The Lonely Lady Bug Koorlong, Victoria, Australia
By 4Moule on 15-Dec-18. Waypoint GC81BRR

Out caching around Mildura with friends. Logged as EGS. We loved the caches we found and the backroads we travelled along the way. TFTC

Our last day in the area before we head home tomorrow. A beautiful day to find some more caches here. Found with Earthlight and Shandyk, and signed the log EGS. TFTC.

Easy find, and enjoyable. However The cache is rusting out and the contents are all covered in rust, may need to update the cache before it completely bottoms out.

Taking a few days off work so I can get away to Mildura for a long weekend. My first time in Mildura so lots of geocaches to tackle to keep me entertained. Perfect conditions to be outside and geocaching. This short trail of caches with high favourite points was high on my to do list. I was not disappointed. Every one unique and well crafted. Certainly put a big smile on my face. A favourite point from me. Thank you 4Moule, for placing The Lonely Lady Bug for the geocaching community.# # #15768 # #

Another nice bush cache TFTC

FTC

Up in Mildura with LittleBoss2, Geo the puppy for a week of caching and golf. Today was a quieter day than yesterday where we managed to almost complete the Paddle Steamer series. Today we introduced a couple of Octogenarian friends to our game who completely outdid us in their ingenuity to solve various clever caches in this town with more than its share. This was thankfully a quick find with the accurate coords and a well placed container. Very cute also

Found with Bogonghazy, sorceysal, geo dog whilst caching in Mildura. Great cache to introduce some friends who spent the morning with us. Thanks for placing the geocache

A quick easy find with BH AND LB2

Easy find and cute container. Needs a little bit of maintenance. If I had some gorilla glue in the car I would have fixed it for you but unfortunately I didnt. The missing part is in the cache. TFTC TNLNSL

Unfortunately contents and container are showing signs of water damage. Still usable.

Found this one nice and quickly, as we seem to find many of the prickles as we walk through the scrub.Our first full day in Mildura and after a quite cool night some beautiful Autumn weather has been really turned on. Blue skies and warm sunshine.We are staying a bit out of town but with quite a number of well-favourited caches nearby in the bushland and a variety of types we thought we would head out amongst them and try our luck. They were located along a range of bush tracks amongst the scrub so while dusty, fun to drive. Sadly no emus of kangaroos were spotted today to add to the fun.It truly was a great day caching with a fun range of gadget caches added into the mix. We awarded quite a few favourites to celebrate them, especially as we managed to solve them all.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache TheMoules.**SKI Pair****

4yo happy to find this one. Tftc

Big thanks to TheMoules for placing this cache. Cache number 9173 on May 13, 2024

Lady in red is a bit rusty x

Found while having a look around the area today, staying in Mildura for the week. Beware the massive spider web. Ladybug is safe. All good here.Find #6984 on 18 Apr 2024.TFTC TheMoules!

Found it 31.3.24

Found this one on a walk with the dogs.TFTC

I came out to this bunch of caches lured by favourite points and I wasnt disappointed at all. It was early morning and the sun was bright but the temperature was still fairly mild.The ladybug tin was full of water, so I emptied it and double bagged the log. Such a cute idea for a cache. TFTC

Find#5916Nice hiding place What a epic road trip through Victoria and NSW on our way to Whyalla South Australia Thanks for the cache

So so cute!!

She needs a friend. Great cache. Tyftc. Fav point

We stopped at Mildura for four nights while on our journey to North QLD. 

Here's one to find today. Thank you for placing the cache   TheMoules.

Found with nannynomad, MazzyMay and Joybell53 and logged as DYLZ for short (the last letters of our caching names.) Today we decided to head out for some gadget caches then we continued with some others in the area. Loved this one too, although the cache has had a slight accident and lost its head. TFTC

Found with SiFiRulz nannynomad and joybells53 signed as dylz.
Beautiful day to be out and about. Very creative. Thankyou for placing this cache for us to find.

Found with joybell53 MazzyMay and SciFiRulz TFTC signed as DYLZ

Found with nannynomad MazzyMay SciFiRulezdylz

Yep the bug was home. Thanks 4Moule for this cache

Happy to report ladybug is fine and well. With Monks 55.

Found with JAMS35. Enjoying your caches.

After a brief stroll in, the lady was soon in hand

TFTC and greetings from Tassie and have another favourite point

Day 2 of the Mildura Adventure and we are collecting the rest of the Paddlesteamer geoart plus some interesting caches with lots of favourite points around the area. Caches signed as MMA or MMA23 for Mildura May Adventure. Tftc

Signed as MMA. Nice container.. kutgw

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 youban Kittykatch Joolay NRC GLISS Barb2e Albida on our mini Mildura invasion! Signed MMA - Mildura May Adventurers! Thanks TheMoules!

