Urban Micro Payback Eudunda, South Australia, Australia
By Mrs matmob on 25-Mar-07. Waypoint GC11NB2

Time to go to bed.

Found It!
I found the contains of this cache spread across the ground and the container which looks like it has been attacked by an animal of some sort. Or a lawnmower. But that doesn't make sense out here so I'm tipping the animal option...
I put it all back together the best I could but I think it will need some maintenance before the next rain.
TFTC

After a good meal and sleep at the Commercial Hotel we visited Maa's bakery for breakfast. Fortified we set off with no intention of getting anywhere near the 122 finds of yesterday!!
Love the back roads!
TFTC \t

Tftc love this one

Tftc!

[Green][font=Comic Sans MS]G'Day from W.A.[font=Verdana][/Green]


[Black]Today we headed out to the TdF series with FelixII, quite happy to see that the rain had stopped and the sun was shinning albeit weakly.

We drove up the highway from Mallala to Morgan and drove back down the stock route picking up the odd additional cache along the way. The road was good order, though a bit slippery in isolated patches, and the rain stayed away. I must say I'm glad we didn't have to ride the route on the bikes.

Most caches were in good order and mostly dry inside even though some where in puddles of water.
Thanks for your cache matmob, we had fun.[/Black][font=Arial][font=Verdana]

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February and attending Oz Mega. Now we are leisurely checking out the rest of the State.

Having met up with iluvtrekking a few days ago and surviving the pouring rain of the last few days it was very nice to head out with them today with only the odd drizzle about. The sun even managed to poke its head out a couple of times. Think the temp only got to 14degrees though

A fabulous day touring the countryside. We also managed to complete the TDF series. A very successful day with only 1 DNF. Took heaps of photo's so a big thankyou for this cache.

TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Sitting in a pub in Auckland before the SA MEGA we decided it would be a really fun idea to try and see how many caches we could find within 24hours. So it was decided, team NZ Fun was born (myself, Alpenmilch80, Cats and Dragons, slieschke, funkymonkeyzone and vistra). We met at the dedicated starting point just before midnight and we were ready to go on the stroke of 12, we completed Signal, OZ Mega trails, Wandering Heros and the Tour de France with many others in between.

Thank you to the many cache owners who put time and effort into placing and maintaining these trails, we really appreciate it, we managed 727 caches within our 24hours, which was exhillerating, exhausting and loads of fun. Apologies for the generic log.

Found with alpenmilch80, Cats&Dragons, funkymunkyzone, vistra and yorkshirekiwi83 on an epic 24 hour cache run of the Oz Mega trails, Wandering Heroes, Tour de France and a bunch of caches between these. Signed as NZ Fun (and also some instances of Fun NZ as the day continued on)! A total of 727 caches were found on this run!

Thanks to all the COs for their placements!

I am over from New Zealand for Oz Mega 2014 and today joined forces with fellow kiwis Yorkshirekiwi83, Cats&Dragons, Funkymunkyzone, Slieschke and Alpenmilch80 for a 24 hour non stop caching run! The log books were signed under the team name of "NZ Fun"

We started near Murray Bridge and worked our way around the Oz Mega 2014 Signal trail, then on to the OZ Mega 2014 SA trail. Once those trails were finished, we headed over to Tailem Bend and worked through the Wandering Heroes series up to Loxton. From here we made our way across to the Tour De France power trail. Whilst the power trails were our main focus, we also picked up a few other caches along the way. At the end of the 24 hours we finished with 727 cache finds!!! It was an exhausting 24 hours and we still had to drive back to Murray Bridge afterwards! Sorry for the generic logs, but a big thank you to the cache owners for all of the cache placements!

Found as part of a 24hour cache run with 5 other kiwi's while at the OZMEGA2014 Murray Bridge (Alpenmilch80, Slieschke, funkymunkyzone, vistra & Yorkshirekiwi83, ) on Friday 18th April. All logs were signed as "NZ Fun"

We had a great time and throughly enjoyed the challenge that this presented to us all, thank you to the cache owners for being able to create such a range of caches for us to complete.

We started our run at Signal, through to OZ MEGA 2014, The Wandering Hero's, Tour de France with many other caches along the way. For all that we managed we only had 11 DNF's in the whole trip which for the numbers was pretty amazing in its own right.

