A Hell of a Hole Caveton, South Australia, Australia
By Team Crackers on 08-May-14. Waypoint GC54CW9

Staying at Mt Gambier, we did a trip to Port MacDonnell today and visited Hells Hole on the way. I have cobbled some answers together and hope that they are OK. I had no signal at GZ and had to guess what was required here. This is a very interesting place. The divers are very brave. I know my daughter has done some cave diving and the idea really scares me.

Found myself down in the SE this week, so stopped by here for a re=visit, after having been here in 2013.A great spot! A lot more tourist friendly than 11 years ago...Answers sent.TFTEC

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state of WA on. SA caching foray. Staying in Mount Gambier for a week to grab some of the local hides. Its been sixteen years since since we were last here so enjoying the re-visit. Love the country roads caching. Lovely walk up to the centre. Thanks for the ECLNCU

We are travelling with richlink on our Annual Caravan Geocaching road trip, using geocaching as our guide. We are in Beautiful Mt Gambier for a few days, soaking up the amazing things this area has to offer. We especially love the bush, the back roads, and the wild southern seas. Thank you for another great Earth Cache Team Crackers. LNCU.

On my way to Melbourne from Gold Coast. But I made a detour through Mt Gambier to pick up some old cache. Im really loving the sink holes. I had no ideaI AM GURTHE SKITZ CACHER

Nice discovery! Thank you for the cache!

LTF - Answers have been sent to CO for consideration.

Awesome job. Thanks for flirtinwithdanger for helping me with it. Was a good day out.

With the Airshow in full swing in our home town of Lara we planned a weekend away in Mount Gambier to get away from the craziness and noise.
Todays plans of visiting the caves in Tantanooloa where changed when we got a call this morning saying our booking was postponed due to their unavoidable closure today. That left the afternoon to find somewhere to visit with the family. This was the chosen place with the Earthcache being something that took the interest of Sims_family mum. After a warm but easy walk we were soon standing over one Hell of a hole. Thankfully the fencing looks like it would keep anyone from accidentally falling into the hole these days I imagine it wasn't always that way..
Thank you Team Crackers for bringing us here we did enjoy our visit

I have been Geocaching for the last year as part of team Dromaniax. We have enjoyed the Geocaching caching around a lot of Victoria in that time. From our first trip up to the Murray River, the next trip to Lake Eildon and the area around Buxton, an epic trip to the Little Desert to attack the This is SA series, then a great trip with our father to the High Country in Victoria, a trip to the Mornington Peninsula and a trip to the Albury-Hume Reservoir area.

I finally decided to set up my own account and am claiming all the caches I have found as part of Dromaniax.

Thank you for this Earthcache Team Crackers

It certainly is a hell of a hole, (would hold a lot of rum). Thanks for bringing us to somewhere we would have otherwise not known about.

It was threatening to rain when we arrived here but we managed to check out the hell of a hole and find the cache nearby before making our way back. These are the sorts of places that geocaching introduces you to. Great location, thank you.

Visited here about 15 years pre geocaching. Good to return and see it changed and cleaned up. Amazing and huge feature here. Answers submitted to CO

South East trip with the geo-pup. Day 8, Mt Gambier to Port Macdonnell and return.

We took a detour to visit Hell's Hole - unfortunately we all couldn't visit the sinkhole as the 4 legged member wasn't permitted. Answers from Ol sent to CO, photo from Wal while waiting

TFTC

Loved this spot!! TFTC

Plans had been made for a weekend away to find the This is SA series of caches in Little Desert. We had planned that AusFox;, Sims_family and my muggle brother. Unfortunately for AusFox;, caught the dreaded Vids and wasn't up to the weekend. So my muggle brother and I headed off for a long weekend of camping and caching.

The muggle brother loves Earthcaches, and so we stop to find as many as we can along the way.

After driving through a lot of pine plantations, it was a pleasure to come across the remnant of native bushland and this spectacular cenote.

