Follow the Waugal Hacketts Gully, Western Australia, Australia
By Mickeydv on 24-Nov-09. Waypoint GC21CTZ

The situation here has been reviewed again.Sufficient time has elapsed since the issues were highlighted, and nothing has been done to restore it. Circumstances that prevent timely maintenance can arise, and ample opportunity for the Cache Owner to get in touch to request a time extension has been provided.No request has been received from the Cache Owner, Mickeydv, for further time to restore the cache.** It appears to have been abandoned by the Owner and, therefore, will be Archived.****Caches lost in this manner will not be Unarchived.**This area is now available for other interested players to utilise for cache placement if viable locations can be found. [Balayang -Geoff](https://www.geocaching.com/email/?guid=35e8567e-6d62-483c-9e3d-c8ec0ffd25bd)Volunteer Community Reviewer

### Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.It certainly needs to be checked by the Cache Owner. The cache owner needs to:* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating, or the posted coordinates.* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute that is present. Otherwise :* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary or provide other information. **Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this. That is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**. Alternatively:* Archive the cache and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Mickeydv and to take it off the playing board to prevent further inconvenience to our Geocaching Community.[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been taken by the CO.If nothing has happened, I will conclude that the cache has been abandoned, and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache. *Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is in good condition and waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.Thank youBalayang -GeoffCommunity Reviewer

This cache appears to be missing

Great walk for no joy

Out with Jaypre Beautiful view on a lovely dayDNF

No sign of a cache here.

Lots of people out and about today and no find

DNF

Keeping track of caches while on the Bibb trail

No luck

No joy

Beautiful view, but we couldn’t find the cache.

Found 26.11.22

Took us for a lovely little detour from the Piesse Brook Interpretive Trail. What a lovely spot. TFTC

Found it quickly. Found it out on a hike with H899. My find number 450.

Beautiful view up here. Tftc

Nice find right off the path, after a good hike up after visiting the rocky pools

With Phillario and cmb212. Nice up on the ridge.

Found with MitchDem while walking through Schipp Road towards Rocky Pool, TFTC

Tftc

Great spot! Was left open but log wasn’t wet.

Found - 09/05/2021

Great cache, kids had fun.

On an Outdoor Ed camp, I introduced twenty teenagers to the joys of geocaching (and my principal who was along for a half day hike). By the time we walked off after I signed it, they were coming up with their own usernames so they could sign up when we get back back home. TFTC

I really enjoyed the view.
Fairly quick find. Thank you

Took a while to find it, so happy when I did my first geocache

Found this beauty as there was a burn off in the nearby hills. Loved the and the hiding spot!

Took us a bit, but in the end ci Ord’s were spot on... didn’t expect an ammo tin.
TFTC

Nice walk on a sunny day but very busy. Tftc

Quite a hike to get to this one, enjoyed the cache container TFTC

Found after a nice walk to Rocky Pool. Left my family on the main path and took the longer way home to grab this cache. Thank you for the hide Mickeydv.

Fathers Day Stroll - TFTC - All good

After a long week at work, decided to finish early today and spend a few hours up in the hills.
Think I made the right choice, 7km and 4 finds later I felt great. Some nice trails to trek along out this way.
Parked at the end of Helena Valley road and did a loop out to Rocky Pool and back, hills are great after a few days of rain. Even better when you're the only person out here.
Fourth and final find of my trek, now just a 3km walk back to my car. TFTC

Out today for a caching run with Lazarus68 and Cravo10.

Starting off we headed down and grabbed the new duck43 cache which we had failed to grab the night before mainly due to the gz being a way off

We headed down to North Dandalup to pickup a couple of GC caches and some GCA caches including a FTF, which I may log one day.

We then headed to Kalamunda where we chased down a number of local caches that eluded us on our last major visit to the area back in 2016. We did manage to secure a FTF, which was published last night amongst the madness of securing my 1000th first to find.

Thanks to all the local COs for a big day out.

Out with B12 and Larry.

Picked up this and many more in the area. A cold wet and miserable day however map turned from green dots to smilies TFTH

Mickeydv We found your cache Follow the Waugal thanks for placing this cache for myself and others to find.