So again thank you for the NZ FUN

Team "NZ Fun" - funkymunkyzone, slieschke, alpenmilch80, vistra, yorkshirekiwi83 and Cats&Dragons - found this on our rather loosely planned 24 hours of cache finding record run, from midnight to midnight on the 18th of April 2014. We started with the Signal geo-art trail, headed up through the other Oz Mega 2014 trails, the Wandering Heroes series and then across to the Tour de France trail for a total of 727 finds and 11 DNFs for the day. Apologies for the copy/paste logs, but with so many caches found in a single day it was impossible to remember specific caches, but that's not to say there weren't memorable caches along the way - there were indeed some great caches, particularly along the Wandering Heroes series. Special thanks to the cache hiders: OzFiresafe, Team Hurtle, and their helpers, for the Oz Mega 2014 trails; le equipe de cinq pour la piste "Tour de France"; and all the hiders of the Wandering Heroes caches and other caches along the way that we found along the way. We started at midnight on the Signal trail and ended at midnight after a few random caches in Eudunda before making the long drive back to Murray Bridge for some well earned sleep - for some of us, the first sleep for more than 45 hours. We stopped at every cache and it was a fun day but very tiring, and I don't think I'd do it again for a very long time (I'll stop short of saying never though, like organising another mega - ha!) TFTC!!!

Find 723 of 727 for the day.

From Auckland via Sydney I arrived at Adelaide around 10pm on the 17th to be picked up by funkymunkyzone, slieschke and Cats&Dragons (thx!). The plan was a 24h geocaching run which included picking up as many caches possible involving the three trails of Oz Mega, Wandering Heroes and Tour de France. We made it just in time back to Murray Bridge to meet up with vistra and yorkshirekiwi83 at GZ of our first cache. With the whole Team "NZ Fun" assembled the run started exactly at midnight.
In total we managed 727 finds and 11 DNFs in 24 hours. Wow what a great team effort!!
All trails finished and all team members very sleepy we made our way back to Murray Bridge with collecting some more on route. TFTC

Quick grab and no snakes around. Great!!

Found after completing the TdF. Tftc

Found it nice and easy. Phew!!!

Thanks matmob for the cache

School's out for another year and what better way to celebrate than a caching expedition! 124 caches in a 16 hour period in and around Eudunda, including 99 of the TDF series. Easy find

What a fun day this one was! 35 smileys including 2 FTFs while out with Dennisc52 and earthlight for a fantastic day.
We had planned to get to Clare to locus caches but instead we found ourselves at Kapunda and Eudunda
Such is geocaching

A pretty quick find for earthlight on our way to Eudunda

TNLN. SL. TFTC matmob

Found while on a days caching with DEnnisC52 and Locus cache.
Took trackables to visit.
What a remote area this is to drive at times.
TFTC

Found during a day of caching with locus_cache and Earthlight, and having a good time in Harry, despite losing a headlamp to a wayward Kangaroo. TNLN. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Dennisc52 on Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 04:57:30 UTC.

Tftc found with polkys quest )

Found with auzzie convict tftc

Found

Quick find before we hit the power trails

Nice quick find on a beautiful day! TFTC

Miss GG and I were in the area having a great lunch and bit of a stroll doing some maintenance on my cache nearby.

Was also blowing a gale at this location, I could hardly hold the log in my hand.. Had to hide behind the tree to get some sort of organization.. We swear the wind picked up as we got out of the car

Thanks for the cache Matmob

Darknstormy and i were heading back to Morgan after completing the TDF powertrail and spending some time in eudunda having lunch and more caching.
As we hadn't planned any specific caches to do on our way back we were looking on c:geo for some caches to pop up on the way back and this was one of them

The GPS was all over the place today, leading us to many places along here today so eventually we chucked it aside and used our geocacher eyes and made the find.
Thanks matmob

It's day 26 of the 31 Days of August. Today has us back out at this series to get that elusive smiley to this series. thanks auzzie convict for the challenge.
Brought TB's along for the ride.

Small detour on way back from tdu series. Tftc

Found after doing a day of caching doing the TDF series. We thought this might be hard but KKInator Soon had cache in hand. TFTC

Found after a bit of a drive, but we're country people so we appreciate your payback angle! You're right, metropolitan caching is very different to the country!

A nice find while in the area.

Having a great time exploring the area from cache to cache.
SL TFTC

Found as part of the record run to SA by The Demolition Crew (TDC). While, I am not a member of the TDC, I was fortunate enough to be caching with Blacklegend, Quasar3671, Trailrunning and Rebel Acts on what was for me, a huge adventure.

