Rail Trail-Oink Oink Dalyston, Victoria, Australia
By Gonefishen07 on 06-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3W812

Out on the rail trail caching with Jascat. No luck with this one today.

Hmmmm think this one must have become fox bait . Till I get a chance to do something think this is the best option

20 May 2018, Found @12:19 pm, Find # 1557

After completing Handy in the Night with mazza-g last night we hit the rail trail this morning on the bikes. As previous finders were unable to locate we did stop and look and couldn’t find it.

Thanks to Gonefishen07 for placing this cache

Searched everywhere and couldn't find it.

Good search around with others no lucck

No luck

Another revisit and today we had the cache. Nearly gave up on this and decided to widen slightly and there it was. Log signed and back safe again.
Find 1233

Rustled out this little treasure from its hidey hole among the vegetation. Everything in good condition.

Great little hide along the rail trail TFTC

KAKAGA Mark 2: Kate And Kelly's Amazing Geocaching Adventure is happening again because we're free of children, chores and work! Hurrah! A trip down to the coast was organised with the New Years events and rail trail in mind and ended with a count of: one emergency department visit, one headbutted tree, one muggle asking if we were looking for drugs, endless swarms of flies, many scratches, one sunburned shoulder, one milestone 1000th cache, great meals, good company and 66 caches.

Mmmmm Bacon. A final cache before lunch was found and we headed to fill up our tummies in Kilcunda. TFTC Gonefishen07

We Found It

Found this cute fella!

This weekend marked the second of the much anticipated KAKAGA trips (Kate and Kelly's Amazing Geocaching Adventures). Mummy Short Legs and I were both very excited to be given the opportunity to spend almost two full days together with nothing but a vehicle, our bikes and our GPSs for company. We were not going to let soaring temperatures or bucketloads of flies stop us, we were going to cache our way around the Inverloch/Wonthaggi area till we dropped (or until the geohusbands begged for our return at least!).
Coming prepared with bikes we hit up the rail trail on our second day of KAKAGA#2. A final find before we headed into Kilkunda for a lunch stop and the container didn't disappoint. Had a bit of a search before I spotted the little tacker and pulled him out into the daylight for log signing. Thanks for this trail so far GF07

Found today whilst out on the geobike. Started this series two years ago and have finally got back. Thanks for the fun and exercise. TFTC

While out in the company of the McLookers we set out to get a start on the trail with bikes ready & roaring, plenty of water and snacks packed we were off. The sun belting down made for a hot ride but with sunscreen applied and our helmets for protection we enjoyed the trail and all caches on offer. Most caches were found with only a few DNF'S as we kept the pace up ...pedal, search, sign, pedal!
Thanks Gonefishen07 for your efforts put into this rail trail series, we had a ball.

The pig has it!! Log was wet.

In the area on bikes with The Tritonz with the aim of completing the Rail Trail. The grass was very, very long in many places. Fortunately we did not see a snake...I am not sure how as it was a very snakey kind of day. Thanks GF07, it is a brilliant picturesque trail that gave us the opportunity to see another very pretty part of Victoria.

Find 26 of 45 of the day.

Day of geocaching between the Coal Mine and Anderson, a tiring day. Thanks for hiding all these caches Gonefishen07. TFTC

Teamed up with OZHockeyChick to ride the trail and grab a few caches. This is about the third time I have ridden this section of the trail now. Thanks Gonefishen07 for the cache.

1:46 pm #2315
A day trip with Rebel Acts to do as many of this rail trail as possible. Most of them smileys, with a handful of tough DNFs here and there. A lovely day. Thanks for the series, Gonefishen07

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH GoneFishen07 [^]

Find #870

2nd time out on the trail to find a few more today. Set out for Anderson from Kilcunda, then as far as Powlett River. The effort from the CO is greatly appreciated as i had another fun day. This was 30 of 38 today. Tfts!

Found it

This little piggy TFTC

Hi there Gonefishen07.

We found your cache "Rail Trail-Oink Oink"at 10:41:00 AM today, & this now makes our find count 12676.

Today was "cycle day". We wanted to attempt some of the rail trail caches so we drove down to the nearest parking area and pedaled off. When we finished our run we discovered hat we had logged 16 and DNF'd 2 caches.

