The First Doctor Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
By Sydney Whovians on 23-Mar-13. Waypoint GC4863V

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

Should you like to resurrect the cache please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

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4.23. Unarchiving a Geocache

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If a geocache is archived by a reviewer or staff for lack of maintenance it will not be unarchived.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

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I placed a NM message back in Feb still no action taken. I believe this now needs to be archived.

Not there

DNF - construction at site and heavily covered area with leaves - maybe it's here somewhere but don't think so

Tried to see whethrr I could find this one as I was nearby and couldn't spot it - sucked as this was my first go at it

Could the CO plz check on this cache

Once again hot on the heals of Crash2079, LOL. I Spent some 30min scouring the area of the usual and unusual hiding spots without luck. There was evidence of what I believe the hiding spot was but with evidence of recent removal of several small trees I believe the cache to have been muggled.
Also with crash2079, a veteran of some 1121 finds, also not finding it, it appears To be gone.

On my way home from a cache run around Cremorne and thought I could fit in a few more. A quick detour down Fullers Rd and I was soon parked near GZ. Followed the instructions and... nothing. Checked out a few spots but came up empty handed. Too hot to spend much more time here. Hope it hasn't gone missing.
TFTH

Wasn't the easiest it found it

With a quiet afternoon to kill, I thought I may as well walk from North Ryde to Chatswood! By now it was getting very hot, so I was thankful for the bubbler nearby. TFTC!

This is my first Whovian find... I'm a big fan. Thank you

TFTC

After making the pilgrimage down from the Central Coast to Australia's geocaching Mecca to celebrate my 2,000th find, Mumma-Kel and I took the opportunity to grab a few other caches in the area before heading back home. This was a straightforward find in a very attractive park that I'm sure is very popular with the locals ... but fortunately for us, not today.

The only thing I regret about this park is that there's no toilets, which meant we didn't stick around after making the find ... ... nevertheless, thanks for placing a cache here Sydney Whovians.

Out and about in the area today having visited geo-mecca. What a great little neighbourhood area this is! Had the place to ourselves so followed the instructions and came up trumps. Thanks for the cache!

Lovely park in this part of Sydney. Shame there is nobody around using it. The cache was easy found after taking in the hint. Did the legals and replaced as found. TFTCM
Cheers
Dkmacca

Good directions TFTC

Clever hide. TFTC

Good hide. Container and log replaced. TFTC

Container and log replaced. All good now.

Clever hide. TFTC

Quick easy find
TNLN TFTC SL

Yeah nice and easy

Cache is trashed. Found with lid off, hole in container, soaked log, full of water and infested with insects.

Needs serious attention

Lovely place here and nice cache.
Confirming needs urgent maintenace with broken box and soaking wet logbook.
Perhaps needs a new CO to look after this one?
#1072

Interesting place, but cache needs some serious maintenance. The box is broken and everything waterlogged, it'll need a full replacement. Was able to sign my name on the log though, tftc

Easy

Tftc

A quick find, but a broken container has left the cache in desperate need of attention.

TFTC. First in Sydney this trip.

I was early for a funeral of a dear family member, so I found my peace with a cache.
A nice little area. Though the cache container is broken and the contents are wet.
Thanks for the cache.

Found it out in the open with a corner smashed open. Requires maintenance.

Cache found in the open with a smashed corner. I placed it back where I believe it was suppose to be hidden.

I was on a nice Sunday walk in the Lane Cove NP, doing the leg Pennant Hills to Chatswood. Decided to break the trip with a few caches, too, to get them done while I'm here and have some variety amongst the walk.

This was the last cache for the day, towards the very end of the walk. Came out of the trail, stepped across the playing field and started to follow the smartiephone compass. Though the compass tried to misbehave here and send me to wrong places first. Using the apps map function I finally got into the right area and soon had the cache in hand.

Formalities done but this cache needs repair, please! As it seems the CO has abandoned the cache (remember the caching guideline of owning up and maintaining your caches or taking them off the play?), unless a kind soul provides the full set to replace this one (small container, logsheet, cache note / card) it ought to be removed and archived before it's trash in the park.
TFTC, Sydney Whovians.

I remember this spot from a previous visit when I was muggled out of by some people using the basketball ring. Today I had the lower level to myself and made a fairly quick find. An older lady and much older gentleman were sitting on the seat at the top and asked if I had lost my phone, so I explained that I was actually finding things with my phone! I explained the hobby to them and they seemed quite impressed with the whole idea. Thanks Sydney Whovians.

