Three French Hens Exford, Victoria, Australia
By
Benjamin Screamer on 30-Jun-17. Waypoint GC785Q9
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Logs
Two turtle doves, and a partridge? Quick and easy find for this glorious cache. Tftc.
Brilliant cache! Hubby nearly got a free sex change, the edge is sharp apparently
A nice drive along here finding these as I went, all the caches are in good condition On a week long trip to Melbourne for work and to watch the AFL prelim at the MCG, I decided to drive over and make a bit if a caching trip out of it as well. Stopping to find the odd cache here and there along the way.Thanks for the cache
With dot558 well left the best to last was expecting to find a few tbAs it makes a great hotelGreat work
Easy park and find with Cinematicjojo and Geo dog Lunar who stayed in car and watched , grab and swapped items
Just wow, large cache, great find. Tftc, found with Anzac Mondane and our geo dog lunar
We had a feeling of the possible hiding spot pulling up. As we approached the spot we were surprised to find a great big egg Love the cache! ThanksHCM
It was a couple of weeks ago that a decision was made to head down to Bacchus Marsh for the weekend. This meant, of course, that while I was here, I would try and get out and do some caching. My plan for today was to spend it in, and around, the Bacchus area targeting a few specific caches that would fill some of my empty Jasmer spots; meet challenge criteria; and be in new LGAs; along with a few random caches in between. Aside from finding all the target caches that I was after, I was able to find a few in between that were quite unique in their creation and definitely worth the favourite points. This made for a very enjoyable day of caching in an area I would hope to return to sometime in the futured. Apologies for the generic log as I have quite a few to write following this trip.Find #9762, at 02:33 pmTFTC 
Autumnal Victorian Roadtrip.Day Five: Melbourne to Great WesternWeather: still perfect! WOW! I get the impression that this CO does not do small caches as a rule , but this one is the largest caches Ive seen in a long time. Pleasing to see that it has survived seven years and still looks to be in good nick. I wish it well for the future - this is a very busy road today, and new housing encroaching from all directions. FP from me, thanks Benjamin Screamer. This cache made me wonder how French hens are different from the Aussie backyard chook, so I went to google. See photo.
Collected all this trail today. Love the variety of containers and sizes. Fabulous big cache-probably the biggest ive found. A favorite point awarded for this clever container. TFTC
On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. Day 42/74, Sunday. The highlight of the day for me was attending a CITO event in the Hopetoun Park and contribute to the Clean Up Australia Day - and meeting the lovely local geocaching community! That is where I headed this morning. After the CITO I continued geocaching for - well - rest of the day. I saw so many quality caches today that I really enjoyed my day. There is no better way to spend a Sunday.Wow, this really WAS a large cache. A favorite point from me and greetings to the lovely CO that I had a pleasure to meet the very next day! Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).
Day 42/74, Sunday. The highlight of the day for me was attending a CITO event in the Hopetoun Park and contribute to the Clean Up Australia Day - and meeting the lovely local geocaching community! That is where I headed this morning. After the CITO I continued geocaching for - well - rest of the day. I saw so many quality caches today that I really enjoyed my day. There is no better way to spend a Sunday.Wow, this really WAS a large cache. A favorite point from me and greetings to the lovely CO that I had a pleasure to meet the very next day! Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).The snuggle muggle called me late last night saying she wasn't feeling well, and so we cancelled our plans. However, this did mean that I had my first free weekend in a while. Well with my free weekend, I wanted to make the most of it and get as much caching in as I could. So I decided to mix it up and go on a bit of caching road trip up to [Ballarat](https://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/), and cache all along the way.However, I ended up grabbing this one on my return trip to Melbourne.The main goal of today was to try and target caches that would help me work towards a few challenge caches I have had my eye on. However with large caches being a bit rarer, I always try to stop by and find them If I am ever close.The road near GZ was surprisingly busy, and I didn't feel comfortable parking along side Exford road. So I ended up pulling off and parking on Telephone road as it was much quieter and walked on over.I am sure I got a few strang looks as I walked along towards GZ, but the allure of finding a Large cache was just to appealing.With this cache being hidden along the side of the road there really wasn't many places to hide a Large cache and so I ended up spotting the likely beacon from a ways a way and as I got close I was able to spot this amazing large cache!The effort that went into crafting this one was just so great and you were even able to find a great little spot to hide it!A big thanks goes to [Benjamin Screamer](https://www.geocaching.com/p/?guid=58b3bf8b-8ef6-4f4a-9b71-d96fd91a32c7&wid=6212eff4-9355-427b-be6e-ee70e62fcb97&ds=2) for all the fun I had in finding this one. TFTC.**Cache Maintenance Status**The "lid" of the cache container was in great shape. The actual cache container was in great shape. All of the contents inside the cache were nice and dry, including the logbook which was clean and had plenty of room for future cache finders to sign.
Thanks for the cache. All looks to be in good condition with this one also. Log signed and returned back as found.
