Discovery Monument Maralinga, South Australia, Australia
By The Noodler on 29-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5QB4C

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Tftf. Nice peaceful spot.

Found with addi and Roger

Found together with spockfan during our drive from Coober Pedy to Port Augusta. Thanks for hiding .

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Great PlaceQuick FoundThanks out Germany

NEF TFTC

Thank you for the cache. The little pencil needs a sharpener.

Day three of the road trip to Coober PedyLeft Woomera and headed north for the main aim of the trip, Coober Pedy. Found six traditionals and did an Earthcache before arriving in the opal town. Checked into a nice underground accommodation then headed out to cache. Wasn't expecting to, but managed to completely clear the area in, and just out of, Coober Pedy of all unfound caches for us both. Which, as neither of us have been to Coober Pedy before, was all of them. A great day of caching in a very unique area with a lot of interesting history. Celebrated by dining out then returning to the unique and interesting dugout to put our feet up.Discovered this monument then found a cache nearby.Thanks to The Noodler for putting it here.Smilie #15141.*This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).*

Day 3 of our 5 day trip to Coober Pedy.Today found us in Coober Pedy.This is a fun trip for SA Sewer Rats and ttrogg.We quickly located the cache.Stamped the log and replaced as found.Tftc

Being guarded by bull ants at the moment but we signed that log

Quick and easy park and grab stunning spot to stay overnight on our travels tftc

A quick find to give our legs a final stretch. TFTC

Found with tassie expat while exploring this interesting area. Accurate coords, watch for the ballasts. Thanks for putting a cache here.

TFTC GCTMan

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An easy find - in fact we made it a drive y. TFTC

First cache of the day. TFTC

An easy find, TFTC

Nice easy find on my return drive to Darwin, stopped to look at the memorial and my geo-senses were tingling!

On a 9 week road trip from Brisbane and staying in Coober Pedy for a couple of days. Easy find

We have caught up with our mate running to Darwin after a mad dash from the Capital Geobash on Saturday.Quick find here.The Noodler, I found Discovery Monument today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Ocw the Bebes as we stay in CP a few days. Easy find and interesting to visit the monument. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa.In Coober Pedy for a few days. Great to see where it all started !Tftc

Easy find

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. Started on the 17th September in Cairns. Our plan is driving.along the eastcoast down. Then in the south on to Adelaide and from there ending the 31th October in Alice Springs.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case The Noodler, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

On my roundtrip along Australia with Oopie we are douing always some caches.Today we ware on the way from Adelaide to Alice Springs and we did a few nice caches.CO thanks for bringing us on this nice place and make this cache.

Found by The Empire + HOn our return journey from Coober Pedy to Port Augusta, we retraced the route that had initially led us into the heart of the outback. The vast and ever-changing landscape of the Australian outback welcomed us once again as we headed south.As we ventured further, the transition from the opal-rich territory of Coober Pedy to the more varied environment of the Flinders Ranges became a familiar sight. The red earth and desert plains gradually transformed into the cultivated fields of hardworking farmers, demonstrating their resilience in this challenging terrain. Thanks for the cache The Noodler.- M@empiregeocaching

What a cool spot, found this after camping the night so amazing seeing the stars, watch out for snakes, none sighted today thankfully. Cheers cobber.

It is in a blue container TFTC

Nice stop just outside of town. TFTC

Funnnn!

We stopped last night further down from the monument and enjoyed a beautifully quiet night with a glorious sunset. Now we're heading on to explore Coober Pedy but we couldn't resist stopping for this cache before we left.

Thanks for find #4711
TNLN

Good easy find, cool monument and there’s a pencil in the box

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to NT and down through the Centre to SA then home across the Nullabor. Coober Pedy is certainly a very unique place. Took the William Creek Road which proved to be somewhat corrugated and evidence of some seriously boggy places due to rains a few weeks ago. Thanks for the hide Noodler

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches along our route. This is our first day in Coober Pedy, taking in the sights and enjoying the environment. TFTC.

Got it

First outback cache on our family adventure. Thankyou for a great discovery for our little people

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A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.
An interesting story and history.

The first time I stopped in Coober Pedy, late 80’s, I was relocating to Alice Springs and got a flat tyre just before town, had to stay the night and wait for a tyre to come up from Adelaide!
My second visit here, mid 90’s, it was a very hot day and I was driving road trains, the boss decided we needed to stop here and have ice creams on our way back from Darwin.
And today I’m here for two reasons, first to grab my final required LGA for a challenge I’m doing and secondly to help out a fellow cacher.
Just another chapter in my life story, Yes, she did.

