#146 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson Clonbinane, Victoria, Australia
By carkisser & JSando on 29-May-16. Waypoint GC6E91M

Found with ReesyLou on a warm afternoon.TFTC

Out with fayemous65 TFTC. Saw some wildlife between last cache and this one.

Another fun day out adventuring with doddlingalong. Our plan to kayak and cache aborted due to high winds we went to plan B. Our second visit adding to our Mt Disappointment collection. TFTC

Out for another grand day of caching adventures with carmlee1, quick find and on we go

Thanks for the cache, recently found with lilbassgirl. Slowly working my way through the whole series; hoping to find all active caches by end of 2025, but poor weather, shiftwork and other factors may prevent that goal from being met. Very generic logging, it's gonna become boring if you're reading all my found logs quickly.

Tftc, found with fourtwelve on today's caching adventures.

Nice quick find to keep my daily streak going. Day 444. Tftc

Nice one tho a stabbed my arm on small branch lol

Many thanks carkisser for providing this game piece for our enjoyment. And thanks for sharing the highlights of your region.

Quick find thanks for the cache

OzHockeyChick was in need of some caches so we found ourselves on an afternoon adventure in Mt Disappointment.I have found bits and pieces of this trail, however today was a chance to make a solid dint in the series. Unless noted, the cache was found in reasonable order.Thanks carkisser for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Are you ready to nominate in the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards? Start preparing by checking out the 2023 geocaching lists available [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/) and find some of the new caches ahead of nominations opening.

Teamed up with RoamingHowie to smash out a few more of the Dissa series.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, carkisser ~~

Found by caughtatwork on 28/01/2024 at 3:13:00 PMA nice walk along Clonbinane Road on a rather warm summer afteroon, finding some geocaches.Took nothing, left nothing.Thanks for placing this geocache here for us to find today, for without those who like to hide geocaches, there would be nothing around for those who like to find geocaches.*Overall Experience: 3*GAFF1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Find#6202Nice hiding place Found with the adventure boys during the Whittlesea mega 2022Thanks for the cache

A trip to this region of the Australia was planned. In order to search and find a few caches here, various caches were dragged onto the Garmin. When we got here we saw a nice power trail. Without further ado, we organized various groceries to make ends meet. Filled up the rental car again and off we went.Our 4 WD-Truck is ready for this trip!After some time of starting this challenge, we came across here as well. We had to search a little longer for one or the other cache.Thanks to the owner for laying, caring for and guiding. TFTCKind regards from Germany

Easy park and grab. TFTC

Day 2 to complete some caches to get to 2000 for first anniversary of caching. Here at Mt Disappointment to do some of this series.
Thanks for the cache carkisser

Hh

Waking up in Rutherglen this morning, it was raining cats and dogs. So we decided to head south where the skies were clearer and attack some more of the Mt Disappointment series. We had been here a few years back and did a chunk of them, so it was good to be able to revisit today and knock off a heap more. We only have a small handful left plus the challenge caches left up here to do after this trip.

A lot of the older caches need some loving, the logs were pretty bad at some of them but it was great to see a heap of original containers (loved the ones with the engraved lids). We were fortunate with the weather here, only one small shower and the roads were in pretty good condition. Seen lots of muggles with their trailers and chainsaws which was concerning (being there are allocated firewood collection points for muggles).

Thanks for the trail carkisser & JSando, apologies for the cut/paste logs, glad to be able to get some more smilies up here. Thanks for the fun day out in the mud FFLL

It was pouring rain when we woke this morning so Rapidlywild and I decided to head up to Mt. Disappointment to hopefully get out of the rain and try to finish off this trail that we had started a few years ago. We were lucky to have a clear day with one quick shower while on the trails. A successful day although we still have a few to go as well as the challenges, we will be back one day.

This trail could really do with a maintenance run and some TLC. But there are also still a lot of original caches here too which was good to see.

Thanks for the trail carkisser & JSando and thanks Rapidlywild for a fun and busy day.

