Cachemobile Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Bluedog on 19-Feb-10. Waypoint GA1825

This geocache listing no longer follows the guidelines required for a Locationless cache. https://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Locationless_cache As such we will archive it and encourage the CO to place a locationless cache that meets the new guidelines.

Our cachemobile recently got upgraded to fit all the kids in on our frequent camping trips. It makes an appearance on a lot of our logs as it is often easier to get a photo of everyone hanging out the windows than go through the massive undertaking of buckling and unbuckling everyone.

I have two cachemobiles. The Honda is used for local caches and day trips. It has been to places Honda Civics should never go. My second, a Mercedes Sprinter camper is used for extended trips, and the Big Island cache searching. It also has been covered with truckloads of mud.

Here are our new TOTT, two new cachemobiles, our new electric scooters:-)
They are awesome out on the tracks, and quaint little country towns
Thanks for the Locationless Cache

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My Cachemobile and Geomonsters
We call them Pheonix and The Beast.
The Beast has a travelbug and one is on the way for Pheonix.
They have gotten us back out caching.
Soon to have P plates
TFTC

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I am using my original cachemobile, my 2005 Honda C-RV (Cache Retrieval Vehicle - https://coord.info/TB14VVW), which was totaled by a distracted driver with a revoked license.

13 October 2006 - 17 November 2017

She was a great assistant to my first 11+ years of geocaching and racked up a 45,469.7 TB miles and 204,386 total miles.

Thanks and Happy Trails,

GCA #23
Alt Cache #983

#NOVID19

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Here it is our cachemobile. The car is trackable on each side with large stickers. This semi-utility vehicle is a Renault Kango is inside the bottom is flat which allows to sleep or put also our VTTae. The opening of the safe makes it possible to take shelter below and thus have lunch or take the aperitif in the shelter with friends.

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When I first started caching I had a little Toyota Corolla which I nursed along a few bush tracks but generally do the off road caches in Muggle Hubby’s XTrail.
However I recently acquired a Commodore from my late mother’s estate, and gave the Corolla to our granddaughter.
It has very low ground clearance so doesn’t stray very far from well made roads.
When this picture was taken last week in St Arnaud we left it up on top of the bank and walked down to the cache.
If I’d been in Muggle Hubby or dalerious’ 4WD vehicles they would have driven much closer to the cache.
Thanks for this locationless Bluedog

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today whilst looking through locationless caches i found this one that i can complete, our cache mobile can take us pretty well anywhere we want to go. TFTC

When Muggle Hubby brought his XTrail he asked when were we going to Cooktown? I told him he was mad if he thought I was going to sit in a vehicle and travel that far. Then I discovered Geocaching and asked him when were we going to Cooktown? He asked if I was fair dinkum, and I told him as long as he’d stop every half hour so I could get out and stretch my legs, (and find a Geocache), I would be happy to go anywhere with him. And we have, not only to Cooktown, but even put it on the Spirit and cached around Tassie.
We have done thousands of kilometres and I love the Sexy Exy Cachemobile.
Thanks for the Locationless Bluedog.

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The geomobile looking very shiny on a caching trip to the mid north of South Australia. Obviously it has just been through the carwash! Love the Subaru. Goes anywhere within reason. Great for geocaching! Thanks Bluedog for organising the locationles cache.

I just love finding (and sometimes placing) geocaches while out and about exploring on my trusty mountain bike.

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A fellow cacher said “When in a single day I find geocaches from more than just one listing service I consider that day a great geocaching day. And when it happens that they are all of a different geocache type I consider I just had a perfect geocaching day as I was able to experience the full variety of geocaching.” With that in mind he set the following challenge as a cyber cache (CC8F45 Perfect Geocaching Day) on Terracaching.com:

You must find geocaches from at least 5 different geocache listing services and they all must be of a different geocache type and all that in a single day.

Today was my day to attempt that challenge. By the end of the day I had found 10 caches of 8 different types on 6 listing sites from the largest Geocaching.com to one of the smallest Cotswold Caching

This was the fourth cache of the day. After meeting up with Gackt at an impromptu event at Chedworth UK near to the location of physical caches listed on Terracaching.com Opencache.uk and gpsgames.org we had a little photocall by my Skoda Fabia Cachemobile to add a locationless cache to the days tally. It's been the cachemobile for four years now with only a few bumps and scratches to show Thanks for setting this cache

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Our 'Geo-tug'. Photo taken on South Stradroke Island February 2017. The tug is also trackable and tows our trackable caravan.

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This is my motorised cachemobile. It's not great offroad, but otherwise a lot of fun.

