Orbost or bust Orbost, Victoria, Australia
By highrod on 11-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MARW

We came to do maintenance, but it looks like the council are tidying up the area after storm damage. Unfortunately it looks like they are in no rush though, so for cache and cacher safety we're taking it offline and because we don't have an eta on when it might be up and running again we are archiving this one

Stopped here on our way down to Dargo for a 4wd'ing weekend
Scratch about for a bit as the the GPS had me about 10m off. Foudn in the most obvoious place in the end.

Note there was some construcion going on.

Out an epic caching/4WD adventure with Jmanjezza and friends.

Fairly easy find, but definitely some working going on in the area.

Hi this cache is in danger there is work being started at the site and closed TFTC

Hi Found it good spot plenty of webbs. TFTC

Mr Morris was on a boy's trip in the area and he had been encouraged to collect a few cache while in the area. This was the last for his day trip. Took the TB

It took a little while but RJA persistence paid off. We were nearly put off by the blue systema clip. Dropped off "Herbert the Hopper". TFTC

# 5531 Found on the road to Cann River today.
Nice and quiet and not many muggles around here while I was here.
A quick find this time and onto the next one.
TN LN SL Thanks for the cache highrod,
Roostaman.

Heading to Cabbage Tree today, we stopped and enjoyed a wander around Orbost. It's a lovely town where we will spend more time on another trip. tftc.
Crusty.

Unfortunately we were not clever enough to find this one.
Thanks for the opportunity.....…[green]Sospetto & Sospetta[/green]

Gut gefunden und geloggt. TFTC

Diesen habe ich mit meinen Freundinnen gut und schnell gefunden.
TFTC

Gemeinsam mit Claudia H, Kalle74 und Via Maria gefunden.
Danke für den Cache.

Während unserem Australien Urlaub diesen schönen Cache gefunden.
TFTC Kalle74

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Looks like people are getting sidetracked by the old broken container
but the cache is still there!

Logged on the way to Canberra. Cute town

TFTC

I spotted this one quickly, %GeoHawk Snr% was way off the mark! Nice walk before breakfast , be careful on the stairs, some are rotted and in need of repair! TFTC!

Found @ 10.30 am
Log to follow

Found this one on the drive from Canberra to Paynesville. The broken bit of sistema laying on on the ground nearly put me off, but I continued the search and found the container. TFTC.

Breaking up the long drive home from Wingan for the little one.

First magical container cache I've ever done! Next time I'm up this way you'll have to show me how you get 2 litres of ANYTHING into this container!

Took: small saluting man
Left: similarly sized mighty bean.

Found a smashed part of a systema box but no cache. Me thinks it's been muggled

Interesting location. Did a thorough search of where I thought it would be hidden only to find I was thinking too hard. tftc Enjoyed wandering through here tonight. took the tb

Great wildlife here. TFTH. TNLNSL.

Found it however it was a 200ml sistema not 2lt. Swapped TB's.TFTC

A nice walk in the gardens. TFTC.

I have never expected this small rainforestr here in the middle of the town.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Germany.

Tassimo

Great. Took TB Left TB. TFTH

This entry was edited by geo smurfs on Sunday, 18 November 2012 at 05:50:56 UTC.

That dog next door sure is yappy The owner came out to see what we were up to but I think all our motorcycle gear scared her off
Took a figurine and left a soldier
Also left a travel bug

Cache visible from metres away!

While in Orbost for the night with the Pajero 4WD Club getting read to do some track clearing tomorrow. After dinner, we decided to look for a quick cache at night.

The iPhone's light helped like the way. Best to do this during the day.

On our I( Mrs one -eyed & I) outing from our caravan park base in Lakes Entrance, stopped by Orbost for a look see.
This location was really beautiful to say the least.
Found cache okay.

co ords gave me the run around for a while but eventually found the cache. tftc

Nasty storm damage, but cache is fine. TFTC

This entry was edited by pood on Friday, 12 October 2012 at 05:05:28 UTC.

We were unlucky today. We couldn't locate the cache. Our search was hampered a bit as our dogs had attracted the attention of the neighbors and they appeared to be becoming curious. Also this area was apparently badly hit by some storm damage and a friendly man was telling us about efforts to clean the area up, we hope the cache wasn't cleaned up too. We'll keep a watch on this one and hope to do it another time.

This is another odd inner city park. There was lots crammed into the available space. I am very impressed. Again, it was nice of them to provide such a great place for a cache. Thanks.

