Little Green Men Corop, Victoria, Australia
By Needle in a... and Hayshack on 15-Jan-13. Waypoint GC44F3P

**Cache Archived**
Unfortunately, steps have not been taken to address the issue/s associated with this placement, as per the maintenance expectations in the Guidelines.

As explained in previous logs, the cache is now being de-listed (Archived) as abandoned. 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 a Reviewer regarding this cache, please send an email via the profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

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Hi there Needle in a...,

It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is an issue with the placement. The cache has been temporarily disabled, so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location until the issues/s with this cache can be addressed.

**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days, so others know you are on top of it, as well as indicating exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication scuttle this listing.**

#What should you do now:-#
You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-

- **Check On The Cache:-** Visit the cache and repair and/or replace 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 logs of praise to roll in.

- **Place A Write Note Log::-** Reviewers don't have a crystal ball, so without your note on the cache page explaining that the site works are on-going, or you have been in hospital, or the area is in flood, they can't tell what is going on with the cache.
So please just post a note to the page (within 14 days) and when a Reviewer next looks at the listing, all will be fine for a little bit longer.
**Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. If you have a long term unavailable cache (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 4 to 6 weeks, so as to keep everyone up to speed.**

- **Adopt/Archive:-** 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 a Reviewer next looks at the cache page, it is likely that they will, unfortunately, have to de-list (Archive) 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.

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Thanks for your cooperation,

Bunjil

[3B]

Found today with MBLT after a decent walk and a surprise from hare hiding in the grass not far from the cache. Cache and contents in poor condition and unfortunately could not sign log due to water damage. Took nothing, left a ball we found on our walk.

Needs maintenance due to container broken.

Find # 9965

Making the most of Holidays and being able to travel. I decided on a 4 day trip that seen me head up to Swan Hill then down via Lake Boga, Kerang, Koondrook, Cohuna, Leitchville, Mt Terrick Terrick NP, Corop, Colbinabbim Rushworth, Whroo and finally Nagambie (then back home to St.Arnaud). Lots of back tracks taken and lots of dust to clean out of the ute. It was over 1250km travelled and flying solo on this trip I had lots of fun finding the caches.

I took a couple more wedges out of my 360Deg “finds from home” map and ticked off a couple of caches that I have heard about that were on my “to find” list.

There was a huge Variety of caches found from bird boxes to Fridges, Wall mountable tool boxes to Eclipse tins, with the odd ammo can thrown in. A couple of head scratching gadget caches chewed up some time but will be memorable for time to come. Numerous puzzles that I had solved i managed to find and I even managed to make good on a couple of DNFs, and add some more DNFs to my list. Even though I was out on my own I still had to use a couple of PAFs to get by. Thanks guys.



TFTC Needle in a... and Hayshack

Found with catnap777 at 10:00am

So many times I have passed the Green's Lake turn off and yet I have never seen Green's Lake...... until today.
Cat and I headed off to check out some silo art this time past and because we had no real time frame pushing us around, we decided it was high time to right this wrong and check out the Little Green Men.
Thanks to some excellent off road driving by cat (to avoid some boggy wheel ruts) we got to the cache quickly enough found just a little off our trajection, but the container Seriously needs to be replaced. Time and the elements have done a real number on it. The log is still dry but bearly contained within the crumbling walls of its screw top home.
Sorry we did not have with us a replacement.

TFTC Needle in a... and Hayshack.
I am guessing the little green men are much larger green men now.

I don't know how many times my intrepid partner and I have driven past the entrance to Green Lake, but today we had the opportunity to call in and see it for the first time. Choosing the driest track proved a bit of a challenge but we made it right up to gz. The little Nissan and it's driver, who by the way has not much experience in muddy track conditions, proved themselves admirably. Was a gorgeous day to see the lake in all it's glory especially after a kind winter precipitation wise. Thank you for bringing us to this picturesque spot.

I had the kayaks with me but the lake is looking a bit low.
TFTC

Not one for summer very long grass off the tracks. Nice tree. Container cracked huntsman likes it as his home. Braved it and entered log

Found

TFTC. Very nice walk

Tftc, found with K9team

Lovely day to take the dogs for a walk with Ghihash

Lovely spot.
The container is cracked but the log is fine.
Tftc.

#2247
Day #12 and nearing the end of the holiday.
Not sure if I came in on a different track to others. Got close but had to walk the rest as was on the wrong side of the channel. A quick find at GZ.

Thanks Needle in a... for placing the hide!

