BGT24: Learmonth (Ballarat GeoTour) Learmonth, Victoria, Australia
By BallaratGeoTour on 01-Feb-21. Waypoint GC95VGB

We hope you enjoyed exploring Ballarat, Victoria. The Ballarat GeoTour has now ended. Thank you to the community for all the great logs, photos, and Favorite Points over the last 3 years. It has been so fun!

A great way to spend the day exploring Ballarat.Thanks for the GeoTour.TFTC

TFTC. At a leap year event in Tailem Bend we were alerted to the fact the Ballarat Geotour had been extended! How AWESOME as we thought we would miss it!Hurrily finding caches before it closes Monday!Setting up camp for a week in Murray Bridge before the MEGA for 29th Feb!Moving to Ballarat for another week afterwards. Last hurrah travelling before wooding season at home starts!Happy caching and safe travels!

Quick search to no avail before realising i was late for some events at Lake Burrumbeet. Came back for redemption. TFTC Ballarat Geocachers, good hide.

Left it a bit late, but finally found the last cache of the geotour. Just in time! Thanks for this great geotour

Travelling to Canberras Capital Geobash, via a few little detours, the Adelaide Great Leap Forward Mega Event and now the last chance to do the Ballarat GeoTour.We have ventured across two State Borders from Busselton, WA, crossed the Nullarbor and having heaps of fun.An awesome detour.Thanks for the deTour ??TFTC

Located by baby&Mrs gopher in company with wazza9 and NanaNell at 1405. The Mrs and I had done some of the tour back in January 2023. In great company and now is the time to complete this series. SL Tnx ballaratgeotour.

TFTC,Got the correct coordinates and soon had cache in hand. Shame it has been compromised. Visited trackables.

Started off on the wrong foot, eventually got back on track when we read the description. Quick find by baby gopher, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO

With Sallymally

Quickly finishing off the geo tour as time has come to an end

BDO met the CO at an event and with coordinates in hand , this was a quick find! Tftc

Had a blast going around Ballarat with bdp, kimmy533, drobbonz and our labs Cooper and Penny. We did these back on the 20th to 22nd but my logger didn't get around to logging them for me until now. Apologies for the cut and paste but now we have a ton of leap day caches to log.Thanks to the organisers who put this together and kept it all maintained.

Found with Mattycat and Jackthemonkey while touring around the 29th and 30th of January. Thanks for the geotour experience

Found with Mattycat and PurrfectDi while on holidays around the 29th and 30th of January. A bit late when we passed here! Thanks for the Ballarat geotour experience

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Day in Ballarat for the GeoTour. Of course we will make the necessary detours for the targeted caches and we will not leave aside any seals present on our route.The logbook is signed **pesti-Hoot** for *pestinette* and *BlackHoot*.In: Nothing.Out: Nothing.Thanks **ballaratgeotour** for the cache.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~*Here is the palaver from my log "3615-MyLife" that you still don't have to read:*After multiple outings together, here are some examples: the park at T5 in the Orlans region, the Letterbox Matrix in Provins on the return of GeoBulles 2023, a getaway to Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, the Mega in Oliveira de Frades in Portugal, that in Spain in Camarasa with a memorable passage in Andorra, a foray into the Drme at the beginning of the year, I have the immense luck and pleasure to accompany the pestinettes who asked me last summer to be part of this crazy trip to Australia to participate in the Adelaide Mega on February 29 !So I start by thanking them once again for the invitation as well as for the preparation of all logistics and the program of discoveries planned for these 17 days on Australian lands: Jasmers including three from the year 2000,webcams, virtual ones (full), challenges, Earthcaches, mysteries, Events.I would just add my two cents with the Matrices by cache type as well as obtaining as many Addons as possible for Leap Day ! Then depending on the time that we will have left at each of our stages, all caches allowing usto visit a nice new place.We only visited a tiny part of this beautiful country which makes us want to come back although it is not next door and I would also remember the warm welcome of Australians and their kindness.I sincerely thank all the poseurs without whom the exploration of all theseplaces known or much more discreet would not have been possible. A big thank you for your personal investment for the pleasure of all and ours in particular during this beautiful trip shared in friendly company ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~**Against a sedentary lifestyle, geocache! Get Out and Play! Saia and play! Sal y juega!**

