High Time Woodend, Victoria, Australia
By Keeper of Time on 25-Apr-06. Waypoint GCVN8E

As I can not find a suitable replacement hiding spot, I am arching this cache.

Having seen the recent DNF I today walked the 600m to GZ to check on the cache. The whole area seems to have had a clean up and a lot of trees removed, the area that used to be GZ is now barren and cacheless. I will look at replacing soon.

19:45
No luck for us today. Did the maths and got to what we believe is the cache site (based on the picture by richlink). We had a quick look in all the most likely spots to no avail. We were just about to start a systematic search when we noticed a muggle from nearby houses watching us very, very closely and demonstrating a concerned manner. So we nonchalantly wandered back to geomobile and slowly left the area. Given the ease with which other cachers have reported finding the cache, we just wonder if the cache has been disturbed, as it is apparent there has been a great deal of clearing activity in the area in recent months. Maybe we were just having a bad day ...... anyway, we'll be back at another time.

TFTH Keeper of Time.
PS - As a consolation prize we adjourned to a local public house for a very pleasant meal – recommend the one named after the State!

Located on a day visit to Woodend. Although the sun was out, the wind was very chilly so it was a very quick dash to GZ.
Left: Charlie the Charmer TB

Found this cache while on a visit to Woodend. Did this one later in the day so it was starting to get really cold, and we were glad it was a quickie. Liked the time-keeper, thanks for showing us that. TNLN TFTC.

Found this one at 9:10 while on my way to our monthly bushwalk at Hepburn Springs. A nice little heart-starter to commence proceedings for the day .

TNLNSL. Thanks Keeper of Time.

Found @ 1510.

Nice easy multi found after playing golf nearby. Had to hide from a muggle for a minute then all good. TNLN.

On a cold and rainy day with the Macedon Ranges shrouded in snow near the summit we ventured out during a moment of blue sky and sunshine to secure a few caches.
The rain held off during the course of the cache and we completed it without fuss.
TNLN
TFTC
The Riddellers

Found after a search in the dark with no torch. So came back and tried another day. Some nice houses along this track
Thanks Keeper of time
TNLN

Found by Team Ladava 8.30 pm (Love this daylight saving)
A very pleasant little historic multi in the lovely town of Woodend.
Took TB
Left nothing
Thanks again for your first cache on this occasion Keeper of Time

Been caching past here a couple of times but this one seemed to have missed out until now. The info was found easily enough, and fortunately one hard to decipher digit at point 2 was not needed. Managed to approach gz from the correct side and even espied the hide as I was walking past it! Thanks to Keeper of Time for this good first one of a number of good caches.

Having found so many of the keeper of time caches in the last few days (do you live near here?) we were delighted to find the first of them- so appropriate. We found the cache rather exposed to the elements (possibly the result of the high winds in the last few days) so left it covered much more appropriately. We left the plane TB as it wants to have photos taken near planes- and it is highly unlikely that we will manage to be able to assist this one, so we thought to put it in this high flying cache was a good choice. WE took the koala keyring , which we will pass on to a fellow cacher to leave in NZ when she visits there later this year. Loved the fact that the GPS totally died at point 2 (very tricky) and then we chose wrong re what side of the track to go initially. Quite a challenge. TFTC

After starting my search on the wrong side of the tracks, i discovered the cache without any problems. There are some beautiful orchids and lillies in thsi woodland surrounding the tracks... very cool! TFTC TNLN

Found at 1145. Another nice multi from KOT.

TNLN. TFTC.

We had to wait awhile for the showers to move on before we set off on this one. We soon had the required info and set off laong the track. A small typo on the GZ coordinates took us straight to an old people's home but we soon had this corrected and had the cache in hand.

Took: Palo travelbug

Dropping travelbug.

A great cache! We made this one an adventure for the whole family - really enjoyed walking around the town. Thanks
T: Watch
L: Diabetes TB

Sorry log late but been travelling. Found log with family on visit from USA - Great cache with really interesting clues. Lovely walk but oh so cold and wet. Left TB from USA and took purple watch.

