In The Ruff Stuart Park, Northern Territory, Australia
By SNAFUADV on 03-Aug-02. Waypoint GC797F

Think She's gone, lot of activity in the area.

No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache [red]in the next couple of months[/red], just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

As the owner is not in Darwin we will look at replacing this cache in a week or two.

I saved the Corolla from the steep tracks in this area and walked up the hill to find that a bulldozer has been there doing what bulldozer do. Unsuccessfully looked for the cache and had given up when by walking away I noticed the flattened out Ammo Tin amongst some rocks. I managed to open the lid and noticed all the goodies are still in it. However it will take a pair of tin snips to open it completely. I have taken the cache with me and hope to be able to contact the owner of this cache soon.

Found cache today rolled over by a bulldozzer. It appears that the original cache site has disappeared. I have taken the cache back to the hotel to protect the swaps inside from further damage. Please contact me asap as I am leaving Darwin on Tuesday night 15 Feb 11. [email protected] 0488995196

Haben uns vor unserer Heimreise noch auf die Suche gemacht - und haben den Cache gefunden!
symbolisch für die Heimreise habe ich das Skateboardrad mitgenommen und dafür mein Münzsäcklein mit CHF 1.--
hinterlegt. Merci für den tollen Cache - easy zu finden, aber man muss einfach ein bischen durch die Wildnis

Found as a part of Team SaintsMadHouse and now that the kids have grown we each have our own accounts to finddd geocaches with separately wherever we go!Headed up the track near Power to the people #3, Bushbashing in the Astra, took out a tall weed, a mud puddle, and then realised the rest of the road had washed out in the recent rain. Decided not to risk the medium family sedan so reversed back out through mud puddle and over not-tall-anymore weed. Drove around and took another very easy-newly graded approach, drove up and round and up and round and geez, how far does this go up??? Oh here it is. Load up the bug spray, quick walk, found it. bit of a kick and shake and it was ours. Very active ants. Signed log, took RAAF sticker and left toy dinosaur to enjoy the land of the giants.TFTC.

Headed up the track near Power to the people #3, Bushbashing in the Astra, took out a tall weed, a mud puddle, and then realised the rest of the road had washed out in the recent rain. Decided not to risk the medium family sedan so reversed back out through mud puddle and over not-tall-anymore weed. Drove around and took another very easy-newly graded approach, drove up and round and up and round and geez, how far does this go up??? Oh here it is. Load up the bug spray, quick walk, found it. bit of a kick and shake and it was ours. Very active ants. Signed log, took RAAF sticker and left toy dinosaur to enjoy the land of the giants.TFTC.

This was a track not showing on our navigator however we were able to drive quite close to the cache and then made an easy retrieval and replacement of the cache. TNLN. thanks SNAFUADV

Keeping my eyes shut on the way up and down helped to get this one. Took 'Bouncing around Australia'. Easy find once there. TFTC

A great location for this one although I wonder if the local inhabitants dont eat it away!! Dropped off "Bouncing around Australia" TB TFTC

Yet another site that I didn't know existed. Lucked out on the inbound trip. A pleasant ride even in a small 2 wd! TFTC. TNLN

wont be long and the termites will have this covered.TFTC

Nice easy find! The termites are determined to claim this as their own though!
Took Croc toy
Left Mini ball game
TFTC

as stated earlier the termites are still determined to keep this one to themselves, had to use abit of force to get it out, but got there.
took frog, left wheel yo yo

What an interesting find on a hunt with McRunBecks - the termites don't want this one to be found, and have enclosed it in their nest. I'll post a couple of photos. L croc TN TFTC.

out hunting with JWstorming,
after finding the closest approach by road, we wandered up the hill, looked and found ground zero, saw the state of the cache and went back for the camera, we also discovered that you could drive all the way up so getting back into the stromy geowagon, we drove up to the new close approach 17m and took the camera in, JWstorming got some great shots, then we started to deconstruct the protective shielding protecting the container, we signed the log and put it back, re-establishing some of the cover, then headed off to the next cache

TFTC
TNLN

What an adventure this one was. After parking the car about 1/2 Kilometer away trudged through the bush and eventually found it. cleared the GPS then I got lost and couldnt find my car. Walked around for 45 minutes up and down tracks looking for my car alas to no avail. It was stinking hot and my water was in the car!! starting to get a bit anxious by now then I found the car!!!! Anyway had a drink and went on some four wheel driving!! Thanks for the adventure and the cache. TNLC

took the forester part of the way..... great spot.
TFTC TNLN

Another nice easy one - bit hot with the humidity though.

