The River Behind The Town Horseshoe Bend, New South Wales, Australia
By Team Yota on 26-Aug-06. Waypoint GCXYT5

No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm 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 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

Googirl and I found it in the same sodden state as others have noted. Part of the problem is that the cache was open-top upwards, catching all the rain. I replaced it top-down, hoping it would dry that way. The log is so wet it is not going to fall out. I recorded our find on a new piece of paper I stuffed in wrapped in plastic Googirl found nearby.

This was our second try for this cache. This time we had no problem finding it, but it was not possible to sign the log. The contents were completeley soaked, due to the cache missing its lid. The loog book was more in the shape of pulp than paper.
Suggest the owner to repair the cache and replace the log book.

Since the owner does not seem to care about all notes about the cache needing replacement, the cache should be archived. Part of the geocaching trade is to sign the log book in the caches, but nobody has been able to do it for ages due to the state of this cache.

found it very easily, could not sign log as it had no lid on cache and log was all wet, needs replacing
cheers

We made the find quickly. The log was wet and the cache needs maintenance. TFTC

This entry was edited by AussieCacher on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 at 15:49:46.

Found it but didn't sign coz log need to be replaced

This entry was edited by team_stevens on Saturday, 05 February 2011 at 22:44:59.

Reperio at 1200. Well...I'm pretty certain I came from the wrong access point to reach GZ, as I ended up down the back corridor of the nearby buildings, jumping over the hedge fence. A quick look and cache was found, but the log is pretty much ruined, and the cache container has no lid on it. Nice little history lesson.

Gratias.

Cache has no cap
TNLNSL
TFTC

Found it! But is in need of desparate repair as log is sodden - looks like the lid has been removed.

Just wanted to let you know that this one needs help. Unfortunately, we didn't have our supplies with us today. It looks like the lid or cap is missing and the recent rain has reduced log to a sodden mess.

Enjoyed a stroll along the river - TFTC

This entry was edited by gefscofix on Sunday, 12 December 2010 at 13:35:05.

not many muggles around so I got to gz easly and had a look around decided I knew where the hide would be and checked several spots with no luck. Checked the details again and I was on the right track. checked another two and cache was uncovered. signed and returned agter the muggles passed.

TFTC

TFTC Our smallest find love the hiding place

Great Spot. Nice and quiet while we were there. TFTC
Needs new Log, current one overflowing!

Good hide. Persistence pays.

log is full.

Sneaky hide and tricky to get with the old guy working right at the bench in front of the window, directly facing the cache. Had to wait for him to leave to both get and return the cache.
Tftc

found on a country excursion with greeneyedalikat creepy old man staring o_O.
as previously mentioned, log is full, luckily had a small scrap of paper to make our own temporary solution.

Found it while at the coffee festival. Log sheets are full though

when I found it i looked up and saw a man staring at me from his window, he definitely saw it. I'm going to check if it's been removed sometime next week. Also the log was so full I could barely squeeze my name in. TFTC

Easy find.

Great little cache and clever spot to hide it too! TTFC

Just a short lunchtime walk from work, had no trouble locating after a short look around, but had trouble putting it back. Didn't just have plain muggles to contend with, had to dodge the muggle-police. (Who didn't suspect a thing)...

Nice hide. Did use hint so found it pretty quickly. Only muggles were over the other side of the river.

Well hid but took a while to remove from hide ...was caught up on a screw...had to watch out for a man watching out of his window.....Log is full and needs to be replaced.

Excellent hiding place. TFTC

A quick find after we worked out how to get out of the mall, had a yummy lunch at Ken's Kitchen after we logged this cache SL TNLN TFTH

A nice and easy find, with not very many muggles about, found just before having lunch. Found during Rudi63 and the Walenators assualt on a "Everything North of Sydney" caching weekend TFTH....SL...TNLN

This entry was edited by walenators on Sunday, 06 June 2010 at 01:14:08.

Found with darth trader great hide

Found at 12.50pm GAFF1. We loved the view along the walk by the river and the cafe, however not so impressed with the rubbishy backyards or the other buildings along the way. It was interesting to note the story about the shark attack around 1830. Wonder if sharks still come up this far.

