50/50 - Beckworth Beckons Clunes, Victoria, Australia
By wozzle68 on 15-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5EWHV

Just a traditional one

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.My GPS was playing up so this took way longer than it should have. Found the cache and clue Thanks for the hide

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

Not quite in the GPS location but found it anyway. Very quiet in the park today.Thanks for the cache.

Found it. Lots of hollow logs to search

Tftc - but rusted and would not grade as regular size to be honest. Added some nice swaps!

Wouldnt say this is a regular sized cache. But anyway TFTC

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.

There are quite a few potential hidey holes here and I had a little scramble around before finding and signing the log. At some point during my search I discovered that a fox was living in one of the potential holes, unfortunately I managed to lean my hand in some of its poo than wiped it onto my jumper and pants. Thanks Mr Fox, I will smell like you for the rest of the trip!

our carefully plotted return to the carpark was completely miscalculated. so, my aunty, cousin and i stayed back and decided we might aswell walk back some of the way. i checked my phone and realised we'd walked past one so i headed back (skipped). and my cousin found it, not sure if the descriptions accurate

Looked in a few different spots but found it safe and sound.

On our walk today, we found this one as we were walking along some of the lower trails. We spent many kilometres on foot today and found quite a few of the hides, both high and low
Thanks wozzle68
Domsky

Next stop on an early morning run out to Mt Beckworth and another quick find. Lots of flying insects around GZ but all was good and the log was soon signed.

Thanks for another wozzle68....

We enjoy finding caches and this was another we enjoyed finding

This weekend was mega weekend and we headed over with Freddo for a couple of days before caching up with some fellow Aussie counter parts

A great weekend away and a very well organised mega despite the horrible weather thrown at us we still managed to find quite a few caches

Thanks for the cache

Quick find here.

November 2022. Time for the second Victorian Mega of the year. This time in Whittlesea. What is it with W's? Time for another epic road trip. Who will join our merry crew? We traveled from South Australia and camped in the pig pen. It rained. It blew. It was sunny. It was not sunny. All four seasons. Beautiful location and some awesome caches.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

Thanks found it very nice area, but wet at the moment lots of mozzie around.

Cache and log in great condition. Very dry.

#18676 @1035
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.

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 .

Not sure if this one needs maintenance or not.
We found it easily enough and in good condition, but not sure of the "a bit of a difference" mentioned on the cache page.
Is this not the original container?

Anyway.....
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 with this one being the first log signed for the day.


TFTC wozzle68.

Nearly back at my car. Thank you

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Found

Interesting location TFTC

Sinple hode but blends in well. TFTC

13 March 2022
2:45 pm
1614
Many thanks wozzle68 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Oh that one!!!

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.

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

TFTC smile 11269 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.

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 park & grab!

TFTC wozzle68

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

Next best thing to a Park 'n Grab on Mt Beckworth!

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 2:06 PM on January 22, 2022. TFTC, wozzle68

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.
This was a quick jump out of the car and jump back in. I spotted this as day1976 walked past it.

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.

Found it after a short hunt in some other spots first.

We found it on our tour through this park.
TFTC

We have decided to head off for a couple of days, with no particular destination in mind. As we stopped for lunch in Clunes, we decided to check out Mt Beckworth as a possible spot to camp for a couple of nights. It certainly helped that there is plenty of caches on offer, and we have solved most of the puzzles. After choosing to walk cross country rather than along the road and discovering a very marshy area on the way we made our way up to GZ and made another quick find. Another cache in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache wozzle68

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.

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.

. TFTC

TFTC. What a nice drive - thanks for bringing us here

Found it with the Warrens

**14/11/2020 13:40:00
Find #4492
Traditional Find #2806**

I headed out with Steve on our first caching run since before the second lockdown. Ballarat, Mount Beckworth, Clunes and Creswick were our targets for today. It took a little while to find this one because we were looking for something a little larger than we found but we did find it and with this find, had the last clue for the final.

**Thank-you to wozzle68 for placing this geocache**

*Found on the 14 Nov 2020 @ 1:39 pm.*
*Cache find # 11082.*

This one took us a while to find as we were looking in all the wrong places which were closer to where the GPS was indicating we should be plus we were looking for something a bit bigger than what was found, eventually Mark come up with the goods and now I had the number I was missing for the previous cache find.

Finally we are able to get out and about so we headed for Mt.Beckworth, Clunes and Creswick.
I have been to Mount Beckworth a number of times now to try to find them all and after today it was nearly done but there are still 4 remaining, maybe one day.

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

Woo hoo..this is our 600th cache!! So excited.tftc

Found with reedy2 TFTC

Tftc found with nannynomad beautiful days outing

Found by Hall of Fame,TNLN

#socialdistancing is still very important!

