Chicken Crossing Balgowan, South Australia, Australia
By Chicken Little on 19-Mar-09. Waypoint GC1NVYN

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Logs

16-Oct-10
I was going to replace the sign but since no chickens cross here I am going to Archive this for now
 
05-Jun-10
Will get this replaced soon
 
04-Jun-10
Yep, not there, dang
 
04-Jun-10
CACHE IS GONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Checked the obvious spot first, then everywhere else too. CIRIL confirmed it IS GONE later in the night.
 
17-Mar-10
A bad start to the day when you have an early DNF after a good search. No signs here either.
 
16-Mar-10
No chickens, no sign, and most importantly - no cache!
Not really a good spot for us today.
thanks, Robmc.
 
03-Jan-10
[^][^] Found nice quick.T.N.L.N S.L.

T.F.T.C [^]
 
22-Dec-09
A quick find whilst heading to the areas only winery to get some Chrissy presents.
TNLN
Thanks for the cache!
 
19-Dec-09
Why did the chicken cross the road? Cause he had the wrong coordinates to a Zytheran Puzzle Cache Big Grin

Thanks For The Cache!!!!
 
09-Dec-09
Found while doing a bit of casual geocaching while on relaxing holidays at Stansbury
TNLN SL TFTC
 
07-Nov-09
found this an interesting site as it would have been worthwhile activity in its day.TFTC
 
07-Nov-09
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because it wanted to be eggcited!
(made that up can you tell?) LOL
TNLNSL TFTC
 
07-Oct-09
Day 4 - Yorke Penninsula Geocaching Trip
Why didn't the chicken cross the road... he couldn't find the crossing sign.
No chickens, no muggles, just a good hide [^]
Thanks for bringing us to this place.
Sorry, I forgot to note our swaps Red Face
TFTF
 
02-Oct-09
Thanks. Nice quick find for a relative newbie, with kids in tow. Smile

Why did the sleepy lizard cross the road?

To see his flat mate. (Sorry)
 
19-Sep-09
It took me a few minutes to find it because my gpsr just won't want to settle. No sign of any chickens they must have already found the cache. Wink
Thanks Chicken Little for the cache. Smile
 
02-Sep-09
A quick find and not a chicken in sight.
 
22-Aug-09
I ate a chicken snitzel in Maitland before coming out to this cache, so that is why the chicken crossed the road...he saw the feathers in my beard.

Easy find and certainly no poultry in sight.

Thanks Chicken Little.

 
09-Aug-09
Found by Mary & David at 1145. Had a good laugh here - we've never seen a sign like this before! No sign of any chickens though. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the coordinates were out. Our thanks to Chicken Little.
 
30-Jul-09
Why did the chicken cross the road ?

Aside from the problem that the answer subverts the unstated premise in the question, that the chicken has in fact already crossed the road, I would like to suggest that the intention or motivation to choose a course of action usually precedes its enactment (except of course in situations when we act from unconscious motives or when we are just stumbling through life blind which I suspect happens more often than we care to admit), and hence the situation that although the chicken, who we infer to be somewhat dim, this point being the very crux of the more-than-acceptably funny if not absolutely and hilariously side-splitting joke, had not yet completed his crossing, this would most likely not be a barrier to his knowing why he had embarked on the enterprise of crossing the road.

Hence the completion of the act of crossing the road is not essential to the chicken having a precise and self-aware clearly formulated knowledge of why the act was undertaken, and the damning implication that this chicken did not know why he was doing what he was doing just because he hadn't yet finished is defamatory, insulting to his intellect, and quite probably specist. I think an apology may be in order. When he has finished crossing the road of course. Indeed if you are able to speak to him before he completes the crossing, you might be able to ask him the present tense question "Why are you crossing the road", and then if you can wait for him to complete the crossing you could then ask him after he completes the crossing "Why did you cross the road ?" Providing he answers honestly and transparently, and does not have any conscious or unconscious conflicts that prevent him from so doing, that would confirm whether he did or did not know why he was doing what he was doing before he did it or whether he only came to such a knowledge after the act was completed.
 
29-Jul-09
Didn't see any chickens as it was dark. We had to use the Geotorch to quickly locate the cache.

