Hole in One Spalding, Western Australia, Australia
By rumpleteasers on 26-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4QZ41

I am archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action or communication by the cache owner rumpleteasers within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note, and it appears that the cache has been abandoned.

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.
The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either fix the problem or archive the listing, after picking up any geo-litter.
See the maintenance section of the [Geocache Hiding Guidelines](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance). In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page.

If there is a good reason for a delay in enabling this cache, please post an update note log here on the cache page so that everyone will know what's going on.
When the maintenance is completed, you can re-enable the listing by entering an "Enable Listing" log, and then post an "Owner Maintenance" log to clear the "Needs Maintenance" attribute, if set.

I will check back in four weeks 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 out there to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Found part of the container but the bottom of the bison is missing. Needs urgent attention by CO.

Bottom of bison is missing.

Day 2 in Geraldton and we spent most of the day doing walk trails with a few quick ones thrown in and the lab cache. Found a few fun caches and managed to rectify some more DNFS from previous visits. Only 1 DNF today and that’s only 2 DNFs in 2 days which is amazing for caching in Geraldton. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing these caches.
Found cache but no log book.

Day 2 in Geraldton and we spent most of the day doing walk trails with a few quick ones thrown in and the lab cache. Found a few fun caches and managed to rectify some more DNFS from previous visits. Only 1 DNF today and that’s only 2 DNFs in 2 days which is amazing for caching in Geraldton. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing these caches.
Found cache but no log book.

Found it but in serious need Of matinence it has no screw bit and no log

Good find

Screw on component is missing. Sorry I didn’t carry a spare. Delete photo once fixed.

Outnabout collecting jewels . Thankfully I was on the right side of the fence. Loved the walk.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Tiny no cap no log

Found it but the top was missing so no log. Shame

Today we headed inland to look for the Moresby Range caches. Unfortunately when we arrived at the gate and rang the landowner he was not happy for us to proceed on his land as he had had difficulty with people other than geocachers enter and not doing the right thing.
Disappointed, but understanding we decide to continue on further inland and complete the loop through Nanson as an alternative so that all was not lost. We saw a wide expanse of green paddocks and yellow canola before entering patches of older land where wildflowers are just emerging. Should be spectacular in a few weeks!
This was the last cache we attempted for the day on the return trip after some tough going. Even then as we approached GZ we though we might be thwarted t the last hurdle, but that proved to be incorrect and we spotted the cache as we walked up.
TFTC

On a 4 day drive to the warmer weather, stopping in at Kalbarri, Denham, monkey Mia, Carnarvon and Gascoyne junction.

Hoping for 2 LGA’s that we’re missed on the last trip this way and to clean up the map.

Travelling with the usual suspect Barnzy12

rumpleteasers We found your cache Hole in One thanks for placing this cache for myself and others to find.

Ez

Easy

Can finally add a smilie here Thank you Team Pathfinder for maintaining this cache. TFTC

Cache has been replaced

No luck today

Had a good search around this area today with no luck.

Had a hunt for this cache but had no luck today.

Spent about 15 minutes searching with no luck.

location kept moving and GPS jumped around a lot. Please check.

No luck for us today. GPS sent us to the playing fields corner area and it was a "sad face" for us. Thanks for setting it up rumpleteasers.

Was playing golf and forgot my cigarette lighter,got at mate to bring one down and started looking for cache my mate turned up and found it straight away

Found with ArianEllie and a little help from Bushchook5 on FaceTime. TFTC

Found with Kirstc63

Found it straight away woohoo

TFTC GREAT FIND WITH MY BROTHER

Originally logged under clan-wallace. Geohubby wants his own caching name so guess who is relogging the lot for him?

On a road trip to Gero for the IGD event with Kyzabra, jinta29 and SVKR_WA. Lots of good hearted banter was flung too and fro over the weekend while picking up several dozen caches about the place.

After grabbing the nearby 'Chirp' cache this one was close by and with several other teams in tow it was down to the law of averages that one of us would be on the right side of the fence.

rumpleteasers I found your cache at 8:27am, this was the 4th of 40 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3385. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

In Geraldton today with Jinta29, Granett and Kyzabra for International Geocaching Day 2016

After grabbing the chirp nearby we all wandered over to grab this find. Not too many golfers this morning. Found with my4b fratra ClanWallace jinta29 granett and kyzabra


rumpleteasers. SVKR_WA found your cache on 20 August 2016. This find brings our finds count to 1458.

We have signed the log and replaced the hide as found.

Thanks for bringing us to this place.

