Lonely Stones - Roadside Babes Loxton, South Australia, Australia
By Adopted by crane2 on 15-Jun-14. Waypoint GC5709Z

Found while out maintaining my caches further south. Makes you realise how tough life was many years ago and what their place would be in society if they had lived longer. TFTC crane2

Found while spending a few days near Renmark, hoping to knock off a few of the Wandering Hero and On Your Bike Series while we are here. TFTC, Its great to have so many caches to be able to find

Sad reminder of years ago, but was pleased to be brought to this location as would not have realised that these were here otherwise. Thankyou for brining us to this location. TFTC

Thank you! Cache is cracked, but otherwise great condition! A good little bit of history nearby too.

Poor little loves.

Found by The Empire + HWe hit the trails again today, the occasional showers adding a refreshing element to the drive. Each time the rain fell, the earthy scent of wet eucalyptus and native trees filled the air, making the entire landscape feel alive. The rain left the gravel tracks slick but manageable, and the morning passed as we wound through the bushland, the sound of raindrops tapping softly on the car roof.After completing a cache series to the north, we set our sights on tackling some more of the 'Wandering Heroes' caches. Each one brought its own unique challenge, with a mix of clever hides and rewarding finds. The variety of locations and the creativity of the caches kept things interesting, making the hunt all the more enjoyable. A quick find on the way into town. Thanks for the cache crane2.-M

12/08/2024 3:44:00 PM An interesting location and reminder of how hard life as a pioneer was, and how lucky we are to live in the present day.Thanks Crane2Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

Find # 15573Been a while since I've been out solo for a long trip. But things change over time. And I'm living the past.So with some time off work, I've jumped the border wall to chase down some long trails in South Aussie... don't know how many I'll get. But I've got quite a few downloaded. I do have a short hit list ( of 2) caches to help with a challenge. All others are just for the Adventure and countryside views. Armed with all the necessary TOTT from tweezers and magnet grab to 6m ladder and 8m fishing pole. I believe I'm prepared for all that I'll come across. (Just had to leave the Kayak at home )Day 5. After a cold night at the Maggea Oval.. I was off on another days hunting.But decided to turn things around as I started in Loxton (after getting supplies) and tackle the trail backwards from original plan. TFTC crane2

So sad, so many children died young. Thanks for bringing us here Tftc

Easy find, just laying out in the openTFTC

Quick find. TFTC JenneG and Budgy Nth Nowra NSW.

Tftc Crane2, such tiny graves! Unique location. Assume that the original homestead was nearby

TFTC.

Easy find stumbled apon while checking out cemetery tftc

Interesting gravesite - not what you would expect or notice driving by. TFTC

Day 18 of our loop through Vic and SA then home.

Our last day together on this trip, we headed even further afield from Loxton. fitzy_1965, albida33 & I signed as MAF or FAM to save room.

Mannum was our target, along with two OTD series, some oldies and some nice D/T’s.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

31,788. 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 18. Today we headed out early to get two of the On This Day series (November and March) plus the usual cherry-picking around Mannum and Palmer, before finishing up some Trads around Loxton that we have driven past far too many times ! We got to do the ferry ride at Swan Reach twice again which we always enjoy This was the next find of the day, and it was a quick find once at GZ. Signed, replaced, and then we headed off to the next one on the list.

Thanks crane2 !!

Sad stop from long ago. SL TFTC

Adding Trackable

Good hode

Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
Nice quick find.

Our second day in the Riverland with BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies.
The forecast was for rain hail sleet and snow so we headed south to do a few OYB caches.
The day turned out quite nice, but last nights storm left the ground a little slippery (and very muddy!).
We had also driven past without noticing these small graves.
The metal work a couple of houses down the road is worth a look too.
Thanks, Robmc.

#19757. Day 4 of our holiday and having our second day of caching from our base in Renmark. Robmc, the geo-doggies and I headed off to collect some OYB caches a fair distance away and a few others along the way. The thunderstorm last night meant a lot of mud to wade through in places.

Always sad to see little lonely graves, especially along the roadside. Wonder why they were placed far from the homestead.
Poor little girls. Left a TB here to continue its journey.

Thanks crane2

Heartbreaking doing this one with 2 little ones

Day 2 of my 5 day Geocaching long weekend away. This would be Find Number 36 of 39 for the day.

Poor little girls but at least we know they will be visited by many more Geocachers for years to come.

TFTC crane2

A sad reminder of past times

Quick park and grab bit of a sad stop

Staying in Renmark for a short holiday, caching around where we travel. Today we targeted some powertrails just out of Loxton and any others along the route. 155 caches found today. This cache is one that was found today.

Find #4424 on 19 Jul 2022.
TFTC crane2!

Found it

Found with family on road trip.
TFTC

P.S R.I.P

A sad find

Out n about with ILT on our first full day in Loxton.Lonely but cares for. Thanks for the hide.

Found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.
On our way to the On Your Bike Series and picked up a few along our route.
Thanks, for contributing to our fun today.

