Secrets of the lake Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Australia
By Rottnest Islander on 12-May-15. Waypoint GC5VBB4

Went to do this one and the track to access it is closed?

Good view

This was the first of two caches that I completed today. I've always wanted to come to Rottnest Island and missed out the last time I was down this way so made sure to make the visit this time. I collected the necessary information and sent my answer to the CO. Thanks for setting this Earthcache and greetings from the UK!

Talking to Greg the duck, he gave us the hints haha(Greg was a duck we saw on our walk)

Went past the two lakes when going to Oliver Hill

Did not get to visit all 12 salt lakes today, but of course I had to go to the ones that had a cache in it. This was one. TFTC and greetings from Singapore!

Amazing spot thanks soo much

TFTC, log to follow.

Thanks for the opportunity to log an earthcache. Answers sent a couple of random photos attached.

really enjoyed exploring the area! tft(e)c

Found this EC with Gummi_Venus on our bike ride around the island. Interesting to see how different each part of this small island is.

Gehschei came here on the way back to the jetty. TftC.

Really good location

I visited the Island on a day trip from Perth, did the Island explorer on the bus and had hoped to stop at more locations to get to some of the other cache's but only 1 stop at the lighthouse for 10 minutes. Once we were back in the village I walked up through the cemetery for the multi cache and to the two nearby EC,s, gathered the required information for the CO and sent my answers off, hopefully I will get back to this place for more exploring another day, thanks for placing and

TFTC

Very nice location. Overcast day. Visited with Scott who I met sailing of the STS Leeuwin last week! TFTC ️

Very nice spot and so peaceful
Didn't see any stomatilites but did see a plane landing and the carved steps behind the lake

Beautiful location. Thank you

Nice fun cache

Nice scooter ride to a part or Rottnest I have never seen. Thanks. Found with sbirgert and megsandfin.

Interesting location, bit of history to ask some more questions.
TFTC

Nice to have an Earthcache here to be able to log a relatively easy find on Rottnest Island. One of the treasures of Australia for sure.

Visited Rottnest Island today. A great day for it, although the ferry ride was a bit lumpy!
The lake was a dirty pink colour today and had foam blowing off it. Answers have been sent. TFTC!

Spent the day on Rotto with the family. Last here in 2014, so been a while!
Found the necessary information as we cycled past. Answers sent to the CO. TFTC

Lovely spot to discover secrets of the salt lakes. Answers messaged to CO. TFTC.

Durin our trip in west australia we vitit rotnest island an visit th lake thanks dejutter
The Netherlands

An awesome day to visit Rottnest Island, this was a nice easy walk from the ferry terminal, with plenty of time for us to explore the lakes before heading back to catch our tour bus. Thanks for the cache and the additional information and thought provoking content.

Great spot love it

Headed to Rottnest for a few days, what does when do when they get there... Find some caches of course We explored the Northern Section of the island & were headed back to the settlement for lunch when we stopped here.

This was a nice little spot to visit on this glorious autumn day... We enjoy getting off the track & checking out the lakes secrets [^] Thanks Rottnest Islander!

Beautiful location.

Five Earthcaches in one day. Nice views of the lake with sounds of birds. TFTC

Nearing the end of our day on rottnest, we were desperate to get Miss atCat down for a nap. I decided to walk her in the stroller to this cache (the only unfound one within walking distance). I loved the walk along this beautiful lake, which was a pinky colour today. Unfortunately it was too choppy to see the stromatolites near GZ. Thank you for bringing us here. I have sent the answers to the CO. Picture of a sleeping toddler attached

Beautiful spot by the lake with a fascinating story to go with it.
TFTC

Our last for the day here just as the sun was setting. The big rains we have had this year have filled all the lakes. I come regularly to Rotto at this time of the year and this is the fullest I have ever seen them. I never tire of the bird life and the colours. Thanks Rottnest Islander - another beautiful place to stop and soak up the scenery
Answers sent

Another beautiful place to visit whilst caching TFTC Rottnest Islander

Jetty and stone staircase

TFTC and bringing us round this part of the lake. Have forwarded the answers.

