E2W - The Bull Paddock Londrigan, Victoria, Australia
By BettyBoo3747 on 22-Oct-15. Waypoint GC65TWR

Decided to dust the bike off and complete some more of this series. It was a warm day with a nice breeze every now and then. Enjoyed my ride with only one DNF for the day. One more trip, and I should have then series knocked over. Spotted 2 snakes today, small brown at the start and a huge red belly on the way back there out and about with the change in temp. TFTC!

Today we drove to Bowser and unloaded our bikes to enjoy a day of caching and riding in this beautiful Spring weather. We packed a picnic to enjoy somewhere along the way.Very green paddocks here and the wind has settled again. Beautiful view across the paddock.Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the cache.

Another nice easy find here. The sunshine is beautiful! We are out enjoying the sunshine, collecting a few more smiles along the rail trail. Thanks again BettyBoo, we are really enjoying the caches along the trail.

Rode another section of the Rail Trail today checking the caches as we went. Started at Londrigan Station and finished at Tarrawingee Station. This one was visible as I rode past so we checked it and hid better. I note the lid is cracked but all was good inside the container so I will just check it occasionally and see how it is faring.

Good one!

I'm out on my Ebike along the trail today finding these caches all going well so far and the weather is perfect TFTC

I always try not to be on the same side of a fence as a bull, my one attempt at facing up to a bull led to disaster, and I came off second best. Well, I came off second best in the encounter but the bull ended up paying the ultimate price .
Exploring rural Victoria as part of the SPINZ team: Sidewaze, paddle chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from New Zealand. I’m really enjoying the landscape and seeing what goes on in this neck of the woods. All the different eucalypts, the pepper trees and other interesting plants. The colourful birds, some quite noisy and some very noisy. The many vistas - - beautiful in sunlight and shade. I loved visiting each and every cache and really appreciate the effort required to hide and maintain them. Thanks to the cache owners. Greetings from Aotearoa / New Zealand, happy caching and if you have yet to visit us across the ditch to see what we have to offer, do make sure you enter such a visit on your “to do” list.

This is my first trip outside New Zealand caching and enjoyed getting this cache with Team SPINZ tftc

Found on our Rutherglen Mega trip, all logs signed as SPINZ (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from NZ). Sorry about the cut and paste logs. TFTC

#13256

we nominated Nanzie to go in for this one as she has the most close up and personal experience with bulls. Not that it was necessary in the end. TFTC # 18,995

Spending a week in Bright exploring the surrounding area. Quick find with Bogonghazy. Found out in the open. Placed in its spot. Thanks for placing the geocache

Found with LittleBoss2 on our trip from Bright to Everton. Quick find here. It in the open. Thanks Bettyboo

Found previously with BlackOpal2005. We thought it was time to create our own accounts.

Good find with zeb

Nice easy find. Great series!

TFTC

6 July 2022
1:19 pm
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Hi BettyBoo3747, I found E2W - The Bull Paddock today.

Many thanks BettyBoo3747 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Out in the open. Have hidden it from view in the same spot.

Found it TFTC

No bulls. In fact all was very quiet. No other riders
Out for a short ride while staying at Tarrawingee. This is a great trail , a wonderful asset for the area.

Only a few cattle today, no bulls. TFTC

Found it TFTC

Had a nights accommodation booked in Wangaratta as my geohusband had a jet fighter plane flight booked. When the flight was cancelled due to the weather forecast we still made the trip up and hit the rail trail for some caching. The plan was to do as much of the trail as we could. TFTC

Our final day in Wangaratta after attending the recent Mega.
We had intended to hit the trails by bike but although the day was cooler, it was still quite muggy and we haven't ridden much lately. Another time!
So we headed out in the car and worked on a variety of caches. Some from the rail trail and others in surrounding areas. Again we came across a variety of caches.
Our thanks to Geocaching Victoria for organizing the Mega and to local cachers that have given us so many to look for. We've got plenty more to do, so we'll be back!

