Mount Rat School Bluff Beach, South Australia, Australia
By Healthy Leg on 09-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1PRMK

Unable to find this one. It looks like there has been some recent trees cut or removed. I think it would be worth the CO checking this one.

No luck today

Couldnt find, tree at GZ has been pulled out of the ground with the cache possibly gone with it.

Checked for about a 15-20m radius with
No luck for me here today. Thanks for the history.

Making hay while the sun shines with rain ️ forecast later today. Heading to Port Vincent and surrounds with iluvtrekking. Thanks Healthy Leg

A very pleasant day caching around Curramulka and surrounds. A little sunshine for a change, no rain and calm conditions. Lots of fresh new growth in the paddocks

So many old school sites to be found in the caching world. Many thanks for showing us this one healthy leg

Cheers

Found

Easy to find my cousin who is four found it.

A short stop here today, managed to find the cache nicely hidden and all is well

With 2.5 days free and nothing to do, what better than to head to the yorke peninsula for a few days. I made a plan of trying to clean up majority of the caches on the peninsula going from cache to cache. Managed to come away with only a few left and 247 finds for the few day trip.

Thanks for the cache

Easy find IPS rehid a little more
Tftc

Found in fallen tree stump.

Day 3 of caching Gone Fishn’ trail on Yorke Peninsula and a few off trail trads today for a bit of variety with Wollaston and Liz&Bruce.

Wearing gloves and gators today as it’s getting warmer and the less tourist friendly wildlife are on the move. Adding to the thrill of finding each cache was the view of perfectly grown cereal crops almost harvest ready forming a tapestry across the hills, some starting to crop with mega harvesters. Along the way are the odd blue tongue lizards, huge centipedes, flighty spiders, horses and alpacas, birds nesting and singing away, the obligatory late afternoon flies, and the biggest beetles, and of course what would a cache day be without upsetting a few ants!

So much effort has gone into setting up these trails, a few caches were tricky to find, some were under bushes that are now trees, some were found in undergrowth that has overwhelmed the hide, some were under rocks when they were hinting a bush post or tree. For the rest, most were easy, some were duplicated and some were missing. We may have added to rock piles making a couple of cairns.

Maintenance was done by replacing full or wet logs and missing or broken containers all completed with CO permission.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out hides and showing us your part of the world

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC healthy leg

Find # 2266

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC healthy leg
Find #4623 at 17:32.

Another Wednesday wander for a few of the befuddled animals. The target was once more the tedious Gone Fishn series taking relief with this and others scattered around the area for which we were thankful. TFTC

Thanks

Quick park and grab TFTC

Out with Purrfect Di , Sebastbat , and Jack , hunting tupperware and mint tins with billion dollar satellites

Did quite a few more of the long fishy series, slowly getting there...
And so pleased to find some others along the way too!!!

This was an good historic site. We've recently bought an old school for a home, so adds to the interest when caching

Most caches were found in good condition, we helped out with a little maintenance here and there, where things were cracked or missing logs or just plain wet !

The roads were pretty good, a little 4wd drifting along one stretch but nothing a Corolla couldn't handle (if we had one)

Thanks for adding to the caching map out here healthy leg


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Stay safe, wash your hands, sanitize, exercise, cache all the regions at a kangaroo length apart ! ! !

Come visit the Barossa sometime and leave some new cache hides around [:o)]



Apologies for the almost generic logs. It's hard to think up something exciting to say after 50 or so roadside drive bys

Cant find

Day 208 (Tuesday 23rd) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 31 for the day and 5001 for the trip. TFTC

Off on a road trip to the Silo Art tour Vic, Mildura, Goolwa SA, Port Victoria SA and then home via Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, and the Grampians, picking up some caches along the way as we see the sights. We are now staying at Port Victoria, a more picturesque spot than Maitland and today we spent the day looking around the local area before heading off tomorrow. After a short drive to a place called Curramulka we stopped to pick up a couple of caches on the return journey. It was Mrs Pooky who made the find. TFTC and the history. TNLN

After doing a bit of fishing it was a pleasant change to find a cache with story behind it. TFTC.

