A Pirate Looks At Fifty Elizabeth East, South Australia, Australia
By two little pirates and a tj on 11-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1F4HV

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Found between games during the Elizabeth netball carnival. Thanks for the cache sa mystery inc!

Harleyjohn2569
That was a good one Tftc

Had just wandered up to Jackand only after finding that realised that this was not far away. So was just a quick walk down and up then and even quicker battle with the ants to get the log signed.
Thanks for the cache sa mystery inc

Thanks for the hike, nice stroll in the arvo. Geo dog loved the walk

Watch the ants

Wow didn't know that this area was so close to home. It was a good hike. But watch the ants that live in the tree who also guard the cache.

This cat's not 50 yet, but found the spot ok!
Certainly a good walk and nice views.
Worthy of a Travel Bug for the next to find, so
left the NZ Rock to continue its travels.
tftc

TB Visit, TMJ

Had sort of attempted this one before, but got to where I was going to park the car, and decided that 750m walk wasted valuable caching time ... so did not attempt this one on that day.

Was in the area today, so decided, given that it was a nice sunny day, a 750m walk was going to happen today!

Was a bit of a strenuous hike to get to GZ ... probably made it harder than it needed to be as I found an easier way back!

But easy find at GZ ... reclaimed my breath ... took in the view ...

Took braclet, left doll.

Added Seek3rs sticker and date to the log book.

TFTC

Be prepared with sticks for swooping magpies and wear long pants and closed in shoes

Found on a beautiful first day of spring. Geowife gave up at the first gully so off I went. I had a very pleasant walk to the cache, a couple of gullies but nothing too bad. Easy find at GZ and just as pleasant walk back to where geowife was waiting. TNLNSL TFTC sa mystery inc!

Nice hike near killed me but found it. Good fun

Cache checked and dried out

Our first one!
Nearly missed it but luckily we looked again.

Left a Pirate ball and took a hacky sack ball

Wear closed in shoes!!

My very first I'm already addicted

Mmmmmm roads everywhere to gz ON THE GPS! lol
Found a spot 245m from gz, didnt look too bad, a little up and down. Well the 1st down ended up in a controlled slide, that fast became uncontrolled! Survived the landing unscathed too.
Found a sml gully to navigate my way up to the cache.
Happy Birthday Mr Parrothead, albeit a little late, my invite must still be in the post! lol
Left 'Boomerang' tb TNSL
thanks for the walk SA Mystery

Good find by our little girl Shannon on a family walk this afternoon. Mind the ants. Took fairy key ring,left pink pen and Pirate Patch. AHOY! TFTC.

Had to locus cache on this one after getting so close to it while doing Panda Bear. Great to be in the country for a while despite being so close to suburbia. Mind you, the country has ants that live in trees, so be careful what touches you! SL. Left paralympian badge as it looks like a pirate's coin, to me. TFTC

This entry was edited by locus cache on Saturday, 14 January 2012 at 07:50:15 UTC.

Found it on our second try. Took a while to get the prickles out of our socks afterwards! Good fun. TFTC

What a challenge with 2 young city dwellers in toe. Attempted to walk, slip, climb up the gully but struggled with lots of prickly thistles and tall grass and trees in our path, so climbed out with a struggle, almost giving up with all the complaints. Soon found the easier path to take and took the opportunity to teach the boys how to climb down, through and up to the cache. Mission achieved. Poor Nanny needs a rest and time to remove the prickles from my hands.

Up and down and up again... Nice one, Thanks!

What a hike! Geo dog razor loved it, mrs made it not so much :-p took pirate coin, left braclets. Thanks for the cache!

Good hide. Good off raod location. My jeep loved it!

Wet, muddy, slippery, great fun TFTC

Found with the help of O'Cholio, very steep gully. TFTC

Accompanied with Everlasting...drove along a track up to about 60m from GZ...Everlasting and Mr Bushies2 walked down and up before they spotted it straight away. Thanks sa mystery inc.

It was good fun for us. we enjoyed walk along to the GZ. Signed the log. Thanks sa mystery inc.

We could not resist making this a driveby, especially with all the thistles everywhere.
Lee screamed when a huntsman ran over her hand.

Cheers and thanks for the cache

Finally got around to doing this one - one of the closest to home. Dodging them thistles is a chore - next time I'll wear long pants. Found with geo-wife and geo-dog who came along for the walk. TFTC sa mystery inc.

First cache in quite some time. Was a good walk and an easy find! TNLN, SL, TFTC!

It was fun getting to, bur i think I went the hard way lol.

Couldn't figure out how to get there without climbing the gully - not sure how to access Whitford road, but will give it another go when we have time.

I found this a bit of a weird area, and a bit of a challenge to get to the cache.
but was rewarded with a find late in the day. Thanks for the cache.

No ants, but plenty of mud. With all the rain we have had, we container had water and the log was damp (and impossible to sign with my trusty IKEA pencil.). Thanks for the hide anyway.

