The Port Phillip & Colonial Gold Mining Company Clunes, Victoria, Australia
By GemmaSistema on 20-Nov-15. Waypoint GC674VM

Out in the PeuGEOt in the Clunes/Dunolly area for some caches.All is good with the cache and a quick find.TFTC

TFTC beautiful spot and good find

Doing the rounds of the local caches after the event this morning. Container is in good condition. Left a pathtag. TFTC

Tftc. Always great when cache hunting brings you to an interesting little spot that you wouldn't ordinarily visit.

I arrived on the big island a few days ago with the main intention of attending the Cache Crawl next weekend. Today as I am staying in the vicinity of Ballarat I decided to head to Clunes to get caches there.I arrived at GZ where a quick find of a cache in good condition was made.

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Easy park and find with Cinematicjoj and Geo dog Linar thanks for the hide

Tftc Needs more paper and put in some swaps, cache was pretty empty. Enjoy!

Running out of room on paper four names.Good hiding spot

We found it! Noa, mica, ori

Easy find with clue: David, Simone, Meredith and Wallis

Made a nice quick find! TFTC!!

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Thx

Easy find thanks!

Walked to this one later in the pm after a fairly busy day around town with AdLabs, a couple of mongrel multis, and some traditionals. Nice to read some more of the history, and follow the creek walk back to base. Appreciated the work being done on rehabilitation and interpretation here as well. TFTC.

Found it. Nice and easy

A nice easy find thank you.

Some interesting information here and a good find.

The noise of 80 stampers must have been horrendous!Read the information and spotted the cache.Thanks, Robmc.

Good found super easy

A quick find on a very hot day. Thoroughly enjoying our day in Clunes. Tftc

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Good one

Great little spot thanks

Australia Day 2024. Lovely weather. Good company (muggle Mrs. Screamer). I parked at the display then checked the phone app. Hmmm. Eleven meters away, hey? Scanned the area. Where would I hide a small geocache about eleven metres away? Aha! I took a few steps and soon had the cache in hand. Thanks for bringing us here today GemmaSistema. SL TN L a short pencil. Attended to the newly acquired bleeding scratch on the back of my hand.

A good spot! TFTC

Some interesting history here today, the cache was easily found thanks to the hint This week I decided to head to Victoria for a few days to target finishing off the Ballarat Geotour and also find the new series in St Arnaud, anything else was a bonus. I ended up finding a little over 300 caches plus a tonne of ad labs along the way. Thanks for the cache

Quick find here. The cache was right there.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I SAs Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Cant wait!!South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward! Count down: less than half a year to go.Have you got the balls to geocache in South Australia...

We are on our way to Ballarat after a day caching near Beaufort and this was a late afternoon detour to Clunes for a few a caches. It was all quiet near GZ and the cache was found quickly. Thanks to GemmaSistema for the cache.

Found at 2.30pm. After a walk around town completing 2 Lab caches we walked past this one.An easy find.Not much left of the mine now except for the mullock heap.ThanksK&M

What an interesting town. So full of history and incredible gold mining information. TFTC GemmaSistema

Found it!

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Thanks

Found it today on a mid week caching day, with beautiful spring sunshine. Thanks for the cache.

Found pretty quickly although the grass is rather tall so looked quite gingerly. TFTC

Was a pretty quick find

The tall grass in the vicinity of GZ meant that it was a brief hunt before the cache was located despite accurate coordinates. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache.

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No gold today unless you count a cache! Interesting place to stop and take in the history and see where the mining took place. Although we are just doing a stop and grab and onto the next town - here really to fill our LGA. Cache in good condition.

Tftc pretty town friendly people

Found it easy, left some treasures

Easy find with Rohkad. What a cool town! Tftc

I came to explore the area and read the sign and thought to myself what a good spot for a cache so I opened my app and sure enough! Thanks for placing this cache

Touring the area and moving the history. Tftc

Taking my gran out for lunch in Clunes and she decided that we should find some together!

Fairly easy

Nice easy find

Found it!!!!!!!!!

