View 110 Whyalla Jenkins, South Australia, Australia
By cslyoda & cincol on 12-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2F1TE

Thanks for the cache

Misydancer a hpo skip and a jump down low

On my way to Cowell for a couple of nights. Will finish off a lot more caches around Whyalla on way back

Nice easy find and lovely view looking back into Whyalla TFTC

Found while picking up a few of the FTF PT series on a wet and drizzly day. All logs signed as Geopenta or GP. Cheers for placing this cache.

Find #5922 on 27 Jun 2023.
TFTC cslyoda!

SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - Feb 29th, 2024. Keep the date free!

Staying at Iron Knob and working on the FTF PT series tftc

Thanks

Easy find

Another day of our celebrations of birthday week for the cats, Purrfect Di and Mattycat kept on birthday caching to see what we could unwrap in the way of iron triangle log books. Yours was one we found along the way, with the help of Jack. Good fun time for all and an insight into the impact of mint tins on the aussie steel industry [:o)] Most finds were straightforwad, some were a little obscure, and some were just rusting away!!! A good way to keep fit on a warm day.

Quick find here. Nice views everywhere.

Sincere thanks to cslyoda for placing and maintaining this cache on our geo game map


[:o)]

We must note that we certainly do appreciate the way those mint tins age to blend in with the rusty outback earth!!! Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, plastic cracks and mint tins rust!
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Searching around every day finding and signing using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S20+, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Quite a lot of that actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*


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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
Keep a lookout for bogs, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

Try to keep Travel Bugs as the only bugs you share and pass on
Now our borders are open - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


Much appreciation of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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A great caching start to Twenty Twenty Too

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On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. TFTC cslyoda
Find #7459 at 19:30.

Out on caching adventures grabbing JASMER grid finds on the Eyre Peninsula with Wollaston.

Thanks to the CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain these hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with stamp

TFTC cslyoda

Find # 5081

Only a few more to find to earn the next souvenir.. TFTC.

TFTC. Day 2 of our Whyalla geocaching trip and we decided to tackle the FTF - PT series from Whyalla to Iron Knob.

Having previously completed the Iron Knob end of the trail, it was time to do the rest!

Unless already logged with a “note”, caches and logs were in good condition.

Happy caching and safe travels!

Goal to pick up approx 40. Quite the marathon with muggle husband. This will be a generic post. A couple I couldn’t get lids off or were too wet or no logs. Unfortunately I wasn’t prepared. Was a last minute decision. Thank you for taking the time & placing them. Tftc

Found this 1. It's small not big

This is small not large.

Found it.

TFTC

Today was a big day of caching on my bike on the Iron Knob road. Geohusband and the hound were vehicle assisting me in the motor home. It was great for my morning tea and lunch stops. Cycled about 15kms and found about 50 caches for the day.
Finished the day in the city collecting a couple of must do caches and dinner at the pub. Our friends think we are mad having a day of our holidays in Whyalla but they don’t geocache .
TFTC and being a part of this great series.

This weekend, I headed to Whyalla to catch up with a few other Geocachers and attempt some of the trails there. On Saturday, we targeted the FTF power trail from Whyalla to Iron Knob, and then spent the evening and the subsequent morning driving some of Whyalla's back tracks. On Sunday, I visited Cowleds Landing and back north, only to get severely bogged in one of Whyalla's clay pans. I then returned home via the August series.

Today, I joined hevwalker and scramping with our goal to complete the FTF power trail. We got 75% through before taking a break for lunch in Iron Knob, and then completed the remaining geocaches, finishing in the early afternoon. We then visited the new Whyalla circular jetty, and then had dinner at the Eyre Hotel geocaching event. Finally, we headed out for a quick stop at Whyalla Conservation Park, and then headed around the tracks around the levee finding miscellaneous geocaches, all within a nice and balmy evening.

A quickish find at this location. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks cslyoda & cincol for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

On hevwalker and our Whyalla holiday.....Davidwazza joined us for a fun day of caching..... with clear skies and warm weather we set off with the aim to do some of the FTF power trail. Our plan was to get as many as possible in the day. My aim was to beat my previous record of 106 in a day.....yes...smashed it thanks to my friends and our quick finds. TFTC

In Whyalla with scramping on a mini getaway holiday...
Today Davidwazza joined us as we set about finding all the caches in the FTF PT series and any others that got in our way This was one of those but great to find it among the others...
Most of the caches we located quickly and easily...I did say most...the rest took a minute or 2 more...
The day was warm and the sky was blue as we made our way to Iron Knob...
TFTC cslyoda & cincol

Tftc

Tftc

Yes

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Found It!
A quick find here while caching the FTF powertrail. Not a bad view either, could see a train coming in the distance.
TFTC

