Flat Battery Bulong, Western Australia, Australia
By team plats on 16-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MH98

Thanks, container needs replacing.

Yep

Found during three weeks away with e.gregory1 on a trip along WA's Great Central Road and a caching circuit of the WA Goldfields. We travelled North on the Stuart Highway and out to Kings Canyon to Uluru and Kata Tjuta. From there we headed in a south-westerly direction along the Great Central Road with a number of detours along the way, including Surveyor Generals Corner and Empress Spring. Then it was down to Laverton and Leonora before turning South to Menzies and Kalgoorlie. A few days were spent on a circuit back up to Lake Carey and around to Queen Victoria Spring before returning to Kalgoorlie, then out to Coolgardie, Kambalda and Norseman, and heading for home along the Eyre Highway. The WA Goldfields is a fascinating region of incredible scenery and history that we experienced over a number of days while touring the area. Thanks for the cache team plats!

Found on another enjoyable trip with FeatherWaite over 3-weeks through South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia. This time the plan was to head up to Kings Canyon, across to the WA border via Uluru and Kata-Tjuta, then down the Great Central Road, with a few side-trips along the way before eventually getting to the Goldfields and then home via Queen Victoria Springs and the Eyre Highway.

We had some mixed weather to start, with a few overnight showers initially, but mostly warm and sunny days. The nights were often cold though!

After refuelling and restocking in Kalgoorlie, we decided to do a quick circuit out to Lake Carey, then down to Queen Victoria Spring and then back to Kalgoorlie via the Trans Line Access Road in time for the event later in the week. It was ambitious, but we had the required permit to transit through the Cundeelee Reserve and managed to cover the 800 kilometres within the 3 days we’d allowed, finding all the caches along the way, including two first to finds.

We were a bit confused about where the track into this one started, but once we found it, the drive in was straightforward. We parked down from the cache at what appears to be a well-used campsite before walking up to have a look at the battery.. The well concealed cache was found after a short search.

Thanks team plats for the cache.

No luck today will have try again another time

Bit of a jaunt East of Perth to the Goldfields.

Good caches, good times and loads of fun.

Thanks for the hide.

Out in Kal on a caching trip making the most of 2 weeks off work TFTH

Made it to Kalgoorlie last night and a plan of attack was hatched to claim a smiliey at all the of caches here and nearby towns with Geotrakka ,Beaker.and Team RedRoo. Very happy to say that this was one of them.
Some logs signed as N2O.
This is my 10814find.
Thankyou team plats for placing and maintaining this cache

Hi there team plats - finally a chance to get out into the real country for a break from the city. Today was the trip from Southern Cross to Kalgoorlie and then on to Queen Victoria Spring via Cundelee tomorrow. We found this cache at 0621pm after a short search - and the container and log are as noted in the Fieldnotes below. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to team plats for this cache - the 7th of 8 finds for the day.

FieldNotes: The cache and log were both found in good condition.

Out for a 4x4 adventure with N2O Beaker and Team Red Roo.
What a cool drive up here. It was sunset when we arrived so being dark added an extra element of adventure to this search. Beaker was the eagle eye who spotted this. I need to come back when its light to check out the view. Great place for a hide - thank you
I found your cache team plats which added to my adventures. Thanks for placing it. Your cache makes my 6160 find.

Quick find today while passing through on my Easter break caching and sightseeing in the wheatbelt and Goldfields.
Found with Neva2Old, Team Red Roo and Geotrakka.
Found after sunset
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Cool

Found it with Morgo 2 days ago, absolutely fabulous spot. Plenty of target practice has been done around here We camped nearby & hoped no shooters were coming out to practice TFTC, a favourite for the location for sure!

Spent the day in Kal and headed towards Bulong to camp up for the night.

This is a belter of a spot. I have read about the battery but never seen it.

Favourite point worthy

team plats, I found Flat Battery today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found thanks

pug002 finally found it a year later 7/10/21, our very adventurous friend took us out there and despite the rough terrain we found it. She is so intrigued with geocaching am sure that once she has retired she will be a great cacher as she is so familiar with the area. TFTC team plats

Travelling the back roads of Kalgoorlie with richlink, using geocaches as our guide.
Lots of red tracks, corrugations and flies.
Thanks for the cache team plats.

Out and about with ILT caching rural and red dirt tracks - our preferred caching. Bumpy ride into this spot but rewarded with spectacular scenery and of course a cache find. Thanks team plats

A rainy day drive, took some jumper cables but the battery is still flat!
Great spot

Found 11/1/21 great spot awsome veiws

pug002 went to find this 3/11/20, due to the heavy rain the night before the road was impassable we got as near as 1km, but as we did not have any recovery gear and no signal decided we would do this next October when we hopefully come again and our Kal friends are familiar with the area. Thanks for putting out the cache team plats.

Love this place

An adventure to find but amazing scenery and loved the drive

Tftc

What a view. TFTC

Very nice spot. Have spent a bit of time out this way but never come across this spot. TFTC

Awesome location good bit of history

TFTC

Good find, interesting place... just a stone throw away
NOTE: container needs replacing, lid isn’t to healthy.

Found with Bacon Dolphin. What a spot!

Quite an adventure to get out there with blench gang, found a much easier way back. Awesome spot, really cool. TFTC!

Beautiful beautiful spot. Easy find

Searched around and is either very well hidden or not there.

