Centipede-Minty High Wycombe, Western Australia, Australia
By
bevstar123 Jacko26 on 09-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WDPV
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Logs
I found this cache on the 9 of Jan but also found crystal meth so be careful it was 18 grams of confirmed meth
Back for a 2nd attempt, pretty obvious thinking not where it should be. And yes am logging maintenance required.
The cache is not covered. It's lid is missing. It's rusty, and the log is too wet to sign. A beautiful area though. Thanks for bringing us here.
Filling in sometime between Bus and train, settling into WA before my big hike on the Bibb. JABs.
Found the last place I looked. Not the first by a long shot. And then it returned from the other dimension where it had been hiding.
Heading west for one mintue of moon shadow. This is one of stops on a long journey.
Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.
Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.
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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!
Heading west for one mintue of moon shadow. This is one of stops on a long journey.
Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.
Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.
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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!
The cache is “thereski” but nowhere near waterproof so the log is dicoloured but functional - TFTC
After playing golf nearby I dropped past here for a hunt. Good look around but n9 luck
Found it! Great hiding spot. Really enjoying this series. Nice to find little spots of bush in suburbia. TFTC!
An airport run with axell33 to drop the son off and we made our way to here for some night caching on the way home. This is number 2. I'm sure there a lots of centipedes about in this nice little strip of bush where the world seems to rush passed from all directions! Thanks for the cache.
We were grabbing some caches in the area after dropping our son off at the airport. We made a nice quick find once at gz. With the log signed and cache returned to its original location and now off into the dark for the next one. TFTC bevstar123jacko26.
Preamble: Getting this cache was such an ordeal that it has taken me three months to sit down and type this. But I've now had a lovely satay chicken dish, chocolate ice cream with chocolate topping, and a glass of red wine. I'm ready to go...
I had less than a day in Perth for work, and wanted to get a geocache. I arrived at Perth Airport three hours early for my flight home to Melbourne. I figured that I'd have enough time to go for a walk to find the nearest cache! As the crow flies, this cache appeared to be only a couple of kilometres away. So I checked in my bags, and started walking.
I got to the end of Grogan Road, and was confronted with train tracks of industrial proportions. (See first photo.) I thought to myself, "Oh, so THAT is what those faint grey lines on the map are!" So I turned left and started walking. And I kept walking. I began to realise that it was going to be a very long way until I'd be able to cross the train lines. Looking at the map more closely, it appeared that my walk to the cache would be more like 5.5km. And another 5.5 km back again. That seemed fine. I can generally walk 5km per hour pretty easily, and am fit enough to keep that up for a couple of hours. I was still sure that I could get this cache, and get back to the airport in time for my flight home.
As I walked, I did contemplate crossing the train tracks. But I saw fences on the other side, and had little faith that I'd be able to get to a road, even if I did cross. And I did not really want to risk walking across train lines with which I was unfamiliar.
Still, when I saw the opportunity to take a shortcut, I did. I looked down an embankment, from Abernathy Road to Dundas Road, and saw the local shopping centre. I walked down this embankment towards the High Wycombe shops, only to find that the heel on my boot, which had been clicking for a few months, had come almost completely off. (See second photo.) There was now little chance that I'd be able to complete my walk to the cache AND walk back to the airport in time for my flight.
I ducked into the shops, went into the pharmacy, and asked if they sold any of those comfy shoes. The attendant told me that they did not, but that they they would get thongs in store in time for summer. I said that I needed something to walk back to the airport today.
Plan B: I went into IGA and bought a role of cloth tape (and some food!). I taped up my boot (see third photo) and checked my time frame again. It was at this point that I downloaded and installed the Uber app onto my phone. Username, password, credit card details, etc. I then requested an Uber to take me to the address closest to the geocache.
I got into Alan's Uber car, and said, "I have an usual request". (I figured that, as an Uber driver, he probably hears that all the time.) I gave him the 50-words-or-less description of geocaching, and he drove me there. I said that, if I wasn't back in a couple of minutes, he was welcome to leave, and I'd get another Uber to the airport. But by the time that Alan had done a u-turn, I had found the cache and signed the log. Alan then drove me to the airport, and asked more questions about geocaching. He seemed interested, and I hope that he took it up as a hobby.
So I found myself back at Perth Airport with time on my hands. I treated myself to something yummy and a good magazine (see fourth photo).
Anyway, I'm glad to have finally typed all of this up! Thank you, bevstar123 and Jacko26 for making this adventure possible.
