What's in my pants? Echuca, Victoria, Australia
By WazzaAndWenches on 19-Jul-17. Waypoint GC794Y5

There's a very high likelyhood that this cache is a long way downstream after the recent floods. I am not in a position to check on it at the moment so, unfortunately, it has to be archived.

We're in the midst of some serious flooding in the Echuca area and there's a high chance this cache has gone for a swim downstream.

Once the floodwaters recede and the tracks dry out I'll check the cache and decide whether to enable it or archive it.

I like how this cache is off the track but not in a bad way - meaning walking through spiderwebs and scratchy shrubs. It was raining today, and my pants got wet, but that's all a part of the fun. I like the cache container, and its hide was fitting. Thanks!

Nice one for the kids

TFTC Nice afternoon for a walk

Very easy find in a lovely tranquil spot. Bit of water under container ,but relatively dry inside.
TFTC

great find

Tftc

Ants for sure - there’s zillions of the busy 6 legged creatures. Looked at the radar and made a dash when I realise access was at the end of the sports ground. Very much worth it as I love a mission and this old forest. Last day in Echuca and then off to Wangaratta for the MEGA. Great time with plenty of quality caches in Echuca. TFTC AND THE FUN

A very nice walk to this one! Tftc

Found it

Cool container. Took a few tries to access the right track to access this cache with all the bridge construction still going on. TFTC

Tuck & Scout we’re here September 2021
Easy to see yet hard to track.

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Fun cache. Thank you.

I'm home for the weekend, and early morning walk through the scenic drive.
Re-visited this one for fun .
All in good condition

Leaf litter... 5th find for the day and had a laugh. Took nothing, left a D20 dice, signed logbook

Found with FUF009 while visiting the area. What a title! Tftc

Find # 9309

Found with sharkeifan.

Well seeing as the "Ring of Steel" around Melbourne was taken down last week. We made plans to catch up and to spend a day up in Echuca grabbing some caches.
Seeing as the bridge construction was going on and that we had to walk around this area we decided to tackle it early to beat the heat. it was a great start to our day up here.

had to have a chuckle at GZ, a very interesting sight.

TFTC WazzaAndWenches

Nice easy cache, interesting container, very unique

Literally a pair of pants

Another easy find

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 Echuca Bendigo and on to the great ocean road. Caching all the way.
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Great experience load to see. Thank you all CO’s for fantastic hide and some very ingenious.

Found with JKP on our Victorian road trip. TFTC

Quiet area of bush to stretch the legs. GZ bouncing around but soon had cache in hand. Log signed. TFTC ️

Creative

Creative.
And a lovely little walk along the river.

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Found during a road trip from Brisbane to Adelaide with five days travelling and four overnight stops, via Ballina, Armidale, Tamworth (staying overnight), Bylong, Sofala, Bathurst (staying overnight), Cowra, Young, Cootamundra, Junee, Wodonga (staying overnight), Echuca (staying overnight), Kerang, Ouyen, Pinnaroo and on to Adelaide. With limited time for stops along the way , we targeted one or two caches in each of the LGA's we traversed, and a few extras at the overnight stops to boost the tally. Thanks for the cache WazzaAndWenches!

Found on my 2nd day geocaching around the Echuca region. This was an easy find on a warn day, I was glad I brought some water along. Nice bush reserve close to town.

Shame there is so much rubbish here. A nice quick find although we got a few hitch hikers (ants) that made sure we knew they were not impressed. Thanks for the cache.

Heading south for the St. Arnaud event next month after leaving QOGM in Blackall. Day 56 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 9 caches for the day and 1622 for the trip. TFTC

A quick find here
TFTC

Nice easy find but a bit of bush bashing. TFTC

Found by The Marathon Man and pnutbeagle on our 3-month Australia holiday after travelling from snowy and cold Northern Ontario Canada.

Finally found some time to get caught up in my logs

Please see The Marathon Man's Log for our experience finding the cache

Found by The Marathon Man and pnutbeagle on our 3-month Australia holiday after travelling from snowy and cold Northern Ontario Canada.

