Cactus Burra, South Australia, Australia
By hamishgrovers on 30-Dec-09. Waypoint GC22NMC

TFTC. On arrival we thought Oh No not another BBB. Huge sigh of relief when cache was easily found and log signed.

Picked up Detofinbars and headed to Burra for lunch and beers with a mate that I played cricket against over 30 years ago.He's currently on holidays visiting his parents and relatives. Picked him up and he joined us and learned about geocaching, as well as a magnificent, guided tour and history of the Burra area after a great lunch. With little or no internet, we still manage to get a few caches around the town. We also got a few on the way there and home. Overall a fantastic day was had. TFTCWere going to go through gate on eastern end, but tour guide suggested going from western end be easlier. Great find without having to go near the catus bushes.

We were prepared to don the appropriate PPE but were relieved to discover it was not required. Cheers for the cache.

Opened the gate and drove in. Good to see the cache isn't in the neaby cactus. Quick find at gz but the lid is cracked. replaced container broken lidFound with Mogni. This was a very,very last minute trip.I found out that i had to be in the " clare region " the next day by lunch the next day on muggle business. After that business was over i headed up to jamestown to get a 2001 cache via any adventure labs or caches i haven't found before staying in a B& B in Penworthm. Now it was time to start heading home via dirt roads to Burra for the new Adventure lab and then down every dirt road/track with caches on it and the odd track that needed the hubs locked on the ute. If the cache was broken/eaten/smashed it was replaced with a new container and if the log sheet was wet it was replaced and if the log was full or almost full extra log sheets were added to the cache.

A favourite point from us..went through the gate and made our way up the track to find a wonderful rustic structure. Looked through the open side..must watch Breaker Morant again to see if we can spot it. Followed the track along to the end which was heaps of fun! TNLNSL TFTC

Naughtybunny and I were greeted at the nearby intersection by a couple of gates which were unlocked. As there were road signs nearby and we were pretty sure this was a public road, we entered and drove up to GZ. After a little looking around we had it in our hands. Loved the old structure nearby but didn't like the potential snake habitats around here. TNLN. Cheers.

The gate looks locked but isn't, we actually drove up to GZ. Plenty of room to turn around. Interesting spot, I took a few pics of the rusty old roof nearby, Muggle Mum LOVES rusty metal stuff! I wouldn't be keen to be looking for this cache in warmer weather, this hide would be a great snake resting spot! I would recommend the use of a long handled TOTT.TFTC hamishgrovers

Access gate is locked.

Walked up from the highway – there was a closed gate at the bottom, but it was not locked. Didn’t know whether I was going onto private property, but apparently not. Nice walk up and back. Cache all good. TFTC

On our travels we stopped to grab a couple of caches this was a nice fine and an interesting drive in, thanks for placing this cache

I like this one alot

Bumpity bump bump... and we found it!
TFTC

Traveling the back roads around Burra TFTC

We have been travelling around this great country, calling into see many different places,
now is a quick chance on the computer to catch up with logs and to put some smileys on the map for where we have been.
Thanks to all the COs for some great finds.
TFTC

So many cacti around.
If only these could talk and tell us the history.
The hands which planted them, the farmers who toied the land, the workers in the sheds...
It's great to be able to travel and see so many quaint little country towns.
As we meander down towards GeoVenture 2020 (in 2021), Millicent, we stopped to put a smiley here.
It's wonderful to explore SA through the eyes of a Geocacher,
especially when it takes us to such interesting places.
We found your cache and with signing duties done and dusted,
we replace the cache as found.
Thanks for sharing this interesting location.
TFTC

Ok

Love the back tracks in the country. The fresh air, singing birds, the old buildings and the smell of wet earth, I'm in heaven.

After a relaxing weekend in Burra Burra it was time to head home, the long way of course .

TFTC Keep smiling

Thanks

Rode right past this spot on the Outback Odyssey. Didn’t particularly want to ride back up on the rest day in Burra but one’s got to do what one’s got to do do get the GC. TFTC

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). 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 - Hamish Grovers [^]

Left the Corolla at the bottom of the rocky road and hiked to GZ.

Thank goodness, no cactus !

TFTC!

