How Strong are your Arms!!! Blanchetown, South Australia, Australia
By Flying Firesafe on 23-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2H4RV

Staying with family in Swan Reach for the weekend. I ducked out early in the morning to grab a few caches in Blanchtown. Found without problems. All good here. Thank you Flying Firesafe, for placing How Strong are your Arms!!! for the geocaching community.# # #15323 # #

No problem at all

Headed down to the Towitta - Sedan area for a couple days caching. Day 2 started doing the Fruit Loop series, until continualness heavy rain come down. Slowly headed back along Murraylands Road to nearly Morgan before it stopped raining. There were many section of the road under water. All caches were in good condition unless mention in log. TFTCFound fairly quickly.

Caravan trip to the Riverland. Day 2, Roonka to Cadell.Ah, good times at Armstrong, I bought my Joeys up here many years ago and had a ball. Sad to see it go....TFTC

I obviously hadn't done my homework properly as I didn't expect to arrive in Morgan as early as I did. However, this enabled me to do a lot more caching, and this was one of the ones that I found but hadn't expected to get to until tomorrow. TFTC SL

Found while on a quick overnighter to get out of the house and enjoy the outdoors.
I was an leader here for the 'Wings and Wheels' offsite activity during the 1989 Australian Scout Jamboree. We had Gliders, Go karts and Land yachts!! What a blast!!!
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker
DGS

TFTC

On the way to Millicent with Everlasting and Found the cache and logged the log with Everlasting firesafe, Thank you so much for placing it.

Accompanied with all7 crank1 pwala Deafphathom everlasting, great enjoyed day for around of caches for series, challenging, multi… TFTC

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, Pwala and Everlasting.. tks

We all get up early until night. Weather is awesome sunrise and sunset. Great country and road. Perfect coordinates every caches. We all have awesome time and lot of laughs. .Beautiful drive and great teamwork
Thank you
6ACDEP = 63Roos All7 Crank1 DeafPhantom Everlasting Pwala

Found on Sunday afternoon drive to grab a couple caches while the weather is nice. Was able to pick up the rest of the caches in the JLWE/Riddle trail. This cache is one found today.

Find #5609 on 16 Apr 2023.
TFTC firesafe!

SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - Feb 29th, 2024. Keep the date free!

We read the name of the cache and assumed we'd be lifting something heavy haha nice and easy one. Thanks for the cache!

While travelling through the area we picked up a few caches along the way and this was one of them.

Cache and contents were very good.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

We have now moved to Swan Reach staying in the caravan park.
Day5 We have met up with Tassie Trekkers to do cache together.
This was a long day as we left early to find as many bike caches as possible.
Such a big variety of caches of caches found today.
After lunch we visited Blancehetown to find a few local caches.
Thanks for placing this cache.

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Feeling refreshed from our o/n stay at Roomba Scout Club we set out to tackle the Riddlers Roonka Rampage series with the trads as bonuses inbetween.
We made a quick detour north to grab this one before starting the trail.
Thanks firesafe for the placement.

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). 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 - Flying Firesafe [^]

Thanks to Flying Firesafe for this hide.
The cache was in very good condition.
Log signed and on our way.
Travelling this road with our good friends Phetlern today.

After setting up camp in Blanchetown and a bite to eat for lunch, we ventured out in the company of the suscoe duo as a practice for the next few days.
We found the info here very interesting as we both have a background in Scouting.

Thanks firesafe for placing interesting caches on the gameboard.
30747

Found it

TFTC

Thanks to the 'scargoes, a new container and log book is in place

While acting as Roonka Caretakers for the week, we dropped past, checking on the former Scout Gliding Club at Armstrong Airfield. We'd had several days of heavy rain (we needed it ) but the cracked container had a wet logbook . Rummaged through our cache maintenance collection and left a replacement container with a new dry log book.
Cheers 'scargoes

TFTC

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

The group grew from two to six quickly after having a chat to GoodLook about our plans.
Our team “The Mob” now consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers and ourselves and feathertop joined us on day 4. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book.
All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.

Day 6 After finishing the On Your Bike and Around the World in 81, Ode to JLWE and Riddlers Roonka Rampage, our get up and go was still going so we headed to the TdU.
On our way to the TdU we came across this one. No issues finding this one.

