BLE1.. Quick Hide... Or Just Duck!! Nelson, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC42DZ5

Freeing area for new hides.

Tftc!

Thanks for taking us on this nice walk on a lovely morning. A bit hard to locate but geohubby persisted.

Found while paddling around testing out the new kayak.. Thanks

found while doing the island loop

Found 30/12/2016

Great spot, easy find. SL TFTH

Nice easy find when cache is sitting out in plain sight Nice walk to GZ Re hid away from muggle view

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! We are currently on the first section of our journey, which started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island. We are currently on route to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier (where we are at present), Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. From Melbourne we head to Tasmania for a few days, then back to Melbourne before setting off to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. After a visit to Sydney we will travel on to the Gold Coast, then after spending a few days in the nearby mountainous birding hotspots, followed by an overnight trip to Fraser Island, we will fly from Brisbane to Cairns, visiting yet more good birding sites. We will then drive up to Cape Tribulation before heading back south again to Port Douglas and a day out on the Great Barrier Reef. We then return to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs, where we will hire a 4x4 camper and set off for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. We then fly to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

We walked on to this bird hide after having watched a Musk Duck displaying on the water - flicking water over his back and splaying his tail erect. Thanks so much for the cache.

Great little cache kids loved it! Had no idea they walked so far hahah

Found at 5.00pm. Too windy for birds to be hanging around today. Great spot though. TNLN Thanks K&M

Found it

Found it

Lots of birds around this afternoon. TFTC. Picked up Redback II trackable.

GeoHubby had a heart attack when he picked up the cache and saw the trackable critter inside!

Gorgeous spot and lots of birds today!

Happy Valentine's Day

TFTC TNLNSL

Did this one today from the water. Far easier to paddle across from the boat landing at Nelson than to walk. There are an astounding number of birds down here at the moment...
Left Red back spider TB
Cache was found completely in the open on the seat. Replaced as per hint
TFTC
TTFN

Tftc

Tftc

TFTC

02/08/2015 5:10:25 PM
After attending an event at Mount Schank, we headed back to Nelson top clean up the remainder of our unfound BLE caches and this was the second.
Found with geogrrl between rain squalls
Thanks

Tftc

Quack quack

Quack quack duck

The last for this little erea. I cannot believe that we become geographically challenged on a loop walk with not 1 but 2 GPSs - 1 in the phone, 1 hand held!!!!!!!! [:(!]
When we finally sorted ourselves out an easy series of caches.

The only "animals" we came across was mossies that we could saddle! As we headed back to the car I
had the fright of my life with a great big thump behind me. After jumping a few feet saw a happy little wallaby with a great big wallaby grin

Thanks for the experience

This entry was edited by coongie on Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 04:38:54 UTC.

Found It

On the eve of our first 12 months as geocaches this is our 700th cache. This was an awesome way to achieve it, a paddle on the SUP while holidaying with family (Coongie) in this beautiful town. Thanks igc3 for bringing us to this wonderful place.

# 6862. The first full day caching in the area with Robmc and The Morris and we head towards Nelson intending to boat up the Glenelg River to Princess Margaret Rose caves and return.

Another familiar hide seen already today. Took the time to peek through the little windows to the water and watch the birds. Just one more and then it is time to head to the river.

Thanks jgc3

Found on our long weekend in th ePortland area. Today we took the boat down to travel up the Glenelg river and we managed to get a couple of caches along the way.

Lots and lots of birdlife here.

TFTC jgc3

Off on a short three hour cruise with The Morris and BettyBoo3747. Drove down to Nelson and went for a short walk around Livingston Island, then a cruise up the Glenelg River into SA, then back to Vic, did a quick earth cache, then back to SA, then back to Vic - boy, do we get around or what? [:-}
The Morris looked for the hide, while we looked for the ducks - both of us were successful.
A nice hide to look out over the lake.
Thanks, Robmc.

Co-ords were a tad off but we allocated it. Beautiful spot. TFTC D

TFTC

TFTC

We were making good time on this circuit, thanks to good co-orcs and fast approaching dark clouds. Again, everything all good st this location. TN, LN, SL. T4TC. Happy Easter!

Found on school holiday geocache adventure to Nelson!

