Fill McCracken Shepparton North, Victoria, Australia
By
lorigus74 on 12-Sep-21. Waypoint GC9G7RM
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Logs
Out with Happy pants, omegaman1971 and Rebel Acts for a fews days celebrating my special birthday.In Shepparton and grabbing a few around the area. Bounced our way out along the track to GZ, where I was happy to have some tall assistance and even a TOTT was needed.Thanks lorigus74 for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.
Out and about with omegaman, Happy feet and Happy Pants, there are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles.This is one of the caches found today.Thanks lorigus74 for the cache.
Omegaman1971Support Your Local Villain Live - Laugh - Lurk First To Find: 181Sidetracked Cache Finds: 133Back in Shepparton after many years to bring some smiles to the map, catch up with old friends, and celebrate Happy Feet1's birthday. This is one of the caches we found this weekend.Cheers for the cache
A quick find and lucky after some tool making during the week we had just the right tool to grab the cache. Had to wait for a fisher man to leave before returning to grab though. TFTC
Drove past this one then realised where it was, Had to use the Bullbar.Log signed and off we went.TFTC
Reperio 14:59While staying with family in Nathalia this Christmas period, we headed into Shepparton for some last minute shopping, and some caches thrown in for good measure. Having grown up on McCracken Street in Shepparton, I couldnt help stopping to grab this cache. Fortunately this one was nice and close to the road, which made for an easier retrieval. Gratias lorigus74As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV
TFTC! I walked around for a little bit then looked to the gods to ask the question. He replied and gave me what I wanted. Thank you for a fun cache!
We are heading up to the Shepparton Marathon and taking the long way via Echuca. The plan is to get 20 geocaches in the Campaspe and Moira LGAs and at least 1 cache in whatever NSW LGA Moama is in. Then get at least 4 caches in the Shepparton LGA. Not sure it will happen with our tight schedule, but will see how it goes.
Only got 16 geocaches in Moira LGA yesterday, so todays plan has changed. After doing photography duties at the start of the Marathon, it's time to head North and collect a few geocaches, hopefully in time for the end of the race.
Nice tree climb that I thought about monkey climbing, but still too wet at 8 am. As such grabbed my tool and was quickly up and down.
I needed this "Tree Climb" attribute geocache in a different LGA on the 27th, so this was a must geocache for me. Only 2 more days required in different LGAs to complete this GCA942A challenge now.
Thanks for the cache Lorigus 74
Hunter
PS. Thanks to the CO for the recent maintenance check, all good and much appreciated.
Only got 16 geocaches in Moira LGA yesterday, so todays plan has changed. After doing photography duties at the start of the Marathon, it's time to head North and collect a few geocaches, hopefully in time for the end of the race.
Nice tree climb that I thought about monkey climbing, but still too wet at 8 am. As such grabbed my tool and was quickly up and down.
I needed this "Tree Climb" attribute geocache in a different LGA on the 27th, so this was a must geocache for me. Only 2 more days required in different LGAs to complete this GCA942A challenge now.
Thanks for the cache Lorigus 74
Hunter
PS. Thanks to the CO for the recent maintenance check, all good and much appreciated.
Found cache after climbing on k kayak on trailer, but it's solidly jammed into the hole. No amount of force could loosen it. Owner maintenance please
This was so much fun!
Normally we would walk around finding caches which we did for the rest of the series but this one for some reason had me thinking I might need height.
Spotted the cache immediately but signing the log was a mystery.
After a couple of attempts which had us laughing out loud we soon had pen to paper.
Talk about a goodie. Definitely deserves a favourite
TFTC
Normally we would walk around finding caches which we did for the rest of the series but this one for some reason had me thinking I might need height.
Spotted the cache immediately but signing the log was a mystery.
After a couple of attempts which had us laughing out loud we soon had pen to paper.
Talk about a goodie. Definitely deserves a favourite
TFTC
Well, how entertaining this one was.
Circled GZ and then decided I needed to move the car.
Glad that nobody drove past. I am sure I would have been quite a sight!
Love it Lorigus 74..
TFTC
Circled GZ and then decided I needed to move the car.
