Star Wars Cache Series: Chewbacca Golden Point, Victoria, Australia
By Shamus1 on 19-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4K8XY

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any evidence to indicate that steps have been, or will be taken, to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement.

It would appear the cache has been abandoned.

As such the cache is being de-listed (Archived). If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment with Georubbish.

If you wish to contact a Reviewer regarding this cache, please send an email via the profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

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### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUIRED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there Shamus1,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention.

You may recall having received an automated email from Geocaching HQ which explained what you needed to do.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have happened, so I am having to take the next step and temporarily disable the cache - see here: [**Geocache Health Score.**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713)

**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days so others know exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication kill this cache.**

#What should you do now:-#
You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-

- **Check On The Cache:-** Visit the cache and repair and/or replace or do whatever else is needed, post an [**Owner Maintenance log**](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) indicating the cache has been checked and [**ENABLE your cache.**](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) Then sit back and wait for the praises.

- **Place A Write Note Log:-** Reviewers are not mind readers, so without your note on the cache page telling them what the situation is, they can't tell what is going on with the cache.
So please just post a note to the page (within 14 days) and, when the listing is next checked, all will be fine for a little bit longer. But be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it.
If you have a long term unavailable cache (where you don't have an actual date), please ensure you visit this page and post a note every 4 to 6 weeks so as to keep everyone up to speed with what is happening.

- **Adopt/Archive:-** If you don't plan on fixing it then you could consider passing it on to another Geocacher by asking them to [**Adopt it**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=54) or alternatively, you need to [**Archive it,**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56) so it is removed from searches and someone else can have the spot. Don't forget to remove any remnants of your previously enjoyed cache too.

You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned and processed accordingly.

Honestly, I'd rather you decide, so please do something before then. Please don't send me an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.

**JUST A TIP:-** Have you checked out the new Geocaching Dash Board designed to assist a Cache Owner in managing the caches they own? Have a read about it [**HERE.**](https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2020/07/welcome-to-the-cache-owner-dashboard/?newsletter=PM) You will find your very own dash board [**HERE**](https://www.geocaching.com/play/owner?utm_source=geocaching&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=COD)

Thanks for your cooperation,

Bunjil

[3AS]

Need to come back for another adventure

Didn’t find

??

Couldn’t find today, this ones tough. Definitely need a hint !

No luck for me here today

Couldn’t find

Not able to find

Found this was one of our top 20 geocaches tftc

Another fun weekend assault on Victorian caches with Trigger_Fish where many caches were found, many miles were covered in the geomobile and some miles were walked.

An easy find once at the right level, thanks Shamus.

Good one, a little difficult to what we are use to

A lovely hidey spot TFTC

Cool location! Found with Kelly dog

All good with this one. Little search at the GZ but found in the end. But if a hop step and jump. I’m down from Queensland to pick up some rare DT and wanted to get a few more of these trads while I’m here.

I am GUR

Found safe and sound in this slightly smelly area.
I looked around...scaled what I needed to scale....grabbed the cache with no muggles in sight and was on my way to the next. Tftc

No clear relation to Chewbacca! Easy enough find.

Tftc. Took me a while to find it.

Searched around with no luck - resorted to hint.
Had a fair idea where to look, but accessing proved problematic.
Resorted to some objects lying around to give me a boost & soon cache was ok n hand.
TFTC

Found quick by geo hubby. Desperately needs a new log, had to squeeze our name on in a tiny gap. TFTC

A nice and easy find here

Today was a big day again of caching, making my way from Adelaide to Tasmania. Today I started in Ballarat and headed into Melbourne, woodland reserve was on the cards and the aim was to finish it off, unfortunately the bottom paddock was closed so I’ll be back once again. Overall 78 caches for the day.

TFTC

Found while on a cub pack holiday with the 1st Noorat cub pack, staying at the 5th Balarat scout hall.

A weekend packed with sovereign hill, Pizza Hut and Laser tag with a little Caching for myself in between. TFTC.

