DM 1 Big Thunder Gidgegannup, Western Australia, Australia
By arnott.family on 02-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4HTK0

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, arnott.family, requesting additional time, and it appears abandoned.

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Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

Sorry for the lack of response on my behalf. Had other issues to deal with. Sorry to see it archived but life happens sometimes.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Disabled until I can replace.

Did not find it. Been looking for ten minutes.

We looked for a good 20 mins with 4 pairs of eyes with no luck here today.

It's a real shame that the area is full of rubbish, needles, and broken glass. Not somewhere I would bring the family again. Disgusting.

TFTH arnott.family!

We looked for a good 20 mins with 4 pairs of eyes with no luck here today.

It's a real shame that the area is full of rubbish, needles, and broken glass. Not somewhere I would bring the family again. Disgusting.

TFTH arnott.family!

No luck with this one today

Will have to come back for another look

My search was interrupted when three men came to check out the place, and one decided to climb on the object at GZ. I'll try again another time,

Found it. TFTC Arnott.family. Interesting location

I was making the most of some annual leave and headed out this afternoon to pick up a few more of the TbroG series nearby. While looking at the map I saw this little series and after a bit more research realised that #1 was still active and I'd be going straight past it That said, I almost missed it completely - as the parking area isn't signposted I drove straight past it on the way out, and nearly did the same on the way back! I'm intrigued about what's here now though - they've put in a new bridge and further in I saw another small wooden bridge so there must be trails here to hike? I need to research some more as there's no way I would have noticed this place just by driving past. As for the cache, I quickly spotted where I needed to be (hard to miss, lol), and then was lucky to make a really fast find. In fact it took longer to pry the magnet from the machine than to spot it, lol. Thanks for bringing me here - I suspect I will be back for a longer walk around TFTC

No need to bend. That makes it better.
Grabbed the number while here.

A spent quite a while here, was getting frustrated, so decided to message a friend. Finished the text, went and looked where I had looked before but at a different angle and there it was. Yep that magnet is very stong. tftc and the hunt in the fresh air.

Nice hide. The old girl has seen better days

Beautiful little spot don't think I'll be swimming in the pond though poor old tractor being neglected cheers rainwest

Found it

The thing I don't get, is that if I left my car out to rust like this in the bush, I'd get fined for littering. However, a company or the government can just leave a huge beast like this in the middle of nowhere and it's allowed? Go figure. Easy find. TFTC.

New log book ready to go

TFTC

Log is full. TFTC

TFTC!! nice little hiding spot. Needs a new log book

Out for a day of caching around the TBROG series with dezzabills and Lasarus_68. I managed to find 72 caches for the day with one DNF so all in all it was a good day to be out caching. Some of the caches had been found by dezzabills and or Lazarus so we all had a different find count for the day. Most of the series were found quite quickly with the odd one taking a little more time. The one thing we will have to do is return and finish off the series at a later date. This was find number seventy for the day. Recorded the code word for later reference.

Out with buddies hhheddy & dezzabills, following the TbroG series, making most of public holiday + perfect weather. Thank you arnott's

tftc arnott family a quick easy find on my way to Gidgegannup this morning. Shame to see this beast going to waste. Would be great to see it rolling again.

Found with artemis93

Found with Crouchey and Rachie84

Nice little walk. Easy find

Nice magnet! Have been up here bushwalking with my boys before. Found without issue. TFTC arnott.family.

Headed up to Toodyay for the Wheatbelt science event and stopped along the way to grab some caches. All the caches were found quickly except one we couldn't find, TFTC Arnott.family

Out on a caching hunt with Mistraluna and while doing the other caches of DM series, we were almost convinced that this one was archived. Well at least I was. It took me a bit of an investigation to realise that the first hide was a quite far away from the others. And turned out that Mistraluna had already visited the hide. Pity she did not save the clue Either way it was a great spot to discover, we even saw a tortoise swimming... sweet. Although we are missing the finals smiley, it is till a well earned favourite from me.

After picking up a FTF nearby I thought I'd grab a few more smileys in the area before it got too hot. Found the easy way to GZ and after a short search I needed a fair bit of strength to dislodge the container.

arnott.family I found your cache at 7:36am, this was the 4th of 8 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3731. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Hi arnott.family I found your DM 1 Big Thunder dry and healthy. OMG! What kind of magnet is that?! SL TFTH. Image shows: Looking south-southeast towards pond

Was worried this was turning into a repeat of my last search for this cache. But managed to locate it this time. Huzzah!

