Centenary Rocks Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
By wombat33 on 17-Dec-07. Waypoint GC1800W

We are on a road trip from the NSW/Vic border to W.A. for a wedding. We stayed the night in Port Augusta and thought wed collect a few caches while travelling to Whyalla. I found this one while I was picking up the nearby adlab

Instant find thanks

A quick after lunch cache on our way north. TFTC

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Looked for this cache back on the 8/9/18 and found it was missing so had to log a DNF . Well today I'm turning that sad blue face into a smiley face accurate coordinates made this a quick find , all's good at gz . Thanks wombat33

On way over here for work.Nice quick rest stopTFTC SL

An easy find. I placed a new log book in the cache TFTC

Found 18/5/24

As we drove into Whyalla, we stopped to have a look at the Centenary sign and also to collect this hide. Plenty of off-road parking here and a quick find at GZ. Thanks wombat33 Domsky

Staying in Whyalla tonight before heading to Port Pirie. Getting a few caches along the way

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 find of the cache and we were in our wayTFTC

Another day caching with the crew!! TFTC

A quick find here on my way past, cache is all goodWith 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.

TFTC wombat33 your cache Centenary Rocks that we found today. In Whyalla for an overnight stop. After setting up at the Footy Club we ventured out to attempt the ALs in town and any other caches we were close to. Not a big outing but achieved what we wanted.Find Count: 17579 .

Out caching while staying at the Footy Club. Thanks wombat33 for this quick find tftc

Found this whilst staying in Whyalla. Left Tracy here as I already have 3 passengers and shes not in the inventory. Tftc

Found it super easy

I didnt have a pen but I left a traceable from Victoria

Found it and now tracy the triceratops

Kk

Container missing but trinkets from it at geo site, container replaced with log TFTC

Making my way to play golf at the Streaky Bay open on the weekend. Day 1 was doing some of the August series just before Whyalla and also start the FITG Series on the Whyalla/Kimba road before heading to Cowell to stay overnight to pick up a mat who was coming over on the ferry after working night shift. Also did an adventure lab in Whyalla and grab other caches on the way. The caches were in good condition unless mentioned in the log. TFTC

TFTCTNLNSLFIND #2ON OUR (ARID LANDS) TRIPMATHEW & SAM

A quick find after grabbing the nearby lab

Day 7: After staying in Whyalla overnight, today we head to Hahndorf. I was up early and headed out to grab a few Sunday morning hides.

Then we headed out for some brekkie before hitting the road.

Well it’s holiday time again and this year we have planned a road trip East across the Nullarbor to South Australia.

We will be staying in Streaky Bay, Whyalla, Hahndorf, Renmark and Clare before heading for home and making the trip west.

We are looking forward to eating and drinking, exploring and visiting a swag of wonderful places. Of course it wouldn’t be a holiday at all for a Geocacher without plans including a plethora of stops, deviations and distractions for all types of Geocaches.

Our thanks go to all the hiders who make this game what it is.

Hi wombat33, SmplyR3dd has found your cache Centenary Rocks on 10 Sep 2023 at 07:27.

Logs on micro caches may be signed as SR.

SmplyR3dd thanks you for placing this cache for me to find. This find brings my find count to 6242.

Found it

Score

Great hide TFTC

On our travels we stopped to grab this cache, a nice quick find, thanks for placing it

Found with the kids on our SA adventure. Thanks for the fun!

A quick stop here for a couple trads and an AL point. A quick find and all good here.

Find #5876 on 26 Jun 2023.
TFTC wombat33!

SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - Feb 29th, 2024. Keep the date free!

Bingo!

No luck for us today.

Cheeky tftc

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Heading back to WA from the Rutherglen MEGA and a year long Aussie road trip. Picking up a few caches along the way.

It was only after I put the cache back that I noticed the red back spider on it!!

wombat33, I found Centenary Rocks today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

**South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!**

Off to Rutherglen for the meha. Fifth trip over the Nullarbor in the last 12 months.
A nice quick park and grab while finishing the nearby AL.

My last day in Whyalla so after checking out of the motel I drove around randomly grabbing caches. A quick find. TFTC.

Found it

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A quick grab, sign and replacement after a trip out to Fitzgerald Bay . Thanks wombat33

Quick find at the same time as completing that adventure lab

Found

Found it!

What a easy find

Greeen

We were on our way back from viewing the giant cuttlefish at Point Lowly and stopped for a couple of caches on our way back to our accommodation. [^]

A quick find here.

Thanks for the cache wombat33.

Love finding places with history or history related caches. This one was no different. Waved at a man waving back at me waving at me waving at him!! Train drivers can be funny, cant they?! Nothing suspicious here, move along!! TYFTC SL TNLN

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

That one took us by surprise TFTC wombat33

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Found

Easy park and grab. Found it with both Gremlinkids. We are touring SA with our camper trailer and grabbing a few GCs along the way.

TFTC spending time with my grandson He loves treasure hunting as he calls it

TFTC spending time with my grandson He loves treasure hunting as he calls it

Replaced cache today, hopefully it will last a while longer.

TFTC. Sadly looks like destroyed. Can only find scattered sheets of log. Maintenance required.

Fathers Day trip to Whyalla, great day checking out the sights and scenery in and around Whyalla.

Sadly, it's time for us to travel towards home after enjoying a week in Alice - but not without finding caches and enjoying the sights
TFTC

Was a tricky place but found it

Our first ever geocache!!!