Found whilst caching with Davo1063
Great trail, we found a few, we replaced a few
This one needed a new log book today, so we replaced it
Cool series
TFTC

Enjoyed driving many country roads of the Eyre Peninsula, looking at the crops, great views and finding caches
TFTC

Back at Whyalla for a Caching / Ore Train photography trip, i still have unfinished business re: lots of caches yet to find and grabbing a few Ore trains when they arrive... Caching comes first naturally coz this beats waiting around for the trains It's a Win / Win situation [^]

SL at 09:46 on Thu 16 July 2020. The cache and contents are good and dry

TFTC cslyoda and cincol

Day 301 (Thursday 25th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Whyalla today. A total of 45 for the day and 5821 for the trip. TFTC

Easy find

Found this one while doing the FTF PT. TFTC

TFTC small cameo is fine, log a little damp after recent rain

Found the cache .sirry unable to replace .
Tftc

Quick find
Caches has no lid at all

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Found on 21/9/19

Yep we got it
Signed and replaced
TFTC
Nice ️

A quick find as we head reds Iron Knob doing the FTF series.

Quick find on the way to Whyalla
Thanks for the cache

A quick find here as I head back into town on the FTF trail...

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

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Day 5 of the Perth to Adelaide trip where we started in Whyalla and ended in Adelaide.

Today was about finding as many caches as possible and starting / warming up to the larger power trails that bought us over here.
We completed the FTF series and the Letterbox caches.

During the morning we found the majority of the days caches, some highly favourited first up also.

Anyway the day has time limitations to it as we were hosting an event that started at 6pm and as it were we made it there at 5.59pm so early however the crowd of people there before us was rather pleasing.

It was great to see so much energy around Geocaching at the event the Adelaide teams really know how to impress and greet the visitors with a beer, thanks Freddo!

cslyoda I found your cache View 110 thanks for placing this hide for myself and others to find.

Day 5 of Barnzy and Cravo’s trip from Perth to Adelaide.

Today we travelled from Whyalla to Adelaide via a number of country towns.

We started bright and early just before sunrise to pickup a couple of caches North of Whyalla that had some high favourite points which had tickled our fancy.

We then moved our attention to the FTF power trail, which started just out of Whyalla and took us all the way to Iron Knob. Found a good variety of difficulty and terrain combinations along the trail, with some interesting hiding spots. There were a couple of DNFs and caches that took a while to find which stretched out the time taken to complete the series.

We eventually made our way to Iron Knob and picked up the couple of caches around town which were quite nice in a very small mining town.

We were pushing the time factor quite hard, so skipped a fair few caches, but had to stop in at Port Germain to grab the aptly names Port Germain cache, which filled in a spot on the Jasmer grid, and its where I rolled my ankle running back to the car which made things a bit difficult for the rest of the day.

The other main target for the day was the Postman Pat Letterbox Hybrid Series, which were great quick finds of nicely sized containers.

We left the LBH trail and made our way to quickly check into the accomodation and made our way to our event in Lights Square “Sandgropers in the City”, which we made it to exactly one minute before it started, but a good sized crowd was already waiting to greet us, which was really nice as it was at last minute we had the event published.

It was great to finally put some faces to names we’ve only seen in logs, in particular the SA legend Freddo and TeamAstro. It was very interesting learning of the large scale model of the solar system, of which we had found one of the caches on the Nullarbor on our way over.

After bidding farewell to the event attendees we grabbed a bite of food and walked around the CBD caching, with mixed results.

found while doing the ftf power trail. quick find

8/55 for today - my best day so far.
Whyalla to Iron Knob through to Renmark. Stopping whenever I felt like it, wherever I felt like it, if there was a cache nearby anyway.
I drove past a lot but didn't have time to get them all!

I didn't stop for a lot of these caches but enough to give me a good head start for the day.

Thanks

#2245

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

Found with e.gregory1 during a caching foray around Whyalla for the weekend. Thanks for the cache cslyoda & cincol!

Found with Featherwaite on a visit to Whyalla to find a few caches.

Thanks cslyoda & cincol for the cache.

Thanks for the cache

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Sun was shining and we had fun. Today we drove from Port Augusta to Wyalla, but not the most direct route.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today our journey continued from Port Augusta to Whyalla and back. Some trail caches and others logged on the way.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache!
Greetings from Finland

Found on my 24hr Geocaching mini-adventure, to get my stats up to 100 finds. This one took me a little while, I spent a while searching in the wrong area before expanding my search area and finally coming across it. The logs are a little weather worn and would love to be replaced. TFTC!

