Ol' Smokey Peterborough, South Australia, Australia
By howie_sf on 10-Jan-09. Waypoint GC1KKBE

I am attempting to get in contact with the CO to either adopt or formulate a community maintenance plan for this geocache.

As there has been no CO response to the last request to attend to this cache, the cache is being Archived on the basis that it has been abandoned.

Caches that have been archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived. This is explained here: [Unarchive a geocache](http://support.groundspeak.com//index.php?pg=kb.page&id=70).

If you wish to contact me please send an email via my profile - [Bunjil,](https://coord.info/PR9GZ0K) and quote the cache name and GC number.

###**CACHE OWNER ACTION REQUIRED**###
This cache is carrying one or more logs which suggest some attention by the cache owner is needed.

The guidelines advise that the CO should make regular visits to check on the cache as well as promptly address any logs that indicate that the cache requires some attention. If you can not attend to the issue promptly, then you need to Disable the cache - I have disabled it this time.

Please respond to this situation (or indicated your intentions including a date) by **20th July**, otherwise it will be necessary to withdraw the cache from the Active listing.

**And don't forget,** once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; [Removing the Needs Maintenance Icon](http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404) and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; [Temporarily Disable and Enable ](https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 ) to get your cache up and running again.

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going in tomorrow to check/replace

Hi there Reviewer,

RE: The cache "Ol' Smokey"

I'm following up on my "Needs Maintenance" log which is now well over 28 days old.
There has been no action by the CO or chrispy89. The cache still looks like it has been abandoned and perhaps needs to go.

Regards

Ian & Penny

As per previous logd not here

I have unofficially adopted this cache, and will check on next visit to town

DNF Log as requested by Reviewer.

Hi there howie_sf,

RE: Your cache **"Ol' Smokey"**

We looked for your cache today, but as there's so many DNf's here already we didn't see any point in adding another.
Could you please do a maintenance run to confirm if it is still there - - and perhaps replace (or archive) it if it isn't.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Searched high and low both of us. No luck.

Another one that we had a good search for but turned up empty handed. Hard to believe there have been 2 DNF's with so many cachers been in the area. Maybe just very well hiden or like many others in town gone walkabout. Needs a check from CO.

No smilie for here

Another defeat. 4th in a row. Grrrr.

3:21am

lahierra and I are on a trip through Australia to visit this wide and varied country. Geocaching always helps us to find the most interesting places. Arriving in Petersbrough, there was a village party near the GZ. Lucky the cache was hidden at "not town side" of Ol' Smokey. This made it easier to search with all the people around, and we could it find quickly.

BlueBalje and I are on a trip through Australia to visit this wide and varied country. Geocaching always helps us to find the most interesting places. Arriving in Petersbrough, there was a village party near the GZ. Lucky the cache was hidden at "not town side" of Ol' Smokey. This made it easier to search with all the people around, and we could it find quickly.

Found while in Peterborough for History SA's Making History event. Tricky find, but History Cacher nabbed it.

Yay found

2nd and probably final cache of the boys trip.
TFTC

Late log from June

Easy find, taking a group of local and international TB's and Geocoins on 'The Great Road Trip around Australia.'

Thanks for the cache

** Smile # *4107* / Traditional # *3181* **

I had never been to this location an we really enjoyed our time here. We stopped for a drink and something to eat and the geo boy could not help himself but be all over this great train. As the kiddies climbed, I was able to make the find on this one. Signed and replaced as found.

**Thanks for placing this trad cache howie sf** [^]
**Cache container and log in good condition**
**Took nothing, Left nothing**

Found it but didn't have a pencil to sign

A nice drive by on the way to the Flinders Range's. TFTC

Nice drive by on the way to the Flinder's Ranges. TFTC

Found by The Noodler. Usually hate micro's on trains. TFTC

Didn't take too long find one on a train
TFTC

Two sets of eyes but still no result.

Looked all over but no luck next time

Too many possible spots where it could be hidden, so we gave up very quickly and can't really be bothered with these.

Great hiding spot, was on our hands and knees to find it.

Found it!! Thanks

Found with Dennisc52. TFTC

Found after much searching with loopy1972. Another train hits the rails! TFTC.

Tricky find, still fenced off, but went behind.

Found it

DNF because _ was fenced off

Found on stop over thanks

A quick find. Very wet day. TFTC

After arriving in town, cheking out the rail museum for times, doing the washing, and parking the van, we got to go for a walk into town, this was the third cache on our route.

Not another train!!!!! We started the search, but fellow grey nomads wanderd though the area, so we stopped to chat, 1/2 an hour later decided to continue our happy back at the caravan.

Might try again tomorrow.

Love this old engine. It certainly has traveled some miles. After a short search, we found it and signed log. TFTC

Lots of muggles around today. Searched where the GPS told us too as sneakily as we could but no luck!

You have to be lucky sometimes /// Laid my hands on it straight away! Thanks for the hide!!

Had a bit of a search and found the cache, then had to remember where it came from in order to put it back.

Then forgot to log it until passing back through town a couple of weeks later.

We had to concede defeat with this one - should have gone to SpecSavers first

Good spot. Lovely train inside town. TFTC!

Thanks for the cache

Away in Peterborough for a caching weekend with the SnappyomCats and we stopped to grab this one.
TFTC
Travellinbees

Up from the Barossa for the weekend with the travellinbees for a fun weekend of caching. After settling in at the Motel we headed out to do a few before dinner. ANOTHER Train!!! This is our 3rd today although BOB wasn't technically on the train, it was next to one. Thankfully this didn't take as long as the first! TFTC

Catching up on a few late logs (something not that unusual for me). As always, I enjoyed the journey to find the cache, mostly I have been in the company of Team Crackers, maccamob, alansee and the Coffee's, but occasionally I have gone out solo to soak in the solitude of being out in the fresh air.

