End of the Road Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
By tbn97 on 09-Apr-05. Waypoint GCNDBJ

The site has changede too much to sustain this cache - an alternative will be researched

I visited the site today and there's no cache. The owner has not logged on site for 2 years, so it's about time that reviewer makes a favour to caching community and archives this.

Needs to be revisited and maintained...

There's now several of us who've tried and failed to find this cache, and nobody's found it for some time now.

TBN97: Could you please either take a look at GZ, or archive the cache?

Thanks

Me no find. Perhaps a recie is in order? ZZ7

I think this one's gone...

The vines are long dead and hiding very little, and no cache was found anywhere around. Sorry!

No luck with this one - the hint refers to some vines, but they've died back to the point where they don't hide very much and don't look likely to ever recover, so maybe the cache went from "hidden" to "obvious" to now "gone". Spent a lot of time here, and searched everywhere (even down to spots where it was pretty dangerous) and still found nothing.

Suspect this one might now be gone.

We were walking by after finding another nearby cache and decided to have a look. No notes, no clue and no find. However I did find a brand new 2 person dome tent right at GZ. It doesn't appear to have ever been removed from its storage bag. Perhaps a swap that was just too large for the container? Life's little mysteries.

Easy find using the clue. Plenty of passing muggles on a sunny Sunday afternoon, naturally!

quick find. tftc!

By a serendipitous coincidence I read the maintenance log about an hour before I was going to walk right past this one! So it now has a new log.

Good accurate coords madefor a quick find. Thanks tbn97.

Pretty sure there was only 1 spare page when I left, although a few 1/2 pages could still be used in the log book. Maybe another log book soon...
tbn97 hasn't been active for a year, so maybe I will need to replace the log book...

Groovy spot, decided to check this one out while wondering around for Rhyme Time.
Alas we didn't have as much fun as Tangles....no bike riders descending rapidly down the hill today....maybe next time.

TNLNSL. TFTC
P-P-P-Pingu! Pingu!

If only I had a video camera at this location. I was checking out the MTB track when some guy comes along on his bike and I think if I was not there he would not have attempted the descent. But obviously his ego got the better of him so over the edge he goes and over and over until he finally separated from his bike which landed on it’s wheels and was able to descend on its own much better than when it had it’s rider. The rider was still rolling down the hill but a tree managed to bring him to a stop, after shaking himself off he limped over to his bike and continued on his way.

Found at 1620. An interesting location. Had two locations where I thought the cache might be and found it on the first one, although didn't want to put my hand in with a place like this the perfect breeding ground for snakes.

TNLN. TFTC.

found in a nice spot love this place tftc

Pulled over and checked this one out on our way to the boathouse.
A pleasant spot for a stroll.

Found today at: 1250
Nice easy find.
Interesting area.

Took - TB Kitty (Time to meet the Hairy Cacher)
Left - NIL

Thanks,

VKC1SR

21/07/2007 1330hrs
Great piece of local history.
IN: TB Kitty

A very interesting area.

No swaps today.

Thanks tbn97

GPS led straight to this one and a brief search resulted in the find.

Took the TB and left a pair of dice.

2007-07-06 16:41 While on winters walking weekend geocaching (www.geocaching) .
Walking around Yarra Bend park we walked up to GZ and after scratching around for a short time we came up with the goods. Signed log and returned it to its home. No swaps made today.Thanks. Regards Crisp Image.

This was a nice quick easy find but we did have a few sets of eyes on this one .
Found in the company of The Swaggies & Richary from S.A.
TN
Left TB
TFTC
Cheers
LIVERPOOLRED
(Y.N.W.A.)

The convoy of three cars pulled into the parking spot for two cars at the start of this cache. With 5 pairs of eyes looking it did not take long to find.
TN, left Caching in the Leaves geocoin. TFTC tbn97

Found with LiverpoolRed and The Swaggies. Nice quick find that the Swaggies claimed on this one. TNLNSL, thanks tbn97.

Our 22nd Vic cache find on our way to 500, and Barra 3's 17th Birthday.

Found at 3.03 pm

Cheers from The Barramundi's

Grabbed this one easily and quickly

Thanks

Luck Dogs Crew

Nice and quick find. However watch your step.

I noticed there was a new jeep sitting in this cache so I made it a priority on my trip out today. I had tried to get to this cache on a couple of occasions in the past but time got the better of me. Added to my luck was the fact that the gate was open and I was able to take a drive through the area. The area was quite scenic and a pleasure to visit, thanks for showing me.

R - B

Ran along near here last night and thought I'd come back for the caches!

TN
L: Norwegian Geocoin

TFTC!

Kevin dropped by at 19:15 to drop off a TB and pick up the GC.

