The longest GCA power trail in Australia (idea)

[Laighside Legends]

...Country railway stations would be cool as they are related...

We haven't had that idea yet have we...
How about the largest map of unused/abandoned country train stations/sidings?
Although many old train stations already have caches at them...

[fluffyfish]

Whilst not being a IBEM expert, surely we can extend it to include our own 2 extra verses to cover the South and Western areas?

[WA K Team]

Building on the ideas,
1) Non city Post Offices - There are many old and historic post offices (or just perhaps a quirky PO box) in our towns around the country and would provide an opportunity for a range of different cache types.
2) Australian war memorials - plenty of scope around Australia, though some may already have caches. The parks they are located in would again provide opportunity for different types of caches. Could also be a project to document the location of all of the current & past memorials around Australia (if not already done).

Perhaps not power trails but a variation on the theme.

[Zalgariath]

Building on the ideas,
1) Non city Post Offices - There are many old and historic post offices (or just perhaps a quirky PO box) in our towns around the country and would provide an opportunity for a range of different cache types.
2) Australian war memorials - plenty of scope around Australia, though some may already have caches. The parks they are located in would again provide opportunity for different types of caches. Could also be a project to document the location of all of the current & past memorials around Australia (if not already done).

Perhaps not power trails but a variation on the theme.

Both of these are well covered by GCA Locationless

War Memorials - http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga1381
Post Offices - Hmmm I know it's there... cant find it

[Black Bunny]

Both of these are well covered by GCA Locationless

War Memorials - http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga1381
Post Offices - Hmmm I know it's there... cant find it

That would be GA0704 Crazy About Post Offices

[hookline]

I am happy to volunteer to write extra verses for the states poorly represented in the IBEM song. (Which should be called "I've Cached Everywhere Man!") Here's one for Tassie:

I've been to Ulverstone, Dulverton, Smithton, Burnie,
Queenstown, George Town, Campbell Town, Swansea
Lilydale, Scottsdale, Berriedale, Bicheno
Rosebury, Fentonbury, Dodges Ferry, Jericho
Cockle Creek, Lake Leake, Sisters Creek, Winneleah
Wayatinah, Poatina, Tulendeena... yeah, I've been there!

If the idea doesn't get used, I'd love to set up my own series in Tassie on this theme.

Another thought on the 'back roads' idea: You could have some real power trails along 'old highways'; specifically those roads which used to be main routes/highways before being bypassed by bigger, badder highways. Many of those old highways go through nice little towns and it would be great to get people using those routes again.

[caughtatwork]

I am happy to volunteer to write extra verses for the states poorly represented in the IBEM song. (Which should be called "I've Cached Everywhere Man!") Here's one for Tassie:

I've been to Ulverstone, Dulverton, Smithton, Burnie,
Queenstown, George Town, Campbell Town, Swansea
Lilydale, Scottsdale, Berriedale, Bicheno
Rosebury, Fentonbury, Dodges Ferry, Jericho
Cockle Creek, Lake Leake, Sisters Creek, Winneleah
Wayatinah, Poatina, Tulendeena... yeah, I've been there!

If the idea doesn't get used, I'd love to set up my own series in Tassie on this theme.

Another thought on the 'back roads' idea: You could have some real power trails along 'old highways'; specifically those roads which used to be main routes/highways before being bypassed by bigger, badder highways. Many of those old highways go through nice little towns and it would be great to get people using those routes again.

[Captain Terror]

Just another thought. This cache page explains it and the map is rather impressive.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2TFGR

[Happy Chappies]

Just another thought. This cache page explains it and the map is rather impressive.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2TFGR

Hmm... A giant sketch of caughtatwork's mug across the desert? (Assuming he's our equivalent of Signal) Yowzer... Either that or a giant gnome.

I would love to design a cache series in this shape one day somewhere:



Better yet if you have to complete it in order!

[SamWalkers]

Just another thought. This cache page explains it and the map is rather impressive.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2TFGR

Hmm... A giant sketch of caughtatwork's mug across the desert? (Assuming he's our equivalent of Signal) Yowzer... Either that or a giant gnome.

I would love to design a cache series in this shape one day somewhere:



Better yet if you have to complete it in order!

Is that how the nazca lines came to be. They were just a caching trail!?

[Captain Terror]

Just another thought. This cache page explains it and the map is rather impressive.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2TFGR

Hmm... A giant sketch of caughtatwork's mug across the desert? (Assuming he's our equivalent of Signal) Yowzer... Either that or a giant gnome.

I would love to design a cache series in this shape one day somewhere:



Better yet if you have to complete it in order!

Maybe a geo crop circle.

[noikmeister]

Taking the West of the Mountains route from Melbourne to Cairns is an Awesome drive... and actually a hell of a lot shorter then following the coast. There are some fantastically varied stretches of road and many towns worth stopping in at along the way. There are a number of possible routes but here is one as an idea. I'll let others handle the south and west who know more then I.

Naturally the problem with any such undertaking being finding cachers to place and maintain along the more remote inland routes!

Now THAT would take some doing!

[noikmeister]

Just another thought. This cache page explains it and the map is rather impressive.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2TFGR

Hmm... A giant sketch of caughtatwork's mug across the desert? (Assuming he's our equivalent of Signal) Yowzer... Either that or a giant gnome.

I would love to design a cache series in this shape one day somewhere:



Better yet if you have to complete it in order!

Along the theme

[WanderingAus]

"The Backroads to Everywhere" would be cool as you could get off the mail roads, visit tiny towns and have a good deal of caching fun along the way.

Was this a typo or intended - in the mid to late 1960's I worked at Milly Milly Station in the Upper Murchison Shire of Western Australia, and our "Mail Road" started and finished at Cue on the Great Northern Highway. Every fortnight a semi-trailer loaded to the legal height of 14 feet (yeah right, more likely as high as you could get it, whose gonna be around to check), with 44 gallon drums of fuel, crates of longneck beer (48 to the crate), all the necessities of life, and the mail, took seven days to do the mail run. I think we were on day 5, allways late in the afternoon.

Another mail run went from Meekatharra, the next town north of Cue, and I think it was a longer run than ours.

A series of caches following those old mail runs would be interesting. I seem to recall it is still possible to "ride with the mail man" from some of the remote towns in Australia, as well as at least one of the Air Mail Runs.

[WanderingAus]

ooh, I like the name 'stop, revive, cache' - and that would definitely make a long power trail, as it could be anywhere and everywhere in Aus!

TeamGeoPlesk placed 17 SRR (Stop, Rest and Revive) caches along the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory, including 6 physical caches. I added 6 more, including 1 physical cache. I seem to recall at least half a dozen other finds of "Stop, Revive, Survive" or similar around Australia.

Maybe we should try to link the existing ones, and then fill in the gaps.