Ring Road - Dont Stop! Grovedale, Victoria, Australia
By Team PacketStorm on 06-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1WWTN

Another cache that got about 10 years!
What a journey and how different his area is now..
Time to archive this cache. The race has been run.
Thanks to all the people that have found the cache

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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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Hi,

A friend of mine accidently found the Cache - but not at a the Cache Site.

He found it in an open space walking his dog.

He gave it to me because he knew we go Caching and are Members.

What would you like me to do with it?

Adventure Kids Australia

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Looked for an hour and a half to no success.

After a DNF and then someone else found it, it was time to find it again. Today I had the help of a previous finder to help find the cache. After the walk I came to the familiar site with the great zip-line, I wonder who uses it? Anyway I started searching everywhere around with my GPS going in circles, not a good time. After a while of searching soon we located the clever cache, I would have never found it on my own.

TFTC

Nice find

No luck today

Parked a little way away on a dodgy looking day. By the time we got there it had started to rain and was about to bucket down so had a super quick look and needed to rush off. Will be back again on a better day

It was getting dark so we’ll come back

This has been on my radar for a while. For some strange reason it’s a hole in my D/T loop that is just screaming to be closed. After a number of previous ‘I should swing past and grab that today’ moments that never eventuated, today was the day. I had a little time up my sleeve prior to school pickup so found myself at an appropriate parking location nearby. A short stroll later I was at GZ and quickly identified the hide and extracted the cache sans tool. Took a moment to admire the home-made flying fox nearby, although after checking out how its pulling down through a branch i’m not sure i’d be game to ride it. TFTC.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Team PacketStorm [^]

Headed to this one next.
Parked where I needed to and headed off for a walk to GZ. I saw a rabbit bounding along. We dont get these in Qld. Warm today. Found what I was looking for and signed the log. I had a physical tool to retrieve the cache. Returned to where I found it.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Team packetstorm All good with this cache

Thanks for the cache Team Packetstorm. Never been to this location before. So it was a welcome change of scenery.
Thanks also for your continued maintenance of the series. Must chase up a few more.
TNLN

A pleasant walk through the long wet grass to this from where I parked. A very well constructed hide so a fave point here TFTC

I had quite a dismal September as far as caching goes, and I'm determined to get out and about a bit more in October. After dropping the GeoKids off at holiday ballet, GeoHubby and I headed this way, hoping the satellite imagery was up to date. It was! Parked at an appropriate location and wandered towards the GZ. The walk is quite nice really. The greenery is picturesque and there was a lot of bird life. Just have to tune out the traffic noise on one side and the back fences on the other.

Once at GZ cache located quickly. Log signed and all replaced as found.

TFTC!

A quick walk with a quick find.

Tftc

This is another one of those caches that shows up on the map as quick and easy... but is it?

Caches that we don't have to use a tank of petrol or extended brain cells on are becoming quite difficult to locate so I invested some time working out how to get this one.

Being navigationally challenged (it's a girl thing) I wasn't sure if we could still get to GZ. Was the satellite imagery up to date? We would see!

The oldest needed to be at school for Peter Pan rehearsals, we needed a smiley today for the 365 day challenge so today was the day to test my theory.

Hoorah! I'm not completely hopeless. We made it to GZ, waited for the GPS to settle and had the cache in hand quickly.

(We were hoping the zip line in the picture was going to be needed tp get the cache - sadly it wasn't... looks like fun though!)

Another find by the McPhail family.

braved the drizzle to find this cache and retrieve the trackable from it. interesting location.

Last cache today... I know it's not recommended to leave any swaps but I've got a TB I need to drop off as I'm heading overseas in a completely different direction from where it wants to go... so hopefully it'll survive until the next geocacher comes along. TFTC

A quick and easy find as we cache our way through the area today. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Found this with my mother in law. Her first geocache. Great camo. Tftc.

After a short walk down an alley with some pretty coloured windows, we soon found what we were looking for ( yesterday ;P) great hide! TFTC

Nice hideTFTC

TFTC

Yay! - MADP

Once we found somewhere to park & get through it was a pleasant wall. Easy to spot

Out walking the dog after I figured out how to access this cache. Easy find. I can't open the cache unfortunately, which makes the fact that I forgot a pen and went back for one a bitter memory. I have a photo if co needs proof. Interesting seeing the road from this side.

Only my 2nd geocach I had to come past twice to find it and needed some assistance to from previous finders to give me a clue

I dunno like this was really cool you know TFTC

Thanks it was an easy one

Thanks it was an easy one

Parked in the nearby court and took a short stroll. Walked straight up to it. Was an easy find for me but definitely a clever hide.

