WanAus 220 - Tennant Creek ICEM Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
By
WanderingAus on 18-Aug-12. Waypoint GA4549
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Nano |
| Coordinates: | S19° 38.827' E134° 10.748' (WGS 84) |
| 53K 413941E 7827360N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 372 m |
| Local Government Area: | Barkly Region |
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Description
Should be an easy find on the outskirts of 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.
Tennant Creek is the 158th place mentioned in the song, at Line five in GCA Verse Seven. Having visited Tennant Creek three times since I discovered geocaching, once heading south, and last year and this year coming south for a two day stay before returning north as far as Three Ways before heading east along the Barkly Highway, I had found two caches within the town in 2011, 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 Tennant Creek the next decision was where to place it. All around Tennant 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 modified my cache to enable hiding it with an excellent chance of survival, very close to the road.
This cache is a screwtop fruit container, containing a log, 2 pencils, a sharpener, and an assortment of animal swaps. Please be sure to seal the ziplock bag, screw the lid on tightly and conceal it as found, and watch out for muggles. It is very important that the cache is secure before you leave it.
Please don't reveal the method of hiding in your logs.
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
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Logs
Seriously though, thanks for the cache WanderingAus.
An easy find - thanks Everlasting for replacing this one - good to tick another ICEM off the list.
Thanks
Albida
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 south. We stopped here to look around and grab some caches. 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 !!
Did a bit of a cache dash around TC before leaving this am. A DNF on thirsty nynikka of course and then a nice easy FTF on this one.
TFTC
