Basket Case Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia
By Lumpyjrb on 22-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4NX3F

TFTC....... FlyingFox looks scarey.

Thanks for my first find!

Found! Thanks for bringing to this little slice of history. TFTC

Been in the road for 10 weeks I think from Perth. Havent done a lot caching, but thought I better get this one on the way out.Picked up a little trinket and left one.TFTC

Easy find! Thank you

Appreciate this - would never have known this bit of Daly Waters history

Dropped a couple of toys

Thank you! Kids loved it!

Thank you!

Found with DennisC52 while on our half lap of Australia. Thanks (owner) for the cache.

Thanks

Great spot.

Great cache and a site we missed yesterday..Thanx

Thanks so much. Wonderful place to visit.

This is the peaceful opposite of the crowded camping ground.Heart this one for its beauty.TFTC!

Quick find with Deefa71. Greetings from Perth. Tftc

Thanks, good find on a hot day Bella G

yipee!

Nice quick find. Beautiful morning g Tftc

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Tftc, with Turnarounds cheers

Found with KLCED. Tftc

Wow what a great cache Lumpyjrb, and such fun to find. Buddy the geodog helped us with this one. Found on June 22, 2024. # 9429

A quick easy find in the first place I looked.Stayed at the pub last night, an interesting place!SL TNLN TFTC

Quick find in its basket, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO

Easy, thanks.

TFTC,Nana made a quick find after not locating at the first place she looked.Visited trackables.

Easy find. TFTC

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TFTC found with Davrie457

After exploring Daly waters and lunch with the chip eating chicken till it was carried out, it was one more cache on our way out. A great cache location here, very interesting.

This is an interesting historical site. I love the story behind it. We stayed at the pub overnight. Great good and entertainment. Tftc

TFTC WHAT A GREAT SPOT TO VISIT

Found while staying a couple of nights in Daly Waters. TFTC

OCW PelDroedGwin Now that looks like fun way to travel ! A quick find on our way to the iconic Daly Waters Pub. Tftc

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Thanks so much for your effort.

Nice easy one.

Cool find

Found it with lance51 while on the travelling TFTC

Found it with Silence49 while travel around Australia . Thanks for placing it

J

Nice little walk in the cool of the morning. Lots of different animal tracks in the sandy walking tracks. TFTC

Quick find as we left Daly Waters heading South.
Hopefully we don't get stopped by the road closures from the fires near the 3 ways.

TFTC Lumpyjrb
Find 7511 logged from cgeo:

Found while exploring this area while on leave from work. Thanks

Great fun find. Thank you/

Back to one of our fav pubs, Daly Waters, for their famous 1/2beef, 1/2barra big feed tonight ️
Thanks for allowing us to cache & kill some time on our trip across 3 states, WA, NT & into Qld - possibly even NSW, Vic & SA! Who knows where we'll end up!!

Fantastic night at the pub last night, and out exploring this morning. Quick find here... love the ingenuity of outback folk. Tftc

Darwin to Adelaide Road Trip
Day Four: Mataranka to Threeways
Weather: perfect.

Once again, I’m on the wrong side of the water, had there actually been any. If it had still been operational, I wouldn’t have had to move the car. Nice snug hide here, thanks Lumpyjrb.

It’s officially a mega - GCA1DNA “The Great Leap Forward”
Adelaide, South Australia. February 29, 2024
We would love to have your company.

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache thank you for bringing g us here as we would not have stopped without it, thanks for placing it

Found the other day but would not let me log it

22.07.23 tftc found while out n about

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the coast of WA to NT and down through the Centre. Had a great night in Daly Waters before heading out for Banka Banka Station. Made this find our first stop along the way. Thanks for the hide.

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin along the west coast and returning to Perth through the centre and the Nullarbor. A quick find before leaving Daly Waters. TFTC

Interesting history here, would have been hardwork in those days. TFTC

Quick find while exploring the area. Cool hidden away spot. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found cache. Interesting spot.

Interesting historical location. Shall we try the old bridge? Tftc

Found while in the area. Thanks for taking the time to place the cache. It is such and interesting area. . TFTC

Sn interesting spot! After finding the cache we had a wander on the old bridge.
Thanks Lumpyjrb

Our Northern Territory journey began in Darwin around 3am after a very delayed flight. We drove as far north as Fresh Water Camp (northeast of Darwin), followed by a loop to Liberated Cox (out to the west) and Litchfield National Park returning to Darwin. We then headed south with overnight stops at Katherine, Daly Waters and Devils Marbles before reaching our southernmost accommodation at Erldunda. From here we did a day trip to Lamberts Gravitational Centre on onward past Finke. Our last couple of days were in Alice Springs with a side trip via Hermannsburg and Glen Helen, all up covering just under 3800km. My thanks to all the COs with hides throughout the territory for helping make our trip so enjoyable.

