Oysters on the go North Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By bbayjohn on 05-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1PHJ9

No response from the owner within the last 28 Days and as per my original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.

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28 days have elapsed since the last request, and there has still been no action taken by the Cache Owner.

It is the Cache Owners responsibility to monitor logs for reported problems, maintain the geocache container, and to fix reported problems.
There has been no report or record of the Cache Owner maintaining this listing.
As such, it is appropriate that this cache should be archived.

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

A fresh map for a fresh year…

Missing caches has been a topic of conversation recently. To rectify this, I manually checked every cache listing within 70km from home – for caches that needed “Needs Maintenance” or “Needs Archive” logs. I found that there are quite a few caches that needed attention from their respective owners or the local community volunteer reviewers. Now one month on, I’ve gone back through my bookmarked list to check on the status of the said caches.

Unfortunately posting a Needs Archived log due to lack of maintenance.
It is likely that this cache hasn't been found since 13th July, 2017 - and has a string of DNFs.
Ground Zero has gone through some changes - the seats where the cache should be have been cut down. The local staff have also confirmed it is missing.
A Needs Maintenance Log was posted 28th November.
No response from CO.
No action has been taken to maintain this cache.

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

On my day trip down to Batemans Bay, I found that there is quite a few caches that need attention from their respective owners or the local community volunteer reviewers.

It is likely that this cache hasn't been found since 13th July, 2017 - and has a string of DNFs.
Ground Zero has gone through some changes - the seats where the cache should be have been cut down. The local staff have also confirmed it is missing.

Posting a Needs Maintenance log to notify the owner.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

gone

Spoke to the staff at the oyster place. It's gone and the seats have been cut down. Needs maintenance or archiving.

The young lass was happy to talk about the family business and tell us where to find good fish and chips.

Thanks bbayjohn.

Found the hook, no cache! Not elsewhere either.
Cost me a dozen oysters for a DNF!

this one was easy we found it fast thank you

I think I saw where it should be.
But there was nice views and tasty oysters. I'll just have to come back sometime.

Excellent view! Great one for the kids to find. TFTC.

TFTC
Chatted to the shop owner, as she was calling wires.. a seal pup was injured and laying on the oyster banks.
Quick find
Cheers
Seemyshell

Being the only people here other than the lady at the shop, made the search a little hard. My iPhone had me 18mtrs away so it wasn't until walking back towards the shop that I saw the cache hanging. Tftc bbayjohn!!!

Found on a one month road trip around Australia. No thanks, don't want any oysters today. No, really, I don't want any! TNLNSL TFTC

Found with nissan 65 . Staying down south for a few days caching. Thankyou for the cache

Quick walk to gz located cache with cullum68 log signed and placed back thanks for the cache

Found with matto189. TFTC.

TFTC

Oysters are not quite my cup of tea - being a child of the mountains... but nevertheless it was a nice spot to come to, especially with such a great sunset.
Thanks a lot for the hide, bbayjohn!

Enjoyed the drive around today.

People in the shop were very friendly and when I said I was here for the geocache they said they thought it was gone. However a quick look found it in very good condition.
Brought a dozen oysters to enjoy.

Thanks for bringing me here bbayjohn.

29 April 2017 @ 5:20 pm

Caching team: Muggle friends Cecil and Vijay

Hahaha this was so obvious after I walked past gz!! As previously said, surprised it's still here!
Watched the sunset from here! Wow!

TFTC bbayjohn

Awesome cache for first timers - but I'm not in the army ??

Looking back across the river to where we had just been we were soon signing the log. Unfortunately we couldn't get any oysters doe to recent heavy rains. Kutgw

Quick find, Cool container
Very obvious surprised that it hasn't been mugged

Tftc..nice container...

Found it with kwazii's angels. Cool hide.

Tftc! Found with Zambie Unicorn

TFTC

Miniguy found immediately!

My first cache find of the year. Had to make it an easy one after the night before.
So that's what oysters look like... I'm sure I've blown a few of those into my handkerchief before. Not sure why people eat them!
Cache was an easy find, even with some people dining on those boogers nearby. They must have been concentrating on not throwing them back up to even notice me doing the log duties.
Thanks for the cache.

In all my times at the Bay, I've never been to this awesome spot before. Will be back later for oysters. Thank you

We were on our way through but had a stop for lunch. We didn't want to go without finding at least one cache. TFTC from Germany.

Found on my way back up the hill after a caching & beach day. Arrived after closing time unfortunately. Met a couple of young fellows using the pier for fishing. Found the container fairly easily after reading logs. Managed to retrieve & replace without the lads noticing. Had to take photo as proof as lousy pen wouldn't work on this log type.
TFTC bbayjohn

TFTF Geoing with SwagHo from Canada

Here from Canada on holidays with HennyGeo in beautiful Australia . TFTC

Gotcha - Found while holidaying in the area.

After the find the owner approached my car and asked if I found it,she was a loverly older lady,we had a good ol chat,no stopping for oysters here for me today as I had caches to find
Cool cache.
TFTC!!

Easy one on the way back to canberra. Tftc

Today we explored Tomakin and surrounds using geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

had a laugh at a boat that was struggling to take some people out to a houseboat, thought it wasnt going to make it. lol. tftc

Were back from a great trip on one of the house boats and decided to grab this one before heading off. TFTC

Up grabbing a few early morning caches before too many muggles and before the busiess was open. This was a quick find as the rain was falling. Will have to return later to pick up some oysters, so thanks for bringing me here.
Thanks bbayjohn for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
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Nice quick find with a beautiful view. I'm surprised the container doesn't get muggled as it's quite visible. TFTC!

