#2 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Heathcote Junction, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 19-Sep-15. Waypoint GC5YJP2

Found by caughtatwork on 23/11/2024 at 7:41:00 AMA quick caching morning on a day that was very warm and will become even warmer.Took nothing, left nothing.Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.*Overall Experience: 3*GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another day of adventure with doddlingalong. A bit chilly but so good to be out of the city. Thought we would give this collection a start and see how many we can collect. TFTC

Out for another day of adventures with carmlee1, quick find and on we go

Thank you

Found it well hiddden

Found in good condition.

FiundWent out for a drive with the family and did a few of the geocaches in the series of dads driving lessons.Weather was spot onThanks for the caches.

Found

2nd time finding it didnt give smiling face first time

Out and about today just grabbing a few caches to add to my collection. Quick find thanks.

Trying to keep up with the Jones in the Cosmic Quest!Many thanks carkisser for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.Greetings from Tatura, Australia

Accompanied with theashleys7 for caching day at Mt Disappointment. We enjoyed our journey to find the caches and some DNFs. Weather was freezing in the morning and nice in the afternoon. Found it and logged as KASA24 as a team. Thanks Carkisser for placing the cache

Logged as KASA24 as kangas11 and I both had a huge day today caching together at Mt Disappointment and writing our team name instead of both our caching usernames saved us time. I did the driving while kangas11 did the finding & writing in the logbooks. Tomorrow back to Mt Disappointment for more and well be swapping our roles. TFTC Carkisser!

thanks

#2 TFTC, SL at 14:34

On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. Day 41/74, Saturday. Today, I decided to do some trail caching and headed to the Mount Disappointment area. I searched quite a big number of caches today. Some of them I simply skipped, due to various reasons: there were some DNF's and I could not be bothered - the place was too "bushy" or otherwise unpleasant, or I did not find the cache in less than a minute (which was my limit for patience today). I knew I would only get a fraction of the caches anyway, so it made no sense to try to get each and every one of them systematically. So, I was a bit lazy. Most of the caches today were found very quickly and I had a lot of fun.Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Day off today so thought wed head out & gather some smiles. Quick park & sign. TFTC

Eccoci di nuovo a Melbourne, lasciata la costa, alloggeremo in citt, con NitiFlex la visiteremo in parte camminando in parte con il monopattino, personalmente resto stupito dalla vivacit e dai tanti parchi tenuti come fossero giardini.Ci aspettano tante cache e Lab a non finire.Oggi usciamo dalla citt, destinazione la cache nascosta a ottobre 2000 manca a entrambi, un emozione vederla, la trattiamo come una reliquia, in Europa questo mese non c', o si viene in Australia o negli States.Era uno degli obiettivi della nostra vacanza.Trovata la vecchietta puntiamo a questo trail, da noi tante regular non ci sono, un occasione ghiotta e non ce la facciamo sfuggire.Purtroppo registreremo tanti DNf, sostituiremo alcuni book e anche nuove box dove lo spoiler sicuro, per i box per le sostituzioni finiranno, servirebbe una manutenzione generale.Siamo abituati ai trail in giro x l'Europa ne abbiamo fatti tanti, x me un divertimento.Saremo fortunati, troveremo erba tagliata da pochi giorni, in un tratto troveremo i mezzi proprio al lavoroCi firmeremo 2024 NETFTCSaluti dall'Italia

