Yarran Dheran Heatherdale, Victoria, Australia
By patternott on 07-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2HXDT

The most recent log from Riddell says that 3up knows where it used to be it seems it has definitely gone. The CO has not logged in since early December 2011, nor has the CO responded to my Needs Maintenance. It appears that it may be abandoned.

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of communication. I have been unavailable to replace the cache and therefore am archiving the cache. Sorry for the inconvenience guys.

Walking with the Wednesday walkers of the Essendon Bushwalking club on the first stage of a quest to walk the length of the Eastlink.
We had 3up with us and he knew where it should have been and it just is not there!

As I and several other have not found it I suspect its gone. Could the CO please give it a quick look-see? - cheers David.

had a good look in all the likely places, and stuck my hand in some holes dark enough to question my sanity.

can you please confirm or deny its presence?

Sadly no joy for me

25/03/2012 18:22 A tricky one for sure unless it is actually gone. Despite looking at GZ right where 0m was showing in the obvious location we found nothing. The recent very heavy floods were very high and quite possibly got up to here and maybe further. We will be back once it is checked. At least I got to use my new pokey-stick here Sue & David.

On my weekly Bunnings trip I stopped in here for a look. Loved the park but I looked in all the holes I could see but couldn't find the cache. I'll come back with the kids for another look. They'll love playing here.

I was having trouble with this one but the boys were loving throwing rocks in to the water. As little boys do ! Then it all came to a sad end when my youngest ended up throwing a rock into the back of my eldest's head! [:(!] Not intended of course but all caching was over!! Will return as this is a great place to visit.

Lovely river! Easy rock find

pretty sure we were looking in the right place, but it wasn't there

Good quick find. Needs a new log book this one is full. Enjoyable location listening to the water.

This was a relaxing spot to sit for a while. I enjoyed visiting this spot before setting off for a walk around the reserve. Thanks for the cache.

A nice quick find while on a very pleasant bike ride. Enjoyed the view. Thanks for the cache.

A free hour while geoson was at joeys. This has been on the radar for a while and it was great to finally get here. TNLN TFTC.

So many muggles at this spot on a sunny Sunday afternoon! Had to sit around and wait till they all left. Got the butterfly trackable, left a girl guide badge. TFTC. New log book needed.

Nice walk along creek. Found cache easily. Left Scottish keyring and dropped off CachekinzButterfly Travel Bug. Took nothing, but thanks for the cache.

I've been wanting to find this one for a while now as the Nüvi has been dinging at me for quite some time as we go through the tunnel. Today was the perfect opportunity and it ended up being a relatively quick find at 15:55 once I realised that it wasn't a micro.

A beautiful spot, which made me anxious to get back on 2 wheels again .

TNLNSL. Thanks patternott.

PS: There are what appear to be a few muggle entries in the logbook.

Nice quick find.. Although plenty of muggles around.. Score!! Swapped ladybug lipgloss for half painted war hammer figurine..

Great place! Took logic to find this one!

found easily however finding a time without people to sign and replace was the hardest part. Sunny sunday arvo is not the best time to do this one.

After all the bicycle muggles had left the scene, it was a quick find. This is a great part suburbia.

Found quite quickly after a bit of clambering through the bush off path - TNLN TFTC

a quick little walk from the car. lovely spot. TFTC.[:x]

Third of three on the night whilst in the area transmitter hunting with friends.. Thanks Patternott for the cache and find #1594ish.. dipped coins and tb's

Found while fox (transmitter type) hunting, in the company of diablo1234 and spladem.

Found on a late night. With two others. TFTC

#772 Looks like a nice little area to explore if I'd had more time. Lot of muggles when I first arrived but they soon left. Left a coin I picked up while overseas recently. Thanks patternott.

Had time to kill after Hillcrest trio. Not much time wasted finding this, thank you.

Great little find. Was planning on doing the multi at Yarran Dheran but our GPS phone was having issues locking, so did this one instead. TFTC

This one took a while, spent what seemed like heaps of time looking in all sorts of places as the GPSr didn't want to be too accurate tonight. Eventually let it settle in a clear spot, then trusted it and it lead me straight to the find. Thanks to patternott for putting a cache here, a good hunt at night. Need to bring the bike back in daylight.
(edited to remove some overzealous iPhone self "corrections!!!!")

This entry was edited by littlemerpip on Monday, 01 August 2011 at 03:25:32 UTC.

