Shipwrecked Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia
By Gizmo's Gang on 08-Apr-14. Waypoint GC4NKDF

New container has been prepared. Now need to look for a new location.

Shame. I had worked this one out and will be there tomorrow. Oh well can't be helped. These things happen.

Drove past today to see the peppercorn tree is now gone. The cache will need checking..

Tree and cache are gone.Will investigate a new location.

Staying at Waterfront cp for 2 nights. Weve always driven straight through TB without stopping on way to Victoria. Nice to have a look around & grab a few caches & ALs. Tftc

Cache was covered in a lot of leaf litter.There are now chargers here tooWe had a rider from NZ stay with us overnight is crossing the country from west to east. We dropped him off at Murray Bridge which left me time to cache around Tailem Bend for the day.Gizmo's Gang, I found Shipwrecked today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

lol, we used our binoculars to complete the calculations. Nice easy find and Picked up a TB Thanks for this multi Tftc

Fencing still in place and construction seems to have halted.However as the most recent finder has indicated, it is still possible to complete this multi, so I am enabling and will keep an eye on the situation.

An easy solve from the comfort of home, so no need to visit WP1, but we did anyway walking around the Bend for all these AdLabs. Could still be worked out. Just take a photo of those boards through the cage. Anyway I digress, straight to GZ it was, to find the replacement container.

Unfortunately WP1 is currently fenced off! Impossible to read the info from the fence line even after taking a photo and zooming in. One for next time!

Construction work is happening at the posted coords. (WP1)Disabling until construction is complete.

New container in place.

A replacement container is being prepared.

Collected the numbers even double checked then but had no luck at GZ. Not sure if we are blind or the recent trimming has affected the cache.

Cache is missing. Will replace.

Out and about caching, Thanks for the cache

Out for a day of geocaching. Nice view. TFTC

TFTC. Log signed ????

An after dinner drive brought me to this multi. I gathered the required information and was soon at GZ. As I was searching, I heard a voice behind me asking if I was geocaching. I confessed that I was. I am meeting so many geocachers from all over the country on this trip! Sorry, I can't remember your team name. :s The cache was located after a quick search and our names added to the log. With everything returned as found, I continued on my way. TFTC

Interesting place. Easy calc. TFTC

It’s a beautiful winters day and I have the day off work so I ventured down to the Murray Bridge & Tailem Bends areas for a day of caching.

Numbers collected and crunched then to my final for a quick find, stamp and return here.
Cache nicely tucked away from prying eyes here

TFTC

We are off on a trip to the Birdsville Races and then across to Queensland - the plan is for about 6 weeks all going well.
Day 1 was Portland to Cockatoo Lake.
Day 2 was Cockatoo Lake to Tailem Bend where we jumped on the bikes and toured around town.

Thanks for contribution to our holiday Gizmo's Gang

Nice one doing some al seen this one tftc

One the first time I’ve done this tftc

Day 14 of our loop through Vic and SA then home.

Today fitzy_1965, albida33 & I headed out early to get the caches in the area. We signed as MAF or FAM to save room.

Our aim was to collect the nearby Challenges, then the River & Peaks series and anything in between. Once we understood the hints on the River series, it made the finds so much easier….a clever idea. A great day with no DNF’s.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

31,282. Found with minniek and albida33 (signing either as FAM or MAF to save room and just for fun) during another great day of caching in South Australia).

Rutherglen Mega and South Australia Trip Day 14. Today we headed out to drive the Straya series of Challenges plus we also managed to complete the Australian Mountain Peaks (AMP) and South Australian Rivers (SAR) series with a few bonus caches thrown in. A great days caching with no Did Not Finds which was also a bonus. This was the next find of the day, and a quick find once at GZ. Signed, replaced, and then we headed off back to the camp site for dinner.

Thanks Gizmo's Gang !!

Southern Autumn adventure Day 15. Post Mega South East SA trip Day 9. Our second day spent in Tailem bend was to target the Straya Challenge series. This did not take all day so we were able to get to the Australian Peaks series and the South Australian Rivers series. It was interesting to see some of the 2014 Mega sites re-used. With the end of the day closing in we targeted a bit of the newer section of Wandering heroes, as usual a wide variety of caches in this series. Today is was Fitzy_195, MinnieK and Albida33 and we signed as F.A.M. or similar.

