100 Acre Wood Harcourt, Victoria, Australia
By The Morris on 11-Jan-06. Waypoint GCRZMV

I think this one has can go - attempts to locate the TB have not been successful. So long and thanks for all the finds

We will probably archive this one - maybe someone else can use the spot when the works are finished.

On another Geo mission in the area this morning we called in on this old friend and were disappointed to find that it has indeed gone missing!
Some serious road works are in progress and it appears the recent wet weather has put this on hold but considerable chainsaw work has been carried out resulting in the demise of the "container niche", and including the original hidey hole!
We feel we did find the niche further down the creek bank within some of the decimated timber but alas no container to be seen within or nearby.
We were hoping to see if the contents were still warm!
Cheers,
Max & Roma.

Alas, a DNF at this location for me. A 150m walk frmo the road block (due to wet mud and stuff) ahead, but at GZ I couldn't spot anything that would hide a cache. There was lots of dirt piled up at the edge and a load of felled and cut trees, so there was a lot to search, but I just couldn't find any spot that matched the 1.5 terrain. Ahhh, well, you can't win them all and it was a nice stroll through the oaks.

After reading some logs coopzz come up with the goods within 15min nice geo container not to many people visit this geo very nice spot first geo for the night

great area for picnics.. night drives as we were.. nice and creepy dark.

D.N.F. This is our first DNF and I was very disappointed as we had gone out over two days with no luck but when I read though the other logs I noticed quiet a few dont find it. I think I will need to find some help with this one when I try again.

Nice place to visit in Autumn. TFTC

Found on the way back from a 2 day Bendigo cache blitz with my mate Blacklegend17 (Marshy). Great spot with the Autumn leaves changing color. Nice quick find where I could stretch the legs. TFTC.

Found with my mate Marty, Quasar3671... Swung south of Bendigo to do a few more to finish the trip off. Cheers.

I never realised that Harcourt wass so interesting...I only knew that apples come from Harcourt...Excellent cache container....I'm happy that I was on the correct angle to find this was quickly...Big trees for only 110 year olds...Did no swaps..TFTC.

Spent a frustrating half hour searching around this area. Not sure if the flood waters in the past couple of days have made this hide extra difficult or if we just had cache blindness... This hint didn't even shed any light on things for us. I hate DNF's!!!

Collected some nice pine cones for a little mate who loves to chew on them, so it wasn't a complete loss.

1215. Geocaching is like orienteering in that it surprises in familiar places. I couldn't count how many times we have driven or ridden past the road in, or orienteered on the hillside above (Leanganook aka Mt Alexander) and never knew of this lovely and interesting location

Friend Mary was with myself and A+ and while resting from the search, spotted the container. We replaced the torn ziplock bag although I doubt that container will ever let water in. Wish there were some apples trees amongst the oaks.

Nice hide The Morris. Thanks very much.

Rated: for Overall Experience

TFTC. Took nothing but dropped of the "Cheesey Pigs" geo-coin # 9306108 from "Between Two Bridges" here. This coin doesn't seem to be activated as yet so I know not where or who it is from or where it may wish to go. I will hunt around for some info from pathtags.com and try to get it activated.

[This entry was edited by Wolf of Badenoch on Friday, January 01, 2010 at 4:00:06 PM.]

Searched for a very long time with absolutely no success. Cache blindness? Quite possibly. I will be having another crack at this one in the near future!

Found on our Thursday afternoon/evening drive.
Thanks
ZarZeeky
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Found this on second attempt, well Hanseeka husband did which enabled me to sign the log! I liked your container and it's hiding place was a little tricky. I love the area Hanseeka and I used to come here for a picnic, then he'd have a rock climb up higher, I well remember him 4wding up that hill and not being able to get to the top then the drama of coming back down! he then approached it from the other side. So maybe thanks for the memories...
Kaztrekka. TNLN

Found with Hanseeka, Kaztrekka and Zarzeeky.
2nd attempt at this one, we thaught it might have gone missing but after a recent find we returned only to find the treasue, remeber comming here when i was little and looking for the little wooden roses and acorns. Nice place, sounds like it could be haunted judging from a few of the earlier logs.
TNLN SL TFTC
379Jonti379

Yes found on our second visit.
On the 'many' occassions I return to search for previously unfound hides,
I often think, 'I thought I looked there or why didn't I look there before'.
Same this time. Very good hide.
TFTC TNLN SL (F201)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found at 12:30 on our way home from Bendigo. Very tricky hide. Had almost given up when I spotted it. TNLN. Thanks.

