Fence Remains Eltham, Victoria, Australia
By atsmug on 03-Jun-15. Waypoint GC5WVJR

Council doing works here, expect this to disappear along with everything else they have cleared out so far including all the chainsaw art :/

Found it but couldnt log. Needs maintenance.
Love the idea though! I hope you'll revive it again atsmug!
And loved the sculptures, thanks for bringing me here.

Disabled until I think what to do

All good to go

looking good here

### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUIRED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there %CO%,

It looks like this cache might need some attention, as one or more seekers have indicated there is an issue with the placement. The cache has been temporarily disabled, so as to remove it from search listings and discourage people from visiting this location until the issues/s with this cache 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 should you do now:-#
You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-

- **Check On The Cache:-** Visit the cache and repair and/or replace or do whatever else is needed, post an [**Owner Maintenance log**](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) indicating the cache has been checked and [**ENABLE your cache.**](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) Then sit back and wait for the logs of praise to roll in.

- **Place A Write Note Log::-** Reviewers don't have a crystal ball, so without your note on the cache page explaining that the site works are on-going, or you have been in hospital, or the area is in flood, they can't tell what is going on with the cache.
So please just post a note to the page (within 14 days) and when a Reviewer next looks at the listing, all will be fine for a little bit longer.
**Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. If you have a long term unavailable cache (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 4 to 6 weeks, so as to keep everyone up to speed.**

- **Adopt/Archive:-** If you don't plan on fixing it then you could consider passing it on to another geocacher by asking them to [**Adopt it**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=54) or alternatively, you need to [**Archive it,**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56) so it is removed from searches and someone else can have the spot. Don't forget to remove any remnants of your previously enjoyed cache too.

You might wonder what happens if you don't pick one of those. Well, if nothing happens, then a few weeks from today, when a Reviewer next looks at the cache page, it is likely that they will, unfortunately, have to de-list (Archive) on the basis that it has been abandoned.

Honestly, I'd rather you decide so please do something before then. Please don't send me an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.

**JUST A TIP:-** Have you checked out the new Geocaching Dash Board designed to assist a Cache Owner in managing the caches they own? Have a read about it [**HERE.**](https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2020/07/welcome-to-the-cache-owner-dashboard/?newsletter=PM) You will find your very own dash board [**HERE**](https://www.geocaching.com/play/owner?utm_source=geocaching&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=COD)

Thanks for you cooperation,

Bunjil

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This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Found quickly but the logbook was completely saturated. tftc

Found while out for some exercise within our 5km limit. Many thanks.

Tftc

Clever hide! Tftc!

Found it. Clever hide!

Found. Nice easy find.

A surprisingly easy find by geokid 1.

Nice, easy find. It was fun looking at some of the sculptures next door. All in good condition. TFTC

Another quick and easy find in Eltham. So many birds in this suburb.

Third find of the day! TFTC

I had wanted to find this cache for a long time. Opportunity presented itself today on a walk with icw as he recovers from total hip replacements. Tftc.

Two k walk from Research, not bad for Someone who had THR a month ago!

I had been doing some last minute Christmas shopping and still needed my daily cache. This looked like an interesting cache so I dropped by for a look. I parked in a nearby street and walked around the corner and down Main Rd to GZ. I got a little distracted by the wooden sculptures in the property next to the cache and walked right past GZ. I doubled back and found the cache in the second place I searched. I retrieved the cache and signed the log at 6:10 pm. TNLN. I then carefully returned the cache to its hiding spot. I used hand sanitiser before and after finding the cache.

Thanks atsmug for the cleverly camo'd cache that fitted in very well with its surroundings. After finding the cache I took photos of the interesting sculptures in the property next door.

Nice quick find with Anji7 and EmilyDai!

Clever

Yay!

Found by caughtatwork at 15:10 on 5/07/2020
A quick find here today.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for all of the geocaches that you hide for us to find.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Log very wet, quite full. Had a go at signing, not sure how legible it is or how long it'll last there. TFTC.

