Appiie Maroondah Reservoir, Victoria, Australia
By murrayp88 on 31-May-10. Waypoint GC29G12

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.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future, just contact a reviewer (by email), and assuming it still meets the current

guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

Should you replace the cache after 28 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

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.

If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date or the cache will be treated as an abandoned cache and archived without further notice.
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I hate to be the one to call it but with three dnf's and plenty of warning about the condition of the stump and no contact from the cache owner I think this one needs to be archived. It's a great spot worthy of a cache so hopefully the owner can get up there and place another.

I suspect this one is long gone. I has a good dig in the remnants of the stump and nothing could be found.

The Stump is no longer there - is has disintegrated and was in largish chunks all around the spot where it was. Looked under all chunks but it is not there.

If it is meant to be in the remnants of the old tree stump then sorry but it ain't there.

Stopped here this morning wandered over to GZ but no cache was found today.

Found on a hunt with Onkel D. TFTC

Found on a two-day cache-hunt with gredor. TNLNSL, TFTC

AYE me hearties. We founds your little chest and plundered it of the one eyed cap'n.

Found by Mary & David at 1350. More great cache notes. Wish more cache owners would do the same. Surprisingly, the park was deserted when we arrived. A great place for kids to run around and kick the heaps of fallen leaves.We were glad that the temperature had risen to double figures after a cold start to the day further north. Interesting to read that the acorn that was planted 100 years ago originally came from Windsor Castle. Dropped off " Lime Candy's Black Cap’n One Eye Trackable Tag". Our thanks to murrayp88.

Found on our way back from nufrat's farewell event, Datruk stayed in the car, as he had found it before.

I wandered in from the carpark, and due to the lovely Autumn weather we were having today (rain and clouds) there was absolutely no one around, making it nice and easy to find this cache!!

Still in the place it has been put since the maintenance log!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

10:16:14 Pulled up and there another car in the area but they were having Lunch over to one side. Headed towards GZ and cache was quickly located under the remains of the hide. It is not often I stop or go over to a plaque and read it., but in this case I did. Well what a surprise the very large oak tree was planted here on the 12/4/1913. Almost 100 days to the day WoW almost to the day.
JABs.

[Encrypted so as to not give too much away...unless you really want to read it]

The stump in which the cache should be hidden has been broken away. The cache is now laying on the ground beside the stump with a piece of the old stump over the top of it. It will only take someone cleaning up the park to pick up the piece of the stump and the cache will be exposed. I suggest that you need to find a new location within the park for the cache.

We were off cruising in our MX-5 today; destination Marysville for lunch. I had checked out this cache on Geocaching.com before leaving and had planned to stop off and pick up the TB...but the prospect of an open road ahead to roar up the Black Spur got the better of me. Gee, it was fun while it lasted...I caught up to someone about half way up going very slowly...boring . No one had gone the other way so there was nothing for it but to turn around and roar back to get this cache .

We had the park to ourselves so we had a stroll around and wandered up to GZ. The cache was easy enough to find but is now at a big risk of being muggled due to it's natural hiding place being broken. I signed the log, collected the TB and hid the cache as best I could.

Thanks Murrayp88 for putting this cache here. I have driven past here countless times over the years but I don't think I have ever stopped here before.

driving home stopped for a cache short walk easy find thanks

Stopped in the Fernshaw reserve whislt crossing the spur this afternoon - why do so many motorist drive too slowly on a mountain road and don't move out of the way of quicker cars!!! The reserve was deserted so was able to take the short walk where the cache was found quickly. Thanks to murrayp88 for putting the cache here, the walk around this area is lovely.

A nice quick drive-by, but a good reason to stop and see the old town site.

TFTC.

Great spot give it a FAV...

Read the plaque on the tree near this cache after we retrieved it (cache was found in good condition, and well camouflaged) we were stunned at the joy of finding this 100 year old tree. TFTC

My Very first Find was today with Stray Cougar. Great fun!!

