Major Mitchell Stawell Stawell, Victoria, Australia
By Duntulum on 19-Jul-22. Waypoint GC9XDEK

Heading east for a family do and to visit selected caches. The plan to clean out Stawell didn't quite work.I hunted the wrong part of the structure but got there in the end, thanks Duntulum.

Found at 4:38 pm with Olga on a trip to pick up our camper in Melbourne

So small but easy

Thank you!

Found while travelling home from Kaniva with ConnieandRick. This cache was planned for our trip to Kaniva, but we didn't realise that we had passed it until too late. On the way home today, we were distracted again and almost missed stopping again. Almost, but we did stop, and found the cache without too much difficulty.Many thanks to Duntulum for the cache.

Found on a road trip back to Melbourne from Kaniva with Muzza after doing the This is SA puzzle caches. This was a quick find, thanks.

Nice and quick find I saw from a while back. Tftc

Find 5280 on September 29, 2024 Found while on a family holiday. Today we are headed home and we found this cache on the way. A nice easy find here which was welcome. All is well with the cache. TFTC Duntulum

Just hanging around interesting wee spot

Nice hide. TFTC

Found cache. TFTC

Nice and sneaky but found it

Something special or unusual goes here:Day Two - Kaniva to Sunbury.Another monument to Major Mitchell...another cache. A quick find for me here.The Generic Bit:The 2024 Geocaching Victoria Event Crawl: Day Two - Kaniva to Sunbury.Two days of traveling over from S.A. and three days of Events, numerous Adventure Labs, lots of fun, mishaps, and even a few caches found as we crawled around in search of smilies. My companions for the Crawl were Muff1. So Good to catch up with lots of caching friends. [:X]***Thanks Duntulum for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Quick easy find a revisit for us on way to Werribee to visit a friend. Lunch and off to a event iThe Great Victorian Cache crawl see how many we do coming from SA TFTC

Makeing my way back to the border, slowly getting caches on the way. Quick grab here. Thank you for bringing me here. TFTC

Accurate coordinates made this a quick find , all's good at gz . Thanks for the cache Duntulum

After just completing the nearby Grampians Rail Trail...and logging 7 caches, we pulled in at yet another of Duntulum's hides. Been past it hundreds of times. Thought we should get it and add to today's total. Could actually see the cache container from the vehicle when we pulled up.

Found at 10:20 AM GAFF1.This Mitchell guy has been every where man! I read a story about him as told by his team who said that he had "iron guts" and could eat just about anything. The story was about those Mitchell cockatoos that no one in the expedition would eat as they tasted like rotting fish - except for Major Mitchell!Thanks to Duntulum

Daughter found it, was very excited. Thanks for the tip about fence

Second visitor to this one today.A quick stop and grab as we head in to Stawell and find somewhere to camp for the night.

I made a quick stop here to find this micro on my way home.Thanks

Found it thank you,great spot.

found it

Good find

I was heading up to Dimboola for a CITO today and did not realise it had been cancelled Friday evening until I was checking what time it was planning on starting.It was cancelled due to the heat and the total fire ban as well.It was going to be hot picking up rubbish so it was for the best.I was in Stawell at the time and as I was in no hurry to get there now I decided to do a couple around there first before heading to Dimboola to do the newish trads up there and any others on this side of the road.Arrived at Dimboola and then opened the Geocruisers door and the heat hit me.I have found what I needed to do in Dimboola and now its time to start heading back east and find somewhere to stay for the night.Made it to Stawell and I have driven past this monument to Major Mitchell that many times and it was time to pay it a visit.I have called into a lot of these and boy did he get around.Thanks Duntulum TFTC.

Enjoyed this one, TFTC!

Log replaced

Really good spot. Paper needs replacing as it is now completely full on both sides.

Found while driving home on a very wet day.

Easy find lots of bugs

Great find(actually only my 2nd ever!) and made me second guess how good my eyesight was . TFTC

Find No. 4398. Found at 12.33pm.A caching trip to Stawell, Lake Lonsdale and Halls Gap. Went in the car and took Geodog Penny with us who enjoyed her day out.Another quick find with spot on co-ords. We reckon Major Mitchell does well with caching as we have one in our area and yes we have hidden a cache at it.TFTC Duntulum

Awesome find

This one was nice and quick, TFTC!!

