Farmer Skool Maitland, South Australia, Australia
By Rocky Glen Grommets maintaind by Dazzatron/Margieh on 19-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1YVF0

TFTCOut with geo hubby Animal62 on this sunny Friday, hoping to add a few more smiley faces to our maps.

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet on a Friday afternoon collecting smileys for the map

Easy find

TFTC

I remember doing Ag studies at Minlaton High School! Thank you for the warning about the fence ??. TftC ?? ??

We found this, but the description and hint were of no help what so ever.It is a small plastic container, hidden at the base of the tree.Thanks for the cache

Over to attend the Great Leap Forward Mega Event with tmann421.Have done a few km collecting caches and have enjoyed the tour aroundThanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing and maintaining these for us to findSigned log tm/ww NZ

Another nice find with woolwood9 today. Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit. SL tm/ww NZSoon located.

Found more later when I edit the log

TFTC Rocky Glen Grommets your cache Farmer Skool that we found today. We are parked up in the local Showgrounds/Caravan Park for a few nights. After setting up and a bite to eat we ventured out to attempt the caches in town and nearby. The Seahorse will wait until tomorrow. A good few hours doing the things we love - exploring and caching.Found a little off from the co-ords. Still in good condition.Find Count: 17830

Didnt find was here for a long time and followed the clues and the logs with no luck. Think it may be gone

Thank you

Found it. Tftc

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Rocky Glen Grommets/Dazzatron-Margieh [^]

Couldn’t find it

Did not find. Lots of tin around but no luck!

Struck it gold with the weather today. Out caching in the surrounds of Maitland with iluvtrekking. Return visit after reading previous logs. Co-ords should be 903 and 344.

We enjoyed a nice morning caching towards and around Maitland and visiting the nice markets in the shed.

6 years ago we logged a DNF but on our return to the area found that the cache had been replaced so now we have a smiley

Many thanks for the hide Rocky Glen Grommets

Found on my York Peninsula caching Odyssey. I enjoyed the scenery and the caches. Thanks RGG and Dazzatron.

TFTC found with Geo Boyfreind pineapplegoldy

On a mission today to reach 500 finds and to get my GeoGirlfriend to 100.

Looked around for a very long time before reading old logs and eventually spotting it.

Signed and returned.

Thanks to Rocky Glen Grommets for this cache and to Dazzatron and Margieh for maintaining and to all the geocachers who contribute to the game.

Found with Britta1508

Find No.509
26/01/2022

Found, not on fence line.

Found it hidden!

TFTC. Found while out caching with moroldies

A quick find out caching with Little Blue Wren while staying in Maitland.TFTC

Definitely needed to read the old logs!
TFTC

Out for a mid Yorke day with Jack and Purrfect Di,
all stamped as team Mattycat

Ohhhh it's down there~!

Nice to see a skool for farmers. Youngest son went to Urrbrae, I think he'd appreciate this too.

thanks for the hide and the smiley Rocky Glen Grommets



- - cache at a social distance if you can - -


Dodge any bugs (except travel bugs of course)
- avoid people completely if you can [:o)]
- get out and cache in the regions !

Summerbub
25/10/20

Thanks for the find

Dodging apocalyptic rainstorms got this found and stamped! TFTC

Today, the weather was forecast to be dismal with thunderstorms and a rain drenching! Consequently, gridge98 and I retreated to the more dry vicinity of Upper Yorke Peninsula. Other than a few drizzles, we had good weather. We visited Paskeville, Kadina, Moonta, Balgowan, Point Pearce, Maitland, and Arthurton, with highlights of the mining relics, 4WD-ing along the west coast beach, and finally dinner and heading around Maitland. A long day out and about, arriving home just after midnight.

This geocache had us looking up and down and around the place, and it wasn't until we were reading past logs (specifically skuzzybear's comments), that we realised where this cache was hidden. Consequently, we then managed to find the cache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets for the cache placement, and Dazzatron/Margieh for its ongoing maintenance.

Quick find here cache is all good

Today With the weather more promising on the yorke peninsula than in Adelaide, Davidwazza and I decided to head over and clean out as much as we could as well as doing quite a bit of beach 4wdriving.
In total 87 finds within 1 DNF for the day.
Thanks for the Cache

Tftc

A quick find when looking from the right direction .
TNLNSL.
Lots of wooly jumpers in the paddock today .
Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets (and Dazzatron/Margieh for maintenance).

nice easy start

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Day 213 (Sunday 29th) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 88 for the day and 5452 for the trip. TFTC

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children.

Today, we are camped in the showgrounds, and notice that Maintland is one big square, so we decided to find all the caches within that square, acting as tourist as we went.

