O&A 01 - 3478 St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By FUF009 on 27-Aug-18. Waypoint GC7WV0Y

I attempted this one in my early years of geocaching but couldnt find anything at the posted coords and didnt continue. Today it is nice to find the beautiful cache and sign it off, lovely! Often i cache midweek and it is a little unusual for me to cache for a whole weekend so I decided to head off this weekend for two days of caching fun. As it turned out i was able to get away latish on Friday afternoon so it will be more like two and a half days, yippee! I have been itching to get back over to St Arnaud and to do more of the fantastic series laid out around the surrounding areas. Friday saw me pick up a couple of newish caches near Kooyoora, (Melville Caves), then get started on some cache series to the north east of town. On Saturday morning i finished the Eucy Drive series and then in the afternoon i enjoyed collecting caches and adlabs around town. Today i am heading a little further south. O&A 01 - 3478 is find number 3,967 for me. A fun regular sized letterbox hybrid I enjoyed finding as one of my caching adventures in Northern Grampians Shire. I am logging this one on Sunday 8 Sept 2024 at 10:14 am and the weather is Few Clouds 12C 69% 7 m/s . Thanks for placing this cache for the rest of us to enjoy FUF009.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. This is the first time we have been back to St Arnaud since June 2015. We were lucky enough to meet Mrs Tyred and Cranky and FUF009 when we were last here as relative newbies. Wow you guys havent let up steam here! Your caches are amazing, definitely up there with the best we have seen! Thanks for another awesome amazing visit! Exhausted after another full on day of dishing out favourite points. Today we drove 70km around and around, but Mr Felix walked approx 9km (on average 100m to each cache obviously some were double that and some were way less) He will sleep well tonight. [:o)]TFTC FUF009 [^]

We are staying at 3478. We have not visited this postcode before, but it is lovely to be here and have the opportunity to explore.Today we found the letterbox for 3478, and we add a favourite point to this postcode. Thanks FUF009Domsky

Second attempt at this one, after taking a few photos and zooming in on the co-ords. Worked well and today I was able to make the find without issue. Main plan for the day was to finish this series, grab the remaining clues so I could find one of find the final puzzles.Thanks for this LBH FUF009....cache all good.

TFTC!

TFTC! 29 September 2023 5:02:42 pm 6016Another fantastic cache! Thanks

Went for a drive out the bush around the Out and About Series (O & A) to do routine maintenance on caches in this series.

Having 4 days off from work so my wife suggested to go geocaching so took her advice and came to St Arnaud for 4 days of cache searching.
Thanks to all the cache owners for placing them.

Find # 9118
Nice quick find.
Cache is in great condition.
TFTC FUF009
13 April 2023 10:17

Wasn't quite sure about the numbers on the plate but I wrote them down and tried the fun way first the fun way had me at the letterbox my plate CO had be 80meters off

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mr Smokey Bear will no longer be a part of Team Smokey Bear and will continue his adventures as "SmokeyBearOG".

So I'm relogging all previous finds under my new account.
Unfortunately this log will not show the original logging date.

**Thanks to FUF009 for this adventure, looking forward to many more.**

Adam
SmokeyBearOG

Cache found and log signed on our last day in St Arnaud .
My intrepid partner had already signed the log on this one, but that didn't stop me from giving it a go. I went for option 2 and had no trouble finding gz.

Thanks FUF009 for an awesome few days away .

When dalerious and I were planning this Christmas getaway we were trying to pick a place that still had some quality caches for him to find and fulfil my insatiable desire to get that little bit closer to his stat's so we would be on par for the various challenge caches we have signed, and yet to sign .
St Arnaud and surrounds was picked to fill in all those gaps, and more.

We spent a about 10 days on the road with aqau caching around St Arnaud, Ballarat and Daylesford areas.
Thanks for your cache

Out with Shumba7 for a day caching around StArnaud. Plenty here to get. TFTC

This took us a bit of a while to figure it out. But soon we were heading in the right direction.

