Anatidaephobia North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
By Freddo on 04-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2CJWA

Very clever hide. TFTC

Very nice hide

Very clever hide TFTC. I had some spair time before going to a show at the Dunstan Playhouse, so happy to have found this one.

I couldnt work out the hint but also came up empty handed TWICE today after searching.Nevertheless we enjoyed the METAL BAND playing nearby, they were loud and awesome.Then went over the bridge and through the lawn and festival with food trucks.I LOVE ADELAIDE, first time visitor but ill be back

Today out and about on 289 of 366 days to get my daily cacher Dimond. Using my Garmin Etrex 22X, Garmin Montana 700 and MacBook Air!Thanks for the cacheTFTC

Wooo! Hey thanks that was a great clue thank you so much

Zusammen mit searchersab geht es fr 4 Monate auf Reise, dabei kommen wir nach Singapur, dann an die Westkste Australiens, wir fahren die great ocean road von Sydney nach Adelaide, danach bereisen wir noch Nord und Sdneuseeland. Dieser Cache lag auf unserer Route, vielen Dank an den Owner Freddo frs Auslegen und Herfhren

TFTC

Visiting the Adelaide region for a week from Port Macquarie. Today was a different kind of a day. The youngest Husky went off for a very long walk, meandering in and around the CBD area, targeting many caches and a lot of adventure lab checkpoints. Over 40,000 steps were walked in total, which worked out to be a smidge over 30kms. Meanwhile, the two elder Huskies opted for a more relaxing day to rest and recover, hanging close to base with a handful of finds in between some shopping and a cafe lunch. An incredibly productive and most importantly, fun caching day, which if including AL's in the total, made for our biggest day of finds ever. We are all thoroughly loving Adelaide.Saw plenty of ducks, and ducklings on my walk today, but none in sight at gz of this cache. Quick find without many muggles about.Thanks for the cache

Totally crap. Does not relate to the name or hint

Tricky one, may or may not have had a duck watching

TFTC can some one explain the hit to me ?

Thanks that was pretty hard and it was in a good spot

Found it after a little looking.

#24305. As I approached GZ I had a look at the hint. Hmmmm. We'd come across the same hint at a previous Adelaide cache, and had no idea what it meant. All of a sudden I had a light bulb moment (given the nature of that hide) and knew what to look for. Initially we went too close to the water, so backtracked to a higher level. I then spotted the type of object I was looking for, and there was the cache. Nicely done! TFTC.

We overshot this one then realised the cache was back thar. Hmm, we have met that clue before but had no idea what it meant, but having found a second cache, it now all makes sense! Another good hide. TFTC.

Tftc, cool placement

Great placement! And even with a pencil, after we had even bought a pen! A FP from us, nicely done! Tftc

Quick find, cool clue. TFTC!

TFTC a nice find on a quick trip to Adelaide

Thank you

DNF

Found at 1717 hours. Loved the hint. Just opposite the scene of the crime where the Swans lost by 112 points...

I don't think any ducks watched me find this, I can't be certain though.....

Found it!! Thanks for the cache

Clever hiding spot thanks!

Thanks, found it 24/8/24.

TFTC Sleepy Sloth 1 & 2 found it on 24.8.24 cable tie hints good. Not where we first expected

Den Hint haben wir nicht gecheckt, aber dann mit den Tipps von einigen Vorloggern dann doch noch gefunden! Tftc and greetings from Minimuff from Mannheim/Germany

After a bit of a search, soon found it. TFTC

Thanks for the cacheGreat hide in the big city

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Hop skip and a jump from Simpson for a quick find this morning

What was planned to be find #500 was almost a DNF due to a muggle standing right by the GZ. But having explored some other options, and then read the logs and hints, I looped back around and eventually the coast was clear to make a quick find. TFTC Freddo.

Found it while out on a walk this beautiful crisp morning- Go Vixens

Found with Seb Harris TFtc

Found it

Help! Large group of first timers with people with disabilities and Support staff.

Zip ties a great hint!

Zip tie is a great hint! Also think low ??

This one was a fluke but a good one

Found it! Thanks

Perfect height for Master A to spy! Beautiful afternoon for a spontaneous stroll along the river to fund 'treasures!'

Hard but fair

Tftc. Had to check a second time.

TFTC, nice quick find after visiting the Bradman Collection ??????

Found it, thanks! I think a duck might have seen me do it.

TFTC! Really fun find but pencil is a bit tight

Tjanks

Tftc. Found it quicker than I thought

Muggle city!! Tftc!! Happy little find

Replaced cache. Good to go again.

Pretty confident where it wouldve been placed, however it was not there

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So hard

Found with Bullash on 18 April

Today was our last day in Adelaide (from Brisbane). Most of the day was filled with a roof top climb on the stadium and a drove to Hahndorf. Didn't get a lot of caches today. I think the holiday energy had worn off. Poked in and around with a stick but couldn't feel anything.

