Dusty Balook Callignee, Victoria, Australia
By Serial and tongdog on 11-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1PVHR

Unfortunately, there has not been a response to the last request/s to attend to this cache, or provide regular updates. As a result it must be assumed that the cache has been abandoned by the cache owner and regretfully, the cache is now de-listed (Archived).

Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived. This is explained here: [**Unarchive a geocache**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56). If there are components or remnants of the cache, please return to the GZ and collect the cache (or remnants). We don't want to litter our environment with Georubbish.

If you wish to contact me regarding this cache, please send an email via my profile - [Bunjil,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

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### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUIRED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there Serial,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention.

You may recall having received an automated email from Geocaching HQ which explained what you needed to do.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have happened, so I am having to take the next step and temporarily disable the cache - see here: [**Geocache Health Score.**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713)

**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days so others know exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication kill this cache.**

#What should you do now:-#
You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-

- **Check On The Cache:-** Visit the cache and repair and/or replace 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.

- **Place A Write Note Log:-** Reviewers are not mind readers, so without your note on the cache page telling them what the situation is, they can't tell what is going on with the cache.
So please just post a note to the page (within 14 days) and, when the listing is next checked, all will be fine for a little bit longer. But be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it.
If you have a long term unavailable cache (where you don't have an actual date), please ensure you visit this page and post a note every 4 to 6 weeks so as to keep everyone up to speed with what is happening.

- **Adopt/Archive:-** 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 the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned and processed accordingly.

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.

**JUST A TIP:-** Have you checked out the new Geocaching Dash Board designed to assist a Cache Owner in managing the caches they own? Have a read about it [**HERE.**](https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2020/07/welcome-to-the-cache-owner-dashboard/?newsletter=PM) You will find your very own dash board [**HERE**](https://www.geocaching.com/play/owner?utm_source=geocaching&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=COD)

Thanks for your cooperation,

Bunjil

[3AS]

As a previous finder, I have this cache on my watchlist. With 5 consecutive DNF logs, could the CO please check on this cache and report back on its current status? Thanks.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Out with our Caching buddies for a road trip to Tarra Bulga National Park and to pick up some caches along the way. While walking in the park we stopped by to pick up this cache. Despite four sets of eyes and a thorough search we did not have any success. Maybe next time.

To much jungle

Sorry to add another blue smiley, but...

No luck

No luck for us here today, of course we looked in the obvious spot and the not so obvious however no cache was found.

Had a great time walking these tracks although it was hard to keep the whole party together at times.
On return to the carpark we spotted a bird that we couldn't ID. A few pics and some research later showed it to be a female Satin Bowerbird.

Cheers tongdog, thanks for the fun.

The plan for today was to drive from Melbourne to visit the Tarra-Bulga National Park, then head down to the coast to check out some beaches we haven't visited before such as Woodside and then drive back home. We left at 8:45am and got home round 11pm! Another long but fun school holiday trip with the kids.

This was our third and final cache for the day. With such a long drive planned we couldn't stop for too many.

Thanks for the cache Serial and tongdog.

We had a great time on the trails here and also really enjoyed the other places within the National Park such as Tarra Falls and Cynthia falls at Tarra Valley Picnic Spot.

See some photos of the things we saw today.

A few days ago we were here doing the walk to the suspension bridge so as we passed, we paused to look for this cache. Luckily we were undisturbed by muggles while we conducted a careful, gentle search but we were without luck. Today I came past again, heading down a different path, and having thought about it, I looked in a completely different area which we had neglected last time. Almost immediate success!

Thanks for find #1569
TNLN

Couldn't find it after abit of search.
Too many muggles walking past.
Walked back to my car and the temperature shows 40 degrees outside.
Thanks

Found on our 2nd visit here.
The hint actually misled us as it was an obvious spot for us.
Looked at it anyway but no luck for us. After no luck anywhere else Mrs TiedyeSmileys returned but looked much lower this time and soon had the cache in hand.
TFTC

A rather wet weekend , good excuse to get out of the house , beautiful place up here , thanks for the cache .

Found en route to the suspension bridge and then went back to do the 3km forest trail. What a beautiful and tranquil area TFTC

Great cache all items dry despite recent snow.