TFTC The Noodler
Keep smiling

5 Wochen Australien -
heute von Woombara nach Coober Pedy
Danke an The Noodler fürs Herlocken und Legen.

5 weeks Australia -
from Woombara to Coober Pedy today
Tftc to The Noodler

Found quickly

Together with my favorite geocacher Milonguera we traveled to Australia We went to Melbourne via Singapore and from there we explore the south, the center and the east coast.
We walked around Melbourne and had a nice meet & greet event. Than we visited Philip Island with the pinguins and the Great Ocean Road. We fed and petted kangaroos visited the koalas and continued north to Coober Pedy.

Zusammen mit meiner Lieblingsgeocacherin Milonguera reise ich nach Australien. Über Singapur flogen wir nach Melbourne und von dort wollen wir mit dem Camper den Süden, das rote Zentrum und die Ostküste erkunden. Wir liefen durch Melbourne und trafen nette Menschen bei unserem Event, wir besuchten Philip Island mit den Pinguinen und die Great Ocean Road mit den 12 Aposteln.
Wir fuhren nach Adelaide, besuchten die Koalas und weiter gings Richtung Norden bis Coober Pedy.

**Thanks for the cache!
Thanks for showing the location and for hiding the cache. You should come to Berlin in Germany to find a lot of interesting geocaches, visit lost places in the surrounding Brandenburg and meet nice people at many events.
I wish you a lot of fun and great adventures while searching for the next geocache!**

Ich bedanke mich bei The Noodler für den Cache, das Zeigen dieses Ortes, das Legen und Pflegen der Dose und den Spaß beim Finden! Thanks for the cache!
Ich wünsche weiterhin viel Spaß bei der Suche nach den Dosen, nette Menschen beim nächsten Event und tolle Erlebnisse und Abenteuer beim Suchen und Finden!

Ohne tolle Owner wie Euch wäre das Spiel nicht möglich. Ich freue mich, wenn Ihr auch meine Caches in Berlin-Britz besucht. Neben der Hufeisensiedlung, die zum Kulturwelterbe der Unesco gehört, gibt es viele alte Bunker zu entdecken und die Baustelle der Autobahn A100 ist auch immer wieder interessant. Von der neuen Minna-Todenhagen-Brücke zwischen Baumschulenweg und Oberschöneweide hat man einen schönen Blick auf die Spree und kann nebenbei ein paar Dosen finden.
An Neumond lade ich zum Sternegucken auf die Berliner Berggipfel oder an astronomische Orte ein. In der dunkelsten Nacht zwischen den Vollmonden genießen wir den Blick auf die blinkenden Sterne und die funkelnde Stadt Berlin.

»Discovery Monument« (2.0/1.5)
*Dies ist mein Cache Nummer 19949.*

Viele Grüße von XETRO aus Britz im Süden Berlins.

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Nice and easy find. TFTC

Easy find. TFTC

On air travels stopped here to grab this cache a nice quick find in this interesting spot, thanks for placing this cache

Found with Poisin as we were leaving coober pedy. Great cache, great location. TFTC

Found quickly with Smartich0ke. Nearby was a small dead finish tree, known also as Acacia tetragonophylla and alkityira by the local Arabana people.
It's spikes can be used to treat warts and bark can be made into an antiseptic solution for sores.
TFTC

Hi

Find number 11027 at 12:13:14 pm on Tuesday the 30 August 2022
Continuing our trip from Melbourne to Darwin and back, we are now on our way back home and traveling from Alice Springs to Port Augusta for a day or two’s R&R there. We grabbed a few caches on the road as we travelled by but sadly heading to a much cooler climate with each kilometer
Quick find, cache in good order, thanks…
**Thanks for placing this cache The Noodler**

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Phone GPS sent me on a wild goose chase. Finally found it after swallowing a few flies.

A gooidie
Thanks

Found with Loopy1972 while out and about. Thank you The Noodler for the cache.

Found with Dennisc52 while staying nearby. TFTC.

Interesting stop on our way to Coober Pedy. TFTC

Nice and easy it was really interesting to find that opals were discovered here tftc

The three of us were heading for Coober Pedy after spending a night in Roxby. Some interesting history here. Mr Tardis found the cache in the first place he looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache The Noodler.

Easy walk great spot
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Got it !

Found it tftc

Found

Quick find thanks

Sir_spectre and I went on a long overdue holiday to the Northern Territory. We had some great experiences and saw some amazing natural wonders. Not all went to plan - covid closures, flood effected roads, renovations, hot weather, some car troubles and not forgetting the huge jump in fuel costs
Any caches that needed repairs were fixed and numeous logs were replaced or added too.
Thanks to The Noodler from mogni

