Lost Heritage #46 - Port Moorowie Warooka, South Australia, Australia
By Hurtle on 11-Jun-17. Waypoint GC772VC

Its a prickly situation

TFTC. Log signed

Over to attend the Great Leap Forward Mega Event with tmann421.Have done a few km collecting caches and have enjoyed the tour aroundThanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing and maintaining these for us to findSigned log tm/ww NZ

Nice find with woolwood9 today. Another day down the Yorke Peninsular for us.Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit. SL tm/ww NZSoon located.

Yorke Peninsula road trip, day 2, Coobowie to the heel.Nice size cache, all good here.TFTC

Howdy Ho and Merry Cache-mas! TftC!Prickly! With Squib Esquire

Quick find while doing Adv Lab. TFTC

TFTC. Replaced container. ____________________________________ Containers/logs all in good repair unless otherwise stated. Happy caching and safe travels!____________________________________Yorke Peninsula 2023 trip (10 days)Day 1 : Travel to YP, set up camp at Point Turton Day 2 : Marion Bay, Innes NP & surroundsDay 3 : Point Turton, Corny Point & Geoart seriesDay 4 : Warooka, EdithburghDay 5 : Yorketown Day 6 : up the coast to MoontaDay 7 : up the coast again Day 8 : GeoArt seriesDay 9 : Yorketown & Edithburgh Day 10 : pack up camp, travel home

Tftc. Box is damaged and needs replacing

Found on the drive to Yorktown for supplies TFTC

Fairly easy, but the lid is broken. Unfortunately we have nothing handy on us. Someone please fix if you can...

All a bit wet here. Thanks anyway.

Quick find, although had to keep dodging all the muggles. Really, cold, windy and wet. Some people are as crazy as us, out on a day like today. Tftc.

Quick find with accurate coords. The contents are in good condition but the container is starting to get fragile. I turned it on it's side to keep rain out. Thanks for placing it.

A quick find with frmen1. Lovely old building on the back road. TFTC

I have come over from NZ to visit family and do a lot of caching. I am now on the Yorke Peninsula doing the trails and other caches close by. Have been out here before but there are lots of new caches now. Time to change camp so not as many today. Had a few aims for this trip.

Our last day on the yorke with Mattycat and Perfect Di, heading a little further south to collect a earth cache we collected a couple along the way including this one, a quick find at GZ
TFTC Hurtle

Found whilst spending a few days over Christmas at Stansbury
Great cache, cool spot
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Could not locate

Quick easy find with CherryRose while holidaying at Point Turton. TFTC TNLNSL Left some swaps.

Quick easy find with Beary Organised on our way back to Pt Turton on this lovely sunny afternoon. TFTC TNSL

This weekend is a mental health/selfish/me time weekend.
Headed to YP to do as I please which of course meant geocaching.
My plan was to ‘finish’ fishing . It and the geoart will be almost finished bar avenging some prior dnfs.
Was also keen to find some multis and visit a few places I haven’t been to before.
Mission accomplished in my happy place for the day. Only 2 dnfs. Sadly the Pies lost their Prelim final but we love to fight another day. Stansbury was a revelation to me the pub was brilliant.
All up around 130 found for the day.
Quick find here took the TB to move on TFTC hurtle

Another great winters day out with iluvtrekking picking up finds around Edithburgh and surrounds. This place still look pretty solid - renovators delight. Thanks Hurtle
Left: 2 x TB’s

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventur. We set off in sunshine today, a perfect day for Geocaching. We are enjoying the small towns, beaches, cliffs and history. Thanks for bringing us here.

Decided to do the Salt Lake trail today and picked up a few caches along the way - lovely area to visit TFTC

Found with Olga at 12:52 pm

Really cute

Enjoying a few days on the bottom on the peninsula, enjoying the sights and finding a few smileys
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found

Found with Debandy on a pre-Chistmas getaway down the bottom of York's.
Thanks for the cache.

Found while holidaying in the area with cows with guns. TFTC.

The three of us were spending some time on Yorke Peninsula, and today Mr Tardis went out for a caching run in the southern half. I did a section of the Gone Fishing trail, and found lots of old and new caches on the way there and back.

