This way to the Otways #48 Birregurra, Victoria, Australia
By DBelco on 27-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4V4P5

It was a pleasant surprise to find all these archived caches still in place, I think we missed 3 for the entire series. In most part they were in excellent condition, only a few had wet logs so we dried out and added paper to original logs. Thank u for a great series. Tftc

While in town for the Mega we travelled to the Otaways and discovered a still active cache on the way ,with further investigating we discovered a series of Archived caches ,being a hunter of these type we quickly found the trail and signed the log sheets and returned the cache to where we found it .TFTC

Time to put this to rest

Quick and easy find. Found cache could not sign log. Too wet!!!

Found cache lying in wet grass, log book waterlogged and unsignable. We think we have replaced it in the right hidey hole. Need attention.

A quick and easy find, although I don't think the cache was in its correct place. Cache needs some tlc. Placed cache back where I think it is supposed to go. TFTC.

7th cache for the day

found. got prickles and thorns all over me

Out caching with kumacat filling in gaps from our first attempt and continuing on. Awesome trail!

Out night time caching with ninny miggins. Tftc

On our return trip home from camping on the great ocean road, had to use the inland detour as the road to lorne was blocked due to bush-fires... which gave us the opportunity to grab caches in the Ottways.

Found this one reasonably quick, all in good condition

thanks to dbelco
for this cache

TNLNSL

Found first of the Otway series. No blackberries to collect today. Robynonthego found a geodog drinker. Bonus find TFTC

We've had our eye on doing this series for quite a while, so I thought I would ask about in on Facebook, where the answer was the road can get quite busy. With this in mind, we decided on an early start and leave home just after 4.a.m. arriving at the first cache before 6.30 a.m. while it was relatively quiet, which turned out to be of some help. As the day drew on, the hotter it got and by the time we got half way through, we were feeling the heat, trapped in the trees with little or no wind, plus the road was quite busy by this stage.

Some caches were missing, some wet, some where the log had composted to green slime. We replaced what logs we had with us, then after that we had to ignore the bad ones we couldn't sign.

Thanks dbelco for the placement and cache.

On a geocaching road trip. Enjoying the area and variety of caches.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of this trip.

TFTC and the series

Found on a weekend trip with backpaqer

TFTC

quick driveby. there was someone already parked here who looked a little confused by the convoy that pulled up near his car but gave us no grief.

Find #1563

A big day of lone caching focussed mainly on this series. This was one of 80 finds in total and 62 finds in the series. A mixed bag with mainly good places to park and finds that followed helpful patterns. A great series for racking up the numbers but it probably needs a bit of TLC with several logs either wet or just stuffed into the cache. It was pretty tiring to do all the driving, navigation and cache finds but it was lovely weather for it. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables that I am carrying on the way to the Melbourne mega event. Thanks heaps for the series dbelco and apologies for the generic log.

Found

Mrs ReganSeekers & I celebrate our birthdays 3 weeks apart. This year we turn the big Three-Zero so we felt a child-free Geocaching roadtrip was the perfect way to celebrate. We decided that we would head for the Otways & complete this trail.
A few were missing & many had wet logs that we managed to sign a slightly legible initial on only. It was a beautiful day to be out & about & it was quite satisfying to sign our names on the finale after a very long afternoon. TFTC/Series.

This year becca85 and myself (Mrs ReganSeekers) celebrated the big Three Zero and only 3 weeks apart. So we decided what better to celebrate our birthdays then a caching road trip weekend starting with the Otway Trail. Aftet a mistaken snake (legless lizard) walking into spider webs, road kill and many crawling in countless ants we completed the trail successfully! A few extreamly wet logs with managing just an initial, we're happily to have completed the series TFTC/Series

Container leaking log soaked

One more

Out for the day with Autumntree and MaggieDot to do this series before their rumoured removal. TFTC.

Out for the day with AutumnCS and MaggieDot to do this series before their rumoured removal. Fought our way through the blackberry bushes for this one. TFTC.

A beautiful, if a little drizzly, winters day. GeoKid free, before the impending school holidays. What else to do but travel down to Forrest and attempt this trail in reverse with the excellent company of AutumnTree and AutumnCS?

