Elderfield Road Park Manning, Western Australia, Australia
By Jasonctkong & teamwaterford on 29-Sep-15. Waypoint GC6492H

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, Jasonctkong, requesting additional time, and it appears abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

##Cache Maintenance Required please.##
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit, to address the issue described in the logs.
The cache owner needs to either fix the problem or archive the listing, after picking up any geo-litter. In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page.
See the maintenance section of the [Geocache Hiding Guidelines](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance).

If there is a good reason for a delay in enabling this cache, please post an update note log here on the cache page so that everyone will know what's going on.
When the maintenance is completed, you can re-enable the listing by entering an "Enable Listing" log, and then post an "Owner Maintenance" log to clear the "Needs Maintenance" attribute, if set.

I will check back in 30 days to be sure that the maintenance has been done, or that further information has been provided.

If there has been no action to repair the cache, or explain the situation, unfortunately I will need to Archive this cache. Caches archived because of lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is out there to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

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This cache perhaps seems to have been abandoned? Bees in cache location and cache container has degraded. Several comments re maintenance go unheeded.

The bees beat me. Decided not to search with a hive of bees in my face

Can't access whilst bee hive is there unfortunately.

Found host, but it was too dangerous to access cache due to hive of bees. Maintenance or archiving suggested.

Found the cache but it really needs some work done. The tree is now home to a swarm of bees and the container is in disrepair.

See notes in log

Out for a morning run in the area. I don't get down this way too often. I looked in a couple of places before I found it. It would have to be one of the rustiest mint containers I have ever found, There is not too much left of it. In fact I wasn't even sure it was the cache until I opened the plastic bag.
TFTC Jasonctkong & teamwaterford

Easy find, tfth

In desperate need of maintenance

Quick find- log was dry. TFTH

Instant find but the tin, well there’s only half of it left it’s that corroded. TFTC

Good find.
Needs maintenance

Log is damaged and the tin has no lid

Quick find. Pencil missing. Parked under the cork oak. Lots of acorns there. TFTC

Cache is all erky.

Found in first spot I looked, had to dig around to get it though. TFTC

Slowly clearing the area. TFTC

Cool

A quick find on the cycle home from uni this arvo! Had to shelter at the nearby recreation centre for a short period due to a passing shower, but soon made the quick find of the cache. Cache blended in well in its surroundings, I had to have a second look!

Cheers Jasonctkong & teamwaterford!

Easy find. Bag in container however contained a lil spooder and its nest. I have replaced the bag

Find 3 of 17, with three DNFs, on a sunny but COLD bike ride around Karawara, Manning and Curtin. All quick finds apart from the DNFs!

Was well buried but we excavated it eventually.

TFTC Jasonctkong!

No clue

Found the first place I looked but it took longer as I did not see it the first time I looked. I also searched the nearby transformer but it's not on that.
Thanks for the cache.

out on a caching run around perth.tftc.

Found after checking out Classic Car Show across the road - snmall plastic bag was soaking wet so turned inside out to dry while log dried in the sun. All good but tin is missing it's lid and will be prone to more moisture - TFTC anyways

Gosh I must of just been at the right angle or height to spit this on approach. The log is soaking wet but managed to sign mundane TFTC

Daughter was out collecting smilies.
The lid was broken and the log was wet so she couldn’t sign it, will send the CO a pic for proof of find.
TFTC

TFTC. Coordinates were misleading

The coordinates were 10 m out.

Found the most gorgeous cache guardian, a lovely little gecko.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with OzHockeyChick, Geoturtle37 and Pinkpiggy7 on our trip to WA to attend the WA Goes Big 2017 event in Rockingham. Quick, easy find and another lovely gecko. Thanks for the cache and thanks for bringing us here.

2:35 am #3684
Found during a huge road (air) trip to Perth for the WA Goes Big 2017 event, with Papillon4506, Geoturtle37 & Pinkpiggy7.
Took longer than it should have, then pp7 made the find.
Thanks for placing this cache here for us to find. Cheers

That took way to long.. lid is missing ..2:36AM... weekend visit to Western Australia for WA goes Big with ozhockeychick, papillon4506 and geoturtle. Thanks for the cache.

