Gateway to the Perfume Farm St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By Tyred n Cranky on 19-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B7ZR

After doing a stint on the Eucy Drive we thought we'd try some different caches about town, TFTC

TFTC - left a sticker

Out for the day in the PeuGEOt with littlecogs to find some more of the myriad of Geocaches in and around the pretty town of St Arnaud.TFTC

Very nice tyftc

Tftc

Thought we would visit the cemetery, and have a sniff around here first. Not a whiff of anything detected here this arvo. Thanks for yet another handy logging opportunity.

A quick find of a cache with an amusing name for the location.No smell today!Thanks Tyred n Cranky.

In the area for work, I was teaching the local VICSES unit CPR. However, I couldn't resist adding some smiles to the map. It's always amusing to see how much caching my muggle colleagues will tolerate before calling it quits. Some just don't understand the thrill! This was one of the caches I found today. Thank you for hiding it!

Last for the day and no issues doing so. Log was soon signed and the drive for home was on.Thanks for another Tyred n Cranky. Merry Christmas to you.

After knocking off a heap of challenge caches headed over to the Eucy Drive series of caches and a couple of others. TFTC.

Driving around the area and doing routine maintenance on our caches.

Nice easy find
TFTC

In a day or 2 the treatment plant will be the nicer of the 2 smells in area as on the corner in the paddock there is a dead cow laying there.
Sl thanks for the cache

This weekend has been a long time coming, it’s been way to long since Ghihash and I got away on a camping trip and last week while having dinner I asked if we could collaborate on the final 2 stars for the Geo art series in St Arnaud, somehow things we had struggled to get in the puzzles the last time we tried to solve these stars finally made sense “Hooray”. So this weekend we finished our last two stars (except for 2 DNF’s) and got our highest caches in one day (50)

Ttfc

Grabbed this one after going out for dinner

Camping in Starnard for the weekend, K9team and I headed out to make an early start this morning. On our 4th attempt to finish the stars geo art series and with all the final puzzles solved. Alas at the end of the day we still have 2 caches to come back and find once they are replaced. Next time we'll get them finished.

Along the way we found a few traditional and a multi and spent some time working on puzzles in the area to hopefully find tomorow.

Thanks to all the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches in St Arnaurd and surrounds. You are the reason we keep comming back here.

Sorry for the generic log.

A little bit of a mean hide.

A quick find.

Loved finding this one very clever hide and a very clever name

Second attempt and we got it this time! Yay. Happy kids. Thank you!

No perfume here either, lucky us SL, TFTC ps thanks for the maintenance

Owing to the heavy rains and floods we have had over the past few months, we realise that some of our caches are wet and have damp logs.

Now that the weather has picked up slightly, we are currently undertaking a maintenance program.

Maintenance has been done on this cache and it is now as good as new.

Found with SJG66 on our tour of Western Victoria. TFTC

Found with O319 on a day caching around St Arnaud.

TFTC out visiting family with some enthusiastic geocaching cousins. They are have a great team with the swaps.

Thank you so much for the cache

A drive to St Arnaud with Bogonghazy. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

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 Tired and Cranky for the first of many great caches today. Love the name here

Easy find today
Tftc

11 April 2022
3:13 pm
1722

Hi Tyred n Cranky, I found Gateway to the Perfume Farm today.

Nice clean container and logbook!

Many thanks Tyred n Cranky for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Went out and checked this one. Cache is still in its NEW hiding spot.

NOTE:- Co-ords for this cache were changed on 30th January 2022.

Defeated again, hope to solve this one day!

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 37.476 E 143° 16.599

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 37.485 E 143° 16.600

Distance from original: 55.0 feet or 16.8 meters.

Owing to this cache going missing again we have replaced it in a new spot nearby.

Went out and checked on this one. Sure enough cache has gone again.
Will replace in a new spot nearby.

No luck for us today. Will be back

Not the best for short people, had to jump

Another early start and I’m hitting road and heading towards Melbourne, but there’s enough light to grab a few caches on the Bendigo route out of town that I missed yesterday.

Thanks Tyred n Cranky!

Not sure if this is ironic...was expecting a lavender farm or a winery lol!!

Nice start to my day of Geocaching in St Arnaud, thank you

Found this afternoon as we tried to find a few strays around the town. TFTC

Went out and replaced container due to a report of a broken lid.
Cache also placed in its original hiding spot.

