E2W - What the Dickens! Tarrawingee, Victoria, Australia
By BettyBoo3747 on 25-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KRA5

Decided to dust the bike off and complete some more of this series. It was a warm day with a nice breeze every now and then. Enjoyed my ride with only one DNF for the day. One more trip, and I should have then series knocked over. Spotted 2 snakes today, small brown at the start and a huge red belly on the way back there out and about with the change in temp. TFTC!

Very nice

Thanks

I'm out on my Ebike along the trail today finding these caches all going well so far and the perfect weather is great TFTC

Exploring rural Victoria as part of the SPINZ team: Sidewaze, paddle chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from New Zealand. I’m really enjoying the landscape and seeing what goes on in this neck of the woods. All the different eucalypts, the pepper trees and other interesting plants. The colourful birds, some quite noisy and some very noisy. The many vistas - - beautiful in sunlight and shade. I loved visiting each and every cache and really appreciate the effort required to hide and maintain them. Thanks to the cache owners. Greetings from Aotearoa / New Zealand, happy caching and if you have yet to visit us across the ditch to see what we have to offer, do make sure you enter such a visit on your “to do” list.

This is my first trip outside New Zealand caching and enjoyed getting this cache with Team SPINZ tftc

Found on our Rutherglen Mega trip, all logs signed as SPINZ (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from NZ). Sorry about the cut and paste logs. TFTC

#13279

Still enjoying our walk along the trail in the hot, hot sun with limited shade. Some lovely views of the countryside along the way. Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand. TFTC # 19,019

Spending a week in Bright exploring the surrounding area. Found with Bogonghazy. Took some time. Thanks for bringing us here

Found with LittleBoss2 on our trip from Bright to Everton. Took ages once again. Meat ants have made the cavity home, so it was buried in the hidey hole. Thanks Bettyboo

Found previously with BlackOpal2005. We thought it was time to create our own accounts.

Found it TFTC

Tftc

The day just keeps getting better . TFTC

Had a nights accommodation booked in Wangaratta as my geohusband had a jet fighter plane flight booked. When the flight was cancelled due to the weather forecast we still made the trip up and hit the rail trail for some caching. The plan was to do as much of the trail as we could. TFTC

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Attending the Wangaratta Mega weekend with the ladies of FurfacesLL, we collected heaps of caches and saw many scenic views along the way. Today we were back on the bike trail, we had a mix of heat, rain, humidity, mozzies and flies.

Picking up where we left off on Friday and it was time to continue our travels. It was a great day out on the trail with lots of laughter along the way. Some finds were nice and quick and some took a little longer, but in the end, we found most.

Thanks to the CO for the cache placement for us to all enjoy. Thanks to the FFLL ladies for a fun filled trip away

Day 4 of the Wangaratta Mega with Rapidlywild.

Today we decided to head early to try and beat the heat and call into Beechworth first to do one of the labs there and then it was back onto the trail with the bikes.

Back on the trail and thankfully when we started it was still cool, but it looked like it would be a very warm one.

All caches were found along the journey unless otherwise mentioned.
Great trail and glad we took the time out to make the journey.

Thanks for the hide and maintaining BettyBoo3747

Out with Wollaston and SeasonedBird today. This is one of the caches we targeted and found thankyou for giving us the opportunity to explore.

Found out caching with Wollaston, Liz&Bruce at Wangaratta Mega.

Container condition good
Log condition lots of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC BettyBoo3747

Find # 5986

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz and Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC BettyBoo3747
Find #8421 at 14:02.

This is a great trail. No traffic. Tar road. Countryside serenity. Each cache is different. Excellent. TFTC series.

tftc

Out riding the Rail Trails with PamJ today.
Thanks for all the work put into placing these, and keeping them maintained,
We had a nice day weather wise, but decided to go back to Melbourne tonight as it looks like we're in for a deluge over the next few days.
Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for helping us to have a great day.

Spent a wonderful day around Wangaratta ion the bike trails with geo-hubby gmj3191, then had lunch in Beechworth and then back to Wangaratta via Woolshed Falls and Eldorado. But this was our last day due the expected major rain event.
Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for contributing the adventure..

Yep found and dealt with. Thanks

The afternoon ride continues.... Found and signed. Off I rode to the next one. TFTC and series.

Starting to get dark, so a nice quick find.
Good little hide.
TFTC

Finding a couple of caches to do today while the sun is out and the temperature isn’t too cold or dreary! We had left these specifically for just this sort of day! Sheep enjoyed seeing us! TFTC

Found today while out with Kiara001, TFTC

Found with TLW and VK3GS TFTC

Disturbed a hare who took off at lightning speed. Then signed the log.

