AP 203 C=C=C 03 Kelmscott, Western Australia, Australia
By Allied Pranksters Crew on 24-May-12. Waypoint GC3FAVV

Tried finding from both tracks. No luck finding from the top track, hunted all round where we coukd get to without being spiked by plants. We think we saw where it would likely be from the bottom track, but we didn't want to walk through the murky, smelly water to get there.

Well hidden even after all the rain

I attempted this cache more than 4 years ago with no luck and it was replaced by the cache owner soon after. I have always wanted to turn this blue face yellow and having another cache nearby with a DNF Simone and I tackled them both today. Thanks for the maintenance Barnzy.

Nice cache

Started searching through the prickly bushes. No success at first. But after widening my search.. I found the prize. TFTC

Enjoying a beautiful day for caching we stopped to grab this one. The cache was found straight away and we made our mark on your log book. We returned your cache to its hidey hole. TFTC Allied Pranksters Crew.

Such good views from here! We made a quick find as we keep going up! TYFTC APC.

Quite tricky find - TFTC.

About to quit .... one more sweep and boom..

Hint - you don't actually need to get all scratched up. You do leave the path, watch your feet, don't want to step on anything important

After the old cache at the top of the hill we figured the CCC would be an easier out leg and with a few caches along the way. Some easier that others. Interesting but of engineering but has a lot of silt in sections so suspected it needed regular cleaning. TFTC

Thanks

GPS was a little off, but that's understandable given this cache's history. I nearly thought I wasn't going to find this one after being sidetracked by what turned out to be rubbish in the bushes (removed). Finally located using my developing geo senses rather than my device, though. Thanks for placing and maintaining

Very thankful to find this one not in the overgrown bush where I first thought it was, TFTC!

TFTC. Found with Nude75cruiser

Great hide, thanks!

Only half of our team today!
A nice afternoon walk with my Son... I forgot how hilly this part of Kelmscott is!!
Our last of three caches today, just filling some gaps in from the area.
Thanks APC:)
TNLN

A great day for some exercise with the colivers but I can see a SCAN coming up in the not too distant future. TFTC Barnzy12 & Allied Pranksters Crew

what better way to spend a sunday than with some lovely company climbing a hill.
wonderful day out with geomother coliver66 & the lovely duo PP2.

had a some lovely views and some successful times finding these caches, signed log and returned.

TFTC ️ Barnzy 12 & Allied Pranksters Crew

So we were out with the amazing caching duo PP2 ,doing the C C C pipeline series. Geo daughter coliver95 and I have a fantastic time walking the trails with amazing company and getting a little bit of exercise
thanks for taking us along
signed log and returned
also thanks for the cache being put here and the upkeep
great day and we got home before it rained
Cheers
TFTC Barnzy 12 & Allied Pranksters Crew

Omg...found it! Tftc

Container replaced. Happy caching. Thanks for your patience.

This is the second time I’ve been here and not found it. Hopefully someone can come check soon

Didnt find ...

Micro in this area, get real!

Out caching with Lazarus_68 for the afternoon. We had a good look for the cache on the way up the hill but could not find the container. We decided to move on and complete our run up to the top of the hill and have another look on the way back. Again we were unsuccessful in our search. One of the nearby trees has been pushed over while maintaining the track. maybe the cache was at the base of the tree. We phoned the owner for a hint and ended up replacing the cache with consent from the owner.

Appears GZ compromised, large tree fallen, earth at base moved by dozer. Assumed gone and replaced with bison; given permission of adopted CO. Obviously would be nice for prior finder(s) to confirm if indeed gone.

Nice hide

This was our first cache of the day. We've been wanting to finish the start of the CCC since we started at 4,5 and 6. TFTC

Set out to complete the first 3 caches to the CCC series today and grab the others on the hill near home.
Absolutely beautiful morning, with wildflowers, butterflies, caterpillars and cocoons galore. TFTC!

Nice quick find TFTC

Found without trouble and glad to see a pencil in the cache which will be borrowed for a little while and returned on the way back. TFTC Allied Pranksters Crew and Barnzy12.

