The Wave Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
By Harrowang on 01-May-22. Waypoint GC9P5VG

TFTC interesting Virtual. Staying in the area & grabbed this one whist doing a bit of shopping. Nice sculpture

I was staying in Wangaratta, so walked down to GZ. Found the info, then took the photo. It was really windy, so hurried back to the Motel. An unusual sculpture. Thanks for the Virtual.

A quick visit whilst waiting for our pizza to cook! Great to see the redwood repaired. Thanks for bringing us here Harrowang. Answers sent.

Permission to log received from the CO.We were madly dashing around Wangaratta on our last day, trying to pickup as many of the caches on our To Do List as possible. I think the GPS knew this, so decided to take us via the scenic route to GZ.Nice sculpture Harrowang. Thanks for the Virtual.

Thanks for showing us the wave.TftC m-u-t

Interesting sculpture. Thanks.

Interesting place for a sculpture

Kid free, and with the wife at work, I decided to spend the afternoon caching around Wangaratta. So many little gems around Wang. Good weather today and lots of interesting caches and places visited.Cool sculpture here, nice and quiet today. Quickly gathered the required info and sent it off, then snapped my pic.TFTC!

I visited Wangaratta at the weekend and caught up with the COs at an event. Answer sent and this was a great sculpture that I had never noticed before. I took this picture and then realised the answer was in the picture so I had to take another one.

Day 12 of my interstate trip. Today I left Everton and continued on my way to Sydney making it as far as Burrumbuttock where I spent the night at a free camp site. I managed to find 17 caches today and only 1 DNF.Very busy here today but managed to get in and get the info required.TFTC Harrowang

Done tonight while picking some nearby cachesThe sculpture is very nice and the answer to the question asked are the initials of my true love How nice!Thanks for the virtual

Another super successful day of caching with Baristayanwhich started in Ballarat and ended in Wangaratta. So much fun!This sculpture is an absolute stunner, which we stumbled across while Ad Labbing up a storm after the mighty Tigers dusted Adelaide at their place. Thanks for bringing us here!

#22207 @1140Heading home after a couple of days caching in and around Bright, chasing some particular D/T combinations that I hadn't yet found in May. I stopped by here as I also needed a virtual for this calendar date. Answer submitted and accepted. TFTC.

A quaint sculpture tucked away from the main part of town. TFTC.

Using Geocaching to explore another Australian town. We wouldn't have found this sculpture if we hadn't been cacheing. Thanks Harrowang for bringing us here.

We have been to Wangaratta a number of times in the recent past, but seemed to have missed this sculpture tucked into its location. Thank you for bringing us here to see it on a flying trip through town. Certainly an interesting piece of work.Answers sent.Another trip to Tumut to catch up with family and collect some of our grandchildren who will be visiting for the New South Wales school holidays.We can never resist the opportunity to do some caching in our travels and this trip was no different. We focused on a few areas in and managed to complete a number of Ad Labs as well as traditionals, multis and puzzles. A couple of Virtuals in Wangaratta were an added bonus.We always enjoy searching with our grandchildren who managed to find a number before we did.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Harrowang.**SKI Pair****

Mrs Woodyrothwell and I are holidaying in Wangaratta for the week so we can hit a few King Valley wineries looking for some magical Prosecco. We had been to our first for a tasting and had just checked into our hotel.Travelling from Brisbane we had an extra hour up our sleeves because we are too backwards for daylight savings in Queensland. Yet somehow with all the travel we felt like we were an hour short. We looked at each other and said pour some bubbles and get dinner organised.So we walked down the main drag of Wang to find some dinner. Its OK, I check with a local whether it was alright to use this name. He said as Queenslanders we could use it, but if we were from New South Wales that nothing spawned from hell could save us (and we agreed).We definitely had the timing wrong because nothing was open yet so we posed for a photo for this virtual. Maybe by the time we finish this bottle of bubbles (or the next) places to eat will be open. Answer sent. tftc

Find # 10099An extended Easter holiday with +Wife and EveTheStaffy.We are headed for home now, with a few finds along the way.Waving, on our way home from Canberra. Photos taken.**Logged with Permission.**Thank you, Harrowang, for the Virtual Rewards Cache.

