Wild Flowers - Beckworth Beckons Mount Beckworth, Victoria, Australia
By wozzle68 on 14-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5EW89

What a perfect day to search for a Geocache. The weather was spot on! No wind, no rain, temp was at a cool 19 degrees and I was visiting a place I had never been too before.I was lucky enough to be chauffeured by Mr Sims_Family who had his eyes on a couple of challenge caches that I'm WAY off from claiming.We parked up in line with the cache and we knew exactly where we had to look . All in good condition here, thanks for the cache

Donutholes and I planned the day at Mount Beckworth to grab everything we could around the back of the mountain. The weather for the day was magnificent and we had a ball enjoying the wonderful space. The Ginja Ninja made short work of all the trails getting us close with only short walk to most of the caches.Thank you wozzle68 for the series

Nice cache, with a gentle walk to get it.Thanks for the cache.

Found with Taniah3 out for a cach drive TFTC

Found this Cache with Tazz&co on Easter Sunday

Found 17/3/24

Quick find thanks for the cache

Beautiful drizzly walk to have some adventures

I found myself at a loose end this morning mooching around the house wondering which chores i would tackle today. Bored with the possibilities i decided to escape for a while with a spot of caching. That was the perfect idea and brightened my mood instantly. Now where to go? An area i havnt been to before, perhaps with some walking in nature and a good few caches to find. Mt Beckworth looks like an excellent target, lets go! The geopooch and i were quickly in the geomobile and away.

A nice quick find for this one, this is just what I needed for the day. I came across some lovely little mushrooms on the walk.

Quick park and grab for this one. TFTC

Heading back from a challenge cache further out and stop off for this one. Short walk to GZ where the cache was soon found and the log signed. Glad I don't have really big hands.

Thanks again wozzle68....cache all good.

#18678 @1100
I spent the bulk of today wandering around Mt Beckworth, getting some exercise ahead of this weekend's Australasian Rogaine Champs near Avoca. Apart from being in cloud, there was very little rain, however it was very wet underfoot. Cache easily found. TFTC.

You know that story about catching a monkey by putting a treat through a hole that is too small to fit both its hand and its prize?
I wish I had had a closer inspection of this cache before making a monkey of myself.

After a huge day on Mt Beckworth, catnap777 and I had crawled back to our camp in Clunes, freshened up and hit the town for every cache we could get our greedy mits on.
Next morning we did it all over again on the northern half of Mt Beckworth.

TFTC wozzle68. [^]

Beckworth Beckons, what an awesome series of caches. The variety of caches were exciting, and you were not sure what you would come across next. Some of the puzzles were testing, and it turned out we had to leave one behind as we could not solve it in time for our trip. All in all a superb set of caches wozzle68.

Found and signed with dalerious on a Mt Beckworth adventure. dalerious told me about the mount Beckworth challenges and series of caches not long after we met. We were looking forward to the day that would take us to this wonderful place, with it's varied assortment of cache types. It had so many positives. We had a full list, as usual, and I am so proud to say that we ticked off everything on it, and more!
We were staying in Clunes as our base for this long weekend and started our first night here with the Adlabs and their respective bonus caches .
We ended up cleaning out Clunes, all but one trad which we are sure is missing.
Our time in this town, and on Mt Beckworth was memorable . I was so excited searching for an archived cache in a secret cave. It never ceases to amaze me what you can achieve with a little pinch of determination and a whole lot of encouragement from dalerious .
We thank all the CO's for providing and maintaining the caches undertaken here. So grateful to you all .

Quick pick up. TFTC

13 March 2022
12:56 pm
1609
Many thanks wozzle68 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Not too many flowers out today but it’s a beautiful day nevertheless.

Found day 3 of a somewhat impromptu solo caching and camping trip to Victoria from Adelaide.

I had planned to spend a week travelling, caching and camping along the Great Ocean Road, but my travelling companion had to postpone it due to other commitments. I was still keen to go away somewhere this week as well, so decided to head to the western part of the state on my own.

I created a bit of a 'menu' of specific caches of interest in the broad area that I might be in before I left home and just pottered along fairly casually, taking in the sights and grabbing what I could along the way.