There may have been snow in the ground here last weekend but today is sunny and a warm 15 degrees. Left a small eraser and took nothing. Tftc!

Found on a cold winters day while looking for snow

Not so dusty today. Patches of snow on the ground. Cache dry and in good condition though. Tftc

After seeing the suspension bridge in a Visit Victoria ad, Tarra Bulga shot straight to the top of my must-see list. A lovely afternoon was spent wandering around the beautiful park, with the highlight undoubtedly the discovery of a lyrebird - incredible creatures. A quick find on the way back to the car. Thanks!

Managed the find in between muggles. Great hide. Thanks Serial and tongdong for bringing us here.

Found after the expert locator (Jonah) homed in on it.

Found it. Was a nice little walk

Great walk, tftc

We enjoyed our walk to this cache and looked in places that did not hold a cache and then found it hidden low and safe. T 1 x TB SL TFTC

Node disguise. TFTC

Enjoying a Sunday drive in our new car & of course trying to find a cache or two. Dropped off TB "Northern Territory". TFTC

Third times the charm, we had a lot more eyes this time

We stayed in Sale for the weekend for the wedding of a friend’s daughter and then decided to come home via Tarra Bulga National Park so the GMelb could get some info for a multi. We visited the Visitors Centre then headed back to the car to get hats etc for our walk for the info for the multi then decided we should check the app to see if there were any caches close by. This was the second one however after a bit of a search in between muggles we decided we had to move on as our son was already back at the car but without keys!
Oh well next time hopefully!

Auf der längsten Tagesetappe unserer Australienreise mit dem Mietwagen, haben wir auch hier einen kurzen Stopp eingelegt.

Vielen Dank an Serial sagt der Steinbeißer98

Too us a little while to find. Being paranoid of the leeches hindered our search a bit. TFTC

Came up here on Tuesday but with snow on the ground and rain and icy wind a constant problem returned to Yallam and a nice warm fire. With better weather today came and grabbed this from its hide. Coords were spot on and cache was in good shape.TFTC SL Cheers 4 Now

Boy, this cache took a long time to find. We discounted the obvious and headed straight for 0m. Getting really damp with the constant drizzle and touching lots of really damp things, we came up with nothing. Surprisingly absolutely no muggles came upon us in our search as the car park was pretty busy! I checked a spot, but was distracted by a face-full of prickles which really didn't help as I was already suffering from a stinging nettle injury sustained earlier in the day's caching. Later, I got brave and used a branch to hold the prickles out of the way to shine a light on the hidey spot.....then I wussed out and Kato performed the extraction. TFTC Serial and tongdog.

Out on a road trip with Mummy Short Legs with the aim of finding a few unloved caches (and any other ones we happened across). This one just happens to be a nemesis of old for me. The last time I attempted it I was here with my family with 2 young kids and a patient husband who soon had to wander off with the kids to keep them happy. It also seemed to be the busiest little section of path ever! Today we were searching with very low hopes, in amongst the very wet and dripping (drips that always sounded like muggle footsteps) forest, trying to stick to the path but feeling like the options were limitless and feeling like the gps was doing an irish jig. After what felt like a decade, we pulled out torches and finally Mummy Short Legs spotted the telltale colour of a cache. Sweet bliss... and a very dusty arm! Thanks for the cache tongdog, still in good nick and very well hidden!

It was slightly damp in the Tarra Bulga & Balook NP today with the clouds giving us some precipitation but undaunted we continued our search. After some time we decided to use the hint to try and locate the cache and once know, bingo there it was!! Thank you Serial and tongdog for placing this cache. TFTN

Day 3 on our combined Quest for the Golden Dragon/Windmill hunt during the Easter holidays from Sydney. Top NP here. We didn't find this but didn't look that hard. We're a bit reluctant to poke in anything other than obvious places in a National Park. Cheers... Gaztek

Found the cache but no lyrebirds will be sure to come back to this beautiful place one day!

Replaced cache today, at the same location as the original could not be found! Seems the environment has slightly changed since last time. Might have to reconsider the location if this one doesn't make it

Searched and searched but no good, lots of recent tree cutting in the area

Pretty sure its gone. If you find it leave clues! Been some gardening and cutbacks of growth. May have covered it?

