Newman Rock Waters Fraser Range, Western Australia, Australia
By Chrisval7 on 21-May-16. Waypoint GC6J6CH

We fpund it!!! Lovely views from a granite monolithe

My partner and I are on a road trip from the NSW/Vic border to WA for a wedding. We stopped in today to visit this site. The small waterhole was quite unexpected and it is lovely to see so many wildflowers along the way.Answers sent to CO this evening.

Camped at the campground for the night. On our way to the Eyre Bird Sanctuary. Fascinating place.

On our trip caravanning around Australia we stayed at the camp close by. Came to checkout the water holes on the rock.Thanks for the cache

#5656 Answers submitted. We arrived here not long before sunset on our travels west to explore WA. Today a long drive from Eucla. After setting up the geojayco at the nearby campsite it was off with the geohounds to visit the rock and the pool. A good amount of water in the pool although a bit nippy for a paddle today. A great spot worth exploring. TFTEC Chrisval7.

An impressive rock!With the trad nearby, it was a good little break from the long stretches of highway.TFTEC!Answers sent

Find number 13688 at 7:08:57AM on Wednesday the 28 August 2024We're on our way to WA Goes Big, travelling from Croydon (Melbourne, Victoria) with a caravan in tow and making a leasurely caching holiday across the Nullarbor and back.After spending last night at Newman Rock free camp we head west again to Norseman and then south towards Esperance (but probably stopping at Salmon Gums), just driving, caching, golfing and enjoying the views Woke up this morning and went for a walk with the misses and we were amazed by the expanse of the rock.**Thanks for placing this cache Chrisval7**---*WOW, so much happening here in Victoria*Dont forget to log your will attend for Victorias first ever Block Party in March 2025, the [**The Sunbury Event**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).Theres also all those lists of amazing geocaches at [Geocaching Victorias List webpage]( https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists), go check them out.

Parked at the camping area and walked down the track. A wow moment as I picked my way across the granite slab to the lagoon What a fab spot! I didnt have time for walk-in caches on this side of the highway on the drive west, so happy to do a few inland trails on the way back east. So glad I stopped here. The scenery is spectacular!!! It would be magic to camp out here overnight.Logged the trad, sent my EC answers, took a swag of photos TFTC Chrisval Dropping off a **FAVE**

We were there at 2:48 PM.We have camped at Newman Rocks a couple of times previously and at those times we could camp right on the rocks! However we see now that it is blocked off for camping and there is a whole new area in the bush to camp.Lots of water pools around today after the recent rain. We also noticed that the vegetation along the Eyre Hwy has suddenly brightened up and is no longer a dull brown colour.Thanks to Chrisval7

Found with SJG66. Have done a lot of caches at rocks like this in the last few days. This one has the best water hole. Answers sent. TFTEC

Stopped by with O319

We stayed the night at Newman Rock campground so it was a late afternoon visit to the EC. It's highly unusual to see a waterhole in this environment. We made our observations, changed our mind on answers 2 and 3 numerous times, wandered further over and found a great example of a dyke. This was all done before the mozzies arrived on dark. Sadly mozzies like waterholes too. TFTEC Chrisval7. Answers sent.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 18 - Caiguna to Norseman via Balladonia. The first part of the day was 200km straight (almost) to Balladonia. Lots of flys and a nice burger for lunch. Then it was off to Norseman, another 200km, but not as straight this time, and quite a few hills to deal with as well. I stoped for three caches along the way, two short walks and one longer hill climb. A beautiful sunny and not too warm day. I got set up in Norseman and then went for a walk into town. Very quiet for a weekday afternoon.I did a traditional cache here some time ago, and today I was back to have a closer look at the rock formations. I really like how it has been utilised to collect water, even if a concrete ridge has been added. Not that much water here today, but enough for who needs i now. I have put together some answers and sent them off.Thanks for the cache Chrisval746746.1 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Compass Rose Novaya Zemlya A#333**Albida**

On our travels we found ourselves traveling west and took the opportunity to grab some caches on the way, we would have driven past if not for the caches, so thanks for bringing us to this amazing place

Nothing better on our travels than to be guided to outstanding locations by earth caches and geocaching generally. Geocaching leads us to so many unusual or seldom seen places. After messaging our answers to the CO, we can see that one of our last dialogues with them was in regard to their earth cache at Carnarvon Gorge. Thanks Chrisval7 for taking time to show us some amazing locations this country offers. A FP for sure. Domsky

Is there a granite rock in WA without a cache at the top? At least we didnt have to climb this one from the bottom. Answers sent, TFTC

What an amazing surprise location. Water in this area is like gold. There was evidence of so many animals around the waterhole. Answers sent to CO. Tftec

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Great little fine on the way to Norseman, well done putting an earth cache here, we would not have stopped otherwise and seen this amazing landscape

We pulled in here due to this Earthcache and loved the spot so much, decided it was going to be the perfect spot for camp. We went for a walk and gathered our answers and then took a longer walk around the area back to the van. Had a great peaceful night here. Thanks Chrisval7

Driving across the Nullarbor and using earth caches as stops. This one did not disappoint. Thanks for bringing us here

TFTC Chrisval7. Found on 13 Sep 2023 at 12:31 pm. Find # 2623

TFTC. Great lookout and interesting location.

