[SL] - Laanecoorie Extension Shelbourne, Victoria, Australia
By Team_Ninja on 15-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5MWNP

Time to let this one go

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Bunjil

[3D(v)]

TFTC note container needs repair or replacing. Brittle with temperature extremes. Great scenery

See photo on main post. Container is damaged and plastic is brittle.

Lovely peaceful spot this evening.

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Beautiful spot on this winters morning. TFTC

You need long arms for this one.

Was in deep!

The team headed off to Màldon for another week camping with our daughter during the school holidays in the caravan. Our mission was to find more caches than Uncle Brendan. Not too busy at the campsite this week-campfires, exploring, Dunolly bakery visits, playing family boardgames every night, practicing driving were highlights of the week. Thanks so much to the CO's maintaining these for us to explore.

Found @ 2:29 #1082 after the mandatory visit to the Dunolly bakery for lunch.

Pro tip, look where your walking on the dirt road. Or you'll twist your ankle like I did. Haha.
Tftc.

Thanks

Nice area for a drive. Quick easy find on this ️ day. TFTC

It's awesome to see water. TFTC

We are having a good day finding them. tftc

Caching in the area we were able to finish off the SL series after running out of time on our last visit here. Starting backwards we worked our way down to Floodway, enjoying the remnants of the old abandoned railway that each cache had to show us.
Thanks AussieTrainDriver for highlighting this historic railway line.

Hectic

Lots of sheep

Found it

**Find #: 6584**
**Time: 2:27 pm**
**Date: Tue 12 Nov 2019**
The day dawned a bit cooler today in Saint Arnaud.
We started out doing some of the StArs geo art, but then headed of to Bendigo for a baby sitting day tomorrow.
On the way we deviated to get Forte's Ground, and then some very enjoyable caches nearer Bendigo,

**Thanks for placing this cache AussieTrainDriver**

Heading south for the St. Arnaud event next month after leaving QOGM in Blackall. Day 60 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 3 caches for the day and 1694 for the trip. TFTC

Thanks for bringing me to a Beautiful paddock with spring wildflowers.

Found

TFTC.Quick find while out with my daughter Sue.

Nice piece of country

Tftc nice drive

Maryborough to Maldon staying at Butts Reserve
After setting up camp we decided to begin the SL trail starting from the end.
We glimpsed many sections of the abandoned railway line. Enjoyed our day travelling the country side.
Thanks for placing this cache AussieTrainDriver

On the way to Maryborough on a lovely sunny day we decided to pop in and check out the cache. Good hide.

A nice quick and easy find.
TFTC

On a well earned break in Castlemaine and I’m spending the time just touring the whole area, enjoying the sites and picking up caches as I go.
So part of a line that never really existed.
You can still make out some of the line.
Thanks Team_Ninja TFTC TFTS.

TFTC and for sharing the history of this particular Rail Line. Er had completed some of the SL series caches from the Maldon end a week or so ago. Being a nice day for a drive we decide to complete the series , starting form this end . We could then circle from Maryborough to Maldon and then back to Maryborough without having to do any back tracking.=For the most part we found the caches without too much drama. One of the multis gave us a bit of trouble, more of that in the log for that particular cache. A great series and worthy of a favorite from us.

Found this cache whilst on my way home from Melville Caves. A nice easy find. TFTC

Yay

Thanks for the hide and the information, great

Tftc

Tftc

Found out with wildnic26, beautiful day to play hookie.

tftc was a easy quick pick up nice location

A little on the smelly side at the GZ today due to a deceased sheep close by. Unfortunately the wind was blowing in the wrong direction. First time I have waded thru stench to grab a cache!

Off to a late start with grandkids and got it swaps done and next please tftc

Last of the day for us after mucking up the multi and due to the rain it was a quick sign and move on. Thanks Team_Ninja for the series so far and we will be back as we have missed a few caches. We will also look up the Railway Archeology as well as this subject interests us.

Over Lannecoorie way today and I decided on a few caches on the way home. What a great little series. Beautiful country roads, colour birds everywhere and a bright blue sky. Many thanks for the caches

Adding pic of a cool letterbox I found nearby!

