AirSock2 Yorke Valley, South Australia, Australia
By Rocky Glen Grommets maintaind by Dazzatron/Margieh on 14-Jun-08. Waypoint GC1D823

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TFTCOut 0with geo hubby Animal62 on this stunning Friday morning collecting some more smiley faces for our maps.

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet on a Friday morning collecting smileys for the map

It was a few metres away - took us a while!!

Easy find

A great day of adventuring with Aussie Sparkie. Thanks to all the cache owners for their great work hiding and maintaining these caches for us to enjoy!

Off on our little adventure to YP. Found all caches today. Found with Erine14! Thanks for the Cache!

Quick find.Found with Mogni and JJ52. All logs stamped as JAMS. It was a day when the JAMS crew got together again or at least three out of the five of us. Plan A was to do the Abandoned railway trail on e-bikes but Allister is out with injury so, Plan B was a day the three of us ( the remianing one is STILL on holiday, that is a dam long holiday ) and host a CITO in propect ( i need a CITO in that LGA ) on sunday and find caches " in that general area ), Mogni decided we needed to attend a event on the yorke's on saturday. So Plan C was born. Off to the Yorke's it was, the first cache found was in Kulpara and then working down to Port Victoria then over to the Welcome to the Yorke Valley Dam event and some tasty food provided and then some more caching to our overnight accommodation in Adrossan. Sunday saw us caching along the coast on the way home, somehow taking a detour through Mallala before getting to prospect to host Cane Reserve Clean up CITO, I even got a cacher from England at the CITO. 80 finds plus labs for the weekend away, it wasn't about the numbers, it was about a relaxing time away. Any caches that were found broken/cracked/etc were replaced and any full log books were replaced.

TFTC!!

Saw one plane fly in as I was about to leave. TftC

Not much air in the air sock today.I dont use satellite view, if I did we would have gone in the easy way. Nice stop on the way to Maitland

Found more later when I edit the log

Today is our big day we are hoping for 400. Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ and Nanzie signing our logs as SPBINZ or sometimes SPINZ as BT has done a large number of caches on the Peninsula. We are now on our way to the seahorse #15730

Found with PCNBT TEAM on our trip to join our other caching friends in Adelaide for the Mega nice easy find this deserves a favorite thanks for this cache Rocky Glen Grommets maintaind by Dazzatron/Margieh

I have attempted several big days caching in the past and have managed to weigh in at 204 but that magic 400 has always eluded me. Today was the day we could maybe put that right by combining resources with Paddlechick, Bullertrout and Nanzie. Signed logs SPBINZ (even though Bullertrout had already found some of today's caches). We couldn't have asked for a better day. Starting temperature for the day was 19 degrees, no sunshine and temperature didn't climb beyond the high twenties at any stage. I love travelling the countryside of Australia, one sees so much more than those tourists who stick to tar-sealed roads and travel from town to town.I do get a bit side-tracked when I'm caching and take time to enjoy the local flora and fauna. The plants are so obviously adapted to life in a dry climate, the birds are colourful and screechy, and the ants - - well, I've never seen such large ants or had such a vicious bite from an ant.I do love the pictures of the trails on the Yorke Peninsula, such creativity.Greetings from the Shaky Isles and many thanks for the cache.<*}}}< <*}}}

The SPBINZ team (Sidewaze, Paddle Chick, Bullertrout, IsisNZ, and Nanzie are out and about on the peninsular trying to reach our long-anticipated goal of 400+ caches in a day. We are having a heap of fun and have now completed the Sad Fisher geoart and almost 300 of Gone Fishin' trail but are now heading inland to the Sea Horse geotrail and found this one enroute. TFTC Rocky Glen Grommets and kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand # 21,294****tepoti/Dunedin is the place to be 26-27 October, 2024 for GCA7ZHD - Geo Toroa Mega! Please come and experience fun, heaps of caches and some wonderful Southern hospitality.****

What a lovely location! Great find

Nicely placed !! blue skies the best weather for geocaching

TFTC Rocky Glen Grommets your cache AirSock2 that we found today. We are parked up in the local Showgrounds/Caravan Park for a few nights. After setting up and a bite to eat we ventured out to attempt the caches in town and nearby. The Seahorse will wait until tomorrow. A good few hours doing the things we love - exploring and caching.Find Count: 17835

TFTC. Found on our way to Moonta from Rogues Point for gelato.

