Tinjella Trail 2 of Hearts Kuitpo, South Australia, Australia
By weredunn4 on 02-Jun-20. Waypoint GC8T3CD

Tftc

Returned today to find this cache, thanks for replacing it.

Found it.

Yet another day for a stroll in the woods with sir_spectre. A bit quieter today than the weekend.Thanks

Found with Mogni. I have walked this trail from start to finish about 15 years ago. This time the trail was walked in sections because i was working on getting my finds up to 15 on calendar days. Depending on the day there is a large different in the amount of people/walkers/horse people on the trail. Alot more people than 15 years ago. Most of the co ords were good but a few were 9 meters out. The hints were spot on every time and were helpful. A nice stroll ( if steep in parts ) around the forest.

TFTC

It was perfect weather for a lovely walk and a few caches along the Tinjella Trail. Started here and followed the hearts.TFTC

All good TNLNSL TFTC

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Its always good to turn a blue face into a smilie so after being overseas for 6 weeks we noticed that this one had been replaced. Off we went but couldnt find it so we messaged the CO and he replied promptly. So as we were about to return the little brighter we noticed some walkers coming our way and we retreated and started looking at birds lol. Said walkers called out are you geocachers. It was weredunn4 rechecking! Nice to meet fellow cachers and to finally complete the Tinjella Trail Tftc

Maps werent accurate searches and DNF

Replaced missing cache with a smaller tube

Noting the multiple DNF's on this one - looks like its gone missing again - I will endeavour to replace it soon - thanks all who have reported DNF's.

There was 4 people searching for this one for about 15 minutes (I was with Hill2Sea). There is plenty of debris around so it is quite possible that it was there and we just missed it but no luck today. We will return to find it another time - thanks for the hunt today. We attempted to follow the clues of the previous found log but the area has been quite overturned (and we probably didn't help with this).

Looked intensely but no show

Had a good look around but couldnt locate this one today. Cheers anyway

Searched everywhere for this one. The only one in this series that I couldn't find. Read previous logs. Dug around buy came up empty.Oh well, next time I venture down this far.

Another nice, cool Spring day had us making our final assault on the Tinjella Trail. We ended up with 1 DNF in the series and had 8 caches currently unavailable due to closure of a part of the forest due to logging. These are 2-9 Clubs. The trail is beautiful and we thoroughly enjoyed each visit.We were disappointed that after a long search this final cache was the only DNF for us but with so much decay and debris at GZ and several other DNFs on this one we didnt feel too bad. Many thanks for a delightful series weredunn4

Four days ago we found about half the caches on the Tinjella Trail. We returned today hoping to find the remainder. In the time we had available, we found all 26 of the remaining caches from the series. As before, we found the coordinates to be of variable accuracy - in a number of instances we had to widen the search area, sometimes up to 10m. However the hints were very useful when attempting to locate the cache. Most of the logs were in reasonable condition, although a number were damp. Any significant variations from the above general comments are detailed below.

This was the last cache we looked for. Mr y'stassie spent 15 minutes without any luck so called in Mrs y'stassie who had completed the her leg of the trail. Having found all the other caches we looked for today she was reluctant to leave before she was certain all areas had been explored. As she walked to the cache she read the log for the previous find and noted the comments. Once close by her terrier instinct clicked in and she began her excavations. Rotten wood went this way and that until something that was not rotten wood flew out. It turned out to be the cache container. About 30cm of decayed wood had been removed. After signing the log sheet she replaced the container, covered it with a piece of thick pine bark, put a pine cone at one end to stop it falling too far then covered it with the rotten wood material. Our GPS indicated we were 9m from the published coordinates but the search was guided by the hint.

Thanks for this cache weredunn4. The container is still there and Mrs y'stassies terrier instinct has paid off again.

Not this time! Thanks anyways

Had a good scratch around but no luck

Couldn't get this one

Geez this series is looking trickier than we expected with so much natural cammo we are going to need to be patient, its a shame the dog didnt understand that caches could be good scent work for her, we could get her to seek them. We spent much longer than expected on this one but wasnt going to be beaten!
Thanks weredunn4 for the cache. TNLNSL

Tricky find with deteriorating tree trunk but managed to pull it out TFTC

A lovely jaunt through the woods with Sis and Nephews and a jolly little hangover ...