Here I am, doing my best to make a front wheel drive car sideways.. Which isn't terribly hard as it turns out...

My ride is an old Falcon station wagon. It's not built for very rough tracks but I've had it on some that I perhaps shouldn't have.
It does get the family, friends and I to many caches and I've even slept in it at a MEGA.

Cheers Bluedog, thanks for the fun.

The Trekkers love 4WDing and caravanning and have just updated their geomobile to a Toyota Landcruiser.

Thanks Bluedog

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My old cachemobile was a Camry that used to go places that my son wouldn't allow me to take his Hilux. Attached pic shows the Camry cachemobile parked up on a large rock in the Avon Valley National Park.

The photo was taken in December 2014 at a spot where I had stopped to hide an Ammo box at the rock and to have a cuppa - the cuppa and the ammo box are both visible in the pic.

Thanks for the locationless cache Bluedog

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I'm not one to get too excited about cars, simply a means for getting about from A to B, or cache to cache. My cachemobile is my trusty old 2003 Toyota Hilux ute, not too much to look at but she keeps on going.. thanks..!!

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I have changed vehicles since my last claim and this one is now 4 years old and is going to be replaced within the next 6 months. This Mazda 3 SP25 has gone places with this obsession that most people would tremble at. TFTC

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One of the cars below is my cachemobile. Not sure which one. However, I am currently on my fourth YESmobile...and this one has aged prematurely due to geocaching. Too many dirt roads looking for trig, I guess. Took at a location while doing some cache maintenance.

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My cache mobile is a 2000 model Suzuki Grand Vitara, and despite serious 4WDers looking at it as a soft roader it isn't. With low range and good underbody protection it's not too bad. Sure enough it can't handle the deep ruts some of the other cars can drive, but with the smaller wheelbase it can also stay out of them a lot of the time. Anyway I like it, the alternate caching car is the work Commodore wagon which is comfortable but has a shit turning circle and no clearance. To see the Zook in action just look at my profile which shows it jumping sand dunes in South Australia, well over one metre off the ground and having fun. That's how I play life and caching - has to be fun.

http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/richary

Darvill Road
Orchard Hills, NSW

Here's my new 'Cachemobile for the day!'

I left my usual GeoBuru2 in Penrith for its regular service, and get this loanmobile for four hours.

rogerw3 and used it to travel all over the place doing some geocaching.

Orchard Hills was the furthest east we went, to 'The Hauntings' geocache, where I took a photo of the latest Cachemobile with my trusty, imported Tom Tom GPSr.

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The car for this trip-we remember it by Geocaching's quite hard

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This is 'Philly' - took this cachemoblie on a recent caching trip to Katherine NT

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This is EDNA - we took her out caching recently on the Cox Peninsula ....

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Our most recent cachemobile is affectionately known as 'Douglas'. Enjoyed many days out caching with some geobuddies during the dry season in this car.

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Well, to claim the cache, one of our two caching mobiles, is our grey Ford Focus, with a TB on the back of it. It has proved to be a very good 2WD in most conditions. This photo was taken at the cache, ELG, in Queanbeyan NSW.

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Our cachemobile while we were at the MEGA event in Murray Bridge recently ...

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In June 2011 my then cache mobile was just 4 and had a lot of mileage on the clock so we traded the Magentis in on a Mazda 3. Even tho it is only 2.5 years it has got a lot of mileage on the clock and the majority of it from driving for caches. When it turns 4 it will be time to let it go also.

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This is my usual Cachemobile, in fact I would say over 90% of my caching involves this mode of transport in one way or another.
One big advantage is that it is quite comfortable and chauffeur driven!
Usually at the end of the ride I have to hot foot it or on occasion use a bus to get within walking distance of my destination and that could be 10 to 15 km away (plus return).

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I needed a ladder to retrieve my 300th cache and it was too far to carry (14km return) it so I made my own Cachemobile "The Semi".

'Betty' our geomobile while on a recent caching trip to the Gold Coast....

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This is our current 4WD geomobile that goes anywhere off the beaten track to those out of the way caches...

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My current caching car whilst in NZ

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My Cachemobile is a GC.com Travel Bug that counts how many km's we have traveled together, at this stage, with only 79 physical caches found, we have traveled 1069km's.
So far my TB has been discovered by only my daughter so if any of you would like to discover a picture of the TB.... FEEL FREE..!

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A pic of the family in the back of the cache mobile at Fall Fling - a state wide geocache event in North Carolina.

Our rental cachemobile while on a recent trip to Brisbane - once we got on the road our first cache find was GC1WZFE Yappa ....

