Bristol reef diggings St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By nibby8 on 29-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3XPJE

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Hi there nibby8,

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[3B]

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

After considerable 'diggings' here at Bristol reef, no cache found today...think it might be missing based on previous DNF's

Looked where coords told me, then widened the search up to 8m from GZ. Louts of good hidey holes but all I found was a discarded shoe..

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Picking up caches as they come up on our map today. Always enjoy a good gold mine cache, as we live near Beechworth in NE Victoria. Enjoying our long weekend in St Arnaud so far, always heaps of caches of good quality to find and log. SL at 12.25pm Left: vintage hat pathtag. Took a photo of the gaping hole and the discarded Minnie doll at the top of the mine. #7207 TFTC and bringing us to this interesting site nibby8

5/8/2020

Hi there nibby8.

We found your cache **"Bristol reef diggings"** today. (This makes our find count 24289).

We headed to St Arnaud to escape all of the shenanigans happening in metro Melbourne. It was also great to spend another day with 80 Degrees. We had a successful day & found 1 caches & DNF'd 0 .

Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge

Thank you for placing this cache here & adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Today we again spent the day caching with ian&penny and explored a variety of caches. Some were favourites but most were great in some way. Many thanks to all the owners for their hides. TFTC

After a great couple of nights in the Murray Sunset country to attend the two events there we decided to head to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches around there.

It seems every visit we have to St Arnaud we get taken to a diggings site that we haven't visited before and this trip was no exception. It must have been a wealthy area in it's time.
Unfortunately that time has on passed and it wasn't gold we were hunting for today but the ever elusive plastic box which we are happy to say that we didn't have to work anywhere as hard to find as did the old time miners to find theirs.

Our name was added to the log and everything returned as found.

Thanks Nibbby8 for the cache.

#4105 Took the dodgey eroded track from the Woolpack TB Hotel, but tip toed our way without incident. Mrs BGF discovered the sneaky hide before too long and we checked out the olde mine pit from the early gold rush days which appears to be have been converted to an unofficial landfill site now . TFTC nibby8

A quick find on an area like swiss cheese under foot

Must be very careful here . I love this area and St Arnaud in general

A quick find and sign at 10:52 on "TGIF" 17 January 2020.

TFTC nibby8

I stopped to log this find while exploring the outskirts of St Arnaud. Thanks.

Out and about with sir_spectre spending a extra day in St Arnaud.There were just to many great caches still to find.....
Thanks to nibby8 from mogni

Day 6 Leaving St Arnaud area B and B to St Arnaud Campground

The tent is now up and we have had tea. So it's time for just a few more caches. So far today we have done the pipe series, black range road series, the bush wander series and the fire track series plus some stray trads and a couple of multis and puzzles as we passed.
The idea was to leave the B and B then head to Beckwood Nature Park for the challenge trail there and spend the night camping. It turns out i got " side tracked " and cleared every trail in St Arnuad forest out instead. Plus a good number of stray caches on route. It would have been more but i staked a tyre around dusk. quick find.
Came over to the 2019 mega in St Arnaud with Mogni. We where joined by jj52, Aussie M and M plus others at different times over the mega weekend. Many caches where found over the course of the 8 day trip. Targeting multi's on the way there and back plus the challenge trail in Mount Beckworth reserve. The creative trails around St Arnaud where the highlight of the trip.

Out & about with SnappyTomCats for a more relaxing day following the St Arnaud Mega event...
A quickly located cache...
Thanks nibby8

We are back in St Arnaud for a day of so after the mega event before heading back to Melbourne tomorrow. We drove close to the posted coordinates with a short walk to GZ. Quick find. TFTC

Found this cache on the Victorian Mega weekend with Loci 612 and ZQX. Signed the logbook DSD or Darksidedan.

I love discovering Geocaches, Trackable items and collecting Pathtags. I have added your cache to my growing list of “Found It” logs. I hope that you enjoy Geocaching as much as I do. For me geocaching is a way of life. When I am not Geocaching, I am thinking of Geocaching. I would like to say a very big than you for placing your geocache and for maintaining it for the Geocaching Community. In 2019, I won the right to place a Virtual 2.0 Cache from Geocaching.com, but I have not placed it yet. I am just trying to find somewhere that is worthy of a Virtual Cache.

