Sahara in Spring Black Hill, South Australia, Australia
By Liz and Bruce on 11-Sep-03. Waypoint GCGYHK

This location was a surprise - what great sun dunes. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC.

Found it during our holiday trip.This place is just unreal. We spend our lunch looking at all the contrast between the blue / white / yellow.At GZ quick find. Thanks to bring us thereTFTC +1 favourite point

Nice easy find
TFTC

With Kellmik, TFTC lucky I wore boot. Great looking at the wild flowers

Ok

Awesome - Thank you

Definitely a surprise spot. We loved the Desert Sturt peas all along the road in here. Quite a pretty spot. The locals weren't that keen to let us in.

Awesome spot - thanks for the cache.

just nearby night one camp, travelled from adelaide to here in day one. found a lovely location and have much enjoyed the journey so far. tftcsl

I did manage to upset a whole heap of kangaroos sheltering in the cool off the tanks before eventually making my way to the cache. Great location as the wind howled into the desert. TFTC

Found on our Googs Track and Gawler Ranges adventure. Wow what a pretty spot. In 50 years time the stock will turn it all into sand dunes . Thanks for placing a cache for us to find.

A beautiful spot we had fun exploring. We would not have stopped except for the cache.
So a big thank you Liz and Bruce

Found with friends on a 4x4 adventure. TFTC

15.05.19 tftc found while admiring sand dunes with brad&janet pest77 DJT65

Always good to get a older one. Drove to gz and made a quick find. Currently no water in the spring but took some pics.
Day 8
Kingooya to Mount Ive Station
This trip saw me travel to Maralinga to do the tour of the nuclear test site then up the Googs track, past Lake Gairdner on to Mount Ive Station, then in to the Gawler Rangers and finally hiking up Mount Remarkable before heading home.

We walked in although you could drive. Dune and lake combination is spectacular. Wanted more time to walk along dunes. The main road curls around to give various distant views of the formation.

A pleasant stop on our way from Kingoonya to Mt Ive. Thanks

What a lovel spot to take us to! Big lunette, little lake! Lots of poached egg daisies! Found cache at 11:50am. SL Took Rhino Left dinosaur. TFTC

Really enjoyed this one, and the little track into it. It was nice to get off the main road and enjoy the terrific views of the lake and dunes on offer here. Unfortunately had to get out of the car and brave the freezing northerly gale to collect the container. Great spot. Tftc

Found the little goat track to make this one a driveby. A fantastic view today with the cloud around but sun shining through and onto the dunes making them standout. A fav from us for bringing us here. TFTC

Found with e.gregory1 (previous finder) during an awesome trip that saw us traverse Goog's Track, visit some remote and desolate outback towns and tour the Gawler Ranges, camping out at Nalara Rock, Wymbring Rocks, Lake Gairdner and Lake Gilles CP. Thanks for the cache Liz and Bruce!

Found 4.30

Great view of sandhills & salt Lake.
Easy cache.

TFTC

Bit of a trek but all worth it because of the amazing scenery!

Found It!
It was dark by the time we got here so after getting a bit lost on the tracks in, we got to GZ and quickly found the cache. Then took the quick way back to the road!
TFTC

Found on a trip north with Anymules, Laighside legends and Moneydork, drove in dodging kangaroos and wound our way to GZ by quite a few tracks in the area before finding the easier one on the way out
TFTC Liz and Bruce

Great to pick up an old cache!

Thanks for the cache Liz and Bruce.
Found on 25 May 2018 at 6:27:50 pm.
Find #6540

Found as part of a trip to attend the TAR Centenary at Ooldea & then onto a Maralinga tour & home via the Gawler Ranges.
Awesome week, great countryside, cool caches - even better was the great mates along for the trip

Thanks for placing this cache for us to find

Called into this one with Team Astro as we headed back down from Kingoonya to Lake Gairdner to camp. The dramatic shadows on the dunes from the late afternoon sun were quite spectacular. Thanks Liz and Bruce for the cache.

The sun hitting the dunes was breathtaking!
Tftc

Spectacular location! TFTC

Wasn't sure which track led right to gz so we ended up parking about 400metres away and enjoyed the nice walk for a quick find
SVKR_WA and I are heading home to Perth after a great few days in Alice Springs for the red centre event. This is the second day and we ledt Coober Pery about 6.00am to try and get as many kilometres behind us as possible.

I can't wait to catch up with everyone again at
[WA GOES BIG 2017](https://coord.info/GC6TD11) in Rockingham, WA.
Perths big event is on again.
**See you there**.

Liz and Bruce - Kyzabra found your cache Sahara in Spring . The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache.!

We weren't sure whether to stop here but we are really glad we did. A really great location and an interesting container.

Travelling on the Road Trip to end all Road Trips. Kyzabra and I are travelling from Perth to Alice Springs (via the Great Central Road) for the Red Centre Experience Event over Easter. We are travelling in Kyzabra's GeoPajero and grabbing caches along the way of course.

