Fence corner Mount Observation, Western Australia, Australia
By bma55 on 17-Mar-13. Waypoint GC47VBB

SirFancy and Geotrakka walked down to this cache and found it quickly once at GZ.

Spending the day out in the hills grabbing the FOTT GO BUSH 4WD series.
The planning started in December and this was the first weekend that was available and so the date was set.
Early in the morning the SLICK G’s (SirFancy, Lachlan1.77, I C Nothing, Kapelula, Geotrakka & myself) met up in Sawyers Valley and piled into the 4x4’s and headed in.
It was an amazing day out with all caches found without issues.

Thanks bma55 for placing Fence corner for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 16:41 on 5/3/2023.
This is find number 6884 for me.

A plan was made in January for a caching day on the March long weekend. Today is the day! So here we are out tackling the 4WD FOTT trail and other caches in the area with Sir Fancy, Lachlan1.77, I C Nothing, Cirrus_WA and Geotrakka. Some logs signed SLICK Gs. TFTH!

Tina rusted and ziplock melted onto log book. So it’s open to the elements now.

Heading out today with the crew and Signing as SLICK G’s today (SirFancy, Lachlan177, I C Nothing, Cirrus_WA, Kapelula and Geotrakka)


This is my 4380 find.
Thank you bma55 for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!
(I’m not a geologist I just like puns)

The Micks team minus the M have headed out with Lachlan 1.77 and Geotrakka to find the remaining Fott series caches after starting this series years ago.
Found after finishing the Fott series. Nice 4wd to the area and a small walk to be rewarded by a nice size cache.
Signed Log as Slick G.

Up before the sun to drive to a meeting area to meet up with Kapelula, ICNothing, CirrusWA, Sir Fancy and Lachy1.77 to team up and polish off the remainder of the FOTT4WD trail and hopefully some other caches along the way. Ive been waiting for this opportunity for a while now. Signing as SLICKGs
Beautiful bush out here. Thanks bma55 for placing this cache

Nice walk

A big day out today cleaning up and claiming smileys around the Lakes and York areas. TFTC bma55!

Out and about with Team Barritts for couple of days caching adventures around York and Wandoo NP.

Thanks to all the CO's for their hides and bringing us to these great places.

Team Red Roo and I had made tentative plans to tackle the FOTT 4WD series together sometime after he and his partner got back from their latest grey nomad adventures interstate. And they were gone for over six months this time, so all the solved puzzles, multis and whereigos just had to sit on the backburner and wait. But all is now good after a couple of fun days out there in the bush. We enjoyed the various types of bush we encountered but the wandoo forest were both our favourites. During the time we were away we saw emus, kangaroos, wedgetail eagles, red tail black cockatoos, parrots, perenti, gecko, galahs, twenty-eights, kookaburras, magpies, mudlarks, the list goes on, but what topped it off was the sighting of a couple of wild piglets (we wondered where the mother was, but didn't hang around to find out, lol). And of course, we found many, many geocaches too. After completing the 4WD series, we thought it was about time for some real 4X4 adventuring, so heading on over to try for a couple of honest 5* terrain caches. And since we were passing near here, of course I had to come and find this one too. TN, LN, SL, replaced as found. Thanks for placing this cache for the rest of us to come and find bma55

Hi there bma55. I was out with Mistraluna for a couple of planned days of Geocaching around the FOTT trail near York. We had both worked out finals for all caches and using the Nuvi and both GPS's, all caches were found quickly - and the containers and logs are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to bma55 for this cache - our find 8307

Out giving the old beast a bit of a spin and checking out the canola fields in full bloom, on a run to York and back this arvo.

We pulled in at Mount Observation, one of our intended destinations today, to check out the canola fields. We decided to go 2WD today, because we figured we wouldn't be going down any tracks or off road. Well... I decided we should have a crack at these two caches. Clearance was a little iffy at times and so too were some slight rocky outcrops, but we made it through. Glad the water in the puddles had evaporated a bit. It would've been a different story a couple of weeks ago.

Wandered on in to make a quick find. Lid was a little difficult to get off. Cheers bma55!

Out for a country drive with Lachlan1.77 checking out some of the flowers and scenery on the way to York. No doubt we stopped for any caches that were close to the highway.

Not sure if L1.77 was too keen taking his 2WD down some of these tracks, but in the end it wasn't too bad. A nice walk through the bush and a fairly quick find. TFTC!

We headed out on a lovely winters day to collect some less loved caches and a few more along the FOTT trail. The views were breathtaking and we visited some spectacular locations. We enjoyed the hikes to get to GZ and are happy to say we added our name to the log book and walked away with a smilie TFTC

found it today

The weather didnt hold off today! We headed out in the rain to complete the 4wd FOTT Go Bush series. On our way out we heard that Goomalling had received golf ball sized hail. We continued on with some trepidation.

As we approached the Nature Reserve we were driving through puddles and leaf litter, little water crossings and water falls were appearing at the roadside. It was odd to see the foam appearing in the water. Hmmm what is today going to hold for us.

After successfully completing the series we crossed Talbot West Road and headed off to see what other caches we could find. More puddles but the roads were in pretty good condition until we approached Wandabiniring rocks and had to turn back.


