Locky Ness Monster arises from the depths Victoria, Australia
By gregandjudi on 18-Mar-23. Waypoint GCA620G

Found today with the geofamily.found the original geocache in this location in the past, good to be back and see the house I grew up in. TFTC.

Thanks for the cache!

After making it to the Northernmost point of Australia from Melbourne we are now on the return journey south. Today we travelled to Lockington VIC, the last stop on our 12 week trip. After setting up camp we headed out to explore the area and pick up a couple of caches, this being one of them. After a bit of a search it was Mr. Pooky who made the find of this very sneakily hidden cache. TF placing this cache for us to find on our travels.

Had to have a good look around for it

A sneaky hide and fun with the monster TFTC gregandjudi

TFTC, NICE Little hide. Our 2 little boys made sure to be on their best behaviour.

With another long road trip client today, I was more than happy to be able to grab a geocache that was well out of my local caches needed for continuing my streak, so with that all said and done, here I am on my break trying to figure out which cache I run for to sign before returning back to my client. With the choice being this one and my lunch in my hand, I was off.A quick rummage around the general area had this on in hand quite quickly, and after signing the log book and having a quick mess around with the pulley nearby, I returned to work, thanks for the cache and the quick little distraction.

We have set off on our annual winter escape but with no real plans other than a set of ideas.Our first stop is Bendigo, a place we haven't visited for any length of time in the past. There appears to be much to see and a good variety of caches to keep us entertained.We met up with our caching buddies Rebel Acts and Omegaman for a few days as well which added to the laughs and fun.Caches logged as RASPOM or SKI Pair if they had already found them.This is one of the caches we have found to date.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache gregandjudi.**SKI Pair****

I'm hitting the road again with my Rebel Acts and Ski Pair to have some fun and explore new places. While I don't mind caching locally, there is nothing like a road trip for a few days putting smiles on the map. I had a great time with lots of laughter and caching fun. Today's logs are signed as RASPOM.

Out and about with omegaman and ski pair around the Bendigo and Echuca area, there are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles.This is one of the caches found today.Logs signed as RASPOMThanks gregandjudi for the cache.

Out for a Saturday caching jaunt with goingplaces2 and enjoying travelling through the rural countryside. All good with this cache and we were on our way again after the log had been signed. But we had to have play with the monster as well. We woke him up and he came up to see what we wanted. We really enjoyed this as we have not encountered such a monster before. TFTC.

Took a little detour with ilook4geo and headed to Lockington. This is a really fun feature of the town. We had a play with the monster and made him rise several times, but don't know if he was really impressed with that. After that we had a look for the cache and found what we were looking for after investigating a few other types of hides. Once it was found and signed we left the monster to rest in peace again. Thanks for bringing us to this entertaining area go to gregandjudi.

A little djvu here A little different from the previous one here, but fun all the same Weve been through here a few times over the years, this time were on a little traveling detour on the way to the Capital Geobash in Canberra for Easter.Caught up with a few locals we met here years ago.Its great to see the Lockiness Millennium Bug still in action today, even though its a bit on the old and tired side of life.A favourite point for this one, always on the lookout for something different TFTC

Wow!! No words! Amazing

The Wench has decided to take up ukulele. Practice is held here in Locky, so she wanted to come out and see what happens.I will remember spending time here searching for the previous version of this cache Happily today didnt take quite so long. Thanks Greg and Judi.

Sneaky! TFTC!

TFTC!

Two attempts and then I found it. Sneaky.

On leaving Bendigo early to head home I decided to go through Elmore then through Lockington and do a couple cachesFound this one in its triky hide very cleverSigned log and replaced where foundA favourite point from me

Suscoe decided to head out west to Terrick Terrick and then south east to Lockington before returning to Echuca today.It was a delightful day with sunshine, a breeze and lots of caches to find.Lots of green paddocks, a few sheep and some dairy and beef cows and one white goose as well.Thanks to gregandjudi for this placement. We haven't been to Lockington for quite a few years. Nice to pass through again.

Quick find that wasn't so quick looked at it a few times with out realising

Quick find here. I had the exact hide here in a different spot for years, but after the folks passed, it became too hard to maintain. Thanks again Greg and Judy, really well placed. So good to see this highlighted again to the caching world. Fave added

We enjoy these types of hides and it was a surprisingly quick find. Passing through on our way home after spending some nights camping on the Murray. TFTC!

Sneaky and fun location

We came back with backup this time and with massive annoyance the newbies found it.
We went “too technical”
Pull and twist and “yay” we found…..rubbish! Gah!! Then we hear….What’s this? you are joking me?! That’s the geochache.
We have seen a few like this before.
Thanks for bringing us here more than once.

Out for a drive on this Sunny Sunday morning. Sitting down certainly made this one easier to find. Good hide. TFTC

More Déjà Vu, but with a difference.
So sad the monster did not rise from the depth this time.
A favourite point from me because I missed the obvious thanks to the good camouflage, but it didn’t escape the eagle eye of locus cache.
Well done Gregandjudi, very clever.

Wow it’s definitely not what you intend it to be! Almost gave up. Circling around wondering. Looking suspicious I gave up & then somehow I don’t know how, hand was feeling around & bang had it Only found a couple like this so made it extra hard! TFTC!!

Thought we would come for some lunch today and grab a few caches…turns out our brains are in a food coma. We will be back.

This is the one I really wanted my partner catnap777 to see.
I have witnessed the rising of the mythical Locky Ness Monster before. [^]
I was here when the cache was a painted mint tin.
A lot has changed at GZ since then, and although the creature remained hidden, the clever hide was revealed to us thanks to cat's sharp eye.

Thanks for revamping this old one gregandjudi , it was a favourite of mine back when the chain worked and quite the bonus to pick up Joint 2TF with cat' today on the new version.

Woohoo, a joint 2tf with dalerious after the great Freddo .

I heard so much about this area from dalerious, and he was super excited to bring me here. He was so good for not letting the cat out of the bag on what in particular he wanted me to see here.

It was such a shame that that very special thing he wanted me to see, was no longer in action .

Good to see that I was in action though, as I was lucky enough to come across this tricky cache just before my darling partner did .

A favourite from mee again, gregandjudi.

*FTF*

Glad I stopped for this neat cache.

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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.

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