#13 Gourmet Run - Stumpy on Ward Markwood, Victoria, Australia
By purpledreamer (adopted by BettyBoo3747) on 15-Mar-11. Waypoint GC2QXW9

Time to end this one's career. Doesn't really fit in with the Series and it is a dreadful place to park so it is being replaced with a new cache #13a, elsewhere.

Found it, really easy. On our way to stay at mount beauty and going skiing tomorrow. So it was a bit dark. Good cache, I like ones with toys! TFTC

A day out geo caching today. This was a quick find. Retrieved a TB and will take it to Queensland tomorrow. TFTC

Found it with ease but chose to park not as a drive by, but rather a walk to after three vehicles came up the road in quick succession! TFTC, and I liked the pun on the name. Container seemed a bit full and would not fully close, maybe a check on this.

Stumpy on Ward sounded like they were gardening just over from GZ, so we grabbed this one quickly and quietly and moved on. Thanks for the hide.

TFTC What a great day for a few caches. Left T/B behind.

Today was my last day in Porepunkah. With the gear packed up on the back of the ute I was off, grabbing some caches on the way home.

It has been a bit of a trip down memory lane for me, something I should have done years ago.

Picking up these Gourmet caches is kind of making me hungry. Perhaps a stop off is required, after all it is almost lunchtime.

This one was found very quickly and it needed to be, as I had to avoid an oncoming postman. Lucky he had stopped off for a chat.

I had nobody to chat to so I flew through the finding and log signing process.

TFTC

Tftc.

I tried to be a bit quiet as I got to GZ because there were people further down. As I opened the cache there was BIG squeak from a very cute toy inside that a geokid would love. I didn't attract any attention but went to my car to close the lid. SQUEAK. It was a delight. I put the log in a new zip lock bag. TFTC

This entry was edited by o.kay on Monday, 26 January 2015 at 21:58:58 UTC.

Container a bit wet inside, removed slug! Log book all good though. Took you megaphone left squeaky dog. TFTC

TFAnotherC BettyBoo. Nice find and start to the new year with Noelle04.

Doing a bit of a loop with Jimmytherat back to Gentle Annie @ Whitfield. A quick find now onward. Thanks Bettyboo!

Enjoyed drive the car along to GZ, Signed the log, Thanks BettyBoo3747

Easy find with Lamb73

Nice easy cach. On the way home.

Thanks

Having a week in the area with yamidotty, mainly sightseeing. but who could resist finding a few caches along the way?  

TFTC

My wife and I were on our way home from a motorcycle rally near Myrtleford, and we picked up this cache on the way. tftc.
Crusty.

We only managed to fit a few of the Gourmet Run series into our drive today. this was the first that popped up on our radar calling "come & get me". So we did.

Another find where not a car went past the whole time I was there. Always happy with that.

Cache found with issue and all was good.

Thanks for another one.

One of 102 caches found today during a big three day cache run, up to and around Kelly country which included Benalla, Tolmie, Beechworth and Glenrowan. A great three days spent exploring and discovering with a fantastic group of fellow cachers, which we collectively called ourselves 'The Kelly Gang'.

Today being Friday, I spent the day caching on my own as I made my way around the conutryside before meeting up with the rest of the gang at our camping spot for the night at Stringy Bark Creek. I had a nice early start, hitting the road before dawn and the sun rose as I made my way through the Great Dividing Range. A perfect day for caching which included some time biking it around Benalla, before heading for Beechworth to find some 'Challenge' caches and some of the HSS series caches, then back south to Stringy Bark Creek for a fantastic camp fire dinner with some great company.

At GZ my GPS didn't quite settle but after a few minutes of searching I found the cache. Thanks.

A nice easy one, found, signed and returned while Muggle Hubby drove down the hill and turned the car around

Suscoe's 21st find of 42 caches for today on a terrific day out and about in the Wangaratta area.
After a few days of wet weather, today was pretty dry and quite pleasant even though it was cold.
We saw a broad range of caches and enjoyed the trip through the countryside and the towns.
Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for this cache, we saw the local Guinea Fowl and Turkey just down the way today, they were looking very well looked after!!! Here comes Christmas!!!!!!! But don't tell the Turkey!