We have arrived in Echuca and now finding some caches

easy cache - no snakes today

Tftc and many greetings from Germany

TFTH! Log in good condition. Found w zws2008 & madzac

I put me legs to good use here and took a stroll from the sports ground to find out what I would find out here
15 minutes later and I was riverside for a quick cache find [^]

No ants in my pants !!

TFTC

today i drove from barham to barmah and did some caching on the way. i came to this area to have lunch away from the hustle of the town centre. and fpound this cache. TFTC!

Found @ 6:20 am on Grand-final
Day. Lovely down by the still river listening to the birds.
Thanks for the Cache. NTNL
Log Signed

We had ridden out here to grab 2 GCA caches and decided we might as well see what else was in the area. A couple we had found on a previous visit and this one.
Parked the bikes near the bird box, and I waited with them while Mr Beetle went off to look for this one.
It was quickly found and an appropriate container for the cache name.
So many muggles out here today, some walking, some riding, and some with their dogs.
Thanks.

Found on my journey from outback Queensland back home. It was very interesting wandering around here in the dark. Luckily my torch was working just fine.

Thanks WazzaandWenches for placing this cache.

TFTC, what a beauty. What's in my pants. Found with madzac, zws2008 and shack1961. Nice walk too.

What an adorable cache ..we loved it. Tftc

Happy

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 7.293 E 144° 43.669

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 7.298 E 144° 43.675

Distance from original: 42.4 feet or 12.9 meters.

Maintenance check and coordinate check/update after a few comments about inaccurate coordinates.

Hi there WazzaAndWenches.

We found your cache **"What's in my pants?"** today. (This makes our find count 19309).

Just a random sort of caching day today. Logged a few before heading off th the supermarket. It's not a gun in my pocket, but I sure was glad to see this cache. We had to widen our circle a little but got there in the end.

We found 5 caches today (DNF'd 2) & thoroughly enjoyed our cache raid. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

***Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 11m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book is in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Thanks again wozza & co. Found with Jimmytherat. Nice walk from town for an easy find. One more before heading back for paddle steamer trip & Lunch @ Morrison’s

TFTC Wazza_etc. Stumbled across this one while the GPS was putting us 27m from GZ. Nice placement! Jimmytherat with Noelle04.

Had to return to the geomobile ole and change GPS devices as the first one was sending me all over the place. Once that was fixed the cache was located quite quickly about 10m from where two GPSs by that stage wanted me.

Thanks for the cache WazzaAndWenches. Found on 11 Mar 2018 at 7:52 pm. Find #5932.

Another found out with littlesquirell almost a year ago.
TFTC

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH WazzaAndWenches [^]

A full days riding around Echuca with BettyBoo3747.
Lovely weather for riding, just got back before the heavens opened up!
GZ took us to a very likely fallen log, but no cache.
Reading some previous logs led us to widen our search.
Now we know what Spy Inc's tad equals - 17 meters!
Cute container.
Thanks, Robmc.

#13778. We are only here for one full day staying at Merool on the Murray so we got the bicycles out and were on our way at 8.00am to find a few caches here and over the river at Echuca. After a very pleasant 32 km ride we had managed to find 11 caches and get very despondent wandering up and down High Street trying to find the correct information for a rather lengthy puzzle. We are obviously not very observant or things have changed.

This one led us a merry dance and I was getting very frustrated here as we were trying to avoid waist high spikey thistles and trying to find a cache. After reading a few past logs we kept widening and widening the search until finally Rob chanced upon it. No wonder we had trouble finding it - our GPSr was reading at 17 metres, which was comparable to LocusCache and SteMicMitSar when they got FTF here. I should have read their log too. We did wonder at the title until we found the cache.

Thanks WazzaAndWenches

Went out at 4.45pm after our visitors left for home.
Followed the GPS through the bush and lots of flowering
thistles. A great hide which we found, signed and replaced
as found.
Campers had left their 'calling cards' which was not very
nice of them.

Thanks WazzaAndWenches

Little Squirell

Suscoe's last day in Echuca for this trip.
It was another warm day with a little cloud and some light rain early on and then some lovely sun again during the day.
We have had a terrific few days around this area and we have enjoyed our 6 days here.
Thanks to WazzaAndWenches for this hide, one of the roads on the drive is closed so we had a bit of a round about wander to GZ. Also ran over something stinky in a bag which was a reminder of this trip to GZ every time we stopped for the rest of the day.

