Purpledreamers Purple Power Path # 4 Waldara, Victoria, Australia
By purpledreamer on 11-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3GRXA

Retiring the series

Not for us today

Lol that one tricked us, but we found it

Found the stairway to heaven TFTC
Needs maintenance as the log paper are all shoved into the cache

In Wang for a few days R&R and after visiting friends in Yarrawonga I had some time to grab a few smilies on the way back to Wang. Looked at the map and saw this series was on a bike/walking trail. I was quite pleased to be able to do them all by car as walking isn't that easy at the moment. Thanks for taking over this series tattboy1

I logged this series in reverse order since the caches seemed to be on that side of the road. All containers were in good shape. Some of the logs which were once postit notes have become messy but I always found somewhere to write K.B. in red pen on some part of the log. Thanks for the caches and to the person / people who have volunteered to maintain them.

Geofamily trip to Victoria... Cool!
Mrs Moneydork, Moneydork, sushilord and I left Friday morning for a 4 day jaunt over the border to find a cache or two
Two nights in Wangaratta and then a night in Bendigo left me with 10 DNFs and 205 cache finds one of which was a FTF
Day 3 was Wangaratta to Bendigo as there is a particular wool mill there that geomum loves to visit [^] As with any family, when geo mum is happy... everyone else is [^]
Todays DNFs numbered 1 and the finds numbered 66 with some interesting caches and experiences amongst them.... not the least of them being me falling off of the walk the plank cache At least I found a PT there to make up for the fall

I'd never met purpledreamer and it seems that I missed out on meeting a lovely lady
I've only managed to find a few of her cache hides and Purpledreamers Big Purple Box is one that I really remember as it was a HUGE cache in an OUTSTANDING location [^]
Hence I enjoyed this small series and it's a shame that some are offline or achived

TNLN. SL. TFTC tattboy1

The geofamily are off on another trip to Mexico. Fun, sore backsides (for some) and Dad getting the geomobile stuck and breaking his bike, TWICE were the highlights of the trip. One of the running jokes for the trip was 'If it's 2.5T it's laying on the ground, if it's 2.5D it's under that pile of rocks or in the open, if it's listed as large we are looking for an eclipse tin' which came about due to a number of early finds. The lasting memory from this trip will be the grass seeds!!!

We worked our way along this trail.

Thanks for the cache purpledreamer.

I like its style

Thanks for this series of caches ! Great pick of trees, etc to put them in.

And now for something different .... Good one, Tattboy1.

we drive on the way to melbourne then catch ferry to tasmania for week.... hide well.. thanks...

need note log.... full log...

Continuing a lovely walk 4th cache so far tftc

Log book is all mushed in there, signed and put back but prob needs some attention

Only 3 to go then on our way home

Tftc

#280 Fifth of thirteen finds for the morning on a quick caching trip around Wangarrata to break the drive to Dubbo. Nice easy find after a short search. TFTC

I had so much fun on our little roadtrip!
Me, boo09, becca85 & GemmaSistema headed to Wangaratta for the night.
Day 1 was huge with 50 finds, lots of which were at night by torchlight- we even got bogged!
Day 2 we got rained out in the end but still had an enjoyable day.
Thanks for some great caches in great company!

School holidays are upon us which means Team Clarmensma (myself, GemmaSistema, boo09, neisha07 as well as Ad + Luke) is formed yet again as we target another area of beautiful country Victoria.
This time we decided on an over night road trip to Wangaratta. Meeting up in Violet Town, we headed straight to Wang and our motel where we dumped our belongings and headed straight off for an arvo of caching. Lots of great finds, a stop for lunch on the side of a lonely dirt road followed by some more caching until it got dark and we decided we should probably feed the children again.
A pub dinner and off we went again with torches and another layer of clothes each. A few stops in and we managed to get ourselves bogged but were promptly saved by some nice CFA gentlemen. The adventure never stops! Finally after a DNF and we were all soaking wet we decided to head back to the motel for a Milo. A great day out exploring a region I had never visited before. TFTC!

