The Guardsman Donald, Victoria, Australia
By supawitchming on 05-Aug-15. Waypoint GC60ZD5

Unfortunately there has not been a response (or regular update) from the cache owner within the period requested and, as per the original advice, this cache is now being de-listed (Archived) as abandoned.If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment.If you wish to contact a Reviewer regarding this cache, please send an email via the profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

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### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUESTED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there supawitchming,

It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is some sort of issue. The recent logs may contain more details about what sort of issues are evident.

The cache has been [**temporarily disabled**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=235), so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location, until the issues/s can be addressed.

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You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned.

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[3B]

Couldn’t find. But we did find a broken container on the ground near GZ could be it

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Geocache has been replaced due to being tampered with and left in a filthy state. Please,please put the camo that’s concealing it back the way it was. This is vital to the integrity of the cache. Thank you

Replaced

Epic fail you pwned us n00bs... You are only as good as your next find.

We continued today our tour in Victoria, AUS, and thereby searched, found and logged this interesting Traditional-Cache.

The weather was - said in one word – simply best. The good hidden caches and the being on holidays kept us the whole day in a good mood.

The cache had good coordinates, and thus was easy to find. The logbook was okay, and allowed easy logging.

Thanks to supawitchming for the generation of this nice cache The Guardsman (with the proper agenda), for leading us here and for showing us this funny location as well as the ongoing maintenance of this cache.

PS: Please forgive us the uniform log which is needed due to timing problems - if necessary special actions and happenings are there described where they appeared.

Greetings from Germany together with the hope to meet somewhere like event or wood.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 24. März 2023 @ 09:15 o'clock @ [#20455](https://coord.info/GC60ZD5)
 

Found, full of water, contents ruined.

Due to cache being destroyed. I will need to replace it.

Found great piece of history TFTC

Found after getting grubby in Formal wear after attending a funeral in Warracknabeal.
Thanks heaps supawitchming for the challenge. The log book is missing so signed a piece of cellophane that was in the container.

Little Squirell

Finally found! I came back with back up!

#18570 @1625
Found with AngelG27, ZQX, Fox in Jox while on a weekend trip from Canberra to Mt Gambia and back TFTC.

Cache 9267 on 1 Oct 2022.

Road trip! Joined ZQX, Fox in Jox and TikvaNZ in taking advantage of a long weekend in the ACT to head to Victoria and South Australia for 4 days. We had planned this trip 2 years ago, but it did not happen for obvious reasons, so now getting it underway. Our goal is to pick up some old caches, get counties and get some interesting DT combinations!

Today: first day and travelling from the ACT to Nhill - lots of Kms! Mostly counties today.

Many sets of eyes made short work of this one!

Thanks supawitchming for the cache and the fun!

Found with team FATZ on a 4-day road trip. DfdC.
(FATZ is Fox in Jox, AngelG27, TikvaNZ and ZQX.)
Fox in Jox found this. I was at the wrong level.

On a return roadtrip from ACT to VIC and SA over four days, as part of a FATZ (Fox in Jox, AngelG27, TikvaNZ and ZQX) mission.

I reckon my ancestral family lived 70 years ago.

Four sets of eyes helped here. TFTC supawitchming

Found this little guy very interesting lovely hide we persevered hanged out for about an hour and a half and we come up with the goods

This was one of a few caches that Yeah09 and I found whilst travelling from my sisters house in St Arnaud, north to try and find the most northern spot in Victoria. We were ultimately unsuccessful in finding the spot, but we did find this cache. Our weekend was cut short on Saturday the 24th of September when we discovered that we both had COVID and had to return home to Melbourne to isiolate.

I was surprised how relatively quikly we made this find, but find we did and its another smilie for the both of us.

We looked, in and out, on and under, no dice for us today. We'll be back!
- M

Got it!! Good to be little and have have some muscle! Can't believe it's been sitting there for a whole year going unnoticed. Thanks donald for providing this find

After a 20 minute search we were stoked to find this one, very tricky hide, kids were kept busy checking every nook and cranny. This was great! TFTC!

Found on our walk

It pays to be small. Interesting rail history here and at the loco in the park

Take two, and no can find. First attempt 12 months ago.

Unfortunetly we had no luck with this one today.

I am a small person and fairly nimble and was glad of that when searching for the cache. I was very lucky and found it fairly quickly. Great camo and great spot. Love caching in Donald.

