Model Citizens Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
By The Morris on 20-Jan-06. Waypoint GCT34P

Found Last year and finally adding it to my profile list

Should have checked before I got there, shouldn't I...... LOL......

It has indeed gone missing and as the area is revolting, overgrown and swampy we won't replace it. Thanks to all the finders and I hope whoever ended up with the container enjoys all the trains.

Had two goes at this. One by ourselves, then again with a previous finder. We're pretty sure it's a goner.

Doh!

I believe this may have been muggled, 2nd time I've been in a few weeks. No Bees to be found, Confirmed with snowy that it's not where it was..

I'd say the councils cleaned the bees and the Cache.

CooPzZ

Searched high & low & found the beehive but couldn't find the cache. Didn't know what we were supposed to be looking for as the description did not make it clear. Might have to leave it for another time when visiting from Melbourne.

Did this one after gym little geo come up with the goods this was our second go at this one

4:58 PM thought we would do a few quick ones, found after a little searching.

Nice one with a playground for the kids. Left little indy geoman, goodluck with your travels!
5 June 2010 | 4:46 PM

Quick Find - Ptiy about all the rubbish here. TFTC TNLN SL

Added a note to log the coin as it wouldnt let me do it via the trackables page

Found left a coin as well which I will log when I get home

great find, my type of terrain

Found with my mate Blacklegend17 (Marshy) during our 2 day Bendigo cache blitz. After crawling into our hotel beds at 6:00am we were on the road again by 10:30am. 1st daylight find for the day with a Beehive nearby which was a bit concerning but a quick grab and sign and we were on our way. TFTC.

1st cache on the second day of our caching run to Bendigo with my good mate Marty (Quasar3671). 32nd for the trip so far. Found with a bee hive nearby, but got it pretty quickly. Thanks for the hide.

could not locate this one, the GPS was jumping around everywhere but i am sure we were in the general right spot.

A quick dash up here as we had 30 minutes to wait for the tram tour to start. Easy find once we had cleared the beees..

Arrived at GZ and spied the bees, nearly headed off until I realised I didn't have to look there. TFTC.

Suscoe arrived at this Cache in the rain.
A nice hide and I enjoyed the sound of the rain!
Left Duck, took Thomas ring.
TFTC The Morris

Continuing our road trip after attendance at the Wagga Mega event, one of quite a few found during our stopover in Bendigo.
Took care to avoid the bee's nest nearby.
TFTC

Great little groto. Bees active but we snuck out of their way. T4TC, M@

Heh found the flighty, stinging type citizens here Cheers Gav [5448]

Find 12 of the day after attending the Oz Mega Event, staying in Bendigo for the night to break-up the drive. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found with tofka,ADV,Redinguana and Moneydork.TFTC.

Love the play on words in the cache name.
TFTC

Found by Jase while with team rav caching in bendigo. TNLN

Found Teamrav in the company of Jas from 2Dudez while on a trip 2 Bendigo TNLNSL

Dodged the bees but copped the mozzies. TFTC.

Find number 5 of the 27th day of our trip to Tasmania and the Mega Event. Found at 0715hrs, find number 345 for the trip so far. Quite a track forming to this one. Virtually didnt bother with the GPS. Another easy one.

Cheers
Bundy

Kids had a lovely little play in the park while we played with the bees. Really should read previous logs as I took with me a geofriend who is allergic to bees.
Luckily no bee stings, just the mozzie attacks!
TNLNSL. Thanks for the cache!

I introduced my brother to geocahing tonight (He's already calling himself "The Nortsta"...This was the first one we looked for...He had the GPS...geez he was excited...He read alot of the previous logs...then we got to gz....and then we seen a heap of bees which were in an area that would have been good to put the cache in...he seemd to be looking about 20 metres from ground zero then....this was one of those hides that an experienced geocacher would find straight away....I'm not too experienced, but I found it quickly...TFTC.

