Beauty in Decay #70 Old Gold West Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
By The Morris on 10-Apr-19. Waypoint GC85GR9

Found! Tftc! TEAM G

Beautiful day out today despite the wind. Thank you for placing this cache!

Something special or unusual goes here:After spending way too long at the last cache for a DNF is was great to have a quick find here. The Generic Bit:The 2024 Geocaching Victoria Event Crawl: Day 3: The Crawl from Sunbury to EchucaTwo days of traveling over from S.A. and three days of Events, numerous Adventure Labs, lots of fun, mishaps, and even a few caches found as we crawled around in search of smilies. My companions for the Crawl were Muff1. So Good to catch up with lots of caching friends. [:X]***Thanks The Morris for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Brisal5 and ourselves had made the decision to attend 'The Great Victorian Cache Crawl' , with Brisal5 arriving at our home on the Thursday evening. The journey started Friday morning with both of us picking up the odd cache as we travelled towards Riddell Creek for the prequel event and then onto Sunbury for our overnight accommodation. The first event of the official weekend was at Maccca's and the excitement was building, then it was time to find caches and AL's along the road and onto Malmsbury for morning tea. Unfortunately it had started to rain with umbrella's and rain jackets out in force. The next stop was Bendigo where we were warmed up with micaparmedic's fantastic soup, thank you, here we caught up with friends and the usual geocaching chatter was all around us. I am sure you have the gist of how our weekend went, finding caches, chatting, eating all this on a loop until we arrived in Seymour for the final goodbyes. We cannot thank the committe enough for this exceptionally well organised weekend. All the caches and AL's that we found were all in good condition and not requiring any maintenance. SL TFTC

The old winch is very impresssive indeed. Thanks for dragging me up here for a fun find.

A fun loop around the area with deanside. Good to meet a couple of other geocachers over the last few days. A very enjoyable journey and there was this cache! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Thanks to The Morris and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

#25 such a great spot for the kids to come and learn about Bendigos golden past

A quick stop off on the way home from work was in order today. A quick search at GZ initially proved unsuccessful for what I thought should be a pretty quick finda step back to assess the issue & after identifying another way to approach the find I quickly found the cache in my hands. Logbook is damp but still easy to write on & still with plenty of room.

What a great place, tucked away like so many of Bendigos treasuresThanks The Morris for showcasing this area and contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy. Happy trails!

Found today with a friend. TFTC

Found it reasonably quickly. Thanks for bringing me here! TFTC!!

Out in the Bendigo area in the ever trusty PueGEOt to find some caches. Ignore the well worn track at the front.TFTC

Quick find. Great to visit this old poppet head. Cache in good condition.

TFTC

After our quick trip home we arrived back in Bendigo last night, looking forward to a bit more relaxed time with a mixture of caching and sightseeing. It was raining overnight but fine this morning so we took the opportunity to get out after fixing the HWS. Mainly a mixture of multis and puzzles.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache The Morris.**SKI Pair****

Nice spot, pretty easy find!

Found with Grubbs1337 and ITWimdy. ??A great day out with Dad and his mate.Thanks for the cache ??

Found, Signed TFTC

Found and signed.

A lovely quick find where 4yo enjoyed exploring.I was just thinking how unlikely an encounter with muggles would be, when sl.e appeared, seemingly from nowhere, taking photos of the beauty in decay.TFTC

Found. A little bit wet but ok thanks for the cache.

TFTC! Such a nice day

Find#6375Nice hiding place What a epic road trip exploring Australia Thanks for the cache

Thanks for bringing me to this interesting site and sharing the history of the mine. Amazing to learn of what they achieved in the pursuit of gold! Found the cache in the obvious spot, it was a scramble initially as I seached on the down hill side of the hide before I twigged a more obvious and less scratchy approach. Thanks to The Morris for the cache, which is in very good order BTW

Thanks you

A very quick find bu Mrs Shifter on our day around town before heading to Tasmania.Thanks for the hide The Morris.