Love the hiddy hole TFTC

# 2238 @ 18:20 TNLNSL

Nice easy find and a pleasant walk for nearby caches. I must come back to see the area in the daylight.

Thanks for bringing me here patternott.

Found 14:55, a great location.

TNLN, CSI=3, thanks patternott.

Found this one on way home from work

Out caching for the day, headed for this one... we got there and hunted around for a little and had the container in hand quickly.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found in the company of coley_babee.
As we were walking around completing a multi in this park collecting clues we arrived near GZ and I mentioned to coley I thought there was a cache nearby here.
After some fumbling around we found the container.
Luckily it was dry, I'm actually a little surprised really.
Thanks patternott for this cache.

nice spot, i found this @ 15:21 on a chilly winters afternoon. left a coin, picked up a pathtag. TFTC!

Found this cache with Irontoad at about 1345. Left ladybug lipgloss and took nothing. Nice walk to get here.

This entry was edited by kmace on Wednesday, 08 June 2011 at 13:23:41 UTC.

Took a walk with Kmace by the river along a very good path. A well preserved natural habitat. found the cache without trouble. left a ladybug took nothing.

Peta's turn to find, 5 down for the day and time to turn around (tired dogs).

Nice hiding spot. Took a flowery token, left a south african rand

We managed to park at just about the farthest point from the cache, which gave us a nice walk along the gravel path under the tree canopy. It's such a great area.

Took nothing, left two pathtags. Thanks so much for the cache, patternott.

I can’t believe how many parties the kids go too, but it gives me a couple of hours for a quick cache run in the nearby suburbs while they play with their friends. What joy! Today was no different and I picked up 10 caches in a couple of hours, which I thought was pretty good going for a wet Saturday afternoon. I concentrated on the Mitcham and Ringwood areas and this cache was one of them. Thanks to patternott for placing this cache. I really enjoyed the area and it is a really ideal location for a cache. SL TFTC.

Needs a new log book. Fun find. Removed the condom though! With the kids! Took geocache tattoo and left marble and geocoin. Tftc

Found this with Vicki on a lovely evening. Great park. Thanks, patternott.

The Chief went off to retrieve this one while I sat & enjoyed the surrounds. He used Mrs Walenators stick method to reach the cache. No one around this morning. TFTC

How annoying found cache, just as someone, walked down the hill and sat down under the sign to do some reading. Had rehidden cache when saw them coming so will need to go back to sign. Hopefully got it in far enough to be hidden. Slippery at GZ.

Found with the GC2TJ31 tftc ha ha ha ftf was a non cacher that's gold
#204 @4:01 PM

nice quick and easy find and it was dry too which was a bonus lately TFTC

Found the cache @ 16:20hrs.TFTC TNLN.

Wow, what a brilliant spot. Was in the area this morning and having done what needed doing I was heading home then thought why not go find a cache while I am here. This one looked a nice quick drive by so headed toward it not expecting much. Only 5 minutes from the main road and it felt like I could be any where! Whata great surprise! I parked and strolled to the GZ, guessed the location and took a seat while waiting for the muggle gap before retrieving the cache and signing the log, then waited again for another muggle gap to replace the cache. There were quite a few cycling muggles going past but I wasn't worried at al, as it was such a nice spot to sit and enjoy the peace. The cache is in good order. Thanks for the cache, patternott.

A nice drive by. tftc, tnln.
Cv.

Nice and quick find this morning. Signs of a lot of water passing through here still evident. Enjoyed watching some morning joggers bouncing past
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Quick find while riding along the Eastlink trail

Found @ 11:40am another nice hide TFTC

Lovely but busy location. We were just about to head back to the car as GZ was too busy. Fortunately the people enjoying the spot moved and so we could return and find the cache. TNLN SL TFTC

A lovely morning to be standing by this now benign creek caching.
I have been here before but that was ages ago.
A quick find as predicted
Thanks patternott

I found this cache at 5:05pm ast the 2nd of 2 on the way home. I had been past here last month but a smoochy couple near GZ meant that I was not going to be cache hunting that day. On finding the cache today, it turns out that they were almost sitting on it. Thanks from D B-A.

What a great park!! Had been here a few years ago with a friend. Need to revisit here a lot more often!!! This place would have to be one of my favorites!! Did get extremely HOT!! But was well worth it!! Took nothing left tattoo. SL. TFTC

Quick easy find, great area, brings back memories !!!!
TFTC !!!!

