Sky Gong Darling Downs, Western Australia, Australia
By Plundered by Allied Pranksters on 19-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2TFKJ

Bye

On a reconnaissance mission to see if I could tackle a couple of the lower 'Pranksters Devils' caches from this end. Parked up near this one and the carpark was a bit busy so I decided to tackle it when I got back.

About an hour later I returned and it was a bit quieter. Drove the ute right up to GZ and jumped on the bonnet and had a good look and feel around to no avail.

I now see while logging later at home that the cache has been disabled but have a feeling I may have my hands on it soon enough

TFTH

Ripper little Nano!!
TFTH

Ripper little Nano!!
TFTH

Heading to Manjedal Activity Centre to pick up eldest from a joey scout camp thought we'd stop and grab this one to help our TB racing to WAGB 2015 clock up some k's. Cool location, glad I had a light kid I could chuck up on my shoulders otherwise I wouldn't have been able to log this one tftc!

I was out of the house early and heading from the Perth down to Dunsborough. What a perfect opportunity to cruise down the South Western Highway and rack up a few caches along the way. I would have loved to hunt for these all day but my time commitments curbed my efforts to stop at Pinjarra. I found this to be a much more scenic trip than via Forrest Hwy and there are so many more places to stop along the way. This was my first find of the morning. An easy find, which has whetted my appetite to complete the series, but just not today. TFTC Allied Pranksters

Out and about TFTH

TFTC

Thabks

Headed out Wungong way today for a bit of bushwalking... And of course to find some caches along the way Whilst I got our gear ready for our walk, Jase & Master 3 hunted down this cache... Definitely one for Dad!

TFTC AK & Allied Pranksters Cache was in good condition.

Bought my monkey man and we got it

Had a look today. Think I will have to come next time with a step ladder or maybe a taller person

Checked on cache was 600mm lower than should have been

Out for morning walk with Geo mate Delltfc and thought this little find would end it nicely. Quick find great morning.

Plenty more to be had around Wungong MrB!

Daughter find with friend on the10 of this month she just signed her name so didnt re sign. Good HIGH find

After a very disappointing DNF at a multi-cache final nearby, I decided I needed a few quick and easy finds. This one was nearby where I had parked my car, so made the short walk down. Didn't take too long to find it, sign and return to it's spot. TFTC.

Found on pole

Thanks for this cache AP. An easy find. The log is a bit damp and fragile and not many spots left for people to sign so could do with replacement log. This cache is at the start of a fabulous walk to Wungung dam.

Look high and small guys took a while but good fun

Hard find need to be taller TFTC

Had fun with this one. Signal not great so took a bit longer. Got a few toots from passing motorists ??fellow geocachers who knew what we were up to...LOL TFTC

Mikirst and I could hardly reach it but bit of team work and we could. Tftc

Found it but very hard to reach unless you are a giant! Managed to get it down and sign it though.

Found!

After grabbing some smileys on my bike a few km's from here I headed home in this directions and grabbed a few more around this area. I loved the walked through here and shall return to explore further.

A nice quick grab here . TFTC Allied Pranksters

quick pick on the way home after a day of go-karting

Was out today with the geo-family for a lunch/birthday for a friend.
On the way home, it was decided (by me) that some caching was in order.
Managed to grab a couple before the "IM TIRED" came from the back seat.
Luckily, this was a quick park and grab so the natives weren't too restless.
TFTH Allied Pranksters, I shall return to venture "bushland".

Early Sunday morning before work, Doing a run down the SWH picking up a few caches,TFTC...quick pick up here

Found by Mini RBI on Daddy RB's shoulders! Keeping up our cache-a-day holiday streak tftc

I decided to indulge myself and have an early Christmas present. I had a day off but my wife still had to go to work so I planned a full days caching. I packed my lunch and a few bottles of water and set off.
This turned out to be the last one for the day. Parking on the west side of the road proved a little tricky with the corolla.
TFTC AP

Took a trip to Pinjarra today, to grab some caches in the area.
Enjoyed the variety of caches, some with interesting camo, and good hides.
A short search, a long stretch and the cache was in hand.
Many thanks for the cache, Allied Pranksters.

Getting everything logged from my recent trip to Western Australia. The first two weeks were slammed while I was on assignment but I managed to get out every day for a find or two. Got to visit some really remote places like Meekathara and Wiluna and got down to the beaches near Marybrooke and Naturaliste. For the few days I had to myself I hit the Wandoo, the Albany Hwy and the Southwest Hwy Series. So I covered a lot of ground and saw a lot of Western Australia. I had to get used to a lot of things, like driving on the left side of the road, give rather than yield, take away rather than take out and yes with a question mark is asking for conformation. Just goes to show we may speak the same language but words don't always mean the same thing. Sorry for the cut and paste nature of the logs but I have a lot to log and my sanity is important. Thanks to all the locals for the hospitality I was shown while there and thanks to the CO's for the hides, the fun and another smiley on the map. See you on the trail, and cache on!

