The Not So Blue Lagoon Macedon, Victoria, Australia
By Spruce Mooses on 05-Jan-06. Waypoint GCRWZ5

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18 months and no maintenance. The place is overrun by trail bike tracks, it is time to put it to bed.

Been over a year since this one was found. Would like to confirm its in place as we are visiting the area.

After taking the time to figure out the location, it wasn't there.

DNF

After working out the cords we spent quite some time here, 3 sets of eyes could not come up with the goods.
Maybe next time we are down this way we might have better luck.

DNF with FUF009 at 5.15pm

A trip to Melbourne to attend the 2014 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards Event.
On our way home we decided to stop off and grab a few caches. This was one of them.

Unfortunately we were not so lucky with this one. After working out the co-ords and with three sets of eyes we were unable to come up with the goods. We spent quite a bit of time here looking around but after a while we just had to leave it for another day as we still had a long journey in front of us to get home.

Hate to say it, but I'm 99.5% sure this one is gone!
Burnt to a crisp =[
No remains.
Lovely area anyway. Even if it's not blue.... Or green. But black mostly.
Cheers anyway =]
Safe travels & hoppy caching.

So gutted to log a dnf. Worked out the answers no problem. Got to GZ and everything is blackened and burnt. Must have been a burn off or something similar. Had a decent hunt and ranged out around 15m. I would suggest that it is gone. Love the location. So many frogs!

Beautiful place but we couldn't spot it ! Suddenly we decided to go mushroom hunting. And this was a big success. We'll be back!

Since I have declared March to be Multi month, Bexta and I headed up the Calder to pick up some multis. This was one of them. We were able to collect the clues in the car, before taking off into the forest to find the cache. The GPS was nearly flat, so it lead us on a but of a circuitous route before the location was located. We picked this cache up at 5:22pm.

Thanks for the cache Spruce Mooses and congratulations on the recent addition to the team

Out on a caching adventure with LouiseAnn, this was a nice quick little multi. Interesting location, it was good to get off the road for a few extra minutes. There were heaps of little white and yellow daisies in the grass, they looked really pretty. TFTC

Wet log nice hide

#1963 What a pleasant stopping place along the busy highway. We are spending the day in Woodend and beyond and this the last cache before we head towards Bendigo. The container and swaps were wet, but the log book was dry in it's plastic bag. SL at 2.10pm TNLN TFTC Spruce Mooses

Found it, still intact. Nice & fresh morning, before the heatwave hit. This makes a nice rest stop tftc. TNSL

Thanks for the offset. Don't know how many times I've just driven past here. TFTC

You may be interested that the area is signed for prescribed burning this month. You may want to save the cache before this happens.

A very enjoyable off-set multi. Gathered GZ co-ordinates, then headed to the cache the bush-bashing way. My GPSr was out by a few metres, but I just looked around and found the cache under the first UPS I checked. I enjoy these muggle-free locations with decent sized containers. I found the easy track on the way back .
TFTC, Spruce Mooses.

18/11/2013 5:14 pm Find #2827
found on the way home from a great weekend event, heroes or villains by pprass.
we continued our long weekend into tuesday and took the slow caching road home.
Of course we looked in a lot of wrong places, then turned around and it was rather obvious
took nothing, left nothing.
thanks for the cache- highrod (from Ballarat)

Watch out for the not signed pond! Just missed it xoxo

TFTC

A quick stop off on our way to Kyneton today. We grabbed the numbers easily and then sloshed our way over to GZ, seems the whole area is trying to turn into a lagoon. Thanks for the cache.

Found spot but alas no cache!

This cache was found during a Monday night cache run with Blacklegend, Trailrunning and Rebel Acts (TDC) as well as Poynts95 who came down with BL. for the nights run. Plenty of kilometres travelled during the run, with us starting early afternoon around Rebels home turf and finishing in the wee hours of the morning in Heathcote. A great variety of caches found with some really nice hides. Many thanks to the cache owners for placing the caches we found.

Found on a caching run with the TDC..... I was lucky enough to be able to cache with my local caching mate, Blacklegend, and the rest of The Demolition Crew on this occasion. I had a great night, lots of good conversation and great to again catch up with the TDC. My thanks to all the cache owners for their hides on the night. I don't think I can say a lot more than the others already have about the finds on the night. There were some fantastic hides amongst the caches, and some fav points will be given.
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Found out and about on another TDC caching night. A fantastic run that took us far and wide, with the usual crew and with Poynts95 as well. Good conversation and laughs as always, and great to be out and about again finding....
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Again thanks to TR's great online sloving, this was a quick find. TFTC.