Ez

About 30 spots in this area it could have been, fun find tho

Found with Nubbutpro and our makeshift compromised team. This is simply a late log. TFTC! #109

nice work tftc

Nice sneaky hide, found quickly but definitely could've caused headaches on another day. Cheers

TFTC. Found with mrlgrose and teamrosenz.

Cool hide

Light-ening find! But... Took a little because it was pushed to far in

This one nearly zipped by me

Mrs M soon spotted this one. Thanks for placing and maintaining.

Found

#14005 15:55Our final day in the Adelaide area, travelling from Barosso to Adelaide for our flight back to Sydney.We made a quick find on this sneaky hide.TFTC Freddo.

Walking around Adelaide with the Compromised team, we arrived at this cache, and shortly after, Glacial1 found the cache, stating, our names shall forever be immortalised along the Torrens river. TFTC

Nice hiding spot

Fun

Second find for today, great little hide TFTC

Hard to find I think its around a tree

Lovely walk by the river, TFTC

Almost destroyed the irrigation system looking for this one. Save yourself the trouble. First cache, first find!!!

Duck that for a game of soldiers, must be quackers to attempt this cache on a game-day. No worries, put it on my bill. Waddled over and soon had the cache in hand. So long, and thanks for all the caches. Still here btw.A mish-mash of a day today as a couple of my group (me included) realised that our trip to Adelaide would be extended for up to a week, oh no, quel domage. So I headed out early doors for a few early morning picks down Mawson Lakes way. Then had a coffee and chat to farewell a colleague, then afterwards was a trip into the city to pick off a few low-hanging fruit. I filtered my app to Wherigo, Letterbox Hybrid, Earthcache and Virtual but flicked on Traditionals and off depending on where I was etc. A great day to get some awesome, and popular, caches under my belt. As ever, the appreciation to the COs is most genuinely respected.

Found

A couple of years ago I came in search of this cache but I feel the ducks were watching me and I didnt have any luck. Today I ducked by and Ill be ducked, there it was TFTC FreddoKeep smiling

Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache Freddo.

I spent the morning kayaking around the dolphin sanctuary, mangroves and ship graveyard. As this will be my last opportunity to come into the city before i go home next week we are back to visit a few more places on my must do list, and of course pick up any caches we come across along the way. TFTC Freddo#16579

Back in Adelaide for a couple of nights. Only targeting certain caches today

Found it I had looked for this one previously, today with more experience it was found in the first place I looked. aka the coloured mint tin by the sea peopleaka Minty ManTFTC

Found whilst in Adelaide for the mega on 29 Feb, The Great Leap Forward. Nabbed this one after my paid guided tour of Adelaide Oval, what an incredible place. Quick find at GZ, nicely hidden. Next to the river here is lovely, too. TFTC!

Found more later when I edit the log

Out with Tankengine and Dty73 on a last day in Adelaide grabbing as many caches as possible. Cross this one off the list. Kutgw

Day 5 - Tankengine, Youban and I decided as this was our last full day in Adelaide we would target a few further out choice caches, counties, events and then a few for numbers. This cache: Quick find. Between muggles. I wondered if anyone notice I tied my laces twice?? Tftc!!!

**Today**Another long day of caching in Adelaide! We made a new recruitment to the group today, welcome Brain! So myself, Brain, DSD, pantspeople and Muppet95 all squeezed into a car and headed off to clean out some more bucket list caches! We started off with the morning event, before heading off to the North Adelaide precinct for plenty of TOTT caches and others nearby. This area alone kept us busy for 4 hours! Muppet95 then had to be dropped to the airport, farewell friend, thanks for the laughsWe then headed out to Urban Easy as it was an old date we didnt want to miss, whilst also getting another old cache nearby that started interstate! It was then time for pantspeople & Brain to be dropped off at the airport via a couple more caches!That leaves just myself and DSD! We decided to grab a few more caches in the south east corner of Adelaide park before calling it a day!Thanks to all the COs **This Cache****Signed as AB! for Adventure Boys which included Loci612, DSD, Muppet95, pantspeople & Brain on this occasion***I lost my fishing pole sometime on my walk around this area & it was gone by the time I went back to each stop. If you were a mega attendee that found it & would be kind enough to return it, I shall reward you. Thanks!*Its a little bit embarrassing when you have 4 people searching for a 1/1, even for 5 minutes! Thats 20 minutes if you add the people + minutes together! Not sure why it took us so long, but Brain eventually landed his hands on the goods! Maybe I should have listened to the T1 a bit more literally & the spots would have been more limited!TFTC