We enjoyed the short walk in and took some time to check out the fascinating geological structure. This area of South Australia certainly has some significant sites to visit.

Thank you, Team Crackers, for this Earthcache and the time and effort you put into creating and maintaining it.

That is certainly one hell of a hole. Wow the view from the platform was breath taking. And I could only imagine the divers being lowered into the water as none were here today. TFTC

So we did it, we took the plunge and early last year made arrangements to sell our little hobby farm in South Gippsland and ‘do a big lap’.
No full lap is complete without a lap of the little island first.
So after tidying up our affairs and putting everything into storage, we celebrated Christmas with our families and hit the road.

We recently spent 7 magnificent weeks in beautiful Tasmania, then we just did a quick trip down the west coast of boring old Victoria, making our way to South Australia, crossing the border before Covid strikes again.
Looking forward to slowing things down as we spend time in SA with no return date planned.
Thanks for being one of the CO’s who supplied us with a cache to do on the way.
This one was most enjoyable.

A nice walk around the loop today and something I never knew was here. Answers collected and photo attached

Today was another day of cleaning up new caches and a few older caches around Mount gambier area since I was last here. Even enjoyed a walk with Muff1 for some of the day. Total of 39 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

We visited your earthcache on Tuesday 19th Jan, on a three week holiday (Victoria Escape!) to SA. We stayed in Adelaide, Mt Gambier and Portland.

We've been to Mt Gambier many times before but mostly BK (before kids) and BC - Before Caching which we started in 2016.

We used Mt Gambier as a base for 5 nights to explore our favourite areas of Port McDonnell, Beachport and Southend. When my mother heard we were visiting the area, she asked me to take photos of Southend, Millicent and Rendelsham, as when she was a girl she visited these areas (I only recently came to know this before our trip!) as her step grandfather had a sheep farm at Rendelsham.

Of all our past visits to Mt Gambier we had never been to this location - which we found in an article on the internet the night before and were glad to see that there was an EC here. (usually we find these locations by geocaching, this was an exception)

We visited this on our way to Portland for a 2 night stopover before going home.

Even though Mt Gambier is only about 100kms from Portland we spent the whole day getting there looking at various things along the way such as Port McDonnell, Ewan Ponds, Piccaninie ponds etc and some other sink holes.

We also visited a nearby sink hole called Caroline sinkhole that has no EC that we also found out about in that internet article - which was lucky as there was no sign posts for it until you got there.. perhaps the locals want to keep these places to themselves!

Thanks for the EC Team Crackers, it was a fun one and an interesting spot.

Day 420 ( Thursday 22nf ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Mt Gambier today. A total of 1 for the day and 7398 the trip. A grand total of 17,366 caches. TFTC
Thanks for bringing us here, certainly is an impressive sight. Favourite point from us.

Beautiful location

Off on a slow tour from Adelaide through the Limestone Coast and inland areas to visit new places collecting little Yellow Faces.
Our travel companions are several Travel Bugs.
Team Honda thank the CO's for placing the caches to make our trip very enjoyable.
Glad we did this today as tomorrow the walking trail will be very slippery after the rain today.
TFTC TNLN SL

A beautiful day in early Spring to try for a few caches in the back roads south east of Mount Gambier.

Yet another stunning sinkhole to visit among many in the south east.
Answers sent to the CO.

Many thanks for the hide Team Crackers....another favourite point on it’s way.

Found with hevwalker, while TT016, Princess Aria and Little GoosE waited in the car park. What an amazing place to visit......and wow that is a big deep hole...I can understand why the divers come to explore this special place. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTEC. Our amazing S.A. police officers were down at the carpark when we returned checking if we had seen a particular vehicle which had come through the pines from Victoria....they are doing their best to stop the Victorians running the border....we told them we'd let them know if we came across them.

Headed out to explore a bit further afield today. Had to dodge the drizzle but still had fun out and about in the Pine forests and surrounds.

