O&A 10 - On the Band Wagon St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By FUF009 on 27-Aug-18. Waypoint GC7WV11

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 [^]

TFTC!

Out and about doing routine maintenance on a couple of caches in this area.

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.
Fantastic service with excellent caches giving you a fav point
Thanks to all the cache owners for placing them.

Okay I think this was about the only cache that had me stumped in relation to the link between the cache and name I'm sure I'm missing something

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

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

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.

13 April 2022
8:04 am
1811

Hi FUF009, I found O&A 10 - On the Band Wagon today.
Was in St Arnaud for the very specific purpose of caching…., and boy did I cache!

congratulations on an amazing series.

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

We had started collecting some of the caches yesterday, knowing we were heading home today. We got a few that were close to the track. After an early start, we snaffled the remaining clues this morning. We really have enjoyed all the containers that you have produced. [Fav points for sure]

Duck, duck, goose. Which one is it in? Thank you for a great series. We don’t know our bugs that well, but a nasty looking creepy crawly (nine varieties of scorpion in Aust.) was found under the cache can?? yikes!! Reminded us to beware of the locals when grabbing the logs.

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...
38th stop for the day

Well....someone in the clan missed a number and noone realised until we were ready to put in the coords.
We were in a predicament!!!

Thankfully we realised all we had to do was see where '0' would put us and where '9' would be using approx coords and walk in a straight line using our cache senses and wulla! GeoKid3 spotted the cache!! Thankfully!!

#14 GeoKid2
#16 GeoKid3
#8 Mr ReganSeekers
#8 Mrs ReganSeekers

Find 2557
We had all the clues yesterday and decided to complete some other series today. We made the rather long walk to get to Gz. Once their we could see from a distance. Log signed and back again as found.
Thanks domes great caches in this series.

Ok. A few more after tea was in order. Just too nice outside.
A pair of motorbike doods thought the same as they monoed past us.
A few minutes later only one came back. A few minutes after that second rider was found being comforted by his pillion passenger. Came a cropper.
Help refused as others on the way. A trip to the hospital I’m guessing.
Good luck doods.

Easy find on a morning walk.
TFTC

Much like all those animals in the string for GZ we made our way there meandering along mere tracks (what track?), ruts, dodging branches and pot holes. Happily we made it with just a little pinstriping on the geoCruiser to prove we had been in the bush! SL at 6.24pm Left: music pathtag #7246 TFTC FUF009 - it has been an end of day adventure - now to find our way out again!

Awesome lot of caches tftc

Got ya

Thanks for the awesome set of caches

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

Hi there FUF009.

We found your cache **"O&A 10 - On the Band Wagon"** today. (This makes our find count 24210).

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

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

Regards

Ian & Penny

Quick and easy find. TFTC

After collecting all the clues from 1-9, we had a new set of coords. But it meant backtracking and a LOT of bushwalking. Still, it was worth it and we were rewarded with another fantastic cache. SL and replaced. TFTC

Tested out my 4 wheel driving on this one, TFTC

For the life of me I couldn’t work out how to get close to my GZ and I wasn’t prepared to walk from 500m. Better navigating next time.

Found on my last day in St A I gathered the required info over the last few days. And went to find this as my final cache find here for this year at least. TFTC.

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!

Well that was exciting. The wagon wasn't sure if she wanted to go down that track but she dutifully followed Monty (aka GPSR) . Once at GZ she loved it as she has seen a few of these.

My oh my why do I travel with this "crazy " mob from the ACT? Having a great day out with Kittykatch, Joolay and Specimen X grabbing as many caches as possible. TFTC Signed as Capital Crunchers.

What a great series. Loved the effort and clever ideas that have gone into this series.

Up in St Arnauds for the Mega and looking forward to picking up the caches around.
Will be signed Capital crunchers. Found with Kittykatch, Specimen X and Smittengranny.
Unless otherwise stated cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Found today with the Capital Crunchers while attending the St Arnaud Mega
Last pick up for the series. Thanks so much for all your efforts. We had a great morning
TFTC FUF009

These caches were outstanding and we worth anyones time, so much so each one gets a fav point from me, thanks for all the hard work that has gone into these.

Our last day in St Arnuad as we head out in the morning to melb to fly back to Tassie, so it was grab a few of the local caches we had overlooked and a couple of series's we had heard good things about.

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 17/11/2019 at 3:47:00 PM
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)

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.

