NOT SO EASY CREEK Halls Gap, Victoria, Australia
By DAZNAE on 06-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2HWZ5

The not so easy bit was getting down there. Once down it was a quick find.

Tftc Not easy in the night !

We trolled around under the bridge looking for a completely different container than the one we found.A nice strong magnet should keep this one in place well.Thanks DAZNAE.

Found after a bit of searching. Tftc

Had to take second look. TFTC

Bit of mission, but got there in end.
TFTC

Found with Moonb1. Took a while until we woke up.

In Halls Gap with Alansee to do some caching. Enjoying the lovely places these caches have been put. Another sunny day. Sneaky hide but found after reading some logs.
Thanks for the cache DAZNAE

14:21
A trip to The Grampians was the first activity on our son's agenda when he & his partner returned to Australia for a visit after 7 years in the UK.
Today was the day, together we made our way via a cache dotted route to Halls Gap, including a stop here. Wow a Golden Oldie - close to 12 years on the geo-gameboard.

Thanks to DAZNAE for placing caches in interesting locations.
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We narrowed the area to search logically and found it soon enough, TFTC!

here was not a lot of water under this bridge today, as I tried to avoid the spider webs hubby found the cache and placed out names in it. Not so hard to find.SL TFTC

A lovely couple of days geocaching in Halls Gap with Bogonghazy. Beautiful weather and location. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

TFTC DAZNAE A little sneaky .Attention to detail is required. All good at gz. Nice log roller..Hadn't thought of that. Well done. TNLN.

A lot of cars going past while we were here today and some hikers, found it tho tftc

After a few falls on the wobbly rock, we found it. TFTC

You had to be very adventurous to find this cache. It was a bit of a scramble to get down to the river and you need both hands free to locate the cache. Nice find in the end. TFTC. SL. Thanks for putting a cache under this bridge for us to find.Giving this one fav because we loved the adventure. Had to help some ducks and ducklings get across the road, even though they stayed very close to the road, which is very busy. Cheers.

A bit of a scramble to find this one.
TFTC

After a lot of scrambling around finally found. TFTC

Found with Tassydevil. A tricky cache location, nearly gave up. Thanks

Found 10/10/20 @ 6:43 pm.
Last cache for the day, on the list as I saw there was some "unloved" time on it. With no expectations of finding the goods, but 4 sets of eyes looking, we hunted high and low.
Having read previous logs, I had some idea where not to look. Within about 15 minutes, the goods were in hand.
Are with previous finders however, definately not a T1.5!

Checked the log sheet, last finder was 363 days ago, so we will claim those days against our "unloved" tally.

Cache dry and in good condition.

Thanks DAZNAEfor bringing us here.

Dnf

Ages ago, my phone pinged when a virtual cache was published at Echuca
I was ever so tempted however I knew there was a geocacher there who did a lot for geocaching and the local community [:X].... so I gave him a heads up and an 'until midnight' free pass [^] Many has been the day when I wondered why I did that[?][?][?]

At 2am Friday night [|)] I realised there was a new virtual , still unfound 8 days after publication [?], in a place that I had been to before and from which I had taken away great memories of the tour of The Drives Black fairy floss was my description of the mould in the tunnels

Having woken late this Saturday morning [|)][|)], I had no intention of going for a loooong drive to find this new virtual near Ararat...... but we all know that a caching weekend is hard to resist! Particularly with the lure of a possible FTF on a virtual too [^]

So Rex and I took off about midday and drove, drove and drove to the Seppelts/Great Western winery and not a cache was found on the way Yeah, I know... shock and horror!! [xx(]

Exiting Harry, Rex and I headed into the Shaft Room and I lined up the shot [^] then, with shaking fingers, I logged the find online
On our way out we had a chat with Alan in the winery as we bought a couple of bottles of lovely sparkling Shiraz [^][^] (apparently Seppelts/Great Western were the first winery in Australia to make sparkling Shiraz... no wonder it's so nice ) and reminisced about the knowledgeable tour guide for our SABERS motorcycle group's tour back on 25th November 2012
If you get the chance, do The Drives tour as it is fascinating! [^]

I also needed to find an EarthCache for International Earth Cache Day and blow me down, very close by was an EC by Geo Bro' [:X]

We spent the night at the Brambuk backpackers hostel in Halls Gap before grabbing a few caches in that town of happy memories on the Sunday.

