Woodlands 39 - Swirls Greenvale, Victoria, Australia
By
Team_Woodlands on 19-Oct-11. Waypoint GC367W1
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After over 24 hrs of travelling Veke68 and I finally arrived in Melbourne. We quickly left our luggage at our accommodation and headed to these Woodlands caches. We had a nice walk, woods here are so different from how they are back home! And we saw loads of kangaroos & other animals and birds that you certainly don't see in Finland!We found all the caches along the route we took, including a couple that were disabled. And here we found the log sheet and the remains of the broken container. Still, many Woodlands stashes have to wait for our next visit. Thank you for the cache!
After two very long flights, we arrived finally to Melbourne with Katsukka.First check in and luggage to our hotel and then nice walk to nearest forest. We saw lot of kangaroos, echidna, fox bandicoot, many birds, rabbits etc. and of course many caches.We logged with common nick VKGreetings from Finland Thanks
Went to check on this one today.The back paddock is locked so there is no access to the area due to park works.Will check back soon.
No 12. Container broken but dry log where hidden. I had heard about and seen the Woodlands series whenever I came near the airport- but havent actually come to find any. Today, after a drop official, early- I decided to try some. It turned out to be almost 4 hour time covering 16 km of terrain. Just over 40 caches were found, with a few inaccessible due to the new fence. Thanks Team_Woodlands for a great trail. All but 2 ,I found today had useable sharpened pencils. Terrific - I was carrying a pen. Generic log but small comments each cache.
TFTC.....thank you, thank you, thank you Team Woodlands for my shot at redemption!! Is there anything so sad, for a geocacher, as a sad blue face in a sea of yellow happy smiling faces? No there's not. So frilk and I traipsed three kilometres out of our way to go and find this cache. Cache found, log signed and I cannot begin to describe how happy as I was. Thank you for replacing so quickly
Out with Geobro and up from the Bellarine for the day attempting to complete this seriesTFTC
Checked on this one and it was definitely missing.Replaced the cache with a new one.All good to go.
TFTC....although no such luck finding this one today Searched for quite some time, found a number of potential hidey-holes, but to no avail. When hunting around, readily apparent where the cache name from, not sure I've ever seen such "swirly" patterns on branches before. Nature is artistic.
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.
Theres sun forecast and I need to finish the woodland series. This is our 4th visit to complete the 100. Today we rode for 2.5hrs, shed some blood and finished with a 1.5km walk to grab a previous DNF and turn it into a smiley. Thanks for this wonderful series
Swirling orange butterfly look like swirling autumn leaves ...today weather could be mistaken for an autumn day no complaints beautiful walk rain not been bad. I love the old trees in this reserve the shapes and curves are often mesmerising just like the butterflys.
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.
Find No. 3896. 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 # 11442
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
Stamped upside down, must be getting tired after nearly 3 hours today, but such a great walk.
**22/09/2022, 12:00:00**
**Find #4889**
**Traditional Find #3061**
SteMicMitSar and I have been wanting to do this series since it was published but couldn't make it happen for a variety of reasons. That changed today. All but two caches were found by us and the log stamped or signed. Lots of wildlife spotted amid the roar of jet engines from Melbourne Airport.
**Thank-you to Team_Woodlands for placing this geocache**
**Find #4889**
**Traditional Find #3061**
SteMicMitSar and I have been wanting to do this series since it was published but couldn't make it happen for a variety of reasons. That changed today. All but two caches were found by us and the log stamped or signed. Lots of wildlife spotted amid the roar of jet engines from Melbourne Airport.
**Thank-you to Team_Woodlands for placing this geocache**
*Found on the 22 Sep 2022 @ 12:00 pm.*
*Cache find # 13308.*
About and about with biggles1024 trying to see how many of the Woodlands 100 we can find.
This series has been on the to do list since it was published and for one reason or another we just haven’t made it out here, today we finally did.
Cache was found and log stamped or signed.
**Thanks to Team_Woodlands for placing this cache.**
*Cache find # 13308.*
About and about with biggles1024 trying to see how many of the Woodlands 100 we can find.
This series has been on the to do list since it was published and for one reason or another we just haven’t made it out here, today we finally did.
Cache was found and log stamped or signed.
**Thanks to Team_Woodlands for placing this cache.**
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.
After reading the hint the cache was easy to find.
