#1 'GEELONG' - G2ANGLESEA Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia
By Geocaching.Geelong on 21-Feb-16. Waypoint GC6BQE8

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see you later pettavel road, its been fun

bye bye

Here again from Adelaide with the grand daughter helpiing. Looked last night and DNF. Today with a pair of young eyes, found laying on the smooth ground in plane sight !!!!!
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Thanks for keeping the caches here a little longer for us. First one for the day

What an amazing day! We wanted to get 100+ done in a day. We've had to cancel twice due to horrible rainy weather. Today was freezing initially but ended up bright and sunny. A great trail of caches. Thanks to the cache owners for keeping it open for us for an extra week or so after we asked. A location we wouldn't otherwise have gone to. We went with Flaggys. The kids took turns most of the way racing each other to the caches. It was very funny watching them.

This weekend dehands and I aimed to complete the G2A series, Thelman and Louise style! It's taken some time to organise a weekend where we were both free, so having a Queen in need of a birthday holiday has been perfect! Loved this series, ans there's nothing better than a string of smilies. Thanks to all involved in setting it up.

Find No. 2196. Found at 3.55pm

Down in Anglesea/Torquay area for the Long Weekend to take Geodog Penny back to the beach, finish off the G2Anglesea trail and grab a few others along the way.

After completing section #24 to #42, we are now on the last leg of the trail doing #23 to #1 (going backwards). The section is on a quieter road than the others so therefore Geodog Penny could get out of the van and have a walk around at most of them, which she loves doing.

Found, signed log and onto the next one we went.

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The first of many today. Aiming for the whole series with boydclan before its archived. Thank you to the cache owners.

Little afternoon trip out with the kids and they loved having a go along this road. Thanks!

Gg

Out for a day's caching with blingg
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Out for the day to get as many of this series as possible, most were easy finds with a few requiring a search of the surrounds.,
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Well life is really busy this past few month and TrailStevo and I who normally cache 10-12 times a month found ourselves on our second only outing this month. We headed out earlier than usual Sunday adventure as we were going to be exploring 2 hours from home. Ariive at GZ no.1 at 16.10 and proceeded to follow the trail south. We know if we get on a good run on trails like this 25 cache/hr is achievable and we were well on target after the first hour. After reaching the T junction we continued on south where we intended to cache our way to dinner in Anglesea. Picked up a prior solved puzzle on the way through and the Chocolataire multicache, wasn’t open unfortunately . We continued on the Anglesea (now 7pm) where the Charcoal Chicken place was just about to close, but luck us they mad us a Snitzel Burger and Chips and gravy which was much needed because I was starving!
Smashed the food down and headed back to the T junction for our home straight 30-40 cache heading east and home. Did get stopped by one local on this stretch as we were looking for the letterbox cache. They were not impressed with the Geocachers loitering in the area. We said we understood her concerns, then proceeded to continue geocaching….oops! Was a fun evening out, and thanks to all the CO’s for the massive effort in hiding and maintain this series. Found 100 cache in the end and finished up at 9.45pm for the drive. Thanks for getting us out of the house.

Road trip. Saw this series and decided to pick up as many as I could with Gunks. Managed to stay dryish and enjoyed a food break at Anglesea. TFTC.

Out and about in this great area - little drizzle but that won't deter the spirits. Hoping to finish all this series. Most were easy find fun two days. TFTC

Back to hopefully complete this series. Found it right where I thought it would be. TFTC

The plan to do the G2A trail had been vaguely on the horizon since GemmaSistema & I had found a handful during Mega weekend 18 months ago. With news of it disappearing soon, we fast tracked our plans. After quite a few scheduling conflicts, I never thought it was going to happen but at the last minute we managed to free up this day, threw in a Wozzle and Perpetually Lost and off we went! After a dreadful drive from home to meet the others in Ballarat, I was glad to relinquish my driver status to passenger.
Signing our names was of course going to take too long so we used an acronym PBWG affectionately referred to during the day as Peanut Butter With Gelly so that we didn't forget the order (I may have read far too many American junior books as a child)...
The rain stayed away, the chocolate shop provided a yummy ice cream lunch (not sure if that was intentional or not) and we managed to easily complete our goal of 100 in a day for a previously signed challenge cache.
We nabbed quite a few extras as well. As I had found a few previously, 108 was my number from a total 116 caches visited.
A great day spent with friends grabbing a variety of cache types, a quick beach visit, lots of laughs and a lot more yellow on our maps.
Thanks to all who contributed.

