What an Arch Trowutta, Tasmania, Australia
By Tassie Trekkers on 06-Mar-16. Waypoint GC6CTAF

What a beautiful place. Not far from the carpark and interesting cold rainforest for this northern dweller.

What a beautiful walk!

Big thanks to Tassie Trekkers for creating this cache! Your effort brought an extra spark of excitement to our geocaching quest. This discovery was find number 1,142 for us, marking another memorable moment in our adventure. Living and traveling full-time across Australia in our Coaster Bus, we're always on the lookout for caches to uncover. Currently, we're in Tasmania, planning to explore this beautiful island for around 18 months or so. To see more of our travels, feel free to follow our journey HERE...

TFTC. Really enjoyed the walk down to Trowutta Arch and Tarkine Drive. What an amazing place. Have a FP for bringing us here Answers sent to the CO

Today Im starting out early from Smithton to do a lap along the coast, then head into The Tarkine and back to some tall timber where Im staying. Its gonna be a huge day exploring, driving and caching On my walk to the archway I was half expecting to see a fairy , a sprite or even perhaps a goblin pop out on the path. It truly was a magical, peaceful and relaxing place to wander through . And then the archway, what can I say, Mother Nature is amazing.TFTC Tassie TrekkersKeep smiling

Today we did a loop around the Tarkine from our base at Julius River. We had an amazing day out we loved the area and especially that it isnt overrun by tourists meaning could be immersed in nature - brilliant.This formation is spectacular TFTC

Mooie leuke cache op een mooie plaats. Tftc

Tftc

Wow, absolutely stunning here. We were blown away when we seen the arch and the water. We spent some time admiring it all before gathering our answers. Thanks Tassie Trekkers, a favourite point coming your way

Caching around Tasmania. TFTC.
A wonderful place all alone. Everything looks awesome. Forest, cave, rocks, arch. Great.

Beautiful walk, took lots of fungi photos!

Find Number 2633 found at 14:24. Today we found 5 caches. We had 3 DNFs. This was the 5th find of the day

Day 6 of our tour round Tasmania. Today we drove from Stanley to Arthur River via the Tarkine Drive, in gale force winds and sudden heavy showers of rain. We did, however, manage to attempt some caches between showers.

A most impressive sight. Someone told me that this was the Do Not Miss sight in the Tarkine and I can't say that they were wrong.

Answers have been sent to the CO

Thanks Tassie Trekkers for the cache.

Staying in the area and decided to visit this beautiful spot after seeing many friends make visits recently. I wasn't disappointed - a true spectacle of nature delighted us after a short rainforest walk. Not many people about so we were able to take it all in and enjoy. TFTC Tassie Trekkers.

TFTC, a very interesting place to visit.

I really enjoyed this earthcache. An atmospheric walk through the old growth rainforest to this spectacular site. Thanks for adding to my experience by having an earthcache here.

Wow what an impressive area. Thanks for bringing us to this amazing spot. Deserves a favourite. Answers provided to CO. TFTEC

This was a very j retesting place to visit.
It was drizzling rain so added a bit the atmosphere of walking through the rainforest,
A very impressive place
TFTC

Found while visiting from Canberra. We had a stroll down to this impressive arch and did the questions. I will send the answers to the CO. Here is a photo.

Absolutely beautiful. Well worth the short walk

Having just disembarked the previous day this was my first day exploring Tasmania. I decided to head West on the Tarkine Drive.
When I arrived in the car-park I thought I saw a sign with 'karst' on it. I grew excited as I have a great interest in cave exploration. a bit of a bummer that this one has collapsed and flooded.
Anyway thanks for bringing me to this interesting spot.

What a gorgeous place. Fascinating. TFTH. Answer’s sent

Great work

Beautiful spot, response sent

Amazing location to explore.