Back out caching again today with CAD - grabbing a few more caches on the FTF Power Trail ... T4TC:)

Enjoyed exploring Iron Knob with DBO- and undertaking FTF Power trail TFTC 21t

On the road to Iron Knob, and finding as many of the FTF PT series as I can, an interesting mix of hides and some I didn't find. A most enjoyable day out, many thanks to all the hiders for the placements.

This was the second day spent picking up more caches along this power trail between Iron Knob and Whyalla. We found most of them with just a few misses for various reasons. We enjoyed finding these caches and were very happy to pick up some more unloved caches. Thank you to cslyoda for placing this cache.

Yep the view is pretty amazing once you get away from the town. Tftc tnln

The "container" is still in good nick but the ants have been busy making little ant babies and they have turned the logbook into confetti. Would have replaced it but didn't have a log to spare with us. We have evicted the current tenants.

Another quick find on our days shopping expedition to Whyalla. The ants an other bugs have eaten the log and it is now confetti. TFTC TFTH TNLNSL

Smart little cache nice one
Tftc
☆☆☆☆☆

I was, very generously, offered a trip to Whyalla with Moneydork that was too good to refuse!
Today was a working day so while Moneydork worked, I cached Whyalla and the FTF PT
Then after he'd finished work in Whyalla, it was off to Port Augusta for more work, then we finally headed home ...still caching of course! [^]
Sadly, today was a day of 7 DNFs although 58 finds were made and the last cache of the day for me was a FTF at Redhill

A quick find today while doing the FTF PT nearby.
Neat spot, too.

TNLN. SL. TFTC cslyoda

Great cache found it thanks.

Catching up on some late, very late and extremely late logs (400 in all)

I would like to thank cslyoda for placing this cache. I always enjoy getting out and about to view this great country of ours and caching allows me to do that. Once at GZ, I sometimes find the cache quickly but sometimes it takes awhile to sus out the well camouflaged hide. Once found, log is signed and the cache is rehidden as found.

Once again thanks cslyoda.

Another great find while on holiday in the area.

An area I have never been to before - enjoyed doing this trail.
Thanks for the cache!
SL

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache cslyoda..

Found along with SnapHappy, The Empire and Wozzle on our trip out to see Iron Knob, The Birthplace of Iron Ore in Australia. Lots of laughs, great caches and opportunities for Photo stops today. We signed the logs as Team Vic, My thanks to all the hiders on this trail today.

[Red]I apologise for the late log... Problems with GSAK and crashed computer...[/Red]

[green]Find #6398[/green]...

Found this while House Sitting in Virginia...

Had sully1, The Empire and wozzle68 visiting from Mexico over the school holidays... We had decided that we would try and clean out some of the MANY caches around Sth Oz...

A bit of a stroll, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned... Great company and a fantastic day out... To save space in the logs, we logged as TeamVic...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment cslyoda...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Found with Sully1, Snaphappy and The Empire, it was a very enjoyable road trip with lots of laughs all the way. thanks for the cache and the contribution to Geocaching.

Found by The Empire with Snaphappy, Sully1 and wozzle68 (TEAM VIC)
A big day, starting in Whyalla, heading to Iron Knob and back again. Over 100 caches found for the day, plenty of laughs too! We started a bit before 9am and were finished a little after 5pm. Plenty of big trucks, trains and scratches on my legs along the way! Thanks to all the hiders for their effort.
- M

Found at 12:54 PM GAFF1 in the company of maccamob. We signed the log book as "M & P".
Nice view of the mountain from here - it dominates the whole vista.
Thanks cslyoda.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass (signed as m & p), at 1255. Now we understand the cache name. Our thanks to cslyoda.

TFTC!

Tricky one but found it! Needs new paper though as it was all wet and soggy

Tricky

The mob13

[font=Verdana]21181 caches found

Doing FTF - PT for the day - enjoyed myself - some caches make me a good smile some make me nut but everything went good... I didn't like bush scrub due to scratched my arms - Thanks god I wear long pant.

Enjoyed drive the car to see lovely our country Aussie. [^] [^]

Thanks for hide the cache for me to found it
Again thanks cslyoda[font=Verdana][^]

Day Eight of the WA road trip with BettyBoo3747. Today we hit the FTF power trail that runs out of Whyalla towards Iron Knob. We also grabbed a handful of other caches on the way.
We started at #81 and worked our way back to #30 then went back into Whyalla for lunch. After lunch we came back out and did a few more, not quite completing the series, but enough for us today.
The weather was lovely - overcast and a slight breeze, very nice for jumping in and out of the car.
A good collection of nice sized caches and interesting hides.
Just one thing - take BB's advice and don't do what she did and wear shorts for this series

Just a cache that got rolled up with the trail. It is a nice view from here.
Thanks for this nice series, Robmc.

