FBT07 - Fire Tower St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By FUF009 on 20-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5A53G

TFTC - no sticker

Cache #38!

Found with Daniel Andrew, TFTC

Starting the afternoon off down this track to gather some caches. Quick find. TFTC

Grabbed another as we got closer to the Wax Gardens. Convenient find, and doesn't look like it was fire affected in any way. TFTC FUF009.

Tftc This is ab interestung series to o on our motorcycle. Tnln.

Our second full day at St Arnaud so with no real plans we tackled a few challenge caches, ad labs, fire track series plus many others. Impressed with all caches found today. Love the area and know now our visit here will be too short.Arrived at GZ and soon had the cache in hand - all good here.TFTC FUF009#9534

We have spent a delightful day meandering in the bush around St Arnaud. We began with this series this morning before it was too hot. With just one car, Mrs Domsky was dropped at the start of the the series and gradually walked along the fire firetrail, while Mr Domsky drove to the end, and gradually made his way back in the car, stopping to search from the other end. It was a lot of fun walking along the fire Trail, and taking short detours into the bushland to find this series. After completing the first group, and having collected numbers and letters along the way, we sat in the cool of the air-conditioned car to put the numbers together for the final. This series was so much fun and we say a big thank you to FUF009 for the adventure today Domsky

Not so much a tower but def spotted. Many thanks

Found quick but still no puzzle card. TFTC

TFTC! 30 September 2023 10:11:13 am 6041Thanks for the cache! Another quick find!

Went for a drive out around Fire Break Track (FBT) to do routine maintenance on caches in the series.
Replaced wet log book and dried cache out.

Another run around the area, this time on the Fire Break Series. Once again some great containers with lots work going into them, so few fav points to be added.

Thanks for the series FUF009...

Found by caughtatwork on 30/08/2023 at 9:22:00 AM
A quick find along this trail here today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Unfortunately this one wasn't closed in the bag, full of water. Unable to sign. Needs a new log book. And no puzzle piece

Another fairly straightforward one, TFTC!

392. Sistema container hollow base of tree covered by rock.

My plan of attack today for these caches was the Combo walk drive to get the best of both worlds with the van easy find beautiful morning nice bushland.

Found TFTC

Caching with my Geobro at St Arnaud and having a blast - TFTC

Another good one
TFTC

Found whilst caching in St Arnaud. TFTC.

We spent a about 10 days on the road with aqau caching around St Arnaud, Ballarat and Daylesford areas.
Thanks for your cache

Catching up on logging. We spent a week in Adelaide catching up with family and then headed to St Arnaud via the Silos south of the Mallee Highway arriving in St Arnaud last night. So today we are off to explore the street art and caches around the town. We have been aiming to get back here since the Mega in 2019 where we were able to catch a few of the trails but of course not all. After lunch we set off to this trail here. The plan was to do No 8 then cross over the road and do 7-1. However when we got here the road was closed for 7-1!! We did No 8 then drove around to the other end to see if it was accessible and if so how far we could get before finding the blockage from the other side. It was still open at this end so we continued on. This was also a nice easy find and completed this section of the trail. Just after where we parked for this one we could see an area that a couple of days earlier would not have been passable by our 2WD, the remains of the puddle was passable but you could see where it had been much bigger and hence the road closure.
TFTCand series FUF009 - we will continue this one next time - GJMMelb

I found GC5A53G FBT07 - Fire Tower on 20 Sept 2022 at 11:01 am and it is find number 1,911 for me. I enjoyed finding this nice traditional cache as part of my tour of the St Arnaud area.

I apologise for this generic log today but i have set myself a twenty four hour challenge to see how many caches I can log and time is of the essence. This is the first time i have challenged myself this way and it will be interesting to see how I go and how far I get. My first targets are the St Arnaud star geoart mystery series which i have had solved and waiting for some time. it will be nice to see a bunch of smiley stars on my map. Once I have completed logging those I intend to find traditional caches along the numerous trails in and around St Arnaud itself. Depending on how far I get I may then need to find caches slightly further afield. There's are certainly plenty to choose from in the area.

Alternatively I may decide its all too much and have a snooze in my tent instead. Wish me luck and thanks to all the owners for the lovely caches I am finding today.

Thanks for FBT07 - Fire Tower and for the fun FUF009.

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

A nice easy one for the find

Found with O319 on a day caching around St Arnaud.

