The Rocking Playground Alvie, Victoria, Australia
By krankitkiwi on 25-Mar-13. Waypoint GC48B7W

Time to put this one to rest

Appears to be indeed missing in action, will have it up and going soon

Had a good look round but no luck

Hopefully not missing in action

After having lunch we had a look and came up empty handed, hopefully next time.

Thanks for your cache,time to get lunch in colac

Found with sjpnavy TFTC

Great for the kids

Thank for the hide

Found

Found it

A spot of lunch and a cache, happy days. TFTC

7 year old find. Needed some adult help. TFTC

What a wonderful spot!
Delightful views and fantastic facilities.
Thanks for bring us here.
TFTC

Found it

A cool lazy wind today - TFTC

Nice hide
TFTC

Nice new log

Glad I had hubby with me, hes just that bit taller.

This one was missing last time around. Pleased to convert to .

Nice easy find

TFTC

Nice easy find. Thankfully not an issue height-wise

Good spot, beautiful views. Great to get a cache here too. Thanks

New container in place, happy caching

Called past today to see if it was still there, and it is indeed missing. Hopefully will have the new one in place soon

No muggles around do we had a good old search. Pretty sure this one has gone walkabout.

Accurate coordinates made this cache a quick find . All's good at gz , Thanks krankikiwi

A nice easy find for us in a beautiful picnic area. Came up here to have a look at the house You mentioned in the description. What a gorgeous place. Thanks for bringing us up here and thanks for the hide.

After taking the log book out of the cache a big plastic creepy crawly fell out and scared me half witless. After hubby stopped laughing we signed log, dropped off a trackable, took pathtag and on to the next cache

Found on a trip around the Otways, all good

Visiting the dog show nearby and came here for the cache.
A fine view and a good reason to put a cache here. Lovely picnic spot

Found on the ground near GZ, put back above ground but possibly in the wrong place.

Out this afternoon for a drive from Buninyong to Apollo Bay with the MX-5 Club... with Red Rock selected as our afternoon stop. As I always do when I get the chance on such days, I check the GPS for any nearby caches. Normally nothing comes up... but today there this cache was... a mere 20 metres away. I wandered over to make a surprising easy find... a cache left like this in Melbourne wouldn't last a week before disappearing!

Thanks **H_3** for keeping **krankitkiwi's** cache alive.

Quickly spotted as I walk up to the object at GZ

TFTC

It had been a while since I had been out west and seeming there was an event on today it surely was a great excuse to wander out this way to find some caches. Tagging along with Stemicmitsar for the day we had planned to clear out the area of multi's and other little bits and bobs.

Avoiding the rains fairly efficiently between caches and meeting many other friendly faces on the road after the event, the day was a success with no real issues.
Thanks for the caches and the adventure.

*Found on the 2 Jan 2021 @ 1:19 pm.*
*Cache find # 11273.*

As there was an event happening in Beeac today, it was a good excuse to head out this way to find a few caches as well as attending the event of course.
My caching companion for the day was buhfuhguh and our plan was to target a few multi caches and letterboxes around the area.
Now that the event was well and truly over we headed for the Red Rock reserve area to see what we could find and we found that this was a very interesting area and well worth the visit.
As for the cache, we were able to make a quick find and continue on our way up the hill.

*Cache count for the day so far;*
7 Multi Caches
1 Letterbox Cache
1 Event Cache
10 Lab Caches
1 Puzzle Cache
6 Traditional Caches

**Thanks to H_3 for placing this cache.**

We managed to grab this one between showers. Thanks for the cache.

After enjoying exploring Beeac this morning, our small group (us, micaparamedic, Geoturtle37 and Papi4506) started heading towards Alvie and Red Rock. We pulled up here just as a family were getting in their car to drive away. In the light drizzle we quickly found the cache and had just put it back when several cars arrived. Talk about a lucky break. TFTC krankitkiwi.

No need to climb, reachable from ground. Hill gets the heart pumping on a fully loaded touring bike.

Nov 15, 2020 12:22PM

No trouble locating this one on a day when it felt like we could get blown off this hill, such was the strength of the wind today! Our first visit to this area and love the scenery around here. Thx ftc krankitkiwi, CIGC.

Team Autumn out for a birthday exploration day. Kids found this one. Cute and interesting fire place nearby and a little rock family in the shelter shed. Nice spot. TFTC

Another quick find.


Tftc

First find. Was nice and easy but also well hidden.

Tftc. This is my 60th find.

TFTC

Found it, too easy!

Lovely location

Lovely views here TFTC

Found it, great spot, would not have seen it except you placed a cache here! Thank you.

Quick drive by

Awesome spot. Tftc

Good little find

Having a day visiting the Lakes and Plains and just spotted Red Rock Lookout on the map. Pulled into the parking area here and checked my phone. parked right by this cache! Quick find before walking to the lookouts - too many muggles to go for the cache up there! What superb views. TFTC.

Thank you for the hiding

Found it

Tftc. Quick easy find with the geo family.

There was a few people here enjoying lunch at this great spot.

They were non the wiser as I soon signed the log.

I then took in the views before moving on.

TFTC

#3927 FLAMINGO removed as it was taking up too much space in the cache and making it very difficult to return the logbook. No muggles to contend with here today making it a quick and stress free find. This place rocks! TFTC.

FLAMINGO

This was a very uncomfortable experience.

2hours free in Colac! Yay!

Torrential rain. 9degrees outside. Broken umbrella. No escape from the freezing rain. This may be one cache per hour today. I'm sure the views are nice here!

