LGA Murrindindi VIC Boddington, Western Australia, Australia
By FellowshipOfTheTrail on 18-Jun-17. Waypoint GC777V5

It's the time for Mr Hunters' to take his big annual leave chunk for the year, 1.5 years into his first full time social work role in his home city of Canberra. This year, I decided to jump on my parents' holiday to Perth (next week) but beforehand, I wanted a solo geocaching splurge. I spotted the LGA series not too far from Perth, so I soon booked accommodation for 5 nights in Boddington with the intention to finish the entire series within that time. I was really looking forward to some quiet time for solo geocaching and to have simple pub meals in a quiet country town, I've been extremely busy over the past few months and given my job involves a lot of emotional energy, I wanted to visit a secluded location as far away from home as you can get, absolutely brilliant. I've hired a Toyota Landcruiser at a bargain price and put together a list of albums to listen to whilst on the drive (for each day's log, I'll list the albums that I listened to that day). Wed 13 Nov: After my flight had a delayed arrival, I collected the hire car and took a gentle drive from the airport to Boddington, taking it easy on the roads given that I've never been to WA and never driven a car as huge as a Landcruiser before. What a lovely drive, the vegetation is a hybrid of everything! Checked in to my accommodation, got my things together and made a start to the LGA series in the 1.5hr of daylight that were left. All up, 26 finds and 1 DNF, which wasn't bad I don't think! May've been a bit slower because I was still figuring out the best routine: how high to have my seat, when to leave the GPS in the car and at what point to resort to taking the GPS out, the volume of the music, how much A/C in the car, the correct speed to drive between each cache so that I didn't accidently drive past them, how to efficiently record each find on my devices. All this experimentation will make for a quick, efficient, successful day tomorrow, but it's meant to be extremely hot tomorrow (compared to the other days), so I may end up taking it easy. I was a bit surprised though that at dinner, I found a tick on my body from when I was caching, I'll need to get some Deet tomorrow, I definitely didn't expect to see any in such dry conditions. Anyway, I had a lot of fun this evening on (mostly) quiet roads, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow! Today's albums: Queen (Queen), Queen II (Queen) - I'm starting off by bingeing Queen's studio albums (near Canberra, I own a trail/series all named after Queen songs, so I'm quite the fan).

Nice quick find with Redrobbin25. Loving this series. Tftc

A nice quick find. Found with Teamlaroche. Tftc!

Caching around Perth and the west coast for a few weeks. TFTC. Nice to finally grab a few of this series.

Tfth

Boddington camping in the RV area.
Found the 1 cache in town before heading out on the LGA trail.
The roads were very quiet only saw a couple of cars. Plenty of sheep & 1 fox.
All caches had good hints.
Thankyou to the CO's for placing these caches.

Over in Western Australia now to attend next months events. Time to get a few caches around Boddington before heading further south.

Found it

Is almost full thanks

Thanks

Tftc

Enjoying a short a trip to W.A. and surrounding areas with tmann421
Saw lots of sites and enjoyed the finds.
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts involved in their hides.
Signed log tm/ww NZ

Day 2 (for us) On The.... *LGA!*

Another very nice find on a geocaching adventure with woolwood9.
We enjoyed the drive / walk around the area.

On the trail by 6-30am stopped for the night after 8-30pm - 2x 15 minute stops otherwise non-stop caching the area!
Tons of dust, 35 degrees - energy draining heat, seeds in socks, flies and spiders - all the good stuff that made for great fun and a fantastic numbers of finds!

**Appreciate the efforts of all involved.**

SL *tm/ww NZ*
*Thank you for putting this Huge cache trail out for us to visit! *

Cache found no probs, thanks to previous finder for unearthing it.

Headed out to knock off some more of this mammoth and awesome powertrail with another 200 ticked off today over a 10 hour period which of course included a stop at the Quinny for a Parmy lunch.

Thanks to FellowshipOfTheTrail for placing such an amazing powertrail with good hints and nice easy finds The sun was shining, the birds were singing! Happy caching days!

