WST - Bluebird Replica Dumbleyung, Western Australia, Australia
By WheatbeltScience on 10-Jul-17. Waypoint GC791MZ

Wow this one took a while. Ended up PAF, but both had found it in different spots. Eventually I spotted a tiny part of the cache and wondered how Id previously missed it. Finally the sneaky thing was in hand and signed. TFTC

Visiting this lovely part of the country from Vic.Our mission for the day is to tick off LGA's in the area. We drove NE from Albany yesterday, stayed at Lake Grace overnight and today heading back S. This round trip will yield 11 LGA's.Took us a while and we were about to give up when the find was made.TFTC SL TB's visited

That took a bit of finding TFTC

Today the geocaching plan for Taurus Six and I was to do a run out to the Wheatbelt, firstly to do some maintenance on some of our own cache hides and secondly collect as many as the straggler caches that we have not yet found and some of the new caches since we were last out this way , which is about a year ago. It was cold and drizzly when we left Bunbury and it was like that until nearing Williams. Of course we had to stop at the wonderful Williams Wool Shed for brunch before heading to Narrogin . Unfortunately we broke our tree fishing tool so that limited a few of the cache attempts ,however we did a bit of a circuit before heading down to Wagin and Dumbelyung and then stopping the evening in Katanning ready for more geocaching tomorrow. All in all it was a fabulous drive , with lots of interesting exploring and of course geocaches along the way. The bonus was the wildflowers that are starting to bloom adding to the adventure. This is our twelth cache find of the day along these beautiful back roads of the Wheatbelt. Wow we never knew Lake Dumbleyung was the place of the speed record . Its amazing the places and information you gather through geocaching. We certainly never like magnetic on army artillery , however this one was quite good and found after only a few minutes . Thanks for the cache find Wheatbelt Science .

Couldnt believe it wasnt green

We didn't know Lake Dumbleyung was where the water speed record was made and even if we did we wouldn't have known where Lake Dumbleyung was. Until today. How good is geocaching for sniffing out great bits of history in unexpected places. We enjoyed looking at the Bluebird, the Interpretive Centre and the sculpture. What talent can achieve with chicken wire is astonishing! TFTC WheatbeltScience.

My second find! So cool - thank you!

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 32 - Wickepin to Wagin via Dumbleyung. After a great day around Wickepin, it was time to move on. Once again I crossed a few counties and this took me on some less traveled roads, but today they were all sealed. I enjoyed a look around Dumbleyung and did not realise this was where the Water speed record was set all those years ago. It was great to get out to the lake and see the place. Once I arrived in Wagin, the weather closed in and although I managed to walk into town for dinner, it has been drizzling all evening.In Dumbleyung, I was very happy to see this great replica of the boat used in the speed record. I did not know this was the area used. I was a little disappointed to see where the cache actually was hidden, but after a careful look, this cache that is not too small was found and signed.Thanks for the cache WheatbeltScience47156.8 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Lackey AliKelSea A#511**Albida**

Great spot and fun find!The notepad was wet though.

Found this one on our way home to Busselton after travelling from Canberra for capital geo bash 2024

Tftc what a wonderful history for the town

I love the interesting history you stumble across when exploring these small towns. Thank you for bringing me here. My husband found it all very interesting also. Tftc

We headed down to Pingrup to spend some time on the farm, of course we had to collect some caches along the way. What an interesting spot this was, we honestly had no idea. Thanks for brining us here, a favorite point for the lessons we learnt TFTC

Nice quick find

Passing through to pick up the last location on the wheatbelt museum AL; I have been here previously but there were too many muggles to look closer; a quiet day and easy find today TFTC

Good info on bluebird

Very tricky

Found during my trip back home to SA after touring the southwest of Western Australia for almost four weeks, including a 5-day visit to Albany. Thanks for the cache WheatBeltScience!

I tried searching for this the other day but with a Gardner working on the gardens close by. I could only search part of it. We came back today and after a short search my partner came up with the cache. The replica is now back on display close by. Thanks for the cache.