Nice find, easy on the side of the road

Caching from Perth to Canberra via the Nullarbor. TFTC. Great little airport.

Nice quick find. TFTC

Quick stop to find the cache. Left TB. TFTC.

Two planes were doing touch and go practise. I stayed and watched for a while.

Early start to do more of the Gone Fishn series, start the newly Sea Horse series as well as some caches around Maitland and Arthurton. All caches in good condition, unless indicated in log. TFTC

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I have come over from NZ to visit family and do a lot of caching. I am now on the Yorke Peninsula doing the trails and other caches close by. Have been out here before but there are lots of new caches now. Today I found every cache I looked for.

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Rocky Glen Grommets/Dazzatron-Margieh [^]

Lexi got it

Found TFTC SWAG left

Quick pickup. Thanks

A nice hiding place away from muggles.
TFTC

Found on my way to NS. TFTC.

We enjoyed a nice morning caching towards and around Maitland and visiting the nice markets in the shed.

Many thanks for the hide Rocky Glen Grommets

TB Visited

James0116

Great hide

Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets for the cache

James0116

Very fun to find

On a mission today to reach 500 finds and to get my GeoGirlfriend to 100.

Found after a minute of walking around.

Signed and returned.

Thanks to Rocky Glen Grommets for this cache and to Dazzatron and Margieh for maintaining and to all the geocachers who contribute to the game.

Found with Britta1508

Find No.512
26/01/2022

TFTC found with Geo Boyfriend pineapplegoldy

Wet winters day in spring

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Found it

Southern wind pointing straight at it. #thewrightsfindanother

A quick find out caching with Little Blue Wren while staying at Maitland.TFTC

T.F.T.C. Found while caching with moroldies while staying in the Maitland area.

A change in plans left me with some adventure time this morning! Tftc

Quick pickup

Cache is in great condition!
TFTC

Easy find!!

A quick find on the smallest 'Regular' sized cache I have found lately.

Another Wednesday Wander for some members of the Befuddled Puzzle Solvers. Today myself Blackadders and SA Sewer Rats headed over to Yorke Peninsular in search of some more Gone Fishn' caches and others we might be passing. We commencing Fishn' from where we all needed to get caches as we were individually at different places from previous trips. [B)] Then is was off to Curramulka for some lunch and a wander around there in search of some solved puzzle and other caches. Then it was back for some more Fishn' before heading home another route via some more unfound caches of course. A very fun day.

Only one of the three goals from last year achieved. So once again trying and fill my calendar with multi-caches and complete loop 11 again this year. [^] For my third goal I will try and get my DNF numbers to single digits. That should keep me busy again this year! [:o)]

***Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

TFTC

Today, the weather was forecast to be dismal with thunderstorms and a rain drenching! Consequently, gridge98 and I retreated to the more dry vicinity of Upper Yorke Peninsula. Other than a few drizzles, we had good weather. We visited Paskeville, Kadina, Moonta, Balgowan, Point Pearce, Maitland, and Arthurton, with highlights of the mining relics, 4WD-ing along the west coast beach, and finally dinner and heading around Maitland. A long day out and about, arriving home just after midnight.

No issues with this one, and turned out to be a quick driveby. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets for the cache placement, and Dazzatron/Margieh for its ongoing maintenance.

Quick find here cache is all good

Today With the weather more promising on the yorke peninsula than in Adelaide, Davidwazza and I decided to head over and clean out as much as we could as well as doing quite a bit of beach 4wdriving.
In total 87 finds within 1 DNF for the day.
Thanks for the Cache

There was a vehicle at the hangar, with the door wide open and a plane inside [8)]. Still managed to find the cache after parking over on the main road for (some) cover .
TNLNSL.
Thanks again Rockey Glen Grommets.

Found this with CherryRose while holidaying at Port Victoria. TFTC TNLNSL

Quick easy find with Beary Organised. Container was shattered so we replaced with a new one All dry & good. TFTC TNLNSL

Day 212 (Saturday 28th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 95 for the day and 5363 for the trip. TFTC

Not inside the gate easy find

A quick find! The cache is brittle and needs a fix.

Cache has a hole in it and needs replacing.

Had to go visit the Yorke so made sure to find a couple of caches along the way.
This was one of them
A clear run with not a muggle pilot in sight.
tftc Rocky Glen Grommets

There were muggles at the airfield, but too busy with other things to worry about an Owl in the shrubbery! Another quick find.

