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Celebrating Victoria’s Best: 2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards

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Victorian Cache of the Year Awards trophy displayed on a podium with Geocaching Victoria logos

On Saturday night, the geocaching community came together at the Yarraville-Footscray Bowling Club to celebrate the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards for 2025. It was great to have so many join us to help celebrate the amazing caches and dedicated cache owners who make geocaching in Victoria so special.

Between dinner, lots of fun games, and other announcements (check out our next Mega here!), the winners of this year’s awards were revealed. From gadget caches and creative cache series, to labs & logs, and first hides & tricky hides, the award nominees had it all. Voting was very close in a number of categories, reflecting the quality of nominees. So who won?

2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Award Winners

CategoryGC CodeWinner
Best Traditional CacheGCB1PZ0The Spelling Bee (Sunbury 2025) by Mister Doctor
Best Multi CacheGCBBVXHLinks to Emu Creek by kazba16
Best Mystery CacheGCB2PJNSpace Invaders Primary Phase Bonus Cache by Earthbound Chief
Best Other CacheGCBDRNFScoria Cone – Organ Pipes National Park by micaparamedic
Best First HideGCB90ZHEmpire Mystery Mine by 888Solidarity
Best Cache Series
(Joint Winners)		Alphabetical

Green Hill Lake

Special Tool Required		Alphabetical by BossConner
Green Hill Lake by Crack’n’LeeLee
Special Tool Required by veevers12
Best Cache Location
GCB2ERCGHL#1 – Heart of the Lake by Crack’n’LeeLee
Best Regional Cache
(Joint Winners)		GCB6G6B

GCBDZ71		Psephological Revisited by chooknchunk
Rosella’s residence by koalablina
Best Adventure LabSpace Invaders Primary PhaseSpace Invaders Primary Phase by Earthbound Chief
Best Cache LogGL1F5TCB6BrianandGreg on EMU CREEK CACHE 2
Best Overall CacheGCB1PYBA Puggle Called Muggle (Sunbury 2025) by Mister Doctor

Congratulations to all of this years winners and to everyone who was nominated by their peers. A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the awards by nominating, finding, and voting for the best caches within our community.

Sponsors

The Victorian Cache of the Year Awards have once again been supported by our amazing community sponsors with close to $1,000 in prizes donated. Many have sponsored the awards for multiple years. We extend out sincere gratitude to the following sponsors for this years awards:

  • BernieH
  • Bunnadoorian
  • Bunnings
  • Geocaching Victoria
  • Grub62
  • OzHockeyChick
  • posums
  • Sol de Lune
  • Tiz13
  • Charitable Cacher (Anonymous)
  • Super Kind Cacher (Anonymous)

Profile Badge and Cache Page Banner

If you were a nominee or winner in the 2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards, you can proudly share your acheivement with the community!

  • Add a badge to your personal profile to showcase your nomination or win.
  • Add a banner to your cache page so finders know your cache was part of the 2025 awards.

Visit this link to download the badge and banner resources.

Competition Winners

We also drew the winners of the Nominee Finders, and Which Cache Am I? competitions.

Winners of the draw for finding nominated caches:

  • monk3ybash3r (winning a Dremel 3000 and cache prize pack donated by Bunnings)
  • Suscoe (winning a fuel voucher and cache prize pack donated by Geocaching Victoria)

Winners of the draw for the “Which Cache Am I?” competition:

  • BettyBoo3747 – First correct guess on 15 October (Voucher and cache prize pack donated by Geocaching Victoria)
  • EthisEthat – Random correct guess (Voucher and cache prize pack donated by Geocaching Victoria)

Looking ahead to the 2026 awards

As 2026 draws to a close it’s time to start thinking about the great new caches, labs and logs you’ve found this year that you feel are worthy of the BEST nomination next year. You can keep track of the new caches published in 2026 through the following cache lists (with many more available here):

Thanks to everyone who assisted with our competitions and event, with special mention to Suscoe, LetThemEatCache and Kristysadventures for their tireless work pulling the event and games together.

Who will be nominated next year?

The Next Victorian Mega Announced!

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Looking for your next big geocaching adventure? We’ve got you covered!

