Original Road 01 St Arnaud East, Victoria, Australia
By FUF009 on 31-Mar-13. Waypoint GC48TXH

TFTC

A quick find on our way back to St Arnaud after doing a circuit on backroads in the area. TFTC

Took longer than it should have! Coordinates were 10metres off, lucky I had that hint! tftc

Tftc took longer then it should have, coordinates 10 metres off. Tftc

Weekend trip to St.arnuard with muggle friend, of course I had to get a couple of caches (dragging him along for the fun) along the way. Thanks to all the COs for the finds. All caches were found in good condition.Sorry for the late and generic logs.

Day 8 of my interstate trip. Today I left Donald heading south towards Ballarat but only made it as far as Maryborogh where I set camp up for the night. I managed to find 54 caches today and 2 DNF's today.More original road caches.TFTC FUF009

Nice walk in to retrieve this cache. Quick find. Continuing on our way to St Arnaud. TFTC

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Drove down what little remains of the old road until we were as close as we could get to GZ.It was then a short walk to GZ where a quick find was made below the busy road above.Thanks FUF009.

Leaving St Arnaud and heading towards Bendigo. Getting a few caches along the way.

Out today in the PeuGEOt to do a couple of circuits of Geocaches in St Arnaud and district.Quick find.TFTC

Found with Bigobghazy. Realised today that I didn't log it when we were last here.thanks for placing the geocache

In the area for work, I was teaching the local VICSES unit CPR. However, I couldn't resist adding some smiles to the map. It's always amusing to see how much caching my muggle colleagues will tolerate before calling it quits. Some just don't understand the thrill! This was one of the caches I found today. Thank you for hiding it!

Our last day in St Arnaud so we headed out to do a few more trails and collect any extras in between. Having completed the Eucy trail it was time for some others of which this was one.tftc#9654

Found on the way home with feathertop after a morning run around the area. No sure why I didn't get all these during the Mega, but obviously I didn't. Stopped off today and soon had the cache in hand. Log was signed and I was on my way again.Thanks for a few more in the series FUF009....cache is all good.

Cache found and log signed with dalerious on a what turned out to be a quick trip to St Arnaud. We were meant to stay overnight, but all accommodation was booked out because of the gallops.Never mind. We got everything done that we had plan to do for this weekend, so all was well.All was well with this cache also, so thank you FUF009 for providing it for us to find .

Found with catnap777. Today was more about getting cat's name in caches I had already visited. [^]These few trads on the way out of town were an exception. We wanted to stay an extra day, but with no room at the Inn, we picked up this one heading for home. TFTC Tyred n Cranky.

Leaving St Arnaud
All good here
TFTC

Not found for almost 12 months, thank goodness for the hint. Quick stop on the way to Adelaide! TFTC and SL at 11:15am.

A trad 'teaser' to start the series, nice one, found quickly on our drive into St Arnaud for a long weekend of caching, TFTC FUF009

Oh dear, i have to head home, thanks st arnaud

11 April 2022
2:54 pm
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Hi FUF009, I found “Original Road” 01 today.
A nice quick find!

Many thanks FUF009 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

TFTC smile 11438 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Charlton very wet
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, FUF009, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

17 of our southern trip. Leaving Ballarat and winding our way to Charlton in readiness for some St Arnaud challenges. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges as well as well as adventure labs.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as 44Qld.

Interesting. Where to now.

TFTCache FUF009

Day 16of our southern trip. Ballarat to Charlton, with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

The cache was found about 9-12 meters (depending upon whose GPSr had settled), full of water from a cracked lid, and the contents unusable. So we ditched that cache, and put in a new one, closer to our collective GZ, and in line with the description and the hint.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 26, 2022. TFTC, FUF009

Farewell Ballarat now making our way to St Arnaud in convey of three cars with grannysmith1947, hatzofff and RoddyC. ( All logs signed as Team 44 QLD)
Quick little detour off the main road for a neat hide. Water Container

TFTC FUF009

Found...our 700th find. Yay. TFTC

First find for us in quite a while now. Good day for it.

