Eric the Eel Waverley, New South Wales, Australia
By JBRoseBay on 10-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZNW3

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

Should you like to resurrect the cache please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

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If a geocache is archived by a reviewer or staff for lack of maintenance it will not be unarchived.

This one's gone. It's also a worry since the CO hasn't been active since 2013. Sadly I don't think it will be maintained. If this one is archived I will endeavor to place a new cache in the area this one vacates...

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

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Hello, I came with a previous finder who showed me where the cache should have been. I am concerned it has gone missing given the streak of DNF logs. Could I ask for a cache check please? Thank you.

I am certain this cache has been muggled....

Scouted around for a while, highly suspect it's been moved/gone missing, especially with the previous entries. Lovely bushland though, wasn't expecting it passing through the area.

Too slippery for us to get our hands on it
DNF

We came with a previous finder and it was not in the location they had found it.

DNF - highly doubt it's there anymore

We didn't find it, and with a difficulty of 1, it should be incredibly easy. Anyway, we did kind of find the place where it was. It was 83 cm away.

Think this on has been muggled .

Searched every where,couldn't find it, question wether it is still there.

If anyone knows where this is messege me

I desiced to walk to Bondi beach and search some caches. Here I saw rat who was looking at me. YÄK I left.
Greetings from Finland

Very clever hide, good cache too, lots of small treasures. Never knew eels could make pets.
Container needs replacing, I think it has been dropped. Dropped a trackable.
Added a photo (spoiler) of the implement I brought on my second night time (!) trip.

Tricky one!!

Cool park TFTC

Thank u

TFTC. A bit of effort from the teenager and we bagged it.

Didn't find the trackable in the cache.

Good half an hour looking for both wobbly and Eric with no luck! Maybe another day any hints welcome

My hubby and me are visiting from Sweden over Xmas and New Years. Lovely weather, nice people and good times so far. Of course we had to log a few caches as well. No trouble finding this one. Thanks for the cache!

D2 felt a bit low here since I was forced to use some light ninja skills to get the cache.

TFTC

Nach einigem suchen und nachdem die Muggels weg waren konnte ich den Cache dann dich nich finden.

TB out

Came by to drop off trackable. Hopefully someone can take it to far away places

Found container is damaged fyi. Glad bag in tackt though log almost full.

This afternoon I completed a lovely walk through a hidden gem of the eastern suburbs.

This one has a great story associated with it. I remember a bit of it but I was living in France at the time so not a great deal.

Asfor the cache, the GPSr took to one side then the other and back again. I decided I had to use my arms to get into position and found a clever hide.

TFTC JBRoseBay

Clever hide love it. !

Found it

Educational and clever find.

Educational and clever find

Tried but ... GPS wild

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Last day of our holiday - we fly home to the UK this evening. Time though for some last minute sight seeing with a walk from Woollhara to Bondi and back, picking up a handful of caches as well. A chilled and relaxed end to a totally amazing trip.
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Eric failed to reveal himself to us - but the mosquitoes did!

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Couldn't help with the hunting for this cache as I had my daughter with me so Crumpet monkey did all the hard yards for me. Well thought out hiding place and quite the educational cache.

Found on a walk with Brezie. Nice hiding spot although the coords were a bit off. There was a possum sat guarding the cache but he was half asleep.

TFTC

A big spider was sitting on the cache box and I didn't see...And then- I screamed out! TFTC!

No luck

Was strolling with Smigglepot through Cooper Park on the way to Small Explosion from Another Brick in the Wall. Decided to visit this previously-found cache to check on its health.
We can report the cache is alive and well.

Found on a lovely day with steelpaw and my dog Mitzi-first cache for the day, thank you!

Found with Miz Wacket. Our first cache of the day, and the nicest of the lot.

Spent an hour no luck

4333. Found with Chalk It Up and Relish64. We found ourselves in the area tracking down another cache, so a short detour and this one was located after to-ing and fro-ing for a while. I can remember watching Eric on telly!
TFTC.

16:00 Hahahaha stealth ... if it's where I think it is, that's definitely not happening. Thankfully, those few nearby were far too distracted by watching their baby (coincidentally, also named Eric) to notice my antics.
Took all the rubbish out of the cache, put the logbook and infosheet in a bag, took a star bead, left an acquarium rock and bulldog clip.
Plenty of room in the logbook - just flip back a few pages!!

For my fellow short hunters - I've left it closer to the bridge.

We were in Sydney for a Swans game so we got a few caches while here. Thanks The JBRoseBay. Cheers

GPS coords are a bit off. A new logbook will be needed soon!

#23 Sydney

TFTC

During our wonderful holiday in Australia we found this cache together with Mowgli.
TFTC and greetings from Belgium

I found it together with The Travel fairy during our last stay in Sydney.
Tftc
Greetings from Belgium

Finally, 3rd time lucky, I found the cache. The previous attempts were mislead by a mixture of odd coordinates (but then coords are fine) and bad luck. The previous logs and photos really helped. TFTC

I found a cache exactly like this at parsley bay but it was still fun to find again.

Found this after orienteering session - perfect end to the afternoon TFTC

Found it....don't do this short people....

Slipped in and grabbed Eric while no-one was looking! TFTC JBRoseBay

A cleverly hidden cache in a high volume muggle zone.

Tricky at first but found it!

Not as challenging as you might believe at first. A simple chin up will reveal the cache.