Visiting Boddington and decided to tackle some of the LGA series with aimz23_93. All caches were found in good condition and replaced as found. TFTC

Nice quick find with headley92 TFTC

Find 9 of the day, searched a bit for this one, looks like some ants may have built up around it, I only just spotted the lid and had to dig it out a bit. Not a heap of space to pull off the road here, so do take care!

It’s time for my long overdue return to caching and a series like this caught my eye as a good way to boost the numbers back up!

Left nice and early this morning to make it down with plenty of time to find as many as possible!

Hoping to do some CITO along the way to help clean up, but if a shame seeing all the rubbish on the side of the road driving down.

Met the team BODS11 at 6am in Quindanning for a nice early start. Managed to finish the whole LGA Series due to some really hard work and no slacking off (except going into Williams for a pie)

Thanks for maintaining this super power trail.

A big weekend finishing off the LGA series and caches in the surrounding areas with the BODS11 crew (Meme28, Burns345, I C Nothing, Kapelula, Cirrus_WA, Sir Fancy, Leg5, Lachlan1.77, geotrakka, PilotJen and PilotMal). Sorry about the generic logs.

Today the geocaching mission for TaurusSix and myself is to tackle as much of the LGA series as practical. We have viewed and studied this series for a little while now and made the decision that in the cooler months we would give it a go, mindful that it will take a good few goes to collect the whole series. Having lived all over Australia we are familiar with many of the LGA’s around the country so that adds lots of extra interest from our perspective.

We have set ourselves some ambitious personal geocaching goals for today, such as: i) aiming for our highest amount of cache find in a day which is currently at 120 ii) aiming for our highest amount of cache finds in a week which is currently 136 iii) our highest cache finds in a month which is currently 250. With this in mind we made our way to Boddington last evening so we can make an early start on what will be a big geocaching day. The day started off wet but soon picked up to a nice coolish geocaching day.

Appreciation and gratitude to The Fellowship of the Trail for placing and maintaining this wonderful geocaching series.

This is our eleventh cache find of the day along this fabulous trail and while enjoying a fabulous sunrise.

Found by BODS11
BODS11 - I C Nothing, Cirrus_Wa, Sir Fancy, Meme28, Kapelula, Burns345, GeoTrakka, Pilot Jen, Pilot Mal, Lachlan1.77 &Leg5.
We came to complete the LGA series and any other cache that appeared in the area.
Thanks for placing

Out on a caching weekend with Team BODS11 the main aim is to locate and log all the LGA Series caches. Glad to say that mission completed. Thanks FOTT for this series.

Down for the weekend in Quindanning to knock off the Boddington LGA series with a number of Perth cachers. This was one of my stops for the weekend. Apologies for the generic logs. Cheers FellowshipOfTheTrail!

Caches signed as BODDS11.

Staying at Boddington for the weekend, my wife and I decided to do part of the power trail. Not really a power trail person but enjoyed the change of pace.

Not quite the end of us logging this series a quick find by Mrs Copwat all in good condition TFTC

Started our 2nd tour of WA now touring around the south and now targeting the lga series. Did your LGA Murrindindi VIC today. Thank you for such a great series. 1 February 2022 9:17 am Tyfc FellowshipOfTheTrail total caches now 3933

Tftc

We all set personal geocaching targets such as completing the D/T grid and streaks. One of personal goals was to average 2500 finds per year. At the end of 2019 we were on track but, as with all geocachers, the events of 2020 impacted greatly. So, despite the restrictions still in place this year, we are trying to get our average back up to 2500 finds per year. With Covid limiting our travel options, we decided to head west, flying directly from Hobart to Perth so that we could cache in Western Australia.

One of our targets is the Local Government Area series near Boddington. We made a start today in ideal weather conditions. The real unexpected bonus for us was the range and quantity of the wildflowers we saw along the way. They were magnificent. We have been told that the recent consistent rainfall has led to a greater abundance of wildflowers that in previous years.

