The Old Blokes Track. #4 Kurting, Victoria, Australia
By the old blokes on 13-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2DAJX

Have archived the series.

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Took a new geocaching friend out for a bit of an adventure yesterday. Would've been much nicer on a cooler day but still such a nice area and a nice walk that I haven't attempted before. TFTC Easiest find of the bunch, nice to have a rest in the shade for a minute. We were a bit confused as to which track we should take from here, but we decided to cut through the bush and come back and properly finish the bushwalking track another time, was a bit too hot to be pleasant. Thanks!!

Nice quick easy find, once eyes looked slightly higher. TFTC.

Unfortunately somehow walked past Number 3, did not have a torch anyway. Will have come back to complete the series.

log is completely full for this one and number 2.

Unfortunately, I was walking the wrong tracks today to complete the series. But had fun finding this one. Thanks.

Good one!

This was the last one for us on this first loop on today's bushwalk - the others in the series would have to wait until later. A quick find at 11:35 and we were off to enjoy the walking.

TNLNSL noted clue and our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks the old blokes.

Next found was #4 at 11:35. Then ensued a discussion as to whether a cross country bash would get us to #5 as it seemed to be as close as it could be on this track. But we were here for views so we determined to complete the southern loop. Thanks TOBs

Found it

Found

Unfortunately it was time to leave Wedderburn and head back home but not before picking up some more quality caches in the company of TR! in and around Kooyoora State Park. We drove to the ones we could then enjoyed the hike to the others on this beautiful sunny day, collecting the information for the final.
**Thanks to the old blokes for placing a series in such a great location.**

After grabbing coffee in town this morning, it was time to hit the trail and grab some caches on the way home.

This was the first of the day, following TheTritonz today, we decided a nearby series was where we were headed before making the trip home.

Thanks for bringing us to this location.

TFTC

Found, what a great way to spend the day. Three generations on the go.

A short walk from campground

Found with itsahoughthing. I'd somehow forgotten to log the few caches in this series so please excuse the generic logs. Thanks for the cache.

GPS put me all over the place, found it in the end. TFTC

Log book full

There is some great hiding places in this series. TFTC

Weather and tired kids means we won't be able to finish all these today but having fun[(:]

Fantastic to find all the caches along this track. TFTC

My family (becca85, neisha07 & boo09) met up with family friends the ReganSeekers family to check out some caches around Melville Caves. We had a great time exploring! TFTC

Backlogging... School Holidays are upon us and no work for Mum & Dad today we (neisha07, chan02 & becca85) teamed up with ReganSeekers for a Picnic & Geocaching daytrip to the caves.
TFTC

Despite the not so awesome weather we met up with some family friends for a picnic and some caching. Found with becca85, chan02, boo09 & ReganSeekers. TFTC

Being school holiday time, we teamed up with Becca85 and geokids chan02, neisha07 and boo09 for a picnic and a day of geocaching at the Caves.
The geokids happy with their finds TFTC

School Holidays are upon us and no work for Mum & Dad today so we & the Geo-kids chan02, neisha07, boo09 teamed up with ReganSeekers for a Picnic & Geocaching day-trip to the caves.
Another nice find by the Geo-kids. TFTC

Another quick find to end the day tftc

Lovely bit pf the park I haven't seen tftc. Took rubber left poker chip

Found this one while completing The Old Blokes Track but I see I hadn't log it yet . Sorry for the late log . Thanks .

Trunky

Found at 3.15pm, we had to wait whilst a group went past to find this one, only a short walk back to our camp.
We will finish off this great series over the rest of the weekend - time for a cuppa
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

found it.
TFTC

Had an enjoyable afternoon trek through the bush completing this series. Thanks for setting them up!

still trekking

Oh dear !! I think I might be over-qualified for this cache series [:o]
Sure I'm olde, by teenage standards, but I haven't used a walking frame for years.
The pushbike is a 'riding frame', but doesn't count here as I did not ride the trail

So how could I lower my abilities to fit in with the Old Bloke's Track standards ?