Heading back from Canberra after attending the Mega event, I've been on the road since 5:30 am, but I couldn't resist stopping for the nearby Sidetracked cache. Then I spotted two virtual caches in town and thought why not!I have cache in Wangaratta a few times over the years, always a great place to visit.Cheers for the cache

We spent couple of days in Glenrowan and Wangaratta and sent the answers to CO as requested.It looks a bit like a huge rocking chair!Thanks for the virtual, Harrowang

We were heading to Canberra for our second Mega in as many months, and when you are driving a long way, it is wise to break up your drive to prevent driver fatigue.With this in mind, we stopped quite a bit on the journey to find a good number of caches and endeavoured to get closer to qualifying for more Challenge caches.We will use some relatively generic logs with the sheer number of logs we need to complete after the Mega. We are tired and have insufficient brain power to do much more than that.We would like to thank all the cache owners for placing the caches for us to find, and unless otherwise noted, we found all caches in excellent condition.Thank you, Harrowang for this Virtual cache.

Dropped in to Wangaratta on the way to Canberra for a coffee and a virtual.. and refound a couple of caches I hadn't yet logged online .. thanks Harrowang for the cache .. certainly interesting

Stopped overnight in Wangaratta enroute to the Canberra Mega and stopped for this virtual. Found the answers to the question and that has been sent to the CO.An interesting stop, thanks for the cache Harrowang and showcasing the item in question. Fav point added.

This was a cool statue. It was a little dicey getting across the street and staying away from the cars driving in and out of the parking structure, but not too bad. My answers has been sent to the CO. Thank you for the smiley and the fun!The day:Today I continued my month long journey from the U.S. along the east coast of Australia!! I was on my way to Canberra for the GeoBash mega and reuniting with the Aussie friends I left behind when I left Adelaide almost a month ago. I had a a shorter list than usual in hopes of getting to Canberra by early afternoon. I think I found all that I sought, but either way, it was a successful run north. Many thanks to all the geocachers who placed and continue to maintain their geocaches for folks like me to find. I know it's not always easy, but know that I appreciate you.

Visited it during 28-days geotrip to Australia, N.Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Am.Samoa, Fr.Polynesia with Marci, Ch. Sometimes we logged as "MT" or "Jonea" or "MTCh". Thanks for showing nice caches and places. MT-Jonea from Brno city in Czechia EU. FP

This trip is the...ADELAIDE MEGA TRIP ??This cache-which challenge/ why???LGA??can't pass a virtual ??leg stretch ??Had a great time catching up with friends and caching ourselves silly at the Mega in Adelaide and now I'm wandering home to Brisbane.Had planned to go to a few places in the high country but a big storm sent me running for more open spaces. Hadn't been able to come to the Mega here so it was a new playground for me. Scanning the map I noticed an event on this evening as well as four virtuals and a couple of solved puzzles so I put the skates on to see what I could get done before the event. Managed to park nearby and scooted over to find the answer and take my happy snap. TFTC??

cool thanks

Haven't been to Wang for many years so it was interesting to see this art work.

What an interesting position for such a unique work of nature art.I do wonder whether instead of the entrance/exit of a carpark such a magnificent specimen couldn't be more regally situated. ??Thank you harrowang for bringing to my attention this glorious piece with a virtual cache, and congratulations on winning a virtual reward! ??Captured with Cobwebs. ??

What a great bit of art and I can only imagine the size of the tree. Answer sent and picture taken. Thanks for the cache.

