North West Wander No.3 - The Show Goes On!! Mount Magnet, Western Australia, Australia
By Zodiakhorizon & K-Maximus on 09-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2H3BR

###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.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it 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.
* 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 which 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 Zodiakhorizon and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[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 by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume 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, 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 you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Gone! Thanks to all whom found!

No luck

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

No luck here today. Found the old discarded sign down the slope as per the previous log, but no old (or new container) anywhere to be seen. Will flag for NM as this one needs some TLC.

Today's geocaching adventures took us around the tourist loop behind Mt Magnet. Beautiful day today, weather is warming up a bit again. The sign here seems to have come down and wandered some 18metres down the carpark. We assumed that's where the cache was located. Have placed a new little bison tube on the sign as the other appears to have gone walkabout.

We looked high and we looked low but no luck for us here today.The sign has now gone.

Thanks anyway.

Caravanning and caching our way up the inland road. Went for a drive to the lookout and looked around a bit but got muggles out by others sight seeing. Thanks anyway.

I have found quite a few of these North West Wander caches in my travels around Australia, and I was glad to add another one to the list. I found this well placed little chap after a short search.

Lost Lancasters and Wandering Waywoods

Found it

TFTC. Picking up a few caches while we explore the area

Quick find, great lookout TFTC

Quick park and grab here today with Deefa71. Tftc

Tftc. Good spot for footage.

Found it,

TFTC!

Found it on the ground, placed it back where it belongs, TFTC!

Thanks

8 eyes looking but DNF

Found it. TFTC Zodiakhorizon. Second time for this one. Last time I was here it was AWOL. Quick find here today. Replaced as found.

While waiting for the muggles to clear we got chatting to and bloke who was born in the same town as Mr 2+4, it's a small world in such a vast landcape!
Nice quick find. Out and about on our 5th day of a nine day adventure TFTC

Tftc.

Good view

TFTC

Fount it

Found with my Mum who submitted the answers (TeamThommo)

Just over 7 months since we left home and stated our lap, just over half way in our original time allocation and not even close to half way around the country… 25,000 ish km done, gosh we have seen a lot, but there is so much more to see.
Perhaps if/we I stopped looking at so many rocks, trees and beaches we wouldn’t be taking so long…then there are the flowers, old things and street art that keeps catching our attention.. maybe it’s the Geocaches… or the time we have spent prospecting, enriching our lives but not finding anything of material value, it’s all about the journey not the possessions. What ever it is, we are having a bloody brilliant time and I wouldn’t change a thing!
The last few weeks have been a bit blah with some bad news from the east, apologies for the late and generic log, catch up time a lot harder than I thought, I really need to make a concerted effort (even in difficult times) to stay on top of logs answers and photos.
Thanks for being one of the caches we found in the past few weeks.
TFTC

Find 12 of 23 on day 2 roadtripping through central WA from a remote station south of Yalgoo, through to Cue.

We confirmed this one has almost certainly gone and placed a nano in the obvious spot at our GZ.

TFTC Zodiakhorizon!

Looked every where even climbed on the car to look still didn't find it
Disappointed
TFTC

No luck here today.

Found yew

Once the muggles buggered off....another gotchya. Tftc.

Off to the big smoke today.

Saw a big truck come through town before driving up to the lookout.

TFTC ZH & KM

A great tour around town and the local district through the eyes of a geocacher.
So many interesting historical locations to visit and reflect on the Pioneers of the Land.
It's hard to imagine how they coped in the early days.
Great views of the town and the mines from up here
We found your cache tucked away and with signing duties done and dusted, we replaced the cache as found.
TFTC

Today’s travels took us from Wuraga to Mount Magnet finding as many caches as we could on the way. Always enjoy lookout

Great little micro

Quick find.
TFTC

Quick and easy find! Thanks mate

First find up North!

Quick find. We put a new log in. Let us know if you want the old one. TFTC Zodiakhorizon & K-Maximus

...another nice cache on our holiday in Australia - thank you for showing us !

TFTC. No room left for signing so took photo as proof.

Would have missed coming up here on my trip north but for the cache, so thanks. Well worth the detour from highway 95!

Found while spending a couple of days in Mount Magnet,geocaching is a great way to check out these areas.TFTC

Amazing views and a geocache too - bonus.
Staying overnight in Mount Magnet on our little geo adventure .
TFTC Zodiakhorizon & K-Maximus this is find # 7452 for us.

Touring from Tasmania and staying nearby. Out collecting some caches. Tftc

Hi there Zodiakhorizon.

We found your cache **"North West Wander No.3 - The Show Goes On!!"** today. (This makes our find count 22687).

Today we headed out from Mount Magnet to cache along the Historic Tourist Drive. We thoroughly enjoyed our interesting trek around the local area & found 13 caches today & DNF'd 1.

Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wander around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

Heading north. Overnight in Cue. Seeing a few sights before hitting the road again. Thanks Zodiakhorizon & K-Maximus for the hide.

Another nice easy find

Found it

Great views with the bonus of a very small cache.
We never know what a town has to offer until we
go out and search for a cache.

