Bob's Your Uncle Nathalia, Victoria, Australia
By cdmark on 19-Apr-08. Waypoint GC1AF1X

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Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.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) within 14 days,** 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:

- Check on the cache, repair and/or replace the cache 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 praises.

- 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 (within 14 days). Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. For ongoing issues (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days so as to keep everyone up to speed.

- 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 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 information/advice posted above.

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Get out of jail card is in play, we have taken two weeks off from the farm. Mini tour from Porepunkah to The Grampians and back catching some caches on the way.

Day 4, we left our camp on the Murray our destination possibly Bendigo - Nah, we made it to Kyabram, but caches get in the way in some out of the way places.

This caches appears to be missing from obvious spot. Great story though.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Dnf further info later.

Searched high and low but had no luck this time.

Found what appeared to be the location

Tuesday Morning Predawn Rampage
I'm out early again, expecting rain later today. Right now, the sky is crazy clear, though.
Thanks heaps, cdmark!

We are a pair of grey nomads doing the big trip. The tourist maps don’t bring you to these lovely spots. Thanks for bringing us here for a cache and a bit of a look around. TFTC.

A beautiful place to stop for a BBQ lunch. M7ch appreciated

Great info, a lovely park and a cache to bootTFTC

Nice little park tftc

What a pretty spot!

Up in the area from Melbourne to attend Cybergran V's Central Victoria Annual Get Together event.

After the event we had a great time exploring the area and nearby towns picking up some "small" size caches we need for one of the upcoming Mega challenges.. we are only a couple of hundred short! (thanks a lot sharkiefan!).

We targeted this cache after noting it fitted our criterion for today's caching.

Well what can I say ... that was quite a read, that was only read just now - just before I wrote this log because if we read it before finding the cache we would have run out of daylight now that day light savings has finished . Bob must have been quite a character! Epic in fact!

TFTS.. Thanks for the story cdmark.. that was quite entertaining.. The cache on the other hand, well that was a quick find (because it was so close to the smells coming from the toilet it needed to be a quick find!!!).

By the way Nathalia looks like a great town - we will be back to explore it in more depth sometime..

Not where we were thinking but got it after a couple of minutes.TFTC

We found it chasing a gecko!

Yeah I read the clue then I realized I walked right passed it

I have both an Uncle Bob and a Geocaching friend called Bob ... seems everyone knows a Bob, so yes, It can be said that "Bob's Your Uncle"

A quick find of a cache in good condition with dry contents inside SL at 10:56 on Tue 16 Jan 2018. TFTC cdmark

Each year I follow the Aust Solo Speedway Championships which are held over four meetings. This year those meetings are at Kurri Kurri nsw, Undera vic, Mildura vic, and Gillman sa.
It only seems sensible to do some geocaching along the way. It helps to break the driving and I get a lot of enjoyment from it.
Please excuse this generic log as there are too many to do them individually, but I certainly appreciate the dedicated work of all the COs in providing us with this great hobby.

Camping nearby and had an afternoon spare so I packed in some of the kids and we set off on a drive to find some nearby caches.

Certainly some entertaining yarns, thanks for the cache cdmark.

Good hints in the description

Hhh

Great instructors, quick and easy to find. Thanks heaps.

11:17
Perfect weather for caching to the east of Echuca, in the very good company of the Suscoe duo. We found a variety of caches, learnt a little more local history and visited places we would not have seen were it not for the geo-game.

Thanks cdmark for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
20022

Suscoe and Phetlern headed out nice and early today for a terrific day of caching in this area of the state.
It was a magical Spring day, so much sun, a few clouds, a gentle breeze and great company to be with as we headed around the roads.
We had done our preparation, planning the order of caches, sorting out puzzles and printing the multi pages.
Lunch on the road and fair weather, caches to find: what else could you ask for.
Thanks to cdmark for this cache.

Came up this way to help me get my 1000th find
My sister used to live on farm up this way and I remember this river flooding a couple of times and having to send her kids to school on a boat
A great story about your uncle Bob one hell of a bloke I think
A quick find in such a lovely park
Thanks cdmark TFTC

Visiting Echuca and surrounding areas from Pakenham. It was time to head back home. A beautiful day. I decided to head back home via Tocumwal and then back down through the hills.
Second stop here. I found the spot quickly, checked and thought, oh must be somewhere else. Circled the building and came back to the same spot, checked again, and then checked properly. There it is lol. Have a proper look the first time!

