Chinese Miners- Guildford Guildford, Victoria, Australia
By Benjamin Screamer on 28-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7RX3J

My first cache in Mount Alexander Council area. Now I only have one more council area in Victoria to log a cache in. One up on the Murray River and NSW border. The log is good, but the cache is starting to crumble, with some small holes. I left a couple of tiny (waterproof) duck trinkets. TFTC Benjamin Screamer.

On my way to a 3 day 4wdriving navigation event in Guildford so I decided to grab some along the way!

#892 beautiful day caching around the region. Found this one on our way home to Ballarat! TFTC

TYFTC. Still wet day. Cache is dry.

On a cold wet day just catching up with missing caches. Nice easy one. Tftc

Nice quick find once found the right fence post. TFTC

I was i the area needing three caches as I am working towards a challenge cache. Seeing that this would probably be a reasonably easy find it was on my to do list. It was as suspected an easy find. Thank you Benjamin Screamer for placing and maintaining this cache for our challenge and enjoyment.

Quick easy find

Continuing on my way to Bendigo I knew exactly where I was going to need to get ready to pull off the road as I've travelled this road often enough over the years. I was about to turn off the Highway I noticed the rather large amount of water across the track at the bottom of the mound. With all the rain we've had over recent weeks and especially these last few days, I knew it would be very muddy underneath and I've bogged previous Beemas when out caching over the years, so I decided to head up a bit further North and try the other entrance - not even a puddle this way . The Geotrail was quickly spotted, and cache logged and returned. There was quite a serene feeling here today. I enjoyed reading all the informative story too. Thanks Benjamin Screamer for highlighting this area. After a long hiatus away from caching I'm finding that I'm quite enjoying picking up a few today enroute from Ballarat.

TFTC - left a sticker

Catch a lull in the traffic and you can do this cache without being spotted Great little addition to our day of casual caching between Ballarat and Castlemaine - thank you!

Nearing the end of the school holidays and we decided to take the kids out for the day. Went to Mt. Franklin then a beautiful lunch at the Farmers Arms and a spot of Geocaching on the way back to Bendigo. Found with Kendal Clan and signed the log. Thank you

TFTC

The map initially took me to the wrong post but after it adjusted itself it took me to the correct post on the geotrail. TFTC!!

Glad we did it in winter because there's long grass.

Never send a man to do a woman's job. Mr Beetle jumped out of the van and headed to the nearest thing that fit the clue despite me telling him we were at least 30 metres away from GZ.His excuse being that he thought he saw a geotrail.Left him to it and wandered off with the ETrek to GZ where this well maintained cache was quickly found.Thanks Benjamin Screamer.

On my way towards Ballarat. Not aiming on getting there in a day. Lot's of caches to get.

No way I would have searched for a cache in grass that long, but I happened to read about the TB as we were driving past!Chucked a u-ee and came back for a look.Were staying in the area for the weekend, just out exploring.Thx for placing the TB, which I will log shortly.

All good here today. Dropped a TB from France.

J'ai abandonn un traable. Dsol, nous avons rat l'or d'environ 170 ans. Bon voyage!

Found by dad

Found it with Sleepy205. TFTC!

TFTC!!

As we were leaving Guildford in the PeuGEOt we grabbed this one. Why not? We did the one on the way in. Hard to imagine a tent city for so many people in that area. You'd want to gotten on with your neighbours.

Cache was soon found after going to the wrong fence post first. Log signed and cache returned.

Nice big easy find heard a lot of stories about this Geo. Thank you for placing it here will be back to find a few more in the area.

On the way to Bendigo for the weekend and stopped off for this one on the way past. Grass is still long, but a decent 'cacher trail' led the way to GZ. Cache was signed in situ and then it was back to the car and back on the road.

Thanks for this one Benjamin Screamer....cache all good.

Beautiful Mother’s Day caching trip with my son…… ooooo long grass….. fortunately a geopath has been made which made my job easier tftc

Deep in the grass, long time since found. Tftc

The grass was towering over both me and Lewis. Thanks for the cache!

The boys wanted a bigger cache and we know Benjamin Screamer always provides the goods. Left lots of spare swag to top up the cache again. Thanks!

Found it! Very long grass but I followed the track of the last finders that were still visible.

A truck driver on the road looked at me, sometimes I wonder what muggles think we’re doing.

