G42 Garratt Loco Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia
By H_3 on 01-Apr-13. Waypoint GC48V73

There is a new bison in place, and cache has been put back to where it belongs. Happy caching

Great for the kids, although the garden has seen better days

Forgot to add: we couldn't open the inner part either

Found it, couldn't open the little bizzo inside though

Following a bit of a trail today down the Old Beech Forest Road. GPS got us to the spot and a telltale little collection of rocks, but alas after an extensive search to and fro, nothing came to hand. Thanks anyway H_3 for the chance.

A nice quick park and grab, we would never of driven this road if it wasnt for geocaching!

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Found by The Empire + HThe road stretched out before us like a ribbon of asphalt, winding its way through lush rainforests and alongside the rugged coastline. The air was crisp and invigorating, filled with the salty scent of the ocean.The winding road led us through dense eucalyptus forests, the towering trees creating a serene canopy overhead. Shafts of sunlight filtered through the leaves, dappling the road ahead. It was as if we were driving through a natural cathedral.Our car wound its way through the Otway Ranges, and the landscape transformed into a temperate rainforest. Ancient ferns lined the road, their fronds glistening with dew. The air was thick with the earthy scent of wet soil and the gentle hum of cicadas.A couple of quick caches here in town and a toilet stop, than back on the road. Thanks for the cache H_3.- M

Fount it. Nice place to visit while chasing waterfalls. TFTC

We had the playground to ourselves today so the kids made good use of it while Dad zeroed in on the hide. Blended in well today but fortunately we had an idea of what to look for. TFTC

Found by Aussie Train Driver 01/07/2023, find number 1696.
Final find for today in the last light of day. There was a fair bit of rain falling when we arrived so I was grateful for the hint allowing me to make a quick find. I was hoping to check out the nearby Balloon Loop but we ran out of time - maybe next time!
TFTC!

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Nice little spot while hiking the trails for waterfalls on holidays from sa
Many thanks

I was not expecting that type of locomotive. After a quick walk around I managed to locate.
Thanks for putting this cache here.

AusFox; and I had journeyed down to the Otways on a hunt for a first to find at the California Redwoods and after driving so far for a cache we had to grab a few extras while we were in the area.
AusFox; had already found this one so he stayed in the car leaving me to hunt on my own. I took a wide birth of the playground with a couple of kids playing with their parents cooking at the BBQ. I tried to inconspicuous looking at and photographing the nearby plaque.
At GZ it only took a quick scratch around and I had my prize in hand.
Thank you H_3 for the hide.

Great spot for a stop going back to Gellibrand, been to Redwood Forest which was amazing and needed to do a few caches of course.
TFTC AnsMisty

Did not find. Was a very brief visit though.

Had a decent look through all the garden beds and no luck.

Left with Mogni the day before Christmas to go down to Mount Gambier for Christmas Day. Then on the 27th left for Victoria. Plan A was to go to the Ottway Rangers, complete the Geo tour in Ballarat and then head to Geelong and take the Queenscliff ferry over to Sorrento then grabbing new LGA's on route to almost the New South Wales/Victoria border and the old 2001 cache near there. Also attending a community day event, a CITO and a couple of other events as well. Then head in to the high country and come back to SA in 11 days. Things didn't go to plan. Turns out that one of my almost new tyres was defective ( side wall blown out ) and blew in the ottway ranges on a narrow road in the rainforest, Drove to Melton to stay overnight and get a new tyre there, tyre machine broken and the other 5 tyre companies not open so off to geelong for a new tyre ( and some caches on the way and in geelong ) . The event we where going to attend in geelong didn't turn out, he was late by ALOT to his own event.Then to ballarat to same day since we had a b&b booked for the next few nights. Planned on getting the ferry at 1200 and ended up on the 400 pm ferry but we did attend a event and CITO in geelong. Then we drive into the rear end of a thunder storm with forecast 20 mm dropping for the next few days. Cancel the high country and change targets to letterbox D/T for fizzy grid only using letterboxes and same wirh the multi fizzy grid plus fizzy grid only using victorian caches plus any challenge caches we where near. Plus getting a few more victorian 2001 caches. And finally any caches that had 40 more more favourite points. Only got soaked to the bone for a couple of days but the water on the tracks was noticeable. On the return home tried to get the rest of the missing LGA's around the Melbourne CBD i missed in the last mega. Still a fun trip was had if not the planned one.

