Watch out for trolls Carapooee, Victoria, Australia
By strange quark1 on 19-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3X50E

As with the last couple of cachers we searched high and low but no smiley for us today

Sad to say a dnf after looking high and low.Caching with The X-Trailers.

We searched for some time but to no avail. However, the walk was not a waste of time as we loves exploring the old bridge. Disappointed we couldn't find the cache but not Disappointed we came looking.

Cool

Decided to head up the highway for another day and to grab those caches I've been driving past on previous trips. Started here and headed south before taking a triangle direction.

Took a few minutes to put me hand on it, but all was good and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks for another one strange quark1....cache all good.

Wow!!! What an amazing old bridge. Love it. Thank you for bringing us here

With SMOKEY OGI WAS PEAKING at this stage about this bridge,I dont know why but MAN I LOVE OLD BRIDGES ,Stuff the guard rails with tiny caches when you can have this BRIDGE right near the road and its 100 times BETTER Cache was in good condition and i lovedThe location Well TFTC

Prancing around the western parts of Victoria we stumbled on this little gem love the isolation out here and the history surrounding it Thanx for the Adventure Stay Dirty ️

2052

Nice piece of history just quietly hiding away.

found

No trolls seen! Returned as found. TFTC

Catching up on logging. We spent a week in Adelaide catching up with family and then headed to St Arnauds via the Silos south of the Mallee Highway arriving in St Arnaud last night. So today we are off to explore the street art and caches around the town. We have been aiming to get back here since the Mega in 2019 where we were able to catch a few of the trails but of course not all. This was the next cache for the morning. When we were at the info centre we had seen a pamphlet for the Pebble Church so we headed out towards there and this cache was on the way. Another cache showing a bit of town history!! Cache was a nice easy find for GMelb.
TFTC strange quark1 - GJMMelb

Dromaniax needed to get their Caravan to their block in Moonambel so I offered the use of my geomobile (The Ginja Ninja, named because it is used for stealth caching attacks) to aid the project. Once the van was delivered we set up camp so the rest of the afternoon and even could be devoted to some caching.
A plan was formed with a mix of Adventure labs and caches heading to St Arnaurd for dinner.

Neither of us had cached along this road in previous trips to St Arnaud so it was a good chance for a few smileys.
We were thankful for good head torches here in making our way down to the old bridge. At least it was a quick and easy find, I was able to put my hand straight on the cache in the first place I looked.

Thank you strange quark1 for the hide

Mr Sims_family and Mr Dromaniax had headed up to Moonambel to take the Dromaniax caravan to their property. It was decided that they would camp overnight at the property and do a little caching around the area.

So the caravan had been delivered at the tent and stretchers set up. As the Avoca pub was closed today it was decided we would head up to St Arnaud to check out dinner options there.

We decided to cache our way up to pick up caches neither of us had found on that trip.

Neither of us had cached up this round so it was a good choice for us to pick up a few smileys.

Well the frogs were out in force as we approached this cache. The headlamps helped us to focus our search and we were soon in possession of the cache.

The cache is in excellent condition.

Thank you for this Traditional cache strange quark1

TFTC Visiting family, doing the rounds, we've had a great afternoon caching with some enthusiastic young cousins. No trolls today.

Thank you so much for the cache

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Thanks strange quark1 for the cache

James0116

Find 2884
A magnificent relic that geocaching makes you stop and explore. This took some searching even though I missed it on 2 passes. Took photos, then Geowife came down to help and she called me over and said “here it is”. She is good and thorough. Log signed, left a Trackable and back as found.
Thanks

not there

spent a considerable time searching in all likely places but did not find

Welcome back from Covid. If there are issues with the cache after the length of time in situ please message me.

Due to a rise in Covid-19 I have made a conscious decision not to undertake cache maintenance as I feel that it doesn’t fit one of the reasons for being out during this pandemic. As I work in Melbourne in an emergency service but live regional I will not be putting myself or my community at risk.

I therefore am disabling all of my physical caches for the time being. The caches them self will be left in situ.

I won’t be deleting logs or anything like that and I intend to enable them again once I feel that my safety or that of my community won’t be put at risk.

I apologise for the inconvenience.

No trolls today but a cache was quickly found! Thanks for the cache.

