The Tasman Arch Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, Australia
By Aradilla on 15-May-07. Waypoint GC12YB6

Recording my BIG disappointment - heading to Tazzie later this year, and had this EC on my list....
Love Earth caches - they take us to wonderful places, teach us or reinforce past learnings and let us move on without any search damage that a regular cache can encourage.

Time has come to put this cache to a rest as in the last few months more and more people did not bother to fullfill the logging requirement correctly.

It was good to revisit The Tasman Arch after nearly 40 years - still a marvel. This find is logged with permission of the owner. TFTC Aradilla

Great day

Found with the Wandering Dragons, but our answers were not correct, so we are marking this as a DNF, as that is the right thing to do. I hope to be back someday.

This entry was edited by Violet Butterfly on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 08:38:46 UTC.

Found with Violet Butterfly. Beautiful area, tough questions. Owner of the cache said our answers were incorrect, however, so we have changed this from a found to a DNF. We hope to return in 10 years and get the right answers then. Thanks for the challenge!

This entry was edited by The Wandering Dragons on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 08:36:51 UTC.

Found while caching in the area, have visited here BC so nice to return for a cache. The Tasman Peninsula has some fascinating formations and this is one of the highlights. Have emailed Ardilla with required info thanks.

Called out to this after visiting Port Arthur historic site. It is an amazing coast line and the largest of this type of feature I can recall seeing. Took a few photos before walking down to the Devils Kitchen which was good but not quite as good as the Arch.

TFTC

Will upload photos when we return home and can get them off the camera.

Amazing location. Impressive views from the sea lookouts.

After parking the caravan at a property at Taranna ($10 per night for self contained vehicles) we made our way out to do some caching. This was one we targetted and enjoyed. This piece of coast has so many scenic wonders and most enjoyable. Thanks Aradilla

Amazing coast around here - collected answers, photos which will send on on return to Adelaide on 15th. Devil's Kitchen amazing also.

nice one
answers sent - but had trouble counting the layers [:oD]
* even with the photo
TFTC

On a day with nearly perfect weather we stopped on our round trip around the tasman peninsula of course also at the Tasman Arch. Nice place.

Greetings from Germany
Vagre

Stopped off here along with Redgums on our way to Port Arthur. Enjoyed all the little walks and great coastal scenery. Answers to tasks have been emailed for approval.

Luckily we visited this site the day before the rain started.
Thanks for the visit.

On my trip with my daughter Aussiefalke we traveled tree days to Tasmania.
We also stopped at this cache, since nature has left us a beautiful natural phenomenon.
Thank you for showing and Log-permissions
Best greetings from Germany
Team sissifalke


This entry was edited by Team sissifalke on Monday, 14 November 2011 at 07:59:35 UTC.

On my trip with Team sissifalke we travel three Days throug Tasmania.
We also stopped at this cache.
Thanks
Aussiefalke

Very nice Earthcache
On my trip with my daughter Aussiefalke we travel three Days throug Tasmania.
We also stopped at this cache.
A nice place
Thanks and best greetings from Germany
da_Mo

Found by Team Ladava while on a week in Tasmania with some non-caching friends from W.A.
This remarkable geological feature was one of the tourist spots we had planned to visit so our friends took pity on us and our withdrawal from our Geocaching addiction and we spent a little extra time taking the necessary photos to log this cache.
Logged with kind permission from the owner.
Locations like this are 'the icing on the cake' of Geocaching.
Our thanks to Aradilla for the cache at this location.
Cheers
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
*Overall Experience: 4*

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another interesting stop on our visit to the peninsula for the weekend. Thanks.

Visited this area with Old Boots in the campervan after a trip down to Port Arthur. Loved this stretch of coastline a definate highlight of our tour. The track to Devils Kitchen was comfortable with my walking stick. There weren't many muggles around that side they all seemed content to stay on the carpark side. The tasks I found difficult. TFTC Greetings from New Zealand.

WOW - What an incredible place. We probably would have come here anyway but the lure of an earthcache ensured that we did. We spent quite a while looking around and completing the tasks. Thanks for this great cache.