I'd worked this one out from online so it was more of a traditional today. Thanks.
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Every week I look forward to exploring new areas with The Demolition Crew, and this Monday nights run brought us from Eric's place in Kilsyth through to Gisborne, Macedon and finally Heathcote. A long night of caching these areas, with a few nice walks and a few drivebys as well. Many thanks to the CO's for their efforts in placing and maintaining their caches. Unfortunately we were only able to replace one of the two scheduled cache replacements as we ran out of time.

Got through the multi clues easily and found the cache with no troubles, a nice little walk in the bush to complete this one. It's also fun to go across the road and poke around in the pine plantations.

Quickly gathered the info to allow me to head to the GZ. The coords seemed a bit off compared to where I spotted the cache hide at the edge of the expected area, but probably due to the gps coverage in the area.

I wanted to explore the area more as I had the backpack on and it looked interesting, but unfortunately time was short (it had compressed in that area, at that particular time of day), so I had to go.

Thanks for the cache Spruce Mooses.

GPS was a little off. Nice hide

Definitely not at all blue !!

Our first successful multicache with our scouts geocaching competition team. Our GPS went a little haywire but Cub Scout's Mum fortunately eagle eyed and found it! Much fun had by all.

This was our 1st find for the day on our way to Bendigo. This was a chance find as we hadn't really planned any caches and decided to pull up here and see if there were any caches around, and low and behold we were sitting at this one so off we went for a nice quick find.
TNLN SL TFTC

Date: 09.12.2012
Time: 12:31
Find # 2358

It was a bright and sunny morning and a plan was in place to head towards Gisborne and surrounds to find a few caches in the area which my caching partner SedgwickDave and I had both never cached in the area so there was lots of caches to choose from. Dave picked me up at 7.30 and off we went.

This was another cache on the road to Woodend. It was getting quite windy out of the car, but we gathered the required info and set out on foot to GZ. At first we were searching the wrong area, but I then spotted a suspicious looking pile of sticks and there it was.

Thanks to Spruce Mooses for the Cache. TNLN

Found @1227 #2213
Out and about once more with Ahomburg with today's intention to explore new territory which neither of us have been to before. The plan was to head to Gisborne and then let the caches lead us to where ever. We ended up heading further north all the way to Woodend doing a mixture of caches types along the way and the 3 type rule achieved one more. Will be back soon as keen to explore the Macedon ranges as well as complete the caches we ran out of time to attempt today.

This was the 11th cache found today. I agree with the name of the cache more green today. The calc's for GZ were worked out in the car and then after a short walk to GZ the cache was soon in hand. A nice spot for a stop to stretch the legs. TFTC Spruce Mooses

Found on my way to the market on the last morning of my holidays. This is my first every multicache. Thanks for making it a simple one. Quick and easy.

15:20
Another Saturday, another trip to the outlaws' in Riddell... this time the kids are helping Gran decorate the Christmas tree. Me? I'm taking a short trip up the road for a few more smileys.

The day was warming up considerably by the time I got here, and there's no shade to park the car. Fortunately, working out GZ only took a moment, and I was soon checking out possible hides sheltered from the worst of the sunlight.

The lagoon certainly is an interesting hue on this hot summer day... not much chance off being tempted to take a dip, no matter how scorching it gets.

#1148

Found after a while of searching. contents were a bit wet.
TFTC

Heading to Castlemaine to grab some long solved puzzles and after getting some caches above Gisborne and heading to Woodend for lunch, I stopped at this one along the old Calder Highway. Was able to get the clues from the comfort of the car, worked out a sensible GZ and started the short walk. The ground here was very soggy from the car to GZ, careful steps required! Got to within a few metres of GZ and started looking for likely spots and the cache was in the first one I looked at. Cache is perfectly dry - which given how soggy everything else is around here was great. Thanks to Spruce Mooses for this one.