I took the long way along the track towards the cache but I managed to walk back through the gully.
Thanks two little pirates and a tj for the cache.

Shall I drive up this hill or that hill, typical me chose the wrong one so a few scratches were had getting over to the cache, oh the impatience of some is amazing - TFTC

nice walk with great views. TFTC

approached from the old side and had a nice walk to gz! followed the cattle track for the last 100 metres ! tftc

Well what can I say about my adventure in finding this cache today - when we left the sun was out and and I figured it would make for a nice family walk, thought we would take the creek and work our way up to the cache - big mistake, after falling in the mud and landing on one of those lovely prickle bushes I figured my luck would change, luckily for me I found the cache and signed the lovely new log book, just before the heavens opened and soaked us all. I will definately put this cache away in the memory bank and laugh about the story, but at the moment the prickles that pierced through my clothes to my buttocks are causing me to grimice just a little

TFTC - it really was a great walk

Found it easy one but the cache already flood wet log book Need new log book.Lovely view bit slippery down hill.T.N.L.N.S.L.

T.F.T.C

I approached from the west (Here Fishy Fishy) as I knew there was a reasonable way in. Then because I didnt' want to try the steep grassy slopes in my running shoes I walked down and around on the unmarked tracks and came to the cache from the back.

The ants found me while I found the cache - only one bite, then I found an animal track for a shorter walk out.

Davoz370 and three maggots found it.
Took nothing. Left a log (log book note, not a real log)
Dem ants are pesky. All comers, take care not to brush against any shrubbery. most are covered with the little stingers.
+Note pad moist...

Just logging as found to Put in stats didnt realise needs maint dosnt log it as found as well!!

Cache needs a look at, zip lock is torn, pen didnt work, water in container, Log book ok though just a little damp. Bull ants have moved in an are guarding ferociously as the daughter of 6 found out, she wasn't impressed but it didn't worry me as, I was just glad to get another notch in the scabard me hearties. Sorry I didnt bring the spare zip locks with me.

T = Pirate ball L = Led cap light and pencil for the log.

A nice walk after surveying the crossing. Pumping like a pirate had us both smiling when we arrived at GZ. I'm sure an AWD would not do this as a drive by! A tad of mud on the old boots today! 50 eh [?] Clear skies from TeamAstro and thanx Tara [^]

I really enjoyed the walk on this one. Interesting that the New Garmin maps put roads all over this area. I'm suspecting that in time this will be a big housing development area. It would be a shame because the area is quite nice as it is. Thanks to all the Parrots and Pirates for this one.

Our navigator said it was a driveby, we could only get within 95 metres from the cache, after all we were in AWD car
cache was found after a small search
Thanks to the two little pirates and tara

Hubby and Geodog did this today.....Neither are happy! Prickles everywhere......Geo dog is stuffed and just curled into a ball sleeping now.....

Thanks so much for the hide, next time we will do it when there are not so many prickle bushes everywhere.

As Mr Parrothead is now looking at fifty from the other side, I decided it was about time to collect this one. Parrothead is a top bloke, and it was a privilege to be invited to his birthday celebration.

Had a pleasant walk along the gully at dusk, starting from from Here Fishy Fishy.
Took nothing, Left Autumn Leaves TB.

Thanks TJ & the little pirates!

Found by Mary & David at 1520. Can't believe he's that old, and since the cache was placed, he's had another birthday to celebrate. Any grey hair yet under the pirate hat, or some white feathers on the parrot? Collected 'Celebrate 1000!!!' TB. Our thanks to little pirates and a tj.

TB visit to record its arrival in SA.

Great find TFTC!

Very easy find thanks to the hint and other logs. Ground was very slippery today, and had to cross a "bridge" covered in water so got my shoes and socks all wet and muddy, but never mind...a little bit of water and mud doesn't hurt me, I was more keen on finding the cache. Only a couple ants out today, and I saw a dingo run into the bushes in fright.
TFTC

Loved the walk

I removed the pirate notebooks as they had gone mouldy. Fatboy & I left a pirate bouncy ball. To add to the adventure, I even got ants in my pants

TFTC

what a hike, lucky i work locally or we would have done some bigger hill climbs. the dogged helped on the way up.
found with GeoNem. great revegatation sites around.
TFTC TN- left black pirate bouncy ball

Found on a pleasant afternoon stroll up from 'Here fishy fishy'.
Mrs TiedyeSmileys does the honours of getting the cache then putting it back again. Walking back, she goes 'Oh, I've got a big ant on me. Argh, another, and another.' Luckily she was wearing a polar fleece top as they were biting pretty hard into the material.
After they were all brushed off, Mr TiedyeSmileys goes 'Actually, I now vaguely recall reading something in the logs about ants, lucky I sent you in.'

Found with the geokids on a warm sunny Easter Monday, contents a bit damp, watch out for the angry bull ants in the tree! TNLNSL. TFTC.

