Red Rock Fig Newman, Western Australia, Australia
By jasenjanine on 14-May-14. Waypoint GC4RTQ5

As per the spoiler photo on the page, you actually have to clamber down the rock face to get to the cache. The container has only just been replaced by parkercruz, and it is NOT the 'school time capsule' that has been tossed further down the hill.

Got close to this one but based on previous log we didnt want to go further as not sure if cache is at GZ or way down below.Would be great if CO can confirm cache is where it should beSome feral humans have left their calling card with not so nice amongst the spinifex

Found it but looks like someone has thrown it off the edge! Was bit too dangerous to go down and get it in thongs!

We headed up here previously and found a cache that was worse for wear and all the contents missing, so we contacted the CO and organised to replace the cache. The new cache is now in place with our name in the log book, TFTC jasenjanine

Found it sitting in the open. Then entire base is broken and missing with nothing inside. I didnt have anything with me to make a log and I also fell off trying to grab a nearby bit of rubbish so I gave up. Logging a find but also a NM. TFTC

We didnt find this one but think it may have been muggled. Was this it? Picture attached.

Unfortunately I found what was left of it, put it back at the tree but its missing its log

Amazing survivor - I figured I’d be doing some rock scrambling so his trusty treadles off the track and wandered over confident past rock climbing skills would keep me in good stead but also happy about spoiler.I can add ditto to most comments and I barely made a mark. Phew - returned safely too to find bike still up there. After a big trip from homebase about 3500 km out east we are making our way south enroute to home via this inland route. TFTC and the FUN!

No way. Too steep in the wind.

A tricky spot to get to. Beautiful views.

Found while working in the area. Awesome first thing in the morning watching the sun come up.

We travelled von Karijini to Newman. On the way we are able to find some caches. This was one of them. Thank you for the Cache.

Found after a bit of a hunt. Unfortunately cache was out in the open and soaked through. Log book waterlogged so could not sign. Left it out in the sun to dry a bit but logbook may need to be dried more/replaced.

TFTC.

Found it with my daughter, who I am visiting with from Victoria.

Great climb love the new

Travelling up north and arrived to Newman today. It's nice that weather is finally getting warmer. Great view, but unfortunately lots of broken glass, tftc!

Decent climb but worth it. Lots of little goodies in there.

Found it!!!
The photo helped a lot tftc

Found with kiwinic on our annual northern holiday. This was a bit excitement climbing down that hill it’s all loose rock and a good view of town. TFTC:)

Found after a bit of a long hunt!! TFTC

Out for a morning run to these caches but out of the three of them I only found one and this wasn't one of them

TFTC
Not an easy find. Very steep

TFTC!! Great views. Bit steep.... sent my nephew down to retrieve!!

An afternoon stop at the lookout before heading to the airport
Good hide and view
Thank you for hiding this geocache jasenjanine
Find number 21829
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No, my brother and I had a good look

Too hard not going down there

Had to find this cache as it had been found by friends we introduced to caching last year. Couldn’t let newbies show us up! Tried to find by looking around GZ but in the end used cache logic. TFTC

TFTF
No pencil

Found it !

Tried, but too dangerous at night.

OMG watching someone get thus cache is nerve wrecking but the view is amazing tftc and the extra grey hairs

Tftc with a great view.

Nice quick find, once we got far enough down the rock tftc

Oh boy that was scary - and I was watching from above as geo-hubby made his way. Thanks jasenjanine

Tftc

OMG! Quite an adventure!!!

A very satisfying find. Poor Wollaston suffered an attack from an angry bee though. It did make me wonder whether the two ee’s in bee are silent. TFTC

Found on a road trip with Team Outnabout taking in the Meeka races and places of interest along the way from Geraldton to Newman. Even managed a Bee sting on the way down which added to the terrain difficulty. TFTC

pug002 found it on 11/8/2018 on our trip north. Todays logs we have been putting 10th, we have lost a day somewhere Looks like another day of mountain goating. Yep Geo hubby said this old goat is finding the mountains too hard lol. Got back to the car had lunch and as we were about to go to the next I said where's my GPS, Geo Hubby said I gave it to you when I came up. No I said , so off he went back down the track and yes you guessed it he had left it there. TFTC jasenjanine

A scramble if right!. Approached from the wrong side initially. The spoiler photo helped. TFTH SL cheers

Sent the good husband down for this honeymoon cache find while I sorted the geochild! What a spectacular view! From all reports I’m glad I wasn’t the one going down the hill! SL TFTC

And a third excellent find today! Great views and not doing too badly for a couple of kiwi pensioners! Certainly getting a bit of exercise! TFTC

Hoo Boy, scary stuff. I managed to scramble down the rock face and lay my hands on this little beggar today at 14:30. TNLNSL TFTC jasenjanine.

Day nine of Barnzy12 and Cravo10 adventure to the Northwest of WA, filling out boots with LGAs, rare DT, old caches, and good old fashioned red dirt!

Today we travelled from Karijini National Park to the mining town of Newman via nothing at all apart from a few caches? There wasn't a real lot to see today. We were in a fair amount of pain today after getting a tad burnt lapping up the pools of Karijini yesterday with some German backpackers we had befriended!

