Winery Walkabout Series - Lake Moodemere Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
By skullracing on 12-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2D9AN

Took us a bit, almost had us... stumped

Found it on 18/01/24 M

Another easy find!TFTC

Mr Tardis was heading north towards Rutherglen for an afternoon of caching.While head down to find th e nearby challenge cache, I made a detour to find this one. I'm happy to report that I found the cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?Signed the log. Thanks for the cache skullracing.

Bit of a challenge at first. TFTC

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Another quick find after a little stroll. TFTC

In the area with AnyMules, brisal5 and 6Hinemoa2 signing all logs as BAB6 to save space in the log books or their personal stamp. This may be the ageing Bushfires last Mega as the effects of advancing MND continues to advance but as I said that after the Whittlesea Mega, we will see.
I must thank my three mates and lots of other folk for all the help that I have received over the last year or so for which I will always be very grateful. This cache was found on our travels around this great area while attending the Mega Event in Rutherglen early April 2023.
I am slowly logging these caches but I don't know if I will finish only time will tell.
You never know what life has in store for you so you must expect the unexpected.
Thanks to skullracing for placing this cache.

Thanks for the cache,
My phone has a distinct ability to lead me away from some caches, all the while increasing my distance from the cache. Having worked that out it will not trick me again.
I think it is time to search for my old GPS

Found with Sui_001 and Signed DSD during the Victorian Mega.

Third day of our trip and our last day at the Rutherglen Mega, but still time to collect a few more geocaches. Doing our usual holiday tradition, Huntress went off for a long run crossing the Murray Border for a 2 State run, while I went geocaching before the sun rise.

Parked here to get the Challenge Cache, so obviously had to get this cache too. Nice easy find in the obvious place, and I now have 1 clue for this series.

Thanks for the cache Skull Racing
Hunter

On the way to pick up challenge cache after Mega CITO, had to find this cache along the way.. very very mindful of the slithery sticks.

Found with silverfox1970 and firebatman88 during the recent mega event. Lovely area to walk around. TFTC.

10 apr 23 Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88 on our whilwind adventure at the Rutherglen Mega.

Found with FUF009. Day 5. Last full day in Rutherglen.
Finishing off some multis, wherigos, and other assorted caches. We have 2 events and are going further afield for the afternoon.
Hoping the weather holds. Tftc

Find # 12316

Rutherglen MEGA Long Easter weekend trip. Day 6 Easter Monday..

Found with sharkiefan while spending time in the area caching n chatting and all things MEGA
This year with new tools and transport on board. Bike, ladder, poles and a variety of other items to help with the cache grabs.

Puzzles were all sorted before the weekend. Making way for the finds to come.
Plans sorted for cache attack days, between ladder climbing, power trail grabs and the large amount of ad labs in the area. Not to mention the MEGA site visits and numerous other events to attend.

My stat's of finds started at 11,886 ?? before leaving home. Let's see what the final numbers are at trips end for the MEGA.


TFTC skullracing

#351
After heading to the challenge cache and meeting up with another cacher and having a nice chat on the way back to our cars I went out to get this one before we headed back to the lunch event.

Made the find with the gang before a walk out in the reserve
Thanks for the cache ??

Thanks for leading us to a new walking trail .

Great Hide

Signed as YTBJ

Thanks skullracing for the cache

James0116
Monday10 Apr 2023
12:24:39 pm AEST
3098

Easy find after a short walk. Thansks

TFTCskullracing for your cache Winery Walkabout Series - Lake Moodemere that we found today.
Day 5 on the Rutherglen Mega site. Today was a day to clean up the rest of the caches that we had planned to do as well as complete the remaining wineries in the AL. We had planned to complete the rail trail, so after a few other caches , Linda dropped me at Waygunyah and I cycled back to Rutherglen caching the BBBT series.
Last one of the Winery walkabout series.

Find Count: 16191

Found with isopeda while out collecting left over FTF explosions and Winery Walkabout caches. Tftc

Out with barb2e to collect a few of the caches that we missed or had not targeted before. We also want to go back to some of the wineries in a non-caching capacity.

