Time for a Break Charlestown, New South Wales, Australia
By danwashere on 19-Nov-11. Waypoint GC380Z7

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 think this needs to be archived if the co isn't going to replace it or at least write a note

Think this cache has been muggled

Searched & searched for this one. Did not find. Maybe it might need to be checked & make sure it wasn't muggled.

Had a very good look for this, found something that matched the clue, but thats all we could find.

I could not find it the gps was going everywhere oh we'll better luck next time

First of the day and took way longer than expected. I knew exactly what I was looking for but it was not near where the GPS was taking me.

Went to PAF and that took me to around the same area. So widened search area and widened it again till I almost fell off and found it finally.

I have returned the cache to the co-ords listed not where I found it as I doubt it was meant to be there.

First of the day and took way longer than expected. I knew exactly what I was looking for but it was not near where the GPS was taking me.

Went to PAF and that took me to around the same area. So widened search area and widened it again till I almost fell off and found it finally.

I have returned the cache to the co-ords listed not where I found it as I doubt it was meant to be there.

This entry was edited by theheadchef on Thursday, 26 December 2013 at 10:32:11 UTC.

Pure luck dor finding this

GPS wouldn't settle so had to rely on using my brain. Hence it took longer got it though lol

This one was really sneaky

We chose the perfect time to come here, parking across the oval so avoiding the shopping experience altogether. A moving GPS took me to several ideal places and when it finally settled I just put my hand out and picked up the cache. We logged away from GZ even though there was just no-one in sight. Thanks for a good hide, I usually hate piles of rocks but this one was OK.

A quick find on the way home from an event in Kotara. The GPS died as we arrived at the top of the steps above the bus shelters and the last reading was 12m so we started looking along the rockery and spotted the cache container relatively quickly thanks to Pesky's eagle eye.
Thanks for the sneaky hide.

You'v got to have rocks in your head to look amongst 100,000 rocks, but I did it and came up with a cache. Was early morning and very quiet in the area so made it easier.TFTC.

Ahh no find!!
Pretty sure I know what I'm looking for but couldn't locate it!!
Also I struggled with hint whether it was literal or not!
Pad!!

Another search another DNF. I have no idea what the clue is about???

Took a bit but found it

Bit tricky, but very clever

A lovely quick find in between shops. I had an idea of what I might be looking for, very clever. Thanks, danwashere!

Well camouflaged. Muffles too interested in soccer to worry about us. TFTF.

Very clever! Tricky to get whilst a soccer game was in full play. TFTF

TFTC! Took a bit of searching.

TFTC

Couldn't spot it.

Checked in on the cache. All is good and dry. Please use the other side of the log as I forgot to bring a replacement. Plenty of room available for logs.

Checked in on the cache. All is good and dry. Please use the other side of the log as I forgot to bring a replacement.

I had to check back and read for any hints, as the clue that was provided for some reason eluded me... Not sure why, because it was there in front of my eye

TFTC!

Ray played a game of soccer on the oval here and after a victory over the Charlestown team, decided to track down this cache. With she who is 'Boy' (yes, it's odd but related to name, not gender!) at home providing answers to the clue provided, and the help with a teammate (new to caching) we tracked this one down.

A good find, no maintenance required although the log is getting full, proving it's a good hide but not too hard, thanks to the handy clue. TNLF and thanks for the cache danwas(t)here!

The logbook is wet and the container isn't sealing properly.

This one took a while because the iPad told me to look in the wrong spot! When I gave up on technology and just used my eyes I found it easily! It's an excellent place for a cache. Thanks danwashere.

Took the opportunity to get this one with the public holiday ment not many people around nice one

Tftc. Research was the key

After a quick pit stop at sumo salad and a coffee hit therealtridder and I puzzled over this one for a while before having a lightbulb moment. Really enjoyed this one, tftc!

Nice quick find tftc

Finally had a chance to grab this little guy. found with a quick look blends in nicely to its surroundings Thanks Danwashere for the cache.

