Woodlands 71 - Willy Wagtail Greenvale, Victoria, Australia
By
Team_Woodlands on 18-Oct-11. Waypoint GC367KX
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Logs
It was a lovely sunny day today so I decided to make my way back out here to find a few more caches in this series throughout the afternoon. I have already found a large portion of this Woodlands series, and was hoping to tick a few more off today. I had a very successful time caching while I was out here as I managed to find every cache I had intended to. There are still a few more caches remaining in this series I need to find, including the final, so I think that one more trip out to this area will be required in the future. Cache was a relatively quick find, though I did have some difficulty extracting the log. Other than that, it was in good condition.TFTC
Checked on this one today.Replaced the log.Sharpened the pencil.All good to go.
I had started this series about 8 years ago and was left with 10 yet to find. Today and_me and I carried on where she left off 2 weeks ago, and this allowed me to finish off the series.This took a little longer to lay our hands on however that was due to cache blindness! TFTC.
TFTC.....saw some willy wagtails as we found the cache and signed the log. Have always thought they are quite a cute little bird, with an equally cute name.
Great spot. Look a while to find but after checking the other side of the root we finally found it TFTC
On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. 
Day 44/74, Tuesday. After working remotely today from my AirBnB apartment in Keilor Downs, I drove to the Woodlands Historic Park in early evening. I enjoyed this visit SO MUCH! Well, except that it was really hot for a Finn, 33 degrees. Other than that, this was an amazing evening. First of all, I saw so many kangaroos! Between 100 and 150, easily. They were all over. I love the kangaroos!! Secondly, this geocache trail is GREAT! I found all the caches (ah, no, there was one DNF - but all the others) quickly. The coordinates were very good. All the caches were in great condition. I also appreciated the hints A LOT! So, 26 finds and 1 DNF today. I will definitely come back here. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).
Day 44/74, Tuesday. After working remotely today from my AirBnB apartment in Keilor Downs, I drove to the Woodlands Historic Park in early evening. I enjoyed this visit SO MUCH! Well, except that it was really hot for a Finn, 33 degrees. Other than that, this was an amazing evening. First of all, I saw so many kangaroos! Between 100 and 150, easily. They were all over. I love the kangaroos!! Secondly, this geocache trail is GREAT! I found all the caches (ah, no, there was one DNF - but all the others) quickly. The coordinates were very good. All the caches were in great condition. I also appreciated the hints A LOT! So, 26 finds and 1 DNF today. I will definitely come back here. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).
A lovely mild day so I loaded up the deadly treadly and set off to finish off the Woodlands series.The last time I was here the Back Paddock was all locked up and no information about when it might reopen. Fortunately, it was open today.I started at #70 - Take Off, which was a good title as the planes were taking off to the north, so I could hear them roar all morning. I think they might have driven the kanga bouncers to another section of the park though, as I saw none.It took me a couple of hours to clean out the Back Paddock and edges of 30 caches.Thanks for keeping this series in such a good condition.Thanks, Robmc.
Hallelujah!
Kev called this one my Don Bradman cache as I had found 99 of the 100!
After slight air travel delays, went out to Woodlands to walk off my frustration and finally find this one. Nothing like a walk in this calming park to soothe the soul. Tftc and for maintaining this fabulous series. Finally got the 100. This will always remain one of the best geocaching memories.
Kev called this one my Don Bradman cache as I had found 99 of the 100!
After slight air travel delays, went out to Woodlands to walk off my frustration and finally find this one. Nothing like a walk in this calming park to soothe the soul. Tftc and for maintaining this fabulous series. Finally got the 100. This will always remain one of the best geocaching memories.
Cache located log stamped Upside down sorry too those with OCD like me lol..just like the weather and my mood the stamping was abit off on the odd occasion today.
Back to Woodlands today to continue working through this series. This was our fourth trip here so far. Last time we had aimed to get the geocaches in the back paddock but it was locked. Today luck was on our side so away we went.
Our first find of the day let us start our 2023 geocaching journey with our 400th find. Then we continued chipping away at this series. Three and a half hours and 10 kilometres later we had ticked off another 29 geocaches and made our way back to the car, beating the rain and storm.