Found with my Mum who submitted the answers (TeamThommo)

Answers sent a few days ago
6 months(ish) since we left home and stated our ‘lap year’ half way in our original time allocation and not even close to half way around the country…hmm I guess we won’t be ‘home’ for Christmas….oh well… (shhh don’t tell the grandparents)
Perhaps if/we I stopped looking at so many rocks trees and beaches we wouldn’t be taking so long…then there are the flowers, old things and street art that keeps catching our attention.. maybe it’s the Geocaches… what ever it is, we are having a bloody brilliant time and I wouldn’t change a thing!
Today was Rottnest Island’s turn, not being a selfie person usually I had the rare urge to get a selfie with a Quokka, seems it’s all a big lie and they are not the smiley selfie loving little buddies they are made out to be, they are pretty sure and they are friendly but unless they think you have food they don’t want to know you!
Thanks for being one of the awesome caches we found this week.
TFTC

Found with Phillario. Beautiful location and interesting lake edge. TFTC

Answers sent by Probsty

Just before dusk I made the walk to this area. Quite peaceful where I startled a few beautiful ‘wood’ ducks keeping to themselves... answer sent to the CO.

Found with Happy Jackie on a walk around the island. Very interesting and scenic. Thanks for the information!

A nice little wander after lunch to this quiet spot. We love earth caches thanks for bringing us here.

Human impact observed was the littering, man made construction and business scaring off the wildlife. Thanks for the opportunity to come and reflect on this

Enjoyed a beautiful day caching. Enjoying the beauty of the island plus observing the unique biodiversity and see the impact we have on our surroundings. Thanks for Earthcache.

Love Rottnest diversity
Thanks for the lesson

Nice secret spot. Without a cache I wouldn't find here. Tftc!

Thanks Rottnest Islander for placing and maintaining this cache. Out and about with Itskate getting a few smily faces.

Serene spot on a beautiful island. Thanks for guiding be here.

Information gathered on a trip to the island earlier this year in preparation for EC Day.

Answer emailed to C.O.

Cheers
MCFonz

Great little spot to be taken to. Very interesting. Have taken photos back to the family who are fascinated too. Thank you!!

Another learning cache tftc

Thank you! Having been told to take time off work, I took the opportunity to spend a day at Rottnest. The goal was to cycle to the west end, as I don't know if I have ever been to that side.
Enjoyed visiting this secluded spot. Earthcache answers sent to CO as requested.

Wrote a big log and accidentally sent them as the answers. That’s the sort of day it is TFTC

Wow I have never in all the years visiting Rotto been down Merriam standing on an access road and can here machinery/generators and what appears to be a small plane across the lake there is a submerged wall that I am about to take a photo of

We are enjoying our time circumnavigating Australia. Today we are visiting Fremantle and Rottnest Island. 5beatriff sent in the answers on behalf of our group. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the Earthcache!

Super viewing & caching with the CCC clan once off the ship! TFTC. Answers sent by 5br.

Answers have been sent 14 CCC. Kteeeee, misspeach13, wrt and muggles and myself. It isI lovely day and we packed it full of things to do and see in managed to make it back in one piece. Some of the people on the other bikes are less than attentive to the road.

Our adventure really started a couple of years ago with our cruise booking and the savings plan. This year we arrived Feb 6 and had three days to explore Sydney before cruising with Kteeeee and Mr. Kteeeeee, MissPeach13 and MrPeach13 and WRTagalong. signed CCC. We had a great trip with no cases of Co-vid19. We arrived back to Sydney Mid march. The others flew home. WRT and I continued on. We had some time in Brisbane and then cut our trip short as the virus was causing too many challenges and our Country called us home. We stayed quiet and flew out the 25th arriving to a ghost city in Vancouver.

