Wandoo Bilby Mt Observation, Western Australia, Australia
By Chwiliwr on 17-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3H09V

After one month without a geocaching car, I finally took a day to hit the trails again. With my recent favourite podcasts episodes ready and lunch, snacks packed and hot coffee in the thermos, I set out for a full day out in nature. Total geocaches found: 100Time traveled to first cache: 1h 24minFirst geocache logged: 8:26 Last geocache logged: 16:43Time traveled to home 1h 12minTotal of kangaroos: 4Total of lost sheep: 1Total of snakes: 1 (dead)Total of flies: 0Total episodes of podcasts listened: 10TFTC

Found it. Tuck N Roll!

NEF TFTC Chwiliwr

Cache replaced.

It was an enjoyable day trip out to the lovely Mundaring State Forest with patrol14 on a nice winters day.

Most caches we found were in great condition and easy enough to find. Our logs were signed as Team S&P, (Snickersallan and patrol14)

Thank you to all the cache owners for placing these caches for our benefit and enjoyment

Visiting from Qld with SnickersAllen
Out for a day of 4WD adventures
Cache found in good condition.
Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the caches for our enjoyment

Quick easy park and find, TFTC

Out with sammiiej getting some Tuesday smilies tftc

Hi

Another easy find

Found it, all in good shape.
A great day to try this series.
Thanks for the cache.

Hi Chwiliwr, found “Wandoo Bilby” today grabbing a few roadside caches with Redruthguy. TFTC from Probsty

Quick Find with cmb212 and probsty.

Back for day two hoping for no aerial burning today so that I can get further into the bush. Beautiful blue sky - great day to get out and add smilies to my map. Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches.

Quick find TFTH

Nice quick find here thanks for the hide

Out with meme28 geocaching for the day.
Driving through the forrest picking up smilies and enjoying the scenery.
Thanks for maintaining these caches and getting us out here.
Rain stayed away for most of the day.

Out and about with Burns345 hunting some country caches before it gets too hot... thank you to the COs for maintaining these hides for us as we have been noticing the new log books!!!

Out with the Better Half for a maintenance run of my Wandoo caches and also doing some maintenance of the Wandoo caches placed by Keego and Chil.

All my caches were checked and the logs replaced. Where needed the cache container was replaced as well.

Ooh... back on the tar seal! Speedy find here.

A big day of hunting down Wandoo caches. A sunny 30 degree day with hardly anyone around. Perfect bush caching day.

TFTC Chwiliwr, AP, KnC and AOz

Nice quick find thanks to Chwiliwr for such an awesome series of caches .

Found

An easy find, out caching with Schnappy96 during the WAGoesBig long weekend TFTC

Quick find on our girls weekend at WAGB Northam! Found with Geogypsys Tftc

Nice quick find. Cache in good condition TFTC

Having to be back in York today, I grabbed another opportunity to find more of this series on the way home (leaving a bit earlier than I should have). Nice quick find here, TFTC Chwiliwr!

Out picking up some smiley's. Tftc.

Our caching run today included just a amall sample of the many caches in the Wandoo cache series, found along with ilook4geo. It was a matter of some animal, some vegetable and just a touch of mineral. The caches were chosen at random and there are plenty that we had to leave for another time. Each log had two names added before we moved on to the next one. Many thanks go to Chwiliwr for adding to such an extensive series of caches to be found.

There are so many caches to be found around this area, so we just had to make a selection, while out caching with goimgplaces2. No problem with finding this one. Very happy to add another smiley to our map here. TFTC.

I love me some easy peasy caches in the bush. Thanks!

Headed out again this morning to finish off this series. The road was terrible but I'm glad that I came after maintenance was done, 0 dnfs. Thanks Chwiliwr.

I took the better half for a drive to do some maintenance on all of the Wandoo series of caches down Yarra Road .

Some of them required replacing, some were fixed and a few were relocated as part of the maintenance so they are now all OK again.

We then went on and did a couple of others further east.

