Around the World in 81 caches #71 New Well, South Australia, Australia
By SAGEO_5 on 13-Oct-19. Waypoint GC8EW3H

No luck today after a good look around

Couldn't find 1st part

Out with Robmc for our second day doing the OYB series. But this series was also on our list. We looked high and low for this and gave up and went to a few nearby. But on the way back Robmc insisted on looking again and I made the find. Yippee.

Day three of a short trip to SA with ConnieandRick.Today was grabbing high terrain/difficulty On Your Bike caches closer to Loxton.Lovely blue skies all day, but very windy later in the afternoon.Had a look at the higher D/T caches in this series.Couldn't find this one on our first pass, but having done another few of this series, we had a better idea of what we were looking for.Connie spotted it above my head as I was searching lower.Glad to finally grab this cache.Thanks, Robmc.

12/08/2024 1:10:00 PMAfter DNF last year I returned and attempted to avenge the disappoint, but despite this visit being in daylight I still without being able to locate the first waypoint. recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

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 - SA Geo 5 [^]

- **On your Bike - Day 3** -**SIGNED AB!***Loci612 / DARKSIDEDAN / Tiz13 / echocage1*After a huge day yesterday, we decided to take it a bit easier today! Sort of.... We devoted the first half of the day to the "Around the World in 81 caches" series! This was an interesting change of pace to the Wherigo's! The caches took a lot longer to solve / find which was expected given the D/T ratings and multi aspect! But with a lot of persistence we succeeded! However we did have to DNF one of them, after an extensive search It was a lot of fun & something a bit different! Later in the afternoon we then started on the OYB caches once again, we needed to get more ticked off the list so that we didn't leave more than we could manage for the final day! It was a long afternoon, but eventually we called it quits when we had 200+ left which was manageable for tomorrow! Phew! Forgot to book accomodation so then had a panic calling many motels, who would of thought they would all be booked out on a random Tuesday!? Eventually we landed ourselves with a room, fanciest of the trip too! Huge thanks to SAGEO_5, but mainly to the individual persons involved with this account and setting up this epic series!

Road tripped to Adelaide for theLeap Day Mega, caching all the way and trying to fulfil various challenges.This cache-which challenge/why? on your bike series and othersTeamed up with Darkside Dan, Loc1612 and Tiz13 to find as many of these as we could. Early start each day and going hammer and tongs all day to achieve our goals.All caches sought were found except for one multi.Logs signed AB! or AbG!Adventure boys and girls!TFTC

Day 3 of the on your bike shenanigans saw the 4 of us Tiz13 echocage1 DARKSIDEDAN and Loci612 also going around the world as we started the morning off at these caches. They almost sent us around the loop, but working together, we eventually made our way through the series only DNFing 1....all other were found logs signed or stamped AB or ABG (Adventure boys/Gals ) depending on who signed (don't ask). I signed the caches I found with ABAdventure Bound All caches found, some quicker than others, some higher or lower than expected, a few offered us a challenge that we took turns in accepting. All in all, a very successful fun day 3.

Signed ab or dsd. Thanks

Im currently on the great novo Leap Day road trip of 2024 which starts in the north east of VIC and heads to Mildura via Echuca and Swan Hill, then on into SA through the Riverland and Barossa before heading to Adelaide for [The Leap Day event](https://coord.info/GL1BKDZBZ), and then the Adelaide Hills and greater ADL area for some cache cherry-picking before heading south to Millicent via the Fleurieu Peninsula. This is probably the biggest geocaching road trip I have undertaken to date with around 200 finds planned!Basically heading west today attacking the you-know-what Bike series to find the ones that I have solved (around 65 of them). Thought I'd pause with those for a while and head up New Well Centre Road to see how I might go with some of this "Around the World in 81 caches" series. Same thing here as the previous one; I just could not spot anything at WP1. That's two in a row ugh.#1790

The BOLD and perhaps beautiful roamed Adelaide for the MEGA and toured the state of SA in search of adventure! Fab time and thanks to all the COs!

Continuing on with my South Australian caching tour and the mad collection of caches in the state. I am again with the BOLD 7 and today it is going to be a mad assault on as many as we can get of the On your bike series. We are working from our digs down and first of collecting the around the world series and then heading towards sedan for the bikes and a few others as we pass along. There is so much to do and in such close proximity.It is surprising as to how well these caches are placed and have remained in place. It was to stop off and collect the caches and the traffic was a little hectic at times but manageable.Thanks for setting up these caches and maintaining the series. All caches were signed as BOLD 7 and replaced as found. The generic log signing is to save log replacements

GC8EW3H Around the World in 81 caches #71A group of us are down from Darwin and Brisbane in preparation of the leap year event.Today was day 1 of hitting the bikes. To save space in the logs as signed as the BOLD7. Was meant to be BDLD7 but something got lost in translation.I have had a great time caching down here and will need to return with the family to explore the area (& caches) some more.TFTC SAGEO_5

Out and about collecting more smilies. Signed with Leap mega team nickname BOLD7. Thanks for hiding and maintaining the cache.