We had a fantastic day, finding the majority of caches along the way. Dealt with drizzle, wet grass, the scent of bovine, and lots of mud! Avoided getting bogged which I considered to be a big plus! Had to stop at Moriac however to go be responsible parents and deal with after school activities! Coffee was excellent at the Moriac General Store - well worth a trip down that way to complete the trail.

TFTC and the trail dbelco!

Finishing off the series today. TFTC

6/06/2015 #2988

One Family - One Ferry Ride - This Way To The Otways Trail - 3000th Cache

Saturday saw us board the 9am Ferry from Sorrento to Queenscliff, the smooth trip and views were the highlight. Leaving Queenscliff we made our way to Mount Moriac finding a few caches on the way before starting the caching in earnest. We had lunch at Moriac before winding our way to Barwon Downs gathering caches along the way. We found our 3000th cache then headed home grabbing a few caches on the way, arriving home in time to catch the Storm v Panthers game!!!

Even though we fell seven caches short of completing the trail, time was getting away from us. We had a great day with many a laugh and stirring. I am sure the area was echoing with "Found It!!" screamed out as Katy and Campbell's competitive juices flowed. I am sure I heard from the drivers seat at one stage hearing found it x 2, jinx x 2, double jinx, bounce off the roof, doh, followed by hysterics. Another incident was Campbell pushing past Katy to find a cache, to be pushed away himself, falling backwards on a tussock landing on his butt!!

We had a blast all day finding caches and thank the owners for hiding them for us to find!!!

Tftc

Unfortunately didn't have a pen...so the spoiler photo evidence is attached! Tftc

Wonderful holiday in Australia with laalaa. Day trip south of Melbourne. Trail with car.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

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Found it with Team FIN [kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Another find in this series

TFTC Greetings from switzerland
Dustieann

Found while caching with Smurfy_CH & Dustieann. Tftc

Quick find )

T4TC& Greetings from Switzerland
Smurfy_CH

Good little pull off for a picnic as we hope to get a few more in this series today.

Back on the Otway trail to finish it off, plus a few extra ones here & there while out and about with alchey.

Thanks dbelco for the cache
Log signed & replaced. TFTC & smiley face
#1140

We have to say that this type of series is not our favorite, but as we have to go further & further afield to find new caches we have to find all we can while we're in the area. We rode the ferry from Sorento yesterday afternoon and are just starting this series at 09:30. We decided geo-wife would operate GPS & look up the next cache details as soon as we found one while I signed the log and re-hid the cache. This routine worked well and with the exception of 5 caches, which we either missed or have logged as DNFs, we completed the final cache at 15:45. A good challenge which we enjoyed far more than we thought we would.

Today we targetted this series of caches while staying at Geelong.

We started at 10.00 am and completed the series at Forrest at 4.00 pm.

We appreciate the time and effort gone into placing these caches for our enjoyment.

Continuing along the cache trail today on our way to Forrest, managing a few quick park and grabs with Yoshi Warrior and geo kids. Found without too much trouble, tftc dbelco.

Did this series today (apart from 5 DNF's) with Happy Pants and 4 geokids in tow. We set off from Warrnambool this morning stocked up on food & drink and had some coffee stops on the way before arriving at the starting point. #1 was found at 10am and #68 at 5.10pm. We had a couple of stops on the way to get other nearby caches and for the geokids to stretch their legs. Thanks dbelco for the hard work putting this series together. We found the coordinates were spot on for most of the hides.

The log was wet, but still able to sign.

Out with Darth Briji for a day of caching to finish off the Otways series.
Thanks for the Cache dbelco

Find # 1981

As I was only 75 smilies from 2000, and 2 days left of the Year, I decided to hit the "This way to the Otways" trail, the Tiger Line trail and a few others that looked like quick grabs to get the big numbers before the new year.

A 14hour solo round trip with only me, ute, GPSr and a selection of music to keep my sanity.
I left home just before 7.30am and got back home almost at 9.30pm and had travelled 628ks

On this trail, those caches found, were found with in good condition and fairly accurate with the exception of a couple. (that I have noted in my logs)


TFTC and trail dbelco

Doing this trail in reverse direction today, well at least until I run out of time! Another quick find this time. Thanks dbelco for the cache

Thanks for the quick driveby. Lovely hide. Perfectly matched. TNLN SL. Being completing this series slowly from both ends.Thanks dbelco.

