Solar System - Jupiter Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
By Robmc on 17-Apr-22. Waypoint GC9RFPF

Had done at least two of this series previously apparently. Completed them today. Thanks Robmc

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

Another one in this series, cache was easily found and is all goodOn the way home from the Capital Geobash Mega in Canberra, I had set up the night Corowa, today main aim was to finish of the remains I had left in Rutherglen and surrounds after missing the mega here last year. After completing the majority of the wherigo series, it was onto multis then ladder series before finding a few walking caches and the remains of the puzzle series.Thanks for the cache

We found this cahe close by a Virtual, and then realized there was a solar system full of caches. See you when we get back !Thanks for this enjoyable little trail through the planets Robmc.

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

mvemJsunpYep..... But not no more. There was a time when my world revolved around a big red wine bottle , but now catnap777 is the centre of my universe. The planets finally aligned for cat' and I to take on this "astranomical" series in one hit. It wouldn't be right to find these caches in dribs and drabs, as you would lose the perspective of just how mind bogglingly huge space is ..... especially when you consider these planets are just our closest neighbours. We started at Mercury and worked our way out to lonely old Pluto, but lost sight of "the Sun" somewhere after Saturn. Now if the CO wanted to add a planet from the nearest solar system to our own to this series (using the same scale), he couldn't without going off world. Earth's circumstance is just over 40,000km and the Tupperware for Alpha Centauri would have to be placed about 25,000km away. Thats 5,000km further than the furthest point on the other side of the world... and that's going around it not through it. He would have to go "Extra Terrestrial".How about it Rob? Wanna add a T/5 to the mix?TFTC&series.

Every planet found with dalerious on this galactic voyage . What a wonderful series. A clever and novel idea to showcase the planets in our galaxy.You have explained in great detail facts about each planet, without overburdening the reader .Thank you Robmc for a very enjoyable journey around the big red sun.

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Found it

Probably describe this like a good quarterback - resting in the pocket, rather than hanging. But alls well that ends well! Tftc

Found it! G,N,E

Love a quick find on a warm day! TFTC series!

Aah Jupiter! Loved your flowering gums. Tftc

Tftc

Liking this Sola series
TFTC

It appears that this one didn’t survive the Mega event category 5 tornado as the cache attachment was lying out on the ground in the open and the container was just stuck in there in a rather undignified manner.
It was still all dry inside so at least the lid has been put back on properly.
This series reminds us of the big one in South Australia that took us on a three day drive through the desert.

Gum boots needed today. Easy find. Okay Heston off to the next one.

A bit sticky with the mud we had to squelch through to get to the cache but a little mud doesn’t stop the dedicated cacher!! SL 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 the 7/04 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 only 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 it

Get on the stubbies!!

It was very wet

Cool

Found it!
Took: Travel Bug (TB7G3AX)
Left: Lego scarecrow

Thanks for the cache! Peace out ️

TFTC

Out and about with geohusband and geodog exploring the area. TFTC

A quick afternoon trip back to Rutherglen, yep, for more pies, lunch and a handful of caches with Ampitup1. We didn’t have many caches that we both hadn’t done so we did a bit of everything.
A quick find here and glad it was dry.
TFTC

Not what i was expecting
Enjoying exploring our solar system on this brilliant day in Rutherglen ️

Tftc
The long and winding road (well more long and straight)

Look it’s easy

12 Apr 23. Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88 on our whirlwind adventure around Rutherglen and surrounding areas:)

Love the roadside solar system setups and really enjoyed these ones as well. Found with silverfox1970 and firebatman88 during our recent trip to Rutherglen for the mega event. It was a great day out walking and catching up with old caching friends. TFTC.

Last day in Rutherglen
TFTH

Met with another cacher doing this series from the other direction... again a bit slippery to put back. So an awesome view.

Returned to car for short drive to this one. Probably. could have walked but afternoon moving on. Easy roadside stop to collect. TFTC

Caching around Rutherglen for the Mega with day1976, Nakarra_L, Tg4thewin and wowacow

Found It!
Another quick find here and that's this series completed for me!
TFTC

Signed with 999Hunter & 999HK
Thanks

Signed with 999Hunter & 999Huntress
Thanks

In the area, finishing off the whole solar system

A quick find while visiting the area. Thanks for the cache tnln replaced as found sl

Not too hard

Quick easy find.

found with ilukaperi

Found it

Good one

Jumping Jupiter! Next stop on our space journey. Tftc!

