Rails to Trails 1.1 Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia
By SeabreezeOZ on 19-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B7YN

My partner and I are on a road trip from the NSW/Vic border to Mandurah for a wedding and we are caching along the way.I worked out a lot of these puzzles before leaving home and brought my pushbike on our road trip to ride along this trail and pick up as many of these solved puzzles as I could todayFound this one quite quickly

Signed and returned as found. Tftc

Easy find

The whole elephant family found this one quite quickly. TFTC!

Its great to be visiting this side of the country, the plants and wildlife are diverse and beautiful. Having solved most of these puzzles in advance, we decided to walk the trail today.A bit of a car shuffle, and about 12 km of walking done. Lots of logs signed. The forest Trail/bike trail is very beautiful and although it was a little grey and cold, the rain held off for most of the day, and perhaps, due to the weather, it was very quiet as we walked today. Not too many people out and about. Thanks SeabreezeOZ for the adventure, scenery and caches along the trail today. Domsky

We decided to head into town on the bikes and grab these caches that I had solved. It was a nice ride inland back picking up a few things at the supermarket while we were there.This cache was not where we first looked as a more likely spot was close by.Thanks for the puzzle cache

Found it TFTC Found in good and nice and close

Found after crossing the Nullabor and heading down to Esperance and Albany on our way around the SW coast and north to Perth. After staying for two nights at Big Valley Campsite near Margaret River we spent a few hours in the morning to tackle the Rails to Trails series and the South West Attractions series with the added bonus of an intermediate Letterbox cache. With the Rails to Trails series we found all the caches but the clue for E was missing. Even so after calculating a few possibilities, and searching along a transect, the Final was located. With the South West Attractions series, the clue for B was missing and I couldn't find the cache at SWA # 1. With two clues effectively missing, and time against us, we had to pull the pin and move on to Yallingup for the night. Thanks for the caches and series SeabreezeOz!

Hint not much help, cache was further away. Made the find, signed and on our way.

TaurusSix and I have decided a big drive is necessary today, to undertake maintenance on a few of our caches. Obviously whilst we are out and about we intended to collect as many caches as practical along the way as well. We decided to head straight from Bunbury to Bridgetown from breakfast , the drive down there was beautiful. A very winters morning so there was frost everywhere, with fog in the valleys and creeks and wherever the sun was hitting the ground a beautiful steam was coming off the dewy grass . Picture perfect with layers and gloves. After Bridgetown we made our way through Manjimup, Pemberton, Karri Valley onto Margaret River and Cowaramup before heading back to Bunbury. A most enjoyable day trip.

This is our twentieth cache find of the day, Enjoyed a short stroll along the Wadarni Track . There was a muggle bike rider nearby so we needed to be a little bit stealth . Other than that cache quickly found, logged and replaced. Thanks for the cache sea breeze oz .

Western Australia Adventure 2023
Day Three: Southwestern LGAs.
Weather: It’s turned wintery!

I primarily wanted the letterbox cache that is about 1 km north of here, but when I saw this easy Sudoku, I thought that I had better solve it as it can’t be far away, which it wasn’t. This rail trail looks like fun and it’s certainly a lovely walk - I hope that I can get back here.

Thanks for the cache and series SeabreezeOZ.

It’s officially a mega!
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February 29 2024, Adelaide South Australia.
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Fun series to solve. Staying close by. Here in Margaret River for a few days from NE VIC at much higher altitudes. The trail network and MTB has been awesome to explore. TFTC and the lure to stop by

It started out as a very wet day today but the rain started to ease up as the morning progressed. We arrived here with ilook4geo and went on the hunt.
The puzzle here had been solved before hand and the new numbers were good. Thanks go to Seabreeze for placing this cache.

Had a good day today caching along with goingplaces2, especially after the weather had fined up. Found this one OK and with the log being signed it was time to continue with the hunt. All was in good condition. Puzzle was not a problem. TFTC.

This one took a while, read the hint and kept looking around the wrong object.
Found it in the end, TFTH.

Started this section of the track but soon turned back as the rain became quite heavy! Only managed two quick finds there this morning. Thank you for the puzzles and the series SeabreezeOZ.

tftc

Without the luxury of a bicycle, I set off on foot once again to attempt this series after completing a couple of others nearby.
Once my device settled here I zeroed in on the cache.

Such a beautiful part of the world. How lucky are we?

Thanks SeabreezeOZ for the puzzles and fun earning smilies.