Found on weekend away in Renmark

Lovely day for finding a few caches, just a lazy drive from Swan Reach to Renmark and a few stops along the way.
Thanks for the cache.
Really enjoyed this .
Dan and Leigh

Found by Mary and David at 10:25. A FP from Mary before her seat belt was off. She loves these places for their social history. Poor little girls. At least they are still remembered and visited. Our thanks to crane2

A nice easy find while passing through. Thanks for the cache. A vert poignant scene.

Due to the weekend weather forecast for high winds, I had to cancel my planned kayaking trip at the Corong.

At short notice I decided to head to Loxton instead.
The wind was blowing for most of the weekend but thankfully the mild temperatures made for a good haul of finds in and around Loxton.

Quick find here after returning from a session on the bike Where I Go trail.

Thanks for the cache Adopted by crane2.
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A short day for us today but we did cover a load of miles, we nearly ended up back in Victoria. We rectified a DNF from a few years ago, and added 2 DNF's so two blue faces to replace the one we managed to change into a smily face.
More heat, flies and dust and roads that we have not traveled before showing us more of this great brown land that we live in, but we did enjoy our day overall. It really hits you in the face making you realise how hard life was for our pioneers.
SL TFTC

TFTC smile 12946 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to South Australia to cache the Bike Series ( get ready to pedal) we are off on our bikes, first day 184,, second day 157 , third day126 , fourth day
signing as 4 for Qld
Thank you, Adopted by crane2, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 35 of our southern trip

Travelling & Caching with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signing/stamping as 4 for QLD.

TFTCache Adopted by crane2

Day 35 of our southern trip. We are Team "4 for QLD" - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Today, based in Loxton, having completed both the On your Bike and Fishy Tales series, we headed back to town collecting somecTrads and a Multi or two on the way.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on February 13, 2022. TFTC, Everlasting.

More of On your Bike in the beaut geo art to find around Loxton and outer areas including some trads & multis. Spending the very hot day (38-40°) with hatzofff, RoddyC and grannysmith1947 (logs stamped as 4 for QLD)
Thanks to all the cache owners who have made this such an enjoyable trip from Qld, thank you.

TFTC Adopted by crane2

Around the Riverland for the weekend due to swimming at Renmark. Grabbed this one while hubby working hard at the pool. Easy find. TFTC.

TFTC

Found it. Heartwrenching

as we have a look around the area this was one of the caches we found

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks crane2 for placeing them

Nice little spot of the road. TFTC

Thanks for the opportunity.

Pulled up close by and made my way to the obvious spot for a quick find. TFTC crane2

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA. With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.
Our team “The Mob” consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers, feathertop and ourselves. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book. All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.
After completing all the trails, we had set out to do and a couple more for good measure it was time for this mob to go its separate ways.

It was now time to head home after doing numerous trails while in the area a great caching adventure. We decided to pick up ones around Loxton before leaving.

Quick find here.

Thanks for the hide crane2 and for the fun Rapidlywild

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

With the Turtle done, the PS Series done, the On Ya Bike done, the TdU & TdF done as well as the Riddlers done, our targeted caches has been accomplished. With the teams now split and it was back to FurfacesLL and myself, we had heaps to choose from. Today was cleaning up around Loxton and making our way over to Mildura for the night, before making our way back towards Wagga tomorrow.

A nice quick find here, now onto the next find for the day.

Thanks for the hides crane2 And thanks FurfacesLL for a trip to remember [^].

Tftc

Thankyou. The munstas

Its always sad to see the graves of children. TFTC

We didn't get stumped, good seat.

Grabbed this on a very hot day of caching with Wilbert67. A quick find was made. TFTC

Second day of our roadtrip to SA. J+J.AU and I are targeting some series, but the first days are all about getting there. Today starts in Wentworth and gets us over the border to SA. Again great weather and very enjoyable caching.
TFTC Wilbert67

Stopped to check a succulent stall and saw this nearby.. Quick grab and 2 succulents later we were off. Tftc #130

Tankengine and I were on our way from Tailem Bend to Berri today.

We had plans to pick up a few caches here and there, concentrating on only a special few as we didn't have time to do whole power trails or clear out towns.

This cache: Nice park and grab. Tftc crance2!!!

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 on our SA Road Trip! So nice that the borders are slowly starting to open! Thanks crane2

Day 380 ( Saturday 12th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Loxton today. A total of 10 for the day and 6758 the trip. A grand total of 16,726 caches. TFTC

TFTC. Heading out of Loxton and just had to stop. Very sad

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TFTC

A quick and easy park and grab while driving around town waiting for Pizza to be cooked.

Thanks for the cache crane2.
Found on 9/5/20 at 6:46 pm.
Find #11184.