Spent an afternoon travelling amongst the farmland, finding numerous caches.
This is one we had on our list to find. Another gourmet cache found.
Thanks for placing this cache BettyBoo3747

On a cache run this weekend with J+J.AU and Baja15. Great area here around Wangaratta and Beechworth!
TFTC Wilbert67

I joined in for a trip down South to find some caches in the area with J+J.au and Wilbert67. We had a lot of fun sightseeing, bike riding and most thankful for the quality of the caches in the area. Some showed us interesting historic locations while others presented us with a tricky hide all adding to the adventure we all enjoyed. A trip to remember with the trails most recommended. SL..TFTC

Dusty road had turned muddy with the rain, on the narrow winding roads not travelled before it quaint here. at GZ we soon had what we came for .TFTC

I have to agree with Freddo !!
"Looks like deliverance country today." [:o]

I could hear the banjos playing Fernando !!
I remember long ago another scary cache like this.
In the backwoods Fernando !!
I was humming to meself and softly poking the scenery [:o]
I could hear the distant banjos.
And sounds of Rottweiler barks were coming from afar !! [:o]

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This cache was found using a beaten up Garmin GPSMAP 76CSx.
Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via 10 finger typing

TFTC.

Well it looks like fine weather for another adventure So joining Firesafe Freddo and 3lg at Dimboola we headed off the target was the high voltage series. We picked up alot of caches for that weekend and had a great weekend doing it we loved the views and finds all with great company

Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for placing the caches for us to find

Found on a 4 day caching run with Firesafe, Freddo and Honeysucker, its day 2 and now that we have finished the high voltage trail we head for the nearby towns collecting caches along the way, weather was perfect and i got to see some very interesting cache hides, a big thank you to all for hiding these caches for us to find on our journey and look forward to one day returning back to Victoria to cache more of this beautiful state. TFTC

Looks like deliverance country today.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Found on a caching run with Monchs Mob #18.
We cheekily parked in the road thinking that not many people would come down this road, we got the cache and returned it and got back in the car as several cars appeared out of nowhere all at once! It was the busiest of any road we'd seen today! We followed one car slowly for a while and there was a wedding going on just north of here.

What a great view

TFTC

Once we were on the right side of the track, Doc found it quckly. TFTC

Took the day off work to make it a extra long weekend. Decided at last minute to do an afternoon cache cleanup near home. This was the 10th of 16, never thought of coming down here before but with geocaching we discover new places, a lovely country lane indeed - tftc.

The Wenchette has gone camping so I've loaded the Wench on her broomstick and we're zooming around the Ovens Valley for a few days...

Like others, we found this cache "across the road"

Thank you for the cache BettyBoo3747.
#2573rd @ 1432hrs and 19th of 45 for the day.

Nice and easy find. TFTC Greetings from Finland.

We found many nice caches during the day.
Quick & easy.
Greeting from Finland
TFTC

Came down this way, but went back again for no reason in particular. Thanks.

We'll have to do all this collection, beautiful country. Nice quick find TFTC

From the time we became aware of the "Gourmet Run", it has been on our agenda because of the high esteem with which geocachers held, and continue to hold, purpledreamer. We had found a number of her caches during a previous visit to Wangaratta and wanted to add some more to our list of finds.

This was the only situation today where caching instinct took over from our GPS. We located the cache on the opposite side of the road to where our GPS was pointing. The cache and it's contents were in good condition. TFTC purpledreamer and BettyBoo3747 for mainting the "Gourmet Run".

TFTC and thank you for the great location. Caches like this make it a worthwhile activity.

A quick find on the way to seek out caches in the Mt Buffallo area with Gordo.. Thank you BettyBoo3747.

In our way to mt buffalo on a caching trip with Mudbrick, picking up caches along the way.

