Benalla Sports 2 Benalla, Victoria, Australia
By jigg61 on 04-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4WEPN

Unfortunately there has not been a response (or regular update) from the cache owner within the period requested and, as per the original advice, this cache is now being de-listed (Archived) as abandoned.If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment.If you wish to contact a Reviewer regarding this cache, please send an email via the profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

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### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUESTED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there jigg61,

It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is some sort of issue. The recent logs may contain more details about what sort of issues are evident.

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[3B]

Easy find. In desperate need of maintenance.

In need of maintenance

This cache is BYO log and pen. Requires some maintenance. Log completed.

Good one. It was nice to see more of the Sports precinct.

On a ride with my friend

Passing through on my way home after spending the day getting snow ready (skis instead of snowboarding this year). I had some trouble getting this cache because I’m short!

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Remember to be less depressy and more progressy!

(Log signed as Ellie).

TFTC

Beautiful old tree near GZ.
Clever camouflage.
Sighted by me, but retrieved by my muggle mate.
TFTC

After the mega, my sister Nakarra_L and I headed home the long way, and did some caching.
Nakarra_L found it as we were walking over. Lots and lots of tiny black ants nesting inside the cache, threw it around to get them off

Came back to Benalla for caching around here.
Found it
TFTH

Had a bunch of muggles start playing a game of bocce as I began my search for this cache. well I think from a distance that's what the game was.

Road trip to Rutherglen so I stopped by benalla for a couple of caches found quickly signed and replaced...TFTC

The only muggle in sight was busily mowing the grass on a ride on so he was well occupied so I was able to make a quick find.

Nice find fun watching the tennis

Found this one on a walk around Benalla getting eaten by mozzies. Fortunately a quick one and hurry back to the car! Thanks.

My caching partner today jo2022nz tends to wander around and not let the gps settle, often spruiking, "7 metres"......"3 metres"....."ohh now 8 metres" I just let her go and often take the time to put my phone on the ground for a minute or so and just wait. I also love a good hint like this one which helped me quickly spot the prize while jo2022nz was wandering around in circles. I do have 7 years and 1500 caches on her so I'm sure she'll work it out. She's already got to 450 way quicker than I did. Nice hide TFTC

Gz for me was standing between a rock and a hard place (not literally). My coords were off a little on this one. Lucky I had the trusty TBS with me to read the hint.
TFTC

Found It!
Nice little walk and a quick find. No sports happening here today.
TFTC

Found on a lovely sunny day after the floods. Cache high and dry!!! TFTC

Found. Thankfully had something to balance on to enable me to reach it.

Thanks for the hide!

Found. Thankfully had something to balance on to enable me to reach it.

Thanks for the hide!

People playing tennis nearby made it impossible to have a good look. Will have to return another day

????

Hi there!! Marinelli_5 and I found this yesterday, but we only actually bought premium today.
It was a little bit tricky considering we only had the general location and no other details whatsoever, but we managed and it was really fun for only our second geocache find ever since we started a couple of days ago. We found it in pretty bad shape, covered with ants inside and out and the plastic bag deteriorating. We took the log out, rinsed it and dried it and replaced the bag, I know it’s not really our responsibility so I hope you don’t mind!! We also put it exactly back were we found it, awesome hiding spot!!!
TFTC!

It was very high up and we needed to stick to get it down. Lots of ants in the container. TFTC

Nice find out of the three great veiw

Another nice find in Benalla sorry I’m having a bit of a bitch but CO really do need to check and do a little bit of maintenance TFTC

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Out on a caching adventure of 4 days with bushfire, Brisal 5 and Blackadder. We stayed nearby at Goorambat and travelled around from there. This had to be postponed a few times due to Covid.
Although Tag along and I have been to this area many times. We lived nearby when we were newly married. This was a new experience however, as I am a geocacher now.
Stopped here and after a little search it was found. We signed in as 3Bs, Team 3B6 or used name stamps.
The sun shone us all day despite the weather prediction of rain and cold..
Thanks for the fun jigg61

THE LATE TO THE WANGARATTA MEGA TOUR. [:o)]
We were booked for November 21. [^] Didn't Happen.
Booking transferred to February 22. covid
Booking transferred to May 2022. Yah - made it albeit a tad late.

DAY 5: The Fab Four of Bushfire, Blackadders, brisal5 and 6himemoa2 set off for a days of Geocaching adventures. Today we spent the morning clearing a few more around Benalla, then called in at Glenrowan before spending the afternoon targeting the Randolph the Rats caches [^] Bushfire and 6hinemoa2 had done them so acted as chauffeur and laughing at us every time we ran into trouble doing a pub crawl and then attending church for penance. You would have thought that a whole afternoon would suffice but we barely scratched the surface on this series. Here is what we managed in a whole day until dusk!

