Johnno's Lake Bullabulling, Western Australia, Australia
By Lyn Pat and Nathan on 03-Oct-08. Waypoint GC1GZ3A

Great view out over the lake. Thanks

Great stop over and find thankyou

Yes, good Found.TB outTFTCLieb ' s Gruessli #12485

Nice little find. Good to let the dogs go for a run.TFTF.

Passing through on the way East. TFTH

Amazing location! TFTC

Great salt lake view. TFTC

Another beautiful spot on this drive. Thanks.

Brad and Janet are on another epic journey.?This time it involves many of Len Beadell’s 6500km of roads including the Anne Beadell, the Connie Sur, the Heather, the Neale, the Gun Barrel Highway, the Gary, the Talawana Track, the Gary Junction Rd and more.
And of course a 2 day visit to Maralinga which Len also located, surveyed and largely built as he had with Woomera and Emu. An amazing man.
If you don’t know of him he wrote some wonderful books. Laconic with a dry sense of wit, they are an excellent read. They are also available as audiobooks as is a recording of his brilliant after dinner talk one evening in Shepparton. Worth a listen.
And now the Moon Tours trip is over we are heading back to Adelaide via whichever way takes our fancy after a few days rest and repair in Karratha. Almost certainly down the WA Coast before heading to Hyden and the land of the Salmon Gums.

We decided to take this road from Norseman to Hydan without realising it was dirt and quite remarkably lacking in coverage. No problem, just adds to the adventure. Somewhere along the line my phone managed to get just enough internet to load up the front page on the app so when we stopped here for lunch, I knew there was a cache, but had no information about it. While M made lunch I wandered around getting my little blue dot closer and closer and occasionally checking out likely spots. Eventually this paid off and I found it! Yippee!

Thanks for find #4401
TNLN

Heading for Norseman after a couple of days at Forrestania plots. Road is a little more corrugated than I remember it. Found this little fella at 13:07 this afternoon. TNLNSL TFTC Lyn Pat and Nathan

Amazing reflections of the salt pan

Great cashe!!

It is finally time to head back to Victoria after five months away, we will be concentrating on adventure labs, earth caches and virtuals and anything that pops up nearby on the screen.

We pulled up here and were very impressed with this lake although we were surprised it had no water in it being the amount of rain thats being around lately .It was still fantastic looking very dry at the moment and you can see where people have been trying to drive through, they aren't very bright. It would be a great spot to stop and have a picnic while looking at the scenery around it and even has some amenities.
Thanks for bringing us to this lovely spot and for the break in the drive.

Another stop on our inaugural trip on the Hyden-Norseman Rd. Container and contents in good condition. TFTC Lyn Pat and Nathan

With redruthguy, klase87 and ollie86. Very very dry. Plants are struggling.

With amb217, klase87 and ollie86. Very very dry. Plants are struggling.

A nice quick find at our lunchstop on our slow trip across the Hyden Norseman road.
Thanks for the cache

Found it. TFTC Lyn Pat and Nathan. Another welcomed stop. great rest area. Quick find and replaced as found.

I decided to take Norseman-Hyden road and had a quick stop here, tftc!

Found about 4 weeks ago at the start of our trip Around outback wa. The colours of the trees on the edge of the lake are just amazing.
You can see our pictures on instagram @cheets.outnabout

Found it with no signal

A quick find which was nice as it was pretty cold and windy! TFTC

A quick easy find whilst dawdling home to SA after our weeks stay in WA. Travelling with Lidds and Miss Goosey. Contents were wet but container was still in good nick. Dried it out as much as I could. Loving travelling this road. TFTC

After completing the Holland Track with a group of like minded people, the journey home was via Coolgardie, south to Burra Rock and Cave Hill (still with a few from the main group) where I split and made my way back to Victoria Rock Road. Headed south and on reaching Hyden-Norseman Road took a slight detour east to get this cache.

Nice view but was absolutely mobbed by flies. Thankful for a quick find.

Thanks for the cache Lyn Pat and Nathan.

Cheers

MCFonz

Found it. Cache in good condition. Did this on our Holland track/ woodlines adventure.

Found it

Thank you for the cache. What a awesome area to explore.

My Nullabour journey continues. Cocklebiddy to Lake Johnston.

