Country Roads, take me....where? Millbrook, Victoria, Australia
By strange quark1 on 14-Apr-14. Waypoint GC52GF8

There have been a change in circumstances at this location. A new house has been built near GZ ruining the ambience of this cache.

In the interest of being a good neighbour and CO, it is with regret I say bye bye to this

Found with Ogston girls. Tffc. Greetings from Adelaide

An interesting detour to the wrong side of the tracks today
There was a good view of the trains not speeding past,
and a cache too

Found at 4:41 pm.
With another leap day upon us we had done lots of different caches types and sizes last leap day so this year I decided to attend lots of events and to also help me build up my CITO count. A lot of driving today but the weather was great and managed to get to all 7 events in the day that I planned to.
After the events on the way home there was suddenly road works so we got off the exit and took these nice back roads for a little while.
Nice quick find her today but it didn't smell too good ... didn't bother looking for the dead animal.
Thanks strange quark1 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Spiffy- had many plans for leap day and attending as many events as possible was the key plan. His dedication saw him attend 7 events in 1 day.

Happy to make a quick find here with all the Hay bails close by.

Thanks to strange quark1 for the placement and fun.

TFTC. A nice quick find. No copper heads today.

Very windy and hot day glad into the car

TFTC. We had attended the Ballan Birthday Bash and were making our way home to Maryborough. We had planned our route via the back road to find as many of the caches along the way as possible.
Spotted this one quickly , signed log and replaced.

Family New Years Adventure #5
Had to get the family out of the house for a bit... too many computers and inactivity over the last few days.
Now, there was a warning about copperheads in the notes. This caused considerable consternation amongst the troops. The guy with no shoes was sent forward, I think on the understanding that he'd soak up all the venom so there'd be none left for other victims. Saw no copperheads, but there were numerous tiger-striped creatures amongst the rocks (garden snails). Cache found and signed without envenomations, maulings or falls from the tops of rocks.
Thanks heaps, strange quark!

geoD spotted this one almost straight away but dismissed it as rubbish. Ten minutes later he revisited and made the find.

TNLN SL TFTC

Found it after a wary search on this warm summer day

On my way home from a not quite to plan weekend road trip.
Good excuse to find some caches along the way.
TFTC

Done!

A dead end lane that just had to be traversed, so I could grab a smiley, Thanks. strange quark1, all is in good order here today

Nice hint. TFTC

Found it

TFTC

Today we found Country Roads, take me....where? on our travels. Having read the comment about copperheads we approached gz with caution just in case there was a enthusiastically active cache guardian on this delightfully warm day. Happy to report we found the cache unscathed.

Thanks strange quark1 for being part of our geocaching fun.

Heading towards the birthday event in Ballan and took a detour down what was once a driveway into the farm.
No trains at this time so it was nice and quiet around here.
Thanks strange quark1 TFTC

Tftc

Found It......On our way home we decided to grab a couple of caches. After making our way to GZ we had to be mindful of the railway workers installing new signals but a quick search soon had the container in our hands and with the log signed we continued our journey homeward. Thanks Team strange quark1 for bringing us here

Another quick find for the day. TFTC.

On my way to Goolwa SA for a 7 Day Fishing trip with my brothers, decided to come a day earlier so I could do some caching of opposite side of city as I from Warragul. Sl thanks for the cache

Timed it perfectly for a train!

Country Roads took me to my third cache for the day! Despite the warm weather I saw no snakes, but I was very careful poking around for the cache! Typically, it was in the first place I looked but I didn't spot it until the third time I looked there
TFTC quark1

Tonight we decided to go on an adventure we headed off from Ballarat at 9:00pm On Saturday 1/9/18 and found our last cache at 9:30am on Sunday 2/9/18. We had a total of 23 finds on our adventure this cache was 13th of the 23 finds.
Time found - 3:25am
Date - 2/9/18

I love little dead end country lanes and this was one of the best I’ve been along. Idyllic green grass, well fed cattle and huge bales of hay stored on the roadside to save space for the farmers. The hint led me to a likely spot, but of course I circumnavigated a feature before zoning in on the correct location of the cache. Luckily I didn’t find any Big Wrigglers while searching or retrieving the cache. I have seen Copperheads active even in the depths of winter. Thanks for a great. Cache.