Found it no room for nore

It was an evening of first to find hunting with AusFox; to the North and after stopping in Ballarat for some much needed food we grabbed a few more smileys before heading home.
When we got near GZ for this one we quickly assessed where we thought the prize would be hiding and it wasn't long before we were signing our names in the log book.

Thank you Shamus1 for the hide

I received a call from Simsfamily as I was rapping up my day to see if I was interested in an evening drive. So with those words I packed a caching to join up and head into a moonless night of caching.
Simsfamily did the hard work here locating the cache.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache Shamus1
#5,058

Another fun adventure. Enjoyed this one!

Good one!!

After lunch we decided to find a couple more caches for the day. After navigating to GZ, we searched around for a bit and after the checking the hint, the find was made. Nice one, TFTC

Today was a good day to get out and about in the fresh air and enjoy the nice sunny day. I met up with DAB to do a bit of exploring in areas that we had both been too before but had wanted to go back to find a few more caches. I felt like a lizard at times taking in the nice sun we had but it was also cold when the cold breeze came through.

We parked the geo wheels not too far away and had to wait out a muggle and some council workers that thankfully were a little bit further away from where we wanted to be. DAB had the idea of this one straight away and came up with the goods very quickly.

[^] **Thanks for placing this cache for us to find and enjoy Shamus1** [^]

With some spare time before school pick up, Na'wal and myself hit the road looking for some caches. We left home in the dark to maximise our free time and arrived at the first hide just as the sun had risen. We had another great day, picking up some quality caches.

I had done a few in this series, but I'm not sure how I missed this one. Well today was the day to rectify that. A great location, that was the perfect spot for a hide. TFTC Shamus1

That was fun. I went the wrong way... anyone who has done this one care to guess which way I approached? Thanks for the cache.

Nyochi threw herself down there and found it! Took one for the team!! We directed from afar!! Tftc

Ha thar was fun :3

Perhaps use caution if you come down here if it’s been raining!! Lucky nyochi has long legs and could go get it!! TFTC

Nice hide thanks

Found it

Lovely day to find a few caches, this spot was very peaceful with next to no traffic so it become quite an easy quick grab. TFTC

Found by Simon, he enjoyed his first find!

TFTC

TFTC. We were in Ballarat to pick up new glasses. With time to spare before heading to Ukulele Group we took the opportunity to do some exploring using caching as a guide. We do not venture to this part of Ballarat often so it was a new experience.
We were on the way to a solved puzzle cache and saw this on the vehicle GPS. Stopped and it was a quick find.

Bit smelly here today!!

Thursday 15 November 2018

A tricky hide, but found with geofriends.

On my way from Adelaide to the Parkville mega, with buddies. Whilst in and around Ballarat we have generally been signing the logs "GAMBS" or "GWAMBS", or using our individual stamps, or writing our full caching names (depending on log size/ time at GZ etc).

GAMBS stands for: GoodLook, AnyMules, Muff 1, Brisal5 and SA Sewer Rats....GWAMBS includes Wozzle68 who joined us on our caching escapades - it is always awesome to travel with our very own PAF

What an awesome few days we've had so far!!!

Thanks so much for the cache %OwnerName! [^]

Well this one took a bit of looking.
muff1 have been staying in Ballarat in preparation for heading to the Parkville Event and while here our dear friends from SA have arrived and we have spent a couple of very full on days caching with them. We have all had an idea about certain caches that we would like to find and any other that we past by that we could grab.
Our appologies for the generic log, these do not take away from our appreciation of your cache hide. SL TFTC

A tricky hide.

Thanks for the cache Shamus1.
Found on 15 Nov 2018.
Find #7506

Found with Mindee. Lovely day to do some catching.

Nice hide, looked harder to reach than it actually was! Nice hide TFTC

What an interesting challenge for me to access this cache location. Just as well there were no muggles or others to witness my antics. An easy find once at GZ TFTC

Good find

Found

A great spot for a cache - good chance to "stretch" the legs! TFTC

Great cache.
Admire the work and effort that went into building the drainage system.
Thanks.