I wasn't actually planning to visit this area, but I somehow managed to end up here and it was a good place to camp with what looked like some interesting walks and caches to find.

After walking up to the summit and back from Manna Gums this morning, I took a bit of a drive around the park.

Thanks wozzle68 for the cache.

After a yummy breakfast of bacon and eggs this morning at our campsite at Manna Gums, we headed out to gather up a few more of the geocaches here. Unfortunately not a lot of flowers around at this time of year that we could see.

Thanks for find #2671
TNLN

Day 13 of our southern trip caching around Mt Beckworth. Targeting challenges and fulfilling some of those challenges.

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

TFTCache wozzle68

Day 13 of our southern trip. To the Mount Beckworth area today, with Team 4 4 QLD - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

The yellow wild flowers are drying out.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 12:29 PM on January 22, 2022. TFTC, wozzle68

Todays road trip is from Ballarat to Mount Beckworth to do some challenges and others in the local district with geo friends hatzofff, grannysmith1947, RoddyC and all logs are signed as Team 44 QLD.
Nice hide here, thanks CO.

TFTC wozzle68

TFTC smile 11263 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a day trip to Mt Beckworth
signing as Team 44 Qld
Thank you, wozzle68, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

On a caching and camping trip with day1976, he put together the list of caches, and I worked out we could camp near the Cork Oaks cache so we headed there. We got to camp with plenty of light to spare, so we set up the tents then drove off to start on the series.
We went the hard way through the bushes to get this cache, then back towards the road afterwards.
I saw a very cute little blue flower, which I looked up after getting home. Called a blue pincushion!

Ilukaperi and I did a flying visit to Mt Beckworth. One night of camping.

After setting up camp, we decided to nab some caches before dinner.

Tip toeing through the long grass, we eventually got to GZ where the cache was easily found.

Easy find on our stroll through this park.
We saw a lot of wild flowers here.
TFTC

TFTC. Quick find with Algae today and a day exploring the Mount Beckworth area. Nice day to be out and about not too hot and not too cold. A great day with a couple of hikes and driving around the area.
Not many wild flowers out and about, only saw little yellow ones.

A great day with Shumba7 enjoying all the Beckworth Beckons series has to offer. Lots of smiles collected and enjoyed. Thanks Wozzle68 for more fun times.

Unfortunately not too many wild flowers today apart from Shumba7.

Reeled this one in no problem.

Good one thanks

Found it with the Warrens TFTC

TFTC reinstated was on the ground.

Day in the sun with AstroCat TFTC

Love it. I am partial to the wildflowers, so being hear late October I didn't think I would see any, but I was happily surprised.

Tftc

Tftc! The kids liked this one

Good hide

#socialdistancing is still very important!

I am disabling this cache during this public health crisis.
PLEASE STAY HOME GEOCACHING IN NOT ESSENTIAL.

Day 8 Cork Oak camp ground Mount Beckworth Reserve to Victor Habor

No flowers today but a nice park to visit

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.

Last day of our Mega adventure to Victoria. So many caches and not enough time......
Thanks to wozzle68 from mogni

Lots of wild flowers out at the moment.
A quick find here...
TNLNSL
Thanks

*3 Aug 2019, Found @ 12:07 pm, Find # 9584.*

Today I headed to Ballarat for a couple of events and to make a delivery but before that Mt. Beckworth was on the agenda.
After finding our main target for the he day, we now had a little bit of time to spend in the area before heading off to the first of two events.
We were now racing against time and we were trying to pick up the clues from this series.
We wandered over to this one but realised it didn’t have one of the clues we were searching for but we found it anyway.

**Thanks to wozzle68 for placing this cache.**

*3 Aug 2019, Found @12:06 pm, Find # 3179.*

A day trip to Ballarat with an opportunity to come and explore Mt Beckworth. Not the greatest weather today. A nice quick find.

