Why is Wombat Poo Square? Douglas River, Tasmania, Australia
By aloysius7 on Tuesday 19 July 2005. Waypoint GCPRTT

6th

After completing an Orienteering course out at Royal George, the Clan thought that we would quickly pop out and and visit this cache before dinner.

Oops, a little mistake. It is a fair drive along a well maintained Forestry road but we did a 'L' Plater in a low to the ground Hyundai. We did manage to get out, find the cache jand get back just as dinner was being served. So all in all a good day's find and driver practise.

Sorry, all previous answer's are incorrect. The true answer to 'Why is Wombat poo square ?' is
**So human's collecting wombat poo as fertilizer can stack them neatly in their car like bales of hay.**

TNLN TFTC ..


 

16th

Another beautiful waterfall on my waterfall cruise today
There was a goodly amount of water cascading over the rocks today and it had finally warmed up enough to leave my jacket in the geomobile
The GPS didn't like it in here though [:o]
After strolling half way to the bottom of the falls, the GPS was pointing toward a big dead tree over the other side of the falls.
So I headed back up and wandered across the slippery rocks toward the target
I could only get within 10 metres though and by that stage the arrow was pointing 50 metres down into the gorge below [:(!]
So off I trudged again and this time got to the bottom of things
The cache is in perfect condition and looks as though it was hidden yesterday
TFTC, views and exercise

Now for the burning question

It is a little known fact that fresh wombat poo is actually round, just like rabbits, sheep and many other herbivores.
But due to the wombat poo being larger in size than other round pooing animals it undergoes a different process when drying out [:o]
The wombat eats a fibrous diet. During passage through the digestive and alimentary tracts of the animal, these fibres become aligned. This gives the poo a plane of weakness.
When subjected to the drying influence of the outside air the fibres shrink slighly and quickly change the newly deposited spherical poos to a more cubic form. Because the fibous material is mixed with a more mushy matrix the cubes do tend to retain rounded edges and apexes
The drying process can be expressed mathematically using a formulae which is beyond the scope of this article, but involves hyperbolic differentiation of laminar flow spherical bodies [^]

See it's nothing complicated, just wombat science

 

6th

Find #4 on my 2 day EC trip.
Not a lot water today but I could have gone for a dip once I got to the top....
I even saw a fish in one of the lower pools!
T candle, L sucker ball.
Thanks for showing me this area Mr A - I'll be back for a stay.
Swampy
Well, wombat poo is not totally square because they had this huge boney plate in their bums and they use it as a tamper to compact dirt when making their houses. Now, we all know that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When the wombat is making a house, the poo inside also gets squished and tampered but the corners are rounded because their bowels are round. Beside, there would be a hell of a lot of very sore wombats if they $&at poos with 8 points on them.
 

1st

We were lucky that there was some wombat poo at the start of track and were able to point it out to GeoBrett. He pendantically, as all 11 years are apt to do, pointed out that it was not really square. It didn't help I couldn't answer the question so now all the awe he used to hold for me has now gone. Thanks for that.

The waterfalls themselves really blew us away. They looked like what those builders at the Disney parks of the world would build as a water feature. You know multiple water entry points. A long drop on the left with a another flow down a slanting rockon the right. Lots of photos taken here before climbing back up that mountain goat track.

Great cache.

 

24th

Took the old coach road from Avoca to this cache. A pleasant short walk to the falls. The track decending to and the rocks at the base of the falls were slippery with mosses and ice so I had to be careful when hunting and taking photographs. I forgot to bring the clue with me and hunted for a while without success. After running back to the car and back I found the cache in seconds. GPS not much use in this gorge. A Nice set of falls. Thanks for bringing me here Mr A.
Wombat Poo is square to stop it from rolling away! It's so they know where they have been or to find their way home. If the poo rolled away there would be lots of lost wombats roaming through the bush!?.;).
A bunch of coins and bugs travelled here with me.
 

