AI5 The Black Box Carapooee, Victoria, Australia
By The Morris on 11-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8BNY5

Another nice cache in good condition and a quick find. I really enjoyed this clever series. My phone coverage got pretty patchy here so i waited till i got to camp to log this one. Im sorry for the generic log, i have had a terrific day finding more than thirty caches with no DNFs. Often i cache midweek and it is a little unusual for me to cache for a whole weekend so I decided to head off this weekend for two days of caching fun. As it turned out i was able to get away latish on Friday afternoon so it will be more like two and a half days, yippee! I have been itching to get back over to St Arnaud and to do more of the fantastic series laid out around town and in the surrounding areas. Friday saw me pick up a couple of newish caches near Kooyoora, (Melville Caves), then get started on some cache series to the north east of town. I have now set up camp and am enjoying a rest and logging my finds from today before an early bed time. AI5 The Black Box is find number 3,844 for me. A fun small sized traditional cache I enjoyed finding as one of my caching adventures in Northern Grampians Shire. I am logging this one on Friday 6 Sept 2024 at 9:17 pm and the weather is Light Rain 11C 85% 5 m/s . Thanks for placing this cache for the rest of us to enjoy The Morris.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

TFTC - left a sticker

Day 8 of my interstate trip. Today I left Donald heading south towards Ballarat but only made it as far as Maryborogh where I set camp up for the night. I managed to find 54 caches today and 2 DNF's today.A welll constructed cache and a great piece of Australian history.TFTC The Morris

Thanks

Leaving St Arnaud and heading towards Bendigo. Getting a few caches along the way.

Out today in the PeuGEOt to do a couple of circuits of Geocaches in St Arnaud and district.Log in plastic bag was drenched. The cache itself is bone dry. Puzzling. Put in a new log, wrote Geocache details on front and put it in a zip lock bag. Left old log in case CO wants it to check off.Quick find.TFTC

Found on new years day introducing a new cacher. Cache was soaked and full of water. We replaced the plastic bag but didn't have a spare logbook. Thanks The Morris

Out for a day trip and ended up here after following some the less travelled dirt back roads. Had grabbed a couple in the series earlier in the year, so today it was back to finish it off and find the last 8. No issue with any finds and all caches were found in the good condition.Thanks The Morris....all a bit of fun.

TFTC! 30 September 2023 5:35:56 pm 6124Another great cache! Really loving the theme out here. A quick find!

Thank you for the cache

About and about with family, we had a minutes to kill, so looked up what was around and we're pleasantly surprised to find some great little caches.

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.
Thanks to all the cache owners for placing them.

A weekend away brings us to st Arnaud, initially to see the murals of the town but of course can always cache as well. Cold night but the sun has graced us hope fully for the whole day as we travel around seeing what we can discover.
TFTC

Nice one! Reminded us of a cache we found in the UK once that used an actual black box! TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Log book a bit damp.

Nice job on the artwork here.
The black box container always survives a crash intact. Begs the question why don’t they make the whole plane out of it?

Found it, Needs some TLC the book and container has been hit by flood water and log book has been hit too.

What a invention - an Aussie too. Cache was found, but it was very wet. Dried it out as best we could. The recent rain was great for the local farmers. Thank you The Morris.

Confused until the orange hit home.
Quick and tidy find tftc

Starting the slow journey home after the Wangaratta Mega grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

Cache full of water, emptied out and replaced small log in a bag , left old log on top to dry out if u want it. TFTC

TFTC

One of our best inventions, the black box was invented by an Aussie. Thanks for this one!

K9team[:X] and Ghihash were going to St Arnaud and I got to tag along too[^]
A 4 day trip during which I found 94 geocaches, had 1 DNF which was later remedied with the CO's approval[^] and I only had to 'write note' on 1 of the 50 challenge caches that were found
We camped in the caravan park[^] the first two nights and then Rex and I camped up the top of a hill the 3rd night[|)][^][|)] after our friends had left for home Although that was fun trying to direct the RACV to the Corolla the following morning, when the less than a year old RAA supplied battery wouldn't start the Corolla!
There was rain, there was cold, there was lots of laughs and the best weekend I've had away for a long time![:X][^][:X]

Rex and I started our morning with a jump start from the RACV[^][:X]
Then it was a very quick 'turn off the motor and fill up with fuel at the servo'[xx(] before the day's caching commenced[^][^]
From that point on, the poor Corolla[:X][xx(][:X] did not get turned off again until we reached Shepparton[^][^]
We found 64 caches, between the clever AI series and the challenge series[^] and there was only 1 challenge that I did not qualify for
First cache found at 11.28am and the last cache found at 5.10pm[^] and all on a drizzly grey day where everything was soaking wet that was perfect caching weather

TNLN. SL. TFTC The Morris

The Australian invention series had been on Ghihashs to-do list last trip to St Arnauds and since he was designated driver for this weekend of caching we grabbed them and the few around them on our way home,
TTFC

Found on our way home after a weekend camping and cacheing in and around St.arnaud.
Tftc
Found with K9team

On our way to Horsham for a week.
Spent a few hours in St Arnaud doing some Lab caches,
then headed out to complete this series.
Cache found quickly and in good condition.
Many thanks for placing this cache, The Morris, for us and others to find.

