Unsung Heroes Leichardt, Victoria, Australia
By Romax on 17-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3ETFT

Called in today on a routine maintenance check to find the container complete with its camouflage has disappeared entirely and only about a month since it was last found and logged!!
Thank you to all who have found our cache and in doing so have acknowledged those two "Unsung Heroes" who have contributed so much to geocaching locally.

Tftc

On my way home from an enjoyable long weekend staying at the old family home in Tarnagulla and decided to take the long way home and gather some caches along the way.

I can see why this one hasn't been found for a while, clever camo on the hide and easily overlooked for more obvious spots. A nice tribute cache, thanks for the hide Romax and almost 12 months of unlove.

Find No. 1806. Found at 12.20pm.

On a caching expedition in our geoute with geodog Penny on board. Our aim is to find 25 + finds so that we can get 100 finds for the month.

Making our way down the Calder Highway, stopping off to grab the ones along the way we haven't got. After doing the 'Our Heroes' caches we discovered we had missed a couple so had to backtrack a bit to get them. Afterall we needed every cache we could find today to get to our tally and DNF's don't help.

This was a very tricky hide. We had actually looked at it a couple of times before realising that was where the cache was. 12 down and quite a few more to go, so we quickly moved onto the next one. For such a tricky hide and one that we really liked we are giving it a fav point.

TFTC Romax

Another cunning cache which had me beaten. I even had my hands on it without realising it but Mrs.R was sharper than me today so we still left with a smiley. TFTC.

Travelling home from the Wedderburn event, this cache was on my must do list. The old blokes surely deserve a clever cache, such as this, in recognition of their placement of devious caches, and wonderful events, which keep us returning to the area.
Driving towards ground zero, I thought, surely not! A cache to recognise these two great geocachers, couldn't possibly be just hidden here! It would not be fitting. And certainly not what I have come to expect from the cunning mind of Romax.
We were certainly not disappointed after all. And it was more good luck, than good management, that I discovered it, when son dalerious moved something, and I spotted it. Otherwise it could so easily have been overlooked.
Well done Romax. A cache that puts a smile on all our faces, is well worthy of another favourite point to round them off to a neat twenty.
Muggle Hubby said it was his favourite cache for the day, and went on homewards trying to devise how he could duplicate it.

Another good find while exploring the area.
Thanks for making my drive / walk fun!

Good hide - took a bit of searching to find here!
SL

We have enjoyed the 'Our Heroes' series and here is a cache to pay tribute to the team that created it. Seeing it was a cache by Romax we were not sure what devious method they may have employed to hide it. Suffice to say it lived up to expectations and we SL at 2.20pm - it also happens to be the 20th cache we have found today in our quest for 25+. TFTC Romax #4143

5 yr old g, daughter found this one while looking for crawly pets to take home. Tftc

Really sneaky find thank you

Found to achieve the souvenir available this weekend, this was my closest unfound cache with more than 10 favourites. Another sneaky Romax hide. Thanks.

This was a great hide gets a point from me all dry and signed. Regards

Had a great day out caching and enjoyed finding all the caches in the Our heroes series together with a couple of others along the way. Nice Hide TFTC

Find #1000 for me! I'd originally intended to make Xenix my 1000th find, but on approach I realized that I'd accidentally forgotten to load the cache into my GPS so decided on this one instead. In fact, this cache was perfect since it's a fine example of a deviously cunning hide from the local geocaching grandmasters Romax, all in honour of the old blokes - two other local geocaching grandmasters! Perfect coordinates led me to a quick find here today on the way to Maldon with 3 of my muggle friends who were more than happy to take the obligatory 1000th find photo. This visit was certainly more pleasing than my previous visit which I logged last year. I'm also very pleased to log this milestone find right after my friend kazba16 who also logged a very significant milestone. Great camo and a definite favorite point from me! Thanks for this cache Romax!

