Williams River Geocache Alison, New South Wales, Australia
By ASLJ, Tommy@@@ on 08-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6N68J

No response from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ministro - Matt

ASLJ

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.


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tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

Think this may have fallen through as the wood surrounding is rotted away.

Cache is gone

Doesn’t seem to be there

looked for a good 20 minutes climb up to the road in thongs while wet but didn’t find it maybe it gone

Had a long look but started to rain so we gave up. Considering how easily others have found it, we think it may have been moved

#4787:
Some people would honestly call me crazy! Today I spent a total of 8 hours on multiple trains, just to find this cache!!

I've been in Australia now for 9 months, and I'm attempting to find a cache in as many LGAs as I can. It took me a while to realise I can use my Opal card on the Hunter Train Line, but the problem I faced was the irregularity of the services. I made a day trip to Newcastle and back from Sydney many months ago, and that exhausted me. I figured that the only way I'd be able to visit Dungog, Scone, Muswellbrook etc, was by having a weekend up in Newcastle.

Well, that never came to fruition, and I ended up visiting all the surrounding Shires on a roadtrip from Brisbane to Sydney. Now that I'm leaving Australia in 5 days, it was now or never to visit Dungog. I selected Sunday to travel, as it is so cheap (in fact, the return trip from Sydney to Dungog - 490km - cost me a measly $1.16 return!)

I ended up having 1 hour before the train departed, so that gave me enough time to have a leisurely stroll to find this cache. Ohhhh how I love rural Australia. It's so quiet and charming, surrounded by farms and cows, and delightful wooden bridges. It was quite a tough scramble up the hill to reach the cache (terrain rating should be higher!), but once there I quickly found the cache.

Well what a long day it's been. I got up at 8am, and got back to my accomodation in Sydney at around 9pm. I'd say this is easily the most effort I've ever put in to find a cache! TFTC.
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1st cache found in New South Wales Shire of Dungog - 97th Australian Local Government Area.

What a great bridge (car and railway bridge). I will take TB with me. TFTC

Took us just one minute to find on a rainy afternoon, great spot

Taking the grandkids looking for treasure.

Hint is definitely a huge give away. Thanks for bringing us here to this quiet little park, cache was found quickly signed the log and returned it where found. TFTC

Cache found all in good order. Thanks for the find. This cache now has the new record for my northern most cache. And I'd imagine it woyld remain that way for some time to come.

I took a short brake and visited the container. TFTC

Followed the hint and geo hubby scrambled up the grassy slope to find the cache. TFTC

All 3 caches collected in Dungog . greetings from Scotland xx

Back in the tea with friends. Still as beautiful as ever. But much cooler than last time. TFTC

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The beautiful puppy geo art up Maitland way has been tempting me for months!, so when Joolay, Minniek, Fitzy_1965 and SpecimenX started to brew plans for a trip, I knew I was in. Making a whole long weekend of it, we’ve hunted down much needed counties on Friday, diverted to Jasmers, caught up with locals at events and picked up some extra cool little trails and night caches, all the while keeping our eye on the geo art prize So wonderful to have the chance to get away for some caching fun, and to catch up with some local cachers whilst we’re about. Thanks so much to everyone who has invested in these caches to make our wonderful weekend away a possibility. Thanks for the Cache.

Found with fitzy_1965, minniek, Nibletricecakes, Joolay as part of the Canberra Invasion of Maitland and surrounds over an extra long weekend

Off we go on another adventure around the area and today's priority was to grab the golden oldie Frying Pan (GCF1) and then anything else which we had on our list Took the opportunity for a facility stop here as well as wandering up for the quick find of course! Signed or stamped as Capital Crunchers or CC to save log space.

Thanks for the hide, ASLJ

19,114. Found as part of the Capital Crunchers Team (fitzy_1965, minniek, specimenX, nibletricecakes and Joolay) during the Canberra Invasion of Maitland region over the long weekend.

Day 3 of our invasion. And after a HUGE day yesterday we had our sights set on heading up and getting Frying Pan for our JASMER, plus other caches as they appeared on our route. This was the next one along the way. After a careful search at GZ I spotted the cache.

Thanks ASLJ !!