Great hiding spot! Didnt take to long to find. It was very well camofalgue in with its surroundings!
Thank you!

After failing to find "I can jump puddles" just up the road yesterday, I was riding past on the way to the Research aqueduct series today. As mentioned elsewhere, the log was saturated, and I think I signed over an old entry which had been washed away. My entry will be washed away as well if the container cannot be made waterproof.

Good hide. Log book very damp. Couldn’t sign it.

16:38
Found while on the Research Art Trail.
And this place was the coolest spot of the trail for me. Some real cool wooden carvings on the display here. Some of them looked freshly done too!

Cache all wet as mentioned before but thank cachegod for Rite-in-Rain paper!

Kia ora from NZ! / Sveiciens no Latvijas!

#6661

Out geocaching with the Geokid. Found this one quickly. Log was drenched. TFTC

Third of today's lunchtime escape tracking down a quartet of mystery clues , I soon had the shadowy stash in hand at 13:45 only to find that the logsheet was absolutely drenched. At least I was able to make my mark on it but some TLC is most definitely needed here methinks.

TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks atsmug.

25/07/2019 23:54 25 July 2019 23:54 Quick and easy find. Another one for my detective badges. atsmug TNLN SL TFTC atsmug TNLN SL

Another clever hide from atsmug. Thank you for bringing me here to see a little of the history of the area. Also I enjoyed seeing the statues nearby. I have seen them driving past but they are a lot better close up. TFTC.

Found this one weeks ago, but returned to log it today. The wood sculptures are getting closer! TFTC

We found this cache a few weeks ago, but didn’t open it/sign the log at the time because it was pouring with rain that day. We’d been meaning to come back, and the current mystery museum event gave us the push we needed (and a shadow to chase). Log is wet, as previous finder mentioned - glad to have remembered the waterproof ink pen! TFTC

Found after short search. The logbook is wet and needs drying out or replacing.

Thirty years since Tiananmen today and it seemed fitting to be standing in front a fence post wrapped in barbed wire like the Amnesty candle. After that solemn moment passed, I found the cache nearby, and the log was wet like it had been drenched in ten thousand tears. Thanks atsmug

Cute little hide. Beautiful carvings nearby. Tftc

Found today during a day of caching with smrff78. An interesting cache is a unique location in suburbia. TFTC.

No. 11 For the day !! .. Found with Melbmatt50 !! .. "Do the HAPPY DANCE !!" SL, TFTC !!

Added New LB !

It was a very easy find TFTC

Staying in Eltham for few wks.
Great hide
TFTC

Next along the walk to your wherigo starting zone was this little beauty.
I enjoyed it not so much for the hide (warning people about the rusted barbed wire and then requiring them to manipulate it. Hmm.) but rather because of the interesting art being created next door.

Enjoyed the artist close by and the barbed cache. Thanks atsmug

Watch out for the barb wire . It hurts . Thanks atsmug

Went out for caching with pwala today
Weather was great.
Found it.
Thanks atsmug

Out for a cache day with Crank1. TFTC and bringing us here. Beautiful wood carved nearby.

Clever hide. TFTC

Quick find

Found. Great artwork from the neighbour.

Very interesting, those wood sculptures. Especially the massive skull, I wonder who commissioned that...
As I arrived at GZ I checked all the usual places but couldn't spot anything. Then I took a rest while replying to some messages from a fellow cacher. I widened the search slightly and checked something else - bingo.
Thanks atsmug

Couldn't go past this one after Main Road. Quickly spotted what I wanted and signed the very wet paper. Luckily it was that sort that can cope with water.
TFTC atsmug

I walked past the wooden sculptures today. I saw a wooden fence in disrepair. I searched until I was about to give up then I got a clue from the logs. Thanks for the cache!

Out with OzHockeyChick and BoatieTim on this lovely afternoon. New that this would be interesting as we have found others by this CO. Should have looked there first. Thanks for the cache and for bringing us here.

