Mona Lisa Bute, South Australia, Australia
By Tk2 on 29-May-10. Waypoint GC29DAG

TFTC out for a drive

When I read the clue, my mind immediately jumped back 47 years to when I did my basic training in the army. Funny what little things will trigger the memory. Thank you for placing this cache, an easy find.

A trip up to do the Big Question Mark with OZGrumpy and Astro.Walked in and whilst the others are walking towards a bush, looking for this one?

Thanks Tk2 for placing this cache and for the ongoing maintenance. Find #10796 on 9/11/2024 at 10:23AMThree of us headed north to collect a few smileys. Our target was the BigQ and also collect anything else we found along the way. Signed logs as TOAD (Team Ozgrumpy Astro doineedthis). A great day out, Thanks to all the COs for their time and effort.

A bit more railway history, tftc with jeffner5556

Nice little trek in to the cache but easily found with Sarge5556. Tftc

After a Podiast appointment in Port Pirie, I headed south for some geocaching. Aim was to finished Sad Fisher series and more of the Mail Road trail, also picking any on the way and in between. All caches were in good condition unless mention in the log. TFTCNice find after a short walk.

Found it! Nice large cache find in very secluded spot. Interesting history. TFTC!

A quick dash to Whyalla for a vehicle transfer. Nice warm day for it too.A detour here to make a large find, as so few left back where I live. I approached from the road on the south side of the railway line, that seemed to work ok, although that road looks like it would be treacherous in the wet. There are roadworks happening on the main road near the turn off right now.Always a pleasure to find one of these!Thanks for the cache and the recent maintenance Tk2. Its officially a mega.GCA1DNA The Great Leap ForwardAdelaide, South Australia, February 29, 2024.Wed love to have your company.

TFTC

Have replaced the container and logbook

TFTC. Day 9 of honeymoon caching trip. Off on the road again!

Happy caching and safe travels!

A bit of a trek, but you can drive there - maybe not 2WD?

Container needs replacing. No longer water right! Cheers

Quick find here today on my way past, cache and contents are all good

Today I headed up to the copper coast for a day out to find a few caches yet to be found plus the new onslaught of puzzles up here. Managed to dodge the rain that was forecast and come away with just over 50 finds.

Thanks for the cache

After a wet and windy night, we are heading to Bute and surrounds with iluvtrekking picking up caches along route. Thanks Tk2

Today was a mighty fine day. A Jams crew day albeit depleted today it was just Allisterw, JJ52 and I so we logged using our individual caching names rather than as Jams.
We made a canny plan to head up the highway to Lochiel, Snowtown and then via Bute to Moonta. Lots of caches found including several ‘bastard’ nanos (eagle eyed Allister was the nano king today). Lots of historical buildings, a monster, the beach, a wedding, a bomb, tractors and many ‘welcome to’ signs. Lots of ‘bastard’ cacti but we seemed to win more of those than we lost which was a definite bonus. Only one dnf for the day.
70 caches visited and Allisterw top scored with 69 finds.
It was very chilly all day but no rain so no complaints.
Thanks to the many COs for contributing to our day out and big thanks to my pals for the laughs and Allí for driving
Quick find and sign TFTH Tk2

A fun day with JJ52 and Michells&hound going from Adelaide to Lochiel, Snowtown, Bute and Moonta finding caches along the way. My main role was to drive and find caches. TFTC Tk2

Yayayya

Lovely bush walk. Unfortunately the cache has been chewed and needs replacement. Cheers & tftc

It took a little bit to find and eventually my searching paid off.

Sometimes I dream of standing in a place like this and turning the clock back to a different time to see what the place looked like and who was here and what they were doing.

TFTC Tk2
Keep smiling

Today I felt like going out for some New Years Day caching. Specifically the roads between Kadina and Bute.

Spent a fair amount of time looking around for this one and just as I was going to accept the DNF I saw it, about 5 meters away from the GPS coordinates.

Found it either way.

Find No.420
01/01/2022

Great slice of history. Really enjoyed the story. Bit of a trek to gz via the scrub, but quickly located the container signed the log. Still a few bits of building foundation remaining. Tftc.