Found with SJG66 on our tour of Western Victoria. TFTC

Out with Shumba7 ???? for a day caching around StArnaud. Plenty here to get. TFTC

TFTC. Today Algae and I decided to go for a drive to St Arnaud from Ballarat to grab some caches on our day off together. We managed to miss the rain, and only drove back home in the rain. We had lunch in town which was nummy. We decided we going to have to come back for the night to grab some of the night caches in the area. Some great quality caches out here.

Taking a break from our junket westwards to stroll agglomeration this track to find some caches
TFTC and greetings from Tassie

A drive to St Arnaud with Bogonghazy for the afternoon to find a few caches. Enjoyed this series. Thanks FUF009 for placing the geocaches

A Winter Saturday is always a good time to grab a few caches. LittleBoss2 and I headed from Bendigo today so I could reach a milestone and I couldn't think of a better area than St Arnaud to get some quality caching done.
Our thanks to FUF009 for this series

First time in the area- grateful we did not attempt this series last night in our 2x2 sedan

Nice, quirky cache. Fairly quickly found once I got my bearings lol

TFTC smile 11514 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to Charlton doing Challenges and picking up any other caches in the are
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, FUF009, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 18 of our southern trip. Around St Arnaud, with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

All OK here.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 27, 2022. TFTC, FUF009

Staying in Charlton and spending the day in St Arnaud with RoddyC, hatzofff & grannysmith1947 (To save space on logs, we have signed as Team 44 QLD)
Wow, this town sure has some wonderful caches on offer and so pleased we made the decision to come here whilst on our journey to SA.
Almost all caches were in great order and were a pleasure to find. Appreciate all the hard work that the CO's have put in placing these hides.

TFTC FUF009

Day 18 of our southern trip. Caching around St Arnaud and winding our way back to Charlton. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges as well as well as adventure labs and hopefully some night caches.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signed as 44Qld.


TFTCache FUF009

Nice easy find at the end of a big day caching

Quick find by Weidobiker as I walked the longer way on a clearer path

Found this series with tassie expat. Thanks for all of the work you put into hiding them. I hope you don't mind if I use a generic log. It gave us the opportunity to explore an area we wouldn't have done if not for you seeding this trail. Well done.

Another quick find TFTC

Tftc

Found. TFTC

TFTC on the beautiful spring day

Enjoy FBT series run here.
Thanks for place the cache here.

Found it thanks

Easy peasy

Nice quick find on a beautiful Sunday morning. TFTC

With the summer quickly coming to an end, the decision was made to have at least on good caching day, and were else to go than to the fabulous caching fields of St. Arnaud. Many thanks to all once again for these wonderful trails. Oh yeah the wing dings and chips at the roadhouse deserve a mention also.

A quick find to start the run. TFTC

What a great day, exploring the St Arnaud Forest and geocaching as I went.
There are many truly amazing geocaches and I'm very very impressed with them all.
In all, I found 132 caces in the dy, geocaching solo, in 42 degree heat.
Thanks for placing these amazing geocaches. TFTC

Nice easy find

TFTC

Started yet another good StA series by the legendary T&C team. Thanks for the hide!

With travel plans disrupted due to border closures there was an opportunity to plan a country Victoria caching trip and having been unable to attend the St Arnaud mega last year it was decided to explore this area.

Found with gwd.aussie

TFTC

Thank you for putting out a trail of themed caches.
I like the theme and the naming of the caches.

Out caching with D@geo
Thank you for the hide FUF009

We headed out to enjoy a lovely day out and a picnic, we found ourselves in this area and set out to explore. The youngest team member has added his minecraft name "MightyScoobMan" (or MSM as it became) as well as our caching name to some of the logs, lol, Thanks for bringing us through here and only hearing the odd dirt bike in the distance we had the place to ourselves. TFTC and all the fun

5/8/2020

Maintenance done.
Cache container, log book and contents all good.

TFTC

This morning 80 degrees are on their own as ian&penny had appointments to attend to. So back to the fire break track which we did a few off last year. Most were easy to find and a couple of favourites as well.TFTC

On our way through to SA but found time to stop to do some caching. Some great creative hides. We wish we had more time to spend in the area but with the border block to take place from tomorrow we need to keep moving. We will return to cache around here at another time. Our thanks to FUF009 for placing this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

#4116 Fully sick! Where is the local fire tower, perhaps we will bump into as we continue caching the area? A quick find here and we have now finished the southern section of this trail. TFTC FUF009.

