Surf Coast - Gundry Country Bellbrae, Victoria, Australia
By Wiser than Owls on 05-Oct-16. Waypoint GC6V2B3

Cousin Bruce had a birthday weekend down at the Bellbrae Country Club (it is a place). We got to come along for a surf/dog walk at Torquay, and a late lunch back at the Country Club. In this sunny Autumn weather, it was a great day. This cache was the cherry on top - like Roaming Howie I looked elsewhere initially, but soon found the cache in excellent condition. Thanks Wiser than Owls for this low difficulty puzzle.

Took a little bit of searching but got there eventually

No could find, but, Mrs Razzer got it. The previews also helped. Thanks to the hiders.

Heading down the great ocean road today with *Filser1*, we decided to find one of the caches published for the Surf Coast Event. T4TC

One our way to the south, TEMBO! and I visited the cache "Surf Coast - Gundry Country". We found it after a quick search.Thanks to Wiser than Owls for hiding and maintaining the cache.T4TC Filser1

Easy solve last night knowing we were passing through today. TFTC!

Worked this one out a while ago, but made the small detour this time on my way back from Anglesea.Easily found, but amusing hide, really. Given the lengths one has to go to to keep a cache hidden in urban areas, it's pretty finally to find one this big pretty much sitting on the side of the open road!Lovely country. I should turn off the highways more often.

Find # 12746

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

A family weekend away in Anglesea. Down here to enjoy and cache the area.

Last time I was in Anglesea was Oct 2018 and I had left a few unfound. So back again to claim some more finds in the area and tackle the AdLabs

Cache has been worked out for some time, glad to finally get down here to claim the smiley.

TFTC

Found this one while out grabbing a few others on the coast. TFTC

I found this cache as I slowly made my way from Adelaide through southern Victoria towards the Mega event at Rutherglen, picking up a few caches of interest along the way.

Mixed weather today. The morning wasn’t t too bad, but it slowly got worse as I tried to dodge the showers.

Cache and contents are in good condition.

Thanks Wiser than Owls for the puzzle and the cache.

Found on a peaceful evening with the bushland smelling very nice here. Tftc

I took my niece and family away on their first camping trip. We headed down to Anglesea for the weekend and my niece had a ball. Beach, pool, jumping pillow, and sleeping in a tent all rolled into one. We packed up this morning and after an ice cream at the great ocean road chocolate emporium we went our separate ways, with me going caching if course.

This one tricked me! I was so focused on what I thought was the obvious hide location that I initially missed the cache about 5m further east.

Thanks Wiser than Owls for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Found on our way past today while touring around the area. Solved in preparation, so was a quick find at GZ today. Signed log and left as found, cheers.

Find #5257 on 5 Feb 2023.
TFTC Wiser than Owls!

Thanks for the cache! Found it after a brief search once I read the hint!

Out for a few days down the Great Ocean Road holidaying.

This cache was pre solved and a little back and forth at GZ before making the find.

Thanks to Wiser than Owls for the fun and the adventure.

A swift journey to the coordinates for GZ. Once there cache was discovered, log signed and replaced as found - TFTC

A quick solve but a bit of a slower find as we assumed it was somewhere else - as we didn't read the hint until after.

TFTC! 11 June 2022 12:08:33 pm 2938
A quick solve in the car and a quick find at the gz.

Out for the day with LittleBoss2 in and around Anglesea. This was our last for the day as we're staying at the country club nearby. A great little puzzle and an easy find at GZ. Thanks for a puzzle even I could solve Wiser than Owls.

Visiting the area for the week with Bogonghazy. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

Good coords and a good hint made for a quick find, which is always good after doing the puzzle.

Another day, another time we have teamed up with Rebel Acts to explore the scenic Bellarine Peninsula. Once again we are signing our logs as either SKI Pair, Rebel Acts or RASH. We have been in the area for well over a week now and still have a lot of unfound caches on our map. We’ve had a great time in the area with Rebel, his experience with caching is much larger than ours so we are learning as well as having a great time. Lots of trash talk about “amateur’s” versus “professionals” has caused quite a bit of laughter.