Found on our way down from Red Rock Lookout. Great area. TFTC

Found it

Came to Colac today for geokids netball so thought we may as well cache the day away! Such a beautiful view here, and a trackable to boot. Tftc

Spot on co-ords led to an easy find. TFTC

Found with a hint in previous logs haha thank you!!! Trackable left.

Tftc

Found this one this afternoon after grabbing lunch in Colac
Cache is good condition
Find #4087 for TR!
TFTC krankitkiwi

We attempted to look for this cache as we went towards the lookout but we had to leave it until the way down because muggles were right next to GZ. On the second occasion they had left and we were able to search without any hassles. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks krankitiwi for the cache.

Found with geowife kezza1211 naturegirl and rogerz1956 tftc

Found with Geo Hubby TB142 and Geo friends Rogerz1956 and Nature Girl. TFTC

Tftc. Found with tb142, kezza1211 and naturegirl.

Couldn't miss the cacher pile. Tftc

TFTC

Another good find

Found with FUF009.

A 3 day weekend for both of us meant testing the new swags and caching in areas we both had loads of choice from.

Meeting at Panmure and sussing out where to camp was the 1st priority (Lake Ellingamite), then merged into 1 car and hit the trails.

We changed camping location to near Colac for the 2nd night, less bugs more wind.

We had a wonderful weekend with many interesting finds and locations. Thanks to all the cache owners.
Tftc

Find # 7316

Found with sharkiefan on a camping and caching long weekend in the South west area of Victoria.
We visited from Mortlake to Port Fairy to Colac to Timboon and everything in between, and finishing up in Ballarat on Monday evening for the Giff event.

Leaving Colac n going the long way North we decided to grab this little pocket of caches.

Hmm looks like this could be a good camp site, it has it all.

TFTC krankitkiwi

Great spot but it's windy today. Love the nearby open fire building. Soon found this cache and now on to the lookout. Thanks.

This our last find for the day as the light was fast fading and we had a long drive home. We had just completed "Ready to Rock (Vulcan 1)" and "Coragulac House" caches on top of Red Rock and as the weather was a tad on the cool side, Mrs B was keen to visit the nearby establishment since there weren't any lemon trees nearby. Fortunately the cache was an easy find so we tackled it before Mrs B went off yonder while I explored the rest of the playground facilities. (What a weird little building with the fire place in it. Why?)

TFTC

Well you couldn't complain of the view while the kiddies played, and the facilities were good too. A nice easy find.
TFTC TNLN

A quick find after using the facilities nearby.

TNLN SL TFTC

Driving along around the country
Escape from my home, had been bad colds and need to have fresh air.
Beautiful view
found it with good condition
Thanks krankitkiwi

Such a gorgeous Autumn day for some backyard geo finds!! TFTC and for getting us out into the sunshine.

It was a cold and windy day out here so we were hoping that we could have a quick and easy cache to find whilst in the area after a nearby DNF. Sure enough after a quick search we had this one in hand and were able to sign log and retreat back to the car. Thanks for placing this one here krankitkiwi.

After staying in Colac last night to attend the Sims_family event at Melba Gully and see the fantastic Glow Worms, we thought we would explore the area further today before returning to Melbourne.

We decided we would try to do a few earthcaches in both Camperdown and Colac, and a few trads here and there.

Well not sure that the playground was rocking, but certainly the downpipe on the toilet block was blowing in the wind.

No chance the kids could use the playground today - as just as we arrived their was a short torrential burst of rain!

Soon as it had cleared the cache was quickly retrieved and signed.

TFTC H_3

At Colac Lake for Easter with Flaggys and finding some caches. Lovely view. Bit windy! Lots of people stopping for a toilet break. TFTC.

Ttfc

Today's tour is Lake Beeac and Alvie.
Left a soldier Took the Geo coin.
STL
TFTC

I have wanted to do a specific cache in the area for some time to complete my second loop. Times and weather conspired against me, so I ended up completing the loop with a different cache. However, I still wanted to do the cache, and today was the day. So I teamed up with Maccamob and Alansee.



After doing that cache, Area 51, we headed down this way. Found it without any trouble. Nice spot for a cache. Thanks for the cache, krankitkiwi.

Found with Muzza today. A nice easy cache too.

On our way from great ocean road to colac via red rock. Extremely blustery day. Took tb and also left one
Many thanks and greetings from UK

Last cache on the way back to Melbourne from the GOR. Dropped off TB to travel. TFTC.

Great views.
Thanks.

Quick find on our way up to the Red Rock Lookout.

Thanks for the cache, H 3

TFTC

Cache was on the ground when we found it, so putit up where we think it goes. Found while staying in Colac

Great stop to keep everyone entertained tftc

Thanks for the hide.Love the little church in the background!

Enjoy visit the lookout nearby.
Found it nicely..
Thanks krankitkiwi for the hunting and cache.

Day 3 of our road trip around Colac, Lorne Anglesea and home. Of course collecting a few cache along the way. Many quick drivebys, plenty of coffee and cakes, and a beach or ten! TFTC everyone. Has been a fun day.

Lovely little park and I'm sure the view would have been amazing had it been a clear afternoon - sadly, it was drizzly and cold. Nice find though, TFTC

Lovely park and view. Interesting to read the plaques-great to see local people acknowledged. Quick find-starting to get cold and another shower on the way. TFTC

Well... Today was a day off... And what better way to spend the time then to do a bit of caching!!!
I had been in this are before, but was to busy to get hear!!! Today I was onto it!!
Tftc.