Olive strikes back Gawler East, South Australia, Australia
By lava12 on 23-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1QEZW

It is time for this one to retire. Thanks for finding my cache in the past. Lava

**Thanks Lava12 for the search anyway. **

First time trying geocaching. Was a bit overgrown

Tough terrain, warm weather, long grass. A couple of danger noodles definitely hanging around.

Tftc. Beware of the snake near by

Super over grown!

2nd time finding this with my friend Matt. First time found was back in 2010. Reliving old memories and visitors dead man’s pass. Opened up app and saw we found it so wanted to find again! Good find.

Found it again! First time was 12 years ago in 2010 wowser

Lovely Saturday out Geocaching for sandelf's birthday. Thanks to Jolly0 for retrieving this for the GeoGoonies!

TFTC

Congratulations Marlee126 on finding your 200 find. WOO HOO

Thank goodness for our mountain goat

Having a picnic lunch for a couple of the Geocaching Goonies today at Dead Man’s Pass and finding a few caches.
Found with Peas&CarrotsForever, Marlee126, Nakiiah, AussieGal88 and sandelf.

TFTC lava12
Keep smiling

Found thank you

TYFC Out with Peas&CarrotsForever, Jolly0, Marlee126, AussieGal88 all out celebrating my birthday

2.5 terrain is under estimated more like a 4 at the end especially take care going down the slope it is steep. Cache number 200 out celebrating sandelf's birthday with Peas&CarrotsForever, AussieGal88, Jolly0 & partners.

Out of 7 of us only 1 was brave enough and spritely enough to go get those one and she slipped over. Maybe the 2.5 terrain could be adjusted. TFTC

The last 100 or so metres were a bit scary in the long grass at this time of the year but we did manage to find the cache without spotting any wriggly sticks
Many thanks for the hide Lava12

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. It’s a great day for caching. TFTC Lava12
Find #5967 at 14:56.

Found while caching with Wollaston.

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

Log signed with group stamp

TFTC Lava12

Find # 3590

A morning stroll on a misty day. The find made walking through the long wet grass worth it. With @TheBear. TFTC

Good little track

Tftc!! Found with conardel

Thanks for the cache found with Webberg

Thanks for the find it was really easy besides the walk to get there

The trees hurt me

Well that blew a bit of rust out of the airways. Thanks Lava12 for the excersise.

Staying in Gawler Gateway for a bit. Today we headed out to Gawler to pick some repaired parts for the caravan.
Managed to convert a few solved puzzles and caches in the area to smilies.

TFTC lava12

Found while exploring this park after completing the nearby lab cache series.
The track was a little overgrown with dry grass but thankfully no snakes were spotted.
At GZ, the cache was found without problems. The container and logbook are both in good condition.

Thanks for the cache lava12.
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Found by Mary and David at 12:25. Have just finished the Dead Man's Pass Adventure Lab, so a bit more wal;king for this cache was well worth it. Visiting from Melbourne for the Event in Nuriootpa last Sunday. What a green oasis, with some towering gums. We were glad of the shade they gave. We used to shop in Gawler in 19754/76 while David was posted to RAAF Base Edinburgh. Our thanks to Lava12.

TFTC

Between completing the Adventure Lab and this cache,
CP & I managed to succumb to a deluge several times before reaching this cache.
We navigated the high, but thinning grass and slippery rocks.
I was getting nervous due to the excess grass, the temperature and proximity to the creek.
But we travelled on foot without incident, found the cache and turned around and repeat.
Thanks for the cache and the walk during the rain, Lava12

Found with clare007 after doing the adventure lab in this park. The last 130m. to this was "snake city". Easily found after sliding our way to the cache in thundery showers .................... we got wet .... really wet!!! Thanks Lava12 for the hide ...... a favourite

Covered in grass seeds but good little climb

Today I had a bike race out here in gawler so on the way home stopped by to do a few caches.
Had finished the lab caches in the area so continued on through the pass to get to this one. I took the river approach and was easy going apart from the grass seeds. Cache was found in good condition.
TFTC

Found it

Yay. Found it. Another fun adventure, many thanks for the hide. After DNF nearby, I wanted to redeem myself out of public for you. Utilise the fact that my jeans are already dirty, and through a variety of means got down to GZ. Finally getting back up the hill, and collected my bag then walked until I remembered I had yellow confetti stuck in my hair.

GeoVenture Mega Event at Millicent, still looking forward to it!! A new date has been proposed for October 2021 now.

Today was Gawler Day. After doing all my chores I headed off to Gawler on the new road which makes the drive much shorter.
Had a long list of caches to tick off but a later than anticipated start coupled with some hideous hay fever meant I didn’t get as many finds as I’d hoped for. Just wasn’t having caching feels today.
I didn’t have any dnf though which was good and converted one prior frownie into a smile which was also good.
At the end of the day had some fab food at the very well patronized Geocaching day event. Not quite Seattle where I should have been today but still a fabulous event and was great to see so many fellow cachers. After tea found a final 3 caches with JJ52 and then took my pollen infested head home, still suffering the Wattle side effects the next day.
Enjoyed the walk down to this one, nice quick find and sign at GZ. TFTC Lava12

Olives do like South Australia, don’t they? A nice quiet bend on the river, at least until that new bridge opens. Thank you for bringing me here Lava12, I did enjoy the walk.

Had hubby with me today so with his help was able to scramble down to this one. Located the olive tree but as he was on the wrong side of the tree I was able to make the find catching a glimpse of the cache on the other side. Log signed and replaced as found. TFTC!

