'93 Floods - BLS Benalla, Victoria, Australia
By Team BGF on 20-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4XAMR

Found today on a trip back from Bright. Thanks from D & HA B-A

Awesome!! TFTC, good hide

TFTC glad we found it this time. This was our second attempt. Definitely a favorite

Very clever and sneaky hide. TFTC

Wonder if the man in the photo was trying to charter a boat?Just an overnight stop at Benalla, but time to scoot around town and collect smileys. Fun urban hide Dropping off a **FAVE.**TFTC Team BGF

Glad to say we found this cache here today. The street is looking great with all the knitting art. So many to choose from for an upload. I chose to copy your flood photo in the description.

Unfortunately we couldn't find this one, as there were many suspicious taxi drivers eying us off. Probably could have found it if we looked for a bit longer but unfortunately a dnf for us today

Found at 2:55pm, amazing the floods came so high right up the street! When often the river is so low or just pools! Very good hide! SL TFTC

Found with Bullash on 7 March 2024

Sydney to Melbourne Meander. Day Six: Corowa to MelbourneWeather: Another perfect geocaching day.One of three caches logged in and around downtown Benalla as I make my way towards Melbourne. Benalla had already been bypassed by the the time I started driving between Sydney and Melbourne in the 90s. So this is like getting to see the town for the first time, and checking out some geocaches is always a good way to do that. The photo of the man in the phone box speaks volumes. A tad drier here today, and an easy find.Thanks for the cache and the series Team BGF.

In Benalla today to do a few caches and Ad/Labs this one was quickly found after the a few muggles moved on TFTC

Out and about today with Digger the Geodog poking around Benalla. What a great hide. Thanks for placing this cache here for our enjoyment. All good here. Now, onto the next one for the day. TFTC

Found with Bogonghazy and Geo dog. whilst heading away to Mansfield for a getaway. Very sneaky hide. Thanks for placing the geocache

Found with LittleBoss2 and Geo the puppy as we head to Mansfield via Benalla. Thanks again Team BGF took far too long this time. That'll teach me for being cocky

Passing through Benalla on our way to Harrietville. Stopped here to see some murals and while JMelb was taking photos I went and found this cache. No problem with the cache which was in good order. Thanks Team BGF.GJMMelb

Got it update shortly

Having left Tassie, we headed towards Canberra for the Mega and picked up a few caches along the way and this was one of them.We found a variety of hides with varying degrees of difficulty.This one was tricky, but got there in the end.Enjoyed caching in this area, cache and contents were in good condition.Many thanks to all CO's for your cache placement.

GPS was not liking this and wanted us to go shopping on a public holidayeventually found!

My GPS was all over the place here. Looked in the likely places but in the end I couldn't find it

What a great picture in the description. Its a wonder that that telephone was still even working!Nicely camouflaged Hide and a quiet Sunday morning here in Benalla. Thanks TeamBGFDomsky

bunadoorian and I were in the area and after having some lunch we came to find this cache. A well hidden cache was found. We were able to retrieve it without arousing any interest. See bunadoorian's log to see where not to sit to fill in the logbook!! Very interesting to see how far the flood water comes up. TFTC and for bringing us here Team BGF.

Grub62 and I were in the area and notwithstanding the comments in the description decided to check out the cache about midday on a Monday. There was not much muggle activity near GZ and I had noticed the cache so a quick grab and we moved away from GZ so as not to bring attention to the area. We found a nearby seat and sat down to sign the logbook and lo and behold one of the locals tried to pick me up. I hadn't realised that I was sitting at a taxi rank. I was told by the driver (in the nicest possible way) that taxis had to pull over if someone was sitting on that seat. Suitably chastised I finished signing the logbook then with all due care and attention we returned the cache. Thanks for the entertainment and TFTC.

Thanks team BGF. I used to work for the BGF. Banana Growers Federation, in Coffs Harbour. 1975.

Great way to get our 400th cache in a very cool town with some fantastic spots to visit, street art and wonderful caches. This was very clever and sneaky, love it!....../ ).....' /---' (_____.TFTC . ((__)..... _ ((___)....... -'((__)--.___((_)

At Benalla today to complete a couple of Ad Labs, traditionals and a virtual.There was a couple of muggle taxis close by. So I waited a few minutes for them to leave. It was a clever hide that had me looking for a little while. TFTC

Nicely disguised!

Cool camo. Log is a bit wet.