On a Christmas Holiday with sir_spectre, visiting family in Mount Gambier and then on to Victoria to visit some new places as well as some old haunts.
Thanks to H_3 from mogni

Looked for a long time. Am very familiar with caches of this type, but did not find it. Not sure it's still there, although signal seemed bouncy.

Cache found, logbook stamped. Thanks

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14.
We enjoyed finding this geocache during a holiday in the area.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
We are on school holidays and enjoyed a few days away exploring the area.
Thank you for placing the geocache for us to find today.

Quick find today in between showers.
Thanks for the hide.

A nice little cache in a town i remember fondly. I lived here for a few months many years ago. Thanks for bringing me back.

Cache hiding well. Got to sign the new log first. Tfc

Dropped by and replaced the log sheet. Happy hunting

Quick find. Log full. TFTC.

TFTC
On a road trip from Adelaide over to Victoria to do a few days Flashpacking on the bikes through the Otways…….and of course I’ve gotta pick up a Geocache or two along the way

Nice quick stop and find here tftc

Nice stop for our first find today. TFTC

Nice spot to stop for a break. Tftc

Harder then we thought but very clever

Looked all over the garden but no luck

All quiet it seemed in town today, with the occasional car. I do wonder how often people would leave to go places such as Geelong, or whether Colac is the furthest they'd travel. It's a beautiful location.

Cool hiding spot.
We found it!

Great little find

Quick little find !

This one took bit of searching. Got it in the end. TFTC

Co-odds we’re a bit out but that could have been due to the wind! Knew what I was looking for, just had to locate. Took longer than it should have, but then - yay! Another smiley face

What it is to spend the day out caching. But the sun is setting and it's possible out last find for the night. Thank you for leading us hear. Found the cache hiding and made our last happy dance.

Nice and easy find for the day TFTC

i love these cache boxes lol, found but didnt log on the paper because i couldn’t be bothered, its so cold! left a butterfly sticker though

Quick stop on the way back down 5he winding road to Apollo Bay. My youngest wanted to play on the playground but it started pouring rain and we just grabbed the cache and left
Thanks.

TFTC the leaf litter made this tricky but got it

Can’t see this one

TFTC:)

A quick stop for lunch inbetween waterfalls. Great to see all the old photos in the shelter. TFTC

After searching in the rain in the garden bed realized no need to enter garden bed. Very wet for cycling

Found it. We left a swap.

Great little find

TFTC

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Took awhile but persistence paid off!

Couldn’t find unfortunately

Was a little concerned we wouldn’t find this one today after so many DNF’s but thought hey why not.
Located cache in situ, safe and dry, co-ords spot on
TFTC

Lacking in success today. Let's blame it on the autumn leaves

Nice loco. Sadly I could not find the cache

Tijdens uitstap naar het Great Otway NP vanuit Apollo Bay deze cache gezocht, maar niet gevonden.

Gave it a red hot go because cold and windy today and no muggles but couldn’t find it. Oh well

Thanks for this quick park and grab

Our first DNF of the year, that streak didn't last, Oh well next time.

Great cache , have one like it hidden in the Grampians. TFTC

Found by Roma and Max in the company of our friends The Swaggies.
Continuing on our geocaching/silo art tour commencing on the coast and ending in north of the state.
Thank you H_3 for placing this cache.
Cheers from Romax.

Found this cache on our tour of the west coast of Vic. A local was mowing nearby and so I had to use some stealth so we were not spotted. Plenty of decoy rocks about but soon spotted the correct one.
Thanks for placing this cache H_3

My heart sank on reading the name of this cache as I imagined a magnetic micro on an old train. But no, a wooden train and the cache nearby with a few nice geotrails. TFTC H_3. Found 10/10/19 3:04 pm. Cache 1773 for us.
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Found and logged using the Cachly app for iPhone.