What an awesome day we had today - great company, great scenery, great caching - the only downside was the hour and a half drive to get to the start and then the hour and a half drive to get home again. But it was well and truly worth it, clocking up 77 finds in total over about 7 hours of caching in a really beautiful part of our state. This was our third stop for the day, and a relatively quick find it was too. Shame about the graffiti, but at least they can spell correctly in this neck of the woods. Otherwise a great place for a cache. Thanks for the smiley arnott.family

Initially we parked in the wrong spot and then couldn't find a way to GZ. Finally we noticed the bridge and this lead to the object and a quick find. Thanks.

We must have been tired because we made a meal out of getting to this cache. Quick find eventually. Interesting colour in the pond.

Nice quick cache All ok here TFTC arnott.family

Nice place to stop lots of wildflowers.
Thank you for the cache arnott.family.
Cheers TLC

Had good luck,

found it after two minutes...

Nice machine...

Thanks for this cache,


Wollitier

Very cool. Would never have known about that gem without your cache! 2 thumbs up!!

Another great walk and good sneaky hiding spot.

TFTH SL

Ta Geoshrooms, torch a good idea, well disguised cache, some strong magnet.

Have driven past here millions of times but never knew what lay beyond the parking bay...Defiantly take note of the glass,heaps n heaps but after what seemed like an eternity Devlishy brought out the torch ands GOTCHA...

That one took a while to find, but we got there in the end tftc

pug002 found it 21/6/2016 on our way to Midland TFTC Arnott family

This is the last I need for this set and looking at the logs I figured it wouldn't be too much trouble. I swear I have never been so intimate with a piece of rusted machinery. I had a torch and a pokey/grabby tool and examined every nook and crevice about 10 times over. Still no cache. *cries*

Originally found under family caching name "clan-wallace". Geohubby wants his own caching name, so I get to re log them for him!

Mac had been so good all day but while we were distracted here he disappeared & went for a swim in that, yes I mean THAT BIG DIRTY PIT FILLED with water. He came out completely black & smelly. Now he's in the doghouse. But we did find the cache. TFTC

Stopped off here on the way home from the farm. After a short walk I found the structure, including a large case that was not the cache. There is a lot of broken glass here - its everywhere so please make sure kids have shoes on. After 3 laps of the structure and disappearing daylight I was about to give up hope and log a DNF when the torch spotted something, reached in and sure enough cache was in hand. Signed log and forgot to grab clue. So will have to return another day. Please note luckily you do not need to get down on your hands and knees to search - so need to get covered in glass. Lovely area just a shame its getting destroyed my some horrible graffitti and rubbish. Makes me sad to see people destroy the environment like that. TFTC arnott.family never knew this little hidey hole existed.Can't wait to do the rest of the series.

Rather quick find on our way to Susannah Brook
TFTC

Ari and Dad

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On the way to Wyalkatchem - detour and signed the log. [^]
Nice short walk along to GZ.

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Come on down to WA GOES BIG IN 2016.
Pinjarra, Perth, WA
http://coord.info/GC5YAGP

Wasnt exactly sure what the code or clue was. I might figure it out when I find the others. Tftc

Visited here with Orrsome Family. Took the TB.

Visited to grab the code I missed last time.

Found quickly tftc

Heading home today after a couple of days in Toodyay finding cache and placing some

Took the short walk to gz and gave it the basic going over. I headed back to the car for a 'tool of the trade' for muggle to use and within a few seconds he found it just as I was about to see the cache from a different angle

Three out of three finds for muggle this morning

TFTC

We had a second go at this on the way out of Perth - and there it was. I am sure we looked in there last time, but it was getting dark and we didn't use a torch. TFTC

A great bit of history

A very late log, found with parkacruz and piknik15 but we never logged online which we are now rectifying TFTC

Logged under Mummy & Daddy's name smileyjims but I have my own name now, I found this cache with them and wrote in the log book with them TFTC

I've driven past this spot many times but I never knew this old beast was in here rusting away, so that was a surprise when I walked in to GZ. I must have just missed the cache when I first started searching, so I then spent quite a while searching everywhere else with no luck. Then I went back to my car and got a torch, and sure enough, it was a quick find after that. Signed log and got the code word. Thanks for placing this cache for us all to find and enjoy.