I found this cache after a short search.

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Hurtle.

After a long morning on the Fishy Trail, I needed to slow down a bit. I decided to head toward the coast and grabbed a few isolated caches along the way.

Quick find here.

Thanks for the cache Hurtle.
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We found this cache while on the way to pick up some more of the fishing line with ilook4geo. No problems with this one and we were soon on the way to continue our hunt for the day. Thanks go to Hurtle for placing this cache.

Came along today with goingplaces2 and made an easy find here. Log was signed and all was replaced as found. TFTC.

Found by The Boofs while on holiday TFTC

Found as we headed down to the port for a look. TFTC

Awesome cache

Easy drive by. Thanks

Day 2 of our holidays, saw us caching along the coast line, cliff climbing, finding old ruins and travelling down many dirt roads. As at 4pm we are back at camp having a well earned rest before dinner and possibly more caching. TFTC

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

Found with Spidermonkeys Mum. Naturally I turned it into a competition, since I cant fish this weekend (not through lack of trying). Each cache I found I called out the score to SMM, and when I didn't know which direction or even the distance, I would call out "My GPS says zero!" That got her a few times!!! Safely say I won the Saturday round, and on Sunday I had lost interest and tried to just spot them from the car, as I drove her past some of the powertrail ones. Thanks to the CO's for putting these out for us to find, and bringing us to spots we wouldn't normally visit (especially if there isn't fishing)

Yay. Found it. Another fun adventure, many thanks for the hide.

GeoVenture Mega Event at Millicent, still looking forward to it!! A new date has been proposed for October 2021 now.

earthlight wanted to go to Cape Spencer lighthouse and Inneston today So yesterday she had kindly asked me to travel with her [:X]
We took my car so that I could take Rex[^] and left about 7.15am from my place and returned about 9.30pm[|)][xx(]
Throughout the day we saw gorgeous sights[^] under grey skies, then sunny skies and enjoyed watching the water change its colours as the sky changed its
Rex ran himself ragged on beaches chasing pelicans and seagulls and on dirt roads sniffing the scents of rabbits, foxes and roos
By day's end I had 1 DNF and 15 cache finds

Interesting place as usual Dodged the spikes to retrieve the cache, signed the log[^] and then replaced the cache[^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Hurtle

Yep

Easy find on the way home

TFTC out with the girls

I have come over to Yorkes with Madham02 for a couple of nights staying in Wool Bay and today was our full day so we headed off for a drive with the sun shining and no wind or rain. [^] I had made a list of caches I wanted to find and at the end of the day had 21 finds and 2 DNF's. It was a fun day driving around on dirt roads looking at lots of old buildings and ruins.

Another old ruin discovered on our wanderings and it would have been interesting to see what life was like down here when al these old buildings were inhabited.

Thanks for the cache and for bringing us here Hurtle.

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Day 206 (Sunday 22nd) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Warooka today. A total of 1 for the day and 4916 for the trip. TFTC

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Where ever possible, we will maintain your cache as we travel.

Left our camp at Mozzie Flats to head into Yorketown for provision. That done, we cached our way home.....

Cute house, sad story, Mr D got stung by a feral bee while signing the log. Thanks Hurtle

Over on the YP for a couple of days so grabbed a few caches along the way
Cheers & TFTC

Found while over on York Peninsula for the week. Thanks for the cache Hurtle!

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The drapes were still hanging in the windows. TFTC

The front window has a new curtain. Maybe some have found the heritage....

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

Tucked away nicely

On a day if arctic blustery conditions we set out to cache! Well why not? Better than sitting snuggled up in a camper all day. This one doesn't look to far gone, could imagine doing a little something with that if ever had time, but seeing how many geocaches there are left to do don't imagine will have any time soon. Tftc

Another that appears that it could be a real fixer upper if you are a little handy with some tools and imagination. SL TFTC

So there is this cache. We found it. We signed the log. We continued on our way.

Off down the Yorke for a few days with Purrfect Di, Jack, Sebastbat, muggle Alex and Chloe the geodog (cat's crazy staff).
Celebrating Di and Matty's birthdays with a few scenic caches.
Found this cache along the way.

