RRR #5: Are we in The Netherlands? Plumpton, Victoria, Australia
By geniejoan on 11-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5Z3TW

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any evidence that indicates that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement. It would appear the owner of this cache listing is no longer interested in the cache and the cache has been abandoned.

As such the cache is being de-listed (Archived). If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment with Georubbish.

If you wish to contact me regarding this cache, please send an email via my profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the cache name and GC number.

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Hi there geniejoan,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **MAY** need some attention. You would have received an automated email from Geocaching HQ recently which explained what needs to be done.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have happened, so I am having to take the next step and temporarily disable the cache - see here: [**Geocache Health Score.**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) .

**Can you please respond to this situation (or indicated your intention) within 14 days,** so others know exactly what is happening with this cache?

You have lots of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:

- Check on the cache, repair and/or replace the cache 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 praises.

- If you really hope to get it fixed but there is some unusual reason why you can't do it soon, then at least post a Write Note log (within 14 days). Be sure to indicate the actual date that you expect to have it fixed so that everyone knows you are on top of it. For ongoing issues (where you don't have an actual date) please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days so as to keep everyone up to speed.

- 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 I next look at the cache page, it is likely that I will, unfortunately, have to de-list (Archive) it 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.

[3AS]

We are preparing to come for the event at St Arnaud and we came across this cache. Given the number of DNFs, could this cache please be replaced or archived to avoid it showing up in searches. Thanks.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Leider nichts gefunden - die Leitplanke ist neu. Ev wurde der Cache gleich mit entsorgt...

Der Ort ist trotzdem wunderschön

On way to Melbourne for a nieces wedding but detour on way caches and to pick up daughter and hubby off of plane TFTC

Yep I think it has been replaced course it is not there anymore

Guard rail has been recently changed right where I suspect the cache has been hidden. May need a maintenance run to confirm.

Guard rail has been replaced cache may need to be checked.

Sadly did not find this one today. May want to check to make sure it's still there as there have been a few DNFs now

Looked in the blindingly obvious place but there's nothing there.

Searched everywhere obvious. Think it's gone. Tftc

Had a big search of the rail, but no find

Was heading out to visit friends nearby who just built in Aintree, like a couple of kilometres down the road and saw this cache and had to get it. Besides it's a beautiful, sunny day and the roads are quiet so what better thing to do than go and find a cache or two.

Just be careful if you are travelling away from Melton, the road is extremely busy (even on a quiet public holiday Monday) and the traffic is moving really fast, took about 10 mins to safely be able to cross the road. Once over the road this was a really easy find and was exactly where i thought it would be.

Thanks for the cache and hide
Find #271

I'm not sure how you managed to find so many of these apt locations GenieJoan for your series in this area, but you did! A nice easy roadside grab with the windmill in view. Thanks Geniejoan, we are all the luckier to have had you in the game.

10:28, 31 December 2018.

A quick TB drop. More to follow.

TFTC geniejoan.

10:28, 31 December 2018. #188.

After nearly a month of no real time to hunt, RGSBruce and I were making a last minute run at finding enough caches to earn a souvenir (two today as it turns out) and did a little mini-power trail around Plumpton and Melton today. We only followed the RRR trail this far, then turned right onto Leakes Road to work our way to the TSS series to carry on. We'll come back to this one to finish off later.

The cache is in good condition.

Picked up some trackables, left nothing. TFTC geniejoan.

Not in Netherlands, but I have been there!
TNLNSL
Thanks

TFTC

Timed this right. TFTC

What a lovely windmills. Tftc

Tftc

Tftc quick drive by on the way to melton for some shopping

On a drive to pick up our grandson for the second week of the school holidays, we stopped for a quick cache. Thanks geniejoan

On our way back to Adelaide we wanted to find a few caches and were very happy to be able to pick up this series. None of the traffic paid us any attention. A quick find at GZ. TFTC

Easy find xx

Think it's gonna take awhile to get where im going at this rate lol.
Tftc

Out and about for Easter celebrations, so grabbed a few caches on the road trip home. We kinda want to visit this place! Nice quick one, which was good as we were running out of light TFTC

Loving the drive-by series.
Thanks again for this series

Have known about these caches for sometime after having already completed a few in the series. LeeLee planned some time ago that New Years Day, bright and early, would be the day to get the remainder as the road will be a lot quieter.
After the snooze button was hit a few times, LeeLee rolled out of bed to chase the cache while Crackers was already at work.

