Tatura's Water Tower Art Tatura, Victoria, Australia
By lorigus74 on 26-Mar-22. Waypoint GC9P83Z

Love a piece of water tower or silo art! Always so unique. TFTC!

Answers sent to CO for due consideration.I prefer this angle showing Sir John Monash because the colours used on the artwork blend and respect the colour of the concrete tower upon which it is emblazoned. Plus it looked better in the morning sunlight as the poppies on the other face were in the shade.

Found & sent thru the requirements. I personally thought the pictures on both sides were AWESOME, my favourite side was John Monash himself.

I love the water tower art around Victoria and plan to visit lots of them on my Geocaching journey. Another great example and tribute here in Tatura. Thanks for the virtual Lorigus74

Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the virtual lorigus74.

I prefer This shot, shows a bit more directly about the man

A nice quick virtual whilst here for the cache crawl. Thanks

I certainly chose John as his contribution to Australia in his legacy has affected so many people in so many positive ways.A great piece of work and I am glad its here for everyone to view and also to get us in the Geocaching community to honour.Thanks LoriGus74 for the opportunity to be part of this amazing journey.PrezDough and I both found it after your nearby Cache Crawl event.FP added.TFTV.

Logging with permission. Out and about in the town while waiting for lunch at the pub. I chose the photo I took because the sun was shining on the mural. Thanks for the virtual cache.

After leaving the event at the pub, me and cjdenno decided we would quickly get this virtual and then drive to the next event on the cache crawl. This was a very interesting virtual, TFTC!

Poppies remind me of the sacrifices made so we can have our freedoms. Thanks for the reminder.

What a weekend... Aim for this weekend was to hit my 3000th Cache and have an awesome time on the cache crawl. Left early afternoon Friday iwh the muggle wife and headed up to Macedon stopping at a few caches along the way.Checked into our hotel in Macedon and then heading across to Riddell's Creek for the pre crawl dinner. A great crowd and some tasty food then it was back for an early night.Saturday morning I woke to a lot of rain that continued throughout the day, first stop was Sunbury for the 7am meet a few caches in the town and then up the road to Malmsbury for a pie and a coffee, next was onto Bendigo for lunch and a walk around the lake. After that it was on the road again to Colbinabbin for a cup of tea and to celebrate Roaming Howies 18,000 cache. The painted Silo's are amazing... next was a drive up to Echuca to check into the hotel. After a brief rest and a walk along the river we heading to the pub for dinner, followed by a few drinks in the Gin Distillery.In the morning I headed over to NSW to grab a few ad labs before the breakfast meet and then it was back on the road again to Cussen Park in Tatura for the CITO followed by lunch.After lunch it was onto the final stop in Seymour to celebrate the mazing cache crawl and my 3000th cache on my 6th Anniversary of Geocaching. A massive thanks to every who helped organise and support the event, everyone who hid the caches and gave me pointers when I was stuck. What an awesome community we have. 793Km covered and 116 Caches found... not a bad weekend.Thanks for the cache and the hideLog Book has been signed and Returned or answers sent to cache ownerFind #3005

Love the poppies...

Beautiful sunny day on the cache Crawl today! The artwork on this is really nice. TFTC

A weekend away on The Great Victorian Cache Crawl 2024. Last year we completed half. This year we are aiming for the full crawl. Nearly there. Wandered here after lunch. I love these silo, tower paintings. Thanks lorigus74 for creating for us all to enjoy. Answers sent. --------------------------------------------------------The nominees for the [**2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards** ](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/2023-victorian-cache-of-the-year-awards/) have been announced. Find as many of these amazing caches as you can before voting opens later in the year. The full list of nominations is available on the [Geocaching Victoria website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/2023-victorian-cache-of-the-year-awards/).

Great artwork. Answers sent!Respect. A fun find on the The Great Victorian Cache Crawl - a cache and event filled weekend!!Thanks lorigus74 and clear skies from TeamAstro. ?? Cache the planet! ?? ??I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ??

