Don't Give Up Birdwoodton, Victoria, Australia
By TheVersteegs on 05-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4FMJQ

First one for awhile, good to say we were an easy fine all in good condition TFTC

Thanks to all who is maintaining this 11 year old cache. All is good on this cool September morning

Up in Mildura with LittleBoss2, Geo the puppy for a week of caching and golf. Today was a quieter day than yesterday where we managed to almost complete the Paddle Steamer series. Today we introduced a couple of Octogenarian friends to our game who completely outdid us in their ingenuity to solve various clever caches in this town with more than its share. This was thankfully a quick find with the accurate coords and a well placed container.

A short stroll with bogonghazy and littleboss2 for aquick find

Found with Bogonghazy, sorceysal, geo dog whilst caching in Mildura. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

It was time to tackle the Turtle Series. Solving the puzzles began some time ago, but was done in earnest during the first of the long Covid lockdowns while supervising our eldest grandson while he was involved in remote learning. A great way to keep us occupied, but also stopping us from hovering over him while he did his work.We had envisaged doing much of the trails on bike but decided the night before to abandon that idea and do the caches with a mixture of car travel and walking. Turned out to be a wise decision as with soft and spongy trails and a myriad of thorns, burrs and bindis we think we would have been in trouble. It meant a lot of walking, but then that is supposed to be good for us!The hides were straightforward with in most case few options which was appreciated. Only one DNF. We also picked up a few other caches en route, a couple good field puzzles and containers.Thank you for a great series well executed.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache TheVersteegs.**SKI Pair****

We found your cache today 6 May 2024 3:33pm , while enjoying another day in our beautiful countryside. TFTC TheVersteegs

Found while having a look around the area today, staying in Mildura for the week. A nice stroll in to pick this one up, cheers.Find #6922 on 17 Apr 2024.TFTC TheVersteegs!

Tftc

Meh

Found it

Found while passing through in the process of visiting The Turtle Series.Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs.

Tftc. Found this little guy on it haha

Uh yep - DO NOT ATTEMPT AFTER RAIN. should have read that bit. Very lucky to not get bogged and just made it out. So gumboots in and walked. Coords out by 10m so just search and an easy find.

We didn’t give up! Thanks The Versteegs for this cache

Re hidden TFTC

Wow so creative!

Cache was completely exposed but fairing well. Covered it as best I could. Not sure what the cammo originally was though.

Mildura
I joined a group of Canberra cachers to tackle the caches around Mildura. Signed as MMA (Mildura May Adventurers).

Thanks for the hide TheVersteegs

Found while on a fabulous weekend away to Mildura to complete the Paddlesteamer, Turtle and various trads, multis + gadget caches. The Canberra crew included Nibletricecakes, joolay, kittykatch, youban, dty73, tankengine, & albida33. We signed as Mildura May Adventures 23 (MMA23). Unless otherwise mentioned, all caches were quickly found. TFTC.

Coords a little out but found it.
Day 4 of our Mildura Madness run and the gang is all here ??. Really looking forward to looking around. Signing as MMA23 or MMA or caching name depending on the signer. (Mildura May Adventures)

Thanks for getting me out and about TheVersteegs

Today was our second day adventuring together in the district. Out to tackle the Paddlesteamer and as many other amazing caches as we can with a lovely bunch of Canberra friends! Always fantastic to be able to get away for a long weekend of caching together. Loved the red dust and the crazy caching trails. Thanks for all the hard work from COs make and maintain these caches. Called our trip the Mildura May Adventure so signed as MMA or MMA23 today. Great to be caching with you KLSARC, GLISS! Albida33, Kittykatch, Barb2e, Joolay, Tankengine, DTY73 and youban. Thanks for a great weekend everyone. Thanks for the cache.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 54. Mildura Paddle Steamer Trip Day 3. After a huge day, the MAA team (Mildura Autumn Attack and we consisted of Nibletricecakes, Gliss!, Joolay, Kitty Katch, Barb2e, Tankengine, dty73, Youban and Albida33) headed back to the Paddle Steamer to finish the last bit. It did not take too long, and the whole series has been a joy of accurate and present caches. The next goal was the various Gadget caches rear Red Cliffs and then by the Gliding field. The day was completed with an all out effort to get to all the Turtle caches. Plenty of drive bys, but a few fun walks on muddy flats. This was another great series. A few of us gathered for take away dinner and retired for what rest could be achieved before tomorrows activities.

Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs

43193.81 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Aotearoa Deluxe A#475

**Albida**

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 and youban on our mini Mildura invasion! Seemed like a D1 to me - am I missing something? ! Thanks TheVersteegs!

Out with dty73 and Tankengine on a cache tour around Ballarat. Found after short search. Kutgw

Found and signed replacement cache.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Accompanied ALL7, crank1, Dutchaus, Deafphathom,Everlasting..

Awesome enjoyed exploring in town as more fun challanges.
Sign in “6ACDDE” TFTM

Found the cache and logged the log with Everlasting Deaf Phantom 63Roos DutchAus All7 as 6ACDDE TheVersteegs, Thank you so much for placing it.

We replace new cache with 6ACDDE TFTC

Replace the container.

12 April 2023
Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DutchAus, DeafPhantom, and Everlasting .
Signed the log by stamp.

Enjoyed myself wandering the country and caches.
We are doing some replacement and maintenance
Thank you for the cache and hunt.
Sorry, copy and paste

Found it with deaf group
Thank u

Replace the container.
6ACDDE with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DutchAus, DeafPhantom, and Everlasting .tks

A lovely walk through this bushland area today while we were collecting some others from the nearby turtle series. It looks like the area around GZ has been underwater in the recent floods.
We had a good search, but no luck for us here today. Thanks TheVersteegs
Domsky

Nice

Nice easy find.

Nice hidden away area

TFTC SL

Found by Mary and David at 15:00. Don't think we have seen so much purple pig face anywhere before. They certainly appreciate these arid conditions. Dropped off " Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Tag Hoarder!" TB. Our thanks to TheVersteegs.

This was found while searching for the Turtle series. Straightforward find. Thanks to TheVersteegs for the cache.

Found It!
A quick find here. Nice spot for a cache.
TFTC

A quick find with KiwiOzzie after a night caching with the Wayne's.
We did not give up.
TFTC TheVersteegs

Found it
TFTC TheVersteegs. Found on 20 Aug 2022 at 10:39 pm. Find # 2554

TYTC
Swapped a tiny tyre rubber for tiny rainbow notebook

TFTC

Nice day to be out tftc

No problem

Spending a few days in Mildura, joined by the rest of the Goldy clan for a family getaway.

We've been coming here since our first visit in 2008, it's a Goldy family favourite so I'm excited for the opportunity to find a few geocaches here and in some of the surrounding towns.

I'm also looking forward to experiencing some different hides in another state, as all my finds so far have been in South Australia.

I won't be able to get to all the caches due to having other plans with family, family always comes first.

So a high majority of caches on the "to be found" list are ones where I can learn local history and ones that are relatively quick and easy.

I've been primarily eyeing off the turtle series geoart and adventure labs.

Easy find at GZ.

Cache and log book in good condition.

Put my signature in the log book and returned the cache to its hiding spot.

Signed as "P.Goldy"

Thanks to TheVersteegs for this cache.

Find No.828
21/04/2022

Day 7 of the long road trip from Western Australia to Townsville, Queensland.

Caching today was in Mildura mainly doing the Turtle Series and one of the Adventure Labs. Unfortunately half the final ground zeros somehow dissappeared from the GPS so had to rely on the tablet to work out where to find the Turtles. It made the day long and a case of backtracking a few times when it was found some caches had been missed.

This cache found without problems. Log signed and the cache returned as it was found.

Thanks TheVersteegs for placing and maintaining this cache for geocachers to find.

Day 7 of the long road trip from Western Australia to Townsville, Queensland.

Caching today was in Mildura mainly doing the Turtle Series and one of the Adventure Labs. Unfortunately half the final ground zeros somehow dissappeared from the GPS so had to rely on the tablet to work out where to find the Turtles. It made the day long and a case of backtracking a few times when it was found some caches had been missed.

This cache found without problems. Log signed and the cache returned as it was found.

Thanks TheVersteegs for placing and maintaining this cache for geocachers to find.

