Rockin with Dean Bungaree, Victoria, Australia
By jiwilly on 17-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B38H

Hi. A newbie geocaching friend of mine attempted this cache today and was told off by the people who state they own the land here. They were very aggressive towards “the geocachers” and I note from a previous log that the cache itself was removed by them. This cache will need reviewing. Thanks ??

Cache was placed on public grounds originally. Was moved about a bit and someone from the local church/hall has since removed it.

On our way from Ballaarat to Bendigo we made a short stop to go for ths cache. We had to search for a while until we could find the right rock. Just when we were about to sign the logbook the landowner arrived and was quite upset, because she didn't know, that there is a cache placed on her property.

We explained her what geocaching is about, but she didn't want to let us replace the cache again, as there were already many geocachers picking rocks from their wall and destroying it. She took the cache away and we told her, that we will inform the owner.

The cache is not at it's place anymore.

Regards from Switzerland.

Was a bit concern when I arrived at GZ, however a slow and steady approach was used and eventually all was good and the cache was in hand. Log signed and I was on my way again.

Thanks jiwilly....

5 minutes was all the olds would give us to find this one, no such luck, maybe next time

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Very clever! Well camouflaged! Unfortunately the paper log was very wet so we didn’t sign it today

We have headed to Ballarat to attend doctor appointments and in our spare time head out to areas that we have not cached in to find the many geocaches that have popped up in the forest areas. Most of the roads were acceptable, some geocachers were on walking/bike riding section which hubby hiked on and I drove the car and would pick him up along the way. All geocaches were found and were in good condition. SL TFTC

Well that looked like a challenge as i approached gz but i managed to find the cache without tearing my hair, cool

Day 17 of our southern trip. Leaving Ballarat and winding our way to Charlton in readiness for some St Arnaud challenges. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges as well as well as adventure labs.

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

Well someone turned it over and left it out for someone's quick find.

Good one.

TFTCache jiwilly

Day 16of our southern trip. Ballarat to Charlton, with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

I turned it over without realising it was the cache, and moved on. Silly me!

Log signed and cache replaced as found on January 26, 2022. TFTC, jiwilly

TFTC smile 11419 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a road trip to Charlton
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, jiwilly, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Farewell Ballarat now making our way to St Arnaud in convey of three cars with grannysmith1947, hatzofff and RoddyC. ( All logs signed as Team 44 QLD)
Nice hide & a quick find.

TFTC jiwilly

On my way to the Wangaratta Mega and picking up a few caches along the way. I know that I will stop too many times as I travel and end up in Wangaratta very late indeed! This was a nice simple find for the first of the day. Thank you!

We had trouble finding the hiding spot but we were determined! After a through look over, we finally located the cache, yay! The paper inside was a bit wet though so had trouble signing. Thanks for the fun and rewarding hide.

After doing stuff in Ballarat today, I meandered around a few lab caches. Then carved up the drive back to base with some caching. Hoping for more sunny days and fewer nights.

A creative hide here, dropping off a FAVE

TFTC jiwilly

Out for a mental health break. Checking out the area and some caches. Great spots. Thanks for placing the cache. TFTC

With visions of another (infamous) cache with rock in the name, I looked at this one with some trepidation.
But, once my GPS settled it was a quick easy find.
TFTC

Love it …Tftc

Out on a caching run with little blue wren
After a short search Mr little blue wren Mr little blue wren came up with the cache
A clever hide Signed and replaced where found TFTC

TFTC. At last a smiley for this cache, found by hubby. A enjoyable day out with Aussie fun Seakers and my hubby. You have earned a favourite jiwilly.

Love a suspicious Rock

So many suspicious rocks!

Wow loved this one

Found it! Rock on baby

A very fun and special cache for us. Lovely to find our 500th cache at a friends cache too! TFTC Willy’s!

Day two of carkisser and JSando escape the kids and we’re out in the rain. Thanks for a quick find. TFTC

Found with carkisser on our 3 day escape from the kids.
Merry Christmas
TFTC

Re-enabling as restrictions have eased - still yet to find a suitable time to check on cache but will enable for now - stay safe!

Due to the current situation across Australia - we are choosing to temporarily disable our caches until deemed safe. Thank you for your understanding.

We needed to head across to catch up with family before we are all placed in lockdown. Only time for a couple of caches.

We've looked for this one previously so it was nice to find it today
TFTC jiwilly it was nice to be out and about for a bit.

Found by Mary and David at 08:15. After 2 Events in Ballarat yesterday, we're now heading to Seymour for another one. Really like the wrought iron cutouts. Great camo. too, with just enough difference so the find was reasonably quick. Our thanks to jiwilly.

Updated chords helped, as a supernatural fan I loved the name of the town. DEAN.

S37 27.988 E143 58.855

This one took quite a while as our coordinates were different to where we found it! Very good hide!

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 27.984 E 143° 58.862

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 27.988 E 143° 58.855

Distance from original: 41.6 feet or 12.7 meters.

Have updated co-ords (I thought I had done this some time ago, but appear to have not saved it correctly). Happy Hunting

Will be out to check on posted co-ords soon as they were only updated a little while back after a few muggled containers - fear someone may have cache creeped in that time. I will come by shortly to confirm.