Quick find, TFTC

Found it

#16 on our afternoon walk from camp ️ TFTC

Whittlesea Mega Trip Day 5. Now that Mega weekend is over I decided to stay on for a bit to try a bit more caching in the region. First was the Markets event. I then headed into Mernda to do the Labs and some of the caches there, but it was frustrated by some very heavy rain storms. I went back to the show grounds for a break before deciding to have another go at some caching, this time at the base of Mt Disappointment.

Thanks for the cache carkisser

39131.16 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Snake Hex A#171

**Albida**

Found and signed dsd or darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and the Adventure.

Adventure Boys!
Pick your quote below, cause it’s for you.

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

Frankly, my found it, I don’t give a damn

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’


#nosuchthingas [ftf]

#146 Dad's Mt. Disappointment Driving Lesson
3546
17 November 2022

—
In the spirit of reconciliation I would like to acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Treemendous

Out finding caches this weekend with @the4wdshed and @smithiesoutbackgear.
Cheers for the cache

*found a few weekends ago but haven't gotten round to logging some of them*

Quick easy find
This trail has been on our radar for a while, this weekend was a perfect chance to get out and get it done with @Smithies Outback and @Searchingformacca and a chance to go camping and sit around a camp fire with great friends. Tftc

Out caching for a second day at Mt Disa with The4wdShed and SearchingForMacca. Heaps of caches in this area so we thought we'd get some off them under our belt. Nice quick find. TFTC

TFTC very pretty neighbourhood

Tftc

TFTC, out today as the first day back in regional vic.. tis series has been on my radar for along while and now out this weekend camping and enjoying the beauty of Mt Disappointment.
A really good series. Aiming to get our 200+ in a day and hit #2000 soon.

First find!

Out helping with setting up there forest for a car rally tomorrow and I was meeting the director at the start of stage 1 so left home a bit earlier to hunt some more of this series.

This one was a quick find

Thanks to carkisser and JSando for this one at the series.

Turns out there’s a car wash at Broadford and, what do you know, more powertrail caches on this side of the hump May as well get it dirtier before washing Lovely day once the sun came out. Did a bit of maintenance on the hop and will note in those cache logs.

Thx again for hiding these caches in the forest as it has been fun driving thru here

TFTC carkisser and JSando

The On our way back from Strath Creek to Wallan we decided to stop for a few of the Mt Disappointment series. Late afternoon, the sky is a little lighter now after the rain. A quick find. Thanks to carkisser & JSando for the cache.

Find number 9371 at 10:41:09 am on Saturday the 24 April 2021
Came up this morning to do some maintenance on my Letterbox just down the road, figured I might as well grab a few more of these caches along the way.
Most caches were found in good condition but a few were damp or wet. Didn't look for any of the disabled ones.
Still wondering if this power trail is going to grow again?
**Thanks for placing this cache carkisser**

---
We’re all going to Wangaratta to participate in Victoria’s next Mega!
*Are you coming to join in the fun?*
[**The Wangaratta Event 2021**](https://coord.info/GC8EW45)
*13th & 14th November 2021 - GC8EW45 - Wangaratta - Victoria*

Number 2 for today and no muggles but a bleating sheep

Great spot Tftc

TFTC what a great day for geocaching

After the gap since the last smiley we were overdue for a cache! Got out of there before the bull ants got too interested. TFTC

Originally found on March 21but for some reason wasn't logged on phone. TFTC

Found on our big day out with Legomango9, HBEMPIRE, Meadow Cres, AD 25 and Tractor boy 1954

Found

Tftc

Done

Today was planned as another triangular drive into Wandong and back to find whatever caches we felt like. A bit hard to stay on track here actually. The caching was fine and successful, but the town blew me away. It is so pretty, calm and peaceful compared to the general mayhem of the world at the moment. The bakery was a treat too.
The drive itself was enjoyable and all caches that we went for bar 2 were found - one DNF and the other replaced - they will be logged separately. Excuse the generic log but I think we found about 70 today and it was not possible for us to find that many in a day if we stopped to make notes and completely impossible for us oldies to remember individual caches.

Thanks again carkisser & jsando for this remarkable trail. All logs were signed SG and dated.

I’m back for the 3rd time roaming the streets of Mt Disappointment in an attempt to double my finds to 1000 by 29 Feb. Ridiculous! considering I was at #400 17Nov and #500 28Dec.

