OUTBACK BREAKDOWN Mereenie, Northern Territory, Australia
By robtas on 24-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2TVRB

The situation here has been reviewed again.Sufficient time has elapsed since the issues were highlighted, and nothing has been done to restore it. Circumstances that prevent timely maintenance can arise, and ample opportunity for the Cache Owner to get in touch to request a time extension has been provided.No request has been received from the Cache Owner, robtas, for further time to restore the cache.** It appears to have been abandoned by the Owner and, therefore, will be Archived.****Caches lost in this manner will not be Unarchived.**This area is now available for other interested players to utilise for cache placement if viable locations can be found. [Balayang -Geoff](https://www.geocaching.com/email/?guid=35e8567e-6d62-483c-9e3d-c8ec0ffd25bd)Volunteer Community Reviewer

### Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###This geocache has been brought to my attention as needing an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache. See the [GCHQ Health Score](https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=713) process.It certainly needs to be checked by the Maintainer, as the CO is deceased.. The Maintainer needs to:* Take action to restore the cache or address issues such as correcting the D/T rating, or the posted coordinates.* Alert me when this has been done so I can do the paperwork.**I will check back in 30 days** to see that action has been taken by the Maintainer.If nothing has happened, I will conclude that the cache has been abandoned, and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache. *Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is in good condition and waiting to be found.Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.Thank youBalayang -GeoffCommunity Reviewer

Went to location. Hunter around within the 5 meter area. Couldnt find it.

We found indications of a burnt bush as previously mentioned in the vicinity of GZ but no container. Maybe the next geocacher along will have better luck than us.

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We stopped on the side of the road to find water coming out the door of our caravan. The tap had been bumped on somehow. So are quite glad we stopped for this cache.
After walking in we searched numerous places but could not locate anything

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Bush was burnt, cache all good .TFTC

TFTC. Fun spot to visit.

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Find

Found

Sir_spectre and I went on a long overdue holiday to the Northern Territory. We had some great experiences and saw some amazing natural wonders. Not all went to plan - covid closures, flood effected roads, renovations, hot weather, some car troubles and not forgetting the huge jump in fuel costs
Any caches that needed repairs were fixed and numeous logs were replaced or added too.
Thanks to robtas from mogni

quick find. The only thing that has broken is the bracket for my light bar and that's not a huge problem.

Mogni and myself went to the Northern Territory for a 10 day holiday. We drove 5478 km's in those 10 days. The plan was to go up the Sturt highway and then go via Ayers Rock, King's Canyon and then through to Alice Springs stopping at the gorges/chasm/gaps along the way. As you can expect nothing goes to plan. Day 1 Adelaide to Cooper Pedy, made it just before the Roxby Downs turn off and blow the side wall on the tire of the 4x4, 193 km detour just to get a tire and even then it was the second tire place that had the tire the correct size. We had camels come in to the campsite in Erldunda Roadhouse, they even left hoof prints 1/2 a foot from the tent, at King's Canyon we had dingo's come through the camp ground both nights we where there and at Alice springs we had a mouse move in under the tent in their campground. Some of the aboriginal towns we passed where in lock down because of covid 19 so no going in to get fuel there, that changed some plans. The floods where way worse up in Northern Territory than i realized. Some creeks/rivers i could see the debris over 2 meters from the river bed and down one 4x4 track it washed the road away completely, the hole was 3/4 the length of the 4x4 and over 6 foot deep. The temp was 33 to 36 for 9 of the 10 days and finally cooled down for the drive home. We got 7 different caches types in the N.T. plus every different cache size. It was a good trip but not the one we planned. To many of the roads in the N.T. where damaged and not repaired ( still closed ) so that cancelled plan A but that's just a excuse to come back isn't it. Come back and see what you missed last time when the roads are fixed. We came with 19 regular " geocaching size " containers and a milk crate of small containers by day 7 all the regulars where used as replaced caches and by day 8 the smalls where gone. It was the UV rays a lot more than the floods that killed the caches and almost all the log books where saved, the micro containers seemed to have constantly full log sheets so they where replaced too.

I love the container. Very cute. A good stop for us on the Merrenie loop coming back to Alice today. I put a pencil in here for future cachers. TFTC

TFTF, all good here.

What a place to break down. We have had a few similar incidents in our travels too. This cache was found while traveling from Palm Valley to Kings Canyon. Love the emu!

