Gone Fishn' 135 Arthurton, South Australia, Australia
By Fishy Tales on 04-Apr-17. Waypoint GC73AX9

Replaced.

Day #8 Leaping Forward AdventuresIt was time to do some fishing. We setup a crackpot team of Posums, GemmaSistema, The_Tritonz, TheBelgianKet and RoamingHowie to tackle the adventure. We met up early, made the journey to Port Wakefield and then began the assault.Posums and GemmaSistema tapped out at #54, but the rest of us kept going for almost another 100 finds.All caches were generally found in good order and despite the heat we managed to push on.Thanks Fishy Tales for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

A big day was planned with Posums, GemmaSistema, RoamingHowie and TheBelgianKet to attack some trails around the Yorke Peninsula. After finishing the Sad Fisher geoart we continued on down the line doing some serious fishing until we pulled the plug later in the afternoon.Thanks Fishy Tales for the series placement.

En cette journe par quipe, nous chassons ce trail la recherche de nombreux trsors sur les routes dsertiques dAustralie.Un salut de Belgique

The SPBINZ team (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ, and Nanzie are out and about on this Gone Fishn' trail trying to reach our long-anticipated goal of 400+ caches in a day. We are having a heap of fun and well on our way as we continue on down the peninsular. We have the most perfect day for it - a Goldilocks one - not too hot and not too cold. Bullertrout has previously completed most of this trail so we tried to sign the logs close to his name where possible. Another done and dusted here. TFTC Fishy Tales and kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand # 21,182**Otepoti/Dunedin is the place to be 26-27 October, 2024 for GCA7ZHD - Geo Toroa Mega! Please come and experience fun, heaps of caches and some wonderful Southern hospitality.**

IsisNZ and I have had several big days in the past but that magic 400 has always eluded us. Today was the day we could maybe put that right by combining resources with Paddlechick, Bullertrout and Nanzie. Signed logs SPBINZ (even though Bullertrout had already found some of today's caches). We couldn't have asked for a better day. Starting temperature for the day was 19 degrees, no sunshine and temperature didn't climb beyond the high twenties at any stage. I love travelling the countryside of Australia, one sees so much more than those tourists who stick to tar-sealed roads and travel from town to town.I do get a bit side-tracked when I'm caching and take time to enjoy the local flora and fauna. The plants are so obviously adapted to life in a dry climate, the birds are colourful and screechy, and the ants - - well, I've never seen such large ants or had such a vicious bite from an ant.I do love the picture of the trails on the Yorke Peninsula, such creativity.Greetings from the Shaky Isles and many many thanks for setting up and maintaining this series.<*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}

Found with SPINBNZ Team on our way to the Mega after doing a few other caches we started to feel abit hungry so back to the fishing again nice easy find thanks Fishy Tales

Today is our big day we are hoping for 400. Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ and Nanzie signing our logs as SPBINZ or sometimes SPINZ as BT has done a large number of caches on the Peninsula. TFTC #15618

Today a team of 6 kiwis Mr-Mcgoo, NZ_B, Kiscardi, gkmlb hit the trail. We are aiming to find 400 plus caches to be able to claim the diamond badge for the number of caches in a day.Each log we found was signed as WIN - Wellington, Invercargill and Nelson, the cities where we live.Thanks Fishy Tales for an amazing line of caches. Much appreciated.TFTC

What an amazing day we had. We joined team WIN which was made up of cachers from Wellington, Invercargill and Nelson (which are the towns/cities in New Zealand where we all live). We were welcomed into the group and had a highly successful day with a great group of like minded people. With a goal of 400 we blew that out of the water with over 500 caches found and signed. Thank you to our fellow team members for making our day such fun.We soon got into a rhythm and worked so well as a team, we had some great laughs along the way. Thankfully we did not see any snakes or scary spiders and to be honest I felt a wee bit more relaxed about caching in Australia after such a full on day.There was a fox incident though that had a heart or two pumping a wee bit faster.The roads we in great condition as were the caches, the weather could not have been more perfect for such an active day as there was not much time to rest between finds.Sorry for the cut and paste log but I think you will be expecting them as it would be super human to have an individual story for so many finds.Thank you for placing and maintaining this series of caches, we had the most enjoyable day as a result of your epic efforts and of course thank you for the smiley.

Today was the day for team WIN ( Wellington, Invercargill and Nelson ) to attact the Gone Fishn' series of caches, our goal was 400 but had obtained that great number by 4pm so it was decided another hour would increase the total to 460 and then we also picked up a few caches on the way back to our accommodation in Wallaroo. Our team included Marchwood, NZ_B, Mr Mcgoo and gkmlb.Sorry for the generic logs but I would probably never get all the logs done if I wrote them separately. No snakes but I did scare a rather large fox, we saw far to many ants and the flies were annoying to say the least. Lucky the day was a pleasant 25-30 - not too hot for this southern girl and perfect for finding a large number of caches. And we also had many laughs at all sorts of misadventures. Thanks to fishy tales for placing all these caches - what an amazing effort.

(8865) Today NZ_B (from Greytown), marchwood (from Neslon), kiscardi (from Invercargill) and myself decided to grab a number of the Gone Fishn series. Also joining us with their FWD motor home were ekmlb (from Nelson) Grabbed about 460 of them on an epic day. We were fortunate that the mercury decided to dip to the mid 20's and it was very comfortable. The day went very well with the time flying by and a great sende of humour. Many thanks to the rest of the team in making it a very enjoyable day. Sorry about the templated logs. Signed the logs as WIN (short for Wellington, Invercargill & Nelson).Thanks Fishy Tales for taking the time to place this and for bringing me here.

