Passalaquas Views Yapeen, Victoria, Australia
By The Morris (adopted by claybol) on 23-Jun-06. Waypoint GCWQY6

#893 beautiful day caching around the region. Found this one on our way home to Ballarat! TFTC

TFTC. Have looked for this one before. Must have had a mans look this time!!!

A very wet cold day driving back through Guildford this was one we couldnt find last time but today was our day. Views are incredible. Tftc

Thank you for placing the cache here as the views were magnificent. The cache in good condition was quickly found.

Great views, beautiful sunshine! Originally started looking in the wrong spot (a little too early maybe) but we soon found it. Great cache and spot TFTC

Nice views over the town!! Got to GZ and a very short search had the cache in hand!! TFTC!!

TFTC - left a sticker

TFTC Great hide and great views

Nearing the end of the school holidays and we decided to take the kids out for the day. Went to Mt. Franklin then a beautiful lunch at the Farmers Arms and a spot of Geocaching on the way back to Bendigo. Found with Kendal Clan and signed the log. Thank you

A quick detour off the road as I was heading to Bendigo. Took a bit to find it but got it in the end. Great location.TFTC

Searched around all the rocks, no luck for us, even with the cheat photo

Cache was indeed missing, so I've replaced it with a new one and added a spoiler pic here to assist since there are a lot of potential hiding places. All good!

Replaced cache

Looks like this one might be missing. I'll check up when I'm in the area again but that might not be for a few weeks.

Had a pretty good look perhaps the rabbits have moved. This one might be time for the CO2 confirm that it is still here?

Spent half hour looking another GC turned up and still couldnt find

Too afraid of wildlife to hunt properly

Read clues, and logs, but couldnt find.Bit cautious of the long grass and

Couldn't find, ran out of time

No luck… ran out of time…

That was fun looking through bushes

Visited with 3 TBs. Grass is dry and very long.

Scrambling over rocks and squashed grass (probably from roos!), decided to get off the rocks and landed in a patch where there was no grass. Bingo! Thanks for the cache!

Found it! Yep the views are lovely, a couple of muggles must have thought so too.. right when we arrived they did too, watched from atop the lookout. Making this a bit more difficult!
After they left we found the container, signed the logbook and back as found!

We found it!

Magic views from here! Interesting nearby plateau, so flat!

Thanks For The Cache!

Cache coordinates: Good
D/T Rating accuracy: Good
Cache condition: Good
Log condition: Good

Thank you!

quite hard to find but just look for some rocks that were not in place and found it

Great view of Guildford

Out & about for the weekend, heading to Daylesford to meet up with Lorigus74. Doing some caching along the way. We loved the lookout & the views. TFTC

Great view on a coolish sort of day. TFTC

Great views

Great views

Found it. Spectacular views. Thanks

A nice quick find on my way home to Geelong. Spent the morning in Castlemaine for work and was impressed on what the town has to offer. Beautiful view up here Thanks for the cache!

TFTC!!! First find in over a year, while on the way to Ballarat

Wow, what a fantastic view. Hide and cache doing well

Great views TFTC

Plenty of good hidey holes at this spot, not to mention the distraction of the beautiful views.

Great views TFTC

What wonderful views. Thanks.

Log is nearly full. Sigh Ed and returned.

TFTC Magnificent views what a photo opportunity well worth the walk and the rock scramble

Found it... please be careful with little ones

Found by The Gunters

Very sneaky spot!

Took a bit, but lots of little eyes found it eventually.

Easy find! Beautiful views

Slightly trickier than we thought to find but a fun cache & nice view!

Great views from here.
TFTC

Great views & location. Quite a few muggles around. Thank you

Tftc

lovely rock scramble

Was just about to give up! so many hiding spots, but a well chosen spot... beautiful views! TFTC

Out on a photography road trip with a friend.
Decided to see if there was a cache here. It seemed to me that there should be. Sure enough. Quick look, cache found, log signed.
TNLN. TFTC

Tftc claybol (The Morris). After grabbing the gnome and then the speed limit caches, the lookout was too tempting to miss on our local circuit. Scrambled around a bit but finally found it. Nice flat bit on top of an ancient lava flow was a nice little extra titbit.

