The Swan Shoalwater, Western Australia, Australia
By Dharma Team on 12-Jul-08. Waypoint GC1E3G9

As there's been no cache to find or log to sign for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Cach auf der Heimfahrt von der Landesverbandsmeisteschaft in Ingelheim nach Duisburg um 14.35 Uhr schnell gefunden und geloggt, mußten nur einige meter zurücklaufen, waren leider bis ende Parkplatz gefahren.
TFTC sagen HDF54

Sorry to all whom have attempted this cache and unable to find, we will replace asap.

no luck with this one, maybe next time

This appears may be missing. Can you please organise to check on it.

Decided to walk up to this Cache from another nearby, despite the recent DNF's.

Had a courtesy hunt round, nothing in any obvious spots so moved on.

No luck finding a cache but lots of graffiti. If it's there it's not in any of the obvious places. Thanks anyway. Enjoyed the walk from Lake Richmond Lookout

A team of us searched the area but had no luck with this one.....
Thanks anyway,
TCC

No joy today. Gave up so Joker and Jack cards could play in the park. Tried one more time with no luck. We will keep checking msgs to see if anyone dose find it.

We searched and searched. Had a nice chat with a dog walker and we told him about geocaching and he told us about the wildlife and the 'low life kids' who keep killing them. We then searched again but still didn't find it. Hope it is still there as it seems a long time since the last find. Enjoyable hour though.

Found in the dusk. Took the Salmon TB. Easy find. TFTH

I tried to find this cache once before, unsuccessfully. Today it was in my hands within less than a minute of arriving at GZ. Either the cache has moved, or my GPS was really really having an off day the last time I came here, because it had me searching in the vegetation about 10-15m away last time. This time the GPS pointed me directly at a very obvious location, and that's where the cache was, an easy find.

So, I'm happy to tick this one off my 'beaten me' list!

I left the Migrating salmon TB here. Thanks for the cache Dharma Team!

Quick and easy find... Spotted it from a fair distance :

We walked straight past this one as I was paying too much attention watching the wildlife and not enough on the GPS. Quick and easy find when we were in the right place. TNLN TFTC

Nice easy find, the kids enjoyed this one
Thanks

great find! good size too, which was even more humiliating for me when i passed its position several times!
my gps went a little haywire when i tried to park at the given locations though - made me walk around in loops when i tried to find GZ. after an hour of frustration i punched the number of the house closest to GZ - along richmond road - and this made finding GZ a hell of a lot easier. if you are having same problems as me, try it.
logged visit, placed a silicone wristband inside, took the finn keyring - which look really nice might i say!
TFTH

Nice sized cache. Makes a great change to all the micros and nanos. TFTC.

This entry was edited by lilla07 on Sunday, 14 November 2010 at 07:45:01.

Second attempt for the Cat Jones team, found it this time by following the directions rather than blundering blindly. Took a canine companion, left a 'Fin Key Ring'. TFTH

day out with geo family

Found this 1 while local muggles catching tadpole, we should them the box and explain what we were doing and muggle kid was happy to swap his stamp in the cache. TFTC

Dragged the boyfriend along with me, his first find. Thanks

Nice find!

Easy find, nice big cache. Took penguin, left Rubiks Cube. Thanks.

We found the cache very easily. What a wonderful spot. We had to wonder what some people were fishing for in the lake?

It seems that the swan has gone missing, Apologies to all that have attempted to access the hatch, It seem the others have made it before you. We will get to site soom and check the situation, Sit Tight!

Found where it should have been????? Will be back if this one gets fixed........

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 32° 17.414 E 115° 43.075
Distance From Old: 36.9 feet or 11.2 meters.
The Swan is back, moved slightly

It's back

Sorry guys, but bad news.

Dropped by today on the way home from work. Not sure what happenned - either Desmond didn't push the button or the Others found it. Either way, the Swan isn't there any more - at least, it's not where I found it. Or, maybe, Ben moved the Island!!

Cheers,
Trev

Trudged around a bit but no luck. Lots of good hiding spots. Will try again if it is confirmed to be there again.

Donut#2 and I headed out to Rockingham early this morning, avoiding the City to Surf traffic, and finally getting to an area I hadn't yet touched. We had a look around and poked in the bushes a bit but came up empty handed...

Out of our 13 attempted caches, this was the only one that wot and I were unable to find tonight.
Perhaps it would be easier to find in the daylight and when it's less wet.
Spent probably 20 minutes or so crawling around the bushes, but still came up empty handed. I found a frog though, does that count?
We'll be back again sometime!

We searched around and still could not find the cache, think we were in the right location but no luck.

