Killarney Lakes Adventure Trail #2 Melton, Victoria, Australia
By The Seven Secrets on 04-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3Y25J

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A short stroll and a short search revealed this hide.
Thank you for this geocache

tricky tftc

haha

TFTC - love the container

Found but not spooked this time. Love tis wall. TFTC

After a morning tea catch up with Mr Plow's Mum and Dad for Mother's Day we decided to head out West for some caching. We did about half of geniejoan's RRR park and go series, and then it was time for lunch. After a nice lunch in Melton we decided it was time to go for a walk. We parked in the burbs nearby and found our way into this beautiful area. What fantastic trees you have here. Middle child is doing his best impression of a tree in the photo uploaded here. TFTC The Seven Secrets from Plowfive.

Found OK. A nice area. Some great old red gums

Had a day off today and decided to get some caches around Melton. Another quick and easy find but now I have socks and shoes full of grass seeds... OUCH... TFTC

found it . wet grass -.-

On our trip to Melton we decided to take my grandparents! 3 boys were excited to take their great grandparents geocaching! Thanks

Found today while walking around these paths, and some cross country walk was needed here, Thanks for the hide The Seven Secrets, it was not too bad to touch, and nice big container, with lots of swag, which I do not take cache is in very good condition

While visiting from Michigan USA, I took 3 muggles caching in their own back yard. This Cache they said they would not have touched...we don't worry so much about these in the States, so I had no problem.We had a nice walk through the park in search of the caches while catching up on the 10 years since we've seen each other. TFTC

Good quick find. TFTC

Found it

Tftc!

Cool TFTC. Nice day to be out and about.

Out to get close to our 500 goal 2day. Love the walk and old trees. I was cautious by the hint but still jumped a bit!

clever container!

Great tree around the cache want to come back for some photos

Another good tree

Ventured out to the area to find a few caches on a wonderful Labour day holiday.
Nice easy find.
TFTC!!!

Quiet here today in a lovely area TFTC

Found by Team Ninja 03/02/15, find number 756.
I was getting my car serviced in Melton today and like last time, I took the opportunity to find a few of the local caches. The weather was as good as last time with drizzle most of the morning, but I was determined to find all the DNF's from last trip!
After the drizzle had stopped about 30 minutes earlier, it returned with fury between the last cache and here, with the wind picking up to make the walk quite unpleasant, despite the nice scenery! I actually walked straight past GZ in my frustration at the rain, and quickly backpeddled once I realised my mistake!
At GZ I found a film canister sitting on the ground with log inside so I signed it and went to replace it in the hiding place above, when I spotted something....hmmmm. If I didn't have my whits about me at that point I think I would have hit the roof! I'm not sure why there were two caches there but I decided I'd better sign the log in both so I attempted to extract the other cache. With the red back spider plague in Melbourne at the moment (and uncovering one when searching for a cache on Monday) I wasn't sticking my hand in there, so I spent a few minutes using a natural tool to wrestle the cache from it's hiding spot. I eventually got it out and signed the log, replacing both caches back in the hiding spot. TFTC!

Yess found it!!

This ended up being our last find for the day as eldest geokid was spooked by this one. Hahaha. I know I shouldn't laugh, and didn't at the time, but it is giggle-worthy in hindsight.
A nice area - the residents are lucky.
Look forward to completing the trail.
TNLNSL returned as found. TFTC

TFTC. We had decided to stay in Hillside with team Stacie&Mitch for another night with the intention of completing the RRR trail and then because we were close the TSS trail. This morning with two thirds of team Stacie&Mitch (two grand children ) we set of for a day of quality time with number 1 grand daughter and number 3 grandson.
We stopped in the area for a bite to eat before starting on the Killarney Lakes Adventure. After lunch we walked and drove to the various caches on the trail. Definitely a great spot to walk and ride bikes.

TFTC-Another day spent with Hans and Linda .Today we found 37 caches today and didn't have one DNF we did all of the RRR and TSS trails on Melton highway and Ryan road .

I finished work a little early today and decided to expand my map clearance from home. This was my seventh find for the day. The cache and log are in good condition.
TFTC!!!

We decided to do some caching in the Killarney Lakes area on our way back to Adelaide. Fortunately the weather wasn't too hot for a walk this morning. There were some large back yards along the trail with dogs and a horse quite interested in passers by. TFTC

[green]Find #7544[/green]...

Found after attending the nearby Event...

Whilst some took the opportunity to eat Lunch, Happy Feet, TR! and myself decided to head out and clean up some of the 'local caches'... A beautiful day had by all, topped of by some good walks, great company and many laughs...