Today Mr Mc-goo, Marchwood, Kiscardi, gkmlb and I are aiming to find 400 caches to be able to claim the diamond badge for the number of caches in a day. We have a plan Stan and are are looking forward to today.Mr-Mcgoo and I are visiting Adelaide for the Mega [GCA1DNA]( https://coord.info/GCA1DNA) The Great Leap Forward on the 29 February. We are finding caches for the fun of finding them, or we are targeting specific caches - puzzles we have solved and caches that will help us complete challenges; for me it is finding caches with a D/T of 2.5+/2.5+ for the [GC30AD8](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC30AD8) DGSC Challenge (West Coast) challenge in NZ. Of course, there will be lots of laughter, no doubt at my expense .Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Fishy Tales.

Day 2 on my number chase after camping at the free camp at Athurton todays mission was to head back north and connect the smileys and hopefully finish around lunchtime. Well I was about an hour behind schedule, but I did connect the smileys and a new record for caches in the day sitting at 109 at the end of the trail. Unlikely Ill reach my milestone by Easter, but it was still worth having a crack and seeing how many I could collect. Thanks for the trail!

Found this cache in a crumbled cache no container remaining and needs replacing.

Got it. Container damaged.

Out for another 3 Stooges road trip grabbing caches at Yorkes, targeting the FishyTales series. A quick park and grab here. TFTC
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The 3 Stooges are at it again, over here in Yorkes targeting some more caches in the Gone Fishing series…….soooooo many yet to do

A quick find, stamp and return here today

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Another impromptu outing with the 3 stooges, targeting this series. This one will take a few trips to complete.

TFTC SL

Had a day trip to get some caches from Kulpara and Arthurton, as well as more of the Gone Fishn’ series. All caches in good condition unless indicated in log. TFTC

Now to clean off the top section of the trail. Sister has a bach not too far away so will stay there next couple of nights

Thanks

By Hook or by crook, I am not normally a great fan of Power trails, but the lure of time trawling the local area with caching buddies was too difficult to resist! A great day out without any snakes, spiders, or other nasty bitey things. We got over the line with Just over 200 caches snagged! Thanks, for the fun Fishy Tales

Kulpara staying at the campground, near the hall
This morning we have met up with Gum-Ako to do a section of the fishing line series.
We called by firstly to collected the extra fishing bait that we may have required. We used more bait than we thought we should, some containers were broken & others we found only a partial container. On returning to Kulpara we collected more for tomorrows day of fishing.
Started about 8.30am & finished about 3.30pm collecting about 200 caches.
The farming paddocks look amazing, it was apleasure to be driving in the country for this series.
Thanks for placing this series of cache.

Paddock fence has fallen over here. Thanks Fishy Tales

Second day on this great series. Planned it from our warm home in WA.
Cold today and rainy but we soldiered on between showers. Can't pike out or wont complete the series in our time on the Peninsula. Tftc
Did 100 today. 21 we couldn't find. Bridal creeper beat us. Plus just couldn't find some.

TFTC nice find out and about with geo wife LynSteNet and another great day out

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A quick find, the log signed & all put back to where it was found.

After eyeing off this trail for many years, I have finally had the opportunity to start the epic journey along the trail. On the first day I cached solo, armed with hiking boots, gaiters, hat and sunscreen; plenty of water and food, I started at #1 at 10:50am and headed south. I made it to #191 and then called it a day, staying at Ardrossan for the night.

Of all the many creatures I encountered, the earwigs would have to be the strangest of the bunch, so many packed into such tight spaces. Most caches were easily spotted, most in good condition after prior cachers maintenance or replacement. I found the odd rusty mint tin that caused difficulty in getting the log out. I became skilled at flicking the narrow tubes to extract the log sheet. All caches were visited in person and stamped with my own stamp.

Thanks for the cache and ongoing maintenance of this trail.

On account of the glorious weather forecast, I made a last minute decision to head to the Yorke Peninsula for the weekend. Of course a couple of caches was on the cards.

I picked a section of the Fishy Trail and from there selected the nearest caravan park for the nights accommodation.

With very recent finds and maintenance run from Teams Liz & Bruce, SeasonedBird and Wollaston, all caches I searched for today without problems.

Day two of my big geocaching weekend. No snakes today but plenty of lizards and many angry ants.

I had sensational weather, and absolutely no wind - perfect for geocaching.

Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales.
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On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC Fishy Tales
Find #4123 at 12:50.

Thanks for hiding. Out on the trail today. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird.

Caching Gone Fishn’ trail and a few off trail trads today with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce. Starting with a hearty breakfast and making sure we were all loaded up with lunch and lots of snacks and drinks so we could cache the whole day. We hit just over 300!

Adding to the thrill of finding each cache was the view of perfectly grown cereal crops almost harvest ready forming a tapestry across the hills, the odd lizard, huge centipede, flighty spider, horses and alpacas, birds nesting and singing their hearts out, laughed with a farmer when we tried to help round up a sheep that cheekily jumped out of the trailer, swotted late afternoon flies that weren’t too pesky, clocked the biggest beetles, disturbed a millipede mountain, and of course upset a few ants!