Found after a short search. If you approach it from the right direction, you can avoid the bees. TFTC

Search - uncomfortable so return back to the car and read the comment - return back and found it with few secs. Glad no water or mud there... Phew!!!. SL. Thanks The Morris for organising the cache and hunt.

The wet weather was keeping the bees suppressed so we got it this time!

Had to send Beck in for this one as I have an allergy to bees. Rather not have to go to hospital and miss the one tree hill event.

Found at 0940 after a couple of minutes thanks to the Morris

27/02/2010 14:30 DNF: We didn't get too close to looking for this cache as there is a bee hive in the base of the peppercorn tree and the bees weren't too happy with us being there, so we left without any sort of search.
Thanks to The Morris anyway.
Maybe we'll try again when the bees slow down for winter.

Take care with this one folks, bees have made a hive in the base
of the big willow tree in the area. Suggest you keep the kids from
climbing around in there until the bees have moved on.

Cheers,
Der Fledermaus

Tristan the Travel Turtle Tag (TTQWTC) has come for a flying visit back in time.

very sneeky but a easy find . on way home tftc

Came to Bendigo to be witness to a high school friends wedding on Saturday.
Today we grabbed a few caches on the way back home.
The hiding place for this cache is home to stacks of mozzies - lucky we didn't get bitten!
Thanks The Morris for this cache.

nice one - thanks

We were a bit worried that recent rain may hjave washed it down the nearby drain but we needn't have worried. Still securely hidden!

Quick Find TFTC TNLN SL

It was a hot day for geocaching, but this was a cool spot to search. We didn't know about these model citizens, so thanks for bringing us here. We made some minor modifications to the shade structure after Bob bumped his head on a protruding branch - the area should be safer now for everyone.

TNLNSL

Nice quick easy find.
TNLswapsSL
TFTC

Nice Hide.Did a quick search whilst one team member was shopping.
TNLN SL TFTC

Our sixth cache and a nice one at that! Loved the location except for the rubbish

A great treasure of swaps too - took doggie thing and left dinosaur whistle

TFTC Bibi & Bane

Found by TURPS2 on 180110 at 1230 hrs.TN LN. Had a look about 6 months ago,this time went straght to cache.
A beutifull Bendigo day of 22c degrees.
Regards TURPS2

No citizens around - being damn hot can have its advantages.
Clear skies from TeamAstro.

A nice quick find thankfully as iit was a hot day in Bendigo today.
Cheers, TFTC.

NICE BEEHIVE IN PEPPERCORN TREE - but no problem at the cache. geo dog had a (cricket) ball of a time, with his own find, which he promptly took without swap, (but not from the cache).

Nice and large, bit of pot gets smoked there!

took a little while to find this one

No action here today, would not like to try this one after rain. Oh and watch out for the Bees in the top side of the tree.
JABs.

Definately worth a return with my little caching buddy. Another nice easy find. It would be nice to visit these at a time when you don't end up with a pile of grass seeds in your socks.

We got grass seeds in our socks too - but you get used to it after a while TFTC

This was a fairly easy find after a bit of a scramble. TNLN thanks for the cache.

One of those spots you probably wouldn't visit but appreciate when you do. Well found Bluey, our forth for the day.

Walking through tall grass, getting scratched from overhanging tree branches and being observed from peple using the adjacent children's playground and people from neighbouring properties in the nearby street all combined to turn this into one of our more non-memorable hides.

Find # 536 @ 13:00 and the 8th for the day on the Bendigo area caching tour.
Had me scratching my head for a bit then bingo.
TNLNSL TFTC

This was our first find!
Went for a nice walk down to the area and after a little bit of searching made the find.
Thank you.

A nice quiet spot in the middle of suburbia. And a very well themed cache so I left another little train

Found with blossom*

Followed the geotrail in to GZ and then hunted until it was found while the et al played on the nearby playground. Left bird card tool train jigsaw. Visited two Irish TBS and coin.

