Carrickalinga Lookout Wattle Flat, South Australia, Australia
By sir_spectre on 08-Oct-19. Waypoint GC8DV5R

Quick drive by grab by Gav after a morning diving on the wreck of the HMAS Hobart.Found after a quick search of a spot only geocachers or certified loonies would go.Lots of interesting bugs live here. TFTC

We visited the lookout today whilst on a tour of some southern towns and took the opportunity to seek out this cacheAll found in good condition although the cache was exposedSigned the log and returned where found with a little ground cover for protectionMany thanx to sir_spectre for the cache and ongoing maintenance

Back down for a short family holiday. Stopped here to enjoy the view. A bit of a mountain goat track and cache was found. TFTC

Thanks for the cache found with erine14! Found 9 out of 9 today!

Took a bit to find it, wasnt quite where we thought it might be! Great view! TFTC

Tftc but a hard findin between a rock hard place

Found after a quick search.TFTC

Great view. Spotted the microwave and thought wow. It wasnt the cache One week on from SAs Leap Year MEGA Event and out caching again. This time around Aldinga/Willunga and anywhere else that looks interesting.sir_spectre, I found Carrickalinga Lookout today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found on a beautiful day while visiting friends who are staying nearby..magnificent view..TFTC

Thanks for the cache. Good view

Tftc

Great views and a nice spot for a cache! Found it tucked away amongst the rocks. TFTC

Nice quick find. Beautiful views, could just make out kangaroo island

#2558

A snappy park and find

Tftc

Challenging stroll for us "oldies", fence line return was quicker and easier.
Left two TBs...great view! TFTC

Cheeky little spot.

Found GC8DV5R @ 10:55 - 9 April 2023

TFTC sir_spectre!

Successful Find #8
- PipiUndCachi

Found !!

GrwT view and sense of deja vue fir this one
Thanx

Nice find after sampling the local Forktree brews. TFTC!

Found by Olga and with Luna at 5:11 pm

Found with Csaba! and SupaOtange. Turtle Out

Driving home today and picked up some cache on the way. Thanks

Leaving Normanville and found some caches on the way home. Tra La Laaa

Found with previous finders allister w and Team Waldron after attending the Reynolds Viewpoint CITO event. Thanks for the cache sir_spectre!

After a drive to Normanville for a FTF, spent the afternoon caching around the town and it’s surrounds. This cache is one that was found today. A quick park and grab here. That’s one hell of a slippery slope. All good here.

Find #5006 on 3 Jan 2023.
TFTC sir_spectre!

Wow, what a beautiful look out. Thanks Sir_spectre

Trip today with Earthlight. A lab and various types of caches were found as we cached from Moana to Victor and back .
Thanks cache owners for placing for our enjoyment

Found with The X-Trailers travelling sth today. Cache ok. TFTC
Great views.

Bit of a scramble but an easy find. TFTC

Tftc, braved the long grass and upset the sheep greatly.

Logging as a beta tester. I was with the CO when this was placed.
Thanks

Moved here a few weeks ago and was driving past from Myponga
TFTC

Almost died (not really) after a small trip on the weeds, down this way to visit relatives. What a lookout! TFTC.
- besbeh

With kiara

Nearly was blown off the hill. What a spot.

Great views from here. Find easily after some clambering around. TFTC

Another Wednesday wander of the Befuddled group with the Starfish, Adder and a Mule. The Rat was not able to join us.
Todays target area as down south around the Myponga area where a couple of high terrain hides were sought.

As always, all caches were visted and signed by all members of the group or each member had a part to play in retrieving the prize.

All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.

After finding an easier route to GZ (the straight line is usually the hardest) we searced a few nooks and crannies before finding the prize.

Thank you for the cache %Cachename sir_spectre, found 11/05/2022

22 April 2022
2:13 pm
2084

Hi sir_spectre, I found Carrickalinga Lookout today. I am visiting McLaren Vale for our school holidays in Victoria. Collecting a few smilies on the way. Beautiful views from here.

Many thanks sir_spectre for providing and maintaining this game piece for our enjoyment.

