R.I.P Spalding Andrews, South Australia, Australia
By Sadiesmate on 31-Oct-15. Waypoint GC664DG

We are off on a trip to the Birdsville Races and then across to Queensland - the plan is for about 6 weeks of travel - all going well.
Week 1 we have travelled from Portland to Farrell's Flat near Clare.
Day 9 we packed up our camp and ventured 50kms to the town of Spalding that is sadly lacking in tennis equipment.

After an early lunch we jumped on the bikes and started the channel caches. After we had completed this section of the channel we took the slight detour to collect this one. The bees are still behaving.
Thanks for contributing to our holiday pinkmundi

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. The Geo-men decided on a biking day so they were dropped off while Mrs ILT and I cached around the area. Left fresh log sheet. ’s active at gz so beware. Thanks pinkmundi

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 areas. While the boys were peddling along the Mid North Channel, we girls were picking up a few caches of our own TFTC sadiesmate, all good here if you don't count the bees.

Few lambs out on the road made for an interesting find

TFTC

Tidy country cemetery, all god here tftc

What a peaceful cemetary. The bees behaved and allowed signing duty today. Tftc

Out for a few day caching around Clare Valley & beyond with Team Waldron - our acronym is TWX2
Lotsa fun had, lotsa trees & ladders climbed & lotsa kms walked
Beaut weekend all round
TFTC pinkmundi

Away for a couple of days with TheWhiteDogGang.

We stayed at the free camping in Blyth and cached around Blyth, Brinkworth, Yacka, Spalding, Clare, Stanley Flat and surrounds.

Most caches found were in good order.

A quick find.

TFTC

Quite a buzzy little place so didn't stay at the cache site but slow walk around the cemetery to pay resoect to forefathers. TFTC pinkmundi, log is nearly full.

A return visit to Clare was planned for the long weekend with the JAMS crew plus tallbikestan to find a lot of the caches that we didn't get to on our last visit along with the Rattler, Riesling and NE trails as well as the Mid North Channel Country trail. [^]

We had three very full days with perfect weather for caching, lots of bike riding, lots of walking and lots of driving along dirt tracks. We were lucky it had not recently been wet as some of the roads we drove on would not have been passable if wet. Loved the scenery at this time of year with everything looking very green as well as the bright yellow of the canola crops.

A fun weekend of caching, lots of caches found and lots of cool places visited.

Thanks for the cache Sadiesmate.

A big long weekend with the JAMS Crew (JJ52, allister w(me), mogni, Sir Spectre and tallbikestan). We road from Riverton to Stanley Flat on day 1. Then more riding near Spalding on day 2. Then finished the weekend with finding caches around the area in the car. TFTC

The JAMS crew went on an October long weekend adventure back to Clare. We brought Tallbikestan along as we were targetting the bike tracks and he is the best rider amongst us. Allister W and sir_spectre we the other main riders, with JJ52 and I the support crew and walkers. A huge weekend of fun and adventure was had by all, until I made SS sick with my cold....oops.
Thanks to all those who have kept not just the bike tracks but all the other caches alive for us to find.
All caches signed as JAMS.
Thanks to pinkmundi from mogni

The JAMS team ( JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, and sir_spectre minus mitchell&hound ) but Tallbikestan was with us instead and we where out for there usually monthly caching adventure. This time it was over the october long weekend instead of the usual day trip. The taget this time was Drop into the Light a long ladder cache on the way to clare and then to clear the Rattler trail, Riesling Trail, Ne Trail saturday on the bikes and then sunday do the Mid North Channel Country bike trail. Monday on the return home was to get Peter's view a 2001 cache. Of course there was many, many other's found on route to the various target for the weekend, somewhere around 260 found by the team. It could have been more but we were not going at a flat out pace, just steady and getting a blow out on the bike 1.6 km's from the end of the Mid North Channel Country bike trail didn't help. I didn't see any snakes this trip but allister did, he saw 5. The caches this trip where written in as JAMS, i forgot the stamps. Also 1 cache was placed by the JAMS team this trip. Out of all the bike tracks i preferred the Rattler /Riesling trail. I like riding through the very rich ( after all the recent rains ) fields of yellow flowers.

Found out on geo weekend with jams group all caches signed as jams

Good find but bees were annoying. Tftc

Decided to look for some easily found cachers today after seeing North Clare B grade win over MinMan in first semi final played at Spalding.
Very nice day up to 21°C and some wind.
Found and signed nine logs this afternoon around Spalding area and added some bouncy bowls or dices to some of the finds.
TFTC.

Needs a new pad placed in a hair tie curly one took nothing

Needs new pad (notebook no more space)

We have set up camp in Spalding and will stay a couple of days here. Today was a scenic tour using geocaching as our tour guide. The cache is in good condition. SL TFTC

Came down to Clare for the JWLE not to play the game but to play the geocaching game. Didn’t have much of a plan so when Courtney Rose and Gridge98 asked me if I wanted to tag along with them to cache around Spalding I said a big YES.
We found some great caches and did a fair bit of walking. Then back to Clare for the juggling flash mob very Carnivale.
After the flash mob I headed out on my own to pick up some caches south of Clare and to do the Carendo adventure lab. On the way stopped for a cleansing ale at Pikes with CoCo Pops.
Arrived back to Clare after dark had my only dnf of the day and then on to collect my curry and back to my super deluxe accommodation for a well earned rest.
Big thanks to all the CO and of course the JLWE Committee for a fun day.
Love an old cemetery TFTC

Do you see the dead?