GPS didn’t help me greatly here, but got there in the end. This one would be fun in snake season! Thanks FUF009!

GPS had me 12m away but lucky I saw obvious hiding places and cache soon found. What a lovely little spot, great place to camp... if you don't mind road noise and the local chainsaw cutter. TFTC

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With travel plans disrupted due to border closures there was an opportunity to plan a caching trip and having been unable to attend the St Arnaud mega last year it was decided to explore this area.

Found with gwd.aussie while out completing some challenges.

TFTC

Found on the way back to camp at St Arnauds.
Out caching with D@geo
Thank you for the hide FuF009

FUF you have made a very entertaining visit to St Arnaud. Thanks for your creativity and variety. I've really enjoyed the original road series.

I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my app as this cache was not displaying...Roaming Howie said I have a filter on for 'hide my finds'...oh yes, I found this cache back at the Mega...oooops sprung that I did some caches without him! Thanks for the second visit..

After some pre work from Kristysadventures on this series we were able to log these on our way out to the TLT series. Thanks for placing these caches. Log signed.

After a great couple of nights in the Murray Sunset country to attend the two events there we decided to head to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches around there.

As it turns out we have found all the mysteries before we found this traditional, trust us to do things in reverse.
We found our way to the original road and parked close to gz and followed the GPSr to an area where we were able to locate it in the third place we looked.
We added our name to the log and then returned everything as it was found.

Thanks FUF009 for the cache.

Quick find whilst touring the beautiful St Arnaud area with Team Waldron
Cool spot, great cache
TFTC

A quick find before we head home.

Tftc

Sorry for the extremely late log between my health and life I am over 3 months behind in logging some days out caching in the country.

I had some stuff that I had to deliver to a daughter who has moved to this part of the world so after that task was done AusFox and I cached our way around Central Victoria with Wherigos and solved mysteries our main targets but any trads that where going to be nearby we were not going to let get past us either.
We had already spent some time on the Original Road today but luckily this time we didn't need to strain our brains first to get the coordinates.

Thank you FUF009 for the smiley

SimsFamily and I joined up to run an errand to Central Victoria, then we went in search of solved Puzzles, Wherigos and caches on route to St Arnauds.
'Going to take my horse to the old town road'
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache FUF009
#5,598

My eyes light up when I see all these unfound caches on the map. Great to make a start on turning some of them into smileys late this afternoon. Huge thanks to your family for providing so much fun.

Well the Mega was over and my geobuddies had to head back home, so now I was continuing my geotrip solo

A quick grab down this old road!

Thanks for the hide, FUF009

Well, that's it. Another Mega done and dusted.
We took our time this morning packing up and pulling down our camper.
Finally on the road by lunch time with +Wife at the wheel.
This was our first stop on the journey home.
A nice quick find whilst the Geomutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie stretched their legs.
Thanks for the cache FUF009.

9370 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1030. After the see you laters to some of the participants at the 2019 gathering of the mob we were picking up a few more on the first leg of the home tour. Left TB SL Tnx FUF009

After an exhausting weekend at the Mega we had a day off today before taking the shop back to Geostuff HQ in the lovely Barossa tomorrow! We ventured out to do some caching with hevwalker. Hard to believe that this used to be the main road! TFTC

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the 2019 Victorian Mega event. The weekend was spent primarily with e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98 as we geocached around the vicinity of St Arnaud. All of the events and CITOs were attended, we completed the available adventure labs and lab caches available at the showgrounds, many of the creative trails were gasped at their construction, and interesting puzzles were solved and collected during the weekend.

