Squaw Takes a Tumble Hiawatha, Victoria, Australia
By Libani on 28-Oct-07. Waypoint GC170KX

Thanks!

Encouraged by jacoowi, had to wait for some muggles to depart their camp. TFTC

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Late Post

Grabbing a few caches while passing through the area. Had to stop here and admire the view. It was an easy enough find once at GZ using the hint.Thanks Libani for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

A hot weekend, so day1976 and I headed to a river and waterfall to camp near, this spot.
Very close to campers here. We camped the night over the creek. Ended up moving our tents closer to the creek to block out some noise.

We stayed here last night and wondered over here at around 10pm, but there was too much partying going on for us to make a find. So we came back the next morning when everyone was quietly nursing there heads in camp and it was found after a bit of searching with the phone camera.

We had heard about the free camping area here, from a friend, so we brought the caravan, and the dogs, and came for a visit. We were the only ones taking advantage of the peaceful surrounds, probably because the weather was cold and we had some rain. The waterfall was flowing nicely, and looked pretty.
The dogs took us for a walk to locate this cache, which we found just where it should be. Unfortunately, the pastic bag had deteriorated, and the log sheet was wet, so we left a fresh logbook in a ziplock bag. All good now.
Thanks Libani. What a wonderful place to chill out for a few days.

Unfortunately have to log a DNF on this one, VERY crowded here today.
Thanks anyhow, it looks like a nice spot, just have to pick the right time.

Long time between dnf and found
Falls flowing nicely today. Log soggy. TFTH

Didn't think we would find this cache with a lot of campers in this area.
We walked over to see the falls first, once seeing not many campers at there tents, we started to search.
But after a quick look and than looking at the hint, didn't help a lot, which side is left.

We search for a bit longer, when I first spotted the bag, I was thinking it was just a piece of rubbish, a piece of CITO.
Than we quickly found the key lock container.

Out cache with D@geo
Thank you for the hide Libani

Found with gwd.aussie while on a day caching run in the area. Our aim for the day was this cache (working on my finds by hidden month) and arriving at gz was concerned with a lot of campers and tents however most were out and about. Made the find harder that it should have been.

Thanks Libani

What a lovely surprise. I thought I had found most of the waterfalls around but turns out I was wrong. A pretty spot with a couple very satisfied campers by the look. Cache was found I good condition. It's a bit spongy on the edges here in the wet so watch your parking if in a smaller car. Tftc

Got it

Visiting the falls

Not so ha ha today. Cool Victoria day. Cache is in good Nic. TFTC

Easy find on a beautiful day

On our way back from Port Welshpool. Stopped for rhe dog to have a swim. Tftc

Tftc. After driving down past the Nicholls Falls turn-off we realised we were upon the Minnie ha ha falls and I knew there was a cache here. So much metal for a magnetic to hang off! I was lucky. I had parked up at the right end and literally found it on my first go. Made up for our initial failed attempt to Nicholls Falls cache.
It's been a long long time, a generation before geocaching, since I was here so thanks for luring me here.

TFTC

Tftc

We used to live just up the road and swan here several times. Beautiful place. Tftc

Easy find. Lovely spot

Out for a day of caching and sightseeing with Biggles of Oz and Mrs Biggles. This was the fourteenth find of 16 for the day. Once on the right side of the road this was a quick easy find by Mrs Pooky then we wandered over and had a look at the falls and the surrounding area. TFTC and bringing us to this great little spot.

A place called "Hiawatha" with falls called "Minne Ha Ha Falls" - someone's having a laugh when they named these places! I searched the internet to see if I could find any further info (none) and lo-and-behold yet another place in Australia has MinneHaHa Falls - namely NSW in the Blue Mountains near Katoomba! The rest of the references are for Minneapolis USA, obviously. What is it with this country that we seem unable to give our own unique names to places instead rippin' off names from other countries (mainly UK) or using totally unimaginative names like "Western Australia", "Northern Territory" etc. Dullards the lot of us! (Found the cache, incidentally!)
TFTC

What a lovely place, wouldn't mind camping here as others are doing, the weather is perfect too but not quite warm enough for a dip. Nice easy find.
TFTC TNLN

Yay, great place for an adventure ! Thank you

Logbook has been replaced and location has been modified.
Libani

Coordinates changed from:
S 38° 31.169 E 146° 27.920

Coordinates changed to:
S 38° 31.210 E 146° 27.939

Distance from original: 265.5 feet or 80.9 meters.