One of the largest and most unique caches ive ever found lol ..The rd was particularly busy today. I felt like a chicken wanting to cross the rd.SO What do you call a chicken crossing the road? Poultry in motion
Large caches are hard to come by! The CO is really smart! They actually placed a Large cache on the side of a road...and is still there!! I was surprised to see that there was no box for swag! But the simplicity and large has me itching to give the cache a Fav!Thank you Benjamin Screamer, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.Follow my story on Instagram @AlphaDeltaIndigo
16:57Found on a slow trip home from Brunch in Bacchus, in the company of AlphaDeltaIndigo and Muzza.Well, there was only one hiding place for something that size.Nice work indeed, Benjamin Screamer.#7869
Out and about after the Brunch Event in Bacchus Marsh. This was a very large cache. And a very empty one too. Found in the company of AlphaDeltaIndigo and Nirgalagrin.
Thanks to Benjamin Screamer for the cache.
Thanks to Benjamin Screamer for the cache.
Thanks for the cache & greetings from Switzerland
Smurfy_CH
Unfortunately the lid of the big box has a hole and the container has water in it. The logbook is still on a dry spot. But the swaps are drowned. Cleaned it as good as possible but the next shower looks close.....
Smurfy_CH
Unfortunately the lid of the big box has a hole and the container has water in it. The logbook is still on a dry spot. But the swaps are drowned. Cleaned it as good as possible but the next shower looks close.....
Over from NZ for a weeks holiday and with nice weather today, we made the most of it by getting out into the countryside for a few caches.
First stop was the Organ Pipes park and the opportunity for four earthcaches. Once they were ticked off, we headed west for some more virtuals and trads with higher FP's.
Stopped off here and have to say was a bit surprised at the size of this cache. Just a pity though about the endless rubbish along the sides of the road out here, which spoiled the experience a bit. I really thought OZ would be a lot cleaner than that. .. TFTC
First stop was the Organ Pipes park and the opportunity for four earthcaches. Once they were ticked off, we headed west for some more virtuals and trads with higher FP's.
Stopped off here and have to say was a bit surprised at the size of this cache. Just a pity though about the endless rubbish along the sides of the road out here, which spoiled the experience a bit. I really thought OZ would be a lot cleaner than that. .. TFTC
)Day out with sassieold55, nice quick find after dodging traffic gee it's busy along here TFTC
Thanks for the cache! I hadn't read the description, so I was NOT expecting that size!!
In Melbourne to attend the Mega at Whittlesea with tmann421.
Enjoyed the short trip around locating a few caches before heading to the event
Log signed tm/ww NZ
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts with the hides
Enjoyed the short trip around locating a few caches before heading to the event
Log signed tm/ww NZ
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts with the hides
We have arrived in Melbourne to attend the MEGA Event at Whittlesea, so of course we came over a few days before to do some geocaching first!
woolwood9 and I had a good time and this was a cache we located.
This area had seen a lot of rain, all the grass was wet and some areas of flooding, mainly on the sides of the roads.
Good big containers in this series.
SL *tm/ww NZ*
*Thank you for helping to show us around different areas and adding to our enjoyment*
woolwood9 and I had a good time and this was a cache we located.
This area had seen a lot of rain, all the grass was wet and some areas of flooding, mainly on the sides of the roads.
Good big containers in this series.
SL *tm/ww NZ*
*Thank you for helping to show us around different areas and adding to our enjoyment*
Wow what a massive cache. TFTC. We were caching in Mulhouse France 8 weeks ago - this is almost as good.
It’s fun but it didn’t really have something to make it like draw my attention to it
So the Dromaniax are off for another camping trip. Mr Dromaniax had a doctors appointment to go to in Ballarat tomorrow so he took the round-about route to Ballarat to see what caches he could find, whilst Mrs Dromaniax took the three geodogs, Teeny Treek, Mini Michi and Gypsy Girl in A'Tuin the geomobile to Yambuck Lake.
It wasn't the third day of Christmas, but we still wanted to find this cache today. The road was surprisingly quiet as we made our way towards GZ and then cars and trucks appeared in convoys. We pretended to be taking pictures of the countryside until they all passed then we quickly retrieved the logbook and made our mark.
The cache is in great condition and it is awesome to see a large in such an open area. Thank you for this cache Benjamin Screamer.
It wasn't the third day of Christmas, but we still wanted to find this cache today. The road was surprisingly quiet as we made our way towards GZ and then cars and trucks appeared in convoys. We pretended to be taking pictures of the countryside until they all passed then we quickly retrieved the logbook and made our mark.
The cache is in great condition and it is awesome to see a large in such an open area. Thank you for this cache Benjamin Screamer.
In Bacchus Marsh due to a treeplanting day at Werribee Gorge we come out and do some cache
This was my last of the 3's today.
Will return to finsh the rest at some stage.
Enjoyed the run here today.
TFTC
Will return to finsh the rest at some stage.
Enjoyed the run here today.
TFTC
*Found on the 18 Jun 2022 @ 8:58 am.*
*Cache find # 12971.*
Today I head out with buhfuhguh to attend a couple of events in Ballarat later in the day, we got off to an early start to target a few other caches along the way.
Last time we came along this road we ran out of time so ended up driving by them, today we made sure we had plenty of time to drive by them once again once we had found them.
**Thanks to Benjamin Screamer for placing this cache.**
*Cache find # 12971.*
Today I head out with buhfuhguh to attend a couple of events in Ballarat later in the day, we got off to an early start to target a few other caches along the way.
Last time we came along this road we ran out of time so ended up driving by them, today we made sure we had plenty of time to drive by them once again once we had found them.
**Thanks to Benjamin Screamer for placing this cache.**
