#84 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 12-Mar-16. Waypoint GC63WA3

Another fun day out adventuring with doddlingalong. Our plan to kayak and cache aborted due to high winds we went to plan B. Our second visit adding to our Mt Disappointment collection. TFTC

Out for another grand day of caching adventures with carmlee1, back on track, quick find and on we go

Accompanied with theashleys7 for caching day at Mt Disappointment on our second day to catch up more finds. Found it and logged as KASA24 as a team. Thanks carkisser and JSando for placing the cache

Logged as KASA24 as kangas11 and I both had a second huge day today caching together at Mt Disappointment this weekend, and writing our team name instead of both our caching usernames saved us time. Kangas11 did the driving while I did the finding & writing in the logbooks. TFTC.

Gathering some smilies in an effort to make a milestone for the JLW. Many thanks carkisser for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.

Quick find thanks for the cache

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).

Found a bunch of these while causing some backroads back towards Melbourne. Even spotted some kangaroos!

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

Find#6133Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

These Mt Disappointed caches have been on my to-do list since I started caching 2 years ago. Today, I finally made my way to find and sign Vic's 1st cache and with a few hours to spare before catching up with my sister. I thought it was now or never to start these epic caches. I didn't know how far I would get nor really what to expect.. This was one of the caches found today as l meandered across the mountain.

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

TFTC

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

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.

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!
Pick your quote below, cause it’s for you.

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

Frankly, my found it, I don’t give a damn

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’


#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#84 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
3493
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.

Tftc

Out finding caches this weekend with @the4wdshed and @smithiesoutbackgear.
Cheers for the cache

*found a few weekends ago but haven't gotten round to logging some of them*

Quick easy find
This trail has been on our radar for a while, this weekend was a perfect chance to get out and get it done with @Smithies Outback and @Searchingformacca and a chance to go camping and sit around a camp fire with great friends. Tftc

Out caching for a second day with The4wdShed and searchingformacca. Saw there was heaps of caches up here at My Disa and thought we would try add a few to our number. Nice area. TFTF

Found at night

Found on a night walk at 9:03pm! With a group of 7!

Lots of fun looking with mates

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.

Good find.

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.

Blue skies and sunshine so decided to scoot up the mountain today Rough tally was 73 finds and a stray DNF So apols for generic logs. I did some maintenance for the PT COs and replaced a couple of missing caches and logbooks. Personal notes have been included for the gnarly caches

TFTC carkisser & JSando

33 finds today and 5 fail to finds which I think have been taken as I not the only one to fail to find them. Oh well.
Most of the finds were straight forward and all in great shape.
Added a few little toys here and there.
Will return another day and complete this series.
TFTC Carkisser & JSando

We were glad to make the find here by the stump that didn't have the ant colony. TFTC

Find after 4x4ing boundary track

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

Today was planned as another triangular drive into Wandong and back to find whatever caches we felt like. A bit hard to stay on track here actually. The caching was fine and successful, but the town blew me away. It is so pretty, calm and peaceful compared to the general mayhem of the world at the moment. The bakery was a treat too.
The drive itself was enjoyable and all caches that we went for bar 2 were found - one DNF and the other replaced - they will be logged separately. Excuse the generic log but I think we found about 70 today and it was not possible for us to find that many in a day if we stopped to make notes and completely impossible for us oldies to remember individual caches.

Thanks again carkisser & jsando for this remarkable trail. All logs were signed SG and dated.

Early start today, trying to hit some personal milestones, going after a LOT of caches in the day.... Resumed the march down the "Y", collecting as we go...
This was Number 57

Back to all good here, just want sun to cool down a bit

I’m back for the 3rd time roaming the streets of Mt Disappointment in an attempt to double my finds to 1000 by 29 Feb. Ridiculous! considering I was at #400 17Nov and #500 28Dec.

