Contagious Confluence Ranelagh, Tasmania, Australia
By red tag on 29-Nov-07. Waypoint GC17P1T

First ever cache found! Great idea

Found in good condition! Easy find! Pencil is blunt so take something to write with!

TFTC. JCNL

Nice spot. Easier to get to if you take the path from about 30m up the road for those who don't like the steep decline

I probably did not need a new navigation, nerd ship but now I have one, confluences! Thanks, I think for putting this in my head

Thanks for sending us a nice quiet place we wouldn't normally have visited. Great confluence.

Good cach

TFTC nice drive up here

A nice drive and a serene spot. Cache is in excellent condition. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

All good to go - thanks to Tas_Community !

Hi Redtag,
We have placed a new container here for you. You are welcome to keep it if you have something else you'd prefer to hide here

If red tag is unable to replace this then the community team is happy to assist

I'll try to attend to within the next week, thanks all for your concern

###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 red tag 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 you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Looks like this is missing, see previous DNF logs.

Came for a razz, but no cigar

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We did find the zero cairn, but no cache. Suspect it's been muggled?

Easy

Very interesting stuff

Logging my trackable to all found caches to date

Found with one of the kids, and even managed to get all the 0s!
A cool idea for a cache.
TNLNSL.
TFTC

Great spot - tried my hardest to get a photo of the exact coords - but as the cache owner found, I too had difficulties getting the coords to settle simultaneously! Took a photo of my closest attempt... not long after I got the magic 00.000 / 00.000 but wasn't able to get the camera out in time for a snap >_< TFTC!

Awesome find

Oh

Easy

Nice bush spot tftc

Excellent. Cache in good condition. Another wonder. Thank you!

Not much of a location spot but a great geographical spot. Many thanks.

This cache was a target cache while down in tassie, so i was very happy to not have to walk up to the confluence for a treasure hunt.
It was a short scramble down to le zero, where i managed to also unsuccessfully capture the moment.
A log sign and we were skeddadled back on the geoadventure to mt field and beyond!
Thanks redtag for hiding a cache in such a deserving location so many years ago!

Log Book Replaced
Photos of old Log book below

Very neat

hi red tag, and thanks for the cache.
Found today with KingSmev on our way home, after watching geoTeenRef playing cricket at Judbury, and a bit of caching thereabouts.
As others have said, log sheet is full, and a bit damp.
Thanks for the confluence cache, KingSmev managed to get an all zeros pic.
Cheers, EPs.
#1971 @ 1450hrs Sunday 29th November 2020

Tftc. Log book if full and there is slight water damage.

Needs new log. No room to write.

Found without difficulty.
The log is full though.

Quick find
TFTC

Neat.

Tftc

Found as the last find of the day and it was really Smokey on a total fire ban day so the inspectorrexteam should really not be in the bush caching. Best accuracy of phone GPS was 002 and 000000. So TFTC from the inspectorrexteam.

Found it! After climbing Mt Misery with Mickey and Pa

Good Cash in a good Nature!

It is worth to visit the Huon Bush Retreat http://www.huonbushretreats.com/extensive-private-habitat-reseve/
Thanks Paul for the great week

Found the cash together with marvin1104
TFTC

Found it together with Mor1tz99!
Beautiful scenery, tftc!;)

think i picked the steepest part to go down. tftc!

Instead of walking back on the road, I walked through the bush. Either way is steep and slippery. The GZ is obvious and can be seen from the road. Thanks

Found it. Cool to have a reason to come up this Rd.

Found with Jake

First find in a while. Nice little spot.

Out for a drive with Lekker_Ding and Bu and decided to find a cache. Very interesting to see this spot. Thanks red tag.

Fun cache to do. Tried to get the pic, S_38 succeeded, I came second best. Thanks!

Btw, not commercially related at all, but the campground further down this track is really nice to stay, plus you can go there for the day for a couple of really nice and divers bushwalks, by donation. Maps provided when you get there, the signs to get up look daunting, but the road is not that bad really.

Found it. Tftc. Very interesting!

Out and about with the Rafas for the summer GCA game, New Years Day caching with god company. Driving on a new road to me as I have never been out this way before. Nice views towards the middle section but concentrating on driving so missing some of the views. TFTC TNLN log dry. easy find with clues.

