Dry Creek Mine Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
By Bingley3683 on 02-May-11. Waypoint GC2VED2

TNLNSL. TFTC

Heading to Mt Pilot NP today to complete a few for caches around the Woolshed Valley. Wasn't sure what the tracks were going to be like after all the rain. But they werent to bad (the ones I was on anyway) few sketchy spots however.

Parked 100 odd meters away here. Interesting historic site. Spotted the old cart straight up (I think that's what it is) Looked at the wrong elevation for the cache, eventually worked it out !

TFTC !

Another great spot of history

Great day out with a mate. TFTC

Found

Found it

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TFTC

Animal dug it out so wasn’t well hidden, put it back hidden

Beautiful spot.... great for a picinic...

Out for a weekend drive with the family and decided to check out this site. Very pleasant with the water in the creek and the green grass all over the place.
Cache located quickly and TB dropped off.

TFTC

ok

Found it, 5th of the day

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Out and about with ILookedThere and they kindly slowed down enough for me to bail out of the Pajero and make a dash for this cache, sign the log and scramble back in time to dive onto the back door handle before picking up too much speed taking off for a cache they had not already found.
You believe me right?

TFTC Bingley3683 and thanks ILookedThere for allowing me to be your ballast for the day.

All caches handled and returned with sanitised hands and we didn't lick anything. [8)]

Lovely little spot. Wondering if the concrete a little further up was a dam?

This place has so much history.

Great spot

Thanks heaps for the location

This was a new area for us. We spent a bit of time walking around checking out the creek and all the stuff around it. Looks like a dam wall had been built in the creek at some stage too. Found the cache but Piuquet Jnr wasn't game enough to reach for it. Very interesting area.. thanks for the cache Bingley.

Beautiful spot. Lucky enough to be here with water in the creek

Magnificent dry creek.

Tftc

great spot, drove there with my father

I haven't been caching too much in the last few years, and subsequently I have been very lax in updating my cache logs. I am endeavouring to catch up by uploading my Garmin field note files! Apologies to the cache owners for my tardiness.

Found with the girls on a little drive up the mountain.

It was in plain view, but replaced and mirror would be helpful.

Out for a drive in the forest today and pick up a couple of caches.
The creek and the surrounds were very dry after the hot summer.
Cache was found,signed and replaced.
Thanks for the hide.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Blingley3683 [^]

Great location. Walked up from Wooshed Road

I thought I would start the day with a nice drive through the National Park
And it was a nice drive
The cool of the morning was wafting in through the open windows of the geomobile, bringing with it all the sounds and smells of the forest
Oh !! And the occasional fallen tree across the track
Nothing that could not be cleared with a bit of elbow grease and a sturdy branch for leverage.

And by and by I arrived at the Dry Creek Mine site.
Hardly 4WD territory though !!
A '64 Kombie Van would make it here easy
Or you could just walk

Anyhoo, I soon found me a cache and celebrated by splashing some of the creek water on the geomobile to wash off the dust
Only a token gesture though !!
By the time I get back to camp tonight, the geomobile will be covered in dust again

TFTC !!

happy to be 1st of the year. a circuitous drive from 2 of bingleys other caches and we finally found our way in with the station wagon. have visited this area b4 on one of my early bush walking adventures but i don't think the cache was here then. thanks for the hides bingley, newbie geomorg and i had a gr8 afternoon driving the back blocks to find them. 3 for 3 for us today and that's just fine, cheers, splittie.

Found while 4 wheel driving around the area i have been through here before but never knew it was a old mine site. TFTC

Nice area for a drive saw plenty of wallaby’s and other wild life out and about. Nice easy find. Took orange dog. left Frog, Swordfish and Cricket. tftc

HAHAHA!!!! Had to laugh while writing the log because we actually read the whole of the cache description. We came from Reedy Creek Road in the Lost Rocket (a VT Commodore) with Mrs. Lost Wanderer behind the wheel. Some incredible driving was needed to get up the rocky track but 1st gear is a wonderful thing. Mr. Lost Wanderer and Bexta only had to get out twice to move fallen branches off the road. Thanks for the cache Bingley in another great place.

