Thistle Town Belair, South Australia, Australia
By Chessboardchesse on 09-Feb-20. Waypoint GC8K74R

An action had been taken on this cache because of one of the following -
One or more of the following has occurred:
No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.
As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.
Should you like to resurrect the cache please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.
From http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=70
7.15. Archive or unarchive a geocache
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If a cache is archived by a reviewer or staff for lack of maintenance, it will not be unarchived.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

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Can the CO please check this cache as several DNF's.

With bouncing gps, we struggled to hone in on GZ. This one too good for us today.

You pwned us n00bs.

Not a lot to be found here....

We will return.

Thanks to Chessboardchesse and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Not at gz or hurtle's coordinates

Searched for sometime with jafaz62 but came up empty handed. Lots of places to hide a micro.

Hunted today but to no luck

Some clarification on location may help.

I’m going to put it back to its normal space

Heading in to Belair NP in search of a few caches i parked up at the nursery and began my walk starting with this trad. After making my way through the myriad of sour sobs I found a plausible gz and it was not long before I saw the tell tail glint of the cache container. I was thankfully for this given the fact that the search could have taken me a lot longer. Stamped the log and I was on my way.

TFTC

Round and round the mulberry bush. PAF. No luck. Used Hurdle's coords. Bingo. Tftc

After finding our bearings using a photo, we inadvertently found it when my daughter lifted and shifted. Once found we replaced. Very hard.

Too much grass.

Had a hunt around but no luck

Where on earth was it?

TFTC. Not near the location!

Couldn't find it. Micro in the bush + bad coordinates is the exact opposite of an enjoyable experience.

Found on the way to greener pastures further south.
It was quite a while, 2 PAF calls and a photo before this one was found. Do think that difficulty should be higher than one and a half and that minor cache creep has made it even harder. Generally speaking, thistle patches are not good places for a cache, unless your name is Big Bad Brad.
Replaced as found.
Thanks Chessboardchesse for the cache

After a long time away from friends, we decided to catch up here at Belair today, fantastic weather and company. then I wander to do my caching search and ended with no sign of the cache... I decided to contact a fellow previous finder who gave me a big hint, I came back with LukaSkywalker and after a bit of poking around we made our find.

ps... can't confirm coords as we cache with our phones.

TFTFun

Bit over grown but photos helped find the exact spot. Thanks

Got it

No luck for me and the geodog today, even with the updated coords. Think I need to come back here when I have more time to look before the sun goes down!

Small and bright

Light shinning on cache helped me find it

Thought it was an Easter egg

Found it!

Not accurate

I started 2020 with some improbable caching goals that only lasted until mid February.
Then came Covid-19 and now caching will have to take a back seat or be socially responsible.
No more than one or two people and target caches that haven't been visited in some time.

I had a total of just 6 caches left to find in Belair National Park. Anymules had 11 caches left. So we trekked about 12 kms through the park, up hill, down hill, around hill and visited 13 so in the end we both had none left to find. Even managed a couple just outside the Park. A great day for a long, long walk in nature.

We wandered all over the place with the GPS swinging wildly. Tried the posted coords. nope. Tried Hurtle's Coords. Closer to where it was found later but nope. As the compass needle was still wildly swinging, the Mule finally found the little bugger. So let me add some fat to the fire. MY GPS said S35 00.383 E138 38.909 but that will probably only work for me! [:o)]

***Thanks Chessboardchesse for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found where Hurtle’s coordinates put me.

Thanks for the cache Chessboardchesse.
Found on 6/4/20 at 12:07 pm.
Find #11097

Walking through the national park today and came back through this area. Very dry and found cache lying on the ground so very east find.

GPS was off
Use photo to figure out its location
Nice container

Will try again another time

Found while out on an evening ride. Great container. Thanks for the cache

This evening, I teamed up with [@gridge98](http://coord.info/PRGKDMY) to find a few more geocaches in Belair National Park. We each had been here a few times before finding caches, but hadn't explored some of the more further away locations from the front gate, so those were targeted, in particular a few harder Zytheran puzzles that were more adventures than anything. A few sections were targeted, and once the light began to fade, we disappeared before the front gate was locked, and made our way into the city to attempt a FTF. It turned out that we were not first, but the field puzzle was still underway, that we were allowed to join for a five way tie. A fun Valentine's Day evening out and about.

[@gridge98](http://coord.info/PRGKDMY) had a previous DNF here (during his FTF), but unfortunately he could not make the find. So back today armed with some hints, we managed to find after a few minutes. Wow, not the obvious hide, and really hidden away. Probably not the best of hides, and will be frustrating for future visitors. Otherwise, the cache was ok, thanks Chessboardchesse.

I came here the other day for the FTF but no luck was had, return this evening with Davidwazza and after a huge hint from a previous finder the cache was found! Can’t see this lasting

The cache was not found at the listed coordinates. The cache was not found at Hurtle's coordinates. The cache was found about 6m from both of these sets of numbers. The cache was found in the last place I looked. I looked for about 10 minutes in about 20 location. A glint of green and cache was mine.

Log was signed and the cache was replaced. Now for a stroll back to my car, which is 900m away by the front gates. No roos today. Just a lot of ducks on the ova.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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Walked in from the golf club car park via the playground. Nice evening walk. Not so nice search for the cache. Plenty of thistles that's for sure. What we didn't notice were the 100,000 prickles , grass seeds, bindis etc that were embedded in our dogs coats whilst we were searching and they were resting...All we found were broken bottles and rabbit holes, many logs and thistles. No luck with the cache for us sadly. Returned home to two solid hours of prickle removal and bathing of two dogs. Bugger all round really

10 minutes searching with Hurtles coordinates and finally came in at a lucky angle. Good hide - happy to see the green gleam! TFTC

**S35 00.390 E138 38.904**

Stopped by on way home, when you can drive to GZ between 5pm and 9pm for no charge.
Can't say I found it in the first or tenth place looked, but find it I did.
Not a good idea in sandals!
Peaceful here.
GPSr had me at 9m (see above co-ords) and Android App was bouncing between 6-9m...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Published

Searched high and low, so many opportunities here for a micro too be. No luck after 30 mins of searching

*FTF* at 3:10pm. A nice 1km walk from the front car park. After a quick search I found it with help from the hint. I was using my IPhone which wanted me around 12 metres away. TFTC