Ghosts of Trains Gone By Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
By RoundCircle on 12-Aug-06. Waypoint GCXE8B

It had a good run. Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment about their journey.

Checked out the site today and found that the cache has indeed gone. I've been concerned for a while that the cache was a significant factor in the number of cars that drive through the park, so I'm going to archive this. It's has a pretty good run.

No luck, we were stumped. Think we had GZ OK but none of the many hidey holes were occupied. Sent note to owner.
gee that is a big railway embankment and we assume built by hand!!

mmm lost my caching mojo for a bit here - found what might have been GZ according to the coords and the clue but no joy today.

easy trip down the hill but looked bigger to get back up

Had to go up and down the hill to get to this one.
Took trackable. TFTC

Found by teamrav 14/6/10 TNLN

Found today and parked on right side of tracks. Thanks

Late start to a third trip to Ballarat to put a few more smiley faces in this area. The old ute wanted to know where I was going on these bush tracks as I was on the wrong side of the track so to speak.
The heart rate increased with the climb up and down to the cache and then had to return. Thanks to roundcircle for the second cache of yours that I have found today. NI-NO.

Found by caughtatwork at 14:31 on 16/05/2010
We strolled over from Eddie's Cache through the wet grass and on to GZ. We found a rather interesting, er, um, ladies utensil on the way and a zombie rat near GZ. What an interesting cache experience today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks RoundCircle for this cache today. A few interesting things in the way, but none harmful, just laughable
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

I found this cache with caughtatwork and big sister J today. I saw a dead zombie rat. It was all skin and bones. Then I found the cache. Thank you.

Quick easy find in my lunch break
Log is pretty full

TFTC!

Nice area, could do with a new log.
TFTC!

Found with Moneydork, Rediguana, Tofska, and Pohutukawa on what turned out to be a rather big day finds wise.
Our driver ignored the parking co-ords and got us somewhat closer than that!
TFTC

Found this on what was probably our biggest day of the raid. Cheers Gav [5561]

Well hidden, found on second attempt. T4TC, M@

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

Took a couple of passes to get this one.
One of many caches done on our Wagga Wagga MEGA Event trip from NZ.
TFTC

OzzieBear & MrSnoop found this cache easily after parking at the suggested co-ords. A very interesting park with apparent relics. TFTC. TNLNSL

Found this today at 3.30pm in the company of MrSnoop. We spotted a kangaroo as we pulled into car park. This was a nice easy find in neat little hidey hole. Took TB Z6031K and left a Troll. TFTC

After an abortive attempt from above, we followed instructions and started again from the parking waypoint below - and achieved an easy find.
Geocompanion Radionut50 is also a train nut, so the sight of this massive embankment was of special value. Thanks for bringing us here.
There was no trackable in the cache, but we added the River Dart Rover TB for its next move.

We at first took the high road, but then worked out we needed to be on the lower part, so we parked down on the street and walked in. After scrambling all around up and down the hill we finally found in down low.

Third time lucky on this cache. Up the hill and back down, looked here twice before!! Some you find easy and them some.... TFTC. Left trackable item.

hate to feel stupid but walked straight upto it today and found it first look, not sure what i was doing yesterday TNLNSL

spent a good 20-30min look for this one, im wondering if the area has been reworked recently as there seems to be a lot of new fencing about. today for me at least was a DNF

Saw Borries log and had some time before tea, so popped over to check it out. The cache is sitting comfortably in it's hidey hole.

Been here before! No snake today. TFTC

Got to 2mts from GZ and spoted likely hidding spot for the cache...so did the baby brown snake!!! Baby or not he can have this one today! Will be back when it's cooler weather. Cheers

This was a very easy find after a short walk in. Kids had fun climbing the hill. TNLN. TFTC.

Mrs Iamapom was an excellent driver on this excellent caching day - number 12 of 15 finds on Australia Day.
I took the wrong option when I chose which way to attack this - so I slid down on my geo-behind to reach where I needed to be. Made quite a mess.
Cache was easily in hand. I had a minor panic when i thought I was trapped in someones back garden!
TFTC

Nice little area. Stopped on the wrong track so we had to walk through alot of prickles, rabbits everywhere!

Thanks

Found at 1930 on an exploration "smash and grab day " of the area with 3up . this was unfortunatly our last cache in the area for the day but we will be back soon . Rabbits everywhere as we climbed the hill and slid back down 3up had the find and we were on the way back to melb . thanks roundcircle

Find # 657 and my 32nd and final for the day @ 19:30 with tackle_head on our "lets head west / smash and grab" day tour.
This is a nice park, and being a train driver by profession made it even more enjoyable to see the old track bed and bridge. I wonder why this seems to be the last find of the day for a lot of folk. Are they spending the night here or is it just coincidence? For us, it was hunger and contentment that put a stop to the caching run and we pointed the beast in the direction of home.
TNLN SL Thanks for the cache roundcircle.

Last one for the day, TFTC. Left cow, and took finger puppet! Watch out for the bities....ant biting my foot on way out ouch!! Log also full.

Very peaceful area. (I wanted to curl up and nap

Found with Eynowd, Xtumech, and Gabbadabbadoo on our roadtrip holiday.

