Geocaching Australia

aussie-O's wrote:Any in WA?

Yes, a couple, but the fact that GZ is in a tunnel is the point of both of them, so please don't put them on the list!

Yurt wrote:Were there ever any hills big enough to have to bore tunnels through in WA?

Only one! Yep, there's only ever been one railway tunnel near Perth, and that hasn't been in use since 1966.

(Perth's so flat that I had to ask C@W to modify his "Mountain High" requirements since we didn't have any qualifying caches...)

There's this one in Vic, although it's currently disabled - "Over an Under"

We will be publishing one(GCA) tomorrow for Townsville Qld.

Zalgariath wrote:"Daylight" is a classic tunnel cache from 2003. But its in the National Park OH NO!!!! and it looks like the tunnel has been shut http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... e2566cee77

If you use the National Parks boundary data from the Geocaching NSW website, the tunnel is just outside the border.

Spindoc Bob wrote:

Zalgariath wrote:"Daylight" is a classic tunnel cache from 2003. But its in the National Park OH NO!!!! and it looks like the tunnel has been shut http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... e2566cee77

If you use the National Parks boundary data from the Geocaching NSW website, the tunnel is just outside the border.

No warning produced http://geocaching.com.au/cache/GCGVNB which implies it's not in a banned geocaching zone.
http://geocaching.com.au/zone/gmap/100/ is the Blue Mountains banned zone.
It's outside the NP zone from the data GCA has.
(Warning, a few minutes to load the zone data as it's very, very large and detailed).

Would be interesting to see if they've blocked the other entrance, which is more concealed.

Sleeps Hill Trio should be on this list. At least one cacher used the tunnel to get from one waypoint to another.

I see the "needs archived" log on Daylight hasn't been actioned yet. Would love to check it out and see what's happening. No one has logged any attempts since then.

Off of the top of my head I can think of three Railway Tunnel caches that I have found that are not on your list.

http://coord.info/GCKWZM - Creepy Crawley
http://coord.info/GCNXE3 - Mushrooms on Ghost
http://coord.info/GC1AR5A - Spray Tunnel

Bats Catch Trains? GC2E761

Another to add to the collection is GC1EBN2 Tunnel of Bygone Dreams which is an easy walkin along the old rail line on a tourist steam train track that operates very infrequently due to track and locomotive issues. Shame really as we have done this ride when it was working and it was a thrill. Great feat of engineering.

Zalgariath wrote:"Daylight" is a classic tunnel cache from 2003. But its in the National Park OH NO!!!! and it looks like the tunnel has been shut http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... e2566cee77

That tunnel has two openings, did you check both?

I was planning on checking the other entrance (S 33 43.796, E 150 17.118) later in the year (early-mid December). Happy to go in for a third time if anybody needs a guide once inside.

Spindoc Bob wrote:Happy to go in for a third time if anybody needs a guide once inside.

Ditto

Yurt- Skydogs- Creepy Cawley is one of the best caches around.

Daylight is still open to all suckers, I mean geocachers.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx ... 5a393e7ea1
and
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx ... 0d19326077