G2Q - Ballast! Point Henry, Victoria, Australia
By suscoe on 27-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4R3FK

Tftc

Found quickly today

I love the tree bench here!

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Making a start on the rail trail with gwd.aussie after attending an event. Needing numbers to achieve a challenge cache.Thankfully it had cooled down significantly.TFTC

After being to an event mid afternoon during the hottest part of the daywe were happy the weather had cooled down a bit to do this rail trail.Out caching with D@geoThank you for the cache

Easy find tftc CHM

11/13 finds today. Nini and I rode from moolap station road to clifton avenue, grabbing caches along the way. Another cache like a few before it, we hid it better than the last personthanks for the cachepika & nini 13/10/23

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Out or new E-bikes before the weather breaks. I have always wanted to do the rail trails. Now that we have bikes it a adds a whole extra layer to enjoying caching. Thank you for placing all of these caches along the trail.

In Geelong with some time to spare so a walk was in order. Nice to tick a few more off this trail! Thanks for the fun and adventure.

Took the bikes down to Geelong for a caching ride along the Bellarine Rail Trail. This was our 13th find of the day.

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Found

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Cache and dash.

Thanks for the Traditional Cache suscoe

Enjoying a tail wind home, thanks

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I came for the CITO with no other plans. But ended up clearing Point Henry plus another 23 G2Q caches. No problems here.



Many thanks to suscoe for the cache.

Out for the second day this week along the rail trail. Was able to get dropped off where I ended the other day and picked up further down the line, makes it much easier. Out of the 27 caches I looked for I had 3 DNFs which will all be placed on a watch list for later on. My son joined me for the walk today and there were a lot of other people on the trail. A quick find on this one. TFTC

Enjoy this lovely trail thanks

Found with my love xxx_perturbed_xxx
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Nice quick find with my love zerospooky tftc

A quick find while out walking. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Tftc!!!

TFTC, loved the cache design

TFTC, found quickly after getting muddy

Nice easy find

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Approached this one with care, as there was a scary looking cache guardian in the way!!
Clever hide, quick find. Log signed and everything replaced as found. TFTC!

This type is one of my favourites. TFTC

Tidying up some caches along the rail trail that I hadn’t previously tried - TFTC Suscoe

And with the finding of this cache it was time to turn for home.
I can see the multitude of caches stretching out before me on the map but they will have to wait for another day.
TFTC

Sneaky!

Another well hidden cache

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A day's outing while staying at Bellbrae with Bogonghazy had us travel into Geelong where we jumped on the bikes to do a few of the rail trail series and finishing the day in Queenscliff.
This was another clever hide, thanks again Suscoe

Found it with silence49 lance51 and Crank1

Found it with lance51 crank1 and deafvw

Found it with Silence49 and Cranky1 and DeafVW

Accompanied with silence49, lance51 and DeafVW. We hire the e bike for G2Q Rail trail for the day. We had a great time finding your cache suscoe, thank you so much for placing it.

*15 Jan 2022, Found @1:48 pm, Find # 3705.*

With so many others heading to Wangaratta mazza-g and I decided to play it safe and head here instead. A beautiful day on the trail with many interesting and varied hides. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which ones are fake and which ones are real.

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

Came to Geelong with Jascat and our bikes to ride along the trail seeking caches along the way. TFTC

On the wrong side of the tree to being as a
Jumpy Nav keeps leading me astray. Decided to leave it then a pause, hmm that looks a little different there. Cache in hand seconds later

We had been working all day and needed to head to the big green barn in Leopold for some supplies for A'Tuin the geomobile. While nearby we headed off for a little walk to find this cache to keep the streak going. It was fortunately quite pleasant as the storms had already passed by and there were a few muggles out and about doing some exercise. We were able to make a reasonably quick find and then we headed off to the big green barn, unfortunately, no snags out the front. The cache is in good condition. Thank you for this cache suscoe.

Macapaca09 found it

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Found! TFTC

This one made sense so a nice quick find was made.
At last we thought the weather was predictable enough to get out on the rail trail and chase some caches there. It was cool and overcast and quite windy, but few or no showers were forecast.
It was a tough day all the same. We always seemed to be going uphill when the wind was strongest, and some of the hides were truly challenging. There was the clever ones that truly had us thinking and then micros in the bush as well as some hidden in the undergrowth. There were of course others that were straightforward.
We began the day with 2 DNFs which did not auger well, one a D4 which simply did us in and the other we are maybe just blind.
All in all though it was quite an enjoyable day on the bikes and productive cache wise.