A quick find down a dead end road. Tftc

TFTC nice find. Lovely area. Rode on my bike. Have wet feet from grabbing some other caches along the way.

After catching up with Claybol, Virbull and jtnsilo to finish off a nearby mystery cache, i headed east to find a few caches in the countryside while the Autumn weather was sunny and mild.
What a picturesque little area i found your cache in here, thoroughly deserving of more finds. Great views of the district. Glad to relieve this one of the unlove it had. Tftc cigc.

Grass quite high in the middle of the country road - glad we had a 4WD! Cache took a short while to locate due to it being well hidden - plenty of hay bales and rocks at the end of the road. No snakes seen today. Some lovely big old gum trees, too. Nice quiet country area so we had our picnic lunch watching the many butterflies that were about here.
TFTC strange quark1

Yeah nah it went down like this yeah, was sussing about the joint the find the fat stash but ‘twasn’t in sight, then dazza (who’s a absolute champ and banta boss) was like “nah yeah sus the clue ay” so we did and found the bitch! Wasn’t to happy bout the spiders n shit or potential snakes. But yeah nah cheers for this bad boy of a cache

*7/11/17, Found @ 12:55 pm, Find # 7337.*

While on my tour around Ballarat finding various cache and also looking for large listed caches before heading off on the next adventure, a paddle around Pykes Creek Reservoir, this cache was found.
I made a bit of a detour down to this one, I fought my way through the very long grass and did a bit of rock hopping but it wasn't until I grabbed a big stick to use as a tool to move the grass and poke around that the cache was found.

**Thanks to strange quark1 for placing this cache.**

I first looked at this one in summer and thought .....naaaaa don't like the! Found this today and did a happy dance. TFTC

Spent most of the day on back roads and dirt tracks turning green boxes into smiles. Where does this road go, it needs a bridge. At first my GPSr had me at the large hay bales, thankfully not there as it turns out. But it did feel like a needle in a hay stack as it was only discoverable with touch. Glad I found that first and nothing else.
Log signed and replaced as found

Thanks for the cache strange quark1
#3,379

Nice day to be out and about finding caches to add to my list. Really enjoyed this area and the variety of hides. TFTC

A big day of geocaching from Ballan back to Ballarat. Thirteenth stop and it was a race to break the 6 all find for the day. Round and round we went and the prize went to D. Tftc

TFTC

Today I headed to Ballarat to attend the Yarrowee River CITO, with the expectation to do some caching afterwards. After the CITO I headed to try to finish the Symbol Series, then cached my way towards home. Nice quick find.

My thanks to strange quark1 for the cache.

Found by The Empire @ 9amish
I think I have DNF'd this cache, or maybe I pulled up here in the Summer and decided not to even look. Oh well, I looked this morning and found the cache pretty quickly. Happy Easter to all! Thanks for the cache, strange quark1.
- M

Following my close encounter with a big spider at Total Span cache, I made certain I was wearing work gloves. Since I'd been warned about nasty slithery beasties in this area I wacked the rocks a few times before starting to grope.
Quick find, signed the log and now off to the next cache.
Greetings from France.
SlackMac.

As a general rule I am not so keen on caches hidden in or near school grounds (parents and teachers worry about strangers prowling around).
However after reading the interesting description of this 100 year old school - now a Community Centre - I decided to have a look.
It took me a while to find the box. At one stage I started climbing trees.... then realised that terrain 1.5 was NOT half way up a tree
The hint was very useful.
There was 2 cm of water in the container, which I emptied out. The log book is damp however if you press lightly it is still possible to sign the book.
I tightened the lid firmly.
Greetings from France.
SlackMac.

Up from the south to have a try at collecting a few caches while having a look around.
Found it retrieved it signed it and replaced it after a short search
Thanks strange quark FTC. The gz at the moment is covered in long grass lucky I didn't
see any wriggly sticks but I dare say that some were watching.

An early morning stroll from the old school; now a great community centre, where we are camping for the weekend. The Geodogs enjoyed exploring and found a ring tail possum tail they wanted to take back to camp. Thanks for the personal touches to your description. TFTC

Cache is good and dry and the train zoomed past while we were logging in the rain. Hello cows. Too bad this little town doesn't have a store or a pub, or maybe we just haven't got to it yet.

