Storm Trooper Kerrisdale, Victoria, Australia
By Obi-Wan on 17-May-16. Waypoint GC6FYMC

TFTC and the Force!

Found with Bogonghazy and Geo pup on our way to Mansfield. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

Found with LittleBoss2 and Geo the puppy as we head to a weekend in Mansfield. I've driven past this too many times. Thanks Obi Wan. Container is cracked but dry

Found this fun little hide on our way home from Gembrook. Have notified CO about broken container.

Found it, left a sticker TFTC

Thanks! I still have some power!

Yippee, new LGA.Got this on the way to Melbournes first.TFTC

Quick find Thanks for the cache

TFTC! 25 December 2023 7:18:21pm 6571A great cache container! Thanks for the cache!

Nice easy find on our way Seymour for the night. Tftc

I love cache

Good one for the geokids!

Find number 12011 at 3:38:34 pm on Thursday the 27 April 2023
Travelling home from Goughs Bay with a detour through Nagambie to do some cache maintenance on a couple of my local geoacaches, and to grab a couple of extras as I go, obviously
Found after a little digging.
**Thanks for placing this cache ScattsMadhouse**

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A little late night stroll from camp found with the force TFTC

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Heading away for a weekend of football, geocaching, Parkrun and a mountain hike along the AAWT (Australian Alps Walking Track) with fellow geocacher The Blind Side. We decided to grab one on the way from Shepparton to Lilydale and this one was close to the road so we parked and used the lights on our phones to get to gz. Thankfully found in an obvious spot. Nice hide TFTC

Heading to Lilydale for the night thought I'd grab one on the way and this one on was a quick park and grab even tho it was dark. Found in an obv spot. TFTC

TFTC

Easy find along a great bike trial. However by this stage of the day it was getting stinking hot.

Quick drive by and collect on a road trip to meet family.

3rd find for three day.

Nice walk from were I parked my car.

TNLN
T4TC

Cheers,
Ric

Yep obvious which, at the end of my ride, I was glad for. Tftc

Quick grab while passing through. Liked the container! TFTC

Without bikes we have to tackle caches along this trail on foot. Fortunately this was a short walk and a quick find. We spotted a very flighty small bird nearby with a splash of pink - maybe a rose robin. Thanks to Obi-Wan for the cache.

Decided today was a great day to get out, enjoy the sunshine and do the rail trail series and others heading towards Yea. I cheated and did it via my geo car as I had to work in the afternoon. Anyway had some great finds and totally enjoyed my day out.

Love the Star Wars caches they were fantastic, although I did have to use the force climbing a few hills to get up to the bike trail. TFTC

Beadling around the countryside on a clear sky day But, boy, those cold morning starts are icy Scored 20 smilies on today’s journey.

Surprised to find a storm trooper on the Great Victorian Rail trail

TFTC Obi-Wan

Found this on straight away using the force

Out for our second day on the Great Victorian Rail Trail, we were riding sections then returning to the car and driving pass to the next section
This was the first find heading out, not too hard
TFTC

On our way to meet up with Team Crackers, but a small detour to pick up some caches on the way.
Thanks to all the CO's for a entertaining day. All caches found quickly and in good condition.
Many thanks for placing this cache, ScattsMadhouse, for us and others to find.

TFTC love the stormtrooper

That’s the first time I’ve ever met a storm trooper. Thanks for the hide. Love the container.

Out and about on Sunday with the family on the rail trail. Family was on their bikes which left me to run some of the trail. 7km out and the same back, so a kinda pleasant run. Took 90 mins all up including stopping for the finds, was a manic adventure and today my legs are certainly sore. Family seemed to enjoy the adventure apart from complaining about the hills! Seriously! try running them! Thanks for the fun. Looking forward to getting back to run another section. Quick find on this one, off to a good start.

Found by G & C

Found with JKP on our Victorian road trip. TFTC
May the Force be with you x

LawtonCat birthday adventure

Over from the uk started in Perth for 5 night in Melbourne for 3 night before our 4 day road trip stoping at Moama Eccuca Bendigo and on to the great ocean road. Caching all the way.

Great experience load to see. Thank you all CO’s for fantastic hide and some very ingenious.

9:17 am #9309
A trip up north this weekend, finding some caches from missing sectors on my 360 map.
Loved this container! A bit of water inside but the inner was nice and dry.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Obi-Wan

Traveling north today to visit friends and we stopped here to grab this rather interesting cache.. the force was strong and the cache was uncovered quickly .. thanks for placing the cache young jedi

Fantastic container !