TFTC! x

Defeated us...

Tricky little find due to a teen and his cap gun in the forest. Mother's day with a bang. TFTC weredunn4.

First of the day

TFTC
First one along the trail and loving it so far…….other than the killer

A big day out hiking and caching in Kuipto Forest with geohubby cachehunter and geodog Zoe. It was a hot day but we came away with a good number of caches. Geodog was very excited to see some of the bouncy doggies (roos) and she very much wanted to go play with them. All caches were in good condition and relatively easy finds even with a bit of geobounce. Tftc

Found with NiciDanielle and Zoe the Geodog. First of hopefully many through Kuitpo today. TFTC

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I came down to Kuitpo today for a drive and to find a few of those caches that I just haven't gotten around to finding. [^]

I have found a few of this series on a previous visit down here and was always going to do them in stages and today I planned on doing a few more. The weather wasn't too good and there was light drizzly rain, but that didn't stop me, just meant I didn't get as many as I had planned. After finding a couple of Spades I turned around and started the Hearts.

Even though it was wet it was beautiful in the forest and I enjoyed my walk and ended up finding another 5 of the series. All were found reasonably quickly thanks to the hints.

Thanks for the cache weredunn4.

Today KTPops and I targeted Weredunn4's series on the Tinjella Trail. I have been wanting to do this for a long while and having the opportunity to do this with KTPops was ideal. We started on the trail at around 11.30am and managed to complete them all on foot by about 5.15pm. There were more ups and downs than I expected, especially when comparing it to the forest across Brookman road.

We had a sensational day, barely seeing anyone during our travels. We did meet two lovely dogs from nearby walkers, great to see them enjoying this wonderful area. The caches were generally in good condition, a few were a little moist and a few were left out in the open. All caches were signed by both of us, and returned and covered to shelter them from the sun. Thank you Weredunn4 for all the work on this series, and the ongoing maintenance. FP4U here on the first we attempted.

Unfortunately there were several caches that have been lost due to felling of a section of the forest, most unfortunate. Areas affected include 2-6 Spades, and one random being the Jack of hearts. More information in logs for each cache. Even in felled sections we still attempted the find among the carnage, and managed to come up with two that still survived.

OZGrumpy and I had a lovely day walking through Kuitpo today collecting these caches. This was the first. Fresh legs and fancy free. Thanks weredunn4

Tricky one!

Found. Went up to Kuitpo to collect some caches here in the school holidays. TFTC weredunn4

Today we needed to grab some caches for a souvenir challenge. We dusted off the bikes and set out to do at least 15. We successfully did this today and no dnf's.
Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches. We will be back to do the rest

I’ve had a short break from geocaching so this morning I planned a nice long bush walk to break the drought. The sun was shining and the temperature was cool so perfect geocaching weather.

I set off on foot at about 11am and returned back to the car 4.25 hours later. It was a thoroughly enjoyable walk along the trails despite some pretty deep mud around the 4 of Diamonds due to tree logging activity.

All caches found except one. All caches were in good condition except one or two which I have raised seperate logs.

A great geocaching trail so I’ve dropped a few random favourite points along the trail.

Thanks for the cache weredunn4.
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Easy one! Cheers.

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Maintenance run with the puppies today along the Tinjella Trail.
This cache was ok

My first Tinjella! This is going to be good. Thanks weredunn4.

Are we going to find the whole deck?

Found during a tour around the Tinjella Trail in Kuitpo on a warm but pleasant day for walking, completing the circuit in 4 1/2 hours. Thanks for the cache and series weredunn4!

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled 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 - Were Dunn 4 [^]

TallbikeStan and I road our mountain Bikes around this series in a clockwise direction. The first find was the 10 of Hearts and the last was the Jack of Hearts. All up the series took us 4.5 hours. I had to get of my bike a few times and walk up some of the hills. All the caches were found but some of the logs were a bit damp and mouldy. A good adventure Thanks for the series weredunn4

Perfect day for a bike ride at kuitpo with Wal & Ol. TFTC

Riding the trail with Pony1966. TFTC

Found

In Port Elliott today, out for a few caches around Meadows area before he rain sets in. TFTC

Decided to spend a day in Kuitpo Forest walking and geocaching along the Tinjella Trail backwards and forwards, enjoying the experience. Found all the ones I looked for bar one (probably gone awol). I managed about a half of them and was "kaput" at the end of the day, having walked 17 km. Thanks weredunn4 for all the hard work setting the series up.