We all left on Thursday in two separate cars, and met up at the evening event, before finding a camp spot for the night in a very CITO location. On Friday, we targeted the StARS (St Arnaud Ramble Series) and the higher quality, well-constructed geocaches that were famous here in St Arnaud, and got lucky with the 2019 published series that we managed to snag FTFs on. Sunday had us continuing to find the other sets of high-quality caches around the neighbouring town parks, the challenge series, before spending a few hours at geocaching HQ participating in the labs that had been published. The event was also great to see some of the South Australians honoured with geocaching life awards (in amongst everyone on the list). Our final day, Sunday, had us do a big loop finishing off our geocache collection, driving all the way out to Kooreh and around via Stuart Mill, walking the conservation park at Mount Gowar, and finishing off at the GIFF event. A massive weekend that turned out to be a great mega! Thanks to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. The variety between the local high-quality caches, the new series placed by the mega team, and those who needed to be around for the labs and main centre fielding questions was appreciated immensely.

Today with our final day in St Arnaud, we went east and south focusing on some of the *Original Road* series, and the various geocaches that were placed along these routes. This cache was one of these found as we headed from Kooreh, back to St Arnaud. An interesting section of road. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks FUF009 for placing and maintaining this cache. The logbook was signed as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98).

You must be getting sick of me saying we love original roads with all these original road geocaches I'm logging. Anyway, we do love them and explore them whenever we can. Thanks for placing these FUF009. We found the cache and signed the log Team JARC to save paper in the logbook. (JooJoo57, Aussie Liahona, RichmondLad and Crew153).
Cheers and happy caching!

Visiting St Arnaud for approximately 5 days while the St Arnaud Mega Event is on. While here cached every day. Enjoyed the countryside caches as well as caches in the town s and villages. Tha k you to all CO's for placement of the caches. TFTC

Last full day in St Arnaud and we ventured out east of the town to search along more country roads! Many thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining the caches we visited. We signed as Team JARC - joojoo57, Aussie Liahona, Richmond Lad and Crew 153.

Out for a day of caching on Mega day with Aussie Liahona, Richmond Lad and joojoo57. We signed the log as "Team JARC"
The others had found this one before I arrived.

TFTC FUF009

A quick find whilst in town
TNLNSL
Thanks

Fitzy_1965 and I arrived in St Arnaud yesterday afternoon. Tagging along were two of my geokids, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

Day 2 - Up early for breakfast, registration and a fast paced pathtag swap before heading out to pick up lots of smileys.

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the Mega event.

FeatherWaite, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday, taking a circuitous, but scenic route to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches in some other Victorian LGAs. We met up with Freddo and Davidwazza at the event that evening and teamed up to complete a couple more caches that night together before camping out of town.

Over the next three days we cached very solidly in and around St Arnaud, finding a diverse range of Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Virtual, Letterbox, Wherigo and Earthcaches as well as attending all the events associated with the Mega. We also managed to complete all the Lab caches over the weekend. Logbooks were signed D.E.F.F.98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo and gridge98).

On the Sunday afternoon, after the final GIFF event, FeatherWaite and I began making our way back to Adelaide, picking up a couple of caches before camping in the Little Desert NP. The following day we continued towards home with a side visit to Mount Rescue to pick up a few caches along the tracks there.

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches. They included a huge variety of containers, hides and puzzles, many of which were very clever and/or amusing and had obviously taken considerable time and effort to construct. Thanks also to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. I’ll be looking forward to the Mega at Millicent in South Australia next Easter!

19,465. Found with minniek during our epic visit to the St. Arnaud region for the 2019 Victorian Mega Event.

Day 2 - We headed out after breakfast for what we knew would be a great days caching. The drive around the area was a lot of fun today. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks FUF009 !! First of the series knocked off.

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud Mega event. On Day 1, e.gregory1, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday morning, straight after the Earlybirds event in North Adelaide. We travelled a long and circuitous route via Bordertown, Nhil and Warracknabeal to find caches in 5 additional Victorian LGAs that I had yet to visit (namely Buloke, Loddon, [Greater Bendigo - I’d previously visited], Mt Alexander, Hepburn and Central Goldfields). On Days 2-4 we met up with Freddo and Davidwazza. As a group we systematically completed each of the many series around St Arnaud and found all other caches along the way, signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, Featherwaite and gridge98), as well as attending the events and completing the Lab caches. After the Mega, e.gregory1 and I headed back to Adelaide camping out in Little Desert NP overnight. On Day 5 we had intended picking up caches around Mundulla and Mount Monster but a last minute change of plans saw us head into Ngarkat CP instead, for a solid drive and a few extra rewarding cache finds. Many thanks to all the cache owners for placing the huge variety of caches around St Arnaud and to all those who organised the Mega and the fantastic weekend away. Thanks for the cache FUF009!