TFTC. Nice hide.
 
15-Jul-09
Found by Mrs 4evermore. School holiday caching with the kids. A quick find. TNLN TFTC
 
09-Jun-09
Flying Find on the June Long weekend event..... nice spot but no time to stop! Go Go Stanley Treasure Hunters.
TFTC
SS
 
08-Jun-09
Found by Team George Jetson during the Yorke Caching Weekend. TNLN TFTC
 
08-Jun-09
This was a popular spot during the long weekend game for some reason Smile. I actually had my hand on it at one stage, but Hurtle had us on a tight time schedule and I had to return to log it today.

TNLN - Thanks Chicken Little!


As to why the chicken crossed the road, well it all depends on who you ask. Here's a small selection of answers....

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Basil Fawlty: Oh, don't mind that chicken. It's from Barcelona.

Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please?

Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your chequebook.

Bob Dylan: How many roads must one chicken cross?

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

Captain James T Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.

Colonel Sanders: I missed one?

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Donne: It crosseth for thee.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, The chicken crossed the road, But why it crossed, I've not been told!

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Fox Mulder: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes! How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?

George W. Bush: We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us.

Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

Groucho Marx: Chicken? What's all this talk about chicken? Why, I had an uncle who thought he was a chicken. My aunt almost divorced him, but we needed the eggs.

Hamlet: That is not the question.

John Lennon: Imagine all the chickens crossing roads in peace.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.

Mae West: I invited it to come up and see me sometime.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Martin Luther King Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!

Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Pierre de Fermat: I just don't have room here to give the full explanation.

Robert Frost: To cross the road less traveled by.

Ronald Reagan: I forget.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Sigmund Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying insecurity.

Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Voltaire: I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will defend to the death its right to do it.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
 
07-Jun-09
Found during the heat of the competition.
 
07-Jun-09
Found this one as we were hunting for an event cache, took us a few minutes to realise just how close they were!!

Great location, very funny Smile

TFTC
 
Stumbled across the road to this one, whilst searching for #22 cache of the Yorke event. TNLNSL
 
07-Jun-09
Jimmy Buffet - To escape the Sharks that feed on the land.

I predict Winterdragon will get the rest of them.Smile
 
07-Jun-09
Found with shane4 after we got bogged during the race Sad that put an end to our day so we figured we would go hunt some smileys instead Big Grin

TFTC
 
07-Jun-09
Found in the middle of the Heart of Yorke event. TFTC
 
07-Jun-09
Found as part of the June LWE event, TFTC
 
Found this one while participating in the Heart of Yorke Event. Actually thought it was one of the event caches, but realised it wasn't because it contained a log book!! Found the event cache sneakily hidden as well.
 
07-Jun-09
Found
 
07-Jun-09
Like others we found it during the Yorke event. Was a little puzzled by a cache with a log book when we were looking for a temporary cache but we soon worked it out.
Thanks Chicken Little
 
07-Jun-09
Quick find with 'SBI' and 'The Hunta during the event'
TFTC

Cheers and Happy Hunting Shane4
 
07-Jun-09
A quick find as part of someone's camo for the heart of york event
TNLN
Thanks
 
07-Jun-09
Found by Barry and Beryl at 1.30 pm
Found during the June long weekend geocaching event
TNLN
Thanks for the cache
 
07-Jun-09
It was competition day of the 2009 Heart of Yorke event and we were never going to win, we tried to get as many as possible (about 45 of the 64 caches) plus get some real caches as well.

The weather was ordinary all day with most of the roads turning to various degrees of slush but fun was had by all.

There were no chickens today but more importantly I missed the event cache which was hidden underneath the real cache. TFTC. Big Grin
 
06-Jun-09
Found the cache - someone walk across the road (see pic) SL. Thanks Chicken Little for organising the cache and hunt.
 
06-Jun-09
Found with EV and GV while out hiding Event Caches - met the local chicken farmer and walked the chicken walk LOL Thanks to a scrambled chicken for the cache - Love your work ! Smile
 
06-Jun-09
Why did the chicken cross the road twice?[br]
Because it was a double crosser!
[br][br] TNLN thanks so much for this cute experience! Cache #401.
 
