Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens Daylesford, Victoria, Australia
By ABtimes2 on 20-Jan-19. Waypoint GC82N9G

Unfortunately there has not been a response (or regular update) from the cache owner within the period requested and, as per the original advice, this cache is now being de-listed (Archived) as abandoned.

If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment.

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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Hi there ABtimes2,

It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is an issue. The cache has been temporarily disabled, so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location until the issues/s with this cache can be addressed.

**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days, so others know you are on top of it, as well as indicating exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication scuttle this listing.**

#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 logs of praise to roll in.

- **Place A Write Note Log::-** Reviewers don't have a crystal ball, so without your note on the cache page explaining that the site works are on-going, or you have been in hospital, or the area is in flood, 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 a Reviewer next looks at the listing, all will be fine for a little bit longer.
**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 the page and post a note every 4 to 6 weeks, so as to keep everyone up to speed.**

- **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 those. Well, if nothing happens, then a few weeks from today, when a Reviewer next looks at the cache page, it is likely that they will, unfortunately, have to de-list (Archive) on the basis that it has been abandoned.

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

[3B]

After a netball game for Neisha07 in Trentham, we stopped for a few caches on the way home. We did the Ad Lab here and spent a little while looking for this one. I was relieved to finally spot it!
Didn't have a log to replace sorry. Pic for proof of find. TFTC

**Mon, 01 Aug - 14:22**
Log is full and new one needed - see found log.

14:22
After a long weekend in Bendigo: time to catch up with non geocaching friends from the past and make tracks for home. Naturally a few detours on the way to collect a few smiley tokens for our collection.

This one felt a bit like a "bonus cache" to the nearby Adventure Lab. As others have said, this one is in desperate need of a fresh log - unfortunately we haven't one to match the cache.

**FEEDBACK TO CO:** Future seekers would appreciate a fresh log to sign, please.

Thanks to ABtimes2 for placing caches in interesting locations.
32682

This was the very first geocache that I’ve ever gone looking for, but unfortunately we just couldn’t find it! Spent a lot of time walking around the tree and sign, looking for the tiny micro cache. Perhaps better luck next time.

Cache #11675
Heading home to Adelaide today after visiting family in Melbourne for the weekend.
While doing the AdLab here realised this one wasn't far away so detoured for a look. After quite a bit of looking I needed to look again, this time to find a spot on the log to write on, it's very full but did find a spot on the very inside end.
Thanks to ABtimes2 for putting out this cache and hopefully maintaining.

**A NEW NANO LOG IS REQUIRED**

*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

Round and round and round the bend I almost went last time I was here. I can still vividly recall trying to find this cache on sunset to no avail.

This time I was in the presence of friendly company RoamingHowie, ChooknChunk and OzHockeyChick and was able to turn this frown to a smile!

Nice to visit again and to complete the Adventure Lab.

Thanks for the cache and visit to the gardens.

Found while exploring the Botanical Gardens, in the company of Roaming Howie, OzHockeyChick and KristysAdventures. This tiny cache was soon found after a minute or two, and we managed to find a tiny area on the full log to write in CNC OHC and KA. TFTC ABtimes2.

In the company of RoamingHowie, chooknchunk and Kristysadventures, we wandered around the gardens doing the AdLab. RH had found this previously and had a vague idea as to what we were looking for. That would’ve taken a lot longer otherwise. The logbook is rather full and could do with a replacement.

Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, ABtimes2

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Tricky tricky lucky find for Maggie
Unable to write in Log
Photo for proof

So teeny! Hubby found it pretty quickly. Log was full so took a photo instead. TFTC!

Fun, adventure, travel, history, geology, mental stimulation, social gatherings, support and friendship are just some of the elements of geocaching.

Out and about enjoying the opportunity to grab a few caches, yours being one of those I targeted on my journey today. Thanks ??