Great

Had an appropriate TOTT ??

Day 4 of our Mildura Madness run and the gang is all here ??. Really looking forward to looking around. Signing as MMA23 or MMA. (Mildura May Adventures)

Thanks for getting me out and about TheMoules

Mildura
I joined a group of Canberra cachers to tackle the caches around Mildura. Signed as MMA (Mildura May Adventurers).

Thanks for the hide TheMoules

Found while on a fabulous weekend away to Mildura to complete the Paddlesteamer & Turtle geoarts, and various trads, multis + gadget caches. The Canberra crew included Nibletricecakes, joolay, kittykatch, youban, dty73, tankengine, barb2e, Klsarc & albida33. We signed as Mildura May Adventures 23 (MMA23). Unless otherwise mentioned, all caches were quickly found. TFTC.

Today was our second day adventuring together in the district. Out to tackle the Paddlesteamer and as many other amazing caches as we can with a lovely bunch of Canberra friends! Always fantastic to be able to get away for a long weekend of caching together. Loved the red dust and the crazy caching trails. Thanks for all the hard work from COs make and maintain these caches. Called our trip the Mildura May Adventure so signed as MMA or MMA23 today. Great to be caching with you KLSARC, GLISS! Albida33, Kittykatch, Barb2e, Joolay, Tankengine, DTY73 and youban. Thanks for a great weekend everyone. Thanks for the cache.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 54. Mildura Paddle Steamer Trip Day 3. After a huge day, the MAA team (Mildura Autumn Attack and we consisted of Nibletricecakes, Gliss!, Joolay, Kitty Katch, Barb2e, Tankengine, dty73, Youban and Albida33) headed back to the Paddle Steamer to finish the last bit. It did not take too long, and the whole series has been a joy of accurate and present caches. The next goal was the various Gadget caches rear Red Cliffs and then by the Gliding field. The day was completed with an all out effort to get to all the Turtle caches. Plenty of drive bys, but a few fun walks on muddy flats. This was another great series. A few of us gathered for take away dinner and retired for what rest could be achieved before tomorrows activities.

The various themed and gadget style caches we did today were all great and enjoyable after the series caching we have mostly done.

Thanks for the cache TheMoules

43157.45 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Chinese Dragon 3 A#204

**Albida**

Tankengine, Youban and I came to Mildura for the weekend for a bit of caching with a bunch of other Canberrans (signed caches we did together as - MMA. Which I think stood for Mildura May Adventurers. It’s so hard coming up with group names).

We had an awesome time and ate at some really nice places, met a whole bunch of lovely people and found some great caches. Thanks to all the COs for their placements and my caching friends for their help and great company.

This cache: What a lovely ladybug this was. And the matching stone inside was cute too. Tftc!!!

Another awesome creative cache and pathtag to boot that's made my day ..

Bringing home to carry out some maintenance on this geocache.

Back in place ready to be found again.

Took this one in after it’s head fell off (The logbook is not in the head). Have reattached and added some swag. Happy Caching!

Was good but man the spider ️

Quickly found the Lady Bug because all the co-ords here have been spot on and we knew exactly what we were looking for. Had to go back to the car to get a tool as we were a bit scared to use the only car key we had with us. TFTC TheMoules.

Nice hide. I didn't have the required tool with me so I just said hi and left.

#12154 12:45
Together with my son, I am on a camping trip from Sydney to Broken Hill and back. On our 3000 km journey over 11 days we have seen some wonderful little towns, beautiful landscapes and many interesting geocaches.

Noticing the large number of favourite points awarded. I drove to caches around the Mildura glider airfield. It turned out to be a great afternoon driving across the sand tracks to some very creative caches.

TFTC.

Cute cache TFTC

Out for a Sunday arvo of local geocaching in the sunshine and fresh air.

Had to navigate a lot of orb spiders on the trees to be able to grab this one!

TFTC TheMoules!

Out this morning in Mildura picking up a few caches. This was one of them. His head has fallen off the poor little lady. Tftc!!

#16759 - 6:08:00 PM; After spending the night in Mildura on the way home from South Australia after collecting the geomobile with Sol de lune, today we set out to collect some of the caches in the area we didn't pick up on previous visits. We managed a good variety of caches and cache types as we made our way around the city and then further afield in our quest. All caches were found in good order considering the recent weather conditions and were returned as found once we had signed the log. Enjoyed the many gadgets and field puzzles as we made our way around the bush tracks. Added to the favourite points as we went! TFTC TheMoules

Out this way with LuckyL10n before heading back to Canberra and we hit up this line of caches before heading back to our accomm.

