Travelling North - The Railway Violet Town, Victoria, Australia
By Robmc on 03-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5JQPT

TFTC, great container easy find

Nice quick find to stretch the legs on the way to Hotham. TFTC

Found at 4:35pm safely tucked away in pristine condition. Thanks Robmac, we're heading for Wangaratta, Harrowang, a Beaver birthday and maybe a few caches!

Found it open on the ground.

A lot of cleaning up has been done around this area, and the cache was gone.It is now replaced and ready to be found.

Best check on this one Rob, we couldnt find it either.Thanks anyway.

I was unable to find this one today. Thanks for placing the cache Robmc.

Easy find, great little treasure trove.

We travelled further and further north. We, *Filser1* and I, couldn't stop at all the caches, but this one was searched for and found.T4TC

For TEMBO! and me, the text "Travelling North - The Railway" was like a magnet. We managed a stop and signed the guestbook.Thanks to Robmc for hiding and maintaining the cache.T4TC Filser1

Travelling back from Melbourne and stopped here. Decided to open my catching app and viola a cache. TFTC

Found it on my way back to Sydney from a vacation at Melbourne. TFTC

Found It!Another quick find. No trains to be seen here today.TFTC

Might go geocaching i thought...And here i am hours later with many cans and bottles and one geocache!It's not always about the destination..Its sometimes about the journey. TFTC

Found

Quick park and grab. Tftc

TFTC just passing by on the highway and saw this bloke walking with phone in hand it takes a cacher to know the signs and what more can I say,

Chook headed up to Wangaratta joining forces with The Tritonz, to find a few solved puzzles and tackle the HSS Basketball Geoart before it gets archived soon. This was our meeting point and Chook arrived a few minutes early - just enough time to find this cache - before we continued up the highway. TFTC Robmc. All good at GZ.

Thanks

A whole four day trip with Aquilus1 to do the GeoTour in Ballarat some caching around Geelong and anything else that looked good on the way.
Weather was ok albeit a bit on the wet side for the first two days. Now on day 3 the weather is bice and sunny and we are pressing on with the last few Geotour caches on the way out and driving towards Queenscliff.
On our way back tom Canberra now.

This cache was one of the ones we had the oportunity to do.
A nice cache here!

Thank you Robmc for the nice cache and experience you gave us!

Having travelled this road many times, most trips a train does pass. Easy to spot if there's one with the line so close but always great to see a train pass by.

This cache was one found on a trip away with Flintstone's for 4 days. We had the Geotour in Ballarat as our target, and made our way as far as Queenscliff.

Ballarat caching was a joy, and with the tour, we saw many lovely and interesting locations as well as stopping for many other caches as we passed. Lots of little walks helped with the colder first few days as well as being quite scenic.

A change of weather and scenery towards Queenscliff but the coast was a great place to visit with plenty to do and see. As always, more to do than there was time for, will just have to return one day! Thank you for your cache!

Wrestling with the question of how many caches to get while still ticking off the kilometres to Sydney, this one seems fairly well spaced thank you. Those train lines look awfully nice

Visiting from the Great White North

On our way to Canberra had had to stop to check something in the back so I split from my group as I saw a cache nearby. Log is good and traded some swag.

Hope the next person enjoyed the old Canadian nickel I left with the log book.

TFTC as always

Checked on a maintenance run.
All good and ready to be found.
Robmc.

Thanks Robmc for the chance to stretch legs & grab a quick one.
Eloise at The Plaza

On my way home from doing a building site inspection for my parents new build.
Getting a couple chances I haven't yet gotten on the way home and this is surprisingly one of them. I have nearly all along the hume in Victoria. TFTC

Traveling North indeed!

It was a camping weekend and the car was packed. Heading north I spotted this cache on the map which made for a nice quick stop for today.

Cache found in good condition and log signed.

Thanks Robmc for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Great little Cache!!

Found while on holidays. Thanks for the find.

Thanks for the find! Found while on a road trip!

Thanks. Lovely day out at Violet town markets and a little adventure on the way home.

TFTC. Good to stretch the legs.