Coordinate Accuracy: We found this cache around 2m from where our GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.

Thanks for placing this cache for us to find,
Regards
Ian & Penny.

Yes i can see why pinkpiggy7 team like this cache tfkc heading back to car

Geo daughter loves pigs and said she had to make the find on 'Oink,Oink' but just couldn't make the find initially. We continued along the trail and had a second go at it on the way back to the car - this time converted our near DNF to a smiley. Geo daughter also had a big smile and gave a fav. TFTC.

Found it with Teamksbtj and Rexey41 on our bike ride on a rainy afternoon. geo granddaughter loved the cache

The days has heated up a bit now, the flies are extreme friendly too. Cache hunt is going very well but some DNF have been collected also. There has been a lot of work gone into this trail by the COs , so a huge thank you.

Another DNF today as we set a 5 min time limit for each one as we had a busy day out.

Hag

#765 - Day two of my trip down to the Inverloch for some caching.

The first part of my day today consisted of riding the rail trail from Wonthaggi to Kilcunda picking up as many Rail Trail caches as I could. My weapon of choice was my brothers cycle-cross bike so I could give it a go, with the decision to leave my road and mountain bike at home.

After having a bit of a sleep in to 7am this morning to catch up on some sleep, I quickly had breakfast and headed off to park at Wonthaggi to start the ride.

Between the hours of 08:00-15:00, I was able to get to Kilcunda and back as well as complete 44 of the 50 rail trail caches that I set out to do, (6 DNF's due to not being able to find them and not spend to much time there or due to muggle activity).

I was very impressed with the variety of caches and different cache hides along this part of the Rail Trail. I ended up spending a lot more time looking for caches then riding as quite a few of them were a challenge to find!

Thank you Gonefishen07 for the effort put into these caches, had a really fun ride.

19/09/2015 - 2.25pm - I was the description & hint reader while You_Can_Do_It_2 did her finding/signing bit. ... On a caching stroll for 3.4km & 2 hours with You_Can_Do_It_2 along the rail trail from Dalyston to Mouth of the Powlett Rd. Could concentrate on the photographing now my finding was done.

Ceebee had already found this one, so I was on my own, but I had the cache in hand reasonably quickly and replaced it to move on. By the time I got to this one I was getting my second wind, which was just as well, cause we still had quite a walk ahead or behind us. Find number 219 for me.

Really not happy too many caches i am missing - maybe a bit scared of bumping into crawly things to search to much

Great hide thanks

In Wonthaggi this weekend for a whole heap of geocaching!

Saturday, and what was planned to be a massive day. The schedule was to travel to Kilcunda via the rail trail, then head back down the coast. Unfortunately I ran out of time and had to head back to Wonthaggi before completing all the caches. Nevertheless a heap of smileys are now on the map, and I had a blast. A huge thank you to Gonefishen07 for placing these, they are great! Ill be back another day to finish the area off! I apologize for the generic logs, but there are a lot of them!!

I smell bacon...

TFTC!!

Not too harder find today, maybe a couple more caches might do it for the day. Tfth

thought it might be one of these TFTC

This took a couple of goes for gps to settle so took longer than it should have. Did get there soon enough. TFTC

This entry was edited by crig on Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 05:10:08 UTC.

Its a pity Geo Danielle wasn't here today these are her favorite caches, hence the team name.. Tftc

while cycling with friends in this beautiful country,I manage to do some geocaching, tftc

This one took me far longer than it should have. I started to think he'd gone to market but found him eventually.

We were staying in Korumburra for a couple of days with The Drovers with the main gaol of completing this rail trail and also hopefully picking up a few challenge caches.

Today's start was much better than yesterday's weatherwise with nice clear skies and although it was very windy it was to our advantage as it was a tail wind all the way.
Again wee had a fantastic time finding some unusual containers and with no DNF's we can say what a ball we had again.

Many thanks Gonefishen07 for not only the trail but for all the work and effort that you have put into the hides.

We apologise for the generic log but are leaving a favourite point on each one to show our appreciation.

We signed the smaller logs with our initials TD TC

Found on a rail trail ride with the kids, good hide. Loving all the camo! TFTC ; )

Met up with Team Crackers for 2 days, to tackle the Rail Trail and a few local caches.