Sick

Find #188@ 3:10pm on 9/2/20 easy find TFTC FUF009

Gathering the 1st Mystery Cache clues as i go this one was located and it's log was signed at 12:20 on 17/1/20.

TFTC FUF009

Out on the trail. Tftc

I stopped to log this find while exploring the outskirts of St Arnaud. Thanks.

Found in my stay over in St A to clear as many caches as I can before returning to QLD or what's left of it. A quick find here at this hide. even with the wind trying to blow me and the log book away. TFTC.

We were out and about after the St Arnaud Mega Event and had the fun of finding this cache, thanks for placing it here for us to find. TFTC

Day 6 Leaving St Arnaud area B and B to St Arnaud Campground

So far today we have done the pipe series, black range road series, and the bush wander series plus some stray trads and a couple of multis and puzzles as we passed. Now it's time to complete this series.
The idea was to leave the B and B then head to Beckwood Nature Park for the challenge trail there and spend the night camping. It turns out i got " side tracked " and cleared every trail in St Arnuad forest out instead. Plus a good number of stray caches on route. It would have been more but i staked a tyre around dusk. quick find.
Came over to the 2019 mega in St Arnaud with Mogni. We where joined by jj52, Aussie M and M plus others at different times over the mega weekend. Many caches where found over the course of the 8 day trip. Targeting multi's on the way there and back plus the challenge trail in Mount Beckworth reserve. The creative trails around St Arnaud where the highlight of the trip.

The crowds have thinned out and my caching buddy has returned home so today I decided to go and get the caches on the Fire Break Track. [^]
I had a fun time driving and walking in the bush that was very quiet today and found some more great well constructed caches in this series.
Thanks for the cache FUF009.

Hard

Catnap777 & OZREG formed a team on 10 May 2020.
Logging FOUND Caches as individuals on approximately same dates since 07 July 2019, this
is one of those found Caches, and backdated as shown.

Reperio 14:03

In St Arnaud to attend the Melbourne mega event, and this afternoon, I joined Big Matt to knock over a few local caches. This was a great little series to do, which had a few nice hides to go with it. Haven’t enjoyed so many caches in one spot for quite a while.

Gratias FUF009

Repetitive Generic Bit: Thank you to all the CO’s and organisers and sponsors of the MEGA Event 2019! We managed to find so many quality caches over the weekend, and our numbers jumped extraordinarily high. We felt warmly welcomed in St. Arnaud; from small businesses, to the farmers along the roads, to townsfolk and of course our fellow caching visitors (the bull ants wanted to come home with us though). We also feel we really explored the peaceful town and surrounds thoroughly.
Now we have several hundred logs to fill out, and it will be very satisfying to see all those smileys appear on the map. We also have quite a few left undone- and we will return here again for sure.

The Repetitive Bit Pertaining to this series: Our last day here and the weather was a bit warmer today, which really took it out of us. All the caches were pretty fast finds, but super, super amazing creations! And we appreciated the tons of SWAG found in each cache too; pity the kids weren't with us.
Thank you so much for all the hard work gone into the placement- we found them all to be well maintained, and fun to find!

Out and about caching as Capital Crunchers with Joolay, barb2e and Kittykatch during the St Arnaud Mega event. This morning we decided to target the FBT and BW trails but gathered some along the way, this being one of them Thanks for hiding and maintaining this cache for us to enjoy. SL

Our Sunday geocaching was in two parts. Firstly a run around the town and the nearby fire tracks punctuated by the GIFF event and finished off with a few more on the highway towards Ballarat before making a freeway run for home. Another great day and some wonderful caches. Thanks from D & HA B-A.

19,498. Found with minniek during our epic visit to the St. Arnaud region for the 2019 Victorian Mega Event.

Day 2 - We headed out after breakfast for what we knew would be a great days caching. After the GIFF Event we continued on caching. The drive around the area was a lot of fun today. We only had time to complete one full series out this way so we picked the FB series. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks FUF009 !!

Found on day four of my St. Arnaud Mega event adventure and after knocking off all of the lab caches on offer, it was time to go grab some physical ones!

Onto the FBT trail and I just loved driving around these tracks in the geounit collecting these fantastic caches! Well done on another fantastic series. Awarding a fave point to every single one!

