The Nexy Challenge #23 Munno Para Downs, South Australia, Australia
By Burton's on 10-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4JGCZ

Time to go. Cache has been removed.

Today, I had organised with Freddo and gridge98 to ride the Northern Expressway bikeway to complete the *Nexy Challenge* series geocaches. We rode the full distance, and then in the afternoon, jesswrigley and I visited the south-eastern end of Cleland Conservation Park and took a few walks around the area. The day began cold spitting a little, but towards the afternoon, it turned out to become quite warm and not too hot; almost the perfect day to be outside and hiking.

Freddo, gridge98 and I had set off early to complete this series. Both gridge98 and I had yet to find these geocaches, and Freddo had recently acquired these and was in the process of performing maintenance for a few that had accumulated DNFs. We rode past here, stopped, and managed to find this cache reasonably quickly. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Burton's for the cache placement, and equipe de cinq for its ongoing maintenance.

Today I headed out with the godfather (Freddo) and Davidwazza to complete the next challenge trail and start the next big thing. A nice ride along the trail for the whole 50km as we went from Gawler to Port Adelaide. A great day out with over 40 finds.,
Thanks for the cache

In case you were wondering, this cache can be accessed from Fradd E Rd: this wasn’t clear on my map. TFTC and series.

After work I decided to go for a walk and pick up a few more geocaches in this trail.
All caches I searched for were found and were in good condition.

Thanks for the cache Burton's.
# # #7235 # #

Nice find on a perfect cycling day! TFTC

Found, thanks

Found thankyou

Back at it again found with Northstar76

Found with superman_22. Thanks for hiding these

Quite easy but good spot!

Found pretty easily, First ever Geocache, in a nice spot though

TFTC

Kid 1 found again

TFTC

This one had possibly blown out of its hiding place. Put back where it should be now

T.f.t.c

Easy one

Found with earthlight walking the trail
Cheers

Well approached this with trepidation. A sign sometimes means the cache us above my head
Came today prepared just incase. Caching with Dayseekers. Cache ok.

Been planning another Friday afternoon for ages. Finally decided to do it today so got the bike loaded in the Ute last night.
Thinking I could have picked a better day as it was so windy this afternoon. Luckily though the rain held off so it was just wind to contend with.
Had a makeshift lunch with the geohusband and hound at work and then headed out here to try and get 20’pr so caches.
Had a few dnfs and a few manly logs but the rest were all found easily in the obvious spots.
Some nice history panels to read.
The big ride back to the Ute almost finished me off but made it before the heavens opened.
Stopped for Scooby snacks on the way home. Great caching afternoon will plan another trip to hopefully collect the rest.
TFTC Equipe de Cinque

Nice easy find on a sunny winters day. TFTC

Thanks for this cache. In good condition Last one. Losing light. Back to the car I must

Windy windy windy windy

DNF

After visiting Gawler over several years at my sisters place, it was about time that we got out and rode the Nexy. Started at the Gawler end, just sat on the bikes and the heavens opened up, by the time we got onto the Nexy it had stopped and the sun was out. I didn't know that we had shifted to Melbourne so quickly. Not to be deterred on we went to our designated turn around point, the second of the puzzle Nexy caches. Had to replace a couple of logs and containers. Great day TFTC equipe de cinq

Australia Flag helps to reach this one.

Quick find. Tftc.

Well hidden good family find

The Nexy Challenge #23 was transferred from Burton's to user equipe de cinq

Found ages ago just logging now

Excellent hiding spot for this one

Thanks! Nice and easy!!

Yay first find, forgot the pen though! Whoops!

TFTF

Great hide!!

After a good wet walk collecting caches today, nabbed this last one as a drive by off a side road. TFTC

TFTC

Tftc

We had a bit of time to kill so decided to go for a walk and collect a few caches along the way.
TFTC

Found but no pen

Back again riding on the Nexy bikeway and locating a few more great caches. Thanks.

For quite some time now i have being wanting to do this group of caches. Today is a beautiful 26 degrees, and that was all the motivation i needed. So i packed my gear, jumped on my bike and caught a train out to Gawler.

TFTC

Quickly found. Tftc

Found it

A Lunchtime cache outing was successful today and was able to cross off 2 more in this series. Thanks Burton's for another one.

Second

Ok

Found with Lara tftc

no 11 woohoo found it with troyyugal

Bhcj

Nice

Found it

Found it

Nailed it!!

