Pine Kenny Merbein, Victoria, Australia
By TheVersteegs on 11-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4E3HW

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any evidence that indicates that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement. It would appear the owner of this cache listing is no longer interested in the cache and the cache has been abandoned.

As such the cache is being de-listed (Archived). 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 me regarding this cache, please send an email via my profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the cache name and GC number.

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Hi there TheVersteegs,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention. You would have received an automated email from Geocaching HQ recently which explained what they need to do.

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) and temporarily disable the cache.

**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.

[3AS]

We could not find it

Didn't find

DNF ...maybe found something that did not belong under those trees but no cache attached

Didn%u2019t find it

Epic fail you pwned us n00bs... You are only as good as your next find.

[Sat 4 May 2019]

Had a 25 min search here to no avail. "The Force {4th} wasn't with me" on this one today. Lots of litter on the ground may be covering it, maybe, if it is as low as i'm thinking [:o]

Hoping it's still here and i'm just cache-blind. I will return one day and try again.
Thanks for the challenge anyway, TheVersteegs

Getting too scratched looking for this one

Could not find maybe too hard we even climbed a fence sadly no luck today

No luck today even after much ducking and weaving. TFTC. Maybe another day.

Found it

Found by my eight year old daughter very tricky one. Well camouflaged when you see it does look out of place.

Was out here for about half an hours and couldn't find a thing

??????

We did duck and weave and looked twice plus for about 1/2 hour and these 74 year old eyes just could not find it.
TFTC anyway TheVersteegs.

#2115 Taking the long way from Melbourne to Adelaide via Mildura and stopping here and there to pick up some caches. Thanks to TheVersteegs for this one - a great hide. A fav pt from us.

Did not spend enough time here trying to find this cache as there were muggle workers mulching not that far away but we will be back hopefully??
TFTC The Versterteegs that we may find in the future??

Couldn’t locate today

Couldn’t find a thing

This one had me stumped but finally found on fifth attempt were it just jumped out at me. Tftc

Lit af

Very clever.

This took a bit of looking and a bit of nouse too.
TFTC!

Boy I think your rating here is to low on this one. Took ages and I was about to give up. Mr X wisdom prevails it gets a favourite from us for camo. Great work The Versteegs

TFTC
What a great hide

Another tricky hide. TFTC

neirbo4750

Found it

Well hidden

Found it. Very cool may need s replacment soon though. Tfth.

It was easy

Nice catche good find

Out today with Bebetook3 for a few caches. TFTC

Found by geodaughter (doesn't have her own account) while on caching holiday with geograndma and geofriend

Found it with CherryRose and geo granddaughter. Spotted it after a little while. Cammo starting to look a little bit sad. TFTC TNLNSL

Found out with Beary Organised on fourth day of Caching holiday in Mildura. Didn't realize these Pines had cones, very clever hide. TFTC TNLNSL

We are returning from the Red Centre Experience Event in Alice Springs and today we left Curlwaa for Mildura but stopped in this pretty town to do some caches. We did as many as we could with the caravan in tow. Thought we knew what to look for and we were right, just took a while but we located it in the end. TFTC

My fault I did not read all the information and spent about 1 hr with 2 trips to this site, only when I decide to attack for a new angle as the iPhone would settle but in the wrong place, I found it within 30sec, A bit of luck as I just thought that may be it, container could do with a replace as it is oxidising. all the rest ok TFTC

No where to be seen

Dnf with 4 sets of eyes

Managed a quick find here this morning, l think l was lucky spotting this one straight away, thanks TheVersteegs for the cheeky hide. Interesting bit of history of the area, l and not sure where the white cliffs are but l would like to visit them at some stage.

with the river still in flood we continued on holidays so more Caching time.

Now we have wandered from Anglesea to Mt Gambier Adelaide and back to Geelong now to Alexander onto Euroa and beyond we have found many other like minded people so the caching adventure grows stronger.
As we came through this area we met up with Roosterman and joined in with the rebel act to do the caches in this area had a great couple of days doing the tour.
Thanks TheVersteegs for putting this cache out for us to find

In Mildura to catch up with honeysucker for the weekend. After a couple of hot days, today was a welcome change with 25C and made it a lot easier to do some caching. TFTC.

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

Nice one!! It took me some time but it was worth it

Cheeky little one that cache.
TFTC.

What a horrible cache, but it was a wonderful cache when one Shocker found the very thing which just wasn't right. Because of its deviousness it deserves a favourite point.

Sneaky sneaky, 30 mins of searching and we almost gave up, really really well camoflaged, looks out of place but isn't.

We both thought we were going mad, checking the trees, the fence. The GPS didn't like the area and kept bouncing around.
Running out of options I picked up something as a last resort & ended up finding the cache.
So simple, but carefully camoed, thanks for the cache TheVersteegs

Found with clare007...we wandered back & forward...GPS was not playing the game for either of us...clare spotted it...OMG what great camo...fav pt from me...TFTC

Will come back another day

Didn't really do this enough justice to call it a DNF. With the bowlers and families lunching nearby decided to stop fossicking and will leave this for my next visit. Finding my way back out was an even bigger challenge than the search I think!

Will come back another time.

No luck for us today

Absolutely loved this cache! Took us forever to find, only to realise how many times we had passed it already.

Geo-day with the geo-family. Easy find TFTC

Well camouflaged container! The water has not been kind to this metal tin though we replaced the swaps with some less perishable ones. TFTC!

This entry was edited by Kelligula on Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 12:30:55 UTC.