Thanks to all the local cache owners for giving us so many great caches, and showcasing this lovely area. We won’t manage to clean the area out this time, so we will need to come back another time. And we will be looking forward to it.
TFTC

Found by Rebel Acts

I had to duck back up to Melbourne on Monday for an appointment but made it back Tuesday afternoon for a couple more days caching with Ski Pair, we had lots of laughs and the stirring is always fun, could not ask for better company.

Today we concentrated our efforts around Angelsea and a few in Geelong. This is one of the caches we found today, another cache from the solved pile finally found.

Logs signed as RASP (Rebel Acts Ski Pair)

Thanks Wiser than Owls for the cache.

On a trip to the Great Ocean road, this was solved over a year ago. But due to lock downs etc our trip had to be cancelled finally managed to collect it. all good thans for the cache

We decided to take a day off today and head down the coast for some rest and relaxation. We packed the geodogs into the geomobile and headed towards the Great Ocean Road. We had solved this cache and it was only a little off the route we were taking so we decided to see if we could find the cache. We arrived near GZ and parked carefully off the road. It was not long after parking that we were in possession of the cache. The cache was in excellent condition. Thank you for this cache Wiser than Owls.

We are enjoying the Easter break down here at Torquay So I pre solved a couple of puzzles and picked out a couple of multis to do when I had a chance.
Another nice quick find here after parking off free side of the road.
Thanks Wiser than Owls for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Marshall’s Geelong found this cache today,
Solved this one over a year ago and decided today was the day to find it. Quick easy find at GZ. Very quiet road which is nice.
TFTC

Second puzzle solved by geoson this morning. Thanks for the cache

*Found on the 15 Mar 2020 @ 8:43 am.*
*Cache find # 10833.*

This one has been sitting in the solved puzzle list for some time now, I didn't get around the finding it for the Mega and I haven't really been down this way for caching since.
Today I was on a mission but this one was only a short detour so I decided to have a look.
I looked around the GZ area and eventually found the cache not where I would think to look first.

**Thanks to Wiser than Owls for placing this cache.**

Located quite easily. Heading back to Mornington Peninsula via the ferry. Worked out the go at breakfast and stopped to find. TFTC

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

Found on a quiet road today, in an odd spot but there you have it. Puzzle was not too hard.

Darn mozzies.
TNLNSL
TFTC
jeffjulie

Good to test our use of QR codes. Did it yeah. Haha thanks.

I had this cache and another mystery cache nearby on my radar for a while and had worked out the waypoints ages ago. Finally had the opportunity to go to GZ.
It took me a while to find it as there was no phone reception around there so I couldn’t check for the hint on the geocaching app. Could only use GPS there so I went in unsure where to look. Nearly gave up when I walked back to the car and saw something out the corner of my eye. There it was! TFTC.

I have had this one solved and on my to do list for quite some time and have never managed to get the chance to grab it. Today in wee hours of the morning I wasn't too far away and it happened to be the closest next piece of the puzzle I needed for the current Mystery at the Museum special that geocaching.com are running so it became my must do cache for the day.
With the road being very quiet I a manged a very quick find and was on my way home for some much needed sleep.
Thank you Wiser than Owls for the mystery

A chance to get out of town and head down, with Mrs Dragon, along the "Great Ocean Road" to take in the beauty that is around every turn as its been 20 plus years since I had traveled that road and she has never been along that route.
We love the vibrancy of Melbourne and Victoria in general and as such trips back here are not infrequent.

We had made the decision to head to the far end and work our way back at our leasure and as we come from a country with active volcano's and a rough west coast (Black Sand) thought that it was appropriate to explore the volcanic and coastal history of Victoria. Of course I would have liked to stop at every cache along the way but prudence (and fear of Mrs Dragon) meant that I concentrated on Earthcaches along our route, with a few others thrown in for good measure.
As we were going to be stopping for the night nearby, it was a chance to shoot out a d grab a couple more caches before dinner.

