Ackland Park Mt Tarcoola, Western Australia, Australia
By TeamBastholm on 29-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2Z4YY

Sorry to see this one go.

Still out of action

Haven’t checked on this as yet

Still haven’t fixed it

Haven't had a chance to check on this yet

Day three of our trip to Geraldton for international geocaching day 2017, our fourth time attending this event since it was first done in 2013.

We started early to tackle a number of hides in the chapman river series, which was a very pleasant stroll this morning despite the wet undergrowth which soaked both our boots! Some very cool geocaches around the trail which were most fun to complete, and a few DNFs too, it wouldn't be a caching day in Geraldton with some DNFs.

We finished up there and collected a few more caches around the burbs of Geraldton including some tree climbing. It was decided that we needed to start the journey back home this time
Via Brand Highway to collect all the caches that we've missed on previous travels.

We had one last Geraldton cache in Bootenal Springs which was a lovely walk through and exploring aboriginal heritage in the area.

We continued along brand Highway collecting a
Couple of caches in dongara and then continued on collecting cache after cache all the way towards regains ford before we packed up the caches and headed straight for home.

Overall a good weekends caching with around 70 finds over two pretty full on caching days. We've got some big plans to tackle the Indian Ocean drive caches in a couple of weeks that we always seem to miss on our trips to Geraldton, hopefully staying at Jurien bay or Green Head.

Was a bit of a frustrating trip with around 30 DNFs, a number of which haven't been found for some time. We had some bad co ordinates, not sure if it was us or the cache, but spent a lot of time expanding search areas to find caches. Look forward to coming back for next years IGD event to find a few more caches around these parts!

The highlight of the trip would be the caches along the Moresby Range. Highly recommended. Thanks to the local COs for their caches.

Giving fav for what it was and the co quick response. Another nemesis Cache knocked off! Unfortunately the cache has gone missing, thanks to the CO for their quick reply to my message

Day 3 of the Geraldton trip for the IGD event held up there.

Again we started of a little late this time as I kept sleeping through my alarm. First for everything and a sign of the intense workload and Geocaching I have managed to fit into these last 2 weeks, over 600 caches, 450+ FTF, 2 events, 1600km to get all of this as well as working 2 50hr weeks.

Today's events had us clear a few more Urban caches as well as a great walk along the Chapman river, I really needed to wear shorts and gumboots as by the end of it the trainers and jeans I was wearing were saturated.

We then left for Perth around lunch and made a few finds on the way home.
It was a great weekend up in Geraldton with the deliberation in the car in the way home summing up the trip as we are suckers for punishment.

Each visit we get our worst DNF % on caches attempted, then clear previous DNF's from other years and end up saying by the end of it when are we coming back!

Again will see some of you at WA goes Big in Rockingham and possibly the rest of you at IGD in Gero next year!

Looks like this has been broken. Thanks Barnsey for notifying us, we are allowing you to claim the find without signing the log

Another DNF this morning

Wonder when I can put TFTC In a log soon

Tftc

Another smiley added here today on our way towards home from a 5 week Kimberley and Pilbara break, an excellent camo and clever hide TFTC TeamBastholm

Road works are now complete and the cache is accessible again

This cache is temporarily unavailable until the road works are complete

Day 5 of our road trip to Geraldton and a better day than yesterday if you don't count the morning - which we missed . We had a good afternoon visiting a number of quality caches and only got rained on twice which was OK given we got a good 2 hour walk in and topped it off with coffee and cake on the fore shore at the end of the day.

Must be getting used to these clever caches as we spotted this one relatively quickly. A good cammo and a FP for this well constructed cache.
Managed to squeeze in one of our tagz.

Thanks for the cache TeamBastholm [^] - we made the find and the cache was in good order and the log dry .

This was find # 1 of 16 and 0 today giving us a total cache count of 3188.

I rode into the park early arvo.
Bit overgrown !!
So at least there were no muggles sitting around
Time to chase another needle in the Geraldtowne haystack

Time passed,
Beer o'clock was getting closer !!
And no sooner did I think, "Bother this !!",
than I spied something that needed investigating before I left with another DNF.

Eeek !! I found the cache !! [:o]
That's not supposed to happen is it ??
Well this time TeamBastholm,
I have foiled your attempts at cache stealth [^]

Thanks For A Cache ... at last

We are up visiting family close by & popped out to walk the dog. Found this one by torchlight being guided by MC_Zombieslayer. Great cache, loved the hide.