Today's drive around the countryside took me along the olde railway alignment from Shelbourne to Maldon
And I can see from the photos on the cache page,
that this railway archaeology is serious stuff [:o]

It is great to have this collection of caches to trace the journey [^]

Here I soon found the cache,
then looked around to see what I could make out of the railways past

TFTC.

I thought I'd make the most of my one day off and this beautiful weather to go out and find the SL Series, starting from The End and working my way back. I loved the history and the amount of work gone into creating this series.

Found at 11am. Great hide and lovely scenery. Thank you for the cache Team Ninja

Another in the SL series. TFTC

Found with Tassydevil. We started at the end and worked our way to Maldon. Inteesting history. Thanks

Suscoe headed north very early this morning for a day of caching around the Maldon and Newstead area.
We left home in steady drizzle but by the time we crossed the divide the sky eased up a bit. For the remainder of the day we had sunny skies with the occasional cloud and a generous southerly wind blowing which kept temperatures in the high teens and low twenties.
The country is pretty dry around here but we were pleased to report that grass seeds are not as bad here compared to the North East and even Castlemaine.
We enjoyed this Maldon - Shelbourne railway trail and had a terrific morning making our way from The End to The Beginning.
A big thank you to Team Ninja for a very well researched set of Cache notes and for sharing this knowledge with us.
All good here with the cache, co-ordinates are spot on too.

Thanks Team_Ninja for putting up this series of caches - very interesting locations and I enjoyed the drive around these roads today.
SL

Found this as part of our boys road trip away with SAWSTUFF - Astro, Waldron, SxC, White Dog Gang, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo.

Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache for our enjoyment.

Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

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 Team_Ninja

Came along and found this with SAWSTUFF - Astro, Waldron, SxC, White Dog Gang, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo. Thanks Team Ninja

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 too 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 Team_Ninja and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

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.

Found at 15:09
On a road trip with “SAW STUFF”: Shonky Astro, Waldron，SXC, TWDG，Uni， Freddo， Four Fun
Thanks Team_Ninja

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 & TFTCTeam_Ninja

Bendigo Cup Day and the Sisterhood of the Cargo Pants were off on a day out. We had lots of fun except for the damn mosquitoes everywhere.

Because we all live in Bendigo we started from The End and worked our way towards Maldon. We stomped our way in to let the slytherins know we were coming.

TFTC Team_Ninja

26/10/16, 10:37 am Find #1142
Out geocaching with the Sisterhood on Bendigo Cup Day. Hating the bloody mosquitos everywhere. TNLNSL TFTC
~ Crazy Creels

Number 2 found with the Sisterhood of the Cargo Pants. TFTC

Find #1076 for me. Another quick find getting me off to a good start with this series. Thanks for the cache Team_Ninja!

Nice easy find a great series hope to get them all today.
Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Looked in the wrong hole...story of my life. TFTC

Another cache showing us this great little railway line in some beautiful countryside. The sun was out while we did this one, which helped. Thanks for the hide.

Found with TeamLauren, wickedfizz and geo amigo. Thanks for the cache.

Found with emthegem, wickedfizz and goamigo. Tftc.

Journeying home from the Wedderburn Weekend, the SL series "popped" up on the Montana. I looked at the time, and decided, I should manage 5-6 on the way, so took the necessary detour, and started at "The End". Working backwards towards Maldon rather than from it, I ended up doing the whole series, rather than my initial plan of 5 or 6. Thanks to Team Ninja for a great series, full of history, lots of quiet roads, and great positioning of hides, where the car could get off the road.

My sister had to be picked up in Castlemaine so we (neisha07, chan02 & becca85) continued on to cache the looong way home. We took roads we never would have before, visited cool places and found some great caches. A great arvo. TFTC

Took the scenic route home from Castlemaine to Maryborough and grabbed most of the SL series in Maldon with a few others on our way. Found with becca865, boo09 & neisha07. Lots of fun. TFTC!

