On Charleston Rise Mount Charles, South Australia, Australia
By Team Jeckyl on 02-Sep-03. Waypoint GCGTQ6

Thanks ttrogg for placing this cache and for the ongoing maintenance. Find #9972 on 1/9/2024 at 11:03AMRather epic location. Cache dry and in good condition

Nice one. A bit too off road, but worth it

TFTC

3 years ago I came here to do the series in this park but somehow I had missed this one. I've stared at the green dot on my screen ever since. Today was finally the day. Tftc!

Found while I was in the area picking up some solved mystery caches. Pretty thick bush through these parts. Reasonably quick find once I made it to GZ. Thank you Team Jeckyl, adopted by ttrogg, for placing On Charleston Rise for the geocaching community.# # #14830 # #

Dnf

Our usual Wednesday wander now changed to a Tuesday trek with a starfish and the Rat. Our target was the My Charleston series and as the owner wanted to undertake a maintenance check on them all we had the pleasure of his company.

An enjoyable lunch at the Lobethal bakery followed where we then made our way to get a few other smileys that were needed.

An extra find while completing the series.

All caches were in good condition unless noted otherwise.



Thank you for the cache ttrogg Find Number 9981 on 30/08/2022

Wednesday Wander was changed to a Tuesday Trekking day.
The group consisted of the Rat, the Starfish and an Adder.
We met up with Ttrogg to his My_Charleston X Series.
This was a fun but soggy trek around the Conservation Park.
Yay a bonus cache.

Then it was time for lunch at the Lobethal Bakery.
After lunch we headed out for smileys. Tftc

A pleasant morning stroll around the Charleston Conservation Park. An excellent loop walk in a quiet area. Cache found and log stamped. Thanks for the series Trogg!

A regular sized cache not too far from home that I had been saving for a rainy day, and today certainly qualifies.

It’s interesting to compare this patch of bush with say nearby Cromer Conservation Park which was not affected by recent fires.

Parked at Gate 1, I realized that this isn’t a quick drive by after all. About a 1km walk each way. At GZ , bush regeneration after the 2019 fire has complicated things somewhat, but the coordinates were spot on for me. Cache in great condition.

Thanks for the original hide Team Jeckyll and thanks to ttrogg for keeping this one in play.

Out & about today with clare007 & jafaz62. We headed to do the Charleston CP series of caches. After having lunch at the Charleston Hotel we were on our way.

This was a lovely 2.5hr walk along the track. We stopped to take photos, watch a variety of birds & listen to the chorus of frogs. There was all sorts of interesting fungi growing on the wood and in the ground, in the park, along the trail.

The regrowth after the fires made this quite a challenge to reach the cache but we got there & all is good with it.

Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment, Team Jeckyl and keeping this one alive ttrogg

Down caching around Mt Torrens and surrounding areas today. An early shower of rain turned into a great day for caching. This cache is one that was found today.

A general log for all of the Charleston X caches.
An enjoyable walk around this park, have never been here before. Looks like this place has bounced back well after the fires a while ago.
Great to see this oldie brought back to life, thanks for looking after this one!

Find #4052 on 20 Apr 2022.
TFTC ttrogg!

Found TFTC

Awesome that this one had been resurrected from the ashes like a phoenix!
When I was last here there seemed little hope for its survival

Back in February 2020, I had been here before. It was nice then, in an eerie sort of way.
Recent bushfire had swept through the park and turned CP's GC2D7F2 into an ammo can full of papery ash This one may have also suffered, but since has been saved by Mr Ttrogg.

But to find the cache in Feb 20, it was a straight walk in the park, over blackened soil, to an easy find at a burnt out tree... now less than two years later WOW what a difference!

