the long way into this one, was a nice walk though.

another good find by grandaughter log wet

# 2310 @ 12:13 5/28 on the Ballarat run TNLNSL

A nice easy find. Log is nearly full and damp.

Thanks TurtlesEdge

This cache formed a part of a massive day trip with Kellyhaunts and Starruby, covering over 700km.

log is a bit wet. TFTC

Mammoth day out with fellow geo-cachers Starruby & C&H

Quick'n'easy find

tftc
kellyhaunts

Another find with C@H and Kellyhaunts on our 750 km roundtrip caching day, visiting hard-to-reach and infrequently visited caches, finishing with a latenight 300 km dash for 8 FTFs!

A quick find as we rushed around Ballarat after breaky. A little soggy on the approach. TFTC

Kids didn't like this walk at dusk. Let hubby do the searching, TFTC

nice quick find with robeert

Unusually pleasant winter's afternoon in Ballarat and a great chance to try out the new smartphone with GPS! TFTC - Signed log, TNLN. Cheers.

Tftc, found as team with packafattys, a nice easy find

FIND TODAY WITH GEOKID IN TOE THANKS:)

Good Hide. Found old number plate by accident as it was covered in leaves. All easy from there. Took Orange girl, left KFC wipe. TFTC

This spot is probably not an area I'd like to be in after sunset. Had backup today in the form of tacklehead so braved spooky GZ, cache was in hand, logged and returned within moments. No spooks sighted nor heard, apart from tacklehead that is......... Thanks TurtlesEdge, nature can form some wonderful hiding spots.

BIT WET CHEERS

This place looked familiar from a horror movie but I didn't let on cause I was trembling with fear waiting for the worst to happen ( Sulli1 to make the find )but I won the prize as we skidaddled out of there - tftc TurtlesEdge

Found this one on our Ballarat three day caching blitz with Purpledreamer.
Nice quick find with no muggles about today.
Many thanks for the cache.

Found while in the area with Lostmonster&Co for a 100 blitz.I of course loved the little purple container.
TFTC TurtlesEdge

Found at 1437. A quick find with some contortions thrown in for good measure. Cache OK and dry. TFTC.

A short walk for the cache today, and I also found another VP near the cache, an old rego plate with, believe it or not VP..... !!

TFTC

Found 16:30, after a brief search.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks TurtlesEdge.

Suscoe and sister made the treck to GZ today.
Found the cache safely tucked away.
TNLNSL
Thanks to TurtlesEdge for bringing us here to experience the park, the spooky bits and the people who appeared out of no where.

Found the cache today at 8.00am Track was a little wet but located the cache easy.

TNLN Signed the log and Thanks TurtlesEdge for the cache.

Fat drops of rain began falling as we walked through the longish grass to where
this one is hidden.
Got a bit of shelter here and signed the logbook before scurrying back to the car under leaden skies.
Thanks TurtlesEdge
TNLN

Parking near here is no problem but we would like to have been closer
to this one as it was now raining, but only lightly.
Quick find and retreat
TFTC

I was keen for one final find before heading back to Melbourne, so ran across the grass and made a quick grab and sign. The trees are indeed very nice. Thanks TurtlesEdge.

Checked it out today and seems fine, the cache seals shut so I'm not sure how the water is getting in.

This was a quick find. There was alittle water in the container (which we removed) and the logbook was a little damp but still useable. The cache may need looking at before winter rains come. TFTC TurtlesEdge

I agree with Maccamob about Sherwood Forest but I was waiting for the
Headless Rider to come along. Yep, quite creepy but we loved the Oaks.
It was overcast and nearing dark so set the scene quite well.....

Found at 7:50pm
Left Japanese Doll
Took Latvian money coin
SL TFTC a wee bit wet but ok

Bit late logging this!
TFTC.

Found today on a cache run. TFTH
12th Cache for the day/

Found by Mary & David at 1125. Thought we were back in Sherwood Forest and that Robin Hood would appear from among those magnificent oak trees. The tracks around here are all mud holes at present, so we walked the last part. Our thanks to TurtlesEdge.

Found

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found in the company of RogWat, coley_babee and walenators on a numbers run into Ballarat.
This is a creepy part of the park and right on dusk also.
Thanks TurtlesEdge for this cache.

A nice and easy find just on dusk. TFTH...SL...TNLN

Nice easy find cache a little damp

Lost Eudes and and LZZ on the way to this one so made a quick find at 6:55pm and left before they arrived.
TNLN
thanks TurtlesEdge

Found this with LZZ(m) at 19:00. We were reminded of a cache we did not so long ago near a lake outside Hamilton, although this one was a bit smaller.

TNLNSL. Thanks TurtlesEdge.

PS: The logbook is pretty damp and might need some TLC.

Folowing EuDes' Camira ATV on Vic Park "roads" was a terrifying experience but we finally got to a 100 metres of GZ only to see Alsume disappear. Walking in closer, cache quickly found at 7:00pm but no Alsume, just his log. TNLN TFTC

Found with AmethystPig (catching up with logging of previous finds).

Very quick find @ 2100 with Muggle-L swinging the Garmin to crosscheck the smartphone accuracy. TNLNSL-TFTC.

Found 10.40am
Parked up at the start of the track to the cache to have a walk in. The cache is unlikely to get muggled despite it being a quick and easy find.

TNLNSL
Thanks TurtlesEdge

Found in the company of Smegheads after event today.
Cache and log are a little wet.
TFTC

Found with kinkell cache a little damp. Tftc

A nice 4x4 track to get to this one...lucky not too bad as we broke the 4x4 function a couple of days ago.
A quick find while I finished feeding bub...TNLNSL
TFTC

Perhaps, the location of this cache could be described as being in a part of a Parkland that time forgot. A curious wander through this large and motley collection of paddocks, ovals, tracks, roads, ponds punctuated by a variety of native and foreign trees and grasses to get to this one. I was fortunate that on my ramble to be treated to the sight of hundreds of Common Brown Butterflies (Heteronympha merope) flitting about, which made for some excellent photos especially amongst the Rats Tail Fescue. Thanks to 'TurtlesEdge' for the cache in a location I expected that ordinarily I never would have cause to visit. TNLN.

Found on my 2nd day trip around Ballarat. I missed this one yesterday so today it was a must do and the 4wd track was nice and wet and bumpy. No muggles & a nice easy find. TNLNSL TFTC,
Roostaman.

Boy that grass is long - rain will do that I suppose. I flushed a rabbit and once at GZ the cache was a nice quick find. Lots of interesting trees here, thanks TurtlesEdge.