South Melbourne Market (6) South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By kenneth050881 on 19-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3B60Z

Cache owner is either unwilling or unable to maintain the cache.

The listing is being archived as it would seem to have been abandoned by the CO. Should the owner decide to maintain the cache in the near future (next 30 days), just contact a reviewer (by email and include GC number in Subject), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, they will be happy to unarchive it.

### **MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?** ###

I notice from one or more recent log entries that **this cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.** Therefore, I am temporarily disabling it so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Prompt attention by cache owners to any log that indicates anything could be amiss is greatly appreciated by all seekers. The guideline advises; ***"if you can't check/fix it straight away then Disable it till you can."*** see here: [Owner is responsible for visits to the physical location,](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance ) and here's how; [Temporarily Disable and Enable,](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235) also check out this Blog: [Helpful Tips To Keep In Mind As A Geocache Owner.](http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/03/you-hid-your-first-geocache-now-what/)

Please respond to this situation by **1st November** to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time, please be sure to post a "Write Note" log (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

**And don't forget,** once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; [Removing the Needs Maintenance Icon](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; [Temporarily Disable and Enable](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) to get your cache up and running again.

Only had 5 min to search but sadly DNF

My wife had a meeting nearby so I took the opportunity to look for this cache, had plenty of time so once the coast was clear I started. TFTC

Busy area today but sometimes that can be an advantage as the muggles didn't seem to notice me. After reading previous logs and picking up a few hints I narrowed GZ down to a particular structure. Grabbed the cache but log book is in need of repair.
T4TC.

Too wet to write on.. TFTC

This was our second at this and I'm surprised we got it at all with all the foot traffic. Today was particulqrly difficult with a woman and her kids sitting in the closest car spot for close to an hour. We came, she was there, we left, it rained, we had some food, we came back, she was still there. We gave up and jumped in the car to go home and as we were driving past GZ we saw the car and woman we knew so well, leaving! So we took her park and had the cache in a jiffy. TFTC. The waterproof log is full and the additional logs are damp.

Enjoying my visit to Melbourne while daughter is at Chemistry conference. Had been to the market on weekend and was relieved that it was closed today-it is a high muggle area otherwise. Really like these magnetic ones. FYI..the logs are full and the added paper logs are damp. TFTC

Enjoying my visit to Melbourne while daughter is at Chemistry conference. Had been to the market on weekend and was relieved that it was closed today-it is a high muggle area otherwise. Really like these magnetic ones. FYI..the logs are full and the added paper logs are damp. TFTC

Enjoying my visit to Melbourne while daughter is at Chemistry conference. Had been to the market on weekend and was relieved that it was closed today-it is a high muggle area otherwise. Really like these magnetic ones. FYI..the logs are full and the added paper logs are damp. TFTC

Quick second find in South Melbourne while I was bumping around after a morning meeting. The market was open, allowing me to grab this cache and then huddle up for warmth inside. I bought a empanada. I made the mistake of not heating the empanada. It was very cold. Hence the poor signature on the log!

Find 370

Tricky but great

TFTC

Found around lunch time which made for a hard time to find a park but we managed a Costanza park and made the most of a quick find, log sheet is wet. Thanks kenneth050881 for the hide and the chance to make this the quickest visit to a market ever.

omegaman1971
Yep forgot the market was open today, no parking available.
But Happy Pants spotted one just in time.
After a short walk to Gz, the cache was ours. Now time for lunch.
Cheers for the cache

Found this with Pigwigeon. 6th find for the day.

A quick easy find with Bulldog! The location was given away with unexpected spoilers. TFTC

Cool

TFTC. Have to be discreet in the area. Lots of cameras and muffles around. Cold winter find. Our first in Australia!

No idea???

tftc

Yay

Tftc! Very nice market!

