At the foot of Finke Tarcoola, South Australia, Australia
By Mac & Missus on 25-Oct-12. Waypoint GC42DBA

TFTC GCTMan

TFTC. Freezing morning here in June. Come visit when its warmer

Found on our travels around SA. After the previous finder found the cache by accident and left it on a stump, I returned the cache to the posted coordinates by my iPhone.

Couldnt find it snake in the tree

We found this one after climbing to the top of Mt Finke. Or so we thought.. after scrambling up the steep rocky hillside for half an hour we realised the actual top with trig point was on the next hill top. The views were amazing anyway.
TFTC so we could log our visit to Mt Finke, though we couldn't answer the questions of the nearby Earth Cache.

Quick find in the morning before packing up camp. TFTC!

Easy find. Tried to climb hill but couldn't

What an amazing walk to the top! Magnificent views!

Thanks - great hide after climbing Mt Finke with the four kids

Found on our outback adventure.
Caching with Beaker and Karlth2021.
Would have been a great camping spot.
TFTC

Found with Kellmik and Karlth2021 on our 15 day, 7000+ km trip around the outback taking in iconic locations such as the Gawler Ranges, Googs Track, Kingoonya, Woomera, Oodnadatta Track, Marree, Birdsville Track, Mungerannie, Birdsville, Bedourie, Boulia, Diamantina NP, Winton, Longreach, Windorah, Haddon Corner, The Dig Tree, Innamincka, Old Strezlecki Track, Milparinka, Silverton and Broken Hill.
In all is was an absolutely fantastic trip with lots of wonderful things to see.
This cache was one of over 120 that we found during our outback drive.
Love Mt Finke... will stay in the camping area next time we are coming past.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Doing Goog's Track over Easter and stopped here for lunch. It was very hot so decided not to climb but ventured off to grab this cache while hubby got the lunch ready!!

Found it during a road trip in South Australia for Christmas break.
On this crazy cold summer (no more than 23°) we took this amazing track Googs track. Few days after our trip the park closed.
We decided to climb the Mt Finke. We started with the track but finished straight up to the summit. At the top the view is amazing. We saw all this dunes we drove over and the next one !
At GZ quick find. We signed the book and put everything back where we found it.
Thanks to bring us there. +1 favourite point
TFTC

Good find after a long drive

A bit damp in cache

on our drive to mt finke we found the cche andadded 15psi to the tyre as we had split the sidewall. all good to continue

A nice quick find in the growing shadow of the mount. TFTC

Found during recent visit to area. Thanks Mac & Missus. Cache is in good condition.

At the foot of Finke now to the top we must climb.TFTC

Found on our Googs Track trek. Thanks for placing a cache for me to find.

Found with our great mates the Clarke Adventurers! Great camping spot, great view!

We are catching up with our logs from our 2019 trip with grumpi68, pest77 and others through the Gawler Ranges, Googs Track and along the Indian Pacific Railway.
This was one found on that trip.
We had a great time with our 4WDs and our houses on wheels. Although for the second part of the trip along Googs Track and the Indian Pacific Railway we left them in Ceduna and had to head back to pick them up before heading for home again.
We also loved our time in the GR Nat Park although the rain did make for interesting driving!
This was one of the finds which helped make the trip even more fun. Although we knew we had to climb all the way up to the top
Thanks very much for the cache Mac & Missus

Found with friends

14.05.19 tftc great lunch spot before searching for the others with brad&janet pest77 DJT65

Last night saw the heavens open up and pour down for a very heavy but brief time. More thunder than anything else. It did leave ice on my tent though when i decamped at 555 am in the morning. Given the current state of the googs track i bounced my way up sand dune after sand dune due to the pot holes to finally get here.
Stopped here to have lunch. Opened tail gate and found that my food box had smashed the floor of the box out and pieced one of my long life milks, 1/2 a litre had drained out. After finally cleaning that up i went and found the cache. quick find.
Day 7
Googs Lake to Kingooya
This trip saw me travel to Maralinga to do the tour of the nuclear test site then up the Googs track, past Lake Gairdner on to Mount Ive Station, then in to the Gawler Rangers and finally hiking up Mount Remarkable before heading home.

