TdF - 2018 - Geraint Thomas MBE South Australia, Australia
By equipe de cinq on 12-Aug-18. Waypoint GC7W0VY

Found on our way past today having a look around the area while headed home from the Riverland. Targeted the rest of the TdF that we havent found on the way through, signed logs as GP or Geopenta. All in decent condition with a few running repairs. Cheers for the series.Find #7368 on 21 Nov 2024.TFTC equipe de cinq!

Found in good condition.

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A whole day with no plans and kid free, so here I am playing the numbers game. I found 108 on this trail with 1 DNF, a few requiring maintenance which I have logged. A new personal best most finds in a day! Light traffic on this road, 3 cars and the same motorbike twice for the day. Thanks for the series.

Really enjoyed these backboard caches. Thanks very much for placing them. Tassie expat and I did a handful while passing through.

frmen1 and I took a slight detour to do the first 5 caches from this end. Loved the welcoming committee that you drive past to get to gz. Stopped for a selfie on the way back. A quick find. TFTC

Found at 11:47 am whilst out for the day with Shonky and Southern Cross Caching

Found with Uni and Shonky on a boys day out caching.TFTCCheers and Happy Hunting Southern Cross Caching

Found with uni and sxc on a lads day out. Thanks for the cache

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 5 - Morgan area day. I have been looking at the caches around Morgan each time I was to the south on the Stuart Highway. I decided this trip would be a good time to spend a day and do what caches I could in the area. I wanted a ferry ride, so I went over the Morgan ferry for two caches the other side of the river and back via the Cadell ferry. Great to see them both in action. Next were caches to the West of town. A few singles, my favorite of the day was the Eba Siding. I was able to do all the Tour Down under caches and then head to the remaining Tour de France caches before heading back to camp for a late lunch. It did not take at all as long as I feared it would.I ventured onto some of the back roads today and was rewarded with white dust everywhere and plenty of caches. All of these were found and only two had issues. I did most of the TdF series many years ago now, so it was great to get back today to finish what is there at the moment.Thanks for the cache equipe de cinq46441.36 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Ink Frog A#134**Albida**

This is an interesting series, I always enjoy Le Tour. In 2006 we took our bikes to France, rode from Cherbourg to the Pyrenees, the Rhone valley and to Paris. We followed many Tour routes was such fun. We could only grab one of the series today as were enroute to WA. We will pass this way again. Left a tea spoon and a sticker. I know what work goes into crating a series like this, well done and thank you. STL TFTC

Found it! Slight change of plan today, trying to finish the TdF series then grab a few others on the return home! 2 DNFs so far. Quick find here! TFTC!

Woot woot time for another Tuesday Trekking.A Confused duo, consisting of a Rat and a Starfish.The plan for today was for the Starfish to pick up the Rat from her nest.Then cache our way to and around the Riverland.We had lovely weather, stories and laughter.This was one of many cache finds on our journey.A quick stop and find, stamped and signed the logbook. Tftc

Something special or unusual goes here:Another TDF found. Until another gets published at least. The Generic Bit:Another Tuesday Trek with just me and Mrs. Sewer Rats. I had itch to retrace last Tuesday's Trek up through Morgan to Waikerie for lunch, cruise back via the Sturt Highway and clear out a few more caches. That itch just needed to be scratched. We made it to Morgan for a late lunch and made it to Waikerie around dinner time and back to the Rat's nest as the sun set. A few more laughs, a lot more caches and yet there are still that require yet another trek!**SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks equipe de cinq for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Another 3 Stooges road trip with Cheezel and WayneAPN, tackling the TDF series and a few more close by. A great day out with lots of laughs, carbs consumed and general tomfoolery. Cache found and log stamped.

It's been a while since our last get together to spend a day caching with Weredunn4 and Cheezel1961. With all the stuff occurring in each of our daily lives and work etc, the stars seem to align today for an outing out together, targeting the TDF series. Plus a few in easy range, hey were are out this way, may as well do them. Plus the usual target of interesting, unique D/T grids as well as high T caches.Thanks for this one, an easy find.TFTC SL

Its been a while since weve teamed up, but the 3 Stooges (weredunn4, WayneAPN, Cheezel1961) are back at it again Today we are targeting the Tour de France (TdF) series plus any other interesting caches we might cross paths with.Cache quickly found and stampedTFTC

With our home base of Blanchetown we started this series today.

I obviously hadn't done my homework properly as I didn't expect to arrive in Morgan as early as I did. However this enabled me to do a lot more caching and this was one of the ones that I was hoping to find. TFTC

A few night caches after exploring some of the lavender trail with my geobuddy.
THANKS FOR CONTINUING THE WIDE GAME

Quick find while out and about grabbing caches.
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TTFN
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Left early in the rain, with the intention to do TdF series on the stock route road. It drizzle all the way and most of the morning periodically, until the sunshine came in the afternoon. Caches were generally in good condition with a percentage having a broken lid, which I didn’t have any replacement ones. TFTC
That’s the last one for day, finishing up with 113 smileys and 2 DNF’s. Headed into Morgan for some food and drink, then made the trip back home.

