The Other Road West Manbulloo, Northern Territory, Australia
By grey team on 20-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5BBP3

Found at 12:42 PM GAFF1.We couldn't understand what this "other" road was all about until we actually got to GZ! A very thin road indeed and it looks like there are barriers along the way from graziers to stop you from using the road.!Thanks to grey team

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 127 - Timber Creek to Katherine. The days drive was not excessive, but the temperature was. I managed to get out for four caches, and although they were all very sort walks, it was exhausting. The traffic on the road seems to have dropped off recently so that is good. I arrived in Katherine in time for lunch and set up. I then collapsed and slept for the afternoon, and night. Only a very light meal inside in the air conditioning. I hope things improve tomorrow.I walked over to this from the current highway. I had seen bits and pieces of old road for some time. Happily the area had been burnt at some time and the ground was pretty clear, so getting over was just slow and not an issue. The cache was not where I wanted it to be, but was found without any problems.Thanks for the cache grey team48974.3 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 Auckland NZ Mega A#261**Albida**

Found the cache in the last place we looked. Interestion location and history.Freddo and e.gregory1 were heading up the middle of Australia following Stuart's well trodden route. We were travelling in air conditoned comfort and style. No stale food. No camels to carry water. We were leaving the cold winter for the northern season.Today was the day to find this cache. Today is the tenth day of Augustus Caesar's Month in the wonderful year of twenty twenty four. We found your cache container and added some inky stuff to the paper sheet or note pad you have supplied for a log book or scroll. The cache container and log book or scroll were in good condition. It was so hot. No wind today.With the log signed and the cache replaced it was time to leave. Onwards to the next cache. Woot, that is not to far.I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land, and their continuing connection to it. I wish to pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Blockheads Unite in 2025.

I found this cache on a trip from Adelaide to the top end with Freddo for a few weeks.The cache was a quick find and was in good condition.Thanks grey team for the cache.

Found after a quick look around. Thank you. ??

TFTC,Travelling west, Nana found while I was looking at another spot. Visited trackables.

1st cache of the day after leaving Katherine, for Kununurra. Quick find container all good after a recent burn off. Stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO

Thanks so much! This is the first cache I have ever found and will change the way I travel forever

Katherine Day 2. Staying at Manbulloo a great farm stay
We only had a couple of caches to find, some had very rough roads to negotiate.
What a great way to tour the country following the geocaching trail.
Thanks to the CO for placing this cache

Travelling with richlink on a trip from Perth to Darwin and returning through the centre to SA and home again. Today, we are exploring Katherine and picking up some caches as we go. Thanks for the cache grey team.

Travelling with iluvtrekking and after spending twelve days in Darwin are now caching Katherine and surrounds. Quick find here - thanks for the hide.

Nice little hide. TFTC

All Safe Here today TFTC

Geocaching with Jennyfromthefarm. Tftc

It is an old road.
Nice strong container choice for the weather here.
TFTC

TFTC

On my way to Perth via Broome with a few detours for LGAs. TFTC.
I bought my caravan up this track. Maybe difficult to get out. Plus bees.

A quick find after a bumpy ride. Not fond of these long grass caches but it wasn't too hard as coords were good. Not easy for a big vehicle and trailer to turn here so did a very careful cross-country drive out. All good, thank goodness. TFTC

Have made it into the NT and on the road to Darwin grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

Making our way to Darwin from Perth and stopping in Katherine for the night! Grabbing some caches along the way. Thank you.

TFTC SL Haven't done much caching lately. Passed this one today while out for a drive. Cache in good condition.

Hello savannah hwy

Today our tour - which began in Perth, WA , and led us thru Western, Northern and Southern Australia back to Perth, was simply driving from Timber Creek (NT) to Litchfield NP.



On the way we came to some interesting locations. Here we searched, found and logged this Tradi-Cache.

Weather was good in the morning and it should even get better during the day.

Thanks to 'grey team' for showing us this location, for the fun we had with 'The Other Road West' and for the smiley. The search here and today didn't take too much time, fortunately.

Greetings from Germany and we hope to see you soon in the forest, prairie, desert or outback .

TFTC says H_M_A @ October 18, 2019 @ 09:23 o'clock @ [#13842](https://coord.info/GC5BBP3)

Mplc découverte le 5 septembre mais mais de connection
C'est sur que les ravages du feu nous on bien aidé

Mplc.
La grenouille est encore ici

One frog and no water

After we made our way thru some long grass, the prize was soon in hand

Found it TFTC
Took trackable, was in here quite long probably

Found Ok

On our way west thanks for the cache. Left a trackable

Tagging along with the "Rats" on holidays has it's advantages, not only do we get to see our cool country but we also get to do a heap of caching as Dad just can't help himself and has to stop at every cache he can.

