G2Q - Nature Boy Mannerim, Victoria, Australia
By ozbob on 25-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4TKTJ

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any evidence to indicate that steps have been, or will be taken, to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement.

It would appear 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 a Reviewer regarding this cache, please send an email via the profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

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### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUIRED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there Cache Owner,

It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is an issue with the placement. The cache is being temporarily disabled, so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location until the issues/s with this cache can be addressed.

Whilst it is recognized that as a result of the current COVID19 situation, it might not be possible for a Cache Owner to just pop out and check on a cache, we still need to know that you are on top of the issue.

CO's of caches disabled during the current COVID19 crisis will be given some extra time to react. Caches where the cache owner does not currently feel it is safe to maintain will not be archived in the normal time frame, as long as there is some indication from the CO. **Don't let a lack of communication kill this cache.**

#What should you do:-#
- Should the regional Health and Victorian Government requirements allow it **AND** you feel it safe for you to maintain this cache now, please feel free to do so. Don't forget to log an 'Owner Maintenance ' log and also Enable the cache once the issue is fixed.

- **Alternatively,** what you need to do is place a Write Note log indicating a date when you you expect you might be able to attend to the issue/s.

#Please Note#
When the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment from the CO as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned and processed accordingly.

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Thanks for you cooperation,

Bunjil


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No luck finding this one today.

Fairly quick find.

Unfortunately keyring attaching the cache disintegrated on retrieval, container placed at the base of the tree under the old attachment point.

Also log is full, but managed to squeeze a JRB into a corner of the sheet.

TFTC

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Container requires re-attachment.

Found today while having a wander along the rail trail, so good to be out and about . Log is full and needs replacing, sorry I didn't gave one with me. Many thanks for the cache.

Thanks! Log was full and we didn't have any paper.

Tftc

TFTC

Nice hide, not to difficult. TFTC

Out enjoying the peninsula. Eventually this one finally revealed itself. Many thanks for the caches.

Found on the ground, rehung in good position, all good. Great day for a long bike ride. Really enjoyed these cache hides along the trails.some hard and some harder.
Thanks for your efforts in placing these for us to look for.

Broken branch. Located on ground and rehung hopefully not out of reach. New tie may be needed. Thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Thanks for the find. Needs a new log.

Oh no! Two DNFs in a row!

Bought new bikes and a bike rack last weekend and thought no better place to test them out along the rail trail. A quick find and on the the next!

After having a walk over at The Banksias Nature Reserve nearby I thought I had just enough time to cover off another section of the G2Q trail and get the total kilometres walked up to roughly 15km. Well, I just squeaked it in before dark. Nature Boy in particular soaked up a fair bit of time and took me a second pass before I laid hands on it.
Otherwise all caches bar one were found where the coords said they would be and although I'm not a huge fan of bisons in trees most were not too painful to locate especially as they were non-camoed. There's very little worse than hunting down a freshly camoed bison in say a pine cone on a pine tree.
Many thanks to ozbob and the other COs for placing these caches to be found by the rest of us.

Out on the deadly today to do as many of the C2Q series from Drysdale to Queenscliff before catching the train back, most were quick easy finds while a few took five minutes or more til they were found,

TFTC

Nice looking cache. Beautiful sunny day, but windy but still a great day out. TFTC

We arrived at GZ and tried a few spots before spying the container. TFTC

This log is to tidy up a mess I made with GSAK . I forgot to apply the template so my finds were published with a nonsensical log.

Rather than try and edit all the logs I post this not with what the log should have been.

My apologies for the confusion caused.




A few days away with Freddo, e.gregory1 and The White Dog Gang.

Fun was had by all. Not too many dnfs

Most logs signed as FETT.

Thanks for all the caches.

Claiming a find as a beta tester.

Too much glitter for my liking.

Found whilst cycling the beautiful Geelong to Queenscliff bike trail with Freddo, Team Waldron and e.gregory1 - we've signed as F.E.T.T.
A hot day but great scenery and good co-ords made for an enjoyable ride
TFTC ozbob

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked.

Found on a short, post-Christmas sojourn to Victoria with Freddo, Team Waldron and thewhitedoggang that involved plenty of driving, cycling, walking and even some boating and wading.

