Marananga Heights Gomersal, South Australia, Australia
By doggybom101 on 23-Apr-14. Waypoint GC538Y3

As per the previous note would appear this cache is now MIA owing to a brand new fence line having been erected from just before GZ to further down the road.

Believed MIA

Cache appears to be missing. Looks like the landowner about to put up a new fence.

Found with Jamesta18 today, we decided to tackle some caches today in this beautiful weather We had so much fun adventuring down all the dirt roads today, plenty of wildlife out and about today too, lizards, Kangaroos, ducks and dogs lol TFTC

Out on a late afternoon run with Kyliesmiley after a visit to the geo shop. We has a local farm dog try to see what it was like under my car. Not today, crisis averted. I love this area! TFTC

Tftf

quick and easy find overlooking an incredible view. thanks for the cache!

TFTC

Another day forecast to be a scorcher so we decided to keep local to our accommodation so we could pop back to refresh our drinks when needed. As we had started the Barossa Geoart yesterday, it was decided to have a go at finishing it off today. All caches and a few extras were found using a multitude of tools including ladder and fishing pole and some tree climbing thrown in for good measure. Thanks for the caches.#9145

Attending the Great Leap Forward Event in Adelaide, we have travelled down from Brisbane Qld and are having a great time caching in and around Adelaide. Logs signed as 6 for Qld to save space.Team members, RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan, grannysmith1947, Imbunda and myself.Today we have ventured out to the Barossa Valley to tackle the GeoArt caches out here. Beautiful countryside and love seeing all the animals.All caches were found in good condition. Many thanks for placing these caches.TFTC mopoke

After attending an early morning event in Walkerville I headed out as part of Team QANVT to attack the Barossa Geo Art series.This is the first time Ive completed a piece of art as part of a team, a lot of fun and a great crew of people. Picked up a few additional caches along the wayA big thanks to the cache owner for making this series available to be found.Cheers

Out and about after the One day Mega and an early morning event we are heading up to the Barossa for a day of adventure in the geoarts.Caching with and signing as the group 'QANVT' and having a great day.TFTCache doggybom101

Im visiting SA for the first time since 2018, here for the Great Leap Forward mega (my first) in Adelaide. Today I was part of the QANVT group finding and signing caches in the Barossa Valley and Gawler area. It was a fantastic day. Tftc

We were running ahead of time (for once) whilst collecting the nearby Barossa geoart, so we decided to add this traditional cache as an additional detour. No problems with this quick find, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks mopoke for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.----------A trip visiting Adelaide from Brisbane for the [The Great Leap Forward](http://coord.info/GCA1DNA) Mega event!I arrived Wednesday 28/02/2024 evening ready for Leap Day on Thursday, and stayed with family across the weekend, before returning on Monday 4/03/2024 morning. Previous Adelaide trips are spent with family and friends, but targeted geocaching was this trip's objective, and I attempted to target unique cache types (virtuals, EarthCaches, Wherigos and letterbox hybrids), attractive D-T combinations, high Favourite Point caches, and the occasional pre-2003 oldie, acknowledging that I had found many cherished oldies whilst residing in Adelaide.In addition to Mega central in Beverley/Hindmarsh, my trip included visits as north as Clare, to Aldinga and Sellicks Beach to the south, and the Adelaide Hills (Hahndorf, Uraidla) to the west. In true South Australian style, I ticked off the three closest wine areas to Adelaide (Barossa, Clare Valley, and McLaren Vale). Additional highlights included Barossa vineyard meanderings, boating to Adventure Island in Outer Harbor, drain exploration via [The Shadowlands](https://coord.info/GC18AZY), beach walks of Port Willunga and Sellicks Beach, enjoying a beer at Willunga, and experiencing the Fringe Festival in Adelaide's east end.Today, the plan was the completion of the Barossa grapes geoart, and then return back from north-east of Adelaide via targeted D-T caches within the vicinity.After attending the morning's [Meet and Greet Walkerville Memorial Gardens](https://coord.info/GCAJ4H9) event, we proceeded north to join others, and completed the Barossa grapes geoart, before having an early lunch at Tanunda. [E_Smiley](https://coord.info/PREYGEN) and I then took the scenic (geocache) way back to Adelaide via Gawler, One Tree Hill, Golden Grove, Athelstone, and traversing the Black Hill gorges of Gorge Road Montacute Road. Highlights included the 1837 Barossa vineyard, many repurposed (Used 2B) churches, upper Torrens River scenic walks, and enjoying wild blackberries spotted by [E_Smiley](https://coord.info/PREYGEN).Following a pizza dinner refuel and returning [E_Smiley](https://coord.info/PREYGEN) to her vehicle, I called past a couple of Adelaide's south park lands geocaches utilising various TOTTs, before returning back to the family base well into the night.