The start of our big day riding the trails. It was cool in the morning but became very warm later in the day. The container was found just where the numbers took us, signed in and we moved on.
Getting tired now.
Thanks BettyBoo3747

Out for a ride along the Rail Trail between Tarrawingee and Everton on a cache hunt with Egg Zachary. GPS sent me on a bit of a wild goose chase initially but persevered and soon had it in hand. TFTC

Quick easy find. Thankyou. Enjoyed the shade of the tree.

A quick and easy find with Matho64. TFTC

Found with Jackez74 TFTC

Quick and easy... nearly done for the day

Good find... TFTC

TFTC Found with GosBeldum

Spotted right away. With jldnj

Today is my last day off work until after the silly season. Even tho the weather is pretty horrible I wasn't going to pass up a child free caching day. It poured rain all the way from Albury to Wang than miraculously stopped at my first cache.
Thanks BettyBoo more smilies added to the rail trail today.

What the Dickens, Charles. A nicely hidden container, out of the weather. TFTC

Had started on the"Mystery in the Museum" series while I was on the NSW North Coast and I was keen to try and finish today with a souvenir. I needed two jewels to start with and then he 35 caches to finish the series. I thought the rail trail around Wangaratta (and then in town) would get me the numbers I needed. And so it proved to be the case but I had to stop at Chiltern on the way home - I got away later than I hoped (had family tasks to do before heading off) and had more DNFs than I would have liked (some I logged - a few I was a bit rushed so was probably my cache blindness so didn't bother with these). I also ended up with 6 Multis (just) and that is half of another BB3747 challenge done (might try at Corowa for the other day). It was a beautiful day in the North East - the predicted strong winds did not eventuate - and the geohound and I enjoyed our wandering in this pleasant (and now green) part of the world.

After collecting the required Sapphire at the railway station, the plan was to proceed along the rail trail to get the final Emerald and then work back (and drive a bit more) to get the next 35. However, a serious case of cache blindness overcame me and I could not find the one I had planned. So checked the iPad and the next closest was this one about 1km further down the trail. Whatever the decision there would be some backtracking (or more caches required) so I decided to proceed down to this one and get the jewel required. The geohound was of course pleased with this and got to chase a few hares. At GZ cache was quickly found and then I started back and picking up the ones I had passed on the way down. Probably added 1.5km and 30 minutes to the search but all good in the end.

TFTC BettyBoo3747

Checked this one as we were parked nearby. All good with hide and log book.

Today I bicycled the M2M from Wangaratta to Everton. A great ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. Had a pretty good strike rate overall, but there was the odd inevitable DNF along the way as well. Thanks to everyone for all the cache placements, and also thanks to Nigel for the bicycle hire and shuttle service. Cheers and TFTC

#3287 Back at the geocar and we make it a perfect 4 finds from 4 attempts here A 2.5km stroll along the rail trail today and poor old Max the geohound is cooked and will be happy for a snooze as we return home via Wangaratta. Thanks for all the hides BB and some much needed exercise to kick off Spring.

Like many before me, a bitter cold windy day out on da bike of course TFTC

Out on the deadly on a cold winters day rode the trail down as far as the Wang - Beechworth rd most were easy finds , a couple more difficult and two DNFs

Today is the 9th of June long weekend of 2018 and I managed to ride a bike for the first time in 15 years to find a heap of the Rail Trail caches with Joolay, Kitty Katch, Strangetrousers and several others. We signed the logbook as a group under the name Capital Crunches to save space on the logs. We had several DNFs along the way but most of the caches were easy and quick finds. Spotted two rabbits, millions of birds and heaps of farm animals. It was amazing, Thanks for all the caches and sorry for the generic log for this cache but with so many caches in one day it would be too hard to write a different one for each cache. I have included my Geocaching poem within my log for you and anyone else to read. I hope you all enjoy the poem and geocaching as much as I do.

I found this cache on one of the three days caching in this area. Strangetrousers and I collected about 120 caches including a multis, puzzles, an Earthcaches and Traditionals before heading back to Canberra and real life (Sadly).

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind

I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see

Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?

Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there

As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

***** I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of today the 9th June 2018 my average was 70 words per log, which seems close to the 100 target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After almost 3000 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 70 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

Fantastic day riding from Everton to Wangaratta on the 2nd day of riding the trail. Beautiful sunny day and such a lovely area to ride through and great trail. Did not find all as some were tricky. Found with Kittykatch, Canberra Chic, Strangetrousers, Geo Snag1 and Darksidedan (Capital Crunchers) on a caching trip to Wangaratta to ride the rail trail. Thanks for bringing us here

Found with the the Capital Crunchers team. A beaut day out and the caches were challenging - Thanks for the Cache !

