Rail Trail-Who's for a Jim Beam? Bass, Victoria, Australia
By Gonefishen07 on 25-Mar-13. Waypoint GC488KR

Great to see these caches are still ticking along, over 10 years old and still going strong, always reading back in the log books of some of these. Thanks Gonefishen for the cache.

Heading home after attending the Capital Geobash Mega in Canberra while passing by I made the appropriate detour for the search. A quick find was made after a short walk. Thank you Gonefishen07 for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found with DottyDoo2024

Cheers for the Jimmy/ cache with RedNotes

Very clever ! Thanks for find number 69!

After a break of quite a few years we got back onto this trail. It was closed while workers were in place when e were last here. A great day for a ride and a few caches. Wasn't what we were expecting, but a nice quick find.On a trip to the Inverloch area to spend some time with family, but also some time to collect a few caches we have not found before. The weather was mixed but we had a few good days where we could get the bikes out on the rail trail.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Gonefishen07.**SKI Pair****

TFTC! 6 November 2023 3:30:08 pm 6325Interesting container. Took a few minute to find. Lovely walk!

Cool car! Great view of the farm land

Tftc. A fun and easy find for this one.

I wanted to get away for a while and the coast is always the best place for me to relax and unwind. Phillip Island is one of my favorite places for a beach break so i decided to head down here and remind myself what the ocean looks like, its been far too long.

I booked some pet friendly accommodation for the week and then threw together a list of caches to tackle on the way down and back but didnt make any plans for the island itself, island time doesnt need plans . This is my last day and i am heading home after a terrific mini holiday. Today i decided to do another decent walk with the geopooch before hitting the road. This rail trail looks just right.

I have been enjoying the walk and the views so much along here that i walked past the cache before realising. I popped back to find and log this cool one, lovely cache, lovely spot.

Easy find

Quick find and very funny camo for this one!
After signing the log it took a moment or two to put eveything back together again, but all done in the end.
Log is a little damp, but still able to signed. TFTC

Thanks for the cache - the bag was a bit difficult to close and the notebook was a little wet but a fun find! Thanks.

Bit battered but still a good find!

That one fast cache. TFTC

Could almost do with a Jim Beam right now. bluetongue guardian didn’t know whether to venture in but all good. Tftc Gonefishen07

10:46
The weather has been beautiful all week, but that's about to change. It's already blowing a gale, and apparently the whole East coast is going to cop one heck of a soaking.

Until then...

A drive off the island to see if I can pick up Challenge caches and puzzles I've got final coordinates for, and Large caches.

It was the latter that brought me to the end of a lane for a brisk walk along this past of the rail trail.

A novel container, Gonefishen07.

#6472

This cache could be renamed Drink driving not what I was expecting to find, small chuckle was had once cache was spied..

Found it

Log and container full of spider nests. TFTC

TFTC. Well placed cache

Found with icw. I wondered what the cache's name meant and found it when I arrived at GZ. Tftc.

Nice, easy find. Cool container. All in good condition. TFTC

Thanks for hide quick find

Found

Found it TFTC

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Quick find. Tftc

Didn’t take us long, Nice hide

Easy find. This ones in bad condition.

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It seems safe enough to re enable now.

Disabling till life gets back to normal. Who knows when that is going to be

Easy find tftc great find a bit rusty tho

Cache is in poor condition unfortunately I have no stuff with me this time to fix.
Log is saturated and mouldy and needs attention
See pic of signature as not sure it will endure
TFTC

Another day off and perfect weather so bribbed the teens to head out with the pooch and enjoy this weather, a few grumblings that its hot, how much longer... teens...

Parked car at Anderson and walked the trail... Saw a horse (on the trail), a snake, loads of birds, some dragonflies, cows (they weren't very good at playing "Hey Cow"... had the trail to ourselves pretty much of the way but saw a few bike riders when we headed back.

Found this one quite easy

I was ready for a JB but if I did probably would have crashed my bike signed & replaced...TFTC

An easy spot from a few metres away, exactly what one might expect from the title.

