Albany Park Life Albany Creek, Queensland, Australia
By AmbulareSimia on 11-Nov-09. Waypoint GC20YCH

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

Good Day,

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

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Unfortunately this cache seems to have a very sad & neglected history.

Since March 2016 there have been numerous logs stating that the cache is wet, yucky, waterlogged, water damaged, saturated, broken lid, needs new container & booklet, lid cracked, cache damaged, needs some repair, log damp & full, full of water, full of ants, log saturated, Ewww!, drenched & disgusting, mouldy mess, gross, all ripped up … & more!

There have also been two Needs Maintenance logs in Oct 2016 & Dec 2017, neither of which seem to have elicited a response from the CO or a Reviewer?

So, at least 2 & a half years of neglect with no response whatsoever.
Perhaps it is time to Archive & stop giving geocaching a bad name?

Winter the Geo-cat needed a day out, as did Mr & Mrs VC, so we decided a short run across the bridge would be a good way to start our day & pick up a few solved puzzles & assorted other caches.

It's always a little sad & disappointing to find a cache in such poor, unloved & unmaintained condition as this one is.

Made our mark & replaced cache remains at ground level with a little camo.
TFTC

It is still there but all ripped up

After an early morning walk off the Jinker Track I was making my way to Maccas for a beverage and some paper work. I stopped in for a quick hunt.

Closing in I could see a suspicious pile but I had to wait for a lady walking a dog to go past. I tapped on my phone a bit and threw a few imaginary poke-balls and she smiled at me and said “treasure hunting?”. No need to keep up the ruse.

Unfortunately the cache has a big hole in the lid and the log is like rock hard candy. TNLNSP. tftc

Found it

Found it but it was in a very bad condition. Mouldy and soggy.

Box has gotten very wet and gone mouldy inside but my 4 year old was so happy to find it. Thank you

Found. Everything drenched. And discusting

Ewww!!

Quick easy find
But cache had hole in lid

Yup just as gross as previously mentioned.

Unable to sign mouldy mess, tipped the water out and replaced lid best I could then covered with some camo to help protect from further waters. TFTC

There is a hole in the lid of the container and the container is full of ants and the log is saturated.

We found this cache fairly quickly however due to a hole in the lid the container is full of ants and the log is so wet that it is unable to be used. We placed our sticker inside the lid to confirm that we had found it - but the cache needs maintenance badly. TNLN TFTC

Lids cracked so we couldn't sign the log. Kids had fun so thanks

Oo! Found it, but it’s full of water lid is cracked. TFTC

Cache is all wet and needs repair
Maddie find

Easy find had to scare of Magpies

Nice Quick find. TFTC.

Great easy find

Think fell out of tree

Found it. It is in a really good spot i have walked past it sooooooook many times.

Found It! Needs a new cache

Staring straight at me! Hard to camo this cache. TFTC

Found it, Thanks for this cache

It was hard to find but fun

Cool

Hi we found it.
I'm Batman

**# 17026** Found on the Qld leg of our 2017 winter escape trip.
A perfect warm Autumn day for a drive around for a few more caches.
Hardly any muggles around and mostly not too difficult hides.
Log is damp and full, needs replacement.
Thanks for the cache AmbulareSimia,
***Roostaman***

Easy find for the kids first find

Awesome

Cool. Our first geocache (with my fearless leader 5yo daughter) swapped it for a Green Lantern mini fig. I expect many many good times ahead

Awesome

Found quickly,

TFTC

Georode

Awesome

TFTC

Found it

Awesome

Tftc

Easy find but in need of maintenance therefore only a visit for trackable

So my daughter and mum and I decided to have a look while we were in the area ... This was only our second hunt and our second find ... In less than 24hrs I have gone from skeptic to addict and now definitely going to continue .., this site here needs a new container and a pen or pencil as the container has a broken lid and the log book looks like it may have suffered from the elements of the weather .., we did not take a treasure but left a Lego man ...

Our second geocache we were on our way to the vet and we thought let's go geocaching and we found one it was so exciting this is our second geocache
Dad- star_guru

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Last cache for the day. Co-ordinates are spot on.