Quick find TFTH

We have't been caching for a few weeks and with the weather so nice we decided to get out and make a start on this series. As the weather is warming up (finally) we will have to retreat out of the bush and restrict caching to urban areas over the summer. Nice quick find third for the day. I don't think it was intentional but there is clue at the GZ. SL TFTC

Tftc

Found AP 203 C=C=C 03. TNLN SL TFTH Barnzy12.

Hi there Barnzy12 - The war office had given me supreme approval to head out for a days exercise so not being one to wait for a second suggestion I was off. First stop were the caches on Mt Vincent - I haven't been there for years, then to clean up a few DNF's from last year or so. This was our find number 3964 - SL.The container and log are both in good condition. Thanks to Barnzy12 for the cache.

Easy find

1st section of our caching adventure (team Krabiboy, fratra and me) and the 23rd find for the day. TFTC

tra logging coz fra is exhausted from his big day out with KrabiBoy and bigTcup while i was working and I also believed this was beyond my capabilities lol. Great day was had with 16kms and 20,000 steps clocked up. Thanks to all involved in placing and maintaining this series. Apologies for the c & p log.

23rd find of the day here.

I've been wanting to do this series for a long time, and after seeing some photos on the facebook page, decided to make it happen.

I teamed up with fratra and bigTcup to come and grab our smilies. We parked three cars along the way to make things easier and set off from #23.

Thanks for replacing this one jinta29 and team.

TFTC Barnzy12.

Barnzy12, I found your cache AP 203 C=C=C 03 on 18/04/2016 at 10:04 AM.
This is my find #2500 and find #23 today.

SpatialRiq, Jinta29 and I made plans to tackle this series before the rumors we hard came true that it maybe archived (1 year later logging them it turned out not to happen)

I don’t know what I was really expecting but it was not the variety of terrain and how long the day was from start to finish.

Walking the pipe covered all results, from completely clear and low to the ground to so high up a fall may hurt or at least put you on the ground with no way back up, overgrown drains that saw us on our knees crawling (well me anyway) to walking on the edge of steep slopes as the bush was too thick to push through.

Verdict: Freaking amazing! What a blast !

Forgive the generic log, I have since lost any trail notes that I did take as it is now just under a year ago (359 days) since I had the adventure.

TFTC
AlliedOz aka The Jokers

Replaced this one and put at the base of a tree where our GZ was pointing

After a bit of talk about this series on Facebook a couple of weeks ago AlliedOz, SpatialRiq and I hatched a plan to head off and grab these smileys We grabbed all of the active caches in the series and a couple of others nearby . A great day out and I can thoroughly recommend it as a WA must do series. A 7.5 hour epic that will have us bragging for some time to come!

Barnzy12 - jinta29 found your cache AP 203 C=C=C 03 on 8/04/2016, 6:26 PM. This is my find #5147 and find #21 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Have you logged your WILL ATTEND for WA GOES BIG in 2016[?]
I have and am looking forward to seeing lots of other cachers in Pinjarra on the WA Day long weekend.
Log your will attend at GC5YAGP!

Organised to tackle this series a few weeks back with Jinta29 and AlliedOz, so with much excitement we met up around 7:30am and got underway.

Did #23 to #1 plus several nearby caches, then after lunch headed South picking up a couple in Roleystone then did the remaining #29 to #40.

Great weather, great company and truly a great series that has it all. Stunning views, some challenging terrain and we learn a bit of history. Yet another part of Perth that, if it weren't for geocaching, I would have never know about or seen.

25th find of the day. Ended up with 52 finds all up. TFTC.

AP 203 C=C=C 03 was transferred from Allied Pranksters to user Barnzy12

Logged by permission from the CO despite not signing the log. As this one was deemed to be legitimately missing and I physically walked to GZ and searched for the cache the owner has generously offered me to log this as "found".

An enjoyable walk in this section of the channel. Thanks for the cache Barnzy12!

I was keen to head out to the C=C=C series this weekend and try to knock them all off. After finding #1 and 2 a few months back I decided to tackle the rest in sections. I parked the car at the gate on Turner Rd, and walked up to start #6 and work my way back to here.

Unfortunately I couldn't find this one despite searching high and low.

I suspect that his one may be gone, but while there I decided to look for it on the way back. Unfortunately I hurt my back further along and was unable to divert to it. It has been over 12 months since a find and 'recent work' on the track above may have covered it up.

