Hidden on Balaklava Road Mallala, South Australia, Australia
By betsy_james on 31-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8BF6C

As we wander through the land, grabbing caches and seeing the sights even occasionally catching up with friends A good day was had while grabbing these caches with lots of miles covered Thanks for placing them *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

An easy find on a warm and sunny Friday afternoonWas looking a bit too precise but reading the logs I expanded my search and it was quickly found by my muggle associate.TFTC

Quick find whilst passing thru the areaNo trains todayTFTC

It was too gusty to go for a bike ride this morning so I decided to head up and grab a few caches north of the City, mainly centred on the Adelaide Plains. If I though it was gusty in Adelaide, the wind up north was another level. But even more annoying than the wind were the territorial magpies. Normally they don't swoop me, but the magpie crew in Dublin were next level.Grabbed a few from the Prime Ministers' series, some recently published jigidis, the Dublin Adventure Lab, and a handful of random trads and multis I always like to leave a few dollars in country towns and I tried to do that today. I can highly recommend the chunky beef pie from the Two Wells Bakery and a pint of beer for $8.50 at the Mallala Hotel was a bargain. Unfortunately I couldn't get a garfish roll from the Dublin General Store because the kitchen was closed as a staff member was ill and couldn't come in. I wonder if that was code for "they had a better offer to watch today's AFL Grand Final."As I wanted to get home to watch the aforementioned Grand Final I resisted the urge to call into the Lower Light Hotel. Thanks to all caches owners.

Caching around this are.All good hereTFTH

Found by The Boofs while out on a drive TFTC

Found with JJ52 and sir_spectre and stamped logbook as JAMS. On our way home from a couple of days of caching on the Yorkes.Thanks

Quick find. Found with Mogni and JJ52. All logs stamped as JAMS. It was a day when the JAMS crew got together again or at least three out of the five of us. Plan A was to do the Abandoned railway trail on e-bikes but Allister is out with injury so, Plan B was a day the three of us ( the remianing one is STILL on holiday, that is a dam long holiday ) and host a CITO in propect ( i need a CITO in that LGA ) on sunday and find caches " in that general area ), Mogni decided we needed to attend a event on the yorke's on saturday. So Plan C was born. Off to the Yorke's it was, the first cache found was in Kulpara and then working down to Port Victoria then over to the Welcome to the Yorke Valley Dam event and some tasty food provided and then some more caching to our overnight accommodation in Adrossan. Sunday saw us caching along the coast on the way home, somehow taking a detour through Mallala before getting to prospect to host Cane Reserve Clean up CITO, I even got a cacher from England at the CITO. 80 finds plus labs for the weekend away, it wasn't about the numbers, it was about a relaxing time away. Any caches that were found broken/cracked/etc were replaced and any full log books were replaced.

A caching day with the JAMS team suddenly turned into a caching weekend over to Yorke Peninsula with sir_spectre and mogni primarily to attend an event near Maitland gathering some random caches along the way, then heading home for a CITO in Prospect. After stopping in Port Wakefield it was then on to Kulpara for the start of the caching, grabbing all those caches that we never have time to get. Ended up over at Port Victoria before going to the event. After the event it was on to Ardrossan to our overnight accommodation again picking up some more out of the way caches. In the morning we started early as you do and made it back to the CITO at 2:00pm. The weather was great on Saturday and a bit overcast on Sunday but we didn't get rained on. All in all a fun weekend driving along lots of dusty roads, great company and lots of caches found.Up early this morning with a rough plan to keep finding caches in random places.Thanks for the cache betsy_james.

Today out and about on 216 of 274 days to get my daily cacher Emerald Using my Garmin Etrex 22X and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cacheTFTC

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Out for a Saturday afternoon drive checking out Riverlea Estate. Then muggle hubby thought we could do a little caching. I was more than happy with that suggestion. Tftc

That was interesting, I was too precise with my search, but after looking further afield, it was a smiling face. Last of day for me and 6190,tftc.

A quick find, while stopping in this town, on the way home from Gawler Ranges. Thanks betsy_james.

TFTC. Quick find while out for a walk while we are staying in Mallala

Sad to say a dnf for me today.Even after a paf.

