Heart Of Stone Palmer, South Australia, Australia
By 3LG on 02-Oct-15. Waypoint GC64E39

Two caches here which have brought me to this fascinating place. I gave the other cache a favourite point, so it is only fair I also give this cache one too. I wandered about and then made the find. Cache and log are good. TFTC LB.

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On the way back from CP's event, we took the opportunity to grab this one while we didn't have the Caravan on. A quick find at GZ and also retrieving a couple of TB's. TFTC

Quick find having admired the rather large stones nearby. TFTC

Found quickly. On my way back home from visiting my newest grandie and her parents, I thought I'd grab some more caches on the way, to help the community get the 15million points we need before our cosmic quest visitors from outer space return home too. TFTCdropped off 2 tbs

A short diversion from the main road through here to a lovely collection of tors.Cache easily found after doing the nearby earthcache. Cheers

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

Find # 14598Been 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 2. Murray Bridge to Swan Reach, via Nuriootpa to visit Geostuff.Managed to get my hit list, of 2 done today... a few others thrown in. A couple of short sharp trails and the fireman's hat.... then focused on the high Terrain "On your bike" caches west of Swan Reach...After getting the earth cache here sorted out, I was onto this physical grab. Quick n simple TFTC 3LG

TFTC great ride up from Palmer

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Nice spot thanks for the find

Found thanks. Great boulders.

Travelling from Taliem Bend to Gawler today and collecting caches along the way - thanks to all the COs for placing and organising them.

Leaving Tailem Bend and making our way back to Adelaide along country roads collecting a number of caches. This being one of them. Found cache and signed log. TFTC

Nice, hide and location. Thanks for the fun!

There are lots of great rocks around here. Very much a photogenic location. It didnt take me long to find this cache,but I was watching out for snakes. Luckily I didnt find any.

Found it! Set off today in the general direction of areas I have yet to make a start on (Murray Bridge, Monarto, Mt Barker - all a sea of unfound caches on the map)! First stop was Tungkillo, this one was a quick find in a lovely spot. TFTC!

Quick find. TFTC

A quick find, stamp and return here today TFTC

Very nice place! Thanks for the cache. Greetings from Czech Republic -:)

Found during the Annual Fathers Day geocaching hunt.

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Out today with Magic[8] to celebrate the annual Father’s Day pilgrimage around the regions of Sth Aust.
Today was a mixed bag with more Finds than DNF’s, lucky us.
Thanks for placing and managing the upkeep of hides, regardless of whether we won or failed.
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Quick find - amazing spot we would never have seen otherwise! TFTC

On our travels and lunch at the pub, we stopped to grab this cache it was nicely hidden but soon had it in hand, thanks for placing it

Found on the long weekend away. Travelling to Nuriootpa for the night

Nice

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.

31,776. 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 3LG !!

Out on a nice sunny day to grab some caches, TFTC.

After a short search we soon had the cache in hand. TFTC

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

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

With a friend, I was heading to Barossa Valley for a motorcycle event over the weekend. I have ridden through this area several times, and always enjoyed it. Today we turned off to pick up this cache.
Thanks 3LG.

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 3LG

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 3LG.

All looks good and dry tftc

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We are finally able to travel interstate without heaps of loops to jump through. We thought we would take it easy and have a look around South Australia and grab a few more LGA's while we were here.
Out for a morning run from Palmer. IT was uphill all the way. It took a little bit of searching but I soon spotted it.

This was find number 2 for the day.
TFTC LíB

Thanks Lib for the cache and the hide. I had to be careful here as I did not have all my bush safety clothes on, and the long grass could have hidden some nasty creatures. All good, I found the large container. It has suffered at some point with heat, the bottom 20% is very heat affected, but it is still watertight so no need for maintenance. Book signed and off I venture to the big marble on the hill.

Brilliant cache ️
Fantastic location. Easy find. TFTC.

After visiting the Mt Pleasant Farmer’s Markets we returned towards Murray Bridge grabbing a few caches as we passed.

We love the beautiful green Winter scenery in this area and the mountain definitely has a heart of stone

Many thanks for the hide LíB

Great cache, beautiful spot. Kids loved it.

Pulled into the Palmer Cricket Ground to stay for a few days and out about looking to put some more smileys on my map. Quick easy find tftc

Out for the day with mini itsandbits

We had fun looking for this one, tftc

Another quickish find. Now to just rock on and head to Mannum for some more of the OTD series. Thank you for the placement of this cache 3LG find number 7600 at 7 April 2021 10:57 am

Out for a Wednesday Wander with an Adder.
It was a lovely sunny day.
A quick find by the slithering Adder.
Stoped to admire the rocks on both sides of the road. Tftc

With my plans to fly to Brisbane for the the Easter Dayboro Mega event cancelled, I decided to head to the Riverland for a couple of days instead.

On route to Mannum I stopped here to admire the rock formations. Cache found without problems. All good here.

There really should be an Earthcache here...oh look, there is

Thanks for the cache 3LG.
# # #7975 # #

A nice quick park and grab while admiring the rocks.

Thanks for the cache LíB.
Found on 28/12/20 at 11:55.
Find #12339.

Found. T. S. F.

what an amazing place, I have lived in the area my whole life and never knew these formations exisited TYFTC

Day 430 ( Sunday 1st ) of our trip. Caching along the. In Palmer today. A total of 1 for the day and 7504 the trip. A grand total of 17,472 caches. TFTC

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I headed to Mannum, Mypolonga and Monarto. Our first stop was Mannum Waterfalls, and we had a good walk around in the nice weather, before heading to Mannum for lunch and completing the new Adventure Lab there. Then, we made a quick stop in Mypolonga checking out a few of the geocaches, and it was then onward to "Woop Woop" Creek at Monarto for the event and new *Underrated Aussie Series*. A few hours of nice walking around and admiring the creek/valley right before the rain hit in the evening.

