A Tale of a Whale Newman, Western Australia, Australia
By Moneybox on 09-May-14. Waypoint GC54D3E

An informative cache in one of the most iconic spots of the east Pilbara. We completed the required tasks and have sent our answers off to the CO. Thanks Moneybox for brining us out here once again

Spent a couple of nights in town and exploring the surrounds. Checked this out while here. TFTC

Found with e.gregory1 as we made our way along the Great Northern Highway on a trip from Adelaide to north-western WA. After camping out about 20 km south, we spent the morning around Newman before heading northwards. Thanks for the informative earthcache Moneybox!

Found on a trip to Western Australia from Adelaide with FeatherWaite. After camping south of Newman last night, we continued to make our way north, finding caches of interest along the way.The required information was gathered to complete the earthcache tasks and our responses were prepared and sent to the CO. Thanks Moneybox for another interesting earthcache.

In the town for work so took the work car to cache. Answers kind of obtained and sent. Pic attached as proof. Spent many years chasing Moneybox caches well south of here. I was surprised to see that name here. TFTC

On arrival at Newman, we were straight into learning about iron ore, mining, rocks and the like thanks to the earthcache. Answers sent to CO. Tftec

This is a very cool Earthcache as it makes you stop where there is a very cool haul truck but also a concise and clear lesson in the types of iron ore and their differences. Thanks for placing-----Decided to do a long road trip, flying in from Canberra, starting and finishing the drive in Port Hedland. It was a long day of flights, followed by 7 days of lots of kilometres. I stopped at every 'point of interest' along the way, I wanted to miss nothing! Earthcaches, Virtuals & AL's are always very good waypoints for interesting things as well.Every night I downloaded a bunch of podcasts and these made the kilometres fall away. This was the first outback road trip I have done where I saw more emu's than kangaroos. The wild camels walking in the desert were also very cool to see. My trusty swag served me very well.

This cache was visited by Geo Daughter A and her husband who are living in Newman at the momentGreat to grab a cache in far north Western AustraliaAnswers sent to the ownerTFTC

Visiting Newman for a bit and thought I'd get out and about - albeit it in the extreme heat. TFTC

Back on holidays chasing the sun, travelling around and collecting a few caches on our way. Stop here for a break to grab the three caches located here.Thanks for placing the earthcache for us to learn something new.Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of holiday.

Here I am in Newman! Tftc

Was good answering the questions while having a read of the signs

Impressive! Massive WOW factor here with plenty of stats to overwhelm. Equally good is the beaut ‘geo-lesson’ in iron ore of the Pilbara. Arrived late this arvo and jumped on trusty treadles to start exploring Newman TFTC !

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC

TFTC- found with rainygirl74

Travelling up north following the sun and arrived to Newman today. It's nice to notice that the weather is getting warmer. This was an interesting earthcache. Thanks for education and the cache!

Our Lap has brought us to Newman, originally coming to town to get our car serviced but it seems Newman Toyota doesn’t communicate real well and we’re actually unable to do our service as booked - insert nasty words here. Anyway this gave us more time to explore and have ‘A whale of a time!’ A big truck is always a highlight and an earth cache as equally interesting, Moneybox always manage to teach us something and on this occasion they didn’t disappoint. We completed the specific gravity test in our caravan, our results supported our hypothesis and were not too far off ‘correct’. Being a school day this was science done for the day.
Thanks Moneybox a fav from us

We had fun doing the experiment, it was interesting, thanks Moneybox, Mum has sent the answers for me

Interesting spot, nice to see the two types of iron ore clearly set out TFTC & education!

Answers sent and logged with CO’s permission.

An excellent interactive Earthcache! Favourite point added.

The traffic was banked up today on the highway due to an accident at the Marble Bar Rd.

TFTeC Moneybox - another ripper!!

It is fascinating all this mining stuff, the science and money behind it all is just staggering. Thanks for teaching me something about the ore mined here.

Found while filling in time this afternoon in Newman. I do enjoy earthcaches as it’s always good to learn something new. This one was both informative and simple enough for me to figure out by myself. TFTC

Day seven of our travels north brought us into Newman. We weren’t successful at finding many traditional caches in Newman but atleast we could complete this earthcache learning a little more about the earth sciences.

