Cave Man Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia
By Bushies2 on 09-May-10. Waypoint GC287FM

Loved this cache. Beautiful spot and great find. It's been pretty warm this week, but this morning is breezy and beautiful for an mtb ride along this track. Thank you caveman.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 125 - Kununurra Day 2. Today was a day around town and the close area. I was happy to find some DNFs from may last visit in 2018. I was glad there were not too many long walks, but the Mirima National park is always great and the Gardens of stone area was fun driving and one short walk. My final stop was the Ivanhoe crossing. The water level had come down a bit but it is well and truly closed still. Still pretty hot all day, I am glad there was a pool to cool off in a few times. I cooked dinner at the van tonight and will be off to Timber Creek tomorrow.The next three caches were out in the city of stones area along some very sandy tracks. I was happy two where virtually drive bys and only one a 100m walk. There were three well themed caches that are well worth the effort of a visit.Thanks for the cache Bushies248955.7 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 El Dorado Guatavita Compass Rose A#376**Albida**

So great to explore this awesome area! What a magic spot! Thanks for bringing me out here. Tftc

Dropped my pen here and almost stood on a snake when I came back to retrieve it. So, care with care folks! A warm morning for a wake-up stroll around. TNLN-TFTC!

SP(UK)

Heading north with richlink on our way to Darwin and beyond enjoying the spectacular scenery and finding a cache or two along our route.

As richlink had previously found this series, they headed back to camp while we negotiated the tracks to the various GZ conducted maintenance as required. Thanks, Bushies2, another group of excellent caches.

A late log...
We decided to park the geovehicle roadside and adopt the sandy walk option, good choice, pretty rugged tracks...
We enjoyed our afternoon walk through these spectacular rock formations, the sun highlighting the Kimberley red, searching for the clever cache containers, we managed to find all 5 in the vicinity, too much unlove on this cluster of geocaches, TFTC's Bushies2
PS needs a new logsheet, can the next finder please repair, thanks

Thank goodness we did this set of caches with the quad or we would never have got it done before dark. Easy find and a great little container. Might copy that idea down the road I reckon. TFTC

Find 7 of 17 with 1 DNF on an action packed day, with a whirlwind tour of Kununurra and then out to Emma Gorge for a fabulous walk/swim/meal and return under the stars.

Set off walking to join these 5 caches up together and even though it was only about 9am it was pretty warm. This was much tougher than we expected but we did it, with a lot of scratchy bush bashing and not much track walking. Amazing landscapes all around and some good finds. Cave man has lost his head a bit. A good find, now to get back to the A/C!

TFTC Bushies2!

Was a fun one to find!!

Looks like he’s been here a long time! Had to battle the spiders to get to him TFTC

Out for a morning of caching in the City of Ruins. Beaut spot but sheesh, she’s a bit warm.

Found all the caches ok and ended up going for a quick dip at Ivanhoe with the locals. Gee, it was nice but I wasn’t in there for long.

I went up high and tried to negotiate the spiders. On the low side, a fallen dead tree had obscured GZ, complete with spiders. With a flip on the tree down slope I reached in a found the cache.

Favourite point added

TFTC Bushies2

We got up early this morning to try for these before the heat of the day. So pleased that we made the effort. TFTC Bushies2 Have a favourite .

Bushies2 you’re really trying to scare us now Another great hide. Well e executed and accurate coordinates. TFTC

So clever. Thanks so much for brining us to this super cool place. What an awesome adventure!

Very cool cache, found it easily.

Thanks for the cache

I went for another look with my dad this time and we found it

I went for a look we my sister and cousin we looked everywhere and it kept telling us we were going the wrong way. We will go back another time but we had a great time.

My last day in Kununurra before heading back to Canberra in the afternoon. I had been planning to use the morning to gather some caches, so was glad of the lack of rain. I wasn't about to test my hired soft roader on the tracks (especially after rain) so enjoyed a good walk instead.