Day 2 and back on the bikes again. The weather was windy but sunny - very different to yesterday.
We found a good variety of hides, with the odd one being a little tricky.
This is a fantastic trail, and we award each one a favourite point.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Gonefishen07, for us and others to find.

Found by Mary & David at 1625. Took longer than it should after checking out several wrong spots first. Would have been even longer without the good coordinates. Our thanks to Gonefishen07.

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat, today Mr Felix headed out on the GeoBike to tackle some more of the rail trail.

Knowing that some of these micro's were to be evil not a lot of hope was held for a numbers run today.

Happy New Year! Well seems every muggle from here to Melbourne was out walking or riding the rail trail today. . It was a struggle but somebody had to do it. .

Beautiful day and the rain held off. An amazing series you have created here. So much hard work and effort has gone into constructing then of course to maintain too. Great work.

TFTC Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

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Quick find in between the passing riders. TFTC

A beautiful sunny day meant the trail was filled with bike riders, runners and horses, not that this stopped us on our mission to complete another stretch of the trail. Quick poke around and we soon found this little cache.

A beautiful morning for caching with cjfinda and robber44. Another great hide along the rail trail - cute container. Thanks.

Found on an awesome weekend with ornursie72 & acmoose

Found with ornursie79 and acmoose. TFTC TNLNSL

Out for a days caching while staying in the area. I decided to enjoy the solitude of a long walk with lots of caches. My aim is to get to Wonthaggi. I replaced the log as this one was full. Tftc

Found on a sunny day riding with the nursies

Found! Found quickly. I had some of his cousin on my pizza for dinner. Sorry ;(

The day started for me at 7:25am & I finished at 5:29pm in Wonthaggi. I had the most enjoyable time seeing plenty along the way & enjoyed the variety of cache hides & containers. A brilliant effort and I thank the CO for the most enjoyable day out!

TFTC

Find #1032

Thx

Out for a walk with frmen1. A quick find. Log almost full. TFTC

Love bacon. With hawkeye 86

Geo Hubby did a section of the Rail-trail today while , I walked in another area.
We found a variety of caches some hard, micro's in the bushes are always a worry. Some very cleverly hidden.
Thanks for placing this cache Gonefishen07

We were fortunate today to strike a day that had sunshine and a cooling breeze. We ventured along this well formed track with LazzaL and pet dog Lillie taking in the rural view to the wonderful coastline and making bee-lines for the creative caches. We would read about the next cache on the way and try and guess what item had been used to individualize and create a sense of fun in each hide. We loved it and enjoyed finding this cache. Thanks to Gonefishen07 for the enormous effort that has been put in to enhance of enjoyment of this caching experience.

A big day out on the rail trail today with fellow cachers Liz and Bruce and we managed to find a total of 79 well hidden and thoughtout caches. There was quite a variety of cache containers/hides, often the name of the cache giving a clue as to what to look for. Thanks to Gonefishen07 for hiding this cache.

Found with skooby71.

Melbourne parties Friday noon and returned Tuesday morning in Melbourne. I came here to make different trail of caches in the area. It was intense few days with my bike but very nice! I could find caches with superb camouflage, very good ideas from the cachers. This log will be the same for all caches that I made (sorry) But I want to congratulate in particular:

Nut bear & BorisB & Natasha for "Bay Trail" and "Red Hill Express" (Beautiful cover!)
The Three Amigos Geo for "The Pathway"
Gonefishen07 for the great "Rail Trail"

As well as other geocacher who I discovered several caches during these few days.
Thank you very much

Greetings from France
I will be at Mega event with my friend who just especially France also "Ckronos"
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Found on our "Making Memories" Tour of Mainland Australia.

Today we explored Wonthaggi and surrounds using geocaching as our guide.

We found a total of 51 caches and this was one of them. Our 9th cache of the day - Just what we were expecting.

As we progressed along the trail we were impressed by the variety of hides and the creative use of containers. Some we found quickly and others needed a little more investigation before they revealed themselves.

Thanks Gonefishen07 for taking the time to place and maintain these caches for our enjoyment. We really appreciate the effort gone into these creative and inventive hides. A great days caching and one we will remember.