Another beautiful day around Rutherglen.

TFTC

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Find # 9034
Nice quick find.
OCW Wazza9 & Nana Nel, logging as SSG (Sutherland Shire Geocaching).
Found on Day 5 of the Rutherglen Mega event
TFTC skullracing ??
10 April 2023 15:59

Easter Monday, Geocaching with The Neighbs and wazza9.  Quick find, signed log as SSG Sutherland Shire Geocachers. Thanks to CO.

Found after a short search. Lots of holes to put a cache into here. Thanks for the hide.

Found with Bonfire7, Loci612, Muppet95 and sebass19; signed as YTBJ ("Yeah the Boys" plus James0116). Quick find at GZ in a lovely bush location. TNLNSL. TFTC skullracing!

Grub62 and I were out and about in the Rutherglen area and this series looked like a good diversion. Very nice it was too. TFTC.

Bunadoorian and I are nearly at the end of this series. I realised I didn't collect the clue from the Stanton and Killeen winery so will pick that up soon. We found this cache and clue quickly. TFTC and for bringing us here skullracing.

Cleaning up some final AL's and caches out to the west of Rutherglen, squeezing them in before the lunch event kicks off today! This was one of them!
Many thanks

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**Rutherglen Mega Day 4**

The main goal of today was to complete the BBBT trail, on bikes!
This was so much fun, it has been a while since I have cached by bike! And what better than to do it with a group of mates! Toy Hunters already had his bike booked, so we were hoping they would have enough bikes for the rest of us! Turns out nobody else had booked a bike this morning at all, so there was plenty for us to choose from! We smashed out the series well before lunch, thanks to the excellent coordinates and easy finds! We then started to pick off some odd caches around the place, before heading to the lunch event, and then spending the afternoon in Howlong to grab the virtual and a few other interesting ones nearby!

**Signed the log as YTB** for "Yeah the Boys" which for this cache included:
Bonfire7
Loci612
Muppet95
Toy Hunters

Thank you to all the CO's for today's cache finds!

Rutherglen Mega - Easter 2023 - Day 4: Monday

With the BBBT series finished, we decided to head out to Lake Moodemere area.

Signed as 'YTB' for "Yeah The Boys", which included: Bonfire7, Loci612, Sebass19 and Toy Hunters. James0116 also joined us for a few caches before lunch. Thanks!

TFTC,
Out with Nana nel and The Neighbs doing caching. Signed as SSG.

Grabbed another in the winery series. Shake we have run out of time to complete it
Thanks for the cache

Found

Out with Alansee to complete some caches.
Thanks for the cache skullracing

16:05
"Just one more."

Well, just one more outing with n0w0rries +Wife before the long drive home.

We met GJMMelb on our way here, so teamed up to find this and the one up the track.

Thanks, skullracing.

My better half still cherishes her souvenir Winery Walkabout tasting glass.

#7350

Found during Mega event. What a adventure! . skullracing, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

Signed the log as 6ACDDEP (63ROO, ALL7, CRANK1, DEAFPHANTOM, DUTCHAUS, EVERLASTING AND PWALA.)

Found it all good long travel with 6ACDDE TFTC ??

Found with +Wife and nirgalagrin during our Rutherglen MEGA geocaching holiday.
We were also joined here by GJMMelb.

Winery Walkabout, is that like a pub crawl?

Thanks for the cache and the series skullracing.

In the area for the Rutherglen Mega Event.

To save space on logs we have signed or stamped with GUSHBSTDTT for all teams initials.
TFTC

After a bit of a rest back at the Holiday House (after having walkjed some of the bike trail) we set off again collecting some of the FTF explosion information and any other caches we came across along the way. This was one of them. We had met n0worries +wife and nirgalagrin at the previous FTF info gathering point so we all gathered again here. Cache was a nice easy find then the guys went off to collect the challenge whilst I stayed with +wife for a chat.
TFTC skullracing - GJMMelb

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC:)

Accompanying 6ACDDEP [deaf group] TFTC

Find No: 8951. Visiting from Newcastle, NSW, out for the day with Mighty Minions, pprass, Lee737, Samuel737 & the_garbageman, had a great (full) day with a lot of fun and snakes, thanks for the cache skullracing!!