We collected this one while out driving the Tarkine. A beautiful place. Wow, this arch is phenomenal, as well as the sinkhole. Well worth a visit, thanks for bringing us here. Answers to the questions have been sent to the CO. Photo attached. TFTC

Wow - what a great place.
A great walk to the site and then a wonderful view
Thank you Tassie Trekers for bringing us here

Favorite point given, would given 2


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3 days off from work, and Geo Kid O joined me on a journey to Stanley and then down along the western explorer road towards Corinna. We have a great time finding a number of caches and driving a road I had not travelled on before.

The Western Explorer road was closed for a while and recently had been reopened with a new bridge near Balfour. Some very interesting sights along the way, with part of the road feeling more like a forest track, and other parts felt like a place where no one else has gone in the past, other than on the road. The open button grass plains were amazing along with the mountain views.

We stayed in Stanely, and the caches in and around Stanely were very good, including one walk to the top of the Nut. Gee that is a steep 400 metre walk.

Thank you for the cache which was part of our journey

#TFTC.
Beautiful area. Hoped we may have avoided a bit of people traffic. But not quite haha.
Sent my answers to the questions. Hope they’re acceptable haha.

Trowutta arch has been on my to do list for quite some time and today was the day! Starting at 6am we left Launceston prepared for our big day out. We planned to go to the edge of the world first them do the tarkine drive to trowutta arch and then a stop in Smithton for some pub grub. When we got here there were already 7 cars in the parking spots. Quite a popular little place and we could definitely see why!
We waited for some people to leave before getting 10mins of solidarity time at the arch. It was so worth it! Thankyou for this earthcache it is very deserving of the favourite point.

Beautiful place !

What a great place to visit and a wonder of nature

A wonderful location A fav point from us
I’ve wanted to come to Tasmania for ever, it’s always just been too expensive to bring our 4wd and van over, nearly 2.5k just for the boat (return) that $ always seemed to be have been better off spent ‘up the road’ on the big island for a few weeks rather than coming over. Anyway when plans were made to do a Big Lap we knew that it must respectfully include a lap of the little Island as well.
Having sold our hobby farm and put all of our possessions into storage here you have us, on the road wild and free in Tasmania.

Sorry for the generic log, but time, data and reception (gosh Tassy has spasmodic reception) are all factors in the decision to use a copy and paste log, we will always endeavour to leave a photo or two with each log and always leave a favourite point and unique comment(S) where applicable for the truly outstanding caches.
Earth, Virtual, Letterbox, Handmade and Gadget caches are always at the top of the list for us to find.
Thank you for being one of the CO’s who supplied us with a cache to find today.

Thank you for showing us this wonderful place.
TFTC

Out for a day trip with friends around the Tarkine area.
This is our first stop.
Enjoyed the walk through the forest and came to this amazing structure! The sinkhole was quite a bit fuller than in the cache notes picture and covered in a green layer of algae/weed?. Made it quite picturesque.
Gets a fav point.
Answers sent to CO.

Beautiful

Tftgc

What a fantastic hidden gem this place is. I'd seen some photos of the arch before but none have done it justice. The changing light on the rock and water kept making the area look different. It was truly mesmerizing!
The pool was covered in duck weed (??) and I said to a lady there 'I so want to throw a stone in'. She laughed and said she had wanted to as well but didn't want to ruin my experience. So I did, but the little hole I made was covered up quickly again. It was satisfying but uneventful. I'm not sure what I was expecting, perhaps some mythical creature rising from the depths complaining at my antics?
Permission to log received from COs.
Thanks Tassie Trekkers for bringing me here, a favourite point for this magical place.

This was one of those caches I have been meaning to do for a long time, I got close once before but never made it to GZ that day, today we parked up and didn't see too many cars so that was a good sign that it wouldn't be busy and we were correct upon getting to GZ after the wow moment we found that there were only four people at the arch today.

We investigated this side of the arch, taking a few pictures, waiting for a woman to move out of the way took a bit of time mind you, I walked up the right behind some rocks and found a way to a spot where you can look down on the pool, with the sunlight the water almost glowed due to the green algae??? or whatever it was, I started taking some more pictures of the perfectly flat surface when some joker started throwing rocks in the water [:(!] I got the shots I wanted in the end and really enjoyed my visit here today.

