Namatjira's trees Hugh, Northern Territory, Australia
By Alicecaching on 18-Mar-17. Waypoint GC72AHB

I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, Alicecaching, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

###Cache Owner Action Needed###
This cache has been brought to my attention as likely to be missing.
After a string of successful Finds, it has now had a string of DNFs. I agree that this certainly suggests that something has happened at the cache location which requires investigation by the CO, Alicecaching.

The cache will be disabled and I'll check back in 30 days to see if either

- the CO has checked or rectified the apparent problem
- the CO has communicated in a Note log here, when action will be taken

**If the CO has not taken either of these actions, then we can only assume that the cache has been abandoned and, regrettably, it will be archived.**

The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is out there to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.

Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia

This is such an iconic place, but it has gone to rack and ruin. The plaque is gone and there is rubbish everywhere. We searched thoroughly but we could not find this cache. Like the plaque I think it has gone.

Didn't find it, but didn't really have enough time to do a thorough search.

We seem to be on a DNF run.
This memorial is in total disrepair, what a shame.
Had a good look, but no success.

Had a good look around with Agelessone and vk2rg, but no luck today.

Had a good look for this one but unable to find.

A

Nice easy find

Great little find.
Without the description, you wouldn’t know about this site.
Cache is in excellent condition.
Visited 3 TB.
TFTC.

Dr Owl is in town for a few days which means I had a go at playing tour guide and a chance to see things in a different light.

This was our first stop of the day and the cache was easily found. Then it was time to admire the scenery.

Thanks for the cache Alicecaching.

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Found on a quick caching run north. Adelaide to Alice Springs and back in a week.

A quick find.

TFTC

Owl and Eagle are in Alice Springs on a train expedition, so collected the temporarily-resident Sushilord and headed west... then east... then south. Fun was had, along with some spectacular scenery and out-of-the-way adventures. This was the first cache stop for the day in a location Owl has seen in paintings but not in person. The cache was soon collected and numerous photos taken.

TFTCF

It was my last day in Alice Springs before heading back to the cold down south and I thought I would go for a bit of a drive ending up at Simpsons Gap. [^]
It's a pity the memorial has been all but destroyed, but I enjoyed coming out here anyway.
Thanks for the cache Alicecaching.

Waited for some muggles to leave, easy find. TFTC

Nice bit of history, TFTC

Thanks for bringing us to this historic spot.
Although, such a shame that the plaque is almost no more.
Perhaps we should start a petition to get it repaired?

St JosephChicks

Easy find

Done easy find KOPPSTAR 25/3/20

Found during my trip through the Red Centre. TFTC.

After a short walk at Simpsons Gap we were agaon on our way to Glen Helen and stopped here for a quick found.

Regards from Switzerland.

Once we had left our bags at the hostel, we went for a drive around Alice Springs to take in the scenery and grab some caches. We looked at the landscape, the red earth and the white gum trees and thought how lucky we were to be here. Back home we'll even miss the flies... maybe.

TFTC Alicecaching

Dang

A nice quick find
TFTC

More TREEmendous hiding places

●• Namatjira's trees•●
Le 8 décembre 2019


In Australia for 4 months
I travel by car , I am a backpacker with a friend. During my journey and hundreds of kilometers, I do geocaching. I thank a lot of the owners. Australia is beautiful
Un énorme MERCI à Alicecaching pour la pause et l'entretien de la cache ! Salutation de France

A nice quick park and grab. Shame there is no information on the monument any more.

Thanks for the cache Alicecaching.
Found on 4/12/19 at 3:34 pm.
Find #10292.

The Red Centre was our 3rd stop on our 2-week tour of Australia from Chicago, and we stopped here before road-tripping from Alice Springs to Kings Canyon today. Mahalo for adding to the fun! TFTC!!

So sad this space has not been preserved. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC, love the MacDonnell Ranges. Will check out his gravestone in Alice Springs, there is a painting there.

Tftc . Just watch out for broken glass in the area

Cool

Thanks for this well located find!

Blue skies and ghost gums. Not much left of the marker, time has moved on. Thanks for bringing us here!

TFTC. Good spot.

@Davidwazza and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday in the infamous black jeep. We took a route through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tju?a (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges, before heading home in a more direct route through Palm Valley, Owen Springs Reserve, Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia, and finally Coober Pedy.

Today, we set off from Glen Helen Gorge, exploring the West MacDonells as we made our way to Alice Springs.

TFTC!

found it TFTC. .... so sad they haven't maintained it

found it TFTC. .... so sad they haven't maintained it

Found this a while ago but forgot to log

It’s a shame that the trees are no longer standing. But that’s life I guess! Thanks for placing the cache Alicecaching.

Sad to see such an important spot not looked after. The plaque has been burned and many trees have fallen. The cache was replaced by a fellow cacher with CO permission.

I think this one has gone along with the plaque!!

Not here with three of us looking

I found very hard uplouded maybe i dont now from Lithuania

Could not find ️

Looked every where even widened the search area but still came away empty handed
TFTC

Looked but sadly nothing

Could not find. Maybe someone could make a new one. Also if you have spare water for the big tree and the new small.one near the brick edifice. Removed some litter - ugly and glass causes fires!

No sign of it here today, I had a good look all around the GZ area.
A couple of other DNF's recently, so it will need a CO visit to check it.