The first one on a day out and about with andrewflash2, and his first cache at all.
Yeah, they really exist!!!
TFTC

First find for the new year

Final cache for the day, just a leg-stretch stop on the way down the mountain to home. 36th find for the day. My phone had no coverage and then ran out of battery so I had to dig out the old GPS for this one, then found it easily. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Finally got this one, after many days spent up this neck of the woods. Nice hide and good history I never knew. TFTC. TNLN

Found while travelling through the area on vacation from Canada.
Wow, I love where caching takes you. What a beautiful park.... Loved the history lesson!
Thanks for a hide in such a lovely spot!

Have driven pass there on many occasions and ever stop there some interesting history there

I love local history and found this location fascinating. Pity the grass is so long, but we did find GZ and the little treasure hidden within. I give it a favorite point just for bringing me here.

Beautiful spot. Wish we could camp here tonight. Tftc

wow what a cute area. was not expecting to find this when we pulled in. we quite enjoyed just looking around. cache was a nice easy find although i was half expecting a snake to jump out at me. tftc

Date: 20.10.2012
Time: 08:56
Find # 2162

Today was the last day I could go caching with my partner in caching SedgwickDave before he was to leave for a holiday, so we wanted to go somewhere where we could find lots of caches. It was decided to head to the Marysville area via Healsville and a few caches there too. It was a fantastic sunny spring day and really the ideal day to go caching.

We arrived in the car park which was all but deserted. One car was parked but no occupant. What an interesting park with such history. A nice quick find today once my GPSr settled.

Thanks to murrayp88 for the cache and for bringing us here. TNLN

Found @0857 #2012
Today was another epic today with some good numbers in a region I've been meaning to visit for some time. Was with best mate and caching wingman ahomburg once more with the plan to do the Lady Talbot series as well as other caches in the surrounding region. The weather today was ideal for a big run with a temperature of about 23 and sunny. A good all round day with different types of caches (3 type rule achieved) and some high and low terrain ratings completed. Fascinating to see how much the region was hit by the fires in Feb 2009 and today it coming back which is great to see.

Stop by this one on the way to Marysville. Interesting history of the area and a nice quick find too. GZ today was about 5m but the location was obvious. Thanks for bringing me here, left blue gem stone. TFTC murrayp88

What an amazing area! We thought we were just stopping at a park, but to find all the history here was amazing. Thanks for bringing us here and for the cache.

Love this area...

Great hide thanks heaps the boys love them..

Fun to find in the dark - too bloody wet for the girlfriend in ugg boots...Last cache for the night, heading back to camp for a beer

MMelb was staying up at Eildon with friends for the weekend and as we had to pick him up late this arvo we decided we would slowly wind our way up there caching on the way so we set off at about 10.45am.
JMelb doesnt enjoy driving along these windy roads so was very glad of a stop here! It was very squelchy on the approach to GZ! TNLNSL Checked out the tree that was planted nearly 12 years after the visit of Queen Mary lol!!
TFTC murrayp88, especially for the chance to stop!! - GJMMelb

A nice spot but very wet weather!

Open and closed quickly in the pouring rain, ran back to the car! TFTC

Found in the rain with Snap Happy, a tad soggy walk to the GZ but fascinating history of the area, great spot. TFTC

Find #1018 @ 1115 Hrs on a cool & wet winters day!Out & about with my caching bud Happy Pants... Our 3rd of 25 finds today...

Easy enough to find this cache but it was quite wet at GZ... Enjoyed the history associated with this cache too...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

Thanks to murrayp88 for bringing me here...

*Cache Condition ~ Fine

Omegaman1971

Nice place to stop on the way home from Marysville.
But the grass around GZ is muddy muddy muddy

TFTC SL

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that was a really cool 1 i got a trackable

This was a beautiful, historical spot, with an easy cache to find. The mountain ash stood very tall in the twilight and some of the older trees looked like they were out of an enchanted forest. B1 found this cache and we left Julia, as we thought this would be a great place for a Jamboree. Thanks murrayp88 for alerting us to our history.