TFTC carkisser and jSando

Today was a beautiful cool day for some caching however it started to drizzle and the weather closed in as the morning progressed after having a great start to the day we ended on a rather sour note as we went along we collected 52 finds and 8 DNFs and as the number of DNF were increasing along this trail due to the clearing of the roadside it was decided that lunch would be a good time to stop the weather being what it was and the finds petering out the daily goal was not going to be reached now so we went back to the camp and one of the team ended up at the hospital.

Finally a return to the area we had collected a few caches of this trail many moon ago (feb 2018) we have returned to conduct some recon for the Whittlesea mega so whilst staying in the are we decided on another assault of the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Trail and pick up some of the ones we didn't collect at that time owing to road works. This was a good day our except for those DNFs and the weather closing in on us around what would have been our lunch time so we called it quits. All caches that were found were in good condition however a couple could use a little attention as the logs are getting on the damp side.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing this series for us to add a few more to our collection today and apologies for the cut and past logs you know what its like.

It has been quiet awhile since I was last up here so I made the decision to to come up early this morning and tackle a bit more of the series starting at #52 and seeing where I end up.
It was nice and cool this morning but the sun came out and warmed up the place.
The roads were quiet as well with only the occasional car passing by.
I have ridden, driven and walked a lot of the tracks around here and have even stayed at No 1 camp a couple of times, I just love this place.
A bit messy along the edge of the road due to some grading but hopefully all will be good.
You guys have done a great job in putting this series out and keeping up the maintenance as well as I know that can be a lot of work.

Thanks carkisser & JSando TFTC

One of fifty found today with n0w0rries and nirgalagrin.
Thanks for the caches carkisser & JSondo

One dozen, with +Wife and nirgalagrin.
EveTheStaffy is still a bit territorial in the back seat but she doesn't take much convincing to let nirgalagrin share the seat.
Another quick and easy park and grab here.
Much more layed back than last weekend in St Arnaud.
What a fantastic mega!!!
Looking forward to The Whittlesea Event.
TFTC.

15:57
Took the opportunity of a drive through the countryside with n0w0rries +Wife to see if we could knock off a chunk of the caches around Mt. Disappointment.

It was fun travelling in the company of my hosts, sharing the back seat of the car with the two dogs. And by sharing, I mean squeezing my way into the car after finding each cache until I could close the door, only to find that meagre space usurped as soon as I hopped out for the next quick search. (they're good, friendly dogs, but you're never in any doubt as to whose space that is.

In all, we managed smileys on fifty or so caches before heading back home for dinner. All were found reasonably swiftly and, apart from the occasional damp log, were in good condition. I think n0w0rries and I found about half of the containers each, aided hugely by our driver's excellent positioning by the coordinates.

carkisser, thanks for the hides, and thanks for inviting me, n0w0rries and +Wife

#4920

Mission also accomplished and another string of Dads lessons completed but it did take a few hours so looking forward to a G&T and kicking back. All containers in good condition with just a couple a tad damp. Happy and glad to be doing these before Joe Blakes get too active not that I mind the handsome reptiles from afar. TFTC and the drive- be back again when I’ve recovered from this lot!

2810 fltf

After a lot of planning over the last few months, the day had finally come to get stuck into this series. I followed the route I had worked out without being sidetracked and everything went pretty much as I had hoped. I made my first find at 7:10am and the last for the day at 6:15pm. By 7 o’clock I was sitting in the Red Lion in Kilmore enjoying a cold beer and thinking back over a most enjoyable day. There was of course the odd DNF along the way as well. The weather was kind to me which helped a lot as well. A big thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing this and maintain this series. Cheers and TFTC

Day 2 of the series. TNLN TFTC CIGC 12.23

Found with BorisB&Natasha and Bounty Trackers. We signed the log with our stamp Geo Nerds.
On a fun weekend with these two doing as many of these caches as we can while here. TFTC we had a great time. Stayed at Flowerdale pub overnight back for some more fun today.

2 day caching trip with Sioux & Leesa we have stamped log with our Geo Nerds stamp for Bounty Trackers, Borisb&natasha & Gonefishen.
Thanks for the cache.

