Urquhart Bluff Aireys Inlet, Victoria, Australia
By H_3 on 18-Jun-23. Waypoint GCAA8FQ

Last stop before our htel. Once again, nice view !The cache was easily found. Found during our fabulous three-week trip to Australia : Sydney > Brisbane > Hervey Bay > Uluru > Great Ocean Road > MelbourneGreetings from France ! Merci H_3 pour la cache et la balade.Urquhart Bluff : Cotation D2.0/T1.5 - Taille MicroCache #20199 trouve le 1 dcembre 2024

Easy find

Super quick find with CatCasper after looking at the amazing views. TFTC!

TFTF. On our first day along the GOR.

Start of our GOR tripTFTC

Nice easy find. Tftc

Found on our GOR trip, TFTC !

Started the day attending an event in Torquay with perfect weather to start the day. Drove along the Great Ocean Road stopping at Anglesea, Aireys Inlet, Lorne then onto Mount Disappointment which ended the day with torrential rain and hail storms.Cache:This one was just within my capabilities to be able to retrieve.Log signed and replaced as found.Thanks for the traditional cache H_3 #8,197

A quick easy find while on the first day of our otways adventure on the other side of the bay. TFTC!!

Always great to read about our history. Thanks for the find

Visiting from Ohio, USA with @ADFollower. TFTC!!

Visiting from Ohio, USA with BKD1389. TFTC!!!

Bout time I put a smiley on this one.Yesterday someone was right on GZ in the car.Today it was all free.I jumped out and signed the log.TFTC

Thanks for the cache. Another good place to stop.

Great first stop on our 3 day GOR adventure. Tftc.

Me and my mum had a good laugh over the name uruquart like how are you supposed to pronounce it? Going to Torquay to pick up my little cousin while staying in fairhaven TFTC find 341

Cache find 144We decided to try attempting this cache on our trip to angle sea and after a slip on the mud TFTC

Fast find with a great view. Tftc

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On our way back from Distillery Creek, and thought we'd give this one a go. A bit of an effort, but soon in hand. TFTC

The background image scene on the cache page was full of joggers this afternoon as they fought the elements in the 10th Surf Coast Trail Marathon. Luckily we had this place to ourselves and could make a speedy find before continuing on our way - not puffing nearly as much as the others who had done the beach run and hill climb. TFTC.

Got it update shortly

I found this geocache during a recent trip, however, for sme reason my log didn't automatically upload from my GPS as it is programmed to.Thanks for your cache hide and the effort that you put into maintaining it,

Easy find along a nice drive back to Melbourne. Cache was in an odd spot considering the hin - wouldn't be surprised if it is in the wrong spot. TFTC!

Took a little while before we could look for this one as there were a few muggles in the area. Used this time to read the information board and check out the surfers on the beach below.Thanks for a nice easy find.

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This one had been left quite obviously in the open. In the same place, but not quite so obvious now.We headed off down the Great Ocean Road for a few days for a belated wedding anniversary celebration. The weather was kind and the scenery along the road spectacular.We based ourselves in Lorne and then tripped around checking out the local places. While we had visited the area some time ago it was great to spend more time exploring the area, and of course the caching.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache H_3.**SKI Pair****

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~The logbook is signed **pesti-Hoot** for *pestinette* and *BlackHoot*.In: Nothing.Out: Nothing.Thanks **H_3** for the cache.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~*Here is the palaver from my log "3615-MyLife" that you still don't have to read:*After multiple outings together, here are some examples: the park at T5 in the Orlans region, the Letterbox Matrix in Provins on the return of GeoBulles 2023, a getaway to Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, the Mega in Oliveira de Frades in Portugal, that in Spain in Camarasa with a memorable passage in Andorra, a foray into the Drme at the beginning of the year, I have the immense luck and pleasure to accompany the pestinettes who asked me last summer to be part of this crazy trip to Australia to participate in the Adelaide Mega on February 29 !So I start by thanking them once again for the invitation as well as for the preparation of all logistics and the program of discoveries planned for these 17 days on Australian lands: Jasmers including three from the year 2000,webcams, virtual ones (full), challenges, Earthcaches, mysteries, Events.I would just add my two cents with the Matrices by cache type as well as obtaining as many Addons as possible for Leap Day ! Then depending on the time that we will have left at each of our stages, all caches allowing usto visit a nice new place.We only visited a tiny part of this beautiful country which makes us want to come back although it is not next door and I would also remember the warm welcome of Australians and their kindness.I sincerely thank all the poseurs without whom the exploration of all theseplaces known or much more discreet would not have been possible. A big thank you for your personal investment for the pleasure of all and ours in particular during this beautiful trip shared in friendly company ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~**Against a sedentary lifestyle, geocache! Get Out and Play! Saia and play! Sal y juega!**