The last cache of the day before heading to the airport and Darwin. With the help of my dodgy tablet GPS I'm sure I found the most difficult possible route here, involving lots of grass and ending up on the rocks at very much the wrong level. But in the end it was an easier find than I feared it would be. Poor cave man ;-( TFTC

Awesome spot!!!

Nice quick one. Thanks for the ingenuous caches bushies 2. A favourite all round route for us.

Hi there Bushies2 - while stopped in Kununnura during our 2016 Northern Adventure TWO decided to let me have *another* day out by myself to pick up some caches that were too rough for her to accompany me. This was our find number 4132 - SL. Thanks to Bushies2 for the cache.

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. The second leg of our journey was a fabulous 9 days in Tasmania. Having then returned to Melbourne we set off on the third leg of our journey, which was to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. We then spent a few days in Sydney with geocaching friends efore flying on to the Gold Coast for the fourth leg of our travels, that included visits to Lamington National Park, Noosa and an overnight trip out to Fraser Island. We then flew from Brisbane to Cairns, where we spent a couple of nights before heading out to the birding hotspots of Yungaburra and Daintree. Following on from a visit to Cape Tribulation we turned to Port Douglas. After a day out on the Great Barrier Reef we returned to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs and the fifth leg of our travels, which was a wonderful week driving the circuit to and from Ayers Rock in our 4x4 camper. On returning to Alice Springs we then flew on to Darwin, where we picked up another 4x4 camper. We are currently making our way towards Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

Once again geocaching took us to another fabulous location - this time the "City of Ruins", that we wouldn't have visited or even known about had it not been for geocaching. We also had a great deal of fun on the 4WD tracks, having successfully disabled the highly restrictive big brother tracker in our 4WD hire vehicle that Britz has untold boundaries, for despite their so called "No Boundaries" logo - to the degree that we wonder why on earth they rent out 4x4's when they don't want the vehicles to do what they are built for or go where they are made for! This one was a surprisingly quick find at Ground Zero, but I had to leave geo husband to retrieve what was left of the caveman! Thanks so much for the cache and please have a favourite point!

Wear long pants

Excellent find!

I probably took a more complex route than I had to in order to reach the cache, and wound up walking most of the way, but it was a pleasant stroll!

Found it

Today we visited the City of Ruins a stunning location that we would have visited if it was not for geocaching. We enjoyed the cache containers and adding to our favourites.

Thanks Bushies2 for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

When i found Where caveman lives i started to "dig". I blenched. Scary for a second. cool hide! TFTC

Went there and replaced with a new logbook, all is good for now.

This one took a bit of finding! But, after stumbling over & around rocks, with speargrass stuck everywhere, (and I mean everywhere!) it was finally in hand! Could not get the log out in one piece as it was too wet, therefore I could not sign it!

Log too soaked to get out of container!

Couldn't get the paper out without ruining it... Found him though!

Did this cache when everything was flowing!! What a great time to do it

This was our 2nd cache find in a caching run of 8 Finds & 0 DNFs today.
We found it at 09:25 so this now makes our total find count 6984.
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Another great caching day in the Kununurra area.
Dunno about a cave man, but we found some evidence that a child has been living here in the past too.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Around 2 metres).
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks Bushies2 for the hunt today.

UG !!
If visit Cave Man
Cave Man need food !!
If could not help.

Cave Man past needing nutrients [:o]
If need cache finds though.
So If keep wandering [^]

TFTC, is good !!
UG !!

