Richard the Third!! No:2 Douglas-Daly, Northern Territory, Australia
By Lumpyjrb on 06-Mar-13. Waypoint GC475PF

Tftc, quick find cache very damaged

TFTC

Thanks for an easy first one for my wife!

Easy find but had 2 for the price of one!!!We replaced both but dont think the smaller one will last the next wet season.

Day 5 of our Australian trip . After started for some days in Darwin we are on the road now .First night on a rest area some kilometers after Darwin .Has to look a bit for this can .TFTC# 17'106

A caching trip from Canberra, ACT to Cape York, Qld and then around the gulf to East Arnhem Land, NT the over the top of WA.Interesting detours to Thursday Island, Mabuiag Island, Mornington Island, Doomadgee, Hells Gate, Nhulunbuy, Wadeye, Litchfield Nat Park and Wyndham.TFTC.A nice quick stop and grab.

A nice, easy cache find as we pass by. It's always good to have easy finds when you're travelling. Thanks for the cache.

Found the replacement mint tinWe are supporting our mate who is running to Darwin (@curlyrunsnz). He started at Stewart Island in November, just south of the South Island of New Zealand and made to Cape Reinga at the tip of the North Island by New Years Day. He then flew to Tasmania, ran to the ferry terminal in Devonport and sailed to Geelong. Since then it has been a long hard slog across Victoria and into South Australia up the Stuart Highway but he is now close to the finish line in Darwin.Lumpyjrb, I found Richard the Third!! No:2 today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Travelling with iluvtrekking and after 12 days caching Darwin we are now headed to Katherine. Replaced. Thanks for the hide.

Travelling with richlink on a trip from Perth to Darwin and returning through the centre to SA and home again. Today, we are moving from Darwin to Katherine, picking up some caches along our route. Thanks for the cache Lumpyjrb.

No joy here

Tftc

Found with Clammy

TFTC cruising with Elouise

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Found with Dozenmater,,TFTC

Found at 12:08:00 PM(t) GAFF1.
That was a bit of a surprise as we pulled into the rest area only to find that GZ was another 350 metres down the road The campers in that rest area must have wondered what this rogue rig was doing going in and then out like a bat out of hell!
Thanks to Liz and Bruce who have once again replaced a missing cache as it seems that the locals have simply abandoned these caches.
Thanks Lumpyjrb.

On our way back south. Maintenance completed as required. Thanks for arranging

TFTC

After camping the night at the rest area up the road, i walked down and back to this one this morning before my muggle mate was even awake. Huzzah!
A quick find and sign with a nearby handy tott.
Thanks for placing a cache along this long stretch of highway.

Bit fiddly but definitely worth it

Almost out of paper, we had none to replace it with unfortunately!

Found it easily.
TFTC

It took a while to get the cache out, but eventually we could sign the paperwork.
Tftc.

Could. nou sign the log as the cache was wedged in and could just not release it. Tft

TFTC Thanks heaps. Great day out with my GEO buddy Cee Jay Denno. Visited TB.

Quick find with low1.
Visited 2 TB.
TFTC

Yes lovely to have a park n sign for a change

Another north bound TFTC Lumpyjrb

Up in the NT for the week for a work trip so of course I was going to grab some random caches while out. A trip into Darwin, a flying day trip to Alice, followed by a road trip to jabiru and Katherine. My work colleague must be sick of my “just grab one here”
Stopped briefly on the way back to Darwin.

Thanks heaps to Lumpyjrb for placing and maintaining Richard the Third!! No:2. I found your cache today. I added my name to the log and replaced where I found it.

Found Ok

Cute!

Quick find on our way north. TFTC

Gets busy

Found during our honeymoon trip. Almost 1 month driving through Australian country.
It was an amazing trip.
Thanks for this cache
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Grazie Lumpyjrb

Stayed the night and found cache in the morning. SL TFTC

Nice quick find after spending the night at the free camp area
TFTC

Found it before we continued our trip direction North. Tftc Sprunghörnchen

Walked back from the rest area for this one, a busy road !!! Staying the night here so will Attempt the next one in the morning, too many eyes on us tonightTFTC

On way to Darwin TFTC

Walked back to grab this one and then drove up to the rest area for another cache and some lunch. TFTC

Now travelling north towards Darwin after the Red Centre Experience.