6 months ago, during a frenzy, we said to ourselves "why not going to the mega in Adelaide for the leapday". From scratch we moved on to preparing an 18-day project in Australia.Our objectives are simple, visit a small part of this immense continent while validating a few caches. There are so many caches (impossible to do everything) that we will select. Our plan will allow us to visit Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Mount Gambier and finish in Adelaide for the famous Mega.During our stay we will log PestiHoot for Pestinette and Blackhoot. Today, we take the great road sea to go to Mount Gambier. We halt to se this spotThanks for the cache and the discovery of beautiful or original spots

Found! Quick find

Toller Bluck von hier und interessante Informationen!Danke!

I had to literally step back to find this cache then needed to grab a Tott to get it..from here I took an extended stroll the wrong way to the nearby Virtual Cache.

Called in and replaced the log sheet. Happy Caching

We left Torquay this morning to begin our GOR experience as we head to Adelaide.We were keen to visit the nearby Virtual and stopped here to work out our options.Made a quick find and then headed back to the beach. TFTC

A great place for a stop to look over the bluff and grab a cache with *Filser1*.T4TC

We drive past here regularly, today we finally stopped to find the cache. We also found lots of nectarines on a tree, but they still need some time to ripen up. And now we found that the cache was placed on one of our birthdays. A modest trifecta for us. Thanks to the CO whom we met at the Geelong waterfront just before Christmas!

One our way, TEMBO! and I visited the cache "Urquhart Bluff". The cache was found in a moment of No muggels. The views from here are wonderful.Thanks to H_3 for hiding and maintaining the cache.T4TC Filser1

Easy find with clue: David

We've spent plenty of time this week walking the geopup from Roadknight to Hutts - today we mixed it up walking from Hutts down here. It's a great stretch. Thanks H_3 for the marker.

