Salt Pan Reserve 2 Riverwood, New South Wales, Australia
By steptoe on 13-Sep-11. Waypoint GC33QY1

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

steptoe

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.


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tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

No luck today

It must be in a really good spot I couldn’t find it

Lots of wildlife

Chose a bad time as it started raining

Couldn't find it don't think it here. Nice park, so many ibises. Thanks for the hunt

Mit took a while and had to pen to write my name

Thanks for the cache! For CO, cache may need some maintenace. JF.

A bit difficult but we found it.

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Took me ages to fin

Nice hide

TFTC

Easy find despite being a good hide.

A clever hiding spot with a great waterview

Nice one bruvva

#1994 Final of five finds with Rieka to complete the caches along the M5 walkway. Found after a short search. TFTC

Eleventh and last find of the day with Aussiewolves. Nice area to stroll around. TFTC

#4794:
Today I needed to find at least two caches in order to fill in dates on my calendar loops. I picked a walk in the near-Western suburbs as it was quick to get to by train, and there was a large number along this suburban walk.

This cache was my first stop. A lovely quiet park, devoid of any muggles. I was free to search in peace. A tricky hide. I spotted only a rusty magnet, and was about to give up. I went on for once last look, and brushed aside the mountain of cobwebs. There I spotted the cache, extremely tucked away, and difficult to reach from the grass. Glad to tick it off, TFTC.
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This is my 360th Found Date filled in on my calendar (Loop 1).

3rd cache found in New South Wales City of Canterbury-Bankstown.

Took a while of searching but it's exactly on the GPS and consistent with map. Last hider placed it in an awkward place, pushed right in was very difficult to get out. Found the magnet first.

I’m came by after work for a look. I searched and searched on one side before heading to the other side with turned out a bit more lucky tftc

Needed a find today for the souvenir (have given up on my one a day average for this year, although I am closer than last year and my average for my caching career is sweet) so we decided to head out this morning to two left in this park we hadn’t found - using the second as a back up. After a spiky search geoboyfriend eventually found it after I’d complained one too many times about spiky bushes. No backup required today! Nice and cool in the morning, intrigued by the guy exercising by doing laps on his electric bike (not sure that counts?). Back home now to the air con before it gets too warm. Thanks and happy new year (the physical log only shows six finders this calendar year)!

Came back in daylight for a quick find. Followed some logs which helped. Fountain not running but still a pretty spot. Guarded by remains of lochness monster. TFTC

Tricky find. But worth it.

I made this one a bit hard by arriving at dusk, so no luck today. My co-ords had me on the bridge- not sure that was right? I used to enjoy this park while my kids were at skate park nearby.

Have been eyeing this one off for a while. Dropped Muggle off at Riverwood Station at 0715 then thought it would be a good time to troll without the M activity. In my eagerness left the pen in the car ,at least we have the Online Log.
TFTC .Cool spot . Cheers.

Make sure you have a pen I didn't

Couldn’t find it! Tried twice and went through all the comments and hints. Still no luck. Maybe it fell in the pond or deep in the bushes.

Went back for another look. Had to run our fingers around. Then voila! Found it! So happy it’s our second find.

Pretty quick find even at night. Nice cycle path & park for the kids nearby

Nice stroll in the dark but didn’t have to search hard TFTC

Cheers mate. Nice gardens. Log is wet.

Found with Crinklypear5. Such a nice park, thanks for bringing us here! I made a quick find as soon as I was on the right side. Tftc!

Started to rain which sent the muggles away. Quick find, great location!

A nice easy find. Unlike its brother up the road. TFTC.

A good solid cache. The magnet was missing from it though. GZ was nice and quiet to complete the duties with ease. TFTC!

Tftc!!

A tricky one.
Id spent about 15 mins feeling under and behind everything i could and just as i was composing my DNF comment in my head and taking one last look i felt something move.
Thanks.
#119

Dnf

We were in the area attending a boardgame convention (I didn't know they existed either until I accidently stumbled across the event on Eventbrite). After Deep_99 and I had finished learning/playing Setters of Catan, we decided it was time to get our cache for the day. Deep was trolling around when I said from above, what's that there, it was the cache. SL #3644 on streak day #2200 TFTC

Quick find with Ris768, thanks for the cache steptoe

Log 1506 Streak Day 560

We targeted Riverwood for a nice geocaching walk on a shiny Saturday. What a nice park here. Not sure that we would fish off this bridge like the muggle we saw but it's still a nice park. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

magnetic strip gone. container and log fine. good spot easy access once off bridge

steptoe I found your cache Salt Pan Reserve 2 on 30/3/18, 2:49 pm. This is my find 1947 and find # 3 today. Beautiful spot, cache was easily found. Thanks for the cache! TNSLLN

Ms Atalanta took some time off this morning to come walking and caching with me. This was part of a trail along the M5 with several caches which we wanted to find.
A simple find, but a bit difficult to get to hand. TFTC

Could just see the edge of it

Got to GZ and was looking around on top and then I thought maybe I should go down further, no still nothing, went other side, no nothing, went back to original spot oh there it is. Nice spot here in suburbia.

Went out without a pen today, found this one with less effort. I’ll see if I can upload a shot of the cache. Tftc.

Yay found it. After not been able to find the other one nearby. TFTC p.s.magnet needs replacing.

Tftc
Quick stop while in the area and luckily a cache near by

Quick and easy find

Tftc

It was easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Beautiful place
Left a Star to shine
Tftc

Surprisingly rlly easy!

Tftc - second in the introduction of caching to a friend, I let him navigate. After 15min of him looking (2min for me to locate), I explained the geo sense and showed him where it was.