Thanks for the hide, FUF009

We teamed up with Rapidlywild and headed down from Canberra for another Geocaching Victoria Mega. We arrived at our accommodation in Bendigo on Friday afternoon / evening and checked out a few caches in the area before retiring for the evening. On Saturday morning, we had a pleasant drive across to St Arnaud, arriving at the event as the opening ceremony was wrapping up, and the lab caches were released, so we joined the frenzy with the masses solving the cleverly constructed lab caches.

Sunday, day two of our mega weekend we headed over to St Arnaud to tackle some of the fire trails, and what ever else we came across along the way.

An enjoyable trail, a few others around today with the same idea. Some interesting containers, and well thought out, well maintained, and lots of fun in the dirt.

TFTC FUF009

Fitzy_1965 and I arrived in St Arnaud yesterday afternoon. Tagging along were two of my geokids, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

Day 2 - Up early for breakfast, registration and a fast paced pathtag swap before heading out to pick up lots of smileys. Stopped for the GIFF event, now to keep caching. Quick find here today.

In St Arnaud for the Mega event but of course also to tackle as many of the surrounding trails as I can manage.

This was the last half day before driving back to Adelaide. To make the most of it I was up early to pack up the tent so I could hit the trails.

I finished around midday and then headed back to the Showgrounds for lunch and to say my goodbyes.

All caches were found and all were in great condition.

Thanks for the cache FUF009.
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17/11/2019 9:46:00 AM
I spent the morning with Beaker collecting the Fire Break Track caches and then the 2 bonus cachers meeting numerous other cachers along the trail today.
A big thank you to FUF009 for placing and maintaining this great series for our enjoyment

Heading back to the Mega HQ for the closing event I realized I had time for just one (or ten ) more caches. Considering the number of bushfires raging around Australia at the moment this series seemed quite topical.

I followed a geotrail to the fire tower. After a weekend like this some of these geotrails are almost whole new fire breaks!
Thanks FUF009.

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Highlights of the Mega were attending all the weekend's social events, finding all 50 challenge caches in under 1 hour, finding all 40 lab caches, all 6 wherigos, and doing all 7 night caches in one night. No DNFs. Finding 11 cache types in 1 day. And of course making a start on the impressively creative constructions that FUF and TnC have made St Arnaud renowned for over the years.

It's that time of the year again, Victorian Mega time, so its off to St Arnaud for myself and the ladies of FurfacesLL. A long road trip ahead, heading off Friday morning and getting home late Monday night and a fun filled weekend. We found many caches of all kinds of variety.. Trads, Multis, Puzzles, EC's, Virtuals, Letterboxes, Wherigos, Events, Cito's and of course, the Mega itself. We enjoyed the weekend and there sure are some unique caches here in St Arnaud, we still have plenty left to collect, so may need to coordinate another trip this way some time.

Sunday is here, after a massive day yesterday doing the StARS trails, the Challenge trails, the CITO, Events and Lab caches. Today we decided to head out to try some of the Fire Trail trails and we were not disappointed.

Time to hit the FBT series [^] Quite enjoy the tracks around here, I can see why there are so many fire trail series placed in this area!

Thanks for the hide FUF009 And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another amazing trip away

Sometimes taking notes at caches is just plain confusing. I don't know what I was getting at when I wrote the three words I did about this cache so... Found it! TFTC FUF007.

While attending the St Arnaud Event, and catching up with Family and friends
we grabbed a few of the local caches.
Thanks FUF009

Found with 2beez, crack'n Lee Lee

TFTC out with Crack n Lee Lee & 2As today. Here for the weekend for the Mega ????

Thanks FUF009 for creating and placing for all to enjoy. We are travelling around with 2beez and 2A's enjoying this lovely area over the Mega weekend. Have wanted to visit these caches for sometime.

Found on the second day of the mega. Found with ShaiMarelle. Tftc

Found at St Arnaud Mega. Nice easy find.
TFTC

Reggie is happy. He got 2 Carlton cards out of this cache

Ltf

St Arnaud Mega 2019 event,  thankyou  for the cache, enjoying the challenge found 15/11

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch, Barb2e and Smittengranny.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Found as part of Capital Crunchers at the St Arnaud. Tftc

Tftc, a quuck find

Found today with the Capital Crunchers while attending the St Arnaud Mega

TFTC FUF009