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 16 - Melbourne - Great Ocean Road - Colac, Victoria (280 km)Rno v Melbourne opt prelo. Opravdu jsem si nemyslela, e australsk lto znamen chodit v dnch, triku s dlouhm rukvem a pov vest. Pod tu dsn fouk vtr a tak je v podstat chladno. Melbourne m celkov zklamalo. Sice nkter vky byly zajmav, ale jinak tu nic moc nen a msto je pinav. Zejm tu nkde jsou pkn vilov tvrti, ale centrum m nenadchlo. Tak jej po rnu opoutm s klidnm srdcem. Dnes mm v plnu projet vt st zdej velk atrakce Great Ocean Road kolem divokho pobe. Nejdv jsem si odboila na mal off road a odlovila si pr challeng mezi farmami s ovcemi. Pak u jen cesta po freeway, nco jako dlnice, a spolu s dalmi stovkami aut se inu k pobe. Je konec roku a vkend, tak je to znt. Lid vude jak sraek. Mm po cest nachystanch pr keek, tak nespchm a v klidu si jedu a zastavuji na vyhldkch a u keek. Cesta je "scenic" a jsou tu i msty pkn vhledy, ale kdy to srovnm s kalifornskou silnic 101 kolem Big Sur a Monterey Bay, tak Amerika vyhrv. A to nejen na tto silnici. Tm v 18.hodin dojdm do Apollo Bay, kde mm zaplacen apartmn, a nestam se divit. Na souadnicch je recepce njakho komplexu s karavany a chatkami a tam mi dmy sdluj, e m ubytovn k nim nepat a je soukrom. Volaj tam a majitelka jim v klidu k, e m ubytovn bylo zrueno a apartmn je u obsazen. Jsem vzteky bez sebe. Stlo m to 3 tisce a nemm kde bydlet. Nakonec mi dmy nachzej motel za vy cenu kousek odtud - 65 km ! To jako by ti v Brn ekli, e se m jet ubytovat do Znojma. Tady to ale za dnou vzdlenost nepovauj. Zanm mt Austrlie pln zuby. Tm kad den je tu problm. Nejsou ani moc ochotn, ani vstcn, pod tu pr a je zima, silnice stoj za prd a celkov nemm z tto zem moc dobr pocit. Vyjmkou byla Tasmnie, ta stla za tu cestu. Asi je to tm, e je to samostatn ostrov, tak je to tam jin. O pl devt veer jsem nakonec dojela do drahho motelu v Colacu, kam jsem vbec jet nechtla. Je to od pobe kus do vnitrozem, take se ztra budu muset zase vrtit zpt k ocenu na svou trasu. Jete mm toho panka bourbonu a colu. Jsem zvdav, co m tu jet ek. Zlat Amerika !In Melbourne rain again this morning. So I leave and drive to the Great Ocean Road. I make a little detour and found some challengies in countryside. Than I spend whole day on the GOR and found some caches there and finished my way in Apollo Bay where my booked and payed accomodation was occupied ! Shit ! I need to drive another 65 km to Colac and pay another 250 AUD in another motel. I dont like Australia. Every day is raining, windy and cold and now this. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic.

Found it while talking to a woman signed log and replaced and she didn't notice a thing

Great Vieuw from Urquhart Bluff. TFTC from Germany!

A lovely day for a drive down to the coastthat was until we came across bumper to bumper traffic trying to enter Anglesea haha. At the lookout there were many tourists admiring the brilliant views so while they were busy taking selfies we sneakily grabbed the cache and signed it while pretending to take interest in the signage.Thanks H_3 for the placement with a view.

Tftc! Found this one on a bit of a rainy day! What a beautiful spot this is.

Coords are bang on. Everything is good at GZ. TFTC TFTHSL * dronnord * ...\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",..\

This week I'm staying down at Anglesea with some friends to celebrate the end of the year and have been fortunate to grab a couple of caches in a very pretty area that I haven't visited since the mega in 2016!Chauffeuring a member of millsy031 (who's rather complaisant regarding impromptu caching expeditions) around the place has granted me a few more opportunities to diverge slightly from the group's intended route than would otherwise be anticipated in such circumstances, which often gained the curiosity of the two folks in the other car and resulted in a couple of adventures with all four of us!Today we kicked things off at the chocolaterie where an alarming amount of money left my bank account (but another ice-cream AL location was ticked off which balances it out), then visited Split Point Lighthouse before heading down to Lorne for some further shopping and a quick swim, after which we all headed to the Mermaid's Pool for a scenic conclusion to the day.Navigating via caches is good for the find count, but not necessarily great for a group trying to reach the beach!For some reason, I totally missed the existence of a carpark down by the beach and opted to navigate us all here instead (I believe my logic was something along the lines of "a cache called Urquhart Bluff must be near Urquhart Bluff!").We all took a slightly sketchy direct route down to the walking trail where I soon realised that we were in a woefully inconvenient spot for beachgoing and had to loop us back around to the carpark via the actual trail this time.Luckily, this cache up the top didn't add to the confusion, and it was quickly spotted in the first spot that I checked prior to the kerfuffle.Log signed and off we go to the right carpark this time...Thanks to H_3 for placing this one here!

