A Park for Howard Howard Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
By NTSTROM on 25-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13XAH

A quick 5 day trip to Darwin included finding this cache. This is my first trip to the northern territory and is my final state / territory in Australia to visit. The weather was certainly different to Tasmania. It is great to explore another part of Australia. Thank you for hiding and maintaining this cache. Found on 8 October 2024Thanks for the cache

Took the caching dog with us and we kept getting tangled in the bush. Once at GZ, an easy find, thanks

Found it!

Very easy if you look for the contrast.Found with Chezza47

Nice nature walk in the middle of nowhere. Thank for the find

After stumbling around found it

If your doing g this cache wear long pants as it is 60m into the bush. Hint is accurate and quick find.

Headed over to Darwin for a break with tmann421.Really enjoying the weather and the challenges of the hides.Logs signed tm/ww NZThanks for the cache owners for their efforts

Nice find with woolwood9 today. Day 3 of our 9 days in and around Darwin. SL *tm/ww NZ* *Thanks for the reason to visit the area!* Tough walk but good find.

Found it while on the travelling TFTC ??

Bit of a jungle but found and signed log tftc

This is absolutely great hunt! New container and log. But definitely should have changed my shoes! (Was a sporadic find as the kids and family were having a gas in the pools and playground). Thought I'd go for a baby hunt and ended up right in the scrub. TFTC, really great effort.

In Darwin with iluvtrekking after travelling from Perth. This is a revisit after eleven years and we have noticed so many great changes. No problem locating this cache. However contents were sodden and musty. Left a sistema with new log book at gz. Thanks for the hide.

Travelling with richlink on a trip from Perth to Darwin and return down the centre. Today, we are enjoying the sights of greater Darwin and a variety of caches along the way. Thanks NTSTROM.

Another oldie this time from 2007 so i was very happy to find this one.

This trip was sort of in place of a trip to a Mega that got canceled due to accommodation problems, I was quite happy when Goose said do you fancy to caching break in the Northern Territory as this would be the last State or Territory for me in Australia.

Our plan was to fly into Darwin on the Friday night have a couple days in the area then start heading South stopping overnight whenever we needed to, our next goal was the drive to the geographic centre of Australia at Lambert Centre and then head back to Alice to fly home ten days later.

We both had a great trip finding some important old caches, large ones and the odd clever one too, we found Ammo Cans all over the place which was nice as i think we have found most of the ones at home in Tassie.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 01/07/2023 at 13:57:00 thanks to NTSTROM for placing this cache for me to find.

The best caches I have found so far are:-

Sentimental [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Traditional [Hanging Around in Toorak](http://coord.info/GC62KAP) By [bobthebuilder_123](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=586681)
Multi [Gawler Fort Knox](https://coord.info/GC5T0W1) By [**JEM**](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=11449141)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Totem Pole](https://coord.info/GC862H8) By [The Hancock Clan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=263428)

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Our last cache in this area. We searched for a 'path' without much luck before taking the plunge and heading into the bush. Nice container but it was in a sorry state. We dried it out as best we could but it certainly needs a bit of TLC
(logging late and I nice to see that other teams were able to assist with a new/clean container.
Thanks NTSTROM

Our Northern Territory journey began in Darwin around 3am after a very delayed flight. We drove as far north as Fresh Water Camp (northeast of Darwin), followed by a loop to Liberated Cox (out to the west) and Litchfield National Park returning to Darwin. We then headed south with overnight stops at Katherine, Daly Waters and Devils Marbles before reaching our southernmost accommodation at Erldunda. From here we did a day trip to Lamberts Gravitational Centre on onward past Finke. Our last couple of days were in Alice Springs with a side trip via Hermannsburg and Glen Helen, all up covering just under 3800km. My thanks to all the COs with hides throughout the territory for helping make our trip so enjoyable.

Came close to 1m on the map, literally checking under the soles of my feet to make sure I wasn’t standing on it. Can’t see any volcanic rocks but plenty of “coffee bean” Laterite or Bauxite rocks, sun was setting I needed another hour but mozzies told me otherwise

Water in case. Needs maintenance. Good location off the trail. Thanks for the find

Tftc

Bit of a mission, but a good hike.
Cache is very damp. Needs maintenance.