So yes... how hard can a boundary track be? It looked good from the entrance, a little dry grass had been cut down, slashed by the friends of the park or whoever. So off I trudged.
Prickles. Yep there were prickles and grass seeds of significant persistence. And who knows what was living in all that tall grass to the sides of the track. Then the track passed a dam - and I thought, this'll be the worst bit, a little more growth on the track and surrounds, but as it goes up the hill it'll clear up. So I pushed on. (detouring of course through the forests of undergrowth for the occasional cache!) And then more grass seeds. And reeds. And a million cat high bushy baby trees or whatever that understorey growth was - it was thick. And grass seeds. In my socks, penetrating my shoes. Even in my shirt - yes the grass was that high!
We're going on a cache hunt...
Some muggles actually hiked on past me! Or was I hallucinating? I never saw them again.
More grass. Taller than a kangaroo. Oh, and a kangaroo that I didn't see until it jumped out of the bushes startled right in front of me! What else could be in the long grass... yeah let's not think about that.
Up and over and around the corner in the track and ... where did the track even go ? Yep there's a track on my map leading back towards the road... but that's just weeds and bushes and who knows what! Too late to go back, committed now! But those prickles and grass seeds
So bashing through bush it was. And a very exhausted cat at the end!
And... did I mention the grass seeds [?]
I think that pair of shoes and socks may just be headed for the bin. Licking my wounds now

My log of Feb last year did say "the regrowth will be amazing in time". Little did I know how right I was! Much needed rest back at the car.

Still a smiley's a smiley. And X certainly did mark a few spots!
All caches in good condition. If there were any snakes in here I must have scared them away with my singing [:o)]

Gratitude to ttrogg for placing these caches clearly on the SA geomap under "X"
and maintaining the old one!



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Looking around every day locating and logging using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S20+, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just plain old dumb luck Quite a bit of that indeed !!!
*Logs are composed and published using GSAK of course.*


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Please do stay safe when caching.

Ensure that Travel Bugs are the only bugs you share and pass on
Now our borders are open - even more important to sanitise and safely distance!!!

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Roll on Twenty Twenty Too

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In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). 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 - Ttrogg [^]

Found with gridge98 whilst in the area doing some caching apologies for the late log. Thanks for the cache

In the middle of the new series here, detoured to find this cache, nicely hidden away and great to see it’s been replaced with something new

Today we headed up into the hills to doing some walking caches along the bike path and the Charleston X series plus a few others along the way.

Thanks for the cache

With the forecast for what looked to be a very pleasant Spring day, I thought I'd head out to Charleston Conservation Park to do the new(ish) puzzle series. And I wasn't disappointed - it was clear skies and sunny, no wind and not too warm.

I wandered my way around the perimeter and bashed and splashed my way through the post-fire regrowth and the little creeks and soaks. The thick long grass combined with the warm Spring weather had me a bit wary of snakes, but I didn't see any at all. They say what you can't see can't hurt you don’t they? I was lucky that the grass was mostly only just flowering, and ended up with no seeds in my socks at all. Quite a bonus!

This Traditional cache was found along the way and the recently replaced container and contents were in excellent condition.

Thanks Team Jeckyl and ttrogg for the cache.

A day out with Featherwaite.

We went to Charlston and Monarto and picked up any others we came across.

We completed this series (of what had been published) in about an hour and were second to find on all 8 caches. A nice little walk on a coolish morning.

TFTC

Came for a walk in Charleston Conservation Park with ttrogg and gadanga to help place ttrogg's series here and had to get my name in this log on the way past. Hadn't been here before the fires but it was good to see how well the place is regenerating.

Thanks to ttrogg for the walk and the cache

Came for a walk in Charleston Conservation Park with ttrogg and Don't Panic Arthur to help place ttrogg's series here and had to get my name in this log on the way past. Hadn't been here before the fires but it was good to see how well the place is regenerating.

Thanks to ttrogg for the walk and the cache

Many thanks to ttrogg for adopting this cache ??

Lucky to be walking in this park with the CO when this cache was replaced after the 2019 Cudlee Creek fire came through this area. Not a day any of us locals will ever forget.

Really enjoyed the walk here, lovely spot for a cache and it was simply stunning today with a carpet of winter moss surrounding GZ. Loved the placement of the cache too in this rocky outcrop.

So glad the original owners were able to adopt it out and keep this old cache available for years to come.

TFTC and the walk. A favourite point from the M's.

