Unexpected Tree Noora, South Australia, Australia
By crane2 on 08-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZK0X

Found

A tree-rific cache spot! TFTC ️

Another geocaching trip to Australia with tmann421.
This time to SA and surrounding areas.
Enjoyed the caches and the sites
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
Thanks to all the cache owners for their efforts in placing the hides.

*Another big geocaching trip to Australia with woolwood9.*
Our main focus was on the "On Your Bike" Wherigo series, which we really enjoyed.
Biggest disappointment was solving all the Paddle Steamer puzzles, then driving within 4km of them before finding the roads all completely turned to sticky slush and unusable!

*We visited many other good caches and other trails on our trip and had a lot of fun!*
**Really appreciate the effort put into this cache.**
All logs stamped: **tm/ww NZ**

Another cache find on our 2022 South Australian Adventure. It is a wonderful day. albeit cold, windy and rainy with patches of sun. Just perfect for geocaching.

We are enjoying our time travelling SA. Fantastic towns, ruins, beaches and cliffs & wine. Thanks to all the COs for taking us on this geo-guided tour.

Found it!

Found it!

Found along the dusty roads while caching with -Beaker- and Kellmik on our SA Easter rampage.
Wonder if this unexpected tree was purposely planted or a bird was the donor!
Thanks crane2 for the placement.

Found out caching with Beaker and the Tritonz.
TFTC

Found with Kellmik and The Tritonz during our Easter Riverland Rampage!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

The forecast temperature today was listed as reaching 39 degrees so we planned our cacheing day around spending maxium time in the A/C in the car and minium time out walking trails. Today it was fantastic that we did not find that we needed to renew any cache containers or log books/sheets. Well done everyone. All the caches we targeted today were found to be in good order.
There was, of course, the mandatory flies and dust and more dust and more flies, we can live with this as we have the technology to deal with the flies and dust.
We did encounter roads that we have never travelled on before and were very surprised when we came across a water way at Bugle Hut that had at least 300 swans on it. We traveled down a road that had the strangest collection of items attached to the trees, there was fans, lamps, boom box, frypan, stuffed toys, CD's with red reflectors, asstd computers bits - monitor keyboard etc. It felt like every road had an old house on it. We saw house's where the lawns were so green while all the land around them were as brown as can be.
SL TFTC

Out with Mattycat for a caching trip to the riverland for the day, with temperatures 40 C we decided to pick some easier caches that didnt involve walking to far and keeping cool in the geomobile. With Loxton our starting point we head east to the Border even crossed the border for a few in the park before thunderstorms ended the day. A stray tree but looking in great condition, nice to have some shade as we searched for the cache found after a short search
TFTC crane2

Out exploring with friends. Having a great day.

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Enjoying exploring the area with Sewthat and Honeysucker. Found after a short search. Thanks

this is the type of container that most of my caches are. quick find.
Out with the Mogni for a short trip out to the riverland, only 3 days. It was hot first 2 days where 40 degrees and the last day was 33 degrees. Since the rules just changed about covid 19 testing before and after entering vic to no testing, we changed our plans on the way up and decided to go via Murray Sunset National Park. The idea was to find as many caches as we could that haven't been found recently most hadn't been found in 3 months. On day 1 we replaced 10 out of the first 12 caches, all broken container and 1 log book replaced, and by the end of the day had a heaped medium bin liner bag full of broken containers, the hot mallee sun doesn't do the plastic containers any good. Day 2 saw us caching around Loch Luna and lake Bonney which is way easier driving around here in the dry then in the rain like my last visit here. Onlt 1/2 a medium bin liners back of replaced containers today, people must fix the closer to the highway caches more often. On day 3 it was back in to the mallee country and home via Pinnaroo. Getting those " out of the way caches ". Plenty of dirt roads where driven down and many, many back sandy tracks taken. It was good to explore all the country areas and stay off the highway.

Sir_spectre and I had a quick getaway to the Riverland. We were targetting the less found caches. We found an assortment of caches, and as regular for us manged to replace containers for several and put some fresh logbooks in others. It was a rather hot weather for a weekend of caching but the air conditioned car gave us some relief.
Thanks to crane2 from mogni

Mallee trip with the geo-pup. Day 7, Pinnaroo to Paruna.

Lovely old tree, well out of place.

TFTC

Well you can sort of see it from a way off so it's not all that unexpected!!

Thanks to crane2 and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet! [^]

It is not the best for tall people, but is a good adventure.

Heading to the Riverland for a couple of days, on a caching trip, with clare007...
It was a lovely day for it...
Yes unusual to see one of these here...not a fan of trying to retrieve a cache from here but they have pretty good hiding spots in them...
TFTC crane2

Day 376 ( Tuesday 8th ) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Paruna today. A total of 15 for the day and 6667 the trip. A grand total of 16,635 caches. TFTC

Time to start thinking about making a move away from Loxton so headed out today to attempt the remaining unfound nearby.

