Social Engineering Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By woodsy5 on 18-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3HBKX

Unfortunately this has gone missing! Very sad to see it go!

No way to replace this one, so it has to go!

Day 3 of my trip to the Oz Mega in Murray Bridge with Mistraluna.

After a night at the Whyalla caravan park and the first real break in driving we went for a walk doing a few caches and then packed up before starting caching in earnest.

A quick find for this cache once at GZ. This was one of many puzzles that we had solved once we had decided to visit Whyalla and only one of a few that we got to do.

Thanks woodsy5 for the cache.
(58 of 629 for the trip.)

Day 3 of our trip over to the Oz Mega event in Murray Bridge. Was exhausted last night after the all the traveling to get here, then the West Meets South event, but woke up this morning refreshed and ready to go again, anticipating lots of caches yet to be found. Made a quick find here after solving the puzzle before leaving home. Thanks woodsy5

Today, we tackled some dirt tracks, which wasn't the best of ideas, due to the recent rain.
A couple of spots were extremely soft & muddy, but the geo-cruiser never let us down.
We left some caches due to their placement, and hope to pick them up on another visit.
The geo-cruiser got filthy dirty and so did our shoes, but a great fun day was had.

Got to GZ, spotted the items, and knew exactly what we had to look for.
A quick scan of the area, and there it was, so we added our name to the log.
Thanks for the fun cache, woodsy5.

Today, we tackled some dirt tracks, which wasn't the best of ideas, due to the recent rain.
A couple of spots were extremely soft & muddy, but the geo-cruiser never let us down.
We left some caches due to their placement, and hope to pick them up on another visit.
The geo-cruiser got filthy dirty and so did our shoes, but a great fun day was had.

Got to GZ, spotted the items, and knew exactly what we had to look for.
A quick scan of the area, and there it was, so we added our name to the log.
Thanks for the fun cache, woodsy5.

The cache is missing. The power plug and two mugs are there, but there was nothing to drink.

Found with 3 others. This is what geocaching is all about!

One sugar please

Yep - needed some social contact to find the solution to this one .
Wandered around for awhile, even picked up some camo on the geotruck, before walking the last few metres .
Unfortunately, the log book is wet, but we were still able to sign it . TNLNSL. Nice container [^]. Thanks Woodsy5.

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 woodsy5

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.

Out driving this area with honeysucker, Freddo, Astro and Waldron getting some more pin striping on the cars. TFTC.

That was easy.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Found on a trip to Googs Track with Freddo, Astro, Firesafe, Honeysucker, Gum Ako, TK2, DISK.

We were away for a week and found about 200 caches and had 7 dnfs.

Thanks to all who placed caches we found.

Wow, after a hard day at the office yesterday looking for micro's in the bush, CP and I decided that we needed a nice decent sized cache, maybe a little walk in the scrub would be good and some nice bird life too. I felt the need for a cuppa but we headed off for some Social Engineering having mastered this puzzle two nights before. We got a great cache, in the scrub, birdlife, photographs were taken and we wished we had done more woodsy5 caches while we had been in Whyalla. A GREAT cache and a great start to our day. Thanks, a favourite from Aussie M & M.

This cache was by far the best we did on our three day trip to the Whyalla area. It ticked all the boxes for me.... great final terrain....... clever and very appropriate cammo. yakcm was our social contact for this great hide!!!! Thanks woodsy5 for this , and your others, in Whyalla!! A favourite!!!

[blue]Congratulations this cache has reached the voting level for the SAGA Awards 2012, please find attached graphic for reaching the Final voting stage of the Awards.[/blue]

Loved the cache and the idea of bringing people together. TNLNSL

Now this cache has a ring of GC2NQHH about it.

Found on the "I'm not Diving with the Great White Sharks trip". A great day weather wise and caching wise.

Thanks to woodsy5 and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Ha ha great cache concept that I had heard about some months ago, well before this trip was planned.
Located the cache and loved it even more. Such a representation of geocaching!
A fav point from me and I would give two points if that were possible.
Deserves a gold award in the SA GC awards in a category all of it's own!!!!!!!
Thanks for the cache woodsy
PS did I mention that I liked it?
PPS I have realized that this is my 100 ? cache - how fitting, I am doubly chuffed!

This entry was edited by Gum-Ako on Monday, 01 October 2012 at 06:44:08 UTC.

Very interesting concept and also very rewarding in that I now know that I do have freinds in this area,thankyou.

Yakcm had dropped us back at the caravan park after a very pleasant few hours caching with plans to meet again this evening with moneydork to do a night cache. To fill in the time while we were waiting for it to get dark we decided to look for some more caches. We are happy to see that we met five out of the ten cachers that make up this great community that this cache bought together. We had a quick look at this one before leaving home and couldn't sort it out but with a push in the right direction during the 4 x 4 event we had a set of co-ordinates and we were keen to give them a try. We parked the car and headed off on a bit of a walk and were soon looking at a very fitting cache container and that's all that will be said here except that it scored a favourite from us.
Thanks woodsy5 for the cache.

A clever cache description and cache, Thanks Woodsy5 for the cache, this becomes our 1000th cache, another milestone achieved, TFTHSL cheers diggers09.

Thanks for the invite but where are the seats??? TFTC

Tftc excellent cache! All it needs is some water. Although it was quite a walk in the dark

Seeing as I was away from town for family reasons when this one came out and I knew I was going to be away for a while, I thought I would do my bit to help the others solve the puzzle so they wouldn't have to wait. Now that I am back in town I knew I had to find it. So armed with all the information I needed it was an easy find. I love the container, this cache is well worth a favourite point. TFTC and everybodies help with it.

Well, that’s one to add to the list of “Things I’ve never seen used as a cache container before”.
Great idea! Thanks woodsy5.

Decided to go get this one on my own. Very cool container and accessories.

There a fence in the way ???? Or the phone gps is off again

FTF on a massive joint scale. A massive effort to coodinate people together - to social engineer a gathering was great, shared a quick drink then was on our way. TFTC and prize

This entry was edited by askjgraz on Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 02:34:33 UTC.

This entry was edited by askjgraz on Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 03:05:21 UTC.

great cache thanks.

A great Little hide! I so loved the idea of this!

it was great getting together with everone for this now all we neaded to do was have the BBQ and we were set LOL. maybe next time.

Found in a joint FTF effort with a number of other Whyalla geocachers.
After a recent experiance, I half expected to find that Bunya had beaten me to the FTF!

Thanks woodsy for putting this together.
Also, thanks askjraz for co-ordinating the motley crew of Whyalla cachers who were there for the FTF.
PS; I LOVE the cache container!

So I miss out again on a joint meeting - I have not met any of you yet (apart from woodsy). Who's going to help out the ones that couldn't make it?

Very nice cache Woodsy, I liked the idea very much and it was great to finally catch up with these fellow cachers.

I had no idea how to get this one so I just followed along and got a FTF.. Not bad huh!

Published

I think its time for another social gathering and a joint hunt - are people busy tomorrow?

The ultimate 10-way FTF????

that's what I'm thinking - a whole lot more 'social' than people sending me their numbers!

Now I think I get it...1 question remains...in person or virtual...

in person, only virtual if you email me your number lol I sent email, sms me and I'll provide where and when, when I know

Ah, geocaching! bringing people together!

Cool cache and well don't ASKJRAZ for setting up the meeting point

Love the name Woodsy
Does this mean we just need to ask for the solution