Stand By Me - Vern Mardella, Western Australia, Australia
By shayne'o on 08-Mar-14. Waypoint GC502CN

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, shayne'o, 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 Visit Required please.###
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner.

The cache owner needs to:
* Investigate the situation and either restore the cache, or address any other issues, such as correcting the D/T rating if necessary.
* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log
* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done, and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present.

Otherwise :
* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary, or provide other information..
**Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this, that is for use only **when you actually do something to 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 shayne'o and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[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 see that action has been by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache.
*Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment 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.

Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.
Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Last finder removed broken cache.

No luck here.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

After walking close to a kilometre to the GZ I quickly found what was left of this cache. Unfortunately the container was destroyed and the log was no more. As the container was completely perished I removed it in the interest of Cito. This cache will need replacing sorry to say.

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Unfortunately the container was destroyed and the log was no more. As the container was completely perished I removed it in the interest of Cito. This cache will need replacing sorry to say.

Did get to write our names in it as it was broken and no log was around. Need a repair

A warm walk but a good find. The container is cracking a bit from sun damage.

Nice

Thankyou, a bit of a walk, but easily spotted.

A nice quick find here as the container was pretty much in the open! Added my name to the book and tucked the cache away. Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there shayne'o, I was in this area today and found your cache Stand By Me - Vern GC502CN. I added my name to the log book at 2:44 pm on 15 February 2019. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

This cache find brings our total find count to 10404. Woohoo!!

Found the dolls everyone talks about but no cache. No doubt right in front of me.

Tftc!

Other side of the track.

A nice day for some caching. Thanks for the hide.

*Found this while House Sitting in Bedfordale*

*Out and about letting my GPS be my guide*...

Remember this movies from *years* ago (Man, I am getting old) Remember reading the book too. Nice to tick a couple off from this series.

A short stroll, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment shayne'o. Appreciate your effort.
Greetings from Victoria.
-P

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#10712**

Miss-Placed and I came down to meet Becknmonts for one last caching adventure before she ventures further afield. We headed off from Gero finding a few geocahes along the way, we stopped at Moora for Breaky and with quite a few laughs along the trip down, we got there

Our 3rd day of geocaching we went back to finish off one of the series we didnt finish yesterday, love these series definitely getting more than 30 min of excersize, nice, sun is finally coming out, then off to do some more geocaching in ther area, Off to standby me series, now thats a series and a half, got most done, heading back out again to finish this series on sunday and then do some other caches

Deciding on having a go at this series, we set off to see what we could see.... and boy we saw some monster hills and even climbed them!! Crazily, we even went down them, we are dtill weighing up which was the most elegant, but we are deciding on neither at the moment.

With fading light we decided to down tools and head on to our accommation for the evening.... never fear, we will be back! TFTC

Gabs1963 and Miss-Placed came down to meet up with me for one last caching adventure before I venture further afield. We finished being civil to each other in the morning. So the afternoon was difficult, having to stand by each other, as well as some other caches. TFTC shayne'o

Didn't find I'll be back tomorrow!

Found Stand By Me – Vern. TFTH shayne’o.

Found while staying in Mundijong on a visit from Wales! Thanks for the cache

Another find for super geohusband! Those dolls are freaky! Tftc

Found it pretty easily. An interesting couple of figures watching you on the tracks whilst signing the log. TFTC

A bit tricky (like Teddy). Found an assortment of things getting to GZ from where I left my bike including a fire extinguisher, mini Jerry can, 2 dolls that sat with me while I signed log. They were kind of creepy. Didn't say much. TFTC.

Out in the hills to chase the Stand By Me series and a couple of other caches onboard the new geo-4WD.
No luck here for us after driving around the closed section.

Late Log yet found out with B12 TFTH TFTC

TFTC! Out with Cravo10 to find a bunch of caches a fair distance South East of Perth. Had a good fun finding another BnB indefinitely caches, a few of the rainbow Serpent series, a few stand by me and a bunch of odd caches. Thanks for a good morning.

Searching out some Stand By Me caches. This one gave me a clue on the one I missed.

Thanks shayne'o for the cache.

Found this one after a wander along the tracks on a nice sunny day despite my gps bouncing all over the place TFTC

Good thing we did this in non snake weather. A bit of fence slithering required.

A nice location. Long grass is a worry on the way to the cache. Tread loudly.

Re-logging under new team name ONLINE ONLY (were formerly part of TheChatterboxes but the team had got too large). If CO is not ok with this please contact me. Thanks.

Yeh found by birthday girl who has turned 7 after her sister's first game of Football in the sun! Celebrating the 15 year birthday for Geocaching

This entry was edited by The Chatterboxes on Saturday, 02 May 2015 at 03:39:35 UTC.

Trying to get some more caches of this series done today. This one was surprisingly a quick find. Tftc

Decided to pull off the main road and complete a few more of this series. I parked at the end of Robinson Rd and made my way to the tracks fairly easily. After checking a few spots, the cache was in hand in a few minutes. TFTC shayne'o

Found it!!!!!!!!

Tricky cache
Got it with my cousin, his first find.

#J.E.M

Sneaky hide, loved it my geo cuzzies second eva hide! #J.E.M tftc

After being kicked off the land on the last we this was a great find!