This was a great day to get out and do this Geo tour with the help of some new Aussie friends. This was so fun because the tour has a variety of types of caches and gave such a wonderful tour of the area. This is only our third day visiting from Canada and we sure impressed with the caches and the friendly people. Thanks for the smile

Enjoying the geotour solar Weare able to do it..thks for the fun

6 months ago, during a frenzy, we said to ourselves "why not going to the mega in Adelaide for the leapday". From scratch we moved on to prepare an 18-days project in Australia.Our objectives are simple, visit a small part of this immense continent while validating a few caches. There are so many caches (impossible to do everything) that we will select only few of them. Our plan will allow us to visit Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Mount Gambier and finish in Adelaide for the Mega, which was initially our aim.During our stay we will log PestiHoot for Pestinette and Blackhoot.During Blackhoot's event, "Auvergnats in Australia #2", McLookers told us about Ballarat's geotour caches. It was a great suggestion for our Sunday schedule.So departure at 8am from Melbourne, to spend the day in Ballarat, we will target geotours and a few extras.As the caches are far away, we will need a good day to turn them yellow. This will allow us to visit different spots in Ballarat.Thanks to the owners for the caches and the discovery of places.Thank you McLookers for this advise.

For some reason, I kind of forgot this cache existed while I was at Miners Rest this morning. This cache should have been my second find of the BGT today after finding the one there, but instead I ended up making my way towards Lake Burrumbeet. It wasnt until later in the afternoon and zooming out on my maps that I realised I had completely missed this one. As a result, I ended up driving a lot further and losing more time than necessary. But oh well, that's all a part of the adventure! When I eventually made it to the posted coordinates, I quickly grabbed the required numbers before returning to my car to work out the solution. Despite the solving taking a bit longer than anticipated, I did eventually get myself a seemingly suitable set of coordinates and so I made my way over to them. I was relieved when I arrived at GZ to immediately be greeted by the hint item. I quickly exited my car and made my way over to it to begin searching for the cache. I found the cache pretty quickly and soon had the logbook signed. All was in good condition with this cache.TFTC

In town to collect the geo tour and a few other select caches. Interesting locations and some great hides along the way certainly fun and show cases the area. Not sure we got the maths exactly right but the hint got as to the right spot TFTC

Quick find under bridge.CO gave coords at event.Even though found yesterday but I'm submitting my logs today. Today the fire is near. Hope everyone stays safe.A huge thank you to everyone who organized and maintained the geotour. A great example of a geotour highlighting a region.Day 2 of BGTThe grand plan was hatched months ago to get the Geotour done before it went away and to make it to Adelaide for the Leap Day Mega. This combined with other side trips and other cachers along the way. Here in Ballarat are bdp, kiwisteve2, drobbonz and kimmy533. It's been fun so far! Ask me in 3 weeks how many caches and how little sleep!

tftc out today doing as many as we can of the geotour.

Yeah!!!! Last one!! We are done and dusted!! Thanks for hide..

I didn't want the epic weekend of escaping zombies, kayaking on the lake, strolling through the botanic gardens and crawling through tunnels to end.. so I set off for 'one' more cache at 4pm on a sunday.this was the 'third' cache.. well i am on a roll now and after a quick stop in the deserted town made my way back to this cache.i did a PAF as i couldn't locate the cache but just as she answered i touched it pushed a lot further in then expected!

Found it, loved it, had a great time on the Ballarat GeoTour......all these amazing areas in and around Ballarat I never knew existed!! Thank you to everyone involved in setting up and managing, TFTC ??

#21663 @1035Visiting Ballarat for the weekend from Canberra to do the Geotour and some challenge caches. Cache easily found after doing the necessary calculations. TFTC.

