BLE47.. Stop and smell the (Margaret) roses! Mumbannar, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC42E9P

Time to go.

We searched and searched with 5 people but could not find it even with the hint

After searching for quite awhile I did not find even with the help of the clue

Found it

Found it

Thank you jgc3 and 80degrees for this cache and the company. It is a lovely spot

In Mount Gambier for the annual square dance weekend and today an excursion was organised to visit the cave. This cache was quickly found as everyone got off the bus in the company of &others. TFTC

Thanks

I needed the hint today as for some reason my compass was taking me a fair bit off track. An awesome location, we did the cave tour soon afterwards and would recommend it for sure. Thanks for the hunt this afternoon

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

Priorities!! Which to do first: find a geocache, have an ice cream or play ingress. Caching won, ice cream second.

Thanks for the cache jgc3.

A nice quick stop on our way into the kiosk for an icecream. TFTC.

Super quick find with Prin666cess after a tour of the caves!! TFTC

Quick find with Sab. TFTC

Found it

found with goitsy

Almost had me stumped actually as my gps wasn't reading right for some reason!

It's a beautiful place! TFTC!

TNLN

We took advantage of the Long Weekend to roadtrip from Central Vic to Mount Gambier with a few detours. My first trip to SA and I loved it all. Quick find on our way out from the caves. Found with becca85 & neisha07. TFTC

We took advantage of the Long Weekend to roadtrip from Central Vic to Mount Gambier with a few detours. My first trip to SA and I loved it all. Quick find after completing Cave tour and Earthcache. Found with becca85 & boo09. TFTC

Quick find after a tour of the caves before heading home to Central Vic after a fantastic weekend in SA. TFTC

Finally on my way home from Mount Gambier, heading for Vermont in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, sort of a round about trip across the coastline and somewhat inland chasing a few earth-caches.
A beautiful sunny cold winters morning but what better place to be. Quick find on a quiet weekday morning.
Thanks for placing this cache jgc3

A nice, quick cache before doing a tour of the caves.

4th find for today on the 7th day of our road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide via the great ocean road. We will of spent 9 days travelling between Melbourne and Adelaide with many of those days being in the vicinity of the great ocean road using earth caches to guide us through this geological wonderland.

After a fantastic stay at the lighthouse keepers cottage at cape Nelson, we were sad to say good bye and off to Mount Gambia we headed. On our way there we stopped at the petrified forest and a number of caves in the caves district. Princess Margaret Rose Caves for their stalagmite formations, Narracourt Caves for one of the best fossil finds the Australia and Hell's hole which we found in the middle of the forestry.

TFTC

Found it

Found It

Four pairs of eyes were stumped for too long. Almost left it.

TFTC Enjoyed the caves.

We looked and looked, "this should be easy, so where is it? Oh, there, we are fools." Fifteen minutes for an easy cache, you would think that by now we would remember to look for the obvious. TFTC

We drove up here to see about visiting the caves, but not surprisingly we'd missed the last tour of the day. Unfortunately we ran out of time in the visitor centre to answer the earthcache questions, but managed to find this cache at least before continuing down the road. TFTC

Took us a awhile but eventually found it.

Found it with some help from another geocacher.

On to the caves and out of this heat!!
Tftc

On a quick visit and discovered a few more caches - tftc jgc3

Tftc

Some fun swaps!

Quick find

Nice easy find

A very enjoyable morning spent at the caves. Well worth it!

Beautiful

Found today while at Princess Margaret Caves. What a lovely place to visiting.
SL TNLN TFTC

Sadly we missed tour but we will be back enjoyed the sit down cuppa with fellow Geo cachers and the cacher

We headed out for the day, sun was going to be shining. Had nothing else planned so a day out caching was in order, then plan to have lunch in Port Mac & a swim too. We had a great day out today. We sure do miss geocaching & so glad the weather is getting better for us. Left our new Pathtag TFTC

After going to the visitors centre and having a walk around the grounds, we went and got this cache before heading off. Nice quick find on a windy day. Thanks for the hide.

tftc

TFTC. Looking forward to the next BLE...
Geoson found this very quickly. Nice hide, we weren't stumped at all!

