Owen Springs Reserve Hugh, Northern Territory, Australia
By Alicecaching on 18-Mar-17. Waypoint GC72AHG

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Quick find through grass with prickles that look like mossies! Careful how you remove them!! TFTC

Found with O319 on our day caching around the area

Found with SJG66 as we checked out the Owen Springs Reserve. So much to see around here. TFTC

Ocw the Bebes as we stay in AS. Went for a nice drive today and picked up a few caches. Stopped here to drop tyre pressures for the upcoming track work. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin Staying in Alice for a few days, exploring with caches. A change in landscape for this part of the country. Tftc

Found while in the areaCheers

Owen Springs Reserve1.5/1.5 Small Traditional Cache Quick find on our way to Henbury Meteorites.Thank you for the cache Alicecaching.

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache after completing the track, a nice quick find amongst the prickles, mental note don’t wear thongs, thanks for placing it

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A lovely area

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TFTC. Nice location and drive.

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Found it. Visited this caches in a sunday evening and night with a car in a short trip to australia. I'VE FORGOTTEN A PEN TO SIGN THE LOGS . Greetings from Brasov, Romania

Full of fun can't wait to come here again

Sir_spectre and I went on a long overdue holiday to the Northern Territory. We had some great experiences and saw some amazing natural wonders. Not all went to plan - covid closures, flood effected roads, renovations, hot weather, some car troubles and not forgetting the huge jump in fuel costs
Any caches that needed repairs were fixed and numeous logs were replaced or added too.
Thanks to Alicecaching from mogni

quick find. replaced log sheet. easy 2wd this far even after the floods.

Mogni and myself went to the Northern Territory for a 10 day holiday. We drove 5478 km's in those 10 days. The plan was to go up the Sturt highway and then go via Ayers Rock, King's Canyon and then through to Alice Springs stopping at the gorges/chasm/gaps along the way. As you can expect nothing goes to plan. Day 1 Adelaide to Cooper Pedy, made it just before the Roxby Downs turn off and blow the side wall on the tire of the 4x4, 193 km detour just to get a tire and even then it was the second tire place that had the tire the correct size. We had camels come in to the campsite in Erldunda Roadhouse, they even left hoof prints 1/2 a foot from the tent, at King's Canyon we had dingo's come through the camp ground both nights we where there and at Alice springs we had a mouse move in under the tent in their campground. Some of the aboriginal towns we passed where in lock down because of covid 19 so no going in to get fuel there, that changed some plans. The floods where way worse up in Northern Territory than i realized. Some creeks/rivers i could see the debris over 2 meters from the river bed and down one 4x4 track it washed the road away completely, the hole was 3/4 the length of the 4x4 and over 6 foot deep. The temp was 33 to 36 for 9 of the 10 days and finally cooled down for the drive home. We got 7 different caches types in the N.T. plus every different cache size. It was a good trip but not the one we planned. To many of the roads in the N.T. where damaged and not repaired ( still closed ) so that cancelled plan A but that's just a excuse to come back isn't it. Come back and see what you missed last time when the roads are fixed. We came with 19 regular " geocaching size " containers and a milk crate of small containers by day 7 all the regulars where used as replaced caches and by day 8 the smalls where gone. It was the UV rays a lot more than the floods that killed the caches and almost all the log books where saved, the micro containers seemed to have constantly full log sheets so they where replaced too.

Where long pants lots of long grass

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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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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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.

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

A short drive and the cache was in hand.

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Out doing some Gaps and Gorges, grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

Found during a fun day out with JJ52 where we tackled the Larapinta loop and cached along the way. Both of us kept commenting on the variety of landscapes and vegetation seen during the drive.

I would like to have traveled into Owen Springs but time and vehicle type meant it wasn't possible.

Thanks for the cache Alicecaching.

