Wimmera canoes Horsham, Victoria, Australia
By Northern Invaders on 23-Mar-03. Waypoint GCEA44

Little hope of a fix as the owner hasn't logged in since 2008

Arrived.... then read the Logs. Brrrrr!!! Please archive...

Spent about half an hour looking for this one then checked the logs!!!!
It is definitely missing and either needs replacing or Archiving given the time elapsed from previous log requested. The location is fantastic and it would be a shame to see this one go!!!!

would have been a great cache to find..... still no container we assume.... please replace or kindly take offline.
Thanks SS

Stopped at this one 6th July on way to Bendigo. Found it muggled - broken film canister on ground and partly torn logs and 'if you find this cache' information scattered on ground. Picked up rubbish. kids found lots of 1 and 2 cent pieces which was a small compensation for the muggled cache. Nice spot, we'll come back one day

Found 1:30pm. Enjoyed the walk along the river and it is good to see some water in the Wimmera again. TFTC

found on a rainy day in Horsham, came back to visit our home town and thought we'd hit a few caches in the area. TFTC

Spotted by Al. What a beautiful walk along the river bank. Great spot for the children and the adults alike. The kids enjoyed the nearby playground.

Graham & Megal

Stopped here to exercise the kids, they loved the novel slides.
Sadly only a little water in the river.
It was interesting learning the history and age of the canoe tree.
Thanks for bringing me here.

Found while on a break from climbing. My kid day. Thanks for the interesting place to visit. The kids enjoyed the near by slide.

Found at 7.15pm. An easy find but had to get something to help me reach it. TNLN Ta

Although too many Muggles about to score the cache the Mirror Miner struck again. !

Found at 1700 Hr's! Pretty easy find! Nice view's!

LNTN

it was excellent

A quick find while in the area. TNLN SL.

We couldn't leave the Horsham area without finding at least one cache. Spotted this one easily and were on our way. SL-T4T$

A quick grab early in the morning before heading out of town. SL. TFTC.

Nice break on the journey east.

ok need new gps.... keeps sending us the wrong way.... will try again next time

After trying to collect this cache a few months ago (could see but could not get), had assistance from LinearZZ and retrieved it at 12:05 whilst on the way to Narracoorte. River needs a lot more water but seems to be holding on. TFTC

Thought we would do the right thing and help Eclips_ok with this cache. Easy to spot but the correct access technique was not obvious made more difficult by council workers who wanted to talk water and weirs [:(!]. Finally made a successful attempt but logging was also difficult with unconnected strips of paper to handle. Oh well, such is caching .

Easy find on the way home from the Grampians.

We had 15 mins to spare in Horsham and decided to try our luck, it was in. TFTC. We didn't have long to look around but it is a whole new area of Horsham we didn't know existed, we will be returning to explore.

Got this cache before leaving horsham after a BnS. First cache for the day and an easy find.

Thanks Northern Invaders

trick to find had to hoist the wife up as just a bit short in the legs

I logged this cache way way back on 18/06/2004. It was a pleasure to find it again in the company of my mates on our way over to dak's funeral. Respect. Only thing players, if you are doing this in the dark, watch that bit of the canoe that sticks out down the river end like a sharp paddle. I still have the bruse on my leg some 3 weeks later... Damn

Clear skies, Astro. Oh, also cool to see the original log book which still holds the Astro star. Neat hide... [^]

Late night visit with some seasoned cachers. Cache still in good condition. Neat hide in an interesting location.

[This entry was edited by Freddo on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 6:19:30 AM.]

A nice spot to break for lunch on our journey home. The Kettle Kids took turns hunting for this one and while they did, a local went for a dip on a rather cool winters day.

Left Not Another Film Can.

TFTC

It was strange watching the international visitors trying to catch fish here, they thought a carp was something worth gloating about but their joy turned to dismay when they were told how rubbish they were. Deano did all the hard work with his height advantage.

