Thanks to CanClan Napoleons, Victoria, Australia
By sully1 on 22-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3HMXK

Find # 6989

A day off work and what else is there to do.... yep, go caching in an area I've never really gotten into and to do some site seeing on the way around

Ok so this is a little embarrassing.
looks like I had an old GPX on the GPS.
My aim was this series and while I did manage to find most of them it was not until tonight when I got to logging the days finds that I realised that they had been archived. Oh well it was a fun and long day in the bush, with a lot of archived finds.

TFTC sully1

Time to go, will collect cache when tracks are dry.

Found It.......It was decided to head up to Ballarat to do some shopping and caching today. So after our retail therapy we set off up to Learmonth to see if we could tidy up the caches in the area so with a plan in place we set off. After pulling up we wandered over to GZ and the search started and soon after the cache was located and with the log signed we continued on our way. Thanks sully1 for the cache

Had been in Ballarat for a couple of days with family, had time on my way home to pick up a couple of smileys in this series, this one I was nearly muggled out as a quad bike was not far from GZ,thankfully he moved on.TFTC

A quick find for coco. TFTC TNLN

Next one along and kenare had found this one as well. She was no help either as she had forgotten where it was and reckoned she was slightly under the weather when she found it. Got it and we were off. Tftc

TFTC! Had a bit of trouble with sign posting on google maps..Beautiful spot. Thanks for bringing us here

Nice find

The day started with an early morning drive up the road from Geelong with Ausfox; and Neville_devil for the nearby by Tree Planting CITO after which we decided to try and make as many smileys as possible in the general area of Enfield.

Thank you sully for smiley

Found it after CITO
Thanks sully

In Ballarat for a Tree Planting Event and grab a few caches with Simsfamily and Neviile Devil for a day of mayhem and laughter on a surprisingly warm sunny day.
Another quick find.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache sully1
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Nice and easy = great area! TFTC

Tonight we were heading off to Enfield for a BBQ with friends so a quick cache or two was in order! A quick find here. Many thanks for the cache.

Continuing on from last week, i had some spare hours this afternoon so headed straight out to find some more caches in this series.
Nice and peaceful out here this afternoon, a lovely place for a cache. Plenty of cows to keep an eye on this one!

Tftc

Spotted a likely spot just as we walked up. Thanks sully1.

Road into this cache was in good condition after all the rain etc. Found cache O.K. Good co ords. TFTH

With no other plans for today, we decided to go for a drive and find some geocaches !! I've had my eye on these hides for quite a while now. So along with my trusty navigator, we packed the car and hit the highway. It was a pleasant drive up from Geelong. The clouds looked menacing, but luckily we stayed dry all day. What a scenic part of the world this state forest is. The tracks ranged from dry and flat gravel, to water filled mud holes !! We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon and we can't wait to return to grab the rest of the hides in the area. TFTC sully1

Enjoying the forest trail for this series. TNLN TFTC

Nice hide. In very good condition.

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Found while out and about, mainly off the beaten track, in the area, between Inverleigh and Staffordshire Reef.

Our thanks to sully1 for bringing us to this location.
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It was a quickee this one, we both spotted a likely place for the hide, and we both hip and shoulder each other... But I was the winner...

Out to do the "Thanks to Series" today, this was my 14th find. Tftc

TFTC

Found by eldest geokid.
Thanks for the cache.

After tackling a nearby cache we thought we would continue and made our way to this one, decided to park the car and walk so we could enjoy the walk, geokid went on the search as we got close and located the cache with some help, signed and replaced as we found it, TFTC

Tftc! Little handy find with geobro n geokid. Lots of fun splashing through the big puddles on our way here

It was nice to have a quick find after the last one. Thanks.

Easy find but was covered in spider webs so was hard to get out!

A great hide, TFTC

After finding a few dead ends around this area, trying to get to other caches, I finally found meself driving past this one
It seemed that the road it was located on was the escape route back to the forest I sought too [^]

A poke around found me the cache

So thank you for the caches,
All the finds I'm getting
Thank you ..... hang on !!
Bl@@dy song is back in me head again

But " ABBA dabba doo " I found me a cache

Found by Chris, Andrew and Lorraine on the 06-01-14 TFTC

Found by the-geobots, 6/1/14 - TFTC.

Today the weather is nice so I put the bike to finish the series After 30km of cycling I finally finished and I'm really pleased with myself! sometimes it was hard!