Thanks Zodiakhorizon & K-Maximus

Little Squirell

Found but didn’t sign ... too small for us newbies

TFTC
Amazing view from this location.
Thanks for bringing us here.

Day ten of our 'loop tour' checking out the wildflowers and picking up caches along the way. We had twenty four caches on our list today and very happy that we found them all. What a bargain - three caches to be logged within 200 mts. Thanks ZH

Our first micro. Thank you. Beautiful view from up here

Out and about in Mt Magnet for a couple of days and grabbing a few caches. Before moving on.

pug002 found it 5/8/2018 on our trip north geocaching. Thanks for the cache Zodiakhorizon

At the turn off to the lookout our GPS was telling us we still had over 2 kilometres to go and that we needed to continue along the bitumen road. This wasn't adding up with the sign and the map we picked up on Mount Magnet so we ignored the GPS and travelled up the dirt road to a great little lookout.
Again accurate coordinates led to a quick find here.
Mr Beetle then waited with the bikes while I headed up to the top to grab the cache up there and the GCA trig.
I was gone a fair while so he had plenty of time to check out the great views.
Thanks.

Great view, lots of mines and a bit of activity. Quick find. Tftc

Definitely tricky but worth the trip up here! Great views, love lookouts! TFTC

This trip through the Goldfields has been a while in the planning and the main mission was to collect caches in at least another 8 Local Government Areas to qualify for a challenge cache recently set up by megawatt60! I didn’t really have a plan on where I would be sleeping and was happy to throw the swag down once the daylight became in short supply. From Kalgoorlie I headed north as far as Leinster with a few deviations along the way. I then headed west through Mt Magnet and then meandered my way back towards Perth. I had GC and GCA caches lined up and tried to grab as many as I could while passing by. Cheers to all the CO’s for the hides and hopefully I can head back one day soon to clean up the caches I wasn’t able to find on this trip. TFTC

G’day there Zodiakhorizon, I was in this area today and found your cache North West Wander No.3 - The Show Goes On!! GC2H3BR. I added my name to the log book at 4:13 pm on 4 April 2018. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

This brings our total find count to 9460

Day 3 with m4yb for some country caching.
Today we hope to clear out Mount Magnet, strange for me being a costal boy that I am actually enjoying this town. I thought this would be the last, but we passed it on the way The Mount.

Thanks for the smily ZH

Day 3 of the Northern Adventure, and on our last day in Mount Magnet, we are out to get the last 2 caches!
And we were so focused in getting up The Mount that we nearly overlooked this one. Once we realised we were so close, it was a quick find. TFTC ZH!

Very tricky this one. I would call this nano size and magnetic. A great lookout. Worth the trip.

Wow.... We have been past this one so many times, well not quite past but down the Great Northern Hwy - the caravan was the reason we hadn't been to find it previously.

Today without caravan we finally drove the tourist loop we have driven past so many times and to this cache. What a wonderful view from this spot, we know there is a lot of mining out here, we have seen it from the road but from up high one really gets to appreciate the scale of things.

thanks WanderingOz - its been a long time between finds of your caches.


Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder uses T.P. to sign smaller logs.

Looked so easy, but deceptive, with 4 of us looking still did not find!

This cache eluded us with four of us unable to find

Another tricky little devil

Making a mad dash around Mt Magnet. Time constraints and only an offline gz mean I am missing a lot of these. This was a dnf for me. Great view though!

Making a mad dash around Mt Magnet. Time constraints and only an offline gz mean I am missing a lot of these. This was a dnf for me. Great view though!

After camping in the area for the night we went on the hunt again today for caches located at points of interest. This was a really good run with so much to see and to learn. The cache itself was easily found and the duties were completed before we moved on. Thank you to Zodiakhorizon & K-Maximus for bringing us here.

24519 finds
On the way home from Alice Spring event. enjoyed travel loved outback.
Good hide spot.
Thanks Zodiakhorizon for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Slowly making my way north on my annual migration to follow the sun. I have decided to do the inland route this year rather than the coast road, so that I can collect all the smiley's along the way. I am camping tonight near Mount Magnet and took the opportunity to pick up this mini power-trail this afternoon. I managed to get the caravan up the pretty rough track and had the pesky nano in hand in short order. SL TFTC ZH

Day ten and eleven of Barnzy12 and Cravo10 adventure to the Northwest of WA, filling out boots with LGAs, rare DT, old caches, and good old fashioned red dirt!

Day 9 We travelled from Newman to Mount Magnet via Meekatharra, Wiluna, sandstone, cue and many a place in between to pickup a couple of harder to reach LGAs and get numbers up for the trip.

We were lucky enough to pickup four FTFs in Meekatharra that had managed to go unfound for a reasonable time so we nabbed all of them. A nice little stat to add to the list.

We made some large scale detours to Wiluna and Sandstone to pickup two more LGAs that are a little hard to pickup from our Perth homebase.

We racked up over 1000km for the day and finished up grabbing caches along the mount magnet tourist drive by torchlight to end an epic day.

Day ten saw us up at 5am to cleanup the granites series of caches, before making the 600 plus kilometre journey back to our home of Perth.