Thanks,

R - B

2Dudez and Team Rubik's Week Long "2008 : A Cache Odyssey" trip to South Australia.
Some muggles were fishing down by the weir, so we had to be careful to extract this one (even though I could see from the ground with my vertical advantage)
Admired the tree while we waited for out opportunity.
Had to wait for their excitement in catching a fish to die down before we could replace the cache
Thanks Northern Invaders

Found the cache 9/7/08 about 11am Found by Lennyboy and Beanie Bum. There were a few people around and also school hols and had to wait awhile to retrieve the cache.This cache must be the smallest no room to leave anything.
Thanks Northern Invaders for the cache.

Found on a shopping trip to Horsham. Thanks goodness DB could do the hint cause even though I knew where it was, there was no way I could have got it! So found with Pete and Jenni. "The real Tilley Bug" TB dipped her paw in! Log was full so added another page and signed it. TNLN TFTC

Found today by geocaching Kev (member of the cat74 team). Sent him off with instructions, log and hint, and found without GPS. Cache signed. Thanks.

That crazy bird is still here!!
Got bored watching so I went to find the cache. Found after looking in all the wrong places.
Thanks Northern Invaders
Swampy

An easy find while camped at Clear Lake and in town for a visit to the lentil processing plant.
As we waited in the car for some young muggles on bikes to have a drink and move on, the Minah bird arrived and proceeded to peck at our mirrors, so before we headed for the find we draped towels over the GeoDisco's mirrors.
TNLN. Thanks for bringing us here Northern Invaders. Hopefully they'll get some rain here soon.

We made it to the cache site just as a very welcome rain started, cooling the place down and providing a welcome relief to a very hot day of walking.

A very nice location for an easy walk and some good bird spotting.

Thanks,
TheRatPack

977. What a great spot this would be with water to the top. And the locals on millionaire row obviously agree.

As I pulled into the parking spot a honeyeater landed near by and watched me intently as I headed off, then I heard a tapping noise. It was pecking the driver side mirror. I walked back and it flew 50 meters to another car and started pecking the driver side mirror. I walked off and sure enough it was back. Ignored it and went to make the find in this interesting spot.

TFTC and the entertaining bird.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Hopefully, the river will soon overflow the weir again. Nice cahce with an interesting feature. Plenty of muggles around interrupting my attempts to replace the cahce but eventually they moved on. Thanks Northern Invaders.

An easy find in an interesting spot. Thanks for the adventure and history lesson. There are lots of interesting spots along the river that we wouldn't have found otherwise. TFTC.

Found at 10.00am GAFF1. After staying the night at a nearby caravan park, we headed off to this cache on our way SE. We enjoyed reading about the history of the tree and its age and were glad that the cache was hidden in a "different spot". Thanks Northern Invaders.

Took me longer to work out how to get to GZ than find the cache.
A nice stop along the way.

Dropping in 'Which one Today?' TB, had meant to leave the TB here however cache was too small.

Easy find while leaving Horsham on the way to Harrow. Travelling through SW Victoria as part of the Bicycle SA Annual Tour.

Found in a team effort with geostik. A beautiful spot I never would have visited. tftc

Tom Tom put us right at the wrong end of this wetlands. Oh well what better way to take a break from driving than a 1.2Km round trip walk through this great area. TFTC

[This entry was edited by Geo_Stik on Thursday, October 04, 2007 at 4:22:32 AM.]

This was a nice little park to stretch the legs in on a trip from Melbourne to Adelaide. We were glad not to be "vertically challenged", and hence could retrieve the cache easily.

TNLN - TFTC

Luck Dog's Crew

The rain was still following us however luckily the cache location was not effected.

A nice easy find at a surprisingly lovely spot although it has rained. Also surprised to see how long this one has been here. thanks Northern Invaders for the hide.

Had stopped in this town for the night and found this one on a foggy morning in the chilly cold.Took the TB to move on to SA that was jammed in with the cache.

Tricky spot
Took a little Australia Pin
Left a TB that I found in Iraq.

TFTC

An easy find after inspecting the article on display here
TFTC.

