Short Shilton Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
By Wollaston on 19-Feb-20. Waypoint GC8KK65

Checked today and unfortunately this one has disappeared. With no equivalent spare on hand, its time to say goodbye. It had a good run.

Was armed with a new log book and new exactly what we were looking for but sadly wasnt able to locate. Felt like a complete novice . TFTH

16:49I caught the first coach here to find a particular grave in the cemetery and reach a milestone... every other cache I find before the last coach back is a bonus.I saw this cache was disabled, so stopped to read and gauge the situation. Then figured I should check it out...Easily spotted. Cool.No drama opening it.Log dry. Nice.Plenty of room to stamp. Excellent.Thanks, Wollaston. I'd have thrown a stone paper sheet in if I had one on me.This was the 12th and final find of the day, as I needed to get back to the station.Over 17 klicks by the time I stumbled onto the coach, which is fuller than I expected. Geelong, here we come.I'll be back. By train, next time.#8011

CO currently interstate. Maintenance run planned when I return to the Bool mid December.

----------### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUESTED PLEASE** ###----------Hi there Wollaston,It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is some sort of issue. The recent logs may contain more details about what sort of issues are evident.The cache has been [**temporarily disabled**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=235), so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location, until the issues/s can be addressed.**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days,** so others know you are on top of it, as well as indicating exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication scuttle this listing.#What you need to do:-#You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-- **Check On The Cache** - once checked, place an Owner Maintenance log and then enable the cache.- **Place A Write Note Log** - indicating a date when you expect it will be restored. - **Adopt Out or Archive** - depending on whether you want it kept or for it to disappear.Full details for each of the above choices can be found at [**GEOCACHE MAINTENANCE**]( https://wiki.groundspeak.com/display/GEO/Victoria) on the Regional Policies page.You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned. It would be far better if you decide, so please do something before then. Please don't send an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.Thanks for your cooperation,Bunjil (Pete & Helen)Volunteer Reviewers - Australia[3B]

Found while waiting for lunch at a nearby cafe Thanks for the cache

Found! Writing implement had lack of ink so will pop past and resign log. Was perfect eye height Low muggle count today due to the public holiday

Apparently today is day 4 off our holiday from Brisbane. (I wrote day 4 in all of yesterday's logs). So....day 4 was The Flagstaff museum at Warnambool and then the drive back to Lorne. Not many caches today because we found most of them on the way west, but enough today to break up the drive. Quick find. Ripped off the tattered pieces of paper which were not readable. Now the log will hopefully fit properly in the container.

Nice quick easy one
Got it open lucky we had pilers with us.
TFTC

Needs a little maintenance and new log

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Found but can’t open

Found but can not open it

Maintenance Run today:
Co-Ords
Placement
Container
Log replaced

Finally found it! Think we walked past it and looked straight at it about 10 times! great hide!

Found the cache on our walk into town. TFTC!

Found it with Malihoe but we couldn't open the stash. Strong hands before us!

Found the camo but unable to open …

Tftc.

Here for the day by train and walked 12km, so glad I found a few. I wondered if the nearby bank has camera's, but no one arrested me.

Out on this rainy day as there is barely any muggles about
Tftc

Great Cache

Found this cache after going to Apple Isle Moot & Tassie on my trip home.

I’ve may have added one of my moot pathtags for the next person to find (physical locations that will fit a pathtag only)


Thanks Wollaston for the cache

James0116
Friday3 Feb 2023
2:03:22 pm AEDT
2835

Touring around the town of Warrnambool today in the wet and windy weather, not stopping us from grabbing some caches. Well hidden cache, fits in well. Signed log and left as found. All good here.

Find #5200 on 2 Feb 2023.
TFTC Wollaston!

It’s a magnet.️

10/10!

Found straight away after a miss on the previous cache search. TFTC

Easy found, thank you, greetings from Switzerland.

Nice one - love these camo’s

On holiday with friends, had a few free hours so went for a walk about town to see what I could find. This was a nice easy find as I have come across this style before.
A fairly constant stream of muggles passing through the area makes for an interesting time trying to not look suss.

Found at 1:02 PM in the company of Liz and Bruce, GAFF5
So much traffic along the main road to get here - what's going on!
Made it to the car park after making a bit of a circuit and then the cache was spotted fairly quickly.
Sounds like Shilton was more of a Vet than a chemist for humans!
Thanks Wollaston.

