Spreading the Word Warumungu, Northern Territory, Australia
By Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks) on 14-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GQFR

TFTC

Thx

tftc

We stay overnight in Tennant Creek and before arrival we visited this place. The cache was easy to find. But the container has no closure. Thanks for the cache

Bit easy, but still fun to find. Thank you.

And the word was spread. I can not believe the number of transcriptions that had to be made as a message progressed from sender to receiver.Freddo and e.gregory1 were heading up the middle of Australia following Stuart's well trodden route. We were travelling in air conditoned comfort and style. No stale food. No camels to carry water. We were leaving the cold winter for the northern season.Today was the day to find this cache. Today is the twelth day of Augustus Caesar's Month in the wonderful year of twenty twenty four. We found your cache container and added some inky stuff to the paper sheet or note pad you have supplied for a log book or scroll. The cache container and log book or scroll were in good condition. It was a little cooler. Still no wind today.With the log signed and the cache replaced it was time to leave. Onwards to the next cache. Woot, that is not to far.I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land, and their continuing connection to it. I wish to pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Blockheads Unite in 2025.

Found while out and about with DennisC52 on our half lap of Australia. Thanks for the cache.

A quick find with frmen1. We enjoyed a walk around the station. The cool store was aptly named and I enjoyed being in there lolTFTC

Nice quick find while exploring this interesting place. Thanks

Nice quick find. Thank you.

Checking out this interesting placeNEF TFTC

Thanks for the quick find. Nice stretch TFTC

Almost without a cache today but finally got that one to continue the streak.Day 26 Greetings from Belgium

Nice and easy, thanks for bringing me to an interesting spot.

An easy find. Had a walk around the station thanks for showing us the way.

Quick and easy find at this very interesting spot. Driving south to Adelaide at the moment so we stopped in!

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 27 - Tennant Creek, Northern Territory - Mount Isa, Queensland (650 km)Dnes m cesta na sever skrz tm celou Austrlii kon. Asi 30 km za mstem Tennant Creek se loum se Stuart Hwy, po kter jsem najela hodn stovek kilometr a strvila zde nkolik dn a odbouji vlevo na Barklys Hwy smrem na vchodn pobe a do sttu Queensland, poslednho do m sbrky. Pvodn jsem sice chtla jet a do Darwinu a navtvit NP Kakadu, ale je tam obdob de, a dojet dalch 1000 km a zjistit, e jsou zaven cesty v parku, to nechce. Tak jsem zvolila cestu k pobe. Dnes jsem najela dalch 650 km ve stlm slunci, kdy se opaluje i v aut za zavenmi okny. A cesta byla zniujc - nejdv 200 km nzk bu a pak 350 km rovnch pastvin dobytka. A na poslednch 50 km se zaaly objevovat kopce. U jsem myslela, e se msto Mount Isa jmenuje podle hory z legrace. Ani s kekami to nebylo dnes nejlep. Tm dn po cest nejsou a jet jsem njak nenala, jednak kvli zcela podmen pd nebo kvli lelkujcm mstnm. Za to jsem konen vidla klokana, ovem jen sdrovho u benzinky. Jet 2 dny pejezd a pak u konen zase ocen. Myslm, e mi to vnitrozem u stailo. Taky mm v kolech u pes 7 tis km.Today I leaved Stuart Hwy near Tennant Creek and continue on Barklys Hwy to the eastcost. It was really hot again. I found some caches on the road but mostly have DNF because of local people or water on the ground. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic.

On a campervan trip across Australia from New Zealand. An easy find here and a little rest for the car.TFTC.

Vandaag rijd ik van Tennant Creek naar Mataranka. Uiteraard met af en toe en stop. En dan kan er ook een cache gevonden worden!Spreading the Word om 09:19. Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks) bedankt voor de cache!Volg me op instagram voor : gc_badmintonner

Cache container was on the ground, log book is in bits. Put back where we think it came from.

Spreading the Word
1.5/1.5
Micro
Traditional Cache

Thank you for the cache Liz and Bruce and Mavericks. That was interesting!

First find on our northern Oz tour.
Had a good look around this interesting place.

TFTC Liz and Bruce
Find 7478 logged from cgeo:

Thanks for thie history, great to see it preserved so well.

Verplaatsing van Cairns naar Alice Springs. Onderweg deze cache gelogd. TFTC.

Easy find watch the ants
Had a look around

Tftc. Nice history. Dry wind as we move north.