Sad to say we spent quite a deal of time here to no avail. We did find the dot on the rock tho'. Maybe we will try again next time we are this far from home.

Went over to find this one, while mum was shopping, dad came with me and had found it before, but it still took me a while as he gave nothing away ( sat down on the rocks away from the cache). Good camo, tftc danwahere

Left possum to the shopping for a while to go and find this one. When I got outside it was misty rain. When I got to GZ I thought I knew what I was looking for but it still took me a while. There was no one else out in the rain except me, so hunting it down was not a problem. Thanks danwashere for putting a cache here and giving us husbands a break from the shopping for a while [^]

Patience is a virtue!!

Very tough to find, love the camo, very easy now I know where it is ha! TFTC

We've attempted this a few times with varying obstacles. Got it today on our way to the Newcastle Bonsai Exhibition. Tftc!

Couldn't have a real good search as there were to many muggles coming and going and just hanging around the bus stop. Will come back on a quieter day.

[D:] Nice and easy find - Well-blended hide - TFTC

This cache container fits right into the environment. Had no idea what i was looking for but by luck i found it. Thank god for that otherwise i would have been here for hours looking in the wrong places. There were a gang of teenagers up the path and i wanted to get the hell out of there immediately. My plan was to sit down on the rock cage and have a drink and at the same time look for the cache. I one was to come over which non did i would have said to them i dropped something. they lost interest and thats when i found the cache. Went to another spot to sign log and when i returned they had left. TFTC

Kids found this one real quick! and right on dusk too!

Everybody else at the movies, but me free to wander so naturally had to stray across to this one. Knew what I was looking for and soon found it. Tftc

Found it! Took me about 4 times to visit the place before I found it as its so camouflaged!

On the way to Sydney and checking out caravans so doing a few caches along the way. Took a little while. Good hide.

Checked GZ this morning and the landscapers mentioned in the previous log have left it accessible, according to my GPSr it is now at these coordinates and the additional hint is still valid.

Beauitful day today, go out for a day at Wallsend and Lambton area, Enjoyed day... easy to find as hide very well... Time for a break, on the way home.... thanks..

Since I acquired the far more accurate Garmin GPSmap 60CSx, I decided to try this one for the third time, googled the additional hint which then made sense, convinced Mrs Grub Fred that I needed extra eyes and away we went thinking if this was unsuccessful then I would have to ask for help. No luck with parking, went round the world to get a park then as we were walking towards GZ we could see workmen right on the spot, shifting rocks around so that they could cover it all with mesh to stop the vandals throwing the rocks! They looked at us funny, I asked if they had happened to find a Geocache, they said "a what? Oh that thing, yeah we were wondering what that was, there it is!" After all the explanations they are going to try to leave it in an accessible position near "the additional hint" when the mesh goes over, I'll go back in a few days to see how they fared and I'll let you know, TFTC danwashere!!

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Found with cccritter7 while playing our make up game here
tftc
P.S. Go the Jaffas

Found with Patches108 while playing soccer at the field. Won 7-1!!!! Pat saw the cache on approach. I don't know how I missed it. TFTC DAN

No footballers, no muggles in sight - 10.30 on a Sunday morning seems to be the perfect time to go.

Easy find. Don't know what the numbers in the clue are for.

Couldn't find this one. Was at GZ. The local muggles were out making the cache a little more difficult to find. I will come back soon when I have some eyes!

Catching up on logs left over from last time I was active, sorry they are so late.

Took a while to find this one. She's very well hidden. I had some help on this one from a fellow geocacher. We looked over the cache many times before realizing. U can't see the dot without actually picking the cache up. Also the hint was a little misleading. The 250UC90 is actually more like a 150UC30. TFTC.

Took us ages to find!!

A game of soccer was on at the oval, but nobody cared about us looking at stones. GPS was fairly accurate.

The GPS was not helping having us initially in the wrong spot to start. I then extended out and zoomed in on a more logical location where some careful observation revealed the cache! My hunch paid off!

