Neville’s News – Update 2 – Nov 2025

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Neville The Devil

Hey team, Neville here – and do I have some big news for you!

The wait is over…it’s official… Tassie Event merch is live on the Geocaching Victoria shop! That’s right – you can finally get your hands on some stylish, cozy, and collectible gear.

Here’s what’s waiting for you:
🧢 Beanie – perfect for those cool Tassie mornings.
🧥 Hoodie – comfy, warm, and looks great on any cacher.
👕 T-shirt & Polo – ideal for events, adventures, or everyday caching wear.
🪙 Three Limited Edition Coins + The Official Event Coin – must-haves for your collection!
🔹 Pathtags & Car Flag – add a little Tassie spirit to your travels.

Stocks are limited (especially those coins 👀), so don’t wait around! We have a special deal for those that get in early – the first 50 people who order a hoodie, polo or t-shirt with customised text will get a FREE TRACKABLE CODE embroidered.

👉 So head on over and grab your merch now at Geocaching Victoria Shop

🗓️ But wait….. There’s more!

We’ve also got some exciting news for all our eager planners — the official schedule for The Tassie Event 2026 is here! There’s a full week of caching, community, and connection waiting for you, starting with the trail events and leading into a jam-packed weekend.

The schedule includes some trail event catch-ups, which are a chance to welcome our interstate visitors and explore Tasmania before the big weekend!

Monday 2 March 2026 – 10.00am
☕ Geocachers Catch Up – Mersey Bluff

Wednesday 4 March 2026 – 1.00pm
☕ Geocachers Catch Up – Longford

Thursday 5 March 2026 – 11.00am
☕ Geocachers Catch Up – Ross

For the full listings head here Main Event Schedule.

It’s shaping up to be a massive weekend of caching, community, and Tassie fun — so now’s the time to start planning your trip, locking in your accommodation, and securing your merch!

🎙️ If you’re keen to hear more about what’s in store, don’t miss our Tassie Event committee members on the Geocaching Downunder Podcast this November x!

They’ll be chatting all things Tassie – from event highlights and planning tips to a few behind-the-scenes stories.

Make sure you tune in, bring your questions, and get ready for a sneak peek of what’s to come!

I can’t wait to see you all in Sorell, rocking your Tassie Event gear and sharing a few laughs, stories and finds.

See you soon,
Neville

Farewell 2023, Welcome 2024!

Posted on December 31, 2023 by RoamingHowie

It’s been a big 2023 and as the year comes to a close, we’d like to give a big shout out to all of the geocachers in our wonderful community. Whether you have published a new cache for others to find, hosted or attended an event, helped someone solve a puzzle or find a tricky hide, or shared a great log for the CO to read, you have all contributed to making 2023 a great caching year.

We’d especially like to thank everyone who has volunteered their time throughout the year or supported us through the purchase of merchandise, donations, or recycling your cans and bottles. Every little bit helps.

Here are just some of the things that happened in 2023:

February – The Ballarat GeoTour celebrated its 2nd year (how quickly time flies).
April – Our first Easter Mega was held in Rutherglen with a long weekend extravaganza.
May – We celebrated all our volunteers and announced the amazing list of nominees for the 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.
June – Makers Magic was happening all over the state including a huge celebration in Mitcham showcasing gadgets, games, presentations and cache painting to name just a few of the activities.
June – Victoria celebrated 21 years of geocaching events, returning to the site of the very first event in the Lerderderg State Park to celebrate.
July – The Cachemas in July festival took off, bringing together 100 smileys from 75 different CO’s as well as a big family Cachemas lunch at Kensington Town Hall.
August – The community celebrated International Geocaching Day with another Great Victorian Cache Crawl starting in Ararat and finishing in Upper Ferntree Gully – 10 stops (including a midnight event).
October – Geocaching Victoria turned 9. Double digits next year!
November – Popcorn, choc tops, and a huge theatre set the scene for our Geocaching International Film Festival event with special guests, Peoples Choice Award winners, chooknchunk.
November – Glitz and Glamour was in order as we crowned the winners of our 2022 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards while enjoying dinner and trivia.

