Helpful Information For Visitors
Posted: 04 March 06 9:23 am
So you are planning a trip to Australia and hope to find a few caches while you are here but you're not sure how to find Caches nearby to where you will be staying?
Australian Postcodes (You might know them as ZIP codes) are 4 digits.
www.austpost.com.au/postcodes has a handy utility to look up the postcode for a Suburb or Town which you can then use to do a search.
The middle of the Capital Cities are:
Darwin 0800
Sydney 2000
Canberra 2600
Melbourne 3000
Brisbane 4000
Adelaide 5000
Perth 6000
Hobart 7000
Some of the maps for Australia provided on www.geocaching.com are quite poor.
www.geocaching.com.au has some alternative maps as well as some extra caches which are not listed on www.geocaching.com
If you are a Google Earth user there is also a live network feed available.
Good Luck and Happy Caching.
Australian Postcodes (You might know them as ZIP codes) are 4 digits.
www.austpost.com.au/postcodes has a handy utility to look up the postcode for a Suburb or Town which you can then use to do a search.
The middle of the Capital Cities are:
Darwin 0800
Sydney 2000
Canberra 2600
Melbourne 3000
Brisbane 4000
Adelaide 5000
Perth 6000
Hobart 7000
Some of the maps for Australia provided on www.geocaching.com are quite poor.
www.geocaching.com.au has some alternative maps as well as some extra caches which are not listed on www.geocaching.com
If you are a Google Earth user there is also a live network feed available.
Good Luck and Happy Caching.