Squattleseamere Station Bessiebelle, Victoria, Australia
By whitey84 on 05-Dec-11. Waypoint GC38TFX

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any evidence that indicates that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement. It would appear the owner of this cache listing is no longer interested in the cache and the cache has been abandoned.

As such the cache is being de-listed (Archived). If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment with Georubbish.

If you wish to contact me regarding this cache, please send an email via my profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the cache name and GC number.

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Hi there whitey84,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention. You would have received an automated email from Geocaching HQ recently which explained what needs to be done.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have happened, so I am having to take the next step and temporarily disable the cache - see here: [**Geocache Health Score.**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) .

**Can you please respond to this situation (or indicated your intention) within 14 days,** so others know exactly what is happening with this cache?

You have lots of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:

- Check on the cache, repair and/or replace the cache or do whatever else is needed, post an [**Owner Maintenance log**](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) indicating the cache has been checked and [**ENABLE your cache.**](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) Then sit back and wait for the praises.

- If you really hope to get it fixed but there is some unusual reason why you can't do it soon, then at least post a Write Note log (within 14 days). Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. For ongoing issues (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days so as to keep everyone up to speed.

- If you don't plan on fixing it then you could consider passing it on to another geocacher by asking them to [**Adopt it**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=54) or alternatively, you need to [**Archive it,**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56) so it is removed from searches and someone else can have the spot. Don't forget to remove any remnants of your previously enjoyed cache too.

You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of those. Well, if nothing happens, then a few weeks from today, when I next look at the cache page, it is likely that I will, unfortunately, have to de-list (Archive) it on the basis that it has been abandoned.

Honestly, I'd rather you decide, so please do something before then. Please don't send me an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.

[3AS]

DNF today. Spent quite a bit of time looking in the only likely place to no avail.

A pre-Mega trip to Millicent with Bettyboo3747, and The Morris
Today straight off night shift, BB drove to Carpenter Rocks, and we did a few caches on the way to walk the dogs. Very changeable weather, but we arrived mostly dry.

Well, we didn't find the 400ml sistema, but we did have a good look around. Nice sculpture.
Thanks, Robmc.

Couldn’t find it, looked high low and in the middle, plus a town meeting on the day made muggle activity super high

bugger.... the one day we were out here a town meeting was on with lots of people looking at us weirdly as to what we were doing rustling around the area! We looked for half an hour regardless though! Still no find! Saw the last log was back on April.... can someone confirm is still there? We will keep an eye out on the future activity and come back another day on another trip to Portland....

Well, can’t say I’ve ever been here before!
TFTC

Maybe next time. It got too cold to keep looking.

Too cold to keep looking

It is amazing these spots in the country. After a bit of a search, finally found it. Nice bit of trivia about the locals and football.

thanks,

FBTJ #2863

Heading to Geelong from MT Gambier
Found after search.
TFTC

After a tedious look it appeared not so hard

Found Kool statue TFTC

Found it! Took a bit, think phone gps was a bit out. No need to climb lol.
Good luck.
Nice spot for a sandwich

Time travel in 2038

Found on the Parkville mega event round trip. This cache added to the experience.

Thanks whitey84. and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Stopped and said hello to the wooden footballer then located the cache. TFTC
A trip east to Parkville 2018 had us stopping on the way to collect a few caches and again stopping on the way home. Well that’s what cachers do when they head to a mega don’t they.

geoD is pretty sure he ran boundary on the nearby oval as a teenager! [:o] A lot has changed since then. [;(]

TNLN SL TFTC

Took two looks at the same spot to see it. Should have red the description better as when I realised I was looking for a larger container, I couldn’t not see it. TFTC.

School Holiday time. I joined becca85, GemmaSistema, boo09, Ad & Luke for a roadtrip from Maryborough to Mount Gambier to the Glow worms and back again. So much fun. Thanks for the cache.

School Holiday time so we formed our Clarmensma family team and headed to Mount Gambier then home via glow worms for a mini road trip.
Lots of fun had on our trip. Sorry for late, generic logging. TFTC

Love time capsules!
School holidays yet again which means we form Team Clarmensma (myself, GemmaSistema, boo09, neisha07, AdamSistema & LukeSistema), choose a destination and off we go.
Mount Gambier was the chosen location this time with a 3 days trip, ending in a detour via the Otways to see some Glow worms. Lots of km traveled and caches found. A fun getaway yet again. TFTC

Great sculpture and and easy find once we expanded our search.