Found while headin home from the lawn mower racing in Morgan today.
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Refer TdF - 1990 - Greg LeMond Traditional Geocache
GC3FTMD.. And finished!!!

Found this cache first, hoping to make a day of it but fell short due to summer Lake. TFTC equipe de cinq.

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Good spot.

Out in the mallee for the day so headed a little further north for the 2014 to 2018 leg of the TdF series. Thanks for the cache equipe de cinq!

10859 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1138. We had a runner/finder and a driver/logger on board to make these cache finds. Where needed maintenance was done on individual hides. SL Tnx equipe de cinq

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

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Equipe De Cinq [^]

Good day for it

Got it

A bit surprised we haven't been past and picked this one up earlier .
Another one added to the series .
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Thanks Equipe de cinq.

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Great day for a postie bike ride and good find

TFTC ON A AUSSIE ROAD CREW TRIP
Caching with with bev today

Nice and easy r

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet

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After lunch in Morgan Geo hubby Animal62 & I have ventured out to finish a few more of the TDF series. Thankfully we now have another smiley face added to our maps.

In the area today cleaning up a few caches between Morgan and Waikerie, noticed this lone TDF and detour to complete the series for now
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Back to do a few more of the Tdf caches. Thanks equipe de cinq.

Found with bindikins

Found with Woems1

On the way to Burra for the Rally of the Heartland grabbing caches and labs along the way. TFTC

as we have a look around the area this was one of the caches we found

A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks equipe de cinq for placeing them

My final TdF find on this trail. Took me a few trips and a couple of DNFs.
Thank you for the fun! A fave from me!

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

The group grew from two to six quickly after having a chat to GoodLook about our plans.
Our team “The Mob” now consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers and ourselves and feathertop joined us on day 4. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book.
All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.

Day 6 After finishing the On Your Bike and Around the World in 81, Ode to JLWE and Riddlers Roonka Rampage and TdU we decided to see if we could tick TdF as well.
All caches were found on the trail in fairly good condition.

Thanks for the hide and trail equipe de cinq and thanks for the fun "The Mob"

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Onto day 6 and back out onto the On Your Bike series we go to finish it off. Once we had finished that, we made our way to some Around the World multis, Riddlers Roonka/Ode to JLWE Series, the TdU series and even managed to do the TdF series! It was a big day. We picked up a few caches along the way, travelling along the way was GoodLook, The Drovers, LiB, FurfacesLL, FeatherTop and myself.

With the TdU completed much quicker than we expected, we discussed as a team that multiple groups had not done the TdF and we were soooo close to it. It was agreed that we would give it a crack and see how we went, if we finished it, brilliant, if we didnt, it didnt matter. We were on a roll today and we managed to get them all done !!! [^]

Thanks for the hides equipe de cinq And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

Day 3 of the trip and we were targeting a number of moderate sized power trails.
I completed all but 9 of this series back on first release but a number of the group hadn't so it was a trip back down memory lane.
Caches still in great order too.
We stamped the log as 'The Mob'
'The Mob' included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, the Drovers and myself
Thanks to equipe de cinq for these

Day 3 in the area, and after completing the bike series, we then moved on to the following series:-
Around the World in 81 caches
Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge
Ode to JLWE
TdU series
and a few of the new ones in the TdF series.

We stamped the log as 'The Mob' to save space and time.
'The Mob' this time included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop & ourselves.
Many thanks for placing this series, equipe de cinq, for us and others to find.

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

The series that we tackled during this trip included The Paddle Steamer, The Turtle, On Your Bike, The TdU, The TdF and some Roonka puzzles put out for a June Long Weekend some time ago. Plus many random caches that we passed.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to equipe de cinq for placing this cache.

Stopped to do a couple on the way back to Cordola tftc

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Spending the weekend at Morgan Caravan Park, TFTC

Staying at Morgan for the weekend thought we'd grab a couple from the trail, tftc

Moving from Adelaide to Brisbane, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I decided to drive the long distance to make the opportunity a holiday, taking 12 days and passing through Victoria, New South Wales, and then finally arriving in Queensland. We spent the first few days in SA's Riverland, visiting Morgan, Berri and Renmark; and then drove through Mildura in Victoria. In NSW, we stopped at Hay, Parkes, Merriwa, Tamworth, Port Macquarie, and Coffs Harbour, and then entered Qld to stop for a night in Robina in the Gold Coast.

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I departed Morgan after a hot breakfast, and we proceeded south finding a few targeted *Tour de France* series geocaches, before then crossing the Murray River at Blanchetown. We then proceeded up the eastern Murray River bank passing through Murbko, before crossing once again and driving along the northern bank. We then stopped for a late lunch at Waikerie after making another river crossing (by ferry this time), and then made our way east along the Sturt Highway to Barmera. It was a chance to see a few sights in Barmera and complete the *A Bonney Stroll* Adventure Lab. Finally, we made a dash through Monash topping to see the adventure playground, and then arrived in Berri for the night.

