Grass Tree Giants The Vines, Western Australia, Australia
By
Outenabout on 18-May-10. Waypoint GA2098
Cache Details
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| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S31° 45.705' E115° 59.654' (WGS 84) |
| 50J 404752E 6485531N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 31 m |
| Local Government Area: | Swan |
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Description
A straight forward 10th Anniversary cache located near some of the tallest Grass Tree's I have ever seen.
The cache is a 1ltr camouflaged Sistema with all the usual things. There are certificates for the first three finders and a prize for the 1stTF.
There are some tracks leading to the North from Bordeaux Lane and enough room to park on the edge of the road. Although the walk in is on sand, it is quite firm and easy going.
I hope you enjoy your walk through this little area of bush where I have regularly had friendly visits by Kangaroo's.
Congratulations to Varuna and ROgue on being joint 1stTF, to AusTrackers for 2ndTF and to Chwiliwr for 3rdTF.
Hints
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Logs
Great little spot. Had to jump the fence with the little one on my back, but it was worth it. Lovely spot! So many grass trees!
The hive is still there and we barked up that and a few other wrong trees (I'll make sure to bring the GPS next time, just thought I'd jump out quickly with the phone for this one.)
First find in over a year by the looks, still in great condition. Thanks for the cache!
The hive is still there and we barked up that and a few other wrong trees (I'll make sure to bring the GPS next time, just thought I'd jump out quickly with the phone for this one.)
First find in over a year by the looks, still in great condition. Thanks for the cache!
TFTC Outenabout. It is wonderful to such magnificent grass trees like these still within suburbia. Thanks for bringing me here, very impressed with our flora and fauna. 
Rated: for Overall Experience
Finally found this one. Was here last year but a bee hive scared me off. Came back today, hive still there but luckily the cache is some 10m to the north, so circumnavigate the hive for a quick find. Also liberated the moveable GCA frog that's been here for almost a year. TFTC. 
Rated: for Overall Experience
'The coordinator' has been promoted to 'the navigator' on finding this fantastic cache 
'The seeker' temporarily became 'the freaker' when she thought she was lost in the bush!! All in all a great fun trek through this wild bit of Ellenbrook Bush 
PS Don't do this in thongs!!
'The seeker' temporarily became 'the freaker' when she thought she was lost in the bush!! All in all a great fun trek through this wild bit of Ellenbrook Bush PS Don't do this in thongs!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found it this morning with my Son, had great walk and conversation along the way. Just a great time together. 
Rated: for Overall Experience
Loved this cache.. found at night, the geodog loves jumping fences and after crossing 2 she was off after a kangaroo! scared us a little but we soldiered on. the grass trees were HUGE! biggest ive ever seen.. great spot =D
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found with Blossom, the BEST cache site in W.A.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Wow! What a brilliant spot. We really enjoyed the walk to GZ through the sandy bushland and all the grass trees gave us a small preview of the main attraction. Thanks to whoever left the nice prodding stick near the cache, saves on any snakey surprises
GZ is in a really fabulous spot. Strike-a-light LOVES grass trees so he was in s-a-l heaven! We took about 10 photos from this way and that way, with him in the photo and out of the photo, with upright and landscape views and walked back to the car just as a big rain cloud opened up. I bet all the grass trees will love the rain.
Top cache and it's great to find another 10 year anniversary cache, they all seem to be really great locations.
GZ is in a really fabulous spot. Strike-a-light LOVES grass trees so he was in s-a-l heaven! We took about 10 photos from this way and that way, with him in the photo and out of the photo, with upright and landscape views and walked back to the car just as a big rain cloud opened up. I bet all the grass trees will love the rain.
Top cache and it's great to find another 10 year anniversary cache, they all seem to be really great locations.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out Looking for "ned" no Gnomes to be found.... Looks like Chwiliwr was a bit ahead of us... Found the cache ... nice Hide Outenabout... FelixII SL & took a card & left Card Watch out for the Boomers... TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found after approaching from the west, 160m , easy going apart from a fence crossing
TFTH
TFTH
Rated: for Overall Experience
Parked up on the verge, and enjoyed a nice stroll into the cache, a nice oasis which we hope remains untouched, and dosnt too quickly become a dump ground for the locals trash.
Thanks to the clue, we made a quick and easy find on this warm Winters Day.
TNLNSL..Many thanks for the cache here.
Thanks to the clue, we made a quick and easy find on this warm Winters Day.
TNLNSL..Many thanks for the cache here.
The grass trees are large, but we have seen bigger!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Called in to find the cache after doing a nearby GC cache.
Thanks for the cache and the certificate.
Thanks for the cache and the certificate.
Rated: for Overall Experience
There are certainly some big grass trees here, and what a beautiful piece of bushland. We hope it is safe from all the development going on around it! Took the 2TF certificate - thank you and thanks for bringing us here.
Called passed today to check on cache after the rain and all is good. 2nd & 3rdTF are still up for grabs.
Parked my car closest to the coords that I could, and spotted a 4WD up the sandy track, and a person walking out of the bush back to their car. Oh well, I thought, I will get STF.
Walked up and saw it was Varuna just as she was driving off, but she came back and said she hadn't found it because there was a fence in the way.
We walked in together and spent a while searching the many many grass tress. Eventually she found the cache first, but was very generous to share the FTF with me. We only took the FTF card and split the prize - thanks very much, one of mine was a $4 winner
Thanks for the cache and happy anniversary to Geocaching!
Walked up and saw it was Varuna just as she was driving off, but she came back and said she hadn't found it because there was a fence in the way.
We walked in together and spent a while searching the many many grass tress. Eventually she found the cache first, but was very generous to share the FTF with me. We only took the FTF card and split the prize - thanks very much, one of mine was a $4 winner
Thanks for the cache and happy anniversary to Geocaching!
After parked, I was about to drive around to the better place and saw a lady walking along the fence. Hey do I recognise her? and reserved the geomobile back and parked after recognised it was R0gue! Decided that we go and hunt together. Spent a few minutes searching around and finally found it and happy to be a joint FTFers. We took 1st Finder card and the prize. Thanks to Outenabout for the cache. Happy birthday to all.
Rated: for Overall Experience
