MGRL - Swamp Mural Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
By mogni on 21-Jun-16. Waypoint GC6M62B

Freeing this space up for others to try and hide a cache here....

Found after a short search, unable to sign the papier mache inside what is left of container

Container has been squashed and is past it's use by date, end is missing and the contents are just a lump of papier mache

Disabling until i can archive.

Found

Logging a missed cache from a previous trip.

This is our last day in South Australia as our impromptu holiday must come to an end and we are heading to Mount Gambier to do the lab adventures there and picking up any that pop up on the screen.

We are still enjoying this fantastic park as well as grabbing the adventure lab answers. We can't get over the amount of work that has been done here. This one could have gone either way for us but today with excellent co-ords and a little bit of luck we had the cache in hand very quickly and happily added our name to the log before returning everything as it was.

Thanks again mogni for the cache.

Found on an evening walk, kicked the right one by luck! TFTC

In my hometown for dinner tonight and took in a bit of exercise to work it off so collected a few finds on the way. Driven past here many times but hadn’t stopped since I caught the Bluebird to Adelaide in 1987.
This container has lost it’s closing device and the log book is a little weathered, but otherwise okay.
Log stamped only with the GeckoJ stamp (on behalf of all finders, JayG10 and fluffymaxi) to save space, or was it that we only had the stamp and nothing to write with?
TNLNSL
TFTC Mogni

Found the well constructed, but unfortunately badly damaged cache after not too long a search. Managed to extract the log in one piece and sign. Cache could do with a little tlc. TFTC

No joy today, a few people about

Came here for a second time and found the cache. Could not log the log book because it was to wet. TFTC

but damaged and wet

Found it it’s broken and all wet inside

Tyfc. Well hidden the cache shone at me in the sun. Unable to sign log as wet. Container needs replacing

Still down in the south east for the "Used 2B a Geoventure" celebration weekend. Just one (hundred) more!!!
( Hopefully we'll be back for the real Geoventure when it's able to go ahead )

Teamed up with Sebastbat, and JEM we hit the trail again today and just found whatever came up on our map, some new, some old, all fun! The weather was definitely better today!!

Plenty of clever artwork around here



Thanks for placing and maintaining another great cache on this corner of our map mogni


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Stay safe out there, caches and their hidey holes can be dirty and wet!
wash your hands, wipe down your cache gear, stay on this side of the border (it was tempting...)
sanitise, exercise, even wear a mask if hayfever season gets to you and
cache the countryside safely distanced at least a roo or an adult brown snake's length apart ! ! !
Have fun out there ! ! !


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Took us a while but we got it! Thanks mogni for the cache

Took us a little longer to find this well camouflaged hide! TFTC
Find #1999!!

Out with my granddaughter HQ
Tftc

Found, log to follow

No luck on this one

TFTC
Found in second try

Day 362 ( Tuesday 25th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Mt Gambier today. A total of 1 for the day and 6540 the trip. A grand total of 16,518 caches. TFTC
Quick find, first place we looked. Great coordinates, can’t see why all the dnf’s.
No but seriously, about our 4th attempt for this one. Container damaged, did minor repairs so the log sheet can be removed. Replaced as found. Favourite point from us.

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Quick easy find cache itself is a little damaged though, almost couldn't get the log book out. TFTC

looked and looked but no luck for us today. [B)]

Hmmmmm

Tough one!

Found as a part of Kellmik. TFTC

T F T C

TFTC Tricky. replaced log with a dry one

TFTC

Found it, third time lucky! Not in good condition any more. Soaking wet

Stop #2 for the evening and the coordinates for this cache were absolutely on the mark! Thanks goodness or we may have been looking for a long time.

Also, in great shape. Log sheet was clean and dry. Signed, sealed and delivered back to its hidey hole.

Lotsa of muggles out and about this evening. Happy Australia Day!

TFTC

iowaPete

Clever

Found out with friend Tracey. Clever.

