Platform One Strathalbyn, South Australia, Australia
By Contact Zero on 08-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26DXC

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The sign is there but no cache

This cache isn't here anymore... Needs removal please.

Here on a market day and had a good look around for it but no luck!

Dated: Sunday 19th June 2016 at 2:50pm

NOTE: Old photo of the "clue" the sign appears to have been changed now, to a more updated one with more colour, so that is probably when it disappeared. I will contact CO an ask if he/she would like me to replace.

Contact Zero, I will be in the area for a few more days, would you like me to replace the hide for you?

Arrived at GZ before the school bus arrived, and all associated Pick UPs. Thought would have ample time. Using smart phone as guide, started towards GZ. Buggar, the phone rang, muggle step son in Sydney wanting to talk with Geo Dad. Fortunately, I had the Co ords downloaded on to the GPSr, so continued along my merry way, first to the pepper corn tree - then GZ moved me loser to a sign beside the road, then back to the Information sign. I was all over the place, Eventually phone call completed, I was able to collect the clue.
Well how easy can that be. Except that the hide was not there, despite checking from all angles. Like previous DNFs, I believe it has gone.

NOTE: Old photo of the "clue" the sign appears to have been changed now, to a more updated one with more colour, so that is probably when it disappeared. I will contact CO an ask if he/she would like me to replace.

Had a good look but no cache could I find. Think it is no longer here

Thanks , good rest spot

Good hint but no cache

Looked and looked but nothing!!

It's not there.

No luck. The location is obvious from GPS and the hint, but nothing there.

Not there. We think someone has removed it

After a long search we are going to have to log this one as a dnf today

No luck today

The Robin Hood's a great spot, keep an eye out for it.

A trip to Goolwa to stay with friends and did some exploring. After leaving friends behind and on our return from Kangaroo Island we stayed at Victor Harbour and returned to check out the station and cache. Doc remembers this cache as the place Mrs wouldn't let him buy a tweed jacket from the op shop up the road. Sneaky little merry hide. TFTC Sad to see it has been archived.

We are now merry after this find, from wa so we are happy

Tftf

Found with snakepiters from n.s.w.
Nice day for a bit of geo .
Tftc

Out geocaching on a wet, cold & very windy day with Loulabelle994 doing Strath & Maccy area.

This was a case of cache creep. We found it at a different location so returned it to it's merry men & where the co-ordinates suggested. TFTC Contact Zero.

Moving Day again Murray Bridge to Strathalbyn.
A couple of caches along the road & then a tiki tour around town finding the caches as we went.
This is a place where all tourists go to when visiting a new town.
Thanks for placing this cache Contact Zero

Great clue Thanks thought it was somewhere else

Found on a trip to Victor. Great clue and an easy find. TFTC.

At last! Found it. Always knew we had the right spot. Thanks

Liked the Merry Men clue

Great hint and smaller finders helped us &Pop

This is our second attempt and we finally found it, yay. TFTC

Catching up on some very late logs.
Traveling to Victor Harbour for a couple of days with SuperPop we were grabbing a few caches along the way.
On another very cold day with the wind blowing a gale we arrived here and were happy to see no muggles making use of any of the facilities. We saw the Steam ranger leave Victor Harbour yesterday but were too far off to get a close look.
The cache was located nice and quick and our names have been added to the log.
Thanks Contact Zero for bringing us here

TFTC in between many muggles
GentryAlveston

Really difficult with all the muggles.

Found quickly but took a while to retrieve it. TFCT

Second time lucky good to look at hints lol

Tftc found with polkys quest

On way to home Melbourne as been away since Dec 14th to Perth.
Found it
Thanks Contact Zero

Quick find by the geo girls (mrs tardis and mrs Scoobster) who were out to show the boys how it's done !!
The boys did a trail of caches, so they left us with the gps to do the ones around town - of course the gps was flat - but we did have our phones and managed to pick up quite a few gems!

Thanks for the hide and the adventure!

Merry Men at the Platform today
tftc

Found by The Boofs TFTC ☺

Found this 1 but a little off where it was indicating. Lucky for the shelter as it was raining, nice spot for a picnic or a quite stretch of the legs. Cheers contact zero for the hide

Tried to find with The Fish Pod. Appears that some of the signage ha been replaced recently. Hope that it is still here.

Not quite where we expected from the clue but close by. Thanks.

Nice and quick find, it's a shame about the rain though!

A quick find while in Strath for a few hours.
Thanks for the cache.

On arrival in Strathalbyn with Mrs one-eyed, we stopped at this location to do another cache.
After loads on searching where hint indicated, unsuccessful at this attempt.
Loads of muggles
Cheers
one-eyed

We have driven past here but it is always so darn busy, after a great catchup with PG06 and Ride The Tiger we came over to this one .
Postiegirl showed us the technique for not looking too obvious in crowds, it worked a treat had the log signed and the cache tucked away without too much fuss.
Thanks Contact Zero for the opportunity to finish off a great day with a cache.

After lunch with PG and Kookacrew we came down here and as always there were people, no idea how but PG managed to not bring any attention to herself while grabbing it. I have people stare at me when I do stuff like this!

