Searching in vein Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
By pickupfamily on 14-May-06. Waypoint GCW170

I cannot see any information that suggests to me that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement - one or more of the following applies:

- Cache Owner unable to maintain cache
- 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.
- Cache has been abandoned by cache owner

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I see this one has a few DNf's lately and the owners now live in Saudi Arabia. We searched and searched the obvious spot and like previous searchers didn't find. Pretty sure it is no longer there and probably won't get a check in by the owners. The area should be opened up for other caches to hide a cache and bring people to this lovely location.

I see this one has a few DNf's lately and the owners now live in Saudi Arabia. We searched and searched the obvious spot and like previous searchers didn't find. Pretty sure it is no longer there and probably won't get a check in by the owners. The area should be opened up for other caches to hide a cache and bring people to this lovely location.

After an assertive and extensive search for this one with 5 other players I'm pretty sure it's gone which is a shame because it's a great hiding spot and a great challenge for players, I would like to see this one kept going but feel it is no longer DNF

DNF 5 of us spent way too long searching for this one and judging by previous logs we are convinced it is gone

We did search in vain. We think we know where it possibly is but could not reach it.

We certainly searched in vain.

Searched and searched but could not find

Yellow belly black snake
Sleeping on a red rock
Waiting for the stranger to go.

That is all the bananas found and the result was

We were searching in vane.

Found TFTC

Went searching for this and as the narrations states, it is a great bush walk to a very, very difficult cache site. Unfortunately there were only the two of us and we were unable to access where I believe the cache is hidden due to the fact we didn't have a ladder or climbing apparatus. I appreciate that the difficulty factor is stated however, for older people this one is almost impossible to retrieve.

Newbies. Just learning. Great fun finding your cache. Thanks.

We took the bush bashing with the barb wire fence option from the pink cliffs - 4th for the afternoon. Followed the kangaroo trails through some very spiky plants. Mrs had to follow a long way behind to keep from getting smacked in the face by said spiky plants (bad Doc). Mrs (and her dicky hip) let Doc do the final climb. Interesting rock formation. Doc said he had to precariously perch on a rock to reach the cache - he survived. Took a dinosaur and left a shell (weroamin) found on the Domino trail in Trentham.

Great hide, little easy as I found it without even looking for a geocache but going for a walk

Out for the afternoon from Kilmore to do some caching around Heathcote with the family. This one was a great way to kick of the afternoon around 1300hrs. Whilst admiring the view of the surrounds, cache was quickly located. Getting it was a different matter. Nothing beats using 4y/o Geoson to help reach Did not meet any other critters, but my son certainly noticed all the droppings around....

Thanks for bring us here!

Fun cache! We left an IGA trolley token.

I stayed overnight parked by the IGA and started out the day with an early walk up here. A bit of a challenge for somebody of my size and age but I got there. Returning the cache was just as difficult. TFTC

when we got to gz we had to smile as we sore what we thought was a smiley face smiling at us. what a awesome spot for a cache.

Awesome! This was my favorite cache of the day, I love a good physical challenge. It was almost like he was laughing at me.. but a quick bit of monkey magic and he spat out he cache

+1 fav from me

1000 ... I went and got this one on my own, only to find I needed Mr Gadget arms even though I am tall... A little improvisation and I had it in hand, a good challenge for my 1000th find ... TFTC

Heading home from Bendigo area
found with INKLE
left butterfly and saw
tftc

out with taz-bud
easy find
left dragonfly and leaf
tftc

Nice location. We saw a few Roos. Back still recovering. Took nothing left mini wine bottle.
TFTC

Awesome

As we were walking to GZ we spotted the cache, next thing is how to retrieve it. Soon had cache in hand. Well done. Looks like snake country so was looking before we trod.

This was fun, lots of rocks to scramble. Our first ever find. Deserves the difficulty rating!

Visited while introducing family friends to geocaching.

Drove in on the track. In fading light the silhouette of the rocks confirmed GZ. Retrieved by the little bloke up on shoulders. Left a crazy bean. TFTC.

