Hawkes Bay Albany, Western Australia, Australia
By crabzy11 on 12-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y7QP

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Found Dont encase the termites

Well tucked in.

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Easy find TFTC

Gz about 9m back but obvious big rockHeaded out today to complete this series and what a joy! The caches were all easy finds with fantastic hints, the road was nice and quiet and the CO used commonsense with placement! We chose wisely (accidentally) and every cache was on the left for saz to jump out and grab! Every stop was placed with good parking as well! Love the name of the road you chose....very apt!We had so much wildlife on our journey today, the black cockatoos were amazing plus we saw so many sheep, cows, horses etc.We started our day at 1157am and completed at 207pm, finding all 55 of this series with not a single DNF! We will add notes as needed but most will be generic logs and fave points added throughout! Some of the logs seemed full but still plenty of room to sign in between names, replaced as needed.Thank you crabzy11 for placing and maintaining Hawkes Bay. for us and others to find and enjoy!

Good spot

Awesome. Thanks for the cache

Decided to make today the day to find as many of these caches that we could. Jasmine was at the wheel, kicking me out at each location. Most were easy finds, but 1-2 DNFs in the end. All logs were signed as JKJS, except for the large container off Albany highway which was signed with full names. Thanks for the series! We will be back for the challenge caches just south of here when we qualify for a few more of them.

Down in Albany over Christmas and New Years so we decided to make today the day to find as many of the convoy series caches as we can. I drove along stopping at every cache, kicking @jamesknowlson out to sign the log at each cache and occasionally helping search on the trickier ones. Most of the caches were easy finds, but ended up with 1-2 DNFs in the end. All logs were signed as JKJS, except for the large container off Albany highway which was signed with full names. Thanks for placing and maintaining this series! We will be back for some challenge caches nearby once we qualify

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Tftc

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC

Found with rainygirl74 TFTC

Over in Western Australia now to attend next months events. Time to get a few caches around Albany. Enjoying the area as 1st time below Perth and enjoying it.

Albany Day 3
Arrived into town Saturday booked into the caravan park for 8 days.
Today we headed out to join the convoy of ships that left Albany to sail off to the 1st world war.
This is such a significant part of Australian History. Glad that you have placed these on a geocaching trail.
Thankyou to the CO's for placing these caches.

Quick find

Cool thanks

Enjoying a short a trip to W.A. and surrounding areas with tmann421
Saw lots of sites and enjoyed the finds.
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts involved in their hides.
Signed log tm/ww NZ

*Another geocaching adventure with woolwood9.*
*We visited many good caches and trails on our trip and had a lot of fun!*

Really appreciate the cache owners effort putting this container out.
We soon located the hide.
All logs stamped: *tm/ww NZ*

Thanks for the good trail crabzy11, we enjoyed our time finding them!

TFTC and history lesson!

Staying a few days in Albany, today we headed out to tackle the convoy series and the challenge caches which we quailfy for all bar 1. Interesting to be visiting these roads where the now archived Albany 100 series was.

TFTC crabzy11

Out and about again, early morning jaunt whilst in King River, attempting to do as much as I can before having to get back for 8am.

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.

Quick find by bmc96 tftc

No. 32 on the Settlement Rd trail quest with tash2494, our last cache as the phone torches were coming out and dinner time was fast approaching, our last quick and easy find. Tftc

Had an hour up my sleeve while staying in Porongurup, stopped by to grab another bunch of these!
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Nice easy one

Headed out with the MICKS (Meme28, I C Nothing,Cirrus_WA, Kapalua and me SirFancy) crew and Burns345.
We got a lot done and headed to the CITO event then got a few more before lunch, after lunch we jumped in to different peoples FWDs and headed out as a much larger group, there was mud and fun.
Ended the day with good food surrounded by good people.

Cache in good condition.


This is my 3255 find.
Thank you crabzy11 for placing and maintaining this cache.



Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!
(I’m not a geologist I just like puns)

Found this cache today while out on the hunt with goingplaces2. Container was found, log signed, all replaced. Job done! TFTC.

Today we picked up where we had to leave off yesterday due to the heavy rain. The weather was perfect all day today for caching together with ilook4geo. We had no problem in finding the rest of this series and all the caches were in good condition. Thank you, crabzy11, for placing all these caches.

Quick find on Father-Son day out. Our geo-kid loves this set of caches. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this series.

