Murbko Bank Qualco, South Australia, Australia
By Southern Cross Caching on 12-Nov-09. Waypoint GC20YEV

Checked this one today and the location is no longer viable for the cache. Thanks to all who have found it over the years.

We did not find. Checked the reets to no avail. There has been recent road verge clearing and works along here.

We alighted onto a possibly private jetty and scampered up the terrace to the road and began a hunt that took us over 30 minutes and did not prove successful. Curses...it is a long way back from home in New Zealand!...we gave the area a good looking over but found nothing...we will keep a watch on this one to make sure it was us having a bad day and not a muggle disturbing things. Thanks for getting us off the houseboat for a short diversion...enjoyed the walk.

While doing the TdF series we decided to pick up a few while in the area and this was one of them.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Driving south along the road this morning and it looked like somebody had stuck little orange traffic cones in the trees !! [:o]
Only after stopping, did I see that the fluro orange was actually the banksia flowers
Certainly an amazing sight that did earn some interest from me today

The cache was soon found in a sneezy place, and I made a hasty withdrawal

TFTC

Yay! Love finding these treasures

What beautiful trees -TFTC

Australia Day caching in the Riverland.

(APOLOGIES FOR A VERY LATE LOG)
Darknstormy and i went away after Christmas to our favorite campsite by the river where we spent some time relaxing by the river and did some newer caches published around the area.

It was such and awesome time away and we enjoyed the caching

Thanks for the cache Southern Cross Caching

Furrangel and I were camping in the area and decided to tick off the caches around that we didn't get to last time.. We were walking around in circles for a while before we read the hint... more head scratching and then it popped in the head... not sure why we missed this on out first look

Thanks for the cache Southern Cross Caching

Bike SA Annual tour. TFTC

Riding through the area on the Bicycle SA Annual Tour, travelling from
Adelaide to Renmark and stopping at various towns along the way with 200
other riders.

Riding day 3 from Swan Reach to Morgan and on a day when we had a horrible head wind

An easy find

TFTC

Still leisurely touring South Australia after the Mega

Camped for a few days at Holder Bend in Waikerie we decided to head out and explore the area towards Morgan and Cadell today.

Some very interesting scenic and historical spots and such fantastic weather! Perfect Winter's day. [^]

Found the cache and they didn't give me any interest or allow withdrawals.

Thanks for the cache and for helping us explore this area whilst Geocaching.

Wandered up from the houseboat. TFTC

Short walk up from our mooring on the river. Nice banksias! Tftc

Nice quick one for the kids tftc

Quick find by geo juniors after spending the day watching buggy racing.
Tftc.

Quick find today..TFTC

TFTC

We found your cache Murbko Bank on 26/04/2014 10:39 am after travelling to SA for the Oz Mega we are having a little caravaning holiday around the state. This is our find #3335 and find #4 today.
The cache is in good condition. Thanks Southern Cross Caching for the cache!
cheers highrod- from Ballarat.

Found this one during our month long tour of SE Australia. It is our intention to find as many caches as possible during our stay and as a result logistics dictate that this generic log will have to suffice .Hope the cache owners, to whom we extend our gratitude for their efforts, will all understand the reasons for this.All good wishes from us both.
Valliant Knight and Damsel (UK)

The only honest banks there are. Deposited our names and withdrew. TFTC Southern Cross Caching.

[Blue]# 8198 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure, heading to Morgan for a short stay.[/Blue]
Not many muggles around and a reasonably quick find along the way.
Thanks for the cache Southern Cross Caching,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red].

Popped into the bank to sign the form today. Thx Southern Cross Caching for the branch.

Found with Grandeeze. TFTC.
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Nice easy find on our way home from Morgan. TFTC D

Found at 3:53 PM GAFF1 in the company Robmc and BB#. Found this name hard to pronounce - there seems to be a vowel missing It was also hard to walk on the banksia seeds that had fallen.
Thanks Southern Cross Caching.

# 5455. Robmc and I are in SA to tackle a few of the many Series and others along the way. We have now been joined by pprass to join in the adventures. This morning we have done the Fruit Loop Series and now we are finding several more as we wend our way back to Waikerie.

I was so disappointed here - I thought we were going to visit a lovely old building - the bank of course - but it was not to be. Had to settle for adding a smilie to a cache.

