TD 014 - Camel facts #5 Arumbera, Northern Territory, Australia
By The Drovers on 09-Jun-14. Waypoint GC56K4P

Time for all but one of this series to be archived.

Sorry I climbed up the pole & found nothing, looked in trees & fence as well in case GPS was out. No smiles today. TFTC

Read activity, said it was way up the pole on the outside, unless I'm blind it's not there now

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache, the 8186 had its challenges, thanks for placing it

Difficult

Sandymay27, Craig and 2
Nice easy find
TFTC

Quick find here. TFTC

I was about to give up on this one when I finally looked way up the pole on the outside and there it was. I suspect this probably wasn’t where the original cacher placed it. After a bit of a climb, the cache was in hand and relocated to a slightly lower position on the inside of the pole. T4TC

(Found it using a different account)

Done

Easy find

Easy find

Good find

Tftc

Thanks The Drovers for the cache. It’s #1637 for us. We found your cache on 26 August 2022. Quick find - Thanks

Thankyou for the cache!!

Hi nice hide

Nice

On a trip around oz with the family, grabbing dinner caches as I go! Nice quick find here, tftc!

Easy find tftc

Found

All the caches in this section, I am grateful that there were driving tracks. When first looking at the map, I thought I might have had to walk it.

Took a little while to spot this one.

Tftc

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found the " cleaner " spot where the cache was. round circle where there wasn'r as much rust. the floods have washed this one away. replaced container.

Mogni and myself went to the Northern Territory for a 10 day holiday. We drove 5478 km's in those 10 days. The plan was to go up the Sturt highway and then go via Ayers Rock, King's Canyon and then through to Alice Springs stopping at the gorges/chasm/gaps along the way. As you can expect nothing goes to plan. Day 1 Adelaide to Cooper Pedy, made it just before the Roxby Downs turn off and blow the side wall on the tire of the 4x4, 193 km detour just to get a tire and even then it was the second tire place that had the tire the correct size. We had camels come in to the campsite in Erldunda Roadhouse, they even left hoof prints 1/2 a foot from the tent, at King's Canyon we had dingo's come through the camp ground both nights we where there and at Alice springs we had a mouse move in under the tent in their campground. Some of the aboriginal towns we passed where in lock down because of covid 19 so no going in to get fuel there, that changed some plans. The floods where way worse up in Northern Territory than i realized. Some creeks/rivers i could see the debris over 2 meters from the river bed and down one 4x4 track it washed the road away completely, the hole was 3/4 the length of the 4x4 and over 6 foot deep. The temp was 33 to 36 for 9 of the 10 days and finally cooled down for the drive home. We got 7 different caches types in the N.T. plus every different cache size. It was a good trip but not the one we planned. To many of the roads in the N.T. where damaged and not repaired ( still closed ) so that cancelled plan A but that's just a excuse to come back isn't it. Come back and see what you missed last time when the roads are fixed. We came with 19 regular " geocaching size " containers and a milk crate of small containers by day 7 all the regulars where used as replaced caches and by day 8 the smalls where gone. It was the UV rays a lot more than the floods that killed the caches and almost all the log books where saved, the micro containers seemed to have constantly full log sheets so they where replaced too.

Sir_spectre and I went on a long overdue holiday to the Northern Territory. We had some great experiences and saw some amazing natural wonders. Not all went to plan - covid closures, flood effected roads, renovations, hot weather, some car troubles and not forgetting the huge jump in fuel costs
Any caches that needed repairs were fixed and numeous logs were replaced or added too.
Thanks to The Drovers from mogni

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Found!

Took a little longer than I thought, but found! TFTC.

Found it

I'm sure the camel is my spirit animal - knees buckle and I fold up at the mention of work. Nice find here today. TFTC.

Found

Found during a trip from Adelaide to the northern tip of Australia and back. Traveling up solo along the Strzelecki Track to Innamincka, then through central Queensland to Quilpie, Blackall, Barcaldine, Hughendon and Ravenshoe to Cairns. In Cairns I met up with e.gregory1 and a non-cacher friend and spent three weeks on Cape York Peninsula before making our way back to Cairns and Mareeba. From there I headed on my own back home via Normanton and Karumba, Cloncurry, Mount Isa, Tennant Creek and back down the Stuart Highway through Alice Springs to Adelaide. All in all I spent six weeks on the road, visited many out of the way locations, enjoying the scenery and finding caches along the way. Thanks for the cache The Drovers!

Ok

Great hide!!

Tftc
Placed geo coin 14 bttt 2021

Keep the facts coming

TFTC

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TFTF

Quick find with SJG66 on our NT adventure. TFTC.