This series has been taunting me on the map ever since it was published. With so many quality caches to do in Albany, it's been hard to convince any of my fellow geocachers to spend time doing a power trail. I found myself doing a solo drive to Bremer this afternoon, so decided it was an apt time to take a 'shortcut' by bypassing Albany town and taking this road instead. I only had time to make a small dent on the series, as I was wanting to beat the roos, but its a start. All caches were reasonably quickly found, despite my phone signal being very limited (recommend you save these offline before you head out). TFTC

Thanks for placing and maintaining this series of caches

pug002 found it 12/1/22 TFTC crabzy11

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TFTC Crabzy11, #35 found in good condition. Log signed & returned.

Started our 2nd tour of WA now checking out Albany and surrounds. Doing the ship series today. 9 December 2021 3:02 pm Tyfc crabzy11 total caches now 3397

Quick fun finds along this section of road tftc

Started this series awhile ago but ran out of time we had some time today to finish it off. TFTC

The ships of the First Convoy is an excellent concept on which to base this series of caches. This afternoon we went to look for the caches. We were pleased that the road was sealed but had little traffic.

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks crabzy11 for the cache and the series.

Be very careful here , fire has gone through and there is a very dangerous branch that is just hanging off big black tree , cache is not there . But you might think it is . Look up before walking under .

What a cracker of a day. Headed out to finally get this lot done.

Most were quick finds, a couple had me searching for a bit and had to bypass 2 due to bluechip harvesting operations with a front row seat to the caches.

No snakes which was surprising too. Still a fair bit of water about the place.

Thanks for the series crabzy11

Cheers

MCFonz

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Found at WAGB 2021 event, thank you for the cache.

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Hi there crabzy11. We decided that we'd hunt several strings of caches today including a couple of Mystery strings that we had solved, and we found this cache at 0249pm after a short search - and the container and log are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to crabzy11 for this cache - our find 9181 and the 64th of 86 finds for the day.

FieldNotes:

Tftc thought we would do something more normal then climbing a six metre ladder and canoeing

Decided to do these after the conoe caches today tftc

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Crickets are chirping and the birds are still singing !
Serenity !!!
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In the area for WAGB21. Nice quick find. TFTC

After we completed the nearby challenge caches to the south earlier before lunch Chwiliwr and I travelled further north after lunch and called in to find this cache. Cache was found without problems and log signed and the cache returned as we found it.

Thanks crabzy11 for placing this cache for us to find.

(This was cache number 62 for today.)

Down for WAGB catching up with old friends and making new ones. A great weekend with a huge assortment of finds to get. Thank you to each of the COs for placing and maintaining these caches and contributing to making this weekend such a success.

Out and about grabbing a few smilies along the way with Geotrakka . Glad to say that we found it and replaced as found .tftc

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We expected to be camping in Shark Bay this week, but had to cancel due to the cyclone. After booking the first affordable airbnb away from the weather we could find, we found ourselves staying at a winery not too far from this series. Mr atCat was ready for a day of relaxing but I wanted adventure, so I left him on toddler duty while I went out caching.

This was my first proper power trail and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Over 3 hours I found all caches in the series and made sure to stop to take in the beautiful scenery once in awhile! Despite the recent rains, all caches and logs were still in good condition. Most coords seemed good, but I mostly relied on the hints and following the obvious tracks from previous finders

TFTC and the fun, crabzy11

Staying at the excellent Porongorup Caravan Park, we made an early but drizzly start on this series. Most finds were quick. TFTC!

Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.
After some time in Albany now to tick off a few more to get me closer to 8K!

Thanks for the hide and crabzy11.

Down in Albany fora 6 day breaking spotted this series. Great fun. Most quick to find. A few a bit harder. One had us beat. Grrrr. Blue sad face in the series. Thank you for the fun. Long day with two tired bodies at the end.

DangerMouse09 & Master 9 made the finds on these caches, with Jase driver & Janine as navigator! All but 2 caches were found quickly, many spotted on our approach

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Accompanied with Pommieparkins2, the weather was so nice and warm... enjoyed research, found and signed the log as EV + PP2.
Thanks crabzy11 for hide the cache and hunt. [^][^]

We really enjoyed this series, which we did with Everlasting. It is only now that I am perusing the history which is fascinating. TFTC crabzy11

An easy find TFTC

Great to read about the history of the local area and thanks for the series crabzy11.
Found while out and about
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Great tunes on the radio to jam along with as we hunt

Quick find here TFTC crabzy11

Quick find here

I have a month off from work so a family road trip was planned covering parts of the Goldfields, Great Southern and South West.

Today I had planned a solo morning (at least) of grabbing caches between Denmark and Albany. The rest of the family wanted a day to rest and relax in the Airbnb we had rented. Crazy people. I mean, who does that on holiday, right.