#4138 19th for today

Day 2 of our MMRT trail ride weekend at Beechworth/Wanagaratta.Today I was joined by Kittykatch, Joolay, CBRChic, Geosnag1 and DarkSideDan. So we resumed where we left off yesterday at Everton and managed a much better rythym today, broken only by the occasional difficult find or DNF. I think we rode about 35 Km in total, but it wasn't too bad being mostly long flat stretches. We spotted lots of cows, sheep, some horses and a few goats along the way. Not a few cyclists also passed us also. We even came across a family of first time geocachers and gave them a few hints.


Logs variously signed as "Capital Crunchers", "CBR Crunchers" and "Canberra Crunchers". And thanks to Grimraider for the transport today.

Thanks to the COs: BettyBoo3747

Arrived at gz only to find a muggle parked opposite where the cache was. This was the only muggle we had seen so far. As the muggle appeared pre occupied I decided to find the cache. Just as I spied a likely spot the muggle drove off which made it easier to grab the cache.

Riding again today - the 5km section from Tarrawingee Station to Everton Station and back again checking all my caches and doing maintenance as needed along the way.

Lid was half off and stuff just shoved in. Book back in its bag and lid closed and cache back in its hiding place.

Well hidden

Jumpy GPS but logic soon had it in hand!
Tftc with Indianagleeson red leader and fox 2

TFTC!
Found with Shellumbus and RedLeader&Fox2.

Looked in the wrong spot for a minute before the GPS pointed to the actual GZ and then I knew where it was. Found with indianagleeson and shellumbus. TFTC.

Headed down to Victoria with steeba and Hoojar to be part of the 3rd Victorian Mega celebrations in Alexandra. Our 3-day leave pass ensured we’d be constantly on the go! From 300 finds in the Mt Disappointment area to 10 different cache types there was never a dull moment.

This was day 3 of our road trip and it was time to head for home but not before we bagged a few more caches around Wangarratta and then some highway finds.

Thanks to all the cache owners who contributed to a great 3 days caching with my fellow caching buddies. My apologies about the template style log, it certainly doesn’t detract from the thrill of the ‘find”.

TFTC

Found as part of a few days away with my great caching mates The Rats and Hoojar. Our main aim was the Mega event in Alexandra but we managed to find most of the Mt Disappointment series, did 9 or 10 cache types in a day (side trip to Mt Buller and then Melbourne CBD). Some great laughs, camping under the stars, a nicely organised Mega and some great wildlife (koala and echidnas ). TFTC!

The idea of going down to Victoria and to the Alexandra Mega was original floated by Steeba. Normally Megas are not something that I am super keen to attend, but the opportunity of also collect some serious numbers on the Mount Disappointment caching trail, and finding some Lab Caches really helped to sweetened the deal. I was in, along with my long time caching buddies Steeba and The Rats.

We left Wollongong at 8pm on Thursday evening, returning at 5pm on Sunday, 2,500km and over 400 cache finds later. With less than a handful of DNFs, a wonderful result!

Highlights of the trip included:
- Finding over 330 caches on Friday, the entire Mount Disappointment trail;
- Finding ten unique cache types on Saturday, which included a drive to both Mount Buller for a Web Cam, and then back for a late night Melbourne CBD visit for a Virtual;
- Meeting up with a few local Wollongong cachers in Alexandra;
- Setting two new personal records, for my most cache finds and cache types in a day;
- The always good company and banter of Steeba and The Rats;
- Seeing six echidnas, and a koala (my first sighting of a koala on the ground in the wild); and
- The absolute highlight of the trip was watching Sir The Rats be inducted into the Australia Geocaching Hall of Fame (or maybe the jokes that Steeba and I had over the weekend over the honour!).

Thanks to all of the cachers that hid caches for us to find over our short trip away. I have little doubt in thinking that we will be back to these parts again at some stage to find more caches!

Cheers

Parked the car on Dickens rd and grabbed this one while hubby unloaded his bike. Quick find and we were on our way... working our way back towards wang. Tftc

This one was one of the last in this series before I left the area today. Mostly I was just doing drivebys now
Thanks

With KB in town for a few days it was decided that we'd hit the rail trail on the weekend. It was a warm and windy day, we started at 10am in Bowser and made our way along the trail. Most were quite easy finds but a few were challenging. We contended with loads of grass seeds in the sometimes shoulder height grass, we also found a couple of snakes guarding caches along the way (a brown and a red belly black).

