Died In Service Parkeston, Western Australia, Australia
By ChoccyWabit on 15-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2DE4B

Hi

Fat black spider came crawling out

Found with e.gregory1 during a trip to WA for a few weeks. Spent an hour or so caching around Kambalda mid-morning before heading up to Kalgoorlie for a late lunch then out to Kanowna and beyond for the afternoon. Thanks for the cache Choccywabit!

Found on a trip to Western Australia from Adelaide with FeatherWaite. Today we travelled from near Balladonia to the Goldfields north-east of Kalgoorlie, finding a few caches of interest along the way.Interesting old townsite and graveyard. Thanks ChoccyWabit for the cache.

TFTC. Staying with family in Kalgoorlie for a few days and decided to head out to Kanowna. Interesting history and added a few smilies to the map

Easy find. Beautiful spot.

TFTC

Full time Nomads since March 2014, in WA to visit family.

Having been in Perth to visit family our stay has come to an end and we are on our way to Broken Hill for the Mundi Mundi Bash. Today we headed out of Kal to Kanowna and Bulong to find a few caches but alas we were low on fuel, so we could not attempt all the caches we wanted to. Lots of history out here!

TFTC ChoccyWabit

Found

Found with the crew that I did Queen Victoria Springs with.
Nice spot for a cache!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS.

Off on an adventure with Team Red Roo, Neva2old, Cravo10, Beaker, Geotrakka and Lyn Pat & Nathan for a few days/nights with the aim to visit Queen Victoria Spring and surrounding area.

Had a great time and looking forward to the next one.

Thanks for the cache

Cheers

MCFonz

Hi there ChoccyWabit - finally our trip to Queen Victoria Spring (via Cundelee) has come. As a group of 8 we travelled out to QVS yesterday and our return to Kalgoorlie via the Nippon Highway. We found this cache at 0314pm after a short search - and the container and log are as noted in the Fieldnotes below. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to ChoccyWabit for this cache - the 6th of 9 finds for the day.

FieldNotes:

The gang all came along and found the cache. It's so easy when you have this many eyes looking for a cache.

Day 2 of our adventure , a convoy of 4x4 heading towards Queen Victoria Springs . Team Redroo,,LynnPatNathan, Mcfonz,Cravo10,Geotrakka and Beaker. Enjoying the history around here
Some logs signed as N2O.
This is my 10826find.
Thankyou ChoccyWabit for placing and maintaining this cache

Arrived in Kal after a road trip with Neva2old and sharing many laughs along the way. We spent our 1st night in Southern Cross where we joined forces with Beaker to continue our drive to Kalgoorlie to set up camp for an event. Then off to Queen Victoria Springs with a group of 4x4 adventurers to camp under the stars.
I love this part of WA - great to be back here again.
I found your cache ChoccyWabit which added to my adventures. Thanks for placing it. Your cache makes my 6172 find.

Another very historical site- thanks for leading me here! Tftc

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Getting a tour of the area and found while looking at graves.

Love these old cemeteries. TFTC.

Came with my Police hubby, was a great cache for us to find

Tftc

Incredible history tftc

Great hunt and Happy Mother’s Day

Cache was quickly found in a interesting location TFTC

And we worry about COVID! Look at how tough it was then! TFTC

Lots of fencing about. Not an obvious path to navigate. But great location

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Started our 2nd tour of WA now checking out Kalgoolie and surrounds. 27 November 2021 11:37 am Tyfc ChoccyWabit total caches now 3235

A Gold rush in a cemetary only in Kalgoorlie!
Thank you for hiding this geocache ChoccyWabit
Find number 24053
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Staying in Kalgoorlie for a few days, we spent the day exploring the town & its surrounds, this cache our next stop… What an interesting place, in a morbid kind of way

TFTC ChoccyWabit [^] Cache was a quick find, cheers!

Great little cache

With HTB2017. Thanks for the spot. Love the history of the area.

7/8/21

Found by mistake while showing my Mum the old Kanowna town site, I let her have the honours of writing in the notepad and she forgot to write the date

Very dangerous spot but a great cause

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Very cool

Found it

Found it. Not the place for a cache in are book but interesting

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great to see grave maintained by the police force

My mother who has gone to a better place too would have loved this area. Interesting.

Found it

Drove along some questionable bush tracks and found some very interesting grave sites. Also found the cache in a rather surprising location. Tftc

Out geocaching with my 3 kids. Loved it. Tftc

Nice easy find

Amazing all the shafts around this ghost town

Next cache of the day. Easy to spot, so have tried cover it more.
Take care walking around. TFTC.

Yay found another one in such a quaint little spot. What a peaceful place. Thanks for bringing me out here. TFTC

Thanks, good cache

Thanks

Mrs fratra's paternal Grandmother was born in Kanowna in 1901 so we spent time exploring the area and picking up a few caches along the way.
TFTC ChoccyWabit this is find #9303 for us.