No issues with this one and our names were soon in the log.

Thanks for another one 4Moule....

Found

Out and about caching in the bush near Mildura targeting this series, all with high favourite points, and found they really lived up to it! Thank you for your imagination and the work you've put into the construction

The lady bug may be lonely but she's still tucked safely away in her hiding spot. Love the creativity on the cache container.

Found

Great hide... fantastic day out..

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure, yes I know we have wandered over the border. Never mind, it is a wonderful day and we have joined forces with FelixII so we are off to see what we can find. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Day 4 of my 5 day Geocaching long weekend away. This would be Find Number 20 of 31 for the day.

Was expecting a small hard to see find but i was wrong. Nice one.

TFTC TheMoules

fitzy_1965 and I decided to head away for an extra long weekend so that we could attend the Tri-State Community Celebration Events along with the other events that have popped up.

A fantastic time was had and a nice number of caches found. Thanks to all the CO's for holding the events and/or placing the caches.

We spent the night at the Euston Club Hotel: an amazing room for only $90 and thanks to Service NSW for pitching in the other $50. Up early to make the trek back to Mildura for breakfast at a local cafe. A tad noisy but not complaining about the company! Whilst at breakfast we made plans to Yushaun & Laighside Legends to do the Lock Island wherigo and a couple more along the way then the new virtual before heading back to NSW for the morning CITO. Next was a couple of multis before tackling more of the Turtle series. Looking for something to do before heading to the last event for the weekend, we stumbled this fantastic area dotted with 4Moule/TheMoules gadget caches. Just fantastic with lots of favourite points given out!

It was wonderful to see cachers we hadn't seen for a while and to meet several new ones. There ended up being cachers from SA, Vic, NSW, Tas & QLD! Amazing!

28,502. Found with minniek while visiting the region for the Tri-State Community Events/International Geocaching Day weekend.

When minniek and I heard about the huge 8 event weekend (4 Community Celebration Events, 3 'normal' events and 1 CITO) to be held in Berri/Wentworth/Mildura/Euston celebrating International Geocaching Day, we knew that we wanted to be there. After two very busy days, we enjoyed the hour sitting enjoying a coffee and a nice breakfast to get the energy for the day ahead. We then headed out for more caches. This was the next one. We started to head down to the Camping CCE location when we discovered this group of amazing caches. Each and every one a great cache. Quick find at GZ. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then continued on to the next one.

Thanks TheMoules !! Fav Point. I quite enjoyed the drive around here in our quasi-4WD

TFTC!

Awesome hide

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Cool find

Good one

Very talented and fun one

I’m having this week off as others at work had the Easter break off so it was my turn and another trip up North to Mildura was planned.
I was able to leave Melbourne nice and early to get a few caches in on the way up to Culgoa.
So after a great feed and a couple of beers and of course great accomodation at the Kaneira Hotel I headed up towards Mildura to see how many I could find in the Paddle Steamer series.
I managed to find 115 and 165 in the last couple days but the uni joint in my right knee has finally said enough is enough with all of the getting in and out of the Geocruiser so it is time to spend a casual day around Mildura.
I got up nice and early to attend the Dawn Service at the park and it was great to see so many people there paying their respects.
After a wander around town and then completing the Turtle series which was the second reason why I came back up to Mildura it was time to keep my wandering around.
So after crossing the mighty Murray river for a few and then crossing back again so now I’m back on home soil.
After locating Mr Dipoles house then collected a package I continued along the tracks around here to find a few more.
I soon came across a very cute ladybug in a well themed cache.
She let me add my name to the log so I was soon off again.

Thanks TheMoules TFTC.

Nice bug

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count.

This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

This was a nicely constructed cache and something with a difference. Cache is all good

A trip to Victoria with Freddo for 3 days to complete the paddle steamer and find a few caches in Mildura and along the way to and from, all the caches were signed respective of the day FG23, FG24, FG25 or our own caching names.
Total of 468 finds for the trip

Thanks for a great series

Found it

Yay - nice one too - no chance of muggles causing grief today either! I did approach these “FIELD PUZZLES” with trepidation as I did not have anyone to bounce brainy ideas off. Got there though with patience and admiration for great construction. Looks like a perfect spot to hide all sorts of goodies or even unsavoury thingos whatever that might be. Headed out on the MTB despite the rising temp gauge and in psychological need of a destination AND the lure of a few large caches for a wee mission. TFTC and the fun of exploring new territory. Pretty different to home base in the mountains! A fave for the whole kaboodle

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Honeysucker, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC TheMoules
Find #8071 at 09:57.

Found out caching with Wollaston, Liz & Bruce.

