Ransom Rapier Steam Crane Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia
By thewhitedoggang on 25-Mar-19. Waypoint GC859QZ

Found by Mary and David at 09:40. Found this as we leave Port Augusta - on our way home after attending WAGB 2024 in Augusta WA. Our thanks to thewhitedoggang.

Tyftc

Out caching for Fathers Day with the geo kids 4th find of the day tftc

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Managed a nice quick find with this hide today. Impressive old crane nearby, thanks for the cache thewhitedoggang.

A bit tricky to find in the trees. Good hiding

Walked across the busy road from hubbys accommodation for the week. He did have to help me over the pipe. TFTC

Found while taking a client on an adventure

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Out caching with my caching buddy, MrsShep77, and our faithful drivers. Thanks for the great hides.

Another day of caching with the crew! TFTC

Nice quick easy find. TFTC

TFTC

Found it thanks from holland

Another park & grab..... cheers and tftc

Spent the afternoon with Brother-In-Law and local geocacher picking up a few of the caches in the area that had been placed since we'd cleaned this area out some years ago. Was a great afternoon touring the town, pity we traversed the bridge what felt like a dozen times and with the reduced speed got some what annoying. Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.Certainly an amazing piece of engineering and history that has been collected and placed here.TFTC

Great crane. Tyftc

Day three of our four day trip.
The dynamic duo, SA Sewer Rats and ttrogg.
This was one of many stops.
A quick find for the Dynamic Duo. Tftc

Third day of the dynamic duos venture north. After completing the main aim of the trip yesterday it was time to head south, only ones we wanted before making Port Augusta were a trad in Quorn, just to show we'd been there, and an earthcache in Pichi Richi Park. Once in Port Augusta, eight caches on the must do list and an AdLab were done before checking into the accommodation. Continued caching until dark and found another 14 traditionals before dark and calling it a day.
Thanks to thewhitedoggang for placing this cache on our playing field.
Cache #13934 for me.

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

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Good find with the kids tftc

Standing tall tftc

Got it

Electrifying find TFTC

easy

Stopped by at this cache on my way home from a week long JLWE and Maralinga trip. I have had a great time. TFTC

We were on our way home after a week attending the JLWEvent in Kyancutta and then on for a tour of Maralinga. It was a great time with lots of history and great scenery.

We had stopped here for petrol so continued on to find this cache before getting back on to the highway.

Thanks for the cache thewhitedoggang.

Having been away for the JLWE and then a bous jaunt to Maralinga, today we made our way home.
Thanks

Great Hide

Thanks thewhitedoggang for the cache

James0116
Monday,12 Jun 2023
3:16:05 pm ACST
3499

Found our second one with our great friends the McNamees

(Power)full find with great friends.

Found it TFTC

Checked cache today
In place n all good
ENJOY!!

Port Pirie to Port Augusta
After settling into the CMCA camp we headed out in the afternoon to find a few caches
It was good to tour the country side following the geocaching trail
Thankyou to the CO's for placing these caches.

Cannot find

I did find it ages ago but forgot to change it as found~ glad they replaced it

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache, thanks goodness geo hubby had his hawk eye this morning and found the cache quite quickly, thanks for placing this cache

Stop off drove one side drove the right side and found the cache right on the right place hiding., big crane oh. TFTC

Thanks thewhitedogclan for this quick cache. Grabbed while muggle husband was eating lunch. Had a quick look at the steam engine. Thanks for bringing me here to see it. All good with the cache.

Came back again and found it

Hubbie found it as he's more agile. Very muddy but in a safe place. Liked the crane. Tftc

Travelling from Perth to Canberra with lots of side tracks.TFTC.
Great new cache here. Nice.

Good point by last finder
New waist height cache in place today

I am going to log this as found as there are so many places you could have put this - but in a waterway?! After 25mm rain last week in 1/2 hr, it's gone. Thanks for bringing me here- great machine amongst the new MAX cranes.

New cache in place
Enjoy!

I'll be in Pt Augusta on 17/7, will check it out
Standby

No luck here today maybe a hint from co?

Might've been washed away
Good luck to anyway who tries to find it.

DNF could have washed away

Another cache found during our 2022 South Australia Adventure using Geocaching as our guide.

Thanks for showing us the Ransom Rapier Steam Crane thewhitedoggang, but the location of the cache was a bit sus.

Where was it we didn't find

Dnf

Rains may have washed it away due to being close to water way

Sneaky

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Heading north with team Mattycat to collect a few caches here and there, this was one of them, have seen this crane here several times before but not realised its history, after checking the crane out we ventured across to the cache found after a short search
TFTC thewhitedoggang

I found these caches on varioua trips around SA.
Unfortunately my GPS devise did not automayically submit the note that I recorded at the time, so I am posting a generic log instead.
Thank you for a great caching experiance. TFTC.

Found it. Nice quick find on our holiday

a shortish day out chasing the Wonders of the World souvenir challenge

I found it

Bit of a bash into the scrub, and a bit of help from a previous log, and container eventually located. Nice bit of railway history. Tftc

Found on my way home from volunteering in the Gawler Ranges. Thanks thewhitedoggang.

