Take a Break by the Lake Beaufort, Victoria, Australia
By 2Dudez on 15-Oct-05. Waypoint GCQZ8W

Time to retire this one.
Have my eye on another spot over the other side of the "lake" but won't put it out until there is a bit more water around.
Many thanks to all that have found this cache.

We took a quick break by the lake. We normally stop here in the town while enroute to the Grampians however today decided to explore. Lots of water in the lake and some fishing(?) muggles at the waters edge. Took a Viking and left a ladybug. Thanks 2Dudez.

Had difficulty finding a spare page to enter a log. Hint - a new notebook is required. Would have left one however we were travelling light and did not have one with us.

Nice easy 2nd find of the day.
Rubbish starting to mount up here.. Beaufort council need to come out a bit more for a clean-up.

Thanks for the cache.

Thanks!! Only minor tramping around under trees required to find this one, my 3rd for the day. TNLN

Our 10th and final cache for today, heading back to Melbourne after a caching weekend up at the Grampians.
While caughtatwork played the "which way is it pointing now" GPS game, I pretty much walked straight up to it & said "here it is!" [^] Hmmm. Smug mode.
Thanks 2Dudez for the cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 2:31
The last cache of the weekend before heading home and then off to the inlaws.
The GPS was not nice to me here and I was some 15m away when Mr Mini called me back to where he had already found the cache. Not bad for someone who didn't have a GPS with him.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks 2Dudez for this cache experience today. The lake is very low on water and if it gets too much lower you would be able to walk across it.
PS. The weather was very cold today. I know how much you know that the weather is cold up your neck of the woods, so I thought I'd just drop this additional comment in to annoy you
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Took a break by the lake with a couple of pies from the bakery, thanks tnln

[found it at 1530hrs, left a lanyard and took a toy duck]

2009-05-03 16:44
Tom Tom had a problem getting me here but Garmin had no problem. Found the cache easily but muggles came and I had to leave quickly. TFTC

Found on The 2009 Swampy's Return Home From Beyond Caching Trip
Find # 371

Found this cache today at 9.15am today with beanie A nice spot for a coffee break, although not very much water in the lake
Took a little pig and left a little duck

Thanks 2Dudez for the cache

We found our 16th 2Dudez cache at 5:30pm as the 19th of 22 on our South West / South East Tour - Day 8. It took three goes to find the right way in thanks to Samantha the TomTom. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

A quick drive by find for us today to break our trip to Melbourne to put our friends the Dragonfreys on the plane for the first leg of their journey home to Canada, we are surely going to miss them all. A good hide in a place that in better times must be a great spot, at the moment it is little more than a mud flat, a sad picture of the struggle our fine land is having in the grip of drought. Some small swaps were made. TFTC. The log is full and unfortunately I didn't have a spare, I apologize.

hopped out grabed it and then proceeded to eat the bun from the bakery in town yum

The lake doesn't look far off completely drying up which is a shame. Found heading home from Begonia Festival.

Visiting Beaufort for a friends 50th Birthday bash.
First find for the day. Had a bit of a drive around to find it.
Signed log - took nothing. TFTC.
Mobiledaws

TFTC... much nicer lake when the water is in it though.

Final pickup of the day after grabbing a few caches around the area. Signal was a little wayward which was surprising, as there was no shortage of satellites on display. Eventually found it in the fairly logical spot. The logbook is pretty full and could probably use a replacement. This lake looks to be in a rather sad state at the moment with low water levels but there were still plenty of birds around who didn't seem to care. TNLN. Many thanks for the cache 2Dudez.

Found whilst riding past on the Great Victorian Bike Ride 2008.

13th and final find while on the 2008 Great Victorian Bike Ride. This cache was adjacent to our final campsite. Strolling muggle cyclsits and a poor GPS signal made this a difficult find.

Lovely hide in a great area. Thanks for the perfect lunch stop. Caching at lunchtime, you gotta love it.

Found it with Dags n Sandy. This was their very first cache and they are hooked.

First one!
Out and about with doheng on our first hunt.

Found cache today with shane.thompson and steph (sister), nice lake. Thanks 2Dudez.

