Hugh Glass Lane Windermere, Victoria, Australia
By Fergzter on 04-Nov-14. Waypoint GC5G14P

Quick park and grab by Mrs P

Apologies for the late log, we have just come back from a 10 day holiday in SA and Western Vic and spent as much time with family as possible so catching up with logging now.We have been on holidays in SA and have spent 4 days catching up with JMelb's family in Adelaide. After departing Adelaide on Monday and staying a night at Karoondah to see the Night Projection on the silo there (very cool) we then arrived here in Learmonth at about 4.30pm yesterday and had a lovely wander along the shore of the lake. Today (2/10) we checked out, wishing we could have been staying longer!! This cache was next on our agenda and we really enjoyed the drive around to GZ. Actually we were aiming for the other cache first but missed the turn off so ended up here first. Before turning down Hugh Glass Lane we were struck by the intensity of the colour of the canola fields here! (Photo atached) Once at GZ our gps was leading us on a merry dance and was showing 8m at GZ. Thanks for bringing us to the quieter side of the lake, its very pretty and serene! Wish we could have stayed longer but we have to head to Creswick and then get home to pick up the puppy! TFTC Fergzter - GJMMelb

Found and logged, fog clearing, cache 9m out by meTFTC

Staying in Ballarat for a few more nights. After the event went and got a few more caches

Stayed at Lake Burrumbeet for the weekend and took a day trip to Learmonth to collect a few caches. We picked this one up today.TFTC

Found it

Ltf

Ltf

Was about to give up but find it

DNF

This was like a first to find as the log book was nice and new. Got 5 days off from work so I decided to come to Ballarat and do the Geo Tour before its gone, also grabbing random caches and Adventures labs along my journey. So thanks to all who have placed caches. Sl cache replaced.

Cache indeed missing. Replaced with new hide. Good to go.

Enable

Sorry this one has taken a while to get to. Work life is a bit busy of late. Hoping to get out for maintenance this weekend. Watch this space.

Disabling until I can check on the cache.

Think it may be missing

Dnf

Unfortunately we could find this cache - the GPS had the GZ right next to the track in an open area. Despite looking further afield we were unable to locate it. Four DNF's for us today which is a record amount for us. Oh well!

Found it but couldn’t ride on it as it was next to a new home

Came for a drive for the reverse view of the lake. Only found 1 of the 3 cache out here.
Road would be fun in the wet! Lake is very full.
Quick find here
TNLNSL
Thanks

My pesky GPS has gone wonky donkey again!! 18m out isn't fun at all. Many thanks for bringing me here. It's almost like waves rolling in from the boat wakes..... ????????????????????

Last one along the road here, although I had to walk the last 50 odd metres as I was in the wrong car to go to any further. Once near GZ, the cache was spotted out in the open. Signed the log and then re-hid the cache in a usual fashion and covered with some of the things (not leaves) that had fallen from the tree. Other than that, cache was all good.

Thanks for another one Fergzter....

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Nice cache cool spot! J.H

Found with Roostaman on our Feb/March Vic trip down South.
Another fun caching trip and lots of smilies too. .
Thanks for the cache Fergzter,
***MrsRoosta ****

Found by Rebel Acts

Some good friends had decided to head to Ballarat for a few weeks so I decided I needed a break and joined them, we had a great time out caching as well as sharing stories and laughs around a meal or two. I really love the area of Ballarat there is so much history and I am sure it has the largest population of Oak trees in the Country.

This is one of the caches found today.

Some caches logged as RASP rebel acts &Ski pair.

Thanks Fergzter for the cache.

With work encouraging us to take some holidays and Mr SKI having quite a few weeks up his sleeve it was time to take another short break and do some sightseeing and caching in parts of Victoria we seldom visit.
This time we decided it would be Ballarat. There is a wide variety of cache types and quite a number of Adventure Labs to do, so the area is quite attractive. And that doesn't include the historical and interest aspects as well.
We organized to meet up with some friends while there so we would have the opportunity to do some joint as well as solo caching.
We have already had some great adventures on a few challenging caches that generated a lot of fun and as usual always good to find some pre-solved puzzles.
All logs signed as SKI Pair, RASP (Rebel Acts & SKI Pair or SP depending on size of logs and availability of space.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Fergzter.
**SKI Pair****

Found with MrsRoosta on our Feb Vic trip down South.
Another fine Summer day for a drive around the Ballarat area.
Thanks for the cache Fergzter,
***Roostaman****

Location kept bouncing around but found it.

Cache replaced and good to go

GTG again

Apologies that this has not yet been attended to. Planning on getting to it this week.

Hi all. Apologies for the delay getting out to this one. Should be passing by soon with luck. In the meantime it is meant to be in the tree hollow. You may need to dig around in there as it gets buried over time.