Lovely day for a drive and to find a few caches. I am so glad that this was my 400th cache. What a fantastic hide! Thank you for bringing me to this lovely part of town and thank you for the cache Romax

Tftc

In the area for the week end and took 6 year old Max out to find some treasures. This wasn't a quick find. There are so many possibilities around GZ to hide a cache. We both found this cleverly hidden cache together. Signed the log and returned the cache as we found it. TFTC

Found what a clever hide tftc

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Romax [^]

Found by Kirky

Well this one had us looking took a bit what a sneaky hide love this one well done tftc

Now that's a cache awesome work the old blokes loved it had us hunting for quite a while

Our 4th find so far today. A clever hide, Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Found by sharnajayde

Found by huggies883

Well, I stopped close to GZ but just as I got out of the car I noticed that my rear left tyre was flat as a tack. How long I'd been driving on the tyre like that I'm not sure, but it was damaged beyond repair by the time I stopped. So instead of looking for the cache I got all the tyre-changing equipment from the car and started to put the jack in place. Luckily a kind, friendly local noticed me at this point and gave me some much appreciated assistance. I have changed a tyre before but not for about 10 years so was badly out-of-practice. Had the friendly farmer not given me a hand, I probably would have been late for school pick-up back in Bendigo, so this guy deserves a medal! I'll return to this another time, hopefully with less drama.

Wow! Awesome hide. TFTC

Man that's tricky!! Nice work

we searched for a while and about to give up when I noticed something a bit different. pops had previously discarded that hiding place. a well constructed hide. tftc

On our way to the Wedderburn events with Mrs McLooker. We detoured off our route to find this clever cache. It was found after a short search. A favourite added.

An excellent camo and cache construction saw us taking a few minutes to make the find. Once we took heed of the exact co-ords, we had the cache in hand. Thanks Romax.

found it.
TFTC

Great hid, we love the old blokes and this one is in true tradition of them. TFTC.

Find # 1860 @ 0919 H

Being on holidays what a better way to spent a day than planning a caching day and to head north of Bendigo.
This ended up being a day of 42 finds, way over what I expected and almost 400ks travelled (a lot of back tracking and some getting lost in the bush, But the GPSr did say there was a road there!)

This sneeky little hide had me looking over everything, being a warm morning I was armed with a big stick, poking and proding, in the end I think it was sheer luck that gave me this find. think I may have been time to wake up my caching senses a bit more for today.

TFTC Romax

Out for a caching toward west from Bendigo for the day.
TFTC

8/11/2014 #2680

Three cachers - two nights - one tent - great times!!!!

With the weather on the improve we dusted off the tent and headed to Marong for the weekend. On Saturday we headed up to Wedderburn grabbing caches as we went, the caching was curtailed by the building heat, the call of the pool back at the BIG4 was too great as temps nudged 38oC. After a couple of hours in the refuge of the pool, we headed into Bendigo to catch up with family with a great feast of Mexican. Sunday had us packing up and grabbing a few caches on the way into Bendigo catching up with more family before heading back to Melbourne town.

On the way to the cache we drove alongside a young kangaroo for a while before he thought it would be wise to just let us past. Pulled up near GZ and Campbell was quick to check one area, before Katy found the well hidden cache. A fav from us, great design!!!

Thanks for the cache Romax!!!

Wow, this gets a favourite from us, what a great disguised cache, loved it. TFTC.

Found on our way to Wedderburn for the annual "Day out in Wedderburn" event.

Last time we tried this we had the Combo and the road we took was a bit boggy so we gave it away. This time around on another route it was an easy drive. Off the highways we drove through paddocks that had just been seeded and we enjoyed the sight of hundreds of small colourful birds enjoying a meal.

The cache was one of the better ones we had found today which was located ok, before we headed off again.

TFTC Romax.

This entry was edited by The Swaggies on Friday, 30 May 2014 at 22:56:24 UTC.

