BLE35.. The View Nelson, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC42E7P

Freeing area for new hides.

Catching up with late logs

We were staying in Portland with SuperPop for our family Xmas festivities and we decided to head to Nelson to enjoy a meal at the pub and grab a few caches as well.

We had time for one more cache before heading back to Portland to catch up with the rest of the family. We had a little trouble finding the correct way in but find it we did and ended up parking not too far form gz at all.
The cache did take a little while to find but we did enjoy the view while we were looking for it.
After our name was added to the log we returned the cache as found.

Thanks once more for the cache jgc3 for the cache.

Went down the wrong road to start with. Didn't find blue tag on fence but got the cache. TFTC

Heading home after the event in Alice and grabbed this along the way while staying in this nice area. No view in the dark but a quick enough find.
Thanks jgc3 for placing the cache for us to find.
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Found with Liz and Bruce on a good day for caching. Like others we had to find the way in first. The SatNav didn't help a lot.

We ventured to Nelson this morning with Alansee to do some of the caches which we knew we would enjoy in this scenic location and we were not disappointed. We encountered emus and kangaroos on the forest tracks but luckily not too close up We found a variety of hides and thanks to jgc3 for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

found it while headed to the 8 Months to the event in Alexandra - Portland after crossing the border. Nice views.

Found it on the trip to nelson with stocky8833 and relle77

Out for a late arvo/night caching experience with geo dad and Beaker.

Out for a night of caching with Beaker and spanner111.
lovely view from here.
tftc!!

Number 3 of 27 during our Nelson Night Caching run.
A lovely spot to visit. I had never been to this point before.
A nice and easy find.
TNLNSL
TFTC JGC3
TTFN
Beaker

It was a fun cache to find and it was windy we went past a bush and then ...

Found no worries. Plenty of scotish highland cattle watching us . tftc

Yes we found it

Found it

Another great weekend with my geofamily, plenty of miles and smiles with a few geocaches found along the way.

After a couple of false starts geodad found the right road to get ot the cache and we made a quick find on arrival.

Thanks for the cache jgc3.

A lovely spot and a nice quick find. TFTC

Awesome cache. Taking us where we have never been before. Need maintenance with blue tag. Found in paddock and have put back on fence. Don't know how long it will stay though

We had an overnight stop at Nelson so headed out to find as many of the BLE as possible. This gave us a small tiki our of the town.
Took us a while to find the correct road to get to this cache.
Thanks for placing this cache jgc3

TFNC

Was a little tricky

Found the thistles also

Found It

Found it

This was our 2nd try here, no luck at Easter but found it today!

TNLN
TFTC

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The name suits the cache very well, lovely views from here

TFTC! Happy Easter

One Family - 10 days - 2600 kms - Oz Mega 2014

Bound to Oz Mega 2014 in Murray Bridge over the Easter weekend, we left the Saturday before and camped along the way going along the Great Ocean Rd. We stayed at Apollo Bay, Port Fairy and Mount Gambier before getting to Murray Bridge. We managed to pack a fair bit of local tourist attractions in getting a number of caches along the way before getting amongst them in Murray Bridge.

Saturday we left home and headed down to Torquay, checking out some local sights, before tackling the Great Ocean Rd in earnest. Some of the highlights on the way down to Apollo Bay included visiting Bells Beach and Erskine Falls.

Sunday we packed the tent up and grabbed a few local caches then headed to visit the Cape Otway Lighthouse and Otway Fly before heading through to Port Fairy.

Monday bought us some magnificent weather as we made our way to Peterborough, discovering all the natural wonders along the Great Ocean Rd until the 12 Apostles where we headed up to sample some local cheese and chocolate, yummo!! That night we ventured to Tower Hill for some night caching.

Tuesday we made our way to Mount Gambier visiting Portland and Cape Nelson, hastily making our camp before watching the lunar eclipse over Blue Lake.

A lazy day afterwards ensured our batteries were recharged as we packed up early Thursday morning and drove straight to Murray Bridge, setting up camp under the watchful eye of Gonefishen07 where we tackled Fruit Loop and a number of night caches.

Good Friday we headed up to Borrika to grab some of the unfound Wandering Heroes caches and visiting our own to show Campbell. The evening meal was nothing short of spectacular with a roast enjoyed by all as we relaxed around camp (some calling us heathens for eating Lamb).

Saturday saw Trent, Gonefishen07 and Lazzal head to Loxton to finish the rest of the Wandering Heroes, whist Katy, Campbell and Zobo04 went shopping in town, coming home and making Loom bracelets for all and sundry for a price!!! The highlight of the night being the fireworks show provided by Team Crackers!

