Pitch Black Alawa, Northern Territory, Australia
By NTSTROM on 18-Jul-08. Waypoint GC1E9R0

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I think this one has been lost

No luck today...

Pity the owner didn't check the comments... no luck find it. DNF!

Couldn't find it

No luck for us either!

Had a good look with Juju54 and 4 eyes couldn't see it

Not found since January 2015 and a few DNF's definitely time for a check up.

Searched the area, but sadly a DNF for us here today. [8)] Hopefully we were just cache blind again.

Thanks anyway NTSTROM

Didn`t found since more than One year!

Dnf

Out and about but failed to unearth his one. Had a good look in the troll's lair, but no luck today.

Not today

Easy find

Good find keep looking

Cool spot! mcmaclean ☺

Easy find! In desperate need of New log book!

Nice little cache. Log sheet almost unusable.

Reasonably easy find! A new cycle way to work

It wAs fun looking for it but we didn't find it we looked under all the rocks:(

Nice quick find, damp log as previously mentioned, TFTC

It took me a while to find this one with the GPS jumping about due to the tree cover. Eventually found it in the most logical place, note the log needs repair its getting wet.

Nice spot. TFTC.

Easy to find. That is if you look in the right spot! Lovely little gully.
TFTC

Excellent coordinates!

Relogged with my new profile. Signed in logbook as Visa96.

TFTC

TFTC

Fun find! TFTC

Quick find with eagle eyes nk64, plus zeedda and mafiagrl.

Thanks NTSTROM. Found it with my posse: zeedda, mafiagrl & earth_99.

Have cycled past here many times and never knew! Spot on coordinates and a clever cache!

Mr richlink and Mr iluvtrekking made a quick find walking from here to Lee Point. Thanks NTSTROM.

Geo-hubby and Mr iluvtrekking decided to walk from this cache to Lee Point collecting caches along the way. Bit of a scorcher but they enjoyed the challenge. No problem locating the hide. Thanks NTSTROM.

Today, we drove out to Lee Point to do some caches in the area.
Parked as close as we could, and went in off the road.
Cache was well hidden, but easily found.
Thanks for the cache, NTSTROM.

We managed to park close and headed for the creek where we found the expected feature. A quick look around and we soon spotted the hide so moved into position to grab it. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 11:29:06 UTC.

The GPS took me right to the GZ first up so this was a nice easy find.

TNLN TFTC

First for the day. Found with Adz_mel.
TFTC

Log is a bit damp

tftc

Today we have decided to do the CCR Trail & heading out to Lee Point.
I parked the car & my GPS to me down a trail that led to a bridge, thought there may have been a troll but luckily for me there was only a cache.
Thanks NTSTROM

As soon as I read the cache name I knew what it referred too

I could always tell when Pitch Black was on at work in Brisbane.
The normally relaxed workplace was suddenly filled with "whiteboards" with the activation status of innumerable Restricted Areas scribbled up on them.
The noise levels from the people working on the row of consoles behind me would increase too
And several Air Force and Army personnel would appear at the console over in the corner.
Whilst none of the Pitch Blackness affected my day to day job, it did provide added entertainment at work

And now that I have visited Darwin again and heard the day to day noise of the F18's rumbling off on their training missions, I can imagine the noise levels when PB is on [:o]
Personally I like the noise
That is the noise of pure power being put to a good use [^]
And let's face it ... Darwin is a city that has grown to surround an Air Force Base !!
At least some of the action has shifted out of earshot to Tindal [^]

The noise that annoys me is those idiot hoons who make tons of noise driving around town thinking that they have a powerful car or stereo
Get a life .... go join the armed forces !!

Meanwhile, the cache was a nice easy find on my bike ride this morning [^]

TFTC and memories.

After traveling from the Tiwi Islands I needed to stretch my legs and wondered from Charles Darwin University accommodation to the beach area collecting a few caches on the way. This cache was last on my list before the sun went down. As I approached the area I knew immediately why it was called Pitch Black and then I also had a fair idea where the cache was. Pity I chose the wrong side, was so busy watching the GPS that I almost walked into a spider's web. After recovering and moving away from the spider I had another look and managed to spy the container from the side I was on. As the walking trail is quite popular I had to wait a few times for muggles to pass before I could proceed with the searching. Cheers NTSTROM for the great spot, and the lesson for today is watch where you're walking

# 3628. A morning of riding again, heading towards Lee Point and back by lunchtime.

Wending our way along the tracks going north and this was another one that popped up on the radar. A quick search and the cache soon revealed itself. Log still damp but managed to put my name on it. No water flowing here today just a lot of stagnant water. TFTC

An easy find. Log is wet. TFTC

Cache still black. Log is wet but that's no surprise given the location. Thanks for the cache.

Found this and got to see another creek

Another beautiful quiet spot TFTC

Thanks for this cache. Although getting tired I was determined to find this one if only in support of our service men & Women and the exercises they undertake. Noise doesn't bother me as long as they get the training they need to stay safe protecting us. Great Cache!