Easy find. Lid missing from container but log in good condition, pencil missing and didn't have a replacement. Rehid in same spot but sheltered from weather.
TFTH.
Lin & Jim.

Quick find here after visiting the nearby skate park. TFTC

Cool cache. Lid is missing off tin.

A quick find here.

Managed to convince the family to grab a few caches here and there as we ran our weekend errands.

Jasonctkong - SVKR_WA found your cache Elderfield Road Park on 22/7/17, 11:55. This is my find #2230 and find #3 today.

The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

I found this one in the dark, very early in the morning. I was feeling confident, so I left the flashlight behind and went by feel alone. I managed to get my hands on it within 10 secs of feeling around. TFTC Jasonctkong & teamwaterford

A couple of council gardeners working nearby didnt notice us make the find

Even with the gardeners busy driving around it was a quick find.

The mint tin didn't have a lid and the contents were soaked. Left a fresh log in a small plastic bag. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC Nice easy one to find for someone just starting

Second cache for the day within 10 mins. Geo Ninja Kids are in a roll!

Quick find here. Getting the log out took longer. Cache does not have a lid so care had to be taken signing the log. TFTC Jasonctkong & teamwaterford.

Easy find

This is find # 23801 for me

After the event and doing some caches around this area. Enjoyed drive the car with Air Conditioning on all afternoon... while temperature was 40c. [^]

Thanks Jasonctkong for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Jasonctkong, I found your cache Elderfield Road Park . Log sheet is a bit damp but writable. SL TFTH.

I was in the area today, and so I decided that I would try tackle this cache. I got to GZ and started searching. I circled the tree before spotting part of the mint tin. My pen was loosing ink, so I was glad for the pencil.
Jasonctkong, I found your cache ‘Elderfield Road Park’ today. It was the second find of six finds with zero DNF’s and brings my total count to 675. The cache was found in a good condition so I signed the log book and replaced it as I found it. Thanks for the hide and for bringing me to this location.

we left our intrepid companions, as they had more caches in them today whereas we needed to go home for a nano nap. it would have been rude to drive past this one though, so we didn't. TFTC

We ride with the bicycle to find some caches. We drove through nice parks with fantastic location. So we can find this cache.
Thank you say Moorhelmi

Great afternoon to go searching for caches. Thanks for setting this one up in a nice little spot Jasonctkong.

Mr ILT decided that on a warm day like today the best thing to do while I was at work was to cache. Thanks for your cache jasonctkong.

TFTC TNLNSL am a bus driver with Transperth and had a few minutes to wait at the Elderfield Rd stop. Did a geocache scan and it was only 90 metres away. Had to pick it up!

Back to try this one again and aha! Success! it must have been hidden much deeper last time as this time I saw it from quite a few mattes away. TFTC

TFTC

[hard find but cool spot] [spoliers] In the biggest tree

Awesome little cache, you do need to poke about to find it so take a stick.

It's always the way isn't it? Everyone else finds the cache within moments of arriving and you circle the object a hundred times with no luck whatsoever!

Oops! Sorry for the late log, I only just realised I had not logged these yet when I uploaded some field notes from the weekend!

I had the opportunity to stop for a few caches after a nearby bike ride, and this was the fourth and last of them. I had the bike in the back of the car so couldn't venture too far away from it, so luckily this was a relatively quick and easy find.

Thanks for the cache Jasonctkong!

Found it after a bit of poking around & looking in a couple of places. Tftc

Done far more easily than the 3 rating for difficulty. TFTC though, that 66 finds! Having fun geocaching.

Out hunting with hhheddy, this one found quite quickly, despite coords out. Perhaps difficulty rating lower than 3? TFTC

Out caching in the local area with Lazarus_68. We spotted a likely object as we walked up and began searching before the GPS had settled down. luckily I had my hand on the cache almost straight away. many thanks for the cache.

Got it! \/.

In the end anyway. Instinct over GPS scored the geokid and I the find.

TFTC.

Great hiding spot! The cache was in the third place I looked - so many hidey holes there... Thank you for the cache Jasonctkong.

