Logs for le velo rouge 

Cute!
I had already given up, but remained sitting for a while, when suddenly my eye fell on it... Hang on, what is that?

Thanks!
Le Velo Rouge 

Found it easily. Thanks!
TNLN
Le velo rouge 

Just passed by to drop off a Travel Bug (Stitch) before catching the boat back home to Switzerland. 

I found the cache easily, even though my GPS couldn't really make up it's mind about the position first. I took TB Stitch with me. But I'll have to log him later, as I haven't got him with me right now. Sorry.

Le Velo Rouge 

Yep, those stops are always welcome to stretch my legs, even when riding down those endless roads on my pushbike.
I dropped a TB, that really wants to travel to Kalgoorlie, but I had been there earlier, and I surely won't go back there again. Too far on a pushie...

And oh yes, it's an absolutely wonderful time of the year to do this cache, with all the orange whats-their-name (some vertecordias) flowering. Beautiful!

Cheers,
le velo rouge 

Found this with my sister, introducing her to geocaching. TNLN
 

We came to Rottnest to run the Rottnest Marathon on the day after.

We took the TB and left a voucher for a beer or a glas of wine at the Underground Backpackers in Northbridge.

Cheers,
Le Velo Rouge 

Easy to find with the additional hint.
There was a Quokka right next to it, and a snake not far from it.

The papers inside the box were pretty wet despite the plastic around them. 

It took me a while to log it, but I found it. I was running a bit short on time, so I skipped a few of the hints by doing the maths with a bit of guesswork. It worked out alright.

And hey, guess what! Coming from Switzerland I have found this cache without using any plane, train or automobile. A bicycle and a number of boats did the trick for me.....

A little odd, isn't it.

www.levelorouge.ch 

How pleased I was to be the first to find this one after an exciting 12-day journey along the Great Central Road (or Outback Highway) on my pushbike.

But all the honour really goes to Dr Laver who gave his name to this town and did pretty much what I did, but coming from the other side and - I lift my hat - already back in 1896. He came here from Coolgardie riding his bicycle through the bush. What a brave man!

www.levelorouge.ch

PS: Sorry for logging it far too late. 

The batteries of my GPS went flat just after finding the second last cache on the Outback Way (Mulga Breakaway). But I am pleased to know now, that I wasn't far from finding it even without a GPS.

I tried to work out its position on the map. And when I thought that I had travelled about the right distance from the last cache I looked out for a dead falcon, and found one indeed lying upside down about 50 in the bush. I was convinced it must be there and had a good look into it and in all the bushes around it for almost an hour, without any success. I was a bit disappointed not finding it. But with the Quarantine Station hint I probably could have made it to the right falcon. When I got to the QS I actually hesitated to have another look at some of the cars there, but decided to dismiss the idea of finding that cache without the GPS.

My dead falcon is of the station wagon type, upside down, light blue and if I remember right about 2 or 3 kilometers further north from the QS on the left. It's actually not easy to identify it as a Falcon, but when you lift the door of the open boot (lying on the ground as the car is upside down), you can still see by the differently faded paint, where once the name Falcon would have been attached to it.

So if this cache needs to be relocated and the quarantine people only want to move the cars around the QS, this could be an alternative, keeping the significance of the name.

www.levelorouge.ch
 

Wow! Somebody has found this cache before me! After having found only empty logbooks along the Outback Way I surely was relieved, not to be the first to find this one.

And Wow! What a great location! I had hesitated to set up my tent a few kilometers earlier already, but then decided to still go for this cache. A spot on place! Absolutely beautiful and stunning. I was very happy to set up my tent here and enjoy the colours of the breakaway with the setting sun. Thanks! 

Yep, I was the first to find this one, too!

Thanks

www.levelorouge.ch 

Even though I would have cycled a couple of hours before getting here, the roadhouse was still closed. My watch was still set on Central Australian Time, which made it easier to get up early.

Anyway, this cache nicely kept me busy while waiting 20 minutes for the roadhouse to open. The next ice cream being about 230km (read 2,5 days) away, I was not going to miss out on giving me a bit of a treat here.

www.levelorouge.ch

PS: sorry for logging it so late 

Nicely hidden away. It's the only cache along the Outback Way, where I swapped something. I left a Balinese Surfboard and took the Australian Parakeet (or so) instead.

Thanks,

Le Velo Rouge 

Yep, I had found the finch. Not much more to add.

FTF. TNLN.
TFTC

www.levelorouge.ch 

There were indeed a few camels just up the road and again a dingo sneaking around the water pond, just when I came back from the cache. 

I was a bit disappointed not to find this one, the first one I couldn't find along the Outback Way. But there are certainly a lot of rocks to hide a cache here and I didn't search around for too long. I prefered going back to the day use area, where I had met another cyclist, travelling the other way.

There is also good water and a shelter with a very nice painting, which is worth a visit, too. 