No walking frame, no trekking poles !! [:o]
Not even a limp !!
My left knee gave me a twinge at a spot half way to this cache .... so there was hope

I know !!
I'll grab the next sturdy branch I see and use that as a walking stick, just like all the Swiss mountaineers did
Oh hang on, they were really fit buggers weren't they

I give up, I will just enjoy the series of caches and worry about my lack of un-fitness back at camp tonight over a couple of dozen beers

TFTC.

Found with Harry the Happy and PeeGeeTips

TFTC

Found didn't take any thing

nice warm day and another find, thanks guys

this is addictive, kids are having a ball

The kids are getting better!

Pulling up the rear the kids cound the cache, made their swaps and were ready to continue on as we chugged up the hill.

Pulling in the kids had already organised their swaps and had the next target

Found it

Nice little walk.

A evening walk after setting up camp and before dark brought me to this cache. I intend doing the series but darkness will beat me tonight. SL TFTC

Fun day out camping

Sully1 and I did these in a little different order than what it was supposed to be done, but we did the lot anyway.
This was the first of the walks in the rain to find one of these popular containers, thanks again TOB

Found with Bogonghazy today in the cold and drizzling rain. We didn't come across too many muggles up around here today. Unless you're a crazy cacher, most people would be home in front of a fire. Thanks to the old blokes for this series, the walk and the cache.

Nice quick find on this beautiful afternoon. Thanks

Nice easy find thanks

found it with the Kids

Found on a family caching trip with the family to Melville Caves. We had a great time caching in the area over 2 days. This was a nice easy find on the trail. Thanks to The Old Blokes.

While camping here it was nice to go and get some caches. This was a nice quick find with Fergzter. TFTC.

TFTC really good views loved the walk

With a lovely morning and the end of holidays rapidly approaching, myself, the Charm Quark and the Cache Monkey decided to do the Old Blokes Track.

The coordinates were spot on with this cache and the GPSr decided to play ball, unlike its antics at #3.

We decided to have a look at McLeod lookout beyong this cache but after a 200m or so walk pulled out. The 3yo boss was getting tired (must have been all that playing on the rocks earlier) and plus the wind had put a fair bit of timber across the track. So we will come back another day for this one.

Anyhow, a quick grab, TFTC

Nice quick find tnln tftc will be back to complete the bunch another day

TFTC

Another one in the series found while out hiking with friends. Thanks Old Blokes for these caches

I did this one from the road above. TFTC Quick find.

Thanks the old blokes
we did enjoy them just forgot to record all of the numbers and stored the rest in the GPS and then couldn't remember how to retrieve.
must be old age!!
oh well an excuse to return one day although a bit of a drive from Adelaide.

When I heard that my husband's amateur radio club was having a setup at Melville Caves for the John Moyle Field Day contest, I took the opportunity to try and get a few of the caches available in the area.

My 8 & 7 year old girls have been little troopers as we trekked through the bush for about 3 hours this afternoon finding this series and others along the way and hadn't really complained that much. I'm just thankful that I had the hindsight to leave my 5 year old boy behind with Dad instead of tagging along too!! Great excuse to get out of the house and enjoy the amazing scenery of an area that we will definitely be coming back to explore at a later time.

This one was a quick find and as was the case with most of the caches we found today, my 7 year found this one and had no qualms about reaching in for this one. I should have taken notes but I always seem to forget though we did remember to jot down all the numbers as we went along for the final one in this series so I honestly can't remember what we took though we did leave our usual swag of a small butterfly bag with butterfly charm and colourful button.

Thanks for the series and caches!

Was happy to reach the halfway mark, enjoying the walk but it is a bit too hot. TFTC

Another one down! tftc

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Nice place for a hide.
Found while camping nearby with Port 63.
Bit of a hot day though
Thanks for the cache

No4 down and we signed the log with the Bloody Tourists TFTC

Quick find

Walked past this one on our adventure today and decided to drop off a TB.

