Aroundabout Here Portland, Victoria, Australia
By Poppet11 on 25-Jan-13. Waypoint GC44Y5C

Unfortunately, I cannot see any information that indicates that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement. Therefore as advised previously, the cache is being de-listed (Archived) to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

The [**Geocache Maintenance guideline**](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance) explains what needs to happen with a Disable cache.

Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived. This is explained in the Help Center article [**here**](http://support.groundspeak.com//index.php?pg=kb.page&id=70).

If you wish to contact me please send an email via my profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the cache name and GC number.

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### **OWNER MAINTENANCE CHECK REQUIRED???** ###

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This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention. The cache owner would have received an automated email from Geocaching HQ recently which explained what needed to be done.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have happened, so I am having to take the next step - see here: [**Geocache Health Score.**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713)

The cache is being temporarily disabled 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.

**Can you please respond to this situation (or indicated your intention) within 14 days,** so others know exactly what is happening with this cache?

You have lots of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:

- Check on the cache, repair and/or replace the cache 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 praises.

- If you really hope to get it fixed but there is some unusual reason why you can't do it soon, then at least post a Write Note log (within 14 days). Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. For ongoing issues (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days so as to keep everyone up to speed.

- 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 I next look at the cache page, it is likely that I will, unfortunately, have to de-list (Archive) it 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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This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

nothing to see here.

Another DNF. Definitely time for a check by the CO.

Maybe a lesson not to move caches.
We spend a good time looking with the family. Couldn’t find it.

Looked for a while. Not found.

Owner maintenance required

We are sure we found where it was or was supposed to be.... but it wasn't there... perhaps the person before us who moved it, should have left it where it was.

While holidaying in the area, and while some of the family fished, I headed off in the dark with 2 geokids. We went the long way (yes, it is possible!) but made very short work of locating the cache. Retrieving it was a different matter, so we placed it back at a more reachable length! TFTC

Found this evening while out for a walk with the dog from our nearby house-sit. An absolutely cracking sunset tonight too ! A short hunt ruled out the obvious spots, so I started on the less obvious and it was in the second place I looked.

Thanks for the cache Poppet11

Nice cache tess and butbuts adventures... very clever hide

Cheeky cache on the way through! Thank you

Found it

Found it

Tricky tricky tricky. Tftc

Good hide

Brilliant hide took my expert partner 2 find

Woo hop! Another one to me! Awesome cache

Finding a close parking spot proved to be the biggest challenge.

Found as part of my 2017 Alexandra Mega experience. This cache added to the fun and enjoyment of my trek to the east and back from Adelaide. While there were a few thunder storms, there were mainly clear skies and I never saw a snake!

Thanks to Poppet11 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Found it, TFTC, nice hide

This was a fun one

Good hide. TFTC

Tftc

TFTC
I’m a teacher with one student who is an ace at this!!!

Cool

Tftc

Very smart location

Awesome hide. Had a few muggles and a fellow geographers stop past

Found during our honeymoon trip. Almost 1 month driving through Australian country.
It was an amazing trip.
Thanks for this cache
**GEOCRACKERS PROUD MEMBER**
**LAN & SC PROUD MEMBER**
#2013
Grazie Poppet11

Very clever little hide!

Found

Tftc. Easy find.

Nice hide easy find TFTC

Couldent find it but thanks

This one took us longer than expected.. came very close to giving up.. but stuck with it!

A nice quick and easy find.
However the magnet was so powerful we had difficulty retrieving it.
Replaced it very carefully for the next user.
TFTC

Nice quick drive by, however powerful magnet almost prevented extraction. Put back carefully for more easier for next episode.

TFTC

We were around about here for an event yesterday, so decided to drop by today to see what was around about here.
And look what we found? A roundabout and a cache.
Muggle Hubby and I both searched around and about.
This is a roundabout way of saying thanks for another smiley face on our map.

Portland
A nice straight foreward find
Thanks for placing this cache Poppet11

Having a great caching day with hevwalker, TTO16, claire007 and CPWanderer after an event. We met our co-event cachers, signed and replaced the log. TFTC

Made the find here with a group of gaggling geocachers who all seemed keen to cache in Portland this weekend. TFTC.

why we didnt stop for this one sooner we dont know.
we drove past it enough.
anywho, found with ease.
TFTC!!