Found with jcjtinman who is too cheap to pay for premium

Fouat at 13:37 by Emily with Olga and geodogs Luna and Winnie on a really nice afternoon walk around Kuitpo.

Quick find. TFTC

I had a day off so I grabbed the geomutt and headed off to see how many we could find in this series. I found most of them thanks to some great hints. I had a great walk and the weather was perfect for my 5 hour hike. Thanks so much for making the effort to put out such a great series of caches.

Found out mountain biking

Found out mountain bike riding

A nice easy find

Stopped by to do a few of this trail.
All found easily, a nice place for a walk.
Got a heads up beforehand, about the hide here.
This one completes my Ancient Wonders Souvenir.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Today Freddo, Davidwazza and brad&Janet and I headed to the area to complete the new deck of cars series. With the ground being wet we returned covered in mud but had fun at the same time. We managed to find all the caches but one with the co ords being a bit out on most of them but with the hints they weren’t too hard to find.
TFTS

Ghazi Hammud
Ba'ath Party branch command chairman

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 including 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.

Today, the objective was to group assault the new *Tinjella Trail* deck of cards power trail with Brad&Janet, Freddo, and gridge98 via mountain bikes. Well, two of our group were fortunate to have e-bikes. The Tinjella Trail took us just over three hours to complete, and then we re-fuelled ourselves at Meadow Bakery. I continued to geocache around the area targeting some oldie caches, a few prior DNFs, and mountain biking the *Are you kidding me?* series. I soon became tired and the sun was setting, so called it a day. A really nice winter day to be riding around.

We ended up parking near the Tinjella Trail's Ace of Spades, and made our way around anti-clockwise. I didn't realise Brad&Janet would be joining us, since he had already found this trail and ridden this loop twice before, and so we enjoyed his background narrative at how he had manipulated the CO's Strava file to review possible hide locations prior to official publication. We got off to a slow start, and soon learned that the coordinates were a guide, and the hints were the key to locate the cache quickly. Most of the coordinates were probably pretty accurate, but the various tree cover had them bouncing around the place, and if our search was taking too long, it was easy to go back to the GPS only to be taken in all sorts of directions. It was handy having a previous finder with us who could point to us where the cache was, and interesting to see how cache creep and other Geocachers had added to their hide locations (more rocks to SPORs, etc.). I also learned about a new acronym/definition: SPOBs, or suspicious piles of bark. There was some high up/down terrain, and gridge98 and I were disadvantaged at not having a motor to help climb those hills. There was one river crossing where the rains had collected the water, but otherwise from the heavens above, it was reasonably dry. It was a nice forest to ride, and the best-enjoyed power trails are via bike, in my opinion. Unfortunately, we left with one DNF, so we are hoping the CO has a few spare decks of card to manage future replacements.

Like most of the geocaches in this series, this cache was found reasonably quickly once it had a few pairs of eyes looking for it. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks weredunn4 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Easy find

A great walk with the CO's and wander around, backward and forward through the trees and paths over the course of a day. We managed to dodge the showers (well mostly!) Such a lovely place.

Thanks to weredunn4 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! beta log. [^]

Went for a walk in the forest with jafaz62 and Chewie, her 4-legged friend, to get some exercise, of course we had to collect some caches along the way...picked up 4 smileys tonight before the sun went down...
TFTC weredunn4

Bit tricky 0

Out doing some more of the Tinjella track. Cache and contents are all good. TFTC

In the area for a few days with Csaba!, SupaOrange and GeoMum. Went for a bike ride on the trail with many ups and downs. My Batman bike just made it. Turtle Out

SupaOrange likes the forest. Such a cool place to ride. Great caching. Tra La Laaa

Have been sitting on this series for a while. I knew I would be in the area so for the next few days I will hit the trail with SupaOrange and SupaTurtle. Great place to bring the family. Thanks

Today Rex and I had nothing on so we decided to head back to Kuitpo to finish off the playing cards series.
It was a glorious day and we had a lovely walk. Rex was a bit puffed and asked to be carried a few times and we had a nice rest at the end of our trail, lying in the sunshine.
The trail was a bit busier day compared to last week as it was such a lovely afternoon.
This side of the trail was much quicker with the caches closer together and we were done and back to the car in good time. 12.5kms walked.
Again accurate coords and hints made for quick finds.
TFTC weredunn4

First find for the day

Omg first one we just couldn’t find it. Then we thought what are we doing here but we try for this another. GPS is not helping at all.

