Medlyn's Corner Carapooee, Victoria, Australia
By Tyred n Cranky on 23-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5J4CD

Quick find our way to the Pebble ChurchTFTC

Bruh that was cheap

Thanks

Thanks so much Tyred n Cranky! This was in a great spot for the kids to find. Were really enjoying this activity!

Found caching the area with earthlightTftc

Found with The X-Trailers as we travelled the roads out of St Anaud.A great morning doing adv labs and locating caches.TFTC

Cool tree! Tftc.

Another day in St Arnaud with my trusty mtb. I'd managed to get myself on the road for home........ but then gad to stop here. No more stops today!!! Many thanks

Cool

Decided to head up the highway for another day and to grab those caches I've been driving past on previous trips. Started here and headed south before taking a triangle direction.

One last one on this road before a couple more on the next one. Cache found without issue an all was good.

Thanks again Tyred n Cranky...

Found it. We put some extra camoflauge over as it was a little exposed

TFTC!

found

Quickly found and in good condition. TFTC

Dromaniax needed to get their Caravan to their block in Moonambel so I offered the use of my geomobile (The Ginja Ninja, named because it is used for stealth caching attacks) to aid the project. Once the van was delivered we set up camp so the rest of the afternoon and even could be devoted to some caching.
A plan was formed with a mix of Adventure labs and caches heading to St Arnaurd for dinner.

Neither of us had cached along this road in previous trips to St Arnaud so it was a good chance for a few smileys.

Last cache for now it's time to head straight to St. Arnaurd and some dinner.

Thank you strange Tyred n Cranky for the smiley

Mr Sims_family and Mr Dromaniax had headed up to Moonambel to take the Dromaniax caravan to their property. It was decided that they would camp overnight at the property and do a little caching around the area.

So the caravan had been delivered at the tent and stretchers set up. As the Avoca pub was closed today it was decided we would head up to St Arnaud to check out dinner options there.

We decided to cache our way up to pick up caches neither of us had found on that trip.

Neither of us had cached up this round so it was a good choice for us to pick up a few smileys.

We arrived at this cache right as the sun had dropped below the horizon. Headlamps made it easy for us to find this cache.

The cache is in great condition.

Thank you for this Traditional cache Tyred n Cranky

TFTC Visiting family, doing the rounds, we've had a great afternoon caching with some enthusiastic young cousins.

Thank you so much for the cache

A quick find here on my way out of St Arnaud.

Thanks for the cache.

#3867

Day 6 was Mildura to Ballarat. Some very cool caches outside of Mildura get some Fave points.
Thanks to everyone!

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Thanks Tyred n Cranky for the cache

James0116

Heading home due lockdown at 1pm
TFTC

An easy find TFTC

The fifteenth find on my COVID 19 Roadtrip. Been cooped up for weeks and taking a short break to St Arnaud to clear my mind and get some fresh air. A nice easy find.

Hi there Tyred n Cranky.

We found your cache **"Medlyn's Corner"** at 11:23:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 24517).

We started the day off by nominating a cache near our camp site and then took a route that was mostly determined by the next closest cache according to our GPS. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the area & ended up finding quite a variety of container types, and sizes hidden along our route.

We found 21 caches today & DNF'd 1. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic travels around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

A little spot of traditional caches on our way back to camp.

On our way returning to our camp at teddington reservoir after a day in st arnaud. Nabbed a few on the way home. Thanks for the cache hide. A nice quick find.

#4144 Heading home from our long weekend away at St Arnaud picking up a trail of caches on our way along Dunolly Road to ensure we get our fix for the day . Didn't bump into anyone from the Medlyn family today, but we did spot and sign the cache. Thanks Tyred n Cranky.

After attending the St Arnaud Mega this weekend we visited a friend at Wareek yesterday and are making our way home to Mildura today. Stopped to find this cache along the way. Nice easy find on this will be warm day. TFTC

Now that the Mega was over, there was still more caching to be had so I joined up with fellow Canberra geobuddies kittykatch, Smittengranny and Joolay, AKA Capital Crunchers.

Quick find on our fun day caching!

