Forlorn and Forgotten East Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
By BettyBoo3747 on 19-Aug-21. Waypoint GC9FBX1

Found with weirdobiker on the way past heading to Melbourne. As we were heading past and weirdobiker was working on a streak, we had to stop and make the find. A little bit of toing and froing until we zeroed in on GZ, then a quick find. A little difficult getting the bag out of the cache, but I eventually persuaded it to come out. Signed and replaced as found. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz while on our way to Melbourne

Done with a Group of cachers who also collaborated on the puzzles. We had a most enjoyable two days in the area. Many thanks for all the caches. Signed as Vic1.

A big thank you for replacing the log sheet 2y'stassies.

We are not certain if our memories are accurate, but we seem to remember this area as being very overgrown and not inviting. Today was different. The area is now being well maintained. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. Unfortunately the log was very wet and not usable, We have supplied a replacement log in a sealed plastic bag. Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the cache, one that gave us the opportunity to have a break as we head south.

Found while enjoying a day trip around the area. The sunshine is divine. Logbook is wet but was able to crudely etch my name on it. Many thanks BettyBoo3747 for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.Greetings from Tatura, Australia

Found by The Empire + HWe left Bright in the morning, the crisp mountain air still fresh as we set off on our drive back to Melbourne. The early light cast a soft glow over the landscape, highlighting the mist clinging to the hills and the dewy greenery along the roadside. The quiet streets of Bright slowly disappeared behind us as we made our way onto the winding roads leading out of the Alpine region. A quick find before jumping back onto the freeway. Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747.-M

A quick stop on the way home from the nearby cito.Spent some time reading the plaques. Thanks BettyBoo for highlighting another forgotten area

A quick visit today to see how things were going with this cache. All good and plenty of room left on the log sheet.

Another wet and miserable winter's day, and a certain PE teacher getting even more bored on school holidays, so let's attempt some park and grabs out Wang way again today...A cemetery we never even knew about, gotta love geocaching bringing you to these places...FP awarded !!!We were well and truly muggled by the MOOing onlookers across the road, MOOing us to GZ and MOOing us signing the logsheet, and a special BIG MOO for BettyBOO, see the MOOing onlookers in the attached pic...

Found with Bullash on 4 March 2024

Today is the last day of our Canberra geobash journey, by tonight we will be home and back to normality. We looked in the place that we thought was the logical place for the cache and there it was. SL TFTC

Outnabout for some solo caching after travelling from Stopped by for a leg stretch to grab this one. Its always a great day for caching. TFTC BettyBoo3747

After an event in Rutherglen, we decided to make the most of the nice weather and head over to Wang to collect a few a few more kid friendly caches in town. Wang now has the majority of our unfound caches closest to home. A hidden little cemetery had no idea it was here. TFTC!

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Wow never had any idea this existed. Naturally I approached from the wrong spot but only snagged a little on the fence so alls good. Tftc

Very nice

Good spot found it with gehenna66

TFTC - southward bound today

When I saw this one on the map, it conjured up an image of a cache that was in a similar location. As it turned it, it was the same location, the old cache having been archived. This one turned out to be an easier find and a much easier retrieval.



Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for the cache and a return visit.

Came here for the cache, discovering this sacred but out of the way sanctuary. I pay my respects to those who were buried here a long time ago.

Staying an extra night at our shack in Punkah with middle child and Roxy dog whilst hubby and the two other kids went home today. We decided to tackle some HSS series and caches in Wang.

Blink and you’ll miss this little block of land when you drive past. Glad we stopped here.

Thank you for the cache here BettyBoo3747

*Found on the 11 Apr 2023 @ 3:41 pm.*
*Cache find # 14619.*

Day 5 of the Rutherglen MEGA trip.
Out and about around town finding lots of caches.
After a couple of events and cache finds in Corowa this morning, it was then time to head back to camp to pack up my tent, once that was done, it was time to start heading towards home but not before finding a few more caches along the way.

**Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for placing this cache.**

Found on our journey home after the Rutherglen mega.
Thanks for the cache
Took nothing Left nothing Signed log

Attending the Rutherglen Event.
Out caching with Kiscardi and Agazo. Signing as KAM.
On our way to Wangaratta to collect AdLabs before a lunchtime event in Rutherglen.
A quick find. TFTC

Out caching with Agazo and Marchwood today, visiting the area for the Rutherglen mega. We started in Chiltern today to tidy up stuff we had started here a couple of days ago. Great to pick all the caches up, close by. Then we headed down to Wangaratta to pick up Ad labs and virtuals as well as any nearby trads or multis before heading to Rutherglen for BBQ lunch. Thanks to all the CO's for placing and maintaining

Our hapless trio made our way to Wangaratta to open another area for caching. TFTC.

Exploring around Rutherglen with Wicky. She's not great on road trips, so plenty of cache stops to break things up. Thanks for placing this cache!

Cheers

OCW Irondale today getting off the beaten path and avoiding some crowds this morning. TFTC

Caching with Jennyfromthefarm on our way to Rutherglen Mega.
Great day. TFTC

Found on behalf of 4 year old Tyler

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). 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 - Betty Boo 3747 [^]

Found but took me a while to unlock the gate though. It is good to learn a little bit of the history at this exact location. TFTC!

Caching on my way to Melbourne today. A quick find here today. Tftc!!

Great spot for a hide... TFTC

Haha another stop off on our way home.. Trudged through the long grass! Quick find. TFTC

Called in this morning and changed container over. New log. All good here.

Easy find, slightly damp, very green.
Grass very tall at entrance gate!

TFTC. Log is rlly wet

TFTC. Not wanting to venture very far this morning , it was a quick trip to this location. Wee have been here before. A very quick find here. Log was damp but we could still make our mark without too much difficulty.

Accompanying All7 and log full wet.. TFTC

Found with 63ROOS. Tks

Got notified last week that the power was going out at the office which meant the server would not be available. Outcome would be a frustrating day with jo work done do I made the call and had a flex. Meant I had a day free so why not go caching. With all the love at Rutherglen lately poor old Wangaratta is not being visited much. Many caches today hadn’t been logged since January (which was a tad painful as many past logs were generic Megs ones). Original intention was to use the locationless cache to boost my best day to 8 (plus AdLabs) but the plan was foiled by flooding - didn’t realise how many caches would be inaccessible (too many to log). In the end I did end up at Rutherglen to get a few different types but will save the bonus cache for another day (no Earthcaches available to collect). However did find all 33 (plus 5 AdLab points) that I actually looked for – but a lot more I didn’t try as access was blocked by water.

After taking a wrong turn and ending up in Glenrowan again I ended up at this spot which was my real goal.
Been here before and signed the previous version - is a sad place but so worth flagging with a cache. Hopefully eventually someone does something. My phone did not want to play here so overshot the hide but soon had under control. Log has been damp but fine to sign.
TFTC BettyBoo3747

Being so unkempt made it quite easy

Good spot

Thought I had done this one before log checked yes was already signed don’t know why I didn’t log it on here

We remember searching for a cache here many moons ago with Bushfire on our way to Porepunkah and having a devilish of a time finding the micro. The grass was unkempt back then also not to this extent though. Today we pulled off the highway to make a much quicker find in a better hiding location.
Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the placement.

Another interesting sounding cache that the wife and I stopped to check out on the way to Melbourne. Grass was long and yep, the area is certainly Forlorn and Forgotten....which is a really sad actually.

Thanks for the reason to stop and check the area out BettyBoo....

Nice

In the Wangaratta area for a few days caching with my very good caching mate from Bacchus Marsh 6Hinemoa2 and great caching friend from Adelaide and his mate the Blackadders.
Due to COVID lockdowns and other problems this trip has been postponed a number of times but we are finally going. Once in the area we put 3B6 or Bushfire in our logs to save space.
I am running late with my logs after finding so many in five full on caching days.
With so many caches found I have to use the cut and paste method as we found so many great caches from so many different cachers, so a big thank you to all those folk.
I have moved to Sydney for a few days so will log a few more.

THE LATE TO THE WANGARATTA MEGA TOUR. [:o)]
We were booked for November 21. [^] Didn't Happen.
Booking transferred to February 22. covid
Booking transferred to May 2022. Yah - made it albeit a tad late.

