McLaren Mansion Mclaren Vale, South Australia, Australia
By xibat on 07-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1WY4H

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Time to go??

Missing cache will be replaced soon.

definetly a gonna

went looking before heading to dinner. didnt have access to gps, seemed impossible to search through all the bushes. wasnt able to find

went looking before heading to dinner. didnt have access to gps, seemed impossible to search through all the bushes. wasnt able to find

Hunted high and low.
GPS took us to an obvious structure but no findy!
Hopefully, it's still there and we can come back another day with more success.

Considering the previous logs all say an easy driveby, I was unable to find it where the coords took me to a very obvious place. Maybe I was looking in the wrong spot so will have to watch the logs and try again.

Nice easy drive by - walked straight up to it and had another find in seconds ! Just what I love on a Sunday Afternoon [^]. Now back to the wine tasting.......

Challenging find.
TFTC

good hide played a prank on the owner and pushed the button that activates the camera and ran

TFTC

Easy find

TFTC

Found whilst out and about on our Southern crawl.TFTC
[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

Tftc. Sizeable house

@ 17:45
Check cache today.
The log book has been replaced with fresh one.

I suppose if you can afford to build it, you can afford to clean and maintain it .
What a waste !
TNLNSL.
Thanks for showing this to us xibat.

Wow, what a HUGE mansion. Thanks for the AWESOME cache!

Found in the pouring rain - perfect for caching! Thanks for the cache xibat!

found it!!! one of 73 for the day!! tftc

Found on a lovely afternoon of caching with Gemini7, what a huge house.
Thanks for the cache xibat
SL

Great hide just a little hard getting it out. Thanks for the cache

easy find, was a bit hard to reach for.

Great find with PaulvandenBraak thanks for another great cache

That's one impressive mansion. They'd actually need servants and butlers to keep it clean . TFTC.

yes yes it is where i'd put it!
Blackwoolholiday and i wasted no time finding this treasure.
1:30pm
Left glow in the dark star.
Tftc

Revisited to reminisce with friends!

Easy find on a morning of caches before an afternoon of wineries! TFTC. GCMelb

TFTC. I didn't notice any mansion, oops.

10:35am - good one

Found as a part of Team SaintsMadHouse and now that the kids have grown we each have our own accounts to finddd geocaches with separately wherever we go!too easy! had to rise to the challenge. log book full, squeezed name in

Placed and Retrieved a visiting TB

too easy! had to rise to the challenge. log book full, squeezed name in

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!! OUR 100th CACHE............Unsuccessfully attempted this one as Newbies without a Handheld Gizmo. Returned today with our Gizmo and found it straight away even with the sneaky replacement position of cfsfirefighter and CyberCitizen.

This entry was edited by Sandalwood Cottage on Sunday, 27 June 2010 at 22:42:48.

Found By cfsfirefighter and cybercitizen

Found with CFSFireFighter.

TFTC, TNL Smokey Tattoo, SL.

Needs new log book.......

This was our 3695th overall find.

Found at 11:09 AM. I agree it can't be for a single family, can you imagine cleaning this place. At least the cache was nice and quick it gave us a chance to ponder the local real estate.

Thanks xibat for the cache.

TNLNSL

My that looks big.
Did a turn in the drive.
Then headed for home.
Well we did go for another

Another good find on great day of caching with Someuser. Thanks xibat

Wow!! what a mansion!! Found during a lazy Sunday afternoon's caching with Liz and Bruce. Well, maybe not that lazy. TFTC

Hahaha .. Nice find ...

Log book nearly out... Few lines left ...

Easy Find TNLN TFTC

Huge mansion tiny cache, impressive abode TFTC

As we were rummaging through the bushes the owner drove out. Awkward and awesome. Good hide.

the fourth of the 7 caches we found today on our drive to Mclaren Vale and back

TFTC

the fourth of the 7 caches we found today on our drive to Mclaren Vale and back

TFTC

Nice servant quarters, but where is the main house?
A quick find.
thanks, Robmc.

Second for the day with Schatzsuche and a quick easy find [:p]

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting from Southern Cross Caching

Nice easy find while using caching using my IPhone Geocaching application for the day. What a powerful tool.
TFTC
SS

Nice easy find - huge house!

TFTC

Now that IS a big house. It’d be a mongrel to clean .