The desert oaks certainly are fascinating trees with quite beautiful cones. I met a lizard when parking my bicycle on the side of the road.
A grader just came past on the other side of the road, with the driver probably wondering, what I was looking for here out bush.
TNLN 

I popped into the weather station after signing the logbook, and found that I would statistically have the wind with me in the mornings and against me in the afternoon. The statistics proofed to be right for quite a few days along my way. There are also some great paintings of what's his name at the weather station's little museum.
I grabbed some fresh water and an ice cream at the roadhouse before setting off west again.
TNLN.

 

This was my last cache of three along the Outback way today, after just over 7 hours of cycling. I set up my tent in Giles Creek, next to the cache. But it turned out to be less romantic and more adventurous than intended, with a dingo sneaking around my tent all night. Only in the morning I realized, that I had camped within a few meters only of the dingo's hole.

Just as a comment: The cache is theoretically too far off the road to be accessible with an ordinary transit permit, which asks to stay within 30 meters of the road. But it does offer great views!
 

I was a bit surprised to be the first one to find this cache.

There were so many rocks, I didn't find it at first. I almost gave up and thought, well, if I were to hide a cache here, I think I would hide it there - and there it was...

The road out here from Yulara is very sandy, so be prepared for a long trip. I had to push my bicycle several times for several kilometers, and spent two nights along the way. My second camp I set up about 15km east of Lasseter's cave, after I'd got stuck in the sand once more. Interestingly enough, it says at the cave, that Lasseter's camels bolted about 15km east of the cave, which then would have been close to where I camped.

 

indeed a perfect view to WA...
TNLN 

Just popping in after my visit to Uluru and before heading on to Perth.

I brought back to the traditional owners a piece of Uluru, that I had taken with me 15 years ago, when I visited that place as an exchange student. Almost 15 months I had been carrying it on my bicycle from Switzerland across Asia, to the place it belongs. It was a great moment coming back, walking around Uluru and give this piece of rock back, and then going around Uluru once more on my bicycle. It was like the end of a long pilgrimage.

Now that the rock is back home, it's me who has to find my way home... It's a loong way.... 

I was here the day before, without finding it. But on my way out to Simpson Gap (by bicycle of course), I tried again, and found it, without much trouble, as I had a look at the name again in the meantime. A really nice way to hide a cache...

The cycling track to the Simpson Gap, by the way, is a really good experience and definitely the best way of visiting that place. I have been cycling two month through the outback (Gibb River Rd, Tanami Rd, Great Central Rd), but I think that cycle track was something really special, the way it nicely ondulates through the bush and across the dunes, without flatting them out. And the landscape has a bit of everything (floodways, bush, flats, dunes, rocks, trees, etc.), but at a smaller scale. Really good, a must-do if you spend a few days in Alice.

 

found it...! 

When I went there first, looking at it from a distance, I mistook the cache for something else, so I had to go back again, and finally found it...... 

It is indeed an interesting place to visit. I dropped TB Globetrotter Willy Notter, who has travelled from the Gibb River Road across the Tanami Desert, took nothing.

After putting back the cache, when picking up my bag, a lizard ran over it, which just made me decide to pop into the center as well, and it was really worth it.

Thanks! 

I guess the idea was not, to jump over fences to get there, so the way out turned out to be somewhat easier, and I saw a couple of roos jumping away.

TB Airwin Laemmli, which I wanted to pick up was not there anymore... so TNLN 

My first micro-cache, and what a nice one! Interesting, that I keep bumping into this artist in Australia...

The little logbook is nearly full, might need some additional pages... 

Coming off the Tanami I just popped into this one before entering Alice. Nice place for a cache. Thanks! 

What a pity! Just four days before this cache was put here, I had checked in Fitzroy Crossing about any cache along the Tanami Road, but couldn't find any.

So I passed on my pushbike (yes, the Tanami Road, including Wolfe Creek Crater, is also possible to do on a bicycle, but you have to be a little keen, I admit.... see www.levelorouge.ch) only a few days later, on the 26th.
Would have been good to sign this one, too, after fighting my way through to the crater across the corrugations and sand patches....

But even without this cache, it was well worth going there I reckon. 

foundit!  

Cycling along the Gibb was certainly more of a challange than finding this cache. But it made a nice little change of ideas after all those corrugugugations....

Thanks for putting it there.

I took Willy Notter with me, in exchange of a geocoin, but I will try to drop it somewhere along the line, before returning home to Switzerlan......

LeVeloRouge.ch 

Nitmiluk is spectacular, but the cachelocation isn't... That's a bit of a pitty, but at least every one gets a chance to grab it.

Through the sticky bush across the boulders and little search around, I finally found it. Strangely, it helped to turn off and on my GPS, which gave me a slightly better indication.

Hey, why not make a cache, for which you have to hire a canoe? That should be great! 

Nicely hidden, but would be better to have some good shoes for the bushwalking.

I dropped of Muck the Duck (TB) here. He just wanted to have a bit of relax after his epic trip by bicycle and boat from Bali. He'll certainly enjoy the company of the ducks and gooses nearby...

I took a travelcoin in exchange.

le velo rouge 

Took nothing, left nothing. Just signed the book, and cycled back to Stuart Highway.
Le velo rouge 

it's a nice cache to do by bicycle. Even more so, as the food on site is delicious. You might need it after the little climb...