Wet and cold

Day on the road caching with MTPMacca 15 for the day and covered 101 km

I got word from Dr Jim that he was panning an 4x4 assault out east.. so plans were made to take the day off work and join the fun.. C@H woosed out when the weather got nasty.. So it was down to the two of us to fly the flag and spread the good caching word.. Mostly the bad weather saw us coming and ran the other way.. Although nothing could scare the snow away, however despite the cold conditions I wouldn't have traded it for the world.. go as far as saying best caching experience ever.. The trust steed (4x4 hire truck) did us well and mostly stayed on the road.. Thanks to all the various cache owners for your part in our fun day, and of course to the Captain of the fair ship, Dr Jim.. Sorry for the proforma copy/paste log.. TFTC Dipped various bugs and TB's to mark the occasion.. Find #2487

Second cache of thirty today - found on the way to Marysville.
Shame the town was closed, if it wasn't for the roar of log trucks it would be a fine abode.

Half the stump has collapsed.
TFTH

Found it. Nice easy find on our way for a bush walk. Thanks.

Was a nice quick find, beautiful area was very wet when we visited. Thanks

Nice easy find TFTC

Stopped by here while on the way to today's bushwalk in the Cathedral Ranges. It was very wet underfoot on the way to GZ but a nice easy find at 09:35 nevertheless .

Just as I was arriving back at the car, bienvenu rolled up for our 84th meeting of another team in the field, followed not long after by Alsume to take possie number 85 .

TNLNSL. Thanks murrayp88.

PS: I didn't notice the Happy Birthday!!! TB in the cache but having now read the description of what it is (a laminated card), maybe it actually was there after all.

On the way to the Cathedral Ranges State Park for an AWG bushwalk - with a bit of time to spare, I pulled in here only to see two familiar faces, Eudes and Bienvenu. Eudes had already made the find but walked back with us as we made a quick find at 9:40am. Ground was a bit soggy underfoot today.
TNLN
thanks murrayp88

Passing through our meeting trackable.

Nice cache. TFTC

2012-04-12 18:40 Stopped by on the way home from a days fishing. Been meaning to stop here the last few trips but finally did this time. TFTC.

Really enjoyed this great spot and learning about its history. Cache in good condition. Can't work out the name of this cache though. Must be a generation Y thing. TFTC

Found it and
Dropped off Happy Birthday TB

This entry was edited by Wal-len on Tuesday, 03 April 2012 at 05:54:14 UTC.

Tftc

Very easy find.

Found on the way home from a maintenance run on the Lady Talbot series.

Out to do some cache maintainance in Marysville with Team_coxy.

a great spot that I've never stopped in before, what magnificent trees!
thank you murrayp88, for the cache.
sl tnln

Absolutely amazing trees.
Quick find.
TFTC

This entry was edited by BernieH on Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 11:26:17 UTC.

Hello, logging my personal tracker to calculate distance

22/01/12 6:22 PM Find #749 I'm gonna have to come back here as its such a nice spot worthy of a longer visit rather than the quick drive by on the way home to Melbourne. An interesting history with little left to show for it but then again I may discover this next time. Amazing to see how big an Oak Tree can grow in 99 years. Thanks for bringing me here and for the cache.

thanks for the cache

easy thanks

tftc

Stopped off for a lunch break in this grove of magnificent old trees then off for an easy find. TFTC. TNLN.

Thought it had been muggled, but it was just well concealed in the hide, so give it a careful look before you decide it is DNF. Came past on usual run up the Black Spur on the bike. Great to finally log a find at Fernshaws!!!
TFTC!!

Fernshaw

#911 5th of 10 in an arvo's drive up to Narbethong and back along the Acheron Way on a beautiful Spring day. Muggles weren't a problem at all as the place was deserted. Area nowhere looking as loved as it used to be. Very interesting to read the history of the area and about Queen Mary etc. Took Bunny/Pig TB. Thanks murrayp88.

