Baanip 8 Mount Duneed, Victoria, Australia
By _BFMC_ on 25-Oct-18. Waypoint GC7ZFED

Archived due to accessibility issues with the rail works which will likely continue to be an issue even after completed.

Fencing blocking access

It was a late-night jaunt to grab a cache before midnight. It was all quiet on the western front of Geelong. It was a pretty quick trip in as the traffic was as light as can be.

It was also damn, damn cold. Thankfully Joey, the geomobile, has an excellent heater system, and we were able to keep warm there and back. It didn't help, though, when we were outside.

We were able to pull up nearby to GZ and made a relatively quick find. The cache is in excellent condition.

Thank you for this cache BFMC.

Found it while staying at Torquay

This one took us longer than expected and we found it about 15m from the pin.

TNLS
May 20, 2022 3:17 PM
Cache Number: 1342 TFTC HoodedHooligans

Quick easy find

Thought I'd go for a stroll along this walkway. I had picked up a few on my previous visit to Aus so a few more today. An easy find as was not covered well, recovered and moved on to the next tftc

On our way home with BogongHazy we decided to bypass the bypass and make a few quick finds along the bike trail. Thanks to BFMC for placing this great little series

On the way home from our little break on the coast this morning with Littleboss2, we couldn't go past this great little series. Our thanks to BFMC for placing these to bring us along here.

*Climbing A Mountain On Rollerblades Adventure #8*
"Click your rollerblades together three times and say 'There's no place like hospital' and you'll be there."
Eight from eight. Have I *ever* had a streak like this? Okay, maybe I have, but it's still impressing the crud out of me!
Thanks heaps for the cache, BFMC!

Started down here just as the sun had well set which was a good idea as I wasn’t sure if I’d tick them all off in one go given the darkness. Given the nice easy find I figured I should be able to grab em all through the night getting darker and darker and was not wrong.

Thanks for this series, will have to enjoy this walk again in the near future

Found it!

Quick and easy find

Looks like an abandoned railway, found it pretty easily

I wish I was able to get out about today to enjoy the beautiful spring sun but was unfortunately bunkered down in the home office working....BAH. I felt like i deserved some outside time so a night cache it is. I've been wanting to hit up this series for a while but I'm never over this side of town. Heaps of rubbish around, I guess it's all blowing away from the building sites close by...maybe a CITO is in order.

Cache was found enough Thank you

Went to find 7-10 today today on a leisurely walk down Baanip bvd.
Traffic was rather light considering the current circumstances! Lots of building and construction going on in the area

TFTC
Was sitting right next to it and then before getting up, there it was!
Well hidden!

We hadn't put the bikes on this morning due to the weather forecast, but its not all that reliable Anyway we drove the length, stopping as we went to grab this little series. Most were straightforward finds that didn't give us any grief. Thanks _BFMC_ for your work.

We haven't spent much time in Geelong size we were married in 1978, but Mrs Ski spent many school holidays here visiting her grandparents and extended family. Gran was part of Geelong royalty being a Hickey and cousin to Reg, so her family is passionate Cats supporters. During our time here this week apart from all the caches we have found we have caught up with family, revisited lots of sites dear to her memory, and marvelled at all the changes. Her last visit to the Waurn Ponds Hotel was when it was in a paddock, her aunties house now has 4 modern units on the site instead, and the tiny little farmhouse on South Valley Road where her grandparents lived in the 1960's is now an extensively renovated large family home with inbuilt swimming pool and granny flat over the new garage. Its still on a double block on the corner of Nelson Ave, (mum's maiden name) with Cobden Rd on the other edge of the family land.

I had a some spare time while returning from the coast.

Decided to complete a few in this series.

Ironically I travelled this road the day they were published and missed the release by a few hours.

Time to return today.

Another hide that I spent too long looking.

Thenit was just there.

TFTC

New log book is in tact, cache is dry.

Not where I expected it to be . . .