Our first find of the day let us start our 2023 geocaching journey with our 400th find. Then we continued chipping away at this series. Three and a half hours and 10 kilometres later we had ticked off another 29 geocaches and made our way back to the car, beating the rain and storm.
After dropping some family off at the airport, I continued tackling this series. It was very warm today, and most of the trails were out in the open. I packed some sunscreen along with my water bottle and made sure I was reapplying it every couple of hours.
All up I walked 11.5km today, and took care of a little under 30% of the entire series, only a few more visits, and I'll have them all done!
All caches were found in good condition, with a few exceptions.
All up I walked 11.5km today, and took care of a little under 30% of the entire series, only a few more visits, and I'll have them all done!
All caches were found in good condition, with a few exceptions.
Find No. 3930. Found with FUF009.
A day trip down to do the Woodland series of caches.
Took our bicycles and FUF009 came with us.
Arrived at the gate, unloaded our bikes, had a cuppa and off we went getting our first cache at 8.55am.
We worked our way through the series stopping several times to watch the coming and going of the jets at Tullamarine.
After a long warm day with several challenges, we arrived back at the car park for a rest and well earned cuppa.
We put the clues together, punched in the co-ords and went and claimed the final cache of the series.
TFTC
A day trip down to do the Woodland series of caches.
Took our bicycles and FUF009 came with us.
Arrived at the gate, unloaded our bikes, had a cuppa and off we went getting our first cache at 8.55am.
We worked our way through the series stopping several times to watch the coming and going of the jets at Tullamarine.
After a long warm day with several challenges, we arrived back at the car park for a rest and well earned cuppa.
We put the clues together, punched in the co-ords and went and claimed the final cache of the series.
TFTC
Find # 11476
Found with Tyred n Cranky.
Well this has been a long time coming, to do the Woodlands caches. Many a plan has fallen through due to health and pandemic and work issues. But finally all was on our side for a cracker geocaching day to end 2022.
With bikes loaded up we were off, left St.Arnaud just before 6am and had the first cache signed at 8.55am. Then it was just one by one, following the GPSr.
From flowing trails to bush bashing (with and without tall grass) and even a bit of water, we had a lot. All the while the sounds of planes going overhead, birds around and the odd 100 roos thumping the ground when we disturbed them.
We managed to make good time and accomplish all we set out to do. Despite the heat and a couple of hills I had to walk up.
We believe luck was on our side with the back paddock being opened, after seeing so many had commented on it being shut.
All in All, personally, it was great to finally get this series done with a couple others thrown in that are in the park.
Oh and by the way, we got back home just after 9.30pm. A big days outing.
TFTC Team_Woodlands
Found with Tyred n Cranky.
Well this has been a long time coming, to do the Woodlands caches. Many a plan has fallen through due to health and pandemic and work issues. But finally all was on our side for a cracker geocaching day to end 2022.
With bikes loaded up we were off, left St.Arnaud just before 6am and had the first cache signed at 8.55am. Then it was just one by one, following the GPSr.
From flowing trails to bush bashing (with and without tall grass) and even a bit of water, we had a lot. All the while the sounds of planes going overhead, birds around and the odd 100 roos thumping the ground when we disturbed them.
We managed to make good time and accomplish all we set out to do. Despite the heat and a couple of hills I had to walk up.
We believe luck was on our side with the back paddock being opened, after seeing so many had commented on it being shut.
All in All, personally, it was great to finally get this series done with a couple others thrown in that are in the park.
Oh and by the way, we got back home just after 9.30pm. A big days outing.
TFTC Team_Woodlands
This one had me searching for quite a whilel, but it's there, just keep looking. Thanks for such a great series and good maintenance as well.
Out and about on our bikes early today trying to beat the heat and continue our Woodlands quest. Loving being the first in all the new log books. Thanks for all the effort you’ve put into this great series. We look forward to finishing it soon.
