Poor Pink Punker Porepunkah, Victoria, Australia
By Alansee on 19-Nov-06. Waypoint GCZEWH

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@19:18. I was out caching with heardrwt today and we couldn't find this one. Judging by the hint we were pretty sure where this was meant to be but all the tree stumps along this road have been burnt out, presumably to remove them, and so we came to the conclusion the cache may have been lost. You may have to check it out Alansee.

Off line while I consider this one.

Think it's gone, they had a fire the other day. =(

After a busy 5 days caching with Team Crackers and Alansee, we headed out to pick up a few more caches.
We enjoyed the drive up this lovely country lane, with beautiful views. Found the well hidden cache, quickly.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Alansee, for us and others to find.

Great location after a hard climb for the cycling GeoKids. TFTC.

Having a look on the map this morning, we thought a quick trip to the next town was in order... We are camping in Bright for a few days and caching is a perfect way to take a good look around :)

This is a beautiful spot, with a gorgeous view... I could see the locals kicking back here with a coldie or two...

Thanks Alansee for showing us this piece of paradise :)

[:(!] What better way of spending the day but to do a bit of caching and this was one of them, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ , the cache was located, it was then in hand in a matter of minutes.

I love it

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBMH Alensee [^]

Found it. Thanks. Did ponder. Beautiful

Wow! What a great view of Mt Buffalo. All the waterfalls flowing after lots of rain! Thanks for bringing us here Alansee!

Quick and easy find on a beautiful day. Stunning outlook from here

8001 + 971 = 8972. Found during a 3 day visit to the region with Sol de Lune, Albida33 and Mtrax.

The main event for our visit was the HSS Series with many many more in between. SDL says it all in his log. All my fault really !! Lol...

The best thing was that all 100 were found with only a few hiccups which were our fault. Very happy with 100 + finds !

Once we finished the HSS Series we continued towards Bright. This was a nice quick find at GZ. Nice area.

Thanks alansee !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Beechworth HSS trip March 2014 with Mtrax, Sol de Lune and Fitzy. Most of the journey was made up of the HSS puzzles which were all solved before the trip with very little input from me. The collections were made on bike or by car. The various bike legs were the highlight and were very enjoyable. We did manage many other caches in the region and all in all it was a great trip with friends with a good mix of caches and great food at the local pub. Thanks.

13216.166 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 13000 Finds A#277

Albida

1:04:00 PM: (161 of 209) Find#5207
A group of us Canberra Cachers (Sol De Lune, Fityz, and Albida33 ) heading down south for a run around Beechworth, mainly to find all the HSS series but we took the opportunity to gather up some other nearby caches , Completed the HSS and some of the MRT series with a mixture of Bikes and Car as well as some short walks. Found a bit over 200 caches that weekend

Drove up without issue and once at GZ the cache was soon in hand. No-one else around so all was good. Re-covered the cache and we were off to the next one.....in Bright.

Thanks Alansee...enjoyed the views.

A detour from the rail trail on my bike ride this morning had me feeling like a poor pink punker
As the hill steepened, I felt that this cache might have been better chased with a bit of infernal combustion power to help

Snap out of it If !! [:o]
Since when did a little hill defeat me on a bike ride ?
Never !!

So I ground me way up the hill with my accompanying veil of sticky black flies keeping pace.

At GZ I hopped off the bike, wiped me brow and stood there almost shocked by the sheer grandeur of the view in front of me [:o]
Such an obvious cache hiding spot I don't think I have laid eyes upon [^]
Magnificent, stupendous ... words failed me [:o]
So I recovered the cache and signed the logbook
Could this cache find get any better ?

Of course it could.
I turned around and saw the view !!
Oh look at that road I had just ridden up !!
It is going to be a fast, non-pedaling ride back to the highway [^]
Yeah !! There's a small hill in the background too ... but nothing worth writing home about

Off I rolled to enjoy the high speed thrills on the ride back down the hill

TFTC and the exercise [^]

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 41.363 E 146° 56.100

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 41.362 E 146° 56.101

Distance from original: 7.7 feet or 2.3 meters.
Coordinates altered slightly to reflect the new location.

On the spur of the moment, I sneaked off from the family and rode out to find this one. Well worth a little uphill riding for the view over the Ovens Valley and the fun ride back down the hill on the way back!

A generous sized box with plenty of interesting swap items when I visited (but had nothing with me to swap unfortunately!)

