Abraham/Ackland Wandina, Western Australia, Australia
By
gabs1963 on 20-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KGYF
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Found it. TFTC gabs1963. Happy to make the fond here today. Took a while as I was on the wrong level. Replaced as found.
After a long look in the dark a few days ago we came back today and found it after a while
G’day gabs1963, unfortunately I wasn’t able to find your cache today (Friday 8/4/2022). Cheers for the hunt anyway!
Horrible spot for a cache. Had no luck. Unfortunately wasn’t an enjoyable search
Horrible spot for a cache. Had no luck. Unfortunately wasn’t an enjoyable search
###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 the CO 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.
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Thank you
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Community Reviewer -Australia
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 the CO 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
This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.
Another search here today has us leaving empty handed, its amazing how much litter lives here!
Not hitting the mark here.
Most nooks and crannies are simply littered with rubbish.
Most nooks and crannies are simply littered with rubbish.
Last one for 2019, happy new year fellow caches. Easy find now off to have a drink cheers
Out riding our bikes, getting some calorie burn before the big festival of food in a couple of days. (Christmas ). This one was a fairly quick find, good being on bikes as people drive by and probably think we are just taking a break!
thanks
thanks
Bit of a strange location for a cache, but it worked for us . Thanks gabs1963
Thanks! Out with geodog for a gander at rocks and possibly where Pennywise the Clown would reside if in Geraldton.
This is why you need to always behave yourself in Geraldton.
I was outnabout hunting for the Detective as part of the Mystery at the Museum game. Abraham/Ackland was my goal. I parked on the verge on Venta Street as I was driving my car and the curb on Abraham was too high. I scurried down to look for the cache and was out of sight of the car when I heard a car door close. I hurried back to find my son examining my car thinking it had been stolen and dumped.
I had been struggling to locate the little treasure and so thankfully he joined in the search. We nearly gave up and then up went the shout. Got it. All in good condition and replaced back again.
Thanks gabs1963.
I was outnabout hunting for the Detective as part of the Mystery at the Museum game. Abraham/Ackland was my goal. I parked on the verge on Venta Street as I was driving my car and the curb on Abraham was too high. I scurried down to look for the cache and was out of sight of the car when I heard a car door close. I hurried back to find my son examining my car thinking it had been stolen and dumped.
I had been struggling to locate the little treasure and so thankfully he joined in the search. We nearly gave up and then up went the shout. Got it. All in good condition and replaced back again.
Thanks gabs1963.
Day nineteen of our 'loop tour' checking out the awesome wildflower season and picking up caches along the way. Oh no - piles of rocks and canons - we try to avoid them. However we had a fairly quick find at this one. Thanks gabs1963
We awoke to another beautiful day in Geraldton, fantastic after the two windy, wet days when we first arrived. so what better thing to do than to head out geocaching again.
Yesterday we worked in the central art of town and down round the port so today we decided to head out a bit to the south, along the top of the rise first then returning along the coast.
It was a mixed day with a number of well crafted caches, a number in need of maintenance and some great hides. With the outstanding views it was a great day.
We hate generally hate these type of hides! But its not as bad if you find them!!!!
Definitely a small, not micro pretending to be small, so we really appreciated that.
All in great condition.
TFTC
Yesterday we worked in the central art of town and down round the port so today we decided to head out a bit to the south, along the top of the rise first then returning along the coast.
It was a mixed day with a number of well crafted caches, a number in need of maintenance and some great hides. With the outstanding views it was a great day.
We hate generally hate these type of hides! But its not as bad if you find them!!!!
Definitely a small, not micro pretending to be small, so we really appreciated that.
All in great condition.
TFTC
And another quick find here. We skipped on on this stretch as I did not load it in my GPS'r and forgot my phone. Need to come back here again 
. TFTC gabs 1963
. TFTC gabs 1963Out on IGD in Geraldton for the 3rd year in a row with Barnzy12.
We started the morning a little late compared to a usual geocaching weekend however we did only get into town at midnight so a 8.30 start was early enough!!
The morning started with a extremely poor Find rate at around 40% found. We then headed to the Event and enjoyed a pub lunch and a pint of beer and that would see the luck turn there after.
After the event we headed off with Team Ruphace Matthew and Cathy finding around 20 caches with them.
The highlight was following the lead of reticbob and getting the caches in Moresby Range, going through private land that offered sensational views.
Overall a great day out in Gero, looking forward to seeing some of you again soon at WA Goes Big in Rockingham on the 9th September
We started the morning a little late compared to a usual geocaching weekend however we did only get into town at midnight so a 8.30 start was early enough!!
