Heavy Industry 1 Whyalla Norrie East, South Australia, Australia
By YeahRight80 on 11-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2EZHP

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Proved to be a quick one even in a business day.

Stopped by this one earlier in the afternoon but businesses were still open nearby and spooked me outta grabbing it. I knew exactly where and what it was having seen this type of hide so many times but i wasn't gonna risk compromising the hide by being seen by Muggles.

It was about 15 minutes before tea [18:00 - 20:30] at the Sundowner, that i quickly decided to race off and grab it while i waited another 15 mins before tea and businesses were closed {Small window there i tells ya' as my growling stomach objected, lol}

A quick find and sign at 17:53 on TGIF 26 April 2019 was made and i was on my way back to my 2nd Coopers Pale Ale Pint..... yeeeah!

TFTC Tempo 0 / YeahRight 80

Spotted this one as we pulled up. They certainly are easier to spot when you have found a few of them.
Nearly lost the door off the van here though - dammed wind!!!!
Thanks.

Dnf

The aging adds to the authenticity of it. I dismissed it first time for this exact reason. Although having one of my own, I revisited and came up with the goods. TNLNSL
TFTH
TFTC

Easy find, first saw this style in Mt Gambier in 2007.
The cache type really should be listed as 'other'.
Starting show signs of wear and tear...

Spending a few days in Whyalla and found a few cache, or 300!
Had managed to solve all the puzzles before coming over too.
Of the nearly 300 found on the trip over and back from Adelaide, 95% were found within 50km of Whyalla Central, with approx a dozen dnfs also. Amongst all the finds was my 17000th find.
Also managed a lot of 'unloved' finds too.
What is it with Whyalla and mint tins? lol
TNLNSL
Thanks

Looked carefully but no luck.Muggle from FXD could now be a convert as he wanted to know what we were looking for and we hopefully enlightened him.

As I parked I looked up and I spotted the cache straight away.

232 days unloved.

[Scrat visited your Cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4376822)

TFTC Tempo 0

Wow! Hubby's keen eyes found it! First time seeing this type of cache. Log is wet so didn't sign.

#6548 - 09:55; Day 8 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune and albida33, so most logs were signed S.A.L. as a result. Caching in and around Whyalla today and along the roads into and out of town we collected 69 finds and 6 DNFs. We visited many places of interest today in our travels and most of our finds were in good condition. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC YeahRight80

Alice trip 2017. Day 6. With Sol de Lune and LuckL10n we spent today caching around Whyalla during a bit of s detour on our drive to Alice Springs. Heaps of caches with lots of DNFs we skipped but me managed a good day of caching. It was all quiet here today.

Thanks.

22956.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 Satellite V5 A#84

Albida

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n and Albida33. We headed through Burra and Port Pirie before arriving in Port Augusta for the trek up the highway. Collected a good number of caches and all were found with no issues and the logs were soon signed. (Some logs were signed as S.A.L. to save space.)

Thanks for the cache and fun in getting to it and finding it.

A clever hide but one that I have seen several times. This one has seen better days.

Had a second take.....looked once...dismissed...........looked again and success. TFTC

Hi there Tempo 0.

We found your cache **"Heavy Industry 1"** at 11:46:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 15825).

We cached around the Whyalla area today. On our trek we found a wide variety of container types. & ended up finding 4 caches with 1 DNF's.

Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

While having a forced stay in Whyalla with the wife in hospital it is a perfect opportunity to do some caching.
TFTC.

Another great find while in the area on holiday today.
Thanks for setting up this cache.

Soon had the container found and log signed.

Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. The cache was in good condition. The log, however, was damp but still signable. Thanks for the cache Tempo 0.

Found by Mary & David at 0926. Did a few caches around Whyalla this morning, before caching our way south to Cowell. Very appropriate today, as there are excavators everywhere. Spotted a familiar kind of hide shortly after arriving at GZ. Some stealth needed, with muggles coming and going from the adjacent businesses. Our thanks to Tempo 0.

Found on JLW15 road trip with the gang. Great hide

Gd cache, log is a bit damp tho

Easy find

Found one similar to this yesterday. TFTC

Back again I'm a little short one end but a run up and jump and it's mine thanks for the clue tempo!!!!

Caching eyes not working today don't know what to look for

nice one. if We hadnt found one similar one at Melbourne before would have never guess this is the cash! Celever

Found with Team Waldron and The White Dog Gang as part of a three day jaunt over to the west coast. This cache added to around 200 caches found in a range of bush and city settings in Whyalla, Port Augusta, Iron Baron and lots of other places. TFTC.

