TTT # 34 Wharparilla, Victoria, Australia
By gregandjudi on 01-Apr-13. Waypoint GC4A6NB

to be archived

Goodbye fair cache

Will review

Container has holes in it, very brittle

Slowly finding them all. This container is damaged with huge holes in it, urgently needs replacing

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Thanks for the close promixity to a work site!

Quick easy find
TFTC

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

TFTC found with madzac. The cache is damage and log is really damp

Happy

Log under madzac. Just changed my account. Tftc

We are a pair of Grey Nomads touring around OZ. We are house sitting a property at Kyabram and enjoying the opportunity to cache the area. Today I came to Echuca and found a few before the afternoon rain arrived. TFTC.

All good - TFTC

Container has a few holes in. Log a bit water damaged. Tftc!

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. Container is broken. TFTC.

Getting there!! AnsMisty

Another good hint, thanks

Tftc

needs maintenance!!! container broken all wet !!! but found it. thank you!!

Good find. Quick and easy. Tftf

Needs maintenance. Container is broken and its all wet. Cheers

Found during a weeks holiday up at Greens lake, TFTC

Tftc. Signed log.

Found with the weather starting to cool. Log book dripping wet

Cache contain is broken and log is very wet

Another quick find by hubby here on a day that just keeps getting hotter (35degs now). In Echuca for more caching. On a slow trip home from the Alexandra Mega. TFTC Also thanks for the run description. Learnt some history from it.

Quick easy drive by find. TFTC. ‍‍‍
*Log has been wet previously therefore stiff in opening to sign.*

Found it

We left our cache mobile nearby and tackled a few caches in this area. Great sunny day for a bike ride! Not too much traffic either. Found this cache without too much trouble, TFTC!

Cool

Found it

Visiting Echuca and surrounding areas from Pakenham. Woke up on Friday to a cold and windy but sunny day. After breakfast in Echuca it was time to get serious and this power trail was perfect for it.

A slow start with 2 dnfs but all good with this one.


Thanks GregandJudi

#1880

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches. 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.

*6/8/17, Found @ 9:35 am, Find # 6940.*

Another weekend and another road trip, this time I was headed to Echuca to attend the next lead up event for the Alexandra Mega.
A long the way a had a few missions to complete and of course there are a lot of other caches to be found, this being a one of these said caches.

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

Coordinates were spot on here. Fireworks display on neighbouring farm briefly distracted me but I was on my way pretty quickly. TFTC

Found

Having seen on FB recently that there was a new geocacher near by (well an hour away is nearby ) I arranged yesterday to pick her up today and go caching [^]
This ended up being my biggest caching day for almost 6 months with a total of 4 DNFs and 47 finds between about 10.45am and 12.30am the following morning [)]
The patient and cheerful Sewrainbow was fantastic company and despite already being ill, having only been in Victoria a few days and not quite being acclimated to the cooler weather, she hung on like a trooper and even timed how long each of our DNFs had been searched for Did I really spend 3/4s an hour looking for one of them[?]

30 odd caches, easy D/T ratings... we should be done in about 3 hours or so.
WRONG!
I think it was about 6 hours and all of our DNFs were on this series
Some caches were the opposite of the hints, some caches were about 15m off for the coords and yet others were spot on.
Seems our target for the day wasn't quite what we expected and as the night got colder and colder, the caching became a tad less fun as the DNF count climbed
Worse was finding out afterwards that we never woudl find the puzzle cache that the clues were supposed to help us find

TNLN. SL. TFTC gregandjudi

Log to follow

Super excited to do the puzzle search at the end !! Hopefully we will get them all done today

Log soaked

all good

Log replaced

### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?** ###
I notice from recent log entries that this cache would seem to be in need of owner intervention

Everyone likes finding a well maintained cache with a dry logbook. Unfortunately, there are one or more comments in regard to the state of the cache log for this cache, which leads one to the contention that the cache container is no longer weather proof.

A basic tenet of geocaching is that **the cache log needs to be signed to record a find,** see here: [Logging of All Physical Geocaches](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#logging). At the moment this would seem to be extremely difficult if not impossible to meet that requirement in regard to this cache. I am temporarily disabling it so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Prompt attention by cache owners to any log that indicates anything could be amiss is greatly appreciated by all seekers. The guideline advises; ***"if you can't check/fix it straight away then Disable it till you can."*** see here: [Owner is responsible for visits to the physical location,](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance ) and here's how; [Temporarily Disable and Enable,](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235) also check out this Blog: [Helpful Tips To Keep In Mind As A Geocache Owner.](http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/03/you-hid-your-first-geocache-now-what/)

Please respond to this situation by **23rd June** to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time, please be sure to post a "Write Note" log (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

**And don't forget,** once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; [Removing the Needs Maintenance Icon](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; [Temporarily Disable and Enable](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) to get your cache up and running again.

