Park and Play - Ken Couzner playground Jamestown, South Australia, Australia
By DennisC52 on 05-Jul-20. Waypoint GC8W6N6

Well our geohound thought this was just the best cache ever! And insisted we give it a favourite, he even wants us to come back tomorrow and do it again. btw the two actual geocachers in the team thought the cache was pretty damn good too and well deserved fav. Tftc

Nice

Home time, it has been a long few days on what ended up being a rather pointless trip. Trying to ease the frustration of wasted money & time, I did a maintenance run & thought I had better log one physical cache for the trip. The favourite points brought this one up on my radar & then mention of the playground sealed the deal. The Rugrats played while I cached- the perfect scenario. A well constructed container didnt deceiver me but it did earn a FP from me. TFTC!

Away for the June Long Weekend with TheWhiteDogGang.We based ourselves at Orroroo and travelled far and wide over 4 days. We managed 1,500 kms during our travels.We managed to find some really old caches, one from 2001, and even managed to get all 9 terrain ratings. Not bad for 2 old farts with no coordination.The weather was dry if not cold on occasions.A good way to spend 4 days.As the hint says too easy.TFTC

A LWE away caching w Team WaldronToured the mid north and surroundsSome great caches foundFixed a few as wellTFTC

Found with Bullash on 29 March 2024

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 7 - Jamestown to Whyalla via Caltowie , Melrose, Wilmington and Pt Augusta. I spent the morning doing a caching lap of Jamestown, including a previous DNF. Then I was on the road. I managed to stop regularly and in each of the small towns I passed though to do some of the caches along the way. As I went further west it began to warm up. I was very cold In Jamestown last night. I did some Labs in Melrose and in Whyalla before getting set up for the night and going on a short tour around town. This is an interesting structure, and the container does not even look out of place. I am sure many users do not even think about it.Thanks for the cache DennisC5246489.4 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Geometry A#167**Albida**

Found it! Spotted the hide quickly! TFTC!

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Took TB's for quick visit.

Looked at the other thing that looked out of place first then this one was more obvious. Clever hide. TFTC

Was worried about trying to not look dodgy in a kids playground when I had no kid. Luckily there were no small people today. This is a favourite point from me. Great cammo. TFTC

Sir_spectre had to make a delivery to Mintaro so we decided to make it a two day caching adventure. So after dropping off the special delivery we made our way towards Jamestown.Thanks

Well at this late hour gz was free of muggles. QUick find at gz. I do like a cache that is hidden in plain site and good cammo at that. fav point. Found with Mogni. This was a very,very last minute trip.I found out that i had to be in the " clare region " the next day by lunch the next day on muggle business. After that business was over i headed up to jamestown to get a 2001 cache via any adventure labs or caches i haven't found before staying in a B& B in Penworthm. Now it was time to start heading home via dirt roads to Burra for the new Adventure lab and then down every dirt road/track with caches on it and the odd track that needed the hubs locked on the ute. If the cache was broken/eaten/smashed it was replaced with a new container and if the log sheet was wet it was replaced and if the log was full or almost full extra log sheets were added to the cache.

Tftc very sneaky hidden in plain sight

Grateful for a hint in one of the logs. Would not have ventured there.
Why not get a pasty for lunch in Peterborough then head found to cache for today in Jamestown. Really well lived town. Cache all good.

Travelling with iluvtrekking up the WA coast to Darwin, down the Centre and in the Flinders. Basing ourselves in Peterborough for a few days to grab finds in the surrounds. Don’t like playground hides - fortunately no kids there so quick find.

Travelling with richlink from Perth to Darwin up along the west coast and home again through the centre and the Nullarbor, picking up caches as we go. We dont usually do playground hides. But the place was deserted. Thanks DennisC52.

Day 4 of my short Geocaching weekend. Today was my last day away spent an extremely cold night in Yongala before making my way home in the late afternoon..

Spotted it straight away but disregarded it as didn't think it would be that. Looked every where else twice before checking my original first thing I thought it could be and it was . Great hide enjoyed the Park and Play caches.

TFTC DennisC52

Full time Nomads since March 2014.

Having been in Perth to visit family our stay has come to an end and we are on our way to Broken Hill for the Mundi Mundi Bash.

Stopping in Jamestown to catch up with Sylken. Luckily we were also able to catch up with Chrispy89 and Honeysucker. [^] Today we headed out between loads of washing to convert as many local caches as possible.

TFTC DennisC52

While enjoying a few days in Jamestown we are grabbing a few caches as we tour around.

A nice easy find in a quiet little park even though it is currently school holidays.

