The Swagman Charlton, Victoria, Australia
By The Morris on 04-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3XT1V

Time to let this one go - thanks for all the finds

Stopped by on my way to Swan Hill. Pretty sure this has been washed away. Floodwaters have definitely receded but the tree was wet inside up quite high

Looked for this one for a while but could not find. We suspect that the recent flood may have swept this one away..

Etsimme tätä kätköä jonkusen hetken muttemme löytäneet. Kenties vastikäinen tulva on vienyt tämän mennessään..

Heading for Mildura, pulled in after crossing the bridge to admire the Swagman, and then a nice find. TFTC

After seeing the statue nearby we headed over.. A quick find was soon made and the signing duties completed. TFTC.

Quick find after a night at Charlton on the way home from Broken Hill. Nice area, little waterlogged! Thanks for the cache.

Travelling for work so gave us something to do to while away the time tftc

Heading to our weekend at Mildura and beyond we stopped off for this cache
The cache was found easily and soon we were on our way to more caching adventures.
Our thanks to The Morris for the cache
Regards
The Coffee's

One of our first finds.

A nice quick find in a beautiful spot. Second one after lunch today. Very hard to imagine the river that high now!
TFTC. Yowie17

No trackable as per the inventory.
Great spot for a picnic.. TFTC

Gps had us wandering about a bit today.

Wandered over the swing bridge from Traveller's Rest, past the swagman and a tree with a large number of bees entering one of the holes in it. GPS then took us straight to GZ where cache was located in the obvious place. Detoured to check out the swimming pool on the way back. Free entry - that's unusual!
Thanks, a lovely area.

Nice easy one thank you.

Needs a new pencil

We have justed returned from Tasmania and there are some AWESOME chainsaw art over there. It is a great trend to turn old trees into art form amd We love it .Easy find TFTC

Found it good hide

Nice quick find on the way home from a day out in wycheproof. (checked out the new bakery) had a look at the swaggie, then nailed the cache, tftc

Found it- thanks for sticker - swapped for flower.

Found it on the 28/3/16

Nice quick find on the way back from markets !

Bit confused as description could be interpreted as the cache being at the swag man which contradicts coords. Went with the coords and found it quickly. Stayed at travellers rest on way back to Yarra Valley. Thanks.

Loved finding this one - nice and easy with my 3 yr old - nothing to take but he left some stickers. Lovely walk across the bridge from another geocache

Nice quick find and grandson had a quick dip in the pool. TFTC

Got it with Bernipnip and maxi25

TFTC

Heading home after Christmas with the in-laws and decided to get a few caches along the way. An easy find in a nice area. Lots of korellas flying around and screeching, freaking out my son. TFTC.

Sorry for the generic log, trying to quickly log all my recent finds before I forget them all.

Lord Rossatron and I went on a road trip to Bendigo to do a spot of geocaching while going to attend a funeral in Melbourne on the Monday. The goal was to find our 100th cache on our trip, with our current total on 61 we were going to have a busy 2 days. Our trip reached a little roadblock when we blew our tyre and we lost a little more time changing it than we care to admit. After completing a drive that should have taken 4 hours if not caching in 8 hours we were very pleased to finally reach our destination. Luckily we took a major dint out of our goal finding 28 geocaches on the way, so we could have a slightly more relaxing trip back. A quick drive around Bendigo 2 days later had us find another few caches getting our total to 95 before it was time to drive home, and re visit some of the caches we drove past or DNF the first trip. Success!! Finding the few caches we DNF we managed to get to the 100th Cache. Will sleep easy over the next few days. TFTC

A nice find, I really liked the container. TFTC

Found on our way home from the Melbourne Event. Lovely spot! Cache #2299

TFTC

Found while travelling on our way to Adelaide for holidays!
The Geokids played in the park while Geodad and the little geoprincess went for a walk to find this one!
Thanks for the cache the morris

cool find! With a friend!

New container in place.

Day twenty of the short holiday with Bettyboo3747.
The last day of our holiday. Driving home from Mildura, just stopped to grab a few multi's for BB's month of multi's.
A nice sculpture, but no sign of a cache for us here today. (not even a loose log book!)
Thanks, Robmc.

We came, we saw the swagman but he gave us no clues. We didn't find a cache today.

It was a great hiding place

A good excuse to here. A great bakery and a good excuse to check out the vanilla slices. Moved on to check out the camp site. 18 dollars at night. Nice easy find. Great place to the kids if they have a skateboard

With xambo4u when we found the cache. Thank you for setting it.

Tftc freezing weather

Tftc. Easy. No muggles today, just rain

The Chief got out of the car and waved the torch about lighting up the cache! Don't you love it when that happens, TFTC.

Thanks

Travelling around Australia with our Cat.

Staying a few days in St Arnaud today we decided to head out towards Donald and surrounds.

We had a great day which included seeing lot's of historic sites and 3 very scenic hilltop caches.

Lots of people in the skate park, juniors and adults. We parked the GeoCruiser strategically to make the find. We do love these carvings and really appreciate the ones that we have found to date.

Thanks for placing your cache to add to our exploration of this area The Morris

On our way home from a family visit up north we called in here and applied a little TLC!
Added a new log book in a zip bag and added a Fav point for the object this cache features.
Cheers,
from Max & Roma.

Tftc

Found it!!

Quick find Nice hide

Found it no trackable

Found it but the container is gone.

Find #16. Great hide. Spot on coordinates. Thanks The Morris TFTC

Found it. Has no container

Archer, legend cacher

A nice easy find on the way home from the Event in St Arnaud. A lovely Autumn day and great for caching
Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Quick find.TFTC

This goecache needs a container.

First find very exciting!

