Up the Drain Mount Melville, Western Australia, Australia
By Rainbow Coasters on 16-May-10. Waypoint GC28KVC

Had this one marked to help our JASMER out. Attempted to find parking in a few different spots on separate expeditions and happy to say we found the nice easy path 'down the drain' on our trek today! Man it is hilly in Albany! First attempt was with bikes, then with the car then by hiking. Easy access to the 'drain' from the southern carpark on the way to the Mt Melville Lookout.Nice walk down the drain, we now know why it is called this Cache was about about 5m SW of GZParked up on Serpentine Rd at the Lion Street Park to do a nice hike around Mt Melville collecting a few more smilies. Ended up doing over 7kms up and down and around with 11 caches in total. Mostly followed the Mount Melville Circuit Trail but with alot more added detours for geos to add to the kms. A fun day out! Thank you Coastn Along for placing and maintaining Up the Drain for us and others to find and enjoy!

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Kids loved the bush bash didn't even know that carpark was there lived just below it my whole life

Took some searching but finally found. Had to leave the bikes for a bit… Also cut myself! TFTC!!!

Nice easy find

What a view!!! Tftc.

Enjoyed being lead up the drain took a while but got there TFTC

Staying at a friend's place 120m down the hill so figured should pick up a few of these while not raining
GPS all over the place, found about 2m east of line.
Added a couple of +100yo pennies to cache.

TFTC

Deep in there! A nice trail to follow, so to speak. Thanks.

Found this one today. Took a bit of hunting. Got all excited initially only to discovered I'd found someone discarded can. GPS was roaming around a lot. Two people definitely made the hunt earlier. Thanks for the cache!

Did not find, made me pretty madge and also a little bit sadge

Nice walk

Bit of a bush bash

Hard to get but you need to follow the drain

Think I can about this one the wrong way!!!! TFTC

Not much fun in the rain tftc

Sent MitchDem up the drain while I got eaten by mosquito's in the rain, TFTC

Found quite a while ago with darkandd4v3y but forgot to sign and log

It took a while, lots of mozzies, search wide, tftc

Maintenance check on cache today. Container replaced with new log book. Accuracy of about 3m to cache on my Samsung phone.

Orrsome Family spotted this one after a 10 minute search. Logbook very wet. Tftc

After 10 min search we walked a few more metres up and I turned around and there she was. Tftc

Out on this beautiful morning grabbing some smileys. We made our way along the track and we’re soon at gz. We searched for a few minutes before making the find. We added our names to your log and returned your cache back to where it hides. TFTC Rainbow Coasters.

While getting caches with axell33 ‘up the hill’, we set our sights on this one, but tried to tackle it from a different point before heading back to our original beginning. Enjoyed the walk through the native foliage and admired how much work went into making this ‘drain’. At go we foraged around for a little while before spotting our prize. With all sorted headed back. TYFTC

Found after half hour these cache amazes me

Found on a wet and rainy day! Sadly the log was too wet to sign- might need replacing. TFTC Rainbow Coasters

Can't sign log wet

Found it log was wet and needs replacing cache needs maintanence

Tricky! Nice hide and a bit of bush bashing!

But of a bush bash

Will try again later

Few mozzie bites but came out victorious.

Thanks Rainbow Coasters for placing and maintaining this cache.
Heading down to Albany as it’s supposed to be wet and cold in Perth so why not come to where it’s almost always wet and cold . No I have a few days off work and things to do down here so collecting a few geocaches was on the cards TFTH

Getting very wet in the end today, good thing I have a spare pair of shoes.

Bush bashing

Bush bashing

Good one, great spot but a few metres from where it says- keep looking!

A bit of a scramble to get there, but worth it. THANKS CO

I stepped in a lot of thorns

Found after much scrambling around rocks.

Little bit of a search. Found it. TFTC.

After a very tiring bike ride up to the cache ‘somewhere along the horizon’, on the way down we picked up this cache. The cords were a bit jumpy but eventually found it. Nice hide. TFTC

TFTC tricksy

Quick trip to Albany and back, Caching along the way, and camping in the back of the ute.Tftc.

Very hard find be prepared to go a hike

Great walk in the bush, recommend long trousers. You can't Noc the roc !!

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A wider search area, found it second time.

Sorry couldnt find it. Maybe it got washed away?