Thanks for the hide, Tyred n Cranky

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch, Specimen X and Smittengranny.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Found today with the Capital Crunchers while attending the St Arnaud Mega

TFTC Tyred n Cranky

This afternoon Capital Crunchers, Joolay, Kittykatch, Specimen X and I decided to grab a few more caches. This was one of them. TFTC SL

This weekend was the St. Arnaud Mega event and I was looking forward to hitting the road for a few days doing some flat out caching, visiting many new and amazing places and catching up with lots of caching friends. The event was a great success and heaps of fun. The caches provided by the local cachers were, in many cases, absolutely mind blowing (FUF009 caches most notably). All in all it was a great weekend, very warm weather and lots of caches found.
Cache found and log signed. TFTC.

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the Mega event.

FeatherWaite, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday, taking a circuitous, but scenic route to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches in some other Victorian LGAs. We met up with Freddo and Davidwazza at the event that evening and teamed up to complete a couple more caches that night together before camping out of town.

Over the next three days we cached very solidly in and around St Arnaud, finding a diverse range of Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Virtual, Letterbox, Wherigo and Earthcaches as well as attending all the events associated with the Mega. We also managed to complete all the Lab caches over the weekend. Logbooks were signed D.E.F.F.98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo and gridge98).

On the Sunday afternoon, after the final GIFF event, FeatherWaite and I began making our way back to Adelaide, picking up a couple of caches before camping in the Little Desert NP. The following day we continued towards home with a side visit to Mount Rescue to pick up a few caches along the tracks there.

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches. They included a huge variety of containers, hides and puzzles, many of which were very clever and/or amusing and had obviously taken considerable time and effort to construct. Thanks also to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. I’ll be looking forward to the Mega at Millicent in South Australia next Easter!

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the 2019 Victorian Mega event. The weekend was spent primarily with e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98 as we geocached around the vicinity of St Arnaud. All of the events and CITOs were attended, we completed the available adventure labs and lab caches available at the showgrounds, many of the creative trails were gasped at their construction, and interesting puzzles were solved and collected during the weekend.

We all left on Thursday in two separate cars, and met up at the evening event, before finding a camp spot for the night in a very CITO location. On Friday, we targeted the StARS (St Arnaud Ramble Series) and the higher quality, well-constructed geocaches that were famous here in St Arnaud, and got lucky with the 2019 published series that we managed to snag FTFs on. Sunday had us continuing to find the other sets of high-quality caches around the neighbouring town parks, the challenge series, before spending a few hours at geocaching HQ participating in the labs that had been published. The event was also great to see some of the South Australians honoured with geocaching life awards (in amongst everyone on the list). Our final day, Sunday, had us do a big loop finishing off our geocache collection, driving all the way out to Kooreh and around via Stuart Mill, walking the conservation park at Mount Gowar, and finishing off at the GIFF event. A massive weekend that turned out to be a great mega! Thanks to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. The variety between the local high-quality caches, the new series placed by the mega team, and those who needed to be around for the labs and main centre fielding questions was appreciated immensely.

Today with our final day in St Arnaud, we went east and south focusing on some of the *Original Road* series, and the various geocaches that were placed along these routes. This cache was one of these found as we headed towards Stuart Mill. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache. The logbook was signed as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98).

A local landmark for direction...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud Mega event. On Day 1, e.gregory1, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday morning, straight after the Earlybirds event in North Adelaide. We travelled a long and circuitous route via Bordertown, Nhil and Warracknabeal to find caches in 5 additional Victorian LGAs that I had yet to visit (namely Buloke, Loddon, [Greater Bendigo - I’d previously visited], Mt Alexander, Hepburn and Central Goldfields). On Days 2-4 we met up with Freddo and Davidwazza. As a group we systematically completed each of the many series around St Arnaud and found all other caches along the way, signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, Featherwaite and gridge98), as well as attending the events and completing the Lab caches. After the Mega, e.gregory1 and I headed back to Adelaide camping out in Little Desert NP overnight. On Day 5 we had intended picking up caches around Mundulla and Mount Monster but a last minute change of plans saw us head into Ngarkat CP instead, for a solid drive and a few extra rewarding cache finds. Many thanks to all the cache owners for placing the huge variety of caches around St Arnaud and to all those who organised the Mega and the fantastic weekend away. Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky!

17/11/2019 16:20 A quick and easy Trad find on the way home. TFTC Tyred n Cranky TNLN SL

We detour down south to finish off the last few caches down here, cache was found all in good order

What a big trip this was! I headed over to St Arnaud for the 2019 Victorian mega with e.gregory1, Davidwazza, Featherwaite and Freddo for the long weekend.
The weekend was filled with a lot of finds ranging in puzzles, a few events and some very well constructed hides around the area.