Parked in the car park and thought this was going to be an easy one. Checked gps for directions and realised, not so easy. Oh my poor feet. Thank goodness Carrots has better agility than I do. TFTC sir spectre

Last day at Normanville. Was blowing a gale so had to give up on a couple of caches. Didn’t even feel safe in the car wind was so strong. Happy to get a smilie. Tftc

TFTC quick find, what a look our, great area

Drove south for a seachange caching day with Sebastbat and Jack, not a big numbers day but thinning out the little boxes on our maps. A nice change of scenery and a little cooler down here than back home.

A little poke around and soon had a cache with a view.

Appreciation to sir_spectre for placing and keeping this cache on our SA geo game map


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Looking around every day finding and signing using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S20+, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Plenty of that actually!!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*


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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
Keep a lookout for bogs, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

Try to keep Travel Bugs as the only bugs you share and pass on
Now our borders are open - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!


Much appreciation of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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Almost finished the first month of Twenty Twenty Too

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Bit too wet to find it today. Beautiful views though even in the rain ️

Amazing views xo

A very nice view. Thanks sir_spectre.

Great views!!

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

Today me and my mum went to Normanville!

Thank you for maintaining and placing this cache!

We really appreciate your effort!

TFTC sir_spectre

Thanks for this Traditional Cache and for letting me have the opportunity to find Carrickalinga Lookout

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log

Cache on!

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Found on August 28, 2021 at 3:02 PM
Find 2305 [^] [^] [^]

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.

Here are some trackables you can discover : DD40R6 TKF31B GSEZHB ACABBK GS5H0M SAMH4A SAR52N NYCYDY

-Azzo

Found while on a caching outing with cows with guns

A perfect sunny winter's day down south caching.
Thanks for the cache.

TFTC!

Found on a very windy day..tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 25.530 E 138° 20.353

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 25.527 E 138° 20.359

Distance from original: 34.9 feet or 10.6 meters.

update co ords

Tftc littlest one discovered it co-ords off a bit..

Looked for about 15 seconds and found the cache. It is not quite where the coordinates indicated but it is an easy find. Nice views.

I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count.

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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Easter 2020 was supposed to see South Australia Geocaching hosting the next Easter big MEGA event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Due to COVID restrictions the event is now postponed to early October 2021. Check out the event page and our website for new details. We would love to see you at this four day event. Mega event sponsored by Wattle Range Council, Geocaching.com and many other supporters. Lots of caches to find with two classic geo art trails including the famous animated bottle and glass.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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. Beware: you may have fun.

Out for a days caching down south with Freddo.

An early start meant a relatively early finish.

We found it about 10m from gz.

TFTC

Cords a little off, found reading the log helpful hint. Worth looking for!

We looked for about 15 minutes but couldn’t find it

7 years of travelling Australia and yet we have never visited Normanville so we are here now to rectify that. With clouds overhead, and some heavy rain overnight we decided to cache mostly inland today. Some great scenery even though the sun was hiding. Amazed that we were above 400m Elevation in quite a few spots.

Found 10mts from our coords, just as we read previous logs giving better coords. [B)]

TFTC

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(Ha Ha). 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 - Sir Spectre and Mini Maker [^]

Found out for drive nice look out

Found by Fab on our return trip from the day in the Myponga area, thanks for the stop and views
We were wondering what the distant object was offshore but remembered later it's the sad end of a wave energy system by Oceanlinx and still an ongoing saga...

TFTC & Cheers
Paul & Fabienne

Found it awesome view

Tftc

Tftc found

The coords took me to a spot where I couldn't find the cache. There was a bigger and better outcrop a bit further along. Looking at the logs I saw Sir Spectre's coords and put them in. This took me to the larger rocks where a quick find was made. Great views from up here. [^]

Heading down to stay at Myponga for a couple of nights to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary. So some sightseeing planned and maybe pick up a few caches here and there. I even managed to find two previous DNFs but as it sometimes goes added another to the list.