Nice and easy

Originally found under family caching name clan - wallace now branching out under own caching name

I think I will have to watch the film. TFTC

Loving this series! Our 6yr old found this clever cache.

Restarted this series today but will be a long term project I think. Love the movie theme for these caches. TFTC...

First find of this series will have to programme a day to tackle the rest of this TFTC

Left the Prado parked in town and put the MTB (and my legs) to work for the bottom end of this series. Along the way I enjoyed a chat with a local who was cleaning up prior to the fire season being closed. The snakes are a problem in the long grass around here. SL - no swaps. Thanks to shayne'o for the cache.

On the way to here we met some dogs and horses and found a lucky horse shoe. We decided to sit on the track and have a drink her and walk back to the car we had a nice walk and the weather was lovely today thanks shayne'o for bringing us here.

Out on the stand by me series Found it thanks for the series!

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Found

Yay. And there was a mighty bean. Woop woop. Swapped for a new watch/balance band.

Teamed up with the Richlinks and Iluvtrekking for a day off geocaching and my girlfriend came along to even the numbers up. The heavens opened up and we still continued on our way to take on this series, with 3 DNFs and found all the others. TFTC

After dropping geo-hubby and Mr iluvtrekking and Mr JacobsCrew off to complete The Gnome Hunters series, the female halves of the teams set about doing the Stand by me series. We broke the series into three sections and had to move two cars about at different pick up spots. The rail line was negotiated easily enough but constant rain played havoc and we all ended up pretty hydrated. Only had three misses - even after returning again to recheck the spots. Thanks shayne'o

With the menfolk off Gnome Hunting the girls headed off to find some of the caches around Jarrahdale. We enjoyed this series, the walk up the rail track though was pretty heavy going in places, the heavy rain didn't help us any either. Unfortunately three of this series alluded us today. Thanks shayne'o.

Yay

Ha ha sneaky sneaky!!! We found it!! Left a branding tag in cache

Found on 2nd go, starting to get the pattern. Grabbed coins t4tc

My railway wander continued, and I am getting the hang of this! TN, left a GC which hopefully can travel by some other means than this train track. TFTC shayne'o!

Thanks for the great cache! I loved it.

Out to complete the series with my grandson Lachlan, MNS13 and her son Justintime13.
We found the sandy track in to this one and Lachlan soon made the find.
We then had to reverse out as there was no where for me to turn around.
We also had a little bandicoot run in front of us which was an added surprise.

TFTH shayne'o

Out on the trails today with Skippy46, her grandson and Justintime13 to do the STAND BY ME SERIES. We managed 19 finds and 2 DNF's, and we certainly had an adventure!

With lots of thrills and a few spills we had a pretty good adventure.


We left a tag in most caches we found today, for the next finders.
Thanks for the cache Shayne'o

TFTH

I grabbed the mountain bike and drove straight to Mundijong to tackle this series. I was there at 0600 and clipped into the pedals ready to go but it was still dark. Struggled a little with the first one but once it started getting light I was away. Managed to find about half of the series before my window of opportunity closed. I really enjoyed getting out on the bike, the views were awesome and the variety of caches kept me guessing. Thanks Shayne'o the roll back down the hill was a great way to finish off.
I will be back for the rest soon.

In the area today and this little series came up on the radar. Had only enough time for one and this was it. Spot-on coords had me on to it quickly, signed the log while keeping an eye out for ghost trains.
TFTC shayne'o we'll be back for the rest of them.

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Nothing much going on today, so I took the opportunity to grab some local caches.

Well, I remember the movie, and I must admit that the train track, disused does remind me of the plot.

Nice idea for a series, did not have time today to do them all, but fun to get a few of them now,

Thanks for the cache [^]
[:o)]
This is my find number 2857

nothing stood out for me on this one, possibly because i had just ran from the last one after the witch making us move our car. tftc

Out with Rog and a few mates to do this series and 4WDing. TFTC

Headed out to Jarrahdale today & we decided to take the old train line home to find these new caches... We found our way back along the train line and pulled up not far from GZ (although we are wondering if we are on the right side?) We both made our way to this one whilst Master 2 was having some zzzzzz's in the car. Cache was found quite quickly and certainly was very well hidden. TFTC shayne'o

Carrying on from the west I was able to ride my bike to this one. I think that I was on private property though as I had to go over a boundary fence. I looked here for about 5 minutes but could not uncover it. Must be suffering from cache blindness today and decided to call it quits. Maybe next time.

(chwiliwr team catch up log)

Eventually found the way to this cache and then made a quick find.

Thanks shayne'o for the cache.

Eventually found the way to this cache and then made a quick find.

Thanks shayne'o for the cache.

I was on my way to gosnells and decided to do a detour and pick a few of these caches up. This one took forever to find....I was at the stage of giving up when i decided to look in one last place and thank goodness it was the cache. Took the 2nd place ribbon, i forgot to take it out of the last cache. Now to get back under the barbed wire fence and walk back to the car......TFTC shayne,0

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got the notification at work, as soon as it was knock off time i went from midland to the series, i started from swh and went east this was my 6th find of the series and a *FTF* good service roads on this side i drove to every cache had to use 4x4 a couple times in soft sand and to cross the tracks, i love having a 4x4 it comes in handy caching, the way this cache was hidden is very crafty it had me "stumped" and pacing up and down the rail line a few times, thanks for the series