Found together with Threefoot on holiday, we logged as Team LT just to save space in the loggbook. Greetings from Sweden . TFTC

Swedes on vacation in Australia. Found together with LBTW and in order to save space we logged as team LT. TFTC. Greetings to from

Caching after a visit to the chocolatier. No network in the area but managed to get this one from a typical hidey hole. TFTC Obi-Wan

Quick easy find. Inbetween rain storms thanks for the cache Obi-Wan

Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

With GPS not working it was a good thing that the force was on our side and that we were able to identify the GZ just by using our geosenses!

My little Storm Troopers and I found the cache quite quickly. Thanks for the interesting cache

On our way home from Bonnie Doon, we stopped for this quick find. Thanks Obi-Wan

2836 fltf grabbed tb

Stopped of on the way through, dropped off a trackable, TFTC

I found this one while passing through the area on my hover speeder bike (I wish).
Parked on the roadside, then with a little help from the force, I spied a likely spot. Sure enough the cache was soon in hand.
Signed the log, returned this storm trooper to his place of confinement and off again on my speeder!!!
May the force be with you!
Thanks Obi-wan for the fun cache.

We succeeded in the task of stopping the Storm Trooper in his tracks - our light sabre cut his head in half and so we were able to reach the vital log book in order to register our success! Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Found with akpa5 and brutas12000

Found with akpa5 and akpa6. The dark side had found cache and parts of it were spread around. Reassembled and put some paper in it to write on

These bike paths are all over the place these days and very useful for placing lots of geocaches along to encourage people to get out and active. I found a scary cache container halfway up the track from the road. It was an easy cache to find and access to it was good from the road below because you could park fairly safely near the path just off the road.

Quick easy find TFTC

Found after starting a multi cache just a little way down the road, and seeing a brown snake rear up in preparation to attack, we both ran for out lives. So we were very cautious walking up to this cache, and there were ants on the track and my friend threw the cache at me because she thought there was something on it.

Quick easy find! Love the container!

Saw that this one might be close enough to the road to grab on our way past.

Turned out to be an easy one, so thanks for the placement.

A quick stop here as I needed just one more today for a challenge. TFTC Obi wan

I tried so hard to find this without going where the device suggested I should go, but in the end I had to go there and Voila, the cache was in hand. tftc.

Broadford - Seymore
We have moved camp again, stopping overnight at Seymore.
We stopped on the highway where suitable towing a caravan. Later we headed out of town towards the railtrail. This we done in the car.
We enjoyed our drive through this rural countryside. A large type of caches in various hides were found.
Thanks for placing this cache ScattsMadhouse

Thanks

Omg wow that’s brillant well place and a good quick one thankyou

Cool hide, my Mum has a similar kind of one down the coast. TFTC

In Seymour today. After the Alexandra mega, picking up a few caches.TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1130. The Force was with us today. Returning slowly and reluctantly homeward after the Alexandra Mega. Loved the container. Our thanks to ScattsMadhouse.

A short walk to gz from the main road with hevwalker.
Thanks for cache & grabbed a Munzee on the way back to the car.
Thanks for the hide Obi-wan

clare007 & my time at Alexandra has come to an end...heading out today for St Arnaud...caching along the way...
A cute little cache that was easy to find...
TFTC ScattsMadhouse

**# 20062** Found on the Vic leg of our 2017 escape trip.
A perfect warm Spring day for a drive to Bendigo.
Hardly any muggles around today, and mostly good quick finds.
Thanks for the cache ScattsMadhouse,
***Roostaman***

10495 Found and Logged at 7:55:00 AM
One of 5 cachers after leaving Alexandra heading to mt Disappointment for a few days
Thanks For The Cache ScattsMadhouse
Lgoody

I found this cache today with my Schatzy while visiting the area for the Alexandra Mega. We had a great weekend and enjoyed the area especially the quality of the caches. This was a great cache we found along the way onour trip home.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Found while returning from the Alexandra Mega Event with GeoHubby Southern Cross Caching.
Sorry about the late log.

TFTC
SS

Loved the graphics on the cache page. TFTC

After attending the MEGA in Alexandra, it was time for the long trek back to SA but still time for a few caches. TFTC.

MazzyMay and I had a most excellent time at the Mega but all things must come to an end but we are not done yet. We picked up some more caches on the way home. TFTC

Found while attending the Mega at Alexandra!
TFTC

Nice hide, tftc

Found by torchlight as we slowly make our way home.
A wonderful day spent with GemmaSistema as we traveled from our homes to Kyneton before jumping in together to continue to Alexandra and the Mega event, a loooong day as we managed a huge collection of cache types, caught up with friends, explored an area I had not visited before and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! I love seeing the flags popping up and getting random toots from fellow cachers passing by as you are knee deep in a bush.
Thanks to everyone for their contributions! Looking forward to the next one!

On the homeward trail from a fun day at the mega.

Easy spot to stop here.

I soon found GZ.

Signed the log and moved on my way.

TFTC

Found in the dark on the way home from mega.

