Tinjella Trail 6 of Spades Blackfellows Creek, South Australia, Australia
By weredunn4 on 02-Jun-20. Waypoint GC8T723

Nice steep hill here, how terrible the area looks with the nice tall pines being cleared, not real recently but the paddock just looks rubbishy compared to the parts where the pines stand tall.Thanks for the cache.

Another walk through the forest with sir_spectre finding a few more caches to assist in getting our finds over 15 for every calendar day. I needed 2 more finds, but did a few bonuses.No loop walk today, 2 cars made for an easier stroll.Thanks

Found with Mogni. Back again to get some more caches along this trail. Another day i need to get my finds above 15 ( i really only needed 4 today but i did get more than that ). I think this side/half of the trail is easier to walk than the other half or maybe i am just less tired from a excessive amount of overtime. We saw a variety of birds and a number of kangaroos, all caches looked for were found. Some were found a lot quicker thanks to the hint. I do like walking around these forests. We did have a car at the start and finish points of where we planned to walk this section this time, just trying to save some time.

TFTC!Great series of caches, well hidden yet easy to find.Clocked up over 5km of walking today.Beautiful weather and the trails were relatively quiet.

Hill2Sea and I are back for some more exercise and to complete another section of the trail. We had pretty perfect weather and really enjoyed this walk today. We really appreciate you laying this trail out as it's been a great reason to catch up and get outside. Thanks for the hunt today.

Tftc

Adventured a bit further south than I normally do. Doing this series as heard alot of good reports about this one. Just had to experience it for myself.Thanks Weredunn4 for placing and maintaining this series.TFTC SL

A bright sunny day had us walking some of the Tinjella trail and returning a short distance along the Heysen Trail.We grabbed a few caches as we passed by.Some of the hides required a little more searching than others but we didnt end up with any DNFs.We saw 3 roos and another couple and a man and his dog walking along the Heysen trail section.Many thanks for the series weredunn4

Earlier this week we called into the area to complete some reconnaissance for the Tinjella Trail caches. We found two and learnt a little about the containers and learnt more detail about the topography of the area. Later than night we worked out a strategy for our return.

We returned today. In the four hours we had available, we found 24 caches from the series but one we could not find. We found the coordinates to be of variable accuracy - in a number of instances we had to widen the search area, sometimes up to 12m. 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.

Some of the areas we visited today were in the process of being cleared and this is where it usually took longer to locate the caches. The real highlight was the small patches of native bush - wildflowers are appearing everywhere - such variety. They will be magnificent in the next few weeks.

Specific comments relating to this cache only: the pine tree mentioned in the hint is not longer there.

Thanks weredunn4 for the series of caches.

Quick find 6 ️ out today slowly picking away at the Tinjella Trail tftc

Took a little while for this one. Bit of a circle around one rock and found it finally TFTC

This one nearly stumped me but I found it
TFTC

The pine in the hint is now a stump, as we surveyed the landscape from the top of the hill we wondered if the next few caches would still be in position but we were pleasantly surprised to find all those we attempted despite a lack of trees.---SL-----TFTC

Last day of holidays seventh.TFTC

Trekking the Tinjella with Clive Staples on a beautiful Summer day. TFTC!

This cache survived the tree logging.

Found amazingly - tree gone from logging. But rock and cache still there. Tftc

Found on a bash around Kuitpo forest on the MTB. Completed all of the Tinjella Trail bar 5 due to a short section of trail being closed due to active logging. An enjoyable ride around the forest in some great cool weather. Thanks for putting this trail together and for ongoing maintenance, cheers.

Find #4810 on 28 Dec 2022.
TFTC weredunn4!

TFTC

We'd previously completed the top section of this trail and decided to do the bottom section today. We were a bit disheartened when we came over the top of the hill and saw that the whole area had been logged (not having read previous logs).
All was good. Cache found safe and sound.
Thanks weredunn4.

Found, no Pencil, tftc

TFTC

We were doing a hike in the area and thought we'd try to find some geocaches along the way. We thought we'd be in trouble finding them given the logging, but happily every one was safe and sound. TFTC.

TFTC

Did a maintenance run today with the geopups to replace several Spades caches that had succumbed to the recent tree harvesting.
Found this one, which survived the harvesting.

Looking for a long walk on this cooler summer day and decided this series is just the ticket to get my heart pumping a bit. TFTC weredunn4.

Found at 16:16 with Olga, during a pleasant walk around the forest. There's been a bit of logging (of trees, not geocaches), and some of the caches were in cleared areas. Somehow this one survived.

OZGrumpy and I had a lovely day walking through Kuitpo today collecting these caches. This one managed to survive the recent felling. Thanks weredunn4

Today KTPops and I targeted this 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. The caches were generally in good condition. 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.