Found it! Muggle Heather and I were on a walking expedition around Sth Melbourne and Albert Park Lake. As we arrived at GZ just as another caching team were making their find! We lined up behind them and waited our turn. Some Muggles were locking up their bikes and we got chatting about the pro's and cons of different types of locks as the other were signing the log book and taking photos with the cache. After they replaced the cache it was our turn. I am not sure what the Muggle were thinking we were doing hanging around the bikes but they were friendly enough and didn't seem to notice plucking the cache from it's hiding place. Anyway, TFTC SL. Time for some lunch! Where are those Dim Sims??

Found

In the area for Anzac weekend, so today was quiet with most people at the Anzac Day march so this was a quick find in a nice area.
Thanks kenneth050881 for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#3256

Sneaky hide.

Great hiding spot. Happened to come on a market day so had to try a famous dim sum as I have live here for 5 years and not been to the markets before haha. TFTC.

Log is tattered requires replacing

Tftc

Tftc

Trust us to pick a market day for this one, but luckily found a parking spot right by the cache which was a quick find TFTC kenneth050881

Out and about with Echidna44 and au.fait, for a day a caching to celebrate a birthday. Thought we would try to clear out the Albert Park area. The weather great and of to a good start with this one. Echidna44 had already done this one so it was just down to the two of us. I had checked this one out before but at market time its a busy place. Not in the place I thought it was going to be. When will I learn not to assume. Quick find this time. Thanks for the cache kenneth050881 great place to shop

Didn't find it

Log is wet but still good

Quick find, log was full

Tftc

Took a bit to find. Nice hiding spot. Managed to find a small space on log. Thanks.

TFTC! Em - Getto Gang

Log is getting a bit full, might need replacing soon. Tftc

was recently traveling Australia. Thank you for the cache.

Quick find in between muggles while chatting to mansgirl about other matters.. While waiting for gift fair to open.. Tftc

Log is full

First find in OZ!

Got to the GZ and the were numerous places you could hide a cavhe. After a little exploration it was actually my muggle husbands voice that quitely called out, here
it is!!!!

Found OK after a visit to the market. Fortunately the cache is in a relatively quiet spot

Quick find. Coordinates pretty close

Second find of the day!

Yes

Found on a hot day. Added a small piece of paper.

Took a bit of looking but got there in the end! TFTC

Nice easy cache, though a few meters from gz. Good to pick up on a non market day!

What is there to do on a Friday night when your Geowife is at her work Christmas Party? Take the Geokid (Posho6) out to tidy up the Geomap. We placed 11 smilies on the map tonight. Each one a thorn in our side for one reason or another. A dinner in the city during the middle of our run put the icing on the cake.
TFTC!!!

Found this cache while out for a night hunt through the city with GeoDad, Bazinga01.
TFTC

4 back log cont..

Yeah my 100th cache and an instant find! Place wasn't too busy late on a Saturday afternoon. The last cacher must have been tall - it was barely reachable. TFTC

Found after a short search before work I had not realised that it was a market day so there were a few muggles around. The cache was not where I expected to find it and it was a find while filling in time when muggles where nearby. Anyway I managed to retrieve the cache and move away to sign the log before replacing the container. TFTC

Easy.
TFTC

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Today was my third day in Melbourne. Before I was 3 weeks in Sydney and have visited a friend of mine.
Here I had no problems to find the cache.
[green]TFTC[/green], [blue]SchwesterN01[/blue]

12th find for the day out of 16 heading back to the ship now. As I'm just visiting today on the explorer of the seas on a cruise from Fremantle to Sydney via the South Island of New Zealand. TFTC.

Found it late on a Sunday afternoon. Great one - almost gave up!

I am in town from Brisbane for the Melbourne Mega and was attempting to get 12 different cache types in a day. This was my traditional, I was very early and in a hurry so the markets weren't an option ,but I will definitely be checking them out before I go back home. TFTC!

