Skeleton Creek - The Woman In Black Point Cook, Victoria, Australia
By Ketchthor on 21-Aug-15. Waypoint GC61ZHV

Unfortunately, as there has not been a response to the last request/s to attend to this cache, or provide regular updates, the cache is being de-listed on the basis that it has been abandoned by the Cache Owner.

Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived. This is explained here: [**Unarchive a geocache**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56). If there are components or remnants of the cache, please return to the GZ and collect the cache (or remnants). 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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###**CACHE OWNER ACTION REQUIRED PLEASE**###

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I've noticed this cache is carrying a maintenance log which really does need to be addressed by the cache owner.

The guidelines indicated that periodic visits to check on the cache, as well as prompt attention to any logs that indicate there is a problem, are part of the [**cache owners responsibilities.**](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines#listingmaintenance) If you can't attend to the issue promptly, then you need to [**Disable it**](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=235) - I have Disabled it for you this time.

**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.
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Site is removed for construction. Was working here today and cache is long gone sorry to say

We were naughty and went into the construction zone on the weekend. Found the cache but it had been knocked to the ground due to works. Needs attention I’d say tftc.

Unable to get to the cache sure to new construction

Great little hide. Took us a couple of minutes to work it out x

Found it! TFTC

13 July 2018 @ 7:58 pm
Caching buddies: Boetietim

I spotted this almost immediately in the first spot I looked! BTT was looking for it in the wrong spot due to previously told incorrect hint
TFTC Ketchthor

19:59, July 13, 2018, # 825, out with Adi doing a few tonight and glad to cross this off my DNF list. TFTC.

Found it! Very clever TFTC

No luck

Painted rock

Cool

After a great lunch with friends in Werribbee after the event today we decided to walk it off so we joined forces with alansee to try our luck at this series.

This was the first and although there weren't many muggles around it still slowed our search a little. We made this one a lot harder than it needed to be for some reason and didn't spot it until the third pass and then we couldn't believe that we had missed it on the other two passes, especially with three pairs of eyes looking. The goal was achieved, the container located and our name has been added to the log..

Thanks Ketchthor for the cache.

A

Our first one!

This was a tricky one to find. Relocated where we found it.

Hard one.....found after 20 minutes. 2 a & 3 kids

Lunchtime walk with BenFeeMezzChop to grab a few smilies along this section of the creek. Quick find.

Field log deets to come

Far too many spiders for my liking will try and look for it when its not so dark out haha

This is definitely a day one with lots of bug spray and a hazard suit. Three spiders this is the smallest of them all and snakes

Second attempt- found it quickly this time. TFTC

Having left the UK last week for a holiday in Australia, I was leaving the cold and wet winter weather behind, so it was such a change to go for a geocaching walk in warm sunshine. Walking along in just a t-shirt it was hard to imagine how cold it would be back home with the significant snow that has arrived in the last couple of days.

Having done some sightseeing this morning I had this afternoon to myself so decided to walk along this well made up trail.

I tried to over think the hint a bit and wasted a some time on that, but the co-ords were good and there weren't many options so actually it was quite a quick find for me today.

Thanks for the cache here, and greetings from the UK

Took awhile but got it!
Tough clue but helped in the end.

This was a hard one but after 20mins and reading all the comments we got it

We tried for a long time- 5 kids and me. We will be back!!!

very clever, had us climbing everywhere ahaha but we found it eventually

There are a lot of options for placement at GZ. We'd spent a bit of time looking at all the obvious spots before I kind of accidentally put my hand on it.

Have walked past this cache countless times in the past 2 years as part of my regular walk home from the nearby station, today I finally signed the log book.

Hadn’t really paid much attention to this one or tried to locate before but on my walk home yesterday it just jumped out at me. Bugger I didn’t have a pen, so today I made sure I packed a pen in my bag ..... dam there’s a pencil in the cache

A quick sign and replace and time to restart the timer on my Garmin for the remaining few kms walk home.

