Quotation Mark(s) = “; Symbol Series Mount Helen, Victoria, Australia
By BallaratGeocachers on 23-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5PZGJ

missing

We found the spot and lid to geo but geo was missing maintenance needed

We have just read the previous logs but have not had any issues with the cache containers. SL TFTC

Found the lid only

Found today at 1511.
Nice easy find but a muggle had been at the cache.
Was open and empty.
Found the stash note and some items up the path but no log book.
I don't have my usual cache bag with me so cannot replace.
Placed an animal card I found as a temporary measure.
Tftc
Vkc1sr

Great spot! Thank you!

Cache found to be all in good order. Though lid not completly secure due to swag that doesn't fit In the container.

Easy find onward we go

Awesome swaps

Number 5 to the old man! Well done, and thanks for the series, is fun way to get up a hill with kids

TFTC

Epic find

Tftc

Our last day in Ballarat we decided to try to finish up this Symbol series. But unfortunately that was not to be.

Found with [@itsonlybarney](http://coord.info/PRJWE36) and [@HubbyandMrs](http://coord.info/PRREKMT). Quick and easy find, TFTC.

**Total find count: 501**

With a target to finish the Symbol Series (or what remains of it), we were hoping for a full set of smilies. Unfortunately it wasn't to be.

Quick little find exactly as I had imagined as we approached GZ. Container & log are in good condition.

**TFTC BallaratGeocachers**

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The following TBs and Geocoins helped with the search to find the hidden cache:
* Miniature Itsonlybarney
* GeocachingNSW 2016 Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2017 Geocoin
* Geocache Talk Geocoin
* Planetary Pursuit Micro Geocoin
* Geocoin Club Jan 2015 - Rescue Coin
* Geocoin Club May 2018 - Blodeuwedd
* OzGeomuster 2018 Geocoin
* Col Miner HAVOC Geocoin
* Geocoin Club June 2018 - Illumination
* Caching Under the Moon
* Geocoin Club July 2018 - Dive Deep
* Geocache Talk Blackout Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2018 Geocoin

Found whilst out caching on holidays with @itsonlybarney and @crzymelly
A nice series to see the area. TFTC

Found it

On our way home from an event in Ballarat this morning. We were looking for a way that wasn't along the main highway and this was our choice. Nice little series that would have been better approached from the opposite direction. Found all we looked for except one. Thanks for the placing of this series and bringing us to an area that we hadn't, until now, visited.

Found it. Tftc

Found. Nice walk

Grabbed this whilst out on a trip today with SnapHappy and Woz for the drive. Caching today on the #roadto100
TFTC

“Easy find”

Found today as we were enjoying the winter sunshine finding a few caches around Buninyong and Mt Helen. All but one were soon found and signed. Thank you for the series along this path, which has been beckoning for a long time and, as of today, will be a line of smiles!

Another quick find for Surefoot24 and me, whilst our very affable chauffeur Darren is obligingly finding safe places to park for our safety.
Thanks for our second in the series, I do hope they don’t get archived before we can complete what is left of them.

Which side of track should we look for the cache? We each took a side and Cybergran made the find this time. We found the maps in this area pretty inaccurate as well. Roads often turned out to be walking and cycling tracks instead of car thoroughfares, so we sometimes had to walk a bit further than expected, so they weren’t all the Park and grab types caches we were looking for at this time of the day. That’s our problem.

We walked to this one from our previous parking spot and found a spot with plenty of camo around. TFTC

Easy find. Lovely path to take a stroll, even on a Wintry day! TFTC

Found on a chilly walk to Buninyong. Thanks.

Find #3384. Found @ 15:16 with The Good Lady Wife.

We're in Ballarat to help the in-law's out on a holiday. The bribery to get me on board with this plan was some caching.

Leaving the kids at the accommodation, The Good Lady Wife and I went for a combination of caching and getting steps. Parking nearby and the doing every other cache on the way out, and the remainder on the way back. A nice quick find of the first find of the series for me.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache BallaratGeocachers

**Found whilst in Ballarat for a couple of Events**.

*Out and about with The Empire*.

A thoroughly enjoyable day with some great caches, some not so great music and many laughs.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment BallaratGeocachers. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#12646**

Cache-On!

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
A day in Ballarat, attending a CITO at Warrenheip Creek and afternoon tea at Eureka. With caches being archived rapidly along the 'Symbol' Series, we took this good opportunity to head down and pick up the caches that are left. Snap parked whilst I jumped and grabbed the caches I could along the trail. Thanks for the cache, and the series BallaratGeocachers.
- M

Nice spot (again) in typical geo-mode searching... lol
T: card L: marble
Signed log.