Found on a beautiful windless morning whilst staying overnight. Gorgeous flowers and rock pools. Nice little walk. TFTC

Tftc grabbed it while stopping for lunch

What a beautiful spot, and free camping to boot!! I love the spots Geocaching takes you to. We are on a mission from WA to QLD and back to pick up our caravan and couldn't resist a few sneaky caches on the way.

Thank you Chrisval7 for placing Newman Rock Waters for us and others to find and enjoy.

Answers sent ️

We're heading east after a few months touring Western Australia and stopped here last night after a long drive from Esperance. This morning, before we headed off again, we came to find the nearby traditional cache and gather the info for this earthcache.

Answers sent.

Thanks for find #4691
TNLN

Visited this earthcache during three weeks away with e.gregory1 on a trip along WA's Great Central Road and a caching circuit of the WA Goldfields. We travelled North on the Stuart Highway and out to Kings Canyon to Uluru and Kata Tjuta. From there we headed in a south-westerly direction along the Great Central Road with a number of detours along the way, including Surveyor Generals Corner and Empress Spring. Then it was down to Laverton and Leonora before turning South to Menzies and Kalgoorlie. A few days were spent on a circuit back up to Lake Carey and around to Queen Victoria Spring before returning to Kalgoorlie, then out to Coolgardie, Kambalda and Norseman, and heading for home along the Eyre Highway. Today we traveled from west of Norseman to east of Caiguna finding caches along the way. Thanks for the interesting earthcache Chrisval7!

Found it TFTC love the spot Caching brings you too

We stopped by here for the night and ended up staying for 2. Today I hiked out to the salt flats in the distance and saw camels along the way, great spot. answers sent. Tftc

TFTEC. Loved coming here and walking to this granite outcrop. What an amazing geological structure. Had morning tea here and spent some time exploring. Found a claw near the waters edge. I’m visiting from the Hunter Valley in NSW. I’ll send my answers asap.

Travelling west and this spot highlights a transition geologically. Habitat wow factor high and what fab views of the surrounding area. Would love to camp here. Took the opportunity to ‘look’ at the eclipse the old fashioned way - yep a pinhole in the paper trick! Answers sent. TFTC and info

Answers sent to cache owner. Such a lovely spot.

Heading west for one mintue of moon shadow. This is one of stops on a long journey.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!

Wow what an awesome spot and views of the surrounding area. Reminds me of granite areas back at home. Answers sent. TFTC

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.
Another great trip to this location. Maybe next time I will camp here.

Completed this earthcache whilst moving from SA to Perth.
Answers have been checked with CO.
Thanks for bringing me to this awesome spot.
Chatted to some instagrammers who were also passing through.
Cheerio,
Beaker

Awesome

Been there

A nice oasis break in the heat and long drive.
Husband took a cool dip but the water is freezing.
The marsh / horse flies are evil here so be warned. We both killed several upon land on ourselves.
Here's a good picture of the area!
Tftc

This Earthcache was one of my must dos today. I drove in and discovered the track in has a gate now, so I parked and took the short walk. Answers sent. TFTC Chrisval7.

What an amazing place. Who would have thought granite outcrop, water ponds and ducks out here.

Staying the night at Newman Rock, this earth cache had to be addressed. I have cobbled together my answers and sent them to the CO, Hoping they pass muster.

Found on our WA journey. Quite a pretty area but very cold and windy today. Answers sent.

I see a cached has logged a DNF for this earthcache. I will message them to advise what an earthcache is and that it doesn’t exist in a physical sense.

We are on our way home after a few weeks in South Australia grabbing some unique DT caches and filling in a couple more South Australian LGA's
We camped near here overnight and I headed out to this one on my morning run. We had camped on the road in all by ourselves but when I arrived at the gate there were a dozen other caravan around. A popular spot.
I have been here before to grab a traditional and the area has changed a bit since then. I think we drove righ to the rock last time.
I managed to get some nice sunrise shots (I was still on South Australian time). Grabbed the required info and sent to CO.
This was find number 1 for the day.
TFTC Chrisval7

We were lucky to visit after rain. Lovely pools of water. Enjoyed a cuppa and piece of cake while taking in the scenery. Mr matmob even found a few mushrooms which we cooked for tea! This would be a lovely spot to camp but we need to get further west tonight. Thanks so much for setting up this earthcache.