By the end of the weekend, we had 2 DNFs and 24 cache finds and we arrived back home at about 11pm on Sunday night, tired [|)][xx(][|)][xx(] but happy with a trip that also included Halls Gap and the finding of a cache that had been DNFd twice before in years past! [^]

OMG!!
Finally after quite a few years, I can say 'found it' for this evil cache!!
Parking Harry off the road down on one of the tracks from the end of the armco, Rex and I took the long route to GZ as I thought it may be easier than the 20m odd through the bush to GZ It wasn't!
At GZ, I did something I sure hadn't been going to do in motorbike boots and about 35degree heat last time I was here [^]!
There is no way that is T1.5 It's way more dangerous than walking across flat grass to a cache
Since I'd forgottent to download the cache details to the phone before arriving at GZ, I had only the GPSr logs available here and thankfully that was enough to make the find
Bloody scary when you have dodgy knees like mine that don't bend and no one knows where you are if you slip

TNLN. SL. TFTC DAZNAE

I sent geospouse GrahamT to do the hard work on this one!

On 4/9 heading for Halls Gap for Grampians Brushes, with TrudyJane, and having had a good look at previous logs....certainly a bit of a scramble and a need for good balance..

This cache took two visits and quite some time to find. Initially we focussed our search on areas consistent with a T1.5 rating. We must have spent at least 40 minutes searching and then researching the selected areas. As we did not have any signal on our phone, we were unable to check the listing and previous logs. So we left and went closer to Halls Gap where we were able to get a signal. We read many previous logs and got a far better idea of the hide location. So we went back and within a couple of minutes, the cache was in hand. The cache and contents were in good condition. This is certainly not a T1.5 cache, it is at least T2 or possibly T2.5. Thanks DAZNAE for the cache.

Found @19:32 #6940
Intresting terrian rating but a good DT combo. The previous logs were helpful. Missed it but ahomburg's eagle eyes did not and cache after a 15min search was finally in hand.
TFTC DAZNAE

Date: 19 January 2019 Time: 19:36
Find #9996

I had been looking forward to this weekend for some time. The plan was to find my 10,000th cache and also fill in the last 2 spots in my phisy P81 grid for loop 15. Looking ahead at the weather and it was going to be an absolute beauty. SedgwickDave agreed to come along for the adventure.

I needed another 20 caches before the big one tomorrow, so we decided to stop every now and then along the way to pickup various caches along the way. After a dinner in Halls Gap, we headed out towards our camp for the night, but not before lining up some more finds to make 10K a target cache. This one turned out to be a higher T rating than listed, but eventually using other logs we worked out where we needed to be and after a couple of sweeps, cache was in hand.

Many thanks to DAZNAE for the cache. TNLN.

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Found the cache pretty quick after reading some previous logs. Once you know where to go (logically) it's an easy catch...

It was not do difficult. Found it quickly with Castor en Pollux

Australië 2019.
After some searching found together with Smid58.
TFTC Castor & Pollux 11-1-2019 14:30h.

After a DNF yesterday had time to read other logs so returned and made a quick easy find

Gps not responding moving on

Didn’t find

Very hard indeed diddnt find this 1 oh well we've always fot plenty more

DAB and I planned on an adventure to visit the Grampians region. We planned the trip with plenty of supplies and our hiking gear. We set off early to make the most of the few days we had. A great trip away with heaps of laughs and some great locations visited.

