Propulsion Merbein, Victoria, Australia
By 4Moule on 23-Jan-20. Waypoint GC8JGXD

Found it! After leaving Broken Hill before first light this morning I started caching from Wentworth. Now zigzagging here and there around the Mildura area getting as many caches as I can.An excellent cache here, well designed! The cache and resident lizard went flying! TFTC!

Found on a fun day out and about - TFTC

Having a great few days around Coomealla and Mildura with Earthlight and Shandyk. We managed to finish the Paddle Steamer series and spent today doing some closer to our home away from home. Thanks for bringing us out here. Signed log as EGS. I loved this one. TFTC.

Found while in Mildura for the weekend. And staying sooooo close too, almost like Id planned it that way . That was fun! It took me a few attempts to get the right technique. Got there in the end. Another favourite point awarded. Many thanks TheMoules for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.Greetings from Tatura

Taking a few days off work so I can get away to Mildura for a long weekend. My first time in Mildura so lots of geocaches to tackle to keep me entertained. Perfect conditions to be outside and geocaching. Another unique cache here. I have dropped lots of favourite points on my weekend to Mildura, and here goes another one. A favourite point for the well crafted cache. Thank you 4Moule, for placing Propulsion for the geocaching community.# # #15813 # #

Tftc

Cool find love the idea

Wow I wasnt expecting that. And I wasnt expecting that giant spider guarding the cache! TFTC! FP.

Up in Mildura with LittleBoss2, Geo the puppy for a week of caching and golf. Today was a quieter day than yesterday where we managed to almost complete the Paddle Steamer series. Today we introduced a couple of Octogenarian friends to our game who completely outdid us in their ingenuity to solve various clever caches in this town with more than its share. This was thankfully a quick find with the accurate coords and a well placed container. Never seen anything like this before, adding to the faves

A good catch by bogonghazy. Out and about with Littleboss 2 as well

Found with Bogonghazy, sorceysal, geo dog whilst caching in Mildura. Quick find. Fun cache. Thanks TheMoules for placing the geocache fav from me

Enjoyed the findTFTC

TFTC, on the way to the smoke on the water event and grabbed a couple of caches along the way with Algae Algae had fun shooting this one. Few times a fav from me

Thanks, ltf

Heading to a local labcache we stopped here to find this cache. Having seen this type before we used our propulsion skills and soon had the container in hand.Thanks TheMoules for the fun placement.

A great fun cache to finish the day. Another favourite from us.Today we headed out of town to Wentworth and then worked our way back through Merbein and surrounds to Mildura.It was a clear sunny day, but wind kept the temperatures down and at time we were greatful to be in the car. Some lovely scenery was encountered from desert like scrub through farming land and the banks of the Murray.We managed Earthcaches, a Wherigo, multis and trads as well as puzzles. We also encountered a number of great cache containers.A busy but enjoyable day.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache TheMoules.**SKI Pair****

Suscoe was enjoying a day in and around Mildura and Merbein today.Another delightful day to be in this part of the state.Thanks to TheMoules for this cache.We had finally made it to Merbein again.A tody town with lots of history, interesting buildings and the environment.

This one was fun, fave TFTC!

Found with O319 on our day caching around the area

Quick find with SJG66 as we toured Mildura and surrounds. Thanks for the fun.

Wow what a great cache 4Moule, and such fun to find. Buddy the geodog helped us with this one. Found on May 6, 2024. # 9059

Found while having a look around the area today, staying in Mildura for the week. A real good one, good theme. Thanks for the ongoing maintenance this one is in mint condition. Cheers.Find #6923 on 17 Apr 2024.TFTC TheMoules!

In place ready to be found again.

We have placed this geocache back again after completing maintenance. A fresh logbook added. Happy Caching!

We will be popping this one back out tomorrow (Sunday 7th April)

Bringing this one in for maintenance. Hope to have it up and going by the 21st February.

Found cache on the ground. Needs CO attention. Great idea Favourite point for this one.Tftc 4Moule

Tftc. Was good fun

Found this cache at 5:33pm. Love this cache. I gave it a favourite for creativity and effort in designing this cache. Quick find. TFTC

With a huge portion of the Victorian caching community enjoying their pilgrimage north to Longreach, chook(nchunk) and I decided to plan our own little mini-adventure, targetting adlabs, solved puzzles, faves, TDOCs and anything else that piques our interest along the way. Day Two: Jerilderie, Swan Hill, Mildura, Merbein.As we were running out of daylight, we nearly took this off the list, but decided to give it a go. So glad we did, as CnC retrieved the cache in record time. Great cache! A fav point heading your way.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, TheMoules ~~

Day 2 of Chook and OzHockeyChick's "QOGM-consolation" roadtrip, targeting caches in three states over four days of fun, friendship, laughter and adventure.It was dark by the time we attempted this cache, and nearly didn't go there because of that. However parking nearby was easy, no one was around, cache was spotted quickly and to everyone's surprise, including Chook's, the cache was retrieved on first attempt. Bingo! Good fun! TFTC 4Moule.

