Animal Facts : Field Vole Mount Crawford, South Australia, Australia
By 3LG on 24-Jun-14. Waypoint GC57AWE

Found it

Great HideThanks LB for the cacheJames0116Sunday, 11 Aug 20246:32:00AM ACST4711

Just Paddle Chick and myself now as others have gone to the airport. Making our way to Adelaide for a couple of nights before moving on.

Ive never heard of a field vole before. Bullertrout and I are slowly making our way back to Adelaide, picking up as many caches as possible. TFTC 3LG#16489

Got it. Swapped a trinket

Found it! Quick find on the roadside. #392 TFTC!

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Tftc, cheers team Geosheps

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Nice day for a drive around

Spending the the out in Mt Crawford area and enjoying the fresh air. Lots of different hides and lots of wildlife was spotted throughout the day including kangaroos, an emu and even a goat!

Thanks for the cache 3LG.
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A colourful caterpillar guardian. Thank you!

Good find

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

Our last full day in the Barossa and another chilly day, perfect day for caching. Thanks 3LG

Another chilly and misty morning out with iluvtrekking on our last day in the Barossa area. Thanks 3LG

Lib, it is always a pleasure to find your caches. Quality and great tree selection always. I have come from Cricks Mill Road and started along Mount Road. I am so excited to boost my numbers along here. Thanks for the cache, signed and returned as found, cache in good shape.

I mapped out a plan for the day and headed off. By the time I got to Collinswood, I had already changed directions and headed straight for the hills. I targeted the four on the hill just south of Kersbrook Cemetery. Looping back to Gumeracha and Birdwood to collect the unfound, I used Cromer Road to get to Crawford and its surrounds. A great day of caching in and around the forest, with over 50 finds and three placements. Thanks to all the CO’s for their placements and ongoing maintenance.

We decided to take advantage of the late sunlight and head back to our accommodation via the back way and collect some of this series. Quick finds and lots of fun. Thanks for the cache

On the backroads with Beardman 75 and Georode. Finding caches along the way back towards our AirBnB cottage.
It was getting chilly in the late afternoon as we drove along this trail.

Thank you for this hide
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Found quickly.

TFTC

Georode

Another nice little hide in this great area. TFTC.

GCGL - TFTC

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Found four field vole here today. Didn't get to close to them as they looked dangerous. Thanks 3LG

Found on an Autumn hike with the family. The last one of many on our 8 km walk

Well, aren't these the cutest little creatures! Bit of a hunt around usual spots and then CIH let a signing happen!! TYFTC SLTNLN

Our with skuzzybear today and thought we would pick up a couple with geo pup Douglas TYFTC

Was looking for something else before spotting it, cool spot, logbook full, cheers cobber.

Found no voles but another very unhappy huntsman . Yeech!!!

We found ourselves in the Mount Crawford area this afternoon, with a few hours to spare. There was no better way to spend the time than to go for a walk and find some of the caches in the area. We walked about 8km and found 18 caches of all shapes and sizes with not a single DNF!
Learnt some very interesting animals facts along the way as well. Many thanks to 3LG for placing this series of caches and maintaining them for our enjoyment.

Easy

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A nice walk in the forest before brunch.
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Headed out for a day in the bush on the Mountain Bikes! A fun day cycling around Mt Crawford and finding a few other caches on the way home with [@Davidwazza](http://coord.info/PR61VZX) ! TFTC!

With [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) available for geocaching once again after past weekends performing work and aerials, it was time for a planned out-of-Adelaide outing. We attended the nearby 5 km parkrun, and later, called past the annual pi approximate event, before heading to Mount Crawford with our mountain bikes. We then proceeded to ride up the Heysen Trail for a small segment (definitely not suitable for bikes as we walked half that), and then around the fire tracks collecting the *K9-GPS* series, *Weird & Cool Facts* series, *Animal Fiction* series, and *Animal Facts* series of geocaches. We then had a pizza dinner at Birdwood with a few final finds around there. A little windy that felt more attuned to a sunny winter day.