Chwiliwr had to go out and do some maintenance on his Wandoo series of caches down Yarra Road so I tagged along with him. Some of them required replacing, some were fixed and a few were relocated as part of the maintenance. We then went on and did a couple of others further east.

Thanks Chwiliwr for the cache.

Found a weather balloon ear the cache. Tftc

Tftc

See Wandoo Woylie (Wandoo Animal Series) for more info.

I wasn't sure what to do here. Someone had signed the log and drawn a rude picture. Perhaps I should have removed the page but I wasn't sure if it was a cacher. Thinking about it now, a muggle must have found it. The container was OK so perhaps the next cacher would just like to remove that page as no one of that name has logged a find online. TFTC

Up and out about early with Neva2old to claim a few smileys, we headed out to make a start on the Wandoo Series and any that jumped out along the way. After a quick search this cache was soon in hand and a smiley claimed TFTF

Up and out about early with Parkacruz to claim a few smileys, we headed out to make a start on the Wandoo Series and any that jumped out along the way. After a quick search this clever cache was soon in hand and a smiley claimed. We managed 109 finds & 7 DNFS for the day TFTF

Yes thankyou

We saw a lizard

TFTC

Treasures abound

Great series of caches thanks

After some recent logs advising of problems went for a drive today and checked each of my caches.

Repaired or replaced those that needed it.

All good to go now.

Hmm, with Monts napping at home, maybe he is the smarter one out of us in this rain. The container is broken and needs replacing. I'm sorry I didn't have one on me. TFTC Chwiliwr

The container is broken and needs replacing. Sorry I didn't have one on me.

Spent aus day caching with muskcat83 and janssej and kids. Thanks for the series. Will be back to finish

Met up with ctvanderlinden and muskcat83 for the day in search of my 1000th find. Needed 52 to achieve this goal - we ended up with 101 for the day! It was a warm Australia Day, but a great way to spend the day in the bush, seeing kangaroos, wallaby's and even a race horse goanna! Thanks heaps for the series - we'll be back at some point to finish it off i'm sure!

Met up with ctvanderlinden and janssej for the day chasing a ton! We ended up with 101 for the day! Thanks heaps for the series - we'll be back at some point to finish it off i'm sure! What a wonderful way to spend Australia Day in 40 degree heat in the country side.

Thank you! Out for a caching day with papillon367, Photo-play and Bindi01. After a warm-up with the Cascades series, we headed off to do a couple of sections of the Wandoo series. We ended up finding all of the trees (bar one that was disabled) and all of the animals, and a few of the birds too. Thanks again to all of the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches. I hope to be back to complete the series soon.

Found it. TFTC Chwiliwr. Teamed up with Ullyssia, Papillon367 and Bindi01 to do part of the Wandoo series. Really great walk and drive through this area.

Teamed up with ullyssia, Photo-Play and Papillon367 again for a full day of caching.
Another quick find also. All ok
Thank you for the hide Chwiliwr

Teamed up with ullyssia, Photo-Play and Bindi01 for a full day of caching, the biggest so far for all of us! We started by a walk to pick up the Cascades series, then we continued onto the Wandoo series. We found all the flowers (except one not in play), a few of the birds and all the animals, plus a few extras, ending up with 82 finds for the day. Most were quick finds as the coordinates were spot on. Thank you for the hide Chwiliwr and for the series – nice choice of themes and great concept to have multiple owners for a joint series.

A call went out and a plan was hatched to tackle the Wandoo series. Very early this morning we joined forces with WebblyWA to see how we would fair and with the expectation that it would be good to complete at least half the series. We started and just cached, cached and cached finishing 11.5 hours later with 138 finds and the series completed apart from one that is temp disabled. Had a great day and a huge thanks to the CO's and those that maintain the series. Sorry for the mostly generic logs.

TFTC Chwiliwr this is find # 1701 for us

January's challenge mission for me was to collect at least 300 caches. Knowing I could get almost half way there with one series, I put out a call to see who would like to join me on an epic WANDOO day and Team Fratra was up for it so plans were made. We met up early collecting the first cache at 6.45am. Completing the series 11 and a half hours later, with No DNFs and only one glitch left on the map of a cache that is currently disabled. My total for the day finished up with a few extras at 140 as darkness, wind and rain set in.