School holidays means a geocaching road trip for Team Clarmensma (me, becca85 and our 4 geokids - AdamSistema, LukeSistema, neisha07 and boo09). This time we headed west to Mount Gambier for a few days of exploring. Over the 3 days we did lots of kilometres travelling from Ballarat/Maryborough across to the Mount and then back via the Otways. We really appreciate all the teams who put caches out for us to find as without you there would be no geocaching! So many many thanks!

TFTC

Very first geocache with kids in tow, didn’t have to go as off road as we were first hunting. Good learning curve for us. Kids were thrilled!

Found it!

Headed this way a couple of weeks ago with the intent of looking for this cache, only to drive straight on past laughing and laughing. Muggles shouldn't be a problem?! Hah! Clearly not on a Saturday morning! Pretty sure all 200 of Bessiebelle's residents were at GZ. Looked like a market going on, cars galore, people everywhere. Giggling a lot I left them to it. Headed on back out today and ah bliss, not a muggle to be found. As others have suggested if you widen the search area about 10 metres from what the coords suggest, it's a nice easy find. The sculpture - erm, it's...brown? Umm, quite big? Ummm, nope, I got nothing TFTC I enjoyed the drive/s and the little area dedicated to times past that I otherwise would not have known about.

Found the Geocache and admired the statue near the tree. Don’t waist your time looking up high

Had to drive past this one the first time as there were a couple of vehicles setting up for something in the nearby hall. Second time past and the coast was clear for the few minutes it took to locate the critter.

Today we are heading to Portland for a few days and found this one along the way.

We admired the statue and found the cache a little uncovered so hid it a little better. It could use a new log when you get a chance.
Thanks for breaking up our travels whitey84

3rd stop on day 2 of KmanNZ's SA road trip. Haven't reached SA yet but not far off.
Actually my second visit here, I tried for this one over a year ago on my first ever Aussie road trip but had no luck.
No trouble today. A quick find, sign and replaced.

Thanks whitey84

#2127

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

Find #3073. Found @ 15:07

We're holidaying in Portland, but first we need to get there. I tried to coincide some back and leg stretching with cache locations, and this was the last before reaching our destination.

It took me a minute to find because I was using the phone GPSr. It is quite interesting to see the history of these places we zoom through on our way to somewhere else.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache whitey84.

Op de terugweg van Mount Gambier naar Koroit komen we hier langs maar kunnen hem niet vinden. Later lezen we in een andere log dat hij nogal afwijkt, helaas.

Geo-groet van H&M(Hanneke&Martin) from The Netherlands

Admired the statue and read the board while waiting for a muggle to leave.
A quick find and on my way to Underfoote...
TNLNSL
Thanks

ROAD TRIP! - Day two After driving to Mount Gambier yesterday via the scenic Coorong route collecting caches that I haven't found, it was time for a forage across the border with mogni. [^] Our target was to make our way to Warrnambool and try and get the remainder of the puzzles and multi's we were yet to do, leaving just traditionals to collect another day. If not for two DNF's we would have succeeded too. [:o)]
Following some roads well traveled we ended up here. The cache was quickly located. I had to ponder what happens to it when the locals do maintainance on their hall. It seems they never do...football it king here.
The sculpture. It's...it's....it's...nope. Nobody I know!
Thanks whitey84 for the cache.

Found by Mary & David at 1540. Enjoyed the history of the area and the story of Bessie. The place that time forgot. That is some ugly statue! Had to widen our search by several metres before success. Our thanks to whitey84.