Out with B12 & C10. Began the wet day with FTF of new duck43, then south FTF high terrain GA cache; then up hills past Kalamunda for my 3rd FTF in one day. This one of additional 17 finds, +3 DNF's.
Huge slippery trail to follow, saw plenty kangaroo.
Thank you MickeyDV

Thank you! Off on my first solo overnight hike. Took me a while to find this one - especially considering its size. A good spot for a pack off and a rest.

Out with the hound dog tftc

Headed out to do a bit of a circuit around Jorgensen Park & this cache was another found on my hike... My GPS had the old track alignment on it so I followed it straight up the hill to find I needed to bushbash for about 70 across to GZ, which I found to be right on the correct track Once there I was very puzzled as to where the cache could be before realising that I was standing on it lol!

TFTC Mickeydv [^] I then decided to follow the correct track back to Schipp Road & found it was a lot further than the way I come to the cache... But all was well as it was a great piece of bushland to be exploring, cheers!

Found this one last year with Spike before I had an account!

A work colleague was just about standing on it.
Had to swap out the life-like huntsman spider to take home for the kids. Though they were not as impressed as I was by it. So it will find its way to another cache. Glad I know what a waugal is now. TFTC.

thanks..

Took a slight detour on our way back from the rocky pools, a quick scramble up the hill had us near the GZ. The Geogirlfriend found it before I did!! Might have to create her an account TFTC!!

Stopped at the top of the hill for a breather and a cache. Great views and some cheeky 28s in a nearby tree.
Thanks for the cache.

Almost had us tricked

Took a bit but we got there

Great cache, easy walk.TFTC

Nearly had us fooled!!! Great hide!!

Nice side trip on return from Rocky Pool. Kids weren't so impressed with climbing all the steps, but loved the downhill return trip! TFTC.

Passing through again and did a quick check. All is well.

John's first find on the way to the weir via the camel find. TFTH

Nice little walk off the main path to rocky pool. TNLNT4TC.

Now that was one tough climb in the drizzle and mozzies...........mozzies at this time of year!

A perfect day for cache hunting. Took the geo-kids from the northern terminus in Kalamunda and walked for an hour. Decided to check for a cache while we relaxed before turning around. Sure enough, there was a cache 200m from where we stopped, so off we went to find it. Thanks.

This entry was edited by teamjatts on Friday, 17 April 2015 at 12:24:51 UTC.

Out for a Father's Day walk with the family. Thanks for the cache Mickeydv

Ran into BelKen 40m from the cache. He was just coming back from Albany on the Bib Track.
Interesting find. Find #99

We came from the south and walked up the old section of the Bib track. Amazing how much damage water erosion can do to a track. Nice hide. TFTC.

Was following the Waugal from South Ledge to kalamunda. I love coming through that section form the east especially in winter. Today not so much as what I thought was going to be good walking weather was turning into a hot slog. Knowing I have to climb the other side meant I was more than willing to sit here for a minute or two. There was rumblings of thunder and I was a little worried but it headed further east.
Found the cache OK. Wondered if we could get a petition up for a suspension bridge or something to cut out the down then up.

Oops another rumble. I am on y way.

Thanks for the cache.

Wow! Great to find a cache so near to the Bibbulman Track. It is certainly well concealed and I was very relieved when I uncovered the hiding spot. I continued a loop along the track. Thanks for the hide Mickeydv.

cool

A friend and I searched the area without success!

Found it on our 3 rd attempt . Nice location . TFTC.

I was a little concerned when I started to follow what appeared to be a disused section of the track but i continued on with a nice find. great scenery. TFTC - Docadoo =)

Found with fellow cachers whilst mountain biking

Grabbed this cache whilst out mountain biking at night in the area. Great fun on a wet winters night with geocaches setting the course and trying navigate the fire trails by GPS.
Walked in to grabbed this one and where looking for some sort of special container then found an ammo tin as I had downloaded the cache to the GPS prior to the note about the change of container being added.
TFTH

Found on the way back to the geoute parked on Spring St after getting an ftf at Rocky Pool
TFTH

found under another name....tftc

Another great hide. Tftc tnlnsl

tftc, found with Kaesnoww

Nice hide! love the container!

