Touch of the Past 5 Tepko, South Australia, Australia
By earthlight on 07-May-15. Waypoint GC5V0G2

TFTC

Today out and about on 201 of 274 days to get my daily cacher Emerald Using my Garmin Etrex 22X and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cacheTFTC

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TFTC. Setting up camp for a week in Murray Bridge before the MEGA for 29th Feb!Moving to Ballarat for another week afterwards. Last hurrah travelling before wooding season at home starts!Happy caching and safe travels!

Found it! Stopped by on the way home from a day out caching near Murray Bridge and the Kinchina Conservation Park. Took a few minutes to find it, spotted it on my second lap around the tree. Getting quite windy this afternoon. TFTC!

Found

Whoop whoop RIPBirdy having a field day

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.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 19. Post Mega South East SA trip Day 13. For our last day of caching together, we had to look quite a far way off from Loxton. we ended up heading all the way to Mannum to visit two OTD series. Along the way there were several other aches to be found and importantly an Canberra Lab cache as well. Caching was with Fitzy_195, MinnieK and albida33 and logs were signed as F.A.M. or similar, It turned into quite a long late drive home but we have had a great few weeks caching during and after the Rutherglen event and I cannot wait to do it all again on even more South Australian cache series

After the OTD series, we headed out onto some back roads for a few caches before turning for home.

Thanks for the cache earthlight

42066.77 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 December Signal A#61

**Albida**

31,772. 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 earthlight !!

I was out with earthlight and LíB for the day driving around the hills and heading to Mannum and Murray Bridge. A fun day visiting some out of the way caches and stopping at a few others that needed maintenance. [^]

Stopped here for earthlight to check and now have my stamp in the log. I love visiting these old ruins out in the middle of nowhere and wondering what they could tell us about days gone by.

Thanks for the cache earthlight.

Added new log for when needed

Out for a days caching before Xmas. I travelled far and wide.

All ccaches found were in good order unless otherwise noted.

TFTC

Found by the Aussie branch of Dobie's Pride on a lovely spring afternoon. TFTC!

N.U.D.

A quick stop here today, cache easy found and is all good

Today we headed out to Murray Bridge to attend the annual CP event, decided to make a full day of it and do some touristy things around town and cache along the back roads, throwing in a few walks along the way.

Thanks for the cache

In Mannum for the weekend for a little R&R.Today we headed out to clear as many as we could and sightsee the area. A nice quick find at GZ.. TFTC

Blast from to past

Found

Country caching with Molly Squib.
TFTC!

Got it

Out cache ranging from Punyelroo with iluvtrekking on our last day in the area. Loving the rural road caching we much prefer. Spectacular views from gz. Thanks for the hide earthlight.

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

A chilly, overcast day saw us enjoying the countryside while completing the OTD March series and any other caches along our route. Thanks for the cache earthlight.

Really enjoying these touch of the pasts thankyou

Easy and fun find

Nice cache on a road never knew was there. Nice views.
TFTC

We enjoyed a nice day having lunch at the Mannum club and then grabbing a few caches on the way back to Murray Bridge.

Many thanks for the hide earthlight

Full time nomads since 2014. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Back in SA for harvest work. Spending a few days in Mannum. With the extreme weather of yesterday we werent sure we could access all of the caches that were our target for the day! We had no need to go on the main road but noted the detours in place and the ferry was surely busy!

A part of our day took in November of OTD series and it was possibly the hardest of the whole series that we have completed. Im sure the grey day and the constant drizzle did not help. But smilies all around on completion.

TFTC earthlight

Target cache of the day, as this is one of the missing sectors for 360° from home as prescribed by ProjectGC. Thanks Earthlight!

Nice and historical place. Quick find. TFTC earthlight.

Nice easy find thank you

Nice spot.. Plenty of sheep

Found on a chilly day while staying at Palmer. Lovely old ruins tftc

Tftc out for a Good Friday geohunt with geo wifey and geo pup

On a very hot afternoon we decided driving around in the car finding a few caches would be as good as anything. We found a few mostly driveby’s or very short walks. Thanks to the owners for placing for us to find.

Gee. We wondered what stories this ruin was keeping secret. What made the people walk away form their house. How many children grew up here. The cache was easy to find and in good condition. Thank you for sharing this area with us.

Attended an event today, so thought I would stop off and capture a few caches on the way home with geo pup Douglas what an interesting places that poses so many questions TYFTC

Day 428 ( Friday 30th ) of our trip. Caching along the. In To Mannum today. A total of 13 for the day and 7498 the trip. A grand total of 17,466 caches. TFTC

After getting to know our new camper van last night we had a leisurely morning before heading out to do the remaining caches near the falls.
Nice touch of the past here. Quick find and sign TFTC Earthlight

Checked cache and all ok

401.. cache needs a little attention. Crack in lid. Gr8 off beaten track. Sheep in the background baaing. Awesome ruin in the distance. Tftc

Needs new container. Lids all cracked

Found my first ever trackable!

TFTF. Loved meeting the local friends

Cool little spot. Left TB. Tftc

Found on another beautiful day out with Shandyk. We signed the log as GuSh. Love the ruins. TFTC.

Found on another beautiful day out with Guzs Travellers. Another beautiful ruin. We signed the log as GuSh. TFTC

The container is poorly and needs replacing.

Today with COVID-19 requirements still in effect, and with jesswrigley wanting a rest day at home, I decided to head up to the hills to do a couple of OTD series that hadn't been found for some time. These were the March OTD series, followed by the November OTD series, just around Mannum.
In addition, I stopped off at various locations to run along the trails and in reservations/parks to do some fitness. I enjoyed the journey out and about, and made stops in Charleston, around Tungkillo, Palmer, and Mannum. Mannum was a great little spot next to the river, and keen to return in the future to explore around here further.
It was a cloudy, coolish day that helped provide solo motivation at jumping in/out of the car so frequently.

