D2B 27 St Leonards, Victoria, Australia
By deshut on 28-May-15. Waypoint GC5WEZ3

Cutting down on maintenance.

Needs looking at which should occur by the end of May.

DNF

Sadly ... plus mozzies 1 : cachers 0

No luck today.

A DNF for this little black duck here today. A few too many places to check and far too long grass for a D1.5/T1.5

Another DNF for me. Gave it a bit of time but again it wasn't to be. Will watch and see what happens.

Thanks anyway deshut....

B had some cache maintenance to do in Portarlington and a Lego purchase to pick up
In Ocean Grove, so set off with C in that general direction with a 3rd objective of starting to clear through more of the many many unfound caches we have on the peninsula. After starting out in Port we headed across towards D2B and Do You Believe in, chasing some bulk PnG smilies as our find numbers in February are somewhat lower than most other months, and such things come in handy for challenge caches.

We started mid trail on D2B and soon realised quick PnG’s were not going to be the case. Many of this series need some love, we found anything from empty containers with no logs, to damaged containers, to logbooks thats were just paper mush. Fortunately Do You Believe in was better as C’s 7yo patience was starting to wear thin.

Thanks for placing these caches for us to find.

Enjoying this trail of caches on a long weekend.
It was wet and the grass was long in a lot of places which meant I was soaked by the end of the day.
I had to stop at woolies to get extra socks before stopping at the motel for the next days adventures.

Thanks for the cache.

#4287

TFTC

Back down in Geelong again but this time to welcome a brand new family member! So while everyone is still sleeping, and before we head back into the hospital, thought I’d continue on this series, unfortunately in the drizzle…..
A quick drive with the seat belt warning going off, but didn’t go for long, quickly onto this hide, and the drizzle isn’t helping.

Good little hide

Found it

TFTC

The log is a bit wet. Easy to find

Nice quick find for us today!

TNLN
June 25, 2022 3:46 PM
Cache Number: 1433

TFTC HoodedHooligans

Found you but a bit wet.

Paper is damp

??

Good camo

Another quick and easy find.
TFTC

In St Leonard today to attend 2 events. The weather was kind, the crowds were absent, apart from geocachers and for us the caches were plenty as we haven't collected a lot in this area.
I thought I could tick off a number of these before the event but time got away from LL. Headed back after the events to collect some more. A few took a while so moved on.

Was nice to catch up with the CO at the events.

The log was damp but able to write.
Thanks for placing and maintaining deshut.

A nice easy to find cache that blends in well. It’s lovely and quiet here at the moment, all you can hear is the wind whispering through the trees. Reminds me of an Enid Blyton book from my childhood. Just don’t walk too close to the trees. You might get a surprise! TFTC

Too easy

Nicely covered

Found it

Found

Fb

Decided to smash out some caches this cold and foggy Sunday. Thanks for the effort it placing and maintaining such a big series.

Nice easy find

TFTC

Easy find as witnessed by thousands of sheep

A break in the weather is making the task a bit easier. Just hoping it lasts! The boys looked hard for this one before we got to sign the log.

Off on another day caching around the Bellarine Peninsula with our good mate Rebel Acts.
A mixture of trails and other caches. The trails here are a bit of a treat as rather than the preform tubes or similar containers we have generally experienced in the past, most containers are of good size and often are a bit of a feature of the theme in the cache name.
We were racing the weather a bit trying to get in as much as possible before rain set in, but still had to battle showers. Lucky we were prepared.
All in all, another great day caching.

All logs signed with RASP (Rebel Acts, SKI Pair).

TFTC

Quick stop & find

That is two wet, cold, windy nights in a row that we have headed out to pick up a couple of caches. We are realising that streaks are quite difficult to maintain. We stepped off the road onto what we thought was relatively short grass, only to find that it was around mid-thigh-high. Once we were past that initial high grass, it was much more passable, and we eventually found the cache. The GPS and our phones wanted us to head into the nearby paddock by ten meters, but we suspect that the cloud cover was playing funny buggers with the signal. The cache is in excellent condition and in its hiding spot. Thank you deshut for this cache.

I have a free day to go out caching so today I have started out with this power trail. after today I will have found more caches then all of last year..... I loved all the different cache types all I found them all, some logs sheets were wet some caches were out in the open but they are all there. Happy to put a smiley on all these caches. TFTC.

Set of for the arvo to find some caches while the rest of our family and friends were busy at home
Had a young fellow with me so decided to tackle this series so he wouldn't get too bored but he loved them and we did more than I thought we would
Sorry for the genetic message but there was too many to remember each one and I am now logging them back at home
TFTC

Nice easy park & grab. Tftc

Found it with Silence49

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Enjoyed a quick find with no long grass... this series is great

With The ring of Swiss cheese coming down we could now catch up with our Metro Mates, so once again I teamed up with Omegaman1971 and headed to the Geelong area to do some of the many labs and several caches in the area. We had a great time exploring the area.
This was one of the caches we found today.