TFTC. Today Algae and I decided to go for a drive to St Arnaud from Ballarat to grab some caches on our day off together. We managed to miss the rain, and only drove back home in the rain. We had lunch in town which was nummy. We decided we going to have to come back for the night to grab some of the night caches in the area. Some great quality caches out here.

While doing adv.lab in Wax Gdns picked up some trads and a letterbox cache along the way . Must say how creative the caches were. Even met up with a fellow cacher
Tftc

12 April 2022
9:24 am
1742

Hi FUF009, I found O&A 01 - 3478 today.

I am getting soo much better at doing these ones. A fun find!

Many thanks FUF009 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

First attempt left us stumped. It was the end of a long day of caching.
After a relaxing night in the swag- brains were functioning efficiently, well almost, we returned to GZ and read the description and guess what? We found it !!! All safe and secure.

Out with BogongHazy for a few caches this afternoon.
We decided to head to St Arnaud to grab these highly thought of caches.
This was found easily enough, and another great cache, fave added.
Great hide, thanks again FUF009

Out for the afternoon with LittleBoss2 , so we headed to St Arnaud for a few caches and a couple of Lab caches to top it off.
We loved the work put into these caches.
We are so lucky to have dedicated cachers like you that put so much work into bringing smiles to our little group of slightly mad tupperware seekers. The variety of hides and the quality of the work involved is beyond imagination.
You are all truly gifted and unbelievably generous to our game.
Our thanks to FUF009 once again.
Fave added, of course.

Today we decided to make a day of caching and very excited for some night caches in St. Arnaud.
The race is on for the most finds...
21st stop for the day

Was a good thing we had some water on hand...

#8 GeoKid2
#8 GeoKid3
#4 Mr ReganSeekers
#4 Mrs ReganSeekers

Finished another bush trail series and found this letterbox at the end, but will have to come back again to find the rest of the O and A cache series. Cool to find a letterbox in the bush. Was disappointed there was no stamp in it to add to my letterbox passport. Cache container all in good condition though. TFTC

With the summer quickly coming to an end, the decision was made to have at least on good caching day, and were else to go than to the fabulous caching fields of St. Arnaud. Many thanks to all once again for these wonderful trails. Oh yeah the wing dings and chips at the roadhouse deserve a mention also.

We enjoy a good, mailbox, and this was no exception. Took the old school option ( with a fallback loaded just in case )

Thanks again.

Find 2530
Day 2 in St Arnaud and today the O&A series. Chose the method at the posted cords. A great cache container. Log signed and all back safe again. Left a TB.
Thanks

Easy find.
TFTC

We decided to try for the first 10 of this series to give us a total of 50 caches for the day to add another number to a Challenge we are working on. Love letterbox caches, but decided to take the No. 2 way to find GZ as we were getting tired from our big day of caching. Stamped the log at 4.55pm #7237 TFTC FUF009

Put us to thinking and finally on to it tftc

Hello

Hi there FUF009.

We found your cache **"O&A 01 - 3478"** today. (This makes our find count 24191).

We headed to St Armata to escape all of the shenanigans happening in metro Melbourne. It was also great to meet up with 80 Degrees and venture out and enjoy the sunshine - because the weather forecast for the next few days is rather bleak. We had a successful day & found 27 caches & DNF'd 2 .

Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge
**Dropped Trackable:** "Letterbox Stamp- Anvil Angus"

Thank you for placing this cache here & adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

After discussing with Ian & Penny that we would join them for a while at St Arnaud and with the change of regulations happening we headed off a little earlier. Today was a group caching effort on a foggy morning and a sunny afternoon. This was our series for the day and we completed all 20. Favourites for all. TFTC

Quick easy find, TFTC

Quick and easy find. TFTC

A quick find with big_j21 and Miah06 once coords were worked out. Nice size cache with plenty of loot. TFTC

After a minor petrol emergency we are back for more caches. Thanks for the hide

Thanks for a nifty find and the cool balloon stamp. We are ready to keep going with the trails nearby.

This took some time and some walking but I found home. Thanks.

Now tat the Mega was over, there was still more caching to be had so I joined up with fellow Canberra geobuddies kittykatch, Smittengranny and Joolay, AKA Capital Crunchers.