TFTC

Looked for a good 15mins... disappointing Newbies here, hope to find something eventually!

Found with some help from the previous log.

TFTC!

Nice hide. Nice spot. Lots of muggles on a nice day.

Found it

Found it this time!
Wow, this one fooled a newbie like me on multiple occasions.
Great cache.

Spent quite a bit of time searching but couldn't find it

15:16, 13 Aug 2017, Out with Ali on our bikes in the area doing this series today... well.. another micro what a surprise..we looked at all the black and in and out and around... im really not liking these little critters now ... have i said i dont like micros... hmm have to come back another day..

Ye about time

What a good walk and recovery of caches, tftc

Nice camo for this cache. Found after a short search tftc.

Quick easy find. Signed the log TTMUG to save space. TFTC #ttmug

Made this harder for myself than I needed to! But guess that just happens sometimes Anyway soon sorted myself out and found the cache quite easily. TFTC

Passing by we headed over. We had an idea of the hid and after trying a few locations felt the hid. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC.

Another day of caching around Geelong and more finds ... Moneydork had a grand plan for a big circuit on our bikes, it come unstuck several times.

This was an easy find.

Thanks for the cache Ketcthor.

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

Found with a longer search than it should have been. Time to head home for sleep methinks.

Melbourne day 3
We have moved closer to the city staying at Altona Meadows. We decided to walk & ride along this creek bank to find these caches. Quiet a few people out walking their dogs.
Thanks for placing this cache Ketchthor

Found it using the hint. Thanks Ketchthor.

Dnf. Will return.

Quick check here. Everything fine.

After another work morning it was another caching afternoon with Ketchthor. Not so good today as we had to DNF two of the five caches we tried to find along Skeleton Creek. This was our last success story for today in this series. The container was found, but the method of attachment is not really reliable. Thanks o Ketchthor for another placement.

Walked ahead with muggle friend Phil whilst the rest of Plowfive meandered slowly behind. Found this one glad to say after dnfing the last one. Re hid to see if the Plowfive stragglers could find it. Tftc. Ketchthor

Ha ha, great spot. Got a surprise when I opened it. It was full of earwigs! They must have been hiding from the rain. I manage to secure the little bead that was in it and keep it there. All good. Thanks for the placement

Yay - after a few DNF's along the creek we had this one in hand very quickly.

Thanks for this placement Ketchthor. Our last cache here today.

Sooooo pleased to find this one after the previous two being DNF's. Short walk with a quick and easy find. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

After two DNFs finally success!

Found it on the second attempt. TFTC

Good find

25 July 2016
Had a think about the description and clue then it became obvious. Nice hiding spot tftc

Found it. Great hiding spot. Looked for awhile and found.

After trying to find paranormal activity for the second day on a row with no luck I tried this one. With a bit of searching and trying not to get run down by cyclists I made the find. What a great hiding spot. The clue is great once you find the cache and all makes sense.

Nicely hidden here. It took a few minutes to spot it though. I was expecting something else. A few people out walking. They took a different direction to me . I was free to wander around and search here.
TFTC Ketchthor

Helped by the hint. TFTC

Wow that was sneaky!!!! At Geofinace's eye level he is tall so wasn't hard to reach. TFTC

Spotted from a few feet away. Super quick signage completed.

New log!

All the waypoints in this series has been off

Nice hiding spot for a cache! Tftc.

### Find **# 3367** Trad **# 2614** ###

With an extra hours sleep last night, it was planned that Buzzsmc and I would tackle this series and a few others around the area. We woke early, had our GPSr loaded, grabbed our geo tool kit and we were off up the highway. The roads were quite and it was still dark when we arrived. We found 15 from 16 attempts today.

We parked in the estate and made the quick walk down the path to this one. the name of the cache helped make this one a quick find. Stamped and returned as found.