Cache was on the ground with tradeable and log spilled all over. Managed to put most of it together but the lid won't shut properly.
No idea where it is really supposed to be but I put it back high to shield and hide.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Found. A true au du toilet! TFTC

Found TFTC

27/09/2020 - Kate, Adam, Tay & AB

The birds were singing and the aroma wasn’t that bad. TFTC

Hi there Tyred n Cranky.

We found your cache **"Gateway to the Perfume Farm"** today. (This makes our find count 24308).

We headed to St Armata to escape all of the shenanigans happening in metro Melbourne. Today we walked out to our dark grey geo-mobile and found it had turned to white overnight. Despite the ffreezing weather we had a successful day & found 24 caches & DNF'd 1 .

Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Cache Condition:** The container lid is showing some cracks at the corners. The log book is in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge

Thank you for placing this cache here & adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

No perfume in the air, and luckily only one muggle car went past. Quickly retrieved, signed and returned as found. TFTC
Over 6 months since this one was last found!

I stopped on my way into town to log a couple of finds. Thanks for the hide.

Good spot

Well the Mega was over and my geobuddies had to head back home, so now I was continuing my geotrip solo

A quick park and grab for me here. Didn't hang around long enough to smell any wafts of "perfume"!

Thanks for the hide, Tyred n Cranky

Found it

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

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.

Quick last morning rush to get some more caches in before leaving. Tftc tnln

A couple more before I leave.. TFTC

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After an exhausting weekend at the Mega we had a day off today before taking the shop back to Geostuff HQ in the lovely Barossa tomorrow! We ventured out to do some caching with hevwalker. Oh right....I actually thought that this was a perfume farm,,,LOL...or rather Perfume factory...But yes, I see your point! TFTC

This weekend was the St. Arnaud Mega event and I was looking forward to hitting the road for a few days doing some flat out caching, visiting many new and amazing places and catching up with lots of caching friends. The event was a great success and heaps of fun. The caches provided by the local cachers were, in many cases, absolutely mind blowing (FUF009 caches most notably). All in all it was a great weekend, very warm weather and lots of caches found.
Cache found and log signed. TFTC.

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.

We arrived at this one and saw another geocacher parked a little down the road, seems Hurtle had overshot it. A quick find, signing duties completed, and we were off to the next one.

TFTC Tyred n Cranky

Last full day in St Arnaud and we ventured out east of the town to search along more country roads! Many thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining the caches we visited. We signed as Team JARC - joojoo57, Aussie Liahona, Richmond Lad and Crew 153.

Visiting St Arnaud for approximately 5 days while the St Arnaud Mega Event is on. While here cached every day. Enjoyed the countryside caches as well as caches in the town s and villages. Tha k you to all CO's for placement of the caches. TFTC

A perfume farm as well as the area where the first technology was used and installed in your water treatment plant. Hmmm! Now those are two interesting facts to share with this cache. We were not overwhelmed with the smell of perfume or of treated, (or untreated) water here but we did find the cache and very gladly signed the log Team JARC!
Many thanks for your caches Tyred n Cranky. You must be getting very tired reading all your logs but hope you are not cranky about too many TFTC's coz I'm not seeing much in the way of them.
Cheers and happy caching!

TFTC

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the 2019 Victorian Mega event. The weekend was spent primarily with e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98 as we geocached around the vicinity of St Arnaud. All of the events and CITOs were attended, we completed the available adventure labs and lab caches available at the showgrounds, many of the creative trails were gasped at their construction, and interesting puzzles were solved and collected during the weekend.

We all left on Thursday in two separate cars, and met up at the evening event, before finding a camp spot for the night in a very CITO location. On Friday, we targeted the StARS (St Arnaud Ramble Series) and the higher quality, well-constructed geocaches that were famous here in St Arnaud, and got lucky with the 2019 published series that we managed to snag FTFs on. Sunday had us continuing to find the other sets of high-quality caches around the neighbouring town parks, the challenge series, before spending a few hours at geocaching HQ participating in the labs that had been published. The event was also great to see some of the South Australians honoured with geocaching life awards (in amongst everyone on the list). Our final day, Sunday, had us do a big loop finishing off our geocache collection, driving all the way out to Kooreh and around via Stuart Mill, walking the conservation park at Mount Gowar, and finishing off at the GIFF event. A massive weekend that turned out to be a great mega! Thanks to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. The variety between the local high-quality caches, the new series placed by the mega team, and those who needed to be around for the labs and main centre fielding questions was appreciated immensely.