Thanks for the hide Flying Firesafe and thanks for the fun "The Mob"

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Onto day 6 and back out onto the On Your Bike series we go to finish it off. Once we had finished that, we made our way to some Around the World multis, Riddlers Roonka/Ode to JLWE Series, the TdU series and even managed to do the TdF series! It was a big day. We picked up a few caches along the way, travelling along the way was GoodLook, The Drovers, LiB, FurfacesLL, FeatherTop and myself.

A quick pick up as we were passing nearby, no issues with the find, stamped and replaced as found.

Thanks for the hides firesafe And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

After the rampage series was complete our ambitious group of 7 turned our cars towards the TDU caches.
On the way we stopped here for a quick find.

We stamped the log as 'The Mob'
'The Mob' included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, the Drovers and myself
Thanks Flying Firesafe

Flapping the arms did work I'm afraid.

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

The series that we tackled during this trip included The Paddle Steamer, The Turtle, On Your Bike, Around the World, The TdU, The TdF and some Roonka puzzles put out for a June Long Weekend some time ago. Plus many random caches that we passed. So pleased we had a group of experienced cachers including tree and ladder climbers, AND a 7.5m ladder AND a 12m telescopic pole!

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to firesafe for placing this cache.

Day 3 in the area, and after completing the bike series, we then moved on to the following series:-
Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge
Ode to JLWE
TdU series
a few of the new ones in the TdF series,
and a few others in the area, this being one of them.

Pulled over in the geo-vehicle, dust flying everywhere.
The hide was soon discovered, signed and replaced as found.

We stamped the log as 'The Mob' to save space and time.
'The Mob' this time included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and ourselves.
Many thanks for placing this cache, firesafe, for us and others to find.

Last full day of caching before we head home tomorrow.

fitzy_1965, the geo-kids & I decided to head over to Blanchetown to do the Riddler series, JLWE series and whatever else we could find in the area. Today was the hottest by far and, with no working air-con in the car, it made for a hard day of caching. I did manage to get to 10,000 finds so that was a nice highlight.

All caches were found quickly and in good condition unless otherwise stated.

23,289. Found with minniek during our Post-Christmas escape to South Australia.

This trip to South Australia was on again off again due to the changing circumstances in the various states we had to travel through. Finally getting a green light from all 3 states we headed off early boxing day. Day 14 of our adventures took us around the Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge series, the Ode to June Long Weekend series, the Tour de France series, plus cherry picking some other caches along the way. All caches were found quickly and in good order unless otherwise stated. Next find of the day. A nice quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, and then headed off to the next one.

Thanks Flying Firesafe !!

Today, it was an epic day out targeting various series around Blanchetown, Waikerie and Swan Reach. After making a few miscellaneous stops in the Barossa and Truro towards Blanchetown, my first series were the *Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge* and *Ode to JLWE*, and those were found reasonably quickly.
After lunch, the late plan was completing the *Around the World in 81 caches* series, and they were certainly a challenge whilst solo. As light began to fade, I made a stop in Swan Reach Conservation Park, where I found various geocaches and completed the *On This Day (OTD) August* series.
With limited time remaining in Adelaide, I think it was FOMO that prolonged my motivation for such a long day.

This was my final point whilst finding the two nearby series, and thankfully, it was a quick find of the cache. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks Flying Firesafe for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Large sleepy lizard guarding the spot. Kids took the monster toy and left a hair bow clip. Tftc

A glorious day weather wise to be out and about - a Nice quick find! TFTC

A quick find while caching around Blanchtown.TFTC

Heading from Blanchetown to Morgan. Stopped in to get this quick park and grab. Cache and contents dry. TFTC Firesafe.

A quick find before we begin the JLWE Odes and Riddlers. Cache #3067.

#2. Spending the day out caching with Crane2. TFTC

Heading back out in the direction of Swan Reach and Blanchetown to find a few of the caches I could not get to the other day. With the amount of caches found, logs will be a bit generic. All caches were found in good condition, unless otherwise stated, on an enjoyable afternoon,

TFTC

Found

After attending an early CITO in the city Doctor Owl, sushilord and myself headed towards Blanchetown with the target caches being the JLWE series as well as others that we came across on our travels. We had a great day with perfect weather for caching, saw kangaroos, emus, sleepy lizards, lots of pretty birds, pelicans and even a wombat so we were very happy with our wildlife experience along with the caching. Had a successful day with all caches found and a couple of containers replaced. [^]

We had just finished the JLWE series and decided to continue on to get this one before heading for home. A quick find along with a bag full of empty cans.

