OZ Blinky Bill TB Hotel Leneva, Victoria, Australia
By Catnap777 on 06-Dec-20. Waypoint GC93J76

Due to the area where this cache was situated being decimated by I presume Parks Albury/Wodonga, I had no choice but to remove the cache from it's compromised hide.I will contact our reviewer to explain the situation, and ask to reinvent the cache where I now reside.I am so sorry to have to take this action, but it looks like council may have rezoned the area for housing, as every tree that was there has been chopped down.Keep safe, and keep on caching .

Last to log before archival.9 November 2024 @1:51pmVisiting Albury with catnap777 to visit family, we popped out here to check on her cache which had recieved a couple of disturbing logs.Sure enough, although the cache and its contents were still there in place, the surrounding area had been decimated. All of Blinky Bill's habitat had been felled for clearing. The hard decission was made and with a little elbow grease, the hotel was pulled from among the fallen timber to be taken home with us to be repurposed elsewhere.My darling wife (the CO) has "grabbed" the remaining TB's from within so they can be safely rehomed too.Look out for Blinky Bill V2.Thanks for all the fun. Fav Added.

A lot of downed trees in the area. Look out for nope ropes

Tress have now been cut down and area is no destroyed

Cute ??

A lovely walk in the bush, on a not so lovely day. Thought we just get out and have a quick find before the rain set again. Cache looks in good order, but the nearby tree is not looking so healthy now. Weve left a pen as there was not one in the cache. thanks for the cache.

Tftc SL

Fun

Nice easy one for the evening outing.We brought goodies to swap.

Felt a little exposed hurdling the fence to grab this cache, and then I remembered Catnap says its ok, who am I to disagreeGreat construction. Nothing to drop off but will take the chainsaw warrior to continue their journey. TFTC.

33,870. Found with Team CIA23 - Canberra Invasion of Albury 2023.Our caching group has been eyeing off the Albury/Wodonga area for quite some time. After many months of hard work we had solved nearly all the area's puzzles, so we set a date and headed on down. CIA23 comprised of minniek, Joolay, Kittykatch, isopeda, barb2e, FurfacesLL, Tankengine, dty73, Sol de lune, LuckyL10n, albida33, Aykayem, smittengranny and myself. For part of one day we were joined by local Cacher Happy Feet 1. What a great weekend of caching with such a fun group of people. An event on the Saturday night also helped make the trip memorable. This was now (my) Day 2 of the trip. Quick find once at GZ. Signed the log as CIA23, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one on our list.Thanks catnap777 !!

After a pleasant night in sheer luxury, fitzy_1965 and I were up early to take advantage of our free breakfast before joining the rest of the CIA crew for a day of caching before we all went our separate ways.We crossed the river into Victoria to meet at the start of The Crossing Place walk and did the loop before the sun got too hot. The walk itself was quite pleasant and was a good test for my hip which has not been the best of late. We targeted of the OZ trail and whatever else we came across. The logs were primarily signed as CIA (Canberra Invasion Albury) unless otherwise stated.Now logging as individuals KK, Joolay, FFLL, Albida, AKM, fitzy_1965 & I as others have parted ways.

Albury Invasion trip Day 3. After planning and months of puzzle solving it is finally time to head to Albury Wodonga for a long weekend visit. I was with Kitty Katch, FufacesLL and Joolay for this trip, but I also spent time with Sol de Lune and LuckyL10n due to space in cars. Logs for the weekend were signed CIA23 to save space. We started the day with a walk around the Riverside trail for the virtual and thew caches along the way. The second port of call was the new rail trail caches where a large group wandered along the trail visiting the caches, it is great to see this trail re-populated with caches. The second part of the day was small group caching around the area, visiting a few DNFs and other caches we had missed the day before. As before the effort put into the puzzles and all the caches in the area is really appreciated, and with so much more to do, I am sure I will be back before too long.Thanks for the cache catnap77744961.36 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Flying SkullFlying Skull A#121**Albida**