Farmer Skool had us bushed, but eventually we found it. Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets, Dazzatron and Margieh, Oh, and @skuzzybear for replacing the container

Log and cache both completely putrid and wet. On ground and open., half buried in leaf litter. Just nasty. It's near a gate but isn't it the best place cos the gate looks used with regularity now. Only because of the AGE of the cache, I Replaced cache like for like with another blue eclipse tin, put in a new log with plastic bag. Whilst unorthodox, I place cache in fork of first fluffy tree to right of gate under SPOR not back at gate where I am sure it was muggled TYFTC

There were lots of lovely animals guarding this cache. They were very cute. Thanks for the cache

Spent a few days on Yorkes with earthlight, catching up with The X-Trailers. Day 1 was spent checking/maintaining/archiving caches. Day 2 was more maintenance and Day 3 we got to go geocaching. This is one of the caches found along the way.

It's fabulous to turn a blue frown into a yellow smiley

TFTC Dazzatron & Margieh

Dropped trackables in for a visit

Located by Lead ‘n Lace
TFTC
Cheers

Found

Found with orth71

Came up to Maitland to flowers on my mums grave, so why not gets some geocaching done too. Found with superman_22

Time for a few finds on a cold wet day! Found with Northstar76

This was a cache mogni had done a long time ago, but Aussie M & M had not. We were grabbing a few caches that only one of us had done, and this one was one for Mary.
A quickish find in the end.
Thanks for the cache maintenance Dazza and Margieh. Loving thoughts of Jackie this weekend.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Found out with Beary Organised on lovely Autumn afternoon. TFTC TNLNSL

Found this with CherryRose TFTC TNLNSL

After doing the first 150 of the fishing line, came back to the showgrounds had lunch and thought we could do a few around town. All done for the day now for a Beer and shower. TFTC Rocky Glen Grommets

Owl had to find her way into the cache area, but after that it was a quick find.

Found magnet on fence line but no mint tin TFTH

We left Esperance 3 days ago for the Yorke Peninsular after 4 months spent mainly enjoying the warm weather up north. It’s been a bit of a let down since we reached Perth and the weather cooled right down. The sun is thinking about coming out today, and we’re cheering it on. Tomorrow we aim to start on our adventure trying to pick up as many caches as we can before heading back home to Victoria in the last week of September.
We have just set up camp at the back of the Showgrounds in Maitland and intend to base ourselves here for a few days as we start on the power trails in the area:
Another muddy road, but through we went.
Luckily a quick find.
TFTC

Leaving the Yorke Peninsula, and heading to Port Wakefield.
We found a good variety of caches, many were of a high standard.
Many thank to all the CO's who placed these caches, it made our trip very enjoyable.

Cache & logbook ok. Only a few sheep here today. TFTC

A Rat and a snake went caching on the Yorkes.
A quickish find for the Rat today. Tftc

Another day on the Yorke with the Rat seeking more smilies in this part of our state. The weather was a tad cool and a sprinkle of H2O failed to dampen our spirits.

A few meters ouit but we put that down to the cloud cover. No "shocking" experiences suffered, cache found, signed and replaced. TFTC

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Was not in spot where located, wasn’t present at all

Unable to be found, wasn’t in spot where was said to be

Find # 6115
Day 4
Last full day on the York. With the end in sight of the big trail we pushed on and managed to clear it off the map. This gave us some spare time to cache some more around other towns in this area

Found with sharkiefan

A Big week was planned to travel around South Australia, staying in Minlaton, Tarlee and Adelaide. We cache along a number of Trails, managed to grab a few off the beaten track, some well known caches and the odd one that
came up on the map as we were travelling around.

It ended up being a massive week of 2960 odd kilometers travelled, with day find counts of 25, 256, 361, 318, 66, 205, 104 and 76 (yep thats 1411 for the 8 days)
1062 micro, 238 small, 60 Regular, 45 large, 3 Virtual and 3 Other.


TFTC Rocky Glen Grommets maintaind by Dazzatron/Margieh

Not magnetic and in tree.
Found with FUF009. Logs were signed SFF9 or F9SF depending on who was the finder. Usually dependent on what side of the road the cache was on.
Today is day 4 of our 8 day caching trip to SA. Today's goal is to finish the Gone Fishn' series and then take a look around some of the towns. This was one of 318 caches found today.
This was a much more enjoyable day as the end of the trail was in sight.
It's a lovely area and we were happy to get to see more of it.
Apologies for the generic log, if there were any issues with the cache, it'll be mentioned at the start of my log.
Tftc

Interesting sites. TFTC Rocky Glen grommets and those maintaining the cache. TNLN