We set out to complete as many of the BGT caches as we could today (and mop up the remainder next weekend) and also attend the Farewell Event being held today.After a bit of a hunt I had the cache in hand. TNLN. TFTC.

We came to Ballarat today with a plan to to complete the GeoTour. Off to Learmonth for the Letterbox. We quickly gathered the required information and made the calculation which brought it to a place that matched the hint where Mr SL made a quick find. Thanks ballaratgeotour for the cache

And that's a wrap!! Thanks for the Geotour Ballarat

We've found it! Thanks!

Found with FeatherWaite on a 4-day trip to Victoria.Our main aim was to complete the Ballarat Geotour and other caches of interest in the broader Ballarat area. There were also a number of events and a CITO to attend.The weather was on the warm side, but not too bad for this time of year, which made for pleasant camping each night. The cache was found in good order.Thanks ballaratgeotour for the cache.

Found with e.gregory1 during an extended weekend in the Ballarat area, with the main aim of completing the Ballarat GeoTour, but as planned, we attended a number of events and CITOs, and found a good range of caches while touring around the district. Thanks for the cache ballaratgeotour!

The pressure is on to complete the Ballarat Geo Tour Logged the rest of the outlying caches today. Then things got stormy and I retreated Only a handful to do now.Completed the letterbox with Tra4ce. Located the cache but no stamp here TFTC ballaratgeotour

Second find with Ms Maddy. Our coords were a bit off but soon had the cache in hand. TFTC

Woohoo! And thats the geotour completed ?? We were one number out in our projections according to the checksum but the hint helped heaps. Thanks for an amazing adventure over three or four visits to Ballarat and surrounds and thanks to everyone who helped set this up and keep it running. TFTCs and the Geotour Fave added for the whole tour.

Found

Day 2 of the Ballarat Geo Tour Rorgey and I are on the home stretch, two left after this one.Last time I tried to project a way , could get it to work. Not so this time, we managed to work it out easy enough.

After hearing that the Ballarat GeoTour was to be archived in early March, I quickly made arrangements to travel down from Queensland to complete it before it became apart of Australian Geocaching history. Quickly got the required info to find the GZ. Shame to see the old shop boarded up. Quick find at the final. Nice view of the lake close by. No stamp in the cache.GeoTour find # 10 of 25.TFTletterboxC. TNLN. SL. TBs Eddie Mac to New Zealand and Back, Prado Owl , Rawhide , Surrey Travel Tag and Kiwi Bird visited.Find # 1908.

On a mission to do what felt impossible (find all BGT caches in two days) we blew through Learmonth with just a quick sideways glance at some impressively old and interesting buildings. I was really hoping that the letterbox cache would incorporate a trip back to these buildings that I only got a fleeting glance at. But unfortunately it didnt, and our direction of travel to the next cache at Lake Burrumbeet didnt allow another drive-by either. Im still (a day and a half later) absolutely sulking about the fact that we didnt go back and have a better look. We thought wed take a round-about trip to the cache via the public toilets and cut through the caravan park or the oval. Neither of those options worked out for us, and we found ourselves once again feeling like we were wasting time and our goal was slipping out of reach. After wandering back and forth, we made our way back to the car and DROVE to the cache.

What a cute little town. I was spewing that it was too early in the day for a visit to Learmonth Cider! I calculated GZ with no probs (thank to handy features of c:geo) but totally stuffed up our walk to GZ. We went via the oval, toilets, the caravan park, back through the oval and then realised we did in fact need to go the other way round. Back to the car and a short drive to GZ, followed by a quick find. My goodness we are taking ages to do each of these caches. I guess that's a good thing - at least we are taking the time to appreciate each location!

