12 mile school Arno Bay, South Australia, Australia
By valiantscot on 17-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1FAAD

We are travelling with Pprass and after a small delay at the hospital in Whyalla for an Xray for Mr Morris we have now arrived in Cleve for a couple of days. So much to see and do here and the weather has been sunny and conducive to getting out and about. Today we headed around town and country towards Cowell for lunch collecting some caches and AdLabs.Thanks for the tour around the area valiantscot

Found at 10:14 AM in the company of The Morris.We did drive right up to it and found that it just was operated for 2 years. No wonder being way out hereso far from anywhere.Thanks to valiantscot

Away for a few days to the west coast to clear up some caches.Day 1 Adelaide to KimbaDay 2 Wudinna to CleveDay 3 CleveDay 4 Cleve to WhyallaDay 5 Whyalla to AdelaideThe weather was excellent for all 5 days and the nights weren't too cold for the swag.Thanks to all cachers who placed and maintained caches for me to find.Yet another school cache. So many small schools.TFTC

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 10 - Cleve to Port Lincoln via Port Neill and Tumby Bay. My short days continue and I spent a bit of time around Cleve before I got under way. Plenty of roadside caches along the highways. I ventured into Pot Neill, Tumby Bay and Port Louth to check out the villages. As ever I would have loved to have stopped for lunch or dinner in each one, but I stuck to the plan and made it to the caravan park in Port Lincoln. Once I was set up I went and did a few more caches on the edge of town. A couple more Counties today. I'll spend another day here tomorrow before heading North West to th Nullabor over a few days after that.As I drove from Cleve I stopped at many but not all of the roadside caches. They all went smoothly except one. Oh well, can't get them all .. Or so they tell me.Thanks for the cache valiantscot46603.8 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2021 Community Volunteer Tag A#465**Albida**

Ocw the Bebes as we visit Arno Bay. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa Staying in Arno Bay for a few days but its not really beach weather today so were going for a drive to find caches instead. The cache has lasted there much longer than the school ! Tftc

The 12 mile school from 1913 - 1914 such a short time! Thanks valiantscot for bringing us here. Tftc

Day 7 at Cowell and today we headed down to Arno Bay, Port Neill and Lipson Cove. Hmm Yes, it didn't last long at all! TFTC

Thank you for the cache

Our caching in a beautiful day with my son TFTC

Found it

Did not even need to leave the car to see it easy

Decided to do a road trip to visit some new playgrounds and do some caches along the way.
A nice easy one to start our tour of Cleve. TFTC!

Quick easy find

Love the old school remains. Was expecting a smallish container, but what a surprise we got. Like your sense of humor. TFTC.

Took off to the North West a bit with Purrfect Di to avoid the rains back home.
Turned out this worked quite well as we only had a couple of showers for the whole weekend and saw some great scenery and found the odd cache or two!

We love to see old school buildings as we live in one ourselves. Not much left here
12 month school perhaps.

Many thanks to valiantscot for placing and maintaining this cache on our SA geo-map


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Travelling around - searching, spotting and signing cache logs using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just a guyess or plain old dumb luck
Plenty of that luck stuff actually !!!

*All the online logs are composed and published with GSAK of course.*


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Look out for sand, mud, snakes, surprise cliffs, roos, wombats, things falling from trees, bulldust, and floods, and sharp rocks in your tyres
try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall off your ladder...
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Keep your distance - cache the countryside


Really fantastic of all those placing quality caches out and about around the country areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game safe, fun, and interesting

Thanks so much for reading all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, apparently! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where I could do it and go back to normal logs again !





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Another cache found during our 2022 South Australia adventure using Geocaching as our guide.

Thanks valiantscot, we love the history and story of the old school sites.

Bit easy

Very quick easy find tftc

Turned this one into a Sunday school visit today. TFTC

Could see this on approach but I guess only geocachers would be coming to GZ Not much else here which is a bit of a shame considering the ruins still standing for other old schools I visited today. TFTC

Easy to fine kids loved it

Happy New Years! Great spot, only geo-caches would stop here! TFTC

Easy large find

A quick and easy park and grab. Bigger than expected.

Thanks for the cache valiantscot.
Found on 16/11/21 at 18:26.
Find #14679

Quick find, could hardly miss it !!

TFTC

We are still having some fun caching around the Cleve area along with ilook4geo. This cache was an easy one to find and the log was soon signed to keep the paperwork in order. Thanks go to valiantscot for placing this cache.

Out on the caching hunt again today with goingplaces2 in and around the Cleve area. Thanks go to each of the CO's who contributed caches which made this hunt successful.

