Yallourn - Ghost Town Guardian Yallourn, Victoria, Australia
By CJPERX on 08-Apr-17. Waypoint GC73GTE

Unfortunately there has not been a response (or regular update) from the cache owner within the period requested and, as per the original advice, this cache is now being de-listed (Archived) as abandoned.

If there are components or remnants of the cache, please recover them as we don't want to litter our environment.

If you wish to contact a Reviewer regarding this cache, please send an email via the profile - [**Bunjil**,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the Cache Name and GC Identification Code.

### **OWNER MAINTENANCE REQUESTED PLEASE** ###

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Hi there Cache Owner,

This cache has been flagged by Geocaching HQ as a cache that **possibly** needs some attention. You may recall having received an automated email from Geocaching HQ which explained what you needed to do.

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

**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 to check, repair, replace or do whatever else is needed, Post an [Owner Maintenance log](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) indicating what you have done and that the cache is back as it should be. Then [ENABLE your cache](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) and sit back and wait for the logs of thanks and delight to roll in.

- **Place A Write Note Log::-** Reviewers are not mind readers (unfortunately) , so without a note on the cache page explaining that the site works are on-going, you have been in hospital, the area has been flooded, the cache is in a remote/difficult to access location, or some other reason that has prevented attending to the cache, they can't tell what is going on.
All you need do is to [post a Write Note log](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=234) to the page (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.** When a Reviewer next looks at the listing, all will be fine, for a little bit longer.
**If you have a long term unavailability (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 your cache](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=54). [^] Alternatively, you need to [Archive the cache](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 the above. Well, when the cache is next checked by a Reviewer, if the issue has not been addressed, or there is no acknowledgment as requested above, it will be assumed the cache has been abandoned. [xx(] It would be far better if you decide, so please do something before then.

Please don't send me an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.

Thanks for your cooperation,

Bunjil

[3AS]

Really not sure if still there or not, unless we did a terrible job looking

I think the guardian may have been something I didn’t really want to find but could not see any places it could be. Thanks anyway CJPERX

Couldn’t find this one today. Will try again another day.

Searched all nearby trees and still cannot find it.

????

*Log type adjusted from 'Found' by Reviewer*

Had a good look around, found a couple of arm eating holes in trees that would be good potential spots (lucky we had gloves) but no luck for us today.

Couldnt find rain did hinder us and had to abandon looking

Found it very good cache TFTC

Found with margaretforr1987 tftc

Thanks for bringing me to this spot, the guardian didn't scare me too much today TFTC

rode my pushie here - as if my heart wasn’t pumping enough just from getting here, finding this sure kicked it up a few BPM! Awesome hide

Awesome find thanks heaps

This was brilliant... Guardian gave miss 11 a jump & giggle.

Found it gave me a bit of a jump the log is full so had to write on the back

Found 26 th jan 2021 only 4 places left on the geocache paperwork

I found Yallourn's Guardian this afternoon and smiled. Love it. Thanks CJPERX for setting up this cache. So glad that a few of the old trees are still here.


P.S.: The Troll Dolls (TN6TR0) were with me on my great caching adventures today.

Doing a bit of reminiscing here today. I was born at Yallourn. I was heading to your Cache's at Lake Glenmaggie today but didn't make it. Maybe next trip. TFTC

Great find, jumped when I saw it, and covered in bugs haha.

Found it

Not what I expected good find

Ooooooo love the little friend..

Yep nup. Great location. Tftc

A great hide! Was great for my sister sanchelle20 who is terrified of the keeper of the cache, deserves a fav point on location n thought into the keeper. Tftc

Best cache of the day....freaked my daughter out

Arrrrfh!

Screamed and swore but laughed my head off

Easy find. Nice little surprise

Out on a mission to log a few caches today - number 1

Always hated spiders

ooft

Co-ordinates spit on. Not too difficult to find and another new location. Thanks for the cache.

Davo511 did a good job finding

I love this cache. Tfct

Out on another nighttime adventure with megd and tillyb29. After looking around for a little bit I looked and got quite a fright. Luckily my geofriends were more manly than me. Creative!
TFTC.

