WanAus 212 - Darwin ICEM - Lameroo Beach Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
By WanderingAus on 10-Aug-12. Waypoint GA4540

Should be an easy find near one of WanderingAus' favourite places.

I've Cached Everywhere, Man is the largest cache series hidden in Australia. It is made up of the locations made famous by Lucky Star in the song "I've been everywhere" in 1962, lyrics by Geoff Mack, as well as other towns mentioned in verses made up by geocachers.

Darwin is the seventeenth place mentioned in the song, at Line five in Verse one.

Having visited Darwin four times since I discovered geocaching I own a few Darwin caches and have found quite a lot. Having "found a cache" there I could then place an ICEM cache there too. (I won't place an ICEM cache in any place where I haven't found a cache of some sort first - my rule for me only).

Cached in:
Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba,
Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah,
Birdsville, Emmaville, Wallaville, Cunnamulla,
Condamine, Strathpine, Proserpine, Ulladulla,
Darwin, Gin Gin, Deniliquin, Muckadilla,
Wallumbilla, Boggabilla, Kumbarilla,
I'm a killer.

Having decided to place an ICEM cache in Darwin the next decision was where to place it. I have plenty of favourite spots in and around Darwin, so I put all the names in a list and narrowed it down to the best six, put those six in a hat, and pulled them all out.

Lameroo Beach is Darwin’s solitary downtown beach. It is located at the base of 15 metre high densely vegetated bluffs toward the centre of the Bicentennial Park. A graded concrete walkway leads down through tropical rain forest to the beach, where the trees overhang much of the straight, low energy, 100 metre long, sand and gravel beach. It faces southwest into the harbour, with rocky tidal flats exposed at low tide.

It is a popular spot for Swimming, Surfing, Fishing, and just lazing around in a pleasant environment which is mostly shaded from the hot sun.

For over four years the Traditional geocache GC16PBN Lameroo Beach by  gibbo003 attracted the geocaching crowd to Lameroo Beach. I found it in May 2008, and last year I visited three more times on trackable grab and drop runs. Sadly that cache was archived earlier this year, but happily just 22 days later it was replaced by GC3F8B5 Bee Hide by TiedyeSmileys, a single offset Multi with a clever twist at the end.

This cache is a drab camo'd 110mm x 80mm x 80mm plastic cliplock container with a log, 2 pencils, a sharpener, a boomerang keyring, 2 crocodiles, a horse, a cow, a goat and a dinosaur. Please be sure to put the lid on tightly and conceal it as found, and watch out for muggles. If the lid seems to be hard to clip, try turning it around 180°, that should do the trick.

Due to the magnificent tropical rain forest providing excellent overhead tree cover, you may have difficulty getting a gpsr fix. If you follow the pathway all the way straight down, past the two beach paths, as far as the gate which usually blocks the path near the end, the cache is within about three metres in the logical spot. If the gate doesn't block the path don't go through it anyway, but I've never seen it unlocked. 

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.

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