Sophia Tunnel Tullah, Tasmania, Australia
By Tazsat on 15-Mar-10. Waypoint GC2543Y

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, Tazsat, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

##Cache Maintenance Required please.##
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit, to address the issue described in the logs.
The cache owner needs to either fix the problem or archive the listing, after picking up any geo-litter. In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page.
See the maintenance section of the [Geocache Hiding Guidelines](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance).

If there is a good reason for a delay in enabling this cache, please post an update note log here on the cache page so that everyone will know what's going on.
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I will check back in 30 days to be sure that the maintenance has been done, or that further information has been provided.

If there has been no action to repair the cache, or explain the situation, unfortunately I will need to Archive this cache. Caches archived because of lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is out there to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

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The road is open and I had. A good look around GZ bit no cache. It may have disappeared.

Road into cache appears permanently closed with gate only 200m from highway.

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No luck for me here. On the way back to Tullah (where we were staying) after a few caches in Rosebery and I thought it worth diverting up to this one. A great drive and a magnificent view over Lake Murchison but unfortunately I couldn’t spot the cache this time. Many thanks.

Tassie Trip Day 40 - Today was a fill in the holes day as we missed so many on our way from Waratah so off we went just the mobile half of the team and went back to Tullah and Roseburry to collect what was left behind. Along the way we went first to Lake Plimsoll for a look and ended up with 2 DNFs today.

Arrived at the GZ and carried out a search we went were it was describe to be however nothing was found and even after looking at other possilbe places we came up with a blank so another DNF, two in a row for us today and now off to try and find a cache.

Thanks Tazsat for showing us this place and the view was worth the effort.

Incredible spot
Thanks for bring me here and cache.

Accompanies Whitepaws9 and ALL7, great enjoyed trip and awesome cache..
Sign in as no trouble..

found with 63roos and whitepaws9.. thanks

Great place for a cache! Even my husband (a West Coaster) hadn't been here before. Loved the view. Thanks for the cache.

#7 of our trip dam good spot!

7th one found on our trip as a family. Well done son.. beautiful views from the other side... amazing...

Second time lucky. TFTC

Interesting to read the info board about the tunnel at the end of the road.
Thanks for the cache, Tazsat and thanks also to team Membsec for the new container.

After the Waratah Event we headed towards Queenstown. We saw that this cache had a few DNF’s and because we hadn’t been here before we thought we would check it out! Wow, we saw a tunnel entry on the way in and when we arrived at GZ we thought if we can’t find it, the hint is great, and you can’t misread it, we would replace the cache as we believe other’s should enjoy it too! Hope that is ok.

Thanks for bringing us here.

DNF

Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be found by us today. We spotted a snap lock bag at GZ, which wasn’t a good start and didn’t give us much confidence. Still, we started the search and had a poke around the places we thought it could have been but to no avail

Tftc need work

Tftc! Beautiful drive down this road

Found

Tftc hint did not help much found a systema not a nano quick find on a sunny day

Thanks for placing this cache, as we would never have ventured out here without it. What a beautiful and interesting spot. We then headed up to view the dam. Thanks for the hide, we left a Path Tag.

Finally made the time to come back down and grab this one. Found cache quickly today but wondered if it was the right one. Cache is a small round sistema not a micro as listed and there is no cache name on the log sheet. Log book was a little damp but signable.

Thanks Tazat for bringing us to this great location. Cache is ok.

Thank you for the cache, took tb

Yet another interesting spot during our trip around the dams of Tullah. The rest of the team tried a bit of fishing whilst I found the cache and Team M actually caught one as I am typing this log. Couldn't see the tunnel working but saw water swirling which I assume is an effect of the tunnel. SL, left TB and dried out the container. TFTC Tazsat.

1.10.16 great view and find

Since I was working out this way I found the time to call for this cache after nover having the time before, out here in the early morning and the views from the dam and GZ were very good, so pleased I got out this way at long last.
The cache was a quick find thanks to the hint.

Thanks for the cache.
Found on 04.08.2016

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Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. We are now here in Tasmania on the second leg of our journey. We then head back to Melbourne before setting off to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. After a visit to Sydney we will travel on to the Gold Coast, then after spending a few days in the nearby mountainous birding hotspots, followed by an overnight trip to Fraser Island, we will fly from Brisbane to Cairns, visiting yet more good birding sites. We will then drive up to Cape Tribulation before heading back south again to Port Douglas and a day out on the Great Barrier Reef. We then return to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs, where we will hire a 4x4 camper and set off for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. We then fly to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

A nice quick find at Ground Zero. Thanks to the CO for having placed this cache and thus bought us to a place we are sure we would have driven right past otherwise. We drove down to the dam first where the water was flowing fast and furious and then moved on to search out this cache after stopping at the beautiful waterfall at the road junction. The tunnel wasn't working today but the views even on this wet misty day were still good. Thanks so much for the cache.

What a great place Sadly the tunnel wasn't operating TFTC

Another dam at a more remote end of the road location. All is dry and in order with the cache. TFTC

Good fishing spot down here! TFTC!

Found with Imia, TFTC

Found it

Beautiful view

Nice location

A motor home had set up camp nearby with one of the occupants using his binoculars to watch some people fishing in a boat below. Great views of the lake. I took the short stroll down the path to the waters edge, nowhere near the submerged tunnel. Thanks for bringing us to this lovel place. TFTC.