Found with nirgalagrin... now I have my own account.

17:00

A late start to the outdoor activities today, but hey, isn't that what holidays are all about?



The gravel road to close by was in good nick, so a nice leisurely drive to what looked like the best approach: the wide track to the riverbank, then a short walk along the water's edge. Coordinates led to a feature that was quickly searched and discounted before a wider sweep came up trumps.



And that got a laugh from both zombeefish and yours truly. Well worth it for that alone, WazzaAndWenches.



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17:00
A late start to the outdoor activities today, but hey, isn't that what holidays are all about?

The gravel road to close by was in good nick, so a nice leisurely drive to what looked like the best approach: the wide track to the riverbank, then a short walk along the water's edge. Coordinates led to a feature that was quickly searched and discounted before a wider sweep came up trumps.

And that got a laugh from both zombeefish and yours truly. Well worth it for that alone, WazzaAndWenches.

#3636

Beautiful day today to go in and fetch this one. Widened the search a tad and quickly had it in hand. Nice crop of thistles... TFTC

Few prickly bushes out there.

A short stroll and search we came up with a smiley.
Grass pretty wet today.
Signed log, dropped off a TB and replaced. TFTC.

Published

I left Shepp about 8.30pm last night and headed for Wakiti Creek Resort to meet up with Cybergran V, Muggle Hubby, dalerious and LizzieandE
After a night of sleep, only disturbed by dalerious' alarm going off at 4.15am [)], it was up at daybreak [)] (well, almost) and then off towards Echuca for the day.
I had a pretty quiet day with only 4 cache finds and 1 event attended but as some people say 'quality over quantity'
Apparently I'm slow (according to the CO of the only puzzle cache that I found today ) but I was still fast enough to get a joint FTF (on a trad placed by the same CO) with the kindly SteMicMitSar [:X] for the 2nd cache find of the day [^]
Arrived back at Shepp at about 10.30pm after a couple of phone calls on the way home [)]

We had just completed the Paying Homage to the Old Blokes multi when SteMicMitSar stated 'a new cache' and then my phone brought it in too
As most of the group we had been caching with were already in their cars and heading to the next multi, I begged SteMicMitSar to allow me to travel with him as I figured his front seat would be cleaner than mine (and it was! ).
He took a wrong turn when he assumed and so then he handed navigation to me while he drove and I'm not sure where the words 'we should have brought my car, it would have been faster' came from
We made it very close to GZ and then had a quick look but found nothing so SteMicMitSar ran back to check a bird box but decided that wasn't actually the cache.
Soon after he put his hands on the cute hide and then we compared coords as my GPSr had 16m and his had 18m from GZ
As it was an exceedingly heavily overcast day we attributed the coords to the cloudy skies as the CO's coords are usally pretty darned accurate! [^]
Woohoo!! Joint *FTF* at 11.18am
Interestingly it was only at the last cache and just before this cache was published that I had been talking about the number of geocachers who have been in my pants (waders!) in order to find watery geocaches without getting wet

TNLN. SL. TFTC WazzaAndWenches

Joint FTF log later

**{FTF}**
Joint find with Locus cache

*6/8/17, 11:18 am, Find # 6951.*

I had finished Paying Homage to The Old Blokes and I then joined up with the others while they were still in the process of completing it, after the cache was found we were all heading back to the cars and the other multi when a new email came in so I checked it out and it happened to be a new cache that was only 730 metres away, I thought about walking but looking at the map it was over near where I was yesterday so I decided to drive. It was then that Kaye said she was coming with me so we jumped in the car and headed off. I was heading to where I had been the dat before but realized that there was a river inbetween where I was and the cache so it was time for Kaye to navigate while I drove.
We arrived close to GZ and went for a wander to where the GPS was indicating GZ to be but we couldn't see anything. We had spotted a bird box that looked new on the we over so I went back to check it out and it was not the cache so it was now but to the search.
As we were heading back towards where the GPS was pointing, I was passing by an object and decided to have a look and what do you know a new cache.
The logbook was opened and checked but no name were found but that was soon changed.

**Thanks to WazzaAndWenches for placing this cache and for the FTF hunt.**