Quick and easy find.
TFTC

Cool find but long walk through the bush . Nice container though

Three weeks on the road for a family holiday to Alice Springs, Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon amongst other cool destinations had us traveling all over the place. We had a great time and the weather was extremely hot with bushfires that actually prevented us from going to some destinations.
Today we made our way from Kings Canton / Petermann to Alice Springs along Larapinta Dve and we stopped along the way to find the few caches that we came across. This was one of them.
Thanks for the cache.

Ha

Auf unserer Australientour gesucht und gefunden

Danke sagen HunttheHunters and Missy

●• OUTBACK BREAKDOWN•●
Le 9 décembre 2019
Impossiblity to go. Problem in the car !

In Australia for 4 months
I travel by car , I am a backpacker with a friend. During my journey and hundreds of kilometers, I do geocaching. I thank a lot of the owners. Australia is beautiful
Un énorme MERCI à robtas pour la pause et l'entretien de la cache ! Salutation de France

Tiny container but cool

@Davidwazza and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday in the infamous black jeep. We took a route through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuṯa (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges, before heading home in a more direct route through Palm Valley, Owen Springs Reserve, Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia, and finally Coober Pedy.

Today, we set off from Kings Canyon, along the Mereenie loop, making it all the way to Glen Helen Gorge

TFTC!

Jesswrigley and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday. We took my jeep through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuṯa (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges. It was then time to turn around to head to South Australia, and in doing so, we visited the Palm Valley, and made the 4WD detour through Owen Springs Reserve (an excellent shortcut that wasn’t too technically difficult), calling into the Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia. Our final stop was Coober Pedy, and we really enjoyed checking out the various dugouts and mines.

Today, we travelled from Kings Canyon along the Mereenie Loop / Red Centre Way to Glen Helen. We stopped off at the various sights that commanded, including Tnorala (Gosses Bluff), Redbank Gorge, Ormiston Gorge and Ormiston Pound. We decided to do that pound hike in the afternoon in order to maximise our time for the following day. We saw some wildlife including a snake drinking at one of the gorges. Some great and fascinating history and geology.

This geocache was just down the road from another wreck. Perhaps this road has taken a few cars with it. Once the cache was found, all appeared to be in good shape. Thanks robtas for placing the cache, and redcenterdazza for continuing to maintain it.

Just happened to galnce at thew GPS screen and saw this one coming up. A quick detour and was an easy find thanks.

On our way through NT we drove to Uluru, Kata Tjuta and then to Kings Canyon and further on to the north. We were well shaken by driving for a while on that gravel road, we were happy to leave the car and to find the cache. TFTC!

We traveled through Northern Territory for four weeks. We started the journey in Alice Springs and drove to Uluru, Kata Tjuta and then to Kings Canyon and further on to the north. On the way we found some caches. This was one of them.
Die Strecke auf der Piste hat uns gut gefallen. Zum Cache mussten wir dann 250 m laufen, das hat nach der Rüttelei auch gut getan. TFTC!
#17992

We are heading off on an outback adventure with Mrs Just a Trifle looking forward to visiting Goodward Station in Boulia, which was once owned by her grandfather, and Mr Just a Trifle hoping to climb Ayers Rock before it is permanently closed to climbing

As usual, with responsibilities caring for grand children and elderly parents, we still can not take the time we would really like to explore this great land of ours so yet again it is mostly an express trip through some terrific locations.

We had no difficulty in locating the cache and with our name added to the log book, we continued on our way.

Thank you robtas for placing the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

Nice cache although they don't live here TFTC

We found it on our Tour from Curtin Springs to Glen Helen Lodge. Strange things out there.
Tftc
Tommy-online + Hille

Nice lunch breakout. TFTC.

Wow what a mission but in the end we found it!!

Flew up to Alice Springs for a conference, then met up with e.gregory1 for an epic road trip through the West MacDonnell Ranges, Mereenie Loop Rd, Kings Canyon, Luritja Rd, Ernest Giles Rd, Finke Gorge NP, Hermannsberg, Larapinta Drive, back to the Alice then down the Stuart Hwy to Adelaide, with awesome sights and great caches along the way. Thanks for the cache robtas!

After spending four days travelling up on my own from Adelaide, I met up with FeatherWaite in Alice Springs for a few days of travelling around and caching.

We visited various places in the West Macdonnells, including Hugh Gorge, then went out to Kings Canyon, up the Finke Gorge track to Hermannsburg, into Palm Valley, then back to Adelaide, taking a week in all. We saw, and camped in some fantastic places, although the late September weather was a little warm!

A quick stop as we made our way towards Kings Canyon. Thanks robtas for the cache.

What a bugger of a spot to breakdown. You were nearly there! Thankyou!

