WanAus 124 - John Hayes Rock Hole Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
By WanderingAus on 30-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1XZ3C

Camped in at the John Hayes Rockhole campsite... optimistically looked to see if there were any caches in the area...and low and behold . A rock hop down the creek which is still running, good coords and description led to a quick find. I also found and returned the missing pencil, on the ground near the cache. Cache secure and in good condition...signed the log and left as found. We did the spectacular Chain of Ponds walk yesterday...great with all the water running...wading the waist deep water in the final sections of the gorge. A refreshing swim afterwards in the rockhole TFTC and providing some fun in our camping trip.

WanAus 124 - John Hayes Rock Hole1.5/2.0 Small Traditional Cache Had a hard time deciding where to go after the event. Eventually we picked Trephina Gorge! East it is!Thank you for the cache WanderingAus. Great detour. No traffic on the way in but another Jimny and 4wd on the way out. That's heavy traffic!

Tried to find this one on a visit to the rock hole but it wasn’t obvious to us. Had to give up after about 15minutes of searching. Not sure if iPhones gps was acting up or we were just having an off day.

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We braved the road to make it down here and well worth the trip. No swimming for us today, but it was fun to rock hop a little ways and see the chain of pools. We also didn't manage the complete chain of pools walk today, but I did rush up to the lookout. Impressive landscape. The case was found without any issues. TFTC

We came in to checkout the rock pools. We did the loop walk and it was great seeing the gorge from different angles as we walked through it.

Managed to spot the lid as I was looking around for a place it could be. Everything is good with the cache. We have placed rock back in front.
TNLNSL. Thanks for placing

TFTC - Happy Australia Day!

M

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TFTC. Great location.

Loved the walk, reminded us of Karijini National Park in WA. Cache safe and in great condition. Pencil and 2 sharpeners with some swaps and plenty of space in the log still. TFTC

Great Spot!

Loved the rim walk we did here. Bonus getting a cache here as well. TFTC

Very quiet spot. Found it.

Spent the day today touring the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges with ilook4geo. We had a fun day exploring various tracks, gorges and other places of interest. Each found log was signed and returned to place. We love the scenery out here, as it is absolutely spectacularly rugged and so beautiful.
The tour also included part of the Binns Track which was an easy run.
Thank you to WanderingAus for placing this cache which was an easy find.

Spent the day with goingplaces2 and headed east out of Alice Springs. Love the geology and scenery. Happy to log this cache as a find with both names being added to the log. TFTC.

The drive to this waterhole was a long and bumpy, and we expected to be the only ones at the making the trek. When we arrived we were surprised and the number of people there. The cache was found after a short walk through the grasses.

TFTC

After a rough drive in the cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. There was heaps of water in the rock hole. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Found on a quick caching run north. Adelaide to Alice Springs and back in a week.

It was a bumpy ride in but well worth it.

Didn't take too long to spot the cache.

TFTC

On our second day in Alice and we took a drive to Ross River Homestead. Turn off from the main road and then down a bumpy track to find this cache with Jac-Jam. TFTC.

A short drive in and we had this one in quick time, wow, that pool would hold a LOT of water when running.

TFTC a lovely spot to explore

Found it TFTC
Cache in good condition

Alice is expecting rain so I've come out this way to get a few more smileys in the area before the roads are too messy. Once again this is another fabulous location, the place has soo many. TFTC

Thanks for the sensible hide so older people are able to get to them
TFTC

Thank you for the efforts on this one! The walk up/down the gorge is well worth doing while you are here. Location was accurate on this one.

The Big Western Australia trip in 2018. Day 9. Today was a long day getting to head North, starting with a loop around the East McDonald Ranges, including Trephina Gorge and Arltunga. I got to revisit the Plenty Highway via the current Binns track and after a quick stop at Gemtree back to the Highway till dusk.

All I can say is that was a challenging track. It was not too far, but bump bump bump all the way, and the stony section at the end was interesting. Plenty of people camping here today.