Quick find whilst staying in Burra

TFTC

Staying at Burra for a couple of nights. Whilst checking out historic sites did some geocaching. Town is very well kept, great shops & gardens. Tftc

Found it TFTC. For a minute I thought is was going to be like the ig Bad Brad series lol. Thank goodness not cache in good condition

Found during our trip to Burra for a few days, staying out in the campground at Redbanks. Interesting to wander around the historic buildings, the mines, and tour the township. Thanks for the cache hamishgrovers!

A detour to this one. My car really wasn’t suited to this road at all and a few oh no this could be bad moments but I got through it. Cache was found in the first place I looked.

Today I headed from Adelaide up north caching my way along from cache to cache and found myself in Peterborough for the evening. Stopped at Clare and Burra along the way as well as doing a few lab caches. Roughly 80 finds for the day.

Thanks for the cache

Tftc!

Tftf great old shedding

Tftf

A quick find... log is damp but was still usable. An interesting track. TFTC

Quick find, interesting history.

Lovely. Very remote. Good hike.

Tftc

While staying in Burra for a few days we are sightseeing and grabbing a few caches as we wander around in this beautiful historic town.

We were very glad to read this one wasn’t hidden in the cactus.....bet the look pretty amazing when they are in flower though. In a few years when the young cactus that have germinated on the opposite side of the track get as big as their parents this will be a very hard find unless coming from the opposite, more distant track

Many thanks for the hide hamishgrovers

Wow my poor little car had to stop and we walked the rest of the way. Very rocky track not road. But found it yay

a little hike because pur car couldt ho up the road

Don't go over the fence

It was that time of the week again. It was time for the Wednesday Wanderings of the Puzzled Puzzler group in search of those smilies. [^] Today I got to join S.A. Sewer Rats, Blackadders and sushilord for a wander up towards Burra in search of solved puzzles and anything else that we were passing. [^]

This could have been so, so much harder if it had been placed closer to BBB territory. Luckily it wasn't and was a quick find.

**Thanks hamishgrovers for this cache. **

The usual weekly Wednesday with some of the Puzzled Puzzlers. The plan was to clear out Burra and any others on the way. The Starfish, KORF and the Adder met at the Sewer Rats at 9am for this long day of seeking plastic containers in the outback.

Another test for the 2WD but we made it to GZ where the Rat made the prickly find. TFTC

It is Wednesday and the happy wanders, SA Sewer Rats, Brisal5, Blackadders and sushilord.
We were out caching on a lovely sunny June day.
That was prickly. but managed to get the cache. Tftc

TFTC another nice find today

TFTC Oh wow this road is definitely 4wd road. Thought we were going to be neading some bandaids but......

Great place at sunset

I am cycling the Mawson Trail from Blinman and Adelaide which has provided the opportunity to pick up a few geocaches along the way. This one was a reasonably straightforward find, being in an obvious position on the coordinates. Thank you hamishgrovers for installing and maintaining this cache.

Yftc

Tftc

This was a prick of a one to find (not really)

Approach this from the Ouch cache most thought I had to engage in the 4x4 mode would be an interesting drive in the wet. made it more interesting it was dark. Found quick once we got there.

The hardest part was getting here, drove in the opposite way and didn't see the cactus until we were on our way out. It was already dark and didn't get to see the full extent of their growth.

As our holiday is almost finished now, we are just tiki-touring around the local countryside picking up as many caches as we can. Hot weather is forecast so travelling in the air conditioned car is the preferable way to get around today.

A bumpy road, but cache was found easily. tftc

Day seven of my geocaching trip away with tmann421
Enjoying tripping around seeing the wonderful SA sites and history.
Thanks to the cache owners for the effort put into these hides

Over on a geocaching trip with woolwood9.
We enjoyed visiting the area and finding the good caches.
SL Thanks for helping make our trip fun!

Another quickie thanks

Third quick find for the little man. He is on a roll today tftc

TFTC

We enjoyed the drive to this one. The hound enjoyed a good race around and even better we found the cache quickly. TFTC we have really enjoyed our trip to Burra and the Mid North

Nice history

Nice find on a cold day

My heart sank as I drove around the corner. Imagine my relief when I landed at GZ. TFTC

Signal wasnt very good but found it after a short search.

So glad this wasn’t hidden in the cactus.
TFTC hamishgrovers

Out today with Sebastbat, making a dent in the cache map to our north.
OMG was a great little track and I seriously had nightmares about BBB coming here and placing a multi.
Much relief when we found the cache!!!
Thanks for this one hamishgrovers

Thankfully we weren't cactus ourselves after abandoning our geo-mobile along the track before some exercise for ourselves. Thankfully the cache wasn't cactus; SL ;TFTC

TFTC!

