Moor-Shepp Hidden Gem 40 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
By The Blind Side on 12-Oct-21. Waypoint GC9H9P0

Found while enjoying a peaceful bike ride through the bush. Hoping not to encounter any snakes today! Many thanks The Blind Side for providing this game piece for our enjoyment.Greetings from Tatura

Tftc found with earthly 65

After a thorough search, we agree...cache is missing...we have replaced it to keep cache in play...if original cache is actually found then we understand deleting our log...thankyou

Could not find

After the Tatura event, I took the deadly treadly to The Flats in Shepparton-Mooroopna.I had ridden some of these when they first came out, but had not come back for the newer ones.Today was the day. A lovely mild day for a ride. All the tracks and trails were dry, although the thistles were head high.I initially park the car near Little and Cemetery Roads intersection and unloaded the bike.I ride clockwise around to #47, then went back to the car for lunch.In the afternoon I moved down to the other end of Cemetery Road to try the eastern caches.A lot of walking to get to some of the caches.A DNF for me here today. The GPS seemed to suggest the little jump, but I couldn't spot a cache.Thanks for this series, Robmc.

12:54A couple of days in Shepparton, gave the caravan a run & put us close to the Central Victorian Annual Get Together on Thursday.We spent a couple of days searching for the hidden Moor-Shepp gems, mostly by bike & we will return for those we missed, perhaps the water will be gone. It was good to find those with fresh logs this time. **FEEDBACK TO CO:** The log of this one is in need of some serious TLC please. Also suggest a smaller plastic bag.A BIG thank you to the CO who placed this series of caches.36895

Found with LittleBoss2 on our way to a week in Numurkah. Thanks again The Blind Side for another great cache in this beaut area

Found with Bogonghazy whilst heading to Tocumwal. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache clever hide.

A quick detour to grab a cache to fill another day in our caching calendar, I cherry picked number 40. I was pleasantly surprised with the cache, the cache itself was not something I was expecting. My favourite number 40 is easy. Michael Jamieson. He was a no fuss defender who definitely held his own in probably the most under performing period of the club following the salary cap penalties the club was rightly given. Another 40 of note is a favourite basketballer I had growing up. MJ is and always will be my ally time favourite, he is the Goatdont believe everything LeBron says, but Shawn Kemp who played for the Seattle SuperSonics was a freakish athletic, with a devastating dunk. Anyway, TFTC The Blind Side

They say life begins at 40.
I loved being 40...
Clever hide, no muggles thankfully.
TFTC

Cache found in original location, log wet, replaced, good to go.

With the floodwaters between Shepparton and Mooroopna beginning to recede I expect most if not all of the Moor-Shepp Hidden Gem Series caches to either be washed away or full of water so I am disabling all until I've had the opportunity to inspect and replace. This may take some months as the area is still not accessible and there are 48 to check.

Have a 50th Birthday in Shepp so decided to make a weekend o it and grab some caches. The wetness of the day didn't stop us from finding this one although our feet are a bit wet. TFTC

Headed out to do some geocaching after dropping geoboy @pokemon card game in shepparton. This geomum is on here own and I'm not complaining. What a great little thing to have in the track foy a bike. Cache and log in good order. TFTC off to the next one.

Found it after deciding to take matters into my own hands TFTC

Under thr Wooden ramp

Friends found it. It took a long time. Cheeky cheeky spot.

Tricky find

The most obvious is not always the obvious but then can be the obvious.
Clever hide
TFTC

Had us looking about abit but soon found. Nice hide here tftc

Out for another bush walk with Leck1e and Sia thanks for this series would have never known to walk these trails before. TFTC

Nice find very clever thanks for the TFTC

We were in the Shepparton area today, spending quality caching time with Liz & Bruce and Hans & Linda. This area has changed a lot since we were last in the area, a lot rougher indeed. SL TFTC

TFTC. We are staying on the are for a few days prior to the mega in Wangaratta. Teaming up with Liz and Bruce and muff1 we spent the day exploring around the area caching as we went.
We stayed flexible with our caching plans. We headed down to the flats to,try our luck we were driving. Parts of the track were ok but some were not passable in the car. We did what we could without damaging anything.

Thanks for arranging and hiding. We are enjoying exploring the area and completing the series.

#4806 Quick trip across to Shepp early this morning to get some supplies from Bunnings. Mr BGF and Essie the geohound then completed a 6km loop walk collecting a few more caches in this series.

The cache was spotted on approach having been displaced from its intended hidey location. SL and all good with the cache despite being exposed for sometime. Replaced where it should be. This makes it find # 400 for the year, our 9th year in row in reaching this milestone and just in the nick of time being the last day of the year! TFTC The Blind Side.

Found today Melbourne Cup Holiday
Beautiful day to be getting cache’s
Time is now for the shire to burn off some of this long grass.
Log found at 10:12. am 2/1121. Find 2042
Signed and Replaced thanks Blind side for number 40.

Stuck for a bit but got there in the end

Found!! Cheeky spot

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FTF. LTF.

Congratulations to locus cache on ftf. Dalerious, Cybergran V and I came along and got 2TF on this one whilst out claiming ftf on the three other's. Thanks The Blind Side yet again .

Having unbelievably picked up 3 Joint FTF's with catnap777 and Cybergran V so late in the day, we backtracked to this found one for 2TF choosing to leave the forest the same way we drove in.

After waiting for locus cache and Kernalcache to emerge from an FTF hunt in the forest, we followed them to Dookie and up Mt Major as they had aquired a key for the gate at the bottom. Mum had been wanting to see the top of that hill for a lot longer than her legs would allow her to hike it.
We all trampled a few daisies together before parting company where Cybergran V, catnap777 and I headed for home while locus cache and Kernalcache wandered off for a few more finds.
After a spot to eat and a cuppa, I noticed the last three new FTF's were still up for grabs. [:o] How could this be [?]
They no longer are.
I fun drive through this very interesting and challenging area soon fixed that.

TFTC's The Blind Side, I think it is fair to say that mum, cat' and I have all had a most rewarding day. [^]
Congrats also to locus cache for the FTF here and thankyou for leaving a few for us late-comers. [^]

After intrepidly traversing the daunting terrain from 39 to 37 the road ahead looked even worse. Risk it? Or double back the way we came in? At least we knew we could get back there even though it was a scary hairy drive so we opted to do that, with the bonus of a joint 2TF with catnap777 and dalerious.
I highly commend dalerious for the excellent job he did of navigating those deep potholes and not getting us bogged.
Thanks for the adventure The Blind Side.
Took a praying mantis which might become a cache in its own right one day.