TFTC

I made it too tricky but found it

Found but didn't log. Um. Yeah. Was my first find and I was so ecstatic I nearly looked into the pond and thought I had to fish it up. Not too far from imagination just used my fingers to push it out instead. Hehehehe.

Great spot

Hint: you gotta bend

Took another diversion on my way to work today, this time going via Narwee and Riverwood, to grab some more of the "Just Keep Walking" series of caches and to also have a look around Salt Pan Reserve. This was the 6th of 7 finds for the morning.

After finding "Salt Pan Reserve 1" this was the next one I came to. Headed over to the little island and started my search, thankfully without the company of any muggles.

Checked in quite a few spots before eventually spotting the hide and having CIH. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. You get a nice view of the fountain from the island. TFTC Steptoe.

Find #1929

While attending the International Geocaching Day Afternoon tea event, I went off to find this one, had a lot of problems with the phone, ended up with friends helping me locate this one. Signed log and replaced, thanks to Steptoe.

Took a little while. Felt around here and there, and there and back here...and it is here that I saw it in plain sight. TFTC

Attending the Afternoon Tea by the Creek for IGD today provided an ideal opportunity for frazeydaze and oldmorty to grab some caches before the event. This cache was a quick find for frazeydaze once she got to the right level amongst the noisy birds. TFTC steptoe.

Oldmorty and I thought we'd find a few caches this morning before meeting fellow geocachers at an event to celebrate International Geocaching Day. This was the second within the Salt Pan Reserve. This was a lot easier to find than Salt Pan Reserve 1. Now off for some lunch. TFTC steptoe

TFTC. We were more successful using our eyes and detective skills than relying on GPS. Crocosaurus and I TYFTC

A lot of spiders quite scary at night LOL

Nice area for a BBQ. It was a bit busy.
Quick find.
TFTC

Looked in all the hard places. Found a dollar, sweet, then checked the more obvious places CIH. TFTC

Beautiful park and beautiful day

Find #36
Found this while out at the park with geo-sis and the kiddies. Geo-sis made the find today, good spotting. On opening the cache the log was completely soaked and unusable. We dried out the cache as best we could, replaced the log with a new one and dropped a small trinket.
TFTC steptoe

13:00 hod.

I found this cache on our vacation on Australia.

Thank you for the cache and greetings from Czech Republic

Nice spot. Thank you.

I continued the walk from Salt Pan Reserve 1.
This is a well maintained and well signposted reserve. I was surprised to see flood signs in the park. There were nine species of Australian birds near and on the bank plus a pair of dinner ducks in the water which were mating, more dinners on the way!
The island is very nice and I like the gazebo with the view of the fountain. Pity there's no seats in it.

The co-ordinates were spot on and the cache was a super quick find. The log was absolutely saturated and I was unable to separate the pages or really do anything with it so I took it away and disposed of it in a suitable recepticle and left some fresh paper as a replacement. I signed it and visited some TBs then replaced the cache as found.

I continued the walk to Salt Pan Reserve 3 and was surprised to see a small community or market garden on the far side of the reserve!

TFTC # 1904

Great cache! Had the CIH within seconds. Nice park and we enjoyed watching the fountain. A few muggles watching us. TFTC

Can't believe I didn't see it the first time..

What a beautiful park. Enjoyed the walk for this one and others nearby.
TFTC steptoe

found this one with the GeoBro but the seats seem to be missing from the gazebo so had to sign the log while standing! TFTC steptoe

TFTC steptoe

A quick find on a quiet afternoon by Salt Pan Creek. TFTC steptoe

No luck. Any clues?

Found it while working at the park, good hiding spot

Beware the cache guardian it stung me. wasp nest near by
TFTC

Worked in a few caches during a trip through the inner-west.
This was 8th of 10 finds (and 1 DNF) for the day.
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Beautifully manicured area.
TFTC steptoe

Good hide nice location. TFTC

Found on a beautiful day on the way home from house-hunting in Wollongong. We fed the ducks and generally had a great geo-twin & dad day. Tftc ??

#3060 - nearly gave it up but got the grass under the shoes, so left a TB. Many thanks to ***steptoe*** for establishing and maintaining this cache.

Found it. Log needs to be replaced. TFTC

What a beautiful location

Tftc

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Parked the car and went for a nice stroll beside the lake. I had never been here before and must say that it is a very nice little park. The fountain was working which added to the atmosphere. Initially the gps had me in the wrong place but then I headed towards the correct GZ, or so I thought. Luckily no muggles there. Thought I knew exactly where to look, but couldn't see the cache. Then tried at a lower lever, first on one side, then on the other. There were lots of possible hiding places high and low, but still couldn't find it. Hmmm. Rechecked the gps and decided it must be near one of the first places I looked, so went back and there it was. How did I miss it the first time? I was looking for something much smaller, but the cache is bigger than I expected and it blended in. Signed the log, which is a bit full and muddled, and returned the cache. TFTC

Walked into a huge spiderweb, all for a good cause :p

Took a while with GPS moving around and muggles visiting island every 2 minutes. Finally located with Happy Jackie. Thanks, nice park.

On a mission with Mrs Brewmaker to break my monthly record and only need another 8 with 2 days remaining in January.
Having just had a DNF, I was concerned at first this would be two in a row. After trying the usual places on the bridge without success, I tried another approach and soon it was CIH and ready to be signed. No muggles around on a very hot Saturday arvo, so getting things done was easy.
We decided to stop for lunch on the seats in the shade nearby, overlooking the fountain, and reassessing how we could hopefully find #1 (which we didn't on a 2nd attempt).
TFTC. #284

Tftc!

A nice place on a sunny day. Tftc

This was back near where I had parked the car. After starting off on the wrong side, I found this where I would hide it.

TFTC.

Nice quick find. TFTC!

Cache #61 TFTC
Nice day for a walk no muggles to be seen.