TOMMYKNOCKERS Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
By 4WHEELAUSSIE on 11-May-20. Waypoint GC8N89Y

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No luck today

Had a chamber and a look but nothing around today. Will try again another time. HouseofJones

Like others we didnt have any luck.

Dnf

Looked everywhere following the hints from the last logged... no luck today

Didnt find it! Searched at night while completing the AdLab, but couldnt locate the cache. Will return during the day. TFTC!

Had a good look for this and came up empty. Looked in a favourable crevice that geo-sense told us it should be but nothing.

Need a young buddy. So another day.

LOVED THE PLACEMENT! had to take off my shoes so I didn't slip but TFTC. The weather was perfect.

Bit of climbing good hiding spot

Took us a little while but found it in the end

Quick find while out and about grabbing caches.
No Tommyknockers heard today.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

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

Yet another spot in Kapunda we would not have looked for if it wasn't for the local adventure lab... While here gathering information for that, we walked the complete loop, enjoying every bit of it. This find was easier than we anticipated after checking the difficulty and terrain, but it also wasn't wet today TNLNSL TFTC

Stopped in Kapunda for a self-tour of Australia’s first commercial copper mine. Impressed by the Cornish miner history.

Nice chalky scramble and glad of dry conditions and no ominous sounds of tommyknockers (I’m thinking like balrog and orcs drum beats from mines of Moria in lord of the rings…

After doing the AL, we ventured to the trad. Definitely a Mr Unssy task. Found relatively quickly, signed and replaced. Thanks

Tricky, but found in the end. Thought the descent was going to be super-fast at one point due to a bit of moisture! TFTC and the adventure 4WHEELAUSSIES.

Southern Autumn adventure Day 38. Mid North section of SA trip Day 9. Barossa Valley Day 1. I chose Kapunda as today's direction. The aim was to meander my way to and from Kapunda visiting lonely caches and a few solved puzzles. It was a great day and while I was in town I did the Lab set that is there. There is so much to see and plenty more caches for future visits.

While I was out seeking one of the Labs I was able to get a traditional and an earth cache all at about the same spot on this walk around the old mine site.

Thanks for the cache 4WHEELAUSSIE

42362.10 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 NT Uluru Gold A#150

**Albida**

Checked 16/04/2023
In good condition

Had to climb for this one. Muddy terrain. Loved the challenge on a special outing with my wife for her birthday.

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

We all walked down here to answer a nearby lab question then climbed the stairs out, only to realise this Trad was down there. So we all walked back down the stairs again ?? ??
This one took a little while to locate and once found and signed we thought it best to also do the EarthCache while we were down here ?? before walking up the stairs again ??

TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE
Keep smiling ??

Out for a belated celebration for Carrots birthday, with sandelf, AussieGal88, Jolly0, _staas and Marlee126.

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

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

*Step and tread carefully!

AussieGal88

Found with assistance of JollyO and her climbing abilities. Ty

Interesting hiding place, take care.

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

TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE

What a great local& site to bring people to. spotted this one while reading the sign

Pointed this one out to Muggle65 who made the grab. Thank you for the fun

Spotted by muggle husband so I sent him after it. TFTC

We were on our way to Clare Valley, an unexpected treat and looking for ECs. Prof Freddo's one was so close, it would have been a shame to miss TommyKnockers.
I had been raining hard last night and the area was still muddy but I sent Mr. P to grab the cache while I was studying the rocks.
Thank you for the placement, TFTC
#4421 - Greetings from the Isle of Wight ️

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

A beautiful day to be out and about today in the countryside. TFTC

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

Dnf

????

Checked
Still there
In good condition
23/04/22
5.04pm

Grabbing a few caches around Kapunda while staying in Eudunda.

Soon after starting the mine circuit light but very persistent drizzle started and by the time we arrived at this one the ground was very wet and sticky. I didn’t fancy having to carry Mr sylken back to the car if he had a fall so I convinced him to give this one a miss. Maybe another time when the weather is kinder

Thanks anyway 4WHEELAUSSIE

Fou d by Clive staples after getting the lab cache. Who scaled the slope? Clive. With Molly Squib! TFTC

Here for the haunted kapunda adventure lab - stayed for the normal cache! Lots of ants but I climbed up! With kayche22 and molly - tftc

Found while out with the Geo Grandkid. Bit wet underfoot. TFTC

After doing some searching in crevices, I read the logs and then started searching non-crevice hides, and I found it. So I’ve returned it to what I think is the correct place, and I will message the CO.