Yay! My first Geocache find TFTC

Hidden under something great hide

Hidden great nice thinking

Great find but needs some repair

I found my first one!

Found it

Daddy took us to find this one. We got it fast.

Log is in need of repair and getting moist. Lid of cache damaged, might not keep the elements out for much longer.

Out with the kids. Nice easy find for them. Took gold coins, left green bug and doll. Log is in need of repair and getting moist, replaced into clean zip-lock. Lid of cache damaged, might not keep the elements out for much longer. TFTC.

Found it! 2nd Cache . I think your logbook is running out of room. Otherwise, great location.

Lovely spot. Ground level

No pen but we find it easiest

Found it

Out with niklipp and team nelta. TFTC.

Found with geokid. Everything inside waterlogged. Left paper in clip seal bag for new log. Left red star.

Below eye level.. Look out for bark!

Out for an afternoon of bike riding and kicking the footy with the family we decided it was time to find this one again. Previous attempts were hindered by an older phone with a not so good GPS. With help from geodaughter we found it a bit worse for wear. The lid is cracked and after recent rains the contents are saturated. We didn't come prepared with pen and log was a bit wet anyway.
Tftc

Found this a while ago but came back today with Que Sera, Sharpem, boo_noyes and rusty. Nice to log it officially and didn't want to finish my day on DNFs from sandy bridge series. Was pointed in the right direction by some helpful muggles

Tftc nice find after a bit of a frustrating day trying to find Sandy Bridge, we didn't want to end the day on a dnf, pointed in the right direction by some helpful Muggles found with Quesera boo_noyes and Bear0503

Out looking at sandy bridge and after 3 dnfs there we didn't want to go home with dnf so saw this one close by and yippee . Found in dark with rusty geodog. Sharpe m. Bear0503 and boo_noyes. Thanks for this cache and we can go home happy with a find.

TFTC
AFTER 3DNF'S, COULDNT END THE DAY THIS WAY
JOINT FIND WITH THE CACHING CREW - @bear0503, @QueSera & @sharpemadness
SOME FRIENDLY MUGGLES POINTED YS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR THIS CACHE AS THE HAVE SEEN FRIM THEIR BACK YARD CACHERS LOOKING FOR IT MANY TIMES
@bear0503 HAD ALREADY FOUND THIS CACHE BUT FORGOT WHAT TREE TO LOOK AT AND SHE HAD FORGOTTEN TO LOG THIS CACHE
CANT WAIT TO CACHE WITH MY CACHING CREW AGAIN
HOPEFULLY SEE U NEXT WEEKEND

Nice little park, plenty of muggles so some care had to be taken when retrieving and singing the log.

Nice quick find while driving past while working...

found!!

Thanks!

TFTC! Waterlogged but managed to get some scrap paper to write on! Not much to swap with but really fun and interesting to find! Hope to see this again someday!

TFTC

waterlogged but still intact. tftc

Got em

Boom... First one!

Found it!

Found it - cache needs new container & booklet

Yay. We tried to find this last year without success. But got it today!! Like others said..water damaged.

Found it

A second attempt at this cache found it after a few minutes, so easy now can see it. Cache is waterlogged and very yucky!

Slightly buried, all wet but good spot. Thanks

30/3/16
Found container has suffered water damage

First one down!

Nice and easy cache. Great one for the smaller kids.

Great one

Easy one, good for the kids to reach by bike.

Found it after a short look!

Looking too hard for this cache. Reread a few previous logs which resulting in a find. TFTC

Very easy for th pros, Good for the firsr time geocacher.

Found it! Hint is a good clue!

Found it after a bit of digging tftc

A few months ago i had a DNF on this on. Wanted to go for a run. I thought I would grab this one. Great to get a smile now to run home

Did not find.

Great hide, took a while because phone messed up.
ANDYROO

FOUND IT!!!!!

Found it fairly quickly, as I was using my phone it took a while to find ground zero but anyway nice find... TFTC (Found with mum)

Dropped a tb on here to send on its way. Happy travels

could not find it found, the perfect spots where I think it should be but not there. there was a container near by, but it was empty. could just be a coincidence?

This entry was edited by sonqld on Monday, 07 September 2015 at 06:45:14 UTC.