MAP THE MINER Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
By barnic on 24-Oct-17. Waypoint GC7E1NA

An easy find on a cloudy and rainy Saturday afternoon.TFTC

TFTC sneaky work required due to muggles.

Awesome find for my sons first Geocache.

Thanks heap. Great cache. Didnt bring a pen so silly me, but I took a photo

Map location isn't spot on but we tracked it down

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Today out and about on 273 of 274 days to get my daily cacher Emerald Using my Garmin Etrex 22X, Garmin Montana 700 and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cacheTFTC

Camped in Greenock, out today for some of the geo art and others. TFTC

Hard to fi nd

Caching out again for the dayTFTH

Jill out caching with earthlightTftc

It took me a couple of minutes. The dog kept wanting to go in a different direction as the tracker kept jumping around. Finally my geosenses started to tingle and the cache was in hand. Tftc.

A quick park and grab. TNLN TFTC

We stayed at Nurioopta last night to top up on lots of supplies at the Geostuff store this morning and then we are heading our way back south to Portland caching along the way. Our main targets are Adventure Labs, Virtual's and Earth caches as these don't present muggle problems and any others that are nearby.We were he re for the virtual and as there were no muggles to be seen we decided to look for this trad.We made the most of it and headed towards gz first where happily the cache was found after a brief search and our name was added to the log before everything was returned as found.We then headed off to the virtual to learn a bit more about Map the Miner and have a look around this excellent memorial.Many thanks for bringing us here, a favourite point from us.

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This a new account but I found this cache with my mum (EmsDan1315) and my brother (maggies123) on 9-7-2024 TFTC.

Get some caches in the Barossa on the way home after doing a bit of shopping in Elizabeth. Manage to put up with the showery weather and was also very cold. TFTC

Great find

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Coordinate is a bit out but eventually found it Lady from Templers we found it when you left

Nanny got one

Found with Emsdan and kingbonza

Tftc. Short trip today between Greenock and Clare time to have fun collecting smilies

Watched the sun and a hot air balloon rise over the hills on our way into town leaving Adelaide nice and early. TFTC

Another find on the trip! Definitely a good one for the kids to have a crack at!

Thanks kids loved it

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Nice find with the kids

Nice find

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Quick park and grab. Tyftc. Jones Family.

A great autumn morning caching between Tarlee and Kapunda crossing a few more off the map.Many thanks for the hide barnic

I decided to take Friday off work to make it a four day weekend. The plan was to explore around Barossa and Clare valleys. Im not much of a wine drinker but there sure are lots of geocaches in these parts. I brought my bike along so I could tackle some of the many caches along bike tracks. A little cool through out the day but the sun was shining which always makes me happy. Yes I am a John Denver Fan. Quick find here. All good. Thank you barnic, for placing MAP THE MINER for the geocaching community.# # #14869 # #

Staying at Kapunda cp. Out looking for caches with muggle husband. Some took a while to locate others quick. Thanks COs for putting them out & given us a good tour of the town & surrounds. Tftc

Nice little spot.

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Awesome little cache easy to find. Lots of space to log your name. Tftc

We are currently on a eight week holiday which is mostly spent in New Zealand and Australia. However, the first three days were spent in Singapore as a nice break from an otherwise long flight. We had about three weeks in New Zealand which went by too quickly. The remaining five weeks are spent in Australia. Yesterday we took the ferry from Kangaroo Island to the mainland and spent the night in Barossa. Our destination for today is Wilpena. We had a stop here to have a closer look at the huge statue and discovered that this cache was also here. We had a look and the cache was quickly found. Thank you very much for this cache.

During our two-month trip through New Zealand and Australia we travel from the Barossa Valley to the Flinders Ranges.When we drove past here we stopped to take a picture. This cache was also hidden here and was easily found.**barnic**, thanks for the cache.

Great looking through the rocks

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Found it! Been past this spot many times but finally stopped by and found the cache today. TFTC!

Thanks barnic for this cache. I was unsuccessful the last time I looked, a few years ago. Today, I found it easily. In Kapunda on a brief family history excursion.

Quick find cool spot exploring what Kapunda has to offer. Kyliesmiley was on a roll today. TFTC

Out caching today with Jamesta18We decided to head out Kapunda way today to log and sign some caches Lovely spot, I have always wanted to come visit here, had a few ideas where cache could be and decided to let the gps follow the lead and cache was in hand TFTC

Waking up to overcast skies and the occasional spot of rain, we decided to just cache in the local-ish area today. A tour of back country roads and small townships. Not a big number day but the quality was right up there. Thanks to all CO's for their placement's.#9337

Our last full day staying around Gawler and only caching in the morning so to be out of the hot time of the day. Our last cache before heading back to AC car.

Found with Michells&hound and JJ52 on a nice drive around the area. TFTC

Today I headed out for my second day of caching back in Adelaide for the Mega. Allisterw was our chauffeur and JJ52 was the brains behind solved puzzles.We had a wonderful day out, the weather was splendid, lots of fun and a tasty bakery lunch. What more could any cacher want? Day only marred by one dnf and around 29 physical caches found.My thanks to all the hiders for contributing to this hobby of mine without you my life would be so dull!Last one before heading back to Adelaide another Allister found TFTC

An early morning start after our overnight stay. I am traveling with my friends, hatzofff, RoddyC, Snickersallan and grannysmith1947. We are signing all logs as "5 for QLD" to save space.All caches were found, signed and replaced as foundToday we will finally arrive in South Australia. I am quite excited - first time here.