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A bit of a search led to a very sneaky hide. GPS swirling a bit. TFTC

Another crafty hide that is easy to spot once you know what to look for.

Claimed this one during a short coffee stop.
Tftc

Cool camouflage TFTC find 121

Find number 12031 at 12:30:37 pm on Wednesday the 17 May 2023
Travelling from Croydon to Goughs Bay via the long round about way chasing favourite points for this months GCHQ souvenir challenge. The bonus is that I get to find some great geocaches in the Victorian counrtyside
Nice and quick, in and out, job done.
**Thanks for placing this cache Team BGF**

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Thought it was at the bus stop but it wasn't TFTC

Found by BENedict_2011.
Like it, clever hide.
TFTC

Thanks for placing this cache particularly including the photo. How incredibly devastating it must have been for the town.

Rutherglen Mega - Easter 2023 - Day 5: Tuesday

Spent the day on a loop trip around Corowa, Yarrawonga, Benalla and Wangaratta.

Found in the logical spot. Nice hide. Thanks!

Found on my way home after attending the Mega Event in Rutherglen. Thanks for the cache Team BGF!

Refurbished cache and added a new log sheet and ziplock bag.

*The Going Home From 'The Rutherglen Mega Adventure' Adventure #1*
Yep, it's done and dusted, and a bunch of tired people are trying to get themselves home.
Sadly, so are hundreds of thousands of others, and the highways are chockers.
This was a lovely stop in a lovely spot... well deserving of coming back to have a proper look.
Thanks heaps, Team BGE!

In the region this weekend for all things Mega. Lots of events and a huge variety of caches to be found in this beautiful area.
On my way home and a quick stop in Benalla. Quick find. Impressive to see the river height.
Thanks Team BGF for placing for all to enjoy.

Stopped in Benella on my way to the Mega. Love all the art work around town.
Took a little while to find this but finally got that smiley although unable to sign the log as far too wet.

Found by iamapom at 14:05 on 7/4/2023. Thanks to Team BGF for the Traditional. This is Iamapom’s find number 2606. Greetings from Melbourne Australia.

Looking at art work while completing the adventure lab and I passed this cache along the way. Just as I was thinking I'm no good at suburbia caching I looked and suprisingly found the cache.

Nice quick find on the way home. Love the murals in this town. Tftc

Great cache, have to be a bit sneaky

Clever!!! First one like this I've seen!!

Found during a small detour from the highway. TFTH

Found by The Empire
On the way to Corowa for a couple of nights, time for lunch. Parked nearby and turned a DNF frown, upside down! I still haven't found the final to this series which I finished (well, now I have) a VERY long time ago... Thanks for the cache Team BGF.
- M

With lots of pedestrians and cars about I was much to self concious of how dodgy I was looking for too much of a look so after a quick look around I jumped back in my car and let this one go as a dnf

*Found on the 16 Jan 2023 @ 9:48 am.*
*Cache find # 14062.*

After completing half of my mission yesterday, It was now day and it was time to find a few caches in the Benalla LGA before heading to the centre of the Wangaratta LGA and then moving on to Craig’s Hut for a CITO.
As I was passing by this one so I had to stop for a look.
I was onto this one fairly quickly, I was able to sign the log but you can't really fold it out, I think it has seen too many floods.

**Thanks to Team BGF for placing this cache.**

TFTC! 2 January 2023 5:29:16 pm 4598
Wow that picture puts the floods in perspective!
A quick find here.

Quick find after dark with few people about. Log sheet is a bit rusty! Thanks.

More to come

Log damp but still, just, able to sign

A trip from Canberra, ACT to Whittlesea, Vic with a few side quests for LGAs. TFTC.
A nice hide quick find.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14.
I had a great time exploring this area with my family.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
We are on school holidays and enjoyed a few days away exploring the area.
Thank you for placing the geocache for us to find today.

Quick find we headed past doing an adventure lab.
Thanks for the hide.

Found just around the corner from our coffee stop. On our way home to Devonport with a little bit of time to kill, so we've grabbed this clever little hide. Thanks for a good 'un. Damp but signable.

Made a quick sprint to this location while a muggle picked up dinner.

Thankfully I found this one pretty quickly

This does need a new log desperately. It is extremely soggy and disintegrating.

Thanks for placing the cache!

Spotted it on the way out. Lock is damp. Nice container. Worth a fave. To FTC.

Very good hide

Quick find, amazing pic

A bit tricky but got there fairly quick. Thanks for the fun cache.