Many thanks for the hide DennisC52….another favourite point on it’s way

Quick find while passing through the area.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

Left the van at Spalding and caching around Jamestown, quick easy find tftc

TFTC sadly no time to play today

Quickly found

TFTC

It’s too ezz

It looks like an alarm

Beep beep

Cant find it

Looked under the shade and it was there

TB drop off

Peterborough to Jamestown
While towing the caravan we stopped along the highway where it is safe to pull over.
Once we had dropped our caravan at the camping ground we did a tour of town following the geocache trail. This was a good way to visit town for our 1st time.

This was a cache that really blended with it's surrounds, definately worthy of a FP

Thanks for placing the cache.

There was a mother and 2 children here today, but with one of the kids playing up , there was zero interest in what we were doing .
Is it or isn't it [?]; is it or isn't it [?] - it isn't, but it is .
TNLNSL.
Thanks DennisC52.

Fanks queen or king we love ️‍

Wasn’t sure what to expect with this one, but it was impressive. Favourite point worthy. TFTC.

Nice Park. TFTC

Another great cache where you need to use your noodle.

Thanks for the cache, DennisC52

Found during a caching trip to SA's mid north staying at Orroroo for two nights and Jamestown for one night. Spent the morning caching around Jamestown before heading for home. Very cleverly constructed hide that a mere muggle would overlook. Thanks for the cache DennisC52!

Very clever cache well done TFTC

Thats a good one!! Obvious, yet absolutely not obvious!!

Found with DawnNweport. TNLNSL TFTC

Nice quiet, well maintained little park. Once my gps settled down, it was a relatively easy find. Great camo. Tftc

It took 3 visits but found it with a smile. Very good Camo. TFTC

Very clever Camo Cheers and tftc .... thanks also for the new log

TFTC. Very sneeky cammo Left baby lid . Log full

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found with help.

The Non Wangaratta Event Tour 2021!
Covid has postponed the Mega in Victoria until January but leave had been granted for AnyMules to attend with me and Bushfire. So Anymules and I went on a tour to Eyre Peninsular and mid north South Australia instead whilst Bushfire joined us in spirit only as covid meant he couldn't come here either. Not needing anything for my yearly goals I hoped I didn't add too many to the DNFs [B)]

DAY 5: Exploring some mid north towns.
Despite the good camo this was a quick find. Well what else could it be!

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 DennisC52 for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Had to climb to reach this one, so it perhaps deserved a little more on the Terrain scale.

Thanks for the cache DennisC52.
Found on 19/11/21 at 09:30.
Find #14768.

Very good hiding spot

We have been travelling around this great country, calling into see many different places,
now is a quick chance on the computer to catch up with logs and to put some smileys on the map for where we have been.
Thanks to all the COs for some great finds.
TFTC

Awesome - a great geocache )))
It's great to be able to travel and see so many quaint little country towns.
As we meander down towards GeoVenture 2020 (in 2021), Millicent, we stopped to put a smiley here.
It's wonderful to explore SA through the eyes of a Geocacher,
especially when it takes us to such interesting places.
We found your cache and with signing duties done and dusted,
we replace the cache as found.

Thanks for sharing this interesting location.
A favourite point from us
TFTC

Ok

After a morning with froghoppin and kellygang doing what cachers do... had to go find some more

Mr Frog kept me company while I cleaned up Jamestown - again !!!

Much appreciation to DennisC52 for hiding this cache on our SA geo map game board

A very neat... whatever it was fav for not a mint tin!

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Lookout for mud, snakes, surprise cliffs, wild goats, wombats, bulldust, and lightning,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins... but especially lookout for bugs. [xx(]

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We really appreciate all those placing quality caches out and about especially away from the city crowds,
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Quick find. An unusual cache container. TFTC

A great hide

Trip to the Mid North with the geo-pup. Day 9, Jamestown, Bundaleer and surrounds.

Saw it, but initially didn't want to touch it... not a fan of caches that look like they might go zap!

TFTC

Had us stumped for awhile!

out with the bees and future keith...well this was a nice hide in a cute park. Not what we expected. Tftc

Nice playground

Found it very tricky find

Good hide tftc

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet

TFTC
Thanks for sharing this location with us, never even knew this park was here until today.
Another great cache worthy of a favourite point. The log was signed & dated before being returned back to its hiding spot. Thanks again for bringing us here.

Thanks for the cache found with Webberg on our Clare Valley sojourn

Thanks for the cache! Found with conardel on our big roadtrip through Clare and Port Pirie

Nice park for families, luckily none here while we looked and retrieved the cache.
Nicely hidden.
TNLNSL
Thanks

After shocking weather yesterday set out on a brilliant 25c day with Demon41 on Dirt Bikes too do some Geocaching in the Jamestown area about 200Kl travelled a great day out TNLN Thanks

Found on a great ride on a cool day with Desertfox41, found some great new tracks. Tricky container, TNLNSL Thanks.

