Step back Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
By South-West on 17-Oct-20. Waypoint GC91FZN

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** ###----------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 you need to do:-#You have a number of choices so pick the one that applies from this handy list:-- **Check On The Cache** - once checked, place an Owner Maintenance log and then enable the cache.- **Place A Write Note Log** - indicating a date when you expect it will be restored. - **Adopt Out or Archive** - depending on whether you want it kept or for it to disappear.Full details for each of the above choices can be found at [**GEOCACHE MAINTENANCE**]( https://wiki.groundspeak.com/display/GEO/Victoria) on the Regional Policies page.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 an email but instead follow the information/advice posted above.Thanks for your cooperation,Bunjil (Pete & Helen)Volunteer Reviewers - Australia[3AS]

Didn't find it

Couldnt find. Have an idea where it might of been but seems maybe it was moved

Looked for a while and couldnt find

We looked around , couldnt locate it

Had a search for 20mins but no luck

A pile has been removed from here - is that where the cache had been?

Found it

There was no sign of it

Found on a rather damp day. Another find for the Wheel of Challenges.

Thanks for the Traditional Cache South-West

The fire danger was rated moderate today, like it should be in mid April. Long may it stay so. This was a quick find, and still a few spots on the log. Thanks South-West for putting this here.

Nice quick park and grab

On the tail of phildoggas. Nice quick find tftc

tftc

Cache found and log signed with dalerious .

This little trad was chosen to tick off another LGA .
I was left to fuel up the car whilst my partner went to sign the log.
Thank you South-West for providing this cache.

The long weekend in Victoria had us planning a trip to Mount Kosciuszko, but there was no available accommodation in Jindabyne, so that plan was thwarted. Our South Australia and Western Victoria trip was then brought forward very quickly, and a plan was hatched that had a complete and varied list of things we were looking to achieve. It was tentative, as the list kept growing exponentially as it tends to do with us .
The map that we created with the caches we were hunting was broad, and a lot of miles were travelled to find them, but we are definitely not complaining.
The country we drove through was spectacular .

We left Tatura early Friday morning, not sure how much we could achieve before heading to Millicent to our booked accommodation, and then onto Adelaide after that.

We still can't believe that we found almost every cache on that extensive list. We even got to attend a CITO in Adelaide. How cool was that.

We had an awesome 4 days away enjoying this beautiful country of ours.

Recess on a school day made this simple find a lot harder than it should have been.
It can be tricky being stealthy here at this time of day.

Home again, Home again Jiggity Jig.
Now comes the big job of logging all our accomplishments.

Our extra long weekend adventure revolved around catnap777 and I making it to a CITO in Adelaide, caching our way there and back through as many counties new to us as possible. We also targeted challenge caches and anything that would help us qualify for them.
Leaving Tatura early Friday morning, we followed the coast up from Warnambool to stay in Millicent that night, Adelaide on Saturday, and back through the guts to Edenhope Sunday night to be back home for rostered work 3:00pm on Monday.
All up we picked up over 100 very targeted caches including this trad, our very first cache signed in Warnambool County. [^]

TFTC South-West [^] In light rain, there was little chance any grass fires here this day.
Cache found in good condition.

TFTC

Low fire rating today.

Tftc

TFTC

Touring around the town of Warrnambool today in the wet and windy weather, not stopping us from grabbing some caches. Spotted from the car so a quick find was made. Tried to me a discrete as I could with school hour traffic driving past. Signed log and left as found. Insert nano rant here.

Find #5206 on 2 Feb 2023.
TFTC South-West!

Nice little hide.

TFTC

Sometimes I surprise myself and find caches quickly.

This wasn’t one of those times.

Poked and prodded everything at the GZ except the blatantly obvious (but nano) container. Then scrawled a signature onto the full log and skulked off tftc

Thanks

Q

Spent 30 minutes looking, found nothing

25 December 2022 10:24 am, Parked close enough to spot it from the 4x4. Thanks for maintaining the cache. Merry XMas.

Got it thanks for hiding ??

Found at 11:55 AM GAFF2
Well I was certainly not expecting that sort of a container for this sort of a location. Found it by literally stepping back and taking in the bigger picture!
Thanks South-West.

Didn't find it. Might come back one day

Going 3/3

Initially distracted by the cable tie, I looked across and spotted the hide!
Thanks for placing the cache South-West.

There was Nothing

Great fun one for the kids

Popped into town with Trailstevo to do Port Fairy Parkrun in the morning. Stayed at our usual, The Cally, and went for a wander to develop a walk and encourage an appetite ready for the evening Pizzas. 13km walked in all, got a bit wet, was a bit windy but we did It. Thanks to all the CO,s for the hides. Looking forward to coming back to do another sweep!

A day of driving from Apollo Bay to Robe. It rained a lot of the day which reduced caching.

This was the one for Warrnambool. A nice quick find despite the passing traffic.

TFTC

Many thanks for the cache. Not a cache for small children as very close to the highway and also would be unable to reach the cache. Certainly need. a good upward reach if in a wheelchair.

Quick cache at the end of a day caching with Serra4. Just a bit dangerous for kids with the amount of traffic around. TFTC!!

and there’s ya sign

Well I was now supposed to be on my 6 week adventure up to Outback Queensland but with my knee failing me I just had to turn back around and head home.
So after 3 weeks of rest at home I was getting cabin fever so for the last week I just had to get out so Western Victoria beckoned so I could grab a few LGA’s and UBD Country VIC maps which would not involve a lot of walking.
So after attending the International Geocaching event in Lara yesterday I got up early this morning and off I went.
With all of the recent heavy rain everything is just soaked and you have to be careful not to leave the road or tracks.
Well after reaching Portland and surrounds today on my whirl wind tour to fill in a 3 LGA’s and 2 UBD maps it is time to head back east.
Well Warrnambool ticks of another LGA and map but not time to rest need to keep travelling East.