Glad that nobody drove past. I am sure I would have been quite a sight!
Love it Lorigus 74..
TFTC
Out and about with some Muggle friends up this way towards Nathalia it was mentioned by my Muggle friends if i wanted to grab a cache or two.
Not having planned to get any i remebered this group of hides with some funny titles so i said "yeah why not sneak a couple in"
We parked up in my GeoMobile near GZ. I noticed this was an elevated hide and being too nervous to stand on my car i had a think about it then decided to.
I placed a towel on the hardest part at the corner of the bonnet and ascended to the "wire in the crack"
With the booty safely extracted the log was signed at 14:40 on Tuesday 28 June 2022.
Replaced the cache in the .... and descended carefully back to terra firma
The cache and contents are fine and dry.
TFTC lorigus74
Not having planned to get any i remebered this group of hides with some funny titles so i said "yeah why not sneak a couple in"
We parked up in my GeoMobile near GZ. I noticed this was an elevated hide and being too nervous to stand on my car i had a think about it then decided to.
I placed a towel on the hardest part at the corner of the bonnet and ascended to the "wire in the crack"
With the booty safely extracted the log was signed at 14:40 on Tuesday 28 June 2022.
Replaced the cache in the .... and descended carefully back to terra firma
The cache and contents are fine and dry.
TFTC lorigus74
Ended up circling this was way to many times to find it but with a different perspective spotted this little sucker. Lucky I had the car to assist. TFTC
Found quickly. Geogirl and muggle friend enjoyed finding caches while geoboy was playing pokemon. TFTC
After spotting the cache the fun was then figuring out how to get it. Cool cache hide tftc
# 14322 Found and logged at 9:11:00 AM
Spending a few days in Shepparton for a few dayd caching
Cachingin the morning dodging the heat after lunch
Thanks for the cache lorigus74
Lgoody
Spending a few days in Shepparton for a few dayd caching
Cachingin the morning dodging the heat after lunch
Thanks for the cache lorigus74
Lgoody
Found with catnap777 @4:07pm.
We visited Fill McCracken to fill m'challengein, and the crack in cat's challenge in too.
You see, having recently found and signed the last of the new challenge caches in the Warby Ranges, cat' and I suddenly had a whole series of projects to work on.
One of them (GC9DGPY) required me to find a T1.5 and a T2.5 (among others) on a Tuesday. Another challenge (GC9DPF6) required cat' to find just a couple more caches with the "Tree climbing required" attribute to qualify. [:o]
3 in this series filled our cracks nicely. [^]
This has proved to be a cracken good series to have up our ...... sleeves.
TFTCs lorigus74 .
We saved most to have a crack at another day. [^]
We visited Fill McCracken to fill m'challengein, and the crack in cat's challenge in too.
You see, having recently found and signed the last of the new challenge caches in the Warby Ranges, cat' and I suddenly had a whole series of projects to work on.
One of them (GC9DGPY) required me to find a T1.5 and a T2.5 (among others) on a Tuesday. Another challenge (GC9DPF6) required cat' to find just a couple more caches with the "Tree climbing required" attribute to qualify. [:o]
3 in this series filled our cracks nicely. [^]
This has proved to be a cracken good series to have up our ...... sleeves.
TFTCs lorigus74 .
We saved most to have a crack at another day. [^]
Dalerious and I were on a mission. And it was almost like Mission Impossible because as we were about to leave work and grab these three caches to fill in gaps for our Challenge Cache requirements, work had other ideas and decided to throw a whammy in the mix. Well he got that sorted, came back to the car and said, I don't think we are going to make it back in time for the next truck. We can do it hun, I said, let's go! The moral of this story is we got all our Challenge cracks filled, and got back in time to unload some precious cargo . Thanks lorigus74 for some well placed tree climbs in this mix, and for providing a few laughs on some very clever cache titles.
Found today @ 8:28 am great cache to start our adventure.
