WanAus 18 - Southernwood Creek Reserve #2 Huntingdale, Western Australia, Australia
By WanderingAus on 11-Nov-07. Waypoint GC179NE

Cache location compromised, my chain saw is in the possession of my son, and I'm in Forbes NSW, 2,980 CroKs from the cache, so it has to go.

No joy for us.

Searched with richlink, but no luck for us today. TFTH.

Out on a hiding caches run and thought we would pop into this one and give it a go. Unfortunately to no avail. Found your traditional black plastic and lots of household rubbish but no cache

Please check Wan Aus! Fallen tree is hampering our attempts!!!

Could not find after looking in a lot of nice spots

Looked but no good.

Not sure , but this one may have been muggled again , I was less than a meter away and army crawling through thick bush and putting my hands into locations very unwise . Please check and confirm for later locating.

Couldn't find it. Was after dark so too hard to find with only the torch on my phone, especially with the fallen tree. Lots of rubbish in the area.

looked everywhere didnt fined it

looked everywhere couldn't find it

Not had a bit of a climb through the trees but no luck.

Full body armour is required to access GZ.....I suspect the terrain has changed with the falling of a tree since the cache was originally hidden. TFTC.

Appears that a tree may have fallen over top of hide?

May have been muggled. Found ur pen site. And nothing else. Will have a look again another day.

That was definatly a mission to get to the cache. There was alot of rubbish and it took a lot of crawling through thick shrub to get to the cache plus a lot of cuts on my arms. It was worth it in the end as after i signed the log book i realized it was my 350th find.

Nicely camouflaged and hidden in scrub had the kids crawling on there knees for this 1

Well that was fun on a wet day tftc

While working in the area, I decided to scout this one out again. The area has changed since my last visit the grass has disappeared and dried up so the cache was easy to find as the cache was uncovered. Armed with the appropriate Geo Tool from the Geo Truck the cache was extracted. I then placed the cache back where WanderingAus would have wanted the cache hidden(with a little K&C touch). SL TFTC WanderingAus

Ahhhh, well FelixII and I managed to turn this one into a bit of a saga. After going up and down steep riverbanks with a frequency that almost had me believing a was one of the Von Trapp kids climbing every mountain I then took it upon my vertically challenged self to vainly go over, under AND through a rather dense tree line. Luckily one of us had their brain in gear and FelixII soon had me extracted from said tree line and heading off in the right direction.

As it turns out, being so naturally low to the ground does have its advantages and I spied the cache as soon as we were at GZ. Sick of crawling through tight - possibly spider filled spaces - i resorted to using a stick to drag the cache toward us. Alls well that ends well though, log was signed and cache returned to its hidey hole. FelixII still has two intact knees and I wasn't attacked by spiders *yay*

TFTC WanderingAus

Mrs Felix and Tanzanite! out and about having a girlie catch up and the occasional cache thrown in!

Well we took a lot longer to find this than we should have. Also made the terrain rating much higher than it should have! [:o)]

Finally deciding this couldn't be where the cache was Mrs Felix said I reckon Keith would put it on that side near that! What do you know Tanzanite, nips in there and comes out with the cache! Phew! 2 DNF's prior this wasn't looking pretty if we didn't find this one.

TFTC WanderingAus

While out working in the area, thought I would pop in and try this one as it was so close to the road. Hmmmm.... a bit of rubbish here, the vegetation has grown as well, all the rain and sunny weather. I got to GZ and searched for about 10 mins with no luck. I will have to try again another day. TFTH

I found the rubbish comments interesting, as I didn't find much more than I would have expected. Maybe the recent rains had washed it into our beautiful water ways. TFTH.

Way too much rubbish to even consider looking, wouldn't recommend as really not safe to go near that rubbish, may possibly need to move to a less littered area, a few metres to the right somewhere maybe as over months & months it appears the litter has been an issue.

This entry was edited by LCollinge on Sunday, 25 September 2011 at 10:50:42 UTC.

thanks from the welch family

we weren't sure which side of the river we should be on as the map we were using showed us up the creek... We took a punt, and guessed correctly.
An awful lot of rubbish has been dumped at GZ.
Thanks, Robmc.

We could have parked much closer to thi sone than we did.
In the end we almost didn't find it as we were distracted by all the rubbish nearby.
It took a bit of courage to forage further and find your cache.
Thanks for this and all your other hides this afternoon Wandering Aus.

nice walk getting there, bit difficult to find, was found by a noob who really enjoyed himself today.