Really enjoyed our time at the arch and Devils Kitchen. TFTC

On a long weekend trip with fitzy_1965 to Tassie. Driving to Port Arthur and finding a few caches along the way.
This is a beautiful place, thanks so much for bringing us here. Fitzy has emailed the info required previously.
Photo attached!

3502 + 105 = 3607. Found during a short visit to Tasmania with ACBC66 !

I've visited the Arch a couple of times before, but I've never paid attention to the geology before ! Photos and measurements taken - email to owner sent !! Thanks Aradilla !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

[purple]iGude[/purple][font=Comic Sans MS]

Wasn't too hard and on top of it you can send your answers in German Unfortunately there wasn't any action in the kitchen ... just a calm day.

[green]Dankeschön & Cheers
Philipp[/green]

[url=http://nightcaching.org][green]Nightcaching Australia[/green][/url]
cache no. 1244
(Rated 5 stars with [url=http://www.gcvote.com]GCVote[/url])

Thoroughly enjoyed our drive to Port Arthur today as it gave us the opportunity to 'grab' some caches also. We've been to Port Arthur before but somehow we've not known about this Tasman Arch until we found out an Earthcache was here. Thanks for organizing the Earthcache Aradilla to bring us here. We had a great visit, learned a lot, and introduced a young German couple to Geocaching. Our granddaughter was fascinated by the Arch and the Devil's Kitchen.

We've emailed the cache 'owners' our answers and received permission to log our 'find'. TFTC!!

I was here 2 days ago not knowing about the cache. But I came to the area again today to see the Tassie Devil feeding nearby. This is a nice area, and indeed a good site for an earth cache (quite close to another equally worthwhile earthcache).

TFTC,
Timbuktunext

Answers will be sent separately to the owner. We are away from UK on 6 week holiday and don't have PC just a phone. Hope Picture comes up with this. Hence logging etc is out of sync. Need to find a hotspot to contact owner
Wouldn't have visited spot by for GC. What a superb place. Thank you

Found while visiting the Tasman Peninsular. Amazing to see the different stages of erosion. The whole coastline seems to be very fascinating on the Peninsular. Thanks for the geology lesson. Fascinating place. TFTC

No Optus reception in the area. Luckily I remembered the other pictures and took plenty to be able to count and measure.

Very wet day, very hard to count layers. Geokids had fun jumping in the puddles. Our first Earthcache TFTC>

This entry was edited by MakkyBrown on Wednesday, 02 February 2011 at 03:44:37.

What a great spot to visit even in the rain. TFTC

After a day at Port Arthur we were returning home and doing some sightseeing / caching on the way.
this whole area is pretty awesome and surprising that this is the only earth cache in the area.
Thanks for bringing us here and for the cache
Photo to follow

Came here with the rest of Earthbound Control and hung over the fence trying to count the layers. felt a bit of vertigo as the arch is so high up.Thanks for the cache,
Photos to follow

Our first ever earth cache. After much debate about layers we took a couple of photos to figure it out later. We measured the distance and got the geo-kid to take the photo with the iphone that we were caching with. Beautiful place we came through her years ago when the kids were little and they still remembered it. Rather a cool day but still a heap of people around. Have now downloaded the photos and am sending one through.

Came here today with Bedmaker.
This is such a beautiful area of Tasmania. We thoroughly enjoyed our time here and the weather was perfect!
Answers to the questions are on their way to the owner.
Many thanks Aradilla for bringing us to such a magic spot!

Visited here with TassieGirl13.
Our first cache for the last day of 2010.
Had a good look around at the Arch and all the other nearby features.
We visited the lookout and were rewarded with some spectacular views on a very clear day.
Pity the tide wasn't a little higher at the time as we would love to have seen more water down below.
Email with the answers are on the way.
TFTC

Fantastic location and our first earth cache in Tasmania - surprised we haven't come across more of them.
Emailed answers to owner and will upload photo on our return to WA.

Another fantastic spot that we have not visited since our honeymoon many years ago. This time, with the Geokids in tow, managed to meander past all the muggles today (was the perfect day to be out) and get a good look at the wonder ful sights on offer.

