Abandoned cars Pamayu, Northern Territory, Australia
By TiedyeSmileys on 06-Jan-12. Waypoint GC39C9X

Found the replacement cache left by the green team 2. However i have noticed the cache has been archived. We retrieved the cache left by the green team but will still log a find.
The green team suggested we collect there cache.

Thanks

It looks like our little car has been well and truly abandoned so we will be putting this one to bed

8:58:00 AM. We were camped here the night so while having a beer we had a search over the burnt ground. We were camped next to the water tank so didn't have far to walk. Next morning with boots on, back out again but no luck. We ended up replacing the cache with a white vitamin container with log and a couple of domino's. Hope the CO is OK with this. If not let me know and I will delete the log and get a friend to remove the cache as he travels through in a couple of weeks. Thanks TiedyeSmileys for placing this cache.

I couldn't find the cache and by the time I write this log it's already archived .

Thanks for showing me this location and the cache!
TNLN

Standard text:
Sorry for logging late...

This cache was visited by me either during the one month (February 2015) of hiking/tramping in NZ together with Bärgegumperli or in March/April 2015 while on a bicycle trip across NZ and AUS.
We/I enjoyed geocaching a lot.

Hiking
Hikes:
- Abel Tasman NP: Motueka, Kaiteriteri, Marahau, Inland Track, Separation Point, Coastal Track, Marahau.
- Nelson Lakes NP: St. Arnaud, Hopeless Hut, Travers Saddle, Blue Lake, Waiau Pass, Thompson Pass, D'Urville Valley, Lake Angelus, St. Arnaud.
- Arthur's Pass NP: Mt Brown Hut, Styx Valley, Browning Pass, Whitehorn Pass, Waimakariri Valley, Jordan Saddle, Hut Spur, Arthur's Pass, Mt Aicken
- Bridle Path
The weather conditions were great for tramping almost every single day. We enjoyed the beautiful landscape, the peace in some very remote areas and the many friendly people we met on our way or in the different huts.

Cycling from Dunedin to Auckland
It is not my first tour with this [url=http://coord.info/TB4MQE4]bicycle[/url] ([url=http://www.geocaching.com/track/map_gm.aspx?ID=3901325]map with long loading time[/url]).
Places along the route: Dunedin, Otago Central Rail Trail, East Manuherikia track, Tekapo, Fairlie, Geraldine, Oxford, Waipara, Hanmer Springs, Jacks Pass, Island Saddle, Picton, Wellington, Homedale, Hutt River Trail, Masterton, Pongaroa, road near Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, Waipukurau, Fernhill, Taupo, Whakamaru, Tirau, Hauraki Rail Trail, Kawakawa Bay, Aukland.
After one month of perfect weather (see above) I finally got what I had to expect: Some rain... And sometimes stron headwinds. That the route was not flat at all meant usually that the landscape is great .
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Cycling from Melbourne to Darwin
Places along the route: Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, Penshurst, Edenhope, Jervois Ferry, Sedan, Tanunda, Crystal Brook, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy, Uluru/Ayers Rock, The Olgas/Kata Tjuta, Mereenie Loop, Alice Springs, Karlu Karlu/Devil's Marbles, Litchfield NP, Mandorah, Darwin.
Along the coast the weather was often wet and cold. The small roads in Victoria and South Australia were very pleasant to ride despite a lot of headwind. This changed as soon as I reached the Stuart Hwy to sometimes strong tailwinds. That's why I had some "spare" time to ride a loop in the Red Centre. Further north
As in NZ i met some awesome people.
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Guess what I did while waiting for a connecting plane in Perth?

Greetings from Switzerland / Gruess us dr Schwiiz

*There are a lot(!) of caches which I did not search while on the bicycle trip. The reasons are mainly:
1. Stopping slows if one wants to get somewhere, especially on bridges where no one wants to slow down a fully loaded touring bike. Yes, there were quite a few days with >200 km on the pushbike...
2. Riding or resting next to a loaded (recumbent) bike attracts in some areas so much attention that stealth mode is not possible.
3. On rare occasions I rode during the night. If I had to do that there was no time to search for caches anyway [:-(]
4. Some places I did really not consider worth stopping for a cache... Sorry.

Searched for a while but no luck for us.

Searched with and without GPS....no where to be found.....Will have to add to the list for on the way back.

Nice luck with this one today unfortunately.

felt a bit silly not being able to find this one before my brother came. guess I was looking at the GPS too much. TFTC

Fun find, did not really have to use the tap, just used the location on the GPS.
When I caught up to my brother he was standing around looking for it and as soon as I stood where he was standing I could see it.
TFTC

Quick found on our way to Alice Springs. Nice cache!

With TDS having sadly left the Territory, it was only appropriate to find their most southerly NT cache.
And another classic piece of TDS handy-work!