Onto the O & A trail and we had so much fun discovering all of the amazing creations and many laughs were had by all. Easy fun finds!

Thanks for the hide, FUF009 Awarding a fave point to each one! Well done!

Our last day in St Arnaud after the Mega Event before heading back to Melbourne. We managed to follow the directions provided and soon found the letterbox. TFTC

Found this cache on the Victorian Mega weekend with Loci 612 and ZQX. Signed the logbook DSD or Darksidedan. Targeted the caches with high D/T, large. Fav Points, unique and diffrent caches this weekend. This cache was part of the cache groups that we targeted.

I love discovering Geocaches, Trackable items and collecting Pathtags. I have added your cache to my growing list of “Found It” logs. I hope that you enjoy Geocaching as much as I do. For me geocaching is a way of life. When I am not Geocaching, I am thinking of Geocaching. I would like to say a very big than you for placing your geocache and for maintaining it for the Geocaching Community. In 2019, I won the right to place a Virtual 2.0 Cache from Geocaching.com, but I have not placed it yet. I am just trying to find somewhere that is worthy of a Virtual Cache.

Here is a little information about me. I have been geocaching since 2015. At the time of finding this cache I have over 5600 finds plus 340 hides. I am the creator of the “Duck Dip” Lab Cache that won 2nd Place for the Australian Capital Territory in the State Vs State - Battle of the Lab Caches at the OzGeoMuster - The Gong Mega 2019 in Wollongong, Australia.

Now let’s talk Pathtags. Currently I have over 4600 Pathtags in my collection plus about 500 Etagz. I currently have two of my own Pathtags (45762 & 46950) with another one in the works.

Just followed the crowd. Tftc tnln

After a completing the Loop Track series we (lochb, G&J of GJMMelb and I headed back to collect our cars and drive to the Mega site where we were pleased to find lunch was available and we enjoyed yet more tasty BBQed meat on bread and a can of fizzy drink. We then headed out for one last caching run around the bush tracks, parking near this one (and glad to find the rifle range not in use). G found this one on arrival and once again we left our 2WD cars behind and took to lochb's more capable AWD to tackle the dirt tracks TFTC

Found in the company of quiet1_au and GJMMelb while attending the Mega. TFTC

Day 3 St Arnaud Mega
Today was a much lower numbers day as we had done all the 'mega' trails. So it was about quality over quantity and of course you have to leave some for next time, right?! I still have a few FUF T&C trails to come back for, plus way too many puzzles!
We went back for more coffees and sandwiches from the Dabbling Duck, we did like their coffee! Fueled up in town for the journey back home too.
So JJ52 and I did a few randoms and then headed into the forest to do the O&A series which was great! We had also planned on doing the TLT series but just not enough time.
Then back into town for a few more random caches, several of which JJ52 had found on a foray with other cachers earlier in the week. Then it was off to the GIFF and then the big long drive back to Adelaide. Luckily the company was good and LiB and I chatted all the way back to Murray Bridge, it was a much 'safer' drive than the one over!!!
All up it has been a most excellent weekend and I am extremely grateful to all the cachers who placed hides for us to find and the awesome Mega committee for putting on such a great 'show', brilliant.
Was great to get another letterbox cache ticked off. TFTC FUF009

During my holidays in Australia, I'm here in the area for the St Arnaud Mega Event. So I also searched for some caches nearby . This was one of it.

Thanks for the hide.
Greetings from Germany.
Ereff

In:
TB7HMAF - Boomerang Geocoin

After a morning of caching around S5 Arnaud then lunch back at the Mega Site (another yummy beef roll) we (ourselves, quiet1_au and lochb) headed off to do the O&A series. We all drove to this point then left 2 cars here and all jumped into lb’s 4WD car. GMelb spotted the cache and we took note of the clue.
TFTC Fuf009 - GJMMelb

I'm so pleased to be able to get out to do this series. TFTC

Fitzy_1965 and I arrived in St Arnaud yesterday afternoon. Tagging along were two of my geokids, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

Day 2 - Up early for breakfast, registration and a fast paced pathtag swap before heading out to pick up lots of smileys. Stopped for the GIFF event, now to keep caching. Quick find here today.