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache BettyBoo3747.
**SKI Pair****

Attending the Wangaratta Mega weekend with the ladies of FurfacesLL, we collected heaps of caches and saw many scenic views along the way. Today we were back on the bike trail, we had a mix of heat, rain, humidity, mozzies and flies.

Picking up where we left off on Friday and it was time to continue our travels. It was a great day out on the trail with lots of laughter along the way. Some finds were nice and quick and some took a little longer, but in the end, we found most.

Thanks to the CO for the cache placement for us to all enjoy. Thanks to the FFLL ladies for a fun filled trip away

Day 4 of the Wangaratta Mega with Rapidlywild.

Today we decided to head early to try and beat the heat and call into Beechworth first to do one of the labs there and then it was back onto the trail with the bikes.

Back on the trail and thankfully when we started it was still cool, but it looked like it would be a very warm one.

All caches were found along the journey unless otherwise mentioned.
Great trail and glad we took the time out to make the journey.

Thanks for the hide and maintaining BettyBoo3747

Found out caching with Wollaston, Liz&Bruce following a great MEGA event at Wangaratta Mega.

Container condition good
Log condition lots of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC BettyBoo3747

Find # 6020

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz and Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC BettyBoo3747
Find #8410 at 13:09.

Out with Wollaston and SeasonedBird today. This is one of the caches we targeted and found thankyou for giving us the opportunity to explore.

Mega weekend, we had a great time finding your cache BettyBoo3747, thank you so much for placing it.

Caching in this area with Crank1 during the Mega event. BettyBoo3747, thank you so much for placing it and highlighting this area.

In Wangaratta for the Mega, we traveled over early so we could get some local caching in. After stowing the shop in a storage shed so it wasn't bouncing around in the back of the car we set up in the caravan park and can now cache and explore. Today we headed out early to beat the heat but also we were on a timeframe! A quick find, Cache in good order. Took TB ..TFTC

tftc

Found with MazzyMay TFTC

Found while holidaying in the area TFTC

No bull, just a cache. Thanks

Riding with Robmc and chewinprickles today and doing a second pre-Mega cache maintenance run. Another 18 checked today between Cattleyard Corner and the Beechworth-Wangatta road.

Picked up a TB and left the other TB in there for now.

Nice little hide

Rode the rail trial from Wang to Beechworth for 50km on a cold winter's day. Was hoping the sun would come out, but no, it didn't.....temp didn't get higher than 8 degrees. Lucky I was dressed appropiately and prepared for the day. Not many riders about either, which is surprising! Found and signed. Off I rode to the next one. Didnt see the bull today. TFTC and series.

A good nice quick find. No Bulls or even cows home today.
Very nice farmland, though.
TFTC

Good easy find

Easy find but had to wait for lots of muggles to pass before would could claim it. TFTC.

Found today while out with Kiara001, TFTC

Found with TLW and VK3GS TFTC while on a nice bike ride with the Geokids!

Good find

Lost sight of the sheep but we tried, fingers crossed he’s all good. Good hide! TFTC!

Another quickiw, thanks.

The start of our big day riding the trails. It was cool in the morning but became very warm later in the day. The container was found just where the numbers took us, signed in and we moved on.
Thanks BettyBoo3747

A lovely bike ride to the cache. A quick and easy find. TFTC

Tftc

Cool find

Nice found for the kids

Good find... TFTC

Robmc and I did a 30km round trip checking all my caches between Tarrawingee Station and Bowser Station and providing maintenance as required.

All good here. Nicely camouflaged and log book OK.

Quick find, a little covered now

Added a swap - good spot

That was easy. Found with GosBeldum

Could see from the path. With jldnj.

Today is my last day off work until after the silly season. Even tho the weather is pretty horrible I wasn't going to pass up a child free caching day. It poured rain all the way from Albury to Wang than miraculously stopped at my first cache.
2 big bulls looking on today
Thanks BettyBoo more smilies added to the rail trail today.