Day 25 of our southern trip. Our final day based at Red Cliffs. Finishing off some Turtles and GOT and more. We areTeam 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Good one.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on February 3, 2022. TFTC, TheVersteegs

Day 25 of our southern trip. It is our plan to finish the Turtle geoart today.
It was cold again today.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as 44 QLD (4 for QLD)

TFTCache TheVersteegs

TFTC smile 12038 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Mildura to cache the Paddle Steamer ( now finished) working on the Turtles today
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, TheVersteegs, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Third day out on the local trails with hatzofff, grannysmith1947 & RoddyC. (Logs signed as Team 44 QLD)
Finishing off the remainder of The Turtles geo art, some multis & trads along the way.
Nice hide & quick find here for us today.

TFTC TheVersteegs

Out caching today. Perfect day for caching thanks for arranging.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC TheVersteegs
Find #7626 at 12:49.

Out on hot summers day turtle caching adventures with Wollaston.

Container condition good
Log condition lots of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC TheVersteegs

Find # 5223

Nice quick cache. Left a small swap, took nothing. TFTC!

Nice easy find, good location

Quick find with the accurate coords. It's in good condition. Nice spot. Tftc

Out with frmen1 for a walk. The road in was not suitable for our vehicle, so we walked. The mud really caked our shoes. A quick find with contents in good condition. TFTC

Tftc

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Good find

Nice and easy find, I would say the difficulty is a 1 not a 3 though

In Mildura for a day, hit the Mildura Brewery last night, parkrun this morning, followed by breaky, then out for a hike to find some cache. Blitz some of the puzzles in the week, wasn’t sure how many we would have time to find, especially with all the trads in the area too. Ended up jogging and hiking 28km today in total. TFTC.

A few hours of caching in the area to try and clean it up. Mixed results but found some. TFTC

Found by Rebel Acts

In Mildura for a few days with Snap Happy, omegaman1971, Happy Feet, Happy Pants and The Empire.
After finishing off the GOT series it was time for Me to do the turtle series, it was a little challenging getting to some locations but I managed to get them all done.

The highlight for the day were the fantastic gadget caches in the area.

Thanks TheVersteegs for the cache.

*Staying in Mildura for a few days*

In town with Happy pants, Happy Feet, The Empire, omegaman1971 and Rebel Acts for a few nights and to clean up the Paddle Steamer Geo Art Trail and a few other series if time permitted.
We headed out to grab a few local caches after completing The Turtle Series. We made our way to GZ where we made the straight forward find. Such a great variety of hides and containers. I have seen many wonderful sights, a fantastic variety of hides and taken many photos around this fantastic area
Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs. Appreciate your efforts.
Stamped log and returned as found.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

Cache on!
**#16149**

This was a great opportunity to get away with some caching friends in Mildura. The plan was to hit some of the local trails and geo art. There was many other hides discovered, with some really great containers and hides in the area.

Thankfully we didn't give up but had to expand our look about 12m from where GZ was pointing.

Thanks TheVersteegs for placing the cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy the find.

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 7949 finds
In town for a few day with the crew to hit the nearby powertrails and put some smiles on the map.
Has been many years since I was here last , the town has certainly changed.
Cheers for the cache

Found by The Empire
Here in Mildura for a few days with Snap Happy, omegaman1971, Happy Feet and Happy Pants.
Once we'd finished finding the nearby turtle series geoart, we were keen to keep on caching into the late afternoon, then on and into the night. "There's another one over here" was the saying heard most today. We found a plethora of different cache types, hide styles and were happily perplexed at some GZs! Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs.
- M

Easy find

Good hide, TFTC

Found on a trip from Adelaide to the Mildura area for a few days of caching with Team Waldron, Brisal5 and FeatherWaite. Our main targets were the Paddle Steamer and Turtle geoart series' but we also took the opportunity to seek out a few other caches along the way.

We were fortunate with the weather. After a burst of very hot days, we timed our trip nicely to coincide with the milder conditions before the next hot spell. That helped to make both the caching and the camping along the Murray River and in the Murray-Sunset National Park very pleasant.

We ended up finding all the caches that we had targeted. Most were in good order. Some of the puzzles were quite challenging and there were some very novel and entertaining multi's. Some certainly took a bit of finding and there were many very clever and/or tricky caches and containers that were a credit to the cache owners’ ingenuity. We signed most logbooks 'B.E.F.W.'