The weather was on our side (albeit a little warm at times), which made for some great caching. There were plenty of varied finds, with some excellent and often tricky hides and and just a few DNFs. We signed most logbooks ‘F.E.T.T.’

Thanks ozbob for the cache.

56 finds today on the trail using our hired electric bikes which were brilliant.
Quite a few dnfs though as weapplied Draper's rule of "no shilly-shallying!" This was one of them.
TFTC

Have replaced with a new cache and log today. No longer a camo but still a bison tube.

Looking to complete #1000 before years end.

TFTC ozbob and your maintenance of same.

TNLN.

Note: The twig to which the cache is attached is still where it should be (I think) but, the twig is no longer attached to the branch. Needs some remedial action before it is lost in the undergrowth.

10000 Found and Logged at 10:24:00 AM
One of 37 cachers for the day on the trails from Geelong toQueenscliff
Thanks For The Cache ozbob
Lgoody

Found it

I cycled from Queenscliff to Leopold on the Trail today, then caught the Heritage Train back from Drysdale at the end of the afternoon. Lots of other folk out enjoying the sunshine as well. A great way to see some of the countryside and find “one or two” caches along the way. A most enjoyable caching experience. Cheers and TFTC

The last day of our Easter Holidays and some more pleasant weather saw us hit up the Bellarine again today.
Nice walking trails and some train spotting on the way along.
Thanks for the hide here again added a waterproof logsheet to the cache.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_Bean14.
It was a very enjoyable trip around today.
We did a lot of walking and saw some trains too.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
The caches we found today were really clever and fun.
The rail trail is quite pretty and easy to walk.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Out for a day on the G2Q trail with Moneydork.

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

TFTC

Found thank you
Log very full snd needs replacement

see log for GC4TYPG, TFTC

Tftc

Great day outside with our rented bikes. While staying in Geelong, Primile had the idea to do this trail. We had a lot of fun. Sorry for the similar logs. Many thanks to ozbob and greetings from Austria

Found at 11:48 AM GAFF1 in the company of maccamob.
So many caches were in this hiding mode and we are crap at finding them. Need to focus so well.
Thanks ozbob.

David and pprass had a day on the G2Q trail today with their eBikes. Found this cache at 1150. Spotted this one after a quick look around. NB. The log is full. Our thanks to ozbob.

Staying on after the Surf Coast Event we explored this area using geocaching as a guide. Today we tackled this series and enjoyed the variety of hides and the challenge of finding them. We enjoyed the walk along the Bellarine Rail Trail today finding some more of these G2Q series.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found at 1037. Still in the area after the Vic mega last weekend. Found a section of the PT that I could walk. An old train came past while at this cache. TFTC.

Over for the Surf Coast Mega with tmann421 enjoying the area and collecting caches along the way.
Thanks to all the CO's for adding to the enjoyment of this fun trip and TFTC

Exploring the area with Just-Lookin while over for the Surf Coast Mega.
Enjoyed the walk along this part of the trail and a nice quick find for us here. TFTC

The logsheet is full.

**Thanks** for the cache!
Lars and Helena , Örebro, Sweden

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*Finally vacation and time for the trip 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand via China. We’re expecting to see a lot of different animals and flowers and also hope to find nice caches and meet other geocachers during our journey.*

Find number 5649 at 4:29:56 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.
**Thanks for placing this cache ozbob**

**Find #: 4858**
**Time: 4:31 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**

Full log, needs replacing.

My fifth day of my geocaching holiday. Some of my chosen caching grounds ended up a bust, but I found other places to hunt.
I finally had a chance to use my bike. After finding some of this series yesterday, I found a good location in the middle to continue on with. Over all I only covered 10Km of the trail, of which I had to ride back to return to my car before it got too dark. On the way I caught up to another geocaching party who I joined for the last 3 caches.

Thanks for all the caches!

Tftc

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.

Log full

Another one that I had to get on the way back due to muggles. I had made a brief initial fruitless foray, but on the way back the GPS took me straight to it.

Tftc

Happy world scout day, should of had my scarf on when l found this but completely forgot. Another quickish find but l suspect this cache may have moved slightly but still hidden

Tftc

Found it! Much easier than we were expecting thank goodness. Log needs attention.