Found unable to sign soggy log photo taken if required

Very soggy log book need replacing

Still in Echuca as we head home from the Red Centre Experience Event in Alice Springs. Today we decided to tackle this trail and this was one we found. Log was mush. TFTC

Found with geohusband. TFTC

Easter Road trip with Black Bunny.
Quick find here.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Road trip with Just a cacher to do a little bit of caching.

Sometimes work gets in the way of caching and it's time to redress the balance.

Thanks for the cache!

TFTC. We are in Echuca for a couple of days camped at Rotary Park. We had decided that the Terrick Terrick Trail was our mission for today. Well that a couple of nemesis caches in town. For the most part the trail caches were relatively simple fiends. there were a couple of caches missing and a few that require maintenance. There were also 5 missing the puzzle clue for a puzzle cache which we have not yet found on geocaching.com. We will log maintenance where required. It was certainly a fun series.

Firstly apologies for my generic logs. Pa agreed to drive me along this trail today, and it was all I could do to keep in front of him with distance, size and hint let alone logging each cache as I found each cache.
Some were easy, obvious and others took longer to find and required some scratching around while others are in dire need of maintenance.
Another chance for Pa to show off his gallantry by jumping the gutter full of water. Cache was about 10m according to Sam(sung) but it was soon found and signed.
#31 of 37 finds today.
TFTC TNLN SL

Got it. So far so good!

Found today, i had some spare time today so i deiced to ride this series.

Thanks gregandjudi for the GC

Tftc. Signed and returned.

Has been so damp, water on side of roads not draining away.
Decided to do a maintenance run to repair those known to be in need, and check others.
Replaced - zippy bag.

TFTC.

** Smile # *3675* / Traditional # *2848* **

After settling in for our stay, I set the alarm early to get up to do this series. The rest of the geo family were fast asleep when I crept out. It was pitch black when I started out, but being dark and a Sunday, I though it would mean the least amount of muggles about... I was set for the morning. Heater blaring on my feet. GPSr loaded and the torch ready to go. This cache is on private property [:(!] [?] I was careful with the fence but others have destroyed it. Think it needs to be moved. Signed and replaced as found.

**Thanks for this trad cache, greg and judi** [^]
**Cache and log in good condition**
**Took Nothing, Left Signature**

1:19:00 PM. While in town we thought we would come out and grab this series. Took us a little longer than we thought but it was a nice day. Some containers could do with a visit from the CO and some clues are missing so no final for us. All caches found and logs signed. Thanks gregandjudi for placing this cache.

Found In good order another to the collection. Tftc

Find #2162

I was up before dawn on ANZAC Day but no memorial dawn service for me and instead the chance to tackle this T series before breakfast. Nice and quiet out there on the roads and I found 37 of the 38 traditionals available in the series here today. Followed the numerical logic and found most easily enough. A couple of containers needed a bit of love but overall some nice variation to keep it interesting and a beautiful sunrise off to the east on a crisp morning to make this a very enjoyable trip. Despite the obvious warning I very nearly did go sprawling over the fallen fence! Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and for the series gregandjudi and apologies for the (mostly) generic log.

I was up in Echuca for the CITO event and decided to try and complete this series before heading back home. Managed to find them all just before night fell. Thanks for this cache and the series.

found with geniejoan

I am the designated driver

With a long weekend ahead of us and an array of events in Echuca, we decided to join up with family friends (GemmaSistema) & enjoy caching and camping in an area that was a clean slate caching wise for us all. 
The blokes and the kids headed off fishing leaving Gemma & I to get this series done fairly quickly. A nice way to spend our morning. TFTC

In Echuca for the Central Vic Geo Events weekend with the hubby and kids. We camped with becca85 and her kids(boo09 and neisha07) and hubby. Becca85 and I ditched the kids with the boys who took them fishing and headed off to complete this series. All were nice easy finds (bar one). We knocked them off rather quickly which was fab. Many thanks for this and the detailed cache description - much appreciated.

GPS was sending me everywhere accept there

Good find Sienna

Mum and I took gramps out and found this one in no time. TFTC!

Another quick find tftc

Super quick and easy find. Doing some caches today while we are here for the day. Specifically for caching!! From swan hill.. Dam got hot quick tho!! Signed as "LK".

Gotcha tftc

Gotcha tftc

Mrs harrowang scored a double smiley here - a cache and a brand new handkerchief! #3335 TFTC

This was day 20 of our trip out of Sydney and touring the southern states of Victoria and Tasmania.
While visiting the Echuca area we decided to do a few of the local caches.

We discovered this power trail and decided to see how many we could find. The caches were all easy to find and we only had to DNF one (#14) and leave one that was not accessible (#19) due to the water lying in the ditch between the road and the obvious hiding place. We appreciated the effort that went into setting up this power trail. TFTC.

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Second last day of our big trip together with J+J.AU. Today we travelling from Berri to Echuca and picking up caches along the road as well as making enough kilometres to make it home tomorrow! This was one of the many visits today.
TFTC Wilbert67

We came her with Wilbert67, we have this little trail in our sites for sometime. We turned up in town a little later than thought, but the cooler weather was. Very welcoming, we like the variety of hides, some a little more challenging than others. We manage to finish the series before dark, now off to dinne. Thanks for placing the trail here and showing us the countryside of Euchca.

