#1 Scouting Around Westmeadows, Victoria, Australia
By Team Campion on 22-Mar-14. Waypoint GC50RV4

**Cache Archived**
Unfortunately, steps have not been taken to address the issue/s associated with this placement, as per the maintenance expectations in the Guidelines.

As explained in previous logs, the cache is now being de-listed (Archived) as abandoned. 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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###**CACHE OWNER ACTION REQUIRED**###

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Given what appears to be ongoing issues with this placement, perhaps it's time for the CO to visit and check the situation - confirming the cache is actually at the listed coordinates, please.

**Cache has been Disabled pending CO investigation.**

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/requiring maintenance 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 you feel it safe for you to maintain and address this cache now, AND your regional Health and Governmental authorities allow it, please feel free to do so.

- **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.**
**The Write Note log should be placed by 1st October.**

#Please Note#
When a Reviewer next looks in on the cache, if there is no acknowledgment from the CO as requested above, the Reviewer will assume the cache has been abandoned and process accordingly.

Looked for ages in the scrub and no luck. If anyone finds a little clue pls

Fritz and Steff were here

Looked for ages couldn’t find!

Got it

TFTC - had to go through the scrub to get it.

Couldn’t find it, council mowing so we didn’t linger longer.

Looks like the bushes have grown too much to find the box, tried on 3 diff days but no luck

Took the kids for a look in the shrubs but was very covered and steep we didn’t find a get 20 mins will try again

Jaxon found it, hard but keep looking.

Found in scrub between gum tree and bank of the creek

Found on side of bank

19/7/20

It’s too steep and couldn’t find it

Petesgold

Took us a while but, we found it!! If you struggled like us just keep going, never give up and eventually you’ll find it!

Easy find. Wasn’t in the right place. Put it back closer to the original spot

In amongst the green

Unfortunately we had to adjust our world trip quite a bit and we are temporarily in Motel in Attwood. While waiting for a return flight to the Netherlands, I am geocaching nearby.

The first day I had a wonderful walk of about twelve kilometers through the Addwood Creek Reserve and Westmeadows.

Attwood Paddocks # 1 Dam View -> Little bit of searched and found in good condition.
Attwood Paddocks # 2 Bike Jump 1 -> Searched some time (not found yet) --> Need maintance?
Attwood Paddocks # 3 Bike Jump 2 -> It took some searching, the log paper is wet, logged on the cache itself.
MPCT5 -> First on the wrong side of the water, therefore walked around a bit and logged the replaced cache first: D
Valley Park Community -> Fast found.
Bill Goats Gruff -> Found nice and smooth.
# 5 Pipe Line -> Also not found yet, need maintance?
# 15 George Look out for that Tree -> Fast found.
# 1 Scouting Around -> I couldn't do much with the hint. Finally found.

TFTC
Nu Even Niet
Amsterdam / The Netherlands

It's great turning a frown into a smile, I've ridden across to do a few. This one needed a bit of a clean up i did what I could and re bagged the log. I replaced the cache where I found it plus a bit more of cover. Thank you Team Campion for your cache.
Greytiger

Found it. Good hide. But very wet and yucky inside. Needs maintenance

Thanks for the hide

Quick find, it was sitting on top of a bush in plain sight,
It's been years since I visited this area, back then it was only the pub the hall,plus a few
houses,
Thank for placing this cache for me to find, and bring back some old memories.
Thanks Team Campion

Merry Christmas!

Never thought of looking for it where it was hidden! Creative! TFTC

Found it! Deeep and buried well with all the thriving plants! SL, TFTC

Cool rock found inside

Found love this rock

Tftc

Found eventually after a bit of scratching about! Thanks for the adventure

A great hide! Tricky to find. Thanks for the cache!

Really quite difficult for a d 1. It took a bit of a search. Scratching around the area. Finally I found the cache. I noticed on opening it that the logs were full so I supplied a replacement logbook. TFTC.

found it

omg

Did a bit of diggin' but found eventually

Took a bit but found!

TFTC found by Mr Pirate

Found

After a good look around I gave up, the bike group comes past every couple of weeks so I'll be back. A great area and spot for a cache.
Greytiger

Don’t be afraid to go down and get dirty

And scout around I did, looking for the cache. It was found where expected, good spot on a lovely creek walk.

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Staying in the area while B attends a conference so G decided to go caching. This was the first today ad it was the closest. Was a bit worried by the DNF but had to pass on the way to the next ones. Arrived at GZ and after a short search located the cache exactly where the hint said it should be. Signed the log and replaced it in the hide exactly as it was requested.
Gratias pro cache Team Campion

A 2nd DNF of yours for me. I’m having a bad one

Took a few goes at trying to find this one but a good find

Nice place under the tree, however no kookaburra.
TFTC

Quick find after read previous finder’s comment. TFTC

Took a bit to find it, definitely a lot closer to the base of the tree than we anticipated!