Found with PapaGrouch. Out and about around Rutherglen again, trying not to miss traditionals and others that we pass as we complete Adventure Labs. Only a couple more of these Winery Walkabout caches to pick up before I should be able to work out the final. TFTC

**09/04/2023, 12:53:00**
**Find #5126**
**Traditional Find #3147**

Sunday of the Rutherglen Mega Event. Most of the rain has now moved off and caching was in full swing. An excellent assortment of caches and all were well placed. Apologies for this generic log but there were far too many to remember individual caches.

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

Found it
Thank you

A very interesting place to visit. I wandered around with my GPS pointing to various locations that fitted the hint. Eventually it settled on the correct location.
One more of this series for me to collect and then I'll be off to find the final.
Thank you skullracing for this cache and the series.

*Found on the 9 Apr 2023 @ 12:55 pm.*
*Cache find # 14404.*

Day 3 of the Rutherglen MEGA trip.
Out and about with biggles1024 around town finding lots of caches.


**Thanks to skullracing for placing this cache.**

Today with the weather being much more pleasant it was time to get everything and anything that we had left to do around the area. Our day started with the GPS Maze, then registration and Gadget caches then onto the Adventure labs picking up other caches along our journey.

A nice quick find here.

Thanks for the hide and the series skullracing.

In the area attending the Rutherglen Mega event with gwd.aussie, Sharon14 and Mezza74. After spending the morning caching the BBP series cherry picking caches to achieve as many types in the day as I can and any other caches that may pop up in between.

Log sheets, if not signed with d@geo signed with the team name gds+m

Thanks skullracing

The JAMS team (JJ52 allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) were on a road trip heading to the Rutherglen Mega event (staying in Corowa) for 3 days then winding our way home via Albury, Wangaratta, Bendigo and various other places in between. It was a great week with many more caches found than we expected. There were targeted caches, challenge caches, Ad Labs, events and various others to fulfill various statistics for the four of us. We were lucky with the weather, it rained a bit on our way over on Friday, then half a day after we left Wangaratta but on the whole it was great caching weather. We did drive a few slippery muddy roads, but nothing too bad. We also caught up with lots of people either at events or out in the field and enjoyed many great chats. All in all a fun time with lots of Victoria explored and then very tired when I arrived home. [^]

Another quick find after completing the Easter Wherigos.

Thanks for the cache skullracing.

#17702 - 5:38:00 PM; Day 4 of the Rutherglen Mega mission and it all started by heading down to claim a find on the Mega. It was then time to work my way through all of the gadget caches in and around the Mega site before hitting the road with Sol de lune for more adventure labs, some multis and a few others we collected along the way, before heading back to town for some lunch. Later in the afternoon, I teamed up with StrangeTrousers and iPlod65 to polish of the remaining caches in the Easter 2023 geoart series, including avenging the two DNFs from yesterday. This was the last stop for the day as we headed back to town. All caches were found in good condition and replaced as found. The day wrapped up with an enjoyable evening of good food, fine wine and excellent entertainment. Apologies for the largely generic logs! TFTC skullracing

Found with the JAMS crew on our Rutherglen Mega trip from SA.

10:42:00 AM: (42 of 49)
Day 4 Rutherglen finish off the whereigo power trail
short is walk which was nice to stretch the legs.
Signed as Dtmfd for some and form some included Blast from Canberra team and Binliner joined
Found during the Rutherglen Mega, from Canberra traveling with Tankengine, DTY73 and Youban


thanks skullracing

So here we go again. Another day of fun and frolicking with Tankengine, Youban and Mtrax.

We had more food, more drink, more socialising, more caching and more fun. It was another successful and great day.

