Flynn of the Inland Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, Australia
By gingernut_chestnuts; flim&flick on 28-Jul-15. Waypoint GC60BAB

Guarded by a caterpillar. Found it with DieSchmidtisTFTC

We have visited quite a few memorials and the centre dedicated to this man who deserves our respect. TFTC

Found at 3:02 PM GAFF3.Such an out of the way location for a hospital that was serviced by medical staff. So Flynn didn't actually come out here, but was the one who designed the hospital. A bit like Mary Mackillop in what she achieved in setting up schools - she wasn't physically there to all of them!A nice hide that is a bit exposed, but a very good indicator for us geocachers Thanks to gingernut_chestnutsFeedback: Why aren't these caches safe to do at night? Is there wildlife that attacks you at night?

Coordinates changed from:S 18 10.662 E 125 35.771Coordinates changed to:S 18 10.661 E 125 35.769Distance from original: 13.0 feet or 4.0 meters.Unfortunately the cache has disappeared. Thanks to albida33 for his assistance in replacing the cache. The coordinates have been updated and the the hint will be too.

This cache has been replaced. Happy hunting!

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 121 - Derby to Fitzroy Crossing. After a hot stay in Derby, it was time to start moving again. It was not a long day, just a steady day of driving with two stops along the way and some caching in Fitzroy Crossing as I had a look around this community. It was nice to catch up with a local cacher gingernut_chestnuts. The new Bridge is very impressive, but they are still working on the highway and secondary bridges. I sampled the pool at the caravan park in the evening and then cooked dinner before trying to sleep in the warm still night.I failed to find this back in 2018, and I am not sure if it was missing, or I just did not go inside the gate. Today spoke to gingernut_chestnuts who had confirmed it was not there and came up with a new hide. I hope this one survives the next flood. Nice to meet a local.Thanks for the cache gingernut_chestnuts48919.4 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Leaping into 2020 A#414**Albida**

This cache has gone missing. Owner will attempt to get this up and going again soon.

Woo hoo - I found 'Flynn of the Inland' today but writing on the log sheet was tricky. I'm on a 14 day tour of the Kimberley area with Kimberley Wild and 19 Muggles. today we went down to the old crossing to here Jane talk about her culture and the history of our First Nation's people in and around Fitzroy Crossing

Looked for a while but didnt find it.

No luck for us today. I really wanted to get one at Fitzroy Crossing. The only thing I did get was the shit frightened out of me by a spider that came out from behind the Plaque okay

When GreyHams discovered a great deal to relocate a motor home from Broome to Darwin, things quickly slotted into place to head out for another adventure together. Three planes and a full day of travelling later we arrived in Broome, with the most amazing orange sunset out the windows of the plane.

Plenty of time to discover a few of Broomes caches and places before collecting our wheels the following morning. It slept 6 and had all the luxuries, it was huge, climbing up into it there was no going back and off we set!

The drive was full of changing scenery. Loved the Boab trees in all their different shapes and mass numbers, termite mounds and the red earth. Wildlife lined the roads, always cattle but birds, wild horses, snakes, dingo's, pigs and even buffalo! Stunning rock formations, waterways and even many little fires it was a great drive stopping for the caches as we passed... but no crocs (sad face!)

Leaving Broome we had overnight stays in Fitzroy Crossing, Kununarra and Timber Creek, great places but the highlight being the Lazy Lizard in Timber Creek. Passing through Halls Creek, Katherine and even Kakadu among many other little towns and stops along the way added to a great trip. The van was comfortable and a novel way to travel, the caches spread out over big distances a chance to stretch the legs.

Arriving into Darwin and the van returned it was into town for a few must find caches, and to explore the town, a tad warmer than we were used to at 33C!

Many thanks to all the COs of the caches we stopped at along the way and that added to the enjoyment of the trip.

Aquilus1 & I decided at short notice to add another 'crazy' trip to our growing list of adventures. Flying from Canberra to Broome and driving a 'war rig' huge campervan from Broome to Darwin. It could sleep 6! The hire itself cost almost nothing as it was on a 'relocation' deal.

