Meet Clyde Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
By JEM on 05-Nov-19. Waypoint GC8FNTB

An easy find on a warm and stormy Saturday afternoonTFTC

Fed Clyde some kale lol TFTC

DNF

In the area for a Junior Roller Derby Tournament this weekend and had some time to spare so thought we'd enjoy a picnic lunch with a side of history.GeoKids loved the sculpture. TFTC

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Staying at the fabulous Station Kapunda for 2 nights with my 5 siblings & other family members. Managed to squeeze in a couple of caches & an AL. Tftc

Nice location, great hiding spot, but a bit tricky to find

Magnificent piece of work on horse sculpture Found it.All good here.TFTH

I dont think the sun blinding me helped much. Still, thank you for bringing me to Clyde. Hopefully I can bring someone else next time with better eyesight.

Found with Kingbonza and emsdan1315

This a new account but I found this cache with my mum (EmsDan1315) and my brother (maggies123) on 10-7-2024. TFTC. TNLN.

Thank JEM Here on a cold winter morning trying to do a nearby AdLab but it was too Far on crutches but, with some help from a mate from QLD the smiley was secured without too much trauma to either cacher or Clyde. Tyftc SL TN LN fave cos!

Very tricky, get the right angle

Nearly gave up, Clyde holds many secrets

Very trickey cache, very much need to get the right angle. TFTC

TFTC great hide!

This cache still seems to be in place, found by a cacher today

Grabbed some lunch from the local bakery and came and sat here to eat. Second cache we have found on Clyde. What a work of art! Waited for some muggle cyclists to move on and then felt Clyde up all over! TFTC

Mini cacher found it. Just had the right angle for seeing it. Tyftc. Jones Family.

Searched for a while but unfortunately no luck. Thanks for bringing me to a great spot

Didnt find today!

No luck for us, either too sneaky or perhaps missing

Dnf

After what we think was a thorough search we came up empty. We normally like the challenge of these types of hides. Next time maybe.

Found on a tour with some friends that have moved to kapundaTNLNSL TFTC

Bit of a tricky spot

Well found the log, but no cache container. With co permission we will claim a find. Thanks Jem for bringing us here and for your quick response. Great place to be.

Spectacular day for some caches, contuing from last visit.
TFTC
ENJOYING THE WIDE GAME

Quick find while out and about grabbing caches.
Magnet has come off the bottom of the container and I have put inside and its still holding. CO... might be worth resticking with hot glue or something to ensure longevity.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Liked meeting Clyde and even though no find despite two searches enlisting non-geo mates really enjoyed the location.

Unfortunately our first DNf today. Clyde wasn't going to give it up

Replace this one today, all good to go

Will check on this one asap

Too clever for me

Looked for 10 minutes without luck. Too many potential places for our fingers to search for! Thanks anyway

Might be there but didn’t find it. Even asking a friend that has found it.

Nope couldn’t find this one

This was a tough one.

Even with phone friends couldn’t find it.

In Kapunda for a couple of days so having a wee look around for the odd cache or two
TFTC

TYFC Day out with Jolly, Marlee126, Peas&CarrotsForever, AussieGal88, _staas

Great hide, it took us a while but got it in the end.
Clyde is certainly an amazing piece of art.

Lovely afternoon out Caching with The Geocache Goonies, after a belated birthday luncheon for Carrots (Peas&CarrotsForever).

Teaming with _staas, Marlee126 and Sandelf, and found by yours truly. Clyde sure knows how to swallow a nano!

With the support of Jolly0 and Peas&CarrotsForever sitting at the bench supporting us, as they have previously found this.

Definitely deserves a ️, however I've run out for today having found a lot of GC's today!

AussieGal88

This was hands on! With the geocaching goonies!

Found it out for the day in Kapunda and checking out the mines. Stamped as The Brown Family aka “the coloured mint tin by the sea people”

TFTC **JEM**

Great hide in an even greater piece of art

A big long weekend with the JAMS Crew (JJ52, allister w(me), mogni, Sir Spectre and tallbikestan). We road from Riverton to Stanley Flat on day 1. Then more riding near Spalding on day 2. Then finished the weekend with finding caches around the area in the car. TFTC

A return visit to Clare was planned for the long weekend with the JAMS crew plus tallbikestan to find a lot of the caches that we didn't get to on our last visit along with the Rattler, Riesling and NE trails as well as the Mid North Channel Country trail. [^]

We had three very full days with perfect weather for caching, lots of bike riding, lots of walking and lots of driving along dirt tracks. We were lucky it had not recently been wet as some of the roads we drove on would not have been passable if wet. Loved the scenery at this time of year with everything looking very green as well as the bright yellow of the canola crops.

A fun weekend of caching, lots of caches found and lots of cool places visited.

What a cool sculpture, it must have taken a very long time to complete. Luckily the cache was found quickly.

Thanks for the cache JEM.

