The Mud Pits Pinjar, Western Australia, Australia
By Creepy-Crawly on 02-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3MPJ5

Lucky I read the last post and checked other side of the gully

Coordinates are off its on the other side of the gully. Cache absolutely destroyed. I've put a temporary replacement in the same place. Follow felixII's coordinates to find. Photo of cache as it was found

One of the advantages of a serious 4WD is you can get close to spots and minimize walking. Container is damaged and log was wet. But an interesting spot. On we go.

I had to do a long trek here. Tough to find without reading prior info. Certainly this cache and log have seen better days. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC a tricky one but found good luck to everyone that try’s to find it

Found it after going through and getting another set on co-ords thank you

Trackable placed in cache

Eventually found the place on quiet day

Found

Found. Tftc

Lid was broken no water damage as of yet but container will need replacing asap before waterlogging occurs. Tried to cover it up as much as possible but didn't have a spare container handy to transfer contents over to.

Drove to with in 150m then walked the rest of the way. Took ages to find then used a previous finders co-ords to find the cache TFTC

Found

Thanks Creepy-Crawly for placing and maintaining this cache. Out and about with Barnzy12 getting a few smily faces.

Headed north of the river for today to collect a few caches that have been on the radar for some time.

Had an early start and did some recon for other forays into the area at a later stage.

A great day out with some nice sunshine and some good finds. Few dnfs and some precious dnfs cleaned up. All in a days work.

Thanks for the fun.

In April, when the sand was dry as a bone, we were out and about on a Saturday lunchtime and decided to call in here. For some reason we thought driving to the GZ would be a good idea. We got hopelessly bogged a few hundred metres away on the sandy track that approaches GZ from the south west. We were very fortunate that a guardian angel came along with all the gear to drag us out. We've been mentally scarred till now but today being a very similar Saturday lunchtime, we decided to have another go. This time we parked up and walked the last 400m in from the north - a much better idea! The sand would be a lot more friendly at the moment with a couple of months of rain on it, but we'll leave it to the experts. Quick find at GZ, TFTC!

We had a lot of fun getting to this one in the new car. Must remember to turn the traction control off though in the soft sand next time because we had a bit of an OH-OH moment while trying to turn around near GZ
The cache was found quickly, but had a cracked lid letting moisture in ... could do with a replacement sometime soon.
Thanks for the 4x4 fun and TFTC Creepy-Crawly [^]

Tftc

We headed out today with geopup for a day of 4WDing and caching, a nice easy find here TFTC

Tyfc

Took my baby Alto as far as it would go and walked the rest of the way. I would definitely recommend a 4wd but it is still do-able without one. Nice easy find at GZ with the clue. tftc!

We only had a 2wd, and found the drive to the nearest point really quite scary. Dead, burnt out cars to weave around and so much dumped rubbish scattered around, it looked worse than the tip. Was afraid that when we returned to the car after walking the rest of the way, the wheels and engine would be gone!! But...after a quick find at GZ (thanks to the hint) we got back to a complete vehicle. TFTC

What a bitch to find in all that open space. One hell of a walk if u don't have a 4WD like me. Watch out for the sand storms TFTC

Couldn't find this one

Took the i30 as far as I could and walked in the rest of the way. Plenty of people 4wding and dirt biking but not where we needed to be. Found in good condition by the eldest geokid. Tftc.

Thank you! Borrowed a 4WD and my nephews to travel on some unsealed roads, and this was the last one for the afternoon. With no experience driving on sand, and having borrowed the car I was driving, I decided to park the car off the nearest limestone track and walk the rest of the way in, though a couple of guys in a ute who drove the same track did ask if we were okay. Uses a previous log to shorten the time to find this one - the kids were tired and hungry.

Found

TFTC

Lots of muggles around but we were victorious in our find!

After doing a lap in a V8 super car at Barbagallos, I was doing a bit of caching in the area. Arrived here via Skink Road as I hadn't read the description and that was the way my GPSr guided me. Parked about 408 metres away and walked the sandy tracks into the cache to make a qick find. This does indeed look like a nice spot and it is a shame about the rubbish.

Cache is in good nick. SL. TNLN Thanks for the hide Creepy-Crawly

Co ords were slightly out but the clue helped . Thanks.

Found with fellow geocachers. Fun 4WDing area. Thanks.

Out 4WDing with CaVED this afternoon. Lots of soft sand to get through here but we eventually made it and found the cache quite easily in the end. Thanks for the cache Creepy-Crawly and for my first 4WD cache finding expedition.

TFTC. GPS was out by about 5 metres.

Out doing a bit of 4x4 caching, thought I'd give this one a go. Found fairly quickly TFTC

I parked on a limestone track about 400 mts north of GZ and walked in over the hill.
Searched some spots for nothing and started to get worried so I checked the hint. Lucky I did because I soon had the cache, GPS showing GZ 10 mts away.
Cache and log in good condition and dry.
An Interesting area but I don't get why people have to charge around in cars and on bikes making a whole load of noise and trying to blow up an engine.
TFTC.