Thanks for the cache red tag. Out today with RLD4963 and the GeoGSP. Love the idea of this cache - cool co-ordinates. thanks for the parking suggestion, which we used. It was then a nice easy walk and the cairn was spotted. cheers and thanks for placing a cache here.

Easy find. Bring your own pen (not working)

Stopped for this one after doing the Mt Misery Trail these bush caches are our favourites. Thanks for putting it here.

TFTC! Haha gotcha and attacked by a little gecko.. log has dried out since last find...

Easy find once at the GZ
Log us very damp, but managed to sign it.
TFTC
Cheers
Rocket

The grandchildren were visiting so took the opportunity to take them bush and find another cache. The parking area was a great place to park and the track from road to cache was extremely slippery due to loose soil and rocks but we made to ground zero in one piece and the log book was signed. TFTC.

It is officially the second day of the **Festival of the Fungus** and now successfully acclimatised we headed down south for a walk to Australias most southerly cache. We boys left our beloveds to fend for themselves on a winery tour, and headed south!
A must do detour for me, as I have a penchant for a confluence cache. This one makes 5 for me now!
Thanks for the cache!

My wife and I had the pleasure of travelling from Brisbane to visit Hobart and surrounds with Swellerfungus and LadySim to celebrate **Swestivus**, a week long Festival of the Fungus commemorating 50 years of Swellerfungus inhabiting the planet. The festivities for today involved a walk from Cockle Creek to South Bay. With that mission accomplished we had some additional caches to grab on the return journey, including this one. Swellerfungus does like a good confluence cache so this was a must do for todays trip. Had to do a bit of the "GPS two-step" before we could get the numbers to align, but align they did and the logbook was signed thereafter. TFTC

Our last day in the area, just picking up a few odd caches. Quick easy find TFTC

Does this we are half between the south pole and the equator? TFTC

We had been up this road many years ago but had no memory of it other than the bush retreat being further on. We found a safe parking spot just past GZ and walked back along the road and down to the cache. We saw GZ from the road but for once were more interested on the 'numbers' than the actual cache. We sighed the log quickly and wandered around looking for zeros! Satellite reception was very touchy today and the Garmin couldn't stay on 00.000 long enough for a focused photo but we still had a couple of results with the phone. TFTC and a bit of extra fun.

With the geovan safely stored at friends nearby, and after a beautiful forest drive, we made a quick detour up another hill to find this confluence. Never heard of one until now, but I think it may be contagious - Need to find more. Thanks red tag.

Travelling around Australia and spending a few months in Tasmania.

Staying in Geeveston for a few days. We headed out to find a few caches around the Huonville area.

Pretty cool Confluence caches.

TFTC red tag

Nice cache! Took a nice Saturday drive with a few jobs on the way. Awesome being on a confluence and knowing it for the first time. Cool seeing it on the GPS. TFTC

On a day's caching with Nyssaflutterby (our visitor from Qld). Our aims include "long lost" and archived caches and a special cache for Nyssa to complete her 4000th cache. A last some good weather, cold but clear, calm and sunny. This was one for us, as Nyssa had visited previously, and our second in Australia where the coordinates converge. Pleasant drive up the hill, past a smashed car and then a scramble down to the cache. Great to have a cache at these coordinates.
TFTC

Sue managed to have the zeros on her GPS. We walked back to the car along an old track to avoid scrambling up the slippery gravel bank.
TFTC red tag
For quite some time we have had the idea of finding the caches on the road between the Huon and Derwent valleys, partly on the Plenty Valley Road. We left home a little later than planned which meant, after collecting a couple of caches on the way, we were able to have lunch at the Summer Kitchen Organic Bakery at Ranelagh. Fortunately there were not many trucks on the road.

Seeing all the zero's is always a bit of fun, so I made sure to put this on the "to do" list. This was the last cache for the day. Good old Spangle made it up the hill and then we found a park. While the munchkins watched on from the air-conditioned cool of the car, I scrambled my way down to the cache. Oh look, there it is I took a few moments to play around until I saw all the zero's and then signed the log. With the ritual signing out of the way I replaced the cache as it had been found.

Thanks for the cache red tag

I'm still not used to seeing a perfectly good road turn into a dirt track but was happy to see somewhere to park close to ground zero.

