Blow Your Mind Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia
By Smegheads and Hall of Fame on 14-Nov-04. Waypoint GCM2KK

Unfortunately, I cannot see any information that indicates that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement. Therefore as advised previously, the cache is being de-listed (Archived) to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

The [**Geocache Maintenance guideline**](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance) explains what needs to happen with a Disable cache.

Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived. This is explained in the Help Center article [**here**](http://support.groundspeak.com//index.php?pg=kb.page&id=70).

If you wish to contact me please send an email via my profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the cache name and GC number.

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###**CACHE OWNER ACTION REQUIRED PLEASE**###

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I've noticed this cache is carrying a maintenance log which really does need to be addressed by the cache owner.

The guidelines indicated that periodic visits to check on the cache, as well as prompt attention to any logs that indicate there is a problem, are part of the [**cache owners responsibilities.**](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines#listingmaintenance) If you can't attend to the issue promptly, then you need to [**Disable it**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=235) - I have Disabled it for you this time.

**Can you please respond to this situation (or indicated your intention) by 8th September,** so others know exactly what is happening with this cache?

You have lots of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:

- Repair and/or Replace your cache or do whatever else is needed, post an [**Owner Maintenance log**](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and [**ENABLE your cache.**](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) Then sit back and wait for the praises.

- If you don't plan on fixing it up then please [**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.

- If you really hope to get it fixed but there is some unusual reason why you can't do it soon, then at least post a Write Note log (by 8th September). Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it.

You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of those. Well, if nothing happens, then a few weeks from today, when I next look at the cache page, it is likely that I will unfortunately have to de-list (Archive) it 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 instructions posted above.
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Attempted this one in a beautiful area. The track is not accessible. It’s been closed off with a fence across the walkway and tape. We looked for other ways to access it but it wasn’t to be.
~ Crazy Creels

The path was unsafe so we ended up just walking down to the little creek.

Found it

A mild winters day out and about in one of my favourite parts of the state with Pacman and Bentley.

First time here, very cool spot. Enjoyed checking out the area and plan on coming back some day to do the circuit. Thanks for placing a cache here for our enjoyment!

Found it at the same time I decided to give up the gps was bouncing around and had me crossing the gully and climbing the walls. only after I was ready to pack it in I found it. nice hide although the container is starting to get a bit brittle and the contents has some water in it, the log is still dry in its plastic bag.

Happy Easter!!! Happy Daylight Savings!!! Happy April Fools Day!!! Happy Full Moon!!! The Blow Hole was very dry today, but still a beautiful spot. Had to sneak in to show my sister and find the cache. We built a bridge there last year and it was good to see it was still standing. Love a local cache, thank you.

Like many before us, we climbed the fences, ducked under rails and ventured cross country to find this cache.
Couldn't tell quite why these paths were blocked off but I hope to come back some day after rain to see the blow hole in action. Thanks

A bit late logging this days caches as I only just got home today.
I broke a few rules getting to this one, but when there's a cache to be found I just can't help myself.
A bit of a search at ground zero, but then spotted the hide. Bit of a snake haven down here. Also I've seen this creek in flood, and when that happens again. This cache will finish up in the Lodden River!
Took nothing, left nothing, signed the log.
Thanks for the cache Smegheads and Hall of Fame.

Went to complete this one but couldn’t due to it being unsafe

Our last day in Hepburn Springs, so I left the wife to do the packing, and I took the toddler caching. This was on my list of ones to get, because I'd heard the Blowhole is pretty cool.
If I had've read that it hadn't been found for over a year, I probably wouldn't have bothered, but away I went, blissfully unaware.
When we got to the path and saw it all blocked, my 3yo cheekily told me we should jump the fences. I weighed up the options: Be a responsible Dad, or get a cache? Obviously, the caching side won out, because over the fence we went! And then over the next. Then we followed what looked like a recent Cacher Trail (but in hindsight was probably an animal trail, judging by the amount of droppings), all the way up to the cache. It was spotted fairly easily, sitting well-protected from the elements. We signed, gasped at how long it'd been since the last find, then bashed our way back to the car. Unfortunately, nothing particularly spectacular here, so I'm yet to see what this blowhole is! Regardless, thanks for the cache.

Came to Daylesford for a week end break and thought we would do a spot of caching as we went. Had a go at 4 various caches and didn't find any of them!! Partly because two of the tracks were shut because of slips or flood damage. Now that I read these logs I see that we could have gone over the barrier anyway. TFTC. Still had a lovely walk.