Found this one on a visit now to the forest. With all sorts of weedy regrowth it wasn't looking good but there it was in a clear area!

Took us a while to spot it after turning over a few rocks in the garden bed. Nice stop here on the way to Melba Gully. Interesting history with pictures in the nearby amenities building. TFTC.

This took a little longer than it should have. With all of the autumn leaves, it made it hard to find. We got there in the end, just;-)

Tftc

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Nice quick park and grab TFTC

Another quick find for the day tftc

Went to grab this one this morning on our way through but heaps of muggles enjoying the park. Got lost on the tracks all day and somehow ended back up here again so was able to quickly grab the cache.
Nice spot to stretch the legs.

TFTC

What a day! Visited the nearby Redwood Forest (my second visit to a Redwood forest in 4 days!), then decided I needed a cache in Beech Forest to continue the tree theme... and not only did I find a cache but a Monkey Puzzle tree as well! It's a good thing I didn't have a shovel with me or I'd have tried to take it home!
TFTC, H_3 - favourite point for the Araucaria araucana!

Childrens' play time kept us from searching too hard here so no find for us today.

Upon arrival n0w0rries and I spied a muggle family or two occupying the BBQ, play area and general surrounds. Two grown men scrounging around the garden bed isn't suspicious is it ? I'm just glad that the cache hadn't been put in the train in the playground. That would have been an impossible task given the family nearby.
Seeing as how I was now targeting 25+ for the day and getting fairly close, cache blindness had kicked in and n0w0rries made the find here.

The smell of lunch cooking on the nearby bbq, a family sitting at the picnic table and a couple of kids in the playground but fortunately we are not at all suspicious looking characters.
Our short search was interspersed with photos taken of the plaque.
Yet another find for leafotwind and myself as I gear up for an imminent milestone, just down the road.
Thank you for placing caches to make this possible H_3.

Cool hide, quick find after discovering same type of cache in Timboon yesterday. TFTC!

Found with Cardiackelli.

Quick easy find!

Found

Good little hide. Nice park

On our road trip found it

Dropped by and checked this guy and he is still sitting there waiting to be found. Happy Hunting

Only ordinary stones. Has someone taken the fake stone away?

We looked a long time but could not find it. We know how the container should look like.

This kind of cache is well known. Thank you for the cache and best regards from a swiss visitor.

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Travelled aaround on Christmasday in this area and found some cahces. This wa one of them.

TFTC and best wishes from Swiss Visitors

Quick find. We would never have stopped at the visitor centre and looked at the photographs there.

Sometimes I think I’m going a little loco. We might be lost. TFTC
A trip east to Parkville 2018 had us stopping on the way to collect a few caches and again stopping on the way home. Well that’s what cachers do when they head to a mega don’t they.

Choo Choo has seen a good time.

Found on the Parkville mega event round trip. This cache added to the experience.

Thanks H_3. and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

We found this cache whilst out and about with Monch's Mob and BackPAQer. Day 2 in the mist. Interesting spot with a.bit of history. Thanks for the hide.

Made a wrong turn into the depot but quickly backtracked out and into the correct park. Essy find.

Nice easy find

TFTC

Staying down at Lavers Hill for the Glow Worm event. Spent the day walking to waterfalls. Some had caches some not.
Totaled 4 waterfalls and one cascade, all flowing very well.
Had a look at the replica loco in the playground on the way to the cache - very cute.
Thanks, Robmc.

Stayed at Colac for the weekend and before I came up I decided to do the Old Beechy rail trail and end up at Lavers Hill for the Glow Worms.
The model train was well done and a nice area to get out and and stretch the legs near the end of the line.
Read the plaque about the Bush Nursing Sisters and after a bit of a poke around I soon had the cache in hand.
I thought that there would be more people out and about on such a lovely spring d@y
Thanks krankitkiwi & H_3 TFTC

Interesting reading on the Plaque about the Bush Nursing Hospitals. The Nurses would have had it tough then I wonder what they would say about our Hospitals today Good hide TFTC

#295 stopped for a park and grab on the way to the Otwey Fly. Quick find, the first to sign the lovely clean replacement log. Tftc.

Came up here for a drive today and replaced the log sheet