First for the day and it's always good to start with a find .
Surprisingly, there was fog and dew this morning - and a nice warm day to come !
Thought we'd have another look at this series today - about time since we've be avoiding it for a couple of years [:o)].
A nasty little hide for the uninitiated . TNLNSL.
Thanks again Mogni.

Easy enough this time. Was muggled out last time. The mural could be improved with the addition of swamp cows. Tftc

The photos provided in the activity log had made it easier to find

Ik zit er bovenop?

On my way to the St Arnaud event and finding some geocaches along the way. TFTC mogni.

Good hide, we like the effort. Hide and location earns a FP. Really sad that the trains are gone. Swedes on vacation in Australia. Found together with LBTW and in order to save space we logged as team LT. TFTC. Greetings to from

Found together with Threefoot on holiday, we logged as Team LT just to save space in the loggbook. Greetings from Sweden . TFTC

This eluded me previously, so glad to find it

Today was spent with a variety of adventures, such as cave diving, dry caving, and cycling the Mount Gambier Rail Trail. We first dived/snorkeled Piccaninnie Ponds early, and then after sightseeing Hells Hole, we drove to Gouldens Sinkhole for the new EarthCache that was just published for FTF. After an enjoyable late breakfast, we then caved at Morgan's Cave, and just as the storm clouds were gathering, we packed the car with our bikes to ride the trails through Mount Gambier. It's not often that I'm down here with bikes, and so despite the storm clouds brewing, I was determined to conduct the ride with [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) to see some of the sculptures installed along, as well as find the various geocaches. We collected most of the geocaches along there, and we rounded out the day with a few new EarthCache FTFs, and then after dinner, feeding the possum colony at Umpherston Sinkhole.

Once we parked, the heavy rain fell, but in true Mount Gambier region style, the rain passed, and it was back being clear again with the sun trying its best to shine through. The winds were also roaring, and unexpectedly rode into the headwind as we went along the trail. The first few geocaches ended with DNFs, and so we struggled through to make several finds after that. It was an enjoyable trail with the various artwork, and we enjoyed the platform area, wetlands and old buildings bordering the trail. We ended up riding most of the trail without rain, and since we had decided to ride into the wind initially, it only took 10 min to ride back to our starting spot. An enjoyable few hours dodging weather.

This geocache's coordinates appeared to be bang on as [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) made the find, and looked down at my GPS to see the coordinates 0 m away. A very well constructed hide here, so glad we had a quick find at this one. Nice mural here also, thanks mogni!

Decided to do the rail trail while saying in Mt Gambier for the weekend. Quick find TFTC

It’s rocky

Too easy

Cool wet old day good find

My phone was on 1% charge and I lost some hope after reading previous blogs. I eyed the sea of rocks doubtfully as did my four geokids. The rain was thankfully intermittent. I did not like our chances and was considering giving up when I spotted it!! Crafty hide but not as tiny as the usual micros.

Found it very easy

sneaky

Since the weather was finally great again and I only had to work am shift I figured, chasing the sun by doing geocaching would be a good idea. Also, today is international geocaching day and the railway track was still on my bucket list. So together with Nick we went for a nice walk, had a good chat and especially fun to find all the great Caches along the way. Though it's pretty sad that there is no train to Mount Gambier anymore. Also, I only saw the railway track so far when I passed the main road into the Mount. Sorry for all the phone calls but I guess you are just the best "wild card" for being successful here
TFTC and greetings, Jassi

Tftc. Was just about to give up when bammmm spotted it.

A bit of night time caching. Nice hide. Took a bit to locate. Luckily there was no one around. TFTC

Despite accurate coordinates, it took some time to locate this cache. There were so many objects to check and sort through. The cache container was similar to some others we have seen previously. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks mogni for the cache and the series,

As we have progressed through this series, we have come to appreciate the work that has been undertaken to rehabilitate a derelict railway corridor into a quality public space. The local community is to be congratulated on this valuable public space.

Nice hide. Could be quite tricky if you didn’t guess what you were looking for. A couple of previous logs did it for me. TFTC

Raining today but nothing stop me to go out caching.
Thanks for MGRL series cache.