Cheeky little bugger had us up on the rocks

This was a tricky little hiding spot. GPS and phone put us in the wrong spot at first , a little too close to the park. Decided to use past logs as a guide and widened search for things that may involve climbing. With a bit of acrobatics and added height we saw the cache. It was then fortunate we had a person tall enough to retrieve it. Picked up TB to move along. TFTC

After Wibbly and Wobbly, I came back for this one. Got to GZ and figured where the cache was. A little check and BAM, found you. Just needed a little extra effort to grab it. SL, TNLN and replaced. TFTC.

We found it, quite easy. Good find.

After looking at the logs more closely, I came back again to see what looked like the only other possible spot empty. Is this the spot?

Sadly didn't find it. Clue or photo to get bearings would've been helpful.

found this 2day, tftc

Easy tftc

First Geocache, it was really fun!! We live really close and I have never even noticed this park before. thanks for a great outing.

Great hide hunting with mum and aunties. Needed a leg up to find it...

Looked for ages but no find . A clue would have been handy

Thanks very nice walk
Cheers

I'd ridden out to Watson's Bay over the last couple of days so today was a little tired. Today I gave myself a little break by setting this great location as my caching venue for the evening.

This was my second cache after "Wibbly". It started to rain just as I arrived at the GPS GZ, and so I set up camp briefly in the shelter there. Previous logs soon made it clear what I was looking for and that a little climbing was needed. My first explorations at a couple of the fixtures nearby drew blanks, and I moved a little further afield. Sure enough, there it was at a certain altitude! Eric wasn't slippery enough today! The cache is probably ~10 m away from the GPS-indicated location.

Thanks, JBRB!

Took a little bit of climbing

Clever hide. Found on second attempt with CARNEEKI.

Took us a while to find, but our second visit was successful. Great cache thanks!

My first time to this park. After enjoying the walk made a quick and easy find. TFTC

#1137

I'm not sure 11pm is the best time to try to avenge a DNF - ie trying to find a cache in the dark that I couldn't find in daylight.

Was hoping to do this before the Sydney 6's Big Bash match, but alas it was not to be.
So, after the match I drove to Adelaide Street and wandered to GZ down the stairs, the geotorch lighting my way.
Luckily, one of the tennis courts near GZ was still lit, but the search area was dark and flying fox infested...

Had a similar problem to last time - moving coordinates. Having read the logs more thoroughly, I was somewhat better informed than last time, so checked the area I'd concentrated on then in a more targeted way.
Nothing.
Second area, mmm, perhaps... CIH!

Completed signing duties by torchlight at the nearby table and back up the steps to the Hademobile.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Finally found it. A little bit of height does indeed help. A spider greeted us upon discovery. Now it's time for tea at the nearby tennis café.

No eels for me but a cool cache.
TFTC!
Replaced carefully and set off about my return journey.
-IP

Tftc

Good hiding place. Took a while to find. Needed a leg up.

Such a lovely park hidden down here. Exploring Sydney with a local and we came across this cache. First pass through the park and my gps was all over the place. Second attempt an hour later it still didn't lock in. So i had a wider search and found it without too much trouble. Cheers

TFTC. Signal bouncing of the rocks. Scattered sunshine makes the day.

No eels spotted today but I got up out of the way just in case lol

Tftc

Dropped off Lance Corporal Robert A. Martinez Memorial Geocoin.

tricky cause I am vertically challenged but I used some muscles rarely activated to find it. tftc

Nice find. Visited a bunch of times and finally got this one

Team doggle! Hidden well with accurate coordinates.

Finally , this one has been dogging me for a long time.
Havent logged dnf on this but have visited 1/2 doz times

Nice to meet Team Doggle , instantly knew what they were up to

TFTC TNLN

We had previously unsuccessfully tried to find this one and decided a weekday afteron might be a more approprite time to tackle it rather than on a weekend. Our GPSr again led us to the same location as before but armed with some Information from other logs we ignored that structure and went straight to the other one nearby. We had also bought along a height-enhancing apparatus this time and it enabled us to have a very quick find. It was a pleasure to find a large, well-hidden container.

Thanks for the story about Eric - it was particulary appropriate as whilst we were there, some children using the nearby playground became excited about spotting an eel in the water.

Found this one this afternoon whilst out on the calendar gap and DT rating cache hunt with JordsAU and morry9.

The month has ticked over to winter and so has the weather. It is much cooler out here now, but bushwalking and geocaching are great ways to warm up.

We were hunting down a nearby multi and this one was nearby so we stopped of for it. JordAU and Morry9 had already found this and as it had just gone dark, Morry9 lent me his phone torch to make the find. Anyway, you've gotta love an excuse to get out to find another cache. Thanks JBRoseBay for your cache. SL TNLN TFTC

Found it - an iphone camera came in handy to see up high

TFTC

Found it on a day out geocaching with Frebob.

Dnf looked all over. GPS kept changing and lots of people everywhere

Found with Mystic Seer & Bluewattle, wouldn't have found it without the past clues as co-ords were way off, great park and TFTC

With Snickersallan and Blue Wattle. co-ords are out. Lucky for me I knew what I was looking for after finding Parsley Glen a few weeks back. SL. TNLN TFTH TFTC

Found with Snickersallan and Mystic Seer. Not so good if you have short man/woman's disease.

Thank you previous loggers for hints!

Didn't know this park existed. Thanks!! Lucky for log clues

Done. Tftc

Quick find once the GPS settle down thanks for the cache

Great location quick find. TFTC