Formula 1 Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia
By wheres wolly on 20-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2JF9K

sneaky hide

good spot tftc

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 12 - Port Lincoln to Elliston via several small roadside spots. After my travels down the east side of the Eyre Peninsula showed me more and bigger towns than I expected, on todays travels up the west side of the peninsula, there were a few settlements, but they were all very small and it is much windier on this side. Elliston where I stayed the night at the golf course RV park, was smaller than any of the other regional council towns I have visited, but they did have a nice pug where I had dinner. The days caching was pretty much all roadside caching until the end with some of the Elliston caches being out on coastal cliffs and the jetty. Things are getting more outback every day now.Today was mostly roadside stops where I squeezed the van onto the edge of the road or a parking bay and walked the remaining distance to the cache. Found with no issues today.Thanks for the cache wheres_wolly_sharon46671.1 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 5th Birthday A#180**Albida**

On a day drive to Coffin Bay. Seen lot's of videos of the area. Good to be here in real life. Highlight of the day was seeing 4 emus walking around the main Street in town.

TFTCOn a short holiday in Port Lincoln with geo hubby Animal 62, picking up our new set of 4x4 geo car & thought to do a bit of Geocaching while we were here.

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet on a Sunday morning collecting smileys for the map

Ocw the Bebes in PL. we are staying close by and could walk to this one so a nice easy get. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin Were camping just across the road and have walked paddle this one many times, today we crossed the road to sign the log. Roadworks face definitely slowed the racers down, Tftc

Too busy on the side of the road with roadworks.

Found, guarded by an army of spiders. My wife was less than delighted. Tftc

Found while visiting Port Lincoln for the week. Thanks for the cache wheres_wolly_sharon!

A quick park and find on our trip back home from Port Lincoln.
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Found while having a look around town and grabbing some caches as we go. Quick find once a suitable spot to park was located.

Find #6039 on 29 Jun 2023.
TFTC wheres_wolly_sharon!

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

Out and about cachingl today on travels from Adelaide to Perth via the Nullarbor. Cache found and log signed. TFTC

Thanks for placing this cache for us to come and find.

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Found it TFTC

Quick check after fire last week, all good!

Heaps of traffic. Tricky one. Tftc

With geosister H423L and With geodog Tonka
Out doing my 2 favourite things Driving and caching
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After a very quick visit into port Lincoln we high tailed it out of there like we were driving a formula 1 vehicle. TFTC

Another cache found with richlink.

We have enjoyed travelling The Eyre Peninsula with richlink using Geocahing as our guide. We have seen many interesting towns and locations along the way. Thank you so much to the CO’s who have placed and maintained caches for the enjoyment of all.

With rain expected tomorrow, we headed out with iluvtrekking to do dry weather caching. With road works at gz we had to find a safe spot to pull over and walk back to gz.. made a quick find. Thanks where’s wolly

Quick easy find tftc

This one was easy hahaha but still fun, thank you

Thank mad spot

Maintenance - all good to go!

Managed to catch this one easily after dark. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird. TFTC wheres wolly
Find #7433 at 21:20.

Out on caching adventures on the Eyre Peninsula with Wollaston.

Thanks to the CO’s for taking time to set out and maintain these hides and for showing us your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with stamp

TFTC wheres wolly

Find # 5056

Roadworks could not find

A little more challenging than I thought I would say how but that could give it away tftc

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Very smart

Luckily today the traffic was rather "sedate". Thanks wheres wolly.

Took a bit to find due to wet weather dodging tftc

This weekend, I joined gridge98 on a trip to Eyre Peninsula, primarily visiting Port Lincoln and its surroundings. We saw its famous marina full of trawlers, and we also ended up visiting Coffin Bay and enjoyed fresh oysters. A nice weekend with weather, and certainly a great vicinity to see.

After having a successful day yesterday, we awoke with motivation and optimism for the day that was ahead of us. However after having our first geocache find, a rock had hit the vehicle's oil sump, leaving the car inoperable and requiring the car to be towed to a mechanic in Port Lincoln. The morning was then spent addressing the vehicle's repair plan, and then trying to salvage the remainder of our weekend's plans. We walked around the centre of Port Lincoln, before finding a hire vehicle for us, and then the afternoon was spent driving around the area. It was interesting seeing Port Lincoln's marinas and also caught glimpse of the shark cages. We ended up drowning our sorrows in the evening (whilst celebrating gridge98's birthday) at the craft brewery, which was probably a highlight of the day.