Epic day of caching. ANZAC day usually means a caching day for me. Had decided on a day of fishing on the YP would be a good way to get some numbers. Today was definitely about numbers as I was attempting to get 300 in a day, something I didn't think I could ever do but having read of a number of teams managing 870 with team work I thought that 300 would be doable on my own. So hatched a plan to get up super early and drive to the YP. Geohusband (who had zero interest in accompanying me on this quest) suggested it would be better to drive to YP the night before, stay in a hotel and then start early. Good idea I thought.
So had driven to Minlaton and camped at the motel there which was surprisingly good and surprisingly cheap. Only downside was forgetting my precious pillow which will now need to be replaced, but that is another story.
Up early and left hotel as the bugles were sounding at the Minlaton dawn service, so stopped for a moment to reflect. Kennedy and Malloy were on the radio interviewing returned servicemen, very moving. This was followed by caches, food, caches, food, caches, football, caches, long drive home. The magpies won an epic ANZAC battle and the Bombers fans booed Scott Pendlebury, how very dare they on such a day too.
Ended up with over 300 finds, brilliant. Long drive home, stopped at Cavan and had tea and then home to shower and bed. Will this feat ever be repeated by me? I say no but never say never!!!
So onto the caches, I mainly found fishing micros but also added in some others to break up the day. I had a bit of a drive between 2 sections of the fishing line which was also nice. The fishing caches became utterly mind numbing. Base of tree, base of tree, base of tree, base of tree, base of tree. Quite a variety of hides, many more mint tins than I was expecting. Was also entertained to find my stamp in 3 of the caches I visited that I had not been to before, but that is leap frog caching for you!!! Hated the caches hidden in rocks, rocks and more rocks. There was also a very tedious section of under bush, under bush, under bush, almost lost the will to live there. No dnfs today which was an added bonus, but as many caches had just been replaced by the last fishers had expected to get them all.
Caches were mainly in good condition, a few perished tubes, a few damp logs.
Not much in the way of humans seen (other than at the Minlaton ANZAC dawn service, a lot of people at that), a few farmers, one truck and one passing muggle. Not much in the way of wildlife either, cows, beasts, sheep, critters.
Weather was glorious and perfect for caching. Started at 7.03am and finished my stint on the YP at 6.15pm, saw the sunrise and the sunset. A day of my life I will never get back but excellent for the statistics!
My thanks to all the COs, especially those behind Fishy Tales and 3LG for all the wonderful buckets on the YP. Was at Mount Rat for the TOY bucket so also collected this one too. TFTC Healthy Leg

After finishing off the last section in the long series of fish to be found on the peninsula, we picked up a few more caches while travelling back to camp with ilook4geo. As usual, each log had two more names added to the end of the list and the container was replaced as it had been found before we moved on. Many thanks go to Healthy Leg for placing this cache.

After having been on a successful fishing trip this morning with goingplaces2, it was time to pick up some other caches. Each one found, each log signed, job done. TFTC.

Great spot. Quick find on my way to Ardrossan TFTC

Day three of the fishing line caches, a bit more challenging today, sooo many rock piles to glance over and find the cache made the going a little slower than desired. We have decided that today will be the last and we will leave the remainder until we return next year and combine it with the geo art further down. TFTC healthy leg

I love seeing these old schools, but it is sad they have to close. This school closed 68 years ago!
TFTC

Yay we found our first one! Easy to find once we got use to it...Logged it a bit late