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Decide to tackle some of the rail trail today!! What a relaxing ride! Started in Herne Hill to Leopold and back. Lovely little critters have made this area a home. Friendly enough

Thanks for getting me out and about

An easy find and a favourite type of hide and cache TFTC I'm racking them up tonight!!!

*WesPro's "Get Out Of The House Before Something Bad Happens" Adventure #8*
Apologies for C&P logs.
Thanks heaps Suscoe!

Found today while out walking with muggle hubby, he actually found this one, but sadly doesn't like the hobby any better. Many thanks for the cache.

Catching up on a few more of these rail trail Caches after successfully getting my daughter married on the third attempt. A nice familiar find suited to the theme!

SLTNLN
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Found it thanks for the cashe

First cache container of this kind that I’ve found. Nice one thanks

Good one! Tftc

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We wanted just a few caches today to fill in a missing section on the G2Q trail. Easy walking along here with ilook4geo and easy finds as well. Had to be a bit cautious with plenty of dogs taking muggle owners for a walk, even more bike riders and one enthusiastic runner.
Found this cache OK in a popular type of camo.
Thanks go to suscoe for placing this cache as part of the G2Q trail.

Our for a short caching run today with goingplaces2, so decided to look for a few along the G2Q trail. Each log was signed before being returned to its proper place. TFTC.

No car until the 19th so the cache streak needed to be continued via bike. Finished work early and pedaled out herr on my way to the Leopold shops. A quick find. Tftc

Heading down to Geelong for the Leopold get together event after failing miserably in Ballarat attempting a few yak caches.
After walking along the river near the old paper mills to kill some time it was now time to head closer to the event but there is always time to find a couple more.
Drove along the dirt section of Clifton Ave and found somewhere to pull over the Geowagon but not to much off the road as it was wet and muddy after yesterdays rain.
After find 3 others on foot along this section of the trail it was time to locate this one then return to the Geowagon and head to the event.
Found some ballast lying around and I soon added my name to the log.
Great job by all of the CO’s along here.
Off to the event I go.

Thanks suscoe TFTC.

Found it when staying at Leopold, on a trip along the Rail Trail, during my motorcycle holiday in Australia. But today I preferred the bicycle.

TFT(awesome)C!

I started the rail trail series a few years ago now in a couple of different chunks but haven't had the chance to get back to it for a while. Today gave me the chance to tackle another small section of it, slowly creeping towards Geelong. Great fun all round, a well maintained bike trail and even better maintained series of caches. This would have taken quite a bit of effort to set up and maintain over all this time so my thanks go to all of the CO's along here for their efforts in allowing all of us to enjoy.

Suscoe enjoyed a ride along our section of the G2Q rail trail this morning.
It was that time for a maintenance run and it was such a lovely morning to be out on the trail.
A gentle breeze and lots of sunshine.

G2Q - Ballast is well and ready to be found.

Day two of riding the bike trails in the area and we headed off the pick up some more of the caches along the path.

We had a feel for the CO's and their hides now so we picked them up a bit quicker today.

Quick find, the geokids are sure onto what they are looking for today and with a promise of morning tea in 3 more caches they are on the double...

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Suscoe dropped by 'Ballast" this morning after a few DNFs of recent times.
The container has been replaced and is ready to be found again.

The upgraded asphalt track looks great.

Dnf

As per previous log

We found a nice pile of clue items right at GZ but sadly none of them hid or contained the cache.

Log sheet was too damp to sign. TFTH

Love these hides
And I found another jewel
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Clever, tftc

Quick find by the youngest geokid on a nice Sun arvo.

Found with the family. TFTC

This log is to tidy up a mess I made with GSAK . I forgot to apply the template so my finds were published with a nonsensical log.

Rather than try and edit all the logs I post this not with what the log should have been.

My apologies for the confusion caused.




A few days away with Freddo, e.gregory1 and The White Dog Gang.

Fun was had by all. Not too many dnfs

Most logs signed as FETT.

Thanks for all the caches.

Claiming a find as a beta tester.

Too much glitter for my liking.

Found whilst cycling the beautiful Geelong to Queenscliff bike trail with Freddo, Team Waldron and e.gregory1 - we've signed as F.E.T.T.
A hot day but great scenery and good co-ords made for an enjoyable ride
TFTC suscoe

Good coords. Cache found and logged.