Thanks cdmark

#1908

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches. I usually cache on my own but sometimes I will collect my nephew stinky bob and my brother stinky tom who both enjoy this hobby.
A big thanks goes out to all the cachers and cache owners without whom this lifestyle would not be possible.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

Nice day out for a family outing to do some cache finding. TFTC.

Lovely spot. Loved seeing that the local high school kids have been getting a good education! They were the last ones to write in the log book! TFTC

Another quick stop on my way home. Great for having breaks

Replaced container. Log to follow

TFTC. Beautiful day. Found with the help of Carer Lis Brown and my westie Besties Maggie and Mollie on our trip from Shepparton to Mildura.

Found at 2.50pm. Bob's not my Uncle, but a neat little riverbank park
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

We found it

After a quick look one of our newbies managed to find this one. TFTC

11th day of the Pilgrimage to the Red Centre Event at Easter.
Needed a find for my personal challenge of one a day for while we are away.
Came through Nathalia on our way to Bridgewater and Adelaide. Saw this was near a park and suitable for our geodog to have a run after lunch from Breretons Bakery.
Such a lovely area and park
MTFTC

Found with Austpark.

Thanks for bringing us to a lovely park. Fishing, fenced playground, BBQ and tables, toilets, shady areas, great spot to come for lunch if we had known.

TFTC

A week of work road trip Ballarat, Creswick, Bendigo, Echuca, Cobram, Yarrawonga, Wangaratta, Wodonga Gundagai, Yass, Canberra, Cooma, Cann river and Bemm river areas we put some kms on the car. Thanks for all the caches we done over the week with aqau.
Thanks

TFTC. Nice quick find.

Found drink with mikidos

Found on a trip with my Clarmensma family - becca85, GemmaSistema, boo09, chan02, Adam & Luke. We had an awesome time roadtripping to Shepp.
TFTC! Sorry for late logging.

Day 2 of our roadtrip to Shepp & back with my Clarmensma Family - becca85, GemmaSistema, neisha07 & chan02. So much fun! TFTC. Apologies for tardy logging.

Roadtrip time! An overnight trip from Maryborough to Shepp and back again via hefty detours with Team Clarmensma (becca85+GemmaSistema+boo09+neisha07+Ad+Luke+ME!)
We had an awesome time visiting some great places and clever caches. So much fun! TFTC

Each school holidays, GemmaSistema and I team up our 2 families to form Team Clarmensma (Myself, Gemma, neisha07, boo09, chan02, Adam & Luke) and target a n area to visit overnight.
These holidays Shepp was the lucky destination to host us.
We met in Bendigo and jumped in the 7 seater to continue on all together. A great 2 days was had exploring in and around Shepp before getting back to Bendigo in time for dinner.
Thanks for the cache!

With school holidays upon us again Team Clarmensma (me, becca85 and our 5 kids - AdamSistema, LukeSistema, chan02, neisha07 and boo09) teamed up for a mini road trip to Shepparton and surrounds. We had borrowed my father in laws 7 seater car so it was all of us in the geo car with plenty of tears and laughter! Today was our second day and we found a heap of caches as we made the "long way" back home (Ballarat/Maryborough). An easy find here - many thanks for the cache! PS - love the extensive cache notes!

Found at 1128.

Opened the door onto it, if wasn't for a toilet stop for the driver it would have been a drive by. TFTC.

Quick and easy find

Arrived at GZ and there were a couple of muggles in the park, but they weren't concerned about me. I managed to fight off the ants and retrieve the cache. SL TFTC

Great first find thanks peeps

Nice spot for a picnic at uncle bobs

Stopped to do a few caches on the way home from Echuca. What a gorgeous little town! Found cache info sheet out in the open, but cache was intact. TFTC!

Out n about for work with AESPL. Easy find. TFTC.

Gps wasnt working on my phone but just seen the cache out the corner of my eye haha

On a foggy morning, still weary and yawning, Giggle and Hoot started the long drive from Victoria to South Australia. We decided to stop by get a quick cache. We loved reading about Uncle Bob, he sure sounded like a character. Was an easy but a rewarding find, now we are off to home and have a chill session of the sleepy kind.

Was an easy find

Found @ 1042 am. Nice easy find TFTC SL.

Deb found it with a locus

Sewthat, Brodie and I headed out caching but instead of ending up in Picola to finish the alphabet series we travelled some back tracks and ended up in Barmah
We found 3 out of the 4 caches in Barmah (DNFd the 4th ) and enjoyed sightseeing around the town while doing so

Unless mentioned otherwise, please know that your cache and log book was in good condition.

