Three Stooges Exford, Victoria, Australia
By Benjamin Screamer on 31-Mar-17. Waypoint GC733C6

The cache was exposed because its original cover was gone. Moved to a new location about 1.5 km away.

Cache OK but moved because it's no longer hidden by the cactus. *Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk*

Good hide

Find # 7558

Found while heading down to Melbourne for the weekend.

Well a trip that would normally take a little over 2.5 hours to do, today took a happy (and a little bit zig zaggy) 8.5 hours.
And a few more than 55 stops to grab the caches on my hit list. All ranging from micros up to larges.

With the day being a scorcher out on the game board ment that water was needed all the while. And plenty of sunscreen.

Thankfully with all the bark, logs, bushes and false tops moved to access caches no snakes were out, me thinks it was too hot for them today too.

This whole series along here were all great fun hides with good themed caches n swag. Well worth the detour off the main Hwy on my way to Melbourne.

All caches found were in good order, unless stated above.

TFTC Benjamin Screamer

What a trio! Trust them to hide near a dead cactus ... [:o)]

A nice easy cache today. Loved the cartoon inside!

Too easy. Tftc

After having cached in Melbourne for the morning, we came to the Bacchus Marsh area to tackle the TSS and Three series of caches, as well as any others in the immediate area.

Accurate coordinates and a straightforward hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Benjamin Screamer for the cache.

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!
Time to collect a few in town and then head out for some more series. Nice area to explore! TFTC!!

The photo in this cache is amusing. Someone in the area has had a good job of killing the cactus along this road. It’s a difficult job and they can spread like wildfire. Well done. The cache was easily found as we could see it from the road. It’s lucky that not many people come down this road, obviously.

Found on the 14/11/2018 at 2:31:00 PM

My fifth day of a 9 day caching road trip holiday.
Well I've always heard there's 4 seasons in one day down in Melbourne. Today started with that 4th season that is least desired while caching... RAIN!
I was set to do some hiking cache trails, packed my bag with plenty of water and only realised it was raining when I got to the hotel carpark. I returned to my room to grab a rain jacket and stomped back to my car knowing that it'll be an uncomfortable day. My shoes were soaked by the 6th cache, and I was wetter in the inside of my raincoat from sweat than what the rain could have done!
Then the rain stopped after a couple of hours, but my feet stayed wet until 6pm when I took my shoes and socks off for the drive back to my hotel. Lucky that I like geocaching enough to ignore those issues!
In the end I managed to find 65 today.

Thanks for the caches.

Not as prickly as it used to be. Great spot though! Thanks for the cache

Great find

Thank you Ren and tiesh

Another great cache. Thanks for the cache. My boy swapped a toy car for a rock.

Found while on holiday from Tasmania. TFTC!

TFTC

After dropping my grandson home, I needed more large caches for a challenge. While on the trail, I decided to do the series. These were varied and very well maintained. Thanks Benjamin Screamer.

Tftc. Loving the theme!

BOOM BOOM

Found by The Gunters

Found by Kucera’s

TFTC

Geo-kid jumped out for one so easy. TFTC

Tonight we decided to go on an adventure we headed off from Ballarat at 9:00pm On Saturday 1/9/18 and found our last cache at 9:30am on Sunday 2/9/18. We had a total of 23 finds on our adventure this cache was 3rd of the 23 finds.
Time found - 10:21pm
Date - 1/9/18

A prickly one! TFTC!

Keep your eyes peeled!!

Quick find thank you. Not really prickly at the moment. Tftc. Greetings from Adelaide South Australia

After the youngest member of our team had finished his soccer game, we decided to explore some of the area, and see if we can add a smile or two, the youngest team member loved this series, and all the work put into the hides, Thanks for the cache and the fun

Found TFTC

Prickle prickle

Thank Benjamin Screamer for an enjoyable day out TFTC

**Found en route in Creswick today**.

*Grabbing a few for the Hidden Creatures Souvenir*

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Benjamin Screamer. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#13019**

Cache-On!

Grub62 and I, on a miserable windy day, thought we would get a few caches. The 3's trail looked like a good way to improve our statistics and also get some souvenirs. These were all easy drive-bys all well done and some clever setups. TFTCs.

Out with Bunadoorian trying to geocache without getting too wet. I had planned a day starting with the Exford Trios series ending in Queenscliff - but with the weather as at was we decided to stay in around this area. TFTC Benjamin Screamer. 4 of 30 today. Loved the photos in this cache - very fitting.

FOUND!!!!

Got to give some education about the pest species here. Even better though, somebody dumped their house rubbish on the side of the road and one thing was a basket of knick knacks. Good for Geocaching trades. Well one man's trash is another man's geo treasure.

The Trimendous Trial Of Triangulation Pt 12
"Oh. Wise guy, huh? Wu-wu-wu-woo." Or was that just Jabberjaw?
Thanks heaps, Benjamin Screamer!