After a cycle ride to Porepunkah Pines Tourist Park for s swim, Geoson and I headed off for a cache. This was the nearest, and really not far, but a hot day and no gears on a slight uphill grade made it harder. We left the bikes at the big tree by the hedge and walked the ladt bit. Finally the pink road was in sight, and the fine view noted. The sheep seemed a bit surprised to see us. Cache was found eventually, is a little off coordinates (nearer the pink), but hint sent Geoson in the right direction. Log signed, sad for such an accessible cache that it is so infrequently visited. Admired the view some more, back to the bikes and a nice whiz down the hill then spiders (of the cold and frothy kind) at the Rail Trail Cafe. TNLN TFTC. Also we brought two TBs for a visit.

Called in to this cache today for some maintenance. It took a little search as the item where the cache was hidden more than 6 years ago has changed. I moved it to a better hide and have updated the coordinates ever so slightly. I was also surprised at how well the container has stood up over the past years.

Disappointing. Couldn't find this one. Setter might need to recheck location.

Found in the dark,our GPS was a bit all over the place.We were getting tired and cranky.I understood the hint but still didn't clue on until geo mum came up with the goods.Then I twiggedTFTC

KTCvic trekked off to Porepunkah to go camping with family and friends for the long weekend. In between swimming, heading up Mt Buffalo, swimming, going down a water slide and more swimming we found time to do a handful of caches.

After a great swim and slide in at Bright and a fantastic feed of fish and chips we headed to this cache on the way back to the camp site. After wandering around GPSr off by around 15m, we were approached by a local muggle farmer asking if we were looking for the cache. He pointed us in the right direction, only to find a well concealed cache, that was passed over by Campbell as he was looking for the Stumped hint!! Signed the log and then we were off.

Thanks for the cache.

I seem to have driven past the road into this cache several times, but not had the opportunity to drop in. Today we were doing some maintenance around the area, so I made a point of coming here.
Although there is a bit of smoke in the air, the view of buffalo was spectacular.
A quick find of a god sized cache, although as previous finders have pointed out, the stump does not exist anymore.
Thanks, Robmc.

Lovely views

Cheers, not sure the clue is still valid. But a great cache with loads of trinkets. Kids expecially loved this one

We almost didn't find this one as we were looking in the wrong spot. As we were driving off geodad noticed a Farmer walking down towards the fence to chat to us, so we pulled over and he said he found it a few months back, cleaned it up and rehid it for us to find! He also said his brother knew all about this 'geocaching business' and how he had been keeping an eye on it for us to make sure it was still there! He also told us that the property further up the lane is called Pink Punker!!! (It was his dads!) A very nice chap!! Took Pathtag Left Bear. TFTC Alansee

Now that's the way to see one of my favourite mountains. Just gorgeous. NineMileMan quickly located the cache and the log was signed. TNLN. Thank you for this lovely spot.

It's all about the view. Beautiful place for a cache

Nice view

just at the stump, take care which stump your looking at , GPS was spot on,
left Jail Bird man and took Koala key ring
TFTC

We loved the view from this location. Noticed a for sale sign, very tempting. Thanks Alansee for bringing us here.

Great view on lovely day. Took ball left soldier.

# 241. After a lovely road ride from Bright to Harrietville and back with my bike group I decided to try for at least one cache today before I left the area. I decided on this one and it wasn't long before I was cursing - oh no not a dirty car AGAIN!! Pulled up and unlike many others, my GPS was spot on and I didn't have any problems with the clue either. Sensational views on this glorious day. Took: Heart shaped eraser, Left: Sheep and one of my PathTags. Thanks alansee

Made a quick detour here on our way home to Wodonga after a day caching. After we widend our search a little we had the cache in hand and were off home. TFTC

Nice views - you can hardly tell where poor punker ends and Bright begins anymore. A nice quiet spot today. TFTC

02 January 2012 06:32:00

This was a nice easy drive by cache.

I arrived and began to scramble around what I thought was gz.

After widening the search the hide was quickly in hand.

TFTC

Great views from this cache. TNLN.

Found it!! My first cache in Victoria Had a lovely drive with the family to Mt Buffalo TFTC!!

What a beautiful view of Mt Buffalo. Sensational. Thanks for bringing us to this beautiful spot

Kept an eye on this one to see if I missed it. Seeing that tattboy1 logged it, I went back for another crack. Found it, but a hint of my own: the hint is utterly useless. TFTC

Too wet to e doin this but what the hell hahaha great spot nearly got spotted but just pretended i took a wrong turn took geocoin will move it along left slinky and whistle took gnome SL TFTC

Found the likely spot, being the only stump within 15m of the co-ords. The local landowner looks like he's been tidying up, and may have muggled the cache.

Love the name of this cache! so I just had to do it while I was in the area... thanks..

Nice drive up a very nice valley. I'm sure that the locals living here know where this cache is, would be a great place to live with the views of Mt Buffalo.

