Woodlands 90 - Old Man of the Forest Greenvale, Victoria, Australia
By Team_Woodlands on 19-Oct-11. Waypoint GC367Q8

Found

Cheese

Thanks

Nice easy find

Beautiful tall tress

Found it!

Tftf

Here with promontory finding more caches in the beautiful woodlands

Beautifully hidden.

TFTC - Team ROC/Zeug

LG found it

All over the place with this one but found in the end.SL at 16:17pm. TFTC.

TFTC.....another pleasant autumn walk continues, cache found, log signed and on we went.

Out for a day with my Geobro - signed as YAWT - TFTC

Another nice hideTFTC

Nice walk

Nice one. TFTC.

Thanks!

Easy find, thank you

Find

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).

Saw the cache from a far. Tftc

Tftc

Thanks for the caxhe

-3032 TFTC JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans living in Tassie GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it

Out and about today coming back from Epping to get the Jetski serviced. Thought i'd stop in here for the day to start my journey on the Woodlands caches. Managed to tick off a good 20 or so before receiving the phone call to come back and pick the ski up again.Thanks for the caches, All looked to be in good working order and condition, unless otherwise stated.

After a morning inside for a bowling tournament we wanted to make the most of the afternoon and get out walking. Came to Woodlands for the fourth time hoping to get the last ones from here. Great series and great finds today.

Found

Hi

Found it wow

Easiest yet. Wonderfull trees.

After having just spent a lovely week with my family, it was time for them to return home. I dropped them off at the airport for their early morning flight then made my way back out to this area for my second visit to find the Woodlands series of caches. I found eight caches during my previous visit here but today, with much more spare time available, I was determined to find many more. Unfortunately I was unable to find all the remaining caches during this visit, so I will definitely be returning for at least a third time in the near future.The clouds in the distance were looking heavy. There had been various moments throughout the day where it showered, and it looked as though it was going to happen again. As I got closer to GZ, it started raining again. Fortunately, I was able to take shelter under the nearby trees. The trees also provided me with great cover from the rain as I made my search for this cache. The cache was found very quickly and I soon signed the logbook. After placing the cache back in its hiding spot, I remained under the trees for a few more moments to wait for the skies to clear up. While waiting, I noticed something moving across the path nearby which turned out to be an echidna. The little guy soon wandered away and I was back to waiting all alone again. After waiting for a little bit longer, the rain fortunately came to a stop so I resumed my walk back to the carpark. TFTC

Having attended a recent event in Brisbane where a fellow cacher brought my attention to the geo tour in Ballarat and its up coming finish in February, i knew this was something I had to make an effort to get to.I also quickly realised that the attribute for the geo tour is the last one I need to achieve a personal challenge so the planning began.Today is day three of the mission and Ive completed the geo art and the tour so Im very happy. Todays mission is to get to 100 in this local LGA and then head towards Sunbury in the hope to pick up another 25 to also reach 100 in that LGA before my flight out tonight. Obviously this is for a local challenge cache at home. What else. Unfortunately I missed the events in Castlemaine. Time got the better of me.I jumped in The geowagon and ventured off the o soon find a nice parking spot. A short stroll later soon found me at ground zero. It wasnt long before cache was found and my name was printed for prosperity. I returned the cache to its hiding space and made my way back to the car. Ready to head to the next adventureA big thanks to the cache owners of Ballarat for making this cache available to be found.Cheers

We found it.

Thanks

#gangalangfam

Tftc

I loved this area. The new and the old. Beautiful trees.

My kids and hubby are at two different camps with Scouts. I set myself a goal to complete this series so I could sign off a Challenge cache of 100 caches owned by one CO. Unfortunately, five are behind a locked, fenced off area for Eastern Barred Bandicoot. It was an amazing day with the weather being perfect. I started at 11am & finished at 5pm. Big day!!

After walking a big loop catching up on my Woodlands caches count. TFTC.

I was in the area after dropping my partner and daughter off at the airport. This was my third visit and I'm slowly plugging my way through the entire series. I walked a little over 13km on this cool June day.

I found doing these today was much better compared to the summer months as there really isn't a lot of tree over. All these were found easily using the hints provided. Thanks for the series, I'll probably finish it on the next run -

A huge day out with a total of 69 caches found for the day (including #100 for me and #1000 for jaamc_3335). A big thank you to team TACKT for inviting me along for the adventure and Team Woodlands for placing and maintaining all the logs!

Checked on this one this morning.
Still in its place.
Replaced log and pencil.
All good to go.

Quick find for team TACKT+C - TFTC

Out and about with Team T.A.C.K.T including Jaamc, Kpatt and tag along cazzajane07. We had a goal to tackle this series to help cover milestones for some of our members, 69 caches down, 20km of park explored and we had a blast, there was laughter, tears, the occasional swear as we took on the long hike and we all had a fantastic day out with the team :3

On a beautiful sunny winters day Team TACKT + C set off for on our mission, nice quick find, thanks for placing this series

2nd find for the day, tftc

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TFTC - Log is getting a bit moist and is tearing

Thanks

A lovely day to wander around the woodlands with very pleasant company of moonbi. Far too many caches to find in a fay at a relaxed pace but found all but 2 of those that were attempted Thanks Team Woodlands for such a huge effort in placing so many caches for us to enjoy

TFTC

Nice kangaroos

Found it, Roos came out to give us a hand

Day 2 of this set, find 33/100.