TFTC and the series. Out hunting smiles in Echuca. Gee it's hot

Glad geo dad has long legs. TFTC. Tor and Betsy, the travelling Westies roaming WA at present. We are from Oxenford near the Gold Coast in Queensland and thoroughly enjoying the West.

Doing the series. Very windy out here . Tyftc.

TFTC.. Main log on no 40

Found

Kazba16 and myself had a few hours spare today so we traveled from Bendigo with the intention of finding this power trail. This was the thirteenth of 37 finds between the hours of 11.00am and 1.30pm.

TFTC series gregandjudi

Billywillysillydilly and I took a trip from Bendigo today to tackle this fun power trail. The 35degree temperature didn't stop us!

Thank you for the series gregandjudy

Taking the geo kids caching during the school holidays, while towing a 24 foot caravan. Another clue to this mystery.
Thanks gregandjudi for placing & maintaining these cache for us to find.
#2456

Nice quick find TFTC

Enjoyed doing the series while visiting the area. TFTC

Saturday 22 August 2015 - Started 0900hr

We traveled up from Cranbourne to do this series after seeing it on the map, near Echuca. We decided to start at the bottom and work our way up and across the top.

The clues helped with these ones.

Thanks gregandjudi for this series and placements.

I think it was this at this cache yesterday, that muggle workers were busy across the road constructing a new 'mobile phone' tower [:o]
Today on a second pass, they had obviously completed their bit of the construction work and had left

With the coast clear this was an easy find today

TB visit

Started the trail yesterday so wanted to try and finish this today. Had to dodge rain showers . Tftc

found it. tyfc SL

Victorian Murray River region caching weekend 2015. I had marked this set of caches as the most westerly set of this trip so I spent the afternoon finding them. I only missed one of them and had a great time seeing some of the countryside.

Thanks.

20019.91 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 18000 Finds A#295

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Found at 2:57 PM GAFF1.
A very pleasant series that is both informative and entertaining.
Thanks gregandjudi.

Next!

Tftc

12:49
With our caravan at Maiden Gully, while we attended to some non-geocaching business in Bendigo. The [Red]T[/Red] of [Red]T[/Red]errick [Red]T[/Red]errick kept [Red]T[/Red]empting us and [Red]T[/Red]oday we [Red]T[/Red]ravelled north to [Red]T[/Red]ackle the [Red]T[/Red]rail.
While absorbing the wonderful information on each cache page, we missed the 1-40 order clue, so were not quite sure if we were following Fibbonaci or Pi!

Our thanks to gregandjudi for bringing us here.
12019

It was road trip time and three days traveling and caching was quickly planned. An early morning start and the first location was Mt Buller. From Mt Buller I headed to Bookham in NSW and stayed there the night before hitting the Endangered Species series of caches, starting early the next morning. Heading South West I stopped at Gundagai to visit a 'dog', continued through Walla Walla and Urana before crashing just out of Berrigan. The third day I continued west to Echuca then south through Bendigo and the final stretch for home.

The weather was good on day one but later that night it started to rain and continued for the next two days. Needless to say I did get quite wet on occasions, and some of the country roads I followed where no place for a 2WD, the Prado would slip and slide but luckily kept moving forward. By then end of the trip there was another 1800 km on the clock, 239 cache finds, 2 DNFs and 5 FTF's just to top it off. Thanks to all the CO's for the caches I found and the places they brought me to.

I made a note of doing this series of caches during the trip through Echuca. A nice series and each cache page provided some interesting history to read about. Most of the caches were nice easy finds with one or two proving a little trickier. I collected all the clues along the way but will have to wait for the final to get back up before getting that one. Thanks gregandjudi.

My last day in Australia after attending the Stanthorpe Mega last weekend, and a subsequent caching road trip. Positioned myself in Moama for my last night's stay so I could do this series before the final drive south to Melbourne. Loved the wide open country here and good roads with very little traffic. An interesting historical series to do. Many thanks to gregandjudi for placing and maintaining the caches.

Our time in Victoria is almost up so we decided to drive around and grab some caches. We saw this series when we were still in Italy and now finally we found the time to conquer it. All the cache are in place, it takes some time to be able to visit all of them. Thanks to gregandjudi for showing us this place.

Non ci è rimasto molto tempo nello stato di Victoria per cui abbiamo deciso di passare la giornata guidando in giro e recuperando quasi tre cache. Questa serie l'avevamo adocchiata ancora dall'Italia, quando ancora no avevamo esattamente idea di dice saremmo stati una volta giunti in Australia. Alla fine avendo un pò di tempo libero siamo riusciti a fare tutto il giro con pazienza e dedizione. Grazie all'owner per averci portati qui.

Jacopo e Lisa