Overall it's been a huge trip with 200plus caches found, a dozen or so LGAs picked up, 6500km travelled, 11 days of non-stop caching and tourist activities, 6 FTFs, countless containers fixed, logs replaced, pathtags dropped off.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches which made the trip possible.

Day ten and eleven of Barnzy12 and Cravo10 adventure to the Northwest of WA, filling out boots with LGAs, rare DT, old caches, and good old fashioned red dirt!

Day 9 We travelled from Newman to Mount Magnet via Meekatharra, Wiluna, sandstone, cue and many a place in between to pickup a couple of harder to reach LGAs and get numbers up for the trip.

We were lucky enough to pickup four FTFs in Meekatharra that had managed to go unfound for a reasonable time so we nabbed all of them. A nice little stat to add to the list.

We made some large scale detours to Wiluna and Sandstone to pickup two more LGAs that are a little hard to pickup from our Perth homebase.

We racked up over 1000km for the day and finished up grabbing caches along the mount magnet tourist drive by torchlight to end an epic day.

Day ten saw us up at 5am to cleanup the granites series of caches, before making the 600 plus kilometre journey back to our home of Perth.

Overall it's been a huge trip with 200plus caches found, a dozen or so LGAs picked up, 6500km travelled, 11 days of non-stop caching and tourist activities, 6 FTFs, countless containers fixed, logs replaced, pathtags dropped off.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches which made the trip possible.

Glad to add another ZH hide to the list, we've enjoyed your NWW series, our NWW was 11 days and around 6500km, finding 200 plus caches, huge effort.

Geokid Kevin was looking for a while, as i used the chance of good reception to get some internet stuff done. TFTC

Headed back up to Geraldton for another caching run (third time this year). We started off by picking up as many caches as we could in the wheatbelt on the first day before arriving in Geraldton. The next day we headed up to port Gregory and Kalbarri and the highlight of the day would have to be be the pink lakes in port Gregory. Day 3 saw us caching in Geraldton picking up some we missed last time and clearing up a few of our DNFS here before adding some more DNFS to the list. Day 4 we headed off to mount magnet picking up some caches along the way till we arrived there. I must say the caches in mount magnet were quite tricky to find and it was also a stinking hot day so we didn't get to find all the caches we were hoping to find there. The last day we cached along the coast on the way home. Once again it was stinking hot and we missed doing a lot of the caches we hoped to find plus the flies were driving us crazy but we still got to visit some great places. Most of the caches we looked for we did find and we came across some very sneaky well made cache containers along the way. Thanks to all the CO,s for placing there caches for us and all the other geocachers to find.

Signed 20.10.16 during our trip around Australia with our caravan. Enjoyed the areas and happy to get some smilies ... es reception is very limited next to nothing. Tftc

Found it with bikesu. Tftc

This was a difficult cache to extract from where I found it but it did eventually come out to be signed. We did have a car load of muggles arrive just after we did so I waited for them to leave until I started my work. Thanks to Zodiakhorizon for the cache

Had a case of cache blindness at first, but soon had the cache in hand. Thanks Zodiakhorizon.

Staying in local cp..going on a geo hunt ..took a bit but found you lol ..TFTC

Cache grabbed with Mortimer 57 during our fantastic 3 weeks trip in Western Australia. Thank you to all the owners for their great job. We had a lot of fun to do Geocaching in your country !
Greetings from France!

Logbook is full here..

This cache has been found with Emjuma57 during our WA roadtrip in august 2016. 5360 km from Perth to Exmouth, Karijini, and back down.
We had a lot of fun geocaching in Australia!! Thanks a lot to the owners for placing those caches even in the most remote places!!
Geocaching allowed us to discover places impossible to find with a book guide!
Greetings from France!!

I had been attracted to Mount Magnet by a big bunch of caches to find
And high up on the hill I headed for where all the geocaching began in these parts
Mount Magnet's first cache

(If you ignore the gold reefs, which could be called caches, as they are well hidden, and very desirable to find)

At the car park, I was alone.
The mud on the access road and drizzle seems to be keeping the tourists packed in like sardines at the caravan park !!

And from upon high I could see a lot of the towne, mines and the TV tower to name a few points of interest.
OK !! So the TV tower is only a point of interest to geocachers really, 'cos there is a cache hidden near it

So as the shows continue to be broadcast,
I was up here looking for a cache.
What yer done with it ?? [:o]

A few minutes of searching nearby scenery later,
and I had a second look at a promising spot.
I'm going cache blind, I swear

TFTC.

Awesome lookout. Thanks

Quick find while heading out on the tourist drive

Tftc

Tftc

TFTC

Tricky Lil micro hehe. Tftc found with grubbygypsy

Found with Fids Crew - TFTC

Quick find while muggles were walking back to their car. TFTC

Spent the day finding the caches around Mt Magnet with Happyjacks 55. found this one. TFTC

GPS was playing up. Thought about things and then it was obvious- considering where we are

Tricky one, an easy find though. TFTC! Nice view on the mine site

Found it while exploring the trail around Mt Magnet.
It was nice to learn about the history.
TFTH

A nice quick find.
TFTC

Nice tricky one =)

Found on a caching crusade with beckNmonts. TFTC