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

This park is so nice,
it beckoned me back again,
for a third day

And here I found me a cache

TFTC.

A quick find on what turned out to be a massive cache day. So much logging to do but great memories from a busy day! Glad to be back finishing off Beckworth and love these caches. TFTC

Well, today was a much easier drive. No massive ruts, protruding rocks, sand pits or never ending hills! a cruisey drive to get this one, somewhat.

Day 7 St Arnaud Campground to Mount Beckworth Reserve - Cork Oaks Camp ground

Found after completing the chalenge trail. Just grabbing caches along the route to our camp site.
We left St Arnaud and heading in the general direction of Mount Beckworth Reserve to the puzzle trail. We stopped along the way to get multi's,puzzles and any local coucil areas. This was one of a small number of caches found on route to the reserve. We had to fix a staked tyre before we left, so it was a late start. 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.

Out and about with sir_spectre on a big day of fun and geocaching.
Thanks to wozzle68 from mogni

Another quick find in this great park...
TNLNSL
Thanks

We're camping just around the corner at the Manna Gums site and on our first evening took the opportunity now daylight savings has started to go for a ride and grab a few of the closer caches including this one. Tomorrow won't be so easy, we will have to ride further to each the next closest caches!
Thanks for such a well maintained cache.

Found I
It

Found on 30/6/19

Poked around a bit but couldn't see it. How could not find a 3 litre container. Doh.

Thanks for bringing me here anyway.

We came a longgg way to do this cache... great drive and so interesting. Quick find and thanks for the cache

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch and MazzyMay. Another good sized cache to find. TFTC

Found with SciFiRulz 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. 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! With our hike now complete we set off by cache-mobile to search for the last of the caches left for us to find in this lovely Scenic Reserve, this being the first of those to search for via this method. The cache was soon found once at Ground Zero. We signed the brand new log book and then replaced as found. 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 400 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.
We back tracked to the entrance and then along MannaGum track. This was a quick find and the last in the series so we could solve the puzzle.

Back from Clunes and a few more caches found. This was one and it was a nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

FUrther exploration of the reserve led us to find this one

TNLN SL TFTC

A day of caching with pprass and Xambo4u. We had some 4wding fun earlier in the day up on top of the hill from the northern end and we were now making our way through some of the lower areas picking up caches as we went. A bit of confusion at first as to what to do with this one with the supplied instructions not having much relevance now. A shame the puzzle part wasn't in play. SLTNLN TFTC.

Found at 12:46 PM GAFF1 in the company of perpetuallylost and xambo4u.
We didn't understand what was going on here - lots of information under the lid, but nothing in the cache container to work on. Reading back into the logs it looks like GoodLook broke it last year in April when the CO was in attendance, but nothing has been done since to fix it. Our curiosity has risen now
Thanks wozzle68.

Out and about with pprass (just like old times) perpetuallylost for the day while camping at Mt Beckworth.
Enjoying our bush/rock and hill ascending in the area with some challenging 4 x 4 driving. Aware of the dry hot weather we are very aware of the possibilities of snakes in the area but so far not a one. Nice easy find but instructions on the lid made us a little unsure for a moment. We soon moved on. First time in this area and really enjoying the space and views. Thanks for the cache wozzle68

A quick find and another clue collected.

Having just arrived home yesterday evening after an 8 day trip away[|)], today it was time to head to Ballarat as Cybergran V had wanted to a ride to attend wozzle68's 50th birthday celebration.
Harry managed to find a tree branch while reversing and gave himself an injury: the rear window on the canopy shattered [xx(] at the 2nd cache find for the weekend and yet by the time this was discovered at Castlemaine, many kilometres later, nothing had fallen out of the gaping hole! Whew!! [^]
Cardboard and duct tape saved the day/weekend!

After attending the birthday celebration tea leafotwind, Rex and I headed out doing some caches until late in the night then after a good rest thanks to an extra room at leafotwind's accommodation (which was hugely appreciated [:X]), the next day we attended the breakfast event and then (after Cybergran V rejoined us) we headed out to claim some challenge caches accompanied for a short time by both Mrs and Mr Riddell

With the last cache of the 29 cache finds found at 6pm on the 5th, it was time for the drive back to Shepparton, having attended 2 events and only having 1 DNF and 1 Write note on a challenge cache that I do not yet meet.

As I am about 8 months behind in logging, I'm resorting to template logs to catch up.
My heartfelt thanks to the COs who have placed some tricky, funny, exercise required, scary, interesting and devious caches in some amazing spots! [^]
Rex and I have had some amazing adventures and enjoyed some incredible moments thanks to this fantastic hobby

TNLN. SL. TFTC wozzle68

After having attended the second of the birthday events in Ballarat I had planned to tackle some Mt. Beckworth caches. I was joined by locus cache and CybergranV which proved fortuitous both from an energy/motivation standpoint after yesterday's 20km+ of walking as well as a couple of puzzle solves. A great day out. Thanks to either Wozzle68 or McLookers for putting out the caches and drawing me to the area.