Thanks.

25117.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 500 Finds Achievement A#66

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Out to find some sights our daughter who lives in Alice has told us about, this gorge and what is hidden here to see
TFTC
Well that was a great drive in
What a spectacular area to discover, and we need to say that NT parks do a magnificent job with all camp areas, could not be happier

Found this yesterday 15/9. Probably the most scenic walk we've done through the East and West Macs. Caves through all the rock walls, not a lot of water, but still the odd pool, and an awesome horseshoe bend. TFTC.

WHOOPS! I'm logging about 100-200 or so caches like 3 months after the trip that we found them on! Completely forgot to log these but I did not forget the trip! Found this cache along with many others on an adventure around the red centre. Along this adventure we visited and explored many phenomenal and surreal places such as Woomera, Coober Pedy, Uluru and Mutitjulu, Kata Tjuta, Wattarka, Tnorala, Both East and West Macdonnell ranges, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Parts of the Finke road, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Oodnadatta track, Mount Dare, Dalhousie Springs, Painted Desert, Moon plane and I'm sure I've missed a few! Thank you so much for the cache. Found with Ferociousflea and -Beaker- along with our mint 79 series that accomplished alot in this two week time frame.
TFTC

Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on a Red Centre Roadtrip Adventure... What an amazing spot! A favourite from me. Thanks

Found during our Red Centre adventures that included Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Tnorala, West Macs, East Macs, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Mt Dare, Dalhousie, the Painted Desert and many other fantastic spots!! Travelled and cached with FerociousFlea and Astronaut99.

Amazing place. Loved the drive in and the rock hole. Zebra finches all over the place drinking the water. Worthy of a very rarely given Beaker fave point!!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found at 1:03:00 PM. Staying in Alice for a few days, driving around sightseeing and grabbing a few caches.

Thanks .

Wow - this is getting out of the way. Heading off on the Risgetop walk yippeee
TFTC

Back in Alice Springs after a month in Darwin catching up on caches not collected on our last visit. Love the outback and the trekking around Trephina Gorge Nature Park. An easy find. A great 4x4 trek into the rock hole.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

This was found as part of our journey from Mildura to Darwin and return
thank you WanderingAus for placing the cache

I couldn't leave Trephina Gorge without taking this little detour to pick up one last cache

I soon discovered that this little detour,
is not your average 'easy' little bounce along a dirt road type detour !! [:o]
It is a narrow, rocky, twisty, sandy little detour along the Ross River to a beautiful waterhole [^]

There are some spots you don't want to meet someone coming the other way
But overall it is easy, but slow, going
At the end of the trail I found the delightfully small camping area.
And a decision was made !!
I know where I'm camping tonight
'Tis a far cry from the crowding of the other campgrounds [^]

The cache came next on the agenda,
and after a scratchy stroll across the river,
I followed the geotrail up the hill to GZ

And as for the waterhole ??
Yep !! There's water in that thar hole
And a beautiful gorge to go exploring,
if you can get past the waterhole

TFTC,
and bringing me out to this great little spot [^]

Found on ANZAC Day, and we paused a number of times today to reflect on our good fortune to be able to wander freely in this beautiful country of ours. The cache here was only a small part of the fun - we did the walk which takes you scrambling back through the Gorge, a little bit adventurous in place and all the more fun for it! Thanks for the hide in such a great secluded spot.

Found during the Alice not-a-mega. I lived on this park for 3 months in 1997 and this was my first visit back here in 20 years. Really great to come back. Fav point awarded. Thanks WanderingAus

Found with the S's, scuffyblake, charli_bear and me_to TFTC

Found as part of Canberra Crunchers (Scruffyblake, Darzee Di, ACTchil, Kittykatch, Mtrax, Joolay and Me_To while on the hunt to get Darzee di here 2000th cache.

Great day had walked around 9km and grabbed 33 caches and between us we placed 3 new ones on the trail.

Thanks WanderingAus (F=2999 H=185) for the cache and for bringing us here.

