11 Mile Beach Dalyup, Western Australia, Australia
By bushmechanics on 18-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4PEAX

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, bushmechanics, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

###Cache Maintenance Required please.###
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an Owner Maintenance visit, to address the issue described in the logs.

The cache owner, bushmechanics, needs to :

* Return the cache to good health by fixing the problem, re-enabling the cache, and posting an Owner Maintenance log if a Needs Maintenance attribute needs to be cleared. Otherwise :

* Post a Note Log to explain the situation and request more time. Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this, that is for use when you actually repair the cache. Alternatively:

* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.

In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by bushmechanics.
[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)

**I will check back in 30 days** to be sure that the maintenance has been done, or that further information has been provided. If there has been no action to repair the cache or explain the situation, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache. *Caches archived because of lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.*

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is there, and in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Looked around wp1 for about 30 mins without finding anything at the very obvious spot. Even with extending the search radius.

No luck today thanks anyway

We found WP1 and when we could not find the cache checked our coordinates with a previous finder. As they were correct we took the liberty of replacing the cache. If the CO is not happy with this please feel free to delete our log. TFTC

Found the first one the second one seems to have been buried due to sand dune drift

Like the previous logs, found was easily but no luck at GZ. It appears this one needs urgent attention.

Like the previous logs, found was easily but no luck at GZ. It appears this one needs urgent attention.

Urgently needs to be looked at please.

Urgently needs to be looked at please.

Also no luck finding final or second cache/wp

Well, I tried to take a direct route to WP1 from the track, but I got stuck in the waist high bushes. So I struggled my way out and found a slightly less direct, much easier path to WP1. I soon had the final coords in hand.

However, at the final coords, I wasn’t able to locate the cache. I also wasn’t so inclined to look throughly for the cache, as it appeared a number of people were using GZ as a place to leave their excrement.

Sorry, but I had no luck here today bushmechanics.

Found the first cache after some bush bashing but with coordinates for next one couldn’t get any luck with no phone service and GPS ordinary. Plus hubby pulled the handbrake on my searching ️

Well the wpt was located easily but try as we might at GZ we had no luck today.

Maybe it was just too dark and gloomy? [B)]

My second day in Esperance and decided to head out of town for some history caches . TFTC and all the COs for placing them .....

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Found yesterday, such a beautiful spot for an explore tftc fave point from us

Found both!!

Great day for finding cashe

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Down here for the week. Collecting caches whenever possible. Great place for a cache. Tftc

Good exercise finding this one : Lancey

Overgrown spot

Wow

Went on a trip from Perth to Kalgoorlie down to Esperance and then back to Perth. Spent 6 days finding, hiding and even maintaining caches along the way.
The majority of caches were found easily and in good condition even some archived ones.
Took a few travel bugs and placed along the way.
TFTH TFTC.

TFTC! Found during a 6-Day trip from Perth to Kalgoorlie, Esperance and back to Perth via many back roads and country towns. We found a huge number of caches, clocking up nearly 3000km for the entire trip.

The highlights of the trip have been picking up a bunch of old caches in Kalgoorlie and the surrounding towns, placed by some of Western Australia's first geocachers.

We ventured as far north as Leonora in search of our prizes even visiting a large number of ghost towns along the golden outback trail, some of the most amazing places I've seen in my life, see the pics if you want to know more.

During our trips out from Kal we think we visited nearly every gravesite or headstone in the region with the number of caches in and around cemeteries!

We completed a large amount of cache maintenance around the Kal area, with a large number of the older caches suffering with cracked lids, smashed containers, wet logs and alike. We planned to help about a dozen caches with new containers and ran out after the first couple of days. So if you're in the area please help out as best you can.

We also picked up a number of caches in Esperance placed by some of the newest cachers in the state, who seem to have so much passion and energy.

We ventured out to Cape Le Grande and picked up a few of the caches there, not quite being game enough to grab the views of hellfire cache but we grabbed all of the others we paid for our walking that night!