We found this virtual cache after attending the 2024 Cache Crawl lunch in Tatura. N liked the poppy artwork because of the vibrant red standing out against the cream backdrop of the water tower. TFTC

Day 2 of the very enjoyable cache crawl and back to a 2 person team we are now heading south picking up what ever comes by.This was a double banger with fantastic art work on both sides of the tower and quite a lot of history as well that we knew nothing about before today.We met up with a few other teams doing exactly the same thing so it took a lot longer to collect the answers than it should have.Once that was done we emailed them off to the CO.We thought that the poppies looked fantastic so we chose that one.Many thanks for setting up this great virtual.

Visited after lunch during The Great Victorian Cache Crawl.answers sent to CO thanks lorigus74.

Thanks for bringing us to this spot; we were just talking about water towers and how they worked so this was just the virtual we needed. Stunning artwork on a stunning winter's day

*18 Aug 2024, Found @12:34PM, Find # 3884.*This water tower was found while on the great victorian cache crawl. The art work was stunning. I have to say my favourite was the poppies. The colours really stood out. This virtual definitely deserves a favourite point. Answers sent and permission given to log by the CO.**Thanks to lorigus74 for placing this cache.**

What a nice mural! And what a great man!Enjoying a weekend on the Great Victorian cache Crawl. My second one of hopefully many more. Thanks lorigus74 for showcasing this area and contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy. Happy trails!

**Day 2, Great Victorian Cache Crawl 2024 (GVCC)**After the CITO and the walk in Cussen Park made us hungry, we settled into the pub for the Cache Crawls penultimate event. The meals were coming out pretty quickly but I wanted to get this virtual whilst waiting, so I dashed up the road and read the sign board and grabbed a photo. Hmmm I seemed to be missing an artist! Back at the pub (just in time!) my fellow crawlers pointed out the QR code and perhaps Id be interested in the website? Doh, why didnt I think of that?Thanks lorigus74 for the lunch event, the trads in Cussen Park, but for this virtual in particular. Loved it!Cache on ??*Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Explore. Dream. Discover.* **Mark Twain**---Are you ready for Victoria, Australias next big event?Join us for Victorias first ever *Block Party* to celebrate 25 years of geocaching.**When:** March 22 - 23, 2025**Where:** Hume Global Learning Centre, SunburyLog your will attend at [**GCAP417: The Sunbury Event** ](https://coord.info/GCAP417)Visit our [**Block Party website** ](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/the-sunbury-event) for more details.

Lovely artwork on this tower, right in the middle of town. Mooroopna could take some ideas from this! We found this quickly before the lunch event during the Cache Crawl.

Brisal5 and ourselves had made the decision to attend 'The Great Victorian Cache Crawl' , with Brisal5 arriving at our home on the Thursday evening. The journey started Friday morning with both of us picking up the odd cache as we travelled towards Riddell Creek for the prequel event and then onto Sunbury for our overnight accommodation. The first event of the official weekend was at Maccca's and the excitement was building, then it was time to find caches and AL's along the road and onto Malmsbury for morning tea. Unfortunately it had started to rain with umbrella's and rain jackets out in force. The next stop was Bendigo where we were warmed up with micaparmedic's fantastic soup, thank you, here we caught up with friends and the usual geocaching chatter was all around us. I am sure you have the gist of how our weekend went, finding caches, chatting, eating all this on a loop until we arrived in Seymour for the final goodbyes. We cannot thank the committe enough for this exceptionally well organised weekend. All the caches and AL's that we found were all in good condition and not requiring any maintenance. SL TFTC

Ive driven past this virtual multiple times and kept forgetting to get it done. Finally while out with LouJean70 for the GVCC I am able to get that smiley Absolutely beautiful artwork on this tower.Thanks for the cache.

Found it OK and did the emailing with photo and answers.The Monash portrait is very very good, and we also sent a copy of this photo to an ex-army mate who will now make sure he visits the tower soon to view. TFTC

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.Really love finding these towers around the state, thankyou for bringing me to another.Cheers for the cache

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. Answer's sent to CO.Thanks lorigus74 for the cache.

Found by Mary and David at 15:50. Enjoyed this painted Water Tower. Took our photo of the Monash painting. We both enjoyed RAAF careers, and D is an engineer, so Monash appealed with his own illustrious Military career and Engineering profession. Our thanks to lorigus74.