P.S. Took the track back to Old Coach Road on the way back.

This one took us on a bit of a rocky start out with the Lost Wanderers. We cleared the odd tree from the road, had an exciting drive. It was all good, took the tamer drive out of the area. TFTC

Nice quick find on a awesome day for a drive. Can see plenty of motor bikes love this area. Drove as close as 18 meters to GZ. Found with troobloo SL TNLN T4TC

Whilst out on a drive with Coruze through the woolshed valley spotted this cache on gps and we decided to try to find it. Enjoyed the drive to gz and took the time to have a look around. Interesting to see evidence of the corrugated iron boxing that was used in construction of the wall. The track today was in good nick so we managed to get to approximately 15 metres of the hide.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC
troobloo

Very accurate co-ordinates. Easy find, nice spot, Thanks!

Called past to check on this lonely little cache.... All ok, those Systema containers are good!

We took you at your word here and decided that this was the place to have lunch. Right after we'd found the cache of course.
Thanks again Bingley3683

Really nice spot by the creek. We thought the road was about to run out on us before we got there, but it opened up again.
First things first, we grabbed the cache. We didn't need a small mirror (we all know what we look like! )
Stopped for lunch before continuing on.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found while out and about with Chewinprickles and RobMC.This was another nice spot.where we had a lovely lunch once the cache was found.
TFTC
T- Pathtag yay

Great day for a 4wd. Drove to within 10m of GZ since it was raining. The creek was still dry even with the rain. TFTC

Finally got this one off our list, lovely site and the track up the other side was interesting to say the least. wandered around the area for awhile and enjoyed the view, TNLN TFTC

Found on a 13 km walk with Murray Valley Bushwalkers. Starting the walk at Kangaroo Crossing,we met a little dog along Kangaroo Track. The dog followed us for at least 10km. Near GZ the dog almost immediately sniffed out the hiding place! Great spot for a cache in a great area! TNLN. TFTC.

Find 3 of 3 today on a quick caching run to fill a couple of hours. Great little spot and we loved trying to figure out what all the debris laying around was from TFTC

#1599 Found on a quite afternoon caching following a maintenance run on a couple of our own (and bumping into yourself ). This was a really interesting area and since we were here in the daylight we could see some of the relics , most notably an old fridge. The creek wasn't dry today, trickling away. Thanks Bingley3683 for bringing us to this historic site that we would have missed otherwise. [^]

Took: GC
Left: DazzPete Pathtag

Out for a night run with Big Ez while the girls were on the Beechworth Ghost tour.
Came from Hidden Falls and parked within 15mt and Big Ez made the find.
To dark to sight see so will have to look around some other time.

T- GC
L- GC
Cheers.

Found in the company of DJ Rascal on a late arvo/evening cache whilst Mrs H & J were off doing the ghost tour!
Was a bit dark to explore the area too much - but we'll be back - often visit these parts of the bush.
Many thanks for another great spot for a cache.
TNLN SL

2nd to find at 4pm on Mother's Day. What a great little spot - might bring our camper trailer and stay the night around here. Enjoyed our drive along Reedy Ck Rd. GeoPa just happened to have his goldpan with him, so had a bit of fun on the edge of the Creek - a few specks were sighted. We haven't been in this part of the Chiltern Mt Pilot NP before so TFTC and the chance to do a little exploring here. Took: Mexican coin Left: Oink GC. We would be interested to know a little more history of the Dry Creek Mine too!

This entry was edited by Harrowang on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 at 21:50:01 UTC.

Geo Co. Is at work .....afternoon shift this week...

When the alert went off for this one i was still at work.
I had no idea what locals were going out for the FTF on this one, so i was not sure if i was in with a chance or not..
After getting to within 80metres of GZ a quick walk was required, soon after the cache was in hand, and a "White Blank Page" was found ............FTF.
Many thanks to Bingley3683 for a nicely hidden cache.



This entry was edited by Lostmonster & Co on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 at 08:57:17 UTC.

Published

And the 1 man race is on.. GO GO GO GEO & CO GO

drice carefully, those roads have pea-gravel and can be treacherous...