Chief Cham Lake Charm, Victoria, Australia
By Hercs&pinky on 07-Feb-16. Waypoint GC6AYRR

*Found on the 4 Nov 2024 @ 11:00am.**Cache find # 16006.* A new day and the third day of my road trip, the task at hand was to find a minimum of 20 finds in this LGA being Gannawarra before moving on the Swan Hill and Buloke LGAsWell this place certainly needs a bit of TLC, on the bright side there was no one around to bother my while I was looking for the cache.I was looking in all the wrong spots at first until I finally spotted it.**Thanks to Hercs&pinky for keeping the game going by placing this cache.**

This might have been a nice place to pull over and have a picnic once, but now it seems to be an issue regrown rubbish dumping site. The upside for us was a half a dozen sea eagles circling above us. Cache found without issue. Thanks Hercs&pinky for placing and maintaining the cache for our enjoyment. #2384

Sir_Spectre and I went for a long weekend over to Victoria, we hosted some events and CITO's and was really impressed by all the people that made the effort to join us. Any caches that needed attention got it, with many log books being replaced or extras sheets added as needed.Thanks to all who placed and maintained caches for us to find

quick find. The bbq's here are more than worth for wear. There was no way i was using the bbq's.Found with Mogni. The plan this October Long Weekend was to head over to Victoria and host 3 CITO's plus host my first geocaching event, also increase my finds to 20 in at least 5 victorian LGA's. Given that we were caching in the country alot of km's were travelled. The weather was raining on and off all saturday including the night time but by luck all 3 events that day were dry. The first CITO ( and the cache of the trip ) was in Kaniva at the wetlands, the next in CITO was in Dimboola at one of the rest areas, and placing a future challenage cache then slowly making our way to wycheproof canavan park which was our accomadation for the weekend and then up to Mount Wycheproof ( the smallest registered mountain in Australia - at 43metres tall ) for my coffee and sunset event. Sunday started off with a early 630 am CITO in the Mount Wycheproof wetlands reserve ( sorry i did forget about daylight savings when i made the time for the event but it was a dawn and light still ). Now off to swan hill ( which is my least favorite LGA to cache in ) and then a few more LGA's and back to the tent in the dark well past dinner. Then it was slowly heading home via the silo arts works along the way and walpuep and then over the border to pinaroo and home. We went through over a milk crate of spare containers and got 2 and 1/4 garage bags of cans and bottles. Any caches that were found broken/cracked/etc were replaced and any full log books were replaced.

Oh god my GPS did not like this area! Kept telling me I was 55 metres away. So it was all up to luck! Being short & reaching for the stars sometimes sucks but not today! TFTC!

Looks like the BBQ hasn't been used on a long time. 20c a turn was pretty cheap, but gave it a hard pass. Found the cache in better condition than the area it resides in.

No luck today.

On our way to swan hill this is one of the caches we found today. Thanks for the Hercs&pinky

No luck today.

Unfortunately this has alluded me.

Outnabout for some solo caching while travelling from The Great Leap Forward Mega event in Adelaide to the Capital GeoBash Mega in Canberra. Grabbed this one as my 1st in the LGA. Its always a great day for caching. TFTC Hercs&pinky

No luck here today. Hopefully just one of those days when I just cant see for looking

Tftc nice lake

TFTC found on the way home from mildura working away

The logs need to be caught up. Sorry for the delay in posting.
The area was beautiful, with beautiful trees and country outback. I signed the log 6ACDDE (6roos All7 Crank1 DeafPhantom DutchAus Everlasting) Hercs&pinky. Thanks for placing it.

Found 17/4/23 TFTC

Signed the log as 6ACDDE (63ROO, ALL7, CRANK1, DEAFPHANTOM, DUTCHAUS, EVERLASTING)

Accompany with 63Roo, ALL7, Crank1, DutchAus, DeafPhantom, and Everlasting .
Signed the log as "6ACDDE"

Enjoyed myself wandering the country and caches. Thank you for the cache and hunt.
Sorry, copy and paste

Beautiful lake
Nice name Luck Charm
Thank you for bring us here

Yesterday long travel and found it with 6ACDDE TFTC

Mega done and dusted. It’s time to hit the road. Just grabbing a few caches along the route.

Stood on table to grab the cache. Opened it and there was a black Gstring inside. No log Back to the car and replaced the log. Did not replace the underwear.

TFTC Her s&pinky

Quick stop back on the highway, for a quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Good place, thanks

Kids loved it 1st one ever

Could not find it sadly

Have a feeling the Eclipse container is in a spot that I’m not putting my hand in. Didn’t bring a pen. But thanks for this one.