Found but nowhere where description suggests. Good to stretch the legs though.

Found it!

Our fist find! Kids were excited! Took a couple of things for their first find and left some pencil toppers.

Great find

Found today found in 10s replaced wher found

Amazing carving TFTC. Quite a peaceful area to log number 349 for us signed log .

Found, t,j and e in the 2/1114

Great find, bit tricky, keep looking you'll find it eventually... Found on the same day as someone else!!!

Found it

Tftc

This was our first. Took a while but now we get it!!!! Can't wait to find some more!!

Nice little hide. Daughter called this one mission impossible. Coordinates were a little bit off.

Had fun looking for our first find, great area, friendly locals. Left bulldog clip, took nothing. TFTF

Wow, first geocache.... What fun!!! Can see many hours of free fun heading our way!!!

Our final overnight stop after a two week 5000km adventure from Gippsland through VIC NSW and across to Corner Country and up to Birdsville down through SA to the Flinders Ranges and Renmark last night. We discovered Travellers Rest on the way home from our Broken Hill trip last year and had to come back, the best $25 on an ensuit site ever! The town is friendly and we really like it - Cache found easily TFTC SL TNLN TBV

We have picnic here many times oblivious to its existence pre geocaching, now we assess our surrounds for possible hides. Loving the challenge.

This one is somewhat confusing to work out may need to be re-surveyed!!

Found at 12:15pm just in time for lunch in this lovely park. A good day for eating 'out', nice bit of sun and the sculpture is very impressive, hard to believe the water that was here a few years ago! SL No sign of Golden Horns TB though. TFTC

After setting up our 4WD and caravan in the Charlton Traveller's Rest caravan park Mrs one-eyed and I went for a walk around town and found this cache okay.
Well thought out location.
TFTC
One-eyed

Found it. Great park to stretch legs.

Good spot tftc

Tftc

Found the 2nd last one here I need more haha few weeks left of work on the new hospital tftc

I was passing through on the Black Dog around Victoria ride, a motorcycle ride to raise awareness of depression and suicide. Information regarding this can be found here http://www.blackdogride.com.au/view/blog-posts/black-dog-ride-blog
While passing I managed to find a this cache. tftc.
Crusty.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. the cache and contents were in good condition, Thanks for the cache The Morris.

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Lovely sunny day passing through tftc

TFTC

13/7/2014

Lucky the swaggie is now high & dry. TFTC.

Just had to go and check this one out after being enabled again.

Only a 'cruisy' trip - got our usual fantastic coffee and muffin from The Boyz Café in the main street, and headed for this lovely park, on a lovely afternoon. As usual the three Cache Hounds stretched their legs comfortably.

Just a shame the cache is not so close to the carved statue as it was , (thanks to the cranky janitor!!), but I hope future visitors still take a good walk around and enjoy the place.

TFTC, The Morris, and thanks for helping to get it going again Romax and The Swaggies !!

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 16.020 E 143° 21.042

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 15.999 E 143° 20.947

Distance from original: 482.8 feet or 147.2 meters.
Lets's see how this goes

Thanks to Romax and the Swaggies for finding a spot that might suit Groundspeak, the janitor and us.

Found again by Roma and Max together with our friends The Swaggies, (how appropriate).
Well hidden again but what a pity this spot didn't satisfy those pesky rules, even though a big river separated this and that!

We were on a mission this morning (before the Wedderburn Event) to find this cache and move it to another spot so it could be re-enabled again. The Swaggies could not remember if they had ever cached in Charlton and were keen to do the 3 that were here. Romax did the replacing and we logged the find. But we were disappointed to find that we had been here before some time. Still it was a nice park to walk around and we were happy to visit another cache named after us!
TFTC The Morris.

Hi

I'm sorry, but your recent move has brought your cache too close to the Traditional Cache of "No Eddie" http://coord.info/GCKMR5 and will need to be moved. Please read the following item on cache saturation http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachesaturation


I've disabled this listing for the time being, could you please move it to a new location that fits within the saturation guidelines. Once that is done you may enable the cache.

RGDS

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 15.985 E 143° 21.022

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 16.020 E 143° 21.042

Distance from original: 234.2 feet or 71.4 meters.
Let's get away from cranky ladies armed with mops and toilet brushes

Good to go - thanks to Ian and Penny who relocated it on their way through.

[font=Comic Sans MS]This was our 1st cache find in a caching run of 1 Finds & 0 DNFs today. (This now makes our find count 8917.)
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We were on a mission today, we had to find an old red and yellow bench seat and move the cache to a safer spot. (Easy hey? Well if we had actually downloaded the coordinates we wouldn't have had to walk over the bridge from the other caravan park - but adventure is what geocaching is all about.

Mission accomplished.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent. (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
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Found but we were accosted and chased out by the very cranky janitor lady from the caravan park who told us it was not allowed to be hidden within the caravan park. We didn't go any further into the park than the water tank. She was going to confiscate it but she let us take it outside the caravan park instead. I am very sad about this. We took it just down closer to the river (turn right from the water tank) and placed it under the old red and yellow bench. Hopefully it can be retrieved and re-placed somewhere. I have emailed The Morris. Sorry

I think we know of an alternative spot when we are next out this way. Can't have cranky janitors banning us from areas designed to attract tourists now can we.
Thanks to kilogramjan for rescuing it.

13:51
Following an overnight stop in Ouyen we headed down the Calder toward Castlemaine, on yet another glorious autumn day. We thought we would be looking closer to the swagman when we pulled up; however the GPS'r soon redirected us and after a short search the cache was in hand.

TNLN .. . . . SL . . Thanks to The Morris for the hunt.
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Found on a short work trip - TFTC