Backpacker TB & Coin Stopover Willsden, South Australia, Australia
By bubbles8 on 22-Jul-07. Waypoint GC14HNK

Thanks for the cache

Replacement cache in order now. Placed xm90x3 in container as well. Happy caching.

Tftc

Tftc found on the way to mega

Left Wallaroo early this morning aiming for Whyalla. Still hot today so not getting too many today.

Have spent the last two nights camped at the Melrose Showgrounds now its time to head west, tonights destination as yet unknown, but towards our home in SW of WA.A quick stop for another smilie TFTC

A quick find here today as I made my way past GZ.With a few days off I headed over to the northern Eyre peninsula for a 2 night stay in Whyalla, my main aim for the few days was the FITG and the FTF trail plus finding a few caches here and there along the way. Just under 300 caches found for the trip.Thanks for the cache

Out caching with my caching buddy, MrsShep77, and our faithful drivers. Thanks for the great hides.

Another day addicted to caching! TFTC

After spending a few days in Gawler it was time for to drive my mums (well my car now) from Gawler back to Perth. This was day one travelling from Gawler to Streaky Bay on a 5 day 3,100km adventure.And there are hundreds of signs saying do not drive tired so geocaching helped with that.Found lots of caches on the trip.Thanks for the cache and making me get out and having a stretch bubbles8. not a very big caches for tb hotel.

Cheers for the cache

Picking up stray caches as I’m working in the area.
Cords were a little off for this one but a search nearby had it quickly found.

Not the same without Manda.

TFTC

Found after quick search, trackable inside! Bingo!

TFTC

On Our travels we stopped to grab some caches, this was a nice walk and a fun cache, thanks for placing it

A quick stop before heading to Port Augusta. No TBS here.
Tftc

A small jar and a mintie tin. Not quite what I was expecting. Anyway, it's dry inside. No TBs present. TFTC bubbles8.

A quick find, grabbed a TB, jumped in the Ute and turned right. Nullarbor here we come.

TFTC bubbles8
Keep smiling

Adelaide to Perth Roadtrip.
Day One: Adelaide to Iron Knob.
Weather: perfect.

Last cache of the day, and a chance to offload a TB that first came into my possession at the Townsville Mega, and then came back to me yesterday near home. See if you can find me a third time from here!

Not a good spot for glass; sorry I can’t help out with a replacement today.

Thanks bubbles8.

Quick find with kids tftc

Not a good a good spot to leave TBs. A bit too exposed to rust. TFTC

Thanks

What an epic journey we have had, just returned home from the holiday of a life time, we managed to catch up with PP2 for some caching at times, oh the memories and laughter!! Now it's time to catch up with the logging, thank you to every CO who has placed caches for us to find along the way TFTC

This one is soaked. We dried it out as best as we could. TFTC bubbles8

A relatively quick find here but unfortunately it's a soggy mess.
Logbook was too wet to be signed.
Container isn't really fit for purpose, needs replacing.

#3775

Day 3 of my little adventure. Finally time to get out and explore again. Today had me travelling from Tanunda to Arno Bay. A long day on the road, loved it.

It's birthday week for the cats so Purrfect Di and Mattycat decided to go do some birthday caching and see what we can unwrap in the way of log books. Yours was one we found along the way, with the help of Jack. A fun drive north west ish with a whole bunch of fresh smilies!!!

Sadly no TB staying here, and an unusual hide has evolved of a mint tin in a glass jar
Still it made us smile, and our map smiles too!

Sincere appreciation goes to bubbles8 for placing and maintaining this cache on our geo game map


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


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Please do stay as safe as possible when caching.
Keep a lookout for bogs, snakes, surprise cliffs, boxing roos, wombats, bulldust, and floods,
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall out of trees...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- but especially lookout for bugs from alpha to omega !!! . [xx(]

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


Much appreciation of all those placing quality caches out and about around the countryside,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

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A great caching start to Twenty Twenty Too

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After a little scrambling in the dark. It was found. Needs new log sheet. TFTC SL

Found

Out caching with Beaker and Karlth2021 on an outback adventure.
Nice easy find

TFTC

Quick find with Kellmik and Karlth2021.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

TFTC . Cache needs a new log

Deep in a pit. No log.