So much effort has gone into setting up these trails, a few caches were tricky to find, some were under bushes that are now trees, some were found in undergrowth that has overwhelmed the hide, some were under rocks when they were hinting a bush post or tree. For the rest, most were easy, some were duplicated and some were missing. We may have added to rock piles making a couple of cairns. We ended the day with a top notch pizza and a rewarding drink at the Hotel Maitland with friendly staff and locals up for a good chat.

Maintenance was done by replacing full or wet logs and missing or broken containers all completed with CO permission.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out hides and showing us your part of the world

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Fishy Tales

Find # 1769

TFTC.Found with moroldies.

Found while out caching with Little Blue Wren.A great trail that gives you a look at the back roads of the Peninsula,TFTC

Tftc Tnln

Found with earthlight as we cached along this series of caches today.Still have way more than her to locate so some will wait until my next visit to SA.
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Found during a few days holiday over at Coobowie.
Most caches easily found and in good condition whilst a few we replaced due to being damaged or lost.
Co gave permission.
Several we found over the fence in a field of green
We found over a 100 for the day caching with my twin [The X-Trailers]
Weather was perfect after an initial shower first thing
Along the way we found about 8 which already had our stamp in but we had not logged.
TFTC

This was found as we wander this great country
While having a great day out
thank you Fishy Tales for placing the cache

What a trail. You're an admiration. Cheers cobber.

Early start in the dark before weeds made things difficult. Tftc

Day 213 (Sunday 29th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 66 for the day and 5430 for the trip. TFTC

Thanks for the series Fishy Tales.

This cache was found as part of our Geocaching road trip from Perth to Millicent for the GeoVenture2020 event.

Whew. What a day. It all started about 2 years ago when I asked for some assistance to do this route, to attempt it in one 24 hour day. But it would need at least three people, and was not going to be easy. A few months ago I got some interest and suddenly we had the numbers and it was on! Built some strategies for shaving seconds, like having someone else ready with the stamp, and I even came prepped with replacement containers for maintenance but was told the CO had given us some and we would not need mine. Turns out we did, there is a lot of maintenance needed on this line, ever after our new caches went in.
We started with a early night's sleep and were at the first cache way way way too early for any sensible person. Thankfully the vast majority are really easy finds. The number of times I got out of the car only to have someone else get out the other side and say "Found it" ever before I rounded the car was amazing. Take two steps, turn around, get back in. Ended up walking around the car just to make getting out feel useful. Of course, I did it to them just as often! Lots of amazing stuff. Strange temperatures: got to 42 degrees!, strange animals: emu, brown snakes, stumpys, frill neck lizards, and so many ants that I think Australia must be made of them. Man, you grow your ants large!
At the end of it we were shattered. Big sleep in.

All part of a bigger holiday with way too many kilometres and probably too much geocaching. But just the right amount of awesome friends .

All caches signed as KAA or stamped with the KAA pirate stamp while the ink lasted. KAA are the Kiwis and Aussies - Mar1sa and the Seagnoid for the Kiwis, skuzzybear, Munja and DavidWazza for the Aussies.

Log on Gone Fishin' 001 -and 868 - found this and many others during a great day with KaA (Kiwis and Aussies) Everyone with different caching styles, energy levels and countries came together and gave this series a good tickle. TYFTC and the series

A long weekend with a massive amount of geocache finds in the Yorke Peninsula! The weekend was filled with a loong day of the fishing line power trail, followed by a subsequent day of the geoart at the peninsula bottom. I managed to squeeze in a night scuba dive, and then it was a slow return home finding a few geocaches on the way. An unexpected enjoyable weekend than what I thought it would be, with great company from locals Munja and skuzzybear, and visiting Kiwis mar1sa and the Seagnoid.

Today's efforts were a long one, to say the least. The plan was the completion of the Gone Fishn' trail, and we ended up making it within the day. We stayed at Wallaroo to lessen the driving to the start of the trail, waking up just after 04:00 hr. It was a little later than anticipated departure, and officially commencing the trail from Kulpara at 05:20 hr. It was a tiring start, but thankfully we only needed to contend with a small amount of darkness before the head lights and torches were stowed away. The first 100 went by quickly. From there, we settled into a routine, just as any marathon runner did. We then celebrated #200 and #300 milestones, with some banter in between on the radios. The zig-zag between #429 to #550 did feel a little slow even though we really didn't have time to focus on the big picture. We were going so well, that we ended up making the small detour into Minlaton after #585 for a fuel top-up and lunch to recharge our own batteries. Once everyone was back in high spirits, we got back into the rhythm. The last few hundred felt really slow as the long day became evident, of which then I stepped up the social banter to bump up everyone's spirits. We ended up finding Gone Fishn' #868 and finishing in Warooka around 19:00 hr, just as the sun was setting. Cold beers were had to celebrate our success, with half the team had enough for the day and heading to their accommodation in Stanbury. Skuzzybear and I still had energy and determination to beat the previous finds in a day record, so we continued on to some of the geoart. In the dark, those were more of a nuisance, with some being found quickly, and others requiring a good 10-15 min search. We geocached until 22:00 hr, until we had enough, and I returned to Coobowie to retire after dropping off skuzzybear.

We had arranged to bring along some replacement containers to swap out any damaged or missing caches. We ended up using all 50 on the fishing line trail, with some sections in poor shape. However, the majority were reasonably good. Most caches were found quickly, but the ones around the stone piles caused a brief pit stop and search (but all were eventually found). Caches were stamped as a pirate (our team mascot), or signed as KAA (Kiwis and Aussies). Thanks Fishy Tales team with the massive effort involved in hiding, publishing, and maintaining this massive group of caches!