DAY 4: Off to do the Ned Kelly Helmet series. and anything else we may be passing
The Fab Four of Bushfire, Blackadders, brisal5 and 6himemoa2 set off for a days of Geocaching adventures. Plan A was to do NKH and then off towards Everton and Beechworth for some Randolph the Rats caches [^] So to save space in logs we signed BBB6 or 3B6 with a team stamp for the date or similar and unless there was something different or exciting happening these logs are all generic.

Wow- A cemetery [?] All we could see was long grass three foot high except for a geo-trail that led us to a likely GZ. Encircling the GZ the group soon spotted the cache. What I didn't spot was a headstone in all the grass!

***Thanks BettyBoo3747 for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Out on a caching adventure of 4 days with bushfire, Brisal 5 and Blackadder. We stayed nearby at Goorambat and travelled around from there. This had to be postponed a few times due to Covid.
Although Tag along and I have been to this area many times. We lived nearby when we were newly married. This was a new experience however, as I am a geocacher now.
Stopped here at this old cemetery and as the name of the cache suggests it is a sad little place. We signed in as 3Bs, Team 3B6 or used name stamps.
The sun shone us all day despite the weather prediction of rain and cold..
Thanks for the fun BettyBoo3747

Day 4of a trip to Victoria targeting around the Benalla area with Brisal5, Bushfire and 6hinemoa2. The forecast for the day was for showers however it ended up as a perfect day for caching.

A fun adventurous day including getting bogged on a back track that has been notorious for catching other cachers and the need to contact a nearby farmer who one again kindly towed us out of our predicament, something that he had done for many others in the past.

Our targets were many including some of the Randolph the Rat series and a few others nearby. It also included a high terrain tree climb that needed the Adder and the Starfish to engineer a longer TOTT to scale a tree while Bushfire and 6hinemoa2 watched on in awe.hoping that the extended legs would not collapse or slip.

Another target was the Ned kelly Helmet series which was completed.

All caches were visited handled and signed by the individual members of the group, as always there was no car hopping. This is how we play.

All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.

Another of the sadly forgotten locations where ancestors have been abandoned. Such a sad thing that families have been forgotten.




Thank you for the cache BettyBoo3747, found 6/05/2022, 4:35:10 PM

Another great cache, on the way to work. Cheers. TFTC

The grass was very long here so I definitely kept an eye out for snakes. Thankfully there were some paths to the cemetery markers and gz. A quick find of an exact cache a friend bought me recently. Nice hide TFTC

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14.
I had a great time today finding this geocache.
Thanks for placing it for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
It was great weather for a bit of a Geocaching adventure.
Really nice to be out here today.
Thanks for the cache hide.

We have stopped here before so knew the little cemetery was almost hidden from casual observing.
The headstones were hidden in the long grass today!
The cache was an easy find at GZ.
Thanks for the hide.

Canberra Day long weekend trip to Wangaratta. After spending the Mega weekend down at Wangaratta, there was so much more to do that a plan was hatched to visit again to do the Warbies Challenges and the Old Coach Road. A team of Joolay, Kitty Katch, FurfacesLL, Fitzy_1965 & MinnieK and I came together for this trip. Day 4. I have reached the last day of my March Wangaratta trip, and now the long hard days are over, I headed out to finish some of the caches around Wangaratta before heading down to the Winton Wetlands to do the Adventure Lab caches and as many others as possible now I have learnt how to get in. The day ended with the drive home, a fun blast up the highway with a bonus whereigo at the end.

Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747

35613.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Australia 2 A#22

**Albida**

**Found en route to Melbourne from Corowa**
I have been staying in Corowa with family for a few days. It was time to head for home today and as it was somewhat cooler, I decided to stretch the ol' legs and grab a cache or two along the way.

A nice straight forward find here. I love a cemetery cache but was staggered how overgrown this one was

Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing

**Warning**, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to learning new things and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.

Cache on!
**#16998**

T.F.T.C. A quick find with Aussie Fun Seakers.

Well the Mega is done and dusted and what a fantastic weekend it was.
So thanks Wangaratta for putting on such a great Mega and to all of the organisers a job well done.
It is now time to head towards home and as they say there is always time for one but in my case maybe a few more as I follow the Highway south.
The last one in town before hitting the highway and I think that this cemetery is very long forgotten.
Very long grass and hardly any signs of any headstones and you would not know that this place was here except for the signature the gate.