Short wheel base and a 6in lift is needed

Tftc need a lifted 4x4 and some balls

While staying at the Elmore Events Centre for a week+ attending a CMCA Rally, I have been touring the area eash day finding caches wherever I can. I found this one after following a dirt track which deteriorated the furthe I went. I did get within about 50Ms of the GZ before choosing to walk the final few Ms. TFTC.

Been on the to do list for a while now. Somethings always been against me to get this, normally weather. Today suns out & road is dry. Such a beautiful location. Container has become brittle & needs replacement.TFTC!

TFTC yay got to it. Walked from camp. What a beautiful spot to camp for the night.

Tftc and many greetings from Germany

Thanks for this beautiful cache out here!
#perfectplaces

Nearly wrecked the car with lokkisomerville and Orion60 TFTC

Not being locals, we had some difficulty finding our way to this cache, but got there in the end. A delightful water feature in the area. SL at 1.15pm Left: green man and St Arnaud fridge magnet. St Arnaud will be the place to be in November 2019! #5949 TFTC Needle in a... and Hayshack and by the way the cherry tree is still alive and leafy.

Ahh finally got here to find this cache it has been on our to do list for ages and ages.

Made a quick find here. Cache was on the ground. All good.
Signed and replaced in tree.
Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment. TFTC.

Found on route to the silo art trail. Loved the walk in from our camp but not a good cache to get in Thongs.
TFTC.

Nice easy walk in. Dry weather road only. Quick easy find. TFTC ‍‍‍

So close but so far. We got very close with the car, but the GPS wouldn't settle and after 10 mins of circling around the long grass in very snakey weather, we decided to call it a day, and try again next time. Thanks anyway.

Rex had his 1st visit to the vet's since he came into my life and as it was in Lancaster, I planned a day of caching to end up in Echuca. The plan worked well although the bit about being at Echuca by 6pm to allow me to get to Cheap as Chips did not work so well There just happened to be 'just one more cache' on the way there
Still Rex and I had fun and we even manage to be spotlighted by police when having our picnic tea in the park near Red Gum Archway about 10.30pm
No DNFs and 8 cache finds made for a good day out especially as 1 of those finds was a letterbox called Mail Run, which had eluded AnyMules and I a few weeks ago in the dark and which I managed to find tonight... all in the dark again, too!

I finally managed to get into here and make the find on this cache that has been taunting me for over a year now!
The Corolla made short work of the tracks and we parked a mere 50m from GZ
Made the quick find and once the log was signed, I placed the container back where it started from [^]
I tried to keep going on the track in order to come out on the side road rather than the main road however I soon came to spot that was much more suited to Harry than this poor Corolla .... so a 3 point turn and it was back out the way we went in!

TNLN. SL. TFTC Needle in a...

Touring Victoria for a few weeks, checking out the sites and finding a few caches as we go.
TFTC
Cheers
Rocket

Here for a holiday with the fam and decided to see if we could find this one. Good find beware of snakes tho

Found with Claybol on a very warm and windy day. I never knew this lake existed here and it is quite lovely with black swans and a pelican enjoying the serinity. We walked the last 400 metres but it is quite an easy walk. Not sure if this is a plum tree or a cherry tree however as there was no fruit on it and it looked like a plum tree to me. Thanks for placing this cache here though for it brought me to a lovely location. Happy to announce that the cache is in good order as was the log sheet..... This was my 817th find.

Find #1557 for me. Found with virbull at 12:40 pm. After finding the cache at Ayerson Reserve it was still overcast and not yet unbearably hot as the forecast suggested it would be, so we decided to travel a little further on for this one. Having scouted out this area on a previous trip I was expecting to walk about 750m from the road into Greens Lake as I didn't think the track in would be suitable for my 2WD. Today, however, the track was dry and seemed to be fine so I was able to drive as close as 300m before getting out to walk the rest of the way. I admit to being a little nervous about the drive in as I had to straddle over some fairly deep ruts but we got there. Once at GZ we made a quick find and all was in good condition. Thanks for bringing us to this nice location today "Needle in a... and Hayshack" and thanks for the cache!

TFTC

09:55
A feeling of de ja vu here, although it was not quite so wet underfoot.
Here with Suscoe today, we were able to leave a very temporary log and remove a lot of rubbish.
Future seekers would really appreciate a spring clean and a new log for this one please.

Mrs. Suscoe headed out today with the good folks of the Phetlern team for a day's caching south of Echuca. Mr. S decided to have a day back at our accommodation to take things quietly.
It was a beaut Spring day with loads of sunshine, a gentle wind and some clouds from time to time.
It was a really good day with great company and lots of fun on the way around this area.
Beaut countryside with green paddocks and happy looking cows and sheep.