I knew I had the right spot but I just couldn't find it. Searched everywhere and under everything. When I did find it I felt like a right dill. It was in its hide but sticking out, sitting there for the world to see.

There was meant to be a TB in here but unless I suddnely got TB blindness I couldn't see it.

Put the cache back along with some new camo.

Thanks The Morris for another fascinating location. I had no idea that this plantation was here.

LNTN TFTC

1st of 8 finds for the day. lovely area to see.
TFTC TNLN SL

Great little spot, would never have known about it I don't think if it weren't for the cache.

T geocoin
L Vapour drops

TFTC

sarah found this one liked the hiding spot found at 5:37pm with team marengo tnln

Found at 1340. Well the things geocaching shows us. Would never have known this plantation was there. Thanks for showing me.
TN left geocoin.
TFTC

A bit lucky with this one. The GPS was giving me the run-around all day. It was hopeless. I was close to giving up, despite the fact that I knew the cache must be nearby, when I chanced to notice something not quite right and, sure enough, salvation was at hand. I have been here numerous times over the years. There are a set of cliffs I used to climb on further up and, when the tracks were too wet to drive up on, we used to park around here and walk. It all seems a lot more overgrown now than it used to be. Nice little hide in the end. No swaps made. Many thanks for the chance to visit again.

Found today. Beautiful day, beautiful place.

Found @ 15:00
Easy drive in when you have good ground clearance. A few puddles and mud on the way in too.
Nice hide and great container.
TNLN TFTH.

First find for the day.
Nice location. We will have to go back there one day. Signed log. Lrft Green Glass Heart. Mobiledaws

We found our 27th Morris cache at 7:50pm as the final of 24 on Day 3 of our "Where'd Bendy Go?" long weekend. We found a Morris cache as both the first and last cache of the day.

This was one of the weirdest experiences ever at a cache.

It was now dusk and I wanted just one more cache. I had bypassed a couple of other longer multis and headed for the nearest traditional on the way home which was this one. We first took the wrong track above the wood. We back tracked and found the correct track down, which was rutted and narrow and really at the limit for the Magna. We stopped short of the ford at the bottom but this was ok as it was only 30 odd metres from the cache. As we got to the cache there was yelling from the wood. Much yelling. It sounded close but at this time of night it could have been anywhere from about 80m to 200m away. Thankfully, this was not only the only cache we had seen for the whole weekend that dared to have a hint but also an exrtremely welcome cache marker and I had the cache in hand. But the yelling. It sounded a cross between extreme pleasure and extreme pain but it was extremely loud and very un-nerving. I got the log book out as quick as I could and swaps were going everywhere. I logged and got the whole this back together and into the hide in a flash. And the yelling went on. I couldn't help by now to start thinking about some of those horror films. A ghostly wood. The Blair Witch Project. We got back to the car quickly and although 8 y.o. "A" was oblivious to the whole scene, "H" and I were not and we having the same thoughts. We wanted out of there as quick as possible. That deathly sickly yelling continued and the daylight was fading quickly. Problem. The car is facing forward on this damn narrow track and I am neither able to turn the car around nor am I anything like wanting to go forward through the ford to a spot just inside the forest where I could turn around but that would be within metres of these horrid yells and the sound of the car so close might alert them to our presence. So I had to reverse. Reverse slowly up this damn narrow rutty track for about 300 metres. Each metre taking us further and further away but it was taking so long and it felt like that scene on Alien where the person is walking slowly up the corridor and lust as you think that they are safe, something ghastly jumps out at the last minute. We reached the end of the road and we were safe, We hightailed it out of there. What were those mystery screams that eminated from the wood. We don't know. And I am not keen to personally find out,


Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

a

Great hide. Took us awhile. Took buddha and left pet rock.

17:15
An awesome little hide. Picked up CFA Travel Bug to drive it a bit further. Left Unitefordiabetes TB.