Find number 5573 at 4:40:17 pm
On the way home from working in Maryborough for a couple of days and grabbing a couple of caches on the way whilst stretching my legs during the long trek.
Track is closed due to safety and falling rocks however the biggest danger that I could see was the possibility to do an injury getting over the many barriers that PV has put in place to keep you out, what a crock.
Beautiful place...
**Thanks for placing this cache Smegheads**

I was a little naughty with this one. Despite the authorities closing the track and steps I did disobey and for my sins not only found the cache but managed to snap a photo with the blow hole in full flow. Pretty awe inspiring...

Came down to check out the blow hole. We were heading back to the car when we checked to see where this cache was. Had to go back down the stairs and a short walk for a find. TFTC

Great cache location away with friends for a girls weekend, blowhole was running very fast Tftc

Spur Loop Walk where this cache is located is currently closed due to a recent rock fall.

19th July 2016
#67
Swapped Clapping Hands keyring for foreign coin & plastic chook

Out caching with floppyandjoe. Nice easy find. Thanks. Silkyie.

Found it - tricky without any hints!

Find #978 for me. When I pulled up at the carpark at 10.30 this morning, I was a little surprised to see 3 other cars there, so presumably the blowhole is quite well-known to others at least, even though I didn't know of its existence until today. After making my way down to GZ it took me nearly 20 minutes to finally uncover the well-hidden container, not helped by a rather jumpy GPS signal that forced me to expand my search somewhat, together with many possible hiding places within that search area. Thanks for bringing me to this great location today Smegheads and thanks for the cache!

#1902 Away from Melbourne for a couple of days touring around and picking up a few caches along the way. Lovely area around the Blowhole - really enjoyed spending some time here. The hide was eventually found after carefully navigating the way there. Thanks Smegheads.

Wow another place I wouldn't of know was here if it wasn't for geocaching. Beautiful spot. After a short walk and crossing of the fingers I didn't have to climb the slope I located GZ. Logged signed and replaced. No muggles around which was good.

Everything is so dry at the moment but we can see how high the water must get at times! Would be amazing to see it like that but maybe not so good for the cache ))) Thanks for bringing us here

The GPS was not being that helpful today, and the heat and the humidity were right up ther, so we were very close to blowing our mine, Mrs snorka went and sort the shade for a bit and I came at the site from another angle and made an easy discovery. As in I stepped on something, it moved, and when I reached down to regain my balance I saw that I was in fact standing on the hide. Lol. A bit of a laugh and back into town for a needed cool drink. TFTC.

#1894 Such a shame we came here at its driest time, a return visit is definitely on the cards. A nice bit of history here we enjoyed reading on our way down to the cache. Once at GZ the cache was spotted without fuss. TFTC Smegheads.

Mum is now officially hooked on geocaching. I gave her the phone and let her lead the way. As we got close to GZ I had a bit of an idea of where the cache might be. "Mum look for something out of the ordinary, or something that doesn't look quite right" I said. She made a bee line for the spot I suspected. "Found it!" she squealed, pure gold seeing my 72 year-old mother do a happy dance . TFTC Smegheads, we had lots of fun finding this one

Yebo smegheads and hall of fame
Coming to the blowhole we didn't expect much and true, a bit of water and that's it- well that's the season I guess
Over to your cache I realized that I haven't been in the Australian bush for a long time and with pounding heart I repeated the mantra
No snakes no snakes no snakes no snakes
Until I got it
Tftc

Great spot with interesting history. TFTC

Find #2187. Found @ 14:29 with The Good Lady Wife.

We were staying in Daylesford for the weekend and I needed to grab an Earthcache to score the International Earthcache Day souvenir. After grabbing the nearby earthcache information, I decided I'd better collect this find as well.

One thing I have learned from today's efforts. I need to work out how to get topographical information on to my GPSr. I made the classic blunder of heading off towards GZ without fully reading the description and ended up taking the hard route down the slope. The Good Lady wife took a picture of me heading down with the way I should have gone clearly visable in the background.

Took trackable, left nothing, signed log and visited some other trackables.
Thanks for the cache Smegheads

A fantastic place to visit, thanks for bringing us here. There was plenty of water coming through the blowhole today. Also quite a few people were out walking/enjoying nature. Thanks for the hide.

Without a GPSr I didn't have much luck but what a beautiful and special place! Thank you so much for bringing me here x

Travelling around Australia and staying a few days at Mt Franklin.

We headed into the freezing cold with a plan to attempt many walking trails.

The weather was pretty cold, we saw rain hail and sleet! Wow a day to remember.

Brrr freezing. no muggles about today! Surprise.