Big thanks to the snappy tom cats for your help and telling us all about pathtags

Another find had a play signed the cache of we go TFTC

We had planned to visit Peterborough for the weekend to attend an event and do some caching. and as we had to deliver a heap of Crystal Decanters that we had engraved for the Clare wine show, to them, we figured we are halfway there..might as well carry on, so we organised a day off and are having a "long Weekend' up North! Sprung a newbie cacher here that had already just retrieved the cache, Awesome camo! and a fav from us. TFTC

Very clever cache

Found ..not what it appears...
Clever

This was found as we wander this great country
While having a great day out
thank you DennisC52 for placing the cache

Rex and I left home on Friday[^], planning a quick trip to and from Saddleworth to try to get a FTF and some other caches[^]
I did not expect to end up having a lovely tea at Clare in the 'middle pub' with Mr and Mrs Kelly Gang and Mr and Mrs Froghoppin [^]
I did not expect to end up sleeping in the Corolla at Jamestown on Friday night in pouring rain
I did not expect to end up having a lovely breakfast at Jamestown in the [ek-wi-tee] Cafe on Saturday morning with chrispy89 either[^]
I did not expect to end up seeing chrispy89 again on Saturday as his ambulance was picking up a RFDS patient when I stopped at the airport for a cache[^]
Finally I did not expect to end up returning home Saturday night[|)][xx(][|)][xx(] after finding 2 FTFs, having 1 DNF which later was remedied with CO approval[:X] and having found a total of 27 caches over the 2 days

Typical DennisC52 hide Very clever[^][^] Not quite as good as Snake Gully Bridge though
I wished I'd had my phone here as Rex had been sniffing the digger toy[?] and so I came up and moved about 3 scoops of sand to show him how it worked! [^]Then he started rapidly digging the sand himself with his paws[^] So cute![:X]

TNLN. SL. TFTC DennisC52

Wandering around the Eyre Penisula because we can't go West. On our way home stoppovernight and cached. Well that was easy. T.F.T.C

Found It!
An slightly unusual cache design here that didn't take me too long to spot. Quite well built though!
TFTC

Cache was found in 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.

After working the morning shift we decided we would do a maintence run to Peterborough and visit some newer caches published since our last visit to the area. This was the first today, have worked and stayed in town many anight over the years and was not aware of this park, damp day today had the area muggle free and a quick search had the unique find in our hands
TFTC DennisC52

*SevTF* Seventh to Find joint with gridge98 at 15:21 hr.

This weekend, I joined gridge98 on a quick overnight trip to Port Pirie. The plan was to geocache around the town, and then head across through to Jamestown via Gladstone and Caltowie in order to find a unique hidden month oldie cache nearby. We then joined the geocaching community at the Gawler dinner event.

Today, we got up early and spent the first half of the day travelling around Port Pirie. A few highlights were the views of the lead smelters, the historic main street, and wetlands. Once a bakery lunch was had, we headed east, and found a few geocaches in Gladstone, Caltowie, and Jamestown. We then left some time to visit Bundaleer Forest Reserve for the 05/2001 hidden cache, as that was my last remaining available South Australian Jasmer grid caches. We then drove the few hours south to the international geocaching dinner Gawler event, before heading home.

This playground was quiet today, so we could walk in and search by ourselves. A nice and creative hide, with a Favourite Point from me. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks DennisC52 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Lucky no kids were in the park today, arrived and I soon spotted the likely hide. Cache is all good but well crafted

After staying in Port Pirie last night, today Davidwazza and I set out to clean up port Pirie before making a long detour via Jamestown to gawler for an evening event. We had a few targets with a 2001 cache near Jamestown to collect and a few others. All up 68 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Alarming how elaborate caches can be! TFTC

Haven’t found one like this before, absolutely loved it! TFTC!!

A nice silver on the podium for H423L and myself.

Lovely hide and a very clean loo nearby. It had everything.

This cache was found as part of an EPIC TRIP! to cross the Simpson Desert in July 2020. We crossed the desert without incident thanks to the smooth expert driving of H423L. There were many rocks, water holes, railway sidings and big dunes. Of course there was this cache too. The nights were clear and the stars were bright.

Thanks to DennisC52 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

I grabbed this one immediately on arrival then spent another 15 minutes looking for it. Don’t you hate that? A very nice hide and a well earned favourite point dropped. TFTC

Nothing in hole

Found this cache while checking on it for DennisC52. TFTC.

Seen this yesterday but work got in the way, So On a bitterly cold -5° morning I got called in to do an extra shift in peterborough, but had to venture to jamestown to get the required equipment for the day.
The ice was still nice and thick and with frozen fingers I managed to make a easy find, with a blank log book.
Tftc Dennisc52.

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