25/01/2014 - 4.50 pm - 7th for the day - with dgfb33. Had to head back to car -- knew I wouldn't make it back to the car if I did any more.

Found it with ceebee2013. Had to break our bicycle run here due to exhaustion of one of us, due to recent illness.

Out for a last minute rush before Christmas, cache grab that is. Found 51 of 52 for the day and had a ball, great hides, reminisced about camping at the Mouth Of The Powlett and on the bluff at Kilcunda as a kid about 45 years ago and got some exercise. Biked a fair bit with some walking and some drive byes mostly driven by flat iPhone batteries needing a charge every now and then.

Treading very gingerly I discovered the bacon sizzling in the sun.

Thanks for the cache Gonefishen07

very cute oink

Found this cache while on a solo six-day bicycle geo-tour around West and South Gippsland. I started by taking the train out to Crib Point, and then catching the ferry across to Cowes on Phillip Island. From there I stealth camped near BBQ shelters and dropped in on friends as I rode to San Remo, Wonthaggi, Inverloch, Fish Creek, Leongatha, Mirboo North, Mt Worth and Yarragon. This route took me along most of the Bass Coast Rail Trail and the Great Southern Rail Trail. I caught the train back to the city.

I'd done the northeast leg of the Bass Coast Rail Trail the day before, and camped near Bass Bridge overnight. Today I headed towards Wonthaggi.

This is the densest and longest power trail that I have done to date. Barely was I settled on my bike, which was loaded with gear, before I'd be bearing down on the next GZ. I had my Garmin attached to my handlebar and it led me along easily and faultlessly. This was the first power trail where I wrote a note about each cache because it would be several days before logging online and it is difficult to recall them.

Really enjoyed the different camos and containers.

T4TC Gonefishen07!

Found it

Found 1:30:00 PM, during our epic Anderson (and beyond) to Wanthaggi, rail trail adventure, which involved a distance of 51.36 km, ten hours twenty five and a half minutes in and out of the saddle [xx(] and 103 cache finds It also gave BB#2 an ideal arena in which to test her new 29'er

TNLN, thanks Gonefishen07.

Hehehe cool! SL TFTC

Took a little longer than it should.TFTC

An awesome series for us Tassie caches to enjoy on our Caching/MotoGP trip to Vic. Thank you GoneFishen07, this must have taken a lot of work. We walked the length and breadth of this series over 2 days. The weather was perfect and the sights and experiences were unforgettable.
red tag

Day 3 of wilco and red tag's Moto GP tour of Melbourne.
After completing the Woodlands 100 series near Tullamarine on day 1 and 2 we turned our attention to the rail trail series today. Most caches were found without too much trouble, but one or two were a little difficult. There was the occasional clever hide along the way too to keep us guessing. The weather was pleasant (sunny and low 20s), but slighly careless sunscreen application meant that I ended the day rather pink in some areas.

Should have been an easy find, but took far longer than it should have. Must be getting tired and hungry now. Bacon and Eggs, anyone? TFTC

Found while walking along the rail trail first from Anderson to Woolamai. I started at 6.30pm at Anderson just to grab a few Caches, but before I knew it it was 10.30pm and I had reached the end of the line at Woolamai and then had to walk up hill back to the roundabout. The walk back only took an hour.

I Returned from Melbourne the next day to Wonthaggi to continue the series. Starting at the information centre around 11.00am and reaching the State Coal Mine about 1.30pm returning to Wonthaggi just after 2.00pm and then home to Melbourne.

A week after first starting the series I started my attack from Kilcunda at 7.00pm walking towards Anderson and returning to Kilcunda around 11.30pm. I then continued walking from Kilcunda towards Wonthaggi. After crossing the trestle bridge at Kilcunda I made it as far as Mouth of Powlett Rd before returning to Kilcunda before 1.00am.
I then drove back to the information centre at Wonthaggi at continued walking back towards Kilcunda. I only made it as far as South Dudley Rd before 2.00am. then I thought it best to return to the car and to a caravan park that was booked earlier.

The next morning I continued the hunt from South Dudley rd at 8.00am walking to Mouth of Powlett Rd by 11.45am returning to the car at South Dudley Rd at 1.30pm having completed the rail trail in both direction and walking approximately 55km.

