THE KEP - Prickly Guardian Chidlow, Western Australia, Australia
By
jasenjanine on 18-Mar-16. Waypoint GC69Q4T
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Logs
Dnfed this one 2.5 years ago. Returned today to straighten it up. How did I miss it before? Inexperienced I guess TFTC
Had a good day hunting Deadly Creatures before hitting the Kep Track. I had the mountain bike with me, but decided to pick off the easier caches by car first up. This way I can more of a ride when I return.
Last weekend, ultrarunners ran from Northam to Mundaring Weir. Two distances, 75km and 100km. Huge effort!
I can see why this one hasn’t been found for a while.... parrot bush!!
TFTC jasenjanine
Last weekend, ultrarunners ran from Northam to Mundaring Weir. Two distances, 75km and 100km. Huge effort!
I can see why this one hasn’t been found for a while.... parrot bush!!
TFTC jasenjanine
Decided to spend some long overdue time out on The Kep Track picking up some caches.
TFTC jasenjanine this is find # 8445 for us.
TFTC jasenjanine this is find # 8445 for us.
Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.
This is day 2 of our Lake Lesh adventure and a bit more of the east side of The KEP
Her turn.
Thanks for the hide and jasenjanine.
This is day 2 of our Lake Lesh adventure and a bit more of the east side of The KEP
Her turn.
Thanks for the hide and jasenjanine.
Our second day in The KEP Trail and this time megawat60 and I head East! My turn this time. TFTC jasenjanine!
Decided to go for a ride from Mt Helena to Wooroloo after a failed attempt on Thursday due to me snapping my bike chain not 300m from the vehicle. This has been a great trail to do and a chance to get out of the house.
This cache was quick to find. tftc
This cache was quick to find. tftc
Out and about with Neva2old and themongrel to claim a few more along the Kep Track, happy to say we added a smilie here today TFTC
Out and about with Parkacruz and Themongrel today. On a nice sunny but chilly winters day, we only had 3 DNF's which was great. Parkacruz managed to squash her fingers between some rocks, so a tissue was issued and a couple of bandaids and told " to toughen up princess" so we could continue our caching day. ( Since coming home Parkacruz has been to the DR's and now has steristrips and an appointment for a surgeon OOPPPS)
Continued to work my way up this beautiful track with the geodog, this time starting at Chidlow. Thanks for the cache!
May not have many more chances to have a go at this series any time soon so we have strapped the bikes on the rack once again to see how many we can find. A lot cooler today. I think the prickly guardian is deceased. Cannot say that I am too disappointed. TFTC jasenjanine
After an enjoyable walk with my sister on the KEP track heading south from Mundaring Sculpture Park, today I decided to walk the track heading east from the same starting point all the way to Wooroloo. I was expecting a great adventure and this track (and the series of caches along it) did not disappoint. While the terrain was reasonably flat throughout, the frequent junctions and historical placards along the way made the trek more interesting. Lots of wildlife were spotted, lots of big grey kangaroos, bobtails, really large goannas, foxes and a wide array of birds. A great variety of hides can be found along the trail, with most caches hidden securely and in good working order. I had really good luck in finding this string of caches with only 2 DNFs for the day (i.e. Red Flag & Pipe-ular Picnic. I am feeling inspired to return another day to continue this KEP track epic.
TFTC jasenjanine
TFTC jasenjanine
Met up early this morning with ssclan with the plan to ride as much of the KEP trail as we could before the rain arrived. Armed with a coffee from DOME we arrived around 7am in Chidlow. With 2 cars we took the second to Wundowie and then headed back to Childow to start the ride.
Great morning with only the 1 DNF, arriving in Wundowie by bike around 11:45am, just as the drizzle set in. From there it was a tour of several of the caches around the town followed by a couple on the way back to Chidlow.
Ended the day with 55 finds, so a great day out. Loving the KEP trail, another 36 completed today but still plenty to go.
Thanks to Jasenjanine for this great series, and for the inventive puzzles and other caches around Wundowie
Great morning with only the 1 DNF, arriving in Wundowie by bike around 11:45am, just as the drizzle set in. From there it was a tour of several of the caches around the town followed by a couple on the way back to Chidlow.
Ended the day with 55 finds, so a great day out. Loving the KEP trail, another 36 completed today but still plenty to go.
Thanks to Jasenjanine for this great series, and for the inventive puzzles and other caches around Wundowie
Headed east early this morning to get some smilies on the KEP Track with Spatialriq. Also picked up some others along the way. Quite a successful day on the bikes with 58 finds and only 1 dnf.
Thanks jasenjanine for a great series and a couple of head scratching puzzles. Hopefully I'll be back soon to complete the rest of the series.