We had a 4am start to the day and finished in the evening, got to see a far bit of the wildlife and even had time to grab some photos. Big thank you for the placement and putting this series together this was the whole reason we cam here. Sorry about the copy and paste logs but i wouldnt be able to recall all the caches.

So today was the day, what me and the Kiwi tourists had been planning and waiting for, for about a month, the chance to take on the Fishing Line. We woke at 4 am, grabbed our gear and made our way to the start of the trail. Once we got our rhythm going, we settled into a good grove and the finds piled up quick and fast, it was looking like we would be able to complete this series in good time. After a while however, the monotony of our task set in and we had to focus ourselves to continue. We pushed on, through the finds, grabbing a few on the non-series caches that were on the trail as well. As the day wore on, we got closer and closer to our goal, though the sun sunk lower and lower into the sky. Finally, just as the sun was setting, we arrived at the last cache, number 868, and signed the final log with great relief. With that done we opened up the fridge in the back of the car to crack open a cold beer to celebrate. We toasted our successful run before finally heading back to our accommodation for some well-deserved sleep. All logs were signed under the name KaA (Kiwis and Aussies).

TFTC

Fishing for mystery souvenirs! TFTC Neat little ‘cave’!

Although it was a cold day, we enjoyed discovering some of the YP. We did a little WTY and a little Fishn' and occasionally got distracted.
TFTC

Headed out early from Androssan to complete the remainder of this series. Very happy that the last 135 caches were trouble free. The roads were quiet so we were able to zip through them in a coule of hours.
Thanks Fishy Tales for a terrific series along the back roads of the YP - awesome.

On a Sunday let’s go out for a fun day caching with Froghoppin so off we hopped To Find some caches with the Girls as back seat drivers men in front leading the way to the caches. Driving another road rough patches here and there a wet patch now and then but a cache is what found in the End TFTC

A caching day out with the Kelly Gang, heading for some fishin caches we also picked up some nearby caches as well, starting at 220 we followed the line to 111 before change of tides and heading home. All were found and in good condition no mtce was needed today
TFTC Fishy Tales

Today was the start of our epic yorke peninsula blitz. After having to cancel our WA trip due to breakdown plan B was hatched. Numbers!!! We usually have to drive for 150km before we get a cache so this opportunity was too good to miss, even if we got rained on for a good portion of it. The hide coordinates were excellent, some hides bit tricky but generally found pretty quickly. We did maintenance where we could, new bags or new paper where log was unsignable due to recent rains. This is a massive task to get this series out and to maintain it, we really appreciate your efforts. tftc

Epic day of caching. ANZAC day usually means a caching day for me. Had decided on a day of fishing on the YP would be a good way to get some numbers. Today was definitely about numbers as I was attempting to get 300 in a day, something I didn't think I could ever do but having read of a number of teams managing 870 with team work I thought that 300 would be doable on my own. So hatched a plan to get up super early and drive to the YP. Geohusband (who had zero interest in accompanying me on this quest) suggested it would be better to drive to YP the night before, stay in a hotel and then start early. Good idea I thought.
So had driven to Minlaton and camped at the motel there which was surprisingly good and surprisingly cheap. Only downside was forgetting my precious pillow which will now need to be replaced, but that is another story.
Up early and left hotel as the bugles were sounding at the Minlaton dawn service, so stopped for a moment to reflect. Kennedy and Malloy were on the radio interviewing returned servicemen, very moving. This was followed by caches, food, caches, food, caches, football, caches, long drive home. The magpies won an epic ANZAC battle and the Bombers fans booed Scott Pendlebury, how very dare they on such a day too.
Ended up with over 300 finds, brilliant. Long drive home, stopped at Cavan and had tea and then home to shower and bed. Will this feat ever be repeated by me? I say no but never say never!!!
So onto the caches, I mainly found fishing micros but also added in some others to break up the day. I had a bit of a drive between 2 sections of the fishing line which was also nice. The fishing caches became utterly mind numbing. Base of tree, base of tree, base of tree, base of tree, base of tree. Quite a variety of hides, many more mint tins than I was expecting. Was also entertained to find my stamp in 3 of the caches I visited that I had not been to before, but that is leap frog caching for you!!! Hated the caches hidden in rocks, rocks and more rocks. There was also a very tedious section of under bush, under bush, under bush, almost lost the will to live there. No dnfs today which was an added bonus, but as many caches had just been replaced by the last fishers had expected to get them all.
Caches were mainly in good condition, a few perished tubes, a few damp logs.
Not much in the way of humans seen (other than at the Minlaton ANZAC dawn service, a lot of people at that), a few farmers, one truck and one passing muggle. Not much in the way of wildlife either, cows, beasts, sheep, critters.
Weather was glorious and perfect for caching. Started at 7.03am and finished my stint on the YP at 6.15pm, saw the sunrise and the sunset. A day of my life I will never get back but excellent for the statistics!
My thanks to all the COs, especially those behind Fishy Tales and 3LG for all the wonderful buckets on the YP.