Sunday saw us head in to Adelaide with a bunch of other cachers to grab a virtual and webcam cache. Heading back to Murray Bridge, we attended the flashmob and CITO, grabbed a few more caches enabling us to complete 12 different caches in a day!!!

Monday we bade farewell to Murray Bridge and the Oz Mega and ventured home saying our farewell's to the new caching teams we met over the four days.

Stopping in Nelson for quick cache before entering SA. We made our way along the track to GZ, after a bit of a search Trent came up with the goods.


Thanks for the cache jgc3!!!

Found by Mary & David at 1120. Wonderful views right across, and we were lucky enough to see five kangaroos bound along the shoreline. Plenty of jet black cattle came to check up on us, so David is thinking of steak for dinner tonight. Our thanks to jgc3.

Top views. There were roos. There were bunnies. There were cows, that still had their horns attached. Last time I saw that, was in Darwin. Tftc, tnln.14/02/2014 6:58 pm Find #598

Looked and looked gps all over the place!

Quick find on our S.E. Trip. TFTC

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Great day out with the family .. tftc

Cache found on the Joy of SECS tour with four-fun, Freddo, thewhitedoggang and Team Waldron. There were a stack of boxes to find so we pushed on. We even had a quick round of Mountopoly and a couple of Powertrails to add to the fun. The weather was cool and sometimes icy so wet boots were the order of the day.


Thanks to jgc3 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

A 3 day caching expedition with Freddo, Astro, WhiteDogGang an Four Fun.

Apologies for the generic log but we did a few trails and some of the Mountopoly series. We also did most of the BLE series.

The mozzies were full on at times and it rained most of the first day.

TFTC

This cache was found on the Joy of SECS Tour 2013. Thanks for the cache. Our group had a lot of fun this weekend. We were in a rush today and there was more caches to find. Woot.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Found when on 'The Joy of SECS' tour/assault along with Freddo, Astro, Team Waldron & White Dog Gang. Much fun was had, very wet boots were experienced and many caches were found including this one!
Cheers & TFTC [^]

*Found on The Joy of SECS weekend along with Astro, Freddo, four-fun & Team Waldron.
Great spot, cool cache.
TFTC*

Found by geo dad another great adventure

same thing happened to us as last people! tftc!

Found today with racers456!

Finding the roads to take us to this cache took us a lot longer than finding the actual cache! TFTC

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19/07/2013 12:50
I dashed out though a heavy shower and ran back to the car to sign the log before repeating the dash to replace the cache before heading into Nelson for lunch.
Thanks

Another great day of caching with ScouterSteff. #10 for the day TFTC

Once finding right road easy find TFTC
Team Danden are at it again

Staying with family in Nelson, this cache was a must as it was right next door! Quick find with a great view of the sunset, TFTC

Quick and easy find!
TFTC,
Team Danden are at it again!

Found with whitey84 TFTC

Found on a caching arvo/nite for the queens birthday long weekend with skytrol. TFTC. Not much of a view @ 12 oclock at night :/

Found it on a great morning caching round Nelson didn't have a lot of time but managed to get a few ..

drove close to GZ passing a Lady and 2 boys walking a dog, said hello in passing, the Lady said hi back, but after I pass them I hear one of the young boys say "why is she going down there".
watched the huge bulls for a little while and disturbed a kangaroo who skipped across the paddock with bulls, the horns on the Bulls are amazing!! They watched me with only a tiny bit of interest as they went about munching. TFTC

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Yes it is a pretty view & pretty quick find. TFTH

A quick find as this was very visible. Signed the log and tried to hide it a little better.

TFTC

We did enjoy the view, thanks for bringing us here and for the cache.

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.

Took a little bit of searching, but we soon had it in hand. TFTC.

1951st cache found by WazzaAndWenches. Log signed at 08:43Hrs.

We've been in Nelson for the Big Little Event over the weekend. Heading home today via Ballarat.

The Wenches were still in bed when I ducked out to find the last three caches in town. No trouble finding any of them but may have woken the neighbours as I drove slowly past at sparrow-fart.

Thank you jgc3.

I'm glad the horned beasts were the other side of the fence. I made this one harder thuan I needed to! Cache #1,466.

Found with yet another slithery friend in the area. Perhaps we need to make more noise when approaching! Not advisable in summer to send the geokids in for this one even if it is an easy find. TFTC

Our last day of caching around Nelson as part of the BLE.

Found while geomum was having a midday nap during the big little event. TFTC.

Found with Cabbos while attending the BLE event.

Thanks for the cache and your efforts with putting on the event and placing so many new caches.

