Old Telegraph Road - Bambra Series Bambra, Victoria, Australia
By The_Tritonz on 04-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5NT9X

Quick find here

Visiting from Sydney found with annabella02 sassieold55 and muggle friend. TFTC.

We had just grabbed the multi next door, and before we turned around to go back and meet Dazzpete, we whizzed up here and grabbed this one all ninja style.Log signed then we turned the circus around and headed back to the main road.

Today we headed out from Winchelsea to do our second day on the GOR. We made our way down through Wensleydale and picked up a few trads in tiny little none weatherproof pots. Nice little series.Then on to Anglesea which seemed to be very hipster/surfer vibes and we enjoyed a nice walk around The Wetlands, more caches and ate our packed lunch at one of the murals. Onwards to Aireys Inlet to visit the lighthouse a nd more caching. Lorne was our last stop on GOC seemed to be a bit more exy here and lots of posh Melbs people here . Back to Winchelsea via Erskine Falls, surprised no cache there and via Bambra area to collect some super cool woodland caches. Ran out of time to do everything we wanted but you can never get them all .Thanks to all the CO for some really great hides and especially to Bushfire we were sad to read of ill health.Nice quick find and sign here always good to find a bucket TFTc

The third of three nice fine and warm days, so we thought we'd attack the Old Telegraph Road caches. The road was quite good, and nicely dried. Left a Geonickel. SL, TFTC.

*Found on the 16 Jul 2023 @ 12:11 pm.*
*Cache find # 14845.*

Today I headed out to the Otway Forest Park and Paddy's Swamp area for a bit of a tour around on my bike and finding caches as I went.
After getting organised at Tanners Campground, I then headed out on the bike and started making my way towards Paddy's Swamp, trying to knock off a few from this Bambra series.
It always good to find a large cache which this one is, it was easy enough to find and the other good thing is, it's not the only one out here.

**Thanks to The_Tritonz for keeping the game going by placing this cache.**

Day out caching with sassieold55, our last cache as we need to head home, but will be back another day to finish series TFTC

Found it ,tftc

Out for a Saturday drive and to pick up some smilies. Great to see this cache size for a change.

TNLN TFTC

Found TFTC

Great geocache in a cool location. Love it.

Tftc

Found this during an awesome drive down this area.

*The Pleasant Sunday In Bambra Adventure #11*

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Thanks heaps, Tritonz!

Out on a caching day with hubby Wespro. Loving the bush out here. Easy find. Still has trades. Yay

Out and about with Dromaniax on this chilly Sunday night!! We decided this afternoon that we would go on an adventure to collect a handful of smiley faces and this series is on the list!!

That's another large cache under the belt that helps working towards a challenge cache on my list Thank you

I always like large caches in the bush. Thanks

We had camped at Cape Clear overnight and decided to take a roundabout route back home.

We have wanted to do the Bambra series for quite a while, and we stopped to find this cache and hopefully a few others in the area.

We pulled off the road and walked our way towards GZ, enjoying the proliferation of Pink Heath nearby. On arrival at GZ, we made a quick find and signed the cache. The cache is in excellent condition. We had planned to find more in the series, but there were quite a few road closures due to controlled burns.

Thank you fr this cache The_Tritonz.

Awesome area..
TFTC

awesome hiding spot and lots of goodies
! TFTC

Very popular one. Thankyou

Took a little while for the gps to settle here so I ended up just looking around and using my geosenses. Perfect hiding place. Blends in well. It’s so peaceful here right now. The birds are tweeting. There’s not a lot of people around. It’s lovely. TFTC

Thanks nice area.

A great day out caching in this little pocket of caches great for kids. Fantastic size cache - bring swag that wouldn't fit in other caches! TFTC

Quick one in this series

TFTC!

We were starting to get into the caching zone by now and quickly found this one with accurate coords. TFTC

Nice big cache

Awesome big one

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - The Tritonz [^]

We loved it!