Nice quick find here, all good
thanks for the placement

School holidays mean that I become the kid's personal Uber service (without pay). Today I had to drive Master frilk to Lorne so that he could spend the weekend with a friend...at least it gave me a great opportunity to cache further afield.

I had solved this for the Mega several years ago however for whatever reason I hadn't grabbed it. I remedied that today. TFTC.

hard find great cache

A quick find we just stopped over and saw this great cache.

Last find while on the way home from today's bushwalk down at Aireys. The puzzle reminded me a little of another game that I can't quite put my finger on and the coordinates it gave were pretty spot on so I was soon signing the log at 16:30 and was on my way.

TNLNSL, although a couple of our geocoins had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks Wiser than Owls.

Out and about on a Xmas mission with the youngest member of BFMC. His goal was a nap, mine was a cache or two. This one has been sitting in the solved pile for some time now. A nice quick find at GZ while sleeping beauty did his thing. TFTC.

I like an easy puzzle.
A trip east to Parkville 2018 had us stopping on the way to collect a few caches and again stopping on the way home. Well that’s what cachers do when they head to a mega don’t they.

The tree at GZ is a magnet!!

Found on the Parkville mega event round trip. This cache added to the experience.

Thanks Wiser than Owls. and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Another nice little puzzle solved and quick grab.tftc

Another nice easy puzzle and quick park and grab TFTC

A quick little backroad detour on the way to Anglsea with Aysen.

Oop! His awake! Better go - the boy needs lunch!

We were staying nearby and decided to go for a stroll to pick this one up.
I liked this puzzle. Nice and straight forward. We needed one of those.
Thanks Wiser than Owls.
Chiefton!!!

Last port of call on a fantastic caching day. Road tripping with kenare and kenbryl we found a good lot of caches and had good laughs along the way. Cool puzzle and hide rounded off a good day Tftc

another late log - my bad. Anyway, this was a quick solved even if it did mean pulling out the iPad to display the cache page so I could use the phone to do its magic reading trick! Then a quick trip to GZ for the the find. Thanks to Wiser than Owls for this one

Second day of my and boydclans queens birthday long weekend marathon to finish this massive run before its archived

Another great puzzle, found with dehands while caching over the long weekend. TFTC

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.
PS. Collected the clues, have no idea what to do with them.

Find No. 2147. Found at 1.09pm

Down in the Torquay area for the weekend to take our geodog Penny to the beach (and she loved it), and also to do some caching. At this time of year the weather was good to us for both activities. On Saturday, first up we concentrated on getting the caches in Torquay before moving onto the G2Anglesea Trail.

We started the trail at #44 and finished at #87 making our way back to Anglesea where we were staying. Most caches were easy to find, some a bit harder. Good to see different containers and sizes along the way.

Today, Sunday we are doing a few more on the trail before we head for home, starting at #118, finishing at #88 and grabbing a couple of others along the way. Heading back to do #117 and multi nearby (couldn't do earlier due to muggles nearby) we made a detour down the road to grab this one.
TFTC

Gunks had already solved this one before we arrived so was able to grab this one. TFTC

After being dropped off at Gz while kenare found a place to turn around, my gps on the phone was sending me all over the shop. Time to look at the hint, Aahh! There you are. Thanks for the puzzle. Cigc. Tftc

We solved this one ages ago and were finally back down this way to make the find. tftc

This one has been in the solved but not found pile for far too long!! Lol. After deciding that we would cache our way to the chocolaterrie today we picked this one up on the way home. Tftc

Found with aqau on our holiday to the area
Thanks Wiser than Owls

Having a lovely day caching around the surf coast picking up some pre solved puzzles and doing grads multis and an earthcache along the way TFTC Wiser Than Owls

Catching up on a puzzle that I missed when I was at the Mega Surf Coast Event.
Solved the puzzle when at home in Brisbane and came to find it when I was down visiting and staying in Geelong.
Arrived at GZ and it was a quick find.
Signed the log and returned the cache to where I found it.
My Mum and I love the trees along these country roads.
Mum was photographing for her next pastel portrait.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Wiser than Owls All good with this cache and puzzle

Another nice quiz for me :)
TFTC

Heading back from a week down the coast.