Nice hide thanks

Thanks

GOTCHATraveled from Kulin today and parked up in our caravan behind the pub for the night Took a little while to find TFTC

Getting a few caches while traveling around. This one was a must. Traveling through WA very slowly with muggle friends. Though Id get some caches on the way. TFTC

A nice piece of the history in town here, not a fan of these but you get used to the common hiding spots after a while

In WA for 3 days, so I decided to hire a car and head south from Perth and drive around the wheat belt and back up the coast line. Day 1, I headed from the city out towards lock then south through the back roads all the way down to Albany, collecting LGAs and a few target caches along the way. Once in Albany I found a few caches around the area and the oldest cache in WA. Nearly 750km for the day and 50 finds.

Thanks for the cache

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC

TFTC- found with rainygirl74

Found it but forgot pen

Tricky

Back out in the Wheatbelt for an extended long weekend, attending the WA Goes Big 10th anniversary event in Narrogin. Hoovered up plenty of new caches in both Narrogin and surrounding districts, and had a great time with fellow cachers. Thanks to West Oz Geocaching for organising another ripper event! Caches signed through the weekend as ‘CC’ (meaning Cockburn Crew) to save space on logbooks. Cheers WheatbeltScience!

Dumbleyung To Kukevin camping in the caravan park overnight
We enjoyed reading all the history of Donald Campbell, its sad that we didn't get to see the replica as it is away for maintenance.
The video in the small museum is also very good telling of the land & water record attempts.
I have tossed about a FP but the final location had no connection to the description, which is disappointing as I'm sure there would have been some where for a cache.
In the end I decided there is so much history here it is worth the FP.
Thankyou to the CO's for placing these caches.

on the way to hockey traing Great little spot loved the find

On our roadtrip from Sydney to Perth. Bro imthamaninthebox and I flew over to Sydney to drive over to WA with 82yo ma n pa....managed to snag a few sneaky caches along the way.

Another driver change ....ma n pa have no idea bro and I are planning our stops to coincide with geos

The Bluebird was missing at this one so only a quick stop for a cache find and some history!

Thank you WheatbeltScience for placing and maintaining WST - Bluebird Replica for us and others to find and enjoy!

Located 23/03/2023

Took a while but got it. Nice hide. Tftc

Stopping here for a cache, tftc!

Great spot tftc

Out and about again, heading back home after a relaxing holiday in the Great Southern area. Came via 2 LGA’s which were needed to complete all the SW corner of WA.

Found a variety of hides and in different areas which made for a nice day. Generally quick finds today

Thanks to all the CO’s for the hides I found.

Thanks great location - needs maintenance very wet

TFTC

Nice hide. Thanks
Log is wet.

Camping at Lake Norring for the Bring Your Own Marshmallows event, out and about to find a few caches and signing as M6C’s consisting of 8 different caching teams! TFTC!! The cache is very wet in the inside

Camping at Lake Norring for the Bring Your Own Marshmallows event, out and about to find a few caches and signing as M6C’s consisting of 8 different caching teams! TFTC!!

Down in the Wagin area for my BYO Marshmallows 6 event. Staying a couple of nights a the lake Norring free camp.

Out with The Fitzys, Kyzabra, Granett, geotrakka, Cirrus_WA, sirfancy and Rokadz today closely following following the set plan of caches and labs with no deviations... yeah right!

Signed as Marshmallow 6 Crew "M6C"

Wet wet wet.


Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache WheatbeltScience you help make the game what it is today, cheers

AlliedOz

Enjoyed looking at more artillery nice neat park changed since we were last heretftc

A familiar sight in many country towns.

I came, I saw, I signed the log. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Cache is in good condition.

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Thankyou

Thanks

Did a cache day trip from Pingelly. Good one thank you. Pencil needs a sharpen

What an interesting little town, this one took a while. TFTC

It is finally time to head back to Victoria after five months away, we will be concentrating on adventure labs, earth caches and virtuals and anything that pops up nearby on the screen.