That was harder than it should have been. I'd stepped over it twice and nearly gave up. Yet another clever camo. TFTC. Found on our great Aussie Road Trip while stopped over in Mildura.

I found this while in Mildura for some speedway meetings. It was a most enjoyable day. tftc.
Crusty.

Very cool cache. Found with Elise Watson. Log needs replacing

This find was awesome thanks so much

This was exactly the hide type we were expecting here but it still took a long time to find. Contents were a bit damp and the log needs replacing but did find somewhere to scrawl our name. Thanks.

Needs repairing

On a bit of a geocaching trip away.
Soon found the cache.

SL Thanks for the fun find!

I was back for another look at Pine Kenny today
With a couple of finds logged since me DNF I figured I could pine for a smilie once more

And again, after a few minutes, there was no sign of a cache

Time to try the other side of the fence
And after a couple of minutes and following the geotraces, rather than the GPS, I spied something out of place !!
Hooray !! A cache

Thanks Kenny [^]

Quick find with Justjessie on the way back to Canberra from Camron Corner...

Found with O319. TFTC!

Me stroll around Kenny's place continued, and next stop was the pines
I spent 20 minutes poking, prodding, and sniffing around, but like the elusive truffle, this cache did not want to be found [:o]

I'll be back with a cache snuffling pig to find this one

No luck for us

Very clever hide. Found it accidentally though

Another quick find in Merbein. Thanks for the caches and bringing us here.

Tftc!

Found it

I like it

A quick find on a day of caching in the Merbein Mildura area. A warmish day for caching but I think we're starting to get acclimatised. Favourite point for this one. TFTC

Felicity found it. Little bit hard to get to but worth it. TFTC

Where?!

Tftc found with polkys quest on our honeymoon

Found with auzzie convict tftc

08:56
A morning around Merbein, with Suscoe netted us a number of smilies. Thank -you for the snippets of local history, they make the hunt so much more interesting. Sneaky hide!

Thanks to TheVersteegs for the hunt.
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Suscoe's 6th find of the day as we headed around the Merbein area looking for caches in the very good company of Phetlern.
It was a fairly warm day with a bit of a breeze to keep things reasonably pleasant.
We were impressed with this area and the blend of horticulture and urban area and scrub too.
We were not sure of how this would be hidden but after a short search the well disguised cache was found.
Thanks to TheVersteegs for placing this cache here.
A lovely recreational area and we thought it looked a delightful place.

Reading the whole description of a cache carefully can save you from having to walk the longer way and/or having to jump fences after I realised & corrected my mistake, I found the nicely hidden cache in no time. TFTC!

Getting towards the home leg of our SA trip, and a more relaxing day around the Riverland and Mildura.

Have bypassed Merbein countless times in our rush heading east or west, so this is our first run through town. This cache could have taken a while but luckily it was the first one we tried.

Thanks TheVersteegs for the cache.

[center]8494. [green] Parked nearby and wandered over where the cache soon presented itself for us.

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Picked up the TB and saw a fox out and about. This is my 3rd cache of this type of camo. tftc!

Found with Bogonghazy after having a day off caching yesterday. We netted in excess of 50 finds for the day, ate lunch on the go in the car, but found some fantastic hides during the day. Around and around we went, I feel so silly now. I have one of these hides myself. How didn't I see it immediately? Thanks to TheVersteegs, adding a fave for effort.

Sully and I laughed at Ian and Penny's log, and then did the same ourselves. This was a tough one, and it was SUlly's spot on intuition that got us this one. Thanks again TheVersteegs, adding a fave to this one as well

[font=Comic Sans MS]This was our 7th cache find in a caching run of 9 Finds & 1 DNFs today. (This now makes our find count 8934.)
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The new caravan is in the workshop getting a few warranty issues sorted out, so while it is being looked at we decided to attempt a few caches further afield.

Ian normally heads off to GZ, and when the GPS says zero he usually remarks ". . I should be standing on it." - And for the first time ever he actually was.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Perfect. (We found the cache around 0m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Dropped Trackable: "Canada's LARGEST Ammo Can Cache."
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No luck

# 5409 Found and logged at 1:59:00 PM with The Green Geco
One of 26 caches for the day in Mildura and Merbein on my way home after having a great time in Murray Bridge at the OzMega
Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs
lgoody

The Mega Event has come to an end Now it is the long drive home and back to work At least there are a few caches to be had on the way home Out and about with lgoody today. Fantastic day caching. Fave point from me. Thank you for placing this one

SL TFTC

The name of this cache had us thinking that we knew what we may have been looking for and we were right. Nice camo. A fav from us. SL TFTC

Found by Roma and Max.
We have spent some enjoyable Saturday afternoons at the nearby oval where our grandson plays with the local team.
We did approach this cleverely hidden container from both sides before discovering it.
Thanks once more TheVersteegs for another well hidden container.
From Romax.

Found it. Well hidden. Good one.

10041 caches found

this one was a quick find, nice camo

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache TheVersteegs

Spending three weeks traveling from Griffith to Adelaide while caching a little on the way. Very nice camo job! Gets a fav. Thanks for the cache!

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the "land down under."

Thanks for another superb hide TheVersteegs!

Found fairly quickly. The body of the cache reminded me of my late father who was quite partial to this. TFTC

Reperio at 1030.

I headed to Mildura today from where I was staying near Hattah for a day of caching, and as it was forecast to be hot...I got up early to make the most of it. Had a good idea of what to expect here...but it was still a matter of finding it. Luckily that didn't take too long. Nicely done.

Gratias TheVersteegs.