How very exciting the big trip has finally arrived! Down from Brisbane with a host of other geo friends with plans aplenty, enough to almost see us needing to extend or make a return visit. Our geonick for the trip is BOLD7 which is guaranteed to save the log paper for the 7 individual members of the team. As we make our way around sadly there wont be time for the usual individual logs and therefore just the old generic log will have to do. With little extra notes here and there if needed. Thank you for your cache which has added to my wonderful caching holiday. All challenges will be checked for qualifying at a future time.

Yesterday BOLD07 got the cars blooded with plenty of bull dust chasing some girl called Anna to the west of here. Today and for the foreseeable future, we're putting on more dirt layers on the car.I'm tempted to submit the car as an earth cache and see what answers I'd get back. As part of the inane questions, I'd ask cachers to put down what message they'd put on the back of the car. The back window of the car wouldn't be long enough for, Anger; the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mindThanks SAGEO_5 for a tremendous effort with these multis and the bike series.

Day 2 for us in the area. Today is so much cooler than yesterday, and we are out for a drive and to find some more of the ONB series and Around the World series. A lovely day through quiet roads and beautiful bushland. We replaced a container for at least one where the lid had been broken and added a couple more clip lock bags along the way also.We were grateful for our variety of TOTTS, and enjoyed a few good tree climbs as well. Thanks SAGEO_5Domsky

TFTC SA-GEO, decided to tackle this series and do some maintenance.PAF to collect the info required to replace containers at WP1 .Located quite a few we thought had gone AWOL

25/10/2023 9:26:00 PM

On a multi project in the true sense of the word far from home base at higher altitudes with a group of likeminded geobuddies! Travelling with contesta and weirdo biker to complete Around the World Series - enjoying the remoter location and the climbs! Thanks so much for the many caches SAGEO_5 and incentive to get on out here exploring this wide vast land!

We are in SA with a group of like minded people to do the On your Bike series and a few of us decided to do this series as well. This was an easy find and we had the appropriate TOTT to retrieve the cache which was a great container. This was not a good retrieval on a windy day

Find # 10093Day 3 caching friends to complete our epic On Your Bike series adventure. Picking up some counties, oldies, and other specials along the route to add to my tally and to stretch the legs. This was a quick and easy find and here at Around the World in 81 caches #71 today with Ronice88 and weirdobiker. Thanks so much for the many caches SAGEO_5 and of course for giving me a reason and incentive to get out here, and to experience this part of the world in a different light

Travelling Australia in our caravan since February 2014.Staying a few days at Swan Reach. Grabbing whatever caches we can. TFTC SAGEO_5

Had to reach out to a friend to help find this one and our three stepper too short so had to use the Ute canopy. Thanks SAGEO_5 for multi tftc

Getting towards the end of the day when this series was tackled. Some were more difficult to find than others.

Late Afternoon of Day 4 of our On Your Bike adventure
Finally headed for home (Waikerie), via a few multis in the bush, and a road full of Multis.
Hardest to find caches of the day - like tiny bison tubes on very big gum trees. Some ladder work and tree climbing involved.
Mark and Melissa did the hardest work here, helping us gain 18 caches with unusual D/T ratings, for us to add our names to the logs.
Finished with a Mystery cache, and a traditional on the way into town.
Thank you for the much needed Multi caches I need for a challenge.

We came, we saw, we conquered.

Another impromptu trip away with the other 2 Stooges making this the 3rd trip targeting the OYB series as The Three Stooges clan

Just as predictable as the TV series, plenty of laughs, banter, one liners, Dad jokes and frivolity had by all.

What a wonderful series this is. Just thinking of the effort gone into this. The number of cache containers, log sheets, collating them, finding hiding spots, GPS co-ordinates, entering them on-line, maintaining them and the list goes one.

A great series for not only the Geo-art but also the different D/T's

Plus a few other tree fishing and interesting D/T combinations gathered in our wanderings

All finds today, all in good condition and relatively easy to find. Think today was a PB for finds.