10. Since i was by myself i had a rock hard think for this one. Thanks.

took the risk and drove the little best down the track, no sratch i must only a bit of mud. what a cool hidden away place. could not reach the cache so i had to jump and hang on by finger tips to retreive, wow took some stregnth. tftc.

Enjoy......

wow good spot!! [:p]

Lucky I took my young fella lol

A quick find, but a longer retrieval! Took us some lateral thinking to get it, but we did. Interesting area, would have been bustling back in the diggings day. Thanks for bringing us here, and for the cache.

did this today with nick tftc

Nice spot kids loved rock hopping TFTC

As darkness fell I yawned stretched and found the cache. Boy, for most I think terrain 5 would be a better bet. Loved the location and hidden well

Found on the home run from moama to melbourne. Great bush scenery and rock formations. Lucky we had monkey geo daughter along with us! There must be some HUGE kangeroos around here! Tftc

Had some fun bring to reach it because my wife is vertically challenged. Enjoyed the scramble and the views.
Thanks for the cache.

Found on a sunny afternoon, good job by husband is good at.climbing:)

Found this neat cache on the way to the F.M.E in Bendigo.
Many thanks for breaking the Journey and thanks for the neat cache.
TNLNSL.

Found at 12.05pm. I walked from Pink Cliffs and enjoyed the scenery and spotting a few roos on the way. About 50 metres from gz, it was apparent that the cache was going to be located near what I was looking at. Lucky I'm tall with a little bit of flexibility. If I was shorter and by myself I would've struggled. TFTC. TNLN.

Out to get my secret Santa today and grabbed a few caches on the way home.
Had to think laterially to get this one I even sustained an injury trying to do this the hard way.

This entry was edited by Datruk on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 13:14:08 UTC.

Found this on a drizzly day in heathcote. tricky spot but managed on my own. very resourceful. TFTC TNLN

Only with the guiding help of 353degNth was I was able to retreive this one! Nice hide indeed. Took TB2AWTQ Reise Schwein, LN. Thanks pickupfamily for the cache - regards, 38degsouth

A bit of teamwork required for this tricky retrieval. Together with 38degSth, we were on our way home from a weekend away in Echuca. TFTC pickupfamily

Beautiful day for a cache. Nice spot. TFTC

Wow, a beautiful area and a challenging retrieve. A favourite for us.
Took Pezinator Santa TB, left Reise Schwein 'Pig' TB.
TFTC

Visited on a brief visit to Aus. Left Pezinator Santa TB.

wow my first catch, by accident by its the start of sumthing great

found it by accident i removed the calipsal 500 keyring n replaced it with a fairlane badge 4 the tru austrailian spirit!

A tricky hide, had to enhance my height with a convenient rock to win the prize.
L - CLIPSAL 500 KEY TAG
Thanks for the cache!

Nice walk in the bush with dog. Cache soon in hand thanks to my long legged partner in crime. TFTC

Live locally and know this area reasonably well, did spot the hide from a distance, pencil needs a sharpen and log book is full. Will try to return and rectify,(on looking "pickupfamily" now reside in Saudi Arabia) not for short hunters this one, was lucky enough to be in my work vehicle and have some steps on board. Summer time visitors should be aware that brown snakes frequent the area (waterhole near by). 14/07/11 Included a new log booklet and sharpened pencil.

This entry was edited by Dasies of the Galaxy on Thursday, 14 July 2011 at 11:12:30 UTC.

Drove along the track short way before abandoning the car and walking to the GZ. Spotted the cache hide fairly quickly but then Mrs Biggles voted me to retrieve it (My vote counts for one, her vote counts for what ever number is required to make me do the hard work!) So after a chin up, followed by hanging on by one arm and teeth I was able to 'unpack' the cache and retrieve it. After making our mark I again did the chin-up thing, held on with one arm (and teeth) while shoving the cache back and repacking it. Sheesh I'm unfit!

TFT torture & TNLN

Lovely walk but the retrieving was a bit difficult for me so had to rely on the 'other alf' again, gets a bit boring when I have to constantly point for 'im' to retrieve, but hey, he is male, and that's what he's there for . Took Geo-coin to help on it's way.

