Surprise! Ranelagh, Tasmania, Australia
By HawkHunter42 on 21-Dec-12. Waypoint GC4347D

The situation here has been reviewed again.Sufficient time has elapsed since the issues were highlighted, and nothing has been done to restore it. Circumstances that prevent timely maintenance can arise, and ample opportunity for the Cache Owner to get in touch to request a time extension has been provided.No request has been received from the Cache Owner, HawkHunter42, for further time to restore the cache.On this basis, it appears to have been abandoned by the Owner and, therefore, will be Archived.Caches lost in this manner will not be Unarchived.This area is now available for other interested players to utilise for cache placement if viable locations can be found. [Balayang -Geoff](https://www.geocaching.com/email/?guid=35e8567e-6d62-483c-9e3d-c8ec0ffd25bd)Volunteer Community Reviewer

### Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner. The cache owner needs to:* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating.* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present. Otherwise :* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary or provide other information.. **Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this. That is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**. Alternatively:* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by HawkHunter42 and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been by the CO.If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned, and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache. *Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.Thank youBalayang -GeoffCommunity Reviewer -Australia

Cache is missing

Logging this one because everyone else has. But I can tell you that we cleared out all the debris from the goal and there is no cache here. What all the previous loggers think was the cache that was in the middle of the rail was the rubber end off a trekking pole and not a cache. This has been removed as well as all the sticks. Literally nothing here now. Needs owner maintenance asap. TFTC

Tasmania Trip Day 8. After arriving in Hobart yesterday afternoon and having a nice walk before dinner, today my aim was to visit some counties to the south west of the city. I did not go onto the island, but I did the rest of the counties. It was not the most successful of starts to the day, but I reached the numbers I was hoping for and headed back into town where I went for a much longer walk around the middle of the city and docks to do about six sets of Labs. By the time that was all done I was looking forward to dinner and a long nights rest.I saw the DNFs here, but still stopped for a look. It seemed pretty clear where the hint was referring to, and even with my torch, I could not detect anything to try extracting. One was completely full of stick. Thanks.Albida

Found what I think is it, but cant be sure. Reading the comments this cache needs to be fixed. Such a lovely park and an excellent coffee shop up the road.

TFTC. Requires a length of 20mm conduit to retrieve.

If it is indeed where we think it is based on previous DNFs then it will need pliers to extract those sticks.

It's there but literally not retrievable. Halfway through the gap. Needs to be fixed. TFTC

DNF knew where it was but couldnt retrieve it

Knew where it was tried lots of things but couldnt find. Bring a grinder (jokes)

Can see but not reach Not practical cache for us old catchers

Saw but did not retrieve?
Was that it?
No idea but comments are not very encouraging.
Please attend to make this cache fun again!

DNF

SURPRISE! …….we didn’t find it either

Maybe I can come back on my next visit and have another look.

TFTC HawkHunter42
Keep smiling

Found but could not reach note! Needs to be pulled out from the middle

Saw it

Not much of a surprise

Logging my trackable to all found caches to date

19 Apr 2022

Found ‘Surprise!’ (GC4347D).

Thanks For placing and maintaining The Traditional Cache HawkHunter42.

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Maybe I'll just do the same as there are a few "found it but didn't retrieve it or sign it" logs here already... Might do that on some tree caches too, lol.
But seriously, this is my 7th visit here. I "found" the cache on my very first visit but had no tott. Then I came back with sticks which broke and wouldn't fit, then there were muggles, then more muggles, then the next stick wouldn't pull it out. Today I came with an extendable fishing rod but... The cache is right in the very middle.. Good luck getting that. Thanks for the repeated sessions of looking awkward in a playground HawkHunter42

Had a look for ~5mins, but the rain was starting up again so we decided to move on

Found it but could not retrieve

Clever hide went AWOL for an hour as no pen but now back in its hidey hole TFTC

Tftc

Found with my mum who does not have a premium membership. TFTC
-LITS

Just moved to the area. Thanks for the find literally next door

Sandy, Craig and 2
600th find for us on a cold ,wet horrible day
TFTC

Mother's Day fi d with my little sister!