No fridge magnets in sight. Wrote down the numbers and symbols just in case I need them for the future. Muggles around so had to have good stealth as squatting in the bushes looks prettty wierd! especially with 3 geodogs and no look out. TNLN TFTF

I've lived in Rockingham since 1977. This area was all bush back then. I had no idea these trails were here! On the way back home from our coastal ride to Rockingham, we cut through to Safety Bay from Palm Beach. We took a while to find the path in, but once there it didn't take long for my wife to find it. She thought I was a bit strange when I told her about geocaching - now she thinks it's brilliant, and I probably won't be allowed to go hunting without her! Tiny Trev left the Ben 10 monster he collected from Shag a Seal, and took a Kung Fu Panda bracelet. TFTH.

Found today after it had bucketed down, all the nature reserve being rather dripping wet had us wet at the end of the search, we had a laugh at our situation, caching in the rain!! Nice to see the hovea coming out in flower. TFTC

The walk was stunning until the rain came dowm on us and we were wet and cold!! TFTC

hrmmmmm

Wasn't sure if the Swan would still be there after all the shifting around of the Island.
We went cautiously into the Hostiles territory and found Station 3.
Couldn't see QUARANTINE written anywhere, so proceded furthur.
Signed the notebook from the Pearl Station and those numbers were plagging me again (I know that they mean no good is going to come of all this) but at least I am not one of the Candidates.
Didn't come across any of the Others as we were heading out, but heard noises in the distance - hopefully just birds and not The Black Smoke.

Thanks for the hunt and the great idea. Shame it has all ended now.

After a bit of a circle around the actual spot I eventually found the cache.

Thanks for the hunt.

found the hatch, but couldn't find a button to push

Cache was open and a new home to a cockroach, but i evicted him...

TFTH

Thanks for the cache, the little bloke can't get over the idea of a motorcycle frog

Perth 10.18. A great wet land walk, a few people around but no problems at GZ. Thanks.

3559.268 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Flying Skull A#121

Albida

Found with Devar. Took my dog for a walk and found the cache. TY. <3

Found with nikitak. Walked in the long way to get it. Thanks for the cache!

Thanks to Dharma team for this one. Right where they said it would be. Muggles and muggle-pooch stumbled upon us while we signed the log--think I startled the dog as much as he me!!! I think they though I was crouched attending to "business". Good cover!!!! Lovely walk around Lake Richmond not to be missed.

I found this one! Was very happy to find this one and show Lee (the other member of Computerwizards1) I could find a geocache! Great little find! Had to hide in the bushes from the muggles...thats when we found it! TFTF

Found it with pinjies today, had previously logged a DNF, so was glad to tick it off the list.
TNLN, SL, Left TB

Found with the gum nuts. Thank you x

Found by Dean

Nice spot, drove past plenty of times but never walked in before, easy find.
TFTC SL

Only a few muggles and no snakes made this an easy cache.
TNLN
TFTC

FlyingPigSquadron has landed!
Pity a potentially lovely area has been used for dumping so much rubbish TFTC&H Dharma Team

Great spot and a nice little trek to the location for the Stallion and his missus.
Nice and easy to find.
TNLNTFTH!

wow ... can't believe there is such wonderful bush land and walking trails so close to home. TFTH TSLS SL

well worn track made for a quick find...TFTC

Liz & Bruce helped me find this one.

Found the cache after a long scout through thick vegetation, great hunt TFTC TNLN.

2nd time around but we found it with coryha. It is actually fairly easy to find if you have a little think about it like we did after an hour of searching!!

A tip though, the yellow plastic bags with stuff in them are NOT the cache, they are from lazy people and their dogs.

TNLN, SL. TFTC

found with the help of the wileyclan.tnln tftc

A nice morning walk. We passed lots of folks with dogs n the main walk but no one turned off near us so we had the cache zone to ourselves. Thanks.

tried for a while. couldnt find. ran out of time. be back soon for another try

my 1st cache hunt in the west while visiting family from the east . had just given the geo rellies the speel, found geo sis very interested so we tapped in the postcode,this one was only a short stroll away so off we went. pretty sure we had the right spot, trails leading in at co-ords and all but despite a few of us looking for a fair while we couldn't nail it. very dissapointing for geo sis on her 1st time out but fortunately success was had at the next cache site. will keep track of the logs for this one and will send geo sis back in when next discovered. cheers

Arrived near where we thnk cache is but as Geo_dad was walking through the scrub he spotted something that looked suspiciously like a snake. Abort was called with a view for returning another day

Been a while since I visited this last! I typed in the numbers but all it came up with was hieroglyphs and SYSTEM FAILURE. Better get Desmond.

