Rail Trail-Water Station Bass, Victoria, Australia
By Gonefishen07 on 25-Mar-13. Waypoint GC48CF0

Pretty good co ordinates had us pretty near to GZ before we had to leave the trail, not too much of a tip toe through the grass to this one.Even this far off the main roads we could still hear the traffic noise, but of a shame as it was so peaceful without that.Thanks Gonefishen for the cache.

With ScottyDoo2024

Great cache with RedNotes

Very clever ! Thanks for find number 70!

TFTC

Once again not what we were expecting, but found by a muggle member of the family.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 3:24:22 pm 6321Another quick find! Enjoying our walk! The shade is bliss today!

Cool find! Watch out for blue tongues!

Miss 10 and Mr muggle ventured to retrieve this one. Tftc. A container of memories of growing up camping.

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.

The gps was a little confused by the tree cover here and took a while to point me in the right direction, not a bad spot to wait around though. Soon enough i was searching in the right area and found the lovely big cache container. Thanks for adding to my fantastic morning caching.

Gave up.

Clever cache container - it's all in a name!
Coords slightly out, but easily spotted. Lucky we didn't have to keep an eye out for wiggly sticks!!
Made some swaps, log signed and everything replaced as found. Thanks for putting a smile on our face with this hide!!

Really fun cache - thanks! I’ll enjoy working on the puzzle cube later! Left an eraser, badge and cockroach!!

Cache is about 6-8m out in the bush

Our by about 7m, Nice little bush bash and my thirst was quenched. TFTC

Coords out 9 for me which made it very tough on a warm day being absolutely scared of snakes. After a PAF finally found this big one. Tftc Gonefishen07

10:54
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.

Another neat container, Gonefishen07. This one took a bit longer, because the coordinates bounce around in the fairly dense foliage.

#6473

It's the time of season where longish grass makes me nervous... thankfully wasn't too much of a trek to get to cache.

We were heading over to Phillip Island to ensure we were there for the start of the Great Victoria Cache Crawl. We caught the ferry from Queenscliff and had laid ourselves a cache trail to follow around to Phillip Island.

The weather was great for caching as the sun was out and the wind was merely a gentle breeze.

After copping a puncture on the South Gippy, we stopped at the Grantville BP to await the RACV to change the tyre on our hire car, while there had a great souvlaki. Then it was off to grab a few more caches before finding a place to camp the night

The new headlamp was brilliant and lit the trail for a very long distance.

This one took a little longer to find.

The cache is in great condition.

Thank you for this cache Gonefishen07

Found it

Cache was a bit bigger than expected but we liked that. Had fun finding this cache. TFTC!

Another with the carapaced one. TFTC

Found with icw. I love the container. Tftc.

Nice, easy find. All in good condition. TFTC

Good hide thanks

Found

Found it TFTC

Tftc

Easy find tftc

Short and sweet!

I’m getting better at this. Or are the caches just getting bigger

Good spot!

It seems safe enough to re enable now.

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

Found it great cache um thanks kind of easy

a long time since found but in great condition
Another great rail trail cache
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.

This one made us smile...

Using a new Ebike along the trail finding some good caches today found quickly signed and replaced...TFTC

Found quite easily but left it well covered to prevent viewing from track. TFTC

Initially I thought it was somewhere else, but then the cache revealed itself by lack of natural cover.

This took a bit longer as the coordinates would not settle down. Once I spotted, it, I wondered how did I miss it? Very clever.

Found it. Got bitten by bull ant trying to find

Tftc

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Found with paulnmax and michelleclerks 09

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Tftc

TFTC

The compasses are pointing in different directions good luck to the next people

2 in a row

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. 2nd find on the trail. Might improve. No water though at the water station. Luckily I’m carrying plenty And some for the panting geodog.

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. A few more finds along this section before we headed back to the car. My 16th of 49 finds for the day. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and the series Gonefishen07.

It took a little longer to find than previous caches but we got there in the end.

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

In Melbourne with Cravo10 to attend the Mega in Alexandra.

We took the red eye from Perth, leaving at 1am Thursday morning, and departed Melbourne early Tuesday morning, so it was a short five day trip.

We managed to snag a couple of nice stats for the trip. First mega event, 12 cache types in a day, 10 lab caches, 50th large cache find, and most importantly my 10,000th find at Mount Disappointment.

We spent the first day on a caching run from
Melbourne to Phillip Island where we had booked into the local caravan park for the evening. We cached all day chasing down a number of the whereigo and puzzle caches from the CF series, before ending the day caching the extremities of Phillip Island, where we had both never been, an amazing part of this country.