Clever cache. Lots of interesting bits and pieces left behind too! Had to wait a while for campers to leave the area

Had had a roll over and was in sight. Did some repairs and put it in a bit more of a secure Parking Bay. All ok. Took a coin. TFTC

What a good easy one to do while stopping for morning tea! Thank you !

It was a quick find on our way from Daly Waters to Devils Marbles. Greetings from Germany

Found and logged with potschi. TFTC

Found and logged with Taphie04!
Nice idea and great work!

[Pink]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, the detail of the find can be found in the Rats log. Sorry for the duplicate log but it takes nothing away from the find.

Thanks for being part of our great adventure.
TFTC [/Pink]

As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache.
Stopped off here as we headed north... Took in a bit of history before finding the cache.

Thanks for being part of our great adventure.

A nice easy find parked the van only a few metres from the cache.
Thanks.

(4057) Found on our way south to Alice Springs. We were looking to some cars there, but it was just marketing.
Thanks for the cache.

TFTC. Left a TB

This stop was full of muggles getting ready to camp for the night. I was going to give up, but knowing it was a TDS cache I couldn't resist. With muggle husband's help we were as quick and sneaky as possible! Another great cache container from TDS, a fav point from me. TFTC

12:17 , Down Under 2014 .
Abenteuerurlaub mit dem Britz-Camper durch Australien .
In der dritten Woche haben wir uns von Alice Springs Richtung Darwin aufgemacht .
Rechts im Britz-Camper sitzen , links schalten , rechts den Blinker betätigen und links auf der Straße fahren .
Dann auch rechts und links nach Cachen suchen .
Eigentlich haben wir ja Urlaub .
Nun ja , wenn wir schon hier sind , dann mußte auch dieser Cache gefunden werden .
Kurzer Halt und beinahe hätte ich diesen schönen :Cache nicht gefunden .
Für diese kreative Arbeit vergebe ich gerne einen Favoritenpunkt .
Vielen Dank für diese Aktion .
Gruß sulu .

Fairly quiet mid morning between check out and check in. Tidy roadside spot they even provide firewood. Thx TiedyeSmileys.

This was my first of the day. Found this one on my roadtrip through Australia on my way to Darwin. Attempted the day before but high muggle activity forced a retreat. More luck today in the morning everybody was quite busy with leaving. What a great little spot to spend the night.

Thanks for the cache &
greetings from Germany

[red]K[/red]ammerflattern

after ensuring that all the caravaners were keeping themselves busy we popped over the lip and had the cache in hand! what a fantastic container, thanks for making us take a break TiedyeSmileys. Your caches are wonderful to find! - with knjh

Another quick easy find with akh08

[Blue]# 9809 Found on the NT leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
Another drive day on the way north and another short stopover.
Hardly any muggles around at the moment and good quick finds along the road.
Although there was muggles at the tank, they had no idea what I was doing.
Thanks for the cache TiedyeSmileys,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

11626 caches found

good co ords, quickly found

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache TiedyeSmileys

Found on our Northward trek to the top end TFTC loved this one because of the TLC that goes into the cache containers. Fav point.

This was a welcome stop after a long drive. Some shade, picnic tables, a clean loo with paper and even some water to wash your hands. On top of this the was a cache.
No abandoned cars today, although we came close to seeing one as we waited for the lads to fire up the engine in their bongo van. Took a while, but they lived to drive another day!
TFTC TNLN

Although the place was crawling with caravans was able to grab the cache - they all seem to disappear into their vans!. Thanks

Cache found with Beenasse at 15:32:00.

We had a lot of fun on the way from SA mega 2014 to Darwin!!

Thanks to TiedyeSmileys to show me this with this cache.

Cheers from frenchies

Found with my friend Ckronos during our trip from Melbourne to Darwin!
Thank you for the cache Nice container !

08 Apr 2014
AT LAST!!! Arrived at 16:30 - the place was absolutely empty, so it was a quick find. Thanks TDS's.

Great view, do fill up the water buckets for the animals and birds please. Tftc

A quick and easy found on my way back to Alice Springs. Nice place for a break on such a long drive.
Thanks for the cache.
TRF
#228

the next gc on our trip throuh australia, headin´from Darwin to Adelaide! keep on rollin´
TFTC RockFrogs from Germany

busy busy busy for the night !!! Tftc !

TFTC,
After more than 4 weeks, we are now in Katherine and have our first internet connection for a few days.
It is time to log what we have found and get ready for the next stage of our 7 week Outback adventure that has included following the Riley's Through the Red Centre.
We had to wait for a family to stop playing with an Axe at GZ and leave before we could complete this cache.
Visited a group of trackables sharing the experience.

Found on our way north. TFTC I must say you don't see as many abandoned cars these days as before.