SL

TNLN

TFTC

Our second find! Thunder overhead added to the atmosphere. Took the easy way up but will go back there in the old Patrol GQ to tackle some of the other tracks. TNLN

Found with Trudders! Been meaning to get to this one for ages! What a beauty. TFTH TNLN

It was good fun getting there. Lovely drive TFTH Took the brass ring and left a frog.

Spent a day caching while having a break from 6 weeks work in Darwin. Took Team Laubfrosch Geocoin. TFTC

nice little drive up the hill, was going to take the harder tracks but the kids were scared.

Oh yeh, definately ruff! On a night raid, very interesting critters in the dark! TFTC pen wouldnt work properly so its kinda engraved in the paper!

Found it during our big holiday around Australia. Thank you all guys for your lovely caches. MaJa from the Czech Republic

Final cache in a solo six cache hunt - and this one was fun!!!

I wasn't too sure about taking my newish X-trail up the dirt tracks all by myself. I have some 4WD skills but I wasn't sure what would be waiting for me up there. Managed to take a wrong turn that freaked me out when the car bottomed out.. got outta there and found the right track. GPS showed me being about 20m away when I was still in the car. Took one look at the hill it was pointing at and did the rest on foot!!

Found the cache no worries and signed the log. TNLN. I love that this cache has been there for so long. Very cool.

On the way back out I followed the trail on a bit to see where it went and ended up at the top of the hill, much closer to GZ! Not to worry.. I had an awesome time going back down the track and was giggling and chuckling to myself all the way back down to the bitumen.

Thank you for the adventure

A short drive and then a walk to gz made the name clear. The cache was found easily but the termites have a firm grip on it now!

Found it!

TFTC TNLN

A pleasant easy cache to find.

A quick drive by while geo nano (AKA Little Fish - of FishyNitz ilk) was snoozing away with the 'gentle' rocking of the geo mobile... SL TNLN TFTC. ;o)

We didn't quite make it a driveby. No exchanges but TFTC

WanderingAus wandered by on day 49 of a "climatic refugee" trip, and made an easy GAFF 1 find.

My find No 1579, LCC, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again. No sign of Snafuadv Fun Bug (ref = TB3F2), it seems to have disappeared 7 years ago - time to move it to the graveyard?

*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*

T4TH SNAFUADV
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience

Took the hard track on way up. geodaughters got somewhat concerned when front of BBBB got airborne whilst travelling uphill. All under control though . Cache was easy find in the end T- St John Patch L - toy bee SL TFTC

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Fortunately the gibbomobile was able to traverse to the top (but not up the 4WD track!). Funny, they put that building right where I would have put a lookout! Thanks for the cache, SNAFUADV!

I managed to get the little hire car (Getz) pretty close to GZ before walking the Lancruiser section. Found it at 0650hrs.

Thanks SNAFUADV.

Ms Bushies2 found it quickly but we had to walk a wrong turn after finding the cache to get to our trooper! A long walk but lovely scenery though. TNLN Thanks SNAFUADV for organising the excelllent hide and hunt.

Nice location and well hidden. Second find for today. SL
TNLN TFTC

Didn't think I would find this stumbling round in the dark during a tropical downpour, but I did!

Left a ring that I got from one of the caches in Holmes Jungle.

Fell over twice on the way down the hill. Torch started running out of battery power and the rain was unrelenting. All in all, a nice little adventure.

Found with GGG on a 24 hour geocaching marathon that started at Darwin International Airport, criss-crossed the city before heading south. We were in the CBD between 1am and 4am, went to Marrara and Fannie Bay, around Charles Darwin University around Sunrise before going out to the Eastern Cliffs and conducting a mopping up operation in torrential rain in the afternoon. As time was limited we tended to avoid most multicaches. TVMFTC.

Found the track phew!!!. Lovely view. Took: Coin. SL. Thanks SNAFUADV for organising the cache and hunt.

Lots of swaps. Left Geocoin for anyone interested. It is the "SA loved This Cache Geocoin," O well, have a look.