It was a wonderful day and we had great weather for the majority of the day. Massive thanks to the COs and everyone that has put work into maintaining the series.

Cache #105 for the day. TNLN. This cache marks the start of the Gravel rd pace may slow a little now.

TFTC Chwiliwr

TFTH

Didn't see the billy, but found the cache with axell33! Tyftc

Found this one with Leega on our way to York. Great day to be out this way caching. TFTC Chwiliwr.

Found it geoboy! Good hide

Having finished the Wandoo birds today, thought I'd make a start on the animals leg. Clouds rolled in and made the trip on Yarra Rd not so pleasant...will finish another day. TFTH's -all found quickly and easily

Another fun find with Just-Lookin.
We really enjoyed the drive around this area finding some of the wandoo series of caches.
SL TFTC

Enjoying a holiday in Perth with tmann421 and collecting a few caches along the way.
Another great find here. TFTC

Found Wandoo Bilby. Cache was in the open; I’ve put it back in its hidey-hole. No trackables to trade TNLN SL TFTH Chwiliwr.

Found whilst camping in the area, we love the Wandoo forest.
Thank you for the cache Chwiliwr.
Cheers TLC

Found this one out in the open, have replaced mire discretely. TFTC

Cool cache.

TFTC

Heading north along Yarra Road I found the start of the bitumen here !!
Alas that also meant that some disgusting redneck was not going to travel any further to dump their trailer load of household rubbish
They just left it on the road !!

Ignoring the heap, I wandered off the short distance to find the cache

Welcome back to civilisation I guess

TFTC

Found with kellydrinkstea TFTC

Mudbuzzie and I were out this way again today, purely to finish off the Wandoo series as we managed to miss 3 last time. This was the last stop and a much to easy find as the geo was out in the open. We placed it back where the co-ords suggested it should be. TFTC

Out to finish the wandoo series and Being clean up Australia day, we also concentrated on CITO and ended up with a boot load by the finish, Thanks for the effort Chwiliwer cache is in good condition.

pug002 found it 1/2/2016. TFTC Chwiliwr.

With a week touring around Perth, some time obviously had to be made for caching out here on the west coast. I started the day off slowly today with some short hikes, and then by lunchtime had decided to attempt finding over 100 caches today solo.
Another good hint that ensured a quick find in this enjoyable muggle-free bush location.
This was #9 of 105 today (DNFs = 0 so far).
Thanks for placing this cache, Chwiliwr, and thanks to all COs who set out the Wandoo series.

Thanks

TFTC

Out in the mighty patrol today with nick to collect the procrastination installation 46 through to 1 we found them all in good condition and left path tags along the way.

The weather was spot on and there was even some mud for the patrol to splash about in !

We found all 46 in about 5 hours... Our gps was having a melt down today so we walked around in circles a few times.

sorry for the generic log

thanks for the series.

Collected 60 caches all up for a grand total of 850 on the way to the gollden k 1000- caches

Fernweh* and Nick.

Another easy find

Originally found under family caching name "clan-wallace". Geohubby wants his own caching name, so I get to re log them for him!

Day 2
We had to go into York for a few supplies and so we sort of mixed up our sections of the Wandoo series today but it was not difficult to manage with the aid of the printed record sheets. 52 finds in total today (which included a few non Wandoos for good measure) & no DNFs which is a testament to the high standard of maintenance on this series. It was 36 degrees at its peak today & when we got to Yarra road the dust was flying everywhere, come to think of it, so were the flies. The spring flowers are still looking magnificent making the trip even more memorable. Thanks to Chwiliwr & Allied Pranksters for today's sections.