I hope i dont ever need one

Find 2577
A quick park and grab.

Staying with Family in Bendigo, we decided on a road trip with GeoMum and the GeoSister's to St Arnaud for a BBQ lunch and to check out what appeared to be a fun set of caches. We were not disappointed by all the different well constructed caches. TF another remarkable cache and some history.

Thought we would do this fun little series before we left the area. It was fun guessing what shape the containers would be each time! Mind you, the wind was fit to blow a dog off its chain and a cold southerly as well! SL at 9.51am Hope that black box was picking up happy signals from us as we work our way through this creative series. #7254 TFTC The Morris

If I don't get on the road soon, I won't be home in time for dinner. OK maybe one more....

27/09/2020 - Kate, Adam, Tay & AB

Hi there The Morris.

We found your cache **"AI5 The Black Box"** today. (This makes our find count 24320).

We headed to St Armata to escape all of the shenanigans happening in metro Melbourne. Today we walked out to our dark grey geo-mobile and found it had turned to white overnight. Despite the ffreezing weather we had a successful day & found 24 caches & DNF'd 1 .

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

Nice, easy and quick. TFTC

#4074 We were back in the St. A area for the long weekend for a combination of relaxation and caching. This series was our focus for the afternoon today. Really impressed with the cache theme and constructions. We even added to our knowledge of good ol' Aussie inventions along the way as we enjoyed reading the write ups inbetween finds.

Amazing to think, a country of our mere population came up with so many inventions including incredibly important ones such as this! TFTC The Morris.

Quick find whilst touring the beautiful St Arnaud area with Team Waldron
Cool spot, great cache
So much work gone into these hides, very impressive
TFTC

A 3 day trip with The White Dofg Gang to St Arnaud.

Thanks to all those who placed caches for us to find.

This series was great fun with lot's of effort spent in creating the caches.


TFTC

This was an enjoyable little series before my drive to Melbourne. Thanks.

This is our final morning in St. Arnaud before heading separate ways home. I love these caches - the clever idea of the series and the creativity of each cache. TFTC TNLN SL as Capital Crunchers with Joolay and Kittykatch.

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

Found today with the Capital Crunchers while attending the St Arnaud Mega

TFTC The Morris

Thanks for this series ! Really great !

Thoroughly enjoyed doing this series and reading the information about each one. Lots to learn. Interesting name! TFTC

SnappyTomCats and I had a full but relaxing day grabbing some caches at the conclusion of the St Arnaud Mega event...
Loved this series...nicely crafted and interesting...
I am pretty sure the Dr David Warren who invented the Black Box is not the David Warren, we in the caching world, know as Davidwazza...I wonder if the inventor was called Davidwazza
TFTC The Morris

Last morning here in St Arnaud so grabbing a few more caches before the drive home. Loved loved loved this series - each and everyone was crafted so well - such fun to do plus the information on each was very interesting. TFTC

After an exhausting weekend at the Mega we had a day off today before taking the shop back to Geostuff HQ in the lovely Barossa tomorrow! We ventured out to do some caching with hevwalker. Wow, loved the effort that have gone into this series of caches. worthy of a fav point! TFTC

Our last day in St Arnaud. We were greeted by another well made geocache at gz! Thanks The Morris for this fun geocaching experience!

Day 5 staying in St Arnaud area B and B

Found with mogni. Went out and about finding some cachers before meeting up with aussie M and M. quick find. We did find all the caches in this series.
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.

Last full day in St Arnaud and we ventured out east of the town to search along more country roads! Many thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining the caches we visited. We signed as Team JARC - joojoo57, Aussie Liahona, Richmond Lad and Crew 153. A FP given.

Out and about with sir_spectre clearing out some caches near our accomodation for the weekend.
Thanks to The Morris from mogni

Day 7 of our epic trek to the St Arnaud Mega via Geelong. As you do.
The constant was my travel companion for the entire trip, - Anymules. but we were joined by almost local cacher Bushfire for a lot of the escapades

Today it was another day of caching our way back over to St. Arnaud to Farewell Event. Once again we were making detours to find caches along the way. In fact we only just made it in time for the event. These got in the way!

This was a wonderful series and all were found easily. `Which reminds me of a joke but I better not go there.