Info collated and answers sent to CO

TFTC

Quick find while driving around the area tidying up some local caches that I hadn't done yet.
Had the go ahead to lo from the owners. I tried to fly my drone over the cenote for a different perspective but unfortunately a technical glitch put cancelled that idea.
Thanks for a cache Crackers!
Beaker

Thanks Beaker tnlntfc

Went for a walk on reasonably hot day, making lots of noise , was amazing to see the cage so wondered in and found my answers, was not very clear today with the water so not sure I would go in. thanks for the interesting sights. TFTC.

On a road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide with Lady membsec, wombles and 1MinnieMoo.
Day 3!

This EC reminded me of the crater at Mt Hypipamee near Cairns.
An interesting place to visit!

Thanks for the smiley Team Crackers
Answers have been sent by 1MM for our group.

16/12/19 5:28 pm Find #2942
NyssaFlutterby, wombles and co, membsec and I were on a grand adventure along the Great Ocean Road, a trip that has been planned for us for a year.
We pulled up and made our way up along the track, checking the signs as we went. Arriving at “Hell Hole”, we may have been slightly taken aback by the gigantic “cage”, but wandered on in for a look.
Well it seems we may have been a little deceived about this spot, coming away with incorrect ideas about its condition.
Interesting to find more out since logging our answers.
Thanks for the cache Team Crackers.

Found on our QQ GOR road trip with 1minniemoo nyssaflutterby and Mrs Membsec. Logs signed with QQ to save time and space.
Day three of our adventure, off to Mt Gambier today.
Well yes that certainly is a hell of a hole!
We discussed our answers and 1mm has sent the answers to the co for our group.
Thanks for bringing us here!

We are on a road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide on the Great Ocean Road (GOR). Membsec from Tassie, Nyssaflutterby, 1MinnieMoo and Wombles and Co all from Queensland. We met at the airport, late due to Jetstar’s strike (4 hours delayed for the Queenslanders) and then hit the road. We have a good selection of caches that we really want to get, so many in a short amount of time.

Day3

Wow, we weren’t too sure if the platform would take all of us at one time but we took it in turn to view! Interesting feature. Answers have been sent.

TFTC

Answers sent , tick
Location admired, tick
Photos taken, tick
What a Hell of a Hole, poor buggers that did come across it in the dark. What an amazing area we have in the South East of South Australia, it seems like any chance of a hole in the ground has something amazing about it.
Bumped into some tourists on our way down the hill, tried telling how impressive the hole was but I do t think they really understood is. Great set up with the safety platform over the hole, still felt a bit uncomfortable hanging out over the long drop.
Thanks Team Crackers for the cache.

Today with a long weekend in Mount Gambier, we were doing a vertical access course. We had practiced some abseiling in Carolines Sinkhole yesterday, and today, it was time to do some abseiling and combine with a scuba cave dive in Hells Hole.

During the rigging up and preparation phase, I managed to read the sign and answer the required questions for this EarthCache. Then it was time to pay attention at the sinkhole's formations primarily on the ascents, and it wasn't easy climbing in a drysuit making small strides as we went up. Answers sent to the CO; It's an awesome location isn't it! Thanks Team Crackers.

●• A Hell of a Hole•●
Le 24 novembre 2019


In Australia for 4 months
I travel by car , I am a backpacker with a friend. During my journey and hundreds of kilometers, I do geocaching. I thank a lot of the owners. Australia is beautiful
Un énorme MERCI à Team Crackers pour la pause et l'entretien de la cache ! Salutation de France

Cool place.
Thanks for making a cache here

Found It!
It's certainly a hell of a hole. Not something you'd want to find in the dark! Collected the answers and took some photos.
TFTC

This place is a bit scary! I wonder what's at the bottom? Answers sent. TFTC

Hi there Team Crackers.

Today we decided to find some caches to the south of Mount Gambier, and to take our Really Awesome Machine (RAM) on to some forest tracks.

