Student Free Day Belalie East, South Australia, Australia
By Hylands5 on 04-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5A8N2

We did go passed, did a u turn, got out of the car as the rain came down. Seemed and found. Thanks for the cache

Found 13.9.24Thanks

Away for the June Long Weekend with TheWhiteDogGang.We based ourselves at Orroroo and travelled far and wide over 4 days. We managed 1,500 kms during our travels.We managed to find some really old caches, one from 2001, and even managed to get all 9 terrain ratings. Not bad for 2 old farts with no coordination.The weather was dry if not cold on occasions.A good way to spend 4 days.No students seen today.TFTC

A LWE away caching w Team WaldronToured the mid north and surroundsSome great caches foundFixed a few as wellTFTC

Found this cache whilst on our two month adventure throughout central Australia and remote parts of WA.Thanks to all the COs for adding to our adventure. TFTC

Found with SJG66 as we wind our way North. TFTC

Found with O319 on our way north

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 6 - Morgan to Jamestown via Burra and Hallett. After a fun day around Morgan yesterday, it was time to move on. A very cold night last night. I did a few roadside caches along the way, but I spent most of my caching day around Burra. I have done quite a bit of caching in Burra before, but it was great to see a wonderful collection of caches to be attempted today. I even managed two sets of Labs, including a good walk around the mine site. As I headed over to Jamestown, there were a few caches that drew attention to the huge wind farms on all of these ridge lines. My last cache ended up pretty much being where I stopped to camp for the night. Into town for dinner tonight.I found the stone commemorating the school, so I felt I was in the right area, then I started looking around a bit and was happy to locate the cache.Thanks for the cache Hylands546471.16 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Gold Shuttle A#233**Albida**

TB's visited while Detofinbars found and log this cache.

Yay. Finally crossed this one off the list. Tftc.

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches as we go. Based in Peterborough, we are exploring some of the surrounding countryside today. Thanks for the cache.

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders. Basing ourselves in Peterborough for a few days to grab finds in the surrounds. Thanks Hyland5

Love these caches with a bit of history. Looked under a piece of cor flute thinking that would be good camo and there was bluey, having a snooze out of the cold. Tftc

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No kids out here today, must have been the day off. Cache found and is all good here

After making my way up to Caroona Creek Comservation Park yesterday and camping the night there my main goal of the day was to make the walk through Tourilie Gorge finding cache with 4.5 years unloved followed by the rest of the day finding caches around the mid north yet to be found before making my way back to Adelaide.

Thanks for the cache

Nice find and went from a blue face to a yellow smiley. Thanks to Hylands5 for the cache replacement. TFTC

Just missed the electric fence! TFTC!

Cache replaced!

Cache replaced

Cache to be replaced this weekend 25/03/2023.

Cache is missing, finding parts for replacement

6 weeks no cache. Not disabled. Needs disabled or replaced.

Cache missing, shall be replaced soon

Out and about with Bear049 we scoured the area but did not come up with anything cache like on the fence or surrounding grounds although visibility was difficult due to long thick green grass.

Couldn’t see the obvious cache.

We stopped here on the way from Wilmington to Burra, heading homewards. I searched but found mothing.

School's out. In fact the school seemed to be missing
Some educational material remains

And to our surprise, the local school bus came to the corner opposite and dropped off some kids who were picked up there just as we'd signed the log in this small metal cache.

Much appreciation to Hylands5 for hiding this cache on our SA geo map game board

Touring the countryside with Jack and Purrfect Di.

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Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 10, Jamestown to Burra.

Found on the ground, replaced on fence (magnet no longer works)

TFTC

Found today while out travelling with DennisC52. Tftc

Found with Loopy1972 after doing the Burra adventure lab. TFTC.

Well it’s 2021 and I have finally said good bye to a not so great 2020 and it was great to finally be able to have a reasonable holiday as I have not had a decent break since 2019.
Making my way towards South Australia and finally crossing the boarder and then being greeted by a couple of very friendly SA police offices which i had the official paper work to allow me to enter.
After checking out a very large fan blade down the road I continued my way northwest towards this one.
Geocaching when towing a van is not always easy and I have to be a bit selective on which ones I decide to try and find for safe parking purposes especially along busy highways.
This was one of the ones with enough parking for the Geocruiser and van.
I have stopped at a lot of former school sites in my travels and it is quite amazing how some of them were only open for such a short time.
I soon added my name to the log and I was on my way again.
Thanks Hylands5 TFTC.

Another find on a over cast cool day. Drive past here a lot in truck no time to stop
But today in car I can stop and have a look, just annoys you when you keep driving past and you can’t stop but finally a smile is on our face TFTC

Heading to Peterborough for the weekend with my friend, Bron...a muggle who caches with me
Another closed rural school from the past, cache to find...
Thanks Hylands5

Found, and Thankyou.
Yes, I wonder HM schools SA has closed over time.

Found quickly on a sunny day.
TFTC

Pretty place to visit in spring, found with PSGV1. TFTC!

Another lost school.
Plenty of history like this around these parts...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Out grabbing some caches for the LGA Challenge - this one just inside the boundary. Left a lucky Chinese Feng Shui coin.