A late log. I found this with RoundCircle and just getting around to logging.

TFTC.

Geoferret and I found this one as the forth of ten caches on our "Big Cache Out".

Micros are often a problem for this team, but today the Geoferret had his geo-nose on, and spotted it in no time.

I have seen lots of trees with this sort of shape missing from the bark. I wonder how many of those shapes have been man made? Is there any special way of telling?

There seemed to be a fair amount of water in the river today. Are the houses near in an area that's flood prone. It looks like a new area and we have seen very little rain over the last ten years.

There were lots of people walking dogs and kids today. Including one lady who was taking photos of a small stuffed toy posed to look like it was playing on the playground equipment. I though that she may have been a GeoCacher with a TB. But she didn't come our way. So I guess there must be a whole range of crazy people out there.

Thanks for the Cache Northern Invaders

Our 1st Vic cache of the June long weekend, Barra 3 was the winner. 28 more caches to 500.

Cheers from The Barramundi's

Found with Oenze on our trip west to SA. A nice little hide. Not quite what we were expecting but entertaining nonetheless. Loved the canoe tree. Thanks northern invaders.

8th find of the 1st day at 6:07pm for our Adelaide trip at, accompanied by Feathertop.
We managed to get here just before dark and there was just enough light to spot the cache, very interesting little spot. TNLN, Signed Log, Thanx to the Northern Invaders....

First find of the day. Thanks guys!

My first find!! That was so exciting! I felt a bit like I was on a secret mission!! A nice and easy one to begin with. Thanks for this cache.

Found by Winchy 5.50pm - Easy Find - TNLN

Found on an afternoon solo caching trip on the way home from Horsham. I did check out the canoes, and reflected on how much fun they would be if the Wimmera river was looking better. I was also surprised to find a few tiny swaps in the cache. TNLNSL Thanks Northern Invaders.

My very first cache find in Victoria! Nice interesting old log and the history behind it. A quick easy find at 10:45am before leaving Horsham. Hopefully I can find a few more Victorian caches while travelling up to Queensland. Signed log. Thanks for the cache Northern Invaders.

Found this morning after a short search. Amazing what people used to do with a big piece of wood...

Found with other Wombat Warriors, lovely area we didn't know about. Took nothing, left Australia hat pin. thanks

found this one and was interested in the Wimmera Canoe on display. had to wait a little while to get the prize as there were Muggles about, but they left and the prize was in hand.

TNLNSL

Spent ages searching every nook & cranny of the "WCs" & even got out the torch to assist before finding the cache - it sure would have helped to have read the clue beforehand, rather than seeing it just now when I am logging!! TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found with Tealby. TFTC. TNLN.

Found on the homeward bound trip from Adelaide. Forgot my chainsaw and trailer otherwise I could have picked up some good firewood. All set up on tressles and easy to cut too, and in the shade. How goods that!
Next trip maybe.
Many thanks.

great day for the canoe in the river, water level just a little to low , cheers gazzan 1

A quick detour and find. Never seen so much of Horsham before. Enjoyed the tour. TFTC

It's always good to have a nice easy find on the way home from your holidays.
Thanks for the stop.

A very nice spot for relaxing. The history of the canoes is interesting. TN but left an additional paper for log as all existing ones full.

Found and retrieved by mini-mustard after some shoulder action.
Took eagle, left worm.

Nice quick find as we inspected the area.
TNLNSL, Cheers.

A quick find on our way back from Geelong.
The log book is very full now, we wrote on the back of the stash note.
TNLN
Thats Northern Invaders

Found approx. 11:30 on our way home from the Grampians. Great to see a part of the town that we have never seen before. TNLN
Logbook is full...
Thankyou ... Northern Invaders

Found 09:30. 1st of 5 for the drive from Horsham to Melbourne. In the end a reasonable easy find. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Easy find. Didnt even bother to take the GPS out of the van. Only one place it could be.
Thank's Northern Invaders.