Quick drive by

Our easiest find yet! GPS bought us right here

So fun. Deep in the forest!

Out today with sorceysal to clean up some caches in the area but mainly to complete this series.
So pleased we have modern technology even if it likes to play tricks on me. Maybe the power pak has finally given up the ghost. it is crazy today!
Spot on numbers here led to a very pleasant surprise with such a big container so well supplied.
TFTC The_Tritonz

Out with 6hinemoa2 to finish the Bambra series and clean up a few caches along the way. The roads so far have been quite good for the area and the co-ords spot on. Makes for a great caching day. Thanks Chris and Lorraine

Found it and saw a kangaroo

No need for the telegraph today with current technology,.

My iPhone lead me straight to GZ.

A quick stop and I was soon signing the log.

TFTC

I’m gonna take my car down the ol’ town road, I’m gonna driveeee til I can’t no more... Well one day I fear this may be the case. My two wheel baby Toyota Yaris certainly took a bit of a flogging today. Oh well. She’s getting serviced on Monday so she be right hey? TFTC

We finally got back onto the Old Telegraph Rd and decided to grab another cache before setting off for home again. This was another largeish sized container which was in good nick so I dropped off another one of the TB's I have been lugging around for a while ("JuCe") so someone else can move it further.
TFTC

Nice cache full of goodies which we added to, a lovely area to visit so thanks for putting a cache here.

TFTC

Aha. Good swaps available. Not wanting today. Robynonthego Enjoyed the find

Another find by Washboard and Robynonthego. What a big one! TFTH

The road zigged and zagged and suddenly found myself heading directly for this cache.
still looking for clues as my tiem deadline was fast approaching and I wanted the final if possible...would I make it?
Thanks Tritonz

This forested series is a great way to tour the teeth rattling roads in the area
Next stop here for a short stroll to a huge cache [^]

TFTC

After the first event in Colac I teamed up with Phetlern, Alansee and au.fait for the rest of the day's caching, in and around the area. This was a nce and quick find.



My thanks for the cache, The_Tritonz.

Found in a group of cachers after the Colac event. Not too hard!

Today's work adventures called for a trip to Warrnambool, so off I set early in the morning with the goal of knocking off a few caches while I was at it. A couple in the morning, a quick mission at lunchtime and a couple more on the way home netted me a decent day's finds. Heavy, overcast conditions meant the phone GPS was a couple of meters less reliable than usual, particularly in the morning. Happy to report no DNF's as a result but a couple of times I had to pull back, assess the situation and let the geosenses take over.

After picking up the FTF on the latest in this series on the weekend I noticed some new information in the description of this one that peaked my interest. For once I did my research in advance and came prepared. Information extracted from WP1 and I was soon on my way to GZ where I found what I was looking for. And a cache as well. A nice fun multi in a rather peaceful spot, even spotted a rather well built (but extinguished) campfire nearby.

Beautiful day for a wander in the bush. TFTC! Left a trackable that I picked up at Geocache HQ in Seattle.

All good here, added some more swaps, waiting for children to visit.

Heartened by the anticipation of a big container l plunged into the Bush, conscious of keeping on the roo trail. I think l emulated the species cos l bounded about, becoming more and more frantic, looking in so many spots that might conceal the big container. What shame if l had to report back to geowife that l couldn't find a big container. When l did find it, l sunk to my knees, not in thankful communication with the Almighty, but because the hole was so bloody deep that l nearly fell in with it. After that l decided l needed sustenance and retired from caching for the day. Thanks for the entertainment.

Out and about on a localish outing today exploring Winch / Bambra / Angelsea Heath.
Lots of Iron-bark woodlands and slipping and sliding around 4WD tracks!

A nice big large cache in the bush. Didn't take anything, just signed the log and checked out the nearby bush flowers which were in full bloom. Thanks for the placement!

Tftc. Beautiful road

Found by Scotty & Shaye.