As I live with Blacklegend, it was fantastic when he said "Do you want to come to South Australia on a huge caching trip". I jumped at the chance, as I'd never been to S.A. or Adelaide, and it was a fantastic feeling to know I was going to be part of something big, and I was.

To be part of the Australian 24 hour record, at such an early stage in my caching career, so to speak, and part of so many other finds, was experience building beyond anything I could have hoped for.

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After the huge day we had Tuesday, some might think that we would rest up on Wednesday. However, there was no rest, and we were at it again, early. We targeted and completed the APM, PSA, 50, 60 and 40 series. There were other caches we found as well during another big day. In the end, I was glad to be able to see Adelaide and find a few caches there as well. Being the junior member on the team, it was fantastic to see how the others planned this, and the final result, being over 1000 caches in 48 hours.

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Due to the extremely high number of finds for the trip, and on Blacklegend's advice and with his assistance, I have also gone with the generic logs. As the others have stated, it in no way takes away from the fantastic and enjoyable hides we found on the trip. As Blacklegend and the other have said, my sincere thanks to all cache owners who placed and maintain their caches, and made this trip possible for our group. TFTC, memories and the experience.

This cache was found during The Demolition Crew with Ponty95 24 hour and 1000 caches in 48 hours record breaking challenge caching run in South Australia.

I've been on quite a few caching road trips during my time as a cacher and this one was one of the best. The idea was to see how many caches we could find in 24 hours, with the goals being to break the Australian 24 hour caching record, and then continue on the next day to see if we could eventually find a total of 1000 caches or more in the 48 hours. Needless to say we did manage to fulfill both goals.

Not only does SA have some lovely contryside and Adelaide itself is famous for its churches, SA is also known for its numerous, extensive and well laid out cache 'powertrails'. The OZ Mega, OZ Signal and the Wandering Heros series of caches in particular are the largest and just a few of the many that can be tackled. With this is mind, TDC started planning the 24 hour challenge caching run back in late 2012, and over a period of many, many months we laid out careful plans on how we were going to break the Australian 24 hour caching record, as well as find as many caches as possible while on the road.

The intricate attention to detail proved to be esssential to us completing our goals. With routes planned, essential supplies loaded (especially museli bars, water and energy drinks) and every cache detail documented, we headed off on the 6th to begin our journey. By the end we had accomplished what we had set out to do, smashing the 24 hour record and finding over 1000 caches in the 48 hours. We had an absolute ball and needless to say were knackered by the end but the final result was worth every hours lack of sleep.

Apart from finding many 'stand alone' caches we did manage to complete the OZ Mega, Oz Signal, Wandering Heros, TDF, APM and PSA series, the 40, 50 and 60 series of caches as well as a number of Adelaide puzzle caches and a few Melbourne - Adelaide multi caches.

Due to the number of cache finds and the resulting number of logs to write, I am reluctantly using a generic log to log each cache. The same goes for my fellow TDC cachers and Ponty95, full appreciation goes out to each of the CO's who placed caches that we found, and without your caches our fantastic caching experience would not have come to fruition.

Thanks, Quasar3671.

Found as part of the Demolition Crew record run to South Australia with fellow TDC members Quasar3671, Trailrunning, Rebel Acts and a guest on the trip, Poynts95.

The trip was a fair while in the making, and many aspects had to align to make it happen, including all of us getting the time to go. However, the "stars aligned" so to speak for us, and the trip was on. A date was set and much planning engaged, and when I say much, I mean a very large amount. We had an old saying where I used to work, and that was "Failing to be prepared, is being prepared to fail", so, we prepared, and prepared and prepared.

With a challenge set, being, could The Demolition Crew find over 500 caches in 24 hours, we headed forth to South Australia, the magical land of power trails, and over the duration of the trip, found in excess of 1250 caches, and indeed, easily beat the goal on our record day. Importantly too, we had a great time together.

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While you might think after the huge day on Tuesday, that Wednesday we might rest up, but oh no, again we headed out early after getting some sleep under the belts. We completed the APM, PSA, 50, 60, 40 series and a stack of other caches here and there. The other caches included two 5/5's and some completed there P81 challenge on a very nice conclusion to a 5/4.5 cache. Another great day, and we did get 1000 in 48 hours.

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Due to the extremely high number of finds for the trip, I am opting for a generic log, which I never normally do, but as the others have stated, it in no way detracts from the high quality of hides we found on the trip. My sincere thanks to all cache owners who placed and maintain their caches, and made this trip possible for our group. You have all been part of the best caching road trip we have yet made. TFTC and the memories.