Busy road. Wonder if anyone noticed I was talking in to a GPS not a mobile phone! Quick find

Picked up on the way home from Colac today. TNLN. TFTC dbelco

49/75 for the day. We set out after breakfast with wanting to double our number and this series gave us the perfect opportunity to. Some had us stumped and were very good hides others were perfect for a quick find. This is a road we hadn't been down before but will frequent now with memories of a fantastic family day. We didn't bother with some that had recent DNF and we appreciate fellow geocachers who have maintained and noted updates. TFTC dbelco

We picked this cache up at 2:21pm. This cache had no shortage of prickles, both of the natural variety and the rusty metal variety. Be careful out there!!

It was a massive day for SirJ-Oz, Sharkiefan and I. Our main aim for the day was the 'This way to the Otways' series. We found all but 5 of them. There was rain off and on through out the day, but me managed to stay mostly dry and came home tired but please with a total of 70 find for the day. Thanks for the cache and the series dbelco.

Quick find. Found with LouiseAnn and SirJ-OZ on a days caching. Tftc

Find #1589. Found @ 14:20 with LouiseAnn and sharkiefan.

Today's plan was to start and complete the "This way to the Otways" series with an extra few thrown in for good measure (and to achieve a nice round number tally for the day).

This was the forty-eighth of 70 finds for the day. Sharkiefan spotted it after I walked right passed it. Sharkiefan found that there were lots of prickly bits the hard way.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache DBelco.

On the way back from Warrnambool, setting some caches for s student event. Well, why not have some fun on the drive. TNLN, SL, TFTC!

[:(!] Went for a day caching run with the geowife (Driver) and geograndson (Spotter), this was one of them, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was located and it was in hand in a matter of minutes.

I like it

Another one of the list

SL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH/TFTPT Dbelco [^]

We started off today were we left off yesterday. Today our aim was to finish the run and see where we'd end up. Thanks for the variety of hides, the rest of the logs will be pretty generic.

Found @ 12.35 pm
Log to follow

A quick find on the way to Colac
TFTC

Travelling back to Ballarat from a quick trip to Port Fairy with 1/2 the Super Secret Squirrel Squad (Babes and girls!), thought we'd pick up a couple of these. TFTC

Found it on a visit to the area from Perth. Thanks for the cache.

My first powertrail! Found with Jamin Appleford on a big day out, we were heading to the Great Otways NP for a few days.
All found fairly easily. 7/7/14

TFTC

Left Wodonga for a few days down the Coast with Hammer_13. She hasn't been to the Otways before so I thought I'd show her some of the awesome places, some with and some without geocaches.
Tftc

Found this cache today on a major caching adventure to find 50 caches in 1 day that were all at least 1km apart from each other to meet the requirements for a NZ challenge cache that I am doing presently. This was one of the caches that I found and that helped me successfully reach that goal. Thanks a lot to dbelco, krankitkiwi and na'wal and all other cache owners for hiding the caches that helped me reach this goal. Another find along the way. This was hard to park by and I found the coordinates out a bit on this cache. This was find 17. Signed log today but didn't swap anything.

Thanks for the cache dbelco.

Very pretty GZ. SL TFTC

Time to go out and make some head way on this trail. So convenient close to home that we haven't been out here yet. TFTC.

Drove down from Ballarat to tackle this series today with St37e, thanks for the massive effort put into this one.

Found on a Powertrail seeking day with Wozzle68 on the trip from Ballarat, nice quick find

TFTC

The last in this series for me today. Only 18 more to go! I headed over for a look having read some previous logs but found it immediately and without having to wade through blackberries to make the find.
Thanks dbelco, I'll be back for the rest soon !

This entry was edited by Buckleysbabe on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 07:08:03 UTC.

another post, cache, smile. Thanks

Thx for the series SL, TFTC

Sadly we had to stop somewhere and this was the end for us... we will be back to finish off the series.
Thanks

# 19 for the day, my second attempt on this series, and only missed one due to muggles.

Beware many of these caches now have crawly visitors, the wet weather has made these caches attractive homes. Thanks for the series.