Another good hide. TFTC

Caching in the Wangaratta area today trying to find as many caches as possible in our limited time here. Found a section of this trail that was close to a road which made caching by car rather than bike easy. Appreciate the time and effort put into these hides. TFTC

Just a bit overcast today
Bulls are all resting.
TFTC

Another quick one, 2 down, 10 to go and mystery is complete.. left explorer card, took nothing, tftc

With such beautiful weather on the weekend, I had to make the decision do I scout out more sites on the border loop, or do I find a few new caches. Given keen to have some time with the family (and middle geoson gets carsick) decided to head down to the rail trail and collect a few. With two cars we could do some car shuffling and the geowife also got a good bike ride. I hadn't realised how many in this area could be accessed by the car, but that just helped get a few more done. In the end got 20 caches, and 1 DNF and after a late lunch in Beechworth another multi solved, but didn't have the reach to get up to the cache (will be back).

No bulls here today - in fact the only four legged beast was the geohound trapped in the car (and not happy). Cache quickly found and kept on my way.

TFTC BettyBoo3747

Today I bicycled the M2M from Wangaratta to Everton. A great ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. Had a pretty good strike rate overall, but there was the odd inevitable DNF along the way as well. Thanks to everyone for all the cache placements, and also thanks to Nigel for the bicycle hire and shuttle service. Cheers and TFTC

Found while out on a caching trip up through Benalla and Wangaratta and the Winton Wetlands.
Thanks for the cache.

With a big day of hiking behind us it was time to enjoy a few drive-bys as we made our way to our overnight campground in a round about way With torches being our best friend we managed to grab 20 or so on the trail including a DNF .
Red flag to a bull.......charge........
Thanks very much BettyBoo3747 for the great effort you always put into your caches.

Smashed out some drive bys after a long drive coming up from Geelong and grabbing caches along the way. So much fun doing this trail at night with good company. Coords all spot on and easy finds. Tftc.

Yeah, don't want to go running through this paddock!

Looks like the bull has bolted, the gate is open but we did find the Geo catch not the bull thankfully

Tftc quick park and grab with drobbo

Tftc logged it!

Moo. Odd feeling I’ve been here before but ‘sait la vie’ it’s a perfect autumn day to be out on the bike. TFTC

Havijng seen the devastation yesterday, caused by 6 inches of rain in mid-December (in 24 hours) I thought I had better ride the Rail Trail and check all the caches. This ride was between Tarrawingee Station and Bowser Station checking all my caches along the way. 15 kilometres, 3 hours of hard work and 38 degrees by the time we finished at 12.30pm. Mad dogs and geocachers only out in this heat. Fortunately we had a car and cold drinks waiting at the Wangaratta end.

All well with the cache and log here. Ready to be found.

Quick find on quiet cool day TFTC

Quickfind by The Geo kids I think we'll come back and ride this section of the rail trail and find a few more of these Caches

Out on the deadly on a cold winters day rode the trail down as far as the Wang - Beechworth rd most were easy finds , a couple more difficult and two DNFs

Today is the 9th of June long weekend of 2018 and I managed to ride a bike for the first time in 15 years to find a heap of the Rail Trail caches with Joolay, Kitty Katch, Strangetrousers and several others. We signed the logbook as a group under the name Capital Crunches to save space on the logs. We had several DNFs along the way but most of the caches were easy and quick finds. Spotted two rabbits, millions of birds and heaps of farm animals. It was amazing, Thanks for all the caches and sorry for the generic log for this cache but with so many caches in one day it would be too hard to write a different one for each cache. I have included my Geocaching poem within my log for you and anyone else to read. I hope you all enjoy the poem and geocaching as much as I do.