School holidays mean that myself and my two kids (ages 5 & 7) go caching with becca85 and her two kids (ages 6 & 8 - or boo09 and neisha07). We normally do a big day out around home (Ballarat way), but we are running out of spots. These holidays we decided to head north and stay a night and cache in and around Wangaratta. After having dinner we decided a few caches in the dark was a must so the kids could use their torches! After getting bogged and rescued by CFA volunteers at the Minions cache on this road we made quick work on this series well after 9pm. All were nice quick finds which was great in the dark. So many walking tracks in this town! Thanks for the cache

A perfect afternoon to attempt this series and a quick find at GZ. A handy little spot to pass over, but no need today.

Thanks for the cache.

No luck for us today

Our 4th purple container found in a good hiding place. TFTC

Day three of our month long escape from Tassie. A reasonably quick find on a very warm day. TFTC

This hide had been found by some muggles prior, maybe on a rough cutter as there was a lot of damaged paper about, we returned later on and put out a replacement container and log sheet, thanks tattboy1 for the hide.

Up early to grab this series with Happy pants, before there were to many muggles. Found this one is pieces all over the ground. Think it must have taken the lawn mower on, and lost. Returned later in the morning with a replacement container for log sheets.
Thanks tattboy1 for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#3015

Nice

Hot day for golfers and cachers but we're all still out doing it haha tftc

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there tattboy1. We found your cache "Purpledreamers Purple Power Path # 4" at 10:49:00 AM today. This cache makes our find count 12363.
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Today was "Purple Dreamer" day. We thought that it would be nice to attempt the tribute series for this wonderful person before we leave town. Today we ended up logging 15 and DNF'ing 1 today.

Please excuse our boilerplate logs. When we attempt a series run we find it difficult to prepare individual logs.
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The majority of containers and log books were in good shape, but the post-it-note log books are in tatters and need a really big staple to hold them together.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing in the small ones, and a smiley badge wherever we could fit one.
Thanks for the hunt,
Regards
Ian & Penny.[font=Verdana]

A good quick find. Small, purple & magnetic

TFTC

Thanks

TFTC. On a lovely Saturday morning we had wandered through the wetlands and were close to this path of caches. No time like the present to add to our tally. Started at 6 and worked our way successfully back to 1.

Went back today and had another look. Found the zip lock bag and had a closer. Turned out to be a soggy golfers score card. So I zeroed in on the cache and found it. TFTC

Got to ground zero and found a zip lock bag that looked as it had a very waterlogged log in it and another zip lock bag not far from it. This put me off looking very hard as it suggest the cache may have been muggled.

NenaNine and I decided to do the whole series but with Winter and the thunderstorm on us, the rest of it will have to wait unfortunately. Found by NenaNine She logged in for both of us.
TFTC tattboy1

The mission for today was to find as many of this series as possible.... found this one with Shadow 67 as the thunder rolled in and the rain descended from the heavens. Quickly signed the log and back to the car to complete our mission another day. TFTC tattboy1

Found this Cache, TFTC

Another quick find with Sabelais123:)

Another quick find with Prin666cess

4th find for the day

We were out and about today, grabbing some caches around Wangaratta. We hit this power trail, which showed a variety of caches along a lovely (and a little bit busy) country road. Thanks for all the hides and the people that maintain these caches.

Out and about for Mother's Day with Arielisme..
Thank you for getting us out of the house.
Tftc..

It's Mothers Day and mlroberts73 & I decided we'd head out and grab a few caches this afternoon.
So off we went in the drizzly rain and enjoyed a couple of hours of caching together.
What a great way to spend an afternoon!
Thanks for the cache.

TFTC purple dreamer. Another Nice and easy walk-up. Good placement! It's still a beautiful day in sunny Wang. With Noelle04.

No golfers close made this one easier! Lucky Jimmytherat or I didn't get hit by stray golf ball! Warming up to fab day. Thanks Purpledreamer

Despite your stuff bring purple, its always a challenge!

Another one for the geo son

Powered up for this one, where are all the golfers on this great day?

Found it quite quick

Thanks for the cache. Easy find nice box.

