A close shave Metung, Victoria, Australia
By Jimmymaff on 08-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZK8J

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Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.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 notice from one or more log entries that this cache would seem to be in need of some help - **there appears to be a need for owner intervention.**

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) I cannot see any log that indicates a recent visit by the CO to this cache.

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) Therefore, the cache is being temporarily disabling so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

**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:

- Repair and/or Replace your cache or do whatever else is needed, post an [**Owner Maintenance log**](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) 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 don't plan on fixing it up then please [**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.

- 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.

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) the cache 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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Need's Checking...

Not to be today. As mentioned previously phone number is missing from sign and after projecting possible co-ordinates and searching far and wide I still came up empty.

Had no luck here today. The phone number on the sign appears to have been covered but found another number on a nearby sign which gave us some possible numbers. Once at GZ, searched the the given hint to no avail. The log is discintergrating but still came up empty handed.

This needs a check from CO, as sign has changed and it hasn't been found this year.

Tfft had been before but not logged

Tftc. Found it. Was a difficult find. Very very well hidden.

There was no phone number where my GPS pointed for waypoint 1, but there was one nearby. (It looks as though one sign has been covered over by a new one, so it is possible that I used a wrong number). However, it did come up with a reasonable location where a cache could be hidden.



I did have a look for this one but couldn't find it today. I hope it's still there. My thanks to Jimmymaff for placing it.

There were so many notices to read before we found the one with the phone number. Quickly did some calculations which led us to a spot that matched the clue but sadly we couldn't find the cache.

Tried hard for this one. Even googled. Used a number which had us at a spot that agreed with the clue but still no luck. Oh well - maybe next time?

No luck today. I know it's somewhere in there! Lol

Found
TFTC

After lunch with Fayemous65, we headed to this one and despite the coords for the first step being slightly out, we work it the final GZ out. However, due to distracting children, we were looking in thd wrong spot i soon found the subtle hide. I found my favourite birds, the yellow tailed black cockatoo too, chewing on the pine cones in a nearby tree. I have never seen so many together (usually find them in pairs) Thanks for the cache.

Found with Morcs4 as we aim for our 500th find.
Took a bit, not in the obvious place.
TFTC

Tricky! Struggled to find a phone number. Tried it. Seemed possible. Muggle friend found it after a big search. That was fun. TFTC

A hell of a search despite the easy sounding clue ! Tnln Tftc

Found in early afternoon just as thunder started to roll tftc another multi achieved

Nice little multi with a tricky finish. Just goes to show a GZ is not all that obvious even after you read the clue. Pretty area, geodaughter loved sitting on the wall with the breeze in her face. Tftc

Ok geomum - don't jump to conclusions. Just because something looks like a cache hideout doesn't automatically mean that's where you will find it!

We are camping at Lakes Entrance with friends and today wasn't a day for the beach so we decided to get some caches instead.

We haven't succeeded in many puzzle caches but this looked like it could be achievable. We found the numbers and did the conversion so off we went in search of the cache. We looked high and low for the cache without success. Our youngest cacher widened the search and had the cache in hand.

Thanks for the hide and bringing us to this lovely area.

Epic Fail [B)]

Nice one. Not in first place I looked bit made grab nevertheless. Traded TBS

Found this cache after a while when we widened the search area. Thanks. Silkyie.

It was the AFL Grand Final today and we are mad Western Bulldogs supporters, so we wanted to get some caches to ease the nerves, for what was one of the greatest wins of all time! We walked from our hotel down to WP1, where after some quick calculations, the cache was quickly found at GZ. Lovely little area. Left TB. TFTC Jimmymaff!

Found by Mary & David at 1125. Enjoyed this short multi. Much entertainment watching some muggles launch their trailer sailer. Noted the numbers, did the sums, and walked over to GZ, where we found the cache after a short search. Then we headed off just down the road for some lunch. Our thanks to Jimmymaff.

Found it. Second time lucky. We looked everywhere. We decided we would go and have lunch and try again later. This time we found it straight away. There was a car parked in our way. I looked all around the car and there it was. Thanks heaps for the find

Just the right height for the adventure-kids to find. TFTC

Found after searching a number of likely places. Pretty chilly weather here at the moment, so not many muggles around. Retrieved cache easily but had to wait a while for a nearby couple of muggles to move on before returning cache to its home. TFTC

Made my way to the cache after a nice lunch of fish-n-chips near the published location. Nearly gave up after searching for quite a while, but finally found it. The clue is good - you just have to find the right place.
Thanks jimmymaff

Beautiful day to find! TFTC

Drove out to the end to a very busy area. Gathered the info and made a quick find under the noses of lots of muggles. TFTC

Nice find by wife thanks

Neither TaurusSix not I could find the cache. We did find a spot that a cache would likely inhabit.