Visiting Bright briefly offered the opportunity for a few caches - the best way to visit interesting places and to learn something of the history of an area.
This cache was no exception and set the scene for a great day out. What a great view.
TFTC. Dropped a Geo-coin, took a Scout cloth badge.

OOps - forgot to log that I dropped a Geocoin.

What a fantastic view, thanks for this cache. Easy find.
TFTC, TNLN

*LATE LOG 4/2011*

found @ 18:10 with mum and dad (ross47)

Had a nice little drive there.
Took a while to find as the gps was mostly pointing to the wrong side of the road.
I eventually expanded the search and found it.

TNLN TFTC

Found @ 18:10 in the company of the geowife and emeraldflame after a few minutes of searching. Going by the geotrails it's fairly obvious other GPSr's are also pointing into the nearby field, as ours did initially.

A nice little spot - the views are great.

Our thanks to Alansee for bringing us up here. TNLNSL TFTC

12.45 Having decided to have a weekend in Bright we were checking out this area nearby. We have picked the best weekend as the weather is magic and this is such a pretty place. We can see why this place would be a cheaper option to its very popular sister town nearby. This is such a wonderful area for bike rides and hiking, but we drove to ths one
Nice easy find
Thanks for the cache. Left TB

Been waiting to do this one ever since we knew about it, as it is on the very hill I fell in love with Australia. 20 years ago... In the little house at the end of the drive lived a dear old man...

another enjoyable ride Sunday morning Gzing. Good slog up hill quick sign and very fast coast back down. Not a sound to be heard in the valley. TFTC

Nice easy drive by we saw this one as we approached.
TFTC Alansee

10:45 - hard slog up the road on a road bike, but worth it for the nice ride down again

Worth the visit for the view.

Nice spot! TFTC - took Cookie Monster, left sml gnome toy.

Thanks for taking us up to this magnificent view - wishing I had a camera able to do it justice. After stomping around (high snake season!) cache was quickly found and log book signed. Took TB.

#790 @ 5.45pm. Our last cache for the day and a nice area to stop with some great views from GZ. Had to move the truck out of the way for a muggle passing through so it was a quick sign and replacement after he'd moved on (just in case he came back again).

Took: Fire Button / Purple LoveHeart
Left: Elephant TB / Glamour Girl flip flop keyring

TFTC Alansee [^[

Forgot to log in the TB.

Heading to Lakes from the Goulburn Valley. Cache well disguised but not too difficult. TFTC

25/10/10 Maintenance check. New log left.

Well October fest in bright is over. I had a wonderful time up here this weekend. Heading home now so doing some caches along the way, this being number 7

thanks for a great sized cache. found before the others got out of the car
tnln

Hi Alan, Found your container - hidden since 19/11/2006 - almost 4 years old container.... No swap. SL. Thanks Alansee.

Found today with Everlasting. Man fixing his fence took some interest in what we were doing. SL TNLN T4TC

21 August 2010 | 10:32 AM
Lovely spot

A nice easy drive by, although we were being watch as we drove up from the main road from a lady trimming here tree in a paddock. At the Gz we had tree cover from muggle eyes. a lovely spot for a cache. TFTH...SL....TNLN

What a great spot! Fun to look for a larger cache for a change, TNLN, TFTC.

Enjoyed the pink at sun set, amazing veiw on a Sunday drive

Big Ez found this one just on dark, after the fellow cachers we met earlier in the day, jason+steph:D. We just missed you.

A nice view as the sun was disappearing fast. Our 9th & lucky last cache for the day.

This is a great sized container with lots of cute little goodies for the kids.
Thanks for bringing us through this beautiful little town.

TOOK: Funny Glasses
LEFT: Cookie Monster mini teddy.
SL & headed for home.

Found and logged at 9:10, On my caching weekend to Wangaratta, Bright and Beechworth
TNLN TFTC

Stayed in the Caravan Park by the river as a small lad with my parents. I was six I think, and I remember getting into trouble when I went out deeper than my wellington boots and getting my feet wet. My mother tried to dry out the inside of the wellies in front of the heater in the caravan and made an awful smell. Funny how these thing stick in one's memory.

Returning back through the town today it's probably grown considerably, as has Bright up the road which seems to be just a big tourist trap.

Thanks for the cache.

Quick easy drive to find
TFTC

War gut versteckt!

We loved it when the reason for the name of the cache was fully revealed.
We have just spent the weekend in the Bright Area doing the alpine Classic bike ride and using geocaching to discover the secrets of this great area. Can't wait to come back next year.