On our way returning to our camp at teddington reservoir after a day in st arnaud. Nabbed a few on the way home. Thanks for the cache hide. A clever hide and a nice area.

#4145 Seeing remnants of old structures is always something we enjoy. Back in the day this would have been one solid construction over the creek judging by the size of those beams. Mrs BGF spotted the cache from the right angle and with instructions, Mr BGF retrieved the cache by feel . TFTC strange quark1, cool hidey location.

Trip trap, trip trap.. No body was game to trip trap over this bridge today. Although we always enjoy visiting them. TFTC

Now that the Mega was over, there was still more caching to be had so I joined up with fellow Canberra geobuddies kittykatch, Smittengranny and Joolay, AKA Capital Crunchers.

Quick find for us at this fascinating old bridge.

Thanks for the hide, strange quark1

This afternoon Capital Crunchers, Joolay, Kittykatch, Specimen X and I decided to grab a few more caches. This was one of them. TFTC SL

Found today with the Capital Crunchers while attending the St Arnaud Mega

TFTC strange quark1

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch, Specimen X and Smittengranny.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

This weekend was the St. Arnaud Mega event and I was looking forward to hitting the road for a few days doing some flat out caching, visiting many new and amazing places and catching up with lots of caching friends. The event was a great success and heaps of fun. The caches provided by the local cachers were, in many cases, absolutely mind blowing (FUF009 caches most notably). All in all it was a great weekend, very warm weather and lots of caches found.
Cache found and log signed. TFTC.

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the Mega event.

FeatherWaite, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday, taking a circuitous, but scenic route to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches in some other Victorian LGAs. We met up with Freddo and Davidwazza at the event that evening and teamed up to complete a couple more caches that night together before camping out of town.

Over the next three days we cached very solidly in and around St Arnaud, finding a diverse range of Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Virtual, Letterbox, Wherigo and Earthcaches as well as attending all the events associated with the Mega. We also managed to complete all the Lab caches over the weekend. Logbooks were signed D.E.F.F.98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo and gridge98).

On the Sunday afternoon, after the final GIFF event, FeatherWaite and I began making our way back to Adelaide, picking up a couple of caches before camping in the Little Desert NP. The following day we continued towards home with a side visit to Mount Rescue to pick up a few caches along the tracks there.

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches. They included a huge variety of containers, hides and puzzles, many of which were very clever and/or amusing and had obviously taken considerable time and effort to construct. Thanks also to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. I’ll be looking forward to the Mega at Millicent in South Australia next Easter!

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the 2019 Victorian Mega event. The weekend was spent primarily with e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98 as we geocached around the vicinity of St Arnaud. All of the events and CITOs were attended, we completed the available adventure labs and lab caches available at the showgrounds, many of the creative trails were gasped at their construction, and interesting puzzles were solved and collected during the weekend.

We all left on Thursday in two separate cars, and met up at the evening event, before finding a camp spot for the night in a very CITO location. On Friday, we targeted the StARS (St Arnaud Ramble Series) and the higher quality, well-constructed geocaches that were famous here in St Arnaud, and got lucky with the 2019 published series that we managed to snag FTFs on. Sunday had us continuing to find the other sets of high-quality caches around the neighbouring town parks, the challenge series, before spending a few hours at geocaching HQ participating in the labs that had been published. The event was also great to see some of the South Australians honoured with geocaching life awards (in amongst everyone on the list). Our final day, Sunday, had us do a big loop finishing off our geocache collection, driving all the way out to Kooreh and around via Stuart Mill, walking the conservation park at Mount Gowar, and finishing off at the GIFF event. A massive weekend that turned out to be a great mega! Thanks to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. The variety between the local high-quality caches, the new series placed by the mega team, and those who needed to be around for the labs and main centre fielding questions was appreciated immensely.

Today with our final day in St Arnaud, we went east and south focusing on some of the *Original Road* series, and the various geocaches that were placed along these routes. This cache was one of these found as we headed towards Stuart Mill. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache. The logbook was signed as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98).

