Paterson Monument George Town, Tasmania, Australia
By Grumbligrot on 30-May-19. Waypoint GC88PRG

The situation here has been reviewed again.Sufficient time has elapsed since the issues were highlighted, and nothing has been done to restore it. Circumstances that prevent timely maintenance can arise, and ample opportunity for the Cache Owner to get in touch to request a time extension has been provided.No request has been received from the Cache Owner, Grumbligrot, for further time to restore the cache.On this basis, it appears to have been abandoned by the Owner and, therefore, will be Archived.Caches lost in this manner will not be Unarchived.This area is now available for other interested players to utilise for cache placement if viable locations can be found. [Balayang -Geoff](https://www.geocaching.com/email/?guid=35e8567e-6d62-483c-9e3d-c8ec0ffd25bd)Volunteer Community Reviewer

### Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner. The cache owner needs to:* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating.* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute that is present. Otherwise :* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary or provide other information.. **Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this. That is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**. Alternatively:* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Grumbligrot and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been by the CO.If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned, and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache. *Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.Thank youBalayang -GeoffCommunity Reviewer

Lovely spot. Its a DNF for me and Wayno today.

Good search at GZ but no luck here

Currently playing the patience game with a muggle or are they a fellow geocacher who is 'taking photographs' until those muggles sitting in the car move on

The muggles moved on and both frmen1 and I had a good look. Beat us this time

Not sure its still there and there were too many muggles in the area to search too closely.

Maybe not such a case of DNF, but rather muggled out at GZ. Quite a few walkers, fishermen and picnickers using the area on this sunny Saturday. We will have to try again on our next Tasmanian visit. Thanks for pointing out those marvellous tree carvings.

So cool, tiny but cool

Tftc

Wonderful spot! TFTC

First cache in a few years. From Ballarat Vic

easy find but could not get a single pen to work grr so photo logging this one. nice little spot to eat lunch

A nice afternoon for a bike ride along the river. TFTC

Nice spot for a cache. TFTC

Tftc found with enigma

Caching around Tasmania. TFTC.
Nice quick find on a cool morning.

We stopped here to watch a ship come in and had lunch at GZ.
Unfortunately having lunch didn't help us find the cache.
It was a DNF for us.

Lovely spot

It was nice to sit and watch the tugs and ship come in.

TFTC Grumbligrot
Keep smiling

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Nice easy find in a beautiful spot. TFTC

Too busy to attempt yesterday lunchtime but no issues at 9am this morning.
First place I looked.
All good here.
Thanks Grumbligrot

Found it, log will follow

#5259
We stopped here for some morning tea. While enjoying that, we spotted a seal frolicking just off the shoreline. He was having a great time!
Then I checked the app for a possible cache hide. Lo and behold, I was right at GZ. Cache found, log signed and returned. Thanks for the geo-fun.

More a could not attempt. While in George Town from 8.30 am to 11.30 am Mrs W visited GZ numerous times, even sitting there an hour but too many parked muggles looking straight at GZ. Not wanting to compromise the cache hide, she will have to return.

Quick find once I was muggle free.
TFTC

Travelling around Tasmania on our family holiday with TT016, PrincessAria1 & LittleG00sE.
Today we travelled North of Launceston to Beauty Point, Beaconsfield, crossed Batman Bridge, up to Georgetown & Low Head.
We had some time to kill before dinner and the Penguin Tour at Low Head so we stopped and got a couple of caches and a play on the nearby playground.
TFTC Grumbligrot

Found on our holiday around Tasmania with hevwalker little goose and princess Aria

YAY - found Paterson Monument today. Find 9 of Day 2 of our Great Tassie 2023 Caching Adventure. Another great cache in a stunning location. Thanks Grumbli for your caching efforts. Much appreciated by me.

Another piece of interesting history at this location. Nice easy find. TFTH

On the foreshore and admired the interesting wooden carvings. Easy find here of this nano as per hint. Last find and time to head back to the Country club room for the night.

Today we are on the move, heading from Hobart up to Launceston. We decided on a route up across the Highlands and via the Great Lake and the day was cool as 11 degrees at it's lowest and finished the day in mid-30s in Cataract Gorge.