Back in town, we managed to find a few labs and a few more caches. They have painted the rhino since yesterday, today it is a solid grey all over.

Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang

41650.147 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2021 Wangaratta Event Orange A#468

**Albida**

Day 2 of my three day weekend camping and geocaching around Murray Bridge.

Today I concentrated on the area between Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend.

An enjoyable day with lots of great caches.

Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang.
# # #11888 # #

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Gizmo's Gang [^]

Brad has been sent to NSW for a week or so to assist in the flood disaster response. Pretty hairy time. And lots and lots of water and mozzies. And dead cod. And black toxic water. And water of roads. And river levels getting higher every day. Only caches were caches of opportunity or on the way over or back. This was one of those.
TFTC

LTF

Just found this one while talking on the phone to the cache owner. Thanks for lovely caches, they are all so well maintained and the coords are spot on. They have certainly made for a great day.

On our way to Barossa Valley for a motorcycle event, we planned to cross the river on the ferry here, so this cache caught our attention.
We soon had the reqd figures, and calculated GZ. There was a scooter hanging in the tree that needed checking, but it had nothing to do with our mission. We soon had it found, and the log signed.
Thanks Gizmo's Gang.

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Thanks Gizmo's Gang for the cache

James0116

Thought we would attempt this cache today whilst grandma is at work and we are in town from Geelong visiting. We’ve been across on the ferry the last couple of times we were here, so it was nice to look over the water whilst gathering the clues we required.

After the solve the youngest geokid quickly made the find!

TFTC

It certainly was a well concealed hide... and that's the way it stayed

Thanks so much for this cache. It was a quick find and I learnt so much interesting info.

Checked and cache is still in place.

Checked and cache is still there.

No luck for us today.

Nice hide
TFTC

Found on the first day of our summer holiday. Great easy multi, just the way I like them. Tftc.

Did the calcs and found the well concealed cache

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. Concentrating on finding caches of special interest today as we move on toward Adelaide. TFTC Gizmo's Gang
Find #3683 at 11:31.

A bit concerning when you go to gz and the spot has had some serious work done, luckily the hide was still intact and the logbook able to be signed, all in good condition and placed back as found.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out hides and showing us your part of the world

Log signed as SB

TFTC Gizmo's Gang

Find # 1332

Found while hanging out with Team Honda for the day

TFTC

Out on a beautiful Spring Day for a Daughter / Father’s bonding day for a scenic drive with a chance of Geocaching Failure Success.
Many thanks for the maintenance of the caches to make an enjoyable day out.
Much more pleasant search now the rubbish has gone.
TFTC

Stopped to say hello to the rhino and read up on some river history. Oh and to grab a cache. TFTC

We have been travelling around this great country, calling into see many different places,
now is a quick chance on the computer to catch up with logs and to put some smileys on the map for where we have been.
Thanks to all the COs for some great finds.
TFTC

Meandering up the Western Australia coast, the Northern Territory, and South Australia, we have finally arrived down south of SA.
Down the Highway and byways, tracks and trails, the geological, historical, the fun geocaches, traveling this great country through the eyes of a geocacher has lead us to some fantastic outlooks.
Thanks to all the COs for placing these Geocaches, it makes the Adventure more interesting.
We found your cache container, and with signing duties done and dusted we replaced it as found.
TFTC

Meandering up the Western Australia coast, the Northern Territory, and South Australia, we have finally arrived down south of SA.
Down the Highway and byways, tracks and trails, the geological, historical, the fun geocaches, traveling this great country through the eyes of a geocacher has lead us to some fantastic outlooks.
Thanks to all the COs for placing these Geocaches, it makes the Adventure more interesting.
We found your cache container, and with signing duties done and dusted we replaced it as found.
TFTC

Finally have crushed my nemesis, found on the fourth try nice multi TYFTC

Out caching around Murry Bridge, Karoonda, Tailem Bend with Team Waldron today
Cool container, good coords
Had fun & enjoyed some sunshine
TFTC GG

A fday out with TheWhiteDogGang..