TFTC SL

Another fun weekend caching expedition for the 3 Stooges (Cheezel1961, WayneAPN & weredunn4), targeting more of the OYB series and a few more for a bit of variety, with the odd bit of treefishing or tree climbing as well.
Really enjoying this wonderful series out in the bush!
Really struggled with the final here. Took 3 of us 30 mins to spot it, with coords that were about 7m out
Cache found and log stamped!

This weekend almost didn’t happen as weredunn4 had a kayaking trip planned, but it fell through.

So here we are, the 3 Stooges WayneAPN (Larry), weredunn4 (Curley) and Cheezel1961 (Moe) off on another adventure, our 3rd time here collecting more of the OYB series plus a few others we come across.

A great day out, heaps of banter and laughs with great company.

Cache found and log stamped

TFTC

17 April 2023
Sorry for delay to log.
With group, More good fun and enjoyed myself.
Thank you for the cache and hunt.

No luck finding the waypoint on two attempts so we went with the PAF option.

This was a hard cache to find and after going back to the car for the TOTT we had to refind it again. Bark and shadows are a geocachers worst friend... Wow, that blends in well. TFTC SAGEO_5.

Found the cache and logged the log with 63Roos All7 Deaf Phantom Everlasting Pwala as 6ACDE SAGEO_5, Thank you so much for placing it.

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, Pwala and Everlasting.. tks

Found with 3ACDEP team. What a adventure! . SAGEO_5, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

Found it
Thank u
Great teamwork
Great drive through bushes
Beautiful

Accompanied All7 crank1 deafphathom pwala everlasting..
Enjoyed day for catch up caches of bike series, after that and wow interesting multi, big day for us …
Signed in by Stamp of team..
TFTC

In amongst looking at selected “On the Bikes” we are also taking on some of the Multi’s that populate this area.

Muggle65 and l had a few days off after Christmas so we drove for a couple of days to grab a few bikes. We chose DTs we needed which were some low ones for the Muggle. Thank you for the fun
No ladder so an elegant shimmy up.

We headed to Waikerie where we stayed at the caravan park and used this as a base to do the caches within this area. We teamed up with gooseandegg, stainless-steel-rat and Budgietas to do this series and picking a few other caches along the way and this was one of them.

Having collected the required information previously we finally made the find today. Cache and contents were good.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Had a really good look around, high & low but was unable to locate this cache.
Just too good for us today.
Thanks

Like Millicent many plans had been hatched to get to the bike but lock downs and or lock outs had thwarted all efforts. Realising people's schedules the Millicent and Bike raids were separated. This time we elected to drive and pick up a number of LGA’s along the way. The team consisted of B@W, Crash 2079, PPE and Tardis 0061 so logs were often signed as BCPT which could also stand for Bike Cycling Power Trail amongst other things.
We had a few other targets along the way and plenty of TOTT between the Jeep and DB including the inflatable yak often known as BD2.
We did a bit of community maintenance along the bike including those that had dropped for some reason from their lofty heights. Generally we could see the original cable ties so could restore them. Wet and flooded conditions made things tricky at times including the dirt roads and the raid was on and off. Some days we couldn’t dry off until night time making for a potentially grumpy cyclist. Plenty of emus around the Hay plans and a few Roos here and there plus a number of hares along the bike doing their version of being a speedy bunny. Despite the conditions, the bunch executed the plans pretty well. Certainly, a mammoth effort to put out so many caches and hopefully the community helps with the bulk of the maintenance. TFTC.
The multis were an interesting challenge and a number of the hosts along the way are not holding up so well.

Day 4 of our geocaching frenzy in SA with bellaatwaggy, Crash2079 and Tardis0061.
This series was a welcome respite from the SA Bike series, with loads of tree climbing and TOTT shenanigans
SL TFTC

#6749

SA Bike trip day #4 with **bella at waggy**, **Purplepeopleater** and **TARDIS 0061**

While we loved the endless WIGs, it was nice to mix it up with the Around the World series.

Signed BCPT
TFTC SAGEO_5

Signed as BCPT as party of cachets B@W crash2079 purplepeopleater and myself Tardis 0061 out on a bike raid thanks to all the cache owners that created and maintained the caches. Most caches were found in good order. Sorry for the generic log the sheer volume of caves has has made it nessary cheers

Day 2 of hunting bikes around SA. Having a great time looking around the area, some detour for a few multi caches, and a hunt for a FTF! What more adventure could you ask for! TFTC.

Day two of SA adventuring. Some really beautiful landscapes today, lots of wildlife & a good range of caches. All caches found in good order. Some wet logs, or throw downs have been replaced with official caches as we offered to do maintenance on these one as a thanks to Freddo, who leant us some TOTT for the trip
Another great day, bring on day 3!