For a long time we had been wanting to achieve the top badge in Project GC for number of finds in a day. We also liked the look of the Fishy artwork on the Yorke Peninsula, and so having booked our air tickets for a second geocaching holiday in Australia it wasn’t long before a plan was hatched with wazza9 and Nana Nel to meet up to achieve this goal. A date was set but on our geocaching route towards the meeting point we regularly upped the goal - first to 600, then to over 700, and then to why not find the lot? The big day arrived and between us we settled on a 04:00 wake up. The first cache was found at 05:08 and by 08:27 we had beaten our previous most finds in a day. By this stage a really good system was in place between the 4 of us, with wazza9 doing a sterling job with most of the driving, getting us all speedily from one cache to the next. Mr Team GBS sprinted to and from the majority of the caches closely followed by Mrs Team GBS, who then took off the lids and passed the log books to Nana Nel who spent the entire day doing a great job of busily unfurling the log books, stamping us all in and then rolling them back up again to return to the caches. Mrs Team GBS then put the lids back on, passing the cache forward to whoever was running, while keeping a spare in her hand at all times for those she found first, which was still a good number considering that the majority of the time she was running without a GPS. We took a short tea and coffee break at around 400 finds, and a late lunch/sandwich break at just over 600 finds. With plenty of daylight hours left our goal of completing the entire trail was definitely feasible, so now it was a case of finding as many more as possible before dark to ensure keeping everyone on board, so we somehow managed to up our speed to get back to the average of 1 cache per minute that we had temporarily lost as a result of our two breaks. Darkness fell with just 60 odd caches left to find - a now easily achievable goal - and so it wasn’t then long before we were all celebrating at the last cache of the series with a total of 870 finds. Mr Team GBS had to put his hand over Mrs (aka Just One More) Team GBS’s mouth when she said to him “Why don’t we make it 1,000 as we still have almost 5 hours left before midnight”! Thanks so much to the COs for having laid the trail so we could achieve our initial goal plus some, and for having made us realise that we really can run a marathon, having covered the equivalent distance running back and forth to the caches, especially as it seemed that the majority were on the other side of the road! Greetings from Zimbabwe, where today we found in one day 3.4 times the number of caches in our entire home country!

Found today with Wazza9 & Team GBS, all 868 in 14hrs 15mins, visiting all caches. Thanks Fishy Tales

TFTC,Fishy Tales, today we found 870 caches with Nana nel and Team GBS.

Day Two with Csaba! and SupaTurtle. Found many caches. Orange sticker to represent me. Tra La Laaa

Day Two. Came to visit. Cached and stayed for a few days. Found a bunch with SupaOrange and SupaTurtle. Many variations on the containers made for interesting finds. Thanks

2nd Day. Lots of driving. Lots of caching. Lots of fun with Csaba! and SupaOrange. Logged caches with a GREEN sticker with ST on it. Turtle out

Day 3 of our 4 day geoadventure with Rapidlywild on the Yorke Peninsula. After a big couple of days/ nights, the bodies were starting to tire, but we were still working to finish the trail and others on the Peninsula.

The day started with a bit of rain, and we thought that it would dampen our spirits, but the clouds left and we had a lovely day rain free and bit cooler which was welcomed after the warmer days.

Thanks for the trail, we have seen a lot of the Peninsula this trip.

Well, what a weekend! The FFLL ladies and myself decided to head over to SA to tackle the newest installment of the Fishy Tales caches, the Gone Fishin' series. Having a long weekend presented to us, and a day extra, we had a big task at hand to get them all done, but we did! There were many tears of laughter, exhausted bodies each night, and plenty of caches found. We even managed to score ourselves a few Earthcaches, Virtuals and even Webcams along the way as well as me passing my 10,000 find

Thanks for the cache hide Fishy Tales and a very special thanks to the FFLL ladies for an awesome fun filled adventure away Looking forward to the next adventure.

Today we decided to go fishing, and we caught many many fish while none got away. We do not feel the need to go fishing here anymore as we have caught our bag limit

After moving the caravan from Port wakefield to Maitland, it was off to restart the fishing line from No. 43. Another hot day and finished managed to grab a few before calling it a day. Will be back tomorrow to do it all again. TFTC Fishy Tales

A big day with Sir Spectre and gridge98. We completed the whole series today in just over 15 hours. We had a system going with me being the driver mostly and doing a bit of GPS button pushing while Sir Spectre was mostly the runner with gridge being the log stamper and right hand side cache finder. We had heat and sun in the middle of the day and finished with dark and raining. It was a great day with good humour along the way. There were a few caches along the way that we grabbed if we were close. The worst part for me of this experience is the nights at home logging all the finds but I'll do it again for the day we had. I think it's going to take me longer to log all the finds than it did for us to find them all. this is my third session of logging, much prefer finding them. TFTC

This is a story about 3 blokes ( sir_spectre, allister w and gridge98 ) and 1 car, who decided to see if they could get the whole gone fishn' series in one day, and they did. It just took over 15 hours to complete, with a detour off trail to the petrol station at number 588 so we could complete the mission. Some other caches where stamped along the way for a total of 881 finds for the day. All logs where stamped " mystery randoms ". Allister was behind the wheel driving us around the trail and giving us advice out the window if he could see the cache and we couldn't and jumping out if we really having problems. 3 caches where found in paddocks, 1 on the wrong side of the road, some with several caches at gz, 1 that the last finder was in march and many with co ords up to 20 meters away ( assuming cache creep ). For the last 200 or so caches it was raining as well. Myself and gridge98 came across a snake at different gz's along the trail. Some caches where replaced as they had been crushed under rocks or chewed on and 1/2 the cache missing and some logs replaced as they where soaked since the last finder didn't screw the lid back on properly.

