Winston Wander Extension #5 - Carpark! Churchill, Victoria, Australia
By SKI Pair on 14-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5PDFZ

Still here thank you!

Omegaman1971Support Your Local Villain Live - Laugh - Lurk Caches Found: 13036First To Find: 149Sidetracked Cache Finds: 117I finally attempted the Winston Wander series that I had heard so much about, and it did not disappoint. I loved the variety of different containers and camouflage methods used. Most of the GZs were deserted due to the school holidays, but there were still a few muggles to deal with. Thanks to SKI Pair for a great day of caching fun!"Any day caching is a great day, but even better when the Co is a good friend.

TFTC JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans living in Tassie GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it

Found it with mushmushmooseeeeeee

Found with spakkles

Checked, all good

Date: October 7, 2023 Time: 11:46 AMFind #14240After completing my Saturday ritual, a parkrun in a random town somewhere in Victoria, this time it was Churchill's turn. After a coffee with the run regulars, I went for a walk around town, picking up some caches along the way. It was a pleasant day for a wander.Massive thanks go to SKI Pair for placing this one.

Day two of a short trip into Gippsland with the deadly treadly for some caches.This morning I started in Morwell at the Crinigan Bushland Reserve.I then went to Churchill and rode the loop of the LV Event caches and some of the Winston Wander Extension caches.A nice ride around on a mild day.Lots of cars parked, but no muggles around atm.Nice hide.Thanks, Robmc.

Out with Shumba7 on the geoscooter and geoeuc. TFTC.

TFTC found on a cold spring morning which soon warmed up to a lovely day. Found out on our electric wheels with Algae ️ scooting around the area. Nice place to visit first time here.

Tftc SkiPair. Time for a short 2km stroll with the geohound. Quick find, even at night.

Heading down the line to do a bit of shopping but there is never a day out without some caching involved. On the way down decided to finally tidy up a few caches in the area. Parking nearby made a quick find.

Thanks SKI Pair

Spending the day caching out with @mtrill3 this one was a nice quick find today. TFTC

On a sneaky midweek getaway we stopped to do this series of caches and we’re not disappointed all very interesting and clever caches this one was no exception a quick find and another fun hide, thanks for placing this cache

Last find on our walk around Churchill. A nice new log freshly signed & we had this one squared away. Tftc

Replaced and ready to go again

Taking offline until we check. Probably missing!

Logging with permission. Cache is awol

Sometimes the nice straight forward ones are nice - but for a moment I thought it was trapped ….nope just nicely secured.

We love driving around this Uni, parking almost anywhere in a carpark for free and finding caches fast!
Love it, love it!
TFTC

Another quick one, had lots of natural camo from arachnids used my pen to clear a path and a quick grab… thanks skipair Happy Easter

Left a diamond !!

After going for a bike ride today we decided we needed to walk out the muscles so stopped here to check out the university while there are no students are about.
Because I am into native plants I found walking past the gardens very enjoyable as there is some great specimens here.
A quick find and we didn't have to worry about stepping on any plants
TFTC

Tricky. The caching eyes not so good. TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 38° 18.583 E 146° 25.787

Coordinates changed to:
S 38° 18.597 E 146° 25.753

Distance from original: 183.1 feet or 55.8 meters.

Replaced and moved to a new location as the original location is no longer suitable for a cache.

Replaced in a new location and all good to go.

Out on a maintenance run today after returning from travel.
Cache has gone missing and current location is no longer really suitable.
Working on a container for a new cache nearby.

Found with margaretforr1987

Could've got this one yesterday but it was raining and the description was a bit misleading, logbook and ziplock bag needs replacing so we couldn't sign it.

Yay!

Log book bit wet. Also and invested.

Found the cache on the ground, and the is full and very wet. TFTC

Not willing to trample the garden today!

Thanks

The Sun had come out and living in Baw Baw shire we were not locked down so i decided to head out for a day out of the house and what better way than a drive around your own area picking up caches, Gippsland has some great locations to visit and lots of caches that have not been found in awhile, so with my new caching gear gloves and sanitizer I had a great time touring around the area finding caches and exploring new places. "The cache is not located in any plants " Really I think the plants have grown since this was hidden as I had to wade through them to reach GZ.

Thanks SKI Pair for the cache.

Tftc. Found with tb142, kezza1211 and naturegirl.