Last service trip for the year 2019, Staying overnight at Ardrossan Caravan Park doing a little caching after work ![^]

Back on track in SA

Heading home from our YP fishing trip via Maitland. This was our first find of the morning. TFTC no planes on the runway today but the air sock was flying.

After a review of the geocaching map in South Australia it was determined a trip to the Yorke Peninsula would yield some significant numbers. So, The Rats, Hoojar and I teamed up once agan to tackle the many caches on the peninsula.

We started in the darkness after flying into Adelaide and the next day set some personal records (550+ caches in a day) and milestones before bunking down. The next day was another massive numbers haul which resulted in a bit over 1,000 caches in two days !

Then it was a little more sedate down to the bottom of the peninsula and then back up the easterly side, ticking off a few EarthCaches in the process .

After that, back to Adelaide for some night caching, virtuals and more EarthCaches!

The power trails on the peninsula were great- quiet roads, some great green wheat and yellow canola scenery, coupled with some great company and usual ribbing of each other [^]!

Thanks for your cache- sorry about the generic log. For the EarthCaches and virtuals look out for an email or two shortly.

TFTC!

This was a trip that had been some time in the making. A journey from Wollongong in New South Wales to the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, in search of large numbers. Five days were set aside, and The Rats, Steeba, and myself planned the details out. Lofty numbers were floated; we could find one thousand geocahces... Maybe more! The world was our oyster, all we had to do was make it happen.

We flew into Adelaide and quickly rented our car, then headed off for a series of thirty letterbox caches late that night. We then set up camp, ready for the next few days.

Two days journeying down the Yorke Peninsular saw us collect 550 caches the first day, and 450 the next. One thousand caches in two days! The numbers were phenomenal, unheard of, and excellent! At one stage we found fifty caches in a one hour period! We worked ourselves into a solid routine, and managed to push these numbers without caching after dark. Incredible! We camped out beside the trail, ready to commence again the following morning.

Having reached our goal of one thousand, we rented a cabin and enjoyed a solid relax and beet, and we were then able to dedicate the remaining time to specific caches, mostly Earthcaches to keep Steeba (The Professor) happy, and a good number of Vrtuals as well, as we made our way back from the end of the Yorke Peninsular to Adelaide. It really became a Tour De Earthcache! If your geocache is such a hide, stand-by, as Steeba will soon contact you with our answers.

As is always the case with these trips, the company was the highlight, with banter non stop, the time went by in an instant.

We saw some amazing things, found some excellent caches, and had an absolute blast.

Ticking just over 1300 finds for the trip, you will have to excuse the boilerplate logs!

Thanks to all of the cache hiders for their efforts in placing and maintaining their hides. It was fantastic exploring this part of the world that I had never visited before. Thanks also to my geocaching partners, without whom such a trip would not be possible, nor fun!

Cheers

The Rats, steeba and Hoojar have teamed up for a York Peninsula adventure of massive proportion. With much planning and logistical coordinating, we had a great five days meandering the country roads collecting a plethora of caches. Our journey started with a handful letterbox caches before heading down the peninsula following the “Gone Fishn” series. We followed this up with an array of geo-art images that litter the lower peninsula. Returning to Adelaide we collected a gaggle of old and rare finds which included some interesting earthcaches and virtuals.

My apologises for the generic log, but thanks to all the cache owners and caching buddies who made the road-trip such a memorable and fun experience.

After spending nearly 4 months in Western Australia we made a rapid trip over to South Australia and down to the Yorke Peninsula over the past few days, picking up a few caches as we travelled of course!
We set up camp in Maitland and today headed out on to the Gone Fishin' power trail to tr our luck.
As fate would have it, a few other caches cropped up on the GPS as we worked the trail, so we just had to divert to pick them up as well.
This one was at the end of the day as we travelled back to our caravan after completing the first 300 caches on the trail.
Biggest cache for the day!
TFTC

Another day on the Yorke with a Rat with the aim of getting a few more smilies in this part of the world. The Adder, a flight enthusiast enjoyed the scenery at GZ and while taking a few pics left the Rat to seek the hide. Log signed and returned. TFTC

A Rat and a snake went caching on the Yorkes.
Arrived at Gz.
The Snake went to take some photos.
This left the Rat to scurry to the cache.
The Rat had the cache in her paws when the snake slithered over to stamp the log. Tftc

TFTC Rocky Glen grommets and Dazzatron n Margieh.All good at GZ. TNLN

Found on my way to Maitland for work. Grabbed the TB that was inside. TFTC

Quick and easy find. I took a TB

Found while visiting my mum and dads grave. Found the old one years ago. Found with superman_22

Nice find with Northstar76

Easy fine

Nice drive around t.f.t.c

Quick find today on a trip to visit Ardrossan. TFTC

YP road trip Day 6. Quick find, but it was in the open. Replaced where it should be. TFTC.

