Along the Davilak Trail Spearwood, Western Australia, Australia
By Rose and Sharmane (The Pretenders) on 05-Oct-02. Waypoint GC996F

Sorry everyone - should have archived this a while ago

We've still got the recovered contents, so I'll make sure they go into a new cache, with a suitable attribution.
Karma, y'know...

Been months since it was disabled and it seems the owner has not logged in since March. Can this be archived so the area gets freed up? Thanks.

Its been a while since the last log....no replacement...time to say good-bye?

It amazes me how these things get found! Are morons just aimlessly (and mindlessly as it would seem) walking around the middle of nowhere? Their head must be firmly up their arse (hence why they spot these hidden treasures - they see them from close range!). From memory this was a good hide well off the track!!

Hmmmm...just felt like a whinge..having been the victim of a muggled cache or two..good work Bear-Left...

Cache rescued/removed by Bear_Left (that's actually me and my wife!), awaiting instructions from the owners.

We were placing a cache fairly nearby and decided to go for a walk up the hill to see what we could see.

After some poking around, what we saw was the contents of the cache (including the logbook) scattered around the place.

We recovered most of it, but the container was broken and we didn't have a replacement with us, so we took it all with us.

What would you like us to do with it, ladies?

Over the recent months I have been either side of this cache so today I decided it had to be visited.

Took a bush path directly up the hill to the cache and found it without trouble. Signed log TNLN then went for a walk along the actual trail back down the hill to the buildings and machinery further along the road at the official start of the trail.

Nice view. TNLNSL

The plan had been to take the teenagers to Cable Park for a try at water skiing. We got there to find that it had been bulldozed for redevelopment. The only thing to do was to get the GPS out and see what the nearest cache was. After a quick visit to the coastal reserve nearby and a walk on the jetty, our host, Colin, drove us to within 180 feet of the cache up a track in his 4x4. I was despondent about the chances of finding the cache in the dense undergrowth, but luckily I soon spotted it. TN left a Scottish pencil. Thanks.

Good slog up the hill, forgot the camera. TNLN SL T4TH

Found quite quickly without a GPS and once we got there. It was a good trek up the hill. Also good views from the top.SL TNLN

Nice walk on a VERY windy day, almost had our three year old blown off the top of the hill!!

Took: Beads, baby toy and train game.

Left: Bubbles, spinning top and Koala.

After two attempts we found it on the third (mind you we rolled the dice and the second attempt by looking without a GPS - just worked on memory as to where the first visit directed us. As it was we looked in the wrong spot anyway).

Yippee!

Took the March Travel Bug. He sets off straight away for the north west.

Also took a squeezy ball and horse

We left: Star Wars figure, stickers and a chess game.

Hate looking for these things when under time constraints! Decided to a have a "quick look" on the way to dropping the kids off to school and my work.

Walked around and around and around and around with no joy! Damn those white rocks they look like white containers!

We will be back!

Great walk, great view.
T:Dog
L:Black horse

Decided this was a great spot to leave 'Calendar Bear' Bug. We gave him a Koala mate to share his travels. Hope they make it home together.

1st find for the day. Lovely view (except for the Power Station) Wonder what will happen to it in the future. Container is brittle and has split at the bottom. Contents all dry though.

TNLN Thanks for the find.

1850 hours and a beautiful sunset unfolding. Co-ords spot on using our trusty Magellan. Great hike, starting at a cosy looking open air cinema. Quick visit as park locks at 1930 hours in summer, so be aware. Amazing spots you get to with this game. We now need to cruise back to Bunbury, after a mixed day of gcing. Thanks.

Early morning start as a hot day is promised.

What a great park (never been here before) but it's a pity the lake is almost dried up at the moment.

Some good views too from the lookouts.

Found cache relatively quickly. Co-ords only about 4/5 metres out by my gpsr.

Took: Little koala.
Left: Shoe laces (2pr) & safety pins.

3rd of the day after the '2004 Awards' event cache. Found with a little bit of a search after a pleasant walk up from the car park.

TNLN T4TC

Matt

We had a short search to find the cache, as others commented the co-ords were a little bit out but not by more than 10m
TNLN T4TC
Zensunni ( Anne & Ken )

[:O)]

Dexter Ditto Were Here! Again...

Took a photo of the place at Sunset.