Here is a little information about me. I have been geocaching since 2015. At the time of finding this cache I have over 5600 finds plus 340 hides. I am the creator of the “Duck Dip” Lab Cache that won 2nd Place for the Australian Capital Territory in the State Vs State - Battle of the Lab Caches at the OzGeoMuster - The Gong Mega 2019 in Wollongong, Australia.

Now let’s talk Pathtags. Currently I have over 4600 Pathtags in my collection plus about 500 Etagz. I currently have two of my own Pathtags (45762 & 46950) with another one in the works.

After an exhausting weekend at the Mega we had a day off today before taking the shop back to Geostuff HQ in the lovely Barossa tomorrow! We ventured out to do some caching with hevwalker. A quick find here today. TFTC

Enjoyed cruising through the bush and checking out the mining heritage. After 3 BIG days at the MEGA I was keen to find these too. TFTC

Out and about caching as Capital Crunchers with Joolay barb2e and Kittykatch during the St Arnaud Mega event. This morning we decided to target the FBT and BW trails but gathered some along the way, this being one of them Thanks for hiding and maintaining this cache for us to enjoy nibby8. SL

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!

It's that time of the year again, Victorian Mega time, so its off to St Arnaud for myself and the ladies of FurfacesLL. A long road trip ahead, heading off Friday morning and getting home late Monday night and a fun filled weekend. We found many caches of all kinds of variety.. Trads, Multis, Puzzles, EC's, Virtuals, Letterboxes, Wherigos, Events, Cito's and of course, the Mega itself. We enjoyed the weekend and there sure are some unique caches here in St Arnaud, we still have plenty left to collect, so may need to coordinate another trip this way some time.

Sunday is here, after a massive day yesterday doing the StARS trails, the Challenge trails, the CITO, Events and Lab caches. Today we decided to head out to try some of the Fire Trail trails and we were not disappointed.

Another big hole ! Sure are alot around here, and not filled in too, makes for interesting viewing.

Thanks for the hide nibby8 And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another amazing trip away

As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.

As we wander we also stumble upon lovely events this weekend it was a Mega Great to see evereyone even had some fun

Thanks to nibby8 for placing the cache for us to find.

Found on the trails.

Twelve months ago as we finished the Parkville Mega we were advised by someone that the next Victorian Mega event would be held in Saint Arnold. Somebody else told us that the Mega event would be held in Saint Arnood. And then another said that Saint Arned was the Mega event venue. Who should I believe? Struggling to understand the English language at the best of time. Freddo speaks two languages, Australian and Bad English.
Move forward a year. There is a cluster of events, including a MEGA event, at this town called St Arnaud burning a hole in my GPSr. The big white Pay Hero is loaded with GPSr, TOTT and camping gear and we headed east with a collaboration of like minded South Australian colleagues. DavidWazza, e.gregory1, Featherwaite, freddo and Gridge98 make team DEFF98.
Thursday: 5am event at a bakery in North Adelaide. The bed wetter team meets and says that this is way too early. Travel 500km east for the Thursday evening event. Freddo gets a prize. I am no mug. Camping in the bush under the stars.
Friday: Up early and headed out on the trails. And then back to our campground for a CITO! I am sure we did not make that much mess last night. More trails and 200 caches find for the day including a cluster of caches where freddo left DNA. More bush camping after a great meal in the Sporting Club.
Saturday: Up early for an event. Who puts an event on at 8am. Damn South Australians that’s who. After the event it was back on the trails and the Pay Hero is getting dustier and dustier. Found some awesome caches. Freddo the metallurgist was very impressed with the welding. Quality fabrication. And then another CITO. This time at the dump. Plenty of rubbish here. Some of it good stuff. Can I take some home? And finally a giant queue for a free meal. Nothing attracts a crowd like a free meal. The moment of the evening was receiving a Hall of Fame nomination. That prize is going straight to the pool room.
Sunday: Another night camping in the bush. Some fabulous night caches walks were undertaken. Night caching is a special form of entertainment. We spent the day cruising around picking up the left over unfound caches and meeting heaps of new friends. Boycotted the GIFF event since it did not show the freddo film “Cache Confusion” https://vimeo.com/372568752. One minute and forty four seconds of your life you won’t get back. A quick speech and it was back on the road for home. Well Horsham. More camping. This time by a river.
Monday: Caches around Horsham and following the Duke’s Highway back to Adelaide. Time for a shower for this smelly geocacher. An exhausted chocolate frog slept well.

We came, we cached, we ate, we slept; repeat for five days of fun and dust.


Easter 2020 sees South Australia hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

Found on the last day of the Mega.