First of 19 of the day. Disappointed to miss out on twenty but we were very proud of the geokids for lasting as long as they did. Lovely to see the very old trees in the area.
Took Frodo TB. Left Funny Farm TB.
TFTC

Tricky little cache to grab but well hidden. Definitely needed a lookout while a snatch n grab operation, was the order of the day to finally get to fill in the log. TFTC

Theres a very friendly magpie looking after this cache, he almost got close enough to pat.
Read the nearby plaque about the tree too!
TFTC

Friendly Magpie Guarding this cache. He was very inquisitive of what we were doing, came and sat about a meter away from us.

TFTC

Lovely place for hide, very wet under foot after some heavy rain few nigts ago. tyfc. nanna.c & superpops

Good hide nice park. Took nothing left kangaroo tb. GOYA

Found with Melbermans. Bit wet but an easy find

Nice hide with a history lesson to break the slow trip over the Black Spur.

Thanks for the cache.

Edit to add coordinates. My GPSr didn't agree completely with the published coordinates.

This entry was edited by ollave on Sunday, 16 October 2011 at 11:08:22 UTC.

dropping in 2 tb's while at the picnic ground having a bbq
took 1 tb

Nice easy find.In a brillant little park

25/9/11
Couldn't find.
Stars should be higher, taking into account that some people don't have access to GPS in this area, or hint should have a little extra something seeing as there are sooo many stumps around!
Not very pleased.

Our first find on our Marysville getaway. We'd just spent a few hours at the Sanctuary (delightfully quiet on this wet Grand Final day - It pays to NOT be a football fan sometimes ) and pulled over here for a quick find. Despite some muggles interested in stuff nearby I interested myself in the object near GZ and then nicked over for a quick find...

Have to chuckle at the previous DNF - Can't exactly blame the cache owner for smartphone caching reception issues! That's a new one.

Dropped off a TB (knowing it'll be safe from smartphone cachers )

24/9/11 - walked pretty far up and no luck. Kinda hard when u have no service in the area!
Hint should be more useful for those without a monopolized phone contract...

A pleasant park with some welcome rest rooms. Found at 11.40am on our way home to Wangaratta. No idea about the name of this cache. TN Left: Dora doll and NZ dollar coin which has a fern and a kiwi on it - appropriate we thought. TFTC murrayp88

Fôund it while out caching with rebel acts. Nice park tftc

7th carshay of the weekend with Kat.

Found with Loytes.

Found at 10.40am. First find on a day of caching around Marysville, and a nice quick stop for us and the dog to stretch our legs. TNLN TFTC

This was the first cache of 26 found today on a trip to Marysville. A very lovely spot here and an easy find to start the day off. Thankns murrayp88 (Rated 4 stars with [url=http://www.gcvote.com]GCVote[/url])

Found in the company of Lochb and Rabbitto after a fun day at Marysville. Easy find even in the dark, in an area I have been to a few times, thanks murrayp88.

We found this cache today at 6:30pm as the final of 35 on our Marysville Caching Tour IV in company of Alansee and Lochb. Well and truly dark now but with torches in hand, we squelched our way to GZ for the find. With 35 caches to our name today, this our 7th biggest haul in a day and the 2nd lowest number of caches in a day that we were yet to find. (Still never picked up exactly 25 in a day). Thanks from D B-A.

Found in the company of Alansee and Rabbitto. It was quite dark by the time we got here. Quick find. Second last for the day. TFTC

Caching with crank1 and Laker63.
Interesting history here.
Beautiful park.
Thanks for bring me here and cache

On way to Marysville for Lady Talbot series with Whitepaws9 (old Alchemy2) Laker63 today.
Very interested to see old tree called Oak tree and planted was in 1913.
Found it.
drop TB Steves CROCed
TFTC

with crank1 and whitepaws9...nice walk but very wet grass

Thanks for the history brushup,(even for a local)
The snow traffic was heavy but the park was empty, so a nice and easy (soggy, boggy) stop off. Left Salvo's Wings. TFTC.

An interesting bit of history to go with this cache. Some great trees here too. Another "if it weren't for geocaching..." moment! Thanks for bringing us here.