**Thanks The Morris for this cache. **

Such an important item for airline safety so they can discover what might have been a problem. Love the reference to Australian Inventions in this series. We have been a clever lot haven't we!! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi!!! I recorded some of the shows that depicted, and told the story, of a number of Australian Inventions and some of these have been on those programs. Thanks for highlighting Aussie's cleverness! Found the cache and log signed Team JARC for JooJoo57, Aussie Liahona, RichmondLad and Crew153.
Cheers and happy caching!

Visiting St Arnaud for the Mega Event and staying in Avoca for a week. Many caches were found especially in the St Arnaud and district. Thank you to all the CO's who have placed these caches, as it was a most enjoyable week looking for them. Cache found and log signed. TFTC

Found during the St Arnaud MEGA event.
Great weather and an even better time geocaching.
Thanks for the hide here it was much appreciated.
This series was really well done and crafted!

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14 during the St Arnaud MEGA event.
It was a wonderful weekend full of fun and friendship.
Thanks for the cache hide here.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie during the St Arnaud MEGA event.
It was such a fun weekend out around the area.
Thanks for hiding the geocache for us to find.

19,451. Found with minniek during our epic visit to the St. Arnaud region for the 2019 Victorian Mega Event.

Day 2 - We headed out after breakfast for what we knew would be a great days caching. This mini series was fantastic to do - so much effort in the containers. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks The Morris !!

Gotta love the work gone into all of these! Speechless!
Come see them for yourselves!!
TNLNSL
Thanks

Fitzy_1965 and I started our long journey to St Arnaud super early this morning. Tagging along were two of my geokids, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

Day 2 - Up early for breakfast, registration and a fast paced pathtag swap before heading out to pick up lots of smileys.

I really loved this little series. Fav points for them all.

Out for a day of caching on Mega day with Aussie Liahona, Richmond Lad and joojoo57. We signed the log as "Team JARC"

There is a geocache near home which is dedicated to David Warren.

TFTC The Morris

After lunch in the Queen Mary Gardens with some South Australian cachers we headed out for this series. We met a couple of other cachers quite early on but the rest of the series was all quiet. An interesting series of cache containers highlighting some inventions I had not been aware of their Australian heritage. Most of the finds were quick and straightforward - but a rewarding set to complete. TFTC

After lunch I headed out with that wonderful caching legend Bushfire to find a few caches before returning to attend the GIFF event Looking forward to a fun afternoon But they aren’t black at all TFTC The Morris

Collecting some caches today on the way home from the mega event. Thanks for the cache.

Found on mega weekend tftc

Fll

But it’s not black

Thanks for the cache The Morris.
Found on 17/11/19 at 17/11/19.
Find #10024.

St Arnaud mega event 2019 and grabbing caches in the area. Last day at the mega. A couple more caches before going home.

Thanks for the cache The Morris.

We were looking forward to this series as we had heard good reports and we were not disappointed. Accurate coordinates and an obvious hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks The Morris for this cache and the series.

Great weekend at st Arnaud Mega heaps of interesting Caches with lots of thought gone in .Thanks to the organisers huge effort .Our first experience at Geo Caching we certainly will include in our ventures as we travel . A great way to travel ,learn about the environment ,history of locations and meet lots of friendly folks .TFTC deb and steve

Jumping the ditch from NZ to attend my first ever Mega in St Arnaud. Thanks to the committee and all involved. Also thanks to the COs for their contribution of a fantastic array of caches!
Lovely to spend time with a heap of happy catchers doing what they love, the enthusiasm was contagious

Caching with Zedaycee and Angelique Anja. We are on our way home from the the
St Arnaud mega

Thanks for the cache. The Morris

2019 St. Arnaud Event caching trip! Thanks for the cache!

Some last caches before heading home from the mega!

Staying in Maryborough with family and travelling to the MEGA each day. Taking a different route each day. Finished off the Labs and then aimed to complete our solved puzzles and near-by caches.
Good circuit with relatively easy to find caches and some very clear Geo-trails.
TFTC

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 5568 finds
It was time to assemble the crew again for another Mega assault.( the crew is logging under the team name of "The Mob"
Once again Geocaching Victoria has absolutely put together another enjoyable Mega event, and what a great place to have it.
I have never had the opportunity to cache in St Arnaud before but after this weekend I will definitely be back.
Cheers for the cache and adding to the great weekend of caching fun.

#StArnaudsTrip. Having a fabulous time. Lots of great caching to be done here. 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.

WOW! What an amazing MEGA location with a lot of friendly faces and a huge variety of quality cache types set around a fantastic location with perfect weather.
Thank you to everyone involved that made the Mega such a great Event.
I teamed up with Simsfamily and Neville Devil to spend two days caching around St Arnaud.
Most of our logs were signed Aus, Sim, Nev or variants to speed up the process.
Log signed and replace as found.