10:34 am #2974
Found during a road trip to Portland and various areas in south-west Victoria with Papillon4506 & Geoturtle37.
Thanks for the cache and bringing us here today.

Our last find for the night with a large contingent. Thanks Poppet11.

Here in Portland for the event. Great to get together with a larger group and do these varied caches and hides. Beautiful scenery and a location we very much enjoyed. Thanks to Poppet11 for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Venturing over the border with Mogni and Aussie M&M to attend the 8 months to Mega event in Portland. Numerous other SA cachers had the same idea and we met up with them and a few Vics at the event and set out en masse to grab a few caches. [^] Don't be mistaken, this was not spontaneous. A group of us had been planning several of these cache attempts for months prior.
Found it Again. I had a real deja vu moment here finding this. I had been here with a group of friends and found this in January 2016 but for some reason didn't record doing so. So this time I have stamped the log again and made sure I have logged it. Sneaky hide. thanks poppet11

A quick and easy find on a long weekend geocaching road trip with Geoturtle37 and OzHockeyChick. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

*11/3/17, Found @ 10:10 pm, Find # 6437.*

The last one for the night with McLookers and The Tritonz but we weren't the only ones that stopped here at this time.
A group of us headed down to GZ and a quick find was made.

**Thanks to Poppet11 for placing this cache.**

Found by Mary & David at 0840. Our first for the day as we fill in time before meeting some others to do the Portland Puzzle in the Park series and then attend the BBQ Event. Cold and grey today. Have never seen so many logs in one place before. Our thanks to Poppet11.

Out & about in Portland on a day trip with CPwanderer, clare007, TT016 & scramping...
We bumped into some other cachers here...
Someone didn't know their strength...a tool was required...all good now...
TFTC Poppett11

Found by The Empire and Sully
In Portland for the 8 Months to the event in Alexandra event. It was still wet, but after a pizza, we were ready to find some more caches! Quick find! Lots-a-logs! Thanks for the cache Poppet11.
- M

After leaving my car at another cache gz I jumped in aussie m & m's car and I think after the 4th or 5th time passing this cache ( with mr m & m pointing it out each time ) on route to other caches we finally stopped and grabbed this one. Found with 3 car loads of cachers.

After a mammoth night of nightcaching in the rain we made this quick find our last for the night in the company of many teams.
Thanks Poppet11 for the placement.

Found with The Empire on our run around Portland and surrounds today. Daylight was still with us, so we made the most of it, and grabbed the last few for the day. We were amazed at the amount of logs (tree logs) in the nearby stockpile. Thanks to poppet11for the hide.

Located this one while waiting for the Portland event to start .
Thanks Poppet11 FTC.

A nice easy find - until someone with fat fingers pushed it a long way up. With the aid of some grotools, the cache was retrieved, signed and returned.

Thanks for the cache Poppet11. Found on 11 Mar 2017 at 7:24 pm. Find #4043.

Found with a group after an event TFTC Poppet11. Found 11 Mar 2017 at 7:26:28 pm. Find # 2020

Quick find after attending the event in town. Just beat the rain.
TFTC

Oh this one could be a problem to retrieve if you have large hands, but then if you think hard enough about it there is always another way to skin a cat so they say. SL TFTC

We're on our way to the Mega at Alice Springs and traveling all the back roads finding some great camps along the way.

Thanks for placing this cache Poppet11.

We found ourselves with a three day break to play with, so we seized the day and made our way to Portland for a couple of nights.

This was a quick find after dinner this evening, no-one around to bother us. TFTC Poppet11

We found this after quite some time searching, we found it a little tricky, very sneaky.

OMG the roads here are crazy !!
Off on a road trip with Purrfect Di, Sebastbat, and muggleboy Alex.
Quickly spotted by the Bat boy.
TFTC Poppet11

Sneaky sneaky! Found it! Yay!

