It's Shawn Sheep Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
By BettyBoo3747 on 22-May-24. Waypoint GCAR1WA

Out today with Robmc doing some pole caching, a relative new concept to me. Certainly an improvement on ladder caches, Like the animal themes. This is where we began. Thanks BB

A morning's Pole Caching with Chewinprickles around Beechworth.Started as a cold morning, but was soon quite warm (after walking up a few hills!)Completed the full collection of animals. Thanks for these caches.Shawn was a lot lower than where it should have been given the difficulty rating.We signed out names and returned it where he should be living.Thanks, Robmc.

Shawn has now been put back in his correct hanging place at higher altitude.

Surely it's a Scottish Blackface! Another big high is sitting over the southern continent so a day trip from home base saw weirdobiker and I targeting a clutch of caches around Beechworth. Such a great day and to a lot of trumpeting we saw and signed. TFTC and the FUN!

I was out with Ronice88 today to tackle some of these new caches. With the appropriate TOTT we made short work of them. I really liked the cache containers as they were not too heavy and really quite quirky. The majority of them were spotted with no problems however I was not sure that all of them now reside in their original spots. This is one that I did not think was in the correct position but it was replaced as found

Family day out collecting this new series, so much fun! We came prepared with a 'fishing kit.' I rigged up that worked rather well when nature couldn't provide. We quickly learned that getting them down was easier than putting them back up. Happy to complete them all with a bit of time to collect some solved puzzles caches around Beechworth.With a bit of help our littlest geokid got this one down! she was very pleased with herself.TFTC!

Walking further along the track with our fishing pole, accompanied by Markndee and R from beavar we came upon Shawn sheep. SL at 1.17pm and put him back in place successfully and continued on. #11,032 TFTC BB

Next in the trail. Nice easy find. Reckon I could have bent this tree! TFTC. SL at 13:15pm.

Found with Harrowang & Beaver on mission to fish for caches this afternoon. Nicely made we soon signed log. TFTC

Got an invite out to get these which was a good excuse to put the reports on hold and get out of the house, I think it was partly for the company and partly for the extra 30cm I have.

Out and about in Beechworth with lillieb05, honey shop, billsons, and of course grabbing a couple of caches.This was the first of three grabbed today. With lillieb05 being slightly taller, it was left to him to make the retrieval.Log signed and cache returned as found.

Another day back in Chiltern Mt Pilot trying push my D/T average up slightly. A nice walk to some waterfalls and then a bit of CSI work. Then on to Beechworth to try for some new caches with a borrowed TOTT (and dinner with a group of sewing ladies!).I got this one on the Second attempt. Tried on the way down and realised where I was going wrong in the way back. Quickly worked off and then I realised I had dropped my pen. Found on the track and then took a bit of effort to get back in place.TFTC BettyBoo3747

Out and about today poking around with Grannan55 and Geodogs. Thought we better come and find these fantastic caches. Thank you for placing them for our enjoyment. All good here. Now, onto the next one for the day. TFTC

**FTF** @ 9:22AM Woopwoop The girls and I did a frosty ParkRun in Wangaratta this morning before making plans for the day. We looked to see if there were any FTFs left and to our excitement there were 6!Off we went without a fishing pole so we had to improvise and luckily we were able to find suitable fallen natural poles to get the job done.TFTC BB

We are not into pole fishing... well, at least that is what Mr ILT has always said. But in a rare turn of logic we decided that it was probably best to try it first before we make that assumption.So with the MacGyver soundtrack loaded Mr ILT knocked up a 5m collapsible pole this morning and off we went.I am not going to say if we enjoyed the pole fishing or not. But I will say that tomorrows job is to find another 3m for our pole.Beautiful area around these locations, but that pretty much just describes Beechworth in general.Thanks BettyBoo3747 for the education.

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