B1 and B2 had tried this cache once before, when it was dark, when it was spooky. Not so spooky today, though the rain would have added to the spooky element. We were distracted by the many hiding places in this GZ, which ate way our time. Eventually, the cache was found by B2. A great hiding place Spruce Mooses, the only thing we couldn't hide was the car. Which did have the police stop and check out the licence number. Our first run in with the police while geo-caching (we've read about others), but they soon left as they saw us stumble out of the bush. It must have been the wonderful purple raincoat, a colour, which alerted them to non-criminal activities.

Nice location complete with frogs merrily croaking. Found cache after a short stroll, but didn't know which log to sign so we signed the new one as it looked like the other was full. Left micro-geocoin.

I was in two minds about coming to visit this one as it was a long way from home and the sun was quickly dropping and making driving unpleasant. However I was already far west having grabbed another cache and I needed another good cache for the GeosportZ 2012 CachingGames competition so crossing my fingers than I had enough petrol to get there and back again I headed north to the NSBL. Parking was no problem - although with the rain the area is well watered and muddy, but the frogs are loving it! The other cars here seems to be just power dozing so I wandered off on into the bush on a call of (geocaching) nature, and after a short search - well, longer than it should have been as I missed spotting the cache and concentrated on some promising-looking but fruitless hiding spots nearby - I had my visit recorded, cache rehidden and I headed back out again - back via the same place so as to avoid any suspicions (I needn't have worried though). A nice little spot - TFTC

found while filling in time at woodend its been a while since i travelled this road

I haven't been past here since I was a kid, Now off to Macedon and onward to find Candy Mountain..! thanks.

lagoon certainly not blue!!
but very pretty location all the same
thank you Spruce Mooses for the cache. sl tnln

We were travelling up towards Woodend and Kyneton today for no other reason than an outing with my son. I had in the back of my mind that there was a cache hidden around this Lagoon (which I've always admired) but I've never before had time to stop (usually because I'm travelling past here for work). I kept thinking that this cache was called the Black Lagoon (after the monster?) but perhaps not? Anyway - I pulled over, checked the Geocaching iPhone App and bingo..yes right here a multicache. The coordinates were calculated in swift time and the cache pursued with much haste. Man oh man it was cold here today - in April - a real chiller. I dropped off a Geocoin and also placed in a small bag of swag of stationary. TFTC and I'll still look as I ass for the monster to emerge from the depths of the Lagoon

Found with ronnienash on our way back from Melbourne. Nice and easy, thanks.

found it on a cruisy trip back to bendigo. TFTC

Found on April Fool's Day while Mr Whit was participating in the MAD ride at Woodend. GeoKeegs worked this one out - great effort dude! SL TFTC

Lovely area but I agree with the previous cacher, not a Blue Lagoon at all. Still this was a good cache to locate with Julie&GGs. Thanks to Spruce Mooses for bringing us to this location.

In the company of Daynaduc and our grandson, this cache was found by Daynaduc. We all enjoyed doing this multi cache. The lagoon needs mowing due to excess of reeds growing there at present!! Cars passing by but not interested in us!! TFTC Spuce Mooses

Easily found in the company of coley_babee, after attending a wedding at Woodend. TFTC

Definately not a blue lagoon, but a lovely cache!

We grabbed the required info, then set off on the short stroll over to the final.

After a very brief search we had the cache!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

Need a better gps than the iPhone when out of the city, accuracy within 10m makes it hard

Enjoy this multi..
Nice easy find
Thanks for bring me here and cache

With Geokid#1 and Geogrannie in tow. Nice easy multi. Found by Doc and GK#1. Took Chainsaw guy and left Butterfly peg (from Wentworth)Driven past this place for 23 years and only ever stopped when Doc blew up car. Nice local copper gave him a lift home and Mrs had to go and tow him home. Cheers

Nice little spot - the lagoon is definitely not blue. thanks spruce mooses

My dad says he has been driving past this spot at least twice a day for the passed 20 years. First time we have ever stopped to look around. TFTC

Found @ 1620 Hrs! Nice rest area here, worth doing this one with smaller kid's!

Signed log & got back on the way to Bendigo on The 'Fantastic Friday Cache Chase'

TNLNSL TFTC

Thanks for bringing me here.

