Plenty Gorge Stumps - 7 Plenty, Victoria, Australia
By Ron.haha on 15-Apr-18. Waypoint GC7N2WA

So many muggles around! A mob of at least 30 kangaroos insisted on grazing around GZ. Great to watch them. Now we have to find out which homestead used to be here.TFTC( bit wet btw!)

Interesting area, would love to see a photo of the homestead that was once here.Big mob of roos guarding the cache.Very wet. Left a new piece of paper for log in a plastic bag.

What? No bonus number? That's the second one!It's a strange grassy area with lots of kangaroos. It looks like part of an abandoned garden.

Thanks brother for getting me back into geocaching I will never forget my first find.

#117 27/04/2024 @9:53pmA nice off track hike to get this one.Cache contents are very waterlogged and damaged

Found it, it's water logged though

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Quick find however the cache has some resident snails and it looks like it has gotten wet; its all a little damp and may need some attention at some point soon! TFTC

snailed

Great spot. There used to be a great house here with fantastic gardens.

Plenty of roo families and a few snails inside the cache. Otherwise, very quiet.

Log got a little wet from the rain but very well hidden

Signed TRC. The log is damp, but still able to be written on.

saw many kangaroos on our way up, very cool find!

Saify found it

Easy find although all a bit damp inside. TFTC!

A beautiful mob of muggle rooooos sunbathing! Glories day for it. Mint location

Easy with hint. Coffee time! David

Found it let's go wet log tho

Out and about today grabbing a few caches trying to complete the wheel of challenges. Found it in good order TFTC

Yay

Wasn't a jar any more

Wooo found it

Found it, fell out of its hiding place a bit??????????????????????

Yeeee a bit wet

Found it. A bit water logged.

Fun cache to find. Watch out for the Roos!

Number 11 for the day, and the wildlife came out in force: a huge flock of currawongs foraging on the ground near a mob of kangaroos. As I made my way up to GZ, I spotted a fox as well, but it slunk away, clearly feeling guilty about its feral status. There were also some feral plants making a nuisance of themselves, but I eventually found the best approach to GZ and had the rather damp cache in hand (I suspect coffee jars don't actually seal quite well enough to be an optimal choice for this job). Thanks Ron.haha.

Found it!

Morning stroll exploring Plenty Gorge. A pleasant suprise. Trails everywhere I had a great time exploring and caching.

Nice easy find with some good views! Tftc

Very well hidden!

TFTC

TwoEms were driving home when we glimpsed the cityscape over the grassy wilderness near Goldsworthy Lane. We were tired from our earlier adventure, but decided we could afford a quick interlude at the edge of the park just to take in this contrasting view. It was a few steps in, and then a few more, and then—before we knew it—we were drawn further and further into Plenty Gorge.

We stumbled upon a path leading to an abandoned entrance made of stone pillars with broken lamps and black iron gates. Distracted by this curiosity, we walked through and found some wrens playing in a retired letterbox in one of the pillars. The path continued to what looked like an unkept garden bordered by a few purple Agapanthus in bloom. ‘What is this place?’, we wondered—and we were lured deeper into this mystery.

The path became lost and overgrown with long dry grass and thick green ground cover—at which point we wondered if we should even be here—but before we turned back, we eyed some bright rose coloured flowers growing in what may have once been a cottage garden. We focused through our phones to take some pictures of these hot pink beauties when we noticed in the frame there was someone in the distance staring straight back at us—Oh! We were being watched!

After getting in this deep, it was then that we decided to push on through our second wind and to see if there were any hides around. We backtracked and found another path to take us there in a roundabout yet gentler way. We found the jar filled with water and were amused by its own ecosystem of swaps going on inside. We signed and drained it best we could before packing it up and then heading home. Thank you for the cache.

Wow, talk about hidden

Ow

Middle of no where ahah great spot though must be pretty unlucky to see a muggle around here

Found this during a nice walk around this awesome area today. After finding 5 other ones in the way out I pulled and walked to this location and found it...Nice views of the cbd from nearby this cache.

I'd noticed the old gates as I walked in from Goldsworthy Lane and to me they don't even look that old. Maybe 90's? 00's even? GZ was down where the house must have been, but unlike Happy Hallow there's no plaque here. There are good views though. Thanks Ron.haha

An easy find in the end despite the pictured muggles hopping to it. . Added a log page on as log seems to be missing

Found it

Little off the path again but easy

So this is an interesting area... made my way up from lower dam to this one and walked passed several kangaroos that weren't too fussed with me wandering through , at gz I found the cache from the clue, unfortunately logbook is beyond saving, sitting in water, so placed cache back and took note of my surroundings... hmmm this looks like the outskirts of a old property... the unkept hedge gave it away, so I explored further and realised I was walking on the old driveway, passed what used to be a nice country garden which then led to abounded gates. I wonder what the home would have looked like? It's long gone now, in its place is long grass, nettles and jonquils starting to bloom.