Signed the log and back as found.

Easy find Thankyou

Found with Gurishka on 20/11/18 but apparently I forgot to log it. TFTC

Out & about for the weekend, heading to Daylesford to meet up with Lorigus74. Doing some caching along the way. TFTC

An interesting piece of gold rush history

Interesting part of gold history

I have thought about mowing the area around GZ to eliminate that path, but that would be silly!

Found 1pm
Nice and easy due to the obvious track through the long grass.
Thanks for the cache.

Cruised up to GZ for this cache, and the local cocky was doing some harrowing in the adjacent paddock. His focus was on his job, so we got on with ours. A quick find, with some very uneven ground, fellow cachers reading this, take note. Left a geonickel. TFTC!

I’m having a lovely few days caching around Central Victoria and finding some wonderful hides. After wading through some very long grass the cache was quickly found TFTC Benjamin Screamer

A nice quick find on my way home to Geelong. Spent the morning in Castlemaine for work and was impressed on what the town has to offer. Thanks for the cache!

Thanks for the hide and cache both doing well.

First for the afternoon, great way to start what looks like a great caching trip. Thanks

TFTC nice drive by. Grass is very high though.

24 October 2021
9:15 am
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Many thanks Benjamin Screamer for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

No kidding about the long grass. It was a great camouflage as muggles drove by, I could just squat and be totally hidden!

Dropped a tb

Nice cache container near some nice Crimson Rosellas. Tftc

Find # 9840
Found with Tyred n Cranky

Off for a Sunday drive down Castlemain way. The day turned out to be a great winters day out caching. Perfect temp and sun shining all day long.

The bush tracks we tackled had some eye opening situations but the ol' 2x4 Triton made it to most GZs. The tougher ones we legged it up the hills and along the toughet tracks.

All in all, the targeted caches were all found, some took a little longer to locate than others and we had a lot of fun along the way.


A quick find among the long grass.


TFTC Benjamin Screamer

Find No. 3488. Found with FUF009

A day out caching with FUF009, down to Castlemaine area, which turned out to be a perfect sunny winters day.
We cached a lot of bush tracks and luckily we were in FUF009's Triton as I don't think our van would of made it to some of the places we went to. We had a plan on what caches we'd do and managed to find them all. We had a good fun day which we all needed in these Covid times.

A quick find amidst the long grass which was the only camouflage this cache had.

TFTC

Road trip finds

Thank you

Glad it's winter so less growth. Thank you. Enjoying quality mum/daughter time

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Container changed. Come and get it!

TFTC. Quick find on our day out.
Cache lid broken need replacement.

A family outing today with muggle husband, Neisha07, Boo09 & the geo-pup.
We headed to Vaughan Springs for a slide and picnic.
A quick find on our way. TFTC

The road was busy today but we were well hidden enough to search without detection .

Quickly found and signed the log a the container plastic is showing signs of being out in the weather with a crack in the lid that may let moisture in so maintenance might be required soon.

Thanks for the cache and for the interesting information about the area.

Out with kenare and Sean.75 today on our way to Harcourt. We overshot the mark for parking on the cache back down the road so we pulled in here for the quick find and a uby. tftc

On my way to Harcourt with kenare and kenbryl, with this cache being a quick drive-by. Cigc. Tftc

TFTC

TFTC. We needed to get out for a couple of hours. Guildford looks a likely target. A multi and some caches all within a small radius of the village. A short drive from Maryborough and we were in the village. Nice easy find. Long Grass but there is a distinct trail to GZ.

Fence post covered in long grass too scared to search

Some interesting history presented here. Several sheep were watching me intently, but I don't think that they will give anything away.

TFTC

Found on a cold day

Nice quick find. Tftc

Thankyou for the cache the Ewoks fun walk up here love train tracks

Driving back home after a days kayaking and this popped up on the screen. Pulled into the service road and soon had the cache in hand. It was just a matter of getting back on to the road and getting homie for a rest now.
Will have to come back to the area as there seems to be a lot to see here.
TFTC Benjamin Screamer

Geocaching is back in business. Happy caching!

This geocache is currently disabled because I support the government's non-essential activities restrictions that have been introduced because of the COVID-19 virus crisis. I encourage you all to suspend your geocaching activities ASAP. We must all work together to stop the virus spreading. The cache will be enabled in the future.