What an interesting spot! I’m always really fascinated how nature reclaims what once was there. The road must’ve been quite lovely in its hey-day as it approached the town. We wondered are the trees significant? Avenue of honour or something? A really cool spot. Giving a fav point - NOT for the actual cache, which I refused to touch (lucky one of us was brave though!), haha, well okay it was cool too, but a definite fav for the fascinating location which to us, is what we love most about caching. Accidentally wrote the 5th instead of 6th in the log book, seems I’m a day behind myself! SL TFTC CJPERX

I almost thought I'd taken a wrong turn, but sure enough I found the cache! (And it's not even the biggest one I've seen ) TFTC!

Creepy!!!

Quick find here today the guardian is still here. Tftc

Surprising how many people don't like guardians. Thanks for the cache and bringing us here.

Great to be out here today after an event just up the road. Thanks heaps

2:55 pm #6156
Road Trip day with MrsPapi4506 & 4B Ninjas. We were soon joined by jentrek1 and jascat to make it a true girls day out.
Being arachnophobic, I let someobe else retrieve this one.
Cheers CJPERX

It was soon determined by the sound of cache name, a few people nominated not to touch but with the log signed it was off to the next ones.

For once GeowifeD found this one but i aint touchin that.

15 Jul 2018, Found @2:55 pm, Find # 1763

Found with OzHockeyChick, 4bninjas and Papi4506 after the Robot Charlie workshop. I almost jumped when I spotted this one. Very creative.

Thanks to CJPERX for placing this cache

Nice start to a beautiful winter day

Eeek. Found it. Tftc

The guardian put me on caution til I identified it as not likely to be harmful to me. The trees nearby are in brilliant autumn foliage colour and it was great shuffling the leaves around with my feet on the way to the cache. Everything is in good condition at this location.

After attending a CITO and BBQ event in Moe I headed out with gwd.aussie and sqau to grab a few caches. After spending longer than desired at the last cache thankfully this was fairly quick.

Thanks CJPERX

A customer of my business, lived in Yallourn just before it ended.
The house she lives in at Paynesville, was transfer from Yallourn.
About that time. So part of Yallourn lives on in Paynesville.

Out caching with D@geo and sqau
Thank you for the hide CJPERX

A quick an easy find that had Tally Tiger and Zedaycee running for the hills. While, I don't like cache guardians myself, I won't let that stand between me and a new smiley face!

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'Why did the chicken cross the road?' - 'Because he had to expand his search radius.'
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Interesting history behind this area. 5000 people in the town is not small. What remains is a reminder of times past. TFTC CJPERX

Quick easy find. It's sad to know that people used to live here. It seem sad and lonely now.
Thanks for the cacheb CJPERX
With Zedaycee and Angelique Anja.

It was funny to walk along this road that felt like something else had been here before. I could see the hills in the distance, but the fence stopped a view from what looks like previously accessible spots. The container was a cool little find in a logical spot.

Thanks to CJPERX for placing this cache.

Almost got us but no fear we found it. Thanks for the cache.

**# 20463** Found on a drive to Moe with Rebel Acts and Ski Pair while staying nearby.
Lots of muggles around today and a good variety of hides again.
Thanks for the cache CJPERX,
***Roostaman***

We grab a few caches after Moe for CITO. Found with d@geo and gwd.aussie.
Thanks for the cache

Not exactly a ghost town because I felt a bit too exposed looking for this one with the cars parked at the only building I could see in any direction. They clearly would have seen me if anyone was looking. Found cache at 1.20 pm and fortunately the cache guardian was safely asleep.
Thanks for the cache CJPERX
Hunter

Tftc. Lucky I had me trusty pooch and not my grandkids!

Ewww!!! Found it! TFTC

In our younger days when we attended Uni and the science and engineering campus was located at the old Yallourn Tech we used to often divert through Yallourn while it was all in tact. Had a great cinema, a lovely pool and an excellent sporting ground. It was quite a picturesque town as well. Steadily we saw many house sold and moved and facilities disappear, but even then with everything gone it was a great place to get lemons from the many trees that remained.
Now there is nothing left, not even lemon trees, but a lot of memories.
we parked off the main road and then did some remembering as we walked to find the cache.
TFTC

Found it scary scared the bejas out of us lol good hide

Found with Geo Hubby TB142 and Geo Friend RogerZ1956. TFTC

Tftc

Found with kezza1211 and
ROGERZ1956 tFTC

Found by The Empire
Making my way home, the long way, after an event in Bairnsdale yesterday. Time to check out the power stations/mines/artificial lakes area. Thanks for the cache CJPERX.
- M

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Geo-mum not a fan haha

Caching day in Moe.
Been at Mary Hyde Event today.
Very funny one..
Luck I did not get any scare.
Thanks CJPERX

What a great place i used to work here i used to work on too of the towards and chimney tftc

Lucky I'm not scared of these:)

Very cute! TFTC!