Cached the long way home from Castlemaine this arvo via Maldon. Some cool places visited. TFTC

I have an aim to hit 999 cache finds this week to make the Skipton Cave Event my 1000th.
This is easier said than done when I have found all within 40 minutes of home.
Today we needed to be in Castlemaine so figured we would take a detour home... With neisha07, chan02 & boo09 in tow, the 45 minute trip took us 4 hours...
We grabbed a few on the back road to Maldon before stopping for some afternoon tea then taking the SL trail to Laane then home.
A nice dent made in the numbers and unexplored roads discovered. TFTC

It has been a while since this line was used. Interesting set of photos on the cache page too, not to mention a good hint.

Found at 4.15pm. I'm really enjoyed this series. Awesome history. Remnants we'd all miss if it wasn't for geocaching.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Team Ninja [^]

This ended up being the last one that I found today in this series as I mucked up my approach to the last cache and ran out of time. I have loved this little series and the history that you have provided on each cache page. Great photos of yesteryear.
Thanks again

10:10
Following the line from Shelbourne to Maldon - what an intriguing story, which the detailed cache notes really brought to life! Distance of travellers/goods from the rail head (no more than 8 miles) - an interesting concept in 2015!

Our thanks to Team_Ninja for bringing us to this location.
13902

Over in Maldon for the Folk Festival this coming weekend. Found a few of these [SL] caches. Thank you Team Ninja for this series.

TFTC

Have missed logging quite a few caches, trying to catch up.
Regards The Coffee's.

Catching up on some late, very late and extremely late logs (400 in all)

I would like to thank Team_Ninja for placing this cache. I always enjoy getting out and about to view this great country of ours and caching allows me to do that. Once at GZ, I sometimes find the cache quickly but sometimes it takes awhile to sus out the well camouflaged hide. Once found, log is signed and the cache is rehidden as found.

Once again thanks Team_Ninja.

Catching up on some very late logs.
We decided to find a few more caches with The Coffee's, maccamob and micaparamedic before heading home.
We really enjoyed this series and especially the information and photos on the cache pages as well as the hides.
The scenery was fantastic and changing but unfortunately we have lost our notes for this series and we are doing a generic log.
We do appologise for this as it was a great series but we can not remember them individually after so long.
Many thanks for the history and the hides Team_Ninja

Found by Mary & David, with Crackers, the Coffees and micaparamadic, at 1200. What a contrast from one dry side of the road to the other that is so green. Found after a brief search. Our thanks to Team_Ninja.

Quik e as y

Nice easy find. Saw one HUGE roo on the travels- Impressive!!!! TFTC

Find No. 953. Found at 2.25pm

Went to Maldon to the Swap Meet, have a look around the shops, went and seen the steam train leaving, then we started to head home, the long way of course, going along the SL trail grabbing caches on the way.

We actually parked a bit past this one so had to walk back. We were lucky because just as we had replaced the hide a muggle drove out of the paddock.

Took green band - Left orange car.

TFTC

Took a day off to wander the countryside in search of caches. Started out rainy, but then turned into a lovely day!

The was the fifth of 17 seeks for the day. What a great history lesson - throughly enjoyed this series (even if one of them was a DNF - I will be back for that one!)

TFTC!

The relatively new concrete bridge givesw good access; I wonder if this is since 2011-12 when water may have been flooding through here.

Find # 2185 @ 1152 H

I like the previous finder have done this the wrong way but I suppose back in its hay day this rail went both ways too, alas it is still a great history trail. It was quite interesting driving the back roads watching out for the mounds in the paddocks to show as to where the next cache may be and where the old rail cut along the ground.

I though I would be smart and leave the GPSr in the ute as I "knew" where the cache would be hidden. My suspicions were wrong and I had to grab the GPSr to have a better look for it. I was only 5m on my initial search.

always take the GPSr.

TFTC Team Ninja

It is very easy to see where the rail line once was as we approach each GZ. Once again thank you for your wonderful historical photos and notes. SL at 11.40am Took: lamp LN #2863 Team Ninja

found it.
TFTC

Published

Found by Roma and Max.
Another very interesting cache page with excellent photographic backup.
Thanks once more Team Ninja.
Cheers,
from Romax.