Detoured past here to pick up some smilies.

Had accomplished likely co-ord's quite awhile ago.

Today was a smiley.

TFTC [:)}

A nice little puzzle and a quick find today. It seemed like a good spot to leave a travel bug that I had with me.
We headed here to further explore the area and pick up some caches as we made our way around. The weather was perfect on this bright sunny day and all in all it was a great adventure.
Thanks to Wiser than Owls.

The weather today is fantastic and so it's perfect to hit dusty roads in search of caches including this one


Thanks Wiser than Owls

Thanks Wiser than Owls

Another mystery solved. thanks for the hide. Couldnt reach area with my wheelchair so cache was retrieved and brought to me.

Ah, last official day of school holidays... GeoHubby was able to get some time off work, and apparently we 'owed' the eldest GeoKid a trip to the Great Ocean Road chocolate place. Made it an all-in family experience by combining with some geocaching on the way!

After our chocolatey afternoon tea, went after another couple of caches on the way home. The GeoKids were all sugared up so got them out of the car to help with this one and the eldest found the cache.

Log signed and all replaced as found. TB retrieved.

TFTC!

We have based ourselves in Torquay to complete many of the trails in the area plus the mystery caches that we solved before leaving the Apple Isle. Diverted from the trail to pick up this one which we has solved at home some weeks ago. Interesting hide.
TFTC

Found with cjfinda - TFTC

A nice quick find today. TFTC.

Beautiful day for caching around here.
Thanks Wiser than Owls

6993
Easy to work out with QR
Found it
Thanks Wiser than Owls

11:24
Two months of the year gone already! We set out, to tidy up a few missing smiley tokens between home and Anglesea. Squared this one up at home.
(Apologies for time and type of log, our computer had a total meltdown.)

Thanks Wiser than Owls for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
17809

A day of geocaching was needed after a very hectic summer season, out with sassieold55 to do more of the nearby powertrail, by the time we reached this cache it was quite dark and luckily I had torches on board, thanks for the cache

Getting towards the end of a lovely long day of caching with annabella02 , if I know her we will keep caching in the dark !

**Smile # *4624* / Mystery # *534***

I was out and about down this way today, it's been a little while since I have so I detoured to grab this puzzle that I had solved when it popped up but never got the chance to get there. Thankfully the road was quiet as parking here wasn't easy. I made a mad dash to the co-ords and found straight away. Tucked it back and was off again. Stamped and replaced as found.

**Thanks for placing this puzzle cache Wiser than Owls**
**Cache container and log in good order**
**Took nothing, Left nothing**

This was solved at home and I was just waiting to have a chance to come down and find the cache. First cache of many of Wiser than Owls' caches today.
Cache name made sense after I arrived at GZ.
TFTC Wiser than Owls.

Once again we were in the area to perform maintenance on some caches and find a few more Wiser than Owls hides. Quickly solved and found, said "hello" to a tiny lizard, signed log and left a TB.
Thanks for the cache!

Good day for caching at last after all that hot humid weather of the last week! Great idea using a QR to tell us the co-ords of the cache and we found it in its good hiding spot.
TFTC Wiser than Owls.

What a wonderful day to collect some old and some new caches. Brilliant sunshine and our rivers and oceans looking very tropical, casting a wonderful turqoise color, rarely seen in this neck of the woods(coast)
Thanks for the mystery Wiser than Owls. TNLN.