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for the last 2 years the cachemobile has been a Mitsubishi outlander awd. Goodish ground clearance for where I want to take it and no problems with snow, ice or mud . It has been fitted with extra power sockets for GPS, iphone and laptop. With camping gear, hiking gear and fishing gear in the boot this is set for extended trips and many activities

My usual cachemobile is my beloved Toyota Soarer (not to be confused with a Lexus SC400). Whilst I can travel in comfort and style on the "good" roads, unfortunately ground clearance is somewhat limited on the "not-so-good" roads, which often leaves me walking for further than some other cachers may have to.

red tags cache mobile has at times been a motorbike
It has a GPS mount on the handlebars and even though its only a 600cc it is red so it goes fast which is handy for a FTF
Thanks for the cache Bluedog

Yet another cachemobile for the day!

Had to put the GeoBuru2 in for service at Valley Heights, and got this Subaru Forester as a loan car.

Immediately drove down to find Glenbrook Ramble #17 - Ribit, Ribit.

Very successful!

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Rental Cachemobile
Half Moon Bay, CA
U. S. A.

Here's what we rented in the US to replace our usual GeoBuru2.

Mrs. pjmpjm is modelling with the car . . .

We were at the 'In Memory Of' GZ, having just logged it.

Three caches logged around this area, in the space of an hour.

Then we visited the redwood forest . . .

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Rental Cachemobile
High Street
Ellsworth, ME
U. S. A.

Here's a photo of me and my penultimate rented cachemobile in the US. I'm getting 'gas' (shouted by my brother) and am about to drive from Maine down to Massachusetts to pick up Mrs. pjmpjm. In the event, I managed to log more than 20 caches en route!

It's a dual cab 'crew cab' Dodge pickup truck . . . automatic transmission and 4WD. Very handy . . .

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The majority of my finds have been done on 2 wheels, mostly on mountain bike but sometimes on road bike. This is a shot on a ride up Mt Donna Buang in Winter, fresh snow made for a tough ride and had to walk the last bit to the summit road.

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In 2008 our two cars went to a 'better place' within two weeks of each other, leaving us carless. In steps another cachemobile - a Mazda Metro.
As the picture shows, even the wildlife likes it. We (my two boys, and self) were camping at Island Bend, in Kosciusko NP.
It has done its' fair share of 'soft' 4-wd'ing including backing up some very steep rock tracks.

This was our cachemobile while we were at the Oz Mega Event in Albury ... Loved having the flags so we stood out to other cachers.... Anah our trusty cachemobile

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The Ultimate Cachemobile
Shell Station
Corner of Magpie Hollow Road & Great Western Highway
South Bowenfels, NSW

This is my dream-mobile, for caching or for anything else. Found it while geocaching near Lithgow, NSW, with rogerw3 and my cousin Drew from the U. S. A.

Cousin Drew stood in for me (on the left) in the photograph.

It might not be entirely practical, but I'd still love to have it!

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GCA 297 - 4526. My Holden Epica - mild mannered town car during the work day - Extreme caching Mobile at all other times !

My Cachemobile / Travel Bug has travelled many many Kms for caching. Up hills, off road, creek crossings, you name it. Haven't got caught anywhere - yet ! Attached are a couple of photos out in the field....

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This is the cachemobile I get the most enjoyment from using, the old deadly treadly. The alternate cachemobile can also be seen.

We loved our Hi-Lux - she took us around Lake Torrens last year and was also a great work-horse. Went caching with Forest Farmers in matching Geo-luxes once or twice. We recently upgraded to a cruiser which also takes us most places.

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This was my geomobile in NZ on a recent caching holiday there. The actual owner was a bit shocked at times at the places I expected it to go but nevertheless we went there and found heaps of caches.

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Since starting geocaching we have used three cachemobiles. The workhorse was the white Ford Laser which we used in Tasmania and it went where 2WDs were not designed to go. Stig-Gnome looked at it at one stage but was not impressed – in fact, he was downright scornful. However it was reliable and honest but after 455 000km it was getting very tired – it was running on something approaching 3 cylinders and needed an extensive, but totally uneconomic, overhaul and repairs. Reluctantly it was consigned to the wreckers. We replaced the Laser with the red Toyota 4WD wagon (known as “Red Ned”) which is proving to be an excellent car for caching in Tasmania although we do not take it to areas where serious (or cavalier?) 4WDs might go. Throughout the caching lives of the Laser and the Toyota we have had our newer car, the Ford Focus (known as “Ruby”). This is the car we took on our extended tour of South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Having lower clearance and not suited to rough areas, we kept to sealed roads and those gravel roads which were in good condition. Hire cars have been used on other jaunts to the big island, New Zealand and Norfolk Island. Cachemobiles are an integral part of the caching experience and are driven with purpose and pride.