Cheers gordo

1:57 pm #885

Great company and great weather is making for a super day of caching. When arriving at the GZ there certainly was a selection of stumps we could choose from. After minimal searching I was lucky enough to find the cache. SL TFTC

micheena - another find by kerydn21. not many left on the run.

Making steady progress on this series. Several stumps to check out as the GPS was undecided, kerydn21 drew the lucky one. TFTC BettyBoo

6648 + 823 = 7471. Found during a great weekend caching in Northern Victoria.

Second day of my caching run around this area. The twelfth cache found in this series. Not quite doing them in order plus I missed a few as well - hope I can still get to the Mystery ! Nice quick find in a quiet area - the local wondered why I stopped but he soon went back to work when I poured myself a cuppa. Now off to the next one !

Thanks again BettyBoo3747 !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

After a very disappointing day yesterday round Lake Sambell, today we set a personal best for most Finds in a day! These downs and ups are one of the reasons we keep playing this game. We found 11 and this was the second. Shame we are not around long enough to do the whole Gourmet Run series. TFTC TNLNSL

tftc

Jess’s Rambling Caching Weekend
50 – Finds
8 – DNF’s

The second day for a 5 day caching trip over the long weekend.

TFTC

Took – Nothing

Left – Nothing

found with S.Piddy, jesstu666, ashleigh.green, adrien.robinson and team purple pen.

This entry was edited by roverman88 on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 at 23:41:47 UTC.

One of many caches throughout of Easter Long Weekend trip up the Kiewa Valley and the Victorian High Country.

All Were Great Caches, Thanks to all for giving us a reason to travel and taking us to some unique places up in the amazing Victorian high country.

I would recomend to anyone and everyone to travel and let the caches guide you thoughout the mountains.

At time of Caching I Was Know As "adrian.robinson" / "ar", Due To Facebook Automatic Naming and now known as "VicMap", Much shorter and easier to write.

Found with S.Piddy, roverman88, ashleigh.green, Jesstu666 and team purple pen.

Easy find

tftc

Found it

Driveby with bienvenu at 4:30pm on our way to the high country.
TNLN
thanks purpledreamer/BettyBoo3747

A drive in cache!
Tftc

found on a bit of a drive around the district. tftc.

4/02/13 12:30 Find #2258 . A nice quick find on today's return trip to Benalla after a briefing at the Ovens ICC on the Harrietville/Feathertop fire

TNLN

Cheers BettyBoo

An easy find.

Staying at Oxley to do some caching in the area.
The Gourmet Run is one of the series we completed today.
We enjoyed learning the history of the area.
Had to remove some live bugs from cache.
Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for maintaining the series.

Another quick one... definitely a drive by! TFTC!

I was heading home from a few days in Bright, and chose to do a number of caches along the way, in the general area. The Gourmet series featured predominantly. This was my second such cache for the day and was a nice quick drive by. Thanks for the cache.

We were constantly watched by a small heard of cattle who walked along the fenceline with us as we approached the cache location. Refusing to give us any hints, they just continued to stare at us over the fence, leaving us to find the container by ourselves which was in the first place we looked!

A nice quiet road and an quick find. TNLN TFTC

found with INKLE
left butterfly and saw
tftc

out cacheing with taz-bud
easy find tftc
left dragonfly and leaf

As I have just adopted the Gourmet Series, Robmc and I did a cache check and maintenance run today. This cache and log are in good condition.

The Gourmet Run # 13 - Stumpy on Ward was transferred from Coruze to user BettyBoo3747

This was the 21st of 22 finds for the day and sorry to say that Mrs. Lost Wanderer (the log writer) has no recollection of any details about the hide other than we signed the log and were on our way.

Oh, and it was find 998 for us too. Thanks for the cache.

Edited to add- Thinking about it later, Mrs. Lost Wanderer remembered the handbrake start on the hill she had to do after the cache was found. Sorry, pregnancy brain.