I couldn't make it to the mega so today I went down to pick up a swag of caches that I might have found a month ago. Lots of geotrails which helped.
Thanks Wiser than owls

After finishing work early, we were sitting around doing nothing due to a power outage and we thought what can we do to pass some time? We know what, lets go and get some caches!
So we headed off down to Anglesea to smash over this series with the mysteries already presolved.
Luckily the night was warm and no sight of rain making it all very enjoyable in such a lovely area.
As it started to get dark , we watched the various colours of the sunset before bringing out the torches to guide us to the Tupperware.
Thanks Wiser than Owls for the variety of caches in this very beautiful part of the coast.

Checked a couple of spots before finally spying the cache. A familiar style puzzle for us. TFTC

Heading for Anglesea, a quick detour to pick up this previously prepared simple puzzle. Quick find but a neat hide. TFTC

Staying on after the Surf Coast Event, today was puzzle day focusing on puzzles we had solved to qualify for the mystery month challenge. Soon had the co-ords fo this one, an easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Still heading our way back home via a bunch of puzzles that the Queen had solved on the fly over the weekend, and this was next on the list. This seemed to be a nice quiet bit of toad with nice shade which came in handy as it was a bit difficult to get the big Prado parked off the road enough so as not to impede traffic, but dad jumped out and made a quick dash, find and sign and was back in the car before a local vehicle turned up.

Thanks Wiser than Owls for another cool cache and hide.

Arrived Friday night and staying at the local caravan park with a group of SA cachers who I had meet and cached with at the last Mega at Casey Fields so lots of laughs and some good times with great food and a few wines. What more could you want.
This guy was on the list and soon we were signing the log with Goths+1 with Bushfire being the 1.
Thanks Wiser than Owls.

Log to follow

Heading down the great ocean road today with Snoopy1976, we decided to complete the rest of the caches published for the Surf Coast Event. This was out 2nd find for the day. TFTC

Another cache found while out and about with mogni, brisal5 and Bushfire. TFTC Wiser than Owls.

Day 6 of my week long visit to Victoria.
Today our team was to be GOTHS plus 1. GOTHS being the Geocachers Of The HillS - a group of SA cachers. Myself, mogni and Aussie M&M were the GOTHS members and local cacher Bushfire was the plus 1 [:o)]
After the hectic competition of yesterday it was time to just pick up a few caches at our leisure. Caches with lots of favourite points, ones that seemed a bit interesting, some more of the surf coast caches and a few others along the way were targeted
After a long lunch at the waterfront in Geelong it was time for a walk! And then it was time to head back towards Anglesea and the last of the events. Finding more caches as we went of course.
Time to get the last few puzzles solved from the event out the way. [^]
Thanks Wiser than Owls.

Geocaching with Bushfire, Aussie M & M and brisal5, under the name of GOTHs + 1. Today we had a plan.... find geocaches with lots of favourite points, pick up some we missed yesterday, enjoy the scenery... and of course have fun.
Thanks

We are out and about enjoying the coast and finding a few caches along the way.
TFTC

### MEGA - The Surf Coast Event 2016 ###

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**DAY ´4**
Mega Event day 2

We went for a caching trip during the mega event and have also found this cache and have met many other cachers also.
We stopped along the way at all important sights and nice view points. We were happy about the geological features and beautiful place in this region and have found many caches along the way.
Thank you and best regards from Germany
Team sissifalke

Over from NZ making sure bkj97 was kept on track with cache finding and attending the Mega. Apologies for the repetitive logs but our thanks to all the COs for giving us plenty of caches to keep us occupied. We will get a few more next time. T4TCSL

Well this looks pretty well flattened. Definately get rail here. Pity the last person didn't bother to put log book back in bag...shame on you. Lucky it didn't rain and wet the logbook.

A nice puzzle and cache. TFTC

Our phone quickly gave us the coordinates for GZ. From there accurate coordinates, a geotrail and an obvious hide location led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Wiser Than Owls for the cache.

Day 2 of the Mega, and I'm finally participating in a cache-wise manner. It's early (pre 8:00 am), but there's a lot to do today. Go! Go! Go! Thanks heaps, Wiser Than Owls!