Helmet Rock Torndirrup, Western Australia, Australia
By Albany Canucks on 07-Mar-16. Waypoint GC6CZ06

TFTC, cool walk to it but spotted it while on the other rock

Tftc an interesting walk to find this one

Fun find TFTC

TFTC.

awesome cache. bit of a hike

That was a good cache

tFTC thats a nice walk

A bit adventurous to get there. #12 for us. TFTC

TFTC

Nice walk in the bush! Very scenic TFTC

Amazing spot, great view. Thank you. Aussie Aussie Aussie. Oi oi oi!

This one was a little walk up the track but then a little hike through some possible snakey grass to get to....maybe we took the wrong path? Nice quick find at GZ though!Spent the day driving around getting a few more smilies in Albany....still so overwhelming with the amount down here but loving it! Thank you Albany Canucks for placing and maintaining Helmet Rock for us and others to find and enjoy!

Tftc

Thanks for the great walk and view oooo and great hide

Powered up the hill in my thongs and saw the trail off to the rocks and realised I'd come too far to turn back for my boots. Some bushes were sharp when bush bashing in but it wasn't too bad. Navigated the paths between the rocks and made the quick find before climbing up top, finding the Marshall's 'cache' was so fascinating, a special pieces of history for sure. A favourite is well worth for the trek and history, TFTC!

Good spot

Nice little walk chur chur

Good spot too good view

Nice walk and view. Spotted it by chance from a few metres away and signed the log book. TFTC

TFTH

Quick find after a short walk from the parking spot. Nice views of Albany, TFTH.

A tough walk in from the fire track, but a lovely spot when I found it! Lost a little blood but worth it. Cheers.

Yep

a smashed it. Great view.

A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.
An excellent hike with awesome views.

Long uphill walk

Thanks

What a great place. Lovely views and a nice bush walk, rock ramble. TFTC

Nice view

Dr Livingston I presume

Another great spot! Tftc

Wonderful spot. Off the beaten track and great views!

Loved helmet Rock. Tftc.

Was just doing a walk to the curious rock/ hill top, little speaker dancing away on top of the world when I spied the lil container ,, Was very impressed I signed book but thought against opening that old paper came home, downloaded app! Thankyou for the start of my geocaching journey and revealing what was on the old paper What a wonderful piece of history Tara

Nice bush bash

Wasn't prepared for that level of bush bashing, but made it through

Found with darkandd4v3y forgot to sign

Tftc went down the wrong path so took a lot of extra effort to get to great views though tftc

A quick walk up the track from road and sign the log took photos however was very misty thank you for this cache

Up we marched and March flied we were! So many of the critters! Thanks for the view which was interrupted by the march flies!

With Phillario and amb217. March Flies were after us going for this one. Good views.

Thanks for the instructions to the cache, parking and trail instructions were very clear. Just a warning to those out and about in December, the March flies were plague like! Killed at least 12 and swatted away many more on just this short trek. Finding and signing the cache while stationary was done at speed! Otherwise a great little hike a viewpoint

Great view and interesting visitor log.tftc

Out and about for the day with @jamesknowlson getting some caches that we still need to find in Albany. Needed to find this one so we hiked through the bush to get it. Sadly I stacked it and hurt my elbow but the cache and the new smiley on my map was worth it. TFTC Albany Canucks

Great spot

Bit of bushbashing , we went off track but found the right track back. Saw the aussie flag straight away but once read the hint had a second look

Found by Rosie

Thank you
Our favourite geocache so far!

A bit of bush bashing off the track, unless we came the wrong way
Thanks for the cache

Wow! Now I loved this cache history and the family history!! How special!!! Tftc

Great hide. Had the kids screaming when walking through wrbd

TFTC! It was such an incredible view! Love it. The history was incrdible and was fun although spiders were interesting

Found while out sightseeing around Albany

The rock looked more spectacular from the road than it did close up. The cache isn’t covered at all so that made for a quick find. Thanks.

TFTC - nice walk up and great view. Enjoyed the story.

This was not a fun one to get to but the reward was nice, great views and a nice piece of preserved history, thanks.

Great spot bit of a rocky find...

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The Flintstones kal. Bush bash up hill and across the rocks. Didn't see the red arrow. Great spot. TFTC

A bit of a scratchy bush bash to get to the rock but an easy find once there due to the great coordinates. Thanks for the fun hide.

Hi there Albany Canucks.

We found your cache **"Helmet Rock"** at 10:23:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 23899).

We're staying in Albany for a few days, and today we decided to attempt a few caches in the Torndirrup National Park. We thoroughly enjoyed the stroll to this cache & ended up finding 7 caches & DNF'd 0.

Thanks for placing this cache here. Over the years, Geocaching has taken us on many adventures and to lots of wonderful destinations all over Australia. Without 'caching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our nomadic wanderings. 'Caching has also introduced us to a diverse group of like-minded people, many of whom we now call friends.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thank you Albany Canucks for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

A great spot. Please allow a few minutes to savour the view.
TFTC & a fav

What a nice view and no one else around Rob & Jenny

Awesome spot and interesting cache history!

The bush bashing is a bit risky - be aware of snakes and ticks!

Byo pen - I forgot mine and wasn’t able to sign the log book.