A quick find on Sunday morning. Tftlc

Find #1644 for me. Found at 3:20 pm on one of my regular trips to Ballarat from Bendigo. This was a quick find for me with the cache and contents dry and in good condition. Thanks for the cache and the series BallaratGeocachers!

Found it

Quick walk from a nearby cache to grab this one.
TFTC!

Cache number 4 today with curlycee. TFTC.

Well this was rather a large place for the cache container. Unfortunately it was time to go home but we hope to return some time in the future to finish this great series that we have so enjoyed doing. We will give you a fav for all the hard work in planning and all the implementations that followed to do this series - we have really appreciated it - thank you all.
TFTC BallaratGeocachers.

"A fun cache find on me bike ride today"
"Maybe I should use more of these ??"
"TFTC"

"You can quote me on that !!" [:o)]

Found at 11:12 AM GAFF1 on a "get our Terrain average up to 1.8 weekend". Which means no Terrain caches below 2.0 for a while
Oh how I miss-use quotation marks. I use them all the time and don't really know if they are appropriate or not. I sometimes use them to separate a word from the text I'm writing to highlight the word. Is that appropriate?
Thanks BallaratGeocachers.

10237 Found and Logged at 7:52:00 AM
One of 17 cachers on ma last day in Ballarat
Finaly some nice weather
Thanks For The Cache BallaratGeocachers
Lgoody

Found @ 8:48pm

Need to keep going so this is my last one of these for today. Enjoying the series and the exercise TFTC

Got it

In a big log

TFTC

Found it after CITO
thanks BG for the Symbol Series cache

Found by Mary & David at 1405. Parked in a side street as close as possible and walked to this one. A nice easy one. Our thanks to BallaratGeocachers.

Found tftc, a themed cache set.

A beautiful afternoon caching thought I'd make a start on the symbol series. Nice hide TFTC

Sadly we did not have enough time to pick up all the caches in this series today. As we are travelling and are vehicle based, it was interesting sometimes finding somewhere to park. We managed to find most of the series and had some fun along the way. Thank you to BallaratGeocachers for placing and maintaining the caches.

Completed today with FerociousFlea.
Found on our Christmas Eve caching day in and around Ballarat..
Quick find as we worked our way back to Ballarat along the Symbols Series Trail.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with Beaker on a camping and caching trip in and around Ballarat. Thanks

Quick found. Tftc

Been in Victoria for three weeks walking the Great Ocean Walk (100k) and the Goldfields Track (200k). Collected / found numerous caches along the tracks and nearby towns. TFTC.

TFTC Ballarat Geocachers. "Found it" Jimmytherat with Noelle04.

Another quick find with Jimmytherat. Long time since I've waded through grass this long. TFTC

The search for this cache started out simple enough. ..park the car, walk down the track and follow the icon on the map. Easy!
But with the gps leading me on a wild goose chase from road signs where previous searchers were led, to trees and tree stumps, it ended not so straightforward.
But i got to the correct GZ in the end where then i was almost muggled by a walker coming from the other direction!
Eventually the log was quickly signed and i was on my way!
Tftc

With a 10.30pm start in Geelong we started this series just after midnight. Not too far into the series and our feet are wet, luckily we are tough and soldier on.

found, we are in for a long night, my feet are wet right through the shoes lol

tftc

I'm trying to do a "100 caches in a day" challenge. This was find #40 (Woot). Thanks heaps, BallaratGeocachers!

"Found it"

Found it. Parked mid way between ? And this one. 2 quick grabs.

Found a good parking spot nearby, so all very good. TFTC

found with geniejoan

Geocache 12

Found with Emthegem. Tftc.

Found with TeamLauren. Thanks for the cache.

Found

One of our targets for this visit to the Ballarat area was the Symbol Series. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks BallaratGeocachers for the cache and the series.

Found on a caching trip to Ballarat with Freddo and Team Waldron, after finishing the BSRT trail we decided to drive around and grab a few more caches, "interesting" TFTC

Heading over to Ballarat for a caching weekend and picking up a few caches on the way.

We managed to find about 230 caches in 3 days not bad work for 3 old guys

Another series of caches in Ballarat that boosted the numbers.

We weren't sure how we would be able to get to these but we mangaged most by car with just a couple of shortish walks.

Thanks for an excellent series.

TFTC

"Freddo"
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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It was a battle over this one but it was my turn to be successful...

Today Dunko and I headed to Ballarat with the intention of reaching and passing 9000 finds,
our mile stone was met what a great day of caching fun we had with 69 terrific caches found during our travels many thanks to BallaratGeocachers for the effort and placement of this cache. TNLN SL

Set off today with my caching buddy Slink1 to try and reach a mile stone number (9000) and I am pleased to say that we made that number and a few past (to be sure we counted correctly!). This cache was found as part of our effort to reach our milestone and my thanks go to BallaratGeocachers for the placement and maintenance of this cache. We had a lot of fun and some laughs along the way.
TNLN TFTC

2:20:00 PM. We decided to get out and pick up a few caches today as it was going to get warm. A nice walk and found cache. Log signed. Thanks BallaratGeocachers for placing this cache.