It took me 10 minutes, but I found it. Interesting location.
TFTC

Long and through search but no luck old and creaky bones getting the better of me not to mention the bumps on my head will be back

this cache was very interesting
thanks for bring us here

Tftc. Good camo but been around train track enough to know that's not a part of the train. Found quickly. 14th find for our camping "weekend"
Found with K9team

This type of hide always a challenge, too .many possibilities Will return another time.

Trying to take it a bit easier this afternoon, a drive to Donald was planned.
And a cache or two.

Caches like this always take a while, and this one did!

Out caching with D@geo
Thank you for the hide supawitchming

With travel plans disrupted due to border closures there was an opportunity to plan a country Victoria caching trip and having been unable to attend the St Arnaud mega last year it was decided to explore this area.

Decided on an afternoon drive/cache out to Donald after a morning of caching a trail just out of St Arnaud. Usually struggle with these hides but thankfully after a bit of persistence we had the cache to hand.

Found with gwd.aussie.

TFTC

Nice find to start the week off before work

Having just spent a fabulous couple of days in the Murray Sunset NP with The Tritonz and micaparamedic doing the new PS geoart series, we made our way back towards Mildura, supported local business where we safely could, and picked up a few more caches on our way home.

This was not our first attempt here, but today we managed to turn that DNF frown upside down. Still took us over 10 minutes but so glad to finally get this one. TFTC supawitchming.

This was a hard one! In the end we had to PAF, otherwise we would never have found it.

Oh wow, this was much more difficult than the D rating indicated. Eventually found with Alansee today as it was hiding behind camoed cover.

Nice one

TFTC tricky hide. Out with TonCin for the day picking up a few caches

Tricky one, great spot

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Tftc

TFTC. That was fun clambering around. Took a while. Nice hide.

Tftc took a while good hide

My nemesis - trains. Although I guessed that trains would be involved I had a look anyway. No way is this sore back going to poke around train carriages for an elusive cache! Thanks for placing the cache for more flexible and younger backs.

Due to the last few finders all logging how hard it was for them to find, I have increased the ratings to 2.5 D/T.

Found at 9.00pm. Quite an effort for a lowly rated D/T. Found after K, clambering around everywhere underneath spotted the elusive treasure. This railway museum is very impressive and well maintained. Well done Donald.
Thanks
TNLN
K&M

Out with Bunadoorian on an adventure for the day to clean up a few Local Government Areas and UBD maps! This is find 12 for today. Luckily I read some previous logs and had an inkling of where to look for as our GPS on the phones were both struggling a bit. After the long search and now having to use the torch on the phone - I finally spied this one. We earnt our D/T rating on this one. I loved the sunset here. TFTC supawitchming

After an extensive search of the area Grub62 finally managed to find the cache . I think that the D/T ratings could be a little low as we had to do a bit of crawling to find this cache. TFTC.

Suscoe left home bright and early this morning.
Our destination was Ouyen via Underbool.
Lovely blue skies, pleasantly warm temperatures as the day passed and quiet roads.
Oh, and some really interesting caching locations and hides along the way.

Thanks to supawitchming for this hide, searched a few spots then bingo!!!!!

When arriving at GZ, thought oh no, this is going to be hard to find - but in no time was found. We were lucky, I thought cache blindness would win out today! TFTC supawitchming

Whoa! This is not one of our favourite hides however it didn’t turn out to be as bad as we expected. Entry in what turned out to be a good location and it wasn’t long before we had the cache in hand. Some days are great!! Woohoo!!! Thanks for the cache and all the history here. Signed as Team JAR!
Because it was found quickly when I expected the worst you can have a favourite point.
Cheers and happy caching!

We stopped for your cache here but some of us were a bit reluctant as trains, cannons, old tractors etc all have at least a 1,000 spots to hide a cache. We were fairly lucky today - thanks for showing us your area.

This is the second time we had a look for this cache. The last time after a really good look we had come up empty. Today the 4 of us got out of the car, we thought with 2 young children they might have a better chance at spotting the cache going off previous logs. We searched this one and that one, our 5 yo walked straight into the corner of a carriage, a case of train blindness! After a good search a wave of relief swept over all of us as Mr 4Moule called out ‘here it is!’. Thank goodness! With the signing duties done we were very happy to pile back into the car filled with satisfaction. Thanks for the crazy hunt!

TFTC

Our third return to this spot after previous fruitless searches. This time with some advice as to where the cache might be ... and with a little care not to bump my head I managed to find and retrieve the cache. The difficulty and terrain were a little higher than posted! Interesting location with a variety of rolling stock and a J class locomotive. It's a pity that some are showing the signs of age and vandalism. TFTC

We stayed in Donald for the St Arnaud event, and thought it was only fair to give the local caches a run. Bit of a train-head myself, so loved this one. Thanks for the cache.