Thanks for the cache Flying Firesafe.

Found while out for a day of really good caching with Dr Owl and JJ52.

It was here that Dr Owl's and JJ's days were fulfilled when a wombat was spotted hopping across the road. Their only disappointment for the day was not seeing an echidna in the wild.

Thanks for the cache Flying Firesafe.

Out for a caching expedition with JJ52 and Sushilord on a beautiful day. The wildlife was enjoying it as well, as numerous shingleback lizards had to be dodged on the back roads, emus, parrots and kangaroos were spotted and even a galloping wombat - the first Owl has seen in the wild! Numerous caches were gathered and signed, and there was even time to admire the scenery. That's the life! This was a profitable cache, with about $1 in cans collected. Not enough to cover the petrol, but a welcome help!

Travelling around Australia, after spending the best part of a week solving the Roonka puzzles today we planned to head out and find them and some nearby caches. Beautiful weather to be by the river.

TFTC

The cache hunt today with ilook4geo had a few different aspects. We selected a few along the road to get us going in the right direction, then we followed a couple of trails that were of particular interest. Finally we started the first few of another series which we will need to finish later on. All logs had two lots of initials recorded on them, each cache was put back as it had been found and we continued with the hunt. This was one of the caches we found. Thanks go to Flying Firesafe for placing this cache.

Out for a caching adventure with goingplaces2. The day included puzzle caches as well as traditionals. Each was an easy find, all logs were signed and replaced. It was a productive day, gaining lots of smileys. Found this one. TFTC.

Staying at the caravan park in Blanchetown for a few days and decided that we would get the two trails along the Morgan Rd , quick find and very good co-ords at all locations, we also added this cache to our list of finds

TFTC

Out on a caching run with blingg
TFTC

Did a check while in the area and replaced the container

Cool Like the find. Brought up my day a lot. Love your work “Flying Firesafe”

TFTC!

We headed east from Tanunda to finish the TdF series. This was a quick grab as we then headed to the Roonka puzzles. Thanks Firesafe

On the way to Canberra, detours - found,
Signed the log by stamp. Thanks for the cache and hide

Easy find

Day 8 of my geocaching trip to Australia with tmann421
Enjoying travelling around discovering different parts of SA.
Thanks for the 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!

Found on our 2018 mega trip with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache firesafe, cheers from the Riverina, NSW,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 22466** Found on our 2018 mega trip from NSW to QLD, the NT, SA and beyond.
A perfect sunny Spring day for a trek along the trails while at Blanchetown.
Not many muggles around today and mostly good quick finds.
Thanks for the cache firesafe,
***Roostaman***

This morning we left Bower and headed to Morgan. As we had already travelled the direct route to Waikerie we decided to come down this road to Blanchetown and then head across to where we were going. All started well and we were on a lovely sealed road but suddenly we were on gravel. It was a good gravel road but still dusty which isn't great when you're in a campervan that doesn't have brilliant seals on the door.
Our GPS was saying this one was on the left but the clue was on the right so Mr Beetle jumped out and made the quick find.
Such stony land. We pick the odd rock up on our farm at home but we've really got nothing to worry about!!!!
Thanks.

found it after the Lets Kayak ... Murbko event slowly heading home. Not strong enough to fly but there are strong enough to do 5 kayak caches over the weekend.

Good find

Found on a very productive day's caching with Gridge98 and FeatherWaite. A rather cold start, but eventually a lovely winter's day. Thanks Flying Firesafe for the cache

Out for the day with e.gregory1 and feather Waite collecting some puzzles on the way and around Blanchetown. Completing the new series in the area TFTC

Tftc

Found on my first day in Blanchetown. Being a fine but cool morning I set about picking up some local caches. A quick find the cache wasn't exactly where the hint suggested but pretty close certainly close to se it if you use the hint. All is well with the cache. TFTC.

Thankfully little strength required since I'm a weakling. Thanks for the hide.

I nearly gave up on this one, all because I took the hint too literally, and was looking for a smaller container. After failing to locate a fake rock, Mrs J walked over and pointed out the cache to me. Ah! Not "back of", rather "inside".

Thanks firesafe.

Found on a great day out caching with CPwanderer and hevwalker. The weather was perfect and the company even better.

The driver kindly stopped on our way past for me to add this to my tally for the day.