Well my well earned 2 week break has come to an end as Im heading home today after staying in Rochester, Hay, White Cliffs, Cunnamulla, Toompine, Charleville then Cunnamulla again, Wanaaring, Hillston then Tatura last night.The trip included some very big detours due to lots of road closures due to the rain but it was still a very enjoyable trip.The sun has disappeared now and there is moisture in the air as well.I havent cached in Tatura before but when I was younger we used to cut through here to get to my sisters dairy farm.Finished of 2 Ad Labs then onto a few others then to start heading home.After doing the wetlands I drove to the water tower to take some pics and and to complete this one.Both murals were great but I preferred the one of Monash himself as I liked what he stood for and what he achieved with his life.Answers have been sent to the CO.Thanks lorigus74 TFTVC.

Found this cache whilst on our two month adventure throughout central Australia and remote parts of WA.Heading across central Victoria we stopped in this little town which had a plethora of variety for us to do. Answers sent to CO.Thanks to all the COs for adding to our adventure. TFTC

Found by The Empire + HAfter a cozy winter holiday in Echuca, we set off for Melbourne, with a detour planned to savour the famous vanilla slice at North End Bakery in Shepparton. The journey began with a gentle mist rising from the Murray River, casting a serene veil over the historic paddle steamers docked along the banks.Leaving Echuca, the road stretched out before us, bordered by fields that still glistened with morning dew. The countryside, though muted by winter's touch, exuded a quiet charm. As we drove, the landscape gradually shifted from the riverside beauty of Echuca to the pastoral scenes typical of Victoria's interior.Our route took us through Tatura, a small town rich in history and agricultural heritage. The streets were lined with charming old buildings and gardens that, despite the season, displayed a hint of the vibrant blooms to come in spring. Thanks for the cache lorigus74, answers sent.-MVirtual #252

Answers sent to COIve recently been travelling around some of the silo art in the state and the artwork on this water tower is just as good as a lot of the silos.I had to pick the poppies as my favourite picture as a field of poppies is a sight to behold

I just couldnt go past the bright red of the poppies! Thanks for a fun cache that gave me something to do while briefly in the area

Day 11 of my interstate trip. Today I left Greens Lake Reserve near Stanhope and made my way a bit closer to Sydney spending the night in Everton. I managed to find 16 caches today and only 1 DNF.A great tower art project.TFTC lorigus74

We love the poppys because the remind us of our forebears and the are colourful

#5549 Enjoying a few hours in Tat with the geohounds on a nice day. Pulled up to the tower art to be greeted by a painting depicting the iconic poppies (we chose that one). Viewed the other stunning art work as we read the history of the tower and details of the murals. Answers provided. The main bridge across the river in Benalla was also a John Monash number, he got around back in the day. TFTVC lorigus74.

While visiting Tatura for a couple of days to attend the Central Victorian event, was very happy to find this Virtual. Loved both murals but choose the poppies as my favourite due to the vibrant colour of the poppies and the way they cascade down the tower. Photo attached. Answers sent. TFTC

After attending the ANZAC Event just down the street, we wandered down to the water tower with two beautiful murals. I chose Sir John Monashs portrait as my choice for a few reasons. Firstly I live in one of a pair of streets named after two World War 1 generals : Monash and Birdwood in Cowes. I actually live in Birdwood Avenue, but Monash Avenue is the next street. Secondly I feel Surrey John Monash is more interesting for his engineering accomplishments. Scattered around Victoria there are all sorts public buildings; bridges, water towers and other infrastructure designed by Sir John Monash. We have a lot to thank him for. Thirdly, the portrait of him was in better sunlight than the poppy!

Wow, this is so fitting for today, ANZAC day. Lest we forget.

Arriving in town for the lunch event, I had time to visit a few cache sites.I selected the Sir John Monash image as it reminded me of using the Monash light for navigating on Port Phillip Bay.Thanks lorigus74

11:33Staying in Shepparton for a few days, we had an interesting day, out & about, finding a variety of caches, thinking of the Anzacs and attending a fabulous Central Victorian Annual Get Together -2024 Event in Tatura. What cool tower art great contrast in the two sides!Logged with a tick from the CO.A BIG thank you to the CO who placed this cache.36916

Woke up in Tatura and thought I would do a bit of caching before the event.Interesting history of the tower.My photo is of the poppies as it is ANZAC day after all.Answers sent to the CO.Thanks, Robmc.