Easy

We have a real fondness for small country schools. We spent the first nine years of our marriage icing beside the schools Mr Ski was teaching at in Gippsland. The farming over there was primarily dairy cows back then, which is quite different from what we have seen around here, but I'm sure the lovely family atmosphere of the little schools was the same. The communities really miss the schools when they close down. Unfortunately with farms getting larger all the time, the number of kids in each area decreases leaving these schools with fewer and fewer pupils. Such a shame.
The cache was a straightforward find, but Mrs Ski is not at all impressed with the regular cache guardians-cockroaches with massive long legs!
TFTC

Quick easy find with Beary Organised after RWG in Minlaton. TFTC TNLNSL

Found this with CherryRose after the South Australian Rural Women’s Gathering TFTC TNLNSL

As we made our way southward and deeper on the Gone Fishn' line, it was refreshing to make a detour for a breath of fresh air and local history. We love learning about the history of areas we visit.

Thanks 'healthy leg' for this placement.
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Day 4 visiting Yorke Peninsula with geo friends Waz and Vic, Ardom, Gcoven, JACS Team and joojoo57.
Today we set ourselves a target on the Gone Fish'n trail and of picking up a few others along the way.
All logs were stamped with our team name SWAG-JJ
A big thank you to all CO's for the time and effort in placing these caches for our enjoyment.

TFTC Healthy Leg
Found July 12, 2018

Team SWAGJJ is visiting the Yorke Peninsula this week to complete the geo art and collect traditionals, multis and other types along the way. Seeing some amazing country side and views as well. Thanks to all the COs for placing these caches.

Yorke Peninsula Day 4: Last day on the peninsula, so we decided to make a big dint into the fishing line today - up before dawn and collecting caches at a very rapid rate. Got as far as we could do while staying sane, then went on to collect a bunch of other cache in the area. All logs signed as the group "SWAG-JJ". TFTC!

Travelling down from Queensland with my fellow cachers Snickersallan, Waz and Vik, Ardom, Gcoven and JooJoo57. We have planned a week long adventure to collect all the geoart, the fishing line and anything else we can get. Thanks for the cache!

Day 4: Time to hit the Fishing Line. Collected a few others as we avoided the drizzle and visited small towns to drop some tourist dollars in.

The SWAGJJ team has embarked on day 4 and are enjoying the caching pleasures of the Yorke Peninsula! So much on offer and such a wondrous part of our great land! So many caches makes for a busy and fun filled day! Lots of hard yakka today! TFTC

Found as part of SWAG-JJ team. Thanks.

Day 7 of the Perth to Adelaide trip where we started in Adelaide and ended in Warooka.

Today was the day, the main reason for the trip over, the start of the power trails on the peninsula. We had over 1400 caches saved off line and a variety of others to now find in the next 3 days prior to starting the drive.

Turned off the power trails to pick up a few different caches Have a Fav point

We had planned this for quite some time and until we broke it down for caches to be found v hours in a day the thought of how long the days would be didn’t cross the minds until the night before.

Once we realised that it was going to be some full on 12 hour days we were up at the crack of dawn, energised with a good nights sleep, phones fully charged and looking forward to the day.

We had only one time pressure today and that was our second event at 8pm in Warooka, possibly a welcome break and stop after waking at 5am to start caching!

healthy leg We found your cache Mount Rat School thanks for placing this power trail for myself and others to find. It’s large scale trails like this that we have travelled for.

Day 7 of Barnzy and Cravo’s trip from Perth to Adelaide.

We left Adelaide bright and early en route to the main goal of our 12 day caching trip across the Nullarbor - the powertrails on the Yorke Peninsula.

We started off leaving our accomodation in central Adelaide a touch after 5am, and driving to Port Wakefield to start on the trails.

We had been given numerous tips and hints by another local Perth caching team who had completed the geoart powertrails just before the gone fishing series was released last year.

We started off with some gusto and checked every hint, which worked well for a while, but as time went by it was taking longer to find caches with inaccurate hints, which is bound to happen as animals move containers which seemed to be a huge problem here as we found a number of the containers chewed into pieces.