In Warrnambool and out caching with Pprass. Thanks for hiding and adding to our pleasure in exploring the area.

What a beautiful cache. Well done to the CO. Visiting the town as part of the GVBR. Best wishes from England

Gevonden tijdens een wandeling in het stadje.
Dank aan CO voor plaatsen en onderhoud van de cache
1950

Good little find

Found it

Found on a rainy afternoon on a walk exploring the town. Neat hide and first we’ve found like this so we are chuffed! TFTC.

Yass

Popped into town with Trailstevo to do Port Fairy Parkrun in the morning. Stayed at our usual, The Cally, and went for a wander to develop a walk and encourage an appetite ready for the evening Pizzas. 13km walked in all, got a bit wet, was a bit windy but we did It. Thanks to all the CO,s for the hides. Looking forward to coming back to do another sweep!

Lovely sunny day out in the ‘bool, took the chance to grab this one with friends, one very impressed with the camo. TFTC

Many thanks for the cache. A smart one.

Nice day for caching TFTC!!

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Well I was now supposed to be on my 6 week adventure up to Outback Queensland but with my knee failing me I just had to turn back around and head home.
So after 3 weeks of rest at home I was getting cabin fever so for the last week I just had to get out so Western Victoria beckoned so I could grab a few LGA’s and UBD Country VIC maps which would not involve a lot of walking.
So after attending the International Geocaching event in Lara yesterday I got up early this morning and off I went.
With all of the recent heavy rain everything is just soaked and you have to be careful not to leave the road or tracks.
Well after reaching Portland and surrounds today on my whirl wind tour to fill in a 3 LGA’s and 2 UBD maps it is time to head back east.
Well Warrnambool ticks of another LGA and map but not time to rest as I need to keep travelling East.
A great spot and very informative on the Cache.
I wonder what happened to Mr Shilton after he retired.

Thanks Wollaston TFTC.

A nice quick find before our coffee stop!

A cool idea in a quiet location. Found with MooFlagg. Easy find for the experienced eye. Tftc.

No luck

With my work done for the day I have the afternoon off.
Well, until I drive back to the big smoke.
Time to take a walk around town and grab a few caches.
My first stop was up on the hill with the cannons. What a view.
Next port of call down to the old Seawater Swimming Baths for the multi.
Now a little detour on the way back to the truck.
This is actually my target cache for the day. No trip to Warrnambool would be complete without finding a Wollaston cache.
What an interesting fellow Henry was. Quite an asset to the community.
The cache was a nice quick find since the street was deserted at this time.
Sadly the new log was so damp I destroyed it removing it from the cache.
Not to worry, I came prepared today with a strip of Stone Paper from my Tradies Notebook.
Signed and replaced. All in good order. Visited some travellers for mileage.
Thanks for the history lesson and the bold cache hide Wollaston.
Very much appreciated. Now it's time to head back to The Big Smoke.

Maintenance run today:
Container
New Log
Placement
It’s a great day for caching.

Find #5161. Found @ 19:38 with The Good Lady Wife.

With both The Good Lady Wife and I taking some vacation days, a short trip to Warrnambool was scheduled in. With a bit of caching and a few attempts at whale watching on the agenda, one of these activities was a more successful pursuit that the other.

After some Mexican food for dinner, I was feeling overly plump. So we did what was only sensible and went for a walk to find some nearby caches,

This was the first, and we'd unwittingly waled directly past this one yesterday. We were more focused on getting food supplies than caching at that point. A great hide with fantastic and well constructed camouflage, A favourite point from me.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache Wollaston

Very classic find

Love it

We knew exactly what we were looking for but this one is soooo well blended with the surrounds… and in a perfect location!
We are giving it a fav. Point.
TFTC

Edit
Sorry, got distracted looking at the local mural… Mr Riddell will add FP when we get home to the computer

Ms FV had an appointment in Warrnambool. Has been awhile since visiting. Went for a drive out Saleyards area, oh how it has changed. To prove being in the area looked for amd grabbed a smiley.

THFTC

A quick find. Right where I thought it would be.

In town from the Mornington peninsula, looking for caches. This was a cool micro, thanks!!

Robmc ventured to the SouthWest and we spent a couple of days collecting a few of the caches in Warrnambool.

An interesting bit of history in the CBD.
Thanks for contributing to the fun Wollaston

On my way down to Warrnambool for a bit of caching.
Collected a few on the way down and some in town when the shops closed.

