BernieH Cornishtown, Victoria, Australia
By Robmc on 27-Feb-22. Waypoint GC9P2CR

The time has come to retire the 2023 Rutherglen Mega Caches.We hope everyone enjoyed finding them.Robmc.

We set out this evening for our final run to collect the FTF series form the Easter 2023 Mega in Rutherglen. We figured we'd pick up a few traditionals as we go. Was good to find this one as we have collected a couple of Bernie H's pathtags on our travels. Thanks Robmc for another great cache.

Stopped here to find this one, the log book is rather damp but managed to still sign it Today on my way home from the Capital Geobash in the ACT, I made my way from Wagga Wagga to Rutherglen via Albury/Wodonga. I started off with the Pub series followed by a few along the way and a few small trails around last years mega. Unfortunately half way through the day I fell from a try about 6m up but was okay to continue on. Thanks for the cache

11:40Second day caching around Rutherglen on the way to Canberra.This morning n0w0rries and I concentrated on Multis. Needing one for the calendar, I think I might have overachieved... But only by a dozen and a half by lunch time, and a couple of dozen by the end of the day.Wait... this is not a multi! But it would be very un-neighbourly to drive past our mate Bernie without dropping in.Thanks, Robmc.#8474

An extended Easter holiday with +Wife, EveTheStaffy and nirgalagrin. We are travelling via Rutherglen to find the last of the MEGA caches on our way through. This is one of many geocaches found along the way. Thank you for the regular, traditional geocache, Thewins5 for the cache.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Wending our way towards Canberra for the Mega. Orignally we planned a whole week here to collect the most smilies we could but alas plans had to be changed and now we are in a rush, with today being our last full day here.The plan was to try and collect the letterboxes and as many of the multi's that we had started in the past few days. Of course there were various others that we came across as we toured around. TFTC Robmc

Needing some time out of the house, I thought I would head out towards Chiltern to grab a few more caches in the area. A nice quick driveby. Log signed and returned as found.

Thanks for the cache, nice easy find, although GZ on the phone was a little off

Easy to find

The sun was out so we decided to escape for a little adventure. Nice easy find, trackable already gone

Fortunately the rain had decided to calm its farm about now so dad didn’t get all wet like at the previous cache. And I had given up on the stupid eyephone and just used the force instead, which turned out to be far more accurate….this is why Garmins are king when it comes to caching.
So after signing the log we wondered what young Bernie was up to right about then…probably no good.

A quick find while doing an AL. TFTC.

In the area with AnyMules, brisal5 and 6Hinemoa2 signing all logs as BAB6 to save space in the log books or their personal stamp. This may be the ageing Bushfires last Mega as the effects of advancing MND continues to advance but as I said that after the Whittlesea Mega, we will see.
I must thank my three mates and lots of other folk for all the help that I have received over the last year or so for which I will always be very grateful. This cache was found on our travels around this great area while attending the Mega Event in Rutherglen early April 2023.
I am slowly logging these caches but I don't know if I will finish but time will tell.
You never know what life has in store for you so you must expect the unexpected.
Thanks to Robmc for placing this cache

Found with Sui_001 and Signed DSD during the Victorian Mega.

Still hunting around the Rutherglen area with goingplaces2. Found this cache and signed the log, then replaced as found. TFTC.

Picking up some more caches with ilook4geo and were able to find our targets without any problem. Hope we will be able to get back for another visit and find more of the caches around here at a later date. Thanks for placing this cache go to Robmc.

With a name like Bernie H, commemorating our friend of that name of course we had to find this cache. It was located at a beautiful site not far off the main road. It was a good choice to put a cache here.

After lunch we set off to find more of the FTF series and stopped at any other caches we came across along the way. By now JMelb had taken over the driving and GMelb hopped out at each cache. We had to stop here and see the BernieH tribute cache! Cache was a nice easy find by JMelb
TFTC WTO - GJMMelb

Found on my last afternoon around Rutherglen for my mega trip. Easy find at GZ, I was worried here that my engine was overheating because I could smell smoke but I realised it was because of the burning of fields all around Rutherglen; a heap of places must be doing it now that Easter is over. TNLNSL. TFTC Robmc!

In Rutherglen for the MEGA. A lovely, little relaxed town. Caching was the same... relaxed & took each day as it came.Mostly I cached with GoodLook, TheDame & feathertop. At these times we stamped logs as the Fabulous Randoms to save space. Your cache was found as part of this journey. Another fabulous day to be out caching.Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for the enjoyment of geocachers... like me ??

