BSRT- Sleepy Cyprus Smythesdale, Victoria, Australia
By highrod on 14-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4N9F2

Unfortunately this cache now sets off a nearby motion sensor

Last find on our Scarsdale/smythesdale cache run. Now I smell like tree! Tftc very good hide

Tftc! Nicely camouflaged in the

The last day of Xmas/New Year break so we decided to take out the treadlies and complete part of the BSRT - Smythesdale to Linton section.

A lovely day to spend outdoors and find some tupperware before we are stuck indoors and back to working from home.

TNLN TFTC

With both kids at Scout Jamboree we had a holiday in Ballarat. I decided we should attempt a distance along the BSRT. We borrowed the kids bikes as they are so much better than our rickety bikes. We were starting to do every second one on the way north to break the journey on our return to the car. I love having the bike helmet for bush caches as i don't get my head hurt and hair tangled in the branches. nice hide. thanks for the cache.

Getting warm but how beautiful in here, temperature dropped heaps. Nice, stuck find

Just the right height for Miss 4.

Waited on a muggle to pass then made a quick find.

Nice quick find with the fam

Found under the watchful eyes of the cawring crows

Lovely walk along this part of the track. Cache easily found.

Fight through the trees and found it

Cache in dry condition, log book ok.

Cache is in good condition and sits high and dry 1 metre off ground

TFTC. Ticking off a few BSRT near home

Sleepy sheep close by ... TFTC

After a crazy year, it’s time to get away for a bit of R&R, and of course a cache or two.
Day five: BSRT - Smythesdale to Linton.
Such a lazy tree!
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Highrod

Nice easy find

TFTC

Saw something shiny, but that was just a bottle on the other side of the fence, then I turned around and spotted the cache

Nice and easy thank you

Push through

Tftc

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Tftc!

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Tftc high rod. Found while taking my niece out to get some sunshine. An hour and a half a drive to and from home to ride only 8km. Lol

Found it

Heading to St. Arnaud for the mega event. Day 66 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 9 for the day and 1828 for the trip. TFTC

TFTC. We are enroute to our daughter in Newport. We do not do big mileages in the Motorhome as we found it better to explore doing shorter distances. We camped at Smythesdale Gardens for an overnighter. The bike has not seen much action of late so I (Hans) decided to ride the BSRT down to Scarsdale and collect caches along a section of the trail. Except for being swooped by a magpie had a good time . Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining the caches along the trail for our enjoyment.

Out and about for the day caching trying to finish the Museum mystery TFTC

Time was beginning to become short as I arrived at this cache so I remember thinking that this could be a time suck as I spotted a fence a few metres off the trail and could see Cyprus trees dotted all around the area.
So after ducking in I was happily surprised to make a very quick find at GZ.
Interestingly although these caches are rated small along this trail they sometimes seem to be rated as regular down in Parkville. I guess either the Parkville ones I have found that are regular sized on the website have been replaced by a small sized cache or context is king and a little larger than 200ml sistema in Melbourne are sized differently given it is a built up area.

LeeLee teamed up with AusFox; today with the goal to hit the BSRT trail from Smythesdale picking up a few unclaimed smilies from the last visit plus more.

Perfect weather, company and a great trail made for a lovely day.
All in good condition. Returned as found.

Thanks highrod for the series
#2461

I teamed up with LeeLee of Crack'n'LeeLee to work our way along a section of the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail covering 14.5km. The trail was in better than some of the dirt roads we ventured along. This is the first time I've dusted of the bike and used it as transport to cache, this will be the first of many trips I hope.
The weather was perfect for the ride with great company.

Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache highrod
#4,829

#314 Awaiting for a friend doing a local visit we decided to do this series.

off to Melb tomorrow for another mission.

TFTC

CC

With a nice change of cooler weather today after the heatwave it was good to get out and find a few 4wd caches in this area with Theo the geodog. Find #15 for the day. Making my way home due to the windchange that had come through but i wanted to have a second try at this one after a DNF here some time ago. Extended the search area today and came up trumps! Thx Highrod, this one wasn't so hard after all! CIGC TNLNSL TFTC

Least these trail caches have good variety.
TFTC

A chance for a quick cache run to tick off another day off the calendar. A Quick find TFTC

TFTC

Nicely found

My first day out geocaching in Ballarat on this trip. Found this cache while taking a bite here and there of the BSRT PT attempting the ones that were with in a short walk of a road. Quick find Cache OK. TFTC.