Today we looked for 87 of the LGA caches, finding all but two of them. Unless stated otherwise, accurate coordinates and the hints led to quick finds. The cache containers were in good condition but, as should be expected, many of the log books are showing signs of being used by many cachers, some being badly torn.

We really enjoy the concept of the LGA trail. Congratulations to the members of the FellowshipOfTheTrail on an excellent series which must have taken extensive planning and a large amount of time to prepare and place each of the caches.

Sun is out water everywhere. Thank you for putting out this section of such a great series. Coordinates excellent and all 77 that we found today were in good condition.

TFTH.

Thank you! Decided to do a bit more of the LGA series on my road trip to WAGB 2021. Happy to make the find here.

Tftc

Tftc

Finishing the day on Newmarket Road with MorgoTheGeo for our third and final day of the LGA series. Pretty quick easy finds. Thanks for the trail

What a fantastic power trail! Fellowship of the Trail, you all have done an excellent job. Bravo!!

Probsty and I hatched a plan on finishing this series today. We took off at 5am and then we were on a cache mission. It’s our third day down here with a mix of driving and mountain biking. Today was with four wheels. Weather was perfect and most were easy finds. Thank you!

Our journey so far has taken us to NSW, SA, Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and now back in Victoria.

Thank you for the Cache

Mr T raced off and claimed the find here while the rest of us were still walking over.
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Now this is how to spend a long weekend Monday. Started early with Mr Z, Mr T & Lance252 to head out and grab some caches, scout some potential lab locations, have a day of adventuring and running the sillies out before work and school start tomorrow. Must have worked by the sounds of the snoring coming from the kids in the back on the way home.

It was a slow-ish morning as we had our hider hats on grabbing coordinates and answers, we ended up in Boddington and grabbed some finds in town before stopping for lunch. After the break we raced along a leg of the FOTT’s LGA series before making our way back home.

We managed to snag 20 finds today with 2 pesky DNF’s mixed in.
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Thanks FellowshipOfTheTrail for placing this cache for me to find, this is find number 2745 for me.

Second day on this great series with BJA3, TFTC FOTT Team!

Day 2 caching the FOTT series at Boddington with TeamBarritts!! Tftc!!

Out and about today and I decided to check the map to see what was nearby.
I find myself with time to kill so I stopped by here for a find.

Many thanks to FellowshipOfTheTrail for placing and maintaining LGA Murrindindi VIC. I found it, I signed it, and put it back as found.

Quickly found.


Out on a maintenance run on the LGA series with Granett and Kyzabra.

FellowshipOfTheTrail SVKR_WA is happy to have found your cache LGA Murrindindi VIC today at 10:22:05 28 Dec 2020. This brings my find count to 4587

FellowshipOfTheTrail - Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. We love travelling and visiting some places that we would only visit due to this game.

FellowshipOfTheTrail I found your cache at 10:23am, this was the 15th of 18 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 6486. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Out with Geotrakka ticking off some LGA’s on such a beautiful day, before the heat kicks in for the year... thank you to the FOTT team for placing this series...

Ive been waiting for this day - to finally take a bite of this series. Meme28 & I hit the road early with a bit of a plan. It will be interesting to see how many we can do. Out to break my one day record yeehaa! Thanks to the FOTT team for putting this series together. Its been on my radar for some time. Good to get out here before it gets too hot. Signing log as team ‘geoTmeme’

Bit of a longer search. Looking in the right spot but needed to look closer.

This one took a little longer but got our hands on it.

Good

Clever find TFTC

First day of the LGA series. Hoping the rain holds off. Generic logs I'm afraid. But will state if anything needs mentioning. Thanks for this series.

TFTC

Tftc. Nice quick park and grab.

Having a wonderful time on the trail. TFTC. Fellowship Of The Trail.

Oh happy day.

TFTC , Fellowship Of The Trail

Quick find whilst trying to bag a big haul.

Trying to put another dent into this series on a beautiful winters day.
Most were quick and easy finds, some took a bit longer with a handful of DNF's.

TFTC

Not to bad to find. The clue helped but not much. It was under the log near coordinates.