Interesting history of the place and the man.
Searched for this one out of hours and on the deadly treadly - made it a lot easier.
Thanks, Robmc.

Cute hide. TFTC

Started looking in the wrong place then went wait. Turned around and there it was!

A quick stop and find in the city of Warrnambool on my way further west. Limited muggles this time around.

Easy find showing a friend what the game is about

Tftc

Found it, amazing hide

Found good find

Finally found it! I can not believe this took us several attempts, a bit embarrassing

Thanks for the cache

A short walk after dinner and his cache was in hand. Great camo, it blends in well. Thanks Wollaston.

Took a Minute very clever hide

Took a little searching. But found. Awesome hide!!!

Signed as js
TFTC

#39 13/01/2022 @5:30pm

Great find!

Found with TeamRobbie while holidaying in Warrnambool. TFTC

Found it with emthegem very camoed tftc

Found it after japanese lunch

Maintenance run today:
Container check
Log check / replaced
D/T rating still current

Incredibly rusty - thankful for the close by toilets to wash hands!! Nice easy find - TFTC

Great cache

Love caches like this. Nice easy find. Thanks for the cache

Love it.
Quickly and easily picked up between muggles.

Had a few days away in Warrnambool, catching up with family. Always good to grab the odd cache while visiting or out for a walk and enjoying some history.

A quick find at GZ.

Thanks Wollaston for placing the cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy the find.

Suscoe had a short stop in Warrnambool this afternoon to find a couple of caches.
This one was out of action on our last visit and so today we have officially found it.
Great to have a yellow smiling face here now.
Thanks to Wollaston for this hide.

Clever hide. No TOTT required today TFTC

Quick find. Tapping it on the wall gently helps.

Here for a mental health day and decide to grab some caches. This one peaked my interest and got here with a bit of a search I uncovered the clever cache and no one suspected a thing. Tftc

Quick grab while walking the streets. TFTC

This was a quick find once my GPS settled down. Signed the log and replaced. Thanks for a great sneaky hide. Fab camo.

Great hiding spot!! Tiny one!

Nav is a little off but still a great cache. Blends in really well, kinda hard to get the log out but that’s ok. Thanks

More fun with Beavar. A short street and a sweet cache. SL at 2.14pm #8087 TFTC Wollaston

Nice one. This sure is a short street! TFTC

Well parked the car within 15 m of this cache without knowing it was here !
Quick find after visiting the bank and pharmacy. Now on to Deep Springs for some bathing relaxation on holiday. Thanks Wallaston for the cache.

Very clever!

Came a'lookin for this one last night, but decided to wait till the torrential downpour passed. It is much nicer when it's not pouring rain, plus we discovered the birds painted on the wall. Very well painted. Nice one. Thanks.

08:50
We couldn't resist the opportunity of a close up look around some of Warrnambool's iconic architecture before heading to the Warrnambool Civic Green Event in town. The mural is awesome, we made another quick find @GZ.

Our thanks to Wollaston for placing interesting caches on the gameboard.
29456

Out with Bunadoorian on a very cold morning - this cache was well hidden and found with help of hint. TFTC and history lesson Wollaston.

Find number 9499 at 7:51:58 am on Saturday the 15 May 2021
Travelled down to Warrnambool for the weekend, primarily to do a CITO on Saturday morning but also to grab a few choice geocaches that I have been eyeing off for some time. Also the obligatory market required to keep MuggleWifeDoes happy
Up for an early morning walk around town before a couple of local events.
Grabbed this one cache and solved a couple of yet to find multi's.
**Thanks for placing this cache Wollaston**

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Very early on a bleak black autumn morning i ventured out to find a couple of caches prior to an event. This cache was nicely tucked away and with no trouble with muggles at this time of the morning it worked out to be an easy find, (with help from the hint). All was in good condition. TFTC.

Hard to write but fun to find

Nice easy find after enjoying some fish and chips at a nearby take away shop. The bird mural is pretty cool.

In Warrnambool to visit family. Visiting the retail sector on a bleak, cold and wet day. Noticed the cache was close so took some time to find. Clever hide and hint. TFTC

“Darl” she called me. I was just buying milk and the newspapers, and she called me Darl. Why would she do that? I’m not her darling anything. Is there really anyone who likes Darl? My head reeling with these and other questions, I walked here and made an instant find to give me some peace. Thanks Wollaston

Found it TFTC