Kernewek 1 Moonta Mines, South Australia, Australia
By BrettnJames on 08-May-11. Waypoint GC2VT30

This can no longer be found via GPS usage.
This cache needs to put out again at a new location.
Tchingal

Listen. Strange women lying in cottages distributing caches is no basis for a system of government...

Prob should be archived if can't be moved to a public area.

Tnx

DNF!!!!

DNF

DNF

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

Couldnt get this one as the lady wasnt at the cottage. Please either archive, put it out somewhere else, or change the coordinates and put note in discription saying that it has been shifted and has new coordinates.

Interesting cache. We took the tour of the little cottage just near where the cache is supposed to be. The lady was very friendly and we enjoyed the tour. After reading the last log I went back to ask her about the cache. She handed it over so I could sign the log. I said I would try to contact the owner to do something so she doesn't have to keep handing it over. She said she's happy to do it but don't think it's fair and she is not there all the time.

The cache is in the mine cottage. The lady who gives the tour will give it to people if the ask for it. She rescued it when the bush was cut down to make a picnic area.

Not really much hope here.
Can't rely on nice cottage lady to bring out a cache!!! (see note 29/7)
Needs a fix or archive.

Thanks anyway Pixel_James ,
will place on the watch list and return asap or when it's been maintained!

DNF

Quick find

The hiding place of the cache has gone and the lady in the minors cottage has retrieved the cache put it in a new container and is hanging on to it because she didn’t want to put it in the wrong she watches out and when she is sure that you are after it she approached us and I told her I would message you and fill you in then you can deceive what to do. Workman cleared a large area and took a2ay the log it was in. Hope you can do something

Looks like the shrubbery might have been recently bulldozed

No luck today.. but we did have a wander through to cottage gardens.

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet and bullitmuffin 91

Tftc!

TFTC
Out & about with geo hubby Animal62 & BulletMuffin91 on this chilly Sunday collecting as many smiley faces as possible for our maps. The log was signed & dated before being returned back to its hiding spot.

Just loved the cottage, thanks for the cache

Pretty easy find. Went for a walk through cottage gardens. Thanks.

After a scrumptious bakery lunch from The Cornish Kitchen, this was the next cache on our list .
Looked at the clue and found nothing, so we ignored it and looked in the logical spot [8]!
TNLNSL.
Thanks for one more BrettnJames.

Found with Jac- Jam while having a couple of days stopover in Moonta . The first find of the day which was an easy find. TFTC.

Nice work

Day 266 (Thursday 21st) of our trip. Caching along the way. In Maitland today. A total of 1 for the day and 5554 for the trip. TFTC

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On the way to Millicent Mega and detour and signed the log as EV and thanks for the cache and hide

 

Nice tour through the miners cottage too

Found whilst walking around Moonta. TFTC

This was a nice little spot, luckily no body was around today to see me, cache jar still has left overs in it

Today was a great day out, after staying in port Hughes for the night. I got up to collect a few caches around the area before I had a bike race in moonta. After racing was over I was in a mission to find my 10,000th find whilst making my way back to Adelaide. A great day out overall.

TFTC

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Where ever possible, we will maintain your cache as we travel.

Today using our GPS as our guide, we did a tour of Moonta.

Lucky it was not Wednesday so no one around. We did get to have a look at the quaint little gardens. Quick find here, thanks Brettnjames

Mrs Sewer rat spotted this one from the Geo mobile.
Making this a quick find.
WE used extra natural cammo to hide it from passerbys. Tftc

The usual Wednesday for the animals of the Puzzled Puzzlers. Plans were made for the Rat, Adder and Starfish to head to the top of the peninsular is search of a few previous DNF's and to fill the maps of Kadina and Moonta with smiling faces. An early morning call though from the Starfish letting us know that he was not well, left only the Rat and Adder to enjoy the day.

The last cache in Moonta for us until someone publishes another. A cache that we easily saw from the Geomobile. We tried to hide it a little more with natural cammo lying around. The CO may want to revisit the hide to make it more hidden from passers by?

TFTC

tHanks

Found with orth71

Found with Orth 21 added an octopus

Tftc

Quick find amongst all the tourists

Found TFTC

Found it TFTC

Another find for today whilst staying at port Hughes for the weekend. SL TFTC

So excited!

Found it.

It was a shorter caching day today with ilook4geo, as the day also included 4 hours visiting time with family, which was really good too. All caches found were in good condition, with plenty of room on each log for more caching names. None were difficult to find, each log had two more names (or initials) added and we were on our way again. Our thanks go to BrettnJames for adding to the caching game by placing this cache.