Checked on this one today
Had a quick look to where it should be so I marked it as missing
Replaced Cache
All good to go
Had a quick look to where it should be so I marked it as missing
Replaced Cache
All good to go
Please delete my last log. I was ment to put DNF not found 
I wouldn't want to be looking here in summer sadly didn't have the confidence alone to look deep inside just incase. Will look another day. Thankyou anyway
I wouldn't want to be looking here in summer sadly didn't have the confidence alone to look deep inside just incase. Will look another day. Thankyou anyway
47 Woodlands caches today - my legs are so sore now. Kids at school so off i went. Had planned to do a few others but there was a BIG fence in the way so I’ll have to remember that for my next visit. Lots of kangaroos out today. TFTC.
The eastern barred bandicoot enclosure was open, and therefore I had a chance to claim some of the caches I couldn't get to on earlier occasions.
Thanks for the cache Team Woodlands.
Thanks for the cache Team Woodlands.
Out on what seems to be an annual event, hunting caches in the Woodlands series with Team_Roberts1 on January 9th! With the two junior members of Team_Roberts1 on bikes we attacked the southern section of this series today finding 31 caches in total, great way to spend a lovely summer day.
Another quick find
Thanks to Team Woodlands for this one and the series.
Another quick find
Thanks to Team Woodlands for this one and the series.
Great day of caching with littlemerpip.
27 ticked off the list. Thanks so much to Team Woodlands for such an incredible series of caches.
27 ticked off the list. Thanks so much to Team Woodlands for such an incredible series of caches.
I started this series late last year and was determined not to leave it too long to complete it. Today was perfect, not too hot, not too cold and quite dull so no glaring sun to make the screen hard to see. This is an excellent series in a beautiful bush setting not far from the city. If grass seeds where gold my socks would be rich!
Found with team milljrh as we tackled the next installment of the Woodlands 100 series. Enjoyed our afternoon in this gorgeous park. No DNFs (huzzah) but still some left for next time. I love this park. Thanks for such a great series and hours of covid safe entertainment.
My first time in the Back Paddock, and I loved the native bushland vibe.
My first time in the Back Paddock, and I loved the native bushland vibe.
Good day for a walk and knock off a few caches. No willy wagtails but around here we saw a whole lot of kookaburras all singing away! tftc
This one had me looking low cause of the clue, but I didn’t need to. TFTC!
Last one for me! Now for the FINAL!
Last one for me! Now for the FINAL!
ERMMEHGAWD ITS FINALLY OOOOPPPPEEEENNN! Only took 3 months and missed a few days here and there. 3 trips to find it closed, 5 phone calls and TODAY WAS THE DAY!
Gates are now unlocked.
Checked on this one today.
Replaced the log so happy finding again.
Checked on this one today.
Replaced the log so happy finding again.
Called in on this one today.
The gates are currently locked and I will check on this one when Parks Victoria allow me to.
The gates are currently locked and I will check on this one when Parks Victoria allow me to.
All of the caches in the Woodlands 100 series are being disabled due to the current crisis.
Some of the caches need maint and won’t be attended to till the conditions are right to head back into the park.
So everybody stay safe and start solving puzzles for when we can all head out.
Thanks
Team Woodlands.
Some of the caches need maint and won’t be attended to till the conditions are right to head back into the park.
So everybody stay safe and start solving puzzles for when we can all head out.
Thanks
Team Woodlands.
Escaping from the bushfire smoke of the north east of the State for the weekend. The Woodlands Series beckoned once more. We will decide on a route as we walk along and stop when we need more substantial food than the snacks we are carrying. A pleasant cool day to see how many more of this series we can put a smiley face on. SL at 12.10pm Didn’t see any Willy Wagtails in the Park today, but love their cheeky chatter and tail wag. #6791 TFTC Team_Woodlands
Got a call from BackPAQer asking if I wanted to head out and do some caching, let's finish the woodlands series he says... what an awesome idea, we started the series just over a year ago and completed sixty nine in woodlands out of the one hundred and ten total caches in the park.
So BackPAQer rocks up at 8am and we load the bikes and head out for the day. Weather is perfect at twenty Celsius and overcast with the sunny shining through every so often and such a light breeze. I had not taken the bike out until the previous time we attempted this series.