La balade continue, il fait beau et je viens d'enlever mes vestes et je viens de me mettre en shot aussi ! parfait
Merci

Nice bicycle ride. Thanks

Out caching with Fergzert this onewas the second for the day and was a lot quicker to find TFTC and a great series.

Find number 2 of the day out caching with LionJRB. The GeoTriton was loving the mud along these roads. This cache was quickly found signed and hidden. TFTC Sully1

Have just spent the last few hours having for 4WD fun, nice quick cache on my way back to flat roads. Thanks

Good cache!

I get the feeling that you really enjoyed placing these caches Sully1 and I was very impressed with the variety of hides.
Unfortunately it was getting close to the end of the day and Tag-along was soon to be home. I had to abort the last few finds but will be back to complete the series soon.
It is a nice tribute to the people who give back to the game so that we can all continue to enjoy it.

Not too sure who this person is. Before my time and has helped me to get a smiley face.
TFTC sully1

This is a name that ihave not herd of but I enjoyed the find nonethe less

We both spotted the obvious at the same time and Shamus1 bolted off through the undergrowth to beat me to the find.. grrr!

Found after work on a cache run with ST37E

Thanks for the cache!

Found with S 4 Sammy on a geocaching expedition in the forest

TNLN

TFTC

This was one of over 110 caches I found during a huge day and night of caching with my fellow cachers Trailrunning, Rebel Acts and Blacklegend (The Demolition Crew). As we all had the day free we carefully planned in advance the run and decided to call it Ballarat Smackdown II. The plan was ambitious and resulted in almost 22 hours of continual caching.

The day started in the early hours of the morning in the far eastern suburbs of Melbourne, then moving through the northern suburbs then onto and along the Western Freeway to Enfield State Forest then north up to Ballarat itself. We cached through Melton, Pykes Reservoir and Bacchus Marsh and many of the country roads north and south of the Western Freeway as we made our way west.

We had a fantastic day finding all the different types of caches and there were some quite inventive, very tricky and well constructed hides that we found. I thank all the cache owners for the time and effort they have spent in placing all the caches we found today.

I found making our way through the Enfield State Forest to be the highlight of the day and my Prado handled it very nicely. We couldn't believe it when some more caches were published in here the next day so we immediately began planning our next Ballarat Smackdown trip.

Another legendary cache run by The Demolition Crew (myself, TrailRunning, Quasar3671 and Rebel Acts). We have dubbed it Ballarat Smackdown II. This was a huge run taking us all the way from near Cardinia, via the northern suburbs of Melbourne, to Bacchus Marsh and Melton and finally Ballarat. A massive loop, and over 100 caches for the run. The company was as always fantastic, a lot of laughs, good dinner, and great caches. Many thanks to all the CO's for the hides, without them we wouldn't have been able to find anything.

Another one found in the bush. No trouble here. TFTC.

This was, cache # 88 of 117 finds for the day in the company of The Demolition Crew. we had a quick find as we enjoyed our drive trough this area. My thanks to sully1 for the cache.

This cache was found by me today in the company of The Demolition Crew.

While I strive to make my logs personal to every cache, I have far too many logs to do, that I apologise in this instance for using a generic log. I thank you for the placement of this cache as it was one of many that made up a great day for me and the crew..

The Day's Blurb...

The annual holidays is always a great time to relax and take it easy, but not today. The Demolition Crew had decided that after such a long break from caching together that we would start the year off with a bang! So the planning minds were put into operation, and Ballarat Smackdown II was conceived.

The smackdown started along way from Ballarat, in fact in the hills around Cardinia Reservoir and from there is was a push across the northern suburbs of Melbourne through Melton & Bacchus Marsh. It being such a hot day, the waters of Pykes Creek Reservoir cooled and refreshed us, and we were soon off to start on the Ballarat caches.

Since our first Smackdown in the area, many new caches have popped up, so it was a fruitful run which ended well into the early morning. A couple of caches were replaced as a way of saying thanks to those who took the time to place them, and I think in the end my tally was well over 100 for the run.

It was a completely awesome day, and I thank you for placing the cache. We will return to the Ballarat area soon as there are still a number of caches we left undiscovered.

After a couple of DNF's it was good to actually find one at last! My first of this series today.

Found 12:35, in the company of Muzza during our October combined caching day.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks sully1

Found @13:31

2nd find.

TFTC

Found while out with Biggles Bear on our monthly trip, this time to areas south of Ballarat. Nice quick find.

Thanks sully1 for the cache.