These caches are only being logged now that I am hooked up to the computer and I can find the caches I missed logging. If I have made an error please let me know if something seems wrong as time has passed and my memory is not what it used to be.

Thank you to all the Aussies who set out these caches, maintained them and to the Aussies who offered us shelter and long term shelter if we could not get home. If I had to be stuck anywhere in the world I would choose Australia!

Our group went to Rottnest Island today, and after lunch there was a bit of free time so I went looking for the multi and this earth cache. TFTC.

What a fascinating earth cache. I love the idea of living rock and it was fun to see them. Thanks for bringing me here and for the very interesting earth cache.

Thanks for this cache it allowed us to visit new part of the island and to learn some geological lessons.

Tftc, we had a day trip to Rottnest Island. A day is not long enough to spend at this beautiful location. At the end of the day we had a bit of time before the ferry back so I made the quick walk down here to grab the two nearby earth caches. What a beautiful area.

Working our way around all of the Earthcaches on the Island. Loving the bike ride & stunning scenery. Will send answers when we get home & get ourselves organised. TFTC

Planning out our big adventure and have all these wonderful earth caches to find. How wonderful.

We spent the whole day exploring Rottnest Island, catching the first ferry over and the last ferry back. What a wonderful, interesting place to visit. TFTC Rottnest Islander

We found it easyly

Found on a day visit to the Island. We cycled around completing a few EC's as we went. Thanks to the CO for setting these up. Answers sent. TFTEC

A bit smelly in summer!

It was the second time for us in Australia. We stayed in this fascinating country from 11/08/-30/08/2019.
We started our travels in Perth and went in the following 20 days south to Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River, Pemberton, Denmark, Albany, Hopetoun and Esperance. We continued north to Kalgoorlie, further to the West to Hyden, Northam, Muchea and Cervantes. From Cervantes we drove back to Perth with a final stop at Rottnest Island.
Besides the sightseeing spots we visited and looked for different cache types as
Traditionals, Multis, WherIGos, Letterboxes, Mysteries, Earthcaches and Virtuals. It’s all in the mix.
We could lern a lot about the hide and seek in Western Australia. Maybe we can use the gained knowledge in Germany to hide some caches the way you do in Australia.
We enjoyed these amazing 3 weeks in Down Under as we could do in 2010 and we hope to come to Australia again as soon as possible.

Sorry, the logs are not unique for each cache but we had fun looking for every single one.

TFTC

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Perth Day 2: Today’s main agenda was to make the trip to Rottnest Island, back to Freo and whatever other caches I can get in between. The weather was perfect for cycling around today with the quokkas, and with that, we picked up many a cache, and enjoyed ourselves immensely.

This is the specific log for this cache:
A short walk from the last cache, and another lovely lake view was revealed. The thing to look out for was obvious enough, and the needed information was found. Last cache on Rotto before heading back to the mainland for lunch. TFTEC!

Really interesting what one can see here! W/o geocahcing I would not have known about. Thanks for showing and TFTC

Last Earthcache find on The Island. We enjoyed this one, there wasn't a single person nearby!

Cheers

A detour off the main path led to a quiet spot to observe the lake , lots of foam today, along with the geological features

Visited this Earthcache on a early morning walk around the lakeshore, while staying on Rottnest Island for the weekend. Thanks for another interesting Earthcache.

Who would of thought that a chance meeting at a first to find last week would lead to a massive Rottnest onslaught.
Rottnest has been in my to do list for quite some time now but I never quite got around to it. Speaking to Barnzy12 we both realised we had a day off the following week and plans were made, with Lachlan1.77 joining in on the fun.

Leaving home at 5am we met up and made sure we were aboard the first ferry out of freo - The Quokka1.

Lachlan the experienced cyclist in the group brought his bike across whilst Barnzy and I opted to leave ours at home and hired the electric bikes as I knew my dodgy knees would not stand up to the hilly terrain that is Rottnest.

We trekked across the island in an anti clockwise direction. I had forgotten how beautiful this island really is, making for plenty of photo opportunities Despite being school holidays most of the beaches were deserted and we had very little trouble with muggles and only one slithery thing encountered at 'The blowholes.'

