Geocaching Australia

My brother and I were driving from Brisbane to Toowoomba in November last year and did a few caches that were close to the highway. There was one at the big pink elephant (I forget the location name) that I was having some trouble finding so we were shining a torch around (was about 8pm) trying to f...

I once found a cache sitting out in the open and it's hiding place had been destroyed by a recent flood. It was lucky the cache hadn't been washed away. I picked the cache up and returned it to it's owner. I was on the way to an event that the cache owner was also attending so it was easy. Given a s...

Hi UncleRoo, I'm just about to move to Jabiru, but it may only be for a few months. I have one friend who caches, but not quite as often as I'd like to. I'll be back in Darwin every few weeks so if I'm suffering cache withdrawal and head back to town for a caching day I'll give you a yell... if I fo...

I'm pretty new to caching (6 months) and I've been trying to figure out what constitutes 'good swaps'? I went on a day of caching south of Darwin and of the 13 caches I found that day about 10 of them had a postcard from a local resort/hotel dropped in the cache as a swap. Now, I see this as a good ...

There is a beautiful War Cemetery at Adelaide River, a small town about an hour and a half south of Darwin. There's also a cenotaph on the Esplanade in Darwin City. There are a thousand and one war memorials and war sites up here - most of them are WWII as that war actually came to Darwin. I'm sure ...

Google wave? Whassat?? When I saw the thread title I thought it sounded like some sort of computer geek mexican wave type thing.. not sure what that would look like though?? I think I"ll shut up now!

Thanks!

Can the daily GCA email have an extra heading tomorrow advising cache owners to delete dog108's logs?

What daily email?

I figure there is a box that needs to be ticked somewhere ... where do I look for it?

It's not often that Darwin is cooler than (most of) the rest of the country... 25 degrees now.. was probably about 33 or 34 today, bucketed down rain from about 1 until 3... and has been lovely and cool ever since

I found a snake curled up under the cache container for "Crater Lake" (NT) on Saturday. No idea what sort of snake it was, it was nearly 2m long and very thin and was a yellowish sorta colour. I dropped the cache quick smart and waited a few metres away until it slithered off in the opposite directi...

I think that's a bloody good idea.. especially for drink driving incidents that result in a court appearance. That little bit of extra evidence can only be a good thing when it comes to keeping 'bloody idiots' off the road. (Can imagine it could be a bit frustrating for the cops using them on days w...

As a newbie, I've seen a few pages on cache placement, I've seen a few threads aimed at newbies in different forums - but as a newbie where the hell do you start? There is quite a lot of info out there, some of it is contradictory (which is understandable given some people are hiding stuff where sno...

Oh I'll still log it.. just as a note rather than a DNF. I won't feel lousy about yet another DNF, but the owner will still knowed I at least went to the general vicinity and attempted their cache. I've had a few DNF's that were simply a case of muggles being around, and added to quite a few other l...

Handy thread for this newbie. I've logged a few DNF's for caches I went looking for but didn't find because of muggle traffic... won't be doing that again!

I lost a pair of sunglasses last Wednesday. I tried to find them but had no luck. No luck finding the cache either!! Went back the next day and found the cache. No luck with the glasses though. Thankfully they were a busted old pair of sunnies (crack through one of the lenses) that I was only wearin...