This patch of the woods Springbrook, Queensland, Australia
By Geo.jbk on 01-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5NP21

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

Good Day,

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

GeoCrater
Geocaching.com Community Volunteer Reviewer

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Exploring all possible contingencies, I don’t believe that this cache is there any more

Doubt if this one still exists, taking into account of last time it had been found.

Migraine pay to check it out before it gets archived.

No luck for Goldielover and I. Late in the afternoon and the light fading. Had a good look though.

Out for an afternoon drive, we came up to Springbrook to have a look around. I am sure we had visited here many years ago but couldn't remember much of the place. On our way home, we went in search for this one. Three pairs of eyes and couldn't find it plus with fading light 10 mins was all we could spare. It was only when I got home and looked through previous finds that I discovered that we were searching too far into the bush. Maybe next time we will look in a different spot.

I am always reticent to spend too much time looking for caches where the coords are not great and looking for a well hidden micro in the bush. SO I looked for about half an hour using clues from past logs, bit came up empty handed. maybe next time.

Out for a day with caching buddies. TFTC

Well I must say this was a simple but very effective hide, with four sets of eyes looking we were certainly stumped and in the end we had to PAF as it was taking so long to find in the midday heat. After obtaining a small hint it still took us time to locate and Aussie Liahona, joojoo57 and myself were ever so relieved when DiamonJs finally spotted the prize. Thanks Geojbkh for the great hide, a favorite point from me and TFTC

This could take a very long time. In fact it did take us a while with four of us looking. It was flippin' hot too in the middle of the day which was hitting around the 35 degree mark with plenty of humidity. A lovely spot for GZ though. Quite traditional and yet quite different. Thanks Geojbkh for this hide that brought us here today. It was with great relief that we were able to eventually sign the log. Cheers, and Happy New Year!

What a very clever hide that took four sets of eyes so long to find. Worthy of a FP Geojbkh.

Took us a while scratching our heads about its whereabouts. Like others have mentioned, not as far in as the co-ords might tell you. My lovely partner can take all credit for finding this tiny cache! TFTC!

This took me some time to track down, I was about to give up but then I spied it. The hint in the last log helped me. Excellent camoflague, good work! Thanks for the cache.

Omg after a dnf that we spent a good hour searching for just across the way we had a decent.search for this one before getting a nudge from the CO, we went back and found it almost immediately. Defs only 9 strides from the bitumen and right where ur geosenses take u. Nice hide thanks.

We searched high and low... couldn't find the cache. This patch of the woods is pretty overgrown and wild. Would love some more hints for this one

On a Queensland holiday from NZ. No joy for us today. Spent some time around GZ but it eluded us this time.

A nicely hidden cache. It helped that the coordinates were spot on. I almost didn't stop for this one having found a cache just a half-mile back, but I wanted to stop at the visitor center and boy am I glad I did. What a spectacular view! Found while visiting from Virginia, USA.

Spent far too long looking and eventually had to give up as we ran out of time.

First time had us stumped but we got it because of our coordinates tftc

Out and about for my daily find.
I was up this way nice and early to go to a remote control aero club but it got rained out after and hours or so.
So off to this one in the pouring rain.
After searching GZ for quite some time I read a few logs and realised I have been wasting my time there.
After some more searching I contacted a friend with a photo and got confirmation of the new GZ and soon found the cache. Nice camo.
Thanks for the cache.

In the bug log? But cant find it

Couldn't find it need some more hints please help!!!!!!;)

Well, this was a challenge. It was only found after I went back to the geomobile to get a torch. Coordinates were perfect for me. Well done on an excellent cache. Nice patch
Cheers

Excellent hide! Was fun to find, and one of those caches that's obvious once you've found it, but really tricky to spot. We were mostly looking too far into the bush as there's 3 interesting places where it could be hidden.

Tftc....we went through a casserole of nonsense to find that. Do not recommend for low light finds.
Amazing hide....now off to eat some hard earned maccas!

Very sneaky cache. Tftc. Found with finchzero and Blakeimage.

Out for the day with Monkey Maker and K8'n'Co. On the way home after a long walk and we decided to stop at this one. Coords were 8m out for me today but the cache was in the first place I looked. Yay - quick find for us today which was good as the light was fading. Nice hide. # 6022 for us. Thank you Geo.jbk for placing and maintaining this cache.