Email dispatched with what we hope is the correct info. Many thanks for the cache!

We are on an “Escaping Christmas” and “Geocaching” holiday in Tasmania. We found this on our way to Port Arthur. What a spectacular formation. We have sent the required information to the cache owner and have posted a picture of us and our GPS.

We enjoyed our wander around the area, to the lookout and the kitchen -all very interesting. Then two bus loads of school kids arrived and it changed to a push and shove to get to the fence.

Great spot for a cache!

Visited here with JDSavannah. Photos and information to come shortly. Thanks.

657 - Arrived at this one on a wonderfully still morning at around 10:30am. Took the required photographs and made an estimate of the answers. Then we went for a walk to check out Devils Kitchen and the Lookout looking along the magnificent coastline. Simply wonderful. Returned to GZ to make another estimate of the answers as our GPS was damaged yesterday and the top half of the screen is unreadable so the distance markings are not available. Email with pictures sent to the cache owner as requested. TFTC and for pointing out this lovely area Aradilla.

This one was on the do to list while travelling around Tassie
TFTC

Stopped in with the missus during our last visit to Tassie. Enjoyed the scenery and the many similar features along this section of coastline.

Thanks Ardilla for the cache and the "interesting" questions posed.

Cheers

Trobat per l'equip Soniettte. GPC

Found it! Trobat!!!

Found it during our holidays in Australia. We went on a tour from Hobart to Port Arthur and fortunally we stopped to see this nice place.

TFTC.

Another natural beauty. Thanks for bringing us here.

This was a rather special place for me to come today as I had not visited the arch nor the Devil's kitchen since 1974 when
I was down here on a school trip.
Not much has changed, the arch is still standing but the place seems a bit more developed these days.
After admiring the depths, I did my calculations and took my own photo.
Permission to log granted by Aradilla
Thanks

We dropped by here at around 12:30 for a look. I still remember the first time I saw the Arch way back in '76. It was awe inspiring then and still is now. What a sensational spot .

As often happens with us for EarthCaches though, we got one of the answers wrong first up . Thankfully, the learning is part of the beauty of EarthCaches and we finally ended up with the nod for the log .

Took more memories, LN. Many thanks Aradilla.

This entry was edited by EuDes on Friday, 27 August 2010 at 05:42:49.

Hi visited location with representive of Lego Krew.

Photo is of Lego Krew Geo Kid "T" and Budgietas Geo Kid "E"



This entry was edited by Budgietas on Monday, 14 June 2010 at 14:51:22.

Nature has a way of making things unique. Thanks

how incredible is mother nature? it was a joy to find and learn more about this great feature... well worth the visit and I may well be visiting again if time permits to supply a better photo... logged with permission....

cheers 4 da cache Aradilla!

Unfortunately, our answers dont meet the cache owners requirements, so even though we visited the site, we are unable to claim this one as a find. Ahh well, you get that.

Cheers
Bundy

Cache number 2 for the 10th day of our trip to Tasmania and the Mega Event. Arrived there at 0840 hrs, number 128 for the trip so far. Some massive cliffs in this area, makes the Kiama Blowhole seem like a baby. Email off to the owner.

Cheers
Bundy

Spent two days exploring the Tasman Peninsula on our trip down under. Did this cache on day two. Answers sent and picture attached. Thanks for bringing us here.

[This entry was edited by geospyder on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 at 9:15:14 PM.]

Visited the area during our 5 month visit to Australia at the end of a beautiful day. TFTC

Have been here before, but just HAD to come back for another walk in this beautiful area (and, of course, log the cache...)
TFTC!

Dear Tasman,
I really liked your arch! We had a great time checking out your views! Greetings from California! Thanks for a great earthcache! E-mail sent to your owner.

Found 10:15am 3 very interesting formations The Blow Hole, The Tasman Arch and Devils Kitchen.

Found with jkcourtz while visiting Tasmania.