Golly down hill from The Top of the Hiill cache was treacherous but no falls so yay another smilie for us tftc

Awesome thank you

TFHTC

The dog and the family loved the walk to find some in this series. A great way to spend a couple of hours.

Crazy place to bring the dog for a walk and I wouldn't have done it if there were not a few caches to find. Glad I came though.

TFTC! Out with Numbers Man to complete a small stretch of the CCC series. Weather was perfect for this morning section which we completed in two hours with a total of 7 finds and 5 DNFs. Thanks AP

We replaced the MandM tube here with a 200ml sistema painted black and dried out the wet log.

A lovely morning for a walk in the hills. I did a couple of this series last year and am back to grab a few more. I almost gave up on this one but as I was walking away I read the previous logs and realised the GPS had me looking in the wrong spot. I turned around and went back and found it almost right away.
TFTC Allied Pranksters

Came up to see if I could track down some birds, a couple of C=C=C's and grab the one on Top-O-the Hill. Myself and the geodog Charli enjoyed the walk even if there were some extra serious ups and downs.

Made this one a bit harder than it should have been, got back up on the track and spotted it. The log was pretty hard to get out though, I managed to push it right in when I first tried to get it out.

SLTFTC

Easy find tftc

Got my geo boy and a friend together and headed to the start of this great series after months of longing to... So glad we did and the views are amazing. I encourage anyone thinking about this to just do it and you will enjoy and love it as much as us, can't wait to get back up there and find some more.
TFTC got a few scratches when i didn't need to hehe LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!

The boys were following their GPSr's into the scrub to search for this one, while i decided to check a spot along side the track. Turns out i was right, and we quickly added our names before rehiding it a little better so as not to be seen by passerby's. TFTC AP

This trip had been on the radar for some time.
Ooh-Yeh and and I had a false start a few months ago when the weather was against us. Now there was Jasenjanine, Ooh-Yeh, and myself set to make the journey.
The weather was "PERFECT" , and I mean ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. No rain for a couple of days. The meant for dry scrub, and dry pipe. And a pefect strike rate for our finds today
We headed off at 7.20 in the morning, and started at number 40.
Many yarns and stories shared along the way with only one minor spill on the pipe.
A fantsastic day out which I strongly reccomend to all.
We were fortunate enough to have the CO drop us at the start, and run us between the middle section. Thanks so much for this.

Ooh-Yeh and I were ready to head down when Jasenjanine said "Ill look here". A second later it was "Got It". Lucky, it looked very uninviting where we were going to go.

Thanks for a fantastic series Allied Pranksters,

Kyzabra and I had made a plan last September 2013 to tackle this series and at that time the heavens had opened up and dumped its load so it was then into recon mode to scope out how to tackle this one and grab a few close ones while waiting for the rain to stop .
We then spoke to the CO who kindly offered to pick us up drop us of at the given points just needed our dates to line up .
Well today was our day and the team was put together Kyzabra , Jasenjanine and myself armed with all the necessary requirements for a full day out the weather was at its best not a cloud in the sky. We arrived at the CO house early who kindly dropped us off at the starting point and collect us at the next point which was great as there is no real parking close by.
The views are incredible with the day being so perfect which made up for all the prickle bushes ,scratches and sore limbs that was accrued though out the day
We walked on top of the pipe and in the col-vent the whole way, only one slip on the pipe by Jase whilst trying to grab something on his way down was a blackberry bush all I can say was OUCH but alas no injury .
Many stories were told as we made away along the pipe and the caches were come up very quick just needed the time to find them some were quick a couple had us scratching our heads as three GPS's would not settle and giving out mixed readings but in the end all were found log signed and maintenance completed .
Thanks for the series AP

After slicing our legs to shreds in the spikey bushes, we gave up, and of course found it immediately! Thanks

Quick find, went into the prickles only to be disappointed when we found in another spot
Thanks for the cache

Out with mudbuzzie this morning. This was our first CCC find, we have been planning on doing the series for some time but managed to do the first three today along with some ants and birds. We will be back for the rest another day, preferably when it is a bit cooler. Thanks for the Cache Allied Pranksters

Not so pleasant. If this is the one I think it is, the GPS kept insisting it was in the very prickly scratch scrub.

