[SL] - Distant Views Bradford, Victoria, Australia
By Team_Ninja on 02-May-15. Waypoint GC5TMJT

Time to let this one go

I'm not sure what's wrong with this one as the previous finders haven't elaborated on what is wrong other than it being 'broken'. I suspect it's just the camo and the cache is fine. However I am stuck inside Melbourne due to COVID restrictions so cannot check on the cache. If someone else sees this log and is able to check on it for me it would be much appreciated.

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Hi there AussieTrainDriver,

One or more logs indicate that this cache appears to be in need of owner intervention, so it is being temporarily disabled. This is to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location until the issues/s with this cache are investigated/addressed.

Whilst it is recognized that as a result of the current Covid-19 situation, it might not be possible for a Cache Owner to just pop out and check on a cache straight away, we still need to know that you are on top of the issue. Caches where the cache owner does not currently feel it is safe to maintain will not be archived in the normal time frame, as long as there is some indication from the CO.

**You do need to respond within 14 days, so others know you are on top of it, as well as indicating exactly what is happening with this cache. Please don't let a lack of communication kill this placement.**

#What you should do now:-#
- Should you feel it safe for you to maintain and address this cache now, AND your regional Health and Governmental authorities allow it, please feel free to do so.

- **Alternatively,** what you need to do is place a 'Write Note' log indicating an expected date when you you hope you might be able to attend to the issue/s.
**The Write Note log should be placed within 14 days.**

#Please Note#
When a Reviewer next looks in on this cache, if there is no acknowledgment from the CO as requested above, the Reviewer will assume the cache has been abandoned and process accordingly.

Bunjil

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TFTC . Cache is broken needs maintenance

Sorry to inform you the cache is broken need maintenance

Great idea for a hide!

Very clever hide.

So this one hasn't been found since last year.
Despite it being home to bugs and a spider nest, everything is in good condition. Not keen on baby spiders running everywhere though.. Tftc.

Thanks

Quick easy find. Few creepy crawlers. Another good hide. TFTC ️

Novel hiding spot

Sore thumb experimental. Lol. TFTC

We headed out for a day trip and decided this area was a great quiet location.
The winter day we got was just amazing, sunny and a delight to be geocaching in.
Thank you for placing this geocache for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14.
We had a week to do some day trips in the school holidays and came here and found this geocache.
It was great fun thanks for hiding it for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I had a great time in the area finding geocaches.
It was a nice way to spend some school holiday days.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find!

Another good hide 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.
With the distant views to admire while we made the find, we added our name to the logbook and noted your experiment is working wonderfully!
Thanks AussieTrainDriver for highlighting this historic railway line.

Nice view but don’t blink or you will miss it

**Find #: 6586**
**Time: 2:44 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 6 caches for the day and 1697 for the trip. TFTC

Little bit trickier to find with a gps bouncing around in the wind... thanks for the hint.. good hide although lots of cockroaches loved it too!

Found

TFTC. Quick find while out with my daughter Sue.

The last for the day

Found

Tftc nice container

A much cooler morning in Maldon after much rain overnight. We thought to find some more of the SL series before we head home to Wangaratta. We didn’t have to look far to spot something unusual here. SL at 9.47am Took: duck #6189 TFTC AussieTrainDriver

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

A quick grab and we were on our way on this interesting run of caches thanks Team_ninja.

Stared at a fence post for absurdly long. Good hide. There may be sheep on the road when getting there.

A nice creation here.
Looks natural when returned properly and very nicely done.
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.
No flashing lights or boo gates at this railway crossing, a lot quieter roads back then.
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.

Thanks for another find. I can go home happy to have found my 60th cache. Yes, I’m a newbie. TFTC

Nice hide, thanks for the journey

Tftc

Found out with wildnic26, beautiful day to play hookie.

tftc quick easy find

We are on a road trip with the aim of getting out of Melbourne for a few hours. We came out this way collecting some sudoku numbers for a certain wherigo.
Thanks for placing [SL] - Distant Views so we could find it. Cache was all good.
Thanks AussieTrainDriver for the caching fun.