The original owner who built the Windmill was the brother-in-law of a family friend of LeeLee's.

Was able to park very close to GZ and was pleased it was a quick and easy find.
#1092
Happy New Year

TFTC. Nice hiding spot but dangerous for kids to grab. SL. Made some swaps

Usually I drive along princess freeway to Geelong from Melbourne..
Today I decided to drive on different freeway for caching on the way home.
Busy road here..
Thanks for the cache.

Tftc

So I pulled over and put on my clogs.

Got out the car and looked for the tulips.

Well there was none around so I settled for a cache.

TFTC

Nice find

Today we were out and about with Neville_devil and Ausfox; our plan was to grab as many mystery cache as we could to help us with the Monthly Mystery challenge.
With no more solved mysteries left for us to find we turned our attention to other unfound caches in the area. with the day ending and darkness fallen we decided that we would start heading for home and decided that going home along the Melton highway to grab this series would be the way we ended the days caching. Thank you geniejoan for the series

yep

Needed a few caches to round out the months' finds, so I headed out along the Melton Highway.
A nice cool day for a few caches, although the road was busier than I thought it would be.
No, not the Netherlands, just a very tacky tourist spot
A nice quick find though.
Thanks, Robmc.

love these windmills ...so cute! nice easy find. TFTC

No, not in the Netherlands, but near a very busy road. TFTC

Spent the day cruising the back roads of Bacchus Marsh and Melton turning green boxes into smilies.
Wow I delivered trees here when it first opened and it was an open space, it's been a while since I've been here. I hardly recognized it.
Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the Cache geocache
#3,463

Super quick find after find 666. Time to head for home. TFTC

Ah The Netherlands...home of windmills, clogs and dikes. None of the later two around this morning but that is certainly a big windmill across the way. Managed a quick find as we continued on way with omegaman1971. Thanks geniejoan for the hide.

omegaman1971@ 2874 finds
Out and about with Happy Pants
in an area I haven't cached before. Quick drive-by cache.
Cheers for the cache.

Quick easy find but a police car passed us

**Find #1163**

I have holidayed in The Netherlands and this place does remind me of those memories. A easy find betwenn muggle cars.

thanks **geniejoan**

TFTC.

Yes, this area had the dutch feel! A quick find.

Quick find on this cold evening... Thank you for the cache

Find number 6091 at 3:51:11 pm
Another day chasing 10 caches for the day, some before work and some on the way home... Taking the slow road home, head west to go east...
Almost done for the day, another one done and dusted.
**Thanks for placing this cache geniejoan**

It's not what you expect out here - to see a Netherlands style windmill! With the rest of plowfive in the car, I stretched my legs and made the quick find & signed the book. The trek in was a little damp , maybe I should have worn my clogs! tftc geniejoan!

Another one bites the dust almost gave up on this one tftc tnln signed log

Hi there geniejoan.

We found your cache **"RRR #5: Are we in The Netherlands?"** at 11:17:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 16183).

Our plan today was to take our granddaughter Eden on a spur of the moment geocaching trip around the Melton-Bacchus Marsh Area. we would have gone further, and perhaps done a few more caches but the GPS wasn't loaded with all the caches we needed (So we will have to complete the RRR series another day). On our trek we found a variety of wonderful containers - and ended up finding 8 caches with 0 DNF's.

Thanks for placing these caches here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found this cache around 5m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

This was where my daughter got married 11 years ago. Nice to be back here tftc

Found after a Morning in Melbourne.
The rain was on and off but we managed to find a few on the way home.
Thanks for the hide here.

