#4 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Heathcote Junction, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 19-Sep-15. Waypoint GC5YJP4

Found by caughtatwork on 23/11/2024 at 7:49:00 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, this one slowed us down a bit cos our gps was out a bit...but not for too long

Cold windy day

Tht was a little bit of climb up the bank TFTC

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

#3 TFTC, SL at 14:39

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 54!

Dnf

Find#6012Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022 Thanks for the cache

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!TFTC!!!!HoodedHooligans (H.H.)

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

Jammed in tree hollow but good hide!

Interesting one!

Took us a while as gps was 10m off.

Not so easy park and grab

Loaded it with swag before moving on

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

Interesting one!

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.

This took a little longer than previous ones as my GPS wouldn't settle and was all over the place. Checked the hint and had it in no time.

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

GPS about 4m out for us. Stump, tree, log… am I too pedantic?

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.

I did not mind the spot

GPS wayyyyy off on this one and the terrain is quite rugged, so be prepared to bounce about a bit for this one

TFTC

Gps out

Driving lesson. Yes good for start, find a spot to park, stop, grab a cache. Enjoying the trail so far. A nice drive in the forest.

More to come

LTF

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.

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.

A blue face from a couple of years ago turned into a smiley today. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the cache.

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

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

#4 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.

Dropped by to grab a few more Mt Dissa caches after I noted this one had a found log on the day that I last visited (and couldn’t find it!).

After returning I soon spotted a semi hidden second GC that had the cache firmly tucked away. It was there all along.

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

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19th / 20th November 2022 – GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria

Tftc.

Tftc, an expanded search radius prevented me getting stumped like last time I looked

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

It has me stumps

Gone

Couldn't locate this one.

There's nothing inside the only tree hollow I can see :/

Had a look at all the possible places it could be, no luck.

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

Tftc

TFTC fresh and clean

Broken leg has delayed my maintenance here. Ready for the big mountain run. Plan to replace all by end of Feb

New container placed

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Disabled - pending CO response to an email enquiry . . . . . . . . . .

Disappointed can see where we think it may have been but not there anymore.

Did not find. Very disappointing

No joy here

TFTC, out today as the first day back in regional vic.. tis series has been on my radar for along while and now out this weekend camping and enjoying the beauty of Mt Disappointment.
A really good series. Aiming to get our 200+ in a day and hit #2000 soon.

I think I know where it is but the terrain is too hard to get through

Couldn’t find it

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.

Popped in for a few quick ones today

Couldn't find it after a good look up and down the road.

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 searched for a few minutes without luck and noted evidence of a recent cut down tree that the previous logger commented on.

There’s a tree cut down recently at GC.

With a bit of a scramble we got up there to the cache and made the find. TFTC

Another one of many

Bit of a climb!

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Nice spot

Another hot cache. Nice.

Finally, a weekend with no kids and (momentarily) lifted ISO restrictions. We’ve known about this epic series since we started caching a few years ago but have never made the trek from South Gippsland. We started on Saturday 20th at about 11.30am and cached steadily until dark, which was pretty early given it was Winter Solstice. The campsites were all full with dirt bikers, so we found a quiet spot in the bush to camp. A wet night ensured followed by an early start and we got back to the caches again. We only had until mid morning, but over the two days we found a total of approx 152 caches.
Apologies in advance for the generic logs! There were only a few DNF’s and we’ll log those separately. Caches were otherwise in excellent condition and the coords and hints were spot on.
Thanks so much to carkisser and JSando for this extraordinary series! We applaud the effort that you have put into placing and maintaining these caches We look forward to coming back and finding the rest

Thanks

What a great day to take myself alone, up to the start of the Mt Disappointment caches at last. It was windy and blustery but I had a wonderful time. It won’t be my last visit. I can’t wait to get all the way up to the summit. Tftc carkisser and jsando

No giant spiders in residence today. Tftc

Cool

Too many spider webs

Thanks again

#54 Mothers Day 2020

Guarded by a giant spider

Took a break in Wandong to dry off a bit and get a change of clothes.
Giving the rain a chance to stop, so that we can push on for a few more...
That done, moved to a new spot to collect some missing on GeoDad's map, and this makes 100 for the day for me!!!!

After being rained out atop the mount, I came down to finish off the start, All was good here today

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Many finds today with n0w0rries and our GeoMutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie.
Perfect weather and very little traffic made for mostly nice quick finds.
Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

Back out on the mountain with +Wife and our GeoMutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie.
Fantastic caching weather on a public holiday. What more could you ask for.
Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

With my caching buddy Spiffy- overseas, It was a chance for me to go get some caches he has already found (there are lots as he is 1500 ahead of me and started 1 year after me...)

My target area was Mt Disappointment. I had an idea to ride the bike, but it was a little warm and the roads a bit harded than I first thought so left the bike in the car. All caches were founs within a couple of minutes as the coords were good and the geotrails helped.

Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the placement and fun.

Wow...these caches are close packed...no sooner get the seat belt on and we are off on another search. Good hide. TFTC series.

With permission of the team member who was in the local hospital we decided on a day our this time with a goal of collecting 150 finds for the day which will if achieved will be our best caching day and after spending the day collecting cache after cache we ended with 151 finds and 3 DNFs so it was a rely good outing today.

Sorry it is copy and paste logs most were nice quick finds some proved a little more difficult however most we very easy finds and some require a little attention from the owner for wet logs with it being a good day as it was cool to start and didn't get over hot during the day we managed to make the goal of 150 finds with 1 extra just to be sure.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing this series for us to make such an assault to collect so many caches on one day.

A quick and easy grab with matho64. TFTC

Found with Jackez74 TFTC

I love all of the clues! And, my GPS is working really well with the COs. Thanks !

Day 2 - out and about on our quest to log 80 finds. Beautiful area. Beautiful story. TFTC and to carkisser and JSando for placement and to all who help maintain this series for others to enjoy. (Log 28:80)

Americans resident in Singapore, in Australia to celebrate Uni daughters 21st. Enjoying the spring weather and the amazing outdoors and picking up a few caches along the way. Thanks for bringing us to this beautiful area!

Today was our second visit to this area, hoping to grab a few more of this fabulous series.
Thanks to carkisser & JSando and others who have assisted in keeping this series going, so we were not disappointed. Picked up the TB to move along

TFTC