Cache mobile today was the Transport Ackomobile III. I had to go to a cache of mine that was reported missing so seeing that it is on an island in the Nepean River on goes the Geo Canoe. So Ute Dog II is roped into the game to act as a cute decoy, if'n needed. So FeeBee and I drive off into the morning sun. we arrived and their was only a couple o' fishermen to disturb the rescue operation, off comes the Waterry accessibility implement and then Ute Dog II in the bow leading the operation we set off. Upon reaching the aforesaid Island we approached said GZ and Hey Presto Cache still there. So i changed the log, as it were damp. Ute Dog II, FeeBee, and I job, extremely well done head back to shore and load up and head off up towards Springwood to try and grab some Winmalee caches.
Acko

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This is my trusty geomobile .... having a 4WD has been quite helpful on the quest for caches ....

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My 2008 Hilux (which replaced my old 97') up on Pig Hill - Brindabella NP

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The cachemobile on the hunt for a location for a new cache we have in mind.

This car can suddenly turn into 4wd if I am desparate for a find

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My "Roomobile"with travel bug.

This is my geomobile complete with travel bug.

Geocruiser gets us where we want to go! Our reliable cachmobile.

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my geomobile, a 20year old 4 cylinder thing I treat like a 4wd... despite this she can still reach speeds needed for timetravel and is a little trooper.

I'm sorry DD, I really should treat you better and wash you sometime...

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=2dbafe72-763a-4902-963d-975db56b84cc <--- if you ever see me around

A picture of our cache mobile at a recent drive up to the top of a hill to visit a once secret WW2 military facility...and a cache!

This is our cachemobile when we are in a hurry.

263. While waiting for the day to begin I'm sitting here checking which virtuals I can check off. Well here is the Adventra at Bathurst. She was specifically bought so that I could get over slightly rougher ground to make some caches more accessible. And the front cupholders - you've got to see the front cupholders in action.

TFTC and To the cachemobile Robin.

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This is our cachemobile. She is a 93 Hilux with a Turbo, long range tank and decked out with gps's and cb's for the long journies. She has travelled from Darwin to Melbourne and many places in between.

My current cache mobile

This is our caching rig that we use when on the road. It was used on our trip last year to Lake Eyre and up the Strzelecki Track to get Burke and Wills caches at the Dig Tree etc. The car is used every week for caching too.

One of my two cachmobiles. 2007 holden Viva. The other is 96 Nissan Patrol.

The Viva has 101,000k's on the clock now, and I would say at least half of those would be cache related.

Photo of my patrol added as well......

TFTL

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My other cache mobile, it was used when we were on the Coast, doing the three wetland caches

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My Mountain Bike IS my cachemobile. My cachemobile can go where cars cannot!

S35° 51.991' E148° 57.120'
1st 2 pics - bike at WATERHOLE HUT - Found during a leisurely ride on a big cache ride with Norkmeister & Fogg.

3rd pic - bike at S35° 53.229' E148° 58.295'
WESTERMANS HUT - Found during a leisurely ride on a big cache ride with Norkmeister & Fogg.

4th pic - bike at S35° 47.396' E148° 58.010'
HOSPITAL CREEK HUT - Found during a leisurely ride on a big cache ride with Norkmeister & Fogg.


Final pic - one dirty cachemobile.

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Here's a photo of my GeoBuru and GPSr in front of the 'Quota Fountain' in Katoomba. I'd driven there to check out the deactivated GC cache of that same name and thought it was a good opportunity to photograph my ever-faithful transportation, which has taken me to more than 500 caches. Inside I have a Tom Tom mounted on the dashboard. With AWD the GeoBuru gets me to most trailheads and even beyond.

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I love my Jumbuck. His name is "True Blue" and he has taken me more then 40,000km around this great country this year and together we have found over 1300 caches. I have never been more proud of him then on our trip to WA and back across the Nullarbor. We had a great run, cleared the route of caches within striking distance of the road and even hit a few "4x4" tracks for short distances to make finds (not a bad effort in a 4cyc 1.5L Front Wheel Drive Malaysian Ute! ) Sadly he will be up for sale soon at the end of the year as I am moving to the UK for 11 months So before I go I wanted to honour him here, in his proudest moment, just about to cross the Nullarbor for the second time!

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Here's my cachemobile triton - at "Stuck in a hole" which was strangely listed just a couple of days after this...