Stayed an extra day in Burra for some more caching
Thanks

At least you didn’t hide it in the cactus as others have – I’m over those type of hides – thanks for the short of road drive - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Caching in the Mid North with SnappyTomCats on this pleasant spring day...
We cached Burra after lunch...it's a lovely town full of history...
A quick find but had to wait for the baby snake to move on...
TFTC hamishgrovers

Out today with Hevwalker, we decided to head towards Burra. After lunch in town we started cachesploring...Exploring this beautiful town and caching at the same time. This was a quick find, TFTC

Great road coming in. Thanks

Thank you. A beautiful spot.

Never seen so much cactus. TFTC

Another find

TFTC prickly indeed

Another find today

A good search for the kids on a rugged road

ACTchil and I had attended the Red Centre Experience Event in Alice Springs this Easter Weekend and travelling back to Canberra. We stayed at the little Caravan park in Burra which was a really nice spot, great showers. We got up early and packed up the camper trailer and off to grab the caches and have a town full of smilies then to Redcliffs for the night. The gps took us to a dirt track however too muddy to drive up so we walked the 210m to the cache noticing the filed of Yukka Cactius'to or surporise wasn't near a cactus, ACTchil went in and grab this one an easy find for him. tftc hamishgrovers

found with Darzee Di after attending the Red Centre Experience event in Alice Springs. this is such a beautiful place, Ill be back again. heading home after a great time tftc hamishgrovers

Having explored the delights of Burra, Owl's family were relaxing. So Owl decided to round out the day with a few extra smilies. This was the first stop and quite an adventure. However, South Africa was soon reached and a prickly cache located. The log was full, so a new one has been supplied.

#6396 - 14:50; Day 5 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune. After a night in Burra, today we decided to head down to Clare for some sightseeing and caching then caching our way back to Burra. Our mini mission to Clare completed, we were now back in Burra rounding up the local caches. Managed to find the track in and proceeded slowly to GZ. A comprehensive search saw the cache in hand and log signed soon after. TFTC hamishgrovers

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n. We headed through Hay, Mildura, Loxton, Burra before arriving in Port Augusta for the trek up the highway. Collected a good number of caches and all were found with no issues and the logs were soon signed.

Thanks for the cache and fun in getting to it and finding it.

On our way to Alice Springs for the Event over Easter, and I had set myself the challenge of finding over 300 caches to reach my 3000 milestone when I register there. We had a huge couple of days completing the TdeF trail which meant that I only had about another 115 to find. I wasn't intending to do much caching today but it was just too easy to get caught up again. This was #4 of 12 caches found successfully.

To all COs, thank you for placing and maintaining these caches and my apologies for my generic log.

All caches were either signed or stamped.

Needs a new log.

Smaller than expected

We're on our way to the Mega at Alice Springs and traveling all the back roads finding some great camps along the way.

Good Coords for this one. Needs a new log.

We'll be attempting some of the trails around the area and seeing some great sights too.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache hamishgrovers.

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Up in Burra checking out the history and knocking off the local caches. Kids were a but freaked out with the track but had fun. TNLNSL. TFTC.

TFTC

Quick find. The only unattractive part of Burra I've seen. Pity the succulents are so established. TFTC

Found

Nice easy find on a lovely autumn day! Log was really hard to get out of container! TFTC - lovely spot

We have always wanted to explore the cactus square and bye the way we are burra local

I just said to Apty that I have never seen the film 'Breaker Morant'. Having just spent yesterday afternoon and a good part of this morning fossicking in and around Burra, now would be a good time to catch up on this classic Aussie film. TFTC

Found with El Bel.

Found it with Rosie Posie 71!! Scary driving up the track with my L plater brother in the drivers seat!!

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Found it
Thanks

Few anxious moments on the goat track when we met someone coming the other way, bit of a challenge for a low car! Found easily TFTC

On a caching trip towards South Australia with J+J.AU. We did many caches on our way and had a great time. This was one of them and hardly any did disapoint! Would do the hole trip over again tomorrow if I could.
TFTC Wilbert67

This we couldn't by pass as yesterday we did a cache that poor Wilbert had an encounter with and the cactus one. No such luck this time . TFTC