Away for a week on some R 'n' R from the shop and to recover from an exhausting 10th Birthday celebration for Geostuff. On the way to our campsite we grabbed some caches on the way. Sadly this is no longer a Camo'ed Screw top. An Eclipse tin was what we found, along with a Glass jar with some swag in it. Glass is an extremely inappropriate material to use as a cache container. Perhaps the CO could attend to this one and replace with a safer type of container. TFTC

This weekend, I headed to Whyalla to catch up with a few other Geocachers and attempt some of the trails there. On Saturday, we targeted the FTF power trail from Whyalla to Iron Knob, and then spent the evening and the subsequent morning driving some of Whyalla's back tracks. On Sunday, I visited Cowleds Landing and back north, only to get severely bogged in one of Whyalla's clay pans. I then returned home via the August series.

Today, I travelled from Adelaide to Whyalla, making a few brief stops along the way. I needed to arrive at Port Augusta for the geocaching event, and after having dinner, I made the slow approach to Whyalla finding the geocaching trails along the old road, including *Port Augusta's First PT* series, arriving rather late.

This geocache took a few minutes to find after hunting around along the track and fence. I initially found the main glass container, but there wasn't any logbook. I then found a subsequent container hidden next to it, which contained a logbook. This wasn't much of a TB stopover, given how small the container is, and certainly no TBs in residence today. Thanks bubbles8 for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Day 2 of our Eyre Peninsula caravan odyssey with the geo-pup, Pt Augusta to Whyalla.

This one caused us some grief, reversing out with the caravan!

TFTC

Found it TFTC. Jar has a few treasures + separate cache. The weight will hold it in place lol

Found on my round Eyre Peninsula caching expedition. Thanks bubbles8.

Found on my way to Port Lincoln. An easy find for the morning. TFTC.

Of the beaten track but easy access. Quick find.

There was no treasure in the cache today but we still enjoyed the stop off. Thanks bubbles8

A slow trip to Point Lowly stopping for treasures on the way. TFTC

Today we went further west. We were able to search for and find one or the other geocache again. The highlight was GC178, a geocache that is still needed for the Jasmer Challange. But ALSO GC997 was searched and found. Thank you to the owners for laying and maintaining the cans.

Sneaky

I’m lucky enough to travel for work and today finds me in South Australia.
After landing, my workmate and I made our way to Whyalla with obviously a few stops on the way. Needless to say my mate learnt about geocaching.
Stopped by on the final stretch to Whyalla.
Many thanks to bubbles8 for placing and maintaining Backpacker TB & Coin Stopover. I found it, I signed it, and put it back as found.

Nice find

Wow clever!! Walked over with HRH54 and made the find today, good place for a cuppa! A fave from us TFTC

Very clever hide Travelling with Juju54 TFTC

I am up in whyalla for the weekend for family visit And I am with care support for our 5th find couldn't sign log thow filled up petrol and grabbed a delishes donut and in port augustahappy geocaching.

-TNLNSN
-TFTC

Nothing to drop off but I found it anyway

On my way south with SupaTurtle and SupaOrange. Cache found on a 48 degree day. Thanks

Found with SupaTurtle and Csaba!. Tra La Laaa

A really hot day for caching. Turtle Out

Found it TFTC

Tanks for that. Wasn’t even looking for a cache, just tripped over it.

We have been travelling since January when we left Geelong and travelled up the centre to Alice then Darwin. We crossed the border into WA at the start of May and completed the Gibbs river road which has been one of the highlights so far
From Broome we travelled to cape leveque to find the best beach ever
From Broome we have then zig zagged from coast to inland to make sure we saw as much as we could
We are travelling along at our own pace and so will cache and see as much of the area as we can
Honestly it’s thank to caching that we get to see so much
TFTC
We have decided to stop in port Augusta for a few days as it seems to always be a place we drive straight through on our way back and forth up and down the centre

Interesting disguise
Tftc

It was a few weeks ago that Laighside Legends suggested a trip over to Port Lincoln for the long weekend in order to gather a few more LGAs’. It was a pleasant drive over, picking up a few caches along the way, however we spent a few hours in Whyalla to specifically target a few caches. This was followed by a slow drive down the costal highway, picking up cache after cache and happened to even bump in to Aussie M&M and Mogni as we neared Lincoln. We arrived in Lincoln at around nine after an enjoyable day of traveling and caching.