Found

Tftc

Tftc

Very busy on the freeway heading north today, nice find on the way to the mega.

Another stop along the way tonight in a very interesting spot to find a cache. After I relieved my bladder, I went to go seek out the cache. I’m sure the other people stopped behind me at the rest stop must have thought me crazy for wandering out away from the road late at night in the rain.

The cache was quickly located and the logbook signed and replaced as found. Thanks for giving me another excuse to stop and for the interesting rail history as well.

Happy to report that the cache is in good condition and the logbook nice and dry.

Tftc

Thanks to our headlights for helping with this one as we approached just after dusk- we had to get ‘just one more’ on our trip from Gembrook to Rutherglen.

Unfortunately Boot got more than he bargained for with a bull ant hitching a ride in his t-shirt!

Found it! We’re off on an adventure! We picked up Cybergran V at Seymour and set off to Harrietville for pancakes at 1700 in Saturday morning. We made a quick stop to find the cache. I picked up some rubbish too! TFTC SL The ache is in great condition!

On my way to Rutherglen and stopped for phone call as phone reception dodgy to hear. Finished chatting to see if there was a geocache at this pullover - yep, about 7m away. Tftc Robmc

Fun camo cash lots of places to hide it I was just on my way to Yarrawonga and found the little bugger btw lots of bugs at night

Found easily enough on a warm summer’s afternoon. Tftc

Heading to a week in Bright with LittleBoss2, so stopped here for a look. LB2 had this in hand in quick time. Thanks Rob

Heading away with Bogonghazy. Quick stop. Thanks for placing the geocache

TFTC

A quick find as I head home from Melbourne today. Someone had already picked it up today!! Tftc!!

On our way to Benalla & stopped to find this one fairly quickly Thanks for this one ️

On our way to church. Running early so stopped for a quick cache. Thanks for the easy find.

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in Victoria and grab some old caches. TFTC.
Nice quick drive-by grab.

Reperio 12:57

After driving down to Victoria to attend the Whittlesea mega event, I headed home making a few cache stops along the way. This was the last one for the day, as between here and Goulburn it absolutely bucketed down! Another nice quick stop here, with the cache in good condition.

Gratias Robmc


‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death’ - LDV

We're heading to Milawa from Maryborough and decided to stop here for a drink and a cache. Why not?

Thanks for find #3766
TNLN

Dropped geodog at the vets for his 8 week xrays after his leg surgery and headed Benalla to find some caches. The log book was not in the cache which was weird but all dry and in good order. Log book placed in cache. Tftc. Trackabke taken and extra swag added.

Stopped here for a driver change I noticed there was a cache nearby.

A nice and quick find

Found on a trip to Benalla from Melbourne - nice spot.

Our first ever cache! We thought this might be a bit of fun but it was actually a lot of fun.
Close to home today, however we’re travelling to Melbourne tomorrow so I’m anticipating lots of stops on the way.

TYFTC

Quick stop to find this one... easy find.. no pen. Signed, left some trinkets along with a geo coin. TYFTC:)

On my way to Wodonga better have a rest and grab a cache TFTC

TfTC

Quick find thank you

Spot the train.

Well I did not today.

Maybe I'll have joy next time.

TFTC

Returning home to Sydney, I’ve set aside a few caches along the way to help break up to drive, but will only get to do a few before it gets dark!
A quick stop again, but the GPS had other ideas and I had a few circles first until I finally tracked it down.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Grabbed this one on a trip up North.

Everything inside looks good, but the bull ants near by need avoiding.

What a relief! I hope nobody peed on it!

TFTC

A nice spot to stretch the legs. Tftc

Found on our way to Wangaratta. Thanks for the stop as needed by the driver and TFTC

A quick find while stopped for a break up to the border. TFTC.

Found it TFTC

Tftc

Nice quick find in the way home from a picnic lunch in Violet Town.

Find # 10290
Heading home from the Wangaratta Mega. I just had to stop off a few times to beak the drive up.