It looks like we just saw the CO driving off from here as we rolled up. At least they gave us a call to say hi. Once we admired the *Heart of Stone*, we checked amongst the rocks, and found the nicely sized cache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks 3LG/@LíB for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/@jesswrigley stamp.

A fun day out exploring the area with [@Davidwazza](http://coord.info/PR61VZX) ! TFTC!

Cache checked, all good

A girls day out caching . Another ticked of the list
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Nice
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Found on another beautiful day out with Shandyk. We signed the log as GuSh. TFTC.

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

Drove north west rrom Murry Bridge where I am stuck due to everybody friend COVID-19 And found the first 15 of the OTD 3 March series. Went a couple o Ks west of Palmer to find this cache, then back to start the series. I soon realised that once you found 1 you have found them all. While I am standered in MB I have decided to ration my finds to around 10 a day until I get word I can travel again. All were easy finds and in good nick.

What a fantastic spot! Thanks for dragging me off the highway, and thanks for the cache.

Another place we would never have ventured to look at without a hidden cache. TFTC

A quick find after a slight detour. My caching partner in crime had already found this so was a bit sorry we came down. Then we noticed the nearby earth cache so there was all smiles again.

Thanks to LíB and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Found right in the heart of the stones. TFTC

Found together with Threefoot on holiday. We logged as Team LT. Greetings from Sweden . TFTC.

Swedes on vacation in Australia. Found together with LBTW and in order to save space we logged as team LT. TFTC. Greetings to from

We gave ourselves the day off and enjoyed a day of finding caches, enjoying the weather, and locating a few other treasures. Thanks to the cache owners who added to our fun. We were able to find 5 different types of caches.
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Quick find on the way back from Mannum. Lovely view.
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Roadworks abound so it was timely that we got to turn off. Map showed we could get through anyway but that turned out to be wrong, geoD not happy as we are towing, still we did eventually manage to turn around and it was well worth the visit. Great rock formation. Good size cache with lots of goodies. Tftc

Quick find in the way home. TFTC

Hi there 3LG.

We found your cache **"Heart Of Stone"** today. (This makes our find count 21875).

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. Thanks also for placing a large cache container here. It made us feel really glad to find a large, kid friendly cache (with swaps) here.

**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.

Hi there 3LG. Today was a outing day between Gawler and Mannum to catch up with friends we met on an overseas holiday - they actually live in Cowell but are also on holidays in Mannum. This cache was found quickly while on a slowish drive, enjoying the counrtyside at about 75 kph. The container and log are in good condition - SL. Thanks to 3LG for this cache - our find # 6289.

Staying at Palmer and caching around the district. This one did not get done when we were here last time. Hunting for this one disturbed a rabbit, which shot out of its hiding place at speed. Cache was then found and log signed. All was replaced as found. TFTC.

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Passing through this familiar looking area again today,
I detoured from me usual route ,
in thick, thick fog !! [:o]
Visibility was down to about 50 metres around here at lunchtime
Yet some twits were still driving around with no lights on ?? [:o]

I made it to GZ and found a parking spot in the whiteness
So quiet !!
So eerie with the shapes of the big boulders looming from the mist [:o]
Where were the zombies ??
They must be approaching [:o)]

Not too worry,
I soon tracked down this cache
Alll good here and I dropped off the "Celebrations" Travel Bug

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.
A lovely spot to stop and stretch our legs and explore the area.
Thanks to 3LG from mogni

The hound loved it here TFTC splendid spot and nice big cache

A quick clamber over the rocks and the cache was mine. Thanks.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Retrieved TB to move on.

TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 0935. Love rocks, and these are up there with the best. You can see why Palmer buildings have this pinkish stone. Our thanks to 3LG.

Rock of ages, cleft for me!
What an amazing place. Thank you for the cache and for bringing me here!

A quick find at a beaut spot.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Today we tackled 3 more OTD series that took us through the country side, up and down the gravel roads and through a few small towns for morning tea and lunch. The puzzles were worked out the night before and the day was planned around the 3 OTD series from Murray Bridge and back again, as well as picking up a few other caches along the way.

Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Headed up the block to bring the Taj back home and grab some caches on the way. TFTC.

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Found whilst enjoying the beautiful Sunshine this morning. We got a fright when opening this cache as a small wind up toy decided to become active and was moving around inside the cache.
SL TFTC

7909
Back to home in Melbourne via Mannum
Again Beautiful weather today
Right time for me to do with caching day
Found it
Thanks 3LG

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Had finished working nearby and it was lunch time so brought lunch in Palmer and decided to eat it near GZ for this cache. Drove there and spotted the rock that obviously gave this cache its name. Parked nearby. Had lunch and wandered to GZ and made the find in the first place I looked. Extracted log, signed and replaced. Great cache in a great location. No heart of stone for this CO.
Gratias pro cache 3LG

Out on a beautiful day with hubby. Signed log and replaced just as a car drove past. TNLNSL TFTC

A quick find while travelling through on our way to Victoria on Anzac Day. Some good swaps in this cache - the kids loved it! TFTC.

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache 3LG!
Greetings from Finland.

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Second day we drove to Murray Bridge.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today we headed from Adelaide to Murray Bridge. In the morning we found some caches from Adelaide area and then few monthly trails and some other caches on the way.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Palmer. We havr set up camp at the Palmer Cricket Club.
We set out today to complete the month of September & June which we commenced a couple of years ago but the road had been impassable so we aborted our day. Today the track was lovely & dry.
We found a few others & through in a couple of EC & we had a great day.
Thanks for placing this cache 3LG

Found it TFTC