ThanksFTC, from Noosaville QLD

Great little town - TFTC

Thank you for the loveliest cache!!!

TFTC betsy_james your cache Hidden on Balaklava Road that we found today. Day 4 in Mallala as we wait for the Leap Day Mega. A solo trip this morning to find the caches around town and then organise fuel for the car and an afternoon caching run.Find Count: 18398

Found it

Off touring today to find suitable future Free Camps with a touch of Geocaching.Thanks for maintain the caches.TFTC TB drop!

Gifts required!

Pretty quick find

Quick stop on our way north. Wasn't able to sign log book as I wasn't carrying a pen Left a little toy from geocache near burra! Thanks for the cache!

Quick drive by and retrieve today

TFTC SL

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Found.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 47. Mid North section of SA trip Day 18. Gawler Day 6. Today was Unicorn day. I jumped in the car and started out driving west to these caches. Along the way I found a few other interesting challenges and small towns before getting stuck into the great series these magical caches were. Plenty of variety in the puzzles, all solved quite some time ago, and the containers were often quite interesting. It was very quiet out on this section of the trail today, so it made for a very pleasant day before the drive back to Gawler for Dinner.

My first break was Mallala for a few multis and other surrounding caches. The War memorial one was an interesting and sobering challenge.

Thanks for the cache betsy_james

42581.4 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Silver Shuttle A#232

**Albida**

Spent the morning grabbing a few more caches hoping to complete the Wheel of Challenges for April.

A very pleasant cool and cloudy morning to start, before very strong winds blew across the dusty plains in this northern area filling our eyes with grit‍

We did all of the ‘It‘s a small World’ series, some of the ‘Premiers of South Australia’ series and one or two others we passed along the way.

Many thanks for the hide betsy_james

Tftc

A nice easy find

Nice one to break up the drive. Lots of traffic today so had to wait a while before the quick in and out. Tftc.

Nice quick drive by on my way home from Adelaide. TFTC

Had to give up looking

TFTC JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans living in Tassie GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it

Logged a DNF on this one by mistake

TFTC JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans living in Tassie GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it

RoamingHowie and OzHockeyChick’s Epic Road Trip - Day Thirteen: Heading south.
Looking for some cooler weather, we’ve decided to head towards the coast, choosing specific caches to help with challenges along the way.

After not finding one down the road, this was the next closest. A nice sized cache full of interesting trinkets.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, betsy_james
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The Epic Road Trip with OzHockeyChick has now entered a new phase “No More On Your Bike”. After a huge and tiring day yesterday finishing off the western section, it’s a far more relaxed day today exploring and doing a little more sight seeing.

A quick stop in town for a cache on our way through.

Thanks betsy_james for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Found on our way back into town. Found with v8minnie.. TFTC

Found with Com084. Not near where the GPS’er was taking us though. Added a heap of swag. TFTC.

Hello

After a day caching with sixpak69 whilst KBKL was at work, we went back to Balaklava to pick up KBKL after her shift and head out caching again. I really wanted to do a cache in Gawler which has won a number of awards and has heaps of fav points, so we cached our way in.

A nice quick find en route towards Gawler, log signed and cache replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache placement betsy_james and thanks for the company sixpak69 and KBKL.

TFTC busy spot

Quick find on the way to gawler.TFTC

Quick find on way out of town. Nice to find a good sized cache with lots of swag. Tftc.

An easy park and grab on a geo day out with sandelf and Marlee126. TFTC betsy james

Found on a day out with sandelf & Peas&CarrotsForever.
Easy find not far off the road.

TYFC Out with Peas&CarrotsForever, Marlee126

Another day in the Barossa with BettyBoo3747 and the geodoggies.
Today we traveled to Wild Horse Plains and did a fair bit of the Magic Unicorn series.
It was spitting on the way over and rained for a short while before lunch, but was mainly a nice day.
We also collected a few on the way back to Tanunda.

A very slight detour off our track back home to collect this cache.
A nice little town.
Thanks, Robmc.

#19890. Day 8 of our holiday in SA and today Robmc and I decided to visit Wild Horse Plains from our base in Tanunda. Having finished rounding up Magical Unicorns we gathered just a few more caches on the way back to our caravan park.