12th

Arr, I be to far away from this treasure chest to be findin' it for a long time. But I stumbled upon it, and just wanted to include a poem that I beleive to be appropriate, arr.

The Wombat


As you splash along the track
Eyes alert and ears pinned back
You might have seen those queer square turds
And thought, if not expressed in words


The stress of such a defecation
Baffles ones' imagination
But it's not done to entertain us -
The Wombat has an oblong anus.


So if your slumber is disturbed
By cries and screams, don't be perturbed.
Eyes closed, teeth clenched and racked with pain
A Wombat's gone and crapped again!!

Arr, be it good, Aloy-sius7?  

3rd

Easy find with hint..GPSr didn't like it down there.Cache in good order.Good hide.Speccy gorge and falls area..top spot.TFTC TNLNSL Cheers aloysius7.
Forgot to answer question 2.Wombats are built like brick sh.t houses..so only natural they sh.t bricks?
 

14th

18.13 Found in the rain and after sundown. The satellites were playing mean games with us - hiding behind clouds, ducking behind trees, then jumping on the track and sticking their tongues out at us. Plus, as it was dusk the creatures of the night were becoming really active - I think I spent the entire walk to this one salivating!

Anyway, female slave finally found this after being pathetic grumping at the GPSr on the track down. This spot would be idyllic on a warm winter day - or at least in daylight!! Thank you for another top one, aloysius!

Why is wombat poo square? Because wombats are square! Haven't you ever seen their amazingly efficient shape?
 

11th

It was easier to find this cache than an answer to this riddle. Probably Wombat wants to protect its poo from getting stolen by Dang beetles.
TNLNSL. Thanks aloysius 7.
 

12th

great little stroll in lead up to triple top tomorrow ,good falls and easy find t man l 4x4 thanks a team
why is wombat poo square i think it's all in the diet,he eats roots and leaves. but i could never work out how he got a square poo out of a round hole! leave that one with you cheers mrtack
 

9th

AAAAHHHH!!!!!!

"shiver me timbers"
So near yet so far, we were at the spot but the too close for comfort encounter with Snake number 2 was enough to send these sea dogs runnin,

We'll have another look NEXT WINTER
 

10th

Came to this cache from the south... turns out that the south route is meant to be 4wd only... Never mind, the cachemobile forded the streams like a champ (or did it Holden the stream????)

Saw a HUGE hawk on the way in and also a wombat...great stuff.

Bad news is that I just could not get a lock at the falls!

Even the clue didn't help me!

I'll be back, it is really beatiful here

Thanks Aloysius... an enjoyable DNF!
 

24th

First thing's first. The waterfalls were nice. A short walk to some quite interesting falls with several separate cascades. The falls themselves looked quite accessible too, you should be able to get a nice closeup of them (took mondo, left helicopter).

Now.... Why is Wombat poo square? Well, I think the answer is obvious when we look at a wombats dayjob. In the animal world they're know as the "brickies of the bush". But of course, wombats can't just drop down to their local besser reseller and buy some bricks (they can't get the money out of the ATM with those long claws, and wombats usually have too poor a credit rating to get a credit card), so they have to make their own! Wombat burrows are in fact enormous underground brick constructions. More recently they've been contracting themselves out to do rabbit warrens and ground-dwelling birds nests. They've also latched onto the latest trend of rendered brick construction by using another version of their brick mixture supplied by groups of wombats who like prunes. This contract work also explains why you see the wombat bricks laying about so much, as some people who've built houses would know that often you can be left with half a wall and bricks laying about while the brickie goes to work on another job for a bit!

So there ya have it folks. If you're ever around at someone elses house and they say they're going off to "lay a brick", don't look down on them for being crude. They might be working on the next construction trend. Human bricks. Inspired by our Wombat brickie friends. If you can't believe this, that's probably just because wombats are furry and when they bend over you can't see their furry little tradesmans cleavage to confirm it.

Rated: for Overall Experience  

23rd

Dropping off Superman Virtual TB...