This cache: The cache was found all safe and sound without issues. The winery here has a lovely view out the back over the lake and some amazing plants. Tftc!!!

At the Easter Mega with Flaggy's, MooFlagg & tflagg67. Got the clue and another in the series. Tftc.

in town for the mega. I was out caching with Grub Fred, pprass, Lee737, Samuel737 & the_garbageman today, we had an awesome day, with lots of laughs and fun. We saw 3 snakes and a possum along with plenty of other wildlife as well. The weather was great not too hot or too cold and we found all the caches we attempted. We stopped for this cache on the way to a challenge cache nearby. The cache was found quickly as another team was there when we went to find it. Thanks for the cache skullracing tnln replaced as found sl

In The area for the Rutherglen Mega and found this cache.

Logs have been stamped/signed GUSHBSTDTT to sve space on the log

Thanks to skullracing for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

A bonus cache! TNLN TFTC

Saturday of the Mega weekend involved the GPS Maze, Registration, AdLabs and Gadget Caches. Once we had done our targets, it was a free for all kind of day.

We had this one on our target list. When we parked up, we were alone, then all of a sudden, a number of cars arrived, seems the convoy had moved in. We wandered over towards GZ and soon had cache in hand. We signed the cache and then handed it to the convoy before making our way down towards the Challenge cache nearby. The convoy were shown were it was found, so it could be rehidden in the same location.

Thanks for another Winery Walkabout cache skullracing.

The JAMS (JJ52, allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) go mega... We came, we cached, we laughed, we hugged and we had a great time. All caches were replaced better than found. This series was signed as Mystery Randoms or MR.
Thanks to skullracing from mogni

quick find
All logs where stamped today as " Mystery Randoms " today. Today the target was the " Easter 2023 "series and since that series was on ripped up dirt roads and the co ords in sections were up to 30 meters out, so everyone out a stamp, since everyone was getting out to find the wherigo series.
Found with JAMS (( JJ52, Allister w, Mogni, plus sir_spectre ) Mitchell&hound wasn't with us this trip) crew. All logs stamped as JAMS to save log space. This trip we are off to the Rutherglen Mega and then slowly coming back to S.A. for a total of 8 dys and 7 nights. The targets of this trip are for JJ52 to get 11 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and a few more Victorian LGA's, Allister W was targeting 17 virtuals ( or as many as he could get ) a few more Victorian LGA's Mogni to make the Rutherglen Mega her 20, 000 find and also for her to complete all Victoria LGA's, sir_spectre needs 1 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and get his Victoria LGS's down to 2 LGA's left. We got 20 or more finds in a LGA if we stayed in there over night. We also detoured to stamp any challenge caches that we were " in the general area off " and to complete that challenge before we came back to S.A. This meant that some times dirt road (s) had to be walked down because they were to wet to drive down and/or haven't been repaired since last years flooding. We started off the holiday in the rain and then that cleared up only to start raining and a overnight thunder storm but most of the trip was dry. Over 600 caches found for the trip including over 120 lab stages in that total. Got to complete the GPS Maze at the Rutherglen Mega for a 2nd time. Allister w was the team driver for all of the Victorian part of the trip. I think this was the first trip ever to Victoria that the extension pole didn't get used but the 6.2 meter ladder did get a work out.

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73, Youban and Mtrax on our Rutherglen Mega trip down south. - Signed DTYM Nice find here! Thanks skullracing!

Out with dty73 and tankengine and matrax. Quick find . Kutgw

A bonus cache on the walk to the nearby challenge. TNLN TFTC

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Sl dropped some swag for others to find

A nice and quick find OCW ADI, Brewmaker and Everest High. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

A quick find while visiting the wineries. TFTC

Quick find with helpful hint. ?? TFTC

Found today

Stamped GUSHBSTDTT

Thanks for the cache

In Rutherglen for the Mega, headed out today to complete these caches, logs were sign or stamped GUSHBSTDTT to save space on the log. Thanks

Thanks to skullracing for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Found while doing the nearby geoart and challenge. Saw people here when walking to the cache so it was a relatively quick find.

