Manna Gums - Beckworth Beckons Clunes, Victoria, Australia
By wozzle68 on 15-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5EWJK

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.Another straight forward hide was had here! This looks like a great spot to set up camp and take it all in.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

A pleasant bush bash to GZ.Thanks for the cache.

Found with Helen 16/3/24

A great location! TFTC

Found it. What an awesome hiding spot....

TFTC nice easy find

Found this with the Warrens

On blended knee with soggy pant- the cache was retrieved and treasure signed.

TFTC
Astrocat123 lurked ready to pounce

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 one here, the cache is well protected. I found that the track is closed from here on so I may just walk up to the rebel droid then call it a day on Mt Beckworth. I still have plenty to find here but a big walk feels too ambitious for this evening.

Mr 3 found his one pretty quickly.

Arrived at the parking area just a mt bike rider came in from...somewhere. Had a chat about the area before heading off for the cache. Still rather wet underfoot here, however the cache was found and the log soon signed. From there it was up the hill a bit for one more over this side.

Thanks for another one 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

I camped near by and went for a look after tea. Like the other said there is nothing there. Cache replaced from the Pajero's resources.

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.

@1040
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. No sign of a cache here.

Looks like this one is gone. We gave it a good search, but we don't mind if someone prooves us wrong.
TFTC wozzle68

After a huge day on Mt Beckworth, catnap777 and I 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 on Mt Beckworth starting with this one..... if it was there.
Well maybe it is there, but it was the only DNF we had up here for the entire day.

Thanks anyway wozzle68.
Next time.

No pen today as hiking but found & returned. Used a wee blob of the glitter gel. Thank you

????????

Good spot

Great spot for a bit of camping TFTC

Quick find. Covered up a bit better. TFTC

13 March 2022
2:51 pm
1615
Many thanks wozzle68 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

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.

This morning I walked up to the summit and back from Manna Gums, finding this cache before I left.

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 11270 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.

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

Ahahs! An inside job!

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 2:19 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 big old dead tree at GZ, good hide here.

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 cache was the last for the day, we needed to get back to start the fire for dinner.
Realised there was a camping spot here too! This cache was a nice easy find which day1976 spotted first.

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.

Last one for the day. Easily found. Now time to cook some dinner and drink some beer.

We found it on our tour through this park.
At GZ it was a quick find.
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. We decided to camp at the Manna Gums campsite, and Mr. Dromaniax took one of the geodogs for a walk to see how many caches he could find in two and a half hours. This one is the closest to camp was the first cab off the rank. A quick find and the cache in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache wozzle68.

Think someone was playing funny buggers because it was up high and with rubbish in it. We returned it to "down low".
Tftc

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. A couple of muggles around this area camping, but none sighted us.

**14/11/2020 13:45:00
Find #4493
Traditional Find #2807**

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. Lots of muggles out enjoying a picnic but we were far enough from them that they didn't see what we were up to.

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

*Found on the 14 Nov 2020 @ 1:46 pm.*
*Cache find # 11083.*

This was a quick stop and we were far enough away from the picnicking muggles so that we were able to find this one.

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.**

Found with nannynomad people camping everywhere tftc

Lovely spot a few muggles out camping. TFTC

Found by Hall of Fame,
No pen to log

#socialdistancing is still very important!

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

A fun stop today,
among the Manna gums.
Nobody around,
which was rather nice,
and a cache was found in a thrice

TFTC.

A trip to Beckworth to finish clearing out the area. A nice quick find here. Glad to come back. The rising sun made for some stunning views today. TFTC

Beckworth was beckoning, so back I was for a third time to knock the bastard off.

Glad to be grabbing some drive bys in the park, as much as i have loved everything on offer here!

Found! TFTC

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

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.

Continuing along the drive.
Nice spot to stop...
Dropped a TB here...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found it

I dropped in to the Beckworth Scenic Reserve on my way from Melbourne to Maryborough to check out the camp sites and to see if it was suitable to bring our caravan here. I was happy to discover that we won't have any problems and I foresee a great week of hiking, mountain biking and geocaching ahead of us soon. Can't wait! I was so happy I just had to grab this cache in preparation.
Thanks

Found on 30/6/19

Quick find, and last one for the day for me. Thanks for placing the series, I enjoyed the day out.

Thanks for bringing me here.

Nice and quiet here today... quick find and thanks for the cache

Found as Nicnax with PapaGrouch and MazzyMay. This would be a nice area to have a picnic but we had caching to do. 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! We had deliberately not searched for this cache first thing this morning, knowing that finding this one would bring us back again to the Manna Gums campsite where we had started our geocaching hike 7 hours ago, but now back down the hill it was a quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found - and now for a nice long cold drink before setting off again to search for the last of the caches in this truly lovely reserve. 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.
This was the last cache we could find in this section of the park and the track was management only. Quickly located the cache and then drove out to the other section of the park.