It is so hard to imagine the toil involved with pick and shovel so long ago to leave these scars so vivid today. [:o]
Kind of makes you realise just how easy we have it as we flip about nowadays playing with tupperware in the bush.
I couldn't feel richer.

TFTC nibby8

17/11/2019 11:37:00 AM
After spending the morning with Beaker collecting the Fire Break Track caches then heading a little left field to check out some of the historic mining areas and collecting this cache along the way.
Thanks nibby8

We teamed up with Rapidlywild and headed down from Canberra for another Geocaching Victoria Mega. We arrived at our accommodation in Bendigo on Friday afternoon / evening and checked out a few caches in the area before retiring for the evening. On Saturday morning, we had a pleasant drive across to St Arnaud, arriving at the event as the opening ceremony was wrapping up, and the lab caches were released, so we joined the frenzy with the masses solving the cleverly constructed lab caches.

Sunday, day two of our mega weekend we headed over to St Arnaud to tackle some of the fire trails, and what ever else we came across along the way.

More holes around this area, there sure are quite a few.

Thanks for the hide nibby8

Found on day four of my St. Arnaud Mega event adventure and after knocking off all of the lab caches on offer, it was time to go grab some physical ones!

Made the quick grab while collecting the caches in this section of scrub. More interesting gold mining history here

Thanks for the hide, nibby8

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. Once we did a loop through Stuart Mill, we did a final drive around the town vicinity finding caches, including this one. 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).

Found It!
Interesting little spot and a quick find!
TFTC

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 nibby8!

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch, Barb2e and Smittengranny.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Found as part of Capital Crunchers at the St Arnaud Mega while chasing some other puzzles nearby. Tftc

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

TFTC nibby8

Found with Bucketeer while in St Arnaud for the Victorian Mega Weekend.
Loved attending my first Mega. Can't wait for the next one!!
TNLNSL
TFTC nibby8
TTFN
Beaker

This morning woke up and set off to find some more caches and clean up the last few in the town, stopped by this cache for a quick find

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.

13459 Found and Logged at 8:44:00 AM
A great day out and about caching while in St Arnaud before heading home tomorrow
Thanks for the cache nibby8
Lgoody

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

This morning's activity started out with another list of caches around St Arnaud to be found with ilook4geo. It was a really good run and we found so many well constructed caches that were related to their titles, as well as others that were simply well hidden. It meant we went for a wander by car along bush tracks and then many involved some walking through the scrub as well. This one was a nice easy find. Thanks go to nibby8 for placing this cache and maintaining it.

Had a great time cruising through the bush today with goingplaces2 , while finding caches as well of course. Found a lot of fun caches, signed the logs and replaced all the containers as found for the next cachers. This was one of the caches we found. TFTC.

Staying in Maryborough with family and travelling to the MEGA each day. Taking a different route each day. Finished off the Labs and then aimed to complete our solved puzzles and near-by caches.
Pleasant walk through the bush including a near-by cache.
TFTC

Now that was interesting... Watch your step...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found on the first day of the Vic Mega Event in St Arnaud. A quick find. TFTC.

Out and about in the country side of St Arnaud this weekend and this was one of many found. Really enjoyed all the gadgets we came across and the others as well. Quite in the forest areas and the roads not too difficult. TFTC

Jumping the ditch from NZ to attend my first ever Mega in St Arnaud. Thanks to the committee and all involved. Also thanks to the COs for their contribution of a fantastic array of caches!
Lovely to spend time with a heap of happy catchers doing what they love, the enthusiasm was contagious ??

Great weekend at st Arnaud Mega heaps of interesting Caches with lots of thought gone in .Thanks to the organisers huge effort .Our first experience at Geo Caching we certainly will include in our ventures as we travel . A great way to travel ,learn about the environment ,history of locations and meet lots of friendly folks .TFTC deb and steve

*Found on the 16 Nov 2019 @ 3:02 pm.*
*Cache find # 10128.*

Day two of the St. Arnard Mega event had us looking for this cache.
I had a bit of time to fill in before heading to the CITO event so I headed to this area.
Nicely rutted track greeted me on the way in but it wasn't a problem.
Arrived at GZ and made a quick find.

**Thanks to nibby8 for placing this cache.**

Typical rookie geomistake

hike in and forgot the pen sent a kid back to car and brought offending pen back.

thanks for the cache

Enjoying collecting some caches along the fire track today. Great weekend to be at the mega event. Thanks for the cache!