A brief but interesting tour of this town.
I arrived at the cache just in time to see the afternoon passenger train to whiz by
TFTC.

Launching Tobor II into my home cache

Logging in TB Roo for the miles.

Sending TB Mama Africa 2 through my cache to log the miles.

Waypoint two had us under surveilance by someone who looked like he wanted to be where we were? I'm sure a fellow cacher would have come straight up to us so it was a bit mystifying. Anyway did what was required and the cache was soon found.
Thanks again

I (incorrectly) assumed that this cache would take us on a bit more of a tour of the town. I guess that was because it is alone in the town and there are several other interesting structures here.
The two waypoint were good spots (I would never have guessed the second), and an easy find at GZ.
Thanks, Robmc.

4stubbies and three friends new to the cache finding enjoyed the afternoon mystery chasing. Interesting navigating.
Took geo Coin
Left "shiny" key ring

Dropped off 2006 Kiwi Geocoin

G'day Keeper of Time,

We found your cache today at 4:30pm as the fourteenth of twenty three on our "Pick up where we left off from the Christmas Event Cache" Tour. It's a long time since we visited Woodend (Probably since the freeway bypass went in). A nice easy multi. Thanks for our 7th Keeper of Time cache.

Kind Regards,

D & S B-A

Great country town here and a good morning tea rest stop and cache hunt.After first 2 stops,zeroed in to the final location and there was the booty right where its supposed to be.Nice multi,good history and well enjoyed.TNLN and thanks Keeper of Time for the cache invite.

Found by Bob at 1820

This was another cache I hadn't intended to do today. I'd been lead astray by my TomTom, and come down the north side of Mt Macedon after the Christmas BBQ event, which put me near Woodend. After getting some fuel, I checked out this cache and was surprised it was a multi (I thought it was "Time for a View" I was doing - I don't get out much ), but proceeded anyway and quickly did the 1st 2 wps (a very intriguing structure, the one at the 2nd wp!) and then found a closeup access point for GZ. The cache was an easy find thank goodness - the groundcover around there would make searching difficult.

TNLN

Thanks again Keeper of Time

The monuments at both locations were quite interesting, and I think the locals have invented a new road between WPT 2 and GZ. The magpies were guarding it fiercely, but I managed to log it unscathed!

Thankyou,

R - B

Found by Mary & David at 1840. Very interesting. We really like caches with historical plaques. The broom is flowering everywhere just now, creating swathes of yellow. Took corkscrew, left Papermate Gel Pen. Our thanks once more to Keeper of Time.

First cache in over a year and only a few kms from home. Thank you Keeper of the Time.

Found the cache sometim e this afternoon. Sorry we have no idea what time because we left all our cache notes at the last cache site we visited today.

We think it was a really nice hide. We left a keeper of keys when we signed the log and released the TB.

TFTC

Quick little stop through town on the way home. A fun and informative multi. TFTC.

found at 16:30 and was the last for the day on an afternoon of hunting, nice hide
TFTC
TNLN

Forth find on the way to Melbourne and our second KoT cache.
Enjoyed the wander around town and a picnic lunch afterwards.

An easy find. Took Maker of Light and left Exposer of Wine.

TFTC

Found at 2:40pm. Found accompanied by GeoDano and the GeoMrs as navigator and scribe. 3rd find for the day on our sunny Sunday expedition. This is a nice town, my parents used to live near here. After a bit of a drive around the town with some lunch thrown in for good measure we got all the required information and after doing the sums arrive at GZ where the cache was at hand without too much trouble.
In: pink gold tee
Out: smiley face
Signed log. Thanx Keeper of Time...

Finally I have logged my find. Cache was found at 0820. A nice early start for the caching frenzy. My 1st of 24 for the day.

First of Twenty finds on a wet, windy, cold and can someone tell us why we do this day's caching day with Dak’s Emu Mob, Kiwideb, and Muzza. Well we sure did have a tour of the town on this one; it took us a while to get the driver to go in the way of the cache. Once at GZ the cache was soon in hand. Thanks Keeper of Time for the cache.