So I thought that today would be the perfect day to tackle the C=C=C 01-23 series of caches with fine weather forecast. But this day had everything - completely clear skies, full sun and then dark clouds followed by torrential showers! But I didn't think that rain was forecast? This was a great adventure. I saw scores of kangaroos, a gazillion biting ants, many beautiful butterflies, one dugite snake, one bobtail lizard and one freshly dead dog. The bush is super thick right now making it very hard to trek along some parts. Miraculously, I managed to find 23 out of 23 of this series that I attempted! Looking forward to returning to Roleystone to continue the journey soon. TFTC Allied Pranksters

Been thinking about doing the C-C-C series for a while and thought it would be good to do it with dad (froggy1948) since he had worked on this channel back in his hey day.

We parked near #1 and headed towards Canning Mills road collecting the caches as we went for our first section. It was a nice clear cool day and the views of the city at the start are great. Flowers are out in full at this time of year. Got some nice stories from dad about the channel as we went too. Found dad's first evidence of work on the channel near cache #6 (didn't find that cache today tho!). Forgot to take a pic of it too, so will be back to find #6 and take a photo We made it to Canning Mills road 2.5 hours later with cache #13 in hand and glad to finish that section of the trek.

With a little bit of energy left in us we thought we can do another section and take advantage of a cool day. We drove to Contour Rd and headed towards Canning Mills again. Boy did this second section take some work. When AP mentioned "If you like thick bush, steep hills, balancing on a pipe, great views, ... , ants that attack if you stand still" then this is the bit he was talking about. Cache 23 to 20 is very hilly, Between Cache 20 and 16 we were covered in ants. and many times you have to fight the over grown prickly bush trying to stick to some kind of path. By the time we got to #14 near Canning Mills we were stuffed.

Thouroughly enjoyed today's outing and looking forward to the next lot closer to Canning Dam. A great effort AP for putting these caches out.

TFTHs

yes found it

I laughed when ITS found it as ITS was resting my arm on it for support while scratching around in the leaves.

Back onto this series after a quick diversion to "Top O the hill" nearby.
This was an eeezy find, nearly jumped out at me.
TFTC Pranksters.

Lost pencil, could not sign log

Nice scenic route along the hills to this spot.

Another great cache. There are some really interesting views between 202 and this one. TFTC

Quick find on a great day for caching in the bush

[:(!] After picking up the geocar that had been in for a service so I had the afternoon free to do some caching, parked the geocar as close as possible to 3M30A (AP 206 C=C=C 06) and walked in from there, on arrived at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter of minutes.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH Allied Pranksters.

Got em on ya geo son

it was a great day outside and Itskate and i decided to go for a little bush walk, well i was a little perswasive
we had a great day out and Kate slept on the way home.
TFTH TFTC

One of the 24 caches we found today whilst walking the c =c= c trail between Contour Road and Mills Road.

Thanks for the caches and a chance to wander down memory lane - this was my childhood playground in the 1960's and 70's

Another quick find here, and had a bit a chuckle when I found it ... cute hide in plain view! After doing this one, I took a right turn a few metres along the track and did a bit of a circuit picking up some caches that are not part of this series before doing 1 & 2 on the return journey. SL. TNLN. TFTH Allied Pranksters

Did 10km of my 12km jog. [:(!] Found the cache exactly where the GPS said it would be, but struggled, big time, at 06. Managed to jar my ankle going for 02. But had a great time getting the ones I did. [^] A bit hot to start with, but eventually cooled down after I left 06. Wife picked me up for the last 2km, as the ankle was not good. [B)]. Thanks Allied Pranksters, I will get 06 at a later date.

Quick and easy, lovely spot. TFTC

Finally had a chance to tackle the first leg of this series today after looking at it longingly for months but being unwilling to go by myself. I'm in awe of the work which must have gone into creating this series. I brought along two geo-newbies, they signed the logs in preparation for registering tonight.

Another quick find. The straightforward hides on the start of this journey are not what I'm used to from the AP but very much appreciated!

