Desert Camp Mundulla, South Australia, Australia
By Beaker's Bunch on 26-May-07. Waypoint GC135PN

Spring Victorian IncursionDay One: Gumeracha to KanivaWeather: showers, rainbows and gales force winds. I did not expect to be making a find in Kingston LGA today, but here we are. A shower had just gone through, but due to the distinct lack of mud in this part of the world, I thought Id try much luck on the quarry access road. I got as far as the sign shown in the photo (400m from the cache), but my car would have made it to within 50m if Id pressed on. It was a nice walk and great views. A quick find at GZ, and everybodys favourite container, but its getting a bit old and rusty and I struggled to get it open. Nice to find a very old log book inside. Cache of the day I reckon, thanks for bringing me here Beakers Bunch, a favourite point for you.

Find # 15878Been a while since I've been out solo for a long trip. But things change over time. And I'm living the past.So with some time off work, I've jumped the border wall to chase down some long trails in South Aussie... don't know how many I'll get. But I've got quite a few downloaded. I do have a short hit list ( of 2) caches to help with a challenge. All others are just for the Adventure and countryside views. Armed with all the necessary TOTT from tweezers and magnet grab to 6m ladder and 8m fishing pole. I believe I'm prepared for all that I'll come across. (Just had to leave the Kayak at home )Day 6. Lameroo to ?, well aiming for Naracoorte. With the big days n trails n short distances behind me. Today's plan is to just follow the icons. Make a few grabs around the Lameroo and Pinnaroo area before making my way down south. TFTC Beaker's Bunch

Found this cache whilst on our two month adventure throughout central Australia and remote parts of WA.This was a targeted cache today. It took a little to find the right access track but eventually we could drive right to GZ.Thanks to all the COs for adding to our adventure. TFTC

Travelling with iluvtrekking from our home state WA. After overnighting in Keith (great caravan park) we headed to Naracoorte collecting finds along the route. We parked the vans in area near the highway and legged it up to gz to make the find. Thanks Beakers Bunch

Travelling with richlink as part of our Annual Caravan Geocaching Trip.We are on the move, Keith to Narracoorte. using geocaching as our guide. Parked the vans and went for a little walk. TFTC.

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14:20After enjoying a good time at The Great Leap Forward Mega, it was time to leap towards Victoria and home. An interesting link between Desert Camp & Tullamarine Airport.Thanks to -Beaker- for hiding caches in interesting locations. 36606

Greetings from Seattle! I'm down under for the first time with jtcoffee to attend the Great Leap Forward in Adelaide. While here, we're naturally trying to pack in as many "bonus" activities as possible, including (but not limited to) the following: Log our find finds in the southern hemisphere Find Australia's oldest, [GC3E](https://coord.info/GC3E) Lane Cove & the world's **First** Earthcache, [GCHFT2](https://coord.info/GCHFT2) Experience Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Sydney Drive the Great Ocean Road Tackle a challenge cache requiring 31 Earthcaches, and 31 Virtuals in 31 days ([GC32TBZ](https://coord.info/GC32TBZ) and [GC32TC2](https://coord.info/GC32TC2)) Visit the Lord of the Rings filming locations in New Zealand Today, we are caching our way from Warrnambool to Adelaide. We weren't planning on going after LGAs but after arriving and seeing map lines - of course, we started to pay attention - classic us Yikes! Going after this one was certainly a bit aggressive in our rental car (a subie!), but inspired by the previous log (Thanks, GLISS!), we made it "there and back again" with all four tires in-tact. Thanks for keeping this one in play and thus contributing to our amazing adventure in Oz!

Greetings from Seattle! I am lucky enough to attend the Great Leap Forward Mega-Event in Adelaide with my fellow Lackey and best geo-buddy giacaches, and we hit the road to take the scenic route to get there. Today we'll finally be arriving in Adelaide, heading north from Warrnambool. The goals were to get as many LGAs as we could and see how many fun spots we could find along the way.It was a bit of an adventure to get here, but our rented Subaru was just right for the job. After a bit of poking around we had the cache in hand, and another LGA checked off. We signed in with our sticker (discover it if you see it! )Thanks for adding to this great adventure down under!

Quickly found with Nibletricecakes on Day 6 of our Adelaide Leap Day Mega trip. We were able drive within 10m of this cache - thankyou to the 4wd Triton. TFTC

Day #3 Leaping Forward AdventuresAfter an early morning wake up call by the Cockatoos at the aptly named Cockatoo Lake (I really should pay more attention!!!), and a morning chat with TheMorris who I hadnt realised was also setup nearby, it was off for the day.A great little drive in here. Drove right up to GZ and didnt take too long to find the cache. An interesting place to explore although didnt camp here on this occasion.Thanks -Beaker- for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Are you ready to nominate in the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards? Start preparing by checking out the 2023 geocaching lists available [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/) and find some of the new caches ahead of nominations opening.