Thanks ABtimes2 for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Tiny cache! Fun to look for. Didn't sign logbook as it is full, so attached a photo of the cache

Took a bit if hunting....small and sneaky. TFTC

Found it! Teeny tiny one

However left the pen in the car by accident - oops. No signature on the log today

What a spectacular tree. Luckily a fairly quick find. TFTC

Great old tree many years of tales

TFTC

Wow!! This took me way longer than it should of. My GPS wasn't playing the game either which made it more difficult.

Sneaky little hide, so thank you

Amadds1980 was onto it before I finished sight seeing

Sneaky sneaky
Madds was onto it pretty quick with Learmonth3

Very tricky, second time coming out here. But finally found it. Thanks for the catch.

Wow I am super impressed on a find for this one. A bit lucky as found relatively quick.

My muggle friend found this one! Gosh that was tricky!

16 April 2022
9:59 am
1840

Hi ABtimes2, I found Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens today.
It was a very sneaky hide!

Many thanks ABtimes2 for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Found by The Empire + H
A lovely wander down from our holiday rental up on the hill... except for the big hill we had to walk up! All good once we were in the gardens though - such a great spot. Thanks for the cache ABtimes2, a tricky one to find but H was all over it whilst I was looking elsewhere!
- M

Super super small

Found it

27,377. Found with minniek during our long weekend trip down to the Geelong Region.

With a Community Celebration Event on offer yesterday, and my son living nearby, minniek and I decided to make a mini long weekend of it and come down from Goulburn for some quality caching and social events. Finding an evening event at a camp ground was just the perfect end to a perfect day. We left Goulburn at 2pm Friday and arrived at our hotel in Geelong that night at 10pm - perfect ! Up early yesterday morning for a whole variety of caches and locations. We finished up camping and attending the BBQ and Sunset Event (or Swag and Snag Event as some called it) which was great. This morning we broke camp and drove to Hoppers Crossing to visit my son. After that we started the long haul home via some new counties. We stopped here for this cache, the Adventure Lab, and to have lunch. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one.

Thanks ABtimes2 !!

Fitzy_1965 and I made a plan to head to Melbourne this weekend to visit his son who lives near Geelong. The Community Celebration Event at Geelong yesterday sealed the deal.

After a fantastic event last night, we headed to bed just before the rain started. It was wonderful going to sleep with the sound of it on the tent. A bit of a sleep-in saw us the last of the overnight campers to leave. We weren’t heading to this morning’s event near Ballarat as counties were more of a priority as we cached our way home. Packed up and on our way just before the rain started again!

This one was rather sneaky but we got lucky and came away with a fairly quickish find in amongst the muggles walking past. After the find, we drove to the top and had lunch. What a wonderful place. Thanks so much for bringing us here today.

Stopped in Daylesford for the night after riding the Goldfield Track today from Ballarat. Totally knackered but still it was such a nice evening that we ventured out to admire the the views from nearby. Picked up this cache before heading back to crash for the evening.
TFTC

Were not able to spot it

A challenging hide in a beautiful spot on a thundery sultry evening.

In Daylesford for a few days’ getaway. Haven’t cached in a few years. Figured what the hell…..let’s do this. Grabbed the GPS and walked the 500 m from our stay place…..took a few minutes but found before dusk really came in which would make this one near impossible to find without some illuminating assistance.

Lovely gardens to walk around. Found fairly quickly. Nice little hide. Said hello to Mr Wombat as well. TFTC

Yeet found this one, probably wouldn’t have been able to find it. Nice spot tftc!

Found out caching with Wollaston on a slow meander north. Popped in and found the cache fairly quickly.

Container condition good
Log condition filling up but still a bit of room

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC ABtimes2

Find # 5734

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. I’ll leave the more interesting detailed log to Mrs Geo (aka: SeasonedBird, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook or Angry Bird) because she writes so much more eloquently than I and usually has much more time while I’m driving. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC ClancyHouse
Find #8102 at 14:31.

GPS jumping around but finally found the right nook.