Thanks howie_sf for placing this cache.

Searched for a while but it was a bit too much of the famous needle in the haystack.

Took a while but we found it. Highly recommend using a torch to help. Great hide

After finding two others today, we didn't look for too long, although there was 5 of us searching. Must b a hard one to licate

Wow talk about a needle in a hay stack!! Really don't like trains & nanos combined.

This entry was edited by Linga Longa on Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 08:53:06 UTC.

Out and about with &0thers while on our way to Burra for the night. Should have saved time and dirt. Nice little town

4585 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1200. With one DNF back in 2009 we weren't real sure of finding the container this time. Looked for some time, went and got the torch and there it was. The gravel was a bit rough on the knees. SL Tnx howie sf





Didn't find it

30/08/2009


Another DNF for today and that makes 2. Tnx howie sf

Came away without my caching torch so went and bought one today and it certainly lit up the cache. I took a step beyond and reached in and there bit was. Thanks. Gave it a favourite. A small cache on a big train is a great find.

Spent much too long on this one. Looked in every likely spot or hole but no luck today.
We fully concur with Freddo re nano's on trains.
Cheers,
Lead 'n Lace.

Caching eye not in! Something to ponder another day.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found with auzzie convict tftc came back after been muggled out by some other cacher's who pulled up at gz and sat in their car until we abandoned the search :0

Thanks to some good logs, a reasonably straightforward find on a busy weekend in Peterborough.
tftc

Stopped here for picnic lunch and visit to the market with JJ52. Decided to do a few more caches - nearly gave up on this one but got it! Thanks howie

Driving around doing all things touristy and stopped off here to have a picnic lunch.
Don't usually have much luck with trains but after looking in a few places we came across another hidey hole that just happened to be home to the cache. That was much better than it could have been. [?]
Thanks for the cache howie_sf.

found it.
TFTC

Our record with these types of hides is appalling at best and we had already bypassed another similar cache earlier on our walk around town as several logs stated that it was dirty, greasy work lookng for the hide. However by the time we got to this one we had just about finished our walk and decided at the last minute to give it a quick try as it wouldn't matter too much if we got a bit grubby.

However we were amazed that Geohubby managed to spot it almost instantly....wow....love it when that happens.....just wish it happened more often

Many thanks for the hide howie sf[^][^][^]

Found this one while on our stay in Peterborough for a few days last month - sorry about the late log.

Travelling to Stanthorpe for the mega event via Orroroo, Peterborough, Broken Hill, Cobar, Lightning Ridge. Great to find this well hidden cache and showing us more of the area. Thanks to howie_sf.

After failing at this one yesterday, read back through a couple of years worth of logs to get some tips and this morning found it in the first hidey hole I reached into! Very windy this morning so as soon as I opened the container, the log blew out and away and I had to run to retrieve it! That would have been a classic to have found the cache and lost the logbook, especially as it's such a lovely work of art. Cache #2105.

Not enjoying caching in petersborough!

DNF - 30th October 2014
So many great hiding spots to search. Trains.... Arghhh!

I hate those small things.

Danke für den Cache
[green]Roi[/green] [blue]Danton[/blue]

[size=1]Cache #672[/size]

I used to play on a train a lot like this in a play ground near where we lived, but since I started caching I have learned to look at trains with much trepidation due to the number of hiding spots they present. Thankfully this one wasn't too bad and we were soon on our way. Cheers. MODU.

Some times these can be a bit hard, but after 5 minutes had it in hand. Thanks for the info.

Had this one in hand in under two minutes. How lucky was that? Loved the log book - haven't come across one of these for a while. There were workmen near by but we parked the campervan strategically to cover our activities. Thanks.

We gave it a good shot but were hampered by muggles working nearby and watching us like hawks. So we retired defeated. Second DNF for the day and I feel dispirited. But it is what it is.

Usually it takes ages to find caches on these old machines, but this time I had it in hand in no time. A pleasant surprise, thank you.

Tftc. Travelling through to the Eyre. Stopped for fruit and veg and just had to get this one.

Lunch stop.

lunch stop over on the way to the Flinders Ranges tftc

Fantastic ok train . Thought it might've been difficult but it wasn't . Thanks for the hide.

Found after getting 28 scouts to help and reading previous logs. TFTC

Very well hidden. TFTC

Tftc. Very nice hidey hole.

Been many times but today success due to super sleuths Max and Jana. Not as hard as we thought but small hands help.

Tricky find, took us 15 minutes and a few spoilers to find. Thanks for such a great cache!

1:04:00 PM, GAFF1, We pulled up here for luch today, a nice quick find.
SL, cache in good condition.
TFTC howie_sf

A hard one and found thanks to Team Spanner

Great hide

11/4/14 found by Sally on merimbulla coach tour helping grey trippers. Had the whole bus load involved so now will be lots more geocachers. Good fun

Found on a road trip to Broken Hill via Peterborough
Cool spot, great cache
2nd visit here - had to phone a friend this time
Thanks FTC

Second look and found it! Geez was hard haha! TFTC

2nd time here, brought some muggle family and it was the wonderful Uncle Chris who was the lucky finder. Tftc sl.

After a while looking and feeling out came the camera. A section i had looked at twice before showed it secret. Took Nothing Left nothing. Slgned Log. Then off to steam town rail museum for tour then lunch.

Found after a second hunt today! TFTC.

Finally found it after second look.
TFTC

Found with hubby.

I was a bit worried about this one when I saw GZ.
Fortunately I found it quite quickly. TFTC.

Help from a local worker!

2nd time found it

Nice spot for a bite to eat as we stop halfway before our flinders trip and hopefully more caching !