And that is exactly what it is. Clever hide. Thanks for the cache.

16:46, 8 Nov 2017, #479, Out with OzHockeyChick and Mrs Papi4506 for the arvo doing a few caches in this area..

We looked in all the wrong spots and took too long looking but it wasn't long before it was found.. hmm sneaky hide.. I was advised yours are sneaky...... TFTC.

4:46 pm #3973
A lovely afternoon out caching with Mrs Papi4506 and BoatieTim.
Spent too long at the one just over there >>>
before I decided to check this one. Nice!
Thankyou atsmug for placing this cache here for us to find.

Easy, how is it 2.0 difficulty

Yep

Out with au.fait, we walked past the wood carvings towards GZ.
A very clever and well concealed cache. Thanks atsmug

Walked along the path from the nearby cache with echidna44 admiring the wood carvings as we passed by This was a very sneaky cache indeed and well deserves a favourite point. Thanks atsmug

Biking and caching. Tftc

Nice find

TFTC atsmug. Walked straight up to this one yay, easiest find of the day. Container was full of water but thank goodness for waterproof paper. Jimmytherat.

My wife, her friend and I were walking down Main Road after parking the car nearby on a beautiful labour day public holiday. I stopped to do a quick search for this cache whilst my exercise buddies walked on. It took a few minutes of searching to spot this nice cache though extraction was not easy. Got it in the end. TFTC atsmug.

Found on Boxing day with Funsize Manor

omegaman1971
Much like the nearby cache, this was a very quick find.
Cheers for the cache

Found with AnnneTherese

A quick find on a pleasant Sunday morning. TFTC

Traffic was so bad down town I decided to do the grand tour on the way home.
At this point the rain stopped, so got out and stretched the legs.
Plenty of parking across the road off Andrew street.
Novel way to hide a cache.
TFTC

A scheduling error on my behalf meant I had babysitting organised but no longer anything to do, so with a day free to myself I decided to pick a random spot on the geocaching map where I haven't cached before. I spotted the walk along the aquaduct that looked interesting but thought I'd look for some of the nearby caches first. I had to be a little bit careful extracting this cache so I was taking my time because I thought this property looked deserted so I got a bit of a surprise when a car pulled into the driveway. They quickly went about their business though and I was able to return the hide. Thanks for the cache Atsmug, nice to meet you in the field again.

Nice hiding spot!

Very clever hide. Tftc

Wow this cache took way too long. Only because the coords had me all the way near the lightpost so I did not think it could be that far away from where my phone was saying GZ was.

I searched everywhere on the fence in a small area, around every tree and feature.
Just before I was about to give up I found the hide much further away then expected and it was actually really easy! Thanks atsmug, clever hiding spot

Indiana was returning once more to her transport- this would be the last atsmug cache of the day and no secrets to eternal youth were yet divulged. Unless it included a tetanus jab? But we all get those every now and then. Taking heed of the warnings Indiana looked around this uninviting entrance- it is true that the best treasure is often well guarded with traps and defences. This land must itself be a fine treasure to need so much barbed wire. Treasure was found, and replaced. Eltham has more to give but it must be on another day as we must account for a wild and rambling journey home, beset on all sides by dangers and beasts. Indiana will rest for now.

We found this cache today at 4:10pm as number 21 of 26 on our Eltham Exploration Afternoon. When we found the cache, it really sprung out at us. Our 8,800th find. Thanks from D & HA B-A.

In the area for Anzac and made this grab at night. Thankfully this was a quick find, just as it was starting to spit rain
Thanks atsmug for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#3221

Walking along the path, easy one just off. Tftc!

Logging TB

Quick find. Log felt a bit wet. TFTC

Yay! Second find today - second find ever! Miss 8 is getting hooked!

