icky No10 Dwarda, Western Australia, Australia
By briantbg on 29-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3REQ8

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, briantbg, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

###Cache Owner Action Needed###
This cache has been brought to my attention as likely to be missing.
After a string of successful Finds, it has now had a string of DNFs. I agree that this certainly suggests that something has happened at the cache location which requires investigation by the CO, briantbg.

The cache will be disabled and I'll check back in 30 days to see if either

- the CO has checked or rectified the apparent problem
- the CO has communicated in a Note log here, when action will be taken

**If the CO has not taken either of these actions, then we can only assume that the cache has been abandoned and, regrettably, it will be archived.**

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is out there to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Suspect this one needs to go sadly. Unless someone wants to keep replacing it.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

No luck here today. The river is flowing.

Mr 2+4 had a really good look around while I supervised from the bridge it looks like a lot of water has gone through at some stage and it may have washed away. Not that the photo would atest to.

Still no luck. Thanks

No luck today.

Mrs Parkacruz & I stood on the bridge & egged PP1 on as he went to look for this one, a beautiful spot but the container has indeed been swept away by high winter water levels. We have contacted the CO & replaced the container. THanks for bringing us here. briantbg

Watching from the bridge which likes to bounce a lot we watched as Mr PP2 made his way around the icky sticky mud. The cache was missing in action so we contacted the CO and popped a new container in place TFTC in this great spot

So sad to log this as a DNF. Was quite an adventure climbing down, braving the icky water crossing and then exploring 'the island'. Had quite a thorough look around but fear cache may have got swept away.

Thanks but log was soaking wet, could not write my name on it, will send a photo to co, and not sure it was still on the right spot

Found it tftc

Spent a lovely cool Thursday off amongst clear blue skies in the bush with Barnzy12 chasing down some elusive caches that have always escaped the radar around the rural towns of dwarda, boddington, wandering and a few others.

We had our eyes on nabbing a FTF son a cache in wandering which we had noticed was available on Monday evening but decided to leave the chase for today, we figured people wouldn't be crazy enough to go for it on a weekday and luckily we were rewarded there.

We continued around finding a bunch of other caches around wandering before moving to codjadotine and then venturing grabbing various bush caches which really was the order of the day with some nice walks through pristine untouched bush.

We continued around with one of us having to get the shoes off and the feet wet to grab a nice t3 cache and collected a few more caches that have been very unloved (twelve plus months) which was nice.

We managed to cleanup a number of caches today which helped our stats page out heaps! We filled in a jasmer grid with the fire lookout dryandra cache, a large with the adventure out mystery cache, a FTF and even some unloved caches with a total of two years unloved found today which is always a pleasure.

Thanks for making us stop and slow down to explore an area of Western Australia we have travelled many many a time but never stopped to fully explore and appreciate. Some individual comments in the logs. Thanks go to the local COs for a great day out.

Spent a lovely cool Thursday off amongst clear blue skies in the bush with Cravo10 chasing down some elusive caches that have always escaped the radar around the rural towns of dwarda, boddington, wandering and a few others.

We had our eyes on nabbing a FTF son a cache in wandering which we had noticed was available on Monday evening but decided to leave the chase for today, we figured people wouldn't be crazy enough to go for it on a weekday and luckily we were rewarded there.

We continued around finding a bunch of other caches around wandering before moving to codjadotine and then venturing grabbing various bush caches which really was the order of the day with some nice walks through pristine untouched bush.

We continued around with one of us having to get the shoes off and the feet wet to grab a nice t3 cache and collected a few more caches that have been very unloved (twelve plus months) which was nice.

We managed to cleanup a number of caches today which helped our stats page out heaps! We filled in a jasmer grid with the fire lookout dryandra cache, a large with the adventure out mystery cache, a FTF and even some unloved caches with a total of two years unloved found today which is always a pleasure.

Thanks for making us stop and slow down to explore an area of Western Australia we have travelled many many a time but never stopped to fully explore and appreciate. Some individual comments in the logs. Thanks go to the local COs for a great day out.

One of us did the wade here the other has the pictures for proof. I think you may guess who did it with my lack of pictures. Add fav

We couldn't find the cache and the more we looked, the more little animals homes we could have been destroying so we gave up. We did find what looks like 3 dead eagles and a can of bullet bourbon dumped at the old bridge. Sad

** This is a very late log**

The caches I am now logging were ones we found during on a geocaching roadtrip with Eaglette2017 - the mission was to pick up just 5 more LGA caches as well as my geocaching centroid to enable me to qualify for a challenge cache over in Victoria that I visited when over there late last year.

