Stockton Ewington, Western Australia, Australia
By Bella Vista on 02-May-07. Waypoint GC12KGD

I am archiving this cache due to the unfortunate lack of action taken to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, Bella Vista, requesting additional time.Despite ample opportunities provided for the Cache Owner to respond, their silence leads me to the conclusion that the cache has been abandoned.In such cases, archived caches will not be unarchived, and as a result, this location is now open for the placement of a new cache by another interested party.Thanks,BalayangCommunity Reviewer - Australia

### Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner. The cache owner needs to:* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating.* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present. Otherwise :* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary or provide other information.. **Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this. That is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**. Alternatively:* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Bella Vista and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been by the CO.If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned, and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache. *Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.Thank youBalayangCommunity Reviewer -Australia

Someones takin it

Didnt find

No luck after a long search!

Stayed a week but I think was snatched by Muggles DNF

Found the correct location and tree from a previous logs photo but no luck.

Our guess is it's been muggled.

Looked for about 2 hours and couldn't find it. I used the updated coordinates supplied by Everlasting and managed to find the exact tree it was pictured in. Very sorry if I put a DNF and it was still there, I just couldn't find it.

Wow the lake is so blue! Passing through with racing stripes and we thought we’d wander over to this one, passing the mine head on the way.

The cache coords were out so we used the ones supplied by everlasting which set us off in the correct direction from the listed coords. We used phone gps which had the everlasting coords as 11 metres further on from the actual cache location, but was still extremely helpful.

Tftc

Camped at the lake for a couple of nights, found this after a little walk. TFTC

Try use S 144 E 941
HINT:- waist in the tree.
Search circle make me dizzy

Found it and signed the log as EV and thanks again

An epic adventurous days caching in and around Collie for WAGB22
Thanks for the caches.

Ran into Everlasting here who pointed me in the right direction.

Lone search before the cache was found. Thanks.

Camping at Stockton lake and decided to do a bit of a bike ride. Easy find with the help of geodog

TFTH!
Final day of caching Boddington and the surrounding areas. Signed as MILCKS (Meme28, I C Nothing, Cirrus_WA,, Kapelula, Lachlan1.77 and Sir Fancy)

Found by MICLKS – Meme28, I C Nothing, Cirrus_WA, Lachlan1.77, Kapelula and Sir fancy.
After a busy two days in the LGA territory we are now making our way home the long way to find some more caches that have been on our radar. All caches found easily and in good condition. Thanks for placing for our enjoyment

Team Milcks getting some caches on the way back from our Boddington trip.



This is my 2529 find.
Thank you Bella Vista for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!
(I’m not a geologist I just like puns)

Looking at the map and noticed this cache that fills a Jasmer grid spot so made sure to coke and grab the find.
The camping grounds were relatively empty and we all commented that it would be good to head down for a camping trip sometime in the future.
Cache was found after a few minutes and reading some previous logs.
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Managed to get a bit of a sleep in this morning rising just after 7:00 and packing up and saying goodbyes to the teams of BODS11 before hitting the road.
Joined up with SirFancy, Meme28, Lachlan1.77, I C Nothing & Kapelula to sign as the MILCKS today starting the day heading to Arthur River before turning towards Darkan & Collie.
Managed to snag find number 5000 at the new virtual at Wellington Dam before legging it home in time for dinner.
Another fantastic day out with friends finished with 29 finds and 0 DNF’s.
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Thanks Bella Vista for placing Stockton for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 12:08 on 15/5/2022.
This is find number 4993 for me.

Day 3 on our big bods weekend caching with the MILCKS team. Cache found and logged a little out from GZ but all good here!

Down for the weekend in Quindanning to knock off the Boddington LGA series with a number of Perth cachers. This was one of my stops for the weekend. Apologies for the generic logs. Cheers Bella Vista!

This cache was signed as Team MILCKS, who are travelling in convoy back to Perth via Williams, Arthur River and Collie.

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Alan and Kay living the dream in a 5th wheel. Found your Stockton
TFTC 13 March 2022 5:37 pm
Thanks CaravanCapersOz
Total caches 26

Found it about 15 m from GZ. Thanks for placing those little goodie here.

Awesome find introducing new friends to Geocashing!

Geo about 140m from mine entrance. Found lying in the open. Put it in the fork of a tree.
Exploring Oz from NSW.