An interesting old bridge.
Found quickly...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud Mega event. On Day 1, e.gregory1, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday morning, straight after the Earlybirds event in North Adelaide. We travelled a long and circuitous route via Bordertown, Nhil and Warracknabeal to find caches in 5 additional Victorian LGAs that I had yet to visit (namely Buloke, Loddon, [Greater Bendigo - I’d previously visited], Mt Alexander, Hepburn and Central Goldfields). On Days 2-4 we met up with Freddo and Davidwazza. As a group we systematically completed each of the many series around St Arnaud and found all other caches along the way, signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, Featherwaite and gridge98), as well as attending the events and completing the Lab caches. After the Mega, e.gregory1 and I headed back to Adelaide camping out in Little Desert NP overnight. On Day 5 we had intended picking up caches around Mundulla and Mount Monster but a last minute change of plans saw us head into Ngarkat CP instead, for a solid drive and a few extra rewarding cache finds. Many thanks to all the cache owners for placing the huge variety of caches around St Arnaud and to all those who organised the Mega and the fantastic weekend away. Thanks for the cache strange quark1!

17/11/2019 16:28 Nice and easy clue and lucky for me the creek was fairly dry so I crossed over and back without getting wet. TFTC strange quark1 TNLN SL

We detour down south to finish off the last few caches down here, cache was found all in good order

What a big trip this was! I headed over to St Arnaud for the 2019 Victorian mega with e.gregory1, Davidwazza, Featherwaite and Freddo for the long weekend.
The weekend was filled with a lot of finds ranging in puzzles, a few events and some very well constructed hides around the area.

Day 1: I headed over with e.gregory1 and featherwaite, with the aim to collect some unfound LGAs for the guys, with only a 500km drive to the mega from home we added an extra 450km to the trip by going over to Bendigo and further south exploring some regional towns, overall we added an extra 6 LGAs with only 18 finds for the day. Was great to see some of the interesting little towns and what they had to offer for future visits.

Day 2: As a group we hit the trails in St Arnaud as a group signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, featherwaite and gridge98) to save a lot of room in the logbook. We started off with the geoart Stars and thought it would take most of the day, as we finished it in 2.5 hours we were a bit surprised so hit the well constructed caches in the south of the town in the bush throwing a CITO in the mix. All the caches were amazing and something you don’t see anywhere else. Adding in 15 FTFs along the way with: everlasting, crank1 and Pwola. The evening settled in and we headed into town for a buffet dinner and a catch up with some familiar faces.

Day 3:
After attending the GV2020 event for the morning we set off to hit the last of the trails left in town of the metal containers, followed by the challenges for the mega as well as quite a few trads around the back roads. We ended the day by having a go at the lab caches at the mega then off to the CITO. I don't think I have ever seen so mant people at a tip before. Topped off the day with an evening event.

Day 4: By today the town was almost cleaned out and only a few caches to find, so we did the last few caches within a rough 15km radius driving around finding the odd cache here and there. The GIFF was finished off the mega so we decided to head to Horsham for the evening.

Day 5: After leaving our camp site for the morning, we cached for the morning around Horsham collecting a few grads and a well earned swim. Then made the long drive back home to Adelaide.

Thanks to all the COs for their cache placements and the Geocaching Victoria crew for organising a fantastic weekend away.

So we have been , grabbed a few caches and kisses and hugged goodbye to ur dear friends honeysucker. After a quick coffee and a kiss and hug - we hit the road to head home.
This was the third for today - grabbed. Signed and replaced.
TFTC
TFTM

Staying in Maryborough with family and travelling to the MEGA each day. Taking a different route each day.
Surprised by the structure the troll was guarding but the geo-trail led the way.
TFTC

Well, this didn't go as planned. We parked safely and approached from what turned out to be the wrong side. Glad of good hiking shoes, we descended to the creekbed but discovered that the shoes were no help once down there. The bed was wet and diarrhoea-yellow, so we collected a kilo of mud on each foot which unfortunately didn't come off on the road surface. It did, however, come off on the notepaper we use to track the geocaches we find and also on the back of Kato Potato's jeans sparking many poo-explosion jokes for the rest of the day. TFTC strangequark1

TFTC

In the area for the St Arnaud Mega event and once again privileged to be able to spend the whole weekend with Mummy Short Legs on a mum's weekend away, our scared annual Caching Adventure without the families in tow.

This was our 5th find for the day, made while on our way from Dunolly to the Mega and this is where things started to get messy! We may have approached this one from the wrong side which then resulted in a quick slip and slide across the muddy creek bottom to get to GZ. While we were lucky and didn't have any stacks on the way, our boots were beautifully caked in what can only be described as a diarrhoea coloured mud which then managed to transfer to my butt when I squatted later on... so the poo jokes were many this fine day! The cache was discovered by MSL and all signed and returned, us returning to our vehicle the more conventional way. TFTC strange quark 1.

