Blind Date Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia
By Dinko1974 on 22-May-11. Waypoint GC2VBVD

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Thank you. Peter on tour. Cheers

Quick find Out biking with Juju54 TFTC

Nice hide but busy intersection here!! Found with HRH54 TFTC

Great spot
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Nice lil find

On our way south after a few days in the Flinders Ranges, we stopped for a break, and a cache.
A very quick find. Thanks Dinko1974

Find but paper too difficult in box
Tftc

Lovely old tree reminds me of me
Signed and replaced
TFTC

Found, but needs repairing..

Found lying in the open beside the date palm....so a quick find. Have replaced cache out of sight. TFTC

Nice quick find tftc

From Germany to Pt. Augusta.
Tftc

Very beautiful palm- pleasing to the eye. Thanks for the hide.

Tftc

Yay

Came through town, and seen this one previously... alas always too late to stop..
A run around town for cache, so stopped here too.
Took awhile to spot, with zillions of vehicles passing...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Owl was heading north for an epic adventure with Sushilord to clear out some LGA areas for a certain challenge cache. Having arrived in Port Augusta she needed to kill some time before he finished work. Caching! Great bit of history here and some judicious shoe-tying got the cache.

Veni. Vidi. Vici. Scripsi.
Heading back to Adelaide after working in the area yesterday and decided to grab a cache or three early in the morning before hitting the trail back to the big smoke. This one was first on the list and parked nearby, wandered to GZ and while reading the information recovered a cache, signed log and replaced. Very few even 4W muggles passing so it was an easy find.
Gratias pro cache Dinko1974

As mentioned stealth mode is needed. TFTC.

decamped and slowly, very slowly making my way to whyalla. quick find. never had any luck on blind dates, lucky for me i had luck with the cache.

I wasn’t blind today. Cache found.

Thanks for the cache Dinko1974. Found on 14 Oct 2017 at 6:31 pm. Find #5257.

Nive easy find busy road. All ok TFTC

Easy find

It was a bit hard to retrieve and return a good challenge.
TFTC

**Find #1074**

A nice hide, and interseting story here in a high muggle area. Best bakery in town near by.

Thanks **Dinko1974**

TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 0820. Oh, that sort of date. At first, just reading the name, we thought we'd have to confess to cringe worthy stories. Having just driven to Darwin and back, we can acknowledge the work done by the cameleers in exploration and transport. Gets a FP for the history. Our thanks to Dinko1974.

Thanks to Dinko1974 for the cache.

Found during our five week journey half-way around Australia, for the NT Experience OzMega event, somewhere between: ACT -> NSW -> Qld -> NT -> SA -> Vic -> NSW -> ACT.

So many stories to tell. So many experiences had. So little time to mention them all.

Sincerely
the 4as1 team:
Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to

I went on a family holiday to the OzMega event in Alice Springs. We drove forever, but saw some interesting places. Thank-you Dinko1974 for the geocache.

Thank you
Me_to from the the 4as1 team.
(Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to)

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Found with Scruffyblake, Charli_Bear, Me_To and Mr Roo on our Australian Trip for the Red Centre Experience.

Thanks Dinko1974 (F=596 H=23) for the cache and for bringing us here.

TNLNSL TFTC

Found as part of Canberra Crunchers (Scruffyblake, Darzee Di, ACTchil, Kittykatch, Mtrax, Joolay and Me_To while on the hunt to get Darzee di here 2000th cache.

Great day had walked around 9km and grabbed 33 caches and between us we placed 3 new ones on the trail.

Thanks Dinko1974 (F=596 H=23) for the cache and for bringing us here.

TNLNSL TFTC

A quick find while traveling from woomera to the flinders ranger for the night tftc

###Trip to the *Red Centre Experience* 2017###

Unfortunately, half of our team is home-based due to work commitment, the other half is lucky enough to be Alice Springs bound, in the company of Team Indiana08. Therefore, for a couple of weeks, our team will be attending some events and possibly finding the odd cache in different states.

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Being stuck in Port Augusta with car problems for a very rainy long weekend was not on our plan. While still waiting, we used this beautiful sunny ANZAC day to get out of the confines of the dry caravan, explore the city a bit and find a few caches.

Wow, 140 years old, the palm tree doesn't look its age. The cache was quickly found in the company of Team Indiana08, signed and returned.

Thanks Dinko1974 for highlighting this landmark

Yay first since mega.