The Adelaide Leap Day Mega and Canberra Geobash gave us a great excuse for a road trip. This trip has shown us so many new and interesting places as weve chased LGAs, oldies, challenges, interesting D/T combinations, rarer cache types and favourites.Meeting up with friends old and new along the way, we sometimes cached together and sometimes alone but always had a great time. Today we went for a walk from our caravan park to explore the town on foot, completing some Adlabs and finding any caches we passed along the way. The description for this virtual cache made for an interesting read and Im glad we stopped to take a look. In the afternoon we drove out to explore Mullinmur Billabongs which was a lovely quiet spot. Unfortunately we didnt see any platypus while we were there but we did find a cache.Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this cache and adding to our enjoyment.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Moving today from Shepparton to Wangaratta. Couldn't be too early at the caravan park so a detour to drop the van off and head out to pick up some caches near Dookie and Devenish. Once we arrived mid afternoon we decided to tackle the multitude of AdLabs, it was pretty hot this afternoon. Managed to grab 3 virtuals, and a traditional aswell. Before a lovely dinner at the local RSL. Answer sent.TFTC Harrowang [^]

Thanks for the cache, recently found without issue whilst spending the night in Wangaratta. Not sure I'd go back to this particular art installation though; it's just plain old ugly through my eyes.

A nice easy virtual on a leap day to boot. Many thanks Harrowang for providing this game piece for our enjoyment. And thanks for sharing the highlights of your region.

A cool spot for a virtual. Great find while wandering the streets of Wang. TFTC Harrowang

Enjoyed my wander around the streets of Wang today. It has been quite a while since ive been in town.Answers sent, and my photo is attached. Thankyou Harrowang

Found on a typical Summer day with MrsRoosta. We went for a drive after hours so there was less muggles. Pic taken and answers sent. Thanks for the cache Harrowang, ***Roostaman***

Found on a short Vic trip with Roostaman. Answer accepted and pic of my avatar wave-riding attached.Thanks for placing and maintaining all the caches for all of us to find, Harrowang, ***MrsRoosta***

On my way to Port Augusta via Geelong and had to stop here at Wangaratta, take Boston for a walk and grab the 4 virtuals here. This was the 2nd one and I really like the woodwork. Tftc

Today we are driving from our camp in Albury to Wangaratta for a family meet up. Left early as there are plenty of caches we weren't able to look for when we were here for the Wangaratta event.TFTC

TftcFound with flasharry

After a very late check out from our hotel we took a walk to get a few before going to our event.Nice piece of art here and since I love tree art, this one gets one of my few remaining favourite points.TFTC

Out of the deep indeed, a bona fuse big storm cell caused the water level to rise alarmingly and this evil-looking beast came up north with it. TFTC, couldnt hang around long due to almost drowning in the rain. TFTC.

A very hot day! Tftc!

Very easy but still fun. Tftc

Nice side visit to some cool art. TFTC

Awesome sculpture!

Out and about today with Grannan55 and Geodogs. Poking about Wangaratta. Now, onto the next one for the day. TFTC

Found on a day trip to Wangaratta. Tftc

Logging with permission from CO. This was a quick park n grab. Have driven past here many times. We need 12 finds for the current souvenir, so we made the effort to gather the required details to log this virtual. Thanks Harrowang for highlighting this interesting piece of history. Tftv. Pic sent to CO as realised it was a spoiler pic after leaving gz.

Great sculpture. Thanks

Leaving Wangaratta after a couple of days doing the HSS series, I called by here to quickly grab this virtual before the drive home. I have submitted my answer to the CO. I thought I'd taken a photo but it seems I didn't press the button properly.Thanks to Harrowang for the cache.

I'd spent 2 nights in Wangaratta as a group of us were doing the HSS series before it was archived. So I walked up to this just before breakfast on our final day before heading back to Melbourne. A strange place to put this I thought.

#4497 After an overnight stay in town and after collecting some information on a long distance multi, I headed over to check out this sculpture.Certainly an impressive artwork from the knarly old piece.Answer was sent and accepted by the CO.Thanks Harrowang for bringing me here.