We arrived too late to pick up the bus on our first day....not surprising really as it took 3 flights to get there. The hotel we stayed at in Broome at had a "competition" on the night we arrived and several barmaids in odd clothing.... "Welcome to WA" it would seem.

After picking up the battleship, we proceeded easterly on our adventure. In three days we would see Fitzroy's Crossing, Hall's Creek, Kununurra, Timber Creek, Katherine, Pine Creek, Kakadu & Darwin, as well as a lot of road.

No crocs spotted, but we did see dingo's, water buffalo, horses, lots of birds & cows.

Favourite stop by a mile was in Pine Creek, at the Lazy Lizard. Very cool and also the cheapest!

Thanks to all the CO's for placing.

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Got to this one just before dusk

Loved finding this, very interesting location!
TFTC!

Great location for a cache, thank you for maintaining it. A good idea to have this monument in recognition of Flynn's great work.

Stopped here for a quick stop - and a cache. Found it with goingplaces2 and added our names to the log. Thank you to gingernut_chestnuts; flim&flick for placing this cache.

We are still heading west with ilook4geo and picking up some caches along the way. This one didn't stay hidden for very long and we are happy to claim the find after signing the log. This is a part of our history well worth celebrating. All was replaced as it had been found. Thanks for placing this cache go to gingernut_chestnuts; flim&flick.

Day 21 of the long road trip from Perth to the Townsville Mega via the southern states and then back to Perth again via the northern part of Australia.

Today was basically from south of Kununurra to a late at night viisit into Derby with another big stopover Halls Creek to wait for a tire puncture to be repaired. Lucky that the only repair place available was still open.

This cache found without problems. Log signed and the cache returned as it was found.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for cachers to find.

Ltf

We have been travelling around this great country, calling into see many different places,
now is a quick chance on the computer to catch up with logs and to put some smileys on the map for where we have been.
Thanks to all the COs for some great finds.
TFTC

TFTC

A quick find although the tin was pushed in so far it took ages to manoeuvre it out. The rocks were boiling hot as well so take care in the sun. TFTC

Nice quick find after a walk in Geike Gorge.

Thanks gingernut_chestnuts; flim&flick

Tftc interesting history. Visited Fitzroy Crossing in 1997 & I’m happy to say the township has come along way. I popped more log in a plastic bag & placed in the new container with swaps. Have given this one a favourite

We are spending a few weeks travelling to some of Western Australia's warmer regions and grabbing a couple of the LGAs that I need.
I went out for a morning run today. We were staying at the caravan park in town and I did not know if there was a track through to this one so I really didn't expect to make a find so I didn't take my pen with me.
It turns out there is a footbridge across the river that I used to get to the cache but had nothing to sign it with.
So after we had packed up and left the caravan park we called back in here on our way to the gorge to sign the log. All good now.

This was find number 1 for the day.
TFTC gingernut_chestnuts

Out for a drive today, noticed a few comments in past logs mentioning the container had been missing.
We have put a replacement container at gz, I hope that’s ok to keep the cache active in such a special spot.
Thanks for sharing this interesting location, great artwork in the makings just down the track to see as well.
TFTC

Easy find but as others have noted, the container is missing. No pen but here's a photo of the log.

Found it after some driving to get there ... was out of range so it took some guess work!

Thank you! I headed off on a two week group tour of the Kimberley, from Broome to Kununurra via the Gibb River Road, then back via the Great Northern Highway. Being an organised trip, all caching was opportunistic rather than planned.
We stopped to see the old bridge, so after a quick look myself, I headed off to find this cache. Happy to make the find.

Did circles for a while before we used logic and found cache log book, thought missing its container. Thanks for bringing us here. Good bituminous road other than the last little bit.

With the hint it was an easy find.
TFTC

Found it on our 2019/2020 holiday trip through Western Australia.