Nice easy find at a historic spot. TFTC

Found by Nigel

TFTC

After a great free camp night (Rex spent most of the night mousing) we headed off to Arno Bay. More caching along the way and then an afternoon of R&R as the rain came when we got to the campsite.
Had a super camp supper until Rex ran away because he was scared of the champagne bottle pop. Thankfully after searching for him for a hour he slunk back to camp.
Enjoyed our caching today. TFTC

Tftc

Found by Bushy Ethan and ball bag featuring Ozzy

This weekend, I joined gridge98 on a trip to Eyre Peninsula, primarily visiting Port Lincoln and its surroundings. We saw its famous marina full of trawlers, and we also ended up visiting Coffin Bay and enjoyed fresh oysters. A nice weekend with weather, and certainly a great vicinity to see.

Today leaving Whyalla, we headed down the Lincoln Highway, passing through Cowell, Cleve, Arno Bay, Port Neill, and Tumby Bay. Just prior to lunch, we also completed the *Cleve Cleaver* geoart trail. A rather long day of geocaching numbers, but the inland and coastal towns were enjoyable to visit, along with the various picturesque beaches along the way.

An interesting piece of history here, and yeah, sounds like a temporary school setup here during the war, perhaps? A decent sized container, with the cache container and logbook in good shape. We had a little car trouble here, with [@gridge98](http://coord.info/PRGKDMY)'s car's left indicator light randomly staying on? A bit of troubleshooting and removed fuse appeared to fix that problem (along with the loss of capability to indicator left/right, activate hazard lights, and full dashboard display including speed/odometer display). Thanks valiantscot for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Stopped by this one on the road, a quick find was made cache is all good

Today davidwazza and I made our way from Whyalla to Port Lincoln as part of a weekend away to clean up as much as we could. Today was filled with some good and bad times, plus a few car issues along the way but all in all a great day out and 105 caches found in total.
Thanks for the cache

Accurate coordinates and an obvious hide location led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks valiantscot for the cache.

Found during a tour of the Gawler Ranges and Eyre Peninsula for the week, on a route that saw us traveling to Kimba, Streaky Bay, Tumby Bay, Cleve and Whyalla and camping out near Secret Rocks, Kolay Hut (Gawler Ranges), Pildappa Rock, Port Kenny and Yeldulknie Weir (Cleve), all the while finding caches along the way. Thanks for the cache valiantscot!

Found with the kids on a windy Cleve day! TFTC

Easy find.

Last one for the day great cache Tftc

A quick find of a large container. Cache is in good order.

Another historic spot I would have never known about. TFTC!

A quick find and another in the collection of closed schools we have discovered over the years
TFTC valiantscot

Day 3. heading in the direction of Port Lincoln for some 4 x 4 caches in the national parks and the kayak caches down there. Also targeting letterbox and earth caches on route plus the odd multi. I will even make Port Lincoln today. quick find at gz.

Travelling Australia since March 2014 it has been a while since in SA but enjoying this visit greatly.

Moving today from Cowell, we stopped in Port Gibbon and Arno Bay and unhitched so we cache around the area without the caravan on tow.

Arrived late afternoon in Port Neill and explored the general area before sunset. Nice to see some sunshine and less wind after the last few days.

TFTC valiantscot

Wow!! Big cache. They are the best, and nice and easy to find. Took TB to move along. TFTC

Easy find. Took TB and left a TB

Found this with CherryRose on our weekend in Cleve for the South Australian Rural Women's Gathering. Container is on the large side of medium . TFTC CherryRose left TB and swaps.

Found out with Beary Organised while in Cleve for RWG TFTC TNSL Dropped TB PLEASE DON'T KEEP MOVE IT ON

TFTC

Found. Good spot for a 4 year old to find

Easy find!

Good one

NEF TFTC

TFTC valiantscot

Found with odnam tftc

Thanks for the cache

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More like medium sized

Hi there valiantscot.

We found your cache **"12 mile school"** at 1:24:00 PM today. This cache makes our find count 13828.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip around the local area today. We usually start the day off by nominating a cache some distance away from our camp site and then take a route mainly determined by the next closest cache according to our GPS. Today we thought that it would be nice to visit Arno Bay to have one of their "arnormous" hamburgers for lunch..

###Thanks for not placing an eclipse tin or a 200ml Sistema here. Once upon a time caches seemed to be "regular" sized,and well stocked with goodies for kids to swap. Nowadays it seems like every other cache is small and devoid anything to induce children to enjoy the hunt. It made us feel really good to find this cache in a "special" place.###

We ended up finding 19 & DNFing 0 caches today.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape, and it's certainly not small.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Easy access and good location.

