CH7 Pining For Gold Beaufort, Victoria, Australia
By chooknchunk on 05-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5D4K1

We reviewed the Camp Hill area today. While the road has now re-opened, the fires of February this year have burnt a large proportion of the area.We had already re-enabled the unburnt Camp Hill caches 1 to 4. But from CH5 on, many of the caches had been burnt, with nowhere suitable now to hide replacements in the fire-ravaged landscape. So we have made the decision to archive caches 5 through to 12. They have been here for nearly 10 years and have been enjoyed by many. Caches 1 to 4 will remain though.

Sections of Camp Hill Road are still closed to traffic, therefore these caches remain disabled until road closures are lifted.

This section of Camp Hill Road has suffered fire damage from the February 22 bushfires. Caches along here have either been burnt and/or are still within local road closures. Assessment and clearing of fire-damaged trees is still in progress. Will review in a month.

Important Notice:While the major fire front has been suppressed, there is still fire activity in the area in the form of smouldering stumps and trees. Local agencies are still attending to hot spots, falling trees and road damage, and may be doing so for the next few weeks. Many roads are still closed or are open for local resident access only.PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FIND ANY CACHE THAT HAS BEEN DISABLED DUE TO THE BUSHFIRES, regardless of whether you think it is safe or not. Any 'Found It' logs while this cache is disabled for this reason will be subsequently deleted.We will check out each location and arrange re-enabling of caches as access and safety allows.Thank you for your understanding.Jo and Glen (chooknchunk)

This cache is an an area subject to fire fighting operations (22-23 Feb) and may have been impacted by the fire. It has been disabled until it is safe for the CO is able to check the current condition of the cache.

I was heading to Beaufort for the Goodbye 2023 celebration event and arrived with enough time to hit this trail first. And the finds keep coming!My thanks to chooknchunk for the cache.

Quick find Thanks for the cache

No problems with finding this container. As with the others no-one else is around. Thanks to chooknchunk for the cache.

I jumped enthusiastically out of my car and up the bank to grab this and then on my enthusiastic decent I arsed over going back down the small bank to the car All for a good cause as I got the cache TFTC

Decided on a run out this way again and to have a go at this series. A great drive through the forest on what was a great day. Managed to find all in the series, plus a few others and all were in good condition.

No problems here and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks again chooknchunk....look forward to exploring a bit more.

Out finding a few with joybell53 TFTC

Found

Yay! Another large cache. Topped up trades for you again. Found last Sunday with Wespro. A little hairy crossing through the dip to get here with all the water in it but we made it through.

*The SueHut Birthday Long Weekend Adventure #56*
It's day 4 of our long weekend, and we're meandering our way back home.
How did you know? It was about here that I was definitely pining: for Old Gold.
Sugar boost FTW!
Thanks heaps, chooknchunk!

Woohoo! Another find. Thank you ️

TFTC Found

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Found with O319. TFTC

Found with SJG66 as we toured Western Victoria. TFTC

Easy find

Woot!

I decided to do a road trip along the Great Ocean Road this week. It’s been a long time since I travelled along this area and it was certainly before I was into caching! As the week nears an end it was time to head back, taking the long way home via a day in Beaufort and some events in Ballarat tomorrow.

A good sized cache here today full of goodies.

Thanks chooknchunk for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to find.

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Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2022?*
[**THE**](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8EW40)
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[**EVENT 2022**](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8EW40)
19th / 20th November 2022 – GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria

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In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

LNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Chook n Chunk [^]

Made a quick find on my second full day geocaching around Raglan.. never found any gold eitherTFTC.

TFTC

Weather starting to look ominous. Quick find and on to the next one.

Finishing this trail as last time we were stopped a by a tree across the road. TFTC

Found it today with Sunsong1. TFTC

Tftc Found with Tippsy on a post lockdown adventure

Thank you for leading me to this marker from Tippsy17

This has turned into a competition between me and hubby, he's one in front now... let's see who gets the next cache

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

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Found it. This one is stuffed with treasure.

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More peaceful bush with short walk from geoute. TFTC

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Such awesome scenery tftc this is my 50th
#50

Love love love! Ty ty ty

After a good weekend in Avoca and the surroundings enjoying the company of other Geocachers and, of course, finding quite a few caches, we headed home to the Bellarine Peninsula. It was a lovely crisp clear morning for the second morning in a row, and it boded well for caching. Mrs Dromaniax had spoken to Mr chooknchunk on the weekend and had discussed this series, so we decided to complete this series on the way home. The series is in lovely bushland North of Beaufort. There was a profusion of Pink and White Heath, Drosera, Correas and that beautiful but very prickly wattle in the area. This cache was in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache and series chooknchunk.

Found it and a deer looking back at us!

