WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer Merredin, Western Australia, Australia
By WanderingAus on 25-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1Z94V

Unable to get there in a reasonable time, so it's gone.

In town for another day - would the CO like me to replace?

The park is under renovations, will visit early November.

The park is under renovations so a check might need to be done in a month's time

Did not find

Climbed all over. Didn’t find it

Either it was vandalised, or more likely, we are just really bad.

TFTC!

No luck today, spent considerable time too. Maybe next year.

We were staying overnight in Merredin, and this cache beckoned. I do not usually do well with caches on tanks, guns etc and this was no exception. I used the hint and ended up smelling very botanical. Anyway, I found the cache and the hint seemed to be more of a hindrance than a help. I am no expert on gun parts though. Got there in the end. Woo Hoo.

Great time at the museum wonderful customer service

Good little find. If open have a look thro the museum. Cheers

Great hide

Found it. Great spot and the museum is awesome. Tftc sl

This took way longer than it should have, perhaps it was tucked in a bit too far. Managed to spot it from the right angle. TFTC WanderingAus

Really tricky to find

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TFTC
Scent from Rosemary bushes - devine!

On our way through WA via Kal to Perth.


Cache In good condition..

Found with TheRod

Quick easy find...cache in good condition signed log and put back

Cache in good condition.


This is my 2846 find.
Thank you WanderingAus for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!
(I’m not a geologist I just like puns)

Parked near here to complete an adventure lab spot and just after the museum opened we had a quick look and got the cache in hand.
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Joined in on the fun heading out into the Wheatbelt for some camping with caching friends.
Left early Saturday morning and managed to get up the hill and well on the road by the time the sun came up.
The goal for the first day was to pick up a couple of new LGA’s and meet up at Baladjie Rock to set up camp and grab the new cache there.
Sunday started a lot slower and after packing everything stopped once for a cache while getting home in time to spend the afternoon with the kids.
Fantastic couple of days away had me walking in the door with 27 finds, 16 adventure labs and 0 DNF’s.
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Thanks WanderingAus for placing WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 10:08 on 18/6/2022.
This is find number 5249 for me.

Tftc my first in this series

Sneaky

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Always thankful for a fast howitzer hide. TFTC. High caliber cache

On the way back from our little roadtrip to east we picked up some caches. I was looking for the cache from the wrong spot first but made the find after looking for a bit wider, tftc!

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Just to make it clear -THE HINT IS CORRECT, and so is the Description. The Description has been changed to reflect this.

Alan and Kay living the dream in a 5th wheel. Found your WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer
TFTC 29 March 2022 1:08 pm
Thanks CaravanCapersOz
Total caches 51

On a road trip around the wheatbelt areas of Western Australia for a few weeks. We are enjoying the many friendly towns along the way, whether staying in the CP’s or camping out. So far, we have found every cache that we have looked for, and hopefully our streak will last as we move around to the next town and beyond. Thank you so much to the CO’s of every cache for placing them for our enjoyment. They certainly bring you to many spots that you might not stop at otherwise.
Nice quick find while the other half was at the visitors centre.

The place looks interesting but not open today. TFTC

On another LGA run on my way to the Wave Rock. My first find today and first in the Shire of Merridin.

Hello can you please check this one as the museum man said he couldn’t find it either

Thanks heaps

So happy to turn this into a smiley; I spent about 20 minutes looking for it some months ago, dropped by with some friendly muggles today and found it in seconds TFTC

Found it. TFTC WanderingAus. Quick find here today. Replaced as found.

A day caching in Northam, Meckering, Cunderdin, Tammin, Kellerberrin and Merredin, before heading around through Nungarin, Kununuppin, Trayning, Yelbeni and Wyalkatchem to the event in Minnivale. Weather was glorious and it was a DNF free day. Caching at its best. Thanks for your contribution to a great day.

Nice easy find with the kids, thank you!!

TFTC
TNLNSL
<3TeaMpretty*

Found whilst heading out to Marvel Loch. A nice easy find after stopping in to the bakery. TFTC

Out and about in the Wheatbelt today flogging around finding caches.

Quick and easy find here. The hint helped heaps! Cheers WanderingAus!

I had left this one until I visited the museum and today was that day. Great history in here. i recommend a visit. Once I was full of new knowledge I made the quick find. TFTC

Great spot with interesting surrounds!