This was interesting to learn about the local rocks and mining history. We got the cache in the haul pack as well while we were here. TFTC

An over night stay in newman for kiwinic and i and a few grabs in the morning. We completed this earthcache and learned some kool stuff along the way. Thanks for placing this cache here

Really enjoyed finding the readily available answers to this earthcache. A great location . Tftc

Front of truck not where it is on map
Woorree and Whaleback Venturer Scouts

Thanks moneybox for another informative Earth Cache and what a great display, pitty about the garbage though. (dirty nappies amongst other rubish)

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The trip through the North West of Western Australia continues. Seeing fantastic sights, brilliant views and many wonders. But also managing to grab a cache or two along the way.

Thanks to all the CO for placing the caches.


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Thanks Moneybox for bringing me to this location and taking the time to hide and maintain this cache. I found the cache at 09:21:00. This was my Find 1 for today out of a Total number of 18 Finds and 0 DNF for for this Caching Outing. The cache was found in Good Condition and I signed the log and returned the cache as I found it.

This find brings my total number of Finds to 4746.

So I visited the COs on my way south from Newman. Shortly after arriving at there place, I collected my sample rocks from out of the car and proceeded to experiment in their kitchen. There was water going everywhere and wet rocks on the sink, but with the data I collected I was able to provide the COs with accurate specific gravities for both samples.

Thanks Moneybox for providing an interesting earthcache that although not challenging my mind too much, I thoroughly enjoyed.

TFTC neva2old will send through the answers.

Tftc Neva2Old is sending through the answers

Grabbed the other nearby cache and then got the answers for this cache. I can’t get over how red it is here. Such stunning landscape tftc

After checking into our accommodation and doing some supermarket shopping we stopped to do this Earth Cache on the way back to the caravan park. Interesting exercise and answers send to CO. Thanks Moneybox

Completed he earth cache after finding the micro, a great introduction to earth science and geology. TFTC

Last one for the day, the clue helps.

We found that this Earthcache was very interesting considering
the area has The Worlds Largest Open Cut Mine and of course a tour
has been booked for tomorrow.
Our answers have been sent to the CO and hope that we have earned
this smilie.... A fave from us.

Thanks heaps Moneybox

Little Squirell

Found on a road trip with Team Outnabout taking in the Meeka races and places of interest along the way from Geraldton to Newman. TFTC

Very interesting lesson
I'd been wondering about the piles of rock we've been seeing

Was at this site yesterday looking for the cache on the truck. Knew there was an earthcache here too but it was lunch time and we needed to get in to town for supplies so left it until the way back in this morning. Stayed last night at the Oasis caravan park just out of town. Twenty dollars for an unpowered site [40 with power] and free showers and washing machines and dryers. They even provided the washing powder and fabric softener!!!
Didn't take too long to gather the required information here.
Thanks. An interesting, well set out place to welcome you to the town.

Had an interesting time in Newman and enjoyed doing this earth cache, sending answers to CO TFTC

After a lot of planning, geoson Xpert_Cacher and I are off on a camping road trip up north. 8 days of driving, exploring, Geocaching and camping in swags. The plan has us travelling nearly 5000km grabbing plenty of caches and crossing off a pile of LGAs.

Day 4 - After doing a bit better than we planned yesterday and making it to Newman, our day started with grabbing a few caches around the mining town. We then headed to Karijini and then onto Tom Price for the night.

An interesting earth cache. Thanks for the learning. Answers sent soon.

Moneybox SVKR_WA found your cache A Tale of a Whale today at 07:36:58 23 Apr 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 2997

Enjoyed learning about the ones around town, answers sent by SVKR_WA. TFTC

After having a great time in Karijini it's time to go back south-westwards to Perth! We plannend 2 days of long driving. Part I is from Karijini to Meekatharra (today). Part II from Meekatharra to York! Were we have planned 3 nights for exploring the Avon Valley! Of course we logged some caches to make the long way back enjoyable. Some caches were on beautiful spots. Thanks again to all the co's for placing!

Greetings from the far Belgium!

**Individual log:**

After finding the trad we also solved this easy eartcache! Thanks for teaching us!

Day 9 of my trip from Perth, Exmouth ,port Samson , Newman to Mt Fisher ... I Thanks to all the COs for placing caches along my journey ......

Thanks.

Interesting place, Newman should have a competition 'Guess the number of rocks in each cage',

Muggle has a 5 day weekend, well 4.5 days after he got some sleep from finishing work at 1am Thursday so we thought we'd take Bruce along on a road trip and grab the old cache here and there

will email answers as requested

After a lot of kilometers with not many caches we were looking forward to exploring Newman and also hopefully collecting a few smiles.