Found by H and The Empire
On our way to Daylesford today through Woodend. Nice quick find.
TFTC
H

Found by The Empire + H @ 10:20am
First of 18 caches found today. A quick stop off on the way to Daylesford through Woodend. Thanks for the cache Spruce Mooses.
- M

Ostara74 had been wanting to see Bendigo quite some time, so I took couple of days off work and Thursday morning we jumped into Ostara74's awesome little geomobile and headed off on our discover central and northern Victoria adventure tour. We headed up the Calder Hwy slowly, checking out towns and all the other interesting stuff along the way. Having lived in Bendigo for a number of years, I had a short list of must see/do and the rest was left up to random encounters. This was our second cache find on the first day of our four day discover central / north Victoria adventure. I had looked for this one a long time ago when I had first started caching but had no luck. Today we had the clues before we even got out of the car and then took a quick stroll through the drizzle to the GZ and made a quick and easy find. The cache is in good condition, however the log book is full and desperately needs replacing. Thanks for the cache Spruce Mooses.

Found with Pathfinder24 on our way to Bendigo. A quick and easy multi and we had the cache in hand after a short walk. Thanks!

all the years of driving up and down this highway and had never noticed this spot.
Jnr found cache and made a swap. SL TFTC

Good hide. Cache in good condition. Took nothing, left nothing.

After a sucessful run in the forrests nearby this was a close option and I was soon plugging a new set of numbers into my GPS for a slower than expected find.. like others I walked straight past it then returned after a few mins to make the easy find.. Thanks Spruce Mooses for the cache.. my # 1335 find

Last for the day on a loop from Macedon to Woodend and back in the company of 6Hinemoa2. Nice little multi at this great little rest spot.
Took a little longer to locate than we thought, but it was found as soon as the giveaways were spotted. Thanks again Spruce Mooses.

Second last for me for the day in the company of Bogonhazy. Worked out the clues while sitting in the car. Are we getting tired?
Walked to GZ where I walked straight past the hide until brought back by B. fossicking around. Signed the log book. TFTC - nice to have another multi under my belt.

8 May 2011 07:12:00

Spent the night in MAcedon and stopped here on my way to Blackwood.

No one around at this hour.

Nice spot and a quick calculation.

I was intially looking in the wrong spot for GZ but on turning around their it was.

TFTC

#1242 @ 4.45pm. With the day fast disappearing on us now we didn't know whether we'd have time to complete multis however upon investigation this seemed to be a relatively quick one (assuming that we could locate the cache ). So we decided to try our luck on this the last day of Daylight Savings & we weren't disappointed. Not only were we able to obtain the necessary co-ords for GZ quickly - it was a short stroll to GZ and Dad soon had the cache in hand. TNLNSL TFTC Spruce Mooses - a lovely spot for a cache [^]

Quick stop and find. The cache was located and the log book signed. TFTC

The sun was out. It was hot. I need more training for the GPS.Ended up the road. When we put in the right coordinates we found it.

1240hrs

Out with Team_coxy and our youngest Geosons for 2 days caching and camping to Bendigo and back.

Nice area to stop. We could see the evidence of the recent water all around.

Took Crab
Left Rubik cube


TFTCSL

Found with Datruk on our Bendigo Caching trip with the Geosons

Found at 1615

Took rat Left badge

Found @ 1645 - didn't want to finish the day (and year!) with a DNF at Play Lunch, so we stopped to grab this one. Took Murphy pathtag, left squidgy grey rat, signed log - TFTC.

Your right, it isn't very blue.

It did look rather full here today though.
A family of moor hens, mother a babies were swimming on this lagoon - cute!

Thanks Spruce Mooses for this caching stop!

Great quick little break, noticed Joffa's name in the logs,
Hey there!
TFTC

Another easy multi for the day for PacketStorm4 and myself, nice little spot to pull over and take a break.
TFTC

Passing through Woodend area to see Leonard Cohen plat at Hanging Rock.
Thanks for this park along a less busy highway.
Might have to bring the MTB along here as it looks OK.

Splashing around in the rain this one took longer to find than I thought it would. The GPS was just not wanting to play today but after a good search, i spotted the hide. TFTC and a reason to stop.

Not a quick one but that was our fault. TNLN TFTC

This took longer to find than expected! We must be losing our grip!! (or perhaps it was the low cloud - that's our excuse anyway, and we're sticking to it). Took the cobra and left a soldier. TFTC

Second place I drove past today and thought "that would be a great place for a cache" that already had one. Got the 3yo to "help" read the sign (even though I had already plotted the next waypoint by then) and we wandered down to find it. A nice sized cache, and she struggled to choose between the slinky and the beads as her prize. Took beads, left wooden/cord knot puzzle.