Had hoped to grab a few caches while in Perth today but way too hot to be out in 40 deg heat. This was one we did manage to get to. Quick find here then back to the comfort of the air con. Thanks jasonctkong

Headed into Perth for a bit of caching & this was one we found along the way... The kids sat in the shade of the trees for some morning tea, whilst Jase hunted down the prize, for another quick find

TFTC Jasonctkong [^]

A great park and grab TFTC

TFTC

Quick find happy Australia Day TFTC

Seeing the rating we pulled over for a search. The GPSr was not being that helpful but we saw a likely item and started to go over it. After a bit we made the find and completed the signing duties. TFTC.

The last people hid this harder than we expected. The damp didn't help us or the paper inside

Took us a while but got it in the end.

Nice quick park and grab tftc

My GPS had me searching about 9m away but it quickly became apparent where the hide would likely be found. Quick find after resorting to logic rather than depending on technology.
Thanks for te cache Jasonctkong

Found with dad, SpatialRiq. TFTC

Found with dad, SpatialRiq. TFTC

Quick find while in the area. TFTC

Quick find here after a maintenance run on the Canning Kayak caches. TFTH

Quite easy park n grab- thank you.

Out and about with B12. TFTH TFTC

TFTC! Found on a lovely day out with Cravo10. Thanks

As it gets closer to the warm months, the mornings are getting "slightly" lighter meaning an opportunity to grab the odd cache before work.
Quick park and grab this morning. Log signed and on my way.
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Have you logged your WILL ATTEND for WA GOES BIG in 2016 ?
I have and am looking forward to seeing as many of you in Pinjarra on the WA Day long weekend.
Log you will attend at GC5YAGP
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Jasonctkong I found your cache Elderfield Road Park on 2/12/2015. This is my find #4552. TFTC.

Just 3 days to fill on my caching calendar. And now, with this find, there are just 2!

Getting closer... Happy to report cache is in good condition & well hidden.

Thanks Jasonctkong for the hide.

My first find on my bus/ train/ bus/walk day. TFTC Jasonctkong!

This entry was edited by m4yb on Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 06:25:11 UTC.

out with Mrs Luna Maya today grabbing a few geocaches. This cache was a nice quick find TFTC JasonctKong

Out caching with Ooh Yeh today in the beautiful Spring sunshine. SL TFTC jasonctkong

A nice quick find here in the obvious spot . It was very quiet here at this time of the morning too

With the weather starting to get a bit better and the days lengthening out, I headed away from home early this morning to grab some smileys on the way to work. This was one of the targets for the day!

Jasonctkong - jinta29 found your cache Elderfield Road Park on 15/10/2015 6:09 am. This is my find #4077 and find #3 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

A quick find here as I was passing the area.

Thanks Jasonctkong for the cache.

Terrible morning for a cycle. It is ride2work day, so I couldn't not cycle when I usually cycle on a Wednesday anyway. I stopped for free brekkie and a chat with friends at the Concert Hall. Just as I was about to leave, it started raining. Sadly it didn't stop for the next hour and a half which is the time it took to ride to GZ and then back to work in Claremont. Thankfully this was a quick find since I was already pretty drenched and didn't want to be standing around long. I was first to sign the new log which was nice and dry inside its ziplock bag. Thanks for the cache jasonctkong.

Hello geocachers
Teamwaterford just repaired the cache by adding a ziplock bag to protect it from sprinklers

Log sheet is saturated and very difficult to sign. Needs to be dried out or replaced and put in a ziplock bag to protect it from the elements or the sprinklers in the park.

Found the cache on an early morning bike ride on my new bike. (My previous one was stolen). Easy find, but the cache needs maintenance as the log is saturated. I did not have anything with me to replace it. Next finder might like to bring some log paper and a small ziplock bag. Thanks for the cache.

Took a detour through Waterford this arvo to have a go at a couple of the new caches in the area. Parked up nearby here and spotted the container quite quickly.

Jasonctkong I found your cache at 4:24pm, this was the 1st of 2 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 2330. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Out and about this morning after a long weekend down south. Noticed this new cache on the horizon so popped in to a quaint little park to find a professionally camoed cache. TFTC!

Published

*FTF* A quick first to find on a sunny afternoon. TFTC