Great views TFTC

Saw lots of birds

Visiting Mogni so it was a quick drive around for 9 early morning caches before breakfast. Now it was time to drop a car off at Casterton, so of course just had to stop and get 4 more caches on the way. After lunch at Casterton it was time to do some Vic caches. Another dozen caches found us in the Nelson Pub for dinner. Time to walk off that snitty.

Another quick find. It was starting to get dark so there were plenty of birds. Thanks jgc3

Baby frog started to grizzle. We did see an echidna and hear a wallaby/kangaroo : ) lots of ducks quacking. Thanks for bringing us to this lovely spot.

Tftc

TNLNSL
jgc3 TFTC

Wow what a great spot!

Tftc..

Found on a wet and wild day of caching with new team mtgfarrar TFTC

Found it with indy-au

Tftc

Nice little resting spot with beautiful views and a couple of kangaroos along the way TNLNSL thanks

Found no worries as we spied a competion fly fishing boat just off the shore. TFTC JGC3

This one caused some confusion... "its over there, 190m away" pointing straight into some scrub. "its getting further away!" "Well, why are you still walking???" "Oh, here's a track" and then there was the bird hide. Thanks for the cache, however no birds to be seen.

Spent a bit of time here looking at the birds - quickly spotted 5 species in the short time it took to sign the log. Pelican, shag, duck, swan, gull. Thanks for the hide.

Out with Aussie M & M grabbing some more of the caches put out for the BLE. I was lucky enought to attend but sadly did not have enough time or energy to get many of the caches that weekend.
A big day out, with much success.
Thanks

Found on day 3 of our Mt Gambier trip. A very pleasant day caching with mogni.

Mr M and mogni decided to take the hike around this area. Mrs M sat it out due to injury. TFTC jqc3.

Not much wildlife on the water today.

Heading to Warrnambool via Portland today after the thoroughly enjoyable Big Little Event... Decided to grab some 'smilies' on the way out of Nelson...

Made a nice straight forward find... Enjoyed the walk & chatting to other cachers who had the same idea...

Took: Nothing Left: Nothing Signed Log

Thanks jgc3 for the cache & bringing me here...

Monday at BLE and after packing up, Dennisc52 and I left the campsite and parked his car. Well, mine was already dusty and dirty and his was still clean

Dennisc52 and I managed to achieve locus cache 25 times before we parted company and took separate routes back to Adelaide.

However I hung around Nelson for a bit longer and so, by the time that I stopped at Millicent for the night, I had gathered up another 19 locus cache smileys (with 1 DNF ), making this a 45 cache day [^]

Anyway Dennisc52 and I had a nice time here wandering around and finding caches while enjoying the lovely views and wildlife

SL. TFTC jgc3

Found with locus cache while attending the Nelson BLE. Thanks for the long walk.SL.

10:23
After helping out at the CITO we headed off for a bike ride and picked up theses 5 caches.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt jgc3.
5097

Of course I looked on the wrong side first as normal, but no matter, I could see through to the desired box! Getting a bit chilly now as I hadn't come prepared to do the whole walk and thought I would be back at the car before the evening chill set in. Cache #1,478.

A great cache spot - I thought I was going the wrong way until finding the back track into it. Lots of bird life out today - I didn't dally here, but once I got back to the beach I walked out to the mouth and saw terns, dotterels, oystercatchers, plovers and pacific gulls. And ducks of course. Thanks for the cache.

Well our big adventure is up and running with lolfrog, pedal pushers jeffeddy on wards we go

Really enjoying the different cache hides and the interesting locations we are visiting as I travel with J+J.au caching the area. SL..TFTC

Found with Team Pedal Pushers, Whites on Windsor and lol frog during the 'Big Little Event'.
TFTC

Found while attending BLE event with Cabbos. Tftc and thanks for your efforts over the weekend.

At the BLE Event in Nelson. Caching with Whites on Windsor, lolfrog, and jeffeddy. Great cache, TFTC.

Suscoe plus two's third find of the morning.
Lots of fishers out catching bream.
Great location.
Thanks jgc3.

Wow, nice spot , huge ecology going on, loads of people out fishing on the lake, TFTC

Found on our BIG Little Event trip. Found with J+J.au as well. A great little birdhide to visit. A nice easy find. Great one for the first BLE cache. TNLN. TFTC!

