Koorda Cannon Koorda, Western Australia, Australia
By Zodiakhorizon & Blondie on 11-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3HBGG

Well that was a bit of a mission but found it eventually TFTC

A little challenging but got there ..TFTC

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 73 - Westonia to Koorda via Mukinbudin and Bencubbin. The roads were quiet and the rain held off till the afternoon. I managed to do some labs in Mukinbudin. Once I was set up in Koorda, I pulled out the eScooter and did a lap of town for the local caches before heading down to the pub on foot for dinner. It rained all nigh but was quite a bit warmer than the last two days. More travel to the west tomorrow..After setting up I jumped on the eScooter and started my town caches for the afternoon. Guns are not my favorite caching hosts, but this was a smaller gun than some and thus fewer spots to look. I was just getting going when spotted it from the far side. I was happy to have it signed and get off to the next cache.Thanks for the cache Zodiakhorizon48384.20 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & OZGM19 Seeker Geocoin A#403**Albida**

Took a bit of a search, but not too long thankfully. Just needed the right angle to spot it, then a tool from the car to undo it. Thanks for the cache!

A caching trip from Canberra, ACT to Cape York, Qld and then around the gulf to East Arnhem Land, NT then over the top of WA and down to Perth.Interesting detours to Thursday Island, Mabuiag Island, Mornington Island, Doomadgee, Hells Gate, Nhulunbuy, Wadeye, Litchfield National Park, Wyndham, the Gibb River Road, Monkey Mia, Meekatharra, Wiluna, Laverton & Warburton.TFTC. An extensive search found the little blighter. Had to use pliers to open it.

Weekend in Koorda

Tftc. Always a nano on a cannon. Enjoying a drive through the wheatbelt as we head to Kalbarri. Visiting from vic

Went for a drive in the wheatbelt with Caperdoodle1. Tftc

Camped at Mollerin Rock for the long weekend, we headed out for a "drive around the block" & stopped to find this cache on our tour... We have been here before & that resulted in a DNF but hooray we were happy to finally return & locate this one after a couple of minutes searching TFTC Zodiakhorizon

Thanks for this one. Found with Caperdoodle 2 on our Wheatbelt wander.

This is cool little cannon, tftc

TFCBig George and Oblong

Fun find thankyou ! Alphabet Bus

A long Labour Day Weekend TFTCTurned a previous sad face into a happy face

Headed up to Kalbarri to do the new parkrun and we had a couple of extra days off work so we took our time on the return journey and picked up a couple of caches on the way.My find rate is about 50/50 on objects like this. I had tried to find this one a few years ago without any luck. Today I managed to spot this one after a few minutes of searching.TFTC Zodiakhorizon

A great weekend away in Koorda for the GIFF event!

Had to PAF gor this one. Not where I was expecting it to be. Tftc

Heading home after a few days in the wheatbelt with BJA3.Cache found in good condition with no issues. Thanks for placing this hide for us and others to enjoy finding!

Caching with Team Barritts on the Koorda GIFF weekend getaway.Thanks to all the CO's for placing & maintaining their hides and bringing us to some fantastic new spots!

I had a geo-blindless here. My driver-not-geocacher (like he likes to call himself) found it quickly. After the breakfast and packing up the camper trailer we were ready to find sneaky nanos and multicaches in Koorda. We also grabbed two caches on our way back home.

Heading up to Koorda for the GIFF event and happy to grab a smiley here . Some logs signed as N2OThis is my 11939find.Thankyou Zodiakhorizon for placing and maintaining this cache

Found this on a road trip to Koorda for the weekend. Found with geobuddy TFTC guys

I really dislike nanos

Lovely park for lunch but Unfortunately after a 10m look for the cache I could not find.

Found on ground, placedback where i thought would be a good spot

Maybe this wasn’t here last time I looked all those years ago, because this morning I had my eye on it straight up. TFTC Zodiakhorizon

The MICKS team - Meme28 I C Nothing, Cirrus_Wa, Kapelula and Sir Fancy are hitting the road again this time to Merredin. We are ready for a great weekend of laughs and hunting down some caches that are on our hit list including some LGA finds.
Signed as MICKS.