That was fun and a quick easy find after a few DNF’s earlier

Very creative

Our journey to North Queensland will take us through many different towns. 
Fav from me
Here's one to find today. Thank you for placing the cache   TheMoules.

Found this with muggle husband after lunch with friends at the Coomealla Club while holidaying in Mildura. TFTC 4Moule. Another favourite of yours. A Favourite Point. TNLNSL

This cache makes Our 3rd state in Australia ... not too bad for a 3 week trip from the US.

Clever cache, signed log. Replaced as found.
Thanks!

Omg so if I am correct in this same cache … it has taken me YEARZZZ to find. Literally years haha good old GPS Technology upskilling to help me out hha

Another gem that this area keeps on giving us. Got a good Thanks 4Moule for this creative cache

Scared Mr 5 and Mr 7 loved it

Mrs TiedyeSmileys really launched herself into this one
TFTC and greetings from Tassie

Well done on a fun cache! Another regional gem. TFTC

Thank you! Container got a laugh from the kids ??

Another great cache. This time in the rain!

Having finished the Paddlesteamer (and many other great caches) it was time for some of our crew to start the trek back home. Caching today with a smaller crew - Joolay, KittyKatch, Albida33 and GLISS! Continue to by impressed by the vast open scenery and beautiful waterways. Thanks for all the hard work from COs make and maintain these caches. Thanks for a great weekend everyone. Thanks for the cache.

Mildura
I joined a group of Canberra cachers to tackle the caches around Mildura. Haha another fun cache.

Thanks for the hide TheMoules

Monday Mildura Adventures. Quickly found with Joolay, Nibletricecakes, Kittykatch and Albida33. TFTC.

That was cool. Of course it rained as we arrived.

Day 5 of our Mildura Madness run and the gang is all here ??. Really looking forward to looking around.

Thanks for getting me out and about TheMoules

Southern Autumn adventure Day 55. Mildura Paddle Steamer Trip Day 4. The final day with my Canberra friends in Mildura rolled around. Today the team was five of us, Nibletricecakes, Gliss!, Kitty Katch, Joolay and Albida33. We set ourselves to visit caches spread out around town and some short riverside walks. There was quite a bit of rain, so some of the riverside drives were not an option. It turned into another long day, but some of the multi's we managed to complete were very satisfying. There was also some time for some LAB caches as well.

Thanks for the cache TheMoules

43233.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & GPS Maze Whittlesea 2022 A#503

**Albida**

Cleaver find

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 and youban on our mini Mildura invasion! Nice find here! Thanks TheMoules!

Out with dty73 and Tankengine on a cache tour around Ballarat. Jumped across to grab this one. Kutgw

Initially, I thought the name had something to do with my GPS being propelled. From 40 meters away, it was being propelled in different directions, sending me in a tizzzy even before I reached GZ. Another good fun cache.

There's something about this type of cache.... MrG always beats me to it. Must be his inner Newton. This one works great! TFTC TheMoules.

TFTC! A fun one for the kids.

TYFTC!

Quickly found while doing the nearby Ad Lab

TFTC

Out for an early morning stroll today (since my bike was stolen from the caravan park I’m staying at) and picked up a number of caches . All quick finds. This was one of them. Love the contraption here. Have only seen one other like this, but this was made much better and should really stand the rest of time. Tftc and a fav point from me!

Had some spare time this arvo so we went for a walk to this cache that’s close to our house but we’ve not found yet!
Made a quick find and a surprisingly quick retrieval- it rendered lots of gasps and laughs from the geokids!

Thanks for a fun cache TheMoles!

Nice work. Wish we could get to the others in the area, it will have to be another time we are in the area.
Have a fav point.

Once you see it really jumps out at you

Neat hide and great field puzzle retrieval

TFTC SL

Found by Mary and David at 14:50. Made a wrong assumption about where this would be, but soon found it. Have seen one like this before, but never tire of the fun. Gets a FP. Our thanks to TheMoules.

Tftc. Nice one.

We now have high expectations for your caches because so many of them have been so inventive and this one didn't disappoint! Haven't seen one quite like this before and loved the concept, thanks for the cache and keep them coming!!!

Lucky enough to be in Merbein for a few hours today as school was getting out.
A great hide and build that gets a big thumbs up from us.
Fav added to the pile.

Full time nomads visiting Mildura to finally tackle the Paddle Steamer with iluvtrekking. Of course we have to stop in town and find some caches here before we go 'bush'. Great weather and a fun day out today, good company with lots of laughs and ooh ahhh at the clever caches we found. Plenty of fave point to give out today.