...a little of the mark, but not too difficult to find. Fantastic views and refreshing doctor.
TNLN

Found cache... co-ords slightly out, but only adds to the adventure!!! Excellent views!!! Took lanyard - left bubbleblower and our calling card. Thanks. 16:30

Getting to this cache was a bit of a mission on crutches but I made it OK. A relatively easy find after getting up there.

Great views.
TNLNSL
thanks Rose and Sharmane

Good view

Easily found and good view

Found after a short walk from the carpark. Great view. TNLNSN. Thanks for the hunt

Found at 13:24. We parked the car within 60m of the cache and walked straight into it. Took Cookie TB, left toy car and almost lost my hat (the wind was responsible for that)!

[:O)]

Dexter Ditto Were Here!


Took: Nil
Left: Cookie Catcher (TB)

Thanx 4 the exercise...

Family outing with neogeodaughters and shiny newish 4WD. So, had to come in the less frequented way from the sea side. Bounced up the hill, around the rubbish. And to think the view's going to be spoiled by reclaimed sea for canals! Parked at S 32 05.762 E 115 45.971. Walked in from there. Have been on this trail many times before, but as usual, completely unaware of the cache.
Worth a walk all the way round to check out the ruins buried in the bush west of carpark (the proper one by the lake).

T - paper clip/clamp, B bear keyring
L - Rubber face finger puppet, lanyard with Aussi flags

[This entry was edited by farkles on Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 6:22:24 PM.]

What a lovely place, will definately be coming back here in the summer for a bbq & bevvies! Had perfect winter weather for it and enjoyed the views once we found the cache. Glad we printed out the last 5 logs with this one as the co-ords are a bit out but once we realised it wasn't too hard to find...and it was being well guarded !
T:Padlock & plastic whistle
L:Bradley Bear keyring & green stone

[This entry was edited by The_Smiths on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 10:47:24 PM.]

Found @ 3:50pm
Do all tracks and trails lead up to a cache, at least after find the cache you walk down to the car. Saw lots of bird life here
Took Eye cover and Left koala.
Thanks Rose and Sharmane for a lovely walk. .

Found at 2025. I spent about 20 minutes thrashing around for about looking for it, but no cigar. The hint didn't shed any light on the matter, so I settled down to read the logs. "Wayne and Kathryn - Team Red Roo", to their infinite credit had posted revised coordinates. (I wish more people would do that instead of just reporting that the coordinates are wrong.)

The revised coordinates took me straight to the cache, and I found it easily.

IN: Small brass padlock
OUT: Butterfly

We walked up from the car park. Windy blustery day, the cache was sitting out in the open under the bush. It's out of the way but somebody could just wander down and see it so we put some rocks around it. Took: Soap & whistle Left: Sleeping mask and a paper clip fastener full of metal clips.

Great park and a pleasant walk to this one. Very cool day. Took nothing,left some stickers the kids will love.

Good Little Cache.
Great views.
A walk to keep you fit and healthy

Cheers,
The Hendersons from Kalgoorlie

We called in here on our way home. It was to be our last cache of the day, in a pleasant spot. After searching for about 20 minutes, I noted the new coords entered by Dakar on October 11, 2002 and entered them in the GPS. We found the cache without problem after that, walking right up to it. T: Customs Watch keyring, L: a Maccas Santa toy. Thanks for a great view.

Nice view didn't realise this place existed.
Travel Bug Solly visited briefly, but due to the close proximity of recent fires on both sides of the hill he opted to travel on towards cooler climate accomodation.

[This entry was edited by TEAM LANDCRUISER on Monday, February 02, 2004 at 7:02:22 AM.]

logging our coin

Found cache, took nothing left nothing, scared of bushfires.

Good view from the top of the hill. Fire on the eastern side of the hill in the last week - fortunately it did not reach the cache - or there would be no more cache.

2nd cache for the day, Parked on the easter side of the cache and walked the hill.. Left Sticker and took Something.. Man i dont remember... Too much TV in my time..

Second cache for the day. A nice walk up hill onto a really nice view of the ocean (and that abandoned building). Coords out to the west a bit, but the cache was found! Wot found it while I was looking at where my GPS had zeroed in... doh.
We left constable care sticker, left.. something. Can't remember.
Cache is in good condition.

Found it. First Gecache too. Lovely view from up there. Shame the lake was dry thou.

Thanks!

12.45pm. Varuna introduced Everlasting a new sport - geocaching. Found it perfectly. Took TB Bug and left stress ball. Beautiful view and lovely sea breeze. TBs Harpic Van, and Piget George are destined to the other cache. Thanks.