I decided to head out before it got too hot. The trail was deserted and this was a nice easy find.

Found it

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Found with paulnmax and michelleclerks 09

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Lucky find, not where it should be, relocated to ground zero

Moved back to ground zero as best we could tftc

Found where it should of been but it is either moved lost or stolen

Pretty sure this one is taken

After doing some caches last night I had a rare day off and had a bike and a geodog willing to come along this part of the Bass Coast Rail track. With plenty of caches on offer to add points to the Planets challenge, we set off from Anderson. Thanks Gonefishen07 for you work which I admire. At GZ gap where cache should have been. Within a 15 m perimeter found it lying open but cache inside in tact. Rusted but still holding its form , signed log after taking a sip ,placed back in the gap as well as I could. First find today.

Apologies for the late log. My family were away in New Zealand so I planned a few caching excursions and I’m still catching up on logs. This was a great day spent on bikes on the Bass Coast Rail Trail with liambaxter88. Rain was forecast so were really pleased to get through till just after lunch when we had to abandon and not before we had brought up Liam’s biggest ever caching day. I apologise for my logs being largely generic as I didn’t take notes on the day and have been slow to log. Another interestingly themed container for the cache but no problems with finding this one. My 17th of 49 finds for the day. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and the series Gonefishen07.

This series was part of my biggest caching day so far! Thanks to AnnoyingTarbit for taking me down here and Gonefishen07 for the time put into the series. We somewhat managed to avoid most of the rain.

Continuing on our adventure after attending the Alexandra Mega Event, we found ourselves spending a few days on Phillip Island. While we tried to take advantage of the many great places to see on the island, we were pre-occupied with trying to complete the qualifying requirements for a particular challenge cache we had signed in Ballarat prior to the Surf Coast Mega Event last year. It really does pay to check the finer details of a challenge cache before you decide to look for it We had thought you needed to have found 100 caches in Victoria, but it was only when we came to log it that we realised the 100 caches in Victoria had to have been placed by the same cache owner

Anyway, initially we thought we would complete the challenge by doing the Mt Disappointment caches, but then friends who knew we were heading to Phillip Island told us we would easily qualify for the challenge there, and they would be much more interesting caches Well they were quite interesting, and some of them were downright sneaky

In the end, we had an enjoyable couple of days exploring Phillip Island and finding a variety of cache hides, with some great walks along some of the beaches and other places

Thank you Gonefishen07 for having placed the cache and maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

I'm more of a beer man myself or a glass of nice red wine or port. But you know, when you're out on the trails, you can't be fussy.

TFTC

A bit of time with the family as we made our way along the trail. TFTC

I offered up my Uncle duties to the three kids for the day but they had plans so I threw the bike in the car to head down to the rail trail series again. I didn't see many people on the trail today but even better was the lack of flies. They really got to me last time I came here.

27 cache finds and 3 dnf's.
Not bad all in all. The weather was great and the exercise was much needed.

Time to finish off this section of the rail trail. Spotted the cache from the track and then worked out the best route to avoid spikey plants and had the cache in hand in no time.

Thanks Gonefishen07

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Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches. I have got a nice streak going and hoping to let it run for as long as possible. I usually cache on my own but sometimes I will collect my nephew stinky bob and my brother stinky tom who both enjoy this hobby.
A big thanks goes out to all the cachers and cache owners without whom this lifestyle would not be possible.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

I found the car but it's a bit deep in the bush, there's a dead, spikey tree in the way too.

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I tackled the last part of the Bass Rail Trail starting and finishing at Mc Garth Road. Another good cycling experience with plenty of caches to keep me amused the along the way. The ride back to the car was a nice downhill run. Cheers and TFTC

I am heading NE along the rail-trail. Thank you so much for this string of caches. I couldn't find some which I will aim to report on. It is a poor morning for caching with constant light rain - unpleasant for caching.

