Buckland Park Port Gawler, South Australia, Australia
By Calumphing_Four on 03-May-07. Waypoint GC12M74

After attending the Au revoir event, Brodie and I just had to find a few more caches before I left Adelaide and so this cache was found [^]
Having stopped here some time ago and having a DNF, I contacted the CO and so today I replaced the cache in a slightly different spot with the CO's permission.
Finally Buckland Park is off of my radar
It's only taken 5 years
I have sent the new coords and a picture to the CO so that the cache page can be updated!

TNLN. SL. TFTC calumphing_four

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

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Other cachers have looked high and low.
This cache may not have weathered well.
Needs a check up or a new cache to mark this useful spot with many old memories.
Thanks

We have a feeling that the cache may have been muggled by the fence erecters. Perhaps a visit is in order by the Cache Owner

What a great day it was out caching Brodie and I left home very early in the morning and did a trip up to Lochiel way for a new trail of letterbox caches.
We saw the sunrise, saw fog and low clouds, saw a blue tongue lizard crossing a bitumen road, saw a helipcopter spraying crops as it came straight towards us and I finally managed to get a couple of older caches on the western side of Port Wakefield Rd
Sadly I had 3 DNFs for the day but still had 31 finds for the day [^]
I also managed to score 8 FTFs from H to A on the letterboxes

Being the driver and in my own car today meant that I could detour where I liked and so I took the opportunity to pick up a few caches that I have been driven past numerous times before as generally the people that I cache with have found them many years prior to my starting caching!
This was one of those caches and now I can finally say that I have at least tried to find it

DNF! I came, I searched and searched amongst the soursobs. I read the only previous logs I had on my GPSr but due to my mobile not working, I could not read others. So sadly a DNF Hope this gets fixed as it's cool out here! I had a crop spraying helicopter flying above and at me as I drove one of the dirt roads into here and it would have been so cool to have added a find log instead of a DNF.

TFTC calumphing_four

Didn't spend a heap of time searching and nothing jumped out. Would have been nice if whoever moved it provided updated coordinates. Not all bad though, we were able to drive right up to the radar.

Tftc

Yey!!!

Mattycat has camped at Buckland Park, driven rally vehicles at Buckland Park,
and regularly logged into the big radar device here more recently.
But sadly mattycat has not found a cache at Buckland Park.
The structure relating to the hints has been replaced,
a recent log speakls of the cache being moved, but no new coordinates,
and a thorough search of the much disturbed roadside land
with Mr Froghoppin revealed nothing cachelike at all.
Might need a new cache, needs some new coordinates,
but definietly needs a checkup.
Looks like work continues on fencing and roadside
Will watch and return when maintained. Thanks calumphing_four

Out with Mattycat for a warm afternoon caching near the gulf, no luck for us today despite the hopeful logs of previous finders we did not find it today but fence work is continuing and as there is still a gap under the fence one must assume some landscaping will occur on the outside eventually, as the cache has been moved some updated coordinates will be needed till next visit TFTC calumphing four

May have gone down in cloud of dust. Or definitely needs coords updated as previous finder moved cache. Walk for fifty metres each way did not reveal. Much fencing work continuing at gz. Thanks

Almost got put off by the new fence, but all is ok. TFTC

The new fence put us off and almost gave in... then red spotted it just as we were about to walk away. Hopefully they do not slash the vegetation anytime soon, or this cache may go down in a cloud of dust!! Glad to get this smiley today. TFTC!

Cache moved due to fencing

Like

Hasn't been found for a while so grass was a bit overgrown.

Not sure how the clue fit...

810th Cache Find Had our eldest geoson T stay over night & it was my day of work. We had done a few things together this morning & then decided we would check out what geocaching there was around here before I take him back home to his mum as I'm back to work tomorrow. Thank you for bringing us here, we've had fun today caching. TFTC

On a cold and overcast day, what better to do than some "drive by" style caches. This was an easy one and solved the problem of the "golf ball on a stick"

TFTC TNLN

[Red]I apologise for the late log... Problems with GSAK and crashed computer...[/Red]

[green]Find #6126[/green]...