I’m also here for the Earthcache. This is a great little loop.

Thanks 4WHEELAUSSIE

Overthought this one! Fabulous history here TFTC

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 4WHEELAUSSIE

Find # 1513

Nice pickup whilst completing an AL here. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Blue sky day, so it’s a great day for caching. TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE
Find #3854 at 15:40.

Thanks for hiding. Good to be having a look around the area. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. We're enjoying this area.

Found

Yay. Found it. Many thanks for the smiley!

I visited today, to pick up my mum for a road trip. I spotted a spare area that would match the terrain and had an appropriate Hiding hole. The hole was empty but on my way back to ground level I spotted something suspicious. On investigation the decent size box was found. I have left as is but may require CO to check.

Found. In different place than hevwalker had found it, cool place to visit. TFTC

Full time nomads since 2014. Still tootling around the country trying to avoid Covid hotspots.

Back in SA for harvest work. Spending a few days in Kapunda before heading to Yorke Peninsula.

Headed out to explore some back roads today before the forecast rain of tomorrow. Boy the crops look good around here but still not ready for harvest.

TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE

Found this lying on the ground despite not even looking for it! Terrain and difficulty certainly didn't fit where we found it so we gathered as many contents as we could and hid it in an appropriate location nearby.

Fun spot!! Thanks!

During my visit this loop has been in my sights. Interesting place and nice to have a few more smilies.
TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE

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)]

I found the coords to be a bit out but looking at the attributes I guessed where it was likely to be. A short scramble and the cache was in hand.

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 4WHEELAUSSIE for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Found on a circuit.tftc

TFTC
We looked high and low and didn't let TommyKnockers get the better of us.

Found with bektheraccoon on a quick arvo trip to Kapunda. TFTC.

A nice and straightforward find with Jambochicken. We stuck around to answer the earth cache questions but had to hurry before muggles descended. Grabbed the geocoin, tftc

Crevice located in drizzling rain. Thanks 4WHEELAUSSIE for bringing me to this historic location.

a bat a bee afrog and a cat went caching

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 LíB for placeing them

Thanks to SnappyTomCats hits for this find

There is a gate there now so not sure if we can still find it.

Nice cheeky hide. Best to look when know onw else is around. Nice quiet day today. Tftc

Well I thought this was a perfect one for the kids to retrieve, but no, none of them was willing.

They were happy for me to go, and had a good laugh at my expense as I scrambled my not too light 113kgs ish, up to get it.

Luckily I am slightly fitter than I look (but still quite unfit !) and managed to retrieve it without breaking myself...

I am pretty sure too that I heard some noises when I was looking into the tunnel..... I hope it wasn't the Tommyknockers...

Thanks for the cache 4WHEELAUSSIE.

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.

A fun little climb. A favourite point from me.

Thanks for the cache 4WHEELAUSSIE.
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Kids loved the climbing
Thanks

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Nobody knocking on the door today. Eventually located. TFTC

A pleasant wander in the cold wind and lite rain saw us checking out mane crevices. Eventually someone was home when we knocked on the right door.

Thanks to 4WHEELAUSSIE and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

This was not what or where I expected it to be. A bit of climbing never hurts. Thanks giving this a favourite for best for today.

Out for a day around Kapunda with Freddo and Featherwaite. We got hot from the sun, soaked from the rain and every type of weather in between.

Freddo made the find.

TFTC

Spoooooooooooooookkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee......................

The cache was found in the last place we looked, which as usual was not the first place we looked. Great location. Lovely geology.

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...

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Found during a day out caching in the Kapunda and wider area with Freddo and Team Waldron. We signed our names in full or abbreviated to F.F.TW in caches that none of us had previously found, and in full when one or the other (various combinations) had already claimed on a prior visit. A total of around 40 finds for each of us today, plus 5 for the local Lab cache to clear up a nice area on the map. Thanks for the cache 4WHEELAUSSIE!

A nice walk around the mines this morning, the cache was easily found and is all good

This morning I headed north towards Kapunda/Nuriootpa to clean up the caches I had left in the area. A nice morning out dodgy the dry weather road only and the flys. Total of 47 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

In Kapunda for a weekend with the geo-pup, day tripping with Pony 1966. Mr P made the short climb to retrieve.

