Park from the Past Malmsbury, Victoria, Australia
By Keeper of Time on 16-Dec-06. Waypoint GCZTHC

With recent flooding this one has finally gone.

1734. Dried out cloth items and logbook put back (log in ziplock). Finally timed it right to get a photo of train on the bridge.

amazing location, and was stunned by how many dragon flies were around. As for the cache, had a good look around, but the word "copperhead" in my mind prevented a more active search. Oh well.

0850-1620. Sistema container was 30% full of water (saw containers in Aldi recently that had clasps on 4 sides so will try those sometime). Tipped it out but contents soggy including log which also seemed to be full. Off on a mtb ride to Castlemaine so laid out everything in wagon to dry. To cater for visits today, we left a cast away container with a page torn from a waterproof log in a cache I had on me to place during the ride (GA3025). On return, cloth items still very wet and as expected so was the log book. Kept those and for a temporary log, put in a small diary bought in Castlemaine and fortunately had a zip lock bag for it from our ride scroggin. No entry on the page I had left in place.

If you want the old log KoT, then email a postal address else I will put it back in the container with the remaining dried items next time we go through Malmsbury - probably this month or next. You may want to replace the diary log; although it will last for 2011 if visitors use the actual date panels.

0850. If I'd read the previous log last night we would have given it a miss especially as we dropped in only because we parked here for our mtb forest ride to Fryerstown and Castlemaine. A+ especially well explored the GZ including holes and you should have seen her face when I just told her about the log. On our ride there were quite a few other snakes we didn't see today fortunately

TNLN is our mantra but this time we took the whole cache (see note). On return by train from Castlemaine we repacked all the dry components and I returned the cache to its possie about 1620 and obviously still didn't encounter the snake (not that I'd recognise it but I see from my guide that t was a Lowland Copperhead).

Picked up the 2c Geocoin and dropped off Micro Compass Rose Geocoin. TFTC Kot and as usual a good hide.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Unable find in the company of Aussiepuschacks, Chelsea08 and steph&marj on route to Bendigo for an enjoyable day of caching. We got a liitle too close and personal with the resident snake basking in the sun but with 5 sets of eyes still could not find the GZ hide.Enjoyed the location and fantastic views all the same, will try again another day. As I complete this log I have just realised who placed this cache and am fairly aquainted with their style of very clever hides I am now sure we were missing the big picture and looking incorrectly.

Not found today due to a couple of possible factors:
1) There is a big copperhead snake guarding the likely cache location
2) The likely cache location has been inundated with water
3) The cachers searching were all blinkered and didn't see the hide.

Either way, once the snake was spotted no one was willing to go too much further in, and after a few discussions about the viaduct we made haste to continue our trip to Bendigo. A great spot to visit, Thanks

Found after a bit of scratching around, Great view of the Viaduct from here.
No swaps, thanks for the cache.

We found the cache nicely hidden away. First I dug a hole where my gps said...which was a bit out. I misinterpreted the bit that said it was hidden away from trees. We had a nice cuppa in the park afterwards. Thanks.

06/11/2010 11:24 Found: #93 Log book nearly full. Left TB36WG9 . 2nd attempt and this time a quick find. TB OUT: TB2JPQ7.
Was here last week for a disappointing and unrecorded DNF. So much water now that GZ is within 2 meters of the lake and so was unable to get to it easily last week without getting rather wet. This week the water was lower so went in for a closer look. Luckily the cache was dry. Geoson managed to squeeze our log onto a page with another entry on it. This park really is much larger than you think and I had no idea it even had an historic rail bridge.

This entry was edited by landau351 on Wednesday, 29 December 2010 at 08:16:32.

Called in to drop of "Gardens of the World" travel bug. Malmsbury Botanic Gardens seemed a good place to start off it's Australian adventure.

Found at 9:30. What an impressive bridge. And a train went over it while we were there. The cache took a little while to locate but it was not too hard.
Log signed and returned we were on our way. It was too cold to sit in the park and have morning tea.
No swaps today
Regards
Mr & Mrs Crisp Image and the little Images.