I was watching out for snakes and trolls tonight as I cached by torchlight. After a search I eventually made the find. Great hiding spot! Thanks for showing us this cool old bridge!

13383 Found and Logged at 8:22:00 AM
A great day out and about caching while in St Arnaud
Thanks for the cache strange quark1
Lgoody

Many thanks for the cache. Telnet. Sl

Driving around the area picking up random caches while at the Mega event found quickly signed and replaced...TFTC

Staying in Avoca while the mega is on and collecting caches either on the way or coming back from St Arnaud. Signed as Team JAR - joojoo57, Aussie Liahona and Richmond Lad. Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches for us to come and find.

There's a bit of 'Just One More' going on in our geovehicle. And, gee, why not. We're still breathing, lol. We stopped for this one and it wasn't long before we had it in hand and RichmondLad was signing it Team JARK for each of our geocaching initials to save log space while the mega is on. Thanks strange quark1 for placing and maintaining this geocache for us and others to find. It is much appreciated.
Cheers and happy caching!

Attending the St Arnaud Mega Event ,and visiting the district and other towns/villages in our caching travels. Found caches along the way. Signed log and returned cache to where found. Thank you to all CO's for placement of the caches. TFTC.

Finishing off a little series that I started some months ago. An easy find.

This Cache:

Staying in Stuart Mill we decided to go for a caching run to grab some easy ones on the first night. This was one of them and was a nice quick find with DSD. ZQX decided to sit these caches out and relaxed back at our accomodation instead.

Thanks!

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Today:

After finally getting leave approved for the 2019 St Arnaud event, it was time to get underway from Canberra on the Thursday morning, 5am departure!

Myself, DSD and ZQX teamed up for an eventful weekend filled with caching and many km’s including dozens of towns and counties I have never been through before!

We drove all the way from Canberra to St Arnaud today, grabbing a couple caches along the way including a lunch time event in Bendigo, before arriving in time for the dinner event near the mega site. We managed to grab almost every cache type today alone, targeting interesting ones along the way.

Thanks to all the CO’s for today

After arriving in st Arnaud and setting up camp, the caching continued with iloook4geo. It was a fun afternoon and we found all the caches that we had on the list. This was one that we found, the log soon had two more names noted on it and all was put back into place before we moved on. Many thanks go to strange quark1 for placing and maintaining this cache, which was an easy find.

It was a travel day today and time to head towards St Arnaud along with goingplaces2. Found some caches along the way and enjoyed the hunt. Thanks for these finds goes to each CO.

Found this cache with ZQX Loci612 on the way to the Mega Event. Signed DSD or Darkside or Darksidedan depending on the size of the cache. Thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Someone had a poo near gz thanks for that whoever you are

Caching day at St Arnaud for upcoming Mega Event. Found your cache. Thanks strange quark1 for the fun and placing it.

With crank1 and pwala at St Arnaud Mega,
We all enjoyed homework for puzzled and another etc.. [^]
Adventure Lab - visited the history, - Bushland, Garden etc.
We search, found and signed the log,
Thanks strange quark1 organising the cache and hunt. [^][^]

Stayed at St Arnaud for Mega week and enjoyed with different caches Found your cache today. strange quark1, thank you so much for placing it.

Caching in the area we picked up a few caches and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition and adding to our favourites.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Interesting log in the book by laster to find..... had Geo10 screwing up her nose a bit hahaha. Nice, easy find, tftc

Not quite a park and grab but still found quickly.
TFTC

After a big weekend caching in the St Arnaud area we're making our way towards Ballarat caching as we go. The weather's perfect, we don't have to go to work and there are heaps of caches to choose from, life's good. A quick find when we reached GZ. TFTC

*29 Sep 2019, Found @ 12:30 pm, Find # 9984.*

Day 3 of the St.Arnaud pre Mega road trip on this long weekend with biggles1024.
We were now heading for home but time was allowed to make some sight detours and stop along the way to make more finds, this was one of them.
I do like interesting features like this, we stopped and headed over very carefully after seeing a snake the previous day, once there the cache was spotted quickly, Mark retrieved it so that we could sign the log.

