Up in the back Blocks Basket Range, South Australia, Australia
By MannyisOM & BluebeardOZ on 27-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2PDYQ

Easy find - devastating story! TFTC

TFTC. Good question. Why are they still there?Enjoying the views??Quick grab and sign ??

Tftc!

Nice quick find on a morning out caching with Muggle Mum. Easy parking and room to turn around here. I agree with the previous finder, too hard to take them away again!
TFTC MannyisOM & BluebeardOZ

a quick find TFTC. Well I guess it's easier to leave them than try to take them out?

Once found the answer was concrete. TFTC

Lovely little spot.. very narrow road but easy to navigate in a corolla with a good parking spot ️
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Found while caching with friends TFTC.

Haven't been on this road for years but was able to recall some familiar sights. TFTC

An interesting outpost of the Adelaide Hills, a spot that you’d be unlikely to visit if there wasn’t a cache here.

The sign at the corner says “no turnarounds” so I decide to play it safe and walk the 700m from the intersection. It’s not as steep as it first looks.

At GZ there is ample room to turn a car around! I begin to head back up the hill, hear a rustle in the undergrowth, go to investigate (expecting an echidna) only to be greeted by the cute cache guardian in my photo - he shot up the nearest tree, pausing for photos.

A great afternoon walk, thanks MannyisOM

TFTC
Spectacular but tough bike ride to get here…..love it

Found TFTC

Revisited, cache in good condition. Left
a little guy and took a necklace.

Yes interesting to find these out here. Cache and contents are all good. TFTC

A quick find here, cache is all good

Today I set out from the morning from uni after doing some testing and with nothing to really do all day I decided to spend it caching. With an event in black hill in the evening I focused my search early on around the unley area before going up into the hills and enjoying the back roads before walking up black hill and collecting a few more caches.
All up 43 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Out & About with clare007 after work collecting a couple of caches close to home...
At the cache location there was a fire burning close by...a farmer must have been burning off but no-one in site...
The cache was quickly found before heading down the road...we stopped to take a photo of some beautiful fields of flowers...a great little back road...
TFTC MannyisOM

Wow, what a great area along this ridge that the road runs [^]
Views along the whole way on the road were great. Many, many cars stored half way along this road [:o]

Parked the Geo-Mobile right next to GZ to make a most quick find [^]

SL at 11:16 on TGIF the 21st of August 2020
This area is truly: "Up in the back Blocks" Re-hid the cache with some natural camo over it as it was most exposed upon discovery.

TFTC MannyisOM

The Adder was honoured to be invited out by two lovely ladies. A Rat and an Owl to grab a few hides in and around the Mount Barker area.

The Owl designated the Adder to be the navigator however she was not one to follow the directions given and had her own idea of how to get to the various Ground Zero's, quite often taking the wrong turn or the long way around.


TFTC

Nice drive to get here. Wasn’t to hard to find good score

Found

Another great cache for Father/Son caching! Quickly found while admiring the bent bike and the sheep skull. T: Gems L: Indian. TFTC!

Birthday caching with Purrfect Di and Sebastbat.
Yup... that's pretty out the back.
Continuing down that road makes one dizzy!
I think ETSA left some of their stuff behind... [:(!]
tftc MannyisOM

Found with CHL097 TFTC

Tftc found with Troysopher88 left starwars chick

Find #179!!!; thanks for the cache MannyisOM

Anyone want a French wrecking car; saw just a few on the way here....

Satloc not our friend here today. Tftc.

found on route to the Welcome TDU Cachers 2019 event. Decided to take the long or scenic way to the event, stopping at the caches along the way. quick find.

Tftc
Teb touched the spider!! :p

Found the cache out in the open. Not sure exactly where it was meant to be so did a quick makeshift hide. TFTC

Scenery is off the scale!

Mrs Snippy picked up Mrs Rat for some caching R&R. By the end of the day, Doctor Owl was back to her usual self, having collected a swag of smilies and smiles. This was a quick find to add to the total.

Mrs snipey Owl picked up the Calm Mrs Rat.
For a fun day of caching and frivolity.
Lucky for Mrs Rat the owl was no longer snipey, by the time we picked up this cache. TFTC

Woo hoo found among some big machinery! Burnt bike remains too. TFTC

Tftc

Easy find, bring pen

TFTC

TFTC!!

Took a mouse left some toys. Pretty easy find ig youve done this before. Now to the next one

Hmm why were these left here? Nice view!

