Apsley Nature Walk 4 Apsley, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 24-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5DH42

Freeing area for new hides.

Found It!
A quick find as a good looking girl on rode past on a horse, which I certainly wasn't expecting!
TFTC

TFTC Completed the whole walk and found all caches. Some were a challenge as the grass was thick and long. Luckily no snakes today.

Nice easy nature walk, we are enjoying it TFTC

A nice easy find as cache was in the open

After a slight detour due to a family "emergency" we were now 'back on track' for day two of our four week holiday. By back on track we mean going a totally different way to that which we had planned so we are making it up as we go along.

By now we needed to stretch our legs and get some steps up on our respective step counters. What better way tot do this than to complete this series.

TNLN SL TFTC

Done and dusted.

Dr Owl was suggesting a weekend away to tackle some adventurous caches in a disputed area of Mexico and to spend some quality time with Muff1. Who was I to say no! Extensive use was made of the Muffmobile and Mrs Muff came along for the ride and to poke fun at our caching efforts.

One of the Apsley Nature Walk series finds. The late afternoon sunlight through the trees created interesting shadows and patches of colour.

Thanks for the cache jgc3.

This cache needed some creative thinking, as the first track was marked closed to motorcycles (and there was some discussion about whether that included geomobiles or not!) A different approach was successful and included discussions with passing muggles. This area was Grand central Station at times!

This cache was found as part of a 28 hour caching odyssey around the Wimmera and Upper South East with TT016. A total of 670 km was covered in the trusty old GQ Patrol on the way to 93 cache finds. Caches collected included the Rusty Rail Series and the SA or VIC? puzzles, which were all found at night!

With no red or yellow markers to be seen and small fallen branches everywhere we found this took far longer than it should have. Finally, after possibly 30 minutes, and giving up, I noticed something that didn't look quite right... and there it was!!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Caching around the Wimmera and Upper South East with Beaker.
We totalled 94 caches over 670 km in 28 hours.
we looked and looked and probably walked past it 3 times
there was no marks to be seen
beaker eventually tripped over it. lol.
TFTC!!

I'd been around here before but never had time to do it. I think it was bucketing this time last year so we had to give them a miss. But not today. A quick look and then another look had us locate the caches without too many dramas. Very dry and not a drop in the lake.

Thanks to jgc3 and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^]

We've been through Apsley a few times now, but either was late or bad weather to go for a walk previously.
Today we swung via this litte trail on our way to Horsham.
A nice walk in the park, however very dry and no water in the lake either!
All were found easily, although a couple had wayward co-ords that the hint helped with.
TNLNSL
Thanks jgc3 from Hurtle

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Travelling homeward: Naracoorte SA to St Leonards Vic multiple breaks and lots of smilies in 12 hours. We spent around half an hour riding this nature walk, we saw kangaroos, kookaburras, parrots and heard corellas as we visited each of the caches.

Our thanks to jgc3 for creating this interesting trail.
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Find # 2403 @ 1104 H

I was off on my biggest, single day, road trip. I left home at just after 7am and didn't get home until just after 11pm. I ended up with just over 670ks travelled, 29 smilies one being and event, and 3 Trig point discoveries, this included even heading interstate for 3 grabs.
There was many sights to see and even the odd fence jump for caches or photos. I think I managed to see every colour of mud that Western Victoria has on offer and I have a nice collection of it now in my drive way. I even had my pushbike on board and ended up peddling 5ks for 6 finds.

The main reason for my bike coming along was to save time and ride this small trail of caches. and boy was I glad I did. I don't think I could have gotten in to the lake with my ute... all that sand, I would have beached it.

It was a great day for a ride in the bush and I was happy to be seeing some country side I would have not seen if it was not for this trail.


TFTC jgc3

A nice quick find during our walk along the trail, however our pen had died halfway through this walk so I had to scratch it in to the log book!
Sorry about that.
TNLN TFTC

Out enjoying the walk and finding a couple of caches we had left in this area. Took nothing but left Pluto dog. TFTC

Enjoying this walk, so peaceful only nature and myself.

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Found this one a few days ago while going for a walk found the other ones too TFTC

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#9 of 12 caches found today. A pity this area is so dry. We had been looking forward to having morning tea while we watched the bird life but the further we went the closer we came to the realisation that this was not going to happen. However it was a pleasant walk with the fun of finding these caches as we went. TNLN SL TFTC jgc3

Found the cache

Oh it was a bit warm early arvo to go for a stroll, but having drove the geomobile to the lake side, I couldn't help but take the wander to find this cache
When would I get another opportunity as good as this ??

So off I strolled and found a natural wonderland of gumtrees and grasslands hidden behind the lake

My can of fizzy cola didin't last long, and I was happy to find the cache and return to the car

TFTC and a wonderful trio of Apsley bushland caches [^]

I will be back one day to find the other three closer to towne .... just not today

TFTC.

Loved this track. TFTC D

This one took a while to hunt down TFTC

This area must have been pumping went the BLE was on, such a shame we had to work and could not be a part of it. SL TNLN TFTC

Found while on a dive to Mt Gambier for the Geozing Race. These were a great little trail to stretch my legs on. A nice quick find. TFTC.

TFTC. Found as part of the Big Little Event II in Naracoorte. Lovely area.

A lovely morning for a beautiful walk with upsanddowns and my geo family. Made it to all 5 in this series before the weather changed to a windy and wet afternoon. Highlight on this walk was the echidna. Grabbed teleporting TB.

Even in the light rain, it was worth it. There with Team MKM TFTC

Tftc a lovely walk

In Naracoorte with Genghicat for BLE2 & grabbing caches in the area.

Wooohooo FTF with Genghicat

TFTC

In Naracoorte for the BLE this weekend and thought we'd snag a few caches along the way
A nice walk here this afternoon, although Mrs KQ thought she'd be clever and find a short cut back...needless to say she needed Mr KQ to come rescue her haha
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Another FTF for Donnazev and me today as we continued our trek along the Aspley Nature Walk.

TFTC jgc3. Left the very silly "Teleporting" TB for someone to find. No doubt it will turn up somewhere in the world before it gets retrieved from this cache.

A quick find while visiting Naracoorte for the BLEII. Had to leg it between the 4 Nature walk series, as we only had 1/2 an hour to do 1 - 4 before meeting at the night cache to go to dinner.. Grabbed this last one at 7.14pm Vic time, 15 mins to get back to the car and back to the meeting point...easy..phew.. TFTC

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