TFTS AP

Out to finish the pipe series with SPN WRC today.
Couldn't ask for better weather today after the disaster of the other week.
Good chance today to sit back and appreciated the engineering marvel of this pipe.
No problems finding the remaining caches.
Thanks again to Allied Pranksters for bringing us to this little unknown piece of history..
TFTC

Out on a mission to finish the pipe line hike with AndrewSWRT. Much better weather today, and a much easier route than last weeks trip. No problems finding the remaining caches. Thanks for a great series put together.

TFTC

Teamed up with Mr ILuvTrekking and Mr Richlink for another geocaching day. Mrs ILuvTrekking and Mrs Richlink dropped us off at the beginning of the series. The view from the hills were fantastic and we had prefect whether to conquer this series- not too hot and plenty of challenges along the way. Some of the floral was starting to bloom and we enjoyed the colours of the flowers.

I had a few spills and falls along the way that had me breathless at times and a few war wounds to share with others.

I throughly enjoyed myself! Thank you Mr. Richlink and MR. ILuvTrekking for this another great Geo caching day and thank you Allied Prankster for the great series.

Mrs iluvtrekking and I transported our two men and Mr Jacobscrew to the starting point of the series at 0830. We had arranged to meet them after they completed #23 to join them for lunch and to top up their water and snack supplies for the remainder of the trek. The series started off easily enough for the first half dozen caches then gradually the terrain increased in difficulty requiring the negotiating of the pipeline itself, while clambering over trees that had fallen across the pipeline and the concrete supports.
At #19 while two of the cachers were at ground level they came in contact with a very nervous dugite, with the third cacher scrambling out of its way by climbing the nearest tree! Back on the pipeline the guys had thoughts of boots with magnets in the soles coming in handy and wondering if these were going to be the next addtion to the caching gear. Well the magnetic boots would have come in handy to save Mr Jacobscew losing his footing and slipping from the pipeline at #22. iluvtrekking and richlink watched aghast and expected the worst but were relieved to see him land on his back with his backpack as protection, between two large rocks instead of splayed across them. After getting his breathe back, shaking off the bruised hip and wrenched ankle, it was back to the rest of the series. After replenishing their reserves with a well earned lunch break the three were determined to continue the series and knocked back our offer of a ride to #24. Although they thought they were past the worst of the terrain they were to later realise there was much more in store for them. A very pleasant surprise was picking up a joint FTF at #33 which gave them the incentive to surge onward to complete the final 7 caches in the series. Not one DNF!!
The guys did a fabulous job of completing all 40 caches in extreme terrain within 9 hours and they have no doubt it was their combined team work that got them through.
Thanks Allied Pranksters for another excellent series, apologies for the repeated log. Now, what have you got for them next?!!

Mr iluvtrekking joined forces with Mr richlink and Mr JacobsCrew to conquer this wonderful series. It was not without incident and excitement but they completed the entire series without a DNF or serious injury, although Mr JacobsCrew may take issue with that. Thanks Allied Prankters, a great series, the men will be talking about this day for a long time to come.

Out today with the Geoson and introducing two friends to Geocaching. Loved this series and recommend doing the walk. Just make sure you have good shoes, long strides, and plenty of water.... Watch the ants in a few spots, they attack in the millions... We started from Mills Rd East and headed to Roleystone, The last part was the hardest with the legs starting to slow up a bit..... Thanks very much for the series, great to enjoy a bit of history...

This was a slightly different hide, but a goodie. Starting to get a bit weary now, so looking forward to the end of this section. Log signed, replaced, and onto #4.
Thanks for the cache Allied Pranksters.

Out and about with trevkevred on a beautiful sunday morning to find some ccc's and some birds. And this was also an easy find ...secretly starting to worry...


TFTH

Out with Me&B caching for the day. Another easy find, it's got to be too good to be true knowing what the pranksters are like. TFTH

Nice easy find here on a beautiful day tftf

Damn there are some great tracks I want to tackle tftc

Out and about with Keego hunting C=C=C and Birds. Not wishing to jump in at the deep end I started with the easier ones I hope. Followed the track alongside the contour channel from 01 to 05 and made deviation to grab the caches. From 05 to 06 it was downhill in a big way but there was a nice big pipe to walk on. Took little steps as the morning dew was still on the pipe and we did not want to take a swan dive into the rocks and bush. After finding 06 and with no more time available we started back up the pipe to the track.