On a mission with GemmaSistema, Becca85 and Perpetuallylost to get at least 100 caches in a day to count towards a challenge cache we decided to hit up this series when we heard of its impending demise. Thanks to all teams for the effort put into this series, we had a ball.

I had spent Easter holidays at Angelsea this year but as the wife and daughter lean more towards the muggle side of the ledger I hadn't worried too much about doing this series at that time. But when that news came out that it was time to archive this series I thought my chance to find any of them had gone. Later on the FB pages GemmaSistema and Becca85 were conversing how they would love to do it before they were shut down. They also wanted Wozzle68 to join in the fun too. I asked them that if they decided to do it I would love to join in.
So plans were made early this week to meet up and have a crack at 100 caches for the day with these and other caches we may happen to drive near. So today was the day we decided to find as many as we could. With Wozzle driving, Bec navigating and Gemma and myself running we were ready to go. The other thing was how can we sign the logs quickly to keep us moving along. So we put our initials together and Becca85 says "Peanut Butter With Gelly" so our team name is PBWG!
It was a great day, lots of laughs and stories, we only had one DNF which wasn't part of this series, a visit to the beach with an EC, and ice cream at the chocolate shop for lunch! Personally I smashed out a new daily cache record with about 115 caches for the day.
Thx to everyone involved with this series. A great day had by us all!

A big day of caching was planned today to chase down and find the caches in the Geelong 2 Anglesea trail. We also managed to find a few extras along the way! The team consisted of PerpetuallyLost, becca85, wozzle68 and GemmaSistema (Peanut Butter With Gelly is how we signed the log - or PBWG)! We had a fab time. Some great laughs and chatter along the way and some neat hides and great views. Thanks so much for all your efforts in placing these caches for us to find and enjoy.

This is the last of the series for me. This was the first of this type of hide in the whole series! In fact it’s been great there haven’t been any in Armour guards or other commonly used places. To those who contributed caches and helped them maintain them I salute your contributions to Geocaching in this area. They’ve certainly attracted us and others geocachers to the area and learn about the Western District. Thanks for the whole series.

Tweezers required.
Quick and easy find.
TFTC

Found It.......This series has been on our radar for far too long as we where unable to attend the Mega in Anglesea we just put it on the back burner but with the notice of it being archived we decided to make an assault on it while we where on holidays. So with the jobs around the house getting completed (slowly) we decided to head down here to make a start. After breakfast with the GPS loaded we set off in the howling wind and driving rain to the start where the weather lifted a bit for us (still blowing a gale but no rain) and we set off collecting caches as we drove the quiet back roads. A massive thanks to everyone who put this trail together as it would have been quite a task as well as hosting the Mega as well we will be giving a Fav point at the beginning and at the end of the trail sorry about the cut and paste

Great hide

Saw the news the other day that this series was going be removed shortly so I thought I’d better get out and get as many done as I could before they disappeared.
Thanks to all the CO’s who take the time to place these hides and maintain them!!!

After I read that these were being archived. I thought I had better get going and find them all.So while my husband is away fishing and my daughter is at work it was time for me to start catching. TFTC

TFTC and series.
#1400
Lest we forget

Logged as Skk.
Sean.75, kenare and I decided we were long over due for a chocolaterrie fix so we decided that we would go a different way and grab some caches as we went. tftc

Great day out with my girls, kenare and kenbryl, on our way to the Chocolaterie. Chocolate and Caching = Good times Tftc

Sean.75, kenbryl and I decided the other that we were going to cache our way to the chocolaterrie!! Laughs, chocolate and caches!! Win win. Tftc

Found, TFTC

Following a recent log according to which the cache has been placed at the wrong elevation, we checked it out today to find all is fine and it is in its usual home.

Filling in some time before the geokid finishes work. Quick find great views TFTC

Stardate 01042018, our mission to visit all the planets in our system, in a planetary pursuit to explore the Geocaching universe.

Although we do not have time today to complete the trail, we endeavour to get enough to help our planetary pursuit.

Logbook signed, and off we fly to our next destination warp speed.
thanks to Geocaching.Geelong for this cache. all in good order
TNLNSL sorry for cut and paste text, 60 caches to log

TFTC Taking the geokid for an adventure

Had fallen out of the tree have put it back.

Nice find

Straight forward find, T4TC

Nice quick find with BeardedHill tonight - TFTC

Nice quick park and log and called it!! TFTC!!

Owner Check Up - All Good and ready to be found.

