Ophidiophobia Stony Creek, Victoria, Australia
By La mina on 27-Jan-13. Waypoint GC4525B

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Started my afternoon journey to Fish Creek with this one. Quick easy find!

Hi to let you now I found this cache but no log attached to it

Nice walk along the track tftc but no log to sign

Found it but no log to sign.

First trip with the girls of T.A.C.K.T! Thought we would start our adventures with a ride along the GSRT! Whats better than good company, laughter, challenge and CACHES!

Team TACKT number 5 - another one bites the dust!! There is no log with it!!

I'm glad it wasn't real!!

Found it

Sneaky hide which was hiding in an appropriate spot.

Found with Surefoot24 on a day out and about. We discussed what we might find and when we got to GZ we discovered what it was. TFTC

Found on a lovely day out on the GSRT! After seeing a real one of "these" yesterday, we were very careful when searching for the cache. After looking a little bit away from GZ (the coordinates were a bit out I think), we finally spotted the very clever cache - awesome to see! TFTC La mina!

On our walk on the trail and we couldnt find this one either. Tyftc.

Take that back. Gps had been out of skew.Now we got it. Tyftc.

Quick easy find, TFTC

Found on a maintenance run with la mina. Coords fine, as was the log.

Log is mostly dry and quite empty. Still ok for now.

Phew this one took me a long time. Obviously the cache container has changed! Coords out.

Yayy cool critter

Found with itsahoughthing on a ride along the trail from Meeniyan to Fish Creek. We found the cache on the other side of the track to where the GPS led us. Quickly signed the log and moved further along the track. Thanks for the cache.

Tricky hide but cache is intact. Thanks.

Found snake. No log to be found

Found log is missing

Quickly found the snakey hide but alas the log was missing. Again we attach the hide as proof that we found it. Enjoying the bike ride along the trail. Thanks Silkyie

Gps was out about 10 meters took longer then it should have thanks for the catche

Gps was out about 10 meters took longer then it should have thanks for the catche

What a great hiding spot. Love it.

Very obvious when you look in the right place and are not misled by jumping co-ordinates. TFTC.

Quick find with tassie expat and excellent co ords. Tftc

Last night, I braved six of these things (okay, they were fake, but I was very wary just in case one was playing possum). So it was frmen1's turn today. Found very quickly. TFTC

Found after lengthy searching with ellybow85 - it seems to be missing log book! Have taken a photo of container as proof of find, loved it! TFTC

Container seems to be missing log book. See pic.

I found it hard liked the shade as it was hot this one needs help

Our second day, on the rail trail. The day started quite cool but ended up nice and warm by lunch time.
This is a great part of the trail, very enjoyable for bike riders.
Thanks to all the owners, for the effort that you put into the hides.
Many thanks for placing this cache, La mina, for us and others to find.

Found it make sure you look up

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat, we moved today to Korumburra for a few days.

After setting up camp on such a beautiful day we decided to head out on the GeoBikes. [^] Sadly it wasn't a very successfully afternoon with 2 DNF's [B)]

TFTC and letting us use Geocaching to tour the local area. Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

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Awsome! Taking the dog for a walk!!
Second found!

A quick find thanks

Oh golly gosh just as well I don't suffer from ophidiophobia as I found this one in the bushes and didn't jump he may have been an Irish one or maybe his name was kermit what was the name of kermits song I don't like bein G***n
TFTC

Cache replaced and ready to be found.

Cache will be disabled until another cache in place

Not a good day for me no luck standing at G.Z in the middle of the track look within 20mtrs of location no luck might have gone for a walk

Found on our "Making Memories" Tour of Mainland Australia.

Today we explored Buffalo, Stony Creek and Leongatha using geocaching as our guide.

We found some angry birds and well cammoed caches amongst our finds and we would like to thank all cache owners for placing and maintaining these caches for our enjoyment.

Well hidden. Decided to tackle the Great Southern Rail today on bike so started at Leongatha then on to Koonwarra through to Meeniyan where I stopped for lunch at Moos ( that was yum, well worth it if you are looking for a good feed ) then it was on to Stony Creek then over to Buffalo and across to Fish Creek then down to Foster where I finished, a total of 47.6 km one way. I collected 45 caches along the way and only 3 dnf's. Thanks La mina for the caches

No luck need to get out of the heat and move on !!!! WAS looking forward to seeing Snakes as i make a living out of them but a bit hot for them as well,.... hopefully next time a cache find and lots of Snake sightings !!!!

Epic Fail [B)]

Hahaha. Got a good laugh out of this one. Thanks

Found it!
Tnln

Thankfully no real ones around anywhere that I could see today, but I was still careful at the GZ. All was good though and the log was soon in hand. Thanks for the fun......

The weather continued to be amazing for our holiday.
We jumped on the bikes again for some of the trails and did lots of walking to others.
Some of these caches were so cool to find, and the scenery is amazing.
Thanks to all the cache owners for the hides down here.

Found with Mum & Dad on a holiday to South Gippsland.
The weather was fantastic and the caching was fun.
Thanks to everyone who hid caches for me to find, I had so much fun!

Found this critter! TFTC.

After finding this cache and signing the log, we rode off towards the next cache. It was a warm day and as we rode along I noticed a suspicious looking "stick" ahead. We stopped about 15 meters away and waited for the "stick" to finally decide to slither off the track. I am so grateful that we spotted the snake in time and didn't run over it with the bikes. I couldn't help but be over cautious for the rest of the day!

Thanks for the cache and the warning. It was perfectly timed.

Out for a ride in company with Slink1 to get some caches. TFTC

Out on a morning rail trail ride with Dunko with a bit of a mission in mind being to push up the cache numbers a bit. A good way to re use these old rail lines.. TFTC SL

We did see a tiger snake a few days ago, but not on this trail. Kept a close eye out all the same-liked the cache container. Thanks for the hide.

Bike Riding with PIPPAESP. Thanks For all the Caches.

On going LOG

Nice cache Thanks took a bit of a fright HAHA!
Found this one our ride with HAW0006 along the Great Southern Rail Trail. Thanks to all the hiders of the 18 geocachers that we found today and good luck to all the other adventure seekers out there just like me. Thanks again PIPPAESP

Might be a miserable day but that also means few muggles. Needed a little tome to fond thos one. TFTC

Today, the Guruess and I looked for a few along this stretch of trail. This was the only one we didn't find. But maybe all that snakey talk kept us from searching too hard for maybe 'a snake'?

Thankfully a variation of colour to normal.

Decided hearse068 and I would clean up the caches that are in the area some Heares068 had not done and some I had not done. Not sure who's idea it was but never again on such a hot day will I/we walk 6 + km next time it will have to be much cooler before I do something like this again.
I didnt need any help from Heares068 to find this one and boy am I glad we didnt see any of these today that looked real, think it must have been way to hot for them even. TFTC

Don't think he is a local. TFTC

Just as well it wasn't. TFTC.

Found with Which way back. As we both don't shear this phobia there was no surprises when Which way back found the cache. SL

Found with hearse068. Lucky that neither of us have this phobia! Enjoyed the walk TFTC.

Published

FTF - had to double take this one as it was a nice warm afternoon : ) trees were a little hindrance with the phone GPS but soon enough we found, Thanks!