Easy to find as hide very well thanks

Sneaky hide.. Troll alert.

River kwai

River kwai

A nasty place to have to put your hand!!!
TFTC

Nice quick find after work this evening. TFTC.

I had to wait for some muggles to move along, then the cache was soon found. TFTC.

This was our 5th cache in our caching run today - and we found it at around 08:51.
(So this is our 4672nd total find.)

We had a great opportunity to see many planes partaking in the exercise this year.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks NTSTROM for the hunt today.

Easy find -only ten to go to our 800th - thanks NTSTROM 4TC:)

Nice easy find
TFTC

After participating in many Pitch Black exercises, it was nice to find Pitch Black with a bit of exercise on bike trip along the coast.

TFTC

1430 GAFF1 Out cycling and on way 'home' to Berrimah from a pretty good cache run.
No muggles here today.
TNLN
Thru: coins and shirt
TFTC NTSTROM

Easy find. A group of very friendly and very drunk aboriginals on the bridge wanted to know what I was up to. They tried to help: "Beware of the snakes!"

The Gps took me to the wrong end of the bridge, so it took me longer than needed. I then spotted it from the other side. Easy access, easy cache.

Thank you for the cache.

Visiting from Portugal

All good, co-ords about 2 metres off, nice spot to watch red claw

added some more paper

Nice easy find thanks

A quick and easy find.
TNLNSL

TFTC

kwik-n-ezy find.
TNLNSL

TFTC

Well hidden! I like!

And so close to home you trolls.
TNLN TFTC

A good find TFTC

Another quick ride by, cache in hand log signed and off again

Indeed - rather black! Easier find during daytime though Cheers Gav [8952]

A nice wee spot and a relatively quick find.

Found 09:00, after a brief search.

TNLN, CSI=2, thanks NTSTORM.

After walking in circles we found it ! Lots of fun. Left a glass gem

I arrived at GZ to find a father and son fishing for Yabbies. So, I struck up some conversation as they drew there empty lines and nets in. It looked like they were on their way out til they dropped another line in... So, after 10 minutes or so, I bid them fairwell and headed back to the car. As I got there, I saw them heading off... So, I trekked back into the area for a quick find... THey were talking about a couple of water snakes that live under the log to on the road side of the bridge... Might wanna keep an eye out for them...

Cheers NTSTROM

Forgot to take a pen and mark the log, surprised to find it after the Cyclone Carlos floods.

Easy find, TFTC.

Number 2 of 4 in my afternoon of hunting, exactly where the co-ords said, spotted it from a long way away. I think it had been disturbed, as it was just sitting in plain sight. Covered it up a little better, put in sharpener, took bell.

TFTC!

Nice to do this one with Binkey 24 who we had met up with at an earlier cache. Didn't take us long to spot the cache - thanks NTSTROM

exactly where the coord said. Nice little area. Another joint find with Liz and Bruce

TFTC.. SL...

A good find.

At first proved to be lost but then a clue in the description helped us to find it! I recommend wearing sneakers not thongs, as mine broke XD

3.20 pm (with Anderka)
Daily tally #20/32

a short walk from the side of the road and this one has in hand....
(I won't join the for/against re aircraft noise - we live in Sydney's Innerwest - practically under the flight path of one of the world's top 10 busiest airports.)

Salut to our defence service personnel.

TFTC!
Ywurry

15:20 (found with ywurry): 20 of 32. If peace on earth can be guaranteed the defence forces would not be needed, but humans will be humans. This was a quick easy find even though we were almost carried away by mozzies. TFTC!

Found and logged while waiting for one of our bus trekkers to recieve some attention at the local hospital. TFTC

An easy walk in a nice bit of bush.TFTC NTSTROM

Another nice easy one. Thanks, NTSTROM.

TFTC

Easy find on a morning walk today.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings, Colonel Dago from Germany

My GPS was fairly spot on which made it an easy find. TFTC!

[This entry was edited by puggles72 on Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 10:26:35 PM.]

A bit of a search revealed the hide TFTC NTSTROM. [273]

Quickly found while out with my brother, who is also in Darwin with work. I'm not used to caching in such humid weather, and after only a few hours caching we'd had enough. Nice place. TFTC.

Last cache of the day.
I had intended to do one more and the mozzies were very active.
TFTC
TNLN

TNLNSL T4TH

Found by Mr NTBBBB. A quick daytime hunt for Darwin caches that may become difficult to access in the wet. Once again geocaching has taken us locals somewhere we had never been before. Dropped off my BBBB TB and NT GC before grabbing them back again.

T - N
L - N

SL

Second found this afternoon. I'm afraid I may be addicted...

I have done a cache with an identical name somewhere else although I don't remember where, and I think that the hide was somewhat the same. Its still good, thanks NTSTROM.