TFTC

Cache number 30... TFTC!!!

Parked over at Jorgensen park and walked our way over, I think however we may of taken a wrong track here and there and what should of taken just over an hour took about 4hrs...lol We didn't think it would be to hard so we took along little miss 4 who loved it all but if we do this one again we would park over on Schipp Rd. (Hubby ran back along the road to the car as there was no way the little one would of been able to do the trek back).

Lovely area and even managed to pick up a few little tick mates, all part n parcel of bush walking sometimes

this was our second cache of the day TFTH

Lots of fun.

[:(!] Pretty easy find. The views were awesome - LSTNSL TFTC

Great views good cache

This entry was edited by suetimi on Thursday, 12 May 2011 at 03:40:52 UTC.

Perfect weather for a hike on the Bib Track from Kalamunda to Hewitts Hill Camp...10.2KMs. Found this at a well deserved rest stop having walked up the hill! TNLN. There was no pen or pencil in the cache so we used a burnt stick to write in the note book. Thanks for the cache and rest stop

Phew, a bit hot for this sort of caper today! Parked at the end of Spring Rd, and walked up to this one first. Quick and easy find with the ammo can, thanks for replacing this one Mickeydv, sorry to have missed your brother's original handywork, by previous accounts it was a very good effort! Might have to come back for a re-visit if the original style container is replaced

No swaps today, thanks for the cache Mickeydv!

MTKEus and I visited on a small circuit of caches in the area after visiting the new one nearby.

On the way to the cache we met two women who were walking the track and a male walker who was following a GPS trail but was having trouble getting a signal at the time so had stopped to talk to the women while he waited. He called us keen to have gone for a cache only published that morning when we spoke about geocaching.

Thanks for the cache.

# 835
Quick find on my walk with Chwiliwr. This park is amazing, almost the real bushland.
Thanks Mickey for this cache and see you soon.
MTKEus

Replaced original container with ammo can...until I reconstruct original cache.

1st DNF for the morning..id been recommended this cache so kind of knew what I was looking for. However there was no sign of the cache at all. Either it's been Muggled, subjected to a Liz and Bruce rehide or I'm loosing my touch. I think I'll plump for Muggled. TFTH

going to disable until I can check/replace....I

This one was wicked . It was only after reading the previous logs that I decided to approach what could or could not have been the cache. Very realistic. TNLN. The first of 3 caches we did in this lovely area. Thanks Mickydv

I had an idea that this was what the cache was going to be. Still gave me the creeps. TFTH.

That was the worst cache we have ever seen! I tested with a stick, wife stood clear, sister-in-law backed off onto the track... Well done to Mickeydv & his brother Dave

I approached this one on Schipp Rd, driving to the gate then hiking for the last couple of kms. A very pleasant walk in late afternoon, with the sun setting over the ranges. The last couple hundred metres were a challenge and was quite pooped when at the top of the hill. Sat for a while waiting for the GPS to settle and getting back my breath, then started a search.

At first I thought thestroopidsstepout had the right idea, but wasn't too impressed at the thought of coming back again another time, so pondered some more, and finally took ZEDs advice... By this time the sun was well on its way to bed so I was pleased the return journey was mostly down hill to make for a much speedier return. Thanks for the exercise and an exciting find Mickeydv!

5:30am What a great time to be in the bush, the sun rose while I was trekking my way to GZ. The climb leading up to GZ taxed my poor legs, being quite a bit overweight these days it was like doing squats with a 40kg weight on my shoulders. Afterwards when I reached the bottom again a fit looking man passes me and runs up the hill. *sigh* I remember when I used to do that. The walk back was about quarter the speed of the inwards trek.

Anyway, at GZ I was looking around for a little while avoiding a certain area until I ignored common sense and found the cache. Certainly is an interesting hide.

TFTH SL

Rated: for Overall Experience

Published

After our first "first to find". However not sure if what I saw near GZ was a "tribute to the track" or the real deal. So being by myself wearing shorts and without gaiters or a large stick, I decided to leave this one for someone else to be first on. Nice walk all the same.

"I shall return"