Civilisation Wonder Series Big Ben Jarrahdale, Western Australia, Australia
By janssej & muskcat83 on 22-Oct-17. Waypoint GC7DXQ0

Perfect day up here with axell33 and stomping about with lots of noise as its a beaut day for other critters to be out sunning as well! It not for us today and we spent a good amount of time poking and scratching and looking high and low and read the past logs for this but it was elusive for us today!

Enjoying this wonderful day except for the flies. We searched for ages for this one with no luck. We decided to raise the white flag on this one and return another now. TFTC muskcat83 and janssej.

Continuing my adventure with Everlasting. Thankfully she has a 4wd since the tracks were in far worse condition than on my previous visits. Thanks for the hide.

Accompany with K.B. the weather is very nice for us no wet day...
Enjoyed myself for the day with her company - mostly she found all caches before me
I enjoyed drive the car this area - loved bush land. [^]
Thanks janssej for the cache and hunt. [^]

I didn’t get the irony until I looked hard at the cache. Haha!!

Big day today with Probsty and I hitting the Civilisation series, finding the final for the PP series, more of the technology series and the start of the world wonder series. Beautiful autumn day with 35 civilisation caches found and no DNF’s. The CO’s should be proud of these hides, they are awesome. TFTC

Barked up the wrong tree for a while but got there in the end. TFTC

Spent the morning making a start on this series. Nothing came easy this morning. Maybe I'm out of practice. It was a nice day to go driving through the bush though. Thanks for the series.

Decided not to take the notebook to this one given the string of DNFs we have had on this series. Murphy’s Law, we found it! TFTH!

Missed it the first time around but found on the second circuit. Nice to find a couple after a few dnf’s

The GeoTriton has been in desperate need of some gearbox maintenance of late so I haven't been able to get out and about as much as I would've liked. That changed this past week, box out last weekend sent away for a bearing kit and put back in yesterday along with a new heavy duty clutch and couple of other bits and pieces. Needless to say I was champing at the bit to hit the trails and thought some Civilisation action would fit the bill nicely.

Dropped the teenage daughter off at Maccas for her 7 o'clock shift in Maddington and headed for the hills. Unfortunately there has been a recent fire through this area so the hit rate wasn't as good as I would've liked.

Got the GeoTriton up the hill and parked up right on GZ. Spent a few minutes searching around then just followed the gizmo and spotted the sneaky hide. A great spot to have a break and acknowledge the 11th hour. "Lest We Forget"

janssej I found your cache at 10:57am, this was the 11th of 22 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 5063. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.

SLTFTC

Had the day off, so out we went to do some of the Civilisation series. When we arrived we noticed a fire had been through there. OMG, but we decided to still tackle them. We found some and other's missing or fried. This series was really well put together, but was unable to complete it this time, but when fixed and up and running again, we'll be back to complete it.
Tftc.

Thought we were going to have to give up with this one, as things weren't looking good with the previous dnf & a lot of wood chopping having happened in the area, but happily we found it! Tftc

Always wood choppers here when I rode past but didn't want to leave without trying to look for this one. Thankfully the couple here knew about geocaching and were ok with me prodding around them. But my GZ not a likely spot and nothing nearby that would safely hide a cache. I'm afraid clue didn't help. But as Darius Horsham would say "I'll be back".

A pleasant day for caching and we decided to start this series. Found this one. TFTC

Out and about today with Parkacruz and Team Bastholm, we managed 3 civilisation series and 3 FTF not a bad days work. TFTC and all the effort into placing these caches for our enjoyment

We headed out today with Neva2old and TeamBastholm to tackle some more of the Civilisation series, we had a successful day with only one DNF and 3 FTF’s, some fantastic innovative caches where found along the way with a mixture of easy finds to extensive searches required. We signed all logs either with our full caching names or PC, N2O and TB TFTC

Out with Parkacruz and Neva2Old.
TFTC

Hi there janssej - A day out geocaching for me meant that I had to have a look at the two remaining Civisation strings. This was a good day totalling 36 finds and 3l DNF's. All in all a great day in the Australian bush. The container and log are in good condition. Thanks to janssej for this cache - our find #5370.

Cool cache.

Back in Civilisation country again today with geoson SpiderJockey07, with the aim of completing the Building Series started some weeks ago and commencing the Wonders Series. A quick find here thankfully. TFTC

Out and about with richlink today to hunt down the latest offerings in the Civilisation caches.

We had a great day, we found some of the caches quite challenging but others were located quickly and we loved the themed cache containers.

Thanks for the search janssej, your efforts are much appreciated.

Beautiful day to be out caching as we set off with iluvtrekking down the tracks, back tracking here and there to complete the Wonder series. All found but some not without a bit of head scratching and frustration. Didn't get the 'irony'. Thanks janssej & muskcat83

After dropping the geoboy at work early this morning, I headed down to Jarrahdale to make another dent in the Civilisation Series. These caches are such an asset to this area and I am privileged to live pretty close to the lot.

My GZ was in the middle of the clearing but a bit of geosense led me to the cache.

janssej - SVKR_WA found your cache Civilisation – Wonder Series – Big Ben at 10:11:53 on the 18 Nov 2017. This find brings our total finds to 2397.

We appreciate the effort you have gone to in placing this cache for our fun and enjoyment.