On a road trip with geo friends from QLD for The Great Leap Year Forward Mega 2024.It was a fun, action-packed day, with many cachers teaming up to gather geo art and various other caches along the trails.Our logs were signed as team QANVT to spare room on the log sheets and to speed up the process among the car pools.A special thank you to all cache owners for placing such good caches and the ongoing maintenance on them. Your efforts are a credit to the geocaching community and gives us many smilie faces on our map ????

I was in the state for the Leap Year Mega in Adelaide and a group of us from Queensland, ACT, New South Wales, NT, Victoria and Tasmania decided to travel to the Barossa to do the Geoarts plus any other caches that we came across. This was one of those. to save space in the logs we signed as QANVT being the acronym of the states and territories represented. Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

A quick extra find whilst doing the grapes geo art today. Having a massive day achieving the geoart on a rather large group in many cars

Find # 11601Well here it is, time for another MEGA, and an extra special one to. Its a leap year! ?? ??????? ??So before the main event I decided Id head down to Millicent and surrounds to collect some geoart, and some of the all important (to me) SFE challenges?? Day 7 and another not so hot day today. Today is an out and about around Gawler day, mainly for some geoart with puzzles long ago solved in anticipation of the mega time.Quite a group today, a convoy even, so lots of laughs and fun time that these caching events bring. Signing as QANVT as representative of the States and Territories here today.Thanks mopoke for Marananga Heights ??

TFTC smile 18204 ?? out and about on a lovely day ?? having a great time finding a few caches in Adelaide after the Event Great Leap Forward signing as team QANVT being QLD ACT NSW VIC and TASMANIA what a great team we made and lots of laughter and fun Thank you doggybom101 for placing this cache for our enjoyment ????

Attended the Leap Year event in Adelaide yesterday and today was the day set aside to visit the Barossa region to collect the grape geoart, visit Anna Tommy and also a few other interesting caches along the way. Our caching group for the day was Team QANVT.Thanks to all the COs whose caches we visited today and showing us around this lovely region.

Joined the expedition to the Barossa today with Contesta, Cybergranny and Icybeetas in the car and joined up with others covering all the eastern states plus NT. Signing caches as QANVT standing for Queensland, ACT, NSW and NT, Victoria and Tasmania. Great company and great fun and some great caching for the day. Started with the Barossa geoart and collected a few other local caches on the way. Tftc

The Leap Day MEGA drew me here to this lovely State, and gave many of us the opportunity of completing the GeoArt trails Id solved months ago in preparation.Participating with the QANVT team we had 4 different States in our car. Thanks to Contesta, our wonderful chauffeur from ACT, plus barb2E representing Queensland, icybeetas from Tasmania and Cybergran V from Victoria, we had a wonderful trip today.This cache was logged as QANVT.Thanks for placing and maintaining this traditional cache found whilst in the area.