I thought this would be an easier find, but I think i made it hard for myself. TFTC

Heading towards Port Lincoln with [@trodectus](http://coord.info/PR8JTE0), we stopped here for a break and headed for the cache. Once at GZ, cache was quickly located. Log signed and returned. TFTC

Found with [@coybear2000](http://coord.info/PR9547H) while taking a break from driving. We were on our way to Port Lincoln and stopped for a rest and to go for a couple of caches. We parked nearby, walked to GZ and saw the hide, there was nothing covering it. Log signed and we tried to put some camo in place, then we went to look at the crane. TFTC.

Found with Emskywalker and 20-2-2021

After searching wrong bush headed to to an almost dead one and found cache with The X-trailers. TFTC

Found after a bit of a hunt found with Earthlight as we head to Port Lincoln
Tftc

TFTC

Hopefully on our way back next week we might find it...

This weekend, I headed to Whyalla to catch up with a few other Geocachers and attempt some of the trails there. On Saturday, we targeted the FTF power trail from Whyalla to Iron Knob, and then spent the evening and the subsequent morning driving some of Whyalla's back tracks. On Sunday, I visited Cowleds Landing and back north, only to get severely bogged in one of Whyalla's clay pans. I then returned home via the August series.

Today, we started the day at a meet/greet breakfast event, and then I headed out with hevwalker and scramping for a few more geocaches south-west of Whyalla along the back tracks and main road, followed by the December trail series. I then continued south visiting Cowleds Landing and the proclaimed nudist beach. I next found *Potty Time*, only to realise that I had driven on the nearby clay pans, and then sank into the soft clay below on my way out. Eventually I had help in getting out, and finished my remaining time in Whyalla completing the pipeline August series, and calling into Whyalla Conservation Park for a few high favourite caches. I then made the long journey back to Adelaide stopping at a few miscellaneous geocaches along the way.

I really enjoyed this steam crane being pointed out, as I hadn't seen this before, and found the sight kinda cool. Between that and the nice description, it gets a Favourite Point from me. I wonder how many Geocachers just park along the highway dash out, find the cache container, then dash back in, not even taking a few more steps to admire the location for which the geocache was placed for? Anyway, the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks thewhitedoggang for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Tftc

Found on 17/9/20 with kingclan. Convinced him to leave TB here goodbye + goodluck little german duck

Found it TFTC. Grpund groggy from rain. Cache found in good

3rd cache with @Binkybelle/Solo Sam
Creeping in the dark. Left german TB ducky here travel far buddy

Found by The Noodler

Good lil find

The kids thought this one was really cool.
TNLNSL
Thanks

A quick find which allowed me a bit of time to check out the crane. TFTC.

Heading away for a weekend of caching, first one for the trip. How did I not see that! Found by mini cacher.

Off for a caching weekend. This was a quick pick up after fueling up. TFTC

I think this is it

On the way to Millicent Mega and detour and signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hide

 

Done

A. Little trickier. Watch the close roads

Found as I headed back home to Adelaide after 6 weeks away, travelling on my own mainly around the south of WA.

An interesting piece of equipment!

Thanks thewhitedoggang for the cache.

As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.

Thanks to thewhitedoggang for placing the cache for us to find.

We have been to Ceduna for the weekend as you do. Mainly to catch up with friends but obviously added in a few caches on the way there and back to break up the monotony of the drive and to stretch the legs. We got an ice cream from Maccas and some fuel before stopping here to collect this one. Interesting spot TFTC thewhitedoggang

Hmm, not sure why you would put a cache here!! Grubby place.
Thanks for the hide thewhitedoggang

Summerbub 9/9/19
What a horrid place to put it!

Before we arrived at this location we had images of looking for a mint tin (or even worse) a nano on the crane. The prospect was not inviting. When we arrived we found the crane firmly behind a security fence and, even better, our GPS was pointing away from the crane. Reasonably accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks thewhitedoggang for the cache and for showing us two things: a significant part of industrial history; and don't jump to unjustified conclusions.

Found while we toured a circuit of the Flinders Ranges, Marree, Roxby Downs, Woomera and Port Augusta for the week, mostly touring the backroads and visiting many scenic and interesting locations. This was found on the last day of our holiday on our way back home. Thanks for the cache thewhitedoggang!

Did not find it any where

The Parrot tribe is off to the dead centre of Australia to attend the Big Red Bash.
This is a rock concert on the edge of the Simpson desert.
SA_Parrothead, Young Einstein's and H7 are in a convoy of 2 cars heading to Birdsville and back.
It is being billed as the most remote rock concert in the world and the last act will be Midnight Oil rocking it out as the moon rises.
Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart has a line - We carry in our hearts the true country.
We look forward to being a part of that.

Back to Port Augusta. Only a few more hours to home.

Quick find, the book was drenched and out of the bag same with the toy and pencil, so I put it back in the bag
TYFTC

J

Short search in the dark. TNLNSL, log is damp. TFTC

Quick find at this interesting spot!