Approaching the Towers of the Black Gate Melton West, Victoria, Australia
By Benjamin Screamer on 29-Sep-17. Waypoint GC7CZ0C

Cache is missing. I won't replace it.

Not found

Stopped for a break and walk. Looked a lot. Not today

Didnt find it searched for quite a while

Unfortunately not for us today. Hopefully next trip.

Despite a thorough search, no luck here today.

Trickier than we thought!!!!

Tftc found with Anzac Mondane

Found after having bit of a man look with Cinematicjojo and Geo dog Lunar Thanks for the hide

Nice and easy find

Nice easy find! Thank you for the cache

Nice and easy find, thanks the Cache

Good one!

It has been relocated from the ground, to hanging off a branch. Container colour is Grey. Good luck!

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Great reference to the trilogy, which Ive rewatched only recently. Took me a second to spot the cache once at GZ, but it shouldnt have given its size.

Another find on the big trip. Called into Woolies and caught up with LeeLee after the shop! Nice container that! Found on the Mega Capital Geobash coastal loop via Adelaide - Barrington - coast to Mexico City loop. A lot of caches and white line fever was sweated out. Thanks Benjamin Screamer and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! Some logs signed as TAD as teamed up with Tenkae and Deanside for additional fun. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Had to keep my Eye out, but great cache

Thanks for the cache.

Bit of evening caching for Leapday! TFTC

Saved a local cache for a day like today. Happy Leap Day. Finally ticked off the hardest date to tick. TFTC

Found it

#19174 - 6:16:00 PM; Day one of "The Great Leap Forward" road trip. A last minute change of plans due to my usual partner in crime becoming unavailable saw me heading off in the geomobile and not by air as previously arranged. As the day unfolded, I managed to get as far as Beaufort, collecting six finds and one DNF along the way as well as chasing some windmills and adding three more LGAs/Counties to the tally, including this one. Parked the geomobile just off the road and headed to GZ, where I spotted what I thought might be a bit of rubbish lying exposed, but turned out it was the cache. Signed the log and replaced the cache in a spot more in keeping with the hint. TFTC Benjamin Screamer

Well that was an adventure to find !

TFTC! the hint wasnt helpful but we found it on the ground

Didnt find it at first but mum found it

thanks we put back in bush

thanksssss

This geocache has been the closest in proximity to my abode for the longest time, and I'm slightly embarrassed that it has taken me this long to venture to find it.After a quick bike ride with my boy and answering a lot of questions as to why people litter so much, we had the log signed.Many thanks for the cache.

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Thanks for the catche

Happy days

Found

Returning to airport from Maryborough and this is a cache we felt we needed. Safe parking area and pleasant stroll to nice sized cache.TFTC

Quick find thanks for the cache

My first cache find

Thankyou Benjamin actually w as cache

thank you ben!!

Very cool! #FirstGeo

A fun find at dusk with GeoBF Johnnynoknees. Took scooby left yellow bird

A fun find

It was a fun find

Easy find with clue: David

It’s hard to find

Great little walk to find!
Tftc team sheehy

Awesome spot first one we have found

In Melton for work today. I left a little earlier to collect a few smiley faces.

All is good here. HEAPS of traffic this morning so I got a lot of weird faces as I was walking across the open area towards GZ :p.

Thanks for the cache

Excellent

Bottle

I had decided on a mini road trip for this weekend, starting in Melton for breakfast on Saturday morning and ending in Ballarat for the GeoTour. What happened in between was the mystery!

After the CITO I teamed up with The_Tritonz again for a second day of caching adventures. If they weren’t sick of me yesterday surely today will do the job.

Unusual spot for a hide but we found it.

Thanks Benjamin Screamer for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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After attending a CITO at Hopetoun Park we headed back on the highway for Melton to cache for the afternoon with RoamingHowie.
Crazy location for a cache , armco would have been safer.
Thanks Benjamin Screamer for the placement.

Found with my work mates on a very hot day

Found with great hydration.

Found it and a spider web to the face

Can’t get to it. Fenced off

The cache is in good condition exactly where it's supposed to be. There are no barriers to stop you getting to it.

Found

Needed one more cache to help with a challenge cache I found in 2019 and a PQ search told me this one fitted the bill. So this was the main focus of the day and after a couple of others near Bacchus Marsh, my GPSr was set for this one. Parked at the parking co-ords and took the walk to GZ where the cache was soon spotted. Log was signed, cache returned and it was then back to the car. Very pleased to have found it without issue.