Took us a little while but found this eventually.

***Thanks jigg61 for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Day 5 of our trip to Victoria targeting around the Glenrowan and up to Beechworth areas with Brisal5, Bushfire and 6hinemoa2.

Our targets were once again, a few of the Randolph the Rat series where Bushfire and 6hinemoa2 were entertained by our antics searching for these elusive hides, and a number of others whilst nearby.
Rather than duplicating dialogue, much more detail is included in the logs of Brisal5.

All finds were visited and stamped by both the Adder and the Starfish. This is how we play.

All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.

A reasonably quickish find by the Adder dodging the pying eyes of muggles.

Thank you for the cache jigg61, found 7/05/2022, 11:34:06 AM

In the Wangaratta area for a few days caching with my very good caching mate from Bacchus Marsh 6Hinemoa2 and great caching friend from Adelaide and his mate the Blackadders.
Due to COVID lockdowns and other problems this trip has been postponed a number of times but we are finally going. Once in the area we put 3B6 or Bushfire in our logs to save space.
I am running late with my logs after finding so many in five full on caching days.
With so many caches found I have to use the cut and paste method as we found so many great caches from so many different cachers, so a big thank you to all those folk.

A late afternoon find. Once the GPSr settle down I found the cache quickly. Replaced just before a muggle turned up with his dog. Thanks to Jigg61 for the cache.

Found in the first place we looked

TFTC

Stretch…… nice hide

Today we moved from Brown Brothers Wine camping area to the showgrounds at Benalla.
This morning was caching around the town & in the afternoon we took a pleasant drive down to Tatong visiting many historic locations. We finished the day doing the AL Tatong Artworks

Thankyou jigg61 for placing this cache.

Glad for a quick find as I felt uncomfortable poking around a locked shed. TFTC

This one was nice and easy - thank you!

Nice one

All quiet today. An easy reach and grab

TFTC

This one was quite clever… someone really needs to put a new washer in the tap nearby though as it’s just wasting water! TFTC

Found by Rebel Acts

Mrs Rebel had to make a trip to Bonnie Doon to check on the horses at our Family property, this gave Me time to head over to Benella once again and make another dent in My unfound there.

This is one of the caches I found today.

Thanks jigg61 for the cache.

Easier than we expected, but Mrs Ski needed Mr Ski’s help to retrieve it

We left Geelong this morning after 10 great days visiting, exploring and, of course, caching and set off for warmer pastures. As neither of us has spent any time in Benalla for years we thought we’d stop and take a look around, and see just how many caches we could find in an afternoon. The free caravan spot down past the library is great. Plenty of spots to pick from, walking distance to the shopping centre, free clean toilets under the library and caches all round. Some of them provided quite a challenge, some were pretty easy and by doing them we saw quite a bit of this pretty town and it’s lovely old buildings. Thanks to all the COs for their time and efforts. We really appreciate it.
TFTC

Found this one quick and easy. Was filling out the log and a local started questioning me about why I was here and what I was doing, I must look like a sus character.

Geo hubby found this one despite us all rushing ahead to get there first and have a look before he swooped in
Tftc

Found after a nice walk around the oval. TFTC

Crikey's, well hidden and cammoed. Tftc

That was tricky for me. Thank goodness frmen1 was with me. I spotted, he fetched. Team work. TFTC

TFTC. We were heading back into Benalla after completing the silo art. Cannot resist stopping at caches along our route or short deviations therefrom.
We were in the sports area . Quick find at GZ.

Found

I have tried to find this before. I don't know if I logged a DNF or not. I was about to give up again as my gps was leading me in all different directions. Very annoying. I was sitting in the ute and was about to take off when I looked at my nemesis one more time before heading off and "Viola" something looked out of place. Yep I had found it.

TFTC

(I wonder how Eclipse would survive if Geocaching suddenly stopped!!)

Wow the grass is very long here, hope they cut the grass before summer or it will be snake heaven. Nice quick easy find on a very quiet Saturday Afternoon in Benalla. TFTC. SL. and replaced where found. Thanks for putting a cache in this area for us to find and have a nice driven around Benalla. Cheers.

Quick grab! TFTC

Good one. Tftc

Was totally lost last time, the gps sent me about 20m away. Pretty easy when the gps is correct, thanks

Quick find. Tftc

Thank youuuuuu!! Found it first try!!

have checked cache today and it is still in place no probs.

I think by evidence left it may be gone

Nice easy one. Thankyou.

TFTC. A easy find, not so easy to replace. Lucky I had a ute.

Quick find tftc

Quick find on a very hot day while waiting to pick my mother up from an appointment. Bit of a stretch but I was just able to reach it, unfortunately I did manage to scratch myself getting it back up
Thanks for the find

Didn’t have a lot of time to search as was late. Will come back another time and try again.