Out and about caching with the MICKS crew this weekend. Day three for us!
Cache found and logged. Cheers!

Usually these type take ages to find so we surprised ourselves by making a quick grab here. Signed and replaced as found.
Out and about caching for the weekend in Merredin and surrounding areas with Meme28, I C Nothing, Cirrus_WA and, Sir Fancy,. Some logs signed as MICKS. TFTH!

Okay

A quick find.
Lovely little town.

Easy find. Took me longer to pull paper out of nano.just beat the rain

Quick park and grab. Tftc

Nasty little bugger for most id say, but easily seen for us, TFTC

School holiday mini break with TeamBaylis. Thanks for the hide.

Was expecting to be here longer! TFTC

Alan and Kay living the dream in a 5th wheel. Found your Koorda Cannon
TFTC 8 April 2022 10:43 am
Thanks CaravanCapersOz
Total caches 65

On a road trip around the wheatbelt areas of Western Australia for a few weeks. We are enjoying the many friendly towns along the way, whether staying in the CP’s or camping out. So far, we have found every cache that we have looked for, and hopefully our streak will last as we move around to the next town and beyond. Thank you so much to the CO’s of every cache for placing them for our enjoyment. They certainly bring you to many spots that you might not stop at otherwise.
We looked high and we looked low, but could not find the little nano. We poked every hole to no avail. Walked around the building, poked in leaf litter….nothing. One more circuit, and there it was…..lying in the dirt away from the building. There has been considerable rain around these parts the last few days, so it obviously blew off and rolled away. The log was saturated, so have replaced with new one. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a nano replacement. Have replaced it on the machine….dropped into a little hollow on one of the handles. Should be able to spot it if you look carefully, and should be relatively safe there.

Not too hard to find but a good location.
Spending the next 3 days finding geo caches spinning locations on a map with my girlfriend ????

On my birthday weekend we decided to do geocaching and adventure very unplanned way. We spined the bottle and drove about an hour to the direction it points and do geocaching. Koorda was our seventh stop. Tftc!

Magnet has failed, put the nano up high until it can be replaced - it might fall back on the ground.
Thanks for the hide

Tftc. Thanks to previous person for leaving relevant information.

Difficult but Geomaya really helped

Staying at Koorda Hotel. Took some working out but got there in the end tftc

14/10/21hugohobo

Out caching with Granett, Kyzabra, AlliedOz, Sir Fancy, Cirrus, and SVKR_WA after staying at the nearby byo marshmallows event.

Took a couple minutes but followed previous logs and Don had it on hand. Thanks For the hide.

Destination Minnivale and what has become a tradition of sorts... BYO Marshmallows number V. Some fun with friends around a camp fire sharing some drinks, some hint, some tall stories and plenty of laughs.

Day two off with 3 car out on the road picking up caches here and there.
I'm with Kyzabra, the fitzys, Granett, Cirrus_WA, SVKR and sir fancy

The plan today is loose, no real plan just Caching with mates.

A fitzys find!

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Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache Zodiakhorizon & Blondie you help make this game what it is.

AlliedOz

Out with L177 for the day to pick up some hides Ive been lining up for a while now. Then back to toast some marshmallows around the campfire for the kyzabra event.
This one was painstaking - reading the hint we meticulously went over the cannon to no avail. I gave in and PAF who let me know the hint was no longer valid and to look up!! ( no longer magnetic)

Out in the Wheatbelt again for the second consecutive weekend. This weekend the plan was to attack a number of towns in the North Eastern Wheatbelt and attend the FOTT event in Minnivale. It was a terrific weekend. Thank you to all the COs involved in providing entertainment this weekend.

Had to do a PAF. This one is now located on the roof. Cheers Zodiakhorizon!

All hands on deck for this one checking in, on, over and around the object and it’s protection.
Fitzys managed to get his hands on the cache first and have replaced it where found.
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Woke up bright and early and had a slow morning around the campsite.
Had a bit of chat about plans for the day and joined up with SirFancy, Kyzabra, AlliedOz, Granett, SVKR_WA & Fitzys.
Started off heading into Dowerin before making our way across to Wyalkatchem.
We turned north towards Koorda so I was able to tick off a new LGA. After stopping in town for lunch we made our way back to camp and waited for everyone else to arrive for a fantastic marshmallow event.
Had a ball out and about today with 26 finds.
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Thanks Zodiakhorizon for placing this cache for me to find, this is find number 3382 for me.