The Gourmet Run # 13 - Stumpy on Ward was transferred from purpledreamer to user Coruze

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Find # 365 logged at GZ at 3:49pm, after Tomtom told me to stop. First in this series for me. I'll be back! T4TC!

It is fun picking up the odd GT cache now and then. Don't think we will ever get around to the bonus at this rate though. Mrs LZZ was driving when I said stop. When she got out she thought she could not have got any closer to the cache. A quick almost drive by. TNLN TFTC

Great spot! Thanks for bringing us here

This cache was part of Sully1 and my tour of Wang and districts.
Quick find at the great co-ords, thanks for anothe rin the series Purpledreamer

Found with bogonghazy on day 2 of our blitz around Wang and beyond. Thanks to purpledreamer for the cache and for bringing us here.

Nice easy find TFTC

nice easy find TFTC

Quickie on the way home from doing a few other Gourmets. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found it No. 4658 ... easy find ... TN and left Chinese Coins ... TFTC purpledreamer

Found by H with The Empire
On our way home from the Oz Mega. It has been fun and now we are looking forward to the next one.
TFTC BettyBoo3747

Found by The Empire + H @ 10:05am
Our sixth find of the day on the way home from the Oz Mega 2012. Thanks for the cache purpledreamer.
- M

15 of 18 caches, good enjoyed drive around different suburbs, easy to find as very well cache thanks

07.04.2012 17:45
Find # 1610

Today was day three of a massive adventure weekend caching in the Albury Wadonga region as well as incorporating the OZ Mega event. I would be spending most of my time with Team Kwokka (Brother and Sister in Law) as well as my caching mate and partner in crime, SedgwickDave

Today we were aiming to complete two power trails, having completed Spirit of Salts, now starting our second series The Gourmet Run.

Getting close to the final now, but it is also getting dark!!.

Thanks to purpledreamer for the cache.

This entry was edited by ahomburg on Sunday, 15 April 2012 at 11:39:56 UTC.

Found @1745 #1395
While attending the OzMega with ahomburg & Kwokka this was one of many caches found over the long weekend with 101 in total found. Today was the biggest single day with 42 found.

This series look great with various different hides in the series seen with variety in each.
The likely hide was not notice on arrival but cache was finally found in the 3rd place we looked. Now it was really starting to get dark.

TFTC purpledreamer and for the effort and time is creating this fun series.

Nice quick find, must move on...
TFTC

Found this one as part of our trip to the 2012 Oz Mega in Albury. Fairly quick find and onto the next. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Team Unibolt on Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 05:35:26 UTC.

With a title like how could we go wrong.
Thanks purpledreamer

Arrived at GZ and could almost reach this from the camper TFTC.

18:34
Heading northward towards the Mega with Liz & Bruce - just six days to go!
Almost, but not quiet a drive-by. Our approach to this site passed a lot of water - one thing this gourmet area seems to have plenty of.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt purpledreamer.
2740

After having arrived in this region earlier in the day with Phetlern and having camped at the Oxley Reserve with our caravans it was now time to do some caching. This was one we targetted and were able to find. This such a pretty area and we will return to spend more time sampling the produce and seeing more of the historic locations. Thanks purpledreamer for a most enjoyable series and for the clever hides.

Good another one bites the dust ... TFTC

Quick drive-by while out setting up a new puzzle.... TFTC

East drice by. TFTC. Part co-ordinates obtained!

A nice easy drive by on the way to the CO's place to pick up some pathtags.
This is a nice quiet spot...would love to live here.
TNLNSL TFTC

Found at 5.30 with MarknDee, and yes, the fine sunny north east weather they always come to expect let them down with rain at this pitstop! But Ava was quite excited with the 2 rings she took.

We found this one at 5:30pm with Ava from Team Beaver. A glorious day but it was raining by the time we reached here. It was the cache that broke our Personal Best of eleven for a day! Took: Lobster & rings. Left:pathtag and pencil topper. SL TFTC

We were on the way home from Bright and swung past this cache.
A nice easy find too.
TFTC