Great drive to get here

Camping and hunkering down out the wind making ready for a walk on the hill tomorrow morning. Mulgas flowering

Found on our trip up Goog's Track. TFTC.

Found with the Russ Family and gahpee on our trip up googs track. TNLN TFTC

Our 2nd evening on Goog's Track.

We made our slow progress up this track. A lot of satisfaction in getting over the top of these seemingly large pits of sand! We reached Mt Finke which is quite impressive and located the cache at 4:15pm safely tucked in. SL and made a swap I can't remember! TFTC Then set up camp in good time before dusk. No rain but a bitterly cokd wind!

Found with e.gregory1 during an awesome trip that saw us traverse Goog's Track, visit some remote and desolate outback towns and tour the Gawler Ranges, camping out at Nalara Rock, Wymbring Rocks, Lake Gairdner and Lake Gilles CP. Made good use of the picnic table for a quick lunch break before our onslaught on Mt Finke. Thanks for the cache Mac & Missus!

Stoped here for some lunch before our climb to Mount Finke.

Thanks Mac & Missus for the cache.

This is about a month out as I realised that I had not logged this one without a phone signal, Found on 26/6/18

Found it while taking an evening walk with a beer after setting up camp. Great spot for a camp - enjoying our drive down the track.

Last find of our holiday and quickly running out of time back to work on Monday

If you are sitting and resting, this is a good find.
With slinke

We made it through Googs Track, a couple of kiwis living the dream, Thanks for the caches on the way.

Reached the foot later in the afternoon leaving us in the shadow of the mount, cache was quickly found and in great condition, view of the mount today is fantastic

TFTC

A great spot visited on our googs adventure

Stopped by at the door of the mountain to grab this one.

Thanks for the cache Mac & Missus.

Found on 16 Oct 2017 at 6:10 pm on a caching adventure with Froghoppin, MoneyDork and RedIguana. Find #5330.

Great views tftc

A quick find before Conquering Mt Finke I can....TFTTC.

Travelling with Forest Farmers, enjoying the great outdoors and finding smileys
TFTC

Hah! Reading through the previous log about this being 'a mountain' and then doing the climb, I can only wonder what folks think of climbing peaks like Mt Zeil or umm... real mountains with a 15kg pack on. And I'm 50 and female. Wusses! Tftc

Found at 1.20pm amongst a sea of wildflowers - very pretty. This hill is a mountain in every sense of the word, a substantial climb to the summit trig point, Be warned, the climb up from this campsite doesn't lead to the trig point, just a smaller summit.
We decided to camp on the southern side at the base of the summit climb.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Just passing through, so made the detour for these few caches.
They weren't here when I was here last, in Oct 2010 with the Sunny Side Up crew.
Nice spot, great cache and very cool challenge
TFTC

Nice easy find, took little dog left collectible erasers. Another hot day wussed out on climbing the Mt. will do it next time

Very warm day! Didn't make the climb but will next time. Very disappointed with previous campers effort to keep the camp site tidy and danger free....left fire burning/smouldering with rubbish everywhere. Beautiful area otherwise.

Enjoying the wonders of Googs for a second time. TFTC.

Had a great time geocaching with my 9yo on Goog's track. TFTC.

Quick find with Deltaducks & Affy after the winding 7km of track into Mt Finke. Strange to be driving on stone rather than sand. Mt Finke is far more impressive that we had imagined, and not to be climbed on this trip. Set up camp nearby and waited for the storm. Impressive lightning display but no significant rain until 6am the following morning. Time to leave. Tftc

A quick grab while determining a camp site for the night before the rain set in. TFTC

A quick find while we wait for the fire to burn down so we can start cooking tea TFTC

Retrospective log July 2015

Found on 3rd August with Terry Jay and JellyC55 on trip along Googs Track. It's so long ago I can't remember it but I know we found it.