A nice stroll for lunch and the cache was soon to hand, SL TNLN TFTH

Very nice area to walk or run! Left snake and took Team Firesafe Geocoin #51

Excellent location, tried to find it, but no luck, loads of Muggles around, will have to go back and try again.

Took me awhile but finally found
TFTN
Took travel Frog Left GC

found it with rifus

Great stash and some cool things to look at inside.

Nice scenery round the lake. Interrupted by dog walkers, but straitforward find by the redback. Found with redback6665. TNLN TFTC SBs

Found with Stoke Bunnies. My first find!! Thanks for the cache. LNTN.

1596 - Work trip to WA with some time for caching....

This was a dash for cache - it was pouring and I was lucky to make a quick find in the area...

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Blade 05 with daughter have spent the w/end goecaching great fun
this one took awhile as the under growth was thick few muggles came
pass so took photos of the surrounding and went in for the find left keyring card $50 note lol
TNLS SL TFTC

Found this one with my dad blade05
We searched for a while. I finally found it, just as muggles walked passed, i got asked what i was doing, i said "just photographing" dad chuckled and said "wheres ur camera then" lucky the muggles had passed and didnt hear him.(d'oh camera was in backpack not around my neck") lol
TFTC SL Lovely spot too

Found GZ easy enough, lots of winter growth & lost the daylight. will try again

Nice and easy find. Got sprung by a muggle though, who was obviously curious, what a lady does, hunched down under the bushes off the track...
Gave him a smile and he mumbled to himself and walked off. Hope he won't come back to sniff around! Cache is in good order, although the outer cover is pretty wet, the inside is dry.
TNLN, saw a beautiful spot, right behind the caravanpark we had so often been to!
TFTC

First attempt at caching. Didn't find the cache :~(

It took us a while but just as Mama Skull admitted defeat Skull Bro called out, Victory! It is a very neatly kept cache. Enjoyed the hunt.
Took: Magnet and rubber.
Left: Four magnets.
SL TFTC

a pleasant walk on a glorious winters day took us to gz where we discovered several discarded bags of doggy doo doo before we found the cache. did a bit of cito to aid the environment.

tnln tfth

grabbed joker tb

Can't say we enjoyed the walk to GZ as it was blowing a gale today and we got soaked running back to our car.
Left: Geocoin

Thanks fo the hunt

A lovely little walk to find cache. A lot of muggle activity around late in the afternoon. TFTC SL TNLN

A bit problem with finding to park, I didn't use waypoint but Naviman, not very helpful but finally found a spot to park and had a nice stroll towards the cache. Took a coin. No swaps. Thanks Dharma Team for organising the cache.

Very interesting cache, well some of the contents are. Loved the magnets. I still find it amazing that if you sit quietly in the bush no one seems to notice you.

Dropped off Mischiefs Celtic Peacock geocoin.
Dipped my Brahean geocoin in for a visit.

Thanks for the cache

Struggled a little as to where to park the car butfound the cache right on sunset...lovely walk...Well hidden

Nice walk from home. Thanks

Thanks for the cache. There are quite a few gems around aperth like this little lake. TFTC. We'd also like to thanks "Liz and Bruce" for the Travel Bug. We have followed Liz and Bruce all the way over here from the east and found they have visited most places we go plus no doubt a lot more!

Nice walk. Left tb. Thanks Dharma Team

nice walk
easy find
TFTC
4th of my western australian cache-a-thon

Nice little walk, we did the round trip on a lovely Sunday afternoon. Good to see there is quite a lot of water in the lake and lots of wildlife.

TNLN
TFTH

We really enjoyed the area, after the cache we went down to the lakes edge, there were so many small fish in one area that when we spooked them they jumped out of the water and landed on the grassy bank only to flip flop around a bit and back into the water! The kids (big ones included) thought this was the best thing since sliced bread.

TFTC! love the theme

AlliedOz
aka The Jokers

ok, this was way out of my comfort zone. I am so scared of snakes that about 10 min of bush bashing did me in. These 'purple flowers' are wild geraniums and leave a real great smell once trampled. I had 14 satellites so my degree of accuracy was pretty good, just couldn't find it in all the vegetation. Maybe next time.

Easy find. Lov the area, nice walk.

found . a great view of the lake from the lookout.plenty of fish and even saw a couple of long neck tortoises in the drain

First cache in OZ. Took 2 Oz penny left Canadian penny & dime. Mission Accomplished!

Interesting area, worth the visit. Pelicans on the lake, fish in the drain.

Found ok.
Took toy fish
Left body lotion and Hungry Jack toy.
T4TH

Nice area. TFTH. TNLN. Remember lost series 5 should be available this week in the USA! What exactly is the dharma initiative i wonder?