What a time we spent here looking for this one. The D rating is too low for this one. In my opinion it should be at least a 2.5 due to the fact you have to go low and on your hands and knees and have limited head space. Also there is the danger factor of loose metal. TFTC

Thank goodness it was a quick find. Looked at a couple of recent logs first.
TFTC

Tftc, we are collecting country caches

Squat it like it’s hot

Great hide, work those thighs!!

After checking the previous logs we adjusted our location and the cache was soon in hand. This is why I hate trains. TFTC

I entered the guards van. Yes! A toilet. Alas it was out of order! Meanwhile using Phetlern’s coords and H423L ingenuity we found the caboose.

Found on another epic caching loop with H423L which included the St Arnaud mega and many other magnificent Australian locations.

Thanks supawitchming and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

With some spare time before all the action starts in St Arnaud we drifted north in search of unfound treasures in uncharted areas.
This was a tricky cache to find , maybe not a D1.5, but with a PAF we managed to locate the box.

Thanks supawitchming for the placement.
Find count: 13443

TFTC. Primarily visited the heritage park to see The Taggerty as I worked on it in Bendigo for a number of years A lot of great memories

Finally found on my third attempt as I headed to Mildura for a houseboat adventure with my family. Nice to tick this nemesis cache off my list! Thanks

After 2 years and 5 months it was nice to turn my previous DNF into a smilie today. I used Phetlern's coordinates after searching for the first few minutes but even then with my gps I eventually found the cache quite a few metres away.
Great hiding spot too, it's where I concentrated my search today and I had to cover the length of the carriage to find it there.
Not sure if the skin missing off my noggin would agree but
Thx Supawitchming, great hide, CIGC TNLNSL FP too, cheers!

Found with georocks101. TFTC

Well this was hard!! Needed a bit of flexibility here! So the coords didn't really want to settle on my phone or gps... almost gave up but it ended up being exactly where I would've put it. Giving a favourite for the challenge. Found with stray_dog. Tftc

Oh my goodness! We found it. After an EXTENSIVE search haha. And coming back something caught my eye and it was the cache. Now I wonder how I missed it.. love the trains tho!

A really good display with informative signs about the heritage train. Spent ages reading and looking. Found the cache quickly. Tb dropped here. TFTC

Found it, pretty happy to have found it so quickly as it appears a few have had trouble of late but it is definitely still there safely hidden away and in good condition. I took a few photos for the memories as these are fantastic old carriages, I grew up near railway lines in a city but would often see these types of carriages roll on through on there journey from A to B and beyond. Thanks for placing this cache here supawitchming. A favorite.

To hard for us

Very well hidden

Decided to try this despite the two DNFs. Unfortunately I wasn't any luckier, as I poked around for a good long while but didn't find a thing

No luck

No luck for us today. On our way to Lake Tchum.
Next time - hopefully.

With Akpa6 and Brutas 12000 agood and interesting place, who would think a bunch of railway wagons could be so interesting.

Found with akpa5 and akpa6. Awsome old rail wagons

Nice hide.
Found with brutas12000 and akpa5

Sitting at my computer during these Covid lockdowns, I am trying to catch up on a few logs that I haven't sent in yet.

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late log, something I am notorious for. Thank you for adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Thanks supawitchming (F=466 H=11) for the cache.

St Arnaud weekend and I just had to be there because it is always such a cool and quality [^] weekend!

46 caches found and 4 events attended made for an awesome 3 day trip away and since there was a new cache trail at St Arnaud, well we all know that the caches were amazing, as always![^][^]

There were a few SA geocachers that I hadn't seen for ages and so it was lovely to catch up and cache with them [^]

Although the end of the trip involved an unexpected detour home through Horsham in case Rex, who had decided that a bloody large wriggly stick seemed like a fun toy to play with, required emergency vet work after he tried to touch noses with the big brown that was up and striking at him!
Thankfully Rex didn't need vet assistance [^] and he now seems to have a healthy fear of snakes (he even jumped away from a plastic crocodile head cache near Horsham[^]) and is much more aware in the bush (even better because the following weekend he found another big brown wriggly stick at the lake in the caravan park we live in and jumped away from it[^] )

If nothing else the drive to Horsham gave me a chance to find a cache that has always been in a flooded or wet area previously and inaccessible so that find was a bonus

Then it was a very late night [|)] trip back home via St Arnaud again to pick up a cache container that a friend had forgotten to pick up for another geocacher

As I have been about 8 months behind in logging, I'm resorting to template logs to catch up.
My heartfelt thanks to the COs who have placed some tricky, funny, exercise required, scary, interesting and devious caches in some amazing spots! [^]
Rex and I have had some amazing adventures and enjoyed some incredible moments thanks to this fantastic hobby

TNLN. SL. TFTC supawitchming

After staying in Horsham for the night and heading back to St Arnuad, via a breakfast event in Donald. Out with Happy pants, grabbing some different hides, that we hadn't already found, as we meandered through some of the back roads. We made some great discoveries, clever hides and generally enjoyed the caches we found, which took us to some interesting places, that I wouldn't probably see if it wasn't for caching.. We enjoyed some fun and laughs along the way.