After some hiking in other parts of the Grampians, we wanted something a little easier to get to. This still wasn't an easy cache to access or find but after making our way along from one side each, we made the find

**Thanks to DAZNAE for hiding this cache for us to find and enjoy**

With an overnight trip planned in Halls Gap, I once again found myself in the company of Na'wal. We had hand picked a dozen or so caches for this trip, plus we picked up a few more. The weather was on the cooler side today, which was perfect for hiking. We had an awesome day, with amazing scenery. There are plenty more caches we want to grab, but they will have to wait for another day...
A clever little hide, that we soon spotted. Thanks for showing us this location. TFTC DAZNAE

The sound of the cars going over the bridge from underneath is really cool. Forst to sign new log

Perfect spot loved it. TFTC

We were driving around after a walk up the Pinnacle trying to make the most of the lovely weather. I stopped the car to have a look for this one after arming myself with information from previous logs. I was slipping around and was starting to get frustrated when I spied something. I think I might have found cache two not cache one based on previous information. Added my initials and replaced as found. TFTC

Looked for this cache unsuccessfully years ago, but hadn't been back.
Fixed that with The Morris this morning, not where I thought it would be.
Thanks, Robmc.

For the second time in 2 weeks, we headed across to the Grampians to meet up with Robmc. This time we got the correct weekend.
It was cold and wet at times, it hailed, it was windy, sometimes it wasn't anything but we still managed to do a few of the walks.

This cache has given us much grief and we have looked for it many times. Even though we read the logs that advised us to look under we still needed to PAF. Log has now been replaced.

TFTC DAZNAE

Out on the road knocking off some caches close to the road to keep out of the rain. Nice and sheltered under the bridge! This one was tricky, didn't drive us completely nuts though. Geodad spotted something that did not look like it belonged... that was it! Log book full, took a photo instead. Thanks for this cache. Great little spot to enjoy once we got out from under the bridge

Today was a huge day leaving home at 6:30 am and not getting back home until 2:30am the following morning. After we had finished a walk to Boronia Peak we were looking some lighter caches to let our bodies recover.
With the terrain rating at 1.5 we hunted and hunted and hunted everywhere around GZ that we could think of. Eventually we resorted to reading some logs. They suggest we looked elsewhere and one log in particular gave the information that confirmed where we should be looking. After that the cache was found quickly.
Thank you DAZNAE for the hunt

With a 600km 20hr caching day, Simsfamily and Neville Devil and I made an early start.
The weather all day was intermittent showers, fog and blue sky's but it didn't dampen our enthusiasm.
As the name suggests this way a not so easy find which had us looking everywhere as the rating suggests. With persistance the the cache hide was located.
The log sheet is full and needs replacing.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache DAZNAE
#4,134

Nice find

Unfortunately heading in after dusk while doing a return trip made this a no find. Ah well now we know after reading the comments what to expect with this one, hopefully we'll get it next time we are in the Grampians.

Attempt for #336 @ 12:12:00 PM
This one beat us today!
TFTC anyway DAZNAE

Found at 2:36 PM GAFF2.
You know what makes this a "NOT SO EASY.." cache?
1. The co-ords take you to the west side of the bridge
2. The Terrain rating suggests it is just on the road level and easily accessed.
Both wrong!
Thanks for the hunt though DAZNAE.

Found in the company of skullracing and dazpete while off on a little pre chrissy hunt.
Sorry the late (and crap) log, I need a good smack. Thanks for the fun

Found with DazzPete and Coruze.
After a nice morning caching and 4wding, lunch was calling our names, so we were hot footing to Halls Gap, when this one popped up on the screen. A quick call over the UHF was answered with a "naah, I'm hungry", then all of sudden the brake lights came on and the Jeep turned left....looks like we are stopping after all..
We all jumped out for a look, armed with a bit of a hint from previous logs, and probably more good luck than anything, the cache was found quicker than expected and we all scribbled our names in the log.
Now it's back on the road to lunch!