A plan was hatched to go to my first Central Victorian geocaching event so we headed off with Snips and Co for a one day road trip from the south of Melbourne up to Tatura.Before heading to the event we stopped here for a photo and how appropriate for anzac day too.Thanks lorigus74 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

After camping last night at Ayson's Reserve, Chook headed off to Tatura for the Central Vic Annual Event. After enjoying a good part of the afternoon at that fabulous event, there was just enough time to explore a little bit of this lovely town via a couple of caches and these newly released Adventure Labs, before heading back home. I really liked both sides of the mural as they are so very different but both as important as each other. So I took a pic at both, but ended up choosing the Sir John Monash one. He really did amazing things. Thank you for this Virtual Cache lorigus74.

In town for the event today. Nice little drive by.

Thanks for the cache. We love the poppies

Camping at Aysens Reserve with a few friends for an extra long weekend, so a perfect opportunity to find a cache or two while up this way.Stopped here on the way to take the selfie and gather the info. I chose the poppies as its Anzac Day.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, lorigus74 ~~

The tour of TAT using the caching model has been full of surprises and this rather fabulous mural is spectacular! Id say my fave is the gorgeous eye popping poppies. Im on a multi mission and the circuitous detour from Melbs to home base in the NE via Shep and Tatura has plenty of rewards including the EVENT thats attracted a huge crowd. A fave for this virtual.

Enjoyed coming with goingplaces2 and reading about this tower. The art is well done too. Joint answers sent to CO. TFTC.

Spotted this location well before we arrived with ilook4geo. Read the info board and noted the answers needed. Took some photos and added them to our album. This is certainly art on a large scale. Thanks for this virtual cache go to lorigus74.

Staying in Shep for Easter we decided to branch out and visit some neighbouring towns. Tatura did not disappoint with its beautiful township and attractions. We chose this side of the water tank as the detail was so intricate it reminded us of an old photo.

Tatura staying in the RV camp area,We completed the caches that were close to the town This was a great way to visit the area,We have visited many impressive silo art in our travells around Aussie.Thanks lorigus74 for hiding this cache.

Visited with LittleBoss2 while heading back to Bendigo after a week in Numurkah. Always amazed at the scale of these murals. Photo of the poppies because the represent every soldier who fought for us, not just one. Thanks for reminding us of our brave history, fave added

I chose the poppies because the vivid red of the poppy came from the blood of their comrades soaking the ground. They are a symbol of rememberance

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. In Shepparton for a few days as we wend our way towards Canberra for the GeoBashWe decided to use the Poppies as we often reflect on the losses and history of our Defence Forces.TFTC lorigus74 [^]

Find number 12919 at 9:58:03am on Wednesday the 7 February 2024I'm off on a mini camping trip, well, for a week anyway, free camping on Majors Creek not far from Nagambie. Generally veging but doing some geocaching as well in my spare time Another driving geocaching morning around the area targetting some maintenance, virtuals, old DNF's and old and new geocaches.I was here in this area some time back but it must have been just before this cache was published, it's a smilie now though Poppies for me today **Thanks for placing this cache lorigus74**---Don't miss finishing the Ballarat GeoTour before it ends on 4th March 2024. A list of the geocaches can be found [here](https://coord.info/BM9GWJ5). The final GeoTour Event is the [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) on the 18th February 2024!You can also get prepared for the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards by checking out our preliminary lists [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/).

We have choose Sir John Monash himself as after the reading up we didnt we were very amazed at his outstanding achievements!!

Lovely place to visit. We really loved the beautiful poppies and all the represent.

Thanks very nice mural , I choosed the poppies because of the remembering of the fallen soldiers ..

Lest We ForgetThanks for bringing me to this Silo. Answers to CO

In Tatura to play pool so thought I'd grab this one while nearby. TFTC.