Loaded up the deadly treadly and headed off for another few hours at Woodlands.
Completed a small loop starting at the southern car park, and doing several eastern caches.

A nice little side trail lead me to this hide.
Thanks, Robmc.

Quick find during a hike in the park.
Thanks for the cache & Greetings from Switzerland
Smurfy_CH

Found it

TFTC

TFTC

Easy as.

Back out with Arrow15 to collect some more from this series - great hide.

TwoEms would have been thrilled to have seen a scary old man come out of the forest to race our hearts and terrorise our minds. Instead we found a dead old wrinkled beauty to admire the slow weathering of time. Thank you for the cache.

Beautiful patterns in the bark of the stump

Found it

Lovely weather for it! Tftc

TFTC

TFTC. Lovely area

Found it 6/2/23

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to Team_Woodlands for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Found a few of these last Saturday but just catching up on logging before coming back for more of the series today! Cheers.

Great series. I thought I'd incorporate Geocaching with a trail run through this lovely park on a weekend visit to Melbourne. Thank you

Find No. 3950. 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

Find # 11496

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

Out here for my 3rd visit to try and find more of this great series.
Will post a better log on the final
TFTC

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We had arranged to meet Crustyvarmint (together his faithful sidekick, Pilot) and RedcbBlueBM to tackle some of this series of caches. Apologies for some generic logs. The weather was good and the caches we tackled were all found after short searches. It was nice to see some variety in the type of hides. We ended up finding 15 caches collecting clues when provided before heading back to our cars and lunch after which we went our separate ways. At times we had an audience of kangaroos but otherwise Woodlands was fairly quiet. In some spots it didn't pay to stand still due to the numbers of ants! Thanks to Team Woodlands for the cache.

A day out with Crustyvarmint and Lynjoh to get some caches here. I thoroughly enjoyed the day and the company. Thanks CO for these caches.

Weather was lovely for caching today as Lynjoh, Redcb, Pilot and I spent some time walking in the reserve. We found all the caches we looked for, and returned to the cars suitably exhausted.
Thanks for the series, Team Woodlands.

7pm its time to call time out..66 caches located for the day which is a personal best for me, that I didn't believe was doable. I very enjoyable day.

Such a long day today, flying from Wellington to Queenstown to Melbourne. I had bribed TBS to pick me up from the airport as I didn’t fancy staying in a hotel and getting up at 5am to catch a train back home.
As always, TBS made a slight detour so that I could grab a few caches and also grab a few for himself.
A nice evening stroll around the Woodlands was just what I needed after spending most of the day sitting on a plane.
So many kangaroos out here. It would be so nice to pick up my house, plonk it in the middle of the reserve, look out the window and watch the world go by.
In the end the mozzies got the better of us so we left for the long drive back.
TFTC I hope to be back to complete the series soon.

After picking jo2022nz up from the airport, we had plenty of daylight left so decided a walk thru the Woodlands was in order to grab a few caches and to get jo2022nz her 500th cache. I've already completed half this series but hadn't yet grabbed this one. It was a quick find, last for the day and then back to the car before the mozzies got the better of us. We were delighted by the number of kangaroos we saw and how close we could get to them. Nice hide TFTC

Cool find TFTC!

*Found on the 10 Dec 2022 @ 11:45 am.*
*Cache find # 13768.*

Today I returned to Woodlands with biggles1024 in the hope of finally finishing this series after talking about doing it for many years, I was able to get all of the caches needed except for 9 caches that are in the back paddock that we have not found as it was locked up and we were locked out so another visit in the future will be needed.
The caches today where all found fairly quickly and most of them had a new log sheet in them which was stamped as we continued from one to the next.

**Thanks to Team_Woodlands for placing this cache.**

**10/12/2022, 11:44:00**
**Find #4987**
**Traditional Find #3119**

Steve and I returned to Woodlands Park today to try and complete the series. The weather was perfect, but part of the park was closed so we will have to make a third trip some time in the future.

**Thank-you to Team_Woodlands for placing this geocache**

Checked on this one today
Log replaced
Pencil sharpened
All good to go

Found cache and log signed with dalerious on what was my first visit to this wonderful place.

It was a lovely ride around here, and it was lovely to see so many visitors to the area.
The grounds were beautiful and seeing the Thoroughbreds on our journey brought back memories of when I was in the industry as a strapper and owner.

The weather was wet at times, but that didn't hamper our plans.
Can't wait to get back and do it all again.

Speedy recovery Team_Woodlands .

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Our second visit to Woodlands to collect some more caches, this time we took the geo-pup.
Cache 4 of 26 for the day.
TFTC

Thx

Found it

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ploop

Ttfc

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Found on the floor in plain view. Have hidden again but no where to hide it like the clue says.

On a nice walk along the path. Alas this one was found in the open. tucked away now, hopefully it will stay put.