We changed tack and slowed down, with Cravo driving and navigating to the location whilst I was on watch from a small distance away to see potential hiding spots and got out a bit slower to take in the area with a “where would I hide it”. This worked really well and kept the pace above 60 caches an hour in the early part of the day.

As time went on we naturally slowed down as the body got a bit more tired from constant in and out of the car and the mind sometimes not seeing the obvious.

We decided on a stop into Ardrossen for lunch at the bakery which was quite nice and grabbed a couple of other caches which was a welcome break from powertrailing all morning.

After lunch we continued on the powertrails as they meandered around the roads of the Yorke Peninsula towards Warooka.

We kept caching into the fading light before calling it quits, and checking into our accomodation for the night in Warooka and attended our event “Sandgropers on the Peninsula” just across the road from where we were staying.

A huge day out and a lot of thanks must be given to the geocaching teams behind the Fishy Tales team, this must have been a massive undertaking, with a lot of planning, checking and re-checking.

I hope that as time goes on teams completing the trail will continue to help with maintenance.

Without a doubt this is our biggest caching day ever, but may still be eclipsed in the coming days as we complete the power trails. Thanks for a brilliant day out which I’ll never forget.

Good find

Today we explored the area between Minlaton, Curramulka, Port Vincent and back to Minlaton using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way with Roostaman and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

**# 18712** Found on the SA leg of our 2017 escape trip.
A cool cloudy Spring day for another drive around the area with Tassie Trekkers.
Hardly any muggles around on these roads, and many quick finds.
Thanks for the cache healthy leg,
***Roostaman***

The first of a few on a day out today - thanks Healthy Leg

Out for the day with LLL51 and Madham02 with the aim of finding LLL51's 1000th cache. [^] A plan was hatched and we started off with 14 caches targeted, hoping we didn't have any DNF's. The weather was not looking too promising, but we managed to get them all before the rain really set in.

This was our first one, love learning about the history of these places we visit when we are caching.
Took TB. [^]
Thanks for the cache Healthy Leg.

Nice hide

Found on the 03/08/2017 at 1:07:00 PM.

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.

Caching with Noodles22 on a very boggy road, were slipping and sliding adding to the fun. Thanks to all the CO for placing these here for our enjoyment.

Love stopping for history like this. A quick find too.
TNLNSL
Thanks for the cache healthy leg

Found at 1047. a quick find but no mounted rat in sight. TFTC.

We love caches that bring you to interesting places. A lot of our history is being lost soon there will be none of this left for the younger ones. SL TFTC

All is good a find

Found on geo hunt with desertfox41 , while stopping at Port Vincent C/Van Park, windy and cool good day. Thanks.

Holidaying in Port Vincent , Demon41 & JB picked me up to do some Geocaching in the area TNLN Thanks healthyleg

A road we may never pass by again so a must find. Must be a one family town. Tftcsl

Today I invited 3LG to tag along as I located caches and did maintenance on the Peninsular.
The weather was perfect and crops looked fabulous.
A quick find.
TFTC

earthlight was heading to coobowie to do some cache maintenance and asked if we would like to join her, quickly accepted and decided to grab a few buckets to hide on the way back, had a great day out and managed to find 14 caches and hide 8 more TOY run caches. TFTC

Found it

Day 3, camped at Minlaton, and took a drive to Curramulka & Port Victoria.
We picked up a good variety of caches, some a little trickier to find than others.

Many thanks for placing this cache, healthy leg, for us and others to find.

Swapped tftc

Off on another road trip for work, finished for the day and was heading to my home for the night. Decided to grab some caches along the way.

Stopped across the road to do some shooting of the church.. Quite a nice little town

Thanks for the cache Healthy Leg

An enjoyable drive along some lovely dirt roads with scenic views. Found it nice and easy.