Sorry didn’t read previous comments. Cache requires maintenance! TFTC

Cache is good contents heavily water damaged

Couldn't log in as the plastic tub is wet.. maintance needed

OCW jennyfromthefarm around Darwin, catching up on llgs today TFTC

Found this one super quickly on our visit to Howard Springs. I didn’t actually know there were literally springs here, I only knew it of COViD quarantine fame! Also, there’s a Prison down here too. TFTC
Unfortunately too wet to sign. Whole contents are soggy and melted. Outer container looks ok. Was an interesting trek in here.

After a second try a few years later, this hidden treasure could be converted into a smilie.
Thanks for hiding.

TFTC quite the walk. Glad I went in with a friend. Kept car in sight too, for that walk back out.

After fun at the springs we attempted this one. I have to say the bush was horrible, unforgiving, sharp, prickly with vines wrapping around us every step and extremely unpleasant to negotiate today. But we found it, signed the log, enjoyed the container and took the GC. Atttacked by stinging jumping green ants at a tree by the cache so it was quite awful. Probably isn't like that all the time. I spent the night soothing my scratches and bites. TFTC

Found with Go Grandys sorry for the late Log TFTC

found with Babe and Bongo. TFTC

What an odd and interesting cache container! Hadn't seen one like this before. I love old caches like this that still have original or old logs. It's quite interesting to go back reading the old entries in a tranquil bushland setting. Also very happy I applied a liberal coating of bug repellant before attempting! TFTC, dropped in a TB.

With a bit of bush bashing and going around in circles we finally found it. TFTC!

Between volcanic rock not hard terrain for the kids otherwise fun

A quick find While out geocaching on the south side of Darwin and a bit of bush bashing. TFTC.

This was a small bush bash and I managed to get it quite easy.
Choose your path and don’t hit it directly as it will be challenging for futures hunters.
Retrieved 1 TB.
Visited 3 TB.
TFTC

Now that the dry season is here, the weather was much more conducive to a wander through the bush. Passed the spring on the way, amazing how it just bubbles up out the ground. Easily spotted after a bit of ducking amd weaving. Dropped a TB. T4TC!!!

TFTC

Caching around the Darwin suburbs, slowly moving through areas we have previously not been. Thanks NTSTROM for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

FOUND #LHM

Another Hot Bush Bash.
Loving It...got ‘im
TFTC NTSTROM

After our Parisian trip in the first week of the Easter holidays, we (i and my husband Voske1967) went for 3 weeks to the other side of the world to enjoy the friendly atmosphere, food, landscapes and culture of Australia. Of course, geocaches were also searched for and found in Perth, Monkey Mia, Denham, Newman, Port Hedland, Darwin, ... . This trip downunder will stay with us for a long time! It was pretty hot in Australia for the autumn season

Today we spend some awesome hours at Howard Park!
The childs had fun in the pool and I found some caches. )

Nice walk through the rainforest!

TFTC!!

Got it. Ty
Its pretty damp.
Tftc

With Concrete Gnome TFTC

Much easier walking out then walking in. TFTC

Detour around Australia - family of 6 travelling in a camper trailer for 6 months!!
Due to the lack of reception in the outback regions of Australia, we got seriously behind in logging caches. But a new year's resolution is good enough for me to get the trip of lifetime logged! Thankfully I did diligently write in my diary to record each days events!!

This was a special day for us, as I was able to catch up with one of my old uni friends for the first time in probably a decade! Super special!!! We had a lovely bbq lunch and strolled around exploring the area!

Howard Springs is certainly an interesting little spot, we even did a night wildlife walk with one of the rangers a few nights later, but unfortunately didn't spot too much wildlife. we did however see the file snakes in the water - eeek - yuck! And yes, we saw the springs from where the water flowed - very cool! I can see why the troops set up this place - and evry interesting to see the photos of the troops swimming with one guy and a gun on croc watch!!


Thanks for the cache!

Gotcha - Found while in Darwin on holidays from Gosford NSW

Found it with onyatrail. TFTC

Another pretty heavy bush bash to get to this one. A quick scan of the GZ and I spotted a likely target. Yep. Log was a bit damp but otherwise all good. Once back to the road it was a 10 minute spent getting out the grass spikes from my shoes and socks.
Find# 1010

Nice find, thanks for the cache.

A good bit of bush bashing tire quoted TFTC

Great hide. TFTC#91

TFTC. Staying at Howard Springs CP for a few days. Took the opportunity this afternoon to explore a little and find a cache or two. Easy find after a short bush bash.