Partners first geo !!

Found it 15/2/2023

An afternoon trip with my wife to have a look around Clunes. Stopped off for this one while on the trail of the AL. Had a read of the nearby info board and then headed towards GZ and soon had the cache in hand. Log signed, and then off for another.

Thanks for another one GemmaSistema.

A quick find here, whilst doing the labs...
Love this town, so much history!
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Thanks

Quick find

Quick find

Found it ️

Out with Mrs JTreeTrack2, let's go via clunes. Great spot to learn some History. Thanks for placing the cache here so we could learn something.

Thanks GemmaSistema.

Not game to go further into the long grass on a hot day.

Heading to Ballarat area for the day & the community event tonight but couldn't resist a quick stop. I used to come to Widow Twankey's Sweetie Shop regularly but alas, it is no more so I need to source my UK sweeties elsewhere. Shame really because I like Clunes. Many thanks ?? ??????????????????

Willaura to Talboc
The weather today was torrential rain, so we have decided to camp tonight at the sports ground.
We needed power as the sola has not been getting enough sun.
A drive up to Maryborough to do some shopping & caching in the morning. The afternoon we drove to Clunes to do the AL & any other caches we past.
This was a great way to tour this area.
Thanks for placing your cache.

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With a Community Celebration relocated from the big hill to this historic town, of course I took an Adventure Lab tour. Or two.

And my wandering led to this extra bonus cheeky smiley.

Thanks, GemmaSistema.

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We spent a about 10 days on the road with aqau caching around St Arnaud, Ballarat and Daylesford areas.
Thanks for your cache

Quick find with Sorceysal who'd already found it. Thanks Gemma

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I spent the bulk of today wandering around Mt Beckworth, getting some exercise ahead of this weekend's Australasian Rogaine Champs near Avoca. Afterwards, I explored Clunes doing the adventure labs and other caches. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Cache found and log signed with dalerious on an awesome extra long weekend in Clunes .
This one was found at night like all but one of the caches here.
Cache was found in good condition.
Thank you GemmaSistema for your contribution to this wonderful game .

After a huge day on Mt Beckworth, catnap777 and I crawled back to our camp in Clunes, freshened up snd hit the town for every cache and adlab we could get our greedy mits on.
We did leave the older multi in town for the next day though so we could actually see in daylight all the points of interest that the rest were taking us to.
This really is a beaut little town with lots to offer..... except street lighting.

TFTC GemmaSistema.
Found under torchlight.

Nice hide. Thanks

A nice quick find here after tackling two ad labs and a long multi it was a nice change of pace.

This one was easy to find

Found

Thanks for showing a piece of history. Found during the book fair.

Easy

Found

A bit of history TFTC

Quick pick up. Camping in the district, donating back to the town

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Got it

Cheers BUSHRATZ

Great spot!!

13 March 2022
4:34 pm
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Many thanks GemmaSistema for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

We had been visiting my mum for her 90th birthday and sadly we had to head back to Tassie today but we had some spare time to do a couple of caches on our way to Melbourne before catching the SOT.

Had been in this area once before but don’t mind returning.

TFTC

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Spending a few hours around Clunes to do some adventure labs and other special caches. Thanks to the COs for placing these caches.
Thanks for bring us to this mine.

While staying in Ballarat we decided to take a drive up to Clunes to find some caches along the way, as well as the ones in town and also do the adventure labs based around the history of Clunes. Had a lovely few hours enjoying the area and learning about its past. Thanks to the COs for the caches/ALs.

Found it

Found, thank you:)

Got it no pen

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Quick find, had no pen to sign but will be back to sign later. TFTC

All fixed

Found it, TFTC

Found it thankyou

We did a day trip from where we were camped in Talbot to Clunes. Naturally caching was on the agenda and this was one of the ones I found.

Out exploring.
Love reading about the gold rush era.
TFTC

Great information at this sign. TFTC

A lovely area on a lovely day. Quick find by the youngest geokid.

Great find with the kids.

Good hint

Found it nice an easy one