My last cache for the day and close to where I slept. It’s quiet out here until the odd road train comes past. You can hear them for miles. A magical spot. TFTC

After a quick trip to South Australia tis was grabbed on the return trip all in good condition TFTC

TFTH TFTC came up with a smile

Mirages on the lake. Nice view to sit and have a cuppa. Tyftc

After camping not far south of Norseman last night, I made an early start to resume my journey west, taking the Norseman-Hyden Road.

This cache was a quick drive-by.

Thanks Lyn Pat and Nathan for the cache.

Nice stop. SL TFTC.

Camping at Dissappointment Rock, earlier on in the day we tackled Thiel Rock but by late afternoon the kids energy levels were up again so we headed out for a drive & stopped to find this cache

Cache was a quick find & was in good condition. Crazy that cars have been trying to drive on the lake! What makes people think that is a good idea

Thanks Lyn Pat & Nathan [^]

Ouick find whilst camping in the area. Cache is all good and well stocked. Thanks Lyn Pat and Nathan for placing a cache here. TNLN. Log signed.

A very quick find after stopping here for a lunch break.
Thanks for the hide Lyn Pat and Nathan.

Stopped in the rain and luckily made a quick find. TFTC, great spot.

Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches. Warning lights came on on my dash board for my “water separator” light, who knows WTF that is. Anyways the cache was found and signed in the rain. It is a lovely spot to stay.
Thanks for the hide and smiley

Today was day 7 of our Wheatbelt/Holland Track/Goldfields adventure, and what an adventure it has been. We had two days wandering the wheatbelt, picking up caches here and there as we wended out way towards our rendezvous point in Hyden where we were meeting up with others who would be travelling the Holland Track with us. We (Team Red Roo, SeabreezeOZ, m4yb, megawatt60, ebenie and Mistraluna) had an amazing time on the Holland and are still sharing photos, memories and laughs via our facebook group. It was sad to be the first to leave the group, but SeabreezeOZ and I were on a limited timeframe and had to start heading back towards home before the others. They say that all good things must come to an end...

But we weren't quite ready to just tuck our tails between our legs and head for home. No, we did a search of goldfields caches with fav points as a filter and came up with a "Must Do" list to grab whilst still in the area. I had never been into Kalgoorlie before yesterday, not really ever being interested in venturing too far from the ocean, so I was very impressed to see so much history around the place, and amazing landscapes as we travelled first east from Coolgardie into Kalgoorlie/Boulder, and then southwards down towards Kambalda, finishing our day not too far from the shores of Lake Lefroy. Sunrise at the lake was a definite highlight of the trip too, an experience I would recomment to everybody.

From Lake Lefroy, we continued in a southerly direction, stopping off here and there to climb the odd hill or two in search of trigs, or to take photos at other interesting locations on our way into Norseman. Once we reached Norseman, it was time to grab a few items from the local IGA and do a lightning tour around town, picking up the newer caches that had appeared since my last visit. After a rather nasty encounter with some locals, we weren't keen to hang around any longer and headed over to the Lake Cowen Lookout for a lunch stop and a chance to say goodbye to the goldfields before hitting the Norseman-Hyden Road as we headed west towards Wave Rock once again.

My companion had already found the caches along this stretch (apart from Thiel Rock, and we hadn't done our research on how to tackle that one) but was more than happy to stop so that I too could claim my smileys along this road. Tis interesting that the trees only grow on one side of this lake. Lovely spot to stop and admire the views, and definitely a spot to remember if needing a rest stop on future visits. Love the little pig face succulents growing along the lake shoreline around gz. All good with the cache too.

Huge thanks to Lyn Pat and Nathan for placing and maintaining this cache for the rest of us to come and find.

Stopped here to have lunch and walk along the shores of the lake, no water to be seen today but still a beautiful place to camp. Thanks for the cache Lyn Pat and Nathan.

This was out first stop on a week long trip through the western woodlands.

The first couple of camp grounds we passed were full but we got lucky with this one as we were the first to pull in and had the place to our selves!
Magnificent views of the moon raising over the salt lake and in the morning we went for a walk and found this cache

Found OK
TFTC

Another fantastic spot in lovely WA. TFTC.

Lovely spot. Cache intact and dry.