Log was a little full may need replacing soon

Found it

Discovered en route to an 'archived' cache. Absolute bonus as no longer any sign of the older cache - this find resulted from a very hopeful (desperate) search! Pleased as Punch to make my 300th find. All in good order & well hidden. TFTC Shamus

Like mortar!

Noice

**En route to Ballarat for the GIFF 2017 Event**...

Some nice caches around this beautiful area.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Shamus1... Appreciate your efforts...

A quick search, found, stamped and returned...

Cache Condition - *Fine*

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

**#11772**

Cache-On!

Awesome find

Found with TeamRobbie. Thanks for the cache.

Found it with emthegem tftc

Cool. Yes it's cold day, really it's the breeze, wind chill..Cheers TFTC

The Sewer Rats snuck over the boarder in to Mexico, with the Hologram,s.
We did a bit of sight seeing and caching.
Hologram's was selected to find this one.
It appears the log is full.
Sorry I could not replace the log, as I did not have any supplies on me.
This was a quick find. Tftc

Out and about to clean up a few more while visiting town. Needs CO to check as the log is full. TFTC

Find # 4319

Found with Tyred n Cranky

Down in Ballarat for the usual appointment, after lunch we headed off to claim some smileys.

I made the jump down to GZ and right beside some bees. Thankfully I was able to avoid stings and made a quick grab on the cache.

TFTC Shamus1

Find No. 1839. Found with FUF009 at 1.10pm.

Down in Ballarat with FUF009 who had an appointment to attend. After lunch it was time to do a bit of caching before heading home. We managed to get five caches plus one DNF for the afternoon.

At this site, on one end there were a swarm of bees but FUF009 managed to find a way down to the cache. Located cache quickly, signed the log and then left the bees to do their own thing. Luckily no bites for us today, but a smilie for our efforts.

TFTC Shamus1

Found after attending the CITO. Scrambled down and had to hide when some muggles walked past while signing the log. Thanks for the cache.

Happy Easter!!! Not much going on for good Friday and being home all day geohubby and I decided to get out for a little fresh air and a cache. Decided to have a look for this one and came up smiles tftc

Nice easy one, found with TajBentley. Great little hide apart from the resident wasps. TFTC

Great little hide, but annoyingly I forgot the pen. We'll be back to sign it soon. Paul & Riley. (RAMPITUP)

Lucky for me Angelique_Anja was with us. She volenreert to scrable to the cache

.With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

A bit of a scramble down but lucky there wasn't much water here today. A really quiet day made for a muggle free experience. TFTC

What would this team do without me? They wouldn't have found this cache, that's for sure. A really nice hide!

Been in Victoria for three weeks walking the Great Ocean Walk (100k) and the Goldfields Track (200k). Collected / found numerous caches along the tracks and nearby towns. TFTC.

Quick find on a nice day. TFTC

We only had time for one of this series, this visit. So am lucky that Chewbacca is my favourite character. TFTC.

Another countdown event to the Surf Coast Mega. This time Ballarat. I enlisted Locus Cache for company and we arranged to meet mogni and Mrs. Aussie M & M there as they were coming from a different direction. Having arrived last night we set off early to cache our way to the event. We had worked on Puzzles on the weeks leading up to the event so were keen to see if we could get some of those and any others we were passing. [^]
Oh over there. I guess it will be up to me then [?] AGAIN. Despite the recent rains there wasn't much flow and the bank wasn't that slippery. Made for a quick easy find. Thanks Shamus1. This was the only find of this series that we had time for so I guess another trip will have to be made.