Left Australian flag. (after all it is the Australia day Weekend.)
Took screwdriver (Geowife wants to keep it,)
TFTC

not sure i've grasped the full meaning of the name apart from the obvious, ....but enjoyed the view, that was certainly a surprise. the view, not the enjoying

This was quite an easy find even for a mug (not muggle) like me.
A fine selection of SWAG and an exceptional view of Mt Buffalo.
We did get sprung by a local farmer as I was filling out the log in the boot.
I'm sure that it is not the first time and he probably wonders what the heck is going on.
Had to jump quick to move the car and let him pass.
Took a green dice.
Left a green superball.
TFTC Alansee.

An interesting location with an even stranger name.

Found OK

TFTC

After going past the hordes of tourists on bikes (sounds like a good idea to me though) we drove out of town and to the cache. A bloke was trimming his hedge (a massive undertaking on a cherry picker) and looked worn out. The GPSr was a bit jumpy but didn't take long to find the cache. Thanks!

TNLN. Zara found it. Josh and Zara wrote their own names in the log book. Nearly got busted by a passing farmer who looked at us curiously

Sharich and Jerric01 spent a happy weekend in Bright and used the hidden caches to guide us to the scenic spots and best walks in the area.
This was our final hunt on our way home and a nice easy find, lovely area TFTC, TNLN

This cache has an absolutly fantastic find, wasnt expecting the views which were sensational. TFTC

Found this spectacularly-located cache with Antwanr. It has some great treasures in it! Took one dinosaur, left another dinosaur. Thanks for the cache!
Find no. 36. HBAI= 2

Found at 12:55pm with LinearZZ before we started heading for home. Found the pink bit and also a great view!
Took 20K geocoin for some more travels, left a couple of fancy pencil rubbers.
thanks Alansee

This was a bit far off the bike trail when we were passing by a couple of days earlier. Now we know where the "pink" comes from. Found at 12:55pm with Alsume, again several hours after EuDes. Dropped in the McGyver TB and discovered the Team Alamo 20K Finds GC (whew!!) that Alsume picked out. Thanks Alansee.

Lots of geocachers out this weekend, we were the third to find the cache today! None of us here at the same hour. The locals must have been wondering why their road was so popular. A very clever hide and a lovely selection of treasure. We took the travel bug 'McGyver' which had been left by the previous visitor some three hours before and left a fireman's button to keep the cache safe for the summer. By the way the view was peaceful and we were impressed by the name of the road.

Found this one at 07:40 on an early morning (well, for me at least ) caching run on a glorious morning. A nice easy one to start the day.

TNLNSL. Thanks Alansee.

A picturesque outlook on a gorgeous morning!

This cache was recovered at 08:10 but TNLN. Nice one - thanks Alansee.

Easy find which was great on a very hot day geo dog refused to get out of the car !
Great view.
TNLNSL

Green Frogs

Well i think it was about then when we found it! The views where magnificent, and the greenery was so green! The cows and sheep where fat, even the bunnies where fat and healthy!
Thanks so much

Nice easy find with a great View, had to look casual as a Muggle drove by. Thanks for the Cache Alansee
TNLN
TFTC

Found by The Empire
22/09/09 @ 9:30am
Great views on a foggy day! Easy find, dropped off a coin tot this lovely part of the world, had a chat to some curious cows, they told me to put it in there.
TNL Geocoin SL TFTC
- M

Found cache with Astrec, beautiful view of the valley with light rain on Mt Buffalo. TNLN TFTC

Found while parawaiting. TNLN TFTC

Found by team Mallouby. Happy Birthday Mum. TFTC The container needs a little maintenace with the lid. Took two items left two. Great views and the wombat down the hills says G'Day too.

Found late in the day. Enjoyed the views of Mt Buffalo and Porepunkah even though it was grey, overcast and misty.

TFTC

2nd find of the day and 1981st total find at 10:36.

Found in the company of Muggle Annie the day after our 4X4 club High Country Huts trip. A few of us decided to spend an extra night in the area - a great decision, as we were rewarded with some very nice caches, and being able to access and drive along some 4X4 tracks that were supposed to have been closed.

What was the surprise at this cache supposed to be? Ours was to be greeted by a couple of yapping dogs that almost nipped at our heels at every step. They made so much racket that their owners came along to see what the commotion was.

Muggle Annie is struggling to master her GPS, so we decided that this cache and a few others in the area would be good a good learning exercise for her. There's even a good chance that she will drop the 'Muggle' from her title in the near future.

Took: Nothing
Left: Screwdriver
Thanks Alansee for the cache.
Ian and Penny

Nice view over porpunkah. Dropped of 1 coin, picked up 2. TFTC.

Found by
Bevfre 10.45am TN LN SL Thank You Allansee