Kathmandu - Carousel, Cannington, Western Australia, Australia
S 32° 01.151 E 115° 56.186
50H E 399558 N 6456944
This Kathmandu store is located inside the Westfield Carousel shopping centre, a major shopping centre with three department stores, two supermarkets, a cinema complex, a large food court, and dozens of variety stores.
Waymark Code: WMDP6H
Location: Western Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 02/09/2012
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Kathmandu specializes in camping, hiking and daywalking equipment, clothing and footwear.
The only item I've ever bought here is a pair of heavy duty knee high gaiters, essential for protection against Wait-a-while, Spinifex and Blackberry.
Wait-a-while is a very spiky vine which can easily and painfully entrap the legs or even the body, and is common in the tropical areas of Northern Australia. It earns the name Wait-a-while because you cannot rush the extrication of your legs or body from the grip of these rearward-facing hooks - once it "get it's hooks into you" it's a slow and painful process to free yourself. There are quite a few geocaches around Darwin in Australia's Northern Terriritory which are in Wait-a-while rich areas, including GC19V3T Lee Point By NTSTROM. My log of July 26 2011 details my most recent adventure with Wait-a-while, but as it was at shoulder and head height the gaiters didn't save me.
Spinifex comes in many varieties, but the ones which cause the problem are the hard Spinifex varieties of the dry regions particularly in the north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. These are characterized by very sharp and hard needles which can penetrate sneakers and jeans, causing quite a bit of pain. My cache GC1XZ2G WanAus 122 - Standley Chasm gets some interesting logs, including "That spinifex sure is sharp. Stright through the jeans! Thanks for the exercise and the cache" and "The way up was horrible - damned spinifex . But thx for the cache" and "The way up was not nice because of the spinifex - why couldn´t we read the description better before we started ? But thats life . Thanks for a nice cache in a beautiful nature". The cache was placed where it is to protect from flood, fire, and muggles, and in August 2012 will celebrate three years since placing.
Blackberry is a very tasty fruit which sadly is a noxious weed which has taken over many waterways all over Australia. While it doesn't "get it's hooks into you" like Wait-a-while, it does get so thick that you can't get through it at all. I've battled through blackberry around Sydney, New South Wales as well as around Perth, Western Australia. Tasmania probably has the worst blackberry infestations, but the locals take advantage of it by harvesting and selling the very tasty fruit. One of my Multi-caches, GC180FE WanAus 37 - Riverside Parklands #8 starts upstream of an extensive blackberry infestation beside the Canning River and finishes downstream of it, but fortunately there is a trail which runs through without entering the blackberry zone.
The given coordinates are for an entrance to the shopping centre which is only about 20 metres from the entrance to Kathmandu.
Shop 1171 Westfield Carousel
1382 Albany Hwy
Cannington WA 6107
Phone (08) 9358 3472
Opening Hours
Mon - Wed, Fri 9:00am - 5:30pm, Thurs 9:00am - 9:00pm
Sat 9:00am - 5:00pm, Closed Sunday