Very very sneaky! Well played sir

Sneaky! Ingenious hide. Thanks guys!

Out on a spur of the moment caching exhibition with Gabs1963. TFTC

Log replaced

Boyfromthebush gets the honours for this one! TFTH SL

Neat hide! Almost stole the pencil so headed back and replaced it..TFTH SL cheers

We arrived in Geraldton yesterday and after having breakfast this morning we headed out to find some local caches. We started off ok and then things went downhill with lots of DNFS. We only managed 23 finds today with 11 DNFS and I'm sure most of them were missing with a few tricky ones that we just couldn't find after searching for ages. Hopefully we have more luck tomorrow finding caches. TFTC

very smart

Very good hide

What great hide. Found on our way home to Bunbury after spending the weekend in Gerladton with family
TFTC

Found by accident and was going to lean on it! Found with MC_Mum

Needs a new log

pug002 barking dog distraction, lots of attention gave up

Hey TB guess who not only has premium membership now, but also finally found this bloody cache. well done Dee for the actual find.

Clever hide tftc

Came back a day after not finding and there it was. Doh! TFTC!

I'd still be searching next week if it weren't for hubby! Great camo TFTC - we got the souvenir!

Umbrella & rain coats on we spent some time finding this one. Trees & cloud cover didn't help but just moments before we gave up we had it in hand. Trackables got to come for the ride. A great cache & a fav from us. TFTC Teambastholm. SL.

This entry was edited by reticbob on Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 05:13:37 UTC.

Wow early morning find, was more out in the open than the gps suggested, geo wife found first spotting something quite not right! Tftc gets a fav for camo

Clever. Started searching all what I thought it would be. Eventually put my hand on it!!!

Good one

TFTC great camo

TFTH Another amazing camo!! Can't wait to come back here to find some more of your hides.

How could we go past this one on our way by! So many favourite points we just had to have a look! We must be working out how you think because this one didn't take as long as we thought it would! Magpie51 gave the "got it!" cry and we all crowded around for a closer look! Once safely removed log signed and replaced high fives all round! Another favourite point for you from us! Look forward to finding more of your caches next time we are in town! TFTC

OMG great cache well done!

Well designed hide. So pleased to have a holiday in Geraldton and find quality hides like this

A wonderfully clever hide! Well constructed and superb camo. We look forward to watching some of our visiting family hunting for this one. TFTC TeamBastholm. Fave point from us.

As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache.
As this one had the most favourite points we couldnt leave town without having a go. After a few minutes searching I spotted something that just wasnt right and bingo.

A very clever hide and a favourite point

Thanks for being part of our great adventure.
TFTC

[Teal] As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache. Dad did most of the hard work here and the detail of our find can be found in the Rats log. Sorry for the duplicate log but it takes nothing away from the find.

Thanks for showing us this spot on our trip.
TFTC[/Teal]

Omg geograndkid find would never have found it myself

Very trixy hide gets a fav point from us TFTC

We hooked up the van this morning to continue our journey back home to Victoria. Sad to be leaving Geraldton as its a lovely place with some great caching to be done and an extremely friendly caching community that we we lucky to catch up with yesterday at the Geocaching Day Event. We had a great fun time chatting, caching and putting faces to names.
We couldn't resist one last chance to discover a few caches we had not found. At least this one we hadn't looked for before!
A beautifully crafted and sneakily hidden hide. Mr Ski's clever caching eyes spotted it, but not until both of us had spent some time scouring the area.
TFTC, love your work Team Bastholm

Wowsers that was a great hide! Love love love it! Fav point awarded!

An early start to our second day in Geraldton for Jinta29 and I.
We headed out after our big day yesterday to grab some caches before the event.
Dark when we headed to this one but torches helped.
TFTH Team Bastholm...see you later today

2nd type of this hide we have found and we love it, came up from perth for the event see you there soon and a fav point from us too

It's a tough one

You Bastholms are very tricky

Found this one easily.
TFTC

Took a bit to find but got there in the end!!! Yayyy tftf

TFTC. This is awesome. Another fave point from us!!

My muggle husband managed to get this one for me. Guess he's not really a muggle anymore.

Found this one with Katzenfreund8. We came her because of its favourite points an it was worth to come. Very good. Thank you and one more favourite point!

Hui, very nice hide! Took us a while, until I found it nearly by accident. A clear quality Cache, so a FP from us!

Wow....that's a really cool cache. Took a little while to locate, gps not working too well on a wet day today. Love these cache's that make you think outside the square. Definitely getting a favourite from us. Thanks for a great search and find.