Most enjoyable morning walk we Keego in our beautiful Darling Range.

Thanks Allied Pranksters Crew.

Lovely walk. TFTC.

Another quick find were stopping here for a break and enjoying the views when Blob and Bindle came along, we had a chat and they gave us the heads up on what was ahead if we took the dogs with us, one dog weighs 40kilos so no chance of carrying her along the pipe line. Thanks for this series so far so good

Bindel_ texted me last night asking if I was interested in doing some of this series 23 to 1. We picked some others up along the way. We were dropped off with bindel_'s car waiting for us at the other end.

Arrived at this cache with bindel_ taking a rest. Some muggles were watching us. We found the cache an replaced it and walking past them like I thought NOT muggles but other cachers nice to put faces to names.

Thanks for an awesome series

Needed some fresh air and sunshine and wanted to get my heart rate up a bit - this looked like the perfect series! Blob was keen to be my companion for the day. 23 to 1 was all I was keen to tackle in my current condition. We dropped my car at the Mills Rd truck arrester bed and my brother kindly gave us a lift to Contour Rd.

I came to GZ alone as blob was behind at the last cache. There were what appeared to be 2 muggles and 2 dogs having a picnic enjoying the view not far from GZ. I waited for blob before commencing our search - blob was sure these people were not muggles, when we found the log recently signed 'the dogs and us' we knew blobs hunch was correct. Had a nice chat on our way to find the final couple of caches.

Our GPS was a little out on this one, but a bit of geocache knowledge helped us out on this one.

HMM!! This one took a bit longer as GPS wouldn't settle, but got it in the end!!

“Thick bush, steep hills, balancing on a pipe, great views, getting wet and cold, ants that attack” - with a sales pitch like this how could I resist attempting this series. It would be too easy to drive and attack it in sections so I decided I would attempt to do the whole series on foot in one day. I dropped a car at the arrester bed on Mills Rd then got my better half to drop me off at the end of the series at Canning Dam. I set off at around 9:30am and a few minutes later had the first cache in hand, not only that it had a nice blank logbook. My run of FTF’s continued until C=C=C 36 when AusTrackers came to the cache from the other direction. Always nice to meet other cachers and put a face to a name. They found the cache but graciously shared the FTF honours. They warned me that the going from this point on was more difficult and off I went. Met Chwiliwr not long after and after a brief greeting carried on. Soon afterwards I made a small diversion (small in distance not in effort!) to pick up the cache Jurassic Jaunt. When I got to Croyden Rd I wasn’t sure if I’d still be able to follow the channel/pipe due to private property so decided to follow the road to the next cache. A bit of a dull slog and then I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get to #27 without a big circuit walk. Thankfully when I was only a couple of hundred metres from the cache one of the residents were working in their front yard so I got permission to cut across their property to access the cache. I had planned to follow the pipe from here but the veg was too thick so I cut back down to Croyden Rd (and lost my sunnies in the process!). the three caches west of the Brookton Hwy went well but then again I wasn’t sure if I could get through so backtracked to the Brookton Hwy and followed the roads before picking up the channel again at #23. The next section was my favourite for the day (even the hill up to what I think was #21). All went well until the final few caches when I had a couple of DNF’s – a bit disappointing as I had hoped to complete the series. Found the final cache at 4:30pm on the dot. A good series (apart from the Croyden Rd bit). Most coords good or if not caches were in obvious spots for the most part. Certainly an enjoyable walk.

Came down with KB to attempt series from #27 to #1.....drove up to #27, then did 26 to 24 walked back to car, then drove to contour rd to walk rest of the series.
As we pulled up to GZ we could see a 4wheel drive on side of road and by the time we walked up to GZ we met up with James of jacaro44.....had a chat, found cache and decided to join up for rest of trek
The next section from #23 to #13 was definitely my favourite....the memory of turning around to see KB and James trudging up the pipe behind me is one that will stay with me for a long time.
KB and I were a bit tentative on pipes at first, but soon realised it was the most efficient way to move and by the time we finished we were bounding along like mountain goats.
Thanks Allied Pranksters this is what caching is about.... adventure, exercise and good company (and lots of smileys)....and a heartfelt thank you to the better looking half of jacaro44 for giving us a lift back to KB's car.