Cool. Found with Geniejoan. TFTC

A very quiet out of the way spot! Was quite expecting someone's home to be overlooking this cache! TFTC

**Found whilst House Sitting in Clunes**... Beautiful little town...

Out and about letting my GPS be my guide...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment strange quark1...

A nice quick find with good co-ord's... Cache condition - Fine...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped log...

**#8498**

Bo copperheads today, just a little too cold! Just missed the train, too! TFTC

Lucky Sean.75 was here to help otherwise we wouldn't have got a smiley here!! Tftc

Grabbed this one on the way through! Tftc

Nice little drive.. easy to find

Taking on the back roads around Ballarat on another glorious autumn day. Another great geocache adventure. A quick grab in an ususal spot. thanks again Strange quark1

TFTC TNLN

A quick find while we were making our way to Melbourne today to catch the boat home via back roads, caching as we go. Picked up the TB to further it's journey. TFTC

Looked for a while, finally stuck my arm in the right place, tftc.

What a beautiful peaceful spot! We immediately figured out the likely spot but after some poking and prodding with a (very) long stick with no luck, and quite concerned about the warning of Copperheads we checked the clue to make sure our instincts were correct. They were indeed so more poking and prodding and we soon had the cache in hand. Great clue by the way!

We liked the desiccant sachet in the log bag, great idea.
TN, left a rooster & TB "Molly".

A nice spot and a quick find this afternoon. Thanks strange quark1.

I do like going for drives down roads Unknown to who knows where. TFTC

Beautiful spot. Could imagine riding you're bike along here. Lovely trees.
Farmer on quad bow checked us out

Nice spot for hiding rabbits

A quick and easy find as we wend our way to Ballarat, caching as we go. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

This was our 4th find for the day, the geokid discovered this one on her own. Even got a wave off another farmer making his rounds on a 4 wheeler as we were leaving.

TFTC. Heading back to Ballarat after a shopping trip and called past to grab a few smilies.

Another great find while in the area.
SL - thanks for the fun cache!

Another quick and easy find. Found the cache at total span and while driving here a train went past.

Out on a lovely drive to Wallace

Enjoy driving along country road.
Thanks for bring me here and cache.

Found as geokid and I decide to explore some of this area, I am sure I am not the only one who has found themselves singing the John Denver song as we drove to this one, lol, Geokid made the find, and was very pleased with himself, Thanks for bringing us to this area. TFTC

No trains, no copperheads = nice and peaceful. Tftc

Quick and easy find
Took TB and will move onwards soon

Geopups loved playing on the nearby haybales!!

TFTC

Great spot, loved the hint but feeling old. Left a TB and SL.

We have been here before when the grass was very long, so this time Mr Swaggie was able to make the find.
TFTC

We came through here last summer on a hot day and as the grass was fairly tall, the possibility that some slinky predator might be lurking in there meant that we left this one for another day. Today was cool (about 8 degrees) and the area had been cleared so we found it in the first spot we looked. Found with Tagalong Wife.
TFTC strangequark1

Nice easy find, lovely area.

surprised I thought we were heading down some ones drive and then we ran into a train line embankment
Log was a bit damp but it is winter.

Rock around the clock tonight now that song is stuck in my head tftc

3/08/2015 Visited at 12:25
Find 02 of 08 for the day and #1861 in total.

Not a tricky cache to find but with all the rain recently getting to the cache through the mud raised the difficulty factor.
Wonder what the farmer thinks?

Echo 2 - Spice 0
("\(0o0)/") Thanks for the caching fun!

{Sent from a mobile mind, not just a mobile device.} °°° +

Hint was obvious at the site. We love gum trees. TFTC

Nice quick easy find. I'd exercise caution on the warmer days! Possible snake area.

Found on a long weekend in June when we traveled from Bendigo to Melbourne for a Birthday Party, stayed the night in a Budget Hotel in St Kilda - then onto Ballarat to see the Earthcache apprentice at FU and then home to Bendigo. We only had the time for a few caches today but we took a detour to collect the 3 caches in Millbrook. Great spot for the gunzels.