This is my 881 find.
Thank you Zodiakhorizon for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!

After camping overnight in Minnivale ahead of tonight's Marshmallow event [GC9G5TP](https://coord.info/GC9G5TP) we headed out in a convoy of three cars to pick up a few smileys about the place.

The Fitzys came up with the goods here after a somewhat lengthy search.

Zodiakhorizon I found your cache at 11:40am, this was the 15th of 18 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 7102. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Nice quick find. Out and about on our 3rd day of a nine day adventure TFTC

DNF despite a good look ...

TFTC

Find 11 of 19 on day 4 of our road trip, today transitioning from the rocky goldfields of Mount Magnet through the wheatbelt, finishing in Mukinbudin.

Found the cache as the previous log indicated, not on the cannon any more. Unfortunately it's cross-threaded and was impossible to open without tools, so if the next finder could come prepared for a struggle that would be good.

TFTC Zodiakhorizon!

Appears to have lost its magnetism as was just sitting on the limestone wall. We repositioned it to a safer spot but in the immediate attraction.

Took way to long but sometimes that's what happens when looking for a little one. TFTC

We’re not normally good at finding caches hidden in canons, but this one (being a compact model) didn’t give us too many spots to look. Great to see such an old model so well preserved. TFTC

Col found this one after a long search. TFTC

Awesome

PollyMichele found on the ground outside structure. Thanks

Thanks I found this cache on the ground away from the structure. I have replaced on structure however the magnet isn’t working so have sat it in a hidden location.

We couldn't find this one despite a thorough search of the object

TFTF Zodiakhorizon & Blondie

Gave it a good crack. Couldn’t find it. Saw the note about it possibly being missing

Cache has gone. Local said it may have been tampered with so if owner contacts him at the motor museum, he would fix it.

Took 2 goes. Freezing after an overnight stay in Korda. Pen almost giving out or not cooperative due to cold. Had to come back fully equipped. Tftc

We were lucky to spot this so quickly.
On a little road trip gathering some LGAs.
TFTC Zodiakhorizon & Blondie this is find # 6904 for us.

Work has me on a three day tour of he wheatbelt. Made time for a cache or two.

Make an unusually quick find here. The stick left of the ground by the previous finder gave me a good start.

Zodiakhorizon & Blondie SVKR_WA found your cache Koorda Cannon today at 09:19:50 9 May 2019.

Zodiakhorizon & Blondie - Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. We love travelling the state and visiting some places that we would only visit due to this game.

This find brings my find count to 3449

Thanks for taking us here. I had a quick look but was going to run out of time so decided to do the other caches in the town. Came back a second time with the help of a stick I soon had the little fella.

some work out here. snuck out while boss wasn't looking . took a while to find. tftc sl tnln

A long and painful search for us - now I remember why we always groan when we see a cannon. Thanks ZH

Found fairly quickly and needed a lical extraction tool to access it! Tftc

Found nice and easily while on a day trip from our campsite near Bencubbin. The history in this town is fascinating. Tftc

Found quite quickly thanks to the hints

Day 128 of our 366 day straight challenge. In Koorda with BradyBunch18 for the show... and geocaches of course!

Took a while but BB18 found this one eventually! Have left our pen behind at caravan park but have left photo for proof. Log is full too so wouldn't have been able to sign anyway. TFTC

Tricky one!! Lucky I had my handy extraction tool handy!! Just forgot the pen Tftf

We had a free day and the weather was perfect so decided on a short caching trip to Koorda. Thanks for the cache Zodiakhorizone, I think, a very, very sneaky one here.

Thanks for the clues or it would have taken me ages to find it

Hooray so happy to signed the log. Thanks for the cache and hunt

Woo Hoo!! Great to have a smiley face here today after DNF in 2012! OMG where does the time go! TFTC!