We had a day to clear a couple of new series around Murray Bridge.

All caches that we found were in good condition.

Numbers gathered and then cache quickly found and signed.

TFTC

New container and log book in place.

Wet cache retrieved.
Disabled while we ready the relacement cache.
Should be back online in a day or two.

We have a new container that should be more weatherproof ready to go.
Just waiting for lockdown to be over so we can make the exhange.

Nice spot!
Unfortunately lots of water in the cache. :-/
TFTC!

Unfortunately we didn't attempt finding the cache, as when we got to gz, the horse manure and household rubbish had us turning away immediately.

On the other hand the view from the information area is lovely. Thanks

Mr tatts decided he wasn't going to put off by some horse @@@@, he went back and done a little side step to the left.
Soon had cache in hand.
Cache is damp.
Tftc

This one will be the death of me, in the past we have been hindered by; human excrement, dirty nappies, rubbish, bee hives, a snake, many Muggles, today I tried it once again with a few more hints from previous finders.
Was greeted by approx 20 litres of horse excrement, placed by a human as a horse couldn't get under the canopy.
So I think I'll come back another day (again) to beat this Blue dot in the stat's.

Found. Coords correct but info relating to cache misleading. Tftc

Nice view and a quick find.
TFTC

Out with a Muggle mate to get pics of a grain train that is loading at the Viterra Silos. What to do whilst waiting the 2+ hours for that to happen? hmmmm.... let me see [insert thinking hard emoji].
This was 1st cab off the rank out of 7 found today in Tailem Bend on 'OZ Day' 2021.

Got to the listed co-ords and soon got me a set of numbers that had me in someone's front yard [:o] "Uh, yeah... i don't think it's gonna be there" i said.
Re-did my calculations and soon had the Sth co-ords side of it fixed up and off i went to GZ, whilst the Muggle played a candy-crush type of game on his phone [:o)] [headshakes lol] I know what i'd rather be doing [^]

The cache was a quick find in the rather obvious spot but admittedly it wasn't the first place i looked
Took the booty back to the GeoMobile and emptied a bit of water out of the cache. The log book was unscathed, all good and dry

A Fave Point is offered for this Multi, the History and those Awesome views in the good ol' "Bend"

SL at 13:40 on Australia Day, 2021
"OI! OI! OI!"

TFTC Gizmo's Gang

Good quiz. I enjoyed enjoyed this concept.

We enjoyed searching for the answers on the board. Took a couple of laps to find the end point. TFTC Gizmo's Gang.

Thanks for the cache gizmo s gang. K had done a couple laps before zeroed in on the cache.

Treed and Forked it. Log damp but ok

Quick multi, search took a little longer
Day 4 of our SA trip with Wilbert67.
Beautiful start to the day grabbing caches as we are headed to Millicent.
Thanks to all the COs

Day 4 of our SA road trip. Today will lead us from Murray Bridge to Millicent via a multi trail detour. Lots of caches and lots of fun, thanks to all the CO's for placing them. Again perfect cache weather, but sunscreen was needed!
TFTC Wilbert67

Checked on this and cache is still in place.

Can't believe another DNF for us, lost count on this one!

Today Tankengine and I were leaving Adelaide and heading to Tailem Bend for the night. Not far, but we had always intended to head here before Adelaide and we also were going to spend two nights to collect a heap of wanted caches. But with changing plans we were still happy to have at least one night there.

So we spent the day slowly travelling down and collecting a few fun caches and sight seeing along the way.

This cache: After dinner we had just a little more time before it got dark, so we thought we could dash across the road from the motel and find this one. What a fun spot and interesting views. We even got to see the ferry cross the river shuttling a car to this side of the river. Tftc Gizmo's Gang!!!

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 on our SA Road Trip! So nice that the borders are slowly starting to open! Thanks Gizmo's Gang

Cache found open and spread over spot. We have put it back together. Most fabulous views here.

Been great staying in Tailem Bend. The weather is awesome.