We joined in on the Canberra Albury Invasion or CAI fun this long weekend. After lots of puzzle solving and planning the time had come for a four day weekend of geocache hunting and hiking in and around the Albury/Wodonga area. We could not have picked a better weekend, we had great weather and avenged a couple of DNF's for us. Apologies for the generic log, thank you to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches in this area, and for giving us a reason to come down the highway and visit this lovely area.Thanks for the hidecatnap777

Day 3 of our Albury trip. Apologising up front for the generic logs. Cannot complain about the quality and quantity here, it was a great mixture. Some are very challenging hides and some even defeated us and some of those puzzles, just glad it was more than me working on them. Looking forward to coming back.Its a perfect weekend to get out of town. Decided Albury was the place to go. Lots of lovely puzzles that we have spent time as a group working through now its time to venture down and pick up.Thanks for getting me out and about catnap777

Albury TripTime for an Aussie road trip with Joolay, albida33 and FurfacesLL plus others from the Canberra puzzling team. Tb x 3 dropThanks for the hide catnap777

Tftf n tftf, will move em on

Tftf.
Found with troyd42 on our way to the Rutherglen mega event.
Picked up a tb and dropped one to take its place

Trying to catch up with some late logs, prior to dropping off Travel Bugs at the Rutherglen Mega.

Found this cache, while out for a walk around the area.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us to find.

TFTC! 11 March 2023 6:32:45 pm 4972
Found on the way to Eldorado. Thanks.

Found this one- someone from wodonga landfill approached and stated this was private land and was asked to leave, might be one to reconsider? Either way, very cool cache!

Hi fellow cachers, I assure you that this land is now public land and you have every right to enjoy the area. The cache is in a designated green belt. Please do not wander out of the bounds of the reserve into the housing estate etc. Wodonga Landfill no longer operates in the area.

Happy caching,

CO catnap777

Great cache! Perfect to stop at while waiting for the car.

*Found on the 15 Jan 2023 @ 4:45 pm.*
*Cache find # 14045.*

At first I wasn't sure if I was meant to enter here as the gate as a lot of locks on it and the only way in is through the fence but a few minutes later I decided to head on over and have a look for the cache once in the right area, it wasn't long before the logbook was stamped and I was on my way.

I headed off on a short road trip to try and finish off a few of the Whittlesea challenges, I had to visit 3 LGA’s in particular, today I had been up in Wodonga and Towong and then spending the night in Wangaratta before going back to Benalla and then heading up to Craig’s hut for a CITO.

**Thanks to catnap777 for placing this cache.**

Quick little caching trip with Dad to pick up a couple of local caches and drop off a TB that I have been sitting on for waaaayyyyy too long!
We were initially looking in the wrong spots but soon reorientation and found this terrific hide - I'm giving this one a favourite point!
Quite a few TBs here today, I dropped one off and Dad took one for a journey.
Cache is in good condition- many thanks to the CO for this one

Find Number 2553 found at 12:58. Today we found 2 caches. We had 0 DNF's. This was the 1st find of the day.

We came to Wodonga to spend Christmas with geoDaughter EmnTodd and her family. Today we popped out to find two nearby caches.

EmnTodd had a trackable to drop so we came here as our first stop. We made it a lot harder for ourselves than necessary as we fought our way through brambles, following the compass. After finding the cache we saw a simpler bramble-free route back to the path.

The cache was in good condition. We took a trackable, left nothing, signed the log and replaced the container as found

Thanks catnap777 for the cache.

Dropped off another trackable to continue on its adventures.

Cheers

Had time to pick up a few caches this afternoon. This was the last. A very nice construction here with everything in good order. Signed and was on my way! TFTC!

Lovely sunny and unusually warm day, so we whizzed out to grab a cache or seven.
This one was high on my list ever since I got back from the US with some trackables.
The grass was quite lush on the way in so we were on guard a bit, but all that disappeared when we spotted the crafty container.
It appears that the outer container had become a suburb for low cost ant accommodation as there were loads of them in there, but fortunately none of them had taken up residence in the important container.
So we signed our lives away and left a TB to continue its travels.