Geocaching Victoria is excited to announce that we’ll be bringing the geocaching community together again, this time in Traralgon, Gippsland, from 6–7 November 2027 for a weekend of adventure, community and, of course, geocaching!

And there’s even more exciting news… The Traralgon Event has already been awarded MEGA status! We can’t wait to welcome geocachers from across Australia and beyond for what promises to be a fantastic weekend.

The Tralagon Event geocaching gathering at Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium on 6–7 November 2027, featuring event code GCBX1V8 and Geocaching Victoria branding

The event will be located at the redeveloped Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium with plenty of space and facilities to bring together all the fun and activities we’re planning.

We’re also delighted to have Latrobe City Council onboard as a Major Sponsor. Their support is a fantastic endorsement of the event and will help us deliver a memorable weekend while showcasing everything that the Latrobe Valley and surrounds has to offer.

Accommodation

Traralgon and the surrounding Gippsland region have plenty of accommodation options to explore. We’ve put together an accommodation page featuring some of the local providers, including some special offers available exclusively to Mega attendees. It’s never too early to start planning, so take a look and start organising your Gippsland getaway!

How Do I Get Involved?

The best way to stay up to date and be part of the excitement is to get connected early!

What’s Next?

This is just the beginning! There’s plenty more to come, with announcements about activities, events, geocaching adventures and everything else we’re planning to make this a weekend to remember.

Keep an eye on our website and social media channels as more details are released. In the meantime, log your will attend, mark the dates in your calendar, spread the word and start planning your adventure!

We can’t wait to bring the geocaching community together in Traralgon. See you at the Mega!

Geocaching Victoria AGM – 2026

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It’s that time of year again. Earlier this week, Geocaching Victoria held its Annual General Meeting, marking another year of adventure, community and plenty of work behind the scenes to keep geocaching thriving.

Wooden blocks displaying the letters A, G, and M.

It’s been a big year for our community, and none of it would be possible without all the amazing volunteers who give their time, energy and enthusiasm to Geocaching Victoria.

Much of this years success has been made possible by our hardworking committee members: ahomburg, chooknchunk, Crack’n’LeeLee, LetThemEatCache, Mister Doctor, RoamingHowie and Suscoe. A massive thank you to each of you for everything you’ve contributed throughout the year!

We had another big year of activity in 2026, highlighted by hosting the first ever Mega in Tasmania, alongside an incredible team of local Tasmanian volunteers. Attendance and support from the geocaching community exceeded our expectations, and we were thrilled to see the collective effort paid off.

There have been plenty of other highlights through the year, including the launch of our Victorian Cache of the Year Awards, a fantastic Magic Makers Expo showcasing the creativity and skills of our cache owners, multiple CITO events around National Tree Day, and, of course, the hugely acclaimed Sidetracked Day in Harcourt.

It’s been a year full of memorable events, community connections and new adventures. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen!

Your 2027 Committee

At the AGM, all committee positions were declared vacant before the election, and we’re pleased to announce the committee elected to lead Geocaching Victoria in 2027:

  • President: RoamingHowie
  • Vice President: ahomburg
  • Treasurer: LetThemEatCache
  • Secretary: Crack’n’LeeLee
  • General Committee: chooknchunk, Mister Doctor, Suscoe

Congratulations to everyone elected, and thank you for volunteering your time to support geocaching across Victoria. We look forward to another great year working together!

A group of people smiling while seated on a miniature train at a railway station.

What’s Next?

There’s still plenty happening as we head towards the end of 2026! Be sure to join in the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards celebrations next month, and don’t miss your chance to take part in our current competitions and voting.

  • Which Cache Am I? Competition   ENTER HERE [Closes 31 October]
  • Nominees Cache Find Competition   ENTER HERE [Closes 8 November]
  • Voting in the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards   VOTE HERE [Closes 8 November]
  • Attend the Awards Event   LOG WILL ATTEND HERE [Saturday 14 November]

There is always room for people to get involved. Whether you have an idea for an event, a skill you’d like to share, or simply a little time to help out, we’d love to hear from you.

A big thank you to our committee, event and community volunteers, sponsors and every geocacher who has supported us over the past year. You all help make Victoria such a fantastic place to go geocaching.

Here’s to another year of adventure, community and geocaching!

Happy caching!