First full day of caching from Swan Reach with iluvtrekking. Loving the quiet rural roads and the scenery. Thanks SAGEO_5

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

Ticked off another leg of the "On Your Bike" series along with a few others along our route.. Thanks to SAGEO_5 for the enormous effort to set and maintain the series.

Catching up with late logs we missed from our recent trip

We were in Swan Reach for the purpose of completing The On Your Bike series and as we had arrived a day early we decided to try our luck with this series of caches.

We had a planned meeting time of 1.30 and we met up with Becknmonts, McLookers, maccamob, pprass, pacman,suscoe and Phetlern

These multi's are a bit different from most we have done but we really enjoyed them all and the scenery along the way was stunning. We were happy that each cache was located and contains our name.
To save room in the log we signed as Vic+N (pprass from NSW)

Many thanks SAGEO_5 for a small taste of what is to come over the next few days.

Papi4506 and I were invited to join the group that were taking on the On Ya Bike series starting tomorrow. This get together was organised for those that might arrive early. We had gone for fuel this morning and only just made it back in time.
It is a really lovely area out here and we were both grateful for the invitation. Thank you the group for the invite and thanks to Sageo 5 for placing and maintaining this series.

GT37 and I were very pleased to be invited to join in on the group assault of OYB series and for those that had arrived early, this was an added bonus. We managed to make it just before the entourage left the meeting coords. We had a great day in lovely surroundings.
Thank you for all the work that has gone into placing and now maintaining this series. Please excuse the generic logs.

We found this cache on our warm up day before the start of our On Your Bike series the following day. There was a cast of about 20 here for this find. Thanks from D & HA B-A

Heading to Swan Reach, McLookers and I stopped for this cache. Thanks for making our journey far more exciting! Thanks for placing the cache SAGEO_5. We signed the logs as VIC+N

Found at 4:21 PM in the company of the gang that attacked the OYB series the next 3 days.
While waiting for the whole group to arrive for the OYB assault, we headed off to do this series which was appealing due to the D/T ratings.
Thanks SAGEO_5.

Around the world, in days, months, caches or whatever has been severely curtailed, by Covid, the last couple of years, so it was exciting to spin around the world today as part of the VIC & S & N Caching Coy' members from Victoria, NSW & SA.

Thanks SAGEO_5 for creating this interesting series for the gameboard.
30808

Found while travelling westerly. For this group pf caches there were a team of us and we found all of them!

Found in a large group of mainly Victorian Cachers with one from NSW, and very occasionally one from SA. Signed as Vic+N and occasionally Vic+N+S.



My thanks for the cache, SAGEO_5.

An afternoon outing today for Suscoe along with a wonderful team of fellow cachers.
We signed the log as Vic, N and S.
It was a sunny and quite warm afternoon.
Lots of fun was had along the way.
Thanks SAGEO_5 for this series.

The compiled contingent made quick sticks of this multi series today. With such an excellent skill set, collaboratively we worked well together with a varied range of TOTTs. The logs were signed Vics+1N. Thanks SAGEO_5.

Found by Mary and David at 16:20. Nearly wine o'clock for some. Our thanks to SAGEO_5.

Day 31 of our southern trip. We are Team "4 for QLD" - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Glad there is more than one final down here so far in!

Wandered around for ages before snickersallan spotted it.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on February 9, 2022. TFTC, SAGEO_5.

TFTC smile 12674 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan great caches, great day ,good weather, enjoying a trip to South Australia to cache the Bike Series ( get ready to pedal) we are off on our bikes, first day 184,, second day 157 third day???

signing as 4 for Qld
Thank you, SAGEO_5, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Returning back to the On the Bike series and other local caches with hatzofff, RoddyC and grannysmith1947 (logs stamped as 4 for QLD)
Most hides were found in good condition and a pleasure for us to find, thank you.

TFTC SAGEO_50

Day 31 of our southern trip. Caching around Sedan and to wherever.

Caching and travelling with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947 Signed/stamped as 4 for QLD.