Nice drive in on a very cold wet day
TFTC

Great cache container - TFTC

Easy find thank you

While doing a maintenance run in Bambra we found the large container holding up well sitting out in the bush and added some more swaps.

Love big caches. Unfortunately they seem to be few and far between so it was lovely to come across this one in its well concealed hide. A favourite point for it. Thanks a The Tritonz

Was good fun

Parked near the bend in the road to get this one and the next. Straight-forward find - this is a lovely area. Lots of swag in the cache
TFTC

Awesome find. My poor 2wd is experiencing some real 4wd roads today lmao... couldnt reach area with my wheelchair so i sent half muggle mum in to retrieve the cache for me. Not the biggest ive come across but pretty large.

Thanks

Biggest cache we have ever found. Large items to swap. Kids were very excited.

**Smile # *4647* / Traditional # *3520***

With a few days off from work, the plan was to get the geo wheels a little dirty on some tracks off the main roads. I was packed with plenty of fluids, the geo toolkit, the PLB, GPSr packed with geocaches and plenty of snacks to get me through. I really enjoyed this geo adventure, plenty of new sites found over the journey. Thankfully the road was nice to me today, a little damp with the slight mist around. It felt like no one else was anywhere around me today. The small track was taken and this nice sized was found quickly. Stamped and replaced as found.

**Thanks for placing this trad and series The Tritonz**
**Cache container and log in good order**
**Took nothing, Left Travel Bug**

Today I was out for a caching trip down the coast with Neville_devil and Ausfox;.

We started to head towards Bambra because I was in search of at least one large container. Just before New Year I had made it to 50 large containers found after making a special trip to find a large. a couple of days ago I notice that my stats had dropped back to 49 again [:(!]. That I needed to fix so my mission today was to remedy that.

This was a nice quick find which is just what we needed as it was starting to get late and light was fading fast.

Thank you The_Tritinz for the hide and large container

Nice find

Quick find after a nice night at the camping spot. TFTC Dani2008

Set off to gather some Bambra/Deans Marsh caches today. What else would you do to escape the coastal influx. Rain to begin the day, humidity and eventually heat and strong winds. More like the top end tropics than Victoria(except for the wind LOL)

A quick find here, GPSr spot on, and my what a container. Thought it had bricks in it, but turned out to be Juc_cacher's donation.
Left Highlighter
Took Surfer.

Thanks for the cache The Tritonz.

11:10
The serenity of the Otway Ranges was a far cry from the frantic festive season preparations going on in town! There was a carpet of flowers and the birds sang all day, as we set about converting some of the long outstanding green boxes to smiley tokens. We spent some time admiring the book left by a previous cacher, didn't realise until we were home, that he was one of photographers.

Our thanks to The_Tritonz for placing this cache.
17451.

With only half a day today before heading up to Melbourne, an adventure closer to home was the go. Checked out the map and decided to head out to Bambra and grab as many of this series as we could. We packed a picnic and headed out.

We'd passed this one by to go hang out with the one a bit further on, so as we made our way back to the main road, a quick stop was in order here. The size of this cache was quite unexpected !

I grabbed the Captain Moonlite book and we popped by here the next day and I dropped in a Great Ocean Rd touring guide as a swap. There's a few photos taken by me in that book

Thanks once again for bringing us to this area Tritonz !

I headed out to cache in Bambra today with the added incentive of some new publications. After finding the newer caches I continued on with the aim of completing this Bambra series.
I wasn't in dire straits heading to this cache - actually I was having a very good time. And while on 80s songs, the road to the next one felt like a road to nowhere, but that was just my head talking .
Thanks for the large cache, Tritonz.