Coordinates kept jumping but nabbed it eventually! Thanks

While in the area looking for the cache for a puzzle we saw that this cache was not to far away. We were pleased that as we got to GZ there was a very good parking spot, right next to the cache. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks MannyisOM for the cache.

TFTC!!:)

Walked past about 3x just needed a look coming from the opposite direction to spot it. My son took the $1 and left a key ring in return.

Tftc leftovers??? Lol tslssl

Found on a warm day in the hills cleaning up the last drive-by traditionals in my 24K SE quadrant.
Thanks for the cache MannyisOM

Found when out for a drive with Beary Organised, she had found it previously with her daughter. Very narrow road, but didn't meet anyone. TFTC TNLNSL

Found it with Mic1981 on a cold and windy afternoon. No trackable in cache. TFTC TNLNSL

Found nice and quickly with BearyOrganised on a quick afternoon caching run. SLTNLN TFTC

Tftc

A Great day out caching in the Adelaide Hills with
M-sez and Mathew & Kay

No:18 of 25

TFTC

Found with M-SEZ and knightech on a day out in the hills.

Out for a day around the hills and surrounds.

Was a bit worried because the sign said road closed ahead but I didn't make it to the closure.

They're there because it's too hard to move them.

TFTC

For some odd reason my GPS didn't recognise the road, so I took a punt and drove down as it was a short 750m from Blockers Ditch. There was an interesting collection of cars outside someone's house. Thought I had stumbled across a party or a car enthusiast! Anyho, parked near the driveway, found the cache, admired the view and more wildflowers and proceeded to reverse my car out of the narrow road. Thanks for the cache & awesome views MannyisOM.

Another stunning view. Amazing to soak this in after the fire. TFTC.

Day 7 in a row for 31 days of caching in August. Luckily I have this week off to drop the geodaughter at a course..which = all day caching. Joined by Mrs. M from Aussie M&M for todays frivolities.

Oh dear...the devistaion along this narrow, steep windy road. As previous logs suggested this cache was incinerated. So we have replaced it. Thanks MannyisOM for bringing us here. We would never had know the extent of this fire.

Caching with brisal5 today. This cache and the entire surrounding area had been devastated by fire. As previously stated by another cacher, the hide was gone. We had the makings of a large small or a small regular cache, so we replaced it for the owner. Owner was notified and has approved the replacement cache. Very moving to be here so soon after a fire, as I live in the Adelaide Hills, but nowhere near as dangerous spot. TFTC and bringing us here.

know just where this cache should be as I helped hide it... went past today... sorry it will not have survived the fire

This whole area was in the last few days burnt by a large bushfire, unsure whether the geocache survived.

An easy drive by.. TFTC

Wow, really in the sticks here, not even bitumin!
Quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

After spending the day trekking as part of the Fab Five (T_M, CoC, M!, FW and CB) the drive home was not to be without the odd find along the way.

If anybody needs some spare parts for a Peugot (any year) there is a guy up the road that must be able to help. Looked like a wreckers yard on the road. Strange place to find a stobie pole?? TFTC MannyisOM.

Found on the first day of spring with the sun shining, the kookaburras singing and the sweet smell of wattle thick in the air - what a great day for some geocaching Tnlnsl couldn't sign log - was all soggy and moldy. Have photos for proof if required. TFTC

Found by Mr & Mrs M-SEZ on an afternoon of kid-free caching. Had to take it easy with Mrs M-SEZ's precious geo-Camry on this road! A fairly quick find before gingerly executing a 3-point turn on the 'driveway' on the nearby bend. Now, for some strange reason I feel like buying a Peugeot...

TFTC

Quick and easy. Gotta love the collections of stuff along the road! T- soldier, L-giraffe. TFTC

Wooohooo this cache has it own drive way

Drove right to it could of reached out the passenger side and go it.. Scared my partner with a party popper and I think she might of soiled her self!!!

TFTC & to the person who left the party popper :D:D:D:D

Found on this cold wet morning. pulled right up to it TFTC

Found It!
Nice view from up here!
TFTC

Another quick find while kicking up dust on the backstreets.

Mmmm yes why was it left here?

We were amaze to see that even up here, on these roads, they still get a rubbish service. Would hate to meet the rubbish truck coming the other way . One of you would have to have their reversing skills up to speed .

The actual cache took longer to find than it should have, mainly because my GZ had us concentrating on another area and it wasn’t until we ignored it and searched further afield that we managed to turn it up.
Beautiful spot here today, with a ton of serenity. Thanks for bringing us here. Cheers .