A shorter day today as Michells&hound was heading home so we decided to go and get the O&A series in the morning before the GIFF event and picked up a couple of others that we came across. [^]

As with previous series this one was just as good and we thoroughly enjoyed finding the caches and trying to work out what they would be before we got to GZ.

We followed the second way to find this one, we figured it was much easier and it didn't take us long to find the cache.

Thanks you for the cache FUF009.

17/11/2019 8:24:00 AM
After camping near the basin we made our back into St Arnaud for breakfast caching as we went.
Another quality hide that's a cut above the norm .
Thanks FUF009

In St Arnaud for the Mega event but of course also to tackle as many of the surrounding trails as I can manage.

This was the last half day before driving back to Adelaide. To make the most of it I was up early to pack up the tent so I could hit the trails.

I finished around midday and then headed back to the Showgrounds for lunch and to say my goodbyes.

All caches were found and all were in great condition.

Thanks for the cache FUF009.
# # #5810 # #

Another totally awesome series of caches - how do you come up with all the ideas and then produce them???? Would have loved to give a favourite for each and every one but used most on your lastest series. Will be giving a fav though at the end for the series. So many thanks to you for all your effort.

This cache was found in the company of Team Crackers and The Drovers, We had been to St Arnaud numerous times since the first cache was placed here and unfortunately due to an accident and many other factors many St Arnaud caches were never logged but most were recorded in a diary and on Shelby’s GSAK database. There are some amazing caches produced by some amazing locals and from myself and Shelby we say thank you for the memories, friendship and fun, well deserved favourites on these caches, I still remember the cache cry “place it or organise it and they will come”, well St Arnaud be proud you are the best.

Regards
The Coffee’s

19,488. Found with minniek during our epic visit to the St. Arnaud region for the 2019 Victorian Mega Event.

Day 2 - We headed out after breakfast for what we knew would be a great days caching. After the GIFF Event we continued on caching. The drive around the area was a lot of fun today. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks FUF009 !! Love the container !

In St Arnaud for the Mega today and after attending the showgrounds had time to target a few of the multitude of caches in the area. After completing the loop circuit nearby I had a little bit more time before I had to head for home so I picked out a couple of large hides nearby and of course couldn't resist stopping for any others along the way. Thanks for the cache FUF009, lots more to come back for.

Great weekend at st Arnaud Mega heaps of interesting Caches with lots of thought gone in .Thanks to the organisers huge effort .Our first experience at Geo Caching we certainly will include in our ventures as we travel . A great way to travel ,learn about the environment ,history of locations and meet lots of friendly folks .TFTC deb and steve

Found with Bucketeer while in St Arnaud for the Victorian Mega Weekend.
Loved attending my first Mega. Can't wait for the next one!!
TNLNSL
TFTC FUF009
TTFN
Beaker

TFTC,

What a great Event this has been. I have broken the series of caches I have been doing in this area to make this cache my 9,000th find. We went to the starting point and followed the instructions to receive the mail that was waiting for us.

To many great caches to place a cache on every one. While they are all deserving, I will ad a favourite to every tenth cache. Only 2 DNF's from all we attempted. Couldn't work GC5BBXM out and suspect GC4Q9E8 is missing.

After logging my caches yesterday it showed that I was on 8,934.

After talking to a few people, I decided to try for my 9,000th find and make it a Letterbox to give me another type of cache for a Milestone. This was achieved at about 1:30 pm with a find at GC7WV0Y.

Visited trackables and added a favourite.

Arrived at posted coords, followed the instructions then found the letterbox hiding. This was Wazza9 's 9,000 find. **Congratulations Wazza9** .

Our last geocaching day in the St Arnuad area, with Wazza9 trying to achieve his 9000 find. Some great constructed containers, opened, stamped the log and replaced. Thanks to CO.