Tftc

Tftc
Lyciah x

Quickly found was this cache

A few more before we leave the Forrest this is number 9 for today

Riding along on the pushbike honey !!
When I noticed a cache or two !!
Some caches needed a look or two !! [:o]

Cache found somewhere around

TFTC.

Quick find while out caching with Little Blue Wren.TFTC

Nice, easy find. TFTC

These are subsequent finds for the day on the actual Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series which Geowife and myself decided to attack today in the hope of achieving 100 plus finds in a day (which was achieved). As such this one was a follow on in the series from where we picked up from after we left off last year with the only DNF in our run on these new caches in the series been #115 Anyway after a quick park and grab on a large majority of these, the series has been attacked in earnest at this stage and had a productive day was had and in the end we found around 105 plus caches for the day. TFTC.

If there is a complaint that I have about this series it would be that some people do not replace the caches in the correct place as per GZ co-ordinates and some caches that we found today were up to 10 metres away from the GZ, not covered over or left out in the open. Other cache logs were so wet that the logs could not be signed and a sheet of dry paper was added to these ones. The caches that had water in them were emptied of water and resealed.

And to carkisser and JSando, thank you for this great series and the huge amount of work that the both you and your team of helpers thank you for making keeping this series in operation.
Due to the high number of logs to be completed a generic log has been generated for all/most logs.

Great day out with Team Justice, successfully completing this wonderful series in a day. The challenge has appealed to us for a long time, and it was incredibly satisfying to be able to complete it. Throughout the day we often marveled at the size and quantity of the containers you must have had at home in order to lay these out. Thanks so much carkisser for this astonishingly ambitious and well executed series. We loved it!

A plan was hatched with Clint & Abby over 12 months ago when we saw these caches come out over time. We could get 100, nah, let’s get them all and soon after a few drinks we decided to attempt the lot in 1 day. Time passed and somehow we found ourselves talking about it at a recent event (yes, and more drinks). Let’s do it after Christmas, ok. So, we meet in Wallan at 6am to begin the long day.

We had a few ideas to speed up our caching given we were trying to find 300+ caches in a day and that our previous record was about 60 in a day so this was going to be tough. We put the GPS and pens on lanyards do we could keep our hands few when getting the cache and didn’t have to pick up or get things out of our pockets. We did shifts of 1 hour, so one person did the driving, ate, re-hydrated and relaxed, while the other cached for the hour. The driver also provided the clue up front between caches as the cacher counted the distance down to the cache.

Now to the clues. Tree, stump, log, rock! We were getting a good chuckle over the clues, ‘beside tree’, we are in a forest! We found some of the ‘logs’ were not yet logs (i.e. trees), but they were close most of the time. We thought there might be some sort of random clue generator sometimes.

To the numbers. 330 caches attempted in 10 hours and 22 minutes. We had 7 DNFs and a total of 323 finds. This meant an average find time (including DNFs) of 1 minute, 53 seconds. We were quite amazed at the speed we could go and how quick you could find, sign and move on. It also comes down to the great containers laid out by carkisser for this power trail. Nice and large, and easy to find and extract the logs. We only came across one Eclipse time late in the day. Our biggest hour of finds was our 5th hour of 42 finds. This averaged out at 1 minute and 25 seconds per cache.

Overall, we had a great time as it was a challenge to push ourselves to get all these caches. We loved the layout and the effort to place all these caches. Thanks so much to carkisser for the caches.

FBTJ #2591

I'm in Melbourne for a few day's with Horsesrule1990, heading to the event and to pick up as many caches as possible. Once the Melbourne Mega raps up we will head to the Gold Coast , for a few day hitting all the fun parks. Then heading back to Western Australia, and back to Work. Would like to thank everyone for there caches and there efforts hiding then for us to find.all Tftc.

