TTT # 26 Bamawm Extension, Victoria, Australia
By gregandjudi on 01-Apr-13. Waypoint GC4A5GG

TFTC - left a sticker

We have set off on our annual winter escape but with no real plans other than a set of ideas.Our first stop is Bendigo, a place we haven't visited for any length of time in the past. There appears to be much to see and a good variety of caches to keep us entertained.We met up with our caching buddies Rebel Acts and Omegaman for a few days as well which added to the laughs and fun.Caches logged as RASPOM or SKI Pair if they had already found them.This is one of the caches we have found to date.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache gregandjudi.**SKI Pair****

Out and about with omegaman and ski pair around the Bendigo and Echuca area, there are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles.This is one of the caches found today.Logs signed as RASPOMThanks gregandjudi for the cache.

I'm hitting the road again with my Rebel Acts and Ski Pair to have some fun and explore new places. While I don't mind caching locally, there is nothing like a road trip for a few days putting smiles on the map. I had a great time with lots of laughter and caching fun. Today's logs are signed as RASPOM.

All good thanks TFTC

Yay to finding my first from this series although the termites have been doing a great job at trying to bury this cache

Good hint. ZTFTC

Quick and easy find with a friend. Got some little trinkets at the store to leave in some caches TFTC

Einen schönen Spaziergang in Echuca mit Cache belohnt Tftc and greetings from Germany

Crops are beautiful.
Great series for us to do whilst visiting from WA. THANK YOU.

Another one bites the dust! Loving this series

Has been an interesting trip from lockington to echuca detouring to get some caches in this area
Thanks

TTFC

Heading home in the company of Geoturtle37 & Papi4506 after a trip to Swan Hill.

Unless otherwise stated - all good here.
All caches signed as 'DGP' or 'The Drovers'. Replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, gregandjudi, and us and others to find.

Geoturtle37 and I are on our way home from a long weekend away in the Swan Hill area. As is usual with us, we are taking the scenic route home. As The Drovers was heading in the same direction, we travelled as far as Echuca together.
Apologies for the generic logs but all was found in good order unless otherwise mentioned.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Found the cache and logged the log as 6ACDDE gregandjudi, Thank you so much for placing it.

Found it all good long travel with 6ACDDE TFTC

Long drive with Deaf group
Thank you

Signed the log as 6ACDDEP (63ROO, ALL7, CRANK1, DEAFPHANTOM, DUTCHAUS, EVERLASTING)

I am on a mission of sorts today!
Feel like i am on the Amazing Race!
Running to caches and back to the car.
I had previously found some of these with The Blind Side, many moons ago.
Very clever series and I love the containers-although some gave me grief trying to open them.
I collected cans and stubbies from the sidecut today.
Ended up with two bags full.
TFTC gregandjudi

Find #2999 for me. Found at 10.20 am with my dog Bonnie while visiting the area from Bendigo. This was another quick find for me with all in good condition. This was also my last find for the day, as I have other plans for #3000 which involve a dragon hunt! Thanks for keeping this series going gregandjudi and thanks for the cache!

Container replaced

A bit more fence action. Log saturated unable to sign

Needs new log book

Tftc

Cache found and log signed with dalerious .

We finally found time to get out and finish this close to home series .
We took the girls to the local spa (dog wash), and got them looking and smelling like show dogs , then we bundled them back in the car and drove out to Terrick to sign some logs and give them a bit of freedom from the yard at home. The weather was awesome and they enjoyed the ride in the back of the ute, barking at the odd truck that went by, a treat they don't often get to do.
We just got the last cache signed in time to head back home, unload the muts and walk over to work. A very successful day .
Thank you gregandjudi for providing these caches for our enjoyment.

We all had a great time coming out to complete this fine series before the grass got any longer or started to seed.
By "all" I mean catnap777 and I, and our two dogs.
It seems everyone in the state wanted to drive up and down this road today too, so our dogs didn't get much of a run but they too certainly enjoyed seeing a bit of the countryside.

On occasion our gumboots were a particularly handy TOTT to have this day, but all caches were found clean and dry well away from any low lying water. [^]

TFTC and series Gregandjudi.

Hope hume's qld is doing as well

Geokids are having a great time TNLNSL TFTC

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Tricky one but loved it

Thoroughly enjoying being on the trail again. Glad we had a couple of devices as they were playing up abit. Doing them completely out of order but we have plenty of time. Good variety of caches. Tftc

Magnificent sunset tonight, just glorious.

TFTC all dry & in good condition

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Tftc gregandjudi, day out from Rochester to collect your series of caches
Quick find, all good here.
Hint needs updating

Fun team up with Honey sucker and endeavour3.

We had a strategy and executed it with perfection.

A mega jaunt with endeavour3 and this time the man who sucks honey, AKA chief two dogs....saw us caching this cache and writing in the log, then we moved on. A lovely place to explore.

Thanks to gregandjudi and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.

I have teamed up with TeamAstro to attend the Wangaratta mega. We are doing some caching on a road trip returning to Adelaide from Wangaratta.

We teamed up with Honeysucker to find this series. Logs were signed HAE to save log space.

Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

Day trip out with the geofamily including geodog. Geomum found this one. Cache in good order. TFTC

On our way back from spending a few days away geocaching around Cohuna. Thanks for placing the geocache

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Found away from stump on the road side of fence

Quick park and grab TFTC

A wonderful series that got me out of the house and visiting a new place. Thanks Greg and Judi for all of the effort you have put into placing and maintaining these caches for our enjoyment.

We needed to go out and do a little food shopping this morning, and when we jumped into A'Tuin and turned the key, there was that horrible click-click sound you get when you have a flat battery. Thank goodness for RACV Total Care. We soon had A'Tuins started, and we were advised to run him for an hour to charge the battery up. So we headed off for some quiet open road to get the speed up. While we were out, we jumped out, picked up a few caches, and left the engine running to charge the battery. This had the added benefit of keeping the geomobile nice and warm. The cache was in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache, gregandjudi.

Tftc. Chilly day.

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Too easy

Easy

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After a great night sleep at camp last night in Lockwood, I woke up early for a big day of caching through the Bendigo region, Bridgewater, Serpentine, Prairie and Echuca. A great day out, lots of finds, only 2 DNFs.

Sorry for the generic log, but hey, it’s a power trail.

Found. TFTC

Geocache. Sanitise. Repeat.
Our plan was to target these roads before it got too hot. Flies, passing vehicles and muggles looking out from their farms were our biggest hassles. Some will be this generic log, others will have a bit more written. TNLN TFTC

Quick find with tassie expat while exploring this nice area. Tftc

Found it

Found it TFTC

Miss 7 (almost found this one!!

Checked and ready to be found

Back online when the government allows us to travel again.
Stop Covid 19, Stay Home, Stay Safe

#2218
Day #11 of the holiday adventure although it’s day 2 of adventures on my own as the others had to go home. Today I’m working my way to Echuca.
Attempting to complete what is left of this trail. Yet to see any mountains! Most were quick finds in good condition.

Thanks gregandjudi for placing the hide!

Quick find with Applebees +1, TFTC!

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Found

Now the restrictions are eased, putting caches back on line.
Enjoy, and remember to sanitise regularly.

This trail is due for a major facelift, but while some finds are still viable, I will leave for you to find.

Watch this space.

Back online when the government allows us to travel again.
Stop Covid 19, Stay Home, Stay Safe

LawtonCat birthday adventure

Over from the uk started in Perth for 5 night in Melbourne for 3 night before our 4 day road trip stoping at Moama Echuca Bendigo and on to the great ocean road. Caching all the way.
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Found with JKP on our Victorian road trip. TFTC

In Echuca for 4 days and I had my sights on a 50 cache weekend. Well at 9pm I was on a grand total of 1.it looked like the family were done for the day, and the wife suggested I take the dog out. Seeing my opportunity off I went in a driveby and short walk extravaganzas. Managed to get a good haul, not sure how many, perhaps in the 15-20 range, even negotiating the special parking by a large semi-trailer truck on its side at the roundabout. Nice work driver! Thank for the little adventure gregandjudy

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Found on my 2nd day geocaching around the Echuca region. My main objective for to day was to finish off the TTT PT that I started a month back but didn't get to the end before having to move on. A quick find, TFTC.

Quick stop as we were passing through.

Trip log... GreyHams log says it best, in all its glorious detail... so it really is, 'What he said!'

With GreyHams we set out for another chapter of our caching challenge... To find all the counties in NSW. We flew into Adelaide early Friday morning with a return plane from Melbourne Monday night. Taking advantage of some super cheap car hire driving one way from Adelaide to Melbourne. Of course, as a four day road trip it leads into collecting as many counties as was possible as we pass through SA and Victoria as well, with a few side trips for those that were close enough.

The counties a high priority but many caches of interest, the oldies are always great, about 16 2001 caches found plus many others just as old. Web Cams, virtuals, great DT which would see us complete our fifth loop of the DT grid, large caches and lots of regular sizes too. The trip list also included a cache type of each we were missing for each state as well.

Simply, if we stopped for a cache that had made it onto the list, it was not just any random cache, it was selected for a quality of some type we were seeking.

One of the harder things about caching after flying somewhere is that all the TOTT are left behind...usually! So it just had to be done and we took an esky with us on the plane for all those fabulous cold drinks along the way.

The thing I love the most is that we also took a ladder with us on the plane too!

We had targeted the 'on your bike' wherigo series, so many puzzles, so many hours of them so the ladder was important if we wanted to find all the high DT, up the tree caches... which we did! Later in Ballarat we went 'above and beyond' with the ladder once again. A truly essential item to have, we may now need to invest in that inflatable Kayak for future adventures too!

Perhaps it must be said that our route was the least direct way we could have traveled via the Hay Plains and Griffith, but covered a lot of road, counties and locations leading to yet another great trip. Although a number of park and grabs, made closer by our reliable and tough SUV, we also managed a lot of walks, hills, bush, and just a great variety as we explored the different areas.