Today with our final day in St Arnaud, we went east and south focusing on some of the *Original Road* series, and the various geocaches that were placed along these routes. This cache was one of these found as we headed towards Kooreh. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Tyred n Cranky for placing and maintaining this cache. The logbook was signed as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98).

The perfume farm is very hi-tech. Didn’t notice much perfume this morning, but we didn’t stay long! SL at 11.20am Took: frog #6716 TFTC Tyred n Cranky

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the Mega event.

FeatherWaite, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday, taking a circuitous, but scenic route to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches in some other Victorian LGAs. We met up with Freddo and Davidwazza at the event that evening and teamed up to complete a couple more caches that night together before camping out of town.

Over the next three days we cached very solidly in and around St Arnaud, finding a diverse range of Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Virtual, Letterbox, Wherigo and Earthcaches as well as attending all the events associated with the Mega. We also managed to complete all the Lab caches over the weekend. Logbooks were signed D.E.F.F.98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo and gridge98).

On the Sunday afternoon, after the final GIFF event, FeatherWaite and I began making our way back to Adelaide, picking up a couple of caches before camping in the Little Desert NP. The following day we continued towards home with a side visit to Mount Rescue to pick up a few caches along the tracks there.

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches. They included a huge variety of containers, hides and puzzles, many of which were very clever and/or amusing and had obviously taken considerable time and effort to construct. Thanks also to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. I’ll be looking forward to the Mega at Millicent in South Australia next Easter!

19,471. 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. The drive around the area was a lot of fun today. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks Tyred n Cranky !! Love the name of this one !

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

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.

Ran into Hurtle from SA at this one, nice to formally meet you Log signed and we were on our way.

Thanks for the hide Tyred n Cranky And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another amazing trip away

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud Mega event. On Day 1, e.gregory1, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday morning, straight after the Earlybirds event in North Adelaide. We travelled a long and circuitous route via Bordertown, Nhil and Warracknabeal to find caches in 5 additional Victorian LGAs that I had yet to visit (namely Buloke, Loddon, [Greater Bendigo - I’d previously visited], Mt Alexander, Hepburn and Central Goldfields). On Days 2-4 we met up with Freddo and Davidwazza. As a group we systematically completed each of the many series around St Arnaud and found all other caches along the way, signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, Featherwaite and gridge98), as well as attending the events and completing the Lab caches. After the Mega, e.gregory1 and I headed back to Adelaide camping out in Little Desert NP overnight. On Day 5 we had intended picking up caches around Mundulla and Mount Monster but a last minute change of plans saw us head into Ngarkat CP instead, for a solid drive and a few extra rewarding cache finds. Many thanks to all the cache owners for placing the huge variety of caches around St Arnaud and to all those who organised the Mega and the fantastic weekend away. Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky!

Perfume to make the recycled water palatable? lol
Quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

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.

One of the many we found while attending the Mega with my family. Thanks to the cache owners and the organisers of the well organised event. Orange ribbons and flags everywhere made it a very colourful area. The roads we travelled and caches we found were well maintained and I am already planning another trip to come back for the rest.

Out for a day of caching on Mega day with Aussie Liahona, Richmond Lad and joojoo57. We signed the log as "Team JARC"

We didn't need a peg for the nose today.

TFTC Tyred n Cranky

Great hide tyres and cranky! Thanks for our time at the mega

Final day of the Mega out and about finishing off some local St Arnaud caches. Thanks to all the COs. TFTC. As my niece Harper would say Pooooweee

Caching buddies: RideTheGeoWalrus, yin~yang, bella at waggy

Thank you Tyred n Cranky, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.
Signed as BARY.

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Attending the mega at St Arnaud allowed Touchstone7 and me a good opportunity to do a lot of the caches in the area. Having recently taken up metal work, and hearing about some of the really cool containers, I was very keen to go out looking at some of the caches we'd heard so much about.