On a road trip to South Australia now the border is open with Kittykatch, and barb2e calling ourselves Border Busters or BB. Fifth day of our trip and loving the beautiful green fields and cool day. Awesome day to be out.
TFTC Gizmo's Gang

On a road trip to South Australia with Joolay and barb2e - today is Day 5 (Taillem Bend). We signed all caches as Border Busters or BB.

Condition Report:. Found container open and strewn around and only 1 lid catch now - placed back at our estimated GZ
Log Book: log book found too but is wet but writeable

Thanks for hiding this cache Gizmo's Gang

Found in pieces at gz and have put everything back together as best we can. Log was wet but still OK otherwise and one clip was broken off. Found with Joolay and Kittykatch on day 5 of the trip to SA. Still cool today but sun is shining. Travelling around Lake Albert this morning and will see part of the Coorong. Tftc

Will check on this one later today.

Ran out of time for this one but have the coordinates to try another day

Focused on Tailem Bend today but did not complete the power trail, just beadled around town and local area and checked out the bakery for an apricot turnover and hot ️ Spotted a rhinoceros grazing beside the highway

Simple little multi. Logbook is soggy.

TFTC

Took me a while at the final GZ, particularly with all the rubbish around. Eventually found, hidden deep as others have said. Tftc

{233} After stopping here on our drive into Adelaide on New Year’s Day, we got the information required then drove off before calculating the final GZ. D’oh! So we have stopped by here again today on our drive home to Melb (via Warrnambool). Interesting to learn about the ferry, especially as it still operates. TNLNSL. ThanksGizmo's Gang for the hide.

As we started searching the final GZ I discovered three containers full of rubbish, thinking one of them maybe the cache I opened the first one only to discover chicken? bones rotting away [xx(]

As I place all these containers in the nearby bin and did my best to not bring up my breakfast the goose searched for the real cache, he had just got it as i returned after composing myself.

Thanks for the cache

This was the Mega trip that started out as a simple trip to St Arnaud for just the Mega and turned into a mega road trip starting with myself and GooseandEgg flying into Adelaide to collect a rental 4WD so we could drive an indirect route to St Arnaud and then on to Melbourne so we could fly home again.

The Goose had put a lot of planning into the trip so we could both complete or get close to completing our D/T grids, collect a number of good interesting caches and cache types we didn't have many off.

For me this was the best organised Mega I have been to, the stand out was how the committee had managed to get the whole St Arnaud community to welcome us all to the area, just about everyone we meet knew what we were there for and I had no awkward moments explaining what Geocaching was.

Found on 13/11/2019 at 5:06:00 PM
The best caches I have found so far by type are:-
Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

I enjoyed this multi and the views, but not the disgusting mess left by somebody here. SSR opened a jar that was full of bones. Another container contained what we hope were food scraps. There were a few but they all ended up in the bin.
Once that filth was gone we got back to searching for a container we DID want to find. It was hidden pretty deep bit I eventually dug it out.
Thanks Gizmo's Gang.

When planning the St Arnaud mega trip I was keen to incorporate some missing D/T’s from my grid. Stainless steel rat suggested flying to Adelaide ‘on the way’ and driving across so a route was planned and a fun week of caching began. I cherry picked in my planning so as not to run out of time for the ones I wanted, and we added a few on the day if there was time. We met up with various teams along the way including a planned rendezvous with Tassie Trekkers in Kaniva for a fun days caching. I ended up with around five hundred finds (including labs) for the week, and still had plenty of time for socializing along the way. It was great to catch up with some old friends and of course make new ones.
Special thanks to the St Arnaud mega committee for a great weekend.

Found with Redrover09 after deeper delving Container quite wet inside gave it a clean notebook dry but may need to replace plastic bag soon TFTC and interesting info to get correct Co-ords

Nice hide spot,had us going for awhile, found with Bublyn. TFTC

Dropped by and CITO'd the area. Sadly littering is all too common these days.