Loved this! Was very cute

TFTC
Dropping off a TB

When I saw this Catnapp cache on the map I said to myself ‘just one more’ before heading home.
I had all intentions of dropping a TB off but the rain was getting heavier as I arrived and I realized I’d left it back in the car (and I didn’t want to get any wetter today).

Love your work here Karen! FP for the effort

TFTC

So cute!

Great TB hotel. Dipped my TBs but they are on a mission so kept going.

A quick jaunt across the border and a TB that was overdue to move on meant a visit to the Hotel this afternoon.
I remember there being caches in the general area here and was surprised to see the gate closed here, but we traversed that and headed off to GZ.
Arrived and was impressed with the effort that had gone into this one. A great hide for kids to find when out and about caching.
SL at 4pm. Left the Cache Fairy TB to move on and hopefully someone will do that very soon.
A favourite point from us. TFTC catnap777.

Super cute!I love caches that are different. Thank you!

Simple find. Thanks

Enjoyed an impromptu evening caching with Wright_stuff.
A nice stroll to gz, with the cache found quite quickly.
Love the cache guardian.

# 14382 Found and logged at 7:35:00 AM
heading to beechworth today to tranel kidell Rd
Thanks for the cache catnap777
Lgoody

Find #1696
Attended the Wangaratta Mega this weekend and now it’s time to head back to the Central Coast.

Stopping to get some strategic caches on my way which will get me some LGA’s that I need.

Thanks for the cache catnap777!

Charlicorn1500 and I headed to the Wangaratta Mega on short notice, having been unwilling to commit until the last minute due to the vagaries of COVID etc. This is my 7th Mega but Charlicorn's first. Despite the circumstances it was a great event with a lot of fun gadget caches and plenty of opportunities to meet up and adventure with fellow cachers. Highlights included finding 14 types in a day (15 if you count the Mega, which we do) on the Saturday, the GPS Maze Exhibit and a great night cache with a band of buddies we bumped into while doing gadget caches. Beautiful weather, very hot for us, but a great place to explore and we're both looking forward to the next Mega.

Found with Charlicorn1500 heading back from the Mega. Swapped some TBs.

Great cache swapped some trackables w nationalsteel tftc

Really well made TB hotel! And another lovely little reserve I wasn't aware of. Tftc!

Great find Loved the teddy bear

Great cache, definitely worthy of a favourite point! Unfortunately the last person hasn’t logged the taking of the trackable so no trackables here!! I didn’t have any trackables with me to put in sorry
NOTE: We parked at the waypoint th owner has attached and the gate was locked with lots of paddlocks, we jumped over the fence but I don’t think you are meant too
TFTC signed and replaced

A day outing during school holidays with Georgenmoo. Extremely worried about snakes now that the seasons are changing. Grass was fortunately quite low at this location.

We loved our first TB hotel. There was even one each to take with us. Thanks for the time and effort put into this one Catnap777. Gets a favourite from me

Decided to get out in the beautiful sunshine with RubyTuesday3 and the geokid! What a great cache. found our first trackable!!!

Nice little hide and easily accessible. Very wet ground atm so probably need water proof shoes. Woops.
Sanitiser was used to make sure I kept up with covid regulations. Also dropped off some TBs I had from a while ago. TFTC

OZ Blinky Bill TB Hotel was transferred from TeamOZCAT to user catnap777

Oh hey there bill nice easy find that one coordinates perfect

OZ Blinky Bill TB Hotel was transferred from OZREG to user TeamOZCAT because....
Catnap777 can take much credit for the inspiration and implementation of this cache.

Catnap777 can take much credit for the inspiration and implementation of this cache.

Found the well constructed TB hotel on a wet cold day. Tftc

OZCAT's Blinky Bill TB Hotel was transferred from TeamOZCAT to user OZREG

Accio 11:54:57
A quick run around town coming home from Beechworth. A quick find here, a very nice cache, and a couple of TBs to follow me back north.
Thanks TeamOZCAT for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #9406}*

Had to do a bit of shopping in Wodonga and we were driving right past this road. Not sure why we hadn't stopped here before, we have been past so many times.
Parked the car, jumped the fence, and walked to GZ.
Nicely constructed cache, and a great guardian.
Thanks, Robmc.