Nice find, thanks

Nice quick find TFTC

Probsty and I hatched another plan to hit the Wadandi Trail. I had a few solved but Probsty went ballistic and solved the entire trail (thankfully). We parked up in town and pulled out the mountain bikes and we were off. No DNF’s but a few caches need some TLC.

TFTC SeabreezeOz

A lovely walk with the atCat family while finding this series. Loved the caches, hated the March flies. TFTC

I solved all these puzzles awhile ago when I needed something to keep me busy. We found ourselves in Margaret River this weekend and, even better, staying within walking distance of this trail! We took a beautiful afternoon walk and took turns collecting the caches while baby atCat napped. TFTC

Went for a ride along the rails to trails with SAMOW to collect some of the solved puzzles. Caches seemed to be unnecessarily quite a distance from the path but still enjoyable so thanks for the cache owner for placing these caches.

Quick find. Tftc

Went for a ride along the rails to trails with BJP? to collect some of the solved puzzles. Caches seemed to be unnecessarily quite a distance from the path but still enjoyable so thanks for the cache owner for placing these caches. Making sure to clean up the Margaret river region. Tftc.

Found another one . Love the forest tftc

TFTC with Never2old on our road trip

Having had a bike blowout on the Who Said That series, I'm now doing the Rails to Trails and SW Attractions on foot!! First one done... TFTC

Quick find TFTH

After all my walking on the trail yesterday I finally calmed down my knees a little during night so thought a ‘little’ walking today would be ok . Well that okness didn’t last long but I soldiered on doing the ones I planned.
Didn’t help that Google and the geo map said one was a road when really it was the rail trail so there went what I thought was 2km of p’n’gs to end up walking it
Passed through some lovely farm land today though
Mr dimor dropped me off near some house in the area for me to start my walk south but first had to walk north to get those two now southbound

Most caches were easy finds, some took a few minutes longer but no DNFs happy with that.

A few cyclists out and about, while here I was wishing I could ride a bike . But nah let’s put knees in pain again just shy of seeing a new knee specialist, oops Looks like sleeping in knee braces again tonight if I want to walk tomorrow

Had a few sprinkles of rain which made it humid but when you need to reach the car not much can do about the weather

TFTC Finally adding some smileys to these puzzles

Finally catching up on logging. Grabbing a few over the next few days. Took a little bit to find but got it. TFTC

We decided to tackle the Rails to Trails series while staying in Karridale for a few days. The boys had a fun outing on the bikes riding from north to south where we were picked up by Janine at the end . Certainly a beautiful trail to ride, really not sure why most caches were placed such a long way from it though?!
TFTC

Hi there SeabreezeOZ.

We found your cache **"Rails to Trails 1.1"** at 10:49:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 23781).

We decided to attempt some caches by walking along the Margaret River Rail Trail today. We thoroughly enjoyed our drive, the walk and the scenery - even more so as there seemed to be no "sticky" flies to bother us. We found 2 caches & DNF'd 0.

Thanks for placing this cache here. Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 3m 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.

Thank you SeabreezeOZ for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Day 2 in Margaret River and back on the bike early in the morning to finish up the Rails to Trails caches.
TFTC SeabreezeOZ this is find # 8354 for us.

One of the purchases that we had made back in Freemantle which saved our bacon a few times was a cheap umbrella each. It was a nasty $2 umbrella but because we were forced to wear those big ugly tourist stickers on our foreheads some vendor saw us coming and jacked the price up to $10. I don't know how they survived the week because they were flimsier than a politicians backbone.

The umbrellas went up and down a few times on this walk as showers came and went like bottles of wine. Thankfully there weren't any serious downpours because they would have caved, like a politicians backbone. At times I thought I had lost mine (which I was secretly preying for) because I kept shoving it in my pocket. Mrs Woodyrothwell assumed I also put my brains in my pocket because they were MIA as well. tftc

Ok last one for today. TFTC

Found with cullum68 while in this lovely area time for some caches thanks for the cache

Last day in margaret river. Heading to Collie to finish off the Bibbulumum track between collie and Pemberton . We missed this section last year. Thanks for the cache .

Off on our bikes again. Thanks for the series

Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.
Having some fun and chillaxing in the beautiful SouWest.
Tackling the rails and trails plus other series today. Bike out and off we go.
Thanks for the hide and SeabreezeOz

Third day exploring the picturesque SW with megawat60 and today we are tackling this bunch of pre-solved puzzles. Enjoying the bike ride very much and finding some nice size caches. TFTC, SeabreezeOZ.

