GRIFFIN BRIDGE Mathinna, Tasmania, Australia
By robtas on 03-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5JNVT

### Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.It certainly needs to be checked by the Cache Owner. The cache owner needs to:* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating, or the posted coordinates.* 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 that 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 Cached and to take it off the playing board to prevent further inconvenience to our Geocaching Community.[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 taken by the CO.If nothing has happened, I will conclude 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 in good condition and 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 youBalayang -GeoffCommunity Reviewer

Couldnt find this one, I had quite a thorough look. Wasnt sure what the original hide was so couldnt really do a maintenance drop. TFTH

No luck.

Had a search, no luck today

DNF

Sorry Cached, after a thorough search I did not come up with the goods today for GRIFFIN BRIDGE. It may be worth a sanity check to see that it is still here, I have been known to be cache blind at times.

Unable to find. Unsure if has been muggled.

Couldnt find it

Soo many spiders but found it

When the Muggle mate and i pulled up here to find this one we both noticed the debris on the bridge and remembered the October 2022 floods.
The water had reached this lofty height of the bridge.
WOW! that is a LOT of floodwater!!

The cache was found immediately and it's dry log was signed at 09:53 on Wednesday 28 December 2022.

TFTC Cached

Good find

A quick find while on a day trip sightseeing around this part of Tasmania today.
TFTC

Being a nice day I decided to head to Mathinna and Fingal to get a few caches. This was on my to do list. Once at GZ a quick find was made.

Quiet easy to find, only took 10 minutes! Very fun for our first find!

A quick find whilst driving past into Mathinna after a night camping at Evercreech Forest Reserve. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Great little spot

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Easy find a nice spell away in the area

Well we are wending our way home after a three day sabatical at scamander with family. weather has been kind, even on top of South Sister where the views are fantastic and the bonus is a couple of caches. So now we are taking the scenic route back to the north west via Mathinna, Blessington and Deddington on a bit of a geo trail. This is the first, which took a bit longer than it should 'cos the co-ords say on the other side of the road. Got there in the end.

Easy find. Looked up and got lucky. We are camped at the park across the bridge for three nights. Sublime spot

Time for a stop. Bingo bango - nice spot and good find. I’m enroute to the East coast after a great time at Ben Lomond. TFTC

Wow i that was good

Nice river. Lovely area. Easy find. TFTC.

Found.

GRIFFIN BRIDGE was transferred from robtas to user Cached

Nice view

Easy find with ToolBoxTas TFTC

Good day out . Nice camp spot on other side . TFTC

Found again with Cached. Clearly forgot to log the first time. TFTC

Totally missed seeing it on first sweep. The after a bit of scrambling saw it plainly.

A forgot to log...

Quick find. Clever hide. TFTC

Partner found it, nice little spot tftc

Found, a great little spot TFTC

Awesome spot.

Beautiful day touring around my beautiful state. Always have love this spot we go up 6K from here camping and motorbike riding.

Tftc

Easy find. TFTC. Found on our TASMANIA ALL OVER journey. Join us on Facebook page of that name.

Good found.
TFTC

Lieb ' s Gruessli
#3529

We passed this little town and found the two geocache. Tank you for the Cache.

Drove from Swansea early in the morning with the main aim of getting the caches around Mathinna including both waterfalls. Enjoyed the day and some of the great caches in the area.

Again another cache that we should have found easily, but it took a second look to spot it.

Found on a warm foggy morning. Kutgw

Found while traveling around the area
Tftc

Drove through this area on a weekend cache trip a couple of months ago to the coast and missed logging a few caches so doing a bit of a catchup.
The big challenge is remembering how each one looked so I'm afraid it's just a TFTC on this one.

Pretty little spot. Easy find, but log too damp to sign. TFTC

Cache very wet found paper and wrote on tftc

In the area today as Team R and A were staying in the area for the school holidays. Having parked in a safe spot I headed off to then discover I should need on the other side. I narrowed down a likely GZ and had the CIH very quickly. Log was damp so I managed to find a scrap of paper to sign and leave. TFTC robtas.

Yippee!

Rainy day out. Loved coming here

Found on my round-about way home from the boat this morning.
Found quickly. Log slightly damn but falling apart...

Thanks for the cache

Quick park and grab
TFTC

With the toolman down from the big island we were making our way to Fingal and caching along the way, this was a quick find and we took a moment to look up and down the river.

Thanks for the cache.

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After driving west to eat through Griffin Reserve it was nice to be back on the black stuff. A quick find here by 1toolman so stainless steel rat and I just enjoyed the views up and down the river. It looks this could rage after some heavy rain.
Thanks robtas

Quick find, lovely river. Out and about with goose and ssrat
Tftc !

Tassie Trip Day 170 - From our new location of fingal we decided to go for a little drive around the area and made our was into the hills.

Arrived at the bridge and it was a quick search in the wrong area then all of a sudden the other member said Got it. so signed the log and returned it to that location of hiding.

Thanks robtas for placing this for us to find.

Needs a new log. Tftc.