The morning started with a extremely poor Find rate at around 40% found. We then headed to the Event and enjoyed a pub lunch and a pint of beer and that would see the luck turn there after.
After the event we headed off with Team Ruphace Matthew and Cathy finding around 20 caches with them.
The highlight was following the lead of reticbob and getting the caches in Moresby Range, going through private land that offered sensational views.
Overall a great day out in Gero, looking forward to seeing some of you again soon at WA Goes Big in Rockingham on the 9th September
Found on our first full day of our caching trip to Geraldton for the annual International Geocaching Day Event.
We arrived late Friday night, getting in just before midnight due to one of us finishing work about an hour later than planned! Stopping for a couple of simple Park and grabs along the way to keep our caching streak alive and enjoyed a quick feed for a late dinner in Jurien Bay.
We started the day with a bit of a later start after a small caching foray to find the new letterbox hybrid cache in town so we got up around 830 to start the caching day.
We curled up locally and headed around the suburb of Tarcoola, and had a large number of DNFs there, sitting around 40% find rate through the area, which was quite frustrating. We cached around the area attempting every cache on the Tarcoola Map before heading out to Bluff Point for the IGD event at the wintersun hotel, which we knew quite well having stayed there on our last trip whilst heading to the northwest.
We had a great pub lunch and enjoyed a cold beer whilst chatting to local cachers squash2 and reticbob regaling stories of some of the infamous caches around town that they either own of have had the pleasure of finding. Reticbob told us of his and others caches on the Moresby Range, which had only just been re enabled after the property changed hands.
We had to make tracks after the event to get the find rate up so teamed up with Team Ruphace who are from Melbourne but are staying in dongara and cached out bluff point with a significant amount of success before thinking we weren't that far from the Moresby Range so made the call to the land manager (this is a must - please respect this great spot so others can continue to enjoy it) and got the all OK to head to the northern side of the property, with the south off limits.
This would be my favourite part of our caching day, the Moresby Range is simply amazing, a MUST do if you come to Geraldton. Views forever. I won't say too much, you can get here and see it for yourself. Just please ring ahead (read the cache listings)
After the Moresby Range caches we headed back towards the centre of Geraldton where we kept finding cache after cache except for a few which need some serious CO attention. We managed to tick off a few nemesis caches including bluff point lighthouse, out and about erosion, tanked at the RSL and a few others, which was most satisfying.
We bid farewell to our companions after finding twenty odd caches together, which was most enjoyable and made finding it a bit easier with four sets of eyes at most caches.
We had a nice noodle dinner and got prepared to find a few more caches by torchlight around central Geraldton. The highlight of the evenings caching was another trip to the HMAS sydney memorial which is my favourite spot to visit in Geraldton. We followed the map around collecting the answers some of which I knew off the top of my head given my love of history and "the Sydney" we collected the puzzle cache for Cravo10 who somehow hadn't found it.
Overall a big day attempting around 60 caches with 40 finds, in around 12hours. Looking forward to finding some caches along the Chapman river tomorow on our final day of our short Geraldton getaway. Thanks to the local COs for their caches.
We arrived late Friday night, getting in just before midnight due to one of us finishing work about an hour later than planned! Stopping for a couple of simple Park and grabs along the way to keep our caching streak alive and enjoyed a quick feed for a late dinner in Jurien Bay.
We started the day with a bit of a later start after a small caching foray to find the new letterbox hybrid cache in town so we got up around 830 to start the caching day.
We curled up locally and headed around the suburb of Tarcoola, and had a large number of DNFs there, sitting around 40% find rate through the area, which was quite frustrating. We cached around the area attempting every cache on the Tarcoola Map before heading out to Bluff Point for the IGD event at the wintersun hotel, which we knew quite well having stayed there on our last trip whilst heading to the northwest.
We had a great pub lunch and enjoyed a cold beer whilst chatting to local cachers squash2 and reticbob regaling stories of some of the infamous caches around town that they either own of have had the pleasure of finding. Reticbob told us of his and others caches on the Moresby Range, which had only just been re enabled after the property changed hands.
We had to make tracks after the event to get the find rate up so teamed up with Team Ruphace who are from Melbourne but are staying in dongara and cached out bluff point with a significant amount of success before thinking we weren't that far from the Moresby Range so made the call to the land manager (this is a must - please respect this great spot so others can continue to enjoy it) and got the all OK to head to the northern side of the property, with the south off limits.
