Sit Awhile Scotchmans Creek, Victoria, Australia
By mykaat on 21-Apr-08. Waypoint GC1BG4F

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Now that the river has gone down I was able to check the welfare of the cache. It was in position but pretty soggy so I've brought it home with me to dry it out.

Unfortunately there has been a lot of damage from the flood waters along this part of the river, and it's undergoing a lot of reconstructive work. A tree came down right beside the cache making it harder to get to, and I'm wary of keeping the cache in position while all this work is going on.

There has been a lot of planting of vegetation close to the cache and I expect they will want to move the tree as it interferes with the nice bench seat and platform there, so I'll check back in a few weeks to see what's happening.

Due to the flooding of the Yarra river this cache is temporarily unretrievable until the waters go down. The walking track beside the river is under water and has been closed off by the authorities. I don't expect to be able to re-open this cache until Spring

Found it a few weeks ago on a nice Sunday stroll with my family. Only got to log it now.
TNLN

TFTC

The second one found with Nifty Nev. Previous logs helped us find it such as fallen tree in river. A bit of a climb down.

neville and anne
second one for the day, clues from others helped , t.y

Wet soggy day cache full of water but log ok! thanks to snap lock bag! TFTC

Great one for the kids to find and log! Very impressive freshly fallen tree in the river.

TFTC

Found by G string and Warby scouts 28.3.12, found by mistake, we were out doing grid map work and the seat was one of the stops that was marked , a bright scout was checking out the platform !!!!!!!
TN LN thanks Mykaat

Found 1725hrs, had to wait until a muggle walking 2 K9's passed, then a junior muggle on his tiny wee bike followed closely by his mum on her bike who decided to stop and ask were we doing a water check (we must have looked somewhat official) before actually retrieving the cache. TNLN. TFTC.

Beautiful hiking area. Thanks for this cache on the way.

Found it after searching a while and also making sure that no muggles are around before retrieving the cache. TFTC!

Found this one down the bank in the open so I placed him "Back in his hollow" where i expect he should live. TFTC SL

Found it.

Cheers nice easy find

Found by edmil & maddie. Cache #6. We were enjoying our stroll along the river bank, something we had not done before even though we spend a lot of time in the area. By this stage I had given up on the multi as I had made an error in calculations and at this point was to lazy to correct the mistake, So we continued to walk and locate the traditional caches that were available to us. This one was a quick a find and with no muggles within cooee of the cache, well they were within cooee because we could hear them shouting for their players but they weren't in sight of us or even likely aware that we were there as such it was an easy cache to retrieve. The log was signed but no swap was made. Thanks for the hide.

Easy find, #4 for the day! Cute place to stop, thank you! TNLN

Found with mrs roughasguts and geo dogs.
Nice quite Sunday morning tipping with rain so muggle free !
TFTC

Left cube, easy find.

3rd find of the day, and 3144th total find at 10:44:00 AM.

We thoroughly enjoyes our stroll along the river bank today. We seemed to be dodging the rain today, so luckily we didn't get too wet whilst attempting the cache.

We had a few hairy moments trying to get down low enough to retrieve the cache. The river banks here are very slippery due to the recent downpours.

Took: Nothing
Left: Screwdriver
Thanks mykaat for the cache

Easy find, we tried about a year ago but must have been missing. Tftc

Didn't have time to sit, the sun was reflecting off the cache container so plainly visible from the lower side of the boardwalk. TFTC TNLN

11.10 Staying at Milgrove with a group of friend for the weekend we took advantage of a lovely loop walk around the Yarra to pick up some caches. This was the second for the day and soon in hand by revamped cacher, it put a real smile on his dial. Co ords to me to far on this one but its pretty obvious where it was.
Thanks for the lovely spot

Nice hide, tried to cover it up a bit better and hope it doesn't flood!

Cool cache but if the river floods it will not be good.