TFTC

Found It!
A quick find and no trains today. Not sure how you'd put a TB in a mint tin though...
TFTC

Fond another

Found unfortunately wasn’t carrying anything bigger to replace with today TFTC

Found but cache needs maintenance only eclipse container now

Found on our way back from a few days along Googs track and the Gawler Ranges. Thanks for the cache bubbles8!

This poor old cache has seen better days. A new black eclipse tin has now been placed inside the metal arrow. TFTC

Found it!

Tftc guys... bit damaged may need replacing tobprotect logbook etc

This cache is destroyed but all the contents were there. Unfortunately I didn’t have anything in the car to replace it. Signed

Stopped at this cache to drop off a TB but it was completely wrecked so didn't. Not worth a visit until it is repaired.

Found on way to Pt Lincoln. Stayed near by overnight! TFTC ( In need of maintenance! )

Found whilst working nearby.
Cache has seen better days.
I didn't have a replacement on hand.
TNLNSL
TFTC bubbles8

found it on a trip to Whyalla over the Adelaide cup long weekend. passing through iron knob after making a dent in the ftf trail and then slowly home. quick find.

Container brittle and falling apart literally. Lid cracked plus doesn't close.

Found it. No TBs as in description.

Needs a new container. All cracked. Logs soaked. I added a single piece of paper.

A quick park and grab on the way west.

Thanks for the cache bubbles8.

Found on 15 Oct 2017 at 8:54 am on a caching adventure with Froghoppin, MoneyDork and RedIguana. Find #5284.

Quick find. Cache lid is broken. TFTC

No TB’s to be found – thanks - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Heading back to Adelaide after working in the area and was passing by when I saw this on the map. Had some time to spare and decided that today was the day to make the find. Drove in and parked clost to GZ and located the cache fairly quickly. Extracted log signed and replaced.
Gratias pro cache Bubbles8

Nice little hike to get there. Kaayia put in a bigger swap.

Argh! Nephalim ants!
TFTC.

Grabbed the Goat
Cheers,
Lead 'n Lace

TFTC!

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Sun was shining and we had fun. Today we drove from Port Augusta to Wyalla, but not the most direct route.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today our journey continued from Port Augusta to Whyalla and back. Some trail caches and others logged on the way.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache!
Greetings from Finland

#6503 - 14:45; Day 7 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune and albida33, so most logs were signed S.A.L. as a result. After a night in Port Augusta, today's plan was to cache in and around Port Augusta and Stirling North before heading south towards Whyalla for a couple of nights and produced 88 finds along with only 4 DNFs. We were now headed for Whyalla and had just reached the Eyre Highway after completing the first of two power trails for the afternoon. This is one of three caches collected on our way south to the next power trail. TFTC bubbles8

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n and Albida33. We headed through Burra and Port Pirie before arriving in Port Augusta for the trek up the highway. Collected a good number of caches and all were found with no issues and the logs were soon signed. (Some logs were signed as S.A.L. to save space.)

Thanks for the cache and fun in getting to it and finding it.

Found with Hearse068 while in the area. We are heading to Alice Springs to the Easter Event and doing as many caches along the way, this is one we stopped at. We are on Day 4 of our trip having loads of fun travelling around Port Augusta area today. Thank you for placing this cache for us to find.

7 April 2017 6:26 PM Found with Gonefishen07 on our little adventure . We are making our way to Alice Springs for the Mega event. We are doing some caches along the way this is one of them . Thank you for taking the time to place the cache

No TB's found in cache Quick easy find. Found with VCM. TFTC. TNLNSL #ttmug ??

Find #644 on trip around Australia with Willow the little black adventure cat. See vancatmeow.com for updates on where we are. 22 months on the road.

Thanks for the cache!

TB Drop

Train gave the kids a nice toot toot

Found it but no travel bugs thanks

Quick stop for rest on way to Whyalla for work, thanks for a reason to stop.

TFTC but no TB in there

Easy find. Thanks for making where I sometimes reside.

Out on a beautiful day to find a few caches. TFTC

We found this one while picking up some caches during a visit to the Port Augusta area. The log was duly signed and everything was put back into place before continuing the hunt for the day. Thank you to bubbles8 for placing this cache which was quite easy to find. Thanks also for replacing the container.

TB Duck 2 AKA jazz visit.