Another easy find. TFTC.

One of many as a part of the BLE. Many thanks for this one and the others also. Found with Debs22 and MurchUnearthers.

Found at 4:47 PM GAFF1 in the company of ruralslicker. It was also a quick find. The tide was coming in and there were quite a few birds roosting on the semi exposed rocks and stumps of trees.
Thanks jgc3,

Found on our trip to the Little Big Event with Firesafenice views on a short walk

Once again what a better way to spend a Sunday. Being out in the nature enjoying the scenery. TFTC number 2 for today

Doing a run around Nelson getting the BLE series thanks for the caches and effort organisers.

Found during the BIG Little Event with Cracka1, scody & co.

Oh no !! Would my anatidaephobia raise it's duckbilled head again ? [:o]
I don't mind the occasional grebe oro even a cormorant, but ducks !!
Waddle away, waddle away
Nice hide by the way.
No really it is a nice hide
Could do with a roof though !!

In Town for the BLE. An early morning start with jcody, Cracka1 and S4phire.

Back in Nelson, while waiting for some fellow cachers to return from the Mount, decided to duck out before dinner and go for this walk. A great spot, with plenty of wildlife to see, and views back to Nelson to enjoy.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Was in the area for the Big Little Event and making an attempt to get all the caches in the area.

Quick find on our travels - plenty of birds on the water. TFTC.

Last one on this loop but I will be back as I didn't have co-ordinates for the World of Animals. TFTC

Found as part of the Big Little Event. Found with debs22 and moorooducrobbos.

Travelled to the local area for the big little event and hence logging as many caches as possible in the next few days.
Day 2 and cache 31.
TFTC

Found while on an afternoon stroll with Mishion during Big Little Event. TFTC.

Found while on an afternoon stroll with Mishion during Big Little Event. TFTC.

19.01.2013 17:16
TFTC. SL. Found during my attendance at the BIG Little Event at Nelson Vic. Sorry for brevity. Sent from my Garmin GPS phone.
ruralslicker 220

Tnln

#3484 As we were arriving at this cache, another cacher, LionJRB was just leaving.....the GPS gave it away . We enjoyed playing with the hide (not the cache) but not much bird life to be seen - perhaps the giggling were keeping them away. A very enjoyable walk into this area - thank you for bringing us here jgc3.

Took: Nothing
Left: NZ Mega pathtag

The beginning of a pleasant stroll.

Found while Attending the Big Little Event. We stopped and enjoyed the views while some muggles were looking at animal bones around the bird hide. Geodaughter soon made the find when they left. TFTC jgc3

Found whilst attending BLE at Nelson with GoShaz...TFTC

Found on a night stroll with GoShaz and Jantoshys whilst at the BLE at Nelson Vic

Quick easy find at the Big Little Event
Left dragonfly and leaf, butterfly and saw
Tftc

good hide with a good hide. TFTC.

Really enjoyed the walk & the catch up with GoShaz & Cabbos while on the hunt for this one what an awesome area for caches. This is what caching is all about!
TFTCC

LTF

TFTC

Headed out from Simpson Landing at 1500 hrs to find this one.
Stopped at Bag Island along the way.
Just down from the kiosk I passed a big fur seal.
Round the bend and into some choppy water.
Very soft mud were I got out the canoe which was soon going to come in handy.
Made my round to the bird hide by 1620 hrs
What is it with the caches in Nelson has no one in Victoria heard of IKIA.
It seems I had left my biro on an island and there was nothing in the cache.
Luckily I have mud.
Made a pirate mark and headed out for the other nearby cache before paddling back home.

ooops ...originally thought I had done this but was confusing it with another of the BLE's.

This entry was edited by CPwanderer on Monday, 07 January 2013 at 10:30:45 UTC.

Enjoy BLE series runs
Thanks jgc3 for bring me here and cache

Easy find on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
TFTCSL

TFTC SL TNLN Duck we did as per the instructions lol

mm QUACK QUACK

TFTC TNLN

Cruisers95,lillylegs99, K2005, Hairyscary06 & Rocco20

Found Cache thank u

out with wmf138,lillylegs99,rocco20,cruisers95,hairyscary06