Thank You Bunjil

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For over a decade, Peter and Helen, known as Bunjil in the reviewer community, have been the steady hand guiding cache submissions across our state. Geocachers all over Victoria (and beyond) have benefited from their time, knowledge, patience and dedication. Whether helping a first time cache owner understand the guidelines or working through complex and creative hides, Bunjil has always approached the role with fairness, enthusiasm and a genuine desire to help our community grow.

Left image: A stylized black silhouette of a bird with a colorful circular background featuring red, yellow, and black segments.

Reviewing is often a largely unseen task. It involves countless hours reading listings, checking locations, answering questions, resolving issues and ensuring that every published cache contributes to the game we all enjoy. It is a volunteer role that requires both commitment and care, and Peter and Helen have provided both in abundance.

The first cache ever published by Bunjil was in December 2013. Since then, they have published in the vicinity of 25,000 geocaches, and written somewhere in the order of 50,000 reviewer notes.

Over those twelve years, Victoria’s geocaching landscape has grown and evolved. New players have joined our community, new cache types have emerged, and memorable events have brought our community together. Through all of this, Bunjil has been a constant presence, helping to maintain the quality and integrity of geocaching in Victoria.

Peter and Helen have always been enthusiastic supporters of Geocaching Victoria, and have worked collaboratively with us on countless inititatives. From all of our Mega events and the GPS Adventures Maze, to GeoTours, CITO activities, community celebrations and many other projects. Their guidance, encouragement and willingness to help have helped us deliver many successful initiatives for the community.

On behalf of the Victorian geocaching community, we extend our sincere thanks for more than 12 years of dedicated service. Thank you for the evenings, weekends and spare moments you generously gave. Thank you for your patience, your wisdom, and your unwavering support of the game we love.

While stepping away from the reviewer role on 1 July marks the end of an extraordinary chapter, we hope it marks the beginning of many more adventures from the other side of the publish button.

Thank you, Peter and Helen, Bunjil, for your service and commitment to our community.

A community celebration for Bunjil has been scheduled for 18 July in Waurn Ponds. For further information, and to log your will attend, visit GCBT975.

And The 2025 Nominees Are…

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The community has been searching across the state to identify the best geocaches, Adventure Labs, and logs from 2025. The nominations have now been been carefully tallied, double-checked, and shortlisted and we’re excited to officially reveal this year’s outstanding nominees in the 2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards!

The list showcases an incredible mix of creativity and passion, including caches requiring a mix of TOTTs, mind bending puzzles, some great first time hides and Shakespearian tales of geocache adventures. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate, and particularly those who helped grow the game by hiding a cache, Adventure Lab or writing a tale in 2025.

Despite the patchy weather, plenty of geocachers gathered at Jells Park on Saturday for a catch up, sharing stories of recent finds and favourite hides. The BBQ sizzled thanks to ahomburg and JonnyGoldcoast as this years nominees where announced with many of the lucky nominees in the crowd.

For those ready to start planning their next caching adventure, the full list of nominees is now available on the 2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards page on our website.

This year’s shortlist includes (click the titles for a full geocache list):

The 2026 eligible hide lists are also live and continue to be updated throughout the year. Keep an eye out for new cache owners, fresh series, and exciting new hides as they’re published. Everything can be found in the Great Geocaching Lists section of our website — and all will be eligible for next year’s awards.

To give everyone plenty of time to explore the nominees, voting will open later in the year, with winners set to be revealed at a special event in October/November (TBA). Stay tuned also for details on how you can win a prize, just for finding the nominated caches!

Don’t leave it until the last minute, grab your GPS, your TOTTs, and start exploring everything this year’s nominees have to offer. And when you find a quiet moment, dive into the nominated logs and enjoy the stories and adventures shared by fellow cachers.

If you are one of the nominees, you can proudly display your achievement using the nominee banner for your cache page, and add a badge to your caching profile using the 2025 COTYA resources here.

If you are interested in being a community sponsor of one of this years awards, reach out to one of the committee or president@geocachingvictoria.com.au for more details.

Special thanks to Kristysadventures for donating the Easter hamper and organising the fundraising raffle. Congratulations to maccamob on their win!

To everyone who has secured a place on the coveted 2025 nominations list, congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Thank you for the creativity, effort, and enjoyment you brought to the geocaching community.