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

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

At the BLE Event in Nelson. Caching with Whites on Windsor, lolfrog, and Team Pedal Pushers. Yes, great view. TFTC.

The highland cattle came wandering over to see what was happening so we were glad for the sturdy fencing between us and them. TFTC.

Found this neat cache during BIG little EVENT. Our thanks go out to all involved in the event and to all who have placed caches for the event.
Our apologize for the late logs, and the boilplate plate logs.
Due to events happening in our lives just after the event, the logging had to be put on hold until now.
We had a fantastic time, met some new caches and even bumped into a few old ones from afar.
Many, many thanks to all involved.

A bit too late to enjoy the view,but enjoyed the easy find. Caching with Snap Happy during the BLE, TFTC.

Find #40 for today at 2130 Hrs

My caching bud for the weekend, Happy Pants & I decide to grab some caches around Nelson whilst attending the Big Little Event...

Made a nice straight forward find... Another one down...

Took: Nothing Left: Nothing Signed Log

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

Saturday at BLE and Dennisc52 and I set off to have a boat ride , then start our day's caching [^]
We got a tad sidetracked by hunting for a gas fitting for a stove and so ended up in Mt Gambier, where we eventually managed to get a few caches [^]
Back to Nelson for tea, then we headed out with firesafe, Honeysucker and Huurtle for some night caching [^] before the first two headed to their respective sleeping spot and we other three headed back to Nelson [|)]

I attempted to locus cache at 23 caches and only had 1 DNF so that meant 22 smiley faces

Having spent some time on dairy farms when I was younger and still enjoying the warm smell of a cow, I was the last to leave The View as that cow just needed some patting

SL. TFTC jgc3

#3513 We continued down the dirt track to this cache and once again found ourselves appreciating our 4WD - we also have a VW Golf which would have been too low for this track. Certainly a nice view of the river estuary and could see where we were yesterday. Found some hay bales and then the located the well concealed cache which is in very good condition. Thanks for bringing us to these views jgc3.

Took: Nothing
Left: Skullracing Carpe Diem pathtag (yes we were seizing the day!)

Found at 11:01 AM GAFF1 in the company of Phetlern, Squalid and Ruralslicker. We were hoping that a track went right to the cache - our map on the GPS didn't show a thing.
Thanks jgc3,

TFTC. SL. Found during my attendance at the BIG Little Event at Nelson Vic

Found with Locus Cache,Honeysucker, Firesafe, and Mark, while attending the BLE at Nelson. A very friendly cow came over, and allowed us to pat it. TFTC

11:01
Found with Pprass, Squalid and RuralSlicker. B L E - “Boxes Left Everywhere” We couldn’t search for them in numerical order, but that’s OK . The diversity of scenery, some quirky hides and catching up with fellow cachers along the trail made it a most enjoyable series. The time and effort given to create this series for other cachers to enjoy is to be commended. There were quite a number of boats in view today.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt jgc3.
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Found on our trip to the Little Big Event with Firesafe Hurtle and locus a couple of quickies after tea

Early morning and I rode down to the end of the road to view the view
A lovely view with a few boats bobbing about in the estuary
TFTC

Out caching after dinner with FireSafe, HoneySucker, Locus Cache, and DennisC52 for some nighttime caching.

Quick find with a great view too.
TNLNSL
Thanks

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

Friendly cow here at night. TFTC.

Final of 21 for day 2 of the BLE - found on my own about 5:30pm. Great view and munzee too! Cows watching me intently, and a car came up so I expected to have company, but then they drove off. Love the view, a favourite for me. Good time of day too I think.

Found along with phetlern, pprass and rural slicker. Managed to get here although no indication of a track continuation on the gps. Nice view, as could be said for almost anywhere in Nelson Thanks for the hide,.

No need to use the hint for this one, co-ordinates good as usual. TFTC

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19.01.2013 15:14
TFTC. SL. Found during my attendance at the BIG Little Event at Nelson Vic. Sorry for brevity. Sent from my Garmin GPS phone.
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Found as part of the Big Little Event. Found with debs22 and moorooducrobbos. Heard something slithering off when walking through the grass. Be careful! TNLN

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 40.
TFTC

Part of our BLE caching weekend, a gorgeous spot cows were very welcoming more. TFTC

Thanks for leaving the hay bales so we could enjoy the view

nice view from the bales. sl tftc

Found on day 1 of the BLE event! What a view! We had the binoculars out at this cache! Just checking out the scenery! TFTC

Found while attending the Big Little Event. Geodaughter found this cache while a herd of highland cattle looked on. TFTC jgc3

What a view, would love to build a house near here