Well this was quite interesting... So we walk to the gz from the last cache and upon approach its pretty clear where the cache will be, but as we approach a man pulls up maybe 20 meters down the road. We decide to act like where having a rest, we figure if this is a catcher they will know what we are up to and come say hi. Apparently its a muggle because he gets out of his car and starts wandering around the bush barefoot searching for something!?! This goes on for a few minutes. We sit... We have a drink... We watch him... Then he jumps back in his car and drives off. Yes now to get the cache. It is found quickly but alas no pen in my pocket? Blast... Must have dropped it at the last cache. So fox 2 stays at the gz having a rest while I trundle off to get the pen. Approaching the last gz and what do you know?!? here is our muggle friend again... He is doing the same thing about 30 meters away. What the? He definitely isn't caching, no GPS, not close enough to the gz's, not looking in tree hollows etc like you would if caching. Weird. Then it occurs to me... Duh...were next to a golf course haha he is collecting strays (we could have acted like we were doing that all along here... No one but us seemed to pay him any attention). Anyway, I found the pen laying on the ground, returned it to my pocket and headed back to fox 2 and signed the log. Tftc.

I found this one

My partner in crime bet me to the find on this one. TFTC

Liked the purple theme of this trail, walked some and drove some. Had to DNF #10 but the others were OK.

Junior had a chance to do some much needed climbing. Tftc

Mr Tardis is visiting family in Wang while on a visit from Adelaide. I has some time today to complete this nice trail dedicated to Purpledrreamer. I started at #15 and worked my way back towards Wang. A nice variety of purple caches along here and most were easy finds with DNFs on #10 and #8.

Enjoyed myself for the day. Thanks tattboy1.

Started this little series in reverse order....and as well missing the missing number 9, I had a DNF on number 8. Other than that, all was hides were fine and the caches found without issue.

Thanks to all concerned for the continuing caches.....

Found this interesting little hide. I think the logs are very hard to sign when the sticky notes start falling apart. It would be good if there was a little book to sign instead. TFTC

Like others as we only had the car and not bikes so we tackled this from 15 to 1 with 10 being off line. Good to see some different sizes along the trail. Number 9 took abit longer as its a different hide and some the purple has gone but we managed the find even with the neighbours barking dog. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC and series

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Thursday, 02 October 2014 at 12:13:21 UTC.

TFTC - Nice afternoon ride.

Almost sprung by a jogging muggle but successfully returned the cache. TFTC

Suscoe's 19th find of 37 for today.
It was a tale of two halves today, before lunch steady rain, after lunch a bit of sun and wind.
A nice hide, 8 degrees, lots of stopping and starting, lots of fun and lots of rain, sorry for the standard log.
All caches were in place and the logs are pretty dry.
Thanks to tattboy1 for keeping this series alive.

[:(!] Spending the weekend in Albury with my geoson and his geofamily and what better way of spending the day but to do a caching run and this was one of them, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes.

I like it

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBMH TattBoy1 [^]

List and found travel bug left

Left list and found travel bug

On previous visits to Wang we had always run out of time before we could attempt the Power Trail. Today we were heading to Yarrawonga and Cobram with time on our hands and, as luck would have it, there was room along the trail to pull over with a caravan in tow. TFTC.

A pleasant way to spend a saturday afternoon following Purpledreamer's path. TFTCs

Clever spot. While Muggle Hubby found the cache I found one of his favourite golf balls on the highway side of the adjoining golf course

Found it. Log books all need maintenance Thanks

17:52
When it was announced that we were expected at one of the pubs in town for dinner tonight, this trail shot to the top of my To Do list, as it had been on the radar since we'd passed through town early last year, and each subsequent visit had been too short for an attempt. Not so this afternoon.

My chauffeur dropped me off at #15, and the fun began with a nice quick find. It's been a while since I last hit a real power trail, and the great exercise and good fortune continued the full length of the trail, with very little traffic either along the road or on foot to contend with.

A bit of a change from the other hides along the trail, but good coordinates made it an easy find, delayed only by having to time my movements with those of the runner doing sprint training nearby.

With extra time, I would have detoured to your nearby hide, but as it is, I'm going to have to hustle to reach the end before my ride. Next visit, tattboy1.

#2522

Found @15:05
Decided to do the odd numbers on the way in and the evens on the way back.
It's funny how you can get a mind set on where a cache is going to be hidden and not look in the obvious spot first.
Took pink butterfly, left pink gem.
SL Thanks for the cache tattboy1 and memories of purpledreamer.

TFTC nearly done, quiet a long walking track so starting to wear out lol

A great power trail that we had wanted to complete for a little while, headed over to Wangaratta today. It was quite warm today so we drove most of the trail but enjoyed a stroll at certain spots. Finished up just before the weather turned for the worse and the sky's opened! Glad to see this trail being looked after!