Out on a caching run today with goingplaces2 and we had a successful day. Found all the caches we looked for and signed all logs. TFTC.

In a clear container with yellow lid not black container. Had fun finding this one with the kids

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Taken ownership of all BrettnJames' Geocaches - maintenance done prior

Tftf

Cute walk through the Miner’s Cottage gardens.

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Found. TFTC.

Working at Wallaroo Hospital this week, after work time for cacaching. Last one for the day.

TFTC bush is only a hint on what it was.

Tftc young family

easy find. needs attention

Another day out grabbing some local caches in Moonta.

A nice easy find, with no muggles around. Would have enjoyed visiting the cottage, but it was closed.

Thanks for the cache.

Tftc. Found on church weekend away from St Albans Largs Bay

Thank you, nice place to visit. Awesome spooky house up the hill

TFTC

Good spot

Tftc.

Found it

Hmm. Should have been easy. Moving on

Found with Mandy-lou C, Calmitoro and muggle daughter

Found with Mandylouc and dollydrink 1/7/18 at 12.19pm

With Dollydrink and Calmitoro 1217pm

TFTC brettnjames Very quick parkngrab. Replaced into its hide a little more discretely. Now a clear plastic screw top.

28/04/2018

So cool. My friend has never heard of geocaching before so this was a very fun moment

Found with Jaded Optimist but didn’t have a pen to write in log.
Happy New Year!

Good little cache. I was wondering around and a lovely older man pointed me in the right direction.

Gorgeous spot and easy find TFTC

TFTC
Cheers
Lead ‘n Lace

Today we explored Moomta and Wallaroo using Geocaching as a guide and picking up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

It wasn't a drive by but it was a challenging one to find... crouch down low

Sneaky

Nice find here thanks for bringing us to this pretty spot TFTC

Tftf

No pencil x

Found while holidaying in port Hughes. Wasn't hidden. But have re hidden it

Not. Black plastic anymore! Clear plastic with a yellow lid. Lots of little treasures!

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. Despite extensive clearing up in the area, the cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks BrettnJames for the cache.

TFTC BrettnJames

Tftc found it but it's full of water and we couldn't write in it

Found it but it's full of water due to recent rains needs maintenance to water proof it

Tftc

We had a wonderful time staying at Sims Cove beachfront villas at Moonta. Grabbed the trackable from this cache. Amazing little miners cottage - was closed by the time we got there.

TFTC BrettnJames From IlludiumPU36

Easy find

Left a TB to continue it's travels.

Thank you BrettnJames for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.
Found 17 July 2016 1:23PM Find # 385

Found it tree lean

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As our time in Wallaroo is rapidly coming to an end we decided to have one last day caching around some more of Yorkes. Today we chose to head to Arthurton and then across the Peninsula to Port Hughes and Moonta/Moonta Bay.

Many thanks for the hide in this very historic area BrettnJames[^]

Hi there BrettnJames.

We found your cache **"Kernewek 1"** at 11:19:00 AM today.
This was our 3rd find for the day and this makes our find count 13054.

The aim of today's cache run was to visit some of the mine workings around Moonta and to attempt a couple of multi's and a solved puzzle. As the temperature was nudging 32 degrees today we cut our cache run short so we could relax in air conditioned comfort with a cool drink.

At the end of the run our final total was 7 finds and 2 DNF's.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** Container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.
**Grabbed Trackable:** "Free as a bird".

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Found it! Dropped off a trackable.

Easy find, it's nice locating a cache that is a decent size.

Loved the Miner's cottages around this area so we explored them further

This was the last find I made with my muggle friend, on a weekend road trip from Adelaide to Wallaroo, and surrounding areas......escaping Clipsal mayhem was the aim of the game!!

Thanks for the cache BrettnJames

Nice big cache, partially hidden from view. Makes for an easy find for the Geokids to keep them happy.

Dropped in a wooden toy clown for the next kids.

TFTC

Not sure if this has been moved as it wasn't really hidden. A bit too easy.

Nice easy one to work
With.

While staying at Moonta Bay we visited a few of the local significant historic areas. After visiting nearby mine and the Miner's Cottage we walked the short distance to this cache. No problems with muggles on the day and an easy find was made. We enjoyed our stay but sadly this was the only cache we looked for. Apologies for the late log. TFTC BrettnJames!

Found it this time. I don't know why I did not find it last time.

Thanks BrettnJames for the cache

Day fourteen of the short holiday with Bettyboo3747.
A day for breathing in the history of Moonta.
Lots of old mines, stone buildings, and rusting engineering stuff.
It was closed today, so no one around anywhere! A quick find, no stealth required.
Thanks, Robmc.