Arrived before the sun was up and tried to find cache with our wind up torches... lol... they didnt help much.. so we walked back to the car for some breakfast... and to look for a better torch. Didnt find the good torch, but by the time we finished looking for it the sun was up.. so we headed back to GZ and found the cache after a bit of a search. Picked up the"Mad" geocoin. it wasnt logged into this cache.. I will move it to a new home soon. Thanks very much for the cache.

Of course we went to wrong side first Enjoyed the stroll through this gorgeous spot. Cahe find was made a little harder to get to due to the dampness on the ground and the terrain. SL TNLN T4TC

Found it after a bit of looking. Nice bridge. TFTC

Few birds around today ...
Thanks

Found this with Husband Hanseeka 379Jonti379 and Zarzeeky. Hanseeka was searching obvious spots, but couldn't find it, we were about to give up but I suggested he look in one more spot and whola the cache was in hand. Then off to Luna Park then to watch Collingwood beat the Eagles. TFTC SL

Found while on our way down to Melbourne to watch the mighty magpies flog the eagles!

Nice big bridge near GZ, Hanseeka found this one.

Thanks for the cache,
Jonti.

Found whilst detouring the newer route to Melbourne.
TFTC TNLTB SL (F397)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Xambo4U, Jeanette and myself cached our way home from Campbells Creek.
Had a late lunch at the nearby bakery and walked down the road to this cache.
Found it after a little searching.
TFTC

Philip says he would like to ride his bike over the embankment past the cache some time. Yeah...I'd like to see that!
Anyway the GPSr was all over the place..like in the blackberrys, out in the water and in the reeds.
We turned it off and went looking logically.
Found after a short look around.
TFTC
The Riddellers.[?]

On our way home from a sqaure dance fundraiser at Campbells Creek. Out and about with Toy Car to check out some nice parks and pick up some well earned lunch from the bakery. Lovely park here to enjoy a picnic but today we ate in the courtyard, the food was great.
Thanks for the cache.

I hade only ever driven past this park...I admired it from the car...but...too silly to get off my butt and appreciate it....And that is truly a magnificent structure that I had never seen because I never got out of my car...amazing...I've been over it aswell, but never seen it...The cache was found 4 metres from gz...I didn't see any prickles that were close enough to the cache to cause me grief...Did no swaps...TFTC

After getting followed by a bunch of hungry ducks eyeing our bananas Jackie found this cache. Well done Jackie....... not! TNLNSL

Great Park. Driven past at least 100 times, never stopped. Today was the day. The Highway is Sooo quiet now Malmsbury has been Bypassed.

Be sure to buy some bread from the Bakery to feed the local ducks by the waters edge.... both good and bad!

Headed down to G.Z. and did a bit of circle work trying to locate cache. Accuracy to within 4M.

Warning; Thongs not advisable footwear down the back blocks.
I was to busy checking the GPS to properly recognise the surface below and went bum up!
I survived albeit a few bruises on my bum and back. GPS ok, D.SLR ok, Iced Coffee Big M lost a few drops.

Didn't find cache.
Took cuts, bruises and abrasions, Left a little blood.

Thanks for the bruises and good Pie


Checked out local cemetary too. Bit of old history there.


HEYVJ
Brett & Emma

The skies opened up with a rainblast just as we started our walk to this cache, but it was a enjoyable walk in the rain. We were lucky enough to see a train go over the magnificent bridge - I am sure if would have looked even better if my glasses weren't fogged up!

Great spot! Great bridge! Great lake! Great park! Great Hide! We will recover from the prickles! GOYA!

Watched a train go by as we logged the cache
Didn't have time to stop at the bakery this time
Thanks Keeper of time

Great old park and as a bonus we got to watch a train pass by on that impressive bridge while we were here [^]
TNLNSL, Cheers

interesting park and bridge had 2 lots of muggles come while retrive in it and placing it back gave us a strange look as we appeared from the trees

Had another leisurely stroll through the gardens on our way home from Melbourne.
Not quite leisurely when it came to finding the cache.This was a hard cache for us to get but we persisted until we found it.
TNLN SL
TFTC

I am pretty sure I was in the right spot but was all cached out and need to get back on the road again.