Permission to log received from COs

Found on 11/10/2020 at 12:03:00 PM thanks to Tassie Trekkers for placing this cache for me to find.

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Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

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Exploring some Karst in the North West. This is a fascinating place and well worth a visit.

TFTC.
Beautiful location.

DaryVafder had mentioned this location to me not to long ago, so it was a must today, it really did rip off the tarkine drive, made the short walk down to this arch and not a another person insight, could sit and relax here for ages. Fav point added

Today I set off to do the tarkine drive and find the caches within in the area. Set off from home at 5am and covered just over 800km for 38finds plus 5 labs. An amazing area that a lot of people need to visit.

Thanks for the cache

Today, it's the 6th day of my trip in Australia and in Tasmania.

It's long road trip today. I leave from Launceston this morning, I visit the nord coast until the east and come back to Somerset.
On my road, I visit Penguin, Harbour Neach, Stantley, The nut, The edge of the world, Trowutta Arch and finish by Burnie.

I was a little bit exhausted when I arrived here after the long road.
Wow an amazing discovered here . I didn't regret to take a detour from coming here.
It worst the case. One of the biggest surprise for me in Tasmania.

All the information I found were sent to the owner.

1 FP well earned for this beautiful place.

Greetings from Belgium.

Thanks for this earth cache at this site .

First earth cache, so beautiful. Tftc! Shame about all the logging on way into Carpark

Answers sent by Weebindi. Absolutely amazing place but would be better in daylight and not at 8:15 pm!

Beautiful spot, lovely walk in.

An amazing location and it was great to finish off the Tarkine Drive with a highlight like this! As others have said, it's that 'wow' factor of seeing it when it comes into vision that sticks in your memory. It reminded us of the similar experience when you first see the natural arch in springbrook.
Enjoyed reading about the geology and answers have been sent. TFTEC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

pleasant walk very interesting area

What a magical place! The sinkhole looked like a flat lawn as it was totally covered in weed. Very deceptive!

Answered emailed to C.O.

TFTC!

What a fabulous part of the world this is. We were staying in Smithton and took a day trip to do the Tarkine loop as we had heard it was not to be missed. After visiting, we agree! Thanks for placing this earthcache here Tassie Trekkers

Full log to follow

With a bit of time off and a chance to get away from Sydney was what I needed TeamMerlin was also free at the time. So Tasmania seemed to be a good place to spend about a week. It has been a while since I last went when I was there for photography and before I knew about Geocaching. We found a lot of nice caches including one of the oldest caches which was a Hide month I was missing. A lot of puzzles had been solved either before we went down or the night before between us. While here we also visited a lot of EarthCache and learnt a lot more about what makes up Tasmania. Stopped nearby so headed a bit further to this EarthCache got the required information and teamMerlin sent it in and now logging with permission. Nice spot may not have stopped here without the prod

Thanks for bringing me to the area and giving us something different to learn Tassie Trekkers

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass (to help us find where we were going) , phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin

In Tasmania for a short caching trip with phlpohotos collecting some Old School caches as well as picking up some caches in previously unfound Tasmanian LGAs. Collected the information in order to answer the questions which have been jointly sent to the CO. Logging with permission. Thanks for the earthcache Tassie Trekkers.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

Stunning scenery

What a fantastic and unusual spot to visit. Loved the walk in with all the different fungi to see and then to be greeted with the arch and bright green duckweed on the water.
Explored the area a bit and was surprised at the sinkholes size.

TFTC Tassie Trekkers
Find 6616 logged from cgeo:

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Out and about picking up caches as we travel around this area of Tassie. Have seen some wonderful sights as we venture into some very unique wilderness!

Wow, what a surprise! As we were walking in we met some Queenslanders walking out who told us we were in for a treat....yes we were! Wow how great is this?

Thanks for showing us this place. Our answers have been sent.