06-Jun-09
Found while up in Maitland for the Heart Of Yorke event. Cute series
 
06-Jun-09
Found whilst taking a crossing photo for the event. Locals next door were racing RC cars, local toy shop owners and they were great sports too. The chicken cages are empty but all around the track. TFTC
 
06-Jun-09
I had already found this one, but visited again on caching event weekend. Other members of C3 hadnt found it yet and wanted to find it!!

Still loved this cache idea!!
 
06-Jun-09
Yep found it and loved it! Riddle somewhere below as a comment!Big Grin Then we came back AGAIN in the Event and AGAIN for the photo comp! so how many times did WE cross the road???
 
06-Jun-09
Easily spotted as we drove up to the cache.... Muggles on motorbikes close by but they were too busy riding up and down mounds of dirt to pay much attention to what we were doing....!!! This cache proved to be "interesting" during the following days cache hunt at the Heart of Yorke Event.... Thanks "Chicken Little" for the cache
 
06-Jun-09
Found at 16:20.
We pulled up as a couple of muggles approached slowly up the road. Naturally, they stopped and asked if there was a problem. I said we were playing a navigation game, and were planning our next move. Then Hurtle hurtles up behind me, says hello, and goes to find the cache and blows my cover story. However, he did manage to find the temporary cache hidden there for the event. We agreed to not take the FTF token, and left for South Killa (story continues there).
 
06-Jun-09
So many crossings on the Yorke Peninsular but I had never seen a Chicken Crossing before today. Technically found this one twice thanks to a cleaver hide on the June Long Weekend Event under this one. TFTC
 
06-Jun-09
A quick drive by during June Long Weekend Event. Little did we know we would be back to the same spot again tomorrow!
 
06-Jun-09
11:52 Found on our June Long Weekend YP mud slide!

For the second time in two days we were caught at a cache by the Ermies. This time they hadn't found this one, so Matt got the cache delivered to his seat, so they didn't even have to get out of the car!

If only we had known we would be back here the next day Big Grin

Ahem. Who forgot the tent poles?

TNLNSL
 
06-Jun-09
Found whilst out hiding a cache or 2 for the event...

This was find 30 of 31 for the daylight hours today...
Now to do South Killa with Uni and head back to Maitland for a shower, dinner, set up tent, and then head out for more cache tonight.(Another dozen or so!)

The chicken crossed here of course, so he could log the cache, what the hell else is there to do on the June Long Weekend?????
TNLNSL
Thanks
 
06-Jun-09
Thanks for the hunt. TNLNSL.
 
06-Jun-09
Wouldn't have bothered with this one today if we had known we were going to be back so soon.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Maybe to see what all the fuss was about over there.
 
06-Jun-09
Day 3 hiding day of the long weekend caching event. 5th of 28 finds for the day/110 for the weekend. Quick find on this one and it was even delivered to our door by Dylanja & setsujoku. TNLNSL. TFTC.
 
06-Jun-09
Find# 511
14th find of the day.
Took: Nothing / Left: Nothing
Found during the SA Event on Yorke Peninsula.
Thanks for the cache!
Jardry
 
06-Jun-09
11:52 Found on our June Long Weekend YP mud slide!

For the second time in two days we were caught at a cache by the Ermies. This time they hadn't found this one, so Matt got the cache delivered to his seat, so they didn't even have to get out of the car!

If only we had known we would be back here the next day Big Grin

TNLNSL
 
05-Jun-09
This was the first time we found this one on the weekend, the next time there was another one underneath it for the caching weeeknd. Cheers. MODU.
 
02-Jun-09
Well HOPEFULLY after the Event w/e I will have many caches to log. If that is the case I may forget to add the riddle's answer so adding it now.

A Duck was walking up and down on the edge of the road. Up and Down,up and down. It looked from side to side and then walked up and down some more. The chicken watched it! Eventually, the Duck tentatively, placed it's little webbed foot on the edge of the road, as if to cross....
The Chicken began to shout:





NO,
DON'T DO IT!
YOU'LL NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT!!!
Big GrinBig Grin
 
31-May-09
Don't ya love it when nature provides excellent hide locations. TFTC
 
30-May-09
No chooks today, except on the signs that is!
Cheers
 
17-May-09

Apparently a lot of locals buy eggs here. So you are slowing down anyway. I see no need for the sign. Don't get sucked in, it is just advertising. Surely you would not let your free rangers cross a road. That would be stupid.
So I actually think the CHICKEN DID NOT CROSS THE ROAD. It would never get there. It would be KILLED.