Today we headed out from Winchelsea to do our second day on the GOR. We made our way down through Wensleydale and picked up a few trads in tiny little none weatherproof pots. Nice little series.Then on to Anglesea which seemed to be very hipster/surfer vibes and we enjoyed a nice walk around The Wetlands, more caches and ate our packed lunch at one of the murals. Onwards to Aireys Inlet to visit the lighthouse and more caching. Lorne was our last stop on GOC seemed to be a bit more exy here and lots of posh Melbs people here . Back to Winchelsea via Erskine Falls, surprised no cache there and via Bambra area to collect some super cool woodland caches. Ran out of time to do everything we wanted but you can never get them all .Thanks to all the CO for some really great hides and especially to Bushfire we were sad to read of ill health.Super quick find here TFTC

Stunning view from this lookout. Tftc

Der erste des Tages

Great views and fresh oxygen. A fun on a trip from Geelong to Adelaide via the Great Ocean Road. Thanks H_3 and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *SAs Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Keep looking up!

Heading down along the Great Ocean Road towards Adelaide,caching as we go, loving the scenery which is the best in the world. What a great view from here and a nice pull in to parkThanks H_3 for bringing me here and contributing to this great game for others to enjoy. Happy trails, Deanside

Nice views from here and I found the information available on the board to be interesting. This should have been a simple find but another couple arrived which made seeking out and retrieving the cache without being spotted a bit problematic but we managed it *eventually!* But then once they had moved on and we were about to replace the cache another mob descended and swarmed around the area like bleedin' ants! Eventually they all gathered to take photo's, selfies and whatnot away from the GZ so we were able to return the cache to where we found it and continue on with our journey.TFTC

Nice spot for a cache with lovely views, we had to hang around for quite a while as two other vehicles arrived before we could replace the cache.TFTC TNLN

A great place for a stop to look over the bluff and grab a cache. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find on our way towards Aireys Inlet today. Good history at this spot.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. Started on the 17th September in Cairns. Our plan is driving.along the eastcoast down. Then in the south on to Adelaide and from there ending the 31th October in Alice Springs.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case H_3, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

On my roundtrip along Australia with Oopie we are douing always some caches.Today we ware on the way on the great ocean route and we did a few nice caches.All COs thanks for bringing us on this nice places and making this caches.

Found it! Thanks for the cache

Nice find thanks, beautiful views

Quick find after taking the dog to the beach down below ( I definitely recommend brining dogs here it's quiet and for our pup it was good) tftc

Any excuse for a morning hike from Aireys Inlet. TFTC!

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We are visiting from Brisbane with muggle grandma, driving along a big section of The Great Ocean Road. Before everyone else was awake, I snuck out at daybreak to finish off some caches in Anglesea before we all headed off to Apollo Bay. So many beautiful places to see along the way. Many of those places are pointed out to me through caching.Needed to give Mr 10 a leg up for us to be able to sign this one.

(CZ) 14:30 we found it. Thanx

Quick find. Tftc

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Beautiful walk to get to this one!

Thanks to H_3 for placing this cache out here, a lovely spot for a stop to admire the views.
A nice hide.

Good to have a new cache at a lovely spot. Felt around for a bit before claiming the prize. Tftc

Down on the surf coast for the weekend, so a perfect chance to knock off some caches on a cold and windy Saturday
Nice easy find tftc

Great view, love the spot. TFTC

Find No. 4318. Found with FUF009 at 8.29am.

Another weekend in Anglesea caching the area and finding caches we didn't get last time we were here (at the end of May). Geodog Penny came with us again and this time FUF009 came along as well. FUF009 hasn't been down to this area caching since October 2018 so he had quite a few to find. Today we made our way to Lorne caching along the way as we went.

First stop was for this one, which is only a new cache. When you see the hint 'magnetic' you can guess straight away where the cache will be. A quick find here for us. Spent more time enjoying the views from here.

TFTC

Find # 12700

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

A family weekend away in Anglesea. Down here to enjoy and cache the area.

Last time I was in Anglesea was Oct 2018 and I had left a few unfound. So back again to claim some more finds in the area and tackle the AdLabs.

Great views over the water up here.
Being earlyish in the morning we had the parking area to ourselves.



TFTC H_3

Great quick find!!

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Our 1st FTF... Nice spot to stretch the legs and take in the view. TFTC H_3