Geokids were getting restless so they had a good area to beat each other up in.

Found it with the kids in Jan 14. TFTC

Nice easy find on our attempt to reach 500 caches today. TFTC D

Gps wandered about a bit but uncovered the goodies after a few minutes.

Found on the way out of the Princess Margaret Rose Caves, after visiting the cave and walking the Laslett Loop. Great end to our day. Found without trouble, no muggles about. SL, TN but left a circuit board. Thanks for a great cache in this awesome part of the world. Cheers!

Easy find after lunch
Tftc
Pete

9 people searching and we were stumped but eventually found it.

Found with friends & family & Sammy Squiggle. TFTC

Spending the day in the Nelson area and came here for our friends to see the cave. While they were on the tour Madham02 and I took the opportunity to grab a couple of caches.
Found this one just where we expected it. [^] [^]
Thanks for the cache jgc3.

Easy find with JJ52(Dora the Explorer) of course !!

Quuck easy find

One of the last ones we decided to do for the day.

Found following our cave tour and lunch at a nearby table. SL T- motorbike charm L- wario swap card and geocaching what are we doing card. TFTC!

Great Holiday

An easy find as we came out of the caves!! Thanks jgc3 for the hide!!

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! Margaret rose caves unfortunately were a little too busy for us today (thankfully were able to use the car as sufficient camo) so on a day when we would rather be caching we pressed on!

Found on our trip to Mount Gambier. Thanks a lot.

Waiting for the tour thanks to the people who had just found it and thanks for the cache

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.

Stopped in the use the loos on our way to get some other BLE series caches. We consider it a bonus. Thanks jgc3

Mogni and Mary set to work finding this cache while waiting for the lads. Mogni's previous knowledge of this cache had us in the right spot but boy it was well hidden. Lots of bark and dirt covered this one. Only mogni's persistence made the find possible. We were doing it BFE style though without a GPS. TFTC.

I had what I would call a Steve look while chatting to Shaz who I was picking up to go get a couple of nearby caches. I was glad Steve was not here to see this, as there it was right under my nose! Quite amazed the people that manage this place have let this one be. Last of the BLE caches for me for a little, thanks for the work putting them out and for bringing me to some amazing locations and giving me an excuse to stop and smell the flowers and play with the locals. TFTC

Nice quick find on our tour of the district. These caves certainly are amazing, although we didn't take a tour today. Thanks for the cache.

Our first SA cache. TFTC

Out with Blinky and my mum clearing a few more of the local caches off my to do list. A quick find and we were off to dinner at Nelson.
Thanks

Early morning, too early for the information centre to be open, I wandered in to smell the roses
My geomobile was the only one in the carpark
So you would think that this was an easy find
Nup!! There was the small problem of the ranger on the golf cart.
As I snuck up on GZ the golf cart sputtered past.
I waited till the coast was clear and wandered over and found the cache
Retreating to a picinic table I signed the logbook.
Ranger and golf cart sputtered into view again... and golf cart broke down.
Aw c'mon Murphy !! Enough is enough !! [:o]
I waited patiently for the coast to clear so I could sneak the cache back into it's hidey hole.
Finally the golf cart sputtered back to life and I could return the cache
TFTC and sniffing of the roses.

Doing the midday tour at the caves, took a few mins to grab this one while the baby was getting a feed. Thanks for the cache.

Found on our BIG Little Event trip. A nice quick find at the caves. Good one, the caves are amazing! TNLN. TFTC!

21.01.2013 11:49
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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As we were camping here for the weekend for the BLE this was found at our leisure of the first night camping.
Our thanks to JGC3 for all the cache's and effort that has gone into the event, a job well done.