With a new GC.com challenge recently published that required the jinta team to find caches in another 21 Western Australia counties, we decided it was time for a big road trip day. Mrs jinta and I packed up the car and headed away from home at about 4.30am with our sights set on a 800+ kilometre round trip going through Cunderdin, Tammin, Kellerberrin, Trayning, Kununoppin, Nungarin, Mukinbudin, Bencubbin, Koorda, Cadoux and then home through Goomalling. It was a fantastic day and we spent about 14 and a half hours tripping around grabbing both GC and GCA caches.

A big shout out to all the CO's whose caches we found, the Wheatbelt was once again a fantastic place to visit and the weather was on our side with the temps maxing out at only 38 degrees.

A sneaky hide here but we managed to extract the tiny cache

Well it’s now day 15 of our Northern adventure , now more Eastern adventure as we head south of the Great Eastern Hwy with m4yb, Jonathan the camper trailer and Max the GeoUte.
Out for a day in this nice area.
Nice easy find with the right tool.
Thanks for the smiley ZH&B

Day 15 of our Adventure to the northern Goldfields and now in the Wheatbelt. After a quiet night on the farm at Wyalkatchem, we are exploring the surrounding towns.
Good teamwork, his eyes and my geotool gave us the cache. TFC ZH!

Well talk about a delay in logging! Time has just flown by since I undertook this awesome LGA weekend with PommieParkin. Due to the delay, you will have to excuse the generic log.

PP2 enquired as to whether I would like to go on an adventure to get some more LGA's under our belts, to which I said of course! Set out on the Saturday to head up into the Wheatbelt for the weekend. We first stopped at Northam to do one or two of the Bristag caches I had heard so much good things about. Unfortunately we only managed one, but it did not disappoint!

From there we headed east through Meckering, Cunderdin and Tammin (knocking off a couple of LGA's). From there, we headed north to Wyalkatchem, stopping at a couple of interesting places for caches. I particularly enjoyed the stop at Yorkrakine Rock, it was such a beautiful spot.

We finally reached Wylie, where we were staying the night. Before the day was over we completed the wonderful series by WebblyWA, which gave us a great tour of the town. Once the caching was over, we met up with WebblyWA at night and had the pleasure to experience a drive-in cinema in Koorda, which was conveniently another LGA

On the Sunday, we finished off the caches we had on our list in Wylie and headed west towards Dowerin, where WebblyWA had another series. It was another great series and the final ended up being my 1000th cache found!

From there, we kept heading west to Goomalling for another LGA. This was where our LGA hunt was meant to stop. But, it was here that the LGA bug got to me and it became a case of "well if we just travel half an hour this way, we can get another LGA". So after little time spent convincing PP2, we headed north to Wongan Hills, stopping in Konnongorring for some great views at Gabby Quoi Quoi. Unfortunately, Wongan Hills cemetery was where we had our first DNF of the weekend, meaning our hopes of another LGA were riding on the one other cache in town. Luckily it was an easy enough find.

We then headed west towards Calingiri for one last LGA, stopping to admire Lake Ninan on the way (can't believe there isn't a cache there!). The cache in Calingiri was found, putting my total of LGA's found on the weekend to 8.

I had such an awesome weekend exploring this part of our great state. Many thanks go to the various CO's of the caches. But, I would particularly like to thank PP2 for suggesting the weekend, WebblyWA for some great series and Kyzabra for coming up with the LGA challenge, without which I probably wouldn't have explored this great area.

Parked up at the drive in nice and early and set off on foot by torch light for a bit of caching while waiting for my favourite Captain. DNFed this one at first and walked up to the next cache. With our smiley earned there we gave this one another crack on the way back. Finally maccasreps spotted what he thought was the cache however had no way of retrieving it. So after a bit of brainstorming and a rolled up $10 note the cache was mine. Certainly a challenge this one but with our names on the log and our movie about to start we succeeded in what we set out to do. TFTC Zodiakhorizon & Blondie hopefully one day I can find the Wylie cannon

There's more than one way to skin a cat....or retrieve a cache TFTC

TFTC. Nasty little cache. Will need will need a small pen or tweezers

Mentioned to muggle the other day that I needed three more LGAs to reach 90 to complete a challenge so he devised a route for us to go so I could get a few more. I added to the route so after 1350km in total and 36hrs return trip back home to Bunbury I got 16 LGAs all up which I'm happy with and 35 cache finds