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TFTC, SL.

The morning started in reverse. Gawler to Nexy Challenge #13. All finds were made with #Bones5 on bikes (no lycra in sight). The morning had us riding into the wind for the journey ahead. Was great to have a day out biking not hiking!!! Thanks.

Found on a windy bike ride with Csaba TFTC

Out for a drive on a rainy day with Mr Froghoppin - except we managed to avoid the storms that were washing Adelaide away!
Still need to ride the Nexy again for the new trail, but happened to have car trouble right by this one today!
TFTC Burton's

Today we decided to don our bike helmets and pump up the tyres and see how we go on the Nexy. Miss 10s bike was too small, Miss 14 recovering from shoulder surgery, Mr emilyangels bum not used to small seats.....this was going to be a tough ride and a sore night. But the ride was completed with no bandaids needed which surprised us all. Great family day out thankyou.

Found pretty easily, TFTC

Good hiding spot. Took 2 times to actually find it

Found it on our second trip looking (this time we went in daylight).

Nice cool morning for a bike ride, decided to pick up where left off last time and collect a few more along nexy geocaching bike track.

Visiting Adelaide for the TDU. Huge apologies; started logging finds (and my DNF) the night I rode the series but was burning the candle at both ends, ran out of time and clearly forgot to go back and log them. Now that I'm planning this year's trip I've discovered the problem. Thanks for the great, bike friendly series....I even have some photos from the series.

'To cache or not to cache ..' that was never the question, because there is only one answer. The choice I gave Mr Frog, was to paddle or pedal and he chose pedal. We had a wonderful afternoon even though we had a slight head wind. Our bikes aren't used very much and I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow, but tomorrow will take care of itself.
Thank you for a wonderful afternoon and .....TFTC

Found this one before a puncture again cut short a ride along the Stuart O'Grady bikeway.
Thanks for the cache Burton's

26/5

Tftc

Another great find on a geocaching trip around the area.

Thanks for putting up this cache and the series and making my visit fun.

SL

School holiday caching with the kids. Thought we would try some of the nexy bikeway on foot (kids on scooters) 6km round trip. Nice easy caches kept the kids going racing each other to get to the next one first. #3 for the day. TFTC!

Found during an energetic ride along the Nexy Bikeway on a cold, overcast day. Thanks for the challenge and cache Burton's!

Last.one for.today. time to.head home

And another

[green]Find #21 of the day and Find # 5700[/green]...

Found this while House Sitting in Virginia...
Out grabbing some caches on my bike with locus cache in tow... Thoroughly enjoyed my ride along this great bike track... A glorious day to be out & about...

A bit of a ride, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned... A beautiful, well maintained track and series...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Burton's...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...
[green]Cache Condition - All Good[/green]...

Muggle partner dropped me off at Gawler where I met Snap Happy at the start of the Nexy trail.
We rode, we cached (Peter more than me as I had already found a few caches on the trail) and then later we drove out to Stockport, still caching
I ended the day with 20 finds and 1 DNF on Nexy #22, which will soon be rectified.

We pedalled, we laughed, we found caches and we found muscles that we weren't sure we had
Due to my having an appointment in Gawler, we had to stop halfway through but we will return to complete the rest!
Snap Happy was quite happy when he said 'that's a puzzle cache' and I replied 'that's ok, I've solved it'
Thanks for the fun and the exercise

TNLN. SL. TFTC Burton's

Seemed appropriate to do some of the Nexy on ANZAC day. A gorgeous day for a walk TFTC

TFTC

23 caches today joins up with my previously found caches in the "southern part". A couple of DNF's will bring me back to complete this fantastic challenge.
Thanks Burton's.

Headed over to SA for a planned trip, and fortunately Sorceysal was able to accompany me at short notice, meaning I wasn't stranded here doing the trip solo. I'd done this series previously with Skippy and Semik a couple of years ago, while replacing the eclipse containers with the pre-forms. Today SS and I headed down here to grab the new ones, I see now taken over by my good friends, The Burton's. Thanks Lee and Jim for taking this great series on, always good to jump on the bike for a run. Most were easy finds, and although I suffered multiple punctures at one cache about halfway (While climbing on the bike to reach a higher cache), we made it through to the end. All good fun

Day two of our epic road trip with the Bogonghazys as we get nearer to our goal of the geoart fish series. A great day with lots of finds and laughs along the way. This is certainly a cache rich state and my many thanks for the Cachers of South Oz for all the effort you have put in placing these caches for us to find.

