[SL] - Missing Link Nuggetty, Victoria, Australia
By Team_Ninja on 26-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5TAYB

----------### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUESTED PLEASE** ###----------Hi there AussieTrainDriver,It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is some sort of issue. The recent logs may contain more details about what sort of issues are evident.The cache has been [**temporarily disabled**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=235), so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location, until the issues/s can be addressed.**You do need to respond in some way within 14 days,** so others know you are on top of it, as well as indicating exactly what is happening with this placement - please don't let a lack of communication scuttle this listing.#What you need to do:-#You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-- **Check On The Cache** - once checked, place an Owner Maintenance log and then enable the cache.- **Place A Write Note Log** - indicating a date when you expect it will be restored. - **Adopt Out or Archive** - depending on whether you want it kept or for it to disappear.Full details for each of the above choices can be found at [**GEOCACHE MAINTENANCE**]( https://wiki.groundspeak.com/display/GEO/Victoria) on the Regional Policies page.You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned. It would be far better if you decide, so please do something before then. Please don't send an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.Thanks for your cooperation,Bunjil (Pete & Helen)Volunteer Reviewers - Australia[3B]

Time to let this one go

Tftc easy find log is totally destroyed didn't have any paper to replace

#49 quick drive by find for the kids. The main log was super soaked however and could not be signed.

Log book saturated and cant be signed.

We are slowly making our way to St Arnaud via a number of smaller towns and stopping at Maldon for lunch. We enjoyed eating lunch at the Gold Exchange Caf Restaurant so much last time, we thought we would stop there again. It didn't disappoint. Google Maps might say it takes less than an hour between these towns, but somehow, it keeps taking us 2 hours. However, we are now getting closer to our target of 20 geocaches in all Victorian LGAs, hitting more in Mt Alexander, Central Goldfields, Loddon, and our new LGA of Northern Grampians. Nice quick find. However, watch our for the barbed wire laying around at GZ. The log is completely drowned and needs some TLC.Thanks for the cache, Team Ninja.Hunter

Found with 999HunterTFTC

Cache is extremely wet and needs attention. Have dried it out as good as we can and put in a new log.Thanks for the cache

Quick find, But sadly the cache was full of water and the log was too wet to sign.

Cache container full of water. Log too wet to sign.

Found.Paper is wet and slimy, container ok.Careful of the barb wire.

A short trip up to Maldon and Heathcote this weekend grabbing a few caches on the way.Rode the rail trails this morning, firstly towards Castlemaine, and then Maldon going north west.All the cache were there, but most need some TLC. Mostly wet logs and damaged containers.This line had a lot of cuttings and bridges! Not a lot of flat land around.Thanks, Robmc.

An unusual situation for us instead of being in lovely warm Queensland we are hiding around cold old Victoria. Medical reasons and caravan repairs have us staying here and we will be looking forward to finding as many caches as possible while we are here. SL TFTC

Out and about in the Maldon area again and it was time to finish this series. Next stop along the way and again the log was soaked however I had no more replacements with me. Grabbed a photo of the log and cache.

Thanks again Team Ninja...

It really is a missing link. Nice stonework though. Sadly this log too is saturated & slimy. Defeats the purpose of a log in a ziplock bag when the bag is left wide open!! Many thanks

Unfortunately the container was full of water the log was too wet to sign
I emptied the water

Nice easy find

TFTC

Thanks for the hide and cache. Both doing well

Nice hiding place. Thanks

Beautiful day great location TFTC

TFTC beware of rusty barbed wire near GZ

Enjoy drive through beautiful country
TFTH

The mozzies are getting fierce already, ill have to remember the spray

TFTC

TFTC a lovely walk too

There was a pen on the ground was a give away!

Ticking another one off.

Tftc.

Thanks

Quiet road today. Plenty of long grass about. Quick find. TFTC ️

Ground a little waterlogged

Cache damp. Log dry. Sealed carefully TFTC

We headed out for a day trip and decided this area was a great quiet location.
The winter day we got was just amazing, sunny and a delight to be geocaching in.
Thank you for placing this geocache for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Jelly_bean14.
We had a week to do some day trips in the school holidays and came here and found this geocache.
It was great fun thanks for hiding it for us to find.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie.
I had a great time in the area finding geocaches.
It was a nice way to spend some school holiday days.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find!

Thanks for the cache

Nice hide cache is in good condition.. Tftc

Caching in the area we were able to finish off the SL series after running out of time on our last visit here. Starting backwards we worked our way down to Floodway, enjoying the remnants of the old abandoned railway that each cache had to show us.
Interesting ruins here, even looks like the remains of a water race!
Thanks AussieTrainDriver for highlighting this historic railway line.

Solve this puzzle: a baby, a rhino and a rooster all complete for second place rip.