TFTC. We needed to get out for a couple of hours. Guildford looks a likely target. A multi and some caches all within a small radius of the village. A short drive from Maryborough and we were in the village.
The views from the platforms are spectacular. the cache was quickly in hand

Well hidden in summertime between the long grass and snakey areas being on dusk didn’t help either but we found it! Our second find on the start of our journey!

Second find for the new year. Absolutely amazing view.
Thanks

Too snakey today to look

Great views beautiful spot! TFTC

I always thought they should have called this street “ have a look” rather than havelock! Beautiful views of the town. Live music playing below today. Thanks for the hide.

Beautiful views

Re-enabling the cache now that lock-down restrictions have been relaxed again

A great spot for checking out the view, we even saw some wildlife

Disabling due to new COVID-19 restrictions

Nice sunny afternoon walk.

tytaylor19 and i were on the way home from hepburn springs when we came across a sign that said "lookout." we arrived at the most gorgeous view and even better we realised there was a cache here! after a short search we found it! thanks for the cache at such a beautiful spot! tftc

tftc quick drive by with a beautiful view ft catherinec19

Passalaquas Views was transferred from The Morris to user claybol

Thankyou for the cache the Ewoks

Beautiful spot for a cache. Coordinates were a bit out for us

Found it

Revisit with toadstoolandmushroom!
Cache is in great condition and the find was super fun again!

Amazing view!

Tricky one

tricky

# 2137 01.02.2020

Very accurate coordinate
Great view

Thanks to The Morris for placing!
ViT4 Steffi & Peter

Found it, this one took us a little bit, out GPS was a throwing us away

360 degree view. Lovely day for some catching

Great views from here. We added a spinning top to the swag. TFTC

Staying with family in Guildford for a few nights prior to Christmas. Early morning caching is beautiful in this part of the world.

Bit if a climb up but hey, made it easily enough! Great views. Searched the wrong spot first before moving a bit away as the gps settled and GreyHams made the find soon after.

Trip log... GreyHams log says it best, in all its glorious detail... so it really is, 'What he said!'

With GreyHams we set out for another chapter of our caching challenge... To find all the counties in NSW. We flew into Adelaide early Friday morning with a return plane from Melbourne Monday night. Taking advantage of some super cheap car hire driving one way from Adelaide to Melbourne. Of course, as a four day road trip it leads into collecting as many counties as was possible as we pass through SA and Victoria as well, with a few side trips for those that were close enough.

The counties a high priority but many caches of interest, the oldies are always great, about 16 2001 caches found plus many others just as old. Web Cams, virtuals, great DT which would see us complete our fifth loop of the DT grid, large caches and lots of regular sizes too. The trip list also included a cache type of each we were missing for each state as well.

Simply, if we stopped for a cache that had made it onto the list, it was not just any random cache, it was selected for a quality of some type we were seeking.

One of the harder things about caching after flying somewhere is that all the TOTT are left behind...usually! So it just had to be done and we took an esky with us on the plane for all those fabulous cold drinks along the way.

The thing I love the most is that we also took a ladder with us on the plane too!

We had targeted the 'on your bike' wherigo series, so many puzzles, so many hours of them so the ladder was important if we wanted to find all the high DT, up the tree caches... which we did! Later in Ballarat we went 'above and beyond' with the ladder once again. A truly essential item to have, we may now need to invest in that inflatable Kayak for future adventures too!

Perhaps it must be said that our route was the least direct way we could have traveled via the Hay Plains and Griffith, but covered a lot of road, counties and locations leading to yet another great trip. Although a number of park and grabs, made closer by our reliable and tough SUV, we also managed a lot of walks, hills, bush, and just a great variety as we explored the different areas.

We crossed the Murray river many times, a lovely healthy looking river system. After our recent trip from Adelaide to Sydney, via Broken Hill and Bourke the dry rivers out there are a very sad sight compared with the Murray.

With so much achieved that we had set out for it was a very successful trip but also an enjoyable one with many memories made and a new batch of stories too! Thanks to all the CO's for there caches that lead us in our travels.

ANother older cache, though it was relatively young compared to the others we were finding today

Generic trip log follows
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Aquilus1 and myself are on a mission.... to collect all of the counties in NSW! but how to get to those 'hard to reach' ones from where we are in Canberra? It would be an awfully long round trip. The answer was supplied in the super cheap car rental deals available if you drive one-way from Adelaide to either Sydney or Melbourne... I guess too many cars do it the other way and the cars need to get back somehow. Flying to ADL on points meant fuel was by far the biggest transport cost we paid for.

