Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches Beaconsfield Upper, Victoria, Australia
By Pinkpiggy7 on 05-Sep-19. Waypoint GC8D7B8

#23131 @1125Day 3 of an 8 day trip: Drive from Canberra to Melbourne, then by air to Flinders Island, Launceston, King Island, and back to Melbourne, then drive back home to Canberra. Today, I was targeting counties, preferring to also find caches with certain attributes (e.g. size) to help with various personal goals. Cache soon found. TFTC.According to [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") I qualified for this challenge with 2387 regular sized caches found (1000 needed).

We found Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches on a nice quiet spring day, meandering through the suburbs, seeking the occasional cache.Earthbound Chief](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Earthbound%20Chief) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 1667 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) ) Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for hiding this cache so that we could come and enjoy ourselves

Spring Victorian Incursion 2024.Day Nine: Casey, Cardinia and Yarra Ranges. Weather: perfect for geocaching!Its surprising how quickly they add up. I got a few more today. Thanks for this challenge Pinkpiggy7.[Otter61](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Otter61) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 1526 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Challenge found and signed back in November 22..from along way to go to l finally qualify...stats attached Thanks for the challenge..[Tiz13](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Tiz13) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges//44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 1073 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Signed this one back on the Christmas Eve 2019According to my records, it looks like I only completed the challenge with 1005 of 1000 Regular caches as at 21st of September 2023.Thanks for the challenge Pink Piggy 7HunterPS.[999Hunter](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=999Hunter) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 1059 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Bounty Trackers fulfils challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8), according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872Sl thanks for the cache.

**15/02/2024, 12:27:00****Find #5678****Mystery Find #1086**I needed a challenge cache today to help me qualify for a particular challenge and this was the closest to home. I made a concerted effort this year to qualify for this cache and needed a trip down to Cape Schanck as well as a couple of other caches in Langwarrin to get me over the line. I've long exhausted all the other regular size caches that were closer to home.I found this cache in a logical place which was fortunate because I DNF'd the next challenge cache I tried for which was just up the road.31/01/2024 5:01:41 PM[biggles1024](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=biggles1024) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 1001 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )**Thank-you to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this geocache**

Log signed, however we still have a bit more work before qualifying.Thanks Pinkpiggy7.

Love a challenge that I qualify for.[haldane](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=haldane) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 1213 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )TFTC

Date: June 3, 2023 Time: 12:38 PM
Find #13857

After an icy and somewhat rainy parkrun in Pakenham, I headed out to see if I could complete the Kara-te series and a number of solved puzzles in the area.. It was a fail on that due to 1 Kara-te DNF, but I did have a good day out.

[ahomburg](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=ahomburg) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 2392 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )



Massive thanks go to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this one.

A few more to go before this can be claimed.

No trouble qualifying for this one.

[Rebel Acts](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Rebel%20Acts) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 3268 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks Pinkpiggy for the cache.

21:13
Going back through my signed Challenges...

When I ran the checker not long after this Challenge was published, I was only three quarters of the way there.

Celebrating n0w0rries' 6000th find by logging as many types as we could get, I signed the log, bit still had 140-odd to find.

And when I checked today... well, I've overshot the mark by pushing ten percent.

So it looks like I qualified in late September last year.

Thanks, Pinkpiggy7, for the incentive to scale up my searches.

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[nirgalagrin](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=nirgalagrin) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1092 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

#7472

This was a cache I had signed just over two years ago but was a long way away from qualifying for it.

A lot of caches have been found since then and I’ve now ticked over the hurdle and qualify for this cache.

[RoamingHowie](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=RoamingHowie) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1273 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Found the cache.. signed the log .. more work to be done to complete the challenge.. gotta have goals .. thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the challenge

mogni has used Project-GC Challenge Checker to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 2875 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )
Found with sir_spectre while on a Victorian cache hunting holiday.
Thanks

Stopped to get the challenge caches near the dam. Also to get more caches in this LGA. quick find.

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User has 2265 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Left with Mogni the day before Christmas to go down to Mount Gambier for Christmas Day. Then on the 27th left for Victoria. Plan A was to go to the Ottway Rangers, complete the Geo tour in Ballarat and then head to Geelong and take the Queenscliff ferry over to Sorrento then grabbing new LGA's on route to almost the New South Wales/Victoria border and the old 2001 cache near there. Also attending a community day event, a CITO and a couple of other events as well. Then head in to the high country and come back to SA in 11 days. Things didn't go to plan. Turns out that one of my almost new tyres was defective ( side wall blown out ) and blew in the ottway ranges on a narrow road in the rainforest, Drove to Melton to stay overnight and get a new tyre there, tyre machine broken and the other 5 tyre companies not open so off to geelong for a new tyre ( and some caches on the way and in geelong ) . The event we where going to attend in geelong didn't turn out, he was late by ALOT to his own event.Then to ballarat to same day since we had a b&b booked for the next few nights. Planned on getting the ferry at 1200 and ended up on the 400 pm ferry but we did attend a event and CITO in geelong. Then we drive into the rear end of a thunder storm with forecast 20 mm dropping for the next few days. Cancel the high country and change targets to letterbox D/T for fizzy grid only using letterboxes and same wirh the multi fizzy grid plus fizzy grid only using victorian caches plus any challenge caches we where near. Plus getting a few more victorian 2001 caches. And finally any caches that had 40 more more favourite points. Only got soaked to the bone for a couple of days but the water on the tracks was noticeable. On the return home tried to get the rest of the missing LGA's around the Melbourne CBD i missed in the last mega. Still a fun trip was had if not the planned one.