Finalmente con Eletab sono arrivate le nostre vacanze in Australia e New Zealand.1 e 2 GiornoViaggio davvero lungo, pi di 18000 km da casa in linea d'aria !!!Appena arrivati affrontiamo una Traditional per ottenere il badge ma poi alziamo subito la posta con una multi ma la stanchezza prende il sopravvento e abbandoniamo velocemente per uscire a cena.La vera caccia inizia solo domani..3 GiornoCi svegliamo presto e abbiamo 2 ore e mezzo prima di colazione per cui i primi 10000 passi volano cos. A fine giornata arriviamo a farne le quattro volte di piu' (39.000). Abbiamo visitato un mercato di prodotti alimentari locali e esplorati 3 bellissimi parchi. 4 GiornoOggi abbiamo deciso di provare a usare i monopattini. Io non posso reggere un numero tale di passi per due settimane.... Una figata, io sono abituato ma Elio si comporta divinamente e per me se lo comprer hihihi. Nonostante questo arriviamo a oltre 20000....5 Giornomattina presto ci facciamo 2 ore e mezza di monopattino in giro per Lab poi partiamo per Dunedin per cercare le cache storiche che ci interessano. Qualche sosta obbligatoria a cache di elevato valore statistico allietano il viaggio !!! 6 GiornoTorniamo a Christchurch ma prima un'altra Novembre 2000 a Dunedin. Nel tragitto facciamo un po' di belle soste all'HQ di Steampunk e Moeraki.Domani all'alba partiamo per l'Australia... Iniziamo una nuova avventura!!!7 GiornoAereo OK Auto OK SIM Australia semi OK. Partiamo carichi come molle ma ben presto ci rendiamo conto che il traffico dati difficilissimo. Zone scoperte?!? Boh. Adesso in paese vicino ai Twelve Apostles tutto funziona bene.8 GiornoPartiamo con calma e dopo una buona colazione ci dirigiamo piano piano verso Melbourne percorrendo una buona parte della Ocean Road !! Ci fermiamo per alcune tappe programmate ma anche a sentimento.... Ricordiamoci che siamo in vacanza !!!!9 GiornoOggi abbiamo Ottobre 2000 in programma e un PowerTrail da fare in auto di regular, per Elio sar una faticaccia ma a lui questi posti piacciono da morire !!!About this cache:impossibile, per me, fare un log diverso di ogni cache. Un mega ringraziamento a chi ha "seminato" tutte queste scatole per questi bellissimi boschi !!!Firmato con la sigla "2024 NE" !!! (NitiFlex e Eletab)Thanks Owner

Very clever ! Thanks for find number 53!

Tftc

28/12/23During our short lived stay at home holiday, Mr h and I decided to head back out and try to finish the TWC series, however, we find ourselves a bit out of practice.After gather a multi in Whittlesea, we had a look on the map and decided that we haven't done any of the Mt Disappointment caches!With Mr H still sore and recovering from recent surgery, we needed something stimulating, yet not too demanding on the body. We found ourselves very thankful for the (so far) paved roads, and the close Proximity of parking to each cache, making this trail the perfect balance we needed!Cache: In good condition, easy to findTFTC!!!!HoodedHooligans (H.H.)

Find#6011Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022 Thanks for the cache

This one was out in the open so I covered it after signing the log. TFTC

Thankyou

A trip to this region of the Australia was planned. In order to search and find a few caches here, various caches were dragged onto the Garmin. When we got here we saw a nice power trail. Without further ado, we organized various groceries to make ends meet. Filled up the rental car again and off we went.Our 4 WD-Truck is ready for this trip!After some time of starting this challenge, we came across here as well. We had to search a little longer for one or the other cache.Thanks to the owner for laying, caring for and guiding. TFTCKind regards from Germany ????

Had to look in a couple places until we spotted it. TFTC

Haha easy stop and pickup

nice quick tftc

Quick find. TFTC

Another quick find thanks

Quick and easy park and grab

Another find

After a planned Saturday of geocaching around Lancefeild and sourounds, we found ourselves finishing up the day in Wallan. As a joke, I said to Mrs 4wd that we should just go to Dissa and camp the night and smash out the few caches we had DNFs on the power trail that had since been replaced.
Next minute, we were off into the bush and set up camp at Campsite #1 ahh the freedom of a rooftop tent and having the 4wd set up for such spontaneous decisions.. Caching is way more fun than the day I had planned to catch up at work.
I'm happy to have finished off this series
Tftc

Found it. TFTC. Trackable listed as in container not present

1st for the day as a Jeep was parked near number 1. We are aiming to get the winter solstice souvenir and keep our streak going by doing a few Driving Lesson caches today.