Staying in Boddington with the boss and inlaws and decided to head out on my own to tackle some of the lga series. All were quick and easy finds some easier than others as thseveral caches were laying on the ground out in the open for all to see. Thanks for a great series to the FOTT crew.

Found this one during my Geocaching morning

Came to boddington specifically for this series TFTC

TFTC

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Thanks to all the owners and maintainers of this series. We only had a couple of hours today so headed out and were able to clean up two roads. we would like to one day tick off this many actual LGAs. All caches found and in good condition. Apologies for the duplicate log.

Great cache determined to do the series found whilst visiting and thinking about life

Tftc

Hi there FellowshipOfTheTrail.

We found your cache **"LGA Murrindindi VIC"** today. (This makes our find count 23421).

Today we headed out from Boddington and attempted our sixth (and final) loop of the LGA group of caches. We thoroughly enjoyed today's cache finds, but please excuse our boilerplate logs - we know it's not really a good excuse, but we find it difficult to craft individual logs when we attempt so many similar caches in a day. [:(!]

We found 116 caches today & DNF'd 0. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels. Our log or stamp is not necessarily placed in the last spot in the book or sheet. If we find a blank spot when we open the log - that is where it goes.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found most caches within a few metres of where our GPS said we should be looking. [:(!] (We did have to look a little further afield for some though). [:(!]
**Cache Condition:** The containers and log books were mostly in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

Came to Boddington to do Earthcache. Noticed this series on Geocaching WA group. Thought we’d knock a few off.

TFTC

Hi there FellowshipOfTheTrail. While out on the road today I found this cache after a short search - and the container and log are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to FellowshipOfTheTrail for this cache - my find 41

Hi there FellowshipOfTheTrail. While out on the road today with JediahC (our Grandson), we found this cache after a short search - and the container and log are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to FellowshipOfTheTrail for this cache - our find 7432

Day 2 of my little get away to find as many of the LGA series as i could before heading home to Albany. After camping at the Quinny last night i was up and at it early to make the most of the beautiful day. Thankyou to all involved in placing this series out here for everyone to enjoy. TFTC

Tftc

Tagged along with Gma Allinaday to find the FellowshipOfTheTrail series. We had a fun few days looking for all caches. I loved all the lambs in the fields but the red back spiders that were on a few of the caches not so much. Thank you for putting all the caches out there for us to find.

Finally had a spare few days to go and tackle the FellowshipOffTheTrail series with my two granddaughters. Accommodation booked in Boddington a few months earlier, which we used as our base, we set off in high spirits to find all those caches. We had some big days, and also a few shorter ones. Given that it was the middle of winter, we had near perfect caching weather. Not a drop of rain, the roads were nice and smooth with little dust. The fields were lush and green with an abundance of newly born lambs, which were a never ending source of amusement for the girls. We found most of the caches where they were meant to be. Some had been strewn a number of metres away by animals. Some fences have been realigned....one cache location was some 10metres inside a new fence. Some caches have been wiped out by the grader widening the road and pushing all the dirt up. Some trees have also succumbed to new fences. Wherever possible, we have replaced caches.....approx. 26 or so, which will keep the trail alive. Many thanks to those responsible for placing all these caches. I can only imagine how much time has gone into that.

Find #10 of 43 on the LGA trail.

Tftc we're getting prettt fast at these ones now

Tftc Finally had the time and inclination to begin our hunt for at least some of these caches. The sheer number is totally daunting, especially for someone who gets cache burnout after about the tenth cache. Decided I would try to double that but eventually ended up with quadruple that initial target. Wonder of wonders.......All caches were well placed and in excellent condition so it really did become a cachefest. Towards the end, we met up with Everlasting and joined her for the last ten or so hides. Had a great time. Thank of member fellows for placing these caches. Will return sometime to knock off a few more. Tftc

Enjoyed myself - search and signed the log as EV.. most excellent coordinate spot, some coordinate is out of way so look at "hint". Great see paskersfind at this field.. Thanks for the cache and hide.