Found this cache container in the open and it had water inside of it so logbook wet++. Replaced the container to a different type with new logbook inside. It is well covered and left where we found it.
TFTC BFMC

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 15:05 on 3/01/2021
MAINTENANCE REQUIRED:
The red stamp is wet and the entirety of the inside of the geocache is soaked in red ink.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this series of geocaches that we were able to do on this cool, and somewhat wet afternoon.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found, not what I was expecting. Water damaged quite badly, needs maintenance

Log was very wet & everything covered in red ink from stamp

Found,
It’s a bit wet in the container

Another quick stop off on the way home from work to fill the gap in a challenge calendar lm working on.

Found container upside down and had a lot of water in it. Log was unsignable.

With The ring of Swiss cheese coming down we could now catch up with our Metro Mates, so once again I teamed up with Omegaman1971 and headed to the Geelong area to do some of the many labs and several caches in the area. We had a great time exploring the area. Today We started in Geelong but got a little frustrated with suburban caching so we headed to the Brisbane Ranges to do the Fun for kids trail.

This was one of the caches we found today. No bike riding for us just walk to them all, a few of the logs were a little wet.

Thanks BFMC for the cache.

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 7041 finds
Out and about in the area with my geo buddy Rebel Acts putting some smiles on the map.
Really enjoyed this series, great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Was a shame that some of the logs were water damaged.
Cheers for the cache

So good to get out doing caches again. Glad we didn't attempt this in Summer. The grass was very high and we got wet feet. Dog got wet too. Thanks for this series that helped us getting virtual wonders souvenirs.

Easy find on dusk, good hint, we were prepared.
TFTC and hint.

TFTC

Found it was pretty easy once we stopped overthinking it haha

Uh oh.
We had a really good careful look with ilook4geo for this one, but came up empty handed here. It was disappointing, but we really could only accept the DNF situation and go on with the rest of the series. Looked carefully all around with the hint in mind and expanded the search area but were still unsuccessful.
Suggest that this one could do with a check by the CO.
Thanks anyway go to BFMC for the series.

Didn't manage to find this one sadly. After spending some time looking with goingplaces2 we decided to move on. TFTC and this series.

First time caching in a while. Nice easy find. Good coordinates.
Cache in good order
TNLN
TFTC

Quick easy find. Tftc

We were out an about on the bikes with RedGeoDevil and thought we thought we could tick this series off our list. Had to trek through some long grass a bit with our eyes peeled for snakes but safely managed to find the cache and return on our ride. TFTC

TFTC

Found @9:28pm while walking Geo Puppy. Hadn't planned on doing this one but after last nights experience we decided to check this one out. The same as last night it was a quick easy find with the cache container lying on the ground in plain sight. Re-hidden out of sight, cache owner contacted with details. SL Thanks for the cache and for bringing us here.

Good for kids!!

Easy find

Found it

Although rather chilly this morning, it was pleasant walking along Baanip Boulevard walkway. Only three muggles were seen while we walked the trail. We were soon at GZ for this cache. Accurate coordinates, the hint and a partially exposed cache led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. After signing the log, we rehid the cache better than we found it, Thanks _BFMC_ for the cache and the series.

*17 Aug 2019, Found @10:54 pm, Find # 3258.*

After an early morning start SteMicMitSar, biggles1024, buhfuhguh and myself headed out on the road our first stop Beaufort and then Geelong. After a nearby birthday dinner event we decided to give this series ago before heading back home. I can’t believe I walked right over the top this one.


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

*17 Aug 2019, Found @ 10:54 pm, Find # 9654.*

Today I headed out on a bit of a road trip to Beaufort and then Geelong for a couple of events as well as the new musical note Wherigo caches with jascat, biggles1024 and buhfuhguh.
With the Wherigo series and both events under our belt, we decided to give this series a crack before heading for home.
All were fairly easy finds except one which had us going in circles for a little while.

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

Ah, what a day, after an early rise this morning I drove to meet up with Stemicmitsar, Biggles1024 and Jascat for a day of caching out west. With our main goal being 2 events and some musical wherigos. A rather big day nevertheless. With us finishing our hunt and me getting home from the trip at 2am this morning. Thanks for the cache and being a part of a great day out caching.