**Find #: 6589**
**Time: 3:07 pm**
**Date: Tue 12 Nov 2019**
The day dawned a bit cooler today in Saint Arnaud.
We started out doing some of the StArs geo art, but then headed of to Bendigo for a baby sitting day tomorrow.
On the way we deviated to get Forte's Ground, and then some very enjoyable caches nearer Bendigo,
Very interesting stonework in the water race over the road.

**Thanks for placing this cache AussieTrainDriver**

Heading south for the St. Arnaud event next month after leaving QOGM in Blackall. Day 60 of our trip. Caching along the way. A total of 9 caches for the day and 1700
for the trip. TFTC

Felt a little nervous in the long grass for snakes with this on but after grabbing a stick and stomping my feet it was a quick retrieval

Found

??

TFTC. Signed and returned. Quick find while out with my daughter.

we are the missing link

Good oh

Found

Tftc great drive from dunolly

A much cooler morning in Maldon after much rain overnight. We thought to find some more of the SL series before we head home to Wangaratta. Nice to have a variety of cache containers and sizes to discover in this series. Interesting stone retaining wall. SL at 9.35am Left: rooster. #6188 TFTC AussieTrainDriver

Maryborough to Maldon staying at Butts Reserve
After setting up camp we decided to begin the SL trail starting from the end.
We glimpsed many sections of the abandoned railway line. Enjoyed our day travelling the country side.
Thanks for placing this cache AussieTrainDriver

We found the cache neatly tucked away today. Thanks Team_Ninja, found with Motndarg.

Had no idea that this old railway was here, caching is very educational!! Cache found OK, thanks.

A quick grab and we were on our way on this interesting run of caches thanks Team_ninja.

Nice location, once you know what it was the landcape makes sense. Thankyou for the tour.

Another great site here!
We loved the perfect s stonework on the base here, even that in the drain which directs water away from the base of the embankment.
A lovely sized container and 'keeper' as well.
TFTC

On a well earned break in Castlemaine and I’m spending the time just touring the whole area, enjoying the sites and picking up caches as I go.
The bushfires sure did take out a fair bit of infrastructure on this line, a lot of lost bridges and such.
Thanks Team_Ninja TFTC TFTS.

Found by G & A

TFTC and for sharing the history of this particular Rail Line. Er had completed some of the SL series caches from the Maldon end a week or so ago. Being a nice day for a drive we decide to complete the series , starting form this end . We could then circle from Maryborough to Maldon and then back to Maryborough without having to do any back tracking.=For the most part we found the caches without too much drama. One of the multis gave us a bit of trouble, more of that in the log for that particular cache. A great series and worthy of a favorite from us.

This cache was find #50 for me!! TFTC

Got it

Performed some maintenance today. My thanks to Earthbound Chief for fixing this one up after it was interfered with.

On a day out with Wozzle68 and MazzyMay with the idea of getting the 100 for the month. At the start of the day we thought we would be fighting the rain but as the day went on it turned out to be OK . TFTC.

Maldon was the target for today's caching foray in the company of Wozzle68 and Dippa46, we had a wonderful day investigating the area, getting a lot of exercise, more than necessary in some cases, but fun nevertheless. Really enjoying the series. TFTC

Caching the Maldon area today with MazzyMay and Dippa46 trying to chalk up a few virtual souvenirs. The rain threatened to spoil our day early on but soon cleared up and turned into a great day for it. The stone wall was great to see. Thanks for the hide AussieTrainDriver!

Amazing, all this info about the rails is interesting. TFTC

Tftc and thanks to all who place thèm. Enjoyed our stay and hope to return

quick stop quick find tftc

Found out with wildnic26, beautiful day to play hookie.

We are on a road trip with the aim of getting out of Melbourne for a few hours having got my parents to their hire car and then out of the city. We pointed them towards Wodonga and said goodbye in Wallan. Now where shall we go......hmmm! We did a bit of maintenance here as the Chief discovered the cache open, contents strewn everywhere. All contents collected but couldn’t find a log book. Removed lizard from cache container when realised he was real and returned to car for a spare log book. Everything is back in place now.
Thanks for placing [SL] - Missing Link so we could find it.
Thanks AussieTrainDriver for the caching fun.

Tricky number 6

Nice frog!
Windy cool morning to find this one. Number of different possibilities for this hide, but found something that looked a bit out of place and there it was. TFTC

FOUND by Russell,,,3/8/17

Off to a late start with grandkids and got it swaps done and next please tftc

We have done parts of this series from Maldon and it was good that we could continue to do some more of it today. It was intermittently raining today which meant we could not see all the embankments as per your photos. Still we enjoyed our run of six caches today.
6 Team_Ninja

Over Lannecoorie way today and I decided on a few caches on the way home. What a great little series. Beautiful country roads, colour birds everywhere and a bright blue sky. Many thanks for the caches

Another quick cache find,
and exploration of this olde railway line

I'm loving the commentary and photos on this well researched cache series [^]

TFTC

I thought I'd make the most of my one day off and this beautiful weather to go out and find the SL Series, starting from The End and working my way back. I loved the history and the amount of work gone into creating this series.

