Reginald's Story Jamestown, South Australia, Australia
By Wombat Stew on 17-Nov-09. Waypoint GC21538

I was interested to read about our R M Williams story and gather the clues for GZ. The lid of the container was very hard to get off and possibly needs changing

Find number 14507 at 8:51:05am on Tuesday the 22 October 2024We're on our way to WA Goes Big, travelling from Croydon (Melbourne, Victoria) with a caravan in tow and making a leisurely caching holiday across the Nullarbor and back.Well, WA Goes Big is done for another year and we are on our way home again now, via Perth, Kalgoorlie and the Nullarbor but slowly over the next five weeks Today we headed off from Peterborough on our way to Burra via Jamestown grabbing a few more local geocaches as we go.A quick find after solving the simple questions.**Thanks for placing this cache Wombat Stew**---*WOW, so much happening at home in Victoria*Dont forget to log your will attend for Victorias first ever Block Party in March 2025, the [**The Sunbury Event**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).Theres also all those lists of amazing geocaches at [Geocaching Victorias List webpage]( https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists), go check them out.

Very interesting to learn more about RM, also couldn't resist this close to where we camped. Tftc

Deciphered the coords and made the find! We definately had to pull up to learn about RM Williams while on RM Williams way!

Away for the June Long Weekend with TheWhiteDogGang.We based ourselves at Orroroo and travelled far and wide over 4 days. We managed 1,500 kms during our travels.We managed to find some really old caches, one from 2001, and even managed to get all 9 terrain ratings. Not bad for 2 old farts with no coordination.The weather was dry if not cold on occasions.A good way to spend 4 days.Numbers were gathered and then the cache was quickly found.TFTC

Found this cache whilst on our two month adventure throughout central Australia and remote parts of WA.A very informative and interesting read about this iconic Aussie.Thanks to all the COs for adding to our adventure. TFTC

Found with SJG66 as we wind our way North. TFTC

Found with O319 on our way north

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 6 - Morgan to Jamestown via Burra and Hallett. After a fun day around Morgan yesterday, it was time to move on. A very cold night last night. I did a few roadside caches along the way, but I spent most of my caching day around Burra. I have done quite a bit of caching in Burra before, but it was great to see a wonderful collection of caches to be attempted today. I even managed two sets of Labs, including a good walk around the mine site. As I headed over to Jamestown, there were a few caches that drew attention to the huge wind farms on all of these ridge lines. My last cache ended up pretty much being where I stopped to camp for the night. Into town for dinner tonight.After a lap of town to do the Mural Labs, I headed back to my van for two final caches of the afternoon. This virtual was at the same starting point as the other cache, so I could do them together. A bit of reading gave me the numbers to calculate GZ. I then headed over to my van and found the cache a lot closer than I might have expected.Thanks for the cache Wombat Stew46475.20 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Compass Rose Santa Maria A#191**Albida**

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We worked out the coordinates. 10 years of geocaching and some good old fashioned problem solving got us to the jackpot. SL TFTC

#5245 En route north towards our campsite at Horseshoe tackling brutal head winds in our new van. Jamestown offered a good chance for a break for all including our poor geocar. Grabbed some lunch and set out solving and finding this multi. Interesting backstory to this very well known brand in the land of Oz. Thanks for sharing Wombat Stew.

Made a mistake in the coordinates and spent 10 minutes looking in the wrong spot then came back, changed the co-ords and found it pretty quickly. The area where the face is looks a bit suspicious... Cache log was wet. Probably need a new container. Really fun cache! Thank you

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Took a while but got it

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders. Basing ourselves in Peterborough for a few days to grab finds in the surrounds. Log book is quite damp so needs attention.

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches as we go. Thanks, Wombat Stew, for a very interesting multicache.

The there of us were heading home from Orroroo and stopped here for a rest and to find a cache.We headed over to the calculated co-ordinates and Mr Tardis found the cache in the first place he looked - don't you just love it when that happens?Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Wombat StewPS: Sorry for the late log. Slowly getting through logging my finds.

Nice and easy quick find great place to stop have a rest and eat something tftc

Time for a Tuesday Trekking again.
Today it was a duo of cachers, as Brisal5, was unable to join us today.
Ttrogg picked up the Rat from the Rat's nest.
We then headed north, chasing boxes.
After having lunch in the near by park.
We ventured over to do this multi.
A quick find and stamp.
Have to love the history lesson.Tftc

After picking up the Rat from her nest we went on a Tuesday Trek in a northerly direction . My main aim was a newish AdLab in Clare, after that we continued north where there were quite a few Used 2B Churches that needed to be found. The day's list also included a variety of physical caches and even a virtual. Another satisfying day's caching before heading home for some relaxing.
Had just had lunch nearby then returned to where we'd parked before lunch for some figures then drove around and parked at GZ for a quick find.
Thanks to Wombat Stew for putting out this cache.
Cache #13690 for me.