A short stroll, a short search, found the cache, stamped and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment The Seven Secrets...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Passing through for the event while on the way to Warrnambool, so will take the opportuity to grab a cache or 2. Teamed up with TR!, Snap Happy, Suss_Vulture and Princess Diana to make this find. We met up with Windscreen who had already made the find.
Thanks The Seven Secrets for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#2711

Find No. 1151. Found with FUF009 at 3.40pm.

A trip to Melton to attend Intervening Days V111 Event. Once that was over it was time to do some caching before heading home.

As FUF009 was grabbing this hide, he yelled and jumped back. A spider had scared him. Of course, we just laughed.

Another good hide on this trail.

TFTC The Seven Secrets.

Find # 2666 @ 1540 H

Found with Tyred n Cranky
After attending INTERVENING DAYS event, hitting the shops we decided to head out to this small group of caches.

GRRRR I jumped as I uncovered the cache. This gave my parents something to laugh about.

TFTC The Seven Secrets

Having successfully crossed the raging river twice without being caught by crocodiles (or even by snakes), we met yet another cacher, windscreen, as we arrived here. He had already found the critter but gave us the opportunity to find it ourselves. Done. We found the current log book as well as a spare one. Now, that is future planning!
Thanks for another nice hide in this not-so-wet-land (in summer)

Found an access point for the walk to the GZ area . Get to the area and quite frankly there's no one in attendance at GZ and I'm left thinking " they've been and gone and you will have to actually find this by yourself " as I get to GZ and sight the cache they come around the bike path into view . So I was rapt that I got to one first ( no disrespect guys ) But after chatting with them I realize that I have arrived in the middle of the trail , so there's one that way and there's 2 that way . Thanks The Seven Secrets .

After attending the intervening event I was wanting to stretch the legs. It always good to check out different areas and the walk along here was very quiet today. Some beautiful old trees along the way. Left TB Thanks for the walk The Seven Secrets

After bumping intoWhitepaws9 at a previous cache, we decided to join forces to pick up the caches around the Killlarny Lakes. This one was a quick and easy find, and we were soon on our way again to our next gz. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

After a local event, and the fact that we had a number of the local caches already converted to smilies, we decided a walk down this way was the way to go. So we teamed up with HappyFeet1, Snap Happy, Suss_Vulture and Princess Diana and headed off. This was the 4th to be converted to a smiley.
This one was found easy, signed and replaced.
Thanks for bringing us here.
TFTC

On the home stretch now, only a couple more to go. You got me! I jumped ! only as last week a real one ran up my arm when grabbing a cache, now every tree grab I am wary . Thanks

Enjoy the walk toward the cache with Papillon4506.
Great hide
Thanks The Seven Secrets

Had to go get ani venom but still got it.

It has been a while since I done a caching run & being a weekend and the forecast looking promising - I decided upon a run in the Melton area. A quick call to tidder and by 11am, we were well and truly on the way. We couldn't ask for a better day - in fact the weather was supreme, and with NO muggles to contend with. Both tidder and I enjoyed the peaceful walk and the amazing shapes and sizes of the Red gums.

The Hide:
Awesome walk along this trail - well thought out - this one was swiftly sniffed out and log signed and returned and onto the next ... YAY

Overall a worthy series - shall recommend.

Many Thx to the CO

Out and about with shogun and this took us to a very interesting location and reserve. The many river red gums in this area were so inspiring. The cache was quickly recovered, log signed and safely back again.

This series is placed along a really nice path with some beautiful old trees and quite a bit of bird life. Unfortunately I don't imagine many people other than the residents of the estate even know it exists let alone use it. I had to take stock at GZ momentarily before sticking my hand in to retrieve the cache as I have disturbed some slightly more authentic versions in a couple of caches recently. Thanks for the cache The Seven Secrets.

We really liked this find. TFTC

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Found with hints from gcpro.co.uk

Rockbank 2nd night
Our trip today was towards Melton. We spent a peaceful time walking the trail around Killarney Lakes.
Thanks for placing this cache The Seven Secrets

Straight forward find, T4TC

Found at 3:20pm. Lots of very old large trees along the walk.
TNLN
thanks The Seven Secrets

Finally attacking this series. Lovy bonfire going across the path. Wish I had brought marshmallows with me!

Scary to touch! Found it! left nothing took nothing.

Found today with Pannaz89 and Deanosaurus

Found by caughtatwork at 16:04 on 11/04/2015
A quick find at this cache here today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks The Seven Secrets for this cache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

An easy walk from other caches in this series and an easy find here. Log signed and replaced to its little home.