TFTC

Start of a new day, having been around Murray Bridge the last couple of days, and now on our way to Victor Harbour.

Having grabbed a restorative first coffee from the nearby bakery, we paused briefly for this one, but didn't go in for a better look.

Thanks Contact Zero for the cache.

[center]8223. [green] Grabbing a few caches as we pass through town and this was on the list of course. Like a good train station and this one was very nice.

Thanks for the cache [blue]Contact Zero[/blue] and the hoods.[/green][/center]

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia.

Currently camped with our Caravan at Kuitpo. Today we decided to head across to Strathalbyn and collect some caches on the back roads before/after. Well the forecast was for lightning and thunderstorms after lunch so we made our list but werent sure how many caches we would get to tackle before abandoning the hunt for today.

The weather held off until approx 3pm so we got most caches on our list attempted, but sadly we had a few more DNF's today than our average. [B)]

So much history in these places visited today. Just magnificent. Sadly the visitor information centre was closed this morning.

Thanks for helping us tour SA whilst using Geocaching Contact Zero

TFTC, Regards from FelixII [^]

Found tonight after leaving work in milang got muggle in laws help to find took a while and then the uh huh moment and found nice place

TFTC good find

The hint was helpful. Would not have found it without it. Lovely setting.

Having attended the Mega we headed over to Victor Harbor to spend a few days to visit all the lovely places in the area and to find some caches as well.
Thanks Contact Zero for the hide,
Regards The Coffee's.

I love it when you can pull up right at GZ! Searched for a bit then read the hint - aha!! That was the vital ingredient; no wonder we'd been struggling! Plus, I think the last person must have had greater stature than we do... After finding, signing and replacing the well-hidden cache, we headed across to the platform for a proper look. I loved the old-style railway shed, which reminded me of my niece's favourite show, Thomas the Tank Engine. I also loved the old set of signals on the platform. Just a pity there was no steam train there to make the experience complete. The across to the bakery, which had pies that The Marble reckons were the type she used to eat as a kid, before heading off again. A great stop, overall! TFTC, Contact Zero. =^.^=

We weren't having much luck so resorted to the clue which was most helpful. I had tried there but extended myself a little further and hey presto, came up with the cache. The signal at the station brought back memories of when I was little although I'd never seen a brick engine house like that before. Enjoyed the whole experience then headed across the road to the bakery which gets a 10/10 from me. Thanks Contact Zero

Second times the charm. Missed it the first time.

With the Oz Mega complete we left Murray Bridge and cached our way slowly to our overnight stop in Victor Harbor, taking in a number of towns along the way. As usual we used caching to take us to see different aspects of the area, and/or picked up caches in locations we wanted to see. An easy drive and we saw an interesting diversity of places, The Goolwa Rotary Art exhibition, and a good range of caches. Another good day

Arrived at GZ to find a lot of muggles enjoying the area and making the most of the facilities having picnic lunches. We were eventually able to grab the cache and sign the log and then had to wait a while to replace.

Thanks for the cache Contact Zero [^] - all is good and dry.

GeoWife1 (Liz) and I are attending the Oz Mega at Murray Bridge, we left home on the 14 Apr 14 and returned on 22 Apr 14. We cached along the way and of course all around Murray Bridge and the surrounding areas, even picked up a few caches on the way home.

Arrived at GZ to find plenty of muggles but managed to located and extract the cache without too much difficulty.

Signed the log but had to wait quite a while until GZ was all clear and the cache could be replaced without detection. A great cache!! Love the hint.

Tks ... Contact Zero ... GazMag

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14:06
Today was planned as a day to broaden our focus a little beyond caching. The Strathalbyn area offered everything we were looking for - including some caches
The scenery was splendid and the old buildings with their iconic SA architecture scored many favourite points from us and the Suscoes.
What a circus - After interupting a family picnic lunch and explaining to the family what we were doing, the connection we needed was instantly recognised by this muggle - he was a life saver.

TNLN .. . . . SL . . Thanks to Contact Zero for the hunt.
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Suscoe headed out this way today in the company of Phetlern as we worked out way through the Strathalbyn area to enjoy some caching in the Bremer Valley and beyond.
It was a magical day with scattered cloud, a gentle breeze, a good variety of caches and good company.
The country side was staring to look green mixed in with some bushland settings that still looked dry.
This cache was found, logged and returned. One of 27 finds for the day.
Had a nice chat to some travelling folks who were enjoying a delicious picnic at GZ.
A helpful hint from them had the cache in hand in no time.
Thanks to Contact Zero for placing this cache in this great little area.

Wandering our way to the Oz Mega from Wodonga. What a great area to get out and about to grab some of these great caches. Nice little area to take a break and appreciate the area. Found thanks to the hint. Thanks for the cache Contact Zero.
1110

We were on our sojourn to South Australia for the Oz Mega event and after spending the night at a nearby cache just outside of Victor Harbour it was time to explore a little more of the area. We had an early start to the morning and were able to quickly locate the cache without too much trouble. Thank you for having placed the cache Contact Zero

Quick find with Justjessie on the way over to OzMega via Kangaroo Island. TFTC

Found with O319 on our trip to Kangaroo Island and OZ Mega. TFTC

11.04.2014
Another interesting SA cache found on holiday whilst making my way to OzMega Murray Bridge. Sorry for brevity. Logged from my Garmin GPS phone. SL.TNLN.TFTC.