Today was the day we were heading up to Frying Pan to finally get that early month ticked off for my Ausmer. A beautiful day to be out and about and this is on the way. Last one for the town before heading to find Frying Pan

Up in Maitland with Nibletricecakes, Fitzy1965, MinnieK and Specimen X, to do the Dogs Head going by the name of Capital Crunchers. We had solved quite a few of the puzzles before coming up and after doing the Dogs Head started on some of the others around the area.

Our logs are signed CC, Capital Crunchers or stamped depending who wrote them.
Thanks ASLJ, Tommy@@@

I found it

Thank you! Amazing experience, and went where I never normally have gone! Amazing hiding spot btw!

Not found on the slope, found under bridge. Returned to top of slope. Perhaps creator can come place back in original position.

There was nothing in there. Sad find for the kids first hunt

Had a great coffee at the local bakery. Nice find

Nice easy find, TFTGC

Underneath the bridge

Nice one! TFTC!

Perfect day for a bike ride beautiful spot. Way too full from our delicious burgers at The Bank Hotel

Kids loved this one! TFTC

Found it as part of Team NZ Mega 2020..
Nice and easy find. TFTC

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Found this one with team NZ MEGA 2020 as we were passing through the area, over here in Australia for the GeoMuster mega event in Wollongong. Nice quick find here in Dungog on our way back to our Central Coast accommodation after a visit to the Frying Pan. Getting dark so not many more to find today. TFTC!!!

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

A group of five of us from Auckland, New Zealand have embarked ourselves upon Australian territory to wile away the time here at the 2019 MEGA .and to gather up some old caches and see the country while we’re at it.

It's dark, we've done heaps of driving and our driver FMZ is getting tired, so a pull up at the nearest cache will give him a chance to stretch his legs. They all get out of the car and make the find quickly.



All logs while in Australia were signed as NZ MEGA 2020 to save space. We are FMZ, Agazo, rustynz, harisree and myself.

Day 5: A group of Westies (rustynz, harisree, Gorby, FMZ and Agazo - temporary Westie visa holder), are in Australia from NZ to attend the OZGeoMuster MEGA in Wollongong. All logs have been signed NZMEGA 2020

Its been a long day, and its dark. Torches out, we make our way over to GZ, and Agazo calls out he has found it

Thanks for the hide ASLJ, Tommy@@@ and bringing us here

Team NZ Mega 2020, which includes Harisree, rustynz, FMZ, Gorby, and yours truly, spent the day in this area to get a few old and otherwise interesting caches.

Cache was spotted in the open, but replaced in a better spot. TFTC.

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Log later

Found it, but I'm not sure if it's been moved because I didn't have to climb the grassy slope.. Thanks!

Good hint!! TFTC

Its noisy old. A lovely place to have a picnic. Found by a 9 year old

With a long weekend in Canberra, FurfacesLL #1 and myself decided it was time to get away and find a bit of warmth as the cold makes its way into Canberra. We decided to head up to Maitland as neither of us had been there before for Geocaching. After finishing the Dog Head Series yesterday and a few others, we decided on a quieter day today, so we made our way out to Frying Pan.

Continuing on our country drive we picked up random caches along the way.

Thanks for the cache hide ASLJ, Tommy@@@ and thanks FFLL#1 for another trip out and about for some quantity AND quality caching

Headed to Maitland to do the Dogs Head Trail, today was day two so we decided to head to the frying pan as we were so close.

Saw this one on the map when on our journey back to Maitland.
Quick find at GZ after running up the grassy slope. Was tempted to roll back down it but thought better of it.

Thanks for the hide ASLJ, Tommy@@@

Found it

There were some muggles eating their lunch in the shelter below Ground Zero but fortunately the height of the cache ensured that the roof of the shelter obscured their view of us and so we could search for and quickly find the cache without being seen. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Found it! Tftc

Parking nearby, we walked over to the bridge and made a quick find. TFTC!

On our way back to camp after spending the weekend at Riverwood Downs. We stopped for this one in the lovely country town of Dungog that we enjoyed visiting. Thanks ASLJ, Tommy@@@ for placing this cache for us and others to find.
Cheers and happy caching!