Over for Parkville Event started early this Morning after I landed in Melbourne, with Becknmonts and Loulou0212 we saw some beautiful scenery, great fun completing this series in 1 day. TFTC carkisser

I had a great day out today after LouLou0212 and myself picked Gabs1963 up for the airport. We headed to “Melbourne’s First” and then onto this trail as Gabs1963 has cached our her 450km radius, so she wanted some “easy numbers”. Thanks so much for placing this trail carkisser

After Becknmonts and I picked gabs1963 up from the airport we headed out to start our day, a beautiful quick stop at Melbourne’s first before we headed to start this trail, thanks so much for putting theses caches out, I really enjoyed them - definitely a first for me getting my geo car off the road and on some dirt - TFTC carkisser

16/11/2018 I needed some numbers to get my milestone of 21000 finds so headed out to Mt Disappointment to grab 100 or so of the power trail caches. Only a few DNF's thanks to tree fellers and dozers. TFTC.

TFTC. Our friends Jackie and Dennis (Muff1)had invited us to join them in making an assault on Mt Disappointment. We drove up on Sunday to Kilmore to join them. After putting a dent in the Mt Disappointment trail yesterday, our aim today was to finish the trail. We had an added incentive. We were close to 5000 finds and there was the pooibility we could track 200 finds for the day. The weather forecast did not look great but the weatherman was wrong . Muff1 had spoken to the CO and made arrangements to replace any caches that were missing. They will contact they CO with details of any issues we found along the way. We had a great time . We replaced 7 missing caches. We had never visited this area before and the trail gave us an appreciation of the area. Thank you carkisser & JSando for a great series.

We arrived in the area with a particular plan and that was to do the Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson trail. All caches were found or replaced (with the permission of the owner) Some still need the logs replaced but we ran out of supplies.
This trail was done with Hans and Linda, the jumping in and out of the car was shared, the driving was shared, lunch was had on the trail where ever we found a place that appealed to us.
Some shots were fired near one of the caches which startled the crap out of us. We did not think that you were allowed to shoot here. The roads were a mixture of good, bad and ugly. Thankfully it was dry it did try very hard to rain but all we saw was not enough to wet the car or us.
We apologise for the generic logs, this does not mean we thought any less of this series. We appreciate the effort that has gone into placing this trail and maintaining it, this is why we were more than happy to help with some maintenance.
SL TFTC

Wow! What a day. KmanNZ and I were out to find big numbers, however I never thought I would double all my previous finds.

WE got to the first cache at around 945am and kept going through to 345pm when the rain finally hit. All in all, we managed to find 127 along this trail and grabbed a quick one on the way home at the service center.

We signed the caches A & K to save time.

I would like to thank KmanNZ for supplying the beers which we cracked on our 100th find for the day.

Thank you to carkisser & JSando for placing this series. We had a great day.

#205

AndyB84 and myself had plans to hit the Mt Disappointment trail and today that plan was realised.

We Arrived at the first cache around 9:45am and called it a day at 4:45pm before making one final sneaky find at the servo on the way home.

I had no idea what to expect in terms of numbers. My biggest day previously was 55 so I wanted to beat that. The next goal was 120 and looking bigger was 150.

We eventually ended on 129 finds for the day, doubling AndyB84's found count in a single day.
Pretty stoked with the effort. We cracked a cold one each on number 101 for the day.

Most caches were found easily with good coordinates. Some had wet logs, one was missing a lid and there were a few DNF's near the start of the trail as well.

The road was well maintained, we brought AndyB84's ute but my Magna would have been fine on these roads.

We signed most of the logs as A & K to save time.


Thanks for the caches

#2863

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

*25 Aug 2018, Found @12:03 pm, Find # 1903.*

Needing to smash out a few caches to get me closer to another milestone I thought I would target this series. The aim for today is to get to that magical 120 number. We are working our way through these quite quickly making our target even closer with each find. Perfect weather today. Another quick find.