Marananga Heights2.0/1.5 Small Traditional Cache Flew in from Alice Springs. Back in Adelaide after 14 years. Here specifically for The Great Leap Forward Mega and catching up with awesome Qld caching friends and revisiting Adelaide where we lived for 16 beautiful years! Pity I only started caching in 2015.Had a wonderful time reminiscing and admiring wonderful changes in the State, meeting friendly cachers and helpful COs and finding quality caches, high D/Ts, oldies, geoart etc.Signed Team QANVT - cachers from Qld, ACT, NT, NSW, Vic and Tas - to save writing all 30+ caching names.Thank you for the cache doggybom101.

A Leap Year Mega drew us to Adelaide. Now that it is over, it's time for some good old group caching. After a short break, it is off to find a few more caches.We are using the Acronym QANVT to cover participant from all states.And so happily I say that the logs were signed and caches replaced as found on this day, 1st March 2024. TFTC, mopoke. I loved being out in the bush.

Out and about caching with a group of cachers and to save space on log boos we signed as QANVT. We completed the Barossa and Anna Tommy GeoArt as well as a number of other cachers, which are not part of the GeoArts. Thank you to CO for the placement of the cache. TFTC

Signed today as part of team QANVTWe came to SA to attend the "Great leap forward" mega in Adelaide.During the event a plan was hatched to do the Barossa series, then Anna Tommy, then the Unicorn.Had a wonderful time doing the series and enjoyed the camaraderie of our friends from QLD, NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.This cache was included in our journey.TFTC

Ive headed to SA to attend the Great Leap Forward mega in Adelaide. So far our journey has found us in Bendigo, St Arnaud, Halls Gap and Mount Gambier, Millicent and Victor Harbor and lots of places in between. Ive targeted some geo art on the way over including the GV2020 and crayfish series, wine glass and wine bottle and challenge series. We are targeting another geo art series today, signing as QANVT which represents Queensland and ACT northern territory, Victoria and Tasmania

Headed over from NZ with tmann421 to attend The Great Leap Forward Mega event.Enjoyable day hunting out all sorts of different hidesSigned log... on to the next

House sitting in Roseworthy,a quick cache on the way back home Quick search, for ants and spiders revealed none, yay, but we did find a cacheInteresting log book !

TFTC. Nice view of rolling hills. Cache missing its lid.Left baby

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 - Mopoke [^]

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It doesn’t feel good posting a ding but it helps the community

Easy

A quick drive by while out here doing the Barossa geoart series
TFTC

Whilst up this way finishing off the grape series, stopped by this one and made the quick find.

TFTC SL

Lovely view from here! TFTC

Thanks mopoke for placing this cache and for the ongoing maintenance. Find #7812 on 2/1/2023 at 5:11 pm.

Cache in average condition, new bag supplied, signed physically by myself and returned as found. Thanks

Another big geocaching trip to Australia with woolwood9.
Our main focus was the "On Your Bike" Wherigo series but of course we couldn't resist many stops on the way plus other good trails! ????
SL tm/ww NZ
Really appreciate the effort put into this cache. ????
*Thank you for adding to our enjoyment!*

Found

nice and eaay

A quick park and grab. Lid is missing.

Thanks for the cache mopoke.
Found on 18/6/2022 at 13:22.
Find #15231.

A quick find on a lovely winters day between wineries
TFTC mopoke. Found on 18 Jun 2022 at 1:22 pm. Find # 2443

Couldn’t get log out of cache. Thanks
Gorgeous area.

There was a special guardian under the log on the bottom

Another beautiful view. Thank you for bringing me here.

TFTC doggybom101
Keep smiling

LTF

I had organised to meet up with CPwanderer and Gizmo's Gang to find a few caches around Tanunda and Nuriootpa. Most were puzzles that I had solved with a few trads and multis thrown in. After CP's list was completed we went our separate ways and I continued on in the heat getting a few more smilies before heading home. [^]

A nice view from up here and after looking at one post I moved on a little and soon found the cache.

Thanks for the cache doggybom101.

TFTC nice find out and about with geo wife LynSteNet another smiley face and a great day to be out and about

TFTC

Out with geo hubby Animal62 hunting down caches in this beautiful area. This cache was found, the log was signed and dated before being returned back to its hiding place.
Thanks for sharing this location with us

Nice camp - TFTC!