Found with Drouinrooboy & JellyC55.

Found!

Walked across from the nearby carpark and Little Red Riding Hood ( aka my GPSr ) took me straight to the cache, so very good coordinates. Soon had log in hand, signed and returned to its hidey hole. TFTC TNLN SL

A new dawn arrived, heralded by a shower of rain at sunrise
I stayed in me tent for a bit longer 'til it had passed by.
What a windy night that was too !!
No not from me eating beans …. the weather was windy [:o]
I'm so glad I have a brand new, four seasons, tent
Me olde one would have shredded itself last night !!

From where I had camped, near the turn-off to Mount Finke I drove the short, but windy track to reach the foot of the mighty monadnock
A short stroll from the carpark had me at GZ in no time, and a better spot for a photo too !!

I looked around and soon saw the shiny prize.
With the logbook signed there was nothing for it, but to take a stroll to the top
Should be a damn good view !!!!!

TFTC !!

Found with friends Stella & Kalea who are new to caching. Doing Googs Track with Mount Lofty Ranges 4 WD Club. TFTC.

Having a great couple of days exploring Goog's track with some Muggle friends. We managed to sneak a couple of caches in as well as some fun 4WDing and of course camping and celebrating Mrs Mellison's birthday.
TFTC

The Family and myself did Googs track over this Easter via Ceduna returning via Tarcoola, Kingoonya, Skull Camp tanks, Kangaroo well, Mt Ive station and iron knob. We found 20 or 30 finds whilst on our travels.

TNLN. Thanks for the find Mac & Missus

I was part of the team that made an assault on this area after a terrific trip away to Goog's Track.What a great trip with fantastic remote experiences Apologies for the late logs - I'm more of a Cacher than a logger...Tx for the many cache owners along the way

A Great weekend away doing the Googs Track with good friends. Lots of different scenery and a lot of fun
We had a great time seeing some good ranges of different styles of caches

Thanks for putting these caches out for us to find Mac & Missus

Found on a trip to Googs Track with Freddo, Astro, Firesafe, Honeysucker, Gum Ako, TK2, DISK.

We were away for a week and found about 200 caches and had 7 dnfs.

Thanks to all who placed caches we found.

Did the comet,the trig and finally I found my footing at this wonderful camping spot, mind there are a few flies here,tftc

Last cache for the day and a Great spot to camp, had fun making Jaffa's in the hot coals with Team Astro for everyone in Googs Group

We were headed to the West Coast for the Googs 2013 trip grabbing a few along the way.

Made the climb up the top to check emails. TFTC.

I snapped this pic about 50 kays away from the foot of Finke.....

Found with the fun and company of the Goog's Group on my getting reacquainted with Goog's Track trip. I'd last been to Goog's in 2003 so the revisit was well overdue. Dunes, corrugations, lizards, birds and beautiful country was the reward. Weather was mostly perfect, as were the campfire meals and star bounty at night, every night. GG members included M's Piggy (Babe), Tk2, Disk, Team Waldron, Gum-Ako, FireSafe, honeysucker and Freddo. Thanks for their amazing company under the many clear skies we had

TFTC to Mac & Missus from TeamAstro.

Cache found in the last place we looked, which was as usual not the first place we looked. Thanks for the cache guys.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

After climbing to the top of the mountain , it only seemed fitting to get this one before heading off back to the Goog's Track turn-off and camp for the night [:o)].
TNLNSL.
Thanks Mac & Missus.

Another nice cache along Googs track.
TFTC

Boxer found this cache whilst travelling with a group of Vietnan veteran mates, on what we called "Pedros toughen up tour."We travelled west to Ceduna and then north up Googs track, which was a real adventure on its own.We then headed east to Tarcoola and then south to Iron Knob, then home to York Peninsula.We slept under the stars,taking six days to do the trip. Finding caches along the way was a bonus and it gave us a break from driving. Thanks for the hide.

Taken bananas in pjs and added a smile to the night.

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