Bendigo Racecourse East Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
By billywillysillydilly on 25-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3BGAM

This one has done a good job for over four years. 132 finds.

I'll archive to free up the area for somebody else to place a cache.

Did not find this one today. Thanks anyway

Couldn't find

The statue has gone, couldn't find the cache either!

In town for family Boxing Day, thought we'd have a hunt! Geonephew on the money! Great spot!

Thanks for the cache it was fun

A very tricky hide, luckily there were no muggles around today. TFTC.

Tftc

Found

Found it initially in December 2012 but didn't log it then. Finally returned to sign the log-book. TFTC!

Found with geoamigo. Had a great day caching around Bendigo!!!
Thanks for the cache

Found this straight away easy hide tftc

Found this one with Wart.Hog. A nice quick find TFTC.

Totally deserted here this morning. Unlike other sites I've been to today. Clever spot! Thanks for the cache. TNLN signed log book and returned for the next adventurer.

Cache Number 100, booyah.

Wrong day, wrong time as it was muggle arrival time for some form of evening event. Not good on the bicycle in this area.

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there billywillysillydilly. We found your cache "Bendigo Racecourse" at 12:44:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 10383.
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Our trek today was to the north east of Bendigo. The primary plan was to have another attempt at a prior DNF and then just do a "next closest" cache run until we ran out of time.

There were no horses here today so we were able to drive to within 3 metres of the cache.
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
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TNLN

Found after visiting the caravan and camping expo on this weekend, I had to wait for a muggle to leave the gz and then swooped in and made a quick find. Signed the log in the car and then returned it safe and sound, TFTC billywillysillydilly.

TFTC

had to watch for spiders as webs around cache. TFTC

Tftc!

Almost thought other people where geocaching but turns out they were lost.

Stayed at Bendigo Caravan Park for few days.

Found it.

Thanks billywillysillydilly

Fortunately for us there were no races here today so we were able to retrieve the nice dry cache from its concealed hiding place. It surprised me that it was so dry after all the rain we've had. A groundsman moved into the vicinity shortly after we had returned the cache and made himself very busy digging out some weeds, so we pretended to take some photos and departed

TFTC bwsd. I had never been to this track before so was interested to see it without a 'meeting' taking place.

We were going to come down for the races the previous night but decided to watch it from home instead. Passing by this morning we just had to get the cache. It was a lot quieter this morning than it would have been yesterday so it was a quick grab. All in good condition.
Thanks billywillysillydilly

A quick find as the Moose reminisced about staying at the nearby caravan park. Thanks for the cache.

Just waiting to be found

One of 71 caches found today during a big cache run up to and around the Bendigo region. I had a handful of puzzles solved and finding those was high on the agenda, as well as biking some more of the PPPT series. On the way back I managed to squeeze in the Fryers track series south of Castlemaine, and that was a great little adventure in the middle of the night. The weather was perfect all day and even at midnight it was still a balmy twenty degrees. I had a great day with 71 finds and 3 DNF's and my thanks go to all the CO's that placed and maintain the caches.
An interesting location and I happened to arrive when there were a lot of horse loving muggles leaving. I waited for the place to clear then headed over to GZ to make a stealthy quick find and sign.
Thanks for the hide.

A quick and easy find with geonewbies. TFTC

easy one .grabbed while spending a couple of days in you ever so historical town ..luv it here TFTC

Interesting history about racecourse in Bendigo
TFTC

Found # 9681

quick find, good co ords

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache billywillysillydilly

# 7561 Found on the 4th leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure,
while staying at Bendigo for a few days.
Another trip around with Team Robins for a few puzzle caches and a laugh.
No sign of any muggles around and a quick find.
Thanks for the cache billywillysillydilly,
Roostaman.

Quick easy find while staying in caravan park over night
Found with megs_q
TFTC

Found with SQAU, nice quick find first thing in the morning
TFTC

Find # 226

Last find for 2013 Found with kizalee. TFTC billywillysillydilly.

A quick find on a Bendigo caching expedition, thank you billysillydilly for the cache, the spiders did not fang me.

Found 1610hrs. No muggles around

All was quiet this afternoon although it was late-ish. Cache was a quick find in a good hide thanks.

The previous results helped,

In Bendigo for a caching weekend with Julz76 and 2 geokids.

We made this a drive by inna deserted car park. Julz76 was closest and spotted the cache but wouldn't grab it as there were spider webs so I came round and grabbed it.
Thanks

In Bendigo for the weekend caching with Cathylm and the geokids. As we pulled up to this one we both knew where it was going to be. I was closer. Yeah, it was there but I'm not putting my hand on it as very afraid of spiders! Thankfully Cathylm not so scared. Thanks for the cache

Yeah har giddy up. First for today and away we go.