Thanks Southern Cross Caching

A busy day with BettyBoo3747 and half of Pprass. In the morning we tackled the Fruit Loop series, and then we filled in the afternoon with caches on the way back to Waikerie.
This bank may not charge interest, but certainly invoked interest
Thanks, Robmc.

This entry was edited by Robmc on Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 09:07:54 UTC.

Well its finally happened, I've spent a day following the Tour de France. Never thought I'd say that!

Along the way I did find quite a few caches though and this was one of them in the lead up to the big event [^]

Cheers

Find# 898

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing

This was our 7th find of the day, a day in which we found 10 geocaches.

[blue]The only deposit that we made at the Bank was to sign the log to indicate that we had found the cache.[/blue]

Thanks for the cache Southern Cross Caching!

Jardry

A quick stop whilst caching in the Blanchetown area. TFTC

A nice drive by on our way home from the country soccer championships, found by geomum retrieved by littlest geokid. No salt today just pepper. TFTC SXC.

A super-quick find given the deceased fauna in the area. TFTC

Found whilst away for the weekend in the riverland for our anniversary.


The only thing that we didn't bank on was the dead fox near GZ. You can bank on that smelling for a while yet!


TNLNSL

Nice quick find at murbko. No pencil, take your own.

Nice quick drive by. Love a good peppercorn tree and the banksias looked great too. Thanks for bringing us here.

Easy drive by. Tftc

Nice

Found with Orange Maple and geo friends

What an adventure! We were camping down by the river (obviously not far from this geocache), and were pondering what activity we could do with the hoard of kids. We wondered how far a geocache would be and low and behold there this one was -not even 800m from our campsite.

So we bundled the geokids up and headed for a walk. We were lucky as a house close by was just cleaning up after a car accident, so the kids also got to see some red and blue lights.

Found with Jeff MJ, Two Tone Orange, The junior Hoelscher 5 and The Jamiesons. Lovely walk from our camping spot. The cache was in good nick and we all had a lovely time walking back. Thanks for the hide, definitely didn't expect to find one so close.


This entry was edited by OrangeMaple on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 at 03:27:38 UTC.

Tuesday cache trip for our Roonka visit for the bush mechanics weekend. TFTC

Yet again, another great day of caching along the river. What an awesome place. Thanks for the bush mechanics weekend for bringing us here.

This was a quick and easy find while on a trip out from Blanchetown on our way to suss out some likely camp spots at Morgan. TFTC

Nice quick find as we cached our way up the river on a lovely Australia Day afternoon.

a nice easy find although the cache was alittle cracked and was wet inside
the logbook was damp but was writeable
i put logbook in a ziplock bag and replaced the container...still a small but a new 1
thanks southern cross caching for the cache
cache is now in good order

no flowers today

Another quick find on the way home. TFTC

An easy find, tricky to pull off with a caravan though, lucky it is a quiet day on the road today.
TFTC

Heading to do some of the TDF...grabbed this one on the way
TFTC

Looks like those banks(ias) have taken a haircut. TFTC.

A beautiful little location by the river. Took Jeremiah Bullfrog Pathtag. Left $2.30 CH Adelaide Metro bus ticket.

Clever hint ... took a while to see how it applied!

Which bank? No, not that one, it can't be, the fees are not high enough.

quickly admired the banksias, found the cache and we were on our way along the Murray
TFTC

Found it. Cache was a bit damp from the recent rains and may shortly need some maintenance.

Off on a pleasant Sunday afternoon drive again to get in some up and down a picturesque section of the Murray River. Memories of the Lutheran Church near here, used to go there with the Grandparents and Gran'ma always had peppermints in her handbag for the grandchildren. TFTC

Found at 10:51 with Winterdragon and Locus Cache

We were heading north after Skippy’s birthday event, and stopped off at the bank to make a deposit and withdrawal. Locus Cache was wondering what sort of deposit we were making behind the bush...

Thanks Southern Cross Caching!

I had not loaded caches this far out into the GPSr and my phone had no reception
So I could only follow Unicycle and Winterdragon as they did the locus cache here.
Gorgeous Banksia trees: those flowers look like they are almost a foot long. I bet the birds love them, too
SL. TFTC Southern Cross Caching

3918th total find at around 10:13

We are camping near Blanchetown to help Skippy celebrate his 50th birthday, and while a lot of cachers are chasing numbers in the new powertrail, we decided to opt for quality over quantity.