Heading across Australia on nearly every dirt road possible we stopped and found your cache as part of our adventure and for that, I thank you! Sorry about the log being a "cut n paste" but tthats just because we stopped at so many caches.

TFTC

The Rats and mini rats found this cache as part of our Purposeful Meander across Oz where we visited every mainland state in 8 weeks.

Apologises for the late log in some cases but we are only just catching up on our logging now that we have arrived back home. Your cache makes up many of the great memories we now have from the adventure. The faceplate style log doesn't detract from the experience we had finding the cache.

Thanks

Thanks a lot to the owner for my first cache on the Savannah Way. A quick stop and a quick find.
TFC and greetings from Switzerland

Early morning cache while listening for quails in the area. TFTC

Quick stop to look for quails on the road to kununurra. Found a cache instead. TFTC

Heading to the east again having visited the west coast after the Red Centre Experience over Easter. We took the turn in to try to find this cache not really knowing if we could get back to the highway easily as the van plus car add to a decent length. No worries were needed and I soon had CIH, log signed and all returned to where I found it. TFTC TNLN SL

After having a very pleasant day's caching in Katherine it was time to head west and pick up some caches between here and Timber Creek.

We have crossed over this highway further east doing another cache, it's a shame that we didn't know that it kept going or we could have followed this one(perhaps)
The road certainly has changed over the years and it's hard to imagine driving along this old road with a road train coming towards you, fortunately there was none to get in our way today and we were also quite happy that there had been a recent burn as it meant we were able to locate the cache without the pesky grass seeds. With good co-ords the cache was found in the first place we looked and the log now contains our name.

Many thanks once more grey team.

Still travelling NT after the Red Centre Experience but now moving towards Birdsville in QLD for the Big Red Bash.

Staying a few days in Katherine to attempt 'lots' of the local caches we hope.

Nice weather for our country drive today. [^]

TFTC grey team

We are happy they built a new road. Otherwise it would have been a very very long journey from Kununurra to Katherine. Tftc Sprunghörnchen

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After the event - on the way to North. enjoyed wander and look for the caches (GC and GCA) on the way to Home via Victoria H/way [^]
Thanks grey team for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Easy find. A fire has been through, but the cache was untouched. TFTC grey team.

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. The second leg of our journey was a fabulous 9 days in Tasmania. Having then returned to Melbourne we set off on the third leg of our journey, which was to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. We then spent a few days in Sydney with geocaching friends efore flying on to the Gold Coast for the fourth leg of our travels, that included visits to Lamington National Park, Noosa and an overnight trip out to Fraser Island. We then flew from Brisbane to Cairns, where we spent a couple of nights before heading out to the birding hotspots of Yungaburra and Daintree. Following on from a visit to Cape Tribulation we turned to Port Douglas. After a day out on the Great Barrier Reef we returned to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs and the fifth leg of our travels, which was a wonderful week driving the circuit to and from Ayers Rock in our 4x4 camper. On returning to Alice Springs we then flew on to Darwin, where we picked up another 4x4 camper. We are currently making our way towards Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

This was a nice quick find at Ground Zero. Thanks so much for the cache.

TFTC. Thanks for the history lesson. We are glad of the new road, much better than the old.
Found the container out in the open after searching the logical location. Replaced among the rocks.

Ta!! Great bit of history

Nice and quick find
Thtc

I love fonding hidden roads like this!

Found it quick stop and grab thanks for the cache

Thanks for bringing us here. How good is it that they have upgraded the highway? Imagine sharing this road with 53 metre road-trains?? Gee whiz, another car has turned up. What is the chance of getting muggled here?

We set up our bus at Manbulloo Caravan Park and went
to find some close caches. We saw another car in the distance
and wondered if they were caching also. Found the cache and
saw that someone else had found it today. Signed and put back
as found.
We drove on this very same road some 40 odd years ago and
were surprised that this section was in such good nick...

Thanks for the memories grey team

Little Squirell

Today we explored Katherine and surrounds using geocaching as a guide. We rescued 3 TBs

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Just visiting

12191 caches found

This one easy find beside Highway, good co ords

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache grey team

Out with Team Robins, finding a few caches as we walk for Walk for Life Around Az

A quick stop along the highway here, as we were not sure we could get the van back out if we drove along the 'old road'. Thought it was easier to just traverse a bit of burnt out bush strip to the cache. Easy find here. TFTC and also awareness of the old and the new. TFTC

Managed to track this one down too. TFTC.

Found it

Dropped some TBs off.

Quick find. Another "ghost road"in the Territory we didn't know was there. TFTC.

An easy find, TFTC

Geokid 3 with Geomum, find no 3 for the day.

Quick find for geodog! Tftc

Published

It must be our lucky day as we managed to grab 14 FTFs on our drive down to Katherine - this cache being the last - number 14