We side tracked to come caches along the route which had some great views but weren't feeling game for the T3 plus caches so kept it simple. We cached around town in the heat which was very rough and ventured out to the dam, which was very nice, unfortunately we didn't see any of these famous black swans. We did find some lovely views around town from the various vantage points that the caches and their owners directed us too.

Thanks to the COs for a good days caching around Newman, we skipped a few of the harder ones to get to as we have a big couple of days ahead of us. Thanks

this time on the second attempt we got this cache, not recommended in the peak of the day when the rocks are hot, the sun is burning and the palms get sweaty. we left empty handed and came back in the crack of dawn the next day and made for a much easier find, not only did i go down the right side to made a easier decent the rocks were cool and the sun wasn't annoying. once found Steve decided to tell me about the snake found here by the previous cacher Long John i was then glad i didn't realise this to afterwards. Have a Fav point

Day nine of Barnzy12 and Cravo10 adventure to the Northwest of WA, filling out boots with LGAs, rare DT, old caches, and good old fashioned red dirt!

Today we travelled from Karijini National Park to the mining town of Newman via nothing at all apart from a few caches? There wasn't a real lot to see today. We were in a fair amount of pain today after getting a tad burnt lapping up the pools of Karijini yesterday with some German backpackers we had befriended!

We side tracked to come caches along the route which had some great views but weren't feeling game for the T3 plus caches so kept it simple. We cached around town in the heat which was very rough and ventured out to the dam, which was very nice, unfortunately we didn't see any of these famous black swans. We did find some lovely views around town from the various vantage points that the caches and their owners directed us too.

Thanks to the COs for a good days caching around Newman, we skipped a few of the harder ones to get to as we have a big couple of days ahead of us. Thanks

It's easier looking from the top...trust me

After making an early morning find of Radio Hill Ramble, I stopped on my drive down off the hill to come looking for this cache. I hadn't gone very far before I got a reminder that we share this country with a wide range of wild life...a baby snake sunning itself. Leaving it well alone, I made my way to the edge..and over.

I was poking around looking for suitable place to hide a cache and thought I could see one. In order to get to it I pulled myself up on a large rock...or rather didn't because I actually nearly pulled the rock down onto me! After that brief fright, I then noticed that I had just happened across the cache...it was behind the rock I moved...

Thanks jasenjanine for putting this cache in an interesting location.

2x DNF's up here-must be losing my wits (...or courage). Loved the hunt altho a little nervous about scrambling around these rocks on my todd. Bugga!

That was really scary

Hard

What a great cache! A FP from for your efforts here. As I left I was able to look down on my old house. SL. Thanks to jasenjanine for the cache.

After a long load of rock climbing and soul searching it was time to go back up the hill and reset.start again different angle.climbed down gloves on rocks slipping and sliding.some flat ground.now where can it be .found it.now pilbara sun is getting a bit high.TFTC

Moutain goat material or what! Coords had me 20m further to the south than we should have been! But not one to give up Carawine and I battled through and eventually came up with big well earned smilie for this one!! TFTC

Cache grabbed with Mortimer 57 during our fantastic 3 weeks trip in Western Australia. Thank you to all the owners for their great job. We had a lot of fun to do Geocaching in your country !
Greetings from France!

This cache has been found with Emjuma57 during our WA roadtrip in august 2016. 5360 km from Perth to Exmouth, Karijini, and back down.
We had a lot of fun geocaching in Australia!! Thanks a lot to the owners for placing those caches even in the most remote places!!
Geocaching allowed us to discover places impossible to find with a book guide!
Greetings from France!!

Good one.

Found it

Hi there jasenjanine.

We found your cache **"Red Rock Fig"** at 1:59:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 14288.

We are travelling from Darwin to Geraldton via the inland route - Newman, Meekatharra, Mount Magnet, etc & thoroughly enjoyed our tour around the area today. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places.

Tried from the right, and got close but had better luck approaching from the left.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found this cache around two metres from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

TFTC jasenjanine

Found it a bit of rock climbing required

Love the view

I took the wander up the hill from the Visitor's Centre,
and continued wandering around to find a few more caches up on Radio Hill
First stop was the grove of fig trees that are hanging on to the cliff edge

I scrambled down, as the clue suggested and poked around.
Nothing !! [:o]
Hmmm !!

I scrambled back up.
And wandered around,
looking down.

Oh !! I might have been a bit hasty in me choice of tree
Here is a much older and finer specimen
Surely worthy of a cache hide.

So down I scrambled again.
To find that the tree hid no secrets
Aw c'mon where's the cache ?? !!

Oh !! There it is

Too easy !!
Yeah !! Right !!

This was a damn hard box to spot
My kinda cache hunt [^]

Mountain goats we are not...thanks for the view.

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Found, great views, thank you

Very tough to get to but fun

This was the third of the three caches I looked for (and found) on Radio Hill today. Very warm. About 39 degrees. I had to go and have a cooling shower after this afternoon's caching. Thanks for the cache Jasenjanine. This was the easiest and quickest find of the three today.