Another great project for retirement. Just needs a coat of paint, right?

TFTC Hurtle

Caching day today
Found it
Thanks for the cache

Nice find near the ruins.

Over on Yorkes for our 4WD Club Xmas Dinner last night and spending the day clearing some more of the map. TFTC.

Well said Hurtle, we agree completely with your remarks and hope we don’t contribute to the problem. With the wind eased right off this morning the only issue might be rain today, but even then that should only be passing light showers.
So we are back out chasing caches again!
This time we are again heading south from Edithburgh but inland towards Port Moorowie. Very interesting countryside, all the lakes that randomly pop up add to the character of the surrounds.
Well this one was a bit of an adventure. We found a road that cut across country from the “Sheep Ruins” cache. At least we assumed it was a road! After all it did have a name. The car GPS didn’t like it as it tries to avoid gravel roads, but we didn’t know what her problem was as the road had no gravel, just grass and rocks. It went thru the middle of sheep paddocks, but we did eventually end up on the road we were looking for.
Love these old abandoned stone houses, they certainly have lots of character. A straightforward find in a logical place. The GPS took us straight there.
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Nope. I will not excuse "the boilerplate logs". Ok on powertrails but a slap in the face for the COs of individual caches, whom put the effort in to give you smiley in the first place!
If you can go to the trouble of planning a trip to get 1300 cache in a short period, the least you could do is show in your logs a comment of the hide, location, what you saw, etc.
A generic log like the ones that have come in this week are pathetic. May as well put tftc and save future finders having to scroll through reams of these 'diary entries'.
Disappointing to come from such experienced cachers as well, no wonder new cachers think lazy actions like this are the norm!!

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.

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

Day 4 of our 2018 Yorke Peninsula excursion. Internaitional Geocaching Day 18/8/18 fancy hey!

Decided to pick up somenon Power trail caches today. Great fun day but boy oh so windy!
Not a day to do coastal caches.

TFTC Hurtle

Day 2 of my caching trip to the peninsula, complete a lot of the geoart today and was time to find some others around the area TFTC

TFTC Hurtle
TNLN All in good order at Gz
Good to grab a little unloved one

Another great old ruin amongst the dry fields today. Quick find and cache all ok. Found with The X-Trailers. TFTC and a fav point

So much history around here
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Tftc!

A nice easy find to start my day

Found It!
Back in the area today (ironically to pick up two June LWE caches that got left behind) so I stopped past here for a quick find! So much lost heritage in this part of Yorke Peninsula...
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An easy find early in the morning.

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Today we explored Port Moorowie to Foul Bay and surrounds using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Picked this cache up with Mr Jackylegs TFTC

Day 3 of the Adelaide trip, with another 300 plus caches, had to dodge the rain. But was lucky enough to get a heap done.tftc sl tnln.

Distance kept jumping so was difficult but found it eventually

Found in the dark with hevwalker and clare007 at the end of a day's wander around the Peninsula!!! Heather dived in to grab the prize and I'm surprised folks in Adelaide didn't hear her cursing the spikes!!!! Thanks Hurtle for the hide!!

Found at the end of a long day before the sun set with CPwanderer & clare007...
We did some miles just to get the last 4 caches CP wanted before heading home...

This was the very last cache we did today as the light was fading...we had torches...
Ouch!!! Ouch!!! Ouch!!! My head hurts after crawling under that bush...

Another of the many ruins that are scattered over the state...
Thanks for bringing us here Hurtle

Our last cache before heading to Ardrossan for dinner.
After a bit of searching there was only one obvious spot,
and we didn't think it would be in there...[:0]
hevwalker bravely grabbed the cache & replaced it,
but she wasn't happy, the cache lair bites
Thanks for the cache Hurtle

Hi there Hurtle.

We found your cache **"Lost Heritage #46 - Port Moorowie"** at 11:11:00 AM today. (This makes our find count 16930).

We cached around JLWE area again today (even though the event is over). We thoroughly enjoyed our trek & ended up finding a variety of hides, types and sizes hidden along the way. Today we found 3 caches (& DNF'd 0). Thank you for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

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

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

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