This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).

****SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!****

Vic school holidays so kids and I are road tripping to explore the Eyre Peninsula. Now it’s time to meander home! Great little multi. Thanks! Thanks for the fun and adventure!

TFTC. It’s very water damaged. Couldn’t sign.

Left the van at Spalding and caching around Jamestown, after a short stroll cache was in hand, tftc

Read the story , did the maths and found the cache

TFTH

Day of caching the area with a muggle mate. He actually caught on pretty quickly, and had a sharp eye in the search phase. Navigation not so good!! Enjoyable local history, and an SA icon. With coordinates calculated, had to pause while a red muggle ute sat near gz and had lunch. Returned later for the find. Tftc

Hard

Cool history lesson, and nice walk! Cheers cobber.

Peterborough to Jamestown
While towing the caravan we stopped along the highway where it is safe to pull over.
Once we had dropped our caravan at the camping ground we did a tour of town following the geocache trail. This was a good way to visit town for our 1st time.
This was the closest cache to where we are camped.
Thanks for placing the cache.

Nice find and good piece of history. Tftc Wombat Stew

TFTC. Quick grab. Good Co Ords.

Found

Found it - only a very short walk to get there! The 0 in the clue is something

I was in Jamestown for work so I found a couple caches while I was here. TFTC Wombat Stew

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Multis are usually not my thing, so it wasn't surprising to me to find a lot in my found database that hadn't been logged.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!

Thanks Wombat Stew (F=449 H=9) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

This was another must as it is an old cache which GT37 loves. Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

As soon as I noticed how old this cache was, it went on the 'to do' list. Found nice and quickly once we had the details needed. Thank you for placing this cache and maintaining it for so long.

The Non Wangaratta Event Tour 2021!
Covid has postponed the Mega in Victoria until January but leave had been granted for AnyMules to attend with me and Bushfire. So Anymules and I went on a tour to Eyre Peninsular and mid north South Australia instead whilst Bushfire joined us in spirit only as covid meant he couldn't come here either. Not needing anything for my yearly goals I hoped I didn't add too many to the DNFs [B)]

DAY 5: Exploring some mid north towns.
grabbed some numbers and soon had the cache in hand.

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers from over fifty to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks Wombat Stew for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

A quick multi while in town.

Thanks for the cache Wombat Stew.
Found on 19/11/21 at 10:57.
Find #14788.

We have been travelling around this great country, calling into see many different places,
now is a quick chance on the computer to catch up with logs and to put some smileys on the map for where we have been.
Thanks to all the COs for some great finds.
TFTC

Ok

An amazing story, part of Australia’s history.
Learning more about a true blue Aussie was quite interesting.
Sifting through all the family information, we had the number crunching process underway.
Looking good as the sun goes down on another beaut day in paradise.
The only muggles around were out in the paddock, munching on the green green grass.
Stunning colours for a great was to Honour such an important character in Australia’s history.
Thanks for sharing this interesting location.
A favourite point from us for the Aussie Iconic Character
TFTC

*Find # 478*

Interesting how RMs have gone from bush clothing for hardworking Aussies to being primarily worn by Big 4 corporate drones sitting in air conditioned offices - wonder how old Reg feels about that..

Thanks Wombat Stew!

After scrounging to find a pen that works and some paper to write the coords in it was an easy find. TFTC

We travelled from Portland Victoria across to WA to see our daughter in Perth. Now we are slowly heading home via Yallingup, Denmark and Esperance. Having now crossed back into SA we stayed a night in Streaky Bay, Whyalla for three nights of miserable weather and now we have about 3 nights to get back home.
Today we travelled from Whyalla to Jamestown.

After setting up camp we headed out to visit a couple of the local spots of interest.
Thanks for showing us this part of the world Wombat Stew

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 10, Jamestown and surrounds north.

Great history, worth a read.

TFTC

out with Mr Bee and future Keith checking out the history. Who would have thought Reginald would be a name we continue to hear. tftc

So we did it, we took the plunge and early last year made arrangements to sell our little hobby farm in South Gippsland and ‘do a Big Lap’. Then Covid hit , super bad timing but it just made us more determined to go.
No full lap is complete without a lap of the little island first. So after tidying up our affairs and putting everything into storage, we celebrated Christmas with our families and hit the road.