We looked everywhere near the coordinates for a long time but still couldn't find it.

DNF

I know we're in the right place it no logs for this caches and it was placed in 2009 so not sure if it's even here still. Virbull

The hills were alive... with the sounds of lyrebirds.
One was even glimpsed through the undergrowth.
No cache was though.

Nice spot

OMG.., LEECHES!! The whole team was covered. Luckily we took a salt shaker, like true weirdos, and found our treasure before all running out like a bomb was about to explode! TFTC

Nice little hide on a great walk TFTC

I wasn't looking for any geocaches. When I was observing an Echidna, I discovered the Geocache. Thanks for the chache and cheers from Switzerland!

We found it!!!!! Certainly was a good hidey hole. We left a log in the book but no swapsies though as we came unprepared and unaware of Geocacheing. So found it by accident lol. There are a few entries in there now and nail clippers and a pair of tweezers and some Top Gear cards. Great location too. Beautiful walking track. Made us smile even more than the day had already made us smile. Thank you.

Great end to a holiday with friends!

#1362
Together with Calypso62, I had come to Melbourne to attend the Mega Event. Now it was time to head home. As on the way down, we planned to find a few caches along he way. This was one cache that C62 had found on an earlier trip south so we stopped while I searched for it. After a short search, it was found, log signed. Then of to the cafe for a hot coffee. Very nice location. Sorry it took so long to log this event. SL TFTC.

Wow DEF no need to leave the track.
I went for all the obvious spot and failed. Good work :):)
Tftc

Was a bit of a look.

Found at 14:00 with Geo-dad on his first geocaching experience.
A freezing morning - complete with slippery ice in the car park - but a great spot. TNLN

Great hidy hole! We're hooked!

Great hidy hole! We're hooked!

Great cache. Took a little while but found it.

Found it!!

Day out to Tarra Bulga.....a few finds on the way! TFTC!

#1929
What a magic spot the Tarra Bulga National Park is. We walked down to the suspension bridge from the lower car park then returned to the Balook Café for a hot chocolate before I wandered over to find this hide. It didn't take long before the excellent hiding spot was discovered. I signed the new log, rather than the temporary paper on and returned the hide without incident. Thanks Serial for placing the cache and for keeping it maintained for me to find.

Added a new log book + pencil, however also noticed the nearby sign as mentioned in the cache description was no longer there

Came for a New Years Day walk and found a cache. No log book so left a couple of sheets of paper. Beautiful area

Cache container is labeled but empty. Needs a new log book. I left some paper as a temporary replacement

first for the day during a walk with our visitor Jessy from Malaysia

tftc

I was on a walk with group of friends to the suspension bridge as we were walking along I saw out of the courner of my eye the cache, I wasnt actually cacheing that day it was just by luck I happened to see it, I must have a sharp eye. I found the traveling bug (little yellow buggy) but I had nothing to swap I was devastated I then explained to my friends how geocaching works and one of them suggested we take a photo with or Polaroid camera and put a picture of us in there. We were on a weekend getaway that we call winterness. Thanks for the cache

We had a ball getting this one as there seemed to be muggle just coming out of the wood work here. once we found the log it was signed then back to car as the rain was about to hit. TFTC SL

Thanks for the hide. We dropped our travel bug bug! It has been riding in my pocket for the last 3 days on our trip to Lakes Entrance. Here is a nice spot for her yellow journey to continue! Thanks

Yes, I admit it. I looked in the obvious place before standing back and seeing it.
Doh!
TFTC

I looked in the obvious spot and geohubby said "It's not in there" I said "how do you know?" He said "cause I can see it there !" We even saw a lyrebird. Lovely walk. SL TFTC

Found on a lovely day out

A nice walk early in the mornig. Thank you for hide.

A once easy find to start our day off here, our gps was a bit off the mark but that hint pointed us in the right direction. TFTC

2013: 362 Days In A Row - We went for a wander to pick up this cache. At GZ we seemed to be pointing to a location but couldn't see it there... Hunted around a bit more, but ended up coming back to the spot we started and eventually made the find. A nice walk in a great spot! Thanks for the cache.

