The Nexy Challenge #42 Buchfelde, South Australia, Australia
By Burton's on 31-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4X20R

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

All these snails! I remember Modbury was like this when we were one of the early houses there, but you don’t see them in such numbers now.

TFTC and series.

Nice find on a perfect cycling day! TFTC

Found during a stroll with geokid along the Nexy walkway. TFTC

Found

TFTC!

Another one off the list. One day owl will find them all.

Tftc

Today we learnt about Anna and found most of the series. We were also lucky enough to meet Lava12 and share cache finds. Later we were spoilt when we were offered to share cake with erine14, alysse14, Clare007 and CPwanderer. We also found two caches together - a good day. Later in the day we walked some of the NEXY, part of a river and we travelled out to the coast. Thanks to all those who made our day enjoyable.
TFTC

Tftv

Quick find. TFTC Jones Family

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 this cache

Quick find, good spot. TFTC

TFTC

TFTC

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

The Nexy Challenge #42 was transferred from Burton's to user equipe de cinq

Found ages ago just logging now

Another quick find. Tftc.

Another one again!!

Learning to read the signs! TFTC. Great caching walk.

Tftc

Tftc

Easily located with AussieM&M!!! Thanks for the hide!!

Caching while out and about with CPwanderer. Grabbed a few of the Nexy caches. TFTC.

Tftc found via torchlight

Found it while out doing some caching along the bike track and the nearby suburbs

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.

Oh no ... got a flat here. TFTC

Quickly found. Tftc

Found with LaLa TFTC

found it with troyyugal on mother's day

Tftc trying out the new bike

Came back today with a bike and taller people and the find was made. Thanks for the hunt this morning:)

Found! Cache was out in the open- replaced in hiding spot.

TFTC, Found cache but could not retrieve it to sign log.

Cache for the day... on the way home from work.
Knocking off the Nexy one at a time
Bit of a stretch.
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

Strollin' strollin' strollin ...
... the next GZ on the NEXY slowly crawled across the GPS' screen,
getting closer ... slowly !! [)]

Oh why did I leave the bike at home ??? [:o]

I woke up briefly at GZ and quickly found the cache

Back to the strollin' ...

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.

Crook family
Rikes1

I'm glad I've got a bike and decent balance. Without the boost, there's a few of these caches I wouldn't have been able to log. Thanks again, Burton's.

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.

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

On a roll ( literally on inline skates ) TFTC

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

Thats anuvver one.
Tftc.

[green]Find #6 of the day and Find # 5685[/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]...

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TFTC

Tftc found with MizVR. Damn bullants. MizVR used the pram to reach this one. Glad we had that. And saw a glider above.

On my own today enjoying the walk.
Unfortunately, I have duck's disease so will have to return with someone else to help.
I could see it but couldn't get it.

Number 6 on my morning ride. 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 7 for this lovely 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.

# 7551. 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.

Every time we went past I said no Hurtle, we are not stopping! Today I let him, haha SL Thanks LB

Heading north and finally did the detour and walk to get this the last one of the Nexy Series with an unfound box on our map.
Probably the hardest of the lot to reach!! lol
TNLNSL
Thanks

Quick easy find while walking the NEXY with my Geomut. However signing the log proved more of a challenge and I broke my glasses attempting to retrieve it. Needless to say I didn't sign it as I am apparently vertically challenged.

We wanted to find a cache today to fill in a blank space on our geocalendar.

We enjoyed a pleasant walk to this one seeing several cyclists in all their lycra, a couple of glider tow planes taking flight and a beautiful horse decked out in it's harness racing gear as it waited patiently at the gate to the track as we walked by.

Us vertically challenged folk needed a bit of ingenuity to retrieve, and particularly to relplace this one


Many thanks for the hide Burton's[^]

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

Quick and easy find.
Tftc.

Out for a villis breakfast and then a day of caching in the hills with the travellinbees. Hope to reach an even number.
Thanks for the cache
Harleyjohn2569

Couldn't get this one down today - will have to return another day to collect.

Good hide 2nd time lucky

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 10:43 with Shonky, Astro and Waldron
A beaut day for it too

Found at 10:42:00 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.

Tftc. Found with mkmc.

Another off the list. Found with mrbuzzy

Tftc almost done now

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I couldn't find it?

Yay we found it, was hard to reach, embarrassing

The middle Einstein ventured off to do these one with Grandad. He loves riding his bike so this was a great place to let him have a big ride.
TFTC

It is about time I finished off this series.
So today I headed out on the bike with one of Grandads little pirates in tow.
We had fun cycling along and signing logs

Found today but was too high for me to reach. So I was unable to sign the log. But from a visual inspection it all appeared in good order.TFTC.

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.

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.

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

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

We are heading back after going to the Barrossa with earthlight and the x trailers to get some more caches through that area and spot a few more of these nexy caches pop up on my GPS so i thought i better get them before they get out of control and i have heaps to do lol. TFTC

Out caching with 3LG and the x-trailers when Mick said he still had a few in this series to do.
Gwen and I will be back to do the rest another day.
I remember walking this road when another series was here.
This was our last find for the night as now nearly midnight and our beds are calling to us.
TFTC

Another grab and sign tonight
Last one as starting to get very late
took our TB's along for the fun
tftc

Stopped off tonight for a walk and a few quick finds..TFTC

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