Found this while House Sitting in Virginia...

Decided to head out and grab some caches with my caching buddy, the beautiful Tomboy711...

A bit of a stroll, a short search, found cache, stamped and returned...
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment calumphing_four...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Nice easy find on a day out with Snap Happy. Thanks Calumphing four

Out for a quick caching run while the wife and daughter are seeing a science show. Took all trackables in cache.


Number 2 of 4 for the day

Yelp

Found on our way home from an enjoyable paddle
TFTC

Nice spot

Owl was out on an expedition with CPwanderer and this was their first stop. Resisting the temptation to attempt golf the first time with the giant ball on a tee, they found the cache instead. A very strong smell of fertiliser here, which is probably why the golf ball was so large.

First find for the day on a run with Dr Owl!! Quickly located!!

Found by The Boofs TFTC ☺

Quick find once I got here. TFTC

These dam flies are shocking!

So I wonder what goes on in there??!! Very suspicious! And they definitely don't seem to encourage visitors!! Quick find after doing some of the mangrove caches. Thanks calumphing four.

as we drove down we could see this on the distance, now i know what it is : ) GZ had me at one spot but soon had cache in hand once i expanded the search slightly, the dog across the road let everyone know i was there when i arrived but soon shut up, there was a lot of water over the road on the corner so a u turn and we were out of there. TFTC

Found with the hero hubby and other friends. Thanks.

A bit tricky to find at night as it was completely overgrown. TFTC

My son lives just down the road so it was a quick out this afternoon to find this cache.

tb visit

found on the way back to Kadina from Adelaide ..thanks for the hide.

With Shaido for a cacing day. I used to work in the area and thought why not come and get this one.

About 500m form the cache a large black dog decides it wants to run with us, at first 'he' runs in front of the car, so I have to stop fast, after he moves off to the right side of the car I move off, and he starts running with us, if I stop he stops if I move he moves, after we pass what I assume is his home we loose our escort and we make our way to GZ.

I did notice the giant Tee and Golf ball.

Big black dog. Tftc.

TFtC tnln thanks for the drive the kids loved the giant golf ball

Darknstormy and myself were eager to get out from the warmth of home and get some exercise and some caches We have always wondered what this big white thing was and last time we ventured down this road to find out what it was we weren't caching. Now we are we had to return Thanks Calumphing four

Miss GG and I decided to go out and do some caches on our way to do a little maintenance on one of my caches..

This cache has been on the GPS for a long time, We made the effort to turn off the highway this time.

Road conditions were perfect today since the recent sprinkle we had.. kept the dust down.

Thanks for the cache calumphing_four

Found after a lovely paddle in our kayaks at Middle Beach. On our way down to Port Gawler to check out the kayaking caches there. That radar is fascinating - drove down to it to have a closer look. Looks like a giant white soccer ball. We often look up the Buckland Park radar on the BOM site - now we know what it looks like! Thanks for showing us. Left Geocoin

We were on our way home from Port Wakefield today when our curiosity got the better of us.

"What is that big white thing?" We had some time up our sleeves so we thought we'd check it out. We took two different roads before we found the closest one to it, but we got to this point, and now we know.

"Hey, I wonder if there's a cache here!" Whaddaya ya know, 22 meters away! TFTC

Easy find whilst driving the family around looking for fishing spots. Excellent area to have some fun with the family, Bring shade and a bbq to max out your fun. TNLN TFTC.

A good find on our way to port gawler

Wow is it muddy out here today still a nice trip tftc

Nice easy find on the Fluffy day out North.
TFTC
Mr and Mrs Fluffy

Great little find in the dark. Had fun with this one as GPS was all over the shop. TFTC

Very easy cache! Pig loved all the grass and weeds around didn't wanna leave!! TFTC

Quick find by geokid. TFTC

This entry was edited by wessarah on Sunday, 22 May 2011 at 00:52:01 UTC.