I found this cache on one of the three days caching in this area. Strangetrousers and I collected about 120 caches including a multis, puzzles, an Earthcaches and Traditionals before heading back to Canberra and real life (Sadly).

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind

I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see

Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?

Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there

As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

***** I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of today the 9th June 2018 my average was 70 words per log, which seems close to the 100 target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After almost 3000 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 70 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

#4150 31st for today

Day 2 of our MMRT trail ride weekend at Beechworth/Wanagaratta.Today I was joined by Kittykatch, Joolay, CBRChic, Geosnag1 and DarkSideDan. So we resumed where we left off yesterday at Everton and managed a much better rythym today, broken only by the occasional difficult find or DNF. I think we rode about 35 Km in total, but it wasn't too bad being mostly long flat stretches. We spotted lots of cows, sheep, some horses and a few goats along the way. Not a few cyclists also passed us also. We even came across a family of first time geocachers and gave them a few hints.


Logs variously signed as "Capital Crunchers", "CBR Crunchers" and "Canberra Crunchers". And thanks to Grimraider for the transport today.

Thanks to the COs: BettyBoo3747

Found with the the Capital Crunchers team. A beaut day out and the caches were challenging - Thanks for the Cache !

Fantastic day riding from Everton to Wangaratta on the 2nd day of riding the trail. Beautiful sunny day and such a lovely area to ride through and great trail. Did not find all as some were tricky. Found with Kittykatch, Canberra Chic, Strangetrousers, Geo Snag1 and Darksidedan (Capital Crunchers) on a caching trip to Wangaratta to ride the rail trail. Thanks for bringing us here

We did get to see the bull, but he was a long way off and probably wasn't too concerned about our presence here today. It would be a pretty good life.
We trekked out to this one from "Cattleyard Corner" and so after the find we headed back to our vehicle.
SL at 12.05pm. All ok with the hide.
A nice part of the rail trail and not a muggle in sight. TFTC BettyBoo3747.

Red leader was doing her best impersonation of a farmer at this cache and distracted me from the initial find
Lucky Indianagleeson and fox 2 were paying attention!

TFTC!
Another one down.
Found with Shellumbus and RedLeader&Fox2.

Some cows by the fence were very interested in movements. Found with indianagleeson and shellumbus. TFTC.

On another Ceocachin run this morning which started of a bit slow thenpicked up as the day changed from cool to very warm. I found this along with a number of others on this run. All cache found were in working order. TFTC.

Wadonga to Everton. Arriving into BettyBoo3747 Territory
After setting up camp in the caravan park we went for a drive around the area to find a few more in the area. This took us around many coutry roads & into farming terriotry.
A good variety of containers & hide. Some easy & others a little challenging.
Thanks for placing this cache BettyBoo3747

Headed down to Victoria with steeba and Hoojar to be part of the 3rd Victorian Mega celebrations in Alexandra. Our 3-day leave pass ensured we’d be constantly on the go! From 300 finds in the Mt Disappointment area to 10 different cache types there was never a dull moment.

This was day 3 of our road trip and it was time to head for home but not before we bagged a few more caches around Wangarratta and then some highway finds.

Thanks to all the cache owners who contributed to a great 3 days caching with my fellow caching buddies. My apologies about the template style log, it certainly doesn’t detract from the thrill of the ‘find”.

TFTC

Found as part of a few days away with my great caching mates The Rats and Hoojar. Our main aim was the Mega event in Alexandra but we managed to find most of the Mt Disappointment series, did 9 or 10 cache types in a day (side trip to Mt Buller and then Melbourne CBD). Some great laughs, camping under the stars, a nicely organised Mega and some great wildlife (koala and echidnas ). TFTC!

The idea of going down to Victoria and to the Alexandra Mega was original floated by Steeba. Normally Megas are not something that I am super keen to attend, but the opportunity of also collect some serious numbers on the Mount Disappointment caching trail, and finding some Lab Caches really helped to sweetened the deal. I was in, along with my long time caching buddies Steeba and The Rats.