Thanks to a read of some previous logs we starte dour search in the right area and a find was soon found. A quick sign and then it was time to continue in to town (for ice-cream).

TNLN SL TFTC

Tftc it was fun delving in amongst the spider webs but got a result although it took a bit of time

Found it! No, not so easy creek, especially since the terrain rating bears no resemblance to GZ! Thankfully some recent cachers have provided some accurate descriptions of how they managed to find the cache don’t waste time looking on the barriers look for the smiley faced troll!! Anyway TFTC SL

26 September 2017 3:27 pm
Find # 537
Well I'll be. That's a sneaky little hide. Seen similar closer to town actually.
Thanks for the cache but definitely not 1.5T rating.
Makes for a a good D/T combo though!
GPS really struggled to settle so it came down to using the geo-senses...

Suscoe was out and about in the frost this morning, zero degrees and the ice was on everything here.
Well we were initially not sure what we would do here due to reading previous logs.
A 1.5 terrain is incorrect, should be atleast 2.5 or 3 considering what it would be like after heavy rains.
We were slipping on the bark, wood, grass and concrete with the coating of ice.
Took a few passes before the little cache was spotted.
Thanks to DAZNAE fir this hide.

Nice cache construction. But could do with an O ring to keep out the damp.

A quick find on a cold winter's day of caching. TFTC.

Staying at the lake caravan park for a week as we explore the area and find a few caches. Love this location TFTC...... have seen this before but not in the location we expected

Next time

After a fun day hiking up on the Serra Range I thought I'd stop for the drive by caches on the way back to Halls Gap.
I looked and looked but couldn't find anything at or close to GZ. (Coords had me a couple of meters off the guard rail into the bushes)
I read a few logs suggesting there was two caches here, a few noted the difficulty was lower for them as they'd found this type before. Thinking I've seen a fair few caches myself I figured surely I had an idea of what I'm looking for as well. 30 minutes of frustration past and no luck.
I was defeated and back in my car but decided to read a few more logs dating back further into the archive.
I spotted one which suggested they had to venture under the bridge.... quite the contrast the a recent finder suggesting spot on coords.
Under I went and at first glance I saw nothing, but with the light from my phone I managed to spot the little blighter! Exactly what I was expecting to find on the guardrail btw! I retrieved the tiny log and added my name. I looked for the second cache everyone seems to mention but couldn't see it. Replacing the one I found felt odd, I couldn't help but feel the CO back in 2010 didn't intend it to be there. Nevertheless, SL and returned as found.

TFTC

On our way home from Experience WA via Halls Gap just had to grab a few caches on my way found this one easy it was my #700 signed the log and put back. There was 2 caches so signed both

The coordinates are spot on which was a big help. Nice cache. Tftc

Looked around, then decided to extent my search, saw something that needed further investigation, yes that was what I was looking for. Signed and replaced. Thanks to DAZNAE

TFTC,

Leaving Halls Gap today and collecting caches as we head west. This one was spotted by Nana nel, favorite added.

Having completed our time at ACT, Snowy's, Dandenong, National Riley Rally on Philip Island, Geelong and now some of the Grampians, it's time to cache the area around Robe before a 50th with a friend on the Murray River and the Red Center Experience GC6825Z before returning home with skibum1 from America via Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge, Killcoy and Armidale.

Visited a group of trackables that will be left at the Alice Springs Event .

Found with a little (but not too much) difficulty. Certainly lots of places to hide stuff here...
There were two identical-ish caches here so I only signed one. Fortunately just managed to extract without needing to go back and get tweezers. Replacing logs was also slightly difficult - it's a pretty tight fit.

Nice area though - thanks for the cache.

