Round The Bend Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia
By Gizmo's Gang on 06-Jan-20. Waypoint GC88V32

New cache now in place.

Sadly this cache is missing.Will construct a replacement.

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. Spending a few days in Murray Bridge to cache the surrounds. Loving the scenery that we pass as we move through the caches - this is our preferred caching - not suburbs. Thanks for the find

The last cache of the day. I was hoping to cut through to the servo/food court part of the park; Google Maps told me I could do that from here, but not the case, today at least. Great theming here, I bet the kids love it. Thanks again Gizmos Gang.

After spending the day timing a sprint at The Bend today and having some time to fill before a formal dinner, I went hunting a couple of nearby caches and of course I had to get this one. After trying to get to it from inside the facility only to find a fence blocking the way, headed for a bit of a loop drive to get here. Once at GZ the cache was a quick find, though I do wonder why there is a rally car on the cache rather than a race car!!!!!! Thanks heaps to Gizmo's Gang for this one.

TFTC my boy loved this one especially

Super cool spot

Ah we were accompanied by a couple of kangaroo' at this cache, all was quite at the complex. We are doing an around the roads trip towards Adelaide picking up caches that were not there when we were last here. SL TFTC

TFTC

Out and about caching, Thanks for the cache

Out for a day geocaching. TFTC

Found while on a day out and about. Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang.

Stopped through here while on a geocaching road trip. I wonder how many thousands of people drive past every day without even looking at this rock. Answers to the CO. Thanks for bringing me here.

Suscoe and Phetlern headed East this morning to head out as far as Peake before turning around and working our way back to Murray Bridge via Sherlock.
It was a fairly pleasant day, a little drizzle at times but mostly fine.
We enjoyed seeing these old towns and finding the caches along the roads and in the bushland.
Thanks to Gizmo's Gang for this hide. Glad we found this one.

Sir_spectre and I headed South for the weekend. Caught up with both family and friends and had a great time. Of course we may have found a few caches too. Thanks for all the effort n placing and maintaining these caches for our enjpyment.
Thanks to Gizmo's Gang from mogni

found with mogni. I am not enjoying this streak souvenir idea. I do like the themeing of this cache and it is a good sized container. quick find. fav point from me.

Awesome cache TFTC

Nice cache! Excellent size, excellent container...vroom vroom!!! Lots of cars inside.
Interesting info about the racetrack, I didn't know it had SEVEN configurations! Wow!
I love a good car race.
Nice location, I saw a rabbit and kangaroo hopping by.

My main aim today is to finish off the Rotf trail which I started a few years ago. I had a family emergency on day 2 so had to go back to Adelaide. Enjoyed doing all the caches on a long day

Found by Mary and David at 15:10. Just back from the Mega, and now on our way to Adelaide for a RAAF Course reunion. A FP for a decent sixzed container with themed camo. Firesafe has been on duty here. Dropped off McLookers Bunjil Tag Trackable to travel now that it has achieved its mission. Our thanks to Gizmo's Gang.

Find it and sign the log as EV, and thanks for the cache and hunt.

Well there was an event I saw published in Bordertown hosted by Roaming Howie and since I was able to have 4 days off I decided to head over to attend the event and then to also do a few of the On Ya Bike series to finish off my D/T loop.
Throw a few oldies into the mix for my Ausmer grid and it was going to be a busy weekend with lots of Km’s.
So after attending the event, finding the ones required on the OYB series, surviving the heat then wind and having a good nights sleep last night today is a new day.
After checking my map I realised I had missed a challenge series yesterday so I came back up this way to find those ones.
I’m now heading back in the right direction with a few hours delay.
Collecting caches that I come past as I have a bit more time on my hands today.
A nicer day today with the heat turned down a bit.
I have seen the track on TV and it looks very impressive.
Could here a few cars going around it today and as I ventured further along the track I spotted a few cars going around.
A fav goes out to you for the well themed cache.

