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, AND YOU HAVE FOUND THIS GEOCACHE, 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 GC29MXD 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 it is within 3 Km of that spot, somewhere within the Boorabbin Nature Reserve.
There is only one possible way to find the cache:
You will need the DWA numbers from the back of the logbooks for the following caches:
If you have already found WanAus 90 - Chevy Chase you do not need to find WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer.
If you found the genuine WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer prior to 7 Oct 2015, and had not found WanAus 90 - Chevy Chase, I will provide the required number once you have found nine of the other caches.
You should have recorded 6 three digit numbers from 80? to 92? (with some gaps), and 6 four digit numbers from 142? to 147?. Sort the numbers into numerical sequence and assign the third digit of each three digit number to the letters A through F, and the fourth digit of each four digit number to the letters G through L (that is, the DWA numbers from all the log books). The Checksum listed is the sum of all 15 digits for the final coords. Note that WanAus 136 - Merredin Howitzer MUST be listed as 90n because it is a substitute cache for WanAus 90 - Chevy Chase.
The cache is located at S31°1(J-F).(G*H)(A+F)(D+G-E)' E120°0(D-I).(B-K)(B-C)(L-D)'. Checksum 33.
The cache is a drab camouflaged cliplock inside a drab camouflaged open-ended Milo tin. It is hidden in an obvious spot somewhere within the reserve.
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.
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.