**Thanks to carkisser for placing this cache.**

Another quick find although my phone was playing up

The goal today was to pick up a heap up caches to build up the fav points for an upcoming Grampians trip and aim for a new gemstone badge - 120 caches in a day.
Mostly easy finds and a good size which is great to see. A few people out today on motorbikes and exploring however relatively muggle free. Nice variety of bush land with lovely views in parts.
TFTC

#3163 A big day of caching with the aim to collect big numbers and collect a bunch of souvenirs. The geohounds tagged along for the adventure. A cool day with the temperature floating around 7-9 degrees, but much fun had. A handful of dnfs but lots of finds. We found the coords to be pretty good, a few damp logsheets but no trouble signing. Thanks for all the effort carkisser and JSando.

Such a nice drive, easy find, TFTC

Scape

This was one epic series, it had it all, easy finds, tougher finds, lots of dirt road driving, steep hills, bush bashing, open logged forest, deep dense forests and a leech or 2 to throw in the mix. Both me and TheSkype traveled from the ACT to cache in Victoria and this series certainly is one to bump up the tally which I personally believe is only for die-hard cachers. Do not bring a newbie here, it might get tough, zap their mind and they might never want to cache again. We camped at Andersons Garden campground and this was our base for the 3 days we spent caching. Thanks again pleasure to do business and explore this historic part of Victoria. TFTC. Day 2

#2478 Found at 7:23am with the Green-martian, both of us from Canberra. Travelled in a 4x4 Outback for over 16 hours, over 3 days. Averaged 20 finds per hour hitting 30 finds an hour between #206 to #235. Found a total of 323 caches with 9 DNFs. What a marvel it was finding this series. All park n grabs with the car and GPS covered in dust. Weather was warm for April. Thanks carkisser & JSando for this epic series of caches.

02/04/2018
On a mission to take 100 caches today. 36th at 2.57 PM (no pressure). Thanks to the cache owner for the effort.

We decided to have a stab at 100 caches in a day and we did not arrive at the first GZ until 1310. We had a bit of a struggle in the beginning but ended with a good run. We thank the cache owner for the effort. 102 caches in total where number 244 was my 2000th cache. Thanx

Easter Sunday and out on a Planetary Pursuit to earn 10 souvenirs. So what better way to obtain these by hitting this power trail. Teamed with Geo husband to make these finds. TFTC

Gotcha !!! TFTC

During a little warm-up here earlier this week I found about 65 caches in one afternoon. Today I returned for a full day effort, starting at 8am and stopping at 6:30pm having covered about 100km. Without rushing too much (all logs were signed and dated in full, caches rehidden properly, and photos taken of every GZ and logsheet) I ended up with 230+ finds for the day which is a surprising record for me .
Other than a shaky start near the residences (5 DNFs in the first 11) the rest went pretty well as I searched for them in numbered sequence from #1 to #240.
All were found easily other than #4,7,9,10,11,15,37,62,79,142 and 158.
It was nice and quiet on the trail all day - just saw 2 other cars and 2 police patrols on a mild dry sunny day. Perfect caching conditions.
Thanks for the cache and the series, carkisser and JSando.

84 is the largest order of a permutation of 14 elements.
My dilemma when faced with the permutation of roads at this intersection was solved simply. I went where the largest order of geocaching elements were.
So straight ahead it was.

TFTC

TFTC

With 2peasinapod2012, back again to carry on where we left of a year ago
so when we are finished we will write our final log.
thanks carkisser & JSando

and yet another one to cross off the list
TFTC

#92 in the run. Tftc

Finding 100 caches in 24 hours today with Angelique Anja and Tally Tiger today. Please see Anja's log for more details. Thanks for all the caches.

***Team ZACAATT does 100 caches in 24 hours***

At 5.37am Tally Tiger, Zedaycee and Angelique_Anja were bundled into the car and headed towards Mount Disappointment. With one goal in mind (well 100 goals...), The mission was underway.

At 7.07am Zedaycee retrieved the first cache. It was all thrusters go then with 10 caches collected in 30 minutes.