Found on a quiet afternoon

[Scrat visited your Cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4376822)

TFTC

Quick find, thanks for the cache!

Found this one today with Bigrobv. He got out while I turned off the car and walked over, he looked and found the cache, offering it up to me to find.... upon observing it I decided I would let him do the retrieval. He moved a bit of bark and I thought the cache moved indicating that it might have actually been alive. Needless to say a scream ensured and I backed away rather quickly. Thanks for the hide even if it did give me the creeps!!

Found with NoonaB, i spotted where i thought the cache may be hidden from the car. So, i wander straight up to it and spotted our friendly neighborhood cache. I offered for NoonaB to extract this one (for the record, if she reads this i was definitely going to grab it myself). After a slight little movement of the cache and some bark a small scream was let out by my fellow cacher before log was extracted and signed, thanks for the cache, i really liked this one

After getting a message from CO that this had returned, we made our way out there. Straight to the suspected GZ and Bam! Even after expecting the unexpected my heart skipped a beat! TFTC

Hahaha gotcha you sucker!!!! Despite fighting all of my instincts... name is now on the log ) thanks CJPERX ))

The Guardian has returned. Enjoy!

I have disabled this cache until I can make sure the guardian rises again.
Thank you, CJPerx

This one has my head in a web. No luck again!

bummer... it wasn't here. Hunted around for a little while but there was no cache guardians luck here tonight.

Workmen muggles looking at me like I'm crazy. Didn't have time to find. Did find the possum though

Oops, sorry wrong hidey! Today the gps was all over the place. Thought ide let him sleep and return another day.

Looking over shoulders wondering who is watching....... very quiet. Drove right up.
CJJAHC

Charlotte was home alright... Tftc cjperx

Around the places where we have been years ago when it was still a
town it's hard to believe what was here then. Found this little fellow
in its home and there was a black crow watching not far away, grabbed
it it didn't bite or make a sound. Maybe the crow was hungry.
Thanks CJPERX FTC.

Rising the high of a difficult FTF nearby MummyShort Legs and I detoured past this one on our way home. This is certainly an eerie placer to hang out on a cold grey Saturday arvo... And that was before I noticed the avenue of beautiful trees looming a road to nowhere. Where did this road lead before there was a hole there? Cache guardian spotted by MSL and the log signed in short order. Thanks for the cache!

After a jolly good FTF, Kato and I decided to detour and find this new cache. Exploring a different path in this complex and the GPS looked to be leading us to one particular object when my geosenses kicked in and I decided that that place would be a good hide. Yep, that was it. Experience pays off. TFTC CJPERX. The avenue of trees is lovely, too bad it leads nowhere.

Nice 1 drove right up 2 where it is
Found with michelleclerks and kids

Published

Another trip down memory lane, what a waste nice hide tftc found with apple460 and teammoss5

After seeing this one pop up last night i was so tempted to drive down to snap a ftf but i left it knewing i was coming down today. Arriving at gz baby cacher pointed and bang he had found the cache before us one smart 1 yr old. Retrieved signed and replaced found with grannygeo64 and apple460 tftc as always

*Found with [Geooh Live](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohLive)*

FTF with Billy_Shears at 22:00

***FTF*** with GizaGal at 22:20 on 10-4-2017. -- the day John Clarke died
I came home from choir practice to a frantic GizaGal.
New cache.. new cache ....
We checked the logs .. still not found ... bugger it .. let's go.
We drove as close to GZ as possible and walked the final 25m.
Both our phones had us on a clear grass area .. with two likely hiding spots both roughly 4-5m away.
Using torches we searched the first one together .. then moved to the second one ...
ta-da ... with a tiny scream ... - no prizes for guessing who squeaked ...
An empty log!! ....
tftc .. and the scare.