Good hiding spot. Very overgrown

Found on a morning out with the kids.

Spent a bit of time going in circles then voila something suspicious. TFTC

Bit of a bush walk but we found it

Another one picked up while in the springs area. TFTC.

Found today. In good condition. TFTC NTSTROM

Today we explored Howard Springs and surrounds using geocaching as a guide. Easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Great find, but quite the bush bash might need some markers, getting lost is easy. Tftc!

Great find, but quite the bush bash might need some markers, getting lost is easy. Tftc!

Green container

TFTC

Tftc

TFTC NTSTROM

Picking my path to this was problematic had socks full of grass seeds TFTC NTSTROM

TFTC - tip helped a bit as I was relying on my mobile phone compass. With the help of my trusty sidekick DeFCoN_6 we located the cache fairly quickly. Photo attached shows current items in cache (just in case you were wondering if your purple whistle was still there

Found It!! After finding a nearby cache Kym's Adventure and I moved onto this one! the rain had stopped and we had a chance to dry off We navigated through the scrub to the GZ and looking at the hint gave us some idea of where it was going to be but the GPS was pointing to three different bunch of rocks! a quick inspection of all of them we soon came up with the cache!! TFTC NTSROM

Nice and easy find after a bit of a bush walk.

Good find hard slog!

Found it ! Hint was right on the mark. TFTC

A nice quick find on a hot afternoon. TFTC.

I was pleased to come up with this find pretty quickly as there seemed to be plenty of possible hiding spots around here! A lovely spot on yet another perfect day! Could easily get used to all this sunshine! Thanks NTSTROM

Found it

Nice find.

Lost wifi with 40m to go.
Luckily direction was set and hint helped.

Bloody lizard scared shit out of me lol

I hate lizards

Found it

Found while out with the geo nephs! Found by Victor. Took Star fish, left cat.

thanks for the cache.

Wombat the Anthus laptop Geocoin visited, as did Runcible's Grasshopper, a Wild Turkey, a Slovak Geocoin 2012, Zimbo from Germany, a middle aged man in lycra, doc marten, and a man and his dog.

Found this on a nice little bush walk.. Put in a heros card and 4 year old grabbed the sharpener. Heinrich family. 4 jays.
TFTC

Out at howard spring today for a quick stroll in the forrest and tripped over a log which had a cache in it, easyn find. signed the log

This site rocks.

Good hide terrain is a bit rough so be carefully but overall great find

Found with friend Dortmundnt. TFTC

Found :

Today we drove to Humpty Doo to have a look around, check out the shops & find some caches.
Due to recent fires, we had trouble finding a path in to this one.
A bit of persistence and it paid off.
Thanks for the cache, NTSTROM.

This one took a little while but my perseverance finally paid off. It was heading towards dusk so I was glad that I found it when I did.

TNLN TFTC

I think we came the hard way!

Found with Mel_Adz

TftC

tftc....found this one whilst 'scouting' out a new spot for a cache

TFTC

The springs have had a bit of a make over since we were here 5 years ago. The childrens new park & water feature looks terrific.
Another bush bash to locate a cache, I'm sure there is nicer areas to choose to locate this cache.
Still we are very happy with our find.
Thanks NTSTROM

On a visit to check out the springs with the geokids, bit of a bush bash, TFTC

Found with SeabreezeOZ, http://mrlocks.tumblr.com/

Found with SeabreezeOZ

On the way home from some other interesting caches in Gunn Point, this little reserve made an interesting stop for the kids to play and feed the fish and turtles. Recent additions made this park very family friendly. However, the cache itself was a 'long way' (a very relative assessment, i know) from the beaten track for those little legs... Thanks again NTSTROM.

TFTC NTSTROM. I haven't been to the park since 1997, what a difference!

(Edit to change the date to 7 July, entered as 6 July)

The main picinic area here is a great spot for the families and is probably pretty busy on weekends
But early Monday morning it was relatively quiet
I wandered off along one of the trails to find the cache.
A short bush bash and there was one

TFTC and visit to this delightful little park.
A great spot to cool off on a hot day.

#81 Found on a quick stop to Howard Springs on our way through to Mary River for the night. Picked up a TB. Unfortunately, I'm out of swag, so left nothing this time.