I hope we aren‘t blind, cause we couldn‘t find this one.

tried but failed

With Mrs one-eyed and our 4WD we spent a great afternoon in the West Mac's both photographing and caching, and found this one in a morbid spot for such a Great Man, what a pity, it could not have been returned to its former glory.
TFTC
one-eyed

Out sightseeing and came across this cache. Nice hide

Pity the trees are gone. Nice place all the same. Tftc

No plaque or anything here now to say what it was all for.
Good thing the info was here on the cache page.
Found the cache no worries.
TFTC

Aan de grens van de outback. Tftc

No luck here today. Sad to see the state of this memorial to an important Australian. Someone is trying to grow a new tree nearby, with a little irrigation system, so hope they are successful.
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on the way to Alice Springs

Visiting daughter before she heads off on a worldwide adventure and we continue our travels for 2018.
Never tire of this beautiful place and thanks to the mega last year so many more caches to be found

Just been at the Simpson Gab.
And drive by this spot

Thanks from

A daytrip through the western MacDonnell Ranges

TFTC ice to see new trees too

Quickly found, TFTC

Quickly found, TFTC

Quick find. The plaque is gone though. Just a rock wall now. Tftc

Found it. Tftc

Found it in the place of nowhere...tftc...

Located with Trek Larapinta crew

Visited TB's

Found it with Respogeo, musicalwayshels, liquidearth2 while collecting caches after a 9 day hike with Trek Tours Australia!!

Sad the trees are gone

WHOOPS! I'm logging about 100-200 or so caches like 3 months after the trip that we found them on! Completely forgot to log these but I did not forget the trip! Found this cache along with many others on an adventure around the red centre. Along this adventure we visited and explored many phenomenal and surreal places such as Woomera, Coober Pedy, Uluru and Mutitjulu, Kata Tjuta, Wattarka, Tnorala, Both East and West Macdonnell ranges, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Parts of the Finke road, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Oodnadatta track, Mount Dare, Dalhousie Springs, Painted Desert, Moon plane and I'm sure I've missed a few! Thank you so much for the cache. Found with Ferociousflea and -Beaker- along with our mint 79 series that accomplished alot in this two week time frame.
TFTC

Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on a Red Centre Roadtrip Adventure... Thanks

Found during our Red Centre adventures that included Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Tnorala, West Macs, East Macs, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Mt Dare, Dalhousie, the Painted Desert and many other fantastic spots!! Travelled and cached with FerociousFlea and Astronaut99.

Beaut spot... shame the trees are no longer here
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Quick find.
See his paintings at the Araluen Arts centre nearer town.

What an awesome time we've had visiting the West McDonnell Rangers over the past few days, made that bit more memorable by all the caches. Grabbed this one easily as we finish the loop amd head back to Alice and then north. Tftc

It's a shame the memorial has been wrecked, Beautiful spot. TFTC

Found it pity about the sign

Very creative hiding place. Not sure if the lizard guardian or I was more startled when I disturbed him. I just wish the notice board (or better still the trees) were still here. TFTC.

I always loved the painting and it was nice to visit the place where they were painted. The plaque is no more unfortunately - it would be nice if it were replaced and more made of the location. Thanks for bringing us here.

We found this one on our way back to Alice after visiting Standley Chasm.
We felt a bit sad at the neglect of such a well known spot that we only know from Albert Namatjira's paintings.
Thanks so much for placing the cache bringing this spot to our attention.
Cache is in great condition.

Found on our way out to Papanya.
A sad remnant of the much seen trees in Albert Namatjira's wonderful art..
Signed and replaced as found. All good with the cache.

Thanks Alicecaching

Little Squirell

As we made our way through the outback finding caches and having a great time
we found a range of caches some day with Team Cracker, Felix II and firesafe on the way home.

Thanks to Alicecaching for placing the cache for us to find.

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

Country brings those pairings to life. TFTC and geodriver!

Lovely to see a little bit of history. Cheers.

Lovely. Thanks.

tftc

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!


Thanks Alicecaching for placing this cache.

Found on our Red Centre Experience. On our way to Standley Chasm, we made sure we stopped at this cache due to our love of the classic Namatjira paintings. It was such a shame that the plaque and the trees had been removed, but the cache was a very easy find. Still a great view though! TNLNSL. TFTC Alicecaching!

Tricky rocks

Beautiful area indeed, would have loved to see the landscape exactly as in the painting though.
Thanks a lot for the hide, Alicecaching!

Found with dghoffy, and Zuse7 as part of the temporary caching team T.T.S.S.(Trans Tasman Swiss Squad) for the Red Centre Event. We headed out towards Simpsons Gap today so picked up a few of the caches along the way.

Caching in the Alice Springs and Eastern MacDonnell ranges region for the long, long weekend all thanks to the Red Center Experience geocaching event in Alice 13-17th April 2017. My apologies for a generic log, but I'm notorious for not logging my caches. I am just trying to get up-to-date so someday I can celebrate milestones again. cheers and thanks to all for their efforts to make the hide findable and most in a location worthy of a visit without geocaching (but I'm glad I got a smiley too!)

Found by Mary & David at 1715. We certainly recall that famous painting. How exciting to be at the actual spot, but what a shame that the plaque and trees have gone. Still gets a FP. Still a FP,. Our thanks to Alicecaching.

Heading out West with megawat60 on our last day in Alice Springs after the excellent Red Centre Experience.
Pity about the plaque, but Namatjira's Art lives on and were were happy to see more memorials and his house further down the drive.
TFTC!

Was our last day and we went west, sad about this plaque, but great that we went to his house.

TFTC Alicecaching.