TFTC

#6164
As we snaked around (literally!) the backroads here chasing loads of wherigos, we stopped for some caches at a more leisurely pace.... We managed three around the lake here, such a nice spot. As is so often the case at a mega, we didn't need to find this, just rehide it! TFTC!

#8646 Day 3 of our Mega trip and the Mega is in full swing. We started the day with a trip out to Yarrawonga to do the parkrun with a handful of other geo-parkrunners, then back for the gadgets, maze and the balance of the Easter 2023 series. All in all a good productive day.

iPlod65 and I are here for the mega event. Sorry for the generic logs but it's a busy weekend.

Some logs signed as STIPLL for the three of us: iPlod, me and Luckl10n.

Thanks skullracing for the Traditional Cache

Found as part of the Rutherglen event. To save space on logs we have signed or stamped with GUSHBSTDTT for all teams initials. TFTC

Caching buddies: EverestHigh, Brewmaker, Bella at Waggy

Thank you skullracing, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.

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TFTC! 8 April 2023 6:59:47 pm 5381
Out in the area picking up some clues, dark had fallen but made a quick find here.

Signed as GUSHBSTDTT

Find number 8352

The Booos are in the area for The Rutherglen Event.

To save space on logs we have signed or stamped with GUSHBSTDTT for all teams initials.



Thanks for placing this cache

During our stay in mega event quick find and placed back where it belong TFTC

Found

A long weekend away with StrangeTrousers attending the Rutherglen Mega event. TFTC skullracing log signed as STiPLL

Found during a caching trip to the Rutherglen Mega Event by GeocachingVictoria using the team name DEFF (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Featherwaite and Freddo). Thanks for the cache skullracing!

Easter in Rutherglen. This cache was found on a tour around and around the town and its many delights during four days of caching mayhem.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!

Our group consisting of bushfire, Brisal5, Anymules and me tackled this one while at the Mega,. We signed in as BAB6 to save space in the log books.
Had all the mega puzzles presolved for the trip and were happy to have completed this random one.
Thanks for the fun here today skullracing

I found your D1.5/T2.0 Regular Traditional called Winery Walkabout Series - Lake Moodemere on 7 April 2023. It was find #17831 for me. Thank you skullracing for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of Victoria.

Beautiful area here.
TFTH ??

Rutherglen Mega Trip. [^] Day 5 - Some more caching, events, labs, gadgets and laughs.

Our crew for the week is:
Bushfire
Anymules
Brisal5
6Hinemoa2
BAB6 for short and to save space in logs.
Many thanks to others that joined us today for laughs and adventures. [:o)]
Most logs will be generic or there might be some more under here. Thanks CO's for the caches.

Another in the series quickly found.



**SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024.**


***Thanks skullracing for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found during the Rutherglen Mega.Apologies for the late log, these were all saved offline and I've just found them.

Attending the Rutherglen Event.
Out caching with Kiscardi and Agazo. Signing as KAM.

A short walk to find a good sized container.
We didn’t bother walking on to the nearby Challenge cache. With the Aussie restriction we Kiwis have no chance of qualifying.
TFTC

Find #7788

Great to be attending my fourth MEGA in 15 months - Wangaratta, Townsville, Whittlesea, and now Rutherglen. Incidentally my fourth, and most likely my last, trip to Rutherglen this year too. Done and dusted, almost ?? though plenty more fun to be had, people to meet, and socialising before I’m done.

Truly a fabulous location, thank you Rutherglen for the hospitality. ????????????

Great to meet new faces and to spend caching time with some familiar cachers as well.

The committee and volunteers have done an amazing job at organising so many events over the Easter ?? break. Hearty congratulations ?? and a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to all involved. ??????????

Thanks so much skullracing for putting out and maintaining this cache. And of course for getting me out and about and enjoying this area too ??

We were in the area for an ad lab so thought we better stop and pick this one up too, a quick find once we were heading in the right direction

A quick find on our return from the lake

TFTC and greetings from Tassie