Accompanied Varuna to this cache and found it easily as it was my second one. It was fun and good walk up the hill and beautiful view and lovely seabreeze. TNLN. Thanks.

Dexter Ditto Were Here!

Took: Keywee (TB)
Left: Bugs (TB)

Thanx 4 the exercise...

Great walk up the hill and great views at the top.Passed a bobtail on the track. L;TB Keewee. T;N

It took us 2 attempts to find this one.
Beautiful view.It was fun!
Had to hide from alot of people
took nothing Replaced with a baby toy and KFC toy.
Simpson Family

Dexter Ditto Were Here!

T: Nil
L: Nil

Thanx 4 the exercise...

Dexter Ditto...

Been There Done That.

Took: Nil
Left: Nil

Thanx 4 the Great View! Sunset was great!




[This entry was edited by Dexter Ditto on Monday, September 29, 2003 at 9:51:55 AM.]

Nice walk up the hill, though my approach was from the sea side so there wasn't much parking. Had to fossick around a bit but did come up with goods. Thanks for the view. Took pate knife, left rope watch in zip lock bag (I pre-set the watch to WA time, so if your GeoKiddie is moving outside this zone and you can't figure out how to change the time drop me an email)

On a glorious winter's afternoon 20°C with a fantastic view over Cockburn Sound to Garden Island ... I found this GeoCache fairly easily. This was my first of five GeoCaches for today on my way back home from work.

Took 1* Elvis Travel bug ( great keychain btw ) and left a decorative Xmas baubled pate knife, retrieved from The Suitable OutlookA GeoCache on 27th July 2003. Also left our calling card.

The container is in good condition. Thanks.. The Trekkers

WA never ceases to amaze me with these fabulous parks and a machinery museum to boot. The walk was terrific up to the lookouts even with the brisk wind. I enjoyed this one.
I forget what I left and took the Scrooge McDuck figure.
Thanks

I enjoy a good walk as long as the ground is flat, I'm not into hills. So I was pleased to find a 4WD track off Cockburn Road that took me to within 50 metres of the cache. Quite a good view from the top of the hill, and as with Bitsumisin Didn't know this area existed, even though I know the Fremantle area quite well. Anyway found cache no problem, left badge with number 5 on it and took 1948 penny.

[last edit: 5/20/2003 2:07:30 AM PST]

More success with this one than ratsnest view which we tried the same day but without success. This one was smack on the co-ordinates according to my GPS although at the top of the hill, I saw the 4x4 track that would have got us within 20 metres of the cache without having to climb the hill. I grew up not 5ks from this place & never knew it existed.
We took the bottle opener for the camper (so we don't get caught again)& the hair clips
Left a silver pen and pocket puzzle.
We also left Sparky to continue his journey.

[last edit: 2/8/2003 5:28:07 AM PST]

Geez hadn't been here for years forgot how nice a place it was. Left another bottle opener(i've got a box full of em). Took party popper

The infamous five found this cache well hidden under the bush. Spectacular views. Found a shortcut up alternative path (only 5 mins walk). We took nothing and left a sunflower puzzle.

Found
great views of the ocean, took chicken, left some hair clips

11:40am ...Here we are on a nice quiet dayout with the family. Well it would have been except there was a festival going on in the park. So we found the cache and went along to have a bit of a party in the park. We took the Coin for our collection and added a finger puppet. Great views to the old power station.

This was found by the Gang minus Granny - mainly because Granny (aka half of The Pretenders) was actually there to check that the cache was adequately hidden. Once found (without my help!) they insisted on swapping items and logging it. Don't ask me what they took and put back but party poppers seemed to be popular!

[last edit: 10/25/2002 11:27:59 PM PST]

This was an easy find as the cache was lying out in the open (I would suggest that if you find the cache be careful to put it back under the bushes). Alex (Liam's freind) found his first cache. We put in Emperor Zurg, Chicken, Key Ring and took out the Chelsea sweatband, bird and a big fly (yuk).

Ian was itching to get out and get hunting so despite the fact that the sky looked grey off we set.
We found this one easily and had it not been for the showers of rain would have spent more time exploring this place. There are some great views and walks in a place that I would not have expected to find them.

S 32° 05.628 E 115° 45.983
Matthew was the first to find this one.
Lots of bushes around, and great panoramic views.
We put in gear from the 'Rockingham Rocks' cache.

[last edit: 10/11/2002 12:53:50 AM PST]

was the 2nd one to find this cache. got there about 6:00pm. nice views from the look out.