This was our first geocache find for the day, and we decided to make a stop here since we had assumed it would be a quick find (and it didn't take too long in the end). The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks equipe de cinq for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

Found on our big drive from Adelaide to Brisbane with Davidwazza! TFTC!

Last full day of caching before we head home tomorrow.

fitzy_1965, the geo-kids & I decided to head over to Blanchetown to do the Riddler series, JLWE series and whatever else we could find in the area. Today was the hottest by far and, with no working air-con in the car, it made for a hard day of caching. I did manage to get to 10,000 finds so that was a nice highlight.

All caches were found quickly and in good condition unless otherwise stated.

We met Kwaianna at this one....with us both trying to be stealthy we soon worked out that we were all there for the same reason.

Good series thanks

23,290. Found with minniek during our Post-Christmas escape to South Australia.

This trip to South Australia was on again off again due to the changing circumstances in the various states we had to travel through. Finally getting a green light from all 3 states we headed off early boxing day. Day 14 of our adventures took us around the Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge series, the Ode to June Long Weekend series, the Tour de France series, plus cherry picking some other caches along the way. All caches were found quickly and in good order unless otherwise stated. Next find of the day. A nice quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, and then headed off to the next one.

Thanks equipe de cinq !!

I remember being part of the team that set these up some years ago - seems just like yesterday. Today I played cacher and not placer. Mostly quick finds on a cool day.

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

A quick find while caching around Barmera.TFTC

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Out with muggle husband. I was delighted with his tenacity. Found the caches up to the next road. Tftc

Returned today with Earthlight to collect the last of this series
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The X-Trailers and I travelled this road today to locate the last 9 caches placed since we were last here. Weather was perfect to cache and all caches found easily except 1 which was 10 mtrs out. TFTC

Day 390 ( Tuesday 22nd ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Bower today to finish off this run. TFTC

A quick weekend getaway up the river with my muggle friends. Time for a few caches.
Soldiering on.
TFTC Keep smiling

Nice day for a power trail
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Good container, protected from the elements. Added a brand new clean face mask. Please feel free to take to protect yourself against COVID-19

Thanks

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Staying at Morgan to finish up the stockmen route caches TFTC

Out and about geocaching. Found with Northstar76, connor_8 and Jess

Quick find whilst wandering around the lower Mid-North
Finding some caches & fixing some caches
Cool cache, great spot
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Out and about geocaching. Found with superman_22, connor_8 and Jess. Never been out here before. Love where geocaching take you.

Cool! Thanks for the cache ️

It’s in the tree mates

In the tree mate

Nice tree! Cache #3108.

Found with Crane2. TFTC

Mr Parrot iand Mrs Parrot went for a drive to Morgan and picked up some caches along the way.
Another year another one to collect

Heading back out in the direction of Swan Reach and Blanchetown to find a few of the caches I could not get to the other day. With the amount of caches found, logs will be a bit generic. All caches were found in good condition, unless otherwise stated, on an enjoyable afternoon,

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Travelling around Australia, after spending the best part of a week solving the Roonka puzzles today we planned to head out and find them and some nearby caches. Beautiful weather to be by the river.

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The cache hunt today with ilook4geo had a few different aspects. We selected a few along the road to get us going in the right direction, then we followed a couple of trails that were of particular interest. Finally we started the first few of another series which we will need to finish later on. All logs had two lots of initials recorded on them, each cache was put back as it had been found and we continued with the hunt. This was one of the caches we found. Thanks go to equipe de cinq for placing this cache.

Out for a caching adventure with goingplaces2. The day included puzzle caches as well as traditionals. Each was an easy find, all logs were signed and replaced. It was a productive day, gaining lots of smileys. Found this one. TFTC.

Found a d spotted a couple of emus. Picked up a dismond here for the mystery on the museum hunt. Tftc

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Out for a cache with gridge98. My first power trail on my 3rd day living in the area. Thanks for the interesting history and caches

Today I planned with Nettieknows to complete the Tour de France series, we signed all the log books as NG9886 (nettie knows, gridge98, 8/6/19). Majority of the cache are all in good Nic, a few are broken here and there though. Great to think about the winners of the tour, can’t wait till the giro comes out
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Found it TFTC

Quick and easy find!
Always nice to be back in this area.
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A fine day was forecast so we decided to head back to finish of this series. Had the track to ourselves and although it was dry, the weather was still bitterly cold. Thanks equipe de cinq

A run after work for a couple of night caches, one Tuesday, the next after midnight.
Never a muggle in sight
Great series, thanks again.
Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache equipe de cinq

On the way to Canberra, detours - found,
Signed the log by stamp. Thanks for the cache and hide

After spending way to long looking for a new cache in Morgan ( that I didn't find) it's time for some pleasant relief. Tftc

Quick find with CPwanderer and clare007. Warm day for our Riverland adventure today.

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