Another nice old ruin in this series. The *Touch of the Past* series is definitely in my top three geocaching old history series. This cache didn't take long to find, with the cache container lid was cracked, but the logbook was in good shape. Thanks earthlight for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found while what is now a forced stay in Murray Bridge due the CO-VID 19 issue. So in fitting with the new rule I go out into lonely areas and geocache for exercise. (with allmy frends,(no one). Well thats my story anyway. Found OK. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

A quick find while out caching with Go Grandys.TFTC

It t'was a luverly day to be out and about,
driving around the roads less traveled
Another renovator's delight seen here
Certainly some structural issues with this one !!

TFTC

Nice spot! TFTC

Cute little cache!

Hi there earthlight.

We found your cache **"Touch of the Past 5"** today. (This makes our find count 21880).

Today we headed out from Murray Bridge so we could attempt the "OTD March"series, plus any others we came across on our travels. We started at 31.3 & from there we proceeded to log caches up to 1.3 before heading back to camp. On our way back we followed a "next closest" sort of route so we could find this one. As it's not part of the series it deserves a finely crafted log, not one of the crappy cut-n-paste ones that usually are associated with power trails.

We found 48 caches today & DNF'd 1. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Great day for caching with Lava12
Found it after OTD series runs.
Good one!
TFTC

I had a great day with Whitepaws9 from Victoria because we chatted and laughed along the drive.

Thanks earthlight for the cache

I joined up with Aussie Mary to find a few caches this afternoon. Despite there being a forcast of rain, we were able to stay quite dry while out on the hunt.
Thanks to earthlight from mogni

TFTC
Left a bracelet
It's a nice view:D

Sneaky hide. Thanks for getting us out onto these back roads. TFTC

Found on a day out caching with the fambam.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find the.bakers

A nice quick find and great view across the field to this tumble down ruin. Hard to imagine what it would have been like when it was a working farm. Thanks for this series, 3rd of this TOTP series and 17th of the day with CacheClosed1847. #337

Find 17/20 of day two of our caching jaunt with CachingTheJoint. Third and final find of this series. Nice quick find, TFTC and the series #350!!

Another quick find today. Getting closer to reaching 2500 finds. Less than 20 to go now. SL TFTC

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Found on way back to Mannum. TFTC

Easy find

Easy find. Looks out to ruins.

Thank you

Number 2 of 3 for the day while out looking at the falls nearby. Amazing scenery and the kids had fun. Quick and easy find as it stood out. TNLN. Cheers.

18.08.17 tftc it had been invaded by snails as the lid was off, all snails gone and lid back on

Tfgc

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Quickly found and a nice view from this spot despite the grey weather. Totally agree - would love to know the history behind these old ruins. TFTC

TFTC, spent a fabulous weekend at Mannum after our daughters played netball here! Leaving a trinket in every cache.

Found no worries while out and about.tftc

We are staying in Murray Bridge with friends and decided to head out today to do some caching. We enjoyed the variety of hides and lovely scenery in some of the caches we went to. The Murray River is looking magnificent. This was one of the caches we targetted and found. Nice placement and great coords. Thanks to earthlight for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Found with Ferocious Flea while heading to home to Mount Gambier after my nephews 16th Birthday.
Did this one after completing the nearby power-trail.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with Beaker on the way home from Adelaide... Thanks

Another quick find as we toured the countryside today.

This cache was memorable for the nest of bull-ants that we parked on. I think we upset the ants, and we had quite a few crawling all over the windscreen as we drove away.

Thanks earthlight.

The objective of today was to complete the March OTD series, however Mrs Gizmo decided to take the less-travelled roads to get there, so that we could visit a few "out of the way" caches that have been on her to-do list for a while.

Another lonely ruin that makes you stop and think about the lives of the early settlers of our harsh land.

TFTC earthlight

Found by The Boofs TFTC .

Beautiful views
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Caching around the Murray Bridge/Mypolonga /Palmer area
with hevwalker & Mandy the dog.
A quick stop and find for me, thanks for the cache Earthlight

We don't believe that we have seen so many old loved homes anywhere else but SA in our travels.
We try to picture and pretend that we know how many people lived in the home and what the configuration of the inside was. SL TFTC

Another good find and my last for the morning. Thanks.

Today I was on a big caching adventure with my friend Gral4, caching between Balhannah to Mannum. By the end of the day I had 103 and only 1 , a great day!

Enjoyed seeing the old ruins as part of this series.

TFTC earthlight!

Enjoyed the back country roads and the reminder of the past this series brings us past.

Spent a really enjoyable day with Ismartis doing 102 finds, (my first tonne), many of them being yours.
Tftc and the series.

Out with sir_spectre for a days caching, stopped by here and didnt know i disturbed a bull ants nest till i got bit on the leg.
Thanks earthlight.

found with rod81w after a day on the water, quick park and grab

Tftc! Beautiful views around here. Watch out for the bull ants!

Found It!
A quick find here and yet another old ruin...
TFTC

Happy Valentines .
To B and S , welcome to your new home and Happy Valentines ) to many nights filled with love and laughter xx
TFTC

Out for a drive. TFTC.

Found this one without any trouble

Found it

Always love these places and wonder at the hard life these guys once had. Thanks for making me stop and ponder.

Thanks to earthlight and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Needs TLC. A lot of TLC. Lots and lots of TLC.
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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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