We recently spent 7 magnificent weeks in beautiful Tasmania, then we just did a quick trip down the west coast of boring old Victoria, making our way to South Australia.
There we spent 20 odd days along the Limestone coast, bagging out on Abalone most days, very few crayfish though The Fleurieu Peninsula and beautiful Adelaide done It was then off to the Barossa to follow the footsteps of my Great Grandfather who lived in a Willow Tree with his family. That was a highlight of the trip so far, we then raked a few crabs along Parham (Thompson’s beach of course ) and foraged for Razor fish at Port Wakefield.
The Yorke Peninsula has no called our name, we’ll be here for a week or so,
A few caches along the ways

Thanks for being one of the CO’s who supplied us with a cache to do on the way.
TFTC

28/03/2021 12:54:00 PM
Found after doing the nearby virtual with the same theme.
Thanks

Lovely day for it

Interesting read, quiche find. Container is missing lid and will need replacing. TFTC

Lid missing on container, log looks water affected, but is ok at present.

Rex and I left home on Friday[^], planning a quick trip to and from Saddleworth to try to get a FTF and some other caches[^]
I did not expect to end up having a lovely tea at Clare in the 'middle pub' with Mr and Mrs Kelly Gang and Mr and Mrs Froghoppin [^]
I did not expect to end up sleeping in the Corolla at Jamestown on Friday night in pouring rain
I did not expect to end up having a lovely breakfast at Jamestown in the [ek-wi-tee] Cafe on Saturday morning with chrispy89 either[^]
I did not expect to end up seeing chrispy89 again on Saturday as his ambulance was picking up a RFDS patient when I stopped at the airport for a cache[^]
Finally I did not expect to end up returning home Saturday night[|)][xx(][|)][xx(] after finding 2 FTFs, having 1 DNF which later was remedied with CO approval[:X] and having found a total of 27 caches over the 2 days

There was a camper van right near GZ and so Rex and I had to QUIETLY sneak up to make the find[^]
I lifted the cache container and out popped a lovely surprise![^] See pic

TNLN. SL. TFTC Wombat Stew

Quick find when i corrected my coordinates. Nice lIttle spot on our way home from a camping weekend in the Flinders. Cache was damp as it was missing a lid. Have placed it in upside down, hopefully it will dry out. TFTC.

Cache all wet and needs replacing

After staying in Port Pirie last night, today Davidwazza and I set out to clean up port Pirie before making a long detour via Jamestown to gawler for an evening event. We had a few targets with a 2001 cache near Jamestown to collect and a few others. All up 68 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Easy find after a very interesting read! What a man! TFTC

We thoroughly enjoyed learning more about RM Williams and his life before taking an easy stroll over to GZ. the cache has no kids but the contents are surprisingly completely dry. Tftc

Found with Bektheraccoon on our home from the nearby Bundaleer rogaine. Thoroughly enjoyed this cache, deserves a FP. Cache had no lid (I hope it has no kids Bek :'D ) TFTC

Couldn’t help but find just one more cache for the weekend, this quick multi was the perfect choice. TFTC.

Found it with Tweety2 while the geokids stretched their legs in the playground. A rich piece of Australian history. Container needs replacing. TFTC

Today we are on our way from Peterborough to the Barossa Valley and are trying to pick up some caches on the way.

#4: Afer having red the information about Reginald, I could find all numbers and for once I was able to calculate correctly, so it was only a short walk to find the cache and sign the logbook.

Regards from Switzerland.

Got it.
TFTC

New Years Eve 'Diggers Walk Centenary' is on, so we snuck away from the crowds to work on this. TFTC

TFTC nice find on a day out lovely spot happy geocaching

TFTC this is such a lovely spot, everything is well cared for & it’s a great place to learn all about the history of such an iconic SA family.

Stopped here for the virtual and then found this one. An interesting read and a quick multi to start our holiday. Tftc

After reading his story, and doing some maths, I soon found this cache! Thanks for placing the cache Wombat Stew.

Great cache, enjoyed the hunt.

Last time i was here i only stopped for the virtual before moving on. This time i think i cleared the town out of caches. quick solve and sign.
slowly heading in the general direction of home after the June Long Weekend Event - Quorn 2019 with mogni. Any containers found damaged where replaced, and any log books found full or almost full replaced as well.

Found with e.gregory1 as we traveled through Dublin, Balaklava, Jamestown, Orroroo and Wilmington towards our destination at the Quorn June Long Weekend Event. Thanks for the cache Wombat Stew!

Found as I travelled up to Quorn with FeatherWaite for the June Long Weekend event.

Thanks Wombat Stew for the cache.

Interesting story
Now I now all about him

After staying overnight in Jamestown, we made an early start to look for caches in the town. This was the third. Whilst the name of R M Williams is well known, we knew very little of the history of this very interesting man. So we enjoyed coming to this site, completing the requirements for the virtual and collecting information for the multicache.