Found at 12.16am. Another quick find. Cache and contents were in good condition. Thank you for the cache Team Ninja

#532

Found with Tassydevil. An entertaining series. Thanks

Found with Bill Gosse, enjoying this. TFTC

Suscoe headed north very early this morning for a day of caching around the Maldon and Newstead area.
We left home in steady drizzle but by the time we crossed the divide the sky eased up a bit. For the remainder of the day we had sunny skies with the occasional cloud and a generous southerly wind blowing which kept temperatures in the high teens and low twenties.
The country is pretty dry around here but we were pleased to report that grass seeds are not as bad here compared to the North East and even Castlemaine.
We enjoyed this Maldon - Shelbourne railway trail and had a terrific morning making our way from The End to The Beginning.
A big thank you to Team Ninja for a very well researched set of Cache notes and for sharing this knowledge with us.
All good at GZ, all quiet on the roads and the day was warming up ever so slowly.

Another good find while exploring around the area. SL TFTC

Good new container and contents.

New container is in place

Owner TLC.

Found this as part of our boys road trip away with SAWSTUFF - Astro, Waldron, SxC, White Dog Gang, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo.

Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache for our enjoyment.

Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

A 4 day trip from Adelaide to Everton, Beechworth and surrounds.

8 of South Australia's finest caching teams came across the border Freddo, Team Astro, The White Dog Gang, Four Fun, Unicycle, Southern Cross Caching, Shonkloic, and Team Waldron hit the bike trails and country back roads.

It wasn't nice the the mozzies were sent to defend the ceches against us but we persisted.

On the way home we visited Bendigo, St Arnaud and many towns in between.

Many thanks to all the cache owners who put out caches for us to find.

A great time was had and we left enough to make another trip worthwhile.

Owner might need to check.

Came along and found this with SAWSTUFF - Astro, Waldron, SxC, White Dog Gang, Uni, Four Fun and Freddo. Thanks Team Ninja

Great cache found during the "SAW STUFF" road, bicycle & walking trip to central Victoria with Shonky, Astro, Waldron, Southern XC, Uni & Freddo
Easy find, cool spot, great cache
TFTC Team_Ninja

We CAME. We CACHED. We SAW STUFF. Eight South Australian caching teams on the prowl in Lake Victoria. We were attacked by vampire mosquitoes. We were attacked by rogue magpies. We were attacked by brown snakes. We were attacked by running kangaroos. We were attacked by publicans and cooks. In the end we got the message and went home, but not before finding lots of hidden cachey things using billions of dollars of satellites and cheap hand-held devices.

One of many fun finds on along the way on the "SAW STUFF" road trip to central Victoria with Shonki, Astro, Waldron, Southern cross, Twdg, Uni & Freddo [^]
Cheers & TFTCTeam_Ninja

Found on an awesome trip with the SAW STUFF boys (Shonky, Astro[me], Waldron, Southern Cross, Whitedog, Unicycle, Freddo & Four-Fun). The trip had it all including this awesome cache. There were pots and schooners (no pints) , mazzive mozzies the size of small elephants we hitched rides on , realistic lizards, real live [xx(] kangaroos that got too close and uphills. Then there were bikes and pumps. There was sweat and dust but no tears. My thanks to the group and the coordination that enabled an amazing fun filled few days that will go down in caching-lore. [^]

Thanks to Team_Ninja and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Found at 15:21
On a road trip with “SAW STUFF”: Shonky Astro, Waldron，SXC, TWDG，Uni， Freddo， Four Fun
Thanks Team_Ninja

Sounds like this one needs some TLC. Disabled until I can visit the area in the coming weeks.

Bendigo Cup Day and the Sisterhood of the Cargo Pants were off on a day out. We had lots of fun except for the damn mosquitoes everywhere.

Because we all live in Bendigo we started from The End and worked our way towards Maldon. As I pulled this one out I thought wow that's heavy. Then I tipped the contents all over me. The clip has broken so it has allowed water to fill it which is a shame as it was a nice sized container.

TFTC Team_Ninja

26/10/16, 11:29 am Find #1148
Out geocaching with the Sisterhood on Bendigo Cup Day. TNLNSL TFTC A container full of smelly water but great size container.
~ Crazy Creels

Another find whilst swatting the mozzies. TFTC

Find #1082 for me. I made another quick find here today. Thanks for the cache Team_Ninja!

We are enjoying tis series we made a easy find Signed and replaced. TFTC.

Pretty easy find. One of the clips on the container is broken. TFTC