A quick find at this location. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks wheres wolly for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Quick find here, cache is all good

Well what a day it was, a day filled with more downs than ups and but overall a few caches were found in and around port Lincoln. Davidwazza and I headed to the Eyre Peninsula for a weekend away to clean up as much as we could and collect a few new LGAs for Davidwazza. This morning 2nd cache in we ended up cracking the oil sump in the car and having to sort out what to do and how to fix the issue. Lucky a mechanic was at hand and a prolonged trip was soon scheduled and a hire car was in hand. I guess things happen when you use a car for things that it’s not made to do.
Other than that a great day out.

Thanks for the cache

Found It!
A quick find here to start the day's caching!
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A better weather day in Port Lincoln while visiting relatives we could spend a few hours seeking a few more of these elusive hides.

Unfortunately some were abandoned, no longer there, destroyed or removed with no maintenance performed. Many by this owner of caches.

This was a quick find for us after finding a suitable place to leave the geo-mobile.

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Good thinking with the magnet

Found two old pieces of broken, strong magnets. Assuming this was the cache.

From Port Lincoln we drove on to Elliston today. Wow! There it has quite great beaches and many beautiful coastal sections. In many of these places we were also able to find a geocache. Thank you to the owners for the caches !

No where to be seen and we are sure we were in the right spot

Bit dangerous spot but tftc

So an event or two got put on in an area that I have not cached, so a weekend trip was organised. Aussie M & M joined geodog Chloe and me for the fun yet exhausting trip. left Adelaide early Saturday mornng and I got home about 12:30 Tuesday morning...
Thanks to wheres wolly from mogni

After a few dnf's in Port Lincoln it was kind of nice to get a cache that was actually there.
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Found while travelling home from WA
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Nice quick cache! Someone really must like eclipse mints lol!! TFTC

Our last one on this road back into town after finding some caches in the rural areas. TFTC

Good hide

Quick find TFTC

Discovering Port Lincoln cache by cache with Purrfect Di, Sebastbat, and Jack.
Many and varied caches were found and this was one. Some are in good condition, some a little rusty.
A good time had by all. Pit stop speed caching here!
TFTC wheres wolly

Quick find. TFTC

Found while visiting the PL area for a while. An easy find I hope the weather holds for a little longer. TFTC.

Quick find on my western travels.

Quick and a easy find TFTC

No sign of it today

CPwanderer, GoodLook and I headed off for a weekend in Port Lincoln via an overnight stop in Whyalla
Our weekend was unexpectedly extended by a day due to illness and so my tally at the end of the 'weekend' was 168 cache finds
Sadly this was marred by a massive 28 DNFs
Port Lincoln, despite being virgin caching territory for all 3 of us, did not provide us with the pleasure that we had anticipated
So many of the caches were bison tubes and those that we did find, quite often were in places where a larger cache could have been hidden The other issue was the lack of maintenance on many caches
There are people trying their best to maintain the 'wheres wolly' cache hides however their resources are stretched thinly..... so if you are heading over, please pack heaps of cache maintenance containers, bags and log books and help out where you can. [^]
That being said, the trip was still a blast and some great caches were found and great views were seen!
Roaming Wendy very kindly came out with us for the rest of today and as a result, our find count increased as did the laughter in the car
Thank you for your company [^]

No Formula 1 here today... only some slow old cachers

TNLN. SL. TFTC wheres wolly

Easily found as we wandered around Pt Lincoln!!
This was one of the caches found on a three day odyssey on the Eyre Peninsula! Myself, GoodLook and locuscache had never cached south of the Cowell/Cleve area so we had high hopes of some great caching. We worked our way down through Port Neil and Tumby Bay and grabbed those along the highway plus a few a little further afield.
Our time in and around Port Lincoln was frustrating. Lots very small micros, lots of very rusty tins and more dnfs than ive ever had in a day before this. We were very fortunate that local cacher , Roaming Wendy joined as. Her expert knowledge of the town certainly helped. A medical issue had us stay a third day. This worked out very well as we could do some relaxed caching on our way home.
A special thanks to Roaming wendy for her help and to those who hid caches in the area … particularly the Geo-Ambos, Wheres Wolly and Viper231. Special thanks also to my “mildly obsessive” caching buddies on this trip …………………………… amazing fun!!