Mmmm

Gg

The boys

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So we were all set to fly to Dayboro for the Queensland Mega this weekend. There hadn't been a case in Qld for a quite a few weeks before we decided to book in early Feb. What are the chances of a case causing a lockdown and closing the border we thought..So when it all did happen just 4 days before we where due to leave, we were royally peed off. So we had to cancel and find somewhere else to spend Easter. Pt Broughton was a last minute choice so here we are at the Broughton Bay RV park. After having brekkie in the Cafe and looking around the markets we headed out to do a few around the district. After a short trek into GZ we made a quick find. Thanks for the history! TFTC

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Day 442 ( Friday 13th) of our trip. Caching along the way, in Bute today. Out this afternoon to get a few around Snowtown. TFTC

On a warm days riding with Desertfox41 and 2 younger riders/ helpers , had a long day, did 240 odd ks . TNLNSL Thanks

Left 9.30 am for a day out on Dirt Bikes with Demon41 and Steve F , Guy W Stopped and grabbed some Geos on the way , lunch at Kadina great day out about 250 kl travelled , TNLN Thanks

A very interesting location. TFTC

Tftc!! After a bit tom foolery by making the geohubby and geoMIL look whilst it was in my hot lil hands it was a great piece of history

Found on a trip from home in the Adelaide Hills to Wool Bay on Yorke Peninsula, via the scenic route through the Hills to Gawler, out to Mallala and taking the back-roads to Balaklava, up to Snowtown, across to Bute and Paskeville and down the peninsula through Maitland and Minlaton, finding 32 caches for the day and clearing up a good portion on the map. Searched around in this interesting location for a while before making the find. Thanks for the cache Tk2!

Tricky shocking compas points

Took a bit of looking and a couple of slides on the wet road...funnnn

We nearly had to finish our caching day with a DNF but we eventually got it. Thought the co-ordinates were a little out so keep looking - just a bit further away than you think. Thanks for the cache

Not sure which is the right way into this cache, but found a road that took me close and walked the rest of the way .
My GPS had me further South West, but expanding the search area soon had the cache in hand .
TNLNSL.
Some interesting history here [^].
Thanks for one more Tk2.
PS. Our date stamp time warped us a month ahead here , but the log date is correct [:o)].

A quick find. TFTC

Found 21/4/19

A quick find, say seeing the tracks unused tftc

TFTC

Tftc it’s so sad to see train lines which were once in use just decaying. It was a good hide. Thank you

Day six of my geocaching trip with tmann421 in South Australia.
Having a wonderful time descovering parts of the country we would never normally travel
Thank you for the time and effort put into these placements

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 Caching Wednesday for the Puzzled Puzzlers. Today's group of brisal5, S.A. Sewer Rats and Blackadders were once again heading north in search of that elusive smilie. Three weeks earlier I had missed the trip due to injuring my back and had only done a half day since. [B)] This would be a big test. [8)] After several DNF's three weeks ago the others were keen to return with a new set of eyes. We had a full day of laughs and a couple of sprinkles of rain but managed to right a few DNFs but still added a few more before seeing the sun set in Wallaroo and turning for home. We will be back again next week.

It is so sad to see all these old railway lines not being used. Not much to see at the old siding either but really enjoyed the history lesson of the area. Found as the raindrops began to fall.

**Thanks Tk2 for this cache. **

Out with an Adder, on Wednesday foray.
The Adder slithered up to the cache.
It is now hard to imagine that this was a bustling siding. Tftc

A small menagerie of the puzzled puzzler animals had planned to visit the top end of the Yorke Peninsular to seek more smileys on their individual maps. Unfortunately the Starfish had injured his back the day before which left just the Adder and the Rat to fulfill the quest.

After fighting off the cache guardians the container was extracted and the log signed. All replaced. tftc

A couple of days of geocaching with Aussie M & M. As normal we laughed, we tried hard not to hurt ourselves and only replaced or repaired about 6 geocaches. Apologies for the generic logs but it was a big couple of days.
Thanks to Tk2 from mogni

Out caching for the day with Mark and mogni. We were aiming to cache our way to Kadina, which only took about 6 hours when it is only a 2 hour drive. There may have been a few detours for caches we just had to do. This one was one of those. Liked this cache...