TFTC bma55

Out for the day around the area, little stroll from the fence line to an easy find
TFTC

Out and about with Barnzy12, catching up on logging from the last 2 weeks. Either as i didn't have reception on phone to load up a cache or didn't have an archived saved list. TFTH TFTC

A huge day out today around the wandoo conservation area, mount dale recreation area and the mundaring state Forrest. Huge days caching which really buggered us out, collecting a really solid days caching under the belt, not huge numbers but seeing some awesome places and unique locations.

We planned a mega days caching around these parts but with a late start after the gym this morning and the roads being a little harder to navigate than planned things took a bit longer.

We saw some lovely rocky outcrops, beautiful Forrest, and some beautiful scenery.

Found all caches we attempted today, some 17 finds, all in good condition, a large number of them were ammo tins which was great to see and thankfully no micros!

We finished the day grabbing another of the legendary wandoo series we have somehow managed to miss on our initial two day forray into the series when we were newbies, and our subsequent 15,000 combined finds since, so was nice to knock off more of the series.

Will be back soon to complete the remainder of he caches closer to York including the cluedo series and the caches around mount dale recreation area. Thanks for a great day out!

Really want to do all the caches in this area (not necessarily the Wandoo ones though) ... got to make a bit of a dent in them today, this being the second last cache of the day. Found just on sunset. Nice spot.

SL. TNLN. Thanks for the hide bma55

After finding a new cache nearby I set out to grab the remaining caches out this way. Unfortunately I soon decided that this was not suitable 2WD country, so I parked the car and went for a walk to find this one, then scurried home with my tail between my legs.

A lovely walk to get here, though I did manage to somehow lose the road on the way back... A quick find once at GZ, and a really nice spot.

Thanks for the cache bma55!

Another great country walk.

Nice bush walk. 4wd track is a bit wet atm so check the puddles before you drive through.
Tin is starting to weather a little.

After checking out the York Residency Museum we decided to have a look at Mount Observation, After checking out the picnic area we decided to head down the the two in this section. At GZ it was a quick find. Thanks for bringing me to this interesting chunk of Australia.

Headed out for a day of exploring the bush around Mt Observation, this was one of the caches we found along the way... We enjoyed our drive through the countryside to get to this one & found a suitable spot to park before following some roo trails to the cache Once at GZ, a quick find of the cache was made.


TFTC & the adventure today bamboo [^] Cache was in good condition.

Found

found

Found on a circular walk including Mt. Observation and Pony Hill. Thanks for the cache!

Great day for caching & 4wd-ing with rellies !
tftc

Orchids, Everlastings, Trigger Plants and a couple of kangaroos (sorry for disturbing you, guys). This bush is so splendid at this time of year. Cache nice and dry and in great condition. Thanks for bringing us here.

Easy find. Great walk. SL TFTC

first logged GCA

TFTC

After spending the weekend in York with iluvtrekking, the boys were looking for some 4x4 driving excitement so we headed south via the Mundaring Catchment. This was the second cache and a short walk from the previous one. No problem locating the cache and it was in good order. Thanks Bma55

Found with richlink while enjoying everything the Mt Observation forest has to offer after a weekend at York.
The forest was bright and clean and recent rains made track navigation all the more fun. A very pretty piece of bush here, and a good old fashioned cache.
Well done bma55 we loved it.
Thanks.

Did not come from the road so did not come across any fences but found it easily anyway. Felt like Xmas in July! TFTC

It was a great find.

This was our 3rd cache find in a caching run of 3 Finds & 1 DNFs today.
We found it at 14:08 so this now makes our total find count 7576.
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Wow what a great cache. A spot of dirt road driving, a refreshing walk to stretch our legs, and a decent sized cache at the end of the trek.
After finding over 7500 caches it is really sad to note that the trend of placing small caches (without swaps) is increasing. While nanos and eclipse tins have their place in an urban environment these, along with 200ml Sistemas, seem to be the norm these days even out in more remote areas. [Red]It made us feel really glad to find a large(ish), cache here.[/Red]
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Around 2 metres.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks bma55 for the hunt today.

(Chwiliwr team catch up log)

We called in today on the way to check on Chwiliwr's cache. Found a lot of water inside the tin but dried it out so hopefully it is Ok now.

Thanks bma55 for the cache.

Called in today on the way to my cache to check it out. Found a lot of water inside the tin but dried it out so hopefully it is Ok now.

Thanks bma55 for the cache.

Track was still a little muddy but had a pleasant walk in the bush.
TFTH

[:(!] After Church went to Northam to drop off our geogranddaughter and pick up geograndson to bring back to Perth, so we went via York to pick up some caches along the way and this was one of them, we parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, on arrival at GZ the cache was in hand in a matter minutes.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH Bma55.

Quick find after competing in an orienteering event a short distance up the road
TFTC

This cache had us intrigued as its very close to another and we wondered what was here. All it turned out to be was another pleasant walk in the bush. (Said with tongue in cheek)

Orienteering was on today and there was a control jut up the ridge. We went from this one across to the other cache and i met and Orienteer who was picking up the controls at the end of the day. He said 'geocaching?" I said yes. He mentioned his mate put one just over there. So I assume I met one of your mates.

We noticed another visitor today and we picked up the travelbug.

Thanks for the cache.

FTF @ 10:50am
Nice wander through the bush to begin our autumn/winter caching season now that the cricket season is finished. Well done on your first hide...TFTC

Out for a cache with Team MB, might even finish off the the Wandoo series one of these days. Thanks for the hide, I do enjoy getting out into the bush.

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