A long and arduous caching day trip was discussed between Sir Spector and myself with Alistair W jumping on board, to attempt to be the first caching group to complete the fishing line in one day.
ALL CACHES WERE STAMPED UNDER: MYSTERY RANDOMS
A little over 15 hours, 881 caches and the job was complete.
With Alistair W driving and a total of 10 finds his gps skills and from the car spotting cams in handy.
Sir Spector found majorly of the caches as the were on his side of the car. Myself finding still a few hundred but the hands became that black from using a stamp all day in the back seat.
Some caches were well away from GZ reading up to 20m. A few were replaced and some had more than one cache at GZ
TFTS The crew that make up Fishy tales.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Been looking at this series since it was published and now finally on the road getting them found.
This is day 1 of 3 on the "Gone Fishn" trail with woolwood9.

Most were easy finds, some took a while.
We found the majority of the hints to be wrong. Also we found more than one container at several locations so there were plenty of replacement and throw-down containers.
Overall it was a very enjoyable trip and great number of finds, thanks to those involved.

Day three away with tmann421 on our geocaching trip
Enjoying these finds in an environment far different to what we are used to at home.
Thanks to the CO's for the effort put into these hides.

We stamped the logs today with our "GoodLook & Feathertop" stamp.

A spontaneous trip to the YP with my great buddy Sally. We started early as we only had the day to cache - so we focussed on completing the last of the "Gone Fishn'" trail that we started at the end of 2017.

Sal and I also ventured off to do a handful of other caches in the area before leaving the YP.

Thanks so much for placing and maintaining the cache Fishy Tales! [^]

Almost a year to the date that Goodlook and I had been on the great Yorke caching adventure of 2017 we returned again to complete the final 90 caches that we had been unable to finish due to exhaustion
Again there was long grass along the road but thanks to recent maintenance by other finders the caches were eventually all hoovered up.
It is so nice to be up here with Helen again reviving our caching friendship sharing a few laughs and gathering in around 100 caches for the day.
Many thanks for setting this series up, what a herculean effort appreciated by cachers everywhere
cheers

We have a small team travelling to The Yorke Peninsula from Canberra. It was decided by the group before we left that our team name would be DTY, although I act like the boss, I rarely am and so the initials actually stand for dty73, Tankengine and Youban.

After staying the night at Port Wakefield, we started this trail at 5:55am and finished at 4:45pm at number 644. We started the trail with a beautiful sunrise that gave way to a perfect weather day for caching. We stopped at 644 as it seemed like a good number to stop at as it was the closest road that lead to Stansbury where we had booked a motel. It was also about the time that doing constant park and grabs became tedious and boring. When the fun went out of it it felt more like a chore, so we were all happy that we had over-accomplished our goal of 400 and called it quits for the day.

We were very successful in finding all but 4 caches. 2 DNFs and 2 DNA (did not attempt). The first one was due to a brown snake near GZ that kept looking at us so we just didn't feel comfortable attempting to disrupt it and the second was a scary moment with a black snake. As Tankengine got out of the car it thrashed about in the grass at GZ then went quiet so we didn't know where it went and so left that one too.

All in all the series was in mostly satisfactory condition with straightforward finds on the coordinates. The containers varied from mint tins, plastic tubes and a few other replaced containers. There were a few damp - wet logs and some containers have seen better days. We had a good rhythm at times and finding and signing caches quicker than we thought possible. There were a number of areas in long grass, but we weren't that worried about that until after we saw the snakes and luckily they were nearer to the end of the trail. Perhaps this also added to the reason we finished when we did too.

Tftc Fishy Tales and the series that enable us to get so many in a day.

On a caching trip with Dty73 & Tankengine to Yorke Peninsula. Team signed as DTY. This is the day we are planning an attack on the Gone Fishn’ trail to see if we can get 400 in the day. We left Port Wakefield and hit #001 at 5:55. We did #644 at 4:45pm and headed for Stansford for a well-earned cup of coffee and a beer. After a short period of recovery discussion turned to how we could finish the rest of the trail tomorrow. This is a generic log so we added any information relevant to this cache at the end. Thanks to Fishy Tales for the big effort in placing & maintaining this run. Kutgw

Found with dty73 and youban on a massive days caching! All logs signed DTY (dty73/Tankengine/youban) - Caches were in all sorts of conditions from great to chewed in half! Logs were also OK mostly, but some were very waterlogged! We had a couple of DNFs and 2 DNFs due to Snake at the cache!!! Lucky they were late in the day, as that slowed us down a lot, making us much more wary and on the lookout for them! It was a long day, but the weather couldn't have been better, and the roads were dry! We spotted 2 foxes running across the road in front of us, and nearly hit a kangaroo - but we were going very slowly at the time! Very tired now, but need to quickly log these finds before we attack this trail some more tomorrow! Thanks for the company dty73 and youban, I couldn't have done it without you - not to mention it made this whole day fun! We are now all totally tired, and will sleep well tonight! Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales!

Am spending a few days in Moonta again and today with LLL51 we decided to get a few more of the Gone Fishn' series starting from where we left off last time.
This was our first and we ended at 173 with mostly easy finds of a few assorted containers and no DNF's.
Still going to take a long time to get the whole series finished but we will keep plodding along. .
Thanks for the cache Fishy Tales.

I am helping as well as driving, I’m not being an absolute slacker lol.

After a review of the geocaching map in South Australia it was determined a trip to the Yorke Peninsula would yield some significant numbers. So, The Rats, Hoojar and I teamed up once agan to tackle the many caches on the peninsula.

We started in the darkness after flying into Adelaide and the next day set some personal records (550+ caches in a day) and milestones before bunking down. The next day was another massive numbers haul which resulted in a bit over 1,000 caches in two days !

