Due to my advancing age, I (and my doctor) am concerned about the possibility of my experiencing a medical situation while on the road to Maintain one or more of my 120 GC Geocaches and 50 GCA Geocaches.
If you live near this Geocache, or regularly travel near it, you might be interested in Adopting this Geocache (or more of mine). Please let me (WanderingAus) know by Message at
Geocaching Message Center
if you are interested, including the cache code or codes
(e.g GC27QB3 for this cache).
Due to the temporary nature of pens and pencils in my geocaches
BRING YOUR OWN WRITING IMPLEMENT!!!
The cache is not at the above coordinates, but they will bring you to a large parking area and the information shelter in the photo above. The right hand arrow points approximately to the style over the pipeline which leads to the Walk Trail. The left hand arrow points to the board with the required information on it, with NUMBERS against facilities. If a facility has a two digit number add the digits together to get one digit.
A = Ballidu Trading Post
B = Ballidu General Store
C = Ballidu Town Hall
D = Ballidu Tavern
E = Air Strip
F = Roman Catholic Church
G = Holy Trinity Church
H = Pioneer Cemetery
J = Information Bay
K = C.B.H.
The cache can be found at S30 AB.CDE E116 FG.HJK.
There is no need to bush bash, just cross the road, cross over the pipeline via the style, and follow the white wire embedded in the ground until the cache is 20 or so metres away at about 90 degrees from the track, and you can see the track circling back towards the start point. Should be an easy find in the obvious spot. Once you've done your thing you can continue along the wire back to the start point.
The cache is a drab camo'd 1 Kg screw-top fruit container. Contents are finders cards, log book, 2 pencils, pencil sharpener and a few small swaps. Be sure to screw the lid on tightly and re-hide it as found.
This cache is part of a series leading towards my GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia cache. There is a DWA number in the back of the log book. You will need to record this number in the format 146? (from WanAus 146 and ? for the DWA number) for future reference.
This is just a suggestion, but it may help you to keep track of the DWA numbers.
Every cache page has "*Personal Cache Note" *Click to enter a note, just above Geocache Description:
You could either add the code to each individual cache, or add all numbers to GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia.
If you are heading out to hunt down some of my more remote GC1QYV5 WanAus 89 - Roaming Western Australia or GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia caches, where the cache density is very low, why not consider taking a few prepared containers with you, stocked with log book and swaps etc, and when you spot one of those places that make you think "that would be a good place for a cache", place one of your own. Just check that there isn't a cache within 160 metres, and please don't place a micro in the bush where you could easily conceal an ammo box or Milo tin.
When trading items please consider trading up or trading even and leaving items that you would want to find, and please don't take the pen, pencils or sharpener. If you can't trade up or trade even I don't mind seeing TNLNSL in the log. Also please don't put the pen or pencils in the log book bag, it tends to destroy the watertight integrity.
Trackables (geocoins and travel bugs) are not tradeable items. Please feel free to take them without making a trade, but please leave a note in the logbook and your online log, and do log them online.