Off on a caching adventure with GoodLook on the Easter long weekend!! We had perfect weather and, for the route we were taking, surprisingly little traffic! Our target was the Cleve Cowell area althouth we started way before this. Our biggest challenge was the lack of anything open, apart from roadhouses, on the Friday and Saturday!!
Cache was totally destroyed but luckily I had a largish screw top container so we removed the broken pieces and put the contents in it!!

This cache was completely broken, CP replaced the container for you, we put all of the contents into the new vessel.

Found whilst on a fabulous Easter long weekend caching trip with CPwanderer travelling from Adelaide to the Eyre Peninsula.

Today has been filled with much of the same as yesterday - fun, laughter and lots of crazy caching adventures [^] ....as well as flies (that were very friendly and seemed to like riding in the air conditioned car with us), HUGE and hungry ants (ouch!), a large nest of spiky caterpillars, cute little kangaroos and even having a close call with a DEATH ADDER SNAKE - keep in mind I was with CP!!

Thanks for the cache valiantscot

Out looking for fuel and decided to do some caches along the way TFTC
Put log into another plastic bag as cached needs maintenance.

Nice quick find! Good little spot!

Easy found, little sun damaged and cache perished

A very quick find, whilst heading north, Thanks valiantscot for the cache. SL Cheers.

A quick find, TFTHSL

Too easy!! Well done NS and JS

Too easy, well done JS# legend at this.

2 Cache oohs found it with I found it2 while travelling from Arno Bay to Whyalla

Interesting history lesson. Why so short I wonder??? TFTC TNLN

Easy find good hide

Gd hide. Nice spot

Tftc

Got myself a Ben 10

Starting out for the drive over to the Qld. Mega for the second time after some repairs to the vehicle caused the first attempt to fail making me lose two and a half days of the trip that was planned.

A quick find here.

Thanks valiantscot for the cache.

Great little spot , I filled the cache up with a few swaps for the next visitor tftc

Another find making for an interesting trip back to cleve. Junior rockets

Tftf. Geo kid 2. Racing against a storm about to hit added to the excitement!

Skools out .... forever here

A nice little detour off the main road.
Or was it ?

TFTC

Love these short little moments in time SL TFTC

Not much, if anything left here now
Nice size cache.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Nice easy find on the way home from creepy cleve caching weekend . June long weekend .

Found this one on the way home from a fun weekend at the Cleve creepy caching jlwe event. TFTC!

Found on our weekend away attending the JLWE.

Love the interesting facts and history involved in the caches we find.

Cheers and thanks for the cache

One of many fun caches found over the June Long Weekend.
A great time was had to, from and around Cleve on the Eyre peninsular.
Thanks for your cache [^]
Cheers

Interesting location for a nice cache.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK 8.

Was over at Cleve for the Creepy Cleve Caching JLWE Event and grabbed some caches along the way, in the area and on the way home.

Thanks to all the cache hiders. TFTC.

2 quick finds with messy61 before JLW dinner. tripped over firesafe. on to dinner. great day caching.

In Cleve for the JLWE and of course some socializing and fun. Out with the newly formed team BAM (brisal5, Aussie M & M and mogni).
Thanks for the quick find.

Spotted the spot from the car so was a very quick find.

Sorry For The Late Log Have Fallen a Bit Behind in logging.

TFTC valiantscot

In Cleve for the June Long Weekend Event with Aussie M&M and mogni forming the caching crew of BAM. Saturday was hide our caches day. And of course pick up a few caches as we transverse the playing field.
As we stopped, even before we were out the car Mr. M had spied the hide. Thanks valiantscot.

Day 1 for the BAM team at the June Long Weekend Event.

The BAM team (brisal5, Aussie M&M, and mogni) arrived overnight, and after a restless night were ready to tackle the JLW Event. Today was the day of working up a strategy by studying the playing field and placing our cache installations. We also managed to fit in some caching.

Mr M always loves a cache that takes him to a ruin. As others signed the log, he had fun looking at all the debris and some interesting rubbish. TFTC valiantscot.

Found it with Labchick during the jlwe event. TFTC

Found It!
Not much left of this school - even the plaque looks a little ordinary...
TFTC

Interesting piece of local history, thanks for bringing us here, quick easy find
TFTC

Found it

An easy find while in the area completing JLW preparations with DeltaDucks. An interesting site. TFTC