Thanks for a fun day out which finished at 7pm!

And of course, TFTC

Thanks again BettyBoo3747.

The geofamily are off on another trip to Mexico. Fun, sore backsides (for some) and Dad getting the geomobile stuck and breaking his bike, TWICE were the highlights of the trip. One of the running jokes for the trip was 'If it's 2.5T it's laying on the ground, if it's 2.5D it's under that pile of rocks or in the open, if it's listed as large we are looking for an eclipse tin' which came about due to a number of early finds. The lasting memory from this trip will be the grass seeds!!!

Found while riding the Beechworth to Wangaratta Rail Trail.

Thanks for the cache BettyBoo.

Geofamily trip to Victoria... Cool!
Mrs Moneydork, Moneydork, sushilord and I left Friday morning for a 4 day jaunt over the border to find a cache or two
Two nights in Wangaratta and then a night in Bendigo left me with 10 DNFs and 205 cache finds one of which was a FTF
Day 2 around Wangaratta and our expected long day of riding was cut short by a malfunctioning pushbike That meant only 100 finds today with 4 DNFs

I saw part of this rail trail when in Victoria doing the Lake Eildon Geo Tour and thought how cool it would be to ride it
So I was stoked to be here and actually riding on it and finding caches [^]
Sadly the ride was concluded earlier than anticipated due to mechanical failure so we ended up walking and driving to some of the caches we had thought to ride to
Still the area is great with some great views, some interesting sights and of course caches and smileys
As good as it gets [^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC BettyBoo3747

Nice easy find

E2W surely we must be heading toward our base in Wangaratta. Another smiley token added to our tally on the penultimate day of our travels to NE Victoria, in the excellent company of Suscoe.

Our thanks to BettyBoo3747 for placing this cache.
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Suscoe and Phetlern were out enjoying the countryside today, taking in the sights and sites and finding these caches.
We are really enjoying this part of the state, beaut green pastures with a tinge of yellow creeping in and lots of happy cows.
Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for placing this cache.

#9354 Found and Logged at 8:46:00 AM
One of 24 caches on my 3nd day of caching around Beechworth spending the week so hope to fing many more
A hot morning on the rair trail followed by a cooler walk around the forests north od beechworth after lunch
Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747
Lgoody

A 4 day trip from Adelaide to Everton, Beechworth and surrounds.

8 of South Australia's finest caching teams came across the border Freddo, Team Astro, The White Dog Gang, Four Fun, Unicycle, Southern Cross Caching, Shonkloic, and Team Waldron hit the bike trails and country back roads.

It wasn't nice the the mozzies were sent to defend the ceches against us but we persisted.

On the way home we visited Bendigo, St Arnaud and many towns in between.

Many thanks to all the cache owners who put out caches for us to find.

A great time was had and we left enough to make another trip worthwhile.

Great cache found during the "SAW STUFF" road, bicycle & walking trip to central Victoria with Shonky, Astro, Waldron, Southern XC, Uni & Freddo
Easy find, cool spot, great cache
TFTC BettyBoo3747

SAWSTUFF weekend with Astro, Waldron, SxC, TWDG, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo. Thanks BettyBoo3747

Found on an awesome trip with the SAW STUFF boys (Shonky, Astro[me], Waldron, Southern Cross, Whitedog, Unicycle, Freddo & Four-Fun). The trip had it all including this awesome cache. There were pots and schooners (no pints) , mazzive mozzies the size of small elephants we hitched rides on , realistic lizards, real live [xx(] kangaroos that got to close and uphills. Then there were bikes and pumps. There was sweat and dust but no tears. My thanks to the group and the coordination that enabled an amazing fun filled few days that will go down in caching-lore. [^]

Thanks to BettyBoo3747 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Charles is found. We CAME. We CACHED. We SAW STUFF. Eight South Australian caching teams on the prowl in Lake Victoria. We were attacked by vampire mosquitoes. We were attacked by rogue magpies. We were attacked by brown snakes. We were attacked by running kangaroos. We were attacked by publicans and cooks. In the end we got the message and went home, but not before finding lots of hidden cachey things using billions of dollars of satellites and cheap hand-held devices.