Found it with with Stockosaurus!

Came back to look for this one after a DNF and have no idea why we didnt see it the first time

Walked around the area a couple of times but found it pretty easily when I looked in the right spot. Tftc

Yippeee

Found on a sunny winter's day. Thanks The Morris for the adventure. Cache and log is good condition.

Our last cache for today as the sun slowly sinks in the West. SL at 5.28pm Left: blue bug - maybe he is a dung beetle and will clean up some of that decaying stuff! #10020 TFTC The Morris

Nice, easy find

Thanks The Morris, Nice one. Enjoying my week in Bendigo working, discovering some lovely walks & a few caches.

Found on my way to a chiro apt. After faffing around at home most of the day, I now find myself short on time......
A beautiful sunny winter's afternoon. Thanks for bringing me up here.

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Nearly missed it, as I’m dressed for this afternoon’s performance! In Bendigo for the weekend as part of Melbourne Opera’s massive Wagner Ring Cycle. I’m filling in time before we start, so here I am finding some local caches. TFTC

Another quick easy find. TFTC

Quick easy find today. TFTC

Love the name of this series, will keep an eye out for others in the series.
Visited the nearby reserve to learn all about the mining history of the area. Having climbed the poppet there the kids were keen to explore another one (although disappointed they couldn't climb this one). Nice easy find. TFTC

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TFTC. Didn’t know this place existed until I started on my geocache adventure.

Geoturtle37 and I took a nice stroll to have a look around here and almost forgot the cache. Thanks for bringing us here with this cache.

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in Victoria. TFTC.
Nice quick find once I looked in the right tree.

Tricky, couldn’t find this one today. Spent a bit searching around. Will have to come back

Out and about today with 2beez. Picked this up after a walk over the road.

Thanks The Morris
All good here

TFTC enjoyed the history. Found with Crack n Lee Lee

Great location with some really interesting history. We enjoyed wandering among the ruins and seeing what was. The cache was harder to get to than it was to find. All good. Tftc.

Found

Great little spot and cache!
Thank you


Log is a little damp, but still usable

Found on a cold and slippery night with the kids

This was a quick find. Our timing wasn’t good as a muggle and his dog appeared as I was retrieving the container. Nice poppet head nearby. Thanks to The Morris for the cache.

In Bendigo getting geocar serviced and headed out to find a few caches. Wow what a great location. Didn't even know it was here. Geogirl had great fun exploring here. Cache found. Log is a bit damp but able to be signed. TFTC.

Camping at Newbridge for the long weekend, we decided we would nick across to Bendigo to check out the markets, then visit the Victoria Hill Historical Area. Unlike Mickey Mouse Hill, there were no other people up on this hill today. Certainly lots of old stuff here to admire. Cache found easily and in good condition. TFTC The Morris.

Tftc.

Tried a few different access points, didn’t help I was dragging along the dog. But we eventually got into the correct space

A funeral in Bendigo so a few caches. Grabbed the TB. TFTC

Hi there The Morris, we found your cache Beauty in Decay #70 Old Gold today.

A nice, quick, find while touring around the area close to where we are camped.

Coordinate Accuracy: We found this cache near where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log are in good shape.

Regards
Ian & Penny
(Found and logged using Cachly).

I guess this is technically our first for the day! Although I think we found it right on the brink of midnight. Decently hidden and cachebis in good condition!

Some Nye testing Eric’s and a great history lesson. TFTC

6 March 2022
2:25 pm
1573
Many thanks The Morris for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

A nice quick find as I frantically race to beat the clock and to get to the top of Everest.