Took us a while to find this, coordinates were off about 10m..
Find 134

What an eerie place. Wonder what messages are entombed in the time capsule to be opened in 2038? Took a bit of roaming until I spotted the hide. TFTC

Today we spent the bulk of the day underground investigating caves and Lava Tubes around Budj Bim National Park having a wow of a time. Now Ausfox; Neville_devil and I decided that it was time to head home to Geelong via Warrnambool for some Dinner and fuel.
This little guy was directly in our path so of course we had to stop for a look. After a bit of a search turning up nothing we expanded our search area, after which it was quickly spotted

Thank you whitey84 for the hide

Nice find

Neat find on a quiet ghost town square on our way to Mt Eccles TFTC

After an awesome day caching in Mount Eccles National Park with Jacko83, Simsfamily, Nevile Devil and myself we headed for home with a few stops on the way.
We looked high and low and even in the middle but couldn't find the cache until we widened our search and the the cache was quickly spotted.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache whitey84
# 3,098

TFTH It's a shame all these sporting facilities seem to be unused these days.

My first day of caching in a group. Thanks Happy pants, Yoshi Warriors and Geo muppetz for a fantasic day.

Easy find with a little help once the phone came back on line.
Spent the day caching with Happy Pants (driving), Yoshi Warriors (chief in charge) & chrisant2017 (learning the game) this was #1.

Suscoe was wandering the countryside this afternoon.
We had been to Warrnambool and then we headed back over here to catch up on a few caches we missed on Friday.
Getting late in the afternoon.
All quiet at GZ.
Thanks to whitey84 for this hide.

2:33 pm #3001
Found during a road trip to Portland and various areas in south-west Victoria with Papillon4506 & Geoturtle37.
Thanks for the cache and bringing us here today.

A quick and easy find on a long weekend geocaching road trip with Geoturtle37 and OzHockeyChic. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

*11/3/17, Found @ 3:59 pm, Find # 6427.*

After the Portland event, I joined up with The Tritonz and McLookers for a trek to Mt.Eccles to find a few caches, this one was on the list.
The others had found this one yesterday so I was lucky that Chris stopped here so that I could also add my name to the log.

**Thanks to whitey84 for placing this cache.**

Stopping to pick this one up in the company of McLookers, we spied 2 shifty caravans and their cacher owners enjoying their lunch after already putting this one to rest. They watched us with amusement as we struggled in our search for the hidden container but after widening our search perimeter we had the hide in hand.
Thanks whitey84 for the placement.

13:04
Travelling to Portland with Liz and Bruce, for the 8 months to Alexandra Event, we chose a route via a number of caches, suitable for a leg stretch stop and hopefully reward both teams with a smiley token.
Apologies for the late logs, we are still catching up after an almost fatal computer meltdown.

**Note to CO:** We replaced a full and very tatty log.

Thanks whitey84 for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
17869

We ventured out after staying a few days with PHETLERN and were heading to the event at Portland and found this was a cache we were able to find enroute. Thanks to whitey84 for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

After rendezvousing with The Tritonz a little earlier, we were approaching this area when we noticed two lots of caravanners having lunch. A quick stop to say hi to Liz and Bruce and Phetlern and grab this cache. They had fun laughing at us while we poked. We widened our search a little, spied the cache, tentatively put our hand in and grabbed it. Phew, no bitey things! Thanks whitey84.

We looked, we read logs, we checked the logical place, we used our torches, we scratched our heads, we left

Thanks heaps for the hide, real nice spot and statue

Nice hide. The statue looks good!

Wow, that was harder than it should have been. Like others, GPS took us to the tree. We were about to give up, but whilst waiting for geowife to photograph the keeper of the cache (I'll add a photo, but it was hard to take on the phone, so you'll probably only make out this little guys eyes), I re-read the description. Figured it had to be there. Yep, finally, there it was. Tftc

Nice place. Needs new log.

Found with the geo-crew during a cross country trip from Camperdown to Robe. Had a cuppa under the tree then hunted down the well hidden cache. Many thanks whitey84

On a road trip from the ACT thru northern Victoria, to South Australia then back through Victoria (great Ocean road) and caching along the way. Whatever cache we happened to pass and I was in the mood we stopped to find and log. Some easier some harder:-) TFTC
This one is hidden well, but it ain't muggled:-)

I convinced muggle hubby to stop so I could have a look for this and he helped me look everywhere to no avail. The statue has recently been replaced, lots of fresh digging around so wondering if it's been muggled?

While the geokids enjoyed the teddies we found the cache. TFTC

Found in the company of LumpyJRB. GPS kept pointing us as the tree but with a widened search area we soon had the cache in hand. Cache could use a bit of love, however we didnt have spare logs with us. Thanks for showing us this bit of history.