Found it, sneaky spot though, thx to my brother assisting me

* almost everything in the container was very sticky, washed everything inside it and put a toy car in it ((:

A very nicely hidden cache. A few muggles around during this busy period over xmas. What a great day to reunite and relax on the shore with old friends. Such a blessing to have grown up around here. Tftc

In Metung for the day so managed a couple of select caches, always happy to look for a Jimmymaf cache. TFTC

got the co got to GZ but no luck for us!

What a spectacular area - thanks for the fun

28/09/2015 2:28:00 PM
Our for a walk and a spot of grocery shopping we wandered down to the end of the road to admire the views and calculate the final coordinates. After a little circle work near GZ the cache was discovered and the log signed and return just before a group of muggles arrived.
Thanks

This was a good one! We liked the extra challange of the decoding also.

Easy find

A beautiful winters morning on Shaving Pount

Found with Billy_Shears. tftc

Found with GizaGal
tftc

This entry was edited by myman on Monday, 08 June 2015 at 08:20:30 UTC.

Great find

This one is pretty tricky we used the hint to search the area

Nice little multi, thank you very much for this one. The day was very windy and therefore quite cold but we got everything worked out before we froze! TNLN SL Thanks again!!!

With new motivation following an event the day before myself along with geosister headed down to Metung on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

With information obtained and calculation completed we quickly had the cache to hand.

Thanks Jimmymaff.

Thought it was a too nicer day to stay home, so we hit the geo road. first find for day we stealth as there were a few muggles around. TFTC

Spent some time watching a pair of swans standing on the boat ramp on one leg (each) with heads tucked under their wings. They took no notice of people at all. Enjoyed the multi with GZ within walking distance. TFTC

Once we reminded ourselves that this was a multi and there was no log at GZ we quickly solved the puzzle and enjoyed the short stroll to GZ. Very enjoyable and a nice place to stop for morning tea. Thanks.

Found with KI Bug, did a bit of fishing at Metung.

Decided a break in our fishing was required, so after a bite to eat we tackled this jimmymaff cache with our friends Tank47. We located the necessary info, completed the computations and headed off to make a find - easy. We left our customary "ladybug" and also a travel bug that had come some distance to reside near the Gippsland Lakes. Thanks for the cache.

We decided to head down to Gippsland for the Easter long weekend: a great excuse to go caching a little further away from home.

Found this cache on our leisurely Monday drive from Lakes Entrance to Metung.
TFTC

We pulled the car right up in front of the WP and sat there while we collected the numbers and did the calculations. GZ turned out to be only a short distance away in a location we had said we would like to stop at for a few photographs.
TFTC

YAY - found it today. Thanks Jimmymaff for setting this one up. The information board at the published co-ords still contains the correct info which helped to assist with completing the maths to come up with the co-ords for the cache hidey hole. A really lovely area to visit.

A quick search without alcohol brought better results!! Thanks Jimmymaff lol.

Hope geohubby gives you a splash today hehehe

Found after a little search. It has been a pleasure to be in the presence of a great cacher. Enjoy your paddle

Second for the day. Nice spot to park a bus.TNLNSL.

I found this awesome cache with Ostara74 while we were on holiday in the area. What a brilliant hide! We enjoyed the hunt for this cache a lot. The local area was very interesting and a great place to visit. Thank you to Jimmymaff for their efforts of making and maintaining this cache. Thanks also for bringing us to this amazing spot. I love that caching brings me to new and usually relatively unknown places that I would never even know about, let alone find, if I wasn’t hunting for a cache. This very cool cache was my 1600th find.

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On todays journey together with Ostara74 and Pathfinder24 this was our first find of the day. My gps really didn't want to cooperate here, but luckily the two others' were working find so after a bit of calculation and walking in the beautiful weather in Metung we hit the right spot and could write us in. Everything is ok with cache and log.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Norway

Found together with Pathfinder24 and ellesaich on a sunny day. This was my first of four finds today.
With ellesaich visiting us from the cold north, Pathfinder24 and I came up with a route for a camping trip to include three of Australia's states.
During our combined summer- and caching-trip in VIC, NSW and ACT we visited many lovely places and made some additional stops to look for caches on our way.
The required information was easily retrieved and the required calculations done before the cache was located and the log signed. And then we were quick to head back to the air conditioned car.
Thanks for the cache Jimmymaff!