In Tassie with family doing a short trip around this lovely island. We saw some amazing scenery, wildlife and visited some beautiful places while touring around in our motorhome. I took the opportunity to stop and grab any caches when we could stop. We only had a few DNF's and made some good discoveries and clever hides during the trip. We had some fun and laughs along the way.

Some great views to be had while stopping to find this one. It was a quick find once at GZ using the hint.

Thanks robtas for placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play.
8556

Beautiful spot for a picnic

Got this cache on the way back from the one night stand JJJ

Heading to Bridport for a few days after spending some time in the Swansea area orienteering with the family! Interesting area, not too sure that the clue fits the find but we found the container and returned it to where we found it.

TFTC

A detour off the Esk Highway, I believe this would be the first time that have visited the Mathinna area. A nice easy find.. thanks..!!

Quick easy find with VanCatMeow on 28th Nov. a sneaky little hide, but it’s there. Signed log TTMug. TFTC.

Found on trip around Australia with Willow the little black adventure cat. See vancatmeow.com for updates on where we are. 29 months on the road.

Thanks for the cache!

Decided to ride out from fingal to find this cache, beautiful spot. TFTC

this was a tricksy cache, and we almost gave up

Enjoy the beautiful river while looking for the cache

TFTC
Nice little find
MILC

Picked up on the way out of the bush. Qick find then on our way.

Found the cache but looked like it was in the Wong spot... Looked like a piece of rubbish barely sticking out of the dirt

A pre-dawn start from Hobart saw us searching for this cache 'before breakfast'!
We searched way too long in all the wrong places, mostly perhaps for the wrong kind of container!
Persistence and applying basics and the cache was soon in AlbyDangles' safe hands.
THANKS for the hide and the adventure.
391 0725 Sat 29th Oct '16

robtas thank you for the cache.

This one did take a while for EeePees and I to find but I (yes I) did find it.

Found at 7:25:00 AM
**TFTC**

Hi robtas
A two day round trip to St Helens; 773km; for ten finds.
This was the second find for the trip.
A very quick find.
Sainted and signed the log at 1259hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

Tftc!

Today we travelled to Mathinna finding caches that had been published since our last visit and this was one of them. An easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

I think that maybe the floods earlier this month may have washed the cache away. I hope it is still there however.

Quick and easy. Stunningly beautiful Tassie day. Tftc found with Clande N Mands.

Woohoo, easy find out with Trudy+3 ..TFTC..Co-ords spot on...

It is still there! Co-ordinates appear to be spot on, as it was right where the GPSr had it. It would have been difficult to find, as it had become buried (against the rules, but looks as though it was buried by sediment washed from above). Cache is in really good condition. Re-hid this one without burying. Plenty of muggles on the other side of the river, but I seemed to be pretty much ignored as I was largely out of sight of them.

With geovan parked up at Griffin, we went for a drive to see what we could find in the area. Many of the caches we hunted had not been found for months, but we still had high hopes. Unfornately, a list of DNFs were descended upon us... Never mind...

We searched the bridge, found the pile of rocks as previously mentioned - but to no avail did not find the cache. Ever mindful of the muggles on the opposite side of the river, moved on...

Searched obvious area but cache could be gone, found some rocks right where gps said cache would be but no cache

Spent the afternoon travelling from Bisheno to west of St Marys and collected a couple of smilies along the way.
Thanks robtas

Nice quick find on Sunday 1st feb on a day of cacheing around the area tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 27.822 E 147° 53.406

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 27.875 E 147° 53.429

Distance from original: 338.7 feet or 103.2 meters.
thanks to 2y,stassies for giving me better co-ords.
My oregan appears to be getting old (like me).

This was an epic hunt. We went to where our GPS indicated that GZ should be located and found nothing. We then widened our search area but without success. The initial hint was not useful as there are two pump stations on opposite banks of the river on opposite ends of the bridge! The updated hint would not have helped either. Finally we went back to basics and looked carefully at the cache title. We must have searched nearly every centimetre before we located the cache. At that point our GPS indicated that we were 103m from the location of the published coordinates!! There being no other entry in the logbook, we will claim a very hard earned FTF at 11:20. After replacing the cache, we took eight sets of coordinates with two different GPS units. The average was S41 27.875 E147 53.429. Future seekers of this cache may find these useful and update them if found wanting. Thanks for the cache Robtas. The new bridge is certainly a vast improvement over both the old and temporary structures.

Yikes, something has disrupted our caching mojo! Either that or the satellites are seriously out of alignment today. This was where the Tardis had a major meltdown & could only claim their second DNF in a row. Not only that but a second FTDNF! Both our GPSr's placed us at a certain tree that we examined with that special tool of caching equipment known as the fine tooth comb. We then proceeded to comb trees to the left & right with equal lack of success. The fact that a rare FTF lay tantalisingly close prompted ever more thorough scrutiny & in fact a revisit to GZ for one more look on returning from Evercreech. Various other classic cache hiding spots w-a-y beyond our GZ were prodded "just in case". Instead of a whoo hoo all we can claim here is a boo hoo!

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