Awesome little trek and adventure. Be careful if it’s wet -> rocks can get a little slippery

brilliant view

Wow wow wow! A favourite point for bringing us to an amazing spot in our own backyard!

Long walk but probably too easy to see

Found it
Thanks for the cache

Found it! Thanks for the challenge. Lovely scenery.

Thanks for the cache. It was a chilly walk to the rock at 10.22pm with many laughs with stus*crew and JDog and Puppy...

so much fun in the middle of the night with Jdogandpuppy, nerinonickers.

Joint find just before midnight with Nerinonickers and Stus*Crew

Beautiful views from the top on a perfect Autumn day. TFTC.

Amazing story and a great place for a cache. Enjoyed the bush bash in (even though I ended up with a tick freeloading). Sat atop the rock with Spankerjack and enjoyed the view. Have a fav. TFTC

Nice spot tftc

In Albany and lucky enough to have glorious weather today! We grabbed a few local caches before heading to Frenchmans bay!

Last for the day and Mr Felix did the assault on his own. all good at GZ.

TFTC Albany Canucks

Took us a while. A bit of bush bashing but we got there. TFTC

Nice one. Cache in good condition. Forgot my pencil so photo instead. Tftc

Too far out in the sticks.

Don't know if there is an easy way to get this but we didn't take it lol

Wasn’t the most comfortable walking through the bush but 100% worth it! TFTC

Yay cache number 200!!!!!

My first cache in a little while, went with Tank_Squad out to here on Good Friday. After finding the cache, we climbed up to the top and waved to the cars below, and some of them beeped back to us! TFTC, took the cat travel bug.

Due to the drizzle very few muggles about. Parked at designated spot and proceeded up the sandy track. When about 70 mts from gz, headed into the scrub. With the rocks quite wet it was a bit slippery negotiating them but made my way o gz and located the well hidden container. Thanks Albany Canucks
Left: TB

Found it. TFTC Albany Canucks. Great view from here. Can someone do something about the wind please? It was difficult to hold on and sign the log.

As said before, great views from up top of this rock, TFTC

A beautiful day in downtown Albany Today so a trip to quaranup was in order with kiwinic, helmet rock was next. Ive been wanting to get this one for a while and today it was ours TFTC

This was a very cool spot I didn’t even know was there!!! I even challenged myself and climbed the rock! Thank you thank you

Another great location
TFTH

Bloody long walk and climb, but worth it great view.

Found it in a caching secession together with meppss. TFTC, greetings from Germany!

Awesome view, tftc. Greetings from Germany

#12566. Day 3 of our WA holiday and our last full day in Albany. Another grey day but fairly mild and good for walking and seeking out caches. We ventured south today around the coastline so got some great views and enjoyed seeing the emerging spring flowers along the roadside and in the bush. Managed to find 14 for the day before heading back to our accommodation at Middleton Beach.

A bit of a tramp up the sandy track with hot pies in hand and GPS's to the ready. A bit of bush-bashing took us to one large boulder where a long snake was digesting some little critter. We passed on and over to the next big boulder where we enjoyed our brunch before heading for GZ. What a great story about the Marshalls who have visited a few times since 1985 and added their names again, and again.

I was delighted to retrieve a beautiful geocoin that had been dropped in by the last finder. Such a nice surprise. Was going to leave some SWAG but with the other container inside the cache there wasn't any room. Thanks for bringing us to this special place.

Thanks Albany Canucks

Day Four in Albany, WA. A bit of a grey day, but mild and no wind, so Bettyboo3747 and I just toured to the south of Albany, randomly doing caches that had nice walks.

We have driven past Helmet Rock many times, but never stopped in - today we changed that.
A nice walk up the hill, a short bush bash, said hello to a two meter snake (who wasn't moving as he had just had lunch!), and there we were.
We sat on one rock short and ate our morning tea (some hot pies from the shop in Torndirrup), examining the possibilities.
Loaded up with pie we scramble the final 10 meters to the cache.
Very interesting container inside, particularly its log book.
Thanks, Robmc.

This was my second go for this one. The first time I was solo and surprised a dugite about 20 metres from GZ then chickened out. (seeing as how I'm retrospectively logging this, I can see that RobMc had the same encounter)
Came back today with Mistraluna and felt much braver and stamped feet a bit more. Our synchronized tumbles probably helped too.

One of those spots you see driving past and never get to. Thanks Canucks for remedying that

Was a comedy of errors getting to this cache, but no physical injuries were incurred, just a bit of bruising to my ego after taking the most magnificent tumble down backwards off of a rock. My companion was most concerned for my welfare, and in his haste to get to me to help me up, he too took a tumble and almost landed on top of me. Talk about hysterical!! But we were both unharmed, so picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and came and found the cache. Great location for a cache too. All good with the cache. Interesting story about it too. Found a trackable, and left a beautiful geocoin in its place. Hopefully somebody will come along and find it soon. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache Albany Canucks.

PS Saw several varieties of orchids around here, with at least two being different types of leek orchids, pretty sure one was a mignionette too, with others ready to flower soon.

TFTC. Dropped trackable to continue journey

a closer look at this monolith well worth the climb TFTC TNLN

Great view, fantastic history! Thank you so much for placing this cache here. I'm glad Monts stayed home so I could spend more time here. TFTC Albany Canucks