What a beautiful place! I have driven past this many many times and never ever stopped in here.
My GPS was out (again) and had me walking everywhere. I finally located the cache and took loads of pics of the nearby railway line. Some great shots.
TFTC
RissL

A challenging collect but a lovely spot. Took Sassy's TB dog tag. Will visit the log before deciding on the next location.

Great area and a most beautiful park..the stone bridge structure is one of the best we have seen..enjoyed this outing with the Easter Bunnies and we were able to drop off a TB and TN. TFTC and the most interesting local history.

A relaxing stroll around the gardens today was just what we needed to stretch the legs after the drive from Melbourne. It took us a little while to retrieve the cache as even though we looked in the most obvious place first, we didn't look hard enough. T: Soccer ball TB, L: nothing.

We scrambled up and down a few times before we found the cache. Great views and photo opportunities for here. Went for a pie afterwards yum! TFTC Keeper of Time.

This was a really beautiful location and I was delighted with the view! A magnificent structure!

Got this one a couple of weeks ago
TNLN Thanks

Cup Day Bendigo Caching Trip.
Found By The Lone Random,
W The Empire.
1/15 Finds.
@ 9am.

TFTC, The Lone Random

Found by The Empire
3/11/09 @ 9am with The Lone Random
1st find for us on our Melbourne Cup Day caching trip to Bendigo!
Stopped into the TAB in Malmsbury to place my bets and off we went!
Nice park with a pretty cool view of the bridge.
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

One of those interesting spots that one gets to enjoy thanks to geocaching. The yonder stone viaduct carrying the rail line being a feature of significance too.
Left a couple of trackables here to enjoy the park and the pleasant locale.
- nil and SL
TFTC
The Turtle strikes again!

A bit difficult to find as I am geocaching without a GPS and relying on my scouting skills. But after a bit of looking, there it was!

found 16/10/09 by effy 1
great hide nice viaduct.

took out watch
put in haki sack

I really couldn't say how many times I've been through here. Way way too many times. And as for stopping here, I've lost track of how many pies I've had at the bakery. I have also been known to wax lyrical about the beauty and the significance of the railway viaduct. And have I ever actually walked in those gardens or gone up to the viaduct. Nope not once, ever. Until now, and now I realise I've been missing out. Its a wonderful gardens and the viaduct up close is just breathtaking. So big thanks for finally getting me in there.

The cache was a little hard to find, although I must have walked past it numerous times. But with a bit of lurking and circling I found it. Why I didn't look there first off I really don't know.

A most enjoyable find.

Thanks.

Found with graemeap. TFTC

Found at 15:30.

We travelled to Bendigo but it was raining first time we passed this point - on our return trip the sun broke through and the Gardens were bathed in light. The Railway Bridge viewed from near the cache with the creek beneath made a lovely shot. Thank you for this because in the wet weather one wouldn't usually walk to this point of the Gardens, and it would be a pity to miss it.

With the ground wet and slippery this cache was a difficult one to reach without a bit of a slide. Not too difficult to find though. Removed the SeaWorld keychain and placed in a Bottle Opener keychain.

A quick find and some steady feet to get this one, Great little park.

T smurf
L little man

SL TFTC

ound by Jr after sometime of hunting the biggest heartache was avoiding muggles eyes both the 2legged and 4 legged kind that walk this area together.
T elephant
L a scented highlighter
SL TFTC

As the previous finder noted this took a while to find and a second look. We were lucky that it took a while as we were able to view a train going over the beautiful bridge. Also enjoyed walking through the autumn leaves. SL TFTC

Took a little while to find this one, GPS was off just enough to make a difference. GeoWife found it in a place I'l already looked (obviously not well enough). Embarrassing.

Nice little park though.

TNLN, TFTC.