After finding the GCA caches on the way into 'town' we discovered this interesting bit of history and made a quick find.

This trip was sort of in place of a trip to a Mega that got canceled due to accommodation problems, I was quite happy when Goose said do you fancy to caching break in the Northern Territory as this would be the last State or Territory for me in Australia.

Our plan was to fly into Darwin on the Friday night have a couple days in the area then start heading South stopping overnight whenever we needed to, our next goal was the drive to the geographic centre of Australia at Lambert Centre and then head back to Alice to fly home ten days later.

We both had a great trip finding some important old caches, large ones and the odd clever one too, we found Ammo Cans all over the place which was nice as i think we have found most of the ones at home in Tassie.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 04/07/2023 at 17:31:00 thanks to Lumpyjrb for placing this cache for me to find.

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Arrived at the Pub in the freezing cold and rain. It was 32 degrees yesterday. Who would have thought it? After we settled in I waited for a break in the rain and wandered over for a quick find. Tftc!

Found it really easy!

Nice location. TFTC

Interesting history, TFTC@

Yew!!! Found it with kids and learnt some things too

We stayed at Dunmarra overnight and drove into Daly Waters this morning. Checked out the Stuart Tree and the flying fox. Interesting history around here. Left a TB.

Necessity is the mother of invention, or on this case innovation.

Thanks for the cache Lumpyjrb.

We were in the area and decided to check out the flying fox. Pity it's not usable otherwise I would have had a go.
Nice easy find. TFTC

Found on our trip from Tennant Creek to Mataranka. Thanks for hiding this one and as always TFTC, MumDad2000

Thanks for bringing us here. Some more great history.good hide.
TFTC

Awesome piece of history, TFTC!

TFTC

TFTC ! Visiting the pub often but never seen this beautiful place.

J

Wow! Thanks for bringing me here. A favourite point from me! Nice early morning walk from my accommodation!! TfTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

Find number 10932 at 11:59:34 am on Saturday the 20 August 2022
On the road again, and on our way to Daly Waters Pub for the night and then onward further south into the colder climates
Arrived safe and well, setup camp and then went for a walk and found the John McDouall Stuart Heritage Trail which eventually led us right to the cache. We then continued on to look for the cemetery. Nice hide.
**Thanks for placing this cache Lumpyjrb**

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Great spot TFTC

Very busy but l manage to do O.K tftc

Lovely history lesson, I think I need a picnic lunch.

After a short Visit to this historic town the Cache brought us to this peace of history thanks making us aware of this place.
Went first to the wrong side but could see a sign on the other side and decided there must be a path there and walked around, finding the cache quickly and signed the log.
Was not able to see the basket
TFTC.

We are spending the night in Daly waters, and after setting up camp came to explore the area. It was one of the warmest days we have had over this last month, but the Heritage Trail was definitely an interesting walk.
If only the flying fox was still working, it would have been a lot of fun to ride upon.
The creek is dry at the moment, and we were content to find a cache, instead of riding the flying fox.
Thanks lumpyjrb. FP added.
Domsky

On my way to Perth via Darwin with a few detours for shires. TFTC.
A very interesting little town. Great cache spot, too.

I made this one much harder than it had to be by being on the wrong side of the creek. I bush bashed through and soon had the log signed

TFTC

Found with Slack1962 on our travels north. TFTC

A nice easy find after a short walk from the caravan park/Daly Waters Pub. Interesting place. TFTC

First place we looked

Catching up on some late logs, now that I have time, while travelling.

We are on the road travelling up through central Australian and down the coast of WA. I hope to grab a few caches along the way.

Found this on the way into Daly Waters. So much interesting history around this area.

Thanks Lumpyjrb for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

An interesting pieceof history. Cache found in good condition. Didnt try the flying fox. TFTC

Found it

TFTC. Interesting to read the history of the Flying Fox.

Interesting story, easy find.

TFTC

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Interesting place for a flying fox. Tftc

Found it

Found it thanks.

Found at 7:10:00 AM(t) GAFF1.
After staying at a bush camp just down the road, we set off early as we had a huge trip to get to Nhulunbuy by Monday. However we just had to stop at this cache to see what Bill Pearce had constructed which we had in our minds something huge - like a 100 metre span! When we got there we thought - what! Is that it? The floods must have been massive and constant to need this flying fox.
Cache found in a very logical spot and well hidden nearly in plain site
Thanks Lumpyjrb.