The Island Urangan, Queensland, Australia
By
TheNomadicGriffins on 18-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3NVD4
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We're going to archive this one and put the replacement container in a different spot nearby that hopefully won't get muggled so quickly! Hopefully we'll see you there instead 
A sad end. I'm sure it'll be outstanding in it's new home.Went out this morning to check on the cache to see how well it was holding up against the rain and found it gone! Didn't even survive long enough to get a FTF. Will disable it for now and decide if we want to get another one made up (it was handmade!) or if we want to archive/relocate.
For many months my perfect map of Hervey Bay has sat, no new icons appearing. So when this one popped up mere days before a scheduled trip this way I was most excited for a new icon. From where I hail, a FTF is lucky to last an hour, but I knew in the bay I'd be in with a fighting chance. We arrived at my grandmother's place a little after 9pm and it was only 800m to the cache. On went my shoes and bowled down the road to the all-too familiar botanic gardens. I remember hours spent in these grounds with half a stale loaf of bread, sitting on the stage. The gates should have been locked, but alas, they were not. In I went, torch off and was surprised at the sheer amount of cane toads around. I've never seen so many in one place. So dodged those and dashed down paths and across the lawn and soon watched the GPS count down it's final metres.. but it had me in an unlikely spot. I waited for it to settle, and settle it did, in a very likely spot. So I began to look. I started looking at the obvious, then I started moving further afield (after all, the CO has questioned the co-ords). I wielded a poker stick and poked anything that looked like it could harbour a micro cache. I looked high and low, near and far, under and over to no avail. I must have spent 30-40minutes here and painfully had to give it up. I decided to come back tomorrow. Surely daylight would be the key. So the next day after doing some gardening and bolting down lunch, I set off in the drizzle again. There was a wedding being set up on the lawn (poor beggars) but otherwise no muggles about. Perfect! So I set about searching. Everything within 3m of the path on the island I swear I touched, poked or jiggled. I strip-searched the bridge. I looked at everything within 15m of the other end of the bridge. I debated going for a swim (who am I kidding, I can't 
). After a good hour or more I decided these tricky cache owners had bested me. After all, it's the easy ones that stump me. I'd had enough of cursing the rain and perhaps I said some words about the cache owner's name but it was not working today. I went home and debated rifling through the phonebook for the rarely seen phonebook PAF, but decided against it. This isn't the first cache that's been in these gardens but others have lasted a long time. I guess with tended gardens anything will be looked at by workers at some point. The co-ords at stages did have me on the 'mainland' but with the overcast weather, it may have been a problem at my end. So defeated and in my trackies on day 3, I decided against a third try (and in light of the muggling, glad I did). I've been in contact with the cache owners, so hopefuly they can work something out. Disappointing it didn't last at all, but I guess it happens. I can't help but wonder when I'll next be in the bay and if the FTF will still be up for grabs?
). After a good hour or more I decided these tricky cache owners had bested me. After all, it's the easy ones that stump me. I'd had enough of cursing the rain and perhaps I said some words about the cache owner's name but it was not working today. I went home and debated rifling through the phonebook for the rarely seen phonebook PAF, but decided against it. This isn't the first cache that's been in these gardens but others have lasted a long time. I guess with tended gardens anything will be looked at by workers at some point. The co-ords at stages did have me on the 'mainland' but with the overcast weather, it may have been a problem at my end. So defeated and in my trackies on day 3, I decided against a third try (and in light of the muggling, glad I did). I've been in contact with the cache owners, so hopefuly they can work something out. Disappointing it didn't last at all, but I guess it happens. I can't help but wonder when I'll next be in the bay and if the FTF will still be up for grabs?