Easy find on a great trail

Awesome thanks

We had a puzzle solving spree before heading down to MR and today was the day to start finding them. Mounted the deadly treadlies and set off on a beautiful day. This cache was found , signed and number noted. Tftc, seabreezeOZ. Great location.

Visiting the Margaret River district and doing a number of caches while here. Thanks to all the CO's for their placement. Log signed and placed back. TFTC

Day 2 at WAGB 18 (Dunsborought) - Search, found and signed the log as V.C.E. - Varuna, Crank1 and Everlasting. Thanks for the cache and hunt.

Accompanied with Everlasting and Vaurna
Signed as V.C.E - Vaurna, Crank1, Everlasting.
Found it
Thanks for the cache.

Quick find this morning as we head into town. Hopefully we will get a chance to complete this trail before our holiday ends. Tftc

My final find in the series. Thanks.

You need to follow the hint as the coords are about 19m out. Lots of empty bottles. We cleared up as many as we could. Bring a bag for CITO. TFTC

Found the cache some way from the solved coordinates. The clue helped. TFTC

TFTC

First find for the day was a quick one so we were in high spirits! Expected the rain a little later in the day but managed to survive.

Headed down to Margaret River with the main aim to get the Wharncliff Mill caches and the Rail to Trail caches with a few other caches along the way. A great day for walking and we managed to find all of them quite quickly with a few that took a bit of searching. Lots of muggles riding there bikes on the tracks but no one was interested in what we were doing. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing this caches for us and everyone else to find.

We have a holiday in Australia to visit our daughter. We over the beautifull natur. Today we made a walk and later a little Nike trail and find some caches.
Thanks and greetings from the Netherlands.

Found late in the afternoon between the showers while attempting to complete the series. In the end the darkness and weather prevented me from finding the final cache, but I will return! This is a great trail. Thanks SeabreezeOZ for the puzzle and the cache.

Found easily with the hint

Lovely walk through the bush. Tftc

Thanks for the great find today in the wild weather. Great day caching

Found while out with the ringtailposs crew

Tftc found whilst out on the bikes with the guy wet and windy day apparently the worst of the year

Tftc out with the crew on a wet and windy day

Found between showers on a rainy afternoon, glad for the convenient parking nearby as we don't have bikes to do the trail with.

After a morning of technical MTB trails it was nice to ride the rail trail and smell the roses without fear of crashing. Previously had found number 6 so came back today to do the other 5. Hint was of great use here as my co-ords were maybe 20m out. TFTC!

A nice weekend away in Augusta and Margaret River.
Didnt have bikes so we walked while the sun was setting. Tftc sl tnln

Down in Cowaramup for a few days relaxation, food, exploration and a few caches in between. Made our base at a great new B&B in Cowaramup and had an enjoyable time exploring the immediate area and sampling the many scenic and gastronomic delights.
Our last day in the area and we decided we needed to do a walk to offset the indulgence [:o)]. We chose the Rails to Trails series, and although previously solved we didn't have the solutions with us, so we sat and had a coffee and redid the puzzles. Then off for an enjoyable walk, back to Margs for lunch and them off home. - another good day !!

Our GPS was a bit out on this one, but the hint was helpful in narrowing down the search.
Dropped in a TB we picked up the previous day.

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

This was find # 3 of 9 and 0 today giving us a total cache count of 3309.

New container in place

oops
hiding spot has been tampered with
will have to find a new spot nearby

TFTC! Had a lovely couple of days away with the Geowife, which ironically Cravo10 and ItsKate had booked into the same town as us for the weekend.

With strict instructions on how many caches I could get from the geowife it was a bit like pulling teeth to grab some caches and had to trade off buying a few extras for her to get "just one more"!! This would have to be some of the most expensive caching I've done for some time!!

We were lucky as the Geowife loves a sleep in some pre breakfast caching is allowed, which saw us renting bikes from the hair marron on Brussel highway (highly recommended) and tackling a bunch of the rails to trails series and the caches around wharncliffe mill, which was a huge amount of fun.

This weekend has got me extremely interested in completing the cape to cape track, so we may be back down this way sooner than we otherwise would have. It was a great weekend with some lovely views, awesome wineries, some breweries and who can't resist the olive oil and chocolate factory!! Thanks to the local COs

So a little get away down south was on order just a short stay to enjoy the tourist attractions or just some of our favourite food and beverage places. I will be honest B12 told me he was heading down and I thought a great time to catch some caches with him down there.
It didn't take long for the partners to soon see through the "coincidence" however luckily the 2 ladies love a sleep in and made for enough time to find a handful in the mornings.