TFTC 4Moule

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

The coolest my son and I have found so far! So creative and unique!!

Found with Rohkad. Well worth a favourite for the construction! My 1500th find. Tftc 4Moule!

Day 4 of my 5 day Geocaching long weekend away. This would be Find Number 2 of 31 for the day.

I have had this type of cache in mind for years but never got it made but this one worked perfect. Great one.

TFTC TheMoules

Catching up on logs. Apologies for the very late log.
Travelling with SpidermonkeysMum and CPwanderer for the weekend. Our goal being the tri-state events and whatever caches we can also find along the way.
This was one of the caches that we found on our journey.

Day 2 found us checking out of our accommodation (after greeting some of our fellow geocachers who were also guests) and heading to the Morning After breakfast event. After a delicious and value for money breakfast we vacated our seats for the next round of attendees.

Our aim for the day was to complete the nearby Adventure Labs and whatever other caches caught our eye before heading home to SA.

Loved this hide! A definite favourite. Glad we stopped for this one.

TFTC TheMoules

TFTC

Wowee!! Have a favourite point for a super fabulous cache.

Big weekend on the road! Overnighted in mega town (Murray bridge) after chasing some large caches for a challenge I have been working on for many years. Also made it to 4000 cache finds

Picked up CPWanderer and gizmos gang bright and early to get to Berri fir Brekky, Wentworth for lunch and back to Mildura for dinner. Then another Brekky and a cito the following day. Well that’s the plan anyway.

We are picking up whatever caches we can on the way, over 300 to chose from the CP hasn’t found and probably the odd one he has (that doesn’t include the PS series) which will have to wait to return for.

Apologies for the generic log, but where possible I will return to add a comment.
Thank you for placing it for us to find. Thank you for contributing to the geo map and maintaining when required. TFTC

Found with Gizmos Gang and SpiderMonkeysMom on a great weekend away!!! Three states, 6 events ....... 69 finds ........ and one snake!!! This was the favourite cache for the weekend .... very clever!!

After a full day of celebrating international geocaching day, attending 4 events with the inbetweens finding a cache or two with Mattycat and Perfect DI, collecting info on some multis along the way, into the evening after dropping off our partners it was time for some evening torchlight finds, after working through the new lab cache in town we decided to check out a few of the local ones much easier at this time of night all muggle free, quick find for us tonight
TFTC TheMoules

Wandered off with Purrfect Di [:X] , and met up with the Froghoppin duo [^] [^] and a whole bunch of other crazy cachers around the place too. Saw some sights, cached three states, and ate a whole lot of pub and cafe meals! Found far fewer mint tins than usual - gold star to Vic and NSW for that one!!!

Happy Geocaching Day weekend!

A fun little cache like one back home - the log was soon expelled from its holder and signed. [:o)]

Much thanks to TheMoules for locating and maintaining this cache on our VIC geo-map


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Wandering the countryside - searching, spotting strange items and signing cache logs using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just a guyess or plain old dumb luck
Heaps of that luck stuff actually !!!

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Caution! Caching is a very hazardous activity!
Look out for sand, mud, snakes, surprise cliffs, roos, wombats, things falling from trees, bulldust, and floods, and try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall off your ladder...
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Keep a safe distance - cache the countryside


Truly fantastic of all those placing quality caches out and about around the country areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game fun, and interesting

Appreciate you reading all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, apparently! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and we can put an end to these long logs !!!





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A fun cache to stop for, on way to breaky event.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Big day today out with Jams crew attempting the tri state event challenge. Challenge accepted.
Early 5am start and pick up at 5.45am and then a big drive to Berri. One cache in Kingston and a loo stop before the first event in Berri. A welcome spot for a coffee by the river.
Onwards to Wentworth and our second state for the day and another lovely location by the river. Afternoon caching around Wentworth, sand dunes, Merbein for adventure labs. Great new series by the oxbow lake.
Then it was time for the fabulous 3rd state celebration event in Victoria. Followed by an adventure doing a night cache.
Finally to euston back in NSW for an event, a beer and 3 caches and to our accommodation at Gol Gol arriving at 10. Yes it was a big day out! Huge day lots of fun, lots of events, lots of caches and adventure labs. 20000 steps for the day, yahoo! Much thanks to all the COs and event holders.
Quick find whilst doing AL in Merbein TFTC another fun find! TFTC Moules

3 events in 3 states they said, well that grew... JAMMS ventured East and managed to attend several events, found numerous caches and adventure labs. Lots of hugs, food and laughs.
Thanks to TheMoules from mogni

I did enjoy this field puzzle. I am firing another fav point to you.
The JAMS crew ( all 5 of us this trip JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, Michells&hound plus Sir_Spectre ) where headed to the 3 Community Celebration events in 3 states in one day plus a side trip down Euston
( it's only 55 km from our B&B one way ) for another geocaching event then a brief sleep. Then another geocaching event before Michells&hound hosted a CITO event in NSW. Of course there was time for finding of finding caches over 60 in the first day. Thanking those co for placing them and extra, extra thanks for the co for placing the gadget/field puzzle/creative caches. I left some fav points to let you know to keep up the good work. The way home was longer than getting there since we stopped and solved/stamped some multi's and off set letter box hides. Another good weekend away for us.

