Cast off....we're bound for KI! Glanville, South Australia, Australia
By Rav 4 Raiders on 02-Feb-07. Waypoint GC10PRJ

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Just wondering if this one is coming back online soon[?]
(Although I have already found it.)

Cheers

Minor repairs required - will be back on line soon!

This one looks as if it has gone missing in action!!
Not even in the company of FLIPPER&CO and SkippyandLambchops could we locate this one.

No luck with this one early on in the long hot day of caching fun with Foxzami.

looked for ages, couldnt find

Hooray!!! Found it phew!!! No muggles around at the time... Excellent hide spot... SL. Thanks Rav 4 Raiders for organising the cache and hunt.

We looked and looked. Very disappointed.

Found at 16:00. A visit this morning was thwarted this morning by a couple of fishermen. I had the place to myself this arvo though.
I remember using this facility when I was a boy.
Thanks.

Riding past on the push bike again this morning and the memories of the cache find came flooding back
I still laugh when I think that after searching for 30 minutes without success and trying to avoid the fishing muggles I wandered away to claim a DNF [:o]
That was until like a scene out of Miami Vice an unmarked car sped into the area leaving a trail of dust as it skidded to a halt. A lone figure (aka Chameleon 77 I suspect) vaulted out of the vehicle and ran to the structure. Some acrobatic antics followed and after a short pause the figure sprinted back to the car and sped off in another cloud of dust
So I wandered back over to the structure and had the cache in me paws in a couple of minutes
You just have to be lucky sometimes

Did I ever tell you I don't like heights! This one tested my mettle. The anglers below didn't even now I was around so carefully was I stepping. TFTC.

14th of 28 FFTD. Wasn't keen to make this one a drive-by, but Mrs E did think twice . Took a bit of searching, but got there in the end. TNLNSL. TFTC.

was surprised that the area was so clear today,had the place to myself, so plenty of time to search, and take in the area

took a little bit, but got there in the end

TNLNSL

Had to give this one a miss. Hope the fishermen who were settled in there with their chairs and bottles of refreshments had better results than we did. Will try again when down this way - hopefully when there are no muggles around.

Another nice easy driveby and an excellent hiding spot. TNLN. Thanks. Rav 4 Raiders.

Find number 1239 What an interesting spot. We had a bit of trouble finding this one. We had the wrong elevation. Found while on a mad 24 hour dash with Mr MadMyers and Everlasting doing the driving. This cache was one of our 189 today. Thanks for placing the cache for us to find. Cheers The Nanks

Out on a long night of caching with MrTheNanks - we found this one. On holidays from Queensland - what better way to spend a good few hours than caching!! Cache found, log signed - now onto the next cache! Thanks for the South Australian cache!

I needed a little help, thank God for mobile phones and friends who have done this one before. Once I was in the right spot all was good.
Thanks

Glorious day, watched 2 dolphins playing in the water alonside. Couldn't get Einor the Elephant to leave the sight. Coming from hot arid lands he must have been fascinated by the water & strange animals in it, so dropped him off.

Found it ! Very interesting spot ! GPS kept sending us to the wrong side also, but eventually found it in between watching the dolphins splash around just in front of us.

Interesting structure, we now know it intimently
Didn't have any trouble walking up the ramp, most of it seems welded in place with rust.
Did take a while to find for reasons explaind by Chewin'
Thanks, Robmc.

Took us a while to spot this one mainly because the GPS consistantly placed us on the wrong side of the structure. It was the side we also favoured because it kept us pretty much out of sight of fishing muggles nearby. Only after we'd exausted all possibilties did I look on the other side and there it was. Was a bit nervous about being up here too as I could see plenty of broken and rusty cables. It will be a signifant crash when they all break, I'm thinking.
Thanks for a tough challenge.

Found by The Noodler. Took glass star, left opal.

It took me two visits to get a chance to look at all, but it did not make any difference, I did not manage to track this one down. Thanks.

Albida

Quite an interesting structure. I remember going on here for a school trip back in 1982. The trip seemed quite rough but was fun all the same.