Good to make this find this clever hide, after a short search.

Thanks supawitchming for placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play.
7997

I travelled with hevwalker to St Arnaud, for caching and events. Today was the day to head back to SA but not before stopping every so often to find a cache or 10.
This mornings stop was at Donald for the brekky event and some caching afterwards.
After a tip off... I did the dusty work of retrieving the cache for our convoy of cachers

TFTC

A nice day to be outside with friends and caching together.

Some logs are stamped "Fabulous Randoms", others our names are handwritten.

Thank you for placing this cache.

After the breakfast event a group of us msde a good fist of caching out Donald. I didn't quite finish the task as I had some targets in mind in neighbouring towns but I did join the group for a few.

A road trip up to St. Arnaud for the standard trio of events plus a bonus event on the Sunday. I hadn't made it up last year and I was looking forward to the new series (including night cache) plus the socialising.
Well Tyred'n'Cranky and FUF009 didn't disappoint. I had a great time at the events and the caches comprising each year's series were of the standard that attracts so many caching teams to this small country town annually. I only wish I had had more time to appreciate them as I was on a bit of a mission to find at least fifty for the day on the Saturday which meant minimal time at each one observing the quality of the metal work. Next year, with any luck, will be different.

Spend a fun filled weekend at St Arnaud with 3LG & a lot of other cachers who came to attend the weekend of events...
Following the breakfast event in Donald a group of us went in search of caches in the area...
I loved looking at the old train/carriages...
The cache eluded us briefly then the find was made...
A clever hide...
TFTC supawitchming

AARRGGHHH a cache on a train......not something I usually bother to look for, but this was an interesting spot to visit and I was with geofriends, so after a long look Sally put her hands on the prize and our names went in the log.

Our group found this cache whilst we were on our way to my breakfast event in Donald.

Please note: generally we stamped the log as "Fabulous Randoms", however some logs we have written our caching names.

What a great 'long' weekend travelling to St Arnaud from Adelaide for the wonderful annual festivities. I cached with many awesome cachers including Feathertop, micaparamedic, Locus Cache, Muzza, Sharkie Fan, BushFire and of course TheDame. I also socialised with many others.....gosh I love Victoria!

Thanks so much for the cache supawitchming! [^]

My gosh we made hard work of this one. It was such a tricky hide and we were a few metres from GZ until we PAF'd.
Thank goodness for Phetlern's coords and his meticulous notetaking as it still took us a few more minutes until precise directions to lay our hand on this one.
Thank you supawitchming for a challenge!!

An early morning start from St Arnaud saw me with Bushfire at Donald. Here we managed to find all the local caches before finishing with the friendly Brekky event in a local cafe. Lots of peering from awkward angles and feeling in places that fingers didn’t like. Soon joined by more teams who were also not having much success until the PAF option focussed our search resulting in success Much more difficult than the published rating TFTC supawitchming

Fll

After a great weekend in St Arnaud, today I was heading to Mildura today. After the nearby Brekkie event, a group of us hit a few caches, including this one.



My thanks to supawitchming for the cache.

TFTC.We had left St Arnaud this morning heading for a recently published Breakfast event in Donald. We were traveling with Muff1 and were expecting a good day out caching. We were not disappointed.
After breakfast we continued our journey around Donald. At this location we quickly found the container securely hidden.

Finally found it

Ah ha!!!

Great spot!

As we continued to head towards Adelaide we stopped in Donald to look for a few caches. We were not at all sure we would find this one but, as we enjoy looking at old railway rolling stock, we decided to give it a go.

After a circuit of the van we decided to use coordinates supplied by Phetlern and after sticking our hands into all sorts of places and crawling around under the cenre of the carriage one of us came up with the goods. Container and contents were in very good condition and the revised coordinates were spot on when the GPS settled

Thanks for this cache supawitchming. We enjoyed exploring the area and reading the information boards. This is certainly a must do cache for railway enthusiasts.

Muggle??