Merry Bush Christmas 2017 Toolern Vale, Victoria, Australia
By Benjamin Screamer on 18-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7G6EP

After being summoned to the area with instructions to bring a ladder for a nearby cache, we headed back towards home, collecting caches along the way.Quick find here

TFTC

Found

Easy find, with thanks! On to the next!

Find # 16086Down in Melton to hit up some caches and Adventure Labs. But main reason was to go motorbike helmet shopping. After checking out a couple of bike shops in Melton, I headed around town grabbing ad labs. But then decided to head to Keilor to check out a few more bike shops... With shopping done I headed back to my original plan, "cache around Melton", hitting up The Toolern Vale Triangle and the Merry Bush Christmas trails and what ever other caches came up on the GPS. All caches found had no issues. It was great to be on some back tracks and make finds in an area I've had my eye on for some time now.TFTC Benjamin Screamer

cheese

found it easy

Found Good parking

Great fun

Great fun

Out for a lovely stroll along this beautiful road.Found the first one safe and sound and dry. Merry Christmas 2017.

Good

Found it quick easy find

Tftc was a wonderful adventure today with Anzac Mondane and our baby lunar

Last of the series to find , thanks for the hides

Out on the road with Mrs Cogs in the PeuGEOt to do a series of caches in the Toolern Vale area.

Christmas in reverse. More Xmas in July. Whats not there to love. Thanks Benjamin Screamer and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! | | I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

Smashing out a couple series out in this lovely area of Toolern Vale! TFTC H&C

Out for lunch in Melton so thought we would grab this series on our way home. TFTC

Found

Easy find, need small hands . Tftc.

Thanks

Found it

Another great series in this area. Collected all these today. Great fun containers and hides. Thanks.

Thank you

TFTC

Chin47 3_4_24

Found it

Thank you

Easy to find!

TFTC! Found it on our way to the Eras Tour, left a friendship bracelet for the next swifties on the road!

A beautiful evening to check on my caches in the Merry Bush Christmas series, and to visit with a Christmassy TB. Happy travels!

Cute little hidey hole

Thanks!

TFTC!

TFTC

Saw this little bunch just north of me and thought why not!First find of today. TFTC.

The goal for the day was this little series and this was the first one. No issues here and the cache was soon extracted and the log was signed.Thanks for the series Benjamin Screamer....cache all good.

Found by Mary and David at 12:40. M usually has to cater for the family masses. A quick find. Our thanks to Benjamin Screamer.

Team_Riley taking our kids for the first time in years. Our 6yr old sons first geocaching experience.TFTC

After a day hiking around Mount Sugarloaf we stopped off at this series on the way home. Merry Christmas and thanks for the cache!

Merry Christmas

Super easy find

Drove up to Ballarat for a Double Significant Morning tea, some AdLabs, and a few Xmas caches on the way home. A lovely day to be out caching..I just noticed this little run of caches when the TDOC23 cache was put out. Today I made a clean sweep of them, a nice Xmas present.My first in this series and a quick find even though the area has been bulldozed recently.Thanks, Robmc.

Nice hide thankyou

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Happy days

good hiding spot

We set off for a half day of TDOC23 caches over west which ended up being a full day of including other caches and we didn't get home till 7pm lol As we were heading this way we decided to look up to see what COTY22 nominees were in the area as well. We saw this series was on the way to the TDOC23 cache so we stobbed to grab these too.
TFTC Benjamin Screamer - GJMMelb

I had a number of plans for today's geocaching run. They included :-
20 caches in Macedon Ranges LGA.
12+ caches in Moorabool LGA.
12+ caches in Melton LGA.
CITO, Event and Tree Attribute in new LGA.
2002 old geocache.
And most importantly - Geodetic Survey Way Point.

Not sure about Melton & Moorabool LGA numbers, will have to recheck LGA borders but had a great day with 41 finds in total, in lots of different environments. Highlight would have to be Mt Macedon.

Thanks for the cache Benjamin Screamer
Hunter

Another one down

I had run out of time on my last trip in the area and decided to return today to complete this series. With Cachemas on the way it was the perfect time to get into the spirit.

The road was a little busier than expected, but I suspect there was a gathering occurring at a nearby property.

I wasn’t caching in 2017, but it was my niece Harper’s first Christmas, so it was a special in our family.

Cache was found good and well.

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

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We just got back from overseas yesterday and the countries visited had hardly any caches, so we are well behind in this month's wheel of challenge. So, a huge day of caching: ad labs, trads and of course hunting out those with lots of favourite points. I was a bit anxious without gloves, but survived.

I was only just made aware of this series so it was great to be in the area and able to find them all . . . . so far. It is a rather wet day but we managed to find everything without getting wet. It is a really lovely area that you have brought us to. Thanks for showing us this lovely are with these caches.