Our apologies for the generic logs, they do not mean that we think any less of the caches or the placement of them.
Today we have decided to camp here at Smythesdale for a few days and go cache hunting in the area plus head into Ballarat to have a look around. We enjoyed the walk along the trail, we met with an interesting man walking two dogs who told us that about 100 meters ahead a snake had had a go at his dog. He also mentioned that the trail is known for there being quite a few snakes along it, so we picked up a nice sized stick to hopefully protect ourselves if needed and there was no need we did not see any snakes. All caches that we found today are in condition but one which we have put a maintenance log on. SL TFTC

Found it

Found it

In Smythesdale and collecting a few caches in this area on a cold winters day. Another short stroll to this nicely placed cache Thanks highrod

Showing a muggle friend a little about geocaching - she was good! Beautiful sunny winters day so perfect. TFTC

It has been ages since we (BettyBoo3747 and I) came to Ballarat and completed the BSRT. Since then it has grown somewhat, but we hadn't returned. This weekend we have teamed up with Chewin (Howard from Howjen567) to correct this oversight.
We started with a DNF at Linton, but after that our luck improved and we collected most of the caches available.
A love ride along the tree lined route. We managed to avoided the weather until the very last cache, and even then only got a bit damp.
Thanks, Robmc.

#14047. Our first full day of caching in the area. We met Howard of Howjen567 at Smythesdale and headed to Linton to ride the BSRT back to Smythesdale. We picked up a neat 50 on the trail with 2 DNF's. We logged our first find at 9.30am and the last find at 12.50pm. The weather was perfect for riding and we managed to stay ahead of the rain until about the last 500 metres into Smythesdale. The temperature also plummeted to a chilly 17 degrees in a matter of minutes.

It was an absolutely fantastic ride and the first find of the morning brought my total cache finds to 14,000 so that was a great start to the day. It is a pity it wasn't the one at the start of the trail at the station but alas that seems to be missing in action with a string of DNF's to its name.

I hope you actually mean Cypress because that is where we found the cache without venturing overseas. Once again this one had been wet and the log book was well and truly manky and dead. We removed the log book and all the destroyed SWAG, wiped out the container and left a new log book in a plastic bag and a pencil. All good here now.

Thanks Highrod

Great hide on a cloudy day for a walk on the BSRT

Day 2 riding the BSRT, after coffee and cake for afternoon tea, on our way back to Linton. Another regular with no camo (waist high, fork of tree... clearly the CO doesn't believe in giving hints). TFTC

Finally found some time to have a go at this trail today... something I've always wanted to do even before i discovered geocaching but now have a bigger reason to do it. Jumped on the deadly-treadly and made it from Alfredton to Nimmons Bridge in Scarsdale. Over 40 caches found which is one of my highest find days so far and 3 DNF'S. Thx to all the CO's for putting caches along here for us to find.
Hunted high and low and spent quite some time doing it but i couldn't lay eyes on this one. Another time maybe. Thx anyway highrod.

10171 Found and Logged at 9:39:00 AM
One of 22 cachers for the day on the BSRT trail
A typical Victorian day cloudy, wet, windy, cold and even a little sun all before lunch time
Thanks For The Cache Highrod
Lgoody

Log book in desperate need of replacing

Log book needs replacing, is saturated and unable to be written in.

Found but could not write in log book.

Found it, log in terrible conditions wet and mouldy needs serious maintenance log no longer useable

What a beautiful day, just right for some caching and enjoying the fresh air. Really enjoyed the walk along the path. Log is paper mache. TFTC

Log needs replacing very wet

Found at 3:36 PM GAFF1.
A nice straight forward series find - we like them like that
Thanks Highrod.

A quick find and as we were still feeling okay, continued riding on. TFTC Highrod.

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Out and about on a rail trail expedition with Jascat and Mark9375. Nice hide. TFTC.

This one was very soaked
**Find #814 on 23/10/2016 at12:13:00 PM**

On the bikes riding the BSRT with jascat and geojill_11 for the two long weekends, this geocache was found, we had a great time thanks to all the cache owners for showing this trail to us! some amazing places along this trail, not to forget some good memories and caches!

Main Log for each day can be found on "GC5TPE3" "Lovely Linton"

-Geobike Visited (Trackable)

A lot of water around today and unfortunately the only way we could retrieve the cache was to jump over the fence. TFTC

Enjoying a great walk along the rail trail caching as we go. The GPS seemed to want to send me over a fence into private property for this one which I figured probably wasn't right. After a bit more searching we found the cache on the correct side of the fence. Some beautiful trees around here to enjoy. Thanks.

Found the cache and contents on the ground replaced and put back where I thought was a suitable spot to place TFTC

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1:51:00 PM. Back walking the trail. A cooler day with some showers around. A good day to be out walking as it wasn't too hot. A brief search and we found the cache Log signed. Thanks highrod for placing this cache.

Having a son living hereabouts I figured doing this trail was going to happen sooner or later. Organized it for Easter but many other family members thought it was a great idea too and came along. Trouble was I'm pretty much the only cacher among them all so we passed by quite a few in the interests of keeping the momentum flowing.
Needless to say I'll have to do it again sometime. Still got a few though!
Thanks

The aim for today was to go to the furtherest point on the rail trail and work our way back to see how far we'd get. Only doing the ones we can get to easily from access points as we're walking. We had one DNF for the day and hopefully all the walking can counteract some of the overindulgences of our holiday. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC

The 3FW's from SA have invaded Ballarat and headed for the BSRT. Find, sign, cycle, repeat... Saturday was a great day to be on the trail. Fog at the beginning and the sun just coming out at the end. We found all of the caches except two. One was missing and we left a replacement log. The other was just too good for us. You can't find them all.

