It's a bugs life Dog Tag

Sorry,
I don't know when I retreived it.
Today I will place your TB in another cache..
far far away from Singapore :-)

This was a nano cache so we were unable to drop off the coin here and the next nearest cache in Indonesia is an earthcache over 770 Kms away, so this is a little bit off the beaten track.

We are staying in Balikpapan for a week following a diving holiday on Derawan island, and this is our 1st cache in Indonesia, but will be stopping off in another country on our way back to Saudi Arabia so will attempt to drop the coin off then.

Derawan Island is located at N02 17.060 E118 14.816, Sangalaki, Maratua and Kakaban Islands are close by.

We have uploaded some photos from our Indonesia visit - hope you like them.

This entry was edited by me N u on Friday, 18 November 2011 at 11:39:50 UTC.

This is one of those areas we would never have thought of visiting if not for geocaching.

We developed this earthcache after finding the traditional cache (GCJ509)missing during a visit, it is an amazing area well worthy of having a cache but a bit off the beaten track.

Thank you to the gadgeteers for initially bringing us to this area.

A long weekend enabled us to plan a camping trip with a group of people from suadi geochers (www.saudigeocachers.com) to some of the more distant caches from home.

This site is close to an old caravanserai - in the days of camel travel, this was on the route from the west coast to the east coast of Saudi Arabia, these caravanserai are located near to water supplies and also provided a safe haven for travellers across the desert - the harshness of life out here meant that camel trains were targets for the local tribesmen.

This particular caravanserai was converted into a hunting lodge by the founder of modern day Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz Al Saud, it was so remote that a special airstrip was constructed nearby to enable him to fly a Dakota aircraft in and out. The buildings are currently being rrebuilt and are surrounded by a fence although the workers seem more than happy to allow visitors in.

A website with more information is http://nidalm.com/blog/travelography/the-ruins-of-old-muwaih/

This entry was edited by me N u on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 07:01:15 UTC.

Visited during a maintenance check attempting to find out who picked up a trackable and did not log it online.

Gecko cave got its name from the small lizards we found living here, the cave is on the banks of the Riyadh river close to a dam at Al Ha`ir, here the dam allows the formation of large pools in which we have seen catfish and turtles (terrapins?) as well as attracting fish eating birds. It is a rare area of greenery in the desert, sadly underdeveloped at present.