Found on a short, post-Christmas sojourn to Victoria with Freddo, Team Waldron and thewhitedoggang that involved plenty of driving, cycling, walking and even some boating and wading.

The weather was on our side (albeit a little warm at times), which made for some great caching. There were plenty of varied finds, with some excellent and often tricky hides and and just a few DNFs. We signed most logbooks ‘F.E.T.T.’

Thanks suscoe for the cache.

Headed off early with sassieold55 to grab some more rail trail caches before the heat and then head into town for Xmas shopping. Nice quick find and a nice branch to sit on in the shade.Tftc suscoe

Found it with annabella02, yay shade and somewhere to sit , tftc

We have one of these at home for another purpose.
Thanks for the cache.

Grabbed a heap of this great series this afternoon before retiring to the in laws’ beach house for the night (thanks guys!).

Apologies for the somewhat generic log - need to keep my word count up but want to show appreciation for the COs’ efforts.

Found this cache on our return journey, as there were too many muggles on our eastward leg. Quick and easy find which gave us a clue for another that we hadn’t found earlier. Tftc

LeeLee had the day to herself so she decided to grab the bike and make a start on G2Q trail.
Arrived at GZ, quick search then noticed there were 2 small bouquets of flowers on a branch tree, but away from the path.
This made me wonder why? They are very pretty and recent. First thought was a memory but why? Then I thought maybe one of the local houses know the geo is here and the kids have put this kind gesture here? Hopefully the latter.
A nice area to ride.

Out on the deadly for a day riding the Trail , finding as many caches as we could, most were easy finds but some took a fair search til they were found
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Short walk to gather another one of these in short time
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Out for a walk on Christmas Day, combined with some cache finds - Merry Christmas to me!

After an exciting morning discovering what Santa had left, followed by a filling lunch, it was time to take everyone outside for some fresh air and sunshine. We took our puppy along as well, to initiate her into the ways of a GeoDog. The GeoKids were super helpful today too, making most of the finds.

We guessed what we were looking for here - and we were right, which helped! It was just a matter of finding it. It was very well hidden!

Log signed and all replaced as found.

TFTC!

A bright sunny day has evolved, after threatening early morning showers. Off to get a new towbar for the car (interesting hey) and with 3 or 4 hours to spare decided to uncover some of the Rail Trail caches on our "deadly treadleys"

All good with this one.
TFTC suscoe
TNLN

Out for a Monday morning stroll. Nice easy cache. TFTC

I like the hint.
thanks suscoe

Rocking and rolling all day long. If I'm not mistaken that's 99.

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This series gives us quite a few laughs! This was a Very Cunning little hide.

Nice quick find, adding to the rapidly growing chain of rain trail smileys. TFTC.

I attempted to complete the G2Q series along the BRT in one day shortly after publication, back in January 2014. Starting in Queenscliff I only made it as far as Leopold. Obviously it's taken much longer than that one day - it's several years later and with another attempt today from Geelong to Leopold I still didn't finish it !
With my car in for a service I thought I'd use the time productively and started cycling east from South Geelong. After 15 kilometres (and five hours later) I had to return to the service garage to pick up my car, with my geocaching mission still unaccomplished. 27 caches were found but it was a record day of sorts - a whole 9 DNFs including a streak of 4 DNFs in a row. The day's outcome was as follows:
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Despite some lengthy searches (and the bogans who have vandalized so many of the signs, baseline(s) and benches with unsightly graffiti) it was a great day out in the sunshine. I hadn't been on this trail for a while and had forgotten how enjoyable it is along here.

This one could be tricky for a beginner. Considering my track record today I feel like one too (these 2 icons look like an oxymoron but they reflect how I felt at the time. No, not a moron, but elated and deflated at the same time ).
Thanks, suscoe.

Nice easy find on my new bike TFTC

Wit taz_6

Quick find on a lovely walk in the fog. Great variety on this rail trail. TFTC

With lisyb

2nd one of these ive seen this week.
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Riding back from queenscliff today

I cycled the Bellarine Rail Trail from Geelong to Leopold this morning. The weather was nice, and I enjoyed the ride. Found a fair few of the caches on offer along the way as well. The odd one or two escaped me but I suppose that's only to be expected. Cheers and TFTC