WanAus 55 - Lake Benanee Balranald Shire Council, New South Wales, Australia
By WanderingAus on 16-Oct-08. Waypoint GA1240

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Regular
Coordinates:	S34° 31.242' E142° 52.790' (WGS 84)
	54H 672543E 6178502N (UTM)
Elevation:	59 m
Local Government Area:	Balranald

Map

Whodunit Terrain

Description

An easy find near the lake.

Due to the temporary nature of pens and pencils in my geocaches
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN WRITING IMPLEMENT!!!

Lake Benanee is on the Sturt Highway 15 Km East of Euston, and is a convenient place on the Sturt Highway to stop for a break or an overnight stay. Facilities include clean sewered toilets, picnic tables and shelters.

The water level in the lake is lower than in earlier years due to drought and/or "climate change", but was a popular water sports venue in wetter years.

The cache is a 1.7 litre clear square cliplock container inside a grey plastic bag, hidden a short walk from the parking area and out of sight of muggles. Initial contents are First and Second To Find cards, finders cards, 5 ring key ring with blue LED light, 6 piece jewellers screwdriver set, fly/mosquito head net, small porcelain doll, Australia dolphin key ring, blind spot mirror, Matchbox "Hummer H3" car, log book, pen, pencil & sharpener.

When trading items please consider trading up or trading even and leaving items that you would want to find, and please don't take the pen, pencils or sharpener. If you can't trade up or trade even I don't mind seeing TNLNSL in the log. Also please don't put the pen or pencils in the log book bag, it tends to destroy the watertight integrity.

Swaggies are not tradeable items. Please feel free to take them without making a trade, but please leave a note in the logbook and your online log, and do log them online. Grounspeak Trackables (geocoins and travel bugs) can NOT be logged into this cache, or any other GCA cache. Please don't drop any Grounspeak Trackables in this cache, and if you find any in this cache please remove them and log a "Grab it from somewhere else" log for the trackable.

Hints

Qbtf qb guvf

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Logs

17-Sep-20

Alas no luck for us today...

27-Mar-18

Laighside Legends

Found It!
I got reasonably close to GZ in the Hilux and then had a little walk to a quick find! Nice spot.
TFTC

27-Jun-17

I drove most of the way to GZ, winding my way through campers stirring in the early morning, then it was a very short stroll for a quick find. Stopped to admire the view before departing. Thanks for the cache WanAus 55

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Apr-17

#GA1410 - 09:30; Day two of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune started out in Balranald and we are now headed west towards Mildura. Stopped off near this now full lake and took the short walk over to GZ for a quick find and sign on this nice sized cache. TFTC WanderingAus Very Happy

Very Happy

Clan Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

27-Jun-16

An easy find. Cache okay. Lovely by the water. TFTC WanderingAus.

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Jan-16

A nice quick stop over on our way back from our S.A. trip. A nice quick find at a very pretty area. Container and contents were in A1 condition.

21-Oct-15

Tassie Trekkers

Travelling from Mildura to Balranald we grabbed this cache on the way. Cache and contents in good condition. Nice spot thanks Wandering Aus.

Rated: for Overall Experience

24-May-15

Travelling to Mildura from Balranald.
So grateful to stop here to find the cache here.
Thanks
Mr. Green

Mr. Green

Rated: for Overall Experience

10-Mar-15

sharnie's tribe

A quick find when we reached GZ. Took some time to remove the cache from its hide but mr sharnie's tribe was determined to sign the logbook! Surprised that it's been so long since this one has been logged. TFTC

13-Apr-13

1st of many caches found on a trip to, and around Sth Australia with Albida. Found the likely spot and acted like a dog......and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks for showing me the area WanderingAus.

18-Oct-12

After a couple of DNF’s with the traditional caches Sad

Sad

; it was good to find this 1 Cool

Cool

Razz

; what a TOP cache at a top location Dancing

Dancing

. I must say I was a little worried at first Think

Think

Pray

, reading the hint helped in the end Very Happy

Very Happy

, TFTC / TFTH / SL

Rated: for Overall Experience

07-Jun-12

Well, this was a most interesting hunt. We arrived near GZ but it took our GPS units some time to settle town. Eventually they were consistent in their indication of where GZ should be. A search revealed nothing. We widened our search area but still not success. So we returned to GZ (according to our GPS units) and began a more detailed search. We rethought the hint and another line of attack was identified. Persistence paid off and after a few minutes, some plastic was discoverd. Further invesigation revealed the cache inside the plastic but it was very hard to retrieve. Still further work was required before the cache was released from its very snug hide. The cache and its contents were in excellent condition. TFTC - a real challenge.