T Train, L Butterfly.
Was an easy find in the setting sun.

Gave the old 4x4 a work out getting up there!!
great spot. didnt knkow the tracks where there.

if you are up for a challenge drive up to the top. will need 4x4 in low range. not for the faint hearted.

TNLN

Yep I reckon we took the rough track. Took seahorse, shiny yellow rock left postcard, pocket knife and padlock.

Good hide - nice glue!

Dropped off a geocoin.

A nice drive to the outer area of Darwin, had thought that we would walk from our accommodation, glad we didn't. T Hippo L Train. TFTC

Too chicken to take the camry down the hills, but all in all a great cache. Very well secured to the mound! TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

Glad I had the Prado. Met a couple of muggles Kathryn and Greg having lunch and as it happens they found it first. Some good tracks there if you are game.

Found @ 0825. 4th find of 7 for the morning. Wish I had my 4wd with me as some of those tracks look like a good challenge. Hint makes sense once you get near GZ.

Nice easy find.

TNLNSL TFTC

Damn this jungle. I'm finding if it's not closer than 50mtrs it's to damn hard and itchy. LOL

Hire car copped another flogging.

This is so much more fun than in Adelaide.
And have geowife on the mobile is a bonus, usually we do caching together.

TNLN

On our holidays, partly travelling in a Britz campervan through the upper half of the Northern Territory, we tried to log as many of the caches on the way. With the use of a PDA with iGo and the caches loaded as POIs, driving to the cache locations has become quite easy. In total, we visited 61 cache sites and of all these sites, we found 41 caches. Certainly not a perfect score, but we usually enjoyed the location the owner of the cache has chosen. Geocaching brought us to the usual popular tourist locations, but also on some places that we would have otherwise never stopped or driven through.

This log-entry is the 56th cache on our tour.

This one was easy enough to find. A nice and quiet place to look for a cache. Since it’s out of side, no need to hide it too difficultly, so I could find it quite quickly. That was a good thing, since it started raining soon after I got back to the car.

Dropped off a couple of coins

Ruff or Rough. Mr Butterfly was sent up the hill to retrieve this one, as Butterfly's legs are a little short. The hint for this cache only described the view, and not any help to finding the cache itself. Not the best road to drive in using the rental 2WD - shhhh.
Left Butterfly's "Get me coffee NOW!" geocoin to start it's journey. Thanks

Our second trip to this cache to pick up a few trackable items to take with us on our trip down the centre of Australia...

The STAKX Team
www.stakx.com

Popped in for a coin swap.

A quick stop to drop TB and GCoin.
I brought them all this way, I had to drop them somewhere.
TFTC

Great spot for a cache. Used to live in Darwin many years ago, never knew of this hill. Great hint..

The STAKX Team
www.stakx.com

After a drive which I will forever refer to as "heart-stoppingly terrifying", we tramped about in the bush only to find we'd taken the long way round. Spotted quickly thanks to trusty torch, and I was only bitten once. Loved this cache, thanks for the late-night adventure! TNLNSL

Found on a business trip to NT. TNLN. TFTC

Look like a bit of 4WD fun to be had so close to the city this would never happen in Sydney. Swapped a white bead necklace for some nail clippers.

Left TB took Geo coin great drive. Never knew about this hill TFTCSL

Dropped off another geocoin.

Took the fairway and kept out of the ruff as only in 2wd today. No sign of TB in cache. They breed big golf balls up here. TFTC

Day Two of our Great Top End caching holday.Our 8th find today. No sign of the TB. TFTC

Took nothing, left nothing. Just signed the book, and cycled back to Stuart Highway.
Le velo rouge

First ever cache. Took 0, Left 0. Look forward to playing this game.

Kind of like the places where I usually find my golf ball.

Grabbed TB Everlasting Orange Lip

Dropped off a geocoin.

Just popped in to pick up a coin to take on holidays.

Quick look on Google and knew exactly where to go.
Great first Cache. Geodaughter took echidna and left a keyring.
Well hidden but easy to find.

Dropped off a geocoin.

A great spot for a cache. We had a fair idea where we were headed as we have been to a similar cache in Canberra, the "tee" is a bit taller there...