With the final coordinates calculated, we headed off to GZ where accurate coordinates and a common style of hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Wombat Stew for the cache.

Easy find and no trouble calculating GZ coordinates.
Found while camped in the RV park.
TFTC

This was predicted to be another hot day, so we headed out of Peterborough and set our sights on the Clare Valley area, as did ilook4geo. Some caches were picked out for the hunt list and represented the towns and districts that we travelled through. It was a mix of types today, with traditionals, a multi and a virtual.
Each cache had its log signed with two more names and photos were taken for the virtual.
The info boards here were easy to read, were clearly set out and interesting. The numbers needed were soon worked out and after a short walk the cache container was quickly located.
Thank you to Wombat Stew for this cache placement.

We decided to look for some easily found cachers today as it was going to be quite hot. Each cache log was signed and was put back as it had been found. Interesting info here to read for the new co-ords. TFTC.

Another quick find for the day. Tftc

Easy find
Tftc

Easy puzzle and a nice easy find nearby

Nice quick multi. TFTC

This was a funny find as mogni and I needed to make the find. CP waited at the car and we headed to our endpoint which led us to a spot that looked likely. We made the find, a nearby camping muggle spotted us, we told them about our hobby, they were appeased and then we spotted a caching mates caravan. Wanting to be friendly, we headed to the caravan and had a chat, leaving poor CP waiting at the car. Lol.
TFTC Wombat Stew and it was great to meet you later one in the day.

Out for a very long day with Aussie M & M and CPWanderer. We covered many kilometres and managed to find about 40 caches including an event
We managed to get ourselves to GZ without to much difficulty.
Thanks to Wombat Stew from mogni

In Jamestown for a caching event and filling in a few hours before it starts. Gathered the required information ok but it took a little bit longer to get the cache due to a busy campground. Once all muggles had their backs turned we made a quick snag and tag. tftc

Had to go and recalculate and then a very easy find. Tftc and the history.

Best set of boots I ever had came from this bloke!
Amazed how popular this rest stop is.
A very well known figure.
Found along with Jack and Sebastbat.
Thanks for the cache Wombat Stew

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 10095. We found this as part of our 2018 Round Australia trip.

I stuffed this one up at first and went to the wrong spot. After coming back I recalculated and then made a quick find.

Thanks Wombat Stew for the cache.

We do love a spot where we can get two caches for the price of one stop. Collected the info from the boards and then made the short walk to find the cache there were some vans parked at GZ but thankfully no one around to interrupt my search. Found just as the heavens opened for the umpteenth time today TFTC

Traveling home via Snowtown, Broken Hill, Cobar, Dubbo, Forbes, West Wyalong &Temora, finding a good variety of cache types and hides. I visited some interesting historical towns and bush locations, which made the round trip well worth the drive.

An interesting multi, and enjoyed reading about Reginald. Collected the required information and proceeded to GZ. Signed the log and replaced.

Many thanks for placing this cache, Wombat Stew, for us and others to find.

An easy cache to find, I stopped at the park to get a few caches. Be careful when grabbing the cache, I accidentally pushed it further away!

Eagle was busy reading signs, so Owl quickly gathered the required information, did the calculations and bolted off to find the cache. Not in the first place she looked, but still a quick find and another multi under her belt. Thanks!

Found during a day trip up North...a pleasant park for a walk with CPwanderer...
TFTC Wombat Stew

Found with hevwalker !!!! Someone was setting up camp nearby but we grabbed the cache with stealth!!

While here doing the new virtual cache we answered the questions for this one.
He was such an interesting fella who achieved quite a bit in his lifetime.
We loved reading the information boards all about him.
Once we had the required numbers we toddled over to GZ where we easily found the cache.
TFTC

At last we are back on the road and back into finding a few caches. We spent the night in Jamestown and attempted some of the local hides.

It was great to learn a little of the history of this famous Australian

Many thanks for the cache Wombat Stew[^]

Extensive search, no idea!

Found with Csaba!

We needed to wait until the convoy of RVs had left. EZ find in the end.

Over the years I've picked up a few bargain RMW products: the boots, of course; a nice casual jacket and some red bandanas. All on sale. Oh, don't forget that cap with the suede brim - very stylish.

Thanks for the cache, Wombat Stew.

Never wore the brand but an amazing story. Solved and found with Malco!. Thanks

An interesting story about an iconic brand

Nice and easy all ok TFTC

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
After traveling around the mid north working for the day i arrived in Jamestown and had some time spare before dinner. So what better way to kill some time than grab a cache or two. Wandered around the town making short work of several caches. Quick finds sign log and replace. Great Multi this one. Learnt a lot. There used to be a cache outside the Prospect factory. Unfortunately it is now defunct.
Gratias pro cache Wombat Stew