We were in Ballarat this morning as my sister and I competed in a triathlon. Afterwards we did some shopping then ditched Dad and eldest sister at the movies while becca85/Mum, boo09 and I did some caching including part of the Symbol series. Back for the rest another day. TFTC

An arvo caching with neisha07 & becca85 after some shopping.
Lots of fun caching in Ballarat this arvo. TFTC!

In Ballarat for a Triathlon for the kids, husband decided he wanted t check out the new Zoolander. I had no interest but was very happy to drop him off and do some caching!
Dumped him and the eldest Geo-child off and neisha07, boo09 and I headed out to Buninyong to get some of this series. We started at Buninyong and did as many as we could before we got the call to pick up from the cinema. Will be back for the rest sometime soon.

It was at this point that we were summoned to collect the others, bugger it, they can wait while we do just one more!
TFTC

We made the drive over to Ballarat with the main purpose of completing the Symbol Series of caches. To make it easier logistically, we were advised to start at Buninyong so we kept all the caches on the left of the road in case we decided to stop with the car at any close ones.

There was parking at the first few caches and we took advantage of it when we could, others we parked where we could and walked back or to caches, sometimes getting two while walking was easiest..

TFTC BallaratGeocachers

Find No. 1286. Found with FUF009 at 5.14pm.

A trip down to Ballarat, and after we had completed what we had do, including a bit of shopping, we decided to tackle the Symbol Series. We done it on foot starting at Mount Clear and enjoyed the walk along this path finding caches as went. Most of the finds on our journey were quick and easy and were a variation of hides.

TFTC

Find # 2826

Another Day in Ballarat for my usually Doc Appointment, but today I was travelling with Tyred n Cranky.
after a bit shopping and having the arvo clear, we decided to finish off the Symbol Series as we had mad a couple of finds on it while the Road Cycling Nationals were on in Buninyong.
Started the walk from Mount Clear and made the first grab at 1555 H and got the Final of the series (21 caches later) at 1742 H

TFT Series BallaratGeocachers

12th for a cool day in Ballarat and surrounds

TFTC

Another find while out caching today
#2678 T4 TC:)

Found in the company of Biggles Bear on a day's caching in Ballarat.

My thanks to BallaratGeocachers for the cache.

Found 2:41:00 PM, whilst out with Muzza for our first joint caching expedition for 2016. Today we headed to Ballarat to allow Muzza to complete his terrain/difficulty grid.

TNLN, thanks BallaratGeocachers (F=5 H=54).

TFTC Out chasing smiles again this evening.

Out for an evening stroll and geokid age 5 soon had this one in hand. Took nothing, left nothing. Tftc

Found

Great to log this find. Thanks BallaratGeocachers.

Found during a stop-over in Ballarat on our way to Melbourne for the week. Thanks for the cache BallaratGeocachers!

A quick and easy find as we walked along the pathway to Buninyong. All down hill for us from here! Thanks BallaratGeocachers.

Another great find while in the area. SL - thanks for the fun cache!

Found with The Drovers and Team Crackers while visiting the area. We were doing quite well on this series with only a couple of exceptions.

We started this series back on Anzac day when we were up here for the event but unfortunately the heavy rainfall that day chased us inside. Today we joined forces with Alansee and The Drovers to try again. Fortunately a conversation with a local team the day before had us going mostly downhill which made for a nice easy ride.
All the caches we looked for were found fairly quickly except for Equals which we couldn't locate so we returned after lunch and it was then found in the first place we checked.
It's funny how many times that happens.
We apologise for the generic log but we were having that much fun riding and finding we can't really remember which one was which but we did enjoy the whole series.
Many thanks Shamus for putting this trail out, it was a great way to find some cache whilst having an enjoyable ride.

Day 2 camped at Creswick with Alansee and Team Crackers, we headed out to grab some caches.
We found a mixture of bike trails, walks and drive by's, which made a fun day.

Most caches were found after a short search, some a little trickier.
Many thanks for placing this series of caches, BallaratGeocachers, for us and others to find.


This entry was edited by The Drovers on Monday, 23 November 2015 at 11:25:53 UTC.

After visiting Mt Buninyong we decided to collect a few smilies on our way back into Ballarat. Pity we didn't have time to walk more of the trail. Thanks for placing this series.

Nice quick find on this lovely track, this is our last find as time is getting away from us and I need to visit a friend but I will be back to finish the series one day. TFTC