TB in:

TB7HMAF
Boomerang Geocoin

Finished up at mega event and completed challenge find before meandering home and finding these. TFTC

Making our way back from the St Arnaud MEGA. A few stops on the way back to break up the journey. Thanks for the fun everyone.

This weekend was the St. Arnaud Mega event and I was looking forward to hitting the road for a few days doing some flat out caching, visiting many new and amazing places and catching up with lots of caching friends. The event was a great success and heaps of fun. The caches provided by the local cachers were, in many cases, absolutely mind blowing (FUF009 caches most notably). All in all it was a great weekend, very warm weather and lots of caches found.
Cache found and log signed. TFTC.

Out today riding shotgun with TSB and joining the fun was Clever Monkey, Skullracing and their respective families. Looking for a series to get away from the crowds of the mega and in the comfort of the bush we decided to collect a few of this series.

What an amazing series and a credit to the CO. They have certainly provided inspiration to lift the creativity and set a high bar for all to follow.

Thanks FUF009 for the cache.
Found at 12:09 pm on 16/11/19.
Find # 1987

Dirtbags and the Ratbags decided to spend the day out doing some bush caches Tim was riding shotgun with me and navigating between all the caches Massive credit to the CO for all the effort that was put into creating these awesome caches let’s just hope the creativity has rubbed off and are an inspiration to all the other minttin lovers to step it up
Us Dirtbags left plenty of swag throughout this series
Thanx for the Adventure Stay Dirty ??????????

1785

Saturday morning of the Mega saw us tackling Letterboxes. The caliber of the caches we found were outstanding, and a credit to all the CO’s.

Great area, friendly locals and terrific caches. What more can you want.

Thank you FUF009.

Saturday Morning dawned and we had received the news that 1toolman had risen early and was on his way to join us. He jointed us and Tassie Trekkers in our 4x4s and we zipped around the start series along with a few other caches that we couldn’t drive past without stopping.

We purposely picked out this letterbox for the amount of different cached types in a day, with the plan of returning tomorrow to do more in the series.
Nicely done FUF009, thanks

When planning the St Arnaud mega trip I was keen to incorporate some missing D/T’s from my grid. Stainless steel rat suggested flying to Adelaide ‘on the way’ and driving across so a route was planned and a fun week of caching began. I cherry picked in my planning so as not to run out of time for the ones I wanted, and we added a few on the day if there was time. We met up with various teams along the way including a planned rendezvous with Tassie Trekkers in Kaniva for a fun days caching. I ended up with around five hundred finds (including labs) for the week, and still had plenty of time for socializing along the way. It was great to catch up with some old friends and of course make new ones.
Special thanks to the St Arnaud mega committee for a great weekend.

Found this one with Gooseandegg and 1Toolman as we were heading back to the mega site, thanks for bringing me here and for the cache.

This was the Mega trip that started out as a simple trip to St Arnaud for just the Mega and turned into a mega road trip starting with myself and GooseandEgg flying into Adelaide to collect a rental 4WD so we could drive an indirect route to St Arnaud and then on to Melbourne so we could fly home again.

The Goose had put a lot of planning into the trip so we could both complete or get close to completing our D/T grids, collect a number of good interesting caches and cache types we didn't have many off.

For me this was the best organised Mega I have been to, the stand out was how the committee had managed to get the whole St Arnaud community to welcome us all to the area, just about everyone we meet knew what we were there for and I had no awkward moments explaining what Geocaching was.

Found on 16/11/2019
The best caches I have found so far by type are:-
Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

After a pub dinner and attending the Saturday night event we headed out to start and finish the whole O&A series and all the night caches.
It wasn't too dark yet so we started here at 01 - a logical place to start, of course.
Now this letterbox is one I could 'solve' quite easily myself, after needing team input on some of the others.
A neat container at GZ. 3478 is caching nirvana!
Thanks FUF009.

***

This cache was found during the 2019 St Arnaud Event getaway.
Highlights of the Mega were attending all the weekend's social events, finding all 50 challenge caches in under 1 hour, finding all 40 lab caches, all 6 wherigos, and doing all 7 night caches in one night. No DNFs. Finding 11 cache types in 1 day. And of course making a start on the impressively creative constructions that FUF and TnC have made St Arnaud renowned for over the years.