Well we had plans to be in Albany this week, but plans changed so we were heading towards Dunsborough when plans changed again! Needed somewhere to stop for 1 week and the LGA series popped up on our radar!

So day 1 today and a leisurely start at 8.30 and back at the caravan by 3.00pm with 175smilies today. Lucky for us the CO's had been down to do a maintenance run recently. We only replaced 1 logsheet and 1 broken container.

TFTC Guys.

FellowshipOfTheTrail this is my 170th cache of 211 finds of the day and brings my total find count to 839. The container is in good condition. SLTFTC.

I found the cache in good condition. SL TFTH FOTT.

Out on the caching trail again with ilook4geo. The day started very early as it promised to be hot later on. We were out with ilook4geo to find a whole lot more of this LGA series and had a good rate of success. We took the same approach as yesterday and skipped over the ones that had too many DNF logs or otherwise looked to have a problem. We may have simply not found some that are in play, but didn't spend too much time on any one cache.
All found caches had our initials recorded on the log sheet and were replaced as found before we moved on. Thanks go to FellowshipOfTheTrail for this section of the trail also.

Day 4 of the caching hunt in this area along with goingplaces2. We found 112 caches in total, but missed a few along the way. Initials were added to each log sheet. It was a fun day and we were pleased with the overall result. TFTC.

Out with Team ball and Cassie & Co. A nice quick find
TFTC

Out with Team ball and TeamBastholm. A nice quick find.
TFTC

Out with Team Bastholm and Cassie &Co, on an adventurous two day trip. Thank you so much for all your hard work.

Found it. TFTC FellowshipOfTheTrial. Just came down to do a few more of this series.

Finally team redlipsandunicorns have begun their assault on this series! Nice quick finds thanks to wonderful hints. Really appreciate the effort the fellowship put into placing these caches for us and others to find. Log signed and cache replaced as found. This was find #10 for the day
TFTC

Home of mountain ash trees and Leadbeater’s possum and lots of lyrebirds so favourite awarded here.

Awesome nice quick drive by. Thanks

A day of caching for which the numbers do matter for a change
Thanks for an amazing series.

Tftc, loving the rain and very few cars/muggles

Thanks

TFTC

Thx

ELH77 is getting close to her milestone of 100 now and we are both getting hungry, so a couple more and heading into Boddington for lunch and to get ELH77's century cache

Number 98 ! Getting close

Out with m4yb reacquainting ourselves with Jonathan and let’s grab some of the LGA series.
Thanks FOTT guys

Back home and preparing for the big trip north, with a stay in lovely Boddington and a tidy up of the LGA series plus others. Another find! Thanks for this great series Fellows of the Trail!

Thanks for the hints FOTT; it certainly helped to speed the process up for us, nevertheless, we have still a very long way to go. All good here.

Have been wanting to do these caches for quite some time now and finally had a spare weekend free! So geo wife and I decided to book a night in Boddington on the Friday and make our way through the caches on the Saturday. Nice country side to been seen as we travelled along. Quick and easy finds! We will have to come back again to finish the rest!! TFTC

I have been looking forward to doing some of the LGA series for a long time. This Easter the moment finally arrived with 3 nights staying at the local caravan park ( a great park that I would highly recommend). What an adventure we had in Boddington ! Day1 about 87 of the Northern section of LGA caches found. Took a while to get a system going between Mr Luna Maya and myself to find quickly then move along to the next one. I had to remind myself to look at the beautiful scenery now and again. All caches easily found with help of the hints. Loved the ones found "hanging about". Returned to caravan park, sat down and checked my phone and a new cache published 26k south in Quindanning - exhausted but off we went -ftf for us to finish a perfect day. Thanks Fellowship Of The Trail for an excellent Power Trial and for bringing us to beautiful Boddington. Will Add a Favourite Point for the whole series and a photo or two to at our last LGA of the day LGA Kowanyama Qld.
Will copy and paste all caches. All found easily and in good condition - SL TFTC Fellowship Of The Trail - hope to return for more ....