4Quast Winkie, South Australia, Australia
By crane2 on 02-Mar-08. Waypoint GC19VCN

H'mm, this is a strange one.
I found and signed this one today as an easy driveby find.
In fact I could have reached out of the window to do it.
Then I found that it has been archived is not still active!
It looked very healthy to me.

Found at the same spot I found it a number of years ago.

It was only last month when I rode by bike to the Lock, the cache was where it was supost to be.
I will check again in a few weeks when the weather cools down

Sadly one of my favourite caches has bitten the dust literally. The hiding place has been knocked over and the cache is no more.

Some serious works has occured here recently.
GZ has me on compacted gravel. And the nearby possible hides are a good 8-10m away.
Maybe it just me, but there doesnt appear to be anything at gz that can hide a cache like previous logs say!

Nope not found today – gave it a good go

Literally a drive-by, although I did step out the door today .
How many people would have driven past here with no idea what's hidden within [?].
All quiet here. Took peg. Left hairclip. SL.
Thanks Crane2.

very accessible, if you miss it, you need glasses

Easy find,look in every nook & cranny.

An easy find after checking out the lock below. Pity no boats came through. The kids would have liked to have seen that.

TFTC

This entry was edited by shrek4 on Saturday, 18 August 2012 at 02:21:17 UTC.

A clever wee hide - well done.

Found this clever hide with bogonghazy whilst on a flying visit to S.A. from Mexico to do a few Trails.
Thanks yet again crane2.

Quick find again with Sully1 on our trip to Morgan this morning, nice hide here, thanks again crane2.

What a lovely lock to visit it looks fabulous at the moment with the river being so high. Thanks for this easy drive by cache.

Cute little hidey hole!!! .... stealth was required today! ThaNKS crane2 for the hide!

Our first find for the day. We took geoPop on our detour, for his first look at caching. Tin lids were hot on the trail before geoPop knew what to even look for!

Our day caching trip around the Riverland...clever hide which was found by Ms Bushies2, another intereting area. Thanks crane2.

Made perfect sense to the rest of us where this was, but Dad had no idea. I think we're slowly proving we're not crazy after all. TFTC

We are having a really lovely day visiting locks on the river murray. M & A doing all the hard work with the GPS, finding the caches and writing them up for me. What a service. TFTC

We just made it here in time to have a look at the lock before it closed for the day, and once we had shifted up to the top car park to decide where we headed next, we took the opportunity to grab the cache after the lock master had made his way up the road.
A's dad couldn't believe his eyes when A grabbed the cache, but to us it was just normal! Also found with Anana during our tour of the locks of the Murray day.

TNLNSL

Sneaky little one this one.

Got there just in time to have a sticky at the Lock.

Running around the riverland today prior to the NYE event. Did a heap, and this was in the crowd.

Thanks

Cached

1410 re-logging due to name change

1410 Easy find for 'nsuch whilst Trunks worked out which caches were accessible after the recent rains. TFTC crane2

Nice hide. Thanks to the person who put a 3 hooked fishing lure in there, my son nearly ended up with it hanging out of his finger after opening the cache. Please people, be considerate about what you leave in a cache, sharp hooks are bit dumb.

Found while in the Riverland SA Country Football Championships
Had a Sushilord moment as was looking for Lock 4 - duhhhhhh
Neat hide, thanks crane

Located GZ, but after a slight memory blank [B)] remembered the hint. Oh thats right! [:0)]

SL TNLN TFTC

Went straight to this one after reading the hint.

Went for a walk to have a look at the lock and explain to the kids how it all worked.

TFTC

Looking for this cache I accidently plugged in Gypsycachers 'Lock four' as the cache to go to. This meant starting a search in the wrong spot for the wrong cache, however I got to talk to the Lock-keeper and saw how not to drive a house boat out of the lock.

The Lock-keeper knew about the nearby caches, but he wouldn't let me cross over to Lock four, that will have to wait for another day. He did point out the location of this cache to me though.