Nice grassy fields
Thanks doggybom101

Great find!

Found by Mary and David at 10:10. The picture postcard perfect view gets a FP. Our thanks to mopoke.

Another Wednesday Wandering for some members of the Befuddled Puzzle Solving Group. We gathered at the Lyndoch and myself, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats headed out for a day of caching in and around the Barossa Except for 2 DNF's (Damn the list is growing again) we managed to find all we looked for. We were last moth and yet there were five new puzzles solved to look for. As usual there were a few laughs, a picnic lunch and these are the caches we found [B)]

The other two had already done this should have been a quick drive by for me. But stopping near GZ I made a wrong assumption and left the GPS in the car and the car running with them in it. [^] Off to GZ where I looked at the two obvious structures before sheepishly returning to the car for the GPS that narrowed the search to one obvious structure. [^] A search there and I soon spied the camouflaged container. How did I miss that!

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers from over fifty to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks mopoke for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Day trip to Seppeltsfield. Great views, TFTC

Quick detour while in the area. Great location tftc

The views are great tftc

Love the camo! Not in the obvious spot..but found quite quicky. TFTC

Nice view

Needs some TLC

Tftc

Lovely windy view. The log is damaged

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TFTC

Tftc

Out for a day of caching around Nuriootpa with Featherwaite.

We found the cache quickly. All is good.

TFTC

Found during a caching tour of Nuriootpa and the Barossa with Team Waldron for the day. Cool and cloudy made for perfect caching weather. Thanks for the cache doggybom101!

Found by Cache in the hat!

Found by Cache in the Hat. TFTC

Interesting!

TFTC

Day 440 ( Wednesday 11th) of our trip. Caching along the way, in Greenock today. Going to finish off the Barossa trail run we started last time we were here. TFTC

TFTC
Stunning views.
Didn't come across the grumpy farmer...but came across a rather off putting, slightly humorous token??
There was no lid found on this cache so returned it to GZ upside down so as to avoid catching water in it.

Shame someone is not so nice with what they left.

TFTC

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Found 23.1.20

Great spot, didn’t open it as the lid is very damaged. Look out for the farmer Very Grumpy old Prick

The cache was found, most time was spent trying to open it... My bobby pin came in handy! Didn't sign, as I really couldn't remove the contents from the casing.

Another find in our second roadtrip from the Southern Highlands of NSW to Gawler in SA and back, to represent NSW at the Inline Hockey National Championships. Last year on the same trip I had GeoDaughter in tow - this time GeoSon was along for the ride. Sadly the hockey was not as successful as last year and we returned with no medals, but it was still a great trip. We made 63 finds in total including 8 ECs, 7 virtuals and a lot of high-FP and otherwise notable finds. Nationals moves to QLD next year so I don't know when I will be back in SA next, but thanks to the COs for their caches! This was a nice quick find by GeoSon. Beautiful views over the farms and fields from here. The lid has fallen apart so it is very difficult to open the container now. TFTC!

Ty

A nice little detour if the main road. Stopped by on my way to blanchetown, nice and easy find. TFTC

Although caching was not the primary reason for heading to the Barossa today (lunch at Fino was), five caches were picked up along the way. This was a quick find - nice views from here. TFTC

Found easy, but the container lid is very hard to get out, will need something to pry it open.
Thank you for the cache.

Another find for today whilst doing some maintenance on my own geocaches SL TFTC

Found

#709 - Easy find TFTC

Like

TFTC

Another quick drive by with EighthKnox while in the area
TFTC

The second find on a run in the sun with whytknight and Harrison. tftc

Quick find. Tftc

Quick drive-by. Nice view. Tftc.

Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
Found 16 July 2018 1:17 pmFind # 531

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

T4tc

Tftc!

Dropping son off this way last night, we had time to kill before picking him up, so time to get some local caches. TFTC

TNLNSLTFTC
Logbook is full.