Be Prepared #28 Lower Plenty, Victoria, Australia
By Team Yarra on 24-Mar-13. Waypoint GC46B8E

snake danger

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###**CACHE OWNER ACTION REQUIRED PLEASE**###

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Hi there Cache Owner,

This cache has come to my notice as there is a 'Needs Maintenance' log that that indicates there is some sort of issue with the placement and it needs your attention please.

Check out the Guidelines here: [**cache owners responsibilities.**](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines#listingmaintenance) If you can't attend to the issue promptly, then you need to [**Disable the cache**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=235) - I have Disabled it for you this time.

**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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Found it

Easy find. Container and log was very wet and dank. Couldn't write in it. Started new log on sheet of paper. Tftc

Wet and gross inside container. Grass is long and unpleasant to get to.

Grass too long around GZ in the middle of snake set. Giving it a miss this time.

TFTC

I spy this pocket of caches along the Yarra and the adjoining parks. And what a great little pocket to explore on a bike on such a nice day! Glad they were all there and in good nic TFTC

Brought me to a nice isolated place.

Easy find. A bit wet though inside the cache.

This one was wet but thankfully the log can handle wet. It finished off a very pleasant loop with an earthcache and a mystery. Thanks baluke

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 15:33
4/08/2019 15:33 Needs Maintenance
A quick and easy find but the container needs maintenance as it's filled with water and has a very wet log book.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for the cache in a wonderful place to go for a walk.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found with geoFam and Heaso. A Bit damp as lid was not on properly.TFTC

Found with scarybooks and her family. Their geokids were too quick for us!

Log book is full and needs replacing. I didn’t have a spare one on me sorry. Tftc

A nice easy find. Thanks!

Bit soggy nicely hidden. Log nearly full

Bit off the track but fun

Great find

Found it

Found it!

Another Quick Find

Super fun

Found

Look out for the kangaroos on the way

Found

Found it

Milgate PS 8/5/2019

Nice find

This one is empty!

Found it!

Accompanied with my granddaughter on her first caching day. She did enjoyed her hunting. We both found it. Thanks Team Yarra for placing the cache

I am definitely prepared. I have all my caching tools with me, along with the gps and the phone, and have only needed the phone today. Great spot for a walk and a cache.

A good easy find. Located this one on an Easter Saturday ride though Westerfolds

Took a bit of traipsing , we eventually found the right tree!

Nice easy find even with the light failing and night approaching.

This was a little trickier for us but we found it and enjoyed doing it.

Easy find. TFTH

Got it, TFTC

F(H)ound it! #3065 @3:40 PM

"Be prepared"...now what could that mean?

We nearly missed this one entirely. We were chatting and discussing the most efficient route to take and walked straight past, so had to inefficiently double back. Most of the team waited at the bridge while me, the Other Sister-Outlaw and the Ridgeopup went to retrieve this one.

It turns out I could not have been better prepared because I brought the OSO who is completely comfortable with and unafraid of SNAKES. She grabbed the container to see a slithery tail slip down further into the hiding spot. She was then willing to put her hand in there again to replace the cache!!!! EeeeeK!

Thanks for the cache Team Yarra

????

I found it

yes

Found

Found it with friends

Thx

Found it. Signed and then hightailed it out of there due to a swarm of bees nearby. Tftc

Found it

Another quick find on my Westerfolds walk. Thanks

Not bad. Navagation took me in loops

Added a little more camo so the bong smokers wouldn't spot it. Tftc

Tftc

Good find

I was doing some caches in Westerfolds park and it didn't seem right to leave without checking this one out. It's in an out of the way location a nice quiet part of the park. All is in good condition. Tftc.

Couldn't find it

We found only a bong here today.

Took Vinny the vampire. Coordinates very off 10 or so metres!

After a DNF at the previous cache we were relieved to find this one quickly. TFTC, now for something a lot older

Found it! Also dropped off a trackable...
Cheers

Found it

I was in the area today hunting out an old cache nearby so figured I may as well grab a few others whilst I was here. An easy find here. Many thanks for the cache.

Too nice an afternoon to stay inside! Found with TG4TheWin.

Bit of a trek to find this one - but was a great sense of accomplishment. Added a pencil and a plastic bag for the log (yes, I know it was waterproof, but the wet had made the ink run. Made sure the log was dry before we put it in though.)

TFTC

Took a while to get to this one because we came from a weird direction, but once we were there we found it TFTC

As it was, I was prepared for this cache. The log book was a mouldy wet mess so I’ve ditched that and replaced with a waterproof log sheet. Nice quite spot here although Parks need to get onto the capeweed problem. Found with Shypossum.

Easy find but the log is soaked. Tftc!

Found! Log was wet

Really good hiding spot but very wet trying to get it out

Good hiding spot. No need to read the hint

Always love a scouting cache and when I read the name I just had to get this one. As it was well off the main track and light was dropping, we had to make this a fast find. Hightailing it across the grass, watching the GPSr numbers dropping with every step, we very soon arrived at a spot that could hide many a cache. There was only one that we needed and it was not long before we held it in our hands. Opening it was not a joyous though as the log was soaked and black with mould. After spending some time finding a blank page and then very carefully signing it, we spotted a small slip of dry paper in a bag so we signed this as well and replaced the cache. TNLNSL. TFTC. KKams

The container was damp inside and the log could do with a new plastic bag. Tftc.

More bush bashing through wet grass but we found it! Right as the clue suggested tftc

Found it right near the discarded homemade bong!

Cool car inside

Took a while but we found it

Geokid2 found it.

Nice placement!

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On the ground

Last one for the day!

Ninja

Found but log wet couldn’t sign

Flu dit

Quick find as well as a wriggley stick nearby.
CJJAHC

We found the log damp so amaali added a piece of paper and a zip bag for replacement log a good cache.
Greytiger

A quick find for Greytiger and myself. Your log is full and soaking wet. We added paper in a zip lock bag. TFTC.

11/03/2018 11:41:00 AM
Accompanied with pwala, rode the bike at Westerfolds Park and the weather was great. Beautiful adventure, good path for ride the bike.
We enjoyed ourselves.
Found it.
Thanks baluke

The log book was soaking wet but thanks for the hide.

Great find for our geocaching adventure!!! Thanks for the cache

Out for the bike ride at Westerfolds Park, Lower Plenty with Crank1. Beautiful day! Thanks for bringing us here and the cache.

Nice bit of bush bashing before realising there was a clearing woops. Lid slightly ajar log book is saturated, managed to log team and didn't have replacment log. Any body who ventures past may need to replace this log.

Today we found Be Prepared #28 on our travels.
We came over this way to collect an oldie and a puzzle. Dropped by to collect this cache too. Lucky we had a power tank pen with us as log is soaked but the power tank will write on anything.
Thanks baluke for being part of our geocaching fun.

Found it! It’s soaked through so can’t write in it

Nice one!

Found it!!!

Be Prepared.
My mate in QLD has a cache by the name of this and a whole heap of folly went on with it when it was published.

Thanks TY

Wet

Found another one

Nice

I started going the wrong way. Thought No this is not the way base on the terrain rating. I try another way and bam there it was

Could not find