We really enjoy earth caches and Moneybox has added heaps of information and caches along our trip this year for which we are really thankful. We pulled up at an unexpected location and headed off to gz. We have to say that we really enjoyed the hands on lesson making it quite a learning experience. We collected the required information and emailed it off to the CO.
Many thanks Moneybox not only for this great earth cache but we go to get up close and personal with an interesting piece of machinery and learnt quite a bit about that as well.
A definite favourite point from us.

24618 finds
On the way home (Perth) from Alice Spring event.
Interest about Earthcache. Thanks shared with me
Fav from me.
Thanks Moneybox for organising the cache and hunt [^]
Answers sent

Camping near Newman for a couple of days and trying to collect some of the local caches. Found this one (a bit hard to miss) just on sundown. A couple of the rocks were loose in the cage and I was AMAZED how heavy they were when I lifted one. Answers are on their way to the CO. TFTC Moneybox

Day ten and eleven 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!

Day 9 We travelled from Newman to Mount Magnet via Meekatharra, Wiluna, sandstone, cue and many a place in between to pickup a couple of harder to reach LGAs and get numbers up for the trip.

We were lucky enough to pickup four FTFs in Meekatharra that had managed to go unfound for a reasonable time so we nabbed all of them. A nice little stat to add to the list.

We made some large scale detours to Wiluna and Sandstone to pickup two more LGAs that are a little hard to pickup from our Perth homebase.

We racked up over 1000km for the day and finished up grabbing caches along the mount magnet tourist drive by torchlight to end an epic day.

Day ten saw us up at 5am to cleanup the granites series of caches, before making the 600 plus kilometre journey back to our home of Perth.

Overall it's been a huge trip with 200plus caches found, a dozen or so LGAs picked up, 6500km travelled, 11 days of non-stop caching and tourist activities, 6 FTFs, countless containers fixed, logs replaced, pathtags dropped off.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches which made the trip possible.

Nice EC here. Thanks moneybox again for a nice Geo stop.

Day ten and eleven 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!

Day 9 We travelled from Newman to Mount Magnet via Meekatharra, Wiluna, sandstone, cue and many a place in between to pickup a couple of harder to reach LGAs and get numbers up for the trip.

We were lucky enough to pickup four FTFs in Meekatharra that had managed to go unfound for a reasonable time so we nabbed all of them. A nice little stat to add to the list.

We made some large scale detours to Wiluna and Sandstone to pickup two more LGAs that are a little hard to pickup from our Perth homebase.

We racked up over 1000km for the day and finished up grabbing caches along the mount magnet tourist drive by torchlight to end an epic day.

Day ten saw us up at 5am to cleanup the granites series of caches, before making the 600 plus kilometre journey back to our home of Perth.

Overall it's been a huge trip with 200plus caches found, a dozen or so LGAs picked up, 6500km travelled, 11 days of non-stop caching and tourist activities, 6 FTFs, countless containers fixed, logs replaced, pathtags dropped off.

Thanks to all the COs for their caches which made the trip possible.

In the fading light of the day I wandered around collecting the necessary answers and playing with bits of rock. Thanks Moneybox for this Earth Cache as I learned that there is more to iron ore than I realised.

My answers have been forwarded.

A quick find today after driving here from the Pilbara Shire Offices. Answers have been sent in by email. Thanks to Moneybox for the cache.

I was in Newman for a couple of days and decided to try my first ever Earthcache. Thank you for the informative journey whilst I was here.

Awesome place and truck! Thank you so muche for this cache!

Amazing truck ! We went to see it with Mortimer (who sent the answers to the owner for us) during our way back to Perth. It was really unexpected to be in Newman but no regrets, we learnt so much there about mining!

This was cool

Hi there Moneybox.

We logged your Earthcache **"A Tale of a Whale"** at 12:24:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 14283.

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

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Tftc will send answers next reception. Leaving Newman now.

I visited Newman for the first time today
A towne with a short history, yet rather long in the Iron Ore mining business
You just know this is a mining towne as soon as you get close.
The sight of Mount Whaleback, the long trains full of reddish pebbles and the great big haul truck sitting next to the road give the game away

I parked the geomobile and wandered around for a sticky beak.
An Earthcache beckoned ...
... and I was soon examining a pile of rocks in a cage for clues

Answers to hand, I wandered over to see the star attraction
A big truck for sure !!
Not as big as the one at the tourist info centre though [:o]

Thanks for the Earthcache and a chance to revise me iron ore mining knowledge [^]

I have a very colourful bit of BIF back at home in Adelaide that makes a good door stop.
It came from down Norseman way though

In Newman for day and hopefully learnt abit about ore. TFTC

On our way to Darwin Adelaide for the V8's, going the long way round stopping at the WA Goes Big 2016 Event on the way. Of course no trip is complete without grabbing some caches along the way. TFTC.