8309.32 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Dragon A#44

Albida

Another great concept for a small country town. Thanks

Do two very large yellow tailed black cockies count as muggles. We got a very close up view of the pair. Having never got this close to one before we were surprised at just how big they were. Gran used to say that if you see black cockies down from the hills it means rain is coming. She was sure right today.
TFTC TNLN

Nice easy find TFTC

Greeted by squawking cockatoos we adventured through the jungle looking for the 2lt container which turned out to be a 200m clip top container. Good hide thanks

DNF with Smart Sassy Siren. Noted last finds were 11/06/12 the day before the heavens opened up to create Gippsland floods.
At GZ, there was evidence of heavy disturbance of ground debris and soil movement making it harder to workout whether the container may have been washed away from its hiding spot.
A secondary issue for us was learning that the 2 Lt container we were looking for, was in actual fact a 200ml container meant we spent a lot more time than we needed to on this one.


This entry was edited by Chaplain Mike on Monday, 18 June 2012 at 07:50:25 UTC.

Pulling up in the logical parking spot, I immediatly recognised the spot as having parked here before with the kids about 2 years ago, must not have thought about the cache then? There is still quit a bit stormdamage visible in the area!
TFTC Wilbert67

A short walk to our first cache of the long drive home to Wollongong.

Cheers

Today was the fourth day of our excursion out of Tasmania touring from Melbourne to Canberra and return via Gippsland. We visited a number of towns and areas today between Bairnsdale and Cann River and we were lucky enough to find some caches along the way. Again it was overcast at times with some very infrequent showers, we have had another excellent day. It was late in the afternnon as we arrived at this location. As we walked towards GZ we noticed a couple of possible hide locations. Thankfully the ccahe was located at the first of these. TFTC highrod

En route from Merimbula to Lakes Entrance.
Parked in the information centre car park.
Great short walk although there were many 'things' attempting to eat us. Loved the path.

Thanks Jacqueline and Peter #6970

micheena - woke up to a blustery day with showers. Lets do it, and out we went. pulled up with a shower starting, and made the dash. That wasn't the dash, as we found the cache, the skies opened up, quickly signed log and ran back to car. Didn't get to wet as we went on to find 2 more caches.

off to Eden for mates 50 th dropped in for lunch and a few finds
thought cache was lost as we found a broken clip of container
but found it on a second look
thank you highrod

This would have to be one of the few that I had actually read the description before looking for the 2 litre container! Luckily, I found the 200ml sistema in the same spot I would have looked for a larger container. Interesting little area.
Thanks, Robmc.

A drive by while in town to see the Snowy in flood with the rest of the town also - tftc highrod

Took a while to find as I was looking for something bigger. Eventually I had a closer look at the most obvious spot and there it was. Perhaps you could update the listing to reflect the change in container size. Nice park!

Thanks highrod

Found in company of Noikmeister.

3332nd total find at 10:21

A nice quick find, after approaching from an unexpected direction - definitely not the path that is signposted nearby.
It may be a good idea to edit the cache page as the cache is somewhat smaller than a 2 Litre Sistema.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks highrod for the cache

Had my lunchbraek and a walk to the cache!!
Tftc

I found this without the aid of my GPSr (I left it home) or iphone (I don't own one}.

I went for a stroll and kept saying now where would hide it?

It was in about the fifth placed I looked.

Thanks for the resurrecting the Cache

I found some old swaps lying around after re-hiding the cache, so I placed them nearby, maybe the next cacher can put them back in the cache

TNLN

SL

Good hide

This entry was edited by RVgeos on Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 03:40:33 UTC.

ready to go again

The owner is really the one who's committed to maintenance, but it's a shame to let the good samaritans' work go to waste.

Does this one need reviewer help for un-archiving? or is there another listing here?

Cache is once again up and running thanks to Lostmonster & Co for your fantastic cache maintenance. thanks again guys

Shouldn't have archived this one. The previous finder said they'd DNF'd it an found ruins but that they'd replaced it. It's alive & well. See if you can get it reenabled.

DJ

Reading through recent logs noticed cache had been replaced just before it was archived. Decided to have a look and cache was found in very good condition.

Sorry folks it appears that Orbost or Bust is now prone to muggles.

Well when we got to GZ we found what was left of the "Old Cache".
We did some maintanace on this one and left a new container with a log.
Thanks for the hide Highrod.
TN...........Left new container & Log.

This cache was hidden at a nice hiding spot in Orbost, but unfortunately is no longer. We arrived at GZ and found a wracked container with some writing paper next to it, quite sure that these were the rudiments of the cache. Thank you highroad for your efforts to hide a cache here, but you might wants to take it off the website now.

A quick drive by on my way to Melbourne for work.
TNLN, SL, TFTC.