Disabling the one until I can get up there to verify what is happening with this cache.

Searched all the obvious hidden holes but no joy. have to leave for another day.

Dnf will have to come back another time!

We were hear once before but forgot to log it, came back with kids and we scared a duck sitting on eggs, thought it best to leave her be.

I looked in what I thought were the likely locations checked back in the past logs

unfortunately it’s a do not find from me today hopefully it is still there and I will be successful another time

thanks for bringing me here anyway

Coordinates were all over the place and searched high and low with no luck.

Wooooow! Found the ants before the cache. What a great hide.

Great spot. TFTC

TFTC wonderful views

Final day of the Geo Tour adventure. Heading home solo as the others wrapped up on Tuesday. Gathering a few last caches before the journey home to Melbourne.

A lovely drive along the edge of the lake to this cache and a quick drive by find.

Thanks Fergzter for the cache.

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
The plan today was a tour of Ballan, Mt. Buninyong, Ballarat and Creswick via Adventure Labs and other assorted types of geocaches. A little trip along the river resulted in three quick finds. Thanks for the cache Fergzter.
- M

A bit of a diversion from Learmonth to visit this neglected area This was a sneaky hide TFTC Fergzter

Found at 10.15am. Great views of the lake, and good to see water in it.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Found it

Sneaky hide TFTC

Watch out for ants

Out and about on a lovely sunny Friday with nannynomad and we noticed that there was a few caches without smilies. This one took us longer than it should have but, we finally had the container in hand and the log duly signed
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Found with benjay21 TFTC

A fun detour to the lake today
Without some geocaches to guide the way,
I'd never have guessed this delightful reserve was here [:o]
And so on a tour of HGL,
I paused here under the pines,
and soon found a cache

Very easy to find!

Found it

Found

First along the track to finish out Learmonth for us. Great hide!

To stick my arm there in or not? I totally did and only found a cache thankfully! Easily accesible lane in dry weather. Luckily the area has also recently been slashed so a bit less tiptoeing through long snakey grass. Tftc

TFTC. We were caching around the Burrumbeet area while camping at Haddon for a few days. We took the detour along this track at the bottom of Lake Learmonth. Glad that the track went through as it is quite narrow

When I got here there were birds chirping all over the place. Cache was an easy find.

Found at 11:59 AM GAFF1.
Went to the obvious spot and rooted around, but couldn't find anything. Thought it had been muggled. As I was moving back down I thought of checking a much more higher D rated location and there it was! Woe - who would look in there to start with?
Thanks Fergzter
Feedback: This cache should be at least a D of 2.0

Had a free day to go caching while Tag along was working. These green boxes have been haunting me for some time. It was with relish that I tackled them and happily changed them into smiling faces.
TFTC Fergzter

Out for an afternoon with kids and wildfam.

Having a great time TFTC

Out caching with Barnes86 enjoying the arvo great hide with this one. CIGC TNLN TFTC

Tftc

TFTC

Headed west for a short break and decided to take the country roads rather than the hwy.
Came across Learmonth to turn the green dots into smileys.
After doing the caches in town I came around the back of the lake to find these ones.
It is sad to see the state of the lake and the town must feel it with lack of tourists.
I could see this area being very popular when there is water in the lake.
Thanks Fergzter TFTC

The thing about obtaining this set of 3 caches is that we can’t see the lake in the dark.
We can see the edge of the lake which has long grass but we can only see a few meters in with the car lights and we have no idea of the level of the water.
The full moon is hidden behind the clouds too.
We have a suspicion that the lake has dried up.
TFTC and bringing us here.

Grabbing a few caches while in the Lake Burrumbeet area. TFTC

TFTC

Find #2076 for me. Found at 3:35 pm while on one of my regular Sunday trips to Ballarat from Bendigo. This was my 6th find for the afternoon. While it was hot today, it was also overcast and not at all unpleasant outside. On approach, I wasn't sure how my 2WD would handle Hugh Glass Lane but decided to just keep on driving while the track was driveable... and it turned out I could easily drive right up to this one and the other two further up the road, so no problem there. Once at GZ I made a quick find. And what a great location! My sister's family lives at Learmonth so I'd seen quite a bit of that side of the lake, but this is the first time I can remember ever being on the southern side. Pity there was no water in the lake. Although it's been dry for years, I'm old enough to remember a time when the lake held water and boats could be seen sailing on it... But despite the dryness of the lake it still possessed a different kind of eerie beauty. Thanks for bringing me to this fantastic location today Fergzter and thanks for the cache!

