The Nexy Challenge #37 Long Tan Buchfelde, South Australia, Australia
By Burton's on 25-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4KTD1

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

Found 105pm

Sad photo at GZ. How young does that man look? TFTC.

Tftc
Black Pearl Ventures

Nice find on a perfect cycling day! TFTC

Watch out for the spider!!

Back at it again found with Northstar76

Found with superman_22. Thanks for hiding these, last for this day. Nearly all done. 9 km walk now waiting for my ride home. No way I’m walking back. Lol

On my way home from grabbing some more in the Anna-Tommy series i just had to swing in and grab this one, Long Tan
One day i'll have a proper go at grabbng this series on my bike

SL at 12:47 on TGIF 5 June 2020.

TFTC equipe de cinq

Find, signed, and away again. TFTC!

Cache is good, TY ️

Tftc, been a great little ride along this party of the expressway, thanks

Back on the trail today with earthlight.
My first find for the day.
cheers

Rain has stopped but am a drowned rat. Cache all ok .TFTC

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

Thanks for cache 37. Long tan

Quick find on a windy day. TFTC

Ah Long Tan. I got invited by the Australian government to go to Vietnam in 1970, but as I was studying at the time I deferred. Thanks Goff and also Burton's.

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

Quick find in the dark. Hope the spider doesn't take long to rebuild its house. Tftc.

The Nexy Challenge #37 Long Tan was transferred from Burton's to user equipe de cinq

Found ages ago just logging now

Thanks easy find

TFTC

Found via torchlight tftc

My first Nexy Challenge! TFTC!

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 with LaLa TFTC

woohoo another one with troyyugal

Tftc trying out the new bike

Some interesting history, thanks for another find today.

Found!

TFTC, SL.

Another in the Nexy challenge knocked off.
Getting there gradually as drive and walk by finds!
TFTC Burton's

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

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.

TFTC

Found by The Boofs TFTC ☺.

Great spot reminding us of a dark part in our history. TFTC

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.

A quick find on the way home from X still marks the spot event TFTC

Found on another trip out to the Stuart O'Grady bikeway. After getting a puncture on each of my three previous rides out here was determined not to let the tyres off the black stuff and managed to get back to the car with inflated tyes and only three of the Nexy left to finish off.
Thanks for the cache Burton's

Nice ride along this bike trail only had a couple of problems due to water logged or missing but so far a nice collection of caches.

Tagging along for the ride to grab a few caches before heading back home.

Tftg

21/5

Is there many more 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

Day 2 pick up 2 TFTC

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

First section complete.
Tftc

[green]Find #8 of the day and Find # 5687[/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

Doing good today

On the last leg now!
TFTC

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We enjoyed finding a few caches this afternoon before it started raining.
TFTC

Enjoying the history of the Vietnam war as I continue to collect the Nexy Challenge caches. tftc

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

Number 2 for the morning. T.F.T.C.

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.

# 7556. 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 challaenge 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.

Quick easy find while walking the NEXY with my Geomut. It really is very relaxing walk with very interesting things to see. - TFTC

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 33 of 42 for the afternoon for me. TFTC Burton's!

Long Tan ??
Sounds like what I have been getting today [:o]
On a hot Adelaide day, I had been tanning in the hot sun for over three hours now

OK !!
So that sort of suffering is small potatoes compared to what our brave lads went through in the actual battle

I'm not complaining

TFTC and another great bit of Aussie wartime history to remind me how lucky we are to be free
Free to ride our bkes wherever we want
Almost ...

What a pity so many SA drivers want to use their cars as weapons to get me off 'their' roads
So wars never end ...

Quick and easy find.
Great history.
Tftc.

Found on the way home from a dip at the beach. Spectacular sunset to admire as we wandered to GZ

Tftc will have to suck it up soon and jump on the bike to do this trail

Beware the spider!

Out for a day with Astro, Uni and Shonky to do the Nexy.

An enjoyable ride down the hill with a tail wind.

We replaced a copule but mosy were in good condition.


TFTC

Found at 10:59:00 AM with Astro, Uni and Waldron on a day out riding on the NEXY. Thanks Burton's

What an awesome day for a bike ride.

We started in Gawler and coasted on the tail wind down hill towards the air base. We were careful not to exert ourselves too much in case we rode too fast and generated a headwind. [8)]

Clear skies to Burton's from TeamAstro.