Thanks Team Yota - we loved the hide very well done

a well built and a well camoflaged micro in muggle central. loved it. I would never have found it without the clue. I have done one like this where the cache had to be phisically extracted with a rather long arm between some rather dangerous looking spiders. No such difficulty here. thankyou for the effort that you put in here team Yota, cache for thank you, yes, mmm.

Great work with this one, second visit to find. Very good hide, like the work done.

On our way home from an overnight stay and a 30th birthday party. Decided to do a couple of caches on the way.

Like the hide. Kept us guessing for a couple of minutes till Geowife remembered the clue.

TNLN SL T4TC.

Chambos

Thought I was being clever going after hours to avoid the muggle population that frequent this area. Turns out after hours is when everyone is out running and enjoying the river walk. Had to wait a while until everyone was looking the other way, then the same when returning it. Quite a good hide, clearly a bit of effort put into this one. TFTC!

Was told about this one, so thought we would give it a go whilst we where in the area. TFTC

Parking difficult when we arrived so I legged it and soon made a sneaky find, nice work Thanks for the cache, off course back out at the car there was more proffessional driving from our chauffer, just stopped in the middle of a loading zone??? Well I guess he was loading up in a manner of speaking

Another relatively quick find. Nowonder they worry about floods with the river literally running through the town. TFTC

No easy parking for this one, nice hide tho
TFTC SL

Luckily no muggles around whilst I was searching.
Easily found.........not many options in this area!!
TNLNSL TFTC

This is really well done very rewarding find right in front of window so use stealth

Found the only fence which could have had any end gaps, 10-15 meters off the coordinates.
No end caps on the fence, the whole construction seemed to be held together by duct tape.

Yay! Finally. This definitely wasn't there the other times I looked. TFTC.

After a few DNFs today-this was found easily...so we treated ourselves to Ice Cream at the nearby Cafe-YUM!!!
SL

Great thinking...had to wait till man in window wasn't watching ...loved the container too

great hide.

Some guy was looking at us from his window at gz for 30 minutes while we searched for this one with no luck.

Went back with Dimand and his GPS just to be certain. There are a couple of fence post caps missing at GZ, so I suspect this one is gone

Searched for a while earlier in the day, but gave up and came back later for a more thorough search. Still couldn't find it with three of us looking

Very well hidden. We searched for ages. Ended up having to walk back to the car and read the clue. Found it easily with the help of the clue.

Found it but had to use the hint.

Excellent idea for a hide.

found after going past it a few times. LOL very well hid

Stopped for a bite to eat at a nearby cafe so a short walk to aid digestion was a great idea. Wasn't man muggles about so it didn't take long for geo-wife to find this one. Well thought out hide. TFTC Team Yota. [C139].

Wobbly geokid found this one while caching with The Don and The Cashman

Found this one on a days caching with The-Don and one of TheWobblys.

This is a beautiful spot on the river. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

People were fishing on the opposite bank of the river, don't know if they caught much but they would have had a very pleasant afternoon.

Thanks Yota.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Quick find on a day out with the Cash Man & Wobbly geokid.Beautiful spot & a great hide. TFTC Team Yota

I really liked this one
such a pleasant walk to GZ and a clever hide to top it off
For a Tassie girl I was even grateful for the few spits of rain. ahhhh nice and cool
Thanks for the cache Team Yota

2735.

The other side of the river was very popular today with people and their dogs, we had few problems finding this one though.

Thanks Team Yota for the cache.

TNLNSL

we parked near the main street and quickly found we where faced some immovable objects , commonly called shops, ahh a side alley oohh a fence so close allay-oop now I can start the seach but first a little reading of local foke lore.. sharks and boats ... ah the gold ole days... and nice sounding twirly things... great little walk, now back to business found with Tankengine, Tealby and Sol on our Invasion weekend from Canberra only took two attempts by sol to find the cache.

Part of our Newcastle/Port Stephens invasion from Canberra...
Beautiful little walk, lovely river! Maitland is a lovely spot!

A lovely spot to go for a walk after finding the correct access point - we headed down a blind alley at first, but that did not deter mtrax! Found the cache pretty quickly, so spent some time enjoying the location & reading the shark tales - incredible! TFTC - did the loop to return to our geo-mobile.