Caching towards Adelaide River for ANZAC day. Of course we stopped for a few caches along the way. The list was soooo long today that we didnt finish and ended up free camping along the way and no pub dinner was had.

TFTC Lumpyjrb

Found by Mary & David at 1225. A good place to head for. Fascinated by the areas of palm trees and their varieties. Our thanks to Lumpyjrb.

#7009 - 17:35; Day 18 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune, albida33 and fitzy_1965, so signing logs as A.L.F.S. Following a night in Mataranka Springs we continued enroute to Darwin after attending the Red Centre Experience event in Alice Springs refreshed after a swim to start the day. We were headed to Adelaide River to spend the night, passing through Katherine and Pine Creek The caching picked up again today after a couple of quiet ones as we covered some big distances. We managed 47 finds and 10 DNFs along with a few trig points for the day. All caches found were in good nick, including this one. TFTC Lumpyjrb

Alice trip 2017. Day 16. Another day of driving, today took Sol de Lune, Luckyl10n, Fitzy_1965 and I from Mataranka to Adelaide River. Long distances with fewer caches until we arrived at Katherine. Great country along the way.

Thanks.

23382.46 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2014 Compass Rose Longevity A#303

**Albida**

13454. Next find of Day 08 of the Red Centre Experience Roadtrip. Heading North.

I flew into Alice Springs to meet up with my caching mates Sol de Lune, Albida33 and LuckyL10n (signing mostly as ALFS) to attend the Red Centre Experience and then venture up north to Darwin and then east into Qld before heading south for home - a three week caching trek.

Next stop for the day. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, and it was off to the next cache.

TNLN - TFTC !!

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n and Albida33. We arrived in Alice Springs to pick up fitzy_1965 to complete our group and set about the fun of attending the event.

We spent the next 5 days caching around the region enjoying the area and finding a lot of the local caches. After the event we set our sights on Darwin and started off on the next stage of our road trip.

Managed to find another few caches and had a great time doing so.

Thanks for all the caches and the fun in grabbing them.

Cache found on our drive from Darwin down to Katherine. Cache found in good condition. TFTC

We are travelling south today and stopped to grab this cache on the way.

Cache was a nice quick find.

TNLN TFTC

Yaaaay! Easy find though we drove past it so we had to walk back...only to find out that when we reached the cache no one had a pen with them!!! LOL...found this with the Goal Diggers team on our way home from an overnight camping trip...TFTC!!!

Go! goal diggers, good job! Tftc

Thanks Lumpyjrb for the cache travelling around Oz

Thanks Lumpyjrb for the cache travelling around Oz

Easy find thankyou

Found with Skybooth

Quick find, added paper.

An easy find. TFTC

Nice quick find on my Aledaide to Darwin road trip. My 100th Geocache find
Needs new logbook. TFTC.

Quick find tftc

Easy find. There appear to be missing signatures. I photographed the most recent, with Peerages appearing to be the last before me. The other signatures on the log were older. TFTC Lumpyjrb.

Making our way from Katherine to Adelaide River today, and grabbing some caches along the way to break up the journey. TFTC

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On the way back from the city.TFTC SL

On the way back from the city.TFTC SL

Today we headed to Adelaide River, picking up a few on the way and this was one of them, easy find, but had to walk back to get this one as we had the van in tow.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Walked up the road from the rest area during a lunch stop. Quick find and easy extraction. TFTC

2 week holiday in the nt cross caching trip with geoparents who have come from germany for a visit.
While the geoparents were on an aboriginal cultural tour we used the time in katherine to find some caches. We were here in 2006 during our 1 year travel trip around oz and some of it has quite changed.

