Holland Beginning Broomehill West, Western Australia, Australia
By josstaylor on 24-Jul-14. Waypoint GC59FJ9

Thanks josstaylor!! A new LGA for me. A quick find too!!

Good spot. Love 4x4 driving the Holland Track.

Good job to the hubby, no way I was going in this grass in this weather..We did the Holland Track a couple of years ago, little did we know we drove past a Geocaching..Thanx for the cache

Taurus Six and I started the day from Katanning after spending a lovely evening there last night , after a day of geocaching through the Wheatbelt yesterday. It was a very cold morning and constantly threatening to rain. After a hearty breakfast at the Dome we had a walk around the township this morning collecting a couple of Adventure Lab elements before hitting the road . Our geocaching plan for the day was to clear up caches and Adventure Labs around the Katanning area then do a circuit through Broomhill then back round to Kojonup before meandering our way back to Bunbury geocaching along the way . There was an array of different caches, and areas to explore and all in all it was another very enjoyable days geocaching .This is our twelfth cache find of the day along with a near by Adventure Lab whilst driving around these beautiful back roads of the southern Wheatbelt. We drove past gz here and had to turn around and come back . The cache took a little while longer than it should have to locate . Thanks for the cache find Joss Taylor .

Thanks was a good find kids loved it.

Thanks for the geo was great to find

We arrived at the cache before I had my schick together but after a short walk the cache was spotted. Holland wouldn't want to have been as disorganised as I was this morning or he'd have never made it anywhere. TFTC josstaylor.

Tftc. Quick find.

tftc well placed

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 25 - Cranbrook to Nyabing via Tambellup, Broomehill village and Katanning. I started with a tough multi, then did lots of roadside caches until Katanning and then started to explore the town also whilst doing a set of labs. The last part of the day was heading to Nyabing and a fantastic show ground camp ground, with under cover caravan parking. I watched yesterdays Grand Prix and am now sitting having dinner at the local gathering spot, not a pub called The Hub. Off to Kulin tomorrow and a series I have been wring on for some time but did not expect to get to, the Tin Horse Highway.I was happy that quite a few of today's caches were nice quick roadside caches, even if they were at some interesting location. Thanks for the cache josstaylor46857.7 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 International Womens Day A#343**Albida**

Got it

Dee

After an unscheduled stop in Albany overnight due to battery issues, it was time to head home. With a warm coffee in hand, we departed Middleton Beach express for the Mount Barker Bakery. The bellies were fuelled up with a warm pie and we began the days caching with a stop at the Mount Barker Cemetery. The plan for today is to head north via the Great Southern Highway.Not sure Betsy would make it down most of the Holland Track, but its nice to dream. Made a quick find today, but can understand why previous finders would have had difficulty. Cheers josstaylor! Join us in Augusta, in Western Australias South West, for WA Goes Big 2024 (GCAGV8Y) on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. Log your will attend now!

No cache - Just found a dead parrot in dry grass near fence

No luck today

TFTC Sl. Now to head off up the Holland Track.

Lots of passing muggles and lots of grass.

One day we'll do the Holland track but today we score a smiley. Tftc

Im down this way for work so stopped by and took a short walk. Thanks for the cache. A quick find.

Found during my trip back home to SA after touring the southwest of Western Australia for almost four weeks, including a 5-day visit to Albany. Thanks for the cache josstaylor!

Yep, it's there

pretty easy hiding spot but couldnt write our names cause we didnt have a pen. pretty much just grabbed it and put it back cause we were in a hurry.

Muggles everywhere.. was difficult

Start of the track

Signed the note and left a toy

Thanks ️

Easy one

After doing a small section of the Holland Track, we picked up this cache before heading towards Perth. Tftc

Nice find.

Found with my man @kfarrell74

Swiss geocachers on a journey through Western Australia.
Today we went from Katanning to Gnowangerup. First we looked for caches in Katanning before we went to the multi at the Police Pool Nature Reseve. There we liked the multi through the landscape very much. Further along the Great Southern Highway we also found all the caches targeted. So we reached Gnowangerup via the Horsepower Highway. Here, too, there were still finds. Many thanks to the owners for setting the caches.

My first cache

No luck

Enjoyed the stop and find tftc

Nice quick find. Heaps of mozzie, so glad it was a quick one. Found with TahliaTheFox.
Tftc

Lots of mozzies and ants on the side of the road where we parked.
Easy find

Easy find, thanks for the cache.

Adelaide to Perth Roadtrip.
Day Six: Nyabing to Kojonup, via Mount Barker.
Weather: Deteriorating!

I’ve seen a lot of Holland references on this trip but I don’t know the history. I’ll do some reading when I get home.

Thanks again josstaylor.

Tftc nice easy find

A quick visit to Katanning and headed to Broomehill for a quick look; I didn’t realise the track started here and a distant relative by marriage (Carmody) was involved. Chose a muggle free window for a quick park, grab, signed and returned TFTC

Quick cache on our way south.