Out and about around Wangaratta, with our caching companions Suscoe, on the last day for this trip. We found a variety of interesting caches including trads, multi's & puzzles and of course this awesome Virtual. Logged with a tick from the CO.Thanks to Harrowang for creating a wave!. 36212

# 2520 - Greetings from Queensland. Happy to find another virtual on our trip down to Melbourne. A great sculpture! Answer sent to CO for verification.TFTC

Answer and proper log to follow - TFTC!

Find number 12666 at 2:20:10pm on Tuesday the 7 November 2023I was up at Goughs Bay for the weekend and one of my tasks for the following few days were to finish off the basketball series, with only 10 to do it shouldn't take too long, I just need to pull the finger out and get up to Everton. The plan for today is to finish off the series and grab a few more targeted caches around the area.Another virtual calendar day filled **Thanks for placing this cache Harrowang**---If you are looking for some new caches to find, explore the nominees for the 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.The Nominations Geocaching List is available [here](https://coord.info/BMC8QYR)!Voting is now closed for the 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards and the awards event will be posted soon

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Just wrapped up a 200 mile bike loop trip from/to Wangaratta. Picking up a couple of caches before heading on to Melbourne today.

Thanks for the little adventure

Spontaneous Spring Victorian RoadtripDay Four: Wangaratta to MorangWeather: still superb!I passed this Virtual in the dark last night whilst doing an Adventure Lab, but couldnt get a decent photo. So Ive returned this morning on my way out of town to finish the job. I would have walked right past it last night if there hadnt been a cache attached. Very impressive; deserves a better location I reckon.Answer submitted and permission granted. Thank you for this Virtual Harrowang. Its officially a mega.GCA1DNA The Great Leap ForwardAdelaide, South Australia, February 29, 2024.Wed love to have your company.

Driving to Beechworth for a short holiday with the family, we had time to do a few caches on the way.
A magnificent red gum sculpture that is tucked away from passing traffic. Thanks Harrowang.

This was an interesting sculpture to see; it must have been quite a task to create it. It is a very good representation of the real thing. Nice piece of artwork to display in town.
Thanks for sharing this with us Harrowang

Found with Moonb1. Answer sent.
Thanks for the cache Harrowang .

With Alansee travelling to Canberra to meet up with fellow cachers to complete some caches. Packed a lot of winter woolies!
Thanks for the cache Harrowang

Haha at first we look for a container then we it's virtual

Quite the impressive sculpture! TFTV Harrowang!

I had to approach this from a few angles to really appreciate the shape. It's a wonder that no surfer is attached.
Thanks for bringing me to this internet piece.

#6353.
Lady Thrips was taking a bit longer in the shops than anticipated, but this gave us some more time to attempt one of my favorite cache types. This is an amazing sculpture. Thanks for placing a virtual cache here for us to find.

Called in here a few days ago but only just got around to sending my answers. This sculpture has been in the background of my life for a long long time but I’d never known who the artist was. I guess I never was interested but I’ve always thought it was a worthy piece of art.
Thanks indeed Harrowang

Thanks for the virtual, what a impressive piece of wood.

Hello Harrowang thank you for the cache

An interesting bit of wood work.

This was one of many caches found on our way to Newcastle to see our grand children.

Found on Monday, 08 May 2023 at 1430

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**07/05/2023, 10:04:00**
**Find #5362**
**Virtual Find #50**

I made a point of walking to all the Virtual caches in Wangaratta so as to get my daily step count up. I certainly did that. This cache is an excellent example of something that I would never have known about if it wasn't for geocaching. I had to time my photo just right because it was a busy place during the morning. The sun wasn't in a very good spot for this photo, but I did the best I could.

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

A trip to this spot on my way through the area especially to locate this Virtual cache and obtain the necessary info and photo.
Thanks Harrowang, another thing we would never have seen were it not for geocaching.