Found at 10:55

Easy find tftc

This entry was edited by franson69 on Monday, 25 August 2014 at 06:55:59 UTC.

Klettercache and me are making a 5 week holiday in Australia and our route leads us from Sydney via Brisbane to Cairns. From Cairns, we are going to take a flight to Adelaide and from this city in Southern Australia we will continue our trip by train through the Nullarbor Plain towards Perth, where we will fly back to Germany.

This is the fourth week of our holidays which will bring us from Cairns to Adelaide where we are going to stay another 4 nights. Initially, we intended to leave Cairns earlier but Jet Star has cancelled the flight and so we extended our stay in Cairns.

This is the first full day that we are in Adelaide but as we have a rental car, we prefer to go around with the car as parking is incredibly expensive here in the town center.
Today, we drove from Adelaide to Barossa Valley which seems to be a must for a German traveller. First, due to the fact that most of the settlings at Baraossa Valley were founded by German imigrants and second because the Barossa Wine is also famous in Germany.

We had a very nice day and of course we also found some caches that were lying along our way.

This was the first cache we could find today. We did not go for the whole trail as we were driving by car and not by bike.

Thanks to the owner for keeping and maintaining the cache.

I have found this one today together with my dad Schwabenheini.
Thanks for this cache.

Remembered pen this time found with mrbuzzy

Found with mkmc tftc

This one rocks. TFTC.

Found on a cool afternoon walk.

Fun day out with the boys picking up some caches.

Great to have the nexy back up and running.

Thank Burton's for the find.

A bike adventure with Tardis trio and Team Scoobster starting with 47 we headed towards Port Wakefield rd great little trail for the second time TFTC

Out with Liz And bruce grabbing a few caches on a cool afternoon
thanks to Burton's for putting this cache out for us to find

Mr Tardis, Mr Scoobster and Mr froghoppin decided to hit this trail today on our trusty mountain bikes. We had a great time and managed to find all in the series without any DNF's - YAY! Most of them were quick finds in quite a logical place for this powertrail.

All the containers and logs were in good condition.

Overall a really nice bike ride to get some exercise and some caches.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Burton's and the effort in putting out and maintaining this series.

Out with Honeysucker finding this cache on this well known trail, we finished off just on sunset. Nice one. Thanks to Burton's

Staying in Gawler, on our 2nd trip around Australia.
Headed out today, to do The Nexy Challenge.
With only 1 electric bike, geo-hubby drew the short straw, and got dropped off at the start.
Geo-wife picked up a few in the area, before returning to the end of the series, to wait.
Apart from being a but chilly, it was an easy ride, mostly along level ground.
All the caches were found quickly, signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for the hunt today, Burton's.

On our tour of Australia via Oz Mega we are currently staying at Highway 1 Caravan Park.

A lateish start today as has become our custom . We joined forces with iluvtrekking so we could get the bikes out and about (needed their car for the bike rack!)

What a fabulous day, great company some interesting caches and no rain!

Sadly there were a few DNF's, but still was a fabulous day to ride the electric bikes.

All in all, a successful fun day was had whilst finding geocaches! That's what Geocaching is all about isn't it.

Thanks for helping us meet our objective today with your caches.

[Green][font=Comic Sans MS]G'Day from W.A.[font=Verdana][/Green]

We joined forces with FelixII today for another days caching in the greater Adelaide area before our imminent departure. The boys set out on the bikes to hunt down the Nexy series, while the girls had a much more sedate day which involved stopping for coffee along the way.

We had a great day, thanks for your cache Burton's

[Blue]# 8093 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure, while at Windsor Gardens for a short stay.[/Blue]
Another day out on the bikes with Team Robins on a perfect day for a bike ride.
Not many muggles around and a reasonably quick find on all the hides.
Thanks for the cache and the series Burton's,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

10457 caches found

Out with Roosterman to finish this power trail and to try out our new bikes and the Princess in her carriage


took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache Burton's

Found with hubby.

A quick find on our way into town. TFTC

Team Crackers mentioned they were prepared to complete The Nexy Challenge while in town so we were more than happy to go along. I love the Nexy trail and now that I've found all of these new caches I'll be able to ride end to end uninterrupted ;-P Seriously, we really had fun along the trail -- had lots of laughs. I'm ashamed to admit that Spook was able to go so much faster than I could handle! I tried to keep up with him and nearly collapsed a lung! haha. Really great fun, thanks Burton's!