Found with Redruthguy. TFTC

A quick stop and find, tftc!

Woohoo !!! Found it !!!

Out and about on New Years Day !

Happy 2022

Quick find on way back home from Gnowangerup via Arthur River. TFTC. all in good order.

One of our targets for this trip to Western Australia was to attempt some challenges, in particular The Great Southern Challenge, The Great Southern Challenge II and The Regional Cacher Challenge III. Today we focussed on visiting as many LGAs as we could in a day and to find at least once cache in each of them. We were fortunate to visit 7 LGAs and find more than one cache in each of them.

When we didn't find the cache at the published coordinates, we gradually widened the search area and made a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks josstaylor for the cache.

Found it and it's friend a black snake about 4m from the cache. TFTC

Took a while in the wet long grass. Cache in good condition.

Found with Tyke48

Would love to be turning on to the Track, must continue north. Someday we’ll return and head east.

Found it. TFTC josstaylor. Quick find here today. Replaced as found.

Quick find here today on our way down to Albany for the WAGB21 weekend with Orrsome Family and Deefa71. Tftc

Nice hide on way to wagb2021 tftc

Hope to ride this one day. Tftc

The Better Half and I had an early start from Katanning today which meant that the first few caches were done in fog. This cache was the first cache we got to after leaving Katanning in the dark.

Cache found without problems once a semi dry path was found to ground zero, Log signed and cache returned as found.

Thanks josstaylor for placing this cache for us to find

Chwiliwr and I had an early start from Katanning today which meant that the first few caches were done in fog. This cache was the first cache we got to after leaving Katanning in the dark.

Cache found without problems once a semi dry path was found to ground zero, Log signed and cache returned as found.

Thanks josstaylor for placing this cache for us to find.

Found it and signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hunt.

Nice and easy to find one we realised it was at ground level.
While here we replaced the cache container and log book as they were damaged.
We left the log book inside the cache as it may dry out after a while.
Thanks for the chance to stop and smell the flowers.

Container is cracked everything wet inside so couldn't sign it

A nice quick and easy park and grab.

Thanks for the cache josstaylor.
Found on 16/3/21 at 15:53.
Find #13168.

Well I overthought this one again (as usual?) and spent 10 minutes looking everywhere but the obvious. In good nick. Thought this would be my #700 but a dnf yesterday has put me behind. TFTC.

Well the time has finally come for our long awaited Holland Track trip. What started up as a weekend away for a few has turned into a road trip with about 8 or so cars. Bring it on.
This trip included some of our regular gang, some good friends and a few new ones.
Our caching community consisted of myself, Granett, Allied_OZ, Barnzy12, Cravo10, Rudi63, Rokadz, The Fitzys, ChickenHawk07, Jaxonic, McFonz and a muggle in Alan.
With plenty of plans, (and food and drink) we left Broomhill at 10.00am.

This was our first obvious stop and a quick find here. Could do with a new container as the lid has a crack.

Many thanks to josstaylor for placing and maintaining Holland Beginning. We were here at 10:05 am on Thursday and this is my find 8842.

The long awaited trip to tackle the Holland Track from go to whoa has finally arrived, we started at the
Broomehill end with a crew of 10 in 7 cars including myself, Allied_OZ, ChickenHawk07, Jaxonic, Kyzabra, MCFonz, rokadz, rudi63, Thefitzes and one muggle Alan who would not be converted. This first section was pretty easy going along gazetted roads.

First stop and it was a quick find to get the ball rolling.

josstaylor I found your cache at 10:14am, this was the 2nd of 8 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 6380. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

So after a few months of planning, the day of this trip had finally arrive. The convoy consisted of 9 cars and the following cachers myself, Granett, Allied_OZ, Barnzy12, Cravo10, Kybrza, Rokadz, The Fitzys, ChickenHawk07, Jaxonic, McFonz and Alan the knowing muggle.

The weather looked positive, and we were wall looking forward to the experience.

Quick find, and photo and we were off on the adventure


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This cache will add to my next 2020 goal to REACH FOR THE MOON.


Thanks josstaylor for bringing me to this location and taking the time to hide and maintain this cache. I found the cache at 10:22:00. This was my Find 7 for today out of a Total number of 28 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 5176.

Found it

A quick park and grab.

TFTC josstaylor this is find #10791 for us.

TFTC. Hope we have better luck finding the whole Track than the cache. Then we had a girl look and found easily. Coolgardie here we come.

Friends tried to drive this track last year but the weather changed and they ended up having to abandon a top section when the track got closed. Not so suitable for our 2WD. Thanks for this cache.

The start of a road trip to Denmark to hit roymerc caches and get a few different LGAs with Probsty.

I crossed the Holland Track on the Hyden Rd in March. Now I know where it starts. I’ll be back. A quickish find..

TFTC josstaylor

Nice quick find, looked in the wrong place for a while! TFTC

A nice quick find. Tftc.

Nice easy find and some amazing history.

Hidden!!