Nice little walk around here today. Will log answers when we better signal at Norseman

Day Five of the Perth to Adelaide road trip; Grass Patch to Madura.

Thank goodness for all these geocaches and earthcaches to break up the long drive across the Nullarbor. A nice break from all the limestone here, and a great spot to stop for a walk and a think before pressing on. Looks like there has been rain here recently too. I’m surprised there weren’t animals around the pool.

TFTEC Chrisval7.

Found it while camping overnight on the way to SA

We were astonished to find that much water here.
TFTC

A diversion on our annual trip to warmer climes. Grabbed a cache nearby and this earthcache on the way. A lot of campers in the nearby carpark but we moved onto Norseman.
TFTEC

This is a great spot for a short walk, There is a newish looking gate about 300 meters back from the cache that may not have been there for long. It is an easy walk in though and worth it. The views are fantastic.

Had a long hot walk accompanied by hoards of flies. Gate across track padlocked. TFTC

Almost like walking on a different planet when on this monolith. The birds were enjoying a swim in the water.

Thanks for the cache Chrisval7.
Found on 25/3/21 at 13:15.
Find #13615.

It was the second day of the drive back to Adelaide after visiting family in Perth. Whilst there was the desire to get a decent amount of travel done today, there was also the need to stop for a few caches along the way. Stopping every now and then for the few unfound caches that were left along this part of our drive provided a good excuse for a stop to stretch our legs. All caches were found in good condition unless otherwise stated.

TFTC

Thanks for the visit. It’s unreal to find awesome places like this. And still some water. Traces around of cattle so it is still being used well

Such an interesting area, thanks for explaining the significance of the geology.
Answers emailed.

My Nullabour journey continues. Cocklebiddy to Lake Johnston in a dreary grey sky morning. It was nice day in the end.

I drove to the small dam and shared my car park with some cattle. They were looking at me and probably thinking ‘ what’s this bloke upto?’

Answers sent. TFTC

Great location. We stayed the night it was so peaceful. Thanks Chrisval7, a fave from us.

One of our favourite stops crossing the Nullabor. No camels or emus spotted this time though. Great to find some water here from a shower of rain 2 nights ago.

Schöner Platz für eine kurze Pause und ein bisschen Geologie.

Danke fürs Herführen sagen HunttheHunters & Missy

A bit empty but a nice stop

No water today and no sign of any stranded (dead) camel. There was plenty of fresh urine and scat around the rock though. I saw some piccies of when the hole is full of water and it looks really nice. Email sent to owner re questions. TFTC.

**Find #2986**

A great place to visit and camp. Sadly our visit here had a poor camel helplessly stuck in the mud pool. We had no way of helping it out. We rang park and wildlife and other visitors were going contact help as well. Hope it survives. There was heaps of yabbies on top of the mud as well. How do yabbies get out here?

Thanks **Chrisval7**

TFTEC.

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

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

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

Thanks to 'Chrisval7' for showing us this location, for the fun we had with 'Newman Rock Waters' and for the smiley. The search to find the correct answers 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 @ 5. November 2019 @ 15:58 o'clock @ [#14054](https://coord.info/GC6J6CH)

Had a lovely time here as spent a night camping and even saw a camel wandering around! The watering hole was very low, but still a fair bit of water. Travelling with HRH54 who is sending our joint answers to the CO. Thanks for creating this earth cache.

Enjoyed the challenge of this Earth Cache as we discussed the Questions with Juju54 who we are travelling with. The water hole is very low and shows obvious signs of being a favourite meeting place for camels (droppings everywhere) We were also lucky to see a lone camel. We stayed the night then headed East in the morning ...Thank you for taking the time to place an Earth Cache here.

Easy find. Thabks

Continuing on our trip heading west towards WA crossing the Nullarbor.
There are nice views from here of a salt lake. There were cattle near the lakeresting in the shade. We also saw an emu.

Answers sent.
TFTC

Catching up with very late logs.

After a great trip along the Canning Stock route and then visiting friends in Gerald ton it was now time to start heading home, of course stopping along the way to pick up any caches that appeared on the screen.

We pulled in here with a feeling of de-ja-vue and then realised that we had camped here many years ago, pre caching days. We headed off to gz where we really enjoyed collecting the information while taking in the fantastic scenery and the pools had plenty of water in them due to the recent rain.