Just got introduced to Geocaching by a friend. Found my first one (with a little help). I think I am addicted already.

Found this one while the young ones played on the nearby playground. A nice easy one to start off a day of Geocaching.
Thank you
acjgrant

found after short search. lots of toys about.

found after short search. lots of toys about

Got to spot GPS playing up took some looking.
found cache
flat batteries in GPS off to buy new ones
Thanks

only found the broken lid from a black container and 3 loose toys - may be unrelated, but couldn't find cache. Not our day today!

Certainly a challenging find in the fading daylight at 17:25. We too spotted the toys which have clearly been there for some time now; though we did feel assured by previous logs that the cache was still there. Circled around the bushes a few times, crossed the ditch, then finally located the cache while my mate was on the phone trying to get us a spot light. TFTC.

The first thing I found at GZ was a collection of kids toys. I though " there going to be nothing left". But They seemed to be bigger than you would normally see in a cache. Happily a short search found the cache untouched.

Thanks for bringing me here!

One of many finds today, TFTC.

Stupid Misguided GPS decided to lead me into an echo-y dark place, Grrr, Dad (MtBikerOz) found the right place however!

tftf tnln

Rated: for Overall Experience

It was a good hide.
TFTC.

Plenty of spots to look for this one.
Like the theme in cache.
TFTC. (F28)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found this one with Hanseeka Kaztreka and Zarzeeky.

TNLN TFTC
Jonti

found at 4:07pm D took a tumble in the gully what a laugh nice hide took trains left tazos thank you

Found It
With JanPip & DEJH
Thanks for the cache.

great location.

Had to be careful as it was easter weekend there where lots of muggles around.

we away for easter and we have 3 tems all going geocaching together.Gee makes life easy.

One of the 3 teams that found the cache today. What great fun

13.20pm, well we did see model citizens nearby that turned out to be a good name for a cache.my fear of fanged wildlife took over again but Phetlern has been constantly reassuring me they are all on holiday in england! so i got a move on here and had a quick find do the biz and away pronto as one of them might have stayed behind? a neat hide thanks.sltn.patandjeff=bones1.

Thanks for your cache today on Phil(Bogonghazy) and Ian's(vk3jap) Bendigo caching trip.

We had a most enjoyable day.

TNLNSL - TFTC - Ian(vk3jap)

Nice easy find on a caching tour to Bendigo with vk3-jap. Thanks FTC, the Morris, TNLNSL

Kids enjoyed exploring the GZ as there had been a number of tennis and 1 cricket ball washed away after the recent rains. Quick find in a good hiding spot. TNLNSL TFTC

Second attempt at this one and managed to find it this time. TNLN

Found by McAdies.
It took us a little while to find this one as the dogs kept getting their leads tangled in the undergrowth. In the end we found it and got them free!
Thanks the Morris

found by garrottor

found without any dramas

Found with ease at 7:00

Our 2nd out of 3 finds tonight with Team Boofa and Elicats. Crazy Creel no. 2 found this in less than 30 seconds. Not a bad spot for the kids to have a play. Didnt have time though. We had to race back to Spot the Trains and look for Elicats ipod.
TFTC The Morris
~ Crazy Creels.

Found with Crazy creels and Team Boofa mini Crazy Creel found it in about 30s pretty easy spot 2nd find for the day took a whistle train and replaced with a whoopee coushion and marbles

Found by crazy creel no2 in our trio hunt didnt even get time to put on the gloves when it was located. no joe blakes thank goodness jr boofa swapped his whoope chusion for a skakeboarding figure. hope someone likes whoopees!!!!

Again a nice quick cache that I could find as I toured the lovely city of Bendigo.

TFTC

Good place to sit and cool down on a very hot day, but look out for snakes.

TFTC

Easy find on a very hot afternoon. Kept a good look out for joe-blakes in the long grass also.

TFTC