TFTC

TFTC - our kids really enjoyed this one!

Found # 9720

It is good to see that there are still a few unsung heroes

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache Romax

Amazing! Thanks for the tribute to the Old Blokes.

Found in transit to a funeral in Swan Hill with an additional mission of dropping off a couple of GCA Movables we had held too long.
Have a look at the other side of the log for one.
As always another lesson from The Master in crafting a hide.
TNLN
Our thanks to Roma & Max for the cache.
Roma & Max, on a personal note we had a chat to a fellow called Des D. from Speewa who was also attending the funeral who I believe is a mutual acquaintance.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
*Overall Experience: 4*
Cache condition – fine.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Rather clever tftc

Found at 12:55:00 PM. In Bendigo for a couple of nights and decided to find a few of Our Heros. The road in to this one was blocked by a recently fallen tree but we managed to clear a detour around the blockage. On arrival at GZ we struggled for a while until a closer look revealed the cunningly camouflaged cache.

Thanks Romax

We headed west to get a few caches for the tally - great to honour geocaching's heroes.

I was expecting a lot more trouble with this one, but it turned out to be an easy find.

Thanks Roma and Max.

Recently we became aware of the A-Z Challenge Bendigo cache. We had cached only once in Bendigo previously and then for less than 24 hours. However when we checked our finds we were very suprised that we had already found 15 of the required 26 caches. So one of our hopes for this trip to Victoria was that we could return to Bendigo for a short time and find 11 more caches to complete the challenge.

This was one of the required caches (U). We took a rather circuitous route to get to GZ. Once there welooked for the cache for a few minutes. Then we looked at the area from different angles and something drew our attention. Closer inspection revealed an excellent cache in very good condition. Thanks Romax for a great hide - certainly earns a favourite from us. 10 more to find to complete the challenge.

A week off work and the Wenches without any prior bookings meant we could head to Bendigo to chase a few caches...

We planned our caching day around this cache. We're working toward the A-Z Challenge by The Morris and have just four letters to complete. This cache gives us a tick in the U box.

Well, the gps pointed me to a very unlikely spot close to GZ but small cache definately couldn't be concealed there. The obvious spots at the obvious spot were checked before a more thorough check revealed the tricky hide.

Thank you Romax for this cache and the chance to knock off another letter..
#2223rd @ 1306hrs.

found this today on my way home from bendigo, very nice hide, thanks romax

A casual trip towards Bendigo on a lovely crsip and sunny day, so decided to deviate from the highway and pick up a couple, and this was one we hadn't done. The sheep all came running towards us as we searched for this one, which kept the Cache Hounds well entertained, and interested. We also saw two beautiful Wedgetails, and a fantastic Hawk on the way to the cache area. Thanks for takng us there, Romax, and a well deserved tribute to 'the old blokes'!

Another find on a lovely day out hunting TFTC

Woo hoo another find under the belt I think I'm finally getting the hang of it TFTC

Drove from Bendigo to Bridgewater On Loddon.
Completed the 'Our Heroes' series, which we thought was a great idea.
Collected caches on the way, this being one of them.
TFTC

Miss Mary was off at a Gallop whilst I dithered about in the car, finally I trailed after her thinking my chances were slim of finding the cache before Miss Mary.
But no I was in luck this was a Romax cache which usually defeats both of us. So I was in for a chance, I felt a little sorry for Miss Mary as she was there first all over it like the plague. But I actually made the find, I must say a very sneaky well crafted cache. Thanks for the challenge Romax.

This our last day of caching in Bedigo, we are heading to Mildura tomorrow so thought we would head out towards Inglewood to find a few caches so we don't have to stop with the caravan on.
We enjoyed the drive & the variety of caches.
Giving a favourite point for this cache
TFTC Romax

Tricky ay, found it though, took nothing left rainbow pencil tftc.