Out all day for mothers day ...managed to find one been after for awhile but had to wait till dark...

Very sneaky hide!
Tftc

Tft$

I walked out here the long way round this afternoon, through ranelagh and the surrounding paddocks.
Luckily a family was just leaving, leaving the area free for me to search.
Overshot my first thought, and so it wasn't until five odd minutes later that i managed to secure the prize, with the help of a nearby tott.
Thanks for cheekily hiding a cache here in this cute little park.
Found at two something pm.

Theres a birthday party of sorts going on

A quick find with the help of the hint. Dragonee enjoyed the playground equipment despite being well past playgrounds. TFTC

Found it! Full log to follow.

Fun! First geocache

Found with ProjectLichen and iHexRT and some noob
Easy tftc

Found it!

Woohoo! Excited to find this one, 1 more til 70 finds for us.
Tftc, beautiful day, 17th find for the day!

TFTC!!

TaurusSix and I came here a while ago but could not look for the cache due to some muggles. Today the area was clear and the cache found.

Quick find in a nice little park.
TFTC

We had walked into Pelverata Falls today and after that decided to collect a couple of caches in Huonville and Ranelagh. This was our last of the day. Now that covid restrictions have eased, the geokids loved the playground while the adults searched. Luckily we didn't need extra tools today as it was close enough to reach. TFTC

Use a stick to get it out

Definitely not a cache that you can just drop by and pick up. We had to come back a second time with tools to help us collect. TFTC

????

We're in the Huon for a week including the Cygnet Folk Festival once again. Camping and caching weather perfect. Smoke from the mainland catastrophic fires on one day. Consulted the activity logs prior to visiting this one ..... it certainly helps. A "tool" and possibly a little bit of perseverance is a must for this one. TFTC HawkHunter42

Maintenance is required on this one as cache is about halfway in from each end and one requires something like a long broomstick handle to push it out. A tool that a lot of cachers would not carry. So I am going to claim this one as a find even though we did not get to sign the log. TFTC from the inspectorrexteam.

Found after going to claim find without signing the log had a brainwave and used a fishing rod to retrieve the cache. Log duly signed and cache returned to hiding spot. I do recommend that some sort of retrieval system is put in place to make the job easier. So TFTC from the inspectorrexteam.

No luck, impossible to retrieve without a magnet or a tool, if it's still there.

out and about with the Rafas caching after a winter head cold, this was the second trip to get a smiley for this cache, having ideas how to extract cache on last trip but then still forgot tool and a quick visit to miter10 to get another similar tool it didn't take long until the log was signed and replaced. TFTC TNLN log dry and neatly rehid.

Thanks for the cache HawkHunter42. Out and about today with RLD4963 and the GeoGSP. We had visited this little spot was back on the 1st January of this year - at the time we weren't able to retrieve the log and as there were a number of muggles at the time we decided to leave it for a subsequent visit. Today we returned - RLD4963 came prepared with an appropriate TOTT, and with no muggles around made a very quick retrieval. As we have now added our signatures to the log, claiming a smiley for this one - cheers!

Found, but could not retrieve. Maybe the next person could bring a magnet.

Unfortunately this seems to have gone. Checked in all possible spots, nothing but spiderwebs.

Tassie Trip Day 126 - After a really smokey day at the camp the afternoon was a little better so off to collect the daily cache and this time it was only the one as it was all that was needed and to be sure we could keep the streak running.

This was not the easiest find but after looking for some time and reading the hint several times a location was selected and with the help of some stuff the cache container was eventually extracted from its hiding spot and the log signed with a great cheer of success.

Thaks HawkHunter42 for this wonderful place to cache.

I believe I was looking in the right place but couldn’t find it, tftc

found hide but had nothing to retrieve it and family was in area so left as is.

Nice quick find with Tigtog08. Sl. Tftc - happy new year

Found

we had a fun time

Found! TFTC!