After attending the great little Australia day event in Lara with captroverman, we started to head back to Anglesea to drop me off back at the Surfmoot camp. Along the way back I was told that we had to go and do a maintenance run on some of this power trail, with a couple finds for me along the way woohoo. Funnily enough most of the supposed missing caches turned out to be there woohoo again. Either way it was a nice drive and detour on the way back. I had a great time caching and cannot wait to be in the area again.

Had an hour or so to kill so decided to start this trail off, managed to knock off 10 or so with 1 DNF. Micro logs were signed as BFMC. TFTC's

Continuing my journey through Victoria to pick up caches for the Victorian LGA Polygon Challenge & Victoria Country Road Atlas Challenge. Managed to get another 2 maps ticked off and 7 LGA's. TFTC.

A nice quick find for my first attempt at this trail.

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Off I go to Melbourne! Down from Canberra for a caching trip around the Mega!

So the Mega had ended BUT more caching had to be done!

I've had this series on the radar for ages so it was time to collect I had a great time on the trail-the roads were quiet, the hides were relatively easy finds (although a few were a bit of a challenge!), and it was nice a nice cool day

Apologies for the generic logs!

Thanks for hide, Geocaching.Geelong

10007 Found and Logged at 7:04:00 AM
One of 75 cachers for the day on the trails from Geelong to Anglesea
Thanks For The Cache Geocaching.Geelong
Lgoody

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What better way is there to use a public holiday than to come here and turn this cache into a smilie


Thanks Geocaching.Geelong

With both of us having the day free, abl973 and I headed here to explore the area and pick up a number of caches. The weather stayed clear on what ultimately turned out to be a mostly clear sunny day.
Thanks to Geocaching.Geelong.

Thanks for the hint Wheelie Hunter.

4th time is a charm. This time i went to get out to help the half muggle mum look and just as i was grabbing my wheelchair out i look over and go mum i see it as we parked in a different spot than we had been the other 3 times. Angry mum grabs it and is like thats got to be right lmao... didnt even have to get out of the car lmao

Did not find the 1st in the series but we will come back to look again as we live just down the road and are doing the series in small dribs and drabs

Good little hide.. TFTC

Set out alone today in a bid to get some quick numbers and this was the ideal series. The weather was horrendous with gale force winds but I was able to safely negotiate most of the attempted caches with a smiley face. The caches were in great condition, well hidden with co-ords spot on. What else could you ask for?
Thanks to Geocaching.Geelong for creating such a great trail. Will be back for the remainder soon - on a better weather day. TFTC's.

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I was out this side of town running some shopping errands all by myself and wanted to extend the peace and quiet a little bit longer. The sun had managed to come out for a few minutes between the drizzle, showers and rain so what is a girl to do but go and find some caches!

I didn't want to get caught out in the next bout of precipitation so I decided to make a start on this series - a nice empty country road and not too taxing so no more than a few minutes of searching per cache - today was about making it fast and fun and getting some fresh air.

A nice quick grab to start off with.

Thanks Geocaching.Geelong

jandaw's 555th find

Replaced log today, now a "strip" log. Pity that people skip pages in log books: there were at least a bout 20 unmarked pages left in this one.

Found!

My mum came to visit me on the way back from taking my sister back to university in Melbourne so I roped her into doing some of this power trail after having come to the conclusion that power trails are best done with someone else driving rather than having to park the car every time. It was a very successful day that culminated in some lovely ice cream near the end of the power trail. I will do more of the trail next time she is over. This was a nice quick find at the beginning of the trail. The log book is very full but I didn't have a suitable replacement with me. TFTC.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Found today with MrSnoop

Found today with OzzieBear

Woo!

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Day 2 of our caching around Torquay. Weather a bit threatening but we set off to complete most of the puzzles we had solved back at home in Tasmania. After a morning finding the puzzle caches we had solved returned to part of the trail before heading for an afternoon of relaxation.
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Just enough time to do this before heading on. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Fun easy find with the kids

08:51, 1 July 2017. #773.

After attending the Geelong Geocachers' Canada Event with the geo-wife, what better way to fill in the day than clean up some of the G2A series. I had already started at the bottom end last year over a couple of visits, including after the Surf Coast Mega.

The cache is in good condition.

SL. TFTC Geocaching.Geelong.

Found it

Yay!

Found on a one month road trip around Australia. Sorry for the generic log. TNLNSL TFTC

Quick drive by look forward to doing others in the area when I'm working down here again thanks .