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Thanks Southern Cross Caching for the cache

After having a fantastic time at the Oz Mega event we had to drop the youngest team member back in Melbourne as she had to return to work Tuesday but we are fortunate enough to have the rest of the week off and as the camper was already hooked up it seemed silly not to just keep going picking up a few more caches along the way.

Heading to Morgan we couldn't help but stop for a couple more caches before setting up for the night. We had been admiring one of the banks on and off for awhile now but have to say that this is the first time we have seen a BANKsia used in this way. It looks quite impressive. The cache itself was a nice easy find right where the GPSr said that it should be and our name is now in the log.
Our thanks to Southern Cross Caching for the cache.

Pulled up just downstream in our houseboat. Nice find a little moist inside tho.

Found with Kay while camping out near Morgan

I came this way without checking out the story about this cache. Coming around the corner I was amazed to see an incredible bank of banksia in flower, so much so that I forgot about the cache. The latter was easily fixed with a quick turn around.

Thanks for the cache Southern Cross Caching.

Not at all sure if we were allowed but we did make a withdrawal and picked two of the Banksia flowers to take with us. They are lovely. TNLN TFTC

A nice little stop while driving through to Morgan today. TFTC

Amazed at the Banksia trees, being used as a wind break, for the property with ample bird life spotted. TFTHSL cheers from digggers09.

Great spot

A nice quick find as we traveled towards Swan Reach for an overnight stop. SL, no swaps. Thanks to Southern Cross Caching for the cache.

Tftc

Had expected this to be down by the river.... but it was a quick find and sign when i worked it out!! Thanks S.C.Caching for the hide!!

This was our final cache for the day. Fantastic row of trees, which still had flowers on them. TFTC.

nice spot by the river and the trees
madmal

Banksias still looking magnificent TFTC

Which bank? easy driveby. Deposited our name in the cache. Thanks Southern Cross caching for the cache.

Fantastic looking Banksias!
Dont park too far off the road as the kerb is steep!
Thanks for making us stop here. Wouldnt have appreciated the banksias.
[:p]

Still lots of Banksia flowers, even the dead ones have some appeal .
Took frog. Left parrot. SL.
Thanks for another one SCC.

The Banksias are flowering spectacularly at this time. A quick find - TFTC

Found on our way to Morgan. Left something in there we had to come back for and retrieve- our GPS! The geokid who left it in there was lucky to get dinner! TFTC

Why can't I grow banksias like on those trees!. TFTC

Lovely flowers out today. Gorgeous blooms.

Found on the way to meet friends at Cadell. Nice and quick road side cache. TFTC!!

Oh wow, now we need to come back when they are in flower, a few were showing signs of blooms due in a few weeks.
TFTC
[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

Interesting banks in this area indeed, ooh look, a box too - TFTC

Quick stop before starting work for the day.

Found at 1515hrs on a drive back to Morgan from Blanchtown. As native plant enthusiasts we had quite a bit of interest in one bank! Left a ladybug. Thanks again Southern Cross Caching.

No interest from the banks but interesting nevertheless!
Thanls Southern Cross Caching. TNLNSL

Found this with "How Do They Know?" on our way back from a successful 4WD training and camping weekend. The clue gave it away for this drive by cache. Tnlnsl. Tftc.

took rubber, left toy soldier, sl.

found on a riverland trip to get away from the grind of Dialysis weekly
TFTC TNL=Pixie-Pic SL

Find 2 of 4 on a Sunday drive with Geo-Kids. Thanks!

Took Tigger Travel Bug

Wow, what a lovely place to put a cache. [^] Loved the Proteas, geo-wife says Banksia's. An easy find.SL& left Tigger TB, so he can bounce to the next location. TFTC

A lovely quick find at this pretty spot. Took the obligatory Banksia photo despite the impending darkness. Cache #702.

not a bad hide, found with friends TNLNSL

Got to gz after parking on otherside of road, thanks to Firesafe's gpsr.
Left Evil Micro coin
Thanks

We were camped down at Roonka for the weekend but ventured up to Morgan to grab some caches with Team Hurtle and Team Kaos. The Banksias are in bloom at the moment. Grabbed the micro coin. TFTC.

Those Banksia's were amazing. I had to get the camera out in the rain. Boy it was wet here. No clear skies buy a clear shot - see pic.
Clear skies from TeamAstro.

What an odd-named place. Both Auzee and I agreed that it must have been named by a committee pulling letters out of a hat .

On a Saturday geocache drive, down a road I travel so often, some it was time I grabbed this one... Cheers