A quick find here today. We noticed all the poles with their black and white checks and wondered why they were so.

Thanks betsy_james

Tftc! Bunny ??

Found it

Travelling from the Barossa to YP on another chilly day. Picking up finds along the way with iluvtrekking. Thanks for the hide.

Another cache found with richlink on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

On our way to the Yorke Peninsula stopping for a few roadside, caravan friendly caches along the way. TFTC.

Quick find and sign

Big day out with weredunn4, on the bikes targeting the Magical Unicorn series and a few others we may come across
TFTC

Took us too long but we got there. All in good Nick.TFTC

TFTC left a TB.

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Found with our friend from Whites on Windsor on this Anzac Day.

TFTC

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Took awhile to find but it wad a good hide tftc found with franson69

Tftc found with littlewhyle5, beware of the ants.they particularly like the lollies in the cache.

Decided to get out and about to collect some more caches again this Good Friday, while making a journey up to the Yorke Peninsula to perform maintenance on some of my existing caches and hide a new one as well.

The Australian Prime Ministers trail and It's a Small World are on the radar today, including some other caches hidden around the towns of Mallala, Long Plains, Wallaroo, Tickera, Alford, Parham and Webb Beach.

A total of 77 finds and 7 DNFs for the day.

A little bit of bloodshed but that's all just part of what makes geocaching fun.

Quick find here today,

Put my signature in the log book and returned the cache to its hiding spot.

Signed as "P.Goldy"

Happy Easter to all Geocachers.

Thanks to betsy_james for this cache.

Find No.669
15/04/2022

Quick find in dark on way home from Adelaide TFTC

Day 3 of my little adventure. Finally time to get out and explore again. Today had me travelling from Tanunda to Arno Bay. A long day on the road, loved it.

A quick find here and dropped a TB in.

Thnak you

#3751

30/1/22 what a great find , the lollies have been eaten by ants but the toys were a special find . Thank you to the person who put it here ️

Thanks betsy james for this cache. What a lovely container, I like it. Found quickly on my trip north today (despite the heat) to collect a few cache numbers for my yearly tally.

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC betsy_james
Find #7106 at 12:33.

Out on caching adventures with Wollaston.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with stamp

TFTC betsy_james

Find # 4734

Away for a few days with Featherwaite to clear up Kadina to Port Pirie.

We pretty much achieved our target barring a few dnfs.

A quick find.


TFTC

Found it, It was easy

Nice quick one for Halloween race day. Tftc

My first night cache. Took a little while in the dark but obviouse when found. Lots of trinkets but no pen. Topendteam TFTC

Found it!

25/9/21 found it

No pen to record our find

Found

a team of kids.. 10 years, 9 years and twins of 4 years

Simple park and find. Tyftc. Jones Family.

Nice find.

Quick find after I walked around in circles for over five minutes!! TYFTC

Found with salgal18
nice little surprises!!

Found with EbonyJane07
Sweet little surprise

TFTC

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 1 to Yacka.

TFTC

Found it after some searching

Nice hide. Found with Northstar76 and Giselle_12

Number two find today. Nice little hide. Found with superman_22 and Giselle _12. Trying clean up my blue face caches.

Bev and Isabelle found it. Nicely hidden

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The three of us were heading towards Clare, and stopped here for a quick cache.

We found the cache in the first place we looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache betsy_james.

TFTC.

Found on the way to Clare valley for the weekend. Nice quick find. TFTC

Day 2 - (bit bummed that today's finds wont make Feb stats!) A drive to Hamley Bridge to surprise an old bud (yes, not that far I know, but add time from Happy Valley!!) .. and I've grabbed a few caches on the ring route!!! tftc

no need to go into the bush as far as co-ords suggest!

Coords a tab out but found, TFTC.

Easy find. Please bring a pen as non provided.

Away for a week on some R 'n' R from the shop and to recover from an exhausting 10th Birthday celebration for Geostuff. On the way to our campsite we grabbed some caches on the way, We too went too far in, coords about 7m out, Number 30 is under contract now but no one home! TFTC

Found it ! My GPS took me further in the bush. Its closer than expected