Fond Memories Modella, Victoria, Australia
By trickytracey on 10-Mar-13. Waypoint GC47FZE

Thanks for my first find!

Yippee

Really liked this one

Fried lemon and Jed 74 found it today.

On our way home from a market at lardner Park stopped & it was quickly in our hands Thanks for this one

Found quickly. Container & contents all in good order. Thanks

thanks

Found it with rex46

With dot558 after visiting friends in drouin,Little apprehensive walking past lock gatesBut soon had it in our sites

Quick & easy find - I have driven past a few times and haven't had the opportunity to pull over - ironically today I did even though I had a horse float attached

Found this one today with the Geokids. TFTC. TALLY HO!!!

Suscoe was heading home today after a delightful and sunny week on Phillip Island.The weather had turned a little today with cloudy skies and light rain every now and again.We love the countryside near Western Port Bay with rolling hills, flat lands and the ever growing urban areas to the north.So many happy cows, green paddocks and asparagus poking through the ground.Thanks to trickytracey for this hide.

Great spot walked past it though

Great spot! Walked past it though

Could not locate this one. Very overgrown. Feeling a bit of a loss

I was out finishing the AUSLAN series today and managed to pick up this nicely hidden cache .. thanks trickytracey for placing the cache and sharing the story of this place.

I was out at Pakenham today at my cousins place so had a little bit of spare time so decided to start on this series of nicely located caches just off the highway.
I parked out the front and then realised where I needed to go. A nice quick find once at GZ. All in good order here.
Thanks trickytracey for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to trickytracey for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Doesn’t look like the hall gets used to much anymore, Nice little hide, signed the log and returned

Thank you for this cache been passed here many time and not even realise the hall was here

I found this and left my piece of irony

Many a local dances would have been at this hall, a lap around soon put us at GZ.
TANKS for the cache

After doing some car servicing, I needed to take the car for a good run and was looking at my map for a cache that would fit the bill. Specifically I where I could stop and leave the car running. This one seemed to fit the bill and the description did remind me of the old hall I used to frequent for the same purpose.

Nice quick find of the cache and was able to get back to the running car with no problems. Just a few farm machinery and a giant bulldozer drove past my car.

Thanks for the cache Tricky Tracey
Hunter

PS. Grabbed the TB

Was hoping to pick up our first trackable but unfortunately someone must have better is to it today.

Great little cache

Found it

This was a last minute quick pit stop on the way home after completing a few of the Auslan caches nearby. Travel bug with strict instructions left behind.

Nice easy find on the way through. TFTC

This poor old hall looks very dilapidated. I hope someone gives it some TLC soon. At GZ the cache was found with a minimum of fuss. Great spot for a cache.

Out with xambo4u and BoabTree we returned today to complete the Auslan puzzle series and other caches in the Garfield area.
Memories are great, but this hall looks sad now. Easy find, thanks trickytracey.

Out with and about withy echidna44 and Boab Tree completing the Auslan series and other on our way. Can imagine this be a big part of your childhood but must be a little sad to see it now. Nice easy find, Cache in good condition. Thanks for the cache trickytracey

Found this one today on my way home; I’ve been wanting to get this smiley face for a while now - and done! Thank you for the cache!

Careful, red belly hiding in the pile of straw, dont go through the straw..

Tftc trickytracey. A day of halls for me today

Good one!!

Took the back way home. Never noticed this building before. Cache in good condition. Thanks for the hunt.

Getting ready to travel this area again geospouse GrahamT was looking for caches we may not have found. What he did find was I had not logged this one from 16/10/2016!!! Here I am with possible one of the longest fails to log ever!! TrudyJane

All good.

Fun spot to find with a little lifting

*Found with The Empire*

Apologies for the **LATE** log - *Sometimes life just gets in the way Between house renos, COVID and life in general I'm just catching up on some late logs*

It was great to be back out again after the last couple of months due to the lockdown.

Thanks for the cache trickytracey. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

Cache on!
**#15406**

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Closing in on my 14,000th find! We found this one whilst completing the AUSLAN geoart nearby. Luckily the weeds have been sprayed - made this one easier than it seems it has been in the past. Thanks for the cache trickytracey!
- M

Second try and found it! Grass has been recently cut so was easier this time round.

Hard one

Didn’t find, grass was very long

Nice find

Nice and quick drive with my partner for fresh air that I was home for 5 straight days. Brought my hand sanitizer with me . Easy to find. Thanks trickytracey for placing this cache

Quickly found it with good condition
Thanks trickytracey for the cache.

Well just found my first think I'm hooked and less than a km from home guess I'll find some more tftc

Trespassed, found it and put my face in a spiders web full of babies.

Quick find on the back way through to Cranbourne. Thanks.