In Ballarat to do the GeoTour so doing some others while here. The artwork on all these towers / Silos are so good, these are some of the first one I have seen. Could not decide on one so took both. GJ

Another great piece of Artwork. Thanks CJ

Headed to Ballarat with my Geo Chauffeur for a few days to do the Ballarat GeoTour over the next few days, we may even get some others done as well.On the way back to home we came across this Water Tower Art, It is amazing how they can do such a large piece of work and get it so accurate. Took the necessary Pictures then explored another lot of amazing artwork. Both sides were amazing.Didnt need to find a cache container, did not signed the log, so did not need to replace it but we did head on to the next one. Thanks lorigus74 for this cache.LilDonna

The house is being painted, we have an excitable puppy, so we decided to go away for 5 days up to Wakiti near Echuca using our Travel Auctions win. Very good value with lovely owners. Virtually no internet though so catching up with logging now.
This morning we were heading off for a day of caching and water tank or silo hunting in the local area and this cache was next. We somehow nearly missed the Virtual here, having to come back for it! Answers to be sent. It became apparent that we liked opposite sides of the Water Tower so we are uploading a collage photo. I like the John Monash side as MMelb our son went to John Monash Science School for years 10-12 and GMelb likews the Poppy side for the colour and detail of the poppy paintings. Photo to be attached.
TFTC lorigus74 - GJMMelb

Stopped by on the way to Echuca to admire the silo and read the interesting sign.
I like the portrait of Monash due to the detail on it, very talented artist. Thanks for highlighting this!

Reperio 13:54

After a drive to Shepparton, we took a slight detour back to Nathalia to visit a couple of virtual caches. The art here looks fantastic, and a well chosen design and character. The history here was really interesting to read up about.

Gratias lorigus74


‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death’ - LDV

You learn something new everyday!

TFTC

I came for the GA and the nearby trig. Bonus that it is also a GC virtual. TFTC

Fantastic Artwork. Thanks so much for highlighting this great location. I chose the poppies. You can see my geo-motorcycle in the pic. The colors just stood out. Fav point.

Great artwork depicting history. We chose the poppies as more striking from a distance than Sir John. Thanks for bringing us here during our travels in the district.

Found with n0w0rries.*Sorry about the late log.*I just noticed that I hadn't logged it when n0w0rries sent the answers through.Thanks for the Virtual Rewards cache Lorigus74.

A somewhat fitting Virtual Rewards cache as we leave the area.

I have been up to Gunbower, Echuca, Moama, and Shepparton with +Wife and EveTheStaffy for our Extended ANZAC Day Long Weekend break.

As we head south on our way home, we stopped here to honour General Sir John Monash.
What a brilliant and dedicated man he was.

We chose the Waterfall of Poppies as our favourite image, partly because I was born on Remembrance Day, as was +Wife's eldest son.

Thank you for placing this Virtual Rewards 3.0 - 2022 - 2023 cache lorigus74.

**Logged with Permission.**
*Thank you for the prompt response.*

Nothing better than visiting silo and water tower art especially with the added bonus of a virtual. Our first stop off in Tatura today was always going to visit this fantastic artwork and very apt as it was ANZAC day just gone. Read the informative sign then took a couple of selfies.
Thanks lorigus74 for the virtual placement, a great location to use it.

**23/04/2023, 10:41:00**
**Find #5337**
**Virtual Find #43**

Whilst in this part of the state for the Rutherglen Mega, I did a sweep of nearby locations to find specific caches and this was one of those.
I love all these murals and whoever came up with the idea deserves some sort of commendation. I chose poppy side of the mural because it is so colorful and also the sun was in the right place for me to photograph it.

**Thank-you to lorigus74 for placing this geocache**

Got opportunity between showers to do this cache
I chose the poppy mural
Just because of colouring

Tftc

TFTC. lorigus74 for your cache Tatura's Water Tower Art that we found today.
We are staying at our daughter’s farm block jut outside Shepparton. After the overnight and morning rain the sun started to make an appearance. We decide to head out to Tatura for a few hours caching. All caches found in good order.
We went with the poppy picture mainly because it was colorful.. It was harder to get a selfie with the Monash painting., but did that as well for good measure

Find Count: 16275

On our way out for tea for Geowife’s Birthday! Thanks for the Birthday wishes Lorigus74
Love the art work of the poppies! I know you’re seeing better art on your adventures.
TFTC Lorigus74

Stopped to get the virtual as we heading back to S.A. Answers sent. Took photos with both murals.
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.

Found while out and about with the JAMS crew- JJ52, allister w, mogni sir_spectre. A lovely piece of artwork.
Thanks for sharing

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. [^]

Today started off wet when we left Wangaratta heading in a round about way to Bendigo finding caches in a different LGA and others that we had targeted, but thankfully the rain stopped around lunch time which was good.