Just enough time to pick up a couple of caches before the last tour of the day. Very interesting cave system. TFTC

Last few hours out & about with Happy Pants before his wife picks him up & they head back to Melbourne. We decided to grab some caches around Nelson whilst attending the Big Little Event...

I tagged along with Team 3InOne for a few caches... Enjoyed the walk & views...

Took: Nothing Left: Nothing Signed Log

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

#3540 After touring the cave and the grounds via another cache Royalty Underground it was time to continue on our caching day. The GeoPrincess was given the task of locating the cache and did so with good co-ords and a logical location for a cache . As we were signing the log with LoMo&Co the convoy that we had run into a few times over the course of the weekend in pprass, Phetlern, Squalid & Rural Slicker arrived. More chatting & laughs ensued before we once again had head off into the caching yonder. Our thanks to jgc3 for highlighting a worthy area with another cache. Cheers [^]

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

Quick find on our way into the park here for a couple of other caches

SL. TFTC jgc3

Found on our trip to the Little Big Event with Firesafe Hurtle and locus that we did stop and smell the roses and the ice cream we had was nice too lucky the girl in the shop stayed open just that bit longer

Locus Cache, DennisC52, and myself joined up with FireSafe and HoneySucker to continue caching. This time on our way to Beaker's 'Border Bottom' cache and Margaret Rose Caves area....

Quick stop as we head to the caves.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Spent the afternoon getting a few caches with other teams from the BLE.

Quick stop on the way to the Earthcache. TFTC.

Found with locus cache, Huurtle, Firesafe and Honeysucker while attending the BLE at Nelson. TFTC.

11:13
Hoping to collect some more smilies; on a Sunday run from the Big Little Event with Pprass, Rural Slicker and Squalid. What a delightful spot to 'stop and smell the roses' and collect another BLE cache.

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt jgc3.
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Big little event trip for us making up some numbers. All these caches are taking us to great places we will come back to again one day.

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

Found with SnapHappy as a part of the Big Little Event. TFTC

Found while at the Big Little Event
Left dragonfly and leaf, butterfly and motorbike
Tftc

Found at 11:26 AM GAFF5 in the company of Phetlern, Squalid and ruralslicker. A good name for a cache. When we arrived Skullracing and Lostmonster were already there and had the cache in hand. The park was so nice and cool that we decided to have lunch there.
Thanks jgc3,

A very nice drive getting here from Donovans and a quick find with other cachers at the far end of the car park ready to tour the cave I think. TFTC.

Found the cache and then stayed for lunch - a beautiful area here, TFTC.

Travelled to the local area for the big little event and hence logging as many caches as possible in the next few days.
Day 3.
TFTC

Had us stumped for a while! Then did a tour of the cave. We introduced Trevor our traveling gnome to his cousin (the gnome formation in the cave!)

Found during the BIG Little Event with Cracka1

My this place has change over the years.
I remember my parents bringing me here around 40 years ago.
Soon had a cache in hand.
Now to go find ice cream

There was lots of activity by the rangers near the car park:- moving sprinklers, collecting bags of rubbish, leaf blowing the pathways (this always puzzles us - why?) and one group of visitors enjoying a picnic, so we had to pick the right time to retrieve the cache. I think we managed it. TFTC.

LTF

TFTC

Didn't find it at the Chirstmas event so I could find it today nice easy find. TFTC.

Suscoe plus two's second find of the afternoon.
Great spot, a delightful area and not many folks about.
A nice hide.
Thanks to jgc3 for a hide in this nice location.

Found while out caching with Crazy! Nat Girl. We had no trouble finding this one, I have been to this location several times for caches, we did a few Munzees while here, Nat likes doing those. Thanks igc3 for the cache.

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

This entry was edited by Whitepaws9 on Friday, 11 January 2013 at 23:54:12 UTC.

Quick find, on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
TFTCSL