Found today with WB-Holden and -Steph- at 10:30 am. Very cold morning so walk was good. Bloke fishing a the side of lake so care was taken. Notebook is almost full. Thanks 2Dudez.

Found at 10:55am. One of my staff lives in the house opposite up the hill overlooking GZ. I was here this morning helping them set up their ADSL connection and thought it was good opportunity to find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Another quick find on our way home from Mulled on the Mountain. Well sort of quick. Left Tilley at the obvious while I went searching. Realised my mistake when I headed back up the hill!
"The Real Tilley Bug" TB dipped her paw in!
SL TFTC

09:15
Found whilst on our way to the Mulled on the Mountain V2 Event. An interesting hide, last time we were here the lake was full - not so now. Our GPS'r had the GZ 7m to the north with today's satellites.

TNLN..SL TFTH 2Dudez

[This entry was edited by Phetlern on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 4:43:33 AM.]

Had a bit of a drive around the lake trying to find the correct road- should hae taken the one we missed in the first place. Pretty good exercise track around here. Took shark and left dice. TFTC

Found at 1500 hrs. Tom Tom had us all over the place except on the right road so we ignored him and went with our instinct. As luck would have it, when we arrive the clouds parted and we were treated to 30 minutes of bright sunshine. Just what we needed to have some lunch and a cup of hot coffee, After that we logged your cache. TNLN, Thanks 2Dudez for the sightseeing tour.

Found by Bevfre, 10.45am TN LN SL Thank You 2 Dudez

[This entry was edited by bevfre on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 7:16:10 PM.]

I took the lazy approach and parked nice and close to this cache. The rain started up ever so slightly so I decided not to do the big walk today. The lake and surrounds are really quite nice and well worth a visit.

Thanks Deano,

R - B

Walked from the other side of the lake to score this find, the lake being quite a bit lower from my last visit 6 weeks ago.
Found some swaps outside the cache in plain sight, so took these for another cache as they wouldn't fit back in.

Apart from this TNLNSL.
TFTC 2 dudez.

Another timely spot to stretch the legs. Cramped up in the car for 4 hours was starting to take it's toll so we parked on the boat launch side of the lake and walked on over to the cache. We noted that big bug wouldn't fit and left a small bouncy ball instead. Thanks for another nice cache and an interesting spot.

Nice easy cache for a caching afternoon. Thanks 2dudez. TNLNSL.

Found on our way to Geelong
This looks like a great place
TNLN
Thanks 2Dudez

Not the nicest day to enjoy the lake today, but looked a nice spot. Cheers Gav [1636]

Finally getting around to doing some seriously overdue logging Found with the rest of the kiwis on our way back home after breaking the 'most caches in a day' record. TNLN, Thanks.

Lovely spot. A bit chilly today though so not tempted for a swim. Many thanks

11.59am Nice spot.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (879)

Great spot. Just a bit damp for a picnic today, though.
T4TC - M@

A nic spot - thanks for bringing us here.
TFTC.

Quick find in a nice spot.

TFTC

12:00 The cache was located pretty quickly. Great spot for a cache, enjoyed the lake. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Number 2 of 8 this morning. It's good to see a lake with water in it. A nice little spot for a quick picnic. The cache was found quickly in the obvious place by Geoteen 1.

Took: Plastic Frog
Left: Lanyard & cacher pin.

Thanks for bringing us here 2Dudez!!!

A quick little break, by a lovely little lake.

Why is there a sign that says no vehicles on the lake though?

Cached & wackys

Found with Cached on a long weekend run to Victoria – TFTC!

just in time to hear the Melbourne Cup. Lovely day and nice and easy cache!

tnln

Team: A Lake Goldsmith Expedition Find:4 3/11/2007 8.00am
TN LN SL TFTC
Quick find 3B4 breakie
We did have a head scratch moment here, then it was revealed. Thanks 2Dudez

Mrs Parrot was out of the car and had nabbed this one before I had the ignition turned off.

Found it ok

A quick stop on the way home from the Grampians. TNLN. Thanks.

Our first find on our trip to the grampians. Bit chilly here today and the water level is down. Couldn't really envisage people water skiing here but I suppose it will happen when the water rises and the weather warms. Nice walk to break the drive. Took Hi lighter and TB Lightning McQueen" Left Alien. SL TFTC.