I wasn't sure if I could attend Mega this year with lots of other things happening in life but a plan was hatched close to the date with becca85 to leave the kids at home and do a girls day trip. My day started with leaving home not too long after 6am and meeting Bec en route. From here we travelled stopping for only one cache before hitting the "mega zone".

We caught up with people at all the events, and at caches which is always nice as you get to meet so many different folk from all around Australia. We found some really awesome gadgets caches (which we are bad at), some amazing scenery which I really want to bring the family back to, and we laughed all day long.

I had a fabulous day clocking up plenty of finds. Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the day. The cache owners, organisers, volunteers, and my geo friends who helped me with puzzle solving before the event! Thanks a million - love the geocaching community. See you all in 2018!

found on the way to Melbourne after the Mega. Nice container TFTC

Thanks for another smilie. Quick find where all good at GZ.


Great to be over this side of the ditch for a few days with my key focus being the Mega in Alexandra and associated activities. I’ll be taking some ideas back to New Zealand so as we plan for a major Event next year we can look to implement some of the great things from Melbourne.


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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn’t be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU.

16:07
An earlier than expected completion of an appointment in Melbourne, meant it was possible to pull over for this cache, on the way to Alexandra.
Brings back memories of watching videos with the kids!
Cache was buried deep in debris when found today.

Thanks ScattsMadhouse for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
20300

We decided that it was time to do some bike riding north of the divide and revisit the Tallarook Mansfield rail trail in the Tawool section where more caches had appeared since we had travelled on it a year or so back. This was a short run to GZ and a quick search revealed the SW cache at 15:20. We noted that the track crosses the road not far beyond and it was a logical point to turn back- only 15 km to the car. Thanks Obi-Wan

Beautiful sunny day for caching along these road and exploring beautiful place.
Lots birds out there.
Thanks ScattsMadhouse for bring me here and cache.

Filling in time waiting for an appointment in yea decided to drive up the road On a chilly Saturday, and grab some smiles . Easy headed up the hill to the Gz found the hide quickly and was impressed with the quality of the hide and the creativity. Thankyou for your hard work in maintaining this hide a beautiful spot too found with jojobeenie

What a cold day! We must be crazy to be out caching!! The caches beyond Yea have been taunting us for a long time and were in desperate need of a big smiley face .. This was a creative hide and a lovely spot .. thanks for bringing us here .. Find #350

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Obi-Wan [^]

Tftf:) on a cycle on the rail trail for the week, having fun caching and visiting places I haven't been since I was a kid

Found on my ride to Yea TFTC

Up from the south to have a try at the Mansfield to Tallarook rail trail and to Alexandra
as well. Grabbed some cachers on the way this being one of them. Sorry but most logs
may be a the same. Thanks Obi-Wan FTC.

Wife and I found this one great little container tftc

Cruising randomly around the area today,
I stumbled into one of Darth's training camps [:o]
Fortunately I only had to fight one of the troops for the logbook
And this guy wasn't quite as animated as the chap on the webpage

TFTC,
cool container

Heading home after a few days in Melbourne caching and the force was obviously with us today as we made this quick find.
Thanks ScattsMadhouse for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#4520

11:27, 4 January 2017. #571.

On a ride with some friends on their way to points further north for a few days. Yea was as far as I was going today, so took the opportunity to pick up a few caches on the way home. I worked out roughly where this one should be along the way before I left Yea and, by careful observation (spelled l-u-c-k) stopped by bike very close to GZ. Quick gathering of bearings, a quick bit of ignoring where my iPhone was telling me to go and a look in the logical place. The Geocaching Force was strong in me today and I had the cache in hand very quickly.

The cache is in good condition.

TNLNSL. TFTC ScattsMadhouse

Arrived in town this evening and decided to grab some caches before heading for the trail tomorrow, this was one of several, some of these were straight forwards and other were a little more challenging, over all we collected all we were after, lovely area, there were loads of little spiders and butterflies spotted. the weather cooled down by the time we arrived so it was rather pleasant. TFTC

Coming up to the corner by vehicle, we realised this cache was quite close to the road and we were able to park safely. Speaking of storms - it just began to rain lightly as we got out to SL at 4.25pm. We are making our way home to Wangaratta after spending the weekend in the Phillip Island area. Taking the scenic route and discovering a new cache or two along the way. #4264 TFTC ScattsMadhouse

A quick and easy find as we cache our way through the area today. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Over for the Surf Coast Mega with tmann421 enjoying the area and collecting caches along the way.
Thanks to all the CO's for adding to the enjoyment of this fun trip and TFTC

No problems with the find here - nice little series. SL TFTC

Drive all the way to Melbourne stay few days then catch ferry to tasmania for week.... hide well.. thanks

Found after having an rum and raspberry ice cream in Yea thanks for the drive by . A sharp turn for the cyclist . Thank you log sogned