**17 Aug 2019, 22:55:01
Find #3631**
**Traditional Cache Find #2458**

The day dawned fine and cool. SteMicMitSar, Jascat, Buhfuhgah and I headed over to the other side of the bay to attend two events and to find a number of new Wherigos at Beaufort. We were now on our way home but still looking for caches of interest. We looked at the map and spotted this series which looked like it would be a series of Park 'N Grabs. That's not quite how it is, but with a nice, wide and flat path, we decided that walking was the best way to do it, with Steve bringing up his car at various intervals.

SL TFTC

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

Get down low and go go go

Good one good swaps too!
TFTC. And now for one last jewel...

Enjoy walk toward the cache.
TFTH

Geokid loved the swaps in this one. TFTC!

Looked for a mound, found the cache. Thanks BFMC.

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Nice find hard to park !

We have been wanting to do this trail for awhile now but things just always got in the way. Today we thought the weather was going to be one of those 'things' that just stood between us and Baanip, but no, we were able to walk the trail with some afternoon sunshine, enjoying the various hides, rain free.
This one was found inadvertently as the lighter of the 2 of us stood on it as we approached GZ.....oops....all good though.....no damage done, luckily!
Thanks BFMC for placing some caches along the Boulevard for us and others to enjoy.

It was a nice day so I decided to go caching and this was one of them. A harder find but fortunately people leave just enough sign.

Easy enough. Amazing that we can find a regular sized cache so close to a busy highway. Thanks.

Wanted a cache today to compete my calendar 365x2 (but still missing that elusive Feb 29). Not a great day to walk this path as cold and and windy, but a cache is the prize. Parked between 8 & 9. Nice to have a good sized cache, but where is it as my GPS bounced around. Ah, found. On returning home I discovered that I am still missing #2 as it doesn't show upon my phone ap. TFTC

Found our first trackable

Wasn’t hard to spot the disrupted bark around GZ but it was still well hidden. Trackable dropped. TFTC

A great day out walking with AusFox;
TFTC BFMC for the series.
We have enjoyed it.

Easy peasy

A mid-week day off work so I grabbed the deadly treadly and headed down to Geelong to do a few short trails.
Filled in some of the Version II of AB4C, the Bike trail Baanip, and around the park at the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve.
Not too hot for a ride today.

So many hangers in this series, I should have read the clue!
A good sized cache, and good co-ordinates.
Thanks, Robmc.

An overcast morning tempted me out early before the day warmed up too much I enjoyed this series with the variety in the hides in an area I don’t normally frequent. The cache was totally visible here so left it hidden a little better Thanks for bringing me here and for all the hides BFMC

That's a very suspicious looking pile of bark. Wink wink

Very accurate coordinates again! Tftc!

Coordinates spot on. TFTC

This one was sitting out in the open so took nothing to find. Have camouflaged where it looks like it should have been just not sure. Found and logged on a nice walk.

So far caches have been in great condition and are well maintained.

Thanks BFMC for the cache.
Found at 11:26 am on 26/12/18.
Find # 1051

The camo was wearing a bit thin but due to the location, this hide should be safe. Signed log and covered it a bit better.

Sims_family mum and the older kids were off doing some community service helping wrap Christmas pressies for the salvos leaving Dad at home with the two smallest Sims_family members. They both enjoy caching but need to be finding regularly or they get bored so I thought this series would be just the trick for them.
A nice easy find here. As I was putting the cache away here Ausfox; arrived to give us a lift back to the start of the trail . The timing could not have been better as he was still looking for two caches to grab this months souvenir so he joined us for the last two in the series.
Thank you BFMC for the series

Nice find

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH BFMC [^]

The BFMC boys were out walking early this morning. Decided to check up on these then realised I had no phone. Still managed to find 9 of the 11 along here, all are good.