Thanks healthy leg for the cache

# 9436. Sadly Robmc and I have left Marion Bay today and we are travelling to Moonta, zig-zagging along the way via some lovely little towns and a visit to Port Victoria, where we sat in the PostOffice Cafe for lunch and admired the views of the pier and the calm ocean on a sunny day.

I do like stopping for old school caches. I have a few of them myself back home. It is so much nicer when the building still exists however as this one does. A nice quick find here and back on the road.

Thanks healthy leg

Another great find while in the area today on a three week geocaching holiday.

Soon had the container located.
Thanks for making my visit fun
SL

So I have to go to Adelaide for work, on Monday so how to make a weekend of it..... contact brisal5 and turn it into a Yorke Peninsula exploration..... We were planning to find some geoart but instead got distracted by the many, many great caches located on the Yorke Peninsula.
My apologies for the generic logs my notes and memory of finding almost 100 caches in 36 hours are a bit lousy. But I truly appreciate the effort the cache owners have gone to creating some memorable cache hides in beautiful locations.

Plan A: A weekend to YP with mogni to do some Geo-art caching became plans B, C and D yesterday as we cached our way to Hardwicke Bay for our overnight digs. Time for plan E. Cache our way back towards the SAGA awards event in Adelaide and leave the Geo-art for another weekend. Couldn't see any mountains or rats! Got the cache though. Thanks healthy leg.

Our arrival at this location was announced in full force by a large flock of pink and grey galahs. We looked for the cache while they continued their serenade (aka racket). After a short hunt, the cache was located. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache healthy_leg.

We ventured out on this windy day for a drive down the western side of the Yorkes.
The SA Sewer Rats just had to stop and find a cache in Mount Rat TFTC

Another day on the Yorke with alansee and Team Crackers. A variety of caches were encountered and eventually conquered, making for an enjoyable and liesurely day out. I'm sure a few extra finds would have occurred but taking a long lunch put paid to that expectation.

Many thanks healthy leg for placing this cache .

Day three with Alansee and Micaparamedic we were finishing off a few caches around Port Vincent and then heading to Wallaroo for a few days caching there

We have visited many of these school sites since we started geocaching but this one has to be one of the more complete with a lot more standing than most. Students of today don't realise how easy they have got it.
The cache was again found nice and quickly and our initials added to the log.

To save room in the logs we signed as M.A.C.( Micaparamedic Alansee and Team Crackers).

Thanks for the cache.

Found with Team Crackers and Micaparamedic on another great SA caching day. The Pine trees here were quite noticable.

Found as a part of TheKellyGang, writing this as a genaric log as I was a part of TheKellyGang and am now out on my own.
If you do not agree with this you are more than welcome to delete the log.

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring Australia after having attended Oz Mega.

Today we toured from Maitland to Ardrossand and the countryside nearby. Lovely weather with no rain, with temps of approx 14degrees all day.

Loved seeing the towns and the impressive historic signs and walk trails.

TFTC

Out and about with FelixII exploring the Yorke Peninsula.

We left the Maitland Show Grounds where we are staying and headed for the east coast of YP and then turned south to before retuning north towards Maintland again along the highway.

Thanks for your cache healthy leg.

On the road again, using caching to guide us to the sites as we explore the state on our way to the Murray bridge mega. Great name for a school but we wonder where the mount is? Some impressive buildings around this area. Tftc

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Logged with the hylian. Tftc.

Found with Minnes. TFTC!!

TB visit

Staying at the Port Vic park we drove to Minlaton to buy a pastie for lunch.
This was one we found and signed on our way back.
I dropped off a TB named River Rat, I thought this spot to be appropriate.

So I was heading to Stansbury for an engagement party for two friends and thought, why not get some caches on the way! Packed with a change of clothes so I'd look at least presentable at the party and the GPS loaded with caches, I set off at 8am.