Still wandering around late on a road trip with Jack and Purrfect Di. Every day is a Caching Day - so off we go again [:o)]A quick find and sign... once we'd worked out which numbers and applied them correctly. It was 10 o'clock at night and a long day! And that's the tour complete! Thanks ballaratgeotour for this cache hide and ongoing care and maintenance ---------------- ----------------------In a dangerous world filled with rusty old mint tins and solid caches falling from trees - - - a cache a day keeps us agile... sort of --------Caches are logged using the resources of gsak, garmin, and androids, occasionally AI too! (And a little rubber stamp ) Work gets in the way - and some may take longer to log than others due to mixed technology and need for sleep! The skill and talent of some Zenior Zombies helps, and maybe a spot of luck too [:o)]----------Cache carefully and make sure Travel Bugs are the Only bugs you share and pass on Clean as you go and cache the countryside Big thanks to those placing quality caches out and about around our country areas, in nice safe places and containers especially! - it keeps our game fun for all Of course we do appreciate if you actually did read all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, or so we've been told! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where it is I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and perhaps we can put an end to these long logs !!! Maybe not though - as someone actually did read to the end and alerted me to just a project GC badge that requires long logs [:o)] Well at least it's not as bad as finding a mint tin! Did you get that... stop putting out rusty mint tins, just stop it, now!!! C'est fini... For now... ... until tomorrow! Viva Mexicana ! Thanks for the caches beyond the wall [:o)] But there's no place like home! PS:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GCA1DNA - Great Leap Forward ... or is it backward... it takes an extra day to get to March 29.2.24 The Mega Leap Event of the year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And don't forget to put the SA June Long Weekend in your diary for 2024 too... fun and funky finding with a little competition too

We're heading back to Maryborough after attending an event and decided to find the far-flung geocaches of the Ballarat Geotour that we didn't get to on our last foray. This one was a little tricky, more because we misunderstood when to apply the checksum, than from any particular difficulty. An easy find once we finally got the numbers sorted Thanks for find #5365TNLN

I was able to get the coords right the first time so it was quick once e checked the right bridge. tftc

TFTC - In the area with HeliKelli for the Ballarat GeoTour and located the cache.

We were meant to be in Townsville this long weekend but a tropical cyclone dramatically changed our plans. Kploz and I were still keen to go away and with the Ballarat GeoTour closing soon we thought it was a perfect excuse to head up this way. We enjoyed the history of this cache and also read up on the history of the nearby pub. Cache is in good condition but missing its stamp. Thanks for bringing us here.

Last cache of the goetour. We're pretty happy with ourselves, and we have a good chunk of the day for more caching.I spent the Australia Day long weekend in and around Ballarat with 1TOOLMAN and stainless steel rat to do the geotour. We found them all plus most other caches from our short list of around 70 caches. Thanks to all to COs, and everyone involved in the Ballarat GeoTour

Sometime ago myself and gooseandegg had looked at the idea of doing one of the GeoTours in Australia but due to finders losing the attributes and maybe even the souvenir I wasn't about to go out of my way to search out a GeoTour, upon hearing that finders would retain the attributes and souvenir for the Ballarat GeoTour this changed things and plans were made to head specially to the Ballarat area.We flew out of Hobart on Thursday night after work and after a night staying near the airport we were picked up early by honorary Tasmanian 1Toolman, we spent the next two days searching out all the GeoTour and some choice old or special geocache in and around Ballarat, on Sunday morning we just had time to call at GemmaSistemas event out at Miners Rest before turning tail and dashing for the airport to get on my first ever Rex flight back to Hobart, even landing early at 1307.Found on 27/01/2024 at 12:21:00 thanks to ballaratgeotour for placing this cache for me to find. The best caches I have found so far are:-Sentimental [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)Traditional [Hanging Around in Toorak](http://coord.info/GC62KAP) By [bobthebuilder_123](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=586681)Multi [Gawler Fort Knox](https://coord.info/GC5T0W1) By [**JEM**](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=11449141)Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045) Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)Earthcache [Totem Pole](https://coord.info/GC862H8) By [The Hancock Clan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=263428)Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)

After cycling around the lake to collect our first 9 caches in the Geotour, we are back a few days later to pick up where we left off, this time by car.Our next 6 caches collected today, with this being the third. A nice placement conveniently located off the road.Interesting street names around here!TFTC

