ye old peppermint tree Withers, Western Australia, Australia
By VolKayno on 12-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26N8M

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Drove past this cache today on the way home and noticed that the area has just been cleared for development. The inevitable has arrived unfortunately so ye old peppermint tree is no more To the archive with ye!

P.S. At least according to the inventory listings there weren't any TB's in it!

A grand old tree indeed. Thanks for the cache VolKayno.

quick find with KB on bike ride through area....thanks VolKano

Great tree. log is almost full tftc

First find for my daughter and I. So close to home. Such a awesome idea!!!! Not sure the poor tree will last much longer though

3rd tree lucky! TFTC.

Excellent old peppie tree. Hope it survives the development. Not many around this size. Thanks

Nice easy find to start the day. Makes a change from not finding any for a while There is a new primary school being built very close by (due to open 2013), but it hasn't actually disturbed the cache itself. I think it's just outside their boundary. Nice find close to home TFTC

Relatively quick find, considering how many hiding spots there could be at this gz. I too hope they don't remove the tree to make way for new housing. Thanks VolKayno

Thanks for the hide so many places to hide but it was in the first place

Tftc easy find with coolclan

bazza65 it seems a shame but it eventually will go thanks for cache

Easy find. Approaching this I thought it may have suffered the effects of development, but it survives...just. TFTC.

Lucky spotted the container and signed the log - love old peppermint tree so lovely shadow... Thanks VolKayno.

Tnln sl easy!

What a gorgeous old tree!!!!!! This was my first find how exciting!!!! Yay I'm now a official goecacher!!!

good spot

That was a good one, minus the mozzies lmao

Great climbing tree!

We drove right beside this tree before realising it was a bit wet! Had to move back a bit to be able to walk to the cache. Hmmm dont think the tree will last much longer with so much development in the surrounding area.

TFTC VolKayno

What a beautiful old tree with so much life living in it! I hope they leave it there and some lucky person ends up with it in their back yard. Tftf

TFTC

Gorgous location...will be a shame to see it gone 1 day.
Nice bit of fun.

this was our second attempt to find an this time sucess

good

Agonis Flexuosa nice specimen

Ye old peppermint tree is looking smaller as the piles of sand get bigger TFTC

quick find as it was very exposed so covered well

Thanks for the cache VolKayno, I hope the tree stays, it looks like the area maybe turned into a park.

This was the 2nd time we went for a look, last time it was getting dark and we didnt have a torch. An easy find in the light. The escavation is getting very close to the tree. I hope it stays. TFTF

This is our 4401st overall find.

Found at about 1:18 PM. I was up and down and all over but I found it in the end! I was a bit nervous wandering through the long grass but didn't hear anything slither...

Thanks to VolKayno for the cache.

TNLNSL

Nice walk through snake-infested?? grass to a great tree. Easy find. TFTC

What a fantastic tree, I hope nothing happens to it. Found the cave easily enough as it started to rain. Tftc.

This whole area didn’t show up on the maps of our car GPS so navigating around to get to the caches here was a little different, fun and interesting. We spotted the old tree from a distant, parked our car and made our way on foot across to the cache. Hope the tree survives with all the new houses being built. Very nice spot for a cache. Thanks VolKayno for showing us this place.

Hopefully when they develop the rest of this estate they will keep this beautiful old tree. TFTC

What a great old tree - we hope you start a "save the peppermint tree" campaign if they threaten to bulldoze it. Quick find. TFTH

found it all in good condition after a bit of help from geomate.

after a long look i found it nice one.macca

Don't think this is where it should have been - it was sitting in the open on the ESE of the peppermint. We put it in the base of the tree on the ESE, covered it with some leaves and put a three-forked branch pointing to it.

Sitting out in the open on the grass?

Beware; I think Muggles are messing with this one. Found it caste aside in the open.

As our log is so late, we can see why we possibly didn't find it, after quite a lengthy search! Better luck next time!

Bit tough for us old ones. TFTH. Good one VolKayno.

Very impressed by those that found it at night. A challenging find. TFTHSL

Good hide
When all the usual spot were empty there was only one way to go.
TFTC

Ha ha I like where you put it.

Spent 10 minutes looking around the wrong tree b4 I remembered the description. Searched high and low and in as many nooks and crannies as I dared put my hand and couldn't see hide nor hair of it.

Hats off to the keen ones to find that one in the dark! Great tree, hope it survives the next housing development. Too small for the NZ GeoCoin, so TN, left dice, TFTH

Whhoowww loved the tree! TNLN thanks.

Typical Volkayno, took us a while to think like him, but we found it.

FTF All was quiet in the house and then the call went up that a new cache had been published. What is one to do? Wait until morning? Not likely! We grabbed the Geodog, a couple of head torches and drove off into the darkness. A suitable parking spot was soon found and not a 4WD in sight. After trampling through the long grass we found the tree in question. There are so many possible spots for a cache to be hidden and we found it at 2120 hours. It was at this point that I noticed a ute going slowly past for the second time. Thinking we were about to be sprung by the local Neighbourhood Watch, we beat a hasty retreat. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache VolKayno

STF! We saw the new cache listed, but we were in a quandry - we had dinner guests and we were enjoying their company so we knew rjm1 would get to it before us. So waited till the guests departed at 10 pm then quickly donned the caching gear, grabbed the head torches and geo pooch and headed to GZ. No-one about except the odd car headed home at the end of the day. We didn't have any trouble working out where the cache would be - having sussed out a couple of typical VolKayno caches before. It lived up to our expectations!

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