We had a weeks holiday booked in Tasmania as a way of celebrating mrs capperz's 60th birthday. What can I say but WOW. What an awesome state and was everything we'd seen and heard about this gem of a place. My main PQ had only Earthcaches and Virtuals and aside from an old cache for my missing month stats I only turned the GPS on when we were stopping somewhere anyway, what a great way to tour a place. Managed one complete set of Ad Labs at the airport, and started another 6 adventures with no intention to complete. Over 50 'real' caches were completed and left behind a couple of trackables to continue their journeys.
I will upload the associated pictures and answers over the next few days or so, need to start to make a dent in my finds backlog.
Oh, and thanks to all COs for their hides, much appreciated for this New Zealander.

Another beautiful spot to relax

Lovely view from here, thanks for the tiny cache.

The Muggle mate and i timed it perfectly today as the huge Bark-Chip Ship called the Green Emerald silently sailed in with a big tail breeze past the GZ of this cache some 20 minutes after i found and signed it at 13:50 on Wed 28 Dec 2022. (We drove back to watch the ship, took pics aswell)

TFTC Grumbligrot

Loving this town The ships are soooo close when they pass

Mini mini one

First one to fill in the log

Miny micro. Great spot.

Smallest micro I have found.

Cache has been replaced and is now already to go

all good

###Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###
This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner.

The cache owner needs to:

* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating.
* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log
* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present.

Otherwise :
* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary or provide other information..
**Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this. That is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**.

Alternatively:

* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.

In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Grumbligrot and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)
**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned, and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache.
*Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*

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

Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.
Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Nope couldn't find it

We were visiting George Town today to see the car show. After seeing that and having a bit of lunch we went off in search of caches to finish our day.
No luck for us finding this one.

Couldnt find, pretty sure we were in the right spot! Hopefully can come back another time x

iGizmo said GZ but nothing found. Thanks anyway.

Checked the likely suspect at GZ and couldn’t find it - maybe we are blind Try again next trip!

Away for a few days so doing some of the back roads and weaving our way around, picking up some more of the hides, which we haven't got previously.

It was a slightly windy day but we were making the most of it. We had a lovely day taking in some beach and river views and finding some great hide. Had a few DNF's but was very happy to pick up some unloved finds.

I knew where to go for this one, as I have been here before. Couldn't find name in log, so happy to sign it again. The tide was out today, so it was a different view.

Thanks Grumbligrot for placing the cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy the find.

Found it on my second trip to George Town.
Cheers and TFTC

TFTC was looking in the wrong spot in the beginning but finally when I looked at the navigation it was super easy!!!
This was my friends first attempt at GC and is hooked now! We didn’t have a pen so here’s the photo of our find.

A quick find while visiting from Canberra. Found on 22/2/22. TFTC

Nice peaceful area.

Good little cache, well done . Beautiful spot, Georgetown seafood on a Friday night is the place to be, best fish and chips

Tftc

Nice little find

Was about to give up WHEN MARS spotted the cache. TFTC

Cute find

Fairly quick find building on experience of find a bit further along.
Cache all good
TFTC

TFTC! Nice little spot

Nice spot to sit down and enjoy the view over the river.

Dinner in the park at Georgetown before visiting the fairy penguins tonight. TFTC

#12692 - 11:17:00 AM; Jumped through all of the hoops and made it to Tasmania for a couple of weeks of R&R with family. Decided on a mission to George Town this morning to tackle the NT Trail, thinking it would be a straight forward run along a quiet country road. WRONG! After a semi successful run, I headed into town to grab a few more as I headed back to base. Spotted this one quickly at GZ and replaced a little more out of view after signing the log. TFTC Grumbligrot

out with my husband tftc

Almost missed it due to the sun. Found on the second look.

Pretty easy once I found what I was looking for

Quick find with kids. Also saw a seal

Happened to see a seal making its way out to sea whilst here. TFTC

Muggle central lol. Used maximum stealth as a seal casually swam by tftc

Founded with Geo Maggie2. A nice little nano. Water is a bit rough today. Found, stamped and replaced, with Maggie and Mollie, my GeoWesties, while roaming around Tasmania with our motorhome “Mylittlebus” looking for content for our TASMANIA ALL OVER facebook. Join us there. Thanks for placing this cache (and others), keeping us on our exploring toes.