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Caching in Bathurst in our Cachemobile

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Caching in Bathurst in our Cachemobile

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The wet days are no good for caching

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Beautiful day to be by the river caching with oz brady bunch and having our lunch nearby ‘Argyle Reach’ cache. The 4WD belongs to Oz B B. Thanks Team Bluedog

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Here's the "BMW" (Beat-up Magna Wagon) on the clifftop at Royal Park. I recently upgraded to a new cachemobile, after this one served me well throughout my geocaching "career". I still miss it, but not the repair bills to keep it on the road. Cheers!

My poor Wacky Mobile died in the line of duty, and I still miss him terribly - whilst caching our way around the remote north-west of Tasmania, my Cruiser sacrificed himself to save Chugger and I in a terrible accident with a mining truck - to enable our trip to continue, a Pathfinder was purchased the following day, however he has never quite cut it as our caching mobile, so another Cruiser is definitely on the cards in the very near future

In the background our Freelander which we have owned for nearly three years. It has taken ourselves and friends on many caching trips without any hiccups apart from the occasional flat tyre. Photographed on the Hay plain on a recent Winglen and McPhan trip.

This is the Geo Landy. Has all the 4x4 toys and is a proven off roader. There is also a 4x4 camping trailer tagging behind at times.

Our Cachemobile goes everywhere and is extremely trustworthy

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This was a temp cachemobile as we had just taken some cadets to Point Cook and on the way home we stopped of for a couple of caches

Bluedog's newer cachemobile and yes, I was being bad

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This is one of my cache mobiles. Easy to get around the burbs, dont have to worry about tram tracks, bike paths, gutters.
Not sure how many miles we have done together. But my other treadly and I would have clocked up many scores of thousands of kilometres

This is my geomobile. My electric pushbike! Gps is on the handlebars and the keys go into the battery at the back. It averages about 20km on one charge. Its a beauty! Motor is on the front wheel and it also has its very own TB on it so if you see me out be sure to discover me!

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Our CacheMobile on a recent caching trip, camped next to the Weld River in NE Tassie. Mazda BT-50 with our trusty Trayon camper set up for the night. Not another person in sight, just the way we like to camp - just the wildlife to amuse us. Added a snorkel and long range tank since that photo getting it ready for a long trip next year hopefully. Get around 11Ltr/100km with the camper and all the gear on board.

The beloved Tarago. Team tarago it has been every where even a 4 star 4WD track. Airbourne and sliding everywhere on a dirt track. Such a reliable work horse. to Wagga and back and Jamestown last weekend. We even use it as a ladder

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My beautiful Toyota Torago was a little stuck on the weekend for the Jamestown long weekend event.

My cachemobile is a Rodeo 3.0ltr ITD...which I've had since new. Extremely pleased with its performance and fuel economy...which is running at 8.77ltr/100km over it's 139,00km journey....which has included plenty of rough tracks of course....Cheers ST.

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Hi again, my cache mobile is a Toyota. Have taken through some pretty rough areas in search of plastic, but love it. Cheers OldSaint.

Coley_Babee's Main Cachemobile is her wonderful Hyundai Excel!!

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This is my bike that I normally use to find caches.

A week ago I upgrade my cache mobile to a more environmentally sensitive vehicle. I picked up this 2008 Prius (with i-tech) at a govt vehicle auction. I even got it under the reserve price. I fits the five of us comfortably and has all the extra like reversing camera, sat nav built in, bluetooth integrated. Plus the cool Hibrid technology like a thermos flask that the engine fluid is pump into to keep it hot while the engine is turns off as you coast down hills or park for a a few days.

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We use either our Nissan Patrol GQ or our Ford Territory.
The Carnage Patrol is shown here

As Geocaching newbies, we were FTFers after found a cache at B-Limey GCC87F on 22 January 2003 (for first time as Geocachers and FTFers too). We had a fond of memory using this 4x4 geomobile for our geocaching hunt. This was one of our favourites and it was very handy to sleep at the back anywhere and any time when we were hunting / travelling. Best of thing that happened is to sleep overnight at the back after parked at the beach and rolled up the canvas to watch the sea in the morning with a $million view.

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While caching in Sydney, I usually travel on the adventure with my mate Walenator and his trusty 1951 Land Rover, WALSTR

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Last year we said goodbye to our trusty Cachemobile, Bill the Mazda 121. This tiny bubble car took us to some amazing places, including a few in Chowilla Game Reserve, where most people take 4WDs.
Our new cachemobile is a Subaru Impreza and it's a much comfier ride. This nice closeup is of part of the car after travelling to and from the Oz Mega Wagga Wagga event cache, after which the cachemobile got the most thorough cleaning of its life (it still smells of locust).

My trusty steed a Nissan Pulsar. No off road work but a reliable machine.

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