Took: Norway Geocoin
Left: Jeep Travel Bug

Found at 1.15 pm on a lovely Autumn day. Droped off Travel Bug Splatterpus.

Took : Australian dollar
Left Panda

Nice and easy spot.I have a cache near Lewes UK,that is near a similar old bridge.Thanks.

Interesting location. I suppose one day it will get a make-over and this remnant of the past will vanish. Thanks tbn97. TNLNSL

Found @ 6:45am as going to work.
Muggles riding bikes made things very interesting.
In & out as fast as I could.
TNLN TFTC

Found @ 10:30 with Next! It was up early and out caching early to beat the heat. I was looking in the wrong spot when my glasses were knocked off by a piece of ivy and I had to climb down to the base of the bridge to find them. This was easy to do as it was down hill but getting out again wasn't that easy and I scraped my shin on the side of the bridge as I was climbing over the edge at the top.. In croc Out magnet frame TFTC

Count #0031 found at 1047hrs.

Its a very warm morning which was meant to reach 38degs today. Celes retrieved this one as I was standing under the shade, hehe.

TNLNSL, TFTC.

2007-02-17 10:31 was found with Scooters Mob. Nice hide! TNLNSL TFTC

Out for a bit of a bike ride I missed this last time I was here and thought it would be a good spot for a cache... get home and there is one there. Not too hard to find and a nice chance to stop for a rest and a drink. TNLN. Pretty steep terrain so close to civilisation.

Was driving past between jobs so thought this could be a quick one. All OK until I arrived at GZ. Cyclist arrived at critical moment. He then proceeded to make phone calls on his mobile. Thought I'd have to leave and come back another day, but he then rode off. Made the grab and quickly departed. No swaps today. Thanks.

Found at 20:35 by Jess and Kev shortly after having dinner at Lentil as Anything at nearby Abbotsford Convent. It was our second visit, after darkness forced us to abandon our search the first time. An easy enough find once armed with the additional clue. Took Weightlifting Tom, left AU$1 coin.

Photos of our expedition: http://flickr.com/photos/sentience/tags/gcndbj/

Found today after an exhausting walk through the area which was well worth it! The water levels have certainly dropped since I last walked through here in the floods a couple of years ago... TNLN.

3rd cache for the day, all on foot - starting to get weary now - it was a LONG & indirect hike from Flying Fox 2! I would not like to attempt this cache at night - there are definitely hazards just below the cache site - my tip is to stay up on high ground. I was also surprised by a few muggles that snuck up on me out of nowhere, but I don't think any suspicions were aroused as I was casually sitting down at the time.
TNLN TFTC
PS The log book is quite full - but there are odd pages that can be used in random order throughout the book. The cache pencil also needs sharpening - unfortunately I did not have a sharpener with me.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found this one nice and easy. Took moisturiser and left a photo frame.
Thanks for the lovely cache

Found a parking spot for the car not too far up the road then a nice easy find at GZ in the first place we looked. Thanks. TNLN

Found by Darren, Simone & Side show Eddie on a lovely Sunday afternoon. Very interesting spot of history. Thanks tbn97!!!

Came in by bike, and had no problem getting to GZ. Great little spot, I bet hardly anyone comes here. TNLN. Thanks tbn97.

Found @ 5:55pm Nice easy find on a warm saturday evening.
TNLNSL

1229. it was a lovely clear, sunny morning. We found the cache quickly with noone around. The coordinates were spot on, making it easy to be sure we were in the right place.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Nice easy find on a sunny sunday morning.

Found by cokebottles and the coool girl after a long walk past dights falls on a glorious day. Took M+M left silver surfer.

After a very long walk we followed the river and crossed 3 bridges a great walk.

Found by edmil & maddie. We'd just finished down on the farm and figured we'd take a stroll to this one. The cache was in hand quite easily. TNLN. We continued our journey and had a bit of an exploration of an area we hadn't previously visited even though maddie had grown up quite nearby in Northcote. Ah well I suppose we don't often explore our own patch of turf. Thanks for the cache.

This is a great cache...nicely presented and hidden well. I like the official notebook and stickers too
I can't believe that there are actually bike tracks down the side of the hill back where we parked (on the upper level)! We took some moisturizer and the TB and left a cute koala (we're slowly flooding the caching community with koalas I fear!)
Cheers!

Had a great walk with my mother, on holiday from New Zealand.

16:30. Found on the way to the outlaws. Easy find, I parked rightly or wrongly on the roadside near the gate. I was a little worried about the last step wondering if there was a hole under the leaves. TFTC In: Car Out: Turtle.

I found this one when it was just about dark. Be careful approaching this one, because if you search too far, it is a long slide down into the river. The cache can be reached from level ground, don't come at it from below. I don't think I identified a "step" up to the bridge. TNLN. Thanks for the view of the city.