Found with geowife kezza1211 naturegirl and rogerz1956 Log is wet and needs replacing. Tftc

Found with GeoHubby TB142 and GeoFriend RogerZ1956 and Nature Girl.
Log is wet and needs replacing. TFTC

Came to ride our bikes around the area and find a few caches on this beautiful day. GPS had us all over the place but eventually found it. Needs a new log.

Quick found
TFTC!!!

Super easy find! TFTC

A lovely day, so out on the bikes for a maintenance run. All good here!

Out after work for a wander as the storm clouds gather. This was a quick easy cache, especially with the obvious trail tgrough the garden. Amazing how little it takes. Cache found in reasonable condition. Log sheet is starting to tare a bit along fold lines. Those stupid monotone hooty birds are out again. Serioysl6 wait they'd change it up. Tftc

We are enjoying a long awaited caching weekend away. Our research suggest there were some pretty good caches down this way. Today the plan was to hit up Churchill. Getting on abit of a roll now with the Winston series. We really have picked best weekend to do these caches, all quiet around here. Tftc

Plenty of plants mmmm

Came on a weekend in the hopes of less peeps, i was wronghad to look extra casual. Tftc

We decided to try and find as many of these as possible whilst there was no muggles around to have to explain to. This was a nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Invited for a day out caching today with OHC GT37, P4506 and M&K (as a lot of logs were signed this way), we headed east to see if we could rectify some DNF’s from last time, and cache out some area. Some zig zagging occurred, but all clues & gems were found for M&K, a puzzle OHC & GT37 solved found, and some very high quality hides and scenic spots were discovered. A great days caching! A nice park and grab on the weekend. I imagine it would be difficult during the week! Thank you so much for placing this one for us to find SKI Pair.

Out on a girls day out with OzHockeyChick, geoturtle37 and becNmonts caching in the local area.
Another easy drive by required for the Mystery at the Museum challenge. TFTC

4:30 pm #7822
A girls road trip today with Sebastian taking Mrs Papi4506, (Mark&)Kelly, beckNmonts and myself for a ride through Gippsland.
Expected to have a much tougher search here, but easy find.
Cheers SKI Pair

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First time my device was accurate for the whole afternoon. Tftc

Found today, TFTC

Great find TFTC

Found tonight
TFTC

TFTC

Took the drive to Churchill today to see if we could lessen the number of unfound caches we had there. After 3 hours, we had put a big dent in the numbers and converted them to smiley faces. Not one DNF today from all we found, which we're happy with.

Thanks to the CO for this placement.

Great find thank you

Tftc

We made a detour, on our way to a nearby family event, to find a few caches in town today. The car park was deserted today making for a quick find. This one brought back memories of my recent uni days...years and exams in the nearby building.

Thanks for an enjoyable cache.

Catching up with some very late logs

We had set aside a few days to explore Gippsland with alansee endeavoring to aid him reaching 30,000 finds before the Queanbeyan mega event at Easter.

We visited rail trails, parks, mountains seeing beautiful scenery along the way as well as enjoying some lovely walks as well as some easy drive by's. The weather was mostly kind to us enabling us to search for the caches in comfort.

The car park was almost empty today and a quick find was had with out needing to go into the garden.

Thanks SKI Pair for the cache.

Found with Team Crackers today. Cache was found easily.

Camped at Gormandale after returning from Tasmania. Out for a few caches today. Twenty four for the day, quick find, cache and contents all good, good coordinates. Took nothing, left nothing. TFTC

Found after the event in town today. Nice quick pick up. Thanks

I didn't read the map correctly, so we parked too far away.
Than we had to wait for passing traffic.
But after all that it was a quick find

Out caching with Sharon14
Thank you for the hide SKI Pair SKI Pair.

Caching while attending the event in Churchill. Quick find after looking at the obvious hiding spot. TFTC SKI Pair

quick easy find where we did not need to search under the plants
Thanks for the cache SKI Pair
With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

An easyish cache when we started listening to our geosenses!

*Found with [Geooh Live](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohLive)*

Hi there SKI Pair.

Today we were very fortunate to have Ski Pair chauffer us around the area as they did a maintenance run on some of their caches. Our initial plan was to walk around Lake Hyland before the weather got too hot but then, as the weather wasn't too hot, we also managed to find quite a few others while Ski Pair looked on (without giving any hints).

We are quite impressed with the quality of the caches we found today, a lot of thought and effort has gone into their location, size and placement. Congratulations to you both.

All up we found 16 caches & DNF'd 0 in this cache run. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places while we meander our way 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, the plant life has certainly thrived here..
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Nothing.

Regards

Ian & Penny.