Found on the way to Cobram from Ballarat An easy find made for a quick park and grab. TFTC.

Staying with family in Guildford for a few nights prior to Christmas. Early morning caching is beautiful in this part of the world.

Had no trouble finding this well hidden cache today - we do enjoy finding some regular cache containers in these country towns. We took TB to assist it on its travels.
TFTC Benjamin Screamer.

You are right !!
There's no sign of thousands of Chinese gold miners left here !! [:o]
Maybe check the local cemeteries

A quick cache find in the long grass

I dropped in "Tree Fella" TB to keep the grass short

TFTC.

Tftc nice drive from dunolly

Snakes? Nah, we were surrounded by rabbits. Beady eyes and enormous teeth... tftc

Probably our last find for today as we head for a wedding in Hepburn Springs - this one took us longer than it should have especially considering it’s size! The geotrail led us to GZ.

We are always interested in visiting places with gold mining history and the Chinese settlements within them. Thanks for the illuminating information on the cache page, which we took note and looked for the landmarks given. Loved the big container and SL at 5.20pm Left: bunny. #6400 TFTC Benjamin Screamer

An easy find. Noticed the old mining areas as well. TFTC.

DNF sadly! Grass to high and possibly snakes especially in summer. Possibly needs to be moved

On our way home to Ballarat from Bendigo we thought we would do some caches. Beautiful area thank you for bringing is to the area TFTC

Bendigo to Newstead
After having a lunch break &a rest we chose a n area not far from the grounds where we are stopping.
Our trip was country roads & forest trails.
Thanks for placing this cache Benjamin Screamer

Find #2164 for me. Found at 11:05 am with jtnsilo and my kids on our way to Ballarat from Bendigo. Well, with the young one at least since my older boy was sleeping in the car after a sleepover the night before where I assume he didn't get much rest... So many times I have driven past this cache, and so many times I have driven on by, mainly because I was leaving it to fill an empty date for the calendar challenge should I need a cache within an hour's drive from home. Well, with the calendar challenge finally completed last week there was no reason to postpone this find any longer so this morning I decided to finally stop here for the find. On arrival there was a muggle in a tractor stopped not far away. Thankfully he didn't hang around for long and once he was gone we closed in on GZ were we made a quick find. My 7yo daughter loved this one as well and we left a toy stag after she took a dinosaur. Thanks for bringing another smile to my daughter's face Benjamin Screamer and thanks for the cache!

Found at 11.11am warm sunshine and slight breeze making for a pleasant stop off. Thanks for the cache in a safe roadside stopping area.

I replaced the cache container today. Sometimes things are beyond fixing with gaffer tape! Log and contents are in good shape.

Last find for the day. The container lid is cracked and likely to take on water if it ever rains!

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

A nice quick find although the compass jumped around a bit. TFTC

Found It.... On our way home from the Painted Silos we picked up a few caches. It would have been quite a sight to see all the tents and workings all those years ago and sad there isn't any remains of them now. After pulling up a quick dash to GZ and the container was located and with the log signed we continued our journey homeward. Thanks Benjamin Screamer for the cache

Turned off and made this a quick park and geab cause did not want to stay in long grass any longer than needed. Distant mullick heaps spoke of a time once upon a time.

Found on a nice day out around the Daylesford area.
It was a perfect day for a bit of Geocaching too.
Quick find no snakes thankfully!
Thanks for the hide here it was great.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14.
Great day out.
This was a fun geocache to find, thanks for the hide here.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
It was a fun day out with the family today.
Thanks for hiding the cache for us to find.

A little nervous just in case of snakes so I went in without the kids. A quick grab and sign.
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 now left Castlemaine and are heading South towards Melbourne and finding some caches

**Find #2377**

Out on a drive in the country and caching as we go. A nice easy drive by. Some long grass at GZ and plenty of grass seeds to to fill up my socks.

Thanks **Benjamin Screamer**

TFTC.

I nearly didn't dare to grab this one. Nice, easy one on the side of the road, apart from the scary walk through long dry grass in the height of summer. If I hadn't been able to see the large container, I think I would have given it a miss. Got the kids to stand back, retrieved, signed and on our way. Thanks for the cache.

Nice quick park and grab, grass is very long and today was quite hot so caution had to be taken very seriously. All in all tho great little spot. TFTC

Found by GAL

Eagles soaring near the escarpment. TFTC