Thanks deshut for the cache.

Found

Thank you!!

Great find there were a lot of cow muggles. TFTC TNL-Tag and macaroon eraser

Was crouching writing the log when I heard a ute approach and stop. Didn't look up. Friendly voice says oh are you geocaching!!? She had come to make sure I was ok as saw me from the field. Thank you kind farmer lady! And tftc

27 A cool and cloudy Thursday morning. Ideal for a caching bike ride, or so I thought.
time to tackle some more of the D2b trail. Well 24 more finds, 1 Dnf. no lost equipment.
But severely beaten by the Bellarine bombers (mozzies) and when the battery and backup charger both gave up it was time to retreat. "I shall return!"

Thankyou for the series and the adventure. Cheers.

In order to continue my streak doubling my finds to 1000 in 2 months, I decided to visit the Bellarine Peninsula on the other side of Port Phillip Bay for the day.

TFTC deshut

Yay

Nice spot to pull over and see the black cows. Tftc

My first Christmas without anywhere to go. Christmas is a tough day when you don’t have family to spend it with. Decided to make the most of it, and ended up having a wonderful day. Beautiful sunny day, my geowhippet Reggie for company and a stack of caches out there to find. Quick find here. TFTC and Merry Christmas

The other day when we did as far as number 26 we thought that was all there was of this trail, until we returned to the caravan and turned on the computer to see that, in fact, the trail continues and that our download had stopped here. We sometimes wish for the days when we downloaded all caches one by one. We did another pocket query and soon had a load more caches to do. Again, there were some interesting caches, some very long grass, some were hard to find and some easy.
SL TFTC

Nice and easy find with kerydn21

Another smiley face to add to today’s growing list. TFTC SL

Little guy had fun with this one, finding it first tftc

Beng in the general area, thought this would be the ideal time to get some more caches in this series, along with ilook4geo. It was rather sad that there has not been a maintenance run done here for a while as some caches are broken, some need new logs and some containers had water in them. At least there were also some that were OK. Not every log found could be signed as at least one was mush. Thanks go to deshut for this series of caches as they were placed originally.

Went for a caching day with goingplaces2 and did a part of this this trail. Found what we were looking for and added more names to the list of finders. This run needs some attention. TFTC.

Searched a bit for this. Will have to come back on a nicer day.

Tftc

Easy find getting close to 600 and home time. AnsMisty

Found

Found )

Passing on the trusty treadly and made a quick find.

Over in this area tidying up a few green spots on the map that had escaped me when last this way My last visit here was fruitless and with so many DNF logs it seemed to be missing, hence my green spot which was easily rectified Now a happy smile TFTC deshut

Today we found D2B 27 on our travels. Always nice to turn a frown upside down. Last time we were out this way we looked and looked but no joy. Today was different.
Thanks deshut for being part of our geocaching fun.

Found it

Evalyn

Found whilst touring Geelong & Ballarat areas between Xmas & New Year with Freddo, Team Waldron and e.gregory1 - we've signed as F.E.T.T.
Some pretty hot days but great scenery and good co-ords & caches hides made for an enjoyable trip
TFTC deshut

Found at 15:54
Another quick find. Another nice cache.
Thanks deshut

A few days away with Freddo, e.gregory1 and The White Dog Gang.

Fun was had by all. Not too many dnfs

Most logs signed as FETT.

Thanks for all the caches.

The second find and a quick park and grab - lucky to find as soon as we did as the GPS wouldn't narrow down closer than 10mts. tftc

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for a fun cache. We signed the logbook FETT.

Found on a short, post-Christmas sojourn to Victoria with Freddo, Team Waldron and thewhitedoggang that involved plenty of driving, cycling, walking and even some boating and wading.

The weather was on our side (albeit a little warm at times), which made for some great caching. There were plenty of varied finds, with some excellent and often tricky hides and and just a few DNFs. We signed most logbooks ‘F.E.T.T.’

Thanks deshut for the cache.

We are spending a few days on the Bellarine Peninsular before the Christmas rush so have the chance to do this series. Thanks for the series deshut.

Thanks to the long weekend back home, I was able to pop over the ditch for the mega and a ‘few’ caches along the way! I was really after the numbers on this trip, planning to achieve 50+ each of the three days for a challenge – something that is getting much more difficult back home! The weather was great and I had a ball thanks to all the CO’s placing great caches!

Today’s aim was to find some more along power trails and trailets, and a few interesting others. I am so grateful for the variety in the trails! TFTC!!

Nice and easy

A weekend away with FWBs, and introduction to Power trail caching. This is a generic log to help me catch up with the long overdue logging of my found caches. Please note that each cache and location can be remembered but due to time restraints unable to personalize each log. The date logged may also differ to day found. Thank you for sharing this location for us.
JABs.

Found

Find #3630. Found @ 17:14 with The Good Lady Wife.