Signed but yet to qualify. 183/1000 I have a long way to go.

In Melbourne to attend the Mega at Whittlesea with tmann421.
Enjoyed the short trip around locating a few caches before heading to the event
Log signed tm/ww NZ
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts with the hides



woolwood9 fulfills challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8) according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872

Arrived in Melbourne to attend the MEGA Event at Whittlesea with woolwood9.
We came over a few days before to do some geocaching in the area first!

ww9 and I had a great time and this was a Challenge cache we located.

SL tm/ww NZ
*Thank you for helping to show us around different areas and adding to our enjoyment*

tmann421 fulfills challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8)

I didn't think that I would ever qualify for this but realised that I do at last with 1014 regular finds. Thanks for the challenge and the cache.
Geoturtle37 fulfills challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8) according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872

Had a laugh here. Thanks for this one Pinkpiggy7 and sorry for late log.

A fun day caching with a variety of hides in great settings had us signing 3 challenge caches that we qualify for. Our aim is always to meet new challenges, giving us something to work towards as our own personal goals.
[The_Tritonz](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=The_Tritonz) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 3115 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks very much Pinkpiggy7 for the Regular size cache challenge.

Late log sorry...cleaning up drafts now have more but this passes the test! Ronice88](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Ronice88) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1259 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks for the cache.

Find number 9637 at 11:19:00 am on Wednesday the 28 July 2021
FREE AGAIN, well, sort of
Decided to go out to chase a couple of challenge caches this morning and tucked in just behind a rain band so I managed to stay nice and dry.
Just as I was making the crab a police car drove by, dang, I was hoping they would pull over and question me, never been sprung by the cops before
**Thanks for placing this cache Pinkpiggy7**

[BernieH](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=BernieH) has used the Project-GC Challenge Checker to see if he qualifies for this challenge and he does.

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Having signed the log I wasn't so sure if we qualified considering regular sized caches aren't so common when we need to find somewhere for a trackable. On checking today I was pleased to see that we have qualified, not with a great margin, but qualified all the same. Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the challenge.

de ja vu fulfills challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8) according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872

16:56
A hundred and forty-odd regular caches still to find, but my stamp is on the log.

Thanks for another incentive to look for larger prizes, Pinkpiggy7

Found with nirgalagrin after my Community Celebration Event celebrating 6,000 finds.
A challenge that I have qualified for some time ago.
Good to catch up with you today mate.
Thanks for the cache and for joining us in our celebration.

Great weather and a free Sunday so decided to go caching with some geo friends out East.

Lots more caches to find for this one. Not even half way yet!

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.

At the start of last year I signed this cache and supposedly still had 61 regular cache finds to go. Just looking through my stats and I realize that I now qualify for the challenge, having found over 100 regular sized caches in the last 12 months.

TFTC!

25 January 2021 9:46 am

Out today caching with Brainiac03 with the intention of clearing out cardinia reservoir and some nearby multis through the day.
This was one of the challenge caches that I sadly do not qualify for at the moment but hopefully will change that soon.

Today, buhfuhguh and I were out on another caching run, this time in the Upper Beaconsfield/Emerald region with a focus on passing by Cardinia Reservoir before the weather started to heat up and our battle plan was forced to change.
A very hot day for geocaching but still a lot of fun (and nothing that the Astra's air con couldn't handle) filled with plenty of fantastic finds along the way!

Well, I don't quite qualify for this one just yet.
Add it to the slowly growing pile of "don't quite qualify for these ones" and wait to gather another 784 regular sized caches!
All was well with the hide and it was tracked down quickly.
Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this cache!

We found his cache today on our Late Afternoon South of Cardinia Reservoir Romp. Made it by a margin of 1330 -

[Rabbitto](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Rabbitto) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 2330 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks from D & HA B-A

CAche checked all good to go

With the Covid-19, 4 reasons to leave home restrictions lifted and now being able to travel in a 25k radius it is time for a bit of caching. We had not started on the modern wonders of the world souvenir so we were selectively caching today whilst we were collecting some labs. We were heading to Emerald Lake and saw this one pop up on screen. The cache was found where we thought that it would be and we added our name to the log.