15-Apr-12

Lovely place, nice walk, but no cache find for me today. Well worth stopping regardless so thank you.

30-Mar-11

It's been a while for this cache to be found, so pleased to have some action for the owner.
Found cache and signed log.
A nice place to stop off on our journey up the Long Paddock and down the B&W track.
PS Greg did it too!!! Smile

Smile

Rated: for Overall Experience

22-Oct-10

WanderingAus wandered by on day 164 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, heading West towards home, and dropped in on a maintenance check. Alls well.

14-Sep-10

A rainy day to cross the plain and everything very muddy. This one could have been drive by, but discretion won the day. So we slid through the mud across the ditch, past the bees nest and made a quick find. Thanks WanAus.

14-Sep-10

132. Almost a drive by and would have been if it wasn't so wet - well almost anyway. Interesting spot ad construction.

TFTC and the pond.

Rated: for Overall Experience

21-Aug-10

Nice location for a leg stretch on our way into Mildura.

Cache is in good condition and loaded with swaps.

Took stuff, left stuff. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

20-Jul-10

Great spot. Thanks for bringing us here.

20-Jul-10

Found on the way through placing some Burke & Wills caches. A quick find after the local council workers had finished their luch. SL TNLPathtag. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

15-Apr-10

Perth 10.1. very gloomy walk to this one was the day was over. No problems finding the cache and the birdlife was fantastic. Thanks.

TNLN

Albida

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Apr-10

Stopped off with Team Wibble on the drive back to Adelaide from the mega event. Nice place to stop for a break, and as we returned to the car, we were told that a Chinese well had been uncovered a bit further along here.

Took nothing, left pathtag
Thanks WanderingAus!

05-Apr-10

Nice chance to stop and stretch the legs and view a lake that looks like it has seen wetter days. Dropped in a pathtag.

02-Apr-10

Found this at about 5:30am in the dark after waking up early to drive to Wagga Wagga. Having only a small torch made it alot harder than it needed to be. Great Spot to bad I couldn't see much in the dark. TFTC

03-Feb-10

Great stop on what can be a boring trip across the plains. GZ popped up on the Uniden Map trax navigator an this was good enough to get me to GZ. Not much water in the lake today but still a very good view.
Thanks!

Rated: for Overall Experience

10-Jan-10

A quick stop & stretch of the legs here on my way east.
Couldn't stop for to long as it was 42C today (57 in the sun) acording to my thermometer!
Cheers, TFTC.

08-Oct-09

murf

While on our way to Mildura, this was a great spot to break the drive. Just on dusk, and we managed not to bother the campers that were making dinner a bit further over. A quick find left time for some photos of the sadly dry lake.

Thanks for breaking the drive. TNLNSL,
Cheers,
Murf & Mrs Murf.

Rated: for Overall Experience

20-Sep-09

Found the cache at 7am. Lovely park - interesting about history between 1970 - 2009. Pity no water at all... The container is good no swap. BUT took calling card for my collect. SL. Thanks WanderingAus for organising the cache and hunt.

Rated: for Overall Experience

29-Aug-09

baby&Mrs gopher

Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1210 on a very windy day. The lake has no water in it at all now and looks very bare.The cache and contents in good condition. Tnx WanderingAus.

Rated: for Overall Experience

19-Apr-09

Was making our way home from Canberra but it was getting late and the GeoDaughter was feeling car sick so a quick stop to stretch the legs before calling it quits in Mildura.

Managed a second to find after 6 months Smile

Smile

Day 309 of non-stop caching Big Grin

Big Grin

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-Oct-08

S34° 31.242' E142° 52.790'

Cache hidden on 14 Oct 2008, ready to roll.

Balranald (A) - dragonZone

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