TFTC

Heading out of Melbourne for a bit of a break, first stop is Castlemaine.
Heaps of caches around here, mostly around abandoned mines so time to increase a few attributes here.
So drove up on Monday afternoon and stopped for one on the way up.
Then spent the next few days visiting a lot of the historic sites and finding the surrounding caches. Next stop was Hepburn Springs and Daylesford for some more caching adventures.

Took me too attempts here, lots of spiders around this one... was originally looking for a different container type... but once found this one is tiny.

Thanks for the cache and the hide.
Log book has been signed and returned
Find #929

Best laid plans: we stayed in Geelong for 2 nights then after picking up a former colleague and taking her to Torquay for an Indian tea at the beach[:X][^] Afterwards we walked the beach until it was dark and both her dog, Miss Mavis, and Rex had fun[:X][^]
I dropped my friend back home and then had to decide: sleep[|)][|)] or drive to Warrnambool in the hope of getting a FTF or 3
That's how we ended up in Warrnambool on Christmas morning and getting a FTF about 3am, 3.30am and 4am We did not see Santa at all in our travels though
We stayed in Warrnambool that night[^][|)][:X] and then stopped in Daylesford the next night[|)][^][|)] before finally getting home Monday evening[|)][^]
Many hours were spent on different beaches as they are Rex' happy place[:X][^][:X]
Over the trip, there were 5 DNFs, 1 Festivus event attended and 40 caches found
We even managed 1 complete adv lab at Daylesford, too[^]

I'd planned to find this cache on our way out of the gardens[^] however while wandering a shady path, we ended up here So it had to be found while we were here!
It was found, the log signed[^] and then we went away to explore the gardens further[^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC ABtimes2

Second time lucky! On a casual walk after Christmas lunch

T

Second attempt, first try was exhausted nearing the end of a long road trip. I'm not really scared of spiders but the first place I looked two big beady eyes looked back at me! Luckily it was found pretty quick, I didn't want to be poking around here! Very tiny container, I'm so happy I found it! TFTC! ️

Smallest one yet! TFTC!

Tftc

Uhh shit hiding spot

TFTC!

We found it, it was tiny

Found it with a little assistance from past activity posts. Keep looking, photograph helped a bit. You know what large thing it'll be on, you just have to be persistent.

Just as we both said ‘happy to giv......’ and there it was!

Found with Cardiackelli. We both simultaneously said we had given up, there it was. TFTC

An early morning visit and a bit of a hunt. Wasn't sure I was searching the correct object but got there eventually. A tricky but well conceived hide. TFTC ABtimes2 and a fav from me.

Awesome little hide and spot thanks Garth/Jasper

Found while visiting Daylesford region for a special birthday.
Geohubby was born here and enjoyed a trip down memory lane and new places to visit.

TB's visited

TFTC

We looked and looked, only to find that we were looking in the wrong direction. TFTC.

Put here with my good mate Pacman. Previously have had a DNF here so a longer search today allowed us to find.

A great day with Shumba7. Out for breakfast, ANZAC March, the market and a couple of caches.

The tower is worth the climb.

TFTC. What a lovely area to explore. Got this with Algae today on a visit to the Daylesford market. The Wombat was pretty hard to ride.. we visited the top of the tower and walked through the fern garden to visit this cache. Which did take a little while to find, but something sparkled out the spider webs and the log was soon found and signed.

Found with our little beautiful cousin Ember Sadie!

Such a great hide. Just as we were about to give up on our search there it was right in front of us. TFTC

Thankfully it was pretty quiet today which allowed enough time to eventually find this little one. TFTC

Found on a visit to the gardens with our pals who are new to geocaching but had the stealth and vision to spot this one! No pen but took a photo. TFTC!

Found on a visit to the gardens with our pals who are new to geocaching but had the stealth and vision to spot this one! No pen but took a photo. TFTC!