Thanks for the Cache The Morris
?? #5,382

Found on the third day of my St. Arnaud Mega event adventure.

This was a fun and easy series which I enjoyed collecting on the countryside loop.

Thanks for the hide, The Morris

*Found whist in town for the BIG one Mega - St Arnaud *

Once again the **Caching Crew** was assembled (Happy Pants, Happy Feet, 'Happy & gay' omegaman1971 and the "The not-so-happy Empire"
Out and about on a weekend cache chase, hitting as many caches as possible. A fantastic weekend was had with many laughs had and great memories made. What a great destination for so many wonderful caches
Signed as *"The Mob"*.

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

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

Cache on!
**#15048**

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, we continued with the well-constructed caches, starting off at the original series, *Fire Break Track* FBT, followed by the *Loop Track* LT series, visiting a few geocaches in between. We then called into Mega HQ to register our attendance, and then progressed through the Challenge series. We finished off the day with the CITO event and a few miscellaneous and puzzle caches around the area, and then had a well-deserved BBQ dinner at the event. We also completed a few night caches towards the west of St Arnaud, which turned out to be great and easily followed.

This cache was found during a side route to our adventures. 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).

I ended up with a bit of extra time before the nearby CITO, so I went off and found a few more caches. TFTC!

Found with my sister while in St arnaud for the mega.

After completing all the challenge caches this morning we had some time to kill before the CITO this afternoon so we thought we would head to this side of town and cache until the time was right. At most caches we ran into people we already knew or met new one. That is the great thing about the trails during a MEGA getting to met people in the wild .
Looks like a lot of work has gone into the containers on this series
Thank you for the hard work

I'm travelling for the next 4 months and I'm going to visit in Singapore, Australia, New-Zealand, Japan and England. My plan is to see as much as possible for each places and also get new experiences. I try to do some caching on the way too, so greetings from Finland!
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!

We were out and about during the St Arnaud Mega Event and had the fun of finding this cache, thanks for placing it here for us to find. TFTC Fav Pt

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 The Morris!

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.

One of the many we found while attending the Mega with my family. Thanks to the cache owners and the organisers of the well organised event. Orange ribbons and flags everywhere made it a very colourful area. The roads we travelled and caches we found were well maintained and I am already planning another trip to come back for the rest.

Found these wonders while visiting the St Arnaud mega with Misthills. TFTC

Looking at the Geocaching Victoria St Arnaud Mega event, The Rats and I decided on a roadtrip for a few days to get down and back and also find plenty of other caches along the way. Some long days but plenty of kms and finds and a great trip all round.

TFTC!

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy, Happy Feet, Happy Pants, omegaman1971
Saturday at the St Arnaud Mega Event! Logged as a part of 'The Mob!' or 'Team Happies!' Heading out to the CITO, there were people everywhere as we found these caches - sometimes we didn't have to find the cache or even put the log back, just hand it to the next cacher wandering along. Thanks for the cache Tyred n Cranky!
- M

I had heard this trail was really good, especially one of them that seems to get talked about all the time. The caches were all quick finds

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.

Repetitive Generic Bit: Thank you to all the CO’s and organisers and sponsors of the MEGA Event 2019! We managed to find so many quality caches over the weekend, and our numbers jumped extraordinarily high. We felt warmly welcomed in St. Arnaud; from small businesses, to the farmers along the roads, to townsfolk and of course our fellow caching visitors (the bull ants wanted to come home with us though). We also feel we really explored the peaceful town and surrounds thoroughly.
Now we have several hundred logs to fill out, and it will be very satisfying to see all those smileys appear on the map. We also have quite a few left undone- and we will return here again for sure.

The Repetitive Bit Pertaining to this series: We couldn’t resist finding this series, as there were rave reviews from other finders during the Mega! Such well made caches, that are built to last.
Thank you so much for all the hard work gone into the placement- we found them all to be well maintained, and fun to find!

We liked this one the best, so a favourite point has been given! Although it was hard to choose between them all.

Certainly a very great invention this one, thanks for the info and the cache.

#16693. The first day of the long-awaited Mega. We attended a few events and spent a considerable amount of time doing Lab Caches, pathtag trading and other caches out and about.

Another quick find - admired the BB and continued on to the next one.

Thanks The Morris

St Arnaud Day 3
We are camped in the overflow section near the club while attending the Mega Event.
This afternoon we headed to a different region of town, a variety of terrains & cache types found.
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 hours pondering over, we had solve before leaving home.
Thankyou for placing this cache The Morris

St Arnaud Mega event,  thankyou  for the cache, enjoying the challenge.

But...but...but...Houston we have a problem. It says black. This series is educational too!