Beautiful view!

Moved to Hurstbridge 6 months ago and haven't really done any geocaching in the area, in fact, I've not done a lot since I left Bendigo a few years ago, So, today I decided to go for a drive and boost my finds by starting the Mt Disappointment Driving Series of caches.

My second in the series.

Trying to complete some caches to get to 2000 for first anniversary of caching. Here at Mt Disappointment to do some of this series.
Thanks for the cache carkisser

FYI no trackable present.

Tree is only a double now! One of the triplets is on the ground. Very tricky to park.

We started a few in this series on our way home to Rutherglen from Portsea! Yes, it’s a big detour, but isn’t that what geocaching is about?!

Although the roadside parking was a bit hairy at times, we were able to stay safe.

Thanks.

Harder but I love the spot

Clue was a little non representative but easy find on an extremely windy day

TFTC

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Can’t imagine a four hour driving lesson would be fun but this cache sure was. Can’t wait to do the entire series! TFTC

I was here for the Whittlesea mega and today I had planned to do other caches in another area on my bicycle but in view if the potential for inclement weather The Mt Disappointment Trail was Plan B. With Plan B in action I was initially pleased with the road which I had expected to be narrow and unsealed.

More to come

This was my second stop, but the road was quite busy, and the following few didn't have many places to stop. The rain wasn't helping either, so I decided to leave the others for another day.

The goal was 400 in a day—a pretty big task. But with Mt Disappointment and the Power Trail, it was a possibility. We started strong and hoped to find a high percentage of this excellent series. Unfortunately, it was a Mountain of Disappointment as the geomobile did not appreciate idling and travelling at very low speed as much as we did. It let us know the gearbox was not happy, so we had to pull the pin after 130 finds.

We did have the pleasure of seeing a range of Australian wildlife, one roo, several wallabies and four wombats, which it pretty cool.

We apologise for the generic log, as we prefer not to write them. We have some time pressures and cannot write 130 different logs.

All caches were found in excellent t condition unless otherwise noted.

Thank you, carkisser & JSando, for this long series of Traditional caches. We will be back to finish the series in the future.

Had planned to do the first 15 to work towards a challenge back home, but the weather, long grass, soft edges and a bunch of cars racing to get out of the elements made this run a little more difficult than it would be under usual circumstances- had to settle for just the first 2 today. Perhaps another time.

LTF

Twas the night before mega
With dark night and cold air
Off we go caching
late nights do not scare.

Kangaroos are of plenty
Five wombats we did see
How many caches will we get?
One? Maybe two or three.

Great company with Dromaniax,
Lucky we had a stamp
Plenty of caches were found here
Some good, some old, some damp.

Thank you

Found this while attending the Whittlesea mega.
Depending on the log size and who I was with this is signed as nikid1, ND1 or TQ5 (team Queensland).
I had spied this series up north as it will help with a local challenge cache.
Was wondering if this would be doable with all the recent rain but with teamwork we could leave someone in the car where we couldn’t get over enough while others searched. One DNF for us the rest where found fairly easily.

TFTC carkisser

Friday and there is so much to do around town, in the hills and in the adjoining districts, where to start. I will say that despite the changing weather conditions every 9 minutes, this has not dampened my look on this area. It is fantastic and such a great little main street and with so much going on. A plan was set for today and with my caching buddies off we went, chasing caches all over the place. There are some fantastic views from up in those hills. We got in some great caches today and covered a very large area of caches, thanks to all who put these out.

We started with some of the challenge caches and a drive around the area doing some labs and the Mt. Disappointment caches. We were unable to check out some caches due to works being conducted in the areas, so we will have to come back another time.
There were a few events on in the Melbourne areas, so we planned our times around those.

We did these caches as a team, which worked out great for our days plans. Thanks for the great caches today, we signed as TQ5 or as individuals at the events.

Adventure boys!
We found in peace.
#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#2 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
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16 November 2022

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In the spirit of reconciliation I would like to acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Found and signed dsd or darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the Adventure

I was in Whittlesea again today on Mega business and while heading out into the mountains I stopped to grab a couple of this series to add to my list.