2240

Dam its HOT HOT HOT

Great spot but!!!!!

I take the coin thanks.........

Yet another place I wouldn't have had excuse to explore except for geocaching.

Lovely walk past the three hillcrests to this one. Dogs dragging their feet by the end. Dropped a geocoin in this as it seems to be a regular find. Took bracelet. TFTC

Fourth find in our Australia Day series of geocaching with my wife and son. Nice lookout across the creek. Iphone could not pick up the next location in that area and so went home.
T:Ring
L: Hair clip

Decided to look for this one on a beautiful summer evening. This is one of my favourite jogging tracks.
An easy find in a wonderful area. Aren't we lucky this has been saved from developers.

Took: squid thingy
Left: green lizard
Thanks patternott

Out with Blacklegend (Marshy) for another of our night time caching runs. Very warm and humid night (96%) had us dripping with sweat. Quick find once at GZ by Marshy. TFTC.

5th for the day of 20 finds. Found with my good mate Marty (Quasar3671). Caching in 96% humidity and 23 degrees.... With a bit of "Geochafing" now taking effect, this was a welcome short walk. TFTC.

Found when I came back to get the close by multi, this one had sprung up since I was first here. Ally enjoyed throwing stones in the water, her current fav pass time. Took multi tool, left tazo.

Third find of the day and by far the easiest. Nice spot, which I drive past quite regularly! Thanks for the cache.

Easy find. Beautiful morning for caching.
Took billiard ball key chain; left sequins ring.
TFTC.

This is a great park that we have visited many times for geocaching but it's never a problem returning but in the heat of this hot New Year's Eve afternoon I was grateful that it wasn't a long walk from the car today. The cache was found in the first place I looked
Thanks patternott for the cache

Was in the vicinity of this park completing the Hillcrest hike series, so decided to come past here... Mr Happy Chappy made a dive for a fairly obvious location while Mrs Happy Chappy had a rest... A large amount of fumbling turned up nothing so asked Mrs HC to help, only to have it find out that the cache was exactly where she was all this time!!! Clever girl.....

TNLNSL. TFTC

Enjoying the twilight after Christmas day. Went for a long walk and found this. Had to wait for some people who I thought might have been cachers, they hung around for a while, I left then they left. Easy from there.

Tigey Wigey

18 December 2010 | 6:59 PM
Found nice and easy tftc took pencil keyring left squid gun

Quick find on another after work cache run with Slink1 TFTC SL

Quick find on a night out caching with Dunko TFTC SL

Lovely bike track here. I took James Hird (Essendon will miss him) and left a sleasy Mole. Thanks patternott.

I remember counting something here one day for a Multi cache, the creek was really flowing fast today. Thanks patternott for the cache.

Found @ 14:30 while out finding the unfound caches near home today. TFTC TNLNSL

Found @ 2035.

Found whilst on a run along the valley. Quite an easy find in the first place I looked. This is the first cache I have found and logged using my phone and c:geo.

Sent the youngest Wacky in for this one. Lovely spot. Didn't have time to do the similarly named multi.

Over from Adelaide to pick up some numbers with the Wackys. Had a great weekend.

Thanks

C&W

Found with Cached on a weekend numbers run to Melbourne - TFTC - C & W

An intriguing area I was quite unaware of, but then I never come up here. Cache was quickly found and even though the water was up it should never get that high. Thanks patternot.

It's always nice to come back to Yarran Dheran for a cache. Was surprised to find it straight away after reading the cache history. Like I said before, I would have preferred to search for it on the other side...
p-boro
#1295

Found by Bob at 0925

Having missed this one the first night it was placed, it's sure taken me a while to get around to going for it again - especially since it's less than 200m from home. I guess it was a case of waiting for a bit of free time around home rather than making a diversion while doing other trips in the area. Anyway, I decided to clean up a few local caches on the way to work this morning and this was a quick find in a very familiar spot (it is, in fact, a waypoint for our own Yarran Dherran cache) and one I had checked out that first night (but the cache was missing back then).

TNLN

Thanks patternott - sorry for the late log, I'm way behind with my paperwork

Easy Find on a nice Sunny Day
TFTC, TNLN
#101

# 36. Found at 1542. Knocked off work early to go caching. This is a lovely area and a nice drive. Good "park and grab" cache. SL TNLN TFTC

Found in the rain while geodaughter was at choir rehearsal nearby. Not surprisingly, one else about. Sheltered the cache under my umbrella while I worked on the signing the log.