Heazle1
I finally got to bring my children as my parents did many years ago. they really enjoyed see this as they are teenagers now an most likl;ey last family trip

# 189
Great place on a almost sunny day. Tassie is absolutely great.
TFTC
MTKEus from Germany

I have been to this feature more times than I care to remember. Looked in more detail today but found at least the first request difficult to complete. My grandson (18 months) had his first visit here and was duly impressed by the splendour and depth of the arch. Thanks for the reason to visit.

After doing two other caches this morning, Tasmans Arch is our third
cache on our way north.The parking lot was an easy find, the answers
to the questions were more difficult to find. We followed the advice and
photographed the arch so we could do the counting at home .....
The answers requested are mailed.

The photo near the arch was the easiest part of the cache !

Thanks for this wonderful natural phenomenon.

You are a hard taskmaster aradilla. I hope we have fulfilled all of your rules. TFTC

This was a nice place to stop on the way back to Hobart from Port Arthur. After running out to the lookout for the 3rd time as I hadn't read all of the "To-do" list, I had a moment to stop and take in the atmosphere, both here and at the blowhole further down the road.
The views here are spectacular.
Thanks for taking us here!
TFTC

Visited this on our Tassie trip with Indiana08 and saraci.,jaee. It was our second visit to this spectacular geological feature. It reminds us of our beloved Great Ocean Road.
We wonder if this counting of layers by geocachers is part of a community surveillance project of the erosion process of the arch? If that is the case, we can report that since our last visit, 9 months ago, no visible layer has been lost.

Found at 1110hrs as my 36th cache. As I live in the area, I often visit the blowhole area with visitors and friends. The arch is spectacular and I thank you for this visit.
Cheers
OldSaint

15:15 Found on our Touring Tassie and Beyond 2009 Trip!

A nice stop on our way to Hobart from Pt Arthur. An impressive feature. We did the required gathering, and then made our way further down the path to the other features. Thankfully by now the rain had stopped

TNLNSL

15:15 Found on our Touring Tassie and Beyond 2009 Trip!

A nice stop on our way to Hobart from Pt Arthur. An impressive feature. We did the required gathering, and then made our way further down the path to the other features. Thankfully by now the rain had stopped

Answers sent, including picture attachment

TNLNSL

Found this Earthcache on our visit off Tasmania. Really nice area around here.

TFTC JM-Project

Team Hayjagen found this one on the way down to Port Arthur. The Arch is amazing as was the view at the end of the trail. As relative newbies, it looks like we screwed up the directions on our first ever Earthcache, sorry.

L: nothing
T: nothing

TFTC,

Team Hayjagen

What a splendid arch this is and also enjoyed the Devils kitchen nearby. Attached is the required photo and the answers are enrout. We are now back in the UK after a splendid trip to Oz and we really liked Tassie. Thanks for bringing us to this great place

Enjoyed the walk around the area. Goblindust will post our picture. Email has been sent. Thanks!

Pretty amazing item Mother nature has provided for us there. Many thanks

I stood looking at the arch at lunch time and found myself thinking about hamburgers
They are made up of layers too [:o)]
It must have been the hypnotic actions of the waves under the arch that got me into that trance
I wandered around and took some photos and marvelled some more at the views along the coast.
There's geology everywhere you look

26/1/09 12.30pm Team:A
Find 28 of our Southern Invaision Tour, day 3
We did the required tasks, these are amazing places on our earth, and in our country, they bring us back to past learning as well as new learning for others. One wonders how much longer the arch will stay up???
TFTC

[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

17/01/2009 16:53

What a great spot and earthcache! We arrived at The Tasman Arch after a fantastic boat ride around Tasman Island so we were lucky enough to also see the arch from the water side.

Many thanks to Aradilla for bringing us here and showing us this wonderful place!

Cheers, HawMorFords.

15/1/2009 1800hrs
Found by Studit.

An amazing place. What more can I say except that "I'll be back."

I hope I passed the test.

TFTC

Answers on the way.

Thanks
Wandrr and Mrs Wandrr, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Earth caches are always quite interesting and this was no exception, very neat feature. Thanks for bringing us to it and adding to our depth of understanding. Hopefully my answers weren't undermined by my ability to decern layers and luckily the arch did not transform into a second devils garden while we were perched on top. Thanks for the fun.

what a cool rock feature, and nice chips and squid! thanks for bringing us here on our Tassie holiday!

