Goliath Tower Owen, South Australia, Australia
By Team Bowyer on 27-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2PDAG

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Quick grab after a day at Mallalla replaced the container

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TFTC. This area is beautiful. Found on a lovely day out with the family. Log book is wet and there is no container (only the lid). Had to get approx 12 snails off the plastic bag!!

The log book is wet and there is no container (only the plastic bag). Had to get a lot of snails off the bag so I could open it.

The peach container is gone, only the lid is left sitting on top of the plastic bag. Waterproof while the bag lasts but you better replace the container soon to be sure.

Found it easily but the container is gone, only the lid remains sitting on top of the plastic bag.

This cache was found on Day One of our four Day Adelaide Caching Tour, with TriBre, Fairybum, Mastamak, KidzJCT and Running as Teams BosNewellgus and Gummy Dales. Team BosNewellgus (Mastamak and TriBre) had arrived on the morning flight in from Brisbane and had a full day of sunlight before Team Gummy Dales arrived.

Having stopped and refueled after our flight from Brisbane (I slept as much as I could on the flight as we had been up till passed midnight with a first to find hunt before our 6am flight!) Even in our tried state, there was caches to be found and we had the daylight to do it! We started with the Premiers of SA, then on to It's a small world and followed by the Australian Prime Ministers Series. There was a few odd ones on the way...Even a STF.

With the large volume of finds I have written a generic log. I would like to thank the CO's for creating a Great time out and I can assure you fun was had by all. I believe we will be planning another trip to SA....

This was the 112nd find of 154 finds for the day in SA, with no DNF's for the day Fantastic! We also had a midnight First to Find grab in Queensland before our Trip.

TFTC #690

Found with TriBre and Mastamak while in Adelaide on a four day geocaching excursion from Brisbane.

Thank you to all cache owners on a fantastic bunch of geocaches.

Found with TriBre and our team BosNewellgus.

We were down from Brisbane for 4 days of geocaching. KidzJCT and Fairy Bum were flying in later that night. As the advance party this was our chance to test the SA geocaching landscape.

We got into Adelaide at about 9am and were tired after an early flight which followed a midnight FTF hunt back in Brisbane. But that wasn’t going to stop us and after a quick food stop and quick stop to collect our first South Australian cache we were off to complete a few powertrails today in particular PSA, APM and It’s a Small World as well as many individual cahces.

I hope everyone in SA realise how good they have it here geocaching wise. A geocache almost everywhere you turn. We had a fantastic time while here and no doubt will be back again sometime. A big thank you to all cache owners whose caches we found.

Due to the volume of caches found I have only written a generic log. This should in no way detract from the fun we had in finding each and every cache.

Another good quick cache find and fun drive around

Enjoying my visit to the area.
SL TFTC

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 is for the Its a small world and Premiers of SA series. Along with a few caches to get there and back to Gawler. After waiting for some youngsters to pass by going who knows where out here we were able to collect this cache.

Thanks.

10459.711 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Satellite V3 A#25

Albida

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.

Tftc

We were heading out to do the PM series today & this was a bonus cache we found on the way.
An interesting building. Cache quickly found.
Thanks Team BowYer

Heading over to do the 'Five oh' series today, caravan in tow.
We found other caches along the way, this being one of them.
TFTC

After a bit of zig zagging we made the find. TFTC

This cache was found by Team PacketStorm and Team Indiana08 whilst completing their designated mission to SA. The teams set out together on the 01/02/13 to 09/02/13 to gain as many smiley's as they could in a short amount of time. Both teams logs will be exactly the same but I can assure you much fun was had by all.

Thank you to all cache owners who have placed and maintained these caches.

Day 7, 07/02/13, We set off from Mallala again this morning and completed the 'APM' series. We then found as many caches as we could around the area and stopped for the night in Gawler. We ended up with 67 finds for the day.

