the back way..*1 Stratford, Victoria, Australia
By Nautilus7497 on 19-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3CW9G

archiving as I am an irresponsible nurse with x3 jobs , have been working 15hr
night shifts for the last two years and two other roles, now I do covid vaccinations full time plus two other roles have been made feel like I dont care about caching because of a wet log, the fun has gone from caching for me

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Nice easy find, love the box.

Left some bandaids just in case

Love the container

Found it!

A long day of driving with the initial target being my final page on the Victorian Country Road Atlas challenge. Once that was ticked off I started heading for home with enough time to stop for selected caches along the way. After a couple of finds further east in Orbost this was the next one I identified that would give me a quick break from the monotony of the long drive. It was a bit more of a diversion off the main road than I had anticipated but a quick find once I got to GZ. My fourth in a total of 20 finds for the day. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache Nautilus7497.

On my way to cape Conran decided to follow your advice to stay off the hwy. Enjoyed the trip and the cache.

Loved this one so much

Tftc. Lovely spot. TNL- tag, donut

Nice way to spend isolation with myself and the geo girl nice find

I remembered I needed a cache for today to keep my finders streak going so I dashed out here to find this one. An amazing amount of mosquitoes attacked me while I was wrestling with the lid so this was a particularly fast park-n-grab!

Thanks for find #1653
TNLN

Found! Hint makes so much sense once found

Our week camping in Dargo has been moved due to the East Gippsland Bushfires. Our thoughts are with all those affected.
Now that leaves us with a day of caching around Stratford.
Nice easy cache this one. TFTC

Epic hiding

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Found it and got a path tag but it was the last one

We are staying in Stratford for a Anniversary weekend away and so we could find The Billy Goats Gruff as the last cache for us for the Ausmer Challenge this morning. Yeehah! After finding that and a few more on the way home from Mitchell River National Park, GMelb who has a virus needed a nap before we headed out again in the arvo for some caches in Stratford. This was the fourth for the arvo. We saw a really beautiful rainbow on the way to GZ but there was no-where to stop to take a photo and by the time we got to GZ it had lost 3/4 of it's colour. Cache was nice easy find. We recovered a bit better
TFTC Nautilus7497 - GJMMelb

Not a local but had to use the road to grab this one. Kutgw

Some great swapables

This was the first time I managed to show my parents what this Geocaching lark is about. "But it's in the middle of nowhere!" If only they knew. TFTC

Little lizard in tin. Took one, left one. Happy days.

Missed the parking spot for our intended cache so turned off the fwy here to backtrack around. As an added bonus it took is roght past this cache so we felt obliged to stop and make a quick find!

Found on my adventure to the 2019 OzGeoMuster in Wollongong. A few crazy long days of caching working my way through a huge number of towns en route from Geelong to Wollongong and back, a different route each way leading to different caches, different CO’s and different vista’s, all enjoyable. We targeted caches with a number of goals in mind. Jasmer months, D/T loops and LGA’s were high on the agenda, with priority also given to virtuals, large caches and whereigo’s.

Thanks to Nautilus7497 for placing this Regular Traditional cache for us to find. This is find 1361 for BFMC.

Found easy hint didnt make much sense until I found it though...

TFTC quick easy find.

TFTC

TFTC

Logged and replaced in same spot

Camped at Heyfield after returning from Tasmania. Out for a few caches today. Third for the day, quick find, cache and contents all good, good coordinates. Took nothing, left nothing. TFTC

We're from Arizona, USA, on day 11 of our top-o'-the-bucket-list dream trip through Eastern and Central Australia. Today we're leaving aptly-named Eden on the long (for us, at least) slog to Foster, VIC.

This turned out to be a quick and easy find for us. If you're having trouble looking for this one, you might try using our listed coordinates which are about 10-12 metres off the posted coords. The cows seemed pleased with our presence. Thanks for the cache.

Very clever!happened to stop in just the right place!quick and easy

Back road find, good hint.
Thestorykids

Any way to keep out of heavy traffic iis a good way. We thought it meant that we need to go in the back way to collect the cache. SL TFTC

TFTC. Signed and returned.
A nice easy find.
have not worked the clue out as such.

Cute lil tin it’s in

GPS was shakey in this area
Go big

Sneaky

Tftf
The name all makes sense once its found haha

A quick find in the dark with Mezza74 while killing time in Sale.

Thanks Nautilus7497

A quick find with d@geo in the dark.

TFTC

Found it..

Doing a cycling base camp based at the caravan park. Tftc.

Had us scratching our heads for a little bit!

Fun find on our trip around the area. Thanks!

Continuing my journey through Victoria to pick up caches for the Victorian LGA Polygon Challenge & Victoria Country Road Atlas Challenge. Managed to get another 2 maps ticked off and 2 LGA's. TFTC.

I remember going to Bairnsdale years ago this way, but not sure if it was ever quicker. We stopped and got this one today as it showed close by, so another one to the tally.

Thanks for the placement here.

Another find for our 7 year old cache king. Great hiding spot

Perfect hiding spot and a super easy cache! TFTC

#41 find for our 2 Months to Alexandra Event Roadtrip! Found with KrysLazz.

Thank you for breaking up the monotony of our trip back to Traralgon from Bairnsdale! Gorgeous area.