We enjoyed our outing and found 7 caches (& DNF'd 4) in our cache run today. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places while we meander our way around Australia.

Regards
Ian and Penny.

Down this way for work and showing a work colleauge some of the sights around the Mount.
We visit the same type of structure just outside town the night before so decided to show him one with water.
So different from my last visit when the forest was still here.
I think the guy I was with said "snake" about every 30 seconds.

A great spot I’d been to for Satan’s bum v1. The dive platform is s beauty.
The water was clear as usual. AstroTom has dived here with the local dive group.

Found on the Parkville mega event round trip. This cache added to the experience.

Thanks Team Crackers. and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet.

A very interesting EC in the area around the Mount. I can see why it has so few visitors though. It's a bit of a detour but well worth it.

Great spot. Wouldn't know its there if there wasn't geocaching

Another interesting spot that we didn’t know about except for geocaching telling us it was here. Found it while on our way to Mt Gambier.
As we arrived we saw a mob of emus leaving, it would have been interesting meeting them at GZ. Anyway, we made our way there and were amazed at the sight. We answered the questions and learnt a little about why the hole is here. We also grabbed the traditional hide.
Great location and well worth the visit.
TFTC

Grea cache

#14206. We are heading to Port MacDonnell and Ewens Ponds today and gathering up a few caches along the way.

Visited this site on the way to the Port for caching, lunch and swimming as mentioned above. Answers have been sent through.

Thanks Team Crackers

Third day in Portland with BettyBoo3747, The Morris, and beckNmonts.
Today we headed for southern SA and a dive in Ewen's Ponds. Of course we had to have lunch in Port MacDonald. (and grab a few caches)

Been a while since I have dived in Hell's Hole. Last time we wandered thru the forest for a while as the map we had did not have the new forestry roads on it! Today was a lot easier. The trees have been cleared out and the hole stood out for miles around!
Also there was no platform here. All the ladders, etc had to be brought in and an A frame setup. This platform is lovely!
It is still a lot of work for what is really not such a flash dive.

Thanks for putting the earthcache here, it brought us back to this area.
Thanks, Robmc.

What a fantastic spot! I’m tossing up if I would like to dive here. I would of course like the diving part. What I’m worried about is not getting back up. It’s a long way to climb, and climbing in a wetsuit isn’t fun. Climbing the caving ladder for approx 4m out of UnderworldII wasn’t fun. I wasn’t in a wetsuit doing that. Can somebody just install a solid metal ladder for me? TFTC Team Crackers

We are in Portland for a few days with Robmc, BettyBoo and beckNmonts. Today we are heading to Port MacDonnell for some caching and Ewens Ponds for a swim.

We took a slight detour to show beckNmonts the site and the earth cache was a bonus. The area sure has changes since we were last here. Answers are on their way and I think you'll like the photos.
It was a fun day thanks Team Crackers

Out and about from our digs in Portland, we visited this spot on our way home from Mt Gambier. Answers have been sent

An amazing little spot in the middle of what's now a moonscape, with all the surrounding pines harvested for miles around.

I know someone who regularly dives sinkholes and caves in this part of the world, I wonder if she's been here.

Thanks for the EC.
Andrew

Heading to Victoria to finish off the Victorian Country Road Atlas Challenge grabbing caches along the way. TFTC.
That is a long way down

Found

Just returned from my holiday and catching up on the logs from my fantastic trip. It was a hell of a time getting to it. We could have parked nearby and walked but our navigator was intent on getting us closer we got an exciting ride to within 215 feet. The hole is very impressive and totally unexpected. The signs were well done and the trail very interesting. Even the wallabies were out. Great location. Thanks

Suscoe was enjoying a few days at Mount Gambier and surrounds this week leading up to Easter.
We experienced a strange but familiar pattern of weather with a storm last weekend, with hail, rain and strong winds and towards the end of the week we had calm and sunny days. Just like home.
Anyway, we enjoyed the caching, so many different locations and interesting hides.
Well done to all the cachers for the work done in creating and hiding their caches for us to find.