TFTC!

#612 at 1543

This one turned out to be our last cache of the day, as Dvixen was exhausted.

So many rabbits about as we headed to the GZ.

I loved the old tunnel, and could easily imagine the old trains passing on the bank above as we wandered to the hide. Nice little spot.

TNLNSL TFTC!

nice hide not where i thought it would be. I have never seen so many rabbits. Loved the tunnel to wet to walk through.TFTC

sneaky ... very sneaky
nice one RoundCircle

Redtag found this one while I stood by the car. This was a very sneaky hide. Well done.

Our first cache of what was a freezing day. Nice easy find
TNLN SL
TFTC

We are so jealous of the folks who have the old train embankment as their driveway - how cool is that!
Also loved the hide, was so not where I expected it to be, after a few minutes found, whilst the rest of the family were looking at the old tunnel. Snips was very excited to swap her bracelet and green man for the Turtle stamp (thanks crafty turtle!). TFTC

My very first geocache find! How exciting.
I've walked my dog in this park for over a year, and I never knew this was here.
Took train token, left turtle rubber stamp.
TFTC

nice quick find to get the cache count ticking over again.

We found our 5th Round Circle cache at 5:20pm as the 24th of 40 on our Ballaratatattat Tour V in company of Backpaqer. After only finding 1 cache in the last 2 hours due to various reasons, this was the one that got our day back on track again. Thanks for the cache from D B-A.

I like train line caches - my best cache of all takes you through a disused tunnel near Mount Warning. took the coin.

Our first cache for the day. We were here yesterday but were on the wrong side of the embankment and ran out of daylight. Better luck today. The local Jack Russell tried his hardest to alert everyone to the fact that we were there. An easy find, we left Ben the dock engine and took the geocoin. Thanks for the cache Roundcircle.

Coin drop

Great spot, never really been in this park before. Great morning for caching! TFTC. Another find for the geopuggle

We got a bit lazy and drove to the cache.
Easy find in a nice location.
We liked the park so much we are coming back again!
We are running a bushwalk in the area and want to include the history in our walk, so thank you for the history lesson.
TFTC
TNLNSL
The Riddellers.

Found today with shane.thompson and lennyboy, first cache for the day hopeing to get meny more. Thanks RoundCircle.

Found today at 8:15am with Lennyboy and WB-Holden. First find for the day, Thanks RoundCircle.

Out and about today on a caching trip with shane.thompson and wb-holden.
Found the cache at 8.15am Another piece of history now gone and we didn't see or hear any Ghost Trains go by.
TNLN Thanks RoundCircle for the cache.

RedPaw64 found this cache at 1015 Good Cache.
SL TFTC NINO
Happy Caching

Found this fairly easily. It was my first cache on my own so am still learning how to set and read the GPS. Thanks.

First Geocache! Fairly easy find. Close to home.

Found this cache with my grandpa while on holidays in Buninyong.

TNLN, TFTC

Came in from above - thank you
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Found with the boys

Found while on a caching road trip with Konie and The Wonderstuff. Interesting terrain when you approach from above. TFTC.

A quick find with Kiwi Explorer and The Wonderstuff from NZ on our Victoria and South Australia caching adventure.

Came in from above and had fun with the traverse.

TNSL

TFTC

Logged in some of my travellers for a visit to this great little spot.

This is the sort of structure that makes one think "walkies". If this section is typical, it would make a great "rail trail". I walked in from the street along the base and put my GPS on a post to sort itself out but spotted the hide straight away, before it had half a chance to fire up. No swaps made. Many thanks for the trip to this pleasant little park and an interesting piece of history.

this one took it out of me i was buggered. foudn with snake catcher and geewok.

tftc

Found @ 6.20pm with Geewok and PolishManiac on a very HOT day of Caching. Both PolishManiac and myself got out of the car to go and retrieve the cache. So Down we went, then Up we go, and down we go again. As we were getting nearer to the cache I slipped and the GPS went flat...Doh!!!
Found the cache with no problems. SL and was putting back when I found a small dryed Snake egg near by. (already hatched) TFTC NINO

Found with Polishmaniac and Snakecatcher
Stopped on the other side of the old tracks and sent Polishmaniac and Snakecatcher to run to get it not knowing that it was on the other side of the tracks.
so thay went down up up then down down to the cache.
Snakecatcher also found a nice surprise near the cache to :O:O:O:O

Found with Indiana08, RHPS and PacketStorm4.
TFTC

It was funny watching PacketStorm4 and Indiana08 fall down the hill. easy find TFTC

Carefully climbed down the hill, whilst PacketStorm4 lost his balance and had to run the rest of the way down.
Easy find
TFTC

Fell alllllll the way down the hill, got up, dusted self off, and there was the cache!
TFTC!

Final cache for the day. Felt sorry for Neopets #1 TB, picked it up for a ride.

Found at 4.15pm with Peter and Tilley TB on what ended up being a wet and windy day. 9 of 9 for the day. TN Left a cow.
SL TFTC

had fun finding the cache as well as the exploring the tunnel. TNLN TFTC

Nice spot, lived close by when younger, didn't even know that the tunnel was there, do now, what great work must of gone into these tunnels. Thank you for making a cashe close to this. Took slinky, left Travel bug.