I'm not usually over this way, and despite the wind, it is a good day for caching. The he cactus looks a bit worse for wear though! Tftc

A nice day to go caching.

Today the plan was to try to find some small caches - as we have noticed for the upcoming Mega this year there is a sharkiefan challenge cache that requires 700 small cache finds - and we have only found 444 to date - so we need to get cracking to meet this challenge by November!

We noticed this series had a fair share of small caches so we targeted it. We are all feeling a bit run down today, so we thought this drive and grab series was perfect for us as no one was feeling like a long walk.

Today only two of plowfive were actively caching – me and little miss. The boys were firmly attached to their devices and Mrs P was looking after the boys at each stop.

Little Miss enjoyed the well-stocked and well-maintained caches – and made swaps at almost every cache we visited today. She scored well with bangles, toys and ear-rings (it will be quite a few years though before she gets to wear them). Lucky our swaps bag is also well stocked. I even scored a penny at one cache which I happily swapped for. I enjoyed some good Daddy Daughter time today.

Thanks Benjamin Screamer for a well-maintained quality fun series with a great variety of sizes (including small!). Three really is the perfect number! (– says plowfive with three kidlets).

Well this really was an apt hide for the Three Stooges - I can imagine a 3 Stooges find the cache slapstick based on this cache!

A great sunny autumn day is not to be wasted indoors, so I headed towards the Bacchus Marsh area for an afternoon's caching. The loop from Eynesbury around Parwan ended up quite a successful outing, with no DNFs and a variety of caches.
Started off here with an easy (if prickly) find at the Three Stooges.

Moe Howard: What is that gadget?
Teddy: This is an iPhone.
Curly Howard: An iPhone? [brings the iPhone to his eye] Hello? Hello? [gives it back] There's nobody there.
Teddy: Works better on your ear.

Seems they didn't realize you could use an iPhone for geocaching as well, even almost a decade ago!
Thanks, Benjamin Screamer.

Quick find while out caching with Little Blue Wren.TFTC

TFTC. Signed and returned.
Out and about with Moroldies.

On a let's find a cache or 2 drive. A park and sign .. tftc

Sparta- prickily

I got stabbed

Good find

Ouch!

Real easy find when you think about the hint

TFTC. We were staying with our daughter for the Long Weekend before dropping the car and Motorhome off to have a tow hitch fitted. Nothing better than getting out into the fresh air to spend a few hours caching. After completing the TSS V2 series we continued along to attempt this series.
We certainly remember watching Curly , Larry and Mo on the back and white TV . A lot of laughs.

been a little slack in logging caches over the last few weeks, but finally had time to sit and do some logs. Travelling the back road... avoiding traffic, grabbing a cache... ah such a pleasant way to travel home
thanks to benjamin for this cache
all in good order
TNLNSL

Started this year with the intention of filling in the gaps on my days caching calendar. We'll see how long that lasts! So far so good and the third gap in the calendar filled by stopping at this one on my way home from work. TNLN, TFTC Benjamin Screamer

Maintenance day today.

Cache OK. Please close lid.

Woooooooo:)

I used to have found all the caches in this area but with moving further away and the explosion of new hides out here I have fallen well behind. I was out this way for work and finished up fairly early so decided to detour on the way home.

A surprising amount of traffic on this road considering I'm not sure where it goes. I spotted the hide quickly but took a bit longer to reach it without being skewered. Thanks for the cache Benjamin Screamer.

- Auf einer kleinen Runde ein paar Orte besucht...
Danke für den Cache
Gruß shibbyo -

- On a small round a few places visited...
Thanks for the Cache
Greeting shibbyo -

Easy find didnt have to look hard I spotted it as I approached on the road no hide for this one. Sltnln tftc

Quick find tftc

What a prickly situation

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

On the geo itinerary for today the targets were the "Three..." series, the Eynesbury series, the Legends series and whatever randoms which were along the way.

Another quick find for me here along the road!

Thanks for the hide Benjamin Screamer

8560
Accompanied with Everlasting and Pwala
Caching day
Found it
Thanks Benjamin Screamer

Headed out for a hunt day with crank1 & Everlasting in Bacchus Marsh and Eynesbury area. I was hoping to celebrate my 1000 finds today. The weather has been good but survived with light showers in the morning. Thanks Benjamin Screamer for bringing us here.

Accompanied with pwala and crank1 for the day. Enjoyed wander this area - the weather too cold for me lol. It was good fun day. [^][^][^]

Thanks Benjamin Screamer for organising the cache and hunt.