TFTC carkisser and jSando

Caching today with Tally Tiger and Angelique Anja after the Whittlesea lead up event. Full log is the same as Angelique Anja and Tally Tiger. Thanks for the cache carkisser & JSando.

Two days after our last trek to the mountain, Team ZACAATT returned in an effort to finish what we had started.

Not entirely sure what would happen with the weather we headed into Whittlesea for the first lead up event to the next Victorian mega. Our plan was to get the last lot of the Mt Disappointment trail, but we were prepared to turn around and drive home with thunder storms predicted for the day, but as the meet ended, the sun was shining and we took off, first taking on caches that we had DNFd on our very first trek up the mountain in 2017.

Then it was on to the caches that we missed two days before. We had a completely different day for the third time. Zedaycee and AngéliqueAnja both took falls and there were a collection of bugs and spiders that returned to the car on unsuspecting cachers.

At one DNF location (we DnFd 2 today) we found an adorable little lizard sunning himself.

Eventually the rain and the thunder and the lightning did come and we had to make the decision to turn around and go home. It was windy and pouring as we drive home, 8 more caches that we had planned to do left undone.

--- --- ---

Why did the chicken cross the road?

It had to expand its Search Radius!

Two days after our last trek to the mountain, Team ZACAATT returned in an effort to finish what we had started.

Not entirely sure what would happen with the weather we headed into Whittlesea for the first lead up event to the next Victorian mega. Our plan was to get the last lot of the Mt Disappointment trail, but we were prepared to turn around and drive home with thunder storms predicted for the day, but as the meet ended, the sun was shining and we took off, first taking on caches that we had DNFd on our very first trek up the mountain in 2017.

Then it was on to the caches that we missed two days before. We had a completely different day for the third time. Zedaycee and AngéliqueAnja both took falls and there were a collection of bugs and spiders that returned to the car on unsuspecting cachers.

At one DNF location (we DnFd 2 today) we found an adorable little lizard sunning himself.

Eventually the rain and the thunder and the lightning did come and we had to make the decision to turn around and go home. It was windy and pouring as we drive home, 8 more caches that we had planned to do left undone.

Thanks for the cache. carkisser & JSando
Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

I'm having a wonderful time, so can't thank you enough! Don't know where you managed to find all of the black containers! The hints really work, and your GPS and mine seem to work well together! Thanks for all of the hard work!

“You make me laugh, Charlotte; but it is not sound. You know it is not sound, and that you would never act in this way yourself.”

Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

KING CLAUDIUS
It likes us well;
And at our more consider'd time well read,
Answer, and think upon this business.
Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:
Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:
Most welcome home!
LORD POLONIUS
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.
QUEEN GERTRUDE
More matter, with less art.
LORD POLONIUS
Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;
And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;
But farewell it, for I will use no art.
Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause:
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.
I have a daughter--have while she is mine--
Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.
'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
beautified Ophelia,'--
That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is
a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:
'In her excellent white bosom, these, & c.'
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Came this from Hamlet to her?

Found with dad (day1976), ilukaperi, Nacarra and Geolibrarian. Signed log as GINDY. TFTC!

Found with day1976, Yeah09, geolibrarian54 and my sister Nakarra. Signed as GINDY.

This series was on the cards today, most of the caches I did were all in good condition, unfortunately it seems some of the cache sbetween 45-69 are missing due to widening of the road were I had quite a few DNFs.
Caches between 184-191 need replacing as they are all wet.
Cache from 180-140 are in great condition and were all quickly located.
Overall I had a good trip and a good few hours out finding these

Today was a big day out, well it felt like it anyway. With the rain coming out of the clouds early I was unsure if my plan would be put to action. After hosting an event in the morning the skies seemed to clear so off I went in search of some Mount Disappointment caches. After finding just over 100 of them I decided to pull the pin and head back to Melbourne to do some more interesting caches. Some multis were on the cards and some finals were located but due to the amount of high muggles frequency due to this so called thing of “school holidays”, I had to leave the caches.  Finished off the day with an event near Marvel stadium and on the Spirit to Tasmania.