There were:
Ducks blocking the road.
Endless scratches.
Falls.
Never ending GPS woes.
Red rashes that won't go away...
Wriggly sticks (we DNF'd that one...)
Stunning views.
Lots of pretty flowers!
Logs learning to swim.
Plenty of geopiles.
Christmas carols playing.
Angelique_Anja's sandwich collection.
Party collection of lollies.
Logs, stumps and trees of every variety.
And caches upon caches, upon caches!!!

At 5.20pm Angelique_Anja retrieved cache 100.

All in all, 103 caches were done today by this exhausted team. 6 DNF's, not too had considering!

But we did it! We really, really did it!

***Team ZACAATT does 100 caches in 24 hours***

At 5.37am Tally Tiger, Zedaycee and Angelique_Anja were bundled into the car and headed towards Mount Disappointment. With one goal in mind (well 100 goals...), The mission was underway.

At 7.07am Zedaycee retrieved the first cache. It was all thrusters go then with 10 caches collected in 30 minutes.

There were:
Ducks blocking the road.
Endless scratches.
Falls.
Never ending GPS woes.
Red rashes that won't go away...
Wriggly sticks (we DNF'd that one...)
Stunning views.
Lots of pretty flowers!
Logs learning to swim.
Plenty of geopiles.
Christmas carols playing.
Angelique_Anja's sandwich collection.
Party collection of lollies.
Logs, stumps and trees of every variety.
And caches upon caches, upon caches!!!

At 5.20pm Angelique_Anja retrieved cache 100.

All in all, 103 caches were done today by this exhausted team. 6 DNF's, not too had considering!

But we did it! We really, really did it!

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'Why did the chicken cross the road?' - 'Because he had to expand his search radius.'
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Staying at Kilmore, we tackled some of the Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson series, dodging the rain clouds, thunder and lightning that added to the adventure.

This took us through the country side of the Mount Disappointment area, up and down the gravel roads where we met a few 4x4 and motor bike muggles having fun in the area as well.

Most were quick finds but some were not. Cache and contents were in excellent condition.

Thanks carkisser & JSando for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. Appreciate the time and effort gone into this series.

With a last minute plan hatched with abl973, we decided to head towards Mt Disappointment. With warmer conditions earlier on, the clouds rolled in later during the afternoon bringing a few welcome drops of rain. The landscape varied quite a bit with plenty of different flora along the trail. The satellites were agreeing with us today as the coordinates were pretty spot on. The detail of the lid on the containers was an excellent touch.

Thanks to carkisser for placing this cache.

This series has been on my radar for way too long so last night a quick plan was devised between square_pegs and myself to have a go at conquering a decent sized chunk of Mt Disappointment. I had no idea what to expect but what I can say with certainty is today turned out awesome. Even the weather remained stable and we got used to the humidity. Towards the late afternoon the rain came down which was welcomed as it reduced the heat and spurred us towards our goal. This cache was 80 of 128 found and logged amongst sights of Kangaroos, colourful birds and lizards.

Thanks carkisser for hiding good sized caches with spot on co-ords.

Day 2 of Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson run. All the cache containers were in good condition, but #70 needs a new log as it is full and #71 has a very wet and mouldy log that also needs to be replaced.
All logs had our initials added (GP2) and the containers were replaced as found where all was finished.
Our thanks go to carkisser & JSando for a seriously long power trail. We may have to complete this on another occasion with only limited time available now.

10692 Found and Logged at 1:24:00 PM
One of 141 cachers while camping at Anderson Gardens few a few days for the Mt Disappointment Trail
Thanks For The Cache carkisser
Lgoody

Our third day caching as the GOTHs, Geocachers of the Hills, made up by the following teams, Bushfire, Aussie M & M, mogni, Team Astro, brisal5 and 6hinemoa2. Our aim was to try to clear out caches in various spots and we had a special goal for good friend Lawrie, aka Bushfire, we wanted to bust his record of caches found in one day. This meant a desperate attempt on doing as many caches as we could on Mount Desperation, aiming to hit 200 in a day which is not my best day. So many power trails in SA do that for you. It was all about Lawrie today. Some interesting spots were found, got close to the river, and some amazing views. Thanks for the hides.