Day one proper of the Mega, and after doing all the sign in and stand around talking type stuff at the event site, we all jumped in the 4wds with Jascat, Clever Monkey and a few Dirtbags to head off into the forest to find some of these creative caches we had all heard about.
And they didn't disappoint, there has certainly been a fair bit of time, money and effort gone into the caches and accessories out here, a credit to the COs, we were all very impressed.
Each cache we attempted was found and signed by everyone en masse.
Cheers

I was up very early to take advantage of another beautiful weather day around St Arnaud. Headed out to the bush to continue enjoying these great series of caches. Many more favorite points were left behind. TFTC!

Thanks once again for the hide

TFTC good hiding spot

*16 Nov 2019, Found @12:09 pm, Find # 3450.*

In town for the mega, out and about with skullracing, clevermonkey and TeamSmokeyBear picking up some local caches. A fun letterbox you get us started.

**Thanks to FUF009 for placing this cache.**

Love your craft work. An awesome day for a mega.
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Jumping the ditch from NZ to attend my first ever Mega in St Arnaud. Thanks to the committee and all involved. Also thanks to the COs for their contribution of a fantastic array of caches!
Lovely to spend time with a heap of happy catchers doing what they love, the enthusiasm was contagious ??

A quick grab in the morning before all the fun of the day. Listened to some tunes and had the bush to myself before the storm of cachers later in the day. TFTC

We came for the St Arnaud Mega Event with becknmonts and gabs1963. We have had a great weekend here, your caches are fantastic thank you.

The cut&paste bit: Went to the excellent St Arnaud Mega and now logging everything from the comfort of my Central Coast, NSW home. I enjoyed myself, everyone I met was lovely, and I came across so many awesome caches. Thanks to everyone involved!

I got the co-ords via the simple method of driving across the rifle range and examining the post. As so often happened in St Arnaud I was again awarded with good co-ords and easy access bush. Cache easy to spot and log soon signed. Replaced as found. Thanks for another great cache!

#3769
After collecting 50 challenge caches before breakfast, then 2 x 10 stage adventure labs, the entire StARS geoArt series, the occasional traditional thrown in here and there, a CITO, a WIG fishing expedition, a dinner event, some more adventure labs, an earth cache and a multi, we still had energy for more.

With only a letterbox and virtual missing from our days effort, we set out to complete the set. We had already aborted our attempts at two other letterbox caches earlier in the day so the pressure was on with this one. Thankfully everything fell into place nicely and we made the find some time after 9pm using the second method (as it seems we are not very good at following instructions)

TFTC FUF009

Quick find, thanks for the cache

I never initially intended on going to the Mega at St Arnaud but things happwned that created a spare day for me. So I dropped of my geopartner in the city in the morn morning and came on up for a day trip. Mainly to hang with my geobuddy Spiffy- and get some random caches.

With the hard work clue collecting done we had only to navigate the many dirt roads and made a quick find.

Thanks to FUF009 for the placement and fun.

Full log to follow

Found with bektheraccoon during the mega event. Helps to read the listing properly to avoid hunting for a non existent cache
Still a great cache worthy of a FP TFTC

Tftc, a real letterbox, yay. Thanks for hiding.

TFTC! Greetings from Hong Kong
Very nicely welded postbox. Fav point given!

Day 3 of caching in Vic,
Came over from Geraldton for St Arnauds Mega event,  out and about finding Caches with Becknmonts, Team_crumble and having lots of fun,  tftc

One from Bunnings? Nope. Super creative! Great fun so far. Loving your town. Let's do another mega here!

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the Mega event.

FeatherWaite, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday, taking a circuitous, but scenic route to St Arnaud to pick up a few caches in some other Victorian LGAs. We met up with Freddo and Davidwazza at the event that evening and teamed up to complete a couple more caches that night together before camping out of town.