Doing a Whyalla & surrounding area run with Team Waldron & Trail 06.
This was one of the many we found.
Cool spot, thanks for bringing us here
TFTC Tempo 0

On a 3 day caching expedition to Whyall and beyond with Trail06 and The White Dog Gang.

All log books signed TW, T6 and TWDG.

We started in Adelaide went to Whyalla, Pt Lowy and Port Bonython, Iron Knob and Iron Baron, Kimba.

Apologies for the generic logs.

TFTC

Parked nearby to log a puzzle cache so grabbed this one at the same time. Thanks for the hide.

Pulled up at GZ and made a quick grab, signed and replaced. TFTC

Would have never guess that was the cache, great hide

Couldn't find it after about 30 minutes of searching. I'm sure I looked quite strange to muggles driving by. Kind of looked like I was going from tree to tree, admiring it as if it were art within a gallery, I'll have to come back to this cache another time

Well that one had us stumped for a bit...very clever hide, Tftc

No digging was done to retrieve this cache. Thanks Tempo 0.

no luck yesterday but with a very welcome hint we had no trouble today, so easy I cant see how we missed it. thanks

no two grey nomads from Vic wandering through SA, seeing the sights and collecting caches. no luck today maybe if we are ever this way again we can try

Day 6 of our Whyalla trip
Today we headed out early to do the PT sereis and some more of the local caches. We ended up with 56 finds and a few DNFS. Once again we found a variety of differant cache containers and a lot were found quickly but some had us searching for a while. This is our last day in whyalla before we start heading back to perth. We were hoping to find a lot more caches here but we have ran out of time so maybe we might have to come back sometime to finish them off. TFTC

[Blue]# 9618 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
Today was more of the FTF trail, the August trail and others while at Whyalla for a few days.
Not many muggles around and not many cachers here lately either.
Most co-ords were good which made them quicker to find.
Thanks for the cache Tempo 0,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Whyalla has a good variety of cache types, and hides for the area.
A quick find here, and the cache is in good condition.
Many thanks for the hunt today, Tempo 0.

Second one of this type of cache today, probably would have missed it otherwise. TFTC

A Great weekend away doing the Googs Track with good friends. Lots of different scenery and a lot of fun
We had a great time seeing some good ranges of different styles of caches now it was time to grab a few caches around the Whyalla area.

Thanks for putting these caches out for us to find Tempo 0

This was the only Heavy Industry cache we had time for today, before heading toward home around midday.
If we'd read the hint, it would have saved us looking in the wrong direction first [B)].
Seen a few of these before, so it was a quick find . TNLNSL.
Thanks again Tempo 0.

After completing our trek along the Googs Track and back through the Gawler Ranges, it was time to rack up some numbers in the Whyalla area - gee there are a lot of caches around here.

Today our focus was on the FITG series then down south to Cowell and return to Whyalla. Started out early but didnt get back until 10pm. TFTC.

Not what we were expecting. Didn't take too long......very clever cache idea.

GPS didn't like the power lines above but still was a quick find after reading some of the logs, thank goodness for sticks as i am a shortie : )

Quickly spotted .... quickly signed!! Thanks Tempo 0 for the hide!!

Need height to retrieve this one, Aussie M spotted it and CPwanderer retrieved it. There must be a few tall cachers around here but Julie from yakcm isn't one of them.... TFTC

I was really headed home today from a fantastic long weekend with the group on The Hunt for PMB16!!
I had stayed in Whyalla last night and today had the honor of being shown around some of the town's caches by fishingmad and his lovely geodaughter in the morning , then doing more on my own in the afternoon before leaving town for Adelaide.
All in all, 108 successful locus cache events and 3 DNFs for the 5 days away
This was one that I did on my own.

I once took 3/4s of an hour to find one of these hides...ok, it was my first encounter with them.
Found one in Albury/Wodonga while there last year for Oz Mega and that one had quite a few DNFs.
A quick find for me, I just had to time retrieval and replacement around the muggles in the heavy industry part of town.

TNLN. SL. TFTC YeahRight80

Arrived in Whyalla today to find a few caches in the area.
Have set up our caravan at Weeroona Bay Football Club.
Today we have been to scenic lookouts , beautiful beaches & park areas.
Thanks Yeahright80

Dad had to reach this one. Very tricky.

This is our second one of these. Love them. Tftc

6548. [green]Industrial areas appear to be magnets for micros - not that that is a clue. Or isn't it. [/green]

[blue]Thanks for the cache YeahRight80 and the grunt. [/blue]

All quiet this morning and had this one in under a minute, but this was without a handicap!

Thanks YeahRight80.

Found while in Whyalla for the "Moneydork's Moving On" Event. By this time of the day the rain was coming in heavily so we pulled up next to the location and spotted what we thought was the cache and turned out to be correct luckily or would have got more wet.