Great Hide

Thanks Robmc for the cache

James0116
Monday10 Apr 2023
5:43:33 pm AEST
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Our space travels are nearly complete. Thanks Robmc for an interesting series.

Second day of our trip and the first full day at the Rutherglen Mega. After finding all the Ladders in Rutherglen series, we came to get these 2 geocaches.

Nice quick find by 999HK as I rushed to the wrong side of the tree.

Thanks for the cache Rob MC
Hunter

Enjoying the planetary theme, such a cool idea!

Find number 11856 at 12:59:01 pm on Monday the 10 April 2023
Out for another dose of geocaching geo-art trail chasing, filling in gaps, etc.
Lots of finds and very few problems found with any of the caches ??
Starting to head back in the direction of the lunch time event at Apex Park now.
**Thanks for placing this cache Robmc**

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We’re all going to Rutherglen to participate in Victoria’s next Mega!
*Are you coming to join in the fun?*
[**The Rutherglen Event 2023**](https://coord.info/GC9MH9M)
*6th - 10th April 2023 - GC9MH9M - Rutherglen- Victoria*

TFTC! 10 April 2023 4:58:03 pm 5531
A great series and an easy find.

*Found on the 10 Apr 2023 @ 9:33 pm.*
*Cache find # 14597.*

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, this being one of them.

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

**10/04/2023, 21:32:00**
**Find #5322**
**Traditional Find #3159**

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**

quick find. Logs stamped as Mystery Randoms today.
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.

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

With not many unfound caches left, it was time to take a trip into space and explore our solar system.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Robmc ??
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We really enjoyed this planet series.
We found them all over a couple of days during the mega in Rutherglen.
It was a fun weekend, and we were grateful that the rain held off, although we certainly had a wind jackets on.
Thanks Robmc
Domsky

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.

Jupiter was a bit wet to get to with dry feet yesterday [:o]
This morning it had dried out enough to venture in for a quick cache find

TFTC

In town and met up with some of the other Queenslanders for three intense days of caching. 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??

Sunday was to be a relaxing day, and it was. It was also pretty busy with caches, wine tasting, olives, coffee ?? and more socialising ?? May take me a few days to recover from this Easter weekend event.

We had to look a bit harder here ?? But got there.

TFTC Robmc ??

Tripping around the Solar System with +Wife.
Another planet visited whilst geocaching in this arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

"More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

Found while attending the Mega that my other half could not attend due to being half a world away!

Thanks for the cache.

We hD to wait for magpie to leave the tree to get the cache. TFTC.

With Fred Flintstones's at the Mega in Rutherglen caching all over the place.



TFTC Robmc

A weekend with Dino at the Victorian Mega in Rutherglen over Easter Friday to Sunday. To find lots of caches and have lots of fun. Quite rainy on Friday with a very painfully delayed trip over from
Canberra to make it here just before closing. Saturday weather was a bit nice with only drizzles now and then. Sunday is blue skies but suddenly cold. Starting to look like a lovely last day for us.
This is one of the caches we found today. Thank you Robmc for putting this one out.

Day 2 in Megaland

Log sheets if not signed with full signature were signed with the team name TQ6. (Team Qld 5) which included RoddyC, hatzofff, chamad, willis007, domsky, Echocage1.

TFTCache Robmc

Found 11:28 am
The last of the caches in thus series now found, two days ago too much water to access GZ and still have dry feet. Here for the Easter weekend while attending the MEGA.

TFTC Robmc

Found with teamashy on the MEGA Weekend. TFTC

Found with thomo31, TFTC

Woohoo, anther one down.. geoteen getting her numbers up today ??

tftc!

Smart idea, my #100th cache. Looking forward to what other caches you can bring us. And thanks for the cache!

Returning to Rutherglen Mega from Chiltern. By my reckoning, I think we've now completed this really enjoyable & informative series. Many, many thanks ?? ?????????????? ????

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

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
#4574

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

We had just completed a couple of ad lab stages at the winery at the end of the street. After that we made our way back up to the wine bottle, collecting the solar system caches along the way.
A great idea for a series Robmc.
Thanks for the cache.

Out and about with all the other crazy cachers. Tftc.

Our second day caching in Rutherford with the group.