Done

Find it

In a tree

The Gone Fishn' series has been on the radar for quite some time but who wants to take it on solo. [xx(] Not this little black duck. So when I got an invite from mogni to start the trail on the 18th April I jumped at the chance. We were joined by SA Sewer Rats that day and we made it to the trail at 9.00 a.m. and cached till 5.30 p.m and got from #037 and conveniently finished at #245
We discovered quite a few things. It can be a bit boring. You need to leave the trail every now and then or go bonkers. [B)][B)] Stamping two names and writing one other takes a long time.
Only three days later and mogni and I are back again, this time with BratKat replacing SA Sewer rats and simply using the group name GOTHS to stamp the log books. Boy did that save some time.
This time we also left the trail for a big break in Maitland for a pub lunch and some other caching.[8)]
Unless otherwise stated it was a case of:

Stop- find cache - sign - move on. Repeat. [:o)]

Time to head into Maitland for a well earned Pub Meal. But first of course we had to stop for a few on the way in and then again on the way out and back to the trial. Spent a lot of time looking for a micro and ignored the logical location where mogni found a small!

**Thanks Rocky Glen Grommets for this cache. **

Another big day out working towards a milestone.We were targetting the big powertrail but wanted to mix it up a bit and find a few others too. I had my closest encounter with a snake, which fortunately saw me as I didn't see it until it was heading underground.
Thanks to Rocky Glen Grommets from mogni

Mogni was chasing a milestone, so three of the GOTHs headed down Yorkes to 'Go Fishin'. We took a lunch break in Maitland. TFTC.

Found by Mary & David at 0935. So much rain and mud. What a great idea to teach smart modern methods to the new breed of farmers. Our thanks to Rocky Glen Grommets.

Today we explored Maitland using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found in a magnetic location, but the cache itself is not magnetic...
Had some inquisitive cows just over the fence whilst there.

TNLNSL
Thanks for the cache Rocky Glen Grommets

Me bike ride took me down the washed out track behind the skool
And to me surprise I found that the edge of the road was deep mud [:o]
Noooo !!
Not on me nice clean bike

Ah well,
at least I didn'f fall off
That could have been messy [:o)]

I jumped across the muddiness and went looking for a cache.
A skool bus drove slowly past [:o]
Then a local drove past !!
Busier than Pitt Steet on Christmas Eve !!

After 10 minutes of avoiding electrocution,
I could only find a magnet attached to the fence.
No cache

Glad to see this one has been replaced, thanks LL. Was in Maitland with LLL51 and this was our first on a very cold day. Took Pathtag. [^]
Thanks for the cache Rocky Glen Grommets.

Thanks for this one, the first on a short day of caching - fairly easy find, it needed to be, the wind was bitter! TFTC

Thanks to Laighside Legends for replacing this cache.
It is now available to find..
Happy Caching

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scratched around here everywhere over the weekend looks like an unloved cache

15:22
Given this one was last found **28/07/2015** and has three consecutive DNF's by knowledgeable seekers, plus a Needs Maintenance log - Not sure what's happened to 'regular maintenance' here but perhaps it's about time for a CO's check.!

No luck for us on this one.

After a three month caching hiatus it was time to get back into the swing of things. We are spending a few weeks in the Copper Triangle and what better place to start making some finds.

We had no luck with this one I'm afraid

Thanks for the hide anyway Rocky Glen Grommets[^]

Traveling from Yorketown to Kadina today, only 130km by the shortest route, but that's not how geocachers travel it took me all day! Lots of detours and dirt tracks explored, great scenery, and a lot of fun finding caches along the way.

Sadly this was one I didn't find.

Freezing cold but found

6th June found with Suttontwo little damp as was on ground enjoyed the cache

This entry was edited by nicho3 on Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 22:15:10 UTC.

#3 the sheet was wet and we replaced the log, unfortunately there was no room in the cache to have both, so we will scan / photograph the sheet and put it in photos. Hope that will be ok. The cache was on the ground so we have returned it to what we thought was the correct location.

Quick find, found is a little mushy from recent rain. Log is useless, didn't even bother to take out of the cache.

Log is soaked and squashed. It needs replacing. TFTC RGG

Uh ah. Back on the back roads which are a bit slippery and I shouldn't really be on them I guess. Sorry to the locals. Thanks to the amended description it was a quick find but unfortunately the log was soaking though I did manage to get some sort of signing duties done. TFTC RGG

Found it

Found it

Wow! The smallest one yet!!

Easy find

Easy find

Found with my Hero Husband (Moneydork) and a few other cachers on a weekend away. Thanks.

No farmers out training when we visited, TFTC

Quick find on our last day before returning home. Happy Australia Day! TFTC

Easy find - dig a little

Tftc found with polkys quest