Was in the area today and have put in a replacement cache.
Park is open during the day but is currently closed at night to allow for feral animal control.
It's a great time to visit this park and see all the regrowth. I think winter will always be the best time to visit but waterproof footwear is highly recommended.

On Charleston Rise was transferred from Team Jeckyl to user ttrogg

Excellent.
Will be a nice walk in the park.
Last cache i found in there was toast!!!

Hope to have cache replaced and back up and running within the next week.

Pretty confident this one has perished in the bushfire at Xmas time last year. Been here twice since the fires and have not been able to locate it

It has taken me 17 years to get to this cache, and when I finally do the park is closed.
I'll be back, some time in the next 17 years.

I was in the area today, and happened to be driving past this park to see the park closed with the bushfires impacting this area significantly. I'm not sure whether this cache survived, but looks like this cache may need to be disabled until the park reopens.

Refer: https://www.parks.sa.gov.au/know-before-you-go/closures-and-alerts/200103-charleston-conservation-park-closure.

Needed a walk after several drive-bys today. Decided to stop in here for a walk from the other side of the conservation park. Saw some roos and heard some birds. Of course there were flies! TFTC Team Jeckyl.

A great walk. We took a direct route and encountered heaps of kangaroos and some really interesting other things on the way. Thank you!

Today was a bit of an expedition driving around the Adelaide Hills and beyond, to then around Murray Bridge, and few places in between. It began driving through Woodside on to Tungkillo to collect a few geocaches there, and then on to the river past Mannum and Mypolonga for a few scattered caches. It was then on to meet Michells&hound for her target D/T cache, and then back towards Murray Bridge to repair a few caches and find the northern area caches. Finally, I made a stop at Mount Barker on the return back to Adelaide. The day was rather nice; a little brisk and a few showers with only during the middle of the day it fell a little more harder.

A nice walk in Charleston Conservation Park targeting this oldie 09/2003 hidden cache. Not many people around here indeed. After five minutes of looking around the rocky outcrop at GZ, the cache was found. Thanks Team Jeckyl for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Finished off the day with a walk around the Charleston Conservation Park and was rewarded with lots of wildlife and 2 traditionals.
Container is showing it's age, with lid starting to break up, and zip bag doesn't zip. Cache is in a nicely sheltered spot which should help keep it dry.
Thanks for the cache Team Jeckyl

What a lovely park to walk through with all the abundant roos and the mooing cows in the fields. TFTC, retrieved the Track-a-'Koala'

A great walk with the kids! First cache for a long while. TFTC.

found with rod81w after doing the nearby power trails. Took the route from the nearby cache through the bushland, saw a few kangaroos but no snakes. After a bit of looking found the cache, always good to get a older one.

Out with Sir_spectre exploring the dusty tracks. Today we targeted OTD June and September and any others we came across

Tftc Team Jeckyl

Tftc so long of a walk at least we had a nature walk beautiful views. TFTC

Found after a little searching. Nice day!! Tftc.

Nature walk

Fun day out with Auntie and Uncle Rasbro.
TFTC

Found our 2300 cache on a day out with our nephew Sam.

Did a bee-line from CPWanderer's cache to here. Many many roos in this park. Beautiful open grassy bushland too. Cache was in good nick. Enjoyed looking back through the logbook. Followed the firetrack on the eastern boundary back to the car which was all a lovely walk. TFTC Team Jeckyl!

TFTC nice autumns walk

After a long warm walk we found this in a quiet spot. TFTC

Found on a CFS navex. First cache

Found caching with Ben7726 great walk, saw a kangaroo on our way now to find our way back hmmm...

Found with Rebecca-grace26 thanks skip for the help

Found It!
Nice little walk to a great little spot! Nice to find such an old cache to!
TFTC

Took the more 'direct' approach to finding this one, coming straight from the other cache in the park. Cache looks good for it's age! TFTC!