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 5739 finds
It was time to assemble the crew again for another Mega assault.
Once again Geocaching Victoria has absolutely put together another enjoyable Mega event, and what a great place to have it.
I have never had the opportunity to cache in St Arnaud before but after this weekend I will definitely be back.
Cheers for the cache and adding to the great weekend of caching fun.

Im here in St Arnaud for the Mega event. After a full on day on the challenge and star trails, I stopped by here to grab an extra couple of caches to beat my personal best for caches found in a day. Previous best was 147 but now it is 150.

Thanks for the cache nibby8.
# # #5700 # #

This cache took us on a brief walk, and we were interested in seeing the mine. Thanks nibby8. Pity we didn't stumble on any nuggets whilst here.

**This Cache:**

DSD spotted the mine whilst we found the cache, so after signing we wandered over to join him. Woah that is cool! A shame it was full of rubbish, someone has decided to dump junk in it.... we need a CITO!

Thanks

**Today:**

Day 2 of the St. Arnaud mega with DSD and ZQX!

Today's primary goal's were to do the Cutting Laps wherigo, challenge cache trail, CITO event, letterbox's, wherigo's, dinner event, night caches and any other high DT or favourite caches!

It was a long day with the first find at 8am and the last one just before 10pm. Not a single DNF was had and we smashed every goal

Thanks to all the CO's for the effort in placing these caches!

**Find #: 6666**
**Time: 3:19 pm**
**Date: Thu 14 Nov 2019**
Quite a nice day for caching around the district today with PamJ.
We started out completing the StArs series, then started doing a few nearest to where we were,.
After lunch we started doing some solved puzzles, then a few short series in the forests.
Then another string of just nearest to nearest.
All in all a great day..
This was one we found along the way.
**Thanks for placing this cache nibby8**

In St. Arnaud for the mega event. Day 74 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 25 for the day and 2036 for the trip. TFTC

Here in St Arnaud for the Mega event we had a great day caching and exploring the roads less travelled.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

With crank1 and pwala for St Arnaud Mega, We enjoyed homework for puzzled and another etc..
Adventure Lab - visited the history, - Garden etc.
We search, found and signed the log, Thanks nibby8 organising the cache and hunt. [^][^]

Caching day at St Arnaud for upcoming Mega Event. Found your cache. Thanks nibby8 for the fun and placing it.

Stayed at St Arnaud for Mega week and enjoyed with different caches Found your cache today. nibby8, thank you so much for placing it.

Great location. Wouldn’t have found it without your cache so big thanks nibby8

Wow, that’s a nice big hole!
A nice quick and easy find on a beautiful morning drive around the area.
TFTC

Tftc

A nice quick find this morning before heading to the Event.
Signed and replaced, TFTC

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.
The sure did some digging around here that is a big hole.
Thanks for showing some more of the history around here.
Thanks nibby8 TFTC.

Found on our trip around Vic to avoid the heat with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache nibby8,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 23751** Found on our Feb 'Escape the northern heat' trip.
A fine cool afternoon for another trek around the bush at St Arnaud.
Not any muggles anywhere on these roads either today. .
All good safe hides and mainly quick finds.
Thanks for the cache nibby8,
***Roostaman***

Nice quick find for us here today. Thanks for the cache.

**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 nibby8.
- M

That's one big hole in the ground, thanks for the cache nibby.

TFTC. We are in St Arnaud for the 10 months to the Mega event. We are staying in Town for a few days and had plans to do as many caches as we could in the area. St Arnaud has so many quality caches, it is hard to know where to start. This morning in the company of Bushfire we set out to complete the Loop Track, attend the event and then in the afternoon tackle the Bush Meander series. Along the way we would collect the odd coupl as we came close. We had a great day 43 caches and no DNF’s. Thanks to nibby8. FUF009 and Tyr’dandcrancky for their days adventures.

4:24 pm #6843
A quick find then off to explore next door.
Cheers nibby8

Let’s just say that I broke the rules while at St Arnaurd and found a lot more caches than the doctor currently allows. I’ve being so good for so long now that I feel a breakout is sometimes allowed. What better a place than St Arnaurd to do so? Thanks so much for placing this cache, I enjoyed seeing the diggings here nibby8

Travelling with brisal5 and Anymules.
Today we were off to St Arnaund.
Wow they certainly gave this a good go. Hope it was successful.

Signed BAS!