The JAMS crew went on an October long weekend adventure back to Clare. We brought Tallbikestan along as we were targetting the bike tracks and he is the best rider amongst us. Allister W and sir_spectre we the other main riders, with JJ52 and I the support crew and walkers. A huge weekend of fun and adventure was had by all, until I made SS sick with my cold....oops.
Thanks to all those who have kept not just the bike tracks but all the other caches alive for us to find.
All caches signed as JAMS.
Thanks to **JEM** from mogni

someone has some great talent to do that. mogni fouund the cache. " insert nano rant here "

The JAMS team ( JJ52,Allister w, Mogni, and sir_spectre minus mitchell&hound ) but Tallbikestan was with us instead and we where out for there usually monthly caching adventure. This time it was over the october long weekend instead of the usual day trip. The taget this time was Drop into the Light a long ladder cache on the way to clare and then to clear the Rattler trail, Riesling Trail, Ne Trail saturday on the bikes and then sunday do the Mid North Channel Country bike trail. Monday on the return home was to get Peter's view a 2001 cache. Of course there was many, many other's found on route to the various target for the weekend, somewhere around 260 found by the team. It could have been more but we were not going at a flat out pace, just steady and getting a blow out on the bike 1.6 km's from the end of the Mid North Channel Country bike trail didn't help. I didn't see any snakes this trip but allister did, he saw 5. The caches this trip where written in as JAMS, i forgot the stamps. Also 1 cache was placed by the JAMS team this trip. Out of all the bike tracks i preferred the Rattler /Riesling trail. I like riding through the very rich ( after all the recent rains ) fields of yellow flowers.

Out with Guzs Travellers and Symonds 6 - Thanks to the hint it was a Quick find - What a magnificent piece of artwork. TFTC

Another lovely day to be caching the area. Found out and about with Symonds6 and Shandyk. Signed log as GuShS6. TFTC.

TFTC found with Gush s6

Found out on geo weekend with jams group all caches signed as jams

A nice quick find while visiting Kapunda. Thank you for the cache Jem.

Even though it was pouring with rain when we arrived here, I needed this last cache for the weekend, to complete one of the many challenges I’ve been working on so out came the brollies ️️️

Heading home from an amazing weekend in the Riverland, jumping borders and caching with Peas&CarrotsForever.

TFTC JEM
Keep smiling

Time to head for home but not without some serious geocaching on the way, with Jolly0.

Arrived at this cache with the rain pouring down, but Jolly0 needed this as the last one to complete a challenge she's been working on, so out with brollies and on with the search, cos that's what we do. Fortunately it was a fairly quick find and with that we called it quits for the day and headed home. TFTC JEM

What an interesting spot. Thanks for putting a cache here but..... we both thought oh no! then read the clue and prodded. Fingers found it and it dropped!! Luckily we had a geocaching light/gooseneck magnet. After more feeling with fingers located it and we were able to get it out and put it back. Phew!

While attending the 24 hour motorcycle trial around the Kapunda area, I snuck off late at night to take a walk around the quarry. Upon visiting Clyde, I found just some loose log sheets, which I signed. No container could be found so I have sent a message to the CO.
Thanks JEM, it was a pleasant walk.

Out with iluvtrekking on a beautiful winters day- quite the opposite of yesterday. Love these rural hides - our preferred caching. Beautiful sculpture. Thanks for the hide GEM

Grabbing a few caches around Kapunda while staying in Eudunda.

What an astounding likeness here and with a very helpful hint Mr sylken soon had the cache in hand.
Another favourite point for sure for bringing us here

Many thanks for the hide **JEM**

Found today with hubby, bonus daughter and newest addition 2 and a bit week old baby. Note sent to owner. TFTC

Found while out with the Geo Grandkid. TFTC

Thanks Jem for the hide and the ongoing maintenance. I did not find this one quickly and tried both sides a couple times before coming up with the goods. Feel and find did the trick. Signed and returned as found. What a great statue, thanks for bringing me here. FP4U

Found by Mary and David at 14:15. A wonderful horse is Clyde. M found it fairly quickly. Let your fingers do the walking. Gets a FP. Our thanks to **JEM**.

An impressive piece of art and craftsmanship, but oh, so many hiding places. The generous hint reduced the search area, and eventually I touched something that moved. The cache was VERY carefully removed and replaced (see e.gregory1 log). Now to start on the loop….

Thanks **JEM**

Took as long as you would expect! Great piece of art and great hide! TFTC

I have Virtually Dropped a trackable for one of my International Geocaching Friends to Virtually Find.

It's Fine Elsewhere

Found on a day trip to Gawler and the northern Barossa with Bob From Elsewhere.

After the storms a couple of days ago, I expected to see some damage around the area, but it must have been a bit further south as everything looked pretty good.

This was a tricky little find and an even trickier replacement - unfortunately I dropped it when I was repositioning it! It then took another 15 minutes to eventually find it within the structure and extract it using a suitable tool. It was then (much more) carefully replaced where we initially found it
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Thanks JEM for the cache.