# 17,946. Robmc and I were heading to Wodonga to do a little shopping and he noticed where this one was close-by on the way. A quick stop and over the stile we went and made our way to GZ. Pleased to see Mr Blinky on guard duty. I had no TBs to drop in here but have collected 1 TB and 1 geocoin to move along on their journey. Thanks for the cache.

It was great to log this cache today to get the last of my Natural Wonders souvenirs.
I haven’t come across a TB for ages so have taken 2 to move on to new homes

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Bushfire [^]

Our Team Owned Cache

Lovely day for a bit of geocaching with Jackez74 TFTC

Dropped in this afternoon to leave some treasure and a TB and take a TB. Everyone is dry and cosy at this TB Hotel.

Cool cache. Dropped off 3 tbs. Nice sunset tonight. Tftc

With the COs permission I have grabbed most of the TBs to take to an event (2 remain ). I will return most this afternoon
6 were returned the following day

We were pretty excited to know there was another TB Hotel in the area. Looks like a few other cachers had the same idea and all the TB’s had been scooped up by the time we arrived. Some parts of one of the TB’s had been left behind, so hopefully we can reconnect them with the current holder. Left: Dougys Manga Tuner TB - hope he doesn’t rev his engine too loudly and wake up Blinky! #7639 TFTC TeamOZCAT - nicely done.

Tftc. Will be moving trackables along on our journey today

Ducked down this morning to see if I could add a couple of things for my bird a day challenge (both summer migrants gone) and stopped on the way home to visit this cache which I have my eye on for a while (love a TB). Was a quick walk to another well designed and stocked TB Hotel. I didn’t have my stash so I only took one - I will be back when I have more.
TFTC TeamOZCAT

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 9.776 E 146° 53.008

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 9.762 E 146° 53.000

Distance from original: 93.8 feet or 28.6 meters.

More obscure with an added attraction.

Putting a smiley on my teams TB Hotel. Got a favourite point as well.

TFTC. After a quick diversion around a few spider webs. Cache location found

Tftc

Bucrog52 and I decided to find a geo cache today to receive the “Last 2020”souvenir.
We then realised we were STF!
We signed the log and browsed all of the TB hanging out in their hotel. So many to choose from.
I dropped “PU” TB and collected “Deutschland”and “Sheriff” TB.
TFTC TeamOZCAT

Found on a warm afternoon with jackez74, nice big cache and lots of TB’s pickup one to move on TFTC OZCAT’s

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 9.766 E 146° 53.013

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 9.776 E 146° 53.008

Distance from original: 65.4 feet or 19.9 meters.

We have placed this hide in a new area, and secured in a better way to maintain integrity and hopefully keep it safe and sound.

All repairs have been successfully undertaken and all current guidelines have been met.

Sorry for inconvenience. Removing cache for maintenance. Should be back in play within 24 hrs.
Now 4:20 pm. Owner in attendance at cache site until 5:00 pm in case someone on route.

I had every intention Of going for the ftf but the pub was calling

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Whoop Whoop *FTF* with Mrs Wackyweedo. Was at the hospital for a CT scan when this was published and surprised to see it unlogged at 7:30pm. A quick detour to grab Mrs W and we were off. A quick walk from the parking spot and no wriggly sticks to be found. Nice cache, I hope it lasts.
TFTC.

***FTF*** at 7.30pm with Team Haveanez.

Had just finished dinner when the call came through "should we?" Absolutely we should! Surprised to find a blank log book 3 hours after it had been published. Good to grab some Victorian hides before we are locked out tonight!! Tftc TeamOZCAT. Ripper hide.

Hi guys. Sorry I did not have time to log the TB's when thus cache was published, but we are all good to go now. Thanks for your time and patience. Regards, Reg and Karen