We went out of our way to look for this one since it was a confluence its the first geocache confluence we have every found. The cache itself was a very quick find I spent more time waiting for the GPS to show the right numbers but as one would be perfect the other would drift by 001 so didnt get to see all the zeros before we wanted to move on and find some more caches.

Thanks for the cache.
Found on 15.12.2014 at 13:05

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Always like to learn something new - today it was confluence. Found the cache but couldn't quite get the 000's. Good views on the way back down. Thank you for the cache.

Was influenced by the confluence, zero'd and logged Nice one TFTC

Thanks for the lesson on Confluence, and TFTC !

I thought that this one was going to be difficult but it turned out to be a pleasant experience. TFTC

An easy, interesting and worthwhile cache. Many thanks red tag.

Found it! Beautiful part of the world! TFTC!

Nice find. Thanks for that.

It was very great

dad and mum took photo of gps so I had to log the cache.

Almost made the magic zeros

I've been meaning to find this one each time I visit family in the valley - this time I found the time! TFTC

Many thanks to red tag,
This was our 1 of 15 for todays cache hunt, Find number 1400 at 8:39:00 AM.
We are here in Tassy, hunting down your caches. This is our first time here and the weather here is fantastic, just a tad chilly. Please keep an eye out for us and come and say hi, we won't bite.


WOW, we had the best night staying up in one of the caibins up the road at the bush retreat. So naturally we had to stop and get this on one the way out.
Love piece of bush and so quiet.

TFTCSL

Managed to finish up work mid afternoon, and took the opportunity to grab as many caches as I could in daylight before returning home to the Mainland 2moro. Find #3 of 10 for my caching run out this way. Parked at the runoff just up the road and took the walk back, only to see the short slippery descent. Pressed ahead gingerly, and the cache was quickly in hand. It wasn't till I'd driven half way down the mountain again that I realised I'd forgotten to attempt the photo. Thanks anyway to red tag for the cache, and for bringing me up here.

Geocaching is not only fun....it can also be educational[^]. Thanks for teaching us about "confluence" red tag. We enjoyed waiting for all the zeros to pop up. Your cairn is very well placed for that to happen.[^]

Found it very easily but couldn't get the zeros to appear long enough to get a photo.
TFTC.

found it
kool cache
had lunch there
TFTC
P.E. PRINCESS ESSICA

On a day out caching with the kids we come up here. Was looking for a larger cairn but hey all good. Cache was laying on the ground in the open. Signed enjoyed the view and replaced the cache. We followed the old road bed back up to the car. Thanks for getting us close to centre as possible.
JABs.

Found whilst staying at the nearby Huon Bush Retreats on our holiday to Tasmania. Managed to complete a challenge here too! Possumly the best place for a cache!!
SL @ 15.30, TNLN, TFTC

Nice bush hide, lots of wildlife possums, wallaby's. TFTC

A quick find on a caching weekend with Drat1964 in the Huon. After spending an enjoyable night being visited by possums at Huon Bush Retreat, a quick drive down the road led us next to the cache. We could not get our gps to settle on
S 43° 00.000 E 147° 00.000, the closet we got was S 42° 59.999 E 146° 59.999 and 0 distance.

We've explained geocaching to the retreat manager, who is quite keen and is also looking for ways to encourage visitors to the Mount Misery walks. Hopefully we may see some new caches here soon. TFTC for the cache, for our gps

Our GPS wanted to take us on one road but we kept to the directions given in the cache description. This enabled us to dive within about 20m of the cache. We could see the likely cache location from the road and after a scramble down the slope, the find was confirmed. The cache was in good condition. TFTC red tag.

Pretty drive up. Hill great for sliding down. Found a better way to get back to the car. Couldn't get perfect co ords. Log is quite damp and needs to be dried out. The drizzly day didn't give much opportunity to do this very well. Tftc

Thanks, Liz and Bruce !

A beautiful day to be out caching and this was one we found while we were out driving around and enjoying the wonderful scenery of the Huon Valley. Thanks red tag - we put in a new log scroll.

After driving up incorrect road first, found cache easily when on correct road

Nice short drive and trek in the busn. TFTC

Stayed overnight in a bush retreat and found this one on
our way towards Hobart. TFTC