TFTC, a new type for us, so we needed some assistance. But a good challenge

Found with mum - logging before they disappear

Found it, come on down to the Ballarat Geo Tour! A few more finds today and an Adventure Lab while here. TFTC

Found, right where I expected TFTC

In Ballarat again to finish off the Geotour. This one really gave us grief. We had no Idea how to project the waypoint and then my Hubby went off to somewhere he thought was right and no luck then we came back and tried again and we got some where out in a paddock. We went over there and had a look anyway. we were looking around for ages and then we decided on a spot that must be it from previous logs, "it has to be here" was shouted over and over again. then by chance I relooked at the hint. OMG I was going on a hint from a previous cache! The penny dropped and within minutes we found it. OMG 2 hrs looking and we could have found this quite quickly if I had the right hintTFTC ????

Found with tikitere and larafolk. After a couple of failed attempts we finally found a day to finish the BGT. Thankfully all caches were found before dark. It took a number of goes to get the checksums right the off for a quick find. TFTC

Found it! This was our next stop on our geotour and we bumped into a caching team we crossed paths with earlier in the day. It seemed like they were well on their way to solving the letter box problem, so I quickly gathered the required information and set about solving the final GZ. Once solved we set off to GZ and found it deserted. After checking a couple of places, I reached in and found the cache. TFTC SL ??

The completion of the Geotour was finally in our sights after 3 cancelled trips due to sickness and fire disasters. Finally we will complete the tour and claim the prize - a Geotour Coin. Caching with Redink, Tikitere, with Jonescrew joining us for a couple of caches as well. We had a massive day... Just over 10 hours of caching to finish. A really fun day. Lots of driving. A lot more walking than we anticipated. Some really lovely locations. Some very interesting cache notes and history. Thank for the series, we thoroughly enjoyed it. Hard to get numbers right. We had to have 3 goes at it to get the right coords. Relief when we got it right and a reasonable set of coords. Thanks.

Thanks it took us a while to figure it out but eventually we found it TFTC

We have come to Ballarat for the weekend to collect all the caches for the Geotour. Quaint and quiet little town. TFTC

Wow - nothing at all here, so quiet! Some quick projections and we found the cache quickly TFTC

On a wet summers day jaamc33-35 and I decided to attempt the geo tour, thank goodness we gave ourselves 2days and hopefully we will stay focused and on track, thanks to jaamc33-35s problem solving skills we found ourselves Jonny on the spot for a quick find, thanks for placing this cache

Another one off my geotour map, such a beautiful spot that I'll definitely be back to for more exploring!Thanks ??

And now to the other side of the lake. We found the required information easily enough (or so we thought we did) and then went down to the foreshore to use the facilities. The wind had quite a bite to it out on the jetty! I used the time to calculate GZ, but my checksum didn't work out. I was a bit concerned, but it kind of looked okay location wise. I checked the previous logs and found a few comments about the location and the hint. I'm glad I did, because it turns out that my calculated GZ was a good 60m out! The direction seemed fine, but the distance was off. Geodaughter made the find based on the hint. I suspect that the phone number in the booth has changed.

Its day 2 of Peppas plan to traipse around Ballarat and surrounds chasing the geotour and easily getting sidetracked by shiny things. BM75 is driving and after walking up Mt Beckworth and detouring through 2 new LGAs we are back on track to the geotourfor now. We gathered the numbers and projected to a good looking area. Peppa went in first and made the find.Tftc ballaratgeotourFind #5258

Day 2 of our Ballarat Boys BreakAn early start sees Breadman75, Davinells and I cruising the mean streets of Ballarat and surrounds in our hire car, the Peugeot Party Prowler We still havent worked out how to unlock the doors from the inside thoughAfter a detour to Mount Beckworth for the challenges, and Talbot and surrounds for the LGAs were back on track for getting Breadman his golden ticket I mean Geo Tour Souvenir, because we cant leave without itA quick find once at GZ awesome tree disappointingly we didnt have time for the Ad LabThanks ballaratgeotour ??Find #10740

Peppa took one for the team. Found with Peppa and Davinells. Thanks for the cache ballaratgeotour