This morning woke up and set off to find some more caches and clean up the last few in the town, stopped by this cache for a quick find

What a big trip this was! I headed over to St Arnaud for the 2019 Victorian mega with e.gregory1, Davidwazza, Featherwaite and Freddo for the long weekend.
The weekend was filled with a lot of finds ranging in puzzles, a few events and some very well constructed hides around the area.

Day 1: I headed over with e.gregory1 and featherwaite, with the aim to collect some unfound LGAs for the guys, with only a 500km drive to the mega from home we added an extra 450km to the trip by going over to Bendigo and further south exploring some regional towns, overall we added an extra 6 LGAs with only 18 finds for the day. Was great to see some of the interesting little towns and what they had to offer for future visits.

Day 2: As a group we hit the trails in St Arnaud as a group signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, featherwaite and gridge98) to save a lot of room in the logbook. We started off with the geoart Stars and thought it would take most of the day, as we finished it in 2.5 hours we were a bit surprised so hit the well constructed caches in the south of the town in the bush throwing a CITO in the mix. All the caches were amazing and something you don’t see anywhere else. Adding in 15 FTFs along the way with: everlasting, crank1 and Pwola. The evening settled in and we headed into town for a buffet dinner and a catch up with some familiar faces.

Day 3:
After attending the GV2020 event for the morning we set off to hit the last of the trails left in town of the metal containers, followed by the challenges for the mega as well as quite a few trads around the back roads. We ended the day by having a go at the lab caches at the mega then off to the CITO. I don't think I have ever seen so mant people at a tip before. Topped off the day with an evening event.

Day 4: By today the town was almost cleaned out and only a few caches to find, so we did the last few caches within a rough 15km radius driving around finding the odd cache here and there. The GIFF was finished off the mega so we decided to head to Horsham for the evening.

Day 5: After leaving our camp site for the morning, we cached for the morning around Horsham collecting a few grads and a well earned swim. Then made the long drive back home to Adelaide.

Thanks to all the COs for their cache placements and the Geocaching Victoria crew for organising a fantastic weekend away.

A nice find on our way home from the mega!!

Lucky this one didn’t stump me

Found on our way home from St Arnaud Mega! Tftc!

This weekend was the St. Arnaud Mega event and I was looking forward to hitting the road for a few days doing some flat out caching, visiting many new and amazing places and catching up with lots of caching friends. The event was a great success and heaps of fun. The caches provided by the local cachers were, in many cases, absolutely mind blowing (FUF009 caches most notably). All in all it was a great weekend, very warm weather and lots of caches found.
Cache found and log signed. TFTC.

TFTC

It's that time of the year again, Victorian Mega time, so its off to St Arnaud for myself and the ladies of FurfacesLL. A long road trip ahead, heading off Friday morning and getting home late Monday night and a fun filled weekend. We found many caches of all kinds of variety.. Trads, Multis, Puzzles, EC's, Virtuals, Letterboxes, Wherigos, Events, Cito's and of course, the Mega itself. We enjoyed the weekend and there sure are some unique caches here in St Arnaud, we still have plenty left to collect, so may need to coordinate another trip this way some time.

After a big day out on the trails as team FROG, we had dinner and then the FR and OG went seperate ways. We continued hunting down as many caches as we could before heading back to Bendigo where our accommodation is.