Very tricky find. Took about 10mins to locate.

My first one. Apparently a hard one to find

#8479 - 16:50; In Melbourne for a conferenc e and after sitting all day, needed to stretch my legs. The clouds looked ominous and I took shelter close to GZ as a light shower passed over. I spotted something once the search started, although I did think it could have been a piece of rubbish. Turned out to be the cache and after signing the log, returned it to its hide, but gave it a bit more cover too. TFTC Team Campion

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Team Champion [^]

All good rubie found this one

Cool. . ISunny 14°. Nice day out. TFTC Cheers

First time playing, heaps of fun!

Sneaky but well hidden

The now Mrs Team Boomajarril took the kids out to Inflatable World. Just finished up there and decided to get some geocaches on the way back. Sneaky hide.

I was out and about in Melbourne finding some caches, so came over towards the airport to find a few more. I had also walked around the nearby Woodlands Nature Reserve. Some of these caches were found at different times, but I am only just getting around to logging them all now. Thanks to all those who have placed caches here, and apologies for the generic log. Read through the description and also the helpful hint too. TFTH

Second time lucky!!

Found

On a 6 day tour of Victoria with Barnzy12. Taking the red eye over from Perth we managed to visit some great places. The main reason for the travel was the Mega event in Alexandra and the opportunity to find 12 cache types in a day.

We originally travelled to Phillip bay, then up through the country side to Alexandra. Spent a few nights staying high in the snowfields and then moved over to Mt Disappointment. We then ended up back where we started returning the hire car at the airport to fly home.

Some quality caches were found all over the state, great to get a real range of cache sizes with some very large caches compared to what’s available in WA and the range of D/T options so close to each other was a bonus.

Thanks to all the Cache owners for you placements and creativity put into hiding and have awarded a few fav points based on this or the location it bought us too.

In Melbourne with Cravo10 to attend the Mega in Alexandra.

We took the red eye from Perth, leaving at 1am Thursday morning, and departed Melbourne early Tuesday morning, so it was a short five day trip.

We managed to snag a couple of nice stats for the trip. First mega event, 12 cache types in a day, 10 lab caches, 50th large cache find, and most importantly my 10,000th find at Mount Disappointment.

We spent the first day on a caching run from
Melbourne to Phillip Island where we had booked into the local caravan park for the evening. We cached all day chasing down a number of the whereigo and puzzle caches from the CF series, before ending the day caching the extremities of Phillip Island, where we had both never been, an amazing part of this country.

Next morning we cached our way to Alexandra which was the main reason for our trip to Melbourne as we had both never managed to attend a mega, which were hoping to rectify in WA next year! Attended the pre event and managed to get a couple of group FTFs by torchlight which was a real highlight.

Saturday we cached in and around Alexandra all day, chasing numbers, the highlight of the day would have to be the birdbox hides around Alexandra and the multi in Bonnie Doon from that famous TV show, a real nice touch!

Sunday was an epic caching day, chasing down 12 types in a day, which required a couple of huge drives to claim some of the rarer icons around. A huge caching stat which is a very rare feat in the Southern Hemisphere. We finished the day travelling to Mount disappointment where we found Melbourne's 1st cache and then started making a dent in the powertrail, finishing by torchlight.

Our last full days caching was spent at Mount Disappointment to chase some big numbers and with a few caches around the burbs for good measure.

Special thanks to all the wonderful COs around Melbourne for their brilliant caches, and to the mega committee for organising a ripper event, hope to be back next year!

The container wasn't too difficult but not too easy to find as our group had to do a little bit of scouting around the area. It was hidden very well and hard to find as there were so many places to look. This one was the most challenging geocache we did today and we had to search very closely in the area where it was placed

**Tip:** The container was a lot closer to the tree than expected
**Find #:** 2

# **x LilSquishie x** #

Our first cache in Australia! Short search with caution, being nervous Brits, revealed the cache and luckily no evil things to bite us! New sounds for us coming from the riverbed made us smile. Put TB through for mileage. TFTC and all the best from the UK

Found while out & about on a rather hot October day. Tnsl

Thanks

Under bush

We all found it in a bush

That is a mighty fine old specimen! The cache was located after a short search and was found while exploring the area in the company of abl973.

Thanks to Team Campion for placing this cache.

Was out in the area with Square_Pegs so swung past here to find this cache. Thanks Team Campion.

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See below log

Performed maintenance today on the cache and it is all good to go. Added a new log and a travel bug.

### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?** ###
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 **2nd August** 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 indicating a date when you believe the situation will be resolved.

**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.

Had a look while attending the Scout Hall tonight and the cache is in good condition but it needs a new log which I will bring over next time I remember.

11:40
We think it is well and truely due for one of those **regular** owner maintenance visit please.
There is no identification to say it is a geocache and there is no log book.

11:39
A sunny Sunday morning, beneath the Tulla flight path - not sure now why people are so concerned about wind farms, we could even hear the vortices as the planes landed. After a disappointing French experience at #26, we enjoyed the short walk in this part of West Meadows and soon had the cache in hand.

Thanks Team Campion for placing this cache.
18780

Found by caughtatwork at 16:11 on 11/06/2017
A quick find here today as the cache was a little exposed. I hope that bush doesn't get pruned
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for hiding a geocache. Without hiders there are no finders.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Log is completely ruined but we left a little soccer trinket in there

Having a stop over in between flights. After searching for a few minutes with no luck, I took the little guy to the park to regroup. After we returned I found it almost immediately. Log is completely ruined, have left my mark on a treasure instead (and left another one). TFTF

Found this one this morning on a quick outing before work. The rain was being kind and staying away for now, which is a big bonus.

I found this one after a minute of scouting around the area. Thanks to excellent coords, i knew where it would be, so it just took some poking around to make the find.

The log was pretty soggy, so i had to be very careful when making my mark on the log.

TFTC Team Campion

A small window of time between kids birthday parties to head out and look for a few caches saw me heading out to nearby Westmeadows. There is plenty of choice out here, mostly thanks to Team Campion but I've only been out this direction a few times so I had plenty to choose from.

After a short walk over the bridge to GZ I spotted the cache fairly quickly but had a fair bit of trouble making much of a mark on the log as the container and bag holding the log are very wet. I tried to empty out as much water as possible but the whole container needs a good drying out. Thanks for the cache Team Campion.

I have been feeling a little run down for the last two days, and decided to manage my wellness. Does it ever strike you, that if we traveled back in time a couple of generations, and started saying the things we generally bandy about, these days, that we'd get some sense knocked back into us? If, in the 1940's I sought out my rellies, and said "I felt I need to manage my wellness" they would likely tell me to "stop yer mytherin' and eat yer bacon and eggs, that will sort all that ails thee". But nowadays, you , or at least I, analyse the intricate details of my diet and activity, track it all on apps and with activity devices, and google the bejesus out of any minor ailment. Having done the above, I decided that I needed two things. rest and a jolly good walk in the sunshine. I put myself to bed at 8;30pm last night, and as soon as I woke at 6;00am I analysed the details of my sleep graph, and looked the other way while I poured myself a lot of coffee. with sugar. yeah, yeah, I know. I ate a hearty bowl of home made muesli, with fresh apple, and prepared a lunch of nuts and cheese. Then after dropping off all the children, I took myself on that walk.

I had been in this area recently, getting 'the treaty of Paris' and had discovered the juxtaposition of the huge mansion-like houses and the equally huge piles of trash, I should have had a vague idea of what I was letting myself in for, but here, at the more mansiony end of the equation, things were as picturesque as a babbling brook through a meadow.

The cache was fairly swiftly found and signed. the log was damp, so I snapped a photo of my signature, in case the ink dissolved away into a blue smudge on the paper. 'write in the rain' paper might be an idea.

Found but log is very very wet!! Cransie and krams

So as easy as it should have been.... I was there for 10 mins and kicking myself when found it.. TFTC

Got up nice and early before my flight to have a wander around for a couple of caches. Quick find. TFTC.

First find. Nighthawk Legion

On the way home finding caches as I go
Been to this scout hall quite a few times when the kids were younger
A quick find as the GPS coords were spot on
Just had to wait for a couple of muggles to pass so I could repair the cache TFTC

Right next to my scout hall!

Our son's 1st find. Sneaky.

Took a while but we found it in the end. Thanks for the hunt!

Finally a successful cache after 8 didnt finds in a row...so happy to conclude my stay in Australia this way Thanks for the cache and greetings from Belgium. Left a coin from Europe in it as souvenir PS the cache is wet and I found a swimming pen in it. Maybe an idea to make a few holes in it so water kan flow out or evaporate?

I was at a party near here and walked to this cache with 5 kids in tow. Cache was an easy find. We all signed the log and left a souvenir from our party. TFTC

Ye its there

Easy find

Nice! Log lovely and dry. Thank-you gave me something to do for the arvo

Thanks!

Yeah mate found it
Pretty well hidden, but don't be fooled by the hollow....
#skilled

"Did I win?"

Michael upon finding his first cache

Cherry popped!!