A quick and useful find here as we all needed a loo break after having bought lunch at the Nathalia bakery

TNLN. SL. TFTC cdmark

A very quick find with the aid of the detailed hint. TFTC

Nathalia est la ville la plus proche des vergers, après le picking c'est l'occasion
de visiter les caches de la région, et de découvrir la vie de Bob.
TFTC
Thanks for the Cache
Merci pour la Cache

Great stop and excellent toilet facilities

GT02 Muttley! and I had been over in Nathalia for the Easter Parade and on our way back we found this. Quick search and we had this in our hands.Thanks cdmark for the cache.

Was an obvious find could see it when I walked past it!

Nice area. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC cdmark..collected this one for souvenir on the extra day, 29th this leap year. Lovely spot on sunset, birds getting ready for bed at 7.51pm.

Found it easy

Found with PGOZ, hi there BOB!!!!!

Thanks for the find

[Blue]# 13886[/Blue] Found on another trek around the area after the Echuca event,
with Team Robins, to tackle the Picola alphabet series and others nearby.
A warm sunny day and not many muggles around today.
I finally stopped in here to find this old fella.
Thanks for the cache cdmark,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

After reading ALL the lengthy cache notes we are not sure we would want Bob as our uncle! However we were pleased to find this Park named in his honour and use its welcome conveniences AND find a cache as well. SL at 5.14pm #3370 TFTC cdmark - another stop on our way home to Wangaratta from Echuca.

4/01/2016 #3356

In Nth Vic for a week travelling to Numurkah, Echuca, Swan Hill and back to Wangaratta before venturing home. Grabbed caches as I went, one afternoon put in a good effort as I wound my way up to Swan Hill. Even snagged a 2001 cache!!

Thanks for the cache!!!

Found our very first Geocache. The kids were very excited.

Travel heading to Albury from Echuca for few days...
awesome view. enjoyed day
sign the log as no trouble.
Thanks

Travel heading to Albury from Echuca for few days...
awesome view. enjoyed day
sign the log as no trouble.
Thanks

TFTC

Found with year 9 class

Nice and quick find

Probably the most prescriptive hint l have ever seen, which was nice given that so far this morning we had 2 dnfs out of 3 attempts. What a great spot, that's what geocaching is about. Thanks for this cache.

I quite enjoyed this geo!! TFTC

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Found with cheats from gcpro.co.uk

I fairly liked this find! Thanks

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Found with hints from gcpro.co.uk

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH CdMark [^]

A nice easy find Today whilst out grabbing a few caches in the area signed log and on our way to another

4414 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1200 on our trip back to The Rock after a few days in Echuca at The Blues Festival. Having found the multi on our way through we thought this would be a good place to have lunch. On arrival there were a large group of senior school people on push bikes. We waited for them to move off then made the find. All in good condition. SL Tnx cdmark

Awesome thanks! Nice place for the kids to stop and play.

Awesome hide!

Our third stop today, and it is another quick and easy drive by. Love the larger than life biography of Bob., it's a pearler. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Nice and easy, kids had a ball

Found it thanks, a very interesting story.

Got that easy smiley

The tales of Uncle Bob sent tears of laughter rolling down my face.
These stories touched me especially because my my mothers "little" brother, a hulking man as big as his own character, is also called Bob.
So yes, Bob IS my Uncle.[^]
My Uncle Bob was once the "Australiana Wool Press Champion" and, if you believe his tales, needed to pack 2 days tucker for 1 days fencing.
1 for the days work and 1 for the walk home.
TFTC cdmark (a favourite point from me)
SL Dried out wet cache contents (log ok) & took TB

Great one if your in a rush

Found, Left slinky, took frog. Tftc. Nice part of the world

A nice easy find in a lovely park. We enjoyed morning tea here. but never lingered to long as the weather is warming up and want to get a couple more caches before lunch.
Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Logging an old find for us.... thankyou for placing this cache in our local area.

Happy new year! Great find for the kids!' Thank you.

Happy new year! Great find for the kids! Thank you!

I had a long weekend planned to visit the Victorian border region for a bit of caching. I had a great time and managed to get to many caches over the time I was away. Things got a bit hot which slowed me down, but I was happy to see so many great places and hides. Back out in the country and a few roadside caches. Thanks.

18549.56 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Pumpkin A#152

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