TFTCache SAGEO_5

Our bike hunting group was a little depleted today with only four of us out together. There was four in another car who headed off in a slightly different direct to us. Funny thing is we met up twice as we cached our way around the area. Any cache containers or logs that needed replacing were replaced. Over all we had a fantastic time today.
SL TFTC

TFTC SAGEO_5 Day 3. of our On Your Bike adventure. We again teamed up with Muff1, to tackle your On the Bike series. We had spent a lot of time in and out of Lockdowns doing jigsaw puzzles to find the required numbers. Out on the road now. Today was a combination of Wherigo, and multis along with some. Traditional caches. A great day on the hunt.
This is where we deviated from the Wherigo Trail by entering the Bakara Conservation Reserve and finding the caches located there.
Cache number 12875

Enjoyed a great day travelling over 300km, finding caches and staying away from other people at this time of uncertainty. It's great to be able to leave home and have a fun day, we even saw a wheat crop that wasn't reapt as yet. We didn't see too much wildlife - the most we saw was 3 kangaroos close to home and enjoyed watching the ducks at Blanchetown while having lunch.
A big thank you to those who hide caches so that we can get out and about and have fun.

Adelaide and South Australia Trip Christmas 2021/2022. Day 14. The next phase of my journey is underway. I am in Loxton with Fitzy_1965, MinnieK, Sol de Lune and Smitten Granny to attempt to finish the On You Bike where-i-go caches. We have managed to solve them all before we arrived. Day 4 in the River land. There were two phases to today, first Sol de Lune, Smitten Granny and I went out and did the first 100 On you bike caches, as MinnieK and Fitzy_1965 did them last year. Then we all joined up and started the Multi series 'Around the world in 81caches'. Wow was that a challenge. So many trees and such small well hidden containers. We had to seek help on two, but eventually all the ones out here were done. We also did the traditionals and a puzzle in 'Bakara Conservation Park'. Remember, more water next time !

This trip to Loxton had been a year coming as I had missed out last year due to other commitments. The group had increased and the target list of caches was much higher. It had been a group effort to deal with all the jigsaw puzzles and then the Reverse Where-i-gos were sorted out with the various online tools. The trip was looking at risk as the COVID situation stretched and stretched, but at least SA kept to its plans to open the borders and we all jumped through the hoops required to get across the border. The weather was looking extreme as the journey approached and it did not disappoint. The daytime temps were from 36-42 over the days of this exercise and it made for some hard work and lots of water usage.

Thanks for the cache SAGEO_5

34632.131 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Victoria Bushfire Gold A#132

**Albida**

Day 5: SA/Vic Christmas holiday trip

Last Christmas holidays, fitzy_1965 and I (along with two geo-kids, Death Killer & my_name_jeff_1) headed to SA to visit family whilst we could, and to collect as many counties and caches as possible along the way. We decided even before getting home that we needed to go back. The added incentive of more On You Bike series sealed the deal. Fast forward through 2021 (because who wants to remember that), and here we are again. This time with extra company in the form of Sol de lune, Smittengranny and albida33.

At the start of today, we collected some caches around Loxton before venturing a little further afield for the Around the World series and solved puzzles in the area. This was exhausting in the heat of the day and the dust of the roads, but we made all the finds we went looking for. At the end of the day, we made the decision to pack up a day early and head back across the border to do the Paddle Steamer…..and to air conditioned accommodation instead of continuing to camp in tents!

All caches were signed as FAMSS and were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

26,200. Found with minniek, Sol de Lune, Smittengranny and albida33 during our post Christmas / New Year trip over to South Australia and Victoria to tackle the On Your Bike and Paddle Steamer series among many other caches.

Today we started by finding some caches around Loxton, then went for the Around The World series and some more solved puzzles. A lot of the Multis were certainly hard work, but all were found - sometimes using the appropriate TOTT - unless otherwise stated. Signed as FAMSS. This was another long hot day.

When minniek and I were in South Australia in January this year (2021) doing the On Your Bike series of (then) 100 Wherigo caches, we were talking to the CO who mentioned that a whole lot more were soon to be published, and they were - 512 more ! So once back home we set about solving all those new ones which was at least something to do during 'stay at home' orders effecting us. Then once they were all solved we planned a trip over to grab them. Then just to add to the fun the latest 152 were published just in time for us to spend time solving them all so we could get the whole set. With our caching friends Sol de Lune, Smittengranny and albida33 this series was our main aim, but with the 'Around the World in 81 caches' series, various solved puzzles and the Paddle Steamer as standby if we got the time.

We managed some BIG days caching and finished off the On Your Bike series in three days, then attempted the mammoth 'Around the World in 81 caches' series and some lovely high/rare D/T caches - all in searing summer heat peaking at over 40 degrees ! Once they were finally completed we headed over to the Mildura region for another two blistering hot days doing the Paddle Steamer series. After camping for five nights we finally relented and got hotel rooms for the last two nights and worked the air conditioning to the bone.

All in all an amazingly fun time was had, and we have all made room in our calendars for when the next part of the On Your Bike series is published - no pressure ! Highlights included many of the fun tree climbs, the pole caches which increased our skills at the recovery and replacements of those styled caches, and the relaxed times and banter around the camp site at the end of each tiring day - including New Years Eve !