We had a rest in this beautiful spot while the kid's played on our day out @ Strathalbyn.

Cute cache and clue. Miss Three had fun retrieving it and then replacing it

This was her first sign as well (hopefully of many).

Thank you for the cache

TFTC hint helped.

Systematic search and found. TFTC

03.11.13 found while out on the motorbike tftc

The boys coukdnt find it so mum's brain had to come into play.

Clue helps. TFTC.

This entry was edited by TeamMKM on Monday, 30 December 2013 at 06:10:34 UTC.

I checked there and nope its not there, do the rounds and come back, still not there, previous finder hops out of the car and says its right there so i check again, nope not there so all 3 of us are checking everywhere when all of a sudden i have my hand on the cache grrrr every time i went for a feel i went straight over the cache so i walk away with my smiley : ) TFTC

In Strath for a few days, so had to do some caching here.
Hint led me right to the cache!

Seek3r-ed and found!

SL TNLN

TFTC Contact Zero

Nice Hide, Luckily we arrived late in the day, so not too many muggles about. TFTC

Not sure why the last geocacher couldn't find this one as it was snug as a bug in it's hidey hole, perhaps fat fingers was the problem????? Anyhow, we found, we signed, we left, but had a chat to some travelling muggles that were enjoying a morning cuppa in the park. They are returning home after a 4 month camping trip across the middle of Australia from Dubbo to Sydney then across the middle of outback Aus to the coast of Western Australia down to Perth and now heading home. I marvelled at how many geocaches they have passed in their travels but the never knew were there. We wished them well and safe travels and left them to it but we were very very very jealous of their free and easy lifestyle. We can only dream at this stage but one day this will be us too.

Found the spot. But not the mint tin cache .is it in place ? Took photo is this sufficient to claim a find?

Forgot photo .

Easy find with the merry geokids today - thanks from postiegirl06

A nice quick find, thanks to the good hint. Strathalbyn was as busy as usual today, but we had this area to ourselves, thankfully. We haven't found a cache in Strath since 2005, so it was nice to return today and grab a couple.

Thaks Contact Zero.

well this one had us stumped. So much so this was the second time we came back here to look. Determined, we are. Great hiding place. Once we really thought about the clue (great one, by the way) we had cache in hand in a matter of a minute or so, thanks to Mr Marauder's great observation and thinking skills TFTC Contact Zero

Nice One.
In scout comp.
TFTC

Out with Jeffeddy,jeffrey11, and Sars12, for scouting competition.TFTC

Found while caching with Jeffrey11, Sars12 and Team Pedal pushers.

TFTC

TFTC

Found for scout comp.

With TPP, Jeffeddy and jeffery11

Had to come back to this one due to muggles cyclists sitting nearby. It was starting to rain and was hoping they would move but they didnt so i did and came back later to a empty park. Replaced log as the previous one was full

Couldn't locate by feel used camera to identify tftc

Nice hide. Great clue! TFTC Contact Zero.

This is indeed a pretty town but we're only staying one night and will not be making merry thanks to close supervision. Wandered over here and had success. tftc

Aha, good clue,.quick in and out in the pouring rain.

South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. We headed off on 12/4 and arrived home on 28/4. The trip was to visit the SA series so more time could be spent at the Mega itself next year. We did a huge variety of caching around Murray Bridge, the Mid North, Yorke Peninsula and Whyalla Region. Apart from one wet night and two wet days we were able to spend heaps of time caching.

Having finished the Forty Winks run, were are off to the Signal Mega Series. This was along the way. With lunch in hand we extracted this after a group of motorbike riders went off to buy lunch.

Thanks.

10177.429 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 NZ Earthquake A#239

Albida

Grabbed with albida on our 2 week caching run from Canberra to, and around, different parts of South Australia including Loxton, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Yorke Peninsula and around to Whyalla before heading home via Broken Hill, Cobar and Parkes. We completed a few power trails and left a couple to do when in the area again for next years Mega event.

Overall a great many different styles and types of caches found. A great time was had caching for 16 days straight as well as camping along the way.

Thanks for adding to the fun with this cache.

The hint helped to narrow things down!

Good hint. Was too scared so used my camera to find it before using my hand.

Plenty of pesky muggles around including one real pest who was munching on a pasty. Knew where it was and eventually when the muggle was busy with a junior muggle we made the grab, signed log and then replaced.
TFTC
Cheers,
Lead 'n Lace.

A cold, rainy afternoon was just telling us that snakes are about to be replaced by jumpers and sniffles for the year. After a coffee on main street we wandered down to pick this one up. Took a few minutes to find - and wouldn't have done it without the clue. Eventually SamuelCache stuck his hand through the cobwebs to pick up the goods. tftc.

Found with help of the hint:)

Nicely done thanks

Had to check clue but nice little hide. Thanks