What a lovely view and A great place to message if it wasn’t blowing as hard as it is very windy overcast..Thank you for the cache from GeoMaggie and her sidekick Bonnie. And Angus 88

Sandy, Craig and 2
Found on a cold windy day.
Whirlpools in the water nearby
TFTC

Itty bitty teeny weeny! Clever thanks

Found on quick trip home to Tassie. TFTC

Nice easy find while I watched a small submarine glide by. Tftc

No Paterson's curse here today.
The cache was found in this high muggle area with just a feigned stretch of the back.
It was signed and returned with equal discretion.

TFTC Grumbligrot.

Another beaut view and an easy cache which dalerious found whilst I was busy taking photos of the wooden carved figures, most impressive.
Thanks Grumbligrot for showing us the best bits of your town we may not have noticed without geocaching.

Log book changed

Turned this frown up the right way today. Don't no why we couldn't find it last time.

Log is full

Another easy cache to find. TFTC

Quick and easy find. Cache was good but log is almost full. TFTC!

TaurusSix and I had our eye in now and found the cache quickly.

Have cached at the monument before but this was a much easier find than the last one.
Had lunch here and it would have been nice to sit outside but it was just too damned windy.
Would have liked to clean up Georgetown [yet again] while we were here but time got away from us and we still had relatives to visit in Beauty Point and needed to get home in time to feed the cattle so I guess we'll have to come back again soon.
Thanks.

Muggles around but followed the advice of Lil Rafa and all was sorted. TFTC

Thanks for the cache Grumbligrot.
Spending the weekend in Low Head with RLD4963. After a slightly delayed start today (due to hot water issues at our accommodation) we headed out for a day of cacheing.
We stayed here in George Town a couple of years ago, and this one wasn't here then, so it was nice that there was a new one in town for us to look for. A couple of muggles riding by, some walking their dogs, others parked nearby in cars, but we were able to search and make the find by using the structures as they were intended, without anyone the wiser. Thanks for adding to the caches in the area.

out and about caching with 1 Lil Rafa in the Low Head Georgetown area, TFTC TNLN log dry easy find with clues this time we had time to tidy up loose ends or caches unfound from our last trip. this was one of them. everything is good at GZ.

Caching in the area we found your cache along the way. Very windy and cold today, but made a quick find.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks Grumbligrot for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

I had been wanting to get back out to George Town for some time and today seemed a good day to nab some geocaches. This was a nicely placed one and a great little walk along the river.

This was the first one we attempted for the day, just as the sun was rising. Unfortunately there were too many muggles about. Our patience was rewarded with an amazing sunset. Tftc!

Out for a evening drive with Gridge98 this evening, stopped by this cache and made the quick find. Bloody nanos, a mint tin is much nicer.
TFTC

Bloody Nanos! Spawn of satan. Burn down the Nano factory, and exterminate anyone who sells Nanos.

tyftc this was a quick find thanks again.

Out playing tourist today and since we stopped to look at the view I also of course checked GC... A quick look about soon landed us this little gem. TFTC

T-Tech and I are down from Brisbane for a meandering holiday around Tasmania. We flew to Melbourne where we picked up the campervan and spent a day caching there, then took Spirit of Tasmania I to Devonport. Tick that one off the bucket list!

Today we are travelling from Low Head via George Town, Bridport, Scottsdale, Legerwood and Derby to Pyengana. After a quick drive around George Town, we ended up here and stopped for the view. Better get the cache then GPS said over there, but of course we ignored it and searched the more obvious spot first, without a smiley! Soon we went to the right spot, and after being meticulous, had the cache in hand. TFTC, Grumbligrot.

Down from Brisbane on hols with IolantheK.
Another one of many on our travels through Tassie [^]
Took a walk out to the lighthouse before it got dark.
Not the obvious spot but we got there in the end!
Cache is dry and in good condition [^]
TFTC Grumbligrot

Nice quick find great views. SL TFTC

Nice easy find that took a wee bit longer than it should have. Enjoyed the sunset and amazing views and found the cache. TFTC

Nice quick find
TFTC

On a small road trip with friends. They couldn't believe how small a cache can be! We saw some of the amazing tree carvings in Legerwood also. TFTC

TFTC it did take us a little while. Stopalot came up with this tiny cache. Touring Tassie with Stopalot. Carvings are great & view.

Touring Tassie in our motorhome & finding a few caches along the way with scotjohnos. Not an easy find. TFTC