Got to 250 meters with mogni's car and walked in the rest of the way. The track in is overgrown and could do with a trim and some branches, so i broke nearly 2 dozen on the way in. it should be alot easier for the next person to drive in. This is a nice location for a cache and good views from here too. Good container and a quick find. I saw a huge ant eater about 1 meter from the cache. fav point for the location.
Out with Mogni for a extended weekend. We came down to Mount Gambier for Friday night and then Beachport for the second night. We came down for hevwalker's 60 th birthday. We cached our way down on the Friday and placed a few as well. We made it to Penola before the rain started non stop, up until then it was on and off. Saturday was worse in the day but the weather improved by night time. Sunday was easily the best day of the 3 days.

Buzzz go the bees

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12277.

Today on my epic LGA trip through VIC and SA I covered just over 1000km and around 15 LGA’s. This was a cool spot to view the storm. The cache was quickly found.

Thanks -Beaker- for the cache.

Took a little search in a rock filled quarry. Coordinates pretty good. Chickened out with the car less than 200m from the quarry, nice walk. TFTC Beaker's Bunch.

No wildlife yet but it is a great view. TFTC

Tftc

10/09/2022 5:19:00 PM
After a full day driving through Ngarkat, I refueled in Keith and headed for home stopping to grab a few caches along the way. I've eyed this one may times but the hammer is usually down to get somewhere else. today I took the time to explore this odd landscape.

Thanks for placing & maintaining this cache


Find recorded using GCDroid and logged using GSAK

Found at 3:05 pm on a short road trip with Shonkylogic

Another oldie. Thanks BB

I somehow managed to be lucky enough to win a great state voucher for $50 off accommodation. The idea being to put some money back into regional communities after the pandemic. Uni and Medusa and I went away for a caching trip around Kingston using the voucher to stay at the caravan Park. We spent lots of money on diesel and food so the voucher did it's trick.
We stopped and found this cache on the way. It was an unexpected drive by.

Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

geo kids liked looking around for this one, especially once found an they could swap things. TFTC

This one is my favourite cach yet!! I was super excited to find this beauty!! Thank goodness I was in a 4X4 tho! I think terrain should be a 3

Wahooo found it very good hide

Next time we'll bring a 4wd.. TFTC

Mirage doesn’t like this TFTC

Heading down to Naracoorte for the weekend and, of course, I had to find a few caches along the way. It was mainly caches that had been placed since my last trip down this highway including one or two that had been missed on previous trips.
This was another cache that I was determined to find on my trip south, whether it was on the way there or the way back. Like with the previous cache, I was making good time, so I was able to stop and have a crack at this one. Pulling off of the highway I followed the dirt track hoping that it would keep on going towards the cache. Luck was going my way today as I was able to park within 20-30 meters of grounds zero and after a short walk, I began my search. It did not take me long before I spied the likely hiding spot and I was soon extracting the cache and signing the log. With everything sorted, I replaced the cache and I was on my way.
All caches were found in good condition.

Find #7027

TFTC

Really fun cache for the geokids. TYFTC!

Easy

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Cool find with awesome sunset views tftc

Stopped for the first cache on our way to Mount Gambier. Nice little detour. TFTC TNLN SL

TNLN, SL and TFTC.

TFTC

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Should have headed North East to the South East of Queen's Landing this weekend, but a while ago had a premonition... which came true so had booked the South East of SA instead

Still plenty to find down here, and good weather for it too.

Gets a fav from us for not being a mint tin !!!

Yep we were uber impressed to follow the track in here, get some great views, and find a REAL cache - practically a drive by, and looked just like the icons

Much thanks to -Beaker- for placing and maintaining this real cache in a cool spot


"A cache a day keeps the doctor away" - keeping up with Purrfect Di and Jack should do it ! ! !



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Mr Tardis was driving down to Millicent for the weekend. I made a detour via here to find this cache. No problems with the track access in my AWD vehicle.

After a short walk from my parking place I found the cache in the first place I looked - don't you just love it when that happens?

Signed the log. Thanks for the cache Beaker.