This is my first find of this series and I will have to try to get a few more next time I visit.
Thanks

Brisal5 wanted a 'yapper' to keep him awake as he drove to Ballarat and he thought I'd be up to the task
After a late start Friday, due to his 'anytime is fine' reply when I asked what time we were leaving [)], we landed at our barn accommodation [^] in Ballarat about 8pm. After grabbing tea and a cache, we caught up with Mogni and Aussie M&M before checking out their weekend's amazing accommodation
Saturday we travelled the countryside from cache to cache in our two vehicles and managed to attend an event too (2 months to the Surf Coast Event - Ballarat) then bolted off to find a rare moveable cache [^]
Following a DNF on a bridge cache, our friends headed off for sleep [)] while Brisal5 and I cached until just after midnight by which time we were beat! [xx(]
Sunday after the usual caching breakfast of Maccas we said our goodbyes to the two ladies and then we two cached Ballarat until 1.45pm before finally heading for home.
Weekend tally of 1 event attended, 2 DNFs and 58 cache finds

Chewbacca called us and so we came here and our human geotool did the honours and made the find
One day, hopefully, I'll get back here to finish this series.

TNLN. SL. TFTC Shamus1

Good find! TFTC

Thank you

Found it last week on a miserable rainy day. Came back today to sign logbook on a much sunnier day. Tftc.

Found this one at 9:30am returning home from the Kick Start Event Cache with friends, Harrowang. Just drizzling, hadn't expected it to be such a pretty little hide! SL Thanks Shamus.

Another cache that appeared on the radar as we drove home to Markndee's from the Kick Start event in Ballarat. The cache site was a little wet and slippery, but with plenty to hang on to the two males in the party made it to GZ without incident. SL at 9.29am with Markndee Took: coin from Chile. #3717 TFTC Shamus1

Found by Mary & David at 1200. One of our favourite characters. Our daughter gave a small Chewbacca doll to her cousin who took him all around the world and nearly every photo had him in view. He even graced her wedding cake. Our thanks to Shamus1.

Was attending a family get-together at the Scout Hall, and took the two Star Wars obsessed nieces out to find this cache. My sister was the one who made the find.

Thanks for the hide.

Last find for the day. Altmot volunteered to scramble down for this one, I wasn't complaining! TFTC.

The scramble wasn't too bad to this one. TFTC

A nice little find. thanks

A nice easy find. TFTC

Good thing we can jump, tftc

We were on a mission!

Driving from St. Arnaud to Ballarat to get our 5 year old daughter a tattoo.

Hahaha, not so. Actually we were driving her to her grandparents place to they could take her to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo the next day.

But there was dinner to have and of course, rather than order dessert, why not a course of cache.

We went the cache.

A short drive from our dining location the GPS took us towards some cachey territory. I was soon up and over, and carrying the 5 year old cache monkey down with me we made the find.

An interesting little location where if I had a bigger dose of courage and more batteries for my torch it would have been worth exploring.

TFTC

Found this.....well Nugget did. Awesome spot . TFTC

After doing a tour in Subterranean we continued caching into the afternoon picking up some unfound caches in the area. After a quick scramble we had the cache in hand. TFTC Shamus1

We parked close and headed over. Once the GPSr settled hopped the fence and saw the likely location. Careful not to slip on the wet stone paving. We soon spotted the hide and completed the signing duties. TFTC

As one of only 3 caches left in the Star Wars series that I hadn't yet found, this one was a must. My elderly muggle mum who was with me wasn't so keen for me to be climbing fences, but hey, if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes! An easy task reminding me that although I'm now 50, I can still do a few energetic things. Once I'd crossed over to the dark side, it was a quick find. Thanks for the cache and the series Shamus1!

Tyfc. First one in a very long time. Kids a bit bigger and more agile now

We decided to go out for a cache early.
It was already quite hot but we did like the spot for this one.
Thanks Shamus for another in your series of Star Wars caches.

Found today with the family.
It was a really fun day out.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Found today with Eddie, Mum and Dad.
I had a great day out and about the area.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Great hiding spot and thankfully no one was around early this evening so I could jump in and log the find. Thanks Shamus1.