I was so fixated on the hole in the root I almost missed it

We were being observed by a curious willy wagtail as we searched for this well hidden cache. He was obviously enjoying his area today.
TFTC Fergzter

This was the final of the three caches on this side of the lake, and the easiest for me to access, although the walking pole came in useful again. The location of the cache tricked me as the cache was not quite where I expected it to be. It gave me a bit of a laugh when I found it. I’d already passed it, but obviously my eyes weren’t focused on the right level. A second search had the cache almost jumping into my hand! Another laugh before signing the log and head off for another cache.

Found whilst out on driving lessons. Nice hide.

Found it TFTC

This log is to tidy up a mess I made with GSAK . I forgot to apply the template so my finds were published with a nonsensical log.

Rather than try and edit all the logs I post this not with what the log should have been.

My apologies for the confusion caused.




A few days away with Freddo, e.gregory1 and The White Dog Gang.

Fun was had by all. Not too many dnfs

Most logs signed as FETT.

Thanks for all the caches.

Claiming a find as a beta tester.

Too much glitter for my liking.

Found whilst touring Geelong & Ballarat areas between Xmas & New Year with Freddo, Team Waldron and e.gregory1 - we've signed as F.E.T.T.
Some pretty hot days but great scenery and good co-ords & caches hides made for an enjoyable trip
TFTC Fergzter

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for a fun cache guys. Love your work. We signed the logbook. 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.

Found on a short, post-Christmas sojourn to Victoria with Freddo, Team Waldron and thewhitedoggang that involved plenty of driving, cycling, walking and even some boating and wading.

The weather was on our side (albeit a little warm at times), which made for some great caching. There were plenty of varied finds, with some excellent and often tricky hides and and just a few DNFs. We signed most logbooks ‘F.E.T.T.’

Thanks Fergzter for the cache.

3rd find! Awesome drive along the lake. Tftc

Nice easy find once I found a road into the GZ. TFTC.

Another one down on the Learmonth round. Easy find, SL, TNLN, TFTC

Great find on a Sunday evening with the family

Today was my first day of my holidays and I was heading to the weekend events at St Arnaud. The caches I chose along the way were stop and revive caches spread out between Ballarat and St Arnaud. Somehow I missed the obvious, and almost DNFed this one. Fortunately I looked up and saw what I had missed.



My thanks to Fergzter for the cache.

Out and about with 08151605 on this lovely Easter day. Hard to imagine the lake getting up to the limits that it once reached. Thanks Fergzter for highlighting this area.

Cool. TFTC

Found It.......It was decided to head up to Ballarat to do some shopping and caching today. So after our retail therapy we set off up to Learmonth to see if we could tidy up the caches in the area so with a plan in place we set off. After pulling up we wandered over to GZ and the search started and soon after the cache was located and with the log signed we continued on our way. Thanks Fergzter for the cache

Another quick find and onwards. Thanks

Again my gpsr wouldn't settle so again it went back in my pocket!! Out of the 3 hiding spots along this lane for the 3 caches, this is the one that I was most hesitant about. With a native tool and a bit of courage I soon had the cache found, log signed, cache replaced. Tftc

A nice quick find while visiting burrumbeet. Tftc

We had intended to travel to South Australia for a couple of days but our plans were thwarted so we settled for a shorter version instead. Last night we stayed the night in Elmhurst while we collected our thoughts and today we headed for Lake Learmonth to salvage a bit of a break.
After setting up camp we jumped on the motorbike and headed out to collect the local offerings.

It was a fun day - thanks Fergzter

this cache is hidden really cleverly great hiding spot out of the heat of the sun
found with emma_sunshine96
TFTC

Took the young ones out for the afternoon who wanted to do the Learmonth Lake caches. Managed the first lot in town easily, walking in the hot sun. Then we drove around the the other side of the lake and went down a track to get to the cache. Beautiful views across the lake, easy to find caches and not quite so hot. TFTC

After completing the caches on the other side of the lake we decided to trip over to this side and finish the lot!!! Really beautiful scenery... even if there were swans (I'm scared of swans... it's a long story).
After writing in the log we headed back to the car.... and a sneaky little bee stung me on the back... not happy Jan!!! Ah well... geocaching is full of adventures!!

TFTC!!

Found with MazzyMay and SortStop00

This is #11 for the afternoon nice and easy to find. A fun day! Cache in excellent condition!

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late and generic log, something I am notorious for. Thank you Fergzterfor adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

A great cache find whilst in a beautiful area......there may have been some giggles in the car at the name of the road and cache (if you run the words into each other that is )

Out caching today with buddies after an event.

I was accompanied by the lovely micaparamedic who'd come to Adelaide to see me, and then we drove to Victoria so that I could attend a number of events, have Christmas, spend time with friends and of course to do some caching!

Thanks so much for the cache Fergzter!

Making our annual Xmas trip between Adelaide and Melbourne is always improved by finding a few caches along the way. This was the third of several we found around the lake this evening. A great spot for a cache. TFTC