Found on a beautiful day, TNLN TFTC cheers f and friends.

4:21 PM, 17/09/11

On a bit of a caching run in the Warburton area today. Sun was shining, what else would you be doing?

I had attempted this cache a few times in the past, but it turned out it had been muggled. Anyway, this time was no problems, no muggles about, so a nice easy find.

The cache may need some sort of camo, or just a coat of dark paint so any muggle walking on the bank below cannot see the cache.

Thanks to mykaat for the cache. TNLN.

An easy find once the muggle or two passed.. TNLN Find #1567

Found @ 15:15 Great spot and beautiful view TFTC

Well it was already late morning, when the call came from Slink1 and we were off on another caching run from Marysville to Warbuton. We had a lot of fun on another road trip caching as we went. Quick find TFTC SL

On a nice sunny Saturday and although it was late morning, called Dunko and organised a caching run from Marysville to Warbuton
had a good time on the road trip doing this run quick find TFTC SL

Found with Purpledreamer on a blitz of the area, a neat hide many thanks.
TNLNSL............Cheers.

Found while out and about with Lostmonster&Co.It was dark now and Lost and I where out looking for a couple in a similar area while Co prepared the next few caches.This was the 2nd one in the area.Nice little stroll around a body of water.Quick find here,log signed and onwards.
TFTC Mykaat
TNLN

The walk along the river is very pleasant. Also with the abundance of caches there is even more to enjoy. We had a few muggles about but eventually were able to retrieve without having to look to much.

Found today with rd_trip before our big bush bash

Found TFTC

Found TFTC

Headed out tonight for another night caching run with my good mate and caching buddy Marshy (Blacklegend). Tonight we were in for a treat with some night caching into the hills around Marysville and Warburton. A nice quick find after a little stroll along the banks of the river. Nice spot to sit and relax. TFTC.

One of 26 on another legendary night caching run north east of Melbourne into the hills, with my best mate and caching buddy Marty (Quasar3671). Another quick find after a short stroll TFTC. 5 of 9 in our nightly cache smash we call an "Hour of Power".

Found with the help of MATSTA.

TFTC TNLN

16:40 #148 another quick find for me and Hally_31. TNLN TFTC

Nice walk, easy find.

Found this cache with Daryllm123 and cathylmorgan on a fun Saturday morning. Took cooked goose and left French Notepad TB. Thanks, mykaat.

After DNF last time I was here this time we found it quickly, out with PolecatS and cathylmorgan on a caching run this morning TFTC

Easy find in an obvious spot! TFTC

This cache was definately AWOL. I've left an emergency substitute cache in place with new logbook. I will return in few days to add more goodies to cache, at moment just a handful of blue marbles to keep it going

As a previous finder, alas I can not find it again:( it's gone.

8 DNFs in a row sounds like a 'needs maintenance' to me

Made the mistake of not reading the recent logs and spent quite a bit of time searching. Then read the logs and decided to give up.

Like previous hunters we came up with empty hands too.
Regards
Crisp Image & Family

Had what seemed like a good GPSr fix, and lots of opportunity(Nobody about) to search, even used clue but came up empty.

DNF.

Had a very good look around for this one but couldn't find it....

Really, this was a did not attempt. We were told by daryllm123 that they couldn't find it, so we took their word for it and did not search.

Couldnt find this one today, look all over using the clue as gpsr was all over the place with the tree cover overhead, reckon i found were it should be but nothing just an empty hole, might have to be checked by owner TFTC anyway nice day to have a look

I tried this once before, but failed.

Today, with Sam Carter, we both tried looking for the elusive cache, but again we were unable to find it. Oh well. C'est la vie.

We came, we searched, we didn't see or conquer. It was too cunning for us. Pretty spot, though, so thanks anyway mykaat.

I've dried off the cache and left a new logbook.