When the Wandering Series was first published it had been on the agenda of The Demolition Crew, however we were not able to arrange a time when all of us could go over. Fortuitously as time went by, more trails were published. Upon looking more closely at South Australia recently, there were many more power trails than we realised, and a plan was hatched to go over and grab as many caches as we could. We were all finally able to arrange a mutual time during the Easter school holidays, so the planning stages began.

Given the limited amount of time available to us, and so many caches to grab, we realised that a huge effort was going to be needed to grab them all. Rebel Acts being known for his record breaking 24 hour runs suggested that we try a 24 hour run of our own. Now there was a thought, a challenge in fact we readily accepted. A bit more planning (a lot more actually) and a route was chosen and run sheets drawn up.

With all the puzzles solved, and most of the multi's these caches were reduced to traditionals for the run day. With cars packed, stamps made, and spirits high we made our way to South Australia to find some plastic.

Wednesday might have been a day of rest, but when you plan to get 1,000 caches in two day, there is little rest. Today the 50, 60, 40, PSA and APM series were collected before starting to head back to Victoria. The highlight of the day was collecting two 5/5 caches in one day, and completing the P81 challenge by collecting a 5/4.5 cache.

While I am using a generic log, it does not detract my appreciation of all the CO's who have put the time into placing and maintaining these caches. To each and every one of you, I thank you for being part of what has been the best cache road trip yet. Thank you!

Go TDC.

Found, after completing the TdF series.
A good hide on a hot afternoon.
TFTC

This entry was edited by The Drovers on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 11:29:21 UTC.

Ah, nowhere near evil enough to challenge the naughty nanos. But a neat hide on a road with a view.
Found with geosons Sebastbat and Timotatus after spending an interesting and enjoyable morning at the Bush Mechanics Weekend event.

tftc

Found with Mattycat and Timotatus
tftc

Found this one on the way home from the TdF trail with geonephews. TFTC

Found after doing the TdF trail with geoaunty and uncle. TFTC

A great hide. TFTC

Finally got around to finding this one. a simple drive by whilst driving towards the tdf power trail. Tftc matmob

I had just completed the Tour de France series, and was heading back to my motel, and was picking up caches along the return path, as well as some other nearby caches near town. This was one of them. It was quite obvious from the road where this cache was. The container seems to have lost it's camouflage, And some of the covering was not placed too well. I tried to replace the covering better, but it may not last there.

My thanks to matmob for this cache.

Another one on an epic day

Another one on an epic day

Found while on tour of your lovely State with The Empire from Victoria .
This day we found about 238 caches on a massive day .
Thank you for your cache .
Steve

Found by The Empire with tackle_head
Day 4 of the South Australian Invasion!
The Tour de France series was fantastic, but it was time to head to the next trail. We moved through Eudunda then onto Kapunda to attempt the Five-Oh series. What a great part of Australia! Thanks for the cache matmob.
- M

found the cache quickly and were driving off when - what's that noise?

Arrgh, hole the size of a planet in our rear tyre.

Many thanks to the local Tyre place SSkids for getting us back on the road quickly!

Thanks for the cache matmob

Easy find tftc

Easy find. TFTC

easy find tftc

easy find
tftc

quick grab while out doing some rally work in the area

Nice easy cache after doing the tour de france... TFTC

Found with Minnes, TFTC!

Great little cache!

A rather cheeky micro that was quickly found and signed.

Grabbed this on the way out to the TdeF series. Helpful local lady pulled up to check I was Ok. Yes I was so she drove on leaving me to find the prize. Thanks Mrs matmob.

A quick find on the way to the power trail. Thanks matmob.

This was one of about 180 finds for Sully1 and I today with the TdF and Skippy's 50 series plus a few gems in between.
A quick find of this one, luckily for us, due a lot of help to the good co-ords, thanks again matmob

A nice quick find with bogonghazy after finishing the TdF series, and before heading to do the New Five Oh Trail. I must admit, when I read the description enroute, I didn't think we'd be able to tick this one off as quick as we did. Thanks to matmob for the cache.

TFTC

Found on our OZ MEGA trip, a quick find.
TFTC

Found during a massive 24 hour cache-a-thon with Rediguana, ADV, Hello Mrs and Pohutukawa - on the homeward stretch of our Oz MEGA trip.
We did 231 caches in this one day - a new personal best and an Australian record (until growingupisoptional put it in its place just one week later).