K8'n'Co, the Geckos and myself were on our way home from an awesome hike through Springbrook when I mentioned this one and how it eluded me last time. Mrs GG was on fire today with finds so I was confident she would find it. I knew how far it was in this time round and within a few minutes MrsGG had found the sneaky hide. Yep it was definitely her day today. We let her do the honors of signing us all in and replaced as found.
Thanx again Geojbk

Gees,looked last week with Waldenclan and this week with Griffo,can the next finder leave a bright yellow ribbon on it and we'll rush in.[kidding] TFTC.

Wow what a relief second time here and finally after so much searching came up with the prize definitely worth it's difficulty rating might even be a little bit modest awesome hide and Camo geoJBK a real challenge and a well deserved fav point from us TFTC

**FTF** Joint ftf log to come

**FTF** Yay Joint First to find today/tonight with Forbiddenground and Gullivers Travels54. Talk about doing the hard yards to find the cache, took a few hours, thats for sure, and thats with many eyes looking. When we arrived all we could see was the evidence of many hunters doing all sorts of damage to the environment. Elephants??- I'd think a heard of them actually. Hopefully now its been found the environment can recover. A gentle nudge from the CO, and much more searching saw this sneaky little cache in hand with a clean log. The CO has now given us permission to also leave a hint in our logs with the hope of saving future damage to the bushland. Lets start by saying the GPS just does not settle here and had us further into the bush than was needed. It really is a short walk in, not the 20-30m that we thought. Approx 10m from roads edge should see cache in hand actually. There is no need to be destructive in any way at all, and in fact when you know what to look for it really stares you in the face at the right angle. The terrain and difficulty ratings are accurate, its an easy pop in & a tough little blighter to see. For us, it was covered/burried by leaf litter but now it is as the CO said it should have been, uncovered and ready to be found. This was a great experience and thank you for bringing us to this beautiful place Geo.jbk. Tftc Tftftf A fav point for this one.

Find # 2816 joint **FTF** with CC2014 and FG this was one of those caches were you thought to yourself after you had looked at the same place for the tenth time ,is it me or are the coords out or is it just that good of a hide ,after a nudge in the right direction from the co it was obviously all three .at the co request a hint is that the cache is no more than 10 metres from the road not the 15 to 20 metres that the gps tells you ,hopefully this will save any further destruction to the area TFTC

Joint **FTF** with Cantcacheus2014 and Gulliverstravels around 7pm We all spock about this one and i couldn't let a ftf go setting around unfound, so we set off on what we thought would be a quick mission to get in and out but this wasn't the case. After the 3rd hour it was becoming one of the to hard basket ones and with the bush been rolled out like a roller got loss from the locale council. With 2 GPS devisers and 4 smart phones all put down to find a GZ there became 6 readings that not one would settle for any less than 5m but short story is GZ would be 20m off again. This not been COs doing -there is just no way we could get new Co-ords to post in a note or send via email to CO. A short stroll indeed to the cache and no need to bash to far its just a really good hide and one that we haven't seen like this before. A big thanks to Geo.jbk for placing this hide fav point too tftcsl

I noticed this one was still unfound last night so I thought I might go for a drive through the hills before work. I was up and at em early as usual and was soon on the road. It's actually quite a nice drive at this time of the morning, next to no cars on the road and the nice crisp morning air with a bit of fog over the dam. It looks pretty cool as you cross that last bridge with all the paper barks dotted through the water either side with some fog lingering. Looks like a good movie set for a horror or a swamp monster film.
I made my way around and up and was soon parked fairly close, that was the easy part. As I waited for my phone to point out where to go I noticed a rather well worn geotrail, I thought it a bit odd seeing as it's a fresh hide. Sure enough thats where my phone pointed so in I went. It lead me to a great spot where I figured it would be straight forward, wrong. The more I looked around the more I noticed I wasn't the first person to be here looking. I stood back and looked around and it appears a herd of elepants have already been here. I spent a good 30 minutes looking but like the previous searcher I couldn't locate this well disguised cache. So many potential hides for a micro once your gpsr won't stop moving.
Well it's definitely worth the 3.5 stars. Well done Geo.jbk.
I shall return another day, thanx again.

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