Always great to find something a little different with the cache hide. Hide had a gathering of cockroaches today, but they generously moved aside to let me enter the cache. All in good condition.

Tarrengower,,,19/8/17 TFTC

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

A quick find here. The forcast rain had started so we did not hang arround to gaze at distant views. Next time we are in Bendigo we will come back for another look.

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

A quick find at another crossing of the line
I guess dogs used to travel on trains too,
back in the day

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 11.40am. Another clever hide! I'm getting some lovely photos whilst doing this series. Thank you for the cache Team Ninja

#529

Found with Tassydevil. Novel construction. Thanks

Another in the SL series. Out with Bill Gosse. TFTC

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.

We wished we could have seen just one steam train on this old line, if only the trees could talk, what great tales they could tell.

Another good find while exploring around the area. SL TFTC

Thanks for the good hides.

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.

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

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

Horsing around. 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.

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

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!

Found at 15:09
On a road trip with “SAW STUFF”: Shonky Astro, Waldron，SXC, TWDG，Uni， Freddo， Four Fun
Thanks Team_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 had to expand the search a fair bit on this one the trees must have been playing havoc with the signals.

TFTC Team_Ninja

Out geocaching with the Sisterhood on Bendigo Cup Day. Hating the bloody mosquitos everywhere. Views were pretty nice though. Especially with everything so lovely and green at the moment. TNLNSL TFTC
~ Crazy Creels

Nice views, quick find. TFTC

Find #1079 for me. Two horses in the adjacent paddock were very curious and came right up to me as I made a quick find. Thanks for the cache Team_Ninja!

Clever hide another of the series found. We are enjoying the series on such
a lovely day. Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Thought i was looking at a loaf of bread for a moment. TFTC

Yay

A nice hide here, seem sin good condition still. Thanks for the hide.

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

Found with emthegem, wickedfizz and goamigo. Enjoyed the cache container. Tftc.

Found at 1505. Such a beautiful area and really interesting history. Used to drive around here often. Found with my new Geogirl TNLN 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. Another nifty camo job, well done. 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!

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

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

I almost got over-run by muggles here - they came from everywhere. Not at all sure what they thought of me.

Found at 4.50pm. Another awesome container. Tftc. I love this series.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Team Ninja [^]

The first of 2 interesting containers that really stand up well to the elements. Easy find and onto the next one.
Cheers

10:37
Following the line from Shelbourne to Maldon - what an intriguing story, which the detailed cache notes really brought to life! We enjoyed the distant views and the experimental hide is certainly a winner, both for the ants and the geocachers! Ants had developed a nest with hundreds of eggs between the two "containers", which we unfortunately destroyed as we accessed the log.

Our thanks to Team_Ninja for bringing us to this location.
13905

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 1225. A change in terrain here. Our thanks to Team_Ninja.

Easy to find

Nice hide

Nice quick find on a beaut sunny day. Enjoyed the slow drive along the dirt roads for this one. TFTC. TNLN (forgot my "cache goodie bag" )

Find No. 950. Found with FUF009 at 1.55pm

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.

Another quick grab on the trail with interesting camo. A trail that we are enjoying very much.

Took thong keyring - Left orange car.

TFTC

Find # 2290 @ 1355 H

Found with Tyred n Cranky

After having a look at the Maldon Swap meet in the morning and spending a little time in the township and also being able to see the Steam train leave the Station. We decided to take a longer way home to grab the caches along the [SL] trail. Earlier in the year I had taken a day to grab the earlier placed ones but was happy to revisit them as Tyred n Cranky made these finds.

The last one on this short series for me today. and once again it was good to see a good sized and well stocked container. a interesting bit of cammo covering this one.


TFTC Team_Ninja

A freezing start to winter, but nice to be out and about to make a few finds. 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 eighth 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!) Beautiful views indeed!

TFTC!

Found by Roma and Max.
We have been looking forward to another in this interesting series of yours and this one was located even closer to our home base.
It is a pity that this line is pretty much all on private property as these old abandoned lines make great walking and cycling trails.
It was Romas turn to find your well stocked container and we both admired the camo, it worked well for us.
Thanks again Team Ninja.
Cheers,
from Romax.

Published

found it.
TFTC