One thing I did notice was how much friendlier the quokkas were away from the settlements in the quieter areas of the island with one group being particularly friendly and the babies quite adventurous and curious of our belongings.

The highlights were definitely the locations but there was still a good variety of hides available and the earth cache numbers were fantastic and much needed. We had come prepared supplying maintence to all caches that required it replacing logs, cracked lids and replacing the one cache that was confirmed missing.

It was a hard slog at times especially trying to do it all in one day but we managed the 40 caches with time to spare which allowed for time to reflect and enjoy a well earned cold one before we caught the wave riding roller coaster home.
TFTC Rottnest Islander answers have been send through

A big caching day out to Rottnest Island that has been on the pipeline for too long but never quite eventuated, but with a timeslot open today, plans were set. joined up with locals WebblyWA and Lachlan1.77 for an action packed day.

We all met in Fremantle at 6am, to depart on the 7am ferry to Rotto. We had done some pre work for this trip grabbing some information on a multi in Bold Park in times long gone by. Got into the Island, and walked over to the bike hire place, to rent an electric bike for WebblyWA and myself, as we are inexperienced cyclists.

We cached the various bays of the Island, starting on the Northern side of the island, working our way to the Extremities of the west end and back to the settlement via the Southern side of the island.

I don’t remember much from my last rotto visit back in 2002, some 16-17 years ago, but the island does look different. The island had some amazing sights, I was shocked that beautiful beaches were deserted, because there was something even more picturesque around the corner.

We enjoyed the great variety of containers on our travels and the amazing locations that the various COs including the Rottnest Island Authority have decided to share with us. The number of Earthcaches really helped complete a fulfilling caching experience.

We completed our days caching around 4pm and retired to a local establishment for a well earned “coldie” before the rough ferry journey home.

A good days effort with all 39 caches on the island found, and another found in fremantle on the way home that we did all the leg work for on the island

Thanks to WebblyWA and Lachlan1.77 for a great days caching.

Out for a day on Rotto with some other crazy people, with the intention being to nab all the caches on the island. We were worried that time was going to be an enemy today, but we blitzed through them all and even had time for a quick beer (always important) before the boat back to Freo. I ended up with 36 finds for the day, having already previously found 4 caches on the Island. We even found a cache that had been archived for almost 4 years! We have conducted maintenance for all caches in need, including; replacing logs, lids and caches altogether. All in all, a successful day out at Rotto! [^]

While rather pretty, it was no secret that the lakes were rather smelly (pun intended). You could smell them for miles! Cheers Rottnest Islander!

Nice view. Unexpectedly found smth.)) TFTC!

During our stay in Perth we visited the beautiful island. On our tour we found this nice Earthcache.

Thanks and best greetings from Germany
Team sissifalke

During my trip to Australia, i stay for 2,5 days in Perth CBD. On a sightseeingtour with a rental bike additionally one or the other geocache was successfully visited ..... TFTC

Greetings from Germany

Nice ride down to gz

Observations were noted and questions answered

Hope all is well with my answers

TFTEC

Did this one on the walk back to the ferry. Thanks for the earth cache.

Find #2396
Our last full day in Perth before flying home tomorrow, we're on Rottnest Island. After a choppy ferry ride out here (like a bonus rollercoaster ride!) and one seasick child we hopped on the bus. We imagined shuttles every few minutes taking us from cache to cache, but it wasn't to be, so we rode the bus to Parakeet Bay and walked back to the Settlement, grabbing 10 caches on the way, including 4 EarthCaches - we had a great time, and look forward to seeing the southern half of the island next time.
Samuel and I walked out to this spot while Oliver and mum headed to the playground. We spotted something decidedly manmade behind us at GZ.... answers sent. TFTC

Found with my Dad and little brother and Mum on our walk on Rottnest Is....

