Ngapala School Marrabel, South Australia, Australia
By Adopted by Aussie M & M on 28-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1QNMR

So we had to take Bella home and if you are going to drive 3 hours north you might as well turn it into a caching adventure. We were in the 4WD so I got to choose some interesting tracks for Wayne to play on. Any caches that needed some attention got it.Thanks to Aussie M & M from mogni .

Nice views from gz. Driving the back roads. Quick find. found the cache farther along the fence than my GPS said was at zero. Found with Mogni. This was a very,very last minute trip.I found out that i had to be in the " clare region " the next day by lunch the next day on muggle business. After that business was over i headed up to jamestown to get a 2001 cache via any adventure labs or caches i haven't found before staying in a B& B in Penworthm. Now it was time to start heading home via dirt roads to Burra for the new Adventure lab and then down every dirt road/track with caches on it and the odd track that needed the hubs locked on the ute. If the cache was broken/eaten/smashed it was replaced with a new container and if the log sheet was wet it was replaced and if the log was full or almost full extra log sheets were added to the cache.

A quick find on Father's Day with Dad, TFTC

Another near DNF.

Read the description and exited the yard!
TFTC

A delightful day caching northeast of Nuriootpa around Marrabel and Truro and the weather stayed fine too.

A beatiful historic site. Man thanks for the hide Aussie M & M

Quick find here.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

found it

Found

A Sunday drive with the Muggle Wife up north of Kapunda and surrounds. Her interest was the wildlife and stopping at sacred sites and other points of interest to read plaques and enjoy the scenery. Mr Adder also admired the abundance of accompaniments to roast potatoes and gravy.

All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.
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Another gem from our history. Great to see that at least a few of these places are being remembered.


Thank you for the cache Adopted by Aussie M & M Find Number 9856 on 10/07/2022

This was my first geocache find!

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Eudunda trip with the geo-pup, day 4, Eudunda to Robertstown

Love the tiny school!

TFTC

Full time nomads since 2014. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Back in SA for harvest work. Spending a few days in Kapunda before heading to Yorke Peninsula.

Headed out to explore some back roads today before the forecast rain of tomorrow. Boy the crops look good around here but still not ready for harvest.

TFTC Adopted by Aussie M & M

I did not make it to the early morning CITO but a spur of the moment decision had me meeting up with gridge98 at Mawson Lakes to head up to Eudunda to find some out of the way caches that we both had not found. I left home at 7:30am and returned at 8:30pm after a big day with 49 finds. We did a big loop finishing in Kapunda and I think this was a record for me with the number of multis found in a day.

Another nice historical stop on our tour around this area. gridge had a boys look first before coming back to look properly and the cache was found nicely tucked away.

Thanks for the cache Aussie M & M.

Stopped past here today, no idea how I didn’t find this at first glance, after a bit of a dig around in the grass the cache was found nicely tucked away

Cache and contents are all good

After an early morning CITO on Anstey Hill, I met up with JJ52 to go caching for the day. With not much of a plan other than to cache around Eudunda for the day. We went from cache to cache finding 49 caches for the day and ending up in Kapunda after a big loop. A lot of middle of no where/back roads with 2 brown snakes spotted on our journey.

Thanks for the cache

One of many discoveries in the mid north so many schools dotted the countryside, quick find after the cache guardian slithered away
TFTC Aussie M & M

It’s always nice to discover a little patch of history while out and about. There were a lot of teachers over the years but the school house didn’t look big enough to hold too many on a school day. TFTC

Cheers

Owl assumed this was another church cache, but the rat knew better and led the way to the cache.

Owl and a Rat decided to continue their Saturday run north.
This was one that was on their list.

Rat quickly scurried to the cache, whilst the Owl flew around elsewhere. TFTC

We were in the area to do maintenance on 3 adopted caches including this one. The container and log are all good and should last for several more years.

Checked this cache today. Looks good and should be fine for some years to come.

Nicely hidden by the seasonal foliage! TFTC. Great little spot for a history lesson.

Our first find! So exciting!

Star spot

Midnight cache run with Purrfect Di, brought us to your hide.
Some great memorials out here to the local past.
Thanks for another interesting cache location DustyandDizz

Ngapala School was transferred from DustyandDizz to user Aussie M & M

Loving the local history

M

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Heading out on a beautiful day today to do some video of a friends property with the Quad. After which we continued on towards Robertstown to grab some caches...as you do! This was our 2nd attempt at this one, the first almost 3 years ago!! Wow how time flies, I would have said it was only a few months ago! TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1355. Beautiful stonework here. Our thanks to postiegirl06.

Nice quick find on the way home after an Australia Day caching. Thanks again PG.

A quick find today with taurus1955 and BentleyTB. Great to know some of the history from around here. TFTC

Thank you once again for placing a cache here to let people know about the history of the area. It makes me have to Google for more information when I get home
Found with misschief18 and Bentley TB
TFTC
TNLN
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Ngapala School was transferred from TheKellyGang to user postiegirl06

Finally managed to get out here, with the former CO too I might add!
A quaint spot to visit.
Co-ords pretty good.
TNLNSL
Thanks

found it.
TFTC

Quick and easy find.
Tftc.