A break by the lake with a hot pie from the bakery
Who could ask for more ?
Maybe the breeze could have been a bit lower on the Beaufort scale, but the find didn't take too long
TFTC.

Found today after a few wrong turns Gps's are wonderful things until they give you a WD. TFTC TNLN Left TB to travel to Adelaide.

Quick easy find. Good to see a lake even remotely filled with water. TFTC
T: Action Man (to make room for TB)
L: Lightning McQueen TB - Maybe to hitch a ride to adelaide

On my way home from the Mulled on the Mountain event, it was hard to give this a miss. A nice easy find. No swaps made. Thanks for the cache.

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

TFTC.

When we arrived at the lake, there was a white ute parked at the edge of the wall, and a two fishermen halfway along the wall. Since we had pulled up next to their car, they were were keeping a sharp, if distant, eye on what we were up to. Happily the cache was actually hidden out of their view.

At first we weren't sure where the cache could be, but once we re-read the the description, one good look around had the hiding spot identified and the cache in hand.

From here we were off to lunch.

Thanks 2Dudez.

Quickly found and swaps made- a plaster carrot for some magnets and a spinny top.

Pointing device pointed to the most obvious place for a stash but nothing. I had the grandkids on their second 'Treasure Hunt' I said to look for someting out of place and they found it within a few seconds. Swapped a pencil for a fluro marker. TKS

Found on our way home from Halls Gap at 1210. Did as the name suggested and had some fish & chips before an easy find was made. TNLN TFTC

Cache took a lot longer than expected because we took lake road... which was completely rutted! But it was worth it, the lake was wonderful. Thanks for the cache!

Oenze and I took a while to find the best access to this cache. After that it was an easy find. TNLN thanks 2dudez.

16th find of the day at 4:10pm Accompanied by Feathertop on our Good Friday caching expedition. Easy drive by, like so many other lakes in victoria soon there wont be any water left as well. TNLN, Signed Log. Thanx 2Dudez....

At last! A lake with some water in it. Great to see, and there were even some people out in boats fishing. Amazing that there was waterskiing here when the lake was higher. We had no clue this was hidden a few blocks back from the highway. It is a good excuse to explore Beaufort a little more. Found with ease and replaced in its hidey hole. T: Crocodile; L: Carrot. Thanks 2Dudez.

3rd of 11 for our weekend away.
Found @ 1.40pm. Find # 186
Highrod asked if I wanted to come for a ride to Beuford, and I said yes, not realising that it would turn into a whole days caching!!! BONUS!!!

We found 7 on our day away, so thats always great!
T:mondo soldier, L: hunter and fozzy card.
Thanks 2dudez, I'm getting quite a collection of your caches now!!

found on day out with the boys, caching in great company,
we tried heading along a track in the car but suddenly stopped, realising our car wouldnt fit across a footbridge. tried access from another direction...bingo
Cheers
Highrod

Found by McAdies on a stopover on the way to Ararat. Lovely spot for a cache. Found easily at 12:30PM.
T- Stamp
L- cowboy

Had to look twice for this one as the GPS was giving us grief and putting us on the wrong side of the road. An easy find anyway, and a pleasant spot. TFTC
Left Crocodile
Took Caterpillar

Nice spot once I found the correct road. Still took a short hunt before I got it. TNLNSL, thanks 2Dudez.

What a beaut spot. About 1/2 way on my regular journey from Bendigo to Warrnambool. Found after a short search, it is where you would think it should be.
TNLN, TFTC

Found with the Coffees and Mystery Inc

Found with the Coffees and Mini Cacher

A nice stop for lunch on our way to Adelaide, a quick find.
Thanks 2Dudez for the cache,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Not enough time to swim" Clan.

Nice walk to get there and easy find. Took red ties and put in Pooh Bear stamd pad.

An easy find.Enjoyed the detour off the highway around the lake. Took marble and TB. Left a toy car TFTC

Like others, we were put off by fallen logs. Sadly, time was limited, and our GPS unit gave us the tree shuffle. We had to get going, will go back to this beautiful lake to find it another day

Still on the way to AWG59 in the Grampians, I was able to talk the travellers into a stop for this one (well, I was driving after all ). After finally finding the way to GZ, the find was nice and easy at 15:20. A very pleasant spot.

