Winston Wander Extension #3 Entrance! Churchill, Victoria, Australia
By SKI Pair on 14-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5PDG9

Omegaman1971Support Your Local Villain Live - Laugh - Lurk Caches Found: 13022First 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.Stealth needed for this one !!!

Last one for the day. TFTC JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans living in Tassie GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it

Checked, all good

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.A few muggles around the entrance but not too many to stop me finding the cache.Thanks, Robmc.

Coords out today but managed to find it.

Out with Shumba7 on the geoscooter and geoeuc. TFTC.

Finally found it after nearly giving up. Coords a bit out. Expanded our search and soon had log in our hands.

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.

Heading down the line to do a bit of shopping but there is never a day out without some caching involved. Leaving the car at #5 made our way around the uni finding caches as we went. Thankfully searching on a Sunday as I imagine this one would be very tricky on a week day during school term.

Thanks SKI Pair

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

Found it!

Oh dear we picked the wrong day, it was muggle central today so did a quick turnaround and retreated to the car maybe next time

Ive dropped the kids off to this entrance many times over the past few years. Never thought to check for a cache! Until now. Quick easy find. Tftc

Had an enjoyable day finding caches around Churchill with the GF and the boy.

Thanks for the fun

#4428

Felt like a uni student on first day of uni and getting completely lost. How you ask in this day of gps.
Thank goodness find straight fwd. tftc SKI Pair

Tftc SkiPair. The term has ended, the year is nearly over, the students are huddled over their computers gaming away and it's 7:30 pm. Not a sole in sight! How good is that!

Might be tricky finding this one on a uni day. Interesting nearby artwork.

Parked ourselves in the free student car park and went for a short walk and found the cache immediately.
Nice pickup.
We will have Our lunch in these nice gardens/parklands, after all we pay our taxes.

Well after security pulled me up I had to explain I was geocaching he put me on the right path, no luck here, I’m sure I seen pennywise though , will try again in confirmation cache is still there thanks

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.
Took a bit to find this cache as the GPS was pointing elsewhere, I imagen that normally this would a difficult cache with lots of people about but today there was not a sole so we could take our time
TFTC

Took a bit of time.

This was another cache I’d tried finding on a previous visit to Churchill. It turned out that I’d been on the wrong level completely! I didn’t realise there was another way to access GZ. Once the right way there had been pointed out to us by the COs it was an extremely easy find. As we were here during school holidays during the COVID-19 pandemic there were very few Muggles around and we had no problems accessing the location. Now all the caches around the university grounds currently there have been found. I’m feeling very satisfied.

Our second stop of the afternoon took us to my old stomping ground, which I haven’t ventured back to for about 17 years - it was Monash University back then! I haven’t been game to attempt this one, but being Covid times and school holidays, we boldly walked straight up to a very quiet entrance with no threat of muggles and quickly located a familiar cache. Thanks again, SKI pair!

Out on a maintenance run today after returning from travel.
All good here.

After all the time I spent worrying about having to search for the cache while being discreet, it turned out to be one of the easiest finds ever! Just make sure you go during the school holidays, and in the middle of winter. TFTC

Found with margaretforr1987 google maps had us part in the wrong place

Would have been a quick easy grab for our 75th find had we have parked in the right carpark tftc

Jdjdjd

Cheeky!!

Thanks SKI Pair for this series it was a job well done, this is my last one. Great job. TFTC

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. I bet this location could get real busy at times.

Thanks SKI Pair for the cache.

Came to ride our bikes around the area and find a few caches on this beautiful day. Being a Sunday there was no one around which made it very easy.

Took us several minutes to find it
Looked at the wrong level first...
TFTC

Hmm very sneaky, tested our limits here.. TFTC

With GPS updated on my phone and the cgeo patch this cache became the easiest of the series. Was just a matter of looking in the most likely spot. In fact it was in the first place I looked. My 5km clearance challenge is almost achieved. Tftc

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

Not the best start to our Winston series. Ahh well it can only get better. Too good for us today.

Found at last weeeeeeee

Well this little poop had me stumped, several spots lots of head scratching and bingo! At long last. Tftc

Certainly can't say this was a quick find. We searched and searched on one level and then decided that it had to be on the other one. We made our way there and looked around. Eventually, the cache was found where we had already looked. Thanks for the cache.

We really must learn to read everything before we search. Even better , to take notice of what we read. Had we done that here, it wouldn't have taken so long to find. Thanks for the cache and bringing us here.

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! After starting at the wrong elevation, we corrected ourselves and GT37 soon found the cache in a spot that had already been searched. Oops! 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

4:58 pm #7824
A girls road trip today with Sebastian taking Mrs Papi4506, (Mark&)Kelly, beckNmonts and myself for a ride through Gippsland.
Once we found the correct altitude, MrsP was onto it.
Cheers SKI Pair

Another great cache

After looking at the wrong altitude first this one still took way longer than it should have. Log and container dry and in good condition. Tftc

Came for a look but unfortunately couldn't find the cache! Will have to come back and search again.

Great midnight find with at p4ndiebear.