I have been to this location with Girl Guides on more than one occasion. I've even been in one of those gliders.

TFTC and the memories firesafe

Found it, typical that we had to wait for a muggle car to pass first

A quick find for us today, we found the strength and soon had the cache in hand
TFTC firesafe

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Heading past while working in the area and saw this was almost on the road. Pulled off right at GZ, left the engine running and used strong arms to lift out a cache, sign log and replace.
Gratias pro cache Flying Firesafe

Yey !!!

TFTC

Good find

Great find on our way. tftc

Me and Ahomburg have now hit the road on the journey back home. After attending the red centre experience event in Alice springs.
What an amazing trip this has been.
The first stop on the way home was kings Canyon.
Second stop will be Coober Pedy.
Third stop is Woomera.
Forth stop ? Heading for a FTF and staying in a cabin to get out of the bad weather.
Fifth stop. Swan Reach.
Sixth stop. Gawler.
Thanks for the cache.

Date: 21 April 2017 Time: 13:40
Find #8513

After a good nights sleep, lukie1987 and I decided on a bit of a numbers run as we gradually headed towards Adelaide after our road trip from Melbourne to Alice Springs and back was coming to an end. After finishing up the TdF series, we decided to make our way towards Swan Reach where we would camp for the night.

An odd spot for a cache. What if.... Anyway, still there after 6+ years so should be OK. [:o)]

Many thanks to Flying Firesafe for the cache. TNLN.


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I collected Alternika from her abode and then drove down and collected mogni from her Easter Weekend digs. Then off to the Golden Arches for Coffee where we met up with AnyMules. [^] All aboard the Morgan Express for hopefully Lunch! (except maybe one of two stops in between.
Okay so we made it to Truro for lunch. Maybe we might make Morgan by dinner time
Hooray, the Morgan Express finally drives off the ferry at our Lunch Spot at about 8.30 p.m. [:0)]
Being Good Friday it looks like everything has shut up already so we decide to grab some caches and then figure out what to do. We invaded the servo/deli/cafe/takeaway just as it was closing and manage to get a feed. Gave up our plans of Burra and turned for home instead. Of course we made a few more stops on the way! [:o)]
Funnily enough couldn't see any gliders out and about at 10.00 p.m at night. Had to settle for finding the cache instead.
Thanks firesafe for the placement

Out and about in the moonlight with Mogni, Brisal5, AnyMules and a lotta roos

Found while out for a day of caching with Brisal5, Mogni and alternica.

A nice easy park and grab. Even in the dark.

Thanks for the cache pass0005. Found on 14 Apr 2017 at 8:27 pm. Find #4548.

Found a lizard too

Sadly, today is the last day of our holiday, but we still have time to find one or two more smileys
TFTC

Tytfc

Tftc

Ftct

Got it

Quick find after watching airplanes fly over us.

Not quite strong enough today! Couldn't get lift off! Did however have a low flying plane overhead!

Came past after a weekend at Roonka. Lovely area to spend the weekend. Tftc sl.

Attended a wonderful weekend event at Roonka "Let's Camp and Kayak". Reached my 2000th cache at this event and had such a ball with a great group of cachers. This cache was obtained during the weekend. PERFECT weekend.
Found with the McKee Clan- a great way to finish a perfect weekend in the Riverland!

Called in here after the Camp & Kayak event at Rooka.
Never been in this direction before, very flat landscape.
hevwalker made the find, thanks for the cache firesafe.

Found after the event at Roonka today with clare007. Found with ease just had to watch the spikey bits.

I have been gliding here with the scouts on numerous occasions...love the quiet, up in the air looking down on the river below...magical...booked again for August this year can't wait to do it again.

TFTC firesafe

After leaving the weekend event at Roonka, we decided to find this one before heading into Blanchtown. A quick find and sign :c) TFTC firesafe!

Found It!
I went for a drive to Morgan with Freddo. For some reason we went on the west side of the river (which resulted in a long wait at the ferry at the other end). But that did mean I got the chance to stop and find this cache!
TFTC

tb visits

found on the way from morgan to roonka for the event. im glad it wasnt a heavy lfft needed, as i dont think my shoulders could have managed. this was my first cache find for 2016.

Thanks for the Cache and greetings from germany.

TFTC

A Sewer Rat and 2 Blackadders went on an adventure on this sunny day.
A quick find while out and about caching on a lovely sunny day. tftc