Something Smells Fishy Beachlands, Western Australia, Australia
By zombiestompbexx on 05-Feb-19. Waypoint GC8380D

t4tc Good hide ez find on my walk

Clever! TFTC

Thanks zombiestompbexx! Found fairly quickly. I liked the hint. Maybe terrain rating was a bit out.

Found it

Nice one!Log in good condition.

Tftc

On our Australian trip . After started for some days in Darwin we are on the road to Perth now .On the Road after Katherine we have seen Edith Falls, Kunnurra and Bungles Bungle. Finally we cross the Pentecost-river to enter the Gibb RiverRoad . A lot to see like Emma Falls, El Questro, Mitchel Falls, Manning Gorge, Galvans Gorge, Bell Gorge, Tunnel Creek and Windjana Gorge .Now return on the sealed road again . Further over Derby, Broome, Port Hedland, Karratha, Karijini NP, Exmouth and now down the coast to Perth .After Coral Bay, Carnarvan and Monkey Mia, we headed further on the road and stopped for this one .The coords are not so accurate, but the cache is great .Worth also favo!TFTC# 17'347

Found at 2:16 PM GAFF5.Wow - this cache would have to have the least cache description ever! Even the hint is longer than the description and it didn't really help a great deal as the co-ords for us were 9 metres out [B)]Thanks to zombiestompbexx

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 83 - Geraldton Day 3. The rain seems to have passed, but it was a bit windy last night. This morning it was back to mostly sunny weather. I set out to do some more caches around the headland of the town peninsula, along with the final set of labs that area based on light houses. This took me well north of town, so I had the chance to do a few caches along the beach that way as well. I met a lady from the Historical society at a cache and paid a visit to her museum. Once home I did washing had lunch and am now doing logs. Tonight is cooking at home and tomorrow I start my drive to Denham in three parts to Eurady first for a night in a rest area.This was my third visit here. This time for the first time there was no one sitting in their car, so I could look in oh so many wrong places, including one that matched the T rating. The cache was in a spot I did not really consider, but is nicely hidden, just not quite at the specified terrain.Thanks for the cache zombiestompbexx48580.5 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Rescue coin A#307**Albida**

Made our way up the turquoise coast to Gero from Perth on a caching trip for a few days. Rain has been heavy and relentless but we are still making progress. Cache found log missing so we have replaced for the CO, signed and replaced as found. TftcMM

Nice one, great art, in this environment found in a second. Thanks, love it

L'tape du jour est Geraldton o nous jaunissons quelques points sur la carte. TFTC logue en team Mado. Trouve au sol, nous la remettons en place.

Suite de notre priple en Australie : de Monkey Mia Geraldton. On logue en team Mado. Merci pour la cache. Beau camouflage qui mrite un PF mais trouv au sol et remis en place

Woah what a hide. The kids had an amazing time locating this one!!!

Found it

Gotcha - Found with a bit of searching. Tftc

Found it again with am new set of eyes, Happy Father's Day!

Clever little hide on our first day in town TFTC

It was a very good one my fav so far

Awesome

Very cool find

Berry crew

On an overnight trip with geo friends to Geraldton for some sightseeing and picking up a few caches along the route.

What a great hide. This certainly was a little beauty and a favourite point from me

Thank you, zombiestompbexx, for placing this cache for our benefit and enjoyment

Loving this new activity. I’m hooked. Thanks Paul

Cache and log in good condition.
Thank you.

In Geraldton helping some friends that are not travelling too well and waiting for one to be discharged from hospital so we can take them to Perth tomorrow we decided to try our luck at some nearby caches to get closer to the new souvenirs on offer.

As it was a Sunday we thought that it might be a good time to try this one as with so many favourites we knew it wouldn't be a quick find. This worked out well for us as we were the only people around. We parked very close to gz and started our search.
Of course we looked in all the wrong palces first before moving to the correct location where we had a relatively quick find and very happily added our name to the log.

We removed the trinket as this wasn't allowing the container to return properly and possibly why we found it so quickly.

Many thanks , we can see why it has so many favourite points and here is another one to add to the list.

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC

TFTC- found with rainygirl74

Awesome find! Had us stumped for a bit but found it in the end. Great camo!

Very worthy cache. Great Camo. Good hint. Locally significant site. I left a trinket...swap up!! Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache. Camo could do with more Camo. It's looking worn.

Auf unserer Weltreise sind wir hier auch vorbei gekommen und konnten die Dose bergen. DfdC

Another day of geocaching in Geraldton. There were no different hiding places to find. Thanks to hints or spoiler pictures, most of them were very easy to find.
Thanks for the caches.