6th this morning for us on our warburton caching expedition. Cache totally soaking wet, needs maintenance. TNLN TFTC

First find for the day, as we stopped off in Warburton for a late brunch before moving on through the hills... Busy here today with the snow crowd. Wandered down the trail and soon made the find safe and sound - We'll be returning one day to take more of a wander and polish off the other caches around this area.

TFTC.

nice easy find while out walking with family....

Out with my partner Anne again today we found this cache @ 12:39hrs
A perfect day for caching. This was a nice easy find which gave us more time to sit and take in some of the beauty of this place.
Took Chinese money Left plastic disc
TFTC SL

found @ 16:20 with mum and dad (ross47)

The walk to GZ was lovely.
I've never been to this section of the river, as we usually stay in the main street of Warby.

Took a couple of minutes to find, as a few muggles walked past us.

TNLN TFTC

A quick easy find @ 16:20 in the company of the geowife and emeraldflame. Certainly a pleasant stroll along the river. Unfortunately there was some water in the cache and all the contents were damp - but they're not too bad at this stage.

Thanks to mykaat for bringing us here and for the cache. TNLNSL

Found while out hunting with Juzzmagic. Enjoyed the surroundings. TFTC, TNLN.
Cv.

Found at 12.15pm with Wild Josh, Draw Two and Skip with Mum. Nice walk on a sunny day whilst on school holidays in Warburton. GZ was a good spot.
TNLN thanks mykaat.

Found this one at 12:15 with draw four, draw two, skip and Mum. It was a nice easy cache to find with a good view of the river.
Thanks mykaat

great find had a nice walk to here along the track sent the kids in looking then when they still hadnt found it gave them the hint took nothing left a fishing float and some rough polished stones

straight over the edge we went to gz and is a great place to Sit Awhile -tftc

Find # 1281 @ 12:50 on a caching day out with tackle_head
Nice easy find and a great place to sit. TNLNSL Thanks mykaat!

A lovely stroll along the creek with all the lovely leaves falling around us. Waited for a break in the traffic and the cache was in hand. Another break in traffic and it was back again. TFTC

I looked on from above while Genrow1966 slipped her way down. Looked too hard to come back the way Genrow1966 came so we waved goodbye and said we'd meet at the next cache. Luckily that was only 200m away. TFTC

Holy guacamole!!! Slippery entrance choice required bravery post clinging on to a tree for dear life. This was probably one of the more challenging caches I have done - simply because we chose the lazy route in rather than walking in along the board walk. I think it took me several minutes of psyching myself up to actually let go of the tree I was holding on to before I took a run down the hill. What a relief. Ended up muddy to the elbows and was NOT leaving with out finding the cache in one of the "either/or" locations... From my entry point in the wet... I give it a terrain of 5... laughing with some time and space between then and now!

Had a nice sit in this spot while I filled out my cache

A lovely ANZAC holiday Monday to visit Warburton. A sunny break over a period of damp days. This is a great place for walks both great and small. A stroll along the river took us to GZ. The GPS reading here was very poor, and so at one point we thought we might be on the wrong side of the river. TIme to unveil the hint - and then all was clear. The cache was found after some furtive searching. Not too many muggles fortunately.
TNLN SL TFTC mykaat

Third of the day with the Griffos. Mr Griffo had it in hand within minutes of deciding we were in the right spot without a GPS coord to confirm it... without the clue! He was born for this game!
Nice hide, enjoyed the walk and listening to the footy match and excited fans tooting their car horns across the river.
T Danish Coin
L Blue elephant (he isn't depressed... he's just... blue).
TFTC.

OK I am guilty of not logging caches over the last year or two. Due to 2 operations and rehab it has made it difficult to log caches even though I have been mostly chair bound sitting for short times has been difficult as well.
What I have done is create this log in an attempt to bring our found and DNF's up to date so I can resume my normal habit of stories rather than a TNLN - TFTC.
Most of these logs will not include the owners team name so I think it is appropriate to say a Big Thank the cache owners for their caches and some wonderful memories of caching adventures.
Also thanks to Team Crackers who have made our caching trips so much fun and their help in working out what caches we did and when.
Regards
Mr.Coffee and the "I promise I wont let this happen again after all these coffee's er I mean caches are drunk er I mean logged" Coffee Clan.