Well it was a highly successful day as we managed to complete the woodlands one hundred series even find the previous did not find cache. We worked out the multi in woodlands as well and solved the mystery. A hundred percent success rate for today.
Also left a travel bug in number one hundred the mystery.
Sorry this log is generic for all finds.
Thanks for the cache and the hide
Log book has been signed and returned
Find #561
So BackPAQer rocks up at 8am and we load the bikes and head out for the day. Weather is perfect at twenty Celsius and overcast with the sunny shining through every so often and such a light breeze. I had not taken the bike out until the previous time we attempted this series.
Well it was a highly successful day as we managed to complete the woodlands one hundred series even find the previous did not find cache. We worked out the multi in woodlands as well and solved the mystery. A hundred percent success rate for today.
Also left a travel bug in number one hundred the mystery.
Sorry this log is generic for all finds.
Thanks for the cache and the hide
Log book has been signed and returned
Find #561
Départ pour 15 km de promenade dans woodland parcs. Quelques parties de cche cache avec les kangourous pour agrémenter la promenade.
Have flown down to Melbourne from Sydney for a 2 week training course at the Melbourne Tullamarine Airport Air Traffic Control Centre, but my main interest will be in collecting as many Victorian (VK3 in HAM radio terms) caches as possible during my free time away from the workplace. My primary caching target areas will be the Woodlands Historic Park (with it’s 100 plus caches), the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, the Outer Circle Railway Trail, the Donaldson’s Creek Trail, the Ruffey Creek Trail, Eltham (Diamond Valley Railway), and the suburbs surrounding my Essendon apartment. This was the 31st of 85 finds for the day, and the 114th of 242 finds for the trip.
With only one weekend available to me for private activities (between the two weeks of training) I planned to make the most of it with some serious caching activities lined up for both days. Today (Saturday) was to be the biggest day with a serious attempt at completing the mammoth "Woodlands 100" cache powertrail located around Historic Woodlands Park, which I had started doing on my Melbourne arrival day last Sunday.
This one was next along the trail, and another nice quick find. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC Team_Woodlands.
Find #3611
With only one weekend available to me for private activities (between the two weeks of training) I planned to make the most of it with some serious caching activities lined up for both days. Today (Saturday) was to be the biggest day with a serious attempt at completing the mammoth "Woodlands 100" cache powertrail located around Historic Woodlands Park, which I had started doing on my Melbourne arrival day last Sunday.
This one was next along the trail, and another nice quick find. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC Team_Woodlands.
Find #3611
Caching day at Woodlands Historic park, showers in the morning then fine in the afternoon. Awesome power trail series, sore heels from long walk but it was worth it. Only saw four people, lots of kangaroos, a few rabbits, birds & aeroplanes. Thanks Team_Woodlands for placing the cache.
A few months ago SSRAT AND GOOSE paddled over from the island of all things AMAZING ️
(In case your a little slow it’s TASSIE)
This trip was to finish what we failed at a year earlier which was to ‘Smash woodlands’ in one day
Anywho, so around we went and nailed the rest of the series on this trip whilst keeping Richard away from any bikes that could ruin the chance of finishing our TASK
Sorry for generic logs but we did have and amazing time in this area and a ton of laughs were had.
Tftc’S !
(In case your a little slow it’s TASSIE)
This trip was to finish what we failed at a year earlier which was to ‘Smash woodlands’ in one day
Anywho, so around we went and nailed the rest of the series on this trip whilst keeping Richard away from any bikes that could ruin the chance of finishing our TASK
Sorry for generic logs but we did have and amazing time in this area and a ton of laughs were had.
Tftc’S !
At the Woodlands today with the O’Gomells on a birthday outing. Our mission today is to finish this series. TFTC
Well it's a return tip to the big island for myself and goose of gooseandegg, many many moons ago along with 1Toolman we tried to do all of the woodlands series in one day, we had planned it well or so we had thought but a puncture on one of the bike stopped us dead in our tracks and the plan of doing it all in one day was dead 
Today 749 days later we traveled up from Hobart to finish the Woodland series with the 1Toolman as our driver/guide, the weather was looking like it was going to rain all day but we got away with a couple of light showers for a few minutes with the big clouds staying away unlike last time where we were finding caches in a thunderstorm.