Pretty remote place to break down. Only 1 car passed us on our way out today. Tftc

200m hike in from the main gravel road. TFTC

Wow, what a big surprise in the middle of nowhere. TFTC

Driving through, and pulled in for a quick break and cache.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache,
best wishes,
Wal

Fortunately for us we had trouble free motoring along the road today. We drove to GZ along the track and saw a little hawk take off with either a nice size lizard or snake. That made it a memorable cache for us.
TFTC

Found on our way to Alice.TFTC.

CZECH
po více než 100 km gravel road z Kings Canyon to byla vítaná pauza a procházka ke kešce, naším 2WD jsem to nezkoušel, ještě bych dopadl jako ten vrak v křoví po cestě

so as expected, i complicated a bit on this one, i didn't see the trail so i went on in the middle of the bushes. it was amazing since i saw so many strange small holes in the ground (ants maybe?) but at the end i found the right track
another amazing thing was, on the track, i saw horse tracks and 3 different ones (including a really small one)
the cache was found near another car that had a gigantic breakdown...irreparable probably
thanks for sharing this one

No brakedown for us, but a nice stop in the desert. TFTC

Found on our trip to Australia together with nenahhd.
TFTC!

We had no breakdown but a Dromedar had just crossed our way... @16:30
nenahhd - TFTC #2536
Greetings from Germany

Cute bird TFTC - Deb 'n' Ben

Tftc

Found this one between the trip between Alice and Kings thanks

A road trip with my younger brother that I haven`` t seen for the last 6 years. Made me to do this trip. Between Yulara and Darwin we found lots of Geocache` s. It was an awesome trip that I will never forget. We have visited so many beautiful places and seen so much, love this place. Thanks for having me Australia, I certainly enjoy all the views and hidden treasures.

WHOOPS! I'm logging about 100-200 or so caches like 3 months after the trip that we found them on! Completely forgot to log these but I did not forget the trip! Found this cache along with many others on an adventure around the red centre. Along this adventure we visited and explored many phenomenal and surreal places such as Woomera, Coober Pedy, Uluru and Mutitjulu, Kata Tjuta, Wattarka, Tnorala, Both East and West Macdonnell ranges, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Parts of the Finke road, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Oodnadatta track, Mount Dare, Dalhousie Springs, Painted Desert, Moon plane and I'm sure I've missed a few! Thank you so much for the cache. Found with Ferociousflea and -Beaker- along with our mint 79 series that accomplished alot in this two week time frame.
TFTC

Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on a Red Centre Roadtrip Adventure... Thanks

Found on the way to our Red Centre adventures that included Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Tnorala, West Macs, East Macs, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Mt Dare, Dalhousie, the Painted Desert and many other fantastic spots!! Travelled and cached with FerociousFlea and Astronaut99.

Nice and easy find
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Great spot for a break from the corrugated road. Nice easy find. loved the cache!!!

Hey I found this cache in a not so good condition with dead spiders and a ripped up log book inside it u may want to check on it

Found during our honeymoon trip. Almost 1 month driving through Australian country.
It was an amazing trip.
Thanks for this cache
**GEOCRACKERS PROUD MEMBER**
**LAN & SC PROUD MEMBER**
#2095
Grazie

Auf unserer Australienreise haben wir so einiges besucht. Gestartet sind wir in Melbourn. Wir haben das Outback besucht und waren am heiligen Berg Uluru. Auf dem Merinoloop haben wir auch jeden Stop mitgenommen. Von Alice Springs nich mal zurück nach Melbourn und dann quer durchs Land (Canberre, Blue Mountain usw) nach Sydney.
Alle Caches habe viel Spaß gemacht und daduch haben wir wieder viel gelernt und gesehen. Danke für die Pflege der tollen Caches.

On our vacation this year, we did a great trip as GER-17 to Australia.
GER-17 are DieFraudiemitmuss, Lundi263, de Eifelaner and murri24.
We started the tour in Melbourne where we spend a few days sightseeing and caching, including some trips out of the City to the Grampians an to the Great Ocean Road.
Nice place to be and to see.
From Melbourne we went to Alice Springs including Ayrs Rock, where we saw some nice sunsets and other great stone formations and spots.
Back in Melbourne we started by car to go to Sydney along the coast with zig zags into the blue mountains and Canberra.
Finally we arrived in Sydney and spend here the last day of our holidays with caching and sightseeing.
During this trip we found this box.

