In over your head North Lake, Western Australia, Australia
By Team Gunn Parker on 15-Jun-02. Waypoint GC6440

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Hi All
This cache needs some work to get it back, so do not visit at the momment.
Thanks

Don't know why but when we went looking for this cache the second time around the co-ordinates of S32.03.082 - E 115.50.462. Were about 130m from where we last looked. Took a guess and walked back thru the bush to about where we last looked. On the way we found the cache on the ground in the open. It appears that it had been robbed. We replaced the cache at ground level at S32.03.029 - E 115.50.505. Took nothing and left "yo yo".

After grimacing our way thru the scrub in all the wrong gear, and having to detour around a bobtail lizard that was having a feed and did not what to be desturbed we are sorry to say that after much searching we did not find the cache. Perhaps if we had the ntes to this cache it wouold have been all so much easier. Next trip down from Kal and we will find it.

We waited until the right month before we came this cache. 3.00pm: Parked the vehicle in the carpark at south of the cache. We did think to bring a ladder after reading the logged notes and decided not using it (we wish we did). Waded thru chest height grass in the snake territory and found it on the spot. We tried the different and best way to climb up there. Decided it was too dicey and beyond our control - should one of us fell and injured, snakes will come for their meal. ha ha. Permission has been granted to log here without retrieving the cache, etc. It was a quite excellent challenge. Thanks.

Found this one a lot easier than I expected after reading some of the previous entries. The cache description needs updating as your not looking for a clear plastic lunchbox but a (now replaced) blue box. This may have made it easier for us as we spotted the blue box from about 50 meters away (stands out a little in the bush). The usual swamp was non existant so it was a brief 5 mins in and out from the car park.
Took : Nuffin'
Left : Magnetic Photo Frame and Calling Card
Thanx for the hunt Team Gunn Parker.

This really isn't a cache to attempt when wearing shorts and a thin t-shirt. Found after a short (grimace) walk through the grass, and a decoding of the hint. After completing this cache, I sat and though back. It's been almost 35 years now since I climbed a tree. Somehow Andrew, I think that we're just about even after this cache.

Wow found it by looking up, contents and container broken and ruined some contents in bushes under cache hiddy spot. Salvaged what we could and replaced container with new blue container.
Took nothing except ruined contents and container for bin.
Left toy yoyo tazo glitter pen and left TB Piglet. Hope someone comes and gets him soon.
Hint: Wear old clothes for this one.
Hint: If you wish make it a little easier and less scarey there are some co-ords to the beginning of a pathway instead of trying to make your own.
S32.03.076 E115.05.498

Dexter Ditto Weren't There!

Took: Nil
Left: Nil

Thanx 4 the exercise...

Couldn't Find it

Started the trek through the reeds but abandoned it due to the amount of water. Will return in less than good footware.

[last edit: 9/14/2003 2:02:09 AM PST]

Found Saturday 9.30am. Blindly following the GPS I found myself walking in very thick undergrowth with just enough water beneath to make the experience eerie. The best was yet to come. My juvenile tree climbing days are over but the challenge was there to be had. Made it to the tied down cache but got black marks all over me in the process. Not recommended to wear your Sunday best for this one [B)] Yes, the cache is very badly cracked and starting to disintegrate - it definitely needs replacing. Still, I had fun TN, L calling card.

hahah.. you won't believe this!

ok.. I did it all the same again ... and this time I went to the tree, climbed up, looked all over the tree - still couldn't find it.. climbed down the tree... walked around the tree, looked under the bushes, nope not there ... decided to climb the tree ONCE more and thought to myself, If it's not in the tree, it must have fallen out... and much my chagrin, found it inside some virgin untouched bushes .. it must have fallen out of the tree during recent storms.

The container's lid is badly cracked and the cache is complete soaked with water. Emptied out the contents, drained and tried to dry it as much as possible. Re-tied the container back in the tree upside down, approx where it fell from so that it won't get water logged again

Filled the log book. Took nothing, left yellow plastic double ended baby feeding spoon and calling card.

Recommend the owner go do some serious maintenance here. thanks for the challenge * not * .. The Trekkers


[last edit: 8/20/2003 4:48:03 AM PST]

BUGGER!

I spent 20 mins approx 10.30am, enroute to another job. Entered via Bateman side, parked on the pavement and easily found the cache site and followed existing trodden trails. * sighs * after being slashed by the tall reeds (you should see my arms) fossicking about, even looked in the trees, couldn't see anything ... ended up de-coding the HINT .. nope, that wasn't any help either... it even was a nice day.

Next time, I'll read other visitors logs before going to the cache coz THEN I'd know that I have to climb the tree looking for red rope... and not looking inside and on top of blackboys.