This entry was edited by Tamzy on Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 09:26:19 UTC.

I looked everywhere but the obvious eye-catching spot for a while before bumping into the cache!

#422 With our annual leave drawing to an end we are making the most of getting out for a final geocaching onslaught. The PPPP series has been on our list for a while and today we and the 3 geohounds tackled it on foot. We found all 15 caches (collecting odd number caches on the way up and even numbers on the way back) in the series without too much trouble and also walked to By the Green. In total the we walked 13.7kms. We then went on to Yarrawonga area and collected another 14 caches for the day taking our total to 30. Finally got home after 10:30pm! Thanks to tattboy1 for maintaining this wonderful series.

Day two of our post Christmas / pre New Year trip... taking our new tent trailer for a test run, weather was very hot and humid. Our travels are taking us up to Ettamogah and across to Old Tallangatta before returning home.

Visiting many towns along the way, taking the Geo wife to places she has never been before, and giving our Geo Pug time to sniff out new territories

Did not expect to be seeing constant temps in the high 30's to low 40's... Geo wife got to see her first live black snake on the road in Australia, and I almost stood on a 5 foot brown snake at one cache on the HCRT, and a red back spider at another.
Stayed at some nice FREE camp sites along the way and a couple of caravan parks as well, learned a lot of things along the way, history and more, but in all a great adventure and we were able to clock up our 1000th find along the way ..

thanks to the CO for this cache

TNLNSL

1841.
Nabbed it !!
10.05am
tattboy1 - TFTC.

TFTC

Found at 11:12 AM GAFF1. Another nice spot for a hide, however the log book has separated, so I just grabbed the first slip that I could get my hands on to sign the log and it just happened to be the FTF slip
Wonder what the reason for this style is - maybe for the golfers to jump the fence to search for their wayward golf balls.
Thanks tattboy1.

Good one

Cha pow!!

Out in Wang today and decided to do this power trail. Spotted from the road, didn't even turn the car off!
Tftc

One of ten finds for the day. Found with bratllegs. TFTC

Gotcha !!! TFTC

After setting up camp in the caravan park we headed out to do the Purple Power Path.
Most of the caches were quiet easy to find.
Thanks tattboy1

Found while out for a lovely drive with the geokids. thanks for keeping this series going tattboy

Really enjoyed all these caches. A pretty area. TFTC

Geokids skipped between caches - that should wear them out TFTC

Nice one. Easy but nice. Left my badge.
Angus the great GeoWestie assisted by grey nomad Carer Lis Brown.

Filled in this one today. Nice:-)

This was one of 142 caches found today during my Alpine region caching run. The weather was warm for this time of year and perfect for getting out and about and by the end I only had one DNF for the whole day.
It was a big day of caching today coming up from Melbourne to attempt the High Voltage Power Trail that was near Mt Buffalo. I had completed the trail a lot quicker than I expected (with 101 first to finds as well) so I decided to head to Wangaratta then back south via Benalla, Mansfield, Yea and Warrandyte before the final stretch for home.
This nice little series is one I have driven past on so many occasions but never had the time to stop and do it. Today I was happy to be able to finally find the caches bar one being #9 which I had a DNF on.
Thanks for the cache.




This entry was edited by Quasar3671 on Monday, 15 July 2013 at 06:08:08 UTC.

Very happy to find this one.

6580 + 822 = 7402. Found during a great weekend caching in Northern Victoria.

Continued on during my run today. When I planned the trip down here it was mainly to do a few of the local series and this is one of them. Fourth one and a quick find. Now off to the next one.

Thanks again tattboy1!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Found at 10.40am
Such a lovely day, people out gardening
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Quick find with tgr, thanks for the cache

Found at 2:22:00 PM while slowly making our way to Echuca after attending the events in Albury at the weekend. Started this one at No 15 to save crossing the road at each cache as we did not have our bikes with us.

Thanks tattboy1 for keeping this series active.

14:14
Pedalling the Purple Power Path today evoked great memories of a fun loving person who contributed so much to Geocaching.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for maintaining the cache tattboy1.
5491

Reperio at 1720.

Being in the car today...I opted to complete this series in reverse to be on the same side as the trail...which made the going easier, and found I was able to park right next to many of the caches. After deviating off to grab 'By The Green', it was back to the trail with this one.

Gratias tattboy1.

easy find on the PDPP. tftc.