We were told this was once an excellent free camp. Don't know if it still is but the signs didn't look encouraging. Anyway today we were only here for the cache and in a convoy of four cars we arrived. Found with a group of attendees at the Hawaiian Shirts Galore event - Yella Belly, GrubFred, DiMorgan, pprass, Coongoola, Liz & Bruce and Snakepiters. TFTC ASLJ.

While attending The Hawaiian Shirt Event we took a day trip with Liz and Bruce, Snakepiters, Grub Fred, coongoola, pprass & geono, we stopped at various caches on our way to find the Frying pan our main objective for the day.
Our last on eon our way back to the event, didn't take long for the many cachers to spot it. A few people enjoying a rest here.
Thanks for placing this cache ASLJ

Find No: 6859. Visiting from Newcastle for the Hawaiian Shirts Galore event at Riverwood Downs, we set out in a 4 car convoy with DiMorgan, pprass, coongoola, geono., Liz and Bruce, Snakepiters and Yella Belly. thanks for the cache ASLJ!!

Found at 1:12 PM GAFF1.
Another cache that we didn't realise that we hadn't previously found! With a group from the Hawaiian Shirt event we stopped here and made a quick find just as the speeding train zipped past with a toot toot!
Thanks ASLJ

What a great area to go caching in. We are not familiar with this area and find ourselves here because of the event being held by Grub Fred in an area not too far away from here. Thankyou ASLJ for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area

Out for the day finding geocaches with Dimorgan, Liz and Bruce, Grub Fred, Snakepiters, and Pprass. We found all the caches we had planned and replaced one or two that had gone missing is action.

We're camped at Riverwood Downs for the Hawaiian shirt event hosted by the infamous Grub Fred team where many forms of shirts were encountered.

A fabulous few days with wonderful friends.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Found while out caching with other cachers who had attended the Hawaiian Shirt Event hosted by Grub Fred. TFTC.

Found with Gazkersh and littlemissleft (Mum and Dad)

Driving around the area finding a few caches. Stopped here and made a quick find. A few familiar names signed in the book over the past day. TFTC

Had a convoy today for those attending Grub Fred's event, did a nice loop around the area picking up a few caches and repairing one. TFTC ASLJ
Total Cache Finds 5579

Found with Gazkersh and littlemisslonglegs. TFTC

I found with littlemissleft and Littlemisslonglegs
Nice quick find in a nice park
Thanks for the cache

Found with TOMBI! and grandchildren on the way to a camping weekend for an event at Riverwood Downs, Quick find as per hint. TFTC ASLJ
# 1574 at 6:22:00 PM on 1/02/2019[dmmmyyyy

Heading up for the Hawaiian shirts event by grub Fred at Riverwood downs, a few stops were made on the way for a few caches. A climb up the hill and the cache was soon spotted. Thanks for the cache ASLJ, Tommy@@@

found this on the way up to an event at riverwood downs thx

Found with BillHill531 and my boys. Tenth find of our geocaching camping trip. Made the detour out to this one. Still sprinkling, but no raincoats this time. Pretty wet, so slippery on the hill. All good.
Thanks for the cache!

Great spot for morning tea.
TFTC

Tftc

Sent the geo-hubby up to find this cache He did but it certainly is not kid friendly (think traffic on the nearby bridge) and then how to get down from this very exposed spot. However, it would certainly be an interesting challenge for some geo-cachers.. SL, TFTC

Back in Aus for another round of caching down under. Great way to explore the country.

It seems this one has been replaced.

Thanks ASLJ
Cheers from Canada!

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

Big day today as we hunt down a Old School cache in order to fill in a missing month for the Ausmer Challenge down in Bowral. Came through with alnic39, phlphotos and Splitty Miller JJCC. After stopping off in Dungog for lunch we came down to this find this cache, but unfortunately after 10 minutes of searching we called it. Cache appears to be missing....thanks for the hunt nonetheless ASLJ, Tommy@@@

Darn spent a while here at GZ but no luck for us today. TeamMerlin wrote a needs maintenance to check if we are blind or ir really is no longer there. Thanks for bring us here ASLJ, Tommy@@@

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

Looked everywhere nearly fell off bridge and got hit by cars. Not the safest place to go looking with mini-cachers

We couldn’t find this one. Looked everywhere.