Thanks Benjamin Screamer.....and interesting pair of towers.

found with the JAMS crew on the way home from the whittlesea mega. Quick find to get a new vic LGA.
The JAMS team ( JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, and sir_spectre minus mitchell&hound ) we where out for there usually monthly caching adventure. This time it was to Victoria for the Whittlesea Mega. We left thrusday morning and came back monday We targeted as many Vic LGA's on the journey there and back plus trying to get some extra's around the " melbourne CBD ". A few letterbox D/T's that don't exist in S.A. where stamped and selected D/T's in victoria for our fizzy grid only using victorian caches ( 11 to go before this trip for me ). Where possible old caches where targeted in the missing LGA's ( 2000 or 2001 ) or caches with high fav points. This filled holes in some of the teams Jasper grids. The recent rains caused localized floods that caused a few road closures that slowed our team down and meant we didn't get all LGA's targeted, we where also slowed down by the parks that have turned in to marshes with the rain. Also one tree was climbed which was a record low for the team. It was good to catch up with some teams we have seen for many months or a year or two at the mega and meet some new teams as well.

Found with the JAMS crew on our way home from the Whittlesea mega targeting LGAs. TFTC

The JAMS (JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre) crew went on a MEGA adventure. We all managed to get a 5 day weekend so we made the most of our trip out of state. Our main targets were old caches, different LGA's and those that have lots of favourite points plus of course the MEGA and all the caches put out in celebration
Thanks to all those who have placed, hosted events and kept all the other caches alive for us to find.
All caches signed as JAMS.
Thanks to Benjamin Screamer from mogni

The JAMS team (JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre) have hit the road again, this time heading to the Wittlesea Mega event caching along the way. We had various goals that we wanted to achieve on our 5 day road trip concentrating on old caches, LGA's, unusual D/T combinations and caches with lots of favourite points. [^]

We covered a lot of ground and had a fun time touring around Victoria. We also really enjoyed the Mega and caught up with lots of people, some we hadn't seen for quite a while. There was plenty to see and do at the showgrounds and we managed to fit events, labs and the maze while we were there before heading out to find more caches.

We were lucky with the weather, which turned out to be much nicer than what was forecast and we were able to get out there and find the caches we had targeted. All in all a great 5 days.

Today we are on the way home and stopped for a few target caches that we needed for various goals we were trying to achieve. It was freezing with a very cold wind all day.

Thanks for the cache Benjamin Screamer.

An pleasant spring day to head out and cache with SimsFamily from the You Yangs to Melton.
It did bring back memories of LOTR as I approached GZ.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the Traditional cache Benjamin Screamer
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Found it

Cool

I headed to Melton to drop of a family member.

Why not find a few smileys I thought.

This was one of the first.

Parking I took off in the wind and rain.

The cache was a quick find.

Left a TB to roam.

TFTC

Kids and I found it good fine thanks

Great finddddd loved the bunny’s

good find under the gum tree, TFTC!!!

Good find. TFTC

Thank you so much I found it and I traded stuff in it

Thank you so much I had a great time finding it we put it back exactly where we found it

thank you

Good find!!!

Beware of frogs

This one was easy to find, nevertheless a great little walk to the location

Our second find! Relatively easy to get to. Location is accurate but we didn't read the description properly at first in terms of where to park/start off from. Definitely follow those instructions haha. Cute little gifts. Did a swap. Thanks Benjamin Screamer
(Found with @bananaman7 @ ~2:30 pm)

This is one of those caches that I constantly drive past and think I'll grab that on a day I need to grab a quick one. But there's been some caches that have been disabled before I'd gotten to it . So today I drove specifically to get it.. and I needed some food. Plus the poor Geopuppy is sick of being stuck in the house with me whilst recuperating from a self inflicted injury (me). Gosh, what a great open space, Geopuppy happy got a run in, I'm happy added another day filling in my calendar, and a cache that was nicely hidden, clean and dry

Good one, thanks

Please don't move caches from their perfectly good hiding place on the ground to a place hanging from a branch out in the open. *sigh* Other than that little problem, the cache is in excellent conditions and there are NO SPIDERS.

Found it

spiders spiders spiders

Found it

*Found on the 19 Mar 2022 @ 8:38 am.*
*Cache find # 12593.*

Stopped by this one as I detoured through Melton and the way to Ballarat to find a virtual.
Headed over from the parking waypoint and located the cache with out too much trouble.

**Thanks to Benjamin Screamer for placing this cache.**

wasn't at location

Visited this afternoon. It's at GZ where it's supposed to be, and it's in excellent condition.

Found this one quickly

Found it with Silence49 while on Ballarat Geo Tour

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Took a little bit of a search but soon found not hanging as presumed Grass recently mowed thank goodness!

Ripper spot. Swag swap.

Container, log, etc has been replaced. Come and get it!

Sorry. It's gone. I'll replace it soon.

We could not find it

First cache find in Melton! So happy to get out of town for a bit of shopping. Parked at the waypoint and was surprised to be greated by the Eye of Sauron lol, didn't know what kind of tower to expect! A quick scramble through the trees before... oh, there it is. That was easy.

A lot of nice treasures in here! Definitely helped regain my strength for the journey ahead . TFTC!

Fun find

Lovely little messages and gifts

Thanks for the gift left a great one back

Long grass made it a challenge but it was otherwise easy to find