A JAMS weekend away was organised so that we could attend the tri state celebration eventsa plus a couple of other events and a CITO over the two days. We had a very early start and arrived at the Berri event only a half an hour after it started. After a coffee and some catching up we headed east over to Wentworth for the next event and a few caches along the way. More catching up, an AL and a visit to the sandhills, then on to Merbein for a couple of new AL's and more caching between there and Mildura. On to the 5pm event with lots of snags and slices that went down very well. Then a night cache before heading to Euston for the last event of the day. Only had time for a drink there, then found 3 caches and finally headed to our accommodation in Gol Gol. Slept very well, then up and about making our way to the breakfast event and more catching up. Found a few gadget caches before the CITO, picked up some rubbish and then started our drive home. Still managed to get a few caches along the way.
All in all a great weekend with thanks to all the CO's and organisers of the events.

Another quick find while completing the Adventure Labs around Merbein.

Thanks for the cache TheMoules.

A clever contraption. Took a few goes. FP added.

I found this D1.5/T1.5 Traditional on 20/8/2022 at 21:31. It was find #15484 for me. Thanks TheMoules for placing and maintaining this for us to enjoy in the wonderful state of Victoria.

Love this one!
TFTC TheMoules. Found on 20 Aug 2022 at 9:31 pm. Find # 2548

Quick find with the jams crew. TFTC

In the area grabbing caches between events. TFTC

TFTC

Found while visiting the area.

Found while caching in the area.

Find Number 6477

Staying in town for a few day and collecting some caches while here.

Mrs Booo first saw one of these caches on a video about gadget caches and absolutely loved this one.

Thanks 4Moule for placing this cache

Great fun cache - a fave - TFTC

TFTC

Very clever tftc

I had to have a few practise shots here as my initial attempts at propulsion did not come up to speed. But the final shot had me internally cheering myself on for the perseverance and skill that finally showed itself. A fun cache indeed. TFTC

Found today whilst cacheing in the district great container log signed and returned…thank you

The last day in Mildura with BettyBoo3747.
We uncovered the deadly treadlies and road along the river picking up the occasional cache.
Some beautiful views along the bike track, and some good caches too.
The geo-doggies enjoyed their runs and traveling along in the bike trailer too.

We have driven past this cache a few time in going to the shops, today we were determined to stop in on the bikes.
Not where we expected to find the cache, and definitely not the style we expected.
An excellent idea for a cache all the same!
We had fun with this one.
Thanks for all of your caches we have done this trip, we enjoyed them immensely. We will be back.
Thanks, Robmc.

#18756. Our last day in Mildura on a glorious autumn day. Touring on our bicycles with the doggies in their trailer and enjoying a great ride along the trails near the river between Merbein and Apex Park in Mildura. So beautiful to be enjoying the river scenery and gathering some caches on the way.

After an unsuccessful visit to Merbein Lookout and then being interrupted by two young fellows wanting to try our electric bikes we came to search for this one. Rob was being half-hearted in his efforts until I told him what I thought should be done. So much fun. Didn't launch any spiders however. Another favourite point from me.

Thanks TheMoules

A great one, the spider went airborne too though!

Fantastic concept and I managed to launch the spider as well

Too good, UP there as one of our favourite finds tftc

Spending a few days in Mildura, joined by the rest of the Goldy clan for a family getaway.

We've been coming here since our first visit in 2008, it's a Goldy family favourite so I'm excited for the opportunity to find a few geocaches here and in some of the surrounding towns.

I'm also looking forward to experiencing some different hides in another state, as all my finds so far have been in South Australia.

I won't be able to get to all the caches due to having other plans with family, family always comes first.

So a high majority of caches on the "to be found" list are ones where I can learn local history and ones that are relatively quick and easy.

I've been primarily eyeing off the turtle series geoart and adventure labs.

Suffered from a bit of cache blindness for a minute before finally realising where the cache was hidden.

I will admit that I did have a bit of fun with this one... I tried it a few times for my amusement.

Dropping a favourite point for the hide.

Put my signature in the log book and returned the cache to its hiding spot.

Signed as "P.Goldy"

Thanks to TheMoules for this cache.

Find No.825
21/04/2022

TFTC. Another great hide found while exploring Mildura

# 14460 Found and logged at 10:04:00 AM
Spending the day today on the turtle trail plus a few others
Beautiful day to be outdoors
Thanks for the cache TheMoules
Lgoody