We crossed the Murray river many times, a lovely healthy looking river system. After our recent trip from Adelaide to Sydney, via Broken Hill and Bourke the dry rivers out there are a very sad sight compared with the Murray.

With so much achieved that we had set out for it was a very successful trip but also an enjoyable one with many memories made and a new batch of stories too! Thanks to all the CO's for there caches that lead us in our travels.

Generic trip log follows
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Aquilus1 and myself are on a mission.... to collect all of the counties in NSW! but how to get to those 'hard to reach' ones from where we are in Canberra? It would be an awfully long round trip. The answer was supplied in the super cheap car rental deals available if you drive one-way from Adelaide to either Sydney or Melbourne... I guess too many cars do it the other way and the cars need to get back somehow. Flying to ADL on points meant fuel was by far the biggest transport cost we paid for.

This trip is actually trip number two.... to drive from ADL to MEL, via Hay & Griffith! Yeah, thats logical! It was fun explaining where we were going to people, we got a lot of strange looks. The first trip was ADL to SYD, via Bourke. The bonus of course is we have also cleaned up a lot of SA & VIC counties as well.

OK, so primary goal is counties but we of course had 5 or 6 goals. Oldies was definitely a priority, I think we picked up 16 hides from 2001 on the trip along with lots of 2002-2006's. D/T of course is never overlooked and we did well there, I think we will almost complete our fifth loop from this trip. Webcams, Virtuals and Wherigo's were all targetted and finally getting all cache types in each state.

Day 1 was us arriving in ADL at sparrows, with a ladder and esky that we checked in and driving as far as Barmera. We cleaned up the 'On Your Bike' series where the ladder really fulfilled its purpose (I never want to see another online jigsaw again!) and even stopped to grab the LBH on the way out.... after 9:30pm, and after I attacked the dirt road with my body and left a lot of skin on it. Note to self: dont lunge at dirt roads! Luckily the hotel in town was open and we obtained fine lodgings. The floor creaked when I looked at it, or breathed, or changed my mind, but the bed was the finest.

Day 2 was driving to Hay, apparently on their biggest day of the year! No motel had rooms but luckily the new hotel that was supposed to open next week was forced into opening on the very day we arrived.... I like fresh sheets but how about a bed that has never been slept in! The crossed the Murray about 5 times and it was always impressive. We saw the country side change hugely from Rivers, Mallee and the Hay plain.

Day 3 was going from Hay, around Griffith and actually turning south towards Melbourne.... it felt like a long way! We cleaned up a bunch of the counties, in fact all of them, west of and including Naranderra. My map on Project-GC is going to look so green! We got as far as the outskirts of Bendigo, stopping at the first Motel we saw.... it was better than it looked!

Day 4 was getting to the airport, which we did with heaps of time to spare. Checkin closed a huge 18 minutes after our arrival. Damn, we could have grabbed another cache in that time. Ladder back in its box and checked in. I love the fact we took our own ladder!

Now safely back at home I am already suffering from caffeine withdrawal, but thats the price you pay for living on Coke for 4 days.

Sorry for the long generic log, but it was a fun trip and I wanted to share.

Out caching with thomo31 on a hot morning, located. TFTC

Found with teamashy. Looking for caches we dont have to walk through the grass for. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Nice quick and easy.
Clue ... smaller than you think.
TFTC

Enjoying collecting some caches on our way home from the St Arnauds mega event. Tftc!

Another great day on our one-year tripp around Australia. We love to travel in this country and we love to look for geocaches. This geocache has again shown us a place that we might not have visited without geocache.
Thank you for the geocache !
Greetings from Switzerland.

Now on the way to the MEGA in St. Arnoud.

Another one gone missing ,methinks

Apologys to the Cache Owners for the generic logs of the "TTT" series I completed today. Ms FV has a commitment in the area and I have taken the opportunity to get some smiley faces. Thanks for the background of the Terrick Terrick National Park area.
My GPS has again proven that in the open it is great and under any foliage (even lighter) it is extremely disappointing and will be pensioned off.

gregandjudi TFTC

After a 10 km hike this morning we wanted something a bit less arduous this afternoon. A driving geocache trail seemed just the thing.
These caches were all found fairly quickly and we only had one DNF.
Thanks gregandjudi

Good Find. Kids loved swapping hi to Major Mitchell
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Found it

Happy

TFTC. Signed and returned.

Quick easy find
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Holidaying in Echuca for the week and I visited this cache for a smiley. Found quickly. TFTC

TFTC. Had me fooled. Found with madzac

Log under madzac. Changed name. Tftc

A quick find by geokid #3 TFTC

Ahhhh, tricky. Thanks

Found it

Staying in Moama for a couple of nights, and the caches were calling. This series looked interesting, so off I set. Very few muggles made my search easy, finding all but one. TFTC.

So good not to have to climb. fence! AnsMisty

On our way home from a weeks holiday in Adelaide, and needed some breaks - and what better way to take a break than a cache! Not only that, but now we had arrived at the town where we would be overnighting with an hour to spare! So lets do a few more in this series that we started a few years ago. Thanks Gandj.

Nice country toad, easy drive, thanks for the series

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