Day 2 of our caching trip to Ballarat with Freddo and Team Waldron, we had an ejoyable ride along this trail finding the caches as we went, logs were signed 3FW to save space in the log books.TFTC

Heading over to Ballarat for a caching weekend and picking up a few caches on the way.

We managed to find about 230 caches in 3 days/ot bad work for 3 old guys

This series was why we came over to Ballarat.

We woke to a misty day and luckily it stayed overcast until we finished.

It was interesting to see the cache hides change as the hiders changed. We weren't fans of the bison tubes in the trees but that's the way it goes sometimes.

We missed a few but it didn't matter too much as there are lots more to find.

Thanks for an excellent series.

TFTC

And another easy one on the trail. 2016-02-25 at 14:15, TFTC

Found this afternoon while wandering with the geofamily. Great day for it. TFTC

#1,070

Another quick find. TFTC

Afternoon bike ride from Smythesdale to Old Glenelg Road. Good weather and good easy finds . TNLN TFTC highrod.

Found but with a casualty lol bark took some bark. Maybe that's karma tftc

Yay, the geokids found another one.

Found by youngest geokid. Boys liked the rings they found there!!! Left trades. Cache all good

Getting the hang of the hiding style in this section of BSRT. Enjoying the good sized caches, and this one soon fell to youngest grandson who loves caching. Thanks for this cleverly hidden cache.

Kids loved the trinkets in this one.

Quick easy find

Thanks for this hide highrod; great to be out cycling this trail.

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Another great find while in the area. SL - thanks for the fun cache!

Left Melbourne yesterday, and set up camp at the Creswick Caravan Park.
After Alansee and Team Crackers arrived, we enjoyed the open fire place in the camp kitchen.

Today we headed out on the bikes, to attempt another section of the rail trail.
Once again, we were not disappointed with the variety of good quality hides.

A fun day was had, in the company of good friends.
Many thanks for placing this series of caches, highrod, for us and others to find.

Camping at Creswick for the weekend with The Drovers & Alansee with one of the main aims being to grab some of this rail trail whilst alansee & The Drovers finished it off.
We started at Barbed Burl and worked our way right through to Linton.
We really enjoyed the ride although the head wind was a bit annoying at times and we were happy that we only had one DNF for the whole lot although some did have us looking for quite awhile.
We all enjoyed the variety of hides and some of the fantastic scenery that we saw along the way.
We are really looking forward to returning to complete the rest.
Thanks for the series, we apologize for the generic log, there were too many in a short amount of time to remember them all individually.

DNF whilst exploring the area on bicycle
Love this trail, love the countryside
Cool spot,
No Go on this cache today

Found it with my geocache girls on a nice quiet day with no muggles around, did a swap TFTC

frmen1 and I escaped home for a bit of geocaching. Found quickly, but felt a bit exposed with the house overlooking the trail. TFTC

Quick find with Tassie expat while exploring this great area. Thanks for placing these caches.

We are staying in Smythesdale for a couple of nights. Being conveyed to Linton to do the BSRT back to Smythesdale plus grab a couple of others. Most grateful that I included the "LRT" (log recovery tool) in my pocket as it came in handy to retrieve several logs from their caches. The ride was pleasant, cool enough for no wriggly-sticks.

Trying to make a note for each cache with an average spacing of about 200M on one's own when cycling is virtually impossible and to recall each of dozens of caches at the end of a day just wouldn't happen. Sorry for the generic logs.

It is great (we don't think so) that we cannot get NBN and have to use mobile data internet. Our service either goes "down" to at best very slow. Sometime soon my finds of 12/10/2015 will all be logged.

Thanks to cache owners for the experience.

Enjoyed the flora and fauna along the trail.

Have just had a reality check - solo riding on a cache bombed trail is far more time consuming than estimated. From here on if a hide is not quickly found, it will be logged as a DNF to ensure the clock does not well and truly get me into further "time debt"!

Out on a lovely hot day caching with Stashaa. Great series along the Ballarat Skipton Rail Trail. Took a few minutes to find this one but eventually found it. TFTC highrod.

A beautiful day for tidying up some green on the trail today with The Glanville Girls. Thanks for the caches highrod.

This one took longer that it should have but managed to sign the log and head off to the next cache. TFTC

On the trail to day with Wozzle68 with the aim to collect the caches between Smythesdale and Scarsdale. Both Wozzle's and my iPhones were pointing in different directions here today. Don't you just love that. Wozzle's proved to be on the money today. Thanks for placing.

Not to hard it was well hidden in the ground

Find 2 for the day