**Thanks to strange quark1 for placing this cache.**

**29 Sep 2019, 12:31:21 AEST
Find #3921**
**Traditional Cache Find #2557**

We were now making our way out of town and towards our respective homes, but there was still time for more caches. This could have taken quite some time to find and we still had a considerable distance to travel so after a quick look around, resorted to the hint. It was a quick find after that.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to strange quark1 for placing this geocache**

Our third day in St Arnaud for geocaching and birding. With trolls about there is a good indication of where the cache might be and we found it after a short search. TFTC

Day 2 of a school holiday caching getaway in St Arnaud.

Busy this morning collecting the event puzzle geoart - but the rain got too hard, so we thought we would hit the bitumen this afternoon and collect some trads and other puzzles we had solved.

TFTC strange quark1. I enjoyed checking out the old bridge and taking some photos.

Found at 1:28 PM GAFF1.
Access to this cache was interesting. There is a carpet of thick clover that hides all of the branches and rocks, so you have to gingerly make your way step by step to the bridge.
Spotted the container straight away and made sure that I made enough noise to scare away any pesky trolls
Thanks strange quark1

Tftc another great hide

St Arnaud Day 3 our last day here, staying at the caravan park
After lunch we decided to do a drive around the country side as a change. We enjoyed the various locations we visted, a nice way to tour the region.
Thanks for placing this cache strange quark1

Ran into another geocacher here, trying to look inconspicuous and claiming to be OK.
We quickly revealed ourselves and all was good.
Glad we stopped here, otherwise we would never have seen this bridge.
TFTC

Not found today, but we will return.

A quick find while staying in Maryborough for a few days.TFTC

The long weekend approached and as I was up here for the event in January and I noticed all of the caches up here and was told by numerous cachers that there are some high quality caches to be found so I decided to spend the weekend up this way.
Caching around the outskirts of town taking all of the back roads before hitting town.
Another old bridge to check out the history that would have crossed over this bridge.
Thanks strange quark1 TFTC

I had a few days off, so what better place to head than St Arnaud for some quality cache finding, I had a great time finding caches over three days and even caught up with some good friends while in the area. I cant wait to return for the Mega, this is My second visit to the area and it certainly offers some of the best hides in the state.

Thanks strange quark1 for the cache.

Found on our trip around Vic to avoid the heat with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache strange quark1,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 23678** Found on our Feb 'Escape the northern heat' trip.
And now a cool day for a drive around while at St Arnaud.
Not many muggles around these roads today. .
All good safe hides and mainly quick finds.
Thanks for the cache strange quark1,
***Roostaman***

TFTC. Signed and returned.
Sorry for the delay in posting this find. Somehow just missed it.

**Found with The Empire on a 40°+ day.**

We decided to get an early start and find some of the many caches which continued late into the afternoon. St A almost cleaned out - Until the Mega

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
-P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing
Stamped Log

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Here for the '10 Months to the Saint Arnaud Event', event this afternoon. We decided to get an early start and find some cool caches, after the event we were able to keep on caching long into the afternoon. I dropped some rare pathtags in some random caches today. Thanks for the cache strange quark1.
- M

TFTC. We decided to go for a drive today before the heat got too much later in the week. First stop Redbank and then on to Stuart Mill and a small circle back along the highway to collect a few Original Road Puzzles before heading back to Maryborough.
Not many places for Trolls to hide but a good cache hide.

TFTC found with Daley Events

Found it with the Warrens

Heading home from the Parkeville Mega but had to come to St Arnaud to do this years caches. A warm day and again you have excelled yourself with the cache containers. TFTC. A lot of favourites here.

What a great bridge...a quickly found cache on my way to the Parkville Mega event...
TFTC strange quark1

Day 2 of our weekend in St Arnaud and on our way home after a fantastic weekend of catching up with friends and finding some amazing caches.