Found by Facitman and the Facit-Family at 1:12pm

The Facit-Family decided to go for a bit of a stroll today and picked this cache as our first for the afternoon. Nice walk as we discussed the history of the area and a quick find for s-Facit.

Took Nothing
Left a Toy Turtle

Thanks tbn97

Found 19 May at 19:04h Visiting from Canada. Was in Australia for 1 week. TNLN. Canotage

Found 2140hrs by Pickupfamily Dad with Nana on her second cache ever. Lots of poking around required, left a handy stick nearby, hope it saves the next person from hunting.
TNLN, TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Around 5pm, found on the way to Rhyme Time. Nice view over the river.
TNFLSL, TFTC - HTXman + Stavros

It was good to get a nice easy find after a couple of DNF's.
TNLNSL
Thanks

All quiet today not many ppl about , just cars crossing the bridge . Found it after a few minutes of looking
TNLNSL

Found by Mr Schnoobley on the 20th of March 2006 at 3:05pm

Found easily after a pleasant walk.

TNLN

Quick find just before dinner.Looking for somewhere to drop TB Cyris the Dream but this home is too small. Took Yo-yo, left glow frog.

A better result here than with my previous caches this morning. TNLNSL
Rozy

GPS took me right there but the step up bit of the clue threw me - its accross not up! However, a good spot which I know very well and even better now, thanks. Alan TNLNSL

I well remember driving over this bridge and driving onto the redgum blocks and cable tram rails in Johnston Street.
I took a Leggo man and left a yo-yo.

Found on an outing with Oenze today. Enjoyed the location and the walk and finding this cache. No swaps by me but wrote in the log and many thanks indeed to tbn97

Found at 1:12pm Accompanied by Chewinprickles.
2nd find out of 8 for the day.
In:-40 Cents, Out:-Mondo Figurine, Signed Log.
Thanks TBN97....

Found by sbalogh53 at 18:00 on 14/1/2006.
I should have read the full cache description before barrelling down under the bridge and searching amongst all the vines (snakes in there?) and girders (spiders in there?). Nothing found, so I decided to read the logs. A couple of minutes after educating myself, the cache was safely in hand.
There was a wedding photography session happening up on top of the cliffs, but I doubt if anyone was interested in what I was doing. In any case, they were about 150m away so should be safe.
Took: Frog
Put: Carrot toy
Captured MK TB

Short walk to this cache from another interesting cache. The river was flowing this afternoon after the rain in the morning. Dropped off travel bug after much virtual travel. SA to Vic in less than 300m.

The ski club had its post season social breakfast at a well known boating venue close by and we couldn't resist looking for a few of the caches in the locality. The find was relatively straightforward but before we could replace the container, a couple walked past and proceeded to a higher structure with a good overview and spent some time chatting to another couple. They finally moved on and we were able to restore the cache to its accustomed spot. TNLN

Found at 1:10pm. Seventh find of Eighteen on our "Daylight Savings is here, so we're going out Caching All Day" extravaganza. A very interesting spot that we hadn't really noticed before. We searched for a while before decypting the clue then searched some more. Finally spotted it but before we could remove it a man with no shirt jogged into view and stopped not 10m from us to towel himself off and start doing pushups in the long grass. Creepy. Finally he jumped up and jogged off again. Extracted, logged and replaced. Wonder what the cables are going across the river? Thanks tbn97 from D & S B-A.

Found at 1.00PM. with SDM Geo.

This one had me stumped previously, last time I was here I spent a good 30 - 40 minutes shuffeling around the area. While I was busy elsewhere SDM Geo walked straight in and found the cache hidden where I had been searching throughly last time I was here. He said it was in plain view. Hmm, signed the log book and hid the cache better this time around.

Thanks for the cache from M.B

TNLNSL.

found with xf king. i walked right up to the cache.

Leaving the flock in the car, the rooster quickly ran down to try this one & had the cache in hand in about 3 minutes. TNLN. this would have been an interesting bridge to see.
Thanks tbn97

I would have loved to see the rest of bridge. From what we could see it was an interesting structure.
I have driven past this point amy time but never stopped to look what was down here.
TNLNSL. Thanks, Robmc.

Found with robmc on the way home and out of the big smoke. I'd ridden my bike on the other side a few times but never knew what was once above. On viewing the newer span it's clear that they don't make 'em as pretty as they used to.
Thanks, tbn97

We found this one on route during a walk down the yarra after a nice BBQ lunch. Interesting spot. Would not like to try this one in the dark.
TNLNSL
Thanks
thyla and thylo

Had given up on the first place which had been giving me a 0.0000m reading on the GPS (first in a while) after thoroughly patting the object down.