Then it was a little more sedate down to the bottom of the peninsula and then back up the easterly side, ticking off a few EarthCaches in the process .

After that, back to Adelaide for some night caching, virtuals and more EarthCaches!

The power trails on the peninsula were great- quiet roads, some great green wheat and yellow canola scenery, coupled with some great company and usual ribbing of each other [^]!

Thanks for your cache- sorry about the generic log. For the EarthCaches and virtuals look out for an email or two shortly.

TFTC!

This was a trip that had been some time in the making. A journey from Wollongong in New South Wales to the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, in search of large numbers. Five days were set aside, and The Rats, Steeba, and myself planned the details out. Lofty numbers were floated; we could find one thousand geocahces... Maybe more! The world was our oyster, all we had to do was make it happen.

We flew into Adelaide and quickly rented our car, then headed off for a series of thirty letterbox caches late that night. We then set up camp, ready for the next few days.

Two days journeying down the Yorke Peninsular saw us collect 550 caches the first day, and 450 the next. One thousand caches in two days! The numbers were phenomenal, unheard of, and excellent! At one stage we found fifty caches in a one hour period! We worked ourselves into a solid routine, and managed to push these numbers without caching after dark. Incredible! We camped out beside the trail, ready to commence again the following morning.

Having reached our goal of one thousand, we rented a cabin and enjoyed a solid relax and beet, and we were then able to dedicate the remaining time to specific caches, mostly Earthcaches to keep Steeba (The Professor) happy, and a good number of Vrtuals as well, as we made our way back from the end of the Yorke Peninsular to Adelaide. It really became a Tour De Earthcache! If your geocache is such a hide, stand-by, as Steeba will soon contact you with our answers.

As is always the case with these trips, the company was the highlight, with banter non stop, the time went by in an instant.

We saw some amazing things, found some excellent caches, and had an absolute blast.

Ticking just over 1300 finds for the trip, you will have to excuse the boilerplate logs!

Thanks to all of the cache hiders for their efforts in placing and maintaining their hides. It was fantastic exploring this part of the world that I had never visited before. Thanks also to my geocaching partners, without whom such a trip would not be possible, nor fun!

Cheers

The Rats, steeba and Hoojar have teamed up for a York Peninsula adventure of massive proportion. With much planning and logistical coordinating, we had a great five days meandering the country roads collecting a plethora of caches. Our journey started with a handful letterbox caches before heading down the peninsula following the “Gone Fishn” series. We followed this up with an array of geo-art images that litter the lower peninsula. Returning to Adelaide we collected a gaggle of old and rare finds which included some interesting earthcaches and virtuals.

My apologises for the generic log, but thanks to all the cache owners and caching buddies who made the road-trip such a memorable and fun experience.

We left home in early April, and since then we have slowly been increasing our tally of caches found. As we are getting closer to home in Victoria we decided that it was time to give our total finds a real boost, and what better way than to visit the power trails here on the Yorke Peninsula.
What a mammoth job it must have been developing, placing and maintaining all these caches. Congratulations to the team. It’s blokes like you that keep us coming back for more.
Day one begins!
TFTC and the huge effort you have all put in for this power trail

Was on the Yorke Peninsula for a FTF hunt so after that with a few hours available it was time for some more of the Gone Fishn' series. Started at #143 and headed up, geographically, not numerically, to #79, my lowest, numerically, not geographically, unfound. Probably due to some recent maintenance managed to find all in this range. Thanks to good co-ords most were quick finds with only one taking quite a while.
Thanks for the cache and series Fishy Tales

Found as part of My Annual leave SA adventure, I had a great time touring the Yorke Peninsula and other areas of the state. After arriving at the start of the trail the night before I was rested up for a big day of 302 cache finds as I concentrated on the Gone Fisin trail. Thanks Fishy Tales (F=0 H=1735) for the cache.

Day 11 of our 2018 Yorke Peninsula excursion.

Joined today by SnappyTomCats for a day of caching, fun, frivolity and milestones.
Great Company and a Beautiful winter day made for a memorable day of fishing and letterbox finds.

Wherever we found soggy logs or broken containers we replaced them.

TFTC Fishy Tales

Over Yorkes for a meetup with FelixII so the 4 pussycats could do some caching! Decided to do the Letterbox Postman Pat series and a few odd Trads inbetween. Then after lunch tackled the Gone Fishing series. Starting at 1 and working our way back towards Maitland. Any that we found with trashed logs or broken containers, we replaced. Thanks FelixII for a great day of caching. 2 milestone reached that was the best day of caching with 180 finds and also we hit our 4000th find! Congratulation FelixII who hit their 21000th FInd!!! TFTC

Attemping the 'Gone Fishn' series, and we are in the good company of Team Crackers, micaparamedic, Alansee & Phetlern - definitely a great bunch of people to go caching with.

We had 3 days in the area, and after the recent rain, some of the roads were muddy and slippery. The geo-cruiser was in its element.

We happily did some maintenance along the run, and Team Crackers took note of the ones that needed replacing or just a new log page.

On day one, we completed Number 1 to 300, and to save time and space, we logged as a group under the name of SNEECKS.

Many thanks for placing this series caches, Fishy Tales, for us and others to find.

We joined forces with alansee, micaparamedic, Phetlern and The Drovers for an assault on this series and arriving at the first one a lot earlier than expected and having a great run for the first hundred and then slowing down a little after that due to longer grass we still had a fantastic afternoon and all up we replaced 12 containers supplied by the CO and changed a few soggy logs.
The weather started to turn on us in the late afternoon so we decided to head for our accommodation extremely happy that we had found the first three hundred and looking forward to doing some more tomorrow.