There are many graves like these in often lonely and forgotten places. Very sad Both Phetlern and Suscoe headed for home early this morning so Bushfire and I headed off to see if we could land a very big fish. We were very successful at this, much more so than catching those wet and slippery ones. We were so successful that we also had time to find many more caches around the district too. Another great day with the ever helpful Bushfire even if I did nearly freeze early in a bitingly cold wind I have much to thank him for as he provided the vehicle, did all the driving, provided fruit cake, and a big warm jacket which saved my life, to say nothing of his good company TFTC crane2

Quick find oh a little graves resting peacefully TFTC

Day 4 Monash B and B to Adelaide

Found with mogni. Slowly heading in the direction of home. Stopped in loxton for a few caches before keeping going. I'll leave the rest for the next trip. quick find.

Myself and mogni came up to the river land to go to MacCabe Corner and find the virtual there plus drive the mail trail in murray sunset national park plus the 4 x 4 track in cooltong national park. The original idea was to go through to mildura but with weather 37, 45 , 37 degrees fore cast we changed plans and stayed in monash instead. Any caches that where found damaged where replaced and any logbooks found full or with 2 or 3 spaces left where replaced.

Found with a geo member now logging it under my own account

11:48 am #8893
How lovely to have a cache here where we can stop and pay our respects to these little babes. Too too young.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Adopted by crane2

Well, the Mega was over, my geobuddies headed back home and now I was off to SA to continue my geotrip solo

Today I was off to Loxton and on the way the target was to grab the WH Fishy Tales geoart and any others along the way. Quick find as this historic spot. Last one of the day as I was heading to my site at the van park.

Thanks for the hide, crane2

TfTC

We can’t help but feel a little gloomy when looking at graves. The who, what’s, when’s and why’s always circle when approaching them. The cache was located and placed back. Thanks for highlighting this area for us, definitely interesting!

What a sad memorial TFTC

Mr Tardis was on his way home from a big day of caching around the Riverland. I found this cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache crane2.

Nice to have another Loxton cache found and a smiling face on the map page.
TFTC and pointing out these babies.

A quick driveby find on the entrance to Loxton. I was with 6Hinemoa2 on this trip and we enjoyed a great variety of hides in this area,
Interesting little graves.
Thanks crane2 for maintaining this cache.

Nice easy find on a weekend away with the geofamily. TFTC

Thanks for bringing us to these historic little graves that we otherwise would have overlooked. Thanks postiegirl and crane2. TNLN.

After finishing the On Your Bike series of caches this morning, along with ilook4geo, we wandered our way back to camp by a different route, so we could include some more caches in the tally for the day. This was an easy cache to find and all was found to be on good condition. Many thanks go to Aussie M & M for adopting this cache and showing us some more of the history around here.

Travelling back to Loxton, took the scenic back road route to get a few more caches with goingplaces2. Back on the main road again now. This was one we found, cache and log all OK. TFTC.

God Bless.

In my time living in SA I came out for the day with gridge98 we stopped to find this one. I am only catchup on logs from last year now apologies for the late log.
TFTC

Sad to see this here, and and interesting place for a small cemetery. Cache was quickly found

Out for the day caching with nettieknows around Loxton, we collected all the caches in the town but the main reason for our trip was to have a look around Loxton and enjoy the area.

Thanks for the cache

Heading home from the Riverland with LiB after a lovely weekend caching, coffee & conversation...
Little graves for the little babes...
On a more artistic note...the sculptures in the property up the road are fantastic...
TFTC crane2

Bless there little hearts.
TFTC

Lonely Stones - Roadside Babes was transferred from Aussie M & M to user crane2

New container placed here. Cache all good at this time.

Lonely Stones - Roadside Babes was transferred from DustyandDizz to user Aussie M & M

TFTC. We had detoured down to Milich’s Landing to complete the multi there. WE were now heading directly back to our camp on a property the other side of Loxton. As we drove we stopped to locate the caches on the way in to town. As you do!
Another large one to add to the list to meet a challenge to find 100 large. Slowly getting there.

Apologies for the late log. This was my final day of an epic four day caching trip to South Australia and this was the toughest day of the lot. It was 40C in the Riverland and the hot, dry and dusty conditions made it tough going. My original target of caches to find had to be toned down and aim for a more realistic number for the conditions. Main targets were Wandering Heroes caches and a few others along the way. I decided that Alawoona was my turn-around point before heading back north so having cooled off a bit on the journey I was able to tackle a few more near Loxton. This was right on the way so I was able to stop close by and take a look. No problems here and I was soon back in the comfort of the car. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks to DustyandDizz for placing this and for Aussie M & M for keeping it going.

TFTC

Another day out finding caches while on a geocaching trip with tmann421
Really enjoying all the sites and the history we are seeing
Thanks for the placements

Another good cache found with woolwood9 today.
We really enjoyed the drive around and thanks for putting this cache out for us to find.
SL

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

Many died so young in those early years.

07.06.18 tftc very sad spot

A very emotional spot. Thanks for the cache

What stories this site must have to tell, it was quite thought provoking – thank you postiegirl06