Found the cheeky little fella!!

Found it!!
Awesome little cache!

Headed off to find the 20 odd new SWH caches today. It is our 18th Wedding Anniversary and couldn't think of a better way to spend it than stop start driving and taking 5 hours to get from Armadale to Pinjarra!! I am sure my husband could think of a better way - like playing golf!! But this is what we did!

A 6am start at Armadale Maccas for the traditional early morning caching breakfast and then off we went. 36 on the list in total and a determined attitude!!! We are walking in the Leukemia Foundation Light the Night walk on 2nd October so $1 will be donated for every cache that we find today!!!

Sorry about the copy and paste of the main log, but hopefully each will be personalized a bit.

Quick find by the tall one!! lol
TFTC

Lucky geo hubby was with us to help with his long arms

Sky Gong was transferred from AmstradKid to user Allied Pranksters

Easy find. Hard to get, nearly too short.

On a caching holiday with J+J.au from N.S.W. I'm now back home and catching up on my logs. Enjoying the variety of caches and locations shown to us here. Found this one as part of our cache hunt. SL..TFTC

Quick grab, and back on the road.TFTC

Quick find by geo daughter, could only just reach! SL TFTC

Nice little find. Found it on my way back from a hike in the hills . TFTC

TFTC! Second find!

Nice rest stop on our drive home from York great day! Tftc

This entry was edited by Bekstar12 on Sunday, 04 August 2013 at 11:28:19 UTC.

Found @ 10:38!

Find #01 on the rainy drive to Busselton with 'amryall'. The aim was to find many of the caches along the SWH and the only DNF was the first hunt of the day!

I like these signs and whenever I have driven by I have been with muggles so never had the chance (or time) to check for caches...

Glad to make a very quick find here in a fairly obvious location!

TFTC!

After a 1.8 kilometre stroll from our last cache find there was just enough time to find this final cache before jumping back into the cruiser and heading back to our caravan for a rather late lunch. Whilst I hunted around Ian had the cache in hand and had already signed the log before I even realised what was going on!

thanks.

Tftc

Thanks to geo nephew (Brycies) with the long arms nice and quick

Have driven past this one a few times...today we had time to stop

After a relaxing day Daz sat down to watch some Ashes cricket only to remember that today was Geocaching's 'Get Outdoors Day' and as such a cache had to be found. After a minute or two sussing out potential targets Daz settled on this one and headed off. It took no longer than mere seconds to find the cache although reaching it was made a little more difficult as a huntsman stood guard close by. Having gleefully signed the log and carefully replaced the cache Daz returned triumphant. TFTC and for the assist in obtaining a souvenir.

2nd find on father/son cache road trip.
James learnt to use camera.

Nice little find cheers

Tftc

6918 + 844 = 7762. In the West again for work with a couple of days free for Caching ! Today I (mainly) headed down doing the South West Highway Trail Series...

Second find of the day and a good one. A bit of a stretch and the find was made !! Now on to the next one.

Thanks AmstradKid !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

After lots of searching and a geomonkey climbing up signs and trees, we finally found it! It would have been funny to have been a motorist driving past when this happened! Our sister actually saw us and sent us a message about looking at the sign and walking around. So very small...long arms are an advantage...but I'd say more height than arms...

TFTC!
GarLic Potatoes!

This was without a doubt the smallest nano we have ever found. Nearly didn't though. My daughter found it by accident after I mentioned that it may be magnetised.
Well hidden.

TFTH.
Lin & Jim.

Lucky I have long arms - TFTC )

We didn't realize it at the time, but this was actually the 500th cache for Team Albany Canucks! So it proved to be quite a milestone find for us! A nice easy find to conclude the walk from the Wungong dam, and conveniently just around the corner from where some of our family lives. And yes, the spider is real, and is *not* the cache!

We logged our first ever cache find less than three years ago on 14/Aug/2010, and our current stats record:
Find Rate: 0.51 caches/day
Longest Find Streak: 6 consecutive days (27/Sep/2010 to 02/Oct/2010)
Best Day: 16 caches (21/Apr/2012)
Best Month: 56 caches (October 2012)
Best Year: 216 caches (2012)

Thanks for providing our milestone cache, AmstradKid!

Easy find thanks

Easy find to start the day. TFTC.

Go go Gadget arms!!

An afternoon departure to spend a night in Waroona with a detour past some ghastly gnomes on the way!!! [:(!] A quick find at GZ. Thanks for the cache AmstradKid.

P.S. - If you're laughing, I expect to read some "I had the most fabulous time" logs on the rest of the gnomes from you sometime soon!

