FTF PT - 32: Climbing Prohibited Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By The Scarlet Manuka and fishingmad on 26-Jan-13. Waypoint GC44Y5H

Needed to rack up some finds in a short space of time, off to the power trail it is then. Even in the rain we continued on, then just sticking to the caches on our side of the road. We will just have to come back for the ones on the other side.

Tweety2 to the rescue well done tftc

Misydancer short walk in above eye level

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 TFTC

Second day to complete this great series. Loaded before we left WA
Did not climb.

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 #5925 on 27 Jun 2023.
TFTC The Scarlet Manuka!

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

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Mamam

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.

So we hit some more of the f t f p t and that took a large chunk of the day! Glad to have that little bit of the map clear now. Some were easily found from the side track and others better from the main road, some were just a little buried, one had two caches with a recent throwdown right by the original! All were a bit of fun to add to our day. No climbing needed!

Sincere thanks to The Scarlet Manuka 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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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

Sneaky sneaky

Found it! Good one.

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 The Scarlet Manuka and fishingmad 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
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 The Scarlet Manuka & fishingmad

Yes

TFTC

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

By Davo1063 (Found = 636)
Found on an Caching day out with The White Dog Gang
Great day out!
TFTC The Scarlet Manuka

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

Day 301 (Thursday 25th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Whyalla today. A total of 48 for the day and 5824 for the trip. TFTC

Very creative

Got it . TFTC

After grabbing a number of ore train pics i found some more time for a few more hides whilst i waited [yet again] for one particular ore train.

A quick find and sign at 13:32 on 18/2/20

Definitely wouldn't wanna climb this structure [:o]

The cache container had no lid and a red back spider had made it its home.
Tftc

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Yep we got it
Signed and replaced
TFTC

Headed out early to do the FTF series of caches. It proved to be slow going up to around #80 with a high proportion of containers in a poor state. We replaced log sheets and some containers that were broken but we soon ran out of supplies. This section, particulary those on the side heading to Iron Knob are in desparate need of maintenance. However we faired ok with only a couple of dnf's. Ran out of daylight so have only a few to finish off tomorrow. Thanks to all the CO's for placing these caches.

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!

The Scarlet Manuka I found your cache FTF PT - 32: Climbing Prohibited 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 it on a trip to Whyalla over the Adelaide cup long weekend. quick find on the slow return home. I thought to make a dent on this power trail and stopped at number 50.

Today we were on the road from Port Augusta to Whyalla and we had planed to do this trail. But it was to much for one day so we did only half of the trail today and tomorrow we will try to do the other half.
We saw that some of the caches were found already more than half a year ago so we expected to have a lot of not founds. But most of the caches we found! It is a very nice trail to do and we say thank you for hiding the caches to all of the cache owners. We enjoyed it and had fun today.
Greetings from team De Kivits, Netherlands.

Found with e.gregory1 during a caching foray around Whyalla for the weekend. Thanks for the cache The Scarlet Manuka and fishingmad!

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

Thanks The Scarlet Manuka and fishingmad for the cache.

Found on our way home from shopping

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. Now @ FTF PT.
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. TFTC!

Back out caching again today with CAD - grabbing a few more caches on the FTF Power Trail ... Very friendly flies joined us here! T4TC:)

Enjoyed exploring Iron Knob with DBO- and undertaking FTF Power trail TFTC 16th

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.

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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 The Scarlet Manuka for placing this cache.

Tftc full section description at ftf pt 1.

Inventive hide

Good hide

2/12/15

Tftc

Nice one..
Tftc
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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

I took the liberty of replacing the full log book and have the old one. I can post it to the CO if they send me their details.

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 The Scarlet Manuka

Great cache found it thanks.

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

I would like to thank The Scarlet Manuka 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 The Scarlet Manuka.

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 and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache The Scarlet Manuka and 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 #6401[/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 The Scarlet Manuka...
- 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! Thanks to all the hiders for their effort.
- M

Found at 1:33 PM in the company of maccamob. We signed the log book as "M & P".
Thanks The Scarlet Manuka.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass (signed as m & p), at 1332. Our thanks to The Scarlet Manuka.

TFTC!

Another great cache! Log is wet and soggy after the rain.

The mob13

Sweet

Nice

[font=Verdana]21185 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 The Scarlet Manuka[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

I don't think I have ever seriously considered climbing one of these!
Good for hiding caches though.
Thanks for this nice series, Robmc.

# 7743. 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.

I like these hides but unfortunately the log is tattered and torn and needs replacing.

Thanks The Scarlet Manuka

Thought I would finish work early today and find a few caches , tftc time to take the side road

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 The Scarlet Manuka 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 The Scarlet Manuka for placing this cache.

It was always going to be a tough few hours of solo caching on this stretch of road. The constant rotation of my leg to enter and exit the car which was usually parked on a slope on the side of the road and even the continual reaching for my seatbelt took their tole. Eventually I called it quits and headed back to the caravan park for a walk along the beach. I have waited along time to travel to Whyalla with the sole aim to cache and am loving it so far. Thanks for your contribution(s) to this great trail. I saw way too many scratchy bushes which have destroyed my lovely lady legs and the streams of white 4WDs with a fluoro strip and a tall flag made my gold hire car look out of place. Thanks again for hiding this cache.

[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

We found a lot like this in the NT, so now call them the territories favourite hide.
TFTC

Catching up with late logs.
Last time we were over this way this trail was just starting and we managed to find most of them.
It has sure grown since then so this visit we were determined to try and clean them up again. An enjoyable day and a bit saw us with a lot more smiles and a lot less caches left on the map.
We were quite happy when we spotted where the GPSr was pointing on this one but somehow or other we missed it on our first look and it wasn't quite a quick as find as it should have been but at least our name is now in the log.
Many thanks to The Scarlet Manuka and fishingmad for creating another one for this series.

A bit of daylight after work, managed to find a few before the daylight faded away, quick find TFTC

A nice easy find with no climbing required [:o]
I do like a cache that delivers as promised [^]

TFTC, as another long string of yellow wagons rumbled past

TFTC
FOUND WITH TPP AND ON A CACHING WEEKEND WITH SOME OTHER FRIENDS ON OURS
But they left today because some had school on TUESDAY

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 The Scarlet Manuka.

Easy find.

[Blue]# 9528 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 & your part of the series The Scarlet Manuka,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

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

Thanks!