Found while spending a couple of days in the Mount
TFTC

Took a few minutes but persistence paid off. TFTC

Nice little walk to this one TFTC

Loved the pic

Riding through the rail lands today,
I was certainly impressed by what the council has done [^]
Turned an eyesore into something the community can use and be proud of.

At this stop on the trail,
I could see what was going on here pretty quickly.
But knowing what I was looking for wasn't helping much

These homemade caches are much trickier to find than the shop bought ones

TFTC after 15 minutes in the swamp

Nice one. I was shocked that I found it quickly, after waiting for a family of muggles to trot, scoot and complain on by. It was getting cold and wetter by the second, I didn't blame the little tackers for their complaints at all!! I poked away for a few moments and poked just the right one, amazing. TTC, a good one.

During our great roadtrip through Australia we went from Apollo Bay to Mt.Gambier today and found a lot of amazing caches along our route. This was one of them.

Greetings from Switzerland,
The Navikatzen

Während ich einen Teil dieser Runde absolvierte suchte und fand ich auch diesen cache. TFTC

Clever geohubby left no stone unturned!

The task to find this cache was daunting. The cache demonstrates a clever use of found objects to make a cache. The finding device took me all over the place, but a hint gleaned from reading logs helped me focus my searching to a a specific area. Then I was lucky. I found it! The mosaic was great too. A nice seat was supplied to enjoy the art work and sign the log without looking too conspicuous.

Just couldn't find it searched the rocks, but probably just missed it

Tricky very hard

Out and about caching the MGRL trail with earthlight, Cabbos and joined by my muggle sister.
A nice piece of artwork and a quick cache.

TFTC mogni

A quick find and loved the mural closeby. Found with buddies Cabbos and 3LG. . Cache was all ok
TFTC

Nice sitting on the seat enjoying the mural and signing the log.. Was a bit exposed but replaced appropriately.. Love the old buildings along the line in this area.. Would be great to see them restored and used.. TFTC

Found

Whoop, Whoop!!

Ya

Found a wonderful collection of....

YAY! After the log had been replaced this being the 5th attempt we finally found it!

Logged it out and about with Alex Jessica xradbley

At last, 3rd time the charm. Did a phone a friend last time who just happened to be hanging out with the owner at an event. Yep it wasn't there that time, thanks for the reset, tftc.

Went out and checked this after a few DNF's. No cache in sight but lots of large rocks moved.
I have replaced container, you DO NOT need to move the very large rocks.

Searched and searched I gave up, hubbie wouldn't until we had turned everything upside down, looked under and around before of course replaced everything from where we looked. We might of just missed it but we think it might be missing. Will keep an eye on this one for the future. TFTC

No idea, couldn't find it

Dunno where the cache is. DNF

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A clever hide

Not the nicest morning for a bicycle ride, but had a rare free Saturday and been meaning to clean up these caches for a while. Luckily we made it home just before the skies opened! Thanks!

Found on a family visit to My Gambier. Had seen similar hides like this before so didn't take long to have cache in hand. TFTC

found it. Replaced plastic bag TFTC

This one was very hard! Took us ages Nice to meet you today!

Thanks to the local kid!

TFTC

No idea

Nice cover. Great walk.

Found on a tour of the town with Mogni! Great weather and a fantastic part of the planet. Nice to have the cache CO of so many of the Mount caches with me on this occasion.

Found as part of my 2017 Alexandra Mega experience. This cache added to the fun and enjoyment of my trek to the east and back from Adelaide. While there were a few thunder storms, there were mainly clear skies and I never saw a snake!


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

Found while out with family

Along with Freddo and Team Waldron I spent a fun weekend in the South East area finding many interesting and some challenging caches.

This was one of our finds along the way

Cheers & TFTC mogni

A few days away with Freddo and Four Fun down to Mt Gambier.

We picked up caches as we went.

Great times.


TFTC

Interesting mural. But is it art?

TFTC!