**Thanks to wozzle68 for placing this cache.**

A visit to Mt Beckworth has consistently been on the cards since I was last here back in 2016. I still had the series to finish, plus there are some tempting new challenging challenges to be found. Today the planets finally lined up and together with Jacko, A and Anikano we made a day of it enjoying this great bushland.

"Winter is coming!" they say.
Well who cares - it is winter already. What counts now is that spring is coming - and the wildflowers are coming! Woohoo!
Thanks Wozzle68.

Winter is truly the best time for bush caching. Not so much of a slog, air is fresh, no snakes about.

Magic.

Pac-Man was quicker to find this one than I was! Was looking 10m away when he made the find. Stunning winter day! Tftc

Founf this one when spending the day at Mt Beckworth. Was a straight forward find.

Thanks for bringing me here.

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch and MazzyMay. Another quick find. TFTC

Found with SciFiRuls and MazzyMay TFTC

Logged as Nicnax with PapaGrouch and SciFiRulz. We headed out today to enjoy the adventure at Mount Beckworth and were not disappointed. There were only a few daisies spotted today so we should come back in spring. TFTC

We had arrived in this very beautiful area yesterday evening, and by the end of a thoroughly enjoyable late afternoon/early evening geocaching hike we had found 11 of the caches in the area. We then spent last night at Manna Gums campsite. This morning we set off on foot for what our GPS recorded as having been a 7 hour, 13 kilometre geocaching hike, with a total ascent of 585 meters and a total descent of 561 meters. After returning to our waiting hired cache-mobile we then drove on to find the rest of the caches in the area. We then spent a second night at Manna Gums campsite before leaving the Reserve, by which time the Mount Beckworth Scenic Reserve had become one of our all time favourite places we have visited in Australia - plus of course we left this geocaching playground with a full house of smilies! - not to mention the thrill of a gorgeous little Echidna who late in the day walked right up to me and then sat down between my feet - I felt so privileged! This was the next cache for us to search for in this lovely Scenic Reserve. The cache was soon located once at Ground Zero and log book signed. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

TFTC. We had visited this cache last year , only to discover that the original sign had been removed and replaced by a new style. This was the first opportunity we have had since then to revisit. We had a mission today we wanted to get as many of the caches on Mount Beckworth as possible today to get closer to meeting the $00 with a twist challenge. There are also two caches here that will fill in a number on the D/T grid and also a month on the Ausmer challenge.
Not too many wildflowers about at the moment. A quick find

Nice quick easy find on a nice hot day. TFTC

The title on this log book doesn't match the name on the GPS, but there was a log and we signed it then placed everything back where we found it. Thanks for the cache.

Quick P&G as we continue to create a few smilies in the reserve. Weather is heating up so it was back in the Grand gCAV and the comfort of the AC after making our mark.

TNLN SL TFTC

I used my geosense and I found it pretty quickly

Nice quick find with Aussie Joker. TFTC

Found at 2:58 PM GAFF1 in the company of maccamob, riddell and xambo4u.
After finishing off the challenge caches in the southern section in the morning, we went back to camp for a rest and some lunch and 20 litres of water, tea, soft drink and even a beer!
Suitably refreshed we then headed off to the north to primarily get the Secret Cave cache and along the way picked up a few caches that were close to the track.
Thanks wozzle68.

While camping for the weekend with pprass like old times we were joined by maccamob and riddell. After a busy morning clearing things out in the south we are now refreshed to go for our main target, the Secret Cave and cleared out this one on way. Thanks for this journey wozzle68. Saw a couple of wild flowers this weekend

Good hide thanks wozzle68.

Out with perpetually lost driving, muzza and just1YsTassie to find a few caches. I stopped here and Because of some miscommunication Muzza has driven on to the next one. We regrouped and all was well TFTC wozzle68

I wasn't attending the mega this weekend, so I thought the "Easter Escape" event at Mount Worth sounded like a nice day trip, so I planned to attend, and just see whatever happened thereafter. Having left the event, I headed off to grab a few more caches with au.fait. This was our first and like most of the others, it was an easy find. (Well it was for me. I went to the next cache before realising I'd missed this one. By the time I arrived, au.fait had already found it).



Thanks for the cache, wozzle68.

