Potty Time Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By YeahRight80 on 28-Dec-11. Waypoint GC39RTD

Im no longer as mobile as I was and find it difficult to get around to maintain these caches.

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, we started the day at a meet/greet breakfast event, and then I headed out with hevwalker and scramping for a few more geocaches south-west of Whyalla along the back tracks and main road, followed by the December trail series. I then continued south visiting Cowleds Landing and the proclaimed nudist beach. I next found *Potty Time*, only to realise that I had driven on the nearby clay pans, and then sank into the soft clay below on my way out. Eventually I had help in getting out, and finished my remaining time in Whyalla completing the pipeline August series, and calling into Whyalla Conservation Park for a few high favourite caches. I then made the long journey back to Adelaide stopping at a few miscellaneous geocaches along the way.

I initially approached this cache from the wrong direction, driving to the other side of the drain. It was only a few hundred metres to the cache, so my plan was to just "jump" the drain and then jog to GZ, however I soon realised that the drain was far from jumpable. I was going to leave this one and find others, but something in me thought ahh, I'll head past and make it a quick find too, despite needing to drive around the whole drain and across the vehicle bridge. I wish I had left it...

There were tracks that appeared to go quite close to GZ, and so I used Google Maps to navigate myself around the unmarked tracks. About 30-40 m out, I went down a small descent, and soon realised that the clay pans below me were quite soft, which started caking my tyres. I managed to get past that section, and park just near GZ, and make the find relatively quickly. An interesting sight of these old relics here. The cache container was in good shape, but the logbook was quite damp. Thanks YeahRight80 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

As I returned to my car, I was conscious about the hazard of the soft clay pans, walking around and feeling some areas not too bad, but others a little soft. I completed a U-turn, and started my way out, focusing on that soft section that I drove in through. I tried to miss that section, but in doing so, I drove right into a worst soft section, getting completely stuck! I tried to reduce air in my tyres, but the damage had been done; I had broken through the clay pans crust, and I was just spinning. I managed to get help from hevwalker and scramping, and we spent the next hour trying to dig and get traction, but I had severely worsened my rear RHS tyre in the clay. When that strategy didn't work, we made a detour to an automotive store to purchase maxi tracks and a shovel, however by the time I had returned, a local had seen my situation, and came prepared with his Prado to pull me out. Anyway, lesson learned; beware of the clay pans!

After a great day and evening of caching with hevwalker and Davidwazza yesterday where we did the FFT powertrail, visited Iron Knob, back tracks and miscellaneous caches of Whyalla we started off the day with an early breakfast event put on by Davidwazza. It was going to be a really hot day 41 degree day forecasted (but got to 43) so after doing some caching in the morning we decided to go back to the cabin where we could sit in the airconditioning and log some caches and plan what caches we would that night...... then we got the phone call......Davidwazza was in need of some help......we were given directions how to find him and warned to be careful on the clay pans as he had broken through the crust and was bogged...after parking at a safe distance we commenced using different 4wd recovery techniques and ideas... when these didn't produce the desired result we all jumped into hevwalkers car and sourced a store opened to purchase some retrieval equipment only to find on our return a very friendly local, who had seen our predicament, had arrived to help tow the car out. While we were there we thought we should at least get the cache that had been the reason for his visit....found quickly and signed. TFTC Davidwazza and YeahRight80. A fav point for the adventure we had.

Found David bogged

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This is a good one!

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Yep

THE PAIN IT TOOK TO GET OUT HERE

Such a great find. TFTC. It's great heading out to places around Whyalla we've never explored before

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First time find. Just don't go out when its wet.

Easy find with weets6
TFTC

Can see why it’s called Potty Time! Could give you the sh.......ts really!!!

Walking up the track that follows the drain i was wondering how i was gonna get across. An attempt at the far end was aborted for fear of sinking to China but another attempt closer to the main road some 40 metres saw success thanks to the support of very thick couch grass growing in the creek. It supported my weight but there was a 2 to 3 metre part where i did go down but it was only about 1ft deep and firm underfoot, so over i went to make my way to the nicely hidden cache [^]

Found the nice sized container in A1 condition but a bit dusty and dirty so that was blown off and the cache was cleaned up a bit aswell.

SL at 17:13 on Tuesday the 18th of February 2020.
TFTC Tempo 0

Wanted to get a decent sized cache after a mornings diet of mint tin sized caches but alas it wasn't to be. After passing the last shooting club I continued along the track before nearly got stuck in the mud. Shall return in drier times!!!

Drove within 40 m of the cache, log signed and cache replaced.

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

TFTC Tempo 0

found after doing the august power series, quick find.

24643 finds
On the way to Whyalla - stayed there for few days to catch up the caches which I didn't finish all the cache on 2015...
Enjoyed myself around this town/country.
Thanks Tempo 0 for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Hi there Tempo 0.

We found your cache **"Potty Time"** at 12:31:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 15873).

We cached around the Whyalla area today. On our trek we found a wide variety of container types. & ended up finding 5 caches with 0 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.