Big things are continuing to happen! Are you joining the fun again in 2023?
THE
RUTHERGLEN
EVENT 2022
6th / 10th April 2023 – GC9MH9M – Rutherglen – Victoria

Thanks TFTC.

My first day of my trip heading to the Mega Event In Whittlesea Victoria. This would be Find Number 3 of 3 for the day and find Number 2 for this trip away.

Great large cache quick find but decided to follow my GPS out again and turned into a dead end road so had a bit of back tracking to get out again.

TFTC Gizmo's Gang

After our little adventure out to Sherlock today , we picked up a few other caches on our way home, this being one of them .
We could hear the engines revving as we got out of the car - but couldn't see any of the action [B)].
TNLNSL.
Thanks for another one Gizmo's Gang.

Murray Bridge to Tailem Bend for an overnight stay.
After setting up in the spots ground we commenced with the Happy Armpit series & then continued on to find a few new Wandering Heroes.
In the afternoon we did the AL & a few of the local caches.
Hubby was really happy that we visited the motor racing precint.
We found some great caches & interesting locations during the day.
Thanks for placing your cache.

Another geocaching trip to Australia with tmann421.
This time to SA and surrounding areas.
Enjoyed the caches and the sites
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
Thanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing the hides.

*Another geocaching adventure with woolwood9.*
*We visited many good caches and trails on our trip and had a lot of fun!*

**Really appreciate the cache owners effort putting this container out.**
We soon located the hide.
All logs stamped: **tm/ww NZ**

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. And a wonderfully sunny day, just perfect for geocaching. TFTC.

We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Good fine having fun playing around finding all these ones today and yes doing it back wards with Yatesy222 tftc

Having a good day out with M-dolphin tftc

I find irony in that it is on a very straight stretch of road. Nice themed cache. Just be aware that they still hoon on unsealed roads proudly with P plates on their zoom machines. TFTC Gizmo's Gang.

All great adventures must come to an end! After five days of intense caching and socialising in the Murraylands, with geo-friends from Victoria, NSW and SA it is time to head back east, with the compulsory stops, to stretch and find a cache or two of course. Sometimes solving puzzles drives us round the bend.

Thanks Gizmo's Gang for placing caches in such interesting locations.
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Found it after looking for access to this cache.
Thanks for place the cache here.

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 - Gizmo's Gang [^]

Thanks for the cache, cool find

Adelaide and South Australia Trip Christmas 2021/2022. Day 21. After three weeks in Adelaide and South Australia, the time has come to head home. I went via the Mallee highway for the first time in a few trips and was happily impressed by the caches that have popped up. After Lammeroo and Pinneroo was Ouyen, Piangle, Toolybuc Balranald and then onto Hay for the night. A warm day in the outback with a few fun caches done.

Once I found the right access road, I was happy to see this impressive cache. Nice to hear the track in use in the distance.

Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang

34770.4 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2014 Photo Frame A#300

**Albida**

Dropped Flinstone12 at the races while JonesSisters2 mum goes geocaching. How appropriate is this cache! Nice hide. TFTC

Yay. Found it. Many thanks for the smiley!

Find number 2999! On the way to CPs event muggle friend and I popped into the bend for a look. Very appropriate and a favourite.



GeoVenture Mega Event at Millicent, still looking forward to it!! A new date has been set for October 2nd 2021 now. Have a look at GC82DAN.

On our way to attempt the GEOPETS series we stopped by to grab this one too.
What a great start to the day! A delightful, appropriately decorated cache with plenty of swag. We grabbed the 2 trackables inside to move along on our travels and left 2 different ones for future finders.