TNLNSL TFTC

Awesome drive in to this one!!!!!! ACT Chill's XV did really well to traverse the road. LOl - the others even did some rental-car fun as well. 4as1 team was OK in our Hilux. Lots of fun had.
The canyon and pool are lovely. Not sure why the couple there wern't 'enjoying' it further, but people randomly turning up may have had something to do with that.

Found as part of the 'Capital Crunchers' team for the day

Thanks to WanderingAus for the cache.

Found during our five week journey half-way around Australia, for the NT Experience OzMega event, somewhere between: ACT -> NSW -> Qld -> NT -> SA -> Vic -> NSW -> ACT.

So many stories to tell. So many experiences had. So little time to mention them all.

Sincerely
the 4as1 team:
Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to

I went on a family holiday to the OzMega event in Alice Springs. We drove forever, but saw some interesting places. Thank-you WanderingAus for the geocache.

Thank you
Me_to from the the 4as1 team.
(Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to)

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Found with Scruffyblake, Charli_Bear, Me_To and Mr Roo on our Australian Trip for the Red Centre Experience.

Thanks WanderingAus (F=2999 H=185) for the cache and for bringing us here.

TNLNSL TFTC

What a beautiful place in here. We came out to Trephina Gorge looking for wildlife and found a fair bit down at the rockholes. We spent over an hour clambering over rocks and checking out the gorge. Great spot here.

TFTC WanderingAus.

WanderingAus, I found your cache WanAus 124 - John Hayes Rock Hole on 17/4/17.
This is my find #3337 and find #2 today.

Here in Alice Springs for the Red Centre Experience Event with DeafGeo....
Awesome

16 April 2017 @ 6:23 pm

Caching team: AlphaDeltaIndigo, SEMIK, RideTheGeoWalrus and Moneydork {M.A.R.S}

I had to turn back towards the car because I forgot my torch and we were starting to lose light, I must have taken 2 more steps and MD yelled found it!

TFTC WanderingAus

Went out with team "Capital Crunchers" (ACTchil, KittyKatch, GrimRaider, 4as1 (The S's, ScruffyBloke, Charli_Bear, Me_to), SmittenGranny & Pa to grab a few traditional, we really enjoyed the area you brought us to we were a little worried about how the Subaru would go as the track was rough but we made it thanks to 4as1 team guiding us through. tftc WanderingAus

Found with Wazza9, Skibum1, The Hancock Clan, Aries44, MrsAries, Nana Nel, au.fait & Tronador out exploring the East MacDonald Rangers. What a great drive out.

TFTCWanderingAus

Caching my way from Adelaide to Alice Springs via Uluru for the Red Centre Experience event. Today was day six and our last full day in Alice Springs. My travel companions AlphaDeltaIndigo, Moneydork, semik and I grabbed everything we could as we explored eastwards into the ranges. The day ended at Felix II's caravan and a glass of wine in hand...

This was find number 22 of 28 for the day for me. TFTC WanderingAus!

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Out Caching with deaf geo while at the Red Centre Experience
Found it.
Thanks for the cache WanderingAus

Enjoy caching journey with DeafGeo
thanks

WIth Deaf Geo Group

This is find # 24352 for me
Sorry for delay to logs as accompanied with Deaf group.
Enjoyed wander this area so beautiful bushland...
It was good fun use 4wd
Thanks WanderingAus for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Found it. Geo-Deaf friends day together. Thanks for bringing us. Greetings from Glenhaven NSW

Caching in the Alice Springs and Eastern MacDonnell ranges region for the long, long weekend all thanks to the Red Center Experience geocaching event in Alice 13-17th April 2017. My apologies for a generic log, but I'm notorious for not logging my caches. I am just trying to get up-to-date so someday I can celebrate milestones again. cheers and thanks to all for their efforts to make the hide findable and most in a location worthy of a visit without geocaching (but I'm glad I got a smiley too!)