The cache was in good condition.

Thanks carkisser for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to find.

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Spending the day grabbing the rest of these Mt Disa caches quick grab here. TFTC

Easy

With FullMetalTEAM

2 down. The little one found this and was very proud!

Quick down the road to the second one for my grandson.
This time he knew exactly what we were after and with the cache container being the same, Nathan quickly found this by himself.
Another car in the cache to add to the treasure.

Easy !!

Not very good hide just sitting in a patch of grass moved it under a tree

Leaving Melbourne at lunch I decided to hit this trail and attempt my 150 in 24hrs challenge. Probably better tried on long summer days I had to take this opportunity on ny way home to Canberra with the right amount of time to myself to give it a shot. Tomorrow will tell the tale of success or not.

Cache was in plain sight.

21/05/2022 16:43 May 21, 2022 16:43 first find after 2 fails. Was starting to think I had lost my touch entirely. TFTC carkisser & JSando TNLN SL TFTC carkisser TNLN SL

We found it, I kept the little one in the car, while the boys went and had a look

TFTC

Found easily! TFTC, TRB.

Off to a good start, kids fighting to find the treasure Scored a travel bug, will pick up and drop later. TFTC

I have been intending to have a go at finding the caches on this iconic geocaching route for a while now. Today was the day, well to make a start anyway .. generally the coords and hints were spot on, unfortunately a small number of the caches we found were a bit damp but I still managed to make my mark…next time I will bring spares. We were surprised with the amount of people here, dirt bike riders, shooters 4WDers and campers… and of course geocachers. A few caches we had to give a miss due to muggle activity but got them on the way back. Apologies in advance for the generic logs! Thanks to carkisser and JSando for the series .. I can’t imagine how much work was put into the series .. much appreciated! We will be back to get the rest.. but maybe not on Easter weekend

Thanks - enjoying the drive

Tftc

Easy find

TFTC nice easy one

Found today at10.16 am I think every one should be taught to drive here wish I had been.
Log signed and returned.
Thanks for the placement

Found

Easy park and find!!!

TFTC

Great hide Tftc
Vale Bert Newton

Nice view! Perfect weather for caching!

Found it! Took nothing and put nothing

Found

Great day out with Bogonghazy on our way to Mansfield. Goal was to find 200 caches and we did.
Beautiful day and thank you for placing the caches. Will be back to finish them off.

Tftc, #2 for the day with lilbassgirl

Tftc, found with fourtwelve. Due to recent storms, tree was damaged and no longer a triple tree (and was exposed). Cache still in good condition and no damage to cache

Just popped in for a few quick ones today

TFTC with Kim 123

TFTC found with wasp1997

Easy

Nice sunny weather and surely it can’t last So headed back into the forest from a different direction. Fab fun exploring this territory and a relaxing caching day. Shared the trails with dirt bikes, domestic loggers, and sightseers.

I wasn’t looking for huge numbers ‘tho the finds started to pile up after lunch. Having said that, a couple of sneaky hides had me spinning in circles As I’ve said before about this PT, the hides are consistent, good coords and hints Rounded out the day with a visit to Broadford to give the car a hose down before returning to Yea. I should sleep well tonight.

Not to get logging as keen to see what’s left on the map

TFTC carkisser and JSando

We decided to try a few of this series today starting late in the afternoon. We were a little surprised with the amount of traffic on what we thought would be a quiet road. Most of the caches were found quite quickly - almost park and grabs. My apologies for a generic log. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the series.

Another easy find while out caching with Leeyah29 on a geocaching weekend in the area. I'm teaching her as we go but she's a natural and finding them easily while enjoying clambering up embankments and hunting through potential hiding places to find these containers! TFTC!

TFTC!

TFTC

In our excitement to be on the trail we actually overshot this cache and had a quick jog back to the coords and made the find thanks to the hint. TFTC

Found

Last find from this trail for the day, wow, so many more to find!! Thanks for the trail!!