Things we do for a smiley.
I had to utilise this parking area due to heavy rain on friday on my way up to Wangaratta for the Mega. But didnt get out for the cache. And seeing as today was nice n sunny I done a huge U turn +detour to find and sign this one..... yep I was travelling south today....

TFTC Robmc

Find #2661 for me. Found at 7:09 am while on my way to the Wangaratta Mega Event from Bendigo. This was also my first find for 2022. This was a nice quick find to break up a rather lengthy drive. Thanks for the fun and the cache Robmc!

On our way to the Wangaratta Mega, hevwalker and I had a quick find whilst having a stretch. TFTC

Heading North to Wangaratta for the Mega event with scramping...almost there...
A quick find...
TFTC Robmc

Making my way up to Wangaratta for the Mega which we have finally been able to hold and Yah we can all attend as well.
Picking up a few of the rest stop caches on my way North that I have not done yet or have been put out since I was last up this way.
Robmc you must have a lot of spare time on your hands to be able to stop at every rest stop and place at least a cache at each one.
This was the fifth cache for the trip and I have driven to Sydney, flown to Sydney but never caught the train but as a kid I had always wanted to catch the Southern Aurora to Sydney and I remember on some of our trips away being at a railway station just to watch it arrive and depart.
Now the XPT runs and it does not have the same ring to it in my mind.

Thanks Robmc TFTC.

Another stop & grab on our way to the mega at wang.

#5 of our Mega trip. This was a nice easy find and the mini cachers were pleased to see a train go both ways while we were there.
Thanks for the fun

This was find #5 on our trip to Wangaratta. The geokids liked this one as they got to see the railway in action twice - 1 each way.
Thanks for the fun

No snake but I bashed the ground with a stick like a madwoman! I was determined to locate the GC... and I did! TFTC - you got my heart pumping!

Travelling back home to NSW, I started feeling my eyelids getting heavy so pulled over to re-energize myself and find a cache.
I heeded the warnings about the snake and made myself well known... I avoided any snake encounters, but ended up being bitten by an ant so... You win some, you lose some!
TFTC!

I was headed up the Motorway from Violet Town to Benalla today
Gotta be the quietest I've ever seen this road !! [:o]
And at the rest area by rail,
I had the place to meself !! [:o]
The lack of muggles will probably be a memory after Friday,
when they let the city slickers loose again

A fun little scramble was had,
with no snakes for company [^]

TFTC

An easy find BUT be careful there is a very large brown snake in the area. TFTC

A bit too much excitement here, stood on large brown snake, screamed, flew through the air as he attempted to strike. Did find cache nearby. TFTC

TFTC

24/7/21 TFTC Found with Joybell on trip back from Euroa. ZAHLEH

Traveling North and I stopped to replace the container at this cache.
All good to go again.
Robmc.

Been to Dayboro from Cairns to attend the Mega, quick trip to Sth. Australia now turned tail and heading slowly back up north. 13 May 2021 2:32 pm Tyfc Robmc total caches now 2115 container damaged

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Well done geocaching people

Found it with considerable ease

TFTC! Good place for a short stretch.

A quick find on our journey. TFTC

Found by The Empire + H
On our way to Bright for the Easter holidays, a quick grab and the only cache on the way up. We just needed to stretch the legs after sitting in traffic for a few extra hours. Thanks for the cache Robmc.
- M

T4T$

Caching buddies: Muggle Anshi

Thank you Robmc, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot, ON THE WAY TO MT BEAUTY FOR A WEEKEND TRIP WITH VIKAS AND SNOWY

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Finalf29 and I decided on a slow trip home after a mad dash to drop off eldest son in Melbourne. Loved these rest stop caches to break up the journey.

Thanks for the history and the cache.

Great time for a break on the trip north. TFTC

Grub62 and I were travelling north to see about getting the last few caches to complete the local government area cache now we can travel. A short stop to stretch our legs and a cache as well. It was in good order and well away from prying eyes. NTNL and TFTC.

Bunadoorian and I had a very early start this morning as we were people on a mission - one cache to finalise two Challenge caches. En route this morning we stopped here to stretch our legs. Cache was found by Bunadoorian and it was in good condition. TFTC Robmc

Good find