Nice walk. followed the trail and watched a few magpies attacking a hawk. The hawk gave up and flew away then you could not keep quiet the magpies as the bragged. kept me entertained through the whole walk. cheers for the location TSLSSL took sally and left dinosaur cheers TFTC

A Big hike after lots of caution going through the knee high dry grass. We got there though and found the cache surrounded by flies and bull ants.. The cache was a little musty and some of the contents are a little water damaged. A great hike up the hill though! TFTC

A pleasant and easy walk before Christmas dinner, TFTC.

Enjoyed the walk from "Here Fishy Fishy". Found without too much difficulty. TNLN, TFTC.

Went for a walk up there today, the bullants have made a nest right under the cache. I didn't realise they were there and got covered in them,luckily they didn't bite nothing. Also seen a kangaroo on the way out of here.

TNLNSL

Congratulation Andrew on half a century. Nothing but good clean living will get you through the next 50.

We were having dinner at a friend's place last night quite close by so while I was enjoying a wine with the host, Bruce took off with the two young members of the family to find the cache. The girls enthusiastically found the cache without any problems. TNLN. Thanks two little pirates and a tj

Find 337 without a GPS at 1.00pm
A joint find with Angelust the other half of Team No GPS
A good test of our locating skills using a very poor Google Earth Printout (the area is covered with cloud)
Took the Super Cacher Geocoin
Left an Aussie Key Ring
TFTC FOFV

Found while teaming up with Bob from Elsewhere as the No GPS unit. Even with no GPS and a vague Google earth print out this one was no problem.

TFTC

This is a wonderful tribute Tara and I really envy your Dad having such a loving daughter [^]. I enjoyed the walk and reminiscing about the Panda Puzzle as I went past the spot (I tried to see if I could remember where it actually was, but MY fifty year-old brain didn’t give me a hope ).
A belated birthday wish to Andrew and welcome to the club . Took nothing, but left the ‘Super Cacher’ geocoin in the cache. Cheers all .

I went in not far from Garoonga Drive. Jogged it while family refilled the tank. When we got home, The Prof. noted that a stones throw from me, a girl was sexually assaulted in a reserve near Garoonga Drive. Now I don't know if this reserve was the one, but it was certainly close by if not this one. (It was at 5.30pm on Tues 16th Sept.) So a warning; BE CAREFUL as when I walked it, it was certainly isolated once you got walking. In hindsight, I should have taken someone with me.

But on another note..my approach was certainly good for fitness...Up, down, across, up down, up, down and finally there!....Then return..phew! A peaceful spot...all I could hear was my own puffing.
TNLNSL

I've been parking & grabbing all the way from Kapunda today, and then I reenter suburbia and get to this. TomTom didn't guide me to the most convenient parking spot, but I enjoyed the hike, nonetheless.
Left a bull and a car.
Took pirate-related booty which will come in handy for 'International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day' this Friday. Yarrr!

Found this one on a routine walk - well it's a little bit out of the way. Nice position - rubber spider in the cache made me drop it after lifting the lid!!

TFTC

Saw this cache appear a while ago but last time I passed this way I hadn't loaded the coords into the GPS yet
No such problems today and my short walk was rewarded with a true treasure to behold!
TNLNSL, Cheers

PS.
Congratulations on the Milestone Parrot

Muddy . Sticky . And very, very wet - not to mention the puddles !
It wasn't long before we were wearing elevator shoes, but managed to wipe it all off by the time we climbed the hill.
TN.
Left a spider.
SL.
Thanks tj and the 2 little pirates [B)][B)].
And happy birthday to Mr Parrothead .

Happy Belated Birthday from the Flipper's, we'll have to wait for less slippery weather to do this one, will have a go when we get back from O/S, will look for some treasure to bring back as well. All these 50's are catching.
cheers
Gayle & Mark

The things you do. Got off early from work because I was going out for dinner. Got home at 5:30 and even though I had to be ready for 6:00 went off looking for this one.
I only know the way I have always gone up this track and it was a long muddy 700 odd metre walk to get there. Got to within 40 metres and the gps batteries died. Maybe I should have checked them before diving out the door. Still it is amazing the geotracks just 2 finders can make so I found it real quick.
Once again thank you tara. I helped myself to a parrot.
Arrrrr the spoils that a birthday boy can get.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR.PIRATE PARROT

Alas the treasure had already been plundered by the time I got there. From where I had parked I could see muddy footprints headed the same way I was so knew I was not first. Happy Birthday Mr Pirate.

TFTC

Thank you so much Tara.
I wish I had checked my email this morning. I was hoping to do this on the way home tonight but alas it was bucketing down so I will have to leave it to the morning.
Check out the photo.

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What a lovely introduction to a cache. and.... Congratulations to Mr P on his birthday

wet, muddy, slippery, fun.
Happy Birthday, and thanks for the birthday cache.

Keeping with the pirates theme,

left 7 pieces of eight
took inflatable parrot for flying lessons.