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.
# # #5811 # #

After collecting all the clues we headed to GZ, thankfully q1 had great maps with him. Just as we were arriving at GZ, another team was leaving.
After signing the log we headed back to our cars and headed home. Our son was performing in a play at 8pm and we have a 3.5 hour drive to get home before going to the performance!!
Thanks for this great series FUF009, we’ll be back to do more!! Fave Point for the series so far!
GJMMelb

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.
Another epic series, so much work and effort. TFTC FUF009

Tackling some geocache "powertrails" on our last day with limited time, we (G&J of GJMMelb and I) piled in to lochb's Forester for the second time to tackle this series. Clues gathered we had GZ figured out but it took a little trial and error to get to GZ as it fell into a empty patch of our mapping, so we had to make a few educated guesses as to which tracks might lead us there. Thankfully we got there without too much trouble and the final cache of the day for our merry band of cachers was found. Sadly though we had so many more left unfound so hope we can return one day to tackle more of these fun bush tracks and caches! TFTC - a favourite from me for the series

Found in the company of quiet1_au and GJMMelb while attending the Mega. Struggled a little to find the road there. TFTC

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 well constructed caches and trying to work out what they would be before we got to GZ.

Another great cache and a great series, thanks FUF009, another favourite.

I'm so pleased to be able to get out to do this series. TFTC
Special thanks to FUF009 for his understanding and patience during my "duh" moments.
Love this one so giving it a favourite point. We were on a mission to find this cache, but also to find it quickly. The promise of ice cream was strong and we had to get to the supermarket before it closed. We did and the chocolate ice cream went down very well after dinner!

Sunday was our last full day so before meeting Tassie Trekkers to do the fantastic TLT series we popped out and collected a few puzzles, traditional and wherigos but not before we picked up a coffee!
It was quiet out on the streets around town but we did meet up with a few others as we went further out of town.
We split up with Tassie Trekkers who had done this series and pushed on, on our own. Again we were not disappointed! Another great set of extremely well made and well themed caches. We appreciated the time and hard work gone into these caches. My only disappointment was we didn’t have time to do them all. I would love to come back to complete these some day.
A great conclusion to this part of the series and sadly out last one.
Brilliant series FUF009

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.

Log date 20/11/19 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

With pwala and crank1 at St Arnaud Mega, enjoyed the puzzle, multi, adventure lab, wherigo etc...
Signed the log Thanks for the cache and hide

Fav from me

In St. Arnaud for the mega event. Day 79 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 17 for the day and 2304 for the trip. TFTC

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.

Just prior to this Mega Weekend I had been perusing my maps of the area, researching which caches I may have wanted to attempt while I was here and I noticed this mystery cache sitting in the middle of a lot of found caches.
Thinking that was a bit unusual as to why I wouldn't have found it while I was in that area I realised it was another bonus cache for this series. Fortunately I had taken photos of all the clues on those caches to work out the final, bar one, but it was enough to get me in the right area.
With a PAF to supply that last digit I was able to drive by and collect this one too.
And wow, glad I did. This was a great cache Mrs Perpetuallylost and myself found before heading off to lunch to finish this area off.
Thx FUF009, a FP for this one one on behalf of the series, but good enough for one of its own. Cheers

Ok so we completed the first of this series to be able to get to the final and coincided with Tim reaching a milestone of 2000 finds
Left several DGS stickers and our Pathtag in this one
Thanx for the Adventure Stay Dirty ??????????

1798

Many of our group had left but TSB and I pushed on to finish this part of the series and collect the final. It was a fun series and I am going to return with the geo kids as I am sure they will love these caches. We have had fun discovering these as they are not just a sistema in the bush or worse a micro in the bush. The effort put in is evident and while I would love to give each one a favourite point I don’t have so here I give but is intended for the series.

This cache is also a milestone which I did not realise at the time but well worthy of being one
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2000 milestone*****+

Thanks FUF009 for the cache.
Found at 3:21 pm on 16/11/19.
Find # 2000

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.

This cache had me thinking - we could jump on the silo art band wagon and duplicate the same art on this container on some of those silos!
Thanks for a great series FUF009 - they've all been fun.

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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.

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!

Teamed up with some fellow cachers at the events today and returned to the Forrest to pick up the rest of this series. I am so impressed! The amount of time and effort in these caches is amazing. Has seriously made me reconsider how I create my own caches. Each one was an absolute delight to find and made us all smile. Can’t imagine how long all these took to make. Thanks for all the effort and creativity. Made my weekend.