###Thanks for placing a large cache here. It is really sad to note that the trend of placing small caches (without swaps) is increasing. While nanos and eclipse tins sometimes have their place in an urban environment these, along with 200ml Sistemas, seem to be the norm these days even out in more remote areas. It made us feel really glad to find a large, kid friendly cache here.###

**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:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

This was great. Interesting area. I was a bit hesitant because the luck I've been having I feared I'd be up to the axels never to drive away again. Bridge referenced is closed. GC referenced is not visible either....so a slow drive out poking my nose into a few bits proved fruitful in the end. TFTC.

Pretty cool cache, cool to see the cart and all the buckets. Buckets everywhere. Pretty disgusting at the same time. TFTC

found it drove right up to it didnt get bogged at all still smell like shit hahaha

Sweet

GoodLook very, very badly wanted to attend a special event, so who was I to tell her she was going overboard with geocaching [?]
Today was the Main Event day, the sole reason for our being up in Whyalla (accompanied by Laighside Legends) and the first thing we did in the morning was to get into a tri-hulled aluminium diving boat and cruise to 6km offshore so that we could attend fishingmad's 5T event
We had a blast and it was huge fun showing GoodLook around parts of Whyalla that she hadn't seen before I think her logs say it all!
Today was a day of 2 events attended , 2 DNFs and 24 cache finds

Unless mentioned otherwise, please know that your cache and log book was in good condition.

An awesome place for a geocache!
Loved this spot and all the visual reminders of a time long ago before lavatories were installed into almost every home.
Thomas Crapper is also often cited as being the one to invent the toilet, but this is not correct. The toilet was invented a couple hundred years before Mr. Crapper by John Harrington in 1596.
This site was, for me, one of the highlights of the weekend

TNLN. SL. TFTC Tempo 0

Found It!
Interesting place I would never have visited if not for caching. Bit of a shame it's PM only though...
TFTC anyway

We actually did drive within 20 metres of the cache and I have to say it was certainly one of my favourite locations on this trip...REALLY fascinating! It is sad that it is just left there in the open as it is rusting away at a fast rate.

The loud and lovely Locus Cache [:X], the very clever Laighside Legends and myself drove to Whyalla in Harry with the aim of this weekend being: to find a few caches, and attend the 5T boating/fishing & caching event.....AWESOME!! [^]

There was fun, laughter , silliness [:o)], tense moments, some creative driving (on road, off-road, dirt, sand, mud, water, tackling what could be described as a very steep and narrow bmx track...yep you heard me!) , breath holding , kindness [:X], tight time schedules, ladder climbing, feet getting wet, dolphins, a boat, fish, nanos, ammos, sistema of all sizes and a number of mint tins. Surprisingly few DNFs. And LOTS of other mad crazy conversations and adventures. Gotta love caching and all of the fun it can be!! [:o)] [^]

Thanks for the cache YeahRight80

Found it and left a "WEE" thing behind as it seemed appropriately.
Was careful not to step in any holes tho.!!
Thanks Tempo O for the challenge to find the correct entry.

4997 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1130. We had tried to get to the cache when we were here in early September, owing to a bit of precipitation at the time we decided to give it a miss. Well today we made it SL Tnx Tempo 0

Found out caching with ferret 52. TFTC!

Had the same cart and pans in Pt Pirie when I was 5yo. Used to be called Jonesey's Shit Cart. TNLNSL, TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 0941. Did a few caches around Whyalla this morning, before caching our way south to Cowell. M had a giggle at this one. Memories of this forgotten industry for both of us from over 60 years ago - around country Victoria for M, and on annual beach holidays in NSW for D. Worth a favourite for that alone. Track conditions were good today, and we drove to about 150m from GZ with ease, and probably could have gone even closer. Note, however, that "the bridge at GC2DR8G" is barricaded closed, so we approached via the Mullaquana Rd bridge. Our thanks to Tempo 0.

Found it☺

Stoped the geocar at the right place walking in saw where ALOT of people got bogged lol. Get it BOGGED haha toilet humour I know

Went with deo-daughter and she could not believe the story! We found the cache safe and sound. Should have been on that dirtiest jobs show on TV. TFTC.

Wow sounds like a not so nice job

I'm so so sorry THAT I DIDN'T READ THE LOG before going for this one . Walked the last 200 meters to GZ. 50 meters from the cache I started to see large cans, Rabbit Holes, metal. I was thinking Diary milk buckets .When I got home to log find, AHHHHHH Too much information to late. Detol ,shower, Detol shower, Detol, shower ,Detol ,shower ,Detol, shower, Detol ,shower, Detol ,shower, Detol, shower Detol, shower,Deto,l shower, Detol, shower, Detol ,shower ,Detol, shower ,Detol ,shower, Detol ,shower Detol ,shower, Detol, shower, Dettol ,shower, Dettol ,shower. TFTC Tempo 0

This is a walk by, sort of, found with M's Piggy (babe) while Gum-Ako stayed in the 4x4and out of the salt and flies.