Day 1: I headed over with e.gregory1 and featherwaite, with the aim to collect some unfound LGAs for the guys, with only a 500km drive to the mega from home we added an extra 450km to the trip by going over to Bendigo and further south exploring some regional towns, overall we added an extra 6 LGAs with only 18 finds for the day. Was great to see some of the interesting little towns and what they had to offer for future visits.

Day 2: As a group we hit the trails in St Arnaud as a group signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, featherwaite and gridge98) to save a lot of room in the logbook. We started off with the geoart Stars and thought it would take most of the day, as we finished it in 2.5 hours we were a bit surprised so hit the well constructed caches in the south of the town in the bush throwing a CITO in the mix. All the caches were amazing and something you don’t see anywhere else. Adding in 15 FTFs along the way with: everlasting, crank1 and Pwola. The evening settled in and we headed into town for a buffet dinner and a catch up with some familiar faces.

Day 3:
After attending the GV2020 event for the morning we set off to hit the last of the trails left in town of the metal containers, followed by the challenges for the mega as well as quite a few trads around the back roads. We ended the day by having a go at the lab caches at the mega then off to the CITO. I don't think I have ever seen so mant people at a tip before. Topped off the day with an evening event.

Day 4: By today the town was almost cleaned out and only a few caches to find, so we did the last few caches within a rough 15km radius driving around finding the odd cache here and there. The GIFF was finished off the mega so we decided to head to Horsham for the evening.

Day 5: After leaving our camp site for the morning, we cached for the morning around Horsham collecting a few grads and a well earned swim. Then made the long drive back home to Adelaide.

Thanks to all the COs for their cache placements and the Geocaching Victoria crew for organising a fantastic weekend away.

So we have been , grabbed a few caches and kisses and hugged goodbye to ur dear friends honeysucker. After a quick coffee and a kiss and hug - we hit the road to head home.
This was the swcond for today - grabbed. Signed and replaced.
TFTC
TFTM

Staying in Maryborough with family and travelling to the MEGA each day. Taking a different route each day. Now to complete the Labs!!
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Kato Potato and I arrived here, with me basically complaining that it's not a corner, like the mature being that I am. The cache was quickly found and we were back en route to the MEGA. TFTC Tyred n Cranky

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In the area for the St Arnaud Mega event and once again privileged to be able to spend the whole weekend with Mummy Short Legs on a mum's weekend away, our scared annual Caching Adventure without the families in tow.

We did get slightly confused here about where the corner was but the find was nice and simple! Number 6 for the day. TFTC Tyred n Cranky

Foundation spot if Caching by torchlight tonight. We were able to find this cache and sign the logbook. Thanks for placing this here!

13373 Found and Logged at 6:34:00 AM
A great day out and about caching while in St Arnaud
Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky
Lgoody

Thank you good hide

Driving around the area picking up random caches while at the Mega found quickly signed and replaced...TFTC

Arriving a couple of days early for the St Arnaud Mega, we decided to get a head start on the cache finding. This one was a nice easy find with container and contents in good order
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Staying in Avoca while the mega is on and collecting caches either on the way or coming back from St Arnaud. Signed as Team JAR - joojoo57, Aussie Liahona and Richmond Lad. Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches for us to come and find.

After a long day chasing STARS it turns out we're not done yet. There's a bit of 'Just One More' going on in our vehicle. We stopped for this one and were glad we did. We gladly signed the log.
Cheers and happy caching Tyred n Cranky!

Attending the St Arnaud Mega Event ,and visiting the district and other towns/villages in our caching travels. Found caches along the way. Signed log and returned cache to where found. Thank you to all CO's for placement of the caches. TFTC.

Finishing off a little series that I started some months ago. An easy find.

This Cache:

Staying in Stuart Mill we decided to go for a caching run to grab some easy ones on the first night. This was one of them and was a nice quick find with DSD. ZQX decided to sit these caches out and relaxed back at our accomodation instead.

Thanks!

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Today:

After finally getting leave approved for the 2019 St Arnaud event, it was time to get underway from Canberra on the Thursday morning, 5am departure!

Myself, DSD and ZQX teamed up for an eventful weekend filled with caching and many km’s including dozens of towns and counties I have never been through before!