Nice adventure but a little water logged.

Had to fight off the roos for this one

Found it

Found it! A nice place of the walking track with not many muggles, crafty spot. Thanks!

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Startled a Wallaby - or let's say the feelings were mutual.

Little tricky but we found it

Scared a few kangas. Lovely sunset view from here. Thanks!

Found with gypsyj. We live around here but have never really explored whats literally on our doorstep. Container had tiny bit of water in it. Emptied and dried it. TFTC.

I'm not a fan of long grass. Even frmen1 walked gingerly through (we realised that we'd left our snake bite kit in the other car). Container has condensation in it. Dried it a bit. TFTC

Found with tassie expat while exploring this nice area. Thanks for the walk and cacje.

TFTH

Picked this cache up while doing a loop of the northern side of Plenty Gorge.
Saw plenty of stumps, plenty of caches, plenty of butterflies, plenty of kangaroos and a solidarity echidna. Thanks for bringing me to this beautiful place.

I found this cache on my Plenty Gorge Hiking Day. I walked from the Earthcache and started at this one as it seemed to be the best access point for the ones on this side. I really enjoyed seeing the gates on route that gave the impression that something very posh used to stand on this land. Once at the cache, there were a lot of things that fitted the hint and I had worked my way right around to the last one before I spotted the cache. Thanks from D B-A

Grassy terrain, snake country. Lots of kangaroos. TFTC

Saw a glorious mob of Roos! Cache had some water inside. Cleaned it as best as we could.

Bushy

Easy find at 10:27am while waiting for a medical appt. Nice secluded place away from the world and the virus for a bit. Nice hide and a good location to hide it in.

Tftc. The Glowing Wombats

Great hiding spot.

Awesome spot, needs a new pencil, couldnt sign cause i dropped my pen on the way in

Still there. Thanks again.

Mozzie central!

Tftc

Cool

Found it in the rain!

Tricky find

Well hidden, surprised a mob of roos including joeys. Tftc!

TFTC fun lockdown activity with the kids

Found 4 days ago with artfuldad but forgot to log oops

Thanks

All wet inside the container

Nice tricky at the end. Keep looking!

Overgrown but found it

Last one for the day. I have had a great walking around today. it’s been awesome thank you

On this cool and wintry winter's day I enjoyed a delightful day of walking and photographing and geocaching in this very special place. Given I found quite a few caches on the day and given that day was now, like, four weeks ago and I am only now catching up on my outstanding draft logs, they are all going to be pretty generic. Sorry. I did enjoy them all though and am very grateful to the rather wonderful COs who placed them.

TFTC

Alot of fun, we saw lots of kangaroos on our walk

Careful! Thistles ️

TFTC! RAWR <3

Cold morning for this one worth the walk

Accompanied with silence49, we had a great time finding your cache
Ron.haha, thank you so much for placing it.

Found it with crank1 TFTC

Great hide the contents are moist the log perfect though could be condensation. Does anyone know where the old mansion was ? The gates are still there though

Out with icw, we found a substantial arachnid, pic attached, near the cache. Apart from the Huntsman I've never seen a spider this big. It doesn't appear in my book on Melbourne's wildlife, so I can't identify it. Tftc.

Really cool arachnid near cache. TFTC

Tricky find this one - but got it! Nicely hidden indeed. Contents a bit wet and dirty but logbook ok and dry!

Fands with grandkids. Went through lots of prickly bushes but eventually found it.️

A day in the gorge while dog sitting in Ivanhoe. Much closer than Bacchus Marsh.
Great co-ords led to the unusual hide without any trouble and yes it was well hidden.
Thanks Ron.haha

Great spot, I found the cache out in the open so I placed it in the most likely spot.
Greytiger

Log replaced

Found it. Defs wouldnt do in the peak of summer. Very thick brush around it

Going for a walk with my friend exploring the beautiful area. Great caches thank you. Lid was taken off so contents were soggy

At the GZ I retrieved the container and moved back a few steps to open it and sign the log.
When I went to replace the cache, an echidna had nestled himself (or herself) in the exact spot the cache was in.
It took a while before he/she moved up a bit so I replace the cache.
Thanks for the cache Ron.haha

Beautiful cool day for a stroll in the park. Cache was open and on the ground, not hidden. Reassembled and replaced in the obvious place.

dreadfully behind on logs. This is a catch up logging session. Found with SirJ-Oz when he dragged me around for a walk!

Thanks for the cache Ron.haha.