Red Hill Express - The Pass Merricks, Victoria, Australia
By BorisB&Natasha on 26-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4PJFJ

Making way for a new railway line

Nice hiding spot. Beautiful day for an explore.

Found with @PeprExplores

TFTC! The co-ordinates led us to a landmark that was bigger than all the rest. A bit of poking around was all we needed.

See "Red Hill Express - Engine House (GC4PRWH)" for my general comments about doing this amazing 'Red Hill Express' series with a 10yo geokid.

First name in a fresh log very satisfying TFTC

Cache replaced with a new one in it’s original hiding spot

Very challenging, had to break the 10 minute rule fir this one. Thanks

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to BorisB&Natasha for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Too good for us.

Looked and prodded for some time expanded my search and excavated some more but couldn't locate this cache.

Had a second look couldn’t find

Unfortunately after a long search we were unsuccessful today, even with 5 pairs of eyes looking.

We’ll be back for another go next time we are in the area.

Thanks BorisB&Natasha.

Took a little bit for us to find. Good camouflage. TFTC

We nearly gave up on this one and after one last scavenge we signed the log. TFTC

DNF

Took a second to look around

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“Open your eyes”- after poking around volla!!! Yes, very pleased with ourselves we remembered to collect the clue without having to back track for it

This one we found to have a sneaky little hiding spot, but was a quick and easy find, retired, logged and returned, and off me go excited to see more of what this rail trail has to offer for it caching travels.
TFTC

Good hide. Found easy

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Loving the trail

Quick grab -- thank you for the hide!

Quick find.

Tftc

Tftc

Nice easy find thanks

TFTC

Cute little spot!

Out for a walk this morning enjoying the nice weather, little chilly but perfect for walking. Out to complete the whole trail, thanks for placing all these caches!

Quick find, swapped some swag and signed the log, thanks for the cache

Between staying with a friend on the peninsular and the home i was able to spend some tome walking part of this rail trail on a pleasant day. Collected the clue and continued TFTC BendSinister

I passed the test! Next!

Tftc

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Took longer than it probably should

Beautiful cache

TFTC

Good one

Another great hide

Easy find on the trail. TFTC!

Out on my own today enjoying this walk along with many others whilst looking for some clues. Nice easy find here. Loving your whole theme here. Thanks for the cache BorisB&Nastasha

A nice quick find with turtliesuperman logbook full but signed

2 February 2021 9:30 am
Enjoying a couple days off from work as they continue to do works on my office I thought to myself why not go and finish the Redhill railtrail series as it had been a rather long time since I started it..... several years now at this point.
What a trip down memory lane this series is, having grown up exploring the red hill area as a kid I had a great time reveling in the nostalgia.

Another great find

TFTC nice easy find

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We are back . After enjoying doing half of the trail from the Red Hill end yesterday we have returned to complete the series from the Merick end. We took note of the clue. Logged a TB and took another. TFTC

Found it with Swilks TFTC

quick find by little miss 7!!

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Started this series and took a few days to complete the whole thing. Really enjoyed searching for some really clever caches and must say none of them were disappointing at all, such great ideas. Collected all the clues and found The Pines and was able to unlock the cache. Thanks to all the CO’s for placing and maintaining this series
TFTS

Out with the family for a bike ride and wanted to pick up a few more of this series.
Geo kids got over the stop start so we will be back to get the rest!
Tftc

Nice & Easy! TFTC!

Enabling while it seems safe to do so

These hills weren't going to be fun coming back up I thought at the time, and my legs confirmed this.

Thankful for a cool and overcast day.

Disabling till life is normal again

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Nice day in Red Hill South decided to collect some smiles. TFTC

#3974 We are down from NE Vic for the long weekend for a bit of caching fun on the Peninsula. Today we targeted the Red Hill series which has been on our wish list for a long time. We started from the Merricks end at 9:45am and finished up in Red Hill for lunch. A bewt walk on a bewt day completing a bewt GC series . A few muggles enjoying the trail today but it didn't interfere too much with completing the well hidden caches.

Making a quick pass of gz we quickly spotted the well hidden plastic here. TFTC!

Quickest find so far!! By geokid. TFTC

Timely to escape the smoke and fire threats in the NE and catch up with some buddies in Somers AND get out on the MTB to explore the trail since it’s not really beach weather. A great series and so much care and thought has gone into creating lots of fun hides. TFTC series

Out early to beat the hot day ahead and finish the series.

Found at 12:31 PM GAFF3.
I must make mention of this track - it is fantastic to be able to zoom along on the bike. Very nicely maintained.
Thanks BorisB&Natasha

TTFC

Trekking along the red hill rail trail for the first time with a local mazzystar. Nice find. TFTC

Another quickie! TFTC!