We even had time to place a couple of caches in my Country Cache series so please look out for them on your travels. Thanks to the locals who have kindly agreed to maintain them.

Thanks to all of the Cache owners for placing the caches that we found, hopefully you can place a few more for our next trip

Thanks

Nice multi here and a quick find at GZ

Found by grace the magpie

We had an adventure here. We walked to wp1 and came across a family seriously bogged. There has been a big wash away and you cannot drive down to the beach. We offered help, but not until we had found wp1. We also had trouble due to the washout. Anyway the ute had got out by the time we were finished and we had to explain what we were up to. We liked the nice close GZ . TFTC

Easy

I strolled off towards what I thought was GZ from the carpark
Close to the coords, it was time to head off track and into the dunes.
A fresh set of foot prints were going in the right direction, so I followed them

Right to GZ.
Where I couldn't find a cache
In situations like this, I do what I always do ....
.... "What ?? Call 'International Cacher Rescue' ??", chorused the crowd !!
No ... I read the cache notes

A waypoint, eh ?
Well a waypoint is probably going to be smaller than a cache [:o]
How does that make me job any easier ??

I got down on hands and knees for a last desperate foray into harder to access areas of the scenery.
And there under me nose was ...
... no !! not a landmine ...
... the waypoint !!

As I entered the coords for the cache,
I shuddered to think where I was headed next [:o]
I looked ...
... that ain't so bad

Off I trotted.

And at the appointed spot it was time to get down and personal again with the scenery.
In the gloom, I soon spied the cache
Well that was fun.

With the day warming up, I was beat !!
Time to head for camp
No way I'm heading down those steps to the beach [:o]

TFTC

Great quick and easy multi
TFTC bushmechanics

Found it on the fourth day of our holiday in Esperance.
No troubles, quick find.
TFTH

TFTC. Found on a lovely summer day with MattenMel visiting from Cape Town, South Africa.

TFTF with MattenMel.

Nice quick multi. Great views. Greetings from Cape Town South Africa. TFTC

Great views. 2nd gc out in the open, rehid a little bit, right coordinates. TFTC cheers

This is our first holiday/visit to Esperance. Came for a couple of days and have already booked in for another week. Great coastline with spectacular views. Thanks for placing a cache at this location. Access to final WP is just a little overgrown but loved the views of the beach from WP1.
Thanks for the cache bushmechanics

First stop today on a caching tour of Esperance, totalling 14 finds in wet windy conditions. Found 1st cache out in open, replaced in a more snuggly position. Unsure how we were meant to access final gracefully, Mr L.Gel assisted with a push up the bank. TFTC

Found! Great cache in a spectacular location.

TFTC. Driving the Ocean drive and caching as the opportunity arises. Great views while finding the first part. Second part was a bit woody.

7/02/2015 11:16 am Find #52
Doing the great ocean drive and a few caches on the way. Great views at first find, bit scratched getting the second. TFTC

3:28:00 PM. We decided today was the day for the great ocean drive. We left a couple of the earlier caches for another day. Have a good laugh at this one once we found the first waypoint. Wasn't laughing so much retriving the final cache. Signed log and cursed you for all the scratches getting in and out again. Thanks bushmechanics for placing this cache.

Thankfully we brought our little cacher with us. Great multi cache. Like the blue glitter best. Fabulous views. Tftc

Found with maudickason on an out-and-about gc day. Second cache a bit trickier to get to...also did the up and down the sand dune to get to gc1 haha. Tftc

Fast find and lovely lookout at stage one. Thanks for showing!