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Found on this beautiful day at rotto. Tftc

tftc rottnest islander answers on the way

Spent the weekend on Rotto with friends. Most of the time was spent snorkelling but I took some time on Friday morning to explore the lakes and geocaches near the settlement. I was a bit disappointed by the lack of migratory wading birds here, but it was very interesting nonetheless. Love the Rotto Snow!

Hmmm someone's secret is outed here. Good job too as the impact is evident. Another interesting cache description thanks Rottnest Islander. TFTC # 11.295

Convinced my dear friend Mistraluna for a day out on Rottnest Island. Took the first ferry and even saw a whale from the boat. The weather was beautiful and we saw lots of wildlife.
Thank you for leading us out here

Mrs Jackylegs was determined that we were going to come over to Rottnest today, despite the dire weather forecast and the expected crowds of people heading over for the Rottnest Carnivale 2017 Event. We were fortunate enough to be on the maiden voyage of the new Sealink ferry "Quokka 1", which gave us a very speedy trip over to the island. Mrs Jacklylegs didn't think it was quick enough though as she succumbed to a bout of sea sickness, but she was looked after by a young attractive deckhand, so not all grim, and she did recover very quickly once back on solid ground.

We encountered a cute furry inhabitant of the island on the walk out towards the nearest unfound caches. So of course we had to stop and let West Oz Geocaching's mascot trackable "Woz" get acquainted and have her photo taken with her distant relative. I had to drag Mrs Jackylegs away after a while or she would have spent all day oohing and aahing over the creature, and the caches were calling out to us to get a move on while the weather held out.

After finding a nearby cache that I had previously searched for and missed, we headed on over to tackle a couple of earthcaches. This was the second one we stopped at, and took a while to work out what we were supposed to be looking for. Ended up taking a few pics and hoping we would be able to sort out some viable answers to earn our smileys. Our answers were submitted to the CO for approval by my companion, Mrs Jackylegs44.

Thanks for the excuse to come back and visit this beautiful island and reason to think about how things came to be. Cheers Rottnest Islander

Out for the day with Coybear2000 on Rottnest Is. TFTC.

Visited with Trodectus, lots of "sea" foam about due to windy conditions. TFTC

Stopped by to check out the lake. Hadn't been to this part of the island so thanks for bringing me here.

Able to spend several days with some friends on the Island so had a wonderful time cycling around, spending plenty of time seeing all the beautiful landscapes and collecting caches as I went.
Answers to the questions have been submitted and am logging in anticipation that they are correct.
Many thanks for the interesting Earthcaches on this island Rottnest Islander.

(Answers to CO). A nice place to stop and observe the area. T4tc

Answers sent today, thanks Rottnest Islander for this nice Earthcache!

Another very interesting location with another story to tell. Have thoroughly enjoyed the placement of these earthcaches and the information that they convey. Tftc, RI

Earth cache , our first one ! Interesting

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Rottnest Is. a spot high on our "To-Do" list. We hired bikes and had a fabulous day following the trail of caches around the island. All the way amazed by the colors of the spectacular cliffs and sheltered coves.
Info forwarded to CO.

Thanks Rottnest Islander for placing caches for everyone's enjoyment.
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Singapore - Perth - Rottnest Island - Penguin Island - Geraldton - Kalbarri - Denham - Carnarvon - Coral Bay - Exmouth - Port Hedland - Broome - Darwin and all Nationalparks on our way

Our trip with Stopover in Singapore and through Western Australia to the Northern Territory with the Campervan from Perth to Darwin led us to many beautiful caches. Sometimes the temperatures were very high for us Europeans, but we have always managed the walk well and are looking forward to standing so many miles from home in the logbook. Australia is a very fantastic country, with lots of sights and especially so many animals, from the kangaroo over dugongs, dolphins, emu's and even the blue whale and the whale shark we have seen a lot. We would like to thank all the owners for the layout of the caches, their care and the showing of mostly special places.

We send many greetings and a G 'Day from Leipzig in Germany from the 2 Supermuggels