I was fortunate enough to be invited on a roadtrip from Adelaide to attend the Rutherglen mega. Across the week we cached with many different teams and signed the log various ways, but most often my own team name/ initials, or as Fabulous Randoms. I spent most of our time with GoodLook, LiB and feathertop, but also teamed up with AnyMules, Brisal, micaparamedic and others.

What a beautiful area of the world to explore via the lens of geocaching.

Thank you very much for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

The JAMS team (JJ52 allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) were on a road trip heading to the Rutherglen Mega event (staying in Corowa) for 3 days then winding our way home via Albury, Wangaratta, Bendigo and various other places in between. It was a great week with many more caches found than we expected. There were targeted caches, challenge caches, Ad Labs, events and various others to fulfill various statistics for the four of us. We were lucky with the weather, it rained a bit on our way over on Friday, then half a day after we left Wangaratta but on the whole it was great caching weather. We did drive a few slippery muddy roads, but nothing too bad. We also caught up with lots of people either at events or out in the field and enjoyed many great chats. All in all a fun time with lots of Victoria explored and then very tired when I arrived home. [^]

We had left our accommodation and had headed out of Rutherglen, on a round about route to our overnight accommodation in Wangaratta stopping for a few caches along the way and another LGA that we all needed.

Thanks for the cache Robmc.

Stamped as JAMS - JJ52, alllister w, mogni, sir_spectre. All of these teams are from South Australia and after some major planning we managed to find approx 700 caches while being away for a week. Also qualifiied for a variety of challenges, found LGA's and had lots of laughs. Found while attending the Victorian Mega in Rutherglen.
Thanks

In town for Mega and met up with some of the other Queenslanders for three intense days of caching. Signed as TQ6.
We're going like Eveready bunnies signing anything we've solved.
This exercise reminds me of the old pacman game going along- munch, munch, munch?? spitting out the smileys on the map. Yummy!??

TFTC??

Bernie sounds like a combination of Burt and Ernie

TFTC and greetings from Tassie

A bonus find as we head to the new multis. Met some locals and learned more about the story of this one. TNLN TFTC

My daughter loves Christmas so we wanted to come visit the nearby town. We found this cache along the way. Thanks for the cache tnln replaced as found sl

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC

Obvious from the road you turn on. Retry sounding parrots

During our stay in mega event what a great lovely drive out here quick find and placed back where it belong TFTC

Today was another FABULOUSly RANDOM girls day out. LiB, feathertop, TheDame and myself joined forces and our logs have been stamped "Fabulous Randoms".

We also ran into a number of other teams today whilst out and about. A number of caches were on our hit list and yours was one of them.

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

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Found by The Empire + H
Another one found whilst attending the Rutherglen Mega Event! After the CITO, we took a drive to Chiltern. Thanks for the cache, Robmc.
- M

Found with PapaGrouch. Out and about around Rutherglen just picking up a bunch of caches. Some pre-solved puzzles, a few traditionals and some multis, as well as a couple of events. Did pretty well with only one DNF all day.
As we were in the area picking up other caches we stopped and found this one too. I dropped off a TB that I have been carrying around for a while. TFTC

Grub62 and I just had to do this cache that had been set up in recognition of BernieH while we were in the area. TFTC.

I could not leave the area without coming to find BernieH! Bunadoorian and I came here and found this cache in honor of a very hard and tireless volunteer of Geocaching Victoria and many Megas held in Victoria.. TFTC and for bringing us here Robmc.

Signed as TQ5 Team Queenslabd 5

Today caching and travelling with RoddyC.hatzoff chamad domsky echocage1.

TFTCache Robmc

Caching today with Goodlook Lib and the dame under the fabulous random team.
We dropped in here for a quick find today after spending the morning over at the CSI art series.
Had dinner on Saturday night with Mr H and his wife. A good man.
Thanks for honouring him here Rob..

Day 3 of our Mega Experience - caching with some of the QLD group and so signed in.

All OK.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on 10th April 223. TFTC, Robmc

*Found on the 10 Apr 2023 @ 8:52 pm.*
*Cache find # 14592.*

Day 4 of the Rutherglen MEGA trip.
Out and about with biggles1024 around town, with dinner done & dusted, it was now time to find a few more caches before relaxing for the night, we had a few of the FTF EXP multi's solved so we headed for them first before making our way back to camp via a few more trads.
As we were driving along, we notice that Bernie was out here so we thought we had better stop by to say hello, we did that and then continued on our way.