TFTC

Found it! In the middle of the night with a torch!

Found it quicker than I expected! TFTC

Really clever camo
TFTC

That is an amazing idea

Must remember people can be tricky. Well done very good hide.

no luck with this one will have to wait till I return to see the in-laws again

Veery very good amazing tftc

My friend was explaining geocaching to me and showed me this cache as an example. Veeeeeery sneaky... Very sneaky...

This was our 7th cache find in a caching run of 7 Finds & 4 DNFs today.
We found it at 15:02 so this now makes our total find count 7242.
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This one took us a while to find, coz it is a really ingenious hide. Another favorite point from us.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Around 2 metres).
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks TeamBastholm for the hunt today.

Oh yes, very nice indeed. Out for an early morning walk to target this one. Nice work. Greetings from Brisbane

Its my Birthday so spent it doing my favorite thing Geo Caching with my boys we had lots of fun and then went out to lunch. This one was awesome what a great hide took us a while but so excited when I saw it.

Woohoo thanks!!

Up and running again

So we finely found what we thought was the cache, but no log. Is it still in place?

Thanks to Sally for notifying us that the cache was in need of repair. We have brought it home to fix and will hopefully have it up and running again soon.

Tricky

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Well that took more stealth than I hoped last night... Bloody road works out at 12 at night? Go to bed. Been at the cache a couple of times with no joy but came in from a different angle.this time and got I reasonably quickly, after a few hints from CO that he didnt mean to tell me lol. This was my 50th cache and number 22 for august TFTC

Found this cache on a weekend trip to Geraldton with Mum and Dad (jinta29). TFTC

A very neat camo which Dad found.

A last ditch effort to get some smilies before heading back to Perth tomorrow. TFTC TeamBastholm

What a fantastic camo, although we found it reasonably quickly!!

We were heading back to Perth this morning and stopped here for a quick look. Bel made the discovery.

Thanks for the cache.

TFTC. This was found on a caching trip with Cravo10 for the international geocaching day event being held in Geraldton.

While in Geraldton for the IGD event, we decided to scout out a few caches. On the way back to the hotel we saw this one appear on the screen. A quick discussion to whether we were up to a D4 search this late in the day. We decided to scout it out, the GPS'r took a little while to settle but once it had, Keego spotted the clever cache and gladly shouted "found it". A nice job on the cache, SL TFTC TeamBastholm a fav from us

Got the little sucker - a huge appreciation for this cache to TeamBastholm. An awesome hide and a favourite point from the Smelly's.

Didn't set out to get this one when I set out for my morning walk/jog. But when I looked up nearby caches I discovered it was only 356m away - who could resist that.
Had a quick look as I was running late to get back to my accommodation and have a shower before picking up the other Smelly from the team accommodation for a spot of caching and hopefully our 1500th find. No luck here today for one Smelly, can imagine it will be a great hide if any of the other TeamBastholm hides are to go by.

Ingeniously hidden! Thank you

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Come for another crack at this one and got it, nice hide TFTC

#1081
Together with Juekru and SixtusDahastus.
We found this Cache during our Trip to Darwin/Australia
Thanks for the Cache and nice greetings from Austria!

#2895 @ 07-07-13

Together with ariele23 and SixtusDahastus.
We found this Cache during our Trip to Darwin/Australia
Thanks for the Cache and nice greetings from Austria!
Really tricky hideout

together with Juekru and ariele 23 on our trip through W-Australia.
tftc, SxtusDahastus

Clever tftc

This is seriously the hardest one I've ever done. I have been back about 4 times with different people. Finally a fellow Geocacher helped me out with a clue and found it today! TFTC! (Thanks elpam)

Brilliant Hide! Was glad to come back a second time to find it. One of my favorite hides so far. Thanks FTC

We spent a full day of caching in the Geraldton region. The caches here are of a very high standard, all have been in an ineresting or scenic location. We have found the small caches here would be micros at home, also the 1.5-1.5 are so much harder to find, so its been a very trying day.
Well done Geraldton.
Thanks TeamBastholm worth a favourite point for ingenuity

great hide !

Very impressed with the clever hide. The log is slightly damp. TFTC

Well aren't you clever TeamBastholm!
An easy find but a very cool cam. Took photos for Mrs Jelsh. She's gonna love this one

A delightful hide that impressed my brother no end ! Had a bit of a scratch around for a while before the obvious became more obvious. Nice one Team.

Had a good scrounge around but no luck this time