One of many fun finds on along the way on the "SAW STUFF" road trip to central Victoria with Shonki, Astro, Waldron, Southern cross, Twdg, Uni & Freddo [^]
Cheers & TFTCBettyBoo3747

Found at 14:12
On a road trip with “SAW STUFF”: Shonky Astro, Waldron，SXC, TWDG，Uni， Freddo， Four Fun
Thanks BettyBoo3747

Found as part of the SAW STUFF secret men's business weekend. Southern Cross Caching, Astro ,Waldron, Shonky Logic, The White Dog Gang, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo.
We came, we cached, we cycled and we left. Thanks for your cache placement and my apologies for the generic logs in most situations as we found hundreds

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Doing a maintenance run and cache check today. All good here.

I was on leave so plans were made to head to the Beechworth area with My good Mate the Roostaman, Today we mainlly spent the day riding from Everton to Wangarratta and picking up a few extras by car, was a most enjoyable day, we met BeettyBoo3747 nd robmc along the trail. Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the cache.

**# 15019** Found on an absolutely excellent adventure with Rebel Acts.
A cloudy spring day for a bike ride along the trail from Everton to Wang.
We started a bit late due to some early rain and finished with a late lunch at Wang.
Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747,
***Roostaman***

Saw the reason for the name as I rode up. Boy, the sheep are noisy around here! Lots of lambs today.

FTC. A lovely morning for a bike ride. Time to get back in the saddle with a quiet ride between Tarrawingee and Everton. May as well cache along the way. Thanks for placing the caches along this section of trail. Not that many people out this morning.

#3929 1:53 PM

What a great day to be out on the trail for some caching. I took advantage of the long week and to go out and find some of the further close to home caches, camping in the Warby Ranges for a couple of nights and picking up a couple more before spending the day doing the E2W trail.
In all I spent a bit over 6 hours finding all the caches and the ride back to van and couldn't have asked for a better day to do it.
Only a singular DNF, but a couple I didn't stop to search for so will have to make another visit to finish those off. I have enjoyed the varied hides as well as the few different cache types along the way to mix it up a bit.

Picked up TB from here to move on.

TFTC, Cheers.

Enjoying the lovely autumn day with a ride along part of the trail and checking a few caches. Dropped a Teddy Bear TB in here to continue its journey.

Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the nice straight run of caches a few tricky ones along the way but still had fun and that's all that counts.

We spent Easter up in the North East of Victoria.
This was one of the caches we found while we were exploring the area.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with my family on an Easter holiday in North East Victoria.
Thanks for the cache hide, and the fun in finding it.

Found with Mum, Dad and Eddie.
I had a really fun time finding this geocache.
Thanks for placing it for us to find.

It is the Easter long weekend and Slink1 and I decided to take our young friend JT123 on a trip to Wangaratta to do some caching. The weather was perfect and we had a great time getting out and about and collecting some interesting finds. Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for the time and effort in placing the caches... we sure had fun finding them! TFTC TNLN SL

With the long weekend, Easter Dunko and I decided to take a couple of days out with our respective partners along with JT123 and head to Wangaratta to complete the rail trail. Then after a night’s stay over head back down south to continue the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson trail. Perfect weather made for a terrific time away enjoying the cache hunt [^]. Manny thanks to BettyBoo3747 for the effort and placement of this cache. We all had a great time finding this cache SL..

A quick find on day two of our month long escape from Tassie. Haven't tried many on the trail, too hot for us. TFTC

We picked off the rest of the trail we had not got from our previous visit. we sure picked a day that was going to be hot !! We managed a couple of dnf but mostly smileys, some caches were little more challenging than others, bit of creativity and variety along the trail, mostly very quiet but did meet some people at the Everton end. Thanks for placing this trail for all to enjoy.

Well here we go, new bikes for Xmas, novice riders and the grand plan to cache from Beechworth to Wangaratta. That's what happens when we spy a series on the map. Apologies for generic logs but too hard to right up individual. Will put comments where possible. Thanks for bringing us to this series and adventure. Tftc A Fav from us as we desperately needed the shade provided.

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there BettyBoo3747. We found your cache "E2W - What the Dickens!" at 7:59:00 AM today. This cache makes our find count 12310.
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Today we decided that an early run towards Wang from Tarrawingee station was in order. We did alternate caches on the way out, and picked up the remainder on our return trip. We both enjoyed our ride in the cache run today & ended up logging 14 and DNF'ing 2 today.
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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: Nothing in the small ones, and a smiley badge wherever we could fit one.
Thanks for the hunt,
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Found by Mary & David at 1715. This camo stood out, so a quick find. Our thanks to BettyBoo3747.

Almost back to the car, but still one to find. Once again Geomark, first on the scene, quickly spotted the little something that's out of place and we signed the log at 1.15pm. (It's like being waited on hand and foot! Sure beats the frustration of not finding it!)Left pathtag. Thanks for the run of caches Betty Boo