Great Hide !

Clever. Tftc.

We are visiting Geraldtion from the cruise ship Norman and hired a bike to look around your lovely town. TFTC

After driving from Marble Bar and caching as we go our plan was to staying in Geraldton but the temptation to just keep going was too much, so the least we could do is grab a cache and dinner and hit the road. This was the cache we decided on and once at gz we had no muggles anywhere so a good search began. We searched for ages and were on the verge of surrendering when we gave another spot a bit more of a closer look and sure enough there it was. Awesome camo, loved it. We signed your log and returned your cache back just as we found it. Glad we stopped for this one. Favourite point coming up when I a new delivery, currently out of stock. TFTC zombiestompbexx.

It’s been a long drive with axell33 as we head home now on a round trip Perth to Marble Bar and back! Debated to stay the night, but wanted to get home, it was only 5 hours away. We fuelled up, got dinner but we got this cache first. We nearly gave up but axell33 had a look in a different spot and made this very clever hide a ‘found’. A favourite from me for a great camo! Thanks for the hide zombiestompbexx.

Quick find but what a great camo! This gets a favourite from us. TFTC

Out and about exploring Geraldton this afternoon. Got led up the garden path by the gps for a bit. Once we found the correct gz, we soon had the little camo in hand. Very well done. Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Fav point worthy.

Neat hide

Found with Sweet FA TFTC

Found with Bjossi on this beautiful day. I'm giving this a favourite for the very good camo.
TFTC

Alan and Kay living the dream in a 5th wheel. Found your Something Smells Fishy
TFTC 24 August 2022 12:09 pm
Thanks CaravanCapersOz
Total caches 87

Awesome cami TFTC

1.52pm

Visiting Perth from Brisbane to catch up with hubby who is working over here. Today I am caching around Geraldton after dropping hubby off at the worksite in Dongara.

Missed a cache just up the road so decided to setup for one more. Gps had me 8m away and not finding anything at that terrain, started looking a bit lower. Saw something different and had to touch it to make sure it was the cache container.. What a clever hide. Deserves a fav point. Returned as found.

Found on 1 July 2022. TFTC, zombiestompbexx.

Absolutely love this one good camouflage.

Caching in the Greater Geraldton area today. Our intention for the day was to attack some power trails and do map cleanup around town.

This is a terrific hide. Add favrCheers zombiestompbexx!

I was worried what this would be - Lachy made the find. Clever hide here - well done

Wonder if GZ has changed.

Enjoying a long, hot, weekend up in Geraldton Picking up a few caches while here, and even better converting a few previous DNFs into smileys This was one that I stopped off at today. Parked right next to the host and had the right idea straight away - but the host still took a bit of studying before I made the find Things are quite fragile and a small section is visible which is what gave it away - would likely have been here even longer otherwise! No problems here today - TFTC

Great camo, as previous finders have said it may benefit from some maintenance. Unable to sign log as have no pen but here's a photo

Sneaky. Great hide. Might need a little maintenance. TFTC

An excellent camo idea, well executed. Might need a bit of maintenance soon though, bits are coming loose. Well worth a fave. TFTC

Very clever camo!

They’ve finally taken all the fences down. Genius camo, definitely a favourite

Unable to find any thing, all fenced off Tftc

That was awesome! Had me looking in a few different areas before I found it! A fav

pug002 DNF 19/10/20 could not get to where it was trying to take us there was a big high gate up. If it is there we could not see where. Thanks anyway zombiestompbexx

Unable to find

A awesome cammo, thanks for the tour around town.

Very clever camo, signed the log, TFTC

Find 17 of 29 with fourteen DNFs on a day-long 30km bike ride around Geraldton with not a cloud in the sky. Many more DNFs than we would usually register, this is a tricky town! Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining these caches.

Wow, we spent a while here in all the wrong spots. Seems like it is nearer the road than our GZ. We went behind the fence at one point for a look down the laneway. Once we moved back towards the road it was a quick find. Clever placement and camo!

Couldn't find anything.

Found on the 19th. Definitely a favourite

The find left me in a sticky situation...

Grabbed while traveling our wonderful country. Found with Team Outnabout. Have been waiting for this date to come around again for a couple of years, but now feeling good that we have finally filled our cache calendar after almost 15 years of caching (not the quickest achievement but non the less one we’re happy to claim). TFTC zombiestompbexx.