Boy, this proved to be a real adventure. iluvtrekking picked us up while our Patrol was having a drawer system fitted in Carramar. We entered the plantation from Neaves Road and headed down a limestone track. Mr iluvtrekking in his eagerness, took a turn a bit too early and his Landcruiser ended up bogged in the soft sand. The two geo-hubbies had to dig us out and eventually we got back onto the firm limestone track. This time we headed along the track under the power lines after letting the tyres down and soon found ourselves at gz recording our visit. Thanks Creepy-Crawly for the fun.
Left: Our pathtag

Had fun getting to GZ. We had a temporary stop... nothing too serious... we were soon off again and made a quick find. Thanks Creepy-Crawly.

Out with the 4x4 this afternoon, doing a few of the offroad caches. Nice easy cache. Took the track opposite to Flynn rd out to the area.

Out for a father's day 4x4 trip with geo kids. Travel the tracks from Yanchep down to the mud pits, great fun don't know if the geo wife will like the new pin stripes on the car though. TFTC

Wow, you really took us to bogan territory! Rubbish, beer bottles, doughies. Not the nicest place but TFTC all the same!

Took Purple Pirate 57 on a 4wd lesson..AND SURVIVED....just.

Good work to PP57 and Creepy Crawly for the hide

Found while learning to 4wd with Balck Rat. did well on the way in. Tried to go east on way out and blackrat had to take over as I got us stuck

Left the blue comb

Found. Fanks!

First fine. yeh

I was able to drive to within 400m and walked in over the hill. With a non 4WD you can get in on Skink Rd thru the pines.

I didn't remove the frog.

Gave the zook a minor work out to get here. No one else around during the week. Co ords were about 10m out so needed clue to widen the search. Dropped off a GCA Moveable Cache thingy as well. Thanks for the cache Creepy-Crawly.

I knew Suzi would be handy one day!! Just a note: this 'farm' was an intensive piggery and owned by a Mr locakwood. I have never in my life, seen sows as big as the ones he kept. There was a beautiful duck swamp at the east end of the property, it is still there, we just can't see it!

After deciding my little Rio wouldn't handle the FWD track, I dragged my 4 and 7yo Geokids along the half km walk to the cache. Easy find for 7yo geokid. Took a couple of highlighters. Left a twist able pencil and an eraser behind. Then dragged my two tired whinging Geokids up the hill back to the car (last cache for the day).
You were right about the rubbish. Really quite disgraceful!

Decided to go out caching this morning, it poured with rain so this was the only cache I did. Rain everywhere made the track very tenuous. The actual Mud Pits, were a mud lake!. Found the cache after searching in the rain, signed the log and jumped back into the car to warm up.
Everytime I go caching were I get to put my car into '4WD mode', is a good day!
TFTC, I enjoyed this one.

Enjoyed walk along to the GZ... Wish I have a car 4WD but nah... Glad the weather isnt cold/rain Find the container and signed the log. Thanks Creepy-Crawly.

Quick find using Felix 11 's co ordinates. Had some fun 4WD driving in thru the sandy tracks. A lot of mud and water around this time of the year and plenty of motorbikes.
In all, an interesting cache to find, so thanks Creepy-Crawly

WOOHOO FTF. Nice quick find out here bit of a walk without 4WD. Co-odds are a little off. But still found hint is good. TFTC.

So after catching up with Snapper1head and The Machman at a nearby FTF cache Snapper1head mentioned he had earlier today found this cache.

Mrs Felix had been sorely tempted to head out today but was having a day off after 3 big days of caching. But when the other caches were released nearby she had jumped in the Geo Cruiser with every intention of continuing on to this one as so closeby.

Unfortunately the first cache we had tackled had taken away all the daylight and she wasn't too sure about heading out here in the dark. But with 2 'body guards' it didn't seem nearly as daunting.

So we continued on. After finally following a myriad of tracks we were within 100mts of the cache but somehow the Geo Cruiser had circumnavigated it? ( will have to put it in the shop to have it's compass, recalibrated?)

So out on foot at 65metres away. After Snapper1head filling his shoes up with sand, Mrs Felix tripping over a log in the middle of the track we finally arrived to sign the log.

Snapper1head suggested the co-ords might be a little out so took some, but not sure how good they are. Possibly check these ones? S31 40.903 E115 49.788

TFTC Creepy-Crawly

So after finding two other caches we headed over to this Cache in the FELIX Geo cruiser.

Er.. yes a 4WD was most certainly required, we followed the sandy flats until we were within 70 m of the Cache and then trudged the remaining distance by foot !!!

The cache was soon found a short distance from the posted coords.

Cheers to FELIX for driving us out to this one. It would of been a while for before I managed to get out to this one on foot !!!

Cheers to Creepy Crawly for placing the cache in such an unusual location.

Good fun.

MM

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