The cache was hidden in a great spot and was quite a difficult thing to find. Eventually though... and with a little assistance, all was revealed. No worries in driving up either.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
BB

Our second visit and this time we were successful. Thanks for the cache.

There was no way Mrs S was going to get close enough to this cache to make a find. Mr S did the deed. A number of nearby muggles in parked cars but they didn't seem to take any notice.
Thanks Rav 4 Raiders. Did not know this was still here.

Finally found it, Google earth had it on the other side, well I'm sticking with that anyway.I wasn't keen on going higher. 21 without GPS

Logging in Cochlear Koala after our stuff-up

We searched high...we searched low. We went up....we went down. We were at the point of giving up when Kettle kid found it . Kettle kids had a great time climbing all over the structure. We do wonder how muck longer it will be there with all the development that is happening close by.

Left TB and then realised that we had logged it in at the Christmas event but had left it home and hadn't logged it out again. Will have to try and fix that!

Have looked for this one before and finally found it this time.

Cheers and thanks for the cache

Interesting place. We seemed to zero out on a needle, and after a bit of hunting the clue pointed us in the right direction and we found the cache. Nice view. Cheers Gav [1597]

Took a while - coords were definitely telling us the other side. Found a few needles underneath, before reading the clue. TNLN, Thanks.

Found relatively soon after we referred to the clue and realised we had been in the wrong area. TFTC.

4.15pm Found with the team from NZ. Nice area.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M [:O)] (844)

Seems that people have trouble with this one so pleased to find it. Needed the clue though. MAny thanks.

This one wasn't on our list for the record attempt, but happy to return to trhe area and find it. Quite tricky but we got there.

TFTC

Seems to have lost a few magnets?? Still sitting pretty though. T4TC - M@

What an interesting experience to find this one. Thirty years ago I drove part way up this by mistake about midnight. I am amazed it has not been removed for scrap metal.
Took a whale and left a koala because it will never get to Kangaroo Island this way to see its mates.
Thanks
Moses on the move

Revisited this one today and searched extensively - our GPS leading us to exactly the same spot as last time. Widened our search, but still no luck .
Eventually had to phone a friend, which quickly led us to the right spot (this was about 6m out from our GPS location).
This was one of those times, that by reading the logs, we were led away, rather than to the cache .
Took the last dolphin.
Left a shark (or was that a whale).
SL.
Thanks R4Raiders - We hope it's awhile before progress catches up with this one [^].

bit of a time warp boarded that boat 29 years ago when the port was thriving ,,at least this is getting ya all down there to get a taste of the past ,,,well hidden ,,,fun to hunt out lot of thought went into this one...

Took a while, GPS was not too fond of being on a great big metal structure,
I have so many memories of this place, I used to sit for hours with my grandad watching the trucks be loaded onto the ferry. Aah good times. I am suprised that you are still allowed access to the the place, I thought that it was barbed off with a 10foot barbed wire fence, it will be amazing to watch this place change
Left Ball
took Dolphin
thanks

Find 104 without a GPS at 2.40pm

Left Troubridge MV collector Spoon
I have had it for months to leave at this cache

A great cache to celebrate over 100 finds without a GPS
TFTC FOFV

Hmmmmmmm. We need to think about this one a little more.
We will return...

I had to feel for this one,
TNLN
Thanks Rav4 Raiders

First visit, five pairs of eyes, 30 minutes later, no cache. Second visit, just the one pair of eyes, found in under 30 seconds. Actually, there was only one place left to check! Thanks Rav 4 Raiders.

Dropped in on my way to the Crows match tonight and... Hooray ...I can finally put this one to rest !
Great Hide...Loved It TNLNSL TFTC from postiegirl06

This is my fourth visit and whilst I am only new to geocaching am at somewhat of a loss over this one. I am sure that it is somewhere there, but will obviously need to reconsider where I am looking. Hopefully I will find it before the redevelopment does!

this one had us searching high and low all over the place! read the title again ... worked out where it must be and presto found it! is that a camera in the large meter box near GZ! thanks from polky

Well I could not find this one at all. I am a short ass so that may be the problem. Could not get a good lock on the GPS and the structure has many places to hide. Hmmmm might try again another time.