Should of brought my abseiling gear haha.

TFTC

Firs off I was at the wrong tree, then I was at the right tree but the wrong side, after getting myself out of the tree I climbed down again but now I was able to grab the cache, Phew.
Thought I wasn't going to find it for a minute there.
Thank you for the cache and the hide jasenjanine.

Rustic Relics
(Budgie)

Last day in Newman before continuing on the big move trip from Townsville to Mandurah with the next stop with family in Carnarvon.
Found this one quickly while enjoying the views from up here
Tftc sl tnln

After finishing a training course nearby, I parked up at the top of Radio Hill and headed for this cache on foot. I got to about 3m from GZ and then realised why the terrain level is what it is. I however managed to turn it into a T4 or 5 though...I got down there okay, but then turned my focus to the obvious object. I guess I read the title wrong and thought it was a hint...After embracing my inner mountain goat, I decided to head back to a bit safer ground. I'm sure the COs ears must have been burning as I was cursing his name haha. I soon had the cache spotted and I quickly added my name. After speaking with the CO earlier in the day, I made sure to grab a set of coordinates (from my phone so may not be entirely accurate). My GPS had me at S23 21.869 E119 43.485. TFTC Jasenjanine, fave point for the adventure.

Coordinates changed from:
S 23° 21.863 E 119° 43.490

Coordinates changed to:
S 23° 21.869 E 119° 43.485

Distance from original: 45.9 feet or 14 meters.
Adjusting coords a bit ... thanks KrabiBoy

Found after a scurry and but of a look. Great spot. TFTC!

We were looking and the Police arrived and asked what we were doing , explained and they said there are plenty around here. So we left and will do this one next time .

Out and about with Pprass on our travels in WA. Having landed in Newman we managed to get a leave pass for a couple of hours. This was our last for the day. We should have read all the title and we would have been closer to the mark. I made this a 5 as my gps lead me nearly all the way down while pprass had more sense and used the rating guide. Enjoyed the challenge, Thanks for the cache jasenjanine

Found at 3:58 PM GAFF3 in the company of xambo4u.
We really messed this one up and made it a Terrain of 5.0 [B)] We just should have taken more notice of the cache name and we would have been right. However the batteries in my GPSr had just died and I was relying on where the GPSr last pointed to. Robyn took off in some expedition way down and I just pottered around the mid way mark hoping that none of the rocks that I was clinging to would let go. So relieved to have finally found it in a relatively easy spot to where we were searching [B)].
Thanks jasenjanine.

Founnd while cycling round oz. A bit scary and cold in the late afternoon.

Found it almost gave up .
Was also worried about slipping and hurting my self for work tomorrow

Found it during my working stay in Newman. Thank for the cache.

A lovely spot leading to a clever hide. It was only when I had scrambled halfway down the bank amongst the rocks and spinifex...in my jandels (thongs) that I realised how unprepared I was! Thanks for the cache.

Found it!! Nice walk for kids and family dog

Another visit up here after work and I had another find to my name.
Saw lots of yellow footed rock wallabies in the vicinity of this cache but they were too quick for me to photograph.

Please note the large rock right above this cache is loose as I grabbed a hold of it and it scared the bejesus out of me as I though it was going to dislodge and take me with it on the way down the hill.

TFTC

Yay was quite challenging due to the gps going crazy and the spinifex made it so much more enjoyable. I also improved my mountain goat skills

Number 2 for today took a bit to find this one nice view again thanks for the cache

We are now on our way home so stopped by this evening to have another go at this. This time we knew exactly which crack it was in and went straight there. TFTC and for adding the spoiler! We have left a small GC

We headed there first thing this morning. Only discovered that we had to go down the steep face when we got there. Not suitable for kids! What about old folks with artificial knees? Anyway mr fairwaydriver descended and looked everywhere. Mrs fairwaydriver found a big ledge that needed searching. GPS did not lead us to the cache. Pity.

Logged during a caching trip with the girlfriend and a mate up north of WA.

Searched a while for this one!

TFTF

On a three week road trip north, through the Pilbra, Karijini then over to Exmouth. Caching along the way to help see some sights and have some breaks. Had great weather all trip apart from the last week once we hit the coast. Never the less, had a great trip.
Nearly surfed down on a big rock. TFTC

*FTF* at 4.00pm
After finding the other nearby new cache, I headed up to this one.
Parked on the side of the road and wandered to the "edge"
Now I know why it's not recommended for kids.
I meandered ,y way down, so may potential hides, and where to start.
I settled on where my GPS was pointing to and headed down. Checking everywhere as I went just in case.
As I doubled back to where my gps pointed, a rock slipped beneath me and sent my heart racing. Deep breaths, deep breaths. GPS was still pointing further "down" but I wasn't keen.
A quick message to the co indicated where to look, about 6 metres back. And after some hunting, there it was.
These rocks were really laying havoc with my gps but I found it in the end
Back to the hotel for a well deserved refreshment now
TFTH Jasenjanine. A fav point from me for the challenge in finding.

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