Buried Rivers of Gold - Hepburn Estates No. 1 Smeaton, Victoria, Australia
By sully1 on 11-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3TBYY

I'm out of action for the time being, so archiving to free up the area,

Needs checking and replacing by the sounds of things

Looked for some time, but had no luck. I see it has been disabled since looking for it. Hope to get another opportunity to find it.

I had a quick look for this as I didn't want to keep my wife waiting too long. No luck today.
Crusty.

DNF with The Drovers today. We spent some time looking for a cache that others had had no trouble with so suspect that this may have fallen or even gone.

Sadly, a DNF here, for us today.
Thanks for the hunt anyway, sully1.

In Ballarat today to clean up this area of new caches and some old ones we were yet to tackle. We must admit to not ever investigating this great farming area out here with all its history of volcanoes and mining. So on this lovely sunny day it was great to catch up on some unfound caches and some history.
Thanks sully1 for highlighting the mining history.

What a big hill can't believe that came from out of the ground it would have been hard work over 100 years ago would love to have gone and had a look around thanks 4 the cache

Found while out driving the country roads. Tftc

TFTF

Found it. TFTC

Headed the long way to Creswick for a day of Geocaching with Wonder Woman WW so we could grab this one and a few others nearby. A great area of interest. Nice quick find on a freezing cold day. TFTC sully1

Was a bit worried that this might be suspended somewhere hard to spot in the dark, but luckily it wasn't hard to spot

TFTC

Geo kids found it. Nice new cache. Tftc.

We arrived from NZ yesterday evening to spend a couple of nights in Daylesford. With the time difference I was awake at 5:30 this morning so I decided to get full use out of the rental car and headed out to explore the area, and find a few caches along the way. I spent a most enjoyable couple of hours exploring the country roads, taking in a most beautiful sun rise along the way. Cheers and TFTC

Easy find on a windy day - log was close to be taken by the wind

What a great little series, it has shown us some great things and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The Moose grabbed this one quickly and we were on our way, after oohing and aahing about the building. Thanks for the hide.

Maintenance check, and I can't find my own cache here.... So, new container and log sheet placed today.

This was my first trip outside the house since my op last week. Nice to have a couple of weeks off work but lying on a sofa is only fun for a while. Time to get some caches!
These 3 looked easy enough on paper and so they proved. Almost stepped in some non animal droppings near the car too!
Beautiful day and not a car about.
Thanks sully

Twelfth find on a beautiful Spring day out with geobuddy BJ. TNLN. TFTC sully1

A quick easy find today whilst visiting family in Kingston

Found while out this way. Took a short time to locate this one. GPS wouldn't settle. TFTC

We found many of the other caches in the area two years and a week ago but must have missed loading this one into the GPS. I finally returned to get this one and it was a very similar day, wet, windy and cold. Great history through here. Thanks for the caches in the area. SL. TFTC

Found fairly easy as the silver part was visible. Cache was covered in mud so I cleaned with the wet grass all around me, gingerly opened it up and all was good with the log nice and dry it was even in the cap for easy extraction. Good job Gemma a lot of people don't know to do this. TFTH Sully1

Found this but it was on the ground in the open. Placed it back where I think it belongs but next person may want to hide it better... Thanks

Unexpected committment in the general vicinity by day trip.

Had a small amount of time to kill and a cache on the screen just off the road.

With the 30 min to spare, we left the main road gave it a good try with a no luck before having to be travelling on the main road again.

Australia Day! A great time to catch up with the family, do a spot of camping and of course find a few caches. We were off to Lake Bolac to spend an extra long weekend of fishing, telling a few stories and a round of golf.

Of course, the fishing and golf provided great fodder for the story telling, the fish that got away or the golf shot that was almost a hole-in-one so a self-perpetuating vicious cycle was created.

Alas, today I had to pack up and head off early as I needed to be elsewhere for the day with my side of the family.

I was on my way back to St. Arnaud from the family function I decided to take a detour and grab some caches on the way home.

Mining certainly was a big industry around here wasn't it?

The replacement cache was found easy enough. TFTC and thanks for taking me to this historical place.

TFTC

Found quickly by the eldest geokid as we cleaned up so e caches to the north of Creswick. TFTC.

Thanks sully1 for the replace cache. Got it and the trio all smiley now!

Unknown...a well visited from trampled grass. And a new log

After a few recent DNF's I called here today, and this one certainly was nowhere to be found. New container and log left, cache good to go again.

Looked and looked not low! Cannot understand how so many found this a quick and easy. Must be missing something obvious. Will return again if I can get a clue!

No luck for us today. We will be back.

Looked hard but could not find.

Visited with crazycatwomen and 1geokid, but too dark now to look properly so we went home on this balmy summers night. Shall return soon to complete the buried rivers of gold series...

