Hole in One Horsham, Victoria, Australia
By
sdasmith on 26-Apr-19. Waypoint GC86WNP
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Logs
TFTC A little lateral thinking had this beastie in our hands. TNLN All good at gz.
Great little spot. It took a little longer than it should have. Get down low and go was the best hint.
Found by Mary and David at 13:55. Congratulations on your first hide. We love Horsham, which we have been to/through many times over the years. On our way to Adelaide for Leap Day. Took us a while, as we looked at the wrong area first. Thanks for taking us past that very special tree on the way in from Mardon Dr. Our thanks to sdasmith.
Out for a lovely ride now its a bit cooler collecting a couple of caches before we head back to Ballarat. Mr 8 found this with Mr 3.
The best thing about having an enthusiastic young person as your geo-partner for the day? They are more than willing to any bending, climbing and dirty work. A quick find. The lid is missing, but everything is dry. TFTC
Popped out this afternoon to grab a few caches around town and made this my first find while going for a walk along the river. Had a few muggles that had the same idea so once the area was clear l ducked off the path and had a look about. Luckily l spotted this some what familiar type of hide and soon had it logged. Never really noticed this old bridge before but have been out this way previously doing a cache or two before a few years back, (now long gone and archived). We actually lived up this way a few years ago and l picked up some work at the current golf club when it was completely burnt out during the black Saturday fires. Thanks sdasmith for the sneaky hide and for the bit of long gone history of this location.
Sorry for the late logging, but grab this one while in horsham for a few days. TFTC
Found It!
Thankfully there was no one else around here this evening so after a short search of the bridge I spotted the cache!
TFTC
Thankfully there was no one else around here this evening so after a short search of the bridge I spotted the cache!
TFTC
Geoturtle37 and I were both starting to have a little trouble with mosquitoes but the water was moving well here so no such problems. This one didn't take as long as the last which was a bonus. Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.
We found somewhere close to park and made our way to the bridge where the hide was soon spotted.
Thanks sdasmith for the placement.
Thanks sdasmith for the placement.
After our third visit to locate this cache we finally found it, great spot! TFTC
Find # 11212
With the weather looking (and being) a lot better than it was meant to be. And the fact it was better than a couple of days ago. I headed out, Ararat, Stawell and Horsham for some "out of the way" caches.
Thankfully all the roads were opened (well the ones I had planned to drive down) and only water on the sides, nothing flowing over them.
A big day, big driving loop, lots of walking and a few more smilies to keep the numbers ticking over..
A quick find but the hardest part was keeping an eye on all the muggles walking past.
TFTC sdasmith
With the weather looking (and being) a lot better than it was meant to be. And the fact it was better than a couple of days ago. I headed out, Ararat, Stawell and Horsham for some "out of the way" caches.
Thankfully all the roads were opened (well the ones I had planned to drive down) and only water on the sides, nothing flowing over them.
A big day, big driving loop, lots of walking and a few more smilies to keep the numbers ticking over..
A quick find but the hardest part was keeping an eye on all the muggles walking past.
TFTC sdasmith
Last day of holiday today . We had a big sleep in so peaceful by the lake. We got ourselves all organized and husband headed off back to Naracoorte with the Moho and I off on a roundabout journey all over the countryside back to Adelaide. A 5 hour journey turned into 10 .
Enjoyed the long trip and the extra finds. Noticed when I got home a new AL with locations in places I had just been so will have to head back to the silo trail.
Thanks to all the CO to adding to the game and for all the prompt maintenance.
Quick find here TFTC
Enjoyed the long trip and the extra finds. Noticed when I got home a new AL with locations in places I had just been so will have to head back to the silo trail.
Thanks to all the CO to adding to the game and for all the prompt maintenance.
Quick find here TFTC
Visiting Horsham, and managed to get in some caching today.
Tough find, the GPS had us 12m away.
Many thanks for placing this cache, sdasmith, for us and others to find.
Tough find, the GPS had us 12m away.
Many thanks for placing this cache, sdasmith, for us and others to find.
Stopped here after taking the wrong turn on our bikes back in the amin street.
Thanks for this one sdasmith
Thanks for this one sdasmith
In Horsham for work today so on the route back to Ballarat I stopped for a cache or two (or 5) to break up the drive. Easy find here. Lovely spot to live. Thanks for the cache
We started caching with our great friends Phetlern this afternoon.
It was a very warm afternoon and plenty of sunshine.
Thanks to sdasmith for this hide.
Very quiet here this afternoon.
It was a very warm afternoon and plenty of sunshine.
Thanks to sdasmith for this hide.
Very quiet here this afternoon.
After booking in to our accommodation and enjoying a well needed cup of coffee, we set out in the very good company of Suscoe to put a few more smiley tokens on our respective maps of Horsham. No trolls but some lovely water lillies.
Our thanks to 'sdasmith' for adding this cache to the geo-gameboard.
27697
*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*
Our thanks to 'sdasmith' for adding this cache to the geo-gameboard.
27697
*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*
A nice easy find while out on a bike ride. Unable to sign without my pen. Must’ve dropped it on the way. Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the find and bringing us to the old bridge. We had no idea it was here. TFTC
Another fun weekend assault on Victorian caches with Trigger_Fish where many caches were found, many miles were covered in the geomobile and some miles were walked.
An easy find, thanks sdasmith.
An easy find, thanks sdasmith.
We did not encounter any trolls here today, perhaps they are out doing their Christmas shopping. SL TFTC
Day 91 of our trip. Caching along the way. In Horsham today. A total of 1 for the day and 2571 for the trip. TFTC
As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.
Thanks to sdasmith for placing the cache for us to find.
Thanks to sdasmith for placing the cache for us to find.
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 was our final day of travels as we headed back from Victoria to Adelaide. Freddo, gridge98 and I had camped nearby in Horsham, and our plan was to find a variety of geocaches around the town that neither one of us had found before (despite the others' regular commutes through here). A few were found along the river, and a few drives in/out of the township, before a refreshing swim to *Pelican Paradise* Island for a geocache retrieval. It was then a drive back across the border, with a bakery lunch in Bordertown, and few geocache placements as we briefly stopped in a few small towns.
We elected to drive around and park nearby, to take a short walk to this bridge. After a few minutes, the cache was located. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks sdasmith for placing and maintaining this cache.
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 was our final day of travels as we headed back from Victoria to Adelaide. Freddo, gridge98 and I had camped nearby in Horsham, and our plan was to find a variety of geocaches around the town that neither one of us had found before (despite the others' regular commutes through here). A few were found along the river, and a few drives in/out of the township, before a refreshing swim to *Pelican Paradise* Island for a geocache retrieval. It was then a drive back across the border, with a bakery lunch in Bordertown, and few geocache placements as we briefly stopped in a few small towns.
We elected to drive around and park nearby, to take a short walk to this bridge. After a few minutes, the cache was located. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks sdasmith for placing and maintaining this cache.
Found in the last place we looked.
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.
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.
Today Freddo, Davidwazza and myself set off to find some caches around Horsham before making the long drove back to Adelaide.
A short walk to gz, we acted as trolls and the cache was soon found
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.
A short walk to gz, we acted as trolls and the cache was soon found
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.