No idea where this is

TFTC

Found today while passing through and checking out the lake. GZ is out by approx. 10m but found easily and quickly thanks to a previous log TFTC

Easy find, way point is off by 10m

This was a thanks for bringing us here place. Great place to camp

Found it, was left out in the open, have placed in a log,

Co-Ords out but logic found it
TFTC

Just trying the alternative co-ordinates when Geodaughter RedRobbin25 shouted she'd found it! Thanks for bringing us to this lovely location! Tftc

I went looking for this cache today with teamlaroche, and after looking at some pictures and reading some logs I had no trouble finding this cache. I left the trackable Compass Rose Geocoin in the cache. TFTF

Woo found it on the second try 23m away from marked spot

S 33 23.152
E 116 13.944

Found 15/3/21
Sandy, Craig and 2
Found 10m from GZ

Yep, we made that 23m out too. TFTC bellavista

Quick find. Muggles everywhere, one camp within 10m of GZ. Thanks for the hide.

A quick find while enjoy the lake.

Camping at the lake so took a drive out to GZ and found the cache. GPS said 13m out but was easy enough to find.
TFTC

Found!

Caching in Collie with Two + Four, megawat60 and ebenie. Good find by Mr 2+4. TFTC!

Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.
Just the four of us walked a few hundred meters in and Mr 2+4 made this find about 13 meters away from GZ.
Thanks for the hide and Bella Vista.

Out and about with M4YB and Megawatt60. A nice quick find here. TFTC

Took a while as not at GZ. 13 mtrs away. TFTC and pathtag

Tftc.

Quick find here with Deefa71. Tftc

Awesome place !

We found this one but sadly it’s no longer a cache. We found the container but no contents. Tftc

So we have setup a new cache, new container, swaps, log book and pencil. The cache is now located in a more secure location (we had to move it). The new waypoints are:
S33 23.147
E116 13.946

Found but has been muggled with the contents everywhere - owner maintenance is required - no log

Owner maintenance required

Found while staying at the lake. Thanks for the cache

Found

Nice easy find while camping at the lake. TFTC

Thanks for taking us here we enjoyed the drive around the lake. We are kicking ourselves we didn’t camp here last night.

Had a nice walk to find this after our morning paddle. Another nice camp spot and history to boot.TFTC

Found it.. took a spinning top and left a keyring

Nice place a bit noisy but still nice and a great walk

Nice quick one thanks

cache in great condition ,not been here before TFTC TNLN

Great spot

Quite quick and easy but first cache for our puppy. Cache is in good order
TFTC.

Eagle eyed son found the Cache. Lovely camp spot had a great day.

Found while camping in this beautiful location Daughters quick eyes had this in no time tftc

Another interesting place to explore for a cache. Very interesting enterance to the Stockton Mine & pretty nice area to camp aswell. Lots of bids chirping while we had a picnic lunch , enjoying the sunshine.tftc

Lovely spot ,

22 July 2017 1:30 PM

What a lovely lake, will definitely have to come back here one day. Tftc and bringing us here!

Thanks for bringing me here a fav from me , a lot of Coal mining history here.
While traversing to GZ would imagine that the area was in the middle of coal mining all those years ago. TFTC

Bit of history near by

Went for a quick afternoon cache hunt with the geokids, and stopped into Stockton to pick up this one.

Its well worth a bit of a drive around the area to see the old mining gate (and drive through it like I did) and it's interesting to see all the collapsed ground where the mines used to be, as well as all the rusty steel cable lying around the area. Remnants of the cable pulleys used to haul the coal carts up I'm told.

Those with 4WDs and the inclination, there is a good clearing near the cache which had a very big puddle and a few wall climbs... Having only just washed the geotruck yesterday I was less inclined to play but I'll be back

TFFC Bella Vista.

Left a sheep tag and took a marble.

TFTC! A HUGE day out caching up a storm with Cravo10 in the lovely south of this great state of ours, namely in the coal mining town of Collie.

We met up in Pinjarra, and grabbed three of the Multi caches in town, a lovely LKA which provided a nice walk around the historic cemetery and another instalment in the well known and highly regarded Zoom in caches. After completing the multi caches we headed down south west highway grabbing the few remaining caches we had on the highway that are either new or we've missed on previous visits.

We made our way along coalfield highway towards the collie township, completing the Footy Teams series as we went. We encountered some neat camo caches, with all caches being nice quick and easy finds, unfortunately a number of the micro type caches have had a tough winter and need new log books due to water and mould. Still a great series and well put together by blaze169.