The Alliance was out in force today with four members present. So this is Another find for The Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A

First of seventeen finds on a rainy, cold day's caching in and around Bendigo with acts2youthgroup, Kiwideb, and Muzza. OK, this one is not in or around Bendigo, but it's on the way. We made our way around the waypoints, but somehow got confused about the proper location of WP2. Then we headed off to GZ, but in the wrong direction. [B)] Once we got our act together, we had an easy find at 0820. I made no exchange. Thanks to Keeper of Time for the cache.

Bitterly cold in Woodend today but braved all weather to retrieve quiche in a timely manner.

When the big hand was on the two and the little hand was on the nine, we did our swaps.

T: black spider L: SCAREY green ghoulie.

Many thanks KoT

We enjoyed the tour of this town collecting the required information along the way and then we headed off to gz where the cache was fairly quickly found
Took dog
Left spider
Thanks Keeper of the Time for the cache

After an interesting tour of town, I headed out to GZ for an easy find. No exchange was made. Thanks for the tour and for the cache.

Daddy (caughtatwork) and I came out to find this cache today for the (Fleet to Federation) game. I'm happy that I found it before he did.

Found by caughtatwork at 11:42
An excellent little tour of the area. I was quite taken by the unusual object surrounded by a circle of mature trees. Very cool location.
The rain had stopped by the time we arrived from Stanleys Other Stash, so GabGab and I were out of the car looking for all of the clues for this cache. She was able to help find all of them easily.
The final location was almost a driveby, but then the GPSr jumped another 20-30meters and we had to walk (pity on us).
GabGab found the cache while I was a little ways behind making sure that we weren't stepping into too much mud. She was mighty pleased to find this one indeed.
Took ear buds and stickers, left bubblemix and sports whistle.
Thanks Keeper of Time. We hit two of your caches today and both were just wonderful, especially with the rain and the mist contributing to enchanting locations.

Found Ok but have to get better at reading directions on
GPS. Ended up at the train station in a circle of trees but no structure never knew the other one was around and I have been through here so many times. great fun and plenty of coffee for a cold day.
TFTC
took whistle
left Torch and batteries

Found at 12.10pm GAFF1. With the extended pprass group that was staying at Riddells Creek for the weekend. Interesting to see that the housing estate is starting to take over. Helen thought that it was not right! Took: Gold Keyring, Left: Dog figurine.

Found at 11.15am
A lovely tour of the town.
Very cold today so we didn't linger too long at GZ
Took the Geocoin
Thanks
K&M

While I bought the Coffee, Shelby and Michael gathered the first set of clues and we met back at the car. We set of for the next and waypoint 2 proved to be a perfect spot for a afternoon coffee break. After working out the final location we finished our drinks and headed for the GZ. After parking very close to the cache the container was found and logged and we were on our way to play in some mud.
Many thanks Keeper of time for the cache and its theme.
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "High Time is a Coffee in one hand and a free coffee voucher in the other" Clan.

FOund 1130 after following clues from high time. Nice walk and easy find. Took watch and left padlock. Thanks keeper of time

Had a lovely walk through Woodend collecting the clues. Have to recommend the cupcakes just across from the "structure".
Found the cache no probs. Took stickers, left stapler
Thanks Keeper of Time for the cache

Found by Bevfre 10.30am Nice place brought back old memories from when I lived near by,Took Watch Left Aussie Key ring.Thank you Keeper of Time

Found 13:15, having collected the first two waypoints before retreating to the nearby Holgate Brew house for lunch and a refreshing ale both of which we can highly recommend. We continued onto GZ warmed and refreshed.

TNLN, thanks to the Keeper of Time.

3.57pm D+C Thanks for a cache so close to home, we've wondered why there hasn't been a cache in this town before now. Great. Took; watch. Left; City link watch

10.30am
Found by Roma and Max.
This was a nice way to complete a long weekend returning from caching in what we call cache heaven, Narre Warren and Berwick, although we had to back track a little to find this one.
It is another lovely autumn day and although the streets at the posted co-ordinates were busy, we did our sums and proceed to wpt 2 where we had both it and GZ to ourselves.
We took a small Cat as a memento and left our usual Mondo Figurine.
Thanks Keeper of Time.
Romax.

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