Sorry for the generic logs.
We had an awesome time with the TdF, APM and much of the NXY serries' of caches, as well as many others in between. Unfortunately they were all a blur in long, long, day.

Nice easy find after 'relaxing' following TdF. Cheers Gav [11442]

A quick find. TFTC

Thanks for the hide :0)

A quck and easy drive by find. TFTC matmob.

great cache as my instincts set in found this cache without gps help TFTC

A short 'excursion' from Eudunda after first being 'distracted' by the town's Bakery - those Meat Pies are delish! Found after a search by 3 geo-adults, 2 geo-kids and geo-toddler. The sharp eyed 'Mrs The Comrade' spotted it first before the rest of us geo-radared onto the cache. With 'The Comrades'. TNLN. Thank you to 'matmob' for a further caching experience in delightful Eudunda. A fine town for caching is Eudunda I have no hesitation in recommending.

Cache completely replaced today. Thanks for those who have made repairs in the past.

Log book very full and but found no worries. So windy out there today

Needs a new log, but managed to squeeze ourselves onto it, Mrs Dolly and I

Easy morning find.
TFTC

Our second to last cache from a week away cacheing. Give us a rural cache over an urban cache any day.
TFTC

Found while out on a caching adventure with some Adelaide Hills Geocachers.
Thanks Mrs Matmob

An easy find on a great day out caching. TFTC

Got this one in seconds!!! Thanks matmob for the hide!!

Thanks for that matmob. What about us rural cachers who get the payback too. Only joking, TFTC.

Remembered when we got this one that I had found it before. Worth another visit. Thanks

Could see it as we arrived - added more camouflage
TFTC matmob

Saw it as we were driving up! Quick, easy cache!

We found this on the way to a huge day of caching in the mid north with Team Waldron.

We tried for the century but like the Australian Cricket team, that proved elusive and we had to be content with 60 odd caches for the day.

Thanks for the cache, it was fun.

A quick find by Trail06.

As a placer of Urban micros I appreciate the irony.

TFTC

Log dry but wrinkled,returned to hide with new ziplock bag and covered with more shelter,big for a micro,TFTC SL.

Couldn't write in the log as it is so wet and would fall apart if tried to un fold as previous logs said it has no lid and needs some maintenance.

TFTC and detour

Was expecting a more difficult find due to the name. Cache has no lid, so log is quite damp. TFTC

Found on my second day caching in this part of Australia. My thanks to Mrs matmob for the cache. I found a pen on the ground but no lid. Seems to be holding up OK though.

Our first find for today & a quick easy find it was. Its been 6 months since this cache has been found. Its exposed & has no lid but otherwise all ok.
SL TNLN TFTC

A quick find. I too hate urban micro's and much prefer getting out into the countryside to appreciate the scenery and finds some nice sized caches.

TFTC

Found on the Keeping Ahead Tour 2009
Macca walked straight past this one and I said' Is this it?'
Thanks for the cache

I was travelling by too close to let this one go, despite the gathering darkness, drizzling rain and running late for a dinner appointment in Morgan. Yes, go fir it . Neat little container.

The "log book" was a little damp and only space for another log or two - needs replacng very soon. TFTC.

Found good one hidden.Lovely view over countryside farmland.T.N.L.N

T.F.T.C

#5 of 12 today. Found at 1135 - back to for a few more around Eudunda on our way home. A different container! Well, maybe not for a matmob container. Very windy, and so we were glad to make short work of this. Thank you for the journey.

I was expecting this to be more difficult than it actually was. Quick and easy find in gathering darkness on a Sunday night.

Found it - no problem. With Joan. SL. Thanks Mrs matmob for organising the cache and hunt.

Found on our 4th C3 (Copper Coast Cachers) day with goingtheredoingthat and DeltaEcho. 4:30am till midnight!!!
Find #40 out of 57 for the day. What a FUN FUN FUN day!

I had previously found this one back in July. But went along with the rest of the C3 team to find it.

I put the cache back in its original place - as it had fallen and was exposed. Also, container may need replacing soon as the lid has come off and is nowhere to be seen.

Another find on our 4th C3 - Copper Coast Cachers day.

I (Delta) also hate micros with a passion! MACRO (mega big) caches are best, the bigger the better I say! Also encourages clever camo and hiding!

Anyway enough of my rantings!

TFTC