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TFTC good spot to stop

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Found with hevwalker after a much cooler day where we finished the caches we had planned to do at the Conservation Park during the day today due to the high temps and Fire Ban yesterday. We grab this one along the August powertrail after a lovely meal at a local hotel ...we are heading off for home tomorrow and wanted to get as many more caches as we can.....a great team effort on a perfect night to do a power trail.... TFTC

In Whyalla on a 5 day mini break with scramping caching the area while doing some sightseeing...
Our last night so off we went after dinner after dark again...
Tonight it was all about the numbers and the smiles on my page...
Gloves donned for the spiders and pen in hand, scramping found and signed, while I drove...
The caches were found quickly and it did not take too long to get through the trail...this cache seemed to be mixed up in the trail but still found it...
Thanks wombat33

Thats a good find

Found by The Noodler

TCTC

Return visit

Day 301 (Thursday 25th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Whyalla today. A total of 11 for the day and 5787 for the trip. TFTC

Whyalla's getting older - and hopefully stronger too. 120 next year !

Out with Jack and Sebastbat for some June Long Weekend Plus fun of our own - as this year's event had been thwarted by a naughty virus! Headed out, umm, this way and that way... plenty of little icons on the map to be converted to smilies

A little more Whyalla, then homeward bound. We'll be back Whyalla - lots we didn't have time for!
We did think the Whyalla map needs some more large caches. Maybe we'll have to bring some back

thanks for the cache wombat33



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Caching never stops with some serious help from soap, water, and especially alcohol...
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Cool spot

Thanks for th3 cache

Wasn't meant to be here. Not part of the PT. TFTC

Nice to have a change here . A quick find today TFTC

Quick find with Juju54...TFTC

27/10/19

Quick easy find traveling from Port Lincoln to Port Augusta. SL TFTC

Summerbub 17/9/19

Found It!
A quick find here on arriving in Whyalla!
TFTC

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A quick easy find. All intact. TFTC TNLN

TFTC. SL Geo husband had to do battle with the resident Red Back Spider. Lucky it did not bite. Take care when reaching in

Quick park and grab on the way to Port Lincoln for an Easter holiday. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Checked out cache this week and it's missing again!
So replaced it today and hope it stays there this time.

Unable to locate.

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

DNF unfortunately as it was my first attempt. Driving to Pt Lincoln on holidays.

DNF

Billy

Quick stop amongst the nearby series...
Nice stop.

Spending a few days in Whyalla and found a few cache, or 300!
Had managed to solve all the puzzles before coming over too.
Of the nearly 300 found on the trip over and back from Adelaide, 95% were found within 50km of Whyalla Central, with approx a dozen dnfs also. Amongst all the finds was my 17000th find.
Also managed a lot of 'unloved' finds too.
What is it with Whyalla and mint tins? lol
TNLNSL
Thanks

Found first cach, john mclarnan was with me n found it together. TFTC. Great 29/06/18

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Stopped in rest area to make some calls, took advantage of the stop to pick this one, and two more up.

While travelling towards Perth stopped to have refresher stop easy find thanks

Day 4 of BarnZy and Cravo’s trip from Perth to Adelaide.

Today we travelled from Elliston on the Eyre Peninsula to Whyalla.

We kicked off relatively early, just before sun up and in some intense fog before starting our journey to Whyalla.

We travelled along the Birdseye Highway for the most part of the day, which was a fitting name as we needed an eagle eye to find some of the caches today.

Caching along the highway was good with a great variety of cache containers found, before heading into Lock, which was a very quaint small town, albeit we had little success finding the caches in town.

We moved along the he Cleve Cleaver series which was a great bunch of relatively quick finds, taking just under 2 minutes per cache as we started to get the rhythm of the caches along these parts. Great small power trail which kept us interested with some nice hiding spots.

Continuing along the highway we caches through Cleve, grabbing a few of the nifty letterbox hybrid hides which were most fun, were trying to collect more letterboxes which makes these caches really valuable.

After leaving Cleve we continued along the highway to Cowell, where we enjoyed a nice hot beef roll from the bakery for lunch before continuing up the Lincoln Highway towards Whyalla.

We arrived in Whyalla a little earlier than planned which was good as we had planned to complete the August series trail by torchlight. Before we completed the August series we eyed off a D5 cache Honeymoon Hilton which was an absolutely brilliant cache at a well staged ground zero and a brilliant hide, thankfully we didn’t have to resort to phoning the CO.

We then turned our attention to the August series and loved the quick finds of well setup containers. I thoroughly enjoyed the series.

We then cached around town and managed to pickup the 5/5 Schoolies Challenge, which we had managed to qualify quite some time ago.

We finished up with a great dinner at the camp kitchen at the caravan park we’re staying at.

Great day out and can’t wait to tackle the other Whyalla power trail tomorow.

Day 4 of the Perth to Adelaide trip where we started in Elliston and ended in Whyalla.

Today was about finding as many caches as possible and starting / warming up to the larger power trails that bought is over here.
We completed the cleve clever series with a find every 2 minutes, and the August series with around 2 finds a minute.

The day started with a slight sleep in as the travell today was considerably less all up after the 4th day 2900km travelled.

During the morning we would of done most of it through thick fog yet again for the rest half hour despite a later start to

Anyway we made more tracks to Cleve, Cowell and many more in between.

The day also included B12 getting his 11000th cache on cache “August 11” and a total find tally of 112 caches.

wombat33 I found your cache Centenary Rocks thanks for placing this hide for myself and others to find.

Dunsborough is where it’s all at this year check it out at GC7GXQA October 13th + 14th. Hope to see you all there at WA Goes Big 2018.