A day out with sushilord had been organised heading for Hermannsburg and doing the loop calling in to St Helens and picking up as many caches as we could along the way. We had both solved the puzzle caches along this route and they were targeted as we went past. [^]
It was a near perfect caching day, with 27 caches found, lots of amazing scenery, history and geology with numerous photos taken where we stopped. This was the highlight of my visit to Alice Springs.
One thing I will remember about caching in Alice Springs is....rocks, rocks and more rocks.
We made a little detour to come and get this one.
Thanks for the cache Alicecaching.

As today is our third day in AS and we went out to the WestMac's as the locals call it. This was an easy find find made Jac-Jam and myself. TFTC.

Out grabbing some caches with AnyMules whilst he was in town.
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A nice easy park and grab after heading up the track from the south.

Thanks for the cache Alicecaching.
Found on 3/12/19 at 5:05 pm.
Find #10271.

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A quick and easy find as we finished our drive though this reserve.

Wrote SM

We are heading off on an outback adventure with Mrs Just a Trifle looking forward to visiting Goodward Station in Boulia, which was once owned by her grandfather, and Mr Just a Trifle hoping to climb Ayers Rock before it is permanently closed to climbing

As usual, with responsibilities caring for grand children and elderly parents, we still can not take the time we would really like to explore this great land of ours so yet again it is mostly an express trip through some terrific locations.

We had no difficulty in locating the cache and with our name added to the log book, we continued on our way.

Thank you Alicecaching for placing the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

With super snoop Muriel G & sinclair83au

Another find exploring Alice Springs with soloroadknight and our host Sinclair73AU.

Took some visitors for a drive, ended up joining the geocache adventuring. Cool thing to do. Will keep an eye out for any others when I'm driving out bush

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I was heading up to Alice Springs from Adelaide on my own to meet up with FeatherWaite and decided to deviate a little to make the journey more interesting.

I ended up travelling via Lambert Centre, Finke, the Old Ghan track, Chambers Pillar, the Hugh River Stock Route, Rainbow Valley, Owen Springs Reserve and a trip out to Ruby Gap for good measure, finding a few caches along the way. It took me a few days longer, but was well worth it.

I visited this one as I travelled south to north through Owen Springs Reserve.

Thanks Alicecaching for the cache.

Ever since Mrs one-eyed & I have been Geocaching in and around the Alice, always wanted to visit the Owens Springs track area, last time we entered via the Stuart Hwy, then a massive thunderstorm formed over Rainbow Valley so back we went to photograph tat storm.
Now on a sunny afternoon here we are.
Some great pics of the blue sky and high clouds.
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one-eyed

The Big Western Australia trip in 2018. Day 8. I spent the day around Alice Springs collecting some caches we did not get to last year. I found some very rough roads along the way.

I have driven the reserve track a few times now, but today it was just tome to get this one near the entrance.

Thanks.

25102.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Compass Rose Eclipse A#213

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Nice easy find with Gogo Go. TFTC

Found on our way to Alice.TFTC.

Travelling around Australia for 2018 and stopped off in Alice to visit daughter for 5 weeks and although we've been to Alice before we are finding new places to visit. Thanks to the mega last year lots more caches too

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.
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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.

Quick find after dark before heading back into Alice Springs.
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Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on a Red Centre Roadtrip Adventure... Thanks

Found - full log to be done

Today we explored Owen Springs Reserve using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. We enjoyed the history and the ruins encounted on the journey. An easy find.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

We spent the night at Erldunda and had plenty of time to make it to Alice before nightfall so we took a leisurely drive through the Owens springs reserve picking up caches as we went.

It looks like this is the last cache for us on our little 4wd detour and it's a real shame as it was very enjoyable. The cache was located quickly, after adding our name to the log we checked and found that a lot of people from The Red Centre event had found this one but must have turned around and gone back from here. It's a shame because they don't know what they have missed.
Thanks Alicecaching for placing this here.

Saw a nice big king brown to remind me of my habitual 'safety thongs' caching habit lol. Not near GZ though next player. NEF TFTC.