The IGD Geraldton trip is fast becoming a MUST ATTEND weekend and this was my second trip up. Joining forces with Jinta29, Granett and SVKR_WA, we bundled into the SanteFe and headed up.
After a big day yesterday, we hit the ground running with an early start again today.
A couple of early first to finds, followed by some tree climbing, then a trip up to Northhampton.

Quickly spotted here.

rumpleteasers - Kyzabra found your cache Hole in One . This is my find #6 today.The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache.!

Kyzabra found this one in the second place we looked

The second day of our Geraldton IGD trip and we had a plan to grab a few oddball D/T rated caches around town and also a few caches north of Geraldton . Kyzabra, Granett, SVKR_WA and I had an early start today as we had a fair distance to cover. This one was on the list, thanks for the cache

rumpleteasers - jinta29 found your cache Hole in One on 20/08/2016, 8:28 AM. This is my find #5625 and find #6 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

havinf visited the Chirp Chirp puzzle nearby, we headed for this cache where the find was quickly made and the log signed. TFTC rumpleteasers.

The path is blocked by a fallen tree but we managed to climb over & find it. TFTC

A quick find here with the gang prior to the IGD Event this afternoon.

Thanks rumpleteasers

Up and about early this morning to team up with Kyzabra, Jinta29, Granett, SVKR_WA, Clan-Wallace and m4yb
to tackle a few challenging caches. A short walk and quick find after doing the nearby chirp. TFTC rumpleteasers this is find number 1215 for us.

Good hide no pen for signing

It's Really Hidden Its Covered!

Great spot

3rd time lucky, paper is very mouldy and damp. Good little cache

Yay! Did not sign, paper is damp and would tear if i tried. Sorry did not have replacement on me!

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.
Today I was lucky enough to be out and about with some of those friends and we targeted this cache.
Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!

Thanks rumpleteasers (F=141 H=8) for placing this cache.

Found in the company of maccamob and micaparamedic today. after a dewy walk. In a very logical spot.

Found by Mary & David, in convoy with Alansee and micaparamedic (logged as ACMPMM), at 0835. Enjoyed the walk. Our thanks to rumpleteasers.

I took a stroll past this cache yesterday morning
But there was a back up of golfing muggles,
as well as a thousand footy muggles on the other side of the fence [:o]

This morning I took a short stroll back to GZ,
and found this cache with not a muggle,
or hole in one,
in sight

TFTC.

PS: Stop wasting what little remains of your life chasing a little white ball around !!
Go geocaching !!
Even better ... go geocaching in a foreign country

Managed it pretty quick

Really easy

After no luck here a little while ago we tackled this one again from a different direction. GeoJ spotted it quickly and we had it back within a minute. TFTC runpleteasers!

Looking around outside of golf course. Likely to be inside?

Good little trek before the sun went down, Geonewbie was quick to find this one. Tftc!

Sad face

One the way back to the car, all hope gone we turned around and tried again from the other side and yahoo! The IT guy found it and even did a victory dance. No pen but we left a sticker of a cat.

What is the golfing equivalent to spending 25 minutes at GZ and not getting a smilie? No luck for us today and we did try really hard.

We found it during the afternoon with help from our pop reticbob TFTC

TFTC Rumpleteasers

TFTC! This cache was found on my two and a bit day GeoTrip to Geraldton and surrounds to attend the International Geocaching Day event in Greenough.

The weekend started with a nighttime drive from Perth to Geraldton getting in at 1140pm after finding a couple of caches along the way in the dark. I rose on my first day in town as grabbed supplies before some CBD caching and then some more hides in Greenough before the event. I had a nice little run after the event following the guys chasing a few of the FTFs before getting back to my planned routes to help cleanup a lot of the newly published caches since my last visit in 2013. Had a reasonable day, which went Pretty pear shaped come mid afternoon, with a large number of DNFs in the northern Geraldton suburbs. I returned to my accomodation to freshen up and watch a bit of footy before heading out again on a night time run around the CBD. Big Mistake. had one of those blind nights, where the easy finds were impossible and I resorted to PAF to help guide me on some of the simplest hides!!

I was back on the saddle the next day grabbing a bunch of caches in southern Geraldton before attending the CITO event. Grabbed a few bits of rubbish and got talking to the local COs, where were most amused by my DNFs LOL. They were gracious enough to provide a large number of hints which Ive stored in the memory bank for next year!

Thanks to all of the locals for your hospitality this weekend and I'm looking forward to attending next year! Thanks

Second attempt try again another time.

Wow. Our clever 7yo spotted it with his sharp eyes! What an adventure!