12/01/2024 6:36:00 PMDay 1 of a week long caching trip to Ballarat & Geelong regions, to complete the getter before it ends and grab some caches that have been on my to-do list since at least pre-covid.I must of miscalculated GZ as I was good way off but the hint steered to the right place as I found it in the first place I looked.A big thanks to Gemma and the team of placing and maintaining this geotour. Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

Finally got around to looking for this one, my gps gave me a merry chase eventually just started looking in logical places and dingo

Decided to visit Ballarat today to have a decent attempt at ticking off as many in the Ballarat Geotour as possible. Our first find of the day as we headed off the freeway from Melbourne to gather the western caches. The hint definitely helped in finding the cache that was 30-40 metres off the co-offs that we solved.TFTC

Find 4 of the 25 Ballarat GeoTour CachesThis was quite a quick find (thank you Tania and Gemma for pointing me in the right direction) The cache was uncovered quickly, log signed and I was on the road again. My thanks to all involved in setting up and maintaining all the caches of the GeoTour - an amazing effort that is greatly appreciated.PS: I stumbled across Cafe 321 in Learmonth. Great food - the homemade sausage rolls are yummy.PS: The Troll Dolls [TN6TR0] were with me on my great caching adventures today.

Find 4536 on January 9, 2024Continuing on with the BGT. A nice quick find today. Great to see so much water in the lake. 2 to go TFTC BallaratGeoTour

So cutting here. Im thinking that as the time marches on Im chipping away in a mighty solo manner - and the last forever and what a blast its now in the past. The Geotour is 5 hours from home base so it was a case of will I regret it, Im in Melbs and its only a wee detour to finish the last 18 - yes Id only completed 7 so a spontaneous decision saw me on a mission leaving marvellous Melbs a tad late. The mission included a promise to self about no geo distractions and total self discipline for the first time ever - only snacks and no stopping, no picking up other solved puzzles and no spontaneity for 6 hours did it with an efficient plan. The journey aka tour gave a good sense of days gone past. THTC and the FUN.

Must have made an error in our calculations but with the hint, we soon found it.

Found with barb2e whilst doing the Geotour. With a view of the lake. The other bridge looks like it has a problem. TFTC *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Found with isopeda after the event this morning. Nice to doing the Ballarat Geotour with some extra thrown in. Tftc

Started my GeoTour Trail along Ballarat up here at Lake Learmonth nice and early in the morning. Got what i thought to be all the correct details, did the projection then went to the location. That happened to be in the paddock.. Though i read the hint witch brought me back to the actual location of the cache, and eventually got the find after searching the wrong place.

In Ballarat for a few days over the Christmas, New Year to clean up a few caches in the area we had missed on our last visit, after a day of caching we parked up the geosplora wagon at the lake Burrambeet for the evening and set up camp, what a great view over the lake to wake up to and enjoy breakfast. After packing up, it was time to go exploring Nice easy find, took nothing, left nothing but a signed log tftc

Another one ticked off the list. Water not flowing much under this bridge today. Quick find by Geohubby. TFTC

Full log to follow

With a few days off after the start of the new year an arrangement was made, with teamMerlin, to attempt to do some caches in Ballarat including the D/T Matrix Challenge cache. With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache ballaratgeotourThe following TBs visited for the distance - Adventures with softball 29 and Harper, Govenor Lachlan Macquarie, Hawkesbury Tiger, phlphotos 2011 - 2023 NSW geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Leaf Nano Geocoin, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos - CITO 2019 - 2022 Coin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos Wheel of Caching Geocoin and phls silver ride

With a spare day dedicated to caching with phlphotos, we came down specifically to target the Ballarat GeoTour. All caches found to be in good condition. After signing the log we replaced everything as found. Thanks for the cache ballaratgeotour.The following TBs came through for the mileage: Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