Lovely walk on family outing

Found tyftc. On our 2 week geocaching trip from tamworth to tassie and back

A lovely spot to stop during our exploration of the area.
A nice Earthcache on an exploratory walk around the Tarkine Tourist route in some typical rainforest weather.
A pleasant spot to stop for a lunch break too. And by the way this place is really worthy of a visit as it appears that not many people realize that it has been opened up again after the fires of 2016.
TFTC

What an arch!

What a fantastic sight this was. I was not expecting this when I walked down to it. A definite favorite point for this one. TFTC

After a very pleasant walk down to the arch, we were rewarded with our own private oasis. Despite photos, it was still a revelation. So grateful we made the drive off the main road to view this amazing landform.

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TaurusSix and I had an enjoyable walk to the arch.

Wow

Staying at Port Sorrell, we headed off with our picnic hoping to find some EC’s in the Tarkine. We really weren’t expecting such spectacular walking tracks and beautiful forests after driving thru farmland and nearby plantations. The walk in to the Arch was an easy walk and then suddenly we were there. Wow. Just so stunningly beautiful. We are so glad we committed to the almost 3 hour drive. It was well worth it! Thanks so much for highlighting this area with an EC. A favourite point from us.

Tassie Trip Day 33 - Today was a great day for the Tarkine dirve so we started at the final location as the weather was good and the first half being in the forset and at hieight. So the trip started with a cache close to town and then on our way to the main drive area.

This was a lovely walk however it was not what I would have called an easy walk as the more disabled member could not access this wonderful place to see the sights for herself but alas those steps. However there was a nice algie covered water pool at the base of this wonderful what I would presume as a natural arch.

Thanks Tassie Trekkers for showing us this wonerful formation.

Beautiful spot
Worth the drive and walk

Beautiful xx

What a fantastic area. We were blown away just on the walk in through the rain forest and then the arch. Fabulous. Thank you for the information
and taking us to this fabulous place.

and taking us to this f

We came to take photos, and then thought, there is bound to be an earthcache here. So we thought about the questions we would ask if we were preparing the cache, took careful note of the features, and managed to get them right! What a special place and absolutely ideal for an earthcache. We loved this spot.

Day Two of our holiday in Tassie. Bettyboo3747 and I are staying in Stanley.
Today we drove to the West coast and admired the views (and blew away a few cobwebs!), and did a few caches. We then had a bit of a look at the Tarkine.
Hmm..sinkholes! Where is my dive gear?
The first hole looked quite clear, but the second was full of duck-weed.
Are you allowed to dive here?
We really enjoyed the walk in through the forest (took lots of photos), and the arch was well worth the walk.
BB will forward the answers to your questions soon.
Thanks, Robmc.

#14274. Day 2 of our 3 week Tasmanian trip and we are staying at Stanley. Today it was time for Robmc and me to head westwards for some sight-seeing and picking up of random caches along the way. Once again we are noticing cache maintenance is not something that seems to happen too often in this part of the State.

A favourite point for bringing us here. We most certainly enjoyed the walk in to GZ and we both took a lot of photos. A gorgeous place. We will forward our answers as soon as possible. Answers have been sent and approval to log given.

Thanks Tassie Trekkers

We didn't think that we would be able to get here today but luckily we did. This is a remarkable natural occurrence. Thanks so much for placing a cache here. Soooo worth the visit.

This was a fantastic area. The walk to and from was beautiful but the sinkholes were a bonus. Thanks so much for the cache.

Visit this marvelous place on our trip through Tasmania TFTC Greetings from ULIHUTTEN from Hennef in Germany

Found this wonderful GZ and just love it. Have sent the answers to COs but as usual not feeling overly confident. However loved the location, the track in and the Arch so much am awarding a fave. No one should miss this natural wonder. Thanks Tassie Trekkers for drawing it to our attention.

I was wondering why,
as I drove through the forest,
why there was an arch out here ??

It's on the tourist trail,
which not too many tourists seem to follow
So it must be worth seeing ??

An Earthcache at the site meant it was definitely worth seeing
So off I strolled from the carpark.
Ooooh !! So green, so shady

The stroll took a decidedly downhill twist as I approached GZ.
Well there's something you don't see every day
An arch in the middle of a forest !!

