La cache est sur la table.... Dargo, Victoria, Australia
By Bingley3683 on 15-Mar-14. Waypoint GC50A36

Our NEW ZEALAND - TASMANIA - AUSTRALIA JOURNEY takes us to beautiful places and provides us with an incredible number of wonderful moments and experiences.Occasionally we also visit a few GeoCaches along the way.Well, you can't call it a mountain..., but it was an impressive hike through the once burnt forest. Knowing about the many poisonous snakes in Australia... and the respect for such a bite, we just wondered why the cache was placed so far off the path (see photo; just before we got back to the car...).We deserved to be on the guest list here....The cache is in very good condition, dry and correctly hidden again....Thank you for placing, maintaining and caring snapfish2 from SwitzerlandPS: Translated with the Deepl app

good walk up here. stayed at DP. long grass and wet track. cache in great condition

to avoid others doing dangerous things, you can safely locate it on the safe side...

With 100ml of rain the day before, more rain on the way out made this a very swampy walk. Add in the massive grass above my head in some patches recovering from the fires made this a very slow slog.
Luckily the weather cleared in time for beautiful views.
Cache in good condition, thanks

Awesome location and beautiful walk through varied bush.

Tabletop was burnt in January 2020 so I'm assuming this one isn't there, but will check it soon, unless someone else does! Caveat emptor!

We were camping at JB Plain so this was a convenient hike. Nice sunny day after a cold crisp night. The initial walk through snow gums and JB Plain was nice, the section with a couple of little creeks was nice, then the ascent to Mt Tabletop warmed us up a bit. Only saw one other person on the hike.

Certainly some burnt patches on the way in, but mostly regrowing pretty well. Looked like the track in didn't get anywhere near the worst of the fires. Head-high grass in places. Not too hard to navigate at the top, but we were certainly collecting grass seeds in our socks. Cache was in second place I looked, and all in good order. Nice view from cache, and we then walked anti-clockwise around the top of the table back to the path. We saw a snake up the top as we were returning.

Not the most spectacular hike in the area, but a good solid one with nice views throughout. Thanks for the cache.

Yes - The nice lady from the information center in Omeo ️ highly recommended to do this trail. Indeed, she was right In the afternoon, we started at the car park. All together, we met plenty of lizards, a few Emus and two people - although it's Sunday!? It was a great trail, which we enjoyed very much! - Thanks for the box on the top!

Hello UNLOVED cache! Yes it’s been over two years since you’ve seen the light of day, and nice and secure you have been too in that well placed spot. Probably that long since I’ve been up here too. Bit of a wet wander but what the heck you’ve been on my list for some time. After a few sabotages I managed to head off and dare I say it ignore a few warnings. Let’s hope the recent rain has put out all vestiges of spark and fire. Fortunately the Dargo fires were contained beyond a line and Tabletop was not affected so thanks to our mighty fire crews. TFTC also! It’s quite a mission setting out all these caches in more remote areas.

Had a huge look but was unable to find it within the 1m. Did find a copperhead snake on the trip up though. Unbelievable views.

A fantastic walk with geo-kid. Well worth the effort for the views! Just spotted a huge deer....

Found it! Today the Walkabouters wandered out to Mount Tabletop. We have visited here a few times over the years on our annual sojourn to the High Country. This year we encounter a snake on the grassy plain. It was amazing how wet tan lush the undergrowth is this year. The vegetation was knee high on the summit where it is usually bare! As the others had lunch, I went over to GZ and found the cache. Great views toward Mount Hotham from here! TFTC SL Photo will be added soon.

Lovely day to walk out to catch a view

Grest views on a clear day

a lovely day for a hike up to tabletop, fantastic views and able to grab a cache as well Had lunch on the other side, even brought a bottle of wine! TFTC - took TB thought it was getting a bit lonely up there

Took a walk out. Dropped a face Tb. Lovely hike. Will attach some photos when I get home.

Took a hike out today as the snow is just about gone. You certainly wouldn't want to come out here when the weather is anything but good or snow is on the ground (lots of wombat holes). Dropped a TB. Don't think Many people will stumble across this cache. Thanks. Cruisinblues.