My last trad find before reaching the campsite where Wozzle68's event was being held. No trouble spotting this hide from a distance but the cache was nicely hidden. Out enjoying some caching time this morning before heading to Bendigo for Easter lantern parade tonight. Thx wozzle68 for your enjoyable caches, this area would be stunning in the Spring!

We were heading to Wozzle68's event on the Cork Oaks Picnic Ground and noticed this cache not far off the track. As we had time, we found a suitable park and took the short walk. Our GPS took us to a particular location where we quickly found a well hidden cache. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks wozzle68 for the cache and for the other caches placed in the area.

19/03/2018 12:45:00 PM
Sadly all the wildflowers were dead but the interesting hide made up for that.
Thanks again Woozle

Surrounded by flowers today, especially yellow moth orchids .
TFTC

Anther find with the boys today. Cheers

TFTC!

TFTC - Out with Crackers from team Crack'n'LeeLee exploring the area and collecting caches in this series.

Out and about today with Ed from 2beez to check out the camping possibilities here and grab a few of this series as well. A nice easy find on a cold wet day, better than work though.

A nice quick find, TFTC

No flowers today.

Woo hoo, I got to do Mr Beckworth with the fabulous CO himself.....I feel very privileged as it was a super awesome day filled with cool driving tracks and lots of walking. [^]

Well what an unexpected wonderful adventure this week turned out to be! I was meant to be in Alice Springs, but plans needed to change, so a relaxing trip to Victoria was the go.

Wozzle68 and I buddied up, and we ended up being great travel companions [^]....OMG, so much laughter , loud music [^], off-key singing and fun was had [:o)] [^]. We also teamed up with ChooknChunk and travelled in convoy to attend Mildura for '3 States in a Day' caching and events. What a great 4-some we made [^]....certainly brilliant dynamics [^], fabulous conversations [^] and loads of giggles [^]. I then stayed in Ballarat for a few days which was great fun.

Thanks for the cache wozzle68!

We arrived here today to have a look around, as it's been on our to do list for some time. The grass is still long and dry, but we would keep a keen eye out as we walk for wildlife (Snakes).
The Park is quiet, although we did see two Rangers checking out facilities at Cork Oak Campground and also noticed someone had signed the log earlier today. Our plan was to check out the park, then pick up any caches that we came across, so we started off at the n/w corner first.

We didn't get all the caches in here, but will be back to tackle the higher caches and those we missed at a later date. We found the caches we looked for and all were in good condition, thankfully there are lots of caches here to enjoy.

We found the cache here quite easily, so thank you wozzle68 for this cache placement and the series here.

Enjoyed seeing the tiny flashes of colour thats still around pity the chocolate lilies had lost there smell

Thoroughly enjoying our geo day at Mt Beckworth with dehands. It was great to see some chocolate lilies still flowering this late in the Summer! TFTC wozzle68

Nice hide this one - and a cute little container that did closely resemble a miniature version of a well known case.

Definitely enjoying the variety of this series wozzle68. Thks.

Do you know I didn't stop and smell the flowers at this cache - I actually didn't notice many wildflowers at this spot - perhaps it's not the season now - as it's a little past spring.

But we did see a few flowers in other locations.

**Smile # *4511* / Traditional # *3408***

Today was planned with a cache trip to Ballarat and the Mt. Beckworth area for another geocaching adventure. DAB, Ausfox and myself met early, packed the geo vehicle with plenty of drinks as we knew today was going to be a hot day and we were on our way. We made it to our destination for the day and were greeted with a very hot Mt. Beckworth. Plenty of tall, dry grass which would have been a snakes paradise but thankfully none were seen. It was surprisingly quite green here in spots. A few tiny wildflowers were spotted by Ausfox and the cache located quickly. Stamped and replaced as found.