Staying up at Castlemaine for the weekend and I mentioned to GemmaSistema that I would be staying up this way, so Gemma made a trip up to here and we met up in the morning and then spent a fantastic day around the outer suburbs of Bendigo.
Plenty of laughs, Bush tracks, a couple of Lab caches thrown in and of course lots of other caches found along the way, ending with a couple of pizzas for tea in the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens
A great day out was had.
Another cache that my co pilot and navigator has found previously so I was told in no uncertain times that she was staying in the air conditioned Geocruiser and this one is up to me again.
I did not realise how many poppet heads still exist around the Bendigo area.
Plus another great view.

Thanks The Morris TFTC.

Thanks for hiding!!! Quick park and find!

In Bendigo for Christmas with the relies and out today to check out some local sites and pick up some caches to fill another day on the caching calendar. In all the years we have been coming to Bendigo we did not know this area existed. Thanks to good coordinates we were able to make a quick easy find. TFTC, the history and bringing us to this spot.

TFTF

jazz & chloe 15/11/2021

Very fun find! Terrifyingly fun at night.

Great lil find, good mini trinkets too

Interesting gold mining relics. Thanks. We like geocaching in spots of interest.

Found today with the family thanks for the hide

Wow have loved in this area for 30 years and never knew this was up here…. Thanks for the history lesson

We decided to head out today to tick off some caches around town, GeoKid1 is on her L's and was driver of the GeoCar.

Having just been exploring close by we walked over and discovered this mining site we didn't know existed! Thank you for bringing us here

Love the mining history of the area

Found this under strict covid conditions on our 2hr exercise with LittleBoss2.
We used hand sanitizer on all occasions, to ensured no contamination could follow.
Our thanks for placing this to The Morris once again

Out for a short exercise session under covid conditions with Bogonghazy. We used hand sanitizer and followed covid rules. Great to finally get out and about. Thanks for placing the geocache.

Well done! Kids loved finding this one. Thank you.

Needs a new pen

Found with TeamRobbie. TFTC

Found it with emthegem tftc

Nice spot, i have never even noticed this structure here before, thanks for the new place to explore

A nice little view up here on a miserable morning, pen wasnt working so tried to scratch the initials in, thanks

Awesome thank you.

Reasonably nice quick and easy geocache, nice walk around GZ.

Probably worth noting that you do need to bring your own pen to this one as the pen supplied has unfortunately run out.

Found it, but pen doesn't work.

Cool case

A quick find when I searched rhe right tree! TFTC

Lots of of old mining history around here really enjoyed exploring this area.. TFTC

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
Find number 8420 on 27 April 2021
In town just for the day for work but really wanted to complete the nearby adventure lab and couldn't leave this cache without a smiley on it.
Cheers for the cache

Found by Rebel Acts

After a few days away in Mildura with Snap Happy, omegaman1971, Happy Feet, Happy Pants and The Empire, it was now time to head for home, I detoured Via Bendigo to do the labs in town and a hand full of caches along the way.

Thanks The Morris for the cache.

This was our first geocache find. The kids were very excited to find it.

After a morning of wandering around the Mary Quant exhibition Mrs frilk joined me in a spot of caching.

A quick find. TNLN. TFTC.

With Ghihash
His 350th cache

Tftc. Quick and easy find for my 350th.
Found with k9team

A nice hint and a nice easy hide. Another old gold mining location.

Decided to escape town for a few days to do some exploring and get off the couch after a lazy weekend. Packed the car and headed north!

Ventured here after spotting the poppet head from the park across the road. A quick find down the path.

Thanks The Morris for the cache.

Using the hint made it very easy to find

*Found whilst exploring Bendigo are whilst visiting family*

Apologies for the **LATE** log - *Sometimes life just gets in the way Between house renos, COVID and life in general I'm just catching up on some late logs*


Thanks for the cache The Morris. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

Cache on!
**#15529**

Nice quick easy find while out exploring bendigo

We met a local when we arrived and he gave us the history of the area and pointed out a couple of places of interest which we did explore, before getting down to the business of finding the cache. Lovely man.

No problems locating the cache.

Thanks for the interesting history lesson The Morris.

Nice little hide with swaps, thanks