We had an absolute ball on our three days away, visiting many great locations, having lots of laughs and picking up many smileys. I appreciate all the effort each of the cache owners has gone through to create and place each and every hide and I do not for one second take it for granted, I just need to get caught up so I can return to my usual style of individualized logs. Time permitting, I hope to come back to this log and upload pics from the journey and add a personal note.

Thanks for the smiley brianbg

Given the rating and being close by we pulled over and scrambled down the bank to the river. We soon saw we needed to cross over and looked for an aerial route only to find the timbers a bit rotten and while it gave way we managed to stay dry. The hide was soon found and we added our name to the log. A slightly different route was taken on the way back. TFTC.

Jinta29 and I packed the swags and headed down south for a couple of days. We had a plan to grab some caches and this was one of them.

And yes, wet feet were to be had here. Shall we say cold wet feet

We discussed the possibility of leaving this one due to the difficulty in getting to it but I quickly decided that the best approach was the most direct and stripped down to my undies and made a dash across the cold water [^]. A nice quick find one I got to the island

Kyzabra and I were evicted by our respective loved ones and told to head off for a day or so. Well, how could we ever turn down an offer like that! We packed up the swags, some food and headed down this way for a bit of adventure.

Gotta love geo road-trips and i look forward to doing more exploring around this area.

briantbg - jinta29 found your cache icky No10 on 3/07/2015 9:11 am. This is my find #3391 and find #8 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

TFTC Water a little chilly as had to take shoes and socks off

Found - but after getting wet on the way in. An easy find and the cache is dry and in good condition. SL. Thanks to brianbg for the cache.

Hard to get down to with all the new gavel on edge of road

Access was made harder to the riverbank by the extensive roadworks along both sides of the road. Made our way gingerly down the rock retaining wall of the bridge then to gz. Managed to get there with iluvtrekking without getting our feet wet. Found container in good condition. Thanks briantbg.

Getting access to G.Z. was not all that easy, but we got there in the end. Thanks for the challenge brianbq

The first thing I noticed after getting out of the geovehicle was the large number of wild pig tracks coming up the embankment to the road , finding the case didn't pose any problems but there may be after rain
TFTC

Found a spot to avoid the "down the slope" part of the walk, knees are not too keen on slopes!
Great location, stream flowing nicely, very peaceful.

Thanks briantbg

Took...Painted Stone
Left... Padlock and Key
SL

We wondered what we were in for reading previous logs but finding this cache in the dry is very easy. No water to step round or jump over and the long grass was laying very flat on the ground like a soft carpet. Signs of lots of roos in the area but no signs of stock here so not sure why it is laying flat everywhere...but it sure made it better for seeing any snakes if they were around.

The cache was very easy to find once reaching GZ and the contents are nice and dry. These paperbark forests are fantastic....kind of eerie and ghoulish....they look like they came from the Ent forest in Lord of the Rings. We love them. Many thanks briantbg for bringing us here. [^]

Great GC lots of laughs to get to this one watch out for snakes thanks
#BJ and little lis

This is our family unanimous vote, for our first favourite cache, 6/6. We understand it not for everybody, but we carried our 1 year old through it. OUr tracks around the place may have thrown people if they have been searching, after us.

Very nice place. Loved the trade rocks but left them for someone else. It is worth noting two things though (1) without giving anything away, in winter this is not a cache for the elderly or anyone with a disability, and (2) don't try for this cache after any reasonable amount of rain..... the river rages through there at times. In summer it will be an easy find.

Joint *FTF* with Chwiliwr.

Another trip down south this afternoon after Chwiliwr finished work as I could not let these go.

I'm banned from coming down here again if any more are published, at least if Chwiliwr is driving

Thanks for the cache

Joint *FTF* with Gwiber.

After doing the caches north of Wandering we came down to this cache. Explored the old railway line nearby first with the fallen in rail bridge before heading back to the road bridge. Intitially went down the east side of the river and got to within 10m of the cache but couldn't see a way across to the island so decided that it must be the west side that we had to be on. Eventually found our way to the island and soon had the cache found. The last bit to the island was only over a tributory that was only a few inches of water deep today and only a small jump for an able person but with my knee it wasn't on and I didn't want to have mud everywhere so had to use a fallen log that going to the cache wasn't so bad but coming back was hell on the knee.

Thanks briantbg for the cache.

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