G2Q - Busted Tree Mannerim, Victoria, Australia
By ozbob on 25-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4TKT5

Cache owner is either unwilling or unable to maintain the cache.

I am archiving the listing as it would seem to have been abandoned by the CO. Should the owner decide to maintain the cache in the near future (next 30 days), just contact a reviewer (by email and include GC number in Subject), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, they will be happy to unarchive it.

Find number 5644 at 3:51:09 pm
Yeah, it’s Mega Time, here in the area for The Surf Coast Event this coming weekend but I have a week off in the lead up and so there I a little to organise but mostly it caching.
Today MuggleWifeDoes and I have teamed up with gmj31891 and PamJ to ride the latter part of the Geelong to Queenscliff Rail Trail starting at Curlewis and finishing at Queenscliff. Time however got the better of us and we needed to skip a few at the end to finish before dark, these we will need to return for on another day along with those in the earlier stages.
It was a glorious spring day on the Bellarine Peninsula and the ride was mostly downhill and slow due to the fact that we were stopping every 200 meters (on average) to search for geocaches.
We stopped for lunch at the lake and Drysdale Station, what a beautiful view, no time for a wander or the caches around the lake, we just enjoyed the serenity and shade of that big pine tree.
Thanks to the entire group for their work on the rail trail caches in the area, it is a definite attraction to bring seekers to the challenge.
The cache finds were shared by all with individual cache senses activated by the variety of hides, always changing, always slightly different.

Still there but could do with a dry out or a new log.

**Thanks for placing this cache ozbob**

**Find #: 4869**
**Time: 3:50 pm**
**Date: Wed 9 Nov 2016**
After arriving at Anglesea on Tuesday, we set up camp and went caching with BernieH and Annie aka MuggleWife on Wednesday. We started half way through the Geelong to Queenscliff Rail Trail series. The weather was kind, and we were pretty tired when we finished, bur it was a great day. Most of the caches were found without too much trouble although we did have a few DNFs.
This was one of the ones we found.

**Thanks for placing this cache ozbob**

Another weekend getting stuck into this series as I take some well earned time out from work and family. First one for the afternoon, cycling my way along.

Wet full

### **MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?** ###
I notice from recent log entries that this cache would seem to be in need of owner intervention as there are one or more comments in regard to the state of the cache log. It leads one to the contention that the cache container is no longer weather proof. Therefore I am temporarily disabling it so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

A basic tenet of geocaching is that **the cache log needs to be signed to record a find,** see here: [Logging of All Physical Geocaches](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#logging). At the moment this would seem to be extremely difficult if not impossible to meet that requirement in regard to this cache.

Prompt attention by cache owners to any log that indicates anything could be amiss is greatly appreciated by all seekers. The guideline advises; ***"if you can't check/fix it straight away then Disable it till you can."*** see here: [Owner is responsible for visits to the physical location,](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance ) and here's how; [Temporarily Disable and Enable,](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235) also check out this Blog: [Helpful Tips To Keep In Mind As A Geocache Owner.](http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/03/you-hid-your-first-geocache-now-what/)

Please respond to this situation by **3rd September** to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time, please be sure to post a "Write Note" log (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

**And don't forget,** once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; [Removing the Needs Maintenance Icon](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; [Temporarily Disable and Enable](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) to get your cache up and running again.

Found on a quick walk before town for a hair cut then to work lol

Tftc

Found

Quick and easy find

Woo hoo another 1

Legs are sore

Really wet log

Flossy found it

Geokid thought film canister was amusing. He advised the log is a bit wet.

Nice find while riding the trail with mark9375 and Geojill -11 hunting around on a cold freezing day. The log is wet and needs replacing but still managed a scribble TFTC

Out and about on a caching run over a cold weekend with 4bait and Mark 9375. TFTC. Love the trail

12/06/2016

Out on the 2nd day for the bike ride with geojill_11 and 4bait, we started from drysdale and finished not far from queenscliff we got just over 60 for the day beating yesterdays record of 53 which makes just over 100 caches for the weekend, making crack the 500 cache mark thanks for all these caches (keeping the logs short and sweet... like me)

TFTC TNLNSL log is soaked may need replacement loving the series and views

Found it

Last day of holidays, and what better way to spend it than another leg of the rail trail series! A beautiful day to get the bikes out with South-West and find some caches.
Last one for the day and a nice quick find. Log is damp but we still managed to scratch our names on the log. TFTC

Really enjoying this series. TFTCs

Found on a day walking the rail trail. I walked around 11km and found 40+ caches. It was the perfect day to do this. Great weather, peace and quiet and everyone I met along the way was happy and friendly. Tftc

Found . paper is very wet.