A great day out with 118 finds. A good few days in vic finished off.

Thanks for the cache

dreadfully behind on logs. This is a catch up logging session

Thanks for the cache and the series carkisser.

Greetins from Ireland
Out caching with LouiseAnn as she was kind enough to adopt me for a few hours during my Visit to Melbourne to see my brother = allowing me to get Victorias 1st
stopped to grab a handful of this trail on the way to get a nearby letterbox

on this road we were fortunate enough to see a Wombat

TFTC

Day two of my driving lesson. 7:00 to 12:30. Thanks to finding a few more yesterday than planned I was able to sign off on things here by lunchtime, which left me with plenty of time to drive up country to my next destination at a leisurely pace with a coffee stop or two along the way. Once again thanks to carkisser & JSando for placing and maintaining this series. Cheers and TFTC

TFTC

Day 3 of my Dad’s Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson series. Today finishing off the 143-180 sequence before some extras. All caches found in good condition along this track. Had PAF help from carkisser CO at one junction. Return trip required to complete the mountain. Happy Easter.

Out for our second trip to mount disappointment, KmanNZ and I decided to better our first trip by finding 150 caches. It took us 7 hours with a beer stop in the middle until we finally made our goal with zero DNF's. TFTC

Day #150

#534

A big day up in Mt Disappointment National Park for AndyB84 and myself.
150 finds and no DNF's.
Signed logs as KH/AB.

This was our last cache, #150 for the day. A big day and still a 2 hour drive back to Andy's place and then onward for me still. Thanks to AndyB84 and cakisser & JSando for a great day of caching and a new milestone.

Majority of caches were safe and dry, one or two had soggy logbooks but still able to sign.

Thanks for the cache.

#3273

NO CLUES OR HINTS IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all.
I’m currently working on a Project-GC challenge to get the average word count on my logs over 200 words.
So please ignore the rest of this log as it is just nonsense and song lyrics.
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Saturday 6th April 2019

Dad’s Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson Run Number Two.

Well after a much later than anticipated start the Inspectorrex team got to work where we left off. Starting at cache # 138 and made it thru to cache #227 which was the end of a string and a long to go back to get to #228. As light was fading fast Along with a couple of side caches not related to this series. Apologies for the generic logging however these caches were all logged in the evening after the days caching was completed. A very big thankyou to carkisser and JSando for setting up and maintaining this wonderful power series. We will be back in May to complete some more of the series.
Thanks for the Caches from the Inspectorrex team.

2 day caching trip with Sioux & Leesa we have stamped log with our Geo Nerds stamp for Bounty Trackers, Borisb&natasha & Gonefishen.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with BorisB&Natasha and Bounty Trackers. We signed the log with our stamp Geo Nerds.
On a fun weekend with these two doing as many of these caches as we can while here. TFTC we had a great time. Stayed at Flowerdale pub overnight back for some more fun today.

After rain called play last night it was back on the road with Gonefishen07 and Bounty Trackers for an early morning start.
Thoroughly enjoyed the caches, the area and the company.
Thanks for placing these caches

This not DeJa boys or vous at all but nice day for a dads drive now the rain has stopped. Another plus is the joe blakes may not like the cool change. Guess I’ll head home eventually. TFTC and the journey. Certainly a marathon for a solo traveller and too many for me in one day so looking forward to heading deeper into the forest and maybe even camping sometime. Not at all disappointing!

2466 fltf

This stretch of Clonbinane Road is lovely and quiet
So I was enjoying the casual caching,
with a cache to find at every convenient parking spot [^]

The caches along the rural roadsides are much, much easier to find than those in the forests
So I was actually making good time along the trail despite not rushing

TFTC

Nice, easy find. TFTC

Great day out with Team Justice, successfully completing this wonderful series in a day. The challenge has appealed to us for a long time, and it was incredibly satisfying to be able to complete it. Throughout the day we often marveled at the size and quantity of the containers you must have had at home in order to lay these out. Thanks so much carkisser for this astonishingly ambitious and well executed series. We loved it!