Outnabout with Wollaston. After multiple DNF’s I couldn’t believe I just walked up and there it was.

container was in 2 bits, reattached. Put a little heart pencil in - can be left for writing or taken as booty. Did this yesterday, sorry! still looking good when I passed it today.

found it, had no log, so grandma, gabs1963 put a new log in it

Found it - very sneaky but we couldn’t extract the tube.

A quick find. For GeoL. TFTC!

Cheers thanks for the cache

Heads up after our last DNF. Mrs s was onto this one while I was still getting organised. SL TFTC Deserves a favourite.

Decided to head to Geraldton to pick up all the new caches that had recently come out and also rectify some of our previous DNFS. Had a good days caching with 57 finds and amazingly only 1DNF. Most of the caches were quickly found. Thanks to all the CO,S for placing these caches

Hi there zombiestompbexx.

We found your cache **"Something Smells Fishy"** today. (This makes our find count 22840).

Today we headed out to grab some caches that would complete the latest "Streak" souvenir challenge, and were lucky enough to get a couple of prior DNF's as well. Afterwards we met up with Ian & Sue (Team Pathfinder) for coffee along the waterfront. We thoroughly enjoyed today's cache finds, the fresh air after the recent rain has made the air crisp and clean.

We found 5 caches today & DNF'd 1. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels. We awarded this cache a favourite point for the ingenious

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 3m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in great shape, but we're pretty sure the "Tree Climbing" attribute is misleading.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

Have made our way to Geraldton for the night and grabbed a cache or two. TFTC

Day four of our seven day challenge streak souvenir. We arrived to find a stream of people coming and going to the nearby medical centre so had to be very stealthy with this one. We narrowed our search down to one big feature but finding the cache still proved to be difficult. We didn’t like our chances of climbing this one to retrieve a cache especially with so many people around. We was about to give up and try it again on a Sunday but then I had one more look and...... wow... there was the cache! We could have made this one so much harder. A favorite point from us.

Thanks

Sadly slowly on the southward leg of out travels heading home to what is forecast yucky weather grabbing a few caches as we go
After a slow geocaching start to the day due to just over three hours spent at the fantastic museum then lunch before caching

Thought this one may have taking a few minutes but I was straight onto it.

TFTC

I can remember seeing about this factory burning down on the local regional news

IGD in Geraldton again with Barnzy12 in the passenger seat. We headed up late on Friday night with a “clean up” of remaining caches planned for the main day. Knowing from some posts that new caches would also be getting published today we knew we would be up for a bid day with the typical race. Our rest time was the event in the middle of the day. And a few hours in a basic motel. Sunday would also see a long day with minimal caches yet many KM travelled to find them! Thanks to all the CO’s for placing hides to be found.

Up in Geraldton for the International Geocaching Day Event in Greenough.

We travelled up on the Friday evening after finishing work for the day. Up early Saturday morning to find a bunch of caches around town before working our way towards the historic settlement of Greenough going cache to cache.

We managed to pickup one FTF in the mornings batch before completing the caches on the list down towards Greenough. We enjoyed chatting with everyone at the event and the bbq lunch was great. After the event concluded we grabbed a few more caches before the phone started getting emails of all the new caches so we headed to the first one less than 300m from where we were and managed a FTF before being joined by fratra to collect another bunch of FTFs together before going to complete the adventure labs cache and then going our separate ways.

We continued along and cached our way back into town.

A huge thanks to West Oz Geocaching and Team Outnabout for hosting the event and the new caches aswell as the locals for their recent efforts in placing and maintaining a number of caches around town.

Thanks to the COs for their caches on this trip.

That was a bit tricky.
TFTC zombiestompbexx this is find # 7390 for us.

OMG you are a tricky bunch in Gero.

Ollie Sausage - found it. Still in place great cache. Linked to the foliage of the area is a clue

Checked and cache is still in place.

Not for me today.

Hi there zombiestompbexx.

This is the 2nd of 5 caches we didn't find today. [:(!]

We spent quite some time here but we just couldn't locate your cache, so here's a DNF from us.

Regards
Ian and Penny

Cool cache but miss8 said Put me down mum! No climbing required. Cache 3 of our last day of holidays. TFTC.

A nice easy find, it’s a pity the original cache container went missing, it sounded awesome.

Doesn’t smell that fishy great hide

A quick find for this one.

found it a bit confusing as attributes said tree climbing required, but we found it without climbing, joint {*FTF*} with 2009chase

Well, this is odd. I've not had 3 DNFs consecutively on a new geo before. I will check on it and see if it is in place. Apologies. It is a sneaky one though, I spent a bit of time on the cammo and construction of this cache.

Spent a while searching but couldn't find the cache

No luck here today.

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