Im in thebarea for my post op check up and thought id get some caches done. This was a huge tree once upon a time Im guessing. Just really makes you think....
Thanks for the virtual. Ive enjoyed the walk around

But is it Art?
They say art is subjective
I am impressed that's it's lasted 40+ years and that it has been carved out of wood but..
Does it make me happy -No
Is it appealing to my eyes...hmm nope would prefer to look at a real tree.
. Subjective.
But thanks for this Virtual Harrowong.. they are fast becoming a must do as I visit various towns

Walking the town to get as many caches as we can today. TFTV!

Awesome piece of art!

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.

The last cache for tonight before we head back to our shack in Punkah. Impressive bit of wood sculpted into the shape of a wave.

Thank you for the Virtual here Harrowang

Very nice tftc

Finally heading home after attending the Mega Event at Rutherglen I stopped here at Wangaratta to get a few more caches before finally moving on. I must admit getting caches today was a matter of dodging the rain showers. Fortunately while was here it was not raining. A nice piece of wood used in this carving.

What a lovely use of the stunning red wood. Thanks for highlighting the sculpture for us to enjoy. Tftc

A quick pit stop before heading home after the Mega!

Stopped to get the virtual as we passing doing the A - Z challenge and some lab stages. Answers sent.
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.

Out and about with the JAMS Crew - JJ52, allister w, mogni, sir_spectre. An interesting piece of art. Thanks for sharing.
Answer sent by sir_spectre

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 are now caching around Wangaratta finding caches to meet the A-Z challenge along with a few others.

Answer sent by sir_spectre and approval given.

Thanks for the cache Harrowang.

Found with the jams crew on our Rutherglen mega trip.

Rutherglen Mega - Easter 2023 - Day 5: Tuesday

Spent the day on a loop trip around Corowa, Yarrawonga, Benalla and Wangaratta.

Stopped in at this Virtual. An interesting sculpture here. Thanks!

That's an impressive piece of wood. Team SPINZ (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Isis58 and Nanzie from NZ) stopped by on the way back to Melbourne airport after the Rutherglen Mega. Thanks for bringing us here Harrowang

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One last pass through Wangaratta on our way to Melbourne airport. Apologies to all the Aussies who were horrified at the way I pronounced the name of this place, I've been practising doing it properly since I learned the error of the of my ways. Wang as in bang, got it. I loved the art and architecture of the city.
A great sculpture by a great sculptor. Thanks for making sure we didn't pass by without looking .

The SPINZ team is on their way to the airport and back home after an awesome time at the Rutherglen Mega. But of course we decide we have time to stop for a few additional Labs in Wangaretta on the way and this virtual as well. Lovely piece of tree - it must've been a special one. Answer sent by Paddle Chick on behalf of all of us. Congratulations on being awarded this special virtual Harrowang and Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand. #19,546

This is my first trip outside New Zealand caching and enjoyed getting this Virtual with Team SPINZ paddle chick and I have the same photo tftc

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We've been at the Rutherglen mega, and headed this afternoon to Bendigo, we didn't have alot of time, so prioritised trigs and virtuals, and maybe any *really* cool DTs for the trip.
We didn't have our eyes on the ball here. We parked to go for the GA trig over the road, when Samuel noted The Wave was right there, maybe 10m away. I won't say no to that! Thanks, what a great sculpture too..... TFTC!

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We stopped here for the CORS trig and realised that this virtual was right here! Hopped out and grabbed this and snapped a few photos!

TFTC Harrowang

On the way to the MEGA.

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Met up with Davidwazza for the day with the main aim of tackling the Warbys Challenge Trail series, but finding a mixture of Traditionals, Multis, Virtuals and Puzzles, both along the way and around Wangaratta. Thanks for the Virtual cache Harrowang!

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12407.

Found the required details and sent to the CO via the message centre. Another cool bit of art in the town.

Thanks Harrowang for the cache.

Out caching with Agazo and Kiscardi collecting AdLabs and whatever else we pass by at the time.
Kiscardi sent in the answer.
TFTVC