Ladies, swap out the heels. Lads, swap out the thongs! Watch out for the dog poo!
Really cool hide! Took a little to figure out how to access the area! But cool walk. Found a gap alongside the highway wall and took in a view! Really awesome hide!
JH & SB

Found a place to park my car and walk toward the cache.
Lovely colours of wall reflected on the ground from the sun.
Found it nicely..
thanks Team PacketStorm

#36

Been wanting to grab this for weeks. 'Twas a long walk barefoot and I was the only one who got stung. No idea what got me. Poked a knothole out of the neighbours' fence, oops. Took some gorgeous nail scissors and left a rubber thimble and two stickers, the fire fighters one we originally grabbed in Bellbrae at GC67B1J. Thanks for another cache that a lot of effort has gone into.

Catching up on logs noticed this one not logged. Found this one whilst out at the shopping centres near by. A quick stroll took me to where I need to be. I tried what I thought it was but it wouldn't open so I kept searching. Up trees under bushes. Nothing. Hmm read logs. That must have been it. How do I open it? After a few minutes I finally gathered the strength required to open it up. It was very tight. Thanks for a great camo.

Log signed and replaced.

TFTC TNLN.

Great cache lots of fun, a nice walk too.

Today we decided to head out on a maintenance run after a few of our caches had logs saying they needed some TLC.

Armed with fresh log books and containers we headed out on this not too hot and not too cold day!
Great to see that this little logbook is still going,
Everything all good here

Mum and the girls had thought about doing this in the past, but had limited light and thought better of it. We finally got back at a more reasonable time of day and had no trouble finding this clever hide. We were surprised to have company, but probably no more surprised than the local who was letting his dog run and found a bunch of strangers wandering around! Not too close to the cache where we saw them. It was interesting to see the ring road from this spot too. TFTC!

Dirty present on the lid!

This was a quick walk from the car and was easily retrieved! TFTC

Nice Placement, took a 25 minute walk to the cache!

Quick and easy find, but the last person to find it must have been Hercules because I struggled to open it!

Hidden away nicely. You wouldn't think many muggles would be around but there was. Thanks for the hide!

Thought I found it from a distance back, but it is just a big rain gauge I think. Found catch easy just on a bit further signed and returned in quick time. TFTC

Debated for 5 mins as the best way to get there, shot a basketball in a hoop, easy find but clever @aleerenren

took me 30mins to find way to get to path. finally found it and had to walk 500mtrs plus but wasnt to difficult when i did get there!

I love it when you are 20 metres away from GZ and you can already see the cache! What a great little cache. Love the effort gone into the cache. love the idea and the time put into this cache. TFTC TNLNSL

[red]Find #2014 Traditional #1713 [/red]

After a quite day at work, I was in need to find a cache to make this a day. I parked where I could see I could go in the closest route. I parked the geo vehicle, and made my way in on foot. Not too much of a walk. I always wondered how much room there would be for the houses to where the sound barrier was. As I made my way closer and closer to where I wanted to be, I saw something straight away and bingo! [^] Love it when that happens. Signed and replaced as found.

[blue]Thanks for this cache, Team Packet Storm. [^] Cache and log in good condition TNLN[/blue]

Quite a long walk from wherw i parked
Halfway to cache noticed a court that would have been much more convieniant to park at
All well
Quick and easy find
TFTC

Great hide. Thought it was supposed to be there. Clever thinking. Good fun. Thanks.

Quick find nice spot
Tftc

Tftc

Great find! Very well hidden

Cosy little cache. Easy find ft. GeoFang.

Nice hide

Great little cache. Took us a little while to fugue out how to get to the area but someone driving by (maybe a fellow cacher) told us to go down and how to access it. Thanks

Found a parking spot as close as I could and headed to GZ, on approach I thought the coords were out but that proved to be something else. Followed coords and spotted what I was after straight away.
Thanks for the cache Team PacketStorm
#712

Took a while to find...but after some thinking was easily found! TAT TEAM 9/6

Took a while to find...but after some thinking was easily found! TAT TEAM 9/6

Got what I thoughts was a good parking spot about 300m away (might have 200m) and made the walk. Spotted a likely spot and was signing the log within seconds.

Thanks Team PacketStorm for the find
Log signed & replaced. TFTC & smiley face

Find #539

Great idea! Lot of work put into that! Thanks for the smiley badge

Such a clever hide! Tftc!

TFTC Picked this one up while visiting with the Tritonz today.