We dont mind the old letterbox cache, so it was good to see one as part of the tour. We made our way to the posted coordinates and collected the information that we needed to calculate the final location. Some quick calcs in the car and we were ready to go. We had spied a little caf on the way, so we grabbed a coffee and toast before we attempted to find the log book.Once at the location, some feeling around eventually paid off, and the cache container was retrieved. Nice size, and bigger than I thought it was going to be at this hiding location.Names entered, all good here. Thanks very much for creating this cache. Cheers

Last cache of the series!!!Travelling from WA, I managed to compete this series over three attempts while visiting friends and family in Melbourne and Geelong. Wet shoes, many prickles, some fantastic views were on offer, and of course visiting lovely Ballarat for the first time. Overall it has been fun! FP for the effort setting this up, and finishing on one of my favourite caches, the letterbox. Cheers!

Jetsons23 and Oshfam on some geocaching shenanigans. Collecting smilies along the way. Hoping to get the Ballarat tour done today. Thanks for the cache. Nice little country drive to get to this one.

With the time running out to complete the Ballarat GeoTour, I thought that I had better make a start. With a NYD event on in the morning it seemed like a good day for it, as well as a nice sunny warm Summers day. I was hoping to get all of the GeoTour caches knocked over in one day, but a return trip is required to grab just a couple more. Thanks for all involved in placing these caches and maintaining them for the duration of the GeoTour. I was fortunate to have met the CO shortly before attempting this cache and was able to be provided with the correct coordinates to ensure a quick find.

With the Ballarat Geotour nearing its end, jetsons23 and I set off very early morning for the long drive to Ballarat for a day of adventures and hopefully some shenanigans. We agreed the plan was to be disciplined and only find Geotour caches and not get distracted by other caches nearby or along the way. I must say we did amazingly well sticking to this plan, not deviating even though we were tempted. The first day of the new year is set to bring a 25 degree sunny day.Projections are not our strong point but we managed to get thru what was required here. Jetsons23 did the retrieving as it was so hot that I couldn't be bothered to bend down and at one stage the stream looked inviting until I saw the other part of the stream further along. Yeah, nah. Back to the air conditioning in the car for us. Thank you for the cache here BallaratGeoTour??

Found it thanks to ppl I met at event earlier.

23/25 In Ballarat and surrounds to complete the Geotour. We had checked into the motel and decided to head over to the New Years Eve event in Beaufort. We stopped in Learmonth to complete this cache. One part of our calculations didnt add up in the check sum. Seems to be an error (surely not us ??) With limited time we PAF and got the help we needed to make the find. Would love to come back here and complete the other caches in this town. TFTC

B&Cs last minute road trip to the rat.With the girls having organised some friends to visit for sleepover, the boys made a last minute decision to get out of Dodge and hit um some caches.With the GeoTour approaching end of life, Ballarat was our chosen destination. Given we left Geelong early afternoon we were never going to knock it all off in one day so we decided to tackle the outer ones, leaving the caches in Central Ballarat/Lake Wendouree and Mt Buninyong for another day. This meant we could tackle other caches in some areas while we were there, which meant we managed to sign a few challenge caches, tick off the final 2 holes in our hidden date calendar, grab a virtual, a few ad lab stages and finish the day off dropping a ladder into a drain before heading home and arriving back in Geelong just before 10:30pmWe were fortunate enough to have a 100% success rate today, thanks to all the COs who have placed and maintained these caches.Made some sort of error in our calcs here, not sure where. A quick PAF and we had a better set of numbers, 13m from where we had parked the car based off the hint. Win!

Today, 30/12/2023 we completed the Geotour! Thanks so much to the cache owners and placement of a wonderful tour. Ballarat is steeped with history and this Geotour scratches the surface and showcases some really beautiful areas.It was a pleasure to complete this Geotour before it is finished in 2024.We were a bit worried we would get lost with calculating GZ with the projection - but we came up good.

Found during my roadtrip from Canberra to do the Ballarat GeoTour. Easy solve and quick find at GZ, beautiful spot. This town is very cute, especially with the lake. Left TB. TFTC!