I had less than a day in Perth for work, and wanted to get a geocache. I arrived at Perth Airport three hours early for my flight home to Melbourne. I figured that I'd have enough time to go for a walk to find the nearest cache! As the crow flies, this cache appeared to be only a couple of kilometres away. So I checked in my bags, and started walking.
I got to the end of Grogan Road, and was confronted with train tracks of industrial proportions. (See first photo.) I thought to myself, "Oh, so THAT is what those faint grey lines on the map are!" So I turned left and started walking. And I kept walking. I began to realise that it was going to be a very long way until I'd be able to cross the train lines. Looking at the map more closely, it appeared that my walk to the cache would be more like 5.5km. And another 5.5 km back again. That seemed fine. I can generally walk 5km per hour pretty easily, and am fit enough to keep that up for a couple of hours. I was still sure that I could get this cache, and get back to the airport in time for my flight home.
As I walked, I did contemplate crossing the train tracks. But I saw fences on the other side, and had little faith that I'd be able to get to a road, even if I did cross. And I did not really want to risk walking across train lines with which I was unfamiliar.
Still, when I saw the opportunity to take a shortcut, I did. I looked down an embankment, from Abernathy Road to Dundas Road, and saw the local shopping centre. I walked down this embankment towards the High Wycombe shops, only to find that the heel on my boot, which had been clicking for a few months, had come almost completely off. (See second photo.) There was now little chance that I'd be able to complete my walk to the cache AND walk back to the airport in time for my flight.
I ducked into the shops, went into the pharmacy, and asked if they sold any of those comfy shoes. The attendant told me that they did not, but that they they would get thongs in store in time for summer. I said that I needed something to walk back to the airport today.
Plan B: I went into IGA and bought a role of cloth tape (and some food!). I taped up my boot (see third photo) and checked my time frame again. It was at this point that I downloaded and installed the Uber app onto my phone. Username, password, credit card details, etc. I then requested an Uber to take me to the address closest to the geocache.
I got into Alan's Uber car, and said, "I have an usual request". (I figured that, as an Uber driver, he probably hears that all the time.) I gave him the 50-words-or-less description of geocaching, and he drove me there. I said that, if I wasn't back in a couple of minutes, he was welcome to leave, and I'd get another Uber to the airport. But by the time that Alan had done a u-turn, I had found the cache and signed the log. Alan then drove me to the airport, and asked more questions about geocaching. He seemed interested, and I hope that he took it up as a hobby.
So I found myself back at Perth Airport with time on my hands. I treated myself to something yummy and a good magazine (see fourth photo).
Anyway, I'm glad to have finally typed all of this up! Thank you, bevstar123 and Jacko26 for making this adventure possible.
This one was an easy find but 11m out. Was only easy because I have a curious son
Found It!
A quick find. No centipedes were seen which is probably a good thing!
TFTC
A quick find. No centipedes were seen which is probably a good thing!
TFTC
This one was found on the ground with the log inside without any protection. We placed it into a spot that we thought sensible and moved on. Thanks B123and J26
Had a nice walk though the bush on a nice hot summers day took us a bit but found all 3 in the end TFTC
On night shift tonight which has freed up my day for me to do my hobbies! With various special liveries and aircraft coming and going all day, I have been nabbing aircraft - and in between, nabbing caches! 
Cleaned up High Wycombe, Maida Vale and Hazelmere with a total of 26 finds and 1 DNF. All in all a successful, but very long day, having hit the road at 4am! [|)]
This was a nice quick find. Cache was in good condition. Cheers bevstar123!
Cleaned up High Wycombe, Maida Vale and Hazelmere with a total of 26 finds and 1 DNF. All in all a successful, but very long day, having hit the road at 4am! [|)]This was a nice quick find. Cache was in good condition. Cheers bevstar123!
Replaced the log book while here. It's so easy to help out fellow geocachers.
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
Has a do not enter sign so didn't go looking. Perhaps this Cache needs to be relocated somewhere else.
After having to Indiana Jones the creek because I parked on the wrong side I made a quick find at GZ. TFTC
Found the cache but there are KEEP OUT signs up around the area, will attach photo, these caches may need to be reassessed TFTC
Had a few hours spare tonight so we decided to head down to Maida Vale and High Wycombe to see how many caches we could knock over.
It was another great night for it, temperature warm but still cool enough to cache very comfortably in.
A few of the caches we chased down had suffered from muggles and the elements but that's caching.
Overall a good night out with a few laughs. Thanks to the local COs for some fun.
It was another great night for it, temperature warm but still cool enough to cache very comfortably in.
A few of the caches we chased down had suffered from muggles and the elements but that's caching.
Overall a good night out with a few laughs. Thanks to the local COs for some fun.