Found It!
Took me a little while to spot this one as it was well buried under the grass. Interesting little bit of history.
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Found with hubby.

An interesting historic location. TFTC

Replaced cache & is good to go

Today we visited and finally can put this Cache back on line. As we replaced container and Log sheet is fresh ready for your finds. So Happy Hunting

Will check this one as soon as we can

This cache has not been found this year. Time to check if really is there or replace it.

Went looking for this before reading the logs, definately not there..

we will be checking this one out soon replacing it

Checked GZ and followed clues, but no find.

Not found with TheSneakyOne earlier this month, but forgot to log. TFTC

The hint narrows it down exactly and there's nothing there...

Logging a find as the original owner - thank you to TheKellyGang for adopting this geocache

Ownership transfered to TheKellyGang - thank you for adopting this geocache from PG

Ngapala School was transferred from postiegirl06 to user TheKellyGang

Unarchiving at owner's request.

We are willing to adopt this one

This cache has been temporaily disabled by the owner pending adoption by TheKellyGang

This entry was edited by postiegirl06 on Saturday, 30 March 2013 at 03:03:07 UTC.

Found whilst out on a great day trip to Burra with CPWanderer.

Just a little tricky. Hope a whipper snipper isn't employed in this area, otherwise the cache may go missing. Mr M made the find. TFTC.

Located with AussieM&M..... another interesting spot!!

great hide TFTC

A very well hidden micro which was found thanks to spot on co-ordinates and a helpful clue. A very interesting location and I can hear the echo of desktops closing and the scrape of chalk on blackboards.

Enjoyed doing this cache with 'Mr The Comrades' who initially spotted the cache in a geo-ding moment.

Thanks to 'PGO6' for the cache, its history and location.

Great little historical spot.

Thanks for bringing us here Postiegirl.

Nice to see a school still standing most from that era are gone.

Easy find, no real sure about the names on plaque though.

Found after pacenoting for the annual Robby Rally.
Thank god for the hint!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker.

What great history here. Thanks for bringing us to another great site.

Missed the initial searching for this one as Gold Coast Footballers were beating Power at this very moment to make history by winning their first AFL game. Thanks

A quick find while others were listening to a football surprise
TFTC PG06

Thanks to JBFrog for finding this while I listened excitedly to the football.
Although am a massive crows fan - disappointed to hear Port lose.

I read the note about replaced with a bigger one and had a mental image - hmmmm not quite what I expected. Thanks PG

Replacing with a larger container in January 2011

I have replaced the log book,But it is for a even smaller container so from now on you will all have to write even smaller, great place took a while to have a look and ponder the naming.tftc

Have replaced log book but it requires very min notes and small writting.

I forgot to mention: The log scroll is totally full. Lucky our caching name is small!

Smiley grabbed.

I cannot believe I found this so quickly.

Thanks pg & blat.

Quick find for a nano! A nice double plaque experience. Cache #765.

A find for dad,sneaky little buggers those nano's.tftc sl

found while on a day out with Auzzie convict! tftc

This is one a few plaques for school that we have seen all the teachers names mentioned. We searched around gz with no luck so then decoded the clue and went back to an area that we had already looked at and found a much smaller cache than we were originally looking for
Thanks again pg and blat for the cache

Nice spot, thanks for bringing us here. Had the spot thanks to the hint, but it took a little while to find it. Ohh! Is that it[?] Yep,it is. Logbook almost full, but still has room for a few more yet before requiring replacement. SL TFTC

Grr. How annoying micro's are! Geo-teen found it after looking at the hint, scribble dour name down on the logbook and headed down the road to the next one.

Nice found amongst the nice muggles, who drove past us at the last cache. TFTC

Like the display and that is a quaint school.

A quick find on a drive by after work; just as well since it was raining quite steadily. Obviously quite a thriving community once but now no more than a few houses and relics from a past era. A good find.

Was obviously a busy little community in days past, but is nothing but memories and monuments now.... Tks PG for the cache

Had a quick look around then read the Clue and then made the find. Thanks Postiegirl

Quick find on the way home from work before the rain gets too heavy!!! TFTC

The last time we went past this I stopped to take some photos, which is why it looked very familiar when we arrived today . We loved the names of all the teachers mentioned on the plaque [^]. All of them very 19th century and hardly used today [^].
Found the little bugger immediately after resorting to the hint. Cheers .

Another quick find on a beautiful caching day. The kind of micro I like. TFTC

More great work by the local artists. There was recently a reunion here at this school - that would have been great for those that attended the school originally. It's sad that everything is becoming bigger and more rationalised nowadays. TFTC

School's out for summer,
School's out for ever!
TFTC

It's amazing what difference a couple of metres in the car can make---we came around the corner and it all became clear. Found relatively quickly.

Thanks PG.