Many thanks for a great cache Gizmo's Gang….another favourite point on it’s way

After driving DPA down to, but not around, The Bend I set about finding what I could find in the surrounding area. Firstly it was off to Sherlock to finish off, again, The Great Detective series. Then north to Karoonda for the AdLab there and all Karoonda physical caches. Then down to Tailem Bend to fill in time until DPA needed picking up. Ended the day with the AdLab, 32 physical caches and no DNF's.
A nicely themed large cache with nice swag, I liked it.
Thanks to Gizmo's Gang for putting out this cache for me to find

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

Dropping 2 travellers to continue on their journey.

If you have a kid who loves wheels, they will love the swaps in this cache.

Great job! Favourite ️

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Cool cache.

This weekend, I headed to the Limestone Coast / south-east for cave diving, but also to find a few geocaches when time allowed. It was only a quick weekend travelling to Mt Gambier via Bordertown on Friday, and returning Sunday via Millicent and Kingston. I was able to fit in a visit south to Port MacDonnell on Saturday, and a few other small detours around Mt Gambier.

This evening, I travelled from Adelaide to Mt Gambier. I had tried to find the miscellaneous geocaches along the main roads and highways, and added another 10-15 min on to my journey to drive via Bordertown and just passing close to Mundulla.

Driving past The Bend has been a common occurrence during my trips south, however I hadn't had the chance to detour around to this location before, until today. So I drove the unsealed road and parked near GZ, to make the quick cache find. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. It was great to see the construction and appropriate theme to the adjacent property. I was impressed by the outer container, but also smiling to find the swag/contents inside too! A Favourite Point from me! Thanks Gizmo's Gang for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance. There looks like a few kangaroos in the adjacent property too!

Catching up with late logs.

We had a fantastic time caching in Murray Bridge today with Goodlook but all good things have to come to an end and now we are heading home again picking up caches as we go.

What changes have happened in this area since our last visit a couple of years ago, we couldn't believe the infrastructure that has been built since then. The very well themed good sized cache was located and our name was added to the log before we returned everything as we found it.

Thanks again gizmo's gang for the cache, a favourite point from us.

22,710. 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 10 of our adventures took us to Geopets series, all the caches around Sherlock, and then we did #277 to #230 of the ROTF sereries. All caches were found quickly and in good order unless otherwise stated. First find of the day. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, and then headed off to the next one.

Thanks Gizmo's Gang !!

Today’s adventures lead fitzy_1965, two groups-kids and I to the Geopets trail, Sherlock and part of the ROTF trail.

Geopets was a lot of fun. Grateful for the side tracks rather than accessing from the highway.

Sherlock took more time than we had anticipated but otherwise and enjoyable day made much easier with the kids getting out and helping.

ROTF is a work in progress. Hope to finish it tomorrow.

All caches were in good condition unless otherwise stated.

Such a cute cache, great location TYFTC

Out for a drive with Sebastbat.

Stopped to check out your cache along the way

A nicely themed cache here. Fav for the theme and lack of mint tins

Thanks Gizmo's Gang for hiding and maintaining this cache on the map


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Sanitise and distance when caching. 2 hiking poles or a couple of snakes apart!
Keep smiling , preferably behind a mask! Enjoy

Day 4 of our SA trip with Wilbert67.
Beautiful start to the day grabbing caches as we are headed to Millicent.
Thanks to all the COs

Day 4 of our SA road trip. Today will lead us from Murray Bridge to Millicent via a multi trail detour. Lots of caches and lots of fun, thanks to all the CO's for placing them. Again perfect cache weather, but sunscreen was needed!
TFTC Wilbert67

After completing the Geopets trail decided to pick up some others in the area.

This trail was on our list after Sherlock and before heading back to Tailem Bend for the Canberrans visiting CITO.
Been great staying in Tailem Bend. The weather is awesome.

On a road trip to South Australia now the border is open with Kittykatch, and barb2e calling ourselves Border Busters or BB. Fifth day of our trip and loving the beautiful green fields and cool day. Awesome day to be out.
TFTC Gizmo's Gang

On a road trip to South Australia with Joolay and barb2e - today is Day 5 (Taillem Bend). We signed all caches as Border Busters or BB.