16.04.2017
Found as a part of the Canberra Chrunchers Team with Smittengranny, Pa, Grimraider, Kittykatch, DarzeeDi, ACTChil, Darksidedan, Scruffyblake, Charli_Bear, and Me_To while we were in town for the Red Centre Experience

Fourteenth of 16 for the day, after finding this one we went up to the rockhole, so glad we did!! Absolutely beautiful would have been easy to spend hours here in the peaceful surroundings and have a swim

TFTC TNLNSL

This was a nice drive in convoy with several others today whilst in the area for the Red Centre Experience event. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

16/04/2017.
Camping at the nearby Red Centre Experience and grabbing a couple of quick caches to keep the streak going a little longer.

Wow this was an interesting drive - some of our group had never been on such a track before. Great spot.

Today we travelled as a convoy, and then stamped logs under the name of Capital Crunchers, as we are all from the ACT. The group included Kittykatch, Grimraider, Darzee Di, ACTCHIL, the S's, Scruffyblake, Charli_Bear, Me_to, SmittenGranny and DarksideDan.

Thanks for placing these caches for us to find.

Stamped log.

What a rugged little drive

Tftc,
Out with a group of cachers today while in Alice for the Red Center Experience. Great adding another cache at the Red Center Experience.
Visited a group of trackables.

Found with Wazza9, Skibum1, The Hancock Clan, Aries44, MrsAries, Pipes_Down_Under, au.fait & Tronador out exploring the East MacDonald Rangers. Thanks to WanderingAus..

The weather is bit hot today. .6th day caching with geo-friends from Melbourne, Perth, NSW & QLD - . Had a swim in the pool - water was very cold but beautiful Attended the closing ceremony.
Fireworks was awesome. Happy Easter to all Geocachers. Thanks to WanderingAus for the cache.

Found as part of the Capital Crunchers Crew from the ACT, who attended the cache today. Log book signed Capital Crunchers

The Capital Cachers made arrangements to head out in four cars today to explore the East McDonnell ranges. We made our way along the 4WD drive for what seemed like ages. I was very glad when we got near gz as I wasn't sure we were going to be able to make it the whole way. What a gorgeous campground and spot. We made our way down the water hole and were very tempted to strip off and have a swim. Thanks for brining us out here - top spot gets a FP from me

A rough road to this area that I could never attempt in my vehicle TFTC WanderingAus

had a great day caching in the Capital Crunchers team (ACTchil, Darzee Di, Kittykatch, GrimRaider, Smittengranny and Pa, The S's, Scruffy Blake, Charli_bear, Me_to and Darksidedan). loved the area and a great cache. the road in was rough but the Subaru XV handled it well and it was well worth the effort. tftc WanderingAus

Exploring the East Mac Rangers with Wazza9, Skibum1, The Hancock Clan, MrsAries, Pipes_Down_Under, au.fait & Tronador. TFTC WanderingAus.

TFTC

Out caching with geo-friends while attending the Red Centre Experience. SLO TFTC

This was a fun track. Great little hide in a scenic area.

Found it.

Still catching up on logs from the Northern Territory. We had a fun week and a bit there. We seen some amazing scenes everywhere we went and handed out too many favourite points to count.

Thanks so much for placing this cache for our enjoyment while in the NT.

Found while in alice for the red centre event in alice springs, thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Out on a bit of a 4WD trip to the East MacDonnell ranges, a couple of us called in here after the others had set off back into town. A pleasant walk from the carpark to this scenic little spot where we stayed for quite a while, taking photos, and watching the frogs, and simply admiring the view before us. Thanks to WanderingAus for the hide.

Thank you for show us..with Deafgeo group..

Absolutely awesome area. There are just so many things to see/visit in the NT. Thanks so much for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

We travelled from South Australia in search of rugged remote scenery, insight into interesting history and catching up with fellow cachers. Oh and attending The Red Centre Experience!
Expectations have been met and I've enjoyed many great times.
This cache was the fourth on Good Friday .
We opted for quality caching and over quantity, and weren't disappointed
It was a very pretty drive in, a little hairy at times accomodating two vehicles on the narrow track!
No water today but can imagine how beautiful it would be when wet
Thanks for the fun guys!