Thanks for the hide FUF009 And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another amazing trip away

We teamed up with Rapidlywild and headed down from Canberra for another Geocaching Victoria Mega, we arrived at our accommodation in Bendigo on Friday afternoon / evening and checked out a few caches in the area before retiring for the evening. On Saturday morning, we had a pleasant drive across to St Arnaud, arriving at the event as the opening ceremony was wrapping up, and the lab caches were released, so we joined the frenzy with the masses solving the cleverly constructed lab caches.

After both trails it was time to farewell out FROG friends and continue caching with Rapidlywild.
Collecting a few more around the area then started our trek back to our accommodation in Bendigo collecting caches along the way.

Thanks for the hide FUF009

Having a blast exploring the area for the mega

TFTC. It’s fun exploring this pretty area

I’m over from Adelaide to attend the St Arnaud Mega Event.
After completing a trail a bit earlier than expected I had some time to kill before the Saturday CITO event so decided to grab some of the Original Road series.

All of the caches in this series were found and were all in good condition.

Thanks for the cache FUF009.
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Found on the first day of the Vic Mega Event in St Arnaud. A quick find. TFTC.

Day at the mega with Gunks then did offroad trail with GPS struggling followed by drivebys all over. Picled up most of the lab caches then 'cut some laps' before more drivebys on the way back to accomodation. Thanks for the cache.

Great weekend at st Arnaud Mega heaps of interesting Caches with lots of thought gone in .Thanks to the organisers huge effort .Our first experience at Geo Caching we certainly will include in our ventures as we travel . A great way to travel ,learn about the environment ,history of locations and meet lots of friendly folks .TFTC deb and steve

Day 2 of St Arnaud MEGA. Stayed in Bendigo last night and TrailStevo and I mad a 6.30 start to head to Maryborough to do our Parkrun. Once complete we headed for the Mega for some pathtag trading, then some lab cache and a few local trads. we hung around the Mega for 90min before heading off into the bush to tackle a few series. Was warming up and very dusty, but we battled through 25 or so, before heading back to the high street for a coffee break. Whilst sitting at the cafe we became aware of more la b cache in town, and this turned into our next project for an hour. Then back to the Mega for dinner, WOW big queue, then down to the chip stop cus I was still hungry. Then we decided to look cool and drive up and down the high street 5 times!! Seriously........... found it. Then we headed back to Bendigo, cache our way back. Thanks for the fun people.

Jumping the ditch from NZ to attend my first ever Mega in St Arnaud. Thanks to the committee and all involved. Also thanks to the COs for their contribution of a fantastic array of caches!
Lovely to spend time with a heap of happy catchers doing what they love, the enthusiasm was contagious

Find 3545 on 16 November 2019

Found on our visit to St Arnaud for the Mega. Day #2 saw lots of labs and collecting a few regular hides. A great time had by all.

TFTC FUF009

Heading back to our digs in Bendigo,
By the log book we’ve missed catching up with some people. So many cachers (and caches), so little time

Found during St Arnaud event. Thanks for bringing us out here. TFTC.

What a nice little area with the dam nearby. Wonder if there is any yabbies in it? Cache was found in good condition. Thanks for the hunt

TFTC great cache

TFTC,
Had a great time sharing with others.
Our goal today was to sign all the caches in the Challenge cache Power Trail. Looks like I qualify for all but a few which I will show a Note till I can confirm them.
Added the Inventors and a few puzzles that we solved before leaving home.

Quick find, stamped the log and replaced. Thanks to CO.

**Find #: 6713**
**Time: 3:52 pm**
**Date: Fri 15 Nov 2019**
Another great day caching around St Arnaud with PamJ
The day culminated with a great dinner at the sports Club, followed by some night caches with BernieH and MuggleWifeDoes..
**Thanks for placing this cache FUF009**

Found while out and about around St Arnaud with gmj3191. We had another great day finding the wonderful caches in the area.
**Thanks for placing this cache FUF009**

The cut&paste bit: Doing a big road trip from Central Coast NSW to St Arnaud Mega. On my phone so may be slow to log with the full story or add pics etc....

TFTC!

