Collie railways Collie, Western Australia, Australia
By crabzy11 on 16-Apr-22. Waypoint GC9RCNN

Thanks for the cache ! Found it quickly with the hint

Find number 14177 at 11:39:49am on Thursday the 26 September 2024We're on our way to WA Goes Big, travelling from Croydon (Melbourne, Victoria) with a caravan in tow and making a leisurely caching holiday across the Nullarbor and back.Well, WA Goes Big is done for another year and we are on our way home again now, via Perth, Kalgoorlie and the Nullarbor but slowly over the next five weeks Today we are off on an LGA hunt, heading south from Dawesville and travelling through the currently unlogged LGA's of Collie, West Arthur, Williams, Boddington and Murray, plus a side trip into the Thrombolites and the giant, Jyttes Hytte.No where to park so I double parked in near the mens shed and raced across for a quick find and back before anyone knew what was going on (even the misses still sitting in the car).**Thanks for placing this cache crabzy11**---*WOW, so much happening at home in Victoria*Dont forget to log your will attend for Victorias first ever Block Party in March 2025, the [**The Sunbury Event**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).Theres also all those lists of amazing geocaches at [Geocaching Victorias List webpage]( https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists), go check them out.

Thank goodness the nice man helped us find it!!

Is there any more hints please

Took a second attempt but found it ! Tricky one but enjoyed the challenge

Found this one while in Collie seeing Mr dimors Uncle and Aunt.A nice findTFTC

Nice hide and I finally railed it.

Found easily while chatting with a nice bloke restoring the train cars.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 45 - Collie day. It rained all night and it rained on and of fall day. I spent lots of time in the car waiting for rain to ease and way too much time running back to the car as the rain got too heavy. I am rally impressed by the ground drainage, some of the dirt tracks I went on were great despite all the rain. It was a difficult day, A few more DNFs than I would have like, but I did get to visit quite a few very interesting places and the tourist drive along the river was amazing. In the end I just went home and cooked dinner and watched TV, a bit unusual for me on a trip.Back in town and a big bit of kit in front of me, even with an idea of which one to look on, there are lots of spots. I reached in and felt all over the place. I was happy when I did feel it, much bigger than expected, but nice to find.Thanks for the cache crabzy1147634.18 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 Movember Green A#268**Albida**

Tftc. Left hubby inside checking out the carriages and talking to the locals

An easy find TFTC

Found it

idk where it us

Found with miska.pen log signed as pat + mariska.Thanks for the cache

Found with Just_pat thank you for the find!

Reading logs helped, neatly tucked away and the hint helped alot!Arrived at Lake Kepwari yesterday to clean up Collie and an LGA that was somehow missed in all our travels around here. Lovely town with some great history and some great campsites to boot!Thank you crabzy11 for placing and maintaining Collie railways for us and others to find and enjoy!

Easy easy first geo cache

We walked across to this cache while waiting for our pizza. Plenty of good hidey spots on this carraige, but a fairly quick find after searching a few possibilities. Worked out good timing as our pizza was just ready when we returned! Thanks for the cache.

Quick find by 9yro

Great hiding spot

Nice hide

Thanks

Found during a caching tour from Collie to Bridgetown, Boyup Brook and Arthur River, then south along the Albany Highway. Very impressed with the exhibits here. Thanks for the cache crabzy11!

A great team effort by team Tyrrell. My son found the location due to the hint. Thanks for placing this one.

Nothing there

This is a great hiding spot!

TFTC. Interesting spot.

Found with Dozenmater,TFTC

TFTC- found with rainygirl74

Jabs

TFTC

Was harder than i thought but finally found it

this one took a while because of the duplicating of the hint, learnt a lot about the construction of these old carriages enjoyed the challenging and rewarding find TFTC TNLN

TFTF

A quick find once we were in the correct location and looking from the correct angle. Hint is very handy!

Thanks for find #4604
TNLN

After hunting down the caches around Cardiff we headed back into Collie for some lunch. We wanted one cache in town before we grabbed lunch and we decided on this one. I must admit it brought back some good memories hunting down this cache, I was stationed in Collie in the 90s as a train driver, they have done a wonderful job here. A brief search and the cache was spotted and we soon had our names added to your log. We returned your cache back to its place of hiding. TFTC crabzy11

A day trip to Collie and nearby areas for some smilies on our map. After Cardiff and Lake Kapwari we come into town for some lunch at the local bakery before heading towards home. A smilie for Collie with this one and thanks for this nifty hide but also showing us this wonderful historical feature of the town. Look forward to visiting again.