Today I decided to drive across to Portland, to visit my sister and her family while they are staying there, geocaching my way there and back. My sister said she'd drive me to find a few caches, and my 7-y.o. niece, Anna, came along. (Anna loves geocaching!) My sister had lived in Portland for years, but left about six years ago, and felt quite melancholy driving around. We parked in a nearby service road, then walked across to look for the cache. My sister found it, after I had accidentally given her a hint! We signed the log and returned the cache, before going back into town. My sister and her family then went to dinner, and I drove back to Warrnambool via another eight geocaches before dark. Thanks for the cache, Poppet11
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I am in Warrnambool, camping here with Geo-Sons for our annual 10-days-in-a-tent. A few years ago, they started rolling their eyes and saying, "Do we HAVE to go geocaching?" As we've walked around town over the past couple of days, I've kept saying, "I bet we are walking past geocaches" Well, I think I have got the perfect balance this year! They both have to work in Melbourne this weekend, so I have put them on the train, and now have three days to myself until they return on Monday afternoon! Geocaching - here I come!!!

Nice

Found with beaker and ferociousflea on our way home from a family lunch. TFTC!

Beautiful afternoon for a drive and a few caches with Beaker and Astronaut99.. Thanks

Found today on a 350 kilometre caching round trip from Mount Gambier to Casterton, Coleraine, Portland and Dartmoor with FerociousFlea and Astronaut99.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

We managed to upset a pair or spur winger plovers on the way to the cache. However once we arrived at GZ the cache was a quick find. SL and replaced cache. Now to face the plovers again! TFTC

Greetings from the Cad from UK.

Another quick cache whilst in Portland on JST Tall Ship Tenacious. Enjoying the Upwelling Festival today.

TFTC nice hide.

Tftc found it after a bit of looking.. mentos tin not eclips tin..

Found ok thanks

I have replaced log and it is ready for use! Happy caching!!

Found it but could not sign the log. Even though it had been raining for the last few days, it was dry, but ripped and screwed up. See picture. TFTC

A quick find. Log is in no state to sign.

Team Autumn out today on the hunt for caches in Portland before heading to Warnambool for the night. An hour after work before we loose the light. Found this one quickly. The log is a mess and we were not inclined to stand in the cold wind and constant rain to try to sort it out. Photo taken if required by co. TFTC.

This one desperately needs a new log book TFTC quick find liked the benches here

Found it!! Thanks guys

did this some years ago but didn't log. did the interesting walk from the battery to get it. bit damp needs maintenance tftc

The cache container had lost it's lid so has been replaced - it's now BLUE.

Greynomads - Bill and Diana TFTC TNLN SL

Tftc great hide

TFTC

Thanks Poppet11, i really enjoyed the location.

Day 2 in Portland, did some sightseeing and grabbed a few caches on the way.

Parked nearby, a quick find as we had the area to ourselves.
Signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Poppet11, for us and others to find.

**Find #7675...**

*Found whilst visiting family in Warrnambool*...

A beautiful morning to be out and about grabbing a few smilies with Happy Feet as we head towards some T5 caches around Portland...

A short stroll, a short search, found the cache, stamped the log and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment Poppet11...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

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Found while out for the day with Snap Happy and Happy Feet. TFTC.

In the area visiting family, so will take the opportunity to grab a cache or 2 while out for a drive. This was a quick park and grab.
Thanks Poppet11 for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#2976

Found without too much trouble. Thanks!

Kaz, kiwi and girls!! Good fun

Easy drive by

Too easy

A little caching before dinner yesterday. Girls weekend. Easy find.

When you are offered a 3 day trip with 3 fantastic geocachers, well NO isn't an option
Hence I spent 3 days around Mount Gambier with Brisal5, Clare007 and CPwanderer and we were joined for some of that time by Mogni and Sabsypat
Only 2 DNF's and 62 finds made for lots of laughs and we also found ourselves in lots of prickly situations amongst the blackberries and the forests.

but it's not on the roundabout
We came, we looked, we found and we left to travel aroundabout here some more

TNLN. SL. TFTC Poppet11

I have driven past here numerous times, today I got to stop and make a quick find. Out with some geocaching friends having a great afternoon and night exploring.
Thanks

Visiting for a few days in Mt Gambier to do some series caching with caching buddies,
CPWanderer, brisal5, Locus Cache, Mogni & sabsypat.
It didn't take long to find with five pairs of eyes searching.
Thanks for the cache Poppet11

Located after a short search!! Thanks for the hide!!

Found it