TFTC Smegheads

haven't been down here for 40 years last time as a kid
great spot some water flowing and green gullies.
thanks for bringing me back.
dropped off skater bob TB

TFTF. Nice one at the end of an impromptu caching day. Tracker the Labrador says farewell

What a wonderful place. Great walk from Daylesford via Tipperary Springs. Frightened a muggle wallaby who had been guarding the cache. Left trackable Tracker the Labrador.
TFTC

Was nice to get out and about with Leetalicious and the dogs for a tour of Daylesford on a beaut Winter's day. After the market and the local caches, we headed to the 'springs' to grab the EC and the trad here. My thanks to Smegheads for placing this one, and a chance to enjoy this historic and beautiful site. Spot-on coords and a good sized container have me adding a fave too.
Cheers Phil

Clough Family found with norbert australia, great hide

Haha now our new friends helped us to locate this one... 1:1

Gorgeous scenery and lovely walking track. Thanks for sending us out there xx

NorbertAustralia changed login/nick ne on NKAWK'14 ... Just shorter and describe a bit better that is two of us in a team

Bit of an off road find for this one. Beautiful spot!! Tftc

Found with hqe1 tftc

This beautiful place was a great place to walk a around, we found the hide fast and continued our walk tftc

Found it after a bit of a search. Somehow it stood out once u spotted where it was. Nice walk to the cache. Tftc

Nice walk

TFTC
Greetings from switzerland

Easy find while doing some walks on this nice area

T4TC & greetings from Switzerland
Smurfy_CH

Found with geo hubby's help while on a bush walking holiday. No water in Sailors Creek so we were able to climb through the blow hole. TFTC

Snakes!!!! Thanks for the cache

Great find across rugged terrain. Beware of snakes

Fantastic walk along this stretch of Goldfields Trail with some Ballarat mates. Great place thanks!

After completing the nearby Earthcache, bear-cacher and I walked initially along the top of the ridge to approach this cache - wrong idea. We back-tracked and found the appropriate path taking us right by gz. A quick spotting of something that didn't quite look right and we uncovered a cache. TFTC Smegheads, a nice walk was had.

I'm beginning to dislike those steps as I'd just climbed up from viewing the blowhole and had not looked carefully enough to discover this one was down that way, Sooo... Down again foe a quick find and then that nasty climb AGAIN TFTC Smegheads

28 deg c day. Many good steps down. Rare covering. First cache found !!

Found by The Empire + H with Team Tornado
This one took a little finding, got there in the end. Thanks for the cache Smegheads.
- M

Thanks for an interesting location

After the rain yesterday we was keen to get out of the caravan and continue exploring this area. We took a drive to Hepburn Springs and spotted the sign to the Blowhole. Curiously got the better of us and with our GPS a showing a geocache we just had to do the walk even though the sky had blackened again.

After viewing the tunnel and taking heaps of photos we soon found ourselves near GZ. Fortunately there was a log or two to balance on to get over the stream which was flowing I didn't fancy getting wet. After a short hunt we had the massive cache in hand. So good to find decent sized caches in the bush as these days micros seem to be the go, just call us old school geocachers, we really appreciated this.

Favourite marks from us. This is the type of geocaching we love.

Thanks

It took us two visits to log this one. Our GPS was sending mixed messages which resulted in sending us up and down the hill multiple times. After reading through previous logs we were on the right track.
Thanks for bringing us to such a beautiful and interesting spot!!

What an amazing place to visit with Becca85, dropped a TB off too

Found on a Caching daytrip to Daylesford with reganseekers.
Thought for sure the GPS was playing with us but we followed it and both spotted it at the same time.
Beautiful spot! TFTC Smegheads. TNLN

I didn't find it other times I was here but this visit was the one thanks for the cache in this awesome area.

Nice cache for my first time. Took a while, but finally found it. Pp

Here on a mini break with my sister and it's her first geocache experience - fabulous!!!

Found it with friends

Second find of the day on our way to an event to celebrate EarthCache day. This one was found easily enough with the help of my 4 year old son who dutifully followed me to the GZ to inspect the treasure. Signed the log and replaced in its hidy hole. Thanks for bringing me to this place SmegHeads. It was well worth the walk.

After walking from the event at Tipperary Springs to the Earthcache at Hepburn Springs, a group of us headed to find this cache. Thanks for the hide Smegheads, great to see a nice big cache container.

We made our way to GZ after completing the nearby Earthcache on International Earthcache Day. Nicely hidden. Thanks Smegheads.

We made our way to this cache after the completing the Earth cache, a good hide.

# 6845. On our way to Daylesford today to get ourselves an Earth Cache and attend The Event. Robmc and I are also hoping to gather a few more during the day. We found this one after a false start. We climbed up the steps to the ridge only to find that it was in fact back down the bottom. Oh I hate stairs. We were still busily searching when we were joined by a couple of other cachers - geniejoan and shamus1. Having read a previous log we widened our search area and it wasn't long before I spied a likely hiding spot. Success at last.

Thanks Smegheads

found with wozzle68 an co from Ballarat tftc

Find 651: Found with BettyBoo3747, RobMc and Shamus1 after having arrived at the nearby earth cache. TFTC

Found with fellow Geo cacher friends after a short walk . Could be a very snakey area in the warmer months ahead. A good hide thanks .