A re-visit to this site with CFA friends to drop off the CFA travelbug!

This was my very first attempt at Geocaching. Found in about 10 minutes. Cache is very full but in good condition.
Had fellow geocacher with me who had been there before as my overseer. He gave me a travelbug to leave behind.

We were surprised to not find lots of pookh, piglets etc in this cache having saved someone specially for it. We added WOL (owl) to the cache and removed a keyring. TFTC. We have never seen oaks en masse like this.

Found 9.30am
Managed to get the GeoAstra all the way in to GZ, after a short search the sneaky hide was discovered and I was nominated to fetch it.

TNLNSL

TFTC The Morris - this is our 350th GC cache

Didn't quite make it all the way to GZ in the car as it has a very low ground clearance. Near enough though.
A short walk and a bit of walking in circles (GPS's fault - not us ), and the cache was in hand.
Nice container.
Thanks, Robmc.

Took a little while to spot this one with the signal a bit erratic as predicted. The clue helped a bit and we soon had the cache in hand. Another nice little spot I'd probably never have visted in any other circumstances. Bit of drama on the way in with the police in attendance at a car crash. Car very bent! Tree OK! Occupants unknown! Not us BTW!
Thanks indeed.

What a great cache. Master Boyd located it, he stopped and observed the area carefully and then excitedly led the way.

Sadly Winnie the Pooh could not be left in the 110 Acre Wood, as he didn't fit, so we left a shark bottle key ring instead. A small torch was taken.

Master Ryan was exctied by the name. His Eeyore made a visit also. Thanks for a fantanstic spot and an exciting drive in.

Off on a bushwalk with a close friend, we happened to park right next to this one. I searched while she prepared but for a while I came up empty handed. Not wanting to overdo teh waiting, I picked up the gps to go and I espied the neat little hiding spot! This is an interesting spot and a good little hide, thanks The Morris.

Found at 1240. Easy find as I don't think too many of these grow in trees.

TNLN. TFTC.

A beautiful spot, but very popular. Found with micaparamedic's assistance.

Nice location, nice hide, particularly like the container. Found with Willowvale.

Interesting to see that some one was looking to the future here
The plantation is an unusual find in the land of the gum
Great cache hidey hole too

Found at 4:25pm after a short search. This place is quite popular; there was a car within metres of GZ however fortunately it was unoccupied.

Can't believe how small the oak trees are, they must take many years to grow to any real size!

TNLN. Loved the container! Thanks!

Finally good to log this one after being with Romax when we discovered it had been muggled early last year. Found today @ 1630.
Left Bluey badge.
TNSL.
TFTC The Morris

I was quite surprised at the passing traffic here - its obviously a popular spot. Just as I was parking, an older couple walked past. A minute or two later, another couple of muggles walked past. While I was logging my find, the four muggles drove past, and then shortly afterwards, another car drove past. What's going on?

It was getting close to dusk, and my time was short, so I didn't have a look around, but it looks an absolutely fantastic area. Thanks for the cache, and for showing me this place.

On the way to Melbourne from Bendigo we decided to do this cache. Luckily we drove straight past "Henry of Harcourt" - a local cider maker that produces some excellent ciders. If you're around the area and would like to try some of the local drop I can definitely recommend the stuff. He's just around the corner on Resevoir Road.

Nice cache container, thanks The Morris!

What a nice little area i am so glad you put a cache here and a little neat hiding place another spot i never knew about thanks Morris's
left dice
took Grome

Good cache,second for day,found it reasonably quickly in interesting hiding spot(note for others)there is a bee hive in the inbankment which appears as a round hole about 10-15cm in diamiter,so be wary of plunging your hand into this one,you might get a bit of a suprise!
Took nothing,left small torch and flourescent clip.
Thanks,Lukeandalli,

This was another great little cache on the way home frome Melbourne visiting a sick friend in hospital. What better way to finish off a great day with a good cache.
TFTC
TNLN

D

Fine shady glen that this place is at the foot of the rocky mountain. Took some circling to find GZ due to tree cover of course. Took marker pen left earplugs (in packet!)
TFTC

What a great little spot for a cache. I was keen to have more of a look around but there seemed to be a lot of activity in the bushes near by. I'm thinking of coming back here with a sniffer dog and seeing if I can pinch a few truffles from under these trees, they're worth the effort!