Thanks to the golfer for the expert tip! Great little spot, thank you

Our 2nd find, beginning to get the hang of it! Link & Kerry

Found it at 9:41pm

Nice late night treck to find it.

Took a while but we got there

First time playing! Took 2 visits to find it. Good fun.

No golfers around so had time for a good look. TFTC. SL

It doesn't feel great posting a DNF is really upsetting kids were Devostated

Found it!

Wow gsp was off just happened to see it when picking up a stray golf ball but my pen didnt work so couldnt sign the log

After 3 x DNF for us this morning, very unusual we had lunch and decided to try and score at least one smiley today! We were here about 2 months ago but although only 2m from GZ we were somehow on the wrong side of the wrong fence. Today we walked up to GZ from the other direction and found the well hidden cache without any trouble. Nice hide again . TFTC rumpleteasers.

Found

As somebody has come and sprayed some weeds, this was much easier to locate TFTC

Yay finally got it

Dropped past to check on this one, it is fine and in position. Hidden well enough to challenge cache hunters. As any golf coach will tell you, keep your head down.

Looked for an hour then left

Grass too long

Grass very overgrown around the fence so we couldn't do a proper search.

Too over grown

This was our 1st cache find in a caching run of 13 Finds & 0 DNFs today.
We found it at 10:42 so this now makes our total find count 7190.
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Well I have to say that Penny was right. I was really insistant that the cache must have been on the course - because of the name, but it was not to be.

(But then, we could have got it from that side of the fence, but it was much easier to approach the way we did.)
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Around 2 metres).
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks rumpleteasers for the hunt today.

* FTF * (joint)

What a great way to spend a Sunday morning. We headed over to GZ and searched for awhile before half of Squash 2 arrived. We looked together then Pathfinder arrived. We all searched, though Sue and I talked more than searched. I as about to give up when the CO arrived and helped with the search. Sue was the one who actually found the cache but was happy for us to log the FTF as we had been previously searching in the exact spot.
Thanks
Rumpleteasers

Published

08:32 - notification comes through on a new cache in Geraldton, the first in several weeks. We were already preparing for a cycle down to the foreshore and after quickly checking its location found it was enroute to our destination albeit with a slight detour. This time it was I who stuffed around and caused a slight delay in our departure to GZ consequently as we cycled down Green Street we could see in the distance that the party had started without us. I feared that as we still had a couple of minutes cycling before we actually arrived that the party would have finished and everyone departed but that was not to be.

As we came closer and could identify the three people scavenging around the perimeter of the golf course we saw that it was none other than Team Bastholm and one half of Squash2 AND better still they hadn't found the object of our desire. I immediately set about doing what I do best (talking) whilst Ian commenced the hunt. And hunt we all did, high, low, over and under and then repeated the whole process all to the wonderful Irish vocals which were coming from the nearby Relay for Life event. We even contemplated shoving Squash2 under the fence to check the actual "hole". I believe Mark has photos of that.

An hour or so later and we had all well and truely caught up with everyones news but still not found the cache. Feeling despondent we were all about to call it a day and admit defeat, Squash2 was mounting his bike as he had another engagement to attend when from down the track we spied the smiling faces of the cache owners. Wow were we glad to see him, we all would have hated to gone home only to have the "Victorians" find it later and show us Geraldton cachers up. rumpleteasers started searching and it was interesting and comforting to know that even a cache owner sometimes cant spot their own cache! At least we finally knew that the cache was where Marks' Iphone had pointed and that the bobtail hadn't eaten it. I can no-longer say I cant find a TeamBastholm cache because it was hidden with an IPhone and the cords are out.

Thanks to rumpleteasers for providing such a wonderful caching experience. It is always fantastic to catch up with our geocaching friends and enjoy the hunt together.

When this one popped up I was half way through doing a backup of all the computer drives. Needless to say it took a little while to download the details, grab the bike and, being supremely fit, pedal over to the back of the golf club in five seconds flat (I wish). Got to GZ only to find Team Bastholm deep in the underbrush searching to no avail. My GPS had me 5 to 6 metres away from them so I searched bare ground wondering where the heck something could be hidden.
Whilst we were scratching our heads reinforcements arrived in the shape of Team Pathfinder and Rusty the wonder dog. Ian's phone had him searching alongside me and after what seemed like about five hours of hard labour we were all pleased to see the CO arrive. I think he had been watching and finally took pity on us. As it turned out Team Bastholm were on the money and got the first smiley, well done. SL TFTC rumpleteasers....your turn will come
Moses the TB came along for the ride as well.