WanAus 217 - Darwin ICEM - Holmes Jungle Holmes, Northern Territory, Australia
By WanderingAus on 10-Aug-12. Waypoint GA4539

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Type: Traditional
Container: Small
Coordinates: S12° 23.879' E130° 55.578' (WGS 84)
  52L 709418E 8628681N (UTM)
Elevation: 28 m
Local Government Area: Darwin

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Should be an easy find near one of WanderingAus' favourite places.

I've Cached Everywhere, Man is the largest cache series hidden in Australia. It is made up of the locations made famous by Lucky Star in the song "I've been everywhere" in 1962, lyrics by Geoff Mack, as well as other towns mentioned in verses made up by geocachers.

Darwin is the seventeenth place mentioned in the song, at Line five in Verse one.

Having visited Darwin four times since I discovered geocaching I own a few Darwin caches and have found quite a lot. Having "found a cache" there I could then place an ICEM cache there too. (I won't place an ICEM cache in any place where I haven't found a cache of some sort first - my rule for me only).

Cached in:
Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba,
Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah,
Birdsville, Emmaville, Wallaville, Cunnamulla,
Condamine, Strathpine, Proserpine, Ulladulla,
Darwin, Gin Gin, Deniliquin, Muckadilla,
Wallumbilla, Boggabilla, Kumbarilla,
I'm a killer.

Having decided to place an ICEM cache in Darwin the next decision was where to place it. I have plenty of favourite spots in and around Darwin, so I put all the names in a list and narrowed it down to the best six, put those six in a hat, and pulled them all out.

Holmes Jungle Nature Park protects one of the few remaining areas of monsoon forest in the Darwin area. It also protects eight geocaches.

This cache is a drab camo'd 100mm diameter 95mm high round screw-top container, protected from crushing by a drab camo'd Milo tin, all concealed under a small pile of rocks. Contents are a log book, finders cards, two pencils, a pencil sharpener, and a few small swaps. Please be sure to seal the ziplock bag, screw the lid on tightly and conceal it as found, replacing the rocks so as to protect from fire as well as unwanted discovery, and watch out for muggles.

Swaggies are not tradeable items. Please feel free to take them without making a trade, but please leave a note in the logbook and your online log, and do log them online. Grounspeak Trackables (geocoins and travel bugs) can NOT be logged into this cache, or any other GCA cache. Please don't drop any Grounspeak Trackables in this cache, and if you find any in this cache please remove them and log a "Grab it from somewhere else" log for the trackable.

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ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
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Logs

13-Jul-23
This was cool.
I knew this ICEM cache was around, but didn't know we'd end up so close to it today. We're back in Darwin overnight before heading off to the national parks for several days, and had some spare time this afternoon. We'd just found a GC puzzle not far off, and saw this on the GPS a few hundred metres off. I was glad to see it was in the bush, after no finds for 4 years I figured it might still be there. The bush has obviously been burst not long ago (regularly?) so we half expected a melted blob, but found a nicely intact cache. The log was pretty damp and degraded though, but able to be signed - we treated it carefully and rehid as we found.
It's always cool to find these little capsules sealed away untouched for years!
TFTC!
 
15-Oct-19
With work done for the day, I mosied up here for a stroll, and a cache find or two of course. Wink This was first and the spot-on coordinates soon had me signing the log at 15:55.

TNLNSL. Thanks WanderingAus.
 
22-Sep-17
WanderingAus wandered by on a maintenance run, found everything in the container damp or ruined, even though the container was in good condition. I replaced the container with a drab camo'd 100mm diameter 95mm high round screw-top container, replaced the log book, added finders cards, two pencils, a pencil sharpener, and a few small swaps.

I knew where I'd hidden the cache, so I went straight to it, but on checking with the gpsr I found the coords to be out by about 7 metres, so I corrected the coords.
 
09-May-17
Whilst staying in Darwin this was one of the caches we found. TFTC
 
21-Apr-17
Geocaching Australia (GCA) Cache Find Number 1408. Found during Day 10 of my epic 21 day visit to Alice Springs for the Red Centre Experience Event and further travels after that.

Flew into Alice Springs and met up with my fellow intrepid team members Sol de Lune, Albida33 and LuckyL10n for the start of an amazing trip throughout the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and eventually back to Canberra. The Red Centre Experience is the main attraction of course, but also on our agenda are a lot of GC Caches, lots of trigs, as well as plenty of GCA Trads, History and Virtual Caches (and maybe the odd beer or two ??!! Smile. Go Clan Cerberus !

Another Trad for the trip while in the north. We stopped here to look around and grab some caches. Lots of piccies taken. Then it was back in the car and off to the next one !

Another great location visited during our journey.

TFTC !!

 
21-Apr-17
#GA1539 - 11:00; Day 20 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune, albida33 and fitzy_1965. We had now reached Darwin and after a good night's sleep in a bed for the first time in a week or so, we headed out towards Palmerston caching along the way there and back again. Stopped off to collect this cache on our travels. Nice to have another ICEM in the bag. TFTC WanderingAus Very HappyClan Cerberus
 
21-Apr-17
Alice trip 2017. Day 18. Today Sol de Lune, Luckyl10n, Fitzy_1965 and I spent the day caching in and around Darwin. For a southerner it was a hot sticky day. At least it did not rain. A nice walk in the forest given to conditions, the grass was not bad at all !

Thanks
Albida
 
21-Apr-17
Day 2 of our stay in Darwin and this cache was next on our list. Car park road was open so we made it in to the beginning of the walk and once along there the cache was soon spot. Log is a little damp but nothing major and the itself is in pretty good condition. Log was signed and it was back to the car and the air-con.

Thanks WanderingAus...another one crossed off. Picture of the cache attached.
 
29-Dec-16
The access road was closed off so we parked in the carpark at the main road and walked in. Having been so long between finds I wasn't sure what to expect but the co-ords were spot on for a nice quick find once at GZ. The milo tin was the wrong way up and the cache was very full of water. Emptied everything out and cleaned up as best I could. Added a new sheet of paper in a ziplock bag as the log book was very wet and put everything back together so hopefully it will be more waterproof now. TFTC WanderingAus found as part of the summer scavenger series.
 
28-Mar-14
Parked safely virtually in a straight line from where Z was as indicated by the arrow on my Gizmo. Walked thru the grass and over the concealed rocks and arrived at GZ. ALL Good with this one. Good hide and good Camo. TFTC Wandering Aus
 
24-Jun-13
On my random travels this morning, I ended up here Shocked
A bunch of caches in a park always gets me attention and the possibility of a good walk is always likely Very Happy
This spot fitted the bill nicely and I soon abandoned the geomobile at the nearby picinic area and set off on foot to collect the available caches Smile
Up on top of this hill I soon found me a pile 'o' rocks and uncovered a neatly hidden cache Clapping

I've cached in Darwin too Cool
 
17-Jun-13
Spent the day out with Honeysucker grabbing as many caches as we could around Darwin while showing him the sights (it is his first time to the Top End).
Quick find for us. TFTC.
 
17-Sep-12
Ye ha Thanks Keith for a FTF. It took us awhile to get to this one but get here we did. Thanks for the small walk, exercise is always good. SL TFTC
 
18-Aug-12
Enjoyed the walk
 
11-Aug-12
Ready to roll, cache on! Mr. Green
 
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