TNLNSL. Thanks 2Dudez.

Found at 1:45pm on the way to the Grampians. A great spot to stop off too. Didn't know it existed until we came here for the cache.
Took nothing
Left marble & grub & TB Missing Link
thanks 2dudez

A not so easy find. A recent tree branch had dropped on what I thought was GZ. A off/on of the gps still had the cache under the branch so I was preocupied in tryiung to find the cache under the branch. I was keen to recover the cache as it had one of my geocoins in it. Eventually I sat down to rest and the cache came to me. Phew I thought it might have been a lot bigger job to recover the coin. TFTC and taking me to a spot I never knew exisited.

Easy find in a geocaching hide on a cool morning beside a previously unknown but pretty lake. T Tape, L Basketball. Thanks 2Dudez for the cache in a nice spot.

We did "Take a Break" on the way to the Grampians, and took a stroll beside the lake. It was a muggle free zone on a friday morning. Didn't quite get around to a swim, did have a look at the water. It must be a buzy place in the heat of summer.
TNLNSL. Thanks, Robmc.

As Robmc said. Did take a break but not a coffee break though, Rob doesn't drink the stuff. I do but I wasn't driving so it's make it on the run or not at all. The water was incredibly clean though.
Anyway left a geocoin and took nothing and onwards.
Thanks.

A nice peaceful location for a lunch stop.
TNLNSL, Cheers.

Found with all founding members of the Wombat Warriors
TFTC

Found with Wombat Warriors 1 & 3, a lovely spot for a break, would never have known it was here! Radio controlled boat racing around was an added bonus. TNLN

found at 17:25 on the way home. nice place to stop and have lunch. found in fading light
TNLNSL
TFTC

Forgot to log this one. We found it on an excellent day out. Nellie, our dog, loved the lake. TNLN. Thanks 2 Dudez.

Found 13:00ish. Last of 5 FFTD on our way through to Melbourne to see the Lion King. Ordered to stand back by Mrs's from both teams and let somebody else find the Cache's, otherwise [B)]. Sat-loc was a little dodgy around GZ, reasonably easy find. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Another find for The Rebel Alliance.
L.L.T.R.A

Seventeenth of Twenty Two finds on the BBBBB (Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Ballarat, Beaufort Bash) in company with Daks Emu Mob. We could have remained in the car for this cache if we had of tried hard enough. Picked up the TB Silvester. Thanks 2Dudez for the cache.

Twelfth of sixteen finds on the BBBBB (Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Ballarat, Beaufort Bash) in company with acts2youthgroup. We forewent the opportunity of a walk around the lake, but approached by road. If we had parked carefully, we could have reached out the window and snaffled this one. We found it at 2005, and covered it properly before we left. I made no exchange. Thanks to 2Dudez for the cache.

Dropped off TB

Found at 3.45pm GAFF1. Took us a while to find the easy way in after relying on TomTom to tell us where to go. Surprising amount of water in the lake considering the lack of rain in the area. Thanks 2Dudez tn/ln dropped off Sylvester TB.

Enroute back to Melb after a lightening trip to Nhill, this cache was located after Mazz and I decided to stock up on tea, cappucino and warm orange butterfly muffins (mmmmm...) from a local tea room. I may come back and try for a few fish one day. Being a keen fly fisherman I took TB Tongariro to continue his travels before he is released unharmed. LNSL. Thanks 2 Dudez.

Found 16:45, a great place for a quick break on our trip home from Adelaide.

TNLN, thanks 2Dudez.

Nav Boy found this one pretty quickly although there were plenty of muggles about which held us up for a bit due to the long weekend.

Took Lanyard
Left Tongariro "fishie" TB

11:56 am - Took: Toy Card. Left: SA GOVT Lanyard
Our first Victorian Cache, lovely spot, huge flys.

Cheers from The Barramundi's

Found @ 10:55

An easy find on our way to SA for a caching holiday.

We binned some corroded batteries and some bubble mix that had leaked all over the cache container.

After cleaning it up, we left a red car and some black tape.