Thank godddd for the updated coords by Perpertuallylost! Saved me sooo much time.

Pulled up after a big morning hike in Bungal and at first admired the sign, then shuddered at the rocks. Set about the search, which thankfully was quick. A really cool container. Thanks for placing this one.

January 25, 2020 5:29 PM

Found today with Mrs Perpetuallylost assisting. Couldn't find this one last time i was here in November so I was determined to find it today. I found this one eventually, after a long search, but a long way from your posted coords which had us on the edge of the driveway.
Our coords are S37 27.988 E143 58.855.
I would also add that a lot of disturbance has happened on the corner of the rockwall and has partially collapsed. Do not search near the corner, cache is not there.
Great camo cache nonetheless, thx jiwilly for placing.

Found it!!

A last minute decision last night to head up to Creswick for the CITO and Event meant a couple of quick messages to AusFox; and Neville_devil and I soon had a couple of copilots for the journey. We left early enough (But still a civilized time) to grab some caches on the way.
With time on our side AusFox; navigated our way in the direction of Dean. We hunted for a while when Neville eventually made the find.

Thank you jiwilly for the hide

Heading to Creswick to attend a CITO and Event and grab a few caches on route with Simsfamily and Neville Devil.
as we pulled up near GZ we were asked if we were part of an Abandoned structure as they were meeting near by, we replied we were part of a group but not that one.
We wandered back and forth looking for the hide until Neville Devil called out "found it".
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache jiwilly
#5,563

Nice Find
TFTC jiwilly

Found it when we widened the search! TFTC

A cool little hide! Memories here too from a long time ago. I remember school trips to the old school located behind the hall. TFTC

No luck

Came to check on cache and all is good here today!

TFTC

Got a son-in-law called Dean so I wanted to see this village? Great hall, thought it must be an old school by virtue of the buildings, then spotted the magic words Mechanics Institute, so many of these noble buildings about. Great town sign, great rock walls and an excellent container. Good fun all round. Thanks.

Came out for routine maintenance as there was a DNF and it appears after extensive searching, that the cache appears to have been muggled. Replacement cache again made and replaced at updated co-ordinates from last update.

This is not getting a happy face today...
Coordinates bounced around.. and too many people hear to see us!

Original cache was damaged and required to be replaced. New cache was not suitable for placement where original cache was, so co-ords have been updated to reflect new, more appropriate placement of cache.

Found it with help from the co

Taking home for some TLC and maintenance. Will return once fixed

Once again the wife refused to give up. Once again we found it

Dean's place looked like a good spot to start a new caching day
So off I strolled to find me this one.

Soooo .....
... 10 minutes later and I was none the wiser

Back to the firing line
So which rock ??
Let me see ...
... there's about 10,000 of them at least

I ignored the GPS' insistence that the cache was near the sign,
and widened me search.
Voila !!
That looks suspicious
It sure was

TFTC at last.

One of the best of this type of hide I found.
It matches the rest so well [^]
Though I'm sure some of the one's I couldn't find must be better than this one

Fave dance time !!

Heading from Ballarat to Wangaratta and collecting a few caches along the way. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches.

Today was a day of missions to fill a few spots left in my calendars.

I drove just on 367km from the western suburbs, up to Castlemaine, down thru Daylesford, across to Creswick and then back to Melbourne.

Not so much big numbers but have now completed my Finds by placed date calendar. I picked up a few older caches to knock some dates of my Jasmer challenge, picked up a few more numbers in the Vic Sudoku mystery and a long-buried Premier for another mystery.

I looked and looked around here for too long.

If only I widened my search sooner.

Then I managed to have the aha moment.

Singed the log and was on my way.

TFTC

Found it. Pretty quick find, maybe a bit of luck. TFTC

Found this one pretty quickly, nice hide TFTC

Didn't want to leave until we found this one. Took some searching and it was just starting to get dark and cold when I found it. TFTC

Second search, nice hide KOOL, found with Conehead3 approx 15mts from GZ. Tanks FTC

Hey good hide found with pothole had to lok far and wide. TFTC

Quick stop on our way from Daylesford to Sovereign Hill today. GZ was about 10 metres from where we found it, so don't know whether it has been moved. Probably would not have found it if we hadn't previously found 2 similar to this ingenious cache in the past, so knew what to look for by the tip. Thank you.

DNF ? will try again

I'm calling cache creep. We dismantled the wall and put it back together. We even had spare rock caches to compare what we were looking for. We're moving on before the cops turn up for excessively suspicious activity.

We found it upside down in the open being very obvious! Have now replaced it to where it belongs.

Gps was a bit sick but got it

A quick find for me today
TFTC

drive on the way to maryborough to pick up my husband and thank you for show me old church

12:00
A Friday of fun, out and about around Creswick, in an effort to replace the green boxes on our geo-map with smiley tokens. The four letters rock in a cache name always make us anxious! Today we had this clever little hide in hand very quickly, happy to leave our name and a favourite point.

Our thanks to jiwilly for placing this cache.
17756.

