Where did the Bluebirds go? Mt Gambier, South Australia, Australia
By jantoshys on 24-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2P9YV

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This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

dnf today. I came with a previous finder and can confirm that the cache is gone.

the cache is gone and needs to be replaced. confirmed by a previous finder

Walked in to GZ and looked all over the place and found nothing.

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Staying in the Mount overnight for work and after dinner decided to head out and find a cache or two. Headed along the track and passed ny this one and located the cache in the first place I felt. Love that. Extracted the log, signed and replaced.
Gratias pro cache jantoshys

Found myself in Mount Gambier for the weekend for i, dax's birthday and shonky smurf's basketball tournament. Between the end of the basketball and the start of the birthday dinner we found a couple of hours to go caching along the old railway reservation.
In past years I caught trains here three times - first was behind R766 steam train from Adelaide to Melbourne, we stopped here overnight after a trip from Tailem Bend in pouring rain most of the way. The second train ride from here was Bluebird number 257 on one of the last few trips to Adelaide. By the time they finished the bluebirds were being replaced by busses more often than not and i consider myself lucky to have been able to catch it. The third train was a red hen run by the limestone coast railway to a Christmas Dinner in Tantanoola.
Thanks for hiding this series, I really enjoyed wandering along here reminiscing about the time the trains still ran, but it's a great effort to clean up and beautify what was really a blight on the landscape.
Really wish those bluebirds still ran here. Much nicer than the bus.

Nice and quick, as bright TFTC

Out and about with Belimozan and friend to finish the trail. Great start for for them with 15 total for today. My geogandies were in charge of finding this one, with us giggling to ourselves as we watched them looking until after the 3 adults all saying we could see it, it dawned on the kids at the same time where to look. A little green army man was still looking after the contents, a reminder to buy more stash so my grandies can do some swaps. TFTC

Tricky for the kids

Out and about caching the MGRL trail with earthlight, Cabbos and joined by my muggle sister.
Found this one along the way, quick find.

TFTC

Found the right side and cache log soon signed. Found with 3LG and Cabbos. TFTC

I believe it isn't there, please check.

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Found it after a bit of a search, the paper is mouldy and damp but otherwise a good find, left a little green army man tftc

Sorry we couldn't find it.

The cache is still here, log is wet though TFTC

Can the owner please make sure it’s still there because the construction of the new path is under way

Quick easy find on an afternoon bike-cycle ride.
TNLNSL
TFTC

A perfect Sunday evening for a bike ride, a cache or two, and a pizznic at the rail lands. Easy find. Thanks.

found it. Log very wet.
TFTC series along the rail a great day out and good exercise

Didn't find any Blue Birds here but did find a Stumpy Tail Lizard. TFTC

Found it

After spending the night in Mount Gambier I had to about 2.00 p.m .before I had to start towards home. So with an early start I thought I might be able to clear up a few caches first.
Time for a walk. Thought I would park near the middle of the Rail Trail, walk one way, have lunch and then walk the other way.
Having got to one end of the rail trail I could see the track kept going the other side of the road. And this little cache beckoned me to find it. So I kept walking and pretty soon had this cache in hand too.
Thanks jantoshys for the cache.

Quick find thanks to the clue. TFTC

Found with Captain Thor on a lovely Saturday afternoon. Great hide!

Toot toot

Tftc Sprunghörnchen

Found it, but Lea wasn't too happy putting her hand in to retrieve. She braved it, log was signed and we were on our way. Tftc

Access to GZ was a little rougher than the rail trail but arrived at GZ and started looking through the longer grass. We soon found the container and were able to SL. TFTC.

with the river rising we were told to go on holidays so what do you do.
Caching time.
Now we have wandered down towards Anglesea and found many other like minded people so the caching adventure grows stronger.
soon the event was over so the wandering continued

Thanks jantoshys for putting this cache out for us to find

Found it

Quick find

What a great description on this cache, we hope everyone reads it. It is such a shame the bluebirds don't run to the Mount anymore, wow we can imagine how many more trips people would do going to and from Adelaide, sometimes it would be nicer to travel by train than drive even if it took longer. Oh we also love that one of the carriages was "Kookaburra", very cool
Thanks jantoshys for the piece of history and a cache. Found, signed and replaced safe and sound as found. TNLN

In Mount Gambier with Happy Pants for a day of caching. We wandered to GZ and soon had the cache in hand. There's something nostalgic about old railways. TFTC jantoshys and for the history on the Bluebirds.

This one took us a little searching about before we came up with the goods, found with Yoshi Warriors this afternoon while caching around town. Love the old railway history, pity that there seems to be too much of old and neglected lines than new ones around. TFTC jantoshys.

Suscoe headed out early today as our time in Mount Gambier is quickly disappearing.
It was a very foggy start to the day but as time went by the blue sky gently emerged and a splendid day was had by us.
45 cache finds in total which was a pleasant surprise and we enjoyed all the finds.
This is a terrific location for geocaching and we have loved our time in the Mount.

