Dead Centre of Town Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
By josstaylor on 19-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GM55

Joint find Djogg and Puppy and Nerinonickers tftc

Joint find with jdog&puppy and bigt&toof. Visiting family .. R.I.P to loved ones

Found it nice hide

Taurus Six and I started the day from Katanning after spending a lovely evening there last night , after a day of geocaching through the Wheatbelt yesterday. It was a very cold morning and constantly threatening to rain. After a hearty breakfast at the Dome we had a walk around the township this morning collecting a couple of Adventure Lab elements before hitting the road . Our geocaching plan for the day was to clear up caches and Adventure Labs around the Katanning area then do a circuit through Broomhill then back round to Kojonup before meandering our way back to Bunbury geocaching along the way . There was an array of different caches, and areas to explore and all in all it was another very enjoyable days geocaching .This is our first cache find of the day along with a nearby Adventure Lab. We are very happy here to turn a previous blue frowny into a happy yellow smiley. Today the cemetery was very quiet which gave us time to search ,but did not need too much time . Thanks for the cache find Joss Taylor.

Easier than we thought. TFTC.

The dead centre of Katanning has something we haven't seen before and I loved it... the flowers lining the top of the front fence. I was so taken with it I forgot I was supposed to be looking for an entrance. On our way to GZ we were amazed at the stunning chain around the enclosed graves. It's a solid chain and weighs a ton but it appears someone else must have been impressed with it too it as there was some missing. There's a lot of places to look at GZ and eventually we found the right one. A most interesting spot... TFTC josstaylor.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 47 - Katanning Day. The morning was spent having a break while the car was getting serviced, and unlike in Canberra, cleaned. When I collected it after lunch not only was there nothing wrong, it was shiny again. Having been in Katanning this trip already, I have done all the close into town caches, so I did a few a bit further away. A lovely wetlands walk and a cemetery. Then another reserve near a sadly mostly empty dam. I was back at the van in time to do todays logging today. Off to Bunbury tomorrow.I can see why this is a hard cache, you have to be at the right angle to see it. Finding it was only one part of the problems. The tube was empty, so back to the car for some more paper. Container replaced.Thanks for the cache josstaylor47662.3 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2008 Compass Rose Silver A#101**Albida**

Found it

Sneaky hide TFTC

Another nice easy find for kiwinic and i, theres something almost therapeutic about cemeteries. TFTC

Quiet today and a quick find as we work out way through LGAs. Tftc

We stopped here on the way into town. We thought it may have been tricky but it was a quick find. Put back as we found. Not sure if it was supposed to have other camo on it.Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches

TFTC

Tricky but still got it, nice spot

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC

TFTC- found with rainygirl74

Found it tftc

Couldn't find this a few years ago but come back to get the find today

Quick find luckily as a funeral procession arrived just as we were signing the log. Tftc

Quick find

Cleaver hide

Out and about again, nice early start and didn’t want to get out of the warm bed. Covered a lot of km as haven’t been to some areas ever, and some not in a very long time. Cleaned up a fair few today after getting back not long before the Caching event.

Found a variety of hides and in different areas which made for a nice day. Generally quick finds today

Thanks to all the CO’s for the hides I found.

Kojonup to Katanning camping in the RV park overnight
Did a couple of caches along the way with the caravan on'
The afternoon we cached around town area, visiting many sites.
Thankyou to the CO's for placing these caches.

Awesome spot, took us a while but pretty obvious when you find it TFTF

Enjoying a short a trip to W.A. and surrounding areas with tmann421
Saw lots of sites and enjoyed the finds.
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts involved in their hides.
Signed log tm/ww NZ

On another fun geocaching adventure with woolwood9.
Most caches found today were quick finds with a few requiring some searching.

Heading towards Albany but taking the "as many geocaches as possible on the way route"
It got to 35 degrees and there was lots of dust on the side roads.

SL *tm/ww NZ*
*Thanks for all the effort put into setting up this cache for us to visit!*

I looked all around the hiding location and was just about to give up when ww9 came over from making a sandwich. I said "looks like a really tricky one I don't think we can afford the time it might require to find" - ww9 said "really!, it's just there" and pointed to it!

Tftc!