This cache was found by Team PacketStorm and Team Indiana08 whilst completing their designated mission to SA. The teams set out together on the 01/02/13 to 09/02/13 to gain as many smiley's as they could in a short amount of time. Both teams logs will be exactly the same but I can assure you much fun was had by all.

Thank you to all cache owners who have placed and maintained these caches.

Day 7, 07/02/13, We set off from Mallala again this morning and completed the 'APM' series. We then found as many caches as we could around the area and stopped for the night in Gawler. We ended up with 67 finds for the day.

6293. [green]We wandered around a little bit until we made the find - just 'cause okay? Not difficult just at times my GPSr would lag a little (I think it's that half hour time difference ) [/green]

[blue]Thanks for the cache Team Bowyer and the spire. [/blue]

Impressive water tower. Swapped pathtags. Thanks Team Bowyer.

Merry Christmas

Found on 25/12/12 while attending a Christmas Day luncheon.

TFTC

rmsmartboy

One of the things I do when travelling in the country is look for the tallest piece of infrastructure to appear over the tree tops and/or hills. I first saw this goliath from many miles away and watched it gradually get bigger as I got closer to town.

Thanks for the cache Team Bowyer.

A quick find in a quiet area. Thanks Team Bowyer.

Caching today with Robmc and The Morris. Stopped for this one on the way into Owen for a break whilst having a huge day doing the APM, the PSA and the It's a Small World series of caches. These water towers are pretty impressive and with their tiny windows going up the sides I always think of the story of Rapunzel. TFTC

Found in the company of Robmcand Bettyboo3747. The person who patented this design must have made a few dollars - as did the concreter.

TFTC Team Bowyer

Spent today caching with The Morris and Bettyboo3747, driving around the Northern Plains
It wasn't the first time we had seen a tower of this design, and a little later we saw more.
We walked into its shade and made a quick find.
Thanks, Robmc.

Nice little town is this one.

Arrived at the area to find golfers everywhere. Turn on stealth mode. A pedestrian stops and says going for a tee-off? No, just visiting, I said. Ahhh, you wouldn't be looking for a cache would you? he says. Oops, sprung. After a bit of a chat we found out that he knows the cache owner and knows the cache is nearby. After parting pleasantries were over we quickly found the cache, signed the log, made some swaps and replaced the cache without being noticed. Took a tigger figurine and left some Coopers cuff links. TFTC Team Bowyer!

After meeting a few local caching teams for dinner Wednesday night we headed off to Mallala to try our luck at the power trails here, as we liked the theme behind each one. We got through "It's a small World" yesterday but ran out of light. We camped locally for a nice early start first thing in the morning and after finishing another well set out power trail we started heading north towards Whyalla. Goliath is a bit of an imposing feature on this otherwise fairly flat farm landscape and you would have pretty good views from standing on his head. We pulled up at Goliath's feet and followed the GPSr needle to a fairly quick find and have now added our name to the log.
Thanks for the cache.

Showers passing through the area today.
Took the long way from Mallala to Balaklava and thought I'd grab a quickie here.
TFTC Team Bowyer )
12:35 PM #1134

A quick find during a little post event cache collection - making the way hame [^]
It is rather imposing isn't it!
Cheers & TFTC

Found it No. 5374 ... quick find ... TNLN ... TFTC Team Bowyer

Tried a few times to get this one but every time I pass the tower there seems to be people standing around near the cache so always abandon the search but not today we had the whole area to our selves so made for an easy search.
TFTC Team Bowyer.

Pulled up to do this one and was met with Trespassers sign.. Not going in there but as it turned out we didn't have to.. Done Goliath so now heading out to do David...
Thanks Team Bowyer for the cache

Wow what a day.
We completed the NXY, APM, WH and TdF powertrails in one power caching day.
Appreciate all the caches we found today and enjoyed them all.
Thanks for placing this one.

Cheers GUIO

Enjoyed the visit. Found with the kiwi team on our MEGA road trip.