Easy find

Last on our owens springs detour, glad we had the extra jerry cans to make it possible. The drive was very cruisey, think the grader had been around. Tftc

If only I had a 4WD I would have continued into what appeared to be a fascinating area TFTC Alicecaching

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Staying on after the mega for a few days picking up some of the more distant caches. TFTC

In Alice Springs with Geo/rge attending the Red Centre Experience.
We are enjoying the sites and sounds of the Red Centre that all the caches are taking us to.

A quick find was made and the log signed.
Saying our goodbyes to Alice Springs, we are starting our journey home.

[Scrat visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4376822)

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Found by Mary & David at 1425. The vegetation is so different here. Great views again, and we do enjoy facts, figures and information. Our thanks to Alicecaching.

Heading out West with megawat60 on our last day in Alice Springs after the excellent Red Centre Experience.
Took a little detour to this cache, and were glad that today the track was not as "severe" as the sign warned. TFTC!

Good drive to this spot, met some European peoples in a 4X4 and chatted, then moved on.

TFTC Alicecaching.

After our epic two days of walking and finding the A series, Vennfamily, RoddyC, Rothy6 and I decided to take the drive out to Hermannsberg today and pick up the puzzles and traditional caches along Larapinta Drive.
Interesting place and the cache was an easy find.
Logbook signed, cache returned to its hide.
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We were on our way to Owens Springs reserve for the day with DazzPete and ahomburg, and we stopped off at this point to air downthe tyres in anticipation of off-road fun. In that process of the finding and signing, another carload of cachers turned up and we had a nice old chat before we hit the dirt and they continued on the bitumen in their hire car.

Out & about experiencing the Red Centre with SnappyTomCats, Shandyk, Guz's Travellers and Mr Cupcake Heading out to Hermannsburg...
Collected this cache on the way...
Beautiful landscape...signed the visitors book...
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We had most of the new puzzles solved before leaving home, and with a bit of help from a few friends once here, the remainder now are added to the solved puzzle list. So today it is a trip out to Hermannsburg to collect them on the way out, then, as time permits, the other traditional caches on the way back. This an suited Venn Family, Patrol14 and Rothy6, so in two cars we set out for a drive along Larapinta Drive.

Another quick find.

Log signed & replaced again. Found at 1.30pm on 16th April 2017. TFTC. Alicecaching

Date: 16 April 2017 Time: 09:45
Find #8417

Day 9 in my adventure to Alice Springs. Today was a bit different, I would hang out with some really cool people in skullracing, the geo princess and dazzpete. The aim was to get some higher terrain caches in the Owen Springs area and then see where the roads took us.

Heading into the reserve now, we reduced the tyre pressure (We soon learnt this was not necessary) and headed down the sandy road. Beautiful area.

Many thanks to Alicecaching for the cache. TNLN.

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Found and logged following the crowd during our Easter visit for the mega. TFTC.

TFTC. Found as part of the Red Centre Experience Event. Found with Guz's Travellers, Shandyk, Hevwalker and SnappyTomCats.

The first of our real objective today; to collect the caches in this reserve. We were busily signiing the log when another car load of cachers rocked up. After a bit of chin wag they headed back to the bitumen in their hire car whilst we continued southwards.

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TFTC. Found as part of the Red Centre Experience Event. Found with Mr Cupcake, Shandyk, Hevwalker and SnappyTomCats.

Headed out to Hermannsberg early morning with iluvtrekking. We had a great day visiting many interesting locations. Unfortunately because we were in a hire car we couldn't attempt the other caches in this reserve - one day! Thanks Alicecaching

Found with richlink while in Alice Springs attending the Red Center Experience Event.

Thanks Alicecaching for placing this cache.