Cleaning up the caches along what is now known as the old calder. Nice hide, i was not looking forward to where the gps was taking us but in the end it was a nice and easy find. Cheers
TNLN

Rated: for Overall Experience

1725h. Took the oppurtunity to look through this park after spending the last 40 years travelling past. But with hardly no traffic now due to the by-pass, I took some time off to venture through. Cache is good, even if the thongs slipped a bit dodging the rabbit or wombat holes. TNLN TATC and view of the bridge.

Date/Time : 9NOV @ 1115
Who: Gina
In : nil
Out : nil
Discovered :
*Overall Experience: 4*
GAFF 1
Notes : This is a really pretty park. Have driven past a lot but never taken the time to have a walk around.

TNLNSL TFTC - vk3jap

Rated: for Overall Experience

Gets my vote for one of the best bakeries in country Victoria, although Mrs Monch wasn't too excited at her pastie. Great spot, and we finally got to see the viaduct after driving by for years wondering where it was.

TFTC

Found this in the company of Monch's Mob. Loved the structure, and it was such a beautiful day it truly looked spectacular. Also loved the very old fountain. We had lunch in the gardens, and were helped in this by some very friendly ducks/geese. I know you're not supposed to feed them but some of them were bigger than me...and very good at applying pressure. Thanks for bringing us to these great gardens. TNLNSL TFTC.

We were in the area unexpectedly and were able to grab this one after the mandatory pie for lunch. Had no swaps with us, but thanks for the cache Keeper of Time.

3rd for the day. Karen and I on our way to Melbourne to attend a formal dinner dance and what a good chance to complete a few caches along the way. I have driven past this park many times and stopped here many times to down a custard tart and a huge sausage roll from the bakery down the road but never got around to doing the cache here. A great place to stop off thanks for placing a cache in this lovely park and for showing us the grand on bridge which I’m sad to say I’ve never notice on my previous visits.

I haave eaten here before and know that the ducks and geese are always on hand to help where necessary, so today was only a short stop.
TFTC

Found at 13:30 with Shimachic.
A pretty easy find - it helped when I realized I was looking in the wrong place - and a great park to explore!
TNLN

10:15
This one has been on our list for sometime. Today Mrs P quickly found it. Couldn't help but notice the debris spread everywhere by the corellas, they must feel very much at home here.

TNLN..SL TFTH Keeper of Time.

Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1030 with Team Ladava.This is a great piece of engineering and a sight to behold for us NSW flat landers.Thank you for bringing us here.And to see some water is a bonus.TNLN Tnx Keeper of Time.

Found by Team Ladava with baby&Mrs gopher on their Sunbury and beyond sojourn.
We really enjoyed this one as we love these magnificent old bridges and have just published a cache featuring a smaller one in Sunbury.
Our thanks to Keeper of Time for a very memorable cache.

Found at 15:37. Stopped here to grab supplies for a party we were going to at Guildford. Food was over-priced though so we went to Castlemaine instead.
In the meantime, I found this cache in a nice park.
Thanks.

Lovely park and spectacular 'feature'. It took me longer to find than it should have. TN L a patch. On the way out I was confronted by the cache guardians querying my actions. Thanks Keeper of Time.

Found today on a caravan pickup trip, couldnt resist this one as our main reason for the trip wasnt caching. Cheers

Found at 7:15pm with Highrod.
We had bought a caravan on ebay that morning, and pick-up was in Malmsbury, so off we went in the evening. Couldn't go there and pass up the opportunity of finding a cache.
At the cache site the veiw surprised us as we rounded the bend. The new gps got us to the vicinity, but the older more accurate gps, never got started- couldn't get a lock on the satilites or something like that!! Anyway, whilest I was enjoying the veiw and waiting for the gps, Highrod scrambled around found it. TFTC TNLNSL

What a great garden! Thanks for bringing us here. We had to do quite a bit of looking before finding this one. We left a buddha and took a turtle. Thoroughly enjoyed the walk in the park and the view.