A plan was hatched with Clint & Abby over 12 months ago when we saw these caches come out over time. We could get 100, nah, let’s get them all and soon after a few drinks we decided to attempt the lot in 1 day. Time passed and somehow we found ourselves talking about it at a recent event (yes, and more drinks). Let’s do it after Christmas, ok. So, we meet in Wallan at 6am to begin the long day.

We had a few ideas to speed up our caching given we were trying to find 300+ caches in a day and that our previous record was about 60 in a day so this was going to be tough. We put the GPS and pens on lanyards do we could keep our hands few when getting the cache and didn’t have to pick up or get things out of our pockets. We did shifts of 1 hour, so one person did the driving, ate, re-hydrated and relaxed, while the other cached for the hour. The driver also provided the clue up front between caches as the cacher counted the distance down to the cache.

Now to the clues. Tree, stump, log, rock! We were getting a good chuckle over the clues, ‘beside tree’, we are in a forest! We found some of the ‘logs’ were not yet logs (i.e. trees), but they were close most of the time. We thought there might be some sort of random clue generator sometimes.

To the numbers. 330 caches attempted in 10 hours and 22 minutes. We had 7 DNFs and a total of 323 finds. This meant an average find time (including DNFs) of 1 minute, 53 seconds. We were quite amazed at the speed we could go and how quick you could find, sign and move on. It also comes down to the great containers laid out by carkisser for this power trail. Nice and large, and easy to find and extract the logs. We only came across one Eclipse time late in the day. Our biggest hour of finds was our 5th hour of 42 finds. This averaged out at 1 minute and 25 seconds per cache.

Overall, we had a great time as it was a challenge to push ourselves to get all these caches. We loved the layout and the effort to place all these caches. Thanks so much to carkisser for the caches.

FBTJ #2785

#8794 - 12:29; After a weekend of caching with Sol de lune in Melbourne in conjunction with the Parkville 2018 Mega, it was time to head back north along the highway for home. Took a short detour so I could collect a few more in this series, which has seen a bit of action this weekend! TFTC carkisser & JSando

Thanks to the long weekend back home, I was able to pop over the ditch for the mega and a ‘few’ caches along the way! I was really after the numbers on this trip, planning to achieve 50+ each of the three days for a challenge – something that is getting much more difficult back home! The weather was great and I had a ball thanks to all the CO’s placing great caches!

I left a couple unfinished tails on this trail, and I am glad to report that I was able to come and complete the rest on this trip! TFTC!!

After Becknmonts and I picked gabs1963 up from the airport we headed out to start our day, a beautiful quick stop at Melbourne’s first before we headed to start this trail, thanks so much for putting theses caches out, I really enjoyed them - definitely a first for me getting my geo car off the road and on some dirt - TFTC carkisser

I had a great day out today after LouLou0212 and myself picked Gabs1963 up for the airport. We headed to “Melbourne’s First” and then onto this trail as Gabs1963 has cached our her 450km radius, so she wanted some “easy numbers”. Thanks so much for placing this trail carkisser

Over for Parkville Event started early this Morning after I landed in Melbourne, with Becknmonts and Loulou0212 we saw some beautiful scenery

I'm in Melbourne for a few day's with Horsesrule1990, heading to the event and to pick up as many caches as possible. Once the Melbourne Mega raps up we will head to the Gold Coast , for a few day hitting all the fun parks. Then heading back to Western Australia, and back to Work. Would like to thank everyone for there caches and there effects hiding then for us to find.all Tftc.

We arrived in the area with a particular plan and that was to do the Dad's Mt Disappointment Driving Lesson trail. All caches were found or replaced (with the permission of the owner) Some still need the logs replaced but we ran out of supplies.
This trail was done with Hans and Linda, the jumping in and out of the car was shared, the driving was shared, lunch was had on the trail where ever we found a place that appealed to us.
Some shots were fired near one of the caches which startled the crap out of us. We did not think that you were allowed to shoot here. The roads were a mixture of good, bad and ugly. Thankfully it was dry it did try very hard to rain but all we saw was not enough to wet the car or us.
We apologise for the generic logs, this does not mean we thought any less of this series. We appreciate the effort that has gone into placing this trail and maintaining it, this is why we were more than happy to help with some maintenance.
SL TFTC

TFTC. We had planned a big day of caching with friends Muff1. Our aim was to complete as much as possible of the Mt Dissappointment trail. In general all of the caches were quickly to hand and signed. We attempted to do as many as possible without having to double back on ourselves.