TFTC. Alas, no gold found but plenty of treasures. Keep your eyes peeled for the 'golden poo' in this series while it lasts.

TFTC chooknchunk, no cache is passing us by today.. all yellow smilies found

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Cool

We decided to go for a Sunday drive with the geopups to this lovely area. Having not cached for sometime it was good to get out.

LL still with her scaredy pants on with the fear of finding a snake curled up with a cache, the big hide was quickly retrieved and placed back as found.
Need to get out caching more Thanks chooknchunk
Left swap

Tftc

Tftc lovely area!!

Tftc. Lots of swaps

Tftc!

Found

This one is nice and dry in its home, whereas we were beginning to feel the rain. But there is always another cache to be found , the rain is really gentle at this stage.

Cheers BUSHRATS

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Found with BertieBeetles and The Pandas. tftc

Oh we have had a fun day out caching today. We had the smallest of The Friendly Fords with us and newcomers The Pandas learning the ropes. Cold, misty, rainy, muddy. What more could 5 kids 5-13yrs ask for?Love the smell of the pine trees here. And wow this area is hilly!!! Lots of 'weeeees' and 'wooooooos' coming across on the two-way today! Haha. Thanks ChooknChunk for another great day!! And for the cache.

Found it

Half way down the track and its raining..no option but to keep going...

Thanks! Nice quick find

Re-enabling now the Victorian Covid19 restrictions say we can "participate in some recreational activities, adhering to the rules". Please use common sense, maintain social distancing, attend to hand hygiene and stay safe.

Temporarily disabling this cache due to the Corona Virus.
Geocaching is not "essential travel".
It puts others at risk when you travel unnecessarily, no matter how isolated a cache may be.
Please stay at home.

Making the journey home after a shortened AGP F1, grabbing caches as I go. TFTC

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

Why you would invest your money in plantations of highly flammable trees in OZ is beyond me
Put yer money into gold people,
and stop pining for profits

Cache found

Another nice hide

Found by The Empire + H
Checking out some of the trails north of Beaufort today. A quick find then off to the next one! Thanks for the cache, and the cool series chooknchunk.
- M

Enjoy caching through the bushland.
TFTH

Found

Whilst we found no gold, we did get a yellow smiley face for finding this cache. Had a bit of wry smile at the amount of no trespassing signs on the neighbour's side. Wouldn't really think there would be that much traffic out here. TFTC

1:09 pm #8947
Bluegums - magnificent trees!
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, chooknchunk

Pining yes indeed

Thanks chooknchunk for CH7 Pining For Gold

#*4238*

My first day of a three day road trip through Western Victoria to grab a few caches. After a long drive out to Carlisle River to tick off a target for the challenge to find a cache in each page of the Victorian Country Road Atlas I headed towards Ballarat to try some challenge caches followed by the Xmas Down Under puzzle series. After that it was on towards Beaufort and I had time enough to try this series before coincidentally meeting the CO team for dinner at the local pub. I was starting to run out if time here so it was good to grab this one and keep moving. Took nothing. left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and the series chooknchunk.

This morning I made my way from Ararat to Beaufort collecting the odd cache here and there.
After completing the COs wherigo series 2 months ago I wanted to have a go at this series today, it was a nice drive along the road picking up the caches along the way, some were clever and made it that bit more interesting. All the caches are in good condition.
TFTC

Lots of swag in this nice big cache
Thanks Chooknchunk

Found on another epic caching loop with H423L which included the St Arnaud mega and many other magnificent Australian locations.

Thanks chooknchunk and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

No gold found today. Maybe that’s why we pine for it. Luckily we were able to find a cache instead. TFTC

Out after the mega event. Day 87 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 26 for the day and 2533 for the trip. TFTC

Loving the plant life. Another favourite awarded. Dropped some trackables. Tftc tn

Heading out to Beaufort for work and having not been through here before what better thing to do than pick from some of the many caches available. After grabbing a few of the nearby musical series I was running out of time before I needed to head for home. But as all cachers will know, the lure of just one more is hard to resist so I had to dip my toe into the Camp Hill series as well. I found five of them before I finally relented and pointed the car homewards. Thanks for the cache chooknchunk, a beautiful area to go caching.

A nice little series, showcasing the bush on camp hill...
All were quick to find, save for #2 which I Dnfd...
TNLNSL
Thanks

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Found it with SciFiRulz and MazzyMay NicNax
TFTC

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch. TFTC

Found with my dad (day1976) and Ilukaperi. TFTC!

After camping in Beaufort on the CO's farm; myself, Day1976, my sister Nakarra and Day's son Jo ventured out as team JIND. After finishing the nearby wherigos, we decided to do this lot of caches also, in our aim to get to 70 today.