Beaut spot, thanks for showing me this part of town!

Came up to grab a few bits and pieces from Geotrakka as she cleans out an old family warehouse. Reticulation parts always come in handy when you are on acreage. anyway grabbed a few caches while Im here and im happy to say that i spotted this little sucker TFTC

Back home for a few days - Ive been looking forward to grabbing a few smilies in 6415. This was a nice hide - the smell of rosemary filling the air. Thanks for placing this cache for is to enjoy. I signed and replaced as found.

Had to break out the big guns to find this one lol nice find thanks ️

Tftc nice quick find after stopping for lunch here

Hi WanderingAus, found “WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer” today on the way out to get some wheatbelt LGA caches with Morgo. Decided it was time to knock off the northern wheatbelt LGAs after signing a wheatbelt challenge cache in Kulin last weekend. Planned a 1000km round trip for 13 LGAs today!
TFTC from Probsty

Probsty and I hatched a plan to knock off the northern wheat belt LGA’s after signing the Regional Cacher Challenge in Kulin. Not a bad effort, with 1000kms of driving on a cool winter’s day.

Woo hoo! These codes are piling up.

Morgo the geo found WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer.

TFTC WanderingAus

Great hiding spot. Well done

Left Perth early this morning on our way to Mukinbudin. Spending a few days with friends here. Found afew caches on the way there.
Quick find here before spending a good 45min checking out the museum. TFTC

Time to reminisce about many, many hours spent in the helo (helicopter) while on deployment with the RAN. There is a fair collection of military equipment at this museum, and then a spot of fun finding the cache. TFTC ️

Dnf

Nice quick find on our last day in Merredin.

Great piece of history

Finally found it. 3rd attempt haha. Found by Aarron

My boys loved finding this one! Thank you

Took us a while, but great hide. Many thanks.

Found with lonely Ra thanks for cache

Found with MoSSau on a wet days caching

Tftc

Read the hint

I early morning: I looked for a while; a caretaker turned up to a silent alarm so I gave up!

Neatly tucked away - TFTC

Nice quick find. Tftc.

The final day of our drive to Perth and whilst it has been enjoyable doing all the caching over the last few days, it was going to be nice to finally reach our destination. With everything organized, we were on our way again, stopping at plenty of caches along the way. There were a lot of nice little country towns along this part of our drive, and the section from Coolgardie through to Perth is one that is worth taking the time to explore at a leisurely pace. As the day wore on, we finished up with the caching side of things and made quick time towards our destination. Another enjoyable day of traveling with all caches found in good condition unless otherwise stated.

TFTC

Found it! Good placement, looking back through the comments did help. Thanks

stopping for a cache here as we needed a break
Thank you for hiding this geocache and keeping me entertained WanderingAus
R

Bang bang

Lovely morning found cache with our dear friends SUEprise

Well hubby found this one TFTC

No luck with it for I’ll try another day

WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance run, and found the cache in good order. Added a supply of Finders Cards.

Lots of spider webs near GZ but aterr 5 mins i had it in hand

Tfth

Cruising back to South Australia in truck thought do a quick stop

Enjoyed the museum whilst we were here.

26

On three day trip around Nungarin and Merredin - few minutes to find. Great museum, check it out.

Found it

Found it

Found with some help from a fellow cacher

Tftc dropped in on our way back from kalgoorlie

Tfhc found on way home from kalgoorlie

Would live to have been able to go in and have a look around but was closed today
Cheers for the hide

Thanks for the awesome hide, really enjoyed checking out the big guns on site

Big gun!! Thanks

Took so long, good spot

TFTC

Couple of trips around the site before it occurred to me there was spots I had missed and the location of the cache was if course the last place I looked (isn't it always) TFTC

Finally turned a frown upside down with Boofmuka. Thanks

Finally turned this frown upside down with PollyMichele Thanks

Found on a little caching trip with vespistOZ.

TFTC

Quick find fortunately with Me&B as neither of us are very keen on guns.

Awesome spot

Easy find.. went for a walk with my son his first geocache

Bang!

Our first find!!!

Quick park and grab on our way to Bruce Rock.
TFTH

Out with SVKR_WA Kyzabra and Granett for a road trip around the wheatbelt covering over 2k on a few days. This one was nabbed on the stretch home.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache WanderingAus you help make this game what it is.

Cheers for the cache

AlliedOz