Cache was moved due to difficulties with muggles. Although additional directions were added to the cache information and the hint, poor internet reception at the location made access to the information difficult. More exact co-ordinates will help locate the cache.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

We arrived here, keen to find an unloved cache, and were confronted with a large party of muggles. So, we climbed up and over the really slippery rocks and commenced searching based on the hint. Probably half an hour later, having dodged prickles, slipped on moss, clambered up and down the embankment desperately searching, we read the description and got disappointed. The coordinates could do with updating for future finders please - we'd parked right next to the cache which is now 87m from the listed coordinates. We found two sopping wet logs in two magnetic key holders and added our names as best we could. Happily we added more unloved days to my total and we were off. TFTC Libani, sorry to say this one will need maintenance and new coords.

Out on a road trip with Mummy Short Legs with the aim of finding a few unloved caches (and any other ones we happened across). We ambled along to this one, skirting the group of muggles standing in the drizzle yapping to "check out the falls" with the real aim being at least 20mins of scrambling over slippery rocks and risking scratches and slides to find a cache. Unfortunately we had zero reception and no way of checking further data on this one until, after an age of hunting and frustration we had a spot of luck and some previous logs came up including the one about the changed coordinates!!! Gah so frustrating!!!! And we were parked right next to the new spot which was 80m away from the listed GZ! This one in serious need of some TLC but unfortunately we weren't able to rehab it today. TFTC

With a couple of 4WD friends we spent the day in the back country from Foster our holiday base, and stopped at this cache .
Found it after a short search.
TFTC
one-eyed

Great spot! We had no idea there would be a cache up this way lucky my parents have their farm not too afar away and this was a great activity for our holiday

We will be back love a challenge

Late log, found on 6/6/14 with angiekbox on a camping trip with family and friends. TFTC SL

Camping out with the fambam, neighbors and friends - no muggles around as most come the Friday night because of work and school, and being winter not many people are as crazy! Snuck off to find this little beauty while juggling with my new extraction tools in hopes I could break them in for the first time - but weren't needed. Reached in to grab it, and accidentally grabbed the eight legged guardian sitting close, I'm sure my scream could be heard in town. Placed the second container that was left outside in a new ziploc, with the other one - cleaned, repacked and ready to go. Now to wait for Redwiccan to get back from getting wood to see if she's game enough to get it when she finds it. SL TFTC

Tried this one again and found it. Very small container that was full of ants due to a cracked lid. I put a bag around it (after removing the ants), and put it back. TFTC.

There's a moral to this story. If you make a spur of the moment decision to search for a cache - given that you happen to be passing through - make sure that you've downloaded the most recent information. Oh well .. there's always next time, and the falls were nice.

Replaced cache. I don't know how long this one will last. It was a three hour round trip caused by recent rain and log trucks turning the road into a mud bath. But it was fun.
Please note the change to the instructions and the hint which is very specific.
cheers,
Libani

Took a trip up to 'watha today, and as the group of younger muggles were swimming and regaling eachother with stories of top rock, I went for a wander whilst they were distracted, to see if I could find the cache. Searched the new location but couldn't find it. A couple of the muggles were 2 of my offspring who have been caching before, and I think they felt sorry for me so they came and searched with me for a while - but no luck. I had written down the hint as I knew there was no mobile coverage up there, but even armed with the clue there was no joy to be had. This cache hasn't been found in 9 months. That's a lot of campers in between, wonder if it's still there? Can the CO maybe confirm their last sighting please, or if they've checked on it since July last year?

Such a shame that the hut has gone and all that remains is a bare slab of concrete. The brass plaque that told the story of Hiawatha and Minne Ha Ha has also now disappeared off the large rock. How does stuff like that just vanish?

This entry was edited by 2max on Sunday, 08 April 2012 at 03:11:07 UTC.

TFTC!

Well we were worried after seeing yesterdays did not find. It only took us three seconds to find after all. Hey Jimmy you need to read the description properly, and then follow it! Log was quite wet, but we dried it out slightly. Thanks Libani as we finally got back to this one and completed it.