Thanks

Tftc ??

Yeah

Found it. Been here before.
All good.
TFTH

10:20
Together with Suscoe, we had been looking forward to another trip to South Australia for quite some time. Plans finalised, an early start from home and we were on our way, with Bordertown the rendevous point. Quite by chance we caught up with Suscoe at "Poor Diggers" in Stawell. Together from there we found a great variety of caches, including this one and completed a number of Adventure Labs as we made our way westward, grateful for the half hour we earned before reaching Bordertown.

Thanks to Duntulum for adding this cache to the gameboard.
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It was time for another adventure out west. After deciding not to camp overnight nearby, it was a zero dark thirty start with a few hours of driving before the sun rose. Well, I can only assume the sun was up as it was not visible through the fog and mist. After a couple of events and CITOs it was time to find a few caches.

A quick find here. Major Mitchell sure got around!

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

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Good find after driving around Stawell

Quick and easy find. TFTC

Quick salute to the Major. Tftc

Nice quick find thanks

Stopping at the historical markers we wouldn't usually stop at getting to know the history of the markers

Nice little hide. TFTC

Found lots room to write my name down, TFTC

Quick and easy TFTC

YAY - found Major Mitchell Stawell. Nice quick find. AND Log sheet is full. Struggled to find a spot to scratch my name. Think I wrote over the top of someone else. Thanks Duntulum for setting up this cache.

PS: The Troll Dolls [TN6TR0] were with me on my great caching adventures today.

Mmmmmm? What a strange monument …. ‘Major Mitchell passed by this spot’ …. really??? Thank heavens we don’t have to celebrate every place where people pass by. Have heard Major Mitchell wasn’t a particularly nice fellow in historical terms either. After puzzling over the wording on the monument I attended to the cache - of course I went the wrong line initially, but got back on track and made the find. Thanks for another cache in the area Duntulum.

On my way to Melbourne for the AGP grabbing some caches along the way TFTC
Put in a new logbook

The log book went in another cache I found nearby. This one was all good.

TFTC. We are camped at Green Hill. Lake Ararat for the long weekend as we make our way slowly to Penola. An overcast morning with promise of sun today. Decided to take a trip out to Stawell to complete the Adventure Lab and pick up other caches that have been placed since our last trip out this way. A productive day with 8 finds as well as the Adventure Lab.

We picked this one up whilst on the way to Ballarat nice quick find in a location that was rather familiar TFTC

On a road trip with Michells&hound and allister w over to Ballarat to complete the Geo Tour as well as other highly favourited caches and odd ones we were going past. We had a great weekend with four seasons of weather over the three days and even managed to attend an event in Sebastopol before heading home. Saw lots of the countryside and very interesting places in and around Ballarat. [^]

A quick stop here as we headed in to Stawell.

Thanks for the cache Duntulum.

Found with JJ52 and Michells&hound on our Ballarat Geo Tour trip. We left Adelaide early Friday morning and travelled home Sunday. We found all the Ballarat Geo Tour caches over the weekend as well as a few others along the way. We even attended a event in Sebastopol on Sunday before we headed home. I am sure that I have found a cache here before on one of my previous trips. TFTC

Easy find SL TFTC

A great place to find a cache with great parking and fantastic co-ords. SL TFTC

Spending a view days in the Grampians. Out for a drive today so of course a few caches too.

Thanks Duntulum for placing and maintaining for all to enjoy. Quick find. All good here

Heading home after a few days away, can never pass up stopping at a Memorial Cairn. Thanks for placing this cache here!

The 2nd MM cache I've found today. The man got around!
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Thanks

TFTC

Another good hint made for a quick find. Tftc.

Found this one as we were leaving Stawell. A great way to start the year off. Let’s hope I find more time to go geocaching this year.

One of four caches found on an end of year dash to Melbourne, that is not particularly caching related.

Im not sure how many of these Major Mitchell obelisks there are, seems each one comes with a cache.

A quick find here, thanks duntulum.