Sue saw it and Dan reached up for it. Sure helped being tall. TFTC

Day 2 of batching and so my aim today was to beat my previous record for a single day - which stood at 50 on a day around Beechworth and the Murmungee Basin in July 2018. Not a very big target (I am to get my first 100 day later this week) but hoped to get to 51 to make a nice round number (2300). So the plan was to load up the blue grader with CDs (not much sport on today) and head to a place I hadn't cached previously - Benalla. A good number of caches in close proximity and the opportunity to explore an area I hadn't visited before (other than a drive through on the freeway). Got away later than I wanted (though I needed the sleep) and finished in the dark (last was signed in the headlights) but in the end achieved my target (actually got 54) with a few DNFs (though only 1 logged) and some clever caches found and some nice places visited.

Next stop was across the railway and road near the Panthers oval. At GZ I am glad I read the hint as I could have spent a lot of time staring at a tree with no cache. Started looking where the GPS wasn't pointing and soon had the cache in hand - lucky I have some natural elevation. Log signed and returned as found.
TFTC jigg61

Nice quick find on a quiet sunny day. Now to put it back!

A grubby sign ‘ as no pen ‘au naturale’ - nice stroll in dark to GZ TFTC

Found with the aid of good coordinates today.

Need 2 people or need to be tall for this one!

Found it! .

If I didn’t have the muggle boyfriend with me I wouldn’t have been able to reach it. Tftc

My ex Geo Caching friend found this one. I was standing staring up into a tree while she was walking around. Luckily no one was around because I must of looked like a bit of an idiot. Lol. She called out that she found it so it saved me more time staring up into a tree.
TFTC.

Soon had this cache in hand from his clever hide.
Signed and replaced where found. TFTC

Clever, luckily we have a tall member

Found

On a hot hot 42oC day, nothing was gonna stop me doing some caches here, today in Benalla whilst my Muggle mates were off doing their thing for 2hrs.

A bit of a search for something way bigger than anticipated saw me search for about 5 minutes in vain. It as then I widened the search in a more obvious spot and the cache was soon in hand

SL at 10:38 on Mon 14 Jan 2019

TFTC jigg61

Took us a bit to get to GZ but we finally got there. We retrieved the hide so Kestal could sign our names before returning everything to where I found it. TFTC

Took us a bit to get to GZ but we finally got there. Geotilda retrieved the hide so I could sign our names before returning everything to where I found it. TFTC jigg61

Nice hide! TFTC

Could get close to area kept moving

Nice easy find

With time on our side and thought let’s go and get some nice food we end up in the beautiful place and kill two birds with the one stone, funny thing was we had to brush the skills a little

#11423 Found and Logged at 9:13:00 AM
One of 17 cahers for the day after leavingMoyhu and ariving in Bendigo
Singing in the Rain OOps rong song Gaching in the rain
Thanks for bringing me to this beautiful part ov Victoria jigg61
Lgoody

Found this one not where we initially thought! TFTC

Cool. A bit tricky to spot

DAB and I had organised a road trip for a few days to go up the Hume to explore some areas we had not before. We stopped here for a few caches before continuing on our journey. We had to hunt around a little to make a find on this one, it blended in nicely. Signed returned as we could

**Thanks to jigg61 for placing this cache for us to find and enjoy**

In the company of Na'wal for a few days, collecting caches in this part of the world. We had a blast, thanks to all of the co's for their efforts. TFTC jigg61

omegaman1971
3644 Finds
In town today for some Sunday caching fun.
After moving some webs! The log was signed.
Cheers for the cache

I drove from Police Paddocks on the Murray River to Mansfield and collected a few geocaches on the way. This was a straightforward find, being more or less on the coordinates. Thank you jigg61 for installing and maintaining this cache.

Found it!

Enjoyed the walk round the home town, years since we have been in the area. Thanks for the cache.

10:52
A day in and around Benalla in the hope of converting the green and orange boxes on our geo-map to smiley tokens. So pleased to be searching for this one on a sport free Saturday.

Thanks jigg61 for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
19943

*Found the find whilst House Sitting in Mansfield*...

A beautiful day to be out this beautiful area en route to meet up with Happy Feet in Benalla. What a beautiful part of Australia to explore. Without Geocaching I would never have found so many interesting places in my travels. We really are so fortunate.

A short search, found cache, stamped and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment jigg61. Appreciate your effort.
-P

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#11506**

Cache-On!

First find for the weekend of caching around Benalla. Thanks for putting this cache here SL Cheers 4 Now

Great hide Nice day out for a family outing to do some cache finding. TFTC.

Very hard

Tftc was a nice easy find on a day trip to Benalla from my holiday in Mansfield