Purpledreamers Purple Power Path # 7 Waldara, Victoria, Australia
By purpledreamer on 11-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3GRXV

Retiring the series

A good hide thanks log signed all dry.

Water! I need water. Number 7 found

Found the 7th and last Treefic cache, just before my battery dies, thanks for the great day purple dreamer

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.

A nice quick find

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

Another impressive hide. When you do some more, I'll be sure to come back and get them ...

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

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

A nice quick find which has left me with the purple people eater song in my head. Left tb

Just realised we have jumped cache numbers but no time to fix need to continue onwards

Tftc

#283 Eighth 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

Making my way along the trail, I enjoyed the walk on this stretch. There was a lovely little old farmhouse out in the paddock, a remnant from a different time.

Thanks for the cache and bringing me to this location.

Another lovely day in Wangaratta - out and about enjoying the area with CAD ... Soon had cache in hand Great series T4TC:)
#3442

The day I lost an hour in Wangaratta TFTC. 11th

Our 7th find on this warm afternoon. TFTC

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

Just grabbing the last few caches along the power path this morning with Happy Feet and we managed another straight forward find, thanks tattboy1 for maintaining the cache/s. TFTC

Up early to grab this series with Happy pants, before there were to many muggles. Another quick find.
Thanks tattboy1 for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#3011

TFTC. We returned toWangaratta and our Motorhome after a couple of days in Melbourne. As we found a Purpledreamer Power cache on the day we left so it seemed appropriate to find another on our return. Nice quick park and grab.

Nice

Enjoying knocking these over, tftc

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there tattboy1. We found your cache "Purpledreamers Purple Power Path # 7" at 10:31:00 AM today. This cache makes our find count 12359.
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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
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Nice size. Good quick find. Tftc

Did wonder about no.s 8 and 9, but we leapt out of the car here and soon found the standout location, again a well chosen spot, and a nice big cache was found. Our energy was beginning to flag but we said one more and then coffee in town. Thanks for this one.

TFTC

Thanks

Quick find in a lovely spot. Cache in good order. Took tb to help on its mission.

Not as quick a find as I though it would be. Had to go back to the car and get something to help me. Found it, si9gned the log and dropped in a new TB Cuddles the Crocodile. TFTC

The weather was a bit better today to finish off this series....was a quick find for Shadow 67 and I, signed the log and made some swaps. TFTC

Easy and quick fine with NenaNine
She logged in fir the both of us. Done swaps too
TFTC tattboy1

Great cache. TFTC

Another quick find with Sabelais123:)

Another quick find with Prin666cess

3nd 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 looking for things to see and do with Indianagleeson tftc

TFTC!
Found with Shellumbus.

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.

AH was here

Tftc

TFTC purple dreamer. Getting there . Not many to go for the series. With Noelle04.

Powering through these with Jimmytherat. Think we're on a purple roll! TFTC

A quick find on my bike ride this arvo, TFTC

Quick find.tftc.

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

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.

Skipped the micros in the low level light of late evening.
Easy find. Tftc

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.....

I have been surprised by some of the locations of this series of caches. They are sitting there just waiting to be found and today there was one in an area that are beautifully manicured right up to the cache but I am not sure if this was it. Any cacher who follows will recognise which one it is. I do know that I changed the ziplock bag in this cache as the other one would not seal. I covered the old ziplock with the new one.

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 12:15:01 UTC.

Found c: about the 10th find today.

Nice, simple find

Last one found before the rain settled in. Have to come another day to finish the series. TFTC

Suscoe's 15th 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 [^]

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.

TFTC - Great Hide. Well done Meg. T2L2

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

Taking turns now. Muggle hubby found. We released a soldier in time for Anzac Day and left Batman to guard the log

Found it. Thanks

17:32
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.

#2519

Found @13:29
Decided to do the odd numbers on the way in and the evens on the way back.
Waited for the one and only bike rider that we saw on Power Path today.
Took badge, left green gem.
SL Thanks for the cache tattboy1 and memories of purpledreamer.

Another one to cross off tftc

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 09:27:47 UTC.

#412 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

1838.
Nabbed it !!
9:5o am
tattboy1 - TFTC.

Quick find on a warm afternoon. TFTC

TFTC

Found at 11:02 AM GAFF1. Didn't expect to find the cache here as it is such a "beacon" for muggles.
Thanks tattboy1.

It's getting hot out here

Out in Wang today and decided to do this power trail. Was surprised how easy this was, spotted as soon as we got to GZ.
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. Took smiley badge for geoprincess and left butterfly. thanks for keeping this series going tattboy

Another find in this series.TFTC

Another morning in paradise to do some early caches!! TFTC

Lovely walk - geokids getting a run TFTC

Found it. Purply pleased we are. Left my badge.
Angus the great GeoWestie assisted by grey nomad Carer Lis Brown.

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 06:07:35 UTC.

Left the smiley face (it now has 2 ) and took the lens cleaner.

6583 + 822 = 7405. 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. Seventh one and a quick find. Now off to the next one.

Thanks again tattboy1!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Found at 11.00am on our morning walk
Great views of Warby ranges
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Quick find with tgr, thanks for the cache

Found at 2:11:00 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.

14:30
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.
5494

Reperio at 1700.

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. This was was found nice and quick after finding the previous micro cache!

Gratias tattboy1.

got a big grin from a bike rider while standing looking at my GPS. tftc.

Nearly there only a few more to do.took the car left the bells. SL TFTC