**Thanks for placing this trad cache and series wozzle68**
**Cache container and log in good condition**
**Took nothing, Left nothing**

Joined up with Na'wal and DAB to spend the day caching around Ballarat and Mt Beckworth. I'm glad we stocked up with fluids as as the temperature soared. With the long dry grass we were weary of snakes. We spotted the cache hide from some distance away so we didn't have to fish around for to long to find it. I only spotted 3 single wild flowers here.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache wozzle68
#2,958

Today I was in the company of Ausfox; and Na'wal. There had been a bit of chatter about Mt.Beckworth recently, so we decide to give this series a crack. I had never been here before, so I was really looking forward to it. We knew it was going to be warm and even though our phones said it was 31 degrees, it felt a lot warmer than that by early afternoon. Apart from a couple of walkers around the back of the mountain, we had the whole area to ourselves. There were a few flowers here and a novel way to the hide the cache as well. TFTC wozzle68

Great find on a cold day!

Great find on this cold day!

tnln

Well this was going to be a big day for Suscoe.
Up early and off with long shadows stretching across the ground in the early morning.
A sunny day with the temperature around 30 degrees during the afternoon was going to be warm but thankfully a breeze sprung up during the morning and kept going all day and so it cooled Suscoe down at times when it was most needed.
This was the 9th find of the day.
Not a sign of any wild flowers at this time of the year, could imagine them though.
Thanks to Wozzle68, a great idea to wander this park.

TFTC Out on a trip to Mt Beckworth and this was a quick smile to add to the list.

Staying at the Creswick caravan park, to do some caching in the area.

Headed out to Mt Beckworth, for a lovely drive around the reserve.
It was a bit warm today, so we just picked up the caches along the main trail.
All cache were found in good order, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, wozzle68, for us and others to find.

Spent the day out with Yogster, Jageredwings and families. Had 5 Retrivers with us and the all had a ball. Thanks for the hides Wozzle.

Nice hide kids loved it.

TFTC. Out for the day with the GeoFamily and half of Clan McStormy to conquer the Beckworth Beckons Series, cache number 15.
You know, after we get to the cache we always look back to the car and see and easier route.... Unbelievable.

Out caching with geodaddy on beckworth beckon's series like where you hid the cache. thanks wozzle

Catching up on some very late logs.
We were here with micaparamedic to help Highrod and The morris celibate their 10 years of caching but also hoping to grab a few more of this fantastic series.
After the celebrations had died we headed off to try and find some more.
This was our first stop after lunch and a nice easy find to set the scene for the rest of the afternoon.
Many thanks wozzle68 for the cache and great to catch up at the event.

We are on a road trip to attend "The Melbourne Event" Mega, taking our time to get there and on the return journey. Fortunately, there were lots of caches along the way to tempt us to stop for a while to smell the roses. This was one of those caches.

We had made our way to Ballarat to attend the GIFF Event and having been told about another event to be held at Mount Beckworth, we decided we would attend that one to and find the nearby caches. After spending time with everyone at the Mount Beckworth event, we headed off on our cache hunt, but we soon caught up with others along the way.

Thank you wozzle68 for having placed the cache for everyone to enjoy

Found by Mary & David at 1115. We love wildflowers, and would be worth returning here at the right time of year. We remember the spectacular flowers in the Little Desert and in WA. Our thanks to wozzle68.

Another short stroll and another not too hard to find cache, thanks.

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Fantasy day - enjoyed myself so much, Thanks to The Morris offered us to ride his car due to we didnt have 4wd. The bushland is beautiful and the weather just perfect day. [^] [^]

Sorry about copy and paste.

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Enjoy caching with Shamus1, Everlasting and The Morris who drive us into the bushland.
Thanks wozzle68

Out on my own for this one found in no time tftc

I nearly walked past this one until dad pointed it out. tftc

Motorbikes everywhere, but with a bit of stealth signed the log and we were on our way. Tftc

We heard motorbikes so we grabbed the cache and kept walking. I was too busy looking out for the motorbikes that I didn't realise Sean.75 wrote our names on the log as we were going. Thanks

We grabbed the cache as we walked past, signed it while still walking and returned it while still walking because we could hear motorbikes. Tftc

Catching up on some logs that I have discovered hadn't been published yet. As always I have enjoyed the challenge of looking for and finding this cache.

Many thanks wozzle68 for placing this cache .