Thanks for bringing us here to see the great view from this site, I didn’t realise how much we’d climbed till I looked down the hill from here. There are so many places you could hide a cache up here, and some beautiful old trees, both living and dead, that make great photography subjects.
leafotwind found this one for us to sign.
Pity the puzzle is no longer here, I would have liked the challenge. On the other hand it is getting late in the day and we want to find many more, so we’d best push on.
Thanks wozzle68 for the nice well stocked container

We were disappointed that someone had broken the puzzles.
Anyway we enjoyed the cache.
TFTC

Tftc

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. Nice easy find. With no mazes to try, it was a quick cache grab and keep going.



Thanks for the cache.

After the nearby relaxing event Muzza and I set off to gather as many nearby caches as we could signing about another 2 dozen. This cache provided our final clue for the bonus cache so armed were able to then make our way to claim the bonus TFTC wozzle68

Shame about the puzzle. But quietly relieved as I’m hopeless at them and didn’t bring the clever geokids.

19/03/2018 4:54:00 PM
Shame the puzzles are no longer here, a quick find on this large container, as began heading for home in Portland.
Thanks

Nice easy find. Pity the puzzle was out of action. Will come back at a later date to see if we can see it. Tftc.

**Find #1210**

A nice easy find in a fantastic bush setting. Dropped a TB.

Thanks **wozzle68**

TFTC.

Found with becca85, boo09 & muggle uncle in his 4x4. Lots of fun! TFTC, sorry for late log.

Found with neisha07 & becca85 when my Uncle took us out 4x4. Lots of fun! TFTC

A nice quick find here. I'm guessing after reading the previous log that the 50/50 aspect is currently getting some TLC?
Our last for the day but we will be back!

Mt Beckworth has been the location of my closest un-found caches for quite some time now (minus the occasional newbie that pops up which is of course converted quick smart)...
I had found all of the caches along one road a couple of years ago in my super low XR6 and that was not ideal.
Last week my brother in law bought himself a 4WD but no-one was interested in going 4WD'ing with him. No-one except me anyway!
I promised to take him to a good location to test out his new rig if he promised not to whinge about stopping for some caches.
We set off after lunch with boo09 & neisha07 in tow and while they had a wonderful time, I discovered I may have a little bit of anxiety.
We made our way from Gnarly dude to up several hundred metres past Marbles before I chickened out and convinced brother in law it was best we turn back.
Hopefully his first adventure geocaching was not too horrible and we can convince him to take us out again to finish off some more.
I think we will access Hanging around from the opposite direction next time!
Although I still have many more to go, it was great to knock off a chunk of the Beckworth caches. TFTC!

Oh noooooo, the creative cache container just seemed to break in my hands . A fav point from me though as it was excellent.

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!

Haha what a fantastic cache. Out with the family camping this long weekend and what a beauty this cache was! Our favourite so far I think, well deserving of a... TFTC, TNLN.

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 quite easily, although two people were scratching their heads for a while. We were laughing as we opened the container here, well done to the CO for this, worthy of a favourite from us.

Thank you wozzle68 for this cache placement and the series here.

As we worked our way around we headed over and soon found out the meaning to the caches name. Fortunately we have seen a couple of these before and got to work to extract the log. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

This one required team work (me encouraging) boydclan123 with food (chocolate popcorn) very clever

This was one unusual cache, but what a great idea! With a bit of teamwork, dehands and I soon had this puzzle solved! TFTC

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 made the many twists and turns to be able to grab the cache.
Signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache wozzle68
#2,949

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. We all had a crack at this, eventually we had success. An unexpected surprise indeed. TFTC wozzle68

**Smile # *4502* / Traditional # *3402***

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. A quick find and thankfully DAB had the right puzzle power to solve this one. 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**

Great cache. One box is broken.

Took a while to solve the puzzle but got there in the end. Very cool cache

Wonderful cashe. Pity someone didn't like following the challenge. Thanks really enjoyed this one.

Great 50/50 on the log

Have fun opening the log it is in one of the boxes

What a great little game! Partner and I had a race! I won!! Haha I liked this one great find!!

As we had met the conditions for the Scrabble Challenge, we had a visit to this area on our itinerary for today. We added some other caches to justify the length of the drive. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find of the cache container. Then the fun started as we spent many minutes trying to get to the logbook. As Murphy's Law dictated, we got access to the decoy cache container first. Finally we got the logbook and signed to indicate our achievement (or relief)!. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks wozzle68 for the cache and for bringing us to this area. This one earns a favourite from us.

tnln

No too difficult!