2nd find for the day, doing this lot backwards i think, nice hide, took Keyring, left orange cat. TFTC

Find #160 @ 1612

Found with Tyred n Cranky

after todays efforts and walk i could not leave the caves area only on 159, so it is time to start this series.
was just a short walk off the road and with an easy find

Took kinder supprise
Left poker chip keyring

TFTC the old blokes

Find #42

Found with FUF009 at 4.12pm

After todays efforts and walk, we could not leave the caves area without doing three of these seeing how they were close to the road and on the way down. As we ran out of time it will be another day's visit to the caves to finish off this series.

Took Large plastic man
Left Australia shape keyring with koalas on it

TFTC - The Old Blokes

Nice easy (mostly) walk through the bush for this series. Thanks!

I turned right after finding this cache, if you're in the area and trying to clear out every cache, go up to the lookout and grab the Triple R clues before visiting this cache.

This entry was edited by danozz on Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 13:59:06 UTC.

Nice position

Still going backwards

After doing orienteering in the area, decided it was about time to find some more caches and this series looked like a good one.

TNLN TFTC

A nice walk. I started at #6 and did the sequence clockwise.

Found with The Quiet Plodder and Morphoist. TFTC

Our non-caching friend 'The Metro Man' (I am sure we have 'converted' him to Geocaching) quickly found this - he's a natural at this Sport I reckon, we (Dylan 7a and The Morphoist) then signed the log and instead of heading toward number 5 went further along the track heading off to the right to be greeted with another fantastic view. After this pleasant 'distraction' it was back along the track for number five. Thank you to 'the old blokes' for the cache and its location. TNLN.

Easy

Find #385 on 13/06/11 while out geocaching and enjoying the sunshine with Emma's JAM.
TNLNSL TFTC
~ Crazy Creels

Found it but there are heaps of spiders out here so watch out Jazza found it and we put something back in.

Arrived, set up camp and dashed out for our first find on the Old Blokes Track at 3.05 pm. Good, we thought. Really? Turned into a pair of newbies, blundering around unprepared, Wait 'till you see the other logs. Meantime, TNLNSL TFTC

09:25
At the top of the hill now and 50% of the answers in hand. At this stage we decided to adjorn to tackle a derringer cache. What a great way to punctuate a walk (some people would vote for golf) in such wonderful bushland.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt The Old Blokes.

Another figure added towards the final destination. Cachehounds havng a ball in the cool weather, and not another person to be seen! Signed log, left a little secretary doll. TFTC.

At this point we yelled out to Mr Morris who was home tending the fire supposedly 50m away. he didn't hear us so we kept going. Whinging is now more of a sullen silence.

Just a short trip down a track I need to do later, had this cache in hand.
Clues collected, book signed and we were off again.
(I think I saw Penny look wistfully at the 50m to campground sign )
Thanks, Robmc.

9th find of the day, and 2739th total find at 15:18.

We're spending the weekend caching with The Morris and RobMc and thoroughly enjoyed the exercise of the circuit walk, and traipsing through huge spider webs.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks the old blokes for the cache

Ian and Penny

4stubbies and friends enjoying the walk. TNLN

Number 4 found. Glad by this point I didn't bring the rest of the family, the little ones would have been moaning...

22/09/2011 - Log originally logged with team Swampgum. Duplicated due to team split.

This entry was edited by cerowain on Thursday, 22 September 2011 at 06:23:46 UTC.

Number 4 found. Glad by this point I didn't bring the rest of the family, the little ones would have been moaning...

Another quick find on my trot around The Old Blokes Track.

Thanks for the cache.

Find number 4 for the day.

TFTC

This was the first of our old blokes caches today. Rain was pelting down and Stinga4 and I were doubting our sanity. TNLN. Thanks for the hide.

Found it easily!

We see 2 kangaroos at thes one

This entry was edited by TeamCorn on Monday, 25 October 2010 at 04:49:59.

Number 4 for me. I did the series in order and was appreciating the good hides and consistently good coordinates.

Getting slippery on the track up here, and attacked by feral mozzies at GZ - lucky CooPzZ came prepared with the Aeroguard.

Making good progress. Great day for a walk in the bush. Lots of wild flowers (and mozzies).