Thanks jasenjanine for a great series and a couple of head scratching puzzles. Hopefully I'll be back soon to complete the rest of the series.
Yay us - we found in the dark - this is becoming a bit of new challenge for us - finding caches designed for day time fun at night. Cache is in great condition. Another KEP cache completed. Thanks
I straight lines this one from the path which was a mistake 
, then I searched a few different places before spying the container . I certainly got the full experience of the cache title here 
After too many delays in getting back to this area, I decided to put my Friday camping trip to good use and head north from home to grab a few more smilies along this trail. This was my first ride on my mountain bike for quite some time and I had an absolute blast .
A MASSIVE thanks to jasenjanine for placing this cache here and contributing to this game that we enjoy so much [^].
jasenjanine - jinta29 found your cache THE KEP - Prickly Guardian on 20/01/2017, 6:15 PM. This is my find #6216 and find #15 today. I was able to add my name to the log book and I replaced the container as found!
, then I searched a few different places before spying the container . I certainly got the full experience of the cache title here After too many delays in getting back to this area, I decided to put my Friday camping trip to good use and head north from home to grab a few more smilies along this trail
. This was my first ride on my mountain bike for quite some time and I had an absolute blast .A MASSIVE thanks to jasenjanine for placing this cache here and contributing to this game that we enjoy so much [^].
jasenjanine - jinta29 found your cache THE KEP - Prickly Guardian on 20/01/2017, 6:15 PM. This is my find #6216 and find #15 today. I was able to add my name to the log book and I replaced the container as found!
We have been tackling this series over a period of time and it was time to bite the bullet and get it completed .... So the geowife instructed me it was my time to complete it !!!!!
I packed the car with the old push bike and hit the trail early ......
It was dark when I hit Mundaring so it was out with the torch . Did I mention the weather was dismal !!!!
I managed to collect 81 and no DNFs.
Many different containers used so it was a pleasure to see a variety and the way they were used .....
I saw the history of the KEP track in different stages from the old water pipe to the railway sliding's / landings and the buildings close to the track from that era .
Sorry for the genetic log as I didn't take any notes but will comment on the ones I can remember !!!!
I packed the car with the old push bike and hit the trail early ......
It was dark when I hit Mundaring so it was out with the torch . Did I mention the weather was dismal !!!!
I managed to collect 81 and no DNFs.
Many different containers used so it was a pleasure to see a variety and the way they were used .....
I saw the history of the KEP track in different stages from the old water pipe to the railway sliding's / landings and the buildings close to the track from that era .
Sorry for the genetic log as I didn't take any notes but will comment on the ones I can remember !!!!
Headed out for an afternoon with barnzy12 towards Northam. After picking him
Up and being told just wait a minute I need to bring a few things out I got rather suspicious. I at this stage had no real idea where we were heading and what we were to find today.
Steve as always thinks ahead, stays up late and develops a plan. Out he came with a ladder....... Then a canoe and said lets pack them in and go.
In the car he stated he wanted to do a sky, land and water day. I was intrigued to say the least.
The ladder would be used to help us climb a tree and the canoe to save us getting wet instead of going for a "light" swim as its getting rather cold now.
We started of getting some Kep track caches on the way to Northam.
Then stopped in for a field puzzle or two prior to making it to Northam.
Most caches were found in good condition with one DNF and a few a little water logged after the recent storms.
We hopped to find enough today to get B12 closer to the magical 6000 finds that he is hoping to log for the WA Goes Big event in 2 weeks. See a lot of you there.
Up and being told just wait a minute I need to bring a few things out I got rather suspicious. I at this stage had no real idea where we were heading and what we were to find today.
Steve as always thinks ahead, stays up late and develops a plan. Out he came with a ladder....... Then a canoe and said lets pack them in and go.
In the car he stated he wanted to do a sky, land and water day. I was intrigued to say the least.
The ladder would be used to help us climb a tree and the canoe to save us getting wet instead of going for a "light" swim as its getting rather cold now.
We started of getting some Kep track caches on the way to Northam.
Then stopped in for a field puzzle or two prior to making it to Northam.
Most caches were found in good condition with one DNF and a few a little water logged after the recent storms.
We hopped to find enough today to get B12 closer to the magical 6000 finds that he is hoping to log for the WA Goes Big event in 2 weeks. See a lot of you there.
TFTC! Had a days caching planned with Cravo10 as we haven't really gone out for a full day since our action packed whirlwind 3500 kilometre trip to Kalgoorlie, Leonora, Esperance, kulin and surrounds trip.
Had a sleep in this morning before we headed out on our mission to tackle a few caches on the Lep Track to Northam, with a few others along the way thrown in for good measure.
