No light work Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By akela0 on 02-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3MQYK

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

Found it but very wet and black mould, as per photo , replaced with mint tin and new log book and then replaced in larger container 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 #5954 on 27 Jun 2023.
TFTC akela0!

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

Kjj

Looked for ages before the penny dropped. Duh.
Everything inside sopping wet. Unable to sign. Thanks

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.

After a bit of a hunt around we located the light which indeed didn't work! But it was loggable

Sincere thanks to akela0 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

[^] [:o)] [^]

A great caching start to Twenty Twenty Too

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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!

Good one. Muggle husband found. Quite amused. 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

We looked but didn't find it.a hint mite help us

This was a run on the map with some unfound caches along it, so we decided to go along it again and pick up some more smileys with ilook4geo. All the caches we looked for were found and there was no problem in signing each log. Thank you to akela0 for placing this cache as part of the trail.

Wandered along this road but only picking out the ones that goingplaces2 had not done on a previous visit. Each cache we wanted was located, each log was signed, then each was replaced as found. Job done! TFTC.

TFTG. We left a yoyo and a shell

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 akela0 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found 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 one we missed on the way through...on purpose, it was on the other side of the road from where we were...so came back to it on our way back to Whyalla...
TFTC akela0

Tftc

Yes

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This is a good one ! TFTC

Found It!
Neat little hide and a quick find as a train went past across the road...
TFTC

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

Day 302 (Friday 26th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Whyalla today. A total of 6 for the day and 5833 for the trip. TFTC

Very clever and fun TFTC

A nice hide with a cool theme

SL at 09:29 on Tue 18 Feb 2020.

The cache and contents are in good shape
TFTC akela0

An afternoon caching w Clan Clapp
Found a few, fixed a few.
Had a great time
TFTC akela0

Seriously
Tftc

Good one

Yep we got it
Signed and replaced
TFTC

A quick find of a novel container as we headed into Whyalla after a day on the FTF series.

Quick find on the way to Whyalla
I really like this one
Thanks for the cache

Cute cache... reborn...
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

Tftc

Took trackable

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!

akela0 I found your cache No light work 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.

dnf today

Great cache container!
Picked this one up on our way from Streaky Bay to Whyalla. Left trackable MJWA24

Found with e.gregory1 during a caching foray around Whyalla for the weekend. Thanks for the cache akela0!

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

Thanks akela0 for the cache.

Found it. Thank you.

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

This was my 100TH FIND!!!!
Found on my 24hr Geocaching mini-adventure, to get my stats up to 100 finds.
Great to get my 100th cache on something a little different to everything else.
TFTC!

another easy find. You could almost think it is another bit of junk thrown out by passing travellers.TFTC

another find for the day. Again its good to see something different TFTC

Back out caching again today with CAD - grabbing a few more caches on the FTF Power Trail ... Fav point for this one! T4TC:)

Enjoyed exploring Iron Knob with DBO- and undertaking FTF Power trail TFTC 13th

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.

Tftc full section description at ftf pt 1.

Good idea for a hide

Found it

Fantastic way to have a cache.
TNLN SL TFTH akela0

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

Having limited time and caching on my own, I am unable to really remember most of the individual cache hides
However please accept my thanks for all that I did find and the enjoyable time that I spent caching this PT
In many sections of both sides of the road there appears to have been tree pruning and even track grading on one side.
COs may wish to check their cache hides to ensure longevity.

TNLN. SL. TFTC akela0

Great cache found it thanks.

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

I would like to thank akela0 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 akela0.

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

From the time that the FTF Power Trail began to be published, we had it on our "To Do" list. As the number of caches grew, our planning to visit Whyalla became more serious. Finally the stars were in alingment. Today we started to look for caches on the road from Whyalla to Iron Knob. Thank you to the geocachers of Whyalla for planning, publishing and maintaining the series.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of a novel cache container. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache fishingmad.

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 #6475[/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 akela0...
- 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. This series is the main reason for our visit to this area as team Vic 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! We'd seen the knob, now it was back home (the motel) to Whyalla! Thanks to all the hiders for their effort.
- M

Found at 2:08 PM GAFF1 in the company of maccamob. We signed the log book as "M & P".
We made a complete hash of trying to open this cache container. However no damage was inflicted
Thanks akela0.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass (signed as m & p), at 1409. Enjoyed this one, although it took us longer than it should have to figure out how to open it. Our thanks to akela0.

TFTC!

Another great find! Very creative!

Good one

[font=Verdana]21236 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 akela0[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

Seen this hide used before, but it always brightens our day to find one.
Thanks for this nice series, Robmc.

# 7737. 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.

Thanks akela0

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 akela0 for the cache.

We are on our way to the Mega event at Stanthorpe but on leaving Adelaide our gps lured us towards Whyalla to a long and not so windy road. The vegetation sure doesn't change much around here. Good to find the cache. Thanks to akela0 for placing this cache.

I welcome detour off the nearby power trail. Thanks akela0.

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 came back today to do a further part of this powertrail today as we had a free morning. There were once again some tricky hides. Some spots were difficult to access due to the railworks in the area.

Thanks for being part of our great adventure.
TFTC

Nice and bright today, so we didn't need any further light to help find this one!
TFTC

A bit of daylight after work, managed to find a few before the daylight faded away, not quite dark yet so made short work of finding this one TFTC

[green]Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another cacher in the night !![/green] [:o]

Except that it wasn't night
So a nice easy find with a stupid 70's song in me head

TFTC.

Found this cache while out doing the PT along the Iron Knob road. TFTC akel0.

Worth a favourite for the creativeness ..... amongst a sea of pretty basic containers!!! Inside was wet(we drained the water) but the logsheet was fine!!!

Day 4 of our Whyalla trip
Went out today to do the August series and to finish off the FTF series that we didn't completed yesterday we also picked up some of the local caches nearby .We found a good variety of containers with some hide being easy but others very tricky .We ended up with 74 finds and a few DNFs for the day . 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 akela0.

[Blue]# 9579 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 akela0,
[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 none FTF one, this took longer than it should, especially as I have found ones like this before. Had a very Duh moment when found it.

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 this cache along the way. Thanks for the cache!

Caching around the Whyalla area today with vistra, yorkshirekiwi83 and slieschke, signing in as FYVS. Nice themed container. Found on our Adelaide to Murray Bridge via Uluru road trip for Oz Mega 2014. TFTC!!!

We found this cache today, while doing the FTF PT series.
Whyalla has a good variety of cache types, and hides for the area.
A quick find, and the cache is in good condition.
Many thanks for the hunt today, akela0.

Very creative - all of a sudden the cache shone upon us.

This was our 27th cache find in a caching run of 41 Finds & 2 DNFs today.
We found it at 12:51 so this now makes our total find count 8229.
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We have finished out Grey Nomad tour of Western Australia and are currently heading eastwards. Our ultimate aim is to be in Murray Bridge in time to attend the "[url=http://coord.info/GC3X0X4]Oz Mega 2014 Murray Bridge[/Url]" over Easter.
We are having another crack at the power trail again today. It was another long day of wading through prickle bushes.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks akela0 for the hunt today.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc signed PQAC or left a card

Found on a day trip to Whyalla, TN"Left Elephant"SL, TFTC

I was part of the team that made an assault on this area after a terrific trip away to Goog's Track.A great time was hadApologies for the late logsTx for the many cache owners along the way

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

Thanks for putting these caches out for us to find akela0