Over the next three days we cached very solidly in and around St Arnaud, finding a diverse range of Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Virtual, Letterbox, Wherigo and Earthcaches as well as attending all the events associated with the Mega. We also managed to complete all the Lab caches over the weekend. Logbooks were signed D.E.F.F.98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo and gridge98).

On the Sunday afternoon, after the final GIFF event, FeatherWaite and I began making our way back to Adelaide, picking up a couple of caches before camping in the Little Desert NP. The following day we continued towards home with a side visit to Mount Rescue to pick up a few caches along the tracks there.

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches. They included a huge variety of containers, hides and puzzles, many of which were very clever and/or amusing and had obviously taken considerable time and effort to construct. Thanks also to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. I’ll be looking forward to the Mega at Millicent in South Australia next Easter!

Found as part of our trip to the St Arnaud Mega event. On Day 1, e.gregory1, gridge98 and I left Adelaide on the Thursday morning, straight after the Earlybirds event in North Adelaide. We travelled a long and circuitous route via Bordertown, Nhil and Warracknabeal to find caches in 5 additional Victorian LGAs that I had yet to visit (namely Buloke, Loddon, [Greater Bendigo - I’d previously visited], Mt Alexander, Hepburn and Central Goldfields). On Days 2-4 we met up with Freddo and Davidwazza. As a group we systematically completed each of the many series around St Arnaud and found all other caches along the way, signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, Featherwaite and gridge98), as well as attending the events and completing the Lab caches. After the Mega, e.gregory1 and I headed back to Adelaide camping out in Little Desert NP overnight. On Day 5 we had intended picking up caches around Mundulla and Mount Monster but a last minute change of plans saw us head into Ngarkat CP instead, for a solid drive and a few extra rewarding cache finds. Many thanks to all the cache owners for placing the huge variety of caches around St Arnaud and to all those who organised the Mega and the fantastic weekend away. Thanks for the cache and the Out & About series FUF009!

As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.

As we wander we also stumble upon lovely events this weekend it was a Mega Great to see evereyone even had some fun

Thanks to FUF009 for placing the cache for us to find.

Found on the trails.

Twelve months ago as we finished the Parkville Mega we were advised by someone that the next Victorian Mega event would be held in Saint Arnold. Somebody else told us that the Mega event would be held in Saint Arnood. And then another said that Saint Arned was the Mega event venue. Who should I believe? Struggling to understand the English language at the best of time. Freddo speaks two languages, Australian and Bad English.
Move forward a year. There is a cluster of events, including a MEGA event, at this town called St Arnaud burning a hole in my GPSr. The big white Pay Hero is loaded with GPSr, TOTT and camping gear and we headed east with a collaboration of like minded South Australian colleagues. DavidWazza, e.gregory1, Featherwaite, freddo and Gridge98 make team DEFF98.
Thursday: 5am event at a bakery in North Adelaide. The bed wetter team meets and says that this is way too early. Travel 500km east for the Thursday evening event. Freddo gets a prize. I am no mug. Camping in the bush under the stars.
Friday: Up early and headed out on the trails. And then back to our campground for a CITO! I am sure we did not make that much mess last night. More trails and 200 caches find for the day including a cluster of caches where freddo left DNA. More bush camping after a great meal in the Sporting Club.
Saturday: Up early for an event. Who puts an event on at 8am. Damn South Australians that’s who. After the event it was back on the trails and the Pay Hero is getting dustier and dustier. Found some awesome caches. Freddo the metallurgist was very impressed with the welding. Quality fabrication. And then another CITO. This time at the dump. Plenty of rubbish here. Some of it good stuff. Can I take some home? And finally a giant queue for a free meal. Nothing attracts a crowd like a free meal. The moment of the evening was receiving a Hall of Fame nomination. That prize is going straight to the pool room.
Sunday: Another night camping in the bush. Some fabulous night caches walks were undertaken. Night caching is a special form of entertainment. We spent the day cruising around picking up the left over unfound caches and meeting heaps of new friends. Boycotted the GIFF event since it did not show the freddo film “Cache Confusion” https://vimeo.com/372568752. One minute and forty four seconds of your life you won’t get back. A quick speech and it was back on the road for home. Well Horsham. More camping. This time by a river.
Monday: Caches around Horsham and following the Duke’s Highway back to Adelaide. Time for a shower for this smelly geocacher. An exhausted chocolate frog slept well.