Quickly found it at the second place I looked.

Makes you think that photos aren't such a bad thing to take of things to capture what may not be around forever.

TNLN

Found on the way home from work at 18:25. This find was made a bit easier as I had some fading light to search by -the last time I attempted this cache it was dark (and I wasn't too keen to make a misstep and roll down the steep hill into the Yarra!) I like the custom log book - good effort. TNLNSL.

Thanks tbn97.

I was worried that I may have to climb "down there" in my good work clothes. Fortunately it was pretty easy to find at the top.
TNLN. Thx tbn97

Found by Bob at 10:45

Certainly an excellent vantage point for views of the current bridge and the Yarra - although, judging by the picture, I think I preferred the original bridge from an aesthetic viewpoint - it certainly looks to have been stylish and graceful. The cache was a nice, quick find.

TNLN

Thanks tbn97

Unexpectedly, this one took a while to find. We searched thoroughly all the likely hiding places without success. We were just about to start on the more inaccessible places but first decided to check the hint. Then it was an easy find at 5:35pm. We retired to a nearby steep walking track to check out the cache and were interrupted by another dog-walker (walking in the dark). We took a reel of cotton and left an "alien face" ball. The hardest bit was being sure that we put the cache back exactly where it was. In fact we used a Goodo (dog treat) as a marker before removing the cache but then couldn't find it when we were returning the cache. Hopefully some dog hasn't dug out the cache!! Thanks Tbn97.

Found at 11.00am after going over, under, in and out. Had a look at the hint which we misinterpreted slightly, causing us to look again where we had already searched. Eventually we called the Dak help line who confirmed we were in the right spot and while on the phone we found it. A nice area which we found fairly easily. Took: Mondo doll, Left: Cotton reel. Thanks tbn97

Last of 13 finds for the day. I'm not sure about the Melway comment; my Edition 31 shows the same access point as Edition 1, but in more detail. However, there is a gate barring the way, as Rhinogeo apparently found out. (The gate is also shown on my Melway.) I parked on Yarra Blvd, near the other locked gate.

It took me a fair while to find this one. I was looking in the usual geocaching spots, but couldn't lay hands on it. After 12 earlier successes, was I to come unstuck here? I decrypted the hint; I read the logs; and in desperation, I rang the barcoder hint line. I looked where she told me to look, but I had already looked there, and there was no cache to be seen. I was about to declare it MIA, when I found it elsewhere at 1630. I think I misinterpreted her description. [B)] Thanks to tbn97 for the cache.

IN: Mondo figure (China 1990)
OUT: Plastic spring clip

thanks tbn97 ,great cache ,people with kids need to take extra care .

Found this one today whilst out caching with the Farmers 5, found this one after one of the kids pointed out that I had my hand on it, was more interested in watching the kids in this dangerous area.

Thanks TBN97.

Found on 03/07/05 @ 1255 AEST. This one was almost a drive-by (it wold have been if I had my TARDIS ). A short walk from my dodgy parking place and the cache was in hand

TNLN

Cheers tbn97

3.00pm
Travelled on this road more than 50 years ago!
Took: Sydney Key Ring.
Left: Mondo Figurine.
Thanks tbn97, for the memories.
from Romax.

GPSr was stop on - just didn't believe it. A few minutes later cache was in hand.
TNLN
Thanks tbn97.

This looked like something the duke boys from hazard county would drive off. loved the view of the river balow.
I thought this was a muzza cache but it is not i see.
Took some time to find. TNLN Thanks

Found cache after kneeling on it, no damage done.

Took Smiley and left key ring and koala

Nicely done!!

Found with family in tow. No dramas at all. There was a steady flow of muggles either walking dogs or riding bikes.

Taken: Pho McPupp.
Left: Smiley suction cup.

Found this today with SatyricTim and his parents & kids. Great walk; will have to wander around that area more. Tim took Pho McPupp and left a smiley thing.

We were very lucky today to have one of the oldest Melway editions as this provided the best access to this cache.
While I plotted the course for our next cache Shelby and Luke went and found the cache.
Many thanks Tbn97 for the cache and a reason to keep the old Melway.
TNLN
Regards Mr.Coffee and the “what new estate this page says there is only a paddock?†Clan.

Found by Mary & David at 1220. An interesting site. Enjoyed the walk and the views. Took a little while longer than we expected as the cache wasn't quite where we thought it would be. Suspect it has migrated a little. Took coaster, left yellow car. Also returned TB 'Pho McPup' as he was getting a little homesick already. Our thanks to tbn97.

12:37 The structure somehow reminded me of the bridge to nowhere I saw in New Zealand last year... It took me a while to find the cache as I just didn't expect it to be so easy and was looking in harder loacations first.