Wow so beautiful scene and signed the log. Thanks for hide the cache

Found while travelling on this lovely granite highland road
Tftc

Visiting Alice for the 'Red Centre Experience ' April 2018
Stopped here on the way home to Margaret River
TFTC
Eventually found after going round in circles for ages, Crazy gps

Arrived here just on sunset to see a beautiful coloured light show as the sun set.
TFTC

Found and logged in this beautiful part of the country. I love it out here. TFTC

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!


Thanks Lyn Pat and Nathan for placing this cache.

A quick stop on my way back west. TFTC.

Easy find on the way home to Perth. Had to contend with about a million blowies who had taken refuge at GZ. NTNL TFTC.

Thankyou for the cache and the chats. We decided to end the honeymoon with t it cache for our final night before home.

We were in the area so stopped by and checked on the cache. We replaced the container as it was just starting to cracked. Added some foreign currency and of course slept the night. Cross the road of you need firewood as the area of picked pretty clean of easy wood.
Hope you all enjoy your travels.

We were in the area so stopped by and checked on the cache. We replaced the container as it was just starting to crack.
Added some foreign currency and of course slept the night.
Cross the road of you need firewood as the area of picked pretty clean of easy wood.
Hope you all enjoy your travels.

Johnno has a nice lake
Pity some drongos have to leave wheel marks on it

I strolled from the picinic area,
to find a well hidden cache at GZ [^]

Another great cache find along the backroads of WA
And another good camping spot with a view !!
The Dundas Shire has done a good job with these spots along the Norseman-Hyden Road [^]

TFTC and view.

What a nice quite spot. We usually dry past so was nice to finally call in. Thanks

Road trip heading back to SA after attending the WA goes Big event over weekend and Travelling With BONES the amazing Travel Bug TFTC

A great spot and how wonderful to have a cache here! Tftc

TFTC. Sl. Johno was there.

Great overnight camp. Had stormy weather -- great rainbow over the lake

Nice cold morning for a cache.

With jamesvdm
Cheers

Nice hide, even if a scaredy Kiwi worries about where to put her hands around logs n animal hideyholes [8)] TFTC

Wauw what a Nice view, thnx a lot

Heading out to McDermid Rock and Cave Hill via the John Holland Way with my two sons for the weekend.. Quick find.. Quick stop for breakfast with a cool wind to keep the flys at bay..

Couple of guys camped nearby but they didn't seem to notice us wandering around so we soon had the cache in hand.

Found the cache whilst on a camping/road trip. Camped the night by this amazing lake and had the place to ourselves. Great spot.

We came through here 4 weeks ago but had to ahare with other campers and couldn't hunt around. Today it was quiet and we followed the footprints of others right to the cache! Tdtc.

nice camping area over looking the lake tftc tnln

Lovely spot. We are on our way to the Mega in SA and grabbed this geo on our travels. Took a bit longer to find than it should have as we read the clue and checked out the surroundings based on it. Of course there were several possibilities, so we started with what we thought was the most obvious one. Turns out we were wrong! Haha, that's not uncommon thanks very much for the cache

On our way to the oz mega neat little cache in the middle of nowhere thanks for the cache guys

Thanks for the hide. Took the hard way into this by coming down a track 50 Kms north of Norseman. Thinking this would be a short cut by distance it added a extra hour to our trip. Should've gone down the wide gravel Hyden-Norseman road. Bit of a adventure to get us ready for the Holland track. Fantastic views from the cache thanks for taking us here.

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Doing the trip by gravel from Norseman to Kalgoorlie, we found this one.

TFTC
Ter en Tijn

We stopped on the side of the road to find this easily hidden cache. It was funny to look out over the lake and see the tyre tracks out there. Looks like a fair few people have gotten them selves bogged out there!
Not something we were keen to experience so we took off up the road towards Coolgardie!
The road was in great condition which made the driving fast. However, take care out there.

Thanks Lyn Pat and Nathan for the cache!

Good one.

Thank you Team "Dicksontwo" for replacing the cache container. We will make sure we replace/repair a few caches for other teams when we next get out to the country for a weekend.