Thanks for placing the cache for us and others to find and enjoy. Sl tnln

A nice quick and easy find. TFTC.

Found the cache but couldn't get the container out. Then a vehicle pulls up with flashing lights asking what I was doing. It was his sign. I explained about caching and he had already found and signed one not knowing what it was. Happy with my answer he left me to continue with the problem. In the end the heat got to me and short of getting a big spanner out of our vehicle there was no way it was coming out.

Found with clues gleaned from previous logs. It wasn't so easy, and I would call it a slow drive by cache. But there we go... we got it, and we got a break from driving.


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Lilousof and Redgremlin on a geocaching tour down-under... Or maybe it's a holiday... Stop three... Darwin... Mission - Kakadu, crocodiles, Litchfield and swimming in waterholes. Great place.

Thanks to all the cache hiders that made this trip memorable.

Thanks for the cache!

[Logged on my return from Australia]

Found with Redgremlin!
TFTC!

Stayed at the camp. All ok TFTC

TFTC - love caching with the kids. Thanks.

11538 caches found

quickly had this one in hand

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache Lumpyjrb

With help from previous logger (thanks great clue) we re visited and found today. Had the right place last time just had no height.

Checked this one and all is well! Happy caching.

Backing the ute up and standing on the tray helped. TFTC.

Did a cache run on our way to Darwin. This was our first DNF for the day. (Unfortunately not our last, either). We were sure we had the right spot, confirmed by GPS. Looked in the obvious spots but no luck.

Thought we knew (several obvious spots) where this should be, but alas after searching and searching, no luck for us. Thanks anyways.

Continuing our journey towards Darwin, on our 2nd trip around Australia.
Had to walk back as parking was not good close to cache, with the caravan in tow.
A good quick find, and onto the next one.
Thanks for the cache, Lumpyjrb.

Pine Creek - Batchelor.
We hit the road again heading north & finding caches along the way.
Had trouble getting the cache from its hide as the ring was caught up, after some prodding we were soon able to retrieve it.
Thanks Lumpyjrb

Eventually found the spot-the gps was all over the place.
Very popular place here today. Thanks Lumpyjrb-am looking forward to doing the others in the series.

On a Trip to the top end for the V8 Race weekend 14 days of driving and racing
Took a bit of searching but found it in the end great spot

After 5 days in Darwin for the V8's and a little sightseeing it was time to head south back to the cold. Of course we grabbed caches on the way.

Quick find and sign for this one. TFTC.

Coordinates changed from:
S 13° 26.419 E 131° 18.931

Coordinates changed to:
S 13° 26.420 E 131° 18.931

Distance from original: 5.8 feet or 1.8 meters.

Just checked this cache and its co-ordinates. Note updated co-ordinates.

As we had been in Darwin for a cousins Wedding sadly we are now heading home Back to SA, wished we had more time to stay but driving back to SA is going to be a few long days and Nights. Found this one as we started our Journey home it has been great doing a few quick caches while we have been in Darwin wished we could have done more tho but time has run out quickly TFTC We hope to be back one Day Thanks NT Cachers

This entry was edited by TheKellyGang on Thursday, 06 June 2013 at 10:27:17 UTC.

Just could NOT get the log out of its container... it had gotten wet and was stuck to the side walls of the tube. .Trying to remove it - even with tweezers - just turned it into mush... so, replaced the cache container with a Bison tube and a replacement log. Placed the Bison tube in exactly the same place as the original container, but you'll have to look a little harder, now.

Now is the winter of our discontent. Well, not really winter even though it has been dark wet and stormy on this trip. Our discontent stems from the fact that this was the last find on our caching weekend. Not likely we will be able to find 37 caches in a couple of days again for a long time (we used to experience this nearly every weekend when we lived in Adelaide .

TFTC

A nice easy drive by - another one to tick off the list ... thanks Lumpyjrb 4TC:)

FTF! GPS was about 8 mtrs out but there was nowhere else it could have been. Clever little hide and fun little series. Will bring the Newscat here on Sunday. TFTC.
#150 for me!

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