With the wackys - full log to follow and the answers when we return. Full email to follow when we get home as net access is short now.

We stayed just down the road from here for 2 nights but haven't really had much internet access - will get in touch when we get back home in a few weeks time and send you the full answer, then I'll update this log

Thanks for the cache - Wackys and Cached (SA)

We spent 2 weeks exploring Tasmania as part of a 2 month trip to Australia. Tasmania had some of the prettiest coastal scenery we saw. Thanks for bringing us to the Tasman Arch area.

It stopped raining so we made a walk starting at the Tasman Arch to Waterfall Bay. On our way we visited also the Devil's Kitchen, Patterson's Arch and the several lookouts.
Nice coastal views despite the weather. The answers and photo will follow as soon as possible. Thanks for showing this fantastic place.

Aradilla. So kewl to do one of your caches while I was here on holiday. My TB, Sydney was having so much fun without me I had to come and retrieve him personally. You did such a wonderful job hosting him! I don't know if I totally met your requirements of logging this cache, but I will send a picture and tell you how many layers I counted. I was caching with Cheesy Pigs and 3BlindEyes. TFTC! Thank you so much for bringing me to such a wonderful place to see while I was here in Tassie. Jodi of team Fireboy ~ aka Nursegirl

I'm in Tassie with mum and my caching dad (WazzaAndWenches) having a holiday and finding a few caches.
Dad led me to this cache and I had to do the working out for myself, but he emailed the cache owner with details for both of us.
Aradilla replied saying we were correct, so I can now mark this cache as found.
Great watching the waves come crashing in.
TFTC.

Down Tassie way. Doin' the tourist thing. Took the chance to "find" my first earth cache.

A cold blowy day with heavy cloud cover and the everpresent threat of some serious rain didn't stop us from getting out of the geo-hire-mobile and taking a walk in the scrub to get the required info.

Email sent to the owner and, hopefully, we'll get a happy reply in the next few days.

Thanks Aradilla.

Our first cache in Tasmania. What a great spot. We especially liked the shear drop at Devil's Kitchen. If it wasn't for the Earthcache, we would have driven right past it.

[This entry was edited by The Spindoctors on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 3:43:18 AM.]

A interesting place to visit on our way to Port Arthur. Thanks for our first earth cache.

Visiting from Michigan, USA, brought MaxB's Escorted TB Group Tour "Kiwis, Kangaroos, and Koalas" with special guide "CheesyPigs" by to find cache on our way to Port Arthur. What a fantastic geologcial formation as well as view from this location.

Thanks for the cache. Email on its way. Photo will be posted when we return home in September.

We came by at about 1030 to find this great hole in the ground. There was a boat coming in as we were looking down. Plenty of people staring just like us. Thanks for bringing us out here.

- NCad

[This entry was edited by NCad on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 6:58:51 PM.]

Found by mcAdies.
This was a great spot. We had a good look at all the views and the weather was good too. Only had a few hours to see the lot though.

Thanks for the opportunity to have a closer look at this location. I have been here before but had never bothered to actually study the geology.
TFTC and the lesson Aradilla.
Cheers.

Found with Tealby & urch 1949. An interesting spot. My official photo is on Tealby's log, but I am looking so goofy, that here is another one of me taken at the same stop. TFTC.

This great spot is one of many fascinating geological spots in this area, visited with Tealby, Biggles303, Mr Urch and geogma. We spent a most enjoyable day (only one, sadly) sightseeing around this peninsular. Thanks very much for the geo-lesson, Aradilla.

Great spot - a really interesting site. Makes me feel a little anxious when I look over the edge though!

Visited this EarthCache with urch1949 & Biggles303. Only one group photo was taken because we were running out of space on the camera & there are just so many interesting things to take photos of. Therefore I have included the photo for all of us with my listing.

Thanks for the information - I'm now one step closer to my Gold EarthCache Master pin (see www.earthcache.org for more details).

Rated: for Overall Experience