Rock saved the day here, cache was nicely tucked underneath

Rock still there but pine tree has been logged, cache still ok

Good day for it, tftc

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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TFTC

Today was cool and sunny, perfect for a walk in Kuitpo with the pines, mushrooms, kangaroos and black cockatoos. I’m enjoying this series, so rationing them out over a number of visits. Thanks for this great series Weredunn4.

Found on a church walk through the forest. Pretty easy find. Geodaughter spotted it pretty quickly. TFTC

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 [^]

No, not that other big rock

Found

Easy one

TFTC weredunn4

Thanks for this Traditional Cache

Cache on!

Found on January 18, 2021 at 12:38 PM
Find 1230

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

Found out mountain bike riding

Riding the trail with Pony1966. Searched around the LARGE rock first TFTC

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

Came back today for a bit more of a walk on Tinjella.
Most were easy finds, when using the hints.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Spent the day walking back and forth along the Tinjella trail looking for geocaches. Ended up walking 17 km or 23000 steps. So far found about half the caches along the track. Thanks weredunn4.

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.

A nice stroll up the hill

It was such a beautiful day for a walk in the forest...
Trigger_Fish, jafaz62 and her doggo, Chewie and I started around 9am...
I am very glad we walked in the anti-clockwise direction as I would not have wanted to do some of those hills at the end of the walk...
Chewie loved the puddles and the ponds...
There was a lot of activity in the park today...horse riders, walkers and dogs...
We saw some wildflowers though it will be a month or so until it is in full colour...
All caches we found except the last one (Ace of Spades)...
A couple took longer to find than others...the hints helped...
Thanks for providing caches along this trail for our enjoyment, weredunn4

Out with NormanvilleSA & Geosparkie0 to visit the Kuitpo Forest on a beautiful day. So appreciative of the effort of placing the caches for our enjoyment.

TFTC

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Today was great walking though the forest with Normanville and The Erin!

Amer Mohammad Rashid al-Ubaidi ( born 1939 in Baghdad) served as Oil Minister under Saddam Hussein. A former general in Iraq's army, he also advised Hussein on other matters, and was sometimes referred to as "Missile Man" in reference to his expertise with weapons delivery systems. He is the husband of Dr. Rihab Taha (a.k.a. "Dr. Germ"), a microbiologist active in research into the production of bioweapons. Iraqi government news sources indicated that he retired from his positions in 2002, at the age of 65.

Rashid was the six of spades in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued by the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.After the invasion commenced, he issued a public statement calling for other Arab nations to decrease oil production, in order "to make the cost of war high for the Americans."American troops raided his Baghdad home on April 14, 2003 in an effort to take him and his wife into custody, but both evaded capture. He surrendered to coalition forces on April 28, 2003, and his wife surrendered on May 10, 2003.

Rashid was quietly released in April 2012.

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 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

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.

I came back to finish off the series. It was freezing in the morning.

All are in good condition. The hints were helpful.

Thanks for the walk.

P.S. I don’t have to walk back to my car.

Thanks weredunn4 for the cache

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. [^]

Thanks for the cache

Another day on this trail with bikes. Finding caches with SupaTurtle and Csaba!. Sooooo much fun today. Tra La Laaa

Fun times on the trail today. I need a bigger bike. Turtle out

Our final day in the area. We still need to come back for the Clubs and a few Hearts. This was a well themed series. The Supa's and I had a great time on the trail. Thanks

Another find on a nice sunny day out.

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

Out ticking off a few more of these today. Loving this series. great little spot. Cache and contents are all good. TFTC.

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.

Found while on a good hike with cows with guns

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

After a 10 km walk around Monato yesterday the dog was hoping for a rest but he was out of luck as we went to Kuipto for a short 12 km stroll.

It was 1 degree when we got out of the car and started the walk.

About 5 hours 15 minutes lter we were done.

We had 3 dnfs, and 2 caches we left for another time because of the number number of people around.

All in all a nice walk and a great series.

TFTC

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!!

Out with CPwanderer, Locus cache & Pikapene gathered in the nearby car park.
The weather was perfect for walking and in some places, we were swamped by people & dogs
The sat loc in the forest proved to increase the searching difficulty, but the clues were very helpful.
We managed to find all 52 caches and no DNFs, one fall from a bike and a few difficult hills.
A nice spot, with handy stools was sorted and we enjoyed our lunch in the sun.
Thanks for the series weredunn4, a lovely spot to walk

Enjoyed a great day out caching the trail with CPWanderer, locus cache, Claire007 and Spence Man. Thanks weredun4!

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

Getting dark

Published

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 another “not found before” cache. It was getting cold and dark the first trip so less time was spent searching. Brad had missed a few in a row. Coordinates helped a lot. This was found, the log stamped and it was on to the 7S.

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