Since being in the area for the June Long weekend in Clare today we headed north with Michells&Hound to go for a nice walk in Spalding and find a few caches along the way.

Thanks for the cache

had to search around but found it

Found it. Nice quiet spot.

Out of the way cemetery with a great view of the countryside. Definitely worth a little detour out of town.

Visiting Auburn to catch up with SpudBex. Today we headed off for Mr Felix to ride his bike along the Mid North Channel caches.Of course we had to stop before and after, [:o)] all in all we ended up with 52 smilies and 1 bee sting from a cache we ended up not attempting.

More spots that we would not have visited without Geocaching taking us along for the explore.

TFTC Sadiesmate

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Sadiesmate [^]

Easy find. Within 2 minutes.

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 12, Burra to Booborowie.

First find for the year. Beehive in the front, cache in the back!

TFTC

Very neat cemetery.

I have come here several times over the years as I have a Brother, some Cousins, Aunties and Uncles, Grand Parents, and Great Grand Parents, buried at this cemetery.
This is the first time I have looked for a cache though.
TFTC

Found on a ride with the Fox and guest rider Mick Feathers, TNLNSL Thanks,

Out on a Dirt Bike ride with Demon41 and newby Mick F picked up a few Geos on the way , great riding after recent rains . TNLN Thanks

Found it

Tftc

I see dead people.

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

rip all right how far out of town is this cemetary

Hi, can someone please collect the TB?and if it is not there could you please message me to tell me?!! Thanks g_naan

A day for a drive up that way... with Purrfect Di and Jack the Monkey.
Some more history tucked away up here near Spalding.
tftc pinkmundi

And then we come to the main town cemetery.
A quick find here too.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Love these little gems geocaching takes us to! Would never have known this was here. Thanks

In the area for the Heartland Rally so grabbed some caches while going around TFTC

Lots of green glass lawn. Reminded me of Maralinga landscape of Trinitite.

Thanks pinkmundi and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

Found exactly where said. Good to see such history and ancestry for this town.

A little country drive after work had Mrs frog seeing angels while Mr frog found the cache all in good condition, had a wander as you do when visiting some of these areas
TFTC pinkmundi

Found with Loopy1972 while out for a drive. TFTC.

Found with dennisc52. Tftc

Enjoyed exploring the cemetery before locating the cache. My goodness it was windy today. TFTC

TFTC

TFTC what a lovely resting place for those who have left our earth. So sad when you see the little graves of lost babies & children

Always interesting to see where a town hides its cemetery [xx(] - some are close, some are in the town (even next to a church), some are miles away . Why is that [?].
TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more TheKellyGang.

Found by Mary & David at 1030. Always good to convert a previous DNF to a find. A FP this time too. Mary loves cemeteries for their social history, symbolism and graveyard architecture. Not a very old cemetery, but with some proud Scottish names, and even a Gaelic epitaph. You could do some serious family history research here. Hopefully, some descendents still live in the area. Many of the carvings are still as crisp as a century ago. The hand reaching from heaven, the draped urn, the obelisk, the beautiful rose for a young woman, and so many babies. One was just called Unknown Infant. So sad. Our thanks to pinkmundi.

Found on a very frosty morning. Thanks

An interesting road to get here, I've learnt a lot today,tftc

A quick find on our way from Burra to Port Pirie. A nice peaceful spot. TFTC

Thanks for replacing the cache. An easy find

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 29.389 E 138° 37.975

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 29.413 E 138° 37.975

Distance from original: 145.9 feet or 44.5 meters.

Due to council maintenance, the cache has been moved a short distance from its original position.

The council have been working here and the cache has disappeared. It will be replaced asap.

We had a pretty good, but unsuccessful look too, so add us to the DNF list. Our thanks anyway to pinkmundi.

Tree has had a trim. Did not find the cache

Very easy find with GrimsTattoo and MIA. Thanks pinkmundi for the hide!!

TFTC pinkmundi

TFTC getting geokids and for school holidays always interesting to find family members long buried

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.

Very easy find

another tucked away little cemetry
Thanks pinkmundi for putting this cache out for us to find

Nature not man made

A quick find, not ready for a place like this. Thanks pinkmundi for the cache. TFTHSL.

Found It!
Another nice little cemetery and a quick find!
TFTC

Quick and easy find.
Found on the way to camping on the Birdsville Track for Easter.
TFTC!

R.I.P Spalding was transferred from Sadiesmate to user pinkmundi

Found it

Found with squash99 and DanielnDili nice place to sit chat here and take in the scenery while paying our respects of the residence that lay here. TFTC

Found with the Kelly gang and squash99 tftc

I love to wander around these places. Too hot to do much walking today. Cache was easily found with taurus1955 and BentleyTB. Took TB. Left a cat. TFTC

Without caching we would never know about these little out of the way places so, thank you for placing a cache here.
Found with misschief18 and Bentley TB
TFTC
Took 4 leaf clover badge
Left Spaceman
SL

FTF Our first to find cache. Thank you sadiesmate, especially the cute one. Strange how cemeteries in SA are so far out of country towns. Check out the concrete aqueduct nearby.

Published

dropped trackable and small prize for FTF

found it.
TFTC