First one and we couldn’t find it. GPS wasn’t helping us and raining here didn’t help. Another day for this one.

Had 2 looks last week and a further 2 looks today before I found this one.

A tricky little hide.

TFTC

I only did Heart series. All are in good condition. Two of them took me ages to find. I was surprised to see many people there.

I will be back to finish off the series.

Thanks for the walk.

Thanks weredunn4 for the cache

Out with Debandy on the coldest morning in 17 years to have a crack at the latest Kypo power trail. A fantastic hike through the forest, the tree cover made the GPS a bit sketchy but the clues got us there in the end.
Thanks weredunn4 for all your work!

Headed south today to Kuitpo Forest after the new Tinjella Trail. Saw -1 on the car thermometer in the hills but it was up to a brisk 4 when I started walking just after 9:30.
Saw quite a bit of wildlife, mainly birds, but only 4 muggles and 2 dogs on the loop. Found all 52 with most being quick finds thanks to the hints, but 2 or 3 needed a bit of circle work.
An enjoyable walk but was glad to be back at the car just before 2:45.
Thanks weredunn4 for this cache and a great series, will be scattering some favourite points.

Tftc

Found while on a hike with cows with guns on a fresh morning.

TFTC out hiking with rezfa

I'd invited myself to share a day caching with clare007 and CPwanderer around the Tinjella Track in Kuitpo Forest to get the new cards series there
Rex came too, of course, and so did the cheap ebike that I had bought last night
So cheap, that while my muggle son[:X] and I had tea at my muggle daughter's[:X] place and I played with my grandkids, my son-in-law[:X] took the tube from my grandson's BMX and placed it onto my ebike's rear wheel so that I could ride the ebike[:X][^]
We were joined by Pikapene and Spence-_-Man and those two men[:X] made my hard day a whole lot easier by pushing my heavy ebike up the steepest of the hills when my dodgy knees just could not pedal fast enough to keep the power on[xx(]
They also shared Rex' lead[:X] so that I could concentrate on pedalling and steering[^] as well as stopping[^] with not quite right brakes[xx(]
Lots of laughter, lots of tales told of caching adventures and all 52 cards were found as we traversed the trail from go to whoa[^][|)][xx(][|)][xx(] A rough Google Earth mapping of the GPSr track log said about 14km[|)][xx(]... give or take 1 or 2km for the off track detours etc
Best part was: I only fell off once and a very nice, fit young man helped pick the bike and I up[^]

After leaving the others at Kuitpo, Rex and I found another 3 caches for the day's total of 55 finds as we made our way to muggle partner's mother's house for tea, tired but exhilarated![^] There was 1 DNF in Kuitpo which everyone else had found apart from me and although Pikapene helped me look[^], we had to rush to catch up to the others so it was only a short look

TNLN. SL. TFTC weredunn4

Didn't find it in the time allowed.

Wow!!! What a day!!! Completed all 52 caches with clare007, Pikapene, Spence-Man and locus cache!!! .............................. with Bindi and Rex the geo pooches in the lead!! Took us just over 7 hours ....................... in most cases we relied heavily on the hints as the tree cover wasnt helping gps accuracy and thankfully we got them all. A couple took way longer than they should have. Being a long weekend the forest was very busy!! Thanks weredunn4 for a memorable series!!

Great day Geocaching on a beautiful day in the forest for the Queen's Birthday. Took Nan and Pop (KezzaOne) and the whole family. This was our first for the day and probably the hardest. It took us at least five minutes. After that at least we knew what we were looking for! TFTC

CPwanderer & I met Locus cache & spense_man in the nearby car park.
We were happy to see Locus cache, but interested to find a new ebike unfolding out of her boot.
The car park already sported cars in this car park and although a brisk 2 degrees,
the weather was perfect for walking
We had a few tricky caches & this was one of them [:0]
There were so many options here, that even the hint didn't help!!
The group was very glad to see Pikapene arrive & quickly found our cache,
We found all 52 caches & no DNFs,thanks for the cache weredunn4

Good hide

cold start to the morning but got keen because I was with a few cachers (CPwanderer, Clare007, Pikapene and Locuscache) Starting this Tinjella Trail series, This was the first out of 52 (representing cards) Found it! but it took a little while to find.