TFTC

Cool day trip to kapunda to meet up with Wal & Ol. Thanks for showing us this place, TFTC!

Fun, adventure, travel, history, geology, mental stimulation, social gatherings, support and friendship are just some of the elements of geocaching.

Out and about enjoying the opportunity to grab a few caches, yours being one of those I targeted on my journey today. Thanks ??

Thanks 4WHEELAUSSIE (F=115 H=18) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Whilst completing an adventure lab in the area we also found this cache in the first place we looked.

The lovely micaparamedic has come to visit and so I decided on a spontaneous visit to Burra - to complete a lab there, and then we meandered back to the city with a few other stops, labs and physical caches found.

A really interesting area to explore. Thanks for placing this cache 4WHEELAUSSIE

Quick and find, found while completing the lab cache. TFTC.

Found by Mary and David at 17:35. Came here to a stage of the Adventure Lab, and couldn't pass this one up while we were on the spot. Thank goodness it was bone dry, and D scrambled up to grab the container. M thought he should have passed over his wallet, car keys, and a last kiss before the ascent. Beauty! He survived unmarked, too. Our thanks to 4WHEELAUSSIE.

Tftc!

Today, jesswrigley and I started the day with a breakfast event north-east of the city, before travelling to Kapunda primarily to complete the *Kapunda Hauntings Adventure* Adventure Lab. It was great to visit Kapunda once again, and a nice historical little mining town, and we enjoyed our walk around the old mining area. We did a few other adventures in the area, before heading back home via Seppeltsfield.

We called into here whilst completing the Kapunda Adventure Lab. After obtaining that answer, we made this cache find in a nice hiding spot. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. This was a pretty cool area and mine! Thanks 4WHEELAUSSIE for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

Focussing on newly published caches and an adventure lab that had been placed since we last cleared out around Kapunda, it was handy to find that we could grab 2 lots of info at this GZ. There were no ghostly activities going on while we were there today, maybe the heat kept the ghoulies at bay. Signed and returned. Thankyou for the cache 4WHEELAUSSIE found 27 November 2020 08:47

Continued on the walking track with CPwanderer.
After a slight hesitation, we decided to descend down to the mines.
We looked in the obvious spots, until we remembered the hint, oh!!
I somehow managed to squeeze myself up there without sliding down the slippery slope.
I had my horrible caching sneakers on, with very little grip.
I did manage to cover myself in a chalky substance after gripping the rock face though...
An interesting whispering wind followed behind, think we'd been watched..
Thanks for bringing us here 4WHEELAUSSIE, a favourite

Found tommy and his knockers

Really interesting location!!! Found with clare007 . Clare made the climb!!!! Thanks for the hide!!!

Great hide

James0116

Out caching with friends today after attending 2 early morning events. A quick find. TFTC

Very well hidden. Thanks!

An afternoon after work had us down this way doing some homework on future endevours, but with a little daylight left we decided to search for a cache or two. Continuing our lap around the mine we soon found the path and some interesting info on the spirit of tommyknockers before making the find, glad it wasnt wet today
TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE

TFTC nice find a nice walk of the mines a well hidden cache out and about with geo wife LynSteNet

TFTC
Out & about with geo hubby Animal62 on this glorious Father’s Day, collecting as many smiley faces as possible for our maps.
Thanks heaps for sharing this location with us. We met 2 lovely gentleman (father & son) at the cache site & the son told us about his work surveying these mines.
From what we were told it won’t be long before you can access an app that will show you the historic buildings dotted around the mines as you walk along the trails.

Found It!
A nice little walk and an interesting bit of history. Getting to the cache now involves climbing over a pile of olive trees that have been cut down nearby.
TFTC

good hide

Great place for a cache. Our fourth or fifth walk around this mine site. When we last did this walk we were able to go into the area that is currently blocked off. Let's hope it's reopened when dry. TFTC 4WHEELAUSSIE.

Enjoying a day away from home, enjoying the green crops that are growing well and some shops
TFTC

It's been a long time since we've ventured to this part of the diggings and there's obviously been some changes here .
Looked around for awhile and were starting to look elsewhere when we spotted it . TNLNSL.
Thanks 4WHEELAUSSIE.