2nd day of our visit for the 2 months to Alexandra event. Found with Shai.Marelle. Sun is coming down, almost bringing our adventure to an end. Never travelled this back road and glad we did today. TFTC

Found by Mary & David, in company with Alansee, at 1230. Heading home from the Bairnsdale Event yesterday. A nice quick find. Might now be time to look for lunch in Srtatford. First weekend of the school holidays, and traffic is very heavy on the highway. Our thanks to Nautilus7497.

Found this cache on a trip from bairnsdale to Melbourne and had a bit of extra time to stop on the way.
TFTC

Driven this road thousands of time , never knew about caching to know to look , tftc

Lovely little drive, found and left a little something. Grabbed the trackable to take it to its next adventure. TFTC

Thanks for my 150th find. Scrappy_1

Quick find with Justjessie. TFTC.

Found with O319 on our Easter school holidays road trip. TFTC!

Out on my day out from Glenmaggie. Javing a great day caching here in Stratford. Left a travel bug Tyftc

Incredible growth in area nature at its best Thanks for the cache The CK'S

Tftc

Found the cache contents scattered all over the place so I picked up all "chocolates" and placed everything back & covered up
Tftc

Quick find on our way back to Adelaide,TFTC

TFTC!

Headed up to Lakes Entrance today so decided to take 'the back way'..! Knew there were a few caches along this road so pulled over to the side to look up where the first one was, and wouldn't you know, we had pulled up right beside it. Made quick work of the find, signed the log and off to the next one! TNLN. Thanks Nautilus

Found it container slightly damaged and dosnt close fully

Slightly elevated for winter 10-6-12

On my way to Munro for work, I snuck this way for the cache. No worries finding it, but opening it was another story. Once I did, I screamed. I was rushed by at least four large huntsmen who have taken up residence in the cache as the lid is warped and the cache's inside is now accessible to them. I signed the log, shut it using my pen to push the lid down and kicked the camo back on top. Those spiders will probably be back in there for the next finder, beware.

Not sure about the "Needs Maintenance" attribute, as tho the container is hard to open, and close, the contents were dry and intact. No critters inside.
Good coordinates meant a quick GAFF1 find @ 1330, (after heading on out to find an Archive trig point not far away.)
Left: a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen.
Through for mileage: 12-12-12 Multi Event - Auckland, New Zealand; 15 Years of Geocaching 2000-2015 Geocoin; 2013: Judge; 2014 Geocaching NSW geocoin; 3.1415 Pi & Ice Cream Slice; 3Brothers-NSW; 6º (of separation) GCookie Travel Tag; Auckland NZ '13; Bridge2Bridge Travel Ingot; Cache Critters - Baa, Neigh, & Oink Geocoins; CII-35Z; CITO - Upper Swan, and Beyond; Cross Staff & Back Staff ; Discover Me & Animals: GCookie; Ellie's Southern Corroboree Frog trackable; Flash Mob XII GCookie Geocoin; G Cookie Earth Cache 10 Year Celebration Coin; GCookie FIZZY coin; Grahame Cookie t-shirt; Hello Cocky TB; IconicBridges2012; Kengu; Nightcaching Australia Geocoin; NZ Mega 13; NZ Mega 2013 Spare Key; NZ Mega Auckland 2013 Signature Trackable; Oz Mega 2014 GCookie; Qld Mega 2015 GCookie coin; Spindoc Bob & Friends Coin; Suzie@2431; and Transaustralia.
TFTC Nautilus7497

Still not sure I understand the hint, but a nice cache. Thanks.

Great easy find
Took TB and Left TB

dropping tb

We left Stratford headed for Lakes Entrance and took the backway. A lovely quiet road with room to pull off with the geovan. Thanks for placing caches along this way. Left TB and took TB. TFTC

The cops were waving everyone down this road today. We found a place to park off the road nearby. Left a TB - Adventurous Koala. Took army man, left caterpillar. TFTC

This was my first caching trip without the geokids...I can truly say I am hooked on geocaching If I am heading out on my own...

Easy find. Cache and contents dry. TFTC Nautilus7497.

Travelling to East Gippsland today, I did some caching, and this was one of them. tftc.

Found it today without any drama

TFTC

Cool easy find!

Out on Easter Saturday to visit my daughter camping at the blue pools. No muggle husband in sight (left him on the golf course). Managed to grab a few caches, left many as too many muggles around. TFTC

Good Friday trip with a detour to find some geocaches!

Nice and easy

Quick find in a very nice part of the country tflc -:)

Found with Mansgirl on a caching couple of days. Thanks.

Nice quick one, the cockys did not like us near there tree, lol many thanx

A brief detour off the highway, won't be using the back way today, easy find.. thanks..!!

Mosquito central lol. Tftc. Cache has aged well and great camoflage. would love to have found that one on a scorching

A quick stop and grab! TFTC, love the container it is my favourite kind.

On a day trip to visit my childhood stomping ground I stopped to grab this cache, went round and round a few times before i found it. A different cache but a good one. TFTC

Cool container! TFTC

Found this one today in my caching trip from Lakes Entrance to Phillip Island. This was a nice quick find even though I had left the phone in the car because gps was playing up (stopped 30m from cache). Signed log and continued on journey today.

Thanks for the cache.

Mmm, nice container! All dry while I was out in the rain and cold wind. Left friendship braid. TFTC

Found with mitchhctim. Tftc

Great find!!

Lots of cool stuff!

The girls loved the trades. tftc.

Found it. So cool so much stuff in there

Loved the clue especially we found it on Easter Monday. Thanks Silkyie

Easy find. TFTC good back road we use it often too