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

The JAMS (JJ52, allister w, mogni and sir_spectre) go mega... We came, we cached, we laughed, we hugged and we had a great time. All caches were replaced better than found.
Thanks to Robmc from mogni

Quick find
Found with JAMS (( JJ52, Allister w, Mogni, plus sir_spectre ) Mitchell&hound wasn't with us this trip) crew. All logs stamped as JAMS to save log space. This trip we are off to the Rutherglen Mega and then slowly coming back to S.A. for a total of 8 dys and 7 nights. The targets of this trip are for JJ52 to get 11 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and a few more Victorian LGA's, Allister W was targeting 17 virtuals ( or as many as he could get ) a few more Victorian LGA's Mogni to make the Rutherglen Mega her 20, 000 find and also for her to complete all Victoria LGA's, sir_spectre needs 1 more multi to get to 1000 multi's and get his Victoria LGS's down to 2 LGA's left. We got 20 or more finds in a LGA if we stayed in there over night. We also detoured to stamp any challenge caches that we were " in the general area off " and to complete that challenge before we came back to S.A. This meant that some times dirt road (s) had to be walked down because they were to wet to drive down and/or haven't been repaired since last years flooding. We started off the holiday in the rain and then that cleared up only to start raining and a overnight thunder storm but most of the trip was dry. Over 600 caches found for the trip including over 120 lab stages in that total. Got to complete the GPS Maze at the Rutherglen Mega for a 2nd time. Allister w was the team driver for all of the Victorian part of the trip. I think this was the first trip ever to Victoria that the extension pole didn't get used but the 6.2 meter ladder did get a work out.

**10/04/2023, 20:51:00**
**Find #5316**
**Traditional Find #3153**

Monday of the Rutherglen Mega Event. A fine but windy day and the wind was bitterly cold at times. Only one DNF today and we were able to find that on a return visit. Mostly mystery caches were found today including around six that we hadn't solved but were able to find by looking at proximity circles in Cachly and also looking for tyre tracks and cacher trails. An excellent assortment of caches and all were well placed. Apologies for this generic log but there were far too many to remember individual caches.

**Thank-you to Robmc for placing this geocache**

Time to start the long winding journey home today collecting the remainder of the FTF Explosion multi's ones that came out yesterday along with any others that cross our path.

All caches found quickly log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache hide Robmc and thanks for the fun weekend Rapidlywild.

It’s MEGA time! A long weekend full of fun, friends, events, gadgets, adlabs and entertainment.

Great tribute cache to a valuable member of our community.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Robmc ??
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It was an early start to the day a couple of quick ones is Albury and then a couple in Corowa before catching up with Domsky and the Roddy’s for more adventures.

Today was my chance to finish off and clean up a lot of loose ends in town. We pretty much started at one end and worked our way around. I was in car for part and another team for the rest, I even got to play on some Escooters for most of the BBBT. It was a fantastic day for me as I got to sit back and see the sights as well as finish off different series and the ones as we passed by.

The FTF series was one we finished and the planets was another. Got in some adventure labs as we passed also. All logs were signed and the usual different coloured pens depicted on who got it first, lol. Thanks again for the hides and the puzzles.

Caching with Qld buddies, we found this one on our Easter adventures.
What an awesome Mega in a beautiful part of this country. We are happy to have had the opportunity to visit.
Thanks
Domsky

In Rutherglen for the Mega and we tootled around with Pprass and his friends for the afternoon.
Thanks for contributing to the fun Robmc

I am in Rutherglen for the week leading up to the Easter Mega event. Enjoying some local food and an abundance of great caches.

After lunch I headed south of Rutherglen to grab a few more caches before making the long trek home to Adelaide in the morning.

Thanks for the cache Robmc.
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It’s MEGA time! I’m in town with hundreds of other teams to enjoy the Rutherglen Mega. Plenty on offer, plenty to do, and another great Geocaching Victoria event. This is just one of the caches added to the collection on the adventure.

We had to stop and grab this cache. BernieH has done an amazing amount of work for Geocaching in our great state.

Thanks Robmc for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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A great excuse to pause for a moment on the drive to Chiltern today
Cache found I was on me way

TFTC

TFTC! 9 April 2023 11:58:15 am 5399
Stopped to pick up this one on our way past. Met bernieH the other day, and found some of the Wherigos together.