Enjoyed a lovely day with CBJH1990 on our push bikes from Drysdale to Queenscliff. Was a long trip there stopping for caches along the way. 66 finds and 3 DNF's for the day. Thank you to the cache owners who thoughtfully placed them all! TFTC
LOG VERY WET AND NEEDS REPLACING

Thanks! The contents were a bit damp.

10:12:00 AM. Came down for a drive to grab a few caches. We were on a mission today to get back in front of our friend who introduced us to geocaching. After a big day we did it. Some great caches and some nice walks. Next time we will bring bikes so we can complete the series. Log signed. Thanks ozbob for placing this cache.

E T

Log is water damaged and couldn't write on. Needs replacing

Day 3 of our geoholiday in Victoria and today we are tackling the other half of this bike track, we started at G2Q Curlewis: End of the Line and finished at Queenscliff, we took our time riding the track taking in the sights, found the hides quite different to what we are use to back home and there are some really brilliant hides along here, the weather was great for us while we were here and each day was in the low 20s which made for great bike riding, a huge Thank you to all the COs that placed these caches for us to find. TFTC

All team together is Whitepaw9, Crank1, Rosejj and I ride bike and nice long path ride bike....its from 8am till 530pm ...And we bit worried about the weather thought its might raining but nup phew we are very lucky perfect day...

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Been organised with girls - Laker63, Whitepaws9, Rosejj to go G2Q from Drydale to Queenscliff.
Today Rosejj picked us at 6am oh no the weather was so awful raining since yesterday we decide to go ahead and arrived Drysdale to meet whitepaws9 there at 7.45am The weather seems not bad just drizzle.
Start to ride from here and try to finish off on way to Queenscliff.
Easy to found it.
Thanks ozbob

Enjoy ride along the Bellarine Rail Trail toward Queenscliff from Drysdale.
Thanks ozbob

After a restful night's 's sleep we headed out to make a start on the G2Q trail on bikes. After a late start due to a visit to the market and then lunch we finally set off from Q. A beautiful day with very little sun initially so it was very pleasant riding.

TFTC ozbob

Found it. TFTC

Found by The Empire + Nicole_Louise
Walking sections of the G2Q trail, with a bit of car shuffling in between. Plenty of busted trees along the section of the trail! Our thanks to all the geocachers who set-up this great series.
- M

Yessss! Another "the answer is the cache name" find, by The Empire and I.
TFTC

Quick find. TFTC.

Out walking with team MegUA whilst visiting the area from North QLD. Enjoyed this trail, will have to return on a bike to clean up more caches! TFTC!

Needs a new log. TFTC

Quick easy find but no log book and people have taken without giving anything so there is nothing in the cache

Over for the Melbourne Mega and collecting some caches along the way.

TFTC and the series.

[Blue]# 13758[/Blue] Found on another adventure with lgoody along a part of the G2Q trail.
The weather was patchy and we were interrupted by rain a few times.
We had fun anyway and found some good hides too.
Thanks for the cache ozbob,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

#7936 Found and Logged with Roostaman
Another long day bike riding on the trail, Pluss chaching around Geelong
Thanks for the cache ozbob

The log is full and needs replacing.

Quickly found on my ride on the trail. TFTC

After enjoying an evening walk yesterday I did it again today. (Does twice in a row make it a habit?) Anyway, the sun looked fantastic setting across the paddock, what a great place we live in. Thanks for taking me down this path and for placing this cache. Log book is full.