Heading up Pt Wakefield Rd so approached from the east. No problems in the dry today but could test the driving skills after rain. Got to GZ and couldn't believe it when I saw another car approaching from the east. Could this be another cacher?. Car turned left and drove on so it was then a quick find. TFTC

Coming up from kayaking at Port Gawler (a FTF there, yay) we decided to finally stop at this one (which was quite lucky as this was a good way to come in, the road to the north from GZ was quite muddy).
We often wonder what some people were thinking when they place caches like these out on secluded rural roads with nothing for miles around, then stick a cache in front of the only house in full view of them. For this one though, it looks like the cache pre-dates the house as it looks new and looks like they have only just moved in in the last few days as you can see their lounge stacked high with removal boxes. As we were leaving the cache, we noticed them sticky beaking our way. They had better get used to people driving up past their place, stopping at the corner, then return again.

TFTC

A lot of Buckland associations TFTC

Found whilst teaching the daugter to drive. Certainly a good place to learn off road driving especially at night with plenty of bugs and mozzies about, we should have read the logs and approached GZ from the south, fortunately there was no water about as we would hate to try and pass down this eastern approach road.

TNLN TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1605. Very interesting information in the description. Drove past a torched car on the road nearby. Our thanks to Calumphing_Four.

Found It!
Tip: approace from south NOT west as I did!
Got bogged, covered in mud and had to walk the last 200m
Aside from that TFTC
My little brother once asked what that giant golf ball was and I told him was that weather radar dad is aways watching
Dad didn't agree with me as he thought Buckland Park was south of Adelaide!

Good quick find
Needs New log book

Out caching with The Burtons today and we came here, kids were interested in the big golfball nearby.
Thanks for the cache

Was nice to drive up and have a look at the weather station instead of observing from the highway.
The cache was in great condition and dry.

Cheers and thanks for the cache

Found on a day driving north to Yorke Peninsula. After several days in the Barossa it was really flat here! Thanks to Calumphing_Four for the cache.

Found 30/04/10 2126hrs
We feel like we are in the middle of no where. How peaceful! Left coin took lizard. TFTC

Many a Scouting adventure was had at Buckland Park. At the campsite / homestead. At Pt Gawler Land Yachting and bonnett sliding (Yes not that safe and not allowed in 2010). My uncle used to come out here to service these masts and radio things from DSTO. I use the BOM rain radar most days. Ironically it was "down"today and we met the the tech who was servicing the radar. Easy find. Took dinosaur left glass fish. TFTC

An easy find with an unusual view! Not much else out here. TNLNSL. Thanks Calumphing Four for the cache.

This one is a little out of the way. We drove out to Port Gawler expecting to see something, but there were only mangroves. I guess they are something ... Interesting note about the new housing development, nothing happening yet apart from a fair bit of rubbish dumped around the area.

Quick find and impressed with the location TGCLN,TFTC

nice little drive on a afternoon free. Gotta love these business trips and incorporating caching

Took TB and left T-shirt TB

cheers

Youdfindus

First find of the day after 3 DNF's. I was beginning to think I couldn't cache any more but this one turned my luck around. Nice big soccer ball nearby as well as an amazing thorny plant. Tftc!

Wow, kids liked the big ball, too bad we couldnt go closer, tftcsl left gecko and jeep tb, took rock.

What a big soccer ball, the geotwins were fascinated!
Picked up both TB to move them on their way.
TFTC.

Nice easy find on a 40 degree day. We are glad we didn't have to walk too far in the heat.
No swaps.
Cheers & happy caching

Found on the way to visit friends. Took super ball left Dino.
TFTC

A quick driveby on my way north to Porter Guster. Very flat country here, much loved by flies this time of year I concluded. TNLN. Thanks Calumphing_Four.

Out to visit friend and we thought we would take a look. TFTC Took Superball and left dinosaur

[This entry was edited by AussieTeddie on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 3:29:31 AM.]

