BLE42.. Only the Lonely.. Nelson, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC42E90

Freeing area for new hides.

Find #3084. Found @ 18:45

We're holidaying in Portland and decided to nip over the border to grab some caches to help qualify for a local challenge. I'd identified a few target caches.

On the way back, we stopped for a toilet break and checked for nearby caches. This one fit the bill as it was on the way out of town.

Unfortunately the container was full of water and the log saturated and mouldy. The family commented on the interesting aroma that accompanied me back to the car.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache jgc3.

It was raining on us for this one. The cache needs maintenance as it isn't waterproof. Couldn't log using the pad so added my own piece of paper but doubt it will stay dry. Great cache location. Thank you.

Log book saturated. Needs a new one.
TFTC.

Very wet couldnt sign log

Found it

Found it very soggy can't sign book

Easy find

A quick grab for this one even though it was found at night. Tftc

Cheers

Tftgc

Last one on hevwalker and my caching catch-up day in Portland, hevwalker had done this one so I jumped out the car with torch in hand and started my search in the obvious place. With a muggle car coming down the road I turned off my torch and after they had gone as I turned it back on I caught a reflection that told me I'd found it. Signed log and returned to its hiding place. TFTC.

Found with Liz and Bruce on a good day for caching. I didn't think that it was that lonely!

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.

*12/3/17, Found @ 10:45 am, Find # 6444.*

I had now left Portland and was heading towards S.A. but stopped at this one for a look.
I parked right next to GZ then reached in a grabbed the cache.

**Thanks to jgc3 for placing this cache.**

On an overnights stay at Narrawong,stopped to grab this one along the way, easy find TFTC

Found during our holidays in Australia Greetings from Switzerland
TFTC

found after The Surf Coast Event 2016 mega event. Slowly caching back to SA. well it could only be in one stop and it was.

Found a few from the series as we drove towards Mt Gambier. Had a talk to the local bulls as we signed the cache.
Thanks for the hide jgc3.

A quick find with Phoenix flare om the way to the mega. Thanks for the hide

Made a quick stop on the way to Anglesea for the Mega with clare007.
Plenty of cars passing at that moment but weren't too much a bother

TFTC

Day two of my travels, which will incorporate the Surf Coast Event in the middle. I travelled from Warrnambool to Mt Gambier, collecting a few caches along the way to break my journey, but with the main intent on collecting the confluence at S38° E 141°. Nice quick find.

My thanks to jgc3 for the cache.

Found it!

At the road to Nelson found. Thanks

TFTC

Enjoyed a walk for a break

Catching up on logs , found with relle77 .

Nice easy quick drive by find... Dance Laugh Sparkle - Big Smiles

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, Cape Bridgewater (where we are at present), 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!

A nice quick find at Ground Zero. Thanks so much for the cache.

Found it
Nice easy find on our way through Nelson to Portland

Nice find

Day 10 of our geoholiday in Victoria now we are slowly making our way back to Adelaide grabbing caches along the way, If there was a perfect hiding spot for a snake this would be it lol, cache soon located and no snakes spotted. TFTC

Our last day at Mount Gambier, before heading east, to catch up with muggle friends.
After lunch, we drove south to Nelson for some sightseeing and caching.
Lots of nice country to drive through, and we found a good variety of hides.

Cache was located after a short search, signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, jgc3, for us and others to find.

TFTC

was confused until came around the corner. TFTC sl

Got it

Yes, lonely bush...hug it TFTC &

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

We found it

Found it !

Found it

poor big lonely tree.
easy find.
tftc!!
out for a full on day of geocaching with hevwalker12.
in nelson for dinner.

Quick find with TT016. No TB unfortunately. TFTC jgc3

Nice quick easy find geo coin not in there

Quick find on the way to Portland for work.
No problems in locating this one within seconds.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

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.
Thanks for placing this cache jgc3

A quick find. Thanks jgc3.

Tftc

TFTC!

Tftc

Taking a friend for a scenic drive and pointing out a few points of interest, including previous geo-finds. Also carrying a swag of TBs that need a logged visit.

Lots of muggles driving past today but found this one easily. Quick easy find TFTC.