As the weather was holding, I walked the extra 400m to this cache.
Spotted the few rocks hiding the cache and signed the log.
My next worry was finding my way back.
As luck would have it, the cache wasn't far from the fence-line.
The track was very soggy due to excessive rain & stock that had been through recently.
Cheers Team Jeckyl for the great location

Owl is on holidays with Eagle for a few days in Hahndorf, but for reasons beyond her comprehension her GPS failed to load caches. This was the first one to appear on their drive and in a place they had both never heard of before. A rather soggy hike later, they were wondering if they’d picked the right entrance, but hugging the fence got them there.
Eagle: ‘What are we looking for?’ Owl (trying to get more details on her GPS: ‘A cache.’ Eagle: ‘Like this one?’
Don’t know why he doesn’t like caching – he’s so good at it!
Left a TB and a favourite point for bringing them to a new scenic location.

Found this between the showers!

TFTC - Took lanyard and plastic star, left rubber ducky and bracelet. Kids enjoyed it, approx 2km walk - round trip from car.

Nice hide. Hard to spot. Spot on coords though. Beautiful scenery and nice spot to see nature. Big walk but still lots of fun. Rocks looked cool. TFTC

Found. Needs a new log but enough there for a couple of years given the current visit rate. Collected the TB

Swapped TBs. Cache needs a new log book, had to use back cover. TFTC.

After swapping books at the local book exchange it had started to drizzle. Gonna get wet walking back to the car in the drizzle so may as well walk on to this cache. A minute later it started belting down. Walking head down around trees grabbing a quick glimpse at the GPS turned the 400 metres into about 800. I eventually got to GZ. How is this only 1 1/2 terrain???? The rain eased enough for me to sign the log. The whole cache is very dry in its hidey hole. Dropped in a TB and turned to trudge back to the car in what would normally be classed as a monsoon! Got back to the car soaking wet, but with that satisfied smile only a cacher would know! Thanks Team Jeckyl for the adventure.

A lovely walk in a park we'd never visited before. Found the cache quickly once we got to GZ. The hike in was made more difficult by soft, muddy conditions underfoot. On the way back we met a muggle who was eliminating Cape Tulip from the conservation park. Thanks for bringing us out for a scenic bushwalk.

5th cache in a 45 km bike ride. An easy walk in from the track carrying my bike. The supposedly good, new geocaching GPS kept taking me in circles. Bust out the phone and c:geo. cache was in hands in minutes. A fun ride out as well. Deep mud and sand descents are always fun.

Very nice walk through the bushland. Will come back again for a walk and maybe a picnic lunch.

Wow, what a lovely spot ! And our very first travelling bug too. What a lovely turkey all the way from the USA. We will certainly find an equally lovely place for him to move onto. Saw lots of kangas and had a pat of an echidna along the way. Cows watched our every moooooove and even managed to get bitten by an inch ant on the way out. Very Australian. TFTC....

TFTC......LEFT TB TOM GOBBLER

Found this one with the rocks, have been to this location before as it is a location that the CFS use to do their map reading training hence the tape in the trees near by took a ball and left a sticker TFTC.

After doing the library cache not far away, Royds16 and I made the walk up the hill to his one.
Great area and good to see an old cache in such good condition.
TNLNSL.

Cheers and happy caching.

after a little walk throught a swampy forest due to all the rain lately we found this cache after finding the library, about to turn back, ACME_caching and I decided we had better go the extra few hundred meters and get this one as well. nice spot.tftc.

Enjoy.....

This entry was edited by royds16 on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 at 11:30:09 UTC.

This was the oldest cache we found today !
Came over from the Paperback Library and it was really good to see this is surviving so well [^].
Took royal guard. Left fish magnet. SL.
Thanks Team Jeckyl.

Spent the day out doing a course check for the Scouts Rally SA and grabbed a few caches on the way.

Have been passing here for years but got out today and did the walk - plenty of roos around. TFTC.

Very overgrown walk. Wouldn't like to do it on a hot day due to snakes. Lovely park and good hide. TNLN TFTC

Nice day for a bike ride so off we went in search of hidden treasures.
We came around the back track & found this one, & then proceeded to find the other one close by.

A little park I've never visited before today. A great place though: native orchids were in flower (Nodding, Mosquito, Donkey) along with other wild flowers, even a carpet of One O'clocks ; kangaroos, birds, and my first snake of the summer.