We drove all the way from Canberra to St Arnaud today, grabbing a couple caches along the way including a lunch time event in Bendigo, before arriving in time for the dinner event near the mega site. We managed to grab almost every cache type today alone, targeting interesting ones along the way.

Thanks to all the CO’s for today

After arriving in st Arnaud and setting up camp, the caching continued with iloook4geo. It was a fun afternoon and we found all the caches that we had on the list. This was one that we found, the log soon had two more names noted on it and all was put back into place before we moved on. Many thanks go to Tyred n Cranky for placing so many of the caches we found around St Arnaud today.

It was a travel day today and time to head towards St Arnaud along with goingplaces2. Found some caches along the way and enjoyed the hunt. Thanks for these finds goes to each CO.

Found this cache with Loci612 on the way to the Mega Event. Signed DSD or Darkside or Darksidedan depending on the size of the cache. Thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Caching day at St Arnaud for upcoming Mega Event. Found your cache. Thanks Tyred n Cranky for the fun and placing it.

With crank1 and pwala at St Arnaud Mega,
We all enjoyed homework for puzzled and another etc.. [^]
Adventure Lab - visited the history, - Bushland, Garden etc.
We search, found and signed the log,
Thanks Tyred n Cranky organising the cache and hunt. [^][^]

Stayed at St Arnaud for Mega week and enjoyed with different caches Found your cache today. Tyred n Cranky, thank you so much for placing it.

Caching in the area we picked up a few caches and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Another nice easy park and grab. tftc

A quick find while taking the back roads to Stuart Mill
TFTC

After having a very hectic time at home over the last couple of weeks we decided to get away from it all and do a bit of caching by ourselves and as we had solved all of the Stars series here and also to get a few caches out of the way before the mega to give us more time to socialize.

This was another quick find of the cache after simply following the GPSr directly to GZ and our name was added to the log book.

Thanks once more Tyred n Cranky for the cache.

After a big weekend caching in the St Arnaud area we're making our way towards Ballarat caching as we go. The weather's perfect, we don't have to go to work and there are heaps of caches to choose from, life's good. A quick find when we reached GZ. TFTC

*29 Sep 2019, Found @ 12:24 pm, Find # 9984.*

Day 3 of the St.Arnaud pre Mega road trip on this long weekend with biggles1024.
We were now heading for home but time was allowed to make some sight detours and stop along the way to make more finds, this was one of them.

**Thanks to Tyred n Cranky for placing this cache.**

**29 Sep 2019, 12:22:33 AEST
Find #3920**
**Traditional Cache Find #2556**

We were now making our way out of town and towards our respective homes, but there was still time for more caches. Another nice track, at least in the dry. No problem finding any of these caches.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to Tyred n Cranky for placing this geocache**

Our third day in St Arnaud for geocaching and birding. We stopped nearby and soon found the container and signed the log. TFTC

TFTC our last cache find with Crack n Lee Lee after a 6 week trip

Our last cache with 2beez after travelling over 9,500kms, 6 states/territories in 6 weeks through inland Australia.

Nice hide. Looking forward to coming back to this area for Mega.

TFTC Tyred n Cranky

Day 2 of a school holiday caching getaway in St Arnaud.

Busy this morning collecting the event puzzle geoart - but the rain got too hard, so we thought we would hit the bitumen this afternoon and collect some trads and other puzzles we had solved.

No sooner had we hit the bitumen that the weather cleared up!

Now heading towards town , for a well needed shower to remove the mud and dinner!

TFTC Tyred n Cranky.

Found at 1:32 PM GAFF1.
What do the Medlyn's farm? What is their produce? We see hundreds of hectares of green paddocks, but no livestock and no recognisable crops.
Thanks Tyred n Cranky

Tftc nice drive from dunolly

St Arnaud Day 3 our last day here, staying at the caravan park
After lunch we decided to do a drive around the country side as a change. We enjoyed the various locations we visted, a nice way to tour the region.
Thanks for placing this cache Tyred n Cranky

found while walking Major Mitchell trail, or thereabouts

A nice quick find on our walk along the Major Mitchell Trail.
TFTC

Another find on a lovely day. Logged as R&H.
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A quick find while staying in Maryborough for a few days.TFTC

The long weekend approached and as I was up here for the event in January and I noticed all of the caches up here and was told by numerous cachers that there are some high quality caches to be found so I decided to spend the weekend up this way.
Caching around the outskirts of town taking all of the back roads before hitting town.
Great to see future generations still staying on the land as I know a few people whos kids could not wait to get off the farm.
Thanks Tyred n Cranky TFTC

I had a few days off, so what better place to head than St Arnaud for some quality cache finding, I had a great time finding caches over three days and even caught up with some good friends while in the area. I cant wait to return for the Mega, this is My second visit to the area and it certainly offers some of the best hides in the state.