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Have visited TC many times over the years and only visited the Telegraph station once, about 25+ years ago. So today was the day to renew our acquaintenance with this piece of history. Was impressed with the way that the buildings have been maintained and presented.
Parked in the carpark and while wandering to the buildings stopped to read the signs, and while muggle friends read the information, the cache was quickly found, log signed and cache replaced as found.
Gatias Pro Cache Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks)

Darwin to Adelaide Road Trip
Day Five: Threeways to Alice Springs
Weather: sensational!

With the name of this cache, I was expecting an abandoned church. Come to think of it, I haven’t noticed any abandoned churches on this trip as yet, but that will change once I reach South Australia I’m sure. This was a nice diversion off of the highway.

Thanks for the hide Liz and Bruce and The Mavericks.

It’s officially a mega - GCA1DNA “The Great Leap Forward”
Adelaide, South Australia. February 29, 2024
We would love to have your company.

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache, a nice quick find at an interesting spot, thanks for bringing us here and placing this cache

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin along the west coast and returning to Perth through the centre and the Nullarbor. A great piece of history here, thanks Liz&Bruce and the Mavericks.

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to NT and down through the Centre to SA and back home across the Nullabor. After overnighting at Banka Banka Station we are travelling through Tennant Creek to Devils Marbles. Loving reading the history of this area. Well maintained buildings and cache in good order. Thanks Liz and Bruce.

Day 36 of our greynomad trip up north and after a the JLWEvents, a tour of Maralinga and caching to claim LGAs in the Eyre Peninsula, we are attempting to escape the southern weather that has been wet and windy.

Another day of sunshine, and we headed out to find a few caches before we suffered from the heat Had a wander around the buildings, quite sturdy and comfortable for that era I would imagine. Plenty of ants at GZ, I required a shake down

TFTC SL TB's visited

An interesting stop at this one time vital place. A quick find and a quick read.
Thanks Liz and Bruce

Our Northern Territory journey began in Darwin around 3am after a very delayed flight. We drove as far north as Fresh Water Camp (northeast of Darwin), followed by a loop to Liberated Cox (out to the west) and Litchfield National Park returning to Darwin. We then headed south with overnight stops at Katherine, Daly Waters and Devils Marbles before reaching our southernmost accommodation at Erldunda. From here we did a day trip to Lamberts Gravitational Centre on onward past Finke. Our last couple of days were in Alice Springs with a side trip via Hermannsburg and Glen Helen, all up covering just under 3800km. My thanks to all the COs with hides throughout the territory for helping make our trip so enjoyable.

We spotted a few caches by this CO and wished had the forethought to get someone to look after some of our so we could hide some in the NT.

This trip was sort of in place of a trip to a Mega that got canceled due to accommodation problems, I was quite happy when Goose said do you fancy to caching break in the Northern Territory as this would be the last State or Territory for me in Australia.

Our plan was to fly into Darwin on the Friday night have a couple days in the area then start heading South stopping overnight whenever we needed to, our next goal was the drive to the geographic centre of Australia at Lambert Centre and then head back to Alice to fly home ten days later.

We both had a great trip finding some important old caches, large ones and the odd clever one too, we found Ammo Cans all over the place which was nice as i think we have found most of the ones at home in Tassie.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 05/07/2023 at 12:32:00 thanks to Liz and Bruce for placing this cache for me to find.

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Another great history lesson for us today. What a hard place this would have been in the 1800's. Thanks for bringing us here and tftc!

Easy, took less than 30 seconds!

Nicely tucked away but soon spotted here. An interesting area to explore as the evening wound down - that's quite a history. Good to see this site well looked after. TNLN-TFTC!

SP(UK)

Heading to Darwin on a camping (tent) road trip. Needed a break. Thanks for the site.

Found with orth71 while on a trip to Darwin.
Filled up in Tenant Creek and heading north.
Nice quick find with such an interesting history.
Pity about the flies which decidedcwe were their breakfast.
TFTC

Quick find, greetings from Germany

Found on our trip from Tennat Creek to Mataranka. Thanks for hiding this one and as always TFTC, MumDad2000

PS: Fav. point allocated.

Stopped in here on our way north, had a good look around the buildings. Liked the cool store the best.
The cache was a nice quick find. Thanks for placing

Got it TFTC

A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.

An interesting historical site. Nice.

Found quickly

Together with my favorite geocacher Milonguera we traveled to Australia We went to Melbourne via Singapore and from there we explore the south, the center and the east coast.
We walked around Melbourne and had a nice meet & greet event. Than we visited Philip Island with the pinguins and the Great Ocean Road. We fed and petted kangaroos visited the koalas and continued north via Coober Pedy to Alice Springs. We hiked around the impressive Uluru and through the beautiful Kata Tjuta and breathtaking Kings Canyon. The gorges of the Macdonell-Ranges are nice to. Than we traveled north.