Another visit to polish "Fatso's" nose today

Then it was time to search the all too familiar 'thing' at GZ
So a few laps of said thing,
by me helper and I,
were needed
Second lap was the charm !!
And there was a very well hidden cache to sign

TFTC

Yesterday I visited and failed to locate anything useful Back today after cherry danish and coffee, and with my secret weapon (If) the cache was soon spotted But not by me

Fatso is looking good

TFTC ABtimes2, dropping a FAVE point here

Sadly I could not spot it

kenare, Sean.75 and I were making our way home from Castlemaine when we stopped in here for the loo and to find your cache. Once the gps settled we soon had it in hand, logged and replaced. We left, still laughing about the grafitti on the toilet door! tftc

My Gps had me going all over the place, until at last it settled. Well, a lucky spy had me finding this tiny cache. Cigc. Tftc

After spending a few hours caching around Castlemaine we decided it was time to head home. Usually this requires is stopping in Daylesford somewhere. So for a change we swung in here. Omg!! I have never laughed so much while in a public toilet and I have NEVER taken a photo in one until today (see attached photo,lol). Kenbryl and I met Sean.75 at a nearby picnic table and he asked what was so funny in the funny do I showed him the photo! This set is all off again!! Tftc

In area on family history business. Cache in good condition, albeit not ideal for my extremely large hands.

This was the 2nd date for bogonghazy and I, and of course I was introduced to this game. Thanks for being a part of our story ABtimes2

What a magnificent host for a very tiny cache. Beautiful gardens.

Took us a while to find. Not sure how my date thinks, she's not saying much.
Thanks for the challenge

Did multiple laps but today is not my day unfortunately. Will try again next time I’m in town.

Found just arfter lunch at the cafe. Great little hide. Tftc.

Search didn’t last too long once we knew what we were looking for (thanks to some previous photos). TFTC

Tricky little hide, geocaching senses found this one , love the wombat TFTC

Heading north today so decided a short refresher was in order at one of my favourite gardens. A very sneaky cache which luckily was quickly found. A favourite point for it TFTC ABtimes2

You need an eagle eye for this one! Very well hidden micro!!!

Round and round I went and after 30 minutes spent, I could not see a cache
Thanks for the location and the fernery is lovey

Stopped for a late breakfast in Daylesford and discovered we only needed one more cache to reach a minor milestone of 7600 finds. Almost snowing here this morning and a toasty 13 degrees when looking for this sneaky micro. Success and SL at 11am. #7600 TFTC ABtimes2. Now to head home to the sunny and warmer NE of the State!

TFTC with a close look found him easily, with a great place to start a walk around this beautiful gardens.

Took us a few minutes but EKPGeoGirl had her caching eyes on once again and made the find while I was still poking about in the spider webs. Cheeky hide. TFTC.

Cache container in great condition but logbook completely full. Needs replacement.

Log book replaced good to find again, happy caching

Was worried we might be here for hours but after some methodical searching, found it.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Staying in the area for a long weekend. Found with the test pilot and aqau. Beautiful day to be at botanical gardens.
Thanks for the cache

Found the micro cache at 3:44 pm can’t believe I found it so quickly. Having a family get together in Daylesford. Enjoying the beautiful gardens at Wombat Hill. TFTC

After a 9km hike along the Tipperary track we made our way into town for lunch and then some quieter caching around the area.
I had never been to these pleasant gardens before.
We thought this cache was going to be a DNF but perseverance paid off.
Thanks, ABtimes2.

Having a picnic with friends before Christmas. We have been up and down the tower and walked through the garden this was the last thing we had to do. Found quickly. TFTC

OMG what a hunt, but we found it.

Too many spiders

Tricky hide. Didn't take as long as it had potential to. Thanks Nice views on the circuit out.

Nice

Found quicker than expected. TFTF. G & C

October 3, 2020 1:19 PM #3057

Took a couple of laps of GZ before I found a likely looking hiding spot. With close investigation the cache was found safe and well. Signed as PL on what little blank room I could find as the logsheet is quite full. Thx ABtimes2 ftc.

No joy here today