After being held up in Wandering we are finally got the life of and we're on our way but of course stopping for geocaches when they appear. We're in this area doing the adventure lab around Donald Campbell and it was great to come here and see the replica of the bluebird. As a child I remember all the hype when he broke those records and has been firmly in my head ever since. It was a great area for a cache. We normally don't like them on these things but this was found relatively quickly and our name has been added to the log. Many thanks for bringing us here.
Lest We Forget

Found it

Good find

Found it , hit my head with joy. Nice coffee from the road house

Took a. Bit of a search but finally found it.
Collecting a bunch of Western Australian shires and checking out some cool places. TFTC

TFTX cache note book is wet ;(

Found it. TFTC

Heading south for our Christmas break & taking the roads less travelled, we stopped to find this cache whilst stopping here for lunch... Jase made the quick find here

Thanks for showing us the old bluebird & TFTC WheatbeltScience

Speedy find in a town famous for speedy things..Tftc

Came to Narrogin to visit Ebenie for a couple of days needed a few caches to finish December’s reach the peak so headed to few I needed to fill in the dots around the area. Thanks to COs for placing and maintaining!

Travelling through the area for work and managed to stop off for a few finds. That took way longer than it should have !

G'day WheatbeltScience, we found your cache at 9:40am today bringing our count to 2,465 finds. TFTC and this great series!

Out travelling with Team Barritts for the day, tftc

I have repeatedly looked for this and now I have finally found it! TFTC

Passing through on our way to Denmark. Took us awhile to find an easy cache. TFTC

We almost didn't look for this one when we saw what it was on but had go and find it quickly.
Glad it wasn't raining while we looked.

Reasonably quick find for our 8 yr old cacher with a few muggles around but the cbh train went past to distract the muggles. TFTC

Quick park and grab
TFTC

Thanks for bringing us here. Had a wonder around gz and found this great statue.
TFTC

TFTC We really like Cannons. Such an interesting spot and great information that we wouldn't have know about except for this cache.

After spending Saturday at the IGD events in Kulin, I took the long way back home to Perth on Sunday and collected a few new LGAs along the way including this one.
I had been searching for a few minutes when the Cirrus_WA family pulled up and joined me. The kids soon had the cache in hand! This one was nice and close to an Adventure Lab location. Thank you for the cache WheatbeltScience.

This is my 770 find.
Thank you WheatbeltScience for placing and maintaining this cache.



Why did the little girl throw the butter out the window?
To see the butterfly.

Pulled in to find papillon367 here already and wandered over to join the search.
Advantage little people here with lots of sets of eyes scouring high Mr T went low and called out found it within seconds, he does have a knack for finding magnets on artillery.
A quick chat about plans for the rest of the day and a play for the kids and we were back on our separate ways.
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A much calmer morning today and we all slept in until after sunrise, something novel for my kids as of late.
With the house cleaned up and cars packed we headed back into Kulin for the final event of the weekend and enjoyed catching up with everyone over breakfast.
Our drive home started by heading further away and heading to grab some new LGA’s in Lake Grace, Dumbleyung and Woodanilling.
Stopped of in Wagin for lunch before heading to do the Boddington Lab cache.
The final stretch home I was serenaded by the snores of the geo-twins worn out by a huge weekend away.
Another goof day with 11 finds & 0 DNF’s
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Thanks WheatbeltScience for placing this cache for me to find, this is find number 3219 for me.

Tftc

Spent the night in Kulin - Up early with kimmorley to head back out on the road to grab some random hides that Ive been eyeing off for a while.
Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches.
A methodical search from the pair of us and eventually kim had the sneaky thing in her hands. TFTC

After not reading the co ords properly and searching the wrong spot for a while moved onto the correct gz. After a bit of a methodical search we found the cache. TFTC ?? fave point coming your way.

Thanks for the cache
Took us a little bit to find it but after some perseverance found the sneaky little bugger good thing I had plenty of time to look for it .
Another enjoyable day out with davey1960 and geocachehunter97.

