PUMPHOUSE Flintstone, Tasmania, Australia
By ROBTAS on 17-Jan-09. Waypoint GA1357

It's May-ntenance Month and the Geocaching Ausralia admins are reviewing caches with a string of DNF's. Unfortunately this is one of them.

We're archiving this cache as it appears to be missing. If it reappears or is replaced by the cache owner it can be resurrected by logging an "unarchived" against it.

no find today.

Rated: for Overall Experience

No luck for us today. I think we were at GZ but eluded us sadly. Bitterly cold and trying to snow!

As this hasn't been found for 3 years we didn't bother to look but did pop in for a look at the pumphouse

It's been quite a while since the last successful find here & with two DNF's preceeding us we weren't hopeful. We closely examined the circumference of the nearest hint item, then did the same to the items at the other 3 corners but nothing man-made was located. Judging by the many "gifts" left by some of the locals, the cache may indeed have been muggled by marsupials.
Perhaps we're jinxed though. A quick count tells us that of the 17 robtas GCA hides we've looked for to date, this makes 7 DNF's to 10 finds. Not a good average we'd admit.

Searched but could not find

Had a good look around but no luck. Lake looking good though.

Quick find with new coords. Calm on the lake today. TFTC.TFTC

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Slight change to co-ords thanks to Budgietas and for the maintenance much appreciated

Another cache that the trip to the central highlands with oldsaint that I had listed as a must do. I had been here before but was unable to find as the coordinates where leading me to the other side of the structure.

Finally found the cache this time and the log was paper mache. So replaced the job with a new one in the plastic bag. Hopefully this will last longer.

You need to be on the landward side of the strucutre. I had coordinates of s41 59.290 e146 51.660

Lovely spring day and trying to find a few caches in the area. Started looking in slightly the wrong spot but the hint helped and a cache was found. The big slug I disturbed wasn't too happy though.

Log inside was quite damp but able to write on it still. Ground very wet from recent snow but lovely location and took some photos. TFTC.

DNF

Found on our 450klm Highland Loop round trip. What a great area to explore we enjoyed every moment of it. This cache was one of ten we found on the day.

Several muggle fisherman about but managed to find the cache, had to check several rocks before success. TFTC

Looked around all the big rocks until I came to the right one. TFTC

An easy find. Thanks

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Well, what can be said except that it was very... pumphouse-y? A somewhat desolate kind of place where pumps and pipes and water and fish are king. The pumphouse rose like some kind of metallic growth beside the lake shore. There were a few other cars about, but the muggles were all out on the lake somewhere under cloudy skies. Got a bit of a sinking feeling when looking at all those rocks by the parking area, but thankfully the cache was in a more sensible place and found after a short search.

Found in company of Runciple, easy to find I had wodered how others had found it by torchlight but can understand it now. Thanks ROBTAS

Got led astray and ended up in Flintsone drive by Tom Tom but ended up in the correct place when I fired up the Garmin. Thought that it had been mugled when I saw a pen on the ground. All was well with the cache nice and dry. Thanks ROBTAS for leading me to a place that I would never have discovered otherwise, It must be magnificent travelling up here in winter. Thanks Robtas

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Like the previous finder no luck until a wider search was made. It had to be one of the four and it was. TNLN. TFTC!

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We didn't have any luck right on GZ (got wet feet instead) but we widened our search area and eventually found the cache. Not much activity here today - no water coming down the penstock (at least we could not hear any water flow) and only one hardy person fishing. TFTC

No Luck finding this cache at any of the rocks (and there are a few).

No muggles, no campers, no snow and no trouble bagging this one today.

Got it at 1128hrs. Many a trout out of here and now a cache. How good is that. TFTC Cheers OldSaint.

This one took a bit of searching but got there in the end. Thanks for the cache Robtas.

Well its been a while but we managed to find this one after an unsuccessful attempt at fishing in Tumbledown bay,
cheers robtas

Found whilst holidaying down here with Cached - sorry about the late log - TFTC

10/12/2009

Found with Wackys. A great spot, Impressed to see hot showers.

Thanks

A quick easy find. Lots of cars and boats nearby but they must have all been out fishing as there was no one in sight.

Found with dean_erwin.

Not too difficult to find.

Found easily on my wasy over west to Strathgordon

Thanks Rob

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Found this one today after an unsuccessful fishing trip to the big pond over the hill (Great Lake) Had a quick look a couple of months back but there was a few Muggles about that day so didn’t really look to thoroughly as I may have drawn a bit to much attention.
TNLNSL Thanks RT for another good one.

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Lucky last after an unforgettable weekend!
Found easily in the dark with the torch.
Topped up the engine with oil and downed some disgusting energy drink and headed for home.
Thanks robtas for the cache.

nice easy find

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Been a while since i have been up here.
SL TFTC

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2009-01-21 20:53
Found on night fall - glad there were no muggles around cuz I took a long time to find.
Thanks

Used to call in here quite often while on the way to work over the back. Nice camping area just in road to the left. Easy find....with the lake as calm as...RED ALERT REDTAG...best fishing spot in Tassie here. Many thanks robtas....Cheers.

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