TFTC,

JuStMeMi

Had three weeks holiday so decided on a massive road trip to the most northern part of the state - the Kimberley. An area we have never explored, but had always been on the to do list. We travelled through the towns of Mount Magnet, Newman, Port Hedland, Broome, Halls Creek, Kununurra, back to Broome, Karratha, Exmouth, Denham, Geraldton and back home to Perth. It certainly was a very quick trip for the distance covered, over 8,000 kilometres in total, we saw a lot in such a short space of time, but barely scratched the surface of what’s out in these parts.

We would like to thank the individual COs for hiding the caches throughout these parts, from the towns to the highways and byways. Thank you for choosing to share these locations with us and we appreciate the effort you have gone to. Thanks for the fun.

Today our tour - which began in Perth, WA , and led us thru Western, Northern and Southern Australia back to Perth, was simply driving from Broome to Fitzroy Crossing.


On the way we came to some interesting locations. Here we searched, found and logged this Tradi-Cache.

Weather was good in the morning and it should even get better during the day.

Thanks to 'gingernut_chestnuts; flim&flick' for showing us this location, for the fun we had with 'Flynn of the Inland' and the smiley. The search here and today didn't take too much time, fortunately.

Greetings from Germany and we hope to see you soon in the forest, prairie, desert or outback .

TFTC says H_M_A @ 13. Oktober 2019 @ 15:55 o'clock @ [#13808](https://coord.info/GC60BAB)

On our way to Broome after an overnight in Fitzroy. Road was very wash boarded. TFTC

Mplc notre première cache Australienne à la tombé de la nuit

Mplc

Called in here after organising my accomodation and checking out the old crossing which would have been a bit tricky in its day.
I have done a few caches dedicated to this great man.
He did a lot for the outback organising all of the medical needs back then.
Thanks gingernut-chestnuts; TFTC.

Went down to look at the old crossing. Bit dusty down there. On the way back made the stop and had a look. Sneaky hide. Thanks for the cache.

Thank you. I’m a nurse and found this particular hide exceptionally informative.

First cache found on trip from to Broome to Bungle Bungle Ranges. A very interesting area. TFTC

First WA cache TFTC

Thanks for this one named for the great pioneer. TFTC gingernut_chestnuts; flim&flick. Found 21/6/19 10:42 am. Cache 1739 for us.
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Found and logged using the Cachly app for iPhone.

Hello from England! We are on a great circular road trip from Broome to the Bungle Bungles and back along the Gibb River Road.

This was an interesting stop en route to Geikie Gorge. Initially we looked too far behind... TFTC [3327]

Yay finally a return visit to turn my frown upside down. A quick easy find while passing through

TFTC

Quick find. TFTC. Very interesting

Had a bit of time so found this one with no problems. Nice hide

Finally had a chance to find

Before heading off to Derby, we went for a drive to do a
couple of caches. This was the first one. We were excited
to also come across the old crossing which we had to use
way back in 1971. Great memories for us. We also remember
the Hospital which was here as well. Thanks to John Flynn for
all he did for the people in remote areas.
Found, signed and replaced as found.

Thanks all for the cache

Little Squirell

TFTC

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 9832. We found this as part of our 2018 Round Australia trip.

We found this one on the way back from the gorge this morning. What a great history that we would have missed otherwise.

Thanks gingernut_chestnuts for the cache.

A quick find at go on our trip around aus tftc

Found it nice hide all is good with the cache on a road trip from Tassie TFTC.

Nice
TFTC

Today we travelled from Larrawa to Fitzroy Crossing and found this cache.

Many thanks!

Out and about with Megawat60 and MY4B on our northern adventure to conquer the mighty Gibb River Road and claim caches as we go.
We stopped to grabbed this one after walking across the old crossing. Couldn't find it but placed a new one after consulting with M4YB and Megawat60 who had found it previously.
Thanks for the cache

Add us to the list of DNFs. Should have looked at logs before searching!