Thanks guys,

R - B

7th of 8 finds for the day.
A very pleasant spot for a cache.
Batteries had just died on arrival at GZ, while swapping them out, I caught a glimpse of what I suspected to be a great hiding spot.
Turned out to be the cache, and was in hand before the GPS had re-acquired signal.
Great Cache container too.
Nothing small to swap so TNLNSL
Thanks to The Morris for another great cache

Found in the company of Rally and Family. I am still amazed at the areas caching takes us too. I love Oak trees and now plan to have a few walks in this area. Thanks for the opportunity to see such a great place. TFTC

Another amazing area, well done "The Morris" for a cache in a great bit of history. I was out caching for the afternoon with Ms Sassi and Fetch. We never expected to come this far North but enjoyed the caches for the effort. I spotted this one easily and "Fetch" retrieved a fantastic cache container. TNLN thanks for bringing us here, we will be back to explore some more.

Found by Hardyman & Co this morning after another unsuccessful fishing expedition. yet another great location and good hide.

Took Key ring
Left Glitter Pen

TFTC The Morris

Arguably not a real DNF as Pickupfamily Dad would have searched longer except I had to be back in Heathcote by 1600hrs. After having found Monumental Delight, hoped this could be nabbed quickly but had no luck in a 20 min search. I hope I wasn't parked on top of it as GPS showed 9m to GZ from the car. TFTC The Morris, you've outwitted me again... so far.

5th find for they day on our way up to Bendigo for a wedding. What an interesting location, and a very good cache hide, we had to pretend to use the cache for its original purpose as some muggles drove past.

TNLN

Thanks again the morris for another great cache

Found by edmil & maddie. Great spot with a neat hide to boot. Struggled for a time as GPS just wouldn't settle. The cache location was eventually spotted by maddie - yet another one I have to live down. Thanks for the cache TNLN

Found at 1:51pm. Found accompanied by GeoDano the GeoMrs as navigator and scribe. 2nd find for our weekend expedition. After a DNF at the nearby Monumental Delight, this one was a delightfull find. I've been looking at this one for ages, having a number in the name it was at the top of my not found list. This is such a nice area, and so different from the last place we've been to.
In: ice scate charm
Out: cow
Signed log. Thanx The Morris...

My last find on the way home from Bendigo. Found at 9.35am. Left gnome, took clamp. Another nice peaceful area. Thanks to The Morris

Having been on a high after finding monumental delight quite quickly we hit this one ready for what we thought would be another easy find but we were wrong. The GPS said there but it was not, the EPE was good but it still pointed there but where was it, after 30 mins of searching we approached from a different angle and its position became known.
Thanks again The Morris for the cache,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Thought we were going to find Tigger but we found the cache instead" Clan.

Tricky find in a nice forest. Loved the container and was able to search and discover with motor cycling muggles doing their thing. Left the duck to stay another day. TNLN

This is a beautiful Oak Forest stopover for VT Duck TB

Found @ 4.15pm after work. Searched at the new co-ords for another 20 minutes before deciding to call The Morris!! I found the cache whilst still on the phone, thanks to a description given!! Thanks for a lifeline that saved me actually giving up!!

Very well hidden by the way!!
This is a technical FTF as I am the first to find this cache in its new location!!!

TNLNSL
Thanks again The Morris!!

DNF after searching for the second time. Came here about 1.5 weeks ago, and after searching for an hour, decided to come back. After another hour, STILL no find!!
Either this cache is so well hidden that I am missing it, or it is muggled

I don't like to walk away, but I ran out of light after the hour!!

Coordinates amended for new location

5.17pm D+C We actually visited here in the dark last night but couldn't find it. I thought I heard a child's voice in the night and we got quite spooked and so left quickly. A much nicer place in the daylight and again we heard a child's voice, do muggles live nearby? A really great hiding spot. Just after we had packed up a muggle wandered by so we pretended to take photos!!!!
Took; mondo Left; dragon duck Thanks Morris

Found this one when I was on the way home from a business trip and after trying to kill myself with the Monumental Delight cache in "slippery" leather sole shoes and dressed to the nines got 10 meters from the GZ and slipped down being banged and bashed I thought better of it.(another day)
Seen the rating to be easier on this cache so went after this and found shortly after.