The farmer would eventually go broke. He would move on.

So logic dictates that probably no chickens have ever crossed this road as the farmer is still here, in business.

Besides, chickens don't know about caching., so there is no need to cross. Clear skies!
 
The chicken crossed the road cause he heard that the guy with the Patrol was out of townWink
TFTCSmile
 
17-May-09
I did a good impersonation of a chicken with it's head cut off while I scratched around looking for the cache. I eventually found it in the place I should have looked right in the beginning Red Face.

Thanks Chicken Little Wink.
 
17-May-09
The chicken crossed the road to get to the greener grass on the other side of the fence.
 
02-May-09
Found with Ginger Ninja, H2J2 and Emziel.

I love this theme of caches you have done!!! Lots of fun Smile
 
26-Apr-09
Passed by here soon after it was published (but before we knew about it) & commented to hubby how interesting it was, so now we are well down the list but its worth returning for! TN Lbutterfly TFTC RGGs
 
26-Apr-09
Found on the 'Adrian Mc + Swampy - Caching from Hobart to Adelaide and Beyond' tour.

A quick drive by. No chickens around today, only some of usncaching gooses.

TFTC
 
26-Apr-09
2009-04-26 15:32
Found quickly and back into the caching wagon before getting too wet.
TFTC

Found on The 2009 Adrian Mc & Swampy Caching Adelaide And Beyond Tour
Find # 141

[This entry was edited by TeamSwampy on Saturday, May 02, 2009 at 4:57:50 AM.]
 
19-Apr-09
Loved this one!! Who'd have thought chicken's could really cross the road somewhere??
 
12-Apr-09
We thought the sign was a hoot, and definitely worthy of a cache site Wink. We were pleased to come away with bronze [^]. Cheers Big Grin.
 
05-Apr-09
In answer to how many of these signs have we seen if you count this one , it makes a grand total of one. It also answers the age old question of why did the chicken cross the road, it was a caching chicken.
This was a very amusing cache, thanks for bringing us here
 
Rocky Glen Grommets LOVE this cache - we actually have a close affinity with chooks. On our farm - Rcoky Glen (a whole 5 acres) we have lots and lots of farm animals and they are nearly ALL Black and white or black, or white - we have a black and white geo dog, 4 black and white geo belties (cows), black geo Indian Runner Ducks, white geo indian runner ducks and black/white geo Indian Runners, black sheep and white sheep - only the pony is "coloured". We also have our choocks - BLACK and WHITE and they are PLYMOUTH ROCK CHOOKS.

The Chicken Crossing is actually where our chooks (we refer to them as Baz and our girls) geneology hails from. Before the Groms entered the MX arena, we would spend many a hour washing / grooming our beloved chooks and ducks. We still have early morning starts but not washing our chooks.

It should now be obvious why the location of this cache is so special - unfortunately Baz is no longer with us (old age!) but we have wonderful memories of him - he's been painted onto our wall in the kitchen (see photos) as well as his Broad Ribbon (Championship) Ribbon taking pride of place in Grom2's bedroom (photo of Grom2 with Copper - a bantam "winner). Our girls are getting older now and we're relucatant to introduce new younger birds but we know that the day will come.

Now back to Chicken Crossing - the owner of the nearby Chickens isn't in the industry anymore - he went and bought the local Toyshop .......not enough time to do both so unfortunately the chickens all found new homes - would be great to see other photos of chooks though - we've put this on our watchlist!

Thanks Chicken Little for this cache.

It was also VERY EXCITING to be FTF!!!!
 
Rocky Glen Grommets have another couple of photos to add plus we forgot to answer the question - "Why did the chickens cross the road?" Answer - to answer Baz's call - he'd found some nice juicy worms!
 
Rocky Glen Grommets left behind a duckie at Chicken Crossing - took nothing - loved the cache container by the way. A couple more photos.......
 
18-Mar-09
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