Found with McAdies after going to the Bombers Family Day.
It rained pretty hard but we managed to stop for a few caches.
Thanks for hiding the cache for us to find.

Another quick one as we attempt to complete this series. Hint: probably not the best idea to do it in reverse... Tftc

I have done quite a few like this one someone should do a series on them
I have been to both places in the area and the pub is not bad
A quick still not much traffic around TFTC

09:13, 25 January 2016. #584.

This is one of those caches I travel past regularly, but never quite manage to stop to have a hunt for until today. I parked a little further away than I planned, but still had the cache in hand fairly quickly.

TNLNSL. TFTC geniejoan.

Found it

We decided to pick up some caches today on our way to attend the event being held at Melton. We really enjoy a series of caches that are easy to find as we travel the highway. There was no problem locating the cache and our name was soon added to the list of finders. We actually walked straight over and grabbed this one. Thank you to geniejoan for creating this series.

Another day, another cache - now 92 consecutive days with a find. This one was a quick drive by on the way to a a geokid birthday at the xtreme paintball nearby. Great spot and good view of the windmill.
Nice quick find - cache in good order.

Found by Team Justice #1242.

What a cool place!! There were wedding cars pulling in the driveway not long after we pulled up. I've never been here before. Epic!! Tftc

Kenbryl was pretty excited to see the windmill. It was her first time here. Tftc

I have been past here many years before I started geocaching, now there was a reason to stop. Cigc. Tftc

All good here, I was headed the 'wrong' way on the highway today but traffic was light enough to safely cross the road.

TFTC

Another nice smile as we headed home after the youngest members Judo competition, Muggle hubby and geo son made this find, the road was very busy but log was retrieved, signed and replaced quickly without attention. Thanks geniejoan

Tricky road with lots of traffic and speed changes alright......but if there's a cache to get you've just got to bite the bullet....so, bullet bitten and log signed Dropped of a TB TFTC

Today I went out and cleaned out all the caches I haven't done around the Melton area. This was a tricky cache to grab as the road was very busy I just acted like I was taking some photos. TFTC

When I read the title of the cache I must say my mind went to something else, but was glad I was wrong. Thanks again for the cache.

stopped by to grab this one on the way back from shopping.... accidently wrote wrong date on log as geo grandkids told me the wrong date.... but ah well ... log is signed...

cache in good order.... very few cars around today... so easy grab

thanks to genie joan for this cache

tnlnsl

Made a quick find on a cold day. Good drive by.
Signed and replaced. TFTC.

A nice quick yet wet find with Gemma Sistema today on our way home to Ballarat after a munzee and cache run to Brimbank Park. Thanks for extending this series geniejoan

Today wozzle68 and I headed to Brimbank Park for some munzees (and a few caches of course)! we then took the long way home stopping for a few caches here and there. A quick find. Many thanks for the cache

Hard to retrieve but got it

10:10
This morning, I'm on my way up to a weekend of events by the Murray, but in true Geocaching fashion, have begun by travelling at right angles to the direction of my destination. I think it's going to be a long day... just hope this drizzle doesn't last long.

Well, I said I'd be back! I just didn't expect it to be so soon.

This series was a far more entertaining way of getting out of town than the Ring Road. Thanks, geniejoan.

#3068

Found by Team Ninja 07/06/16, fund number 794.
Car repairs #2 resulted in another trip to Melton and another sneaky cache grab on the way back home. This one is the last of the series that is directly on my way home so I'll have to make a detour next time to find the others!
I've always thought this is a great little spot and it's good to see a cache placed to recognize that. The cache is a rather bold placement given how busy the road is but I managed to retrieve and replace the container without attracting too much attention from passing cars (hopefully!). I was quite wary extracting the cache as there were lots of spiders webs guarding the cache - I extracted a similarly hidden cache a while ago and found a red back spider clinging to the side! Thankfully there were no eight legged cache guardians here and the log was signed without incident. TFTC!