Quick grab in a beautiful park

Cache needs attention though, box is damaged and everything is soaking wet

Tftc

I couldn't write log to this logbook, attaching photo.

Urgent maintenance needed.

Thanks, bye.

This cache needs some urgent attention from a doctor doctor who will see it's broken broken. It's not just a feeling. Brings back some memories of the Thompson Twins. Cache quickly found. Might hear been nice in its heyday. Tftn

Stood with my back to the pole while on top of the retaining wall that's holding a couple of plant but filling up with weeds.
Park maintenance needs to pull their finger out to spray and mulch the garden, and I bet it's not the only one that needs it down here.
Eventually spied the holey, religious container and signed on the waterproof cover on the pocket book log as the pages are saturated and seem glued shut, thanks SW

Actually very dry considering it is smashed and part eaten! Quite a cool log book now in fact haha. But yes, needs some love! Cheers

Cache is trashed and requires urgent maintenance. Logbook has been eaten by snails and the cache itself is badly damaged.

Quick find in a secluded park. Cache is trashed and logbook has been eaten by snails, Managed to SL. TNLN No TBs in cache. TFTH TFTC Replaced cache as found.

We returned to this one after realizing GZ is right between the play area and basketball court which were both in use. After walking to the second doctor and back the muggles were just leaving the park so luckily it was a very quick grab and sign. TFTC

Quick find on a beautiful sunny afternoon with master Q. Lovely area. Love all the different birds and trees around here. Cache needs maintenance as the container is broken. Log book is ok to write on but seems to have got some damage too. Container is being used as a house for snale now. Thanks for cache

Had to go to Sydney and on the way home thought id drop into this one and see if I could find it. After a little searching I kicked it TFTC

Today we were targeting caches around Chatswood West and Lindfield. This was to be our 1st find of the day.

Parked the geomobile in Greville Street, right next to the Reserve. Headed down the steps and started looking around GZ. The hint had us looking in the wrong spot but returned to the spot that the GPSr was indicating as GZ and soon had CIH.

As others have said, the box is broken and the log book has been partly eaten by snails. We actually evicted two snails from inside the box when we first opened it. TNLNSL, or what is left of it, and replaced as found. See attached photo of cache container damage, and the half eaten logbook. TFTC.

Find #686

The box is broken and the log book has been partly eaten by snails. We actually evicted two snails from inside the box when we first opened it. See photo (attached to our "Found It" log) of cache container damage, and the half eaten logbook.

Definitely needs maitainence

Found but container is broken & inside filled with water. Need to replace container

Don't blink, blink and you die!

A quick easy find of an exposed easily-seen contaire that needs a LOT of T.L.C. Everything is damp, the logbook is in tatters and has been half eaten away by (?).

As previous logs indicate, the cache is in need of immediate attention. The container is waterlogged and the logbook is virtually unusable. There is little to hide the location from passers-by as the cotainer can be easily seen on approach.

First find in a month and it was just as easy as I hoped it would be. It is a little bit more exposed than most caches are so it's likely at risk of being muggled. The logbook and contents are pretty wet. I didn't even attempt to sign. TFTC

Easy find - log is quite damaged and so are the goodies inside.

First of the series, prefer Tom myself as grew up watching him . TFTC

This entry was edited by coybear2000 on Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 00:29:45 UTC.

I was in the area with coybear2000. An easy find. TFTC

Preferred David myself ...

Streak day # 66 - great cache to visit with me nephew. Nice little park. The log book is rather wet though. It needs replacing. Cheers.

Yebo Sydney whovians

Walking from Chatswood station through every reserve towards lane cove we came to yours
Well it's there with a nibbled logbook, who was that hungry?
Tftc

This entry was edited by brownie52 on Sunday, 09 November 2014 at 05:30:10 UTC.

First dr was only just warming up - based on progression in 2nd'a placement. Hide oh so subtly enhanced by a few dog poop bags tossed in!

Nice location. Used to work at the research building next door. Container inundated with snails and slugs which have eaten the notebook

In bad need of maintenance. Found it with the lid left open and full of snail poo. Log eaten by snails

Nice one while we were here playing soccer. A bit damp inside.

Easy peasy find,

TFTC

TFTC. Found with apples & laughing_baby.

Jesus said:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes". Matthew 6:25

This entry was edited by ozhamada on Saturday, 05 July 2014 at 07:24:23 UTC.

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Couldn't find it. Next time I will try again. It is my first geocache anyway. Hope I find it next time.

