Looking down on Karratha town Millars Well, Western Australia, Australia
By longfella on 15-Feb-03. Waypoint GCD4D4

I have had to archive this multi until I get an opportunity to refurbish all the check points.

Found the spot quite easily but couold not find any aluminium tag. After some very thorough searching beneath rocks we eventually noticed some rusty tie wire on a branch of the tree. Is the the remains of the first clue?? Possibly a victim of the 2006 cyclones!

We are pretty sure the we found where the first waypoint should be but no aluminium plate. Will upload some photos of the tree that we think it might have been attached to as we found some wire around a branch also.

Brought The Letter to Australia TB for a quick visit.

While I'm not really happy with multi's that require the use of a vehicle, we decided to give this one a go, because the views expected should make it worth while. Each waypoint takes you just a little further north, until you get to the cache (an ammo tin). T: bumbag, L: a pocket tool and TB Sunny Sandgroper. Thanks to longfella for an interesting multicache and of course the views.

We all enjoyed this one but after Team Pathfinders last cache. we drove to all the spots. It was good bouncing allong all the spots. My Garmin Map76 handled the format changes easily.

Found the cache on Sunset and swapped out a Badge for a Baby Turtle.

I was trying to get back to the Burrup to track down a few more caches but I ran out of time!!

The cordinates were in a different format on the plates to our GPS and gave us some trouble.

The cordinates were in a different format on the plates to our GPS and gave us some trouble.

My brother’s boys went along for the ride as they hadn’t done 4WDing before so were curious to see what it was like. We weren’t expecting it to be a multi-cache as we hadn’t read the clues too well before we started. So from what we thought would take perhaps 30 minutes became 2 hours of hill climbing. We even drove past the army teaching its men (and Women) how to negotiate hard climbs in 4WD. Going by the skid marks in the track they should take the keys off them and let them walk next time. The coordinates are in 4 point decimal so as long as you know how to alter your GPS the cache tags are easy to find. It’s a Great fun cache to do if you want to find the high points around Karratha for a good look at the place. Don’t forget the Binoculars. Took Key ring and added fish straw.

The nor'west weather had faded the writing on the cache plates giving the details of the next stage. Cache plates were replaced (now engraved on alluminium) and cache checked 21 Feb 04. Looking Down on Karratha Town is good to go again.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention Bitsumishin. I am happy for you to log your effort as a find.

I wasn't going to log this one as officially I didn't get to the last cache point but as I place another bandaid on the scab formed as I came down that hill, I figure I deserve it. Thanks. Oh by the way, great views from the top once you stop puffing. Next time I'm up here, I'll have to hire a 4x4 or drive my own up if the boss will give me a few extra days travel time.

2nd cache I tried to locate today but again without access to the web, didn't realise it was a multicache. In a borrowed street car, I had to park a fair way off (600metres) & clambered all the way up the hill through the grasses & down the rocks (yes on my way up) only to find the plastic tag no problems at all but the sun had got to the figures for the next location & I couldn't read them. Alas back to the car & time now running out before I had to return to Perth

Excellent drive. Well Done! Took Tennis Ball, Left Pack Of Fuses.

Strategy : since this is obviously an excellent cache for some walking and climbing I would make sure the whole Team Pathfinder crew participated.
Therefore : Pick a time when Ian was in from work and Daniel home from school, part time job & urgent study AND the weather wasn't too hot for the geoterriers!!
Friday : 4pm.
Weather : Cooler than usual (hmmm!!)
Team : All members available - hooray.
Already not going good (exercise wise) since everyone else thought that taking the trusty 4 x 4 was better than cycling! Turned out to be a good idea after all.
I thought I could guess where the start would be - well it wasn't there! I am now glad we took the 4 x 4.
Heading to second co-ord. Had good sense to take the waterbottle with me! After the climb up carrying the laziest of the group - the 6yr old geoterrier I decided to split the team. I took the geoterriers on to where I thought the third co-ord would be whilst the rest of the team took the GPS and went down the hill to retrieve the car and meet me again. Lazy geoterrier now finds the energy to start pulling all the way!! I find that I was wrong on the 3rd co-ord and the rest of the team head up the hill again to tell me so. Oh well at least they got more exercise, and I did tell them to stay at the bottom and wave if I was wrong.
Off we go to the 3rd co-ord where one team member decides that the youngest human team member must have made a mistake with keying in and waits with old geoterrier whilst son heads off over the rocks with #2 geoterrier in pursuit and I tagging behind because I have the camera.
Son delights in finding 4th co-ords and letting #1 know he was wrong with his statement that all the other points where obvious!!! ha ha we are having great fun.
It is now 5.45pm and I just couldnt believe that the cache was over the road at the Golden Arches!! Oh well!! Off to the final location. A bit of a climb and right as the sun was setting there was the cache. Absolutely brilliant timing, and as usual a great cache.
We swapped the Guide Badge (I am a badge collector) for some sunnies and a turtle. Took heaps of photos as we had done along the route and then proceeded back to my favorite resturant to replace the lost calories. I must add that the last bit was probably not what Longfella had in mind when setting this spectacular route.