Came out this way today to get the Learner Driver some extra hours. Very soon we will have 2 L platers so the sooner we get one to his P's the better! We were ever so carefully poking around just in case something unexpected popped out to say hello. Turned out we were ignoring something vital! Ah ha! So funny! Thanks for the laugh Romax!

Travelling from Melbourne to Robinvale for work this coming week and cathering some caches along the way.
Nice hide, a fitting tribute.
TFTC

This entry was edited by BernieH on Sunday, 13 January 2013 at 11:54:22 UTC.

Found 11:40, after a brief search.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Romax.

Found with garrottor. Nice cheeky hide. Thanks.

Found by Garrottor and Muller38 TFTC

Headed out to check on the heroes series and managed to get a few others this being one of them. Loved the hide and this one gets a fav point.
Nice work thanks to Romax.

Sometimes ones spidey senses tingle. This happened here. Something looked a little odd. Whack oh, the cache was primed for the signing. TFTC

This entry was edited by strange quark1 on Friday, 30 November 2012 at 10:12:54 UTC.

As I was in the middle of the old blokes unsung heroes series, it seemed logical to head off the beaten path a bit to grab this tribute cache. Google maps on the iPhone certainly helped navigate to this one along the narrow dirt roads, very dry so no problems at all. Parked right at GZ and saw several simple likely hides so started looking. Seeing nothing and then thinking this is a romax cache (I haven't found many of theirs but reputation does precede them and I had found their "rest with the blackbird" cache this morning and that was a ripper. So I started thinking more than "sistema under log" ans saw something that wasn't quite right and had the cache in hand. Thanks to romax for this one, great hide, great tribute to the old bokes and worth a fave!

Suscoe was steadily making our way down towards Bendigo and this little journey along some lanes was a delightful side trip.
Arrived near GZ and walked the last few metres.
Stood and looked and then thought and said, well that might be worth looking at!
It was.
A well constructed cache container was revealed.
Thanks to Romax for placing this cache in honour of the old blokes!
The crops sure look like they need some serious moisture, hope tomorrow's rain comes in the right quantities!

Found by The Empire with tackle_head @ 2:05pm
One of the 46 caches we found whilst cruising around Bendigo on this beautiful spring day. It's pretty simple, Bendigo = Romax. A top hide in a nice location. My thanks to Romax for the cache, favourite point added.
- M

A lovely tribute to the old blokes and a great hide - tftc Romax

A Romax cache, in the dark? we might get lucky, and we did! The road into GZ looked like it had been very muddy recently but thankfully there had been a few sunny days since and we were able to get the 2wd geomobile through with no trouble. Found this one with Aveen and TheQuantumQuark just after midnite on a slight detour from our nightcaching run up the Calder.
Thanks again Romax for a creativly cunning hide.

another great hide. a little hard in the dark without a torch tho lol tftc

what a typical sneeky romax cache

On a 4x4 weekend away with firesafe
Have done quite a few of there caches thanks

Was on a road trip with Honeysucker to Bendigo, taking in the Little Desert and some night caching around Marong. Grabbed 34 finds for the day. Tomorrow should be a buit bigger.

Clever hide - had some fun in the mud getting to here. TFTC.

Found with Chaplain Mike, Smart Sassy Siren and Princess Amy, TNLN TFTC SL

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

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

Tenth find for the day on a massive caching run with Chaplain Mike, Princess Amy and Stick Kid. Very sneaky cache and worthy of the dedication to the Old Blokes. This one definitely deserves a favourite point. SL TFTC!

Thanks Romax for another exciting cache. A typical Romax hide = a fav point of course.

Found with Smart Sassy Siren, Princess Amy and Stick Kid

Thanks again for the challenge

TFTC SL

This entry was edited by Chaplain Mike on Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 12:26:39 UTC.