A nice drive through a place we haven't visited before. A lovely big cache as well. TFTC

Once again continuing my quest to visit as many 2015 Victorian Geocache of the Year Award nominees as possible before the event on 27 February, find out more at the [event page](http://coord.info/GC679HV).
A great BIG container, excellent. Nice drive to get here, now for the next.
**Thanks for placing this cache The_Tritonz**

*Congratulations on another worthy nomination.*

It was great to be able to find a real cache. A cache that is a treasure trove, you could even call it a cache. Thanks for placing this real cache in this area.

Congratulations!

This series has been nominated for the Best Series category at the 2015 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards!! (Only one cache in the series will get this note on it)

I hope you can come along to the Awards Ceremony on the 27th of February. More information can be found here : http://coord.info/GC679HV

Found it, best cache we have ever found. Great tradables and swaps. We also found an Australian trackable! TFTC

Just dropping off TB.

This was a well put together cache well done.

Nice quick cache nice area awesome day for a cache run while the kids are on school holiday

Found during a day of caching in an unvisited area with Glanville Girls, nice quick find in such a large container

TNLN

TFTC

Out caching today with ST37E with the aim to complete the Bambra series and collect some caches in the Gellibrand area. We were lucky enough to have one half of The Tritonz on board with us today to keep us company. It's always great when we find a large container. Thanks for bringing us to this pretty part of the world.

Quick find. To The Tritonz, thanks for showing me some wonderful bushland well off the beaten tracks. TFTC

Nice to find a cache of a decent size for a change after all the nanos and micros! Nice bit of bushland too! TFTC.

It is good to see a cache of this size out in this area because you get sick of looking for mint tins in the urban sprawl TFTC

Quick and easy find

Followed a geotrail that took me straight to the cache

Another cache found to earn a smiley on a wet and rainy day

TFTC

A quick dash into the scrub and there it was all tucked away.
Thanks The_Tritonz for the cache
Log signed & replaced. TFTC & smiley face
#1378

Suscoe headed out for an Otways journey today and when we left home the sky was clear and sunny.
When we arrived down this way the drizzle set in during the early morning.
Then later in the day things cleared up a little but the clouds stayed for the whole trip.

Find number 10 for the day.
Well we had plenty of company here with wallabies crossing the road.

Cache found and all was good.
Thanks to The Tritonz for placing this one here, a pretty good size.

A number of factors aligned today to make for a great day's caching. In need of some photos for a forthcoming blog post, I decided to head in the Bambra direction. As it happened, Geohubby took the day off, so I had some company too.
Despite the cache notes, with a rather low to the ground Geo6E I was a little tentative about these caches, however so far so good. We arrived and parked near GZ with no issues. Off we went and soon spotted what we were after, signed the log and headed back...
Of course, being a teenager of the '80s, I found myself with a rather persistent earworm which just wouldn't leave me alone after driving up this particular road...
Thanks to The_Tritonz for the cache !

Nice quick find on this cold afternoon. Thanks

It was very quite out here today, no bikes and very few cars giving me a chance to enjoy the bush. Where to hide a large cache container, spotted it through a gap as I walked pass.
Thanks for the cache The Tritonz

I'm really enjoying driving on the roads around this area. Even though they are gravel, they are generally very smooth. Really had to search fort this cache, seeing as it is fairly small.... I was quite impressed with the goodies inside this cache, very generous. TFTC The_Tritonz.

A quick find by the female half of this generous container took nothing left nothing TFTC

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Found It...... Found this one after a quick search, It is great to see big containers hidden in the middle of nowhere with the log signed we headed to the next one. Thanks The_Tritonz for the cache

Saw these caches pop up this morning but thought some of the locals would be onto these before I could organise myself but some hours later nothing was happening so set the Bushfire FTF system into gear and shortly we were on the road down to this wonderful area.

8th cache find for today but cachers using phones do be aware that sometimes coverage in this area is very flakey so a GPS is the way to go if possible.

After finding the track in it was not long before I was looking at one of the largest caches I have seen and a good assortment of swaps.

With the log signed in second place it was time to head off to the next.

Published

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