Not hard but a great hide and right at the end of the street

Another find that has easy access and is a nice hide. TFTC

Spent the morning in Huntingdale and Gosnells searching out WanderingAus caches, plus some others. Third of twelve caches for the morning.

TFTC

Wandering Aus has been a busy boy with this one. Found directly. Nice little hide. Thanks.

Nice easy find. TFTC

WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance run, and found the cache to be in good condition, nice and dry. Surprisingly there was an extra pen in the cache.

Champstarr...TFTH

Easy spot once you crawl in. TFTC

Difficult to retrieve this one! TFTC discovered GC.

Was a bit of a rough find. (was very tricky to get). Awesome GC inside the container. Had to take it!

TFTC!

T GC
L N

Saw a beautiful blew bird the first I have seen in this area.
left geocoin.

nice quick find....looks like someones been sleeping at GZ...thanks again WanderingAus

hope we didnt upset homeless persons bed when we found this cache, tftc

A nice wander along the park to find these two!!
Even went across the water!! I am brave!! lol

TFTH WanAus!! I am loving it!!

Mrs bjtrekker wanted to use the restrooms, so it was a quick dash to find this one before going for a pit stop. Nice spot for the cache. Thanks WanderingAus.

Parked nearby and walked down to the cache. Once the GPS had settled I found the cache without problems.

Thanks for the cache.

# 694
Had to return twice as a mower muggle decided to do his lunch break directly at gz. I wonder how long his lunch break usually is. After 1 pm he was mowing in the vicinity, however, found the container quickly.
TFTC and cheers from Germany.
MTKEus

Took golf ball, left frog toy.

TFTC

TNLNTFTH

It was late in the evening today when we thought we'd look for a few caches. The gps wasn't working as well, probably because of the clouds. This was spotted by the Kat..... while I was focused on a totally different spot!! TFTH

Found with Xinders and mightyduck. Cache nice and dry. TFTH WanAus!

found as the light was fading on Saturday evening, was a bit of a challenge with the lack of light. TSLS TFTH SL

Quick find on our Perth mini-blitz.
Nice spot. TNLN
Thanks WanderingAus

Approached from wrong side so glad we didn't come at night. TFTC. TNLN.

[This entry was edited by duncdonut73 on Friday, May 07, 2010 at 8:16:59 PM.]

Went out with iTreasureHunt to do some caches between showers. We drove right down to the cache (4x4 required) and ate out fish and chips here. We found it pretty easily. iTreasureHunt held the bushes back so I could get it easily. TFTH

Went out with iTreasureHunt2 to do some caches between showers. As we drove to this one with our yummy fresh fish and chips, it was pouring down. We ate our lunch and the rain stopped. We found the cache and moved on. TFTH

We came in from the wrong side but quickly realised that we should drive around to Chamberlain St.
I can see why this gets muggled all the time, it's a real curious little hiding spot.

Lovely spot. TFTH

Easy Find in a lovely area.
TNLN TFTH.

finally found third time lucky as the two previous times it had been muggled a note for fellow geocachers you need to approach this cache from the east and drive along chamberlain st as there is a river that goes through the area
tnlnsl
t4th

Did this the wrong way should of done these ones before doing 14 and 15 in this series but like mr roo he always does things backwards lol. I got to gz and took a little bit of time then I spotted it TFTC

Took nothing and signed the log. Left a balloon, a coin and our calling card. TFTH & TFTC

1885 - Back in the West again for work...

First of 8 WanAus caches I found today - nice and easy one this !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 32° 05.092 E 115° 58.413
Distance From Old: 250.2 feet
Third attempt, hopefully it will be re-hidden well and last a while.

Replaced, relocated, ready to roll again - enjoy.

WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance run and couldn't find any trace of the cache.

I'll replace the cache shortly, it's still a nice place to visit, the creek is running nicely at present.

Keith

Searched for a while but could not locate the cache.

DNF long wet grass and water were not helping us today we will try another day

after finding the other caches in the area thought that this would be just as easy
no luck looked everywhere within a 30m radius i hope it hasnt been muggled again
could wanaus let me know if it has
would love to have another go up this way

I haven't been out for a while and had forgotten how WanderingAus hides his caches, so it took a little time to locate it. Having found it, the caches later in the day were a lot simpler. T: Tigger TB, L: keyrings, SL. Thanks to Keith for the cache.

found it and dropped off tigger tb

dropped of tigger tb

A nice day to be at the parklands. Found the cache without any problem. Thanks WanderingAus

retro dip

Enjoyed the walk. Nice cache.