Many thanks for the caches, to save room in the log we signed as Sneecks,
The DroverS,PhetlerN,alansEE,micaparamediC,goodlooK,team crackersS
Unfortunately goodlook was a non starter due to injury but the stickers were already made.

Found with Phetlern, The Drovers, Team Cackers, and Micaparamedic. We logged as SNEEKS to save time and space. Today was the first day of who knows how many and after a Very wet start we had a reasonably good afternoon in which we did 300 in the series. A surprising number needed replacing and we suspect animals played a major role in that.

With the aquatic geo-art smiling on our Yorke Peninsula map, the new green line to "reel them in" looked rather daunting!
A plan, similar in detail, to those made by pyro technicians was drawn up and together with Alansee, Micaparamedic, Team Crackers and The Drovers, we took up the challenge.
It is hard to summarise our experience on day one of this epic trail, it was a hoot! Like others before us we found a number of damaged or broken containers, some we were able to replace. Likewise we were able to replace many sodden logs. Most finds were quick, a few needing some extra consideration!
For economy of space, we logged as "SNEECKS."

Thanks 'Fishy Tales' for creating another intriguing trail.
22039

A group of Mexicans have crossed the border for an assault on the Gone Fishn' series. Today was our first day on the trail and we started out at around midday. We had a number of cache containers and logs compliments of Prof Freddo and we have replaced a number that had been damaged by animals or had just gone missing. We had a fantastic and enjoyable day.

Thanks Fishy Tales for your participation in placing this series.

Found on a lovely day out with Shandyk. Thanks for the power trail Fishy Tales.

Generic log - A girls day out caching saw us heading over to continue on the Gone Fishn' trail. Picked up a couple on the way but As Guzs Travellers hadn't started the trail yet we decided 101 was a good place for them to take off from. So we made a day of caches 101-240.... interesting block of caches as some had been overgrown with a creeper (meaning some caches were completely buried, or had been moved to beyond the reach of the creeper...some 20m) others had vines strangling the native flaura. All up we found 133 (2 we couldn't sign as the logs were so soaked) , had 7 DNF , with the logs being signed as a joint GS. TFTC

We had spent the last 4 days working our way towards Stansbury, where we planned to spend a couple of days fishing and doing some caching in a couple of sections of this series.

Not sure where to start to write about this series, as when we arrived at #1 we found it laying out in the open. Most of the 160 we tackled on day one in this series were not at their respective coordinates and we had to look for them everywhere. At number 160 we just gave up as it was hard work, when it shouldn't have been.

We made our way to Stansbury and spent our first night there after the day we'd had.

Thanks Fishy Tales for the series and the placements, I hope whoever follows has an easier run at it than we did. All caches we've logged, were found. DNF's will be included too.

Find # 5576
Day 3
Our biggest day of caching. From the top, GF 002 to as far as we could, but with the lunch bag left behind we had to leave the trail for food. Neverless it was still both one of our biggest days out.

Found with sharkiefan

A Big week was planned to travel around South Australia, staying in Minlaton, Tarlee and Adelaide. We cache along a number of Trails, managed to grab a few off the beaten track, some well known caches and the odd one that
came up on the map as we were travelling around.

It ended up being a massive week of 2960 odd kilometers travelled, with day find counts of 25, 256, 361, 318, 66, 205, 104 and 76 (yep thats 1411 for the 8 days)
1062 micro, 238 small, 60 Regular, 45 large, 3 Virtual and 3 Other.


TFTC Fishy Tales

Found with FUF009 as one of 361 caches we found today. One of these is my 9000th find.
Today was the day I planned to knock off as many Gone Fishin' caches as we could in a day. We probably would have done better if I hadn't forgotten the lunch bag at the accommodation in Minlaton. So we ended up choosing to go to Ardrossan for food half way through.
We found a bunch of caches branching off the trails too.
It was a long long day but we were happy with our result.
Apologies for the generic log. We were going too fast to take many notes.
All caches were found in good condition unless mentioned at the start of the log.
Thanks to all the COs for their hides. Tftc

The Gone Fishn' series has been on the radar for quite some time but who wants to take it on solo. [xx(] Not this little black duck. So when I got an invite from Mogni that a 6.00 a.m. start at my house and a trip to the peninsular and back the same day with no set numbers one vehicle and visit every cache, was in order I jumped at the chance. So did SA Sewer Rats who joined the crew at 7.00 a.m. A few stops on the way for a couple of caches and then it was hit the trail from 9.00 a.m. till 5.30 p.m As mogni had already been here we started at #037 and conveniently finished at #245 Okay we may have done a few little side tracks here and there to grab a few others as well. In the end I had found 223 caches which is a new personal best. Here is what happened: [8)]

Stop- find cache - sign - move on. Repeat.

**Thanks Fishy Tales for this cache. **

Mrs Rat Was collected by Brisal5 and Mogni for a long day of caching.
We were going to do some of the Gone Fishing series, and a few other caches.
This was a day filled with laughs and Personal best records.
A quick find for us today. Tftc

A huge day out with Brisal5 and SA Sewer Rats. We managed to find over 200 caches and for the first time visiting the Yorke Pennisula we came home with more cache containers than we went with. Just a few throw downs, me thinks.
Thanks to Fishy Tales from mogni