Some of these caches could now be signed in as our team name (608S) to save time and space in the log.
After the Xmas event by the river, sorceysal, 08151605 and I tackled this new series. I parked my car at one end and we headed to the start to work back towards it.
I enjoyed reading the interesting facts that you provided on the cache page. No problems with the cache today.
TFTC _BFMC_

Cool. In Geelong today with Sorceysal and 6Hinemoa2 attending the annual Christmas invasion. Signed as a team cache 608SF. TFTC Cheers

In Geelong today with 08151605 and 6hinemoa2 attending the annual Christmas invasion. Signed as a team cache 608S to avoid the logs running out too quick.

Great co-ords once again led us straight to the cache

Found by Mary and David at 1055. We were impressed to see clearly designated bike lanes on both sides of the road as well as this great bike path off the road. Our thanks to BFMC.

Found by The Empire
Thirty finds today, I was able to pick up the caches in this series around midday. The weather was much cooler than the last few days which made for a nice day out in G-Town. Following in the footsteps and tracks of others, I made short work of this newish series. Thanks for the cache, and the series _BFMC_.
- M

Out today hunting around Geelong for regular size cache containers to help complete a challenge cache.
I was just the one cache of this series today, I'll return to complete the rest in the near future.
Cache was spotted as I approached GZ for a quick find.
Log signed and replaced as found

Thanks for the cache _BFMC_
#4,467

Guessed approx GZ

Missed logging this one in the series - TFTC

The little bunny enjoyed finding this cache and the lots of room for loot inside. NINO for us today. TFTC

16:59
A sunny Sunday afternoon, a great time to seek out a few "local" caches after finishing some messages in Geelong.
As suggested in the cache notes, we started from the Boundary Rd end - COOL no need to pedal at all!
The GPS'r had us looking looking in all the wrong places here - much to Flynn's amusement as he had found it on his ride up the hill.

Thanks to '_BFMC_' for placing this cache on the geo-gameboard.
23323

These were released the day I was last in Geelong so I came back again this morning.
Started at cache #1 and moved east doing the multi projection on the way.
Nice variety of hides on a pretty quiet cycling path.
Thanks BFMC_

Well when this nice trail was published, I was in the middle of school and in no position to find it. If I was home, I would have definitely gotten a FTF or two . Anyway I had to get the trail, it was close to home so off I went today as I got a new bike mount for my GPSr and was eager to test it out. I started at Baanip 10 and worked my way down. Halfway down the path, my GPSr was pointing to two bikes and two Geocachers searching. They definitely knew who I was and after being handed the log to sign I realized who I was looking at, Phetlern (or Bunjil). I was really excited to meet them before the mega so I teamed up with them to find a few that I missed. Altogether a really good trail that I didn't know existed.

This was a nice big one! Saw the likely location quickly

plenty of ants
TFTC

Well I’ve left it too long since I found this to log so I can’t remember anything about it. Appreciate the series though in an interesting spot to walk. TFTC

Talked my muggle Fisher hubby into a walk and while we are walking find a few new caches as they are near home. Nice easy finds TFTC

Saturday stroll along the trail. TFTC

Had a nice walk with the kids along this path. Nice, easy finds for the kids. Had a stop for a coffee break half way through and returned to finish the rest. Thanks for the caches

Joint FTF with Bushfire and Suscoe. Left geonickel.

JOINT FTF SUSCOE, BUSHFIRE AND JINKY AND JOHN!!!

Well what an unexpected hour or so this afternoon.
The phone call from the Red Ant alerted us to new caches nearby and so the plan was quickly hatched to meet at the first cache closest to home and go from there. Our band of searchers had grown out in the field and now there were five of us checking out these new caches.
A bit of cloud kept the sun away and made for good walking and driving.
Another quick find here with good co-ordinates.
Thanks to BFMC for this cache and series

Published

[^] {FTF} JOINT FIND WITH SUSCOE , J & J [^]

After all my computer problems during the last week or so I am still not receiving notifications as I used to but instead sometimes the phone gives a knocking sound so I checked and bingo new caches have been published.
A quick phone call to my great caching mates the suscoe's and I was out the door and on my way to the ring road as that is my quickest way to that part of Geelong.
On arrival this was an easy find so with the log signed it was onto the next.
Thanks _BFMC_ for placing this series.