Found by The Empire
School holidays are here and the weather is nice - time for some geocaching. Thanks for the cache, and the series geniejoan.
- M

I had to go to the pool shop today, so I took the loooooooong way around to ensure I could collect a few caches on the way. I've been to many a function / dinner / wedding / lunch / xmas party here and the nearby venues over the years. A hidden little suburban gem, this one. TFTC

found. lots of ants. quickly put my hand in

Available when I arrived at least. TNLN TFTC

We'd earmarked this series as the last ones we look for this afternoon and we weren't disappointed with the results for the time spent on them.

These were all fairly simple finds, including Tyred, which reminded me of the Sty's in SA, which you can smell a mile away. All in all we logged them as quick drive by's.

TFTC geniejoan.

TFTC Signed and returned.
My first in this series.
There is road works going on so lots of traffic.

But where is the canal? Nice one! 2016-02-26 at 16:22, TFTC

Quick find on our way home, geokid getting hungry after tennis.... This will have to be our last, she's getting hangry!!! TFTC

Not in the Netherlands, way too high, and way too dry, but the view could make you think you were, had to employ the granddaughters small hands here to extract the goodies, but could put it back myself

Another cache find onto my list tftc

Found it, Thanks!

Cute little find.

On my way to Melton for an emergency call out for work and could not resist a couple of sneaky grabs

Felt a bit exposed on this one but had to laugh at people slowing down because of a black SUV parked suspiciously like a camera car

I picked the wrong time of day and wrong direction to attempt these caches but lulls in the traffic allowed me to get across for the find.
TFTC!!!

Suscoe was heading to Ballan today and so we decided to detour along the way to pick up a few caches.
We were in the great company of our good mate Bushfire.
This was the 6th find of the day.
A quick walk from the parking spot and an equally quick find.
Great to be out here learning about the RRR opportunities of this area.
Thanks to geniejoan for this cache and the series.

As suscoe has stated they offered me a lift to Ballan for the event but we just had to detour a little and pick up a few caches along the way.
A quick divert to this area and an equally quick find but no revenue raisers around today.
This was the sixth find for the day and this hide is of a type that I have seen many times before.
When I was in the Netherlands you had to watch the bikes very carefully as they have right of way!!!!
Thanks geniejoan for placing this caches.

Geodaughter and I managed to locate this one easily. Retrieval between passing traffic without giving it away was difficult and we had to wait for a break in the traffic. One car even tooted us as they went passed!

TFTC. We had decided to stay in Hillside with team Stacie&Mitch for another night with the intention of completing the RRR trail and then because we were close the TSS trail. This morning with two thirds of team Stacie&Mitch (two grand children ) we set of for a day of quality time with number 1 grand daughter and number 3 grandson.
Even though it was mid week and mid morning this highway carries a lot of traffic. We did get to top at the Windmill. Reminded me of my birth country.
We stopped in the carpark and while granddaughter was snapping pictures of the grounds grandson and I jumped the fence to retrieve the cache.

TFTC-Another day spent with Hans and Linda .Today we found 37 caches today and didn't have one DNF we did all of the RRR and TSS trails on Melton highway and Ryan road . Hans and Linda are heading back out tomorrow before lunch .

[green]Find #7552[/green]...

Found after attending the nearby Event...

Whilst some took the opportunity to eat Lunch, Happy Feet, TR! and myself decided to head out and clean up some of the 'local caches'... A beautiful day had by all, topped of by some good walks, great company and many laughs...

A short stroll, a short search, found the cache, stamped and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment geniejoan...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Passing through for the nearby event while on the way to Warrnambool, so will take the opportuity to grab a cache or 2. Soon had this in hand to sign log. Nice spot to stop and take a closer look.
Thanks geniejoan for placing & maintaining the cache for us to find.
#2718

16:12
We were a little surprised at the traffic on the road, given it is the holiday season. The cache was soon in hand and our name added to the log. time then to admire the structure - a true leader in renewable energy!

Our thanks to geniejoan for bringing us to this location.
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