Thanks to all the COs for contributing their caches to our fun times, and I must apologise for the generic logs as we did find well over one thousand caches which now require logging !

After finishing up the last 100 in the On Ya Bike series, Smittengranny, Albida33 and I met up again with fitzy_1965 and Minniek to give these multi's a go. Certainly a lot of effort to get the ones we did, with lots of ladder work and searching for both WP's and GZ's. A few had us stumped for a while, a few took a while to find...and we certainly earned the DT ratings on each of them.

All logs were signed FAMSS, for fitzy_1965, Albida33, Minniek, Smittengranny and Sol de Lune.

Thanks for the series SAGEO_5. Great to see a series of caches where the work required to find them was a little harder then the usual.

After Sol de Lune , Albida33 and I had completed #1 to #100 of the On Your Bike series, we met up again with Minniek and Fitzy_65 to spend the afternoon finding multiple caches in this area including this one. Each cache was signed FAMSS. Thanks to all COs for the placement and maintenance of these caches that contributed to the success of our trip across the state borders during our Christmas New Year break.

Our final didn’t look right but we double and triple checked it and later on in the series found that another one was close by so figured it must be right. Once at GZ, we spent ages looking before Karicka spotted it in a location I had already checked. Thanks for the cache

A few of those Multis were the first target of the day.
After completing some solo caching half a year ago, this time is was easier with 3 sets of eyes.

TFTC

Georode

Sunday on the roads in SA, caching with BM75 and Georode.
Some of these lived up to the D / T rating, we got to use the gear we brought along.

Thank you for this one
R

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC SAGEO_5
Find #6674 at 11:29.

Enjoying the park. Lucky we had the right tool for this one. Spotting it was the hardest part. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Thanks and fav point

Out on caching adventures on the ‘On Your Bike’ trail with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Engaged the TOTT and made our mark in the logbook

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 group stamp

TFTC SAGEO_5

Find # 4303

Being around this area again with ilook4geo, we decided to complete this Around the World in 81 caches series. We only had a few left to do and they were all finished off this morning along with a couple pf others in the area as well. Thanks go to SAGEO_5 for placing all these multi caches which we enjoyed finding, even though some were more challenging to find than others. But that is all part of the fun.

Some more multi caches were found today with goingplaces2. Each cache was located and had its log signed before being replaced as found. Job done! TFTC.

This was part of a cache finding run of 335 caches in the day. What a long day it was starting 6 and non stop until the rain hit as it turned dark.

Thank you for the series, it was a tiring and rewarding day

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Early in 2021 I received an invite from GoosenEgg and Stainless Steel Rat to join them on a caching trip to the Mega in South Australia. As planning got underway some caches with high Favorite points, very old caches, and the On Your Bike Series were listed as "must-dos"

The trip ended up being 10 days of solid and very enjoyable caching with quite a few highlights. The find count for the trip was around the 950 mark when all GCA, Adventure Lab, and GC caches are included. The high point for finds was a day of 335 finds in the one day, which would have been more, but a sudden storm put the end to caching for the day. No one was interested in getting out of the car to find a cache in a downpour in the dark

We were lucky enough to find Gawler Fort Knox, Dustin's Cache, and my favorite for the trip Barossa High (From 21st of January 2001 with the original log book still in place) all in the one day.

Unfortunately, the caching around the mega was beset by bad weather and the day we had put aside for Mount Gambier was scrapped due to a covid case in Mount Gambier on the previous day, so we avoided the area. We all enjoyed the Fishing series and just managed to get the remaining of these before the light failed for the day.

In the end I managed to completed my D/T grid for the first (and possibly the second time) which was my aim for the year, although some of the D/T combinations were not really achievable in Tasmania without a 3 day overnight bush walk.

TFTC

Interrupting the slog on the On you Bike series for a couple more Around the World in 81 caches on our biggest day yet, setting a target of at least 300 finds for the day.