Our second "thanks to" cache of the day. Good day for 4x4 in the bush. tftc sully1

The elder geo-kid has obtained his license (you should all be afraid) and had taken the geo-falcon, leaving me with the "good car", henceforth known as the Geo-Astra. So the rough tracks were taken much more slowly than I would usually travel.

Cache was easy enough once I found the spot.

Thanks for bringing me here.

Thanks to CanClan as it appears I've found both of their available caches. Although the name doesn't really ring any bells

After finding my namesake cache i decided to continue the search, after overshooting the location and reversing into a branch ( so thats what the spare on the rear of the 4WD is for !) I made a quick find, and a swap.

TFTC

Found today with GEO KID
Kid made the grab
Thanks

we are in the bush and we are out looking in the dark having fun 4x4 driving and finding caches TFTC

out in the bush and we are out looking in the dark having fun 4x4 driving and finding caches TFTC

Another in the 'Thanks to........' series found. Thanks for the cache sully1 which was located today while out and about in the Enfield State Park.

Finally able to get back and do this one

Thanks sully1

In a hurry so of course kept taking all the wrong turns! Nice to have the use of a 4x4 even if only for a short time. Thanks for the series Sully1.

Nice series and tribute to some people who have contributed to our game - tftc Sulli1 and CanClan

Found by The Empire @ 1:50pm with tackle_head
Find number 19 of 31 GC.com caches for the day. Thanks for the cache, and the series sully1.
- M

An easier find than the previous one. Thanks for bringing us here, Sully1. We enjoyed exploring this region today through this series. Thanks to CanClan for providing caches around Ballarat and adding to our enjoyment of the game.

The ageing Bushfire and the suscoe team decided to visit the Enfield Forest and look for all the "Thanks to caches" and others that have been placed in this lovely area.
The suscoe team worked out the route and planned our method of attack and all Bushfire did was to provide the wheels.
This was our 16th cache for the day and the good weather is starting to disappear and getting cooler.
Spotted something as soon as we arrived but did not check it out straight away but should have. A tight fit but we succeeded, log was signed in a hurry as we wanted to find all 21 caches that we had on our list. thanks.

Suscoe's 16th find on a day out in the bush with Bushfire!
Another nice location and a nice find.
Thanks to sully1 for this cache as well.
Log signed and tucked away.
A few drops of rain and the wind has gotten a bit lazy.

Found on our afternoon Enfield run. Spotted this one on arrival to GZ. Thanks to sully 1 for the placement of this cache and also to CanClan for your contribution to geocaching.

First of the "Thanks to' series for me- an interesting way to discover the Enfield SF. TFTC.

I came down here with featherdown this morning to find the caches in this series. You have obviously given a lot of thought to your hides and the variety of cache hides today kept us on our toes. It is a long time since I have been into the Enfield Forest and during our time here we did not see another car until we exited the park near Scarsdale. We did not unfortunately have time for flyjabirus cache today as it was a tad off route.
Overall we had a great time, gathered in 15 caches and headed back to Ballarat for lunch before the weather changed for the worse.
Thanks for these sully1

Second cache and another quick find as we negotiated our way through these bush tracks.
Weather holding for now
TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1700. Easy to make a connection with CanClan, who we met years ago at an ingenious hide on a bridge near Castlemaine about five years ago. On the way to the cache, we passed a large woolshed, numerous farm gates, and fence wire everywhere. In short, many things metallic. Our thanks to sully1.

Found with tigersden, highrod and smegheads. The start of a short caching afternoon between events. TFTC

A group find with smegheads, highrod and kinkell1. We wanted to do some 4x4 caches in the area and this was a perfect day forit, the weather was cold and sultry, perfect for a drive in the bush. TNLN SL TFTC

Found with tigersden, kinkell1 and smegheads
Easy find by Azz
Tftf sully1

Found with tigersden, kinkell1 and highrod. Tftc

Quick find again in the company of the CO.
Congrats to CanClan on your inclusion in these tributes, and to Sully1 for the effort involved in all these placements

This was our first cache on our let's get the series of caches day. Found easily and on our way. Thanks for a great series.

*FTF* Out on a unplanned cache run with º. When new cachers are published you never know where you might end up. This was only a short drive away from where we planned to start our night in Bentleigh. TFTC

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We didn't really expect this to be unfound so we took our time to get there ... well turned out we were wrong: The logbook was blank and untouched

bling! another FTF!

( Found this on a very unplanned caching run with covert ... what started as "grabbing a few caches in Bentleigh" ended up as beating the demolition team to a lot of *FTF* 's )

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