Visiting relatives in Perth, so did this cache very close to where they live. Found this cache in no time. Relatives also got hooked into this game. TFTC!

second find today. again with singaporegirl, nos fo sejtam and guests.

#3
Second 1 this am logged as guest with sejtam,tftc

A short stroll to Pa Stroopid walking around this one a few times as the GPSr was acting up. Good chance for Ma and Little Stroopid to stand in the shade and "help".

Retrieved regions coin
TNLNSL

TFTC
Cheers,
The Stroopids Step Out

Well I looked and looked and all I could find was an indentation in the grass close to Ground 0. Either its muggled or I have 3 blind eyes.

WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance run, all OK, dropped Regions of Germany GC (ref = TB14D6C), L new batch of Finders Cards.

Out showing Poppy Fitzy how to cache, this was his first find. He´s hooked i think now.
Took Car, Whistle and bratz pens. Left earings and a couple of bracelets.

SL TFTH

Getting used to the hides. A quick grab and off to the next one. TNLN SL TFTC

Again with the long grass. But I servived

Found ok at new co-ordinates.
TNLNSL
T4Th

Nice and easy. TNLN, thanks.

Back today with the right co-ords and found the cache at 1430hrs. A geo trail is forming already.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Yeah we found it.

GPS did not like the location kept on going crazy as well, must be all the trees.

Geokid found it and was very please with herself as its the first one she has found without assistance.

Thankyou for the lovly walk and a good time spent with Geokid.[:o)]

Unfortunately I had the old co-ords and I didn't extend the search out to 54.7 feet.

Gives me an excuse to come back again.

TFTH

Armed with assurances by Wanderings latest log it was indeed still around we decided to give our first DNF another crack, the needle was still jumping all over the place and telling us 7 meters that way---> but the trodden down grass was telling a different story...

Success at last.

Took: Small purple dino
Left: Bratz mini gel pens
SL

Thanks for all your wonderful Caches Wandering they are always fun and we are happy to cross this one off the list.

We were out today with the old co-ords so we failed on this one Thanks anyway
Zensunni ( Anne & Ken )

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 32° 05.089 E 115° 58.423
Distance From Old: 54.7 feet
WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance check after completing a 6 month trip Wandering Australia. Having seen the DNF by AlliedOz I swung by to check up on the cache and found everything in order, and GZ was spot on [^] .

Unfortunately as I extracted the container from beside the tree trunk I disturbed a swarm of bees in the fallen log beside it, causing me to drop it very close to them. I waited a few minutes for them to settle down, and carefully reached in to grab it, then backed out and retreated.

In the interests of cacher safety I relocated the cache to a nearby spot apparently devoid of bees.

After our fairly easy success at WanAus 17 we strode over here with all the confidence in the world, how wrong were we... About 20 minutes later with the light gone we decided to call our first miss.

A lot of very tall grass (now worse for wear from us 4 and one dog stomping about but I'm sure it will spring back quickly) and fading light as we arrived has softened the blow somewhat, but we'll be back.

Thanks for the fun of the hunt wandering.

Long search, actually two long searches but eventually found, very tough.

TFTC TNLN

Long grass to scary and then along came muggles on bikes, riding on the bike jumps.

Found on second attempt with updated co-ords.
TNLNSL
T4TC

Finally found the elusive B@#$%^d
I had looked for this once in it's original position and once in this location without luck.
This time I had the cache in hand within a minuite this time
Thanks WanderingAus for the challange and the hunt
TNLNSL

Congratulations to Clan Willow on their find, obviously it's still there[^], so it's now available again.

I'm 3250 CroKs East of the cache at present, with three DNFs I think it's time to disable.

If someone who has found the cache since I moved it on 4 Feb 08 can check on it and confirm whether it's there or not I will archive or enable as appropriate.

Thanks in advance, and Happy caching,
Keith (the Wandering part of WanderingAus)

From 3250 CroKs East of the Sunniest Place Down Under

Went looking but couldnt find the cache, but then again it was getting late in the day and looking in dark places under the trees as the sun goes down doesnt help.

DNL (Did Not Look) We intended to give this one a really good look because of the last two DNF but there were a bunch of kids playing at GZ seems that someone else will have to take care of it.

did alot of searching but every thing we looked under had no result execpt for a lost prince (a frog ) will try again soon
love the bunny`s