We headed back to Kalgoorlie for Christmas, and I wanted to make sure I grabbed a few caches, so we headed for Bulong.

What a great spot for a cache. A beautiful view out over the salt lake, and very interested by the remains of the old battery. We stopped for a while and the better half took a few photos. Better head back to Kalgoorlie to continue the festive celebrations.

TFTC team plats.

team plats, I found your cache Flat Battery on 24/12/16.
This is my find #3081 and find #6 today.

Great to check out some Bulong history
nice country around here & some good 4WDing
Cool spot, nice cache
TFTC

Unfortunately didn't want to risk the car or ruin the rest of the trip so turned away around 1km from the cache.
Possibly on next visit to Kal we will find this cache with a different car also

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 great views. Took us a while to get here

Tftc

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Before going to search for this cache we had a Boxing Day picnic lunch under the trees on the banks of the creek. Though the creek was dry, and the car's temperature gauge was reading 44 degrees, it was a very pleasant lunch spot. We headed to the cache site and took in the awesome views of the lake below. Cache found and log signed, we drove down onto lake for a closer look. Thanks for bringing us here team plats.

Adding a photo to this one. Great spot!!

View from the top

Took the trek out to flat battery on Diaboli-Kal's recommendation and we were not disappointed. What a great spot!! Great views and a bit of history to explore in the old battery. So we extended our stay and spent a bit longer here opening a bottle of champers and having a picnic on the bank under the shade of a tree. Great place we will be adding a favorite point to this one.

Best cache of the day by far. Awesome views, interesting place, great 4WD to get there. Favourite for us. TFTC

Geohubby and I loved our day caching and 4x4'ing around Bulong. Very surprised to see near GZ the amenities that have been left by previous visitors

We parked at the campsite and walked to GZ. How amazing those views are to the salt lake. Not much water in it at the moment though. The stamp battery was very interesting too. A great spot.

Many thanks team plats for showing us this great place. A favourite point from us. [^]

The drive out to this was almost as interesting as the cache location. We loved the set-up campsite with the lounge chair and BBQ. Nicely done
When we finally got to the old battery site, we initially thought that the local kids had been building cubbies here. That was until I looked at the construction closer. It had a very definite ‘military’ look about the way it was made. We then turned our attention to the constructions at the top. The corrugated iron revetments were a dead give away and after noticing all the wrecked car bodies out on the lake, I came to the conclusion it was some CMF unit (I don't know of any regular Army units that were ever in the area) that had built an anti-armour range here, with firing bays and command posts. They could have taken their concertina wire home with them though .
…. There was also a cache – which we found [^]. TN but left a TFTC card. Cheers and thanks for highlighting this place.

Great location and nice view over the lake.
Seek permission from the station owners, house with the wagon wheels

This one was brilliant!!! A bit of trekking and mini cacher and I came up with the goods! This was the best one today... Made be work for it, that's for sure!!!! ??

One of the best views in the Goldfields...TFTC

One of my favourite spots around here. Plenty of water on the salt lake, too.
Thanks for bringing us out here again.
TNLN TFTC
The Cache smells very pretty with the air freshener in there. haha

Got it in the end, great views!!!
T: Percy
L: Car Smelly
TFTH

just checking on cache still in good condition and full of goodies

Nice Sunday drive out to Flat Battery. 4WD is certainly required for a couple of spots along the track. Walked up over the hill. Nice spot. Left green train, took golf ball and 'FORE!' TB. SL, TFTC!

nice spot found it the 2nd time round well hidden

A quick camping trip with the kids.
TFTC

This entry was edited by On Patrol on Monday, 10 October 2011 at 11:18:28 UTC.

We weren't sure which way to go so we ended up walking up the hill and down the other side. The road in was in pretty good condition. SL TNLN TFTC

Top spot with awesome veiws of the salt lake! T4TC - TNLN

nice drive out there, very interesting spot, will definantly be going out there again soon. found with davnvic. TNLN thanks.

Forgot to post photo. Team Penguin007 & OziBushWackers

ozibushwackers and teampenguin007 took for ever to find this one... well hidden!!! the terrain was rough as we tried hunting for this cache (scrapes and scratches) ... we almost gave up. beautiful place to visit though... the history there is fantastic.

Team Penguin007 - FOUND IT !!!! Cor what a hard cache to find !!! 20 minutes later we fount it... Bloody well hidden - well done Team Plats... TFTC Took a blue toy thingy and left a few items to fill it up..... AWESOME Thanks again

Took Team DJ BILO out to some new cachs today

Found with devildog3 and windustu awesome place need to bring the rovers or scouts here tftc TNLN

Easy find by Ms Bushies2, an interesting part of history. Thanks team plats for bringing us to the cache and hunt.

TN SL

3nd cache for the day. good drive out here to find it
TFTC

placed this trackable here - thought it might like the view

FTF!! great thank you for the cache great hide we did'nt know that this battery was here.

Took trackable but will not log it until you have Left biro and some skin on rock LOL

TYFTH

Good day to go looking for caches in 41c heat NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT LOL

Found it. Interesting place and enjoyed a wander around.

It is amazing how the people designed their environment to cope with the conditions. Think walls, underground bunkers and in the side of the hill to provide the height needed.

can any one who visits this cache please dont take the trackable i'm having trouble loging it will comment when its redy to go

cheers

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