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 GC1Q3WA for this cache).
Due to the temporary nature of pens and pencils in my geocaches
BRING YOUR OWN WRITING IMPLEMENT!!!
I discovered this 25 Pounder Field Artillery Gun in the RSL Memorial Park in Brookton on 21 Feb 09 and claimed a find of GA1381 RSL War Artefacts/Memorabilia by MADSTARS at the time.
MADSTARS offers extra points for his cache if the finder also places a cache on the War Artefact, but I had left all my micro and nano containers on the desk in the study when I headed out on that trip
, so I couldn't place one at the time. I returned to the park on 15 Apr 09 on a cache placing trip to remedy the omission.
After a quick saturation check (nothing within 16.31 kilometres by my calculation) I hid a magnetic key container containing only a logbook somewhere in the gun. You will need to bring your own writing implement.
On 01 May 13 I wandered by on a maintenance run, confirmed the cache was missing, and hid a new magnetic Eclipse mint tin under the traversing ring. On 24 Jan 18 I wandered by on another maintenance run, confirmed the cache was missing again, and hid a new magnetic Eclipse mint tin, with log book, finders cards, two pencils, and a pencil sharpener.
The gun had seen service during World War II, and was purchased from the Army Supply Stores at Nungarin WA by Captain R.N.G. Meecham, who transported it to Brookton and donated it to the Brookton R.S.L. Sub-Branch for placement in the Memorial Park "In honour of those who gave their lives for their country".
Please treat this area with respect and take a moment or two to reflect on their service, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Lest We Forget
I agree with MADSTARS on the importance of introducing our children to the RSL's and telling them what the men and women of the armed services did for us and our country, and the freedom we enjoy today. I look to those geocachers who hunt in company with their children and/or grandchildren to further this aim, so that they too Will Remember Them.
This cache is included in my Mystery Cache GC1QYV5 WanAus 89 - Roaming Western Australia. There is an RWA number in the back of the log book. You will need to record this number in the format 75? (from WanAus 75 and ? for the RWA number) for future reference.
This is just a suggestion, but it may help you to keep track of the RWA 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 GC1QYV5 WanAus 89 - Roaming Western Australia.
If you are heading out to hunt down some of my more remote GC29MXD WanAus 179 - Discover Western Australia or GC1QYV5 WanAus 89 - Roaming 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.
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Congratulations to
Gecko3
on the First To Find. 
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