Well this spot went straight into me top ten Earthcache sites,
for pure amazement value.
This is indeed a rare place [^]

As the oohing and ahhing subsided,
I got down to the nitty gritty of trying to answer the questions.
Hmmm !! Thinking hat time

Dem rocks are mighty unusual lookin' !!
And after a goodly 15 minutes of feeling like the sky could fall on me head,
I trundled back up to safer ground

Answers thought out,
answers sent,
and back off up the path I went

TFTEC,
a big fave dance for this one !!

Was visiting the area and where lucky enough to visit this stunning location. I loved the green of the misses and lichens everywhere. Favourite awarded beautiful.

Thoroughly enjoyed the walk to the arch.
TFTC Tassie Trekkers.

We found this on the Toolbox and Swampy 3 day West Coast trip.
I've been here before as well, but back then there wasn't a gravel path or steps. Just tree markers.
An interesting place for sure. This time I learnt something of the area.
Thanks for the earthcache!

Our apologies for the delay in posting our log. Things have got a little out of hand recently & the backlog has become rather more of a "log jam".

Our thanks to Tassie Trekkers for placing this cache for us to find (or occasionally not) on 24/01/2018. Further details (for earthcaches & the like) will be supplied to the CO once the jam has cleared.

Wow what a fabulous spot. Altaire and I took a day trip out to the Tarkine and this was our first stop. What a spectacular area. The geological features were stunning as was the rain forest. This was my favourite place today.

Hi there Tassie Trekkers.

We found your cache **"What an Arch"** at 2:53:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 18451).

Today we cached around North West Tasmania and found 13 caches in a variety of container types and sizes (& DNF'd 1). Thank you for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places to visit on our nomadic wander around Australia.
Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

All I can say is “wow”!
Such a beautiful place.
Thanks for showing me

Today we decided to do the Tarkine Drive. We stopped at many nice spots. We did in total six caches. This was the last one.
Last but not least this was really the highlight of our trip today. We were really amazed about this spot. We enjoyed and took many photos. We stayed at least half an hour.
Thanks for showing. Tftc

Lovely spot to visit..thoroughly enjoyed a return visit a few yrs back.
Quite a few tourists in today too....track in much more worn than last time in.
TFTEC Tassie Trekkers....cheers sirius.

The Trowutta Arch is a magical place and one of our top three locations in Tasmania. We love to visit because of its beauty and the variability in what we find. Although it has taken a while to get back after this cache was published, we have been really looking forward to the visit. Answers to the questions were forwarded to the COs and approval to log has been received. A photo of Mrs y'stassie at the Trowutta Arch has been appended to this log. Thanks Tassie Trekkers for a great Earthcache - it earns a favourite from us because it is a natural wonder.

Thoroughly enjoyed another visit to this delightful rain-forest walk through to the amazing Arch, discovered courtesy of a GCA cache some years ago. It was quite a hidden secret then but is now well signposted and a better track in, although very tricky in parts as it was very wet underfoot.
Answers sent to the CO, hopefully ok.
Many thanks for the Earthcache Tassie Trekkers.

A pretty walk through some magic country[^] Somehow we got the geo-mobile lost on the way out of the area and saw some more pretty countryside Another good earthcache in an amazing countryside; TFTC Logging in anticipation

Visited this beautiful area today. The roads were open, we had picnic packed. Walked into the forest found the arch. Hopefully our answers which have been sent to Tassie Trekkers are correct.

Edit: 17/3/16 email received from CO with permission to log the find. Thanks Tassie Trekkers for bringing us to this beautiful site.

Hi Trekkers
This is indeed a beautiful spot
Had some fun bashing thru the bush to get to GZ and walked out along the proper track
Gobsmacked when I first saw the view
Thanks for permission to log
Cheers OldSaint.

**FTF**
We travelled out early to find no one else here such a lovely spot thanks for bringing us here and we will claim FTL and*FTF* our answers have been sent to the CO and a Favourite point

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