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
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if you are interested, including the cache code or codes
(e.g GC1DMAK for this cache).
Due to the temporary nature of pens and pencils in my geocaches
BRING YOUR OWN WRITING IMPLEMENT!!!
When I told 3BlindEyes I was heading off on my regular 6 month trip around Australia he suggested I should place a cache at Three Ways. TeamGeoPlesk beat me to it by placing the Geocaching Australia (GCA) cache SRRR - Threeways. This cache is a couple of hundred metres away near a memorial to John Flynn.
The Very Reverend John Flynn (1880-1951), Presbyterian minister and missionary, first visited the Northern Territory in 1912 at a time when the inland two-thirds of Australia had no minister of religion, no doctor, and no nurse.
Flynn was deeply concerned by this. To overcome the lack of medical facilities, he proposed a string of nursing homes across the inland. He was made Superintendaqnt of the Australian Inland Mission and in 33 years founded 15 widely scattered hospitals, including Adelaide House in Todd Street, Alice Springs, the first hospital in Central Australia.
But Flynn saw that only radio and fast, efficient transport would really overcome the inland's vast distances. At a time when his ideas seemed wild and revolutionary, he developed a scheme which combined aircraft, radios and medicine to provide a mantle of safety for inland people. The establishment of the Royal Flying Doctor Service was mainly due to his vision and energy.
The first Flying Doctor base was established in 1928 at Cloncurry in Queensland. Today there are 12 such bases serving some 2,200 radio-equipped outstations scattered over 70% of Australia's land area.
My thanks to thelandlockedsailor for replacing the damaged cache container with a one kg plastic fruit jar.
My thanks to MrsRoosta for providing a temporary replacement mint tin.
The cache is a drab camo'd 2 litre plastic screw top container, placed inside an open ended drab camo'd 1 kg Milo tin, and covered by numerous rocks to protect the plastic container from fire.
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.
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.