Thanks to Team Crackers for this Earth Cache, we enjoy our trips in here on the few occasions we have been.
Forestry have cleared the pines and it is so different to what we remember, sad in a way.

Have emailed the info to the CO.

A cool spot & off the beaten track.
Just love these little spots of oasis,
thanks to geocaching we get to enjoy these places.
Thanks for the Earthcache Team Crackers

Answers forwarded to the CO. A great location I would never have seen if it wasn't for caching!! Certainly an interesting spot ..... both the sinkhole and surrounding vegetation!! Thanks Team Crackers for setting up this earthcache!!

Just noticed we had forgotten to log this one, answers were sent to CO back in Feb with the all clear to log, Interesting location came with a muggle friend and on her last visit the drive in was all pine forest now all harvested but this oasis remained. Great to see some off the track sinkholes in the natural stte rather than set up for tourist friendly. TFTC Team Crackers

logging with co permission. Found while staying in nelson, slowly making my way back to Adelaide. About the 6th earth cache for the holiday and a fun one to do. Nice view of the sinkhole from gz and I did find the geo cache here too.

Interesting location. TFTH

We had a week long trip to Portland and SA for the School Holidays.
Everything was pretty wet from the recent rain but the caching was enjoyable.
We were surprised at the lack of info signs to here.
Maybe the forestry don't want people knowing about Hell's Hole?
Amazing view at GZ.
Thanks for the cache hide.

Found with McAdies and jelly_bean14 during a holiday.
We got to see some really cool spots.
Thanks for placing the cache we had a good time finding it.
Logging with permission, McAdies sent in the answers for me.

Found with McAdies and Geo_Eddie during a holiday.
It was fantastic travelling around finding Geocaches.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Logging with permission, McAdies sent in the answers for me.

Will be submitting answers soon.

CO has been messaged with answers to questions. This is a fantastic place to visit. There is logging taking place in the forest nearby and we also passed a group of school students with their teachers who were walking in to the hole as we were walking out. TFTC & the nice walk on a sunny day.

A lovely afternoon to be out wandering the natural bushland on our way to Nelson for dinner with the family.
TT016 (daughter; S-I-L & granddaughter) had visited this area on earthcache day so were keen to show me.
We spent sometime here looking at the wildflowers and other areas of natural beauty. I answered the questions & submitted them along with a photo.
Cache is logged with CO permission. Thanks Team Crackers for bringing us to this lovely environment.

Found on this International Earth cache day. I love Hells Hole. I defiantly wouldn't want to dive in there, not the hobby for me.

Logged with permission by the owner.

this was a lovely location.
got our earth cache for international earh cache day.
hope we gave the right answers.
tftc!!

Out for a weekends caching with Freddo.
This was one of our many stops along the way and an impressive view DOWN to the water!
Cheers & TFTC Team Crackers

Hell of day to be checking out the devil's sphincter. It is a long way to the water. I guess I am not going to have a swim to cool off.
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This cache was found using a Garmin GPSr, Montana 650t, Oregon 550 or Dakota 20. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.
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Spooky place, but nice walk through scrub

We took advantage of the Long Weekend to roadtrip from Central Vic to Mount Gambier with a few detours. My first trip to SA and I loved it all.
What a great, secluded spot! Found with becca85 & boo09. TFTC

We took advantage of the Long Weekend to roadtrip from Central Vic to Mount Gambier with a few detours. My first trip to SA and I loved it all. What an awesome secret-ish spot! Found with becca85 & neisha07. TFTC

Somehow missed logging this one last week with the rest. Not sure how because we LOVED it!
With a long weekend we thought we'd make the most of it with a roadtrip from Central Vic to Mount Gambier with a few detours.
We did 7 Earcthcaches over 4 days. The others were places we planned to visit anyway but this one we had not read about in any tourist info and discovered solely via this EC.
I wasn't sure what to expect especially as we almost missed the Rock at the entrance and then there certainly didn't look to be anything of interest nearby.
A short walk in, with several comments between ourselves wondering if this was worth the detour, we turned a corner and there it was.
I'm not sure if it's me getting old or Geocaching's influence but I am really appreciating nature and it's unique beauty these days.
Thank you for bringing us here. Well worth the detour!