Thanks Tyred n Cranky for the cache.

Found on our trip around Vic to avoid the heat with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 23677** Found on our Feb 'Escape the northern heat' trip.
And now a cool day for a drive around while at St Arnaud.
Not many muggles around these roads today. .
All good safe hides and mainly quick finds.
Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky,
***Roostaman***

**Found with The Empire on a 40°+ day.**

We decided to get an early start and find some of the many caches which continued late into the afternoon. St A almost cleaned out - Until the Mega

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
-P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing
Stamped Log

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Here for the '10 Months to the Saint Arnaud Event', event this afternoon. We decided to get an early start and find some cool caches, after the event we were able to keep on caching long into the afternoon. I dropped some rare pathtags in some random caches today. Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky.
- M

TFTC. Signed and returned
A nice easy find.

TFTC. We decided to go for a drive today before the heat got too much later in the week. First stop Redbank and then on to Stuart Mill and a small circle back along the highway to collect a few Original Road Puzzles before heading back to Maryborough.
A quick find and we turned back toward Stuart Mill. Will be back inSt Arnaud on the weekend.

TFTC found with DaleyEvents

Found it with the Warrens

Heading home from the Parkeville Mega but had to come to St Arnaud to do this years caches. A warm day and again you have excelled yourself with the cache containers. TFTC. A lot of favourites here.

Found on my way to the Parkville Event...
TFTC Tyred n Cranky

I started my day targeting some of the solved puzzles on a very hot, windy day and picked up a few trads along the way.
I was very aware of the possibility of snakes and I was very vigilant and thankfully I didn't spot any on my travels.
This was an easy find after getting a couple of puzzles.
I will be back to continue finding some of the awesome caches around St Arnaud.
Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky.

Day 2 of our weekend in St Arnaud and on our way home after a fantastic weekend of catching up with friends and finding some amazing caches.

Met up with Bushfire and au fait at this cache and had the customary chat and catch up. Thanks Tyred n Cranky

After returning from the early morning foray to Donald to attend the Brekky event there and to collect the local caches in that town, I had some lunch before I again joined forces with the ever delightful Bushfire for an afternoon of caching around the St Arnaud area. It was a mixed bag, collecting some for Bushfire that I had found, and some for me that he had found but mostly others that we were both seeking Ush fire had worked with a Medlyn whose family is from this area TFTC Tyred and Cranky

Google is not my friend anymore due to having my email address locked last Wednesday night and not getting it back until a few days ago.
This caused me a lot of hassles during my caching trip to St Arnaud last weekend by not receiving any notifications of new caches and having to rely on my mates and some of them had problems with the Telstra coverage but we got there in the end.
Adding to my problems I am now many days behind in my logging so it will a generic log for the most part.
Also on returning home my printer decided to go to sleep.
A week later I think everything including my tablet is back to normal, so phone, tablet and computer are all finally working as you would expect them to.
It is interesting to note the number of geocaching folk who head up to St Arnaud to attend this weekend seems to increase in numbers each year and how far away they have to go for accommodation thus the reason I book ahead each year.
Today I am accompanied by my good friend au.fait as we ventured up to Donald to clean out that area and then returned back to St Arnaud for lunch. Afterwards we headed down this way as every time I am passing I have the caravan on behind so have not ventured down this section of road. My old saying "Expect the unexpected" came true along here.
As my caching partner has stated I did work with Earl Medlyn for many years and also went out to a reunion with him only the day before heading up to St Arnaud, small world.
Thanks Tyred n Cranky for placing this cache. F.P.

Cool . Sunny 18
Found with sorceysal. TFTC Cheers

After lunch today I hatched a plan to drive down to Stuart's Mill and pick up some drivebys and some bush caches.
This was the first
Thanks Tyred n Cracnky

As always the great co-ords pointed to where I wanted to be and the cache was found. Left with the og book signed and my backside quite comfortable. The car seat is better than a bike seat I feel.
TFTC Tyred n Cranky

A quick find turning the car for home

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. Nice quick find, and I was on my way again.



My thanks to Tyred n Cranky for the cache.