Found by chaab002 but I provided some moral support... sneaky lil find! TFTC

Thanks for placing the extension caches. This one took a little longer but once we finally decided on a GZ it was soon found in good condition.

Lots of metal 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.

Tftc

GPS took me to another spot but realised I was in the wrong spot great hide thank you

We made a detour, on our way to a nearby family event, to find a few caches in town today. This one had us arrive at gz on a sunny morning and chatting with a security guard about what a beautiful day for a walk and where he suggested to find some nice gardens around the grounds. Nice quick find in what could be a busy place, glad it was a quiet day.

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.

This one was located with out too much difficulty and we then ventured into the uni to grab a very nice cup of coffee.

Thanks SKI Pair for the cache.

Found with Team Crackers today. Cache was found easily.

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

We turned but a car with some people were parked nearby.
We didn't known if we could get the cache from below.
Only to have the car drive by, and tell me 'it is up top'

The car was other cachers, that were cache blocking us.

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

Caching after the event today in Churchill. Totally overlooked this one. Lucky for Anja as she found it. TFTC SKI Pair

This one had us stumped for a whille but With Angelique Anja. Did a re check at a place Zedaycee had already checked and there it was
Thanks for the cache SKI Pair
With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

... Can't trust Zedaycee with looking... He swore that he had searched the suggested GZ, but when I went to search it, there was our prize, plain as day!

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

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

Hi there SKI Pair.

Today we chauffeured SKI Pair around the area as they did a maintenance run on some of their caches. We also managed to find theirs (and a few others) while they looked on with amusement at some of our search techniques.

We are really 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 11 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.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Nothing.

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Had been walking past this one for too long.. so with the help of some phone and bag fumbling the find and log was made. Thanks SKI Pair.

Bit sketchy on a late Sunday afternoon but we found it

Just doing a maintenance check on my nearby multi-cache - couldn't resist this. Thanks SKI Pair!

**# 20348** 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. Not so hard with no muggles here today.
Thanks for the cache and the series SKI Pair,
***Roostaman***

Out for a maintenance run today on our return home.
All good here.
Happy hunting!

Having looked for this one before with lots of muggles around and no luck today there was no one in sight and we very quickly made the find.
CJJAHC

Found today with NoonaB on an afternoon of caching.

This was a fun one to find, we kind of felt like we were on display for a bunch muggles going about their business. After some stealthy and not so stealthy checks we didn't find it.. a quick review of the previous logs helped.

Thanks for the hide

Found this one today on a caching day in Churchill with Bigrobv. I have looked for this one before and wasn't sure if it was up or down, but after having a look at the access to the down area it's easy to see where it should be. I was wondering why the coordinates had me 8m out into fresh air and consulted some previous logs for a hint when Bigrobv announced he'd found the cache (about 11m from where my phone was indicating). The sign was made quickly and I was very glad to tick this one off, the final one I needed to find for this series. Thanks for the hide!

Found but lots of muggles

It was the end of the day and nothing was stirring not even the security guard who I passed as I drove in.

A quick find was made and log was duly signed.

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

TFTC SKI Pair

Very quiet here so no pressure looking, nice one... Tftc

Heading back to Geelong...
Nice hide
Thanks SKI Pair

Got caught looking for this one! The teacher was chill and let us continue. Tftc!

Finally found it! We felt so naughty poking around

A security guard beckoned from his clown car
We said we were catching monsters
He drove off satisfied
As did we

Really really cleaver hide!!!! Go to the local school/uni never new haha thank you!!

~PBF

Walking walking round the Uni...a nice place (though after finishing and walking away were asked by a lady if we knew where the residences were as she parked there and become disoriented and wanted to find her car!!). With Trudyjane and Sussex Wanderers - TrudyJane being the one to put her hands on the cache.

Found it! TFTC!

Tftc!

A nice easy find while we were at an event at Fed Uni, at least for me. My daughter still couldn't find it even after I told her exactly where it was.
Thanks for the cache SKI Pair
Hunter

Better when people not around.
With michelleclerks

quick find with Darren 73

19:07 8/07/16. Thanks for a nice little hide ... Easy at night with no muggles, but would have been easier in daylight with glasses on!

TFTC!

Tftc!!

Tftc!

TLC all done and "Entrance" is back in position, waiting to be found

On a maintenance run today, and whilst checking this bloke we realized he needed a bit of TLC. Back on line soon

Thanks for showing us around this uni campus, one we haven't been to before. Thanks for the hide.

Christmas holidays is a good time to look. No muggles around. TNLNSL

Found easy enough with minigeo

Found solo tftc

Nice little hidey spot . Tyftc.

Found with GC.rhi

Back again today and with GPS working better found it within a few minutes. Helps when no muggles around! Tftc found with aburkitt

Wasn't sure whether I was up or down with this one, and being that the uni was extremely quiet a security muggle was a little too interested in us. We fled with out a proper look but will be back!

Found it.
The log book is in great nick.
Well done to the FTF.
tftc

This entry was edited by Billy_Shears on Monday, 19 October 2015 at 13:06:09 UTC.