With the number of cachers (and caches) around St. Arnaud, we were never far from someone and the line "there's a cacher" from either Touchstone7 or myself proved quite the catchphrase.

Thanks for the cache, Tyred n Cranky

Okay that was a challenge but with the help of a natural tott nearby managed to dislodge the cache. Just as that happened had some friendly cachers come by and ask if I wanted to use their roo bars to put it back. Declined and after getting it back moved onto the next one to find.

A weekend of caching with AlphaDeltaIndigo and Ying-Yang in St Arnaud, along with a heap of other people. We stayed at Wedderburn, and commuted to St Arnaud each day, and what an amazing area this was to cache in! We very much enjoyed our trip to the Northern Grampians Shire! My fifth Victorian Mega (sixth overall) and can't wait to come back next year and do it again!

This was find number 15 of 28 for the day for me. TFTC Tyred n Cranky!

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud mega. Hilarious name - the "pond" looks lovely from the cemetary, but it looses its beauty once you realise what it actually is! At GZ it was a very quick find - nice hiding place. TNLNSL. TFTC Tyred n Cranky!

Quick find in good condition. Tftc

16 November 2019 @ 3:46 pm
Caching buddies: AIphaDeltaIndigo, RideTheGeoWalrus
Is it isn't it yep it is.

Tftc Tyred n Cranky

Joined the hordes of geo gangs and citizens for the CITO - probably a good destination next to a transfer station. Glad we saw NO rubbish or trash out here. On a mission with TRISAM to collect this clutch of caches. TFTC series

Found on the way to the mega cito with Ronice88. Thanks.

Most grateful that there was no perfume here tonight. Thanks for the cache.

We did this one as we used up some time before meeting up with friends. Always great to add another find on a Tyred n Cranky cache.
TFTC

Found on Mega Eve (the day before the opening of the big one).

What the CO needs to know is that the cache container could use a new lid. [8)]
What I need to know is.....
Who was the miserable sod that gave this one a favourite point?
I'm on the hunt for caches with 200+ visits and no favourite points awarded to qualify for the Victoria's Least Favourite Challenge.
I thought for sure I would score one for a TnC cache (who would drive past one?) placed on the brim of a cesspool (who would reward one?).
I guess it was the humour of it all (I laughed out loud at the cache name) that stuffed it up for me.

TFTC Tyred n Cranky.
P.s. I couldn't smell sh.. .

Found on mega

Found while at mega event )

The cut&paste bit: Went to the excellent St Arnaud Mega and now logging everything from the comfort of my Central Coast, NSW home. I enjoyed myself, everyone I met was lovely, and I came across so many awesome caches. Thanks to everyone involved!

Mmmm, who doesn't like the fine aroma of perfume wafting up the nostrils? Cache easily found, maybe slightly harder to get, signed log and replaced. TFTC!

**Find #: 6718**
**Time: 4:32 pm**
**Date: Fri 15 Nov 2019**
Another great day caching around St Arnaud with PamJ
The day culminated with a great dinner at the sports Club, followed by some night caches with BernieH and MuggleWifeDoes..
**Thanks for placing this cache Tyred n Cranky**

Found while out and about around St Arnaud with gmj3191. We had another great day finding the wonderful caches in the area.
**Thanks for placing this cache Tyred n Cranky**

Boort to St Arnaud
Time to head to our final location, we stopped on the way finding caches where we thought itm was suitable to stop with a caravan on.
Arrived into St Arnaud at 11am & have set up camp in the overflow section ner the club.
Following lunch & a rest we headed out of town to find some of the many caches around.
This wasn't the type of perfume farm that I was expecting. Had a bit of a chuckkle with the name.
Thankyou for placing this cache Tyred n Cranky

Ahh that perfume farm! no scents today as I made an easy find.

After arriving in st Arnaud and setting up camp, the caching continued with iloook4geo. It was a fun afternoon and we found all the caches that we had on the list. This was one that we found, the log soon had two more names noted on it and all was put back into place before we moved on. Many thanks go to Tyred n Cranky for placing so many of the caches we found around St Arnaud today.

It was a travel day today and time to head towards St Arnaud along with goingplaces2. Found some caches along the way and enjoyed the hunt. Thanks for these finds goes to each CO.

TB Drop

Here in St Arnaud for the Mega event we had a great day caching and exploring the roads less travelled.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.