A Long Drink Derby, Western Australia, Australia
By
Derby Bush Rangers on 10-Nov-12. Waypoint GC413FA
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Logs
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No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.
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No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.
As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.
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The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the page and post a note every month or so to keep everyone up to date.
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This cache needs some serious attention: 1 find, 14 DNF's and 2 Needs Maintenance logs since it was published.
The owner doesn't appear to be very active. They have found ONE Geocache, and their last visit was on 28 February 2013.
We think this cache should be archived so that an active local cacher can utilise the spot.
The owner doesn't appear to be very active. They have found ONE Geocache, and their last visit was on 28 February 2013.
We think this cache should be archived so that an active local cacher can utilise the spot.
The site is dry, we had the right coordinates and spent quite a bit of time looking. Having read the rest of the logs I think this one is gone or there is something wrong.
This cache needs instant attention from the owner being a low difficulty it should have been an easy find for all the cachers that couldn't find it. The owner needs to check this out.
I had e-mailed the CO about fixing it for them, but received no reply.
I had e-mailed the CO about fixing it for them, but received no reply.
No Go. Looked high and low but couldn't spy.
Maybe its gone walkabout.
Thanks for the cache anyway & bringing us here.
Maybe its gone walkabout.
Thanks for the cache anyway & bringing us here.
Spent a long time paddling around this site, where there was plenty of water after the rains of the last two days. Also a few muggles around. Decided we had to give up when our shoes became waterlogged.
5 June 2013, Week 6 – Day 38 of our Trip Around Australia
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“1CADFAY”, (1 cache a day for a year).
Derby WA
We stopped along the way to look for a cache “Without A Paddle, GC14D93”, well, this is very hard to stop at if you are towing a caravan, I had to park about 300m away. I was a bit dubious about this one as it had some cryptic NM notes and it hadn’t been found since OCT 2012, the description said something about quite heavy rocks to shift, OMG! The place was just end to end rocks, and I’m a cacher not a miner! So a DNG on this one despite spending way too much time moving smaller rocks.
We carried on, coming to a 24hr parking area, Nillibubbica. Great idea these places, due to the rain this one was a bit muddy, but well patronized, having a few caravans which seemed to be there for the long term and half a dozen others stopping for a lunch break. I jumped out to grab a photo so I could log it as a Waymark, by WanderingAus. Charlie tested all the toilets and off we went again.
The landscape along the way changed from fairly thick bush to open up into a more sparse type of bush with lots of smaller termite mounds and scattered around some boab trees, there were also lots of stray cattle, often close to the side of the road which required a precautionary dramatic slowing down to avoid the possible collision, often they would wander across the road and would need a bit of a hurry up with a blast of the horn.
We crossed a few one lane bridges which had me worried as we crossed as they were quite long, luckily we didn’t encounter any other vehicles coming the other way. At the last bridge we came to Willare Bridge Roadhouse, we stopped here and had some lunch and a bit of a look around the complex before continuing on towards Derby. We passed Curtain RAAF Airbase on the way, as we approached the town we saw the tourist sign for the Boab Prison Tree and stopped in here to have a look and get some pics, at the site near the tree were some interesting information boards detailing some local history and cultural information. There was a very long trough nearby, at 120m is thought to be the longest in the southern hemisphere. This must have inspired the cache here, “A Long Drink, GC413FA”. This was another DNF, but not a surprise as it already had 4 DNFs, I had a quick look but knew I was wasting my time and let it go.
We continued the rest of the way into town, found our way to the Derby caravan park, set up the van and after a cuppa went out to have a look at the town jetty. The tide was quite low and still on its way out when we arrived, we walked along the jetty watching some people fishing, a family of tourists were throwing in some crab pots and managed to catch a couple of smaller ones. We needed to get some food shopping and went off to Woolies, by the time we got out it was already dark so once back at the caravan it was once again time to have dinners and retire for the night.
After dinner we watched the State of Origin and were pleased to see NSW get a win in the first game.
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“1CADFAY”, (1 cache a day for a year).
Derby WA
We stopped along the way to look for a cache “Without A Paddle, GC14D93”, well, this is very hard to stop at if you are towing a caravan, I had to park about 300m away. I was a bit dubious about this one as it had some cryptic NM notes and it hadn’t been found since OCT 2012, the description said something about quite heavy rocks to shift, OMG! The place was just end to end rocks, and I’m a cacher not a miner! So a DNG on this one despite spending way too much time moving smaller rocks.
We carried on, coming to a 24hr parking area, Nillibubbica. Great idea these places, due to the rain this one was a bit muddy, but well patronized, having a few caravans which seemed to be there for the long term and half a dozen others stopping for a lunch break. I jumped out to grab a photo so I could log it as a Waymark, by WanderingAus. Charlie tested all the toilets and off we went again.
The landscape along the way changed from fairly thick bush to open up into a more sparse type of bush with lots of smaller termite mounds and scattered around some boab trees, there were also lots of stray cattle, often close to the side of the road which required a precautionary dramatic slowing down to avoid the possible collision, often they would wander across the road and would need a bit of a hurry up with a blast of the horn.
We crossed a few one lane bridges which had me worried as we crossed as they were quite long, luckily we didn’t encounter any other vehicles coming the other way. At the last bridge we came to Willare Bridge Roadhouse, we stopped here and had some lunch and a bit of a look around the complex before continuing on towards Derby. We passed Curtain RAAF Airbase on the way, as we approached the town we saw the tourist sign for the Boab Prison Tree and stopped in here to have a look and get some pics, at the site near the tree were some interesting information boards detailing some local history and cultural information. There was a very long trough nearby, at 120m is thought to be the longest in the southern hemisphere. This must have inspired the cache here, “A Long Drink, GC413FA”. This was another DNF, but not a surprise as it already had 4 DNFs, I had a quick look but knew I was wasting my time and let it go.
We continued the rest of the way into town, found our way to the Derby caravan park, set up the van and after a cuppa went out to have a look at the town jetty. The tide was quite low and still on its way out when we arrived, we walked along the jetty watching some people fishing, a family of tourists were throwing in some crab pots and managed to catch a couple of smaller ones. We needed to get some food shopping and went off to Woolies, by the time we got out it was already dark so once back at the caravan it was once again time to have dinners and retire for the night.
After dinner we watched the State of Origin and were pleased to see NSW get a win in the first game.
Had a good look around at but were not able to locate the cache either. Thanks anyway Derby Bush Rangers.