Its a really cool area to learn about the history about Katanning

Great hide. Fave Tftc

Found it thankyou

Second time looking for this one and finally found it day time probably would have been easier

Nifty little hide here, very nice TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 40.112 E 117° 32.844

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 40.115 E 117° 32.839

Distance from original: 33.0 feet or 10.1 meters.

The cache was muggled so I have slightly moved it and updated cords.

Looked around could not find

Dnf

No luck finding this one. Will try again another day.

Today the geocaching mission for TaurusSix and myself was to leave Bunbury very very early and head to the Kojonup and Katanning areas to try and obtains FTF’s for the many new caches that had come out yesterday. We had noticed them on Friday evening so decided to change our plans for Saturday and give them a go. As we were nearing Kojonup we still thought we were in luck as they had not been logged and the red FTF was still showing on the app. Expectatantly at gz we jumped out of the car only to find the first one had been found already. We must of only been a few minutes behind. As we refreshed the app we could see another cachers was heading from the opposite direction claiming the FTF.

Never mind though and well done to all the cachers who got there first.
It was still a great day for us , the drive was really pleasant and the sun rise was quite spectacular. Thanks Boyzrule5 for placing all these new caches and the interesting history lessons about the series.

Alas we searched and searched for this one with no luck.

Had to try to find this one previously with no luck, saw it had been found a couple of time recently so thought I would try my luck. Slightly away from area I had previously focused my search on, cache was found.
TFTC

Quick find with camanda. Tftc

Quick find with SgtAnt donated a small pencil. TFTC

Easy peasy. Not hidden at all. Tftc

Easy find Tftc

Working my way down to WAGB21 and collecting a few LGA.s and hopefully a pile of smileys along the way. Thank you to the CO’s for maintaining their caches.

On the road to WAGB picking up caches along the way. This is going to be a biggg weekend! Thank you to the COs for placing these caches and maintaining them.

Chwiliwr and I were headed to Albany for the WA Goes Big weekend but not via a direct route. This was one of the caches that we found on the way.

Cache found without problems. Log signed and cache returned as found.

Thanks josstaylor for placing this cache for us to find.

No luck for me so DNF

Temporary. come back and replace tube on the ground. Nice Katanning cemetery. Thanks for the cache and hunt.

TFTF

So we tried to find this one yesterday and after searching for nearly 40 mins we gave up. Last night as I went to log a DNF I noticed that someone had found it mere hours after we left. With renewed determination we headed back this morning and after another 15mins of fruitless searching, happened to notice it lying on the ground. We signed the log, but with no way of knowing where it came from, we improvised a hide. Hopefully it stays safe. So glad we get to add this smiley to our list... it certainly made us work for it.

Found on an overnight stay in town.

This still needs some TLC. Pretty rocks around at the moment. Thanks.

Quick road trip from Busselton and decided to do a few cache’s

Will fix asap

We managed to get a small log into this one but the lid is missing and may need to be checked out.

We hadn’t been on a road trip for a while so the long weekend provided an opportunity to do a bit of planning and set a course for Katanning. After a restless night in the tent due to rain and wind we were up and on the road early heading towards home. This cache was one we had targeted for the trip. Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there josstaylor, I was in this area today and found your cache Dead Centre of Town GC4GM55. I added my name to the log book at 8:01 am on 1 March 2020. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

Needs maintenance found on the ground no log. Have replaced where it should be but didn’t have a log to put in it

Omg awesome sneaky hide, could extract log

Very nice camo.
Decided to head country for a couple of days caching.
TFTC josstaylor this is find # 8097 for us.

Absolutely blitz it's in 2 seconds!

Quick and easy find! Thanks mate

was a bit apprehensive after reading some logs but patience and trying to think outside the box won the day.a fav from us TFTC

Yep this one took awhile, good hide.
TFTF josstaylor

You sneaky sonofabitch

Hi Dad

We must have struck lucky with this ingenious hide as we went straight to it, or maybe we have found so many of this C.Os over the weekend that at long last we have his M.O. sorted. Thank you for everyone one of them. We hope that you are still caching as you have certainly provided some enjoyment for us this Easter

Nice hide. Log a little damp. Had to use pliers to extract

Nice hide!!! Only a log though- might need some plastic coverage! Tftc

Tftc nice hide

TFTC. Great day for it.

I am down south again for the second weekend in a row, this time with the Geoson for a bit of a boys weekend. Stayed in Bunbury of the Friday night then headed for Walpole for night 2.
Headed home via Albany.