Arrived at the carpark early enough for it to be 2 degrees. Headed towards 2 of Hearts to find 4 cachers searching: CPWanderer, locus cache, Claire007 and Spence Man. Had a great day with them finding all 52. Thanks weredun4 for the effort!

This was a hard one

Had a phone call from Brad&Janet earlier in the week to see if I was up for a challenge to find 52 unpublished caches in the Kuitpo Forest. Sounded like a fun challenge and it was decided that an early start Saturday morning was in order.

Well our challenge was somewhat thwarted with the 52 caches being published at 0400 Saturday morning so it now had become a FTF run to see how many we could get before the forest was besieged by FTF Hounds.

So with me and my $100 bike and Bill with his somewhat more expensive eBike arriving at 0730, we set off on our anti-clockwise journey.

Even though we were not going to do our original challenge, we had some other challenges to contend with.

One - it was bloody cold and even though there was no wind the temperature remained mostly in single figures.

Two - my chain on the $100 bike decided it was not up to the challenge and promptly broke at 3km, 4km and 5km. We repaired it two times (handy to have a doctor with the right tools), but in the end it became a 5km ride and 11km walk for me.

The outcome in the end was 52 *FTF* with coffee at the end at Tinjella Hut where my brother and sister were camped for the weekend (was unaware they were there when we started off).

Oh and there will be a T5 cache coming out soon somewhere in the area too

Thanks for placing the caches

Published

There is something to be said for waking up at 4:30am with your electric Mountain Bike already on the back of the car

Something else to be said about being awake studying and being diverted when the ding starts! THEN having to go to work by 7am - in the opposite direction ..... !!

There's something to be said for getting out of bed at 9am on a Saturday morning and realising the FTFs were probably done while I was warm and asleep.

A week or so ago the CO went for a walk along the Tinjella Trail. He mentioned on social media that he had done so. And hinted that he had hidden some geocaches while on his walk.
Brad likes a challenge so last Tuesday afternoon he drove to the trail with his bike. The plan was to ride a circuit of the track and to see if he could find any geocaches. FB4P = Find BeFore Publication.

A bit challenging as the caches had not been published so he had no hints and no coordinates. Just a circuit and some educated guesswork.

And it was raining.

Brad did find some. The first he found was the 5 Hearts and then the 9 Hearts was next. After a few more it became clear there were likely to be 52 in total (or up to 54 with jokers.)

6 hours later it was dark, Brad was cold and tired, he had ridden 16km, walked 10,000 steps and he had found 28 caches. Time to go home.

Once he had recovered he looked at the patterns of the caches he had found and tried to work out where the other 24 might be.

He came up with 24 sets of possible coordinates. Brad felt two sets of eyes would be good. He contacted firesafe who has recently purchased a bike and it was agreed an attempt would be made this morning to find as many of the rest as possible meeting at 7am.

And then at 4am the caches were published!
So the attempts at FB4P turned into attempts at FTFs.

As it turns out Brad’s guessimates were pretty good.

No rain today but it was very cold. Very.

This was a “not found before” cache. It certainly does make a difference when you know the coordinates! This was found, the log stamped and it was on to the 3H.

Along the way today all 52 caches were found and stamped/signed including the 28 Brad had previously located, although for a few of those firesafe was still quicker at locating the prize.
No other names in any logbooks except the beta tester. So that is a new record for B&J of 52 *FTF*s in one day. Woohoo.

This is a brilliant trail with amazing mushrooms, wide tracks and great ambience. Loved it.

Thanks very much WereDunn4. FP for the first cache in the series and another for each of the Aces which were the only 4 of the same value that were located on the first “before publishing” attempt.

In summary
Early start with firesafe.
3 broken bike chains.
16 km walked/ridden. (twice)
336 metres of up. (twice)
10,000 steps then 5,000 steps.
5,000,000 mushrooms.
28 FB4P which morphed into
52 *FTF*s