Geoachers helping Geocachers

Waving Farewell to the Rock (yeah, bad pun) we set off in lovely weather to drive The Granite and Woodlands Discovery Trail, see the great countryside and find the six caches. Such a better name than Hyden Norseman Road and a terrific leaflet, anyone following should get hold of one at the Information places. We were grateful to sylken who helped us out when we were floundering, trying to get started. In the event, we had an exciting and almost wholly successful trip with five finds.
The lovely weather, however, didn't last. We were wakened in our 'van at 6.00 am the first morning by rain but it stopped and we were down the track and the rain wouldn't last, so we set off. It stopped and started again all morning so we camped for two nights at McDermid Rock, a very acceptable site.
We found this cache fourth at 9.45 am. Unfortunately the lid was very badly broken. It hadn't just happened, what about logging Needs Maintenance folks? Not doing that is up there with monosyllabic logs (grumpy old man!). A new container was found, not the best lid, so we hope it is put back on carefully. It is fitted out with an "Official" sticker and a stash note. Many thanks Lyn Pat and Nathan, again, we would rather find one cache in locations like this Trail than a dozen urban micros! The views are delightful, except, of course, for the idiot damage to the lake surface. A couple of travellers visited.

Took TB

TFTC

My 477th cache.
Thanks for showing me that nice spot.
Regards from Bavaria
JJ

[:(!] We have just finished part of the Holland Track for our epic adventure for the last couple of days, after camping at Thursday Rock we were on our way again to McRock to camp for the night and we pick up this cache on our way, we parked the geocars as close as possible to GZ and we walked the rest of the way, on arrival at GZ we had the cache in hand in a matter of minutes.

LTBTNSL TFTC/TFTH Lyn Pat and Nathan.

Up early and on the road. Got here as the sun was rising and took a few shots. Rain over the last couple of days has made the area interesting and last nigjht we watched a few thunderstorms around us. We had been told the Hyden end was closed but were going to chance no extra rain but a quick phone call told us the road was open to 4wd less than 3 tonne so off we went.

Thanks for the cache. Too early for breakfast so off to the Breakaways we go.

Haven't passed by this way for years so it was good to stop and have another look. There was a fantastic crop circle peace sign in the mud, so well done and no car track into it, must have been done by hand. Very clever to get it so round. Pretty basic hide and easy find, diff seems a little high for this one. Enjoyed the views. TFTC

Found on the way home. TFTC

another drink stop on way to norseman
took car
left xmas tree
TFTCSL

Quick stop on the way through to Hyden. No mud or flies, perfect caching conditions! TFTC

Bit windy but great view picked up coin

Have driven past and stopped here many times on the way to and from Perth. Very quick and easy find.

A nice spot to camp, might get a little windy though. Cache was in good condition

Back in the area visiting Thiels Rock and Dissappointment Rock, kept the kids amused for 30 minutes looking for the cache again. Love this area. Oct is not a great time of the year, wind blows, flies drive you mad and when it rains the roads are chocked with mud.

We came from Hyden on a very wet day, the car getting really muddy , but nowhere near impassable (saved us a couple of hours going via other roads to Norseman) [^].
My old map has this about 3km off the road, but this couldn't be further from the truth - it's less than 100 metres .
The camera was kept busy here and we came away with some wonderful pics .
Took star. Left GC & car. SL.
Thanks for another one Lyn Pat & Nathan.

Pleasant lunch stop.
TNLNSL TFTH

A great view over the lake, we ventured out onto the lake where the water was just below the surface... nearly camped here, but the day was still early and we pressed on. Took some matches from the Adelaide Casino and left a ring. TFTC

My ute gathered a bit of mud coming from Hyden, thanks or the cache
Picked up Coin

Nice spot at day break (I would expect) TFTC

Had stopped here on a previous visit some years ago for another cache. Nice to refresh my memory if this huge expanse of salt. Left Compass Rose GC. Thanks for the hunt Lyn Pat and Nathan

Found by senior geocacher after overnighter at Lake Johnson Quiet pretty place to stay

Travelling the Holland Way with my wife and two sisters(all muggles) and had intended to camp here, however it was a bit hot and the shade was sparce so we just walked around and took some photos and investigated the pools that have been dug in the lake. I recovered some beautiful salt crystals. They are cubic and pure white, I don't know what the salt could be to create these crystals. Anyone? TFTC Lyn Pat and Nathan.

Nice spot. Dropped mint Lego minifig. TFTC.