Container condition good, she’s lovely ️
Log condition lots of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with group stamp

TFTC TheMoules

Find # 5688

Out caching today with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Perfect day for caching thanks for arranging. Fav point alloc

Catching up with late logs

We were in Mildura to do the fireworks for the New Years Eve festivities and then we have plans to head over to SA to catch up with Honeysucker, Liz & Bruce & Chrispy and we thought that we would try and get three caches in the each of three states in one day.

Once we got here and saw the quality of the hides we decided to make time for a few more of these.

Again we followed the GPSr not sure what we would find but looking forward to it none the less. As we approached gz the GPS decided to add another difficulty star by randomly changing where it wanted us to search so we gave up on that and just went by instinct of where we would hide it and happily came up with the bigger than expected ladybug in the first place we looked. We opened her wings and added our name to the log and returned everything as it was.
We looked down at the GPSr and it was indicating one meter, we have no idea why it had a hissy fit earlier but at least we walked away with another smilie.

Many thanks again, another favourite point from us.

On our last trip up here this little lady was disabled so we missed out on getting to see the great workmanship put into her construction.
Today while up in Mildura once more we returned to turn this lady into a smiley.
Thanks 4Moule for the cute placement.
A favourite point added.

Started the day over coffee ️ with Mrs 4Moule and her mini-me I have decided that any day it’s not blowing a gale is a good day in these parts to do outdoorsy stuff. So toddled over here to sort out the go-go gadget caches and explore the landscape. This trail and was great value Ended the day hosing down Star the geocar A few smileys = a happy geocacher.

Beautifully decorated and of course, my namesake Dropping a FAVE here.

TFTC 4Moule

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Well made, good job. Thanks for placing it.

Poor lonely bug. Fabulous cache design. TFTC

Cute

Love the container! Thanks for the hide.

Thanks

The ladybug all dry and in good condition. TFTC.

Found by Rebel Acts

In Mildura for a few days with Snap Happy, omegaman1971, Happy Feet, Happy Pants and The Empire.
After finishing off the GOT series it was time for Me to do the turtle series, it was a little challenging getting to some locations but I managed to get them all done.

The highlight for the day were the fantastic gadget caches in the area.

Thanks 4Moule for the cache.

Had a chance to come out this side of town and discover a wide variety of different types of caches. A nice simple find with this one this afternoon and we are really enjoying the themed hides, thanks 4Moule for the cache.

This was a great opportunity to get away with some caching friends in Mildura. The plan was to hit some of the local trails and geo art. There was many other hides discovered, with some really great containers and hides in the area.

Thankfully we had the right TOTT for this one.

Thanks 4Moule for placing the cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy the find.

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 7940 finds
In town for a few day with the crew to hit the nearby powertrails and put some smiles on the map.
Has been many years since I was here last , the town has certainly changed.
Cheers for the cache

Found with hubby kids and aunties. Tftc

Found by The Empire
Here in Mildura for a few days with Snap Happy, omegaman1971, Happy Feet and Happy Pants.
Once we'd finished finding the nearby turtle series geoart, we were keen to keep on caching into the late afternoon, then on and into the night. "There's another one over here" was the saying heard most today. We found a plethora of different cache types, hide styles and were happily perplexed at some GZs! I was also able to dish out many favourite points. Thanks for the cache 4Moule.
- M

Fun find!

**Out and about with Happy Pants, Happy Feet, The Empire, Omegaman1971 & Rebel Acts**
Staying in Mildura for a few days cleaning up some local Geo Art and a few scatted caches in between

Thanks for the cache TheMoules. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

**Warning**, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to learning new things and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.

Cache on!

TFTC

After finding all the caches in the Paddle steamer and Turtle Series over the past few days there was still time to cache around Mildura and Red Cliffs.

Thanks for placing this creative cache ????

TFTC 4Moule

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

After completing the PS series we split up as The Drovers had already done the ones we were about to do.
We still signed the logs as either The Mob or put our initials in the logs.

There were a lot of different kinds of hides here which really good. Nice to have something a little different.

Quick find at this one.

Thanks for the placement and maintenance of this cache 4Moule

naaawwww, cute!

FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, LíB and myself found a number of caches outside of the Paddle steamer and Turtle Series whilst in the area.

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to 4Moule for placing this cache.

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Was day 3 of our trip away and today we were back out to finish off the PS Series with "The Mob" consisting of GoodLook, The Drovers, FurfacesLL, LiB and myself. We managed to get heaps done yesterday so only needed a couple hours out on these today then The Drovers went off to do some caches they had left unfound whilst the rest of us went to do some around Mildura/Red Cliffs that they had already found.

Aww she sure is lonely. We kept her company for a lil while whilst we signed the log then we left her to her thoughts.

Thanks for the hides 4Moule And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].