Dingle Dangle Golden Valley, Tasmania, Australia
By biggles58 on 29-Apr-14. Waypoint GC53T12

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore the cache, or any communication from the cache owner, biggles58 , requesting additional time, within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note, and it appears that the cache has been abandoned.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

###Cache Owner Action Needed###
This cache has been brought to my attention as likely to be missing.
After a string of successful Finds, it has now had a string of DNFs. I agree that this certainly suggests that something has happened at the cache location which requires investigation by the CO.

The cache will be disabled and I'll check back in 4 weeks to see if either

- the CO has checked or rectified the apparent problem
- the CO has communicated in a Note log here, when action will be taken

**If the CO has not taken either of these actions, then we can only assume that the cache has been abandoned and, regrettably, it will be archived.**

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

Pulled over hoping for a quickie, but couldn’t quite lay my hand on the dingle dangle. Maybe next time.

Like the last two players we add to the DNF's. Spent quite a bit of time here. And tried to trick the GPS by walking away and coming back etc., but nothing to be found at GZ ........ except maybe a thin black and white ribbon material tied around a slender trunk, but nothing attached. So not sure about this one. Another watch and wait on this one for us I'm afraid.

Didn’t find today.

It was cold & wet and after a bit of search we decided it would be more pleasant to stay inside the car! We will be back...

Found with 63Roos. Thanks

After climbing the nearby Quamby Bluff and given the rain and wind had set in it was time to do some caches closer to being a drive by.
We thought the wet was making us colder and then saw the snow and ice warning signs and notice the ice warning flashing on the car dash board as the read out said 3 Deg C and that’s with out the wind chill! A look out the car window and we could see the snow on the side of the road.
Fortunately GZ was a little protected and we waited for the GPSr to settle and then got to work trying to spot the hid. Fortunately the coords were good and we made the find. TFTC.

Found it! Great spot, also found some fairy wrens. TFTC

Found by S_38 in our trip back home after 3 amazing days in the N/NW. Nice cache. Thanks.

Found with Lekker_Ding on our Easter adventures. Spotted in plain sight the second the GPS settled. Easy find. Thanks biggles58

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Tassie Trip Day 188 - We missed a number of caches on our great lake loop and wanted to return to deloraine for a look at the town and we also to a drive our to the falls but didn't get to the falls just the picnic are which was a very nice drive and a great spot for lunch.

We arrived at GZ and began our search and given it name it was going to be a particular type of cache in our opinion and after some searching we eventually found something but alas the container was no longer attached to the cable tie and ring in the tree so a DNF as the log could not be signed.

Thanks for bring us here biggles58.

After a night in Deloraine [loved it there, beautiful town with great pubs!], i arrived at this one on my way through the central highlands back to HBA. I was attracted to it by it's D-Stars. Pulled in and made a reasonably quick find. These types of hides are usually found immediately or take forever with me lol. Today was my lucky day Love these types of container too with their camo

As mentioned by other cachers, the log was wet. Not soaked but still too wet to write on so i added a bit of paper with my name on and room for others too. It fit well in the cache along with the existing one

SL at 10:04 on Wed. 13 March 2019.
TFTC biggles58

I'm not sure why I have not stopped for this cache before, but today we did. We have some friends with the surname Dingle so we had a laugh and sent them a picture once we had signal.
Yes the log is wet, the O ring is missing and I didn't have one with me.
Thanks biggles58.

It took me a while to find this cache - cache blindness.

The log is soaked. I could barely write on it.

Found while out doing caches for the Journey Destination game on GCA

Drove from Hobart via Central Highlands to Devonport and then home

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

I received a phone call late last night from gridge98 to come caching for the day with him, and also get an FTF.
On arrival we were a bit worried about how hard this might be, but it was funny how fast we found the not so small cache.
The log book is drenched and needs replacing. TFTC

Out caching for the day with JL Rockstar to collect some caches around the outer district areas.

After pulling up and seeing the D rating we both hopped out in search of what we thought may kill alot of time, walked over till I had 1m and found instantly.

LOG BOOK IS DRENCHED!

TFTC

Hello biggles58 thank you for the cache.


A nice easy find but the log is damp.


Found on Saturday, 01 December 2018 at 0850
**TFTC**

I am amazed this hasn't been logged since February, when others along this road have been logged regularly. My suspicion is that it has been visited, like the other caches, but many DNFs have not been logged. It took me ages to find, because it had fallen to the ground and it was only by luck that I spotted it. The log is very wet and I only signed GW. I had a short ribbon in the car and so I rehung it lowish in the nearest bush to where I found it. This needs CO attention. (I predict it will be logged now.) TFTC biggles58.