TFTC

murri24

DieFraudiemitmuss, Lundi263, Murri24 and I made this year a very great tour together. Our first target is Melbourne. So we started early in the morning to visit the city and to make a few geocaches. We found very nice locations and interesting spots. One day we rent a car. Very early in the morning we drive from Melbourne City over Geelong to the Great Ocean Road. Along this road we found so much interesting spots, we see a great landscape, and had have not enough time for sightseeing. The weather was fine but a little bit windy. This day was very long and hard, but wonderful.
After that we visit the Grampians. A little bit rain, a little bit windy and a little bit sunny day, we had fasten all weathers. We visit waterfalls, canyons, sandstone fomations and any Look Outs. Puhhh, what a great landscape.
The next part of our journey is to explore the Outback. From Ayers Rock we take a car and drive over Kings Canyon and many other Look Outs to Alice Springs. We visit any very interesting Caches and had a great time by comfortable temperature.
This traditional Cache we hav also found. We log it as "GER-17". Thank you for this Cache.

Together with Team "GER-17" (consisting of murri24, der Eifelaner & dieFraudiemitmuss and me) I visited this location on our second day in the Outback.
We were travelling around with a rental car (4x4 of course )and were able to see so many interesting & beautiful locations.
This was already my second visit to the Red Centre of Australia. Let's see if I can make it a third time in few years.

Thanks a lot for this Cache!

Luckily we didn't have any breakdowns in the outback.

Found this one on our way to Ormiston Gorge, as we drove in and out the Merenie Loop. An easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

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Visiting the center of Australia was really exciting and a great adventure. Beside looking for the nature and all the beautiful places I also searched for some caches and found a few.
This was one of it.

Thanks to robtas for hiding and maintaining this geocaches.
**T4TC with number 4543**
Luis959
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Enjoying the Red Center Way (Mereenie Loop) this stop was more than welcome. After a little stroll through the dry grass we eventually found the track and the bush. What a nice top!
Tftc

Good cache after some bush bashing tftc

Catching up on logs will update when we have more stavle internet.

Geo/rge and I start our journey home from Alice Springs to Moe Vic after attending the Red Centre Experience.
We are enjoying the sites and sounds that all the caches are taking us to.

A quick find was made and the log signed.

[Scrat visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4376822)

TFTC robtas

Day one of a mad dash adventure to Uluru via Ellery Rockhole, Glen Helen, Gross Bluff, Kings Canyon etc with the Roddy C's, Rothy 6 and Patrol 14. We covered some ground, saw some amazing places and had fun along the way. Thank you to all the CO's for the effort in putting caches out here and for sharing this wonderful area with us.

While on our way to Yulara via Kings Canyon after attending the Red Centre Experience, Rothy6, RoddyC, Echocage1 and I stopped here to get this cache. Quickly found, logbook signed and cache returned to its hide. Now to get back onto the road.

Found with dghoffy on our Pilgrimage to the Alice Springs Event. After spending a couple of days at Kings Canyon its now time to head to Alice. doing the Mereenie Loop. This should be fun. Lets hope we have no breakdowns.

Another one we did it harder than needed, oh well a good aussie bushwalk never hurt anyone, even our kiwi geomate. Tftc

On our trip to Glen Helen we found this Cache. TftC said sani+

Found with Mum as 'Jess & Caro'. She is now Carø and I now have my own geocaching profile so we are sorting my logs for caches we found together. TFTC!

So, we parked on the loop and did the walk to the cache. Little did I realise, I'd left the ignition on (to power the portable fridge), but I'd also left the lights on. Returned to the car to find my battery was flat! Oh the irony. Lucky Jess and Caro were with us, and had a mobile jump starter battery, A favourite point, just for the irony TFTC... I think

Found on a four week holiday including the Alice Springs event. Have come from near toowoomba thru Broken Hill, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kings Canyon, then heading to Mt Isa, longreach, Winton and others before heading home. Signed log, TFTC

There was whole 4 x 4 bus load of muggles here when we arrived so stealth was needed. They wouldn't just stay in one place but insisted on walking around, looking at the view. Eventually we found, signed and returned the cache. Thanks for bringing us this way to Alice and thanks for the cache.

Thank for the Cache. Greetings from Berlin Spandau

Not such a nice spot for a breakdown...
TFTC

TFTC in the middle of nowhere hahaha
Road trip red center with my Dad PomPom6

Doing some drive by caching on my way from Glen Helen to Uluru. A scorching day, not made easy for myself when I started my search from the road, rather than the convenient track nearby. TFTC.

what a nice day ! fine weather and a nice cache - Thanks for showing us !