Some more interesting geology in a region that relies on it. Email on its way.

Thank you for the opportunity to log an Earthcache.
Answers were sent via private message using Geocaching.com web site.

West Australia 2016 trip. Day 9. More driving today. Meekathara to Auski via Newman. Some very remote country but well traveled by trucks. A very interesting display and I hope I worked it out OK. Answers Sent.

Thanks.

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Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Del Murto A#140

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My first earth geocache!!! Was in Newman for the holidays and right before going to the airport decided to get the info for this cache. Only did it today, but loved it! Felt like a little scientist! TFTC!

On my AUS trip 2015/2016 logged. Thanks for the cache. Answers on road. FavPoint. Cheers Peter
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The big move from Townsville, QLD to Mandurah, WA. After thousands of km's and lots of caching to keep us entertained, we have finally arrived in Newman and enjoy a few days rest with family before continuing on the last stretch.
Loved learning a bit about the different Iron Ore and the specifications of the nearby Haul Pack Truck!

A second day was required for my training course in Newman, so I made sure to leave half an hour early to allow me to grab the required info here to log my find. I enjoyed learning about the mineral that my company actually mines. TFTC Moneybox, I have sent an email with my answers. Fave point from me here.

Nice walk from Kalgans Rest, but don't try to find this one at night too hard even with torch. May try again tomorrow!

Out on our travels with pprass . With staying in the campsite jPeter and I checked one nearby and then took to this one. Lots of info, can't say I understand all the info but I know more than I did before.
Thanks for the cache Moneybox Hope you accept the answers that I have submitted

We were there at 2:34 PM in the company of xambo4u.
This whole place is just one big mine operation! There are storage areas and workshops right in the town! I still don't understand though why some spots are mined and others are not. Isn't this whole Pilbara area iron ore rich? Or is it that some spots have a better concentration than others?
Thanks Moneybox.

The youngest member of our team gave this one a go on a FIFO visit all by himself. Cool to see the kids taking an interest when they fly the coop. Answers emailed to CO

Thank for the cache and education.

Love learning more about the minerals in this area and have emailed my answers to you. Thanks for the opportunity to increase my knowledge.

Love these educational caches, thanx Moneybox I am travelling & if I don't log this I will surely forget to over time.TFTC

I was alerted to this cache when it was published, so it was just a waiting game as to when i had the opportunity to travel the relatively short distance from where i work at Christmas Creek Mine to examine GZ and answer the questions .
With an injured truck needing some TLC at Newman, it was my chance to have a go at this cache at a very familiar GZ . I took a heap of photos and played with some rocks at the time while i was there, as i wasn't sure when i would have the time to log this cache. So with the correct answers, and permission from the CO, i am logging this cache now ... quite a few weeks later.
I enjoyed learning a bit more about the ore that we mine where i work, so thanks for an informative E/C ... i now know that we mine Goethitic iron ore .
Thanks for the fun Moneybox ... and TFTC [^]

The full bucket/dump truck/rail wagon on iron ore!! Thanks Moneybox.

TFTC

Our gps was out a bit but got it in the end,all areas where covered and we now know all the ins and outs of the whole area

Nice spot

After looking at the the traditional cache nearby, we thought we give this a go!

TFTC

Answers sent and permission to log received.
I like earthcaches and will always make an effort to find one wherever they may be, so as I am in Newman for a few days for work this cache was always going to get a visit from me.
Interesting info here and I learnt a bit about iron ore that I never knew, and grabbed some samples to take back home to my kids.

TFTC

Answered questions and emailed interesting even tho we are residents to learn more

We visited this spot on our way out of Newman on our way north. Very interesting information here. We enjoyed weighing up the different rocks and were surprised how heavy iron ore is. TFTC

Found this cache whilst doing a 3 week trip up north with the girlfriend and a mate .

Nice truck!

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.
TFTC

*FTF* at 5.00 pm
Was up in Newman for work and had just found the two recently released jasenjanine caches when did a "find nearby caches" to look at my filled Newman map.

"Where did this blue dot come from ?"

Upon further reading, I discovered this earthcache had been published (must do something about my notifications !!)

Made my way to GZ. I had not been here since they had bought the truck in and updated the signs.

Worked my way through my assignment, took a photo and submitted my answers.

If I have not fulfilled correctly, please delete my log.

A fav point from me.

Cheers for the earthcache money box. Looking forward to a south west trip to grab some of your creations.

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