I headed out early to grab the freshly published labs in Denmark and then headed for Albany.


crabzy11 SVKR_WA is happy to have found your cache Hawkes Bay today at 10:24:08 9 Nov 2020. This brings my find count to 4467

crabzy11 - Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. We love travelling and visiting some places that we would only visit due to this game.

Spent the day with iluvtrekking picking up this great series. Had no trouble finding any of them except Suffolk which was missing and we replaced. It was getting pretty warm as we made our way along the road so we were on the lookout for slitheries but fortunately encountered none while searching. Thanks Crabzy11 for a great day out.

Out and about with ricklink on a beautiful spring day. Thanks to the great hints it was all smooth sailing today. TFTC crabzy11.

This series was first on our to do list this morning.
We managed to complete it in 2.5 hours thanks to very helpful hints and despite a couple of showers.

TFTC crabzy11 this is find #10619 for us.

Thanks for the series crabzy11
Lots of fun
A great way to spend a warm sunny day

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A super speedy trail. Just the way I like them. Thanks.

Set out on this bleak afternoon with mandate7 to find a few caches before the rain set in didn’t quite finish this series as it got too wet and cold but had fun anyway. Thank you crabzy11 for the series

Out caching with bigSalmon1 on a miserable spring day. I apologise for the copy and pasteing but !!!! Thanks crabzy11 for this amazing series and the history behind the caches

TFTC - I’m rocking through them.

Found it. TFTC crabzy11. Still had a visa so I crossed the border and headed south into the deep dark depth of the unknown. Stayed in Albany over night and in the morning the vehicle was facing East. So, that will be the direction I go today. I noticed on Settlement road there was a cache or 2 or 3 or, well you know the rest. So I took that route. I managed to get all the smileys with no DNF's. All were reasonably quick finds but as usual there were those that took a little extra time. This is a great series.

Had a few hours spare before checking into our accomodation in Albany for 3 nights and saw this little series we thought we’d try a few. It was very cloudy today so we thought we’d try get as many as possible before the rain soaked us. Thanks for this series and thanks for the cache!

Out with Gma allinaday to find some caches today. I had fun learning to use the gps and then finding the caches. Thanks crabzy11.

Today was another one of those perfect Albany spring days, even though its not quite spring yet. Not one to waste a glorious day of sunshine, decided to tackle this trail. Love the theme, especially after all the research into our lab cache, a number of these ships were almost quite familiar. With one littleblonde in tow, we set off up the highway, only to realise we should have started from the Chester Pass Road end. Not to be deterred, we drove down the road to the end and started again. We enjoyed the variety of hides, some of which were a bit tricky to find. I found that my gps was not very accurate on these caches, which was a bit unusual. Because of this, we relied quite a bit on the hints, which were very welcome for our searches. Thanks crabzy11 for placing another great little series along this by now familiar road. We enjoyed our day finding them.

A perfect day for grabbing a few caches, this series has been on the radar for a while. Thanks for the series

Found it! TFTC!

Firstly want to say sorry for the cut and paste logs but with a series this size I would be here forever with individual logs. With that said, what a great idea for a series in the Albany and great effort by everyone involved in setting this series up. We enjoyed it from start to finish with the bit variety between each hide. Most of them we found quickly but a couple had us searching. Most of the coordinates were spot on and the others were more than likely my gps due to the rainy cloud covered day. Through most of the series we hardly seen a car on the road but for about the last half dozen it was busier than St Georges Tce. We found all the series and added our names to all the logs. We returned your caches back to where we found them. Really enjoyed this series. TFTC & S crabzy11.

Had a quick trip to Albany with axell33 for a family event which gave us an opportunity for some southern smilies! After some caches around Albany we set our sights on this series! I love the historical tribute. Thanks for placing this cache and the series. Greetings from Baldivis.

After being involved in the placement of this hide I shall now claim a find. Thanks crabzy11.

Spent the afternoon finding this series and logged most while out on the road. Some were out of internet range so are being logged without sense of place. A great afternoon and a nice quiet road. Take time to enjoy the views of the Porongurups. Thanks Crabzy11

{FTF} Joint find with meme28. We were heading out this morning to tackle the LGA series out of Williams until this new lot of caches were published.
Thanks crabzy11 barnzy12 and cravo10 for these caches and the amount of work you have put into them.
We had a wonderful time and no rain which was a bonus.

Joint {FTF} Down south with Burns345. Thank you crabzy11 for this series and you efforts with placing them. A bit of history is always fun to chat about on the road....

After assisting with placement of this cache I’m logging a find.

Quick find. Thank you!

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