Found while driving from Kings Canyon to Glen Helen Gorge. On our way back to the road we had to do a little car maintenence of our own! TFTC

Petite cache vite faite bien faite avant hier 14 novembre ( pour voir un casoard !!!) . Merci pour la cache

Trouvée avant hier
Pas de difficulté particulier
Afin nous avons vu une bête sauvage!!!!
MPLC

A wonderful trip to AUSTRALIA from 29. Oct to 20. Nov. 2016
We have visited SYDNEY, ALICE SPRINGS, the OUTBACK incl. ULURU, ADELAÏDE, the GREAT OCEAN ROAD and last but not least MELBORNE. During these 3 weeks we were looking for a lot of caches!
Greetings from Luxembourg.
TFTC

Found while on tour to Darwin and return from Melbourne.
Tftc

At the moment Pfote and me are on a work and travel backpacking trip through the world. After I've spent a full year in Australia Pfote joined me for my second year down here. We will definitely try to collect a lot of boxes and all the special things in every state all around and right through the middle. 

Now, after a bit more than twenty-four months we're finally on our last big journey through the country. From Melbourne to Adelaide and up north to Alice Springs and then past the Uluru via the great central road to Perth. Of course with a load of detours wherever we find something awesome.

Sorry for not writing an individual log for this cache. After not logging a single find from Coober Pedy to Yulara, I've quite lost the overview.
But let me tell you, I enjoyed most of the caches, visiting places I would maybe have driven past and always found a good reason to stretch my legs.

TFTC and greetings from Germany.

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-- Feel free to discover --
-- Please mention, in which cache you've seen this code: --
-- QR3BZF --

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-- und darf discovert werden! --
-- Bitte erwähne, in welchem Cache du diesen Code gesehen hast: --
-- QR3BZF --

Found during our holiday in Australia.
Thanks to all COs.
Greetings from Belgium.
TFTC
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
( by J. R. R. Tolkien )
" Geocachers aren't born , they get published "
" Geocachers don't get sick , they are just temporarily disabled "
" Geocachers don't talk , they write Notes "
" Geocachers don't die , they just get archived

This road is a shocker. No wonder that you broke down.
Note we know the cassowary reference.

Fancy finding a Tasmanian geocachers cache way out here. Fortunately for us we made it through with no incident. The road was pretty rough in parts but most was in good condition. No problem finding this little cache today. TFTC

A nice simple find after locating the track in and all was in good condition. The decoration on the container lid seemed somewhat out of place as they normally live in rain forest areas on the coast. Thank you to robtas for placing this cache as a nice little diversion.

Heading back from Kings Canyon towards Alice on the Mereenie Loop, couple of caches to collect. Did not break down. But found the cassowary. Thanks for the hide.

EDIT. Little did we know a day later, we would limp back into Alice springs.

We found this cache while driving on the Red Centre Way.

TFTC!

Found the track easily and drove right up to the cache which was a quick find.

WRC 2016

TFTC

We needed a stop for a cup of tea and this was the perfect spot. Mrs CF made the brew while Mr Cf walked back along the track to make a quick find. We enjoyed the serenity (apart from the occasional passing vehicle). Then continued on our way - fortunately the Mereenie track is in good nick so it was a quick trip onto Gosse Bluff.

That was a walk in from road but I found it. Hadn't read the previous posts and didn't find the track until I reached GZ. Walked back to road on the track. When I got back to car, geo hubby was changing a tyre. Not sure what happened. Anyway we thought the road wasn't too bad. Nothing like the road into the Bungles that we travelled last July.

TFTC

Beautiful spot tftc

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. The second leg of our journey was a fabulous 9 days in Tasmania. Having then returned to Melbourne we set off on the third leg of our journey, which was to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. We then spent a few days in Sydney with geocaching friends before flying on to the Gold Coast for the fourth leg of our travels, that included visits to Lamington National Park, Noosa and an overnight trip out to Fraser Island. We then flew from Brisbane to Cairns, where we spent a couple of nights before heading out to the birding hotspots of Yungaburra and Daintree. We then drove up to Cape Tribulation before we turned south to Port Douglas. After a day out on the Great Barrier Reef we returned to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs and the fifth leg of our travels. Having picked up our 4x4 camper we are now on the circuit to and from Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. We then fly to Darwin from where we will spend the last two weeks of our holiday making our way to Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Katherine Gorge, Kununarra, Lake Argyle, Emma Gorge, the Bungle Bungle’s and Fitzroy Crossing. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

This was a nice quick find at Ground Zero on our way to Kings Canyon. We followed the small dirt track to the cache location, and had to smile on noticing the turning loop at GZ! Thanks so much for the cache.