Logged with permission.

Finally on my way home from Mount Gambier, heading for Vermont in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, sort of a round about trip across the coastline and somewhat inland chasing a few earthcaches.
An eerie spot as you walk in through the pine trees and then when you arrive at the GZ the thought is something like "Bloody hell". Magic spot.
Also spotted a couple of emus on the hill to the south of the car park.
Thanks for placing this cache Team Crackers

This entry was edited by BernieH on Thursday, 04 June 2015 at 09:50:58 UTC.

Took awhile but found it.
Tingle tree

Thought I had found it but found a different one by mistake.
Tingle tree.

6th find for today on the 7th day of our road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide via the great ocean road. We will of spent 9 days travelling between Melbourne and Adelaide with many of those days being in the vicinity of the great ocean road using earth caches to guide us through this geological wonderland.

After a fantastic stay at the lighthouse keepers cottage at cape Nelson, we were sad to say good bye and off to Mount Gambia we headed. On our way there we stopped at the petrified forest and a number of caves in the caves district. Princess Margaret Rose Caves for their stalagmite formations, Narracourt Caves for one of the best fossil finds the Australia and Hell's hole which we found in the middle of the forestry.

Thanks for bringing us here, if it wasnt for the GPS coordinates we would of missed this place. In fact we did, and had to turn back around. After hobbling up to GZ with a sprained ankle each we looked at the Divers sign and though hell no.... we later found out that they were talking about actual cave diving.... not jumping off the platform.

TFTC

Visited Hell's Hole this weekend but only now realising we must have missed the information for question 4! Oh well, another excuse to re-visit this cool spot next time we are down this way.

An early morning start to make a find in a beautiful location. Lots of wildlife out and about with me but didn't see any humans.
Logging with permission of owner.
Happy Earthcache Day

Needed an earth cache to log today for the souvenir and this was it, looks like we were way too late to cross paths with Mogni. Got a tick for our answers and learnt a bit more about the local features of the SE. TFTC

Logging with permission - thanks Team Crackers!!
Great excuse to come back and visit this lovely location...
TFTC

We love this area and have been to this amazing place a few times but today we came for a souvenir for the 7 Souvenirs of August, and an Adventure with the girls. This was the first time both girls were able to walk the circuit/trail here by themselves, our youngest Madi was Navigator for walk. We all had a great time, spent an hour here on a lovely sunny winters day.

TFTEC

Logging with permission from the CO.. fantastic spot..! The reason I love geocaching is finding 'treasures' like this away from 'city life'..My type of caching..!!! Thank you Team Crackers for sharing this fabulous location with us..A fav from me

510th Cache Find On an early Saturday morning, sun was shining...yes that's right, the sun was shining so we decided to head out this way for some caching. Have been here many times now for various reasons, we don't think of this as Hell's Hole unless we were to fall in but its actually just so peaceful & beautiful out there. While walking to the platform we came across some muggles having a look. Not long & they were off so we could then continue our questions. Thank you for the Earth cache & glad to be brought out this way again. TFEC

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More like Heaven than Hell I've visited this beautiful hole many times and owning a geocache here now gives me a good excuse to continue to visit it. I enjoy sitting and watching the resident falcon and gazing into the beautiful water below. I managed to find drivers here on one visit climbing a tiny caving ladder from the water to the platform, must be quite a effort after diving and then dragging yourself and all your diving up.
Thanks for placing this earthcache here and your quick response to my email