Bit of competition for htis one but when the Muggles looked way I pounced.

TNLNSL

18 months after originally trying and failing on this one, I got to have another go, and found after 5 min search! This is my 600th cache!! Thanks Northern Invaders.

Took a little bid of finding. Nice area at the end of the day. Did those swimmers up the river actually have any clothes on??
TNLN

Nice stroll by the river. The Wimmera canoes don't look very comfortable to use
TNLNSL. Thanks, Robmc.

Found it @ 13:30

This one has been on our to-do list since April 2004 when we logged a DNF.

Penny says we are now much better at micros!! I think it just wasn't there when we last looked, because i remember climbing and peering all over the structure last time.

T:N
L:N
SL

Found cache (six of six for the day & 246 km's as the bird flys from home) 8:00pm, our final destination before spending the night and heading home. Lovely walk along the river bank before dinner. Introduced my brother and partner to geocaching, in after explaining how it works he quickly referred to it as "nerd'n go seek", yet he was the one to find this cache very shortly from arriving at GZ .
Took Water Balloon
Left Chinese Lucky Coin

Nice spot for a cache.
Holidaying with the in-laws just across the road! Good opportunity to initiate some friends into the sport.

Thanks Northern Invaders

Took us about 5 minutes to find this cache. I had been to the location many times before. But eventually after staring at it a good 3-4 times I realised that it was right there... Kara & Rob (aka Ashpool)

Over this way for a wedding and a few days extra.
Went for the tourist drive and soon found along the way.

Found it as part of Suitman, Mrs Tastyworm and my drive from Melbourne to Perth.

Suitman was waiting the car while I found it as he had found it before and left me to my own devices. Found the cache actually sitting on the ground away from location. Suitman showed me the location where he had found it, so we restored the cache back to where its original location. Signed log. TNLN.

Having visited this area so many times, we thought we new where the cache was and we were right!
A nice fast find and back into car for the trip home.
Thanks Northern Invaders.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Many relatives lived 1km away" Coffee Clan.

log only tnln cheers

Found at 17:10. A quick find, and yet another toilet stop on our way to Melbourne.

Found on a pleasantly mild evening,using a torch,not the easiest place to be inconspicuous during warm daylight hours.TNLN

Visited the quite spot down by the Wimmera river. lovely day for a walk through the wetlands. took nothing, left water balloon.

Found by reverb and Sue 12.00; while down here for C.F.A. Juniors Comp nearby we snuck out at lunch. Walked, admired the views and the Canoe Tree and signed the new strip of log sheet.... Thanks N.I. for bringing us to this park !

took a little bit of navigating to get here the street signs were a bit lacking, went in a circle around horsham, must have been the long drive from sa. nice easy find, it helps to be tall no need for a climb. you could maybe hide a bigger cache in the canoe, just an idea.
thanks

I found my first cache yepie. Hope to find more.

Found this little beauty at 15:45 while i nursed a slightly sore head.
Signed log book.

Introduced my Niece to caching at the Canoe tree. She found it and is now hooked.
Yt...

Not far from where we spent the night.

Some of the local boys were swimming at the nearby water feature & one had hurt himself (a cut on the cheek). I had to wait for them to head home before I could find the cache.

Then another local, who was walking his dog, told me it was the hottest day for a long time. Don't these people have air-conditioning?

The rest of my clan were swimming further upstream and left me to find and log this one. In the end I found it and TNLN.

That's the most unusual canoe I've ever seen! Not only that, but there is a plethora of hiding places in it. Emu-M spotted this one, but it was up to dak to retrieve it at 1535. Inside was the smallest pig we'd ever seen--we left it there to 'ripen'. TNLNSL. Thanks Northern Invaders for an interesting interlude and a challenging retrieval.

5.30pm.
Found by Roma & Max on a very hot afternoon with a change in the weather threatening.
Can't come soon enough.
Thanks Northern Invaders for a cache well hidden in plain sight!
Took: Pink cat ring.
Left: Mini Pink Pig.
Romax.