Long weekend trip down south with my mate. Stopped for a pie. MMMM. Love the game.

Heading for lunch at the winery with a bit of time to spare. Needed a tool to retrieve the container and we replaced it as it was found. Thanks Hawkhunter42, you live in a very beautiful place.

Neat hiding spot. And a super cool playground! Tftc!

Great little park, this one. Many thanks.

Signal kicks the caching ball back into play,
after that nasty foul by Glosnass.

Magellan makes the the retrieval out on the wing.
He quickly passes the ball to Garmin,
who is being chased down by Muggle [:o]

A bit of fancy foot work there by Garmin,
and the pass is made to Jeremty who takes the ball into the opposition half
A cross to Tinobeans !!
He quickly sends the ball toward the goal square with a long kick !!

"If" intercepts and controls the ball,
and before Didentfind guarding the goal can react ...
... "If" scores a magnificent caching goal

Thanks for the surprise cache [^]

That was a nice surprise! All good with this cache a d log is dry. TFTC

Found it! A stick lying nearby was a clue and then a useful tool. TFTC

63Roos take me drive to Houonville and meet our friend's house for cuppa... Hide well.. Thanks

Beautiful town at Huonville with ALL7...
Enjoyed day for friend cuppa at Glen Huon town...
took us difficulty retrieve cache, finally got it... PHEW!!!
Sign in as no trouble!!

thank you for bring us here,

Fortunately, we hadn't looked at previous logs as the one before ours is one hell of a spoiler. Anyway, the cache was easily located and extracted, signed and returned. Thanks for the cache.

Found it but someone had pushed up to far to get out

It up to far

Quick find tftc

An unloved cache, we have replaced the log book and put it inside a container, please make the effort to shut the lid

Badly needs a new log, I didn’t have anything on me that would do. Lovely area though TFTC

My 100th cache! Couldn't write in the log, it's trashed. Needs maintenance. Perhaps change the container type to protect the log and make it look less like a drug stash.

While it is dry, the log and things in it kind of look like a junkies rubbish and being a lone adult while other people watched their kids play (from their cars) I felt a bit dodgy so didn’t sign the log just stuffed it back in its hide. Very clever clue though, it did make me think till I saw the obvious spot!

Found the location but no logbook. Needs maintenance.

After coffee and cake a cache was needed. Not in the best condition so didn't sign the log in the end. But thanks for bringing us to this great park!

Quick easy find TFTC

Now accessible. Thanks.

Found it however was unable to extract. Will need Maintenance

Lovely spot. Tftc.

TFTC

Found it nice & easy. Thanks heaps. Better go home & cook dinner niw my muggle family are probably wobdering were I am lol. 6:34 pm

Nice easy find. Tftc

Not a DNF! We drove to the area and its muggle central today so will try another time...

Thanks for the new logsheet and bag rehikemike
ep Jnr was playing soccer this morning, so knew exactly where GZ would be. He wasn't feeling too well, and this was the only cache that he got out of the car to search for today, whilst we were in the area with AlbyDangles. epJnr found it!
TFTC HH42, Nice little park.
345 1300hrs Sat 27th Aug 2016

HawkHunter42 thanks for the cache.
We weren't sure if we were going to find this one but it didn't take Junior EeePees too long to find it.

Quick find thanks to the hint. TFTC

Our first find, TFTC

Log totally destoyed. Left small plastic bag with minimum log paper.

In desperate need of help

Found with poke daughter. Log totally destoyed. Replaced with temp small plastic bag and a couple of pieces of paper to allow logging.

Nice quick and eady find. Thanks for bringing us to this lovely spot. Log is VERY wet and damaged. Needs replacing (sorry we didn't have one to replace it with). TFTC

Found with Spaceyfacehead

Our last day in the area, just picking up a few odd caches. Quick easy find TFTC

Very tricksy, but very fun. There is cool stuff at the playground like a rubber hammock. Thanks for the cache.

This is so sneaky TFTC