09:58 was the time this cache was found! This cache hunt was completed withGeowife on our expedition to visit friends in Bendigo. TNLNSL TFTC

Found at 1350. Great park and some spectacular photos taken. Was down by the waters edge looking at the bridge and waiting for what I thought was muggles to go by when I realised that they were cachers. As it turned out, it was Pprass, the first cachers I have met in the field. They soon introduced me to Ian and Penny and spent a nice 20 mins or so chatting before we left our separate ways to find the next caches on our respective lists.

TFTC.

Found at 1.45pm GAFF1 on our Coromal Cairn Curran Campaign weekend in the company of Ian & Penny. Ian & Penny had previously done this cache, so we left them at the picnic table after finishing our lunch while we headed off to a familiar spot. We have a fantastic photo of this structure taken by our son a few years ago. While filling in the log a rustle was heard in the bushes and suddenly Marcus Vitruvius appeared all the way from Albury! Another cacher meeting in the field - 3rd this weekend! We had a quick chat and then invited him to meet Ian & Penny where we continued our discussions. Thanks Keeper of Time for highlighting this spot. tn/ln.

We too have stopped at this park many times on our way to visiting relatives in Bendigo. Malmsbury is such a scenic spot, but the bluestone viaduct is a real hidden treasure. Our recommendation for nearby eats would be the general store rather than the bakery. On a previous trip we bought two large coffees and bag of 5 biscuits at the bakery for $17 - ouch!

Our GPS was also going a bit crazy in the area, but a second attempt after lunch was successful in locating the cache.

T: watch
L: bubble cone

SL TFTC

Found by Head Chef whilst on his way to Bendigo for work today. Nice Park, shame the freeway will bypass it soon

TNLN

Thanks Keeper of the time

Found by edmil & maddie. We have passed through this quaint little town so many times. We have on occasion stopped & sampled the culinary delights it offers but we had never taken the opportunity to go & explore beyond err our stomachs. Well this time, on our way for a weekend assault on Bendigo, we were given the opportunity to explore this great spot. Unfortunately it was just on dusk so we were time shy. After some scrambling around with GPS pointing us in all direction we eventually nabbed the cache. number 2 down and the weekend hadn't even started. TNLN thanks for the cache.

Found at 1130. Fourth for the day. well done. Lovely little spot.

Raining again when I dropped in to see this cache, and very muddy around. The railway viaduct is spectacular and sort of appears out of nowhere. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

found this one at 14:25 quite quickly as it was an easy find nice location to stop for a break and the bridge is a wonderful site
Thanks "Keeper of time" for the cache
TNLNSL

A quick find by the swaggies after some lunch in the park. A mental note for other cachers not to forget to take the camera like we did. The view is definitely worth it.
Out Canada key ring.
In seaworld key ring.
Logged at 1515.
TFTC keeper of time.

Found with the Coffees

Found with the Coffees

Couldn't drive past this one and not stop. Parked the cars and with Team Crackers Fullonphil, Mini Cacher One and Mystery Inc777 (how could we not find it with so many teams). Waited for some muggles to take their photos and move on before we started to search.
Thanks Keeper of time for the cache,
Regards Mr.Coffee and the "Parked in the Past in this Park" Clan.

We had stopped her in the past but had never been this far into the park. It was extremely dry and no ducks around today as there normally is. We were very surprised at the view we found at gz as were a few muggles that were standing around taking pictures. Luck was on our side today, as they did not hang around too long leaving us with the area to ourselves for a nice easy find.
Made swaps
Thanks Keeper of Time

It was after sunset when I arrived to look for this cache, but could still see the impressive viaduct silhouetted against what was left of light in the night sky. After a quick search by torchlight, the cache was found. I didn't make an exchange. Thanks for the cache. I'm sure the gardens would have been very scenic in daylight.

I have been to this park several times, playing indoor bowls with the senior cits as a youngun'. A while back I thought of putting a cache here myself. However I have never stopped to notice the bridge before. This afternoon it was spectacular, with it's reflection picture perfect in the still water of the lake. I was cursing that I'd left the camera at home.
Took a keeper of time and left a couple of things that now escape my memory.
Thanks Keeper of Time for the fantastic cache!