Up and out before it was light this morning. looking to make Ceduna as out next stop.

Liz and Bruce - SVKR_WA found your cache Sahara in Spring on 18/4/17, 10:01. This is my find #2145 and find #7 today.

The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

what a nice day ! fine weather and a nice cache - Thanks for showing us !

Found at 4.00pm whilst heading back to Streaky bay after coming up Googs track.
What amazing dunes, well worth the stop. We almost drove over the cache.
Would liked to have camped here but there was no shelter from the wind.
Top spot
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Wow what a place. We would have stated but the rain is on its way

Picked this cache up on the way to the tip of Cape York from Bunbury Western Australia.
this is our first cache on this trip, as we are not stopping for too many caches due to lack of time.
All the same a wonderful place thank you. TFTC

Nice hide. Thank you for the fun from Sydney! We enjoyed finding this one (:

Our tour from Sydney to Ayers Rock took roughly two weeks. We can't reproduce which cache we've visited at what time any more. That's why we logged all of them at the same days, so don't be confused about that (:

*´¨) Thanks for the cache
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(¸.•´¸.•*(¸.•' Jim&Marissa

cache description threw us right off..... moral of the story trust your gps TFTC

We found this cache on our Northern road trip, which was to celebrate my significant birthday. We saw some great places, met some wonderful people and slept through some 3 dog nights. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and finding caches made the trip more memorable – Thank you and ……Joy to the World!!

Found it

What a beautiful, wonderful place. We would never have come in here except for the cache, so thanks very much for bringing us in here. Will award it a favourite.

Tftc. Sl. We drove into the dune area & walked up the top, what a fantastic spot.

Wauw what a view thanks for this birthday gift

12:13:00 PM
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Found during a break on our 2014 holiday.
TFTC

I saw one lonely patch of Sturts Desert Pea today on my way to the Sahara
Not knowing what the Sahara was, other than a desert on a different continent, I was surprised to see a miniature version of it appear in the windscreen [:o]

Oh wow !! The view across the watery lake to the sand dunes was speccy [^]

I left the geomobile at the 'dew tanks' and headed into GZ on foot
What a great place for a stroll.

At GZ the cache (which is no longer a 1lt bucket) was a nice easy find in its little hiding bush [^]

TFTC Liz and Bruce, and an excuse to get out of the car and wander through the Aussie outback at its best

On the tail end of a trip along Googs Track with Mount Lofty Ranges 4WD Club. Awesome spot for morning tea. SL & left a pencil. TFTC.

The Family and myself did Googs track over this Easter via Ceduna returning via Tarcoola, Kingoonya, Skull Camp tanks, Kangaroo well, Mt Ive station and iron knob. We found 20 or 30 finds whilst on our travels.

Quite spectacular, drove up to the dunes but decided not to drive them.
Thanks Liz and Bruce.
TNLN

A Great weekend away doing the Googs Track with good friends. Lots of different scenery and a lot of fun
We had a great time seeing some good ranges of different styles of caches

Thanks for putting these caches out for us to find Liz and Bruce

great views and a lonley location

What an awesome spot, found it with Googs Group, tftc

After doing a drive past the tanks to the lake, we back tracked to the road, eventually following Firesafe down the right track to the lake .
WOW! Those dunes look spectacular ! After all the white sand we'd been crossing over the last couple of days, these dunes look right out of place [B)].
Wish we had more time to walk across and climb them, but it looks like we'll have to come back another time to do so [^].
TNLNSL. Container looking in good condition.
Thanks for bringing us here Liz & Bruce.

We were headed to the West Coast for the Googs 2013 trip grabbing a few along the way.

Wow. TFTC.

What a beautiful spot. Glad we don't see too many Sahara's in .au Pic attached. We eventually found the track in. Yep, there IS a track. pics attached.

Found with the fun and company of the Goog's Group on my getting reacquainted with Goog's Track trip. I'd last been to Goog's in 2003 so the revisit was well overdue. Dunes, corrugations, lizards, birds and beautiful country was the reward. Weather was mostly perfect, as were the campfire meals and star bounty at night, every night. GG members included M's Piggy (Babe), Tk2, Disk, Team Waldron, Gum-Ako, FireSafe, honeysucker and Freddo. Thanks for their amazing company under the many clear skies we had

TFTC to Liz and Bruce from TeamAstro.

Revisited this one to check it out after camping at Twin Tanks back up the road. All's well here Liz & Bruce!

Boxer found this cache whilst travelling with a group of Vietnan veteran mates, on what we called "Pedros toughen up tour."We travelled west to Ceduna and then north up Googs track, which was a real adventure on its own.We then headed east to Tarcoola and then south to Iron Knob, then home to York Peninsula.We slept under the stars,taking six days to do the trip. Finding caches along the way was a bonus and it gave us a break from driving. Thanks for the hide.

Nice views. Left with a smile behind

Came home to Whyalla from Coober Pedy via this route - what a fantastic drive!
Thoroughly loved it - an awesome outback experiance. thanks Liz and Bruce.