Danke für den Cache - TFTC!
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Loved it! Thanks

How cool! First of this type I have ever done. Journeyed onto the beach and would have killed for a swim!! What a lovely day for it, apart from the 4WD event right next to us. Found with Megan.

did it the hard way by not reading the logs but got there in the end thanks for the exercise and the cache

We did this cache completely back to front. Went down to the beach first and then had to go to WP1 in the 4WD thongs. Got there after a bit of huffing and puffing but quickly found the first container. After punching in the numbers things didn't look to bad and we were on our way quickly to WP2. After a bit of wandering around a decision was made and we soon had the second container.
A fantastic place to spend a while.
TFTC

We searched for this cache on the first day of winter but the weather was warm and sunny and the coastline looked spectacular. We found both caches quite easily.

We were disappointed the the amount of rubbish near the second cache and wish we'd had something to take it all away in.

TFTC bushmechanics, we had a lot of fun hunting for these.

Easy find with lots of walking. TFTC.

Took a bit of walking but found it easily enough. Don't know why we needed to go down to the beach though.

Nice hide. Fairly easy once all the 4WD clubs had shot through.
Nice and waterproof now.
TFTC - TNLN

Drove up the 4WD track to WP1 and collected the final coordinates. We had a bit of difficulty getting to the final cache but accessed it with the aid of our caching kit.

This was our 5th cache find in a caching run of 5 Finds & 0 DNFs today.
We found it at 11:59 so this now makes our total find count 8079.
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This trackable is not in the listed cache. We hope that it will surface again soon.
In the meantime could bushmechanics please "Mark the Item as Missing", so it can be removed from the cache inventory. (This option is under Actions on the trackable's web page.).

We enjoyed the cache but we did wonder why this was a multi though.

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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks bushmechanics for the hunt today.

It was getting close to lunchtime as we pulled in to this cache and we weren't sure whether we wanted lunch more than another cache BUT the cache won out (of course). We were worried waypoint 1 would take a long while but it was soon discovered, it actually took us longer finding the final cache.

We enjoyed the view as we walked to waypoint 1 - the beach looked so inviting but probably very cold. We are northerners and used to much higher sea temperatures, yes call us weak.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful place.

The first waypoint was hard to find - it took us about 20 minutes. But the final was easy to get. TFTC!

The first waypoint was hard to find - it took us about 20 minutes. But the final was easy to get. TFTC!

TFTC we have found this earlier before it was re classified but since we were out there today we decided to refind & resign. TB already taken by previous finder.

Re visited this cache with matsea now it has been released again. Couldn't enter the find last visit as the geocache had been delisted, Easy find at the old site. TFTC.

Discovered in Perth that this was the only multi-cache in Esperance when going there.It was nice views and a good journey (even though it was short)
TFTC

Thanks for taking us to this great view bushmechanics. After spending 10 min walking around the bush we didn't find this one and running out of time we had to leave it for another day.

Changed the container of the second cache. I hope it will be waterproof now.

I found this one with Mum and Dad (jasenjanine) while on our Christmas holidays .... TFTC bushmechanics

Staying in Esperance for a week, we let the GPS guide us around for a tour.
We parked about 20m from the first WP, and i walked in for a relatively quick find. The co-ords were noted, and it was off to the final . This took a little longer to track down, as we thought we my have put the wrong numbers into the GPS'r [?]. After a change in approach, i spotted the container, and after a bit of bush bashing, the cache was in hand . Unfortunately, as we see too often with this particular shape of container, there was a little water inside . Thankfully, the logbook was dry, so we added our names and emptied the water out of the cache. TFTC bushmechanics

That was a good little hunt,it took about 45 mins with only me at the beach. After the hunt I sat at the beach for a while and enjoyed the ocean view. Great. TFTC and TFTH. NTNL

Just a note- not a Found log- indicating that this cache had been found by us, as a previously, incorrectly listed, regular cache. We claimed the FTF for it. That's the reason our name appears in the log book, but no found it log on this listing.

Cheers

Bundy

Tftc nobody around today for an easy search, there was a pod of whales less than 500'm from the coast fully jumping outta the water....it was fantastic to watch. Great location

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