Geocaching Australia

I only just found out about http://www.confluence.org/index.php

If I had of found this prject earlier, I would have taken all the Vic mainland photos within a day of the project starting!!


Now! I'm off to SA and WA

Has anyone here contibuted?

Yes.

http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=6662

There are a few caches on confluences. Remote ones may have the caches right smack bang on them but easier to get to ones (like : Port Germein by Team Piggy
S33° 00.000 E138° 00.005 (WGS84)
Use waypoint: GC178 )
have their lat and long slightly off set to prevent accidental finds of the cache by a confluencer. Rare I suggest but....


clear skies, Astro.

I got one of the vic ones many years ago

I took a walk out to confluence S35 E145 on the 2nd April 2005 while logging the Borrika cache near by.
Since this confluence has been visited a couple of time previously I didn't add my log to it.

I have done a few, and a couple have caches close by as Atsro stated.

Yarrabee Park: http://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-34&lon=138

Is another with a close cache.

Just remember that, if the confluences lay on private land (Especially in crop fields) you should seek permission before attempting them.

Have looked at it but all the easily accessible ones in SA seem to have been visited. But on future outback trips will check before I go to see if I am heading near any.

Came across GPSr's a little late to get FTF on any

*_It's just weird that after nearly 10 years with a GPSr (got my first in '97), we went on a trip 'up the guts' to Darwin (from Melb).
In the process of heading towards Wolf Creek, using waypoints to find the track, etc, I thought about how much fun it would be to do a treasure hunt with the GPS!

*_Not having heard of geo-caching then, and having no experience with PC's, I never though there would be a community of geocachers out there.

*_The thought of visiting a confluence never occured to me, even though we passed many parallels and a few longitudes along the way, I got a kick out of seeing the GPS register 140.00.00, or whatever. Never thought to see if we could get to 37.00-140.00

*_Myself being a gadget mad freak, especially GPSr's, I feel I've missed the boat!
And only now, I find the site after all the Vic confluences are visited!

*_I'm yet to go caching(even after 5 or so years of knowledge of the sport, but one day I'll get out there and try one.

*_But this confluence thing is now bugging me

We have looked at the site and when we went looking for some of the sites we found that the ones that haven't been done are located in crocodile infested lakes or on top of some remote uninhabited wilderness mountain or guarded by some ferocious bull and his owner in a 100 acre paddock.

Theres on e here in tassie that no-ones bothered to do yet if anyone wants a go!!

Oh .. slight caveat: It is smack bang in the middle of a n Army Live Firing range.....

GO FOR IT!

I think there was one in SA (?) like that and the person went to the range and explained what they wanted to do and why and they got a military escort to the confluence, so they're not impossible to get.

Better to get an official "no" than to get a leg blown off by jumping the fence, and it can't hurt to ask.