Quick find first up in the morning. Our quick trip to Perth leaving Capel yesterday has taken 21 hours so far!! Damn you geocaching!! TFTC

I got it! the last 1 for the day! TFTC

We thought it was the spider and then we spotted the cache. TFTC!

Found with Duncdonut73, Kellyxley and Fiona. Thankfully, some of us were tall enough to reach this cache. TFTC

Found with duncdonut, bsurin and Princess Fi. TFTC

Last find of the day on my caching run with Mihiwaka in the Wungong Regional Park. I had to strategically park the geoCamry to grab this one . SL. TFTH AmstradKid

This entry was edited by firnsy on Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 11:35:13 UTC.

Quick easy find TFTC

Easy find, though well out of my reach, so I did a bit of lateral thinking and reversed the car so that I could stand on the tow ball to give me the extra height that was needed. Thanks AmstradKid

Very easy find if you know where to look! Cache all in order. Found this while waiting for other members of the Family Bushwalking Club on a day's walk up Wungong Gorge. TFTC

Lucky i had skippy 46 with me so she could reach the cache

My height was definitely an advantage to retrieve this one. TFTH

Out doing a bit of night caching with helbren finally got this 1 without any muggles around tftf

Bit of night caching with troutsky

We parked within feet of this one. Certainly needed Mr. VR's long reach!

I spotted this one but luckily my brother-in-law had longer arms and reached it down for me to sign the log before he replaced it in the same position as found. TFTC.

[:(!] Went for an all day caching run, parked the geocar close to GZ and a short walk to where the cache is, on arrival at GZ I had the cache in hand in a matter of several minutes. SL TFTC/TFTH

Finally a smilie for this one...quick but not so easy find for trevkevred and me on our way to the Manjedal New Year Event.

TFTH

Thanks Amstradkid! your a bit taller than Me&B and myself and we needed the camping chair as we have done with another 2 of yours. went to Bunnings today and bought a step ladder so you can't catch us out anymore. We were spotted during our antics by Lynne and Pat, guess they had a good laugh, we did too. TFTC

Re-logging under new team name ONLINE ONLY (were formerly part of TheChatterboxes but the team had got too large). If CO is not ok with this please contact me. Thanks.

A quick grab while out testing the new gps. SL. I carry tweezers in my cache bag now - just for times like this... SL. Thanks for the cache.

On our way down to the 12hour night mountain bike race (7pm-7am) at Jarrahdale, we stopped in to find this one on the way. A quick and easy find, thankfully I was able to reach it.

Thanks for the cache AmstradKid!

At last after two previous visits took the male in our group to locate it. Just lucky I think. Good work George!

: )

great to find a nano all the way out here on a beautiful day...thanks AmstradKid

We met up with iluvtrekking for a 'big day out' caching in the Jarrahdale/Armadale area. It was drizzling by the time we arrived in the parking area so the geo-guys volunteered to do the run to gz to make an easy find.

A quick (initial) retrieval but dropped the little blighter. It bounced off the body and landed on somewhere on the ground. We took longer to find it the second time around. Back in place and safe. TFTC

had me thinking then dove said look up and take your sunnies off and what do you know another find for the day

Playing catch up on some old logs I failed to get around to... Only two gongs for us today, the walk in on a rather warm day was a bit to much for the kids so we grabbed this one on the way out after getting wind gong due to muggles in the area when we arrived.

TFTC
AlliedOz aka The Jokers

Happy Fathers Day. Mrs Felix was working her 12 hour shift again today so Mr Felix left to his own devices decided a caching and placing munzee he would go. (see munzee.com)

This was indeed a park n grab. By far the quickest of the day.

TFTC AmstradKid

So sad found two other in the Gong series - even the hard one practising being a mountain goat. Sad We will be back with a step ladder and a magnifying glass.

After our succesful hunt and find in Wungong Reserve... we couldn't find this. Little Chatterboxes and I will be back.

The cache has a resident skink, busy slinking all around as I tried to grab the cache.

Glad I read the logs beforehand! Once spotted managed to time in/out without notice from passing vehicles - TFTH

Hmmmm..... this was hard due to the dozen people having a sit down morning tea at close to GZ, so we found the cache and sat down on some rocks a bit SE of GZ. Had to dig into my tool kit to get the log out. SL TFTH

A Quick caching run to pick a few in the foot hills. As I approached the GZ I had a good idea in what structure this nano was hidden. I used the car to act as some cover from the muggles passing by at break neck speed. The initial search was fruitless, but after reading the logs, I raised my head and the cache was soon discovered, the car, like those previous logs, proved useful to get the height needed to reach this sucker. Signed the log. THanks Amstradkid for the cache.

Found this straight away.. Lucky I had the son here to retrieve.. I might have to invest in one of the Geocache retrieving tools spoken about.. TFTC