Thank you very much for giving us a little bit of history that we hope doesn’t happen again and yes I will give you a favourite

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The light was beginning to disappear as we searched for this cache. Fortunately my GPS was fairly accurate and I was quickly able to spot the likely container. Retrieved the log and signed. Fortunately the nearby footpath was quite at this time of day. Thanks to Team BGF for the cache.

Another quick find

TFTC

Oooh, nice little tricky one.
TFTC!

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Started looking too low but lifted our eyes to the heavens tftc

A nice muggle free find.
TFTC

Thanks for the history. Found at 9pm, no muggles about.TFTC

# 14304 Found and logged at 7:33:00 AM
At present in Benalla for a few days and a hot day to be out caching
Thanks for the cache Team BGF
Lgoody

Find #5112. Found @ 10:49 with Muggle-L

On the way back from the Mega in Wangaratta to Melbourne, and what better way to break up the drive than to find a few caches along the way.

A diversion to Benalla to meet a friend of Muggle-L's for lunch, and grabbing some caches along the way. Last time Muggle-L and I were in the area we DNFed a couple of caches, this being one of them. We didn't log it as a DNF because there were too many muggles about last time, but this time there was a gap in the foot traffic, and I made a quick find of the camouflage.

It took a bit of searching before I decided to initial at the top of the log sheet as there is no room left on the log sheet.

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

Found with Sir-JOz on lunch stopover in way home from Wangaratta Mega. We had tried very briefly to find this one Easter 2021 but there were so many muggles we didn't stay, so had earmarked it for another time, this time Sir-JOz had cache in hand very quickly. TFTC

Found itthanks for the cache

Spotted quite quickly. There were not too many other options at that location tftc.

Cleaning up some local caches. Nice cache found without being spotted and hiding down an alley to sign the log!

Out with Wollaston, SeasonedBird, Hans and Linda and muff1 today. This is one of the caches we targeted and found thankyou for giving us the opportunity to explore.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, muff1, Hans and Linda, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Team BGF
Find #8188 at 16:51.

Found out caching with Wollaston, Liz&Bruce, Hans&Linda and Muff1 on the way to the Wangaratta Mega. It’s hard to imagine the water being so high.

Container condition good and trickey.
Log replaced, now lots of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC Team BGF

Find # 5819

In Wangaratta for the Mega, we traveled over early so we could get some local caching in. After stowing the shop in a storage shed so it wasn't bouncing around in the back of the car we set up in the caravan park and can now cache and explore. Today we ent to Banalla to visit an expat friend so not much caching was done. this was a quick find, but needs a replacement log. Had to sign a business card that someone had folded up and put in. TFTC

Found it in a few mins with my muggle friends and we are here for an overnight stay in Benalla. You will need to get replaced a log paper as it’s full log. TFTH

Very small. Good find right in the middle of town. Ttc.

Rule #78 - the person in the car needs to get out and find it within seconds after the first person has looked for a awhile. Even going to the wrong spot completely. What an interesting photo of GZ. Crazy! TFTC.

Found this one easily but log extremely wet and full. Tftc

Catching up on some log writing after being in Benalla during a recent lockdown. Thanks for the cache

A quick P&G but the log sheet needs some serious TLC.

TFTC

Thanks

Ttftc

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. nice hide, I loved the photo on the cache page.

Thanks Team BGF for the cache.

Sneaky little hide, found after the muggles walked by

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 quick as I found the odd thing out. Log was dry but oddly rusty. All good and found it without being spotted by any muggles. TFTC

Found this today but log to wet to sign, did try tho. Tftc tnln

Don’t find it

DNF @ 12:45 with The Good Lady Wife and Muggle-L

Going away for Easter with AmethystPig and Muggle-L has been an almost yearly event for the last, lets just say "many" years... except last year (sigh). With travel on the menu again, we decided to meet up about half way between AP's abode and ours. Also it doesn't hurt that Towong is the last LGA that I need to shout "BINGO!" and the (relatively) nearby maps 14 and 22 are the antepenultimate and penultimate maps in my Country Map challenge.

On the way home again and we decided to stop in Benalla for lunch (as Muggle-L was going a different way from here). After a disappointing meal in one of the local bakeries, we stopped here and couldn't seem to find anything. There were lots of muggles around which made me give up earlier than I might have done normally.

Thanks anyway Team BGF

Was on our way back to Canberra. Tried for a bit and cant find will have to come back again.