What a difference a day makes!! It is very windy and a lot cooler today. Found cache quickly micheena signed the log and back to the car out of the wind and off to the next one.

Nice easy find on a Saturday morning with no-one around.
Travel bug collected.
TFTC

TB drop off...

big race day on today but with stealth cache was found and log signed. tftc.

Just one horse being led by his trainer so an easy find TFTC billywillysillydilly

Would you believe the Wenchette is old enough to be looking at Uni courses? Open Day at LaTrobe Bendigo gave us a chance to drop off Traffic Control 1 and also find a few puzzles that were solved many moons ago.

No races today but there were a few old holdens gathered for a car club event. Cache location spotted as we drove through the carpark and the cache was retrieved without much effort.

Thank you for the cache billywillysillydilly.
#2277th @ 1537hrs and 9th of 9 for the day.

Day 3 of the 31 day challenge. Raining again so decided to get a cache that I could drive to. Found it quickly with geo nephew in toe. Cache needs some matince log book wet.

found with curl69 the cache was very waterlogged needs repair tftc

Thanks cbjh1990 for informing of the wet log. I dried out the inside of the container, replaced the log and a Cpl of zip lock bags. Also cleaned out the drainage hole that Romax had previously made.

Should be right to go. I tool the old log home, if it dries OK, I may place it back in the container.

Found after a short search.

On a nice sunny day out on a shopping trip with the geohounds., lucky there were no races on today.

Thank you Billywillsillydilly for the cache.

FlyingPigSquadron has landed! Great spot loved the hide thanks for bringing us here billywillysillydilly

We really liked this hide. Thanxs SillyBilly

In Bendigo from WA to visit an old nashos mate. Introduced him to caching, this was the first. Thanks for the history of the racecourse too!
Spangles22

Looks like a race meeting on today,up from Geelong to pick up some boats parts down the road.
Had cache in no time nice little spot .
Thanks

Found, while caching around Bendigo.
T: TB
L: frog, mini pencils
TFTC

Our 2nd day of caching in the Bedigo region.
Have been to some great areas this morning, old gold mine sites, parkes & waterways.
All have been good quality caches.
No races today, so made it easy to search.
TFTC billywillysillydilly

High Ho Specialized !!! Away
And off I galloped to the Bendigo Racecourse to find me a cache
My two wheeled horse took the jumps in it's stride and I was soon past the finishing post and posing for the photo finish
Cheeeeese !!!!

The cache was a nice easy find in a deserted horse float park today

TFTC, I grabbed the "oeptrainer Old Cache-Mobil-Key" travel bug and discovered the "Corky's Antipodean Anticipation" travel bug

On top of all that I left the "Austr(al)ia" geocoin within

Left the GPS in the car here and got lucky.
Nice spot and placement and the first of this morning with Sully1.
Thanks BWSD

Bogonghazy and I headed for a two day assault to Bendigo and beyond, this one was first for the morning after leaving the Caravan park this morning. Bogonghazy eyed the hidey hole straight away, and after a delayed extraction, the cache was soon logged. Thanks to billywillysillydilly for the cache. No muggles, no gee gees here today. All quiet.

tftc sl. quick find while staying in caravan park on holidays from west aust.
picked up 2 tb's & drppoed 2 tb's

dropped of tb

TB drop off x 2

Found on our caravanning and caching tour of the area.

No one around today made a quick find TFTC

Quick find while waiting to pick the wife up from her shopping trip. Thanks for the hide!!

Way to many muggles to even start looking will be back later

WE had started early with some quick finds and some hard ones found quickly, then hit a bit of a rough spot where we lost our mojo.
We decided to head out this way and as we pulled up said " it'll be there"
And it was
Thanks billywillysillydilly for the caching fun

Out for a fantastic weekend of geocaching with our caching buddies the "Earthbounds". A nice quick and easy find was had. "We concur Chief". TFTC....SL...TNLN

Find # 970 for gregandjudi Time is fast running out to reach our 1000 milestone before the end of 2012.

Got too hot out at the O'Keefe rail trail so headed into town for some lunch. A quick find on a quiet Sat arvo after grabbing a bite nearby. TFTC SL

A nice easy find today was going to do this not so long ago but to many muggles at the caravan show.
Took a small car Left skeleton. TFTC.

Nice easy cache after a pleasant stroll form the nearby camp site. Took nothing left Thai coin. TFTC. Richard and Hazel...UK.

Had a great day checking out all of the caravans and gadgets at the Caravan and camping show today. Was lucky to have a muggle free moment to retrieve the cache. Thanks for the history lesson and the cache

Yay

Yaaay we found it !!

After a very lazy start to our Saturday, we decided to try a few more caches..

We are quite suprised that our very cheap ALDI gps is finding locations well. Our only problem is the glare on the screen can make it hard to read when we are going walkabout.
Once we are fully addicted we will upgrade to something swishy, but for now this one is working great.