Wrong track in but we eventually got there.
TFTC

It certainly did look like the Sahara desert as we approached the cache site. It took a couple of goes to find the right access route in, and even then ended up bush-bashing for a while.
The cache container was cactus and disintegrated almost as soon as I touched it. I replaced it with the only available spare I had, and whilst it should last many years, is somewhat smaller than the original and I had to roll the logbook up to fit it in (see pic).
I have to admit that I was tempted to put the new container over in yonder tree, but resisted the urge and left it at the original location, in the middle of nowhere [^]. Cheers guys .

Walked down to the lake and found it on the way back

TFTC

Sahara it was, Spring it wasn't!
Found nearly 24 hours after schedule, after a 150k detour and enforced sleepover in Kingoonya.
Just before the turnoff to the cache we came across a severely crippled car with 2 distressed muggles and no phone reception. We then took on the guise of Good Samaritans and took them further north, while the rain picked up apace. We ended up enjoying the pub's dinner and accommodation while the rain contined to fall. Next moring off we set with some trepidation and had a very hairy trek back on quite flooded tracks - and the rain continued to fall...
The cache was finally found after hoofing it in quite a way, returning to the car somewhat wetter and somewhat fitter... so all's well that ends well.
Thanks for the hunt Liz and Bruce.

Another pleasant stop on our extended caching tour of this remote area. We saw a couple of Sturt's Desert Peas nearby. The dunes looked lovely in the morning sun.

What a surprise to see those dunes in the distance.

We were heading to Kingoonya at the end of our Gawler Ranges trip.

TFTC

Certainly a surprise, masses of multicoloured wildflowers, and a sparkling lake framed by enormpous pristine sand dunes
A terrific spot
Thanks for bringing us here

This was a good location,bit of a surprise really.Our young driver did a great job getting us here,I was very impressed with her skills for someone who had not done much driving on this type of country. We replaced the cache container and put in a new log book, had to remove a few of the gifts left as my container was not as big, hope thats ok.TFTC

Had this in the GPS for a few years and hadn't read the log on here to see the cache needed a new container, however the good news is the cache can be located but the container is completely destroyed and will also require a new log book.

We found what is left and gathered it into one place.

TFTC

Found and Signed on our way home from Darwin. This container is finished and will need to be totally replaced.

CAN THE NEXT VISITOR REPLACE THE CONTAINER.

Great views. Very windy. Cache container has seen better days and needs replacing.

Great views. Very windy. Cache container has seen better days and needs replacing.

Great views. Very windy. Cache container has seen better days and needs replacing.

Late logging this one after our PDA died with all our info on, but our mapping helped us out, just took a while!
Found on our way back home after our Kimberley trek and a detour north. Container was very bad and needs replacing, but we had no spares with us after nearly four months on the road. TNLN, then went up past the tanks and camped for the night on the top of the hill with fantastic views towards the Sahara like sandhills. Thanks.

Found the cache and then stopped at the nearby tanks to take advantage of the shade and have some lunch. TNLNSL TFTC

Time: 1215
Items in: Nil
Items out: Nil

Last one for the day, heading home after doing Googs Track with the EEP4WD Club. What a trip and what a spot to finish off caching for the day. Great view of some wonderful sand hills. Had to be carefull as there were muggles at the bottom of the sand hills. TFTC
T - TB
L - Tennis Ball

just been up to town to check the pub was open, it was. See the many tracks from some other, very coragous. A short walk fixed the problems, some others had.
TN
L - TB red Jeep
SL

Lovely lunch spot and a great break for the kids

T marble
L Goat
TFTC

Another nice little detour on my way home from Alice Springs!
Being spring as well it was nice to see the Sturt Desert Peas in flower everywhere in the area as well.
Container lid was badly damaged so TN L a lizard and a new container (1L ex fruit)
Cheers, TFTC.

We tried to find this on the way tro Kingoona but we had some issues with the GPS and it had us way off course. Ended up getting bogged and about 1 hour later we left without finding it. The family had had enough. It was a nice area though and we saw the dunes. Very dry.

Thanks for the stop anyway, i enjoyed the experience.

Found on route north to Kingoonya. Beautiful spot although no flowers this time of year. Took scourer as we had just lost one and left a magnetic clip.SL Thanks for showing us this place Liz and Bruce.

Found on way to Kingoonya with kggy. Our teens loved these dunes .. spent quite some time photographing them and generally enjoying the spot. Many thanks. Took bowls measure Left marble & 2c coin.

Found this cache when I was still a member of Beakers Bunch.
Thankyou

Another FTF for us!!!
Wow... what a perfect spot for breakfast. A magical location, with much to see and take in. Unfortunately we didn't get here when all the wildflowers were out, so i'll have to come back here again some other time. We almost ran over the cache, but luckily missed it. An easy find in a pristine place.
TNLNSL
Thanks Liz and Bruce for bringing us here.
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