Yet another one done

Another one

Nice find while riding the trail with mark9375 and Geojill -11 hunting around on a cold freezing day took a bit of searching but got it. Log is near full 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)

yet again a sale on bsion's log is full will need replacement

Tackling stage 2 of the rail trail on bikes on possibly the windiest day ever! That won't stop up though!!
We were barely off the bike and we had this one in hand. Nice quick find. Log signed and replaced. Joint find with South-West

Day 2 riding the trail on the windiest day we could get. Hard going east to west, a lot quicker heading back.

This is a great series. Joint find with Niklibsteph. TFTC

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

Nice spot Tftc

Tftc

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

9:31:00 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.

Tftc

Nice quick and easy cache
Tftc

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...

5794
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

Found it after abit of search Thanks ozbob

Struggled for a while here but the previous logs helped with the location. TFTC ozbob

Found by The Empire + Nicole_Louise
Walking sections of the G2Q trail, with a bit of car shuffling in between. Another shuffle and we were back on the track. We saw plenty of bike riders, dog walkers and runners during the day - no other cachers though. Wooooooooooo! (think Nature Boy Rick Flair) We found this one pretty easily, once we read some logs. Our thanks to all the geocachers who set-up this great series.
- M

The hint still rings true - the cache actually is hanging, it's just that the branch is no longer connected to a tree haha. I think The Empire was hoping for a wrestling themed cache here, but the title has so many possible connotations and alas it wasn't to be. TFTC

Went out today to do a small section of 8 caches. All up was a quick walk with a lot of the finds being very simple. And only 1 DNF.

I searched for about 5 mins but gave up quickly. Noted from previous finders that it is damaged and on ground. But there was to many options without co-ords.

TFTC.

Dnf

Took as two attempts at this one, but made an eventual find on the walk back. As precious cacher logged, it is on the ground now. 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!

On ground. Limb has broken off

Staying with the hubby and the geokids (5 & 6) on the Bellarine for a few days of relaxation before school/kinder starts back on Monday. I popped out for a walk tonight whilst the boys stayed to swim. This one took me ages as cache is no longer connected to a tree (well it is to a broken branch). This will need fixing. Many thanks

This one ended my walk south from Swan Bay, as I had found the others on another day. Quick find. TFTC

Found after looking for about ten minutes and happening to stand in the right spot to have a break. Got a very suspicious look from a passing muggle on a bike (turns out geodad isn't a very good look out) but other than that all went smoothly. TFTC.

Tricky. Many DNFs on this stretch unfortunately. The gps bounced around a lot but this one we managed to spot. Tftc

A short bike ride brought me to this serene spot. Trying to find this cache allowed me to linger at this spot longer than anticipated. Eventually the log was signed. Thanks for placing this cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 15:12 on 25/10/2015
A big day our on the G2Q rail trail today and after about 7km (return) we have very sore feet. Still a great walk on a beautiful spring afternoon and we've pleased and happy for everyone who placed a cache for us to find.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for hiding these caches for us to find today.
*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.

This one could have been quite tricky, but fortunately I happened to,stand in the right place first up, so was in hand ,signed and returned in double quick time tftc ozbob

Geohubby and I had hired bikes in Queenscliff and were on our way to Drysdale. Not having ridden bikes in many decades, our legs and BEhinds were starting to ache and make our brains not work. It seems to be taking longer to find all these pesky bison tubes... I wonder if they have taxis in Drysdale, that can fit bikes in. I don't think I will make it back to the motel again! Once again the Old Men Banksia were splitting their sides laughing at us staring at them with blank faces... TFTC

Love the Bison on the range

took longer then expected! had to ajust my eyes and find the right tree. great camo

[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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With a bit of searching we were pleased to be able to find it. Sometimes you just need to look from the right direction and it appears right there. Thanks to ozbob for placing this cache.

Cold windy but not wet yet need a man like stan for this one. Thanks ozbob FTC.

A day on a rail trail. Introduced a friend to Geocaching so this was a second one we found for the day. Glad it didn't take long and my friend enjoyed the experience. TFTC