22 June 2013, Saturday, Week 8 – Day 55 of our Trip Around Australia
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Another “Rest Day” today, lol, a bit of a contradiction of terms, ha ha. ...............
We returned to the caravan to drop off our shopping and get some lunch for the kids and we then went off to look for some geocaches in an area known as the City of Ruins . We found one of the access tracks into the area and drove in onto a narrow sandy track bordered by very tall straw dry grass and scattered around the area, barely visible were little sandstone towers of the crumbly banded bungle like rock. We chose a cache and navigated towards it along the track winding in and out through the rock towers, over soft boggy sand, carefully picking our way through by climbing up rock shelfs and fallen tree trunks across the track, down into steep sandy creek beds and back up the other side, it was pretty tough going at some stages. We chose a cache “Vampire, GC287KW”, and set off driving around the tracks to get as close as would allow then set off on foot to find, this was a fun cache container and the kids at first were a bit scared but soon realized it was harmless. We signed the log and moved on to the next one “Charlotte lives here! GC287ME”. This one required some more difficult driving but eventually we found a suitable place to park nearby and got out firstly to look at the awesome views from on top of the rocks and then went in search of the cache. We had trouble pinpointing this one as the coords were a little out and was trying to send up to the top of a very high and impossible to reach rock so we resorted to the spoiler photo and soon found its hidey hole. I sent Chloe in to get it and her reaction and the look on her face when she picked up the rock that was sitting on it was priceless, lmao. We signed the log and carried on.
Our next one on the list was “Cave Man, GC287FM”, with more driving around in search of a suitable spot nearby to park and a bit of a bash through 2m high dry straw like grass and over rocks to finally get to GZ, a quick search revealed another clever container. It was now getting quite late and we went in search of another one on the way out but ended up driving around in circles trying to get closer, as I didn’t want to go bashing through the long grass too far. We ended up leaving that one and drove towards the road looking for “City of Ruins #2, GC1TCBG”, I was getting a bit frustrated trying to find this one and while I was looking for the spoiler photo Charlie found it straight away, well done again Charlie. We signed the log and headed out intending to go back to the caravan park. There was a bright full moon rising up over the rock formations and Jacki wanted to get a photo, I thought it would be good to go to “Kelly’s Knob Lookout, GC1KEPN” to get some photos. The last couple of days had been overcast so we were not able to get any good sunsets, today was a bright sunny afternoon and from the top of the lookout all the surrounding hills glowed a fabulous bright red and orange, highlighted by a full silver moon rising in the east. While we were here we put out a replacement container for this cache as it was not to be found last time we visited. We then returned to the caravan for an afternoon cuppa and then it was time to prepare dinners and retire for the night.

Found with SeabreezeOZ, TFTC

Found with SeabreezeOZ, TFTC

Tftc great little walk in

Even though the bushfires have been frowned upon, have to say made this cache a much easier one. Also adds to the setting of this amazing place. Spoooooky!! Love this cache. TFTC again Bushies2

After finding a nearby place to park it was time to go in for the hunt, after a short walk and a quick hunt I had found evidence that cave man once lived here. Thanks Bushies2 for a great series of caches.

I am afraid that I made a bit of a meal of this one! I got to GZ but didn't look hard enough in the obvious spot right beside me. I then proceeded to traipse around in a big circle only to end up back where I was. This time I checked those wonderful Spoilers and found the cache. Phew!

Nice quick find, another nice camo..!

T4T$

We found three caches in this area late yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed the area so much that we decided to return this morning to try to find the remaining thee cahes. It was a reasonable walk to GZ, having to take numerous deviations to get around some of the rock outcrops. This was a quick find once at GZ - a good cache. TFTC Bushies2

Found at 11.50am GAFF1. We have heard of a race of pigmy humans that were roaming the Kimberleys - maybe this was one of them?
Great camo - we really appreciate the extra work put in for these type of caches - much better than and eclipse tin in the rocks!
Thanks Bushies2.

Interesting place. Thanks.

Very novel camo - loved it!

Great location and cache (especially the container). Thanks Bushies2

Ha ha. Very good hide. Thanks Bushies2

STF: LOVED IT!! Really quite good one! Thanks to Bushies for the excellent cache.

# FTF # Wow !! and 3000Km from home. What an interesting area. TFTC

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