21.08.20 tftc very windy and cold today

Cool little historic spot - TFTC

where did it go ?
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Found it

Met a farmer whose father went to this school so we learned something about its history. TFTC

Had a reasonable search, but no cache to be had today.

Thanks falls and the cache was wet

Today I found this cache together with barbarine by our journey in direction Port Augusta. Thank you for the hide. Greetings from Germany

Together with finderus today I viseted this cache by the trip from Mildura to Port Augusta. Thank You for the cache and greetings from Dresden in Germany

Thanks for the cache. It had fallen

Cared l of the fence

Found this back in March with 900 Black & Team Gwynne and just realised I had not logged it sorry for the late log

There may not be any students here but the flies made up for that. TFTC

the Grandkids had this one before we even got out of the car

A quick find after our picnic. Tftc

Might be student free but Not fly free Easy Find TFTC

Another drive after work saw us at another bit of the mid north school history trail, still surprises us how many are dotted around the state
TFTC Hylands5

Windy and showery as we drove south from Jamestown. Quick find. Tftc

Found on the ground - maybe magnets need replacing. TFTC

We found this one whilst driving back to Burra, we’ve been on a caching loop driver mode the day. TFTC and some more history about an old country school.

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Dont give up

Owl was in the area to knock off another LGA area for a challenge, to allow Eagle to look at pretty scenery and technological things and to get away from the fledglings for a while. All 3 goals were achieved! This was the last cache of the day and looked like being a DNF until Owl realised it was in plain sight and she was looking at it!

Making my annual pilgrimage to Darwin for the Supercars, this time via Burra and the Oodnadatta Track. TFTC.

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When reading about the school it almost sounds like it was a pop up school. One moment it’s there & then next moment it’s gone

what do you do after attending a ute show in burra, you cache on the way home. a nice quick find and finally get to take it off the unfound list

Love it

An interesting spot

Out and about with Moneydork finding a few caches, doing some maintenance and puting out a few more. As they say "if it wasn't for geocaching I wouldn't have come here", tftc

This was a nice quick stopover. Found, signed and replaced back
in it's hidey spot....

Thanks Hylands5

Little Squirell

We were travelling from Burra to our next destination of Hawker we zig zagged through this picturesque area picking up a few caches along the way.

We wish we had a dollar for every old school site we have visited since we started Geocaching as we would have a lot more money to put in for fuel and go visit more.
We often wonder why these schools closed , whether it was people moving away form the area or better modes of transport that meant they could consolidate the schools.

The cache was a nice easy find right where the GPSr was pointing and our names have now nee added to the log.

As we got back into the car we noticed the turbines in the distance being engulfed by low cloud making the top blade invisible giving the impression they were only running on two, looked very weird.

Thanks hylands5 for the cache.

Tftc. Lonely place.

Sad that these small schools have all but disappeared but good that they are remembered in this small way. Fascinating name. TFTC

12936 caches found

Grabbed it on the way to Alice Springs


took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache Hylands5

Easy find with GrimsTattoo and MIA! Thanks Hylands5 for the hide!!

TFTC Hylands5

Found It!
Another quick find here and yet another old long gone school!
TFTC

Found it. Tftc

Found the cache Thanks

Who, but a geocacher, can plan on having dinner in Jamestown at 6.30pm, 120kms from home, and leave 9.30am that morning and get home 7.30pm the following night after travelling 750kms.
We had a great weekend, viewing some great scenery, meeting wonderful people and, of course finding a cache or 2 or 3 or ............
Thank you to those who left a cache for us to find and make the weekend so good.

TFTC

Quick stop and cache. School year started today.
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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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A quick find with taurus1955 and BentleyTB. We took the log to the car to sign as there were lots of flies hanging around today in the heat. TFTC

Although there were millions of little flies annoying us we persevered and located the cache. It is very sad to see all these schools closed due to the lack of students
Found with misschief18 and Bentley TB
TFTC
TNLN
SL

A quick find, whilst heading north, Thanks Hylands5 for the cache.

A quick find thanks for the cache. SL

Had to pull over to take a phone call while on a work trip and noticed there was a little monument - highly likely there was a cache here - alas there was! Tftc!

Tricky but good. Thanks. Electric fence a bit scary though!!

We are heading across to the Flinders Ranges on a 2 week sojourn. We don't intend to do a lot of caching but will try and pick up a few along the way.

Today we are travelling from Burra to Wilpena Pound for 2 nights in a real room and then we will decide whether to camp there or further into the park. Its still npretty good condition - in Victoria it would have been dismantled and made into a barbecue at someone's house.

TFTC Hylands5

Lovely setting. Another to our gradually growing collection.

4569 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1305. Well done with the hide for your cache. Still no students to make the chatter and noise of school time. SL Tnx Hylands5

No one at school today being Sunday so made an easy find
TFTC

Quick and easy find.
Tftc.

Found it. Thanks

If nothing else, all these old school sites seem to have to trees to mark their (previous) existence [^].
TNLNSL.
Thanks for getting us to stop here Hylands5.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc

Heading south for the day on a sightseeing trip, but decided to find a few caches on the way. Oh the flies here!! Unbelievable and no obvious reason for them. Found the cache quickly and back into the car, still with flies! Tftc