Nice easy find. Parking coordinates helpful. TNLNSL.

Found at 0015. First find for the day (technically speaking) on day two of the Ballarat run. After parking nearby on the road, a quick stroll through to GZ was all that was needed to find a nicely hidden cache. No problems with muggles at this time of night. They might have thought I was a ghost anyway.

TNLN. TFTC.

After having a very nice dinner at the Crown Hotel we decided to get some exercise and walk it off. The stroll to gz past the old tunnel and embankment was very interesting.
The cache was found quickly
TNLNSL
Thanks roundcircle for the cache

We parked in the wrong area (Up the hill). It was very steep walk down to get there, but the cache was easy to find.
Its hard to do a U turn up there as well (5 point turn)
T, hair clips
L, mini highlighter
TFTC

lived across the creek from this cache years ago nice to go back

Found on our way to Geelong along with 4 Fun
Thanks RoundCircle

31st find for day 2 of the Melbourne assault trip with Skippy and 61st of 173 all up!

Grabbed the Fuwa-Huanhuan TB to move it on.
Cheers, TFTH.

Found this one as I was trying out my new GPSr tonight at 8:30pm. Nice and easy, even for me! tnlnsl tftc.

First 'real' cache for SexyShelly, she had to get out of the car this time. Found GZ without too many problems.

Took: Dog magnet.
Left: Fuwa HuanHuan Travel Bug.

Found by Head Chef whilst in Ballarat for work today.

TNLN

Thanks roundcircle for the cache

As we drove up to this one the embankment loomed. An easy find with the headlights helping a lot. Thanks for the RoundCircle

Drove right up to this one. Very easy find with some loud music nearby. Not much to see in the dark. Thanks RoundCircle

It was interesting to see the brickwork of the culvert near this cache. We seem to take workmanship like that for granted in these days of pre-stressed concrete fabrications.

Following the directions on the GPSR we actually drove up what I think was the old railway embankment which now seems to be somebodies driveway. We soon worked out the error of our ways and found the coordinates for the parking area and headed off there. Armed with a frisbee the geoteens and I headed off to find the cache, which was quickly located as described.

Took: Pingu Sticker
Left: Slinky, ball and craft work steam engines.

Signed log,
TFTC!!!

The brickwork was interesting. We tried to approach the cache from above by our arms weren't long enough
Nice little park.
Thanks, Robmc.

Like the last finder we thought we were looking in the wrong spot at first but soon found it. I was also impressed by the brickwork in the culvert. They don't make them like that any more!
Thanks.

It was hard not to be impressed by the workmanship of the culvert as I wandered alongside the embankment [^]
Arriving at GZ though I quickly came to the conclusion the cache had been muggled, the evidence seemed to suggest it [:o]
A despairing last look revealed a surprise! A very well hidden cache
TFTC and hidden history [^]

I was busy looking in much more oomplicated places before granny pingu spotted it - she's quick at this (her 2nd one).

The brickwork tunnel is quite an interesting shape, and fantastic workmanship - almost still perfect after 113 years.

TNSL, left pingu sticker.
P-P-P-Pingu! Pingu!

Found it ok

part of a great day out around the Warrenheip / Buninyong / Lal Lal area. This was a good spot tucked away in history.
Check the logbook for our exchange details.

I'm not sure if I was meant to but I was able to get my car up nice and close to the cache to save wear and tear on my tired legs. The area was quite scenic and interesting to visit.

Thanks,

R - B

Found with the Coffees

Found with the Coffees

Great place to stop and have lunch and find a cache.
Left TB Mustang,
Thanks RoundCircle,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Ghost trains were gone" Clan

Think I parked at the same place as Mr Emu! Realised my error after reading the cache description that it was at the bottom of the embankment, so some careful reversing was in order and a much easier way in located. The parking co-ordinates didn't show up on CacheMate, so I parked in the nearest sidestreet and walked to GZ. Soon found the cache - TNLN - thanks for the adventure!

My third find! Turns out I live about 700m away!! Nice hiding spot, it took me a while to find it. I think I am still getting used to the whole GPS thing!

Took- keyring
Left- magnet

Thanks!

Found today by Mr Emu & Son @ 12.20 a.m. GAFF2, on our first Ballarat visit. We inadvertently created our own adventure with this one. Having read a previous log entry stating that you could drive up to the cache, Mr Emu thought he knew the right track to drive up . After quickly finding the well-hidden cache, Son of Emu got to witness some not-so-high-speed reversing out of the place. Lesson learned! Thanks for the cache in this nice, quiet location RoundCircle.

Took: Nil; Left: Nil

Found at 1217. 6th of 13 for the day. Nice easy find could have driven up to GZ but we took the walk in strong winds and 35 degree heat!!!!!
TNLN thanks VKC1SR

Found 14:25, a great location.

TNLN, thanks RoundCircle.

Found at about 5pm after a nice stroll beside the old train track. It would have been nice if the track was still operational.
Took Beaver
Left Matchbox Car