Very exciting at times.

TFTC

Found this one at second attempt. Can't believe that I missed it the first time. TFTC

Found by The Empire + H @ 11:40am
The last time I was down this way, I was chasing the Tiger Line Series, today, we were heading to the Forrest Brewery for lunch and a tasting. Thanks for the cache, and the series dbelco.
- M
#5,714.

Another day out on the road. A drizzly day kept all the muggles out of our way today. We nearly cleaned up the series today but a few elusive ones will bring us back to this lovely part of Victoria again. TFTC

Found in the company of Liz and Bruce, on a drizzly day.

It was after here that we deviated to Birregurra for a most welcome coffee!

A top day with a couple of other teams with a high level of geocaching addiction, namely Alansee and Di from Team Crackers. Loads of fun on this trail, the rain was a light drizzle most of the day so not too bad. Some caches required a long search as they seem to disappear into the weeds and mulch or into the tree foliage but eventually we were able to spot. A mamouth effort by the cache owner and we thank you dbelco.

On my way down to complete 49 to 68 of this series as as my mate ozbob did not find it i decided to have a look and indeed it was missing so the hunt was on and eventually I discovered it had fallen down among the blackberries so with gloves it was returned back to where I found it some time ago.

On our way home from Sydney last cache tonight, another one picked off this series.TFTC SL

This was a very well concealed cache.

Caching today with Motndarg, Glanville Girls and Tomstache, our aim was to finish our adventure that we started earlier this year. Our plan was to have lunch in Birregurra (where we met up and collected Rehfisch Clan, $doo and Storm_horse) and then incorporate the the Tiger Line into our caching plan. An overnight stay in Forrest made for a fantastic weekend.

Well hidden.

Great full on day of caching. Love to do it again, lots of interesting caches in this area. Caching with Motndarg, Glanville Girls, McLookers for This Way To the Otways Series and then Rehfish Clan, $doo and Storm_horse joined us for The Tiger Line Series.

Out on a caching run today with McLookers, Tomstache and Motndarg. Our plan was to find all of the 'This Ways to the Otways' series starting at Winchelsea and making our way to Forrest. A great day day of caching was had by all. Interesting looking upturned tree at GZ.

Thanks for the cache.

Planted gum trees were nearly ring barked with car tyres around the bases. Hopefully someone will remove them. Cache found ok. Thanks

Was at Colac and didn't want to experience the road works along the Princes Highway so decided to take the Cape Otway Road home and pick up a few of the Otway caches. Many thanks to DBelco for his great work in putting out and maintaining these caches.
This one I couldn't find as a very large tree has imploded over the fence post with mass destruction of everything around it. I suspect that the cache is well covered under all the debris.

After tidying up a couple of pieces of unfinished business in Geelong, we headed west to the road to the Otways to tackle both the "This Way To The Otways" series and the "Tiger Line" series. We anticipated that we would run out of time to look for them all today but we had left an opportunity to return early tomorrow to complete any that we may have left from today. Our first impression was the business of the road - it was close to a never ending stream of traffic but we were always able to stop, hunt and return to the road without too many problems. "This Way To The Otways" was a major undertaking and we congratulate DBelco on the detailed planning and implementation that was completed.

Tis cache took a few minutes to find as we had to widen our search from where our GPS thought GZ should be located. We finally found the cache about 9m away. The cache and contents were in good condition.

Start from Forrest to Geelong.
Enjoy caching along beautiful scenic.
Perfect sunny day with fresh air.

TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1445. Road signs everywhere, so this must be a major intersection. Looks as though we've missed out on lunch today - poor planning on our part. Our thanks to DBelco.

What better way to spend a sunny Sunday then to get out and cache, ended up doing quite a few Km’s today even with the late departure time we managed to get more than we expected and was a great outing, some caches took a little longer to uncover than others but well worth the effort. As always an enjoyable adventure with many thanks to DBelco for the time and effort in placing this cache. TNLN SL

After our success of yesterday we set off to do some more serious caching today. We found our way down past Geelong and on our way to the Otway’s and a cache series that was a lot of fun. Many thanks to DBelco for the cache placement. TNLN TFTC SL.