Passing through town as I walk the Bibbulmun track and had to grab a cache. Saw this one as I was headed to my accommodation and once at GZ made a quick find.

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Nice location

Quick find with the use of our mobile camera TFTC

hollowfrog & I are homeward bound after completing a section of the LGA's & we almost have 100 caches logged. So lets hope the rain holds off & we can reach the target

plenty of hiding places here but we lucked out pretty quick & a TB to boot. We will taking you travelling, new friend. Thanks for the find.
SL R&R

A travel bug was hidding in this cache. SL R&R

Thanks for placing this cache for us to enjoy. I wouldnt have ventured in here to expolore all the old rail machines if not for the cache. After fumbling around I found the cache larger than I expected and well tucked away. Favourite point added

Needed the clue as the gps was a fair distance out

TFTC nice hide. Left TB ‘party girl’ to continue on her travels

Came across for more trail, waiting for the guys in the mens shed, great cache thanks take care

Good one

Love the clue! Thanks!

Found with Geotrekky. TFTC

TFTC good little tucked away hiding spot, found with MAP194 and GeoDax

The clue was helpful in a location like this. Thanks crabzy11 .

Ein Traum geht in Erfüllung - der alte Hobbit wandert den Bibbulmun Track komplett von Nord nach Süd. Ehrensache, dass der ein oder andere Cache geloggt wird. Tolles wundersames Land - wie auf einem fremden Planeten.

The clue was very clever. Great location. It still took a us a few minutes to find it.

Good cache easy!

Today TaurusSix and I were on a mission to complete the LGA Series finally. We estimate that it has taken us six or seven goes all of which we have thoroughly enjoyed. We stayed in Boddington for the weekend and yesterday we completed the various remaining stretched from the Boddington end. Today we needed to complete the final stretch from the Williams end, Zilko Road to be exact, there were 49 left to find . We started the day with a leisurely breakfast from a lovely cafe in Booddington before making our way there. Another overcast day but a bit warmer than yesterday and not so breezy, ideal for geocaching. The final 49 caches took us just less than three hours.

A big thanks to the Fellowship Of The Trail for placing and maintaining this series for geocaching pleasure. We will add a couple of favourite points to the final few logs as a token of our appreciation.

Because we were on 49 cache finds for the day and we like even numbers we collected just the one in Collie on the way back to Bunbury TFTC Crabzy11

Found. Came in the dark after dinner. All good with the cache.

Ok

TFTC

I like the easy ones neet

Good hide.
Group find

Camping at Potters Gorge for a few days, we headed out for another day of adventure & this was another cache found on our journey... After some lunch in town we wandered over to find this one which took us way longer than it should have duh!

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On a very chilly and drizzly day travelling through Collie on the way to Bunbury. Stopped for a coffee at the rail car then grabbed this find. Thanks crabzy11

Stopped in collie for a coffee- this was the closest cache so we walked over and found it Tftc

Stop in collie for a coffee so a quick cache was a nice addition. Thanks got the cache!

Found it in between showers. Great spot.

TFTC

After doing my shop I decided to grab this one took me little longer then should of but found in the end. TFTC

Scottie starts its journey

Tricky

Thanks for the hide crabzy11; this baby is in great shape eagerly awaiting visitors. We popped a TB on board so hopefully it starts a significant journey. Enjoyed the search.

Two muggles working on the trains nearby decided to wander over for a chat about the trains so have to log a DNF...
Well worth checking out the Railway Museum if it is open when you are there.

Great size. Well hidden. Fave

Awesome quick fine here. But a worker came and queried what was going on. After explaining he was happy. Thanks

As I approached GZ a couple of chaps who were working on a rail truck asked me if I was looking for "That Thing". Apparently I had just missed a fellow cacher whom I passed on my way in as they were leaving. This person had given the chaps a lesson on the art of geocaching, it seems. I was disappointed not to meet this person, as I love finding other people who share my passion. This cache was found speedily.