Am back in town. I will check it tomorrow (Monday) and replace or deactivate it if necessary

A quick find while in the area on a great holiday.
TFTC

As we continue on our year trip and head toward fitzroy crossing we will cache along the way. From Geelong victoria up the centre to Darwin we stayed in Kununurra to explore the Kimberley’ s and enjoy the ord river muster. We need to keep moving to make home for Christmas
TFTC

The Big Western Australia trip in 2018. Day 16. After a leisurely start from El Questro I headed back to the bitumen and SW along the Northern Highway to Halls Creek.

After having been foiled at the old crossing I reached the monument and had a look around. I did not manage to locate a cache here today.

Thanks.

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No luck for us today.
We expanded our search just to double check but still nothing.
One for next time maybe.

Couldn't find it. Maybe muffled.

After stopping at Gnumban Rest Area last night and had howling winds that woke me at 2.30am we were off to a very early start this morning

This was our first stop but unfortunately no luck. Had a good look but maybe we were just too tired to see

I'm sure we'll be up this way again in years to come

Thanks anyway

Nice stop on my way to the gorge.
TFC and happy geocaching

On our way to Geikie Gorge and nice stop to check out the old Crossing and grab a cache. TFTF

Tagging along with the "Rats" on holidays has it's advantages, not only do we get to see our cool country but we also get to do a heap of caching as Dad just can't help himself and has to stop at every cache he can.

Heading across Australia on nearly every dirt road possible we stopped and found your cache as part of our adventure and for that, I thank you! Sorry about the log being a "cut n paste" but tthats just because we stopped at so many caches.

TFTC

The Rats and mini rats found this cache as part of our Purposeful Meander across Oz where we visited every mainland state in 8 weeks.

Apologises for the late log in some cases but we are only just catching up on our logging now that we have arrived back home. Your cache makes up many of the great memories we now have from the adventure. The faceplate style log doesn't detract from the experience we had finding the cache.

Thanks

An amazing man and an amazing mission - nothing here but the memorative plaque. Tftc

TFTC easy Find

Quick find on our travels. SL TFTC

Nice quick find
TFTC

TFTC. Sl. Found after doing the boat tour at Geikie gauge then checking out the old river crossing now blocked with sand.

We stayed at Warmum roadhouse last night and are making our way towards Broome and of course stopping for any cache that might pop up along the way.

The Reverend John Flynn certainly had a great dream and worked very hard to make it come true. He changed the lives of many people living in the outback, especially in the early days when vehicles and even roads were unreliable as a mode of transport so it is great that he is being remembered for what he achieved and his idea's are still in place today but over a much larger area. We spotted an easy way into this one but unfortunately it didn't work out as planned as the crossing was closed so we had to do a u-turn and come in from a different direction.
The well hidden cache was a nice easy find and a bit bigger than what we were expecting to see and our name has now been added to the log.

Thanks for the cache and for bring us here.

A quick find ,sign and off ( great bit of our history) Thanks ginger nut,chestnuts;film&flick

This morning we came at this a different and were able to make the find. TFTC

tfrc staying at caravan park

Wandering around northern Australia from one side to the other after attending the Red Centre Experience. Heading towards Broome and made this a quick find today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us to find. John Flynn is one of my heroes. Stamped log.

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Leave Kununurra on the way to Perth - loved the history. signed the log with nice weather.
Thanks gingernut_chestnuts for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Day 26 on my trip from Perth to the Red Centre Experience in Alice Springs with m4yb and Max the GeoUte pulling Jonathan Swift the Jaycp camper trailer.

What an adventure it has been and great to get some caches along the route.

Spent the night at Lawarra Station campsite, then headed straight for Fitzroy Crossing so nice to get this cache first thing and yet another LGA! Yay!

TFTC

Day 26 and on the return leg after the most excellent Red Centre Experience Event at Alice Springs.
Happy to have made the detour to the monument to this very important man. And found the cache.
Thanks for bringing us here!