Found during a camping trip to the Coorong and the Southeast areas with brisal5 and I in one vehicle, and e.gregory and friend in the other. We travelled around the Narrung Peninsula and down the Coorong where we spent the first night camped out at Tea Tree Crossing. Enjoyed some challenging driving and eventful cache finds, wandering bush tracks and strenuous sand dune climbs in very scenic areas. The second night saw us camp out in Little Dip before meandering the country roads in search of an assortment of Traditional, Earth, Multi and Puzzle caches further down the coast before heading back home via Lucindale, Padthaway and Keith. Thanks for the cache Beaker's Bunch!

Managed our way in without any issue and the cache found easily. Love the old AC and original book. Cool cache!

Trip log:
When it comes to our trips for GreyHams and myself, opportunity seems to play a big part in the timings.. be it an event, sales on airfares or car hire, in this case it was my visiting SA and being there that worked so well for this one!

So it was a drive up to Adelaide to collect GreyHams from the airport and then a trip that would see us ending up in Mount Gambier in the South east of SA, close to my family holidaying nearby and conveniently located that GreyHams could fly home to his. Perfect when a plan just comes together!!!

The primary target of the trip was counties, about 21 in total and we had almost the complete opposite need of counties from each other. Of course we also targeted other caches of importance, oldies dominated the state but there was DT, virtuals, webcams, Ausmer and types. If your cache made our list it had a quality we were wanting, or as GH says, we were waiting for a ferry or a plane!

What a variation in the places we visited, from Adelaide's suburbs out into the hills, the ferry across to Kangaroo Island for the night and the many coastal regions through Victor Harbour and Goolwa. Through Murray Bridge and out into Mallee Country to Lameroo before turning and finding a great bed and meal at the Keith Hotel. Continuing South into the very bottom of the SE of SA before returning north slightly to make the plane, in time and that arrived! So much wild life through the areas and locations of interest, it was great!

Had to love the Santas through the Adelaide hills, seems that stuffing a Santa suit is an art form all of its own, and entertained us for a long time! Kayaking to an island on Kangaroo Island was fun and although the donut from Port Elliot bakery had to pass with masses already queueing... the chunky steak pie from Willunga Bakery might not have been as good as a pepper pie later but it was still damn good! Its the little things sometimes!!!

Many thanks for your cache that led us about on a varied and very enjoyable trip!

Nice old ammo can, gets a county

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This trip came together due in the best way! Aquilus1 was over in SE SA visiting family, yet had a bunch of counties unfound between Adelaide CBD and Victor Harbour, I was missing all the counties south & east of Strathalbyn. What could be better than flying over from Canberra and being picked up at ADL airport and knocking of ALL the counties all the way to Mt Gambier, where I flew out. Last minute Covid shenanigans in Sydney & Melbourne threatened to derail it, but all good.

Of course our trips are more than just counties....we have a range of targets: Oldies, webcams/virtuals, larges with challenges and D/T thrown in for fun. If you are reading this log, then this cache had some quality we were hunting (or we were waiting for ferries or planes!)

We saw such a change in countryside, from Adelaide Hills, to Kangaroo Island, up to Borrika and then down to 'the Mount'....and the Santas! I can see areas where christmas lights arent the done thing, its stuffing your own Santa and posing them in the front garden, saw some very funny examples, we were chuckling for an hour I swear.

South Australia has such a wealth of very old caches, its wonderful. We grabbed lots of oldies and are now just a single find off our Ausmer challenges (just need to get to Melbourne or Brisbane for the last).

Was a cool drive

This evening on my way to the south east I had wanted to make the detour to this one, so I turned off and slowly made my way up the hill hoping the road was okay in my car, luckily it was okay and got within 100m of the cache and decided to walk the rest. A quick search around in the dark and great to find an ammo can. Cache and contents are all in good order.

Thanks for the cache

We enjoy discovering new places like these, one of IML72's favourite locations to find a cache TFTC

Lovely view from the top. Thanks for the cache

Pretty hard but in a nice container

Heading home after a long weekend at Millicent and beyond...
I was getting to the stage where I was needing a break...
So many times I have passed by here and left the green dot on my map...
Today was the day I headed further inland...
Great little track in and nice views at the end...
Cache is in great condition for it's age...
Thanks for placing this cache for everyone's enjoyment Beaker

TFTC nice drive up here and nice view

Taken TB NONAMO

TB NONAMO

Nice one. Retrieved a TB Cheers & tftc

I was driving back towards the south-east from Adelaide with another scuba diving weekend in the caves. A few stops were made along route, including a few cache types needed for today's calendar day (a multi-cache and unknown cache). I had a chance to walk a few trails in Tintinara, and then collected a couple more caches of the wine bottle/glass in Kalangadoo under torchlight. A pleasant drive south.