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.

I recognize these! Very familiar. Classic! Doesn't get much better than this. Now, off for 4 more night caches! Can't thank you guys enough.

Found with bektheraccoon during the mega event. Thank you for this brilliant series. FP awarded tftc

Thanks for an awesome stores, we have thoroughly enjoyed the great containers on this trail. Tftc

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

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.

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. Having found the numbers required for this cache earlier on in the day we updated our GPS with the corrected coordinates and then continued on towards Ground Zero where yet another truly great cache awaited us. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the good fun 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. 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 commenced driving the *Out & About* series. It felt like we were very spoilt today with so many great constructions! 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).

St Arnaud Day 2
We are camped in the overflow section near the club while attending the Mega Event.
We have been travelling around the town & countryside searching for caches. This town has the most amazing & inventive caches that we have found in any area. The locals should be proud of what they have placed here.
Many of the puzzles which we had spent many hours pondering over, we had solve before leaving home.
Thankyou for placing this cache FUF009

This was a great series and had some great caches, a fun one indeed but aren’t they all like this? All the caches were easily found and in good condition

What a big trip this was! I headed over to St Arnaud for the 2019 Victorian mega with e.gregory1, Davidwazza, Featherwaite and Freddo for the long weekend.
The weekend was filled with a lot of finds ranging in puzzles, a few events and some very well constructed hides around the area.

Day 1: I headed over with e.gregory1 and featherwaite, with the aim to collect some unfound LGAs for the guys, with only a 500km drive to the mega from home we added an extra 450km to the trip by going over to Bendigo and further south exploring some regional towns, overall we added an extra 6 LGAs with only 18 finds for the day. Was great to see some of the interesting little towns and what they had to offer for future visits.

Day 2: As a group we hit the trails in St Arnaud as a group signing the logbooks as DEFF98 (Davidwazza, e.gregory1, Freddo, featherwaite and gridge98) to save a lot of room in the logbook. We started off with the geoart Stars and thought it would take most of the day, as we finished it in 2.5 hours we were a bit surprised so hit the well constructed caches in the south of the town in the bush throwing a CITO in the mix. All the caches were amazing and something you don’t see anywhere else. Adding in 15 FTFs along the way with: everlasting, crank1 and Pwola. The evening settled in and we headed into town for a buffet dinner and a catch up with some familiar faces.

Day 3:
After attending the GV2020 event for the morning we set off to hit the last of the trails left in town of the metal containers, followed by the challenges for the mega as well as quite a few trads around the back roads. We ended the day by having a go at the lab caches at the mega then off to the CITO. I don't think I have ever seen so mant people at a tip before. Topped off the day with an evening event.

Day 4: By today the town was almost cleaned out and only a few caches to find, so we did the last few caches within a rough 15km radius driving around finding the odd cache here and there. The GIFF was finished off the mega so we decided to head to Horsham for the evening.

Day 5: After leaving our camp site for the morning, we cached for the morning around Horsham collecting a few grads and a well earned swim. Then made the long drive back home to Adelaide.

Thanks to all the COs for their cache placements and the Geocaching Victoria crew for organising a fantastic weekend away.

We sadly missed last years St Arnaud event so we were looking forward to doing this series of caches as was as hopefully a new series yet to be published.

We joined forces with Mr Coffee and with Honeysucker as the chauffer we took off. As usual we had a fantastic time driving around the bush tracks, enjoying the breaks out of the car to get the caches discussing between us what we thought that the hide might be by the cache name.
We weren't always right but we were never disappointed. Your creativity astounds us.
We found everyone exactly where the GPSr said that it should be, collected the clues as required and left our name sin the log book.

Many thanks FUF009 for another great series which bought a great deal of enjoyment to our day. Apologies for the generic log but it is hard to say something different about each one without giving anything away and spoiling it for the next finder. All we can say is we love your work and a favourite point from us.

Found at 12:05 PM GAFF1.
Not sure what the "band wagon" had to do with this hide, but it was impressive!
Thanks FUF009

**Find# 6,494**
**11 Nov. 2019 12:51 pm**
Last one of a fantastic series. Fav point, but they all deserve fav points.
**Thanks for the fun FUF009**

Loved the band and the birds singing in the background.
This is a wonderful series. Many thanks.