Apologies for the cut and paste logs. We're travelling and I prefer to spend evenings trying to solve puzzles in readiness for the Ozgeomuster in Morriset over Easter.
The priorities for the day were - exploring, walking, caching and 4WDing and in that order. So we left our van in Deloraine and travelled south. It was a great day - lots of sun, not too hot and some great walks up and down Tasmania's never ending hills . Hills ? They're more like mountains! And we even managed to find some timber tracks to follow, or not as the case was at times.
This was #2 find. A nice quick find after my recent disappointment and once my initials had been added to the log I returned the cache to its hidey hole . TFTC biggles58

We were out collecting some GCA caches for the 2017/18 summer game and couldn't resist pulling over for this one. A quick find at GZ and the cache was signed, sealed and delivered back to its dingly dangly spot. Thanks biggles58 for organising the cache.

Ty4c

TFTC

Thanks

Found all ok...tftc cheers ST.

Went to the snow and found this one in the tree.

Bit hard to find but found it in the end

Nice easy find TFTC
Find 282

easy find today on our way thru. we are getting good at spotting dangles

Tftc

tftc

TFTC this was not on the list for today but as I was going past I decided to have a look. Now to get back on track and find the others I came to look for!

Nice place, found on our trip around Tassie.Grettings from Switzerland

A great day out caching!! Log is wet but able to record... nice easy find

Very clever...

found while having Christmas lunch picnic

We searched and found. The log was pretty wet but we were able to dry it out. Tftc

Found on our Trip around Tasmania.

TFTC

Lieb´s Gruessli

our found No. 3027

Interesting hide, TFTC

Found on a nice afternoon drive! Tftc.

First morning in Tassie on a 10-day sight-seeing trip, enjoying the scenery and natural beauty.
The first surprise was finding snow already at this level - never expected that and it was a bonus.
The second surprise was finding this cache quite quickly - I sometimes take ages to find these .
Thanks biggles58 and the other Tassie COs who made the 2500km trip memorable.

Keep missing this little track and had to go miles up the road to turn around (but did find another cache so a good thing really) and once back on the right track couldn't see what was in front of me until I just looked. Thanks for making me open my eyes!

Geobub's favourite toy is called Dingle Dangle, so we couldn't pass this one up. Nice quick find. TFTC

A quick find while visiting the area TFTC

Australia Trip, Day 27 of 49
Tasmania Trip, Day 11 of 12
On Cache tour with Theatralis.

German Log:
Wir wollten in Tasmanien unbedingt noch eine Höhle besichtigen. Deswegen machten wir heute Mittag eine Tour durch die Marakoopa Cave. Anschließend ging es noch zu den Liffey Falls. Auf dem Weg zurück nach Devonport machten wir noch eine große Cache-Tour. Unter anderem statteten wir dem Great Lake einen Besuch ab. Da am nächsten Tag in der früh unsere Fähre ging, haben wir am Abend noch ein paar Caches in Devonport geholt.
Nachdem wir die Liffey Falls besucht haben, machten wir diesen Cache auf dem Weg nach Great Lake. Erst wollte mich mein GPS mitten in den Sträucher schicken, aber dann fanden wir doch den richtigen Weg und konnten die gut getarnte Dose finden!

English Log: (translated with Google Translater)
We still wanted to visit a cave in Tasmania. That's why we made this afternoon a tour to the Marakoopa Cave. Then we still went to the Liffey Falls. On the way back to Devonport we made a large cache tour. Among others, we visited the Great Lake. Because our ferry was started very early on the next day, we still got a few caches in Devonport evening.
After visiting the Liffey Falls, we made this cache on the way to Great Lake.My GPS send me in the midst of the bushes, but then we found it the right way and could not find the well-camouflaged cache!

TFTC
The last Rooney
Greetings from Munich, Germany!

i was lucky and found it very quickly. guess it cacn also take longer... TFTC!

Nothing like a good rummage around in the bushes, quickly found this one once the GPS settled. tftc

Back in Tassie with whitewebbs finding caches that have been published since our last visit, this is one of them. We targetted the caches in the centeral highlands on a great day out, not too cold! An easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Doing a lap of the central highlands with Tassie Trekkers and this was one of the caches located today. TFTC

Arrived late afternoon.. smoke still out there but as thick as previous finder comment.
Thanks biggles58

We found this cache yesterday but I withheld logging it until I could upload a couple of pics from my camera. We arrived at GZ and found the cache straight away, TFTC gave a fav point
It was downright eerie here. It was midday and we were right under a massive plume of smoke from the fires and it was dark!! The temperature had dropped at least 15 degrees, and it was "snowing" ash all over us, T he Sun was visible as a red ball. We started to see echidnas all over the place they must have thought it was time for an evening stroll. We then headed to smoke shrouded Delorraine and left the other caches on this route until today.

We're half way through our six month stay (til the end of March '16) from the Kurrajong area, (Blue Mountains) NW of Sydney, to tour in the caravan and also visit our kids and grandkids in the Huon Valley On four previous visits before this visit, we were muggles, so we have a whole island of caching fun ahead of us!