No trolls today but took a while to find. Thanks strange quark1

After returning from the early morning foray to Donald to attend the Brekky event there and to collect the local caches in that town, I had some lunch before I again joined forces with the ever delightful Bushfire for an afternoon of caching around the St Arnaud area. It was a mixed bag, collecting some for Bushfire that I had found, and some for me that he had found but mostly others that we were both seeking A sad old bridge concealing the well hidden cache. A favourite point for highlighting this old structure TFTC strange quark 1

Google is not my friend anymore due to having my email address locked last Wednesday night and not getting it back until a few days ago.
This caused me a lot of hassles during my caching trip to St Arnaud last weekend by not receiving any notifications of new caches and having to rely on my mates and some of them had problems with the Telstra coverage but we got there in the end.
Adding to my problems I am now many days behind in my logging so it will a generic log for the most part.
Also on returning home my printer decided to go to sleep.
A week later I think everything including my tablet is back to normal, so phone, tablet and computer are all finally working as you would expect them to.
It is interesting to note the number of geocaching folk who head up to St Arnaud to attend this weekend seems to increase in numbers each year and how far away they have to go for accommodation thus the reason I book ahead each year.
Today I am accompanied by my good friend au.fait as we ventured up to Donald to clean out that area and then returned back to St Arnaud for lunch. Afterwards we headed down this way as every time I am passing I have the caravan on behind so have not ventured down this section of road. My old saying "Expect the unexpected" came true along here.
Again you never know what is around the corner but the locals do, for that I am always happy to find something that otherwise you would just drive past.
Thanks strange quark for placing this cache.

Cool . Sunny 18
Found with sorceysal. TFTC Cheers

Of course the new bridge was noticed first followed by the historic older construction later. That meant I took the harder route to the cache.
I took so long to locate it that Tag along came to see if I was OK.
The bridge has seen better days and the troll would get wet if he chose this older version to live under.
TFTC strange quark1

Am I being followed. Tftc

Today was my first day of my holidays and I was heading to the weekend events at St Arnaud. The caches I chose along the way were stop and revive caches spread out between Ballarat and St Arnaud. This bridge has certainly seen better days. Once at GZ the cache was quickly found.



My thanks to strange quark1 for the cache.

Took a little bit to find this one, my coordinates were out a bit so decided to just look around and bingo signed and returned. What a great piece of history. TFTC

A few days off so BettyBoo3747 and I decided to head to St Arnaud. It is not often that I'm not working on this event weekend, but this one coincided with my day's off.
Day one and we travelled from Willy to St Arnaud. We started a bit of caching on this side of Ballarat, and finished off with the LP trail by deadly treadlies in the afternoon.

We thought we knew which bridge the troll would be under, but when we stopped we were still too far away. That is when we noticed the other bridge.
A lot more interesting!
Strangely the map on the GPSr still shows the old road and not the new.
Thanks, Robmc.

#14821. A travelling day for Robmc and me as we make our way to St Arnaud for the weekend. A nice little tally of 20 caches found before we reached town in time for a late lunch. After settling in we unloaded the bicycles and headed out to do one of the trails just out of town. A good day with a total of 40 caches found.

I love old bridges so it was good to stop and admire the large old timbers here. After finding and signing the cache of course. Took some photos too and continued on.

Thanks strange quark1

A great wibters so we decided that it was time for a meander through the countryside to collect some caches and hunt down a few hiddwn creatures. Thanks for making us stop at this interesting spot.

I love these old bridges. It's a shame they couldn't be preserved. Fortunately there wasn't a troll in sight this evening! TFTC

Today I turned my attentioned to the southern region of St Arnaud, to do some geocaching.I started out on a bright sunny morning.. I found this cache and 17 others before the weather turned. Cache OK. TFTC.

Oops nearly drove past this before I realised where it was. Under the pump time wise now to get to St Arnaud. Fortunately quick to locate and sign before trolls or muggles appeared. Away we go again! CIGC TNLN TFTC strange quark1

Sitting at my computer during these Covid lockdowns, I am trying to catch up on a few logs that I haven't sent in yet.

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late log, something I am notorious for. Thank you for adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Thanks strange quark1 (F=2686 H=69) for the cache.

sushilord and Doctor Owl were on a mission to find caches in deepest darkest Victoria with the main aim of visiting challenge caches and working on requirements for a number of challenge caches in South Australia and Victoria. During the trip there were laughs, tears, fractious frustrations and new equipment tested with some technology failures. Many miles were covered and boxes opened along the way.

After settling into our overnight digs there was time for more caching before dinner and meeting up with Tyred n Cranky and FUF.

This structure shows off the early engineering feats of our forefathers, thanks for brining us here strange quark.