New waterproof log

Found in the company of GJMMelb and quiet1_au today - Q made the find. We certainly didn't take the easy way to GZ, crossing a creek along the way. TFTC

Cache #2 for the afternoon we took the path less travelled to GZ from out parking spot in a nearby street only to find a natural barrier to our progress not shown on the map... I decided to give it a try anyway and hoping not to find any legless lurkers in the weedy creepers headed for the creek and spotted a potential crossing - hoping it not to be mud. Luckily being summer it turned out to be a safe path across - G' of GJMMelb took the leap of faith (OK, the step onto the possible muddy quagmire) - and so we were soon at GZ where guided by the cache name I happened to strike it lucky this time Log scroll is a bit damp and starting to tear and one small piece escaped, but I was able to record our visit all the same. TFTC atsmug

Found with Lochb and Quiet1_au. We took the hard way to Gz but eventually got there. Q found this quickly while i looked else where. Thanks atsmug
GJMMelb

Today is the last day of my holidays so I thought that I would have one more day filled with some caching before the reality of work hits me.
I decided that I would spend a few hours in the Eltham area.
t took a couple of minutes but I got there in the end. TFTC.

Was a fun and easy find.

Muttley! GT02 Spiffy- and I headed out to Eltham to collect some caches that had eluded us previously as well as a few new ones and solved puzzles. This cache was found quickly by GT02. Thanks atsmug for the cache.

Found with gt02 fleabag and spiffy-

Thanks for the cache.

Today Fleabag-, Muttley! and GT02 picked me up and although we didn't go out to find a couple of caches on reef island today because the tides were totally out of sync with our planned outing time we headed over towards Eltham to hopefully find a couple of puzzles we had solved plus a few DNF's we had last time we were here that all ended up being muggled.
We spent a few hours finding treasures, had a nice relaxing coffee and lemon tart at the cafe and then headed home.

Rebelliously ignored the car park waypoint and parked right near GZ. GT02 the came up with the cool hide very quickly.

Thanks atsmug for the cache, the hunt and the fun.

Visited duct tape island and grabbed some supplies

Will check this out

Christmas day caching picking up a few finds on my way to friends
Had to do this in an alternative way, did some temporary repairs to the hide.
Thanks for the cache
R

19:31
A busy few weeks on the home and work fronts meant I was crawling the walls to the point of annoying the better half... so I got told to take a long walk.

I hadn't visited Eltham for quite a while, so it had built up a fair concentration of hides. The town is also riddled with pedestrian shortcuts, so quite a fun place to explore. 22 caches and and as many kilometers later, I finished in the dark, with a very flat phone battery and a big grin.

The walk north was definitely enhanced by the history lessons on the way, as well as the navigation challenge. I'm glad I did it this way, as I feel I got more out of these caches than I would have driving around.

And finally, I made it through the maze to the main road and the shared path.

This cache... just as I went to retrieve it, the attachment device slipped out. Five fun minutes of practicing my chopstick skills ensued before I finally managed to sign the log. A great concept; it might just need a bit of epoxy and a washer to make it even better.

Thanks, atsmug, for the excellent cache, and more entertainment than I expected.

#2871

Out and about with 80 degrees for a girlie caching afternoon. Mrs 80 has done the geo list and we are now well into following it. Having found the ones nearby this was our next. Parking on the main road was out of the question we decided to park in the opposite street and walk across. Using the ipad it was not as accurate as the gps so I was looking in the wrong spot. Widened my search and discovered the excellent hide. Good one atsmug. Thanks for the cache.

This was an afternoon of caching for the ladies of 80degrees and xambo4u. We spent the afternoon looking for many caches in this immediate area with great success. This one took time - parking - crossing the road etc not to mention zeroing in on the hide. TFTC

Found it! We wandered along the path from our DNF down the road and this was a quick find. Love old fence posts. Muggle Heather lives up the road and she told us about the parks and old farms that were all around here. The posts are some of those old farm fences. TFTC SL

Certainly some interesting nearby carvings though the carver was not at work when i passed. This cache was easy to find but it took me a while to sign and return with a high number of passing muggles. TFTC.

The nearby sculptures are very good As was the cache hide....... Gets a favourite from me.