Saw someone doing this and finally got the chance of getting around to it

Found it . A very busy muggle corner, lucky today Good Friday not so busy. TFTC

Team ICE on a two week geocaching trip in Australia. Our main target was the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs but of course we did some caching in other places too. We drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then back. We saw lots of interesting and beutiful places like opal mines at Coober Pedy, Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta. Our rental travelled almost 6500km on gravel and tarmac roads. The weather was great, only on last day we got some rain.

All the caches logged as Team Ice, T-ice or Tice with kapeka, laalaa and Hiltsu. We had a great trip!

Today our journey continued from Port Augusta to Coober Pedy and we visited at Woomera on the way. Interesting little town. In the morning we found some caches from Port Augusta and more caches logged on the way. next night we spent in the underground motel.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Found it with TICE [Hiltsu, J&T, kapeka & laalaa]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in Australia ( South Australia and Northern Territory ). Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and huge country!

Greetings from Finland!

Tice (Team Ice: laalaa, J&T., Hiltsu and kapeka) in Australia. Sun was shining and we had fun. Morning run in Port Augusta.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Finland.

Our Spring Geocaching trip go this year to Australia...yes you read right, in Finland is spring now.
We visit in Australia (Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Port Vincent and other place which are on the way those places) on April 05.-20.

We see many beautiful place where we visit and enjoy every cache what we found, so humble thanks every cache owner that you hiding this cache!

We (kapeka, laalaa, J&T. and Hiltsu) use common nickname Team ICE, T-ICE or TICE that we saves space in the logbook.

Thanks For To Cache!
Greetings from Finland

This is what caching is all about for me - teaching me and/or showing me things I was the none the wiser about. How amazing that this has survived so long, especially considering the proximity to the house next door and our species' desire to develop, develop, develop! Thanks for bringing me here. We were able to play the tourist quite well for this one.

Alice trip 2017. Day 5. With Sol de Lune and LuckL10n we started caching around Pt Augusta and Stirling before heading to Whyalla via a few of the short trails. I saw a piece about the cameleers on TV recently so i was glad to see this feature today.

Thanks.

22885.19 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 12 Days of Caching 2008 Silver A#119

Albida

#6472 - 11:45; Day 7 of the Alice Mega Road Trip with Sol de lune and albida33, so most logs were signed S.A.L. as a result. After a night in Port Augusta, today's plan was to cache in and around Port Augusta and Stirling North before heading south towards Whyalla for a couple of nights and produced 88 finds along with only 4 DNFs. After a circuit around the back blocks of Stirling North we were now back in town collecting a few more. No problems with this one, once at GZ we read up on this piece of history as well a grabbing a cache. TFTC Dinko1974

On the road to the Alice Springs Mega with LuckyL10n and Albida33. We headed through Burra and Port Pirie before arriving in Port Augusta for the trek up the highway. Collected a good number of caches and all were found with no issues and the logs were soon signed. (Some logs were signed as S.A.L. to save space.)

Thanks for the cache and fun in getting to it and finding it.

Took a little while to locate this one. Wasn't until I stopped to read the plaque that unnoticed a possible hide. Tftc

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Travelling to Alice Springs NT Red Centre Experience Event.
The weather was beautiful everyday
Beautiful adventure of natives
Found it
Thanks for the cache Dinko1974

It didn't take too long to make this find and look at the great old date palm. On our way to the Alice Springs Event and taking the opportunity to grab a few caches along the way.
Thanks Dinko1974 for placing the cache for us to find.
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On our way from Tasmania to the Mega at Alice Springs we stopped in Port Augusta to find some caches and this was one we found. An interesting read. Located the cache and admired the palm. TFTC

TFTC

Upon approaching GZ I saw nothing that may be 'threaded' except parts on the Speed camera and I wasn't gonna search that with the traffic about including a Police car that stopped at the lights [:o]. I pretended to be taking pics of the Palm Tree then something else caught my eye and I quickly discovered there was something 'threaded' and I was soon holding it Signed it's log at 16:44 on Sun 12 Mar 2017. My last cache for today. Time to go grab some Bourbon & Cola cans and head back to the Cabin Park to retire for the day [^] TFTC Dinko1974

First one for the day while visiting an old muggle friend in Pt Augusta. TFTC

Took a bit and clue fit but not what I thought. Here on Christmas Day at 42C with HennyGeo (white Xmas at home) in amazing Australia from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada . TFTC and a Merry Christmas.