Thanks BettyBoo3747 TFTC.

A nice quick find with little blue wren
A shame that there is so much grass here
A good spot for a cache Signed and replaced where found Tftc BettyBoo3747

This one was little dissapointing.

Not for the cache but the condition of the cemetery.

It can't be too hard to cut grass here surely?

The cache was an easy find.

Little easier than trying to read the graves here.

TFTC

Found on our 2nd attempt with Cathylmorgan & Jmorg24. I’ve never heard someone (Cathy) Squeal so much over cobwebs.

More to come

Find number 1 for today's Wangaratta adventure let's see what today brings thank you for hide

Find # 10282
Heading home the long way, collecting some Challenge caches I decided for a quick stop at this one. And made a quick grab.

TFTC BettyBoo3747

Found with gridge98 whilst in the area doing some caching apologies for the late log. Thanks for the cache

A nice quick find here today cache and contents are all good

After heading to tassie for almost 3 weeks, we detoured to Wangaratta for the Victorian Mega to catch up with some friends that we hadn’t seen for months if not years. We caught up with Freddo and e.gregory1 for the duration of the weekend, travelling around the local areas finding many of the caches that were on offer. To save room in the log books we signed as FEG or FEGC.
A wonderful area and nice to have a look around in somewhere I had only visited for 20mins before.

Thanks for the cache

Found while attending the 2022 Mega event at Wangaratta.

I drove across from Adelaide with Freddo. We took a week to get there and back as we meandered our way around northern Victoria, camping mostly along the river and generally avoiding contact with other people as far as possible to minimise covid risks.

While at the Mega we teamed up with gridge98 & Co. Most logs were signed FEGC (ie Freddo, e.gregory1 and gridge98 & Co).

We targeted some specific caches of interest, but also took the opportunity to find other random caches opportunistically as we were passing. Most of the puzzle caches were solved prior to leaving Adelaide in preparation for the trip.

Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the cache.

Found on mega weekend. One of a bunch of caches found and logged.

e.Gregory1 and Freddo decided to travel to Wangaratta for Geocaching Victoria’s first 2022 Mega event. The attraction of GeoMaze icon was just too tempting. We packed the Land Cruiser for a bubble environment. There would be some public exposure but we would be keeping it minimal. Fortunately we did not bother with any warm clothes. Fortunately we packed some Bushmans with +20% DEET. There were caches to find and we found caches. We saw a lot of interesting places and met the occasional geocacher or two in the field.

I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count.

This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

Find #77 on our Mega trip. Decided I could not leave this unfound so we went back today to find a way into the cache that did not involve walking through the Long grass. By sneaking through the fence closer to the cache we were able to find it after a short search.
Thanks for the fun.

Very forlorn and forgotten is an understatement here!
A sad state of disrepair. Probably unrecoverable now, given the size of the trees!
Took a min to spot, blends in well!
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found on our 2nd attempt. We found a section with shorter grass and not so far from the cache so made a quick grab here. Thanks for the fun

Found on a week long trip to Wang for the Mega event with Roostaman.
Lots of driving around town and avoiding the heat often.
And lots of different caches found as well.
Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747,
***MrsRoosta****

In Wangaratta for the Mega, and out picking up some caches for the day.
Cache found after a short search, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, BettyBoo3747, for us and others to find.

Found on a week long trip to Wang for the Mega event.
Met up with various cachers over the week and had fun caching
in various weather as well. We hit the trails and some series too.
Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747, .
***Roostaman****

Found by Rebel Acts

I was in town for a week to attend the Mega event, I had a great time catching up with friends and caching around the area, we had lots of laughs and fun along the way.

This is one of the caches found during the week. It really is sad to see the place so neglected, The geo trail through the long grass led me straight to GZ where I soon had the cache in hand.

Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the cache.

Caching in this area with Crank1 during the Mega event. BettyBoo3747, thank you so much for placing it and highlighting this area.

Did not attempt in the long grass during summer!

What an adequate name for a cache at this place! The dry grass is chest-high, what a pity.

Suscoe and Phetlern had completed the OCR series in the morning today, nothing like an early start to get caches found during the cooler part of the day.
Part two of today was an afternoon trip around Wangaratta to find a few more caches.
It was getting warm now, we think it settled at 33 degrees
Thanks to BettyBoo3747 for this hide.
Nice to be aware of this old cemetery.