Nearby, on the rear of a residential property was a great display Prickly Pears (?) covered in fruit, if you happen to be there anytime soon.

TFTC

In the local vicinity and managed to pick up this one on our travel. TFTC TNLN SL

In the Melton area this afternoon on a work related task, managed to find some time to whip around and find a few caches, many thanks to for the effort and placement of this cache. TNLN SL

Found it, wasn't able to grab it and log as there was a wasps nest haunting me and I'm allergic

Made the most of the cooler weather and did this walking trail with Geobuddy BJ. Spotted this one immediately accompanied by the usual crawling skin and jumpy pulse. Decided I had to attempt to deal with it after walking all that way and found a handy stick to flick it out Once out in the light my brain decided it looked fake enough to ignore so I managed to open, sign the log, close it back up and deposit it back in its spot without any ensuing heart attack [:p] TNLN. TFTC The Seven Secrets

We found this cache today at 4:45pm as number 12 of 23 on our Melton Intervening Days Tour. Once again, we drove across to the access point for this cache. On arrival, we spotted Frog Lady walking away from the cache and we had a brief chat once again. The easiest find of the series. Thanks from D & HA B-A.

Hasn't been found in 10 months!
Winner winner chicken dinner =]
Full log to follow.

Did a maintenance check on this one today and it is all good and waiting for someone to find it. Happy hunting.

I had a longer look but that came up empty - given this is app supposed to be a D1.5 cache, it's gone.

Needs a check

I had a quick look for this one but couldn't see it. Thanks anyway.

Enjoyed the walk in the park for this series. TNLN TFTC The Seven Sisters.

10:57
In the intervening time between leaving home and arriving at the Intervening Event, we were able to fit in some caching. We enjoyed the ride around this lake area, it was made even more fun as we added some smilies to our map.

TNLN .. . . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt The Seven Secrets.
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We headed to Melton for the Intervening Days event as we have done many times before.
Once again nice weather and good conversation.
We also enjoyed a few of the local caches too.
Thanks for placing them for us to find.

Found with Mum & Dad on our trip to the Intervening Days event.
Thanks to everyone for placing it for us to find.

Geodog and I enjoyed the peaceful walk this evening in the last if the sunshine. Thanks

Another Friday, another indoor cricket match, this time in Melton. With SanguineDragonflye having the day off, we decided to wander in for a cache run before the game, collecting 15 in and around the eastern part of the city.

Sanguine found this one as well, in a spot I'd j-u-s-t missed out on. That'll teach me to be lazy! Nevertheless, it was a good hide in an amazingly serene spot (barring the Melton Hwy traffic) - cheers to the Seven Secrets for bringing us here!

I beat CJ to this one too was doing really well for the first half of the day. Nicely tucked away, this place is serene. As we walked along the trail to the next cache we couldn't help but notice the grass swaying for as far as we could see. TFTC

Found with loon3y

Tftc

On my way home from work I thought a quick spot of caching would help with the drive home. [^] TFTC The Seven Secrets

out for an afternoon of caching with ctone enjoying the sunshine .
cache in good condition tftc

out for an afternoon of caching with fluffyrabbit113 enjoying the sunshine .
cache in good condition tftc

Found this one earlier in the year with Kinkell1. I can now log it as a Premium member! TFTC

after a few spikes in the leg found this one

TNLNSL

PLEASE NOTE that if any more 4 wheel drives enter this cache along with 3 & 4 we will have to disable these caches as these are on a walking trail not 4 wheel drive tracks. Please respect the properties that you pass by and park on the road. We would like to keep these caches in operation so your co-operation is needed. Thank you.

Found by The Empire @ 10amish
It was going to be a warm day, I decided to grab a few before midday. I had all 5 in my sights but was only able to locate 3. Up and down, over a few hills, I spotted the walking track and felt a little guilty. Oh well, at least I wasn't sweating it up on the walk! Thanks for the cache The Seven Secrets, didn't know this part of Smelton existed.
- M

Nice hide, quick find. Glad the grass has been slashed. Thanks The Seven Secrets

It's taken me a while to log this, but I decided to tackle all of these on a nice Summer day. I was a little concerned I was trespassing on private property and had no idea where to park but got there in the end. Loved the sheep, and the utterly stunning old trees in this area.

TFTC

Team Mooo
#238

Great spot for a cache
Surrounded by lots of beautiful houses
TFTC

Found with nirgalagrin... now I have my own account.



15:21

Yesterday we went east. Today, west, after some time in a long queue at the educational suppliers to buy the one book we'd been unable to get secondhand.