Thought I had probed the likely spots from sea level to up high. Well hidden maybe but I ran out of time and perhaps height.

Found by Mary & David at 1755. Our second trip here and, with a hint from Freddo this time, we had success at last. There was a howling gale and the structure was creaking as if it was about to set sail itself. Great spot. TNLN. Our thanks to Rav 4 Raiders.

1/7/07 1.00pm Team: A Sunday Find : 7
T:Rescued a Dolphin to join the Flipper Pod
L:Koala
TFTC SL
For us vertically challenged Flipper's it was quite a challenge, but HWML1 got it, nice little hunt this one was, not sure if the 2 car loads of folks there were fellow cachers or nosey muggles, only time will tell, I guess.

There are some cache placements that stick in the mind and this is right up there with the best. A few fishermen around but I was well hidden and the cache was in the 2nd place I was expecting to find it. Thanks Ravs.

Found after a short search Cache placed by a very tall individual. One of the dolphins escaped and blew away in the wind and went to join his colleges in the river. It was a bit crowded in the cache. Thanks for the interesting historical journey.

TNLN
Team Evilcrazyrobot

AT LAST !!!![^][^]
Found after receiving a hint from a fellow cacher that I my GZ was in totally the wrong area.[:(!]
After ignoring the GPSr and looking on the right side of the object, I came up trumps in minutes.
TNLNSL
TFTH - and the hunt, and the hunt,and the hunt,and the hunt..........[B)]

I had a bit of a stroll around admiring this bit of industrial 'art' and wondering if the nearby fishermen had parked their car next to the cache or not
In the end though, this was an easy walk up and grab kind'a'cache
Grabbed me a Unite for Diabetes TB. TFTC.

Returned today after the event in town and armed with extra clues from Jack I had another search. Had to resort to the helpline in the end though and with explicit instructions I finally located it about 15m from where the GPS was pointing - completely on the opposite side of the structure!
It was fun searching though
Left the 'Springfield' Diabetes TB
Cheers.

The challenge was set when a friend phoned seeking assistance - we couldn't help, so when he still didn't find it we knew we had to, and that I did, quite easily in fact whilst the brat boys had a ball clambering all over the very interesting structure - TFTC and the bragging rights

I looked high & low, climbed all over the structure & stuck my hand in all sorts of places I probably shouldn't have but still ended up as a DNF. But then I suppose it was only my first visit here. It seems to be taking most people a few
Cheers.

OK, NOW I'm gettin' a bit despondent
My FIFTH trip here, and I still come up empty-handed. (I stopped logging DNF's after the first two). Even with a coerced brother in law out to help, and 2 phone a friends, the cache still would not reveal itself to me.(Mind you, both the friends I rang haven't done this cache.)
Saw 3 police cars and a K9 unit looking intently around the nearby multi-storey dilapidated building, but paid us no heed as we scrambled over EVERY inch of the structures at GZ.[B)]
And when you read logs that state "found easily", it really makes you wonder if you're either trying too hard, or just not cut out for caching after all.[xx(]
But lizards love a challenge, so I shall return.

Great place to put a cache! Thought I might get my feet wet at one stage... High, but not too high, depends on your level! TFTC

Found with DS-Fifty. This had DS-Fifty climbing on all sorts of structures, luck he didn't fall in. TFTC

Woooo....

I found this one a little scary in the dark - trying to watch my footing and not think about the water. SNP came up with the goods; I don't know if I could have! Bold hide. Great cache.

TFTC

It took a while. Plenty of places to look. I wonder if the exposed cables in the power box with the open door are live[?]
TFTC

We have been searching for this one for some time, i swear we scaled the structure from top to bottom. Finally found it, with a little help from Trial06, tnx for the extra clue. Now we can rest easy and start finding some other caches. Tnx.