#1778 An interesting place although we had to slip into stealth mode when a nearby neighbour decided to go outside for a cigarette. Amazingly she never noticed us as we quietly signed the log and replaced before slipping off. TNLN our thanks to highrod for bringing us here.

On our way back from a camping and kayaking weekend we stopped at the info centre near the cache. Whilst Master E and myself put the billy on the girls went in search of the cache. I'd just made the coffee when we spied the girls walking back with a spring in their step - cache found and TB collected as well!

TFTH, TNLN.

The GPS was all over the place here, but eventually got to GZ and searched high and low for quite a while to no avail.

4319. [font=Century Gothic][green]For once I found the shortest way to a cache which was just as well as my 80+ year old parents wanted to stretch their legs (it didn't work and they are still in the process of shrinking ). Found easily to the accompaniment of the dog barking incessantly. The owners were just sitting on the back porch letting it. How do they have the patience?

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Rated: for Overall Experience

easy find with geochild once GPS stopped misbehaving. Not sure how I missed this the other day. TFTC T1L2 (1xTB)

found on the way home from the easter w/e, nice easy find TFTC

found on the way home from camping in genoa, not sure why i didnt log this with the others. oh well logged now

A quick find at 12:25pm during our short stop in Orbost as we headed in a roundabout way to the Buchan Caves. An interesting little walking track in practically the middle of town.
TNLN
thanks highrod

Easy find in an interesting part of Orbost we hadn't visited before. TFTC

Find number 500 tnln. tftc. Shame it is not available for the full geocaching community.

20.4 .2011
Found by sunnyindiatilli
Took some money
Left snake
A nice walk to break a long drive TFTC

Found the cache at 3.15 pm with beanie

A quick easy find TNLN

Thanks highrod for the cache.

Quick find sl tftc

Dropped in to find this one while on a work trip (between meetings!). Whilst not dressed for the occasion the hide didn't create too many problems. Great spot. Picked up TB 466918, and left a pedometer.
TFTC

Found while on our way to Lakes Entrance. Nice little forest walk. Took Nil but left TB No.466918. Thanks Highrod. Silky Seekers brisbane.

at 18:37 on our way home to Brisbane from Melbourne.

TFTC x. The cache is fine.

A quick find on the way to Melb, Thanks. A pretty little spot too.

Took a moment to grab this cache whilst the kids were in the library with mum on a cold wet day. Enjoyed the big logbook - don't see them often. TFTC

Found @ 1220 pm. Fairly easy find TFTC

Found 11.00am
We are glad someone has managed to put a cache in Orbost, we parked close by and and sort of followed a path to GZ where the great sized container was found.

Took Nothing Left KoT Pathtag
Thanks highrod

This is the 789th find for WazzaAndWenches

Day four of our family holiday; this time our travels take us 'across the top' (of the mountains) from home to Lakes Entrance, then around the coast to Merimbula before returning home to Echuca. Along the way we'll be forced to stop and search for a few caches [:))]

The Wenches opted to stay in the car after reminding me it was after 2pm and they were still waiting to get to Orbost for lunch

A quick find after battling my way along the overgrown path.

Thanks Highrod.

A quick grab with Just a Cacher on a run down to Melbourne. A nice spot to get out and stretch the legs (both two and four) where we made a quick find. SL TFTC in a nice setting

Drove to Melbourne on a gnome kidnapping hunt.
Black Bunny had a few gnomes to leave in Melbourne, and his gnome carrying shopping basket (he calls it a portable incarceration module, but WE know!).

Had to find some ordinary caches on the way.

Wendy

Drove down to Orbost for dinner, after a road trip up from Melbourne. Found the cache then enjoyed fish and chips in the park, just round the corner. 13th out of 13 for the day! Heading back to Newmerella to stay the night, before continuing the journey to Eden tomorrow.
Picked up the Jeep TB, so will log as finding elsewhere to get it moving again.
TFTC SL

Found @ 1.05 pm Find #472
Beaten to this cache by the greynomads, again on the very same day, really starting to dislike Nomads LOL No really Congrats
Anyway found with Unluckycharm in a lovely location
It was a quick sign of the log as it was starting to rain, so much so that I put a TB in the cache without logging it, so could the next finder please send me the tracking details or just log it as found elseware
Thx for the break on the way home and of coarse the cache



This entry was edited by Oakydog on Friday, 14 January 2011 at 02:56:45.

* FTF * for the greynomads. We beat Oakydog by only a few minutes by the sounds of it. A pleasant outing today which included visiting the Wood Art display in Orbost - well worth the visit. The area around the cache looks in need of a bit of TLC before it becomes impassable.

TFTC SL TNLN
Greynomads Bill and Diana

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