First find for the morning.
Ready to head for Rae’s clinic

Found on the way home from a little road trip.

TFTC

Quick grab between showers.

Thank you! I headed out on a super large day trip to find some caches I've had my eye on, due to their age or LGA, or because they contained clues for other caches. I left before dawn and was home after sunset, but saw so much of the countryside. Happy to make the find here.

We found it easily.
TFTC

Quick find on the way home from completing the Stirling Ridge Walk. TFTH

TFTC!

Think this one needs a daytime look. Lots of very long grass!

Always wondered where this track started. Have driven the Hyden to Coolgardie section. Dropped of a trackable today. TFTC

Touring the Great Southern using Geocachiing as our guide.

We headed out today from Kojonup and did a massive loop of some 420km. We saw some great historic locations, old schools, old halls, so much information shared with us today through Geocaching. We often say WA doesnt have the history of other States but boy you did us proud today.

TFTC josstaylor

We have had a lovely weekend in Albany for PP1's birthday treat....I even took him past some golf courses! On the way home now TFTC

Headed to Albany for a few days, this cache was another find on our trip south... Another quick find here

TFTC josstaylor [^]

Day 260 of our 366 day straight challenge. Homebound from a week in Albany and the Stirling Ranges with ChrisRG.

Third stop, third find for the day. All good here, tftc

TFTC

Quick park and grab on our way to Albany. We had a short detour to find a few caches to tick a few counties off the map.
TFTH

This was our first stop of the day with ilook4geo. We are on the move again and are covering quite a lot of kilomteres as we collect cache finds in different LGAs, which is one focus we have at the moment.
No problem in finding this cache and all was in good order. We were soon on our way again after doing the signing and replacing. Thanks to jossytaylor for this cache placement.

On the hunt again today, along with goingplaces2. It was fairly hot, so we kept on the move to enjoy the car air conditioning. This was one of the caches we found and enjoyed. TFTC.

Holland Track Adventure
This trip had been on my 'Wish List' for some years
The problem was Logistics
I had to get the timing right...…….So many Variables!
Weather
The best time of year is after winter to avoid the very worst of the cold and wet, and before the weather gets too hot in summer
We were very fortunate to get nice warm sunny days and mild nights with no rain, the track was mostly dry and the deep mud puddles could easily be skirted around on dry tracks
Company
I did not want to tackle the track on my own as my vehicle is not fully set up for hard core 4 wheel driving, no winch or high lift kit which would be advisable, especially after rain
Luckily I found a group of other geocachers who were planning to tackle the track and I quickly agreed to join in the group
Today was the day
After spending many hours the previous afternoon removing all my work tools and other stuff out of my vehicle and packing in all my camp gear, I was ready to go early in the morning
Stopping to fill up with fuel on my way out of town then continuing on to pick up my passenger Mistraluna
While we had discussed a rough plan of finding caches on the way to Hyden I was not prepared for the coming adventure that this day would prove to become
Luckily we had all day today and tomorrow to get to Hyden where we would meet up with the other members of our party
On the way we stopped to top up with fuel and headed for our first cache of the day
From the fuel station we drove east to Pinjarra then on Pinjarra - Williams road, through Dwellingup, continuing east until we reached the power line road just past East Boundary rd. We made a left turn here and started heading north
The road was quite good and I did not need to use 4 wheel drive
I was thrilled to see a great number and variety of wild flowers along the roadside which I had not seen before
Our journey continues

Today, leaving from our overnight stop at Newdegate we followed roughly along the Holland track route picking up caches along the way
Here we had a quick park and grab, took a couple of photos to celebrate completing the Holland Track from start to finish
A great sense of achievement for me as I had been wanting to tackle this iconic Aussie historic track for some time
I was great to be able to share the experience with some great people and have an amazing adventure along the way
Perhaps I can return in the future to retrace our steps, but starting at this point and working my way north
TFTC

Visited this one for a second time as my companion on this epic 8 day adventure, hadn't found this one before today. We travelled the entire length of the Holland Track and then some, all up covering over 2500km I believe. We had an amazing time out there, but the adventure has to end somewhere. Mission accomplished.

I am down south again for the second weekend in a row, this time with the Geoson for a bit of a boys weekend. Stayed in Bunbury of the Friday night then headed for Walpole for night 2.
Headed home via Albany.

Container broke as I was closing it. Replaced with a camo sistema

josstaylor SVKR_WA found your cache Holland Beginning today at 13:31:38 21 Oct 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 3255

Easy find TFTC

Up early to go for a drive and bowl over some caches while on leave. First of I don't know how many today but was a quick find as I have done this one before. I hadn't logged it as I forgot all about it and when I did remember I did this (and a few others) I couldn't remember the date so didn't bother logging. So here it is.

Thanks for the cache josstaylor.

Cheers

MCFonz

Log tag 5872262 tftc

Tftc

Nice

Found this one laying out in the open so it was an easy find.
Replaced it where I though it should be but not sure that it will stay there.
Thanks.

TFTC