Repetitive Generic Bit: Thank you to all the CO’s and organisers and sponsors of the MEGA Event 2019! We managed to find so many quality caches over the weekend, and our numbers jumped extraordinarily high. We felt warmly welcomed in St. Arnaud; from small businesses, to the farmers along the roads, to townsfolk and of course our fellow caching visitors (the bull ants wanted to come home with us though). We also feel we really explored the peaceful town and surrounds thoroughly.
Now we have several hundred logs to fill out, and it will be very satisfying to see all those smileys appear on the map. We also have quite a few left undone- and we will return here again for sure.

The Repetitive Bit Pertaining to this series: Geomum went on a bit of a puzzle solving spree during winter, and solved these wonderful puzzles.
Obviously this first one is a trad, so thanks for adding this one in! It took a bit to find, but we got there.
Thank you so much for all the hard work gone into the placement- we found them all to be well maintained, and fun to solve and find!

We are over from Auckland, NZ to attend the St Arnaud Event 2019. Roadtrip to the event. A short detour off the road, had us with the cache in hand. SL. TFTC.
Check out NZ Mega 2020 (GC87777) www.nzmega.com 23 - 26 October 2020.

Another Park and find on the way into the mega - geowife picked this one out and didn't realise what the solved puzzle icon meant for the other two close by! tftc

Our phones are a bit dodgy here so we were going in circles for a while!

This one was built up for the 1st of the original roads ...this was one of the ones we had targeted this weekend so I was a little excited at finding this one

Nice spot. Had us guessing for few mins but the hint had us looking in the right spot before too long. TFTC

14 Nov 2019: Streak Day #259/366 (1 March 2019 - 29 February 2020). Caching day at St Arnaud for upcoming Mega Event. Found your cache. Thanks FUF009 for the fun and placing it.

Boort to St Arnaud
Time to head to our final location, we stopped on the way finding caches where we thought itm was suitable to stop with a caravan on.
Arrived into St Arnaud at 11am & have set up camp in the overflow section ner the club.
Following lunch & a rest we headed out of town to find some of the many caches around.
Thankyou for placing this cache FUF009

Stayed at St Arnaud for Mega week and enjoyed with different caches Found your cache today. FUF009, thank you so much for placing it.

With pwala and crank1 at St Arnaud Mega, enjoyed the puzzle, multi, adventure lab, wherigo etc...
Signed the log Thanks for the cache and hide

Out this morning to collect a few of the Original Road series that have been in my solved list since last year, plus a few traditionals along the way. The remains of the old road while looking rather neg,enacted still made for an interesting journey TFTC FUF009

In St. Arnaud for the mega event. Day 73 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 21 for the day and 2008 for the trip. TFTC

Found a little way away from where the gps wanted us to look but the hint helped.
TFTC

As soon as the 2019 Mega location was announced as St Arnaud I started attacking the local puzzles with gusto. I have made great inroads with them, and when the Mega puzzle and challenge series were published I resolved that I would make a pre-Mega road trip to grab a few of them beforehand.

Having grabbed a few of the puzzles in the series I thought that it would be churlish not to grab #01. TNLN. TFTC.

*29 Sep 2019, Found @ 10:17 am, Find # 9970.*

Day 3 of the St.Arnaud pre Mega road trip on this long weekend with biggles1024.
Before heading for home we had a few more caches that needed to be found.

Back on the original road for a few more of this series.
This one was found fairly quickly and we then headed to the next one.

**Thanks to FUF009 for placing this cache.**

**29 Sep 2019, 10:18:00 AEST
Find #3907**
**Traditional Cache Find #2544**

I went to St Arnaud with SteMicMitSar to make some inroads into the caches here prior to the Mega.
We were by now, heading back into town to grab a bite to eat before tackling some more night caches. This is proving to be quite an interesting series.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to FUF009 for placing this geocache**

Took an alternate route to our annual family reunion in Adelaide this year and took the opportunity to grab this cache whilst doing a leg stretch

Found in good condition @ 10.47am 23/09/19. Many thanx to FUF009 for adding to our journey