Final day of another great WAGB weekend away and we started slowly around Bunbury meeting up with everyone to say our farewells before finishing the pack and hitting the road for home.
I took the long way home checking out next years location and grabbing caches and labs along the way.
A couple more close to home and the day was over with 15 finds, 9 adventure labs & 0 DNF’s.

Thanks crabzy11 for placing Collie railways for me and others to find.
I added my name to the log at 12:04 on 6/6/2022.
This is find number 5199 for me.

Cheers crabzy11 for another find during WAGB22. The Micks crew were here!

Found by Team MICKS- Meme28, I C Nothing Cirrus_Wa, Kapelula and Sir Fancy are on the road again for another fun weekend of caching. All caches found easily and in good condition. Thank you for placing.

Found as team MICKS.

Cache in good condition.


This is my 2767 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)

Grabbed this one heading home from a big weekend at WAGB. Signed as MICKS. TFTH!

First visit on our way from WAGB 2022 to the nearby CITO was in vain.
However after chatting to a friend at the event and becoming more enlightened, Boyzrule5 brought me back here later and I was able to locate this tricky one.
Thanks Crazby11, clever hide, it’ll never get damp in there.

We all went to this one for me to find. Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache.

We all went to this one and Gwawr found it. Log signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache.

Found during WAGB22 weekend on our way to a CITO event in Collie. Made one circle before spotting the cache’s hiding spot and was surprised to find the cache larger than expected for such a hide.

An epic adventurous days caching in and around Collie for WAGB22
Thanks for the caches.

Nice hide. Tftc

Down in Bunbury for WAGB2022
Myself along with geo daughter coliver95 and her geo partner bigill95
We found your cache and signed it and returned it waiting for the next cacher to arrive
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Thank you for the cache crabzy11!
Teamed up with ullyssia for our third day of the WAGB long weekend. Our focus today was several trails East of Bunbury and any other cache on our way to Collie for the CITO. We picked up some rubbish along the way and we had a bag full by the time we got to Collie. All the caches were quick finds. Nice to run into a few teams in our travels!

Thank you! In Bunbury for WAGB 2022. Today papillon367 and I cached on back roads and scenic drives to Bunbury to Collie and back. Happy to make the find here.

I would’ve given the Boulter Heights in Bunbury a favourite point - it’s a Banger! But was never released! It’s a heaps better than this one.

Day 7 of WAGB22 Week, out to Collie around with some more infill through Bunbury and Dalyellup.
Today amassed 57 finds, 7 FTF’s and 1 DNF (fire had been through the area)

Thanks to all the CO for setting up and maintaining their hides. Sorry about the generic logs.

Down around Bunbury like many others this weekend for WAGB. Out with Allied-Oz, And ChickenHawk07 grabbing random caches around town on our travels before heading to the CITO.

Bumped into the PPS here which led to a quick find.

Many thanks to crabzy11 for placing and maintaining Collie railways. I was here at 11:35 am on Sunday and this is my find 10042.
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In Collie for the CITO. Thanks for the hide.

How could I resist the call of "WAGB 22"

This will be 9/9 attended WA Goes BIG events for me and my daughter. How things have changed, she now drives herself to the event to get a little freedom from the foolishness now and then.

So many fond memories from all these BIG events, well done to the volunteers who put in so.much effort to make these things happen, so we can all enjoy a superb caching event.


Looking forward to what this year brings in Bunbury and the surrounding areas.


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Day three of WAGB22 today's plan... some light Caching. A few select caches this being one of them.

Out for the day to grab as many as we can on the way to todays CITO on board are myself and Kyzabra .


Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache crabzy11 you help make the game what it is today, cheers

2nd time here and finally made the find. It's not quite so difficult with no school kids constantly walking over the bridge! TFTC ??

Found on day 3 of our WAGB caching long weekend.
A voice from above helped us here.

TFTC crabzy11 this is find #13665 for us.

Tftc

Hint had me running round the location but cache in hand after a while. TFTC ??

Another yellow smile at WAGB22. Tftc

A quick find here with Deefa71 on Day 3 of the WAGB22 weekend. Thanks to all the COs who've placed and maintained these hides. Tftc

Nice quick find on our way to the CITO on Collie. TFTC crabzy11

In Collie for WAGB 2022 with Cybergran V, second visit between events; the first has an elderly railway muggle do we had a great chat. We needed a little help from a friend for the second visit, thank you Hunterzed?? TFTC