Found as part of the Canberra Invasion to Newcastle/Nelsons Bay/Port Stephens and surrounding areas with Tealby, Tankengine and Mtrax. This one was day one and with our over night accommodation at Raymond Terrace, we hit Maitland on the way through.

Agree with the others here, a great little walk with lots of information and a cache. But really, did the shark thing really happen????

Despite it being Fathers' Day there were not too many muggles about and once we arrived at the co-ordinates we were quickly able to locate the cache. A very clever hide - nice to see the effort that went into hiding it. The log is full and needs to be replaced. We added a scap of paper that we had, but it needs something better. TNLNSL

The log is full and needs to be replaced please.

yay found it. not many muggles around easy find. TFTC! Need new log we took the last available space.

Not many muggles around today so this wasn't too difficult. We have a few of this type back home so this made for a relatively easy find. Great grass hill supplied for signing hte log as well - Thanks .

Visited Ra's Gecko

SL TFTC

A nice wee find at dusk, with few muggle problems near dinnertime on a Sunday Cheers Gav [4031]

A nice spot just on dusk

Very well constructed, great cache, thank you , needs new paper log as the old piece is full! [|)]

Great hide.
No people out on a wet day.

This is a well constructed little cache. Very enjoyable. TFTC

Yeah. Our second cache. Extremely good place to hide a cache, very clever.

12:04pm
An instant find, well made.

Cheers

Nice hide. TNLN.

Found it No. 1422 ... LOG BOOK FULL ... TNLN

Good hide ,timed our find well between walkers.TFTC

Please replace log as names are now been writen on top of other names.

A nice stroll along the river in the morning. Found easy and off we go again.
TFTC

Another find for the Tablelands Cachers (TC's) on their Hunter to the coast spree. Nice to see the energetic ones out walking.

Looking out over the river we watched as many early morning walks went pasrt.
JABs.

that water looks good

no more room on the log sheet and a hard find in the end. not so near where our gps said. but at least it was just a stroll from our house. nicely hidden. thx.

Found at 14:55 - the eighth of my day's caching around Maitland with Gibbo McCool.

This part of Maitland is always nice to visit. No stealth needed today though, as there were no muggles about. Quickly grabbed the cache, signed the log, and we were away again.

Thanks Team Yota

Found with sw2092. thx

Nice hide.

nice area, shame about the damage to the bike track down by the river.

TFTC

PS log is over full.

Haven't seen this riverbank for about 35 years. Quite pleasent now. TFTC

nice find
tricky hide


thanks for the views and the history


fattyacid and family

One of our first finds. Quite a few muggles, so very stealth like. Logged found date and returned.
Weather quite wet but no to cold. Now to the next find????

Quick and easy find in an expected location.

Log is full and needs replacing.

Tftc Nice and easy no need for extra clues.

Had a coffee and an extremely nice Banana / Caramel cake from the coffee shop in the alley.
Been here many a time without knowing there was a cache so near.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Came up trumps on the 3rd one I tried. TNLNSL, river quite low today. Thanks Team Yota.

yes i found it the gps left me one meter away from it it needs new log the log is full up

On a road trip to Armidale and stop for a couple of caches. Searched for about 20 minutes without success. We did raise the looks of council cleaners and an man in his workshop. Oh well..

Hey,
That is a mad cache.
Great hiding spot.

Man this was tricky and fun.

Enjoyed this a lot.

Thanksa lot Team Yota.

MADSTAR Family

After an absolutely huge plate of food for dinner at the nearby pub, we went for a walk to burn off some calories. After waiting out a few drunken locals heading back towards the same establishment we had just left, mr bloopy went almost straight to it. Nifty little hide and a nice night stroll.

Lovely area of Maitland. The Hunter is up somewhat after the rain over the last couple of days. Yep I'm gunna say it too...the log reeeeally needs replacing now. I found a blank space though and signed.
TFTC

Second time looking for this one. Was out by about 5 metres the first time, damn it. Got wet this time too. Nice hide. Found @ 1035.

BTW, might be worth continually checking on this one, most of the 'hiding places' are being stolen, if you get my meaning.

Also the log is full, might be worth some new paper.

[This entry was edited by Pensive Travellers on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 11:49:35 PM.]

Found at 0820, nice walk along the river in between showers. Log is full had to sign rear of log. Nice hide in a great location. Thanks Team Yota for bringing us to this great spot.