Eine interessante Geschichte. Danke fürs Erzählen sagen HunttheHunters & Missy

Thanks for the find

In Kalgoorlie on the way home from Tropicana. I stopped here to have a look around and was rewarded with an interesting history lesson. Thanks for placing this geo here. TFTC

The Flintstones never forget the young men who came out to the goldfields . A man died just doing his job. TFTC

TFTC

TFTC

Peaceful sad but beautiful at the same time thanks

Peaceful spot on a beautiful day. TFTC

Nice quick one thanks

A sad end to a James Kay. RIP

Ifound interesting bit of history

Not a good place to have it!

I think I have already grabbed a cache out here many years ago. the cache was an easy find but I dont think it follows the geocaching guidelines. We need to be respectful in cemeteries and place the caches away from the graves. Something to keep in mind for future ones.
TFTC and history ChoccyWabit

Found it

Gots it

Tfth

Got it !

Great find great story kids say they are sorry James died

Found while staying in Kalgoorlie for a few days
TFTC

Watch out for the shafts if your out here with kids.

I took a run out to Kanowna to pick up some local GC's. I haven't been out here since the early 1980's, so thanks to the CO's for bringing me back. A pity that the grave marker is so "official", one would never know the back-story except for this Geocache. I picked this one up at 12:10 this morning. TNLNSL TFTC ChoccyWabit.

Rolling with the blench gang. Left wags the dog and zebra guy. Took square rocks. TFTC

Found with Bacon Dolphin tftc

Thanks for the history lesson – enjoyed - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Found! Nice bit of history

Great cache interesting bit of history too !

Good find took nothing left a fidget spinner enjoy.

Tftc!
Took: pencil
Left: French soldier

I am currently staying in Kalgoorlie at the moment for a few days and attempting some of the local caches and checking out some of the sights. Took a trip up to the interesting spot for the morning. Cache found OK. TFTC. and bring me here.

Nice place and peaceful

Quick find after work today while working near by TFTC

Such a good find

Great history, thanks!

Tftc

Wonderfully, interesting place. TFTC.

Thanks for the cache great find.

Tftc

TFTC ChoccyWabit

pug002 found it 10/7/2016 on our geo trip to Kal. Geo hubby with Bob did this, geo wife resting for up coming surgery. TFTC ChoccyWabit

Ventured out to Kanowna as this was the first posting Mr Swaggies Great Grandfather, an Anglican Minister, had when he arrived in Australia from Ireland! Wonder what he thought when he arrived here?! Had a great time wandering around the town and even managed to find where the church would have been! Thanks for the cache ChoccyWabit!!

Long weekend in Kalgoorlie with the Geoferals. Our first find for the weekend.

TFTC! Found during a 6-Day trip from Perth to Kalgoorlie, Esperance and back to Perth via many back roads and country towns. We found a huge number of caches, clocking up nearly 3000km for the entire trip.

The highlights of the trip have been picking up a bunch of old caches in Kalgoorlie and the surrounding towns, placed by some of Western Australia's first geocachers.

We ventured as far north as Leonora in search of our prizes even visiting a large number of ghost towns along the golden outback trail, some of the most amazing places I've seen in my life, see the pics if you want to know more.

During our trips out from Kal we think we visited nearly every gravesite or headstone in the region with the number of caches in and around cemeteries!

We completed a large amount of cache maintenance around the Kal area, with a large number of the older caches suffering with cracked lids, smashed containers, wet logs and alike. We planned to help about a dozen caches with new containers and ran out after the first couple of days. So if you're in the area please help out as best you can.

We also picked up a number of caches in Esperance placed by some of the newest cachers in the state, who seem to have so much passion and energy.

We ventured out to Cape Le Grande and picked up a few of the caches there, not quite being game enough to grab the views of hellfire cache but we grabbed all of the others we paid for our walking that night!

We even had time to place a couple of caches in my Country Cache series so please look out for them on your travels. Thanks to the locals who have kindly agreed to maintain them.

Thanks to all of the Cache owners for placing the caches that we found, hopefully you can place a few more for our next trip

Thanks

A geocache touching the headstone, now that's a first for me! Nice spot

Went on a trip from Perth to Kalgoorlie down to Esperance and then back to Perth. Spent 6 days finding, hiding and even maintaining caches along the way.
The majority of caches were found easily and in good condition even some archived ones.
Took a few travel bugs and placed along the way.
TFTH TFTC.

TFTC

Thanks

Well preserved site, paud respects, TFTC

Easy as. Great spot to check on the history of a long gone town

Happy Boxing Day! Sure beats shopping!!