I spent the afternoon heading down the trail before making my way to Queenscliff to catch the ferry to Sorrento. The road was nice and quiet and I really enjoyed myself, finding pretty much everything I looked for. Thanks to all of those involved in setting up and maintaining this series. Cheers and TFTC

AutumnTree and I having been eyeing the Geelong to Anglesea Trail off since it was first placed - finally it looked like finding 100 caches in a day was achievable! It has just been a matter of determining an appropriate day - and today was it! AutumnCS was available and so came along as well. We found 114 and had 3 DNFs, were attacked by giant spiders and lots of spiky prickle bushes, said hello to cows, sheep, horses and alpacas, had lots of fun and now we're a bit tired.

Most logs signed as MDATAC for efficiency because we thought we would be tight on time.

Find 114 and last for the day. We're done! Hooray!

TFTC! And thank you so much for the series.

MaggieDot, AutumnCS and I came out today to complete a “100 caches in a day” challenge. This is our last cache for the day YAY. In the end we finished with 114 caches which we are very happy with. Thanks to Geocaching Geelong for this series.

As Autumntree and MaggieDot has mention we were on a mission a mission to do 100 in a day. Geokids organised to go with Maggiedot’s partner with their kids earlier then off to school and then after school activities. Planning for a long day.
In the end we were able to stop at the chocolate shop for lunch and also finished before night fall. Initially there was a lot of running to find the cache and lots of traffic then we slowed down and everyone seem to disappear (work time had begun). We were sure we crossed paths with other caches however the logs weren’t signed and then the one following was the postman (which we crossed paths a number of times). Also at 99 for the day (which was school pick up time) we got asked by a muggle if we were OK. A bit had not to say what we were doing, and they seemed interested (we were right out front of their house) and they said we always see people stopping and searching then going off. Lol. They will be watching you all now.
Anyway. Lots of fun had, along with the spiders, spider webs, ants, cows, sheep, horses, alpacas and of course the thing we all love (not) that prickle bush.
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On a cold and wet day TFTC

On my way to a craft retreat an hour from here, so I had to grab some caches, since I never get to this side of town. Not a soul to be seen as I worked my way through some of these before continuing on my way. Thanks!

Found it

Quick find thanks ,now for a late lunch with annabella02

Out with sassieold55 to do more of the series TFTC

Its lovely fresh air day to drive and met other geo car with Crank1, Pwala and Whitepaws9.

Perfect weather. Arrived Angelsea for G2A Series with Crank1, Laker63 &
Whitepaws9. Thanks girls for the great day. Also thanks to Geocaching.Geelong for the cache.

Had a fabulous day caching with Laker63,Crank1 and Pwala along G2A series run.
Most found 1 DNF and 1 unavailable..
Thanks for the series caches.

7030
Found it
Thanks Geocaching.Geelong

We are staying in St Leonards for a few days and it was great to be able to do this cache series. We enjoyed the varied hides. Thanks to Geocaching.Geelong for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Geelong Day 2
Setting up camp at the showgrounds.
Early this morning we headed out to start the G2Anglesea track
Nice quiet country roads, most were quickly found.
Thanks for placing this cache

Cool find

Today's mission: get Tiffgould to 100 finds. TFTC

We had a plan this afternoon and that was to get to our 2000th find. With that in mind we needed a few quick finds before we headed to cache that we had chosen as our 2000th (GC6FBFW Area 51). So with 15 finds needed to get to 1999 Sims_family mum suggested heading down to the Anglesea trail. Great idea some simple find that the kids can also participate in and some more of the trail that we have been slowly chipping away at.
Four of the Sims_family kids made some find and that kept everyone happy.

Thank you all the CO's involved with Geocaching.Geelong for providing the trail

Heading out of town for a charity event with the geopup and decided to leave early and collect some more caches along the way. Found the cache very quickly. Beautiful countryside. Many thanks for the reason to stop.

Tfgc

Quick check today revealed that all is good here, cache waiting patiently to be found.

How disappointing. My second last cache along this road and I just couldn't find- the GPS was all of the shop... dohhh!!! Can't delay - school pick up beckons... probably won't come back all this way to finish it either....

Out on a pleasant Saturday afternoon to do some gentle geocaching, suitable for a couple of 70 year olds. Also in our minds was coming to grips with using the new app on our Samsung tablet, because the old app has been a favourite for Carleen. I was using the Magellan eXplorist ( shame and scandal, not a Garmin ). Anyway, can't blame the equipment, we were out of practice, so it took a few minutes to find this one.

First find for the day on our way to Anglesea !

Started our maintenance run here today as the other access points to the trail were blocked to make space for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road bike ride.
Found this one on the ground just like a previous cacher did a couple of days ago. Hope this is not a sign of somebody's "sense of humour".
Returned it to its appropriate elevation, and on we went.