TFTC

A quick dash and grab on a rather busy day out caching! Just a few snails with a growing attachement to the cache. Cheers Gav [11478]

Very quiet location. TFTC

Found during a massive 24 hour cache-a-thon with Rediguana, ADV, Hello Mrs and Pohutukawa - on the homeward stretch of our Oz MEGA trip.
We did 231 caches in this one day - a new personal best and an Australian record (until growingupisoptional put it in its place just one week later).

Sorry for the generic logs.
We had an awesome time with the TdF, APM and much of the NXY serries' of caches, as well as many others in between. Unfortunately they were all a blur in long, long, day.

Had to widen my search area. Found and signed.

Quick find on a quiet Sunday afternoon. TFTC

Quick find and on my way...
Grabbed the Trekkie TB

My 11th find for the day while caching with CPwanderer. Dropped of a TB. TFTC.

An easy find but needing some stealth due to nearby council workers! Thanks Team Bowyer for the hide!

Now that's a big tower. Cache is quite exposed - I hope the locals are helpful.

Thanks for the cache, Team Bowyer.

Hot first day for 2012 and first day caching for 2012.. Day out caching with TheKellyGang.. 15th find on a very hot day TFTC Team Bowyer

15th Cache of the day we are doing well on this Hot day.Geodad came to find this one Quickly. A Murray Cod is Now in this Cache. TFTC

Found this cache in 2011 with The Rhyan Clan and Team Scallywag.
I do appologise I am behind in logging my caches. My 2012 New Years Resolution is not to get so far behind in logging.
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TFTC TNLN SL - See also The Rhyan Clans Log.

A quick find on a bit of an adventure day for the Grumpy drag along (geohubby) to help Burton's reach 2000 by new years. Had a real found by farmers day as everywhere I went a farmer seemed to be pulling up beside me to ask what I was doing. A short explanation was all they required before going on their way!!
TNLN TFTC. Cheers.

Crazy Geo driver was given 2 choices, 1 Housework or caching. Guess whiich one he chose? 25th find for the day. TFTC TNLN SL

beautiful caching day today...easy find by Mr Bushies2. Thanks Team Bowyer.

What a tall tower. TFTC

Although a lot of the growth has been cut away here, the cache remains, a little exposed maybe.
Thanks Team Bowyer

Disappointed by the lack of shower at this one. TFTC

Interesting that you are trespassng if you go around one side of the tower, but if you go the other way it's fine?

A nice easy find and we were soon on our way for more farmers caches!

TNLNSL

Quick stop before visiting nearby Moses for a cuppa.
TNLN
thanks Team Bowyer

Quick find on a hot and windy day. Thanks.

Had to search a bit for this one but got it in the end.

Found the cache with Moses on the Move while attending the Mighty Mens Conference at Halbury. Easy find and awesome conference. TFTC

looked up, looked down and all around! lol tftc team bowyer

Great Cache. Found with jeepersberziepers. SL TNLN TFTC

Quick find on my way home – great to see so many caches out this way these days. Cache #1026.

Beware of muggles!!!!

Found this cache in 2011 with The Rhyan Clan and The Wild Gang.
I do appologise I am behind in logging my caches. My 2012 New Years Resolution is not to get so far behind in logging.
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TFTC TNLN SL – See also The Rhyan Clans Log.

Wahooo found it on this great long weekend. Found with the wild gang and team Scallywag. Tnln sl tftc

A quick, easy find in peaceful Owen. Found in the company of KAROPI on our Father's Day geocaching run. Took a canoe and left a dinosaur. [^]

Found while out with Sylken for a Father's Day geocaching excursion. TFTC TNLNSL. We had never even heard of this pretty little town before today.

This entry was edited by karopi on Monday, 05 September 2011 at 11:34:24 UTC.