Easy find. Left a swap. TFTC

After having tea with fellow cachers, Geomum & Geodad decided the night before that we would head out & have a family caching day today. We had saved a fair few into our phones for the day. This was the 16th one on our list. We had just been at the BBQ's down near the river for lunch. We had cooked up burgers & now on our way for the last lot we had saved before heading home. We are enjoying all these caches. Its a shame we didn't know about this event. Would have been fun. TFTC

Not so lonely it seems ...

Found It, No 20 for the day

Nice 2nd find for the day. TFTC.

Tftc found with polkys quest on our honeymoon

Found with auzzie convict tftc

found it quite gick. TFTC

to find geocaches while driving through the States of South Australia and Victoria is just 'amazing'.
On our way from Millicent to Portland we found a lot of nicely bidden caches ... this is one of them. Thanks for bringing us here and greetings from Belgium.

Easy find but no trackables here when there's suppose to be two

TFTC.11.45. From Perth to Melbourne is our last vacation journey in Australia, along this route, we look for caches. Greetings from the Netherlands

A quick drive by. The poor old van bumped along on the grass and then Mr Beetle swerved at the last minute so that it was on 'my side'!!!! Thanks.

Found it

Nice easy find

Visiting Nelson again to claim a few more smilies
TFTC

Near a dead stinky roo!!!

Easy find. Didn't swap anything. Site says 2 tracables but none in cache.

Nice easy find. Love the house on the hill. TFTC D

tftc

Found at 2.30pm
We were camped along the coast enjoying this beautiful area.
A quick stop and find
Thanks
K&M

Returning form the oz mega, grateful for the drink stop. Tftc

Caching is supposed to be exciting, but this one just represented a 'numbers game'. Drove right to the cache with the caravan in tow. No brownie points here I'm afraid. TN and left a weroamin token.

found quickly like the others in the series, TFTC.

Found on school holiday geocache adventure to Nelson! Log book is a bit wet.

Found by Mary & David at 1040. Today Roy is definitely singing , and now the tune will stay with us for the rest of the day. Light rain has started again, and we've lost count of the number of log trucks that have barrelled past at speed. Our thanks to jgc3.

Nice quick find on our way through to Mt. Gambier.

TFTC.

Nice quick find on our way through to Mt. Gambier.

TFTC.

A short stop, at a lonely spot. On my way to Saunders Landing, for a bit of kayak fishing. Had to check the yak hadn't moved. Tftcsl, tnln.9/03/2014 1:27pm Find #615

Damp log no bag TFTC

Nice and quick find. Taking Freya to Canberra or somewhere frequented by is travelers.

Quick find on our way back to Nelson from an over night stay in Portland..TFTC

Tftc

I was heading for Port Fairy for work from home on the NSW south coast, but poor boating conditions had put our expedition back a couple of days and I decided to drop in on family in Mt Gambier, I was now heading back to Port Fairy and caching (and sightseeing) along the way. This one was quick and easy, thanks jgc3 for the cache

Rated: for Overall Experience

Easy find for the geokiddies

Such a lonely tree, it must be picked on by all of the bigger trees further along the road... A trip to Nelson seemed to be the order of the day, unfortunately we weren't planning on attending a BLE event but that didn't mean we couldn't find a couple (or a lot) of smileys while we were out this way! Found relatively quickly, TFTC (and the series) jgc3!

While riding on the Great Victorian Bike Ride, 610 km in 9 days from Mt Gambier to Geelong , I found 45 caches in my spare time. This was the 4th Found on 23 Nov. after having pitched my tent within 100m of the cache. The cache was not lonely that night with over 5000 cyclists camped near it.

16th cache for the day TFTC

Dropped Freya off on the Shipwreck coast

Not today it wasn't. Surounded by 5000 people and cars n trucks on the Great Vic Bike Ride. The campsite was relocated to this site due to rain. Some geocachers camped within 20 meters of the gz I later found out. It was quite difficult to get to today due to massive muggle numbers everywhere...

This was my last find on Day 1 of this year's GVBR. A nice quick one at 13:10, which ended being only about 20-30 metres away from 'home' for the night.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks jgc3.

PS: There was no sign of the [url=http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=ade68b01-5974-475d-8425-3a923fd4b6c8]Pacific Jamboree 2007 Geocoin[/url] trackable in the cache. BTW, as the owner of the cache that the trackable is listed as being, you can mark it as missing simply by going to the trackable's page and completed that action. Maybe it's time to do so.

SL
jgc3

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*

Easy find in an obvious place in the end. Tftc