Found during our holiday in Australia.
Thanks to all COs.
Greetings from Belgium.
TFTC
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
( by J. R. R. Tolkien )
" Geocachers aren't born , they get published "
" Geocachers don't get sick , they are just temporarily disabled "
" Geocachers don't talk , they write Notes "
" Geocachers don't die , they just get archived

TFTC

A quick stroll, now on to our bikes for the rest of the series.
TFTC

A nice day for a ride to pick up this series with Pood tftc

A clever one to start off our Rails to Trails walk - solved these a while ago and it's nice to get to do them now!

TFTC

Had a beautiful morning walk doing the rails to trails series. Thanks for bringing us here. This first one was a bit sneaky- trusted the GPS and it was found.

Found it, our first one and took us quite a while. But happy when we did

Onya bike! Started this run from 1.6. All pretty typical hiding spots apart from this one. TFTC

Found with Disa Urq

I am in Australia on holiday visiting family (The Pie's) and when they said we would be staying in Margaret River for a long weekend I started looking at nearby caches. Saw this lovely puzzle series so so came pepared with them solved. And what a lovely walk this was. Lovely open path - I was sorry i did not have a bike but it was cooler today so the walk was really pleasant. caches were all easy finds. Forgot to get bonus numbers so just as well i had to walk back so I revisited the caches on the return walk. Thanks for a lovely series and for giving me an excuse to have a lovely walk. favorite point here for the series

We .made the puzzle at home in Holland and found the cache today. TFTC.

Started the rails series with the intention of walking the track. Quick find at number 1. TFTC and puzzle.

After day 3 of the Cape 2 Cape MTB event I had some free time, so I headed out for some caching. This series was my main priority today, hoping to get the Bonus cache, so this was the first one of the series.

A quick find here, nicely hidden, thanks for the puzzle and the cache SeabreezeOZ!

TFTC

Found it with BissraFranky during our weekend getaway. Had the puzzle solved before heading down south. Once we reached GZ we made a quick found. TFTC and puzzle SeabreezeOZ

Found it with BissraVicky, TFTC and the puzzle!

Solved it before heading down south for the weekend. This was one of three caches I found while walking the new section of rail trail between Gnarawary Rd and Rowe Road West. Thanks for the cache SeabreezeOz.

A nice easy find here while on a caching trip

I had an RDO and decided to head off with the swag and see where I ended up! The weather looked a bit dodgy but I risked it and had a full day caching before heading home. I had a few caches highlighted to grab and any others that looked interesting along the way.

SeabreezeOZ - jinta29 found your cache Rails to Trails 1.1 on 12/06/2015 1:31 pm. This is my find #3281 and find #27 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Day three of the WA Goes Big weekend in Busselton.
After finishing the Wharncliff Mill Series, the boys were all fired up and eager to tackle this series as well. Thanks SeabreezeOZ, we had fun.

DNF for me this morning. Couldn't get a good Lock on GZ and decided to throw it away here

Thanks - good sneaky placement. Great after work find.

Easy find thanks for the cache

Was down in Margaret River with Chwiliwr setting up a geocaching event at Warncliffe Mill so we decided to head out after a full day of placing caches to find some for ourselves.
Had this one solved when published and being down here today meant the chance for a quick find
Parked close by and found the cache in the obvious spot.
TFTH seabreezeOZ

Kyzabra and I decided to have a break from preparing for the Nature Play Geochallenge at Wharncliffe Mill and go and do some caches for ourselves.

The puzzle was solved by us both before we came down to Margaret River so it was a quick find once near GZ.

Thanks SeabreezeOZ for the cache.

Beautiful ride out to this one. Love autumn.

One of the geokids found it while mum and dad were looking in all the wrong places. Dropped our extagz. Thanks, SeabreezeOz.

Geohubby found this one before I was out of the car.... TFTC!

At the moment I'm on a work and travel backpacking year through the world. Most of the time I'll spend in Australia and I'm trying to solve my 365 days of caching challenge during this trip. The chance of having a moving home zone should be takes, as it will make the challenge so much easier.

Today after work I made a short stop to catch this one. The riddle was solved some days ago and was no problem.
Found the box fast and easy.

TFTC and greetings from Germany

Tftc, nice morning for a walk in the bush.