Found by caughtatwork at 15:11 on 18/10/2015
Another beaurtiful day for a walk along the Geelong to Queenscliff rail trail with Mrs. caughtatwork. We started a little late in the afternoon and we didn't finish until later than desired, so heading home we ended up with pizza for dinner. This was probably the longest section we have complete with a 6.6km round trip for the 14 or so caches we found today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks to everyone who has made this a memorable trail to come down and visit.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Catching up on logs from a week ago; and what a week it's been, travelling the Great Ocean Road. I absolutely love the safety of riding this trail and am thrilled to be back finishing the lower half of the trail after walking the top part last year. Although I enjoyed the overall variety of containers, the number of bisons hanging around on the lower part of series did drive me to distraction. I know such hides appeal to others and, regardless of my personal dislike for the hide, I am very grateful for the time taken by individuals to create this fantastic series. Thanks to you all. I hope I have correctly logged my 2 DNFs from the day on the correct caches and a K.B. should appear somewhere on the logs of the others.

Found during a day of caching along the Bellarine Rail Trail enjoying some perfect caching weather for a change, nice quick find along this very picturesque section of the trail

TFTC

We found it on the ground in the open so we placed it back where we figured it was sposed to be

A bit cryptic.... a tree with a bust? Soon discarded that idea and went for the other interpretation and one candidate loomed large. Success ensued. Thanks for this one.

Day 2 Geelong, where we are camped at the showgrounds.
We headed out to do more of the GTQ Trail. Hubby took his bike while I walked my section. A variety of caches found in all sorts of locations.
Thanks for placing this cache ozbob

Phone still not concentrating here so used some geosense after no success where indicated Loving walking along this trail this morning TFTC ozbob

Was a great cache to find on your first go.

Found[Time to Find: 6 min]

[Green][font=Comic Sans MS]With an early start this morning I headed back with Square_Pegs to Geelong and the G2Q trail. It was a cool start and end to the day cycling on what was at times a busy trail finding this cache along the way. Thanks ozbob.

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We hopped off the bikes and found this one to be a quick find. The sun was shining and it was a really great day to explore the trail.
Thanks to ozbob for the cache.

Quick and easy find. TFTC!

Thanks

Found the blasted tree logged the find and continued on my way. Thanks ozbob FTC.

A day on a rail trail. Introduced a friend to Geocaching so this was a fifth one we found for the day. . TFTC

Found it

found

Had a day off work, so a trip to the rail trail was in order. I can't believe I have only done maybe 25 along the whole trail. Had the perfect day, a very mild summers day with a cool breeze. Had a ball discovering all of the different caches. Plenty of variety in the hides, as well as cache containers. There wasn't a great deal of muggles on the trail , being a weekday. Thanks to all of the CO's for their efforts in this fantastic series. Can't wait to return for some more smilies !! TFTC

Found with Sully on our trip to complete the railtrail caches down here.
After we'd checked our van in at the nearby c'van park it was time to do a few caches before heading to dinner.
This was another good find for us today, thanks again OzBob for your part in this series.

Sully made the find here of this little guy.

Bogonghazy and I returned to finish the G2Q Trail this weekend, a year after having done the Geelong to Curlewis stretch. The temperatures were ideal for bike riding and caching, but there were times I found the oncoming strong winds quite tough, but I made it, even though I was slowing BH down. We only had 3 or 4 spits of light rain whilst we were on the trail on the Saturday, and nothing on the Sunday. The heavy rain saved itself for overnight We loved the huge variety of finds we found over the weekend, and the mammoth amount of effort all the hiders have put into this trail.

Another pretty quick find, thanks once again to ozbob.

32. TFTC good day riding and caching as well!

=D !

[:(!] Went for a day of caching on the geobike and this was one of them.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBMH OzBob [^]

Nice easy find Tyftc

Another easy find

Our second ever Geocache!

Back down this way for the holidays and a chance to attempt another segment of the fantastic Geelong to Queenscliff Rail trail series. After completing most of the final segment of the series heading into Queenscliff earlier in the year I took off on the bike in the opposite direction this time and managed to squeeze in the section between Swan Bay Road and Curlewis golf course before failing light, failing battery on my GPS and failing patience of my wife won out and I headed back to the car. I will have to return during 2015 to attempt to finish off the section into Geelong. Apologies for the largely generic logs but my memory was failing me even as I got to the end of my caching day aside from listing a few of my absolute favourites to give points to. Thanks to all the CO’s who have created the series and maintain their caches along the trail. This part of the state is blessed with so many dedicated Geocachers hiding all manner of cache types and difficulties for us to find or struggle to find and the hides along this trail are no different.