Spotted far quicker than I was expecting by the geoson. Nice concept. All safe and dry.

josstaylor SVKR_WA found your cache Dead Centre of Town today at 13:59:53 21 Oct 2018.

I am happy to have found it and thank you for placing it and adding to this great game.

This find brings my find count to 3256

Travelling Australia since March 2014 now we are making our way west for a visit with family.

Stayiing in Dumbleyung for a few days, today we headed out for a drive in the countryside using Geocaching as a guide. Around lunchtime we found ourselves in Katanning!

Some interesting hides and some very busy urban hides which we havent tackled for a while. Yet a fun day out and about.

TFTC and sharing this part of WA with us josstaylor

There's not many towns that don't have a cache in a cemetery but at least this one wasn't a dreaded multi!!!
Mr Beetle found this one fairly quickly that heavens as there was a really cold wind chilling us to the bones here. So much for heading to the 'big island' to escape the Tassie winter!!!
This one had no log sheet in it so we put in a temporary piece of paper. Suspect it may fall out again though as the cap is missing off this nice hide.
Thanks.

Found it! But there was no log book

Tricky. TFTC

Very happy to make a very quick find here as it is 5pm and we need to get back to our caravan that we left in Wagin.

Did a 2 day trip down south with the hubby to pick up some caches. We picked up our first cache in Narrogin then went to Highbury, Wagin, Dumbleyung, Katanning, Broomhill, Tambellup, Frankland, Pemberton, Bussellton, Dunsbourgh and finishing off in Bunbury. A great 2 days of caching with some great sights to be seen along the way. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing these caches.

We were prepared for a bit of a search but spotted this one fairly quickly! Great camo and love that you can search with no one around! TFTC Josstaylor, it's a good one!

Second time around trying to find this one needs a good eye to spot great cammo TFTC

We had a little bit of time to visit town and find some caches so targeted some of the more difficult ones. This one was first. The GPSr took us to one location and once it settled it bought us back to another spot and we spotted some camo and soon had the log out for signing. Tricky hide. TFTC

Loved it. Thanks. And no one else here

Fixed

Brilliant is all I can say!! We looked for a few possibilities, then something caught our eye. On closer inspection, yes...there it was. Well done josstaylor on a great cache placement. Fav point added.

Out and about on a two day road trip through parts of the Great Southern with grandma allinaday. We visited many interesting spots and saw lots of interesting things. We also found many great caches, so TFTC and the fun we had searching for them.

Found it. TFTC Josstaylor. I signed as "P-P 17-11" came here to visit my two younger brothers who passed away in the 50's. The cache, Now this is a sneaky hide. I just noticed something that for some reason just didn't look right. You may need a log retrieving tool also.

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 40.108 E 117° 32.841

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 40.112 E 117° 32.844

Distance from original: 28.9 feet or 8.8 meters.



Had to move as cache was muggled

Looked for a while but no prevail, maybe another time!

Called in on on this one today with mikLovin but no luck today

pug002 found it on 24/4/2016 Yee ha as CO said this was the hardest, really exceptional cache we loved it. Absolute fav from us. TFTC josstaylor

Even with the new coords, we still couldn't find it. The difficulty rating is high so obviously a sneaky cache however maybe a cryptic clue of some sort would be helpful?? Would like to find this one someday!

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 40.103 E 117° 32.869

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 40.108 E 117° 32.841

Distance from original: 145.1 feet or 44.2 meters.
Updated Co-ordinates

The CO needs to update the coordinates on the cache listing page.

We too came up empty handed. the CO needs to update the coordinates on the cache listing page.

Plug in the new co ords looked around for 20 minutes and no luck maybe today is just not my day will keep a eye on it

New cache new spot

The tree that has been cut down was the location of the cache. Will fix it ASAP.

2nd time looking for this one and no luck not sure if it's still there or not

I cannot maintain this cache just at the moment, though I have been advised that trees have been cut down in the area. This may have possibly damaged/destroyed cache

Have reported as probably being gone.

Lost but not forgotten. TFTC. Tor and Betsy, the travelling Westies roaming WA at present. We are from Oxenford near the Gold Coast in Queensland and thoroughly enjoying the West.

Aww yeah finally got it! Both my phone and gps went nuts here so I really had to use my head it does however need a new log though as it is now full. TFTC!

TFTC ☺