# 268 - Mr F was the one who was lucky enough to come up trumps finding this cache, very fitting since we've just finished the old blokes' nearby heroes series. As fairly newbies we haven't done a large number of their caches, but all have been just that little bit quirky, which is really great! TFTC Romax

Attempted this one but came from the less used road which was impassable due to the rain and mud.
Will attempt this one again soon.
acjgrant

Found by Mary & David at 1120. Another wonderful Max and Roma touch to acknowledge the efforts of "the old blokes" around this wonderful part of Victoria. We certainly enjoy getting away from home and having a cluster of caches to enjoy. As expected, this was yet another beautifully hidden cache from the Master. Our thanks to Romax.

I have not yet met the Old Blokes but I have found quite a lot of their caches up here and always appreciate the high stadard that they set in their hides. I would have loved to have got up this way for the recent Wedderburn event but alas you can't be everywhere at once.
The main challenge this morning was dodging mud and water on the roads and once here thinking like Romax.
Another creative hide so thanks for that.

We did some slipping and sliding on the way here but it was now a lovely sunny morning. We did not expect to see another vehicle in the vicinity and neither did we as feathertop got out and quickly found this great cache.
Thanks Romax

29/38 for our day trip from Bendigo to Dunolly, Bridgewater and back to Bendigo. My apologies for logs now, getting log fever. Can't remember which hide was what design - but I do remember this one. A very creative hide.

While we're out finding your cache, we were sure you'd be out after those new caches today. My emails confirmed were we thought you would be.

TFTC SL

Heading up to Wedderburn for The Old Blokes event " A day out in Wedderburn" and after spending the night in Bendigo we decided to try our luck at some of the local caches. It seemed only fitting that we did one for "the old blokes". This was a very fitting tribute to the old blokes" as unsung heroes as they have seemed to have followed in the cache owners footsteps. We really enjoy finding this team's caches as we've always found them to have been of high quality and some are quite ingenious. We missed the cache on our first look around this one and then Diane realised that it was a Romax cache so we looked at the area with different eyes and then had the well concealed cache in hand quite quickly.
Many thanks romax for another memorable cache, a favorite from us.

Found It. Cunning hide. TFTCSL

Made a diversion on the way to the event to grab this sneaky hide. Thanks Romax.

I have now met the team that is The Old Blokes at their excellent event last weekend.
My question is: Is that their latest cache between them in that photo, if so I haven't found it yet!
Nice idea for a cache, and a nice hide.
Thanks, Robmc.

A crafty hide by a crafty hider for some crafty blokes. Nice work Max. We've really enjoyed the Old Blokes caches this weekend - you will never be sure what you will find or where and I think they all made me smile. Oh except the ones on Mt Korong where I didn't have the energy.

Found with the 2 wanderers on our way to wedderburn
Find no. 11 For the day
Managed to get here with the caravan somehow

Our 11th for the day on the way to Wedderburn wandering along with Highrod. Great hide.
TFTC TNLN SL

Nice hide Max!

Love this one
Tftc. Getting cold now and darkish

I've had fun hunting for and finding this cache, It never ceases to amaze me how the CO in the first instance comes up with the idea for placing a cache at this location. After signing the log and then replacing the cache, another find becons me. Thanks Romax for the cache.

these hides along this way are fantastic
5th four our run today

7. Great hide for the dedication to a couple of great hiders.
It was getting dark now and happened across the find that could have been another that takes a lot longer....
Like the others the old blikes do, does show how hides should be made.
Cheers romax.

Nicely hidden, found with Rediguana, Monedork, Pohutukawa and Hello Mrs during our 2 week road trip.

TFTC

Found this cache out on its own. TFTC

A very clever hide - and a favourite.
A nice quick find during our Oz MEGA adventure.

Quick find heading to Mildura. Cheers Gav [11202]

Cool idea Romax, flipping the old blokes dedication series on it's head I did plenty of old blokes caches this long weekend, alot of them are creative hides at colourful and slightly quirky spots. They were all good quality hides and the logbooks always the same design, making it easy to figure out whose cache I was finding.