It's Find 3266

Found on a day trip beyond Gawler with e.gregory1.

I am tetanus vaccinated so took a chance and found it and no blood was spilled.

Then my mate dropped it and the second retrieval was a little harder.

Thanks to **JEM** for the cache.

It's Fine Elsewhere

Clyde is stunning

Enjoying a day in the Barossa with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

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

Log signed as SB

TFTC **JEM**

Find # 1508

Great little hide on awesome sculpture. Thanks for bringing us here. A fav point from me. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC **JEM**
Find #3852 at 14:54.

Thanks for hiding, wonderful and evil. Good to be having a look around the area. Caching with Wollaston SeasonedBird. Fav point alloc

Tftc

TFTC! Tricky little find lol

Found

Tftc nice hide almost lost it as I knocked it, find the needle in the haystack

We were on the verge of quitting but then one of the kids found it. Nice cache! Thanks!

Out and about the picturesque Barossa Valley picking up a smilie or two along the way.
Clyde and I go way back so I was happy to visit him again for another smilie. I came up empty handed after about a 20 min search. I drafted, unhappily, a bluey and set off down the hill to the next gz.
On returning to the car I decided to ‘just give it 5 mine minutes’ and in less than that I had struck the fitting container.
Log signed and replaced as found.
TFTC **JEM** see you again Clyde x

Time for another Friday Frolic for some members of the Befuddled Puzzle Solving Group. We gathered at the Rat Nest and myself, Blackadders and S.A. Sewer Rats headed out for a day of caching in and around Kapunda. Except for one cache that is currently off line we managed to find all we looked for. As usual there were a few laughs, a picnic lunch and these are the caches we found [B)]

Searched for a long time. [:(!] Not in the first, second, umpteenth place I looked. Damn You [:(!][:(!] Then just as the cursing and tantrums started - there it was. Time to have a break and have that picnic lunch.

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 from over fifty to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

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

Found on a circuit.tftc

TFTC
Met Clyde and he is absolutely gorgeous.

Ty

Found with bektheraccoon on a quick arvo trip to Kapunda. Made a new friend while I was at it. TFTC.

What a great structure! Jambochicken and I stopped by here before embarking on the mines walk and made a surprisingly quick find. Tftc

Great sculpture and hide. Thanks JEM.

as we have a look around the area this was one of the caches we found
A good day was had while grabbing these caches
Thanks for placeing them
dropped it retieved it replaced log as it was full

Well, it’s a wonderful sculpture. Very happy you brought us here, but even with quite a specific clue it was beyond our finding. TFTC anyway

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Thanks to SnappyTomCats hits for this find.

A quick find while spending a few days in Greenock,A great hide.TFTC

Over from Melbourne for a two week escape Victoria to SA holiday.

Staying in Adelaide this week, we were looking for a place to visit that we hadn't been to before.

Came across Kapunda while looking at Facebook this morning on a Camping site. Problem solved, off to Kapunda we went.

Wow what an interesting town. We will be back another time to check it out in more depth. This old copper mine is super interesting.

We love the old sandstone buildings SA has and this town has some great ones. The mining history is also very interesting.

What a great sculpture. I really liked how the mane is made out of heavy chain that you can actually lift and move around.

we were busy looking when I turned around only to see someone reading the sign and looking at us strangely.... so much for stealth, or rather she had stealth and had crept up on us. Given we were sprung we had to explain what we were doing. She seemed quite interested and mentioned she once owned a horse and lived in a nearby town.

While I was chatting with her, Mrs P made the find and we were able to show her a cache , the log etc.

The log is full but Mrs P managed to squeeze plowfive on to it somewhere but not in time order.

Thanks for the cache JEM. A tricky hide which we assumed we wouldn't find but actually did.

Day one of a camping trip testing out my new swag. I am slowly making my way up to the Flinders Ranges and taking my time exploring lots of little towns along the way.

I really enjoyed walking around this little trail, reading the info panels and grabbing the caches.

Even with the quite specific hint provided, it still took awhile to find it. Nice one. Favourite point from me.

Thanks for the cache JEM.
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We had 8 minutes to find it and failed today. We will be back

Clyde swallowed that cache whole.
A great hide! TFTC

Finally found it after a while. The paper is full though, no space to write.

This is the second cache Aussie Mary has found here. Do love a 2 for one placement.
Carol and Mary needed to make this find, while 2 others had already found the new version. Met up with some cyclists here who were somewhat intrigued by our activity.
TFTC JEM. A favourite for Clyde

Out for the day with CPwanderer, clare007 and Aussie M & M.
Clare located the sneaky hide after I had been looking for a short time.
Met some cyclists here who were interested in what we were doing.
TFTC **JEM**

Hello Clyde. Nice to meet you. I'd say he would take a bit of a shove to get moving.

Thanks to **JEM** and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

Couldn't find it and then got muggled out so another for a different day.