I would now like to take the time to thank “Gonefishen07” very much for the effort put into this fantastic series of Caches also the wide and varying types of Cache containers and great camouflage.
There was Lots of great hides which were good and easy finds as well as a few that had me searching for a while due to some very sneaky and clever ideas.
Most co-ords were very good which was very much appreciated because I often said to myself trust the GPS and then would find the cache bang on the co-ords.

I have also decided the hides are much easier to find during the day rather than at some ungodly hour of the night via torch light, though the trade off is I did not see a single Muggle at night yet the sections completed during the day I had to be careful due to lots of Muggles and their 4 legged friends.

I hope to return to pickup the few DNF’s soon although agreeing with some previouse logs some of the DNF’s I suspect have been Muggled or removed by recent works at the Cache locations.

Again thanks to “Gonefishen07” for a great series

Nice easy one tftc

To market to market to buy a fat pig!

Today was our second on the Bass Coast. After overnight rain, the clouds started to lift this morning and bright blue skies were enjoyed from mid morning. This was ideal for caching. Our main focus today was to hunt for as many Rail Trail caches as we could in the day. This amusing cache was a quick find. The contents were in good condition. TFTC Gonefishen07.

Our seventeenth find for the day A very cute and well named cache! TFTC Gonefishen07!

tftc

found with wyrdsister b1 b2 and b4. tftc

Well pigs wern't flying through the air today but I reckon I could have gotten lots of speed up if we took the trail the other way.TFTC

TFTC

Easy when you look in the right place. Thanks GF07 FTC.

Pig

Oink found it

Back for another fun filled day on The Rail Trail with Pea bear. This time we biked it from the Wonthaggi end. We had a great day and a big thank you to Gonefishen07 for a wonderful series.
Yay we have reached the point that we got up to in February from the Anderson direction which means we can turn around & pick up the odd few we had to leave due to muggles. Have had an absolute ball finding such a wonderful assortment of caches, in a very beautiful part of the world. Can't wait to come back for some more.

The plan was made to do more of the Rail Trail a week ago with BorisB&Natasha... Yay! today was the day.
Pumped up tyres, oiled chains and packed bags we were ready for a day of adventure.... or so I thought, about 15 min into riding my bike started having gear trouble! I haven't come all this way to turn around now so I was determined to continue on with my grinding chain.
32 fantastic caches were found for the day and only 1 DNF. Thanks Gonefishen07 for such an awesome series! the work and effort you have put into all your hides is nothing short of amazing.
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Thought it might of been one of these. Love your choice of containers. This was our turn around point.

Nope this one got me! Just couldnt find it

Sully1 and I had a late start today and found a heap of caches on the island before getting to stage two of our bike run. All were great to find, and although there wasn't the variety of yesterday's bonanza, there was a huge increase in the difficulty ratings and the sneakiness factor.
Thanks again GoneFishen07, a wonderful series that we need to finish

Found with bogonghazy on Day 2 of our Long weekend assault of the area. The series was excellent, different from yesterdays stretch, which only added to the variety. My sincere thanks to Gonefishen07 for the work in getting this Series up and running and maintaining it so well. Definitely worth the trip down here, and we'll be back again to collect what we've missed this trip. Cheers, Leese

Easy find at 12.00 noon
TFTC

found by Geodaughter and GeoDad. A quick and easy find. TFTC.

Found at 14:20. Out on an Awesome Autumn Afternoon caching had to pass this one by earlier due to a walking muggle but was all clear on the return journey to the car and cache quickly located. Thanks

Day two on the trail and with a hire bike it was on the trail back towards Anderson. Had a great day collecting most of caches

Some great hides with lots of though and effort going into them. Had a great day and had me looking forward to the completing the rest of the trail over the next couple of days.

Thanks Gonefishen07.......great trail and good fun. (Most logs will be cut n paste, while some will have more detail.)

Tftc

nice hide tftc

Today we started at the round about and made it through to the Powlett river before deciding to head back to the car. We had a great day and look forward to finishing the trail off at both ends. Lots of good hides and a few that had us searching for a while. We had to leave a couple because of muggles but we hope to pick them up as drive-bys in the future.
Thanks for this series, we really enjoyed it.