After driving through the fog earlier, it was great to drive to this cache and see the fog in the valley below us , looking like a lake in the early morning sunlight [^].
We were having trouble with our GPS, so looked around for awhile before spotting the cache [8].
Took peg. Left hair clip. SL.
A little surprised we were FTF this year !
Thanks MannyisOM & Bluebeard.

A great drive through this part of the Adelaide Hills. A quick easy find. Took Thong Keychain, left Army Dude. Cheers.

Found this along with SEMIK, and then came along the other 4 cars full of Geocachers
Thanks MannyisOM for the cache

Found with a small group of adventurous geocachers the day after the 11/11/11 event at the Thomas Hill Study Centre.

Great hide, easy find.
Thank you for the cache MannyisOM!

Mr and Mrs Fluffy

Found with a fun group of cachers filling in an hour or so before dinner time back at Flippers Event nearby. Its so easy when there's a few of us. TFTC

Deb grabbed this while out with the froghoppins and scoobsters

Found out with a group of cachers attending the 11.11.11. event

We've never driven up here before and it was a lovely, slow drive. Very verdant during late spring.

Was up in the Lobethal area for the 11-11-11 Event - GC2YQYV - 'Come Rember with Me. Grabbed a few caches on the way up and the way home.

Have held a rally through this road in the past - it hasnt changed much. TFTC.

Found along with a group of fellow cachers attending the 11.11.11 event nearby. This is very pretty country. TFTC

A quick find while doing a caching run with some fellow cachers before returning to the nearby event, a lovely location TFTC

A very pleasant drive through the hills this morning, especially continuing on past here to the basket cache. Lots of wild flowers out making it very beautiful.

TFTC

A great road, which I haven't been up before. No problems locating the cache, a good hide. Some great views, but it was very windy here today. Thanks for the local history lesson. SL. TFTC.

What a great little road. Have never been through this one before. Very interesting. Some people have lived in the Hills far too long.
Cheers from the Posspet Boys

The guy up the road who collects cars and puts them out on dispaly is quite impressive.
The cache is also impressive.
Nice quick find on a lunch time run from Woodside.

Cheers and happy caching.

Came in from the Mawson Road end. I see the Peugot collection has grown somewhat since my last visit as they are now spilling out onto the road. Dropped off Ka Pai Kiwi TB. Thanks for the cache MannyisOM & BluebeardOZ!

Found the cache with Featherwaite. There are quite a few hoarders living along this road! TFTC.

An easy find on a windy narrow road. Took TB. Left a golf ball. TFTC.

Careful driving needed on the road to this one.
An easy find. TNLNSL
Thanks MannyisOM & BluebeardOZ for the cache.
(The answer to he hint could be: 'Because they were too hard to move')

What a mighty fine day to be winding through the hills and enjoying the autumn season changing the leaves with the camera in Ingrid's hands and the GPS in mine.
I've been into this area once before a long time ago when I had to do some work here.
We enjoyed coming this way.
Thanks for bringing us here, MannyisOM.
(Left a TB)
4:28 PM #785

I counted 23 Puegeots, a couple of Renualts and a Saab. And I thought I was obsessed.

Puegeots by the score. I shot this 1966 one. Looks like it still runs as it was parked at the front of the pack. Impressive. Must be worth at least $100 with a full tank.

The second cache I have done on this road and I always enjoy the area.
Today I cached by trail bike.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Nicely hidden. Thanks MannyisOM

Someone down the road has a bit of a fetish for collecting old crap Peugeot's. An easy find amongst ETSA's forgotten leftovers.
Thanks for the cache!

Found after coming from a basket cache. Never actually been on the lower section of this road. wound our way to the cache. Thx MannyisOM & BluebeardOZ for the tour.

Driving where neither of us had been before, we drove past this one... This time I got out with my Nuvi and had claimed the prize within seconds Signed the log and placed carefully back again. All done while Jnr Nowhere was sleeping soundly in the back seat of the Geo-Ute. TFTC

Now this really is the back blocks! Deliverence country even [^]
Cheers & TFTH again.

Nice little drive this one! Nowhere2Bseen took the honours while I waited in the Geo-ute with Nowhere Junior who was busily sleeping . Forth to find... not too bad for us! TFTC and the interesting drive in an area I hadn't been before.

Silver for the wanderer!!!! A quick find as it was in the first place i looked!!! Thought there was a party going on with all the cars at the house up the road but it looks like they just like collecting them. Thanks MannyisOM for the cache!!