A pleasant walk and a quick find here.
Thanks to the jantoshys for placing this cache here.

Great hide.

Nice easy find. Cool picture

Easy find!

Walked the last 150 m in the heat. Coming from NZL we are not used to this heat. Man is it hot.....takes the breath away.

Yay!! One to geomum today!!

Another great weekend with my geofamily, plenty of miles and smiles with a few geocaches found along the way.

I let geosis find this cache just to keep her quiet - is that possible?

Thanks for the cache jantoshys.

A quick find, touring Mt G with friends.

Day 4 of our trip to Mount Gambier and we all (Moneydork, Tounga, sushilord and I) had the whole day to cache while slowly heading home...slowly because there are sooo many caches to find
All up, I had 53 cache finds and 3 DNFs for the day.

A quick find in the obvious place that geobro didn't think to check first as he and geodad went for the most obvious place

TNLN. SL. TFTC jantoshys

It took a couple of minutes to find the best way to access this location and have safe parking. Once parked, it was a short walk to GZ where a quick find was made. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache iantoshys.

A quick find tftc

This entry was edited by mr_roo on Sunday, 09 August 2015 at 06:54:48 UTC.

An easy walk up the track & a quick find. Loved the photo of the bluebird train in the cache. Found with team TT016. SL. TFTC

what a lovely pic inside.
a little history for the day.
tftc.

Great little cache TFTC

Interesting info I remember Blue Birds and Red Hens from my childhood.
An Easy find.

Visiting new granddaughter thought I'd get a cache or too. TFTC

Was great telling the kids about the train history of mtg

Well one of my kids knocked off the guys of my pen so a photo log will have to suffice. Thanks for the history....love these caches that help preserve where we came from.

Cheers

Pete

Cheeky bugger. Black box in a black hole.
Note to oneself pack a torch.

I don't know where do the bluebirds go?
Pen stopped working :/

Note to self: Pack a pen that actually works............. Found with Jorden29!
TFTC.

My first visit to Mt Gambier - weather wasn't as kind as it might have been. Had to search a bit to find this one. TNLN. TFTC.

TFTC. Found on a beautiful day. Had a great day caching around the Mount.

Quick find

Day 15! Tip for the day - fashion and caching do not mix lol. Kids loved this one TFTC

This entry was edited by Indy-au on Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 11:51:43 UTC.

Nice find - had to stretch a bit! Young fella loved it!

Found on a wonderful day trip to Beachport with mogni.

At first we tried to access this one by road, but mogni soon informed us of the error of our ways. After a pleasant walk Mr M made the find. TFTC jantoshys.

That cache is going nowhere as its a good arms length to get! Nice night and no trains while out caching with my dog. Thanks

Replaced & ready to be found once again Happy Hunting

Replaced & ready to be found once again Happy Hunting

Will check out & replace if needed during the week

This cache has clearly been muggled

Not only has the bluebird gone, so has the cache, thanks any way.

Looked for this one towards the end of a days caching but despite turning over many rocks, logs etc we just could not find it. Searched around where the clue suggested but to no avail. Will have to come back with my caching eyes on!!!

Searched high and low for this one but with no success. Will have to come back another time to find it!!

Nice long walk

Ok

Our eldest Geokid's friend over for a play date found this one:)

Found with the dynamic duo Freddo and TeamWaldron. It was really going to be a crows kinda day. Thanks for the fun!

Promise I did not leave a plastic dinosaur! Thanks to jantoshys and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Found during a 3 day cache run to Mt Gambier with Astro and Freddo.

A great time was had, especially at the dinner.

An easy find.

I remember the Bluebird, never rode on it.

TFTC

Bluebirds went to the tropics for the winter. Too cold and wet in the Mount.

With Stardancer83 and Laahdeeda.
Really enjoyed finding this one.

tftc!

Found it with laahdeeda and hugonauts! Thankful for hugonauts camera making us seem far more legit wandering off road - Tftc

No trouble finding this one, these railway hides have been my weak point in a lot of cases. TFTC

good hide, but found

our 5 yr old found this one got crab replace 2 baloons

Great cache. TFTC

Good find

Nice walk good memories of old trains TFTC - NTNL

We got the signal.Tftcsl,took ball,left crab.

Quick and easy find. TFTC.

TFTC
TNLN

found it ok tftc

Toot toot. No steamies or diesels in site.

Found at 1540 with Roostaman on our South Australia Odyssey. Good coordinates made this a nice quick find.

Thanks jantoshys.

Found with Fred6603 on our SA adventure trek. Our GZ was much closer this time, so we spotted it in good time. TFTC jantoshys,
Roostaman.

A quick find today.
TNLN SL TFTC

another good one for kids

Very convenient that this device was left here for a cache!!! Thanks jantoshys!