Nice easy find in my old home town! Thanks for the cache! Took frog and left dog

Found it - I have found many today (my first day of caching!) Thank you Team Bowyer

Took a couple of minutes to locate this one, but everything was quiet and there were no golfers out for an early morning round to worry about [^].
That is one tall tower !
TN. Left herb magnet. SL.
Thanks again Team Bowyer.

Found with granpc and coulmatt

Found on my way home after spending a few days on Yorke Peninsula. Thanks for the cache Team Bowyer!

Found It!
Don't know how I missed it last time...
TFTC

A nice quick find while out and about today.
No swaps.

Cheers and happy caching.

As Freddo said we ran into J&J at the cache.

Nice combination of two landmarks.

TFTC

This entry was edited by Team Waldron on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 at 12:41:25 UTC.

We arrived at GZ to find another car... People with GPSrs. Geocachers. J&J. Hi guys. Nice cache. Big tower.

When we pulled up here, we thought we had the place to ourselves. That was until Freddo jumped out of the Oleander at us! Well, not quite jumped, but it sure put us on the back foot until I realised who it was! Glenn from Team Waldron appeared as well, very pleased to make your acquaintance.

After a brief discussion of the toxicity of Oleander, we were all humble enough to allow Freddo the finding and retrieving duties.

We dropped a coin here, but it basically ended up in someone else's pocket.

Thanks Team Bowyer.

Found easy enough, except for the golfer who scared the crap out of me while we were having a look. I pretended to look at the yagi on the tower while he made his way to the course. Signed log and headed off. TFTC.

One of many caches for the day on my caching birthday around Owen. Thanks for the cache.

Found it this time without any dramas. (except looking out for the muggles playing golf). Last time it was dark & my torch not the best & missed it, but not today. SL TNLN TFTC

did with the frogs the flips the scoobs and others on the fight for the 100th cache TFTC TNLN

This was on the way to our big caching day out. Dragged along a few friends to experience the adventure.
TFTC
[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

Found whilst out with a group of others.. 7 pairs of eyes helped find the caches fast... so we were done in no time... with Mrs Scoobsters mobile catering service at the finish line.. it was one group of happy campers... going for out 100+ today.

With several team cachers we sucessfully reached 100+ caches in a day, a great team effort, the PM series helped us over the line, a great series we had fun with TNLN TFTC Team Bowyer

Our big day out with Flipper & Co, Froghoppin, Driftkid and Team Scoobster where we found 100+ caches for the day. We completed the northern expressway, then headed up north onto the Australian Prime Minister series, and some caches around Owen.

There was no missing this big tower, although took us a few minutes to locate the cache, until we looked properly!

Nice easy find on a small detour going north. Golf course reminded me of another lifetime ago when travelled and played on country courses like this. TFTC.

A quick find on our owen caching day TFTC

Nice quick find on our day of caching the local area, TNLN TFTC

I never connected the names of the two towers until just now, as I sit down to write the logs . Even while standing beneath it and thinking “Yes, that’s why it’s called Goliath – because it’s pretty big”, the association to the other one that I had just come from escaped me . Duh! No swaps. Cheers.

Mr Wibble asked where the next cache was that he had to drive to and it was easy to just point to this one and say - head to that thing!
Found after a short search.

You really didn't need a GPSr to find the spot. Not really. And yes, the tap near GZ does work. Of course it's not the cache. Clear skies.

This one sure is a big boy, has a head for water,tftcf

Had a hit yet. TFTC

Was out doing some cache maintenance on the Prime Ministers Series, but managed to get some finds in as well.

Quick find near the large structure. TFTC.

A few years ago, I used to visit weekly during the winter (with mixed results)
TFTC Team Bowyer

Found this one on the motorbike.
Well hidden. TNLN. Thanks.

This entry was edited by Forest Farmers on Sunday, 27 February 2011 at 23:22:06.

This is the first cache I have been able to ride my push bike from home to retrieve. That makes it a first for me on the bike. Tried to leave something that was rather big but nothing appropiate in the caching bag so dropped off a few biblical reminders. Thanks Team Bowyer.