QUICK drive up sign and GO...

Found! An easy grab for us today near some a nice water spot.

The 4th start on this series after the geofamily decided to go camping in the Otways @ Stevensons Falls. A great trip in a wonderful place in Victoria. Glad we were able to tie up this series however we did have 2 DNF's.

TFTC

Find #544

Found by The_Tritonz on the 3/2/14 TFTC Watch for the Blackberries Ouch

Seeing today seemed to be the pick of the crop weather wise, we ventured out to do This Way to the Otways Trail with BettyBoo3747. We completed the whole trail and a few others along the way.
Can't say we say any of the views offered in the description, because by the time we had finished the trail it was time to go home!
We mainly saw brown paddocks and a lot of cut hay. Although we did see a lot of caches too
Thanks for placing the caches where it was reasonable to pull off the road. A good collection of hides, but I think I have seen more sprinkler heads that I have ever before.
Nearly all had good co-ordinates except for a couple which we averaged way points after finding the cache.
The blackberries are coming along very well here - nice and sharp!
I see they have a bit of a dam in the old railway line.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 5678. Robmc had picked today as the coolest day of the week to go out on a caching run. After yesterdays searing heat we were glad to be heading to the Otways......

So much for the thought that it might be a nice quiet country road on a cool day now that the school holidays have finished. It was like the main drag between Sydney and Melbourne - unbelievably busy with a constant stream of cars and trucks and property owners busy with their tractors and haybalers.

Apart from 2 caches where the coordinates appeared to be 15-17 metres from where we found GZ the rest were pretty good and the containers didn't take too long to find. A few however, did have us doing the bees dance tryng to find what we were searching for. I am sure you must have a bulk deal with someone for one of your types of hides. As most of those had open bottoms and no plastic bags I fear that with the first rains the logs will be soaked through.

All in all it was a great day with this series being completed and a few more grabbed along the way. Certainly some lovely scenery of nicely rounded hay bales and rolling hills and full dams as we got closer to Forrest.

A nice water feature here near the intersection and we have just discovered via Ozi that it lies along the old railway line. A bit prickly for Rob to find this one.

Thanks DBelco

Our final attempt to finish the series - yep, this time we did it. Just ignored the heat, enjoyed the trip and found all the missing pieces. Thanks heaps to DBelco for the series!

I came down here with featherdown to do the remaining caches in this series this morning. Noting theat #6 had been replaced, this was the first and bulk of the finds then recomenced at cache #36. Once again we found all of your caches though a few were doozies, especially when the clues disappeared but perseverance paid off everywhere else.
We finished in Forrest at 11.50am, just in time for the town's Aust Day festivities. Retired to the brewing place for lunch and drinks!
Thanks for a great series DBelco, enjoyed them very much

Decided to go into Birregurra for lunch after another easy find.

Signed the log and returned to hide.

TFTC

For us it was a way from the Otways. So a lot of road crossing and sometimes not stopping for all of them. Thanks for a great series for the statistics. TFTC

Today looked like the perfect caching day.
It was low 20's and the next few days were forcast to be in the 30's so we decided to take a packed lunch and tackle to Otways trail.
It was a nice trail though quite busy on the road. This may have been due to the Long Weekend though.
Thanks to DBelco for the work in getting this caching trail going.
We had a great afternoon of geocaching.

Found with Mum & Dad.
It was a great day for geocaching and we had a great time finding the,m.
It was good to stop in Forrest at the end of the day too!
Thanks DBelco.

A couple of days away to collect a few caches.
Late logging so apologies for not personalising logs.
This is one of 59 for the day.
TFTC SL

This is a man made watering point, possibly for bush fire watering access. We became aware of it in the early eighties when living in Birregurra. When the swimming hole at the river was not too good some people would have a dip here. I remember when some local kids fished out all the yabbies that were in it to sell to us in our restaurant (pre Sunnybrae days) and they weren't popular for a while with those who thought that they had prior ownership. It has filled up again after being empty during the drought. TFTC

An easy find with 6hinemoa2, thank you DBelco for the cache.

Perfect weather, road a little busy but we had a really great time completing this series. Resorted to generic logs for the moment - sorry. There are so many to log.
TFTC DBelco