Here in St Arnaud for the Mega event and today we tackled this series. An excellent series of well constructed caches. We enjoyed caching through this area and appreciate the time and effort gone into placing these hides.

Cache and contents were in good condition and adding to our favourites.

Thoroughly enjoyed this series. We were really impressed with the effort and workmanship that went into creating these containers.
Had lots of laughs and wished that we had unlimited favourite points.
TFTC FUF009

**27 Sep 2019, 13:24:25 AEST
Find #3710**
**Mystery Cache Find #545**

I went to St Arnaud with SteMicMitSar to make some inroads into the caches here prior to the Mega.
Almost all the caches we found were in interesting places and logical spots, but not obvious to muggles. An abundance of regular size containers, well stocked with swag for junior caches made for a pleasant change from the plethora of micros that dominate the city and suburbs.
Apologies for the generic logs but with over 250 finds for the long weekend, they all tend to blur into one another.

A terrific way to finish this series.

SL TFTC

**Thank-you to FUF009 for placing this geocache**

*27 Sep 2019, Found @ 1:24 pm, Find # 9765.*

Well it’s getting closer to the St.Arnaud Mega Event and as I may not have a lot of time to find caches that weekend I decided an earlier trip was warranted.
A road trip was planned for this weekend with biggles1024 and we headed out to see what we could find, this one was added to the find tally over the weekend.

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

Spent a day slowly working my way to Bendigo where my son is racing in the Bendigo Pedal Prix. It's still great to go to races, but even more fun if you don't spend the whole day there!
Instead spending a few hours touring St Arnaud seemed like an excellent stop over. The Out and About series was my target.
#11-18 wore the legs about lending itself more to a walking circuit. I don't think that I walked a straight line once in my search dodging fallen trees, low branches etc.
And the novel construction provided by FUF009 and Tyred and Cranky did not disappoint. Thanks for providing another fabulous series.

After having lunch and a play in the park we headed off to log the Q&A series. The weather is much improved on this morning, still sunny and fresh breeze but has warmed up a little.. And that's a wrap! Last cache for this run. Batteries are running low and the sun and the temperature are beginning to drop. Time to head for home and some dinner. TFTC great adventure.

Yesterday we were Out & About and visited the first 9 caches in this series collecting the first set of clues allowing us to look for #10. It was dark when we reached #9 so after several false starts we retreated until the morning.
Today we made our way carefully towards this cache as yesterday's rain had left some of the tracks quite slippery. Fortunately our low clearance sedan negotiated the tracks with ease.
We parked about 300m from the cache and walked through the bush. We were surprised at the number of little plants growing on the forest floor. We even spotted a single sundew flower.
At GZ we located another beautifully constructed cache container and, after a quick inspection had the log book in hand and our name added .
Thanks FUF009 for another good cache in this series. A favourite point has been added. The cache and contents were in very good condition.

Found in the company of Motndarg and McLookers today. We found every cache that we searched for which is a testimony to the CO's maintenance. We saved this one until the end with the other final. Another great piece of work.

This whole series has been terrific.

Out caching today with McLookers and Alansee, we have signed in as MAM. Collected the necessary clues and finally reached GZ . What a hide, very current . A favourite.

Yep, we are on the band wagon! Great series and fantastic to see so many regular sized caches. A favourite from us.

In St Arnaud today with Alansee and Motndarg we targeted this series, it was a perfect caching day...no wind and no rain! We signed the logbook as MAM. Thank you FUF009 for a fantastic series.

Day 4 and the final day of our St Arnaud geoholiday.

The car was packed in the very pleasant 3degree chill of the morning and we left our cabin at the caravan park.

The plan was to get O&A #10 which we ran out of light to get the other day and then do half the FBT track, have lunch and head home.

We certainly have enjoyed our caching up here once again and there are still plenty of great series left up here for future visits.

The O&A series was great fun. Thanks FUF009

Suscoe's stay at St Arnaud had come to an end today, but we had set aside these caches for a morning outing before heading down the highway and home.
The morning was cold with around 3 degrees and fog. As the morning progressed the fog thinned out and the sun started to warm things up, no wind and it felt much warmer than it was.
The bushland around here was quiet apart from the highway noise and the occasional bird call.

Thanks to FUF009 for this hide and these first 10 caches, the co-ordinates were spot on for the final.
A favourite for both this cache and the first 10.

TFTC We completed the whole 30 and then went in for the lovely extra prizes...what a beauty this one is.
Not the wagon we expected.
TFTC

Early to go there today before we head back to home.
Found it
FP
Thanks FUF009 for the cache.