A 10 day trip to Tasmania with a lot more caching then initially expected, but I enjoyed every minute of it! This was one of the many caches I found and enjoyed. Can't wait to get back here and do it all over again, there are so many great places in Tasmania.
TFTC Wilbert67

Walk straight to the right spot. Found the cache without any problems. Tnx for the hide.

Have been caching in Launceston and Devonport and decided to drive the Lake Highway home.
This one was the first to find, nifty container. Now for your next cache biggles58.
TFTC

Took a bit of finding, then something clicked... what's the name of the cache? Not a bad spot to stop and suck in nature.. thanks..!!

We pulled up to this cache expecting a bit of a struggle given the difficulty rating, but some days luck is on your side, and I just walked straight to it. The log is pretty damp but still usable for now. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Travelling around Australia, from our home in WA.

Another lovely day with sunshine!

Such an exciting day seeing Liffey Falls, The Great Lake, and Snow!!!! WooHoo. (remember in WA snow is almost non existent)

Quickest find of the day!

TFTC biggles58

Called in for a quick driveby cache after spending an awesome day building snowmen and playing about in the snow. SL@16:15 TFTC biggles58.

Logged today on the way back from the Great Lake playing in the Snow. TFTC

Spotted the cache container as soon as I stepped out of the car.
Log was very soggy and wasnt able to sign it so I left a new dry log sheet in the cache
TFTC
Cheers
Rocket

A nice easy find and a good area to park.
Lovely scenery in this area, with the snow and ice making the drive a bit more exciting!
Thanks biggles58.

Found it! TFTC

What a great view! Thanks for the cache!

Easy find. Tftc

Found on the floor so hung back up, tftc

TFTC

TFTC

With a check of the difficulty level & reading some of the early logs we were expecting a fairly lengthy search here. However we were happy (or perhaps that should read disappointed?) to have CiH in a matter of seconds. We suspect a little cache creep may have occurred as the camo is no longer working as well as it could in this environment. [Blue]Find # 1966. Thanks for the cache biggles58 TNLN.[/Blue]

I love roadside grabs. TFTC

found it.
TFTC

Nice spot and a good break for everyone. . Found by Team Justice - VJ. TFTC

No problems finding this one and a good location to get off the road. TFTC!

No problems finding this one and a good location to get off the road. TFTC!

We found this one during our camper-van holiday in Tasmania.

Thank you for the Cache and greetings from Germany.

A surprisingly quick find, must have had luck on our side as it was easily spotted. Thanks for the cache.

In all may travels past never seen a car stopped in here. But since I found it seems like ever time I travel past here a car is pulled into this little area. Unusual range of plants seem to be growing in this location. Always up for an extra stop or two while travelling this way, thanks.
JABs.

On our way home from Geo-trip to the Deloraine area. Name helps and for once we picked it out in the camouflage.
TFTC

Found with Bedmaker.
Cool hide, thanks.

Found with Tassiegirl13 while down here on holidays from Queensland visiting the Tassie in-laws over the Christmas/ New Year period.
We were on a day trip up to the Great Lake area and called in the grab this one along the way.
A quick stop for us and after a little searching we soon had the cache found.
TFTC

Found with my Hero Husband (Moneydork) on our family Christmas holiday. Thanks.

A nice quick one.

Yebo biggle58

We gave it a try and bazingo there it was
Now back on the road
Tftc

This entry was edited by brownie52 on Thursday, 06 November 2014 at 10:43:32 UTC.

Surprisingly quick find. TFTC

Quick find for geo wife

Another good hide spot - short search until spotted it. Thanks biggles58

Not your normal dingle dangle!! This find was made by Mrs Beetle which in itself is unusual. Loved the container and the snow started falling as we were searching. Thanks.

TFTC

Found on the way to the NW coast for a caching weekend. This one took quite some time to find but we got there in the end. TFTC

As a number of caches have been published while we were in NSW, we thought that we would visit the Central Plateau area today to try to find some of the new caches. When we left home it was overcast but as we started to climb up to the plateau we drove into quite thick low cloud but, thankfully, no rain. There was very good parking near GZ and we were extremely lucky to get out of the car and approach GZ from the right angle as the cache was seen and retrieved within 15 seconds. We could see that if we had approached from another direction, it could have taken quite some time. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks biggles58 for another of your excellent Central Plateau caches.

Found by mr sharnie's tribe on a day of caching in the Lakes area. I had almost given up. A clever hide. TFTC

Hi biggles58
Got to this cache and it was absolutely freezing and starting to head toward dark.
Found, logged and replaced as found at 1625hrs.
With the name 'Dingle Dangle' I found something other than what I was expecting [TeHeHe]!!
A GREAT hide and this find a*FTF* for OldSaint.
In fact it was my 3710th over-all find; comprising GA1462 finds and GC2248 finds.
So much for the trivia
TFTC, the view and your friendship
Cheers OldSaint.

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