No one here except us so this was a nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

At the end of the road we grabbed this cache in an empty camping/picnic area.

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.
Still hadn't got my eye when we got to this cache as I almost stepped on it while searching hollows nearby. Fortunately Mrs xAmbo4u was a bit more observant. Thx for another cache here wozzle68

Found at 12:52 PM GAFF1 in the company of perpetuallylost and xambo4u.
Went past a big group of horse people getting ready to go on a ride - lots of horse floats.
Drove as close as we could and then a short steep walk.
Interesting to see so many different types of eucalypts in this one reserve.
Thanks wozzle68.

While camping at the dam with pprass and pertpetuallylkost joined us for a day of caching. With 4 x 4 driving and quite a bit of walking for the day. We see our first sign of others here but they have 4 legs and being ridden. Bit of a steep walk here but it gives us time to enjoy these interesting manna gums. I do love Australian trees. Thanks for the journey wossle68.

This was the last cache for us today. A short search soon revealed it. We will definitly be back to finish the series. Thanks wozzles68 we have enjoyed our day out there.

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.

I can’t believe how beautiful the weather has been for the last two days whilst we have been in Ballarat for the two events.
After breakfast locus cache, Rex the GeoDog, leafotwind and I came up Mt Beckworth to see what we could find.
My turn to discover one, and I loved the setting.
Thanks for another great stroll in the bush to locate this one wozzle68.

A very quick find.
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. Found quickly with au.fait.



My thanks for the cache, wozzle68.

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 area had a large camping group,well settled in. Luckily this was placed away from them so easily signed without arousing suspicion TFTC wozzle68

19/03/2018 5:00:00 PM
I was trying to get home to Portland before nightfall after spending way too much time wandering around Mt Beckworth and Tomtom had me on what looked like a good shortcut but for the umpteenth time today it lead me astray this time taking me to a management vehicle only track Oh well there another cache here
Last find for the day followed by a long drive home avoiding fires and roadworks.
Thanks Woozle for a great day's caching

Out with Flynnsworth for a bit of a walk up, over and around the mount. Stopped at the Manna Gums for a break before the final grunt back up to the ridge and down to the car. I've twice come to this spot to collect this cache but each time, found the area already populated. This time however, we had it to ourselves so off we went for a quick find. Thanks for the welcome diversion, Wozzle68.

A pleasant walk to GZ with Bristlehound. An easy find. TFTC. TNLN

Nice easy find. Super wary of snakes especially with recent hot weather. TFTC

This has been a very productive day! Found whilst on the 2017 #gnomehome adventure around the Australian continent. thanks for the cache and thanks for bringing us here.

Another nice easy find. Lovely spot. Tftc.

**Find #1211**

Enjoying our first visit to Mt Beckworth. An easy find.

Thanks **wozzle68**

TFTC.

A nice afternoon out with the family including boo09 & becca85. Answers sent with Mum when she logged.
TFTC

A nice afternoon out with the family including neisha07 & becca85. TFTC

We were between Talbot & Clunes scouting a potential new cache location and remembered there had been a couple of caches not yet logged by us in Mt Beckworth that might be accessible in our low XR6 so off we went and managed them with very minimal issues. We started up the other side but came across a rather large puddle so aborted.
A nice quick find here with boo09 & neisha07. TFTC wozzle!

TFTC - Out with Crackers from team Crack'n'LeeLee exploring the area and collecting caches in this series. We managed to visit 14 caches today, we are planning to revisit when the weather warms up to complete the rest. Thanks Wozzle for the 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.
This looks like a great spot for a future camping trip. Thanks wozzle68 for bring us to this great area.

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!

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 Oaks Campground and also noticed someone had signed a 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.

Out collecting smileys with boydclan123

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. Made our way to GZ making a quick find but spent a few minutes pulling the prickle seeds out of my socks.
Signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache wozzle68
#2,950

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. A nice little area, with tables provided as well as some campfire sites. TFTC wozzle68

**Smile # *4503* / Traditional # *3403***

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. As soon as we hit the right spot, a million bugs flew at us. Bloody hell, must of been our sweet and they were thirsty. 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**

Thought I'd tackle some Beckworth caches today, as the weather isn't too hot! Second find for the day. Great camping spot too! TFTC

Nice easy find

Iove the gums

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. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks wozzle68 for the cache and for bringing us to this area.

TNLN. listening to the trail bikes ripping up the walking tracks on mt beckworth

Spent a morning out on the mountain bike chasing a few caches.

What a lovely spot. This cache was quickly found and signed.

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 22nd find of the day.
A late lunch was on the cards here, and I mean late.
So a quick find and sign was appreciated.
Thanks to Wozzle68, another lovely area.

3rd one tonight

Found