Found it

WOO HOO!!! Found it!!
While taking the dogs for a nice evening walk through Dead Mans Pass, we decided to venture off the path to find this little treasure.
With MyEagleEyes & MyLittleSpyEye.
TFTC!!

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It was pretty well camouflaged

Another nice easy Dead man's pass find.

Thanks for cache, good one.

Simple trek then cache. Tyftc. Jones family

What a big walk

On International Geocaching Day, it was a day of geocaching centering around Gawler and the associated celebratory event held at lunch. I woke up early to complete the 5 km Parkrun in Gawler, which was a new location for me, and then I met up with gridge98 to drive around the various caches in the vicinity. After a few geocache finds in central Gawler including Clonlea Park, we then completed a few mini power trails such as the serenity series and Meat Trail.
After lunch, I went solo to continue solving multi-caches and collecting some older 2007 caches in Gawler. As it got dark, I drove along the Gawler - One Tree Hill Road to collect the intermittent caches along there, to arrive home just after dark to discover the whole blocks had no power for another few hours. A nice day out and finding in good weather.

A nice walk to GZ along the river, with a bit of scramble over some rocks. Once at GZ, it wasn't a hard find to see the container, and all in good condition. Thanks Lava12.

YEET OR OOFT YHAT HILL

Man! hasn't this area changed!! I noticed the earthworks underway to the south across the river for the new Barossa Highway bypass i was told, whilst SL at this one's GZ.

A quick find watching out the whole time to make sure i didn't lose an eye with the olive tree twigs near my head here [:o] {If attempting this one at night, wear a Fencing helmet lol, in case the Olive does strike back!}.

SL at 12:42 on TGIF 24 May 2019
Cache and contents are good and dry.

TFTC Lava12

After a trek, a shady spot to catch my breath. TFTC.

Back on the run… Happy Hunting.

Construction have started to work on bridge and road nearby but I will keep an eye on it and may replace close by. Sorry for the convenience

Hi Lava12 just a heads up, your cache in dead mans pass will need to be collected asap as new road and bridge work is about to commence in this area. Fencing will be erected soon so best to grab while you can. Contact me if you need. 0439845859.

Please remove cache from this area, road and bridge works about to start in this section of river.

Loved the easy stroll, saw a red belly black and brown snake after leaving main track so tread carefully even though they both quickly dashed off and we couldn't have stepped on one if we tried. Left a trinket, signed log. Tftc!

Found

TFTC

Thank you lava12 for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
Found 10 July 2018 12:55 pm Find # 502

out with sir_spectre after he finished work in the afternoon chasing hidden creature points. found under torch light.

out with jacknor for the afternoon and in to the early night time. Jacknor was targeting 50 hidden creature points. He got his aim. quick find. found under torch light.

Eye spied, Eye found, Eye logged, Eye swapped trinket. Cache replaced.

TFTC Lava12

I reckon we made the 2.5 terrain a 3.5 terrain lol. TFTC.

Found this one by accident! Thanks for placing it here, a lovely walking trail for people to follow

Good find, TFTC!

Like others once I found the right track it was easy.
Thanks

Once we worked out which direction to attack from, cache quickly found. Tftc.

What a beautiful area. Another great Dead Mans Pass cache. TFTC Lava 12

This was a great adventure to find

TFTC

Thanks for placing and maintains this cache. Am visiting the area on a holiday.

This cache was easily found with accurate coords. There was no geo-trail so finding a reasonable way down took a while. TNLNSL TFTC could finders NOT put the pencil in the clip-lock bag as that is what punctures them

There is a trail marked on the map but the trail is not must more than a few broken trees and spaces between grasses so we took the long walk for a nice secluded hide. Lots of flora and a cute little bunny rabbit took off out from the undergrowth. Must be Easter he he he.

TFTC
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Call us Mike & Mal Leyland...
Found with JudyLogan

Great spot

Spent the day caching with earthlight and decided to head out towards Gawler and find a few of the unfounds out there and grabbing others along the way, I saw the title and straight away thought of Popeye...am i showing my age now ? lol. TFTC

Found with 3LG.
A great area to walk and explore.
TFTC

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Back on run. Wrong cache

It is missing

It is missing

tftc lava 12 quick easy find today. Over from Perth visiting family in Gawler.

Great walk found with Northstar76

Ok another bites the dust. Lovely walk. Found with superman_22

Hard to find but got there in the end.

TFTC. Take the trail and you don't have to climb.

The wife hates hiking down hills. I will leave her at home next time.

Found after going in a circle around it.

Was looking in the usual places and nearly missed the obvious one. TFTC. SL.

Wow harder than it should be!

We found this one while walking through Dead Man's Pass almost a year ago. Mr C must have had a senior moment and forgotten to log the find. He's only just found the offline log saved on his mobile! If we recall correctly, a local cat had found a nice resting spot close to GZ. Not sure who was more startled - the cat, or the cox crew juniors! TNLNSL. TFTC.

Bit of a rough hike to get there, especially with three dogs and bushes full of rabbits. Easy once we got there though.

Out for a day of caching in the Gawler area with Mattycat, with another lovely walk around the area we found the narrow track into the cache and was pleased to find no wriggly sticks TFTC Lava12

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Great hide. Tftc

A nice walk in the park on a warm first taste of spring day. Bit of a climb back out. Thanks for the cache.

Steep climb after lunch but the cache was soon in hand

A bit of extra walking found this one. And yes would be good if the feral olives went "night night"
TFTC

Found it

Found during an impromptu visit to the Gawler area. Thanks for the cache Lava12!

bloody olives everywhere