Condition Report:. Ok
Log Book: lots of room

Thanks for hiding this cache Gizmo's Gang

Found with Joolay and Kittykatch on day 5 of the trip to SA. Log signed as Border Busters or BB. Sun is shining and the day is warm. Tftc

Out for a day in the Mallee.

Lot's of driving on a very windy day.

No noise today.

TFTC

TFTC

This was found as we wander this great country
While having a great day out with Firesafe
thank you Gizmo's Gang for placing the cache

In the area for the Supercars and with a day off it is time for some caching. TFTC

Another flying trip to Adelaide and an opportunity to spend a day out caching with Dr Owl and JJ52 was too good to give up given the Sherlock series was to be the target of the day. Sherlock is now clear of unfound caches for me and we got a few others here and there. Another fun day was had with loads of varied discussion and lots of laughs.

It took a while to find our way into this cache but our names are in the log book to prove our visit.

Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang.

Day trip to The Bend for the motor racing, grabbing a few Smilies along the route.
Many thanks to the CO for bringing me here.
TFTC
For some reason I'm unable to give it a Fav point so a Favourite Point Will Be Awarded once I can work out the problem.

Sushilord was back in town for the weekend, so Owl gathered JJ52 and took him for a caching trip. This was supposed to be a quick detour on the way to the target caches at Sherlock, but it took a little while to find the correct road to the cache. the cache itself was easily found and it was lovely to see a large, well-themed cache that deserves a favourite point. (A nice change for city cachers!)

A caching day had been organised with Doctor Owl and sushilord with our target being to get to Sherlock to find the series that I had been wanting to do for ages. [^]
We had a great day getting all the Sherlock caches with a few others along the way on a really nice day for caching.

We originally tried to get to this one from the other side but that didn't work and when we got to this side it was easy. Loved the nice big cache, very well themed and a favourite for me.

Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang.

Thanks gizmos for round the bend. I like it

Moved to The Bend then went off huntng! Glad we got to Sherlock!

TFTC

Today FeatherWaite and I completed a bit of a circuit to find a range of Traditional, Letterbox, Mystery, Wherigo, Multi and Earthcaches around Sherlock, Malinong, Cooke Plains, then back to Murray Bridge. We also gathered the information required to complete the Adventure Lab caches around Murray Bridge and finished the day with a night cache. All in all it was quite a successful day with no DNFs and we enjoyed some good weather, albeit a little cool!

We took the opportunity to visit a number of target caches along the way that one or other of us had identified, including this one. The cache was a quick find and the container and contents were in good condition.

Thanks Gizmo's Gang for the cache.

Found with e.gregory1 on a day out that started at Nairne, then to Sherlock to do The Great Detective Series and others, down to Yumali and Malinong via Hawks Nest Road, on to Cooke Plains and Tailem Bend, and back to Murray Bridge to complete the two Lab Adventure caches. Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang!

Of course I went the wrong way...... Why be any different! Thoroughly loved going around d the bend to go around the bend then went around the bend to find around the bend... And drove straight past to a SPOR... Very funny. Love the theme! TYFTC SLTNLN

I also picked the wrong direction first. Took TB. Thanks Gizmo's Gang.

Found with hevwalker on the way back from weekend at Bordertown and Mundulla.
An FP for the great sized cache and a most suitable theme too

TFTC Gizmo's Gang

LiB & I were heading home after a weekend at Bordertown and this cache was screaming out to be found even though it was dark...
We tried to get there from the wrong direction but did a U turn and went in a different way...
A cute well themed cache...
Dropped a couple of TB's...
TFTC Gizmo's Gang

Heading up the road towards Sherlock and made a small detour in to grab this one. A great themed container for the location.

Thanks for the cache Gizmo's Gang.
Found on 6/6/20 at 10:44 am.
Find #11216.

Found quickly on an exercise drive and to test my new list. A quick find. TFTC.