A quick find after spending the night camped here,TFTC

Found it! Sun glare made it tough

Too good for us today, sadly had to walk away

After 2 days of rain, we have escaped the van and back on the caching trail. Some of the roads are tricky and some of our planned caches didnt eventuate because of our desire not to end up bogged. This one was accessible but we oticed one young fella whomthought hed try his luck on the neaeby track wasnt going anywhere soon. Nice to have the right phhsical attibutes in the team to make this one reasonably quick find. Tftc

The long weekend is upon us and after organising to pick something up from Strathmerton in the morning, I checked the map before hand and here is a place that I have not visited before.
I guy I work with stayed here in January and recommend that it was worth a visit.
So after detouring via Conargo to see if the pub has finished being rebuilt (not open yet) I arrived at my destination.
After touring around Moulamein yesterday and spending a great night in my cabin at the pub that overlooked the Edwards River it was on to my next destination.
I was taking the less travelled roads which usually meant dirt roads but that was fine by me.
Made it to my planed destination Lake Boga and after visiting the museum it was time to head back south due to the place being booked out and of course going by the less travelled back roads.
Back on the black top now and still heading south and finding caches as I go.
There are plenty of lakes up around this area all with plenty of water in them.
A rest area to pull into and park the Geocruiser and search for this one.
Luckily for me I had the place to myself and was able to spend some time looking for this one.

Thanks Hercs&pinky TFTC.

Nice little camping spot by the lake with a cache
Easy find for mick
Tftc

Travelling towards Wangaratta and this was one of our stops. Thanks for placing we enjoyed finding your cache. Took longer than it should have blamed the sun glare

Heading back to Melbourne after a few days in Swan Hill TFTC

Took us a while but was really fun

VERY hard.

Not a real stretch for Geohubby who soon had cache in hand. Quick find. TFTC

Nice cache

TFTC quick stop by.

Look around everywhere for it and was unable to find it.

Our second DNF in a row. We had a look for this one but couldn't find it today.

I'm on the road for a few days, and I spent the night at this location. This morning I spent more time than should have been necessary to locate this fellow, but he's now signed and tucked away again. Thanks Hercs&pinky.

Heading to Mildura for a couple of nights to attack some of the Paddle Steamer Series.

Wet and drizzly trip thus far, but looks like it will be much clearer as we travel west.

Cache found quickly and in good condition.

TFTC Claimed our smiley.

Found Great spot just on sunset. Thanks for the hint.

The lake is sure charming or is it chaming?

Interesting to hear about the citrus fruit.

Thanks for the quick to find cache and luckily I had a tool in my car to help.

Not to continue my drive home.

Harder than first thought!

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Wasn't sure if I was going to be tall enough, but I managed to just get it. Tftc.

16:08
Out and about, north west of Kerang in the fine company of the Suscoe duo. We found a range of caches, some in places where we learnt more about how this part of Victoria works. Suscoe shared a very interesting tale to tell about a previous visit to the roadside stop!

Our thanks to 'Hercs&pinky' for adding this cache to the geo-gameboard.
27517

*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

Suscoe headed out for a day of caching to the west and north of Kerang.
We were lucky with the weather and it was a pleasant day with a mild temperature.
We found a range of caches and we found a good number today.

Thanks to Hercs&pinky for this hide, took a little while, resorted to the torch and eventually it was spotted.

Find No. 3089. Found with FUF009 at 6.35pm.

With Covid restrictions being lifted it was now time to go for a days outing with Geodog Penny and FUF009, and do some caching.

As we wanted to collect the 'Wonders of the World' stamps we decided to head up Kerang way, targeting the caches that held the stamps we both needed. Naturally we done a few extras along the way, as how can you go past a cache that is close and handy to the road we were travelling on?

As we were heading home we decided to stop off and grab our final four caches along this road for the day which were ones close and handy to the road. This was our last one.

Something so easy to find that took us ages due to the fading light. Usually it is FUF009 who is up to date with modern technology but not today as it was Mrs Tyred n Cranky who went back to the van to grab her phone to use the torch on it. Shone the torch and there it was so well camouflaged. Yep next time we go caching we are going to put our Dewalt torch in which has a very strong beam of light. Something you never think to take with you when heading off in the daylight.

TFTC

Find # 9274

Found with Tyred n Cranky and Geodog Penny.

Restrictions lifted and Saturday morning Work Duties done it was time for some Caching.
Havent been out for a while so we decided to head up Kerang way for a drive and collect some of the "Wonders of the World" stamps.

Took us some time here in the fading light. It was Mrs Tyred n Cranky that (finally) used her phone as a torch n made the find..... oh boy I'm not gunna live this one down.


TFTC Hercs&pinky

TFTC
A nice easy find, my first since the passing of Bratt , my travel companion of 12 years. Cheers

Replaced logsheet

#2171
Day #10 of the adventure although it’s day 1 of adventures on my own as the others had to go home. Aim of the day is to explore Kerang and some of its surrounding lakes.
A relatively quick find given the location

Thanks Hercs&pinky for placing the hide!

Found TFTC

TFTC

Walked around for a little while & couldn’t find it.
Will try again on another trip past & see if we have better luck.

ah found straight away but tytaylor19 and i really liked this one! tftc

bit of a reach but we found this one quickly without too much effort. love the scenery ft catherinec19

Interesting history. Cache was found OK.

We decided to head up to Reedy Lake for a long weekend of free camping in a cool spot. It was a lovely spot and we collected a few caches over the weekend.
Today we headed north to Lake Charm, Racecourse and Kangaroo.
TFTC

From Koondrook to Walpurp. It was a nice journey with some Geocaches along the way. This was one of the Geocache we found today. Many thanks to the owner for the hide !