TFTC geocaching with SwagHo. We are discovering Australia one cache at a time. Holidaying from Canada having great time

Well hidden but found OK. Quite a busycorner so I had to patiently wait out a few phases of the lights between finding and signing and replacing, so that no-one saw the full sequence of my actions.

A quite interesting feature, TFTC

Found it. A bit off of the location but still easy to find. #Winners

Caching with earthlight and The X Trailers we decided to clean up a few around Port Augusta, we had a great day and the weather was very pleasant for us, managed around 38 finds and 4 DNFs. TFTC

Found with Earthlight and 3LG
A not so quiet corner for the cache
Had to wait our opportunity to locate cache sign and return to its hide
Tftc

Found the cache with The X-Trailers and 3LG.
A busy little cnr at times traffic wise.
Waited to area free before locating cache.
3LG Put new log in and replaced cache.
TFTC

Replaced the log sheet and our full log to come once we return home from our camping trip

Think we found the container but think the log has been stolen

done

maintenance performed

Muggled AGAIN...grrr
Offline until its fate is decided

Could not find this one. Did find something that could have been it. Will add pic so some one can confirm thanks

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the Land Down Under" ...

We are spending a few days in Port Augusta, have caught up withTeam Robins who are walking around Australia in awareness for cancer. Decided it would be fun to do find a few of Port Augusta's caches together. Had a blast doing it!

Thanks for the fun Dinko1974!

12426 caches found

Out caching with The Off Roaders, have a break from our walking for a couple of days, thought we would grab a couple wile we were here. Walking around Australia for Porstate and Breast Cancers

took : nothing
left : nothing

Thanks for the cache Dinko1974

Finally found it

I found this cache traveling 5450km from Adelaide to Darwin. I had no internet throughout the trip, this is why I log late

Thanks!

Found during a visit to Port Augusta for the weekend. Failed miserably this time last year, but spotted it straight away today. Thanks for the cache Dinko1974!

Found it! Nice place and nice cache! =) TFTC

On a trip from Warragul to Iron Knob to fill in some gaps to qualify for The Well Travelled Cacher Challenge ! Vic
Thanks for this cache to fill this gap.

Found at 2:47 PM GAFF1.
I would never have guessed that the palm tree was around 150 years old. Interesting that the Afghans had seeds or even fresh dates to throw down.
Thanks Dinko1974.

Quick easy find, love this type. easy to look over if you don't know what you are looking for.

Whilst searching for this cache was spotted by a Security Officer who guessed the reason for our visit to this location and was advised that this cache has not been at this spot for sometime and is now missing.

This was an easy find, not so sure that the cache was in the correct spot. I did return it to exactly where I found it . Fingers crossed!

Another great find while in the area on holiday today.
Thanks for setting up this cache.

Soon had the container found and log signed.

Quick trip from Pirie to do some shopping at BigW. Took longer to get log out than it did to find cache. Thanks for the hide Dinko1974.

A great little location street side under the date palm
No dates were forthcoming, although if I had stood there long enough, I might have gotten an offer ?? !! [:o]

Fortunately the cache was a nice easy find

TFTC and bit of Port history !!

Nice cache containet. TFTC. Found on our great Aussie Road Trip heading North

Nice little spot,tricky hide...tftc

Back online.

TFTC

Off line due to being muggled AGAIN !

Snooped around but DNF. Possibly not there but nice spot!

Amazing story. Quick find. Found with the Reluctant Companion on our trip to Wodonga Vic. for the Ulysses AGM. TNLN TFTC

Thankfully a quick find after doing a presentation at the education office across the road. Spotted the clever hide and had a quick read of the history, if probably never have noticed this otherwise.

This entry was edited by Frozen Feet on Monday, 23 February 2015 at 10:58:07 UTC.

Tanya whitney hallie! Found

Hurray, couldn't find this last year, returned & conquered the cache.

Took a little to find

Very clever. Great Christmas Day task.

A quick find with geodad (deltaducks). Thanks

Thanks for replacing this one. Was a nice easy find while touring the last few caches of Port Augusta with diggers09. TFTC

A new cache container and a new clue. After several attempts at previous containers and the council cleaning up the pests !I have decided to go a more sneaky approach to a hide. Good luck and happy caching.

Hunted this one as it was in my GPS without knowing recent history, picked up by my Pocket Query as an active cache. Can I please request this one to be disabled until its replacement is complete.

Visited today and after a search realised its gone. Will replace soon.

Could not find it any where think its been taken spent a lot of time looking

We think Someone might have taken it :/

Great place to hide it one of the best caches around town

Very difficult we never would have guessed