All of that in amongst a number of community “Introduction to geocaching” sessions, hosting some geocaching activities for schools, and working with other community organisations.

There is plenty in the works for 2024. We’ll be starting with a First Aid initiative in February (stay tuned) as well as saying farewell to the Ballarat GeoTour. There is lots more to come.

As we wrap up the year, here are some of our state’s geocaching statistics for you. They may even prompt you to start filling some of the less common gaps:

Total 2023 hides: 1,615 (inc 320 event type caches)
Favourites accumulated on 2023 hides: 4,451
Total finds on 2023 caches (non event): 34,627
Event attendances: 6,974
Average D/T: 1.98 / 1.89
Most common/Least common difficulty: 1.5 (538) / 4.5 (6)
Most common/Least common terrain: 1.5 (639) / 4.5 (9)
No. of D/T combos with nil placements in 2023: 17
Most common/Least common size: Small (586) / Large (32)
Most common/Least common type: Traditional (865) / Wherigo (8)
LGAs with most new hides: Northern Grampians, Greater Geelong & Wangaratta
LGAs with no new hides : Warrnambool, Buloke & Loddon
No. of unique cachers with 12 or more finds (average 1 per month): 2,380
No. of unique cachers with 365 or more finds (average 1 per day): 166
No. of unique hiders: 326

Note: These stats are based on “Placed Date” and were generated on 30/12/2023 therefore will exclude some late logs and event attendances for the final days of 2023. Some statistics are limited due to the availability of data and time constraints.

Will you be the next cacher to hide a large cache? Perhaps you’d like to fill in your D/T grid? Looking to find a few more caches than you did this year? Or maybe you’d like to be the first hider to place a D4.0/T4.5 cache in over 12 months.

Whatever your geocaching goals for 2024, we hope you have a wonderful new year, and get off to a great start this January.

From all the team at Geocaching Victoria, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

September Surf Coast Update

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Geocaching Victoria

Another Update for the upcoming Surf Coast Mega event…

Most important to log your “Will Attend” at GC65688

Its happening people, there are even signs pointing the way…

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Competition Winner
Things to do other than caching?
Accommodation
Victorian Geocaching Tournament
Coins and Pathtags
Stalls for the event
Sponsors

Competition Winner

Congratulations go to:

We could not decide on a winner so have chosen two!! Congratulations go to omegaman1971 and º on their designs. These designs will be revealed to all in November. Thanks to those who entered. The winners will receive their unobtanium prize at the event in November.

Things to do other than caching?

Are you coming along to the Mega and bringing along muggles with no interest in caching?

It is a thing!! There is so much to do on the Surf Coast, nobody could possibly get Bored. There is golf, hiking, beaches, lighthouse, shopping, and numerous cafés & restaurants. Fore more details on Attractions of the area, go here.

Accommodation

YMCA – Anglesea Recreation Camp (the MEGA site)

Remember you can book on site too. Bookings are made directly with the Surf Coast Event venue, YMCA Anglesea Recreation Camp.
They can be contacted directly on: 03 5263-1512

There are 150 beds available for $35 per person per night and this includes a continental breakfast. There are various configurations from:

rooms for 2, 4 or 6 people, with ensuite,
rooms for 2, 4 or 6 people with shared facilities,
Single rooms can also be booked.

There are lots of places left so please support this great venue.

Anglesea Beachfront Family Caravan Park

We have been able to secure a special deal with the Anglesea Beachfront Family Caravan Park!
They are offering all geocachers who use the code word “Geocache” when making their booking the following.

10% discount,
Free Late checkout until 11am in Cabins (can stay in the park) or 6pm checkout for sites,
Free spa token,
2 free coffees or 2 slushies.

This is for all bookings between the 1^st June and the 17^th November 2016 but does exclude the Melbourne Cup weekend and the Victorian School holidays.
This is great news!! Not only is this a great deal, but it means that you can head down to Anglesea before the Surf Coast Event, find all the caches, and leave the weekend of the event free for socialising!!
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Victorian Geocaching Tournament

Have you registered your team for the Tournament yet?