We left Wollongong at 8pm on Thursday evening, returning at 5pm on Sunday, 2,500km and over 400 cache finds later. With less than a handful of DNFs, a wonderful result!

Highlights of the trip included:
- Finding over 330 caches on Friday, the entire Mount Disappointment trail;
- Finding ten unique cache types on Saturday, which included a drive to both Mount Buller for a Web Cam, and then back for a late night Melbourne CBD visit for a Virtual;
- Meeting up with a few local Wollongong cachers in Alexandra;
- Setting two new personal records, for my most cache finds and cache types in a day;
- The always good company and banter of Steeba and The Rats;
- Seeing six echidnas, and a koala (my first sighting of a koala on the ground in the wild); and
- The absolute highlight of the trip was watching Sir The Rats be inducted into the Australia Geocaching Hall of Fame (or maybe the jokes that Steeba and I had over the weekend over the honour!).

Thanks to all of the cachers that hid caches for us to find over our short trip away. I have little doubt in thinking that we will be back to these parts again at some stage to find more caches!

Cheers

Out and about with Deep_99. TFTC

found after staying nearby for the night on a road trip with GeoJill_11
Thanks for placing these caches

Log 1167 Streak Day 313

This is our fourth trip to the northern island this year. The first three were primarily for family events but withe some opportunities to do some caching along the way. The fourth trip is different as caching is our focus. After getting off The Spirit of Tasmania we are heading north to cache at Wangaratta and then Yass before heading into the ACT and Queanbeyan for a week. After that we will travel to Jindabyne for a few days with summiting Mount Kosciuszko being our main target for this part of our trip. Then we will visit Cooma and Tumut before heading back down the track through Wangaratta and Mansfield as we make our way to Alexandra for the MEGA. After the weekend we will continue to make our way south and back onto the Spirit of Tasmania for the “drive” across Bass Strait. We are really looking forward to three weeks of intense caching in great areas and, hopefully, catching up with some geocachers in each of the areas we will visit.

For the first part of the day we cached from Craigieburn to Wangaratta looking for caches which were easy to access as we headed north. For the remainder of the day we cached from Wangaratta to Beechworth. Each time we visit Wangaratta we try to allocate some time to look for caches in the Wangaratta, Myrtleford and Beechworth areas. During our earlier visits we concentrated on the excellent Hoop Star series and we started on some sections of the rail trails as well as individual caches in each of the areas. This trip we were hoping to explore some other sections of the extensive rail trails.

The caches in this section of the rail trail were easily accessible as it was just a short walk from where we parked the car to GZ. It may have been the bull paddock, but there were no bulls to be seen today. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks BettyBoo3747 for this cache and all your caches along the various rail trails in between Wangaratta and Beechworth.

***** We are currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. On 1 September 2017 our average was 86 which seems close to the 100 target. However given that we have found so many GC caches, we have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get our average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that we can strive to attain this challenge. After 59 caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 87.5. Progress is being made but there is still a long way before we achieve our goal.*****

Traffic spot

Tftc

Quick find by geo wife and the Wackyweedos while they walk along the track with me driving along the road!

Short jog to this one - keeping warm. Beat MrClazza again! We better let him get the next one.... tftc

There were no bulls here today. Just some forlorn cows next door wondering when their muscled men will return. No eye candy for this lot today!

A quick find, TFTC!

No bull !!
I found this cache on me bike ride today

It damn hot !! [:o]
No bull !!

TFTC

With KB in town for a few days it was decided that we'd hit the rail trail on the weekend. It was a warm and windy day, we started at 10am in Bowser and made our way along the trail. Most were quite easy finds but a few were challenging. We contended with loads of grass seeds in the sometimes shoulder height grass, we also found a couple of snakes guarding caches along the way (a brown and a red belly black).

Thanks for a fun day out which finished at 7pm!

And of course, TFTC