Headed out west with Geoturtle37 to attend a cito and to do a bit of scooter caching. The day started with black clouds and heavy rain en route, but soon turned into sunshine, albeit a tad chilly.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Benjamin Screamer
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Creepy hiding spot but very cool!

Nice spot

EASY

Scary location, would not recommend if you a scared 8 legged nibblers

While staying in Melbourne we picked up a few caches in the area and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

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Found it!!!

Out and about with Echidna44, this is the third series we have done today. This series makes me remember Xmases past, This was the first for me with without my mother, so it was very different. We found the cache and ate our lunch at this lovely spot.

Out with Boabtree, we had a lovely day caching in the Toolern Vale area.
Merry Christmas is a wonderful time for most people. We stopped for lunch at this lovely place.
Thanks Benjamin Screamer.

Easy find second parking spot

After the event and CITO this morning, I headed towards Sunbury, picking up some trads along the way. This was a nice series away from muggles.



Many thanks to Benjamin Screamer for the cache.

Yay. Found this one. Signed and put back

Easy find

Its nice to be back in bushland after spending a day caching in Bacchus Marsh. Both the geopooch and I appreciate the more relaxed freedom of it. This is a lovely cache, i think i will enjoy this little series, Thanks!

The Trip

I think the stars have finally aligned for a two night trip, caching and camping along the Great Dividing Range. It seems that every time i have planned a caching trip in the last six months something has come up to thwart my plans or cut my trip short. I have high hopes that this week it will be perfect.

I started at Moorabool Reservoir and will be collecting caches from there in the direction of Riddells Creek although i have a lot to find so am unlikely to make it that far. The weather is glorious and there is a cool lilt in the air which makes for a pleasant change from home, and the shady forests are vibrant.

Champagne caching!

*Found on the 28 Dec 2022 @ 8:54 am.*
*Cache find # 13879.*

I had headed to Melton today to attend the Intervening Days (Revisited) XIV event but with a bit of time up my sleeve, I decided to go a little bit further North to find a few other caches in the area, this being one of them.

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

Find #2943 for me. Found at 12:18 pm with my dog Bonnie after attending the Intervening Days event in Melton. This was my first time caching in Melton, despite having passed through many times in my pre-caching days. So where to start? Being still in the festive season, I thought the most appropriate caches to find would be the one in this Christmas series, and I like to do things in order so started with the 2017 one. Yes, I was cautious putting my hand in to grab this one, but thankfully there were no other residents lurking there. The ziplock bag was torn so I replaced it with a new one. Thanks for the series and the cache Benjamin Screamer!

TFTC! 4 December 2022 5:04:59 pm 4261
Thanks for the series.

Decided to take a Christmas trip through the years along this long dirt road. Judging by the length of it, you've got another 20 + on it. I look forward to starting a tradition of returning every christmas to nab the next iteration.
I'm continuing to enjoy all the hiding spots you seem to find and I'm honestly blessed to have these long arms of mine.
6 quick park and grabs for all the years but I found myself chilling out at times admiring how beautiful this part of greater Melton is. Would love myself to have a property out here one day.
Thanks BenjaminScreamer.

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 large areas of flooding.

SL *tm/ww NZ*
*Thank you for helping to show us around different areas and adding to our enjoyment*

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

Reasonably easy find much lower than I was originally looking TFTC

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found

Found it

Good cache
Ziplock bag might need replacement

Coordinates were a bit off for me it’s not over the fence okay lol

Thank you

Thankyou

Found it

Found it

Found it!!

Found it

Caching with the Geobro - ?? for the day - TFTC

Awesome thank you

Nice find on the way to sunbury

On my north via Melton towards Gisborne as there seems to be quite a few caches for me to find so heading via the Merry Bush Christmas series and the Triangular ones. Really enjoyed my detour through this area TFTC Benjamin Screamer

Thanks

Wow hasn’t the world been thru a lot since Xmas 2017! Thanks for this little series in such a peaceful area. TFTC

Out and about with AusFox, Sims_Family and Neville_Devil on this beautiful Wednesday morning.

We decided to hit up this area as I haven't collected any caches in this series so it was good to finally get to them. Cache was found, logged and returned where we found it.

Thanks for getting me out and about

Found, thank you

Found

17:51
Taking the slightly scenic drive back from a bike ride to enjoy the autumn colours on Macedon's Avenue of Honour, I travelled via another Avenue of Honour through the top end of the Long Forest.

With Good Friday tomorrow, it seemed an appropriate time for some seasonal caches.

And it didn't matter what season.

A nice quick grab. Thanks, Benjamin Screamer

#5845