Mogni and myself went to the Northern Territory for a 10 day holiday. We drove 5478 km's in those 10 days. The plan was to go up the Sturt highway and then go via Ayers Rock, King's Canyon and then through to Alice Springs stopping at the gorges/chasm/gaps along the way. As you can expect nothing goes to plan. Day 1 Adelaide to Cooper Pedy, made it just before the Roxby Downs turn off and blow the side wall on the tire of the 4x4, 193 km detour just to get a tire and even then it was the second tire place that had the tire the correct size. We had camels come in to the campsite in Erldunda Roadhouse, they even left hoof prints 1/2 a foot from the tent, at King's Canyon we had dingo's come through the camp ground both nights we where there and at Alice springs we had a mouse move in under the tent in their campground. Some of the aboriginal towns we passed where in lock down because of covid 19 so no going in to get fuel there, that changed some plans. The floods where way worse up in Northern Territory than i realized. Some creeks/rivers i could see the debris over 2 meters from the river bed and down one 4x4 track it washed the road away completely, the hole was 3/4 the length of the 4x4 and over 6 foot deep. The temp was 33 to 36 for 9 of the 10 days and finally cooled down for the drive home. We got 7 different caches types in the N.T. plus every different cache size. It was a good trip but not the one we planned. To many of the roads in the N.T. where damaged and not repaired ( still closed ) so that cancelled plan A but that's just a excuse to come back isn't it. Come back and see what you missed last time when the roads are fixed. We came with 19 regular " geocaching size " containers and a milk crate of small containers by day 7 all the regulars where used as replaced caches and by day 8 the smalls where gone. It was the UV rays a lot more than the floods that killed the caches and almost all the log books where saved, the micro containers seemed to have constantly full log sheets so they where replaced too.

On a trip to Coober Pedi for a couple days with the full crew of Team-Ruphace.

Beginning with a decent distance road trip from Port Augusta we pulled up at a few rest stops and found a couple caches here and there.

Cheers and tftc

Another good easy one.

Left Cunnamulla after QOGM 2021 heading to Sth Australia, stopped in Mount Isa for a little spell and to catch up with new friends drrnrchr and attack all the caches here. Then WA then back to Cairns June 2022. 23 October 2021 2:27 pm Tyfc The Noodler total caches now 2919

Thanks

Look out for the residents spider, TFTC, Found with BunSpotter

Tftc. Found with a turtle on our way out of Coober Pedy after spending a magical week here

Fun

I can just imagine how excited Mr Hutchison would have been to find the opal. I dig for my opal in a shop with a credit card. This cache was a very easy find.

Camped nearby on way to SA 28/8/21, thanks for the cache Noodler

More interesting information about this place tftc

My last cache in the Coober Pedy area today; will try to get the rest next time. Thanks for all the caches Noodler.

Interesting story. We camped nearby on our way to NT. TFTC

Lots of people camping in the area but those was far enough away to be completely muggle free. Nice and accessible with a quick stop on my way south. TFTC

Found on our way to Alice
TFTC

Thanks for the cache.

08/04/2021 9:51:00 AM
After an overnight stay in Coober Pedy we stopped off here on our way to Woomera after spotting the sign on the highway and grabbed the cache as a bonus.
Thanks Noodler

Found on our morning departure from Coober Pedy for Chewie + Shane +1

Found..needs pencil sharpener!!

Off for a northern tour with Purrfect Di and Jack...
somehow we ended up at your cache ! ! !

Actually ending up here was inevitable as we had accomodation booked locally
And on we went to enjoy a night out at the local drive in theatre too.
Looking forward to a good look around and a noodle tomorrow!

Thank you The Noodler for another great yellow smiley on our SA geomap



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- go out and find or place some new caches in our regional areas where it's safer away from bugs!!

Quick find, tftc

Night hunt from our van....just 200 meters where we stayed over night....thank you

A nice quick find on our way to Kingoonya

Quick find on the way back to the station. Tftc

Quick and easy find on our way to Andamooka, TFTC!

Last stop before we head out of town.
A quick find, glad I stopped by for this one!
TFTC

Second leaving-town stop & final cache for the Coober Pedy area. Another request by geoniece. This one was quite fun as we came across some tiny, chonky grasshopper that geoboyf originally, excitedly thought were little frogs. Boy, did they look like frogs! I only realised they weren't upon finding a second one and getting in close for photos. Geoniece also excitedly found the most recent log was from someone whose hides we'd just been finding back home, right next to our house, we'd even even messaging them about a possible missing one - JJ52! Small world!

Photos are spoilers.

TFTC!

TFTC

As I approached I found the log

On our last afternoon in Coober Pedy while the others were doing other things I came for a drive out to this monument. I had read about Will Hutchison and it was quite sad that he died at 19.
After looking at the monument I went for a short walk and spotted the cache as I was walking towards GZ.
Thanks for the cache The Noodler.

Found with Jac-Jam on our way to Coober Pedy. a quick find after visiting the monument. TFTC.

At long last we are nearing our destination, fantastic to read a bit of history to get the feel for the area. Off to hunt Opals now. Thanks for the cache. We are travelling with TubbyBooBoo

Found it, thank you!