Thanks again! Lovely walk

Another easy find. But good fun.

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day 4 cacihng in Australia! Today my goal was to find the last 2 cache types that I haven't found here - a webcam cache and an event cache - first cache of the day was a webcam cache and the last cache of the day was an event
I also found a number of rail trail caches - some were easy, some not so easy! This trail would be awesome on a bike but I was on foot today!

TFTC - TNLNSL

Tftc

We spent two days on the G2Q Rail Trail series. The weather was beautiful, the way can't be missed and is packed with caches. 66 caches we could find in the given time and we enjoyed each one of them.
Thanks to all the hiders who not only put in the initial effort but have continued to maintain this great trail.

Out on a caching bike ride today thanks for the effort in putting this series together. I still have a few more to find. Tftc

We decided to pick this one up while doing some of the rail trail, and a nice day for it too, thanks for this cache ozbob.

Another quick find at 2.30pm on this fantastic caching day. TFTC

Found on the 7/9/14 by matt,Mel, and Kendra. Left a penny

TFTC

Nice quick find on a lovely day out walking with the family.

Nice easy find

Final find for the day with mattbaden. Lots of cyclists passing by so had to be discrete! TFTC

Sunny day, nice walk, simple find. TFTC

Found today on our spontaneous treasure hunt. TNLN . Took a photo as we didn't have a pen

found it

A good day out on the rail trail, thanks for all these caches.

This was our 2nd day bike riding the G2Q after spending a memorable night at the Queenscliff Inn. We parked at Drysdale and rode to Leopold and back, then towards Queenscliff to get as many caches done before the last ferry back to Sorrento.
We enjoyed this part of the rail trail. Thanks for the placement of this cache.

Thankyou for the quick find. The dogs are loving our adventures today. The log in this one is really cool. Thanks!

TFTC! A nice easy one in the holidays with the kids.
Ta.

I came down here with Robmc and BettyBoo to do this great series over 2 days. We were so lucky with the weather, the best 2 June days you could wish for.
Day 2 and we left one car at Queenscliff and the other here at Drysdale. We now had a downhill journey with a hint of a tailwind!
Lots of great hides, some easier, some very hard. Pleased to record no DNF's at all today and even found 3 hides from caches we revisited from yesterday
Thanks to all the hiders who not only put in the initial effort but have continued to maintain this great trail.
There were 2 busted trees but I chose the right one and we were on our way again.
Thanks ozbob

This entry was edited by feathertop on Friday, 13 June 2014 at 20:47:03 UTC.

Spent two days on the G2Q Rail Trail with BettyBoo3747 and Feathertop.
We dragged the deadly treadlies out, and rode Geelong to Drysdale on the first day, and Drysdale to Queenscliff on the second.
For the middle of June, the weather was beautiful - mild, little wind, and sunny.
Thanks to all the hiders who have given their time to make this a great trail.
I picked the wrong busted tree, Feathertop picked the right one - bugger!
Thanks, Robmc.

# 6470. A two day adventure on the G2Q Trail with Robmc and Feathertop. Today is Day 2 and we start the ride at Drysdale heading towards Queenscliff. Quite a strong breeze but luckily it is with us and not against us. We seem to find the caches much more quickly today and the level tracks make the riding easy. Enjoyed the ride, admiring the changes in the scenery along the way. The paddocks are looking so lush at the moment.

Another tree another hide , with more to come.

Thanks ozbob

Hit the trail for a few more smileys. Another quick find and off to the next one

Thanks ozbob for the hide

Log signed & replaced. TFTC & smiley face

Find #575

In the wrong spot hehe TFTC

Another find once the phone settled down. Was a good day for another assault on the Rail Trail! The rain pretty much held off and it definitely wasn't too hot. The kids even got to see the train!

Tftc.
Team GOOTH. S+T.

Quick and easy find! Another great one found along the rail trail