Thanks South-West TFTC.

Yay we found it

I found it with Jane so yea

It was broken

Quick find on an absolutely gorgeous winters day. TFTC

found it

My friends and i where out riding our bike and we were close so we thought that we find it and we did. It was fun.

Cool

Awesome!!

Can see where the bison which went missing was attached.
Managed to find the nano very easily….We found a “makeshift log”, so we have added a real nano scroll and transcribed the names across from the small scruffy piece of paper we found as insufficient space for both.
TFTC we hope it has a longer life than it’s predecessor.

First geochach found, it was awesome finding it and me and my friends can't wait to find more

It was fun

Easy find tftc

A quick drive-by. Lots of caches on this area are on the fire signs. 3rd one today.
On a road trip from Perth to Canberra with a few side trips for LGAs. TFTC

It's so tiny!!!

Replaced missing cache with a spare nano we had in our caching kit. Can see where the bison had been hanging.

No luck for us today. Time for a check I think

A busy day's caching around Warrnambool with The Morris.
Not sure how we ended up with so many to do, but we got most that we didn't need special equipment, or weren't locked out of.

We had lunch just across the road, and walked to GZ.
Unfortunately all we found was a cable tie and a bison ring - no cache.
Thanks, Robmc.

Maybe there?

I think it fell or some one took it because I saw a sip tie with a key chain

It was behind a sign and it was hanging it just got a bunch of names in it

Easy find

Easy,tftc.

Thanks shawty,follow me @tenii.Pez on tiktok

Found, however could not remove off post.

Great hiding spot

Great camouflage!

As soon as I pulled up I had an idea where this could be! Great little spot.

Not too many muggles around at this time, so managed to grab and sign without too much trouble
TFTC

Great find on a busy area.

A quick find whilst staying in Warrnambool for a couple of days. In good condition.

Found it

A quick find thanks to handy parking. TFTC.

First time geocaching, and found it. Kids loved navigating!

Out on summer caching adventures.

Thanks to CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log and container found in good condition, log getting full. Signed in first open spot

TFTC South-West

Find # 5154

Best laid plans: we stayed in Geelong for 2 nights then after picking up a former colleague and taking her to Torquay for an Indian tea at the beach[:X][^] Afterwards we walked the beach until it was dark and both her dog, Miss Mavis, and Rex had fun[:X][^]
I dropped my friend back home and then had to decide: sleep[|)][|)] or drive to Warrnambool in the hope of getting a FTF or 3
That's how we ended up in Warrnambool on Christmas morning and getting a FTF about 3am, 3.30am and 4am We did not see Santa at all in our travels though
We stayed in Warrnambool that night[^][|)][:X] and then stopped in Daylesford the next night[|)][^][|)] before finally getting home Monday evening[|)][^]
Many hours were spent on different beaches as they are Rex' happy place[:X][^][:X]
Over the trip, there were 5 DNFs, 1 Festivus event attended and 40 caches found
We even managed 1 complete adv lab at Daylesford, too[^]

A very quick find here Thanks for reminding everyone to stay safe and think about their position during fires[^][^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC South-West

Very easy find. Walked over from the school field where my son was practicing cricket.
Had no pen, this was an impulsive cache hunt.
The cache is still dangling in the wind…

Took a while but we gotem boys! Fire danger was low to moderate, what a cracking day

Quick easy find - very obvious!! TFTC

Easy

OzHockeyChick and RoamingHowie had planned this trip whilst in lock down. GT37 and I were fortunate to be able to join them. Today is the second day of our trip. Today was a lovely day and no need for any restrictions. Thanks for the cache.

This is day two of the trip that RoamingHowie and OzHockeyChick spent ages putting together during Covid lockdowns. Papi4506 and I are very pleased to be able to join their expedition. Great to visit here on such a lovely day. Pleased that we were here on a beautiful day. Thank you for placing this cache.

A long awaited road trip, originally planned for the Millicent Mega weekend. However due to possible SA border issues, we’re only doing the Vic sections. Joined by Papi4506 & Geoturtle37, RoamingHowie and I are finally on the road to adventure!
DAY 2: Peterborough & Warrnambool.
Quickly found.
Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, South-West

Day #2 of the adventure in Western Victoria. We are now on the 9th iteration of this trip after adding a diversion to Peterborough to meet a UBD challenge. Previous iterations including Millicent, no Millicent, Millicent and no Millicent again thanks to the archaic border rules. Today we are exploring Peterborough and Warrnambool before arriving in Portland for a few days.

A quick find, a little less camoed than thought.

Thanks South-West for placing this gamepiece in the wild for us to find.

I found this cache literally years ago but never logged it. So here we are.

Finally found it 3rd time! Had been barking up trees and going quite mad brilliant cache and cleverly hidden!

Had a few days away in Warrnambool, catching up with family. Always good to grab the odd cache while visiting or out for a walk.

A quick find at GZ.

Thanks South-West for placing the cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy the find.

No luck today.

Suscoe was making good time on the homeward bound trip.
A quick stop here and a lovely quick find. We have found a few hides of this type in our travels.
Thanks to South=West for this hide.

Found it S.R & K.G

Found it S.R & K.G

Nice cache

Could see it but had to wait for things to be clear

Checked. Log and cache in order

A nice quick find early today. Looks like a great day ahead weather wise.
Cheers.

Brilliant spot, so close to good coffee!

Excellent find

Found it easily by reading the description that took us to it. TFTC

Found easily. One of the descriptions was a dead give away.

Quick stop and a quick find while spending a day in Warrnambool. Log and Cache in Great condition.