Found in the company of Tk2, and the cache name says it all, tftc

Easy find in the dry! Rode my bike most of the way. When wet the sand and salt make a very slippery combination. TFTC

Finally got out today to do this one, and to add to the brilliant local history I thought I would add this little ditty which we had on the back of our dunny door many moons ago, thankfully our dunny was an indoor dunny ( in that it was not a thunderbox out back near the laneway, but a flushable toilet that we still had to go outside near the laundry for) It was still mayhem to get out there in winter especially when it was cold and raining, NOT UNLIKE my last track out to locate this particular cache over the weekend.

The Dunny is Australian slang for toilet, either the room or the specific fixture, especially an outhouse or other outdoor toilets. It is often used to specify a distinction between a flushing toilet and a non-flushing toilet (e.g., a longdrop or thunderbox).
In the bush or Outback of Australia, the dunny can be a conveniently sheltered part of the paddock or indeed any place where one relieves oneself.
Traditionally, dunnies were found in unsewered areas and consisted of little more than a seat placed over a can (or “dunny-can”) or deep hole (or cesspit). The latter variation can be referred to more specifically as a longdrop. Dunnies were maintained at some distance from houses for obvious reasons of smell and hygiene. The sheds themselves were generally made of either wood or corrugated iron, to facilitate the moving of the dunny if required (for example, if the hole in the longdrop was filled up).
In mining areas dunnies are sometimes placed over disused mine shafts.




"The Dunny Prayer"

Bless this room Oh Lord we Pray,
Make it sweet by night and day,
Bless the seat and bless the flush,
Bless the early morning rush,
Bless the nasty little brat,
Who pulled the chain and drowned the cat,
Bless the girls who lock the door,
Reading books an hour or more,
Bless the phantom with the feet,
The prints of which are on the seat,
Bless the one, ‘We know who you are’,
Who always leaves the door ajar,
Bless the bloke who thought he oughta,
first discover toilet water,( he died when the seat fell on the back of his head)
Bless the fiend who’s favourite caper,
Leaves you stranded with no paper,
Finally, with love and kisses,
Bless the bloody fool who misses.


YeahRight80 thankyou for your help in my being able to access this cache without risking life and limb sliding in the mud, too much it wasn't too bad out there. The sheer amount of clay out there it is no wonder Whyalla doesn't have a thriving pottery business. Oh I used to be married to a plumber for 20 yrs so was familiar with the job of the night cart man

I should have read the description better, lets just say it has been chucking it down the last couple of days, I parked too far away after going down the old dump road, and parking near that building, then with geodaughter, and her geoboyfriend and myself Walking actually not a very good analogy, more like SLIDING across the plain. it sure was a sight to see. Ground is VERY soft after sliding my way back to the Highway I was able to walk about a kilometre to my car while the geokids walked up towards the bridge. it was there that I picked them up. On a good note I took my video camera with me, and a still camera it really is quite green out there and there were a lot of ducks. Will try this one again when it isn't so swampy LOL

Unbelievable. This is why I love caching. Who would have thought all this crap was still here. Awesome. Reminded me of the "bring out 'ya dead" scene. You know the one. Pictures included here.

Thanks to YeahRight80 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Awesome location. I was still wanting to wash my hands 3 hours later.

I remember my mother telling me of the nightman who, while returning to the cart with a full load one dark night, unexpectedly encountered the clothes line. The resulting language was not suitable for a young girls ears, and the resulting mess was.. well.. you can guess.

A nice walk out to the cache in the early evening, and a mad dash back to the car to escape the mozzies. Grabbed the yeahright flint.

I nearly did get into the poo finding this one!
A combination of following the wrong track and looking at my GPSr at the wrong time meant I ended sunk up to my wheel rims in soft wet sand. Fortunately I managed to back back to harder ground. I then took a longer walk than planned to the cache, but it is an interesting location.
Thanks Yeahright80.

4th of 5 in a quick clean up run to get the map back into smiley territory! Once again YR80 you bring me to a spot I had never even known existed! Thanks for the fun and the hunt. TNLNSL

Another lunch time cache - lucky this one was easy and didn't drive us potty. Interesting area and history. TFTC

Nice easy find for a lunch time walk

Went for a walk with the Geoson, we made the mistake of approaching this one from the NE and had to cross a creek. We found a spot where it was covered in grass and went for it, only got a little muddy on the crossing. Once that was done we then found the spot and cache quite easily. we then had to go back and cross the creek as we went on to find a couple others in the area. TFTC.

Yep went back for a try after some grub, and yey we found it! TFTC and all the info aswell. i never knew this was out there.

Visited during the day but the shooting range flags were out so we left it til the evening.
A simple find - TFTC

Went to do this one today but as all the flags were flying high i didnt think i had better go walking around, will go and try later in the weekend if i have time.

Nice walk, thanks for the cache

Found with JadedOptimists. TFTC.

10.50am . . and no sign of Woodsy, he must be away! Since it was listed sometime last night I couldn't believe I had this one to myself. My commodore had no problem getting out here with just a short walk to GZ, an interesting site I had no idea about.

Joint 2nd with Jacob350!
Found at 11.19am
Only just missed kev the rev.
N=I had no idea about this area. Thanks for the cache.

found it

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