Caching weekend with Crank1 & BeckNmonts, thank you so much for placing it FUF009. A clever cache. Fav point from me.

On a bit of a road trip wandering here and there, we have decided St Arnaud looks to be a jolly sort of a caching place so here we are. Oh the joy, the joy, geocaching heaven has arrived. After doing some fairly ordinary power trails and seen some very poorly maintained caches in past few weeks, this series has renewed our faith in geocaching and cache hides. Awesome job on every single one. We're not going to say much about each individual cache to keep the surprises. Everyone will be getting a favourite ( one good thing power trails are good for, accruing fav points to give out to brilliant caches) . It's a great idea to include the puzzle cache to round off the series and for once we actually remembered to get each clue. Needless to say the puzzle was well worth the wait. Tftc

After completing the series and collecting all the clues we arrived at GZ
where we made a quick find. Signed log and replaced where found.
Thankyou for such a entertaining series we loved it. So much thought has gone into your caches. We give you a favourite point.
Thanks for placing these caches for our enjoyment. Look forward to the next one.
TFTC.

The long weekend approached and as I was up here for the event in January and I noticed all of the caches up here and was told by numerous cachers that there are some high quality caches to be found so I decided to spend the weekend up this way.
I have completed all of the trails in the area FT, LT, BW, BM, PT, bar one.
The weekend is over but there is time to do one more trail, the O&A before heading home.
The GeoMitzi had a good workout over the weekend spending most of the time on the dirt.
After completing the complete series I left the two final / mysteries to last.
I was not disappointed with the final one here and thanks again for all of the time and effort you three have put in to get us out here.
So another fav to you.
Thanks FUF009 TFTC.

Nice find at the end of it. TFTC

Ok we had plotted both finals and they appeared to be close so we left them till last. Now was the time to get them. Being in the new car I was a little aprehensive about earning any bush pin stripes but all seemed to go well.
Cache was found in good order and we left our mark.
Thanks for another great series FUF009

I had a few days off, so what better place to head than St Arnaud for some quality cache finding, I had a great time finding caches over three days and even caught up with some good friends while in the area. I cant wait to return for the Mega, this is My second visit to the area and it certainly offers some of the best hides in the state.

Thanks FUF009 for the cache.

Found on our trip around Vic to avoid the heat with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache FUF009,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 23669** Found on our Feb 'Escape the northern heat' trip.
And another fine day for a drive in the bush at St Arnaud.
Not a single muggle around these roads today. .
All very good safe hides and mainly quick finds.
A different hide here and a fav point for this part of the series.
Thanks for the cache and the series FUF009,
***Roostaman***

Well this is as far as we are going to get on this trip. Disappointed that we don't have time to see what other sculptures you have come up with but we will definitely be back.

11:12 am #6856
Out on this beautiful sunny morning with Papi4506 & GT37 finding this series.
A great final to another brilliant series. A fav point for the series and this cache.
Cheers FUF009

After a sit down & some lunch at the St. Arnaud's event to the mega.
We plugged in the numbers from the collected clues so we could site the coods on the map.
A stroll through some open woodland before finding gz.
Clever construction, thanks for bringing us here to the final FUF009

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Here for the '10 Months to the Saint Arnaud Event', event this afternoon. We decided to get an early start and check out this cool series. I dropped some rare pathtags in some random caches today. Thanks for the cache FUF009 - favourite point added for this integral cache in the series.
- M

Having completed the first half the series this morning before lunch it was now time to plug the numbers from the clues into the equation & locate GZ...
Headed off with clare007 & my friend, Bron...
Nicely constructed hide...
Thanks for the cache & the series FUF009

Found by Mary and David at 1400. Happily our new coordinates were spot-on. Another great piece of workmanship, which esarns a FP. Picked up "I met Signal Tag", and left a FP. Our thanks to FUF009.

**Found whilst in town for the '10 Months to the Saint Arnaud Event'**

Found with The Empire on a 40°+ day.
We decided to get an early start and find some of the many caches which continued late into the afternoon.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
-P

Took: Nothing.
Left: Fave Point.
Stamped Log

Travelling with brisal5 and Anymules.
Today we were off to St Arnaund.
We came to do the series and the Q&A series.
Loved all of the caches in these series.
I am giving them all a Fav Point for the containers.

Signed BAS!