Verdala Albany, Western Australia, Australia
By crabzy11 on 13-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y93V

Nice

Travel bug visited this one. TFTC

Thanks All good 1564

FoundKG

Found AT

Found on the ground. Raised it up a bit.

Easy find TFTC

Easy find

TFTF

Quick easy find

To easy

Headed 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 Verdala for us and others to find and enjoy!

Good spot

Awesome. Thanks for the cache. All good here

Found

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

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.

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Tftc

Found with Dozenmater, TFTC

Found with rainygirl74 TFTC

Nice and fun but a little bit simple

8 for 8 today...

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Ducked off the highway for a swift find.
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

Easy one for today

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!

Quick easy find.

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, a wet morning in Albany, headed out to complete the power trail. Found all but 3. Then got some other nearby hides.

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.

Easy one

Quick spotting by geo partner

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 3241 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.

Found on ground. Replaced securely.

On the way home to Perth after a solo trip to the Great Southern, I allowed myself another hour out on this series. In that time I managed another 19 finds and no DNFs. All caches were found much more easily than on my last visit as I had remembered to save them to an offline list. Thanks for this interesting power trail. 30 down - 28 (?) to go. Apologies for the generic log but TFTC

Number 6 today tftc

Thanks for placing and maintaining this series of caches

pug002 found it 14/1/22 on our trip south TFTC crabzy11

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Tftc

TFTC Crabzy11, # 49, 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 4:17 pm Tyfc crabzy11 total caches now 3411

Another beautiful day in WA. As we settle into WA life we are mindful of balancing geocaching with everything else we want to see and so we are pacing ourselves with the quantity of geocaches we are collecting. This weekend we decided to head to the Albany area and on the way we highlighted this series of caches on Settlement Road just off Albany Highway as a good stretch of geocaches to collect before heading into Albany. There as clearly been recent rains as the paddocks and sides of the road are quite wet, otherwise it is a sunny and warm day.

We really appreciated the history lesson here a very poignant series.

This is the quietest this road has been , not a single vehicle from getting out of the car, finding and logging the cache and getting back into the car. The log was out in the open so we recovered it the best we could. TFTC

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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.

Tftc

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

Found it it was easy to find

Tftc

Nice

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

TFTC

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 0322pm after a short search - and the container and log are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to crabzy11 for this cache - our find 9195 and the 78th 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

Nice and easy. Breeze its non existent here because of the lovely tree line !!
Tftc

Thanks for the cache grabbed on route to the kayaking on the King.

Tftc

Tftc

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 48 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

Ltf

Found today while out on a drive with the geokids, nice series so far, thanks for the cache.

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

Tftc

Staying at the excellent Porongorup Caravan Park, we made an early but drizzly start on this series. A coffee stop in the rain , and off we go. Mostly quick finds, which I liked! 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

Thanks for the series crabzy11 [^]

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
TFTC

Close to the finish line now

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

Thanks crabzy11 for the hide. A nice series along a settlement road with plenty of space to pull over.

Quick find here TFTC crabzy11

Enjoyed finishing off this series. What a lot of work for our benefit.
TFTC

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 #10633 for us.

A quick find with mandate7 on our mission to finish this series on a sunny Tuesday thanks crabzy11 for this series

Quick find with bigSalmon1 on a sunny morning whilst try to complete this great series TFTC

Tftc

Perfect caching conditions. Thanks for this hide.

No mail today.

Just posting this cache !

TFTC - cache slight exposed, now covered.

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. I did this series in reverse, I would not recommend that unless you have no choice. The problem I had was that there was no one to help me cross the road.

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!