Away for a long weekend of caching with Freddo and Four Fun.

Over 300 caches in 4 days means that the logs will be mainly generic.

The main target of our mission was to finish off the Mt Disappointment series. We achieved our target along with other caches as we headed east and then west.

My apologies for the generic logs.

TFTC

Away for an extended long weekend of caching with Freddo and Team Waldron.
This wasour main target for the weekend, the Dad's Driving Series, and it was definately a fun exercise collecting the series as well as a few other fun finds along the way
Cheers & TFTH carkisser

Logging a find as part of the 4FW crew for this giant series. A lot of work has gone into putting this series together. Thanks to Dad and your helpers. All caches were found and logged. The driving was a lots of fun on a beautiful day.

This is my third day getting Driving Lessons. I must be difficult to teach because I haven't finished all the lessons yet. A prefect spring day - I didn't meet any other cachers. I will drop a few Hearts along the way in recognition of the mammoth effort put in by Carkisser and JSondo.
Two caches were missing, 285 and 140. Thanks a million carkisser and JSando.

TFTC
Lyciah

Tftc

The goal today was to pick up a heap up caches to build up the fav points for an upcoming Grampians trip and aim for a new gemstone badge - 120 caches in a day.
Mostly easy finds and a good size which is great to see. A few people out today on motorbikes and exploring however relatively muggle free. Nice variety of bush land with lovely views in parts.
TFTC

#3225 A big day of caching with the aim to collect big numbers and collect a bunch of souvenirs. The geohounds tagged along for the adventure. A cool day with the temperature floating around 7-9 degrees, but much fun had. A handful of dnfs but lots of finds. We found the coords to be pretty good, a few damp logsheets but no trouble signing. Thanks for all the effort carkisser and JSando.

Time to raise the GPS again as we set a new PB for finds in one day. Not really a numbers chaser but we are letting our hair down today .

Today I doubled my find count for the year, which is probably a good thing because I’ve just about hidden more than I’ve found in 2018!

It was a frosty start to the day but I was not standing around to long at each of the Mt Dissa caches I found.

I enjoyed my brief time in the area and completed the HQ hidden creatures challenge.

TFTC

5th one down....and the driver was needed to assist with the find. TFTC

Hume and Hovell were wrong. This place should be called Mt Rewarding. This was my 3rd visit here with Cybergran V and with the days haul of 102 finds (including 3 randoms) we now have 199 of this series completed and (when logged) all 13 virtual souvenirs currently on offer in the bag. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou carkisser & JSando for this amazing opportunity to crank the numbers when most needed.

Dalerious dropped his phone here, as it fell off his knee, when he got out of the car, and smashed the screen. Bugger!
Luckily he had his old phone, fully charged, moved the chip into the old one, and we spent 20 minutes here downloading caches into it, before we could continue. If he had to drop it anywhere this was possibly the best spot as we had good phone reception at this spot.
While he was doing that I transferred the next fifty caches into an offline list, as I wasn’t prepared for the eventuality of doing a hundred today.

Finding a few more along this amazing trail. What a mammoth effort in placing all these caches for us to enjoy as we relive your driving lesson of long ago. We are luckier as the roads are in much better state TFTC carkisser & JSando

TFTC

Our third visit to work on this series before we head to Marong for the remainder of the Queens Birthday and our Grandsons 2nd Birthday. TFTC

This was one epic series, it had it all, easy finds, tougher finds, lots of dirt road driving, steep hills, bush bashing, open logged forest, deep dense forests and a leech or 2 to throw in the mix. Both me and TheSkype traveled from the ACT to cache in Victoria and this series certainly is one to bump up the tally which I personally believe is only for die-hard cachers. Do not bring a newbie here, it might get tough, zap their mind and they might never want to cache again. We camped at Andersons Garden campground and this was our base for the 3 days we spent caching. Thanks again pleasure to do business and explore this historic part of Victoria. TFTC. Day 1