This one took us a while to find. Almost 20 mins. We were only using the iphone and the gps was bouncing around everywhere. We looked up on the oval side and briefly on the road side. Eventually it settled and we searched 3m each side of GZ. As soon as we spotted it we laughed at how "obvious" it appeared AFTER it was found! TFTC

Extremely well placed camo!
We were lucky I think.
Thanks for the cache.

Looked for some time, no luck.
The bird dropping does not help with the rock with a dot.

That was pretty good hiding spot. Muggles plenty but was able to evade them long enough to sign the log. TFTC also had a geocaptive who wasn't interested today but helped as well

Finally found it! I can't believe I didn't get this one first go because I actually own one of these types of cache container! It didn't help that my GPS was sending me a couple meters away and tended to move around a bit. Must be all the metal in the fence playing tricks. This time round though the GPS sent me to the correct GZ.

I suspect we got spotted alittle by muggles up in the shops but hopefully not, they seems deep in girly gossip. There was a lot of "ya gotta be kidding me"s as we drove up to GZ but we found it fairly quickly.

Beware the bird dropping on the rocks making them look like "rocks with a dot"

Tried this one again. Waisted 20 min searching for it at midnight. Still didn't find it. I even tried the garden side of the gabion wall this time because I noticed the long grass had been disturbed.

Tricky find under the watchfull eye of muggles in the food court resting after a big day shopping renowned as 'The Boxing Day Sales'. cache is still in place in a search that took several minutes. TFTC.

Looked for ages and in the end had to walk away. I thought this one would be easier

We came past a couple of hours ago but there were too many muggles about so we headed into the cinemas and watched The Inbetweeners movie in gold class (worth watching if you like the series). When we came out the only muggles were those below us. We had an idea as to what we were looking for we just had to find the right spot. You can't fool a geo & her hubby! TFTC.

Found today while driving past with jonignite. We were glad the weather had improved markedly over the last few days, this made our visit to the GZ very pleasant by comparison to the previous finders. The cache didn't make its self immediately apparent, but a systematic search and eliminate method brought about the result we were after. The cache was in hand and the log signing was completed. Nice hide in a potentially busy area. Good work Dan, TFTC.

Nice quick find in a place with lots of hidey holes didn't take to long to spot the prize signed and replaced Thanks danwashere you could easily put a few more hides in this area

How much do I hate rocks and micros??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought I knew what I would be looking for, and roughly where I would put it, but it still took me about 25minutes to put my hand on the little blighter!
Unlike previous finders, at least I was doing it in fine weather!!
TNLNSL TFTC

Spent about 10min looking and spotted 100's of dots before finding the dot i had been looking for.
Went to sign the log and realised i had dropped my pen somewhere in my travels so i had to make a quick trip into Charelstown square to find a pen so i could return to sign the log.....
Thanks danwashere for a nicely hidden cache.....
SL TFTC

Attempted this on a miserable rainy day.

After having luck at an earlier cache and not getting wet I thought I'd have a look for this one.

However as I arrived it started raining so I got out with the umbrella and had a look.

As I got to GZ and started looking the wind increased and the rain was coming in sideways.

However I kept looking for what seemed like an age.

There are white marks all over those rocks that grab your eye.

After a while the penny dropped and I looked where I would have hid it. There is was so I grabbed the cache and took off for cover.

After logging the cache at the nearby amenities I placed it back.

By this time I had noticed that my shoes were full of water and decided to call it a day.

Thanks Dan

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Rated: for Overall Experience

Reperio at 1700. FTF!

Saw this one published while at work today, but being such a wet day, decided to leave it for another day. Happened to head to Westend plaza for some grocery shopping, and realised this one was very close, so couldn't resist heading over for a look. With the rain still lightly falling, the only question I had was which side? After a brief look, the cache container was spotted amongst his friends, and I was happy to see the blank log.

Gratias danwashere.

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