Crystal Maze Yanchep, Western Australia, Australia
By olthomas on 12-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4Q4QW

Checked on this one and it is missing and we haven't got the means to replace it at the moment, so we are archiving.

Thank you! The nephews and I were camping overnight at Yanchep, and signed up for the cave tour. We arrived early to find this one, as it was missing last time I was here. I told the boys were to look and they soon had the sneak cache in hand.

Camped in the park for a couple of days - beautifully peaceful. We did several walks, geocaching at the same time. Love this one! TFTC.

We had the last tour in the cave for today.After all Muggles were gone our big daughter found this good hidden cache. TFTC

Tftgc found Carramar scout group MakariaCubs term 4 camp

Took us a while to find it even though we thought of it from the start.... Great spot!

Really love this beautiful place with its kangaroos grazing in the evening, birds, marsh and caves. Found by muggle friend. Nice hide. TFTC and greetings fr Singapore.

Very clever hide geo mum has good eyes and remembered a previous one plus a little hint in comments helped a little TFTC

Muggles nearby so couldn't look for long.

Unable to locate.

Bugger. Will have to try again another day

On our trip around Australia we stoped here at this beautiful place to to grab this Cache

TFTC
Greetings from Switzerland.

I'll be back

Good cache (:

We found this one after walking from our campsite at Henry White Oval, where we stayed the night to check out the new camping area. We saw many kangaroos on our way here, two with joeys. Thanks, olthomas!

We were sure we looked at this last year. Found it quickly this time. Thanks for the cache; it's in good order.

Watch out, it may be sticking out!

Day 1 of a road trip to Geraldton along the Indian Ocean Drive, which wasn't here when we last tripped up this way. This is a leisurely trip taking 3 days to get to Geraldton and visiting all those places you usually drive by on a "normal" trip and exploring the many small towns along the way. The added bonus is the number of caches along the way.

Yanchep National Park wasn't originally on the trip list but we got here around lunch time so decided to pop in and find a bench in the sun for our picnic. We were very pleased with our decision (despite the entry fee) and enjoyed our picnic and a tour of the park facilities.

We went to the Crystal cave in some hope that we could get in and do the earthcache as well, but the next tour was an hour away. So we satisfied the caching itch with this cache which was a quick find by Mr K having seen similar in the US.

Thanks for the cache olthomas [^] - we made the find and the cache was in good order and the log dry .

This was find # 2 of 10 and 0 today giving us a total cache count of 3139.

Pretty clever
Maybe a little bit too visible?
Thank you for the cache

TFTC, On a walk around the lake with 'U' & my non Geo Brother & Sister inlaws, a bit of an intro to Geocaching

The crystal cave is so fantastic. Come on a quiet day to get the best experience of the cave tour.

Found cache in the obvious place (: TFTC

Quick find after a cave tour. Beautiful national park, and very cool caves. TFTC!

Thanks for the find

Certainly pulled on many things- but no find today

Checked up on this one today. Found cache (and log) where it was supposed to be but not how it was supposed to be so it's now all fixed up. Very sad to see how the area surrounding the cache has been 'damaged'. Did our best to fix up the surroundings. Please DO NOT damage the flora, fauna, fixtures or fittings while looking for this cache.

Found a likely suspect, but no bison tube. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong spot.

Hard find had help from pro finder

Trackables just visiting. No room for an extended stay

Great hide. Thank you. We love coming to yanchep. We re connected the ring.

Find #5 for the day. Lots of head scratching on this one before geo dad figured it out. Had to call geom mum back who had disappeared into the bush.

TFTC great find

Thanks

Rather sad to start the year with a DNF

TFTC

Up at Yanchep for some bike training with the kids so checked this one out. It is still there. Access wasn't great so I've improved it again. Future finders - please leave it so that it can be found. Thanks

So gutted!! Came today to do the Crystal Maze tour/Earthcache and really wanted to pick this one up while I was there. I asked for a hint from the CO, who was kind enough to respond, but it was something that I already had covered and despite my best efforts pulling all sorts of things, it continued to totally elude me! I won't make it back here before I go back to the UK, but I will live in hope that I can convince my lovely Aussie family to come back here for a picnic the next time I'm here and maybe I will find it then. Thanks anyway!!

TFTC olthomas

My daughter found this - I would have given up. Nice hiding spot!

Decided to spend the day with the happyguys at Yanchep National Park and it was the perfect day for it. I was looking forward to finding this cache and the hunt lived up to my expectations. Quite a few possible locations but ended up trusting the co-ordinates and the youngest member of the happyguys team finally put her hands on this one. A clever hide and worthy of a favourite point. Thanks for the cache olthomas.

Did not find it today . Not sure what we are supposed to be pulling???

Quick find this sunny afternoon TFTC

It was there but well hidden. I have brought its light out from under a bushel.

I'm suspecting that this one isn't quite as it should be. Will try to check up on it shortly.

Pulled up as many objects as I could , but most stayed where they were,I might have to return with a crowbar to pull them out , several of the objects are missing (is one the cache??)

Paid this one three visits during our school holiday stay here. No luck at all.

Not too sure the park authorities will appreciate what we did to their car park rubber bumper thingies.

Found it, nice one!