After a lovely wedding yesterday afternoon and a wonderful post-celebration breakfast this morning we just had a couple of caches to get before we headed home. Coords were spot on for us today with this one and given the lack of rain it was a quick trip across from the path. Lovely area.
Thanks Smegheads

International Earthcache day and we had to go and celebrate with an Earthcache!
BettyBoo3747 and I decided on the Tipperary Springs event as we hadn't been to Daylesford for a while. While in the area we picked up a few other caches too.
We had come out here for the Earthcache, but while we were in the area....
BB is so keen on walking up and down stairs that she convinced me to try for this one from the top! When we got here it was obvious this was not the way, and back down we went. We waded in through the long grass and started searching.
We were soon joined with shamus1 and geniejoan
After reading a log, with a bit of a clue, BB found the cache.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found with a group of cachers on International Earthcache Day.
TFTC Smegheads, hope to see you back caching again soon!

Found rather quickly by my son. GPS coordinates were a bit out. As we were sitting on the path looking through the cache a huge boulder came loose and rolled down the opposite bank where we had been a few minutes earlier. It crashed to a stop about 10 meters from the GC. Very exciting.

App has refs send in us all over the place on this one. Could not find cache but spent ages looking. App's directions kept moving and we could not get a handle on what we were looking for from the directions. Better luck next time!

I followed Mainebirds route and had to cross the creek on the same logs. Took a while to find the cache as the gps and phone both agreed I needed to be somewhere else. Once I was closer I was able to spot the hidey-hole. Once the log was signed it was off to see the Blowhole.
It was a nice spot to visit and the Blowhole was interesting. It would be nice to get back one day to do the circuit route.
Thanks for the cache Smegheads

What an amazing place! We took the path on the wrong side of the creek and then had to carefully cross at some logs. Thanks for bringing us here!

This entry was edited by Mainebirds on Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 08:23:36 UTC.

Super excited to find this today with the geokids as it marks off a find for a different challenge. What a gorgeous place. Kids loved it. Hunting for the cache took a bit of effort though but finally we found it. GPS was all over the place. Kids made a few swaps. Thanks heaps

Some lovely views here today. It was easier to spot the cache when we tried approaching from a different angle. Lots of potential hiding locations, but it was clear when we spotted it. TFTC

1032 am 19 June 2014. Cloud cover tricked the GPS a bit but got there eventually. TNLNSL TFTC.

Been planning to get to Hepburn for some time to complete two caches for the Old Timer Challenge. Both Springs Eternal (2001) and Blow your mind (2004) required! Now both smiley faces and enjoyed this trip to a tourist site not been to before. Fascinating natural feature and great walking tracks. Good size cache and good contents but had no swaps so TNLN TFTC Smegheads.

We walked from Breakneck Gorge to The Blowhole. Very nice spot, we had lunch here. I spotted something suspicious and soon cache was in hand. TFTC!

Our 3rd DNF this pm but not through lack of searching and searching in the warm afternoon sun - ( found 8 caches today so we did ok!) Fortunately there were no snakes about but we did find plenty of burrs and grass seeds that enjoyed the walk back to the geomobile with us. We have not been here for some years now and it was good to see the area again.
TFmaking such a good job of hiding your cache, Smegheads

Quick find after an afternoon with geocaching friends at the Hepburn Springs. Nice spot for a geocache. Tftc.

Found this cache, lovely warm day out, kept our eyes peeled for snakes..luckily we didn't come across any, we did however bring back 100s of grass seeds in our shoes and socks haha..lovely spot though, thanks for bringing us here..TFTC

Found on 11/12/13 TFTC. Took jello wallet because it was leaking. Gave the box a clean with my trusty handkerchief.

I was wet through from the constant rain today but decided I was so close it didn't matter. Took the wrong path at first but soon woke up and headed down the steps where I navigated through the long grass thankful it wasn't a hot day.
On the way back I took time to check the blow hole and I like the picture you placed in the description. By now I was so wet it was time to head for home.
Thanks for bringing me here smegheads

Nice walk - TFTC

Bad gps made this much harder to find than it could have been.

My hubby found this one. It took us a while to find but it's such a lovely place to walk that we didn't mind TFTC!

Heavy rain last night so plenty of water about. One of us slipped and got a little wet. Tnln.

Hard find but got it in the end

Lots of water gushing through. Had to cross water and fell in. :I

Great spot we loved it!, took the kids on a nice walk from Bryce's flat to find this one. Plenty of water blasting out! Took nothing Left nothing. tftc.

TFTC great cache

beware of snakes in this area during summer

Thx for the cache. Came back and oh what a search!!!! Took a while but found the Cache. Took a lady bug eraser and left a yellow bull dog clip.