Changed cache location but I think the co-ords are for the old location. Clambered about the rocks and took a few pics then re-read the cache page. Headed down to the bridge, but no findy. This place is pretty, but must be bogan central over Easter as the rubbish left about the place is a discrace. Maybe one of those campers wanted a cache to take home or maybe I'm just blind lol. Thanks anyhow Libani for showing me this little area.

After many months without a find, we were pleased to find that it's still in place. A quick sign, while we chatted with a couple of campers who had wandered over the bridge, before we strolled across to view the falls. Colldier used his local knowledge to show us the rock the locals jump from, and also the pine tree on top of the rock that the really "brave" ones climb for an extra high jump. Then it was back to the car, which took a bit of maneuvering to get it back on the road, being so slippery after all of the recent rain. Many thanks for keeping this cache alive, cheers!

We followed the description and found this cache, the posted co-ord are wrong, and we forgot to get an update for you. There were a few campers staying here, and after watching some youngsters jumping into the water from dizzying heights we waited til they trekked off to dinner.
The geocache had become an ants nest, with heaps of ants and ant eggs.
We attacked it with the last of the flyspray from the trusty geocache mobile. No TB's or Gc's in the cache.
It's been a long time since this one was found, and it's good to have it going again.
Thanks Libani, for the cache, TNLN SL
greynomads, Bill and Diana

I have had to change the cache due to large numbers of Muggles in the area. Sorry for any inconvenience. All should be OK now.
Libani.

Looked and looked, ripped my trousers on barbed wire after crawling around amongst the rocks, but with no success. Guess I will have to return again someday.

Returned again to this neighbourhood and thought we would search again for this cache. Boy were there muggles!!!!! At least 100 of them camped in this small area and the water pool was FULL of swimmers and fool hardy jumpers. Tried a quick and discreet search which was nigh on impossible as there were just too many muggles. [8)] Somewhat disappointing but I'm sure we will return to this beautiful area again someday.

Checked cache after two people failed to find it. So did I.
It has now been replaced and open for business again. Sorry for the inconvenience. I would have checked it earlier but last time someone swore that it was missing, it was almost in plain sight.
Cheers,
Libani

5 of us clambered around rocks for over an hour. Could not find cahe but found leaches

Searched and searched for an hour and a half. Found plenty hideyholes and plenty glass, broken and whole. We are always amazed at how folks can carry full containers in but are incapable af carrying empty ones out - what are their yards like? Maybe the hint would have helped - we were experimenting with using Geocache Navigator only and haven't found hints on it. Anyhow, it's a lovely spot, thanks for taking us there Libani.

0431 re-logging due to name change

Sometimes we make a simple cache a hard search. This was my third visit, although on the first one it was muggle central and I didn't search too well in case they got curious.

The cache has a good little hidey hole and I'm sure I had my fingers within inches of it on search number two.

Thanks to Libani for the reiteration of the hint, my closest non-find is now a bit further away.

Found at 11.40am GAFF3. We approached this cache from the west only to find the track blocked by a fallen tree after the high winds experienced in this area. We got the axe out and with the aid of the winch we were on our way after about 40 minutes of light work. 1 km down the track and just 1.9km from GZ we were greeted by another blockage - this time 3 pine trees had fallen together across the track. At this stage we couldn't be bothered doing another clearing job, so we went back and found a longer but easier track. When we got to the falls there were campers all over the place. There was also rubbish all over the place and the amount of cans, bottles and food rapping lying around GZ was astounding. After a longish search by 6 people amongst some muggles who were jumping into the pool, we finally found the well concealed cache. Thanks Libani for showing us this spot.
ps: Watch out for the barbed wire - it jabbed two of our party.

Found by Mary & David at 1530. We had a cache in almost this exact spot until it was muggled about 2½ years ago - it had lasted about 18 months. Glad to see another one here to encourage people to visit this great place. Pleased to see so much water flowing, too. Took figurine, left figurine. Our thanks to Libani.

WOW a FTF in conjunction with FlyingPigSquadron, we didn't expect this with so many cachers in Victoria. Left Radioactive man and a new tape measure/tool kit and took 2x carabeenas. A beautiful spot for a picnic, thank you for bringing us to this valley in the mountains.

Hey! Hey! Our very first ever FTF!!! found with iluvtrekking (from W.A.) when we were taking them on a tour of this beautiful area. Great place for a picnic - obviously the area was flooded very recently
Thanks for the hunt

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