This cache was found whilst cycling around in an anti-clockwise direction in Mount Crawford surrounds. Nice hide actually. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks 3LG aka. [@LíB](http://coord.info/PR8KEM6) for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Quick find for the kids tftc

I set myself two caching goals at the start of this year.
1) Reduce the number of days in my calendar that I hadn't found a mystery cache to satisfy a challenge cache.
2) Complete my calendar so that I had a minimum of 5 cache finds per day. Tick - done.

Then half way through the year I heard a whisper about another challenge cache in the pipeline that required a Multi cache on every calendar day. At that time still needed 129 days so 3) reduce those days became yet another goal.

Then Groundspeak wanted to start a streak at the end of August to get a souvenir. So I did. And I am still on that streak so I guess I now need to achieve 4) goals.

Today I needed to find a cache to continue the streak. But with no caches withing 20 kms of home and having to drive 45 minutes to my target area for today I wasn not going to do just one! I decided on a nice little 5 km circle walk from Mount Road up into the Little Mount Crawford Forest Reserve and along the Heysen Trail for a while before taking a fire track back to Mount Road and back to the car.

Result 9 caches found and 1 DNF. An enjoyable little walk. [8)] Unless stated below all caches and logs in good condition.

A quick find and probably one of the few that has done this not as a quick driveby.

**Thanks LíB for this cache. **

Another quick find, thanks!

Found on our day out with the geo kids. Thanks Josh and Sam

This was the main attack of the day, most of the caches were easily found apart from a few which took some searching. Some of the log books are almost full and will need replacing in the next few months.

Today I headed up north to Nuriootpa for an event put on by snappytomcats, with plans not going to plan in the morning I set off early and decided to do some caching along the way instead of doing it on the way home. But the bike in the car and decided I would go for a ride around mount Crawford then collect a few on the way to Nuriootpa. Overall a total of 42 caches for the day.

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Quick find In a good spot. TFTC

Had to take advantage of this nice day for a walk with Kapybeara. Last find for today. Ground was very boggy around here TFTC

Left some toys nice

Quick find. TFTC 3LG

I stopped off here while heading to Nuriootpa for the weekend...
Cache all good...
Thanks 3LG

Easy find TFTC

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH 3LG [^]

Having stayed the night nearby, we went on a quick trip out this morning to grab a few nearby caches. Quick find.
Thanks

A beautiful walk! Thanks for placing the cache for us to find!

Found before we stopped. Greetings from WA!

Found while out on the bikes with Wal & Ol. TFTC!

Lovely spring day for a ride around Crawford Forest with Pony1966. FIrst for the day. TFTC

Thanks for the cache
Soli Deo Gloria

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Port Wakefield to Mannum, approximately 150 kms or 1.5 hours; for non geocachers that is! We stretched both the time and the distance considerably and had great fun collecting some smiley tokens along the way. More variety here than at the zoo!

Thanks to '3LG' for this amazing roadside menagerie.
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Found with Csaba! and SupaOrange before I had a caching name. A very late log. Turtle out.

Out after camping and thought we would pick up some caches. Thanks

This morning we headed out on a huge walk to collect caches to get to 6000 caches and that we did. It was a funny old day weather wise pretty cold with plenty of rain showers. We had a fab day and have walked about 20 km my Apple Watch is very impressed. TFTC and series

I was looking everywhere, but missed the obvious & hubby found this one for me.
Thanks for the cache & the night stars

A quick roadside grab at 11:43 on Sat. 28 April, 2018.

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Found with Auntie & Uncle Rasbro.
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Quick drive by. Tftc.

Quick find TFTC

Ben+ Steve

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Another found. Found with Northstar76

Bloody windy but we are here. Found with superman_22

Staying in the area and finding a few caches with Csaba!. Tra La Laaa

Perfect day for caching. TFTC

Thank you Vole! Peaceful place to hide!

That was near a field, vole! Tftc

Final find on a day out caching TFTC

Riding my bike around Mt Crawford today. Great place to ride and cache, thanks.

TFTC. Lovely but cool day out caching while the kids are at school!! Have done some of these before but have now come to get a few more. Number 5 of 15 of these found today.