A hidden gem. Thanks Team Jeckyl for bringing me here.

A nice walk of about 1.5 km return along the fire track to this cache. Good to see pristine reserve without any development. Took geocoin and left a Winners medal. Thanks for the exercise.

Found just on sunset - lovely. Parked at the Eastern most gate and walked around the edge of the park, rather than bush bashing. On the lookout for native orchids, but nothing flowering yet. Nice spot at GZ, sat and watched the sun set. Took nothing, left a geocoin. Thanks for bringing us here.

Had an awesome walk in the park at this warm winter night. Challenging to find due to darkness and weak GPS reception though.

loved the walk up to this one. had a chat with a farmer on the way - discussed cows! we were on our way home from trying out our new jayco after having a lovely evening with friends all camped around a bonfire.... T-belt L-uk coin ball & glasses case

TFTC
Lovely walk
T-maggie simpson
L-glow star

Easy find TNLN TFTC

Enjoyed the stroll around the park, found after a short search TNLN TFTC

Love this kind of cache location.... was adventuous and went through the scrub rather than use the boundary track... slow going but rewarding.... the roos were friendly but an owl gave me the evil eye.... left toy boat TN

Pleasant walk on a mid 20's day. Wore some boot gaiters so no grass seeds in the socks. Nice quiet area. TN. L: Puffy sticker. TFTC

Great walk, though not 30m, allow about 20min each way. Bushy scrub land be prepared, shoes, clothing etc. Note not area to enter on fire ban days. But very peaceful with enjoyable encounter of some local Kangaroos. TFTC.

Nice out of the way spot. T Groovy Cachin Dude TB. TFTC

Great little hidden Conservation Park. Bit boggy in parts, but a lovely stroll nonetheless. Had the heebies about snakes, but thankfully didn't see any. Took a while to find the cache as there were lots of good potential hiding spots near GZ. Came through in the end though.
T: Book, L: Groovy TB
Cheers & TFTC!

A pleasant walk in a delightful little park that we didn’t even know existed.
We did this one on the way home after finding four-fun’s four caches on the Federation Trail and were glad we did the walk up to the Rise when we had a goal in mind and had an easy walk back to the car!
Coords were spot-on and the cache easily located.
TNLNSL
Thanks for the cache Team Jeckyl

took the difficult route and suffered, not good carrying babies this way and husband sprained ankle not once but twice

Came the wrong way for an interesting trek. Wifes first hunt but seems to enjoy it.

Today was the day for walks so parked as close as I thought I could get and set off following the needle. Easy find nice quiet spot. Took strap left turtle. With the sun sinking where is the car? If the boss was with me she would have said we should waypoint the car!! for once she would have been right!!

sensational walk into the park with the two geokids.. saw some kangaroos and kookaburras...

Great walk, about 800 metres up a laneway before we reached the back of the park and bam, there it was. No swaps.

found 6:30pm great walk
took B2
left IKEA pencil

A beutiful day for a great walk. We made the walk more interesting by taking the direct route,

Mrs Stik had quickly had the prize in hand.

Thanks for taking us there.

Found my first Cache! WOOT!

I go to the Charleston Conservation Park whenever I can, because its a prime example of original vegetation. Lots of birds, kangaroos and flora to look at, and it provides a great walk!

Took Hacky and the Seasame Street Teddy! Left some Simpsons figurines and a hand held Xbox game!

Thanks for the Cache!

what a great area this was,enjoyed the stroll.
wind was feezing
tftc
tnlnsl

Nothing like a brisk bit of bushwalking to get to a cache - the question was which way to come in from though. We think we picked the slightly longer route but despite mrs bloopy moaning about her blisters, it was worth the effort. TNLN.

A nice walk on a cool morning, TNLN TFTC

Nice little walk. Thanks..
Took M&M on board, and left a Green and Gold frog.
Cheers

Thanks for the cache.
Left B2 ... Took a pirate.

A lovely loop walk at the end of the day. Just the way caching should be. Thanks for bringing me to this beauitiful spot.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Really nice walk and a brilliant cache to begin with.Took-fridge magnet Left-Kangaroo pen