Went out this morning to oick up a few solved mysteries and challenge caches. Called in near here to drop a TB that wants to be in night caches. Fought my way through the long grass and found this cache. Have been here before for another cache!
Thanks BB

In Wangaratta for the Mega, we traveled over early so we could get some local caching in. After stowing the shop in a storage shed so it wasn't bouncing around in the back of the car we set up in the caravan park and can now cache and explore. Today we had a lazy sleep in and a late start with the mission to head back to Beechworth and have lunch at Billsons Brewery. After rolling out of the brewery after an awesome meal and some tastings, we headed back to Camp for a cheeky afternoon snooze. Stopped and grabbed this one first though! It is so sad to see a place like this get forgotten and overgrown. TFTC

# 14143 Found and logged at 7:11:00 AM
At present in Everton for a couple of weeks before the Wangeratta Event
Beautiful weather yesterday wet all day today
Thanks for the cache BettyBoo3747
Lgoody

Found amongst the super long grass. Hard to write on but did our best. Thanks

#12622- 1:47:00 PM; Jumped through all of the hoops and now headed south to Melbourne and on to the ferry to Tasmania. Made some short stops along the way to stretch the legs and grab a cache, including this one. I had a sense of deja vu when I arrived here, but managed a much quicker find on this occasion. TFTC BettyBoo3747

#4728 Too good a day not to go out for some caching fun. En route to Beechworth with the geohounds we quickly swung by the lost cemetery. Lost in 6 foot high grass! We recall finding the previous cache here in our early days of caching. The geotrail led us to gz and Mrs BGF quickly spied the container. TFTC BB.

Found by Mary and David at 08:35. A FP awarded even before M stepped down from the GeoPrado. She loves cemeteries, and also your research on this place. It adds to the air of sadness that seems to permeate this neglected cemetery. Wouldn't like to be doing this at the height of summer. Quite a geotrail in the long grass . Surely a community could do some maintenance here? Our thanks to BettyBoo3747.

We parked nearby and first views of the site did seem very forlorn and forgotten. A little careful making the trip through the long grass - Lyn decided not to walk to GZ. I was surprised to find the cache quite quickly. Replaced as found. Thanks to BettyBoos3747 for the cache.

We made an early start for home, in order to put a couple more smiley tokens on our map.
Not so forlorn and forgotten, we called in today.

Thanks BettyBoo3747 for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
30165

We had a feeling of deja vu as we approached GZ. Maybe we have found a cache here before!
A quick find and back on the road.

After a short trip to Tumut to catch up with family and friends it was time to head for home today.
It had rained all night last night and was still raining as we left. This continued all the way until we reached Wodonga where it began to fine up. This meant we had no opportunity to look for any caches en route until then, but we still were organized to look on the remainder of the journey. We managed to find a number of traditionals, some of good size, a pre-solved puzzle and an Adventure Lab in Healsville.
They broke up the journey well!

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache BettyBoo3747.
**SKI Pair****

Stayed at Wangaratta for two nights. I had a great time finding your cache BettyBoo3747, thank you so much for placing it.

Found at 23.00 going back to our accommodation after a full day of caching. Good time for a night cache.
TFTC and the history.

I have stopped by here before but as the CO says, the lack of care is taking its toll. Glad it’s not summer and jo blakes are unlikely to be on the slither. Just another wee detour to the side of a hill and then on to hide out with mum! TFTC and the fun

We have found a cache here long ago, and the area was in much better condition then. We sat outside the gate and ate our lunch, before venturing through the long grass to GZ. Quickly spotted and SL at 1.24pm - at least the vegetation is looking healthy, but the grass has got a little out of hand! #8215 TFTC BB - a nice easy one to finish our caching Sunday.

Signed as Geo Trio, found with Jackez74 and matho64 the grass very long and wet under foot the prize was quickly found TFTC

A quick and easy find with Bucrog52 & Matho64. Signed log as Geo Trio. TFTC

Signed as Geo Trio, found with Jackez74 and Bucrog52
Grass is very long as you pass through the gate.
Hopefully the Crown Lands Department will maintain it soon. TFTC