The Millicent Mega trip had been a long time in the making, for the Tassie trio of stainless steel rat, budgietas and gooseandegg, due to a couple of false starts thanks to COVID19. More and more caches were added to the extensive list as planning was being finalized. We focused on old caches, large caches, certain D/Ts, virtual caches, the On your Bike series and a few other special ones on our journey. Our route saw us caching in Adelaide for a few days before heading north via Gawler to the Barossa in preparation for the On your Bike series, whilst basing ourselves at a gorgeous cottage in Waikerie. We continued on to Renmark for a night before the long trek south to Millicent.
Some of the many highlights along the way were Gawler Fort Knox, Dustin’s Cache, Barossa High and Riverland (the oldest surviving geocache in South Australia).
At the Mega we caught up with a few of our caching friends, made some new ones, and of course missed many who could not make it this time. The weather was not the best in Millicent, and a COVID19 situation in Mt Gambier altered our plans but we had plenty of caches to keep us busy between showers, including tree climbs, plenty of adventure labs, and the entertaining Finding a Fish series - giving the new pole a good workout for the first time.
Thanks to all the CO’s who have placed and maintained all these caches that made our adventure so memorable.

A small break from the OYB series and nice to do something a bit different.

Even with the numbers being down it was great to attend a Mega and at least get to meet some fellow cachers after so long and catch up with a few people, we flew over from Tassie on Thursday and after spending a few days in Adelaide we headed Northeast to clean up some series and then head South to Millicent for the start of the Mega long weekend.

This trip has changed so many times since it was first booked and I'm glad we got to do it at long last, to start with it was just myself and GooseandEgg nipping over for the Mega and then it was a few more days with the addition of 1 toolman, then with lockdown it was back to two of us but then another Tassie cacher in the shape of BudgieTas stepped up to the plate and we were back on for an over a week trip to grab a few caches before the Mega and then finish off with Millicent before flying home on the Tuesday.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 29/09/2021 at 12:52:00 PM thanks to SAGEO_5 for placing this cache for me to find.

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

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Second day of our stay at Waikerie for June long weekend.
Today we finished a few multi-caches that we missed yesterday, found all 100 original on your bike Wherigos and picked up some loose caches along the way. All caches found today after a short or little longer search and in good condition.
114 finds for today and 147 for the trip. Only 1 DNF today.
TFTC SAGEO_5

Cache 7761 on 12 Jun 2021.

Road trip! At fairly short notice, TikvaNZ, Fox in Jox, ZQX and myself decided to head west from home in the ACT to South Australia this long weekend to tackle some of the On Your Bike wherigo series and other interesting caches along the way. We only have four days, so we are being fairly selective.

Today is the day we make a small hole in the Bike wherigo series, along with a few others along the way….wish us luck! Unless otherwise indicated, all caches found easily in accordance with the hint .


Thanks SAGEO_5 for the cache and the fun!

On a 4-day mission to SA with Team Amigos (TikvaNZ, ZQX and AngelG27 and me).

We were quite attracted by this DT combo, so selected it out of the bunch.

Nice drive to gz. Good fun. TFTC SAGEO_5

Found it with team FATZ! Full log to follow.

After months of planning and puzzle solving and working around covid-19 restrictions, team FATZ (Fox in Jox, AngelG27, TikvaNZ and ZQX) got away for some caching. We made full use of the Queen's birthday long weekend (thanks Liz) to find about 200 caches. We left Canberra at 0530 on Friday morning and returned to out nation's fair capital 3.5 days later - just after sunset on the holiday Monday. We achieved several caching goals, and knocked off a few DT loops each. Wherigo caches in South Australia were the staple diet but we picked up a few other types as well - a few multis, ALs, trads, puzzles, 3 ECs and a large, 5.0/5.0 letterbox hybrid. We all notched up new counties too (in NSW and SA), filling out that map a bit. Fox did a lot of the driving but AG27 and myself did a bit to give the man a break. For me it was the best weekend of geocaching ever. The first time I got more than 100 in a day. The first time I hit dark green on a grid cell in the D/T grid. Getting to over 200 in all columns and rows of the D/T grid was another achievement. Hitting darkest green on a cell for the first time was another milestone that I reached this trip.
I was impressed with the "On your bike series" in SA. A huge amount of work went into that, and I want to express my appreciation to the people involved in that. I bet the people of Loxton, Swan Reach, Berry, Barmera and Renmark are wondering where all the extra tourism is coming from. We sure contributed to the local economies of the area.
Somehow my friends put up with my bad jokes and other foibles. Somehow I managed to stay sane despite persistent pen clicking. Several crosswords were completed on the fly, and many packets of snacks were consumed. Nobody fell out of any trees, there were no vehicular hiccups, and there was hardly any rain. Only 2 DNFs to keep it real.
Possibly the most important role I had during this trip was as "The keeper of the stamp". The stamp saved us hours. Seriously. I did the maths on it and that stamp was absolute gold, allowing us to rack up over 15 caches per hour without having to work up a sweat. The keeper of the stamp (abbreviated to simply 'keeper') had to be at GZ at the instant that the log was produced from the container. So not only did the keeper have to have the stamp with them at all times, there was an important timing aspect to this role. There was some choreography involved in some instances.