Cool car can

Now we are drunk

No pen so pic - nice big blue tongue. TFTC

Started a new leg, where I drop geo-hubby off and then I head off to a pre-determined pick up spot. It is so great to be able to make consecutive finds, after all the "Wonthaggi Specials" we have encountering this weekend. TFTC

20170108 Cool. Found with Geniejoan. TFTC

While out in the company of the McLookers we set out to get a start on the trail with bikes ready & roaring, plenty of water and snacks packed we were off. The sun belting down made for a hot ride but with sunscreen applied and our helmets for protection we enjoyed the trail and all caches on offer. Most caches were found with only a few DNF'S as we kept the pace up ...pedal, search, sign, pedal!
Thanks Gonefishen07 for your efforts put into this rail trail series, we had a ball.

Not for me! Clever themed camo.

In the area on bikes with The Tritonz with the aim of completing the Rail Trail. The grass was very, very long in many places. Fortunately we did not see a snake...I am not sure how as it was a very snakey kind of day. Thanks GF07, it is a brilliant picturesque trail that gave us the opportunity to see another very pretty part of Victoria.

Steve and Erin out and about on our adventure day, decided to come back to Kilkunda and have a meander down the historic Bass coast rail trail and grab some caches while we are at it. TFTF )

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH GoneFishen07 [^]

Jimmy contents long gone

another clever idea

Took a while for this one.
Thanks Gonefishen07.
Chiefton!!!

Love looking at all the farms

Find #800

All about the numbers today in the rain today, it was cold and wet but meant the track was nice and empty! This was 9 of 32 of the series signed off today. Tfts

Such a lovely spot for a cache!

Good one easy find

Out for a ride with Mark9375 and 4bait. 4bait refused to pick it up!Quick grab and we were on our way. TFTC

Nice find while riding this trail with Mark9375 and Geojill-11 coming from a holden man I thought it typical to see this broken down and dumped drink drivers beware lol TFTC

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Found @ 11:34 am on the 23 April 2016 thanks for this cache Gonefishen07
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Another smiley tftc

Found @ 1255 pm. Thanks for the easy find. TFTC SL.

A quick find and a nice cache. Log signed and safely back in place. All good with cache.

We're so not fans of getting prickled but we won't leave a cache unsigned tftc with geodude#74

Nice quick find with Lilmissgeo. Clever cache. TFTC!

Found on our last day in this area. We've decided to start at this end of the trail and see how far we can get, we'll have to come back to get the rest. At last the weather is pleasant for walking, although the flies are loving us! Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC

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Cool cache and well thought out. Picked up 2 TB's. TFTC

We did a huge chunk of the rail today, so much work has gone into this, the variety of hides and types of containers. The weather was good to us, alothou very windy at times trying to blow us of our bikes. We enjoyed the ride and will continue to do some more tomorrow, Thanks for the hides.

Back today to complete this trail, in the comnpany of quiet1_au and GJMMelb. This time we had brought our bikes. G found this cache, and I dropped a TB. TFTC

Found with Lochb and quiet1_au. It was my turn to get off the bike and head into the bush. The cache was soon found at Gz the co-ords being good. Thanks Gonefishen07
GJMMelb

After just 2 hours sleep, JSando and I got up super early, with bikes and esky loaded and headed to Wonthaggi for the annual New Years event, with a plan to knock over at least a small piece of the rail trail around here. This was our thirteenth find for the day. By this time with the gazillion flies, i was totally ready for a Jim Beam lol Many TFTC

For a summer's day this was almost perfect for cycling. Not too hot, the clouds occasionally shielding us from the hot sun (not nearly enough as it turned out...) - pity about those damn flies though!... G' headed off track in the lead and quickly found this decent sized cache so lochb and I dropped off a couple of TBs - TFTC

Dropping a tb

Found with carkisser ....
5FTC ....

Found this cache while riding the rail trail from Kilcunda to Woolamai. TFTC

A magic day for a nice ride along this rail trail which we wouldn't have known about if it wasn't for this series. It was so nice that the I expected to see a snake or two lounging in the sun but we didn't see any all day.
This was a nice quick one to find, got to watch the farmer from a distance tending his herd while filling in the log. In good condition. TFTC.

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