BROG #16 - West Berry Consols No 2 Mine Allendale, Victoria, Australia
By Saint.Anthony on 22-Dec-15. Waypoint GC68GV5

TFTC

Found & logged TFTC

We are on our way to Maldon for a two nights to allow us to travel on the Victorian Goldfields Railway - and the steam train, J549, is back in operation. Apologies for some generic log as most of the finds for this series were straightforward. Thanks to Saint.Anthony for the cache.

Quick find! TFTC!!

This was my kind of micro! An easy find on our caching afternoon. Tftc.

Chasing caches on a lovely sunny Saturday, Thanks for the CDLGM series Saint Anthony. SL TN LN

Found it

Found it

Quick find here today, cache is all goodThis 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

TFTC all safe and dry

Thank you for the cache.

Making new friends ️ Really Enjoying Seeing How Many Mines Are Around Creswick And The History Here TFTC

Quick find. Lots of trinkets inside. ️ cute

Last one for the day on this very wet day Thanks Saint. Anthony for this one ️

Now in Ballarat and enjoying the new home, just not all the unpacking, so headed up this way to grab a few more caches in the area. Managed to grab another 10 before the need to head back and continue to free up a few more boxes. No issues with this one and the cache was soon in hand and the log signed.

Thanks again for the historical series Saint.Anthony....

Back in Creswick for a few days, picking up a few caches in the area.
This cache found in good condition. Signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Saint.Anthony, for us and others to find.

Good find

Nice quick one again here

Hi

Found

Another day with out sassieold55, we decided to to spend some more time here to gather some more smileys. TFTC

Found it out and about with annabella02 , tftc

Yep....big micro. All good. Last one for the day.

Yes

Nice treeTFTC

Found it with SciFiRulz TFTC

Found with PapaGrouch. Another cache found in the cooler evening. Had me tricked as it was a bit larger than I expected. TFTC

Found but wouldn't call it a mico. TFTC

Wouldn’t say this one is a micro, more of a regular size, tftc!

Missed it the 1st look but then we found it. Thanks.

A little tricker than the previous ones today, but success!

Found after originally looking in the wrong spot! TFTC

great little find, views and history

TFTC

Found at 4:50pm, the wind is freezing this afternoon! The cache is in good nick, thanks for another cache!

Swapped a Stickeeez

Sweet! Love how ppl leave toys. X

What a funny group of trees ... wonder who was here first. TFTC

Great

Great easy find. Thanks for the cache.

Nice quick find TFTC

January 31,2021 2:53 PM #3323

Out enjoying a day of peace and quiet by myself. Finally another decent sized cache, been a long time between drinks! Cheers and TFTC. CIGC TNLNSL

Checked and bit drier now. StA

Logbook is wet. Was a good little find

Bit wet

Out and about after lockdown no.2
So good to be caching and doing some gold detecting. The country side is looking green and lush and the canola fields are spectacular
Staying in creswick for a few days.

Quick find after the previous two. Home now the weather is really coming in. TFTC

Slowly making my way home from a couple of days away helping out a friend and decided to complete some caches along the way. I should have headed home by now but having too much fun. Another quick find. Thanks for the cache

Omegaman1971

It was great to be back in the area caching and catching up my buddy Rebel Acts.
So many new caches online around Ballarat and Creswick since the last time I was up this way, and awesome to see some lab caches here as well.

Cheers Saint Anthony for the caches and the fun weekend

I had a few days off so plans were made to catch up with omegaman1971 and do some caching around the Ballarat and Creswick areas, We had a great time finding caches in the area and learning about the history of the region. The weather was a little cold but bearable.

Thanks Saint.Anthony for the cache.

Tftc tmf

Found it with deanfamily6

Thanks for the find!

Tftc

Tftc

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Wonderful history throughout this area! Nice night to be out and about

On a day trip to Creswick and beyond to explore the area and of course to Cache our way around .
A cache to tell the story of history with great cache notes .
There are so many mines in this area and wonder where the nearest piece of gold is .
Great work in publishing this series which is much appreciated.
Tftc
Saint.Anthony

First for the new decade!

Tftc!

Tftc saint.anthony quick find on a bloody hot day

started my day off by attending the Ballarat Breakfast event and continued Northish to find some more. Spotted a bunch of caches to be found in this area so I went to work to find as many as I could. TFTC.

Heading to St. Arnaud for the mega event. Day 70 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 32 for the day and 1968 for the trip. TFTC

Found it quickly enough.
Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Noice m8

China

Find No. 2749. Found at 2.52pm.