Thanks. .nice location. Yum!

Now for some oysters !!!! TFTC

Great find! Geokiddies complained about the smell! TFTC

2:45pm 19/6 - on our way home from the grandfrogs. A nice easy find in the rain, with the added bonus of lots of muddy puddles for the youngest tadpole to jump in. Mr Froggycache LOOOVES his oysters, so he was very jealous he wasn't around to help find this one.

TFTC bbayjohn.

Out and about this arvo finding a few more of the local caches.
A short search and I had the cache in hand.
A nice location I agree.
Thanks for the cache

Tftc. Easy find.

Found unfortunately the oyster shed was closed due to the recent rain

TFTC, great spot for this kind of cache

Good to go

Still goneski!

Missing in action.

Talked to the owners of the shops and they havent seen the cache for some time and they even helped me look, they knew what it looked like and couldnt find it. They mentioned that their duaghter/granddaughter checks to see if it has been put back in the right spot as it apprently moves around quite a bit... So some maintenance might be in order...

Had a good look at the places matching the hint, but eventually the need to get home became more important than finding this one.

CoDate

Found with a little help from a friend

Woooooo!!! Got it! So sneaky!

Clever cache! TFTC

The second easy catch today.
TftC, dragosbiker

Found on a caching stop-off trip on the way back to Canberra from dropping off Venturers at Coast Venture at Lake Tabourie. Wow, jagged the timing on this find. At 0540 in the morning there wasn't anyone around to disturb what ended up being a fairly detailed searched until a tell tale indicator was spotted and after finding a tool to assist the extraction, the cache log was initialled! What a great spot for a cache worthy of a favourite point.
Cheers
MajuraHathi

Wow....

Found the cache and then went and bought 10 dozen Oysters to take home.

'Scrat' visited your Cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.

bbayjohn

Gotcha! TFTC

Haha great cache spotted it then tried to get the girl friend to take it of haha thanks for the cache!!

Found it with howjen567. Nice area, shame we didn't have time to drop a line in. TFTC

Was concerned a little about nearby muggles but it turned out they knew what we were doing so the searching became easier after all. Lovely spot here but we didn't try the Oysters I'm sorry to say.

I stayed in Batemans Bay last night after driving from Canberra via a coastal route home to Melbourne. I had time for a few caches before continuing to my next destination of Merimbula.

I parked in the nearby carpark and wandered over to GZ. There was a muggle family eating lunch at one of the picnic tables so I sat on the seat that my GPSr said was closest to the cache and tried not to look too suspicious. [8)] One of the muggles suddenly asked me if I was looking for the cache. They said that they knew where it was as they worked there. With remarks of 'warm' and 'hot' and lots of laughter I searched for the cache and soon received lots of congratulations when I actually found the cache, a camo I have seen a few times in my short caching career. I signed the log at 2:10 pm and took a few photos of the glorious river view before heading off. TNLN.

Thanks bbayjohn for the fun hide and for bringing me to such a picturesque location. I didn't buy any oysters as I had nowhere to store them.

Found this cache today while on a day trip to the coast with Ambi666 Found a few caches along the way, and also a couple in Batemans Bay.

HUGE THANK YOU to the owners of the Oyster shop for helping us with this cache. I looked alone for ages in every possible spot but came empty handed. Turns out the cache had fallen off into the grass and was a bit hidden in the grass

The owner found it however and helped me put it back in the correct place. Should be all good to go again!

I took some photos of the cute little blue house, and the great views, lovely location, TFTC

Sad. No oysters. It's closed on Tuesdays. And could not find the cache. Even using the clue. Pout

TFTC was interesting camo

TFTC Nice Container

TFTC!!!

Shop closed so easy to easy find, our youngest geocacher found it! TFTC!

very wet log.too wet to log find so we placed some dry paper in so we could log find.tftc [D:]

Log is wet and destroyed

Sorry I found this one a little while ago and forgot to log it so now I'm having to play catch up with all my logs. TFTC Found with Scruffyblake, The S's and Me_To

Seen this type of container before. Log sheet was damp and managed to write a TD onbit

Luckily it was closed on Tuesday! Seen a couple of these containers before. Another family pulled up as we were leaving, more cachers? who knows!

Yay oyster shells everywhere for me to collect!

The first find of the day while on holidays in Bateman's Bay. My friend and I decided to go out for an early walk to this cache. It was not too far away so we just strolled over to GZ. There was no one around today so that made the search at GZ easier. I had a guess at what the cache was going to be based on previous logs. Once we arrived at GZ, the cache was located fairly quickly by my friend as it wasn't hidden too well. I am surprised it has survived this long! The log was pretty damp but I somehow managed to etch my initials in the logbook. Log signed and cache replaced. TFTC bbayjohn!

Found it, logged it, NEXT!!!

This guy was not on our list today but as it was close by we just had to have a look and again the NGW spotted it while looking from the right angle.
Thanks again bbayjohn for bringing us down here.
Very quiet today being Monday and nobody around, ideal time to visit.

Ses easy find

Needs some new paper bit wet after all the rain

Needs a new log book but it's very sticky lol

Ha...very 'sticky.' TFTC

Paper wet good cache though!

I enjoy this cammo and a good hide - easily findable when the shop is busy too. Lovely day by the day TFTC

Interesting find - have seen these caches in pictures, but not in real life! Beautiful place. TFTC

My first one in Batemans Bay and thanks for the help

With a little help

Great container. Took a while to get the log out. Bought some oysters while I was here. TFTC.

TFTC