BLE44.. Nearly there. Nelson, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC42E94

Freeing area for new hides.

Cache pretty beat up

Cache in poor order. Rats have chewed container. Contents wet.

Log damp. Container soggy

Log damp..container very soggy

Found during our honeymoon trip. Ready for a new day
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Scrambled around in the dark and rain for a couple of minutes before finding it. Thanks for the easy grab on the way to Nelson

Found with scramping on our way back after a day caching in Portland...
It was dark now so needed a torch...
It was quite difficult to get down the embankment & with the grass taller than my knees it made the find a little more difficult than it should have been...
TFTC jgc3

It was dark but at least the rain had stopped for the moment as we made our way down the embankment to search the long grass with our torches. Hevwalker and I were on our way back home after a great caching day in Portland, signed the log and replaced back in its hiding place. TFTC

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.

Just the one cache that I was able to as I drove from Portalnd to Mt Gambier today.

A nice park and grab to break up the journey.

Thanks for the cache jgc3. Found on 12 Mar 2017 at 11:59 am. Find #4048.

An easy find on the way home from Portland

TFTC jgc3. Found on 12 Mar 2017 at 11:58 am. Find # 2032

Great short stop to cure the boredom of a road trip TFTC

We parked where it was safe and walked back to GZ. Fortunately the first place I looked revealed a possible location and we soon had the cache in hand. Initially we thought this might be a longer search with a number of possible places to look. SL and replaced. TFTC

found after The Surf Coast Event 2016 mega event. Slowly caching back to SA. if I didn't stop for every cache I might be " nearly there " myself

Found a few from the series as we drove towards Mt Gambier. After a scramble in the long grass we found the treasure and added our name to the log. Thanks jgc3 for the placement.

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°. Found with the aid of the hint.

My thanks to jgc3 for the cache.

Found 4/11/16 @ 3:09 PM.
Please be careful where you park for this cache, busy highway with lots of trucks.
We drove around the front of the plantation and to within 10m of GZ. Walking gingerly through the long grass (snakes and shorts/thongs don't mix well) I found the likely spot.
No chance I'm sticking my hand in there without having a good poke around with a stick first. Luckily Joe Blake wasn't visiting today and we made the find.
Thanks jgc3 for the

TDTC

Another find on the way home from a camping weekend

Catching up on logs , found with relle77 .

Not quite a drive by but a quick find on our way to Portland TFTC

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 on the way to Richmond. Thanks so much for the cache.

Found it
Nice easy find

Found it

Day 10 of our geoholiday in Victoria now we are slowly making our way back to Adelaide grabbing caches along the way, Quick find for us today. 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

TFTC

Another fun little stop on our way to Portland, I believe we are at cache no.7 on our lap of Aus. Going slow with the caching as we have plenty of stuff to do. You can view our adventures at SelkeAdventures.com if you like.

Thanks for the cache.

Dipping car and coin.

Yes another one

Found it

Parked on the highway, went down the slope and made a quick find tftc

This entry was edited by mr_roo on Sunday, 09 August 2015 at 07:03:25 UTC.

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.
We were surprised that we were able to find this container as a lot of slashing had been done around GZ, luckily it was close to the trunk of the tree so it was stll there.
Thanks for placing this cache jgc3

A quick find on a good day for caching. Thanks jgc3.

Nice hide

Bit tricky to find. Left two items. 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. We stopped at this one for a little while as we looked at more caches around the area that leads us back home going a different way home so off we went. TFTC

Found It

TFTC.

Geo youngest was happy that she found this.

Quick cache stop

TFTC.12.10. From Perth to Melbourne is our last vacation journey in Australia, along this route, we look for caches. Greetings from the Netherlands

Found on our way to Nelson !!

Found it

Nice to be hidden from the road!

Visiting Nelson again to claim a few more smilies
TFTC

Found it

Nice easy find doing the 'BLE...' Series. TFTC D

Found at 2.50pm, yes, nearly at our campsite, so much pine forest around here.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Found on our leisurely drive as we make our way towards Murray Bridge for the Mega. Today we head to Mount Gambier and beyond.... TFTC

Found on school holiday geocache adventure to Nelson!

Found by Mary & David at 1020. We're often nearly there. Have been looking forward to this trip for ages. Hope the weather continues to improve so that we'll have two lovely days in the Mount. A chance, too, for Mary to revisit her childhood memories. 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.

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

Found it no worries easier from the forest side. TFTC jgc3

Nice to stop and stretch the legs again after leaving the 4WD track in the pine forest! 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!