Find 852 My way without a GPS at 10.30am
Found the cache after a short search and learnt the correction factor for Google Earth.
Thanks to xibat for the cache
Fine Elsewhere

We wondered what the cache name was all about but a look over the fence revealed an amazing sight. An impressive building and I wonder who lives there. Thanks for an easy drive by, it was fun.

DJAJ found with BBOYSQG. Found it quickly. What a bloody big house.

O.M.G. Looks like a home from an 80's miniseries! I felt like I should be in the bright coloured taffeta! nice quick find with DJAJ! thanks

Ugly house. Fun find. Mum's second geocache find. Now she's definitely hooked!

That house is HUGE!!! TFTC

Easy find good hide safely.T.N.L.N

T.F.T.C

That is one hell of a dig.
Would like to see the view they have.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Was down doing some work in the Southern Vales this afternoon so grabbed a few caches while I was there. Now that is an impressive house. TFTC.

If they can afford to build this house and do the landscaping then I'm sure they can afford to buy the furniture to fill a house that size. What would you do with all those rooms?
Quick driveby. Thanks xibat.

I am betting that quite a bit of money flows around these parts and quite a bit of it has been poured into this mansion by the looks of it.
One of the easiset caches of the day and almost the ultimate driveby.
Thanks

Money can't buy taste though it seems! This place didn't do much for me, despite its size I thought the architecture was uninspired. I didn't need the GPSr to find the cache, it was hidden just as expected! That's the way I like 'em!

Many thanks for showing me the place,

R - B

Not a bad looking house. A quick find at 1710hrs on my way back to Adelaide.

TFTC

I wonder if they have a maid...TFTC xibat

A very nice mansion indeed! Found the cache fairly easily and signed log. TFTC xibat.

Almost walked away with a DNF after satloc put me on the wrong side of the road checked again in the carcas I was leaving and found seconds after

tftc easy find gr8 day

Easy find once I realised what I was looking for. Gee they can blend in well. That is one huge house.
Visiting my geocoins through

Found while staying in the Vale caravan park.
Nice hide
SL
TNLN
TFTC

A quick find on a cold and windy morning.

Imagine having to clean that house.

TNLNSL

TFTC.

28/08/09 @16.20
A quick easy hunt after looking for a place to hide a new cache
TFTC

There is definitely no place for a cache near the street sign. I promise.

Since we were in the area enjoying the nice Sunday arvo weather, why not grab this cache as well.

Since the Oregon had let us down and lost all our caches we were having to resort to entering in each cache by hand. Turns out that we made a typo and that left us about 20m short of GZ. After ruling everything out A wandered dwon the street and made a nice easy find.

What a nice grand place. If only we could afford it!

TNLNSL

Once nice house. Bet they have a gardener. That is one big lawn to cut.

Clear skies to S&M.

Quite a Mac Masion. Who are S&M?

GPSr got us to the general location but satloc was a bit wobbly and we wandered around a bit before homing in with the help of the hint. It is a big house and we are glad that we don’t have to do the garden and cleaning!
TNLNSL
Thanks xibat for the cache and showing us ‘The Big House’.

There is only one possible place for a cache at this location, right there, and so b.... obvious!

Big house, quick find. TFTC

Big enough to ge lost in I expect!
Cheers, TFTH.

Yes it's a big house
TFTC

Rex was a liitle bit out today, just the clouds I guess.
He had me looking a couple of metres beyond the tree line.
Was not comfortable after a quick non touching glance beyond the tree line decided it would not be on private property.
Walked out looked at an obvious spot and cache was soon in hand.
TFC Xibat SL - Left Penny 1944

Accompanied with Lava12 for the day. Found the cache at 9.50am. Wow nice house... SL. Thanks xibat for organising the cache and hunt.

Accompanied by Everlasting. What a huge house. Who cleans the house???? Found it nice and easy.
Thanks xibat for the cache.

Easy driveby find.Lovely big house. Thanks xibat for the cache. TNLNSL

Published

found @9.28pm although the time logged was 9.36pm..we used the geomums car which is 8mins fast
thanks for the cache xibat and for the chance for our ftf
*****gold for saintsno1 finally we got 1*********

Raced out with Warren9981 and found it at 21:45, 17 mins after Saints! Didn't see the big house! Too dark. Thanks for the opportunity to get out on a beautiful night, xibat.

found at 2145hrs with Pikapene. TNLNSL