TFTC

Great spot with views! We think the kangas really like it here! Relieved that we could spot the hide from a distance. TN L- True Blue coin TFTC

found this one with a little bit of trouble!! does need some maintenance, log book is full an the pencil is broken. great views and had me thinking how to get to it
TFTC

I ended up approaching this cache from the Pink Cliffs side
It was just too wet and muddy from the other side.
The bush bash was a pleasant stroll collecting spider webs along the way
From a hundred metres out I could see where I should be heading.
That is an unusual rock formation to say the least !!
A quick circuit of the rocks and I at least knew where the cache was
I did need to grow about 2 feet taller to reach it though !!
That wasn't going to happen, so I MacGyver'ed my way to a cache find
TFTC and stroll

Nice easy find. It's amazing these formations occur. TFTC

We saw the cache poking out of its hiding spot about 50m from GZ, but if we didn't see it, we probably wouldn't of looked up there. I had to get a foot up from De Ja Vu, and then I grabbed the cache. It was a little harder replacing it, but we managed to do it.
TFTC, favorited.

Found the cache with Geo_Lightly on a very hot day. Was a bit concerned about slithery friends out here, but fortunately they must have seen us before we saw them. TFTC

What a great spot! Again we trudged through the rain to find this one. Thanks

Heading from Bendigo to Nagambie for the day and weren't in a rush to get there on this occasion so thought some geocaching would break up the day with geosister and her 3 geokids. Found a track that was getting us closer but it came to an abrupt end with not much room to turn around. Parked near the road and prepared for the hike through the spiders and on Joe Blake lookout in our thongs we could see where we were going to get to quite easily. Made it with the geotwins on hips as there were too many prickles, but a find and a swap brightened our spirits...until we had to hike back again. Thanks for the challenge in retrieving this one

Nice easy one.
Nice seat to stop at on the way there.........

thank for the cahce

tnlnsl

FOund cache easy, but how to retrieve. Left Santa TB for the kids cos we could've done with a light one with long arms today. TFTC

I could see the hide while approaching GZ, the only challenge was to active the elevators in my gadget shoes. That done it was an easy retrieval.

I am visiting a number of travellers for the miles.

Thanks for the cache pickupfamily

21/11/2010 20:34 Found: #115 Lucky for me I was able to get to this one using items found close by. Geoson and wife decided it was better to stay in the car as the light was fading and the mozzies came out to feast. TNLN TFTC SL

This entry was edited by landau351 on Friday, 31 December 2010 at 21:41:35.

Cache is still in place, go for it!

Unarchiving cache.

Mr Ozjeeper had a look at this yesterday, saw the container but couldn't figure out a way to access it. Today we drove a different track towards GZ and on our way to the cache we spied an object that would definately be useful. The cache retrieval and replacement was subsequently made with ease. Thanks PICUPFAMILY for bringing us up here for the view over Heathcote.

The pickupfamily children say this cache has gone missing - the camouflage is still there but they couldn't find the container. May reinstate in the future, but opening up the space for others if they wish. Thanks all, this was our first hide.

Found with Dad (Propeller-head) after nearly laughing my head of at the efforts we went to to get it.
Loved the cache had lots of fun getting it. Loved the views too.

The cache is still there.
Found it with Caching Candy, and had heaps of fun getting it.
Quite the laugh fest. Great hind. TFTC

Found on weekend visit to Moama. TFTK, TNLN.
Cv.

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Someone light and a sturdy pair of shoulders definately required, TN Left pathtag

This entry was edited by kmmndavis on Sunday, 04 July 2010 at 01:28:26.

6th find for the day on my caching triip with my caching buddy, Marty (Quasar3671) in Heathcote and then on to Bendigo for two days of non stop caching fun. Fantastic terrain in this area and some good views as well.. Loved the hiding spot.

Found with Blacklegend17 during out Bendigo cache run. Nice views across town. TFTC.

