Ringwood Ramble - Herman Pump Reserve 1 Heathmont, Victoria, Australia
By QueenK8 on 28-Jul-24. Waypoint GCAVNG1

Nicely placed cache available for all who play the game. Thanks for this series.

Third and final find on a short bike ride to open my account for November and finish off this new series. Thanks

With a little time between obligations, I set out in perfect weather to find some recent caches in the area. A quick find as the camouflage wasn't well placed, and the container was visible on approach. After signing the log, I reset the cache with some more effective natural camouflage. No muggles interrupted my retrieval or reset today. All in good dry condition. TFTC QueenK8

Out caching with one of pinnacle333 in the Heathmont/Ringwood area.A beautiful place here, with lots of wonderful play areas for children nearby, glad to have been shown it. Thanks QueenK8.

Out with echidna44 we came across this gorgeous community playground in a small reserve with Tonka trucks, books, chalk art and mosaics. A quick collect here. Thanks for placing this cache here QueenK8

Nice little hide to finish off the night.TFTC!

Cant find it for some reason Ive been looking in a lot of stumps and I still cant find it but Im sure it was a great geocache

Found it eventually, took about 15 minutes. But what a wonderful place to be wandering. Near the danger tape .

Lovely playground and trucks

Thanks! Found with FinlayW18 all good condition

Went in the wrong direction at first then circled back and found pretty quickly

Like other cachers I had trouble locating this cache. I checked GZ with a GPSr and an iPhone and both pointed to the same place that was totally devoid of a hide. As I was leaving I noticed a possible hiding place several metres away and there was the cache. Tftc.

Found at 10:12The GPS was playing games here so it took me a few minutes to narrow in on the hide. I spotted it quickly once I was in the right spot.Thanks QueenK8 for the cache

DNF it has been taken by someonee

Beware of the cockroach!

*Found on the 15 Sep 2024 @ 1:49PM.**Cache find # 15799.* I made a return to this series today as there were a couple I missed and a number of others that I didnt get too last time as I had run out of time.After finding number 3, I then continued on foot along the path to the next 2 which were found with out any trouble**Thanks to QueenK8 for keeping the game going by placing this cache.**

It was a bitterly cold day, but I was bored at home and decided to go out caching anyway. I needed a bit of exercise, so decided to attack this little trail of caches. I really enjoyed doing these three caches at Herman Pump Reserve.

Found it

GPS was all over the place . Had to go a few metres away from where we were directed to be able to find it . Lovely little reserve TFTC

GPS was very wacky with this one and couldnt rely on it. Had to resort to my spidey senses. Found and signed. Cheers

We intended on doing a section of the trail on the scooters but on arrival one had a flat tyre so that changed our plans a little so we ended up doing a few less scooter friendly spots instead of the original plan. It was a super nice day for a change so it was a shame we couldn't cruise around but still had fun and the trails weren't too busy which was surprising.This last little section of 3 caches, we parked and one end and walked to the other end and back and had no problems with the finds on these ones and then we headed off for lunch.Thanks QueenK8 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Found it TFTC

Out for another enjoyable geo hunt with Redcb today, we aimed at some more of the Ringwood Ramble series. With K9 sleuth, Pilot, assisting us, we had great success and finished the day with only one more puzzle left to be solved, to complete the series.The community input to help entertain the children is quite impressive.Thanks for your wonderful work here, QueenK8. Youve done us a great service.

Out today with Crustyvarmint to log some more of the Ringwood Rambles we found ourselves at yet another lovely bush reserve parkland. What a delight to see so many childrens' toys and chairs and little tables positioned throughout this area just inviting children into a world of imagination and fun. This has been a lovely day and a most enjoyable series. TFTC QueenK8

Out today with my son for a bike ride through this reserve which I have never visited before. Lovely area and great for the kids!

After attending the SideTracked event at Meadmore Juction, I managed to pick up a few caches on the way home. I was really pleased to see these caches pop up in the area but have been unable to visit due to a couple of busy weeks. This one was hidden in a likely place. Thanks QueenK8, I look forward to completing the series.