Thanks for the cache Team Woodlands
Thanks for the cache Team Woodlands
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.
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 in a great location, nice tree!
Thanks to Team Woodlands for this one and the series.
Another quick find in a great location, nice tree!
Thanks to Team Woodlands for this one and the series.
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!
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 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.
TFTC! Saw some Roos on the other side of the fence! Would of made a great photo shot with the Roos I front of city skyline 
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.
Finishing the year off with a few more from the series. Thanks for this hide - amazing
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 60th of 85 finds for the day, and the 143rd 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 #3640
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 #3640
Time to finally finish this series! Onto the mountain bike again to enjoy an absolutely perfect winter day. No clouds. No wind. And caches! So good! TFTC!
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 !
Our little wallaby friend joined us from our previous find for some of the way to this cache, but he soon found more interesting things to forage for. Cache found and logged. Love the condition of these caches. Fresh logs and well-kept containers. Makes finding them a joy.
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With 3 million geocaches on the planet, we've chosen yours to find. You should be thanking us!
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With 3 million geocaches on the planet, we've chosen yours to find. You should be thanking us!
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 11:48:00 AM
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 11:48:00 AM
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.
With the team back together, aka- team redkilla we seen this little beautiful thing and thought it would be a great day to have a crack, wow amazing power trail great day long walk sore feet by the end but worth every minute of it
Thankyou co
Thankyou co
Generic log for Woodlands 1 to 62 and 84, 91,92 and 97
So here is my story for today, BackPAQer turns up at my house at 8:30am.. I'm not dressed or showered.. But we are going to start the Woodland 100 series as I want to hit 200 caches before the end of year (I only started caching in November 2018). So 10 minutes later Mountain Bikes are loaded onto the back of his car, I have some energy bars, a flask of tea and water and off we go..heavy ran for the first hour but calms down when we arrive. So First cache is the multi and its a quick solve and cache is in hand. Go back to the car and we are covered in Bull Ants... great start... be aware nests of Bull ants everywhere in this park, millions of the little things.
Anyway We set off on our bikes and throughout the day we find 65 out of the 66 woodlands hides plus 3 others. After number 22 I end up with a puncture, luckily BackPAQer has a spare inner tube... but no it has different valve, luckily i had a puncture repair kit so a quick repair and mug of tea and we are back at it. This is a great place to explore and highly recommend using a mountain bike. Lots of wildlife, Kangaroo's birds, rabbits Ants, spiders etc etc... Recommend taking some gloves for a few of the finds. By 4:30pm we had found 65 off the 100 with only 1 did not find...A great day out in a great location with some spectacular views over the airport. And yes I got my 200 cache
Thanks for all the hides
Find #202
So here is my story for today, BackPAQer turns up at my house at 8:30am.. I'm not dressed or showered.. But we are going to start the Woodland 100 series as I want to hit 200 caches before the end of year (I only started caching in November 2018). So 10 minutes later Mountain Bikes are loaded onto the back of his car, I have some energy bars, a flask of tea and water and off we go..heavy ran for the first hour but calms down when we arrive. So First cache is the multi and its a quick solve and cache is in hand. Go back to the car and we are covered in Bull Ants... great start... be aware nests of Bull ants everywhere in this park, millions of the little things.
Anyway We set off on our bikes and throughout the day we find 65 out of the 66 woodlands hides plus 3 others. After number 22 I end up with a puncture, luckily BackPAQer has a spare inner tube... but no it has different valve, luckily i had a puncture repair kit so a quick repair and mug of tea and we are back at it. This is a great place to explore and highly recommend using a mountain bike. Lots of wildlife, Kangaroo's birds, rabbits Ants, spiders etc etc... Recommend taking some gloves for a few of the finds. By 4:30pm we had found 65 off the 100 with only 1 did not find...A great day out in a great location with some spectacular views over the airport. And yes I got my 200 cache
Thanks for all the hides
Find #202
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!
Started a day over the border just near my landing site.
Kangaroos everywhere, not just flying. And bunnies!!! Even a fox.
Loved the walk around the Woodlands. Didn't finish, must return.
Also love the patterns in nature.
TFTC Team_Woodlands
Kangaroos everywhere, not just flying. And bunnies!!! Even a fox.
Loved the walk around the Woodlands. Didn't finish, must return.
Also love the patterns in nature.
TFTC Team_Woodlands