We wer exhausted after this day and half a night, had dinner at MacDonalds on the Hume Hwy somewhere in Victoria.... Only would do this for Lawrie. Thanks again, all cache owners.

Thursday 16th Meeting up with 2Hinemoa6 in Bacchus Marsh and then Aussie M & M and Brisal5 both from SA in Broadford the team is nearly complete. Mogni and Team Astro will meet us at our headquarters (Maybole Cottage) for the next few days.
Day 4 19th Sunday Our farm stay has everything required for a very pleasant few days.
Up early and ready for a long day caching we stopped at this cache as it was on our list, soon located, log signed so on to the next. To save space in the logs we logged as GOTHS or GOTHS + 2 as we all live in the hills.
With hundreds of caches to log most will be cut and paste but I do thank all the owners for their thought and effort that has gone into placing a huge variety of hides around this very beautiful area.
Thanks carkisser & JSando for organizing this cache

Thanks for another smilie. Quick find where all good at GZ.


Great to be over this side of the ditch for a few days with my key focus being the Mega in Alexandra and associated activities. I’ll be taking some ideas back to New Zealand so as we plan for a major Event next year we can look to implement some of the great things from Melbourne.


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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn’t be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU.

So much fun.[:o)] So many laughs. The coordinates were mainly spot on and the tracks were mainly dry and dusty (even after all that rain).

Found as part of my 2017 Alexandra Mega experience with the GOTHS. So an awesome group consisting of 2Hinemoa6, Mogni, Aussie M&M, Bushfire, Brisal6 This cache added to the fun and enjoyment of my trek to the east then back from Adelaide. While there were a few thunder storms, there were mainly clear skies and I never saw a snake!

Thanks to carkisser and *clear skies* from TeamAstro. Cache the planet!

MEGA ROAD TRIP - Alexandra Mega 2017 that is. : Day 5: GOTHS have a disappointing driving lesson. [8)]

GENERIC LOGS: With Literally Hundreds of caches found during our stay anything specific to this cache will be found near the start HERE: [8] [8] [8] Nothing here means it was found quickly, the cache had no issues and we moved on!


We had all come together for the Alexandra event at a lovely farmstay just outside the township. Mrs. Aussie M&M, Astro and I from Adelaide, mogni from Mt. Gambier, Bushfire from Geelong and 6hinemoa2 from Bachus Marsh. We would be filling up log books just putting our names in them so we searched for an anagram from our caching name initials. The best we could find was BATHMATs. [B)] Good grief. So we settled on GOTHS = Geocachers Of The HillS as we all lived on a hill of one type or another. [:o)] We didn't just 'turn up' and cache. Many months of planning and puzzle solving went on before we made our way over and so we had some target caches and series to have a go at. Today was Mount Dissappointment driving lesson power trails - and anything else that was nearby in our travels. Once again the planning by the mega committee and to local cachers made our stay fantastic. [^][^]

Thanks carkisser for this cache.

This was a group assault, 3 cars and 8 geocachers and we were able to find 200 plus of this series...
Apologies for the generic logs but power trails are exhausting.

Thanks from mogni

I set off on a mission to find as many of the series as possible. It was early in the day, I had plenty of fuel and food in the car, so perfect! Most of them were pretty straight forward, but some gave me a little bit of a headache. I was impressed with the size of the caches, not very usual for a power trail! And there was even a storm with thunder and lightning in the second half of the day, but it rained just enough to give me better traction on the road I did manage a large chunk, although I was struggling with the last three due to the darkness setting in - and then I was travelling back to Alexandra at crawling speed out of fear of hitting a kangaroo! Great fun overall, thank you for placing and maintaining the trail!!