We have sent the answers off to the CO and recieved a very quick permission to log.
Many thanks Chrisval7 for bringing us here and teaching us a bit more about this great country we live in. A favorite point from us.

TFTC found with Crack n Lee Lee. Lee Lee sent in our answers. Great spot, very interesting

Stayed here last night with 2beez as we start the Nullaboor heading back home to Melbourne.

Great spot. We didn't see any animals but can see they have been here.
TFTC

Interesting area which we only shared today with some cattle resting near the water. Answers sent to CO.

Thanks for this nice earth cache here and my number 4759.
Solved with The-Shredder.
TFTC Skyryser

Nice earthcache find with Skyryser.
TFTC The-Shredder.

Answers to questions sent to CO. TFTC

Interseting area tyfc.

Hi there Chrisval7. This Earthcache was a great spot for an overnight stop after having camped at The Breakaways overnight and driving in to Norseman this morning and later to here. Answers have been sent in. Thanks to Chrisval7 for this cache - our find #6180.

The view was beautiful

Great cache here, found with Team Barritts. Tftc.

A great spot to stop for a break on our way to Qld. Always love this type of Earthcache. Fav point from us.

Answers to follow shortly, with BenJessAwesome3.

TFTC!

Heading further into WA with ilook4geo and our travels continue along the highway, this was one of the caches on the list that we wanted to do today. It was a quiet morning and there was nobody in the area at all. This was a rather surprising feature and well worth the visit. We looked, we worked out answers and these were sent to the CO. It was a very enjoyable oasis and we took a walk over quite a lot of the rock.
Thanks go to Chrisval7 for creating this earthcache and showing us something quite different.

Going along with goingplaces2 and caching along the roads as we go. Answers sent to CO. Thanks for creating this cache.

A drive we had always wanted to do so an opportunity to do part of it was not to be missed. A bit of a whirl wind tour. Interesting formation and feature at and around GZ. Answers sent. TFTEC

TFTC
Stunning and unexpected

We are logging this find and hope our answers are worthy
of a Smilie.
Today we saw Cattle and 4 Emus which was nice. It must be
a great source of water for all the animals in the area. We
were hoping to see some wild Camels as over the last 50
years of travelling Australia we have only seen one.

Thanks for sending us here Chrisval7
Photos to follow.

Little Squirell

This is the second trip to the pool for us. the first was back in 2013 on our way back east. There were not any birds or animals at the water hole as muggles had set up camp nearby. Tnx Chrisval7

So we spent a week on Rawlinna Station and then headed back to Adelaide via Kalgoorlie and the Eyre Highway. We were due for a leg stretch and decided this Earthcache was the perfect place. This proved to be a really nice spot for a walk around and some scenic photos. A favourite point from us! TFTC

On road trip to Perth from Melbourne
stopped there for earthcache
Interested to see around and remind me that I was there as this one was traditional one I found in 2014
Email to CO
Thanks for bringing me here today.

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 10026. We found this as part of our 2018 Round Australia trip.

What a really cool spot to visit. We drove in here today with our 26 foot van in town. A bit of a rough road for the last bit but easy enough. We enjoyed the wander around here checking out some of the seams. Our answers have been sent via the message centre.

Thanks Chrisval7 for the cache.

Travelling Australia since March 2014 now we are making our way west for a visit with family.

Stopped to grab a few caches along the way. We have visited this area for the traditional cache last time we passed this way and were hoping to camp here tonight but alas it was just too windy today so we grabbed some answers, said hello to the nearby cows and kept on heading west.

Answers sent to CO.

TFTC Chrisval7

Loved it here, birds and wildflowers great. A great camping spot too. A favourit point for this.

Visited Newman Rock today on our way home to Tassie, via the Nullarbor.
Grabbed the traditional cache here and then headed off to the coordinates for this one when the heavens opened. Dashed back to the campervan instead and waited out the rain. When it eventually stopped we headed back down the rock to GZ where we attempted to come up with some answers. These have been emailed to the CO but we are never very confident about tackling earthcaches!!!!
Thanks, a top spot to visit and would have been a nice place to stay overnight if it had been later in the day.

Say her with sweet justice

TFTC Nice area.

Found while camping here as we headed across and back the Eyre Highway. TFTC

Stopped in for lunch while conducting bird surveys. Will email answers when I get back to Perth.

TFTC great Spot

Day 10 of the Perth to Adelaide trip where we started in Port Augusta and ended at the nullarbor roadhouse

Chrisval7 We found your cache Newman Rock Waters thanks for placing this cache for myself and others to find.