Found during a somewhat spontaneous and impromptu trip to Adelaide for 'The Great Leap Forward' Mega Event. Made the most of the unique opportunity and had a very memorable experience! Teamed up with Loci612, DARKSIDEDAN and pantspeople. Thanks to all Cache Owners for their contribution to the game.A quick find here after walking around Adelaide Oval. TFTC

Sneaky spot for the geocache to be housed. Fortunately we dont suffer from Anatidaephobia. Found with the AB! - Adventure Boys - myself, Brain, DARKSIDEDAN, Loci612 and Muppet95. Brain came up with the goods here, after a little bit of wandering and searching by the bike path. Nice day for a stroll around the areas adjacent to Adelaide oval. TFTT (thanks for the traditional)!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their long lasting, and ongoing connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to Traditional Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Hey thanks for placing this cache. I have enjoyed finding this cache and many others during the South Australian MEGA. I have signed this cache either DSD or DARKSIDEDAN or AB or Adventure Boys depending on the logbook size.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~The logbook is signed **pesti-Hoot** for *pestinette* and *BlackHoot*.In: Nothing.Out: Nothing.Thanks **Freddo** for the cache.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~*Here is the palaver from my log "3615-MyLife" that you still don't have to read:*After multiple outings together, here are some examples: the park at T5 in the Orlans region, the Letterbox Matrix in Provins on the return of GeoBulles 2023, a getaway to Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, the Mega in Oliveira de Frades in Portugal, that in Spain in Camarasa with a memorable passage in Andorra, a foray into the Drme at the beginning of the year, I have the immense luck and pleasure to accompany the pestinettes who asked me last summer to be part of this crazy trip to Australia to participate in the Adelaide Mega on February 29 !So I start by thanking them once again for the invitation as well as for the preparation of all logistics and the program of discoveries planned for these 17 days on Australian lands: Jasmers including three from the year 2000,webcams, virtual ones (full), challenges, Earthcaches, mysteries, Events.I would just add my two cents with the Matrices by cache type as well as obtaining as many Addons as possible for Leap Day ! Then depending on the time that we will have left at each of our stages, all caches allowing usto visit a nice new place.We only visited a tiny part of this beautiful country which makes us want to come back although it is not next door and I would also remember the warm welcome of Australians and their kindness.I sincerely thank all the poseurs without whom the exploration of all theseplaces known or much more discreet would not have been possible. A big thank you for your personal investment for the pleasure of all and ours in particular during this beautiful trip shared in friendly company ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~**Against a sedentary lifestyle, geocache! Get Out and Play! Saia and play! Sal y juega!**

6 months ago, during a frenzy, we said to ourselves "why not going to the mega in Adelaide for the leapday". From scratch we moved on to preparing an 18-day project in Australia.Our objectives are simple, visit a small part of this immense continent while validating a few caches. There are so many caches (impossible to do everything) that we will select. Our plan will allow us to visit Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Mount Gambier and finish in Adelaide for the famous Mega.During our stay we will log PestiHoot for Pestinette and Blackhoot.During our 5 days in Adlade, we visited the centre and around while following the caches and labs. We resolved some mysteries before our trip. We made some great discoveries and great experiences.Multi simple, i like.Thanks to the caches we visited many sites evoking Australian culture and history.Thanks for the cache and the discovery of beautiful or original spots

Finally time to be in Adelaide and we arrived a few days early. We set up camp in Walkerville and settled in for a few days.Today we joined forces with Robmc and headed towards and into the city on the bikes. A day of mixed fortunes but this was one of our successful finds. It was a big day of riding and caching and we were pretty tired at the end of it all.Gotta love a duck - or maybe not in this case. Love a cache thoughA beautiful day to be out riding along here. Thanks for showing us the sights.

Thanks took awhile to find but eventually found it!

The sun always shines

Found at 12:32 with allrounder. After getting off the Queen Elizabeth (Cunard) ship, we headed into town for a look around and grab a couple of caches. After making the first two finds we decided to hire a scooter to zip around and look for a few more and cover a bit more ground. A pretty quick find. TFTC

Found @ 12:32pm with hccatcher11415, our third for the day after arriving in Port Adelaide on the Queen Elizabeth.After hiring some scooters to save hccatchers feet, we extended our wander across the river. I was searching elsewhere when hccatcher spotted it. Neatly hidden!Thanks again Freddo

In the area to take a tour of Adelaide Oval. Has enough time to zip here to find this cache. Nice hide.

On an west to east and back roadtrip, on our 2nd visit to Adelaide this trip, staying in the city for a few days. Out for an early morning stroll along the river this morning, and took the quiet moment to pass by this GZ. While there was no muggles about to be bothered by, I'm pretty sure there was a duck or 3 keeping watch. Thanks for the hide Freddo