Thanks to Tk2

TFTC Tk2

The history of the countryside is amazing! Who would have thought that this was once a busy railway siding. Out for the afternoon finding a couple of caches between plant and bird sightings. TFTC. TN left a resin shell.

Out with CPWanderer & Phoenix flare.
We had a good ten minute look, but we had a problem finding gz.
Along with the now steady rain, we decided to come back another day.
Thank for the hide Tk2

Out for a drive on a rainy day with Mr Froghoppin - except we managed to avoid the storms that were washing Adelaide away!
Interesting spot, lots of activity here once long ago.
TFTC Tk2

I had a good look around, and tried to visualise what the area would have looked like in its hey day. Lots of history to be seen but no cache to be found today. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

The long weekend presented the perfect opportunity for my wige (Tounga) and I to plan a quick get away.
So, we booked some accommodation in Moonta and decided to cache the upper Yorke Peninsula.
We had a great time, finding 129 geocaches in all.
Thanks for hinding your cache Tk2, we enjoyed it.

I apologise for the generic log.

Hi there Tk2.

We found your cache **"Mona Lisa"** at 10:04:00 AM today.
This was our 15th find for the day and this makes our find count 12993.

Our cache run today was initially to finish off the Pyramid. After that our next goal was to log our 13,000th find - - - so we navigated from cache to cache to the one the GPS said was next closest etc. On the way home our mental arithmetic said that we were one short so we did what Bruce (of Liz & Bruce) would say - - "Just one more lovey!" & ended up with 22 finds & 2 DNFs at the end of the run.

We had some fun on the flooded road to get here today.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 4m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** Container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Another fun day's caching in the sun, making a few finds to mark the end of another great year.

Many thanks for placing the cache for me to find.

I have often wondered how patches of scrub like this have survived while all around is cleared.
Now I know one reason
And a short search of said scrub soon produced that 'Mona Lisa Smile' on me dial
TFTC !!

A bit of a lucky find really as it was just lying there in the cold, all uncovered! Thanks Tk2

Out with LLL51 on a beautiful day for caching. This one wasn't where we expected to find it, but after turning around we saw it. After signing the log we put a bit of camo over it so it wasn't so obvious.
Thanks for the cache Tk2.

Great day caching alone between Adelaide & Pt Augusta
Focussing on the left side of the Highway today.
Took me to some beaut beaches, lovely hills with speccy views & some wicked 4WD tracks
Thanks to you all
TFTC & TJ Tk2

This was fun... We followed the motor bike
tracks for a bit but the GPS told us to turn
right. Finally reached GZ and discovered
the cheeky hide after the GPS led us around
in circles.

Thanks Tk2

Little Squirell

Nice piece of history. TN left smiley SL. Thanks for the hide TK2

My first find as I left the Peninsula after a lovely visit. All was quiet here this morning as I made a quick find thanks tk2.

Found as a part of TheKellyGang, writing this as a genaric log as I was a part of TheKellyGang and am now out on my own.
If you do not agree with this you are more than welcome to delete the log.

Today we are heading to the copper triangle to do some caches with earthlight and the x trailers, we managed around 120 caches over the 2 days we spent here and we saw some fantastic scenery along the way, being the geowifes early childhood stomping grounds i was treated to a lot of history about quite a few of the areas and how much things have changed over time, this is day 1 and as we head out in the x trailers geomobile we start crossing of a few that are on the to do list, this one was a nice quick find. TFTC

NO trouble with locating this one today
Found while caching with earthlight and 3LG
tftc

A quick easy find whilst on a days caching with 3LG and the x-trailers.
TFTC

Touring Australia having left Perth in late February we are leisurely touring South Australia after having attended Oz Mega.

Today was moving day, we are still travelling with iluvtrekking after major repairs at Toytota Maitland.

We moved the caravans to Bute today and then headed out around Kadina Geocaching and doing some shopping at Woolworths, BWS, and the local Butchers.

We found some great caches and some superb caches. All in all a great day. Wonder what tomorrow holds.