TFTC

Reperio at 1145.

After a pleasant drive to Frying Pan Picnic Ground today, we stopped by here on the way back to Newcastle for a quick find. I took the eldest up the slope to GZ where the cache was found nicely tucked away out of sight. A nice place to take a break.

Gratias ASLJ, Tommy@@@.

The dilemma - are the knees up to climbing or is the body small enough for squeezing past the barrier? Found the answer to both questions to be “yes”. Log signed and returned without incident. Left a shell , took a swamp gecko tag. Tftc

Found at 1:40:00 PM:

A stop on the way back. Found and logged.

Thanks ASLJ

Easy find on the slippery slope

OMG what has happened to the roads in this town?? Seriously, they would be the worst around that I have ever encountered! Anyway, another smiley here and I took care coming down the slope as the ground was wet.

I was caching by torchlight tonight as I was making my way to and past Newcastle. A nice quick find here!

I was fortunate enough to be in this part of the country on a work trip and decided to head over a couple of days early so that I could target some caches before attending my conference.

My main focus was the three Jasmer dates that aren’t available in WA and I had solved a heap of puzzles as well. I was limited for time so had a fast and furious couple of days signing logs as fast as I could in an effort to rack up the numbers. This was one of the targeted caches for the trip and I soon had this one found, signed and replaced. Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there ASLJ, I was in this area today and found your cache Williams River Geocache GC6N68J. I added my name to the log book at 10:18 pm on 21 July 2018. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

This cache find brings our total find count to 9794. Woohoo!!

TFTC,
On our way home after a week up north. Detouring via this area to log a found cache in the Dungog Council area.
Quick find here and while signing the log, 3 Greyhounds walked past. Escaped from somewhere.
visited trackables.

Quick find on our way home, signed log and replaced. Thanks to ASLJ.

Quick find, Tigawon and Cubs TNLN TFTC found by icub

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a sunny Saturday afternoon, tftc

Found with Banj Ward TFTC

Found with Kel410
Made her walk the slopes.... Lol

12th today conquered The Hill

TFTC! what a fun find, had to do a mini hike to get it as I went the long way I left behind Mike Wazowski for the next lucky adventurers

TFTC. once at GZ it was a nice and easy find

Found while exploring the stroud/dungog area. Nice one.

Found while staying in Stroud. Such a beautiful area


thanks

Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder uses T.P. to sign smaller logs.

Found & signed log on our travels... TFTC

Another cache we found as we were heading South back to our hotel after driving all this way to find Frying Pan.
Quick stop at this nice park and again beaten to the find by TassieTrekers.

Logbook soon signed and cache replaced as found, thanks for the cache.

Found at 11:55 on 01/04/2018

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Our main reason for being in the area was to find Frying Pan, with that out of the way we relaxed and enjoyed a stop here on the way back.
We drive past here this morning on our way but stopped on the return to find this cache. U love the bridge here. Found with Tassie Trekkers and stainless steel rat. Thanks ASLJ

Today was the day to tackle the Frying Pan cache to fill in our calendar. With gooseandegg and SSR we headed off to the Frying Pan. We travelled through the country side and up into the forest enjoying panoramic views of the area.

While in the area we found a variety of hides and this was one of them.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

On a road trip down from Qld to participate in the Oz GeoMuster Event and pulled over to look for this one whilst in a convoy with team RoddyC. Just as we were about to commence our search we stopped and waited for the train to pass over before finding the prize. Neat hide and TFTC ASLJ, Tommy@@@
Found March 27, 2018

We came across your cache, ASLJ, Tommy@@@, during our journey to the Easter Mega.

Stopped as a train was coming through. Bonus!

As I was standing under the bridge directing Mrs RoddyC and Snickersallan to the cache above, a truck rumbled over the bridge and the ground I was standing on shook! Wow.

Log signed and replaced at 10:57 am on 27 March 2018. TFTC.

Don’t wear thongs ahahaha !!

Easy find

Thanks! It was our first ever find. Hpoked on geocaching now!

Out with some friends today.
Nice easy find.
Thanks

Quick stop and grab today. Great bridge
TFTC Wilbert67

Found it no problem no muggles around TFTC