Found with O319 on our way south

Late log - sorry for the delay - checking areas I cached and hadnt logged this one on the way

TYFTC although am sorry I cannot recall it by end of my last couple of weeks.

Tftf. From tassie for work. Nice way to spend day off

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We are doing a caching run this morning picking up a few treasures and this is one we found. All good with the cache, log signed and replaced as found. Thanks The Drovers.

Nice easy find - TFTC

Found very easily.
Cache is in excellent condition.
Visited 3 TB.
TFTC.

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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TFTCF

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Found

Quick find.
TFTC

While staying at the National Road Transport Hall of Fame campground close by I decided to go for a bit of a drive around the area to find a few caches on our first full day in Alice Springs. [^]
I enjoyed driving on this undulating dirt track and finding the caches here.
A quick find here, didn't see any camels but did see a flock of black cockatoos which was pretty awesome.
Thanks for the cache The Drovers.

Nice quick find, haven't seen any camels yet though. Tftc

Tftc.

Everyone

Found it

Another easy find while bike riding

Found it

Found it

We enjoyed the rough roaring!!

Love geo caching camel style

TFTC KOPPSTAR 22/3/20

Very nice x

Thankyou

Quick find on a run around Alice

Well disguised with the rust. Good find

quick find

We have travelled from A (our home in SW of WA) to B via the Savannah Way with a two week unexpected detainment in Mackay which has set us back, now sadly travelling back to A via the Outback Way from Winton to Laverton
We have extra time in Alice than we planned so some extra caching is now happening. Gotta love that

A nice quick find in the obvious place

TFTC

After our visit by Uluru we are on the way back to Alice Springs. On the the way we found some Geocaches. Thank you for the Cache.

Treated to a good view of aircraft coming into Alice. TFTC

Thanks Drovers, had no trouble with this one.

When we stopped here i could hear someone calling out turned out there was some locals in the fields they were just checking we were alright but decided we would keep moving along and didnt find this one today.

Quick find while taking a break in Alice Springs on our way to Darwin.TFTC

This cache was found during a 5 week trip from Adelaide to the Kmberleys, Darwin, Katherine , Alice Springs and back.

Thanks to all cache owners for lacing the caches for us to find.

TFTC

Anothet awesome find

Tftc

TFTC

It was a spidery one. TFTC

Back on the track again and slowly making our way south.
Spent a few days in the camp next to the Transport Hall of Fame( a good cheaper spot to stay).
This is one of the caches I found and signed today.

Tyfc good hide

Found on our 2018 mega trip with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache The Drovers,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 21863** Found on our 2018 mega trip from NSW to QLD, the Outback, NT and beyond.
Another perfect warm Winter day for a trip around while at Alice for a few days.
Not many muggles around today and a few good quick finds.
Another of these nice safe hides, and surprising to see a few non-tricky Drovers caches.
Thanks for the cache The Drovers, cheers
***Roostaman***

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 9697.

With only a few caches to go until we completed the Hidden Creatures I had to head out and get these caches to finish off. After a DNF I was pleased to get back to quick finds.

Thanks The Drovers for the cache.

Staying overnight in Alice on my way to a mine site, I took the opportunity to find a few geocaches in the area and visit the town and its surroundings. Thank you for the cache and this fun little series The Drovers.

Found while in alice for a few days, on our darwin trip
Tftc

Found with the noodler

Another in the series we can tick of the list
Tftc

Got it!

driven over from perth WA to visit Alice Springs and to find some of the local caches whilst here. Lots of muggles around but still managed to find all the caches we were looking for. Thanks To all the CO,S for placing these caches for us to find.

Quick find down this track

GeoBet&Tor. TFTC. found with Carer Lis Brown on a trip from shepparton Vic to Ross river Homestead near Alice Springs, and back to Shepparton.

Tor

All ok TFTC

Fight delayed? No problem at all!
Found during our honeymoon trip. Almost 1 month driving through Australian country.
It was an amazing trip.
Thanks for this cache
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# 2137
Grazie The Drovers

Thank you

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We were held over in Alice for a little bit longer than expected with mechanical difficulties and what better than to fill in the time to go caching.

On our travels across The Gary Junction Road we didn't see 700,000 camels but we certainly did see quite a few. No matter where we made camp there was an abundance of camel tracks on the ground. We knew that there was a lot out here but didn't know that the number was so high. Even though they are a feral animal and a pest it is still great to see one up close and personal in the wild.
At gz one of the team was a little bit vertically challenged which meant that the other member had to retrieve the cache and we happily added our name to the log which we replaced with a new one as it was getting quite full.

Many thanks The Drovers for the cache and the information.