Found quite easily on a very wet Adelaide day by Swampy whilst in the esteemed company of Adrian Mc and Abbo. Adrian Mc took Travel Bug to continue it on its journey where ever he may take it.
Swampy TNLN
Thanks Raiders

Found by Swampy of Team Swampy fame, over in SA with the tassie contingent.
Took travel bug to continue its journey.
TFTC

Took a bit of perseverance, but finally had a 'Hang on!' thought and found the cache within a few minutes. Love the hide! Nice container too! Took dolphin and Travel Bug, left money and another Travel Bug (Belgium TB) to be picked up and taken on its way. Thanks! One of our favourites for sure!

Travel Bug dropped off.

Finally (if only we had an option of a log type of Found it finally). Even thought about bringing food and befriending my friend the rat.
After a few trips in and around the structure, up and down (and you can go a fair way down with low tide), finally located this regular sized cache.
Never travelled on the M.V. Troubridge but my parents and sisters did before I came along in the sixties - kept their dinner plates for me (see photos).
Went to school with Captain Skuse's son (the last Captain)and back in the 80's visited the ship's bridge whilst it was in Kingscote. Also fondly remember afternoon drives to the port and watching the Troubridge go through the bridge.
Left a Smiley sticker and Thara's 200 Cents TB to enjoy the Million Dollar View. Took Diabetes TB.
TFTC Rav 4 Raiders

Cheers

Okay, OBVIOUSLY I'm missing something here......... I SHALL return!!

Put my fear of heights aside and had a long climb up and down the structure and nearby and still keep coming up empty handed. Had a think, found another likely hiding spot, but still came away empty.
The rat on the western side of the ramp, living near the fenced area is huge!
I'll be back.

This was our third visit and we still couldnt find it. Swear we have looked everywhere...well almost. We'll be back.

Searched High and low, but came up empty handed.
Spent a grueling 20 mins racking the brain as to where it might be, but decided day was young, and we had used our time on this one.
Will be back to try again when next past this way.

Second visit to this lovely spot. Definitely a daytime problem to solve. Took a dolphin out, put a glitter pen back in! Thanks RAV’s from TeamAstro. [^]

took a bit of thinking. wife was a bit short but my height was fine

good one to make one think.

An easier lunchtime find this time around, last visit had maintenance workers nearby that hindered a good look. Fairly quick find, no swaps but left Mexico bound Diabetes TB. Cheers.

Thanks to the teenage mugglers that helped me with this find. TNLN

I swear I logged this at the beginning of the weekend. Means that our 200th came up with Parrothead's Howdie Pilgrim (as we initially thought). Took dolphin for Floss' collection and left a large Coopers crown seal. TFTC

Exactly a month after my DNF, I have returned and found it with ease this time thanks to some pointers from various sources at the Pub Lunch event .
I got sprung badly with the cache in hand though. After I had filled in the log, something attracted my attention above and was startled to find two muggle truant teenagers peering down on me from up high . I had to solicit from them a promise not to nick the cache (after I had shown them the contents in the hope that that would satisfy their curiosity). They seemed like they were ok with it, but it might be wise for future finders not to put any TBs or coins in there for a while, in case they decide to check it again in the days ahead. Sorry ‘bout that R4R [B)]

Found on way to work this morning. It is definitely there. No pods to see today, a few fishermuggles to make it a lil more challenging though...
Left a patch(I think) TNLNSL
Thanks

Another find for The Rebel Alliance. L.L.T.R.A

Eighty-third of 128 finds on "The Big Adelaide Assault" in company with acts2youthgroup and HawMorFords. This cache caused us some grief, and the ten-minute timer almost ran out. The three of us agreed on where GZ was, but the cache wasn't there. We expanded our search area, but still couldn't lay hands on it. With time running out, we rang a help line, and with a couple of hints, we finally got it at 1322. The ten minute alarm went off seconds after we found the cache. I made no exchange. Thanks to Rav 4 Raiders for the cache. Cheers, dak.

L.L.T.R.A.

Eighty-three of one hundred and twenty-eight cache finds on the "The Big Adelaide Assault" the cache was found at 13:22 in company with dak's Emu Mob and HawMorFords. Wow we nearly walked away on this one as the ten minute timer went off just after we found it. The coordinates were 10-15m out. A very interesting structure.

Thanks Rav 4 Raiders for the cache.