TFTC strange quark1

This cache was on my list of must do's today on my way to the two Ballarat events on this cold and wet day.
From memory I have not been along this road before but it was a pleasant drive through here.
I could see that somebody had driven into this dead end lane but as yet no log. In hindsight I should have read the CN's and the hint as it would have saved me a lot of time and getting wetter in the long grass, but eventually I spotted the search area and then it all made sense.
Thanks strange quark1 for placing this cache.

Was a little nervous about snakes, we didn't see any do all good, nice bunch of angus cows
Thanks for the cache

Driving around the area as part of a 5 day Victoria road trip. Always enjoy getting of the main road and onto the back roads as see so much more....as well as grabbing a few caches.

This one was found without issue and all was good. Thanks for the cache.

After some high stepping with my snake killing stick, I was able to locate this cache. Was very pleased to get this one quickly, just as I was leaving fellow cachers arrived, hope they had luck with this and no copperhead snakes! Thanks.

As we pulled up there was a car parked at GZ, and we hopped out to the greeting of 'are you doing what I'm doing?'. It was great to meet Motndarg who had just replaced the cache. A quick find, but I'm glad I wasn't doing it on a stinking hot day! It is a peaceful spot, however I'm sure the train whizzing through would break the serenity. Thanks for bringing us here.

14:40
There can be no better reason to venture out on a Sunday, than the announcement of a triple celebration of geo-birthdays, in Ballan.
After the candles were blown out we were able to track down a smilie or two, on the way home.

Thanks to strange quark1 for the hunt.
10536

We found your cache Country Roads, take me....where? on 11/01/2015 2:44 pm. This is our find #4084 and find #5 today on the way home from the It's My Birthday event in Ballan. The cache is in good shape.
We had to give way on this single lane road to phetlern as they were leaving!
Thanks strange quark1 for the cache!

Yep it sure was a dead end. Pity about modern changes - at least we have the memories.
Wandered around a bit here and finally spotted what I needed to get the cache out without encountering any local inhabitants.
TFTC strange quark1

Decided to collect a few in this area as a bit of a break on the trip home to Adelaide from Melbourne. A great out of the way place for a cache with plenty of parking and an easy place to turn around. Given the warning about snakes we used a handy stick to assist with retrieving the cache. TFTC

found it! thanks, found after a short look

Found after a quick search TFTC good hint nice area!

The clue helped, this was our second find. Great fun finding stuff in our own backyard!

Took me forever to find this. Not sure why, as it was where it should have been. The long grass and warm weather, along with the warning of snakes, was freaking me out a bit.

After I left here there was a couple of old farmers on the road giving me the eye. I reckon that they must have noticed that I was parked at the end of the lane and wondered what the hell I was up to.

Thanks for bringing me here.

After reading your notes about the copperheads I was hoping for some freshly mown grass around GZ. But I was out of luck.With grass up to my waist, the approach in was very slow indeed. My favourite stick was responsible for the retrieval. TFTC strange quark1.

After reading the cache name, I found myself singing the words of John Denvers Country Road enroute to GZ, and then after reading the hint, I found myself singing "that" song (wont give it away by mentioning a spoiler - LOL). I don't sing very often (its pretty awful when I sing) and generally only to a song that's playing, so I must've been in a wonderfully happy frame of mind today The grass was extremely long at GZ, and the recent warm weather had me on the lookout for the things mentioned in the description, and thumping my ski pole into the ground the whole time I was here. Cache was quickly located, signed and replaced. Thanks to strange quark1 for the cache.

It was interesting to read about the profusion of local copperheads and then find you have hidden the cache in a prime habitat. Oh well at least I was warned and following some stick prodding in likely hidey holes the cache was soon found
TNLN
Thanks

We headed down to the Brisbane Ranges today for the Spring has Sprung event.
The weather was amazing and the caches great.
Nice easy find here. No snakes thank goodness!

Found with Mum, Dad and Maeve.
I had never been to the Brisbane Ranges and today was beautiful there.
There were so many great caches and views today.
Thanks for the cache!

Found with Mum, Dad and Eddie.
This was my biggest trip yet!
I liked the sunny day and Eddie helping me look for the caches.
Thanks for placing them for us to find.

Out with the Glanville Girls for lunch and collecting a fews caches on the way back to Ballarat. After a short search Glanville Girl had her hand on it. TFTC.