Breeze is cool and glad I have my gum boots
Log signed and cache replaced
Favourite point for the series
Many thanks Lorigus74
Breeze is cool and glad I have my gum boots
Log signed and cache replaced
Favourite point for the series
Many thanks Lorigus74
We are back to complete this series, and what a start, Fill does remind me of myself actually haha. Loved it. TFTC lorigus74
Freedom[^]: well the release from lockdown anyway Today is the day[:X][^]
I'd been offered a day out caching with dalerious and catnap777[:X] but hey, they were starting at 4.30am[|)][|)] and that's almost when I go to bed![xx(]
Plus I had a 2pm appointment and I needed to be available for that[^][^][^] So I declined their caching trip[?][xx(] and I am so pleased that I did[^][^]
The end of lockdown meant that the reviewers published new caches in the Shepparton area and so I rang Cybergran V and asked if she wanted to come caching[?]
She said 'yes', thinking there was only 2
When she rang back home later to say 'there's 9 caches and we will be a while', Rich said 'good!'[^][^] so we figured we had to find them all today
Ladders, The Blind Side, tracks in the bush and Rex running himself ragged having fun[^] meant an awesome day[:X][^] So awesome that I rang my appointment and postponed it so that we could stay out longer and keep having fun[^]
We managed 8 FTFs out of 9 caches[^] Although one was a joint FTF[^] with The Blind Side, who we muggled at another cache It was a good thing that we spoke with him[^][^] as he made short work of a place where the ladder would have been needed[^]
After this forest trip, Cybergran V kindly bought us a souvlaki/yiros for lunch[:X][^][:X] and then we made a dash for Pine Lodge Cemetery[^]: only to be pipped by minutes by dalerious and catnap777[?] Cybergran V signed the log book at that cache but I saved it foir a day when I need a multi[^][^][^]
You know my daughter calls one of my sons 'Ben Dover' and apparently 'Ben Dover' is mates with Fill McCracken
Woohoo! Joint *FTF* with Cybergran V [^]
TNLN. SL. TFTC lorigus74
I'd been offered a day out caching with dalerious and catnap777[:X] but hey, they were starting at 4.30am[|)][|)] and that's almost when I go to bed![xx(]
Plus I had a 2pm appointment and I needed to be available for that[^][^][^] So I declined their caching trip[?][xx(] and I am so pleased that I did[^][^]
The end of lockdown meant that the reviewers published new caches in the Shepparton area and so I rang Cybergran V and asked if she wanted to come caching[?]
She said 'yes', thinking there was only 2
When she rang back home later to say 'there's 9 caches and we will be a while', Rich said 'good!'[^][^] so we figured we had to find them all today
Ladders, The Blind Side, tracks in the bush and Rex running himself ragged having fun[^] meant an awesome day[:X][^] So awesome that I rang my appointment and postponed it so that we could stay out longer and keep having fun[^]
We managed 8 FTFs out of 9 caches[^] Although one was a joint FTF[^] with The Blind Side, who we muggled at another cache It was a good thing that we spoke with him[^][^] as he made short work of a place where the ladder would have been needed[^]
After this forest trip, Cybergran V kindly bought us a souvlaki/yiros for lunch[:X][^][:X] and then we made a dash for Pine Lodge Cemetery[^]: only to be pipped by minutes by dalerious and catnap777[?] Cybergran V signed the log book at that cache but I saved it foir a day when I need a multi[^][^][^]
You know my daughter calls one of my sons 'Ben Dover' and apparently 'Ben Dover' is mates with Fill McCracken
Woohoo! Joint *FTF* with Cybergran V [^]
TNLN. SL. TFTC lorigus74
Joint *FTF* with locus cache
Locus cache did the incredible here, it was certainly worth being here with her on this glorious first day of freedom.
Thanks for the adventure lorigus74 and thanks a million locus cache for inviting me on this adventure.
Locus cache did the incredible here, it was certainly worth being here with her on this glorious first day of freedom.
Thanks for the adventure lorigus74 and thanks a million locus cache for inviting me on this adventure.
2TF.
Yes it is up there but how are we going to reach it. I know, I'll park the car close enough and get Ben to stand on the roof to grab it. Yep, worked perfectly. Great hide. TFTC
Yes it is up there but how are we going to reach it. I know, I'll park the car close enough and get Ben to stand on the roof to grab it. Yep, worked perfectly. Great hide. TFTC