Planning the route last night i thought of the idea of a Land, Air & Seas day, with the kep track caches forming the land leg, a kayak on the Avon forming the sea leg (river) and the air leg being some tree climbing in wundowie. This was not mentioned to John in the plans as usual as he generally gets apprehensive about these "ideas", so when he turned up I just casually mentioned "I've gotta get a couple of things from the garage", that's when the face changed and I explained about the days "goals"
Anyway we had a later than usual start and tackled a bunch of the caches between mundaring and wundowie along the kep track before deviating to lake leschenaultia. The two field puzzles here chidlows well and assembly required weren't really on the days plans, as I generally have pretty poor form when it comes to field puzzles and I bring along muggle mate come geocacher Numbers Man to solve them which generally costs me a lunch.
Lake leschenaultia turned into the highlight of the day. WP2 of assembly required is probably one of the most fun geocaches I have ever come across. Such a simple task, but quite hard aswell as I struggle to follow instructions!! And chidlows well, was a bit apprehensive after reading some of the earlier logs but we had the container within about a minute of arrival, great job on that one. Tried to take all sorts of backways to grab the final for the assembly required puzzle but should have just walked from wp2, it would have been easier and not wasted thirty minutes of our time.
After completing the lake leschenaultia caches we then continued towards Northam but time was getting tight as we didn't bring any push bikes so we were walking from the car to the cache each time which was slowing Us down significantly. We eventually got to Northam a bit later than expected and grabbed some much needed supplies to refuel the body for our next leg.
We arrived at the banks of the Avon to complete the Avon a swim cache in the geo yaks, which has been on the radar for a while with all the caching growth in the area. We paddled down with a nice strong current pushing us down the river towards GZ, we took some notes from he listing and the maps as we didn't want to take the phones on the water. Was a nice quick find in a logical spot, well the only spot really. And we then paddled back against the strong current which gave the arms a good workout. Only got marginally wet, thankfully as it was a bit chilly!!
We then planned out assault on the tree climbing aspect of the day the eucalyptus cache in wundowie, unfortunately we arrived in darkness and even after coming prepared with an extremely large ladder we still couldn't reach it and didn't want to risk life or limb in the dark for just one cache, so we decided to leave it for another time
All in all another great day out, should be able fo complete the kep series on our next visit to the area which hopefully isn't too far away although the CPS series has really taken a back seat after this series was published!
Thanks to all the COs for their caches. Cheers!
Had a sleep in this morning before we headed out on our mission to tackle a few caches on the Lep Track to Northam, with a few others along the way thrown in for good measure.
Planning the route last night i thought of the idea of a Land, Air & Seas day, with the kep track caches forming the land leg, a kayak on the Avon forming the sea leg (river) and the air leg being some tree climbing in wundowie. This was not mentioned to John in the plans as usual as he generally gets apprehensive about these "ideas", so when he turned up I just casually mentioned "I've gotta get a couple of things from the garage", that's when the face changed and I explained about the days "goals"
Anyway we had a later than usual start and tackled a bunch of the caches between mundaring and wundowie along the kep track before deviating to lake leschenaultia. The two field puzzles here chidlows well and assembly required weren't really on the days plans, as I generally have pretty poor form when it comes to field puzzles and I bring along muggle mate come geocacher Numbers Man to solve them which generally costs me a lunch.
Lake leschenaultia turned into the highlight of the day. WP2 of assembly required is probably one of the most fun geocaches I have ever come across. Such a simple task, but quite hard aswell as I struggle to follow instructions!! And chidlows well, was a bit apprehensive after reading some of the earlier logs but we had the container within about a minute of arrival, great job on that one. Tried to take all sorts of backways to grab the final for the assembly required puzzle but should have just walked from wp2, it would have been easier and not wasted thirty minutes of our time.
After completing the lake leschenaultia caches we then continued towards Northam but time was getting tight as we didn't bring any push bikes so we were walking from the car to the cache each time which was slowing Us down significantly. We eventually got to Northam a bit later than expected and grabbed some much needed supplies to refuel the body for our next leg.
We arrived at the banks of the Avon to complete the Avon a swim cache in the geo yaks, which has been on the radar for a while with all the caching growth in the area. We paddled down with a nice strong current pushing us down the river towards GZ, we took some notes from he listing and the maps as we didn't want to take the phones on the water. Was a nice quick find in a logical spot, well the only spot really. And we then paddled back against the strong current which gave the arms a good workout. Only got marginally wet, thankfully as it was a bit chilly!!