Found this

Found

Out with krabiboy today picking up as many of the series today i really enjoyed it can't wait to get out and finished it. TFTC

Caught up with Loudy16 to head out and attempt to finish off my Wandoo Series today. I messaged Allied Oz a few days before to see if he wanted any maintenance done, and he decided to join us for the adventure. Great day out on the trails with all remaining Wandoo caches found. A massive thanks to all of the COs involved in making this series happen. TFTC Chwiliwr

Wow windflowers! Cache left out in the open so I have re hidden it

My main mission today was to grab the GCA caches in th area, and I also did quite a few GC ones, mostly Wandoo caches - not sur. Made an early start as I had to be home by mid-day to take the geo-muggle-missus to a ballet show, so the first find of the day was made by torch light. It was a cold misty morning, but lovely in the bush.

Unfortunately, I missed the Ridley Road turn-off that I was going to take for three of the GCA caches and ended up taking a much longer route and also doing more Wandoos than intended. This meant that I only had time to do three of the four GCA caches that I had in my sights AND we were almost late for the ballet.

Good to get a few more Wandoos logged and picked up a couple of codes for the final as well.

SL. Thanks for the hide Chwiliwr

Had been advised that there was a broken lid on one of my Wandoo series of caches so came out today and did a maintenance run on all of them. Replaced the broken lid and repaired another that I found was cracked. Some caches had developed a bit of cache creep and one had been buried for some reason so put them back where they were supposed to be.

Quick find

Spent many hours today doing the Animals part of the Wandoo series. Then We headed down to York to grab a few more smilies.

TFTC

We spent today doing the “Animals” leg of the Wandoo series, plus few others. We then went into York for a couple of hours. It was a brisk but beautifully fine winter’s day. Most caches were in great condition, and all were easy, but fun finds.

We managed 50 finds (which is now our best of 1 day) and 1 DNF.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches.

Found while out caching with a friend, was in the area to pick up a couple of other caches and then picked up a few more in the wandoo series on the way out. Thanks for the cache

A big day had been in the planning fr sometime with Spatialriq and today it had finally arrived.
The goal was to complete the Wandoo series in a single day. An early start was arranged and we found our first cache at 6.01am. The last, the Bonus box. at 5.01pm Exactly 11 hours later.
A great day on the road and great company. All caches were found fairly quickly with spot on co-ords with the exception of one DNF.
A credit to the four cache owners on this series and the ongoing mantenance to keep it aliv. Well done.

This was cache number 96 out of 132 for today. Also our total find number 2973
Thanks Chwiliwr for this hide.

For the past few months, Kyzabra and I have been trying to find a day to tackle this series. Fortuitously it ended up coinciding with the last blank day my geocaching calendar.

We met up at 6am at the Rock Inne Tavern and worked our way around the series. By the time we found the final puzzle cache it was 5pm ... for me it was 147 finds (and yes I found 3 more on the way home) ... I couldn't miss getting 150 in a day when I was that close . Oh, and only 1 DNF for the day. What's a day of geocaching without at least 1 DNF! [:o)]

Thanks to the 4 CO's who put this series together and keep it going. TFTC.

Found with jasenjanine... TFTC Chwiliwr [^]

Headed out to do a few in the Wandoo Series with the kids & here we are still going strong... The enthusiasm just got a little better here as the kids have been asking where the dirt roads are all day Quick find here!

TFTC Chwiliwr Cache was in good condition.

Just relogging attendance under a new account. Signed log under an old account of dcorunna on this day

Caching with granett and dcorunna for the day number 35 and thanks for all the effort to take us on this wonderful series in our great bushland

Hey Chwiliwr! I found your cache "Wandoo Bilby" - GC3H09V.

The cache was found in good condition. The listed coordinates are quite accurate.

This was my #39 find for today.

My overall count is at #239.

This cache was found on 2/03/2015 at 2:06 pm

Tackled a good chunk of the Wandoo series series today with dcorunna and jlotsos. We started near the corner of Yarra rd and headed north. This section was very peaceful with no muggle cars whizzing past on the gravel road and all the finds were fairly straight forward. Picked up about 50 all up with a couple of others thrown in along the way and not one DNF amongst them.

I had this one sorted before the others had got out of the car.

SLTFTC

I'm looking forward to meeting other geocachers in Busselton at the 'WA GOES BIG IN 2015' event. Registrations now open.

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