Nice hide

TFTC

At the location we thought it was the local swimming hole not an industrial area,Moneydork makes for very memorable exits,have one of these myself so it was a quick find,but still impressive,tftc

After meeting a few local caching teams for dinner Wednesday night we headed off to Mallala to try our luck at the power trails here,as we liked the theme behind each one. We got through "It's a small World" yesterday but ran out of light. We camped locally for a nice early start first thing in the morning. We had read the cache page on this one and thought that it would be much better done after hours so after dropping the camper at the caravan park we headed off to try our luck. We searched around for quite a few minutes and still came up empty handed and then when looking at the right angle we spotted something. It's very obvious when you see it but it's still a nice hide and we are happy to say that our name is now in the log.
Thanks Yeah Right 80 for the cache.

Cool cache.

I've seen a few of these cache types lately. It's surprising how easy they are to see but so inconspicuous. There was no traffic about in the early evening and no risk of being muggled.

A nice quick find

A walk up find but while signing log in the car business people started discussing equipment with customer, right in the corner of GZ. Drove off with cache but returned later in the morning to replace. TFTC

Just as well I'd already found Bunya's Redback, as I would never have found this one. Love it! TFTC

A quick find, fortunately I had heard about this type before but it is the first one I have seen.TFTC

Easy find! Getting it was another thing! Did manage it! tftc

Spotted it as we pulled up. Thanks

Found with JadedOptimists. TFTC.

2nd attemp at this one, but the geo wife's keen eye found the cache. Akela0

Found by geodad on the approach to GZ, while geomum was still looking at GPS. Geomum a bit vertically challenged and couldn't get even with the a stick. Retrieved by Geodad. TFTC.

Very nice.
A quality bit of hiding and worthy of a favourite point.

Thank you to the lovely lady who turned the tables on the knight in shining armour rescuing the beautiful damsel in distress scenario today by saving me when I had all but given up find a pesky nano today

A trickier wee hide - TFTC.

Looked in the obvious and not so obvious but no cache

had a good look but no luck for us today

Found one like this before so as soon as we got close bam there it was, now just what are we gonna do mmmmmm? Between all the drive by muggle we managed. TFTC

no luck today, to many muggles, maybe next time.

Enjoy.....

It took us a bit of time to find this one. We searched and thought and looked and thought and looked. Eventually hopped in the car to leave and then it suddenly became clear. Yep- sure enough, there it was. Thanks for the surprise hide.

Excellent camo - signed the log. Thanks YeahRight80.

No banging or machines working tonight. Not even a guard dog was barking. Lovely clear skies overhead

I went to replace the log but found the previous poster had inadvertently signed the wrong side. (blank) The log and cache are both fine and looking forward to your visit.

Found at 11.00am GAFF1. Had us wondering for a few moments and then the familiar hide flashed right there in front of us.
All previous log entries have been washed out!
Thanks YeahRight80.

No find after a couple of visits.

A very clever and well put together hide that blended in well. Had me searching high and low for a couple of minutes before I spotted a likely hide and so it was. TFTC!

Ms Bushies2 spotted it straight away because we have seen that type of cache before. Thanks YeahRight80 for the brilliant cache.

Glad it wasn't in that rather lethal-looking heavy duty power line that's drooping over the footpath.

Great hide. TFTC

Found on a drive from Cleve to Whyalla. TFTH

Found on a record 28 cache voogoofish record, TFTC, cheers

Love it, not seen one like this.
Just stood out to me and I was very happy when I grabbed it.

TFTC

Picked up with Kat after driving back from Port Lincoln and deciding to grab a couple before dark
Great cache, this is the second of it's kind in a short space of time

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting from Southern Cross Caching

Well nice quick find, I spy with my little eye ? Found it, great hide, TFTCSL Cheers from diggers09

Thanks for all the caches in Whyalla. Have had a good day so far. TFTC

Great to have lots of caches to do in this area without having to travel long distances. Thanks YeahRight80

For a moment I thought I was back in Karratha.

thanks

I want one of these containers
I reckon they are one of the better ones we have here in town at this stage
Was looking low for a long time until I saw a clue
and all of it flashed back to one found not so long ago

I could see from Google street view where the cache was likely to be.
Found it in about 3 seconds without my GPSr.
But couldn’t sign the log . . .
Added in edit:
. . . ah, that's better.
Thanks YeahRight80.

This entry was edited by Bunya on Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 23:13:25.

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FTF @ 5:29pm. Had all sorts of trouble getting a Sat Lock, but eventually put the GPSr away and used cachers brain. TFTC

This entry was edited by woodsy5 on Sunday, 26 September 2010 at 01:50:31.