It can't be! But it had to be. There's nothing else at gz! Thanks crane2

A quick find with Pikapene. tftc

Quick grab. TFTC SL

Easy find TNLN TFTC

A easy find proir to looking at Lock 4 TNLN TFTC

Nice easy find! Thanks

The GPS said I was parked on top of the cache so guessed where it would be and the clue confirmed it. TFTC

A very impressive cammo setup complete with decoy. Very well done. Took pathtag. Thanks Crane2.

Thanks Crane2 for the cunning hide. Love the effort that went into this and also into its near neighbour! Well done.

2321. Loved this one as I guess most people do. Very well done indeed. I won;t say much more as that could give the game away, but top effort that.

TFTC and the ruse.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Cache container replaced and new logbook added. Should be fine now. Thanks for the plastic bag to tide it through.

I'll try to put out a new container over the weekend.

Found by Mary & David at 1125. A nice quick one. Fascinated by all the gazanias along the roadside and even among the vines. Have never seen such brilliant colours before. Even though they are a South African import, they do add something. The lid is cracked and won't stay closed, so we put it all in zip-lock bag to hold it together. Our thanks again to crane2.

Well, GC1TJ3B - Let's Raid the Food Bowl was over and I was the last South Australian to leave "Mexico" but not before grabbing some more caches on the way home.

Perfect weather and I took the Old Mail Road again to clean up some I missed in the mud. It is amazing the difference in 3 days to the condition of the road.

Nearly got caught out by a SA Water worker returning to the Lock. TFTC.

Found at 1425. Arrived at GZ, and whilst the coords seemed to be off a little, we search a few of the obvious locations before we ended trusting the coords a little more than we had been...and presto...a cache! A nice cache hide which for it's simplicity, works very well.

Thanks.

As MV said this hide was simple but very effective and I really admire the audacity of the hide! We didn't get an opportunity to explore the Lock as the rain was threatening but I shall have to explore the other side on my next visit.

Thanks again, very enjoyable.

R + W - B

a good hide gps led me strait to it tftc

No. 13 of 16 today. Found at 1652. We came here looking for Lock Four and discovered we were on the wrong side of the river. Back in the car - where is the next closest cache? Get out of the car. While I was looking for the clue, Boxer was lifting a cover! All too easy really - and a smiley even though we stuffed up badly. Thank you again.

easy find! tftc. took erasers, left 20cents

Find # 2892 and 37th on our trip to the riverlands at 9:47 am. Accompanied by Feathertop, Robmc and Chewinprickles.Nice drive-by, easy find, TNLN, left my mark in the log, Thanx Crane2....

Nice hide. Oenze did the collection, everyone else were too slack to get out of the car
Thanks, Robmc.

Left Oenze to grab this one while the rest of us played muggles. Nice hide and another very pretty spot down near the river too.

So as not to arouse too much atention, Oenze was the only one to leave the car and make the find which was cleverly and neatly hidden.
We continued down to the lock and it would be another day before we would be on the other side in search of the more elusive caches around here.
TFTC

Well we goofed big time on this one, approaching GZ from the wrong side of the big fence I guess the exercise was worthwhile

TNLN TFTC

Coongie 09 Trip.5. A bit of a drive round from last nights camp on the other side of the river. This one required a bit of bravery, but it paid off. Thanks.

2393.44 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Dragon A#44

Albida

clever name crane2

It took me a while but did find it.
T bee and teddy
L Pegs and charm

Viel Spass!

Great hide. TFTC

Nice hide! We like! TFTC

We have visited many locks since starting geocaching but have unfortunately only seen them in use twice and this one didn't break the drought. We had a bit of a search around, but the GPS was not happy where we were and kept on insisting that we moved away which we did and found the cache more by accident than anything else. We thought that this was a clever hide, we walked away from here with a smile on our faces
Thanks once again Crane2

CLEVER, CLEVER, CLEVER CRANE2! Rocky Glen Grommets enjoyed this one - have never seen one like this before - thanks for this one !

Quick stop on my way past, #18 for the day [^]
Cheers

found it
logged it
returned it
TB moved it

Cheers for the cache

An easy find.
Cheers from the Posspet Boys

The hint was very helpful and we retrieved this one almost straight away. TFTC.