Skylizard and I took a detour to get a couple more in this great series. This was the second find. Parked the car, took a pleasant stroll to the cache, which was quickly located. TFTC QueenK8

Last joint find for us this evening, we veered off the main trail and up various side branches where we split up. This time my GPS was right and took me straight to GZ where the cache was easily located, along with a VICROCKS rock (now repositioned as a cache guardian) found very close by. We walked back to the cars, slightly confused by the road we didn't remember crossing but all good!... TFTC QueenK8!

We are very happy all these caches have appeared as it will give us some caches to find on our regular Tuesday after (his) work jaunts with quiet1_au, although they are at the edge of the travel distance vs amount of light before it gets dark at this time of year lol This was next and near another awesome playground set up. I wondered if it was part of a local Bush Kinder? I actually stopped to take a photo to send to my Kinder whilst the guys went ahead and q1 was the one to find this last cache for the day. We decided on the way back to the car that it would be too dark to go get any more and will continue on the series over the next several Tuesdays. TFTC QueenK8 - GJMMelb

Continuing on from Herman Pump Reserve 2 we passed the playground area - plenty of toy trucks but all very still. I closed the lid of the box of books and then we made our way to GZ. This was another cache where the GPSr devices were at odds with the actual location but all was good in the end. Thanks to QueenK8 for the cache.

What a great little community space with the toy trucks and books for kids to enjoy. A volunteer gardener was 100m from GZ - wonderful. tftc

Out and about with omegaman, there are always plenty of laughs while we are turning caches into smiles. It was Omegamans Birthday today so we caught up for lunch and grabbed a few caches.This is one of the caches found today.Thanks QueenK8 for the cache.

Omegaman1971??Support Your Local Villain?? ??Live - Laugh - Lurk?? First To Find: 177Sidetracked Cache Finds: 133After a fantastic lunch with Rebel Acts, we headed to Ringwood for a few caches before I had to go back to work.Some logs today were signed RA and OM71 due to nano logs

Nice, easy find in my old neck of the woods. All in good condition. TFTC

I found this cache on my Mega Walk #29 - a 25,000 step walk through Heathmont, Burnt Bridge and Ringwood. I zig zagged up to this one to avoid the long grass and once again the cache was an easy find. Our 5th cache in Herman Pump Reserve and our 210th 3TF. It's now a 2.4km walk to my next cache. Thanks from D B-A

##Published - thanks for contributing to Geocaching with this Listing.##*Don't forget that regular visits to check on this cache will keep it healthy as well as keep seekers happy. Be sure to log an Owner Maintenance log each time you visit to check on the cache.*>***The challenge for any Cache Owner is not to place the smallest possible container . . . . . . . but the largest.***

Find number 13523 at 8:39:28AM on Monday the 29 July 2024Saw the notifications this morning for some new caches in Heathmont and was humming and haring about whether I really wanted to go out in this weather or not. And then some more notifications came up just around the corner, ah well, where are my keys it's FTF Hunt time!*** Yeah FTF ***Parked just across the way with the intention of walking to each of these but given the drizzle and the location of the one near the railway line I decided to drive around.Walked into this one for a really quick find, only problem was my cold wet feet, I can live with that for an FTF **Thanks for placing this cache QueenK8**---*WOW, so much happening here in Victoria*Log your will attend for [**Cachemas In July**](https://coord.info/GCAPPGD) and get your [tickets here]( https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1228458?) for the event in Kensington on 27 July 2024.Log your will attend for [**SideTracked Day 2024**](https://coord.info/GCAPPGF) on 10 August 2024 at the Miniature Railway Park in Eltham.The Great Victorian Cache Crawl is coming on 17-18 August 2024, this year starting near Melbourne heading up around Echuca and back over the weekend. More details to follow.And dont forget to log your will attend for Victorias first ever Block Party in March 2025, the [**The Sunbury Event**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).Theres also all those lists of amazing geocaches at [Geocaching Victorias List webpage]( https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists), go check them out.

Out on this very wet day checking out a couple. Never knew this area existed. Lovely to walk along here, better if the sun was out. Nice easy find. Cache in excellent condition. Thanks for the cache QueenK8