Enjoying the space.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 11:25 AM on April 9, 2023. TFTC, Robmc

Found with a group of South Aussie Geocachers, signed logbook as Mystery Randoms.
Thanks

#17659 - 2:50:00 PM; Day 4 of the Rutherglen Mega mission and it all started by heading down to claim a find on the Mega. It was then time to work my way through all of the gadget caches in and around the Mega site before hitting the road with Sol de lune for more adventure labs, some multis and a few others we collected along the way, before heading back to town for some lunch. Later in the afternoon, I teamed up with StrangeTrousers and iPlod65 to polish of the remaining caches in the Easter 2023 geoart series, including avenging the two DNFs from yesterday. All caches were found in good condition and replaced as found. The day wrapped up with an enjoyable evenibng of good food, fine wine and excellent entertainment. Apologies for the largely generic logs! TFTC Robmc

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. [^]

Out with a group of South Aussies this afternoon signing logs as Mystery Randoms.

Thanks for the cache 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.

All of the Solar System caches in and around Rutherglen were found without problems.

Thanks for the cache Robmc.
# # #12936 # #

With Easter being a very busy time for the family this Mega was only going to be a day trip for me today. This meant a Mega early start today and a restriction on which caches I could achieve in only one day. Concentration on all the special adlabs for the mega and the Maze.
After completing the Ladder series with Dromaniax, Neville-Devil, Team Trackt and myself we were heading for the wine bottle and who new we would have to pass Jupiter to get there.

Thank you Robmc for the series

Found with the JAMS crew on our Rutherglen Mega trip which was a week long. We went from Rutherglen to Wangaratta and then to Bendigo. TFTC

Continuing on our theme of "muddy caches we didn't get yesterday", this last planet was on our list. Geopartner was the one who did the honours as the geobrats are simply not experienced (or tall) enough to ascertain what is firm ground and what is a giant muddy. We watched eagerly from the car and had a small celebration when we saw him signed the log. Planets complete! TFTC

Found Jupiter when out and about for the Mega ??

Well we're travelling a little further away from the sun here.

But hey anything for a smiley.

I pulled over and signed the quick find.

TFTC

#5414
Found while visiting Rutherglen for the Mega. Thanks for the geo-fun. ??

This is our third Mega, and we have enjoyed them all. We had driven up a few days ago and camped over the border in NSW with our geodogs Mini Michi, Teeny Treek and Gypsy Girl. Our geomobile A'Tuin provided us with a place to sleep, and we had a wonderful position just metres from the Mighty Murray.

As planned, we met with Mr Sims_Family, who claimed his 7,000th find by attending this Mega. Congratulations Eddy. Neville_devil had also made the trip up, and we planned to complete the GPS Maze, the Gadget Cache Adventure Labs and the Ladder Series and see what else we could manage.

This was one of the other caches that we found today. Our group consisted of Neville_devil, Team Trackt, Sims_Family and Dromaniax.

Thank you for this Traditional cache Robmc.

Jupiter was calling but muggles were stopped here on my way past originally so kept driving. A return found the coast clear and cache was soon found after walking in circles a fee times.

Thanks Robmc for the cache.
Found at 5:50 pm on 8/4/2023.
Find # 2650

Found while up in Rutherglen for the MEGA event.
Fantastic location for the MEGA.
Thanks for having a cache here for us to find on our visit.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_Bean14.
We were in Rutherglen for the MEGA event and found this cache while there.
Thanks for the hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I had a great time at the Rutherglen MEGA.
Thanks for hiding this cache in the area so i could enjoy finding it while there.

Our group consisting of bushfire, Brisal5, Anymules and me tackled this one while at the Mega,. We signed in as BAB6 to save space in the log books.
Had all the mega puzzles presolved for the trip and were happy to have completed this random one.
Thanks for the fun here today Robmc

Woohoo tfyc

Everlasting at Rutherglen Mega 
Enjoyed myself wandering the town.
Enjoyed myself wandering the adventure lab. 
Enjoyed myself, searched, found, and signed
Enjoyed my homework, the puzzles.
Enjoyed meeting new and old friends.
Enjoyed myself and attended the events
Enjoyed myself the multi.
Enjoyed myself and visited the virtual 
Thank you for wonderful organising the events
Thanks for the caches and maintenance. 

Sorry, copy and paste ??????

Found it cool with DeafPhantom & Everlasting TFTC ??