Day 11 of our epic 12 day / 10 night trek to the Parkville Mega in Melbourne.
The constant was my travel companions for the entire trip, - Anymules and S.A. Sewer Rats.
We had set up digs in Bealiba for our three night stay. [8)]
Today our target was to cache our way to St. Arnaud and do the Bush Wander and Out & About series. Off course there would always be a few others whilst passing. [8)]

Wowser, they sure went after it here. Must have been very profittable. We found the cache also.

**Thanks nibby8 for this cache. **

Log book found completely soggy.

Thanks for the cache nibby8.
Found on 22 Nov 2018 at 8:00 pm.
Find #7789

#14929. Heading back to Melbourne today, but not before heading out of town the wrong way for a few more smilie faces. Managed to find 11 for the day which was a gentle end to a busy few days around St Arnaud.

Another interesting place to visit and we did tread carefully. I see the locals have discovered it as a useful place to dump their rubbish. A shame that.

Thanks nibby8

A few days off so BettyBoo3747 and I decided to head to St Arnaud.
Day four, our last day... We lounged around then checked out of the caravan park.
We did a last few caches just west of town before heading for home.

A great spot. We spent some time looking around at all the old shafts and bits of gear lying around.
Thanks for the history of this site.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found in the delightful company of au.fait and Bushfire. Meandered around the diggings to get to GZ and, as per usual, found an easier way out.
TFTC

After lunch I changed both vehicle and caching companions and had the pleasure of the company of Bushfire and Sussvulture. We headed out of town in a generally westerly direction for our afternoons adventures. Our first stop was here where we carefully avoided mineshaft holes as we walked to GZ TFTC nibby8

Google is not my friend anymore due to having my email address locked last Wednesday night and I still have not got it back as yet.
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.
Owing to my problems I am now four days behind in my logging so it will a generic log for the most part but I have noted which ones I will give F.P.’s.
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.
Well the new caches have all been published and all the FTF's gone so now we can enjoy the bush in a more peaceful way. Again I am caching with my good friends the SV's and after lunch we were joined by au.fait. On arrival we are always in awe of what we will find at GZ here at St Arnaud as it is my old saying "Expect the unexpected". Again I was not disappointed.
Thanks nibby8 for placing this cache.

Found it today while making a long weekend of St Arnaud. TFTC

Found this one on my way home after a quick trip to St Arnaud. Let Nip out to do his business, then soon had cache in hand. Signed the log and returned the cache to its place. TFTC.

Second find in the area and a great walk down the mine. Tftc

Found

This was another very interesting place to put a cache. Thaks again. SL then proceeded to explore the surroundings. Left nail polish. Took nothing. TFTC!

Staying in St Arnaud for the weekend and hubby was happy to come out for a drive. I made this easy enough find while Mr Happy explored the area.
Thanks nibby8 for placing the cache for us to find.
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Done

Out riding and this was next. Found the track and as I am approaching GZ, I came across a mob of kangaroos in the middle of the track. Off they skip.Cache was located quickly and managed to sign the rather damp log. All back safe again. Now time to explore a bit and take some pics. Thanks a good spot for a cache.

Found at 3:12 PM GAFF1 in the company of Rebel Acts.
Spotted it and got excited, so I missed the cob web that was across 2 trees [xx(]
Thanks nibby8.
Feedback: Log book wet.

Found with pprass, I had been hearing about the quality of caches in the St Arnaud area so I arranged to meet up with pprass for a couple of days caching, We were not dissapointed with the caches we found in the area. Certainlly lots of signs of mining in this area. Thanks nibby8 for the cache.

Dont you love it when you find a nice lovely road only a few meters from the GZ AFTER your clamber across the creek because you didnt realise said road was there. This has happened to me more than a few times over the years. Good fun and good exercise. Cache was found easily, however the log is soaked and will need replacing in the near future. Thanks for showing us this little bit of history.

While in St Arnaud for the weekend , we travelled around the area picking up as many unfound caches as we could before heading to the picnic dinner event. Thankful for a sunny day we enjoyed the historic sites that many of the caches brought us to as well as the scenic Aussie bushland. The Triton was able to negotiate the track without any troubles. An interesting spot.
Thanks nibby8 for showing us here and for the cache.

Thanks for the nice dry cache. Dropped off a trackable.

Picnic lunch and a small walk

This was an interesting area to visit as we made further links to the mining history of St Arnaud. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Rustymac75 for the cache.

Found it place some swaps in it

I headed over the road and across Te diggings to collect this one TFTC