[Team Crackers](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Team%20Crackers) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 4910 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache.

Disabling due to the current situation

It was time today to go looking for a few challenge caches with ilookgeo as we really enjoy these. No problem in qualifying fir this one as we currently have found 3123 regular size caches. Thanks go to Pinkpiggy for issuing this challenge and for placing this cache.

Did a selection of caches today with goingplaces2 and had a good day by finding different kinds in the mix. Logs were signed and each one was different. Thanks for hiding this cache.

[ilook4geo](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=ilook4geo) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1235 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

And here I was thinking that I was so clever.

I have driven past this spot so many times and often thought it looked like a great place to put a cache. Today, I had just received a text from a customer and so had to pull over here and reply to it. After doing that I wondered over to the spot and peered inside, not surprised to see a geocache inside. I figured it was probably the final for a puzzle cache that I hadn't solved, so I signed the log took a photo and replaced it before moving on.

Finally at home I decided to have a quick look to see which cache I had found and low and behold its a challenge cache that must have got published when I wasn't looking and on top of that I don't qualify for, so end up not being so clever and I guess it might pay for me to check my local maps more often.

TFTC, only 61 more regulars to find....

Signed but still a long way away from qualifying
Hunter

A little further down the road we picked up this one. Another challenge put to bed.
Thanks for giving us targets to aim for.

Crustyvarmint fulfills challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8) according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872

*Found on the8 Nov 2019 @ 6:18 pm.*
*Cache find # 10064.*

While on my way to the Giff event I stopped off at this one for a look.
After a bit Mid a detour I was soon at GZ for this one, I didn’t even both with the GPS for this , just got out of the car and grabbed the cache

**Thanks to Pinkpiggy7 for placing this cache.**

[SteMicMitSar](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=SteMicMitSar) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1775 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
In the area for the 2019 GIFF event and had sometime before for just a few caches.
found just as the rain started.
Cheers for the cache.
User has 1132 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

We do so love a Challenge cache and so this one was on our target list of caches to search for today. The cache was quickly located once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. We also qualify for this Found It log as per the proof attached, having found 1,778 Regular sized caches. Thanks so much for the cache and a favourite point awarded for the challenge. Greetings from Zimbabwe

Maybe one day but not yet. Thanks.

1:54 pm #8049

[OzHockeyChick](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=OzHockeyChick) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if she qualified for this challenge and she did.

User has 1375 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Cheers Pinkpiggy7

Happy to say I qualify for this one. Thanks for the challenge.
[Papi4506](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Papi4506) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 2291 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

A quick find early this morning. Don't qualify yet (not surprisingly). In good condition.

I started going out of my way to collect regular size caches a couple of years ago for another challenge in the You Yangs which I still haven't gone and found yet.
When this was published I knew I had qualified and new a few people around here would probably go out and get it straight away. I checked a couple of days later and FTF was still available so I thought I would get it the next day but once someone jumped in before me I left it until today. Glad I could park right nearby, not used to this warm weather again yet.

My qualifying details below:
[spiffy-](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=spiffy-) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1168 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the cache, the adventure, the challenge, the hunt and the fun.

As usual it seems when I am caching out in these parts it’s an early start and as many caches as I can find before I need to head off to other more mundane tasks. After a few finds already in the area I saw this pop up as my next closest. I actually hadn’t realised it was such a recent placement until I opened the logbook. Having checked that I qualified I parked nearby and made a quick find in a likely spot here. My fifth find of twelve on a pleasant morning to be out this way. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the challenge cache Pinkpiggy7. Great to see your cache hides keep on coming. Annoying Tarbit has used Project-GC to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did. User has 1138 finds (1000 needed). Filters: (sizes (Regular)).

A friend reminded me that she needed to check to see if she qualified for any challenge caches now. It reminded me to jump onto project GC and check if I did too. Turns out I qualify for this one! I went to look at the cache and notice it was yet to be found. MontsII insisted on a *FTF* run. Thanks for placing the cache Pinkpiggy7, a favourite point for the challenge. My qualifying information is: [beckNmonts](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=beckNmonts) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

User has 1566 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

Project -GC confirmed that we meet the requirements for this challenge:

2y'stassies fulfils challenge Challenge Find 1000 Regular size caches (GC8D7B8), according to https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D7B8/44872
User has 3576 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )

The next stage is to get to the area to look for the cache.

Thanks Pinkpiggy7 for the challenge.

Published

Thank you a Challenge I actually qualify for. Putting this here so I don't have to look it up again. User has 2431 finds (1000 needed).Filters:( sizes (Regular) )