Saint James Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
By Wollaston on 06-Mar-20. Waypoint GC8MDQV

Left a few swaps for the next people

With an hour to kill in town, I collected as many caches as possible. A quick stop in the parking lot near the bridge, and I soon had this one in hand. The grass is quite long here, so I needed to be careful not to get wet feet. Thanks for the hide!

Filling in some gaps in the stats which brings me to this area today

Tftc lovely park

TFTC - left a sticker

Third find this morning. Cache had a little water in it but log ok. Left a pathtag. TFTC

TFTC.

Tank you for the cache was slightly wet on the inside of container but log was dry, nearly fell over in the mud trying to get this one

TFTC!

Quick easy find just came from Wollaston bridge Thanks

Safe, dry, and cammed-up.To the bridge!!!

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on a SA caching foray. Spending a few days in Warrnambool to grab some local finds. Thanks for the hideLNCU

Travelling with richlink on our Annual Caravan Geocaching road trip, using geocaching as our guide. Thanks for the cache. LNCU.

Maintenance Run today:Co-Ords Placement Container Log checked

Not the camo container we were expecting here but a quick find which was needed after the lengthy stop at the last cache tackled.With an early start we appreciated a quick find at 4pm.Thanks.

We are in Portland staying with Dad for a few days and thought a trip to Warnambool would be a nice outing.We had no idea of the history of this area and although very sad for the Chinese workers it was very interesting to learn about. It would have unbelievably tough in those days with out the floods but add them in these people must have been devastated, most probably never seeing their loved ones again.The cache again was a nice easy find and the log book contains our name.Thanks again Wollaston for the information and the hide, It is caches like this that have kept us interested in caching for so long.

Last cache for the morning!! Cache was out in the open and exposed so I made sure to add a little covering to help it blend in.Freezing this morning, my fingers are hurting whilst I write this log.Thanks for the hide

After over seven weeks on the road, I'm back home and slowly catching up on all my logging.This was a very long full-on day as we crossed the border from SA and had a lot of LGA's to tick off on our to-do list before eventually making our way across the states. The majority of caches we found were in great condition and well maintained, which is a credit to all the CO's who placed them.Our logs were signed as 5 for QLD to save room on the log sheets

Heading home but there is always room for one more. Nice hide tftc

Found it

Find number 12977 at 3:04:11pm on Sunday the 25 February 2024Well, I'm on my way, Adelaide here we come. I have seven days to get there and I'm travelling via the wiggly geocaching road so I hope I've allowed enouth time Today I'm travelling down to the Fitzroy River via Lorne, Colac, Camperdown, Warrnambool and Port Pairy. Found all my targets bar one so, not a bad day on the trip.A bit of storm damage to the tree but the cache is ok. Quick find.**Thanks for placing this cache Wollaston**---Don't miss finishing the Ballarat GeoTour before it ends on 4th March 2024. A list of the geocaches can be found [here](https://coord.info/BM9GWJ5). The final GeoTour Event is the [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) on the 18th February 2024!You can also get prepared for the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards by checking out our preliminary lists [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/).

We have come down from Kaniva to take a friend to Panmure, after dropping them off we headed off to find a few caches. Heading to Warrnambool this was the next cache that was attempted and found. Interesting to find a cache by Wollaston on Wollaston Road. The cache is in good condition. SL TFTC

TFTC!

TFTC

Quick find

Maintenance Run today:Co-Ords Placement Container Log checked

Up and about early for day 2 of a work conference (just a few caches before I head home). Quick find here. Cheers for the cache.

TFTC!Log is a little wet! BYOP

After attending an event this morning in Warrnambool, Chook teamed up with Hevwalker, Scramping and Eviloffspring to find a few more caches around town before she had to head home.A nice quick find here. Would have been lovely in its market garden days but can understand why the regular floods would have put an end to that. TFTC and history Wollaston.

scramping & I were visiting to Warrnambool for a long weekend.As the sun started to set and the evening was settling in, it was time to grab our torches to look for this cache.After finding the cache, which was an easy task, we got back to the car. scramping said "there is someone knocking on my window", she put the window down slightly to talk to the woman who asked "are you tracking the Peugeot". We could see the car she was referring to in the bridge carpark up the road. "No" was our reply. Next she asked us if we knew where the Police Station was. "No" was our follow up reply. After ensuring she was ok and felt safe, we were all on our way. Needless to say we did not look for the Old Bridge cache this evening. TFTC Wollaston

Found with hevwalker a quick find at night with a torch. A weird story to tell to friends and family happened here with a black car with dodgy number plates and a young woman tapping on our window which made the decision to come back for the bridge cache up the road in the coming days. TFTC.

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Cache had no camouflage and a bit waterlogged. Log nice and dry in plastic bag. Returned with some camouflage. Tftc

TFTC

Day 4 and it was the last day of my road trip through the south west of Victoria... time to head home to Melbourne... but not without finding lots of caches along the way. Having spent the morning traveling around Moyne Shire, while *geocaching.com* was off line, I headed back into Warrnambool for more caches when the site was back.