Next morning we cached our way to Alexandra which was the main reason for our trip to Melbourne as we had both never managed to attend a mega, which were hoping to rectify in WA next year! Attended the pre event and managed to get a couple of group FTFs by torchlight which was a real highlight.

Saturday we cached in and around Alexandra all day, chasing numbers, the highlight of the day would have to be the birdbox hides around Alexandra and the multi in Bonnie Doon from that famous TV show, a real nice touch!

Sunday was an epic caching day, chasing down 12 types in a day, which required a couple of huge drives to claim some of the rarer icons around. A huge caching stat which is a very rare feat in the Southern Hemisphere. We finished the day travelling to Mount disappointment where we found Melbourne's 1st cache and then started making a dent in the powertrail, finishing by torchlight.

Our last full days caching was spent at Mount Disappointment to chase some big numbers and with a few caches around the burbs for good measure.

Special thanks to all the wonderful COs around Melbourne for their brilliant caches, and to the mega committee for organising a ripper event, hope to be back next year!

On a 6 day tour of Victoria with Barnzy12. Taking the red eye over from Perth we managed to visit some great places. The main reason for the travel was the Mega event in Alexandra and the opportunity to find 12 cache types in a day.

We originally travelled to Phillip bay, then up through the country side to Alexandra. Spent a few nights staying high in the snowfields and then moved over to Mt Disappointment. We then ended up back where we started returning the hire car at the airport to fly home.

Some quality caches were found all over the state, great to get a real range of cache sizes with some very large caches compared to what’s available in WA and the range of D/T options so close to each other was a bonus.

Thanks to all the Cache owners for you placements and creativity put into hiding and have awarded a few fav points based on this or the location it bought us too.

Wow, I'm on a roll again, I think that's 5 in a row with no DNFs. As is expected, this one is quite water tight!

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. Took a few minutes before I spotted this one. Had to check a few places but got there eventually.

Thanks Gonefishen07

#1811

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.

TFTC

Lots of swaps

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 2 in 5mins yes

Lucky we were thirsty

Pen not perfect but workable. TFTC

This was the last cache of this leg. I saw geohubby approaching from afar, where I was sitting in a cool, fly-filled car. I'd fallen asleep with a window open and a fly invited his whole family to come in... 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.

Used the opportunity to hydrate! Good 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 [^]

Just love your imagination

I was thirsty by then, walking this trail

Found on a beautiful Sunday morning. Thanks.

I needed a drink at this stage.
A timely find.
Thanks Gonefishen07.
Chiefton!!!

Just saw our first person

Find #801

All about the numbers today in the rain today, it was cold and wet but meant the track was nice and empty! This was 10 of 32 of the series signed off today. Tfts

Loving the variety of cache containers.

Good one easy find now onto the next hide.

Out for a ride with Mark9375 and 4bait. Quick grab and we were on our way. TFTC

Nice find while riding this trail with Mark9375 and Geojill-11 time for a drink TFTC

Great hide

Found @ 11:26 am on the 23 April 2016 thanks for this cache Gonefishen07
Cool container

Was getting thirsty and thought great I can have a drink. Tftc

Found @ 1305 pm. Didn't quench the thirst but nice hide. TFTC SL.

Didn't know what to expect with this one. Coords were a bit all over the place. A wider search area had us sighting a likely. Log signed, took a trackable and back in place again.

I think we still.. Have one of these somewhere out in the shed, we had a few muggle riders come past whilst replacing this one. Tftc with geodude#74

Nice quick find with Lilmissgeo. Interesting cache container! Dropped a TB. TFTC!

Yay one of the few i had missed on other days tflc

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

Day 2 of Mainland trip. Very interesting cache container. Cache located because we attacked two of the Challenges from this direction.
TFTC

Tnfc

Great use of a container. Lovely spot. GPS was bouncing under trees. 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. Q found the cache and I dropped a TB. TFTC

Found with Lochb and quiet1_au. Q found this one as L and I search in other places. Thanks Gonefishen07
GJMMelb

Stopping under some welcome tree cover, after a short search I spotted this novel and sizable cache container. If I recall correctly, a car had descended the rough "road" crossing the path - looking at it we decided that a detour to collect the challenge caches up the hill would wait another day (and a less crazy route!).... TFTC

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 fourteenth find for the day. GPS was jumpy so we spent a little longer than we should have searching for it. Many TFTC