Lovely place! Nice hide. TFTC

Tftc nice hide

Found with MonkeyMann007 Geohubby got this one for my 300th find

After traipsing around in the ling wet grass I soon had treasure in hand, awesome little spit but very busy road, found with Cached Up Mummy Jules on holidays from cairns. Tyftc

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Small

Being aware of the slithering friends with the long grass, doing a balancing act on some rocks, I soon had this one in hand. . Tftc

Hall still 'closed for refurbishment " and it was a hot sunny day so although we jumped the fence.. I didn't stick around too long to look as the grass needs a mow and I tend to attract serpents so jumped back over the fence with the intention to return when the risks of snakes are lower.

Oh, boy have these logs been on the back burner……… with the combination of a long hiatus and my phone with all my saved cache data of the ones I had yet to log being supposedly lost. With my eng/comp sci friend who managed to mess around with the phone and recover the data….. hooray time to celebrate. So that's why these logs are so late…. either thanks for the cache and the adventure….. and sorry for the generic log.

Easy

Find #4776

I had a rare weekday morning free and so managed to get out and about nice and early and head south east to try a few caches. I had planned a final zig zag of caches to get me back towards civilisation and this was the next one on the list. A rather sad looking building but I can appreciate the memories it would have from the events here. I carried on foot through the grass seemingly getting wetter with every cache. I made hard work of this one, looking in a few incorrect areas before final seeing the straight forward hide. My eleventh find in total for the day. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache trickytracey.

These halls were the centre of so many communities around rural Australia when we were young.
It is good that you have placed a geocache here to remember days gone by.
A quick jump and the cache was found in an obvious spot. An interesting structure.
Thank you.

A quick find with n0w0rries on the way to Drouin today.
Cache in good order.
TFTC trickytracey

Nice spot!

Found it

Nice drive on some country roads today.
Jumped the fence like so many before me, found the cache quickly but felt a bit conspicuous when leaving.

Thanks trickytracey

#2546

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

Quick find

Thank you

Found this one on the way through on my motorbike today. Looks like the hall is up for refurbishment and the gate was locked closed but the fence isn't much of a challenge in fact the long VERY WET grass was more of a problem. A quick search in obvious place and the cache was soon signed and returned then I was on my way.
TNLN SL TFTC

Find 1703
Have been around this corner on a few occasions and never noticed the hall.
The gate was locked so jumped the fence. Coords were good and the cache found quickly. Log signed and all back safe again.
Thanks

Everything nice and dry after the recent heavy rain.
thanks trickytraceys.

Heading down to Lardner Park for the Agricultural show. Using the roads less travelled brings us to many a place just like this. If only these buildings could talk, the stories they could tell. With the area deserted today the search was quick and easy. TNLNSL. TFTC. KKamS

A quick little find in a cute spot. Thanks for bringing us here and teaching us some history. Cache is in good condition.

TFTC, Brainiac03

Everyone in the family has found one now! Woohooo!

Easy find

8th: Quick and easy find if you're not afraid to use your hands to go digging. Awesome cache, thanks

Fatman100

We found it passing by on our Sunday arvo treasure finding run.

Quick find. I hope they keep this local icon as it appears they have plans. Another hide I ride past on the motorbike that now has a smiley.
T4TC .

Out with The Swaggies. Find 1570 at 15 September 2017 2:51 pm

Out with Yorsys. Find 5586 at 2:57 pm. Nice and wet around here today but found cache in a dry spot.
TFTC

Today we explored Mondella and surrounds using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

It felt like we were breaking the law but we went ahead anyway.
Thanks trickytracey.
Chiefton!!!

Thought id stop by left the motor running

Found

Found it. Thank you.

TFTC trickeytracey. Thanks for bringing us here definitely "fond memories" when I was younger I came to a few parties here looks like it's going to get a upgrade

This looks like it down for a restoration project, hopefully it will get what it deserves. TFTC

A nice place to wander around

Was a quick and easy find. Unusual stand, not one that we have ever seen before. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

TFTC! Easy geowife found, whilst driving around the country side looking for somewhere to go for dinner!!

A hall you always passed on the way somewhere, but never stopped at.

A walk around through the recently slashed grass, so had the cache in hand.

Thanks trickytracey for this placement.

TFTC Maybe one day this place will be restored and give more people great memories.

having decided there was no way I was returning to Mornington via Berwick Dandenong etc cut across from the Princess Freeway at the new intersection north of Longwarry and on to this one. Found with Trudyjane.

Raemoz found it. Went right to it. TFTC

Find #1194. This was the last of the caches we needed to find in this area. Having avoided it I our first attempt due ti having to climb the fence we decided to brave it today to knock it off the list. Thanks Trickytracey for the cache.

Quick find on the way home from work. TFTC

Great night out with geokids getting a few caches, this one was the last for the night as the two geokids have both fallen asleep in the back seat. So I sent Mr Geo over to get this one while I waited in the car. Was a quick find for him. He was back to the car in a flash. TFTC

Out for a Sunday drive and ended up here. Thank goodness I was small enough to squeeze through the rails