We are fortunate to have a great team of volunteers that have been working hard and planning to bring you the Rutherglen MEGA to you.

Day Gowland (day1976) – Day (day1976) has been a geocacher for 11 years and has been heavily involved in the geocaching community of Victoria over the years. Day was the lead organiser of the Melbourne Event in 2015, the Parkville Event in 2018 and the Wangaratta Event in 2022. Having grown up in the vicinity of Rutherglen, he knows and loves the area and is looking forward to putting on the next great geocaching experience in Victoria.

Elizabeth Baulch (BettyBoo3747) – Libby started caching in early 2011 so that is 12 years on this crazy journey. She has been fortunate to have cached in all states of Australia and loves the places that caching takes you. Living in the North-East Libby loves the scenery and history and has placed a great many caches over that time to highlight many of the walking and rail trails and some of the beautiful scenery. She also enjoys creating AdLabs. Libby helped with the organisation of the Wangaratta Event earlier in the year. Her and Robmc have been busy placing and maintaining caches around Rutherglen for Easter 2023 and they look forward to seeing a lot of cachers visiting the area.

Rob McIntyre (Robmc) – I have been caching since 2005, when a friend showed me a different use for the GPSr that I used for locating SCUBA diving sites. Caching fitted well with all my other outdoor activities. My first Mega was Casey Fields in 2015. I was roped in to organize the puzzles and do the fish geoart in Alexandra in 2017. 2018 saw me organizing and placing the Victoria geoart puzzles for the Parkville Event. These were all placed along bike trails in Melbourne to try and get cachers out of their cars and onto bikes (even for a short time!). The Wangaratta Event had me organizing all the Lab Caches. This brings me up to Rutherglen. This time we have already placed three geoarts – one big Easter Wherigo series, one smaller bike trail series (still trying to encourage those bikes!), and to fit in the middle, a Brogla Bill puzzle series to encourage beginner puzzlers to try this cache type. I hope to see you all in Rutherglen at Easter, 2023!

Jess Neville (GeoLibrarian54) – Jess has been caching on and off since 2017, when she was introduced to it by day1976, and she is the other half of the Selfie Queens with TG4TheWin. Jess really enjoys the social aspect of geocaching, as well as solving a really interesting puzzle. She loves a good lab or gadget cache and might quite possibly be slightly partial to commemorative pathtags… Aside from caching, Jess enjoys knitting, reading, eating good food and drinking good coffee.

Paul and Jodie Kuhne (ILookedThere) – We started geocaching way back in 2018. We found our first cache a block away from home and became hooked! Since then, our geocaching journey has taken us to many amazing places and we have met heaps of awesome people. Soon after our first Mega at St Arnaud we realised that the caches we enjoyed most were the ones that left a memory. Whether from the amazing location, the history, the experience in finding it, the amount of effort put into it by the CO or the company we were with. Now we enjoy creating caches that push our abilities and let our creativity run free.