Spent ages looking for this little b...........did not find. Will try again soon

Found with relative ease, though a bit wet from rain. Found with Eminor93 who was first to spot. TFTC

Heading to Ballarat for the day to visit family. Decided to stop along the way and seek out this series of 3 'Buried Rivers of Gold' caches with AzzB. Was a quick and easy find.
TFTC

Great cache, nice scenery.

Suscoe and the sister's 8th find of the day as the sunshine slowly gets rid of the cold and frost.
Another enjoyable view of the area.
Thanks to sully1 for this cache and this series.

Nice tree, I like that tree

An unexpected day off in the middle of the week and some lovely sunny weather meant a trip to Creswick and a few caches was in order.
It is great to see so many new caches around this area and we enjoyed finding a few of them.
The geotrail led us right to this one.
Thats a big mullock heap!
Thanks again sully1.

I had a great morning in Creswick with Dad finding a few geocaches.
Some great spots and some cool hides.
Thanks to everyone who hid the caches we found today.

Decided to take our time travelling home from kids cross country run and collect this threesome, quite easy finds with a nice little local history lesson for miss 11.

This was find 4 of 11 for this mornings caching effort. I was making my way up to the CVGT VI event in Echuca and was keen to make the most of some dedicated caching time. The weather was perfect and I wasn't troubled by muggles at any of the locations.

Amazing area. The number and size of the mine here really show what the gold rush must have meant to the state.

Thanks sully1 for placing this cache and bringing me here.

Found after attending some appointments in Ballarat. The first of your three and a quick find. No time to explore the areas further today. TFTC

Much smaller than we expected and this lead to some delay in locating the cache. Otherwise a pleasant little find for us after attending the local Anderson's Mill Festival. Thanks sully1.

Found it. We were visiting the impressive Anderson Mill in Smeaton for the festival and decided to check out a few of the local caches whilst in the area. TFTCSL

Nice area

Nice little hide. Cant believe we found it as easy as we did. TFTC.

A quick find. TFTC.

In Creswick today so I thought I'd clear up this little group. It helps that the mining history around here
is something that interests me. Thanks.

at 5.40pm. This was my 8th of 14 caches for the day. I didn't start until late today. I enjoyed reading the plaques and imagining how this area looked 100 years ago. Thanks for the cache Lisa. TNLN.

Found with Stooy

A quick find today, glad I'm tall

Found 17:20, in the company of Muzza, during a regular monthly caching day out.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks sully1.

This entry was edited by Biggles Bear on Sunday, 03 February 2013 at 11:49:40 UTC.

Today was my monthly caching trip with Biggles Bear. Today we went from Malmsbury, through Catlemaine, Clunes, and Smeaton. Another nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Found on our afternoons caching. Not too much trouble spotting this one.
Thanks Sully for this series!

Nice easy cache. Cool ruins nearby. TFTC!

Thankfully a quick find here after the Co offered no help from the car.
An amazing story of hard work, a lot of risk, and only sometimes, a rich reward.
Thanks Leese for this series, and for your company today, always a pleasure to have you
on the hunt for caches

Did the Gold loop today, love these signs of past glories

TFTC Sully

nice view

And the skies choose this time to open up. Nice and cool now. Easy find when looking in the right place TNLNSL TFTC

Cold & wet in spring

Found on a quick Clunes to Creswick drive. So much history in this area that I was oblivious to.
Signed the log.
Thanks for the cache.

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 sully1 for the cache.

Need to make sure it is put back in place securely so it doesn't fall and get lost.

Found on my way back to Ballarat from Guildford.

Our 6th find for the day. This was a great hide. Certainly not what we were expecting. Just love the history of this area.
SL TFTC

Found whilst on our way back to Daylesford, from Clunes and Mt Beckworth. Very interesting history. TFTC. Cheers

Found by The Empire @ 1:30pm
A great little trail, the history in the this area is amazing. Thanks for the cache sully1.
- M

A nice quick find- was a rich mining area & now seems to be a rich farming area! Thanks for the history lesson Sully1

An afternoon drive and a few quick finds along the way.
This once was a busy area, but now all is quiet.
Thanks sully1

Nice little hide TFTC

I beat the kids to this one

An interesting drive found the GZ easy enough. A nice area of old gold mining. Thanks.

Nice quick find with S 4 Sammy

TFTC

Found on another late night cache run with ST37E

A nice quick drive by

TFTC

Published

Found by Roma and Max.
After our cache blindness experience at the last one of yours where you used a similar container, we did approach this GZ with some trepidation!
However we need not have been concerned as your good numbers again, and perhaps some luck on our part, we had this little container in hand straight away!
Thanks Lisa, but we will have to return in daylight hours to see the objects the cache is themed on.
Cheers,
from Romax.