Thanks for the find.
Took police tape, left armadillo. Signed log

Out for a quite eveng stroll through the deserted car park followed the trail of muggled geo bits to the cache container. Replaced contents and left signature card before pushing the cache further into its hidey hole.

After leaving my accommodation for the last couple of days this was the closest so a must do cache and turned out to be an easy find in between horses and riders using the walkway.
Great spot for a cache so log was signed and off to the next.
Thanks again for this cache.

Suscoe's first find of the day.
A few horses still doing laps at this hour.
A nice hide in an interesting setting.
Thanks to billywillysillydilly for bringing us here!

An easy find for us with fnlee

Thanks billywillysillydilly. Great complex worthy of a cache. Found at 11.00 on a 2 day caching trip around the area. Glad the rain had stopped.

I think I found the hide but nothing was there

This entry was edited by hhbear on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 06:20:47 UTC.

Traveled down this way with Co from Lostmonster&Co as Lost was working.We had been at the International Geocaching Day Event and completed the smiley series and milestone challenges and where heading home,always time for one more.Drove in to within 5 mtrs of GZ and a quick find was made.
TFTC BillyWillySillyDilly
TNLN
SL

One of 40 finds for the day, caching on the way to and around the Bendigo area with three of my kiddies. I had with me, Jasmine 8yo, James 6yo and Jemma 6yo for the day. Left home at about 6am and didn't return home until about 9pm, a big day time wise and kilometer wise with about 550kms driven. There was some 4WD action in the GeoExplorer as well on quite a few caches, one in particular, a nice boggy area, that the mud tires came in very handy for. Kids loved it... Awesome stuff...

At about 1pm, met up with one of my best mates Richard aka XD1 and from there, found a few caches around Bendigo and headed to Tigersden's event "International Geocaching Day", east of Bendigo. A good gathering after we finally got there about an hour late. Caught up with many friends there, and then headed off to complete the "geo-art Smiley series" placed by Tigersden, all around the general area of the event. Great series BTW. Was able to complete the entire series caching in convoy with XD1, Haveanez, DazRascal, Lostmonster and Co, Purpledreamer and Wazza and Wenches. Had a great time guys caching in the bush..... To all cache owners, in particular, Tigersden, thanks for all the caches, the kids and I had a great time.

Last find with XD1 before heading to the Geocaching Day event. Short walk and a quick find. Met up with, by chance, Krazy K Krew here who were also off to the event. Would not like to attempt this on a race day here... TFTC.

Found with Blacklegend as part of International Geocaching Day... T4TC!

On the drive to the international Geocaching day event in Bendigo
GeoKids Blake and Nate and myself
Yeah we made it to Bendigo
Bumped into Blackleaged & Xd1, ha ha muggled guys
TFTCLS

This entry was edited by Krazy K Krew on Saturday, 18 August 2012 at 14:28:45 UTC.

A day trip down to Bendigo for the Inernational Geocaching Day Event. Travelled with PD, as Lostmonster was working today. Got this one on the way home, drove into the racecourse in the dark. Rabbits everywhere and drove within 5m of GZ. Had an idea where it would be, but which one... PD found it and we SL and were on our way.......cheers billywillysillydilly

Found by Mary & David at 1145. Great to see so many trees at this racecourse. Wouldn't find this so much in the big city courses. Our thanks to billywillysillydilly.

Found by Mary & David at 1145. Great to see so many trees at this racecourse. Wouldn't find this so much in the big city courses. Our thanks to billywillysillydilly.

Another big day caching in Bendigo and surrounds with 67 finds and no DNF's. Started the day caching out to Axedale then spending a day with the Central Victorian Geocachers on a 4WD adventure through the Fosterville Hills.

There were a number of caches placed for the event including a smiley face geoart in the forest. Also completed a number of challenge caches for various milestones and made a find on an unpublished cache.

Finished the day with some CBD night caching before heading back to the cabin for a bourbon and pizza.

Quick find in the dark tonight - clever hiding spot. TFTC.

On a 4x4 weekend away with firesafe
nice quick grab

Good spot, ps horses suck

15:14
All bets were on today - can we retrieve the cache without arousing detection by the ground staff. Yes we did it!

TNLN . . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt billywillysillydilly.
3561

The races were on today but we were so close and decided to try for this one anyway. It was pretty quiet around GZ and we were able to park close and make a quick grab and sign. TFTC.

Found with Chaplain Mike, Princess Amy and Smart Sassy Siren! TNFN

Found with Chaplain Mike, Stick Kid and Smart Sassy Siren TFTC TNLN.
Thanks billywillysillydilly

Princess Amy
Difficult to find but it was fun!! [^]

Fourth find for the day on a massive caching run with Chaplain Mike, Princess Amy and Stick Kid. Quick and easy find. SL TFTC!