Found by Greg & M 1130H 02/05/10. Thanks for this one, what a fasciating bit of geology. It does take a little ingenuity but we managed. TFTC

Been out before but couldn't quite reach so discounted it as the spot but the second time we were prepared and sure it had to be the spot. This is a lovely spot that I didn't know existed the geokids absolutely loved climbing the rocks, and secretly i think my husband enjoyed scaling the rock too.
Warning the image is a SPOILER

[This entry was edited by Cheridolphin on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 5:57:23 PM.]

[This entry was edited by Cheridolphin on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 6:11:36 PM.]

Found by Bob at 1150

I was on my way to the big OZ Mega Event in Wagga and was keen to get a few caches on the way. Unfortunately, due to bushfires and previous trips north of the city, it was a fair way to go before I could start getting a few. This one looked like it could be difficult, but a couple of earlier dnfs on my way here made me determined to give it a good shot and, after managing to park 150m away, I enjoyed the short walk to GZ - keeping an eye out for ragged rascals running around the rugged rocks . Once there, I was particularly pleased to make a quick find and I was starting to feel a lot better about my trip .

TNLN

Thanks pickupfamily - a good spot

Great spot and a well camouflaged hide! Not easy to get to though...

Nice to finally find, I needed some assistance with this one from a friend :S

After discounting one location we then searched everywhere else only to discover it was at the first place we discounted. After a little effort the nicely camo'd container was in hand. TNLN TFTC

Found at 1750. After navigating to within 150m of GZ, once there, I had a sneaky suspicion of where it was going to be, but checked the more obvious spots first before coming back to my initial hunch to find the cache sitting there. The camo is an interesting idea...Works well.

Thanks.

I took one of the best roo shots here (pic). What do you call a group of roos (mop sounds good)....
I proceeded to GZ and what I though was the obvious spot was checked out immediately. 5 mins later, after rock checking I came back to it. Doh!!! Lovely.

A nice stroll on dusk amongst the roos - a special experience.

Clear skies and thanks to the pickupfamily from TeamAstro.

Found along with 4 fun on our assault in the Bendigo area
Thanks pickupfamily

Another quick find on our Bendigo assault [^]
Grabbed a TB to move along
Cheers

Finally found our way driving for this one instead of trying to hike it in thongs but once we did we saw some beautiful Kangaroo's so I stayed in the car watching the wild life and the geohubby went on the search for it Really nice spot!
TFTC

Nice easy walk in the early morning light.
JABs.

forgot TB

Found with Hanseeka and Kaztrekka,
Loved this hide, we dont pass through Heathcote very often so we never knew this place was here, had fun climbing up and down the huge rocks, Found the cache after a five minute search.

TNLN SL TFTC pickupfamily
379Jonti379

I liked walking amongst the rocks and the view from GZ.
TFTC TN Left TB SL (F184)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Wow I loved this rock setting. I had to watch out for the prickle trees as would you believe I had thongs on! TNLN TFTC SL.
So glad you brought me to the area.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found at 14:25. Drove the car up the track without any worries and then the short walk to GZ. As i approached I thought it will probably be there and yep it was, now how to get the cache if only i had platform lift boots. Scouted around the area found a suitable object to assist with retrieval and after disturbing a cockroach cache was in hand. TNLN Thanks for the challenge.

I looked out the window this morning and was greeted by a great day so what better thing to do than grab a friend and go caching I picked up Heather from Rushworth and headed towards Heathcoate for the afternoon. This was our second find for the day it was a very interesting area at gz and one that I haven’t been to before. We drove to about 100meters from it and walked in the cache location. Gz was no problem for me although Heather wasn’t to sure if she could retrieve it. Thanks for the hide and showing us this lovely spot. Signed log left nothing took photos and a great memory

A lovely sunny morning on the way to an AWG trek up Mt Ida, this was an easy drive in and a pleasant walk over a carpet of roo poo (not one of the bounders in sight). Cache found at 10:20am in plenty of time. TNLN TFTC.

Found at 4:20pm having completed a bushwalk and BBQ not far away! Like others we also saw quite a few hoppers on the way in. The thunder was getting louder and a few raindrops starting, but fortunately a bit of teamwork had the cache in hand quickly and we were back in the car before the deluge started.
TNLN
thanks pickupfamily