2nd for the day. A bit hairy getting down, but all worthwhile once found. TFTC

Second one while on the way over to Portland on Day 2 of the GVBR today. Down the slippery slope in bike shoes wasn't too much fun but I soon had the stash in hand at 08:15.

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

Nipped off into the bushes for this one. The 5000 riders going passed probably suspected a quite different motive

TNLNSL
jgc3 TFTC

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

After not having any internet for nearly two years I am finally getting around to logging some caches that I did with Team Crackers a long time back.
We completed quite a few BLE caches back in 11-8-13 and I cannot remember them all now so apologies to the cache owner for the cut and paste log.
I am working off Team Crackers list for that day.
Many thanks for the fun Day

We were out with Super Pop collecting some of the BLE caches and this was the first for the day. It was to be the second but we missed the first one and as we were doing a U turn to go back Diane spotted this one on the screen and we soon had it in hand.
We added our names to the log and hoped they were all going to be like this.
Thanks jgc3 for our first of many BLE caches today.

Nearly where home? no it's miles away yet!
I drove straight passed this one and went some way before I find somewhere to turn around and then parked on the side of the road before dashing over to grab the cache in the rain. Boy those trucks certainly kick up some water when they go flying past!

Quick find on way home from Portland. Tftc

Another quick find in the rain. TFTC

In the Mount for the Goths dinner event and the Geozing Race and of course...caching Out for the afternoon with Aussie M&M and Mogni.

Missed the BLE event but picking up a few of the caches this afternoon. Generic logs but thanks to jgc3 for the series. Hope I can finish them next time I am in this neck of the woods.

A quick find while getting some more BLE caches done.

Out with Aussie M & M and brisal5. Slowing finding all of these caches... one day I will be finished
Thanks

Another great day of caching with ScouterSteff. #5 for the day TFTC

You are right nearly there. Have 3 more BLE caches to go.

Tftc.

Tftc

This was a beauty. Great hide!

heading back to base camp T micro peg L shell SL TFTC

TFTC

The description said down a road but we drove straight pass did a uturn went down a dirt track to GPS location. Then followed the caching tracks. Sl tftc

Picked this one up on a beautiful Saturday morning drive on the way to the Portland Cool Campers event! Almost drove off the wrong edge of the track on the way out... would have had a bit of a crunch on the front on the car!!! tftc jgc3! Our BLE article is still on the way! Don't worry!

Roads are a bit funny here google maps has a bit added where there isn't any, come in on the dirt road coming from Nelson sl tnln tftc

Found while enjoying a few days down Portland way before everyone heads back to work and school.
Today we opted to drive towards Nelson and collected a few caches along the way.
TFTC

I just had to follow the little trail for this one, but the vegetation will have a chance to spring back now that the main event is over. Cache # 1,470.

TFTC and the BLE. Good luck maintaining them all!

2287 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1100.Quick grab on the track.SL Tnx jgc3.

Sunday at BLE and Huurtle, Dennisc52 and I set off to replace a cache which had been lost in the recent bushfires

There were a few caches on the way and, luckily for me, the boys were happy to head for Dartmoor where a couple of months ago in 40 odd degree heat while riding my motorbike back from Halls Gap I had stopped briefly, seen the nearby caches and just been too darn hot and tired to get any...... so today was the day [^]

Later on, we met up with Honeysucker and firesafe and continued caching until well after dark: 4WDing on dirt roads, beaches and through the forests [^]

A HUGE day of attempting 47 caches: 45 successful locus cache events [^] and only 2 DNFs

A quick find, especially when in the company of previous finders

SL. TFTC jgc3

Our last day of caching around Nelson as part of the BLE and heading for home.

Found on our BIG Little Event trip. We took the wrong approach from the main road. But it was a nice easy find. TNLN. TFTC!

Found during the BIG Little Event with S4pphire

This entry was edited by Cracka1 on Monday, 21 January 2013 at 06:57:07 UTC.

This entry was edited by Cracka1 on Monday, 21 January 2013 at 07:02:01 UTC.

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

2288 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1100.Quick grab on the track.SL Tnx jgc3.

Found with Locus Cache and Hurtle while attending the Big Little Event at Nelson. TFTC.

Found during the trip home from BIG Little Event with Cracka1

Quick find on our way into town to meet up with family attending the event. Thanks for the cache.

A very short hop from the vehicle to find this one. TFTC.

Found at 1:51 PM GAFF5 in the company of Phetlern, Squalid and Ruralslicker. We were fooled by a decoy!
Thanks jgc3,