# 7749. Our second day in Whyalla and with grey skies, a mild temperature and a cooling breeze Robmc and I put plan A into action. This consisted of driving out to #81 and working our way back to town. We enjoyed morning tea in the shade on the side road before stopping at #30 and going back to our cabin for a couple of hours. We then returned and tackled most of the rest. We also grabbed a few others that were along the road. As we started at 8.30am and did the last ones around 5.00pm it did turn out to be a rather long and tiring day.

There were certainly a few cute, bizarre or unexpected hides amongst the routine ones of tubes and eclipse tins. Bisons were certainly rarer than anticipated which is probably a good thing as we made hard work of locating these today. Keep eating those Fish Oil Tablets - they make good-sized containers.

As with the other hides along the trail at these poles this cache needs a maintenance check and a new log.

Thanks cslyoda

Thought I would finish work early today and find a few caches , tftc these are one of my favorites caches

After arriving late in Whyalla last night I made a reasonably early start on doing the FTF PT trail plus any of the other caches nearby to them from Whyalla towards Iron Knob. Mistraluna and I had done the other caches near Iron Knob last year on the way back home from the SA Mega.

Most were found without problems with a few DNF's along the way. The last cache was done about 8 pm before heading off to Port Augusta.

Thanks cslyoda for the cache.

A quick detour from the nearby trail. Thanks for the cache cslyoda.

[Teal] As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache. Dad did most of the hard work here and the detail of our find can be found in the Rats log. Sorry for the duplicate log but it takes nothing away from the find.

Thanks for showing us this spot on our trip.
TFTC[/Teal]

As we head from town to town as part of our "Purposeful Meander around Oz" the Rats and the Mini Rats found this cache.
We did part of this powertrail today as we had a few hours to spare. There were some interesting hides and the nice part was we used the dirt trail making it safe for the kids.

Thanks for being part of our great adventure.
TFTC

Thought it was going to be a Territory Favourite Hide but we were wrong
TFTC

A bit of daylight after work, managed to find a few before the daylight faded away, we dark clouds around Mt Laura stood out in the full sun quite spectacular TFTC

A lovely view
Mt Laura was basking in the morning sunshine.
And all was right with the world

TFTC.

Found with TPP
HAVE A GOOD ONE GUYS
TFTC

TFTC OUT WITH SARS 12. Great day for caching. Thanks again. So nice to be out in the sunshine on this beautiful holiday Monday, happy birthday Elizabeth.

Day 3 of our Whyalla trip
We left the caravan park at 8am as the geo wife had a huge list of caches to find .We cached non stop until 5.30pm and in that time we managed 100 finds and a few DNFs we found a variety of caches some were found quickly but others took awhile in the prickly bushes .
After our day of caching we meet up with Felix II and headed of to the footy club for a bite and drinks .
TFTC

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia after having attended Oz Mega.

Today we found the weather very warm for tackling this 'power trail' the hides were considerably more difficult than we had anticipated and it took us all day to complete most of the series.

We can only thank our cache mates iluvtrekking as we (FelixII) were both completely over it by 1pm.

The combination of heat/tiredness/DNF's and frustration were mounting.but whilst that may sound negative we actually don't like standard power trails so hmm seems we just are too hard to please really Im thinking. [:o)]

In the end I think if we had tackled this trail over 2 days we would have found it more enjoyable. There was a nice variety of hides and camo's spread amongst the many.

TFTC

Today we left Bute on the fantastic Yorke Peninsula and traveled with Felixll to Whyalla picking up a few caches where is was safe to stop. Thanks for your cache cslyoda.

First two were fails but this one was nailed. Tftc

[Blue]# 9525 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
Many of the FTF trail visited today while at Whyalla for a few days.
Not many muggles along this road and not many cachers here lately either.
Most co-ords were good and some of the hides took a while to find.
Thanks for the cache cslyoda,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Found in the company of funkymunkyzone, vistra and yorkshirekiwi83 on a caching day trip to Whyalla. Signed as FYVS.

Thanks!

Today it as time to team up with Vistra, slieschke and funkymonkeyzone and head from Port Augusta to Whyalla for an event held there later in the day, we decided we would hit as many caches as we could before the event (signed as FYVS).

Decided to start by tackling the FTF series whilst in Whyalla, another find not from the FTF series, thanks for the cache.

Yorkshirekiwi83 and I are in South Australia, visiting from New Zealand for the Aussie Mega. Today we teamed up with Funkymunkyzone and Slieschke and headed down to Whyalla for the day, from Port Augusta, picking up a few caches along the way. For simplicity in signing the logs, we adopted a team name of "FYVS" meaning Funkymunkyzone, Yorkshirekiwi83, Vistra & Slieschke. After arrival in Whyalla we then headed out to do part of the FTF trail, finding most caches, but also DNF'ing a few also! Thanks for the cache!