This trip is actually trip number two.... to drive from ADL to MEL, via Hay & Griffith! Yeah, thats logical! It was fun explaining where we were going to people, we got a lot of strange looks. The first trip was ADL to SYD, via Bourke. The bonus of course is we have also cleaned up a lot of SA & VIC counties as well.

OK, so primary goal is counties but we of course had 5 or 6 goals. Oldies was definitely a priority, I think we picked up 16 hides from 2001 on the trip along with lots of 2002-2006's. D/T of course is never overlooked and we did well there, I think we will almost complete our fifth loop from this trip. Webcams, Virtuals and Wherigo's were all targetted and finally getting all cache types in each state.

Day 1 was us arriving in ADL at sparrows, with a ladder and esky that we checked in and driving as far as Barmera. We cleaned up the 'On Your Bike' series where the ladder really fulfilled its purpose (I never want to see another online jigsaw again!) and even stopped to grab the LBH on the way out.... after 9:30pm, and after I attacked the dirt road with my body and left a lot of skin on it. Note to self: dont lunge at dirt roads! Luckily the hotel in town was open and we obtained fine lodgings. The floor creaked when I looked at it, or breathed, or changed my mind, but the bed was the finest.

Day 2 was driving to Hay, apparently on their biggest day of the year! No motel had rooms but luckily the new hotel that was supposed to open next week was forced into opening on the very day we arrived.... I like fresh sheets but how about a bed that has never been slept in! The crossed the Murray about 5 times and it was always impressive. We saw the country side change hugely from Rivers, Mallee and the Hay plain.

Day 3 was going from Hay, around Griffith and actually turning south towards Melbourne.... it felt like a long way! We cleaned up a bunch of the counties, in fact all of them, west of and including Naranderra. My map on Project-GC is going to look so green! We got as far as the outskirts of Bendigo, stopping at the first Motel we saw.... it was better than it looked!

Day 4 was getting to the airport, which we did with heaps of time to spare. Checkin closed a huge 18 minutes after our arrival. Damn, we could have grabbed another cache in that time. Ladder back in its box and checked in. I love the fact we took our own ladder!

Now safely back at home I am already suffering from caffeine withdrawal, but thats the price you pay for living on Coke for 4 days.

Sorry for the long generic log, but it was a fun trip and I wanted to share.

This cache find took us longer than it should have but we had 2 lots of muggles arrive one after the other not long after we arrived - eventually found when no one about - the views sure a great from GZ. Plenty of places to hide a cache in the area around GZ! Nice and warm in the sun this am!
TFTC The Morris

Wonderful view TFTC

No luck

Good find

After chatting to a Gold seeker in the bush for an hour or more I decided that it was time to head towards home. This cache beckoned me to find it first. Bentley TB had a lovely time running around the rocks
TFTC
TNLN
SL

TFTC. Not where I first expected...

JSando and carkisser enjoying quality couple time, geocaching. Great little lookout. TFTC

Found with CarKisser
Parked near by soon had cache in hand.
Took nothing left nothing.
TFTC

Tftc great view

Spectacular eagles flying around up here when we found this one, great views!

Up we go to see the view from the top - nice. We are travelling from Wangaratta to Creswick for the weekend. Took a little while to lay our hands and eyes on this sneakily hidden cache. SL at 5.11pm Admired the view and continued on our way to check out the Chinese Miners site. #6399 TFTC The Morris

Tricky to find!

Tricky to find

On our way home to Ballarat from Bendigo we thought we would do some caches. Beautiful area thank you for bringing is to the area. Very tricky TFTC

Bendigo to Newstead
After having a lunch break &a rest we chose a n area not far from the grounds where we are stopping.
Our trip was country roads & forest trails. Great views from this small hill top.
Thanks for placing this cache The Morris

Lovely spot for a cache.

Found with bethbeff. Came up to check out the lookout and we were very happy to find there was a very nearby cache. Thank you!

Wow what a view. This cache was next on our list. We arrived, searched in all the likely locations but after a search in a not so likely spot, we found it. TFt