WanAus 219 - Pine Creek ICEM Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
By WanderingAus on 18-Aug-12. Waypoint GA4548

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S13° 48.892' E131° 49.733' (WGS 84)
	52L 805847E 8470944N (UTM)
Elevation:	203 m
Local Government Area:	Victoria Daly Region

Map

Whodunit Geocache

Description

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.

Pine Creek is the 156th place mentioned in the song, at Line five in GCA Verse Seven. Having visited Pine Creek eight times since I discovered geocaching (four times heading north, three times heading south, and this time turning north off the Kakadu Highway before running south through the town, I had found five caches there, so I could happily place an ICEM cache there. (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).

GCA Verse Seven by Trigg-A-Nomics
I've cached in Tarlee, Marree, Waikerie, Yongala,
Coobowie, Terowie, Nangwarry, Barmera,
Woomera, Virginia, Wudinna, Kyancutta
Alice Springs, Spalding, Iron Knob, Curramulka
Pine Creek, Leigh Creek, Tennant Creek, Oodnadatta
Taperoo, Jabiru, Buckleboo, Orroroo!

Having decided to place an ICEM cache in Pine Creek the next decision was where to place it. All around Pine Creek there are signs of regular fires, except where muggle presence makes anything larger than a micro impossible to hide safely. The philosophy of the ICEM serie is "at least small size", so I found a spot where some concrete rubble should provide a reasonable chance of survival for my cache, not far off the road.

This cache is a drab camo'd 1 Kg screwtop fruit container, concealed within some concrete rubble to protect from fire and muggling, with a small termite mound covering the opening to protect from sun. Initial contents are a log, 2 pencils, a sharpener, 2 crocodiles, 2 cows, 2 pigs and a dog. Please be sure to seal the ziplock bag, screw the lid on tightly and conceal it as found, and watch out for muggles.

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

Ehooyr!

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

17-Jul-23

Team737

On our way to Kakadu today, we found more GA than GC! This was a nice find, all in good condition too.

Rated: for Overall Experience

03-Jul-23

gooseandegg

Found with Stainless steel rat as we head south. TFTC

03-Jul-23

stainless-steel-rat

a well hidden icem that goose spotted without issue

12-Jul-21

ROSS1957

After neatly 4 years since the last find the environment dad started to cover the container. All good inside and ready for the next cacher.
tftc

26-Aug-17

Whheels

Visited on the way from Jabiru to Edith Falls. A quick find, and all safe and in good nick.

The piece of anthill has gone, but rocks from nearby have been recruited to protect the long serving fruit container from the elements and juggling eyes.

Again, love your work Wandering Aus. Many thanks for the cache.

23-Apr-17

geono.

Wow! This cache has been getting found more this month than in all it's previous history. Great to find another old ICEM still going strong. Very Happy

TFTC WanderingAus.

Rated: for Overall Experience

23-Apr-17

FelixII

With 2 nights at Mataranka, it was time to move on towards Adelaide River for Anzac Day.

We do love this series. Clapping

Stopped in here to find your cache as we wandered by. Cache in good order.

TFTC

19-Apr-17

LuckyL10n

#GA1536 - 16:30; Day 18 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune, albida33 and fitzy_1965. After a night in Mataranka and an early morning swim in the 'thermal' pool we were headed north for Adelaide River along the Stuart Highway. Stopped off in Pine Creek for a couple of caches, including this one. All in good order despite the time between visits. TFTC WanderingAus Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

19-Apr-17

albida33

Alice trip 2017. Day 16. Another day of driving, today from Mataranka to Adelaide River. Long distances with fewer caches, but great country.

Thanks
Albida

19-Apr-17

fitzy_1965

Geocaching Australia (GCA) Cache Find Number 1405. Found during Day 8 of my epic 21 day visit to Alice Springs for the Red Centre Experience Event and further travels after that.

Flew into Alice Springs and met up with my fellow intrepid team members Sol de Lune, Albida33 and LuckyL10n for the start of an amazing trip throughout the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and eventually back to Canberra. The Red Centre Experience is the main attraction of course, but also on our agenda are a lot of GC Caches, lots of trigs, as well as plenty of GCA Trads, History and Virtual Caches (and maybe the odd beer or two ??!! Smile. Go Clan Cerberus !

Another Trad for the trip while heading north. We stopped here to look around and grab some caches. Some nice history around here. Lots of piccies taken. Then it was back in the car and off to the next one !

Another great location visited during our journey.

TFTC !!

Rated: for Overall Experience

19-Apr-17

Sol de lune

Been a while between drinks but we found the cache without issues. A few ants had invaded the place, however the contents are all still find.

Thanks for another one WanderingAus...

Rated: for Overall Experience

16-Aug-15

Tassie Trekkers

Staying at Pine Creek for a couple of days we took the opportunity to find some nearby caches and this was one of them.

The area around GZ had recently been burnt but the cache was safe and in good condition. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

22-Jul-13

SeabreezeOZ

Found on our Kakadu leg of round Aust trip
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Rated: for Overall Experience

18-Jun-13

firesafe

After 5 days in Darwin for the V8's and a little sightseeing it was time to head south back to the cold. Of course we grabbed caches on the way.

Quick find and sign for this one. TFTC.

21-Aug-12

muff1

On my days off I headed into Pine Creek to grab this one. Thanks Keith for bringing ushere. SL TFTC

18-Aug-12

WanderingAus

Ready to roll, cache on!