Joined up with Geoturtle37 and Papi4506 to find a few caches around the Rutherglen area.
A quick find here. Signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Robmc, for us and others to find.

Signed the log as 6ACDDEP (63ROO, ALL7, CRANK1, DEAFPHANTOM, DUTCHAUS, EVERLASTING AND PWALA.)

Found while attending the Rutherglen Mega Event and driving past getting other caches.

Having just completed the Virtual at Howlong, the ladder series there, and the first dozen of the new Multis which exploded yesterday, we couldn’t go past a cache honouring my old mate BernieH without adding our names to the log.
Ronice88, icybeetas and myself are enjoying our tour around the region this morning.
Thanks for placing the cache here for our entertainment and enjoyment

In The area for the Rutherglen Mega and found this cache.

Logs have been stamped/signed GUSHBSTDTT to sve space on the log

Thanks to Robmc for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

In the area for the Rutherglen Mega Event.

To save space on logs we have signed or stamped with GUSHBSTDTT for all teams initials.
TFTC

Found with Moonb1 on our travels.

Well it is finally time for The Rutherglen Mega and I was able to take a couple of extra days off work and come up early so I could get the most out of the Easter break.
After 4 big days and evenings the Mega is semi over as it has all been pack up.
A couple of events today as well as a few randoms and also chasing the clues for the FTF series so I can do them after lunch.
I have lost my caching buddy GemmaSistema as she had to head back home so I’m riding solo in this morning.
Day 5 and I’m heading off in all directions but I’m also heading back to Corowa to call in at the Whiskey factory to pay it a visit.
After making it back to the Mega site for lunch I then teamed up with Roaming Howie and OzHockeyChick to tackle the FTF series and any other random caches that we came across.
Who is this infamous BernieH that everybody speaks so highly about, I must meet him one day.
He definitely does a lot of work in the background that a lot of people don’t hear about.

Thanks Robmc TFTC.

Attending the Rutherglen Event.
Out caching with Kiscardi and Agazo. Signing as KAM.
A quick park and grab on our way back to Chiltern.
TFTC

We are picking up a few extra caches around Rutherglen before heading home in the next day or two. This was a quick find. Thanks to Robmc for the cache.

Today was clean up day. After a big weekend already, today was our last day around the Rutherglen area so we focused on cleaning up where we could. Our main focus was collecting the new FTF Explosion multis that were released yesterday so after gathering the required information for them yesterday afternoon and last night, we had a heap of solved ready to be found. Read some interesting information boards along the way.

Thanks for the cache placement Robmc and thanks FFLL for another fun filled weekend.

This was found with The Drovers whilst we were out and about trying to complete the FTF series. Thanks for the cache and GT37 was pleased to get a pathtag that she didn't have.

Accompanying All7 and TFTC

Nice to pick this one up while out collecting some of the FTF multi series

It was like a cachers party at gz, so many cars! Picked up A Bernie H path tag, I do love his photo!

Find number 11775 at 10:39:40 am on Sunday the 9 April 2023
Went for a quick drive before lunch to grab this and a couple of others out this side of town.
A quick find and left a few pathtags for others to grab.
**Thanks for placing this cache Robmc and thanks for the tribute**

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Find number 8394

The Booos are in the area for The Rutherglen Event.

To save space on logs we have signed or stamped with GUSHBSTDTT for all teams initials.



Thanks for placing this cache

Out with VIC1 to complete FTF caches and picked up a trad or two.
Thanks for the cache Robmc

After a sluggish start to the morning we headed out to gather the Solar System series, miscellaneous others on the trail and some of the FTF Multis released yesterday.

TFTC SL TB's visited

We are in the area for the MEGA 2023.

We found this cache and signed the log.

Tftc Robmc

Found whilst in town for the Rutherglen mega
thank you for the cache
took nothing left pathtag

On our way back to Rutherglen we stopped for this little hide. TFTC

Found with FUF009. Day 4 of Mega fun in Rutherglen. Spent the morning doing some more wherigos, then an event for lunch and to Howlong this afternoon. Did the FTF Multis on the way back to the Mega. Tftc

Out collecting a few caches on a lovely Sunday afternoon. Here for the MEGA.

Found while driving the road back to Rutherglen. TFTC

TFTCRobmc for your cache BernieH that we found today.
Day on the Rutherglen Mega site. Yesterday 25 multis were released for us to solve and find. We had them all solved this morning so it was a no brainer that we would head out . We also had the Ladders of Rutherglen solved. The morning saw us team up with 5 other groups to find the Ladders and also half of the Multis. After the lunch event we completed the multis as well as one of the Cellars ALs along with a few other random trads thrown in as we went passed. A satisfying day as the Mega is slowly coming to a close.