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Day 5 of our Red Centre Experience. Up early and out with Hevwalker, Shandyk, Guz's Travellers and Mr Cupcake Heading out to Hermannsburg. This was a quick find on the way, ... TFTC

Found it. Geo-Deaf friends day together. Thanks for bringing us. Greetings from Glenhaven NSW

Here in Alice to attend the 'Red Centre Experience'
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found with Bulldozer

Found on our day trip to Hermannsburg with Guz's Travellers, Mr Cupcake, SnappyTomcats and HevWalker. A beautiful day out. TFTC

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Went geocaching with VennFamily, Roddyc and Patrol14 got signed together and returned same place TFTC

Nice spot. Pity we only had a 2WD - would have been nice to complete this drive. Ah well, we came as far as we could. TFTC and bringing us to this spot

Out and about while in town for the red center experience. Heading west today grabbing caches as i go. Thanks to Seabreeze Oz for helping me get to the cache instead of taking the rental campervan up the track. Tftc

Find #2035

After heading out to Hermannsburg with RoddyC, Patrol14 and Rothy6 collecting the new puzzles, we then began heading back to Alice collecting the traditionals.

Miss 8 was driving the GPSr and thankfully, some of these caches had some swaps in them so she was able to do a few swaps.

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Many thanks for helping me add to my growing happy face collection whilst out with a great team of finders!

Discussing this cache at the previous one with .K.B. and Mickeydv, they wondered if the road in may not be suitable for their car, so we offered to accompany them in our 4WD in case. It turned out fine for both vehicles, and we were glad to assist them in return for the kindness they'd shown us at the previous cache.

Out with the ASB gang doing these more challenging caches. Great to be out in this beautiful part of Australia. This was one we targetted and found. Thanks to Alicecaching for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Spent the afternoon exploring with Mickeydv before stopping past the event for a visit. This was one of the caches we stopped to log. We bumped into cybergranV and mugglehubby who followed us to Hermannsburg. Thanks for the hide.

What a good area that we would love to explore further when here on and extended stay.
The cache was located very quickly while out with Liz and Bruce.
The log was signed with ASB, SB or Shifter Brains.
Thanks for the hide Alicecaching.

Found with Hearse068, Shifter Brains, Goblindust and Ashys Angels while out and about doing just a few more caches while in the area trying to get to 5000. We had a fun time. Thanks for the effort taken to place this Cache TFTC 4997

TFTC. Found with family and friends.

15 April 2017 2:35 PM Found with Gonefishen07, Ashy's Angels, Liz and Bruce, Goblindust and Shifterbrains on our little adventure to Alice Springs for the Mega event. We signed as a group Alice Springs Bunch (ASB) Thank you for taking the time to place the cache and show us this beautiful area.

I do like this reserve
It offers great scenery,
great campsites,
and even a few caches [^]

Today was me second visit to the area,
and after a fantastic campsite last night,
the first cache find of the day was on the road out to Alice

A quick find at an informative place

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We found this cache while doing our caching thing along Larapinta Drive during the Easter cahcing event.
It was soon spotted and the signing happened as it should. All was then put back into place ready for the next finder. Thanks to Alicecaching for placing so many caches to be found around Alice Springs.

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Out Caching with deaf geo while at the Red Centre Experience
Found it.
Thanks for the cache Alicecaching

On a beautiful and hot day for caching the Loop trip with Deaf geocachers for the day. Found it. TFTH.

Caching around the loop from AS to AS with DeafGeo..
We had a lots of fun.
Thanks

Loves the weather at Alice Springs but not at night time - too cold for me! 2nd day caching with geofriends, Thanks everyone for a great team also meet new people at registration day. Also thanks owner for the cache.

We go out after lunch then met other more Geo Group with Whitepaws9, Pwala, Ozuk, Deafsanta, Deafpeewee and Crank1 to see journey things and its beautiful day and lot to see things.

Found it. Geo-Deaf friends day together. Thanks for bringing us. Greetings from Glenhaven NSW.

Well, the mega is nearly upon us so i am trying to up my total to reach a milestone for the event. I am a quality Geocacher, not a quantity one, i have been doing it for 13 years and still not near 1000. I cache for the scenery in this beautiful country so i followed the old Ghan line south for a bit, than cut through the Stuart Hwy and back up through Owen Springs road and back to Alice in the dark. 12 for 12 caches for the day and some spectacular scenery and history to see. TFTC TNLN