Having camped at the chooknchunk's place the night before, Ilukaperi, her sister, my son Yeah09 and myself awoke reasonably early and after coffee, breakfast and packing up we hit the road by about 8:30am. Our goal for the weekend was to find 70 caches, but having only found 3 yesterday, we all thought that finding 67 today might be a tall order. Happy to say we achieved that, plus a few extra as well to give us a grand total of 70 for today and 3 yesterday.

Having finished the nearby wherigos, we looked towards Beaufort and developed a strategy to grab them all. Enjoyed a bit of 4WDing in parts and got some mud splattered on the Disco. Ilukaperi's plastic tubs of food in the back didn't fair so well. All of these caches were races between the four of us to see who could find it first. Most of these races were won by ilukaperi's sister, who's eye seemed to be in tune with finding today. The boys were seriously letting the team down in the finds department though.

TFTC!

With nineteen down before lunch - a feed of fish n chips in the tummies - your caches were calling our names again. Wondering around the area with Honeysucker today. Thanks chooknchunk for the day filled with laughter. This is number 26 for the day.
# 4172 for TR!

As we wander the great land
Thanks to chooknchunk for placing the cache for us to find.

Hatzofff and I are now on a short six night break from QOGM 2019 preparations, and have three of those nights in the Raglan area with chooknchunk. Thanks guys!

Today was our second day, and we explored some caches in the Raglan to Waubra to Beaufort area.

n our way back 'home' and hoping for a nice quick find as the storm clouds seem to be gathering. We were not disappointed.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 4.42 PM on 24th August 2019. TFTC, chooknchunk.

MYOB conference now finished RoddyC and hatzoff heading out of town for some catchup time.

Now to do some recommended caches.

TFTC chooknchunk

Stayed in Beaufort last night and went out on a caching run today with ilook4geo. It turned out to be a fine day despite last night's rain. Our second aim was the Camp Hill road series. This was a lovely bush wander with some wildflowers just starting to bloom.
This trail following Camp Hill Road was also an interesting one. No problems with any of the caches in this series.
Thank you to chooknchunk for placing all these caches. Well done.

Spent the night in Beaufort and today was a caching day with goingplaces2. We did a couple of series and some extra caches as well. It was an enjoyable day cruising along these country roads. We were happy with so many finds to add to the caching map. TFTC.

*17 Aug 2019, Found @ 11:26 am, Find # 9632.*

Today I headed out on a bit of a road trip to Beaufort and then Geelong for a couple of events as well as the new musical note Wherigo caches with jascat, biggles1024 and buhfuhguh.
The musical note series had now been complete and it was time to bid farewell to The_Tritonz and GemmaSistema as we headed along camphill road before heading to the event.
We were now running out of time to get to the event so we were needing a quick find here and that’s what we got, the log was signed and we were on our way.

**Thanks to chooknchunk for placing this cache.**

Found with Cybergran V and her MuggleHubby.

Saturday. Event day. International Geocaching Day. WooHoo!
Cache and contents found clean and dry in good condition. [8)]

Loving the "Chooknchunk Horsey" series.

TFTC(&Series) chooknchunk.

**17 Aug 2019, 11:25:17
Find #3607**
**Traditional Cache Find #2445**

The day dawned fine and cool. SteMicMitSar, Jascat, Buhfuhgah and I headed over to the other side of the bay to attend two events and to find a number of new Wherigos at Beaufort. As we approached the first of this series, we The Tritonz parked at GZ. We teamed up and found the entire series in just under an hour.
It was gratifying to be able to answer the questions up to and including the early 80's, after that, Google had to be employed. We found these trads as we made our way back to Beaufort and one of the events we had come here to attend.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to chooknchunk for placing this geocache**

I apologise for the generic logs.
My last one before heading back down for the event
A nice easy find amid the lovely native trees and bushland.
A totally different vista here
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Ah, what a day, after an early rise this morning I drove to meet up with Stemicmitsar, Biggles1024 and Jascat for a day of caching out west. With our main goal being 2 events and some musical wherigos. A rather big day nevertheless. With us finishing our hunt and me getting home from the trip at 2am this morning. Anyways thanks for putting this cache out and being apart of a great day.

After finishing the wherigo series the crew realized that we still had ample time to go out and find some caches before the event in town starts...... so with time to kill we decided to pick up some trads before we grab lunch at the event. Anyways thanks for the cache and the adventure

On a few occasions, Ninny Muggins and I have tried to organise a day of caching, but other plans have always got in the way. But today the plans came together as we made our way to Beaufort to Celebrate International Caching Day with an event and some great caches around Beaufort. All 30 caches located with no DNF’s on a perfect day with blue sky.

No gold here today, but the cache was quickly located made up for it.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the Cache chooknchunk
#5,078

What a difference in tree types along here.
dalerious was the finder here, so glad he is with us this weekend.
Muggle Hubby and I are getting more time to take photos, and everything is so photogenic up here.