Found it

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! We are currently on the first section of our journey, which started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island. We are currently on route to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park (where we are at present), Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. From Melbourne we head to Tasmania for a few days, then back to Melbourne before setting off to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. After a visit to Sydney we will travel on to the Gold Coast, then after spending a few days in the nearby mountainous birding hotspots, followed by an overnight trip to Fraser Island, we will fly from Brisbane to Cairns, visiting yet more good birding sites. We will then drive up to Cape Tribulation before heading back south again to Port Douglas and a day out on the Great Barrier Reef. We then return to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs, where we will hire a 4x4 camper and set off for a week on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. We then fly to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

Found in the third place we looked. Thanks so much for the cache.

TFTC

Did not find

I feel like it had been stolen

A nice easy find. Loved the history. TFTC.

*Find #7667...**

*Found whilst en-route to Portland*...

A beautiful morning to be out and about grabbing a few smilies with Happy Feet as we headed to Portland to perform some maintenance on a friends cache...

A short stroll, a short search, found the cache, stamped the log and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment whitey84...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

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TFTC ((___)
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Kids found it before anyone was actually looking for one.

Found it !

Found it

Lovely spot to stop while exploring the area. Sad to see the original statue has gone but the new one is pretty cute! TFTC whitey84!

Found this one today on the massive day trip from Warrnambool to Mt Gambier and back. The drive out here was fine but on the way back I met significant wildlife and had a few close shaves without realising how much wildlife was on the road. The history here was really interesting though the cache proved challenging to find though it was in a logical place! Signed the log and continued onwards.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on a lovely drive through this area. TFTC

A nice quick drive by cache on our way to Mt Eccles. TFTC

The poor old statue is looking worse for wear. Thanks whitey84!

On our way from Warrnambool to Casterton via some back roads and picked thus one up. Nice reading about the history of the area.

And onwards to the next one. Thanks.

Heading to mt Eccles for the day thought we would stop for a cache. Nice easy one!

Had been to Mt Eccles for the afternoon. We detoured a little on the way home to grab this cache. There was no one about, so the geokids were able to make an easy find. Thanks whitey84 for placing this cache.

Arrived at this spot to find another car parked right at GZ. We wandered about trying not to appear too obvious , but the people in the car were "on for a chat" One hour later, after comparing notes about travelling around Australia, we had to tell them about caching. We found the cache , they got excited and I'm sure they will be future cachers. Thanks to whitey84.

Found enroute from Mt Eccles to Portland, managed a nice quick find and also a photo opportunity with the local footy player. Thanks whitey84 for the cache.

Quick find after a fabulous day at Mt Eccles National Park. Couldn't see the sculpture properly as it was dressed for the season! Interesting history. Fancy naming a town after your 'belle' daughter!

Riding to Portland, Vic, for a motorcycle rally, I picked up some caches along the way. This was one of them. Thanks for hiding this cache.
Crusty.

My bfs first find, hooray!

Have visited B4 but needed to drop off a trackable

Maybe next year for the mighty tigers,took nothing left party popper and whistle sl.

Pass this way often. Easy find

Quick find while heading back from Mt Eccles for the weekend to search for caves and caches. Loved this little spot. Footy player was great too...
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found after travelling over 70kms for Mr Frog to find a secondhand bookshop - and he says I'm obsessed???
Every one should have a passion or two
TFTC

Good to see the history of this small community shared with others. TFTC

Might play some football.

loved the history, not so much the road. Pretty good example of why people complain about road surfaces. Youngest grandie loved posing with the footy player.

As pulling in, was wondering who the player from here was that made the big league. However, it is a tribute to all the locals who played locally.

TNLNSL whitey84 TFTC

yay we found it great find

A quick stop on our way to Warrnambool. Thanks for sharing

3221 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 0910. We are on our way to OZ MEGGA 2014. As we pulled up we thought that the statue was of one of the local football heroes not thinking it was to include all the sportsmen that have played for the team over many years. A very nice way to commemorate the district. An easy find in good condition. SL Tnx whitey84

Easy drive by. Must have got flooded by recent rain. Metal treasures very rusty.

TNLNSL