Zusammen mit meiner Lieblingsgeocacherin Milonguera reise ich nach Australien. Über Singapur flogen wir nach Melbourne und von dort wollen wir mit dem Camper den Süden, das rote Zentrum und die Ostküste erkunden. Wir liefen durch Melbourne und trafen nette Menschen bei unserem Event, wir besuchten Philip Island mit den Pinguinen und die Great Ocean Road mit den 12 Aposteln.
Wir fuhren nach Adelaide, besuchten die Koalas und weiter gings Richtung Norden über Coober Pedy bis nach Alice Springs. Wir wanderten um den eindrucksvollen Uluru, durch die wunderschönen Kata Tjuta und den atemberaubenden Kings Canyon. Auch die Schluchten der Macdonell-Ranges sind sehr schön. Weiter gings Richtung Norden.

**Thanks for the cache!
Thanks for showing the location and for hiding the cache. You should come to Berlin in Germany to find a lot of interesting geocaches, visit lost places in the surrounding Brandenburg and meet nice people at many events.
I wish you a lot of fun and great adventures while searching for the next geocache!**

Ich bedanke mich bei Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks) für den Cache, das Zeigen dieses Ortes, das Legen und Pflegen der Dose und den Spaß beim Finden! Thanks for the cache!
Ich wünsche weiterhin viel Spaß bei der Suche nach den Dosen, nette Menschen beim nächsten Event und tolle Erlebnisse und Abenteuer beim Suchen und Finden!

Ohne tolle Owner wie Euch wäre das Spiel nicht möglich. Ich freue mich, wenn Ihr auch meine Caches in Berlin-Britz besucht. Neben der Hufeisensiedlung, die zum Kulturwelterbe der Unesco gehört, gibt es viele alte Bunker zu entdecken und die Baustelle der Autobahn A100 ist auch immer wieder interessant. Von der neuen Minna-Todenhagen-Brücke zwischen Baumschulenweg und Oberschöneweide hat man einen schönen Blick auf die Spree und kann nebenbei ein paar Dosen finden.
An Neumond lade ich zum Sternegucken auf die Berliner Berggipfel oder an astronomische Orte ein. In der dunkelsten Nacht zwischen den Vollmonden genießen wir den Blick auf die blinkenden Sterne und die funkelnde Stadt Berlin.

»Spreading the Word« (1.5/1.5)
*Dies ist mein Cache Nummer 20035.*

Viele Grüße von XETRO aus Britz im Süden Berlins.

5 Wochen Australien -
heute von Tennant Creek nach Osten bis nach Mount Isa
Danke an Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks) fürs Herlocken und Legen.

5 weeks Australia -
from Tennant Creek go east till Mount Isa today
Tftc to Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks)

Thank you so much for bringing me here today. The Rangers are just lovely.

TFTC

Would have passed this location and initially stopped for the cache. But found ourselfs in examining the location before heading to the cache location.
Thanks very much for guiding us here.

What's for dinner plates

We travelled 8,500km through 5 states for a 60th birthday party over approx. 6 weeks. We endured many days over 35C and then saw a lot of water in the eastern states. We enjoyed travelling east with family and then they travelled back to Alice and we made our way home to SA, trying to dodge the rain and wet weather.
Caching is a great way to see the many wonderful sights and learn about the places we are travelling through.
Thank you to those who take the time to hide caches
TFTC

Interesting history. TFTC. SL.

Find number 10939 at 9:27:06 am on Monday the 22 August 2022
On the road again, and on our way from Daly Waters to Alice Springs for about a week but we will be stopping at a couple of spots along the way to break the trip up, tonight we are stopping at the Barrow Creek WW2 Staging Camp site. Sadly we’re heading further south into the colder climates
This place is a real gem, thank god they have saved it for future generations.
**Thanks for placing this cache Liz and Bruce**

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TFTC

I dit dit dit dashed dashed dashed into the telegraph station on me way to the creek
And after a stroll around the buildings while muggles dispersed a bit,
I headed over for the cache find

Interesting spot.
If you want a look behind the locked doors,
the key is available from somewhere in towne ... try the info centre I guesss

TFTC

This took us longer than it should have, but we eventually looked at the hint and made a quick find… hmmm… next time we’ll trust our GPS haha. TFTC

Visiting Tennant Creek for a couple of days, we had the opportunity to visit this amazing piece of history. On our way in to explore the site, we stopped to find the geocache.
It is wonderful to see that this area has been updated and re-imagined in its former life as a lifeline in communication from Adelaide to Darwin and beyond.
We made our way through all of the sights and information plaques.
We found the hide, where all is safe and dry and have added our name to the log.
Thanks Liz and Bruce (and Mavericks)
Domsky

Awesome history tftc

Found.SL. TFTC

Again what learned at our trip.
A nice for having a stop
TFTC

Found after our visit to Tennant Creek & the picturesque Lake Mary Ann. We came to check out the Telegraph Station after also doing the one in Alice Springs.