Found at 5:45pm after spending some time searching, whilst being interrupted by muggles. Lovely view of the viaduct, it reminds me of Thomas the Tank Engine!

TNLN, thanks!

Found this one after a short search. This was on a 450 km day drive so it was a great spot to stop and stretch the legs. I have been to this park many times as i used to travel through here a bit.

Took: Carabiner
Left: Car Air Freshner

TFTC
Nellyjr & Crew

Found this one at 18:45 with Alsume as a last one before the trip home. I had given it a 5 minute look earlier in the day but couldn't find it. This time, we found it reasonably quickly in deep twilight. Amazing.

TNLNSL. Thanks Keeper of Time.

Found at 1315 by 4 Men and a Lady on April Fools Day.

What a marvellous structure surely rivals the one in Richmond Tasmania even though not quite as old.

Having been to europe and seen some impressive bridges this one is up there with them and that is saying something

Took: Mini Disco prismatic ball

Left: Sydney Harbour Bridge Bottle Opener

Many Thanks to Keeper of Time

Found with Eudes and Slacas at 6:45pm as darkness descended. Tiredness from bushwalking, and the darkness meant we didn't have the opportunity to appreciate this park, but we did appreciate the cache, and the bridge not too far away.
Took small tennis ball
Left carabiner
thanks Keeper of Time

Found at 1144 on 25/3/07. I have visited this park on numerous occassions. It is still pretty (still full of muggles) even without a drop of water in the lake. The bluestone feature is a sight. Cache very quick to hand. Too early to stop for a pie at the local though.

TNLNSL

TFTC Keeper of Time.

Found by Mary & David at 1830. We'd like 10c for every time we've driven past here. Delighted to have an excuse to stop and explore today. Very pleased to see so many information signs everywhere. Loved the fish hatchery and the magnificent trees. Swapped a black watch for a green one. Our thanks once more to Keeper of Time.

We finally made it to Malmsbury which was our plan for the day. After stopping at the cemetary to check up on a few relatives we headed to the park to find the cache. I went looking in the wrong spot with GeoJnr in tow. D (mum) with Mon from Team GraMon in support found it easy enough though. D has some family connection with this spot - her relatives used to have picnics in the park and swim in the water when it was 'brand new'. TFTC Keeper of Time.
T: Blue Rubber Ball - for GeoJnr.
L: Mini Mirror Ball - Groovy!

[36] 5.30pm - Found with cdmark - I used to come to the hall on the corner of this park with D from cdmark when D was 1+2+3 yrs old, for annual Malmsbury reunions on ANZAC weekends. [wonder if they still have them?] Visited the cemetery for my m-in-law's, mum's grave and cleaned it up - D found the cache while C and GeoJnr were hunting else where - saw a train go over the large stone structure as we were sitting logging it. GeoJnr "toot toot" - lovely spot and interesting info about the fish hatchery in the park - TYFTC Keeper of Time - Took little plastic yoyo - left a small tennis ball.

Found with a first timer in hutto. Was a great cache and really enjoyed to view of what has around. Was a great day to visit this one and A great first cache for hutto (i think that he is hooked)
Dave_5
TFTC
TNLN

We found this cache at around 7.15pm on our way to Daylesford for the weekend .
We never saw any wildlife good or bad as in the description
but the gardens were rather nice & the cache was stocked full of goodies which is good to see !
TNLN TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

one more find for T-C-A-H
Thanx.

4stubbies loved the reason to call in here as we often just wiz past. Lovely park although a really hot day, not too many muggles around just as well as it took some serious looking to find this cache. Very well hidden, beware sticks as 1 stubbie has a face wound that was very nearly a nasty one. Took spaceman and left teddy.

Another find for Wabi Sabi.

Fine area that is the confluence of rail, river, aqueduct, with road not far away. Left 3 Pokemon Cards and took padlock. tftc

I love opening the log book and realising you just missed someone! In this case it was by a mere 15 minutes.

I have passed this location on many occasions, it really is a great spot to stop and look around. Unfortunately the water has dried up, it would be great to see it back to its former glory.

Thanks,

R - B