Jcody and I thought we would have a crack at this one since we were in the area. Started out early rugged up and ready to rock with the temperature close to zero.
About a third of the way in, a newly discovered hole in jcodys boot gave us concerns in the soggy ground conditions, and the incoming clouds suggested it could get even more uncomfortable. We pulled the pin and headed for some easier caching fare.
It turned out to be a really nice day once the cloud passed through but we make our decisions based on the resources we have and it's better to be a snug and safe cacher than a statistic.
- 27 April 2015 10:21

I was up on the hill today taking advantage of a rare free day and some great weather, and actually finding caches instead of hiding them.
I hadn't planned on taking the walk out to this one as I didn't think I would have enough time but I had made good time going out and back to the previous caches, so as I was driving past I thought "what the heck" I am going to shoot out and if I don't have enough time to do the rest then so be it.....I would just have to come up again.
so I parked at the JB Plain carpark and threw on the backpack and started off, fortunately due to some recent mowing, the track out was clearly marked so I didn't go off in a different direction
it was a really nice walk out through the forest, and up and down the saddle and I made quite good time out there, and after the last pull up to the summit (and a bit of zig-zagging around the fallen trees) I reached the top and was knocked out by the sheer cliffs all around and the fantastic views
it was one of those times when the views make you forget about the cache, and you have to remind yourself to go and find it.
Well find it I did, and sat on the edge of the rocks admiring the view back to the village and around to the twins having some lunch and taking some happy snaps to show the Queen via text.
Even the wind roaring up the face of the rocks couldn't blow away the smile on my face.
Soon enough it was time to tear myself away and head back, and the walk was just as enjoyable in reverse!
thanks Mick for bringing me out here to enjoy the spot, and the cache!

A favourite from us for sure!

Cheers

[white]{*2TF*}......[/white] @11:33 am Cache # 1172

[font=Courier New][size=4][blue]Eh bien je ai fait un gâchis de cette approche [/blue][/size]

[font=Courier New]Arrived at the suggested start and started off down the well formed track which the arrow to Tabletop seemed to be pointing (In actual fact it was pointing across the alpine plain) After a considerable distance I consulted the GPSr and it indicated I was heading away from my intended destination Oops!

Enlarged the map on the GPR and it revelled I was at least 1km west of the Tabletop walking track. ok lets double back and head cross country to meet the track

The trek across the snow plain wasn't to bad and soon the GPSr was indicating Id met up with the trail to Tabletop but I couldn't make out the faintest trail what so ever, I trusted the GPS as it hadn't let me down before. It wasn't long after changing my heading that I was thinking maybe the track had been realigned, soon I was heading down hill with the gps say I was right on top of the track but I had come to the realisation that there had never been a track in this area
Once down the steep hill I started moving more in the direction of the cache. It was about the 2 km to go that I stumbled across the track I was supposed to be on Yeah! This was better a well maintained track clearly marked with orange markers mind you the trees in these parts look mighty hungry

The remaining walk to GZ was almost uneventful and quite enjoyable although once on the Table Top the dead trees have now decided to lay down making the final approach to GZ a zig zag one. Cache was located easy pezie then an hour at GZ taking in the serenity

The trip back to the car was much quicker as I decided to stay with the trail this time, highly recommended as well as this cache

Thx Bingley3683 for showing me this area, thoroughly enjoyed this cache and the journey how ever geography challenged I was on the day

[font=Comic Sans MS][size=2][blue]Merci beaucoup

Cheers

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This entry was edited by Team☯aky on Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 10:32:44 UTC.

Had looked at the weather forecast for weeks just waiting for the perfect day
And this was it
But as we arrived in the morning the height of Mount Hotham had captured all the surrounding clouds and an aborted attempt looked on the cards. Heavy fog all the way from Harietteville.
We couldn't see 50 meters ahead of us.
We pushed on down the road a little.
Parked the car and immediately started our assault.
Here there was not a cloud in the sky (unless you looked towards Hotham). There was not a breath of wind. It was perfect.
But we started at the wrong spot and therefore a 2 kilometre walk was required to get to the start of the right track.
Following the track and over the creeks and up paths, the bananas pressed on.
The reward was a beautiful view and an even better container.
This one will last.
Thank you for bringing us here.
And we returned.
And we had walked just under 15 kilometres of pure pleasure and memories.
And mark down another first to find for the bananas.

Published - .. . . . . et la table est une longue promenade agréable.

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