Spectacular view

found it.
TFTC

Found on a day trip down the west coast. Not sure if directions in description are correct as we turned right not left from coming back from the dam

samNsarah
10 January 2015 4:20 PM

Magnificent day! Interesting to see different aspects of the dam. TFTC

Nice drive cheers

Found this one not to far from GZ overlooking the great vista here...pity about the rain though.
TFTC Tazsat

Best cache spot of the several found in this area, lovely area. TFTC

tftc

Not here

I am adding a maintenance as we are very certain it is no longer here but we will watch this space and see if anybody else visits and what they say

pulled up and walked straight to GZ and that's as good as it got. After searching on hands and knees in the pouring rain with a torch for over half an hour and widening our search I am convinced that cache is not here. We continued on to Mackintosh dam and after seeing that cache, by the same person, with the same cache description then its definitely not here

Tftc

Gotcha !!! TFTC Good views so we camped the night in the rain.

Yeah! We found it and looking over the water we couldn't see the other side due to the misty clouds and it seemed like there was no horizon. TFTC.

A quick find after we widened the search area. Helps sometimes to read past logs. mr sharnie's tribe knew this area well in his past life as a Hydro worker. TFTC

Found on our nice TAS round trip. TFTC.

Dam! Big one too!

Still heading southward to Strahan and ventured off the highway to this location. Replaced a new container (120 ml sistema) as per the CO's hint.

No luck, I think it's been muggled

Nice bike ride up from Tullah, but no cache to be found despite obvious hiding place. Please could cache owner check it out.

Another DNF for us in the Dam series. Spent a long time searching after checking the clue with no muggles to delay us but we didn't manage to come up with a find. A nice bit of water coming down the falls and the tunnel is amazing. Thanks for bringing us here Tazsat. [^]

With the temperatures lower than we liked and rain falling this was one of the caches we chose to do as we could get quite close in the car. A lovely location - we enjoyed exploring the area and seeing the view. Thanks Tazsat

Found while on holiday. Stayed at Tullah nearby with Tim and Rachel, did this first thing before driving north to The Nut TFTC

Another picturesque location. TFTC TNLN

Found on our West Coast Wilderness holiday with whitewebbs. While staying at Zeehan we found several caches in the area and this was one of them. Would not have come here but for the cache so thanks for bringing us here.

Another interesting spot visited. Found with Tassie Trekkers while holidaying on the west coast. TFTC.

Found and logged together with Triaden1 .

Another nice place , another cache , another thx for the hide !

Muspel

This entry was edited by Muspel on Thursday, 27 October 2011 at 09:09:42 UTC.

Found and logged together with Muspel during our holidays in Australia .

Thanks for the cache .

Triaden1

TFTC

Went to the wrong spot at first great place for some pics. SL

Checked this out after camping two days at the other end and wanted to see what was in here. Perfect excuse to get the cache!

We visited the dam only because of the cache. Thank you a lot for showing this pictureous place.

TFTC

We'd found Mackintosh so Sophia just had to be on the list as well, so a short drive in to another beautiful spot was in order. A quick search and the cache was ours. To add to the pleasure, the reflections on the lake were lovely. TFTC.

On the strength of our previous detour ("Mackintosh part of the Pieman"), Mrs Prionotes was happy to allow this detour, and we're glad we did. After seeing the dam we continued to the cache location and, having found the cache and signed the log, we then spent a happy quarter of an hour taking photos of the reflections and light effects with the clouds on the lake. It was really beautiful and we're glad we came this way. My travelling coin passes through in tribute. Thanks for the smiley and for highlighting the location, Tazsat.

Interesting place. Someone had a very well set up camp spot...lucky them. Cache was located quickly and log signed. Thanks for the cache

As we were driving in, I noticed a very well set up camp spot beside the Hydro building just around the corner from GZ.
The cache itself was found quickly, logged and returned. It was then I noticed the water surface and could tell where the outfall of the tunnel is.
TNLN, thanks for the cache

We had been to this location pre-geocaching and had enjoyed the views. A quick find. TFTC

another 'dam' cache in our west coast trip.
wonder where the other tunnel we drove past goes!
tftc

Yep, the weather just keeps getting from bad to worst. Easy find, no fishing.

Beautiful view of the lake here, amongst snow and hail showers. Caught a nice size brown trout off the bank. Dinner! TFTC. Took trout, Left scales.

A nice easy find to break the journey west up a bit.

I've been here before for another cache, always nice to return to a cool spot!

Thanks for the Cache!

Was in the area today so we thought we would find this one, Mr. Will.mott has explored the adit before as he is an underground miner in the area and is very interested in old mine sites and tunnels. We had never been up the gravel road before, its a great fishing spot and nice view over the lake. We really liked coming to this spot, Thanks for the cache Tazsat.

A lovely lake view.
TFTC - from New Zealand.

Wow - very cool wind up here, and wow - nice view of the lake with the submerged trees. Nice spot. Cheers Gav [6039]

Quick easy find tftc

Can't believe the lack of finds. I did have a short search as was looking for something smaller. Great day with fisher muggles out on the lake. Always enjoy lake side caches....many thanks Tazsat....Cheers.

A quick visit, and a quick find. TFTC

Find number 8 for the 21st day of our trip to Tasmania and the Mega Event. Found at 1550hrs, find number 238 for the trip so far. Wow, a FTF for an out of stater, and on my birthday as well. Not a bad pressie. But I dont know why it hasnt been grabbed before this. This is the third tunnel themed cache we have found today. The large adit on the way in is very interesting.

Cheers
Bundy

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