A fun easy one. Thanks.

Lovely spot for a cache
TFTC
Jenny and Mark

This entry was edited by elysium_au on Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 05:41:42 UTC.

Well hidden, but eventually I found it. TFTC!

Out and about picking up a few caches for the arvo. A sunny lovely lazy sunday. SURE is a top spot for a cache. Thanks for the hunt.

Our first cache during our mini-break at Metung! We worked out the final coords while enviously watching two fishermen and wishing we had rods with us. Oh well, next time. Once at the GZ, we took a LONG time looking in all the wrong places before enzo spotted the nicely hidden container. Phew! TNLNSL TFTC!

A nice simple multi to help us with the August challenge. And the Gippsland Lakes were picture perfect today. TFTC

Find # 2887
10:11 am Sun 6 Jul 2014
The last day of our holiday to stay with friends at Fishing Point on Lake Macquarie, just south of Newcastle. Last night we stayed at Lakes Entrance.
The plan today was to call in at Metung, then collect a special cache at Moe on the way home to Melbourne. Only bad thing was that somewhere along the way, either at Metung or at Moe, I lost my wallet. Damn damn damn.
We hadn't planned to do this one, but just came upon it, and it was a quick and easy multi.
I'm giving it a fav point because it was quick, clean,. really nicely hidden but easy to find, and in an interesting location. Hmmm a Jimmymaff cache. Love your work, been a fan since the one at Tongue Point.
Thanks for placing this cache Jimmymaff

A quick find today, we grabbed the number quickly and headed off. Metung seems like a beautiful town, with a bit of money splashed here and there! Thanks for the cache.

An easy multi to finish off the day at Metung.

Really enjoyed this one, thanks! Beautiful sunset to watch over the lake made it even better

Nice windy day, and right on target.

Tough find in the dark.

TFTC!!!

Out caching with LazzaL and this was one of the caches we were able to get. We enjoyed the scenery around this beautiful area and finding the cache. Thanks to Jimmymaff.

A quick solve to the puzzle even though there were 2 phone numbers that seemed similar. Cache soon found and find logged. Tftc

tftc

GPS playing up for some reason but after conducting a wide search eventually came up with the cache.TFTC

On a beautiful morning we came to Metung and enjoyed the village.

TFTC !

Beautiful view on a beautiful day
Thanks

Found it.

Some cute little swaps tftc

Holidaying in metung - beautiful part of the world. TFTF. TNLN

Found this very first cache with my Dad (tmether). Took small Hippo, left small Spider. TFmyveryfirstF

Finally tidied up my list of Metung caches today. A lovely little multi on a gorgeous day. TFTC (-:

Decided to attempt this despite the inclement weather, and glad I did, it was a quick and easy multi in a great spot. Thanks Jimmymaff for the cache

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found with taurus1955 and our 2 geodogs. My gps seemed to have us in the water at first, but common sense prevailed and the cache was soon in hand.
Find 1498 TFTC

\Found today in the rain yet again with Kinkell1 and Tilley and Bentley the geo-pup

Good cache in a lovely spot, ducks round here look a bit different to what we're use to. Fairly popular bit managed to grab in between muggles. Tftc

A nice quick multi was made even easier by the weather scaring most muggles off today as its very cold and windy tfth took cow left troll

Nice quick find and nice maths. Interestingly with sea level rise and the king tide both coords had me out in the water.
Tftc tnln

My first multi cache!! Found the coordinates the day before and walked there on a beautiful sunday morning while muggle partner was at golf. TFTC

Came here in peak season and just kept walking as picnic family was 2m from cache, a quick find on an a sunny quiet midweek morning. TFTC

On a very quiet midweek autumn afternoon we still had to wait for muggles, so we'd hate to be here mid season. The muggle factor on the hides around here must be stupendous!
Good little multi, had us fooled for a few minutes until we realized we had the wrong phone number.
TFTC

During a few days of leisure at Metung, took an hour out to pick up some caches in the area, some of which are quite new. I'm usually hopeless at even the most simple multi. But I'm pleased that this one worked out just fine! I'd only seen this point from the water, so it was good to be brought here by my favourite landlubber activity. T4TC, Jimmymaff!

nice quick multi
great views
TFTC

Nice walk along the shore. found the sign, did the maths and took a stroll along the foreshore with Action Nannas and geodog. Found GZ and cache was soon in hand. SL
TNLN
TFTC Jimmymaff