Found with Simber15. It was sad to see the general store in this town was all boarded up. The nearby pub was still up and running though. We managed to find the required information with ease and off we went to GZ. There were a couple of places it could have been, but trying both, we eventually had the CiH. Thank you BallaratGeoTour for the placement

Found with Lani_B. We bumped into each other at Miners Rest and decided to team up for a few outlying GeoTour caches.

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 10 - Ballarat, Victoria - 150 kmDnes je u ns doma tdr den, tedy zatek pravch vnoc. Tady slav a ztra. J jsem si udlala aspo vnon sndaov event s mstnmi kaery. Troku jsem si popletla msto setkn, neekala jsem, e tu budou mt tolik McDonald. Nakonec jsem nala ten sprvn a setkn bylo velmi pjemn. Pak jsem se vydala na odlov srie Ballarat Geotour, jedin geotour v Austrlii, kter je rozloen snad po celm okrese. Ani jsem ji celou nestihla a najezdila jsem 150 km. Bylo dusno a honily se mraky a odpoledne piel siln vtr a velmi se ochladilo. Nakonec zaala bouka a trv stle. Stihla jsem odlovit z geotour 14 keek a pidala 6 challeng. Pak m d a zima zahnaly zpt na hotel. Mm tu vivku, tak se asi nalom do hork bublajc vody. Pokusm se dolovit tu tour rno, pokud tedy pestane pret.After nice Christmas event with local cachers I start with the Ballarat geotour. I drive about 150 km and still have not all of the tour caches. Short stop I make by small challenge trail in nature. Afternoon comes strong wind and later a strom and raining. So I go back to my hotel. Maybe I will be continue with the tour tomorow. Thanks for all caches and greetings from Czech republic.

I decided i needed a day of caching as i havnt found one for ages so came down to the Ballarat area to complete the geotour and some other targets. This was my first find for the day. I didnt like the coordinates i first calculated here but after going back and rechecking the numbers i soon came up with a more likely target. Once at gz it was a quick find, ooooh i have missed that feeling ! BGT24: Learmonth (Ballarat GeoTour) is find number 3,259 for me. A great small letterbox hybrid I enjoyed finding as part of my caching fun in City Of Ballarat. Unless otherwise mentioned above, I found the coordinates to be accurate, the cache in good condition and the log dry and with plenty of room to sign. I am logging this one on Wednesday 20 Dec 2023 at 12:34 pm and the weather is Clear Sky 17C 53% 7 m/s . Thanks for placing this cache for the rest of us to enjoy ballaratgeotour.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

A few spare days to fill before Christmas so I made the decision to hit the road and go on a road trip from Adelaide to Ballarat. The main purpose of the trip is to tackle the Ballarat Geo Tour before they get archived in February 2024. Day three was spent getting festive on the Christmas Down Under trail, a spell in Miners Rest, a walk around Learmonth, west side of Lake Lake Wendouree and even found the time to pick up a few solved mysteries. Another busy day. My calculated coordinates led me to a paddock fence line. Nothing really matched the hint. A cursory search revealed nothing. I went back to my car to recalculate coordinates when a car pulled up in front of me. I thought it was a muggle but turned out to be geocacher SlowDog. We chatted a bit and then searched further afield in an area that did match the hint. Cache found shortly after. Always great to meet Geocachers in the field. Thanks for the cache BallaratGeoTour.# # #13788 # #

Today is operation lets do the Ballarat Geo Tour. Lovely day for it too. Find #4 Met a fellow Geocacher from South Australia whilst at GZ and located the log after a bit of an extended search. TFTC

Thought wed spend some time working through this wonderful Geotour. This was not in the most obvious place, well, at least where we thought was the most obvious place. Got there in the end. Many thanks ballaratgeotour for providing this game piece for our enjoyment. And thanks for sharing the highlights of your region .

Visiting from Port Macquarie.Today we set out on a mission to complete the Ballarat Geotour as it was our only opportunity to do so before it ends early next year. Overall it was a very busy, cold, and productive caching day out.Thanks for the cache

Find#5860Nice hiding place What a awesome weekend on a trip to Ballarat and surrounds Thanks for the cache