Easy find grabbed a couple of TB's to move on. TFTC

A quick find while doing a 4WD charge up the coast with JadedOptimists. Very snakey in this area today so we were on our toes! TFTC C4.

Found while out with O'Cholio on an adventure filled day. TFTC.

Thanks for bringing us out here - we've often wondered what the "big golf ball" was! We took advice of another and stuck to the bitumen - looking back up the other track I feel we wouldn't have made it: it looked very muddy indeed. Took mini sharpie and left smiley ball. TFTC

Had to circle around as the direct route brought us to a road closed sign but not hard to find in the end
took car
left pop ball

looked and look in vein and didnt find it, will check with google earth feel we walked over it several times
TFTC (well not) Thanks anyway.

called in on this one on my way home, took the wrong track at first, then realised i was on the wrong road, a quick look at my map and i was at the cache, nice peaceful spot for a break, with this warm weather starting to come there was two stumpy lizards guarding the cache

TFTC TNLN SL

13:30 hrs. Our (the Geodaughter and my) first ever find. Looked around for a while must have walked past it a few times before finding it.

T= Geocoin Thongs TB & Marbles L= Nintendo Pokemon cartridge

will hang on to the thongs for a while as i can do a little better at getting sand between their toe straps than this. Only Samphire swamps around here.
TFTC

[This entry was edited by FishFinder1 on Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 5:57:02 AM.]

The road we took was very slippery due to the rain in the area over the last few days. Stick to the Bitumen and the road is fine.
Took: Giraffe
Left: Black Texta


[This entry was edited by Sharpe Vollies on Friday, May 01, 2009 at 4:28:10 AM.]

Out 'last day of summer' caching on the windswept northern Adelaide Plains. Mild sunny day and the "giant golf ball" is white and bright. T TB L Thongs TB TFTC.

found

Nice little location not too far away from the giant golf ball on a tee. Thought I'd send Gary Numan on his way, took a Bart Simpson travel bug in his place.

Found with just me and the geomissus

TFTC

[This entry was edited by notentirelysure85 on Sunday, June 07, 2009 at 10:04:34 PM.]

Out for a drive, and thought I'd better check what's on the other end of the weather maps on the BuMet website. The gates look like they're well and truly gone, and aren't coming back in a hurry, but I thought I'd stay outside just in case - like others, I had an eerie feeling that a giant was going to come walking past with a set of golf clubs.

Took: nothing Left: Boader Bart TB

Thanks Calumphing Four!

Found on a detour to Yorke Peninsula for the weekend. Thanks for the cache!

Fore! Found it on the way back from the Yorke Peninsula
T: keyring
L: car

Ladybirds diverted on the way to Adelaide to find this. Took rubic cube left bag of marbles. Signed in/out Ladybird Pocket Decoder.
TFTC!

Wasn't on our list to do today but decided to get it on the way through and it answered a question of what the tower actually was. TFTC

Small detour on way to Adelaide to get this one.... Always wondered what the 'thing' was.... Now I Know. TFTV

First cache for the day as Nick and I head to Ardossan for work. We left debating what it looks like. With him saying it's like a golf ball, because it's on a Tee, and I reckon it's more like a golf ball.

Cheers from Barra

Oten wondered what the white ball was from the highway-Thanks for the chance to check it out. T N L TB. TFTC

Drove right up and piled the kids out to find it. An enjoyable one for them.

Found on the way to Adelaide for a couple of training days. Great excuse to examine the golf ball up close.

Took TBs, Left electronic decision maker

TFTC

Met Polkys Quest here which was really nice had a good conversation about caching, its nice to meet other cachers.
Found cache easily and popped in a couple of coins for PQ as he chases them, it also saved us droping them off elsewhere. TN Left coins. TFTC

found and met bubbles 8 at GZ. had a good chat and recieved a couple of coins which i'll log once bubbles 8 have entered them. Great to meet ya! Took 3x bugs left 2x bugs