On the way to Geelong from Melbourne after long weekend.
Decided to take different road journey caching along these road.
I used to watch tv 3 Stooges (black & white & no subtitles!)
Thanks BS

Had to meet mum in Melton today (halfway between homes) with the kids and with a little time to spare before brunch we set about collecting a few stray caches. Amazing to see all the development happening out this side of town. New homes everywhere! All nice easy finds. Many thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Very cool hahahah

Found with annieelouise and ariella tftc all in good condition

My 8 year old cousin found this one

Nice pics

We found Three Stooges while we were out on a first day of October

We managed to avoid the prickles at this well sized container. A quick park and grab

Thanks Benjamin Screamer for being a part of our Geocaching fun and being find number 8953

Found this afternoon with omegaman1971 while catching up and grabbing a few caches in the area. We continued this enjoyable series and had a few laughs as we followed our gps. Quickly had this one located but decided to have a look at the contents in the car, nice collection of memorabilia , thanks Benjamin Screamer for the cache.

omegaman1971
3252 Finds
Love the work on the container lid and enjoyed looking through the pixs.
Cheers for the cache

Thank you that was fun

Did most of this series a little while ago
Was muggled out twice in the one day
Tried again today coords are spot on and I think the wind is keeping everybody away
Was never a big fan of the Three Stooges growing up but everyone to their own
Replaced cache back in its hiding spot
Thanks Benjamin Screamer TFTC

Great day out GC’ing

Find number 6225 at 7:04:38 am
On my way to a job just down the road and I'm a little early with time for a cache or two.
I was surprise that this cache was not where I expected it to be but somewhere else, much more open...
**Thanks for placing this cache Benjamin Screamer**

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Had a day off and planed to take the new Geobike out for a spin but the weather said other wise
So a road trip planned instead
Saw this series awhile ago and off I went
I tried twice for this one but there were muggles parked close by each time I will be back to complete this series
Thanks Benjamin Screamer TFTC

Nice day for a geocache. Have just recently gotten back into geocaching after a long break thanks for tbe cache

Spent the day cruising the back roads of Bacchus Marsh and Melton turning green boxes into smilies.
I was the stooge here looking around the blue prickles, then I spotted the cache. How did I miss that.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache Benjamin Screamer
#3,434

Out with a friend caching got her to collect this, signed and returned. TFTC

A very cold find that required a little bit of care while retrieving the cache. Log signed and straight back to the nice warm car. TFTC

13:52, 20 August 2017. #986.

I hadn't planned any caching today, but had to do a run to the Julia Gillard Library in Tarneit, so, what the heck, a short detour (about 25 km) would be a good run for one of the neglected two wheelers in the garage. I had planned to park close to Three Bags Full and just walk back to this one, then up to the Three Rs rather than stop, park and re-start three times, but I looked at the logical land mark as I was riding past and saw the cache. I couldn't resist stopping and signing the log, which meant Plan A was dropped and the multiple stop, park, re-start procedure was invoked.

I covered the cache a little better than it was hidden when I found it and otherwise it's in good condition.

TNLNSL. TFTC Benjamin Screamer.

Thanks for a nice little cache. The kids were a bit nervous to grab it, so Mummy went for it lol.

Nice quick find. Thanks for bringing me out this area was great.

Found on my way home from Keilor today, just a small diversion. Is a wonderful day to be out and about. Many thanks for the cache

Quick find

Found on my way home from Melton. Thanks Benjamin Screamer

Quick find in the rain and my TBs paid a visit

Good series of hides thanks for the effort

LAST cache of the day 4 us - TFTC number 13 for our Birthday hunt for Jel (18th) with Jojo

Found with OzHockeyChick on a day out and about in the Bacchus Marsh area. We started early to beat the rain and ended up with 55 finds and 1 dnf. It was a great day and so many quality caches. My favorite points will be taking a huge hit, as so many caches we found today were excellent.
A huge cactus! Never watched the stooges. Tftc

9:24 am #3445
Another awesome road trip. This time, caching out west with sharkiefan.
Took longer deciding which way to go next, than finding it. Lol
Thanks for placing this cache here for us to find. Cheers

I was being super cautious in this retrieval; I've danced with prickly pears in the past and always come out worse for wear. Ouch! All ok today though. Enjoyed looking through the pics - brought back some funny memories of the stooges.
Thank-you for your Exford Trios series, Benjamin Screamer. We enjoyed your themed caches, cache notes, variety of hides, and many large sized containers. Some were massive - well done! TFTC

A sticky hiding spot. Very nice.

Watch out for prickles!

Bumped into another couple of cachers. Quick find . Tftc

A quick find on this quiet toad. TFTC

Out for the day exploring the Eynesbury area.
Beautiful day for the middle of Winter.
Great little drive by series. The road sure was busy here though!
Had 2 cars slow right down and stare at us in the car as we were pulled over.
Gave a little wave but they took off and stopped further down the road at a house.
Must have seen people here before but they didn't want a chat i guess.
Thanks for the hide here.