Pass here very often on day break and have seen the pond in Flood , Drought , Snow , with ducks on it roos grazing near it , the road with black ice on it and possibly seen the " panther " just up the road from here . thanks Spruce Mooses

13-02 18th find of the day at 17:28 and 892nd find in total.
A nice easy find with lots of parking, but what a weird place for a lagoon.
(''\(OoO)/'') Thanks Spruce Mooses for the caching fun!

Find #01 of 18 on my "Dad's Taxi trip to Macedon" day.

After dropping of eldest daughter at her friends house in Macedon, I headed north up the Old Calder Highway to the lagoon, where I collected the info from the sign, then headed in for the quick find. What a wonderful piece of bushland this is... I should get off the road more often. Saw a few baby ducks in the lagoon on my way back to the car. Many thanks for showing me this peaceful place. TNLN.

quick multi last for the day back to the van and the coming storm

We enjoyed this area by eating our picnic lunch in the shade before finding the cache. A nice spot for a rest before some more caching. Thanks Spruce Mooses.

Find # 505 @ 12:50
Came to this one after doing the Tempus Fugit cache. The lagoon is still green, but the ducks didn't seen to care. Couldn't help but notice the amount of mt stubbies floating upside down in the lagoon. Nice easy find. TNLNSL TFTC

XC in Woodend on business from NZ.. Spent the morning training clients and was heading back to Melbourne airport when this one came up on the radar.
Parked the rental and walked over and did the calculations... Final quickly found.
TNLNSL
TFTC #1019

Found by Bob at 1730

The last of 24 in the area for me today. The sun had set by this time, but it had been such a clear and sunny day that there was still quite a bit of twilight, so I pulled over to try for this one. Fortunately, it only took a minute to calculate a GZ and it wasn't too far away and I managed to find the cache quite quickly

TNLN

Thanks again Spruce Mooses - really quite a scenic spot!

Find no. 8 out of 8 on a great day caching.
After a previous DNF in late December which I forgot to log, it was nice to come back and complete the cache. Great to see a fairly large cache was well, although unfortunately it was mostly empty. We took the geocoin and pikachu, and left various goodies so that the cache is almost filled to the lid.
TFTC Spruce Mooses, we have enjoyed your caches today.

teriffic first find had fun

18:35
We were impressed by the well maintained area which we have passed many a time before the new super road was constructed. We couldn't help but wonder if the passing vehicle that tooted contained fellow Geocachers!

TNLN ... SL TFTH Spruce Mooses.

Found at 5.00 pm after arriving for CITR #2. Retreived the TB North Cascades Souvenir and left our first travelling coin, UK Mega Event Attendee Geocoin belonging to Dickson. Atractive spot. TFTC

Located on a day trip to Woodend. Although the sun was shining, there was a very cool wind blowing. Nice quick multi, and an easy dash to GZ.
Left: North Cascades Souvenir TB

Found 2:07 pm
Nice easy multi to get the confidence back.... (after less successful hunts Friday & Saturday.)

TNLN TFTC Spruce Mooses

Logged at 1340 hrs.
A quick pickup on the way into Woodend. We were surprised to see the cache popup onto Tom Tom so we stopped quickly and consulted the pda again. A quick find and we had another one off the list. Later on I realised I did not have the pocket queries set up quite right and so we had missed a few that we could have got.
TNLN. Thanks Spruce Mooses for the cache.

found it very fast and had lots of fun and it was a very nice place thanks

In the car : Ian(vk3jap), Gina(GeoGinaG), Jordan and Ksenija
Found by : Jordan
OUT : took out busted tape measure (bit dangerous for GeoKiddies)
IN : nil

Notes : Nabbed this one on the way back from our Caching Exped today, GeoGinaG had done it alone a while back so thought I'd pay it a visit to sign the log and have a look for myself. This spot has been dry a bit of late so good to see it with some water in it again.

The cache itself is a good container and a nice hide but is in poor state due to perhaps people taking but not giving. One for the logging, but nothing much worth finding in there. This guy could do with some lovin' by way swap stocks.

TFTH-SL - Team VK3JAP

*Overall Experience: 1*
GAFF 1

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