13:22 - Find #83 of 128 on our Big Day's Caching in the company of dak's Emu Mob and acts2youthgroup.

I really enjoyed this cache though for a while there, it looked like we were going to miss out. The timer was ticking and we spent way too long looking in the wrong place - it was only when the search area was extended that the prize was in hand. The coords were 10 or 15 metres out for us.

Thanks to Rav 4 Raiders for the cache.

On two recent occasions I have noticed some pushbike riders searching gz. I drive past the area on my way to work (usually about 8 am). Just waiting to see the log – good luck, whoever you are!

Had a good look around, but we didn't have any luck. Perhaps we lacked the reach required. An interesting structure all the same, so our thanks to RAV4 Raiders for showing it to us.

This brings up cache number 1250 for SA_Parrothead.
Remember watching the cars load here.
An interesting piece of SA History.
We had fun exploring the structure.

Found it after a short hunt. The hint about the height narrowed down the possible nooks to search in.

A couple of family holidays started from here as a child. The boat being slow made for many hours of "are we there yet". I remember we were under way for an age, before we even got past outer harbour!
Fun times.

I also took a dolphin
Left a voucher for cappuccino.

Took Feng Shui Geocoin.

Thnx Rav 4 Raiders

And PL too. The boat went to Port Lincoln as well.

Supposed to have been a fabulous cruise. If it was not rough.

If it was. Bring your spew bag.

Great cache, in a fantastic location. Love your work.

Looked in every place I could think of at the imagined elevation, but couldn’t find anywhere capable of hiding a regular sized cache? Got some great photos of the activity and old buildings around this Port area. I’ll have to watch this for a while and come back another day. Cheers R4R, and welcome back. Good to see an old seasoned team back on the radar.

Well this one was too close to work to ignore so Racey and I took a walk in our lunch break. Nice piece of engineering- too bad it is redundant. spotted an unexpected pod just after opening the cache. It was not a quick find as there was a lot to search and the gps could not make a decision. Racey would never have found this one based on altitude. T; Filbert TB L; Beagle TB TFTC

Had to go to Semaphore so it seemed like an excuse to take the GPS along. No one fishing today. Looked high and low. Successfully remembered what the RAV4 team looked like and picked the likely spot. TNLN SL Saw some dolphins too.

We came last night for a look see and there were to many fisherpersons around, so left rather empty. However this morning was a different story, Still managed a FTF and we saw a larger pod of dolphins than we did yesterday even managed to catch one and take it home

T: TB#12
L: Geocoin

[This entry was edited by gr8cherokee on Saturday, February 03, 2007 at 6:49:14 PM.]

Just passing GeoTruckers Geocoin thru

There were a couple of fishers there when we arrived, but they left empty handed soon after, we took some time to look all over and then we had to leave empty handed as well. We must have looked in every hiding spot except the right one. MODU.

Under the cover of darkness, spotting the “dolphins†should have been easy. They had just been there, according to the fisher people.

I did not walk the plank, but I looked up. RAV4’s are not THAT tall.

No way.

But after reading the clue, the sinker sank.

Just how accurate the GZ is I don’t know as there were 2 possibilities.

Muggles with little glow things on the end of their rods abounded. I settled in, goldfish watching. Just around the ramp drop-off, there were 1000’s of them in the torch light.

But there is only so long one, without a rod, or crab net, can seemingly be bemused by watching the fish, and waiting for the pods. Or was I searching for the drug stash? What were they beginning to think? Why wouldn’t they pack up and go????

½ time – so I changed sides. I wasn’t 100% convinced I had the correct RAV. As it was dark, it was all by feel.

I never did find the thing (I was there for over an hour, but look time was short), but I bet if you arrive at dawn to see the dolphins, you will spot the damn thing quickly.

………..all together now (singing)…………
Lots of Muggle, Lots of Trouble.
Motion in the ocean
Oooo Wooo
His air hose broke
Oooo Wooo
Lots of muggle
Oooo Wooo
Lots of bubble
Oooo Wooo
He was in a jam
S'in a giant clam
But where was the cache [?] …. (repeat)…

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