There was still enough light to check out this desert camp location on my drive down, and an area that I had driven past numerous times that I had wanted to detour past. So today, I made my way down the trails, and managed to drive within 10-20 m of GZ. It took a few minutes looking around before I found the cache. The coordinates were very good. The cache container and logbook were in good shape, and I dropped a TB here (ironically enough a snow man to stay at the desert). A nice secret spot here actually, so thanks [@-Beaker-](http://coord.info/PRN1VJ) for bringing me here. Cheers for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

On way home from Melbourne after attending a nieces wedding, a little rough in places oh dear but lovely views from here . TFTC

Good job Q!

Excellent stop off on our road trip. Surprisingly soft rock, will have to look up the history of the area. Cheers.

TFTC

Good fun

Nice one
Shoot me up

Heading toward home and making random finds along the way, this being one of them .
Probably our adventure cache of the day in a nice little hidden area .
TNLNSL.
Just love the places geocaching takes us [^].
Thanks Beaker's Bunch.

Went out from Bordertown again today. Found a way into the GZ after a couple of dead ends or finding myself in a farmer's front yard. Once in the right area I made a quick find. TFTC.

Travelling across to Melbourne which we do quite often, we decided to take a bit of a detour to collect some different caches. Luckily it was a perfect day for both the drive and caching We were quite glad to be in our 4WD for this one as our little town car would have found some of the ruts a bit hard going.

A quick find at GZ in one of our favorite types of container. TFTC

Gevonden!

Back on the road again for another international trip. This time to Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea.
Like our previous trips we focussed on old caches, high favorites, rare cache types and pretty locations.
Most of the trip was together with Plaguerider, Zanna and FLtravelers, but some of it I did solo.
Logs were signed as DATT (Do All The Things) and if there were answers, we typically sent them as a group.

I liked the location

Thanks for maintaining the caches for us.

Waterfan5,
Kennesaw, GA

**Trip log:**
Found during Team DATT's (Do All The Things) annual international caching trip consisting of FLtravelers, PlagueRider, waterfan5 and myself. Africa kicked it all off back in 2016, with a follow up European tour last year. I tried to pitch Asia but the pull of the Great Ocean Road and completing our 6th continent was too strong, and we landed on week long road trips through both Australia and New Zealand. Before meeting the team in Sydney though, I was able to schedule some layovers in Asia (Beijing, Bangkok and Singapore), so in the end I got a bit of everything. =)

**Australia Day 6 - Port Campbell -> Victor Harbor:**
The first half our day was spent along the coast, still exploring The Great Ocean Road and all it had to offer. To keep on schedule we eventually pulled ourselves away to head inland towards Adelaide. We arrived in Victor Harbor late into the evening and settled in to wait for sunrise and our hike out to Granite Island and its webcam.

**Cache Log:**
A little bit of a detour, but we wanted to grab the county. Found after about 5 minutes.

TFTC [zanna - Atlanta, Georgia USA]

We’re on our annual international geocaching trip as Team DATT (Do All The Things) comprised of FLtravelers, PlagueRider, waterfan5, and zanna. This year we chose to explore Australia and New Zealand. Zanna and I decided to do a two-day stopover in Beijing, a three-day stopover in Bangkok, and a 12-hour layover in Singapore on our way to meet up with the rest of the team in Sydney.

Once we got the Team back together, we made a “bee-line” to Lane Cove and various caches around Sydney. Then we headed down the coast on A1. After visiting Wasp Head, we headed up through Canberra and down M31 to Melbourne, after a webcam stop on Mount Buller.

We had a great time in Melbourne, which is my favorite city in Australia so far, then onto the Great Ocean Road, the highlight of Australia for this trip. After a couple days (not nearly enough) we left the ocean road and headed up A6 towards Victor Harbor (webcam) and Adelaide (webcams) for our flight to Auckland. Seems we found every webcam in Australia.

We targeted old caches, highly favorited caches, earthcaches, virtuals, and of course webcam caches, and anything else that got our interest along the way. Logs were signed DATT. Answers, where required, were sent by one of the team members. Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of our trip with this cache. Great spot.

Quick find with team DATT. TFTC

Great to see a proper sized cache co Rainer in a location such as this.

Thanks for the cache -Beaker-. Found on 26 Mar 2018 at 2:47 pm. Find #6259.

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Corky jack daniel callan Taylor

Down from Queensland visiting with my family. Borrowed the 4WD today to cruise the area and pick up a few caches. Lovely driving on these well made roads looking at the magnificent Canola crops.