We stayed overnight in ararat after doing the fireworks for the carols there and after finishing the clean up this morning we thought that we would reward ourselves with a lab cache in Stawell and anything else that looked easy to find as we were feeling old today.

As we pulled up here we had a feeling of de-ja-vue and a quick check showed that we had been here before for a previous cache that is now gone. We missed the turn off into the monument and after a u-turn we headed back to the right location and pulled in there and as we were turning around Diane spotted the cache from the car and all we had to do was add our name to the log.
It would be really great to see what the bush looked like during Major Mitchells explorations compared to what it is now.

Thanks Duntulum for the cache.

Really nice to visit this area again and see some of the changes in the area. TFTC

Found with MazzyMay on our return trip to Victoria. Stopped here on our way into town and made a quick find. TFTC

Nice easy one for the geo kid. Thanks

Thanks for the cache.

We enjoy finding caches and this was another we enjoyed finding

This weekend was mega weekend and we headed over with Freddo for a couple of days before caching up with some fellow Aussie counter parts

A great weekend away and a very well organised mega despite the horrible weather thrown at us we still managed to find quite a few caches

Thanks for the cache

Deja vu?

November 2022. Time for the second Victorian Mega of the year. This time in Whittlesea. What is it with W's? Time for another epic road trip. Who will join our merry crew? We traveled from South Australia and camped in the pig pen. It rained. It blew. It was sunny. It was not sunny. All four seasons. Beautiful location and some awesome caches.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

Silo Art Trail tours and Finding your cache Duntulum, thank you so much for placing it.

After attending a Celebration Event in Dimboola this morning, this cache was the last one we found as we cached our way back home. A nice quick find here. Love following places where Major Mitchell passed. TFTC Duntulum

Found whilst heading to Halls Gap. TFTC.

Heading west again we were able to take the opportunity to grab this newish cache since our last visit to Stawell.
Thanks Duntulum for the placement.

WOW That's our 4,000 find. On our caching finds we have crossed paths with Major Mitchell a lot of times . He was a real gadabout , We wonder if he was just caching ? Cheers Mebclever

Found by Mary and David at 12:40. Couldn't get through the direct road from Murtoa, but the road via Rupanyup was good. Our thanks to Duntulum.

Found it

Found by Rebel Acts in the company of Omegaman1971.

A four day weekend gave us the opportunity to catch up with the rest of the Crew and head to South Australia to do the Border track and caches in the Big Dessert area, lots of laughs and good times were had over the weekend. There were plenty of good quality caches to be found along the way.

We were led by Tackle Head who has been going to the Big Dessert area yearly for thirty five years.

This is one of the caches found today. Nice bit of history.

Thanks Duntulum for the cache.

Interesting historical marker. Tftc

Found by Omegaman1971

In the area with Rebel Acts for a few days for some caching fun and to tackle the border track.
Cheers for the cache

Mrs Riddell has just completed walking in Mitchell’s footsteps from Passage Camp where the Murray and the Murrumbidgee joins, to Portland… over 5 years segmented into 5 day lots.
COVID added 2 years. She completed this 3 weeks ago which has then seen her do the Aussie Camino from Portland to Penola in 2 weeks and then some get out of jail free days cachingbin Mount Gambier and Millicent … not long enough!
So this is timely.
TFTC… easy!find.

Thanks to Duntulum for this hide. The weather was starting to look a bit more serious now.
A quick find and sign.

Find # 11179

Found with sharkiefan.

A day out checking out the opp shops and lucky enough to grab a couple of caches between the showers.

A quick grab as we noticed the cache from the Ute before getting out.

TFTC Duntulum

Found with FUF009.
A quick easy find fortunately. Horrid weather today. Tftc

A little bit of a challenge. Very well hidden

Working in Horsham today so naturally I stopped for a cache or two with maybe a slight detour here or there on the way home! Ha ha. Thanks for the cache! I think there used to be one here a few years ago.

A quick find today whilst doing a loop around Stawell, Thanks Duntulum

Tftc

Tftc

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Duntulum for the cache at this historic location.

Nice to start the morning with any easy (FTF)!

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