Thanks SNAFUADV for the cache

T: Someday The Big Truck Will Roll TB
L: Nothing

Short walk up the hill and found the cache fairly quick. Confirmed no TB in cache so I put one in. Found the Big Truck on a hill so thought he should visit another.
Took ear plugs and left a Hippo.
TFTC

A quick visit to log some TBs; Ante Up, Maddie's Aurora, El Burro and Zoe. Snafu Adv TB wasn't here the last time I visited either - perhaps it needs to be 'archived'.

Yes well this sure did test the X-Trail it failed the steep track beside the cache! TWO TRIES TOO ahhhh Walked straight to the cache and found it, coords SPOT ON Good Job! No Travel Bugs though? Great place for a cache! Gnarly tracks around that place shame we left the Patrol at home.....

Short 4WD drive. Nice place!

Thanks and greetings from Germany,
Bergzwerge

Great track. Love the golf ball. TNLN, TFTC

Wow, just started to head to this & the usual afternoon storm hit & then had to wait for Council muggles to scoot.
Great little track in the rental toy 4wd. Nice hide, all the clues meant nothing till I got to top of hill.
No TBs in this cache. Was a GC & its now with me for a while.

TNSL and dropped off a GC. What a nice spot to play in with my rented Nissan Xtrail. They upgraded me from a Getz so I had to go and find some mud. How convenient to have a 4WD playground right next to Darwin.

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This was our first attempt at geocaching, the children really enjoyed it and have insisted that we go out this weekend and look for some more.

Found this one just before 7pm - almost dark - and the completion of a successful afternoon caching. We're now hooked!

Took the froggy travel bug, and in our excitement forgot to leave something behind. Big oops, sorry! We'll try to get back and leave something when next we go to Palmy.

I didn't find any TB's but left one. Had to kick the tin free. TFC

Well hidden. But found out without too much trouble at about 11am. Got there fairly readily in the 2WD rental car

TFTC. TNLN.

Ya the best time to cache is when you are out on holiday. you can jus keep caching.

Our 2wd rental car was only up for the tame way up the hill. Found the cache easily once we arrived. Our third of the day before heading out of town to find some outlying caches.

The boys of the Saunders tribe headed off to find this cache, our second. We knew of the area, indeed have driven past many, many times but had never been up there before. We took the main road in a followed it up to the top of the hill, did notice some more difficult, maybe more direct 4X4 tracks but stuck to the main track. When we arrived we had to wait for some muggles to leave the area before we headed off down the hill and spotted the cache.

Once again the youngest member of the family was first to dive into the 'treasures' and picked out a whistle. We left a stuffed toy echidna.

Thanks for the cache.

Easy to spot walking up the hill, nice to see red ants instead of green ones for a change.
T. Kim Possiable
L. Kiwi Bird

Our first geocache. Was a great way to test out our newly rented 4WD.

Took a model car, left a toothbrush.

A fairly easy find, but I had to pry it loose from the guardians.

TNLN

Survived the burn off, the white knights are still guarding, and glueing down the cache. Had to use extreme force to extract from their jaws.

Took Rubber lizard
Left Kim Possible toy

Zylaxas

#108 14:00 hours

We decided to walk the last part. The grass was very high and we hoped not to surprise any scary animals, like spiders and snakes. Took TB Pichy Richy. Left nothing.
Our TB Lucky Topocat also shortly visited this cache.

Grtz, Topocat (from The Netherlands)

We see what you mean about challenge your driving ability. Having a 4WD and not being one to back away from a challenge I put the Super Pajero into low range and off we went. Unfortunately around the corner was a fallen tree and without the necessary gear to clear the track (wasn't expecting to go bush bashing) I had to do a tricky reversing manoeuvre back down to the bottom. We then decided it was easier to walk the 30m.
Found the cache without any problems. No dramas with midgies either, but the ants took a liking to me!
Took the duck, left the whistle. Also dropped off the Pichi Richi TB. Couldn't see the two TB's that are supposed to be in there either.

another easy one.took nothing,left some fishing tackle

Dropped off Toot Toot visiting trains. Go see the Ghan.

A wet season find. We had to get Madi Gras Beads TB as we found them in Skagway Alaska and brought them back to Darwin. We are heading off overseas in a couple of weeks and will take them with us.

Took TB Madigras Beads

Left a new pen

Ex nihil and I visited this site (after visiting Dr Watson I presume and before visiting Bugs Galore) on a humid Sunday afternoon.