Our fourth Killarney Lakes grab, and a very pleasant stroll by the creek-let. The squabbling and complaining had begun on the way past the prickly pears, so it was thankfully another quick find.



#1319

15:21
Yesterday we went east. Today, west, after some time in a long queue at the educational suppliers to buy the one book we'd been unable to get secondhand.

Our fourth Killarney Lakes grab, and a very pleasant stroll by the creek-let. The squabbling and complaining had begun on the way past the prickly pears, so it was thankfully another quick find.

#1319

A quick tour of Eynesbury (and a bit of Melton) with Bettyboo3747, before night shift tonight.
Interesting tree, a little on the dead side, but quite striking.
We started on the wrong side, but eventually worked our way around before we hit the spikey bushes.
Thanks for this series.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 2740. Out caching with Robmc today and doing a few here in town before returning to Melbourne. This was the last one for the day. I wasn't sure we were going to have success here after our DNF at the previous one. There were bees flying around the dead tree nearby, but they were far enough away not to worry us. A bit of a search and soon Rob spotted the cache in a likely spot. TFTC

This one needs a new log too - it is getting tatty and torn.

Walked through the funny metal hoop gates and along the path to this easy find.

A lot of dry grass near a creek with water on a warm day usually means wiggly sticks aren't far away. Fortunately we plodded heavy enough to scare them off. The only thing that spooked us on this adventure was the spider guarding the cache.

Nice and easy to find. Did this trail with SorceySal

An easy find in the company of dutch frangipani. A pleasant day for a walk along these tracks in an area I have never been befor.

Thanks for the series The Seven Secrets

Thankfully being in a fellow cachers 4WD we even made this one a drive by!! another couple of cachers came along and thus made the find nice and quick!! just needed to work out which way to go in..

TNLNSL

TFTC

Trying to catch up finds from months ago, apologies for the belated log.

Found in the company of Coley_Babee, Alansee and Muzza.
After most of the chit chatting was complete, the four of us snuck away to find this cache and a few others in the area.
We'd hoped that it wasn't nearby the tree with the bees, fortunatly, it was far enough away.

Thanks The Seven Secrets for this cache.

Found after Intervening Days with TilleyTB and the 2 Wanderers.
I was getting hot!
It looked fake but was it..a stick helped me retrieve the cache.
LS TFTC

Date: 26.12.2012
Time: 14:56
Find # 2432

Today I had planned as a caching day, normally a good friend celebrates his birthday today, but due to the fact that he is travelling overseas, I had the day free to go caching. I received an email from my caching partner in crime, SedgwickDave and he was free and eager to go and find some caches. We decided to head towards the Melton area and the Intervening Days V and Scubacrazy666's 1000th event which I unfortunately missed last year. We decided to leave early and to find a few caches on the way there. I picked up Dave at 9.15, It was a beautiful Summers day, just perfect for caching.

After attending the event, we headed out to do some more caching in the area.

We headed out for the next four caches on foot. We parked near #4, but there were muggle neighbours with motorbikes close by so we skipped it and headed to this one. Dave managed to find this one super quick.

Thanks again go to The Seven Secrets for the Cache.

Found with Muzza, Colee_Babee and Princess Diala. As three of us were looking down, Muzza was looking up and made the easy find.

Found @1453 #2289
Having attended the Intervening Days V event it was time to hit some of the local caches and explore the surrounding region. Today the weather conditions were ideal around mid 20s and a light southerly breeze. Found with Ahomburg as we were still on the hunt for more cache types with 4 types already found. Today's run ended with a tally of 23 but there is still more to find here so will be back again soon.

Skipped #4 in the series on the walk to this one as muggles opposite were prepping their bikes for a ride. This was the 3rd found in the series so far and the quickest found so far. Nice hide. TFTC The Seven Secrets.

26 December 2012 14:59:00

By the time we arrived here there was a community of cachers around.

A quick chat was held before I ducked over for the find.

Nice way to spend the afternoon as well too.

We took off for a further seacrh for smileys.

TFTC

After meeting old and new caching friends at this year's Intervening Days Geocache event themd and I decided to hunt down the five caches along the Killarney Trail and this was the next on the list.
The White Beast was parked on the road this time and we wandered down the path to where a large group of well known cachers had gathered. With Coley Babee, Princess Diala, mussa and Alansee the cache stood no chance.
The cache guardian was not as realistic as the guy I had stroked his or her bottom at #4 earlier but was not too worried.
Thanks to the The Seven Secrets for placing this series.

Found with highrod & ST37E after the intervening days event.

Got a fright getting this one, but a nice quick find

TFTC