Thanks to Needle in a ...and Haystack for this cache.

Should have read activity, container was on the ground and log is to wet to write in. Put in tree. Maintenance required. Nice location & TFTC

Out on another adventurous family road trip to Mexico. Now for the long run home...

Geodad trusted the maps on his many GPS devices only to get to about 500m from the cache and have the track disappear. Looking at the satellite image of the area I'm glad he didn't try to go much further. Once we were on the right track we went wrong again but soon corrected ourselves. Unfortunately the cache was wet and the log book saturated - we couldn't make our mark in it.

Thanks for the cache Needle in a... and Hayshack.

Great spot. Cache logbook saturated

You wouldn't want to be camping here at the moment as it is really overgrown. TFTC.

#4233

One Guy, One Gal and a Telescope!!

A plan was hatched earlier in the week to head to Greens Lake at Corop to make use of free camping, a new pop up tent and the dark sky to be able to look at stars without the light pollution we get in Melbourne. Heading up through Kangaroo Ground and across to Heathcote we grabbed a few caches on the way before having a cracking dinner at the Colbinabbin Pub. After setting up camp (15 minutes) we kicked back until dark. We checked out Nebulas, Globuler Clusters, Constellations, Double Stars and Planets, the highlight being Saturn and its rings and Jupiter with four of its moons!! We headed home the next day via Rushworth then to Whroo where we completed the series of caches there then headed home.

We grabbed this after packing up camp, the GeoPrado had no probs getting us near gZ, short walk to make the find.

Thanks for the Cache!!!!

In the area today with a little time for a find many thanks for the effort and placement of this cache.

Passing today stopped for a quick find TNLNSL

Found at 18.30hrs on a very windy overcast afternoon. Chose to walk from the toilet block, plenty of grass seeds enroute to cache! Cache was on the ground and very wet. Drained out water, and placed cache in elevated location.
TFTH TNLNSL

I felt like I was on Safari! and I was glad I didnt try driving the 2wd geomobile in here, it may never have made it back!
Found while roadtrippin to Canberra with TheQuantumQuark. Thanks for the Adventure

TFTC. Camped here overnight on the way to Halls Gap. Lovely spot,that we will retain to at some stage of our travel. Early morning walk to retrieve this cache. Easier find than expected.

Found it

Too easy!

Quick find on a very hot day thanks for bringing me to this place TFTC

Tftc

Nice quick one. nobody around. Tftc,Sl.

Great placement out in the scrub. Thank you

Found while out water skiing

No little green men chased these intrepid campers. This is a lovely place to visit. SL TFTC

Long walk to the geocache, but easy to find!

Great camp spot nearbuy

Found log dry . If a little green men or a black wriggle stick jumped out I would no have been surprised. Seen lot of Swans.

Thanks!

Beaut drive and not a person around .
A few campers near the lake as well . Thanks for the cache .

found it.
TFTC

Today, we did a loop from Shepparton to Corop, Colbinabbin, Whroo & a few towns in between.
The weather was great - not too hot, and the roads dry and dusty.
We found a good variety of traditional, multi caches and a few puzzles.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Needle in a..., for us and others to find.

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

Currently camped at Aysons Reserve we headed out today to explore the area and pick up a few caches along the way.

Today was day 339 of our Geostreak. Thanks to the CO's for the variety of cache types and sizes today. A lovely area to visit.

Access to this cache is now much harder. The local water authority have erected multiple signs saying no vehicular access along all the tracks that take you near GZ. So we parked the car and Mr Felix walked in to GZ. He removed the old damaged cache and placed a new one in the same place with a new log too. TFTC Needle in a...

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Found in such a great stand of trees.

Had to wade through chest high grass the last 70m a bit prickly on a hot day.
Cache has been wet and needs a new log book also a new container would be good.

Did a nice 40 weeks pregnant waddle down the track to collect this one TFTC

TFTC

Tftc !! With geo jetty and geo Ronan school holiday ski season opener

12:45
After a call to 'Cool Down at Greens Lake' we wondered about the 'Little Green Men'! Oh why not? So we unloaded the bikes and set off thru' the mud and the slush! Walking the last part across the grass we spotted the cache, high and dry!
Hopefully it was not the young intrepids who left all the rubbish around GZ - good site now for a CITO event! Satellites today had our GZ 10m north of where we found the cache.