A day out caching in the van with Geodog Penny and FUF009.

Having found all the gems for the 'Mystery at the Museum', our goal for today was to find caches so we could open the vault. We headed down to north of Creswick where there have been a few more caches added to the map since we were last there.
An interesting area with all the mines around. Most were quick finds, some took a bit longer. For the day we were able to fulfill the next task for the game - needing 35 caches to open the vault. We managed a total of 36 plus one DNF.

We were lucky with the day, no rain but rather cold. With all the wet weather lately it was wet and muddy underfoot. Penny enjoyed herself walking through puddles which meant we ended up with a wet dog in the van and a rather muddy blanket. But we all enjoyed ourselves.

TFTC

Found it

Grabbing some caches to fulfill the Mystery challenge and had this one on the list. Great sized cache! Thanks for bringing us here Saint.Anthony! TFTC, TNLNSL, CIGC

Found )

Done!

Found one micro lunchbox

Visiting get daughter from Qld. This is the first days since I arrived that there hasn’t been any rain. It’s nice to get out and find a few caches. Thanks for the hide.

Newstead Day 3
Todays trip was around the mining area as far south as Creswick. We came accross some amazing caches & locations, a really enjoyable day.
The weather started quite bad, rain jackets & beanies to keep warm. The unsealed roads were good to drive on as we kriss cossed the country side. Learnin a little about the area as we went.
Thanks for placing this cache Saint.Anthony

Out for the day caching with barnes86 having a wonderful time. Hoping to cover some ground today and up our numbers. TFTC

Out and about for the day with wildfam, having a great time! TFTC

Out for the day with the Meadows gang on our regular school holiday caching day.

Thanks for the cache Saint Anthony

Picked up a few from this series on a day out caching with Dive Wombat and the 7 kids. Thanks for the cache.

Another reminder that underground mining is dangerous !! [:o]
Finding the caches near the mines is a lot safer
TFTC

Found with Neisha07 & Becca85. Sorry for the late logging! TFTC.

Found with boo09, chan02 & becca85 on our way to spend the day/night with the Siemensma's. TFTC

Heading to Sulky to catch up with friends for dinner, we (neisha07, boo09 & muggle husband) detoured to grab a few more of these caches. The XR6 doesn't love these road but no worries with the newly acquired Prado.
A nice quick find here by neisha07. TFTC Saint.Anthony

We have already covered several of this mine series over the previous couple of days and were amazed at how many old mine sites there are around Creswick. After the weather cleared today we decided to see how maqny more we could add to our list. We appreciate the amount of work put in to place this lot and show us the mining history of Creswick. TFTC.

Today we head to Melbourne. I was up early again before we left, and made one last foray out this way to see how many more caches I could find. I’m getting to know the road between Creswick and Daylesford pretty well by now. Thanks for the time spent setting up the CDLGM series, I enjoyed looking for them and finding them (most of them) and seeing the surrounding countryside as well. Cheers and TFTC

All good to go. Happily not missing.

Missed check this past weekend so will take offline until replacement.

We will add our name to the list of DNF’s for this one.
No luck today although the potential for a deviously hide is there so we probably just missed it.

Didn't find it in the time allowed.

Not Found

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

Had a good look but couldn't see this kne anywhere

Found

Found by The Gunters

Was thinking of giving up on this one when perseverance paid off and 4BN found the cache. The tree was scheming against us by helping hide it. Thanks for the cache.

Yeah …. what is that tree? It had me all over it when we weren't too sure what we were looking for because there was nothing really obvious, was it a bison? A micro? A larger one? Once it was in our hands we were …. well wouldn't that have been embarrassing if we didn't find that. Nature had given it a helping hand. Nice to have variety.

#6391
Out today on a road trip with Mrs Papi4506 & 4B Ninjas.
This one took way longer than it should have. Found partially buried.
Cheers Saint.Anthony

We were one of a number of DNFs on this cache almost exactly two years ago (and it had turned out that the cache was there all along). Today we were able to search and turn this frown upside down. TFTC and for the tour of the mines Saint.Anthony.

Another wonderful day spent in the company of Bushfire. Back again in this area but with much kinder weather than the other day when the temperature only struggled to 4 degrees. We came armed with a formidable list of caches and managed to find most of them with only 1 DNF finishing with a respectable tally. Still more mines and so many that appear to be owned by the same companies TFTC Saint Anthony