Great hiding spot...took a bit of searching to find this one
TFTC

Our Daughter was a little unsettled so I took here for a walk during church - and picked up this cache.
Took Froggy, left stick bear.

Found this one after a fair bit of searching - again the problem with getting a good reading under overhanging trees. But with some careful searching (and a poking stick!) it was revealed.
TNLN, thanks.

#203 Fourth of 9 for our caching afternoon at Warburton. Knew where it had to be but just could not locate it. However, persistence prevailed in the end. Another enjoyable walk in this lovely area. Thanks again mykaat. TNLN SL

1193 re-logging due to name change

1193 Had to make a nuisance of ourselves until the muggles left and then when we had the place to ourselves it was an easy find in a pretty little spot. TFTC mykaat

Cache took a little while to find as it was extremely well hidden but after reading the clue it didn't take to long the have it in hand.
Thanks for the cache mykaat.
TNLN SL

17-01 14th find of the day at 15:43 and 811th find in total.
We saw the suspension bridge that we would have to cross before we got to this cache, it seemed to have a bit of history itself.
We were also amazed by the amount of people fishing on the riverbanks on our walk to this cache and as it would turn out for our next few caches, they would be a thorn in our sides...
We got here and looked in the obvious spot while being watched by some of the line dippers nearby but is wasn't till we cracked the hint that the "crowd" decided to move on and made for a quick retrieval.
(''\(OoO)/'') Thanks mykaat for the caching fun!

Found on a walk along the river! Thanks! TNLN.

We parked a distance down the road and walked back along the bank to GZ. The GPS wasn't much impresses with the big trees, so I started down one end, and Feathertop started on the other. He had the cache in hand almost before I had started looking!
Thanks, Robmc.

Rob and I approached this one with a little trepidation after reading some logs but we need not have worried as I found it immediately right where I expected it to be. We had to wait for one muggle to pass before replacement could be made.

Found by The Empire
2/1/10 @ 1:10pm with The Lone Random
8/20 today on our Eastern Suburbs Invasion!
TNLN SL TFTC
- M

Found By The Lone Random,
W The Empire.
8/20 caches for the day.
@ 1.10pm.
TFTC, The Lone Random

2697. A really nice spot to place a cache but the last log didn't help at all. Found it where you would expect it after a lengthy search over and under. Once the find was made, then we could enjoy the area. Fantastic place this Warburton.

TFTC and the meander.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found while Geobiking along rail trail TNLN TFTC Might have to up date clue becoues cache was in a hide above deck

This was the second cache attempted today, and my second DNF. Not a good start. There were no muggles around to distract me, but despite my best efforts, the cache escaped me - too well hidden for me. But it's a great spot, so thanks for bringing me here.

This was a good hiding spot and a lovely place to sit and watch the river while we signed the log book. TFTC.

found at 11am, another pretty spot.
TFTC

found 4pm, while spending the Cup holiday caching in the area, Took boomerang fridge magnet, left Lisa Simpson.

Found @ 10:20. 9th of 13 today while riding the Warburton Trail to Warburton and back with the GeoMrs. After refuelling in town and collecting a few new by caches, we sat a bit and then jumped back on the bikes for the return trip to Lilydale. Lovely spot to sit for a while. TFTC TNLNSL

dipping personal geopatch

Found with DaTruk, MissBB and team_coxy Jnr

Ingenious hiding spot

Found 1530

TFTC SL TNLN

Found after a bit of a search. I had to feel around for this one as it was well covered and there were a number of spots it could have been in. I felt a bit like a hobbit hiding from the Nazgul when people passed above me.