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Is there an shape of animal that hasn't been invented by mother nature ??
After that thought, I immediately thought of Pokemons for some reason
But wait a second !!
Pokemons are just 'Frankenstein' versions of animals that mother nature invented
A 'Vole-oceraptor' would be an interesting creature to meet.
Might be useful for clipping toenails [:o)]

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With a couple of days off and a let up in the storms we decided a walk in the forest would stretch the leg muscles, a enjoyable stroll and found after a short searchTFTC 3LG

really enjoying this walk

Camping at Mt Crawford this weekend for our sons birthday, so getting a few local caches. Was great that all the caches we went for were in great condition and well maintained. Great sizes too, the kids loved it. TFTC

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Found it

Quick easy find.. TFTC!!

Found 10/4/16 TFTC

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Out doing some caching on this lovely day in Mt Crawford Forest.

found with parislaura

Out with micaparamedic and The Drovers to collect a few more of these great animal fact caches. We did enjoy all the effort gone into the very interesting information on the cache pages and also the cache hides. The GPS led us directly to each one and with this many eyes all bar one were found quickly and we added our names as CDM to save room in the log books.
Appologies for the generic log but being out with a fun loving group we did not take note of each cache.
Many thanks again to 3LG for placing this cache and the informative cache pages.

Out with Team Crackers and the Drovers today, we had a quite day with just three hours caching as a trip to Adelaide Airport was needed to collect another member of our group for the Yorke Peninsula assault. We had a relaxed and enjoyable day with plenty of laughter and frivolity being shared by all.

Thanks 3LG for placing this cache.

Today we ventured out with Team Crackers & Micaparamedic,
to do a section of a nearby power trail, and a few others on the way.
With nice weather, and lots of laughs, a fun day was had.
We signed as CDM, to save on time and log space.

Many thanks for placing this cache, 3LG, for us and others to find.

Aussie M & M and Doctor Owl decided that a day caching in Harry was too much for them and so we headed out in Aussie M & M's car. We made our way through some back roads and over to Murray Bridge where we met CP wanderer for lunch
Then back to drop Aussie M & M off.
Doctor Owl and I then headed out in Harry, armed with Aussie M & M's magical geo tool as theirs is taller than mine [^]
We arrived back at Aussie M & M's at 5pm...as directed by Doctor Owl
Have to love a day of no DNFs and 28 caches found
From here on, it was just Dr Owl and myself caching.

Seems there is a lot of caches around this area and we spent some time doing this series of easy drive bys
Most were easy, some were harder to retrieve and they were all along this little dirt road

TNLN. SL. TFTC 3LG

After enduring warm summer's days and recovering after many Christmas family gatherings, a day of gathering smileys was enjoyed. We learned more history and geology of this wonderful area
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I spent the October long weekend camping at the Fromms Farm camp site, so I didn't have to disturb campers in retrieval of the caches because we were the ones there.

I only did about 10 geocaches for the weekend, I have left the drivebys to do another day, opting instead to do some walking caches that would wear out the kids and the geo-pooch so they slept well at night.

It was quite a warm October long weekend, but it was a lovely weekend in one of my favourite areas. TFTC

Out this way today to cache in an area we not been to for ages. There wasn't many cache out here back then! Finished the afternoon off with some quick roadside finds with some of the 'Animal Facts & Fiction' series' along with a few 'Weird &Cool Facts' ones too.
We will be back with the bikes to do the rest.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Out in Mt Crawford this weekend with the scouts who are hiking. Lovely weather. Always so relaxing when the weather is right and you can have fires. The Geo Daughters came out for the afternoon and so after some soccer we decided to start finding some of the caches in the area. We plan on doing this over several camping trips. Today was some of the Animal facts caches along mount road.

Yes we went down to the woods today
To find us a caching prize
Oh we went down to the woods today
And didn't go in disguise
For every cache that ever there was
was gathered there for certain because
Today's the day we had a caching picnic!

So Purrfect Di and Chloe the geopup joined me for a mini attack on a seemingly tiny corner of the Mt Crawford geo map.
A nice walk, which we must do again soon, but start earlier!

What can you say about a field vole? Not much - I'm not an expert in the field...

tftc 3LG