We then planned out assault on the tree climbing aspect of the day the eucalyptus cache in wundowie, unfortunately we arrived in darkness and even after coming prepared with an extremely large ladder we still couldn't reach it and didn't want to risk life or limb in the dark for just one cache, so we decided to leave it for another time
All in all another great day out, should be able fo complete the kep series on our next visit to the area which hopefully isn't too far away although the CPS series has really taken a back seat after this series was published!
Thanks to all the COs for their caches. Cheers!
We have had a few bumps and scratches along the KEP today! Pleased to say we found this one without any trouble! TFTC 
Too good a day to stay indoors, so what better than to get a few more of "The Kep" caches , took the MTB for the ones off the road from Chidlow to Wooroloo, not too many prickles
TFTC
TFTC
Another early start to start where we finished last night. Had hoped to beat the rain but it was already falling when we dropped the geo-hubby's off on their bikes to do the section through the reserve down to Chidlow. Thanks jasenjanine
Richlink stayed over on Saturday night so that we could make and early, early start on Sunday morning.
So, with the bikes loaded we headed off in the dark to Northam, "The Kep" caches firmly in our sights. Some of the caches were accessed on foot from the nearest parking spot and others by bike. Although there was some heavy rain storms on Monday and we were wet through we found all of the caches and had a great couple of days finishing up with lunch at The Weir Hotel on Monday.
Congratulations jasenjanine, what a fantastic effort here.
So, with the bikes loaded we headed off in the dark to Northam, "The Kep" caches firmly in our sights. Some of the caches were accessed on foot from the nearest parking spot and others by bike. Although there was some heavy rain storms on Monday and we were wet through we found all of the caches and had a great couple of days finishing up with lunch at The Weir Hotel on Monday.
Congratulations jasenjanine, what a fantastic effort here.
I saw the title of this listing on our cycle from the previous find and figured I'd send Hiddo. I did offer super helpful advice on which "ebpx" she should be searching . The terrain didn't end up being as bad as I had expected so I picked my way to GZ to log the find since every time I handed Hiddo a pencil she offloaded it in a cache accidently unless I reminded her to bring it back! Thanks for the hide.
. The terrain didn't end up being as bad as I had expected so I picked my way to GZ to log the find since every time I handed Hiddo a pencil she offloaded it in a cache accidently unless I reminded her to bring it back! Thanks for the hide.(chwiliwr team catch up log)
We decided yesterday to come out and try and do some of this series and started in Mundaring and finished up near Wooroloo when we got too tired to continue doing the long walks. After recovering a bit we went back to Mundaring and then started the caches towards the Wier from where we had started this morning getting as close as we could to GZ with the car and walking the short distances from the road to the track.
Got a few firsts along the way with this being oneof the joint *FTF* caches around 1150 hrs and had no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
We decided yesterday to come out and try and do some of this series and started in Mundaring and finished up near Wooroloo when we got too tired to continue doing the long walks. After recovering a bit we went back to Mundaring and then started the caches towards the Wier from where we had started this morning getting as close as we could to GZ with the car and walking the short distances from the road to the track.
Got a few firsts along the way with this being oneof the joint *FTF* caches around 1150 hrs and had no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
I have spent a little bit of time on or around the KEP track between Mundaring Weir and Woorooloo, and enjoy getting out on it. It's a great area, and there is lots to see along the way.
This afternoon I cherry picked the caches that had not been logged yet, hoping for a FTF, but I ended up with 2TF or 3TF at most of them, with Chwiliwr and Blingg having been through this morning.
I had no trouble with any of the caches I went for this afternoon, with the last 5 or so being done by torch light. I look forward to coming back for the rest of the series.
Randomly I found a golf ball as I was heading back from the cache to the track...
Thanks for the cache jasenjanine!
This afternoon I cherry picked the caches that had not been logged yet, hoping for a FTF, but I ended up with 2TF or 3TF at most of them, with Chwiliwr and Blingg having been through this morning.
I had no trouble with any of the caches I went for this afternoon, with the last 5 or so being done by torch light. I look forward to coming back for the rest of the series.
Randomly I found a golf ball as I was heading back from the cache to the track...
Thanks for the cache jasenjanine!
Decided yesterday to come out and try and do some of this series and started in Mundaring and finished up near Wooroloo when I got too tired to continue doing the long walks. After recovering a bit I went back to Mundaring and then started the caches towards the Wier from where I had started this morning getting as close as I could to GZ with the car and walking the short distances from the road to the track.
Got a few firsts along the way with this being one of the *FTF* caches around 1150 hrs and had virtually no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
Got a few firsts along the way with this being one of the *FTF* caches around 1150 hrs and had virtually no trouble finding any of the caches.
Thanks jasenjanine for the cache and the series done so far.