We spent a bit of time caching around Shepparton as we wanted to find at least 20 caches in this LGA. Answers sent by sir_spectre and approval received.

Thanks for the cache lorigus74.

Found with the jams crew on our Rutherglen mega trip.

Answers sent.

I found your D1.0/T1.0 Virtual Virtual called Tatura's Water Tower Art on 12 April 2023. It was find #18259 for me. Thank you lorigus74 for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of Victoria.

Rutherglen Mega Trip. [^] Day 10 - Let the journey back home begin. [^] It was a horrible drizzly rain sort of day but that didn't stop up find a few caches anyway. We had solved quite a few puzzles before coming over so we just had to go and find a few.

Our crew for the week for the mega was:
Bushfire
Anymules
Brisal5
6Hinemoa2
BAB6 for short and to save space in logs. We stayed together for a few caches until we split and then it was just myself and Anymules. We took a targeted way down to Bendigo finding these along the way.


Called past, snapped a quick selfie and sent off the answers.



**SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024.**


***Thanks lorigus74 for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found on our way home after attending the Mega Event in Rutherglen, searching for caches along the way. Today we spent a few hours around Shepparton and Tatura. before heading further afield. Enjoyed the visit to the Tatura water tower, being a big fan of silo art around the country. I appreciated the subtle tones, lights and shadows of the monochrome. Thanks for the Virtual cache lorigus74!

I visited this Virtual cache as I made my way back to Adelaide after attending the Mega Event at Rutherglen over Easter.

I chose the tower with the poppies on because of the bright colours.

Thanks lorigus74 for the cache.

Find # 12411

Rutherglen MEGA Long Easter weekend trip. Day 7 Home time.

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.

After a full on weekend it's time to head home from the Rutherglen MEGA... there was lots done, lots seen. Thanks to all.

Another great big artwork. Lots around to see now a days.



TFTC lorigus74

TFTC! 11 April 2023 6:19:06 pm 5555

On our way home from the Mega, on a detour to pick up caches along the way, including adding to our LGA count, picking up some caches for challenges and a scenic view. Petrol was getting low, so a stop in town to fill up. We found this lovely artwork, and loved the details.

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12392.

Cool tower with a lot of history. I chose the poppies for my photo as it celebrates all service men and women. Stopped here on the way through town today.

Thanks lorigus74 for the cache.

*Found on the 7 Apr 2023 @ 9:14 am.*
*Cache find # 14274.*

Logged with permission
Day 1 of the Rutherglen MEGA trip.
It was an early start to the day so that a few caches could be found along the way, this being one of them and then onto the ones around Rutherglen to join in on the fun with everyone else that is searching out here.
I don't really have a favourite between the 2 arts, they are both just as good as each other in their own way.

**Thanks to lorigus74 for placing this cache.**

I am making the long journey from Adelaide to the Rutherglen Mega over Easter. I missed the Wangaratta Mega event a couple of years ago so I am giving myself an extra few days to explore the wider area.

A stunning mural. Although the colour of the poppies were very vibrant, I preferred the quiet, dignifying look of the officer. Sadly the photo is ruined by my ugly mug.

Answers have been sent to CO.

Thanks for the cache lorigus74.
# # #12556 # #

On a holiday from Adelaide to Sydney with gridge98, stopped by this virtual along the way.

Thanks for the cache

An interesting little town out here. It was interesting reading about Monash too

Today Courtneyrose_ and I made our way from Sydney to Rupanyup Vic driving just over 1000km for the day. Along the way we focused on mostly virtuals and found a few others along the way.

Thanks for the cache

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC love flowers

I spotted some post CSI events on the calendar and since I had a few days up my sleeve I hatched a plan to do some travel to connect them all up.

I parked up for the night just outside of Benalla and after a relaxing morning I headed off towards Shepparton and the afternoon CITO.

I was almost at the CITO but had to stop for just one more ??. Answers submitted to the CO.

Thanks lorigus74 for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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6th / 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria

We visited after the event tonight, fab paintings. Answers have been e-mailed.
Thanks for the cache lorigus74

Stopped by on my way from Melbourne to Wangaratta.
Cool art. The soldier was my favourite as it looks like my friend's Dad. Tftc