This would be my favourite part of our caching day, the Moresby Range is simply amazing, a MUST do if you come to Geraldton. Views forever. I won't say too much, you can get here and see it for yourself. Just please ring ahead (read the cache listings)
After the Moresby Range caches we headed back towards the centre of Geraldton where we kept finding cache after cache except for a few which need some serious CO attention. We managed to tick off a few nemesis caches including bluff point lighthouse, out and about erosion, tanked at the RSL and a few others, which was most satisfying.
We bid farewell to our companions after finding twenty odd caches together, which was most enjoyable and made finding it a bit easier with four sets of eyes at most caches.
We had a nice noodle dinner and got prepared to find a few more caches by torchlight around central Geraldton. The highlight of the evenings caching was another trip to the HMAS sydney memorial which is my favourite spot to visit in Geraldton. We followed the map around collecting the answers some of which I knew off the top of my head given my love of history and "the Sydney" we collected the puzzle cache for Cravo10 who somehow hadn't found it.
Overall a big day attempting around 60 caches with 40 finds, in around 12hours. Looking forward to finding some caches along the Chapman river tomorow on our final day of our short Geraldton getaway. Thanks to the local COs for their caches.
Some early morning business to attend to meant a latish start. and this was my first for the day. TFTC.
Tried my best, but am a newbie and theres a lot of traffic around today making. Will try again soon! TFTH
Headed up to Geraldton for 4 days to try and find as many caches as we could. Its been 6 months since we were last there and there has been so many new caches come out that we will need another trip there to find them all. We ended up finding 215 and about a dozen DNFS. We picked a few up on the way and did a detour on the way home to Mullewa and i must say the wildflowers are beautiful at the moment. We found a great variety of caches including a couple of wherigo,s, lots of field puzzles, multi,s and the highlight for the hubby was doing the chirp cache. I would like to say all caches were found quickly but that definately wasnt the case lol.... There was some very tricky and sneaky hides that took quite a while to find with a few we went back a couple of times to till we found them. We managed to find a few that we previously had DNFS on and it was was great finding a lot of creative cache containers especially some of the field puzzle ones. Thanks to everyone for the caches and hope to find a lot more on our next trip to geraldton....
Hi there gabs1963.
We found your cache **"Abraham/Ackland"** at 12:12:00 PM today, so this makes our find count 14460.
Today we met up with Everlasting and dezzabills to do a spot of "Post Event" geocaching before we all headed off in our separate directions. The first cache of the day was "Flying Geocachers" and from then on it was along a route determined by the next closest one on our GPS.
**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.
We found your cache **"Abraham/Ackland"** at 12:12:00 PM today, so this makes our find count 14460.
Today we met up with Everlasting and dezzabills to do a spot of "Post Event" geocaching before we all headed off in our separate directions. The first cache of the day was "Flying Geocachers" and from then on it was along a route determined by the next closest one on our GPS.
**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.
22923 found
With dezzabills and Ian&Penny, we together for the morning day - it was good fun - search, found, signed the log. [^][^] - Last cache for groups. [^][^]
Thanks for organising the cache, gabs1963
With dezzabills and Ian&Penny, we together for the morning day - it was good fun - search, found, signed the log. [^][^] - Last cache for groups. [^][^]
Thanks for organising the cache, gabs1963
tftc gabs1963 a quick easy find with Everlasting and Ian & Penny while doing some post event caching
Neat little hide. Took a bit for the compass to settle... but once it did we were on to it! TFTC
Neat little hide. Took a bit for the compass to settle... but once it did we were on to it! TFTC
did not find this timeOut & about with a couple of local geocaches but no luck even with 3 sets of eyes here today.
We arrived in Geraldton yesterday and after having breakfast this morning we headed out to find some local caches. We started off ok and then things went downhill with lots of DNFS. We only managed 23 finds today with 11 DNFS and I'm sure most of them were missing with a few tricky ones that we just couldn't find after searching for ages. Hopefully we have more luck tomorrow finding caches. TFTH
Found with 2Burts on a Sunday morning drive. Hadn't been on this section of road so thanks for bring us out gabs1963. SL TNLN Cache in good order. TB's enjoyed the ride as well.
Out and about with jrlt & magpie51. We channelled our inner mountain goats for this one!! Geo M made the find thankfully! It had been sat on for a while! We have taken the geocoin TFTC
Out to grab a few smilies with our Perth geofamily today. Stopped here and after travelling up and down a little robroy_co came up with the find. Thanks for the hide gabs1963.
Lots of potenrial for this area with the new roads, lots of lovely new trees. Nice and quiet spot. My first to find, thanks for the cache!
Ruben_kylie and I planned to go get some new caches in town today. What a surprise to wake up to a possible FTF! even better Ruben_kylies first FTF! Also, my first trip on the new road. TFTC!