Found it thanks

Found. Pealca

Big enough for a pencil

Found on a great walk, tftc

Well hidden took a little while great walk TFTC

Went 'up the drain' to find it.
What is the rock lined ditch across the slope?

Nice walk to GZ where cache was found after widening our search area a little.
TFTC Coastn Along

Tftc. Log very soggy!! But lovely area

pug002 found it on our trip south geocaching. TFTC Coastn Along

Lovely little walk with an awesome view over Albany. Well hidden, lots of the surrounding area looks very suspect so keep your eyes peeled.
TFTC!

TFTC

Up the drain, down the drain. Finally found with a "mummy look" tftc

Like previous catchers we found this one about 8m further up the hill.
TFTC Coastn Along

On a bike ride around Melville today, I went a wandering around the drainage network
It wasn't long before there was a cache find in the pipeline [:o)]

Or at least near a pipeline !!
But where was this pescky cache hidng ?? [:o]
It took me a good 10 minutes, and a bit of a wander uphill from GZ to find it

TFTC.

Finally found this one - must have been my fourth attempt. Thank you

In town for work, so filled in some time with a couple of caches. These hills are steep when you walk them.
TFTC

Geodaughter2 and I looked for this one a few days back but couldn't find it. Did some research by reading older logs and headed back up the hill with Geodaughter1 in tow. Easy success ! TFTC! Remember a pen... Long way down to get one from the car!

Wow! Love this location.... Unable to locate but may try again tomorrow

Nice little walk up the drain coords where a bit off but recent logs helped a lot great little spot lived in Albany my whole life and never even knew about it. TFTC

Great find tftc

While over in the west visiting family red.5 and xambo4u decided to take a walk over mt Melville with grandchild Gabi. On our way we pulled up here to check this one out. Great views from here and houses are very creative. Tight turning circle here and with a short walk along track and a quick bush bash we were at GZ. Lost co ords being under cover but soon had it in hand. Thanks for the cache

Not as hard a find as we thought it would be.

Found it but had no pen to sgn in. Nice location !

Quick find down the hill

Tricky.

Very clever hide.

Starting to get the hang of what to look for!! Nice fun walk in the Albany winter weather.

Out for a walk and picked up a few. TFTC

Spot on! Cheers

Another quick find. Cheers!

How very literal, love it!

Woohoo !!! Found it !!! Was a fit of a search and was about 8m further up from GZ as previous logs have said.

Interesting place never knew it was here...no pencil in cache (our pen wouldn't fit). A great day on MM

Tough morning here on the mountain. I came from above since I'd found other caches up there earlier. Conditions were woeful. By the time I eventually located the cache, I slipped on a rock submerged under fallen tree debris, dropped my power tank pen somewhere and abandoned the hunt. I will hopefully be back in far nicer conditions on a future visit to sign the log. I wonder whether the cache has been moved since it's higher up the drain than my GPSr suggested, but maybe that was just the terrible reception today. Thanks anyway for the experience.

Out road tripping with K.B. This was one of our many stops. Thanks for the time you've taken to hide this cache. Please excuse the generic log.

This was a search and a 1/2. Just about to give up but stumbled over it on the way back up the hill. TFTc.

Made the trek "up the drain" and was quick find! TFTC

Up the drain, down the drain, away from the drain. No idea where this one is suppose to be.

Up the drain but couldn't locate this one

Loved the walk

Thx for the cache. Interesting spot.

Geodad found a bit off the track..

TFTC

TFTC

Couldnt find it, looked up and down the hill.

Found this eventually! Took a bit of scrambling around and after reading the log saying it was a bit further up the hill we got it! TFTC

No luck. But how awesome - Friday 13th, dusk, hiding from muggles, crows surrounding me - where are you Freddy and Jason!!!!!

Quick find on a Sunday morning.

Got to zero and zero, but couldnt find anything, could CO confirm if cache is still there. Thanks

Another interesting walk, spotted a lot of skinks sunning themselves on the drain. Tftc

I had a great time down in Albany, caching most days, followed by scrumptious dinners accompanied by some fantastic local reds. This one took us longer to find than we anticipated, with it finally being located some 6-8m further up the hill than where the gps's were indicating. But find it we did. Thanks for the smiley Coastn Along

One of the best views of Albany Great location. TFTC