Took a bit to find. TFTC

Found this one eventually. Some of us were vertically challenged. SL and replaced. TFTC!!

Quick and easy find. TFTC

Another quick find as we travel around the lakes. TFTC.

Harvest interrupted coz of rain so out grabbing some smilies. Knew what I was looking for and the possible GZ. Should have looked clockwise and not counter clockwise.

Hercs&pinky TFTC

As we headed from Swan Hill to Bendigo today, we stopped along the way to look for some caches. This was one of them.

Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Hercs&pinky for the cache and others you have placed in the area.

Heading from Swan Hill to Benalla today via Deniliquin to collect a few LGAs and we chose a day where the temperature reached about 44c and strong winds!! The list of caches was trimmed down to just one in each LGA.
Other than that thanks so much to all the COs for hiding and maintaining these caches for us to enjoy finding them.

Today was not the best day to cache. Very very high temperatures (44c), gusty winds and raised dust. However when you are travelling through, and you are from Brisbane, then you must cache. Mainly getting caches in different LGA's in Victoria and NSW as travelling from Swan Hill to Benalla. Found the cache and signed the log. TFTC

Thanks for the local history lesson.
TFTC Hercs&pinky

Had trouble reaching it. But found it. And managed to put it back, too.

Mini cacher spied it again, we must be losing our touch! TFTC.

Found on a work trip to Mildura.

***Cache container and log in good condition***
***Thanks for placing this cache Hercs&pinky***

Extremely squarky young birds high in the structure were letting me know i wasn't welcome whilst i was 'reaching' to find this cache.
Lucky for them it wasn't long and the sneaky well hidden cache was in hand and the log signed at 13:09 on Mon 7 Oct 2019.

The young birds had the last say as i replaced the cache lol

TFTC Hercs&pinky

Thanks for clarifying the nomenclature here. Just a quick stop as I move through the lakes area late this morning.

On the way home fro Swan Hill stretching the legs, TFTC

Found with Becca85, Chan02 & Neisha07. Sorry for the late logging! TFTC

Found with becca85, boo09 & chan02 on our way home from a family trip to Mildura. TFTC

A quick find with boo09, neisha07 & chan02 on our way home from a mini-trip to Mildura. We'd stopped in Tresco to check in on my Grandpa and bring him some dinner so it was very dark by the time we got here. TFTC

first found 6/1/19
on Sunday driving back to swan hill

First found 2019, lazy sunday afternoon drive through the country side on a beautiful sunny day.
Tftc!!!

Having to go to Swanhill to deliver some equipment for the New Years Eve festivities there we made the most of it by stopping to grab a few caches along the way to break up the drive.

This was the seventh for the day.

We have been to many places like this where the indigenous name slowly got butchered to make it easier for us white fellas. This one isn't quite as bad as some of the others, perhaps the aboriginal pronunciation sounded more like that. That aside today we were here for the cache and of course we started searching in the wrong spot and worked our way around to we eventually got our hands on it and happily added our name to the log.

Thanks Hercs&pinky for the cache and for the history.

hard one to find, sneaky one!

thanks to the hint this one didn't take long. TFTC!

Searched high but no find!

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After a quick search and a garage bin by the BBQ to lend a leg up the cache was quickly in hand. TFTC

I had a few extra days off work so BettyBoo3747 and I decided to nip across to Swan Hill for a few caches. Been quite a while since we have been here and there are lots of new caches to do.
Travelled across from Beechworth to Lake Boga today, relaxing by the lake now.

Interesting history of the area. Not too much trace of any of it left these days.
We found the cache after a bit of a search at the place where I first looked!
Thanks, Robmc.

#14694. Day 1 of a short break for Robmc and me so we are spending a few nights at Lake Boga Caravan Park. Most of the day was spent travelling and collecting 13 caches along the way.

Another stop, another cache after a bit of searching at higher levels. Rob went back to where he started and there it was.

Thanks Hercs&pinky

Found by Aussie Train Driver 23/08/2018, find number 1331.
This was a quick find on the road North. Despite it being late at night I was surprised with the amount of road traffic passing. I couldn't see much of the nearby lake but from the illumination provided by the moon this looked like it would be a beautiful spot in the daylight.
Thanks for the cache!

Happy

The cache notes are very interesting to read [^]
But it always leaves me feeling sad that the original landscape has been decimated by white settlement

This lake sure has lost its charm

Taken over by noisy machines these days when the water levels are right !!

No wonder the indigenous population of the areas are hanging their heads in disbelief.

Bugger !! Eh ??

TFTC

Tftf that was a good one

Spotted quickly, luckily a caravanserais pulled in with a step we borrowed as we weren't tall enough.
Found with galandboyz.
TFTC

We borrowed a step to gain elevation

Took a bit of searching but this one was finally spotted after gaining some elevation.

Thanks for the cache Hercs&pinky. Found on 12 Mar 2018 at 1:17 pm. Find #5942.

Nice spot for lunch TFTC

No luck today