Found it on our way to Halls Gap.
This one was not easy to find.
Nice idea so we give a fav. Point!
TftC

Approached this one with some caution when I noticed a car parked ahead, pulled Cruiser Bug off the road onto the track to discover a man (cacher)? looking suss on the bridge. So got a drink and had a smoke,read some passed logs. by then he was on his way. Ventured to where I thought the hide may be and was soon rewarded by another logbook sign. Thanks for making me stop at this great little spot DAZNAE.

We found it found a few like this. Water under bridge was fair flowing.

Tftc

Pretty hidden spot. Grubby hands from holding grips while hunting under. Hubby thought it was hilarious when i nearly went ass-up while stone hopping across the stream on our post cache stroll

Clever hide. Found 2. TFTC

Tftc!! Family outing. Happy birthday Alan!

Out with Gunks when found this cache. TFTC

Found yesterday morning with Grumpy Gramps on an early morning exploring session whilst camping in the area. Weird, I found two cache?! Both the same type? TFTC

After reading the logs I think we were looking in the wright spot but using a wrong tool, oh well maybe next time.

Had a good look around but to no avail. Found a suspicious log but nothing there. Have to try again next visit.

Camping in the Grampians with the geokids (age 4 & 6) and the hubby for a few days of exploring. The kids played with the water here whilst hubby and I ventured under. He came up with the goods pretty quickly. Nice hide and nice little spot. Many thanks

I can't believe I finally go caching in my absolute favouritist area and it has taken me this long to sit down and log them! Here's hoping scrappy field notes and an even scrappier memory are up to the job Just love an excuse to fossick around creek side, which is just as well as fossicked for a little while before the eyes zoomed in on the target and definitely glad I had the mini extractors on hand! Log was full but squeezed a squiggle in

Divide and conquer was the solution. Two of us distracted a muggle who stopped for a photo session, whilst the third located and signed the cache.
!!!The log is full!!!
Thanks

Divide and conquer was the solution. Two of us distracted a muggle who stopped for a photo session, whilst the third located and signed the cache.
!!!The log is full!!!
Thanks

I love these clever hides. Beautiful creek, have never stopped for a look her before, one of the reasons I love geocaching so much!
Left the tweezers behind, they'd have come in real handy! Luckily had sharp nosed nail scissors which could be used to dig out the log, I don't think it was coming out otherwise...
Logbook needs replacing
TFTC

This one took a wee while but eventually after a second foray into the creek we found the little blighter good one! Tftc

Bit tricky but rewarding

After a bit of searching we finally found it but as others have said, getting the log out is the hardest part. Nice little creek! SL TFTC

Not luck

Found with HRoj on our amazing tour through Australia

Greetings from Austria and THANKS FOR THE CACHE!

Yes! We found it! I dropped the log book trying to sign it. To retrieve it was quite a task! Tftc

Found with dodriR on our Great Ocean Road and Grampians - Trip touring Australia.

Thanks DAZNAE for the cache and Greetings from Austria!

#1969 @ 30. Juni 2015

The GPS had us going from one side of the road to the other and back again. We found a few loose bolts in the railings, which we thought would be clever spots, but these turned out to be nothing. A bit more of a search in another possible location and the cache was in hand. Great spot. The log took almost as much time to get out of the container as it took to find the cache! TFTC.

Did not find this one today,Must spend more time next time.

It was dark so we had to use our phone's torches to look for this one. In the end it was too dark to look so we gave up and headed back. TFTC anyway.

Strange, but not found

Braved the jazz festival crowds today and made my way to Halls Gap to find some of the easier caches! It was 38 degrees in the shade [^]
Getting quite good at spotting these little buggers now!
Cheers & TFTC DAZNAE

Gps spot on but took a bit of searching before i spotted it. TFTC

Nice hide it took a whike to find until dad read the description and found it tftc

Nice hide it took a whike to find until dad read the description and found it tftc

Reasonably quick find in a lovely spot.

11.50 am Nice creek, took a little time to find.

After noting logs I believed the GPS and details helped. I checked the details when I was 1 metre away from it. Bingo! TFTC DAZNAE

Beautiful spot