TFTC Tk2

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Today we traveled from Maitland to Bute and made camp. We then drove onto Kadina and back to again picking up caches as we went.

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A morning ofcaching in the Kadina area & then we headed over to Snowtown , located a few more caches. Tonight we head off to the hotel for tea, & to cactch up with some friendly cachers.
Some of the roads were quiet muddy after a down pour of rain in the night.
It was a very silly idea to try to take the van down this road, too narrow & too wet
Thanks for placing thiscache Tk2

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I had no trouble finding this one Tk2 .. thanks for the hide .

spent plenty of time here looking but found 0

sorry about the late logs.
TFTC
SS

Just catching up on some overdue logging now I have a little down time
Oops, this was the cache we had to go around the other way to avoid the 'Joe Blakes' not the previous siding, Sorry TK Great cache.....FP.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting,
Southern Cross Caching

Looks like we're the first to find it!

Really had to look for this one, sneaky spot. The hint helped

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 53.096 E 137° 57.691

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 53.095 E 137° 57.691

Distance from original: 5.8 feet or 1.8 meters.
Someone has taken Mona, must have been the Art Police.

After going through long grass, over the fence, through the bush we came up empty handed.
Thanks any way

Visiting Moonta for the festivities and picked up a few caches in the surrounding area while we were here.

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.

Today we were off to the Yorke Peninsula, the original destination for this trip. We spent the whole day driving only as far as Kadina, but we went via Clare and plenty of rail trail caches. Everyone has done a great job of placing a great variety of caches and we had a great day.

Thanks.

10543.795 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Nostradamus A#130

Albida

Enjoyed this one and it's sister cache. Cheers Tk2.....

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.

Sent geodad off to this one while we snacked on easter eggs!! Mmmmm. TFTC

Headed out for a couple of days on Yorke Peninsula with Honeysuckers and Mrs Burton.
Did the locus cache on a few caches, had lots of laughs and had gorgeous weather just to cap off a great day
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you... well geocachers, anyway
SL. TFTC Tk2

Headed over to the Yorke for a 2 days of caching with both Mr and Mrs Honeysucker, Locus Cache and Geodog Max. Had a ball - lots of laughs and stirring each other up.

No weeds spotted today.

Cheers and thanks for the cache

Have done some 'great caching' today ...Could just imagine standing here waiting for the train.. Fabulous history ...enjoyed walking around the ruins...taking photos....and finding the cache of course...Thanks TK2 for the history and bringing us here....My favourite type of caching....TFTC

Easy find, used the exraction tool to retrieve.
Shame these places are going to ruin!

Found by Geodad and Geodaughter. On the way to attend the YP Cachers Get Together #4 put on by Dazzatron TFTC

This entry was edited by TheKellyGang on Sunday, 07 October 2012 at 09:55:24 UTC.

Heading back from a great couple of days caching in Whyalla we were taking our time coming down so as to be able to attend the "YP Cachers Get Together #3" event tonight and also grab some caches in areas we do not normally travel. We have done a few Tk2 caches this trip and we are very impressed with the information on most of the cache pages and this one was no exception. It seems hard to believe a town can come and go like that with very little left to show it had even been there at all.
The cache was a nice hide with a nice addition to make it easier on us finders.
Again our thanks Tk2 for the cache and information.

Lovely spot, Mona.
TFTC

With Sonic and the old geodog in tow. Nice little spot

Found it No. 5130 ... good hide ... TNLN ... TFTC Tk2

Quick find today after netball and between rain showers. Another interesting place hidden away. There's talk of re-opening this track for mining export reasons. TFTC

Have replaced logbook

Found as we are caching our way over to and around the York Peninsula for a few days. TFTC SL Hubby was forced into volunteering for this one. He asked me to make mention of the red back spider which has taken up residence with the cache/ The log is totally full too.

Found It!
So this is where the YP field days begun... Another one of those places you would never know about if not for caching...
TFTC

Very clever cache - loved using the assorted tools to get it!

Needed to find a tool for extraction and then found the one provided
TFT C and the history

This entry was edited by Jeremiah Bullfrog on Monday, 26 March 2012 at 08:34:58 UTC.