On our way back from Sherlock to Tailem Bend, we took a short detour to look for this cache. Accurate coordinates and only one possible hiding spot for this regular sized cache led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Gizmo's Gang for the cache.

A quick find,TFTC

First find while heading east. Tftc

A great hide. TFTC

Day 175 (Friday 21st) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Tailem bend today. A total of 5 for the day and 3093 for the trip. TFTC

I started 2020 with some improbable caching goals that only lasted until mid February.
With so few caches within 20 kms of home they are now to just complete the Calendar to have found both a mystery and a multicache on every day. Should be able to do one probably not both. [^]

Today I didn't need to find any of the above but I was heading to Naracoorte so I decided to make some stops and find some caches anyway. This wasn't here last time I drove past. So I made a little detour and as I neared GZ there was only one place it could be. It was. Great large themed container. [^] A ripper. Great for six year olds of all ages.

***Thanks Gizmo's Gang for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

We were supposed to be going camping on the YP for 4 days but then the weather forecast changed to hot then humid and hot and then a lot of rain. We decided this was not the best recipe for a fun caching/camping trip.
So today I tried to make up for the missed numbers we would have achieved if we had been on the YP and a big caching day was planned.
For once I was pretty organized and left home at 7.45am. First stop Tailem Bend and then on to Yumali UK finish the Popes series and clear a few dnfs and of course to pick up the 2 new ones. Then onwards to Sherlock to complete the excellent Sherlock series which I really enjoyed. I called in on a few new Wandering Hero caches on the way back to Adelaide and then couldn’t resist the fairy village caches at Callington.
Amazingly all caches o looked for were found today which was great. Once I got back to Adelaide it was time for a quick shower and then off to Vilis for a pie floater and a catch up with geocaching friends.
Saw lots of lizards and had a couple of bunnies almost scare me to death but thankfully no slithering snakes.
Great weather for caching not too hot and quite overcast for a lot of the day. Had a picnic at Sherlock. Sherlock seems to have its own emoji!!
This was my first cache today. The noise as I opened the car was deafening, could hear the cars but couldn’t see them. This is a cool cache. TFTC Gizmos Gang

Nice subaru Similar to the one that i co-drive in...
Found on the way back home to Mount Gambier after a family function over the weekend.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Speed kills.

The GeoVenture2020 committee was heading south for the weekend. Time find some caches on the way.

Cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for a fun cache guys. Love your work. We signed the logbook. Warning this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise.

Easter 2020 sees South Australia hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

Heading down to Millicent with Freddo, Phoenix Flare and the newly minted Trigger Fish, where we met up with scamping after a sold 8 hours of caching. Then off to meet various people newly elected into their positions to continue discussions around GeoVenture 2020. The day managed to include 4 FTF's that we were lucky enough to grab.

This was find number 1 of 33 for the day for me. TFTC Gizmo's Gang!

Quick race to find the cache
Great find

TFTC

Found while out getting a few others. Nice cache. TFTC.

What a great cache Tftc

Sort of going past in the early hours, so made the stop.
Anyone notice the change of name of the road this is on? Appears the owners of the track have had the name changed to their parent company name!!!
One wonders if this road will become the main entrance in due course?
Nice cache.
TNLNSL
Thanks

A new cache in town. Made the short stop in here to find this one. Cache and contents are all good.

Today I made my way from Melbourne to Adelaide. After arriving on the Spirit of Tasmania in Port Melbourne this morning I had a few target caches I wanted to collect along my way to break up the 8 hour drive.
All together a total of 49 caches for the trip as it slowly got hotter the further west I got.

Thanks for the cache.

No bend. Headed straight to it for the FTF!!

Thanks Gizmo's Gang and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

We ended up visiting this one twice today. It’s a long story though. TFTC

Beaten to the FTF by minutes!!! An easy find on getting to the GZ … An impressive container!!!!! ……… a favourite!!

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