Found by Nanny and Bo on a holiday Monday.
A great little cache in a true doctor's bag type container.
We signed the log.
We took nothing and left nothing.
Thanks for the cache.

Streak Day #327 - Was out this way for an appointment, stopped here on the way home. Quick find as it was out in the open, contents were also very damp but log was dry enough to sign, replaced back out of sight from muggles. TNLN. TFTC

Found early morning after working in the area. A nice little hidden away part of Chatswood that I had not been to before. Many thanks Sydney Whovians

TFTC. Nice and easy

Easy find TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

It is in a green box

Very nice little park. Stoped in at this one on my way to Lane Cove cache. It is my 499th find. Nice quick one today. TFTC.

Very nice park. I will bring the kids to come kick some ball. Thanks

Looked around but couldn't find it. Hope it was just me and I just didn't spot it.

Swell first find of the day and also first find for GeoDog Archie. Took nothing left nothing. TFTC.

Found cache sitting out in the open, log book missing. Gave it a new log book in plastic bag, threw in some toys, hid it better. The Doctor is now safe! TFTC

Ha! Just realised that I put 2013 as a date in the log book. Guess I'm still not used to 2014.


This entry was edited by The-3-Investigators on Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 03:04:52 UTC.

Clue was helpful to lower search time (good at the end of a long day!), cache found reasonably quickly. Camo is cacher-obvious, hopefully not muggle-obvious. Only downside is cache doesn't seem to be particularly watertight ...contents were a bit damp. Signed log and replaced cache as found. TFTC!

Found with BabyJMan after a trip to OfficeWorks in North Ryde.

Have been meaning to do this for a while so pulled off on our way home. Cache was exposed (luckily for us) meaning that we found it very quickly.

Cache needs new pen and log as these were absent. Photo is attached.

I think this may have been muggled previously.

Thanks Sydney Whovians for the cache- aren't a Dr Who fan myself but I guess I'll have to 'exterminate' your other caches off my unfound list





This entry was edited by akkatracker on Monday, 23 December 2013 at 03:10:05 UTC.

Made a quick grab. Cache was in proper place but a bit uncovered. Had no pen so took photo of cache.

I found the cache sitting open and exposed on the ground. The container was in good condition but the log book was missing so I signed on a scrap of paper I had in my pocket and hid the cache in what looked like the correct place as per the hint. It is now well concealed but if a malicious muggle is aware of its location it may not be safe in the long term.

Thanks for the cache Sydney Whovians.

Vbjc

Was an easy find because of meddling
i gave it some camouflage

Nice quick find. TFTC!

Great easy search

Nice spot

We were headed to Roseville cinemas for the world premiere of the film 'The Uneducated' in which Geoson had played an extra. We decided to pack a picnic dinner and enjoy the balmy evening in a suitable geocaching park. This turned out to be a lovely spot to sit and watch the sunset on a smoke hazed evening.
Thankyou Sydney Whovians! we probably wouldn't have done this if not for your cache.

A lovely walk through a popular park. It was found safe and sound.

TFTC.

The Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition #170
Last of 6 for the day. Before going to look for the cache, sat down on the swings and had a little snack as I was tired and had walked a long way to get here (16km). Started searching as nearby muggles were not paying attention to me. After a few minutes, a geofamily came onto the scence and made the find. I don't know how I missed it but I guess it goes to show a couple more eyes looking is a good thing. TFTC and hope to meet more cachers on the trail

Doctor who?

Nice easy find on our way to Chatswood shops. Cache was very exposed and in danger of being muggled. Hopefully covered enough now to not be obvious from 50m away. Thanks Sydney Whovians.

Couldn't find the Tird Foctor a couple of nights ago so thought we'd take a step back and start with number one. A really, really nice park. Thanks for bringing us here. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Tftc

Been meaning to find this for ages. Finally had time to make the easy find. TFTC

Having dropped geoson off nearby I had an hour or so to wait. This is a nice park and the cache was found dry and in good condition. Thanks.

Tftc. Very clever.

I left work a bit early due to the "long weekend" (bank holiday on Monday). I got off at Chatswood and headed down the hill, and when I got to GZ there was a boy of about 8 playing basketball with his father. I waited for them to leave, but after 10 minutes realised I was going to lose that battle so decided to pretend I had a good reason to be there. After scoping out likely places I went in for the "kill" and found the container in the 2nd place I looked, so was able to get away without the basketballers really noticing. Nice little park, thanks.

Quick stop to get another smily face in Chatswood