A short walk along a dry creek (with magical coloured rocks) yield the cache. Due to a flight arrival, our vehicle retreated, the others went on to the magical waterhole. Thanks WanderingAus for the adventure.

A short walk along a dry creek (with magical coloured rocks) yield the cache. Due to a flight arrival, our vehicle retreated, the others went on to the magical waterhole. Thanks WanderingAus for the adventure.

Found as part of the Red Centre Event. Only room for one vehicle on the track in. Made for an interesting drive. Good location. Thanks for the cache.

We came out this morning to check out the gorgeous views at the Gorge and this fun 4WD road looked too good to pass up...especially when you are travelling in convoy (safety in numbers!). Passed a lady on the way out who hailed us to ask if the waterhole was worth driving into, we had to admit we didn't know! We hadn't gone that far we'd stopped at the cache and turned around as we needed to start heading back into town so Mrs McLooker would get to the airport in time! TFTC it was a beautiful spot.

Out around the Ross highway today to find some more.
Cheryl found this one.

Thanks for the cache WanderingAus.

Thanks WanderingAus for bringing us to this interesting part of the MacDonald Ranges.

Our first full day of caching since arriving for the Mega later this week. Decided to head out of town to explore the surrounds along Ross Hwy. A bumpy ride in to this spot and were surprised to find so many cars in the car park at the end. Thanks WanderingAus

Travelling around Australia and now super excited to be at Alice Springs for the Easter Geocaching Event.

Seemed bit odd this morning as it wasn't so hot. So a plan to travel a little further than we have been. [^]

It was after 9.00am when Mr Felix decided we should head out towards Arltunga

Loved the 4x4 drive in out here. Still some water in the rockhole but obviously you wouldnt be getting in here if there was more water around. . Fave point.

We only got home after 6.00pm but what beautiful scenery and history we were able to explore using Geocaching as our tour guide.

TFTC WanderingAus

Drove to this cache with a 4-wheel campervan. Was a interesting drive but worth the time. We nearly drove by, but simply stopped as the way got very very rocky. Switched on the gps again and found that we were at the right place.
The location is a very nice place and after 10 minutes there we started looking for the cache. Another 15 minutes later we signed the logbook and drove back to the main road.

While visiting Alice Springs we toured east to Ross River Resort and looked for caches along the way. We found this cache, Picked up Koala TB will move along shortly. TFTC

TFTC

Spent about 15mins looking, no luck.

We stayed one night here, was very nice to do the pond walk in the next morning. The drive in wasn't to hard, anyway high clearance is probably good to have. Thanks for bringing us here!

Catching up on some late, very late and extremely late logs (400 in all)

I would like to thank WanderingAus for placing this cache. I always enjoy getting out and about to view this great country of ours and caching allows me to do that. Once at GZ, I sometimes find the cache quickly but sometimes it takes awhile to sus out the well camouflaged hide. Once found, log is signed and the cache is rehidden as found.

Once again thanks WanderingAus.

Great drive in and a very special spot for a photo at the rock pool area.
Got some good pics ,

Many thanks for the cache hide.

4794 Found by baby&Mrs gopher in company with micaparamedic and Farmers5 at 1030. Left Alice this morning to find the caches in the gorges along the Ross highway. Some unreal country along here. SL Tnx WanderingAus

Camped overnight at trephina gorge campsite and then on the way out this morning unloaded the bike and headed into the rockhole. Awesome place which we may not have bothered about if not for caching. A favourite point for location, thanks.

TFTC WanderingAus

Found while out riding

Such a great spot

Found it!

In Alice for only a few days. I headed up to check out the local gorges and gaps a short drive outside of town. Then back in to get the car all fixed and sorted for the next section of our trip. All caches were in good condition and easy enough to find with good coords. Thanks for all the hides.