Today we explored Maitland using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

A nice hide

Found on the 03/08/2017 at 7:21:00 AM.

On the final day of caching Yorke Peninsula with J+J. We had to stop earlier last night than expected due to the dreadded rain started to fall. Unknown to us in the morning was just how much rain fell! One local farmer later told us there was 15mm of rain overnight.
The extra water made our caching trip wet, and very muddy. The final highlight was having to be towed out off a muddy road by an 8 wheeled tractor!

Thanks for the all the caches.

Wet and soggy morning. We're caching in the area today. TFTC

Mogni made the find here while Mary was answering a text from her Queensland niece. It was a quick grab and then we were on our way again. TFTC guys.

Aussie Mary and I decided we needed a few days away grabbing a few caches, focussing on Multies and Earthcaches with the odd traditional and puzzle thrown in for good measure. Obviously this met the requirements so off we went on a cache hunt.
Thanks for the adventure from mogni.

Got him

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 to South.
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 trip continued from Port Augusta to Port Vincent. On a way we visited beautiful Weeroona Island, spend some time at Port Pirie, visited Moonta's himalayas and found many caches 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

Here's a cache that could be a fly-by find
If you are lucky 'nuff to have a plane.

I contented meself with a drive-by find

The AirSock,
(sounds like some expensive designer bit of footwear you stick in a designer bit of footwear),
was fully inflated when I dropped by.
Indicating a stiff breeze from the west

No planes spotted !!

TFTC.

Decided today we would grab the caches around Maitland. This was an easy find on a very cold windy day, a real drive by. [^]
Thanks for the cache Rocky Glen Grommets.

Easy find - thanks RGG. A neat set up out here.

Traveling the YP roads today and heading for Port Pirie. Another good find to add to the fun of the travels. Logbook signed and the cache was replaced as found.

Many thanks to Rocky Glen Grommets for the hide.

We hit turbulence... Mostly because of all the wind

Many thanks to Speedmistress for the repairs. The Hedgehog was happy to be first in the new log. Third cache in Maitland for us. I love the smiley faces.

Great parking place, nice and safe off the highway. The cache is indeed in poor condition but we have Speedmistress who comes supplied with many spare items. The complete cache container was replaced including a new log book, and we took away all the wet yucky items in the cache. Unfortunately this has left the cache fairly trinket poor.

First we must appologise for the generic logs.

We came to Yorke Peninsular with Speedmistress who hails from Queensland to cache our little hearts out and this we are doing.

We solved loads of puzzles prior to coming and with all the earth, multi, trads and puzzles there are here we were never lacking in variety.

When we found caches that needed repair we have done our best to do what was possible, unfortunately we have now rum out of spare containers, so no more repairs can be done. We have enjoyed the scenery, the walks, the animal life and the challenges that was encountered while traveling the Peninsular. Not all the caches have been attempted due to time restraints but those have been earmarked for future visits.
We also would like to thank Speedmistress for supplying our geocaching chariot.
A huge thanks to all the cache owners for placing these caches for us to enjoy.

On this occassion, I am doing a generic log. I have travelled from Queensland to meet up with Muff1 for a Geocaching extravaganza on the beautiful Yorke Peninsular.

Our goal to Cache, Cache and Cache. Each day our "finds" have been growing in number, some days more productive then others. Repairs and replacement of broken containers, new log books and adding a new plastic bag here and there have all been part of the fun we have been having.

We have also been careful to take time to appreciate the natural wonder of the areas we have visited. The variety of caches was interesting, some very clever, some the quick grab they were designed to be.

My sincere thanks to Muff1 for providing me with the opportunity to join them on this geocaching holiday.

A big thank you to all of the dedicated Cache placers who have made this possible.