Moneydork and Mrs Moneydork had very kindly invited me, last November, for a caching trip to Victoria over the Australia Day weekend [:X]
A massive trip with 13 DNFS and 318 finds over 7 days and many kilometers of travel
My knees don't want to bend anymore after a massive ride on the Ballarat Skipton Rail Trail and then about 145 finds the next day while finishing the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson series [xx(] Seems my driving lesson was about me keeping both feet on the ground as I broke my own record by doing the autumn leaf thing 4 times in one day [xx(]
Still a fantastic trip with great sights and lots of cache finds [^]

A travel day today as we head from Ballarat to Seymour.
We picked up this cache on our way out there
This cache has us looking everywhere initially bar where we finally found it!
Still we rocked Dean in the end [^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC jiwilly

Nicely hidden

Found with the family - boo09, becca85 & chan02 - while visiting the Maze house.
Sorry for late logging. TFTC

Found with the family (neisha07, boo09 & becca85) while in the area visiting the newest tourist attraction. TFTC

We (becca85, neisha07, chan02 & myself) visited the new Maxe House and grabbed these before heading back home.TFTC

After visiting the new Maze House, we (neisha07, chan02, boo09 & Muggle Dad) thought we would nab a few of the nearby caches as we would not generally travel this road.
I had a bit of cache blindness here and was looking in the wrong spot (great co-ords, just silly me), it was Muggle husband that ended up making the find which he was quite smug about.
The log book was a ball of wet paper (see pic attached) however I had a spare log in the car so it is all fresh now.
TFTC

We had traveled to Maryborough yesterday afternoon to attend three of the four Geelong Xmas events to help celebrate my nieces engagement and had stayed the night in town and were looking for a few caches on the way home.
We made this one harder than it should have been and spent awhile looking in all the wrong places and then the cache was finally spotted and our name was added to the log.
Didn't see any spuds today but in a previous life Mr Crackers has picked them up from here.
Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy find as we head from Ballarat to Kilmore. Log signed as Team NZ. TFTC

#5601

Found on Mega trip with Paddle chick and Kiwi Nomad. Thanks for all of the caches. Enjoying the trip. Always wanted to come back to Victoria

Out caching with our kiwi group over for the Surf Coast Mega signed the log "TeamNZ"

Been in Victoria for three weeks walking the Great Ocean Walk (100k) and the Goldfields Track (200k). Collected / found numerous caches along the tracks and nearby towns. Stayed the night at the Hall safe from the rain. TFTC.

After spending some time in Daylesford we decided to grab some caches.
And i found this one to be a fun one seing how my name is Dean . Tftc.

Just had to find this one while in the area.... TFTC

GPS all over the place but spotted it, great cache! Added a marble

Yay, took a good look around!

After attending "A Duck in the Falls" Event at Lal Lal we headed towards Creswick to do some caching while the rain held off, completing a couple of trails and picking up the odd cache or two as we headed back home. Thanks jiwilly for the hide.

Catching up with some late logs, therefore this unfortunately is going to be one of 'those logs'. I apologize in advance for the generic log, A combination of limited time and too many to log dictates that a generic log is best. I have enjoyed the hunt and being outdoors in this great country of ours, partaking in a pastime that I thoroughly enjoy. I usually head out by myself, but I thank those that have had the misfortune of my company in some of these ventures.

Thanks jiwilly for placing this cache.

Enjoying a nice Sunday drive, enjoying a break in the cool weather, with MazzyMay and we found that there was a cache on our way which we located. TFTC.

On the way back from another activity which involved a very yummy lunch at Hepburn Springs pub, stopped for this one expecting a longer search, not so, fairly quickly located and on our way again. Beautiful sunny winters day and most enjoyable. TFTC

Find #1049 for me. I'd passed this one several times before on my way to Ballarat from Bendigo. This time I actually had time to stop, leaving the kids in the car since it was so cold. My GPS liked your coordinates today jiwilly so it didn't take too long to spot. Thanks for the cache!

Rocking with Dean...found it Robyn n Dawn..woo hoo

A quick find for Nugget, added a fresh log and bag as the log was very wet. TFTC

Picking up a few caches on my unusual way home from Daylesford trying to convert a few to smilies in this section of the map that have been taunting me a while now. TFTC

Heading north from Ballarat for an event in Bendigo, we decided to grab a couple of caches. We only chose ones that wee close to the road, so this one was lucky to get a smiley from us. TFTC

Cheers, TFTC

Driving past this lovely town and saw that I hadn't found this one. A quick U turn had me right beside GZ.
Soon located the hide. Only added 6H2 as the log was damp and small.
TFTC

A beautiful day for geocaching, Bogonghazy and I took the geodogs and headed to Crewswick. Collected some lovely caches in a beautiful area of the countryside. Found this one very quickly. Many thanks for sending us out to this gorgeous area.

Decided to take the 2 geodogs along with Leetalicious for a day's caching in and around Creswick.
A beaut day for the middle of the week had us going via this little town where a quick find was made. Made the title make a little more sense too. Thanks for bringing us here jiwilly

TFTC. First cache for the day.

TFTC. Very clever hide, lucky I've seen one similar before so the find was very quick.