TFTC

As I am getting older and running out of time, I have decided I will take off on my own to cache in different areas of our vast country as my NGW (Non Geocaching Wife) has no interest in caching.
I have been up to Loxton for five days of full on caching with suscoe, au.fait and Phetlern and still have so many caches to log.
Heading east of Loxton with the crew we found this guy. Ross tells me that we travelled at least 250 km today.
I am afraid that for the next few days my logs are going to be a lot of cutting and pasting but that does not take away the effort that the owners have put in to provide these caches for us to find so please accept my thanks. With close to 200 caches placed I know how much work is involved with not only placing them but the ongoing maintenance.
Thanks, crane2 for placing this cache.

10:49
Another great day of caching, with Bushfire, au.fait & Suscoe, in the Riverland - between Loxton and that infamous border! The expanse of the farmland is amazing the ruins dotted along the roadsides adding interesting snap shots of local history. 10 years by the unexpected tree, something is working!

Our thanks to 'crane2' for placing this cache for our enjoyment.
26597

*This log composed and published using Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK).*

Suscoe headed out this morning in the terrific company of au.fait, Phetlern and Bushfire for a caching adventure to the east of Loxton.
It was a warm morning which turned into a farily hot afternoon.
We travelled around 250 kms and found a lovely range of caches in some interesting locations.
The roads were fairly quiet but we did pass quite a few shingle back lizards, who were making their way across the roads that we travelled along.

Thanks to crane2 for this hide, it certainly was unexpected.

A fairly warm to hot day with much driving in the area to the East of Loxton. The caches were fairly widely spaced but the excellent company of Phetlern, suscoe and Bushfire made for a very enjoyable day. While unexpected it certainly provided some welcome shade as we signed the log TFTC crane2

Found with clare007 while out with CPwanderer.
Definitely an unexpected tree which we spotted as we drove up.

TFTC crane2 Apologies for the late log.

This was on the way to the new, hole lot of fun series.
Our driver stopped so Gizmo's gang & I could grab this one.
After wrestling with the tree limbs.
It took a bit to realise that I hadn't searched all the tree & then found the reasonably sized cache.
Nice tree, thanks for the hide & nice sized cache Crane2

It was an unexpected tree and we did see it standing out as we drove down the road. Cache was found in good condition. Thanks for bringing us out here.

Somethings home I believe. It enjoyed a bird recently
TFTC

Thanks

Thanks

Thank you

Yes indeed a fine specimen that stands out on the landscape.
And 13 months of unexpected unloved here too...
TNLNSL
Thanks

A weekend of caching with Freddo through the Mallee and Riverland.

Wasn't unexpected once you told us it was unexpected.

TFTC

A fine pepper tree. Cache found in the last place we looked.

Found on the way out to the old town of Nadda, thanks for the cache

Found it while on a little (long) loop drive out from Loxton into Sunset National Park picking up a few caches along the way.

When you look closely there are quite a few of these trees spread around, they must be tough to survive out there.

TFTC SL, Cannot remember what the kids swapped out. Thank you Crane2

TFTC. Kids loved the swaps.

The tree was certainly unexpected but thankfully the cache itself was a nice easy find. All was done in good order and the cache was replaced in position before we continued the hunt for the day. Out thanks go to crane2 for placing this cache.

Nice old tree! TFTC crane2.

Day Four of our journey north to the Red Centre Experience and after camping a little bit south we are using the back roads to make our way to Renmark.

geoP was dispatched to make the find whilst geoD worked out where the h*** we are!

TNLN SL TFTC

with a weekend off a few cache we did find
thank you crane2 for placing the cache

Easy find as we took a roundabout way to Loxton!!

Found it

Found it

We decided to head out for an afternoon of caching with Larry Lambert. With the rain over the previous 24 hours, we decided to hit some dirt roads to get the 4WD's dirty! We headed towards Taldra and continued to Bugle Hut, Taplan, Woodleigh, Loxton and then back home to Renmark. After living in the Riverland my whole life, this was the first time I'd been out this way!
It took Miss 7 a while to find this one but she soon had the cache in hand. Love these trees - they seem to be a cache hiders favourite! In fact, Miss 7 hid a cache today under a much smaller version today! TFTC!

TFTC

Off with Jack for a tour of river and mallee.
Eventually it got dark, but just kept going
Pepper's lonely tree club
TFTC crane2

Found It!
I guess you need to give the train passengers something to look at? These tree do seem to grow well just about anywhere...
TFTC

Nice tree

Found it

Family day out to see the variety bash club do their charity run. Great day for it the sun is out. TFTC

Kids enjoyed the "cubby"

This was a little off our course home but the description of an unusual tree had Lace intrigued, so off we went north from Taplin. The tree was quite obvious and we soon had the contailer in hand.
Signed Log, made a swap and replaced where found.
TFTC
Cheers,
Lead 'n Lace.