Found with Dozenmater,,TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Catching up on some late logs, now that I have time, while travelling.

We are on the road travelling up through central Australian and down the coast of WA. I hope to grab a few caches along the way.

Another interesting bit of history. Unfortunately, it is closed for renovations but still enjoyed wandering around. A quick find at GZ.

Thanks Liz and Bruce (maintenance by The Mavericks) for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

TFTC. Nice quick find.

Work brings me to Tennant Creek and with a bit of time to spare a cache find was always going to happen.

After regularly cycling, walking and running past the Alice Springs Telegraph Station a visit to the Tennant Creek Telegraph Station was a must. The cache was easily found after I checked the clue!

Thanks for the cache Liz and Bruce.

So yeah I find it

My husband and i are on a 8000km road trip from Brisbane to Uluru and last night we stayed the night in Mt Isa and today we are on our way to Tennant Creek. Such an interesting spot and this hint led us to the cache. Thank you for taking us here and for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

Found it thanks

Heading south to Uluru and on the way had a stop here, tftc!

A great part of history.
It was nice to wander around here.
Thanks for sharing this interesting historical location.
TFTC

Found during a trip from Adelaide to the northern tip of Australia and back. Traveling up solo along the Strzelecki Track to Innamincka, then through central Queensland to Quilpie, Blackall, Barcaldine, Hughendon and Ravenshoe to Cairns. In Cairns I met up with e.gregory1 and a non-cacher friend and spent three weeks on Cape York Peninsula before making our way back to Cairns and Mareeba. From there I headed on my own back home via Normanton and Karumba, Cloncurry, Mount Isa, Tennant Creek and back down the Stuart Highway through Alice Springs to Adelaide. All in all I spent six weeks on the road, visited many out of the way locations, enjoying the scenery and finding caches along the way. Thanks for the cache Liz and Bruce!

Ok I don’t have a pencil

Another place we had visited during my pre-caching days. We have seen plenty of Telegraph Stations and it was getting late so this was a quick park and grab. Great spot for a cache.

Quick find with SJG66, TFTC.

Found with O319 on our way south

Nice quick find whilst exploring the area.
Cache in good condition.
Thanks

TFTC a favourite for me. A very interesting place. I would have loved to see it operating back in the day.

Smart simple find but didn’t have a pen

Exploring Oz

Found today on my Darwin camper van relocation adventure. Nice quick find here while checking out the history. Amazing people.

Thanks for the cache.

Quick find after a wander around the old buildings

TFTC

Easy find! So cool looking around the station houses imagining life back then

Our last cache for the way before stopping for the night. A little detour and a wander and the cache was spotted. Log signed and replaced as found. Thanks Liz and Bruce.

I met a spider at the gate that wanted me to trade my life for entry into the station grounds. I managed to sneak past him and met a very cute baby gecko on the cache

Lovely spot for a cache - nice break on our cruise back in the NT! TFTC

Flies are super sticky today. Quick find while heading south.

The desert is green here too.

TFTC Liz and Bruce

Quick find! But hate your flys. TFTC

TFTC!!

Great location tftc

Day 24 of my solo camping trip north from Adelaide.

I travelled up the Strzelecki Track to Innamincka, then through central and western Queensland, eventually ending up at Mount Isa. I then crossed into the Northern Territory to Tennant Creek via the Barkly Highway where I found a spot to roll out the swag last night.

This morning I completed a few caches around Tennant Creek before starting to make my way south down the Stuart Highway towards Alice Springs, doing the caches along the way. But as seems to be my way with these trips, I got a bit distracted. I noticed two earthcaches that looked to be in interesting locations off the Binns Track well east of the Stuart Highway and north of the Plenty Highway, and thought I’d head there for tonight instead.

I enjoyed my look around the buildings here as I headed south.

Thanks Liz and Bruce for the cache.

Tftc

Found it easily.
TFTC

Found

Found on my way back to Perth.TFTC..

We’re heading there now, so will try and replace log

Our first time stopping here
TFTC

Could the next geocacher please place a container and log. Low in tree. Some remnant of original still there. with thanks Liz and Bruce

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

I've found the lid of the filmbox but no container...