Well hidden and nice find after my near death experance

Left Calling card took nothing signed log

Thanks Team for a lesson learnt.

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

Tenth cache of twenty nine for the day, found at 14:45 in the company of Dak Emu. 'If you go down to the woods today you’re in for a big surprise’ I failed to find pooh bear but I did find the cache. The gps had us at the pine tree and with all the talk off new concepts I began to think that this could be like a Sui_001 cache where you had to climb the tree, but something in Biggles Bears log gave it away and I spotted the cache in its hiding spot. We had trouble removing the lid of the container and had to use a nearby rock to assist us. Like the nearby quarry I guess this was another piece of history started and then left. Thank to The Morris for showing this location.

Eighth of twenty finds in company with acts2youthgroup on our Back to Bendigo Again day. This one had us stymied for some time. We looked in the normal places, to no avail. (We should have been thinking "Bendigo cache", but we weren't in the right frame of mind yet. ) We read the logs, and Biggles Bear's log gave us a hint, and A2YG spied it at 1445. This was to be the first of a string of cleverly hidden caches in the Bendigo area. I would put the difficulty level up a star or two. Thanks to The Morris for the cache.

IN: Mondo figure (Rome 1AD)
OUT: Kaleidoscope

We hadn't realised that we had oak plantations in Australia until we read your cache description. Diane almost expected to see Winnie the pooh and Tigger emerging from the wood. This was the luckiest cache we did today as it took under a minute from taking the GPSr out of the car to locate the cache. We must have just approached from the right angle for this well hidden cache to fall into our hands quite so easily, we got quite a surprise to see the size of the container when it was completely removed from it's hidey hole
Took Crystal
Left Twin dice,
Thanks again the Morris, we look forward coming to Bendigo as the caching here is never boring

Found 15:20, had we been a little more vigilant we may have retrieved the cache without leaving the comfort of our vehicle very well hidden.

TNLN, thanks to the Morris.

Thanks for the great concept, the fun (mystery) and exercise - even though I was unsuccessful at the time.

May I make a suggestion:

1. When very close to or at GPS Zero, could the map please have some sort of extra clue? The aim would be mainly to encourage (and reward) the seeker's efforts. It was so disappointing to fail at the last hurdle. On a hot day, over an hour of searching an area with a radius of 13 metres is no easy time.

The evolution of this concept is indeed exciting! Many Thanks again.

Found at 2.45pm.
An easy find, an interesting area.
Thanks for showing it to us.
TNLN
K&M

Found at 11.05 GAFF5. In a lovely setting, we thought this would be an easy find, but with 4 of us looking (Ian & Penny were with us) we struggled for a while. Our GPsr's were all over the place. Eventually it was Ian who found the cache hidden way over where we weren't looking. A clever hide. Thanks The Morris for bringing us here. tn/ln.

Found this one at 11:30. - our fourth find of Ians Birthday Bash Cache Weekend.

Competing now with the PPrass team, it was a challenge but luckily we found this one just ahead of them. While logging the cache all three GPSR said the cahe was still 13 metres away.

TNLNSL - BTW the zip on the pencil case is broken.

Found by bevfre 10.00am Had to scout for this one, good hide, The area is neglected to what it was like years ago.
Took Souvenir of Australia. Left White Magnet clip & little
Yellow Bird Thank you The Morris

Found 15/1/2006 @ 18:00

The GPS favoured me for a change, walked straight up to this one.

This area was originally bordered by a pine plantation.

Unfortunately, to make a quick buck, the pines were razed, and the ambience of the area destroyed.

Took: Mondo Oz
Left: Fish (and a pen)

Thanks The Morris.

Found by Mary & David at 1645. Took a while as the satellites were quite temperamental in the wood. We got to hug lots of trees. A very sneaky hiding spot. Took 3-D bookmark, left Australian key ring. Our thanks again to The Morris.

7.30pm
Found by Roma and Max.
What a lovely peaceful place amongst the oak trees and what a sneaky hiding spot for the container.
We took a Crocodile Clicker and FTF card and left a small Mondo Figurine.
Thanks again The Morris.
from Romax.

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