This was a must-do cache while we were in the area. I wanted to do as many multis as possible but we simply didn't have the time. At GZ it took a while to spot. I can't remember who spotted it, but I was mighty happy when they did.

#15359 @1130
A weekend caching mission with ZQX, Fox in Jox and AngelG27 from the ACT to SA. Today was picking off a selection of the bike wherigos and a few other nearby caches. Soon found. TFTC.

Found on a great day out with sir spectre, mogni, allister w, Michells&hound and CPwanderer.
This was our target series for the day.
I didn't think my little car would cope with the drive through the Bakara Conservation Park but surprised myself. A fun day!
Logs stamped today as Mystery Randoms to save log space,
TFTC SAGEO_5

found with Gizmos Gang, allister w, CP Wanderer, Mogni and Michells&hound and all logs stamped today as Mystery Randoms to save log space. This series was the target for today. 2 cars stopping at start point along the trail then slowly trying to find the cache. After spying where the start cache was hidden, then only half the time getting the cache with out the aid or a ladder or free climbing the tree/structure, only to repeat the same exercise at the final. Like the CO states " Warning, this is NOT a power trail and may take considerable time to complete!!! " It seriously would have helped if the cache holding the co ords for the final was at the same terrain as the final. You would have thought with 6 people looking we would have gotten though a bit faster than we did. I also wasn't expecting " some " of the multi's to end up in the national park below the trail. Lucky for us the road in was dry, it might be more interesting driving in after heavy rain in a 2wd. Surprising the only fauna we saw all day was some parrots. All caches were found ( eventually ) . Some a lot quicker than others. The co ords for a few of the finals in the middle of the trail where damp but still readable. It was nice not be be the main ladder man for the day, that honor went to Allister w. Allister w was also our driver for the day and as usual i was navigating. The couple of puzzles and wherigo was solved before we left. We left in the dark and got home in the dark but as you expect, there was other caches apart from this series found today. A long fun day out.
It's mad may. I have to get 15 multi's on calendar day's in May and that month only has 31 days. Now down to 40 multi calendar days left for the year.

A great day caching with CPwanderer, Gizmos Gang, Michells & Hound, Sir Spectre and mogni. I enjoyed the drive around the area with some great sights and spots. I also got to climb the ladder a couple times throughout the day. A great team effort to get about 30 or so finds. TFTC

So another JAMS weekend was planned, sadly the J was away so instead we brought along CPWanderer and Gizmos Gang to make up the numbers. Due to the change in team we cached as Mystery Randoms. Our target a series of multies and what ever else crossed our path. All of our targets were found.
Thanks to SAGEO_5 from mogni

Completed the Around the World caches today with Sir Spectre, Michells&hound, Gizmos Gang, Mogni and allister w !!!!! Certainly no drive bys!!!! ............................. Six sets of eyes gave us the necessary edge to locate the well hidden first and second stages. We started at the northern end and worked our way towards, and then into, the Bakara Conservation Park!! Thanks SAGEO_5 for the challenge!! We signed the log with a combined team name of Mystery Randoms.

Today a big Jams day out was planned to collect the Around the World Series.
We were without JJ52 (rudely off on a 6 week interstate jaunt) and joined by CP Wanderer and Gizmos Gang, so we evolved into the Mystery Randoms.
Great day out collected 39 caches for the day, found lots of tricky multies, sis a fair bit of scribing and thoroughly enjoyed the company.
We had perfect Autumn caching weather. We found all caches we looked for which was even better .
Thanks to all the CO for their fun hides, next time back to finish off the pesky bike series.
Some of these hides were very tricky we needed a fair bit of help even with 6 sets of eyes looking.
TFTC and series enjoyed most of it but had a bit of a sense of humour failure by the end of the afternoon!

I was part of The Mob (consisting of GoodLook, The Drovers, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself) and this cache was found while on a caching adventure with this fun bunch.With varied skill sets and TOTTs available within the group we tackled a range of caches during our time away. This series was completed alongthe way.TFTC SAGEO_5

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 series we headed to the Around the World in 81 caches, although not quite 81 caches only about 23 or so and nothing quick about this series of caches. Found all caches in good order today only replacing a couple due to the sun and weather making the cache containers perish.

Thanks for all the hides in this mini series SAGEO_5 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.

This series of Multis sure did take a little while to complete, but fortunately with a team of people working together, and a range of TOTTs at our disposal, we got through them in a rather reasonable time.

Thanks for the hides SAGEO_5 And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

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, SAGEO_5, for us and others to find.