Surprise!! Eliktrisiti came out of hiding and declared that she wanted to go geocaching again, something she said was probably never going to happen again - moved on, found a new love, outgrown geocaching, fed up with mint tins, nanos and sistemas after a coming back to Australia following a trip home to eastern Europe and seeing the effort that they go to over there when placing a cache. Anyway, she reneged, so I jumped at the chance of getting "out in the wilds of Australia" again with the wee lass. I chose this series because I knew there was going to be a good variety of hides that would keep us amused and on our toes. That and the chance of a cold beer and a bite to eat at the awesome Jarradale pub on the way home. And of course we weren't disappointed with either. We had a great day of it, nattering away, catching up on each others' news as we searched for these caches. Well done guys - great additions to the series - and a very enjoyable day out there. Thanks janssej & muskcat83 - you guys rock!

Out and about with Mistraluna, to grab some smileys on the new Civilisation series. Good variety of different hides, and some of them proved to be real tricky, but we got there in the end. Lighthouse hide was my favourite one of them all. Thank you for the trouble of placing these hides. PS - we saw a snake too... just a python

Yet more of the series, so off with the usual suspects for the hunt. That would be her royal highness queen Caroline as PP2, m4yb and fratra
All signed as frammp
Thanks for the smiley

Time to get Civilized! Megawat60 and I met up with FraTra and pommieparkin2 to look for the new series in this lovely part of the world.
Suitably found by pommieparkin1. TFTC!

What a beautiful day, what wonderful company, what another great series.TFTC

A quick find of 'Big' Ben.
Teamed up with PP2, m4yb and megawatt60 to tackle this latest civilisation installment. All logs were signed 'FRAMMP'. A fun morning of caching with good friends finished off with a yummy pub lunch at the Jarrahdale Tavern.
TFTC janssej & muskcat83 this is find # 3508 for us.

Seeing these caches published had us formulating a plan to head out here for the latest Civilisation instalment. Another fantastic addition to the awesomeness that is geocaching in Jarrahdale!

Hi there janssej, we were out geocaching in this area today, 29/10/17, and found your cache Civilisation – Wonder Series – Big Ben GC7DXQ0 at 10:44 am. Thanks for taking the time to place this cache out here for us to find!

This brings our cache find to a total of 8502.

**FTF** with Barnzy12 OOH YEH and WebblyWA, together we formed Team COBWeb to make logging the large number of caches a bit easier.

I had just arrived home from Steve’s house when no more than 2 minutes had passed and he was calling me, “what now could he want” was the thoughts running through my head. The words down the phone were simply “ are you coming to Jarrahdale” not more was needed to be said after the teaser on Facebook the other day!!

Barnzy and I had agreed to meet at gateways shopping centre as usual, and drive in to carpool in one car with the others.

Was a nice drive through the countryside with 27 finds, all of which were FTF and one pesky DNF which will mean we must come back to complete the series.

A great night out caching which will help the stats nicely.

Thanks for a nice variety of containers and some very different styles of caches.

Published

A Team COBWeb joint {*FTF*}. From the moment these were published phone calls started flying around the place and plans were made for me to wait on top of the hill before heading in so the FTFs could be shared. This suited me just find because I have a bit of a phobia when it comes to being in the Forrest at night - something to do with giant flesh eating Suinaes. I needed someone to at least hear my screams. Kicking off at around 8pm series took us longer than expected as whenever we hit a spot of reception more 'pings' would arrive and we would have to back track to 'collect them all'. Sadly we did not having a token elusive trad become our only DNF. Great fun was had along the way with a few puzzles in the dark and some torches going flat adding to the challenge. Luckily though we were home by midnight - well I was. Another great extension to one of WA's best series, with a surprise for every find a a good game of guess what we would find next. TFTC and Series. Janssej and muskcat83

*FTF* with Barnzy12, Cravo10 and WebblyWA
Since I don't go on Facebook Barnzy12 informed me about this series that was going to come out. I had already been out yesterday doing a round trip of about 350 kms to pick up 8 caches and I just sat down last night when the first one got published. On the phone straight away to Barnzy12 and we all agreed to meet up at the first cache. I think at this stage it was about 8pm and it proberly only took us 3.5 hours at night to complete with one very annoying DNF. I chose to be the driver and all logs were signed COBWeb to save time and space on the log sheets. Good variety of containers with some that took a while to find. We had one funny moment towards the end when I thought Cravo10 was back in the car and I drove off without him lol... Collected all the clues as we went along and as we forgot to bring paper Webblys arm was the notebook. The final was found and then it was time to head home. An enjoyable series TFTC janssej

**FTF** with Cravo10, OOH YEH and WebblyWA, together we formed Team COBWeb to make logging the large number of caches a bit easier.

I was sat at home with the wife already in bed for her early start tomorow, with strict instructions to not disturb her. As soon as I saw the notifications start coming for the civilisation series, phone calls were exchanged and rough plans to meet just off Jarrahdale road with the others who were crazy enough to even want to be out late at night hinting micros in the bush!!

Cravo and I had agreed to meet at gateways shopping centre as usual, and drive in to carpool in one car with webbly and OOH YEH. Hit a snag with some road closures but got there in the end.

Was a nice drive through the countryside with 27 finds, all of which were FTF and one pesky DNF which will mean we must come back to complete the series.

A great night out caching which will help the stats nicely.

Thanks for a nice variety of containers and some very different styles of caches.