It would have been good to have had another day or two to complete the remaining caches in the area, but I’m sure we’ll be back.

Thanks to all the cache owners for the hides.

Over from SA for 4 days of caching with Egregory1, Featherwaite and Brisal5.

We came primarily to do the Paddlesteamer series but picked up orthers as we drove around.

Apologies for the generis logs.

All caches we found were in good order.

Thanks to all cache owners whose caches we found.

TFTC

Found during a trip from Adelaide to the Mildura area for a few days of caching with Brisal5, e.gregory1 and Team Waldron with the main aim to complete the Paddle Steamer and Turtle GeoArt series but also to find other caches along the way. We camped out on the banks of the Murray River near Mildura on the first night, at Rocket Lake campground in the Murray-Sunset National Park on the second night, then back to the banks of the Murray River near Merbein on the last night. We signed the logs as B.E.F.W. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the cache!

TFTC

Hi there TheVersteegs.

We found your cache **"Don't Give Up"** at 10:32:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 24668).

We're staying in Mildura to hunker down over the current Victorian lockdown. On our daily exercise stroll today we decided to attempt some caches around the local area. We found 11 caches & DNF'd 0.

Thanks for placing this cache here. Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends. Thanks also for not placing a mint tin or a 200ml Sistema here. It made us feel really good to find this "special" cache here.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge

Thank you TheVersteegs for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Tftc

Found with Emma babe 123

Great idea very clever really liked this cache, forgot to log on the day
Found with Knipe raider

TFTC

I was in the area doing a few Turtle caches and picking up some trads as well.
I did not give up and your cache was soon found. All good with it too,
Thanks

TFTC!

Thankyou. Found it.

Found with Rocstar70 on a fresh winters morning. Found by Rohan.
TFTC.

Easy find

Nice

TFTC!

Port Macquarie heading to Millicent

Balranald to Mildura, stopped to find a few caches along the way.
We have now set up camp at the Big 4 caravan park.
Spent the afternoon touring the area following the caching trail, or should we say the turtle trail.

Thanks for placing this cache TheVersteegs

Travelling wilberries Maegen and lou at it again. Tftc.

We think that the cache is not at GZ... much too easy.
It’s 12 away in a southerly direction
Found in a typical geocaching place and style.
We replaced as found.
TFTC

That certainly is slippery when wet. Remind me next time to turn the traction control off.

Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs.
Found on 4/3/20 at 2:29 pm.
Find #10724.

No giving up here... found a way to make it almost a drive by in the dark!

A nice wander in the bush.


School holiday fun!
All this week we are together as a team, so
logs with the team Mattycat stamp include Purrfect Di, Jack, and Sebastbat
as well as muggle Alex. Some may get some initials as well
tftc TheVersteegs

I didn’t give up and was rewarded with a cache! Cache #3169.

Suscoe and Phetlern headed out today for an adventure to the west of Mildura out through Merbien, Wentworth and a bit further out to Fort Courage.
Another wonderful day in the Mildura region.
Clear skies, lovely sunshine, lots of caches to search for and great company.
What more could you wish for.

Thanks to TheVersteegs for this hide.
On our last visit here a few years ago this was a DNF.
Today it was soon spotted and signed.

The sun had set when we went to look for this cache but there was still sufficient light. We went to GZ but didn't find the cache. We looked around and saw some likely hiding spots and we soon found the cache but it was 14m from the published coordinates. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks TheVersteegs for the cache.

72 caches today in Mildura with my geosister H423L and my geodog Tonka
Fantastic day caching
TFTC

We gave nothing up. TFTC

After moving the houseboat downstream the boys parked close to some caches (again we didn’t tell them to stop here - it was fate). So with some caches on our doorstep Becca85 and I left the hubbies with the kids (fishing) and we ventured out for some smilies.

Quick find here - time to get back to the boat now! Thanks for the cache.

On a houseboat for the week with GemmaSistema & family, we managed to notch up quite a few finds. A fairly quick find here before heading back to the boat. TFTC

Found while working or way through the nearby Turtle Geoart series. A much easier find than the D/T rating led us to believe, perhaps the hide used to be much different than how we found it today. Anyway, another smilie on the gameboard for us today and more fun exploring the local bush.
Thx to TheVersteegs for placing.