Tftc

Tftc

Taking the long way back from WAGB 2021 to Perth via our 3 missing LGAs up the middle of the wheatbelt, this was a convenient stopping point, although the less said about the coffee from the roadhouse the better. Our hearts sank when we saw the multitude of surfaces to hide a cache on but Mrs O had her eye in after a weekend's worth of caching and was on to it quickly. Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches, WheatbeltScience!

Working my way down to WAGB21 and collecting a few LGA.s and hopefully a pile of smileys along the way. Thank you to the CO’s for maintaining their caches.

Chwiliwr and I were headed to Albany for the WA Goes Big weekend but not via a direct route. This was one of the caches that we found on the way.

Cache found without problems. Damp log signed and cache returned as found.

Thanks WheatbeltScience for placing this cache for us to find.

Found by torch so happy to signed the log and thanks for the cache and hunt

I came here a few months ago but upon return with ICNothing and Kapelula on day two of our weekend picking up some country caches, we signed the log as MIK! Thank you to the COs for placing these caches!

Found this one after a bit of a search. TFTH!

Thought it was time for a road trip with I C Nothing and Meme28, so we packed the car and headed off to Kulin and the surrounding areas.

Spent a good 20 minutes looking for the little bugger, and wouldn't you know it, it was where I actually looked first! Obviously didn't have my cache-ing eyes on! (Not really surprising as it's been 8 years since I last geocached!)
TFTF!

Found it

After an extensive search we needed to PAF before locating this tricky hide.

TFTC WheatbeltScience this is find #11134 for us.

Didn’t really have the time this time round ️

On a weeks holiday driving around our beautiful state of WA, visiting places we've been to before but being able to spend more time this time around. Stayed at Varley last night and Kukerin tonight grabbing caches along the way

Was meant to look for this one tomorrow as we were passing through town but we ended up here today which was good as I was complaining I wasn't going to have a find for everyday of our holiday, so this one filled in today. Mr dimor made the find here before were went across the road to the CRC and looked at the Bluebird information

TFTC

Had to head out here for work so finding some caches as I go. Took a few minutes to find this one as I arrived in town. TFTC

Found it. Love the Bluebird display. TFTC

Using Narrogin as a base, my young geocaching buddy and I spent a lovely few days exploring the wheatbelt and all the beautiful friendly little towns along the way. After reading all about the history of Donald Campbell and the Bluebird at the lookout, we continued on to Dumbleyung townsite to view the replica. Lots of memories of my younger years hearing about the Bluebird and the world records set. Thanks WheatbeltScience for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Staying in Narrogin for a few days with Gma allinaday. We had a lot of fun exploring the area and all the other little towns along the way. We found some nice historical sites where I learnt a bit about how life was a hundred odd years ago. We explored old buildings and enjoyed some long walks around lakes where I learnt a lot about salinity and what is being done to help reduce the salt on the land so more trees don't die. Thank you to all the cache owners for putting caches out for us to find.

Very cool piece of local history thanks for the cache. Left a trackable

Road tripping the long way from Denmark to Perth to pick up some new LGAs.

I always cringe when I see a hide like this. Thankfully with two of us I put my hand into the right hole and bingo.

We came to Dumbleyung only for this cache and learnt so much.

TFTC Wheatbeltscience

Loved coming here and finding out about the connection of the Bluebird with Australia.
Took a while to get the cache, so many potential hidey spots, but only a few big enough. TFTC

Found it. TFTC WheatbeltSience. At first sight of GZ I thought OMG another nano on an RSL gun. The search didn’t take as long as I was expecting. Thanks for bringing me here.

Thanks for the cache we enjoyed learning about this piece of Dumbleyung history.

Nice quick find here.

TFTC

Was not looking forward to this but as U was moaning Ulla made a lightning find.

Had a look for this one this morning with no luck. Had a bit more time for a thorough look this afternoon and after a bit of persistence, found what we were looking for. TFTC