TNLN .. . . . SL . . Thanks to Needle in a... for the hunt.
9051

Walked the long way but geokids had fun with the grass and mud. Spotted by geo-grandpa who played hot-cold with geokids until they found it. TFTC

TFTC

Got to gz but had not this time.

Good spot for a cache

Bit boggy after the rain but found it with partner in crime and dmiller

After 2 days of rain the cache has been washed out of the tree. I have replaced it but not sure if in the same place. Cache is waterlogged and needs maintenance

Took Geok9 for a good walk from the camping area on a warm 32c day which was nicely balanced with a fresh north-easterly breeze. Very dry track due to lack of rains in the area, and a pleasantly forested site at GZ made for another delightful smiley earned. TNLN, Thanks for bringing us here, Needle in a...

Heazle1 tftc watch out for roos will run you over

Took the walk in on a cooler day. Container could do with some love. Had heazle1 stop in their tracks when two kangaroos jumped out from the long grass.

Found after a second approach was made. Although the GPS insisted Greenmans Road existed, there was none navigatable to be found. Found a fair weather track in from the other direction and the hide was sound uncovered. Found with the SCP. TFTC

Found on our day's journey across to Shepparton. in the company of the Crazy Creels and the Geogetters on our fortnightly Sisterhood caching trip. Like others we found the navigating in a bit tricky but eventually found our way along a very dry track. I don't think your container is going to last much longer - it will get brittle after a couple of hot days. Can see why you would want to camp here - it would be lots of fun.


TFTC Needle in a...

Found while out on our fortnightly geotrek with the Sisterhood of the Cargo Pants. We had a bit of trouble getting to this one, with roads not existing where they should've. Anyway we got there in the end. TFTC Needle in a...
~ Crazy Creels

The Wenchette had a calisthenics competition in Burwood so I had an opportunity to chase a few caches along the way

We attempted to find this cache some weeks back but our plans were scuttled by a couple of vehicle bogged on the track. Today the track was dry and we had no trouble etting to GZ. I suggest this cache may be best avoided during the hot weather as the grass is quite long and will be a haven for snakes once they wake from winter.

Thank you for the cache Needle in a....
#2314th @ 1419hrs and 2nd of 2 for the day.

Nice camp site, a bit of a hike in if you don't have a 4WD. Quite muddy too. Was a good spot to take the dog for a walk though!
Thanks

Found this one after putting the car into 4wd. Would not recommend for 2wd at the moment due to muddy tracks. Took wooden tag, left keyring

Found

Hi. It's me Angus - the geoWestie. We have had a long break from geocaching due to some issues in Shepparton but we are back on the road and back into it. I am so glad. Currently camping at Greens Lake. Weather is not the best but only a little rain. This cache, which we did yesterday, was a good walk from camp but no difficulty at all. There was one boggy spot that we all managed to jump over but it turns out we could have turned right before crossing it and we would have come to it sooner.

Followed the GPS which took us off the hwy too early. When this revealed no access, we backtracked to the hwy & down the correct road.
After a short walk, had cache in hand. Irrigation run off has made the ground a little damp at the moment.
TFTC SL

Nice easy cache on a beautiful day.
TFTC

found with tamzy holzcotz curl69 and paddyjak tftc

Found it on a good day out with Tamzy, paddyJak, curl69 and cbjh1990. TFTC

Found on a day out with other geo family members. Love the spot, have decided this shall be our next place for camping holiday TFTC and taking us to this lovely place

Lovely day for a drive quick find TFTC

Didn't find any little green men today! Track nice and dry and cache quickly located! TFTC!

Thorn bush a bit hard to handle, left with a loss of a little blood.

Not Found. I should have known I would have no luck with this one when I saw the condition of the road. Would have had no trouble in a FWD but my comodore couldn't make it in. Was there after heavy rains and got bogged for my trouble.

Sorry about the late logging on this cache, I lost my cache notes, and with the help of blacklegend, now know which finds I made.

Found on a day out caching with Blacklegend and Sportacuss. TFTC and the experience.

Found with Poynts95 and Sportacuss on the way to Melbourne via Heathcote. Nice location here, been here for a cache before. TFTC.

A nice morning walk from our greens lake camp. Took the hard way in and the easy way out. Tftc

A bit of a detour to get in here but an interesting drive and short walk through deep dry grass to the unusual tree.
Liked the hide.
Thanks

In the dark 3 am in thongs! Lol

A quick drive across from Bendigo after work to make this find. Located eventually after disregarding Nuvi's advice on the best way to get there. Many thanks for placing this cache.