Nice find thanks

Yay

Noice

Definitely something went wrong. That was too easy

Found

Heute ist es arschkalt und es regnet fast pausenlos. Da wollten wir eigentlich zu Philips Island. Irgendwann haben wir den Plan aber verworfen wegen den beiden Gründen aus Satz 1. Umgeswitcht haben wir auf dieses Ziel. Ein Trail mit so vielen tollen Favoriten! Oh mann, wirklich richtige tolle Caches waren hier dabei. Leider mussten wir irgendwann abbrechen und haben einige ausgelassen. Es gab ein Regenschauer nach dem nächsten und die Dämmerung drohte ebenfalls. Am Ende konnten wir wenigstens den Bonus mitnehmen. Auch einige Schleifen bleiben auf dem Weg zurück.
Thank you so much!

Leider war es heute mit 10 °C und Regen ziemlich mieses Wetter, sodass fazzyOne und ich unseren Plan nach Philips Island zu fahren über Bord geworfen haben. Statt dessen sind wirmal wieder auf Dosenjagd gegangen, was auch nicht unbedingt besser bei dem Wetter war. Diese Runde der Abschluss und der hat sich wirklich gelohnt! Tolle Bastelarbeiten, bei den meisten Dosen waren die so gut, dass wir ganz schön suchen mussten. Leider schafften wir bis zum Einbruch der Dämmerung nicht alle Dosen und zwischen drin hat es auch immer wieder geschüttet, sodass wir leider abbreichen mussten. Trotzdem danke für diesen coolen Trail.

Headed out to continue the Red Hill Rail trail after our first visit 3.5 years ago. It is Easter Saturday a clear sunny morning and a great day for a walk. TFTC

Down on the Peninsula for a week's holiday and finishing off the other half of the Red Hill Rail Trail today which had caught our eye due to the large number of favourites on some of the caches. This was the fifth cache for the day and Mrs Pooky made a quick easy find. TFTC. and bringing us to this walking track.

After a very hot day yesterday, today promised to be a bit cooler so we decided to head out on the Red Hill power trail. We parked at Red Hill and set off with a packed lunch and lots of water which was a good thing as the return trip took 4 hours.
The caches are all great and a lot of thought and effort has gone in the the creation of this cache trail.
Thanks for the placement and maintenance of theses caches.

After a DNF on the previous it was good to get straight back on the horse with a quick find.

TNLN SL TFTC

Found with *The Empire, Omegaman* and *Jentrek* as we tackled the series along a rail trail with our bikes. What an awesome ride along this great area.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
-P

Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Stamped Log

omegaman1971
4488 Finds
Have had this series on my to do list for awhile now and finally this week I had the chance to tackle it.
Perfect weather and great caching companions made this a very enjoyable day, and the quality of hides was awesome.
Cheers for the cache and series.

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Responding to a call out for geocachers on Facebook, Snap and I are in Red Hill to tackle a series along a rail trail with Omegaman and Jentrek. What an awesome series along a great rail trail. My thanks to Omegaman for organising this little group and my thanks to BorisB&Natasha & Nut bear for the cache and the series.
- M

What a lovely day to go for a bike ride. The sun was shining and the company was great. We headed out at midday after doing a bit of a car shuffle and rode mainly down hill for most of the way. We did encounter a big group of horse riders that we tried to stay in front of. Sometimes it worked. We all had a few laughs and we found them all
Thanks for placing the great series. It is always great fun when they are different hides.

Tftf -will have to bring Miss nearly 3 back to find this “treasure”

Good find

Now we are over thinking it!
TFTC

We picked this cache up at 1:23pm.

SirJ-Oz and I have had this series of caches on 'the list' for a very long time, but due to a variety of things ranging from my hip to just being generally lazy, we haven't managed to come and collect them, until today. I was a little late, but we eventually got going and had a very pleasant day collecting this series and a number of other caches in the area.

Thanks for taking over and managing the cache and the series BorisB&Natasha.

Find #3766. Found @ 13:24 with LouiseAnn

The plan for today was to knock off the Red Hill Trail caches by bike, and grab some others along the way.

As we're on the bikes, my notes for the trip are non-existant other than a couple of letters typed into my GPSr when I wanted to jog my memory. There are no letters, and no memory of this one, but we found it.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache BorisB&Natasha

TFTC

Red Hill Express - The Pass was transferred from BendSinister to user BorisB&Natasha

#1454 - 5.45pm
Post arboreal maintenance.
Noticed the geotrail.
Checked my nearly flat phone.
Cows at dusk
Found the cache

Another quick find thanks for the cake

#98

Today i decided to do the Red Hill Express trail on bike.
I usually like to do these sorts of trails on Fridays when more people are at work but no luck this weekend.
A cold and windy day had me freezing the whole time.

Found in the first place I looked but not the first time I looked there

Thanks for the cache

#2602

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

TFTC A more traditional hide. Hard for the kids to spot!

On our way back and we finally found it!! Thanks

Found with the beautiful Crystelle. Nice spot

Tftc cool find

Took longer than it should have, obvious in the end

This one took me waaaayyy longer than it should have. Wasn't leaving without it though. Tftc

This one was a traditional one ... again we loved it. It keeps you guessing what is next.

Found quickly. The kids tried to clean the camp off. TFTC

Cool trees along here. Found the obvious after a bit of searching. TFTC.