2680 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1500. Every now and then you can be issued a challenge with caching. Once we had worked out gz we fond a generator sitting on top of the find. As we had pulled up we had watched the owner of the generator pull the start cord. Well what now, the Mrs walked over to the campers and asked could we shift the machine to have a look under it. After a quick lesson on geocaching they said no worries and wanted to help. As it turned out they had found a cache accidentally in Queensland and were only too happy to find out more. SL Tnx TiedyeSmileys.

Many flies liked this place too.
TFTC-----------Hartwig from Germany

Made this our camp spot for the night, as we are heading north towards Darwin.
As it was a warm night, happy hour went to well after midnight.
After muggles had finally gone to bed, we grabbed our torches to find this cache.
We stumbled around in the dark for a short time before finally finding it.
Thanks for the cache, TiedyeSmileys.

Very busy with juggles. TFTC

On our way south Darwin to Alice Springs.
I new this rusty abandoned car could not have been a Toyota.
Another TiedyeSmileys goodie. Worth a favourite point

Thanks

WanderingAus wandered by on day 79 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, finally heading south after 9 weeks in Darwin and 3 days in Katherine.

As happens most years we decided to pull in here for morning tea. As we approached TomTom alerted me to the presence of a cache, and as I slowed I could see the icon on the screen. The two shady spots were taken, so I parked to the right of the unoccupied last picnic shelter. While I headed up to the facilities, a cup of tea and fruit cake with butter on was prepared, and when I got back we carried it all over to the picnic shelter. By then both shady spots were free, but it wasn't very hot so we left the rig basking in the morning sun.

I had removed the gpsr from the dash and stuffed it in my pocket, so while drinking my tea I pulled it out and woke it up, so that I could check the size of the cache I'd seen on TomTom. I've been trying to avoid micros, so it was nice to see it was a small. After deploying a Munzee nearby I went for a look, and made a fairly quick and easy GAFF 0 find at the third 'obvious' spot I looked. Of course if I'd read the cache description or hint it would have been quicker, saving me perhaps 2 minutes. If I'd noticed the cache owner I also wouldn't have been so surprised at another nicely constructed hide.

My Groundspeak find No 2,937, fourth find for the '31 days of geocaching', TNLNSL.

*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 3*.

T4TH TiedyeSmileys
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another great cache container
Found today on our way out of Daly Waters towards 3 Ways
On our Central Aust leg of our Round Aust trip
(visit link)
TFTC & favourited

Found with SeabreezeOZ, TFTC

Found with SeabreezeOZ, TFTC

Too many muggles. Oh well...

Nice and easy Thanks

Pulled in for a morning tea stop while heading south.
Was able to locate cache while muggles went about there business.
The container outside the container was interesting.
Makes you pleased with modern cars!!!

Very abandoned, but no Cars ))

Quick find thanks to the clues.
Thank goodness there were less muggles than previous trips. A very busy location
TFTC
Left stars to shine

had a good look but no luck for us today too many parked on it

Found at 10.45

A quick check & find.

Lots of muggles at rest stop.

Took flower smiley.
Left Brooch.

TFTC

No old cars any more, not that we could see.

stayed overnight here ..very high muggle area.so waited until morning when car owners found their keys so they could leav me to log this one on our way across to Karatha TFTC

Ninja retrieval. Lots of muffles. All good.

Camped for the night waited for muggles to go then found this one. TFTC TNLN

Did not put my hand into the cavity, but will send Cache Owner pics
On hols from Belfast and nothing has bitten me yet!!
Thanks

22 May 2013
What are the odds??? On the way south this spot was full of travellers, putting up for the night, so we thought we'd get it on the way home.
Midday... and it was full of travellers - AND pouring with rain... in May??? Humph!
We'll get it one day, TDS's!

Found as part of our 5 week trip from Adelaide to Lawn Hill and then onto the Territory.

Apologies for the late logs but Vodafone doesn't cover much of that part of the world.

We found 109 and had 10 dnfs, some more than once.

Finally a cache with good co-ords. Must be the South Aust training.

TFTC

On way through after overnight stay in Alice heading to our Cousins Wedding in Darwin, so why not cache on the way and take our time to pick up afew road side ones. Pulled up muggles here So Geomum walked around stretching her legs and filling up a water bottle from the tank whilke geodad went klooking for the cache but the muggles where too busy in their motorhome to notice us doing anything out of character, good find by geodad.TFTC

Not quite what I was expecting. A quick find whilst down the track with work and no time to appreciate the area. T4TC.

A nice easy DIDO on our way to Alice Springs. TFTC

Many thanks from Peter for this cache on the 13. Australia Trip (2012/2013).
Cheers Peter

Second cache in my great Southern migration, Katherine to Melbourne. TFTC TNL PT.

Thanks for the Cache which I found on the way down to Adelaide. A nice place for a short stop.