We came, we cached, we ate, we slept; repeat for five days of fun and dust.


Easter 2020 sees South Australia hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

Date: 15 November 2019 Time: 11:58
Find #10629

Teamed up with sedgwickDave for a couple of caches this beautiful spring day. This one was tricky. What is a straight and what is considered a right. Got there in the end. [B)] [B)] [B)]


Many thanks to FUF009 for the cache. TNLN.

Big things are continuing to happen! *Are you joining the fun again in 2020?*
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*14th / 15th November 2020 – GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria*

We had been told that there were some great caches in this series and so we eagerly set off on the trail. We were certainly very impressed with the creative and inventive nature of the caches and the huge amount of time, effort and dedication involved in creating the specialised themed containers. We would love to have favourited them all but have run out of favourite points and so we will have to revisit the cache pages at a later date as and when more favourite points are acquired. We soon found this very appropriate cache container once at Ground Zero having found the coordinates at the waypoint given. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe ??????

Day 2 St Arnaud Campground to St Arnaud area B and B

Found after the friday CITO event. Finished the 2 of the nearby series of trads. Took option 2. quick find.

Came over to the 2019 mega in St Arnaud with Mogni. We where joined by jj52, Aussie M and M plus others at different times over the mega weekend. Many caches where found over the course of the 8 day trip. Targeting multi's on the way there and back plus the challenge trail in Mount Beckworth reserve. The creative trails around St Arnaud where the highlight of the trip.

Day three of my Mega adventure. Out and about with sir_spectre, grabbing many of the local caches.
Thanks to FUF009 from mogni

Found during a trip to St Arnaud to attend the 2019 Victorian Mega event. The weekend was spent primarily with e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98 as we geocached around the vicinity of St Arnaud. All of the events and CITOs were attended, we completed the available adventure labs and lab caches available at the showgrounds, many of the creative trails were gasped at their construction, and interesting puzzles were solved and collected during the weekend.

We all left on Thursday in two separate cars, and met up at the evening event, before finding a camp spot for the night in a very CITO location. On Friday, we targeted the StARS (St Arnaud Ramble Series) and the higher quality, well-constructed geocaches that were famous here in St Arnaud, and got lucky with the 2019 published series that we managed to snag FTFs on. Sunday had us continuing to find the other sets of high-quality caches around the neighbouring town parks, the challenge series, before spending a few hours at geocaching HQ participating in the labs that had been published. The event was also great to see some of the South Australians honoured with geocaching life awards (in amongst everyone on the list). Our final day, Sunday, had us do a big loop finishing off our geocache collection, driving all the way out to Kooreh and around via Stuart Mill, walking the conservation park at Mount Gowar, and finishing off at the GIFF event. A massive weekend that turned out to be a great mega! Thanks to all those who organised the Mega and the associated events. The variety between the local high-quality caches, the new series placed by the mega team, and those who needed to be around for the labs and main centre fielding questions was appreciated immensely.

Today, after completing the stars geoart, and the *Bush Meander* BM and *Bush Wander* BW series, and then the new *Link Trail* series, we finished the *Out & About* series, and decided to find a few miscellaneous caches as we headed back into town. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache. The logbook was signed as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, FeatherWaite, Freddo, and gridge98).

Found @09:15 #7082
Arrive this morning for this the Mega weekend. 1st cache found in St Arnaud and wow! Impressive construction, clue noted.
TFTC FUF009

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch and Smittengranny. Unexpectedly cool but great caching weather.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Out with au.fait at the St Arnaud Mega, we had a lovely afternoon caching with baby&Mrsgopher. We found some wonderful caches along the way.
A great letterbox cache. Thanks
FUF009

9313 Located by baby&Mrs gopher in company with au.fait and echidna44 at 1505. Time for a wander in the bush. Found the next lot of numbers and hoped they were what we needed. SL Tnx FUF009