Found this one today with Wozzle68 while out and about doing some caching, nice easy find, thanks for the exercise and the cache

Quick find after uni. Parked at Hayes, did the 5min walk and retrieved cache. Muggle kids on tramp over fence said hello. Tftc and the location

Found @21:21
After a couple of false starts, we had an enjoyable walk.
Geo Puppy went bunny hunting while we hunted caches.
Took nothing, left smiley face badge.
SL Thanks for the cache Team PacketStorm.

Very clever hide

Thanks for this fun geocache!! Great hiding spot!

Clever

Nice hide! Forth for the day!

Looked at doing this cache ages ago when I did the rest of the series but wasn't sure about the access route, so today, after a little more research (I had been right all along), I went in by bike which I left just round the corner out of sight, then headed off to GZ where a quick find was made, the log signed and returned and then it was back to the bike before someone decided to help themselves...that would have been a rather long walk home....
Thanks again Team PacketStorm for another cache engineered to withstand a nuclear blast!

Nice walk in muggle free are with geokid mastering how to whistle with a blade of grass. Think she annoyed every dog in a 1km radius. Nice easy find and pleasant walk. TFTC.

I have found this cache. It could have been months ago now and I probably had a cool story to go with it at the time but instead I saved it in my found list and now I forget everything. No more of that from now on. Thanks anyway! =]

TFTC easy as!

Super super super easy fund once at GZ for those that have done "ring road - at the end of the road" a few Km's away.

TFTC. Rather peace walk during sun set too

I don't mind walking to a cache - I even walked/ran 28km to a cache last week. But on this one, I couldn't figure out the way in after several attempts from North, South, Waurn Ponds etc. Didn't want to bother local residents, so for me this one was abandoned at the puzzle stage.

TFTC

Nice stroll. Previous logs told me how to get in and what to look for.

Having met Team PacketStorm at a geomeal earlier in the week, I think I knew what to expect to find here. And I was correct. A nice hide after a walk from a secluded court. TFTC. Hopefully catch up again soon !!

In Geelong visiting family for Easter. Just had to add to my local smiley tally.
A "different" sort of hide. Well implemented.
Took snake (left swaps back at the car - refer description.) Geo-grandson felt that since he had left a swap elsewhere previously in the day with out collecting anything, he could reverse the practice here - sorry.
TFTC

Found 14:05, in the company of Muzza during our regular caching day out.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks Team PacketStorm.

Another nice quick find in this series. Thanks for the cache.

Bogonghazy and I quickly worked out where to approach this one from, parked and then set off for the walk to GZ, where the hardy and clever camo was revealed. Giving this one a fave for work involved in setting it up. Thanks to Team PacketStorm for yet another in this series.

After finding the previous TPS cache, Sully1 and I had to work out a safe approach to this one.
Was pretty obvious when I saw the street name, HAYES, perfect.
A nice walk in, and we could hardly hear the noise with all the baffling and sound barriers,
and what a surprise at GZ! Nice bit of work here, should stand the tsest of time, I'm sure.
First of the faves coming your way, thanks again Team PacketStorm

Dropped past this cache today to check that all was in order.
Safe to say that everything is all good, The last cacher hid it very well.
Very impressed

This cache is all good to go!

Have fun!
Team PacketStorm!

When the Ring Road first opened, the geokids were toddlers and loved saying "colours!" each time they had the coloured panels on their side of the road. Brought back some nice memories as we walked past some of the panels today on our way to the cache once we found the way in. Thanks again Team PacketStorm

beautiful hide, tftc!
=)

found with clautza.
TFTC!

Nice hide. Haven't seen one like that before. Tftc.

nice work on the camo. found with pagehanify. tftc

Can't believe we didn't see this one last time. As we neared the search area is was clear which container would be holding the cache. Glad to get another one in this series. TNLN TFTC

TFTC
Took nothing
Left cub to scout link badge

Nice hiding spot very different not what I expected tftc

t4tc!

Not sure why this one seems to be visited infrequently but I made the effort this evening to find the way in. A quick check of the satellite showed a possible way in and this turned out to work well. A straightforward walk of not too far got me to GZ. Given the clue in the description I knew what I was looking for and found it very quickly (and no organic surprises like the last time I found this sort of Team Packetstorm hide!) Thanks to Team Packetstorm for this one.

No luck today with this cache. Saw some good potential hiding spots with good GPS signal but after 30 minutes of searching, turned in the towel. Hope the next person has better luck.

It won't walk anymore. Well hidden I actually thought it was a pipe. TFTC

Quite fixed I think!