Today wasn't about numbers it was about a) finding a cache to complete my DT matrix after almost 6 years of caching and b) finding my Wandering Heroes cache. Both of these missions were accomplished, which meant this was a very special day of caching.
Set off from home at 10.30 to head to Hahndorf where the geohusband and I went for a gin tasting which was brilliant, 2 bottles were purchased one of which I am enjoying now whilst writing my logs. We then did a bit of shopping and the crappy weather put the husband off so he and the hound headed back down the hill home.
I called Davidwazza who was meeting me to help with my final DT square. Met him to do that and then continued on with the rest of my caching.
All up around 25 caches were found for the day, many km driven, got very wet, then got dry. Excellent day of varied caching including one bonus find from 2001. Home happy!
Added this multi into the mix for a little variety. Calculated the coordinates which had me in the middle of the Murray, revisited and realised I had misread the listing. With that corrected I headed to GZ to begin my search. Lots and lots of rubbish here, not very nice. Seemed to be a full bag of groceries including fruit salad and steaks, very weird. Resorted to getting my BFE mini rake out which made the search more pleasant and after quite some time I eventually unearthed the nicely concealed cache. TFTC Gizmo's Gang, this was a good one.

We always enjoy a Multi-cache, especially one that includes some history, and so we stopped off to undertake this one today. We soon found the numbers required at the waypoint given and then with our GPS updated with the corrected co-ordinates we moved on towards Ground Zero where the cache was located soon enough. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

We were heading out of Palmer today and just picked out a couple of caches on our way to our next destination with ilook4geo. Stopped here to check out the river views and read the signage about the history of the area. Spotted what was needed to fill in the missing numbers. It was then off to GZ and made quite a quick find here. both parties were added to the log. It is such a pity there is so much rubbish around the area.
Thank you to Gismo's Gang for this nice litttle multi which was easy to do and which we enjoyed.

Moving on today and still caching with goingplaces2. Found quite a lot for the day and signed each log. Found the numbers, recalculated and headed off. Found the container and signed. All was put back into place before we moved on. TFTC.

The last floor for the Meningie School was delivered this morning, so I am taking the rest of the day to do some geo sight seeing. TFTC

TFTC. We were headed across the River too attempt the 2014 OZ Mega series. Decided that the ferry ride was too good to pass up on. stopped here first to gather the information. A quick calculation and the cache was in hand. It was interesting reading the information. Many years ago I worked for Southern Farmers Group.

On a spur of the moment trip to SA from Melbourne for the long weekend and staying in Tailem Bend and touring the country side picking up caches as I go.
I was on my way to catching the ferry across the Murray and stopped to find this one on the way.
Worked out what was required and was soon on my way to GZ.
Why do people have to leave their rubbish lying around.
Checked a few spots and soon felt my way to the cache.
Thanks Gizmo’s Gang TFTC.

Searched around, in and even over. Not in the rubbish that was oiled nearby... Definitely not in the sandwich make.
Had my hand on this safely placed cache TWICE and kept my Geo eyes firmly shut... Thankfully a particular Rat was able to snuffle in further...and can claim found it! TYFTC SLTNLN

Had gathered my info, on a previous trip.
Worked out the coords.
In the area today and stopped by to find it.
Took a look around and returned to a spot the Skuzzybear had put her hand.
A quick scratch in the right spot and the cache was revealed by a Rat. Tftc

Took a bit of looking, but found in the end.

Cheers

Bundy

A visit to Tailem Towne today,
revealed a few caches that I might find one day

The steam train was a bust

But over this side of the road,
where the views are watery,
a stroll around found me this cache

Despite being shipwrecked,
I kept me feet dry [^]

TFTC ... Moooo !! [:o)]

Tuesday 8 November 2018.

A straight forward little multi. Lots of camo, but Connor put his hands on it first.

Yet another fabulous day out with gridge98...so fabulous that we stamped all of the logs as "Fabulous Randoms" (the ink in a few was becoming a little light).

We stopped at about 150 caches today as we were on a mission for Connor to reach his 4,000th caching milestone, and for me to get closer to my 10,000th. I'd found a few before today so my find count was a little lower, but anything over the 100 mark is a great day caching! We even began our day by attending a coffee event at 7:30am and then finished it with dinner and movies...haha, yep, the GIFF event was on tonight at the German Club.

Thanks so much for the cache Gizmo's Gang! [^]