TFTC smile 18462 Out and about on a lovely day Having a great time finding a few caches heading to Adelaide for a few weeks then on our way to Canberra . Signing as 5 for QLD - Hatzofff Snickersallan RoddyC Imbunda. What a great team we made and lots of laughter and funThank you barnic for placing this cache for our enjoyment [:X]

Our journey into Adelaide is slowly coming to an end. Zigzagging across the country and picking up different LGAs as we journeyed.Caching with and signing as 6 for QLD including RoddyC hatzofff Imbunda snickersallan Patrol14 grannysmith1947TFTCache barnic

A Leap Year Mega draws us to Adelaide. Today's our intrepid group has our second day in South AustraliaWe are using the Acronym 6 for QLD to sign the log sheets.Most of the caches this day were nice quick finds. And so happily I say that the logs were signed and caches replaced as found on this day, 27th February 2024. TFTC, barnic.

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Mac the miner has his Santa suit on! Im so glad I stopped for this cache! TFTC

A quick find with Emma as we caught up with Dad for Christmas/New Years. Great to witness Map in his Christmas spirit. TFTC.

Great cache. i did think it was rubbish and i was about to put it in the bin. TFTC

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Nice hiding spot not your average container

Good find! was looking in the wrong wall but lovey ceramics in the other one to look @. *cache more a small than micro & log is pretty full

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MotherGoldy and pineapplegoldy are driving to Saddleworth and the surrounding areas today for a day trip together.It isn't going to be a massive day for finding caches but I need one for my streak, as well as an EarthCache for EarthCache weekend.A shout out to all EarthCache owners who contribute to teaching geology in our game! I'm also targeting virtuals as I love them. I got 3 for the day which is very exciting.A good day was had. We read a lot of local history, laughed about a lot of things and enjoyed the adventure labs (MotherGoldy's favourite).We ended up with a total of 11 caches and 10 adventure lab locations. I am now at 337 days straight. Only 29 days left!The cache was quickly located here, a very nice spot a cache. Lots of information signs to read.We were curious about the bits of china amongst the stone wall, wonder why they are in there.The log book was almost full and so I had to sign the end of it on the blue section. Could do with a new log book.Thanks barnic for this traditional cache, which brings Goldy's total find count to 3632 on the 7th of October 2023.CITO's are a brilliant way to help keep our community area's clean. The Earth is our playing field and we need to protect it! Always be sure to cache the "leave no trace" way!**South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!**

Found on a trip to Clare with pineapplegoldy!TFTC!

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Last one for our day, after 2 DNFs, glad we found this one! Thanks for making us stop at Map the miner instead of driving past

Cool find

This was one of many caches along the back-roads for naughtybunny and I on the way home from our Burra road trip. It was an amazing weekend with amazing caches. While we did the virtual cache nearby, we may as well do this one while we're here. A nice spot which is well looked after. This one was quickly found as we saw something suspicious. TNLN. Cheers.

Quick find here on our way home after a short holiday in Burra. The log was full, I honestly can't remember if we added some paper!TFTC barnic

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Found it

Our first visit to Kapunda to cache and to take in some of the sights. Naturally, we stopped at the "entrance" to town, and after some time looking around we located this cache in its hiding place. TNLNSL TFTC

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TFTC great tribute to the Cornish Miner

Rainy day find on international geocaching day.
TY.for the wide game fun

Quick find while out and about grabbing caches for IGD.
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DGS

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TFTC, nice and easy!

Took me a while

Found while in the area with CPwanderer.
Apologies for the late log.

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Found it woooo hoooo!

Found

Great hiding place

After grabbing the nearby virtual, ditched the car and walked to this virtual. Glad the wall was only short in length and height. Found cache with little effort. Thanks barnic for placing a cache at this location.

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Time for a Tuesday Trek so headed north to pick up the Rat and started with a couple of new Lava traditionals before heading off to help with an unexpectedly easier to access bridge cache. After that the Starfish headed home for some R&R and the dynamic duo went off on a Mystery Turnabout Tour and after an enjoyable afternoon ended up with quite a variety of unexpected caches.
Stopped by to have a look at MAP and do the associated Virtual so had find this one too while stopped.
Thanks barnic for placing this cache.
Cache #13444 for me.

This log composed and published using GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife).

****SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Can’t wait!!****

Southern Autumn adventure Day 38. Mid North section of SA trip Day 9. Barossa Valley Day 1. I chose Kapunda as today's direction. The aim was to meander my way to and from Kapunda visiting lonely caches and a few solved puzzles. It was a great day and while I was in town I did the Lab set that is there. There is so much to see and plenty more caches for future visits.

The last two caches were at Map the miner, a physical and a virtual cache. A real bonus and a great way to finish my day before heading home for lunch.

Thanks for the cache barnic

42372.20 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Cache Hiders A#128

**Albida**

Made a little detour to visit MAP & to find this cache.

Located easily.

Thanks for the cache, barnic

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Found today with Woems1 ️

I have bad hearing, or maybe it's selective. I used to think MAP was in fact MAC when someone was giving me directions to here, but then he would be Scottish, and not from Cornwall. Anyway I found Map, then Map's cache. TFTC barnic, its been rather popular of late. Kapunda is a beaut little town, will be back for more caches another time.

Found by MCAT - gorgeous day, lovely town.

We're not travelling far today, so called in to read some history and find the cache. TFTC

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