Found it

But cold and windy out here!!! Day out geocaching with the geokids. Nice find TFTC

Nice sun set

It was not difficult to find Ground Zero .... I could see it from a hundred metres away
A neat cache find by the side of a quiet road
TFTC

Thanks Crane!! Great fun

Still with the kids

Found quickly as we passed by.
TFTC.

Found it!!!!

Found it

quick stop on my border caching trip. after admiring the tree i found the cache relatively easy. love the smell TFTC!

Just on dark. Had a good look. Found what looked like a cammo covered sistema. Poked it with a stick to find it was the honeycomb of a fortunately quiet beehive. Left in a hurry but will be back in daylight.

Wow its amazing how may places these peppercorn trees can be found.
They must be very tough!!
Cheers & TFTH

This tree certainly did stand out.
Fortunately the cache was soon in my hand. TFTC

Hmmm. What is this tree doing here [?].
TN. Left dinosaur. SL.
Very strange [:o)]. Thanks Crane2.

Found it on a weekend 4WD and camping with How Do They Know? and litefootrunner. We had an unexpected turn to the right and unexpectedly noticed a pepper tree out in the wilderness and the bees had unexpectedly had made a home next to the container. So we had to make unexpected haste to retrieve and replace the cache. And unexpectedly we didn't get bitten. Thanks crane2.

This entry was edited by Are we there yet! on Tuesday, 04 October 2011 at 06:12:03 UTC.

Two's company and Trees a crowd. With Are We There Yet! and litefootrunner (unexpectedly) although we were all on the same camping & 4WDing trip. TNLNSL. TFTC crane2. That's 2 for the day from you! Now that WAS unexpected!

Found the tree, found the cache and found the bees as well. I think there is some bees setting up a hive near to the cache so just a warning for future finders. TFTC

found while on a caching run! one of 37 for the day!! TFTC

Unexpected indeed and cache quickly in hand. As this was our 5th find for the day we thought it appropriate to leave a Billiard Ball with a #5 on it. TFC

3rd of the day on a trip with the kids.
Cheers
TNLN SL TFTC an all them things we say.

TFTC I went round and round and round and thought I need to go in!!!!! TNLN

This was an interesting cache - as I pulled up I heard a noise - three local kids on a quad bike driving on the track at the back of THE tree. What do I do????? They were looking very hard and seemed very keen as to what I was doing - I got myself a drink, I took photos and then I made out I needed to use the tree for cover! By this stage they had gone a considerable distance but they kept looking back!!!!! Anyhow, I found the cache, took a bright orange tin and left a wandering starfire pathtag. Great tree in a great location! Thanks crane2!

Great spot for a cache interesting drive to get this one.

Took octapus
Left Golf ball

TFTC

Find# 631
2nd find of the day at 11.51am.
Took: Nothing / Left: Nothing
CITO conducted around GZ as part of the Riverland Rendezvous 3 - Scavenger Hunt CITO. Regrettably some caches had far to much trash to make much of an impact, nevertheless, we tried our best!
Cache found in the company of sushilord and AdrianMc.
Thanks for the cache crane2!
Jardry

Another find while out this way with Adrian Mc and Jardry on the RR3 CITO event.


I remeber that there used to be a pepper tree in every school I visited in my youth, but this is one of the biggest that I've seen.

Found while out this way with Jardry and Sushilord for the RR3 CITO event.

Unfortunately the tree has seen better days.
There is some road work going on at the moment and they have damaged the tree somewhat.
The cache is still good though.

TFTC

Definitely unexpected out here but found the cache OK. TFTC.

Found in the company of Mooshell. TFTC.

It is now 6.02. What a unreal tree. TFTC. TNLN. SL.

What was more unexpected was the bloke digging a dam on the other side of the road.
Passed the school bus on the way to this one

Love this old tree - remind me of farm at my grandparent's place at NSW.... Took pathtag.... SL. Thanks Crane2 for organising the cache and hunt.

Not sure what I'm doing out here, looking for caches obviously. The flys are pretty thick out here! Crikey!
TFTC

Silver to the penguins. We went round and round the tree before spotting the cache. It must be the heat or the flies (or both).

Thanks crane2 .

Published

FTF

nothing like a few new close by caches to chase

2nd of 3 ftf caches for the evening, on route to the previous cache a ginger rabbit ran across the road in front of the geomobile on the way to this cache an echidna!!! (though much slower!).... had fingers crossed hoping not to see his buddy from the coat of arms on route to the next cache!!!

found the tree no probs, then the cache shortly after.... took the luggage locks (crane2 must have known gypsy just got a passport!!) left a tag or something?
cheers 4 da cache crane2!

Visiting my Cache Reviewer Coin to mark Cache Hide #46.

Found on the way to Renmark to go ballooning.