Wie schon in anderen Ländern lassen wir uns durch Geocaching gerne an schöne Orte führenund danken den Owners für's Hegen und PflegenTFTC!

Wir sind zum ersten Mal in Australien unterwegs und sammeln gern mal die eine oder andere Dose, wie auch diese hier. Danke sagen wir allen Ownern für das Herführen und Pflegen.

Found with little trouble.tftc

From Darwin to the West Coast! TFTC

Tftc

Quick find after learning about Flynn. Camping our way across the top of WA.

Found on our great Astralian trip. All was clear when I read the hint. TFTC and greetings from Switzerland.

Nice cache near old crossing,

thanks for it... Climbing was hard


Wollitier

On a quick pitstop before Halls Creek, decided to look for local caches. This was an interesting one in a spot i would never have seen with geocaching.
Didnt have a pen so attached pic.
Tftc!

TFTC

This a veryinteresting area.Loved the old crossing. Thanks

Heading down the west coast when I get there. TFTC 3rd

On the second stage of our year long caching holiday around Australia - after a visit back home to Darwin we are heading west ... Found after setting up camp and checking out the local caches - interesting piece of history ... Thanks gingernut chestnuts ... 4TC:)

Fortunately there was nobody... TFTC ^^

TFTC

A quick find today though the coords too me to the back of the fence so I needed the hint. We were on our way out to Geikie Gorge for a cruise (and well worth it too!). SL - all in good condition. Thanks to gingernut_chestnuts for the cache.

We had left home in Adelaide five weeks ago and traveled to Darwin and now on our way west.
Stopping off here for two days I made this find and sign.
Thanks.

My first ever cach! Very excited. Found it!

Tftc. We should have walked the last part as the toad was terrible.

Our current visit to Australia had been in the planning for over a year with the very significant help and advice from friends who live in Melbourne. The original plan was for a 2 month visit, but as things progressed we just couldn't help extending our trip to the full 90 days allowed on our visas - after all it's a big country and so much to see and do, especially with our favourite pastimes being birding, hiking and of course geocaching! Our journey started with our arrival at Perth airport followed by a day cycling around Rottnest Island before travelling on to Adelaide where we met up with our friends. We then continued on to spend some time on Kangaroo Island, before heading to Melbourne via Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Coorong, Mount Gambier, Cape Bridgewater, the Grampians National Park, Port Campbell, Cape Otway and Lorne, cramming in as much as possible on route. The second leg of our journey was a fabulous 9 days in Tasmania. Having then returned to Melbourne we set off on the third leg of our journey, which was to Sydney via Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Pambula Beach, Thredbo, Canberra and Fitzroy Falls. We then spent a few days in Sydney with geocaching friends before flying on to the Gold Coast for the fourth leg of our travels, that included visits to Lamington National Park, Noosa and an overnight trip out to Fraser Island. We then flew from Brisbane to Cairns, where we spent a couple of nights before heading out to the birding hotspots of Yungaburra and Daintree. Following on from a visit to Cape Tribulation we turned to Port Douglas. After a day out on the Great Barrier Reef we returned to Cairns for the flight to Alice Springs and the fifth leg of our travels, which was a wonderful week driving the circuit to and from Ayers Rock in our 4x4 camper. On returning to Alice Springs we then flew on to Darwin, where we picked up another 4x4 camper. We are currently making our way towards Broome via Kakadu, Cooinda, Pine Creek, Edith Falls, Katherine, Nitmiluk, Timber Creek, Lake Argyle, Kununurra, Emma Gorge, El Questro, the Bungle Bungle’s, Fitzroy Crossing, Geikie Gorge, Tunnel Creek, Windjana Gorge and Derby. Our last two nights in Australia will be spent in Broome before we fly back to Perth, from where we will connect with the flight all the way back home to Zimbabwe via South Africa. We already know we can't wait to return!

This was a nice quick find at Ground Zero on our way to Geike Gorge. Thanks so much for the cache and for having bought us to this interesting spot.