Love the series and the opportunity to stretch the legs. Thanks for the cache Burton's

Easy peasy

Number 15 and all is going well. T.F.T.C.

Tftc

Well that is it for today Transport home is on it's way.
A lovely walk a few cyclists about and the cricket has started
TFTC

With kc_86

With mishka89. Theses starting to get way easy.

Day Three of the WA road trip with BettyBoo3747 - The Nexy Challenge!
We had done the previous incarnation of the Nexy series a while ago, so we didn't need to redo #1-#7.
The forecast said 20 degrees and overcast, light breeze - perfect riding weather.
Dragged out the deadly treadlies and hit the trail at #45 and rode southish.
Really liked how most of the caches were about 500 meters apart, it made it a decent ride between stops. We got into the swing of the container and hide technique fairly quickly, so the time zipped past.
Took us about 2 hours to ride down caching, and about 45 minutes to ride back (counting lunch at the cemetery/picnic spot, and afternoon tea at the new picnic spot.
Completed the last 2 (#46 & #47) on the way back to the car.
Thanks for a really nice ride, and a pile of caches to draw us here. (and the nice puzzles to keep us occupied on night shift )
Thanks, Robmc.

# 7570. Here we are in Adelaide on day 3 of our lovely long holiday. We did the previous series of Nexy caches back in 2012. Today the forecast was for no wind (who makes up these stories), and a mild day. Well yes it was overcast and mild I sujppose.

We really enjoyed the ride on this great path - we started at #45 and enjoyed our lunch break near the Zoar Cemetery that I explored on the last visit. It is a very noisy shelter area here though with the trucks zooming past and no trees to break the noise. We rode on to finish the last 3 before turning around.

We had a speedy ride back but did stop at the other shelter on the trail to enjoy a snack break before the last few kilometres.

Only 5 caches of the series warrant separate comments: -

#41 - the sole eclipse tin - the log book is just a tad too wide and extraction was extremely difficult. A pair of scissors worked as tweezers otherwise we would not have succeeded.

#40 - has been saturated at some stage but the inside of the log book is OK.

#36 - the container lid on this one is broken and crumbling. We emptied the soggy and sodden mess of old sheets and left a new rite-in-the-rain log sheet here, so all should be OK until the container is replaced.

#31 and #27 have also both been saturated at some stage but the inside of the log books are OK.

Thanks Burton's

I am finally doing the Nexy challenge series with my little bike. I must say I bought a folding bike but I could not fit it in my small boot. Then the neighbour was giving away a little bike and I grabbed it. I had to paint it silver because it was pink with purple. Lol

Nice easy puzzles, which were good, I enjoyed solving them.

All were good until half way then grass thorns punctured my tyres because I was using my bike as my ladder as I could not reach the cache from the sign. (I am only five foot tall)

So I decided to walk the rest (20Kms) to finish them off.

Thanks for the challenge I enjoyed myself. .

Thanks Burton’s for the cache

We had completed the first version of the NEXY caches some time ago and at the same time, had found the first seven caches in this series, Since then The Nexy Challenge series had been extended and today our intention was to look for all the remaining caches along the walking/riding trail. Between us we walked the trail from #08 to #47. It was quite warm but a gentle breze at times did help.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Burton's for reinstating the series along the expressway and thanks for this csche.

Found with basketcache. TFTC!

Thanks!

Found it!

last one for the night - found with mkmc

Nice little bit of info on the post - found with mrbuzzy

Change of plans today due to unforeseen circumstances saw me hire a bike instead and hit the Nexy trail, riding the full length followed by a quick stop in Gawler and then the express journey back. There were a few DNF's but for the most part the caches were all in good condition.

This was find number 20 of 42 for the afternoon for me. TFTC Burton's!

Another quick and easy Nexy Challenge cache falls

I did notice that there is a Penny Farthing Crescent showing up on the map a couple of hundred metres to the east
I could not imagine riding one of those things !!
They used to race them back in the days of yore !! [:o]

TFTC

Left especially early for a meeting north of here so I could park on Fradd Rd and walk into a few of these I hadn't done!!! Cyclists galore ...... felt I might have been safer walking on the expressway!! Easily located!! Thanks burtons for the hide!!!

Number 3 down. TFTC