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Positions are limited for teams entering the tournament. If you haven’t entered your team yet, best get your skates on as spots are filling up quickly. You can register your team via this entry form

Coins & Pathtags

Yep, again we have collectables available.

Coin
Geocoins pre-orders are available with 2 types of Geocoin, the Standard one at just $15 or the special Limited edition including Glitter for only $30.

Pathtag pre-orders are also available. 2 Options here, a Trading set of 5 identical tags. You will be able to gather at the event and trade with others for a full set. Alternatively, you can purchase a Complete set for $25.

Pre-order your geocoins and pathtags now at the Geocaching Melbourne page to be sure you get yours, they will be in very limited supply at the event.
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Event Stalls

Would you or someone you know be interested in a stall on MEGA Weekend?

We Still have some space available for Stall Holders who are interested in selling or displaying their products. Head to our website for more details. It does NOT have to be Geocaching related.

Fern’s Cache Competition

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Geocaching Victoria

Do you know Fern? She is a Leadbeater’s Possum and the official mascot of Geocaching Melbourne. You can buy all kinds if merchandise or collectables with her face on it for the upcoming mega event. However there’s one thing you can’t buy: The golden unobtainium geocoin which is strictly limited to 25 pieces. But you can win one! Right here!

A little Fern Geocache

Rules of Entry:
Alright – are you ready? Here is what you have to do: Place a cache and send us some photos of your Fern themed geocache. Make sure to have a read through the following rules before you enter:

Create a Fern-themed container and place the cache.
The cache has to be in Victoria (including all stages).
It has to be listed / published on a public listing service (It can be a premium cache though).
Somebody found it after you placed it and logged it online.
Take a picture of the container in place and a second picture of the general location.
Email us both pictures together with the link to the cache page to
fern@geocaching.melbourne (We will confirm your entry – please contact us if you don’t get a response).
You can enter as many caches as you like but remember it is about quality and not quantity.
You can enter all cache-types (Traditional, Multi, Wherigo, …). Choose whatever works best for you.
Entry Ends on 7.11.2015 at 24:00

Winning Features:
If you’re wondering what the jury will look for, here are the five features we will score:

Creativity – if it’s self-made you definitely get a bonus for it.
Container Size – Fern is a bit of a space-pig. A real life nest box would qualify as a large container so why not make the little fairy feel at home.
Location – a new place with some unique feature, incredible scenery, or just a plain gorgeous view will bump up your marks.
Cache Page – dust off these old HTML skills and make something nice and shiny.
Sustainability – make your cache to last.

Make sure you cover all five points and your cache will be a winner in any case because even if you don’t win this competition, you will win heaps of well written logs.

A LBP nest box in riparian thicket at Lake Mountain

Prizes:
It would be sad if we hand out only one prize because we expect some serious competitors. The winner’s will be announced by the 8^th November and can collect their prizes at The Melbourne Event 2015 or get them posted.

A golden unobtainium geocoin for The Melbourne Event 2015
Some random trackables out of Philipp’s tack room
Some random pathtags out of Philipp’s tack room

Get the circular saw, grinder and paint bucket going!

xoxoxo
Fern the Forest Fairy

Remote Adventure July 2015

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There is this old-school cacher called Derringer (His real name is Kevin but barely anyone knows that). His caches and the adventures connected with it are stories of persistence and perseverance. These are caches you just don’t walk up to; they require a fair amount of effort if you want to find them:

Like walking into Modor, this is not happening the easy way. If you need proof of this, just mention The Silent Sentinel to some of the more experienced hiking cachers, Despite being archived it remains to be the Nemesis or the Holy Grail of every ambitious hiker. In that spirit a cache tributed to him was recently placed in the Cathedral Ranges. Unsurprisingly it already got some attention before it even got found. Robin (aka robinyang) gave it a good crack – twice – and still ended up without the smiley.
After these epic DNFs on the cache, Robin is still determined to give this adventure another / 3rd try tomorrow Saturday 25.7.

This time we patched him up with a satellite tracker and a link to our social media accounts. Make sure you’re tuning in from 8 am to see this adventure unfolding live from the comfort of your home.

P.S.: On the map it doesn’t look too bad.

Geocaching Victoria

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