Woo hoo, we found it!

After messaging Roaming Wendy, she graciously joined us and jumped in our car in order to cache around Lincoln with us (as we'd not been having much fun with all of the DNFs).

Found whilst on a road trip with CPwanderer and Locus Cache, with the aim of the weekend to cache in and around Port Lincoln - fresh territory for us all. We certainly had a great time, however with a DNF rate of about 40% [:(!], it was tough going! We did however thoroughly enjoy the beautiful locations and scenery.

After joking all day on the Sunday we should spend another night in Pt Lincoln, circumstances presented that meant we needed to extend our time away! We took it slowly on the way home which enabled us to once again visit some terrific places

Thanks for the cache

Thanks for the cache

Sneaky hide

TFTC

Found It

Strong magnet

Took a little while but found it

Found at 10:26 AM GAFF2 in the company of maccamob. We signed the log book as "M&P".
Cache must have been replaced since Muzza had a DNF - it was an easy find right where we expected to find it.
Thanks wheres wolly.

Found by Mary & David, in company with pprass (signed as m & p), at 1025. Stayed at Port Lincoln last night. Today, we cached our way across to Coffrin Bay for an oyster lunch, then cached our way back to Port Lincoln again. Managed to avoid the worst of the weather. Heading to Coffin Bay for lunch. Found quickly in the first spot we checked. Our thanks to wheres wolly.

Good hide

Thanks for the cache

Cache is not there. Had a thorough look while road trains were going past

No luck here after a brief look.

I had a look for this one but I couldn't find it today. I thought I knew where it was going to be, but it wasn't in the typical location for one of these. I checked around for other possible hiding spots but alas, nothing was there. I hope it's still there. My thanks to wheres wolly for placing it.

Good cach TFTC
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[Blue]# 10756 Found on the SA leg of our S.K.I.D.R.O. adventure.[/Blue]
Another perfect spring day for a drive around town while in Port Lincoln for a few days.
Hardly any muggles around and mostly good quick finds.
Thanks for the cache wheres wolly,
[Red]Roostaman[/Red] (from NSW).

Definitely a good stretch of road for all local lads here !!
It is all down hill to towne.
Even a Holden or Ford could get up to a 100 km/h or slighty more on this stretch of road

I cruised up the hill today at a very sedate 70 km/h or so to reach GZ in one piece

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A quick find but Mr Beetle [the rev head] had to explain the significance of the clue to me. Thanks.

Magnet strong for its size.

Took a bit of hunting but got it

tb visits

Good hide found with Muffy and co!! Tftc

Found both caches and removed the replacement left the original in place. Tftc

found awhile ago, missed logging quick find in the dark

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Gd hides, found both and signed both

this cache is still there and is still original micro (flat) so thanks for replacing cache so there may be two caches there as i had this cache in my hand two weeks ago it is down very low cheers wheres wolly (darrel)

Camping at Coffin Bay, on our 2nd trip around Australia.
Decided to have a look around the area, and pick up some caches on the way.
Visited some bushland & some other interesting places.
Cache and log trashed, replaced both.
Many thanks for the hunt today, wheres wolly.

I found a stashnote but not the cache.

Brrrrm brrrrrm. Another smiley for me. Thanks for making it happen.

Little bit tricky

Good hide

Easy find

Found it Thought it was a spider. The log is falling to bits. TNLNSL

Thought we new where this one was going to be when we pulled up close to GZ
We were wrong
Re read the clue and quickly found the cache
Cache all good
Took trackables for a visit
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Couldn't find a thing. Not looking like a good night already.

After spending a couple of nights at Louth Bay its time to move along.
Today we head towards Ceduna , finding caches on the way.
A nice quick find
Thanks wheres wolly

Good hind a bit different to normal

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our journey in Australia.

DK