Skirting around the northern edge, I was grabbing caches to reach a total of twenty 's for this road trip. This cache was a nice easy find. Thanks **Wollaston** for placing it.

Touring around the town of Warrnambool today in the wet and windy weather, not stopping us from grabbing some caches. Another one ticked off, a quick find and all good here. Cheers mate.

Find #5203 on 2 Feb 2023.
TFTC Wollaston!

Found on a beautiful morning. Predicted 37 degree day. Decided to go for a wander before it got too hot. TFTC

25 December 2022 10:40 am, nice sunny day little wind..TFTC

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

Log book replaced.

Found at 1:38 PM in the company of Liz and Bruce, GAFF1
Now there was a precarious hide - just sitting there half exposed. Odd how these sort of hides remain undisturbed and the well hidden ones disappear [?]
Thanks Wollaston.

Found with cache and log very wet
TFTC

Log book very wet

Parked a grabbed,

TFTC

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!

Man that was boggy,

Day 12 of our tour of Victoria, SA and NSW. Grabbing a few caches along the way. 7 from 7 today!
We thank the community for placing/creating and the ongoing maintenance so that we can continue having fun.
TFTC TNLN SL

Found it

Log is very damp. TFTC!!!

Easy Find. Thanks for the story.

Many thanks for the cache. A beautiful park when it isn’t damp weather.

TFTC

Great spot loved the history of it!

Lovely

Catching up on some late logs, now that I have time, while travelling.

Found this hide while visiting family and getting ready to head over to WA for a trip. This was some interesting history for the area.

Found this, as it started to rain, so pleased it was a quick find.

Thanks for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoyed finding it.

Spending a lovely caching day around the Warrnambool area, discovering many things about this place Another quick find TFTC Wollaston

A good fast park and grab.
Interesting to hear about the Chinese market gardeners and the floods.
TFTC

Thank you!

A busy day's caching around Warrnambool with The Morris.
Not sure how we ended up with so many to do, but we got most that we didn't need special equipment, or weren't locked out of.

There is certainly a good crop of grass growing here in the flood plain's soil.
There must have been a more recent flood as the log book is fairly soaked.
Thanks, Robmc.

Nice little find on a Saturday morning walk

Tftc

Out and about around Warrnambool.

TFTC Wollaston.

# 6587

Having the best day doing to local caches. Nice easy find

Long grass nice and green. Hidden well.

#29 12/01/2022 @1:16pm

Took the trackable with us to be moved on to a new home.

Found after first finding the nearby bridge cache. Dropped off a trackable from Melbourne. In good condition.

Found today while doing a short caching run. Thanks for the hide.

My son found it. Nothing to swap bit left a present.

Bit wet underfoot but found

Found cache on the ground. Log etc still intact. SL and replaced where we believe it come from.

Good one!!

Quick find but didn’t get a chance to write in it as there was so many people walking by today! TFTC

Another Park and another park and grab for Harrowang and Beavar. SL at 4.13pm #8094 TFTC Wollaston

Sent just one of the team out for this one while we watched from the car - better that R gets the wet feet rather than all of us! With Harrowang. TFTC

In Warnie for some specialty shopping and to collect Mr Morris from the train. It was a beautiful day and there was time for some caching.

A quick stop to grab this one,
Thanks for showing us this part of the world Wollaston

Very wet under foot, clever hide

Thanks Wollaston for another great cache. Found this one fairly quickly and log was signed.

No. 10 enjoying this interesting activity..

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Omegaman1971

On my way to Portland for a few days for work, but dropped into Warrnambool for a few smiley's.
This was one of the caches I found during my time in Warrnambool.
Cheers for the cache

Find number 8594 on 26 May 2021

15:23
After attending the "Let's Strain The Drain - Warrnambool CITO" this morning, we plotted a course around town in an effort to convert the green tear drops on our Cachly map to smiley faces. As always, informative cache notes give more meaning to a find.

Our thanks to Wollaston for placing interesting caches on the gameboard.
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We were on our way back to where we were staying and thought we had enough time for a couple of caches, luckily this cache was spotted quickly so signed the log and headed off to the last cache for the day
TFTC

Easy find on our travels. Thanks for the interesting history.

Easy quick find. Although hard to be conspicuous on such a busy road

Quick find. Thank you

Found it

Found it TFTC

Out for a walk with geodog and found this one laying on the ground a bit away from where my phones co-ordinates took me to. After signing, placed it back in the nearest one to where I found it, so if its not in the one you are taken to try another.

Found it

Found in the dark so I could avoid muggles!

Back in play and good to go!

Apologies for the delay in getting this one back up and running. We anticipate it will be back in play by late February.

Temporarily disabled due to flooding.

Found it nice and easy

Walked right to it, but it was a bit muddy after the rain.

Covered in branches nicely

A nice quick find for International Geocaching Day
TFTC

Pretty damp walking over to this one. Remains well hidden and in good order. Cheers

Another lovely park in Warrnambool!

Very easy

A very easy find as it was exposed when I got there. Left it a bit more covered up.