The co-ordinates are slightly out ... mind you, Ill know better when I find it * grins *

Better luck next time I go to retrieve it, The Trekkers

Top climb for daughter(30), whined about getting a little dirty. Two youths came out of the reeds yelling (we are the founders of these tracks through the the swamp). Had tell them we climbed the tree to find an easy way out. Follow us they said (yeah rite), showed them the GPS and said no thanks. Party camp still there. This cache was good fun, left nothing and took nothing.
Thanks Team Gunn Parker.

[last edit: 8/2/2003 6:24:42 AM PST]

My goodness.Must remember to take a slave with me for these ones(kids).I don't think I'll send my mum to this one.......or shall I.
found easy , retreval and placement was all done in place hence Took nothing, left Pride....
Mental note....I'm not as young as I think I am.

If I was 30 years younger then I would have thoroughly enjoyed this little challenge.

Sadists!

It is the first cache I have done where putting it back is more challenging than getting it in the first place!

Definately over our heads. We circled, we armed ourselves with one of those blackboy spears to use as a machetti, (sorry to the conservationists), and I hide behind Ian while the geoterriers guarded the cache-mobile. Why didnt we get an invite to the party that had obviously being going on there earlier? (see photos to follow). Ian climbed the tree and retrieved the cache. I tried to throw the cache back up to Ian (several times, every time landing in another patch of prickly stuff). We went back the the party area and found a superhighway to get out on. If only we had gone that way first!!!

Flushed with success of two finds today already I decided to tackle this one. Boody hell. For someone well over the 40 mark this was no small feat.I came in from a direction that was chest high in rushes and thorns only to find when I found the spot that there were some previous made paths. But the tree. Try climbing it in a howling gale and rain squalls. Hung on for dear life and managed to log the visit. Took nothing left nothing. I survived.

Well that is the last time ,I go Cache Hunting un-prepared.
I was out for a drive, when I remembered there was a cache in the area.
So I parked in the park, and then Carried my
2 and a half year old Daughter.It cannot be to bad I thought, it is only 340 meter walk.
What a big mistake, every step I took She got heavier and heavier. And it was'nt like I could put her down anywhere to walk at all, as the reeds were to big and prickly.
Eventually I got to the location. 0.00 on the GPS.
Great I am here, So now to start looking, around a large paper bark tree, on my hands and knees in light rain looking through reeds and under blackboys. All the obvious places. I did not think to look up in that tree....
You see I did not read any details of this cache before coming here. After 20 minutes on my hands and knees,Looking for the Cache, I realized I had now lost my $220 RayBan Sun Glasses. So I headed back carrying my Daughter through the spikey reeds again.Without finding the cache.
Luckily enough, I found my Sun Glasses in the reeds, where I had first entered the tall grass.
I would have to say it was the worst cache I have tried to find.
Next time I will at least read about the cache, I am about to find.
Nissan

Last time I EVER offer to go get the Cache.
What a climb.. we parked at the carpark and managed to make our way thru the reeds to the cache.. It took aaages to get to the cache once we found it. We Left nothing and Took only a business card..
Now.. how to get down !!!
That was the HARD part.. Without the other guys direcing me.. i'd be laying on the ground with them laughing at me !!

Lets go home

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Came into this one from the same direction as Patrick. Yikes, what terrain! We made a really good trail though through the reeds, and the GPS got us to the tree with lots of trails around it. What a place to hide a cache, a real challence to scale that tree!

Rated: for Overall Experience

what can we say....SADISTS. We came in from the car park direction and that was a big mistake. the reeds got taller and taller untill they were way over our heads. forward movemnet was nearly impossible so it was nesessary to skirt around where we wanted to go. we found the trail of someone else that had been going from tree to tree trying to work out what one it was so that made it easier. I dont think we would have liked to do this at night by torch light and we would not even think of coming in hear in summer. This is snake territory (BIGTIME). Then there is the upward journey. slippery and burnt was the wood and the distance a bit more than I felt comfortable with. But we made it. signed the log book and took Ernie...added the hamburger thing. We did intend to add the travel bug but forgot as too much was going on at the time to try hunting around in my pocket. Best direction for getting in may be from the main road mear GRAVE st...appropriate name maybe. Take a friend and a mobile phone for safety.

yes i found this cache. it would have to be the hardest one i have found to date! how ever i was by myself and after climbing halfway up to retrieve the cache decided that if i fell it would be a long time before any one found me so i did not log the log book, take anything or leave anything in the cache. in order to prove that i was there i can say without giving too much away about were to look for it. it is tied to a branch with red coloured rope.

what can i say the 6km drive from home was the easy bit the last 200m is a right pain in the but especially at night but good torches and back light on the gps got us within 2m of the place.we signed the log took the keyring left ernie...... then the walk back sheeeesh p.s. come in from the north west. it is easier goood luck

[last edit: 6/18/2002 2:04:25 AM PST]