Went down an old beaten track off the Minlaton road but that led to nowhere, so headed back along the Curry road and was back on track. Good location, easy find - 16th for the day. TFTC

Day two of driving down central Yorke Peninsular with Locus Cache & RideTheGeoWalrus.
The weather was fabulous and the company was great.
Quick stop to stretch our legs & admire this interesting location.
Thanks for the cache healthy leg.

What a fantastic couple of days! [^]
Sunday and Monday I enjoyed the company of RideTheGeoWalrus and Clare007 as we cached in an area that I have not cached in before.....therefore I enjoyed what is now a rare concept for me......not having to dodge previously found caches in order to find a cache to locus cache on
We found dust, mud, caches, views, trees and lots of laughs as we drove around and exhausted ourselves doing 115 smileys with 9 DNFs (although we went back later and got finds on several of these DNFs) and one event attended...with only us three there It's always good to CITO!
With CO's permissions, we also did quite a bit of cache maintenance as many logs were full or wet or both and several containers were broken or missing.
If any CO whose cache we visited really wants their old log back, then email me and I will try and work out which old log it is and return it to you.

Where do rats like to hide[?] Where we found the cache of course
Still think I'd have preferred to go to school in something this small rather than the newer 1,000 plus students super schools!

TNLN. SL. TFTC healthy leg

With the promise of fantastic spring weather and a long weekend allowing for an extended caching trip, locus cache, clare007 and I made our way to the central region of the Yorke Peninsula with the aim of cleaning out as many caches as we could. TFTC healthy leg!

Found by Boxer whilst doing a solo caching run around central YP.Thanks for the hide.

My map tells me this at Koolywurtie, but hang on - we did Koolywurtie School this morning & that was miles away. "I'm so confused!" Either way I think I'd rather live at Koolywurtie than Mount Rat, cool name & all.

While visiting SA, took a drive in the wind and rain from Edithburgh to find a cache or two and take in the sights on the way.

Pretty area and nice buildings and houses nearby

scout challenge 2013

13/4/13

An interesting and pretty area

scout challenge 2013

13/4/13

Cool area. Like the old buildings

scout challenge 2013

13/4/13

South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. We headed off on 12/4 and arrived home on 28/4. The trip was to visit the SA series so more time could be spent at the Mega itself next year. We did a huge variety of caching around Murray Bridge, the Mid North, Yorke Peninsula and Whyalla Region. Apart from one wet night and two wet days we were able to spend heaps of time caching.

Today we were traveling on the Yorke Peninsula, the original destination for this trip for the third day. The night had been very windy and the first rain here for six months, so we were a bit wet. We spent the whole day and went from Pt Victoria to Yorketown. We went via as many of the towns as possible along the way. Everyone has done a great job of placing a great variety of caches and we had a great day.

Thanks.

10648.900 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Gold Puzzle Yellow A#69

Albida

Grabbed with Albida on our 2 week caching run from Canberra to, and around, different parts of South Australia including Loxton, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Yorke Peninsula and around to Whyalla before heading home via Broken Hill, Cobar and Parkes. We completed a few power trails and left a couple to do when in the area again for next years Mega event.

Overall a great many different styles and types of caches found. A great time was had caching for 16 days straight as well as camping along the way.

Thanks for adding to the fun with this cache.

I use to pass these buildings on my school bus route many many moons ago. Is a lovely area here, especially in winter when everything is green

Found it, left an ikea pencil, took nothing

Found on my way to Pt. Vincent from the Kadina event. TFTC.

an easy find in a nice place
thanks healthy leg for the cache
cache in good order

As we were spending a few nights at Wallaroo and catching up with few Cachers at a an Event Held by Dazzatron for us TheKellyGang, thought we would go for a drive to clean up some caches in the area of the YP. Out with a fellow Cacher today as we offered to help do a maintenance run with them. TFTC

Found during a proposed 2 day cache run on YP. Unluckily the weather turned so I cut it to one day. Another day of caching in the wind and rain just didn't appeal.

A quick find in the near dark.

TFTC