We started on the Eastern side and worked our way round enjoying our caching and taking our time unlike last time, we found easy hides, nasty ones and a few throwdowns, pulling in a few outside the series and after 7 hours we had at long last the woodlands was found.
Along with the woodlands we collected a few other caches before heading home, the weekend was a great laugh with good mates with us laughing for a couple of days at one thing or another.
Thanks for the caches.
Found on 30/03/2019 at 2:42:00 PM
The best caches I have found so far by type are:-
Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)
Today 749 days later we traveled up from Hobart to finish the Woodland series with the 1Toolman as our driver/guide, the weather was looking like it was going to rain all day but we got away with a couple of light showers for a few minutes with the big clouds staying away unlike last time where we were finding caches in a thunderstorm.
We started on the Eastern side and worked our way round enjoying our caching and taking our time unlike last time, we found easy hides, nasty ones and a few throwdowns, pulling in a few outside the series and after 7 hours we had at long last the woodlands was found.
Along with the woodlands we collected a few other caches before heading home, the weekend was a great laugh with good mates with us laughing for a couple of days at one thing or another.
Thanks for the caches.
Found on 30/03/2019 at 2:42:00 PM
The best caches I have found so far by type are:-
Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)
A little over two years ago we made a bold statement about flying over to Melbourne and knocking off the Woodlands series in a day. Well that went out the window due to a flat tyre but that is all laughable history now. Returning today to finish it off on foot, I really enjoyed the walk seeing so much more this time rather than zipping past everything on a bike (or pushing it for a while). Stainless steel rat, 1toolman and I braved the dismal weather forecast and ended up being pretty lucky with only a short shower during the middle of the day trying to put a dampener on things. Yeah we got a little moist but soldiered on regardless and soon dried out in the gusty breeze. The history, the views, the wildlife, the company and the laughs all made this adventure thoroughly enjoyable.
Thanks to team woodlands for this great series, it only took us two years to complete.
Thanks to team woodlands for this great series, it only took us two years to complete.
It had been a few days since my last proper bout of exercise so I was up for a decently long walk. What better spot to have one in around metro Melbourne than Woodlands? So off I went and during a 16.5km walk I found a few caches 
All caches were in good condition bar one or two which had fairly damp log books. In those cases I dried out the log as much as possible and rehid the cache in such a way such that it was unlikely to be rained upon or subject to the atmospheric extremes which seem to have resulted in condensation inside the container.
Wildlife count today: 4 wallabies, a skink and a family group of kangaroos.
All caches were in good condition bar one or two which had fairly damp log books. In those cases I dried out the log as much as possible and rehid the cache in such a way such that it was unlikely to be rained upon or subject to the atmospheric extremes which seem to have resulted in condensation inside the container.
Wildlife count today: 4 wallabies, a skink and a family group of kangaroos.
During a short visit in Victoria I could find this nice caches. If you have a little 
time to your conecting flight, you can do this very interesting Trail. Unfortunately, there were some three hours left, to do the whole tour. Here you can see a lot of kangaroos, which look strictly, what geocacher are doing.
Thanks for the caches!
time to your conecting flight, you can do this very interesting Trail. Unfortunately, there were some three hours left, to do the whole tour. Here you can see a lot of kangaroos, which look strictly, what geocacher are doing.Thanks for the caches!
A quick and easy find on a wee walk. Thanks
Woohoo we are in Victoria for a short break. Today we drove to Bendigo, and stopped off at a few caches on the way. Log Signed Ms+Mr KR
Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers
Woohoo we are in Victoria for a short break. Today we drove to Bendigo, and stopped off at a few caches on the way. Log Signed Ms+Mr KR
Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers
found on nice walk together with plenty of kangaroos, wallabies and rabbits, thanks
found on nice walk together with plenty of kangaroos, wallabies and rabbits, thanks