Found on the way to the start of the multi trail after lunch

Find Count: 16157

Quick find. OCW Brewmaker and ADI. ?? TFTC

Over from New Zealand to attend the Rutherglen Mega. Attempting my most finds in a day so sorry about the template logs. Signed as WW
Thanks very much for the cache, Robmc
#4824

Caching with Oddiewan and our improving 4-legged cacher pup, we are on holiday at the Rutherglen mega. Happy Easter!

A quick find while transferring passengers.

Thanks for the fun, Robmc

Happy Easter at the Rutherglen Mega ????????

Caching today is Semik and Aneka the Geopup

Signed and returned

Robmc thanks for placing the cache for our enjoyment.

9/4/2023

Found the cache and the cache namesake turns up! Hi Bernie!

Ran into the cache namesake while grabbing this one, he was leaving some treasure there. TFTC

Find # 12305

Rutherglen MEGA Long Easter weekend trip. Day 5 Easter Sunday.

Found with sharkiefan while spending time in the area caching n chatting and all things MEGA
This year with new tools and transport on board. Bike, ladder, poles and a variety of other items to help with the cache grabs.

Puzzles were all sorted before the weekend. Making way for the finds to come.
Plans sorted for cache attack days, between ladder climbing, power trail grabs and the large amount of ad labs in the area. Not to mention the MEGA site visits and numerous other events to attend.

My stat's of finds started at 11,886 ?? before leaving home. Let's see what the final numbers are at trips end for the MEGA.


TFTC Robmc

Out to finish my mega weekend!! :3
Racking up those numbers with these caches

The light was almost gone so i thought this might be a fitting cache to finish my adventure

Out with Grumpy Bumpy and
TBU1Bikesu for more smileys
Tftc Robmc

Happy Easter ???? 2023!
The day started with an egg hunt and a bike ride, then it was a BBQ lunch before tackling all the new explosion multis. The farewell event was the last on the agenda for the day and it felt like a great send off.

Thanks to all the COs and GV for all the smileys ?? today! It’s been a memorable Easter with my two little geokids ??

Marchwood, Kiscardi and I came back to the Chiltern area to find some of the caches in the park. The roads were impassible in places, so we had to figure out the best way to get to some of these caches. TFTC.

In Rutherglen for the Mega, headed out today to complete these caches.
Logs were sign or stamped GUSHBSTDTT to save space on the log. Thanks

Thanks to Robmc for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

09/04/23
This is find number: 8361
Streak Day: 2673

In Rutherglen for the Mega, headed out today to complete these caches.
Logs were sign or stamped GUSHBSTDTT to save space on the log. Thanks

Thanks to Robmc for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Found while travelling between the FTF Explosion caches. Part of a big group who signed in as Vic1.

Thanks to Robmc for the cache.

Found by Mary and David with muzza, Burns345, meme28, McLookers, Alansee, moonb1, pprass and The Morris, at 13:43. Now we see the reason for the name. Our thanks to Robmc.

On a trip from WA with Burns345, we Teamed up with Muzza, McLookers, Micaparamedic, Alansee, Moonb1, Maccamob, The Morris, Team Crackers and Pprass.
Cache found and Signed as VIC1

Over from Western Australia at the Rutherglen Mega. Picking up some smilies around the area. Teamed up with Team Vic1. Thanks to the COs TFTC

Found with maccamob, The Morris, muzza, Burns345, meme28, McLookers, Alansee, moonb1,
A nice zip around the outskirts of Rutherglen.
Thanks to RobMc. We signed as VIC1

Caching buddies: EverestHigh, Brewmaker at the Rutherglen 2023 Mega

Thank you Robmc, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.

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Had fun working Caching today with Agazo and Marchwood while over for the Rutherglen mega. Signed many logs as K.A.M.
These caches were on our list to find.

Stopped to find this cache on our way past.

Our afternoon expedition was with Alansee, Moonb1, pprass, The Morris, maccamob, micaparamedic, Muzza, Meme28 and Burns345. The log was signed Vic1.

Thanks for placing the cache Robmc.

Found as part of the Rutherglen event. To save space on logs we have signed or stamped with GUSHBSTDTT for all teams initials. TFTC

Found It!
A quick find here while caching in the area!
TFTC