Found It!
After a quick search I had the cache in hand. While I was signing the log, a security guard came along and asked if "this was mine?" as he picked a bit of rubbish up off the footpath. "Nope" I said, and he threw it in the nearby bin. Then he just stood there next to GZ while I had the cache signed and ready to replace. Eventually he wandered off and I stuck the cache back into it's hiding spot!
TFTC

Was on my way through purchasing items for dinner....

Stopped to pick up this one on the way home from work. Very convenient for tram 96! Was unable to sign the log, but will send photo evidence to owner. Tftc

This entry was edited by diana8 on Wednesday, 04 November 2015 at 07:39:18 UTC.

Super hard, did this on a market day! Bad idea. After eyeing off the hiding spot for some time, with sneakiness we got there in the end.

TFTC!

Thanks

Had a job only 106m away so grabbed it while here. sl Thanks Kenneth050881 for the cache.

Tftc!

Quick easy find

This entry was edited by jgestier on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 03:59:30 UTC.

Found while dodging the heVy foot traffic in the area. Cache had dried out. No problem signing. Now for a dim sim

YAY - found it today while visiting the South Melbourne Market It's been many years since I've been to this market. I'd forgotten how much of a buzz there is. Thanks for setting this one up kenneth050881. A very pleasant trip down memory lane (and the dim sims are still yummy)

Log a bit damp and a lot full.

Fast an easy...cache Nr 23 down under.

Nice n easy. TFTC

Found at 21:16 after eating at Claypots next door. GZ was a few metres away, but found quickly enough
Thanks kenneth050881

Geomum to the rescue. A nice easy find.

A bit of a tricky one but not to bad. Log (s) a bit damp as well. TFTC Brainiac03 ☺

An easy one, thanks for the cache, greets from austria

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The final stop on my South Melbourne walk also proved to be the toughest owing to the heavy foot and vehicle traffic. I don't know why but I was not expecting it to be quite this busy around here. There was almost a permanent traffic jam! Having identified the cache, it was just a matter of waiting until the coast was clear to retrieve and replace it. My reward to myself for finding this was to make my way around the corner and line up for one the famous Dim Sims, steamed, with chili and soy sauce. Yum!

Thanks to kenneth050881 for a great cache.

Thanks Ken found with Jimmytherat. Surprisingly Muggle free! Great Market!

TFTC Kenneth050881. Nice easy find. Great placement. Jimmytherat with Noelle04.

Our first cache! Hooray.
Thanks kenneth050881 for an afternoon with a touch of fun.

Thanks for the hide. Spent the morning around Saint Kilda shopping and finding caches. Took the tram up to the markets for lunch. Found the cache quickly without being spotted by muggles.

nice morning at markets great oysters.

Stinky but successful

TFTC! Can be done while the market is closed

Tftc

Decided to do this one at night without any muggle eyes around to hinder our search. Due to the lateness we certainly didn't have to worry about that tonight. We made the quick find and we were soon heading off for another cache.
Thanks kenneth050881 for the cache.

Less muggles at night but much harder to find without a torch.
Finding it was a steel.

A post dinner cache at (relatively) nearby restaurant "Hercules Morse" on Clarendon St - great food guaranteed! Also inducted a few newbies into the caching world! TFTC!

Easy find after a Saturday afternoon shop

Found with ironwomen on their first melbourne geocache!

The market is so quiet on the Queens Birthday public holiday... Perfect setting for geocaching!

Height is a good necessity

A nice walk by with a bit of a stretch before you can sign the log. A very high muggle area. TFTC.

We were over this part of town today to explore a bit more now that we are settled in. What an awesome market! So busy and full of great smells! Got some of the best ravioli from one of the places, cheeses, dips....the list kept going (seeing we just popped over for a quick look and coffee!!) the cache hide was pretty stealthy and was a stretch to get to. TFTC

My first find!! My children helped too.

This was supposedly my first find when I started geocaching. Had no luck. So I told myself I need to come back here to look for this cache and easy enough, I found it. It does help if you know what are you looking for