Yesterdays travel was Bunbury to Pingelly, Quairading, Bruce Rock, Narembeen, Merredin, Carrabin, Moorine Rock and back to Merredin to recouperate

After getting back into town after caching last night at 9.50pm and a not so comfy sleep in one of the local motels it was up and earlyish start for the morning as today is Nungarin, Kununoppin, Mukinbudin, Welbungin, Bencubbin, Koorda, Trayning (an extra I added at the last moment), Wyalkatchem, Dowerin, Goomalling, Northam, Greenmount and back to Bunbury
Can't wait to travel todays towns again but next time spend some time looking around the towns and going to the museums

Well this one looked interesting, a nano that could be anywhere. We had a look around before i went to the car to pull an item apart so I could use a part of it.
Thankfully I did as it came in handy with helping to retrieve the cache

TFTC

Headed back up to Geraldton for another caching run (third time this year). We started off by picking up as many caches as we could in the wheatbelt on the first day before arriving in Geraldton. The next day we headed up to port Gregory and Kalbarri and the highlight of the day would have to be be the pink lakes in port Gregory. Day 3 saw us caching in Geraldton picking up some we missed last time and clearing up a few of our DNFS here before adding some more DNFS to the list. Day 4 we headed off to mount magnet picking up some caches along the way till we arrived there. I must say the caches in mount magnet were quite tricky to find and it was also a stinking hot day so we didn't get to find all the caches we were hoping to find there. The last day we cached along the coast on the way home. Once again it was stinking hot and we missed doing a lot of the caches we hoped to find plus the flies were driving us crazy but we still got to visit some great places. Most of the caches we looked for we did find and we came across some very sneaky well made cache containers along the way. Thanks to all the CO,s for placing there caches for us and all the other geocachers to find.

Had a bit of a scout around and was interrupted by a local (that turned out had mutual friends with me)....because his other friend had spied me sniffing around the museum and they figured I wanted entry, so I thought I better leave this one until I come back in a month or so. TFTH.

TFTC Zodiakhorizon

Having a planned wknd away with kyzabra and krabiboy we left perth bright and early at 4.30, this was to be a big first day of finds and klms. Getting towards the end of the day and keen to get somewhere near Bencubbin to camp. This was a good quick grab. Especially for a pesky little critter. Tftc

The second quick nano find and we were rapt to do so.
The previous logs helped here.

This trip out had been a long time in the planning.
Krabiboy and I had hatched a plan and probably changed it about 10 times. dallyho joined us, final plans were set, and off we went

Zodiakhorizon - Kyzabra found your cache Koorda Cannon . The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Kyzabra and I have had our eyes on this part of the Wheatbelt for a few months. We were joined by Dallyho and today was the day to head out and make a weekend of it.

We left at 4.30am on Friday and headed off to the northern wheatbelt.

We covered over 600km today, clocking up 29 finds, including 5 archived caches.

This one actually didnt take us too long. Nice quick one.

TFTC Zodiakhorizon.

Zodiakhorizon, I found your cache Koorda Cannon on 5/08/2016.
This is my find #2912 and find #23 today.

No luck with this one.

We haven't done any serious caching for a while so were surprised when we came up with the cache as quick as we did. Had a walk around and Belinda commented on the fact that the public toilets were the cleanest she had seen for a while. Isabelle came racing out of the toilet talking about the movie poster advertising the drive -in. We have decided that one trip out here will be to Koorda just so we can go to the drive-in. Haven't seen one since I lived in Charters Towers.

Thanks for the cache.

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TFTC! Found on a day trip to the Wheatbelt to grab a bunch of caches and enjoy the countryside. At a quick look; around 12hrs driving for 900km, 29 finds, couple of DNFs.

Was a great day out, attended wyalcatchems first geocaching event, found a bunch of archived caches that were still in place and mostly in good condition. Saw some wonderful sights (see pics in logs). Thanks to all the COs.

Nasty. Plain nasty

Met up with Barnzy12 after a long days driving..
Going to start a new job and working things out with B12 to have the same days off.
I think there will be more long drives like this to come. TFTH TFTC