**Thanks for this cache and series, Ketchor**. [^]
**Log and container in good condition.**
**Took Nothing, Left Nothing.**

Took advantage of the extra hour thanks to daylight savings ending. So headed out with na'wal to grab this series.
A quick walk from the car resulted in a relative quick find thanks to the title.

Log signed and replaced.

TFTC TNLN.

Look and you find

Me and my daughter could not find this adding to another one we couldn't find why so hard and bad hint I guess there's random clothes and underwear under the bridge but no chance I'm touching random things like that lol

Yay second time found it and now the found it by feel makes sense yay

Quick find by the geokid as we go for a wander to try and burn off some of the chocolate that's already been devoured.

Geo hubby acted like a kid to get this cache
Clue is a little mis leading
Tftc

This was another nice quick find & a chance to
hide in the shade under the bridge while signing
the log.
TFTC

TFTC!

Tftc great day out with the family.

well done so well hidden!

Found it while looking for GCA moveable nearby.
Thanks Ketchthor

14:22
No screaming, nightmares or paranormal activity as we worked our way around the Skeleton Creek cache series, in the good company of Ian and Penny, before they head off travelling again.

Our thanks to Ketchthor for bringing us to this location.
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[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there Ketchthor. We found your cache "Skeleton Creek #4 The Woman In Black" today. This cache makes our find count 12537.
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We spent a really enjoyable day today, caching with Phetlern. We started off in Werribee South then roamed across to Point Cook, Seabrook, Williams Landing and Hoppers Crossing. We found a good cross section of 'caches ranging from Nano right up to Large, and arrived back at camp tired and ready for a few drinks, a baked salmon dinner and a huge pavlova (Thanks Penny & Helen).
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks for the hunt,
Regards
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I found this nice and easily once I changed my viewing angle. Then I let my 5yo think that she'd found it. I've ridden under the bridge many a time.

I saw The Woman in Black when I was in high school, and my recollection is that it was quite scary!

Thought we did a thorough search of what the woman wore.... But not good enough... Up and down, in and out.... Eventually geokid had her hand on it! TFTC!

Great path in an area that I have not ventured out to.
I liked doing this series.
Nice Summer day to get out and pick some caches up.
Was in a busy part of the series, lots of bike traffic at the time.
TFTC!!!

15:10, 2 January 2016. #312. Hmmm, sneaky and subtle. A nice inclusion in this series.

SLTFTC and another brilliant series Ketchthor.

Such a cool hiding spot!!!!

Nice one needed kid to do some climbing but when we found
Tftcthe right hight it was easy to find

Looked high and low for this one.

5th find on our walks around the creek... Great hide, especially from us little geocachers.

Found on a hot hot Sunday out with geomum. TFTC

Quick find on a warm afternoon for cacheing...TFTC

Looked for a while but the dog was getting impatient so it was time to head towards home.

Had no luck last time I looked for this one, but spotted it pretty quickly this time. Black is a good hiding colour.

This cache proved to be a challenge for us mature cachers but Geohubby sure was up to it and by feeling his way the cache was soon in hand and the log signed and cache returned to its excellent hiding spot. We will give you a fav from us for the planning and implementation that went into placing this cache.
TFTC Ketchthor

I made more harder work here again for this cache.

Looked high and low for awhile.

Then I read the hint.

This confused me more before I spotted it.

TFTC

TFTC.

Found by caughtatwork at 13:56 on 1/11/2015
The first of the day. With a sore foot and not wanting to head down to the G2Q Rail Trail this weekend, Mrs. caughtatwork and I chose this little series not too far away. Well, certainly closer than Geelong let me tell you.
This cache was a little tricky to spot first up but some persitence and some great co-ordinates and we had the cache in hand in amongst the vast numbers of flies here. Back to the car to get some repellant before heading to the next cache in the series.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks Ketchthor for this series of caches for a nice stroll along the creek.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

Sneaky lik hide. SL and replaced where was found. Front side of log almost full. TFTC