Great to visit this area again. Thanks patternott.

~15:50 King jnr and geoprince

I know exact spot and have been here many times before. As a member of the l0ocal SES unit we have also used GZ for several training senerios including pumping and "vertical cacualty handling". From the gate next to GZ we have many times crossed the creek; today however would have been a different case as the water was well over the rocks and running fast in the rain. It took us a little while to find this one as we initally searched in the wrong spot.

our thanks to patternott

This is Mr Xambo4u's second visit to this cache. Mrs xambo4u notified Mr of the release from UMP and of he went. Met Geodes and HillTribe at the scene and after a thorough search rang Mrs. xambo4u. A log was made right then of the no show so no one else to rush out but that log has disappeared, where did it go?
Retuned to sign the log for a nice easy find
Thanks for the cache.

"Visiting" a 10 Year Anniversary coin into caches we have found that were placed during 2010
GJMMelb

7.11PM

Left home at 6.45 tonight with no found logs listed and high hopes for my very first FTFArrived at car park at 7.05, made a quick discovery, but was disappointed again, no FTF this time, will keep trying tho.

Good to see there is some honest Muggles about.

TNLN

Thanks for the Cache.

Joint ****DNF**** with Geodes & xambo4u. Searched high and low to no avail. Bonus being to meet up with some fellow cachers. We'll be back when the cache is confirmed as in place. Cheers, HillTribe

I noticed this one late last night and, as it was such a pleasant evening and it was only 250m from home, my son and I went down tro try to find it. We searched by torchlight for 30-40mins but didn't have any luck so, this morning, I thought I'd pop back and have another go in the daylight. After re-searching most of the spots we'd checked last night, I was close to packing it in when Geoff from HillTribe showed up, so we searched for a bit longer and then James from xambo4u rolled up as well and we went through it all again - but even our combined efforts failed to turn up a container after another 30mins or so. Either it's the hardest difficulty 1 hide I've ever come across, or the co-ords may be in error (I've posted a NearMap image showing where the posted GZ is - which all of our GPSrs tended to agree with).

Thanks anyway patternott - it was quite a surprise to see another cache named Yarran Dheran appear at the same distance from our home co-ords as our own cache of that name (and whose 4th wp is within a couple of metres of those for your cache).

Well I think a 2nd to find for us today or is that 3rd given the short lived muggle abduction???
Arrived to see the knowing smile of fellow cachers GJMMelb who had beat us to the prize. Was actually surprised Geodes hadn't popped back too. So nice to meet you guys GJMMelb. TFTC patternot, let's hope it stays on place long enough for others to enjoy in this tranquil little spot.

We are.............. FGTFBNFPTF!!!!!



...........Translated that means First Geocachers To Find But Not First Person To Find lol (see owners log below re short lived muggling)



We wrote in the log that we are Second To Find as we werent the first people to find this cache and we certainly wouldn't have been anything like FTF if it was there when Geodes, HillTribe, Xambo4U were looking last night / this morning.  TNLNSL



After finding the cache MMelb went for a bit of an explore in the river etc as we waited to see if anyone else would turn up.  We were just thinking we would go home when a car arrived in the carpark and so we waited to see if they were cachers which indeed they were and we finally met 2 members of HillTribe.  Great to meet you guys too! We chatted a bit about a certain delicious looking cache and then GMelb rang from Canberra needing some info on a cache up there.  Whilst attempting to find this info on our car GPS, Datruk arrived and so we spent some time chatting with him also.  We really enjoy bumping into other cachers out in the field!! 



After that it was off home to get back to cooking dinner which I was just about to do when the "it's back" note came through!! lol  Crazy a bit????? - YEP!! lol



TFTC patternott, it's a nice spot that we enjoy visiting.

GJMMelb

1815hrs



I saw this one pop up last night but I was too tired to go for it. I was working on the computer when the enabled log came up and I thought about again for a little while.

Decided to go for it.

I arrived to see a familar smiling face sitting in a car at the GZ.

It was good to see J&M Melb from GJMMelb.



Oh well a bronze for me this time.



TFTCSL

geocache stolen/missing will replace tonight, sorry for inconvience