Awwww it was last one of the series we needed to work out the mystery cache and we had a sad DNF:( . We searched for ages until it got dark so we pitched our tent on the back of our ute. We'll just have to come back another day

We nearly missed this one with the turn coming while I had a D...H... on my tail while driving down towards Midland. A quick find - though nearly missed. in the dark. I noted at the time, that it had been found earlier today, and that it looked like something had been dragged out along the ground. Thanks to arnott.family for the cache.

TFTC. All in good condition and replaced as found.

Was checking out some spots from muggle partners childhood, when I saw what was here figured there must be a cache nearby and what luck it was part of a series, a nice easy find TFTC

Yep, it is certainly there. Didn't take too long, though had to head back again having forgotten to grab the word clue. T4TC!

Checked cache today. All in place and in good condition.

Found location but looks like it has been removed, if not very well hidden indeed

Love this one

We drive past so regularly and had no idea what was just off the road. TFTC.

Nice little find. Really fun.

We loved the naming of this cache.. . Pity the bridge is out tho.... Thank god it hasn't rained to much so we could still get across. The Geokids found this one pretty quickly and enjoyed the extra imaginative play time. Tftc.... What a great series. Xx

Last find for today on the way home after a family day out.
A quick find and the clue noted.

I'm Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at WA GOES BIG IN 2015, in Busselton.

Registrations now open
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arnott.family I found your cache DM 1 Big Thunder on 15/02/2015 5:14 pm. This is my find #2816 and find #5 today. The cache is in good shape. Thanks for the cache!

Out with friends finding some caches in the area TFTH

found on a great day in the wilderness TFTH

TFTC! Found on a caching trip to Toodyay and surrounds. Thanks

When I first found this one the rest of the series hadn't been put out yet, and as far as I remember there wasn't a code word to note down, so after finding the others today I had to stop in at this one on the way down the hill to re-find it and note the code word.

There was a guy parked in the parking area and having a swim/bath in the dam when I got there. A quickish find here, I got the word I needed, and was off.

Thanks for the cache arnott.family!

Wow the things u find on the side of the road the boys were greatly interested in this cache and the dam located next to it tftc

This was a series we wanted to complete while on the way to York. Pulled into gz with iluvtrekking and we were initially stumped. Mr iluvtrekking spotted the hide. Thanks Arnott.family

We groaned as we arrived at GZ with richlink this morning but amazingly Mr ILT put his hand on the cache at the first place he looked. Thanks Arnott.family, the log was full so we placed another in the bag.

Took a bit but found it TFTC

Nice find

This first one in the series was the last one I found on the way back to Perth.

Today was the day for trying to find caches on machinery so after 2 DNFs it was good to finally find this one. Being careful to avoid the rusted metal, broken glass, oil stains and spider webs I finally put my hand on this cache with a very strong magnet and was able to sign the log and retrieve the final clue. I will be back for DM 5 when I am next up this way. tftc.

Great GZ, a fave point from us. Didn't take us as long to locate the cache as it could have. TFTC

Took quite a bit of searching to find it. I wonder how long its been there...an interesting spot.

Thanks arnott.family

Went around it 3 times before we found it. Awesome cache!

The broken glass was a bit off putting, searched and searched! Of course looked back in a place we had already checked twice! Finally found it! Never knew it was here! Nice little place TFTC

Found it... Cut my finger

Tftc.

On the 2nd last day in Australia, finally found one of these popular machinery caches and not just the machinery. TFTC!

Nice quick find while on lunch break


Tftc

Hoping to find all in series today tftc

TFTC this was my 3rd attempt and finally found it. Now to work out where the final cache in the series is

Found the machine but after encountering two baby snakes we hightailed it without locating cache'

We'd been checking a couple of our caches in nearby Jane Brook and had a bit of time to come up the hill. We had a quick find here, signed the log and noted the clue for the remainder of the series when we return.
TFTC arnott.family

Found it. It took at bit of looking

Great little spot for a cache if not for the rubbish and glass. Was a little weary of my daughter searching but I found it after a little while; in a spot I'd originally looked but not properly lol.

Right got all 4 now, off to work out final coordinates!

TFTC

I found this one with Mum & Dad (jasenjanine) ... TFTC arnott.family