1113 05102013 I attempted this cache when it was new. I finally got around to finding it today.
Regards Crisp image

A nice walk on a spring day with RFDSMegals. After an energetic stroll before the phone battery died, we found it. TFTC

Found it with ORnursie72. Was a great day caching around town

Found it. Cold and windy. Just a quick walk. TFTC.
Took: orange scissors and TB
Left: coin.

Found it. Will move it along.

With a school excursion and I thought I would check and see if the cache was still there. I drop a bug off.

Thanks for the cache.
Not so dust now, it was cool, fresh and damp on our visit.

Whilst the girls sat at the cafe, the boys went out to find a cache. We'd walked past here before, but not realised the cache was here. Not much sign of the saw mill now however.
Thanks Dusty Balook. Nice place.

Placed log in zip bag as it seemed to be getting damp. a quick walk with the kids. TFTC

This was a great cache. The coordinates were very accurate and made the find quite easy. TFTC.

Out with GumNuts. Lovely walk in the rain forest and a cache as well. What more could we need? Food in the lovely cafe. TFTC

After a very scary drive in the motorhome we arrived at the visitor centre. A walk down to the suspension bridge and back round - we then realized that we had passed a cache! So back we went and the cache was soon located. Followed it up with lunch and a Devonshire cream tea at the cafe and B&B!
TFTC, SL

Another beautiful walk surrounded by tree ferns!And a good excuse to walk it!

been saving this cache for a nice summer's day, seem's everyone else did too, muggle galore today and I got quite a surprise as I have been here many times and almost always had the place to myself - not today - lucky I was looking very tourist'y in my backpack and camera on hand,lol.. got sprung when looking in the wrong place by some nice people who warned us to be careful of the brown snakes, not sure if they were cachers or not but when I emerged from the wrong spot and onto the right spot I spotted the cache and noticed it has also been signed today ... took nothing left a wind instrument both 97 and 74 caching today ..... Thanks for placing a cache

Out caching in the area with the owner of this cache, couldn't pass up the opportunity for another find. Would have liked to walk further but we were running out of light

Catching up on my logging - found while out and about with my caching buddy Slink1

Found on another caching outing with the guys enjoyed the quick findTFTC

Found after brief search of the area
in an obvious spot, tftc, sl.

Found on an enjoyable walk to the suspension bridge.

Staying at Mowell, we visited Tarra-Bulga National Park for the day. Henry, Dianne, Phil and myself did the the long walk around and found this cache on our way back.
TFTC

Thank god.... we eventually found the elusive cache.

I swear swear swear I look in the exact location last time... I think it was hidden better. Anyhow that does not matter... we found it and we can cross it off our list of caches we have to find.

We spent another hour here going down to the swing bridge and also having a picnic. Absolutely Beautiful.

Thanks Serial for bringing us out here three times now.

The Madstar Family

TFTC

Found at 10:40. Visited the suspension bridge first at bulga park before parking at the visitors centre and a short stroll to this cache. GPS was playing up a little but the cache was soon found by GeoDad and then made good use of the adjacent seats to fill out the log. Thanks

Ooooh, lovely trail loops! Arrived at spot in early evening, then heard a LOUD wood-crashing sound no far off and the sounds of something walking through the woods. However, there are no moose in Australia and we were the only ones in park it seems. Mysterious! Also heard a lyrebird calling - super cool! Picked up Wombat TB, dropped off Army Guy TB: he needs to conquer as many states and countries as possible. Now has VICTORIA, AUS!

What a hoot! Passed this very spot yesterday as we were walking as many of the tracks we could fit into an afternoon! I didn't even know it was on the list.
So back to GZ this morning and found cache without much trouble - a great location. As ruralslicker said it was quite visible but only if you knew where to look - a great hide, especially as we had missed Charlie's Park and were feeling a bit like we may have lost our touch. Thanks, Serial, for the reassurance:)

We've had a couple of goes at this one in the past, but for one reason or another, we were unable to do it. It was a pleasant walk on a hot day into GZ, and ended up being a fairly quick find. We dropped off lost and found TB with a wombat attached. It should find plenty of wombat holes around here, and maybe some nice wombat company. Took the sheep to make some room. Signed the log.
Lovely place to visit. TFTC

cheers....
greynomads - Bill and Diana