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks sir_spectre for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Beautiful view! Quick find; Our gps was about 10m out but we just looked for the “logical spot”

A second attempt at this one as last time the carpark was fully packed. Coordinates are slightly out. Try S 35 25.257 E 138 20.359. What a beautiful view ! Unfortunately there’s a bit of rubbish around which is disappointing.

TFTC sir_spectre

TFTC

TFTC

Bit tricky but we got it

Quick find whilst visiting this lovely part of SA
Hurtles coords spot on
TFTC

Coordinate are out by a few meters ready back through previous post TFTC and this amazing view

Found

Found after widening our search, a familiar cache container, good to see them being put to good use. great view from the lookout and even from GZ. The lookout has been remodelled since we were here to find the previous cache too.
Out and about doing a tour of the area and thought we would tidy up the caching map a little and what luck we discovered a nice boutique brewery up the hill, its very popular on a weekend so we might give the beer tasting a miss today.
Thanks sir_spectre for placing and maintaining this cache. Found it, signed it, and replaced as found. TNLN

Still looking ....

Visiting from Brisbane and unable to locate on this occasion

Next time

Thanks for the hint. Great little spot.

The grass was long and wet. The jeans got soaked - looked in a few spots and found in the last place I looked. Great views (pic).

Thanks sir_spectre and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet!

Find it

With kiara

TFTC

On a long weekend away on the Fleurieu, on the way back to Adelaide on a glorious winter's day - found where Hurtle said, about 8m further around at the large rocks, which matches the hint better. TFTC

Couldn’t find. Spent a good half an hour and tried to take note it may be a little away from the map. Will try again another day.

Thick other growth and lots of muggle activity- try again next time

Found while out for a drive tftc

Great beer up the road at the brewery

Great view up and down the coastline here! We found the cache pretty quickly on a drive with some friends. TFTC

tftc

Nice little cache.

**S35 25.527 E138 20.359**

Nice view.
Can see the wave generator from here..
Found with the hint about 8m from where GPSr wanted us.
Using good sanitation techniques...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found with Dozenmater TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74

Found out with Beary Organised for the second time here & we got a Smilie today. sure we looked in that crack last time! TFTC TNLNSL

Thank God we actually got this little blighter. Found it with CherryRose. Being the only two who had DNFs we returned on this VERY windy day. Sure we looked there last time because it’s the obvious place. Heart attack when a spider ran across my side vision into a hole. TFTC TNLNSL

Went to GZ, nothing. Then read the logs and found the cache 9m away. Lovely views from here!

Cache is in good condition and nicely protected. Nice place on this fine but windy day, Thanks for showing us this spot!

After a nice day spent at Normanville with friends I had a few caches that I wanted to find on the way home...well in the complete opposite direction from home, but isn't that what cachers do?

I was heading in the right direction now and this was the last on my list. I read all the comments about coords and just headed to where I thought the cache would be and there it was in the first place I looked.

Came back up and took a few photos but as it was very late afternoon the sun didn't help much.

Thanks for the cache sir_spectre.

This one needs its D rating upped if poor co ords are the go, will keep an eye on it. We looked with a GPS

Today, @gridge98 and I had planned to attend the scheduled McLaren Vale CITO, and then continue heading south targeting some high terrain/difficulty geocaches hidden along the coast and within the cliffs. We headed all the way down to Rapid Bay, and then proceeded to stop at Second Valley, then Normanville/Carrickalinga, and finally making a quick stop into Aldinga. We got very lucky with great cool-ish weather, and perfect sea conditions with flat seas and low tide to scramble over any required rocks.

We had some doubts about this one given a few DNFs before us, and so went to GZ and started looking around. There was a logical spot, but no cache. The hint didn't make any sense though, so we continued to expand the vicinity looking around. gridge98 went one way, while I went another. However, it was gridge98 that made the find, with the hint now making the hide location obvious! We found this cache approximately 15 m away from where the coordinates required us, with my GPS indicating S 35° 25.525' E 138° 20.361' for GZ.

As one would expect for such a new cache, the container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks sir_spectre for the cache placement, and ongoing maintenance. Some awesome views from here!