I was pleased I didn’t have to look in, or under the plants in the garden here. They are not particularly hand friendly and there’s so many of these stroppy plants in this bed alone. The Evil Muggle did battle with the plants and made it to GZ where the cache was quickly found. A lovely park and grab, luckily without too many Muggles around.

We were worried we might look a bit sus with this one here, but pulled up in the dark, happy to find the carpark deserted. Jumped out of the car and headed over to the likely spot when a car suddenly appeared literally out of nowhere, and a friendly security officer rollled down the window and asked what we were up to. Realising anything we said was gonna sound lame, we admitted to geocaching, which they were totally cool with, driving off and leaving us to our search. A nice easy find, SL TFTC

I found it... but it felt *really* awkward skulking around the car park, even though the place was almost deserted (hopefully no one watching through the windows thought I was eyeing off their car). TFTC anyways.

**# 20346** Found on a warm drive around Churchill while staying nearby.
Quite a few muggles around today surprisingly and a few good hides.
And a few more evil ones too. Nice and easy.
Thanks for the cache and the series SKI Pair,
***Roostaman***

Out for a maintenance run today.
All good.
Happy hunting!

Found today with NoonaB on an afternoon of caching.

A nice quick little find, log was signed and we were on our way to the next cache.

Thanks for the hide.

Found this one today on a caching day in Churchill with Bigrobv. A nice straightforward hide and a quick find and sign. Thanks for the hide

Good find by the kids.
CJJAHC

After having a DNF on another cache in Churchill, this was a straight forward find.
After reading some of the previous logs I would hazard a guess it was a little bit trickier in it's original hiding spot.

[Scrat visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4376822)

TFTC SKI Pair

Again quick find... Tftc

Was a little annoyed at this cache, I had such big expectations and was a little disappointed. And the cache is clearly where it says it isn't? Tftc.

Finally found it with Katerpillar. Good one

Found it this time!!!!! Hah
Thankyou

~ PBF

Coordinates changed from:
S 38° 18.572 E 146° 25.794

Coordinates changed to:
S 38° 18.583 E 146° 25.787

Distance from original: 74.9 feet or 22.8 meters.

Yes indeed, the tree has been felled and the cache hiding place has gone. We have replaced the whole cache a short distance from it's original site, but still in keeping with the cache name.

May have been demolished... awaiting owners response.
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Looking looking on 15th at the Uni set of Extensions....this one might need putting back in its original spot as we found it on the ground and couldn't see where it might have been originally. with TrudyJane and Sussex Wanderers.

Found it

We have finally arrived home after 6 months travelling. Thankyou to Freddo who looked after our caches while we were away.
Checked this one today and all is well.

Found it! Nice easy cache. TFTC!

Tftc!

Thanks to our good friend Freddo for performing necessary maintenance on this cache while we are away travelling.
All good to go

Cache has been checked and maintenance has happened. New log sheet in place and ready to be signed.

Cheers, Fredd01

Thank you to our good friend Freddo who has performed the necessary maintenance on this cache while we are away travelling.
Will reactivate.

### **MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?** ###
I notice from recent log entries that this cache would seem to be in need of owner intervention as there are one or more comments in regard to the state of the cache log. It leads one to the contention that the cache container is no longer weather proof. Therefore I am temporarily disabling it so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

A basic tenet of geocaching is that **the cache log needs to be signed to record a find,** see here: [Logging of All Physical Geocaches](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#logging). At the moment this would seem to be extremely difficult if not impossible to meet that requirement in regard to this cache.

Prompt attention by cache owners to any log that indicates anything could be amiss is greatly appreciated by all seekers. The guideline advises; ***"if you can't check/fix it straight away then Disable it till you can."*** see here: [Owner is responsible for visits to the physical location,](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance ) and here's how; [Temporarily Disable and Enable,](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235) also check out this Blog: [Helpful Tips To Keep In Mind As A Geocache Owner.](http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/03/you-hid-your-first-geocache-now-what/)

Please respond to this situation by **8th September** to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time, please be sure to post a "Write Note" log (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

**And don't forget,** once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; [Removing the Needs Maintenance Icon](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; [Temporarily Disable and Enable](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) to get your cache up and running again.

We will look at this one as soon as we are able to

all wet

Found this with paulnmax on the 26.12.15
Out with michelleclerks

Was very wet put new bag and paper to write on.
Mite need looking at

Log is quite wet. Was laying on ground when I found it. TFTC.

Log is quite wet and was on ground when I found it. Needs to be rehidden in original location.

Tftc