Was too cautious to reach in past the cobwebs and whatever else might be lurking here. Sent pic to CO of cache to verify the find. Thanks for the cache and rest stop. No abandoned cars nearby, though.

Abandoned cars! Yes when we drove across the Nullarbor, up the west coast and down through here in the early seventies you could take your pick of vehicles if you needed an emergency hose or wheel providing that they hadn't been torched to simplify insurance matters particularly if the engine had cooked itself. I recall the most common vehicle was always the poor old combivan of a beetle I guess that the folks back in Germany hadn't taken into consideration the temperatures out here. Nice job on the cache

Easy find not a muggle in sight but then it is above 40 deg. Great little cache, very similar to one up in Darwin except that one is a dog. Thanks TiedyeSmileys Really liked the old car photos

Nice easy cache. Good overnight stay place. TCTF Left marble game and took bug in box.

It wasnt hard to find this one with all the help that we got from the nearby campers. Even whilst trying to be inconspicuous, the "locals" couldnt help themselves. "It's over there", "near the tree", "a little to the left"... How could we not find it? Treasure soon in hand with log signed. TFTC

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Took car left bottle opener +ozi badge need to be careful of muggles here TFTC

Got to love those TiedyeSmileys and their creativeness. Cache is good. TFTC Another favourite for this one.

Geo Hubby's first find 3.50pm on our way to visit the daughter in Darwin Town. Took Parachute man and left magnet & smiley eraser.

TFTF

TFTC!
Greetings from Austria!

This was our 1st cache in our caching run today - and we found it at around 13:19.
(So this is our 4581st total find.)

A quick, sneaky find. We had to be stealthy because the rest area was absolutely full of travellers. Some looked like they were settled in for the night already.

Took: Nothing
Left: Parachute Man
We grabbed the trackable from the cache
Thanks TiedyeSmileys for the hunt today.

TFTC
Greetings from FRANCE

Thanks for a great find...very cute!!! The info is great to read too.
We took a pink clip and bouncy ball, and left a notebook and TB 'Little Blue Fordson'...
Travel well little TB...!!

02/08/2012
Just found Fairy Trail by Night in Darwin...another fantastic cache. Well done TiedyeSmileys - you put great effort into your caches which are fun and satisfying to find...

This entry was edited by cronlays on Thursday, 02 August 2012 at 12:32:53 UTC.

Gotcha !!! Even with 1,000,000 campers in the rest area ,GZ is well hidden with the long grass at present.TFTC

Our 2nd attempt for this one boy I must have had my hand on it a couple weeks ago
A very good container and this time a easy find. Took lock left a ball.
TFTC.

Found on our way back up north to home.... Another great TiedyeSmileys cache .... Great to see it is still safely tucked away waiting for the next visitor.... Good spot to stretch the legs Thanks TiedyeSmileys 4TC:)

Found and logged at 6:55,
6 caches for the day on my trip up north
After spending the night on site, I had to waight till the early morning tograb the cache
Thanks Tiedyesmileys

Heading south after the V8's grabbing some caches along the way.

Followed the clues and it was exactly where it was supposed to be. Spoke to the grey nomads camped nearby to explain what it was all about and they had heard about geocaching. TFTC.

See maintenance note

**NOTE** This cache may be missing. Have not had a response from queries to the last DNFers.
The cache was placed as the hint says. From the large water tank a tap is poking out. The tap almost points towards the cache. Go to the edge of the slope down where the tap is pointing. About a couple of meters or so to the left are some largish rocks just over the edge (about 1m down the slope?). The cache was placed under some rocks under the largish one. The outer container concealing the Regular cache was painted dark brown.

We would appreciate the next people passing through following these instructions to see if it really is missing.

Thanks.

As this abandoned cars seems to have gone missing.

We are not sure if we were looking in the correct place, according to the hint I feel we were. If so, I really feel that this one may be MIA.

Looked and looked - even used the clue, but did not find. Next time.

YAY!!! FTF for us It was really fluke with this one because before we left the caravan park at Tennant Creek, I asked Mr Bushies2 to check the google map for the caches route towards North where we were heading then he noticed that one cache hasn't been found so he opened the list and told me that this new cache was published the day before, WOW!!! We drove around 275km, hoping no one has found this cache...arrived the rest area, no one around which was great...took a while before it was found by Mr Bushies2, YAY!! We are FTF!!! We have met TiedyseSmileys twice at the previous caches past Alice Springs recently. This rest area is 100% ideal area to hide a cache, it has everything. picnic tables, water, information boards and toilet facilities...we also loved your cache...you get a favourite point from us Took nothing but dropped a geocoin. Thanks TiedyeSmileys for bringing us to this lovely rest area and of course cache

This entry was edited by Bushies2 on Friday, 13 January 2012 at 05:53:28 UTC.

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