Great drive into the cache site. Cache is in good order. SL TNLN TFTC

Tftc

Found on a one month road trip around Australia. Took a bit of poking around but found the cache after 10 minutes. Favourite added for the adventure. TNLNSL TFTC

with the river rising we were told to go on holidays so what do you do.
Caching time.
Now we have wandered down towards Anglesea and found many other like minded people so the caching adventure grows stronger.
Had fun out caching with roosterman and Rebels Act lots of others laughs were had by all.
after the event we wandered on to somewhere else
Thanks -Beaker- for putting this cache out for us to find

We enjoyed a little adventure driving into this one. We had to stop 300m short of GZ as the road was a bit too washed out for the geocamper.
A very interesting area, nice views over the countryside. Thanks -Beaker-.

**Grabbing some caches en route to Warrnambool**...

A chance to stretch the legs is always appreciated on a long journey...

A short stroll, a short search, found the cache, stamped the log and returned...

I apologise for the generic logs. it in no way detracts from the efforts gone to by the CO's...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment -Beaker-...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

**#8220**

When you are offered a 3 day trip with 3 fantastic geocachers, well NO isn't an option
Hence I spent 3 days around Mount Gambier with Brisal5, Clare007 and CPwanderer and we were joined for some of that time by Mogni and Sabsypat
Only 2 DNF's and 62 finds made for lots of laughs and we also found ourselves in lots of prickly situations amongst the blackberries and the forests.

A very interesting spot and Brisal5 got to test out his new all wheel drive car
A quick find of the cache and then on our way again.
Sadly, no time for camping here.

TNLN. SL. TFTC -Beaker-

A great spot .... been by here many times but had not stopped to explore. A favourite!!!

Road trip with brisal5, CPWanderer & Locus Cache to Mt Gambier.
We disturbed a wallaby who was camping near gz.
A quick find & fascinating place, thanks for the decent sized cache Beaker

Found this cache whilst travelling to mount barker for the 20/20 big bash cricket with TT016
Found this one after a bit of a look through the rocks
TFTC.

On our way to Mount Barker to visit geo nanna.
Spanner111 was driving but geo hubby took over for this track.
After carefully scavenging through the rocks we found the cache.
Took TB. Love giving these a bit of an adventure.
Tftc!!

Heading down to Mount gambier with Aussie M & M for a flying visit to mogni for a Tupperware Party - as you do.
On the way back home I could finally call in and attempt this one due to my new to me 4WD capable geomobile. Drove right up to GZ and made a quick find. Dropped off my newly activated trackable.
Thanks -Beaker- for placing this cache.

Travel this road a bit never been up here!

Found It!
An interesting little park I've never been to before (or even knew existed). I made it to within 300m of GZ with my 2WD. A short walk later I was at GZ and I soon found the cache! Nice views too!
TFTC

Almost a drive by for the Hurtling Posties this afternoon. Cache in great condition, rehid well. SL TFTC

Day two of my holidays, heading to the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas in SA. With a predicted top of an unusual 41° C, I chose to head to the coast for hopefully cooler temperatures. As it turned out, it wasn't much cooler, but a more scenic route. This wasn't on my original planned route, but both Tom Tom and Garmin took me down a different way, so I added a few more caches along the way. Found the cache quite quickly - lucky for me.

My thanks to -Beaker's Bunch for the cache.

Trying to work out if we can bring the motorhome in, need t trim a few tress but that should be OK. Nissan made it in without a problem. We had a fantastic walk around the area after finding the cache. TNL 1 x Pathtag TFTC

Camped at Mundabilla today was extremely windy. We were worried in case any branches fell on our 'house'.

Very interesting spot here, would have been a driveby but we missed the cache on our first, second and third sweep today. Evenually in desperation about to give up we found the cache in the first spot we looked. [B)]

We took a quick trip down to Cockatoo Lake checkingout possible campsites as we explored the local area.

Some amazing history and some great towns investigated in the 100km/hr winds.Enough to blow us over.
TFTC -Beaker-

Looking forward to meeting other geocachers at the next Australian Geocaching Mega event

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Great hidey hole, even better view. Tftc

Found it !

Great view

Great drive in and an even better view. We are definitely coming back here to camp one day

Awesome drive up the track, easy in the Subaru Forester and one of the best views across the valley probably never seen by all those who travel past here so regularly. Recommend this cache to everyone.
Thanks -Beaker- for bringing us here today.

Excellent cache full of goodies. Great views the Yaris had a bit of a struggle up the hill but we made it TFTC Beaker

Was in the area for a 21st. Great spot!! Tftc

Found this with my son & 1 of his mates. Pretty cool cache thanks