Check

Crazy clever

Very nice spot TFTC

I found it. I left my mark. I replaced it and I left. TFTC. This was good. I like it thanks olthomas. Fav' from me

Nice one to find while waiting to go on our caves tour might of even fired up geo kid 15 into the activity again

Awesome find, great spot!

After our cave tour we waited for the muggles to leave and then let the GPSr settle. We spotted something and soon had the cache in hand. Nice hide. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

Clever hide
Tftc

Nice easy find there on a very quiet and hot muggy day. Once the cave tour started, we had GZ to ourselves and spotted the hide quickly. Yanchep is such a great spot, but today was not the day to go for a walk and the tracks were closed anyway. Thank you for the cache olthomas.

Nice, tricky cache. Thx.

Very clever hide. Thanks.

Found on a very hot day with AusAngel and Teesha17. Found using the original coordinates. Great hide TFTC

TFTC, used the original coordinates

Did exactly that, had a look around after a cave tour. Thanks.

Checked on this one today. It was a very hard pull but it was most definitely still there. It seems we have more electronic logs than signatures on the physical log......!

Coordinates changed from:
S 31° 32.852 E 115° 41.545

Coordinates changed to:
S 31° 32.855 E 115° 41.544

Distance from original: 19 feet or 5.8 meters.
Our devices were pretty settled on the coords supplied and people have found it using them, however I do agree that google maps takes you to a spot that really has no place for a hide so I've modified the coords a little.

Looked high and low in the area around the carpark where the GPS took us. From reading other comments, seems to be around 10m south of actual coordinates. Will try again next time! JSRACS

3 of us looked for this & could not find it. Tried not to look suspicious as there were many muggles about. The hint did not help us at all.

Quick find, even quicker grab as the hide was covered in ants. Gps had it about 10 metres from GZ. Read the hint. Tftc.

Some traveller passing by .
Cheers, Cacheators

This was another find in Western Australia while crossing Northern Territory and Western Australia from Darwin to Perth on Gibb River Road through the Kimberlys. During this 8500km journey we've met many nice and friendly people [^], visited countless marvelous places, saw lots of interesting local wildlife (and plants), took some 2500 pictures home and logged some 300 Caches .

This one we've pulled after some search . As many others before us, we've been confused by the coords in the middle of the car park and didn't know if we would rather search to the south or to the north [xx(]. Better coords would help here pretty much . It is some 5-10m south of GZ.

Thanks for the cache, we've enjoyed it very much [^].
$8Vs (Cacheators)

Hmmmm very tricky. X marks the spot appears to be in middle of carpark? Will try again next weekend

Looked for a while but no luck today. GPSr took me to the middle of the car park:-(

Couldn't be happier to find this one. It took us 4 goes. Very tricky. Lots of muggles about. Extremely rewarding cache. Thanks.

Took the geokids but they weren't much help. They just wanted to climb the trees. Will try again tomorrow.

Grrr... I searched this one twice today and had to give up.

The first time the cave tours were on so there were a couple of muggles about. My second visit was after the cave tours were closed (after 4pm) which ply gave me about an hour of daylight. GZ put me on the bitumen which was not helpful and in the end I had to admit defeat. I may try this one again as its owner has recently confirmed its still there. But for now Im beaten...

Found it but couldn't pull needs to be fixed x

Jamiewallis - I've deleted one of your two claims to have found this cache. By rights I should delete both as you can't claim a find without signing the log. Please email me privately (as I can't email you direct) with further details of what you claim to have found as its unclear if you have actually laid your hands on it, broken or otherwise. Please do not put details in the public log. Thanks.

Too hard for us! We had a good look at a 'possible' GZ (our GPS was bouncing around and eventually put us in the middle of the car park, so we focussed on a nearby 'logical' spot) both before and after a cave tour but failed to locate the goods. We think we had a good pull on everything - some bits stuck tight, others snapped off - so we sadly had to leave empty handed. We will have to return once we have a bit more of a clue. Thanks anyway.

Definitely still there.

Found it the hint is important and it is not in the cave.
TFTC.

Lead us to the car park but sadly could not find... Is it in the cave or above ground?

It's a sneaky one - no it's not in the cave.

Crafty

Checked on this one at the weekend. It is still there although it's accessibility was significantly reduced. Back to how it should be.

This had us baffled.

We looked twice for this one hoping in earnest we would be the FTF but after searching high and low we could not spot the cache.

Watched this one all week with no time to pop up to grab it (happy to know that our competition was reduced). So, off we went on Saturday morning with BCB to begin the search.
Awesome hide Olthomas, you done very well!!
TFTC

Out for the day with the gorgeous Jelsh team. Accompanied by muggle Nanna Bokkie. Been planning this cache since it was released but unfortunately things kept coming up... like work and the park being closed. Finally got our plans together and headed out.
The flies greeted us in force but did not deter the team effort. Co-ords chased us around and GZ was a bit hard to pin down. It was the relentless Mr Bert who saw it first... but was it the cache.... Yip it was.
Well done on entertaining the crowd Ol'thomas. Good hide! Favourite point from us!

Was hoping for this to be a FTF, but instead it's the first to "fail to find". Very hot morning and loads of flies and Muggles waiting for a cave tour. Had a quick look at GZ but no luck. Another time when less Muggles and flies

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