We're in Portarlington on a getaway, and getting in some caching is a part of that plan. TGLW and I had a plan to combine getting up to our daily tally of steps with walking a caching trail. We decided that this section of road would do. Leap frogging the finds so that we'd have finds in both directions.

I glanced in a location and not seeing anything looked in the wrong spot for too long before returning to my first location and making the find.

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

nice and easy

I'm trying to get as many as possible today, yesterday I got rained upon so am rushing to get this trail finished. Tftc

omegaman1971
4190 Finds
Out and about in the area trying to get some smiles on the map.
Have really enjoyed other caches from this CO recently and this series didn't disappoint.
Cheers for the cache and series.

kenbryl, Sean.75 and I left home this morning in search of caches and adventure down this way. Our plan was to find as many as possible in a specific time frame. And of course, we are doing this series back to front aswell! lol.
Tftc and the series. Logged as Skk

Logged as Skk.
Caching with kenare and kenbryl on an awesome winters day.
Cigc. Tftc. Tnln.

Logged as Skk.
Sean.75, kenare and I headed this way to convert dots to smileys and to see if we could obtain the turtle along the way. TFTC

**"WesPro's Most Misguided 100 In A Day Adventure" Pt 27**
I got cocky with this one, and left the device in the car. Clearly, humble pie is on the menu. Had to go back and get said device before I could make the find. Luckily humble pie is chocolate-flavoured this week.
Thanks heaps, DesHut!

Finally, a winter day where the weather was not horrid and I was up early enough to head out for this series. Enjoyed the series overall - was pleasantly surprised to find that not all caches were the same. As for the pups - Mila got a bit worked up in the car with all the stopping and starting but BJ is used to it! It was too wet and muddy underfoot to let me out anywhere (they just had a groom yesterday). Thanks for the effort to put in the series - its a great numbers run for things like the July souvenirs.
D2B 27: TNLN, TFTC deshut

Find No. 2259. Found with FUF009 at 10.06am

Well what can we say when FUF009 said it all.

We done a day trip to Geelong, some three hours away, and FUF009 came with us.
Our aim for the day was to do the D2B series plus three other caches close by, then the Shepherd's Road series and Do You Believe In ... Series, to get a total of 75 caches for the day to help us get the Hidden Creatures Souvenirs.

Finishing these three trails earlier than expected we then went on the AB4C series, seeing how we had both worked on these puzzles together. We grabbed a few others along the way and at the end of our caching day in the Geelong area, we had clocked up 100 finds. WOW - This is a first for us and a day that we won't forget.

* We got our first cache at 8.59am and our last cache at 4.55pm.
* We had rain at the start that made the roads muddy and changed the colour of our car from red to brown.
* We stopped twice for eats and cuppas - Lunch at D2B 43 at St.Leonards, on the waters edge then again near AB4C #13 at the dead end road.
* An enjoyable caching day was had by all of us despite the weather, plus the day was made less time consuming with well maintained caches therefore no time was wasted on DNF's.

TFTC

Find # 6782

Found with Tyred n Cranky

A day of caching to help out with accumulating enough smileys to try and get closer to the 100 needed for the Hidden Creatures souvenirs.

We started off on the D2B trail where Tyred n Cranky’s Magna changed from a nice red colour to a lovely shade of brown, the true colour for a geocacher's vehicle.
Thankfully the rain had blown away by the time we got down to St Leonards, just leaving the cold wind behind.

After a lunch stop down near D2B #43 we then headed off for the "Shepherd's Road Treasure" series and then to the "Do You Believe In ..." series.
again both the roads added to the colour of Tyred n Cranky’s Magna.

After completing these we realised we had plenty of time left in the day for more and then added to the plans and headed off over to the AB4C puzzle series near Waurn Ponds.

On the way around, for the day, there were a few of extra caches thrown in to the mix, as they were “close by” or on the way.

With a few caches, that took some minutes to locate or get into, But with persistence and patients we managed to make a find on all in the day.

All in all we ended up with a finds totalling just over 100. This is the first time that Tyred n Cranky have made the big 100 in 24 hours. A great fun and memorable day indeed.


TFTC deshut

What else to do when you have the day off work and there are little electronic graphic souvenirs to be gathered? You go caching of course! And you pick a bit of a power trail to ensure collection completion!

Today we are out on a creature hunt. We want to catch all creatures, great and small. But to do that we must hunt caches first, so off we go. Thanks for the cache deshut
With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

Out today on a windy Wednesday to grab a bunch of caches for the Hidden Creatures souvenir. A quick find after no joy on the previous. TFTC deshut

Quick find TFTC!

We're out today hunting for Hidden Creatures and decided on this power trail as the way to go. Thanks for bringing us here.

Tftc

Day out with sassieold55, we took advantage of a lovely winters day to do this series Tftc

Out for a day's caching with blingg. Jumped out of the car in between rain showers
TFTC

It’s so green now after the rain. My heart sings. TFTC

Out for the day to get this series, found all but one
TFTC

Finally got back to grab this one
TFTC

Another easy find TFTC