In the Company of Ocholio & Growingupisoptional,
Nice easy find.
No swaps
Thanks for the cache

Didn't read the hint before we went, but the GPS led us straight to it.
What a fabulous hide...we really liked this one!
Took keyring and left a service badge. TFTC.

Great hide walked straight past But little sik didnt (he read the clue) he is starting to think like you guys Took Ladybug & hairclip Left Padlock & Yeslove Keyring. TFTC SL

Out for weekend caching with Klems Mob. Took Duck, Left erasers. TFTC

Out for the weekend caching with Briben while staying at Moorook Conservation Park. Had a laugh over this hide. It was great. Left a butterfly hairclip and a klem bear and took a beetle. Thanks crane2

A quick find. Loved the hide. Stopped and had a snack at the lock and were lucky enough to see a houseboat making it's way down river.
TFTC

Spot-on coords had this located immediately. Nice hide [^]. TNLN. Cheers .

Great hide! Did you place the matching one or was it already there??!! TNLN, TFTC.

great hide-clever little vegimite aren't you
TFTC

Best hide of the day. A lesson how to make something out of nothing.

Thanks crane2 (I believe that it's Miss crane2, Astro!) .

Another cool cache. Thanks for keeping the hide quality high. You're the shining star up this way

Well, there was only one place it could be, but it is such a good hide. Still can't figure out if it was taking advantage of the available or purpose built, but either way it was my favourite of the few days visit I had here. Well done and thanks crane2.

Brilliant. Love this. Do you live in that house Mr Crane [?] had the cloak of invisibility handy if they came out. Nice sign....

Clear skies from TeamAstro and our thanx to Crane2 for the hide. [^][^]

Great name and a fantastic hide - I found easily whilst Mini-Mack went further afield, after signing the log I told him to put it back, hehehe - TFTC

very tricky crane2, hadn't been down this way for years....

tnln

cheers 4 da cache!

Hmm. Where could it be? TNLNSL. Cheers and thanks.

liked this one cleaver cheers

Nicely hidden. Thanks crane2

A spent some time here. After filling in the logwent down to the lock and investigated,

Easy find but really sneaky

Left valve (tyre type)

Took nothing

Thanks

Found the cache at 8am. Wow Excellent one. SL. Thanks crane2 for organising the cache and hunt.

6/4/2008 10.50am Team:A&R Day 158 of our Big November Challenge.
We were on our way off to drop off something for lunch nearby so did this one today. Then it was off back to collect all the temp caches from yesterdays event great hide, we had a look over easter but did not look hard enough, today we did. TNLN SL TFTC



[This entry was edited by FLIPPER&CO on Monday, April 07, 2008 at 7:17:19 AM.]

Found in the last place we looked. Clever cache.

That was clever
Reminded me of a cache in the Flinders Rangers
not sure what I swapped here
Thanks crane2

Really nice hide for this cache.
I found it at 2230 after tea at the Loxton Club.

TFTC

Found by Sam, Jedda, Declan and Cooper. Great hiding spot. Had a picnic lunch at the near-by Lock 4 and watched some house boats pass through. SL Took Shacker, Left Bee & Keyring. TFTC Crane2

Bronze.You beauty.That was a good one well done.TFTC.

Find# 155
Took: Geocaching Pin / Left: Mini Salt Shaker
Another clever hide, and indeed a drive-by, having driven past before realising that we had passed GZ. Quickly backtracked, thought about it, Nah, it couldn't be there could it? It was, and a Silver to Jardry on a very hot Sunday afternoon. TFTC.

A Quick detour to grab my 2nd find and FTF of the day
I would have to rate this cache in my Top 10 favourites !
I loved the name and the hide is one of the best [^]
The cache container was so professional I felt like I was on some sort of secret mission
Thanks crane2 not just for the cache but for the beautiful First to Find Geocoin
It's one of the nicest coins I've ever seen and I have something in mind for it too A Highly Recommended Cache
TSLSSL from postiegirl06

FTF Geocoin just visited postiegirl's 47th FTF [^]

My Round Tuit Geocoin just visiting before she sets off on her journey into the unknown.

Published

Visiting Cache Reviewer Geocoin. Cache Hide #4

Unactivated FTF coin up for grabs.