We then made our way into Collie, with not much to find around town as we've visited twice before and there doesn't seem to be any active cachers in town anymore to publish new caches which is a real shame.

We went around town collecting stuff on the outskirts of town including wet and wild which we managed to grab in the 4wd and the EArth cache which was a nice addition to the area in a very deserving spot.

We found our way back along the highway to pinjarra after amassing 35 odd finds and a solid days effort, can't wait to come back down this way to complete the ready player one series, the snake island t5 cache and the new caches in Harvey which seems to be booming currently. Until next time, thanks to the local COs for their caches.

TFTH spent the day out with Barnzy12 again today as he had planned a trip to Collie and needed a driver again, let's face it I wanted to come along. We met in Pinjarra and made our way out from there. After completing the AFL series we made a few other finds around the place and after a few hours we then headed back to Pinjarra.
Most were found in good condition TNLN.

Found on a nice exploration trip with kids. Got back to the car just as the rain started after talking to some campers. Interesting entrance 'gate'. Seemingly in the middle of nothing now! Was it an actual entrance back in the day? TFTC

I found this one over the long weekend but had no reception so i sighed it on the 24th of April just be 4 anzac day tftf

TFTC Bella Vista

Quick grab, while having a nice few days camping. TFTC

TFTC, a nice easy find

pug002 found it 20/4/2016 on our trip south geocaching. TFTC Bella Vista

Here was a surprise stop for the day [:o]
This is actually a nice spot to park the van or tent
Plenty of room to hide away down the back if you don't want to listen to the generators or kids

Dunno 'bout swimming in that lake though !! [:o]
Looks a bit too blue to me
If you have a mineral defect in your diet, then maybe the waters are the curative you seek

Out the back after a muddy stroll, I found me a well hidden cache
And on me stroll back to the geomobile, found the olde Stockton Mine adit
Cool !!

TFTC.

Nice walk to stretch the legs for our overnight stop at Stockton campground. TFTC. SL.

Nice easy find at an overnighter at the dam. Tftc

Took the geodogs for a walk while camped out here TFTF

We found it while taking the geohounds for a walk after camping the night !

Woo hoo!

Great spot no doubt to camp at the right time of year. Tad cold when I was there. Interesting old mine entrance there. Lot of history no doubt. Tftc

Good find at the clay pit

Nice find

DT0Y6Z
We found this track able and are moving it! Can't seem to log under track able?

Easy find

Easy find

Jinta29 and I packed the swags and headed down south for a couple of days. We set up camp near the lake and after we had a fire going, decided to wander up here.

We are the only people here tonight. Ahhhhh the serenity.

A nice quick find tonight. Now back to camp to cook dinner

Bella Vista we found your cache Stockton on 2015-07-03 at 5:21 pm. This is our find #3388 and find# 29 today. TFTC.

We were camping by the lake and came for a wander to grab this one

Kyzabra and I were evicted by our respective loved ones and told to head off for a day or so. Well, how could we ever turn down an offer like that! We packed up the swags, some food and headed down this way for a bit of adventure.

Gotta love geo road-trips and i look forward to doing more exploring around this area.

Bella Vista - jinta29 found your cache Stockton on 3/07/2015 5:22 pm. This is my find #3416 and find #33 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Geo hubby jumped in the car in dismay when I decided to broaden my search with a stick and gut instinct. You can't always trust your gps

Great night find for the kids and I...caught a bug!

Driving home to Katanning after a lovely weekend in Collie and thought I'd take a little detour and find some caches while the muggles are busy packing up camps.
After reading the description I was a little bit worried that my little vectra wouldn't be able to make it too close. Rest assured future cachers, easy drive and the walk isn't far from good parking areas.
Time for Miss Backpack to continue on her way so may the person that picks her up next enjoy shower her new places
TFTC!

Stayed the night and went for the short walk to GZ with GeoReece All ok TFTC

So many caches out there, waiting to be found. ~Tango~ was up from Albany again and was happy to do spend another day caching, so off we set, heading southwards. Some interesting history not far north of gz, and the lake is very pretty too, though being school holidays, it was chock-o-block full of muggles camping around it. Thanks for bringing us out here Bella Vista

Out for a great day in the bush with Mistraluna. There were some pretty feral types camped metres from GZ so I executed some diversionary tactics to give Mistraluna a free line into the cache. Then drove down to see the old pit head entrance and the lake. These were interesting but chockers with people